They had escorted the living members of her squad back to base after he first arrived. As Gohan carried the unconscious two and flew out the building over to the makeshift HQ across the street, Videl clung to his back and looked out over the battlefield. It looked flattened and torn apart, and the ripped, twisted and broken remains of the enemy lay scattered across the battlefield. Saiyaman had apparently cleaned up their mess.
After dropping off the injured the Saiyan swept Videl off her feet and shot into the sky again, flying faster than the speed of sound. Eventually, after flying at high speeds for 5 minutes, Gohan landed with Videl on the top of a massive building in the heart of the city after she yelled at him to set her down. She pushed against his chest and out of his hold. She felt a hard material under her hands and took a good look at Saiyaman and saw that he was wearing some kind of skin-tight deep Grey bodysuit underneath a white, plastic-looking armor that covered his whole Torso, with a dull gold section on his lower back, shoulder straps and abdomen. It was accompanied by White Gloves, and White Boots. (The new armor that Vegeta wears in Dragonball Super is being introduced earlier by Bulma. Vegeta will be wearing this armor from now on.)
Videl couldn't make out what the armor was made of but thought it suited the hero. "What's the problem!?" she asked him urgently, there must have been a reason he pulled her out here so quickly.
Saiyaman simply stared at her for a second before he looked like he remembered something and smirked at her, "Nothing, I Just wanted your exit to look dramatic and get the media talking." be revealed with a devilish grin, waiting for her to get mad and berate him like she usually did, but instead her face was overcome with uncharacteristic fury.
"YOU WHAT!?" she screeched, her voice so loud that Gohan fully cringed and covered his sensitive ears from her wrath, he did not envy Piccolo whenever Chi-Chi was around. "We're in the middle of a war on a new kind of terror, and you pull me away from my duty to make a scene?! You irresponsible self-centered bastard!" Gohan expected her to be angry but not like this, what was wrong? "You're trying to be funny and I took 2 human lives today! I killed people for the first time!" tears formed in her eyes and her knees and fists began to quake.
Gohan's face did an 'O' and he suddenly realized what was wrong. Without another word he stepped forward and pulled his friend into a hug, she struggled against him for a minute before giving in and crying against his chest. "I'm sorry Videl, I didn't think about the fact that killing would affect you…I'm so sorry." Videl stepped back from his hug, looking into his eyes, eyes that carried a great burden.
"Saiyaman…why doesn't killing affect you?" he looked at her and opened his mouth to say something but she continued quickly so as to clarify, "I know you don't like killing, I can tell. But how do you do it with such ease? Like the man who tried to shoot me, you killed him in a heartbeat. Tao, you vaporised, that Alien you destroyed in West City. How does it come so easy to you, and without second-guessing or regret?" Saiyaman looked down and off to the side, brows furrowed. He looked like he wanted to say something but didn't know if he should, Videl pressed the hero a bit more, "What happened to you?" She asked, her tone low and pitying.
He seemed torn and wouldn't look her in the eye when he responded, "I don't want you to think less of me…" he admitted ashamedly to the girl before him. Videl saw that he was very close to spilling the beans and touched his arm, moving her head in the way of his vision and catching his eye
"You can tell me Saiyaman…we're friends, aren't we?" she asked him gently. He didn't respond immediately but eventually he nodded slowly and walked over to the edge of the building, sitting on the low wall there. Videl followed him and sat next to him. A part of her worried she would fall but her logical reasoning told her Saiyaman was far too quick to let her fall.
The super powered youth took a deep breath and released it, thinking about the best, safest way to tell her the story. "I've been forced into the life of a fighter since I was 4 hears old. My father, as I was going to tell you weeks ago, was like me. He was a great warrior and he protected the Earth for many years, but be was no Earthling. My Father was from an alien race far away from here, but that planet was destroyed when my father was only a baby. But before it could be destroyed, he was sent here. Only when I was 4 years old did my father find this out, and from that day forward my life was hell…" he paused now to let Videl take in what he had said so far, she looked with wide eyes and an open mouth, "Almost every single day of my life from the age of 4 to 9 was spent in combat with Warriors, monsters, Aliens and tyrants, and mixtures of all the above. It was always kill or be killed, and often my reluctance at the former nearly resulted in the latter. I was beaten and blasted, broken and crushed, constantly for 5 years and due to my dominant alien genes, it only made me more powerful. I'm desensitized to it all now." He finished his explanation, staring at the ground between his feet waiting to hear Videl's reaction.
