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Chapter 12: Effects of Those Plans
Vegeta dresses up in his pink shirt, yellow pants, and green shoes. He hates this outfit but believes he can blend in more with the humans. He hated the shirt the most, not only because it's pink, but also because it says "Bad Man" on the front. He shrugs off the thoughts and begins his journey to the mall.
"Be careful," Gohan says as the pair of beetles crawl their way through the duct.
"Let's make this quick," Cathy commands. "I have a feeling Goku's gonna freak out when he gets hungry."
Jessie giggles at the remark. Suddenly the A.C. of the library kicks on. The girls quickly adapt to the rush of air by getting a better grip on the floor of the duct. Gohan notes the change in the girls' environment and states, "The air is on, so they'll be slowed down in the process." His father sighs and sits Indian style on the roof.
"There!" Jessie observes the vent leading into…
"The guys' bathroom?" Cathy asks.
"Hey, at least I found a vent. Let's try the next one." Jessie retaliates. They run past six more vents: boys' bathroom again, girls' bathroom, girls' bathroom again, storage, computers on a table, brown shelves. They come to a screeching halt and reverse their stride.
"All right!" Jessie exclaims.
"Cool," Cathy says.
The air stops flowing. "That's convenient," Cathy states. "Let's go before it comes on again."
The duo changes into spiders. They choose small, white spiders so they can look slightly transparent.
"Bonsai!" Jessie yells as she jumps out of the vent like a bungee jumper. Her web gets taut when she reaches the limit of it. Slowly she descends toward the shelf and makes a safe landing. "Your turn, Cathy!"
"Here goes." Cathy jumps, descends, and lands. Jessie begins to cry. "What's the matter?" Cathy asks. Then she begins to cry. "What a history," she says.
(A.N.-What happened here was they got information from all the books on that shelf since they touched it.)
The weeping subsides as they become flies. They touch every shelf and lone book on each floor then return to the vent from which they came.
"Wow!" Jessie starts, "that was a lot of information."
"I agree," Cathy states, "but I love the fantasy books with the dragons, griffins, unicorns, and other mythical creatures."
The girls become beetles and return to the guys waiting on the roof.
"We're back!" Jessie announces to them after changing back to normal.
"Phew," Goku sighs. "I was beginning to think you got smashed or ran into some poison or something."
"Dad, it's only been five minutes," Gohan informs.
"Okay let's go" Goku commands quickly while he grabs his three 'followers' and uses Instant Transmission.
"I think I left my spleen on the roof of that other library in East City," Jessie complains sickly.
"You'll get used to it after a while," Goku says. "We're in North City now," he continues.
"Maybe Vegeta didn't get here before us," Gohan hopes.
The group walks toward the library.
"This one's not as big as East City's," Cathy points out.
"It's still a library," Jessie defends.
"Well excuse me," Cathy returns.
The four get to the entrance and are immediately refused admittance.
"This sucks," Gohan says while kicking at the ground.
"Watch your language, son," Goku warns lightly. Gohan and the girls freeze while Goku continues his stride. He notices that only his footsteps are sounding, stops then turns around.
"What?" he asks. The other three remain quiet.
Jessie breaks the awkward silence with, "We don't know you that well, but that comment seems to be out of character."
"Well, I apologize for trying to be a real parent. Humph." Goku swiftly turns around and returns to walking. The girls look at each other, then at Gohan. Gohan shrugs his shoulders and runs to catch up with his dad. Cathy and Jessie meet eyes once more, shrug and run.
"The coast is clear," Jessie says, "let's jump before another person walks by."
The four jump on the roof of the North City Public Library.
"Same routine?" Goku asks.
"Yeah," Cathy says tiredly.
"Next library please," Jessie calls after two minutes.
"I didn't expect you two to be three minutes early," Goku informs.
"Dad, the first run was like a test. This time they knew exactly what to do," Gohan states.
"That makes sense," Goku says. He stands up and prepares for the next Instant Transmission. "Let's go!"
"Here we are, back in East City," Goku announces proudly.
"What are we doing back here?" Gohan questions.
"You see son, Jessie, here, left her spleen on the library roof."
The three youngest of the group fell over anime style.
"I think only Jessie was supposed to keel over since her spleen is missing," Goku continues.
"Do you even know what a spleen is, Dad?" Gohan interrogates.
"It's an organ of the body, isn't it?"
Jessie then interrupts. "Must we always get into these unimportant, time-wasting conversations?"
"How else are we supposed to have humor?" Goku argues.
Cathy is just as impatient as Jessie is and takes her turn interrupting. "Listen, Goku, the whole spleen phrase was a figure of speech. I thought you understood that when you told Jessie that she'll get used to it."
"I said that? Wow, I must be smart."
Jessie begins telepathy with Cathy. "He's too side-tracked. What should we do?"
"I'll handle it," Cathy answers. "Oh my, look at the time. If we don't hurry, we just might be late for dinner. Chi Chi would be mad if she had to reheat all that food."
