Goku, "On KAMI, NO!" and he ran after her. He looked down the cliff and everything was gray. He jumped down and trusted his Kinto-Un to catch up to him. "KINTO-UUUN!"
ChiChi let herself free-fall for a few moments, she'd only practiced this maneuver once so she was meticulous about counting the seconds. At precisely 23 she turned around and stabbed the wall of dirt with her OxTail Dao, as it dragged her against the wall, it took a few seconds for it to finally stick and then she gave the end of the sword a small, firm punch for stability. ChiChi held on to the sword, now working as a handle for her. She had seen a goat around the area earlier, traveling down the narrow path below her feet. If she weighted 2 more pounds, the whole thing would crumble. Good thing she skipped breakfast.
She knew Goku would soon catch up to her so everything had to be done in mere seconds. ChiChi quickly hopped on the narrow path towards the small groove she'd stashed her things in. It was an electrical metal mesh she used to train her Dinosaur Gohan, whenever he got violent as a dino-pup. She grabbed the mesh and heard Goku's cloud speeding down the cliff, thankfully the fog covered her tracks. She hid her body against the groove and waited.
Goku couldn't see any trace of ChiChi, he wondered if maybe he took a second too long to race after her and maybe it was too late. I will die before I let you win, the faint memory of her words made his stomach twist and turn in a very unpleasant way.
Suddenly, Goku felt himself be tackled and pushed off Kinto-Un speeding towards gray nothingness. He looked down and realized he was being held down by a metal mesh and ChiChi was currently forcing his hands behind his back. He was surprised, yes, but he was more curious to see what her plan was. They were currently free-falling into what seemed like nothing but gray, but he knew sooner or later they'd hit the ground.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! CALL YOUR CLOUD!", yelled ChiChi after she was done securing his hands behind his back.
Goku wanted to argue and scold her, but the cloud caught them before Goku had a chance to even speak. With both bodies bouncing on top of the cloud, hovering in the air, only a couple meters away from the ground the cloud had successfully stopped them.
"Great catch!" said ChiChi sardonically. Then she scoot up from behind and sat on her knees on the cloud.
Goku looked at ChiChi, relieved she wasn't trying to kill herself and her crazy antics were all part of her insane plan. "OKAY CHICHI, WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?!", he shouted at her. "You could have killed yourself doing that, do you not care to live?"
ChiChi crossed her arms and eyed him, "Your entire body is now restricted and you're worried about me killin' myself?"
But ChiChi didn't realize that at that particular moment, Goku knew something about her that perhaps she didn't know about herself. On her own, she was successfully sitting on Kinto-Un. She was a good, honorable person. Realizing this, Goku smiled and let out a chuckle. "You're not going to kill me ChiChi. So, I'm not worried about myself right now."
ChiChi was surprised, but then added "No, I'm not able to kill you but the lightning might. This is an electrical metal mesh Goku. Do you really want to take your chances? Now, please surrender. Leave and never come back."
She just wanted him to surrender? "You know I can easily free myself from this?" said Goku, smiling. "You didn't really think this one through."
Heavy rain pouring down. Lighting and thunder making it hard for either one of them to clearly hear each other.
"Actually, I did. I'm guessing it's going to take you about 10 minutes to get out of that mesh, and buddy, you're sitting on a cloud in the middle of a storm. I repeat, do you want to take your chances?!", she said with a sense of urgency. She was also on the cloud and contrary to her actions, she very much cared for her own life.
"I'm very strong. I bet I can survive." Said Goku, settling down on Kinto-Un, radiating with confidence.
Was he trying to turn the tables on her?
Goku, "Can you say the same thing? You're kinda small..." he said eying her up and down.
ChiChi stood her ground and also sat up straight. "FINE! We'll just wait and see what happens when a lightning bolt strike's your ass!" she said and once again crossed her arms, stubbornly.
Laughing escaped Goku, "Boy you are really stubborn! But my gosh you're clever!". His wild spikes now beginning to tame with the heaviness of the water collecting in them.
She gave him a light punch, "Be serious! You won't fight me! You just want to corner me like some soft, weak animal and make me surrender. Well let me tell you, I WILL NOT SURRENDER!", she shouted through the rain. "FIGHT ME!", she demanded.
He saw the determination in her eyes, there was something admirable about her persistence. Her crazy, insane, logic-bending persistence. "Alright." He said, "I'll fight you."
"And you won't hold back?"
"I promise, I wont.", he answered sincerely.
"You mean it?"
He nodded.
In that moment, lightning stroke and zapped Goku right down to his core. The electrical current went through his spine and exited through the bottom of the cloud, missing ChiChi completely.
ChiChi looked at him horrified. "OH MY GOD!", and held her hands up to cover her face in disbelief.
"GHAAAHHHHHH!" yelped Goku and fell to his side. "KAMI THAT HURTS! I almost didn't think it could actually happen. What are the chances?!"
ChiChi uncovered her mouth, relived Goku survived. "Actually, you were kinda asking for it", she smiled and gave him a parental look, "I told ya so!"
"NO kidding! Like I said, you're incredible!" He said smiling back and looked at her with admiration.