For a moment he thought his worst fears would come true and she would react negatively but she placed a hand on his knee and gave a comforting squeeze, "It sounds like you've had it really rough. I can tell this isn't something you really like to talk about so I won't pry, but thank you for trusting me enough to tell me." She responded, sympathetically.
Gohan stood up and smiled at her, "I told you earlier this week Videl, you're quickly becoming my best friend." The grin on his face was bright and infectious, which was unusual for the normally stoic hero, but not unpleasant. It registered deep in Videl's mind somewhere that something about what be said was off but she wasn't going to question it right now, she was curious about something else.
"So why did you come to get me Saiyaman? You disappeared for weeks and all of a sudden you just popped up out of the blue and saved my team?" she asked him and his face furrowed a bit.
"Me and my friends with abilities have been researching and looking for the heart of this operation to try and put a stop to it." He began to explain and his expression was one of worry and concern, "The night of the broadcast there was an awful presence at the ZTV building. I sensed it myself, and it was a power greater than Cell's." that REALLY got Videl's attention.
"S-Stronger than Cell? A-Are you…sure?" she asked him, Cell caused such devastation, killed so many people, and if she was right about Saiyaman being the boy from the Cell Games, who still couldn't beat Cell outright, then they were in trouble.
"I'm positive, I fought Cell 7 years ago. I could never forget his awful power." Saiyaman confirmed, making Videl panic, "It's actually why I came to get you. I want you to be able to defend yourself or at least be able to escape if you run into this person on a mission. Weeks ago, you proved to me that you knew enough about how my abilities work, and as agreed I'll help train you. You'll be able to do much more good that way in any case." He revealed, and her face lit up.
"You mean it!? We're actually going to start training!?" At his nod she got fired up and excited, "Alright let's do this right now! I can handle anything you throw at me!" she challenged.
1.5 hours later: a grassy plain
After stopping at Videl's home so she could change and bring whatever clothes she may need under Gohan's instruction, the two sat cross legged in the green, lively, slightly windy plain. "Alright Videl, you've heard of inner energy correct?" Saiyaman asked her, at her confident nod he continued, "Energy resides in all living things, everything has some amount of energy, from people to animals, to trees and water. Once you've in essence, opened the flood gates to your energy you'll notice an instant increase in your power. You've accessed it subconsciously before, like in your fight against Tao. But we need to fully open up your Ki to make you effective at using it. First, hold your hands in front of you like you're holding a ball, and close your eyes." He instructed her patiently and watched as she did precisely what was asked of her. Gohan nodded in approval, "Good, now empty your mind, and reach deep inside yourself, to your core. You'll find your energy there." He explained, going quiet to allow her to try and relax.
1 hour later
"This isn't working! Are you SURE everyone has this Ki stuff?" Videl asked impatiently at the silently meditating youth.
The teenaged hero responded to her without even opening his eyes or changing his position, "I'm positive Videl, you're too tense and you're thinking too much. You need to relax in mind and in body." He explicated with an airy, controlled tone to his voice. The girl before him merely huffed in irritation at that, he was right, she was irritable and it was making it difficult to concentrate. Then she realised that Saiyaman had talked to her while maintaining his concentration perfectly.
Videl cocked her head curiously at this, "Hey do I need to be silent to do this?" she asked him. He remained in his meditative state silently. Videl thought he didn't hear her and right as she opened her mouth he responded.
"It depends. While for most people being silent is the best way to relax and focus themselves, no technically it's not a requirement that you have to be quiet.
"Does the area around me have to be quiet?" she asked him, seeming to be leading up to something.
