Z Basket

By Pikachu Hunter

Chapter Three: Start The Hugging!

"Let's do it one at a time, and see who gets what together! That way I won't

have to clean up after a massive animal attack in my living room!" Bulma

suggested.

"Okay!" Goku said. "Let's clear a circle!" The group did as they were told,

backing up and forminf a ring in the middle for the animal to be displayed before

the wondering crowd.

"Who should go first?" Gohan asked.

"How about Vegeta? I bet he's just DYING to be in his kitty cat form again,

aren't you?" Goku pinched his friend's cheek. Vegeta narrowed his eyes at Goku.

"Fine, Kakkarot. But I bet you anything that your animal will be something

as idiotic as a baboon or a giant fish." Vegeta said, walking into the middle.

"Who's gonna hug the kitty...?" Goku laughed.

"ME!" Bulma said, overly excited to laugh at her husband in his second form

again. She rushed up and hugged him tightly, and...

POOF! In a cloud of pink dust, Vegeta was now a little dark blue kitten,

meowing at anyone who dared laughed. Krillin burst out laughing at Vegeta's cat

form, and Vegeta meowed four syllables, releasing a large blast of Ki on his blad

head. "Ouch..." Krillin fell on his face. Eighteen picked him up and sighed. "Men.

They can't refrain from blowing eachother up for five minutes."

"Mrow!" Vegeta meowed at Bulma and Goku.

"Aw, you're awfully cute when you're a kitty, Vegeta, you sure you want to

change back?" Bulma scratched him behind his ear, and he began to purr and rub

his coat of blue fur against Bulma's socks. "Mrow..."

"Here you go. Dip you paw in this, Vegeta." Goku set a bucket of hot water

down on the floor beside the kitten. Vegeta did as his kitty self was told, and then,

in another cloud of pink dust, he appeared as a fully grown Saiyan man with his

hand in a pail of water, sitting on the floor like an idiot.

"Who's next?" Goku looked around the room.

"How 'bout you, Gohan?" Videl nudged him.

"No, I don't think--YAH!" Videl had dragged him to the middle of the room

and hugged him, turning his back into the duck he'd become while eating dinner.

"Aw, a mallard..." Videl said. She took some water on her fingers and flicked

it at Gohan, making him again a teengae half-Saiyan half-Human.

"Next?" Goku waved to the middle, encouraging the group to bring forth the

next person.

"I know Trunks would like to show you all his armadillo form," Bulma shoved

him into the middle and hugged him, ending up with an armadillo in her arms.

"Whoa, Trunks is an armadillo, Mom! I wanna see what I am!" Goten jumped into

the middle of the circle as Trunks returned to regular state and hid behind Bulma.

Chi-Chi followed him, and gave him a little hug, not wanting to squish him if he was

something small.

"I'm a birdie, I'm a birdie!" Goten chirped, nobody but himself understanding

the language of the crow.

"Not a nice birdie!" Gohan said, being pecked on the head as excited Goten

tried to get his big brother's attention. Goten flew over the bucket of water, dipping

his claws in as he swooped over it, and--he turned into a boy again, but kept flying-

-right into the wall by the door. "Ow..." Goten walked back, dizzy.

"Aw, Goten...you make a lovely bird." Chi-Chi would have hugged him, but

didn't want to see a replay of her son smashing his head into a wall again. He might

end up an idiot, like Goku after a tumble down the canyon.

"I want to see what animal I am!" Yamcha stepped into the middle. The room

was quiet. "Well? Who's gonna hug me?" He looked around at the few females in the

room.

"You do it." Bulma nudged Chi-Chi.

"No, you! I'm not going near HIM!"

"You!"

"No way!" They argued over who shouldhave to hug the man, when they

suddenly remembered there were the other two. "Eighteen...you'd do us a friendly

favor, wouldn't you?" Bulma asked.

"FAT CHANCE!" Eighteen shook her head.

"...Videl?" Chi-Chi looked at her future daughter-in-law hopefully.

"O-o...okay..." Videl slowly inched towards Yamcha, who was ready to be

hugged by any willing girl.

"VIDEL, ARE YOU NUTS?!" Gohan tugged on her arm.

"Oh, c'mon, it's just a hug!" Videl reassured her boyfriend. She walked over

and gave Yamcha a small hug.

"WHAT?! NOT FAIR!" Vegeta gaped at the pitbull sitting in the place of

Yamcha. Why had HE gotten to be a dog, when he himself had only gotten a little

blue cat?!

Yamcha growled at Vegeta. "Bulma!" The Saiyan jumped on her, holding on

for dear life, and...well, it counted as a hug.

"Bulma?" Vegeta took the transformed girl in his arm. "You're a...a..."

"Woof!" Yamcha started to drool on Vegeta's sock.

"DISGUSTING!" Vegeta shook his foot in the air. Yamcha trotted over to the

bucket and lapped up some of the hot water inside. Then he was a human with his

tounge in a bucket. "I said," Yamcha stood up. "That Bulma is a Pikachu!"

"A Pika--what?" Vegeta blinked at his wife's form.

"PIKA!" The creature sat up and looked around at the others. "Pikaaaaa!" She

shouted. "We can't understand you, Bulma." Vegeta said. He reached into the

bucket with one hand, the other keeping Bulma close, and sprinkled some hot water

on her forehead. And there was Bulma, being balanced in Vegeta's arms like a new

bride.

"Vegeta, you're so romantic!" She hugged him. Suddenly, she fell on the

floor and was sitting beside an angry blue kitten. "Sorry." She picked him up. "But

this time I'm not letting you change back!" She said. "You'll go everywhere with me

and never take off on one of those silly training trips again, and you can eat like a

normal person!"

Vegeta hissed at Bulma, who dropped him when he realized he had razor-

sharp claws that could tear her arms up until she let go of him. "Mrow..." he padded

away on all fours. He flopped down lazily on the couch.

"Anyone want to go next?" Goku looked about. "How 'bout you, Master

Roshi?" He pointed. Roshi walked slowly to the center of the room. Extending his

arms, he began to laugh the laugh that meant trouble for nearby girls. Chi-Chi,

Bulma, Videl, and Eighteen with Marron in arms fled the room, retreating to the

upstairs floor.

"Darn it..." Roshi shrugged, sitting back on the couch.

"Hey Eighteen, come here! I want to see what I am!" Krillin bounded up the

stairs. Minutes later, Eighteen came down the stairs with a small orange lizard in his

arms. She threw him in th buket carelessly, and all of a sudden there was a very

short, soaked man sitting with his bottom in a bucket.

"The water's all gone," Krillin coughed.

"This is boring. Can we finish this later?" Bulma yawned.

"Just one more--I want to see what I am!" Goku jumped up and down.

"Yeah, okay, but this is the last one." Bulma glanced around the room.

"Okay! Oh, Chi-Chi..." Goku smiled. His wife bounded up beside him, then

wrapped her arms around him.

"A...A...." Vegeta stared.

"He's a...a..."

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What has Goku transformed into? Will it be something terrible, or stupid, or

amazing, or what?!

Find out next chapter!