Vigilante Angel: Chapter the Fifth

Summary: Gohan dies at the end of the Cell Games. He is then appointed as Goten's guardian angel when Goten is born. What'll happen?

Disclaimer: *Snorts with laughter* Yeah right. Get outta here.

There are definitely some OOC moments in the story. Don't worry about them, they're okay in an AU. Aren't they? ;-)

I also use a lot of ideas from my favorite fics, like "Blinded" by dragonscales and "Once Upon a Chibi" by Candyland. So no suing me or reporting me for plagiarism. :p Unfortunately they don't know I'm using their ideas, so if anyone would like to oblige me, go right ahead! Good publicity for me! ;)

A/n: THIS IS THE PRANK CHAPPIE! OH YEAH! However, I was disappointed with how many reviews I got offering ideas. So far, the only one I had was from unknown soldieress. As her idea is the only one I got, I'm using hers, with a little alteration or two. But next time, if there is one, I suggest all of you reviewers put your ThinkingCaps™ and come up w/ an idea! A'ight? *Sets evil eye on reviewers* A'ight?! *Reviewers nod fearfully* Good. *Grinz* A'ight, let's get the ball rolling!

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Thinking

Telepathy/Bond

"Speech"

(Author's comment)

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[Passage of Time]

::Flashback::

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[The Next Day: Four Years after Cell]

Goten woke up slowly. Apparently it was early in the day, which was unusual for the little demi-Saiyan. Usually he woke up when his mother called, or rather, screeched, him out of bed. He lay alone in the big white feathery bed that was his bed but not his bed. There was something wrong with that statement. Shouldn't there be someone with him…? Oh yeah, Gohan had been with him until earlier. Speaking of Gohan, where was he?!

Goten leapt out of Gohan's bed and ran down the hall to his mother's room, yelling, "Mom, Mom, Mom! Where's Gohan? Where's shakei?" Goten began frantically searching the sheets and under the bed for any signs of his oniisan.

Chichi watched her second son flitter about the bed. She didn't know, but wasn't Goten unusually attached to Gohan after seeing him for only one day? Chichi shrugged. "Goten, Gohan left for the Other World earlier today. He told you he would. Remember?"

Goten killed his actions. "Really? Umm… oh yeah, he did tell me! Thanks Mom!" Goten bounded off the master bed and ran down to the kitchen. He rushed out of the door and was blasted straight in the face by the kyokkou. Goten fell onto his back, the kyokkou causing him to raise his arm over his face to protect his eyes. Once he got up and turned away from the sun, though, he was all right.

Goten spotted movement in the trees and dashed off, his temporary blindness forgotten. Today was the prank day! Ooh, ooh, ooh! He couldn't wait. But the prank was going to have to wait until after breakfast.

"GOTEN! BREAKFAST!" Goten was arrested mid-stride. The four-year-old forgot about the movement itself and sprinted back the short length of distance he had gone back into the house where Chichi and a waiting heap of 23 1/2 syrupy pancakes with 12 sausages and 13 pieces of thick bacon was waiting for him. (Yum…)

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Gohan sat chuckling in the Otherworld. He had seen Goten's stupefied reaction to the bright kyokkou and couldn't help but laugh at the exaggerated motion. The pool of water he was watching the Living World in rippled in response to Gohan's laughing. Gohan stopped his laughter and cast a wasted injured look at the pool for its admonishment. But Gohan wiped the incident from his mind as he watched his otoutosan go back into the house and to his patient breakfast.

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Trunks wasn't doing anything of the sort. He was still sleeping away, content in the calm before the storm that was going to be caused at Capsule Corps.

That is, until Bulma's voice yelled, "VEGETA! YOU RUINED MY NEWEST HOVERBOT!" Trunks shot out of bed, his ears still ringing from his mom's voice resonating through the private residential part of Capsule Corps. Trunks winced. This was obviously not going to be a good day for Bulma or her family. (Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.)

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Goten sat back in his chair. His small stomach was full to the brim with his mother's excellent cooking. This was going to be a good day.

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Gohan in the Other World was shaking his head. Why did Vegeta pick today, of all days, to break Bulma's hoverbot? This is not a good thing. Oh well, we're just going to have to take our chances and not get caught!

