Dragonball Z Alternate Path: Legacy
Chapter: 1
Highschool
It was a bright and shiny day in East City. The Sun was shining and there was nary a cloud in the sky. People were bustling and going about their business in the bustling streets.
But then, the sound of gunfire and a siren broke the peace of the streets.
A cop hovercar was chasing a classic automobile down the main street of the city in the heart of the town.
"You'll never catch us coppers!" yelled out one villain as he drained bullets down at the police with his automatic rifle.
But then, something touched down in the middle of the road in front of the escaping bandits. It was a person, with a messy flop of spiky hair, spiky up front, cut in the back. (A/N: Basically Gohan's Cell Games era hairstyle.) He also wore a red cape with shoulder pads with blue wedges at the bottom, a red and blue gi, red overshirt, blue undershirt, red martial arts pants, a shiny champions fighting belt, (Like the one they had in the WWE in the early-to-mid 1990s.) and black martial arts boots. A young man with slender build but muscular. (Think like Super Saiyan God Goku.)
This person put out his foot forward and it hit the front of the car. The person remained standing as if nothing was wrong as he and the car skidded. They skidded until the car surprisingly stopped with the young man still remaining smirking in the exact position he started.
"Hey who are you that's stopping us!?" called the apparent leader of the gang, a muscular man with tan skin, short hair, small Hispanic moustache and yellow t-shirt.
That's when one of the bandits recognized him. "Wait, I know who that is! It's Gohan, the martial arts Champion of the World!" yelled out in fear the bandit.
"That's right, so I hear you fellas have heard of me." confidently remarked Gohan.
"I don't care who it is! No one messes with us. And no one misses gets pumped full of lead!" yelled out the leader.
The bandit leader then quickly unloaded his machine gun at Gohan but with quick flicker of a hand movement, he caught them all. The bandit leader then gulped as he watched the young man open his palm and reveal bent bullet casings in his hand. The bullets then fell on to the hood of the car.
The Gohan then pressed his foot down and the car flipped forward sending the bandits flying on to the road, face first.
The bandits then recoiled in fear at the massive feat of strength. But the leader of the gang wasn't about to let up.
"Blast him!" yelled out ordered the bandit leader. His friend, a massive bulky man came out with a roket launcher and fired it.
The missile hit and there was an explosion. But when the dust cleared there was Gohan standing as if nothing had happened. Gohan just dusted himself off.
The bandits were completely frightened at this point. "Mercy!" called one of the bandits in fear.
"Do you promise to turn yourselves in and pay for your crimes?" asked Gohan.
"Oh yes!" pleaded the bandit leader as he and his bandit friends were bowing in praying positions.
"Good." simply said Gohan.
'Great, fighting ciminals before home class this morning.' Thought Gohan as he then sped off into the sky and left.
The cops who had been tailing the culprits looked around and scratched their heads and said "Man, how are we going to cuff all these bad guys?" they asked themselves.
"Where were you this morning?" asked Videl. They were in the their home class at school at Orange Star High and the students were in their seats awaiting the teacher.
"(Whispers) I was busy stopping robbers this morning." whispered Gohan. He was in his school attire, complete with pointy haired wig and fake glasses of his "Hango Sonsatta" persona. Fortunately all the other students were jazzing about themselves and no one was listening to the two converse.
"Well you may have been going to this school for eight months but soon someone is going to catch you, you know." pointed out Videl.
"Well it's worked so far." pointed out Gohan. That was when Erasa and Sharpener arrived.
"Hey guys, whatcha talking about?" asked Erasa.
"Nothing." was the simultaneous reply.
"Alright, so anyone hear about the bank robbery this morning? It was stopped by none other than Prince Gohan himself. Gohan, he's so dreamy." said Erasa with a star gazed look in her eye.
"Yeah, those crooks never had a chance against the world champ." chimed in Sharpener, pumping his fist as he did so. "You know, Gohan's been hanging around East City taking out crime for a while now. What do you suppose his fascination is with this town?" then asked Sharpener.
"Don't ask me. I'm not his girlfriend anymore. I don't check up on his movements." said Videl, once again pretending that she and Gohan had split up.
