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studying for exams) longer than the others, and if you think there's a good
spot to stop in the middle of it - I would like to break it up - plz tell
me!
Disclaimer: If you recognise anything, I probably don't own it. DBZ, the characters, etc. HOWEVER I did think up the plot and Trunk's secretary. Please don't sue.
Quote of the chapter: 'What's the worst that can/could happen? Make it real.'
continuing on…. .
The president's secretary walked into the main office. She sighed. She deserved a pay rise, with having to cover up CC's president's 'appointments' that always seemed to end up with him meeting or making out with his girlfriend, whom she'd never met.
Also, the secretary had never actually seen Trunks Briefs do much work. Of course she had only been working here for about three generations worth of careers, so of course she wouldn't really know. Knocking on the door never served any purpose, and since her hands were full with files for president Briefs (of CC - remember) and since the door was magically ajar, she walked right in.
"Sir, the committee of New Technology Technologies has just forwarded - OMG!!!"
What she had seen 'slightly disturbed' her.
It was Trunks Briefs all right, but he looked about 13! The secretary knew the Briefs had some hereditary knack that could make them look 20 instead of 40 or even 50 (remember Bulma) but now he had diminished to a ………..(A.N. You Don't want to know*….)
Trunks was sitting in his huge leather desk chair in his work suit which had suddenly become several sizes too large, staring at his hands. His 14- year-old hands.
The secretary dropped her papers.
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*Well, actually I couldn't think of a really good, descriptive word…
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Pan couldn't wait to see the terrified look on Marron's plasticated face when she found out the 'love of her life' was back down to puberty.
And best yet, Trunks wouldn't remember anything that had happened to him after his 14th birthday (that had already happened before Pan's wishes. So he wouldn't remember Marron being his g/f or anything.)
Upon her landing, she almost gave a whoop of joy at the sudden pleasure that she might find, when she was thrown off balance and fell flat on her face. That's right, she had her tail back! Now all her balance was off, and moving on the ground was (made) difficult. She wiggled her tail around playfully and hugged the furry brown - thing.
Hopefully she wouldn't fall over when she saw 14-year-old Trunks. (A.N. 'Twould be interesting). 'I'll just need a little practise walking', she thought.
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(A.N. sorry there are so may of those, but I need something to break up the story, and the scenes…
I had a blank here, so it may be pretty bad)
Bra Briefs turned around & looked behind her. Sshe thought she had seen something. Her tail!
"How did that get there?" she wondered aloud. She would have to ask her father. Bra hadn't taken a lot of interest in her sayian heritage before, now would be a good time to ask. Perhaps sayians grew back their tails every 24 years! (Bra had her birthday two weeks ago.) She rushed out of the house to find either of her parents and tell them the news…
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The gravity level had reached a new high. Vegeta was still getting stronger, but at a slower pace. A lot of motivation had left him after Kakarott died. Now he couldn't try to beat him anymore, and Vegeta was probably the strongest being on earth at the moment. Still, he trained.
Suddenly the Sayai-jin no ouji (prince of sayians) found himself on the floor. He was struggling to breathe at all. Vegeta tried his best to stand, but to no avail. For some reason his power had surged right down. Then it boosted a little. His 'good ol' tail' had returned. Now almost capable of standing in the extreme gravity, Vegeta crawled over to the controls. Why had his power gone down - so he could have his tail back? He knew that with his tail (like any Sayian) he would be slightly stronger but he felt as weak as when he couldn't turn SSJ - he would have to try it later.... Vegeta went out of the gravity room, to try and get some answers.
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This time Pan did land at Master Roshi's house. Marron bolted outside, looking frantic.
"Pan!" she yelled "Trunks rang and his voice... all weird... and something must be wrong.... and coming over here..."
Gee, Pan thought, could she be any more vague?
"Marron calm down," she said, although quite enjoying her predicament and her flustery state.
"Pan - You have your tail-"
"What did he say?"... Pan interrupted.