"No not necessarily. For example, I am able to focus while talking to you. In fact, hearing your voice is actually very comfortable and relaxing." He confessed without hesitation as he remained in his exact position.
Videl blushed slightly at that and looked away, but she was glad to hear that because his voice calmed her too, not like she was about to tell him that though! After all, she had already shown Saiyaman enough of soft Videl. She was friends with the teen titan but she had only known him these past few weeks and wasn't about to spill her life's story to this guy.
Seemingly satisfied with her answers she sat quietly, occasionally talking with Saiyaman, and listening to his voice when he responded to her. "Hey Saiyaman, there's something I figured out myself, but I was always afraid to ask. But you were at the Cell Games weren't you?" she asked him, before further explaining how she got to the conclusion she had reached, "The little boy who fought cell right?"
He hesitated but he eventually brought himself to be able to respond to her as he realised that she already knew from their conversations, truth be told, Gohan had been rather careless. But he couldn't help it whenever he was around this girl, she made him feel completely at ease for reasons he couldn't explain. So he manned up and confirmed for her what she already knew, "Yes Videl I was at the Cell Games, the little boy who fought Cell was me."
Just from his tone the girl could tell he didn't really like talking about it too much so she didn't pry, satisfied with her answer for the time being. She returned to being quiet for a little while before she tried to start another conversation. Time passed quickly but Videl hardly noticed. Videl asked Saiyaman what he thought of her and he seemed to struggle for an appropriate answer, which made her laugh openly at him. It was during this laugh when she was finally fully relaxed and she felt a warm, fuzzy, almost vibrating presence in the core of her body. Her jaw dropped at the feeling and she felt hope bubble up within her.
"You've found it, I can tell by your expression. Now, gently urge that feeling between your hands, to make it flow from your core to the space between your hands" he instructed her seriously but with a proud grin on his face for her achievement, "Remember you aren't trying to force it, you're willing it, coaxing it out." He added as clarification for the girl who sat in place in deep concentration, determined to get this down. She nodded dutifully and followed his instructions.
Shortly after a tiny little pink light sparkled between Videl's palms and a light breeze blew her hair around. "That's it! You're doing it!" Gohan exclaimed but at that moment she lost it and collapsed backwards, panting. Gohan winced as he realised he probably disturbed her concentration but as he attempted to apologise to her she seemingly anticipated him and preempted his apology, "Don't sweat it" she told him between gasps, "It wasn't you, I just got really tired all of a sudden." She explained. Gohan sighed in relief that she wasn't mad and nodded in understanding at her.
"You're out of energy, you'll need to rest it for a few hours before you try something like that again" he told her, standing up and dusting of his backside, "For now, we'll continue with hand-to-hand combat. I need to change out of my armor for this, you could break your hand if you hit it."
"But I'm exhausted! You just said that yourself!" Videl argued back at her slave-driver of a superhero teacher.
The Golden-haired teenaged rose an eyebrow at her, "Well if my training is too much for you…" the man never finished his sentence, he knew he got his point across when the girl huffed and got to her feet, falling into a stance. "Much better." He commented before picking up his bag. Suddenly he disappeared out of sight for 1 minute, before reappearing in a Navy Blue Gi with a Red sash, wrist and ankle warmers and plain Black Martial Arts boots. Saiyaman took his own stance, which Videl noted did indeed strongly resemble the Turtle Style. Shaking these thoughts from her mind, Videl charged at him with her fist cocked.
She launched her fist and he twisted his body, letting her charge right past him. Videl spun around and threw kick at his head that he caught by grabbing her shin only inches from his temple. She jerked her leg out of his grip and fired off a left cross to the gut that Saiyaman blocked by dropping his elbow before him and letting her fist hit his forearm full on. She hissed and recoiled her fist, before throwing a right hook that he danced just out of range of. She growled and pushed forward and got in close to him before jumping so her waist was at his head height and swinging her left knee in a hook at his cheek that he didn't even try to block. It hit his cheek full on and his expression didn't break at all. Her knee hurt a little too, adding to her already mounting frustration. Saiyaman grabbed her knee with his closest hand and his other hand grabbed her shoulder. He threw her over behind him. She flipped in the air and landed on her feet, frustrated that he was just toying with her and that her attacks hurt her more than him.
