A Different World
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ so give me shit about it. A/N: Yo people of the fanfiction world! What's up? Well, I finally got done with ch.6 and I also did ch.7 so you guys will get a double chapter update!! Awesome, huh? Well, here's Ch.6! Enjoy!! ************************************************************************
Chapter Six
Bulma's Plan
Bulma woke up in her lab chair in her lab. Her eyes fluttered open and she yawned while stretching her arms out in the air. She must have fallen asleep in her lab again. Her eyes roamed over to her digital clock on her desk and it read 6:49 a.m. She stood up from her chair and strolled out of her lab and into her house. She made it to the kitchen and brewed herself a cup of coffee. She sat at the kitchen table, expecting her mother to be in the kitchen making Vegeta his breakfast. She shrugged her shoulders and tried to remember what she did yesterday. All she remembered was this really bad nightmare that Vegeta, Trunks, Goku, Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, and Krillin were transported to a place somewhere and her invention blew up. Bulma cringed visibly at the idea and took a sip of her coffee. Then her mother waltzed into the room crying and wiping her tears with a tissue. Bulma quickly ran to her side and comforted her in a hug.
"What's wrong mother?" Mrs. Briefs looked up at her with tear filled eyes and a worried look.
"I'm just crying over. the incident that. happened yesterday." Bulma gave her a confused look.
"What incident?" Mrs. Briefs looked at her like she was crazy.
"Bulma hunny, are you ok? Don't you remember anything? Poor Vegeta and Trunks vanished yesterday with those other sweet boys because of your invention and it blew up." Bulma's eyes widened remarkably and she started shaking.
"No. no. no". Bulma whispered to herself. She sprinted up to Trunks room and swung the door open. He wasn't there. She ran over to her and Vegeta's room and peeked inside. It was dark and empty.
"No, this can't be happening." Bulma ran out to the GR and opened the door. They were know where to be seen. Bulma collapsed on the ground and tears escaped from her eyes. She started to cry and scenes of the day before fled into her mind. Now she remembered why she was in her lab. The blue haired genius was trying to find out what went wrong when she transported the seven men across the universe. It should have worked correctly. She checked all of the wire circuitry and parts in the invention and it all came out fine. Now, she had nothing to check for bugs or loose wires, or anything. Everything was gone. Her husband, son, and friends were gone and she had no way to get them back, unless. she made another one of her inventions and found out where they went. Bulma leaped up into the air and jogged to her lab. She raced around her lab and looked for something in particular.
"Aha! Here it is." She grabbed a blueprint and laid it down on her desk. She rolled it open and gazed at the object and all of its parts drawn on the blue piece of paper. She smiled and thanked Kami that she made blueprints of each of her inventions.
"I'm going to have to get dad to help me with this one. It'll get done faster and maybe we can figure out what went wrong with the last one." Bulma ran into her house and knocked on her father's lab door in the hallway.
"Dad! It's me Bulma! Can I come in?" Dr. Briefs opened up the door and Bulma ran in before he could say a word. She raced over to his desk and laid the blueprint on top of it. Dr. Briefs pondered over to Bulma and stared curiously at her.
"This can help get everyone back that disappeared yesterday. It's the blueprint to my invention that I made. If we make another one, maybe we can find out what went wrong with the other one and try to find out where they were sent to."
"Hmm. good job Bulma. You're right, this can help us try to get everyone back safe and sound, but I am still puzzled at how we're going to find out where they were sent. The coordinates were only in the other machine."
"Well, let's worry about that after we get this built. We need this to be able to move anything at all. So can we start now?"
"Well, we can start some of it, but we'll need to order certain parts. We don't have all of them."
"Ok. I'll go order them now. Can you start on this now, please? I'll be right back." Bulma quickly wrote down the parts they needed and sprinted to the phone in the kitchen.
"Waaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa!"
"Can you hold on please?" Bulma placed her hand over the speaker of the phone. "Mother, can you go help out Bra?"
"Oh sure sweetie." Mrs. Briefs walked upstairs to go tend to the baby crying in her crib. Bulma resumed ordering the parts necessary for her invention and was done in no time.
"Can you deliver them as soon as possible please?"
"Well, they can be there in three days".
"What if I paid extra, can you get them here faster?"
"We can try to get them there in two days."