-- a little later --
The now younger Trunks-laden-with-tail-and-a-hole-through-his-pants touched down on the sand outside Master Roshi's house. Marron and Pan were sitting on the front steps. Pan looked thoroughly bored (now) and Marron was still blabbering away to her. (AN: Wait! How could Trunks recognise Pan if he was his 14-year-old self? Unless Pan was just a baby when he was 14)
"Uhhh....." was all he said.
Marron, being Marron, squealed and ran over to him.
"Trunks! Ugh - what has happened to you? You've turned into some kind of freakish...thing!"
"Marron, I can expla - wait! No I can't!"
At this point he gave Pan a suspicious look. He noticed that they both had their tails back (except she she didn't have a hole through her pants), but hers was calm and docile. If Marron had one it would be uncontrollable at the moment. And his just dangled.
"I'm confused," was all he said before ushering and shushing Marron inside.
About five seconds later he came out again.
"Pan-chan, what did you do?"
'Look! He still treats me like a - little kid. Oh no!'
"You're your 38 year-old self in your teenage body! Urgh!"
Trunks looks around, clueless. "Huh?"
"...This wasn't supposed to happen! I guess Goten'll remember the past 26 years as well." Pan gave a sour look that said to Trunks: 'It's all your fault'
"Panny, if this is about earlier -"
FINALLY, she thought. Here comes the apology.
"You know I don't love you." Every word banged on her empty heart.
"And thinking making me younger was going to change anything? Sure, I may have lost a little power now I'm in my 14-year-old body again, but it doesn't really change anything. Give up Pan!"
Pan's tail became limp with hurt. An incredible loneliness swelled from within her.
"How can you tell me how I feel! You break my heart, tell me I'm not good enough for anything and treat me like a kid! So does everyone else. All my life I've heard I was too young but now I'm 25. And it's still the same. It's everyone else that has the growing up to do (AN: now, at least.. tee hee), not me!"
And with that Son Pan flew away from the island to try and get some sympathy elsewhere. Trunks remainded ouitside for some time scratching his head and thinking 'No, Pan...' Before Marron yelled at him to get changed out of his overlarge (with-a-hole-in-it) suit.
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Does Goten remember the past 26 years?
"Goten -" Chichi's voice glided up to her 'youngest' (A.N. tee hee. *cough cough*... on with the story) son.
"Phone for you, I think it's Bra."
Goten ran down the stairs in his usual manner, his replacement tail flying out behind him.
"Hel-lo?" His voice cracked.
"Goten? Is that you?"
"Huh? Who is this?"
"It's Bra. Gee, you can be so silly sometimes."
*Vegeta overhears conversation and secretly adds 'like father, like Son.' * (A.N. HAHAHAHAHA!!! *cough cough* excuse my lameness. I need some 'help'. I have some 'issues'.)
Bra continues, "Anyway, I was wondering if you had your tail? 'Cos me and Tousan (father) do and if-"
"Who?"
"My tousan."
"No. Who are you?"
*Bra groans through the phone* (AN: it rhymes! *does crazy little happy dance* I'm a poet an I DO know it!)
"Me. Bra. Hel-lo. Your g/f. Goten, is something wrong?"
Goten sat down on the floor, the phone cord unwound. NOW he was majorly confused, Bra was his girlfriend? He was 13 and she, well - she was about 3? Huh? (A.N. I think I've muddled up the ages now. Someone help me!Also, does anyone think Bra is OOC?)
"No-o... I'm fine.'I think.' ...Bye"
Bra heard a click come from the other end of he line. She stared at the mouthpiece Why had he hung up?
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So... Well. I decided to end it here. I know some ppl don't always review but please, if you don't, I won't continue. *kills all who say it isn't their loss* Remember, flames ARE excepted, I have to respect your opinion and hopefully it'll make my fic better. I s'pose you would say it's an a/u (kinda). But if you've come this far, well it wouldn't HURT just to click on that little button to REVIEW. I don't care if you don't sign in (whatever). But I won't be able to send you any emails for thanks for reviewing, updates (if you want them, please say so in a review), etc.
