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Last Time:
"Ok then. When we receive your test scores, I will give you a call."
"Thank you," Gohan said as he stood and left the office.
'I'm going to have to ask Bulma about that conversation,' he thought as he walked out of the school, found an empty alley, and took off towards home.
WWWWW
She just couldn't understand what was going on. There had been 12 more robberies done by the Raptors, all with no other evidence than the card.
And they ran the card for anything, but found nothing.
Just like at every other crime scene. There was never anything.
There was one other case where there was a tape, but it was just like the first one. The Cloaked Figure enters, blows open the window, several masked people enter, take some stuff and leave.
There were never any clues or evidence. They never any traces of explosives, yet there was always an explosion. There were never any finger prints, no hair, no skin flakes, nothing.
They were like the perfect crimes.
And no one else had even heard of them. All the local cities responses came back without any information. Some cities also passed on the requests to cities even further out.
But no one knew anything.
She had been to everyone of the crime scenes and examined every inch of each one. Yet she, like the other officers, never found anything
And if there was one thing she hated the most, it was not knowing anything about something huge like this.
And she knew absolutely nothing about the Raptors.
And it was driving her insane.
She sat at her desk in the classroom with copies of all the reports in front of her.
13 robberies with no clues, and 13 police reports all saying the same thing.
Nothing.
None seemed to explain the explosions. All said that there was an explosion, yet no traces of any explosives were found. It just didn't make sense. She had spent many nights staring at her copies of the reports. There had to be something that she missed, or some clue hidden within the reports. Yet the more she looked at them, the more confused she got. And the more confused she got, the angrier that she became.
Why was this bothering her so much? Why was this driving her to crazy?
And to make it worse, there were 15 more murders, all with no apparent motive. The victim wasn't even robbed. All of them were large, strong looking men, and each one had a hole in their chest or side the size of her fist, and each one wore a look of surprise on their faces.
Hanley had decided that the murders were connected to the robberies, since each robbery was followed by at least one murder. The connections seemed valid enough, even though each murder had no direct evidence to link it to the robbery, or even to the Raptors.
She threw down the papers on her desk and rubbed her eyes. She should really be paying attention to her teacher.
Just then, her phone started ranging. She picked it up, "Yeah?" she said
"Another robbery, Raptor's calling card. Come down and check it out." The voice said.
"Where at?" she asked.
"Jim's Sporting Supplies," the voice answered.
"Be right there," she responded as she hung up her phone. "Sporting supplies?" she asked the papers on her desk under her breath. She stood and asked the teacher to be excused. She headed outside, opened her jet copter capsule, and headed for Jim's.
When she got there, she was met by none other than Lt. Hanley. He gave her the basic report details, but this time it was a little different…
They found something.
There was some blood on he ground near the door. That must have been why they called her in.
"Did you send a sample in?" she asked Hanley.
"Yes, we should have results by tomorrow," Hanley replied.
"Excellent, maybe we might finally learn something about these damn Raptors," she said as she started her examination of the store, looking for anything else that might have been missed.
But she didn't find anything else to go on.
For some reason, she suddenly felt really uncomfortable in the store, like it was getting very cramped inside, so she went outside to get some fresh air.
AAAAA
Gohan walked through the streets of Satan City, he had some time before the test started. He looked at his watch; he had an hour to kill.
He remembered a small café not to far from the school, so he headed that way. He passed by an alley and on the next street over he heard a gun shot and some screams.
"What was that?" he whispered as he ran down the alley and peaked around the corner. He saw 3 men in long coats with bandanas over their faces through the window of the convenience store across the street from the alley.
They hand guns, and were robbing the store.
Gohan started to run towards them, but stopped before he left the alley.
'What if someone recognizes me?' he thought to himself. Then he heard another gun shot and more screams, some in terror, but one in agony. "I have to do something…" he whispered.
He looked around and found that no one was in the alley, so he made the jump to Super Saiyan, dropped his back pack, and ran out of the alley towards the store.
AAAAA
She walked out of the sporting goods store and leaned up against the wall next to the door. She just felt uncomfortable inside that store, but she couldn't explain why.
Then she heard the gun shot and the screams.
Something was happening not to far down the street. She looked off to her left, the direction that the sounds came from.
Then she saw something odd…
A glowing golden streak shot from an alley a few blocks down. It went straight across the street and into a store.
"What the…" she muttered as she took off running towards the store, the screams, and the odd glowing streak.
AAAAA
He ran across the street and burst though the front door.
The first crook was standing next to the door with his back to it, so he didn't see the golden streak, but jumped when the door crashed open. He turned his face and gun towards the door.
Gohan saw this movement and brought his left hand down, directing the gun at the floor as the crook pulled the trigger.
The bullet shot straight down, striking the crook in the foot, and punching a hole in both it and the ground.
This was followed by more screams, some of terror and one of agony, only this time the agony was from the crook.
Gohan swung his left hand back upwards and back handed him, sending the crook spinning through the air and crashing down half way across the store. He took a quick survey of the store looking for the other 2 robbers. He saw 3 people face down on the ground, visibly shaking in terror, but he didn't see the other 2 robbers. He ran towards the counter, thinking one might be hiding behind it.
But when he got there, he only found the cashier on the ground in a pool of blood, a bullet hole in his face.
He turned back around and found a gun pointed at him from the first isle on right, just as the crook pulled the trigger.
