Spiral

Chapter 1: "German Chocolate Cake"

~And We're Outta Here Saga~ Chapter 1

"Happy Birthday, Videl!" Two voices shout to raven-haired woman in bed who was asleep. So much for that...

Yes today was Satan Videl's eighteenth birthday. 'It's been a strange eighteen years.' Videl thinks to herself, 'For a while, I thought I wasn't gonna make it past seventeen! Well, I guess I did die and have to be resurrected by mythical orbs but hey, I'm alive and eighteen!'

"Here you go, Vi." Carilia says, handing her a small tray with eggs, bacon, pancakes, and orange juice on it, "I know how much you love breakfast in bed."

Videl smiles and says, "Thank you. I couldn't have survived these eighteen years without you two."

"Aw, thanks sweet pea," Hercule says.

"Well, Videl we'll leave you to your own devices," Carilia says, "I mean literally. You got like a bazillion texts last night!"

Videl laughs, "Oh, it couldn't have been that many!"

Text 38...of 289.8

Hpy bday Videl do u wants to go see a movie sometime ~ Lenny Corps~: D

The following was the face Videl made: (

'He wishes.' She thought. That was the twenty-ninth text that asked her out. How did all these people get her cellphone number? 'Sharpener...'

***Spiral***

*Flashback*

"I'm just saying, if people have actually been everywhere on this Earth, why would there be unknown islands everywhere?" Videl asked Gohan while opening her locker.

"Well, if underwater volcanoes erupt, lava will harden and eventually there will be enough igneous rock to form an island. And-"

"Ah! Smart talk! It hurts my brain!" Erasa says being overdramatic.

They all laugh and Videl says, "You know you're smart just not, 'us' smart."

"Well, that makes me feel better." Erasa says sarcastically.

"Whoa, you have Videl's cellphone number?!" A voice says loudly.

Then Sharpener says, "Yep, and you can buy it for 15 bucks."

Videl slams her locker and storms over to Sharpener.

"Oh, poor Sharpener," Erasa and Gohan say in unison.

Dear Reader, we can't go into detail in a story of this rating but, we'll say this: Sharpener did not come to school for another week and when he came back, he had a black eye and a broken arm and Videl was charged with assault.

End Flashback

Videl sighs. It was gonna be a long birthday.

Carilia pops in the room, "By the way, we're going somewhere later today. Dress a little nicer than usual. That means no martial arts uniform."

Yep, a very long birthday.

Bee-Bee-Beep.

'Another text.'

Videl lazily reaches over and grabs her phone. She looks at the text. 'Grandma? Wait, I didn't know she could text? Never doubt the power of a grandmother.'

Dear Little Videl,

Happy 18th birthday sweetheart. I'm glad you've made it to eighteen. Oh my, I think I'm getting old. What a horrific thought. Well, just have good birthday. Your mother would be so proud of you. You look so much like her.

Grandma Polps

A tear runs down her cheek. "Momma." Videl says quietly, "Why did you have to leave us? We need you so bad..."

***Spiral***

"Are we there yet?" Videl asks like an impatient five-year-old.

Carilia turns around, "What do you think?"

Carilia, Hercule, and she had been flying in Videl's old jet-copter for almost three hours. Not to mention the stupid air conditioner had chosen the day it had to take a three hours trip to stop working. None of them were er, agreeable in the heat.

"Well can you at least tell me where 'there' is?"

"No." Hercule moans.

"Why?"

"Because...because!"

"Daddy," Videl whines, "I don't like it when you talk like that."

"Well, if you've got a problem with it, I-"

"WE'RE HERE!" Carilia shouts.

"It's about time!" Videl and Hercule say in unison.

Carilia throw a blindfold over Videl's eyes.

"So I've been sitting in a hot jet copter for three freaking hours, having no clue where the fudge I'm going, and now you are putting a freaking blindfold on my eyes!"

"Uh-huh." Carilia nods.

"Okay." Videl says with a smile, "Come on! Let's go, slowpokes!"

Hercule gives Carilia a strange look.

"It's PMS," Carilia whispers.

***Spiral***

"Trunks, are you sure we should be doing this?" Goten asked.

