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All color leaves the prince's face once he hears that dreaded word.
Daddy
And it came from the mouth of the chibified version of his greatest rival, who is currently grinning at him with the biggest smile that he's ever seen.
Vegeta's eyes dart over to the other occupants of the room, who just bite their lips with worry or shrug. However, the also chibified Gohan frowns at his father, wondering how he could have totally messed up his memory when he himself still has his.
The ouji turns back to the little saiyajin clinging to his leg and says nervously, "Um... I think that you have the wrong saiyajin," and gently pries the chibi off of him.
Goku's eyes widen and his grin is wiped off of his face. "What do you mean?"
Vegeta bites his lip, "I'm not your father. Sorry." Then he winces, waiting for the harsh return.
But then Goku suddenly breaks into fits of laughter, and falls onto the floor, rolling in hysterics, pointing at the ouji.
Vegeta's eyes narrow, "I have the strangest feeling that I am being mocked."
Goku laughs, "Oh Kami, that was so easy!" Relief washes over the rest of the group, except for Vegeta that is.
"EASY?! YOU PLAYED A PRANK ON ME?!" However, the red, furious saiyajin just makes Goku laugh even harder.
Trunks, the master of tricks himself, chuckles as well, "You do have to admit that he got you good. He managed to get you to say sorry!"
Vegeta snarls, "I'll show him sorry!" He grabs Goku by the collar and brings him up to his face, "You little prick! You think that this is funny! I'll show you how funny it is once you get pummeled! I bet you chibified yourself on purpose for a laugh, too!"
Bulma says in a scolding manner, "Vegeta! Don't threaten him, he's just a kid. Besides, he didn't know he was going to be chibified. He just was. And when he saw it, he took the opportunity to make fun of you."
Vegeta just stares at Bulma is disbelief, but Goku pauses his laughter and frowns, "Actually, I sort of suspected that something like this would happen." That's when Vegeta drops Goku onto his butt. The little saiyajin whines, "Ow... That hurt!"
Gohan demands, "What do you mean you knew this was going to happen?!"
Goku shakes his head, "No, I thought that the fusion split might be unsuccessful. I didn't think that we'd turn into kids. I don't even know how we can possibly be alive! The only thing I can really understand is that Gohan and I both seem to be the age of 9, which is half of Gohan's real age. And that we both have all of our memories. But what's really odd is I have the strangest urge to pull more pranks on Vegeta."
Trunks nods and sighs, "Yes, the bane of my existence. The never-ending addiction to practical jokes. Goten's too."
Goten mutters, "I must've gotten off of it then."
Bulma scoffs, "Oh never mind that! We just need to figure all of this out! Does this mean Goku really has his own body? Or is it just made out of Gohan's flesh?" Everyone winces at her wording, even Bulma herself, "Sorry."
Vegeta sighs and thinks, {It's the damned spirit form that kept them both alive. I didn't think K- Goku's immortality would actually affect his brat as well...} He pauses when he sees Goten's eyes on him, as if he's a specimen being studied. He snaps, "What are you looking at?!" The demi- saiyajin just looks away awkwardly.
Suddenly Piccolo brings them back to the real issue, "Well you can speculate all that you want. But we do have a major problem on our hands. How are you going to explain this to ChiChi?" looking at the still unconscious woman on the couch.
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T GET BACK TO NORMAL?!" Everyone backs away from the furious crazed woman as she screams at her poor chibi of a husband.
Goku says pleadingly, "No, ChiChi! I never said that! I just said it would be really hard! I'm sorry! I didn't think anything bad would happen!" Even though he told the others before about his suspicions.
"Gohan and I would have to fuse together first. Then knock out Gokan and then unfuse in Gohan's mind without messing up his body. And we don't even know if we'll even turn back to Gohan's teenage body. And if we do, we have to get knocked out before half an hour or else Gohan'll get split in half again and somehow I have the feeling that we might not get so lucky next time. Overall, it's really difficult to say anything about turning back to normal. All we can do is hope for the best!"
