Be Careful What You Wish For

Chapter 4

Pan woke up and felt along her ankle, all fixed. The senzu Goten had given her the day before had healed her all up. She sighed and lay back down staring at the ceiling of her room.

"I wish I'd thought of getting a senzu. Maybe I'm not as smart as I thought I was." She rolled over on her stomach and grabbed the purple stuffed bear seated on the corner of her bed.

She smiled evil-like at the bear.

"Good Morning, Trunks," she told the bear.

"Good morning, Tiger Lily," she said in a bad imitation of Trunks' voice.

"I love you, Trunks-kun," she told the bear.

"I love you too, my Tiger Lily. I want you."

"Oh Trunks!" squealed Pan. She closed her eyes and leaned forward towards the bear, her lips pressed together to kiss the soft purple muzzle of the teddy bear.

"Pan!"

Pan was so shocked to hear someone yelling her name that she flung the teddy bear out the window.

"Trunks!" she called after it stretching out her hand to the purple teddy. It fell past her reach and landed in the driveway. A tan dog and a black one jumped out of nowhere. The blond one picked up the teddy in its jaws and gave it a good squeeze. The black one growled low in its throat and latched onto the purple bear's head. The two played tug-a-war with the bear till the head tore off and the black dog bolted away with it. The blond dog dropped the remains of the bear, gave it a sniff, then pranced away.

"Hey!" shouted Pan at the dog. "Why you bi—"

"Pan!" shouted Videl opening her door and entering Pan's room. Pan stopped shaking her fist at the escaping dog to look at her mother.

"Pan, did your father come home last night?" asked Videl in a worried voice.

"I don't know," said Pan shaking her head. Pan had told her mother about what had happen to her father last night. Videl hadn't been too worried, figuring he'd fix the situation and come home when he was done, but apparently he hadn't come home yet.

"Oh, well I'm sure he's okay," said Videl more to herself then Pan. "You'd better hurry up and get dressed or you'll be late for school. Call me if you see your father, okay?"

"Sure, I'll do that, mom. Have a good day at work," said Pan.

"Thank you, I'll see you tonight," said Videl disappearing through the door.

Pan turned back to look out the window and down at the remains of her teddy bear. "I hope that's not a bad omen," she said frowning at the head less bear.

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Goten awake with a yawn, he glanced at his clock only to see that it was still in pieces by his bed. "What!? What time is it?!" he leapt up and grabbed his watch off his desktop. "Ahhhhhhh! I'm late! I'm late!" shouted the panicking Goten. He quickly began tearing off his clothes and jumping toward the closet at the same time. He opened it in only his boxers.

"Good morning Go—" the girl sitting on the floor of his closet eyes' went wide and her mouth dropped open.

"What is it Kim?" asked another girl popping out from under the hanging clothes. Her mouth dropped as well.

"Yo you two," said the third girl coming out of the closet. "What's—oh my kami!"

All three girls stood staring at their hunk god in nothing up a pair of boxers with cute little chibi foxes all over it.

Goten ignored them and frantically rummaged through his clothes for an outfit to wear.

One girl managed to slap herself awake and pulled a camera out of her pocket. She raised it up to her eye and snapped a shot.

"Ahhh! Traitor!" shouted one of the other girls who had managed to tear her eyes away from their teen idol when the flash had gone off.

"I can't believe you've turned on us for the Goten photo club!" shouted the other in disbelief.

"Do you know what we do with traitors!" shouted the other girl. Both girls pulled up their sleeves and advance on the now cornered girl.

"What a minute, I can explain," protested the girl, but too late as her once friends turned on her and began a really nasty cat fight.

"No! Not in the closet!" protested Goten as his clothes were suddenly turned into weapons. "No, that was one of my favorites," shouted the demi-Saiya-jin as the sleeves ripped off of a shirt being used to strangle one girl.

Goten ducked into the closet to try and pull them apart, he managed to grab a hold of two of the girls and pull them out with him. The third girl gave a battle cry and charged right at them. Goten was too shocked to move as the girl took all three of them down to crash in a heap of arms and legs on Goten's bed, which was far too small for all of them.

"Oww my head," said Goten as he managed to untangle one hand to rub his sore head that had hit the headboard of his bed. He was suddenly assaulted with a shower of flashes. "What the?!" Goten sat up in horror as a girl hanging up side down from his window snapped off several pictures of them all in a tangled heap.

Goten glanced down at the scene they made. One girl lay flung across his chest, the others had their hands on different parts of him. He turned beet red when he discovered that one of his hands was on one of the girls breast and that one girl had ripped her shirt open in the fall. "NO! It's not what it looks like!" shouted Goten, but too lately as the girl hanging by the window took a few more pictures and disappeared.

"Come back," whimpered Goten pathetically. "I'm done for," he said lowering his head in defeat.

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Vegeta got up as softly as she could to not wake her mate. Finally! She thought. I didn't sleep in till noon. She squinted as she tried to make out the shapes of the room. Boy is it dark in here! She glanced at the electronic clock on the table next to her and Bulma's bed; it read 5:37. Vegeta snorted softly to herself, still late for her. Oh well, which way is the bathroom thought the Saiya-jin princess as she began walking blindly in the direction she figured was the bathroom. Hmm, that dark spot must be the door looks like it's open thought Vegeta. She took a couple more steps and ran smack dab into the bathroom door (have you ever run into things when trying to get around without any light?).

"SON OF A-"

"Vegeta?" said Bulma instantly waking up when he heard the loud Thud!

"GOD DAMN! MOTHER F-" shouted the ex-Saiya-jin grabbing her face. "STUPID DOOR!" shouted Vegeta kicking the hard oak wood, wrong thing to do Veggi-dear. "Ouch!" howled the ten times more pissed princess hopping around on one foot.

"Vegeta! Are you all right?" asked Bulma throwing off the covers and going toward the cursing woman. Bulma could vaguely see Vegeta's outline is the dark with his advanced Saiya-jin senses.

"FINE!" roared the pissed woman.

"Come here, let me check it out," said Bulma moving toward the black human shape.

"I said I was FINE!" yelled the princess.

"Hold still!" shouted back Bulma groping in the dark trying to catch hold of his stubborn partner.

"Hey! Watch what you're doing!" shouted Vegeta struggling when Bulma finally managed to pin her against the wall.

"I can hardly see at all how am I suppose to watch what I'm doing?!" yelled Bulma. He felt along the wall till he came to the light switch and flipped it on. "Good, now I can see, where did you get hit?"

Vegeta had a blank expression on her face and slowly her eyes went down.

Confused Bulma followed their gaze.

"Ahhhhhh!" shouted Bulma as she realized he was touching one of Vegeta's breasts. "I didn't mean to!"

"Well then quit doing it!" shouted Vegeta pushing him backwards as hard as she could.

Bulma was still shocked and easily fell backwards, failing his arms he tried to stop his descend by grabbing on to the closest thing around: Vegeta.

Both went crashing down on to the floor.

"Ouch!" shouted Bulma and opened his eyes to see that Vegeta had fallen right on top of him. He froze like a deer caught in headlights as his partner groaned and sat up rubbing her head.

Look away, you fool! shouted Bulma's brain trying to get a connect to his body. But the human turned Saiya-jin couldn't pull his eyes off the fiery female that sat across his lap.

Vegeta glared down at his petrified mate. "Why the hell did you grab me?! With this weaker body," she shouted jabbing a finger at her chest. "You could have squished me!"

Bulma turned red in the face, he could feel the heat radiating off his body. Don't think unholy thoughts, don't thing unholy thoughts, don't think—ahh damn!

Vegeta watched in confusion as a small trickle of blood ran down Bulma's nose. Bulma clapped a hand over it and sat bolt up knocking Vegeta off in his haste to get to the bathroom. He slammed the door shut making the whole room shake.

"What the hell?" said Vegeta staring at the bathroom door.

* * * * * * * * * * *

All three Trunks gasped and sat bolt right up from the floor. They'd set up three futons in a row since they'd destroyed their bed.

"A dream," they all said at once.

They all turned to look at each other. "You too?"

"What did you dream?" asked one Trunks.

There was a long pause as none of them really wanted to share.

Sigh. "I guess it doesn't matter since we're all the same person. I'll go first. I dreamed that I as in a forest, completely naked, and Pan was hunting me with a gun. She caught me and tied me up with some ropes."

The other two Trunks were staring at him with wide eyes; the Trunks that had been speaking blushed.

"Just when she was about to kiss me, Gohan jumped out of the bushes with a ki blast. He threw it at me and I woke up right before it could hit me."

"Me too!" shouted another of the Trunks.

"You mean you had the same dream?" asked the other Trunks.

"Well, it was a little different. I was swimming in a pool, when I realized I was naked." The Trunks speaking turned bright red. "I was panicking in the dream wondering where my trunks were." He stopped at the looks the other two gave him. "NOT you two! A swimsuit!"

"Oh," said both Trunks.

"I was just about to get out and run inside to get some clothes when Pan showed up in a swim suit and wanted to join me," the speaking Trunks was now as read as he could get. The other two were leaning forwards to heard better.

"Go on," they said together.

"Well she got in and swam over to me and I was protesting the hold time that I didn't have anything on. Well, she swam right up to me and wrapped her arms around my neck."

The other two leaned ever closer as the Trunks told his story.

"And, just as she was about to kiss me Gohan jumped out of thin air, yell at me to not touch his daughter, and shot a ki blast at me. I wake up before it could hit me." The other two Trunks fell flat on their face.

"What about you?" asked the other Trunks to the one that hadn't told his dream yet.

"Me? Well it was like yours too only it was different. I had clothes on.... in the beginning." That Trunks turned crimson. The other two poked him.

"Hey, we told you ours," they said.

"Okay, okay! Don't poke me. I was in a strip bar."

"Doing what?!" asked one Trunks.

The other Trunks turned even redder and other two began poking him again.

"Ouch, stop! I'll talk already! I was a stripper!"

"A stripper!" shouted both Trunks.

