I don't own any of the characters, I am just here to entertain. This
chapter is long but enjoyable and I am already half way through the
second one so it will be up soon
The Goldfighter Returns
"Everybody freeze!", the masked man yelled, holding up his gun.
"Alright, this is very simple, we want all the money in the bank in this bag right now, and no one'll get hurt.", he said.
It was probably a good thing that Videl was there, otherwise there might be some fatalities, of course there was still a chance of it, just not of innocent people. That kind of damage couldn't be helped, when you have to whip some ass, you have to whip some ass. But she had to time this right so no one got seriously hurt. She snuck around the counter when he looked away she would round-house over the counter and kick him in the head.
The lady getting the money came back with two satchels, when she saw Videl, she recognized her and nervously put the bags on the counter, after which she curled up into a ball; Videl could hear her crying.
"Alright, I've got someone watching you, if any of you move after we leave, he'll blow this place to shit."
She threw herself over the counter, she heard his neck snap when she made contact. Another one put her in a head lock, quickly after which his nose was in his brain.
The third guy held his gun up and emptied a clip at her. She held her arms over her face, hoping the first bullet would be the only one she felt. When nothing happened, she opened her eyes. The Goldfighter, golden aura and all, was standing in front of her. His right arm, with a clenched fist, was level with his chest.
"Who are you?", she asked with a frown, to the back of his head.
In response, he opened his hand and every bullet that had been fired fell to the ground.
"What the hell are you?!", the thief said, he then fired another clip at him.
His arm still extended before him, he blasted a straight shot of energy at him, and the bullets melted into nothing in midair. The frightened captives were shocked to the point of a coronary.
The man looked as if he had peed in his pants, Gohan wouldn't have been surprised if he had. He disappeared and reappeared behind the thief. Gohan punched in the backed, with a measure of control so as not to kill him, causing him to fly through the wall on the opposite side of the building. Needless to say, he was unconscious if not in a coma.
"Are you going to answer my question?", she said folding her arms underneath her breasts.
Without a word he disappeared. She thought to herself, 'how could someone be so rude to me, the daughter of Hercule Satan', and walked out of the building to school. When he reappeared, Gohan was on top of the building across the street from his school. He had changed from his blue training gi, which he had to wear now so that no one would recognize him from his school uniform. He disappeared only to reappear a few seconds later in an intersecting, the other one Videl just happened to be going down.
"Oh, hi Videl.", he said in a casual but nervous tone.
"Good morning Gohan, you're late again?", she asked. She always seemed to forget that he lived in the four hundred thirty-nine mountain district, which he constantly used as an excuse for his tardiness.
"Yeah, well, ya know, traffic and all.", he said faking a laugh and scratching the back of his head.
"We should probably get to class.", she said eyeing him suspiciously and turning to walk the other way.
"Yeah, I guess so.", he said laughing and following behind her.
They were both given detention for being late. Gohan had become all to used to it in the past few months. There always seemed to be a crisis in this town.
"Hey Videl, you and your boyfriend makin' out before class?", Sharpener mused from the row below Videl.
"Screw you, Sharpener!", she said kicking him in the head from the seat behind him.
His head flew forward and snapped the desktop in half. Everyone laughed, including the teacher, who dragged him to the nurses office with a cracked skull.
"Hey Videl, why do you only hit him that hard when he makes a joke about you and Gohan?", Erasa asked blankly from farther down the row.
Videl blushed like a maraschino cherry. 'Could she really like me', Gohan thought, being the only one to notice her blushing.
Before he realized he was smiling, Videl punched him in the back of the head while telling him to get that stupid grin off his face before she beat it out of him.
!BEEP!BEEP!
"Videl! We have a major hostage situation down at the TV station!", a voice said from her wristwatch.
"I'll be right there.", she said running out the door.
Gohan had come up with a way to get out of class whenever there was a crisis. He had been taught by Piccolo how to fire tiny beams of energy from his eyes. He shot the fire alarm, causing the whole system to go nuts. Then, in all the confusion, he got away, all the while the administrators would think it was the wiring or something.
In an alley a few blocks away, he changed, transformed and flew off towards the TV station. A few moments later, he noticed Videl's yellow jet copter behind him.
"That girl never gives up, but this is too dangerous for her.", he said stopping and facing the approaching vehicle. He held his hand up and shot a low powered beam at her right wing.
"That should give her enough time to land without harm.", he said heading off again; behind him her ship was smoking heavily as it descended towards the ground.
