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"Are you sure you have everything, Pan? Do you have your Lunch Capsule?" Gohan asked his daughter in front of her new elementary school on her first day. Pan was dressed in her new clothes for school, a blue long sleeved shirt with a red t-shirt pulled over it and black jeans.
Pan gave her largest Son Grin and pulled a purple capsule out of her pocket showing it to her father. "How about your power-limiter, is it working?" She held out her other hand to show a watch, the display read 24/5364, meaning that her current output was 24 and her max output with the limiter still turned on was 5364.
The power-limiter was a project that Gohan himself worked on with the retired Dr. Briefs during their spare time and was based on confiscated alien technology. Because of this Dr. Briefs couldn't let just anyone help him with the project, so Gohan, being the only other scholarly person in the loop other than his daughter who was kept busy running the family business, was his partner on such projects.
Though Vegeta scoffed at the idea of a limiter, it proved to be the most valuable piece of training equipment they had, even surpassing the Gravity Room. By decreasing all ki they use by 99%, it made it so they could train much harder without having to worry as much about damages. It also helped the Z-fighters with everyday life since they didn't have to worry about forcing down their ki so they wouldn't tear away an entire wall every time they went to open a door.
"Are you sure your ready?" Gohan asked one last time and Pan started to look exhausted from all the times she had to say 'yes'.
"I'll be fine, dad." Pan said and Gohan gave a weak chuckle. She jumped up and gave her dad a hug before turning and running into Orange Star Elementary.
Gohan stood outside the gate into the school yard for another half minute tracking the progress of his daughters ki through the halls before finally sighing and turning to walk to his own school. He pushed away his mixed feelings about the life his daughter was going to have at school to be sorted out later during his meditation.
Around five blocks later Gohan could hear the sounds of gun fire. 'Not again.' He thought a little annoyed at the city's crime rate. He looked down at his own power-limiter watch which displayed 38/224539 and pressed a side button which changed it to show the time. "20 minutes until high school starts, I got time." Scanning the area of any ki signatures, Gohan powered up letting his black hair turn to a powerful gold.
"Man, this is so easy." One of the criminals said as he shot at the police cars laughing his butt off. "The cops around here are terrible."
"No kidding, this town is ripe for the pickings." A second said and his lifted a chest of stolen jewelry into the back of their escape truck.
"Are you sure about that?" A cool voice said from above them. Before either robber could react they were knocked down for the count, and standing over them was Gohan, with his long golden hair.
Noticing that the gunfire stopped the driver of the getaway car looked in his rear-view mirror and saw the glowing Gohan. "Oh Kami, no!" He shouted and floored the accelerator.
The tires screamed but the car remained motionless as Gohan held it back with one hand. His teal eyes flashed as he concentrated his ki on the trucks radiator causing it to burst. Steam can from under the front hood of the car and it was plain to see that the thing was going no where.
The driver threw open his door and tried to make a break for it on foot, but he didn't take three steps before he was hit hard and fell to the ground unconscious. Gohan took a moment to scan the area for others, but when he found none, he left so quickly that it seemed to everyone watching that he just fell out of existence.
Moments later Videl arrived on the scene to find the thugs unconscious and the police standing their baffled. "I got a call that you needed help with a robbery. What happened here?" Videl asked pulling out her ID though she might as well not have bothered, the whole police force knew who she was. The daughter of Satan Hercule, the man that saved the world from Cell. She often was called on when the police couldn't handle a job.
"Oh, Videl, it was that golden fighter, the Delivery Boy." The officer said still seeming a little dazed.
"The Delivery Boy, are you sure?" Videl asked frowning, it had been the seventh time the boy had shown up that week. Him and the five year old golden girl who everyone speculated to be his little sister. Videl was annoyed by the sudden arrival of the new 'heroes' but not concerned. They got the job done and didn't cause much damage, so there was no reason to arrest them.
But Videl was more than curious about the new comers. How they did what they did, why the Delivery Boy had chosen to resurface after five years had gone by since his appearance at the Cell Games, and why would he allow his little sister to be out there?
"I'm pretty sure it was him. I mean, he had the golden hair and that weird glow, but he wasn't wearing that same outfit that he always wore." The policeman said pausing in his shock.
"Go on, what was he wearing?" Videl prodded.
"Oh um... he was wearing a white long sleeve shirt, with a black vest and red trousers." The officer looked at Videl and pointed at her shirt. "And a badge, just like that one."
Videl looked at what he was pointing at. It was the badge that she had to wear for school, a white badge with a gold star in the middle. 'Everyone at my school wears one of these stupid things.' Videl thought to herself. 'Does that mean that the Delivery Boy goes to my school?' "Are you sure you saw a badge like this on?"
"Um... will I can't be too sure." The officer admitted. "It all happened pretty fast."
Videl bit her lip. "Alright, thanks for the info. Can you handle the clean up here?" She asked looking at the soon to be convicts. But she didn't even listen to the man's reply, the thoughts were on the Delivery Boy and the Golden Girl. 'I will find out who they are.'