The Trunks nodded, "I was well, you know stripping. When Pan walked in. She sat down in front with the other girls. When I was, um, naked, I knelt down to get some money from her and she grabbed a hold of my hair," said the Trunks fisting his hand in his hair to show. "And right before she could kiss me Gohan showed up, yelled at me, and threw a ki ball at me."

All three Trunks sighed and flopped back down on their futons. "Oh, hormones," they groaned and slapped hands over their face.

"Do you guys find it weird how Gohan was trying to kill each of us in our dreams?" asked one Trunks.

"I think it was weirder that Pan was trying to kiss each of us, not that I mind."

"No, what's really weird is we were all naked," said the last Trunks. The other two nodded in agreement.

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Goku stood in front of a mirror as he finished fixing his tie. "Don't see why this is so hard to do," said the Saiya-jin pulling it tight. He smoothed down his gray suit as he peered at his images to see if any thing was off. He then walked over to the table that stood in the corner of his and Chi-Chi's room and picked up his brief case. He was about to leave when he stopped and turned to look at Chi-Chi as she stirred and turned over in bed.

He smiled softly to himself and walked over to her side of the bed. Gently he wiped a few stray strands of black hair out of her face and kissed her on the forehead. "See you tonight," he said softly and exited the room.

He walked down the hall and to the front door where he stopped and pulled a note off that had been taped to the door. He opened it up and read it.

'Go to the kitchen'

Goku glanced at his watch and figured he had some time to spare, so he went to the kitchen and found another note sitting on the table. He picked it up and read it.

'Go to the refrigerator'

Goku shrugged his shoulder and open the refrigerator door where he saw another note laying on top of a box lunch. He smiled warmly as he picked up the lunch, note and all. He opened the note.

'Love you. Don't be late for work.'

There was a red lipstick impression left on the page.

The Saiya-jin smiled again and turned the note over. He took a pen out of his pocket and wrote something on it. He then put down the lunch and his brief case and disappeared out the back door, taking off into the sky he was soon gone. Five minutes later he came back with something in his hand. He picked up the note he wrote, went into his and Chi-Chi's bedroom, came back out, got his things, and left.

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The demi-Saiya-jin turned Namek sei-jin stood perched on top of a tall tree on the mountains over looking Satan City. He was so frustrated. He needed to fix some of the annoyances that had been bothering him these last few days or he'd go nuts.

With a snort he took off in a blur.

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Not long later Piccolo and the other Gohan floated above the very same tree.

"He was here all right, probably slept out here last night," said the Namek sei-jin.

"I'm not surprised I sometimes come out here when I'm frustrated," said the Saiya-jin turned Namek sei-jin. "The question is where did my copy go from here?"

"That's a question only you could know the answer to," replied the Namek sei-jin scanning around.

"But, I don't know," whined Gohan. "When I separated myself from my copy I lost all my frustration, I don't know what I would do first."

"Calm down and think," order the Namek sei-jin. "What would you be doing right now and what do you thing the others would be doing?"

Gohan took a deep breath. "Well, I'd be getting ready for work, so would Videl, and Pan would be getting ready to walk to school...." Gohan's voice trailed off.

"What?" asked Piccolo.

"Damn! Trunks! Trunks is probably going to walk Pan to school again!"

"Then we'd better hurry," said Piccolo heading toward the Son's house. Gohan right behind him.

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Pan was tying her shoe when the doorbell rang.

"Just a minute!" she called finishing and going over to the door. She opened it to see none other then her purple haired hunk.

"Trunks!" she beamed. "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to walk you to school, if it's okay with you, Tiger Lily?"

"Sure," she said latching onto his arm. "I'd love that."

Trunks smiled back and they started walking towards the school. Pan glanced at her watch it was still pretty early. An idea popped into her head.

"Say, Trunks."

"Yes, Kitten," said Trunks turning to look at her.

"Well," she said hugging his arm tighter and hiding her face on it. "It's early and I was wondering if you'd like to take the long route through the woods. That's if you don't have some place you need to be."

"No, no, Tiger Lily. I'm free till noon," said Trunks.

"Good! Let’s go!" laughed Pan pulling Trunks in the right direction. Here's my chance she thought. Once we're alone in a romantic setting like the woods, he's sure to succumb to my charm and kiss me! He giggled into her hand as she ran pulling him along.

"Whoa! What's the hurry Kitten?! I thought you wanted to take your time this morning?" said Trunks.

"Oh, I will, once we get to the woods!" Pan called back laughing.

Trunks laughed with her then stopped laughing suddenly. "The woods? Nah, just coincidence."

"Did you say something, Trunks?" asked Pan over her shoulder.

"What? Oh, nothing Kitten," said Trunks running faster to come up to her side.

"Tag, you're it!" shouted Pan tagging him on the shoulder and running even faster before Trunks could answer.

Trunks watched in shock as she left then a grin spread on his lips. "Okay, if that's how you want to play it, Tiger Lily," said Trunks also speeding up. "Ready or not here I come!"

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Gohan watched from the roof of a house as Pan ran by as high speeds heading towards the woods, a moment later Trunks ran by also at high speeds.

Gohan growled to himself. "Where do you think you're going with my daughter?" he asked the dot that was quickly shrinking into the distance. "I'm not going to let you take advantage of her!" He disappeared in a blur from the rooftop.

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Pan panted slightly as she ran behind a tree. Carefully she peered behind the trunk to see if she could spot Trunks coming after her: no sign. Catching her breath she turned to be face to face with the purple haired warrior.

Before she could say a word Trunks pressed a finger to her lips that sent shivers up her spine. "Tag you're it," he said in a teasing voice, then took of in a blur.

Pan stood there in shock a few seconds, then her lips lifted in a smile. "Here Saiya-jin, Saiya-jin, Saiya-jin!" she called stalking out from behind the tree. "I'm going to catch you, tie you up, and make you my new pet!" she called out to the woods.

Trunks clapped a hand over his mouth to keep from laughing and giving away his hiding place. He was standing next to an old barbwire fence that some farmer must have put up a long time ago. Suddenly his eyes widened as he thought about what Pan said. "Oh... my... is she hunting me?" He looked around the tall trees. "Okay, so I'm in the woods, so I'm being hunted by Pan," he smiled at the idea, then looked down at himself. "But, I've still got all my clothes," he laughed out loud.

Suddenly Pan dropped down right in front of him from the branch she'd been perched on. She jumped on him, wrapping her arms around his neck. Trunks was so shocked he fell back till his back hit the fence.

"Gotcha!" said Pan in triumph. She started laughing and soon Trunks joined in.

"That you did Tiger Lily, that you did."

Pan laughed again then stopped. She was only inches from his face. There's my chance! "Trunks," she said leaning forward.

Trunks gulped, oh Kami-sama! Is she going to kiss me? He smiled and leaned forward as well, but before their lips could touch—

"Get your stinking hands off my daughter, now!"

Pan and Trunks turned their heads just in time to see a ki blast heading right at them.

"Look out!" shouted Trunks pushing Pan out of the way. The blast struck him and sent him flying back into the fence, which tangled around his legs, the barbs cutting into his legs through the jeans he wore. He went crashing through the bushes till he was stopped by a tree which broke in half on impact.

"Trunks!" shouted Pan running in the direction he been hit. He jumped over the fallen tree and found him struggling to get the wire off. His shirt had been reduced to nothing but strips of cloth that hung loosely here and there.

"Trunks, get up! He's right behind me!"

"I can't!" shouted the demi-Saiya-jin trying to untangled his legs. The wire bit into his hands, cutting them. He cursed.

"Damn it!" shouted Pan reaching down and starting to unbuckle his belt.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" shouted Trunks turning crimson red.

Pan didn't answer just finished undoing his pants, then gave them a good tug pulling them off alone with the wire. "Let’s go!" she shouted grabbing his arms and pulling him up just as another ki blast struck the spot they had been.

"Ahhh! Dad, what are you doing?!" shouted Pan running with Trunks.

"Gohan, we weren't doing anything! Really!" Trunks shouted back.

"Then where the hell are your clothes!" Gohan shouted back enraged.

"Umm..." Trunks said glanced down at him self. Save his boxers he didn't have any clothes on. "I can explain."

"Sure you can!" Gohan shouted powering up another ki blast.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" shouted both Trunks and Pan as the blast caught them and flung them forward.

* * * * * * * * * * *

"Crap! That would be your ki all right," said Piccolo flying towards the increase in ki he felt.

"I feel Trunks and Pan's ki as well. We're too late!" shouted Gohan.

"No we're not, you're not a killer. If we hurry we can catch up to them before things get to serious."

"Right!" said Gohan increasing his speed.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Trunks dodged several strikes, jerking his head back and forth. "Gohan! Please listen to me!"

"Shut up! I'll teach you to mess with my little girl, you pervert!"

"Dad!" shouted Pan jumping up and grabbing one of his arms as he drew it back to punch out at Trunks. "Stop it dad! He hasn't done anything I didn't want him to!"

"Let go, Pan!" he said jiggling his arms to try and shake her off. "I don't want to hurt you, stay out of this. You'll thank me some day for it."

"N-n-nooo I-I wo-n't," said Pan trying to hang on to his arm as he shook it.

Gohan stopped suddenly and turned to face a direction.

"They've found me."

Dizzy, Pan fell off of Gohan's arm.

Trunks and Pan turned to see Piccolo and the other Gohan coming their way.

"Daddy!" shouted Pan. "Will you get a hold of yourself! You're trying to maim Trunks!" she shouted to her approaching father.

"Sorry, honey!" said Gohan landing next to her. He glanced over at Trunks. "What happened to you?! Where are your clothes?!"

"You're what happened to me!" shouted back Trunks, then yipped as the copy Gohan threw another ki blasts at him. He scrambled up and ran behind a tree at the blast struck the ground.

"All right, that's enough," said Gohan. "We both know that Trunks is under the dragon's power, he can't help it. Now just be a good Namek sei-jin and rejoin with me," he said advancing on this double.

"I should think you of all people would understand me," the copy growled back. "I'm not going to rejoin with anyone till I've fix all the crap that been going wrong lately."

"Now, now," said Gohan moving closer to his copy. "You know it will all go back to normal in a couple of days."

"At the rate we were going we won't last that long!" shouted back his copy then turned and jumped into the sky.

