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Unexpected Results
Chapter 8: Punishment
Today was the day that she was getting answers from Gohan Son even if it was the last thing she did, Videl Satan decided as she stood in front of the door leading to her assigned classroom. The whole weekend had seemed to drag on forever but finally it was Monday morning and now she would get to have her little chat with Gohan. Squaring her shoulders and putting on her tough girl, I'll kick your ass, face she opened the door and walked into the room, looking up to where he usually sat next to Erasa. She stopped, his chair was empty, there was no Gohan.
Hearing the teacher clear his throat behind her she rushed up to take her seat between Sharpner and Erasa. As she got out her books the teacher started to call the names of the students to check for attendants. When he got to her name she responded with an aggravated "here". However instead of calling Gohan's name next he went straight to the next name on the list.
~Why didn't he call Gohan's name~ Videl wondered to herself as the teacher finished the roll call.
"Um, excuse me sir but why didn't you call Gohan's name?" Erasa asked while putting up her hand to get their teachers attention.
~Thank Kami for Erasa~ Videl thought with a sardonic smile, she could not ask Mr Cadbury without doing some damage to her tough girl; I don't give a damn appearance.
"Ah yes" Mr Cadbury replied "Mrs Son called this morning to excuse Gohan from class for the day; apparently there was some sort of accident on Friday and…"
"Oh my word did Gohan get hurt is he in hospital, is…"
"Miss Erasa if you would allow me to finish!" Mr Cadbury shouted in an exasperated tone. Blushing Erasa who had stood up during her mad tirade of questions sat down again. "Thank you, well as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted. There was an accident on Friday and Gohan's cousin was injured. He and his parents have left for the weekend to spend it his cousin and her family, and he will be back at class tomorrow. Now that, that is settled lets start with the today's lesson."
Mentally cursing Videl opened her books, okay so she will just have to wait another day to get her answers, but if what the teacher said was true then he did have a valid reason for his actions on Friday, her conscious where forced to reply. Yes but he was still hiding something and she will find out what.
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118, 119, 120 oh wow he had never noticed that there was 120 diamond shaped tiles covering the roof of the Gravity room. Of course he also had never been on his back, bruised, beaten, exhausted and inches away from unconsciousness either. Really Vegeta and Kakkarot were taking this whole thing just a little bit to far Perigus mused as Valla crashed into the wall next to him. As she stood up holding onto the wall for extra support he noticed that she had dropped out of super saiyan 3 and were now in just normal super saiyan mode. She took a few deep breaths, before she launched herself back into the melee going on in the middle of the gravity room, aiming a punch at Vegeta's head. Vegeta casually ducked while at the same time he kicked Gohan in the back. Goku grab Valla's extended arm, flipped her and almost negligently backhanded her into Mirai. Raising his head a little Perigus looked across the room to where Lime was sitting her back braced against the wall. She was just beginning to regain her breath. She had been the first one to fall out of the fight. It was just a few seconds later that Valla crashed into the wall next to Perigus again, but this time instead of getting up she powered down where she lay and gasped for breath.
"Hi, you still alive?" Perigus asked softly only to grimace, man it even hurt when he spoke. He really was never pissing those two off ever again. No matter how upset his parents were they had never beaten him this badly, then again he had never screwed up like this before.
"Not really sure, 'bout you ask me again in a few hours time?" Valla gasped between struggling breaths. "By the way, do you know what the time is? I can't seem to lift my head to look at the clock." The exhausted girl whispered, she didn't even have the energy to talk it seemed.
Perigus struggled into a sitting position and at the last minute decided against it as he lay back down again. "It's just before noon."
"Man has it only been four hours it feels longer." Valla replied as she closed her eyes and tried to even out her breathing using one of the meditation techniques that Piccolo had taught her.
"Well time sure flies when you are having fun." The sarcastic response came from the teen laying next to Valla.
She only chuckled and then winced. "Oh man don't make laugh that hurts to much." As she put one hand on her side wondering if any of her ribs were broken. She sighed after awhile. No nothing was broken, for all that Goku and Vegeta were beating the crap out of them, they would not actually cause them any serious injures or so she hoped.
"Enough!" Goku's voice rang out through the room, prompting Valla to open her eyes and Perigus to lift his head to look towards the centre of the room. Gohan and Mirai were the only ones of the 5 still standing, if you could call that standing. It was painfully clear that it was only sheer stubbornness keeping Mirai on his feet; he too had at some point dropped down to super saiyan. Gohan was slightly better of but only just, he was still at super saiyan 3, but you could see that he was struggling to maintain that.
