It was a perfectly normal early morning in Satan City. The streets were full of people on their way to work or school, including Son Gohan.

Taking a deep breath as he readjusted his bag, Gohan attempted to calm down his nerves. He had just conspicuously landed behind the largest and most significantly busiest train station in the city. Today was his first day at Orange Star high school and his insides were trembling from being so nervous. He had the unfortunate experience of only finding out that he was going to be attending less than a week ago. It had come on as a complete shock because while his mother had always toyed with the idea of him attending a normal school she would usually get discouraged and abandon the idea, until last night. Her voice boasting that Orange Star was one of the best schools around and that it would be good for him was still echoing in his head.

Stepping out from the alley and into the main street, he took a second to view the busy city around him. It was actually his mother's idea to use the train station as a landing spot since it would always be full of people trying to get somewhere who would be too preoccupied to notice anything else. The school enforced a traditional uniform policy, consisting of slacks, button-up shirt, blazer, and tie for males, which was annoying for Gohan. He nervously pulled at the tie around his neck having never worn one before until now, finding it completely restricting and uncomfortable.

Gohan glanced at his watch and saw that he was good on time and wouldn't need to rush. He had no idea what to expect on his first day or what the other students would be like. The only student he knew, and definitely not personally, that attended was Videl Satan, the daughter of the city's namesake. While he had never actually met her, Videl's family was just too famous to not be familiar with. He had definitely seen her photograph all over the papers and on the news.

A tinge of red appeared on his cheeks as he thought of her because it was this girl in particular who had been a major topic for discussion at many of the reunions Gohan had attended with his friends and family. Specifically that of Videl's lack of resemblance to her father, Mr. Satan. Several of the older men in the group, such as Krillin and Yamcha, had regularly pointed out that she was attractive and went as far as teasing Gohan about it. They would suggest that Gohan go and find Videl tell her the truth of her Father's claim to fame and attempt to woo her for himself. It was all a joke of course, but Gohan's awkward silences were more than enough ammunition for the joking to continue. It was usually Bulma, the female matriarch of their group that would tell the others to hush.

He didn't know much about her, but her image was commonplace in the media and there was one photo in particular that had somehow managed to take roots in Gohan's mind. It was in some fashion magazine of Bulma's and he remembered the moment his mother had flipped to the exact page during a visit to Capsule Corp. It was a photo of Videl with her father at an art museum opening, her father in the front donning one of his signature poses. Videl was further back behind him wearing a blue dress looking away from the camera which captured a flattering angle. Even his mother had complimented her dress and began a long conversation with Bulma about it consisting of oohs and awes.

The sound of an ear screeching alarm snapped him out of his thoughts, however, along with hearing a rush of people exiting a large building. Gohan looked up at the front of the building's facade and was able to determine that this building was one of the larger banks in Satan City.

"That's him, don't let him get away!" a voice screamed as a man dressed in all black complete with a ski mask ran past holding a bag over his shoulder.

Just as Gohan was about to chase after him, he felt a gentle squeeze on his shoulder from behind holding him back. Completely surprised by this, he turned around to see a short figure looking back at him.

The mysterious figure had a midnight black spandex suit on most of their body, with an equally as black chest piece covering the front, this ended at the neck, where only the bottom half of the face could be seen, and a smooth dark navy helmet began. The helmet itself looked high-tech and had what appeared to be an opaque visor over the eyes. There was also a long navy cape attached to the shoulders of the costume as well, concealing most of this person's body.

"Pardon me sir, but let me deal with this!", the figure said, the voice obviously disguised digitally somehow sounding much more robotic than human, before running after the perpetrator.

It took half a second for Gohan to jump back up and begin chasing both of them, only for several police vehicles to catch up, their sirens blazing.

"Young man, stop! The police are here!" a police officer yelled from the window of one of the cars, pulling over in front of him.

Gohan was really at a loss as to what to do now, of course, he could easily jump over and catch this bank robber, but with so many eyes and ears around how was he to do it? Clenching his fists in frustration he was nearly about to just push his way through when the radio inside the car blocking him went off.

"Calling all units, the bank robber on the loose has been apprehended!"

As much as Gohan wanted to see what was happening, the police had begun to push him back and began taping off the area. People suddenly multiplied and were all attempting to get a good look at the scene. Soon it was flooded with cellphones of all sorts attempting to get either photo or video footage. It was far too much exposure for him to do anything at this point.

"Young man, that wasn't a very smart thing to do you know, you should really be in school.", the same officer that had spoken to him earlier said, chastising him.

Gohan's eyes widened at the statement though, having completely forgotten about his first day at school. He nervously nodded at the policeman and began running the other direction, desperately hoping he wouldn't be late.

Only a few minutes later, Gohan had actually managed to make it across the city to Orange Star High and was currently waiting in the school's admissions office to be shown to his classroom. His heart began to race a bit since the moment he was dreading was vastly approaching.