ChiChi stares at her husband before breaking into a huge smile and hugging the little saiyajin, "Oh my gosh! That's so cute! You sound just like Gohan!"
The group sweatdrops but is relieved to see ChiChi off of her rampage. Goku and Gohan especially. Goku smiles shyly, "Does that mean you're not mad?"
His wife narrows her eyes, "Are you kidding? Of course I am! But it's just so hard to stay mad at you!" She tweaks his cheeks and grins, "This is the face that I fell in love with!" Goku does not look happy.
Trunks and Mirai begin with the teasing snide remarks. While the rest just watch in amusement at Goku's displeasure. However, Vegeta notices Goten watching the young saiyajin with the kind of intensity that Frieza would give the dragonballs. He narrows his eyes and while Goten is too distracted with his own thoughts, the ouji tries to mind read him. {Immortality ne? Maybe I heard that ouji wrong but-} Suddenly Vegeta feels a wall pull up on him as Goten discovers a different presence in his mind.
Vegeta scowls and puts up his own walls as well to block anyone else from reading his thoughts as well. Watching Goku struggle and whine in ChiChi's arms, he thinks, {Something is very wrong with that Goten. Very wrong. He wants Goku for some reason; I can see it in his eyes. But for what?! And how could he possibly notice me in his mind?! I have been practicing my mental skills ever since I was just a child! There's no possible way he could detect me unless, he's some sort of psychic master!} He looks back at Goten and puts up several more mental barriers, very disturbed by the idea.
Interrupting Goku's torture and the others' pleasure, Piccolo demands, "So how strong are you anyway Son?"
Goku frowns and manages to pry himself out of ChiChi's arms, looking at his puny arms in disdain, "Actually, I'm not sure. It kind of feels the same, but something's out of whack." He pulls up a smile, "I bet a spar would help me figure it out though!"
Piccolo nods, "Alright let's-"
Suddenly Vegeta says, "No, I'll spar with him. If he really is full strength then you won't be able to handle him." He pulls Goku out towards the backyard and says, "Don't expect me to go easy on you now that you're just a gaki."
Goku smiles, "I'm counting on you not to."
ChiChi and Bulma roll their eyes muttering similar expressions about how saiyajins always fight. However, the demi-saiyajins and Piccolo wander outside to watch the spar.
Walking outside, Goku is trying to get used to the fact that he's back to being a little boy and that everything is so big. Even Vegeta's taller than him, for a change. Both saiyajins get into fighting stances and glare each other down. Watching in anticipation, the spectators cheer as they charge straight at each other. Their fists slam against each other and they struggle to push the other person back.
Unmoving eyes watch the fight, and Mirai says, "Looks like they're equal in strength."
Piccolo shakes his head, "No, Son has a little headway." They watch as Vegeta shoves Goku away and they start a barrage of kicks and punches. "He's still as strong as he was when he was an adult."
Trunks nudges Gohan and says, "Hear that? You're the same strength too." Gohan nods, but continues watching the fight.
Throughout the fight Vegeta growls inwardly, this fight being a possible threat to his pride, {How is this possible?! He's only a little brat! I can't be defeated by a mere gaki!} Goku gives him a well placed kick, sending the ouji flying towards the group.
Mirai yelps, "WATCH OUT!" They duck and cover, but Vegeta flips to his feet and makes only a minor crater in the ground on his landing, before blasting off after Goku once again.
Vegeta yells, "I won't let you humiliate me again!" He suddenly sees Goku's tail waving behind him and smirks, seeing his chance.
Goku sees the ouji throw a small ki attack at him and swats his away with his hand off towards the horizon. That's when he notices that Vegeta's disappeared. Suddenly, down on the ground Gohan yells, "Dad! Watch out!"