"Ah, man!" shouted Gohan. "Sorry Pan-chan, daddy has to go," said Gohan before jumping into the air. "Come back here!"

Trunks came out from behind the tree. "Is he gone?"

"Yah, kid. Don't worry, we'll catch him sooner or later," said Piccolo levitating up.

"Probably later, knowing my luck," grumbled Trunks under his breath.

He turned to see Pan staring at him, their eyes met, and she blushed.

Trunks looked down at himself, he was only in a pair of silk boxers with the Capsule Corps logo on it.

"Ahhhhhh!" shouted the demi-Saiya-jin jumping back behind the tree.

Pan giggled into her hand. "Maybe I'd better go the rest of the way alone to school," she said in an amused voice. "Unless you still want to come?"

"Um, no! That's okay, Tiger Lily! I'll just stay right here!"

"You sure," said Pan, she couldn't help but tease him a little more.

"Oh yes! Very, very sure!"

Pan turned around laughing. "All right then, Trunks, have a nice day!" she shouted and ran off. Trunks could hear her laughing as she ran. He blushed even more.

"How am I going to get home like this?!"

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Chi-Chi stirred and turned in bed. A sweet smell drifted to her nose and slowly she opened her eyes. Inches away from her face were a large bunch of white roses with long green stems. Chi-Chi blinked in surprise and sat up. She smiled warmly as she picked up the bunch of roses and brought them up to her face to inhale deep the sweet scent. The soft petals bushed her cheeks and lashes, feeling much like fine silk.

"Hmm, reminds me of the white roses I wore in my hair the day we were married," she mumbled absentmindedly into the flowers. "That was the first time he told me I was pretty." She sighed as many fond memories of them together come to mind. Just the two of them having a picnic by the lake, Goku riding a giant dinosaur more interested in trying to eat him than playing, them finding the four star ball together, her sewing Gohan's first baby outfit. Chi-Chi hugged the rose closer to her chest.

Those days were all gone; the time before all the mayhem broke out and her husband became the most powerful man in the universe. When it started Goku had all but left her to go train. First, he'd been killed, then after she'd gotten him back, he'd snuck out behind her back to go fight again, left, and hadn't come back for a whole year. And as soon as he did come back, Mirai-Trunks had showed up with the news of a different danger. Her husband had to spend every minute of his free time training so had her little boy. For a couple days though, Goku had been the sweetest. He'd learned to drive to please her, taken her and Gohan out for a picnic, and been the most passionate she'd ever seen him be to her; then he was killed again. She felt tears rim her eyes as she remembered the day.

It hadn't been long after she'd learned she was pregnant with Goten. She smiled. At first she didn't know what she'd do, after all she'd just lost her husband and now she was going to have a new baby. When he was born he so was the spitting image of her dead Goku that she knew everything was going to be all right. She remembered when Goten had first shown interest in fighting and she didn't have the heart to discourage him not to. He was too much like his father.

Seven years, he'd been dead for seven whole years, and then he was back again. She’d been so happy, but at the same time it was uncomfortable for them all. Goten wasn't used to Goku and Goku missed out on so much. Ten years passed, they were finally a family again. Gohan got married to Videl, Goten was a handsome young man, and everything was so right, till it happened; he left again. This time, not because he had to, but because he wanted to. That little boy Uub, he'd gone to go train him and left her again, that had hurt.

Chi-Chi smiled and got up. Still in her nightgown, she walked out of their bedroom. But, he always came back and she knew he always would. She put the flowers in a vase and as she did so she found a little piece of paper. She opened it and read it.

'Love you too honey, be home tonight'

Goku

She smiled again and arranged the flowers. Yes, he always comes back.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Pan skipped down the road, she was so happy. I got to see Trunks in his trunks! she thought happily humming the words to one of her favorite songs. Too bad dad had to interrupt us before we could kiss. She blushed remembering how close she been.

"I'm not going to give up!" she shouted out loud. "Next time we meet I'll do it for sure!" Several other students that were walking on the same road gave her a funny look and she coughed nervously into her hand.

Pan glanced up to see her school coming into view.

"Pan!"

Pan turned to see Marron standing against a chain-link fence in a tight blue sweater and a pair of white jeans. Her arms were crossed and she had a frown on her face.

"Marron!" Pan said cheerfully going over to her. "How are you this morning?"

"I've been better," said Marron her voice hinting at ice.

Pan blinked. "Marron, is something wrong?" asked Pan in concern.

"Yes, something is wrong, Pan," said Marron standing up from leaning against the fence. "And, that something is you."

"W-what?" asked Pan in confusion.

Marron walked over to her and pushed her right into the building on the other side of the road.

"Marron, what are you doing?!" shouted Pan angrily slapping her hand away.

"Pan, I'm not going to let you play with Trunks' feelings like you did last night. You didn't see him! He looked terrible! I don't care about your stupid wish, I'm not going to let you hurt him again!"

"Ma-Marron," Pan said in shock. She couldn’t believe it Marron thought she was just playing with Trunks' feelings.

"I'll be watching you, Pan," warned Marron. She then turned and left, Pan was too shocked to do anything but watch her go.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Bra was sitting in the back yard reading a book while her father, Vegeta, was doing several warm-up exercises. The real reason she was out there was to make sure she didn't try and going into the gravity room while Trunks was changing into his sweats. She heard the sliding glass door open and turned to see who had come out, assuming it was her brother.

"Oh mom, what do you want?" asked Bra.

"I'm looking for Trunks, I need to ask him about the blue prints for the latest capsule house design."

"Oh, he should be right out in a couple of minutes, why don't you wait for him," said Bra.

"I think I will," answered Bulma and leaned against a wall waiting for his son to come out.

Bra went back to reading when she heard her mother click her tongue in a disapproving way. She lowered her book to see Bulma marching over to Vegeta.

"Uh oh," said Bra.

Vegeta did several rapid kicks at the air. This is pathetic she thought. Human bodies are so slow, I feel like a turtle! She stopped her kick then punched out at the air. And they're so weak! If I hit any thing too hard I'll end up breaking something with a build like this! Not to mention how this chest throws me off balance! I'm not used to the female form.

"Vegeta!"

Vegeta cringed at the sound of his name being called, with a sigh she turned to face her mate. "What do you want?" she snorted.

"Vegeta, why aren't you wearing the clothes I bought you?!" demanded Bulma.

"What?" said Vegeta in confusion. She looked down at the clothes she wore: T-shirt and a pair of cut off short, all stupid girl clothes he'd gotten her. "What the hell do you mean?! These are the clothes you got me!"

Bulma suddenly look a little uncomfortable. "They’re not all the clothes I bought," she said after a long pause.

Vegeta raised an eyebrow at him. "I don't understand. Are you saying I should be wearing everything you bought? That's ridiculous."

"No! Not every thing, just...." she gestured at her chest.

"A shirt? A jacket? What the hell is this, charades?" demanded Vegeta.

"For crying out loud! Would you put a BRA on!"

"Bra?" said Vegeta glancing at her daughter.

"Not that kind of BRA! The things I wore when I was a woman on my chest, under my shirt!"

"You mean we named our daughter after underwear?!" shouted Vegeta.

"You moron! You mean you just now figured that out?!" Bulma yelled back.

Bra frowned as she watched her parents get into another of their fights, she didn't understand what they were saying about, but they kept yelling her name.

"What's going on?" asked Trunks coming out of the house.

"Beats me," said Bra shrugging her shoulders.

"Hey! You two!"

Trunks and Bra turned their heads to see Marron floating in mid air.

"Marron," called Trunks with a smile. "What are you doing up there?"

Marron smiled and levitated down, "Came to see you two. I've got a day off from work today."

"That's great!" said Bra. "Do you want to go out or something?" asked Bra.

"Um... no. I was thinking, that we should, should... go swimming! Yah, and since you and Trunks have such a large pool your place seemed perfect."

Bra frowned Marron was acting weird. "Well, it is a rather nice day today," she said looking at the clear blue sky. "It might be kind of nice to take a dip, how about you, Trunks?"

"Well, I guess that's fine with me, but I was supposed to be the one that picks up Pan after school today."

"Well, why don't we invite her to join us, we can have a pool party!" said Bra.

Marron gestured wildly at her, trying to tell her silently that she didn't want Pan to come, but the demi-Saiya-jin girl was clueless as to what she was trying to say.

"That sounds like it'd be a ton of fun, Bra. I haven't had much time to relax and hang out with you guys lately. Just last night I was talking about that with Marron. Hey, I know I'll call Goten up and invite him too. It'll give him a chance to get away from all those screaming girls."

"Okay! Me and Bra will pick up Pan, you can pick up Goten," said Marron.

"But Marron, don't you think that Trunks should pick up—" Bra couldn't finish as Marron slapped a hand over her mouth.

"Ha, ha, ha, don't worry Trunks, we'll pick up Pan. Bra, I have something I want to tell you," she said dragging the demi-Saiya-jin girl way.

Trunks watched them go. "That was a little odd."

"Hmmmm, a pool party... pool...? Nah!" he said shaking his head. He turned to go into the gravity room, but stopped as he overheard his parents.

"Well, what's so wrong with it?! If you'd named her she probably be named after some vegetable or something!"

"And you think underwear is better! My Kami, the next thing you'll be telling me your whole family is named after underwear!"

"You moron! We are! Briefs! Trunks! Bulma, bloomer!"

"Oh shit, you are!"

Trunks stared at them oddly and shook his head before walking into the gravity room and shutting the door to try and drown out their cursing and yelling with the thick melt platting.

* * * * * * * * * * *

"Marron!" shouted Bra trying to twist her wrist from Marron's grip. "Let go!"

Marron finally let go and Bra fell back into one of the kitchen chairs in surprise. "Why did you invite Pan, Bra?! I didn't want her to come," growled Marron angry.

"What?" said Bra rubbing her wrist. "Why won't I invite Pan, she's my friend, and why don't you want her to come? I thought she was yours too."

There was a long pause from Marron. "It's not that we're not friends it's just.... I can't stand watching Pan toying with your brother like that! I have to do something about it!"

