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Chapter 1

A trip is planned

Gohan arrived at school in his normal fashion. He few to the roof top and changed from his saiyaman outfit before descending the stairs to his school. As normal he was a little early, so as not to attract attention to his unusual method of arrival. He wandered down the nearly empty corridors towards his locker, when a loud whirring noise could be heard from the roof. "Videl" he murmured looking upwards towards the ceiling, knowing that her helicopter had just landed. "That was close today. Man! She keeps getting here earlier. I'm gonna have to watch out."

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The bell sounded announcing the beginning of homeroom. Gohan grabbed his books from the locker and rushed to class almost knocking over some of the students in the corridor with his speed.

"Today class, I have a very important announcement..." the students moaned. Normally when a teacher says something like that, it meant they were going to have either more homework, a field trip to a museum or a nature walk. All of which seems boring to the average school kid. "… We are going to have a survival course as part of the new school curriculum."

Shocked students slowly erupted with loud cheers, clapping and excited whispering. "Quiet please! This course will include a week in the mountains, where you will have to rely on your own skills and survival techniques. And …" he carried on explaining what this trip would involve to a attentive audience, with the occasional cheers and applaud breaking his speech. He began handing out slips of paper. "Don't forget people that you have to have this permission slip signed before tomorrow, and that if you want to go on this outing you will have to attend after school classes on survival techniques."

As they were dismissed from homeroom all that could be heard from the students was the chatter of what they would bring, clothes… etc , who they'll camp with and how fun it will be.

Gohan on the other hand was quietly groaning. 'How am I going to get mum to sign the permission slip? She wouldn't let me have a whole week without studying?' Something poked him. "Gohan?" 'Wait maybe if I said I'd take my books and study there she might let me go?' The poking got harder "Gohan!" thump 'huh? What was that? Wait isn't that….' "Videl?" "Finally! I thought you actually wanted to stay in homeroom all day." "huh?" it was then Gohan realised that he and Videl were the only ones left in the room. "Dam" he muttered. He'd been to busy thinking (a/n: not a good pass time! Thinking hurts way to much!) and hadn't realised everyone had left or that Videl had been trying to get his attention for the passed 5mins. "Dam" he repeated as he grabbed his books and chased after the quickly vanishing form of Videl.

After school finished, Gohan discreetly made his way back up to the roof only to discover Videl there. 'oh man' Gohan hid behind the wall (a/n: you know the one where the entrance to this stairs is) 'Dende I hope she didn't see me' Videl however had something else on her mind. ' Stupid course! Why would I, the daughter of the great Mr Satan, need a survival course! It's not like I can't take care of my self!' Videl angrily threw her capsule helicopter out on the ground in front of her before flying away.

'Another close call with Videl. I pretty sure she's already suspicious of me, so I'd better be a lot more careful' Gohan thought as he tapped the watch/saiyaman convert thingy and transformed. He flew homewards still pondering on how to explain to Chichi about the course.

As Gohan landed outside his house this glowing blonde bundle hurled it's self at him knocking him off his feet, before revealing it's self to be Goten. "Ahhhh" yelled Gohan as he collided with the ground. "Onii-chan? Onii-chan? Wot's wrong Nii-chan?… hey!" Goten yelped as Gohan tackled him before both ended up squabbling on the floor.

"Gohan?" Chichi voice could be heard coming from the kitchen "is that you? 'cause dinners ready" "oh boy!" yelled both boys as they raced to the house "food!"

"sssooo Gohan how was your day? Did you study hard? Learn anything new? Huh? Huh?" "er..yer I learned plenty I can…" he began reeling of everything he could thing of, that he had learned while Chichi listened with stars in her eyes. 'That's our son Goku! I just wish you could have been here to see him grow up to be a great scholar.'

"mum?…mum? MUM!" "huh? What is it Gohan?" murmured Chichi still proudly thinking of her son. " I want you to sign this form for me." "oh…what's it for?" chichi asked giving Gohan the look. "err hehe well you see OurclassisdoingasurvivalcourseandIneedyouto signthissoIcango, please?" "what was that Gohan?" Chichi asked pretty shocked by the speed at which he spoke. "I said our class is doing a survival course and I need you to sign this so I can go, please? Mum?"

As comprehension kicked in Chichi started to argue "And what about your studies young man! How do you expect to do good in school if you don't study?" "Aww mum it's only for a week and it's.. it's.. it's good for the brain…yer it's good for the brain to have small breaks once in a while." Gohan lied in what he thought was a convincing manner. "Who told you that young man?" " Erm… I read it in one of those really thick books you brought me" "well…ok you can go but only if you take your work books with you and have them finish before you return. Understand? Gohan are you listening?" Gohan had been silently jumping for joy since she said ok you can go and had missed the rest of her lecture, but by the stern look she was giving him he could tell what she'd said, he'd still have to study what a drag. " Hey Gohan who am I gonna train with for a week?" Goten whinged "err why don't you train with Trunks?" Gohan suggested, " Hehe well you see me and Trunks broke the gravity machine and Vegeta said that if he saw me he would…" gulp "Ahh I see ermm… then why don't you invite him over here?" " Nii-chan that's a great idea!" Goten cried and he whizzed around the room. 'Hehe I don't think mum thought my idea was so good' Gohan thought as he sweat dropped at the sight of her face. 'I'd better go train before she starts yelling at me' Gohan said as he disappeared out the door.

Videl however was having the opposite trouble.

"Here" she said tossing the permission slip to her dad. He began to read and a smile soon spread across his lips. "Of course you can go" he stated matter of factly, without even waiting for her to ask. Which she didn't want to do, she didn't need to go on some boring trip to the mountains just to prove how good she was. "My daughter! Ha you could teach them how it's really done you'll be able to show them a thing or two won't you? Of course you will 'cause your Mr Satan's daughter!" he laughed as he thought of how Videl could embarrass the people trying to teach her to survive, what he didn't realise was that this wasn't survival as in out on the streets, robber type survival this was treacherous, cold mountain type survival. "I don't want to go on some dumb hike thing!" "What! You are going and what's more you're going to be the best there. Right?" Videl sighed; you couldn't argue with him once he made up his mind, it just wasn't worth it. "Fine I'll go! But if anyone bugs me I'll.. I'll…Ahh" she made a punching motion on the Ahh then stormed out leaving Mr Satan to continue to watch all his merchandise videos.