The dreaded day had finally arrived. The day that Gohan wished would never come. The day that would mark the beginning of the end. The day of reckoning, of terror! The day! The first day of public high school!
All night, Gohan was terrorized by dreams of the horrors that he would have to face today. Judgemental teenagers, angry teachers, unnecessarily hectic schedules...and worst of all, cameramen and journalists flooding the gates of orange star high, swarming around Gohan for an article about the prince's first day at school.
As soon as the alarm's ringer woke Gohan up, he groaned in anticipation of the pain to come.
He got out of bed, and then began his morning routine, doing his chores as slowly as he possibly could without pissing off his mom.
Finally after taking a bath and wearing the orange star uniform, Gohan sighed and then headed down to the family mess hall.
"OOOOH! Look at my handsome son! How dashing he looks in uniform!", Chi Chi shrieked as soon as Gohan walked into the hall.
"Gudhmornin' mam", Gohan said while his face was being smothered with Chi Chi's hands as she squeezed his cheeks.
"Let go of the boy Chi Chi, I think you are ripping his cheeks off", the Ox King said.
"Oh my boy is finally going to high school! He is finally going to socialize like a normal boy, and have friends like a normal boy, and a degree like a normal boy! And then a girlfriend! And then I get grandchildren", Chi Chi said as she finally let go of Gohan's cheeks.
"Hey wait a second...what was that about a girl-"
"OH I AM SO EXCITED!", Chi Chi yelled, cutting Gohan off mid sentence.
"Now sit down Gohan and have a proper breakfast! You have a long day ahead of you!"
"Agreed", Gohan muttered as he sat down at the table.
"So Gohan...excited for school huh", the Ox King asked awkwardly.
"Sure", Gohan mumbled.
"Well of course he is excited! He better be excited! He doesn't have another choice", Chi Chi said with a menacing undertone.
Gohan gulped, a bead of sweat trickling down his forehead,"well yeah! I am super excited!", he said in the most convincing fake enthusiasm he could muster.
"Good! That's my boy!"
"Umm...well, as for your transportation, I have hired a driver to take you to school by copter", the Ox king said.
"OH NO! My son isn't going to be one of those rich spoilt brats that have people drive them around! What will his classmates think of him huh! He will fly to Satan city by himself", Chi Chi commanded.
"Uhh..mom, I don't have a license".
"Oh and since when has that stopped you Gohan? You know how to fly a copter, that's more than enough. But, just in case, so that you don't get into trouble with the law-", Chi Chi pulled out a card out of thin air and presented it to Gohan, "Your very own flying licence Gohan! oooh! I am so proud of you today!"
"Mom...that's illegal".
"Gohan don't teach your mother!", Chi Chi said with a dangerous undertone in her voice. "Mothers know what is best, understand? So accept this wonderful gift that your mother has got you as a gift for your first day in school".
"Yes ma'am", Gohan muttered and meekly took the fake licence from his mother's hand.
"Now eat your breakfast quickly. You don't want to be late on your fires day to school".
Quickly finishing his breakfast, Gohan bid his mother and grandfather goodbye and then ran out into the castle's back yard. Pulling out the capsule copter from his pocket, Gohan pressed the activation button and then threw the capsule on the ground, a few feet in front of him. A second later, the capsule popped open in a small explosion of white smoke.
The smoke then cleared away to reveal a small one man copter. Gohan walked up to the copter and then opened the hatch. Jumping into the copter, Gohan started the engine and then shut the hatch. In a few second the small but powerful blades of the copter started to rotate at high speed, causing the copter to be lifted off the ground.
Gohan stopped the copter's rise once it was several feet off the ground. Then he turned the copter around so that he faced the balcony that overlooked the yard below. His mother and grandfather stood near the balcony's ledge, waving him goodbye. Even his brother was there, sitting on the railing with his mother's arm held tightly around him. Though Goten, who had just been woken up from his deep slumber, barely seemed to notice what was going onn, and was instead busy resisting the urge to fall asleep again.