AAAAA
Since she had started towards the store after the streak of light, there had been 2 more gun shots, and heaps more screams.
She reached the window of the store and looked inside. She first saw the crook holding a smoking gun, but as she took a few more strides and got a better view of the inside of the store, she saw a man with bright yellow hair standing next to the register. She only saw his back, but his hand was up in front of his face.
'He must have been shot,' she thought as she continued her sprint for the door. Two more strides and she was there. She burst in the door, and as she did, the man with the golden hair lowered his hand and a bullet slug fell from it.
She stopped dead in he tracks and her jaw hit the floor.
The third crook came out from 3 aisles down and pointed his gun at her, but she didn't see him, her eyes were stuck on the gold man's hand and the bullet slug on the floor.
AAAAA
Gohan let out a sigh inside his head. He almost didn't get his hand up in time. A bullet would could be just as dangerous it him as it is to any other person on Earth if he didn't brace himself with energy, but he was able to get his hand up and focus a layer of his energy in the palm of his hand. Usually, he was pushing his power so far down that it wasn't bracing his entire body. When he had brought his hand up, he released the hold on his power in his hand. He didn't want to release it all, because then they would all come looking for him.
And luckily, there was enough there to stop the bullet.
He looked at the crook that shot at him, and the man dropped the gun and fell to his knees with his hands in the air. As he did, Gohan noticed the third crook across the store with his gun pointed at the young girl that had just burst in the door. But she was staring at him; she didn't see the other guy.
He pushed off the ground passing right over the head on the man on his knees. He closed the distance between himself and the third crook in only a few seconds, thinking to himself that she is lucky that man hasn't fired yet. He led his charge with shoulder, fist cocked back to swing at the man's face. He didn't really have time for finesse with this one.
When the fist connected, the crook went flying through the wall and another 20 feet before finally skidding to a halt. 'Oops,' he thought. 'A bit much on that one.'
The second crook's face was pale from the golden streak that flew over his head. He tottered for a moment before loosing consciousness and collapsing to the ground.
Gohan turned his gaze to the girl, saw no threat from her, and started to climb out the hole in the wall. He had to escape with enough time to get his bag and make it to Orange Star High to take the test.
AAAAA
'Ok, what just happened here?' she thought as she shook the stupor from her mind. She turned her head towards the Gold Man, "Who are you?" she asked as he was climbing out the hole in the wall.
"A friend," was all the response she got from the Gold Man as he touched ground outside the store and took off running.
She ran towards the hole, but by the time she got to it, the Gold Man was nothing more that a streak running down the street.
She went to the other 2 crooks and pulled them outside before cuffing them. Then she went and recovered the third one from the street and cuffed him also. Amazingly, he was still alive.
She picked up her phone and called Hanley, telling him to come and take a report and pictures, and to haul away the criminals.
When he arrived, she told him all about how she heard the gun shots and screams, but when she got to the part about the Gold Man, Hanley turned an odd eye on her.
"Glowing gold hair?" he asked skeptically
"Yes, his hair was golden," He replied.
"Like a bright blonde?" Hanley again asked skeptically.
"No," she answered getting angry, "like it was gold and it was glowing."
"Ok… whatever," Hanley responded as he wrote down what she said in his report.
And then he continued writing it all down, and then asked the 3 witnessed and took their reports, along with other pictures and evidence from the store. As he did that, Videl walked over to the hole in the wall and examined it. It wasn't a fake or anything, so this Gold Man had in fact knocked someone through the wall.
But how can that be? She had never seen anything like that happen before. She had never seen someone move that fast and travel across a store in seconds. This Gold Man had traveled across the entire store before she even knew that he had moved.
As she climbed out the hole like the Gold Man did almost 10 minutes ago, she couldn't help but wonder if this Gold Man was related in anyway to the Raptors. Or maybe he knew something about the Raptors and that is why he was here…
So many more questions, and so few answers… And this Gold Man would give her something more to think about and rip her hair out over. But she would worry about that later; she had to get back to class. She opened her jet copter and took off towards the school.
AAAAA
Gohan stood in the alley across from the convenience store watching the police taking reports and pictures of the scene. He had made sure that he had run far enough down the street where he wouldn't be seen anymore, before he cut down an alley. Then he looked back the way he came to see if anyone was following him.
When he was sure that there wasn't anyone there, he dropped from his Super Saiyan state, then took off into the sky and flew over the roof line back to the alley across from the store. He quietly touched down and picked up his bag. And now he stood watching the people across the street. Some had camera and took pictures, others were talking to people taking reports.
And then there was that girl, the one who burst in the door, the one who talked to him as he was climbing out the hole. She looked so familiar, but was unsure why. But there was one thing that he was sure of, and it was that she was very easy on the eyes.
He continued to watch until that girl climbed out the hole in the wall, opened a capsule, climbed into a jet copter and flew away.
Then he casually walked out of the alley and towards the school. It was about time for him to take the test.
He showed up at Orange Star High with 10 minutes to spare, and made his way to the MPR. He sat down and a few minutes later the counselor walked in and handed the test to him and the 9 other people in the room.
She talked the introduction to the test. Blah, blah, blah… Welcome. Blah, blah, blah… Don't cheat. Blah, blah, blah… You have 2 hours. Now open you booklet and begin.
25 minutes later, Gohan stood and handed the booklet back to the counselor and left the MPR. As he walked down the front steps, he thought to himself, 'Wow, that was easy.' He made his way to an alley and took off towards home.