Gohan felt overwhelmed as he stood in front of his new class as he was being introduced by the teacher. The room was set up in the auditorium style with seven row at varying heights. He had never seen some many kids in his entire life. And his ki sense was telling him that their were more kids in that high school than there were Namekians on New Namek.
"Alright class please settle down, I would like to introduce your new classmate." The teacher said as he slowly managed to get the students attention. "Alright that's better, now, you all might want to pay attention. Son Gohan here got perfect score on all of the entrance exams so..." Giggles and murmurs of 'nerd' filled the room. "None of that! Quiet all of you!" The teacher shouted angrily. "Honesty." He shook his head before turning to Gohan. "Is there anything about yourself that you would like to share with the class?"
Gohan's eyes widened. 'Share with the class? I can't think of anything that I could tell them about me. Most of my friends are aliens and I have a daughter from the 'kind of' future.' Gohan shook his head rapidly.
"Oh... well then please find a open seat so I can start class." The teacher said turning to the board.
Gohan looked up at the rows of kids and almost felt like he wanted to dash right out of the room. "Hey, over here." A boy with long blond hair in a muscle shirt called down from the third row from the back. He was gesturing to an empty seat next to him. Gohan walked up to the seat and sat down wandering what he was supposed to do. He never been to school before. He didn't even know anyone who had ever been to school before.
"Hey babe, relax." The blond boy said putting an arm around Gohan's shoulders. Gohan was momentarily confused by the smell that was coming off the man. It reminded him of Bulma's perfumes. "No need to be nervous. I'm Sharpner, and this school is like my backyard. Just stick with me and I'll show you all the ropes."
Gohan couldn't understand what the guy was doing, or was it a girl? He was doing similar things as Master Roshi when the old man was trying to convince a younger woman to mate with him. Gohan tried to shift away from the other boy... girl... person.
Another boy in the row ahead of them chuckled. The boy had brown hair and glasses. "Leave it to Sharpner to try to hit on the new girl on her first day." The boy said receiving a kick on the back of his chair by the blond who must have been Sharpner.
"Um... I'm a boy..." Gohan said weakly, his cheeks turning red.
Sharpner's arm shot back in horror and he pushed himself away from Gohan causing himself to lose his balance and falling of his chair. "You're a what!?" He shouted.
"Mr. Sharpner, I would like you not to interrupt my class!" The teacher shouted and Sharpner quickly got back in his seat looking down in shame.
All the people around them the trying to old down their giggles. Gohan merely looked confused. "Way to go Sharpie, good to see you finally accepted yourself for who you are." The brown haired boy snickered quietly.
"Sh... shut up, Mark. You though she was a he too... I mean he was a she... just shut up." Sharpner muttered then turning to his right he hist to the girl next to him. "Hey Erasa, switch seats with me."
"Honesty Sharpner, you're being rude." The girl said but she traded seats with him anyways. Gohan was sure that it was a girl this time. She was a blond with short hair and large blue eyes. She was also wearing perfume but she also had lipstick and earrings. She had on really short gray shorts and a pink tank top and never seemed to stop smiling. "Hi there cutie, sorry about Sharpner. He can be a bit thick headed, but you'll get used to him." The girl said offering her hand. "I'm Erasa, it's nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too, I'm Gohan." Gohan replied a little unsure of himself as he reached out and shook the girls hand, being careful that his ki didn't go up and that he didn't grab to hard.
Erasa opened her mouth to ask some questions of the new kid but the door to the room shot open and all eyes turned to see who it was. "Sorry I'm late, I got a call and..." A girl with black hair in pigtails started but the teacher waved for quiet.
"Do not worry Ms. Videl, I am well aware that your community service takes priority. Please take your seat." The teacher said turning back to the black board.
Videl nodded and walked up to her row before noticing the new student at the end of it. Gohan's eyes were wide as he looked up into the girl's blue eyes. She was a little short, though that still left her an inch taller than Gohan himself. She was wearing a plain white tshirt and black biking shorts. But the thing that mesmerized the young half saiyan was her ki. It was strong, not as strong as a Z-fighters, but far stronger than any untrained human that he had ever meet before. The focus and energy behind it reminded him of his own mother's ki. The prideful and questioning look in her eyes left the boy in awe.
"Who's this?" Videl asked as she walked past him and sat down on the other side of Erasa, between her and Sharpner. She looked at the boy's clothes and to his long hair. 'He almost fits the description of the Delivery Boy this morning.' The mused but dismissed the thought. 'It's never that easy. And his hair isn't even the right color.'
"Oh this is Gohan, he's that new student we were told was coming, remember?" Erasa said smiling to her friend. "Gohan, this is my best friend Videl."
Gohan shook himself out of his daze to respond. "It... it's nice to meet you." He said bowing respectfully.
"Huh? Oh ya, sure." Videl said looking towards the front of the room where the teacher was reviewing the previous days lesson on cells.
"Hey Gohan, you'll never guess who Videl's dad is." Erasa said smugly.
"Huh, who is it?" Gohan asked curiously. Videl didn't look as interested in having it said.