Bra rubbed her ears. "A little louder Marron I can still hear a little in this ear."

"Bra! I'm very serious. Did you see Trunks at the party last night? He was so upset I thought he was going to have a breakdown right in front of me."

"What? What are you talking about, Marron? I've never seen my brother so happy, well minus the frustration of their being three of him."

"W-what?" stammered Marron.

"Yah, he's been spending as much time with Pan as he can and he seems to be enjoying it."

Marron shook her head. "It's just that stupid wish that Pan made. Bra, as his sister you have to help me make sure Pan doesn't break his heart."

Bra raised an eyebrow at her. "Are you sure you're just not jealous, Marron?"

"ME! Jealous! Ha! I'm not jealous, I'm just looking out for a friend."

Bra smiled in cruel manner. "You're jealous."

"What?! I told you that I'm—"

"You're jealous! You're jealous! How cute!" squealed Bra.

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are! Yes you are!" said Bra hugging herself and shaking her shoulders back and forth.

"Bra!" shouted Marron advancing on the demi-Saiya-jin girl.

"Yip!" squeaked Bra jumping out of the chair. Marron chased her out the back door.

Bra sang out in a teasing voice for all to hear, "Marron likes Trunks! Marron's jealous!"

"Shut up Bra!" shouted Marron still chasing the Saiya-jin girl. They ran by Bulma and Vegeta where Marron heard part of their fight.

"Shut up about the Bra!"

"Not till you put one on!"

Marron gave them an odd look as she ran past.

"Marron and Trunks sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G," sang Bra.

"BRA!" shouted Marron.

"No more talk about Bras!" shouted Vegeta.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Goten tried to hide his face behind his books as he passed several students in the hall. They all made bad imitations of Ms. Queen's, the principal, terrible laugh.

"Here comes Ms. Queen's whipping boy," laughed one male student.

Goten ground his teeth and keep walking. This is just great! Why me?! What did I ever do to deserve this?

He walked into his PE class and headed to his locker to go change. He was pulling his shirt off when another student made that terrible cackling sound.

"Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!"

"Hey Goten baby, what are you wearing under that? Leather? Are you going to see Ms. Queen today?"

"Are you her little pet? Does she beat you when you're a bad boy?"

Goten turned to look at the group of guys, some were getting dressed, others were already dressed down.

"Will you guys shut up!" shouted Goten reaching down to take off this pants.

"Oh baby take it off!" shouted one boy. Others started humming stripper music and swinging their shirts above their heads.

"Knock it off!" shouted Goten going completely red in the face. "I need to get dressed down and I can't do it with you jerks all staring at me!"

"Take it off! Take it off!" all the guys started chanting.

"Stop it I said! I'm not that kind of guy!" shouted Goten, but none of them listen to his pleads.

The bell finally range to go line up and they finally left Goten to finish dressing down, unfortunately that made him late.

"Sorry!" said Goten bowing low to the PE teacher. "I was late."

"Mr. Son! Do you have a reason for being late?" asked his teacher crossing his arms.

"Um..." Goten kept his mouth shut, like he'd believe me anyway.

"I thought so. Do I have to send you to the principal's office?"

"No! No! Please have mercy! I'll do anything, but please not that!" begged Goten dropping to his knees in terror and hugging the PE teacher’s legs.

"Okay! Okay! Let go you fruitcake!" said the PE teacher trying to shake the freaked out Saiya-jin off his leg.

"Thank you sir!" shouted Goten getting back up.

The class around was giggling like mad at the scene.

"Don't thank me yet Mr. Son. As your punishment you're going to have to wash the dirt clothes."

"The what?" said Goten in a blank voice.

The PE teacher gave the class an assessment and lead Goten to the storage room where all the PE equipment was kept. He pointed to an extremely smelly and dirty pile of towels, uniforms, pads, and jock straps.

"You're got to be kidding," said Goten staring at the pile.

The PE teacher plugged his nose making his voice sound funny. "No, I'm not Mr. Son. This piles been sitting here for Kami-sama knows how long, it's not getting any cleaner."

"I'll say," said Goten waving his hand in front of his face. "I don't feel so good. Do I really have to do this sir?"

"Well, this is or the principal."

"I'll do it!" shouted Goten.

The teacher left and Goten clapped a hand over his mouth. "I think I'm going to be sick."

* * * * * * * * * * *

Goku walked into the giant building with N.A.S.A, Japan branch, written in bold letters out front. He walked up to the front desk and told the woman about his meeting with Jerry Higgins handing her the card he'd given him.

The woman gave him a skeptical look. "You're here to see Jerry the head of the science department?"

"Well, I'm not sure, he never said what he did. If you want I can leave." Just then Jerry walked out and headed straight for them.

"Oh, good, you came. It's all right, Sarah. I invited him here to see me," said the man going over to Goku.

"Okay," said the woman giving Goku a disbelieving look.

"So what did you want to see me about?" asked Goku walking with Jerry through the building.

"Well, I over heard you talking with the others last night and couldn’t help but listen. You mentioned something about Capsule Corps having long distances space capabilities. I was wondering if you worked for them in their development division?"

"No, the reason I know about their space capabilities is I went into space in one of their ships."

The man stopped and stared at Goku in shock. "You mean Capsule Corps already has the ability to travel long distance through space? Are you one of their pilots? Do you have any idea what this kind of technology would do for our planet? We could get to Mars, hell maybe farther! Travel the galaxy! Maybe even find out for sure if there is other alien life out there besides ourselves!"

Goku mildly wondered what the man would do if he told him he was an alien. He decided not to chance it, figuring they might try to chop him up into little pieces to see how different he really was. Hey, he'd seen some of those alien autopsies.

"Could you wait here a second. I need to go tell someone about this!" said the man running off.

Goku frowned when he was gone and looked around. He looked like he was in a meeting room of some kind. There was a long chalkboard running along the wall and on it was an insanely long equation.

"Hmmmmm," said Goku going over to the board. He looked it over, then picked up a piece of chalk and began writing.

"Here he is," said Jerry coming back after ten minutes. "This is the guy that I was telling you about," he said gesturing to Goku just as he finished circling a spot on the board.

Both men's jaws hit the ground.

"Is that the formula we've been working on for the last two years?" asked the man that Jerry had gone off to find.

Jerry numbly nodded his head.

"Oh this," said Goku gesturing at the board. "Thought it was one of those problems people do to teach themselves math, like the ones my wife use to make my son do all the time," he said raise his hand to the back of his head in a sheepish manner. "Sorry if I've messed it up, I just thought I'd give it a whack."

"My Kami-sama!" said the man running over to the board and looking at it. "It's correct! All of it," he said going down the board.

"Oh good," said Goku. "There were a few mistakes in the middle and I wasn't sure I got it correct."

"How long did you leave him in here?" asked the man looking at Jerry.

Jerry glanced at his watch. "It couldn't have been more then 15 minutes."

"Actually it was more like ten," said Goku.

Both men stared at him looking like fishes out of water.

"Jerry, where did you find this guy?"

"At Capsule Corps' party last night."

"Capsule Corps has geniuses like this working for them! The Briefs family is already known for being technical geniuses. With this kind of knowledge they could monopoly damn near any company they wanted to!"

"Oh, Bulma won't do that," said Goku getting their attention. "She just built that space craft for private use, she didn't plan on going commercial with it."

"But that'd be like planting flowers over a gold mine!" shouted Jerry.

"Why would that matter, they're already rich," said Goku.

Both men exchanged glances.

"Mr. Son, my name is Carl, would you be so kind as to let us do some tests on you?"

"What kind of tests?" said Goku wondering if they figured out he wasn't human.

"Oh, nothing bad. Just an IQ test. Do you mind?"

"Oh, sure, why not. It sounds like it might be fun," said Goku.

The two stared at him again, then lead him down some other halls to a room they could do the tests in.

* * * * * * * * * * *

"Oh Kami-sama! I feel so gross!" said Goten walking back into the boys’ locker room. "All those jock straps, eeeeekkkk! There has to a law against make a student do that kind of stuff. Then again I guess it was better then being chased down the halls by Ms. Queen again. That was so embarrassing! At least doing the dirty work means no one has to see me."

He tore off his PE clothes figuring he'd have to burn them and walked into the showers, not caring if the whole world was watching, all he want was to be clean.

Several minutes later the rest of his class entered the locker room and joined him for a quick shower. Goten cleaned as fast as he could in order to prevent the same scene as last time from happening again.

He finished showering and wrapped a towel around his waist.

"Hey Goten!"

Crap.

"Why don't you be my whipping boy?" said one by them whipped a wet towel at his rear with a snap.

"Ouch!" hollered Goten jumping six feet into the air.

Several other guys grinned evil like and as Goten passed them they all whipped him with wet towels in a long line.

When poor Goten finally got to his locker his butt, legs, and lower back was covered in long red marks, and all the guys were making catcalls at him.

"Call me Queen!"

"Lick my boots!"

"Get down on your hands and knees and show me how much you love me!"

Goten slapped a hand over his face and dressed as fast as he could, trying to block out the men's hollering.

"Kami-sama, is this class gay or what?" he asked himself out loud.

He was walking out of the locker room, trying not to show how sore he was from the wet towels, when his pager peeped. He took it off and looked at it.

"All right, Trunks!" he said looking around for a phone. He found one and dialed his best friend's number.

"Hello?"

"Hi Trunks, what's up?"

"Goten, good. Come to my house after school, we're having a pool party."

"All right! That's sounds great."

"Then you'll come?"

"Of course! Wouldn't miss it for nothing, who's coming?"

"Pan, Marron, Bra, you, and myself."

"All right, Bra and Marron in swimsuits!"

"Hey, that's my little sister," growled Trunks.

"He, he, he, okay, all right Marron and when you're not looking Bra too."

"Goten, you're hopeless," sighed Trunks from the other end. "After that wish I'd think you'd never want to be around girls again."

"Oh, it's not the girls that are the worst part, it's all the guys."

"What?!" shouted Trunks. Goten had to hold the phone away from his ear, he glanced at his watch.

"Look, Trunks, I've got to go, my next class is starting soon."

"Okay, I'll see you later then, bye."

