Dragon Ball: A Better Bulma

"Do you want Turbo to train in martial arts?" asked Doctor Norimaki with a strange expression on his face, he thought Bulma wanted him to teach her knowledge, not this strange request.

A day had passed since Bulma had fought Arale, and now she was standing next to Doctor Norimaki in his laboratory. Bulma smiled self-deprecatingly as she saw the expression on Doctor Norimaki's face and knew that she had to be much clearer with her words. 

"Yes, because Turbo has quite a lot of potential, but the training will not distract him from his normal learning or growth, I'm a good example of that," Bulma replied, pointing at herself with her thumb. 

"Is it necessary for him to learn how to fight? We have Arale," Norimaki pointed out with some concern in his eyes, and when Bulma felt his emotions, she could better understand the doctor's attitude. 

It was obvious that he was worried. Although Doctor Norimaki was one of the greatest minds on this planet, he was an ordinary man with ordinary thoughts and worries. 

He was not like Pilaf, who was driven by his longing to be Emperor, or Doctor Brief, who wanted to constantly explore and innovate. Nor was he like Doctor Gero, who wanted to reach the limits of what 'life' was and its true essence.

Doctor Norimaki was a simple man who worried about the bills at the end of the month, about his wife's little thoughts on a daily basis, and above all, he was a man who strove to be a good father.

"I think I should explain things to you..." Then Bulma began to tell Doctor Norimaki all the things she knew and had recorded about this universe. 

About the martial artists, more information about the Ki, about Freezer, the Saiyans and general information about the environment of the Northern Galaxy. All this information allowed Doctor Norimaki to put things into perspective, although some of what Bulma told him interested him more than the rest of what he learned. 

"So Goku is a real alien?" Doctor Norimaki's eyes flashed with intense curiosity, causing Bulma to pause for a moment before nodding. 

"But don't test him, he's a person like you and me, respect his personal space," Bulma said, causing Norimaki to nod. 

"Sure, every life is important, except the one we eat, but that's a topic I won't go into now... on the other hand, I kind of understand why you want Turbo to practice martial arts," Norimaki said calmly. 

He wasn't worried about the dangers, why? Because when it came to fighting or something like that, Arale was undoubtedly the strongest. Of course, the Doctor was not aware of the fact that Arale would only act in the worst case, but the prospect of his son growing up strong cleared the doubts from his mind. 

Especially since who knew if those aliens who had healed his son and helped him awaken his psychic powers would come back to get rid of him or kidnap him for study, he wanted his son to be able to fend for himself.

"So, what do you think?" Bulma finally asked, causing Doctor Norimaki to fall silent and put his hand to his chin as he thought.

"Can you promise me that he'll be okay?" asked Norimaki, causing Bulma to nod excitedly.

"Yes! He doesn't have to fight if he doesn't want to, but it wouldn't be good to waste his strength. I will not send an inexperienced infant to the battlefield," Bulma said the words solemnly, because it was something she would stick to. 

Unlike Goku or Chi-Chi, who could be said to be built differently, Bulma did not want to put other youngsters in danger, especially if they had nothing to do with it. 

Bulma still remembers Gohan, at least his younger, more childish version. The little boy was basically dragged into a fate of constant fighting that should not have touched him, he was not like Goku, in fact it was made very clear that the canonical Gohan is someone who hates fighting. 

Gohan was perhaps one of the most latently talented humans in Universe 7, even if we forget that he was a hybrid, the guy was a freak of nature, but maybe to balance things out, he was born with a rather mild personality.

That's why Bulma had in mind that if Goku's future children were like in the canon, she would avoid involving them in fights they don't want to be involved in, unless of course, they want to, when they are mentally mature enough to decide. 

The same would apply to Turbo Norimaki, another human genius. I wanted him to train so that he would not have to fight enemies who would surely be much, much stronger than him in the future, I would never put such a heavy responsibility on a child. 

But as a martial artist, he wanted to see how far young Turbo could go, maybe he wouldn't have to be a 100% fighter like the Gohan that appeared in Dragon Ball Super, a human dedicated to technology and science was fine too. 

Besides, an assistant in this environment would come in handy for Bulma, who knows, maybe Turbo's obvious technopathic abilities would be quite useful in the future, but it will be a long time before that happens. 

Hearing the sincerity in Bulma's words, Norimaki nodded before imagining the future prospects of having a super powerful son, could Turbo use his future power to create amazing machines like him? 

The idea excited him a lot! Especially since he was very interested in the subject of 'Ki', such a strange energy, but it's in everything that has life, and even in what doesn't, it was quite intriguing. 

Doctor Norimaki then went into his scientific mode and started to ask Bulma many things about Ki, the strange projects the young girl had regarding different fruits enhanced with energy, etc. 

Science in Dr. Norimaki's eyes was not as 'rigorous' as one might expect, for him, science was a way to express his ideas in creations that could change his thoughts. 

Perhaps this was the true power of Dr. Norimaki. For example, if he wanted to create a button that would automatically make muffins, even if he had no way to start researching something like that, he would eventually come up with a machine that would do exactly the same thing. 

Bulma didn't bother to learn this way of doing things, she already had her own scientific 'path' so to speak, but she was able to take many clues from Dr. Norimaki's creations to improve her own. 