"We shouldn't." Trunks replies.

"Then why are we doing it?"

"'Cause it's fun!"

Goten whined, "I don't wanna be here 'cause we c-c-could g-et caught and then our Mommies will hit us with the new Mondo Super Duper Cooper Frying Pan of Immeasurable Pain…of Doom ™!"

Trunks gasps, "That's not supposed to come out 'til like…October 25 and it's only…June 21st!"

"Oh no! Nii-chan said today was Videl's birthday and he was throwing her a party! We have to get her a birthday gift!"

"Kuso!" Trunks mumbles, "What are we supposed to get her?"

"Uh…maybe we could get her…flowers!" Goten exclaims, "Girls like flowers!"

Trunks sighs, "You don't understand anything. Videl is a tough girl! She doesn't want frilly tulips, roses, carnations, and daises! She wants something tough like her like…like…shark teeth!"

"Well, she may be tough but all pretty girls like flowers." Goten says as a matter-of-factly.

"Whatever, Goten I'm just saying that—", Trunks stopped dead in his evilness when he fully understood what Goten said.

"What is it Trunks?"

"Pretty?" Trunks asks, "You think Videl is pretty?"

Goten shrugs, "Well, sort of. Nii-chan said he thinks she's really pretty. He also says that she smells nice. He also says that there's something 'intriguing' (A/N: he put air quotes around it) about a girl who could kick anyone's butt including his if he was normal."

Trunks then asks, "He told you all that?"

"No," Goten asks, "I found it in a journal he keeps in his pillow case."

Trunks laughs, "He-He ha-has a d-d-dia-ry? W-Why am I n-no-t surprised."

"Sometimes in his sleep he mumbles, 'Videl.' I think he's gone mad!"

"No you idiot," Trunks yells, "Gohan's in love, you dummy-head!" He finishes as he smacks Goten in the back of the head.

"Gohan's in love with Videl? If he in love with Videl and Videl's a girl that means…Gohan's gonna have cooties!" Goten exclaimed, "My brother will have cooties!"

"Calm down! We have to get Videl a birthday gift. What time does the party start?"

"3:30."

"Goten, it is 3:23!" Trunks yells, "Well, I'm off to wrestle a shark."

"And I gotta pick some flowers!"

"See ya in five!" They shout as they take of in different directions."

***Spiral***

Before we go any further in the story, the author must explain to you Videl's outfit.

Earlier that day…

Videl frowned as she went through her closet.

Pink zebra print spaghetti strap blouse. Nah.

There were very few things other than her precious training uniform she would wear in public.

Orange tube top. Not this time.

Why she had to dress out of her regular clothes was far beyond her.

A shirt with Sharpener on it. Where the heck did that come from? Sharpener should invest in better birthday gifts.

Lizzy would help her if she were still around.

A light blue tank top with diamonds around the bottom.

It's what Lizzy would have worn.

***Spiral***

Goten and Trunks fly from opposite sides and if they didn't stop soon, they would crash into each other if they didn't stop soon.

***Spiral***

"Are we there yet?" Videl kvetched.

"Yes." Carilia and Hercule moan.

"Oh, we're really here?" Videl questions, "Awesome!"

Videl takes off her blindfold and sees a banner that says Happy Birthday Videl and Bulma and Chi-Chi arguing.

"I thought you had Trunks and Goten." Bulma yells.

"I thought you had Trunks and Goten!" Chi-Chi yelled back.

"Mom, Bulma," Gohan says, "I sense they're energies and they'll be there in about…3 minutes and I also sense…Videl?"

Gohan slowly turns around and sees her standing behind him.

"Gohan, was this your idea?" She asked.

"Yeah," He said with a faint blush on his cheeks, "Even the giant cake." He then pointed to well, a giant cake.

Videl eyes widen, "What flavor is the cake?"

"It's German chocolate."

Videl gasped, "I love German chocolate cake! It's my favorite! How did you know?"

"Remember when you, Erasa, and Sharpener dragged me to that Pastry Galore and More?"