Gohan grinned at them, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head. He then waved back at them, and then turned the copter away from the balcony. Gohan pushed down on the throttle, and the copter lurched forward into the clear sky, swiftly flying away from the Ox kingdom, and towards the hell hole known as *school*.
Once Gohan was sure he was out of his mother's sight, he quickly descended down and landed on a patch of clear land. He then jumped out of he copter and pressed the retrieval button on the underside of the copter.
Gohan took a step back as the copter quickly receded into it's capsule, then he picked up the capsule and put it back into his pocket.
There was no way he was flying a copter into Satan city. That would be an hours journey, too much patience required. That would also require him to sit inside that congested copter with no leg space. No way he was tolerating that for an hour.
But he didn't was to fly himself either. He had to get up early this morning to get ready for school, and had lost a lot of his precious sleep time. So instead he called upon the flying nimbus.
"FLYING NIMBUS!", hearing Gohan's call, the small yellow cloud zoomed down from the horizon and then stopped in front of Gohan.
Gohan jumped onto the cloud and then happily yawned. Holding on tightly to the nimbus cloud, Gohan, while still yawning, said "F'yyy oooo' Saata' citte".
The nimbus heeded his command and flew towards Satan city with the speed of the north winds itself. While Gohan, who was sitting on top of it, was already falling asleep. 'Sweet sleep...oh how sweet you are! I am returning to you, returning from this land of harsh awake ness!', with these last thoughts of consciousness, Gohan slipped into a deep slumber, while at the same time his hold on the flying nimbus was also slowly slipping away.
Suddenly, something hard struck Gohan in the head. Jumping up in alertness, Gohan instantly readied his stance. Extending his ki sense, as well as his natural senses, Gohan probed for any threatening presence that may have attacked him. Then as a minute passed away, he slowing realized that there was no attacker, and that he had just fallen head first into the ground.
Groaning at his own silliness, Gohan relaxed and then he looked behind him. Satan city's skyline clearly visible in the distance. He looked down at his watch, there was still half an hour left before school started.
"Not bad nimbus", Gohan muttered. He was about to recall nimbus, but then he stopped himself as his brain suddenly produced the image of a million paparazzi copters flying around him as he sat on top of the flying nimbus. Millions of questions, billion flashes from cameras, news paper articles about how the price of the Ox kingdom rode on a flying cloud...and when his mother reads those articles...Gohan shivered at the mental image. It was actually a stroke of good luck, that he had fallen off the flying nimbus before he reached the city.
Gohan once again opened up his capsule copter and climbed in, driving the copter towards the city.
In a matter ten minutes he had already reached Satan City's air space. And soon he was frustrated at the intense air traffic. Thousands of copters flew all round him, and the building were so annoyingly tall and closely spaced that he had to shift air lanes every five seconds. How these city folk flew with such ease, and without fatally crashing into each other every second, was beyond him. Finally after the tenth close call in under a minute, Gohan finally became too frustrated with flying and simply gave up. He landed in a wide alley away and then jumped out of the copter. After retrieving the capsule copter, Gohan walked into the crowded streets of the city. And by Dende, calling these streets crowded was an understatement. Walking through these streets was no better than flying in the air lanes. Every second he would have to step side some idiot who was in such a hurry that he would put a charging bull to shame.
Gohan groaned as he walked the crowded streets, when suddenly a loud series of gun shots caused the crowded streets to become a panicking mob. All around him, scared people pushed and shoved, but Gohan stood his ground. And then nearly a minute later, all the people were gone.
Gohan was all alone in the street, when suddenly a huge explosion shook the very ground that he stood on.
'Wow. What the hell is going on?', Gohan turned to his right, the direction of the explosion. And there he saw a wide building constructed of blue tinted marble.
His concentration shifted to the large oak double doors of the building, when he noticed that it was being closed. Just before the doors were completely closed, Gohan saw a bunch of people laying flat on their belly. He then noticed the sign right above the double doors.
HERCULE SATAN NATIONAL BANK.
'A robbery! I have to do something!', and then Gohan remembered the secret costume hidden in his watch.