Goku automatically ducks out of the way as Vegeta tries to drill his hands onto his head. He turns to the ouji and smirks, "Missed me!"
But Vegeta's own well known smirk comes to his lips, "Not quite," showing off the end of a fuzzy brown tail to his rival.
The young saiyajin pales, when he realizes that it's his. He yells, "That's a cheap trick Vegeta!"
Vegeta replies, "It's not my fault you didn't get me my tail back!" quickly knotting up the tail, causing Goku a great amount of pain and throws him half way across the city. Already the little saiyajin is struggling to free his tail from the knot. Vegeta brings his wrists together and aims his palms towards Goku, beginning his signature attack, "Final- FLASH!!!" A massive yellow ki blast comes out of his palms speeding right at the chibified saiyajin.
Down on the ground, Mirai yells, "My dad's going to beat him! Even if Son- San does recover, he won't have enough time to gain enough energy to do a proper attack to block it!"
Suddenly Goten contributes to the discussion, "Yes, he will. Just watch. He'll beat the ouji."
Goku untangles his tail his tail just in time to regain his strength and see the huge blast coming right at him. Without pausing to think, he begins rushing through his own famous attack. "Ka-me-ha-me-HA!!!" The ki that comes from his hands is massive! Even more than massive, monstrous!!! Even bigger than the full powered ones that he would make as an adult.
Vegeta just stares at it in complete incredulity, while it engulfs his attack in a blink of an eye and flies straight at him, too fast for him to try and deflect it, if it's possible to deflect something that huge. All he has time to do is cross his arms in front of his face and brace himself. And maybe pray for his life.
Goku sees the impending danger and teleports to Vegeta's aid, standing in front of the ouji and kicking the blast just above Vegeta's head, slightly singeing him. He watches the blast as it flies safely into outer space. Vegeta looks up from his position and realizes that the baka gaki just saved his royal behind. Again. He yells, "Hey, I could've taken that! I'm not weak!"
The young saiyajin protests, "I never-!" He abruptly stops his whine when he smells smoke, and slowly his gaze lifts to Vegeta's head, his eyes bulging as he does so, "Uh... Veggie?"
Vegeta snaps, "What?!"
"Your hair's on fire."
"WHAT?!" Vegeta smells the smoke as well and begins to calmly freak out. "AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! BLOW IT OUT! BLOW IT OUT!" He goes flying down into the house, crashing through the watching crowd, in search of the nearest water source.
Goku runs after him frantically, unknowingly trampling over the group as well, "NO! STOP, DROP, AND ROLL! LISTEN TO ME! YOU HAVE STOP, DROP, AND ROLL! COME BACK HERE!"
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Later, inside of Bulma's lab, Vegeta sits sulkily in a chair in the corner while Bulma examines Gohan and Goku with ChiChi hovering around them. Only a little bit of the ouji's hair is gone, but most of his dignity's gone out the window. So instead of trying to recover a lost cause, he resorts to glaring at Goku resentfully.
Bulma makes the boys go through a whole series of tests; muscle density, brain scans, blood tests (which Vegeta eagerly helped out with), and all sorts of other check ups. After going through all her findings, she reports back to the two patients, ChiChi and Vegeta, who doesn't really seem to have a place there, but stays anyway out of curiosity. Bulma looks through the papers and says in a very professional manner, "Well, you two are perfectly healthy as far as I can tell. However, you two are just as strong as before because most of your muscle mass has been condensed into this little body that you have here."
To demonstrate she struggles to lift up Goku's arm to show how heavy it is. "I'm surprised that your tiny bones can even handle carrying these things, but it seems that they've become stronger as well, compensating for the added pressure. They should be about ten times harder than they normally are. Definitely making it a lot harder to break your bones. It's absolutely fascinating."
She flips to another page in her notes and says, "As to the ki that you gave off... I'm not really an expert on this sort of thing, but I think that since you have the same strength your ki should be the same. But since you have a smaller body it gives you more potential energy and less kinetic."