"He's..." Erasa opened her mouth but was cut off.
"Mr. Erasa, I would surely hope you are not going to spend my class period gossiping, especially after how you did on that last test." The teacher said looking at the young blond disapprovingly as the rest of the class laughed at the girl's expense.
Erasa immediately shut up and pretended to take notes. Videl breathed a sigh of relief. She would rather not have the new kid who she had hardly even spoken a word to to find out about who her father was. Not that she was at all ashamed of being the daughter of Satan Hercule, the renowned hero of the world. But she didn't like how people looked at her like she was some kind of zoo animal for it. She didn't want to just be known as the Champ's daughter, she was a fighter in her own right.
Gohan seemed to forget all about it and after about two minutes of taking notes he switched to doodling in his notebook.
Lunch came around and Gohan was starving, but he was having yet another problem he never had to face before; where was he supposed to sit? There seemed to be some kind of order to things in the mess hall and he had no idea how it worked. After being glared away from four different tables he was starting to get confused.
"Yuhu, Gohan!" Gohan turned to see Erasa waving at him from a table with Sharpner and Videl. Taking the invitation Gohan walked over and sat down.
"Th... thank you." He mumbled.
"You don't need to thank us." Videl said with a shrug. "You could have sat anywhere you wanted, you just seemed a little lost."
"Why do we have to have Nerdboy at our table." Sharpner mumbled.
"Nerdboy?" Videl asked questioningly giving the jock a disapproving look.
"What? The kid got perfect scores on all the entrance exams." Sharpner said giving Gohan a dirty look. Gohan gave an innocent smile and rubbed the back of his neck. "He's probably a momma's boy that does nothing but study."
Gohan's head shot up as he realized he was being insulted. He didn't know what a 'nerd' was after all. "Watch yourself, Sharpner. No need to pick on the new kid. We should at least give Gohan a chance." Videl said before drinking some of her milk.
"Ya Sharpie, what crawled up your butt and died." Erasa teased. "Is it because you were caught flirting with him." Milk shot out of Videl's nose and Sharpner and Gohan both flushed.
"He... he was what?" Videl was laughing, the sight of the serious girl laughing was uncommon enough to draw attention in the lunch room. "I didn't know you swung that way Sharpner."
"I thought he was a girl!" Sharpner shouted trying to justify himself. "It's his own fault, I mean look at him. That curvy body, his long dark hair, he's short figure." Gohan stiffened at the mention of his height. "And he acts so shy and delicate."
"Sounds like you have the hots for him." Erasa teased again to the joy of Videl.
"NO!" Sharpner shouted bashing his head on the table.
"Um... If it makes you feel better, I thought you might be a girl at first too." Gohan mumbled. "Because you smell like my friend's perfume."
"IT'S CALLED COLOGNE!" Sharpner screamed startling Gohan a little. Erasa and Videl burst into tears of laughter and people who were listening in started to snicker.
"Alright, alright, lets just eat so we don't run out of time and end up having to go without lunch." Videl said as she regained her composure. Gohan looked horrified at the idea of not having lunch.
As the rest of them went back to their food Gohan pulled out his food capsule and out popped his lunch case. It was four boxes all 2' by 2' and 6'' high. He didn't even notice everyone's wide eyes as he got to work on his lunch.
The whole thing took him just over five minutes to eat and afterwards he leaned back and gave a soft sigh of gratitude to Dende for the bounty of the Earth. Only then did he notice the who school was staring at him. "What?" He asked wondering what was going on.
"You just ate enough food for like forty people, in five minutes." Erasa said awestruck. "How do you stay so skinny?"
"Um... genetics I guess." Gohan said rubbing the back of his neck. He was turning bright red from embarrassment.
"Hey no need to be embarrassed." Videl said wanting to be a little more welcoming to the new kid. "Relax."
Gohan stopped rubbing the back of his neck and gave a weak grin. "Sorry. I guess I'm just a little nervous today. I've never gone to a school before."
"What? You were home schooled?" Erasa asked interested in Gohan's past.
"Well, there hasn't ever been any schools near where I lived, so I've always just studied myself." Gohan admitted.
"No schools? Where you from, under a rock?" Sharpner joked though he was surprised.
Gohan shook his head. "No, I used to live with my mom and dad at Mt. Paozu..."
"Wait you mean THE Mt. Paozu, as it the monster Mountains!?" Videl asked shocked. "No one lives there, it's too dangerous with all the dinosaurs. Even the streams are supposed to have ten foot man-eating piranhas."
"Ya, but it's not that dangerous if you know how to handle them." Gohan shrugged. "I lived their until my parents passed away five years ago, after that I moved to the Land of Korin to be with my Godfather."
"Five years ago... Cell." Videl said quietly. "But I thought that everyone Cell killed came back to life after the Cell games. That's why we call it the Day of Miracles."
Gohan shook his head. "No, they didn't die from Cell. The Papuu Virus, it got them both. My dad died the day of the attack on South City, and my mom a few weeks after the Cell games." They all looked sorry for him. "Don't worry. I'm still moving, I can't afford to dwell on it." He said with a small smile. "But there weren't any kids in the Sacred Land of Korin either. I've only really every met two people my age before, though they are really a year younger than me."
