"So let me get this straight…"
Kai squinted at Bulma, one eyebrow raised.
"You want me to drive… a car?"
Bulma leaned against the wall of the gravity chamber, arms crossed, expression flat. "Yes. A car. You know — four wheels, goes vroom, doesn't destroy the planet?"
He blinked slowly. "…I can fly."
"Yes, but if you fly through the Capsule Corp tech expo hauling thirty tons of metal and yelling 'WHEEEE,' someone's gonna call the government."
"...That was one time."
"That was last week."
The inside of the car was weird. Not bad. Just… cramped.
The Capsule Corp cruiser was sleek, blue, and way too fancy for what it was about to endure. Kai sat in the driver's seat like it was a rocket he didn't trust not to explode.
Bulma dropped a bag of tools in the back and pointed forward.
"Okay, so—this is the gas, that's the brake, this little stick is reverse, and please don't touch the red button unless you want to test the emergency ejection."
Kai looked at her. "…You put an ejection seat in this thing?"
"I put one in everything."
The car lurched.
Screeched.
Jerked forward.
Then shot down the road like a torpedo.
Bulma was slammed back into the passenger seat. "I SAID EASE INTO IT!"
Kai, eyes wide, gripping the wheel like it owed him money: "THE BRAKE ISN'T WORKING!"
"You're hitting the GAS, YOU MORON!"
They crashed through a fruit stand, clipped a mailbox, swerved past a flying scooter, and finally slammed into a stop halfway embedded in a dirt hill.
Silence.
Kai blinked. "…So. Parallel parking's gonna be tricky."
Bulma peeled herself off the dashboard. "You are legally banned from ever going near a license again."
Later...
Back at Capsule Corp, after bulldozing through civilization and buying a new smoothie, Bulma finally got back to what mattered.
She kicked open the gravity chamber access panel and started pulling wires. "So. I've been thinking. Twenty times gravity just isn't enough for you anymore, is it?"
Kai, drinking water upside-down while doing one-finger pushups: "Nope."
"Well, good news: I'm working on upgrading the chamber."
He paused. "Really?"
"Yeah. I want to push it to 30x — maybe 50x, but that's gonna take parts I don't have lying around."
She pulled up a blueprint on her tablet and spun it toward him. "Some of this stuff only exists in this one Capsule Corp satellite facility — waaay out in the western mountain range. So... guess who's flying me there?"
Kai grinned. "Wait. Flying? Not driving?"
Bulma glared. "If you touch another steering wheel, I swear I'll install gravity in your bed."