"What do ya mean? You two fight crime together from time to time. You must know! Hango?" asked Sharpener.
"I don't know, maybe he secretly moved here and he wants to sweep crime in his new home?" numbly played Gohan, trying to keep his secret identity secret.
"You know what I think?" added in Erasa. Everyone in the conversation turned to her. "I think that he's secretly going to highschool in this city and he commutes and he doesn't want anyone to know. That's why crime stopping only happens in the mornings and in the evenings." theorized Erasa.
Videl and Sharpener looked at her serious for a minute, then burst out in laughter.
"Oh my, who ever heard of a student masquerading as a superhero!" laughed Sharpener.
"Screw you I know I'm right." pouted Erasa.
Videl looked to see Gohan buried in his book trying to look inconspicuous. 'Oh Gohan.' She thought.
That was when Brody entered the classroom.
"Oh my, it's Brody. He is so dreamy." Once again got Erasa in her starry-eyed look.
"A second ago Gohan was the one who was dreamy." teased Videl.
"A girl can have two dreamy guys can't she? It's soooooo hard to choose between the two. I mean, Gohan is so handsome and superheroic. And Brody's got that hot bod and brains. He never misses getting high marks on all his written exams and athletics. How does he do it? All that brains and brawn in one beautiful package." pointed out Erasa.
"Hango, you compete with Brody all the time in gym and you compete for the highest marks in tests. What's the deal with you two?" asked Sharpener.
And indeed, all year Gohan had been competing in all things athletic with Brody. Soccer, Tennis, Baseball, Basketball, they even competed in chess matches. They competed in everything, even test marks. It was a wonder why Brody hadn't outed him as Gohan the all-around wonderboy and world champion superhero. But he guessed Brody must enjoy competing with him as a nobody.
"I don't know what his problem is with me, honestly." once again played dumb Gohan.
That was when the principal entered the hall and and all activity ceased to a halt.
"Attention students, due to an illness Mr. Meter won't be joining us this evening. Instead we've arranged for a substitute teacher to take his place this morning." announced the school principal.
The door then slid open and out came….
"Oh no, not him!" exclaimed Gohan.
"Who? Who is it is?" asked Videl.
"It's…"
"Mr. Shu, please make your way to the head of the class?" asked the highschool principal.
Mr. Shu did as instructed and then went on to deliver a speech about running a tight ship and that students should be glad to be honored by his teachings.
"(Whispers) So who is this guy?" asked Videl.
"(Whispers) He's the guy I told you about. The guy I dubbed the terror-tutor." answered Gohan.
"(Whispers) No way…" mouthed Videl.
"(Whispers) Yes, he used to torture me as he tutored me. I bet he's still got his whip." remarked Gohan, looking as if he was looking at a bad memory.
"(Whispers) You don't say?" said Videl getting a mischievous look in her eye.
Meanwhile, the teacher Mr. Shu was reminiscing about the glory days about when he was the great and mighty Pamput. He was a Movie star and a undefeated fighter. But then that all came crashing to a halt when he encountered Goku Son. After that he sunk into obscurity and he sank back to his other passion which was teaching. He got a job teaching and tutoring children and went by hisa family name which was Shu and so far it was proving quite fruitful. He was the teacher/tutor to many high celebrity children and he was quite highly looked at as a teacher.
"Excuse me, Mr. Shu." said Videl raising her hand. "Excuse me, but I heard from rumor that you once tutored the famous Gohan Son." meanwhile Gohan was frantically doing everything to motion Videl to shush about it. He clearly didn't want her to get in trouble.
The infamous teacher/tutor then got a glint in his eye.
"So? Rumor has it about that little spat huh? Yes indeed I tutor that poor boy, yes. He was a brilliant academic but it wasn't enough as the boy had a discipline problem, yes. I tried my best to tutor him but in the end the boy was hopeless. He was too involved with his fathers' barbaric fighting habit. Looks like he later put that to good use but what is it worth if all you do is barbarically fighting all the time. I myself was a mighty martial artist but in my time I ran afoul of the boy's father Goku in the World Tournament. My life for the martial arts died out and I became a hopeless academic and began my more civilized life as a teacher. But in the end I'm the more civilized man and their just a bunch of brutes. Beheheheheheheh!" finished Mr. Shu as he then laughed his signature laugh.