"No wonder you seem so shy." Erasa said sympathetically.
Gohan nodded. "Is... is it really weird for a guy to have long hair?"
"Well... usually only weirdo guys like Sharpner let their hair grow out." Erasa said grinning at Sharpner who looked insulted. "I think you would look much cuter with shorter hair." Gohan nodded and picked up his plastic knife from the table. "What are you..." Erasa asked as Gohan pulled his long hair together in the back before pulling the knife through it cutting off his long hair.
Everyone looked in shock as Gohan pulled away the large mat of hair and smiled. "There, is that better?"
"What... what did you do that for!?" Videl shouted at the young saiyan. 'How did he do that with just one slice of a plastic knife?'
"But I... I thought you said that I should cut it shorter." Gohan said defensively. Videl seemed scary to him in her sudden burst of anger. Another trait that she shared with ChiChi.
"That doesn't mean you cut it off here and with a knife! You're supposed to go to the barber's for that!" Sharpner shouted. "What is wrong with you!?"
"Um... what's a barber?" Gohan asked confused. "Is it a type of food?" Erasa looked like she was about to faint. Gohan just gave an innocent smile as he went and throw the hair in the garbage.
GYM class, Videl's favorite time of the school day. The class had finished the stretches and push ups that made up their normal pre-class warm up and were being given a free day to do whatever they wanted.
Most of the other girls went to sit on the bleachers to talked about their hair or boys or something. Not that Videl cared, she had never really been interested with things like that. She walked straight over to the matted area where they were permitted to practice sparring for martial arts.
But out of the corner of her eyes she spotted Gohan, the odd new kid sitting near the wall in the lotus position with his eyes closed. 'Is he napping or something? Doesn't look very comfortable.' Videl thought as her first victim stepped up; Sharpner.
"Hello Videl." Sharpner said grinning as he stood opposite to her. "This will be the time that I beat you and you will finally go out with me." He said the same way he said it every time he raised his hands up into the boxer's position.
"You know the rules Sharpner, you would have to beat me first." Videl teased as she dropped into her fighting stance. She couldn't remember who started the rumor about the person who beat her would be allowed to date her. At first it was her father saying that anyone who wanted to date his daughter would have to beat him first, then she said that anyone who couldn't be her wouldn't stand a chance against Mr. Satan. After that, people started to challenge her with the objective of dating her in mind. "And besides I thought you were running after Gohan now. You would do anything with black hair, wouldn't you?"
Sharpner flushed and ran at the girl throwing a right hook. Videl easily ducked it and went in close delivering four sharp punches to Sharpner's stomach before punching him hard in the face launching him back out of the ring and knocking him unconscious. Two other guys picked him up and carried him away. Videl was a little harder on him than she needed to be, but she hated the way he talked to her, with no respect.
"So who's nexted?" Videl asked some of the onlookers. But they all backed away. She sighed, even though that meant they had given up trying to flirt with her, it did take way any possible sparring partners. 'Maybe I shouldn't have knocked out Sharpner so quickly.' She thought with a little annoyance.
"Can I try?" The voice shocked Videl out of her thoughts. Standing right in front of her was the new student, Son Gohan.
"Um... are you sure?" Videl asked, he was pretty small. "You're not exactly dressed for it." She nodded towards his long sleeves and jeans.
"Don't worry about it." Gohan insisted.
"Do you even know anything about fighting?" Videl asked.
"I've read a few books on the subject." Gohan chuckled before bowing to her before taking up a stance.
"Alright..." Videl said and took up her stance too. She didn't want to hurt the new kid on the first day of school, so she threw a weaker punch than usual.
She was shocked when he easily parried, moved into her, hooked a foot behind her leg and knocked her down with a light hit to the opposite shoulder. She fell on her butt on the mat and the next thing she knew Gohan and a fist pointing straight at her face.
Murmurs of shock went through the class. "You shouldn't underestimate your opponent." Gohan said in a teacher like voice as he flipped his hand open to offer to pull Videl to her feet. She took the hand and he pulled her back up. "Now don't hold back this time, I want to see you fight like you did against Sharpner, if you think you can."
Videl couldn't believe the change in Gohan, he had been a scared and nerves reck early, with no worldly experience. But after stepping up for a fight he changed. There was a much truer smile on his face and his eyes were so full of life. Now that she was really looking at his stance he could see that it was the real deal.
"Alright, but that is the last time you are going to catch me off guard." Videl said smiling herself as she raised her fists and prepared to attack. She through flurry after flurry of punches and kicks, none of which managed to get through Gohan's defenses. He threw a punch or two but mostly let himself be kept on the defensive.
Finally, Videl threw a hard right punch stare at Gohan. But Gohan shifted around it and grabbed her wrist with his right hand and moved his left arm underneath hers, bringing his knuckles to rest right in front of Videl's face. "Every punch and kick has a max range where it loses it's momentum, leaving you open. So don't over commit unless you know you will land the hit." Gohan said before letting her arm go and moving back to stand across from her. "Again."