*
"Damn him, how dare he!", Videl said landing in the middle of the street.
She ran towards what she thought was the direction of the TV station, 'I have to get there before he does!'. After a while she collapsed to the ground in tears.
"What am I thinking trying to beat him there."
"Why the hell is he so much better than me?!", she screamed slamming her fists on the ground.
"I will beat him one day!", she said once again running towards the TV station.
*
Gohan landed next to an officer in the street.
"What floor are they on?", he said to the cop who was gaping at him.
"Uh, thirty-first, sir.", he said startled by the golden aura.
"Thank you.", he said flying up and busting into the floor thirty-one flights up off the ground.
He looked around to find no one n the room. He expanded his energy and found them on the other end of the floor. He busted through the walls, only to see a pile of people.
He was shocked by the sight, they were all dead, massacred to the man. No wonder he hadn't been able to sense them downstairs, their fading life force was almost impossible to sense unless you were in the room.
There was a life force somewhere in the pile of dead bodies that was fading at an exponential rate. He managed to pull the person out; it was a small girl.
"D-da-ddy?", she said in a weak voice that only he could hear because of his Saiyan given sense of hearing.
"No, I'm not your daddy, I'm sorry, but you might not see him again for many years.", he said brushing the hair out of her eyes.
"What about Mommy?", she asked.
"Is she here with you?", he said beginning to cry.
She only nodded, and barely that at all, he doubted she could speak.
"She will be with you always.", he said smiling.
She smiled as much she could. Then he closed her lifeless eyes. His power level jumped so high that the building collapsed around him.
*
A few days later, Videl was sitting in class listening to Sharpener babble on about Gohan's abrupt absences
"It's not like perfect test score boy to be sick!", he said laughing.
"Shove it up your ass Sharpener! What would you know about good attendance records?", Videl started angrily.
"Yeah, baldy!", Erasa said from his other side. She had come to calling him that since they'd had to shave his head to put in stitches.
To this, he put his head down in shame. Videl was wondering where he was too, but for different reasons; since he had stopped coming to school, the Goldfighter had stopped interfering with her job. This just furthered her confidence that that they were one in the same person.
"What does it matter where Gohan is anyway? It makes us look a whole lot better.", Erasa said, interrupting her train of thought.
"Whatever.", Sharpener mumbled.
"Ah, I think we hurt his ego.", Erasa said in a babyish voice, patting him in the head.
"You three in the back, stop talking!", the teacher yelled.
"Yes ma'am.", they all said in unison.
*
"Gohan? Son, are you okay in there?", Chi Chi said knocking on the door.
No answer. He had locked himself in his room a week ago and not a sound had come out since. When the news had come on, she had been horrified by the prospect of what her son had seen.
Goten was extremely confused, but Chi Chi didn't know how to explain it to him. She just told him that Gohan was sick and not to bother him.
"I hope he feels better soon.", Goten said at the breakfast table.
"Me too. For his sake.", she said.
*
In his room, Gohan was in kind of a vegetable state. He looked asleep, but he didn't move, and his breathing was so shallow that unless you checked you'd think he was dead. But he was very much aware of his surroundings, of his mother's constant knock on the door.
He kept telling himself over and over that it was his fault, even though he knew better. He had started a habit of doing that since his father had died and it made his life much more depressed.
"What should I do?", he asked faintly to an empty room.
"Well for starters, you could get out of bed and go to school.", said a voice that echoed through the room.
"Huh, Dad is that you?", he said sitting up, instantly regretting it as his back was stiff and sore.
"Who else would it be?", he said laughing.
"What are you doing here Dad, and where are you?", he said groggily.
"I'm not there, I'm still in other world; King Kai is letting me talk to you telepathically.", he said.
"Right, I forgot about that.", Gohan said stretching.
"So, how's it been the last seven years?", he said.
"They were fine until I started to-", he stopped, "what do you mean, if I know you, you've been watching us the whole time, otherwise you wouldn't be talking to me."
"Good point, anyway I'm here, like you said, to help you."
"Thanks Dad, but I'm going back to bed.", Gohan said, getting under the covers.
"Hey! I may be dead but I'm still your father and I know what you're going through."
"Listen," he continued after a short pause, "I know what it feels like to see innocent people die and the feel responsible for it. And let me tell you . . . you're not."
"But, it's my fault Dad, if I'd have gotten there sooner, they would have lived."
