A/N: It's been my opinion that for a saiyan, Gohan's hair is way too tame so along with other minor alterations to Gohans facade I'm giving him an appearance similar to that of a young Zack Fair, the reason for this choice is because it occurred to me that if Zack was a saiyan and then went super saiyan, his hair would be just like Broly's, which is by far the coolest look in the entire franchise, if you don't know what I'm talking about check out :Zack Fair Crisis Core on Google images and you should see what I mean.
Also Saiyaman will be there but with a different look and a different name.
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It had been seven years since the events of the cell games and things in Gohan's life had changed with startling rapidity. Just four years after the Cell games Gohan had become a scientist of the celebrated Capsule Corporation, a year later after stumbling onto one breakthrough after another Gohan had become one of the highest ranking member's of said corporation outranked only by the heiress Bulma Briefs and her somewhat eccentric father. She would never admit it the but the series of promotions, pay raises and bonuses were largely to assuage a growing feeling of guilt on her part. Though originally fettered by a lack of qualification and field experience, Chi Chi's constant persistence and often underhanded means to ensure her son Gohan seldom got the opportunity to get his nose out of a book coupled with a remarkable talent and creativity had resulted in the creation of a scientist capable of producing several key inventions most notably touch sensitive technology, hologram technology, along with the storage of media in the form of computer data resulting in new realms of convenient and absurdly expensive gadgets which saved the Capsule Corporation from potential bankruptcy.
It was a little known fact that due the damage created in Cells initial rampage Capsule Corporation had suffered numerous set backs along with the demolition of several buildings that had yet to be paid for, sales went into a dramatic slump resulting in massive debts on the part of Capsule Corporation which was hidden only by the company's good name.
The reason for the dramatic slump in sales was the emergence of a new company called Drake Applications which dealt in many similar products to that of the Capsule Corporation. Drake Applications, a company of shady origins had been using well placed sources in Bulma's business to covertly siphon off information regarding plans for future unpatented products which would have potentially saved Bulma's beloved business. Given little legal recourse Bulma was left to contemplate how to rescue the firm that her father had built when he accidentally stumbled upon the method of successful dimensional compression for which the company was named.
Despite her best efforts Bulma had been unable to keep the fact that she had a seventeen year old on her senior staff from the public, the leak no doubt owing to the persistent espionage of the rival company Drake Applications. Strangely Gohan was not at all perturbed by his sudden fame within the scientific community and the social elite of West City. It felt good to be celebrated for something he could lay claim to, when he annihilated Cell in that final battle the world had been clamoring to know who was their savior and whilst Gohan despised Hercule Satan for his offences he couldn't really complain, in a very real sense he had saved Gohan from losing his families precious privacy and when you and you're brother is a half-alien with the power to destroy entire mountains with the flick of the wrist privacy was essential.
Gohan was beginning to grow extremely content with his life, five days of the week he worked at the Capsule Corporation now managing his own team, whilst working there he would often get the opportunity to enter a sparring match with Vegeta, although his mother had tried her best to get Gohan to quit fighting all together no amount of fake tears could deter the young saiyan from doing that which he loved most, every day after he got home he would usually spend several hours higher up in the mountains training rigorously, occasionally training his younger brother Goten.
Although Vegeta maintained his stoic personality the loss of his rival and the witness of his son's death, no matter how temporary, seemed to have changed Vegeta in a most unexpected way. Whilst his behavior to the other Z fighters remained for the most part unchanged his relationship with his family and most specifically with Gohan had changed dramatically. Where once he was rude and abrasive to Gohan now they had reached a strange détente with one another. Whilst they were in no means in the realms of bromance they had found themselves both missing integral parts of their lives, when Goku died everything Vegeta had been working towards seemed to become hollow and meaningless and in one moment of audacity Gohan had lost the leading male influence in his life. But over time they found some degree of comfort in each other, Gohan provided Vegeta with the challenge he needed and Vegeta gave Gohan someone he could relate to.
It was because of this relationship that Gohan's mother seemed to decide that it was time for a dramatic change in her eldest sons life. If the only people her son ever associated with were ex-villains and scientists how could she ever hope to see him get married and start a family of his own, as proud as she was of Gohan's accomplishments the importance of a wife and child far exceeded anything he could accomplish in a lab.
She did not know however that whilst he had not ever had a girlfriend he did still have the occasional short lived encounter with the opposite gender. Confidence gained from years of training accompanied by charm, charisma and Adonis like features had granted Gohan an affinity for the art of seduction and whilst women had a habit of throwing themselves at him, he had acquired very discriminating taste. Beautiful alone did not satisfy Gohan, he wanted more, he found himself attracted to the dangerous and fascinating, the sort of girl you couldn't bring home to mother, he wanted a girl who could rub him all wrong and rub him all right.
After conference with Bulma, Chi Chi had finally decided what to do with her son and called him into the kitchen early on a Saturday morning. Two weeks earlier she had provided him with a series of test's and exam papers but refused to tell him their purpose.