"Ok, deal. If they get here in three days, then I'm paying normal price." Got it?"
"Yes Ms. Briefs. We will deliver as fast as we can."
"Ok, thank you."
"Thanks for your business Ms. Br-". Bulma hung up the phone and ran over to her father's lab and slammed the door shut.
"They can get the parts here in two days if they hurry."
"Ok dear. I cleared the table and got the parts we already have and placed them on the table."
"Ok. Let's get started." Bulma and her father worked on the machine for five hours straight until Mr. Briefs needed a coffee break and Bulma needed a bathroom break. Bulma was just about to go back into the lab until she saw Bra in her baby swing, swinging while watching TV. She smiled at Bra and walked over to her. Bra's face brightened as soon as she saw her mother. She lifted her arms out in the air to help her mother be able to pick her up.
"I'm sorry hunny, I can't hold you. I'm too dirty and I have to get back to work to help get your daddy and your brother back here." Bra pouted and her eyes started to well up in tears. "Now, now. Don't cry. I promise I'll get them back soon and we can hang out as we usually did, ok?" Bra smiled faintly, but still had tears in her eyes. Bulma kissed her cheek and pushed her chair so it would swing back and forth. She smiled as Bra yawned and closed her eyes. She wondered back into her father's lab and right back to work. Mr. Briefs then came into the room and examined the little bit of work they accomplished.
"We still have a while to go. We can only do so much until those pieces get here, so don't expect to be working on this for too long today." Bulma nodded her head and continued to screw in a nail with her screwdriver. She tried not to remember what happened yesterday, but the scenes kept playing back in her mind.
~FLASHBACK~
"I'm going to make you guys travel a farther distance now, ok?"
"Yup. Let's go already!" Bulma pushed the button to activate it and the group disappeared once again. Then the most unexpected thing happened. The machine started rumbling and sparks started to fly from it. Bulma dropped it on the ground and stepped back while covering her face. Everyone else who was still there took cover and ran over to the two little girls in the pen. The machine blew up and pieces went flying everywhere. They all uncovered their faces and stared in horror at what they saw. They didn't see anything! The machine was completely ruined and none of the 'volunteers' were anywhere to be seen. The girls and Yamucha and Master Roshi went looking for them all over the place, but there was no luck. Bulma fell down on her knees and looked at her destroyed invention. A few tears escaped her eyes and she squeezed them shut.
"They're gone. All of them are gone and they have no way to get back." Chi-Chi and Videl lifted themselves off of the two baby girls and checked to see if they were all alright.
"Are you ok Chi-Chi?" Videl asked while examining her.
"I'm fine. How about you?"
"I'll be ok? How are the girls?"
"They're ok." Chi-Chi looked around the yard and she saw scrap pieces of metal all over the ground and a big black mark on the grass where the invention exploded. Chi-Chi's eyes widened as she saw the chaos and Bulma on the ground crying right in the middle of it. Videl also looked around and didn't see any of the guys that were suppose to be back from their little trip across the universe. She picked both of the crying baby girls up and held them in her arms while cooing at them and trying to get them to settle down. 18 was running all over the place with Marron, looking for her husband and friends. No such luck. 18 saw Bulma sprawled over the grass and sprinted over to her, Marron right behind her. Chi-Chi and Videl also jogged over to Bulma's side and kneeled down next to her. Chi-Chi hugged Bulma and she wrapped her arms around Chi-Chi's neck while crying into her shoulder.
"Shhh. Shhhh. Everything's going to be ok."
"No.it.isn't! The invention.is gone.and the guys.are all gone.too! There isn't a.way for them to.get back!" Bulma choked out in between sobs.
"What do you mean there isn't a way for them to get back?"
"Yea, they have to come back." Marron said while holding herself. She suddenly felt so alone.
"Well, since the machine is broken, there. isn't a way for them to get back. They had to have.ended up somewhere in the universe or. they-". Bulma looked down at the ground.
"Don't think that Bulma. They are the strongest men in the universe and they can handle anything. Right girls?"
"Yea."
"Yea."
"Well, come on, we should go inside and go think or something." Chi-chi helped Bulma up to her feet and they all went inside. Master Roshi, Yamucha, Oolong, and Puar also came in after looking everywhere for the guys. When they arrived in the kitchen, Mrs. Briefs was crying herself, and decided to make a pot of tea to help calm them down. They all sat down at the kitchen table and leaned their heads on their hands. Videl set the girls in the playpen and they fell right asleep. Bulma was still sobbing and tears were coming from her eyes and falling down her face.
