Part 1 of Chapter 27
*Live and let die*
*If you wanna go and take a ride wit me, We three wheelin in the four with the gold cv's, Oh why do I look this way?, (Hey, must be the money)*
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*Maria Cline / Eternity*
I hopped out of the shower and quickly combed out my hair. Since I hadn't made it to the city to buy something to wear, I wished for something.
Grinning I picked up the sundress. It was white with lavender rose petals strewn across it. Lavender. The color of Trunks' hair.
My thoughts drifted for a moment as I thought about him. He was one who'd asked me to go to the barbecue with him today. I liked him a lot. I really did, but I was afraid that he was only spending so much time with me to be friendly. Certainly, it would be way too embarrassing to ask him how he felt.
There was a knock on the door as I slipped into the dress, "Are you ready yet?"
I grabbed my sandals and threw open the door, "Sorry. It takes forever to do this hair."
He looked at me quietly for a moment, "It was worth the wait," he murmured, his voice so low that I wasn't even sure I'd heard him right.
A pale blush colored my cheeks, and I deliberately occupied myself putting my sandals on. I straightened, smiling a bit shyly at Trunks, "Ready to go?"
He nodded and smiled back. His hand rested against my lower back as we walked down the hall and out the back door. He opened the car door for me, then got in himself, "I hope you don't mind, but I can't stay too long. I have to get the time machine finished so that they can go get my sister and the others.
"You're welcome to stay though."
"No, I don't mind, and I'll probably just catch a ride back with you. Maybe I can help you out with the time machine. I'm no genius, but I could hand you tools or something. "
He chuckled starting the car, " I'd love to have you help. I just thought you might have more fun at the party. "
We drove for a while, chatting about all the things that were going on with everyone. So much was going right now; it was hard to keep up with it all.
Trunks and I were so in-depth with our conversation that we almost didn't notice the woman who appeared beside the road.
Trunks' slammed on the breaks, and the car screeched to a halt. I jumped out despite the fact that Trunks yelled at me to wait; my curiosity was running rampant.
I stopped several yards from the woman and studied her. She had black hair and pale green skin, and she was wearing armour. I didn't recognise her, but I didn't feel threatened either, " Who are you? " I asked prepared to power up should the need arise.
The woman stared back and gasped in relief. "My name is..." **Better think up a good alias.** "Marie Nomad."
"I'm Eternity." Eternity replied as she held out her hand. Marie smiled slightly and shook it. She glanced behind the girl to see a long monkey tail. "You're a Saiyan?"
"Yup."
"Another one." Trunks muttered as he came up and studied the girl. There was something oddly familiar about her. Her Ki was unique but yet the same. "Have we met before?"
Marie blanched as she remembered Lady Seru's first encounter with Mirai Trunks. "Nope." Marie laughed as she rubbed her head. "Anyway... where are you guys going?"
"To a barbecue. Wanna join us?" Eternity offered.
"Okay." Marie hopped into the back seat and growled when her long black tail refused to stay still. "Oh man..."
Trunks' jaw dropped as he saw the tail. Why does she have a long tail like that? What is she?
I blinked noticing the tail as well and glanced at Trunks who had obviously seen it as well. He shrugged slightly, and I smiled. You just never knew where you were going to run into someone around here. We both hopped back into the car and started off again. I turned in my seat to face Marie, " I don't remember seeing you. Did you just arrive? "
" Ah, you could say that, " she replied.
There were so many things that I wanted to ask, but I didn't want to seem nosy. " Like I said, we're headed to a barbecue, and some of the others will be there. You'll get the chance to meet them. "
" Sounds good, " she replied glancing out the window.
" We should be there soon, " Trunks stated glancing up the road, " It took longer to get here than I thought. I'll have just enough time to say hi before I have to get back and finish the time machine. "
Two minutes later the cabin came into view.
After apologising for being late, chatting for a couple minutes and apologising more for having to leave so quickly, Trunks headed back to the car.