Gohan shuddered.

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Trunks gingerly crept down the stairs. If I run fast enough by the lab, Mom might not see me. Here goes.

Trunks tensed just outside of Bulma's lab. But the worst thing ever to happen to him at that moment happened just then. His otousan came out. (*Winces*)

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Goten was just on his way to going out of the house when Chichi said, "Goten, where do you think you're going?"

Goten froze. He turned around to see his mother before him with her hands on her hips. Goten brought his two index fingers together and tapped them against each other.

"Uh, outside?" Goten said.

Chichi glared at her second son. "Goten, you know what you have to do first thing in the morning."

Goten hung his head. "Yes, Mom. Study. I'll go that now." Goten dragged his footsteps as he went up the stairs to his room, right next to Gohan's. But then a light bulb went off in his head (Oh, what a surprise!), and he came back down the stairs.

"Um, Mom? Could I study outside?" He held his breath as his mother turned away from the sink.

"Study outside?" she asked. Goten nodded, his face going purple from his lack of breath.

Chichi tapped her chin. "Hmm. Well, you could use some fresh air sometimes. Sure. But no going off in the middle of your studying!" Chichi brandished her frying pan of Armageddon at her son, who nodded fervently. Goten bowed repeatedly to his mother, thanking her profusely, then zipped up the stairs. He grabbed his books and rocketed back down the stairs and out of the house again. This time, the kyokkou weren't there to practically blind him and Goten was able to skydive into the trees and into the forest without any difficulty.

Soon he had plopped onto the ground and brought out his history work. Goten actually liked history. That must have come from the many stories his mother and Gohan had told him about the Z-bushi's past. He was deep into the history of the shoguns and the samurai before long.

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Gohan carried the prank ingredients under his arm. Everyone who spotted him with the bundle under his arm quickly got out of his way. They didn't want to be the random victim of another one of Gohan's pranks. Gohan just smiled at them and continued on his way to King Yemma's check-in station.

He was kind of worried about what would happen that day, but he tried to calm down by telling himself that nothing would happen beyond the usual. It didn't work. He knew Bulma in this mood too well to be calm about her reaction. He only hoped Vegeta wouldn't barge in on the scene too. Though from what he had seen in the pool, the situation at Capsule Corps was not something he wanted himself or Trunks or Goten to be in.

Gohan sighed. This was not a good day to be playing pranks on a certain someone at all. But the Demi-Saiyan Pranks Co. always played their pranks on the designated day, rain or shine. Or Bulma's temper.

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Trunks scrambled away from his otousan. He had thrown himself between Vegeta's legs out to the other side, barely escaping the scene. Vegeta, fortunately, was in no mind to pound his gaki into the tiled floor of the GR. He stormed off in the opposite direction that Trunks was going. The proud Saiyan Prince, er, King, was hungry and in so foul a mood that there were going to be more than one kitchen bot lying around the room in pieces.

Trunks stopped running long enough to realize that he was safe from any danger from his father. The chibi prince of Saiyans sighed with relief. He strolled back to the lab in which his mother was raging with the forces of a tidal wave and peeked in.

"Mom?" Bulma looked up at her son's apprehensive face. "What?!" she barked. Trunks gulped and slid in carefully. There was no knowing to which degree his mother's temper was set on this day, so he tread lightly.

"Um, Mom, can we go over to Goten's house? Please?" Trunks unconsciously enforced a little of the Brief version of the Son Puppy Dog Look™ on to his face. Bulma's face softened a bit. Her anger cooled off enough for her to smile at her son and nod speechlessly. Trunks smiled cheerfully and bounded off. Bulma shook her head at her son's exuberance and grabbed an intercom. She called into it, "Cimera, would you please drive my son to Chichi's house? I'll call her and tell her Trunks is coming over."

The intercom crackled as the robot on the other side said, "Yes, Miss Bulma, it will be done, Miss Bulma."

Bulma cut off the transmission and went back to her work with a frown. Darn that Vegeta! The Hoverbot 1250 was a new invention of hers that she had been working on for several months. She had just finished it today, but Vegeta had gone and ruined it! Gaah, she might as well start re-working on it and get it over with.