"You fucking coward! Why won't you FIGHT me!?" she screamed at him, her Ki rose very suddenly and she cast her hand out, pointing an accusing finger at him, accidentally firing a blast that hit him in the center of his chest, detonating with unnecessary force, blasting rubble and dust about, throwing her 6 feet backwards. She sat up as smoke billowed from the spot as she was showered with dirt and small docks, her mouth agape and her eyes wide with horror. "N-no! I didn't mean to- I was just so mad and I- oh god what have I done?" she couldn't believe this, she felt fear, guilt, terror and sorrow. A deep rooted sorrow that tore at her heart and soul. One that she couldn't place or understand. But just then the smoke began to clear and fade she saw something she would never forget.
Saiyaman stood exactly where he had been, which was saying something as the ground he had been standing on was reduced to a 15 foot crater that was about 3 feet deep at the center. And yet he floated above the center at ground level as if it were still beneath him. His Gi top was half torn off and the half that was left was tattered and barely hanging onto his shoulder, revealing a great deal of his upper body, his Gi pants were mostly intact except his left pant leg was missing from just above the knee and the right pant leg had a large hole on the outer side of his mid thigh, where his knee was, and various other smaller tears throughout. His skin however, was unmarked entirely, his hair waved intensely and his eyes were narrowed at her as if she was one of the criminals he fought. Her initial attraction quickly turned into a cold feeling that crawled down her spine. She was so frozen in shock, fear and relief that she couldn't even open her mouth to say sorry.
"Be careful what you wish for…" Saiyaman muttered menacingly. He disappeared from her sight, fading into reality before her like a hologram. He was standing side on from her and lifted his hand to face an open palm at her, "HA!" he screamed, and a pulse of an invisible force sent her flying back from him, she hit the ground and bounced, rolling and spinning through the air uncontrollably before hitting the ground again, going through some thick bushes and headfirst into a body of water. She was incredibly dizzy and where she had hit the ground hurt, she tasted a little blood in her mouth that was quickly diluted with water. She slowly sunk head first into the water, unable to move properly. She hit the bottom fairly quickly and, looking up, she could still see the sun light shining through the water, and the shadow of what looked like a person, obviously Saiyaman. She saw a surge of water and bubbles at the surface and then a Golden light brighter than the sun lit up under the water even brighter. She saw a familiar pair of Black boots and Red legwarmers touch down next to her head and she felt her form be scooped up and be pressed against a warm body. She blacked out then, unable to go any longer without oxygen.
When she woke up it was dark, and she heard a fire raging not far from her. She felt pain everywhere and she felt a little cold. She was wrapped in something warm and so hugged it tighter as she sat up. She looked around and saw Saiyaman, in his Gi laying around not far from her. She stood up and walked over to him, and when she did he immediately sat up with concern written all over his face, "Videl! You're okay! Oh thank god!" he exclaimed leaping to his feet and checking around her face, "Good you don't seem injured. I'm glad." He said, with a relieved sigh.
She smiled at his concern and obvious care, for a minute she thought he'd never forgive her. And on that note… "Saiyaman…I'm so sorry about what I did and said. I never meant to tell at you like that, and I even blasted you! I'm so ashamed of my behaviour." She confessed to her teacher who looked at her dumbfounded.
"You're sorry!? I'm the one who should be sorry, you couldn't hurt me no matter how hard you tried. But me, I could have seriously hurt you, or worse! All because of my stupid ego. I should have known you didn't really mean it but its this damn transformation. My aggressive nature is far more prominent when I'm like this." He explained to her, rattling off self-criticism. But something he said caught her ear.
"Transformation? What do you mean transformation?" she inquired with a confused face at which he paled. This interested her even more, what about transformations? Why would they be important? What did that even mean in this context?
"Nothing!" he exclaimed very suddenly at her, making her raise a brow, this was just downright suspicious. But then something else came to mind.