"Yah, bye," said Goten hanging up the phone and heading to his next class.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Pan walked to the front gate with a group of her girlfriends. She glanced around looking for Trunks, but so far there was no sign of him.

"I'll bet this is Marron's doing," grumbled Pan under her breath. "What wicked things could she be doing to my Trunks to make him forget me!" said Pan slapping her hands on her checks and shaking her head. "All three of him!"

"Hey Pan!"

Pan turned towards the sound of a horn being honked.

"Trunks-kun...! Bra?" Instead of seeing Trunk like Pan had thought it would be, Bra sat on top of the hood of her speedy purple, convertible, sports car, waving at her. More then a few of her fellow male students were staring at her with dreamy eyes. Bra was wearing all tight fitting black clothes: a black off the shoulder to her elbows top, black tight pants, black up to her knee high heel boots, and from what Pan could see, Bra's bra was black as well. She wore a black handkerchief and even black lipstick. Pan tore her gaze off of Bra to look at Bra's companion who honked the horn again: Marron.

"What are you two doing here?" asked Pan walking up to the purple car.

Bra jumped off the car hood and right up into Pan's face. "Why, we came to get you silly," she said wagging a finger in her face. "We're having a pool party at my house," she walked over to the back door of the car and opened it for Pan. "Hop in, we'll stop at your house for your swimsuit."

Pan's eyes travel to Marron who was trying to look at anything but Pan. "But Bra—"

The demi-Saiya-jin girl cut her off as she slammed the door and walked over to Pan. "Now, no fighting you two. We're going to have fun that’s an order." she scooped up Pan before the girl could protest and dumped her into the back seat of the car. She then jumped over Pan and landed in the set next to her. "Let’s go!"

Marron started up the car and pulled out of the parking space. Bra leaned over the back seat and blew the guys that had been staring a kiss. "Bye boys!"

"Bra! You're nuts," said Pan sitting up properly from the position she'd landed when Bra had tossed her in. "Are you going Goth on us? You're making me hot just looking at you."

"Oh? I thought you liked Trunks? Didn't know you went if for that kind of stuff," said Bra lifting an eyebrow.

"W-what?" stammered Pan going beet red. "Hey! I'm straight!"

Bra giggled and sat back down on her rear. "Time to have some fun! We haven't been together as a group in a long time," said Bra the wind whipped her long blue hair around. "Go faster Marron, Goten and Trunks are probably waiting for us!"

"Bra, I'm already going at the speed limit," said Marron in an amused voice.

"Don't care, go faster!" squealed the demi-Saiya-jin girl.

Marron laughed with her and floored it.

"Marron! Bra!" shouted Pan as the car zoomed off.

"Weeeee!" shouted Bra.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Bulma frowned in annoyance as Master Roshi landed in his air car and hopped out.

"Oh Bulma, what are you doing here?"

"I live here," said Bulma glaring at the old man.

"Oh, yah almost forgot," he laughed.

"What do you want, Roshi?" said Bulma crossing his arms.

"Just came to see how you've holding up, how's the missus?"

Bulma lifted an eyebrow. "Vegeta?" He glanced at the sliding glass door where the ex-Saiya-jin could be seen still doing exercises. "You didn't come here to take more of your perverted pictures did you?"

"Why, Bulma, I'm hurt, why would I do a thing like that?"

Bulma frowned harder at the old man.

"You can search me, I don't have a camera," said Roshi lifting his arms.

"No, thank you," said Bulma letting him in. He didn't trust the old man he was up to no good. Roshi went straight to the couch and began flipping through the channels. Bulma stood staring at him.

"I'm just here to watch the tub. There's a show I want to see, but I don't get the channel," said Roshi innocently.

"What rating is it?" said Bulma not moving.

"Nothing bad, Bulma my dear. I won't do that with kids walking around," said Roshi adjusting his glasses.

Bulma stood there glaring at him till the phone suddenly rang. He glanced in the direction of the nearest phone and back at Roshi, wondering if it was safe to leave the old man alone.

"Stay here and leave Vegeta alone, Roshi," warned Bulma before disappearing.

"Hey, I'm only here to watch," said Roshi flipping through the channels. He stopped when he came to a bunch of girls doing aerobics. He glances at Vegeta just as the Saiya-jin princess almost lost her balance, then back at the TV. "Hmm...."

Vegeta growled in frustration. This wasn't working she still hadn't perfected fighting in this form. Her arm reach was shorter, but her leg reach was longer. This made it easier to do kicks then punches, unlike his male body, which had been pretty even reach for both. She did another high kick. Damn! This is what tails are for, counterbalance cursed the Saiya-jin princess as she wobbled a little during the kick. By the time I figure out how to use this body I'll be back to normal and then I'll be off balance from fighting as a woman! Ahhhhh! This sucks!

Vegeta glanced at the door as it opened and Master Roshi stepped out.

Oh, no. Not that old fart! "What the hell do you want," growled Vegeta.

"No need to be like that," said Roshi moving closer. "I couldn't help but notice you were having some trouble."

"I was not!" shouted Vegeta giving the old man her back.

"You seemed a little off balance," said Roshi.

Vegeta snorted.

"You know, Vegeta, women do things differently. They have more power in their legs then upper bodies. They also have special exercises to strengthen themselves."

"What?" said Vegeta looking over her shoulder at Roshi. It could be that she was doing something wrong, after all this was all new to her; not that she would ever admit it.

"Come on inside, I'll show you," said Roshi turning and going before Vegeta could say yes or no.

"I hate that old man," grumbled Vegeta under her breath as she reluctantly follows him in.

"See," said Roshi pointing at the TV.

Vegeta stared at the TV as a line of girls lay on the grounds doing leg lifts.

"One and two and three and four!"

"You've got to be kidding me," said Vegeta.

"No! This is how girls exercise and train, makes them more flexible," said Roshi. "Of course, you have to be properly dressed," said the old man pulling a black suit out of his shirt and tossing it to Vegeta. He then stuck a pair of long white ears on her head.

"What the hell is this? Rabbit ears?" said Vegeta looking at the play boy bunny suit Roshi had tossed her. Vegeta growled and shook her fist, her eyebrow twitching. "You want me to wear this! And, do that!" shouted the Saiya-jin princess pointing at the TV.

"Yup, why don't you go change," said Roshi giving her a push towards a bathroom.

"I'm not stupid you old FOOL!" shouted Vegeta. She grabbed Roshi and did a roll, catapulting him through a large glass window and onto the front lawn.

Bulma came running back in when he'd heard the glass break to see Vegeta holding a play boy bunny suit in one hand, a pair of rabbit ears on her head, panting in rage and growling at the old man that was just starting to get up while the TV showed women doing aerobic work out.

"One and two and three and fourth. That's it, keep that up and soon you'll have buns of steel!"

"Turn that crap off!" shouted Vegeta.

Bulma covered his mouth with his hand to keep from laughing. "Yes, sweet cheeks," he said in a muffled voice.

Vegeta snarled and tossed the suit at him, stomping angrily back out side with the rabbit ears still on. Once she was gone Bulma burst out laughing.

He looked at the suit in his hands, "Vegeta as a play boy bunny *giggle*. Vegeta... as a... play boy... bunny," said Bulma suddenly turning red in the face.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Goten walked down the halls of his school. Another day of torture was over, only two more days of school with that stupid wish active.

"Goten?"

Goten whimpered to himself as he turned around to see a group of blushing girls in school uniforms.

"Goten," said one holding out a piece of paper to him. "Would you please sigh this?"

"Um sure," said Goten pulling out a pen and taking the piece of paper.

"Uhhh!" he said dropping all this stuff to grab the picture with both hands. It was a picture of him on his bed with all three of the girls from this morning. "Where did you get this?!"

"Well, I'm in photo class and someone was making a bunch of prints of them. I asked for one and she gave it to me."

"W-what?! How many more were there?!"

"Of just this pic or of you all together?" asked the girl.

Goten grew pale. "All together?"

"Oh, I'd say at least a hundred. More then one girl has pictures of you."

"Where can I find these picture?" asked Goten grabbing her by the shoulders.

"Well, you can't get to them right now, the photo room is locked up, but it should be open tomorrow morning. All the pictures should be done developing by then," said the girl.

If those pictures get out in the public I'll never live it down! Thought Goten. Tomorrow I'm going to have to get to school extra early, sneak into the photo room, and destroy all the evidence.

"Um, thank you," said Goten picking up his things.

"My picture?" said the girl.

"Um... Did I tell you what beautiful eyes you have?"

"Really?!"

"Yes, they're so blue just like the sky?" said Goten taking her hand and kissing it.

"Oh my!" squealed the girl giggling and blushing.

He, he, he, thought Goten, learned that one from Trunks. "Well, I've got to go, bye," said Goten sticking the photo in his pocket while the girl was still all mushied up.

He continued down the hall till he heard a large group of women shouting his name.

"Goten-kun!"

"Goten-san!"

"Goten-chan!"

Goten turned to see them all waving photos at him.

"Would you sign this please?!" they all shouted running at him.

"Yip!" shouted Goten breaking into a run down the hall with them hot on his heels. He ran out the front door and down the stairs, glancing nervously at the herd of schoolgirls.

"Goten!" called a deep male voice that Goten knew very well.

"Trunks!" shouted Goten spotting his best friend on his new bike right in front of the school gate. He ran faster and jumped on the back of it right as Trunks floored it and took off down the street.

Goten sighed as the group of girls slowly became smaller and smaller. He turned forward and knocked on Trunks' shiny black helmet. "Thanks!"

"No problem!" said Trunks. "Man, Goten, I didn't think it was that bad, how did it get like that?"

"I've been stalked by some crazy photo-group, and they've gotten some pretty revealing pics of me."

"Oh! I see. That happened to me once, so I increased the security around my house and office. Too bad you don't have a security system Goten."

"Yah, no kidding. I'm going to have to hunt down everyone of those pics by hand tomorrow. It's going to take the whole day!"

Trunks laughed at him, "I warned you!"

"Oh shut up!" shouted Goten. "I don't want to think of that right know. I want to go to your house where there's Marron, Bra, Pan, food, a pool, and one hell of a security system!"