'Yes! I can help these people!', Gohan thought to himself. And then he looked around to see in anyone else was still on the street. Not sensing the presence of anyone else, and not seeing any cameras around, Gohan quickly activated the secret capsule in his watch, and in a second his clothes transformed into a green plated armor with a bright red cape attached to his back. Turning super Sayian, Gohan ran towards the bank's double doors at a speed that would make him appear as a blur to the common man. Reaching the doors in less than a second, Gohan gave them a shove that shattered the lock that held them together and forced them open with a loud *thud*.
The loud noise surprised both, the robbers, as well as the hostages. The eyes a dozen criminals and over forty civilians were all upon him. They stared in surprise, in anger, in fear...the all stared. That made Gohan nervous. 'I...I must intimidated the thugs, and reassure the innocent...yes...that's what I have to do', Gohan thought to himself. And so, he struck an epic pose. With his knees bent and one arm raised while the other placed on his hip, Gohan bellowed, "PROTECT THE INNOCENT! PUNISH THE EVIL! THOSE WHO STRIKE TERROR IN THE HEARTS OF THE GOOD MEN AND WOMEN, BEWARE! BEWARE FOR YOUR TIME HAS COME TO AN END! FOR I AM HERE! HERE TO PROTECT AND HERE TO SERVE! I AM! uhhh...I am...yeah! I AM-", Gohan switched into another epic pose," I AM THE GREAT SAIYAMAN!"
Everyone in the bank, criminal and hostage alike, just kept staring at Gohan.
Then one of the thugs said," The fuck is going on...for God's sake, someone smoke this fool".
Immediately the thug closest to Gohan began to shoot at him with his rifle
Ten bullets came flying at Gohan in under five seconds. He easily caught each and every one of them. Then once the thug stopped firing, Gohan simply raised both is fists in clear sight of the thugs, and then opened then, letting the bullets fall.
"Now...your injustice ends", Gohan said in an epic and deep tone.
"What...the...fu-", before the thug could complete his sentence Gohan appeared right in front of him and slammed a single finger into his jaw, shutting his mouth.
"I count about seven children in this bank. Do you really wish to use such language in front of them?", Gohan asked menacingly.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM YOU FREAK! OR THESE FUCKERS GET THEIR BRAINS SPLATTERED", one of the thugs yelled.
Gohan turned his head to see most of the thugs pointing their guns at the civilians, who were cowering in terror.
Gohan growled, "You heartless cretins! Now face the wrath of justice!"
Moving at a speed to fast for the human senses, Gohan disarmed and knocked out all the remaining thugs, and then reappeared before the first thug once more, knocking him out as well, with a neck chop that was nothing more than a light tap.
To the ordinary people that lay flat on the ground, it appeared as if all the thugs had been simultaneously knocked out. There were gasps of astonishment and wonder. Some of them were looking at the knocked out thugs that now lay among them, when others looked at Gohan, with a million questions in there eyes.
"Dear good citizens of Satan city. You may stand again. You have nothing more to fear, for Saiyaman is here!", Gohan said, and slowly the hostages started to stand again.
'You nailed this Gohan! Man I make an awesome hero', Gohan thought to himself.
"Hey! Who the hell fired their bloody gun without the bosses-", another thug walked into the hall from inside the vault and then saw his unconscious comrades and yelled,"what the hell! Boss we got trouble!"
Gohan suddenly appeared before him and knocked him out with a single flick to the forehead. Gohan looked up to see five more robbers run out of the vault.
They took one look at him and then at the unconscious thug at his feet and then open fired. Gohan easily caught all the bullets, making sure not to miss any so that no bullet ricochetted and hit a bystander.
The robbers kept firing until they ran out of bullets. Even after that, most of them kept pressing the trigger, as if the clicking noise would cause Gohan to drop dead. They all had a horrified expression on their face, and when Gohan dropped the bullets on the ground, on of the men started to shiver.
Gohan could now hear the loud police sirens outside the bank. The authorities had finally arrived.