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Dende sweatdropped with relief. He hadn't been sure if Trunks' Puppy Dog Look™ would work on the enraged Bulma, but luckily it had. She had cooled down enough to forget about Vegeta and to get back to work. Hopefully, the prank the demi-Saiyan trio was going to play wouldn't end up in too hard consequences. He hoped.

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Goten finished the history works with no prob. Now onto science!

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Gohan waved bye to King Yemma and concentrated on his little brother's ki. He was trying to see if he could work the Instant Transmission without using the two fingers. Now if only…

With a poof! Gohan was gone.

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Trunks got out of the car Cimera, his nanny robot, was driving. Thank Dende! If I had spent another millisecond in that car, I would have burst!

He turned around and sauntered off to the land around the Son's house. But once he caught sight of the house itself, he stopped. Trunks didn't want to get in the way of Chichi's frying pan of Armageddon if he didn't have to. But then he spotted her face looking out of the window, quite supposedly for him. Trunks sighed. Oh well, here goes nothing.

Trunks stepped cautiously within Chichi's range of eyesight. She saw him and waved. Trunks waved back nervously. Chichi came out of the house wiping her hands on a towel. She had obviously been washing the dishes.

"Hi Trunks! Goten is out here somewhere, hopefully doing his homework. If you want to play with him, you'll have to wait until he finishes it." said Chichi.

Trunks nodded. "Sure, Goten's mom. When I find him, I'll make sure he's done it all before we play." He assured her. Chichi nodded and went back inside.

"Oh wait. Do you want a snack?" Trunks' face totally lit up at the mention of a snack. To think that he hadn't had breakfast yet! Chichi took the chibi's face as a "yes". Trunks followed his best friend's mother inside the Son Household.

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Goten was halfway through science. It was just that he couldn't remember what the harvest moon was called. Hunter's moon? No, that was something else. Blue moon? Hmm, I don't know. I better ask Gohan.

Hey Gohan? He reached out for his brother's mind. Surprisingly, Gohan was quite near. Only on the opposite side of his tree.

Gohan snapped his fingers. Darn! He got me. Oh well. Yeah, squirt? Goten smiled happily at Gohan's special brotherly nickname.

What is the harvest moon called?

Gohan came around the tree and plopped down by Goten. "Isn't it the blue moon?"

Goten Grinned™ brilliantly at his niisan. "That's what I thought. But I wasn't sure, so I asked you."

Gohan Grinned™ back. "Hey, where's Trunks?" asked Gohan.

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Trunks sat much like Goten had just that sunrise. The snack had eventually found its way into breakfast as Trunks had asked for, and got, more food. Chichi smiled smugly. She always liked seeing a Saiyan that was full. It meant she'd done her job.

Trunks pushed himself away from the table. "Thanks, Mrs. Son. That was great." Chichi smiled at the chibi crown prince of Saiyans. "You're welcome Trunks. Now go find Goten. And if he's not doing his work, tell him he's not having any food until he gets it done!"

Trunks winced at Chichi's threat. Jeez, Goten has a mother just like mine! But Goten's mom can cook at least, so she's more dangerous! Yikes! He quickly located Goten's, and Gohan's recent, ki and flew off to meet them.

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Trunks and Gohan helped Goten finish his work again, like yesterday. It became their routine in later weeks and years, but this is not later weeks and years. This is prank day. Once finished, Goten put his things neatly into his bag and slung the knapsack over his shoulder. Together, Trunks and Goten went to Goten's house and dropped the messenger bag off. Gohan stayed behind in the trees, but as soon as the squirts returned to the trees, he sped off at hyper speed through the foliage. Laughing and shouting, the kids chased the fifteen-year-old all the way to the Capsule.

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Trunks slid carefully along the floor of the Capsule Residence's attic. His mother's ki was still in the private laboratory, but you never knew with Bulma. Around his waist was a strong string tied in a shepherdsman's knot. At the end of the string was Gohan, carefully feeding it to Trunks as the chibi moved ahead. Goten was holding the prize ingredients of the prank.

