Dinner ti.
Levos and Bulma sat across from each other, quietly enjoying the delicacies Bulma had stashed away.
"Levos, whenever I've had spare ti lately, I've been trying to study the structure of this strange space," Bulma said, setting down her utensils. "But I'll probably need to step outside to research it properly for a while."
She frowned slightly. "This isn't exactly my area of expertise. At best, I can make so minor adjustnts based on the original design."
Levos nodded softly. He was already more than satisfied with what Bulma had done so far. There was no need to push for more.
"Let's put that on hold for now."
After all, studying the chanics of the Hyperbolic Ti Chamber wasn't sothing that could be accomplished overnight.
And with less than half a day left until Babidi's Martial Arts Tournant began, there really wasn't ti for such an ambitious project.
"Oh, by the way, I've already finished developing your battle suit. Our bodies are incredibly durable now, but the clothes we've been wearing can't keep up. They get shredded every ti we train."
Bulma opened a small box on the table.
Inside was a battle suit designed in the style of the old Frieza Force armor. No shoulder pads, no hip guards. Just core body protection.
It ca with a black undersuit, gloves, and boots.
At this point, the suit's flexibility and defensive capabilities weren't that important to either of them.
The main reason for making it, as Bulma said, was because ordinary clothes simply couldn't handle the impact of their battles anymore.
They couldn't risk fighting and having their clothes explode off at any mont.
Levos was a bit surprised that Bulma didn't make her own suit first.
But after thinking about it, he realized it made sense. There were ready-made templates for male battle suits, while the female design would probably require more thoughtful adjustnts.
"Bulma, do you rember Captain Ginyu? Back then, he turned into a blue frog."
Levos wanted to see if he could get any information about Ginyu and honestly, he was genuinely curious.
In the original Nak arc, Bulma never actually t Ginyu in the manga.
But in Toei's ani filler, they extended the storyline and added a scene where Ginyu swapped bodies with Bulma.
When Ginyu was losing to Vegeta, he tried to use his Body Change on him, but the beam hit a Nakian frog that Goku had thrown.
Thanks to Goku's last-minute intervention, Ginyu barely escaped with his life.
After swapping bodies with the frog, Ginyu later encountered Bulma.
Bulma, thinking the frog seed unusually intelligent, built it a translator device to help it communicate.
The mont the frog wore the translator, the first words it spoke through the device were the incantation for Body Change.
Ginyu imdiately stole Bulma's body.
Fortunately, Gohan quickly realized sothing was off and, in the middle of the battlefield, threw the frog-shaped Bulma into the path of Ginyu's swap beam just as he was about to switch with Piccolo.
That's how they got their bodies back.
"Ginyu? That cursed blue frog's na was Ginyu?" Bulma's expression twisted, as if she had suddenly recalled a traumatic mory.
Levos couldn't hold back his grin.
So this Bulma really did have that piece of black history. Well, that certainly made things easier.
At least he didn't need to waste ti explaining Ginyu's special ability to her.
"That frog's been living on Earth ever since the Nakian battle."
"That bastard actually ca to Earth? Did he cause any more trouble?" Bulma was still a bit confused about where Levos was going with this.
"Whether he did or not, I don't know. But if we want to beat Dabura, we might need to use his special ability."
Levos explained the situation. After a body swap, not being familiar with the new body would cause a dramatic drop in battle power.
"You want that frog to take over Dabura's body?"
Bulma instantly caught on to his plan.
"Exactly. The problem now is whether you can build sothing like a frog attractor to help find Ginyu."
The Earth was massive. Where would he even begin to look for a frog-turned-alien like Ginyu?
And as a small, weak frog, what were the odds he even survived the apocalypse?
For all Levos knew, so desperate survivor might've caught him and cooked him over a fire by now.
After all, people in the apocalypse were much less picky about what they ate.
The more he thought about it, the less hopeful he felt.
Bulma pondered for a mont before replying.
"Making a device to attract specific biological signatures isn't difficult. But deploying enough of them across the entire planet would require an astronomical number of devices. With just the two of us, there's no way we can manufacture that many in ti."
"However," she added, "I might be able to track him using the internet."
Classic Bulma, always the problem solver.
Levos looked at her with admiration. "Track him using the internet? What's your plan?"
"Levos, did you forget? We can just post a bounty on the survivor forums. If the reward is high enough, people will definitely help us look."
Bulma crossed her arms as she explained.
"Wait, what does that alien frog look like again?"
Levos furrowed his brows, trying to recall.
"I'll never forget that bastard's appearance! Blue skin, red eyes, a pair of antennae on his head, and a body that's noticeably larger than Earth's regular frogs…" Bulma's voice was filled with disgust, clearly not fond of the mory.
"Wait a second… I feel like I've seen sothing like that before." Levos slapped his thigh in realization. "Soone's already posted him for sale on the forums!"
"Really?!" Bulma was instantly excited.
It all ca flooding back to Levos.
Back when he was using Bulma's computer at Capsule Corp, he'd seen a post selling a blue-skinned bullfrog.
Out of curiosity, he'd even clicked on the image.
But at the ti, his head was filled with plans to revive Goku and the other main heroes, hoping to rely on them to deal with the coming crises.
He never connected the dots. It didn't even cross his mind that the odd little frog could be Captain Ginyu.
Back then, he'd dismissed it as so cheap sales gimmick by an unscrupulous vendor.
And now, two years had flown by…
Wait, no! Only two days had passed in the outside world!
But even so, the situation wasn't great. For all he knew, Ginyu might've already been caught and eaten.
If that happened, this whole plan would fall apart!
"That's right! I need to find him imdiately. He could be in danger!" Levos quickly put on the battle suit Bulma had prepared for him.
"Wait, I'll go with you," Bulma said, standing up.
"No, Bulma, you need to stay here. I need you to build an animal language translator for and keep working on the battle suit. Once you're done, you can et up with later."
Bulma looked at him, clearly worried. "But Levos, I can't just let you go alone."
"Don't worry, I'll be back soon."
Levos grabbed the computer from the table, then went to the storage room to collect so supplies before rushing out of the Hyperbolic Ti Chamber.
Bulma could only watch him leave and sigh helplessly.
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