IMPORTANT AN!!!!
Ok so in this chapter they get to go back to normal, but that's not the end of the fic by any means, no siree! This is supposed to be a get together after all!!
After this chapter this fic will change it's name… from now on it will be known as…*drum roll*… "WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!" as suggested by my pal anime allstar, a faithful reviewer of my fic.
CHAPTER 15- The Last Day
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It was 9 in the morning the next day and Vegeta and Bulma had been in Dr Briefs' lab since 6.
"How much longer is this going to take old man?" Vegeta growled as he watched Bulma's father potter about, tweaking the machine and assembling the final components
"Have patience Vegeta please! Would you like me to do a shabby job of it and trap you in Bulma's body forever??"
"Humph"
"What's wrong Vegeta? Are the cramps getting to you??" Bulma was in an irritable mood, having sat on a cold floor for 3 hours listening to Vegeta complain. Her dad didn't want her to help, he was always like that in the final stages of a project, he just would not trust anyone to do it right and just had to do everything himself. Still Bulma couldn't help but feel slightly offended… and bored
"Of course not woman! This pain is nothing to me! The point of the matter is that no amount of pain, however small, is worth it just so that you can reproduce at some point in your life, passing on your defective genes to future generations!"
"Yeah well at least the human race can breathe a huge sigh of relief knowing that you never intend to pollute it with your DNA!! I can only imagine the horrors that would in sue if you decided to have children!!!"
"Humph! The human race is not worthy of mixing with my privileged blood line!"
"JUST SHUT UP VEGETA!!!" Bulma screeched and felt that she had had enough of him to last several lifetimes
"As if I'll do what you tell me to woman!! I'll die before I do!!"
"Well that's good cos you've already died once!! HA HA HA!! I win again!!"
'I wish they'd go somewhere else so I could concentrate! I'll never get this finished at this rate and then they'll be baying for my blood if they have to go through another day of this!!' Dr Briefs thought solemnly
"Why don't you two go get something to eat? You haven't had
any breakfast yet and I won't be finished here for a good 5 hours if that!"
"Ok dad I'll go get something to eat. Do you think mom's put something out
already?"
"Oh you know your mother dear, she'll be on stand by in the kitchen ready to spring into action as soon as you even mention breakfast to her!! She has a talent for that…"
"Ok I'm going then!! I'll be back soon!" and with that she was gone before Dr Briefs could tell her to take her time
"What about you Vegeta?"
"I'm not budging till this thing is finished! Too many things have gone wrong
this week for me to be taking the chance of letting you slack off old man!!"
"But aren't you hungry?" Dr Briefs was craving solitude
"I will survive"
'Ah well' thought Dr Briefs ' at least if there's only one of them here I won't have to put up with the bickering'. He went back to his work Vegeta pacing back and forth in the background.
"So will this really take 5 hours? Can't you go any faster??" Vegeta eventually growled out
"I'm afraid so, but it might not take so long if it weren't for my concentration being ruined by you two kids tearing strips off each other!" Dr briefs gasped, he had never dared to speak out so openly against Vegeta before. He was afraid but curious to see what reaction he would get
"Humph! If your daughter wasn't so darned irritating there wouldn't be a problem!"
Dr Briefs, feeling braver knowing that Vegeta couldn't do a thing to him while in Bulma's body, and while he was creating his only way out of it, decided to defend his daughter
"Now Vegeta from what I've seen you do tend to provoke her
just as much as she does you… I think you both enjoy the arguments more than
you let on!"
Vegeta was surprised by the old man's honesty and bravery, but also strangely
pleased by it
"Hmmm, perhaps" Vegeta smirked
"Yes I thought so, after all Bulma is a lot brighter than most of her friends, with the possible exception of piccolo, and heaven knows he's not much of a talker… she only really spends time with Yamcha and, well, you know what I'm getting at"
"Ha ha ha! Yes the weakling hasn't got two brain cells to rub together!"
"Well, you put it a little more harshly than I would've…"
Vegeta continued to chuckle, while Dr Briefs went back to his work.
12 o'clock
"Hiya dad I'm back!"