"No son, you're wrong; the guys who did that were gone before your girlfriend even got that call." he said.
"Hey! She's not my girlfriend.", he yelled.
"Sorry, but I can tell that you have feelings for her."
"That's not true!"
"Come on, I've been watching you. You've got crush on Hercule's daughter."
"Dad, you're so embarrassing."
"What do you mean embarrassing, there's no one else here."
"So are you gonna marry her?", he said, causing Gohan to fall over while he was getting out of bed.
"Dad!"
"Oh, sorry. I'll talk to you later Gohan."
"Bye Dad."
He went downstairs smelling his mother's cooking and losing patience with the distance between he room and the cooking.
"Gohan, are you okay, son?", Chi Chi said giving him a big hug.
"I'm fine mom, I just had to sort some things out, you know about the TV station."
"That's okay son, in fact I would be disappointed if you didn't, that's what makes you human, and it gives you strength."
"Right! Thanks Mom."
"Can we eat now?", Goten said impatiently from the table.
"Sure. And Gohan don't think you're not going to school tomorrow."
"I wouldn't even dream of it Mom."
He ate for an hour and a half without stopping for air. He and Goten spent the rest of the day training. Gohan wanted to do something to take his mind off of his dad.
"Big Brother, why were you in your room for so long?", Goten said a few hours later.
"Because I needed to think about something.", he replied blankly.
"Wow! You were thinking about one thing for four days and you didn't even stop to eat? It must have been real important.", he said beaming at his older brother.
"It was Goten, it was."
*
"Gohan! You're back.", Erasa practically shouted.
"Yeah, so what's up.", he said taking his seat.
"Where have you been.", Videl shot in an accusing tone.
"Nowhere, just sick.", he said sweating.
The day was pretty much without incident, except that Gohan almost choked on his sixth bowl of rice because Erasa snuck up behind him and started tickling him.
After school, Gohan was walking down the street behind Videl, who was ignoring him for some reason.
"Gohan!", she said, stopping, "are you the Goldfighter?"
"What, what're you talking about? Of course not!", he said, suddenly feeling very warm.
Just as she started to turn towards him, her watch went nuts. She ran to the occurring crime and forgot about Gohan all together.
As quickly as he could, after she was out of sight, he changed into his gi, and transformed in the alley.
"Hah! I knew it. I knew you were lying."
He turned around to see Videl glaring at him with her arms folded under her breasts. He had seen this stance before, his mother did this just before she went on a tirade against his dad.
"Uh, hi, Videl.", he said in a panic.
"Don't hi me, you jerk, how could you lie like that?!", she yelled.
"You don't understand, I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to treat me differently, and I know you would have."
"I don't want to hear it, Gohan. What did I ever see in you.", she said walking away.
"No, Videl wait!", he said jumping in front of her.
Before he could get another word out, she slapped him, surprisingly harder than he thought she was capable of.
"Please, you have to understand.", he started to say, but she punched him in the gut and he couldn't breathe.
As he fell over, his hair returned to normal as he lost consciousness. When he was awoken by someone shaking him, he could only remember the tears he had seen in her eyes.
"Hey, bro, wake up.", he heard a hoarse voice say.
As he opened his eyes the image of his old friend, Krillin, became clearer and clearer.
"What are you doing here Krillin?", he said.
"Well, seeing as how I only live a few miles outside of town, when your power signature flat lined, I came here to see what was up."
"How long have I been out?"
"I'd say an hour and a half maybe; without a power signature to sense I had to look the old-fashioned way."
"If you don't mind my asking, what happened?", he said very curious to figure out what it was that could make one of the strongest people in the universe black out, that didn't have it's own power signature.
"Videl, she got mad at me for lying to her."
"What about?"
"About being the Goldfighter."
"Hah, that crazy nut they're talking about on TV is you? I should've known it was a Super Saiyan."
"So your girlfriend, who just so happens to be Hercule's daughter, which by the way is a miracle in itself, beat the crap out of you for lying to her?"
"She's not my girlfriend! Why does everyone keep saying that?"
"Because you like her, and from the sounds of it, she likes you too."
"How do you figure that?", he said assuaging his face where she slapped him.
"Well if she was as mad as you say she was, and hit you as hard as she did, it must have really hurt her feelings to know that you lied to her. Come to think of it, why did you lie to her in the first place?"
"Come on Krillin, you know as well as I do, that if the world knew about my abilities, they would never leave me alone."