Goku blinks, "Huh?"
Gohan mutters, "She meant that since we have smaller bodies, we have more ki in our reserve."
"Ohhh."
ChiChi adds, "Well, you can't exclude the amount of energy that kids have. They can be nothing but bodies filled to the brim with sugar sometimes." Vegeta pales at the thought of his rival being as bouncy as his own kid. He'll never have a chance to rest!
Bulma says, "Speaking of kids, I also have the results of the neuro-scan. It's actually very strange... You see, Gohan and Goku still have all their memories, but Goku seems to have lost his adult maturity."
Vegeta grumbles, "I didn't know he had any." His wife gives him a quick smack over the head.
Bulma glares, "Of course he does! Or did. But now his sense of right and wrong has lessened, and he's going to be more prone to act like a regular kid!" She looks over two scans of Gohan and Goku's brain and their readings before sighing, "What is really bugging me is why it happened to only Goku and not Gohan!"
Goku answers, "Well maybe cuz this isn't my body, it's still part of Gohan's, even though it looks like mine." He puts a hand onto his chest and sighs, "It's really weird. It doesn't feel like I'm part of this thing. Like I'm floating off somewhere else and controlling this body with a remote control. Maybe my mind's just adjusting to this thing, but Gohan's isn't cuz it's already his body."
Gohan's eyes widen, "Does that mean you're STILL in spirit form?"
His father nods sadly, "Yeah, I think so."
Getting off of his chair, Vegeta mutters, "I don't see why you think that's such a bad thing," as he starts heading towards the door.
Bulma yells, "Hold it!" He stops and turns to look at his wife. "What do you mean it's not such a bad thing?!"
The ouji simply answers, "Because he's immortal in spirit form," and he leaves before anyone can question him more about it.
Goku takes a minute to soak it in, while the other three watch him apprehensively. He slowly brings his hands up and studies them as if he's never seen them before in his life, "I'm immortal?"
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All color leaves the prince's face once he hears that dreaded word.
Daddy
And it came from the mouth of the chibified version of his greatest rival, who is currently grinning at him with the biggest smile that he's ever seen.
Vegeta's eyes dart over to the other occupants of the room, who just bite their lips with worry or shrug. However, the also chibified Gohan frowns at his father, wondering how he could have totally messed up his memory when he himself still has his.
The ouji turns back to the little saiyajin clinging to his leg and says nervously, "Um... I think that you have the wrong saiyajin," and gently pries the chibi off of him.
Goku's eyes widen and his grin is wiped off of his face. "What do you mean?"
Vegeta bites his lip, "I'm not your father. Sorry." Then he winces, waiting for the harsh return.
But then Goku suddenly breaks into fits of laughter, and falls onto the floor, rolling in hysterics, pointing at the ouji.
Vegeta's eyes narrow, "I have the strangest feeling that I am being mocked."
Goku laughs, "Oh Kami, that was so easy!" Relief washes over the rest of the group, except for Vegeta that is.
"EASY?! YOU PLAYED A PRANK ON ME?!" However, the red, furious saiyajin just makes Goku laugh even harder.
Trunks, the master of tricks himself, chuckles as well, "You do have to admit that he got you good. He managed to get you to say sorry!"
Vegeta snarls, "I'll show him sorry!" He grabs Goku by the collar and brings him up to his face, "You little prick! You think that this is funny! I'll show you how funny it is once you get pummeled! I bet you chibified yourself on purpose for a laugh, too!"
Bulma says in a scolding manner, "Vegeta! Don't threaten him, he's just a kid. Besides, he didn't know he was going to be chibified. He just was. And when he saw it, he took the opportunity to make fun of you."
Vegeta just stares at Bulma is disbelief, but Goku pauses his laughter and frowns, "Actually, I sort of suspected that something like this would happen." That's when Vegeta drops Goku onto his butt. The little saiyajin whines, "Ow... That hurt!"