"Hey Saiyaman, you've really changed a lot since we first met. At first you were this really cold, irritable and anti-social jerk" she told him, making him narrow his eyes and cross his arms in indignity, "But over time, though you still have streaks of your old personality, you just seem kind of…happier. Sometimes even a little goofy. I'm not complaining" she clarified holding her a hand out defensively, "But how'd that ever happen?" She asked.
The hero looked thoughtful about her inquiry for a moment, gazing up at the stars, "To be honest, it all started when I first met you." He admitted, catching Videl off guard and gracing her cheeks with a blush. "You're just like him, your personality brings out the best in people. I hate to admit it but you softened me up a little." He told her, not looking her in the eye as he looked skyward.
"I'm just like who?" the Raven-haired student asked her teacher, not following him.
"My father…" he breathed, his voice barely audible over the crackling of the fire between them. Videl's mind raced at that, that sounded familiar…very familiar. She had heard that voice tell her that before, but it hadn't been out of Saiyaman's mouth. Her grip on the blanket around her loosened as she realised that she knew Saiyaman beyond crime fighting. Right as her mind was coming to the revelation the sheet slipped from her fingers and Saiyaman's eyes widened further than she had ever seen from the sharp, narrow-featured hero.
His hand shot forward and grabbed the blanket and he pulled it back up over her shoulders in an instant, breaking her train of thought, "Videl don't let go of this!" he said with a voice that intended to be demanding but sounded somewhat urgent and pleading. With an internal sigh she figured she could leave her train derailed for a second and participate.
"Why not?" she asked simply with a slight frown. He immediately bit his lower lip and looked away, crossing his arms trying to seem nonchalant.
"Well, ahem. After I pulled you out of the water, I left you in your clothes, but with the wind you quickly started getting sick. I went to look for a change of clothes for you in the bag you brought but you…sort of destroyed most of what was in there with your blast. And all that survived was a pair of your underwear, that blanket, and a pretty sturdy capsule box, though I'm not sure how many capsules survived." He kept rattling on, telling the story like it was a novel and she was getting frustrated. By now she had noticed that the blanket was touching her bare skin. She has an idea of where this story was going, but she wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and let him tell his perspective. But every second he stalled further irritated her and she was getting annoyed.
"Get to the point Saiyaman." She commanded through gritted teeth.
The man in question gulped noticeably and nodded dutifully, "Well I started a fire to try to keep you warm but it didn't help enough and I was afraid you'd get really sick" at this point he broke eye contact with her and looked at the ground, "So I uhhh, undressed you and uh….wrapped you in the blanket and laid you by the fire…" he finished quickly, clearly ashamed of having to say it out loud, but his eyes widened when he realised his choice of words, "Agh! But I don't mean laid as in- I mean as in put, I PUT you by the fire." He added quickly.
Videl's face boiled over, "You STRIPPED me!?" she shrieked at the Saiyan, making him wince at her volume.
"N-no! You make it sound so dirty! I just didn't want you to get too sick. I tried waiting for you to wake up so you could do it yourself, but you kept getting worse, so I saved you." He defended, "Besides, I didn't look!" he explained.
"The HELL you didn't!" She refuted, "Admit it! You were peeking at my naked body!" she insisted.
"But I DIDN'T! I'm a warrior and a defender of the Earth! The ulterior motives you're suggesting are beneath me!" he argued back, refusing her with a proud tilt of his chin.
"Oh so now my body isn't GOOD ENOUGH for you!?" she interrogated, "Well I think you should take another look and re-evaluate!" she demanded, making as if to cast the blanket off of her. Saiyaman covered his eyes with his arms and kept them covered for several long minutes in complete silence until he felt her tap him on the shoulder, "Hey, I was joking about that last part I'm sorry" she apologised, "Now will you please look at me so I can forgive you properly?" She asked him and he slowly looked up from behind his arms at the girl before him. "Good, now just due to the circumstances of this situation I will forgive you this one time, since I believe that you didn't look. But from now on you're out of chances buddy, whether you look or not, after this you're on your own, and I will knock you one, super powerful alien blood be damned." The adolescent crime fighter warned before she walked over to her stuff. Gohan, under the guise of Saiyaman, watched in curiosity as the girl rummaged through her capsule case, tossing out broken ones and sifting through the survivors. "Aha!" she eventually exclaimed, pulling out a particularly large capsule before clicking the button on top and tossing it far away from them but within a level clearing. There, with a *POOF* like magic stood a little domed Capsule house. Impressed, Gohan took a few steps closer to the home, looking around it, he saw the code on the building though and recognized it as a 1 bedroom capsule house.