"Okay Goku, you need to stop talking we have to get you out of the mesh", said ChiChi. "And then you're going to fight me. We should be equals now that you've been...zapped." And made eye contact, he smiled back at her. Damn him, his chumminess was contagious.
"Well, thank goodness lightning never strikes twice in the same place, huh?" said Goku grinning.
ChiChi took a moment to educate him, "Well actually, lighting does and often strikes in the same place..."
Goku's body was electrified once again, but this time he was pushed right off the Kinto-Un making him land hard on the wet ground.
"Twice." Finished ChiChi and immediately looked down from Kinto-Un. She jumped from the cloud and landed next to Goku splashing him. She carefully walked around the twitching body laying on the ground. His super-human strength had allowed him to survive the first time, it was possible he'd survive a second time. She took out the staff from his back and poked him with it. "Um... are you alright?!"
Goku continued to jerk around in the ground. "I...Eh", "Eeeh! Ooof!", convulsions continued.
ChiChi REALLY didn't know what to do. She knew she had to get that mesh off of him. Problem was, she planned on HIM taking that thing off himself but now, it was clearly impossible for him to do so.
"Hey uh... Goku, any chance you can take that thing out yourself?", she slowly poked him with the staff on the rib, while he continued to twitch.
"Ah. Yes." Somehow, he managed to get up from the ground, with his hands tied behind his back and everything. "Let's fight!"
"What?!", questioned ChiChi.
"We're equals now", said Goku twitching. "My power", he twitched, "is now more or less equal", twitch, "to yours". He sloppily got into a fighting stance.
"Uh... are you sure? You don't look well", said ChiChi giving him a quizzical look.
"Positive", said Goku now almost twitch-free, grinning again.
"Okay, well take that thing off first. You don't want to get zapped again."
"Then we won't be equals", he said.
"Shut up! Yes we will!", ChiChi shouted, offended.
"Alright whatever you say", and Goku yanked the whole thing off in one smooth motion, stretching his arms.
ChiChi stood there with her mouth agape. "Alright ...let's fight..." she said, certain they were not equals.
"I can do it myself again, if it makes you feel better", said Goku.
"What?!", He's not thinking what I'm thinking, She thought.
Goku grabbed the mesh from the ground, called Kinto-Un and took off to the skies.
She looked at the skies, horrified. "What is happening right now?" She heard thunder and suddenly Goku appeared in front of her...
"Kay. Now it's fair." said Goku wobbling off of Kinto-Un.
"Um... what did you just do?", Did he really just willingly go and get himself electrocuted so I'd have a fair fight?
"I", Goku wobbled back a few steps, clumsily. "Up. Clouds. Zap." And smiled. "Now equals". Goku wobbled about in a sloppy fighting stance. "Wait." He realized he was still holding the mesh, he threw it in the air and the whole thing flew across the mountains landing miles away. He still had superhuman strength.
"Okay, you crazy bastard. Let's do this!" and she got into a fighting stance.
"YOU first", said Goku wobbling and twitching. Eyelids halfway open.
"Right!", ChiChi ran up to him and began to throw punches at his face. He blocked them all. She kneed him in the gut, but his gut was seemingly made of steel because he didn't even move an inch. She stopped and looked at him.
"Im real strong", said Goku with his eyes now fully closed, and wobbled two steps back.
ChiChi tried to roundhouse kick him, but he grabbed her leg and lifted her in the air. "Don't kick, I can sense...movements." Said Goku with a slight slur, eyes still fully closed. She jerked herself free and got into another fighting stance.
"Sense me. Use ki." Said Goku wobbling forward like a drunk. "Like this." and he placed his palms to the side of his hip, "Ka...", and then stopped. "Me...", he frowned and step forward, clumsily. He stood there motionless, just seemingly thinking, then his hands dropped. "Haaa!", and a beam of light came out of the palms, striking his own feet.
"Ouchies." Clearly he meant to aim that at her.
"I don't have superhuman powers like you, I'm afraid." Said ChiChi, trying to understand him. Was he trying to teach her something?
"Not powers. Ki!", he walked up to her, opened his eyes, grabbed her palms. ChiChi let him. "Here", he pointed at her palm. "Collect energy, here. Release here", he pointed at himself, almost making himself fall backwards.
"I don't understand. I'm supposed to have a ki?", asked ChiChi genuinely intrigued in trying to understand whatever he was trying to teach her. Learning new skills was her weakness.
Goku nodded.
"How do I get it out?", asked ChiChi.
"Concentrate" and he fell forward, held onto her shoulders for balance. "You can do it", he smiled and was dangerously close to her face. His eyes opened for a brief second and she could have sworn he looked at her lips with slight lust. "Concentrate!" he said as he stumbled back.
"Oh...kay", and so ChiChi concentrated. She looked at the palms of her hands, and tried searching for this ki within her.
"Look, like this", said Goku, struggling to stand on his own two feet. And then two beams of light came out of the palms of his hands and he looked at them mesmerized. "This. You fight me with this." he said, and dropped his hands sending random blasts of power to the surrounding area. He managed to severely damage the landscape surrounding them.
