Hey guys! Sorry for the wait, had a long week and no time at all!

No beta again this chapter, sorry for the mistakes!

Also, if you didn't check your PM, do it! I usually answer your reviews there, unless you're a guest.

So, as someone said in a review that all aliens could destroy the Keepers, here goes a little explain:

Not all aliens are warriors' type, and even the ones who are can't handle it if they are outnumbered. Also, there was an episode in DBZ that Vegeta kills an ant type aliens, and they weren't warriors. Oh and there's Namek: almost 80% of them were farms, little warriors there and Piccolo fused with one of them, so…

Also, Bulma does have a big influence in the world, but Wickey worked for years to make the world believe that all aliens are bad; and Bulma could only get it worse if she tried to prove the contrary. After all she'd have to expose her friends and family.

Well, I think that's it! Hope you all enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I own this idea for the fic, not DBZ

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Chapter 3

Gohan laughed while pushing Sharpener into the lake; the blonde boy was staring at the water for too long for the half saiyan's taste so he 'accidentally' tripped and stumbled on his friend's back, making him fall into the water with a loud sound. Videl and Erasa couldn't hold their laugh any longer as Sharpener put his head out of the lake with a mad stare at his male friend. As Gohan was laughing he didn't saw the two females grinning at him, and as what happened to Sharpener, he was tossed into the lake. With widened eyes he saw the water coming closer, and smiled, closing his eyes to protect from the impact. Now deep in the water he looked up, seeing Sharpener's legs and two blur figures at the river bank. The smile on his face grew, but suddenly a sad shadow could be seen on his eyes; maybe it was better to tell them about his father being an alien? He didn't know how the trio would react but he bet it wasn't going to be good either way they found out.

"Gohan?" Videl asked after a few minutes her friend was under water. She looked over to Erasa who also had preoccupied eyes. Sharpener, who was now closer to them but still on water – he went there to swim after all – was with his face under water in search of their friend, but got it out as soon as he heard a loud sound of something hitting the water. For his surprise he saw the two girls put out their heads of it and looking at the river bank. The blonde male followed their gaze and was surprised to see Gohan standing there and laughing. "How, the hell, you got out of the water without we being able to see you?!" Videl splashed some water with her hands on his way, his laugh just getting louder.

"Well, that's a secret." He said while grinning evilly at them. Once his dark thoughts on the deeps of the lake went away he smiled. Using his fast movements he went far away from them, getting out at a few meters forward, rushing into the woods and waited for the perfect time to push his friends. "Now, should we start fishing?" He said right before his stomach growled; he was starting to get hungry.

"Sure thing!" Sharpener smiled and started to swim to the center of the lake. They were used to helping Gohan and his brother to get fishes, it somehow helped him and Videl to get better at martial arts, as for Erasa, she was good to cheer them up. Gohan then jumped into the water, in a cannon ball form, splashing it to everywhere. The group didn't notice how longer they stood there fishing, but when the half breed felt the need to eat they started to head home. He got a bigger fish than Goten and was caring it easily, while Sharpener and Videl were having trouble with their small ones. Erasa was helping out her brunette friend, if holding the tail of the fish could be considered as 'help'. The half-alien's nose got the scent of his mother's cooking as they approached the house, saliva dripping from his mouth. That said he couldn't help himself anymore and started to run to his house, almost leaving his friends behind. For his sadness the moment he stepped inside the building his mother scolded him.

"What the-! Don't get inside while you're all wet!" He blinked; he had forgotten he was just swimming. "Go backdoors, Goten will get a towel for you guys. Why you all didn't have your clothes off before entering the water?! It's always the same thing!" At the sight of the frying pan of horror Gohan shivered, for his surprise his friends too; it seemed they wouldn't be left of the beating this time. Letting his fish on the ground – what Videl and Sharpener also did – the quartet went backdoors, meeting Goten that was already there.

"I also wanted to swim! Why you didn't ask me to go too?" He said to his brother while pouting. Gohan smirked.

"Oh squirt, mom need help to cook right? I'm sure you did a great job. Also, I'll play with you later, so…" He put one of his hands on the top head of the kid, caressing it. "Be patient." Goten shrugged; the kid wanted to spar as much as he wanted to play.