Gohan demands, "What do you mean you knew this was going to happen?!"
Goku shakes his head, "No, I thought that the fusion split might be unsuccessful. I didn't think that we'd turn into kids. I don't even know how we can possibly be alive! The only thing I can really understand is that Gohan and I both seem to be the age of 9, which is half of Gohan's real age. And that we both have all of our memories. But what's really odd is I have the strangest urge to pull more pranks on Vegeta."
Trunks nods and sighs, "Yes, the bane of my existence. The never-ending addiction to practical jokes. Goten's too."
Goten mutters, "I must've gotten off of it then."
Bulma scoffs, "Oh never mind that! We just need to figure all of this out! Does this mean Goku really has his own body? Or is it just made out of Gohan's flesh?" Everyone winces at her wording, even Bulma herself, "Sorry."
Vegeta sighs and thinks, {It's the damned spirit form that kept them both alive. I didn't think K- Goku's immortality would actually affect his brat as well...} He pauses when he sees Goten's eyes on him, as if he's a specimen being studied. He snaps, "What are you looking at?!" The demi- saiyajin just looks away awkwardly.
Suddenly Piccolo brings them back to the real issue, "Well you can speculate all that you want. But we do have a major problem on our hands. How are you going to explain this to ChiChi?" looking at the still unconscious woman on the couch.
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T GET BACK TO NORMAL?!" Everyone backs away from the furious crazed woman as she screams at her poor chibi of a husband.
Goku says pleadingly, "No, ChiChi! I never said that! I just said it would be really hard! I'm sorry! I didn't think anything bad would happen!" Even though he told the others before about his suspicions.
"Gohan and I would have to fuse together first. Then knock out Gokan and then unfuse in Gohan's mind without messing up his body. And we don't even know if we'll even turn back to Gohan's teenage body. And if we do, we have to get knocked out before half an hour or else Gohan'll get split in half again and somehow I have the feeling that we might not get so lucky next time. Overall, it's really difficult to say anything about turning back to normal. All we can do is hope for the best!"
ChiChi stares at her husband before breaking into a huge smile and hugging the little saiyajin, "Oh my gosh! That's so cute! You sound just like Gohan!"
The group sweatdrops but is relieved to see ChiChi off of her rampage. Goku and Gohan especially. Goku smiles shyly, "Does that mean you're not mad?"
His wife narrows her eyes, "Are you kidding? Of course I am! But it's just so hard to stay mad at you!" She tweaks his cheeks and grins, "This is the face that I fell in love with!" Goku does not look happy.
Trunks and Mirai begin with the teasing snide remarks. While the rest just watch in amusement at Goku's displeasure. However, Vegeta notices Goten watching the young saiyajin with the kind of intensity that Frieza would give the dragonballs. He narrows his eyes and while Goten is too distracted with his own thoughts, the ouji tries to mind read him. {Immortality ne? Maybe I heard that ouji wrong but-} Suddenly Vegeta feels a wall pull up on him as Goten discovers a different presence in his mind.
Vegeta scowls and puts up his own walls as well to block anyone else from reading his thoughts as well. Watching Goku struggle and whine in ChiChi's arms, he thinks, {Something is very wrong with that Goten. Very wrong. He wants Goku for some reason; I can see it in his eyes. But for what?! And how could he possibly notice me in his mind?! I have been practicing my mental skills ever since I was just a child! There's no possible way he could detect me unless, he's some sort of psychic master!} He looks back at Goten and puts up several more mental barriers, very disturbed by the idea.
Interrupting Goku's torture and the others' pleasure, Piccolo demands, "So how strong are you anyway Son?"
Goku frowns and manages to pry himself out of ChiChi's arms, looking at his puny arms in disdain, "Actually, I'm not sure. It kind of feels the same, but something's out of whack." He pulls up a smile, "I bet a spar would help me figure it out though!"