Trunks laughed again, then an idea suddenly came to him that made him slam on the breaks of his bike, nearly making Goten fly off.

"Marron! Of course! Why didn't I think of that?!"

"What?" said Goten confused.

"He, he, never mind. I'll tell you another day," said Trunks starting back up his bike.

* * * * * * * * * *

Gohan stood on top of another roof once again. He'd gone to Pan's school to make sure that Briefs boy didn't try and take advantage of her again. Luckily her friends had picked her up instead, but he was still on guard. He didn't know where they were going and until he did he wasn't going to stop worrying for his only offspring.

He watched as the girls exited his house, chatting away quite happily. As they started up the car and drove off Gohan jumped into the air and flew after them at a slow pace.

* * * * * * * * * * *

"Done!" said Goku getting up and handing the large booklet that the NASA people had given him.

"Are you sure? You still have plenty of time to go over and double check your answers," said Jerry glancing at the clock. "Plenty of time."

"Oh no, that's okay. I've got to be going soon anyway. I want to be home by dinner time," said Goku waving a hand at them.

"But, you'll at least stay till we've finished scoring the test right?"

"Well...." said Goku looking at his watch. "I guess I can wait a little longer."

"Good! Make yourself comfortable and it wouldn't be long."

Goku sat back down and glances at the semi-circle of people that had gathered around him. "Um... is there something you wanted to ask?"

They all burst out talking at once. Goku shrank back in his chair waving his hands in front of his face to try and make them stop. "One at a time please! One at a time!"

"Tell me Mr. Son. Where did you go to college?"

"Oh, I never went to college," said Goku. This greatly shocked all the people around.

"How did you get so smart then?"

"Would you believe me if I told you I wished for it to happen?" said Goku not really wanting to tell them about the eternal dragon.

"Oh, so you're self taught!"

"Kind of," said Goku figuring that was a good enough answer.

"Where do you work Mr. Son?"

"Shuzy, the car company."

"What! You should work here!"

"Yah! Come work for the development division!"

"No! The engineering division!"

"He'd be better off in management!"

"No way!"

The whole groups started arguing over the subject, with poor Goku just sat still, for all his knowledge he didn't know what to do.

"You guys! I have his scores back!" That got everyone's attention. "His IQ is a 270!"

The room exploded into talking once again, most of which was directed at Goku. Who started thinking it had been a mistake to come there.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Bra, Marron, and Pan had all gotten into their swimsuits. Bra's was a string tie-dye bikini, Marron's was a two piece with solid black shorts like bottoms and a white bikini top, and Pan was a solid low back pink suit, relatively simple in design and a lot more comfortable then Marron or Bra's.

The three started setting up a snack table by the pool. Bra disappeared and reappeared with a stereo. She popped in a tape and started playing loud alternative music.

"Bra, aren't you afraid the stereo will fall in that close to the pool?" asked Marron.

"Afraid you'll get electrocuted?" asked Bra in a teasing manner. "The worst it would do is give you an Faeroe."

"Bra! Never mind, I'm sorry I asked," said Marron shaking her head.

Just then Trunks and Goten showed up. Trunks drove his bike right up to the pool then took off his helmet as Goten climbed off the back.

"All right! Food!" shouted Goten going over to the snack table.

"Ahhh! No you don't!" said Marron standing in front of it. "If you're the first one to it, there won't be anything left for any one else!"

"Ahh come on Marron! Just a little bite?" said Goten picking up a bag of chips.

"Do you know the meaning of a LITTLE bite?!" said Marron grabbing the bag and shoving it behind her back.

"Marron, give me those chips," said Goten advancing on her. Marron quickly shook her head making her pigtails fly back and forth.

"Give me the chips, Marron," said Goten reaching around her to try and snatch them.

"No!" shouted Marron and started running around the pool with Goten hot behind her.

"Chips!"

"No!"

"Chips!"

"NO!"

In their chase they knocked Pan in who had been sitting on the edge of the pool dipping her feet.

"Ahhhhh!" splash!

Marron turned around to see who had made the splash, in doing so she tripped over a pool floaty and fell in as well losing her grip on the bag in her decent.

"CHIPS!" said Goten teetering on the edge of the pool and trying to grab the bag. It bounced off his hands several times before he finally got a good hold of it.

"All right! Chips!" said Goten in triumph.

"Oh please," said Bra rolling her eyes and tapping him on the back with her finger. Goten toppled right into the pool. Once he came up for air Marron jumped on him pushing him back under.

Trunks and Bra laughed the only two that weren't wet yet.

"Trunks, where's your suit?" asked Bra turning to look at her brother. She had noticed that Goten was in a white tank top and a pair of yellow swim trunks, but her brother was still in his bike suit.

"Oh, I have it on underneath," said Trunks unzipping his bike suit. He smiled just like his father then with out farther warning pushed Bra into the pool.

"Ahhhhh!" Splash!

She came up sputtering curses and waving her arms in furry. Trunks laughed at her.

"Looks like I'm the only dry one. Everyone's already in the pool." He glance around, someone was missing. "Hey, were did Go—"

Trunks couldn't finish his sentence as a pair of strong hands came down, grabbed his bike suit by the open caller, flipped him, pulling it off boots and all, and throwing him head first into the pool all in one smooth motion.

"All right, Goten!" cheered Bra. "My hero!"

Goten did a mock bow, but slipped and fell on his back, ruining the effect. Bra began laughing at him as did Pan and Marron.

Trunks came up cursing and sputtering just like Bra had. He stopped suddenly and began looking around in a panic.

"What's the matter, Trunks, did you lose something?" asked Pan swimming over to him.

"NO! Pan, stay back!" he protested glancing around madly for something.

"Did you lose your watch or something?" asked Pan continuing to swim towards him.

"NO! Just stay back!"

Goten sat up from where he'd fallen. "Ouch! That hurt." He was about to toss Trunks' bike suit on to the grass when he noticed something. He reached into the suit and pulled out—"Hey, Trunks aren't these yours?" In Goten's hands where a pair of green swim trunks.

Pan, who had just gotten a hold of Trunks, turned and saw what he was holding up.

"Oh... my... are those," her eyes moved down to see.

"Ahhhh!" said Trunks closing the distance between them and clapping a hand over her eyes.

"Goten!" said the bright red Trunks.

"Oops, sorry," said Goten walking over to him to hand him his swimming suit.

Just before he could though—

"Get your hands off my daughter!"

Goten fell back once again as a ki blast struck the side of the pool.

"Look out!" shouted Trunks leaning over Pan and shielding her with his body from broken pieces of pool and ki blast a like. In doing so he had to take his hand off her eyes. Pan opened them to see she was inches from Trunks' face once again. Damn it, daddy! You have bad timing though Pan as another ki blast was aimed their way forcing the two to separate.

Trunks was just about to jumped out of the pool when he realized he didn't have anything on.

"Gohan, calm down," said Trunks gesturing wildly with his hands. "It's just a pool party, really!"

"Where are your damn clothes, boy!"

"Umm...." Trunks turned bright red again.

"You pervert!"

Soon giant splashes of water were coming up from the pool as Gohan continued to shoot ki blasts at Trunks, who was quite literally the fish in the barrel.

Just as Gohan had Trunks cornered something big and green slammed into the Saiya-jin turned Namek sei-jin.

"Piccolo!" said Goten recognizing the white cap and green skin.

"Gohan! I've got him! Hurry!"

The other Gohan jumped out from the roof of Capsule Corps and flew down to grab his copy. Unfortunately, the other Gohan slammed his elbow into Piccolo's gut and made the Namek sei-jin let him go. He took off as fast as he could.

"Not again!" shouted Gohan flying after himself.

Piccolo shook his head. "This is never going to end," he growled before taking off after his two students.

Everyone at the pool party watched them go in silence, which was broken by Trunks.

"Goten! Would you please give me my swim suit NOW!"

* * * * * * * * * * *

Vegeta glared at the weights before her. With a grunt she bent over and pulled... and kept pulling.

"Come on! It's only a 200 pound weight," grunted the princess between tugs. She stopped for a second to catch her breath then heaved again at the bar.

"No... stupid... piece of melt is going to..... get the.... best of me." The ex-Saiya-jin actually managed to get the weight up to her waist with pure determination but…

"Ahhhhhh!" Crash!

She toppled over and now had the weight pinning her to the ground by her stomach.

"Crap!" shouted the princess trying to get up. She flailed under the bar, to no avail. Then tried to roll it off, couldn't roll it up she learned the hard way after smashing her breast; discovering that hurt A LOT! She then tried rolling it off her legs, but discovered that also crushed her. "Stupid weight!" she shouted trying to pick it up again. She was too tired to lift the bar again. "Stupid! Weak! Female body!" cursed Vegeta trying to crawl out from under the weight, but her front got her stuck. She tried rolling to her stomach, after several minutes of cursing manage to do that rather painfully. She tried crawling out from under again only to get stuck again.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Vegeta screamed in frustration and exhaustion then decided to try and regain some of her strength before trying again.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Since the pool had been completely destroyed from Gohan's earlier attack, the DBZ teens decided to move their party inside.

"Ha, ha, ha! Oh Kami-sama, Trunks! You should have seen the look on your face!" laughed Goten leading on a chair for support.

"Hey! It's not funny!" shouted back the red faced Trunks, who know had on as many clothes as he could get on. This copy walked in just then.

"Hi guys, what's so funny?"

Goten was going to answer, but Trunks slapped a hand over his mouth, "I'll tell you later."

"O...kay," said the new Trunks. "Are you really to switch now?"

"Sure," said Trunks getting up. "I'll see you guys later." He walked over to Pan, "Night Tiger Lily," he said kissing her hand. "Have fun."

"Night Trunks," said everyone as the purple haired teen turned to leave.

"Don't tempt fate," said Trunks to his counterpart as he passed him and left.

"What did he mean by that?" asked Trunks staring at the back of his retreating self.

"Trust me, Trunks, you don't want to know," said Marron patting a spot for him to sit next to her. He took the seat offered.

"So what are we going to do now?" asked Goten.

"Why don't we play a game or something," suggested Marron.