"Come on Bulma. Stay strong for your boys. They're out there somewhere and you know they don't want you crying. I bet you they're fine." Bulma nodded and wiped away her tears. Mrs. Briefs came over with the tea and poured each of them a cup. They all drank their tea slowly and quietly.
"I'm going to find out what went wrong and how I can fix it."
"How?" Chi-Chi asked puzzled.
"Well, I'll go in my lab all night and day until I figure out how to fix this problem. You'll see." Bulma got up from her chair and started walking over to the front door.
"Bulma, aren't you even going to say goodbye to your friends?" Mrs. Briefs asked.
"Sorry. Bye guys and I am so sorry for today. I'll find out how to bring them back. I promise." They all rose from their seats and shared a great big hug.
"You better or else some not so nice things will happen around here." 18 threatened. Chi-Chi elbowed her in the side and smiled at Bulma.
"Don't worry, we have faith in you Bulma. Now go find out how to get our men and boys back." Bulma nodded and ran out to her lab. She entered her lab and paced back and forth, trying to figure out how to get them back. She looked all around the room to see if anything would trigger her brain or give her an idea. But nothing happened. She lazily sat in her chair and leaned on her desk.
"Why does this have to be so hard?" Bulma whispered to herself. Then before she knew it, darkness took over and she fell into a deep slumber.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
"Ok Bulma, this is all we can do now. We have to wait for the other parts to arrive."
"Ok. I'll stay here and just check and see if everything is set up correctly and if I can do anymore work."
"Alright. Just don't stay up too late."
"Dad. I'm a grown old lady. I can stay up for as long as I want."
"Well ok. You just be sure to get enough rest. You had a long day today."
"Ok. Goodnight daddy."
"Goodnight pumpkin." Dr. Briefs kissed her on the forehead and left his lab. Bulma re-checked all of the information and progress and tried to add on to what they accomplished so far.
A/N: So Bulma found a way to get them back after all! Well, what happens next? Read next chapter and find out!
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ so give me shit about it. A/N: Yo people of the fanfiction world! What's up? Well, I finally got done with ch.6 and I also did ch.7 so you guys will get a double chapter update!! Awesome, huh? Well, here's Ch.6! Enjoy!! ************************************************************************
Chapter Six
Bulma's Plan
Bulma woke up in her lab chair in her lab. Her eyes fluttered open and she yawned while stretching her arms out in the air. She must have fallen asleep in her lab again. Her eyes roamed over to her digital clock on her desk and it read 6:49 a.m. She stood up from her chair and strolled out of her lab and into her house. She made it to the kitchen and brewed herself a cup of coffee. She sat at the kitchen table, expecting her mother to be in the kitchen making Vegeta his breakfast. She shrugged her shoulders and tried to remember what she did yesterday. All she remembered was this really bad nightmare that Vegeta, Trunks, Goku, Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, and Krillin were transported to a place somewhere and her invention blew up. Bulma cringed visibly at the idea and took a sip of her coffee. Then her mother waltzed into the room crying and wiping her tears with a tissue. Bulma quickly ran to her side and comforted her in a hug.
"What's wrong mother?" Mrs. Briefs looked up at her with tear filled eyes and a worried look.
"I'm just crying over. the incident that. happened yesterday." Bulma gave her a confused look.
"What incident?" Mrs. Briefs looked at her like she was crazy.
"Bulma hunny, are you ok? Don't you remember anything? Poor Vegeta and Trunks vanished yesterday with those other sweet boys because of your invention and it blew up." Bulma's eyes widened remarkably and she started shaking.
"No. no. no". Bulma whispered to herself. She sprinted up to Trunks room and swung the door open. He wasn't there. She ran over to her and Vegeta's room and peeked inside. It was dark and empty.
"No, this can't be happening." Bulma ran out to the GR and opened the door. They were know where to be seen. Bulma collapsed on the ground and tears escaped from her eyes. She started to cry and scenes of the day before fled into her mind. Now she remembered why she was in her lab. The blue haired genius was trying to find out what went wrong when she transported the seven men across the universe. It should have worked correctly. She checked all of the wire circuitry and parts in the invention and it all came out fine. Now, she had nothing to check for bugs or loose wires, or anything. Everything was gone. Her husband, son, and friends were gone and she had no way to get them back, unless. she made another one of her inventions and found out where they went. Bulma leaped up into the air and jogged to her lab. She raced around her lab and looked for something in particular.