For example, it was time to upgrade her weapon, and although she did not let Doctor Norimaki touch the weapon, the things he pointed out to her, as well as what Bulma was able to learn through observation, allowed her to improve the object. 

Oddly enough, when she upgraded the weapon, she felt that it was connected to her in a different way than before, it now seemed like an... extension of herself, so to speak.

...

In Dr. Norimaki's lab, Bulma and her group were hanging out, well, Goku was a little angry that Chi-Chi had taken something from him, while Oolong was boredly looking at some of the machines that Norimaki had created.

Bulma looked at the palm of her left hand before she took a deep breath. The skin on her hand seemed to writhe and beads of sweat fell from Bulma's forehead from the effort, but soon her flesh twisted until the silver barrel of her large revolver emerged from her limb. 

"Bulma, why is a gun coming out of your hand?" asked Goku, who had food residue on his cheeks.

The boy had become addicted to the muffins from the machine that could create them with a single button. When he wasn't training, playing, or guiding Turbo Norimaki in his initial meditation training, he was eating muffins. 

"I don't know, but it allowed me to see a bit more of the flesh transformation, it felt....strange," Bulma raised her index finger in front of her, which began to twist a bit, stretching and turning into something like a claw before returning to its original form. 

"I felt that your energy was being used up quickly," said Chi-Chi, who looked curiously at the changes Bulma's limb was undergoing.

"It uses a lot of ki and exhausts the mind, the only thing relatively easier is to store my weapon in my body, but even then it's slow to emerge," Bulma said resignedly, but her blue eyes shone brightly. 

"Wait Bulma, will you be able to transform your flesh into whatever you want?" Oolong asked intrigued, some strange ideas popped into his head, but he didn't let them in now. 

"No, I can't do whatever I want with my body, it's more of a transformation towards something more inherent to my abilities, but I can achieve a partial transformation of some areas, at least that's my understanding.

Too bad that doesn't mean that I can completely imitate something or someone like you, although studying your transformation technique has helped me a bit," Bulma said in response, though at that moment, perhaps fortunately or unfortunately, she did not feel Oolong's emotions. 

"Bulma... do you understand the potential of this?" Oolong said seriously, causing Bulma to tilt her head slightly, not knowing what the boy was referring to. 

"I only know that in time, I will be able to transform into something else, something like Goku, but it will be difficult to reach that form, if anything, during the process of reaching that point, I will be able to create a large biological cannon in my arm in the future," Bulma said after thinking for a moment, but Oolong's eyes shone with wisdom, at least what he wanted, which was wisdom. 

"Bulma, do you plan to have a mate in the future?" Oolong's question was a bit abrupt and had little to do with the topic, but it caught the attention of the young people present, even Arale, who had just arrived at the lab, looked at Bulma eagerly to know the gossip.

"Are you my mother? But... I guess that's a good question. I've never thought about it, you know, but if I had to choose who to date, I hope it would be a pretty girl," Bulma's words might be scandalous elsewhere, but among friends, many already had that suspicion, especially Goku. 

"That's why you were reading Grandpa's magazines!" pointed out Goku, who had an innocent smile on his face, but his eyes narrowed like a fox, indicating cunning.

"Brat!" Bulma pointed her gun at Goku, her face completely red and her whole body radiating embarrassment.

"Waaa! Bulma likes pretty girls, I know some, want me to introduce you?" asked Arale, who somehow came out behind Bulma, but the teenager shook her head before integrating her weapon into her body. 

"No thanks, my mother already bothers me too much by introducing me to boys and girls at home, I don't want you to do it too," Bulma replied awkwardly. 

Bikini had been a headache for the teenager, who since turning 16 had attracted all the firepower of her mother, who was interested in her youngest daughter's love life.

Tights didn't worry Bikini too much, the older daughter had already had boyfriends, some of them aliens, and even if their relationships failed, at least it was something. 

Bulma was the odd one, not showing too much fascination for boys or girls, Bikini thought her daughter might be asexual until they had the blissful talk. 

Since that day, Bikini even started actively looking for possible 'companions' for her daughter, which was one of the reasons why Bulma decided to go on an adventure, hoping that her mother would calm down a bit. 

In between the young people's dialogues, no one noticed that Oolong started to write something in a notebook, while his emotions could not be contained and a sinister smile appeared on his face. 

'Madam Bikini will pay dearly for this information. Maybe she won't have to adopt grandchildren if Bulma can partially change her body, with her wisdom, she will come to the most obvious conclusion... because if you could, who wouldn't give themselves a huge...? Stop, don't think about it, Bulma will realize that you have obscene ideas. 

I just hope Bulma doesn't find out that I'm literally selling information to her mother,' Oolong thought before waiting for the evening, a time when Bulma had a video call with her family, there he could take the opportunity to send his notes. 

'I still have to find out what kind of woman Bulma likes and everything will be better, I hope she's a woman with culture,' Oolong thought before he put the notebook away quietly and joined the conversation of his friends. 

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AN: A little late, but here is the chapter! We see a bit of Bulma's ability to transform her own body, in the future she will be able to create the Angel Arm using her own arm or leaning on her weapon, and then her Plant form. 

Also... imagine the possibilities of her partial transformation... right, maybe she can change her hair color! 

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