The next morning, after a long sleep in his luxury suite, Gohan returned to Piccolo to spar.

"You want me go to stage 3 again?"

Piccolo frowned. "Uhh…I prefer you don't."

"Why not? Scared to lose?" Gohan joked.

"No, I'm afraid you'll kill someone with that power."

Gohan fell down and started laughing. "Haha, you know I wouldn't do that. But wait, that reminds me." With a smile he disappeared.

"Gohan NO!" but it was too late. "I'll wait until he attempts to go to Super Saiyan 3"

Gohan arrived right in front of Kame House.

"18! WAKE UP. It's time for your daily beatdown. Come on, I'll even start with my training clothes on just so you don't tire yourself out too early."

After waiting 10 minutes and not hearing a single peep, he flew inside one of the windows. As he walked upstairs to Krillin's room, he suppressed his ki to the point that it made his head spin.

As he entered the room, he sensed something wasn't right. He gave a kick to the air behind him, only to have his foot meet a stomach.

"What the…" Gohan turned around to see 18 wince in pain and shock from being detected. "Oh…yes, my favorite person in the world. Let's go outside, 18."

Once outside, 18 asked "what do you want from me?"

Gohan smirked. He could smell the fear in her blood. "Don't worry, you and Krillin have Mr. Piccolo to thank that you're still alive. I'm not here to kill you; I just want to beat you to a pulp, that's all. But here's what. I'll let you get some hits in on me for about 10 minutes. After that, you're on your own." Gohan could already see Android 18's limp body after he thrashed her around. "Now come at me with everything you've got!"

18 charged forward and landed a fierce uppercut on Gohan, who immediately flew into the air from the impact. She formed a massive ball of blue ki and fired it at Gohan, whose body took the full impact before landing in the ocean. After 30 seconds, he shot back out of the water and smiled.

"You have 9 minutes remaining."

Gohan received her next assault right away. He was hit by jabs to his stomach, more uppercuts to his face, and a series of kicks knocking his head around. 18 got tired of hand-to-hand combat and started firing ki blasts at a rapid rate. Her opponent let each one hit him without any attempt – or intention – to block them.

"STOP TOYING WITH ME!" 18 yelled as she kept firing blasts. It came as no surprise to her when Gohan appeared in front of her.

"What an ironic twist of fate. I could never imagine you of all people yelling that. Oh, and you have 5 more minutes"

18 let out a battle cry and restarted her offensive.

"So where's Krillin off to?" Gohan said as he was minimizing his defense as much as possible.

"He's…in town…with the ….pig….and….the old…man" a furious 18 yelled through gasps of air.

"Good…maybe he left you" Gohan struck a nerve with that comment.

"Why…how dare…you!"

Good. Now I've got her all worked up. Gohan smiled.

18 retreated a few feet. "Don't you ever talk about Krillin like that!" She promptly powered up a ball of blue ki twice as big as the first one she had used and threw it straight at the half-saiyan. For a brief moment, she could see the taunting look on his face and he could see the enraged expression on hers.

The ki forced Gohan into the ocean, and eventually exploded.

After what seemed like an eternity to 18, Gohan rose out of the water. His cape had been nearly obliterated by the blast, and he had an open wound on the center of his forehead. Somehow, he still had the ability to laugh it off.

"I must say, that last attack actually did some damage." He threw off the remnants of his cape and let it drop like a stone into the icy blue water beneath him. "However, this is where the real fun begins. Your time is up; if that last attack contained all of your rage then I think today's beating—or should I say, lesson, will be rather short."

And with that, he powered up to Super Saiyan. "I'm not going to waste my energy like last time. I think this should be more than enough to teach you."

"Teach me…what?" 18 had a strong sense of foreboding as she said this.

"To teach you that it doesn't matter what universe you live in, you can't mess with me or my friends and get away with it."

The next 5 minutes were 18's most painful moments in her life, physically and mentally.

Gohan disappeared and returned behind 18 and tapped her on the shoulder. Knowing that dodging would be useless and expecting the worst, she turned around.

"Hi there!" Gohan delivered a sharp blow to 18's face that sent her flying through the air, and then disappeared.

When 18 finally regained control of her body, she searched for his life force. For several seconds she thought –no, prayed – he had vanished. Then-

"Up here you stupid blonde!"

Slowly she craned her neck upwards to see the fake blonde hovering right above her. As her fearful eyes met those green orbs, she felt a foot strike her gut that made her cough up blood.

Gohan took this moment to grab her by the skull.

"You're no fun; I can't even use a third of my strength without running the risk of destroying your circuitry." After powering up with her cranium still in his left hand, he grabbed her feet with his right hand and then raised her over his head.

"So do you think you've learned enough for today?"

"You…filthy mutt" 18 whimpered.

"What's that? You want some MORE? OK, HERE GOES" Gohan brought her back on top of his head. He started to pull her head and feet in towards his neck. As he continued to do this while pushing his head into her back, she let out a long yell of excruciating pain.

"Yes…that's it…feel the pain that you caused so many others." After another 15 seconds, he realized it was useless. Damn, I can't go any further without snapping her into two. Slowly, he pushed her back to her natural position and then let her go.

"I'll ask again: Do you think we've learned enough today?"

"Y-yes. Now get lost before anyone else sees us." Gohan was enjoying every moment of this. Her face was bloodied and beaten and her pride was crushed. Now if only I could do this to Vegeta…. But something stopped Gohan from thinking anymore along that train of thought. His Saiyan heritage prevented him from feeling hatred towards the Prince. No, he hated artificial humans more than anyone (or anything) else. Nothing could beat this moment; in fact he was even thinking of going for round 2.

"You should show some more respect towards Krillin. He's the only reason you still exist."

"Gohan that's enough! Stop this right now!"

The young Super Saiyan knew that voice all too well and immediately powered down.

"We were done anyway, Piccolo. At least until tomorrow." Gohan smirked at the cyborg.

"NO! No tomorrow! Your fights are with people closer to you in ability now. You have to control your anger Gohan. How do you think I felt all the time when I saw the same person kill ME?"

The last remark hit home with Gohan. "You're right, you should be angrier than me. If I hadn't gone Super Saiyan 3 things might have been different." The look of realization suddenly left his face. "But until my anger burns out, I still need to return the suffering. Once I find the woman's brother…"

18 didn't know whether to be relieved that Piccolo had stepped in and ended the massacre or to be embarrassed that she was now regarded as such a low level fighter. Nevertheless, it was her turn to speak. "He lives in the forests to the east, but I'm not telling you where, you…monster."

"Thanks…tin can. That's all the information I need." and Gohan disappeared.

"I don't understand…he was as nice a boy as there came…and now he wants to destroy everyone…"

"It's that Super Saiyan 3 that's messing with his mind. He should get over his anger soon…although I have to admit after watch you 'kill' me so effortlessly I don't think I can look at your face without being reminded either…" Piccolo vanished as well, hoping that he had told 18 the truth.