Celebrations and punishments

It has been six days since Lime had her first encounter with the frying pan of doom, true it wasn't her that had received it but the effect was just as powerful, seeing Gohan knocked out like that and him laying on the floor with that fear etched into his unconscious face, a look that she had never before seen on his face, this struck fear and respect for the cooking utensil into her heart and mind, she then vowed never to be on the receiving end of it.

Ever though Gohan had insisted he was fine he seemed more distant and was a lot less cheerful than normal, although Lime suspected it had more to do with the punishment Chichi had given him than the smack on the head with the pan, Lime could still see the shocked and horrified look on Gohan's face when she closed her eyes.

Limes flashback

"Alright I think the coast is clea…."

'BANG'

I couldn't believe my eyes, Chichi had come out of nowhere and swung a massive pan at Gohan and hit him firmly on the head, I watched as his hair began to flicker and then switched back to being black and his golden aura disappeared, he fell to the floor and was out cold. Bulma must have heard the bang as she came running down the hall.

"What is it? What's happened?" she screamed in confusion and concern.

Then she spotted Gohan on the floor and Chichi with the frying pan, her eyes darted from one to the other for a while as if trying to make sense of the situation.

"Chichi son" she finally screamed, "what have I told you about using than pan in my…."

Bulma was cut short as chichi dropped the pan that had been hanging loosely in her hands and fell forwards towards Gohan, she would have landed right on top of him if Bulma hadn't caught her at the last second.

"Are they going to be alright?" I managed to squeak,

"Sure thing kiddo, Gohan will be fine when he wakes up, and Chichi just passed out from the shock, would you help me get them both into bed?"

The next day Gohan and Chichi was a little later rising than normal, me and Bulma were sat in the kitchen waiting for them when we heard raised voices coming from upstairs.

"But mum you already hit me with the frying pan" we could hear Gohan complaining,

"Don't but me young man, I make the rules and you follow them, now your punishment for the next 7 days is as follows; half ration food, no playing with Icarus, and extra homework"

"Wow, sounds like Chichi is really coming down hard on the little guy this time" Bulma commented.

Not long after Gohan entered the kitchen wearing a look that I would never forget, one of shock, horror and resignation, is was a look that Gohan definitely didn't wear well.

End Lime's flashback

Lime sighed and went back to her new room at Gohan's, she couldn't believe it had only taken Bulma 4 days to add 3 more rooms, consisting of her room, one for the newly named baby Goten when he arrived and another bathroom that was larger than the other with a truly massive tub. She walked into her room which she was half way through customising, picked up a paintbrush and continued a design she had started before breakfast, which not covered most of the wall.

Meanwhile down in the quiet, now empty kitchen Chichi was about to begin a little customising of her and Bulma's creation, she picked up the phone and dialled.

Ring ring…. Ring ring….

"Hello Bulma speaking"

"Hey Bulma its Chichi, I got us something fun to do"

"I do love it when you get all excited like this Chi, what you got for us this time?"

"Well its Lime's birthday soon and I wondered if we could use your indoor garden to have a massive party"

"Hmm I like the sound of that, I do love hosting parties, when was you thinking Chi?"

"Well I know its short notice, but I was thinking tomorrow night"

"Wow that's kinda a tight schedule you put me on, but I think its possible"

"Great I know you do your best work when your short on time, anyway is Gohan still there?"

"Yep sure is, he's been in the GR since yesterday, hang on I'll check the visual on it"

Bulma could be heard flicking a few switches and mumbling to herself, then Gohan's voice could be heard down the line.

"SUPER!" his yell easily audible to Chichi.

"Looks like he's powering a Kamehameha wave big enough to rival one of Goku's, I hope the GR survives this" Bulma moaned.

"KA… ME… HA… ME… HAAAAAAAA" this was followed by another intense scream "MASENKO ….. HAAA"

There was an almighty explosion that Chichi presumed was from the two energy waves, she could also hear Bulma scrambling around then falling over, and then the line went dead. Chichi hung up the phone and sighed, she guessed that Bulma was going to need a hand clearing up after an explosion like that.