So Gohan found himself sitting down at the disturbingly bare dinner table whilst his mother decided how best to approach the situation, before finally deciding on bluntness.
Bluntness was good, especially on a mother of two demi-saiyan's you had to be short sharp and to the point if you wanted your way
" Gohan, do you remember those test's I had you fill out a few weeks ago"
Gohan watched his mother shrewdly for a moment before answering, "yeah, what was all that about any way, since when do I have to do test's it's not like I'm in school or anything"
Chi Chi smirked " Actually yes you are, as of next week you will be enrolling in the prestigious Orange Star High school, you will be doing homework, you will be making friends, you will meet a lovely respectful girl, bring her home and then get married at the first opportunity"
Gohan if possible went even paler, he knew his mother was serious, while other mother's joked about marriage and similar things his mother meant business and could rarely be argued with when she was full of the fervor the concept of marriage seemed to instill in her, that didn't mean Gohan was about to give up though. " what do you mean high school I'm the one of the greatest minds of the century, the stuff they teach in high school you taught me when I was seven, besides I already have friends" he preferred that his mother remained in the dark about his short lived romances so he decided to skate right past her mention of marriage.
"I don't care about what they teach you, this isn't about your education, I know how clever you are, this is about socializing with people your own age. You've spent half your life fighting and the other half studying and except from those occasional concerts and the elitist parties that Bulma takes you to you've completely missed out on making your own friends, HUMAN friends, who are your own age" Chi Chi countered. She may not be as knowledgeable as her son but like him she was a conversational wizard and whilst she usually only had to shout at her sons to get her way or faked tears when that failed, but when she had to she could reason with people, working them into corners and then dropping her strange logic on them before they had a chance to counter.
This was one of those occasions
"If this is about socializing why can't I do this my way" Gohan knew his mother was passive aggressively boxing him in, any second she would be able to work him like a puppet and for all his brains Gohan couldn't do anything about it.
" Because I want you making proper friends, the kind I approve of and Bulma agrees Orange Star High is the perfect place" Chi Chi could sense then end approaching, they both did, but it was she felt it was good for her sons ego to at least give him the impression that he had some control over his own life.
" This was Bulma's Idea" thinking he saw a way out Gohan tried focusing on a specific point to distract his mother and hopefully get some space to breathe.
"It was my idea she merely helped me, but that doesn't matter" Chi Chi Arched an eyebrow and smiled inwardly she had just perfectly parried her sons attempt to distract her and now it was time final the final lunge. "I don't want to hear any more arguments from you Bulma has agreed to take on some of your work load, so you won't have to worry about your job, so you've got no excuse and if you care about me at all you'll do this for me, it would make me so happy to see you with some school friends and maybe even a nice girl on your arm".
Gohan opened his mouth to argue, then seemed to freeze as he realized he had lost, his mother had boxed him in with that final flourish, there was no way out all he could do at this point was to agree and preserve some tiny portion of his tattered dignity. If he continued to argue in this vein he would be pretty much down to ritual suicide. " Fine I'll go".
"Excellent" Chi Chi cried happily, " now we need to discuss a few things, first you're not to reveal anything about your powers, your strength, no saiyan or super saiyan references and try to avoid talking about your work if you can help it 'kay?
"Yeah" said Gohan, morosely. He wanted to get out of the kitchen and regroup, think about how this might upset his work and training. " Can I go now I need to do some training with Goten, I promised him yesterday."
"Of course have fun" she said getting up and turning to the oven, "I need to get started on dinner anyway".
Gohan turned and went outside and wandered sullenly down to the lake where his brother was swimming.
"Hey Goten!, are we training today or what?" on the other side of the lake he could just make out his little brother get up and swim across the vast lake in about thirty seconds.
"I'm ready let's go, let's go, let's go!" Goten loved his training sessions.
They began racing over to the other side of the mountain. Long ago before even Gohan was born his mother had forbidden any serious training being conducted any where near the humble little house.
Once they arrived to they're preferred training grounds there was little opportunity for chatting, whilst Goten wasn't anywhere near Gohans level, the training was still taken seriously. Gohan and Vegeta had become fairly competitive with each other in recent years but it was with the two children the chief challenge lay. They were trying to make their own protégé the better than the other.
Both Gohan and Vegeta had started training the two children early in their lives, but the peaceful times had resulted in a lack of experience for the two children and however strong they were Gohan was confident that he most likely could have beaten them when he was their age, no amount of training could really equal the experience gained from fighting the galaxies greatest tyrants.