" I'm going with you, " I called to him, " but I want to talk to Marie a minute first." I found her talking with a couple of the others, " Hey, Trunks and I have to get going, and I wanted to see if you'd like to ride back to Capsule Corp. "
Marie shook her head politely. "No thanks. I'd like to stick around." Marie looked around nervously. She wasn't sure how Lady Seru would act without any good in her. But, she had to stick around to make sure that her evil 'twin' won't cause any trouble.
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*BananaGirl*
"I can't believe he shares a room with that whore!" I fumed.
"Hello...they are married." Quorky rolled his eyes from where he was sitting in my backpack. We couldn't chance someone spotting 'Bulma' and Quorky together.
"Can you be quiet? I'm supposed to be subtle!"
"That's why you're wearing baggy jeans, a black shirt, trainers and a backpack, just like Bulma?" Quorky said sarcastically.
"Excuse me, but I'm not wearing anything of hers." I said, stopping outside Skittles' door. "Oh, Veggie, dear."
"What is it, onna?" Vegeta's gruff reply came.
"Uh...I...I...wow." I grinned stupidly as Vegeta stood there in his underwear.
"Have you seen my black silk ones? They fit better under my suit." Vegeta rummaged around a drawer.
"Eh?" I asked, rather freaked out at that non-Veggie-style comment.
"What are you gawping at? Hurry up and find them, I have somewhere to be!" Vegeta snapped.
"Uh...black and silk? Oh those ones!" I exclaimed, as I remembered pocketing them on my previous visit to the room. "Oh...I washed them."
"You washed something? Don't make me laugh." Vegeta stated, grabbing his suit after finally giving up on the search.
"You're going somewhere?" I asked, reverting back to his earlier comment.
"Yes." He answered, pulling on his suit. Damn this was good.
"Oh, how about a goodbye kiss then?" I asked. Vegeta sighed and brushed his lips against mine. "Wow." I breathed, sinking to the floor. I quickly stood up again as Vegeta made his way over to the door, and Quorky began tugging my hair. "Where you going?" I
asked, disappointed.
"I told you, I have to be somewhere." Vegeta said, muttering something under his breath.
"But...but...no tongues?" I asked. "No Veggie, no! Don't leave me!" I wailed, latching onto his leg.
"ONNA!!! WHAT IN THE DEVIL'S NAME ARE YOU DOING?!?!" Vegeta demanded, looking up and down the hall to see if anyone was watching. J'dee, Blake and Trunks approached us. They were whispering about something but quickly stopped as they came within earshot. Vegeta looked at J'dee and he huffed and handed her a capsule.
"Go get changed you're not going to Vegeta-sei dressed like that. And get that silly chibi onna and Kakarott's brat to change too."
J'dee looked down at her baggy jeans and then at the loose fitting white tank top she wore.
"What's wrong with this outfit?" She asked confused.
"You are saiyan you will dress like saiyan if you are to go to Vegeta-sei."
"What about me?" Blake asked.
Vegeta huffed. "You are human you will dress human."
"Hey no fair! Why does he get to keep his clothes?!" J'dee exclaimed. "I'm not wearing spandex!!!"
"Mmmm, spandex." I uttered, beginning to drool. The fact I was latched onto Vegeta's spandex-clad leg only made things worse.
"Ugh..... never mind... I'm going." J'dee said leaving quickly.
"Yeah we'll see you dad.... mom." Trunks remarked leaving Vegeta alone with me.
"ONNA! Why are you behaving so differently?" Vegeta demanded.
"I can't help it, you have this effect on me Veggie." I smiled dreamily. "Bul-nanaGirl." I quickly corrected myself as I saw the real Bulma walked up, looking very pissed off.
"Um...hey, Bulma." She said, stressing 'Bulma'.
"What the fuck are you wearing?" I demanded in horror, as I looked at the bright pink dress with flowers and sandals she was wearing.
"I thought I'd change my style. I looked hideous before." Bulma remarked snidely.
"Bulma, let go." Vegeta said through clenched teeth, trying to shake me off. Hmmm, Saiyan's must not have power over rabid fan girls.
"Come on, Bulma." Bulma said as she helped me up. "We better let Vegeta, uh Skittles, go."