"You think your weapons make you powerful...you are wrong, you are not powerful. Drop you weapons now, or else I will show you the meaning of true power", Gohan growled.
"Will you now? And how do you reckon you'll do that eh?", the final thug arrived into the bank's large hall room. The man had a long and extravagant moustache that extended up to his chest, though that was the only hair on in face, for he had no hair strands on his bald head. His clothes though, were in stark contrast to his weird goonish face as well as to the clothes of his henchmen, which were basically something a stereotypical thug would have been expected to wear. The man wore a black business suit and pants, and his shoes were probably so expensive that even the Ox king wouldn't have been frivolous enough to buy them.
"Here let me show you evildoer!", Gohan vanished and then reappeared in front of the man, then lightly chopped the man's neck.
They both stood there for a few seconds, Gohan expecting the man to fall over, and then man expecting something to happen.
"Well that's all you got kid? Huh kinda expected more. You are fast, I'll give ya that kid. So you one of the devil's pawns?", the boss thug asked.
"Wa? Devil? Uhh...how...how are you not unconscious?", Gohan asked in confusion.
"Cos that was a weakass chop kiddo. Hear let me show ya how it's done", the man chopped Gohan's neck with enough force to make him gasp in agony.
Gohan's hand instinctively covered the damage part of his neck. "Well I'll be damed! Ya one tough golden haired kid. Someone else would have lost their head with that chop. Lets see how tough you really are huh?", the man said, and then punched Gohan with a powerful haymaker than send him flying several paces away.
"umph!", Gohan grunted as his back hit the ground, though he didn't lay down for long, and quickly jumped back to him feet.
"Damn! You are tough! What are you? You an android too?"
"Uh..android? Wait a second!", Gohan realized that the man in front of him had no ki seeping out of his body. That could only mean, "You are an android!" And that meant that Gohan didn't have to hold back.
The android was about to reply, but no one would ever know what he was about to say, for Gohan quickly appeared before him at super sayian speed, and then hit him with a fully power upper cut.
The android's head flew off of it's body, ripped through the roof, and kept flying upward. In a second it was a mere speck in the sky, and soon it was completely out of sight.
"I think...I might have overdone that one", Gohan muttered. Then he turned towards the remaining thugs and saw that they were trying to sneak into the toilet.
"Where are you guys going? Trying to escape through some secret tunnel you dug in there?"
The thugs stopped and looked back in surprise, "How did ya' know about dat?", one of the thugs asked.
"Huh? I didn't. I was just guessing. Wow you guys really dug a tunnel leading to the banks toilet? How? Wait...on second thought I don't want to know. I am getting late anyways. So yeah..you guys are surrendering right?"
The thugs took one look at the android and then nodded.
"Great!", then turning to the hostages Gohan said,"fear not citizens! You may now leave without any fear! For Saiyaman is here!"
"The hostages seem to be coming out of the bank sir", officer Tristan said.
"Yes I can bloody seen that officer. It's probably the goddamn Satan girl again", the police chief growled. One day that girl was gonna get hurt, and then heads would roll, and the chief knew that his would be the first head to fall.
"Spoilt brat", the chief muttered.
Following the hostages were five of the robbers with their hands behind their head.
"Arrest them!", the chief growled.
And then, the final man to exit the bank, was some weird ass golden haired moron wearing a power ranger suit.
"Freeze!", some of the officers yelled.
"Uh...Who? Wait me?", the weirdo looked surprised.
"Oh no! You are mistaken officer! I am not a thug!", the weirdo then struck the most absurd and outlandish pose the chief had ever seen, " PROTECT THE INNOCENT! PUNISH THE EVIL! THOSE WHO STRIKE TERROR IN THE HEARTS OF THE GOOD MEN AND WOMEN, BEWARE! BEWARE FOR YOUR TIME HAS COME TO AN END! FOR I AM HERE! HERE TO PROTECT AND HERE TO SERVE! I AM THE GREAT SAIYAMAN!"
"The great what man?", one of the officers asked.
