"Whoa man… just look at that guy…"
"Yeah… I mean, look at him, he's buff as heck! "
Yamcha and Oolong were both eyeing the Super Saiyan 4, who was still confused and trying to figure out the situation. This guy really was unlike anything they've seen, even if he was meant to be one of Goku's forms. He seems… different than the others, in a way that he seems fiercer and animalistic.
"Uh hey man! You alright over there? "Yamcha called out to the fourth form.
"Oh yeah… yeah I'm fine! " Saiyan 4 Goku replied back. Both Yamcha and Oolong blinked and his unexpected deep, rough sounding voice. It somehow had Goku's usual happy go lucky tone hinted in it.
In another area, Goten and Trunks were looking up at the blue haired Saiyan god form in awe.
"Whoa! Dad you look so awesome! I never seen you like that before!" Goten exclaimed.
"Haha well, now you have! Although, Vegeta has this form too though…"
"Wow, really! See Goten, Dad is so awesome that he has this form too!" Trunks replied proudly, folding his arms with a smug smile on his face.
Chichi on the other hand demanded an explanation. She was sitting at an outdoor table with the other ladies.
"Bulma! You said that nothing will go wrong! Now I don't know very much about cloning, but I have a gut feeling that cloning doesn't work like that!"
"Alright! Calm down ChiChi, I'm thinking up a theory!" Bulma exclaimed as she took a sip of her iced tea. ChiChi, Videl, 18 and Launch were looking at the bluenette for an answer, which unnerved her a bit.
"Can you guys stop staring at me like that?! It feels like you're all pressuring me and it's not really helping me think!"
"Well, I'm sorry, but I'm just worried for my husband! Is this thing even permanent!? "
"No it's not! Something wrong may have happened with the duplication system, but I can bet you that the machine is built in a way so that you can still merge the clones back together as one! I'm not joking!"
"Then why don't you change him back now? Problem solved right?" 18 added.
"That would be a move that I was considering to do… but after that machine malfunction, I'm not going to do anything unless I have a good understanding of what had happened. Who knows? We could be adding more trouble to the chaos"
The conversation was suddenly interrupted a sneeze. The group turned to find the blue haired Launch gone, but her blonde green eyed alter ego had replaced her.
"Oh Great… at a time like this?" The bad Launch groaned, folding her arms. Looking at Launch had suddenly given Bulma an answer.
"That's it!" she stood up from her seat unexpectedly, a look of triumph on her face. The action had almost shocked ChiChi.
"Wait, what's what?" Videl questioned, a bit confused.
"Okay okay, let me explain... So you guys have a general knowledge of how cloning works right?"
The women all nodded their heads with an understanding.
"Okay so, when I was working on the machine, I must have missed something… instead of the machine making an exact clone of Goku, it went and extracted his forms, but making a separate clone for each of them…"
"Uh look, I'm not sure if I'm even following you anymore…" Launch piped up.
"Alright, let me put this in a easier way… Launch, you are fully aware that you have two personalites right?"
The blonde green eyed woman nodded, but still expecting for an answer.
"If I was to use you as a test subject, with the same thing happening to Goku… the machine would have pulled your other form out as another being… in other words, instead making an exact clone of you, all the machine would have done is actually removing your other personality from you and making it as another human!"
"What really?! I see now! Since Goku has multiple power forms in him, it's sort of like these forms are different alter egos, so the machine has separated them all! But… won't anyone of them be able to power up to one of the other forms? "Chichi blinked at the end. She had practically confused herself.
Bulma shook her head "No I don't think so… think about it, Goku's forms had been taken out of him. Without those forms in his power, he won't be able to transform up to even a Super Saiyan. The same thing goes with his other forms… they won't be able to power down because they basically got nothing to change back into. So practically, each of them are stuck like that like that until they are merged with the original person."
"Well alright then… so let's bring Goku back to normal then? " 18 replied. Bulma nodded in agreement. She stood up and cupped her hands to her mouth.
"Alright! All of the Gokus get over here!" She yelled. Her response was met with seven of them using their instant transmission at the same time to stand in front of her, which made Bulma jump back.
"Geeze! Couldn't you all have been a little less punctual maybe?" Bulma retorted with a hint of sarcasm, but managed to gather herself together again.
"Alright! All of you come with me, because I'm going to bring you all back together!" Bulma declared as she went to the machine. As she pressed a button to open the door, a rumbling noise resonated from within the machine. The machine suddenly had an attack on itself as the lights were flashing erratically. A loud bang had occurred and smoke started drifting from the machine. On top of all of that, the computer that controlled everything on the machine had also overheated itself.
"Argh! Are you kidding me!?" Bulma yelled, frustrated that her weeks spent invention had broken down.
"Hold on… so what happens now then?" The Super Saiyan 3 form stepped forward, inspecting the machine.
"Well, I'm sorry to tell you this Gokus, but judging by appearances this machine will take about two weeks to or more to repair… so, you all are stuck like that for the time being…"
"What!?" ChiChi yelled, clearly shocking all of the Gokus in the process. She grabbed Bulma by the arm and dragged her away from the crowd so that she could talk in private, conversing with the blunette in a harsh whisper.
"Are you serious?! How am I going to survive more than two weeks of this crazy!? You know how much Saiyans eat! I might get broke if I have to buy just enough food for all of them!"
"Hey, just relax… look no problem, I'll give you one of my capsule sets. Each capsule would contain about a years' worth of food, and there are ten capsules. The meals are all premade, so all you have to do is get one, pick the right amount of food you need and reheat it, done! Are you alright now?"
ChiChi had calmed down a bit, but she was still a bit frustrated "Yes, thankyou… but… I am going to be living with seven Saiyans! Actually, eight when you count Goten! How am I supposed to deal with seven copies of my husband?!"
For some reason, Bulma smirked. Her smirk then revealed laughter. ChiChi wondered if she had gone mad for a bit.
"You know… have you ever considered how good looking your husband is? I'm not gonna lie, I'm saying this in an honest point of view, I mean that's why I secretly always find Vegeta so hot…"
ChiChi was suspicious where this conversation was going… but she couldn't help but admit that what she had said was true. To keep down her growing blush, she folded her arms and gave the blunette a serious look. "So? What's your point? ".
"Well… all I'm saying is that… dang you're a lucky girl ChiChi… I mean, you'll have these upcoming weeks to 'make your move 'on each Goku if you know what I mean… show him what he's been been missing all these times whenever he's out training… " Bulma had raised an eyebrow for emphasis.
What Bulma had said finally made ChiChi's face turn bright red. She could not believe that she had suggested such a thing.
"B-Bulma! Y-you…" She was blushing to the point that she couldn't take it and had to cover her face with her hands. She hated to admit it, but once again, Bulma also brought up a really good point.
"Maybe I would- no way… no way no way no way no way! Get your impure thoughts out of your head! "ChiChi's mind was on the verge of creating an inappropriate image I her brain, but quickly shook herself back to reality.
" You know what, I think I'm gonna find the REAL Goku… " ChiChi sighed as she turned to find her husband.
"Okay then! Hey I'll put the food capsule set on the table for you! I'll also give you a capsule with six mattresses in them to make your life easier okay?"
As ChiChi walked away, she let out another sigh of exhaustion as her mind rolled over today's events.
"Oh dear… looks like I'm going to get roped in a whole new crazy adventure…"