(This fanfic is going to be a little different from the others. How so,
you ask? Well I'm gonna be in it this time! I figured it might make for
some interesting situations. I've kept myself completely in character, so
anything that happens in this fic has, or would really happen if I were in
the given situations. Oh, and to my most talked to fans, worry not. I
plan on writing a fic involving all of you very soon as well. I need a
little time to lead up to the DBZ part, so be patient. Good things are
worth waiting for. Oh, and since ff.net doesn't seem to take the code for
italics, whenever someone is thinking to themselves, there will be a ' on
either side.)
Lauryn yawned and glanced at her clock, hoping that it was still early in the morning so she could go back to sleep without feeling guilty. "Aw… It's already 11:15…" The tired seventeen year old mumbled in annoyance and rolled back and forth on the bed, eventually ending up on her stomach. She propped herself up in her elbows and looked at her dog Kramer, who was lying on his back on the pillows, still snoozing away. "Hey you." Lauryn said, poking the prone dog. The only response she got was a long, drawn out yawn from the lazy animal. "Wow. Your enthusiasm to start the day never fails to amaze me…" The equally lazy teenager buried her face in the pillows again, letting her arm hang over the side of the bed. "I knew I shouldn't have stayed up until one in the morning working on my site. Darn my demanding fans! Darn them! Aw… Who am I kidding? I have nothing better to do. How sad…" Not liking where her thoughts were going, Lauryn finally rolled out of bed and stumbled out of the room to get ready for the same old routine she went through every single day.
After she had showered and dressed, Lauryn ran down the stairs and opened the front door, knowing the sound would immediately flush her lazy dog out of bed. Sure enough, Kramer was running out the door seconds later, leaving his owner in the dust. "HEY!! How many times do I have to tell you to stay in the yard??!!" Lauryn sighed and ran her fingers through her hair in annoyance as her loyal dog completely ignored her, as usual. "Whatever." she mumbled as she walked into the kitchen, glaring at the mess her parents had left before they went to work. "Pshh! If they think I'm cleaning this up again, they've got another thing coming!" Lauryn glared at the messy room and folded her arms stubbornly. "Nope. Not cleaning this up." A few minutes later, the teenager rolled her eyes and cleaned up the kitchen. "You've won this round, messy dishes, but I shall win the next… Or maybe the one after that… maybe." Lauryn blinked and looked around, feeling as she was forgetting something. "Uh… THE DOG!!" She bolted to the door and looked in all directions, panicking when she didn't see him. "Kramer!! Kramer, get back here RIGHT now!!! HEY!! I know you hear me!! Come here, NOW!!!" She waited a few seconds before some movement at her feet caught her eye. Lauryn looked down and nearly fell over as she spotted Kramer, who had been sitting at the door waiting to be let in the whole time. "You picked a fine time to be good! The neighbors must think I'm nuts…"
A few minutes later, Lauryn returned to her room, eyeing the stack of schoolbooks that awaited her. She moaned, already bored out of her mind. The teenager picked up a history book, studied the cover for a moment, and then tossed it over her shoulder. "What's done is done. I shouldn't dwell over it." Next, Lauryn looked at a government book, then tossed it over her shoulder as well. "All I know is they want my money… and that's all I need to know." The now dramatically bored girl finally set her sights on her favorite subject… art. Lauryn laughed evilly and sat down at her desk, grabbing a piece of computer paper and a pencil. "Art. How I love thou. The one time I can slack and get good grades for doing it. I should kiss the caveman who first scribbled in the dirt with his finger!" Lauryn blinked and frowned. "Nah… They weren't big on brushing their teeth back then…" Shrugging, the teenager once again looked down at the paper in front of her. "Only one question… Which DragonBall Z character should I draw this time?" It didn't take long for the teenager to make her decision. "All of them!!" Lauryn began working on her sketch, her thoughts drifting further and further away until they made no sense whatsoever. 'Life would be so much more interesting if I lived in the DBZ world. Sure, the world would be in constant danger due to evil aliens wanting to destroy the planet, but nothing's perfect.'
After completing her drawing, Lauryn once again became bored. Deciding that she couldn't bring herself to pick up her school books again, the teenager interested herself in something else. Ankle weights. She had gotten them for Christmas, but hadn't used them yet. Lauryn chuckled as she strapped the 10-pound weights around her ankles, then attempted to walk. "Wa!!" Not used to the new sense of balance, the girl nearly fell right on her face, catching herself on the bed at the last minute. "Whoa… Ok. Now that I've mastered walking, lets move onto running!!" With that, the stupid teenager jumped up and began running around the room, eventually ending up at the top of the stairs. She peered down the long flight of potential death traps and pondered for a brief second before taking a running start and jumping down the entire case in one leap. Unfortunately, Lauryn wasn't the smartest teenager in the world since she always chose to draw rather than study, and completely forgot to compensate for the extra weight. Therefore, she tumbled down the stairs in a rather painful manner, ending up flat on her back, staring up at the ceiling. "Ow… That really hurt… I think I'm gonna take a nap now…" With that, Lauryn blacked out.