"LIME! Come along dear, we need to go make sure Gohan hasn't blown up capsule corp." she called upstairs.

"Ok Chichi, I'll call Nimbus"

"Do we have to use the cloud? There has to be another way"

"Well its either Nimbus or Icarus" Lime added.

"On second thoughts let's stick with Nimbus" her voice breaking slightly.

"Alright, FLYING NIMBUS" Lime yelled.

A short cloud ride later Chichi and Lime were hovering over CC looking down at the devastation caused by Gohan.

"Is it just me or is there something missing from this picture" Lime thought aloud.

This statement didn't require an answer, and Chichi didn't provide one, for 1 because she was too busy looking at the mess below, and 2 she had temporarily lost the ability to speak. Looking below you could see the GR, or rather what was left of it, scattered across the CC compound in what must have been close to a million pieces, and a crater at least 5 meters deep on the site of what used to be the 'whole' GR.

As Nimbus gradually circled round and landed Chichi's and Lime's attention were also drawn to a huge black blast pattern on the side of the main building, just then Bulma appeared and walked directly towards the massive crater,

"GOHAN SON! You get out of that hole now and get your ass in front of me"

Gohan could be seen climbing out of the hole looking considerably worse for ware, for starters his training Gi was totally destroyed down to his waist and the bottoms were all torn and burned, his right arm was quite limp and blood was visibly running down it then dripping to the floor, his upper body was riddled with cuts and his face was plastered in blood and dirt.

"Bulma, let me try an…" he was cut off,

"Just shut your mouth, listen to what I have to say then do it!" the danger clear in her voice, just like when she 'talks' to Vegeta about this, "ok, for starters I cant actually believe you managed to blow this thing into more pieces than Vegeta, secondly what the hell was you thinking? You could have been killed, thirdly you better get this mess cleaned up by dinner or im not feeding you, do you hear me young man?"

"Yes Bulma, but can I at least get my arm sorted? It really stings"

"Sure kid" her voice suddenly kinder and softer "I keep my beans in the kitchen in the fruit bowl on the windowsill" she then turned to Chichi "oh hi chi when did you get here, come on we have stuff to do" she finished with a wink.

The next few hours flew by as Lime helped Gohan retrieve all the pieces of the GR and Bulma and Chichi hid themselves away to do more planning, dinner came and went with much whispering and giggling from Bulma and Chichi, Lime found this suspicious but Gohan told her it happened often when his mother and Bulma got together. Soon it was time to go home, Bulma had forgiven Gohan, but how couldn't she not with that smile plastered on his face, and Chichi was happy with the plans for the next days party.

The next morning started pretty normally, breakfast at 8am followed by studies till midday, it was then that Chichi made a rather surprising announcement.

"Alright, why dot you kids go play outside for a few hours, then we will go to capsule corp. for a… errm… to keep Bulma company for a while"

Although totally thrown off guard Gohan managed to drag Lime from the house,

"Come on Lime, before mum changes her mind"

It was then that Chichi put her plan into action, phoning Bulma first to make sure the preparations were under way, she then proceeded to contact all the Z-fighters she could, obviously it fell to Krillen to summon Tien and Chiaotzu with his Ki, not long after she had finished Bulma rang to give her the news that all was in place and ready.

"GOHAN, LIME come along you two its time to go"

"Coming mum"

"Coming Chichi" they called in unison.

"Now change into something nice you two, we might be going out when we get there"

Gohan eyed his mother suspiciously, but she only glared back with her 'say anything and you'll get the frying pan' look.

After arriving at CC Chichi and lime dismounted Nimbus, Chichi complaining about her hair and Lime about how numb her lags had become,

"Why don't you guys go play in the garden room while I find Bulma"

"K mum"

Gohan and Lime walked the deserted corridors and to the indoor garden, Gohan punched in his pass code and the door slid open, in they walked and the door closed behind them.

