When Hell Freezes Over - Chapter 2

Bulma felt sick as she looked down at her hands ‘ white gloves? Oh dear Kami no…’ a realization dawned on her ‘that machine it, it switched our bodies… I’m in Vegeta’s body!!!’ She gasped and her parents turned to find the source of the sound.

“Ah Vegeta you’re awake I see, but then I don’t suppose the blast did you much damage. You saiya-jin really are a wonder…” Dr briefs trailed off as he saw the confused look in the prince’s eyes.

“Oh my. Are you ok vegeta, is something bothering you?? Why you’re probably just hungry, you poor dear… well I’ve got to help carry bulma to the infirmary right now but when I’m finished I’ll whip you up a feast” Mrs. briefs was babbling.

Bulma looked down at her body in shock at the mention of her name. ‘ I wouldn’t like to be there when vegeta wakes up to find that he’s stuck in a weak human female’s body’ she thought. Seeing the look of concern in her eyes Mrs. briefs piped up again.

“Oh. You’re worried about bulma aren’t you? Well she’ll be just fine. Just a nasty bump on the head…” she trailed off as she and Dr briefs left the room carrying vegeta, leaving a still too stunned to speak bulma kneeling on the floor of the lab clutching her aching head.

‘How am I going to explain this to dad?’ She began to pick herself up and marveled at how easy she found it. ‘Gosh Vegeta sure can take a beating!’ She collected her thoughts and chased after her parents down the corridor.

She caught up with them in the infirmary.

“Mom! Dad!” she shouted without thinking and then realized how weird it was to hear herself speak in vegeta’s low raspy voice… it gave her the creeps. Her parents turned to face her, understandably confused.

“Err we have a slight problem…”

“Why Vegeta I never realized you felt that way about us… I mean I’d always hoped that you adapt to life here and come to accept our friendship but this! This is so sudden… not that we mind of course but…” Mrs. Briefs was obviously gushing at the idea of having vegeta as a son. ‘Scary” thought bulma

“No mom, it’s not that… you really are my parents…. I’m BULMA!”

“Oh dear... you really did get knocked on the head quite hard didn’t you dear??” Mrs. Briefs giggled but Dr Briefs caught on.

“No dear unfortunately he’s, I mean she’s telling the truth… you might want to sit down while I explain this one…” Dr Briefs had a far away, tired look in his eyes as he explained to his wife. Bulma listened carefully to the technical details of how the machine worked… hoping to find a reversal method.

“…Unfortunately it was only in the development stages I didn’t even know it worked let alone how to reverse it…and since the machine was destroyed during the explosion…” Dr Briefs tailed off looking nervous while bulma began to fume… which was even scarier with her being in vegeta’s body. Unconsciously she had begun to glow with ki energy and looked like she was going to blow any second.

“SO OUT WITH IT! HOW LONG TILL THIS GETS FIXED??? OR AM I STUCK BEING AN EXTRA FROM PLANET OF THE APES FOREVER? HUH??”

“Calm down bulma, it should only take a week or two to get this mess all sorted out…”

“A WEEK?!?!”

“Well if you hadn’t been playing hide and seek in my machinery dear…”

He had a point. Bulma calmed a little and stopped glowing. ‘Ah well at least I get to bully vegeta for a change!’ an evil smirk began to spread across her face but quickly disappeared as she heard a sound come from her body…

Vegeta was waking up…