Dr Briefs jumped out of his skin, nearly dropping a vital, and fragile, component of the machine
"Oh hello dear, did you have a nice breakfast?" he said vaguely, adjusting his glasses
"Yeah! Where'd Vegeta go?" she looked around curiously
"Right behind you woman!" Vegeta growled
Bulma looked around to find him leaning with his arms crossed against the wall.
She couldn't help but chuckle at how ridiculous this looked while he was in her body…
'But not for much longer now!!' she thought cheerfully
"Hiya Vegeta! I brought you some toast!! I bet you're hungry!"
Vegeta almost fell over. He hadn't seen her in such a good mood for a long time
"Uh yes, that would be… satisfactory woman."
"Ah Vegeta you're such a nut, you can't even say you're happy I brought you toast? He he!" Bulma handed him the plate and some little tubs of jam, honey and marmalade from her pocket
'Hmmm I wonder what the woman wants… she must want something, she's never this pleasant for no reason…' Vegeta thought, looking over at Bulma to catch her grinning inanely at him
"Woman stop pulling my face into that stupid grin!! I have never pulled that expression in my life nor do I wish to!!!"
"Ok Vegeta" Bulma said, putting on a mock serious face "this good enough?"
"Crazy woman" Vegeta mumbled under his breath and looked away
Time passed slowly for the next two hours, Bulma fiddled with her inventions and finished fixing Vegeta's training bots (the task she had meant to finish the morning after the night they got switched) and Vegeta attempted to meditate, figuring that as long as he still had his mind, he could still train in a sense, preparing himself for the physical training he would undertake immediately after being returned to his body.
Finally at about 2:15 in the afternoon Dr Briefs called out
"Finally, finished! Are you two ready to go back to normal?"
"I've been ready since the second we switched, you crazy fool!" Vegeta said
irritably, opening his eyes and uncrossing his legs.
"Ready as I'll ever be dad!" Bulma bounced over to the completed machine
"Where do you want us?" she asked cheerfully
"Umm, if you would both stand on the blue mats." Bulma looked down, two blue mats with foot print outlines on them, showing you how to stand lay on the ground next to the machine.
"Oh ok!" both she and Vegeta stood on the mats, and placed their hands on the machine on a specific spot indicated by handprints.
"Ok, I think you should both shut your eyes while this is going on, or you could get very dizzy indeed!!" Dr Briefs warned, "Ok now this shouldn't take a second" he said as he lightly padded the buttons on the control panel, causing the machine to whir to life and a mechanical voice to begin a countdown
"Here we go!" said Dr Briefs, excited to see his invention in action
"5…4…3…2…" the last number was blurred out by an intense buzzing sound, straight out of a science fiction movie. This was the last thing either heard before blacking out.
Vegeta awoke with fuzzy vision to the sound of Dr Briefs' voice
"Ah you're awake… is that you in there Vegeta?"
"Yes" was all he could cough out in his urgency to look over himself.
Discovering that the machine had succeeded he breathed a huge sigh of relief.
"Where there any complications?" he asked abruptly
"Nope, it was a perfect success, and the machine didn't even blow up this time! Both you and Bulma are unharmed!"
"I'm going to train. I expect to eat at 9:30 tonight." And with that Vegeta left the room without even glancing over his shoulder
"Ah well I can see he's feeling well" thought Dr Briefs, wondering if the saiya jin prince even knew what gratitude was.
"Hmmm?" Bulma stirred. Dr Briefs ran over to his daughter immediately
"Bulma dear, how are you feeling?"
Bulma sat up slowly
"Kinda like a truck just hit me… BUT I'M BACK IN MY BODY!!! Oh kami thank you!"
"Both you and Vegeta are unharmed and the machine ha survived in tact, an all round success story even if I say so myself!!" Dr Briefs smile down at his daughter
"That's great dad! Where is Vegeta by the way?"
"I'll give you one guess!"
Bulma sighed. 'Back to normal' she thought, almost sadly…
Ah back to normal. Well all of this was just the backdrop to the eventual get together so stay tuned to find out what happens next- Are they really back to normal?