Lauryn moaned and slowly sat up, looking around. She raised an eyebrow when she noticed she was outside in the middle of a field. "Wha? Argh! I bet dad came home and threw me outside again! I'll have to hurt him later…" The teenager glared down at the ankle weights, but immediately gasped in shock. Something was off… Her body, for some bizarre reason, looked animated. "Now hold on one minute!! I don't remember taking any drugs!!" Lauryn took off the ankle weights and looked around, noticing that the landscape had an anime look to it as well, only everything was a lot more detailed than it was on TV. She could see each individual blade of brightly colored grass, every leaf on the trees… "How odd…" Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. "EARTHQUAKE!!" Lauryn shouted, diving to the ground and covering her head. A few minutes later, a large dinosaur made its way across the field she was in, minding its own business. Lauryn blinked and got up again. "What?! Have I traveled back in time or something?! Am I dead?!" Feeling slightly panicky, the teenager began walking aimlessly, hoping to find someone other than a dinosaur that might help convince her that she hadn't completely lost her mind.
After about an hour of walking, Lauryn reached the top of a hill and looked down at the valley below. She blinked as she spotted a small house in the distance and began walking toward it. As she got closer, she began to feel as if she'd seen the place before, but couldn't quite put her finger on it. Lauryn was about a hundred feet away when she suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, watching in disbelief as her favorite anime character of all time bolted from the house, flying pots and pans not too far behind. She blinked and rubbed her eyes, then looked again. 'No way… I really am out of my mind! It's Goku! And judging from the hail of kitchen appliances, he's made ChiChi mad…again.' "ChiChi! I promise I'll spend the day with you tomorrow! But I told Vegeta I'd train with him today!" Goku cried, still not having noticed the wide-eyed teenager standing not too far off. ChiChi suddenly came into view, yielding a frying pan. "You always say that! Always tomorrow! Why not today!? Train with Vegeta tomorrow!" Lauryn watched in admiration as Goku rubbed the back of his head and grinned sheepishly. "Ok, ChiChi. I'll go tell Vegeta it'll have to wait until tomorrow…" ChiChi smiled and hugged the Saiyajin, causing Lauryn to glare in jealousy. "Good! But you better come straight back!!" The women turned and went back inside, leaving Goku standing there alone.
Lauryn suddenly became aware that she hadn't moved at all in the last few minutes, and if she didn't move soon, plants might start growing on her. She quickly looked for a place to hide, not ready to face her favorite Saiyajin face to face… even if she was just hallucinating. 'Must hide, must hide!!' Without even knowing it, Lauryn had decided to hide behind the person she was hiding from! "Er… Do I know you?!" Goku asked, looking back at the crazy teenager hiding behind him. "Shh! I'm hiding from that guy over the----" Lauryn blinked and looked up at Goku, who was looking at her oddly. "AH!" The Saiyajin jumped in response to the scream and looked around. "What?! What?!" The teenager looked around in a panic, bouncing from one foot to the other. "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…" Goku scratched his head. "What about Dende?" Lauryn blinked and settled down a bit. "Er… Nothing…Uh… Sorry. Um… Where am I?" The Saiyajin smiled. "My house!" The girl slapped her forehead. 'So he really IS like this…' "I know that, Goku. But where is your house?" The man raised an eyebrow and pointed at the small structure a few feet away. "Right there… And how did you know my name?" Lauryn blinked, realizing that she had a vast amount of knowledge about the DBZ world and that this could be to her benefit. "I know lotsa things… Except where I am!! This must be Japan… Er… anime Japan…" The teenager once again glanced down at her anime style self. "Do you have a mirror in your house? I'm kinda curious as to what I look like now." Goku once again blinked in confusion, but nodded and motioned for her to follow him.