That was when Brody, steaming after hearing that deplorable speech, did he make his way to the front of the class. He then faced Mr. Shu.
"Oh? You want some of this you barbarian?" asked Mr. Shu. That was when 'Yup.' thought Gohan, the whip.
Mr. Shu began cracking the whip against Brody, over and over again, but to no avail, the whip did nothing to him.
That was when finally Brody had had enough and just grabbed the whip handle.
"Enough! Release me you barbarian!" pleaded Mr. Shu. Brody just narrowed in and looked at him with angry eyes. Mr. Shu was very unnerved by this at this point.
"Don't you dare talk badly about the Son family. Especially Gohan in front of me! That's a pleasure I reserve for myself." simply stated Brody. That was when Mr. Shu got bad flashbacks.
"Oh no! Please Miss Chi-Chi, don't!" screamed out Mr. Shu as he then he ran out of class at high speed.
The class looked out in surprise, stunned at the events that just transpired. Brody had just run out the teacher of their class for speaking out against the Son family. The murmurings began.
"Well that's one way to spend a morning." simply said Videl.
"So who are you taking out to the dance Friday night?" asked Erasa.
The rest of the day went off without a hitch as the school had another teacher cover for the absence of Mr. Shu.
A while later, at the dance Friday night. There was lights and partying and music and people were dancing. Gohan was wearing a nice tux while wearing his wig and glasses. Videl was wearing a nice light blue dress. (Basically what she was wearing at the end of Z.) They were busy sitting at the table while everyone else was dancing.
"So what do you want to do?" asked Videl, bored as heck.
"I don't know, what do you want to do?" called back Gohan, also bored as heck.
"Wanna dance?" asked Videl.
"But, won't there be people see us dancing? Won't there be talking?" asked Gohan, afraid to blow his cover.
"Ah let 'em talk. If worst comes to worst I'll tell everybody we just danced as friends." said Videl. They then got up off their seats and made their way to the dance floor.
They started to dance and to start grooving to "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga. But just as they started to groove, the music cut off and a slow classical dance came on.
They both just shrugged and so Gohan took both Videls' arms into his own, right and left arms clasped, other arms over the shoulders and they began to slow dance.
Meanwhile, Brody who was at the dance was stewing at seeing Gohan and Videl dancing. It aggravated him to see his arch-rival so happy. He was busy standing over with his arms crossed looking displeased.
"Umm? Excuse me?" squeaked a small light voice.
Brody looked around and saw Erasa down in front of him and she appeared to be twiddling her thumbs.
"W-Would, would you like to dance?" came the question from Erasa.
"What for?" came the stern response, turning his gaze back to Gohan and Videl.
"Umm, well….." Erasa tried to get out, but stammered and looked away.
Brody turned back to look down and saw the disappointed look on Erasa's face and his features softened.
"Okay, if it'll make you happy." finally said Brody. Erasa then got all happy and go-lucky and they made their way to the dance floor.
Gohan and Videl meanwhile were busy dancing their own dance but they spotted Brody and Erasa dancing.
"Look, looks like Erasa finally asked out Brody." said Videl, being the first one to spot them.
"You think?" asked Gohan as he in turn spotted them.
"Oh yes. She's had the biggest crush on him all year." said Videl.
The rest of the evening went off without a hitch.
A few weeks later, the school had organized an outing at the beach.
Everyone was having fun. Or at least almost everyone as Gohan had yet to get out of his changing room.
"Come on Hango, get out." pleaded Erasa. She was wearing a green and black striped two-piece bikini, the stripes were in a diagonal patern.
"Yeah, come on out Brains. Look we all know that you're only a loser nerd without a pound of muscle on you. So just come on out and face the music." teased Sharpener, the popular jock going to lengths to humiliate Gohan. He was in a bright red swim trunks.
If only that was the problem Gohan thought. All year Gohan had managed to hide his muscles in gym class. Always changing after all the boys had left, always wearing loose fitting clothes in gym class. And it'd always worked. But now he would be exposed.