After dinner the family and the guests watched TV, the air getting heavier at the sight of the Keepers. The news were all about how many aliens the robots got in only a day, and they wondered how many were out there outside the cities. Videl could see that the Son family was a bit concerned at the videos – made or by reporters or citizen's phones – that showed the non-human getting arrested. The girl was surprised when she noticed Goten's hand grab his older brother's sleeve, and soon enough they left the room. ChiChi looked at them before they got out, turning to the TV right after.

Goten walked side to side to his brother into the woods, Gohan knew something was off when his little brother looked at him with sad eyes, it was as if he was about to cry, so he decided to take him for a walk, or even spar a bit. For his surprise the kid stopped his walk, what made Gohan look at him with curiosity. His tiny fists were clenched by the side of his body, his eyes covered by the shadows of his own hair; the oldest Son sat down on the ground, waiting his brother outburst. For his surprise tears came out instead of a yell or something; he sighed.

"Goten, why are you crying?" Although he knew the answer, he asked anyway. The kid looked up, eyes filled with tears but also a mix of angry on them.

"I…" He looked down again, not sure how to say what he wanted. "… I want to help them… they can't even protect themselves like we do… and the ones who are a bit stronger also don't have a chance!" The kid now put his hands on his face, the sobbing getting louder. Gohan looked away, as if in deep though, but his brother wasn't finished. "And you… you can't even help anyone anymore!" He fell on his knees, the speed of the crying slowing down. It took a few minutes before Gohan talked.

"Goten." His brother looked up at him, his eyes red because of the cry. "Don't worry about it. Although I too am worried and want to help the others, I can't risk to be found out." Goten stared the ground in front of him. "All I want to do now is protect our family. That's all that matters to me." He gestured to his brother to go to him, what he did fast, both hugging each other.

"Are you sure we'll be ok?" Gohan sighed at the question, how he should be sure of that?

"For now at least I can say yes. If something comes up, I'll protect you ok?" He patted his little brother's back who nodded in silence into his chest. The hours went by, the sob finally getting smaller until he could just hear the snores of a sleeping kid on his arms. He looked up at the skies; he sure was going to live a hell from now on.


It was already late at night when Videl woke up, hearing Gohan and ChiChi talking downstairs. She didn't want to overhear their talk but as she was awake now, it was kind of inevitable not to mention how small the house was. As she woke up with the boy's voice she didn't really understand the subject entirely even when ChiChi spoke.

"So he was that worried…" She was fully awake now.

"I calmed him down but… I'm not sure for how long he'll hold back." He did a pause. "He's too alike father in that matter after all…" The silence that came after was longer than Videl anticipated.

"If something happen to you at school… I don't know how I'll hold him back…" Whatever ChiChi was trying to say her son cut off.

"Nothing will happen, mom. And if, I say if, we eventually get to that extent… Go to grandpa." She could hear ChiChi gasping.

"Why? Shouldn't I go to Kuririn and the others?" Videl frowned; she had heard this name somewhere before, but couldn't remember where. But again, she knew that hear their talk wasn't a good thing to do, but she just heard a few things that caught her attention. 'What could happen to him at school? No one would even dare to do anything to him because of me…' Something was really off.

"Mom, did you thought about what will happen if they find Eighteen and specially Vegeta?" That got more of Videl's attention, what could possibly be wrong with these two – was eighteen even a name? – persons? "We can't risk anything here. Grandpa has many ways of protecting you two and holding back Goten. Promise me that you'll go to him." As Videl didn't hear anything back from ChiChi, she got that the woman had promised him in a quiet nod. The girl was starting to get thirst, but she wasn't sure if it was safe to go out of her bedroom now. She heard footsteps outside not long after, letting the silence fulfill the place. It was when she decided to go get her water. Videl opened the door slowly, as not to attract attention and headed downstairs as quiet as she could. She almost yelled seeing the shadows move into the kitchen, her heart at her throat and she sensed her blood starting to freeze inside her; only to realize it was Gohan.

"Why the hell were you in the dark?!" She murmured as soon as she got her voice back. He looked at her and blinked. The boy keep staring at the girl, trying to figure out for how long she was up; in the end he shrugged, even if she was awake he didn't said anything that could provide their identity to her.