Lauryn grinned as she looked into a mirror. "Wow! I look almost exactly like that anime drawing I did of myself with Goku! Cool! I tricked my brain into thinking I'm really this pretty!" The teenager threw her head back and laughed evilly, causing more eyebrows to rise as the others watched her. Lauryn suddenly became aware of Goku, ChiChi, and a teenage Gohan, and spun around to smile at them. "Sorry. You must all think I'm insane by now, but the strangest thing happened this morning and I'm just now starting to understand it all." "What happened?" ChiChi asked, folding her arms. Lauryn inwardly glared at the woman, never having liked her. "I fell on my head!" she said with a laugh, pointing to her head. "I did that once! When I woke up, I was like this!" Goku said, drawing a chuckle from his son. "Well when I woke up, I was in a whole other world!" "So… You don't know anyone here?" Gohan asked. Lauryn blinked and thought about it. "Well… I know of people… but I don't actually know them… For example, I know that your names are Gohan, ChiChi, and Goku. And I know of Vegeta, Bulma, Trunks, Mirai Trunks, Yamcha, Tien, Paur, Piccolo… well… the entire Z senshi basically. Where's Goten, by the way?" The teenager jumped when she noticed the way the three anime characters were staring at her. Their jaws literally hit the floor. She smiled. 'Cool! Anime effects in action! Looks like Gohan has a cavity there…'
Goku was the first to regain his speaking abilities. "Wow… You kinda remind me of Mirai Trunks! He knew us, but we didn't know him. Weird. Are you from the future to?!" Lauryn folded her arms. "Nah. Another world. Didn't I say that already? Somebody's gotta listen when I talk, ya know." ChiChi scratched her head, still looking at the teenager in confusion. "Well I don't think we'll understand completely, but you're welcome to stay here for as long as you want." Lauryn blinked in surprise, not expecting ChiChi to make such a nice offer like that. She was fully expecting the woman to chase her from the house at any moment for fear she'd corrupt her son. "Uh… Thanks. I think I'll have to take you up on that offer." Lauryn turned her attention to Gohan, who she had noticed had been staring at her for awhile now. "What? Did I grow a Saiyajin tail or something?" she asked, looking behind her just in case. Once again, the three were shocked by the girl's knowledge. "How do you know about Saiyajins?!" Goku cried. "Like I said. I know all!" the teenager said in a mocking evil manner, enjoying the attention she was getting. She turned back to Gohan again. "Well? What're you staring at?" Gohan jumped a bit before grinning sheepishly. "Well, nothing… I just think you're kinda…" Lauryn raised an eyebrow. 'Oh no… I forgot. He's only a year or so older than me right now. What if he wants a date?! The only one I want is Goku! Even if he is…er… I dunno, twenty something years older than me…' "Weird." Gohan finished. Lauryn fell over at the statement, then jumped back up, her fists clenched. "Weird?! What do you mean, weird! I'm the same anime style as you!" Once again, the three exchanged troubled glances. "Uh. What I meant was… Your clothes are kinda odd… What are those?" Gohan asked, pointing to the teenage girl's pants. "Blue jeans… They're pretty common where I live. But I forgot that I'm in Japan now apparently. What's the trend here? Gi's?" she asked, glancing at the orange gi Goku was wearing, the purplish girlish gi ChiChi always wore, and the purple gi Gohan was wearing. "Yeah. I'm sure we can get you one if you want to fit in a little better." the demi-Saiyajin said. Lauryn smiled and clenched her fists in excitement. "That'd be great! I always wanted to wear one like Goku's! It's so cool!" Goku grinned and elbowed his son. "I'm cool." "Sure dad, sure…" Gohan said, chuckling slightly.
Lauryn jumped back a bit as ChiChi suddenly ran up to her, her eyes in the shape of stars. "This will be great!" the woman cried. "I always wanted a daughter so I could dress her up and make her all pretty!" The teenager's eyes widened at the word 'daughter'. "But… but we just met!" ChiChi didn't seem to hear her as she grabbed Lauryn's arm and pulled her into her's and Goku's bedroom before disappearing into the closet. The teenage girl looked around the room. "Wow. Never seen this place before." Her thoughts were interrupted as ChiChi appeared again with a variety of gi's, all the style she wore. "Well… I wasn't crazy about the dress like part… even though there are pants underneath…" "Nonsense." The woman said, waving her hand. "You'll look great!" Lauryn was about to protest when she spotted an orange gi, just like the one she drew herself wearing in the fan art picture with Goku. Her eyes lit up as she grabbed it. "Oh wow! This one is great! Mom always said orange was my color, ya know." ChiChi studied it for a moment before nodding. "I agree. It goes with your hair color nicely." The teenager smiled and looked around. "Is there another room I can change in?" she asked, noticing that ChiChi didn't look like she was going to leave anytime soon. The woman raised an eyebrow and grinned. "Why? Are you shy? No reason to be. Since you seem to know everything about us, then you'd know that Goku struts around in the buff whenever he wants, wherever he wants. You're just changing clothes. Lauryn's face turned red at the mention of the things FUNimation censored and chuckled. "Er… Ok, but I still don't feel comfortable… Can you turn away?" After a long stare off, ChiChi finally sighed and turned away. The teenager glared at the woman and stuck out her tongue before quickly changing clothes. "Ok, ready!" Lauryn said, adjusting the blue sash around her waist. "Cool! It fits great too!" ChiChi turned around and smiled. "Yes it does! Now for your hair…" Lauryn gasped and reached up to her hair. "What's wrong with my hair?" "Oh, nothing! It's very nice, but I think it would look even better in a bun!" The teenager gasped and backed away slightly. 'Oh god… she's trying to turn me into a ChiChi!!' "Uh… I'd rather not. I prefer to wear it down. Later maybe?" the teenager said as nicely as possible, edging toward the door. ChiChi placed her hands on her hips and frowned. "Ok, fine…"