"The great saiyaman!", the golden haired idiot repeated.
"Ok. Screw this", the chief muttered then yelled," OK SAIYADOUCHE, HAND ON THE GROUND NOW! OR WE WILL FIRE!"
The boy huffed, "no offence officer, but you are really ungrateful".
"What did ya' say punk!", the chief bellowed.
The boy sighed and then looked at his wrist, "I am getting late, so I don't have time for this. Ask the people in the bank and they shall tell you who I am".
"Are you getting on the ground or do we have to shoot you!"
"Bye bye".
"Wait, what!? Stop punk!"
Before the chief or any other office could fire their pistol, the man simple flew up. No jet pack, no propelling shoes, no chopter...no nothing. He just flew up, and then vanished.
"Chief...are you...ok", Triston asked as he saw the chief's face turn red.
"WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!"
Videl arrived at the bank, just a minute too late. She groaned. She could still feel the golden fighters aura, it was only a minute old. He was here. It was so clearly visible, his ki was so vibrant that it left a clear after image of him. She knew exactly where he was standing just a minute before. She could even see the golden trail that was left behind as he flew away. It extended up high into the sky, and then abruptly ended, as if he had simply vanished.
Looking around, Videl spotted Tristan interrogating a civilian, probably someone who had been taken hostage by the robbers.
"Tristan!", Videl yelled out his name as she walked towards him.
He looked at her coming towards him and then muttered something to the person who he was interrogating. The man nodded and then left.
He then turned towards Videl, "Hey Videl", he said, though with much less enthusiasm that he usually did. Perhaps he was still mad about the fact that Videl had refused to help Nam, though little did he know that she had changed her mind. He did not need to know what she and Nam were planning, it was too dangerous for him anyways.
Shifting her mind back to the topic, she asked him,"Did you see him? Did you see the man who stopped the robbery?"
"Well I did, and man was it one weird sight. The guy had dyed his hair golden, and he wore a weird ass power ranger costume. It was such a ridiculous sight, the olny thing preventing me from laughing out was chief's temper", Triston answered.
"Wait...power ranger costume? What?"
"Yeah I know. It's just weird thinking about it. But yeah...he was dressed like a power ranger...even had a cape. And God, was he Corny. Struck the most ridiculous superhero pose I have ever seen, and he spoke like he was in a bloody cartoon".
"Are you kidding right now? I am not sure if you are being serious or if you are pulling my leg".
"I am a hundred percent serious Videl. The guy was a clown. Though his outlandish costume was probably some kind of high tech super gear. All the witnesses said that he was bullet proof, and that he could teleport. And apparently he punched a robot's head into space".
"What? A robot?"
"Yup. It's kinda creepy. If you don't look at the wires popping out of the neck then the rest of the body looks absolutely human".
"A robot a huh? That's new.."
"Yeah, and so was this clown. Though the weirdest part...but also the coolest was that the guy literally flew away. And without any kind of jetpack! And he was extremely fast! Probably some high tech anti gravity shit or something".
"He can fly", Videl muttered to herself.
"What was that?"
"Agh! Nothing! I am getting late for school Tristan! I just came down here because I heard about the robbery".
"Yeah you better get going. Don't be late on the first day. Also don't was chief seeing you and pooping a vein".
Videl chuckled and then activated her copter. She climbed into the seat and then waved Tristan goodbye, after which she took off and flew towards her school. The golden fighter...was he really as big a moron as Tristan made him out to be?
'No way..that can't be true. That aura..it belongs to someone amazing...someone magnificent...at least I hope so'.
But did that matter? Even if he was a dork...he was still the man who saved the world.
Suddenly Videl heard a horn and realized that she was about to crash into another oncoming copter. She yelped in surprise and just missed the other copter by a few inches. She groaned, trying to push away the golden fighter from her thoughts. She had a lot to do, and she wouldn't be able to do anything if she was dead because she was too distracted to fly properly.
So pushing out the golden fighter from her mind, Videl concentrated on flying safely and reaching her school alive for her first day.