Vegeta looked at the clock and nodded at Goku; he walked over to the graviton and turned the gravity back down to normal before turning the machine off. "You have an hour break, get something to eat and be back here at 1." The two men powered down and left the room without saying another word.
"Get something to eat he says." Perigus mimicked acerbically, "I can't even sit up never mind get food into my body."
Lime had in the mean while managed to get up and stumbled across the room to were Gohan and Mirai where standing. "I hate to say this but we really do need to get something to eat, I have a terrible feeling that we are going to need all the energy we can get this afternoon."
The 3 of them walked over to where Valla and Perigus lay. The two boys powering down as well. Reaching the two on the floor Mirai bent and help Valla up, draping one of her arms around his shoulders while he grad her around the waist to hold her steady. "I thought something like this might happen so I made arrangements with Gran to cook for us. Since Mom left this morning with Chi-Chi." He said as he led the way out of the room.
Having noticed what he did, Perigus turned to Gohan with a raised eyebrow. "Please tell me you guys saw that, or did I got hit in the head to hard and are hallucinating?"
Gohan shook his head, "No we saw that, what I can't believe is that she didn't say anything."
"Listen we can analyze those two later, but can we please get something to eat first." Lime begged pulling on Perigus's arm towards the door.
"All right were coming." Gohan laughed as the three of them followed the other two from the room.
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"We have half an hour before we have to be back in the GR, so I suggest that we take a 20 minute power nap." Gohan proposed as he settled himself in one of the over sized chairs in the reading room. He had chosen this room because of its location. It was out of the way, so no one ever came here unless they were looking for something. Setting the alarm on his cell he put the phone down on the table next to his chair. "That way we will be somewhat rested."
"Sounds like a plan to me." Lime responded as she stretched out on the same couch that Perigus was sitting on and rested her head on his legs, using them as a cushion.
Valla curled up on the other chair, while Mirai lay down on the floor stretching him out next to the couch. Within minutes the room was quite, the only sounds to be heard was that of the soft and steady breathing of the 5 sleeping teenagers.
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"Man I don't like this." Gohan muttered under his breath to the small group standing in a lose half circle around him. The others nodded, looks of concern and fear lurking in their eyes. The reason: Vegeta and Goku were late, but not just a little late, no they were 40 minutes late.
Although this delay had brought the group some more time to rest and recover from the morning activities, it had also given them time to think and that had led to worrying. Each of them was stuck in his or her own thoughts.
Mirai's thoughts had drifted back to the morning, in a way this was kind of a repeat. His father and Goku had shown up about 10 minutes after 8 o clock. They had walked in closed and locked the door to the room behind them and had then powered up to SS3. Goku had set the gravity to 400 times the earth's normal gravity; the group had instantly felt the pull on their bodies. Vegeta had looked them over for a long moment before he commanded them to power up to their fullest levels saying that this was a test of their ability to control their power, and then the pain began.
The slamming of the door knocked the 5 out of their private musings, turning they saw the two men walk in.
"Alright power up and this time don't hold back." Vegeta barked at the group in a gruff voice. It was only then that they noticed a very important factor both Goku and Vegeta were in their SS4 forms.
"Oh man not again." Lime moaned softly as Goku activated the graviton turning it to 700; she powered up but was still struggling to handle the gravity. She could move but not at the speed she knew that she would need. She looked over to her sister and the rest of her friends to see them in their transformed states. ~Well here we go once more~ she had time to thought as Gohan launched the first attack.
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An eerie stillness hanged in the air, the only sounds to disturbed the silence was the occasional moan from the 5 beaten bodies laying scattered across the floor of the GR, or the electric crackle coming from the aura surrounding the two men standing in the middle of the room, next to the softly humming graviton. The shorter of the two men looked at the crumpled forms of the teenagers for a moment with an indescribable expression in his eyes, before the normal coldness returned. Turning he looked at Kakkarot with a raised eyebrow. Reading the question in his battle partners eyes Goku looked over the group and nodded. Shutting down the machine he powered down, he did not like what was coming next, but they all had talked about it and had agreed the 5 needed to learn that there was consequences to their actions, and withholding such information have negative results.
Clearing his throat, "Get up!" Vegeta commanded in a harsh tone. He too had powered down and watched as the group of teenagers struggled to get to their feet. Once the were all more or less standing and paying attention to the two men in front of them, Vegeta sifted his weight and crossed his arms over his chest, the usual scowl slipping into place on his face.
"Kakkarot and I had discussed the situation with the rest of your parents and we had decided what your punishment will be." The saiyan prince announced, while he closely observed the reaction of the group in front of him.