Lauryn sighed in relief and returned to the main room, where Gohan was waiting. "Where's Goku?" The demi-Saiyajin smiled. "You look pretty good! Not weird at all now. Dad went to Capsule Corp. He wants us to meet him there." Lauryn decided to ignore the first comment and smiled. "Oh, ok." The teenager silently gasped as a thought hit her. 'What if he wants to fly me there? That would involve him touching me! I don't even like my parents to touch me! I would love to fly though… But… NO TOUCHY!' There was a long silence before anyone spoke again. ChiChi was the first to say something. "I never caught your name…" she said, turning to the younger girl. Lauryn blinked and rubbed the back of her head. "Oh wow! I forgot to tell you my name? How stupid of me. My name is Lauryn." The teenager suddenly pulled her hand away from her head, realizing that she had just done the famous Goku move she was so fond of. 'Whoa… Where'd that come from?!' "Lauryn?" Gohan asked. "That's pretty---" "Weird?" The teenager interrupted. The demi-Saiyajin's face turned red as he shuffled his foot. "No… just pretty." Lauryn, never having been good at receiving complements, chuckled like an idiot, her face turning red as well. "Well I think it's pretty weird!" ChiChi cried, causing both teenagers to fall over. Lauryn jumped back up and glared at the woman. "Well I think ChiChi is kinda weird too… Don't you know what it means?" The woman's face suddenly turned red and she turned away, causing Gohan to chuckle. "Er… How about you two take the car? It could use a good run." ChiChi said, handing the keys to Gohan. The demi-Saiyajin blinked. "But mom… I never got my license…" The dark haired woman suddenly fell over. Lauryn chuckled. 'I'll never get tired of that…' "I can drive. I'm still fairly new at it, but I haven't had an accident…. Yet." "Good enough." ChiChi said, grabbing the keys from Gohan and tossing them to Lauryn.
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Lauryn looked at all the gadgets on the car as Gohan climbed into the passenger seat. "This is way different from the cars I'm used to driving…" She shrugged and put the key in the ignition, jumping as the car began to hover in the air. "AH! I forgot you guys have hover cars!" Gohan raised an eyebrow, quickly reaching for his seatbelt. "Don't they have these where you're from?" Lauryn, who was still looking at all the buttons, shook her head, griping the steering wheel tightly. The demi-Saiyajin chuckled nervously and tightened his safety belt. "This should be interesting then, eh?" "Yeah… It's ok though. They don't look that difficult to drive. If Goku can manage to drive one of these, then surely I can!" Lauryn smiled as she gently tapped her foot on what she assumed was the gas petal, screaming in terror as the car shot straight up in the air. "Is that supposed to happen?!" she cried, looking over at a pale Gohan. The demi-Saiyajin pointed a shaky finger at a third petal. "Ok, that one is for levitation, that one is to go forward, and that one is the breaks." Lauryn nodded and stepped on the other long petal, smiling as they eased forward. "There we go. This isn't so hard now!"
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Lauryn and Gohan screamed in terror as their car narrowly missed another passing motorist. "He was on the wrong side of the road!!" Lauryn cried, wiping sweat off her brow. Gohan slapped his hand over his face. "No, no, no! We're in Japan! They drive on different sides here!" The girl blinked. "Oh… I shoulda figured something was up since the steering wheel is on the right hand side…" Lauryn edged over to the other side of the road and soon got the hang of driving on that side. "Ok. NOW this isn't so hard!"
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Lauryn and Gohan once again screamed in horror as their car was nearly hit from all sides. Lauryn quickly hit the levitation petal and bolted above the cars just in time. "WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!" Gohan cried, grasping his chest as if he were having a heart attack. "I thought blue meant go!!" the teenager cried, throwing her hands in the air in frustration. "Blue means stop! Orange means go!" the demi-Saiyajin cried. Lauryn snorted angrily and continued on her way. "It would have been nice if SOMEONE had told me about your crazy driving antics BEFORE they let me drive their hover car!" Gohan snorted too. "And it would've been nice if you had told me about your lack of road knowledge so I could have gotten some life insurance!" The two glared at each other briefly before looking at the road and continuing on their way. "Well now this isn't so hard…"
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Lauryn and Gohan screamed bloody murder as the car nearly hit the side of Capsule Corp. Lauryn quickly hit the breaks just before they hit. She took a few deep breaths as she slowly pried her hands off the steering wheel and turned to Gohan, who had passed out. "Hey!" The teenager slapped the demi-Saiyajin a couple times, finally managing to wake him up. "What threw you off that time?!" he cried. Lauryn grinned and rubbed the back of her head again. "I never was very good at parking…" The two teenagers cried out in surprise as the entire car fell over, causing them to tumble out. Lauryn sat up and folded her arms. "OK! THIS IS HARD!"