"Bye! Write me!" I waved after Vegeta as he left. "Wow, just think how big his sexual appetite will be after his journey." I remarked, a gleam in my eye.
"Oh no, by then, I'll be out of this stinking body and into my own." Bulma remarked, grabbing my arm and dragging me down the hall.
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*J'dee / Seisetsu / Bura400*
"I'm done!!!" Trunks' shout could be heard through all of Capsule Corp. Blake raised an eyebrow at the teen as he grinned proudly.
Blake yawned and he looked at J'dee. "Why didn't we just wish ourselves there?" He asked.
Trunks glared at Blake who didn't really give the demi-saiyan the time of day. As far as Blake was concerned any Trunks was a bad Trunks. Except mirai was the worst kind of Trunks, 'Eighteen....' Blake thought with a mental sigh.
J'dee looked at Blake. She blinked. "You know I didn't think about that. Guess I really am blonde."
Blake tugged at J'dee's hair and she laughed. "But how would we keep all of us together? I mean did you see that Angel episode where Cordelia got sucked through the dimension thing with the green guy? They ended up in two different places."
Blake nodded slowly. "I still like my idea better."
"Then you build this thing!" Trunks shouted at him.
Eternity put her hand on Trunks shoulder and he looked at her and sighed.
J'dee walked up to Trunks and smiled. "It's okay Trunks. I appreciate this. Really."
He nodded and sighed. "I'm going to go back to the barbecue now."
"Wait how do we work this thing?" J'dee asked quickly.
Trunks blinked then nodded. "Oh yeah."
Blake watched as Trunks ran the low down of the time machine over with J'dee giving her the password and showing her how to work the controls.
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"ONNA!!! WHAT IN THE DEVIL'S NAME ARE YOU DOING?!?!"
I looked out the door to see Vegeta trying to walk down the hallway with 'Bulma' on his leg. Vegeta was back in his usual spandex and I raised a brow. Trunks looked out the door and he blinked.
"That's the author." Trunks whispered to me. "I didn't tell dad cause mom didn't want him to know."
"Why'd she tell you?" I asked.
"Someone had to work on the time machine, but we're all to pretend we don't know it's happened okay?" Trunks said to me softly.
I nodded. Vegeta looked at me and he huffed and handed me a capsule.
"Go get changed you're not going to Vegeta-sei dressed like that. And get that silly chibi onna and Kakarott's brat to change too."
I looked down at my baggy jeans and then at the loose fitting white tank top I wore. "What's wrong with this outfit?" I asked confused.
"You are saiyan you will dress like saiyan if you are to go to Vegeta-sei."
"What about me?" Blake asked.
Vegeta huffed. "You are human you will dress human."
"Hey no fair! Why does he get to keep his clothes?!" I exclaimed. "I'm not wearing spandex!!!"
"Mmmm, spandex." 'Bulma' uttered, beginning to drool.
"Ugh..... never mind... I'm going." I said leaving quickly.
"Yeah we'll see you dad.... mom." Trunks remarked leaving Vegeta alone with 'Bulma'.
I walked down the hall and I looked at Selene walking up the hallway with Gohan. I looked at them. "This way we gotta dress like saiyans. Saiyan no Ouji's orders." I remarked with a sigh.
We walked down the hallway for a bit and Gohan stopped outside a door "I'll get changed in here, you girls can use the next room over." He said. I nodded slowly and opened the capsule we took our appropriate armours and 'spandex' I played with the stretchy metal armour for a few moments wowing at such a wicked creation, but I looked at the spandex and I began to frown, I was going to have to see a way round that.
Selene grabbed my hand and pulled me in to the room to change.
"C'mon c'mon..." She urged excitedly. She sounded like she really wanted to go on this adventure, then again a trip to the past did sound pretty cool, meeting a whole bunch of saiyans on their home turf not ours was always a bonus. Perhaps meeting a teenage Radditz along the way to. I began to grin stupidly at that thought as Selene shut the door to the room.
"Hey!! You're not going off in to Yamcha drool mode again are you?"
I shook my head and laughed "No actually Radditz." I laughed and rubbed the back of my neck. Selene held up the armour and looked at it.