"Come on, just show us." stated/ordered Videl. And Gohan knew that that was her silent okay between them to show off. She was in a lime green two-piece bikini herself.
"Okay, alright." said Gohan. He then came out and jaws dropped. Gohan was the perfect specimen. He had a nice six-pack abs and everything in a nice lanky body frame. He was wearing deep blue swim trunks.
"Hango, where did you get such a rock hard body." said Erasa, clearly impressed.
Sharpener was busy still with his jaw hanging on the floor. But then he eventually snapped out of it.
"I mean seriously, you're ripped! It's no wonder your able to keep up with Brody in gym class. I mean, seriously how much can you bench press?" asked a bewildered Sharpener.
"Come on you guys it's no big deal. I just work out a lot that's all. I do it in secret and I don't want anyone to know okay?" explained Gohan, trying to change the subject.
"Well what for? With a body like that what's the use of hiding it?" asked Sharpener.
"What can I say? It's for personal reasons. I kinda promised a girl long ago that I wouldn't show off." explained Gohan, referring to his promise long ago to Videl. Videl was secretly touched that he still hung on to that promise years ago.
"Oh well if that's all then that girl was full of it. She probably wanted to save you all to herself. Trust me you'll be much better off showing that body." said Sharpener, cozying up to Gohan and putting his arm around Gohan's neck.
"It's not a matter if she wanted me all to herself or not. It's respect, and a promise." said Gohan.
The rest of the day went off well. Gohan went and played volleyball against Brody and his team all day and girls ogled them both. Gohan uncomfortable with this new attention as Hango Sonsatta. But he guessed there was no getting away from it.
Eventually nightfall happened and Gohan and Videl found themselves walking on the beach at night with the Moon out.
It was so romantic that they started to fool around and make out, figuring that all the students had returned to their hotel rooms for the night and that no one was around that would recognize them in the nightlight.
They found a tool shed that lifeguards used to keep their stuff at the edge of the beach and they went inside.
Things began to get hot and heavy as they made out heavily.
Then Videl got an idea and she pushed Gohan down. She then proceeded to let down her hair and take off her bikini.
Gohan felt he was the luckiest guy in the world as he stared once again at the nude form of Videl. The light from the Moon gave her an angelic glow and Gohan was once again struck by her beauty.
"You are so beautiful…." came out of Gohan's mouth and Videl fell on him and they began to make out again.
The next morning, Gohan woke up to some banging on the door. He saw Videl, in her bikini again after last nights' "activities", answer the door.
"Erasa, Sharpener?" asked out loud as she found the aforementioned two at the door.
"We saw you and Hango enter this shed. What's going on?" asked Erasa.
"Uhmm, uh well…" Videl tried to get out and explain but nothing was coming to mind.
"Hey Videl, who is it?" groggily got out Gohan as he got up and answered the door, arm behind his head.
"Hey, who are you?" asked Erasa as Gohan was sans wig and glasses. Gohan was obviously still groggy from the night before and had forgotten to put on his wig and glasses, he was now more exposed then ever.
"Uhmmm, well uhmm…" Gohan to his turn tried to explain but the answers got stuck in his throat.
"Who are you and what are you doing with Videl? And what happened to Hango? And…" Erasa went to go on, but then she caught the wig and glasses on the floor. Her speech then got caught in her throat and she pointed with a stunned look on her face at Gohan.
That was unfortunately when Sharpener recognized his face. "Wait a minute, I recognize you you're…. You're…" Sharpener went to say.
"Gohan, the Prince of Ox-Kingdom and the martial arts World Champion!" finished Erasa, still with a shocked look on her face.
"But what do you mean? What's the deal with being here with Videl? I thought you two had split up?" asked Sharpener.
"Isn't it obvious? He's really Hango in disguise. "Hango" being his disguise." explained Erasa.
"Yes, Gohan is indeed "Hango" and indeed we are still together. We never really split up we just, spent our time away from each other with our busy schedules. We never officially split apart and when highschool hit and we were together again, well….. And indeed "Hango" it's his disguise to help blend in. He just wanted to go to school without anybody making a big deal out of it and he wanted to be treated as a normal teenager like us without being judged on his fame or merits first." explained Videl.