(Ok, I'm going to stop here for awhile. I want to make sure this fic is as popular here at ff.net as it is on my site before I post chapter 2, so please read and review! Thanks!)
Lauryn yawned and glanced at her clock, hoping that it was still early in the morning so she could go back to sleep without feeling guilty. "Aw… It's already 11:15…" The tired seventeen year old mumbled in annoyance and rolled back and forth on the bed, eventually ending up on her stomach. She propped herself up in her elbows and looked at her dog Kramer, who was lying on his back on the pillows, still snoozing away. "Hey you." Lauryn said, poking the prone dog. The only response she got was a long, drawn out yawn from the lazy animal. "Wow. Your enthusiasm to start the day never fails to amaze me…" The equally lazy teenager buried her face in the pillows again, letting her arm hang over the side of the bed. "I knew I shouldn't have stayed up until one in the morning working on my site. Darn my demanding fans! Darn them! Aw… Who am I kidding? I have nothing better to do. How sad…" Not liking where her thoughts were going, Lauryn finally rolled out of bed and stumbled out of the room to get ready for the same old routine she went through every single day.
After she had showered and dressed, Lauryn ran down the stairs and opened the front door, knowing the sound would immediately flush her lazy dog out of bed. Sure enough, Kramer was running out the door seconds later, leaving his owner in the dust. "HEY!! How many times do I have to tell you to stay in the yard??!!" Lauryn sighed and ran her fingers through her hair in annoyance as her loyal dog completely ignored her, as usual. "Whatever." she mumbled as she walked into the kitchen, glaring at the mess her parents had left before they went to work. "Pshh! If they think I'm cleaning this up again, they've got another thing coming!" Lauryn glared at the messy room and folded her arms stubbornly. "Nope. Not cleaning this up." A few minutes later, the teenager rolled her eyes and cleaned up the kitchen. "You've won this round, messy dishes, but I shall win the next… Or maybe the one after that… maybe." Lauryn blinked and looked around, feeling as she was forgetting something. "Uh… THE DOG!!" She bolted to the door and looked in all directions, panicking when she didn't see him. "Kramer!! Kramer, get back here RIGHT now!!! HEY!! I know you hear me!! Come here, NOW!!!" She waited a few seconds before some movement at her feet caught her eye. Lauryn looked down and nearly fell over as she spotted Kramer, who had been sitting at the door waiting to be let in the whole time. "You picked a fine time to be good! The neighbors must think I'm nuts…"
A few minutes later, Lauryn returned to her room, eyeing the stack of schoolbooks that awaited her. She moaned, already bored out of her mind. The teenager picked up a history book, studied the cover for a moment, and then tossed it over her shoulder. "What's done is done. I shouldn't dwell over it." Next, Lauryn looked at a government book, then tossed it over her shoulder as well. "All I know is they want my money… and that's all I need to know." The now dramatically bored girl finally set her sights on her favorite subject… art. Lauryn laughed evilly and sat down at her desk, grabbing a piece of computer paper and a pencil. "Art. How I love thou. The one time I can slack and get good grades for doing it. I should kiss the caveman who first scribbled in the dirt with his finger!" Lauryn blinked and frowned. "Nah… They weren't big on brushing their teeth back then…" Shrugging, the teenager once again looked down at the paper in front of her. "Only one question… Which DragonBall Z character should I draw this time?" It didn't take long for the teenager to make her decision. "All of them!!" Lauryn began working on her sketch, her thoughts drifting further and further away until they made no sense whatsoever. 'Life would be so much more interesting if I lived in the DBZ world. Sure, the world would be in constant danger due to evil aliens wanting to destroy the planet, but nothing's perfect.'
After completing her drawing, Lauryn once again became bored. Deciding that she couldn't bring herself to pick up her school books again, the teenager interested herself in something else. Ankle weights. She had gotten them for Christmas, but hadn't used them yet. Lauryn chuckled as she strapped the 10-pound weights around her ankles, then attempted to walk. "Wa!!" Not used to the new sense of balance, the girl nearly fell right on her face, catching herself on the bed at the last minute. "Whoa… Ok. Now that I've mastered walking, lets move onto running!!" With that, the stupid teenager jumped up and began running around the room, eventually ending up at the top of the stairs. She peered down the long flight of potential death traps and pondered for a brief second before taking a running start and jumping down the entire case in one leap. Unfortunately, Lauryn wasn't the smartest teenager in the world since she always chose to draw rather than study, and completely forgot to compensate for the extra weight. Therefore, she tumbled down the stairs in a rather painful manner, ending up flat on her back, staring up at the ceiling. "Ow… That really hurt… I think I'm gonna take a nap now…" With that, Lauryn blacked out.