The next thirty minutes was spent fighting, Gohan knocking down Videl on occasionally and him giving her pointers on how to improve. No one could believe it, the small new kid from the middle of nowhere was beating Satan Videl, the daughter of the World Campion and the strongest kid in school.
Videl found that as the matches went on, a large grin was plastered across not only Gohan's face, but her own as well. The way that he would give her bits of advice after each match reminded her of back when she was still training with her papa.
She had loved those days alone with her father, when he was not the World Campion, and just a father teaching his daughter. He was big and goofy, but he had always been supportive of her. But after the Cell Games he seemed to lose a little bit of the heart the he had always put into fighting. Sometimes she could see him looking at her with pity when he thought she wasn't looking, as if he thought that no matter how good she was, she would never be as good as he was. It wasn't just her who got the look, it was everyone. Everyone of Mr. Satan's students was a disappointment to him, or so Videl thought.
They started to drift apart over the years since, though neither of them brought attention to it. Recently he had stopped training with her altogether.
But here was Gohan, making her feel like she was actually learning martial arts again after all the time she had spent practicing.
Gohan on the other hand was excited beyond words. He had to constantly check himself to make sure he wasn't letting himself get carried way. He had first volunteered as a sparring partner for Videl to confirm something he had expected from her first fight with Sharpner. And he had been right.
Though Videl was taller than Gohan, she was still small, smaller than most girls in their class. But her punches had a lot of force behind them, more than they should have considering her body weight. She had been unknowingly tapping into her ki to make her punches faster and stronger. It was just like whenever he had seen his mother fighting when he was a little boy. Her potential as a fighter was incredible for a human.
"I... I couldn't even touch you." Videl panted with her hands on her knees. "How... I... I'm supposed to be the strongest." But she didn't exactly look upset about losing.
"The first lesson that every martial arts master teaches their students, is that there will always be a stronger opponent." Gohan said not even sweating in his heavier clothes. "The moment you think you're invisible is the moment you've lost. Even Cell was destroyed from his arrogance in believing that no one in the world could stand up to him."
"What are you, some kind of fighting Guru?" Videl joked as Gohan started to walk off the fighting mat.
Gohan chuckled. "I don't pretend to be an expert. I have a lot left to learn. But I've been fighting for a while."
Videl couldn't believe him, he wasn't acting at all like her boastful father. Her dad had always declared himself to be invincible, where Gohan said there was always someone stronger. 'He's so strong... could I learn to... be stronger than my dad.' Videl thought as she watched Gohan walk way. "Wait!" Gohan stopped and looked back at her. "We're sparring again tomorrow, and next time I will win."
Gohan smiled. "Sure, tomorrow." He said sitting down and returning to his meditation.
Videl was to exhausted to continue to fight, she had been fighting at her fullest for thirty minutes straight. So she walked over to the bleachers and sat down next to Erasa.
"Wow Videl, I never thought I would see the day you lost a sparring match." Erasa said smiling. "How do you feel girl?"
"Other than the fact that I am almost too tired to move, I feel great. I haven't felt like this in a long time." Videl said looking past the other students who had taken up sparring after them to see Gohan meditating back in the corner. "I wonder how strong he really is, he didn't even break a sweat."
"Where do you think he learned to fight like that?" Erasa asked Videl.
"I really couldn't tell you." Videl said never looking away from the new boy. 'Maybe it has something to do with him living in the Sacred Land of Korin. I remember my dad telling me bedtime stories about the place when I was a little girl. About the Tower of Korin that was said to have been placed on the earth by Kami as a test, and that anyone how climbed it would be granted power beyond words.'
Not that Videl actually believe those stories, but if Gohan got the opportunity to train with the great warriors who came from around the world to test themselves against the legendary tower, that could explain how he got so skilled.
'One things for sure, he isn't the Delivery Boy, that guy was just a trickster, Gohan is the real deal.' Videl thought with a smile.
"Videl... Videl are you in there?" Erasa said tapping on her friend's shoulder.
"Huh, what?" Videl asked realizing Erasa had been talking to her.
"Don't give me that, I saw the way you were looking at him." Erasa teased. "So are you going to date Gohan now? He did beat you fair and square, twenty times."
"It was only twelve times." Videl said flushing. "And no I'm not."
"Are you sure?" Erasa asked sounding a little disappointed. "You two looked so cute out there, and I haven't seen you so happy in a long time. It was like you were dancing together and nothing else in the world mattered." She said clapping her hands in front of her chest.
"We were fighting! Fighting and love don't mix." Videl insisted.
"If you say so, but if you are going to change your mind you should probably do it fast. Everyone saw Gohan acting really cool back there. So wait to long and someone else might get him." Erasa said. Videl bit her lip and told herself that she didn't care about things like that. Gohan was going to be a good friend, sparring partner and someone she could learn from; not a boyfriend.