Trunks stopped directly above the private lab. He felt around for the piece of the floor that he had cut out earlier and fit back into it. Finding the edges, the future crown prince of a very dead race slowly got off of it and lifted it up gradually. Light shone through the hole, setting off Trunks' face. Trunks set the slab of floor gingerly beside him and peeked in. Yep, his mom was in there. Her blue head was straight below him, the perfect angle for their devious deed.

Trunks stuffed a smirk back where it came from and motioned for the other two to come. Gohan and Goten nodded and crawled over to the light. The light caught their faces too, making them visible to anyone smart enough to look up. Unfortunately, not even Bulma was genius enough to sense something wrong. Heh, heh, heh.

Gohan and Goten had to suppress their own smirks. Hastily, the string was untied from Trunk's waist and switched to his hand. They attached Gohan's end to one of the two things Goten held and dangled that thing over the edge of the hole. Gohan painstakingly put the thick slice of floor back into place, allowing an inch of room for the string. The stage was set, now it was time for the grand finale. (Yu-gi-oh fans, do you know who I'm imitating? .)

Gohan, Trunks, and Goten all looked at one another. They were about to pass the point of no return. They all smirked at each other and got to work.

They lay around the inch of light Gohan had let stay and watched carefully as their latest prank invention was put to the test.

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Bulma hummed peacefully. She loved it when her inventing was going right and she was having no interruptions. Unfortunately, she was going to get the interruption and the shock of her life.

Something landed on her head. She tried to shake the offending thing off, but it refused. Bulma growled and moved her hands. She happened to look in the mirror when she looked up and her eyes widened. Shrieks tore through the air and not only caused the birds roosting in the trees to scatter, but also made Vegeta to stop his training and run to his mate.

Vegeta rushed to the door of Bulma's private lab. He found the onna screaming and pointing at a corner. He stepped in and saw a huge bristly sandy-colored spider sulking in it. A look of revulsion crossed his face as the thing moved back and forth.

Bulma yelped at Vegeta, "Kill it, Vegeta! I hate spiders!"

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The demi-Saiyan pranksters were barely holding in their laughter. Trunks had coiled up the string when Bulma had yanked the spider out of her hair. He and Gohan were holding on to each other with tears streaming down their faces. Goten was faring a bit better. But that was only because the remote control in his hands was needed to make the spider seem realistic. If Trunks' parents found out it was only stuffed, then the whole point of the prank would be defeated, as in defeated. But Goten was grinning maniacally.

Gohan and Trunks returned to the scene of the crime just in time to see Vegeta corner the spider. Goten yanked on a joystick just as Vegeta pounced. Vegeta crashed into the wall as the mechanical stuffed spider scuttled away from him. It headed toward Bulma who screamed and tried to get out of its way. But the spider seemed fixed on her path, for it moved in each direction Bulma moved and always directed itself towards her. Vegeta got himself out of the wall and crept up on the monstrosity.

Goten pushed another joystick and pushed a button as Vegeta jumped. The spider sidestepped fifty paces as fleetly as a spider that's been dead for quite some time could move. It was just fast enough that Vegeta just barely missed it and ended up banging his nose on the floor.

Vegeta ignored the throbbing pain in his nose and dashed after the spider. The spider soared in the air and landed on the wall. Vegeta performed a sidekick and smashed the wall with the spider. But the spider survived by landing on the floor, thanks to Goten's handy joystick reflexes, and it continued to terrorize the two mates.

Vegeta, at last, took a strategic view. He chased the spider around in one direction, then super speed ran in front of it and stomped it to pieces.

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Goten, Trunks, and Gohan gulped. This was their cue to get out of there. They made sure they had everything they came with and scooted out of there as fast as they could. Namely, Gohan's fingers-free Instant Transmission. (I'm going to call Goku's version Instant Transmission, and Gohan's version Kai Transmission, since that's the version Kibito Kai uses in DBZ.) They checked to make sure they had everything, because they had learned from earlier mistakes of the third kind to not leave any evidence behind, or it's starvation rations for them. Goten did at the last moment grab the piece of floor back into place. Trunks grabbed the bag Gohan had discarded on the floor, and Gohan grabbed the two chibis and Kai Transmitted outta there.