"Good point."
"So that slap knocked you out?", he said holding back his laughter.
"No, after she slapped me she started to walk away, and when I tried to stop her she punched me in the gut, which normally wouldn't hurt, but my guard was down because I was so nervous she would tell the world my secret."
"Well, whatever the case, it seems to me that you were nervous, just not about that."
"What do you mean?", Gohan asked in bewilderment.
"You were nervous because you thought that the girl you're in love with never wanted to speak to you again."
Gohan fell over.
"In love with her! I'm not in love with her!"
"Gohan, look me in the eyes and tell me you don't think about her every spare moment you have."
"That's what I thought.", he said when Gohan couldn't take his eyes off the ground, "Gohan if she really likes you she'll forgive you, and from the sounds of it, she does, so you got nothing to worry about." "Thanks for the advice, Krillin."
"No problem bro, I gotta go, dinner's almost ready and the wife hates it when I'm late.", he said and then he took to the air.
"Good luck!", he yelled a few seconds later.
Gohan waved goodbye before heading to Videl's house.
*
A few minutes later, Gohan landed in front of Hercule's mansion. He rang the doorbell and silently waited as he thought about what to say to her. Hercule screamed like a little girl when he opened the door a few seconds later.
"Dad, what is it?", Videl said, not having seen Gohan standing in the doorway.
"It's him, it's one of those blonde freaks from the Cell games, come back to punish me for taking credit for defeating him.", he said cowering behind the door.
"If I may, I'm the blonde freak who's credit you stole, not that I mind so much.", Gohan said politely.
"How many secrets are you keeping from me!", she screamed getting ready to slap him again.
He was ready for her this time and caught her wrist.
"Videl, would you listen to me for a second?!"
"Guess not.", he said when she swung her other fist at him. And with that he picked her up and flew away.
"What're you doing, put me down, you oaf!", she screamed.
"No! we're gonna settle this in a place where you can't run away", he said holding her still, fearing that she might squirm out of his grip.
*
"Hello, Police, this is the Great Hercule . . . well thanks, but anyway a freaky, blonde haired alien just kidnapped my daughter.", he said from a phone deep in his basement shelter.
I hope you enjoyed and are not mad at me, my friends have said that I made Videl to b***hy. She gets gushier in the next installment so get over it.
The Goldfighter Returns
"Everybody freeze!", the masked man yelled, holding up his gun.
"Alright, this is very simple, we want all the money in the bank in this bag right now, and no one'll get hurt.", he said.
It was probably a good thing that Videl was there, otherwise there might be some fatalities, of course there was still a chance of it, just not of innocent people. That kind of damage couldn't be helped, when you have to whip some ass, you have to whip some ass. But she had to time this right so no one got seriously hurt. She snuck around the counter when he looked away she would round-house over the counter and kick him in the head.
The lady getting the money came back with two satchels, when she saw Videl, she recognized her and nervously put the bags on the counter, after which she curled up into a ball; Videl could hear her crying.
"Alright, I've got someone watching you, if any of you move after we leave, he'll blow this place to shit."
She threw herself over the counter, she heard his neck snap when she made contact. Another one put her in a head lock, quickly after which his nose was in his brain.
The third guy held his gun up and emptied a clip at her. She held her arms over her face, hoping the first bullet would be the only one she felt. When nothing happened, she opened her eyes. The Goldfighter, golden aura and all, was standing in front of her. His right arm, with a clenched fist, was level with his chest.
"Who are you?", she asked with a frown, to the back of his head.
In response, he opened his hand and every bullet that had been fired fell to the ground.
"What the hell are you?!", the thief said, he then fired another clip at him.
His arm still extended before him, he blasted a straight shot of energy at him, and the bullets melted into nothing in midair. The frightened captives were shocked to the point of a coronary.
The man looked as if he had peed in his pants, Gohan wouldn't have been surprised if he had. He disappeared and reappeared behind the thief. Gohan punched in the backed, with a measure of control so as not to kill him, causing him to fly through the wall on the opposite side of the building. Needless to say, he was unconscious if not in a coma.
"Are you going to answer my question?", she said folding her arms underneath her breasts.
Without a word he disappeared. She thought to herself, 'how could someone be so rude to me, the daughter of Hercule Satan', and walked out of the building to school. When he reappeared, Gohan was on top of the building across the street from his school. He had changed from his blue training gi, which he had to wear now so that no one would recognize him from his school uniform. He disappeared only to reappear a few seconds later in an intersecting, the other one Videl just happened to be going down.