Lauryn moaned and slowly sat up, looking around. She raised an eyebrow when she noticed she was outside in the middle of a field. "Wha? Argh! I bet dad came home and threw me outside again! I'll have to hurt him later…" The teenager glared down at the ankle weights, but immediately gasped in shock. Something was off… Her body, for some bizarre reason, looked animated. "Now hold on one minute!! I don't remember taking any drugs!!" Lauryn took off the ankle weights and looked around, noticing that the landscape had an anime look to it as well, only everything was a lot more detailed than it was on TV. She could see each individual blade of brightly colored grass, every leaf on the trees… "How odd…" Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. "EARTHQUAKE!!" Lauryn shouted, diving to the ground and covering her head. A few minutes later, a large dinosaur made its way across the field she was in, minding its own business. Lauryn blinked and got up again. "What?! Have I traveled back in time or something?! Am I dead?!" Feeling slightly panicky, the teenager began walking aimlessly, hoping to find someone other than a dinosaur that might help convince her that she hadn't completely lost her mind.
After about an hour of walking, Lauryn reached the top of a hill and looked down at the valley below. She blinked as she spotted a small house in the distance and began walking toward it. As she got closer, she began to feel as if she'd seen the place before, but couldn't quite put her finger on it. Lauryn was about a hundred feet away when she suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, watching in disbelief as her favorite anime character of all time bolted from the house, flying pots and pans not too far behind. She blinked and rubbed her eyes, then looked again. 'No way… I really am out of my mind! It's Goku! And judging from the hail of kitchen appliances, he's made ChiChi mad…again.' "ChiChi! I promise I'll spend the day with you tomorrow! But I told Vegeta I'd train with him today!" Goku cried, still not having noticed the wide-eyed teenager standing not too far off. ChiChi suddenly came into view, yielding a frying pan. "You always say that! Always tomorrow! Why not today!? Train with Vegeta tomorrow!" Lauryn watched in admiration as Goku rubbed the back of his head and grinned sheepishly. "Ok, ChiChi. I'll go tell Vegeta it'll have to wait until tomorrow…" ChiChi smiled and hugged the Saiyajin, causing Lauryn to glare in jealousy. "Good! But you better come straight back!!" The women turned and went back inside, leaving Goku standing there alone.
Lauryn suddenly became aware that she hadn't moved at all in the last few minutes, and if she didn't move soon, plants might start growing on her. She quickly looked for a place to hide, not ready to face her favorite Saiyajin face to face… even if she was just hallucinating. 'Must hide, must hide!!' Without even knowing it, Lauryn had decided to hide behind the person she was hiding from! "Er… Do I know you?!" Goku asked, looking back at the crazy teenager hiding behind him. "Shh! I'm hiding from that guy over the----" Lauryn blinked and looked up at Goku, who was looking at her oddly. "AH!" The Saiyajin jumped in response to the scream and looked around. "What?! What?!" The teenager looked around in a panic, bouncing from one foot to the other. "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…" Goku scratched his head. "What about Dende?" Lauryn blinked and settled down a bit. "Er… Nothing…Uh… Sorry. Um… Where am I?" The Saiyajin smiled. "My house!" The girl slapped her forehead. 'So he really IS like this…' "I know that, Goku. But where is your house?" The man raised an eyebrow and pointed at the small structure a few feet away. "Right there… And how did you know my name?" Lauryn blinked, realizing that she had a vast amount of knowledge about the DBZ world and that this could be to her benefit. "I know lotsa things… Except where I am!! This must be Japan… Er… anime Japan…" The teenager once again glanced down at her anime style self. "Do you have a mirror in your house? I'm kinda curious as to what I look like now." Goku once again blinked in confusion, but nodded and motioned for her to follow him.
