Chapter Three: Confrontation

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Chichi bangs on Gohan's door and starts yelling at him. "GOHAN! WAKE UP! AREN'T YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING?"

Gohan jumped at the angry sound coming from his mother. "What is it, Mom?" Gohan replied with a half-awake tone. He combed his hair with his fingers and looked over at the clock. It was twenty minutes until he had to be in class. "Oh my gosh! I am going to be late for school!" Quickly, Gohan cleaned up and put on his school uniform. He looked at the time and five minutes have passed.

"Gohan, your breakfast is on the counter! Grab it and get out of here or you will be late for class. Your studies are too important for you to miss class!"

"Thanks, Mom. You are the best." Gohan swipes the food off the counter and grabs his backpack and heads out the door. Chichi is standing next to the window watching her son fly off in the direction of Orange Star High School.

Goku comes in and asks Chichi, "What's all the commotion?" Apparently, all of Chichi's yelling woke Goku up out of his slumber.

"Gohan was going to be late for school, so I yelled at him to motivate him more." Chichi smiled.

Goku laughed, because he knew just how forceful his wife can be. "Is Goten still sleeping?"

"Yes. I didn't want to wake him up. He had a long day yesterday."

Goku nodded. "He sure did."

Gohan sat down in his seat at school with only one minute to spare. His hair was a mess from flying so fast.

"Gosh, Gohan, you look like you just flew here all by yourself." Erasa said, sitting in the chair next to him.

"Heh...Yeah something like that...I overslept." Gohan looked around at everyone. He could have sworn everyone knew his identity of being Saiyaman and the Gold Fighter because of the tournament.

Sharpner snickered. "Yeah, right. You probably just left your favorite calculator at home, so you went back to get it." Videl elbowed Sharpner in the stomach. "Oww! That hurt!"

"Could you be nice at least once in your life?" Videl turned her attention back to Gohan.

"Good thing you made it here on time. You live pretty far away. If you would have left any minute later than you would have been late." Videl winked at him. He was so glad that she understood him.

Beep beep. "Videl are you there?" Videl reaches into her pocket and takes out her communicator.

"Yes, chief, what is it?" Videl starts walking out the door and Gohan follows.

"There is a robbery at the local bank. There are five men with guns. They also have hostages with them."

"We are on our way." Videl runs into the teacher and yells, "Sorry, Sir, there is an emergency. We will be right back." After that, she and Gohan get on the roof and take off. "Oh, yeah...Gohan...I forgot to tell you. My dad told me that he had Buu erase all their memories since the tournament. He didn't want them to remember that tragic day."

"I see...so that explains why Sharpner and Erasa had no idea that I am Saiyaman and that I am a Saiyan." A few minutes pass and Gohan finally realizes something. "Wait...does that mean they still think that I am the nerdiest guy at the school?"

Videl laughed. "Whether you're Saiyan or not, you will always be the most nerdy." She smiled because she loved the nerdy and dorky side to him. "I mean, you are a walking definition for the meaning of oxymoron. You are smart, dorky, lame, while at the same time you are cool, calm, and collected. It might be because you're half human and half Saiyan, but that is just who you are. Don't ever try to change."

"You're right. Now let's go get some bad guys." Gohan shouted with excitement.

Gohan and Videl landed about a block away from the crime scene. They observed what was going on. Videl leaned closer to Gohan so she could talk to him quietly. "Gohan, you can probably see what's going on better than I can...How do you want to handle this situation?"

"Well, from the looks of it, all the men have guns on them. Two of them are watching over thee hostages, I am guessing they want to make sure they don't escape. Two are in the back, taking money out of the vaults and the other guy is standing guard at the door. If I were the one in charge of the robbery, I would put the man I could care less about at the door. That way he is the first one shot. I then would put the next two that didn't mean anything to watch over the guards, because the first place the police will go is to get the hostages safe. The man that would be with me is the man I trust most of all and he would also have much better gunman skills than the others."