"Oh, hi Videl.", he said in a casual but nervous tone.
"Good morning Gohan, you're late again?", she asked. She always seemed to forget that he lived in the four hundred thirty-nine mountain district, which he constantly used as an excuse for his tardiness.
"Yeah, well, ya know, traffic and all.", he said faking a laugh and scratching the back of his head.
"We should probably get to class.", she said eyeing him suspiciously and turning to walk the other way.
"Yeah, I guess so.", he said laughing and following behind her.
They were both given detention for being late. Gohan had become all to used to it in the past few months. There always seemed to be a crisis in this town.
"Hey Videl, you and your boyfriend makin' out before class?", Sharpener mused from the row below Videl.
"Screw you, Sharpener!", she said kicking him in the head from the seat behind him.
His head flew forward and snapped the desktop in half. Everyone laughed, including the teacher, who dragged him to the nurses office with a cracked skull.
"Hey Videl, why do you only hit him that hard when he makes a joke about you and Gohan?", Erasa asked blankly from farther down the row.
Videl blushed like a maraschino cherry. 'Could she really like me', Gohan thought, being the only one to notice her blushing.
Before he realized he was smiling, Videl punched him in the back of the head while telling him to get that stupid grin off his face before she beat it out of him.
!BEEP!BEEP!
"Videl! We have a major hostage situation down at the TV station!", a voice said from her wristwatch.
"I'll be right there.", she said running out the door.
Gohan had come up with a way to get out of class whenever there was a crisis. He had been taught by Piccolo how to fire tiny beams of energy from his eyes. He shot the fire alarm, causing the whole system to go nuts. Then, in all the confusion, he got away, all the while the administrators would think it was the wiring or something.
In an alley a few blocks away, he changed, transformed and flew off towards the TV station. A few moments later, he noticed Videl's yellow jet copter behind him.
"That girl never gives up, but this is too dangerous for her.", he said stopping and facing the approaching vehicle. He held his hand up and shot a low powered beam at her right wing.
"That should give her enough time to land without harm.", he said heading off again; behind him her ship was smoking heavily as it descended towards the ground.
*
"Damn him, how dare he!", Videl said landing in the middle of the street.
She ran towards what she thought was the direction of the TV station, 'I have to get there before he does!'. After a while she collapsed to the ground in tears.
"What am I thinking trying to beat him there."
"Why the hell is he so much better than me?!", she screamed slamming her fists on the ground.
"I will beat him one day!", she said once again running towards the TV station.
*
Gohan landed next to an officer in the street.
"What floor are they on?", he said to the cop who was gaping at him.
"Uh, thirty-first, sir.", he said startled by the golden aura.
"Thank you.", he said flying up and busting into the floor thirty-one flights up off the ground.
He looked around to find no one n the room. He expanded his energy and found them on the other end of the floor. He busted through the walls, only to see a pile of people.
He was shocked by the sight, they were all dead, massacred to the man. No wonder he hadn't been able to sense them downstairs, their fading life force was almost impossible to sense unless you were in the room.
There was a life force somewhere in the pile of dead bodies that was fading at an exponential rate. He managed to pull the person out; it was a small girl.
"D-da-ddy?", she said in a weak voice that only he could hear because of his Saiyan given sense of hearing.
"No, I'm not your daddy, I'm sorry, but you might not see him again for many years.", he said brushing the hair out of her eyes.
"What about Mommy?", she asked.
"Is she here with you?", he said beginning to cry.
She only nodded, and barely that at all, he doubted she could speak.
"She will be with you always.", he said smiling.
She smiled as much she could. Then he closed her lifeless eyes. His power level jumped so high that the building collapsed around him.
*
A few days later, Videl was sitting in class listening to Sharpener babble on about Gohan's abrupt absences
"It's not like perfect test score boy to be sick!", he said laughing.
"Shove it up your ass Sharpener! What would you know about good attendance records?", Videl started angrily.
"Yeah, baldy!", Erasa said from his other side. She had come to calling him that since they'd had to shave his head to put in stitches.
To this, he put his head down in shame. Videl was wondering where he was too, but for different reasons; since he had stopped coming to school, the Goldfighter had stopped interfering with her job. This just furthered her confidence that that they were one in the same person.
"What does it matter where Gohan is anyway? It makes us look a whole lot better.", Erasa said, interrupting her train of thought.