"I don't believe you." Sharpner said in their history class as he held an ice bag to his head. "There is no way that Nerdboy could ever beat my Videl. You all are just making fun of me." He insisted. They were openly talking in class since their teacher had fallen asleep and no one felt like waking him up so that he could talk about some mysterious events that were never explained in modern history, such as the disappearance of the Red Ribbon Army, or people coming back from the died.
"Give it up, Erasa. Sharpner doesn't have enough brain cells to understand what your saying." Videl said rolling her eyes.
Erasa sighed. "Fine, lets pick a different topic. How about the Delivery Boy?"
"Oh ya, because we all know so much about him." Videl said sarcastically.
"That's what makes it so fun to talk about." Erasa pointed out.
"Um... what are you taking about? What delivery boy?" Gohan asked. "Did someone order some pizza or something?"
His new friends looked at him in shock. "No the Delivery Boy, you know the one from the Cell Games?" Sharpner said.
"Someone ordered pizza at the Cell Games?" Gohan said even more confused.
"I... I can't believe it. He couldn't possible be that ignorant." Sharpner said wide eyed.
Videl sighed. "Alright listen Gohan because I'm only going to say this once. The Delivery Boy was the name given to the child that was at the Cell Games." Gohan's eyes widened, they were talking about him. "He recently reappeared in Satan City and have been stopping robbers and stuff like that with his little sister who is being called the Golden Girl." And that would be Pan. "Do you understand?" Gohan nodded a little scared.
"They say he's our age and incredibly cute with long golden hair and a build that's to die for." Erasa said dreamily. "He's supposed to have been strong enough to have fought against Cell five years ago and live." Gohan swallowed hard.
"Oh please, everyone knows he's just a trickster, just like all the others at the Cell Games." Sharpner said snidely. "He isn't really strong. And besides he's nothing compared to Videl's dad."
That caught Gohan off guard. "Is Videl's dad a famous fighter or something?"
Videl scowled at the question but she realized she couldn't avoid it any longer. "My dad is... Satan Hercule."
Gohan looked confused and blinked at Videl. "Real? You look nothing like him." He said innocently. Videl was a little shocked. She was excepting a big reaction about how great her dad was and how the new boy was 'such a big fan'. But Gohan didn't really seem that concerned.
The bell rang and the teacher's head shot up off the black board and he looked around confused. "Oh, um... read pg. 78 and 79 in your book. And I will see you tomorrow." There were small groans from the class as they all got up and started to walk out. But they couldn't be to upset, after all, school was over for the day.
Gohan got out of the school rather quickly and was getting ready to head for the elementary school to pick up Pan when a voice called him back. "Hey Gohan!" Videl shouted walking up to Gohan with Erasa in toe. "Hey do you want to go hang out for a bit?" She asked, though she really wanted to take him to her father's gym so that she could spar with him some more.
Gohan shook his head. "Sorry, but I have to pick up Pan from her elementary school, and then I have to go to work."
"Who's Pan, your little sister?" Videl asked wondering what it was like to have a sibling.
"You have a job?" Erasa seemed to think that was more important.
Before Gohan could answer either question he sensed his daughter's ki approaching him. "Daddy!" Pan shouted as she wrapped her arms around her father's legs.
"Hi, Pan, how was your first day of school." Gohan asked as he scooped up his five year old daughter. Pan grinned and gave the V for victory sign. Gohan turned back to Videl and Erasa who were still shocked. "Pan, I would like you to meet my new friends, Videl and Erasa. Videl, Erasa, this is my daughter, Pan."
"Hi, I'm Son Pan, it's nice to meet you." Pan said grinning widely.
"She's... so precious!" Erasa squealed pulling Pan into a hug.
"Did... did you say she's your daughter?" Videl asked dazed. Gohan nodded. "But... you would have had to have had her when you were like 10."
Gohan chuckled a little. "No it's not like that. Her real parents passed away do to the events surrounding Cell. I'm her closest living relative. I took her in when she was only a few months old. So I guess that makes me her father." Gohan said, it was the truth, a really bent version of the truth, but still the truth. It wasn't like he could tell her that she was his daughter from the future. Videl was touched by the selflessness of Gohan's actions. "Come on Pan, your daddy has to go to work today." Gohan said taking Pan back from Erasa.
"Does that mean I get to play with Trunks?" Pan asked looking up at her father.
"Sure, just try not to drive Vegeta up the wall." Gohan said. Pan gave a squeak of joy and they started of towards Capsule Corp.
Gohan and Pan reached the Briefs residence of Capsule Corp after a few minutes of flying. Pan was the one that went up and pressed the doorbell.
The voice of a child trying to lower itself in order to sound like a man came over a speaker. "If you're with the news or the church you have five seconds before we vaporize you! 5... 4... 3..."
"Hey Trunks, it's Pan." Pan said and the counting immediately stopped and the door lit up the all clear and opened revealing a six year old boy with straight purple hair in a Capsule Corp jacket.
"Pan!" Trunks said happily as he greeted his best friend before noticing Gohan behind her. "Hi, Gohan." He said. When he was younger Trunks had been calling Gohan 'Daddy' and Pan 'Sis' since he had spent more time with Gohan and Pan than he had with his own real father, Vegeta. But he had recently stopped that short after Bulma told him that people weren't allowed to marry their sisters.