Lauryn grinned as she looked into a mirror. "Wow! I look almost exactly like that anime drawing I did of myself with Goku! Cool! I tricked my brain into thinking I'm really this pretty!" The teenager threw her head back and laughed evilly, causing more eyebrows to rise as the others watched her. Lauryn suddenly became aware of Goku, ChiChi, and a teenage Gohan, and spun around to smile at them. "Sorry. You must all think I'm insane by now, but the strangest thing happened this morning and I'm just now starting to understand it all." "What happened?" ChiChi asked, folding her arms. Lauryn inwardly glared at the woman, never having liked her. "I fell on my head!" she said with a laugh, pointing to her head. "I did that once! When I woke up, I was like this!" Goku said, drawing a chuckle from his son. "Well when I woke up, I was in a whole other world!" "So… You don't know anyone here?" Gohan asked. Lauryn blinked and thought about it. "Well… I know of people… but I don't actually know them… For example, I know that your names are Gohan, ChiChi, and Goku. And I know of Vegeta, Bulma, Trunks, Mirai Trunks, Yamcha, Tien, Paur, Piccolo… well… the entire Z senshi basically. Where's Goten, by the way?" The teenager jumped when she noticed the way the three anime characters were staring at her. Their jaws literally hit the floor. She smiled. 'Cool! Anime effects in action! Looks like Gohan has a cavity there…'
Goku was the first to regain his speaking abilities. "Wow… You kinda remind me of Mirai Trunks! He knew us, but we didn't know him. Weird. Are you from the future to?!" Lauryn folded her arms. "Nah. Another world. Didn't I say that already? Somebody's gotta listen when I talk, ya know." ChiChi scratched her head, still looking at the teenager in confusion. "Well I don't think we'll understand completely, but you're welcome to stay here for as long as you want." Lauryn blinked in surprise, not expecting ChiChi to make such a nice offer like that. She was fully expecting the woman to chase her from the house at any moment for fear she'd corrupt her son. "Uh… Thanks. I think I'll have to take you up on that offer." Lauryn turned her attention to Gohan, who she had noticed had been staring at her for awhile now. "What? Did I grow a Saiyajin tail or something?" she asked, looking behind her just in case. Once again, the three were shocked by the girl's knowledge. "How do you know about Saiyajins?!" Goku cried. "Like I said. I know all!" the teenager said in a mocking evil manner, enjoying the attention she was getting. She turned back to Gohan again. "Well? What're you staring at?" Gohan jumped a bit before grinning sheepishly. "Well, nothing… I just think you're kinda…" Lauryn raised an eyebrow. 'Oh no… I forgot. He's only a year or so older than me right now. What if he wants a date?! The only one I want is Goku! Even if he is…er… I dunno, twenty something years older than me…' "Weird." Gohan finished. Lauryn fell over at the statement, then jumped back up, her fists clenched. "Weird?! What do you mean, weird! I'm the same anime style as you!" Once again, the three exchanged troubled glances. "Uh. What I meant was… Your clothes are kinda odd… What are those?" Gohan asked, pointing to the teenage girl's pants. "Blue jeans… They're pretty common where I live. But I forgot that I'm in Japan now apparently. What's the trend here? Gi's?" she asked, glancing at the orange gi Goku was wearing, the purplish girlish gi ChiChi always wore, and the purple gi Gohan was wearing. "Yeah. I'm sure we can get you one if you want to fit in a little better." the demi-Saiyajin said. Lauryn smiled and clenched her fists in excitement. "That'd be great! I always wanted to wear one like Goku's! It's so cool!" Goku grinned and elbowed his son. "I'm cool." "Sure dad, sure…" Gohan said, chuckling slightly.
Lauryn jumped back a bit as ChiChi suddenly ran up to her, her eyes in the shape of stars. "This will be great!" the woman cried. "I always wanted a daughter so I could dress her up and make her all pretty!" The teenager's eyes widened at the word 'daughter'. "But… but we just met!" ChiChi didn't seem to hear her as she grabbed Lauryn's arm and pulled her into her's and Goku's bedroom before disappearing into the closet. The teenage girl looked around the room. "Wow. Never seen this place before." Her thoughts were interrupted as ChiChi appeared again with a variety of gi's, all the style she wore. "Well… I wasn't crazy about the dress like part… even though there are pants underneath…" "Nonsense." The woman said, waving her hand. "You'll look great!" Lauryn was about to protest when she spotted an orange gi, just like the one she drew herself wearing in the fan art picture with Goku. Her eyes lit up as she grabbed it. "Oh wow! This one is great! Mom always said orange was my color, ya know." ChiChi studied it for a moment before nodding. "I agree. It goes with your hair color nicely." The teenager smiled and looked around. "Is there another room I can change in?" she asked, noticing that ChiChi didn't look like she was going to leave anytime soon. The woman raised an eyebrow and grinned. "Why? Are you shy? No reason to be. Since you seem to know everything about us, then you'd know that Goku struts around in the buff whenever he wants, wherever he wants. You're just changing clothes. Lauryn's face turned red at the mention of the things FUNimation censored and chuckled. "Er… Ok, but I still don't feel comfortable… Can you turn away?" After a long stare off, ChiChi finally sighed and turned away. The teenager glared at the woman and stuck out her tongue before quickly changing clothes. "Ok, ready!" Lauryn said, adjusting the blue sash around her waist. "Cool! It fits great too!" ChiChi turned around and smiled. "Yes it does! Now for your hair…" Lauryn gasped and reached up to her hair. "What's wrong with my hair?" "Oh, nothing! It's very nice, but I think it would look even better in a bun!" The teenager gasped and backed away slightly. 'Oh god… she's trying to turn me into a ChiChi!!' "Uh… I'd rather not. I prefer to wear it down. Later maybe?" the teenager said as nicely as possible, edging toward the door. ChiChi placed her hands on her hips and frowned. "Ok, fine…"