"Videl this is a single bedroom one." He pointed out. He didn't say much but his face told whole stories, he did not like the sound of that.
"Yeah I know, it's the only house capsule that still works, sorry." She apologized, purposely doing her best to ignore the implications of this situation.
"No need to apologize, I'll just sleep outside, not like it'll be the first time." He reasoned with a shrug, walking back towards the fire.
"Wait no! I can't let you sleep outside on the floor! If the 1 bedroom house is an issue then we'll just stay at my mansion, you could fly us there!" she suggested but received a simple shaking of the head from the stoic man across from her.
"No, as part of your training you'll be living away from the distractions of civilization entirely." He told her, laying down the law.
"Well I'm not letting you sleep out here! You could get eaten by a dinosaur in your sleep or something!" She reached out and grabbed his Gi and her hand felt cold and damp, it occurred to her suddenly that Saiyaman mustn't have changed clothes, "Is your Gi still wet!? You could get Incredibly sick! Why didn't you change!?" She questioned pushing him back towards the fire and sitting him down.
"You blew up my bag too. I have nothing else with me." He explained to her and she felt even worse.
"Well why not strip down to your underwear to let it dry." She questioned, trying to figure the way this guy thought.
"No need, where my father comes from we can't catch 95% of diseases and illnesses on this planet." He told her calmly, making her jaw drop, "Besides, I didn't want to make you uncomfortable by being near-naked when you woke up."
She sighed at his over-thoughtfulness but figured if he couldn't get sick then it really didn't matter, still… "Well you aren't sleeping outside, amongst the animals in torn up cold wet clothing, get your ass inside." She commanded which made Saiyaman grumble in irritation and stalk towards the building with his arms crossed.
"I'm sleeping on the couch!" he declared with authority, "Take the bedroom for yourself." He told her with a much more suitable tone.
Meanwhile: Somewhere on Earth
"My lord, it has been 3 weeks and the constant conflict has only drawn a total of 200 Killis. At this rate we'll never get enough energy t-"
"I'm aware welp! But what I'm not aware of is how we only have such a small amount of power after 3 weeks of conflict!" the one in charge roared at his subordinate.
"Uh well, you see it's that Saiyaman and Videl Satan. Together they and their allies have been able to prevent most of our larger attacks without sustaning damage. However Saiyaman is especially interesting! Look at these readings our meter picked up from him." The grunt explained offering his master the chart that showed their readings.
The large man looked over it for some time before his eyes widened in surprise, "3000 Killis!? In one fighter!? How can that be? Earth shouldn't have any fighters with that much power!" he declared in disbelief.
"Will you have us engage this fighter master?" he asked him, not receiving a reply immediately.
After some thought the large being seemed to make a decision, "No, you'll be slaughtered. But a fighter of that magnitude would surely attend the upcoming tournament the humans are hosting. From there he and all his friends will be gathered and we get as much energy at once as possible." He said slowly, his plan slowly being laid out before him in his mind. He chuckled darkly at the genius of it all as his subordinate ran off to make the preparations.
7 days later: With Gohan and Videl
Gohan, still in his same torn Gi, bobbed and weaved around Videl's barrage of attacks. By now he had taken the Red weighted shirt that came with his Gi and given it to Videl, as well as his wrist and ankle warmers to help her in her training. The wrist bands were 4 Kilos, the ankle warmers were 6 each and the shirt was 10. The first time she put it on she could barely move but now she was beginning to get used to punching and kicking.