"Aha! Here it is." She grabbed a blueprint and laid it down on her desk. She rolled it open and gazed at the object and all of its parts drawn on the blue piece of paper. She smiled and thanked Kami that she made blueprints of each of her inventions.
"I'm going to have to get dad to help me with this one. It'll get done faster and maybe we can figure out what went wrong with the last one." Bulma ran into her house and knocked on her father's lab door in the hallway.
"Dad! It's me Bulma! Can I come in?" Dr. Briefs opened up the door and Bulma ran in before he could say a word. She raced over to his desk and laid the blueprint on top of it. Dr. Briefs pondered over to Bulma and stared curiously at her.
"This can help get everyone back that disappeared yesterday. It's the blueprint to my invention that I made. If we make another one, maybe we can find out what went wrong with the other one and try to find out where they were sent to."
"Hmm. good job Bulma. You're right, this can help us try to get everyone back safe and sound, but I am still puzzled at how we're going to find out where they were sent. The coordinates were only in the other machine."
"Well, let's worry about that after we get this built. We need this to be able to move anything at all. So can we start now?"
"Well, we can start some of it, but we'll need to order certain parts. We don't have all of them."
"Ok. I'll go order them now. Can you start on this now, please? I'll be right back." Bulma quickly wrote down the parts they needed and sprinted to the phone in the kitchen.
"Waaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaa!"
"Can you hold on please?" Bulma placed her hand over the speaker of the phone. "Mother, can you go help out Bra?"
"Oh sure sweetie." Mrs. Briefs walked upstairs to go tend to the baby crying in her crib. Bulma resumed ordering the parts necessary for her invention and was done in no time.
"Can you deliver them as soon as possible please?"
"Well, they can be there in three days".
"What if I paid extra, can you get them here faster?"
"We can try to get them there in two days."
"Ok, deal. If they get here in three days, then I'm paying normal price." Got it?"
"Yes Ms. Briefs. We will deliver as fast as we can."
"Ok, thank you."
"Thanks for your business Ms. Br-". Bulma hung up the phone and ran over to her father's lab and slammed the door shut.
"They can get the parts here in two days if they hurry."
"Ok dear. I cleared the table and got the parts we already have and placed them on the table."
"Ok. Let's get started." Bulma and her father worked on the machine for five hours straight until Mr. Briefs needed a coffee break and Bulma needed a bathroom break. Bulma was just about to go back into the lab until she saw Bra in her baby swing, swinging while watching TV. She smiled at Bra and walked over to her. Bra's face brightened as soon as she saw her mother. She lifted her arms out in the air to help her mother be able to pick her up.
"I'm sorry hunny, I can't hold you. I'm too dirty and I have to get back to work to help get your daddy and your brother back here." Bra pouted and her eyes started to well up in tears. "Now, now. Don't cry. I promise I'll get them back soon and we can hang out as we usually did, ok?" Bra smiled faintly, but still had tears in her eyes. Bulma kissed her cheek and pushed her chair so it would swing back and forth. She smiled as Bra yawned and closed her eyes. She wondered back into her father's lab and right back to work. Mr. Briefs then came into the room and examined the little bit of work they accomplished.
"We still have a while to go. We can only do so much until those pieces get here, so don't expect to be working on this for too long today." Bulma nodded her head and continued to screw in a nail with her screwdriver. She tried not to remember what happened yesterday, but the scenes kept playing back in her mind.
~FLASHBACK~
"I'm going to make you guys travel a farther distance now, ok?"
"Yup. Let's go already!" Bulma pushed the button to activate it and the group disappeared once again. Then the most unexpected thing happened. The machine started rumbling and sparks started to fly from it. Bulma dropped it on the ground and stepped back while covering her face. Everyone else who was still there took cover and ran over to the two little girls in the pen. The machine blew up and pieces went flying everywhere. They all uncovered their faces and stared in horror at what they saw. They didn't see anything! The machine was completely ruined and none of the 'volunteers' were anywhere to be seen. The girls and Yamucha and Master Roshi went looking for them all over the place, but there was no luck. Bulma fell down on her knees and looked at her destroyed invention. A few tears escaped her eyes and she squeezed them shut.