"Whatever.", Sharpener mumbled.
"Ah, I think we hurt his ego.", Erasa said in a babyish voice, patting him in the head.
"You three in the back, stop talking!", the teacher yelled.
"Yes ma'am.", they all said in unison.
*
"Gohan? Son, are you okay in there?", Chi Chi said knocking on the door.
No answer. He had locked himself in his room a week ago and not a sound had come out since. When the news had come on, she had been horrified by the prospect of what her son had seen.
Goten was extremely confused, but Chi Chi didn't know how to explain it to him. She just told him that Gohan was sick and not to bother him.
"I hope he feels better soon.", Goten said at the breakfast table.
"Me too. For his sake.", she said.
*
In his room, Gohan was in kind of a vegetable state. He looked asleep, but he didn't move, and his breathing was so shallow that unless you checked you'd think he was dead. But he was very much aware of his surroundings, of his mother's constant knock on the door.
He kept telling himself over and over that it was his fault, even though he knew better. He had started a habit of doing that since his father had died and it made his life much more depressed.
"What should I do?", he asked faintly to an empty room.
"Well for starters, you could get out of bed and go to school.", said a voice that echoed through the room.
"Huh, Dad is that you?", he said sitting up, instantly regretting it as his back was stiff and sore.
"Who else would it be?", he said laughing.
"What are you doing here Dad, and where are you?", he said groggily.
"I'm not there, I'm still in other world; King Kai is letting me talk to you telepathically.", he said.
"Right, I forgot about that.", Gohan said stretching.
"So, how's it been the last seven years?", he said.
"They were fine until I started to-", he stopped, "what do you mean, if I know you, you've been watching us the whole time, otherwise you wouldn't be talking to me."
"Good point, anyway I'm here, like you said, to help you."
"Thanks Dad, but I'm going back to bed.", Gohan said, getting under the covers.
"Hey! I may be dead but I'm still your father and I know what you're going through."
"Listen," he continued after a short pause, "I know what it feels like to see innocent people die and the feel responsible for it. And let me tell you . . . you're not."
"But, it's my fault Dad, if I'd have gotten there sooner, they would have lived."
"No son, you're wrong; the guys who did that were gone before your girlfriend even got that call." he said.
"Hey! She's not my girlfriend.", he yelled.
"Sorry, but I can tell that you have feelings for her."
"That's not true!"
"Come on, I've been watching you. You've got crush on Hercule's daughter."
"Dad, you're so embarrassing."
"What do you mean embarrassing, there's no one else here."
"So are you gonna marry her?", he said, causing Gohan to fall over while he was getting out of bed.
"Dad!"
"Oh, sorry. I'll talk to you later Gohan."
"Bye Dad."
He went downstairs smelling his mother's cooking and losing patience with the distance between he room and the cooking.
"Gohan, are you okay, son?", Chi Chi said giving him a big hug.
"I'm fine mom, I just had to sort some things out, you know about the TV station."
"That's okay son, in fact I would be disappointed if you didn't, that's what makes you human, and it gives you strength."
"Right! Thanks Mom."
"Can we eat now?", Goten said impatiently from the table.
"Sure. And Gohan don't think you're not going to school tomorrow."
"I wouldn't even dream of it Mom."
He ate for an hour and a half without stopping for air. He and Goten spent the rest of the day training. Gohan wanted to do something to take his mind off of his dad.
"Big Brother, why were you in your room for so long?", Goten said a few hours later.
"Because I needed to think about something.", he replied blankly.
"Wow! You were thinking about one thing for four days and you didn't even stop to eat? It must have been real important.", he said beaming at his older brother.
"It was Goten, it was."
*
"Gohan! You're back.", Erasa practically shouted.
"Yeah, so what's up.", he said taking his seat.
"Where have you been.", Videl shot in an accusing tone.
"Nowhere, just sick.", he said sweating.
The day was pretty much without incident, except that Gohan almost choked on his sixth bowl of rice because Erasa snuck up behind him and started tickling him.
After school, Gohan was walking down the street behind Videl, who was ignoring him for some reason.
"Gohan!", she said, stopping, "are you the Goldfighter?"
"What, what're you talking about? Of course not!", he said, suddenly feeling very warm.
Just as she started to turn towards him, her watch went nuts. She ran to the occurring crime and forgot about Gohan all together.
As quickly as he could, after she was out of sight, he changed into his gi, and transformed in the alley.