"Crap! That's double trouble! No food and an angry wife!" Goku exclaims in fear.
"And I had to watch my language. Crap is just as 'bad' as sucks," Gohan says under his breath.
Goku, now moving at double time, brings his company to South and Central Cities. Each library is aware of the girls' false criminal record, and the girls have to sneak in 'bug style'.
"They should be here by now," Vegeta thinks to himself. "And yet I can't feel them near. Heck I can't sense them at all. They may have already gotten to the library. Darn, I'd better check into this." He exits the mall and heads for the library.
"West City, home of Capsule Corp." Goku announces. "Please keep all hands and feet inside the vehicle until we come to a complete stop."
"Dad, we've already stopped," Gohan states.
"And you're not a vehicle," Cathy adds.
"If you were a vehicle, I doubt we'd be inside you," Jessie concludes.
"Come on guys, give me a break. I just always wanted to say that since I don't think I'll be a tour guide or anything." Goku says sadly, hanging his head down.
"Daaaaaaaad… Can we go now pleeeeease?" Gohan begs. "I want to go inside this time. The girls can come in through the roof by themselves can't they?"
"I don't know, Gohan. I'm not their parent. They can actually do what they want." Goku answers, "but yes, we can go inside, OK?"
"Yay! Come on, let's go!" Gohan says while pulling his father's left arm.
Goku doesn't budge. "One minute son," He turns to the girls. "If they don't let you in, will you be okay by yourselves?"
"Sure."
"Of course."
"All right, but somehow you'll have to let me know when you're done."
"No problem," Jessie answers.
The group makes its way to the last, but the best, library.
"You were right Gohan, this place is huge." Jessie says.
"Told ya," Gohan brags.
Flashback:
Jessie exclaims, "I've never seen anything like it."
"You should see West City's library," Gohan suggests.
Cathy is just speechless.
End Flashback
"Okay who put that there?" Roosha yells. Gohan giggles. "Gohan." she sighs. "Fine I'll leave it.")
They enter the enormous building of books. A librarian who's sitting at her desk notice them and jumps from her seat.
"Here we go again," Jessie anticipates.
She approaches the group with a large smile on her face (one that will scare you). "Welcome to the West City Public Library ," she greets. "May I help you look for a book?"
"No thanks, we're just browsing," Goku answers.
"Can you help me?" Gohan asks.
"Sure what are you looking for?"
"Orthopedist books."
The librarian stares at Gohan and blinks a few times. "Uh… sure, let's start with the dictionary shall we?" she replies.
"Coming, Dad?"
"You go on ahead, son. I'll come get you later."
"Okay." Gohan follows the librarian.
"Where are you two headed first?" Goku asks.
There's no answer. He faces Cathy and Jessie. "Hello?" he waves a hand in front of each face. The girls are frozen stiff. "Hey!" he snaps his fingers. "Yoo hoo!"
A second librarian walks up to Goku. "Sir, could you please keep it down," he says, "This is a library you know."
"Sorry," Goku apologizes. "Oh before you go, do you have any water?"
"The water fountains are in the back. You can't miss 'um."
"Thanks," Goku grabs Jessie and Cathy by the back of their shirts. He carries them to the fountains and splashes water in their faces. They blink and look at Goku.
Jessie says, "Oops. I was so surprised when they let us in that I lost all sense of consciousness."
"Let's hit the shelves," Cathy whispers.
Vegeta enters the library. He looks around for any familiar faces.
The male librarian greets him. "Welcome to…"
"Shut up." Vegeta cuts him off and continues to walk.
"If you need help, let me know."
"Whatever."
The librarian, slightly afraid, returns to his desk. Vegeta turns around, aiming for the fearful librarian. The poor guy cowers under Vegeta's swift pursuit.
"As a matter of fact, your help is needed. Tell me, have you seen two girls possibly accompanied by a man with a weird hair-do?"
"Like yours?"
"What!"
The man begins to shiver.
"How dare you call my hair weird."
"I'm sorry sir. I didn't…"
"Stop being apologetic and tell me if you've seen them."
"Did one girl have brown hair and one have black?"
"Affirmative. Where did they go?"
"By the water fountains in the back." he points with a shaking finger.
Vegeta walks away.
"You're… welcome," the man says.
Goku waits by the elevator as Cathy and Jessie finish touching all of the shelves.
"Next floor please," Jessie says as she and her friend walk toward him.
He presses the up button and a bell sounds as the doors open. Goku enters with the girls following.
"The elevator!" Vegeta thinks as he begins to run, but only a portion of his rival's black hair is what he sees when the doors shut. "Darn you, Kakarot," he says as he uses the second elevator.
This one didn't take too long to type, but it took forever to write. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Oh and if you're interested in my new story coming soon, I have some news. Before I publish Odd One Out, I will publish an introduction to the story. I think it's important to get my readers to understand everything I type. Until the next chapter, Roosha.