"They're gone. All of them are gone and they have no way to get back." Chi-Chi and Videl lifted themselves off of the two baby girls and checked to see if they were all alright.
"Are you ok Chi-Chi?" Videl asked while examining her.
"I'm fine. How about you?"
"I'll be ok? How are the girls?"
"They're ok." Chi-Chi looked around the yard and she saw scrap pieces of metal all over the ground and a big black mark on the grass where the invention exploded. Chi-Chi's eyes widened as she saw the chaos and Bulma on the ground crying right in the middle of it. Videl also looked around and didn't see any of the guys that were suppose to be back from their little trip across the universe. She picked both of the crying baby girls up and held them in her arms while cooing at them and trying to get them to settle down. 18 was running all over the place with Marron, looking for her husband and friends. No such luck. 18 saw Bulma sprawled over the grass and sprinted over to her, Marron right behind her. Chi-Chi and Videl also jogged over to Bulma's side and kneeled down next to her. Chi-Chi hugged Bulma and she wrapped her arms around Chi-Chi's neck while crying into her shoulder.
"Shhh. Shhhh. Everything's going to be ok."
"No.it.isn't! The invention.is gone.and the guys.are all gone.too! There isn't a.way for them to.get back!" Bulma choked out in between sobs.
"What do you mean there isn't a way for them to get back?"
"Yea, they have to come back." Marron said while holding herself. She suddenly felt so alone.
"Well, since the machine is broken, there. isn't a way for them to get back. They had to have.ended up somewhere in the universe or. they-". Bulma looked down at the ground.
"Don't think that Bulma. They are the strongest men in the universe and they can handle anything. Right girls?"
"Yea."
"Yea."
"Well, come on, we should go inside and go think or something." Chi-chi helped Bulma up to her feet and they all went inside. Master Roshi, Yamucha, Oolong, and Puar also came in after looking everywhere for the guys. When they arrived in the kitchen, Mrs. Briefs was crying herself, and decided to make a pot of tea to help calm them down. They all sat down at the kitchen table and leaned their heads on their hands. Videl set the girls in the playpen and they fell right asleep. Bulma was still sobbing and tears were coming from her eyes and falling down her face.
"Come on Bulma. Stay strong for your boys. They're out there somewhere and you know they don't want you crying. I bet you they're fine." Bulma nodded and wiped away her tears. Mrs. Briefs came over with the tea and poured each of them a cup. They all drank their tea slowly and quietly.
"I'm going to find out what went wrong and how I can fix it."
"How?" Chi-Chi asked puzzled.
"Well, I'll go in my lab all night and day until I figure out how to fix this problem. You'll see." Bulma got up from her chair and started walking over to the front door.
"Bulma, aren't you even going to say goodbye to your friends?" Mrs. Briefs asked.
"Sorry. Bye guys and I am so sorry for today. I'll find out how to bring them back. I promise." They all rose from their seats and shared a great big hug.
"You better or else some not so nice things will happen around here." 18 threatened. Chi-Chi elbowed her in the side and smiled at Bulma.
"Don't worry, we have faith in you Bulma. Now go find out how to get our men and boys back." Bulma nodded and ran out to her lab. She entered her lab and paced back and forth, trying to figure out how to get them back. She looked all around the room to see if anything would trigger her brain or give her an idea. But nothing happened. She lazily sat in her chair and leaned on her desk.
"Why does this have to be so hard?" Bulma whispered to herself. Then before she knew it, darkness took over and she fell into a deep slumber.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
"Ok Bulma, this is all we can do now. We have to wait for the other parts to arrive."
"Ok. I'll stay here and just check and see if everything is set up correctly and if I can do anymore work."
"Alright. Just don't stay up too late."
"Dad. I'm a grown old lady. I can stay up for as long as I want."
"Well ok. You just be sure to get enough rest. You had a long day today."
"Ok. Goodnight daddy."
"Goodnight pumpkin." Dr. Briefs kissed her on the forehead and left his lab. Bulma re-checked all of the information and progress and tried to add on to what they accomplished so far.
A/N: So Bulma found a way to get them back after all! Well, what happens next? Read next chapter and find out!