"How about a card game?" said Pan.

"Okay," said Bra getting up. "Let’s go to the game room then." They all followed her to the large recreation room that had a pool table, dart board, hockey table, a few pinball machines, a small bar, and lots more. Bra walked to a dour and pulled out a pack of cards, also a plastic green visor.

"I want to be dealer," said Marron.

"No way, I want to be dealer," said Bra holding the cards protectively to her chest.

"You always get to be dealer," complained Marron.

"Okay, okay, you two. Don't fight," said Goten.

"Marron, you be dealer, Bra you can pick the game," said Trunks.

Marron gave Bra a triumphant smile.

Bra frowned, but it quickly turned into a smirk. "Okay. I choose poker; strip poker."

Everyone stared at her like she's turned into Freeza on them.

"You've got to be kidding, right, Bra?" said Pan.

"No, you said I could pick the game and that's what I pick."

"Marron! Let Bra be dealer!" said Trunks having a very bad feeling about his luck tonight.

"To late!" chimed Bra. "What's done is done." She pulled out a chair from a round card table and sat in it. "The loser will be the one that is naked first, we'll stop playing after that so only one of us will have to show it all."

"You're only saying that because you know you'll win!" said Marron. She'd played cards with Bra before the girl had the best poker face.

Bra giggled and patted the space next to her. "Well, are you all going to stand there or are you going to sit your tails down and play?"

Everyone glanced around then one by one they sat down: Trunks and Goten on one side of the table, Marron, Pan, and Bra on the other.

"I can't believe I'm playing strip poker with my little sister," said Trunks. "That's just wrong."

Marron took the green visor from Bra and put it lopsided on her head. She then shuffled the cards in a rather skillful manner. "Know what you mean Trunks, I'm the only one here that isn't related to any one of you."

"I've never played poker before," said Pan.

"Oh, don't worry I'll help you," said Bra.

Trunks frowned as they started passing out cards. Calm down, Trunks, this isn't a strip bar that was just a dream, nothing else. He picked up his cards and looked at them. Crap!

* * * * * * * * * * *

Bulma sighed and looked around, the house was quiet; too quiet. That was never a good sign at Capsule Corps, especially of late. His eyes moved from left to right then landed on the sliding glass door. Vegeta won't still be out there its getting dark, must be freezing by now. Bulma didn't trust his logic specially when Vegeta was concerned. Sometimes Vegeta made as much sense as the term pretty ugly did. Something can't be both pretty and ugly: could it?

He moved to the door and slid it open to peer outside. It was pretty dark, but Bulma's Saiya-jin eyes could still see rather well. A cold breeze blew by and Bulma shivered, he was just about to go inside, when he heard a sneeze.

"Vegeta?" said Bulma going out and looking around. "Is that you?" He looked around till he spotted a figure lying on the ground. As he got closer he realized that figure was pinned to the ground by a large weight.

"Vegeta? What are you doing?"

"What am I doing he asks. Taking a nap, what does it look it!" shouted the woman through slightly blue lips, covered in grass stains, and looking down right miserable.

"Kami-sama, Vegeta," said Bulma going down on one knee. "How long have you been like this?"

"Too long," stuttered the frozen woman.

Bulma reached down and grabbed the bar easily throwing it aside and pulling his frozen mate to him. "Vegeta, you're as cold as ice!"

"What did you expect," said the ex-Saiya-jin shivering. "It's freezing out here." Vegeta tried to get up, but didn't have the strength not that Bulma was going to let her.

"Shit Vegeta!" cursed Bulma lifting the princess and toting her inside. He headed right to their bedroom and dumped her on the bed, then began taking his clothes off. Only in a pair of boxers he slid in behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"What do you thing you're doing?!" demanded Vegeta trying to move out of his reach.

"Shhhhh! Just hold still," he said rubbing his hands on her icy skin. "It'll warm you up faster."

Vegeta snorted, but stopped struggling, and Bulma pulled her closer so they lay spooned up. It wasn't long before he noticed that she'd fallen asleep. Bulma sighed against Vegeta's neck and brushed some of the thick hair out of her face.

"You're such a fool, Vegeta," he mumbled against her neck, planting a kiss there. "You don't know what this does to me, selfish bastard." He hid his face in her hair and tried to follow his mate's example, "I'm not going to get much sleep tonight."

* * * * * * * * * * *

Goku couldn't take it any mor, he was going insane with everyone asking him questions. He had the worst headache imaginable. Why? Why, won't they shut up?! He thought while rubbing his head. If this is what it means to be smart then ignorance is bliss!

The Saiya-jin groaned as he was asked more questions.

I want to go home! I want to get out of here! He thought looking around for an escape route. If I have to answer one more question I'm going to drop dead on the spot.

A simple plan soon hatched in his head; he crossed his fingers and hoped it would work.

"Um, excuse me, which way is the bathroom."

The group gather stopped this endless questioning. "Down the hall and to the right," said one.

"Thanks," said Goku jumping up and hurrying down the hall. Once he was out of eyesight he broke into a run so fast that the human eye couldn't follow it.

He ran till he came to the roof, then leapt into the sky.

"I'm free! I'm finally free," laughed the Saiya-jin. "Kami, I thought I'd never see day light again." Goku stopped and looked around.

"Man, how long was I in there? The sun’s already set." He glanced at his watch. "7:30! I'm late for dinner!" said the Saiya-jin putting on more speed.

He stopped suddenly as he felt a ki expand.

"Oh no. That doesn't feel good. I'd better go check it out," said Goku heading in the direction of the large ki.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Marron laughed as Trunks and Goten groaned.

"Off with it, boys," said Marron fanning herself with her full house.

Pan just sat slightly flushed in the face.

So far everyone had lost some clothes: Marron was down to her shirt and under clothes (lucky for her it was a long T-shirt she was now wearing). Bra was down to her swimsuit and a pair of short shorts while Pan was having beginner’s luck big time and had both her pants and shirt (she'd taken off her bandanna though), and Goten and Trunks though weren't doing as good.

"I think they're cheating," said Goten as he had just lost the shirt off his back and was now only in his boxers and jeans.

"This isn't fair! You had more clothes on to begin with," said a blushing Trunks. He really didn't want to take off his pants and be left with.... well only his trunks. If he lost one more round he's lost the game, not to mention his last article of clothing.

"No buts. Off with your pants!" said Marron.

Trunks turned even redder as he got up and quickly got rid of his pants, sitting down as fast as he could get into his chair. Marron made a wolf whistle at him. Bra elbowed Pan and the girl turned redder.

Marron shuffled the cards again and began passing them out.

Please, please Dende! I'll do anything, just please let me win this time! prayed Trunks picking up this cards. He got two aces, two threes, and a queen.

"What will it be, Pan?" asked Marron.

"Two please," said Pan, putting two cards down. Marron dealt her two more.

"Bra?"

"Three," replied the demi-Saiya-jin girl in a cool voice. Marron passed her three.

"Goten?"

"Umm..." said the demi-Saiya-jin looking nervous, "I'll take two." Marron passed him two.

"Trunks?"

"One." Marron dealt him one. She then dealt herself two cards.

Trunks looked at his hand and smiled: a full house. Thank you, Dende!

"Okay, let’s see what everyone's got," said Marron putting down her cards: three of a kind. Bra had a pair and Goten had nothing.

"Full house," said Trunks slapping down his cards.

"Is this good?" asked Pan putting down her cards.

"Holy cow! Pan, that's a straight flush!" said Bra looking at Pan's cards.

Trunks also flushed and bowing his head: he'd lost. Goten patted him on the back in sympathy.

"Well, that was interesting," said Bra pulling her shirt back on.

"Good hand," said Marron leaning back in her chair and staring at Trunks.

"Darn, I was hoping Goten would lose," said Bra looking up at he ceiling. "Must have inherited his father's dumb luck."

"All right, Trunks, show time!" said Marron.

Trunks slapped a hand over his burning face and stood up. He undid the tie on his shorts and hooked a finger on the waistband.

"Yah, I've got your money right here, honey!" said Marron waving some ones at him.

Pan giggled despite her shyness and threw Trunks a kiss. Poor Trunks turned redder.

Luckily or unluckily he was interrupted as a pissed green Gohan crashing through the glass window and slammed into him.

"D-dad!" stammered Pan. The rest of the group could only stare in shock at the scene.

"You pervert! What do you think you're doing?!" shouted Gohan pinning Trunks to the wall by his throat.

"Ahhhh!" Trunks shouted right in his face trying to get his fingers under Gohan's squeezing hands. "They made me do it!"

Gohan then processed to shake the purple haired boy till little Pans started flying around his head.

"What do you mean they made you! My little girl won't do something like that!" roared Gohan.

Goten jumped on his brother's back and tried to pull Gohan off of Trunks. "Gohan! It's just a game!"

Bra, Marron, and Pan all joined in trying to pry the Namek sei-jin off of a very dazed Trunks.

"Hold on to him!" shouted a voice and they turned to see Piccolo and Gohan standing in the broken window.

"Gohan! Hurry up!" shouted Goten just as he lost his hold. Copy Gohan expanded his ki and knocked everyone off of him.

Poor Trunks was slammed the hardest into the wall he'd been pinned against. The Namek sei-jin then made his escape by jumping right through the roof.

"We're never going to catch him!" shouted Gohan.

"Wow, look at all the cute little Pans!" said a dazed Trunks as Pan ran over to see if he was all right.

Gohan was just about to go after himself when he was stopped by Piccolo.

"This isn't working, Gohan. We have to make a better plan then just waiting for him to show himself."

"But what?" asked Gohan.

"Wow, are you guys having some trouble?" asked a voice. Everyone turned to see Goku standing on the windowsill with the broken glass. He had his jacket tossed over one shoulder as he peered in at them.

"Goku-san," said Marron surprised to see him.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" asked Goten.

"I felt two ki that both felt like Gohan's and came to see what had happened," said the Saiya-jin. "Goten, where are your clothes?"

"Umm...." said the demi-Saiya-jin looking around.