"I think better in the darkness." He simply said while resting his arms on the table. "Why are you awake?" He wasn't looking at her anymore, and she felt better this way – not that she disliked being looked at by him, it was just weird since the girl had just heard their private talk. Also she couldn't really see him well with no light at all. Getting closer to the china cabinet and grabbing a glass she looked over to his shadow silhouette.

"I woke up because I was thirst." Before closing the door of the little cabinet she spoke again. "Want some?" The boy looked at her and nodded; only to remember that they were in the dark and she probably didn't saw his gesture.

"Yeah sure." He heard Videl fulfilling their glasses with water, and sensed her sating down by his side. He grabbed the water glass and drank all of it on one shot. He was stressed; it has been just one day since the Keepers were on and his family was already suffering the side effects of it; all he wanted to do was to let them have a peaceful life. Without thinking he crashed the glass on the table, breaking it and doing a little crack on the wood; he cursed under his breath. Videl on the other hand jumped with fright; she wasn't expecting that sudden noise. "Shit." He simply said. "Don't move I'll get it clean." He then turned the lights on, grabbed a dishcloth and started to clean up.

Videl looked at the table and blinked when she saw the crack on it 'It was him who did this? Or it was always there?' She couldn't remember at all, but the blood on his hand make she grab his arms, stopping the cleaning. He looked at her with curiosity.

"What?" Now she made a worried face.

"Your hand, it's bleeding." It was when he looked down to his own hand.

"Oh it's true." He simply said as if it was nothing to be worried about. "I can take care of it later, but now I need to finish to clean and-" Videl cut him off by walking him to the sink. She opened the tap and put his hand under the water, his blood turning it into a red liquid.

"Take care of yourself first, the glass isn't important." He giggled; she sure doesn't know how his mother can be fearsome when it comes to house objects being broken by super strength. "Do you have a first aid kit?" She looked up to his face, glaring at his kind smile and onyx eyes. She blushed.

"No, we don't." Was all he said. "Don't worry, I'm ok. Really." He managed to get his hand back from hers, but his gaze never let go of her blue eyes. Suddenly something came to his track of thinking and he spoke before noticing. "Say Videl…" She raised one eyebrow at her friend.

"What?" The boy gulped; maybe he shouldn't ask her… "Don't you dare to not ask your question. You started, now you finish." He sighed in defeat; it was going to be better if he thought more about it.

"All this alien stuff… do you really think all of them are bad? I mean… what if there are some of them that mean no harm, and even have children with humans?" Her reaction wasn't what he was expecting; she put a finger on her mouth, thinking about what her friend just said. It took a few minutes for her answer to come.

"To tell you the truth… I have a bad feeling about all this stuff." She turned her back to the sink and crossed her arms. "I do believe there are some of them that are good and mean no harm. On top of that I'd not be surprised if there are half aliens out there." She looked at him with a kind smile. "At first I did thought they were all bad, until the Golden Fighter was found out to be one as well." His eyes showed surprise now; so all he did as the super hero thing was worth it after all. "He sincerely cared about every person he saved. I could feel it. I'm sad because now everyone thinks he is a bad person, alien, whatever he is." A giggle came to her ears and she looked angry at him. "If you were going to laugh I-" He then hugged her.

"Finally someone that thinks just like me." He then let go of her. "Let's sleep; we have a full day to enjoy tomorrow." Gohan was somehow happier than ever now; there was at least someone who doesn't think all aliens are bad. He even forgot about the broken glass, cracked table and wounded hand, while Videl was frozen in her spot.


"Gohan!" The mad yell that echoed inside the Son's house on the next morning woke up every human and half-aliens that were snoring in a flash. The one the voice called opened his eyes fast at the same time he sat on his bed. Looking at his bedroom he saw Sharpener with messy hair on Goten's bed, while his own brother looked scared right next to him – as they shared the bed for Sharpener had a place to sleep –, the blonde was with a huge frown, as if he was wondering what happened.

"What did you do?" Goten asked with worry in his eyes; his brother gulped. He just remembered the crack on the table.

"I bro – " He started but another yell came from downstairs, making him shiver.