"Um.. alright. I can fight you with ki." ChiChi had no idea what was going on, but she was enjoying it throughly. She was about to learn how to release energy from the palms of her hands. The opportunity might never present itself again, she thought.
But Goku was already firing up an energy ball the size of a basketball, "Look ChiChi, look I'm real strong." He seemed really proud of himself.
And when she looked up at him, he was about to release that giant beam of energy on himself. Again. In a hurry she ran up to him and lifted his arms in the air to divert the direction.
He giggled, "That tickles." He squirmed.
"I'm sorry, I just thought I'd keep you from hurting yourself!", she answered.
He smirked, "Why are you helping me?" and looked at her, shifting his gaze to her lips every few moments.
"Why are YOU helping me, I'M YOUR opponent!", she threw back the question hoping she didn't have to answer for herself.
"Because you're..."
"Because I'm?", ChiChi looked into his eyes, waiting to hear the answer.
"Really...", he looked at her and blinked a few times and let out a sigh.
"I'm really what?" Did she really want to hear the answer?
"Everything." He said.
Yes. She did. "Huh?!", asked ChiChi, not entirely sure of what he meant, but hoping it was something positive.
"You're really... Yeah." He released his arms from her, but kept his eyes on her.
She stood still, staring at him, while he tried to put his thoughts into coherent words.
"That's why. You. Learn ki", and he quickly fired up two more blasts from his hands and just as easily released them creating a giant crater around them.
"Please stop doing that, you're going to kill yourself", said ChiChi in a parental tone.
"Last one, I'll show you. I'm strong". He said and started another Kamehameha energy ball. "Ka..."
"No Goku"
"Meee...", he smiled.
"Please don't." She urged.
"Haaa meee...", he defiantly continued.
"Stop it."
He smirked. She raised her eyebrow in disapproval.
"HA!", accidentally throwing the energy wave her way, as his arms ricocheted backwards throwing him back on the ground.
Thankfully, her catlike reflexes saved her. But it was clear Goku was a menace to himself and the landscape. She was going to have to restrict him again. She undid the belt from her sword and got on top of Goku, who was still on the ground.
"Woah. What are you doing?", asked Goku blushing.
"I'm tying you up because you're a danger to yourself and others!", said ChiChi as she tried to grab his hands.
"I am not." Said Goku pouting, and tried to push her off of him, but she dodged his now slightly lethargic arms.
"Stop it, Goku!" said ChiChi, as she tried to restrict him.
Goku continued to squirm around, and tried to push her off again by placing both hands on her chest and pushing on them.
"HEY WHAT THE?!", yelped ChiChi, red as a tomato. But Goku continued to press on them, now studying them.
"Your chest.." He continued to feel around, "Is different. It's... bouncy. Not like mine." He grabbed both her hands and placed her hands on his chest. "See?"
ChiChi jerked her hand free and slapped him across the face. "GOKU! That's so rude!", she yelled. He didn't even flinch.
"Why?", he asked.
"Because. You never touch a ladies breasts." She scolded him, "Unless she asks you to".
He looked at her, seemingly not understanding. "Why?"
"Because! It's a private area." She snapped.
"My butt is private and you touched it." He reminded her, accusingly.
"Yes, but that was different. It wasn't sexual." She wrapped the sword belt around his wrists and tightened it.
"Is this sexual?", he asked, confused.
"I guess not." She said, defeated. "But still, it's rude. Don't do it."
"Unless you ask me to. Got it." He said smiling, making her blush madly.
Gipsy looked at the whole scene take place, she waited for a moment to see if they would continue with their banter. Neither of them did, they seemed too caught up in their own emotions, so she felt safe to interrupt.
"Hey Chi, am I interrupting somethin'?" She asked while smirking.
ChiChi immediately got up from Goku's frame and straightened herself up, in a dignified position. "Gipsy, what are you doing here?", she asked in surprise.
"Your pops asked me to come and tell you not to kill Goku." She smiled at the sight of Goku, who was still on the ground, eyes now closed but with the faintest smile. "But I see you got the message already", her words full of implications.
"Well, any idea what I'm supposed to do with him?", asked ChiChi. "I can't just leave him there, he's a menace to himself and everything around him right now. I kinda over-did it with the electrical mesh." ChiChi confessed, in embarrassment.
Gipsy looked at Goku, eyelids twitching and his body jerking into a spasm every few moments. "Jeez Chi, what'd you do to him?"
"Let's just say things got out of hand...", more like out of control she thought, "With the electrical charge and now he's blasting random energy ki's everywhere." She motion with her hand at the destruction of the landscape caused by Goku.
"I got an idea", said Gipsy smirking. "But I ain't sure you're gonna like it."
"Oh?", asked ChiChi intrigued.
A/N: Thank you all for the positive, kind words you leave on the comments section! It honestly makes my day every time someone leaves kind feedback. I am super grateful!
Also, thank you to the anon for suggesting I put the ChiChi and Goku tags, I didn't realize I never did that! D'oh! But thank you!
I was asked if the rest of the DBZ gang would appear on the story and the short answer is yes. But please don't get your hopes up because it will be brief, and probably not in the context you're hoping for.