"Ha Trunks. I've got business with your Grandpa, so you and Pan can go play for a while if you want." Gohan said. Trunks cheered and ran of in the direction of the kids entertainment room that Bulma had installed with Pan at his heels.
Gohan chuckled a little as they went before following the usual hallways to Dr. Briefs's lab. "Ah, Gohan, it's good to see you again my boy." Dr. Briefs said smiling though his thick grayish white mustache. His black cat, Scratch, the constant companion that he keeps was looking over his shoulder from his usual perch.
"Hello Dr. Briefs, how's everyone been?" Gohan asked.
"Who really knows?" Dr. Briefs shrugged opening a draw and pulling out some folders before returning to his desk, the how time Scratch's eyes never left Gohan or even blinked. "I hardly ever leave the lab anymore these days. The world could have ended outside and I wouldn't even notice." A slight tremor went through the room. "I suppose we need to find a way to boost the effectiveness of the limits. My son in law can hardly go a week without blowing something up."
"I think he is actual trying to blow things up though." Gohan said pulling out a folder himself. "I've been looking at the EMD generator for the use in our faster than light space travel and the main thing we can do for cutting down travel time now is optimizing our acceleration. I think that if we alternate the EMD field, then we can use the magnetic backlash to accelerate even faster." Gohan said pulling out the calculations that out of all the people on earth, only himself, Dr. Briefs, and Bulma would be able to read.
"Yes I was thinking the same thing, but the problem we end up running into is fuel. Even though a EMD field is easy enough to maintain, producing it and dispersing it is rather costly." Dr. Briefs said scratching his chin. "And it isn't like it would be easy to find a friendly refueling station will out in deep space."
Gohan and Dr. Briefs spent the next hour puzzling over the changes to the Briefs family space ship. Eventually they agreed on a plan of action and set to work designing the parts they would need. That is until Bulma arrived.
"Gohan, it's good to see you." Bulma said as she entered the room. She walked up to the half saiyan and gave him a hug. "You really do need to visit for more than just business with my father." Bulma then looked straight down at Gohan. "I hear you and Pan have been running around town fighting crime. How about you two have dinner with us so we can catch up?"
"Um... good afternoon to you too, Bulma." Gohan said a little embarrassed.
Dr. Briefs started laughing. "I suppose this means my daughter is taking you away. Well that's ok, we've done enough for today. I have to come up with a list of materials we need for the prototype, but I can do that on my own. You go ahead and have fun."
"You know Gohan, you and my dad are lucky." Bulma said as she started setting up the machines that would prepare enough food for a saiyan, two half saiyans, a quarter saiyan, and the normal humans that would all be eating together, since Dr. Briefs only ever ate what his wife, Bunny Briefs, prepared for him. "If I wanted to build a cutting edge space ship for the actual company I would have to go through months of stupid paperwork to get permission from out idiotic investors who don't understand a thing about the importance of science. They probably wouldn't even give the ok." The machine started buzzing to life. "The joys of being a private workshop with enough money to cover those kinds of things."
"Ya, I guess so." Gohan said rubbing the back of his neck.
"So, the word through the grape vine is that you and little Panny have started school." Bulma said smiling. "Never went to one personally. What's it like? Are you having fun? Have you met any girls?"
"Well today was our first day, but it did seem kind of dull." Gohan admitted. "And I've met two girls there and one boy, but for some reason the boy doesn't like me very much."
"Two girls huh." Bulma said laughing to herself. She knew that Gohan was too innocent to understand what she was implying.
"Ya, One's named Erasa. She talks a lot and keeps saying things that I don't really understand." Then a wide smile spread across Gohan's face that didn't go unnoticed by the Capsule Corp CEO. "The other girl is Videl. She's a fighter." This grabbed Bulma's attention. "She has a lot of ki for a normal human, around half as much as Master Roshi; sixty maybe even a seventy. And she uses it unconsciously whenever she fights, just like my mom used to. She's pretty loud and kind of scary, but she has a really nice smile."
Bulma's jaw dropped. 'Oh ChiChi, your little Gohan has a crush?'
"Is that what you've been up to." Bulma jumped but Gohan was not surprised when Vegeta entered the room. His normal scowl on his face.
"Hello Vegeta." Gohan said respectfully.
"Don't give me that. What is the matter with you. First you babysit and play scientist when you should be training, and now you add school and girls to that list. You really are the son of a third class fool, Kakkabrat." Vegeta said as he opened up the fridge and pulled at a full gallon of milk that he started chugging. "And that hero thing, I don't like it."
"What, we got Dende's permission..." Gohan said nervously.
"Well you should have gotten my PERMISSION!" Vegeta snapped. "I am the prince of all saiyans. And I say, don't use the legendary transformation of our people as a blasted costume!"
"Wait... what?" Gohan said confused.
"He doesn't care about the fact that you are going around saving people, he just doesn't want you to do it while super saiyan." Bulma said rolling her eyes.
