It should convey some sense of how boring life is in The Capitol Of Our Fair State that this was actually something of a community event. People turned out from far and wide to watch, well, water draining out of a big ol' sinkhole. Particularly enterprising people waded out into the deep muck to retrieve fish flopping about on the lake bottom. None of them were carted off by the fiendish Mole Men, though, at least none that we've discovered yet. Presumably, a BBQ pit was set up. It's confirmed that at least one person was selling T-shirts.
The city, of course, is on the case. Clearly, whatever local super-heroes there are (Costume Boy comes to mind) will be put to the task of retrieving out water supply from the devious Mole Men. However, there's no rush, as the city has realized that the lake was a bit clogged with years worth of agricultural runoff and assorted fetid crud, and is taking advantage of the lack-of-water to do large scale crud removal on the lake, so that when the water eventually returns, the lake will be all clean and pristine for all of fourty-five seconds before the agricultural runoff turns it back into a fetid, murky, overgrown mess.
Most likely, this event, too, will garner people watching, fishing, wading and selling T-shirts.
In other news, nobody sold T-shirts at another major Tallahassee event, namely, my acquisition of a futon. It's black, metallic, sturdy and confusing to put together. Apparently the sides and the middle parts are modular, and can thus be interchanged, with the result that each came with its own set of connecting bits and instructions, with the result that I had far too many bits as well as two sets of instructions that were contradictory in several places. Luckily, the thing really WAS modular, so it was possible to put it together after only a moderate level of sanity loss. After all, I've been in Electrical Engineering, and when you've done that, a simple futon is easy. Mmm. Futon.
This episode consists almost entirely of people beating each other up. Not like previous episodes didn't, but this one really goes all out.
Cap'n Ginyu (in Goku's body) finishes powering up, and Jayce measures him at a measly 23,000... and dropping? Without proper understanding of his body, Cap'n Ginyu is unable to utilize even a small fraction of Goku's true power. Krillan and Gohan seize the opportunity to pop open a giant can of whup-ass on the Captain, showing that yes, they do know how to use teamwork, as they tag-team him severely. This goes on for a while.
Jayce finally decides to intervene when Cap'n Ginyu actually is forced to ask for backup, but Vegeta stops him. Jayce and Vegeta go off to pound on each other for a bit.
Meanwhile, Goku, in Ginyu's body, observes.
In another subplot or two, Naihl continues to get whomped on by Freeza, buying time for the Earthers to fight and junk, while Dende the Mini-Namek wings on towards the battle.
More fighting. Gohan and Krillan are stopped, then driven back as Cap'n Ginyu begins to get a feel for his new body and power. But then he stops to deliver a pose and dramatic exclamation "Look out! 'cos! The Captain... is comin' to get yooooooou!" Cap'n Ginyu, stunned by his own bad dialog, is easy prey for Krillan and Gohan, who rally the fight, despite the Captain's protestations that he's not done posing yet. But it's all for naught, as he continues to gain strength and confidence, beating back the two young warriors. Goku has gotten a feel for Ginyu's body as well at this point, and joins in the fun. This continues for a while.
Vegeta, meanwhile, fights Jayce, and they seem even for a moment before Vegeta asks Jayce to check the Scouter reading. Jayce is stunned by the result, and destroys his Scouter in frustration, wondering if Vegeta has somehow become a Super-Saiyan. Which is much the same as what the audience are saying, as this seems to have come out of nowhere. Sure, Vegeta was thinking he can probably achieve Super-Saiyan power levels if even Goku can, but there's supposedly a difference between realizing something is doable and doing it. Did something get cut, or are the continuity checkers just idiots? You, the audience, must decide.
Vegeta remarks that unlike Goku, he gets a kick out of crushing weaker opponents, and annihilates Jayce. Goku protests that this kind of violence isn't called for, but Vegeta ignores him, pouncing on and clobbering Cap'n Ginyu almost trivially.
Meanwhile, King Ki, in the Next Dimension(tm), tries to send a message to Goku to hurry the hell up already, make his wish, and leave, before Freeza notices. Piccolo looks on.
Cap'n Ginyu is literally blasted into the ground, and Vegeta swoops down for the killing blow... whereupon Cap'n Ginyu decides it's time to swap bodies again. Whuh-oh.
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