After that explanation, both Sharpener and Erasa went "Ohhhh!" with their mouths doing an "O" in understanding.
"Ohhh, so that's why." went Erasa.
"So could you please keep it a secret just between us?" pleaded Videl.
Erasa put her finger to her chin and thought for a minute.
"I don't know, this is a juicy piece of gossip." played Erasa, pretending that she was really considering it.
"Oh pleeeeeaaaaase." whined Videl.
"Okay girlfriend!" made Erasa, dropping her fake thoughtfulness and looking excited. They then both Videl and Erasa turned to Sharpener.
"Okay, okay… Videl's my best girl friend and Gohan's the most powerful guy in the universe plus he's saved the world like a dozen times over or something. I couldn't disappoint you." finally caved in Sharpener.
"Yes!" exclaimed Videl as she hugged both of them. "You guys are truly my best friends." she said.
"Alright, alright. Enough mushy stuff." then went Sharpener, disengaging from the hug. He then gave Gohan one more once over and then his eyes opened wide in recognition. He then pointed at Gohan.
"Hey wait a minute! I recognize you now!" said Sharpener. "You're that guy I saw with Videl that one time at the mall when we were kids! Yeah, the boy with the muscles and who was hot!" exclaimed Sharpener.
Gohan's eyes opened wide open in recognition. Then he remembered what Sharpener was talking about and he put his hand behind his head and turned his head in embarrassment.
"Yeah, that was me. You aren't still mad are you?" asked Gohan, hoping that this wasn't another guy out for revenge for stealing their girl. Because Sharpener was known for flirting with Videl.
"Ah dude! You were my inspiration! You were the reason I got into weight lifting and sports. You were the guy I wanted to be like all musclely and buff and all. And then after all these years it finally came true and I finally get to thank you." said Sharpener.
"Huh?" got out Gohan. This was not the response he expected.
"I used to be a weak nerd myself. But then after all these years I get to thank you. So thank you."
"Oh well… You're very welcome." Stammered Gohan as he then gave the hand of sharpener and shook it.
The rest of the day went well. Gohan put back on his glasses and wig and went back to being mild mannered Hango. The class returned to school that morning. And the next few weeks went off as regular, only with Gohan able to secretly discuss his double life with two other people.
A few weeks later, Gohan was at Capsulecorp. in front of a Capsulecorp. space pod with his friends and family looking off to see him off. He was in his gi and cape. But he was standing in front of Videl giving her a more personal goodbye. They were holding hand in hands.
"But why do you have to go?" asked Videl.
"Because the World Tournament is coming up and I want to expand my horizons in my training and get a more universal view of things." explained Gohan.
"But what about your school work?" asked Videl, not wanting to see him go and trying to find any excuse to keep him here.
"The faculty were told that I would finish my schooling at home. And plus that stuff is so old to me I could finish their equivalency test in my sleep. Don't worry, I'll be back in time for graduation." Said Gohan.
"I'll miss you." Said Videl, then planting a kiss on his lips. Gohan kissed back in the kiss.
"I'll miss you." Said back Gohan. They then parted ways, and Gohan went into his spaceship and then he was off. Off to training in space.
Authors final thoughts: Well it's been a while. Bet you thought you'd never see me again and my Alternate Path storyline again did ya? Well I'm back, and I've come to finish what I started. Remember when I said I was thinking about making a sequel? Well this is it! When I said that two years ago, I was fried. I was done writing and I had only ideas for a few key scenes but that was it. But then down the road I was hit with inspiration one day. Then I kept it in mind. I had the whole new outline of my plot in my head. But then I was stuck because I couldn't write because of reasons that I mentioned at the end of Neo Yondaime Hokage vs Sasuke Uchiha, my latest work, in the Authors Notes. So if you'd read that you'd find out why I was so late in writing this. For those of you just joining in, hope you enjoy the ride, because for us that read and worked on the original it was fun. And for those of you who are old time readers, get ready because I've got ideas for more epic fights that'll blow anything I've ever done out of the water. I'll be writing as I go so no fast updates this time. But since I'll be writing evey day of the week two straight hours I promise updates every few weeks, not taking into account slow days and writers blocks of course. Get ready for the Legacy.