"Oh man, I thought this was our punishment." Perigus groaned loudly, only realising after the words had escaped his lips that that was not the wisest thing to say in this situation.
"Please, don't think you can get of that easily." Vegeta snorted, "No, we had decided that as punishment the 5 of you will be grounded, until further notice."
Exclamations of shock and disbelieve came from the group, Vegeta allowed this to go on for a few minutes.
"What exactly does that mean?" Gohan decided to asked, taking the lead as spoke person.
Raising an eyebrow Vegeta steeled himself, although none of this showed on his face. "It means that the 5 of you will not be allowed to see or communicate with each other until such time that we deem fit."
"What, you can't do that!" Lime cried out, just the mere though that she would not be able to see Perigus was enough to cut through her like a knife.
Hearing that Perigus looked ready to attack Vegeta again, the same knife cutting through his hart. Not being able to see Lime for an extended period of time, there was no way in hell that he could survive that. He would rather get beaten up by Vegeta again.
The other 3 looked at the 2 men standing in front of them with disbelief and horror before turning to look at the anguish in Lime and Perigus faces. Looking at each other Gohan decided to speak up.
"There is no need to punish those 2, it is the 3 of us that is guilty and it is only the 3 of us that deserve to be punished." Gohan said in a steady voice, Valla and Mirai nodding in agreement.
For a fleeting moment one so fast that Gohan wasn't sure if he had really seen it there was softness a look of understanding in Vegeta's eyes, but before he could be sure the normal dead look reappeared.
"Did the 2 of you know about their ability to reach SS3?" Vegeta asked the distraught 2.
Valla looked at her sister with a looked that plainly said, say no.
Lime shook her head and sighed. "Yes we knew." She replied in a barely audible voice. She refused to look at her sister, who had given her a way out. There was no way that she would allow her sister to carry the blame alone, both her birth and adopted parents had taught her better than that.
Perigus just nodded.
Vegeta nodded pleased, they weren't really angry at the group, well not anymore, and both the fact that the 3 had tried to protect Lime and Perigus and that those 2 had told the truth knowing what the penalty would be, showed that the group was honourable. He felt sorry for those two, although they hadn't fully bonded yet being apart was going to be rather painful, that he knew from experience.
Vegeta turned to look at Goku to see if he had anything to say before he continued. "Gohan, Mirai and Valla, the three of you will be spending every Saturday from next month with me and Kakkarot to work on your control of your SS3 form."
The three simply nodded, knowing that they didn't have much of a choice in the matter.
"Also Valla, you will not be allowed to use magic unless it is under the supervision of an adult." Goku suddenly spoke up.
"What, there is no way that I am agreeing to that!" Valla screamed, clenching her fist and her tail that had hung limply behind her suddenly bristling and waving in agitation.
Goku grunted and uncurled from where he had been leaning on the graviton. "You will agree to that or you will not be allowed to use magic ever again. Until we know exactly how much kelnar you can handle, you will do as you're told. There will be no repeat of Friday's events." He replied in just a vaguely menacing tone.
Backing slightly away, Valla looked for a way out before nodding.
"Say it out loud." Goku prompted.
"Okay, I will not use magic unless it is under adult supervision, or an emergency." Valla mumbled hoping to slip the last part by without Goku noticing.
Hearing the last part Goku raised an eyebrow, but decided to let it pass, for now.
"Now that that is settled, get going, your parents are waiting for you lot." Vegeta replied as he turned to leave the room. "Come on Mirai its time that we have a private little chat."
Mirai winced and hunched his shoulder as he followed his father from the room, but not before looking over his shoulder at his friends.
Goku and Gohan looked at each other, before they to left the room to be followed a few seconds later by Valla. Looking at the girl, Valla just shrugged.
"They need some time alone." Was all that she said but both men understood, as difficult as the punishment was going to be for the group it was going to be even harder for those two.
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"Dad I, I am really sorry. We didn't mean to cause this much trouble and I am sorry for not telling you. It's just that we wanted to surprise you and Vegeta. We didn't realise the consequences of our action would be so serious." Gohan said after awhile of flying silently next to his father.
Goku sighed; part of him could understand his son's reasoning. "I know Gohan and I am extraordinarily pleased with you for reaching such a remarkable level of power. It's just that you have to understand the power does not come with an instruction manual and can be dangerous both to you and to those around you if you don't learn how to control it."
Gohan nodded. "Yea we kind of learned that the hard way. I really didn't realise that our control was that tentative."
Goku suddenly smiled at his oldest son. "Don't worry about that, after a few training sessions with me and Vegeta your control will be much better."
"Oh joy" Gohan muttered under his breath sarcastically.
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