Torture with Dende

Synopsis: Dende grows tired of always torturing Gohan so he decides to mix things up a little bit and torture someone else for a change. Videl Satan. A Gohan and Videl Fic.

Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ or any of its characters.

Chapter 1- The Wheel of Torture

Dende looked down below the Lookout where all the people of earth rested in peace. He sighed impatiently.

Mr. Popo looked at the teenage guardian of earth in slight confusion. "Something wrong Dende?" He asked.

"It's too quiet," Dende remarked with another long sigh.

Mr. Popo scrunched up his brow, if at all possible. "I'm not sure I understand..."

Dende pointed down toward the earth, "The earth, it's too quiet. No action, no suspense, it's boring!" He yelled.

Mr. Popo glanced at the monitoring system which lay near by. "Actually," He started, "There's a flood in India that I really think you should take a look at."

Dende threw his hand up, "They can take care of it themselves." He peered back down to the earth while Mr. Popo stood behind him with a look of pure utter shock on his face. He had known all along letting a teenager handle this job would be a mistake, but no! The Z Fighters had convinced everyone including him that it would be fine, surely Dende could handle the job, and now look! Here he was more worried about the 'boring' earth than a natural disaster!

Suddenly, Dende looked back at Mr. Popo with wide eyes. "I know what I can do! Torture Gohan!" He began laughing somewhat evilly.

Mr. Popo sweat-dropped, "But Dende, you do that everyday."

Dende stopped laughing, "You're right Mr. Popo."

"I am?" Mr. Popo asked curiously, surprised that Dende had actually agreed on something with him.

Dende nodded in response and pointed toward the opposite direction that the two were standing in. "Mr. Popo, bring out the wheel."

Mr. Popo's eyes went wide as he heard Dende's response. He shook his head firmly and waved his hands up and down. "No, Dende, Mr. Popo firmly suggests that you-"

"Hey!" Dende yelled, pointing a finger at Mr. Popo. "Who's the earth guardian here?!"

"Y- You," Mr. Popo stuttered.

Dende crossed his arms, "And who calls the shots?"

"You," Mr. Popo lowered his head.

Dende nodded and pointed toward the huge closet door that had somehow magically appeared on the Lookout. "Now bring me the wheel."

Mr. Popo sighed and slowly walked to the huge closet to retrieve the wheel. He opened the door and a huge colorful wheel with millions of names written on it was visible. Mr. Popo struggled trying to get the overly-huge wheel to stay inside the closet. Finally when it was secure, he sighed and walked back over to Dende who was rubbing his hands together while at the same time giving a crackled laugh. He walked over to the wheel, still rubbing his hands together.

"Okay Mr. Popo," the earth guardian started, "I've decided that since I do seem to torture Gohan everyday, that I'll torture someone else today." He nodded toward the wheel. "And so I'll spin the wheel to help me decided exactly who I will torture. Mr. Popo, tell the audience at home about the wheel."

Mr. Popo sweat-dropped once again, "But Dende, we don't have a-"

Dende turned around slowly toward Mr. Popo. "Do we have to have that 'little discussion' again?"

Mr. Popo shook his head.

"Good, now tell the nice people about the wheel."

Mr. Popo sighed in spite of Dende but started anyway. He pulled out a microphone. "The wheel of torture, an oval shaped uh...wheel, containing the names of everyone living on planet earth. The wheel was designed by yours truly, Mr. Popo-"

"And..." Dende interrupted.

Mr. Popo started to protest, knowing he had been the only one to make the wheel while Dende sat comfortably instructing him on how to do it. He could remember the day all too well...

Flashback

Mr. Popo wiped the sweat from his brow and showed the now completed wheel to Dende. "Here it is Dende, one spinning wheel with the names of everyone on planet earth. Mr. Popo's not sure why you wanted it, but it's finally complete."

Dende stepped forward with his mouth wide open. He shoved Mr. Popo out of the way to take a closer look at the wheel. "Wow!" He gawked. "It's bigger than I imagined!"

Mr. Popo regained his balance and nodded. "Yes Dende, it does have the names of everyone on planet earth."

Dende continued to look at the wheel with awe then stopped as he neared the bottom. His look of awe faded and was replaced by a look of frustration. "Mr. Popo..."

"Yes?"