"G-Gohan, what's wrong with the lights! I don't like it in the dark, PLEASE MAKE THE LIGHTS COME ON" Lime screamed.

"Hmm, ok hang on" Gohan gathered his power and with a flash of golden light transformed, his glowing aura lit a large amount of the room around them.

It was then that they noticed a large amount of groaning from a dark corner, but before they could investigate the lights snapped on and Bulma and Chichi bounced through the door and screamed.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIME" then both blinked at what they saw.

Lime was clinging onto Gohan with everything she had, Gohan had one arm around her as protection and the rest of his body dropped into his fighting stance still glowing, and then they noticed the pile of Z-fighters in the corner groaning in discomfort.

"Ok, do I even want to ask what happened here?" Bulma asked.

"Hmm, short story is" Gohan said putting his hand behind his head, "you all scared Lime half to death, and are all lucky I didn't Masenko your sneaky backsides to the check-in station trying to protect her." He finished with a serious look at them all, causing Bulma to lose her voice.

"Ha, im glad I tuned in to watch this trash after all, all you weaklings almost got destroyed" Vegeta spoke from a now active screen on the wall.

"Shut your trap Vegeta, or I might not repair the GR for when you get back" Bulma found her voice.

While Bulma and Vegeta argued long distance via satellite for a while and the Z-fighters untangled themselves, Chichi approached Lime.

"Were sorry Lime, we wanted to surprise you that's all."

"It's ok Chichi, just next time make it a little less surprising, K?"

"Ok sweetie" Chichi pulled Lime into a hug.

"Well looks like you guys are having a good time" said a voice from nowhere.

Everyone stopped what they were doing; even Vegeta stopped yelling at Bulma for being a 'stupid disobedient woman', which never happened.

"T-that voice can it really be…" Yamcha started, but Goku finished,

"Well of course it's me, who else is going to talk to you from otherworld?"

"Oh Goku, I missed you my love" Chichi yelled at the roof "does this mean you are coming back to raise your new son with me?" she asked hopefully.

"I missed you too Chi, but im sorry I can't come back, not till im really needed or I would just cause problems for the earth, this is my farewell to you all"

Chichi was close to tears, which Goku sensed and countered with,

"But I will always be watching over you and the boys to make sure you are safe." This seemed to do the trick as she calmed down.

"Gohan, my son"

"Yes father"

"I can't begin to tell you how proud I am of you, you have become a true hero for the earth, keep an eye on both your mother and baby brother for me would you?"

"You can count on me Dad."

"My friends, I trust you will always appear before danger just as before and make it disappear, I want you to know my spirit will always protect you when that time comes."

A series of nods and cheers arose from the Z-fighters at this.

"Finally Vegeta, my enemy turned close friend, I pass on my responsibility to keep the people of this planet safe from harm and evil, as they are now your people too."

"Fear not Kakarot, both me and the boy will keep things in order down here, and I expect you to keep getting stronger, I want a fight with you when I join you."

"You can count on it Vegeta"

Just then another voice cut into the conversation.

"Goku, this is the grand Kai, I require your assistance with some trouble makers in HFIL, please come quickly."

"Yes sir, on my way, sorry guys looks like I need to cut this call a little short, I miss you all and look forward to the day I can see you again, and Chichi, Gohan I love you both dearly, now get that music going and PARTY! You can't beat Bulma's parties"

And with that he was gone again, but no one was sad, they all had closure now and knew that Goku was out being a hero all over again and on another fascinating adventure.

"Hmmf, trust Goku to even be a hero when he's dead" Krillen laughed

"That's my Goku alright" Chichi added.

"Well you heard the man, LETS PARTY" Bulma shouted.

There we go guys another chapter for you to digest, let me know what you think, I know some parts maybe a bit shaky but I needed to make the story move a bit quicker, chapter 5 might take a little longer to post but I'll do my best to be quick.

Thanks for reading, please review.

Matt.