*Flashback*

"I have to take this call." Gohan announced, "Hello? Hey Bulma. Trunks hijacked the newest model of the Capsule Car, drove it into the Gravity Room and now Vegeta is trying to blow him up? Tell them you've got roast beef. Bye."

Sharpener and Erasa stand there with confused looks on their faces and Videl just shakes her head slowly.

"Trunks hijacked a car… Why am I not surprised?"

"Maybe it's the same reason I'm not."

Erasa and Sharpener just stand there dumbfounded.

"He's had much weirder one sided conversations." Videl says.

"Yeah, I'm sure I have. I can't really think of any ri—"

"Do you remember that one where Goten dressed up like a girl?"

Gohan thinks for a second and then replies, "Oh, yeah! You see, Goten thought—"

"Shh!" Erasa stops, "Don't tell us now! I wanna practice for my spit-take for my audition."

Gohan shrugged then Videl asked, "Can we get food now?"

All three nod their heads.

Videl walks up to the lady at the counter.

"Can I have that piece of German chocolate cake?" She asked pointing to the last piece.

"No. I'm gonna eat that after my shift."

Videl blinks, "You're kidding me, right?"

"No," the lady answers.

"You're here to serve the customer what they want and I want that German chocolate cake." Videl states.

"Can I like, interest you in a doughnut?"

Videl sighs, "Just, just give the vanilla doughnut."

"Sorry, I'm eating' that one too."

Videl turns around and walked back to the table where Erasa and Sharpener are sitting.

"That woman wouldn't give me my German chocolate cake."

Just as Erasa prepares to do a spit-take, Sharpener yells, "Don't you dare! I am highly allergic to coffee!" Erasa sighs and swallows her coffee.

The woman bats her eyelashes as the ever suave Demi-Saiyan walks up.

"Hello. How may I help you?"

"May I have the German chocolate cake and the Vanilla doughnut?"

The woman rings him up, "That'll be 4.65. If you want, I can put my number on the receipt?" She says with a wink.

"Uh, no thanks." Gohan replies.

Gohan then sits down at the table with his friends.

"Aw man. How did you get cake?" Videl asked in awe.

"I think the lady at the counter likes me." Gohan whispers.

"That's not fair."

"The cake's for you, Vi."

"Really?" She asks, "Thank you. She hates me because I beat her in the Junior Division First Round."

"What?" They all question.

"You see it happened something—"

"Wait, wait, wait," Gohan says, "If were in a flashback, and we go into a flashback within a flashback then the flashback we're in becomes our regular time not allowing us to get out of this flashback screwing up the flashback space time continuum."

"Japanese, Gohan," Videl states, "We speak Japanese. Not continuum-nese.

"Just end the dang flashback." Erasa suggests.

*End Flashback*

"What happened there at the end?" Videl asked.

"I don't know." He answers.

"Speaking of Erasa and Sharpener did you invite them?" She asked.

"Of course I did." He replies, "Sharpener couldn't come because he had a World Series game today and they 'can't lose their best pitcher on a game like this,' but he says happy birthday."

"What about Erasa?"

"She got a part in that movie um, In the Flesh, and she's filming in New Zealand…but she sends her best wishes and is so sorry she couldn't make it, and she also says good luck with operation G…what's that?"

Videl bursts out laughing, "In d-due time Gohan, in due time."

"Gohan!" Goku calls.

"I'm coming." Gohan yells.

Videl sighs, 'Man, it was sure sweet of Gohan to throw this party.' She thinks, 'He's so cute…"

Suddenly all eyes turn to Videl…and in a worried way.

Videl sighs, "The chibis are headed straight for me…right?"

Everyone nods.

"Whoa!" The chibis shout, but it's too late because—

Thud!

"Videl, are you okay?" Bulma asked worriedly.

Videl, who was wobbling, mustered up enough strength to say, "I need a green been from…from the kitty cat and the fat, sarcastic guy…" Then she collapsed.

Everyone circles her worried and trying to figure out what the HFIL she meant.

A/N: Funny thing. According to this story, Videl and NerdsRule's father have the same birthday and favorite type of cake.

Can the Namekian dragonballs wish back people who have been dead more than a year? I need to know.

-NerdsRule

-3:23, 6-22-13