Lauryn sighed in relief and returned to the main room, where Gohan was waiting. "Where's Goku?" The demi-Saiyajin smiled. "You look pretty good! Not weird at all now. Dad went to Capsule Corp. He wants us to meet him there." Lauryn decided to ignore the first comment and smiled. "Oh, ok." The teenager silently gasped as a thought hit her. 'What if he wants to fly me there? That would involve him touching me! I don't even like my parents to touch me! I would love to fly though… But… NO TOUCHY!' There was a long silence before anyone spoke again. ChiChi was the first to say something. "I never caught your name…" she said, turning to the younger girl. Lauryn blinked and rubbed the back of her head. "Oh wow! I forgot to tell you my name? How stupid of me. My name is Lauryn." The teenager suddenly pulled her hand away from her head, realizing that she had just done the famous Goku move she was so fond of. 'Whoa… Where'd that come from?!' "Lauryn?" Gohan asked. "That's pretty---" "Weird?" The teenager interrupted. The demi-Saiyajin's face turned red as he shuffled his foot. "No… just pretty." Lauryn, never having been good at receiving complements, chuckled like an idiot, her face turning red as well. "Well I think it's pretty weird!" ChiChi cried, causing both teenagers to fall over. Lauryn jumped back up and glared at the woman. "Well I think ChiChi is kinda weird too… Don't you know what it means?" The woman's face suddenly turned red and she turned away, causing Gohan to chuckle. "Er… How about you two take the car? It could use a good run." ChiChi said, handing the keys to Gohan. The demi-Saiyajin blinked. "But mom… I never got my license…" The dark haired woman suddenly fell over. Lauryn chuckled. 'I'll never get tired of that…' "I can drive. I'm still fairly new at it, but I haven't had an accident…. Yet." "Good enough." ChiChi said, grabbing the keys from Gohan and tossing them to Lauryn.
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Lauryn looked at all the gadgets on the car as Gohan climbed into the passenger seat. "This is way different from the cars I'm used to driving…" She shrugged and put the key in the ignition, jumping as the car began to hover in the air. "AH! I forgot you guys have hover cars!" Gohan raised an eyebrow, quickly reaching for his seatbelt. "Don't they have these where you're from?" Lauryn, who was still looking at all the buttons, shook her head, griping the steering wheel tightly. The demi-Saiyajin chuckled nervously and tightened his safety belt. "This should be interesting then, eh?" "Yeah… It's ok though. They don't look that difficult to drive. If Goku can manage to drive one of these, then surely I can!" Lauryn smiled as she gently tapped her foot on what she assumed was the gas petal, screaming in terror as the car shot straight up in the air. "Is that supposed to happen?!" she cried, looking over at a pale Gohan. The demi-Saiyajin pointed a shaky finger at a third petal. "Ok, that one is for levitation, that one is to go forward, and that one is the breaks." Lauryn nodded and stepped on the other long petal, smiling as they eased forward. "There we go. This isn't so hard now!"
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Lauryn and Gohan screamed in terror as their car narrowly missed another passing motorist. "He was on the wrong side of the road!!" Lauryn cried, wiping sweat off her brow. Gohan slapped his hand over his face. "No, no, no! We're in Japan! They drive on different sides here!" The girl blinked. "Oh… I shoulda figured something was up since the steering wheel is on the right hand side…" Lauryn edged over to the other side of the road and soon got the hang of driving on that side. "Ok. NOW this isn't so hard!"
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Lauryn and Gohan once again screamed in horror as their car was nearly hit from all sides. Lauryn quickly hit the levitation petal and bolted above the cars just in time. "WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!" Gohan cried, grasping his chest as if he were having a heart attack. "I thought blue meant go!!" the teenager cried, throwing her hands in the air in frustration. "Blue means stop! Orange means go!" the demi-Saiyajin cried. Lauryn snorted angrily and continued on her way. "It would have been nice if SOMEONE had told me about your crazy driving antics BEFORE they let me drive their hover car!" Gohan snorted too. "And it would've been nice if you had told me about your lack of road knowledge so I could have gotten some life insurance!" The two glared at each other briefly before looking at the road and continuing on their way. "Well now this isn't so hard…"
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Lauryn and Gohan screamed bloody murder as the car nearly hit the side of Capsule Corp. Lauryn quickly hit the breaks just before they hit. She took a few deep breaths as she slowly pried her hands off the steering wheel and turned to Gohan, who had passed out. "Hey!" The teenager slapped the demi-Saiyajin a couple times, finally managing to wake him up. "What threw you off that time?!" he cried. Lauryn grinned and rubbed the back of her head again. "I never was very good at parking…" The two teenagers cried out in surprise as the entire car fell over, causing them to tumble out. Lauryn sat up and folded her arms. "OK! THIS IS HARD!"
(Ok, I'm going to stop here for awhile. I want to make sure this fic is as popular here at ff.net as it is on my site before I post chapter 2, so please read and review! Thanks!)