Piccolo nods, "Alright let's-"
Suddenly Vegeta says, "No, I'll spar with him. If he really is full strength then you won't be able to handle him." He pulls Goku out towards the backyard and says, "Don't expect me to go easy on you now that you're just a gaki."
Goku smiles, "I'm counting on you not to."
ChiChi and Bulma roll their eyes muttering similar expressions about how saiyajins always fight. However, the demi-saiyajins and Piccolo wander outside to watch the spar.
Walking outside, Goku is trying to get used to the fact that he's back to being a little boy and that everything is so big. Even Vegeta's taller than him, for a change. Both saiyajins get into fighting stances and glare each other down. Watching in anticipation, the spectators cheer as they charge straight at each other. Their fists slam against each other and they struggle to push the other person back.
Unmoving eyes watch the fight, and Mirai says, "Looks like they're equal in strength."
Piccolo shakes his head, "No, Son has a little headway." They watch as Vegeta shoves Goku away and they start a barrage of kicks and punches. "He's still as strong as he was when he was an adult."
Trunks nudges Gohan and says, "Hear that? You're the same strength too." Gohan nods, but continues watching the fight.
Throughout the fight Vegeta growls inwardly, this fight being a possible threat to his pride, {How is this possible?! He's only a little brat! I can't be defeated by a mere gaki!} Goku gives him a well placed kick, sending the ouji flying towards the group.
Mirai yelps, "WATCH OUT!" They duck and cover, but Vegeta flips to his feet and makes only a minor crater in the ground on his landing, before blasting off after Goku once again.
Vegeta yells, "I won't let you humiliate me again!" He suddenly sees Goku's tail waving behind him and smirks, seeing his chance.
Goku sees the ouji throw a small ki attack at him and swats his away with his hand off towards the horizon. That's when he notices that Vegeta's disappeared. Suddenly, down on the ground Gohan yells, "Dad! Watch out!"
Goku automatically ducks out of the way as Vegeta tries to drill his hands onto his head. He turns to the ouji and smirks, "Missed me!"
But Vegeta's own well known smirk comes to his lips, "Not quite," showing off the end of a fuzzy brown tail to his rival.
The young saiyajin pales, when he realizes that it's his. He yells, "That's a cheap trick Vegeta!"
Vegeta replies, "It's not my fault you didn't get me my tail back!" quickly knotting up the tail, causing Goku a great amount of pain and throws him half way across the city. Already the little saiyajin is struggling to free his tail from the knot. Vegeta brings his wrists together and aims his palms towards Goku, beginning his signature attack, "Final- FLASH!!!" A massive yellow ki blast comes out of his palms speeding right at the chibified saiyajin.
Down on the ground, Mirai yells, "My dad's going to beat him! Even if Son- San does recover, he won't have enough time to gain enough energy to do a proper attack to block it!"
Suddenly Goten contributes to the discussion, "Yes, he will. Just watch. He'll beat the ouji."
Goku untangles his tail his tail just in time to regain his strength and see the huge blast coming right at him. Without pausing to think, he begins rushing through his own famous attack. "Ka-me-ha-me-HA!!!" The ki that comes from his hands is massive! Even more than massive, monstrous!!! Even bigger than the full powered ones that he would make as an adult.
Vegeta just stares at it in complete incredulity, while it engulfs his attack in a blink of an eye and flies straight at him, too fast for him to try and deflect it, if it's possible to deflect something that huge. All he has time to do is cross his arms in front of his face and brace himself. And maybe pray for his life.
Goku sees the impending danger and teleports to Vegeta's aid, standing in front of the ouji and kicking the blast just above Vegeta's head, slightly singeing him. He watches the blast as it flies safely into outer space. Vegeta looks up from his position and realizes that the baka gaki just saved his royal behind. Again. He yells, "Hey, I could've taken that! I'm not weak!"