After being introduced to the class by the teacher, he was told to choose a seat. Looking up at the rows of uniform-clad students above he really had no idea where to go. Fortunately for him, a short-haired blonde girl waved for him to sit next to her, maybe a tad too enthusiastically, but he didn't really have a choice.

"Hi Gohan, I'm Erasa and this is Sharpener!", the blonde said cheerfully gesturing to the equally as blonde male next to him.

Sharpener looked up at Gohan and simply said, "Hey", before turning his attention to the teacher below.

Gohan took his seat and began pulling out his notebook and pen. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.

The teacher began his lecture about the history and for a solid thirty minutes, everything appeared fine. Gohan just tried his best to keep paying attention and take notes. He was pleasantly surprised to see that everyone else was doing the same. He really didn't know how he was going to compare to the rest of the students. His mother had been convinced that he would be the best and brightest, but he knew from experience to never underestimate others. The whole purpose of him coming to this school was to be more academically challenged and he had hoped he wouldn't be bored by this supposedly advance curriculum.

In the midst of it, all his mind couldn't help but wander back to the events this of this morning, particularly the run-in with that strange masked person in the even weirder costume that had been chasing that bank robber. Who was that? Had the criminal been apprehended by them or by the police?

The flood of questions running through his mind was abruptly stopped when the door to the classroom opened. His eyes looked at the door before feeling a rush of warmth to his cheeks at seeing who it was.

"Sorry I'm late, I had a last minute appointment come up.", the newcomer to the classroom said, in a clear feminine voice. It was Videl Satan and she appeared with the same mannerisms as she had in that photo. Her hair was long and was neatly flowing beneath her shoulders, the tie of her uniform neatly tucked into her blazer which matched her skirt, and her hands were gently holding her bag. She was looking away from the rows of students as if to avoid their eyes, just as she had with the mob of photographers.

The teacher simply nodded, "It's fine Videl, just go sit.", he said quickly before turning back to the board and going back to the lesson.

Gohan couldn't help but stare as she approached the row of desks he was currently in and to add to his discomfort she passed dangerously close to him and sat opposite of Erasa. The elegant feminine presence that had been captured in photographs of her was indeed real and something about it was making his heart tighten ever so slightly.

"Oh Videl, this is our new student, Gohan!", Erasa quickly chirped, but still quiet enough to keep the teacher from hearing.

Videl then turned to look at him, her big blue eyes making direct contact with his. For a second she looked a little caught off guard, which Gohan assumed was probably a combination of not being aware of his new presence in their class along with the embarrassment of being late. She quickly gave a small friendly smile before whispering to him, "Hi", and proceeded to reach into her bag while simultaneously flipping her long dark hair over her shoulder.

Gohan didn't know why but that unsettling feeling was becoming even worse and spreading through his chest.

Erasa then covered her mouth from the side and whispered at Gohan, "You know who she is right?", she said with a slight wink.

Gohan then felt sheepish before awkwardly putting his hand behind his head and whispering back, "Um, yeah, Mr. Satan's daughter right?" Normally he wouldn't have felt comfortable putting someone in the spot like that, but wouldn't he seem like the weird one not knowing who she was?

Hearing him say that, Videl's eyes glanced back at him for a second, giving him the chills, before scoffing at Erasa. "Erasa leave him alone and be quiet before we all get in trouble."

Erasa simply smiled and stuck her tongue out at Videl with a wink.

Nearing the end of the day, Gohan was walking back to the train station to make his quick venture home. Luckily for him, everyone who had asked how he got to school and back had bought his answer of taking the train.

Ascending in the air his thoughts ventured back to his day and how he actually did have most of his classes with the trio of students he had met this morning and that the day had gone extremely well. While he knew that Orange Star High was an exceptional school for only the most gifted of students, he really hadn't expected everyone to be so nice and well, smart.

He learned that both Erasa and Sharpener wanted to be doctors and because so, they were in the same science-based classes as him. They had both been friendly to him and hadn't been at all surprised to learn that he had been homeschooled before attending here. Apparently, it was quite common for most of the students in the school.

Videl Satan, however, had been something else. He couldn't help but keep comparing her to the instances that he had seen her father and she really was nothing like him. Even just a few interactions the two of them had that day had revealed to Gohan that unlike Mr. Satan who was boastful and loud, Videl was surprisingly quite quiet and graceful. She didn't say much and mostly kept to herself. She didn't have as many classes with Gohan due to having an emphasis in languages and arts in her study programme, and much to his surprise wasn't interested in fighting at all like her father. He had even managed to hear rumors that she could speak fluent French and already had a prodigious internship with the Satan City arts council.

For a second his thoughts focused on that council since it somehow sounded familiar to him. Was Bulma on it? Or had mentioned it? Now that he thought about it, Bulma never really participated with the rest of the group when it came to making comments about Mr. Satan or his daughter, maybe she knew them?

Gohan's focus was broken, however, when he saw his home on the horizon and sped up, eager to inform his mother and brother about the excellent first day he had.