"Where is Vegeta?" Dende asked slowly, the sound of darkness in his voice.

Mr. Popo glanced back at the wheel. It was labeled: Valeria, Valerie, then skipped to Veronica. Vegeta was no where to be seen on the wheel. Mr. Popo gulped. "Well sir, I was getting very tired, and I suppose that I forgot to put him on the wheel."

"You forgot?"

Mr. Popo nodded, unsure of the tone in Dende's voice.

"HOW COULD YOU FORGET?!" Dende yelled suddenly, surprising and all the same time shocking Mr. Popo.

"I, I..." Mr. Popo stammered.

Dende walked over to the wheel in a fit of anger and began trashing the wheel to bits. In only a matter of moments, the once huge wheel was reduced to torn pieces of shreds. Mr. Popo looked at the thrashed wheel in horror. All his hard work, destroyed in a matter of moments, and all because he forgot to put one lousy name on the wheel!

Dende kicked a few pieces of the shredded wheel toward Mr. Popo. "Now start over, from the beginning." He walked toward his comfortable chair then stopped and turned back to Mr. Popo, "And this time, don't forget anyone!" He yelled.

Mr. Popo sighed and slowly began constructing the wheel all over again from scratch. Man did he hate Dende's constant mood swings...

End Flashback

Nevertheless though, Mr. Popo continued on, making sure to include Dende's name in the credits. "And Dende..."

Dende smiled proudly.

"And now here to spin the wheel, yours truly, earth guardian-"

"And highly superior," Dende interrupted once again.

Mr. Popo sighed, "And highly superior, Dende."

Dende bowed and took a step toward the wheel. He rubbed his hands together once more and with a forceful pull, he gave the wheel a spin.

The two watched in silence as it went around and around again and again. Dende began to grow bored staring at the wheel and sighed. "Come on!"

Finally, as if hearing Dende, the wheel began to slow down to a stop. They watched as it went past the T's, then on to the U's then came to a stop at the V's. Mr. Popo watched with curiosity as to which name it would stop at. Finally, the wheel came to a complete stop and Dende stepped forward to see who his next unlucky victim was.

"And it's...Vegeta?!"

Mr. Popo stared at the wheel then back to Dende. Suddenly, a wicked grin appeared on the genie's face. Dende would have to torture Vegeta and that would definitely end in a certain earth guardian having various limbs gone from his body. Oh yes, revenge was sweet...

Dende continued to stare at the wheel with a pale face. He knew torturing Vegeta would certainly end up in pain for him. Maybe more than that... He gulped at the mere thought and turned toward Mr. Popo. "Um...I think I'm going to spin again."

Mr. Popo's grin faded, "But why sir?"

"Me torturing Vegeta?!" The guardian started, "That would be suicide! I think it would be safer if I tortured someone else this month."

Mr. Popo cursed angrily to himself. His dreams of seeing Dende being reduced to pulp were now ruined!

"In fact..." Dende started up again, "Just go ahead and remove Vegeta's name from the wheel. If I do this another time, I don't want to land on his name again."

Mr. Popo's face dropped and his mouth was agape. He remembered a year ago when Dende had made him start the entire wheel over because he had forgot to add Vegeta's name. It had taken him another whole year to complete another wheel and now here Dende was telling him to remove Vegeta's name?! Mr. Popo felt the urge to pound Dende into pulp himself but of course, decided against it. Dende was the guardian of the earth, and no matter how much torture he made him go through, he had to grant his wishes...

Slowly, Mr. Popo removed Vegeta's name from the wheel and tossed his aside. Dende stepped forward and put a hand to his chin.

"Hmmm...I don't want to spin the wheel all over again, that takes too long," Dende remarked. He stared back at the wheel. "Well...I guess I could just skip down to the next name then." His evil grin returned to his face as he looked down at the wheel to see what the next name was. Suddenly, his grin deepened and he began laughing. "Oh yes, this is good!"

Mr. Popo stepped forward. "What is good?"

Dende stepped aside and pointed to the next name on the wheel. The name read, 'Videl Satan'.

Author Notes:

There's chapter one. Yeah, I have too many stories but I love to write and I've never written a Gohan/Videl Fic so here's my attempt to. Anyhoo, go ahead and review, tell me what you think, good or bad. Thanks!

- DBZAngelX, over and out