"I still think it is a waste of time that could be better spent training. Though I suppose you aren't the strongest on the planet anymore." Vegeta said snidely. Gohan blinked. "After all, while you have been playing around, I Prince Vegeta have been training none stop and have achieved the second level of the legend."
"Oh, that's great Vegeta." Gohan said congratulating him. Gohan didn't feel like telling Vegeta that he was working on the level three transformation, it would only serve to anger the saiyan prince and Gohan didn't like dealing with Vegeta's pride issues. He had actually achieved the level three form, but found that he couldn't maintain it for more than a few seconds and left him drained, so it wasn't fight ready.
"That's great honey, now maybe you could spend some time with your son." Bulma said angrily. "You do realize he was pretty sure that Gohan was his real father instead of you. I wouldn't blame him if he still wishes that was the case."
Vegeta scoffed crossing his arms in front of him. "Babysitting is for second and third class saiyans, not royalty like me."
The machine dinged signaling that the food was done. "We'll talk about this later." Bulma said walking over to a switch board and turning on a intercom to the kids room. "Trunks, Pan, it's time to eat." She said. With in moments two blurs came into the room.
At first Vegeta only seemed a little annoyed but then he was done right shocked. "Brat, what happened to you?" He asked his son who had a couple of scraps and bruises on him.
"Oh, Pan and I were sparring a little." He said a little nervously. Vegeta looked over at the quarter saiyan girl who didn't have a scratch on her.
"You... lost." Vegeta said as if horrified. 'No, my son could not have lost to the spawn of Kakkabrat.' "Were you holding back?"
Trunk shook his head. "No, but I think Pan was holding back a little." Trunk admitted. "I mean, she's a lot stronger since she always gets to train with da... Gohan and Mr. Piccolo. I only get to whenever she comes over to play."
Vegeta's eyes widened. "I have made a horrible miscalculation." He muttered. Gohan and Bulma had to hold back their laughter. "Brat... I mean, Trunks, I think I am going to start over seeing your training personally starting tomorrow."
Trunks head shot up and a wide grin spread across his face. "Really?" Vegeta nodded. "Yes! Thanks dad." He said giving his father a hug. Vegeta looked shocked.
"Well it's about time." Bulma said huffing a little. "Now how about we eat some dinner."
Ten minutes later enough food to feed a entire village had been devoured. Vegeta dismissed himself afterwards to go and set up a training regiment for Trunks.
"So, on a scale of one to ten, how surprised do you think he will be once he finds out that Trunks can already go super?" Gohan joked after the saiyan prince was out of ear shot.
"I'd say around a seven." Bulma said smugly. "But it will serve him right for not paying more attention. Now lets take about your superhero costumes."
"What?" Gohan asked confused.
"Well the royal pain said he doesn't want you to run around in public as a super saiyan, so you're going to need a costume since you don't want people to recognize you, right?" Bulma said.
"I guess so." Pan said thinking about it.
"Well you don't have to worry, because I made these." Bulma said proudly as she pulled out two new power-limiter watches. Gohan and Pan each took one and switched them for the watches they had on. "Now just press the blue button."
They did and their clothes were immediately changed. Trunks burst into laughter. Gohan was in a black spandex suit with white gloves and boots, kind of like Vegeta's blue one, with a green tonic over it and a orange helmet on his head with a black visor and antennas. A red cape was over his shoulders. Pan on the other hand was in a sky blue tonic with a bright pink helmet with a blue heart on the forehead.
"There, now you two look like real superheroes." Bulma said proudly.
"Yeah, this will work." Gohan agreed looking in a mirror.
"Originally I made them so that after you guys tear up all your clothes fighting, you could just replace them with a press of a button. But I figured you could use it to have a superhero outfit on hand." Bulma chuckled.
Pan unwound her tail and looked at herself in the mirror giggling. "This is so cool." She said happily. She ran around with her arms out shouted things like 'stop villains!'.
"Wow, calm down their Saiyagirl." Bulma teased.
"Saiyagirl?" Pan said but then her grin doubled in size. "I want that to be my superhero name! Oh this is so cool!"
Trunks seemed to think it was more funny then cool. But Pan looked at him and smiled. "Trunks! You should get one too!"
"What but I..." Trunks said backing away not wanting to be in one of those goofy outfits.
"Come on Trunks, then we can all go out and fight crime together, it will be fun." Pan said grabbing his arm and pulling him back. "We get to go around using our powers, scare all the bad guys, and make fun of them all the time, like those heroes in that show we used to watch."
This got Trunks's attention. "You mean I could scare them without getting in trouble?" He asked looking to his mom who looked concerned but nodded. She seemed to think she was creating a monster. Trunks jumped for joy. "Alright then, I'll be Saiyaboy!"
"Great, the Daddy can be Saiyaman." Pan said running around her dad.
Gohan chuckled a little. "Fine, why not."
"It's just like when we were kids." Bulma mussed to herself as the two youngest Z-fighters ran around laughing, though none of the others could hear her. "Oh Goku, if only it was like this for Gohan growing up."