"Seems like you've been losing the shirt off your back a lot lately," said Goku shaking his head. He caught a card that was slowly floating down and looked at it. "By my guess, you were playing strip poker and Trunks lost. Am I right?"

Everyone started at him in shock.

"How did you know?" asked Bra.

"Bra!" shouted Marron.

"You were playing strip poker?!" said Gohan staring at his daughter.

"They made me!" said Pan waving her hands in front of her face.

"How did you know Trunks lost? How did you even know we were playing poker?" asked Goten.

"It's plain to see that Trunks is the least clothed of all present, which would make him the loser. As for you're playing poker, that's quite obvious considering the cards are still laid out from your last round." He smiled and held up the card he'd caught: an ace.

Everyone glanced at he table, which indeed still had the cards laying on it from their last round.

"Hn, who care about that right now. We need to think of a way to catch Gohan," said Piccolo.

"Gohan?" said Goku looking at his oldest son.

Gohan sighed and told him about what had happened. While he did that everyone reclaimed their clothes.

"I see," said Goku sitting down in one of the fold up chairs. "You're right, we'll have to catch him soon." He clicked his tongue. "I'm very disappointed in you boys, splitting yourselves into two and playing strip poker. What would your mother say?"

Both Son boys paled at the mere thought.

"Has any one got a plan on how to catch him?" asked Pan.

Everyone thought for a few seconds.

"I think I've got a plan," said Goku.

"Really? What?" asked Gohan.

"First, we'll need some bait," said the Saiya-jin. As he said this his eyes turned to look at Trunks. Everyone else followed his gaze.

Trunks looked around seeing he was the one they were all looking at. "Um... oh gee look at the time," said Trunks looking at his watch. "It's way past my bedtime, I'd better go." The demi-Saiya-jin boy tried to get away but soon found himself on the bottom of a dog pile.

"Come on, Trunks, we need you as bait to get Gohan," said Goten.

"No way! I refuse!" said a struggling Trunks.

"Oh, come on, it's not like he's going to kill you," said Bra.

"That's easy for you to say!" said Trunks.

"Come on boy, the sooner this is over the better," said Piccolo walking over and throwing the protesting demi-Saiya-jin over his shoulder. "Where to now, Goku?"

"Gohan's house," smiled Goku.

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"You guys had better let me go right now!" shouted a panicking Trunks. "I mean it! Ahhhhhh! This isn't funny!"

"Do you think such noisy bait will work?" asked Bra from her hiding place in the bushes. Marron shrugged her shoulders.

Goku's plan included moving Gohan's couch outside in a clear spot, having Trunks rendered unable to move by a rope charged with ki, and a blushing Pan sitting next to him.

"You know, they would look a lot more like a couple about to make out if we duck taped his mouth shout," said Bra plugging her ears.

"I don't like this plan," said Marron glaring at Pan on the couch with Trunks.

"Here he comes," whispered Goten feeling his brother's ki approaching.

"Pan!" hissed Bra. "Think of some way to shut him up!"

"What?! How am I going to do that?" asked Pan looking around.

"I don't care how, just do it!" Bra shouted back. "He's almost here!"

"Ahhhh! Gohan!" Trunks panicking, feeling the Saiya-jin turned Namek sei-jin approach. "Okay, Ha, Ha, joke's over. You can let me go now... please!"

"Sorry, Trunks-Kun," said Pan jumping on him.

"Pan what are you do—"

Trunks sentence was suddenly cut short as Pan fisted her hand his fine lavender hair and kissed him square on the lips.

"Hey! She's really making out with him!" protested Marron about to jump out of the bushes and ruin the whole thing.

"No, Marron," hissed Goten grabbing her and pinning her to the ground.

"Let me go!" shouted Marron.

Bra freaked, she could see Gohan now as the Namek sei-jin landed in the clearing. "Goten," she shouted in a whisper at the Son boy. "Find a way to shut her up! He'll hear her!" she said as loud as she dared.

"But—" said Goten.

"Just do it!" Bra clapped a hand over her mouth realizing she'd just yelled it.

Goten looked between the approaching Gohan and Marron.

"Goten! Get off me right now or I'll—"

Marron suddenly couldn't speak as Goten leaned down and stopped her lips with his own.

"Well, that's one way of doing it," said Bra looking between the couple next to her and the ones out on the couch. "I hope this plan works."

Gohan couldn't believe his eyes; there she was on top of that purple haired pervert making out with him on the couch! With a growl Gohan charged a ki ball in his hand. "This time, I'm not going to miss," he growled as he advanced on the couple.

Pan drew away from Trunks with a gasp for breath her cheeks even more flushed then before. She stared down at Trunks who was also blushing and had a dazed look on his face. His eyes suddenly focused on her. "You really are a tiger, kitten," he said with a smile. His smile suddenly dropped and a look of horror crossed his face.

Pan glanced behind her to see her father with a very angry scowl on his face and a ki ball in his hands.

"Oh, this isn't good!" said Trunks.

Gohan raised up this hand with the ki ball.

"Any time now!" shouted Pan hugging Trunks.

Gohan was stopped from throwing his ki blast by one slamming into him. He sat up to see Goku, Piccolo, and himself standing in fighting stances.

"Crap!" said Gohan and turned around to run, only to run into himself? "What the—?!"

Gohan grabbed his copy. "Ha, gotcha this time," he said tightening his grip. Both Namek sei-jins struggled a few moments before they were covered in a soft light and joined.

"All right, great plan!" shouted Bra jumping up from her hiding place. "Um.... Goten you can stop kissing Marron now."

Goten laughed nervously as he got up and help a dazed Marron up as well.

Goku dropped the ki he'd been using to bind Trunks with the rope. Once he did, Trunks snapped them like they were nothing and sat up. "What did you guys do?" asked Trunks. "For a moment there, I thought there were three Gohans!"

Goku laughed and slapped the mirror he was standing next to. "We just made it look like there was another one of him, with this mirror. Worked great, while he was running from the fake, the real Gohan snuck up behind him." Goku smiled at his own plan. "I should become a magician."

Gohan suddenly frowned and glared in the direction of the couch.

"Oh no, you don't think?" said Pan.

"Run!" shouted Trunks grabbing Pan and running as Gohan charged up another ki blast. The Saiya-jin turned Namek sei-jin launched his attack and the couch was reduced to ash.

"There," said Gohan dusting his hands off. "I've been wanting to do that."

Trunks and Pan stared at him with wide eyes. "You could have told us you were going to do that!" shouted Trunks pulling his hair.

By his side, Pan giggled into her hand. Everyone else started laughing as well and soon even Trunks was laughing at the scene.

"Oh, look at the time," said Goku looking at his watch. "We're way late for dinner. Come on Goten, we'd better hurry."

"Okay," said Goten. He turned to Marron who still had a dazed confused look on her face. "Bye Marron," he smiled.

"B-bye, Goten," Marron said blinking several times.

Goten jumped into the air. "Bye everyone, see you later!" he called waving madly before taking off with his father.

Piccolo snorted and simply took off without saying a word.

"We'd better be going too," said Bra.

"Yah, I guess you're right," said Trunk. "Good night Tiger Lily," said Trunks kissing her on the cheek.

"Good night Trunks," said Pan. She grabbed a hold of him and kissed him deeply again. Trunks had a very dazed and stupid grin on his face when they parted.

"Oh, great, Pan. Kill what few brain cells you didn't with that first kiss," said Bra going over to her brother and taking his hand to lead him away.

Pan giggled into her hand and waved with the other one as she watched them leave. She turned around and stopped giggled as she came face to face with her father, who had his arms crossed and was tapping his foot.

"Well, what have you got to say for yourself young lady?"

Pan winced and started looking around at anything but her father.

"Pan?" he said.

Lucky for Pan she was saved by her mother.

"Gohan!" shouted Videl running out of the house. She ran right up to the Namek sei-jin and jumped on him.

"V-videl," stammered Gohan in shock.

"Gohan where have you been you had me so worried!" shouted Videl, shaking him by the collar. "You big green jerk!"

"I'm s-sorry V-videl," said Gohan slightly shaken up.

"I'm going to bed now!" said Pan running into the house.

"Hey wait! You didn't answer me!" said Gohan, but too late as Pan was already in the house.

Videl giggled. "Oh, leave her be Gohan. She's is a woman now, she can make her own decisions."

"But—" started Gohan.

"Shhhh," said Videl kissing him on the cheek. "Let’s just going inside and go to bed."

"But I fried the couch," said Gohan looking at the remains of the couch, which was still smoking slightly.

Videl laughed again. "I never did like that couch. Come on, I don't care if you're a green man from outer space. You're still my Gohan," she said pulling him towards the house.

Gohan smiled at his wife and followed her inside.

* * * * * * * * * * *

The dragon turned off his TV and leaned back in his eternal dragon sized couch. The plot thickens. He made a big toothy grin as he thought of poor Goku, the Saiya-jin had just dug himself a deep whole by agreeing to that IQ test. He wondered if they'd ever leave him alone? And Vegeta! The Dragon giggled into his hand as he thought of the look that had crossed the ex-Saiya-jin's face when she'd fallen backwards with the weight. Poor Bulma was going to need a very cold shower in the morning. And poor, poor, poor Trunks, stripped of his clothes three times in one day. Not to mention Goten, whose picture was floating around for all to see him in his birthday suit. At least Gohan was back to normal, well at least semi-normal. The dragon laughed again, wondering what new torments awaited the DBZ crew tomorrow.

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In the next chapter of Be Careful What You Wish For! Goten, why are you dressed in black?! It’s Ninja Goten as he tries to steal back everyone of those pics that the girls took of him and it's not going to be easy. Meanwhile, Trunks has his own plans for Goten: fix him up with Marron so he can help his best friend and have Pan to himself, well all three of himself. Goku's gone into hiding; ignorance is bliss! What about his poor wife who seems to be seeing less and less of her husbands as time goes by?! And can Bulma take any more! The Saiya-jin president of Capsule corps is getting snippy from all his fights with Vegeta and not being able to umm... properly make up with her. And, Gohan's going back to work. Oh the torments! All this and more in the next chapter of Be Careful What You Wish For.

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Chapter 3 / Bulma’s Hideout / Chapter 5