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Here the next installment of my Triple Threat trilogy finally is. I waited a little bit to post it, but I couldn't wait anymore. The first chapter is just the beginning, so it doesn't get into the plot yet, but that will come soon enough. There will eventually be a small amount of Trunks/Pan, but it will still center around Gohan/Videl. The Trunks/Pan is more of a background addition just because I like the couple. Also, if you notice an missing characters, or wonder where they are, please let me know through a review.


Triple Threat 3: "Escape From the Other World"
Chapter 1: "The Other World"

"That's twelve for me, Gohan." Kayla said as she blasted another HFIL escapee. She brought her right hand back to her side and flew beside her partner.

"We're tied." Gohan smiled. "Whoever gets the next one wins, OK?"

"Deal." She smiled back, and they both landed on the soft grassy ground of the Other World.

"Excuse me, Other World Police Gohan. Are you him?" A quiet voice spoke up and the man looked toward his own feet in embarrassment.

Gohan turned to face the messenger with an raised eyebrow. "You have a visitor waiting for you near the Other World Entrance."

Gohan looked beside him at Kayla and she shrugged. "I wonder who it is. Come on, Let's go."

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"Here he is, sir." The messenger gestured to his right.

"Gohan, is that really you?" A boy about the same age as him ran up to him. He smiled wide as if he had known Gohan all his life. "You've grown since I last say you. At least, in the living world. I died 17 years ago, when I was 19. Some thugs shot me, even after I did what they told me to."

Gohan smiled nervously. "OK... uh, but who are you?"

"You don't remember me?" The boy frowned thoughtfully. "Well, we were both young when we last saw each other. Surely, you remember my sister and her husband, though, since you saw them soon before you were killed."

"You sister?" Gohan asked, going through his own thoughts trying to remember who the boy was.

"Yes, my sister. She's married to my best friend." The boy paused and closed his eyes, holding back a few tears. "They got married, and some guys told me to leave and not to tell anybody what happened. I left, but they shot me anyway. I sometimes wonder how they turned out. I owe him my life... he was the one who raised me since I was a orphan."

Gohan watched the boy, talking of his past, slowly connecting the words. "An orphan..." A look of realization dawned on his face. "You don't mean... Rom?"

The boy nodded, smiling, and looked at Gohan's face as he became sorrowful again. "The thugs said they'd kill Chiko if I didn't leave. I did... but they killed me anyway. The worst part is that..." His voice started breaking. "The worst part is that I never got to tell Chiko and Pigero how much I loved the fact that they were getting married. He was like my family already, and he was only getting closer. I-I miss them... I really do... When you get back-"

Gohan stepped up to Rom and squeezed his left shoulder. "They miss you, too... Rom. At least, 16 years ago they did..." He smiled gently.

"And I'm sure they still do." Kayla spoke up. Gohan flinched, almost forgetting she was nearby. "Hi. I'm Kayla. I died at the same time Gohan did."

"Nice to meet you." Rom wiped away his small amount of tears and reached out to shake her hand, but the messenger broke in. "Excuse me again, but I have a visitor for Other World Police Kayla, also."

Kayla stepped up confused. Who in the Other World would want to visit me?

When a woman stepped into her view, Kayla froze. She stared, speechless. "No..."

But there was no mistaking the woman's shoulder-length chestnut hair and her almost perfect complexion. It was nothing like when Kayla last saw her, worn out and beat up.

"Hello, Kayla. King Yemma thought you might want to see me before two go down there."

"But... no." Kayla stepped back clumsily, her face pale. "I don't deserve to see you. Not after what I did."

The woman managed to wrap her arms around Kayla into a loose hug. "Kayla, what you did was overcome your father's control."

"Yeah, after almost killing my half sister." Kayla said dryly, her body becoming tense.

"No, not your half sister. You sister. She's the only family you have left on your side."

"So, you actually include my psychotic father in that?" She looked the woman in the face for the first time, holding back tears. Her voice became more forced. "He killed you and wanted to kill me. He's no father of mine."

The woman smiled. "It's alright to disown him. He wasn't human after all."

Kayla paused, and pulled back from her, turning her back. "Neither am I, Mom, neither am I."

"But you are human, Kayla. You had a choice and you chose to break free of your father's control. Always remember that. And when you get there, tell Videl-"

"You keep saying 'when you get down there'. What do you mean by-"

"Just know that I love you, Kayla... Videl, too." She said softly and walked away.

"Goodbye, Gohan." Rom waved and walked away beside the woman.

"Hold on, Rom!" Gohan yelled.

"No, Mom!" Kayla reached out for her mother, realizing that she stepped away. She stared in the direction the two had disappeared, stunned, as tears slipped from her eyes. "It's been 31 years since I've seen her and that was as Gero killed. She comes to see me and all she says is what everyone else has told me."

"Kayla..." Gohan walked up to her and wrapped his left arm around her shoulder.

"Gohan..." Kayla suddenly thrust her head into his left shoulder and cried.

"It's OK, Kayla." I can't imagine what's going through her mind now, considering what's happened. "Kayla."

Kayla looked up, her eyes a little puffy, and tried to smile. "I'm sorry, I just... It's been so long..."

He nodded. "It's OK, Kayla. Come on, let's go. They both mentioned something about us going back. I want to know more aobut that." He waited for her response, hoping to get her mind off of things if they talked about something else.

"Y-Yeah." She wiped her tears away and forced a smile. "Let's go."

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They approached King Yemma's desk nervously but cautiously. He stamped a paper, waved the spirt on with the others and without even looking up, said. "Next."

"King Yemma..." Gohan started.

King Yemma sighed in slight annoyance. "What? I said next- Gohan?" He stopped and looked up, surprised. "Kayla? What are you doing here?"

"I think you know." Gohan replied.

He sighed and continued. "About your visitors? Yes, did you like them? I let them have their bodies back for a limited amount of time and see you two."

"'Did I like them'?" Kayla suddenly yelled, angrily. "'Did I like them'?" What were you thinking, sending her to me??" She flew up on the desk in a rage. The spirits in line and assisstants to the right and left of the desk scattered from the energy she emmitted and stared.

"Kayla!" Gohan instinctively reached up at her. "Kayla, come down! You don't need to anger him!" Gohan shouted at her.

Kayla ignored him and stomped to King Yemma. "Do you know what was going through my mind? Do you know? Do you know I almost had an emtional breakdown? Do you-"

"Silence!" He yelled and slammed his fists on the desk, stopping her midsentence. She stumbled back and fell off the desk. Gohan caught her before she hit the ground.

They both looked up to see King Yemma's glaring face.

"King Yemma..."

"Oh, yes, Gohan." His expression immediately changed into a smile as he looked at the half-saiyan. "You were saying?"

Kayla bit her lower lip, trying to hide her anger at the giant red ogre.

"King Yemma." Gohan started. We... I... would like to know what our visitors meant by 'when you go back'. How can Kayla talk to Videl when-"

"When you're up here and they're down there?" He smiled knowingly. "That, my boy, is the good news. You see, after I let your father stay in the living world, I saw how important he was to everyone. I also see what they have thought of you two since then. Therefore, I'm allowing you to go to the living world..."

Gohan opened his mouth to say something, but Baba floated into the room.

"...permanently."

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"Good luck." Baba said as she went back to the Other World.

Gohan and Kayla surveyed the land they stood on in silence. They took it in with awe.

"It's been 16 years..." Kayla whispered.

Gohan nodded. "Yes. Well, world, here we come."


Next chapter is one of my favorites! It tells you what has happened to the rest of the gang since the end of TT2, Review and let me know what you think!