"Get down here right now! Or else I'll go there and bring you by the ear!" Cursing under his breath the teen got out of his bed; what a wonderful morning. Running down he reached the kitchen really fast and got afraid of the sight of his mother holding the frying pan with burning eyes.

"Dare to explain this?" She pointed at the table, where the pieces of glass were, together with the crack. Scratching the back of his head he looked away.

"Huh you see... I was thirst and stressed... I kinda used too much strength to put the glass down...?" He looked at his mother uneasy; he was telling the truth but it didn't mean that she wouldn't hit him. ChiChi was looking at him with narrowed eyes; but before she could tell something he decided to continue. "I was going to clean it up but I got cut, so I stopped." That just made her raises an eyebrow.

"How the hell the glass hurt you?" The boy shrugged; he didn't know either since it shouldn't had cut his skin. All he could think that it was because Videl was near him; maybe he unconsciously let himself unprotected by his ki? "How serious was it?" He then showed his hand.

"Nothing serious, it's healed already." The answer he got was a hit on the head with the frying pan.

"Good. Now go change clothes; they are staring at you." Gohan titled his head to the side, turning to his back right after. In the middle of the room were Erasa, Shapener and Videl, the three staring at him, who just noticed that he was shirtless. The trio's eyes traveled around his torso, noticing not just his muscles – he never was shirtless in front of them until now, he just used a shirt when swimming – and a lot of scars; the one that caught more their attention was the one that started on his left shoulder, going down until the middle of his upper arm. Noticing how they were looking at him, Gohan rushed up to his room cursing under his breath as how he didn't even remembered to put a shirt on; his face as red as a tomato. Goten glared at his brother after he entered their room; the oldest Son boy was still all red and confuse.

"Did something happen big bro?" Gohan looked at his brother and sighed.

"Let's say I may not be the weak nerd anymore." Goten giggled at that while floating to his brother's side.

"So they now know you're super strong?" Gohan smirked and got his brother on his arms. The kid was his fun time.

"That was not what I just told you." With his right hand he patted his brother's head. "They just saw I'm not weak squirt. Let's let the 'super' part out of it ok?" He smiled at his little brother's giggle and nod. The oldest then started to look at his closet, trying to find a shirt that wouldn't or reveal a lot of muscle or hide all of it. In the end he got a sleeveless one; he wasn't pleased that the scar made by Cell was all showing up, but now he really didn't had to hide it anymore. The smell of breakfast started to fulfill the bedroom, both brother's stomach growled, and saliva dropped out of their mouths as they dreamed about the food.

ChiChi put some pancakes on their plates with a smile on her face. The teenagers bite their lips in excitement; the food that ChiChi did was the best. As soon as they started to eat the two brothers appeared from nowhere, digging themselves on the food reserved for them. The trio looked at the oldest son of the house, still impressed about his muscles; sensing the glares Gohan sighed.

"You know," He swallowed the food on his mouth when he got a murderous glare from his mother. "You guys can ask me if you want to know something. Don't need to stare at me." Now he smiled at his friends.

"Oh sorry for staring at you it's just…" Sharpener gestured with his hands without a defined meaning. "We know you for six months and we never knew you had those muscles." Gohan looked unsure at them; he wasn't really hiding it but he also wasn't trying to show either.

"Do you work out?" Erasa asked while biting one of her pancakes. For everyone's surprise she wasn't freaking out about their friend, she was pretty calm. Gohan pondered his answer; should he say he trains every day or maybe lying a bit would be fine?

"I, train once per week." In the end he added one more lie to his list; but his answer got Videl's attention.

"By training… do you mean martial arts?" That got ChiChi's attention and Gohan could see his mother tensing up, her back were still being showed to the teenagers as she was doing the dishes. Goten stopped eating and now was looking at Videl with an unsure look; the girl was taken aback, did she ask something wrong?

"Yes and no." Gohan answered still looking at his mother. "I train to keep in touch with my father I guess." His glare then went to his friend once again; a sad smile on his face. "He taught me some movements, but since he passed away I just copy him." He then started to eat again, and no one dared to ask anything more as the tension on the room just rose.

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That's it! Hope you all liked! More action on the next chapter I swear hehe

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