ANYway, a signed review would be best, but any review is better than no review at all. ^_^ PLEASE! It doesn't take very long. *Goku/Son Style puppy dog eyes* ^_^
Thank you to:anonomous, Amanda, Embury, Kitten, Gohansfan and RiceC25 for reviewing
Disclaimer: If you recognise anything, I probably don't own it. DBZ, the characters, etc. HOWEVER I did think up the plot and Trunk's secretary. Please don't sue.
Quote of the chapter: 'What's the worst that can/could happen? Make it real.'
continuing on…. .
The president's secretary walked into the main office. She sighed. She deserved a pay rise, with having to cover up CC's president's 'appointments' that always seemed to end up with him meeting or making out with his girlfriend, whom she'd never met.
Also, the secretary had never actually seen Trunks Briefs do much work. Of course she had only been working here for about three generations worth of careers, so of course she wouldn't really know. Knocking on the door never served any purpose, and since her hands were full with files for president Briefs (of CC - remember) and since the door was magically ajar, she walked right in.
"Sir, the committee of New Technology Technologies has just forwarded - OMG!!!"
What she had seen 'slightly disturbed' her.
It was Trunks Briefs all right, but he looked about 13! The secretary knew the Briefs had some hereditary knack that could make them look 20 instead of 40 or even 50 (remember Bulma) but now he had diminished to a ………..(A.N. You Don't want to know*….)
Trunks was sitting in his huge leather desk chair in his work suit which had suddenly become several sizes too large, staring at his hands. His 14- year-old hands.
The secretary dropped her papers.
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*Well, actually I couldn't think of a really good, descriptive word…
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Pan couldn't wait to see the terrified look on Marron's plasticated face when she found out the 'love of her life' was back down to puberty.
And best yet, Trunks wouldn't remember anything that had happened to him after his 14th birthday (that had already happened before Pan's wishes. So he wouldn't remember Marron being his g/f or anything.)
Upon her landing, she almost gave a whoop of joy at the sudden pleasure that she might find, when she was thrown off balance and fell flat on her face. That's right, she had her tail back! Now all her balance was off, and moving on the ground was (made) difficult. She wiggled her tail around playfully and hugged the furry brown - thing.
Hopefully she wouldn't fall over when she saw 14-year-old Trunks. (A.N. 'Twould be interesting). 'I'll just need a little practise walking', she thought.
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(A.N. sorry there are so may of those, but I need something to break up the story, and the scenes…
I had a blank here, so it may be pretty bad)
Bra Briefs turned around & looked behind her. Sshe thought she had seen something. Her tail!
"How did that get there?" she wondered aloud. She would have to ask her father. Bra hadn't taken a lot of interest in her sayian heritage before, now would be a good time to ask. Perhaps sayians grew back their tails every 24 years! (Bra had her birthday two weeks ago.) She rushed out of the house to find either of her parents and tell them the news…
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The gravity level had reached a new high. Vegeta was still getting stronger, but at a slower pace. A lot of motivation had left him after Kakarott died. Now he couldn't try to beat him anymore, and Vegeta was probably the strongest being on earth at the moment. Still, he trained.
Suddenly the Sayai-jin no ouji (prince of sayians) found himself on the floor. He was struggling to breathe at all. Vegeta tried his best to stand, but to no avail. For some reason his power had surged right down. Then it boosted a little. His 'good ol' tail' had returned. Now almost capable of standing in the extreme gravity, Vegeta crawled over to the controls. Why had his power gone down - so he could have his tail back? He knew that with his tail (like any Sayian) he would be slightly stronger but he felt as weak as when he couldn't turn SSJ - he would have to try it later.... Vegeta went out of the gravity room, to try and get some answers.
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This time Pan did land at Master Roshi's house. Marron bolted outside, looking frantic.
"Pan!" she yelled "Trunks rang and his voice... all weird... and something must be wrong.... and coming over here..."
Gee, Pan thought, could she be any more vague?
"Marron calm down," she said, although quite enjoying her predicament and her flustery state.
"Pan - You have your tail-"
"What did he say?"... Pan interrupted.