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I held up the armour and looked at it closely seeing my face reflected off the metal. 'Yuck...' I shuddered inwardly. I had always hated spandex even as a little girl.
I sighed and looked at J'dee. "Do we have to where these tight things?"
She looked at the armour that at me then stated, "Vegeta said we had to."
I noticed she frowned at the top and scowled a little.
"I am not wearing this damn top though." She stated. I blinked and giggled.
She quirked a brow at me with a sort of 'what' expression. "Er....... I have the same problem, I don't wanna wear this damn spandex especially the top." I scowled and whipped my silvery braid behind me.
She blinked. "You have guys stare at your-" She started and I shuddered dramatically.
"Hai..." I answered her. We both looked at each other frowned and then the armour, identical sneaky expressions on our faces.
We began to change and at least we both knew we would have some medium of comfort and I chortled at getting an upper hand of something on the saiya-jin prince.
~*~*~*~*~
I stepped back in to the room wearing the saiyan armour over my tanktop and spandex pants, I was not going to be reduced to wearing a spandex top. I adjusted the gold arm band on each of my arms. I'd appropriately wished for them cause I remember
Radditz wore something like them. I tucked my tail round my waist and I saw Vegeta look at me and raise an eyebrow.
"Majo what do you think you're doing?"
"I'm not wearing that top it makes my chest stand out and I hate that. I get enough of that in my own world, it's like hello look here not here." I remarked motioning from my eyes to my chest.
Gohan on the other hand wore the complete thing, he was used to it after all. He had worn that gimmick during the Namek saga. His tail was wagging behind him and I grabbed it and he froze and looked at me as I tucked it round his waist.
"Does this mean I'm forgiven?" He asked me quietly leaning close to my ear.
I looked up at him. "You're Videl's husband, I'm you're student. I'm sorry Gohan."
He gazed at me and a determined look came across his face.
~*~*~*~*~
Vegeta brows furrowed. "You too chibi onna?" I frowned at him and crossed my arms. He looked at my red tanktop with a dragonball on it and shook his head wearily.
"Hai and I am not changing." With that I gave him my best 'Vegeta Glare'.
He shook his head and rest his hand on my head. "You may have Saiya-jin genes in you yet...." He stated and smirked.
As Vegeta turned away I heard Gohan and J'dee-chan get into another argument and I rubbed my neck. This was going to be a long day.
"Videl's your wife and I'm your student Gohan-" I noticed Gohan's determined look and well since Pan-chan was born I didn't think it mattered. I got a sneaky expression on my face and Vegeta just quirked an eyebrow at me.
I turned to J'dee and Gohan. 'Hehe now to get these lovebirds together..' I sighed inwardly.
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"Well I don't mind I think you two are kawaii and Pan's already been born so it doesn't bother me." Selene said sticking her head between the two of us.
I sighed and looked at her. She just beamed a smile at me. "Hey if you want I can wish Mirai Gohan for you." She offered.
Gohan blinked. "Wha?" he got that typical confused Son look across his face.
I smiled at Gohan. "Don't worry." I said.
"So I just dress like this?" Blake asked with a sigh. "What happens when I transform again?" he looked at me.
I smiled at him. "Here." I handed him a capsule. He looked at it.
"What's this?"
"Well Bulma made these." I motioned to the spandex the four of us saiyan types were wearing and I motioned to the capsule. "In there is something made out of the same metal plate stuff, it expands, and you know like what Sethiroth wears, it looks like that the best of both worlds... and it's got that cool Goth looking coat in there to." I said.
"Oooooh!!!" Blake grinned. "I wish I was wearing that right now!" He exclaimed.
Vegeta sighed and saw Blake dressed out in the Sethiroth costume. "Awww where's my sword?" he asked.
"If I was told correctly that thing would be larger than you, and I don't think you'll be able to carry it." I remarked at him.
"You know I always wanted Cloud's outfit, he's cool."
"Lets go already!" Vegeta snapped interrupting us.
"Right." I nodded and motioned to the time machine. "Alllllll aboard...." I called out mimicking a train conductor. Vegeta just glared at me wearily and proceeded to enter first. So much for ladies first...