Late that night after dinner Gohan and Goten lay awake chatting in their room. Beyond the two beds there was little evidence to suggest a second person lived in the room There was a desk with two framed pictures one of Gohan shortly after being born with his mother and father, the other featured himself with a one year old Goten riding around on his back, there was also a rather futuristic looking laptop with what appeared to be nothing but pure glass for a screen owing to it using holograms to display information and also a mobile phone which happened to a be a prototype of Gohans due to be released some time next year. There was a toy box of Gotens discreetly tucked into a corner but Gohan made sure it was out of the way, he loved his little brother but he couldn't allow the little saiyan to upset the rooms overwhelming cool as he put it. The walls were adorned with posters of Gohans favorite bands, a few of the prizes he had won but weren't really fit to adorn the walls of his office and of course countless photographs of his friends and family. Most of the newer photo's adorned the left hand side of the room mainly featuring Gohans most recent holidays. He never felt exactly stressed at his work perhaps being at the mercy of people threatening to destroy the particular planet he was on had desensitized him to what most would consider a stressful situation. But that didn't mean he didn't enjoy the occasional change of scenery, there most recent trip was far up north to the snowy, mountainous region of the continent. It was supposed to be a skiing trip but Chi Chi had spent most of the week in the lodge with Bulma sipping hot chocolate while the boys spent they're time up on the slopes. It had amused Gohan to no end that Vegeta lacked the balance and hand eye co-ordination to make it down the mountain side on a snow board.
All to soon it seemed the first day of school came and Gohan awoke to Goten crawling groggily over him on his way to the kitchen, this early in the morning the little boy's baser instincts governed him entirely and the only thing that could really get him moving was the smell of food or the call of the bathroom.
When Gohan stumbled downstairs yawning Chi Chi couldn't help beaming with pride knowing in just a few short hours he would be at his new school making friends. After a quick breakfast consisting of enough food to feed a starving village Gohan made his to the bathroom for a quick shower. Then changed into the clothes he had picked out the previous night and examined himself critically in the mirror. He was wearing faded blue jeans, blue and white sneakers with baggy green socks along with a white shirt, black t-shirt and large red scarf. Current fashion meant little to Gohan, when he had to wear a suit he wore one but as far as he was concerned if he liked it, it was cool. The clothes also served the dual purpose of perfectly hiding his powerful muscles, he hadn't decided yet whether or not he wanted to show them off to his soon-to-be peers, but in any case he didn't want to stand out too much on his first day.
After a teary goodbye from his mother and a deeply troubled Goten, Gohan took off flying leisurely towards the newly christened "Satan City". It was only about twenty minutes drive from west city if you took the highway so the flight seemed very familiar. As he was passing over the city he began paying attention to his surroundings, the buildings here were all a great deal smaller than those at West City but otherwise the place seemed pleasant enough, with the exception of one monstrosity of a house with the word SATAN written over it, it didn't surprise Gohan that the idiot needed twenty foot high letters to remind himself where he lived. As he was passing over the cities business district he hear the sound of gunfire nearby and changed course to see what was going on. Gohan looked over the scene; several criminals were staked out in front of a bank, the police where taking shelter behind their cars, apparently it had not been them doing the shooting. More out of boredom than any desire towards the service of the greater good, Gohan landed on a nearby roof and decided how best to diffuse the situation without revealing his identity.
Finally deciding to simply turn Super Saiyan, there was an explosion of Golden light and Gohan leapt of the building hovering a meter off the ground in front of the closest assailant.
The crowd and police fell silent, wondering who on earth this strange man was and how he appeared to be flying. Withholding as much of his strength as he could he stuck out his foot and spun in midair, his foot making contact with the leader's head and sending him flying in the direction of the police. He then turned his attention to his next opponent who began shooting at Gohan wildly. Now beginning to enjoy the sport the young saiyan splayed himself out and allowed the bullets to hit him barely feeling it as they bounced harmlessly off him, once the man had unloaded his entire clip onto the glowing fighter he began backing away in terror, but before he could take his third step Gohan moved in, knocking the legs out from under him, the man began falling to the ground but before he could make it Gohan grabbed his shirt swung him around launching him into the ranks of the police who quickly closed in on the terrified man.
Gohan at last turned his attention to the final two who ran straight to the get away car but the instant the began driving the Golden warrior appeared out of nowhere grabbed the base of the car and flipped the entire vehicle into the air before it landed upside down.
Seeing that the police could take it from there Gohan shot straight up into the air before powering down and phasing into a nearby alley. Gohan peeked out from the opening, the entire fight had lasted barely ten seconds and people where still breathless at what they had seen. Gohan gave one last sweeping glance before walking around the corner and departing the scene,
Just as he disappeared a girl in pigtails, biker shorts and a t-shirt several sizes too big, appeared on a scene. Seeing the damage she quickly ran up to the police officer the recognized to be in charge of the situation.
"Officer Murtaugh, what happened here, this hardly looks like typical police work" she said looking at the flipped car. 'Less than five minutes ago I was paged but now everything's done, nobody works that fast!'
"Oh Videl, you should have seen it, this glowing guy came flying out of the sky and beat up the robbers in seconds then just shot back up into the air!"
"A glowing guy?" said Videl skeptically " what did he look like, except for the glowing of course?"
"He had big spiky, golden hair and wore a black t-shirt and jeans, he was moving so fast it was kind of hard to keep track of him, but he looked fairly young, maybe he went to your school or something"
"Well if he does go there I'll find him" said Videl, a combination of curiosity and insecurity was growing in her, she preferred to do things her own way and didn't appreciate help from strangers.