They flashed out of the Capsule Residence Attic just in time to miss hearing Bulma's voice screeching, "TRUUUUUUUNKS!" For they had discovered that the spider was stuffed full of mechanical gears and bolts. The spider was stuffed, yes, but it had been taken apart and put together with the things that make up robots. But they had yet to find out the finishing touch of the prank.

Bulma touched her hair to straighten it up. Her fingers met with a stick substance and she froze. She looked in the mirror again and discovered that blue bubble gum was stuck in her hair. Her voice rang out again more ferociously, "TRUUUUUUUNKS!"

Vegeta winced. First, the damage he had inflicted upon himself, and now his bloody ears. The gaki was going to have a lot to pay for.

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Bulma stomped out of the lab. She was having the cleaner bots clean the mess of the mechanical spider up. She was going to find out just how her son had played such a prank on her all the way from the land around the Son household. She didn't know how he had done that, but this was the last straw.

Vegeta strode after her. The gaki and he had an appointment to take up in the GR, and Vegeta was going to make sure he wasn't going to miss it.

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Chichi looked up as a very angry pair of mates steamed their way to her house. She got out her frying pan of Armageddon when she spotted Vegeta. If there was trouble Vegeta wanted with her son, he was going to be given a good thwack on the head, hard.

Bulma screamed, "Where is my son TRUNKS?! We need to have a WORD with him!" Chichi's face relaxed from fearful for her son to surprise.

"What's the matter? Why do you need a word with him?" Bulma's face was too frightening to bear, except that Chichi had had that face herself sometimes when Goten got away with a prank on her. Maybe that was what they were over here about.

It was Vegeta who growled, "The brat pulled a prank on us. It involved a spider and the onna's hair. I also want to get the gaki for the damage I had to suffer through while trying to kill a mechanical spider."

Chichi mouthed an "oh" gesture and let them into the house. She watched Vegeta suspiciously should any harm come to her furniture by way of the Saiyan, but she turned her back on him long enough to call, "GOTEN! TRUNKS! GET OVER HERE!"

Gohan grimaced sympathetically at the twerps. They were going to have to do some very, very, very good acting to get out of this. The chibis bowed their heads and trooped out of there. But then they remembered that they weren't supposed to know anything about what they had done, so they resumed their racketeering and their disruption of the peace of the forest. Whatever peace the forest had, anyway.

They swung like monkeys down to the steaming parents. Bulma and Vegeta turned around as their happy (although guilty) children came into their sight. They sobered at the angry look mirrored on the Briefs' faces and on Chichi's. But still they came innocently (ha, ha) to face the doom before them.

Gohan winced as Bulma's voice squealed at the two twerps. Well, that was that, and Gohan had better get back. (Ew, that rhymed.) Gohan shuddered again and Kai Transmitted back to the Other World, leaving his otoutosan and his kyoudaibun to face the fearsome wrath of a certain Prince, a genius, and a frying pan made of Armageddon.

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A/n: What do you think of the Japanese I put in there? Would you prefer I do without? Or what? I'm tired of having to translate, so I might not put so many words in there, but according to your opinions, (if and when you care to voice them -_- yes you!) the fate of the Japanese language hangs in the balance!

So, unknown soldieress, how'd you like the way your prank was organized? You didn't really give me details, so I let my own imagination take over. Here's a Goten plushie. *Hands chibi Goten plushie to her* There's Goten! And he's holding the remote control thingie to that spider! *Evil grin*

Okay, everyone, this is what'll happen next chappie! Goten will be playing, and he falls into danger. But Gohan is in the Other World still. Can he rescue Goten before it's too late? Find out next time, on Vigilante Angel.

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Translations:

Shakei: my elder brother

Oniisan: older brother

Kyokkou: rays of the rising sun

Otoutosan: younger brother

Otousan: father

Bushi: warrior

Gaki: brat

Onna: woman

Kyoudaibun: sworn brother (I like this one, especially where I placed it. ^_^)

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Thanx to simba_rulz, Frying Pan of DOOM, unknown soldieress (most especially), and to DBZ Chick1, I have a question.

DBZ Chick1: What do you mean you don't care what I write? You're reading it, aren't you? O_o MOMMY! DBZ CHICK1 ISN'T READING MY FICCY! (LOL!)

'Bye,

AAS

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