The young saiyajin protests, "I never-!" He abruptly stops his whine when he smells smoke, and slowly his gaze lifts to Vegeta's head, his eyes bulging as he does so, "Uh... Veggie?"
Vegeta snaps, "What?!"
"Your hair's on fire."
"WHAT?!" Vegeta smells the smoke as well and begins to calmly freak out. "AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! BLOW IT OUT! BLOW IT OUT!" He goes flying down into the house, crashing through the watching crowd, in search of the nearest water source.
Goku runs after him frantically, unknowingly trampling over the group as well, "NO! STOP, DROP, AND ROLL! LISTEN TO ME! YOU HAVE STOP, DROP, AND ROLL! COME BACK HERE!"
****
Later, inside of Bulma's lab, Vegeta sits sulkily in a chair in the corner while Bulma examines Gohan and Goku with ChiChi hovering around them. Only a little bit of the ouji's hair is gone, but most of his dignity's gone out the window. So instead of trying to recover a lost cause, he resorts to glaring at Goku resentfully.
Bulma makes the boys go through a whole series of tests; muscle density, brain scans, blood tests (which Vegeta eagerly helped out with), and all sorts of other check ups. After going through all her findings, she reports back to the two patients, ChiChi and Vegeta, who doesn't really seem to have a place there, but stays anyway out of curiosity. Bulma looks through the papers and says in a very professional manner, "Well, you two are perfectly healthy as far as I can tell. However, you two are just as strong as before because most of your muscle mass has been condensed into this little body that you have here."
To demonstrate she struggles to lift up Goku's arm to show how heavy it is. "I'm surprised that your tiny bones can even handle carrying these things, but it seems that they've become stronger as well, compensating for the added pressure. They should be about ten times harder than they normally are. Definitely making it a lot harder to break your bones. It's absolutely fascinating."
She flips to another page in her notes and says, "As to the ki that you gave off... I'm not really an expert on this sort of thing, but I think that since you have the same strength your ki should be the same. But since you have a smaller body it gives you more potential energy and less kinetic."
Goku blinks, "Huh?"
Gohan mutters, "She meant that since we have smaller bodies, we have more ki in our reserve."
"Ohhh."
ChiChi adds, "Well, you can't exclude the amount of energy that kids have. They can be nothing but bodies filled to the brim with sugar sometimes." Vegeta pales at the thought of his rival being as bouncy as his own kid. He'll never have a chance to rest!
Bulma says, "Speaking of kids, I also have the results of the neuro-scan. It's actually very strange... You see, Gohan and Goku still have all their memories, but Goku seems to have lost his adult maturity."
Vegeta grumbles, "I didn't know he had any." His wife gives him a quick smack over the head.
Bulma glares, "Of course he does! Or did. But now his sense of right and wrong has lessened, and he's going to be more prone to act like a regular kid!" She looks over two scans of Gohan and Goku's brain and their readings before sighing, "What is really bugging me is why it happened to only Goku and not Gohan!"
Goku answers, "Well maybe cuz this isn't my body, it's still part of Gohan's, even though it looks like mine." He puts a hand onto his chest and sighs, "It's really weird. It doesn't feel like I'm part of this thing. Like I'm floating off somewhere else and controlling this body with a remote control. Maybe my mind's just adjusting to this thing, but Gohan's isn't cuz it's already his body."
Gohan's eyes widen, "Does that mean you're STILL in spirit form?"
His father nods sadly, "Yeah, I think so."
Getting off of his chair, Vegeta mutters, "I don't see why you think that's such a bad thing," as he starts heading towards the door.
Bulma yells, "Hold it!" He stops and turns to look at his wife. "What do you mean it's not such a bad thing?!"
The ouji simply answers, "Because he's immortal in spirit form," and he leaves before anyone can question him more about it.
Goku takes a minute to soak it in, while the other three watch him apprehensively. He slowly brings his hands up and studies them as if he's never seen them before in his life, "I'm immortal?"