"Hah! I knew it. I knew you were lying."
He turned around to see Videl glaring at him with her arms folded under her breasts. He had seen this stance before, his mother did this just before she went on a tirade against his dad.
"Uh, hi, Videl.", he said in a panic.
"Don't hi me, you jerk, how could you lie like that?!", she yelled.
"You don't understand, I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to treat me differently, and I know you would have."
"I don't want to hear it, Gohan. What did I ever see in you.", she said walking away.
"No, Videl wait!", he said jumping in front of her.
Before he could get another word out, she slapped him, surprisingly harder than he thought she was capable of.
"Please, you have to understand.", he started to say, but she punched him in the gut and he couldn't breathe.
As he fell over, his hair returned to normal as he lost consciousness. When he was awoken by someone shaking him, he could only remember the tears he had seen in her eyes.
"Hey, bro, wake up.", he heard a hoarse voice say.
As he opened his eyes the image of his old friend, Krillin, became clearer and clearer.
"What are you doing here Krillin?", he said.
"Well, seeing as how I only live a few miles outside of town, when your power signature flat lined, I came here to see what was up."
"How long have I been out?"
"I'd say an hour and a half maybe; without a power signature to sense I had to look the old-fashioned way."
"If you don't mind my asking, what happened?", he said very curious to figure out what it was that could make one of the strongest people in the universe black out, that didn't have it's own power signature.
"Videl, she got mad at me for lying to her."
"What about?"
"About being the Goldfighter."
"Hah, that crazy nut they're talking about on TV is you? I should've known it was a Super Saiyan."
"So your girlfriend, who just so happens to be Hercule's daughter, which by the way is a miracle in itself, beat the crap out of you for lying to her?"
"She's not my girlfriend! Why does everyone keep saying that?"
"Because you like her, and from the sounds of it, she likes you too."
"How do you figure that?", he said assuaging his face where she slapped him.
"Well if she was as mad as you say she was, and hit you as hard as she did, it must have really hurt her feelings to know that you lied to her. Come to think of it, why did you lie to her in the first place?"
"Come on Krillin, you know as well as I do, that if the world knew about my abilities, they would never leave me alone."
"Good point."
"So that slap knocked you out?", he said holding back his laughter.
"No, after she slapped me she started to walk away, and when I tried to stop her she punched me in the gut, which normally wouldn't hurt, but my guard was down because I was so nervous she would tell the world my secret."
"Well, whatever the case, it seems to me that you were nervous, just not about that."
"What do you mean?", Gohan asked in bewilderment.
"You were nervous because you thought that the girl you're in love with never wanted to speak to you again."
Gohan fell over.
"In love with her! I'm not in love with her!"
"Gohan, look me in the eyes and tell me you don't think about her every spare moment you have."
"That's what I thought.", he said when Gohan couldn't take his eyes off the ground, "Gohan if she really likes you she'll forgive you, and from the sounds of it, she does, so you got nothing to worry about." "Thanks for the advice, Krillin."
"No problem bro, I gotta go, dinner's almost ready and the wife hates it when I'm late.", he said and then he took to the air.
"Good luck!", he yelled a few seconds later.
Gohan waved goodbye before heading to Videl's house.
*
A few minutes later, Gohan landed in front of Hercule's mansion. He rang the doorbell and silently waited as he thought about what to say to her. Hercule screamed like a little girl when he opened the door a few seconds later.
"Dad, what is it?", Videl said, not having seen Gohan standing in the doorway.
"It's him, it's one of those blonde freaks from the Cell games, come back to punish me for taking credit for defeating him.", he said cowering behind the door.
"If I may, I'm the blonde freak who's credit you stole, not that I mind so much.", Gohan said politely.
"How many secrets are you keeping from me!", she screamed getting ready to slap him again.
He was ready for her this time and caught her wrist.
"Videl, would you listen to me for a second?!"
"Guess not.", he said when she swung her other fist at him. And with that he picked her up and flew away.
"What're you doing, put me down, you oaf!", she screamed.
"No! we're gonna settle this in a place where you can't run away", he said holding her still, fearing that she might squirm out of his grip.
*
"Hello, Police, this is the Great Hercule . . . well thanks, but anyway a freaky, blonde haired alien just kidnapped my daughter.", he said from a phone deep in his basement shelter.
I hope you enjoyed and are not mad at me, my friends have said that I made Videl to b***hy. She gets gushier in the next installment so get over it.