Thank you all for the reviews. Now, before I go into the normal chapter, a few ideas have been brought across.
Dropping Hercule from a high distance where there is little air and catching him before he hits the ground. - Not a bad idea. might use that...or a Saiyan version of kick the can from high up.
Blowing holes in his afro for an inverse mickey mouse look - was rolling on this one. cool idea. never liked his afro anyways.
A one sided "sparring session" and then a forced public confession - I love it. might use that one for certain after kicking him around a while. teach him a lesson in humility.
Love the other reviews and thank you all very much for taking time to review. :) Will try to make the next chapters a little longer but ideas are slow in coming. coming up with good Hercule torture isn't easy. lol
italics = thoughts
" " = spoken words
*** = flashback
warning: Hercule torture ahead
this chapter won't be in Gohan's POV but someone elses. I'll let you figure that part out. lol
Chapter 4: Hercule's Flying Lessons?
I could tell from the moment he walked into Capsule Corp that he had seen what had happened to the house. It was all over his face. The anger, the betrayal, the loss of what he had. A parent can tell these kinds of things. I take him in my arms along with the others and just pray he'll be alright. It wasn't fair what Hercule had done to us, and for what? Because he was mad at me for being better? Because I had more fans worldwide than he did? Hard to say what goes through that man's head. Other than the public arguement, there had been plenty of others.
*** We were indoors, away from the public crowd and having a very heavy verbal debate. I wasn't normally one to lose my temper, but in this case, I had every right to. "Why Hercule? Why do this? Just because I'm better than you? You have to try to make me look like a fraud? I'm not a fraud Hercule, you are. I'm tired of your lame attempts to take the credit for Cell's defeat and I'm tired of you badmouthing my family. You just wait, before too long, there will be retaliation." Hercule just had the nerve to laugh at me to my face. "HAHHAAHAHAHAHAH, You think you can touch me? The Great Hercule Satan? You're a phoney and a liar and once I reveal you for the phoney you are, you'll never open that dojo you want so badly. Nobody will want to go near a fraud who fakes fighting. You're a disgrace to the Martial Arts community." What he said had hurt, but it couldn't be avoided. A bigger confrontation was on the horizon, we just didn't know when. ***
Now here it was, the confrontation I knew that was coming up, and the result was our home being burned to the ground. I turned my attention to the television along with the kids, Bulma, and Chichi. On there was the broadcast showing Gohan leaving the City Hall a while ago. I knew why he had been there. The Mayor had told me earlier how much was there for Gohan, over 400 trillion zeni, more than any of us would ever use. We'd have enough for our grandkids and great grandkids to live on for quite some time. We could build our house again, this time making it better. We'd show Hercule we weren't going to back down. His messup will be our victory. We just had to come up with ideas. The sounds of the gravity machine in use drew my attention away from the tv for a few moments. I could hear Gohan inside beating the crap out of Vegeta, and his power level indicated he was only warming up. I felt sorry for Vegeta at this point. Gohan's temper had skyrocketed since the Cell Games. He wasn't as sweet and gentle as he used to be. Of course his mother didn't need to know that. She still thought of him as her baby. A short laugh from inside the GR caught my attention before the GR shut off and Vegeta came out looking quite roughed up. He was bleeding at multiple points, but was smirking like usual. Typical Vegeta, always ready for a spar and never showing how hurt he is. Gohan just looked my way with a nod once he came into visual range and what he said startled me a moment before I got the biggest grin on my face.
"Time for Hercule to have flying lessons." I knew exactly what he meant, and I wasn't about to miss out on this. It must have been Vegeta's idea to do this. Gohan wouldn't have come up with this on his own, would he? As they discussed the plan of grabbing Hercule when he was out of visual range, I couldn't help but start smirking like Vegeta was. This was going to be fun. We were going to take him to the highest point on Earth, Kami's Lookout and drop him there. We would follow him down of course, but considering the height, it wouldn't have much air to breathe. We would let him free-fall till almost near the ground then catch him. Gohan's idea after that was to beat the crap out of him but leave him alive. He was then going to force a public confession out of Hercule admitting to having burned down our house and whatever else he had done.
Personally, I could hardly wait. This has been 7 years in the making, and to put it bluntly, 7 years was too blasted long to wait. I was only going to watch, not really participate. This was Gohan's revenge, not mine. I would just sit back and let him do as he pleased. So now, our fun begins. We would monitor Hercule for the next day or two, see where he goes and when, then follow him and take him when nobody was around. At least this way, nobody would know who was involved and wouldn't consider us bullies. Hercule was enough of one already without us being made to look the same way. We would start the rebuilding of the house right away, but we had alot of cleaning up to do before we could. Bulma had already agreed to helping us with the cleanup job and Vegeta had intentions of assisting with Hercule's torture. All in all, I'd say we're getting along just fine, as long as we have a mutual target that is. Vegeta wouldn't agree under normal conditions unless torturing someone was involved. I guess thats normal for him, or for a Saiyan. We had a mean streak, no denying that. To get in our way was suicide. Make a friend of us though, and you have a friend for life. Hercule never learned that lesson, but this time he would. He would learn just what we were capable of, and if he was smart, he'd never bother us again. Somehow, I don't see that happening. He's stubborn, maybe more so than Vegeta. Well, it was time to break him of that. If he didn't break his stubborn habits, Videl would be growing up without a father. Sorry to say it, but I pity her for having that fool for a dad. I could be more of a father to her than that idiot could ever be. Well, it's time for us to start our fun. Hopefully things go according to plan.
Chapter 4. Hope you like it :D