"That makes sense...Okay here is the game plan. You will go in first and take out all the men. After you take the two men guarding the hostages, I will go-"

Gohan interrupted Videl's train of thought. "Why do I get all the action? I think you should contribute somehow by fighting. That way we both get some fight out of it."

"Gohan, I don't always have to fight. Plus, those guys have huge guns. They are probably loaded with a ton of ammo."

"Guns have never stopped you before." Gohan pointed out.

"Did I not mention that those are huge, gigantic guns? I'm human, and I can't stand up to big guns like that. You, on the other hand, are practically bullet proof." Videl insisted that they stick with her plan.

"Okay, I understand." He nods.

Videl placed her hand on his shoulder. "Gohan, it's not that I don't want to fight, it's just that I would rather do what's best for the hostages than what I want to do. Do I want to go bash one of those guy's brains in? Absolutely, but taking that course of action might get one of the people held captive hurt of killed. It might do the same to me."

Gohan nodded. They both crept closer to the bank. Gohan walked up the stairs to the door and opened it. The man at the door yelled, "Don't c-c-come any closer or I-I'll shoot!" This man really didn't want to hurt anyone, but he would if he had to. Gohan kept walking towards him.

"Don't even try shooting at me. It will just waste your bullets." Gohan said to the man in a calm and collective manner. The man that was at the door started shooting every single shot missed Gohan. , With one hand, he was catching every bullet that was fired. He reached out his hand and dropped the bullets in front of him. "See, what did I tell you?" He then reached out to the gun and bent the barrel backwards and punched the man in his stomach. Gohan exerted as little of energy as possible that would just be enough to knock him out. After making sure that the man was down, he moved on to the two watching the people that were held against their will.

"If you were wise, I would put your guns down." Gohan said, "I can easily do to you what I did to your friend back there." The two men threw down there guns and ran all the way outside, screaming like girls. The police captured them. "Now, to the guys at the vault." Videl noticed that there was no one hovering over the innocent people, so she made her way in.

"Hey everyone," she talked, quietly, "I'm going to get you out of here, but we don't want to make a scene. Since there are ten of you, you will go out the doors two by two on my signal. Everyone pick your partners." A few seconds passed by. Everyone decided on partners. Videl quickly numbered the groups in the order of which they will escape in. "Okay, group number one, quickly, yet quietly, go out the main entrance." Two people, a man and a woman, got up and went out with the directions Videl gave them.

Meanwhile, Gohan had defeated the man second in command and was now onto the leader. "Return all the money you stole from this bank!" Gohan yelled at him. The leader just froze and had no idea what to do. He was nothing without all his men to back him up. Gohan waited a few more seconds, finally realizing that the robber wasn't even moving. "NOW!"

The thief jumped at Gohan's shout and hurriedly placed the money down and ran. Videl was on her way to help Gohan, now that all the captives were safe, but it was too late. The thief grabbed Videl and held the gun up to her head. Gohan came rushing in and stopped.

The crook shouted at Gohan. "Come any closer, and the bullet goes straight through her brain." Gohan started laughing. "What's so funny? I am here, holding a bullet to your girlfriend's head and all you can do is laugh? Is something wrong with you?"

"Not at all! I am guessing you didn't care to look at the person you are holding a gun to. Meet Videl, Hercule's daughter." Gohan announced with a smile on his face. He liked the ring to 'girlfriend'.

"H-Hercule's...daught-"

Before he could finish what he was saying, Videl interrupts by yelling, "Hey look! There's Saiyaman!" Both Gohan and the thief looked to where she was pointing. During this time, she punched her captor in the face and then swings her body to kick him so forcefully, he flies into the bank's glass doors and is knocked out. "And that's how you do it!" Videl beams as she swings her hand out raising the pointer and middle fingers, striking her symbol for victory.

Gohan still doesn't understand why Videl said she saw Saiyaman. I didn't see Saiyaman...wait...I am him! How can Saiyaman be up there, when I am down here? I am so confused!

Here it is! Chapter 3 to "Forever and a Day". I hope you enjoyed reading this. Chapter 4 will be up soon. Please Review!

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