-- a little later --
The now younger Trunks-laden-with-tail-and-a-hole-through-his-pants touched down on the sand outside Master Roshi's house. Marron and Pan were sitting on the front steps. Pan looked thoroughly bored (now) and Marron was still blabbering away to her. (AN: Wait! How could Trunks recognise Pan if he was his 14-year-old self? Unless Pan was just a baby when he was 14)
"Uhhh....." was all he said.
Marron, being Marron, squealed and ran over to him.
"Trunks! Ugh - what has happened to you? You've turned into some kind of freakish...thing!"
"Marron, I can expla - wait! No I can't!"
At this point he gave Pan a suspicious look. He noticed that they both had their tails back (except she she didn't have a hole through her pants), but hers was calm and docile. If Marron had one it would be uncontrollable at the moment. And his just dangled.
"I'm confused," was all he said before ushering and shushing Marron inside.
About five seconds later he came out again.
"Pan-chan, what did you do?"
'Look! He still treats me like a - little kid. Oh no!'
"You're your 38 year-old self in your teenage body! Urgh!"
Trunks looks around, clueless. "Huh?"
"...This wasn't supposed to happen! I guess Goten'll remember the past 26 years as well." Pan gave a sour look that said to Trunks: 'It's all your fault'
"Panny, if this is about earlier -"
FINALLY, she thought. Here comes the apology.
"You know I don't love you." Every word banged on her empty heart.
"And thinking making me younger was going to change anything? Sure, I may have lost a little power now I'm in my 14-year-old body again, but it doesn't really change anything. Give up Pan!"
Pan's tail became limp with hurt. An incredible loneliness swelled from within her.
"How can you tell me how I feel! You break my heart, tell me I'm not good enough for anything and treat me like a kid! So does everyone else. All my life I've heard I was too young but now I'm 25. And it's still the same. It's everyone else that has the growing up to do (AN: now, at least.. tee hee), not me!"
And with that Son Pan flew away from the island to try and get some sympathy elsewhere. Trunks remainded ouitside for some time scratching his head and thinking 'No, Pan...' Before Marron yelled at him to get changed out of his overlarge (with-a-hole-in-it) suit.
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Does Goten remember the past 26 years?
"Goten -" Chichi's voice glided up to her 'youngest' (A.N. tee hee. *cough cough*... on with the story) son.
"Phone for you, I think it's Bra."
Goten ran down the stairs in his usual manner, his replacement tail flying out behind him.
"Hel-lo?" His voice cracked.
"Goten? Is that you?"
"Huh? Who is this?"
"It's Bra. Gee, you can be so silly sometimes."
*Vegeta overhears conversation and secretly adds 'like father, like Son.' * (A.N. HAHAHAHAHA!!! *cough cough* excuse my lameness. I need some 'help'. I have some 'issues'.)
Bra continues, "Anyway, I was wondering if you had your tail? 'Cos me and Tousan (father) do and if-"
"Who?"
"My tousan."
"No. Who are you?"
*Bra groans through the phone* (AN: it rhymes! *does crazy little happy dance* I'm a poet an I DO know it!)
"Me. Bra. Hel-lo. Your g/f. Goten, is something wrong?"
Goten sat down on the floor, the phone cord unwound. NOW he was majorly confused, Bra was his girlfriend? He was 13 and she, well - she was about 3? Huh? (A.N. I think I've muddled up the ages now. Someone help me!Also, does anyone think Bra is OOC?)
"No-o... I'm fine.'I think.' ...Bye"
Bra heard a click come from the other end of he line. She stared at the mouthpiece Why had he hung up?
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So... Well. I decided to end it here. I know some ppl don't always review but please, if you don't, I won't continue. *kills all who say it isn't their loss* Remember, flames ARE excepted, I have to respect your opinion and hopefully it'll make my fic better. I s'pose you would say it's an a/u (kinda). But if you've come this far, well it wouldn't HURT just to click on that little button to REVIEW. I don't care if you don't sign in (whatever). But I won't be able to send you any emails for thanks for reviewing, updates (if you want them, please say so in a review), etc.
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Thank you to:anonomous, Amanda, Embury, Kitten, Gohansfan and RiceC25 for reviewing