She lashed out with every form of attack possible, all forms of fist, foot, elbow and knee strikes were incorporated into the attacks. Determined to eventually lay a blow on him.
In the last 7 days she had learned how to draw on her Ki to fire blasts, fly (albeit not very high and not very fast), and she was even beginning to understand how to raise her power with her Ki.
Videl threw a crazy punch that Saiyaman caught without an issue, "You're getting better Videl." He complimented, ducking the girl's spinning heel kick and jumping over her leg swipe. "You know the Tournament is in 1 more week, you can enter if you like." Saiyaman offered to her.
"Will you be entering?" she asked him curiously, receiving a chuckle from him.
"Without any of my friends going, there frankly won't be a point, I'd just tear through the competition. None of my friends really want to go that much, even though I think it'd be cool." Gohan said with a hint of wistfulness in his voice.
"It's okay Gohan! I'll come to the tournament with you!" called an echoing, all-too-familiar voice in Gohan's mind. Videl was left looking everywhere, her whole being in defense mode when her master suddenly perked up. Saiyaman however looked straight up at the sky with a big awed expression on his face. She waited for Saiyaman to do or say something but it almost looked like he was having an emotional conversation in his head.
"You're coming back for a whole day!?" Gohan replied telepathically through the link King Kai set up for them.
"Yeah, the day of the tournament no less! I have really missed you all, everyone who's up here has. So the fact that we'll get to come to the tournament with you sounds great." Goku's excited tone rang out, followed almost immediately by his signature cheeky chuckle.
Gohan almost smiled at the sky like an idiot about the memorable sound. He was incredibly surprised to hear that his Father and the other fallen Z-Warriors would be returning to Earth for a day due to all the time they spent fighting for good.
"Man wait till I tell everyone, they'll DEFINITELY go now, you're like a drug for those guys Dad." Gohan remarked bemusedly, "Seriously though, I've missed you father. I'm glad I'll get to see you again." He admitted to the sky.
"I've missed you too son. I'll see you tournament day." Goku replied before the telepathic link was cut by King Kai.
A small grin crossed Gohan's face. He would see his dad again, he was still a little guilty about what happened during the fight with Cell but it was no issue. "What was that about!? I've been calling you for ages!" Videl yelled at him, reprimanding the boy for his complete snub to her. Be turned to her with a happy expression that caught her slightly off-guard.
"My dad's coming back to life for the tournament!" He explained excitedly and be picked her up and spun her around with a laugh. Videl freaked out at his hands on her waist and blushed furiously, but her embarrassed rage was overshadowed by her curious nature.
"Coming back to life!? Is that even possible!?" she questioned in bewilderment, all of this was just too outrageous. Obviously the answer was yes as Gohan didn't even respond to that question and moved on all together.
"Come on Videl, back to training! I need to make you as strong as possible before this tournament." He told her which made her refocus instantly and nod her head in understanding, she could always interrogate him later. But his laugh just then sounded disturbingly familiar. She had definitely heard that laugh before but not from Saiyaman. As she attacked Saiyaman she kept getting flashes of memories. She remembered the time she went to Gohan's families home in the 439 region. His mother had shown Videl his old room.
She remembered looking around and noticing how immaculately clean Gohan's room was. It was all neat, tidy and ordered. He had a few framed pictures that she didn't really get to see properly, and he had a wardrobe on the far wall. The wardrobe was left open and within Videl saw, hanging up, a Navy-Blue Gi with a Red sash.
"Focus Videl!" Saiyaman yelled, blasting her with a kiai that sent her 6 feet back onto her ass.
"Hey!" Videl cried out with indignation that Saiyaman quickly halted with a palm held up telling her to stop.
"I'm sorry Videl, but your head wasn't in the game, it was somewhere else entirely. I needed to jolt you back to reality." He told her, before he looked off into the distance in apparent thought. He nodded to himself seemingly deciding on a course of action and he turned back to her "Videl perhaps it's best you have this day to rest, I've been working you pretty hard and perhaps you simply need some down time."
"What? No, no need, I'm fine, I was just thinking about something strange that's all, let's get back to training I'm fine I promise!" Videl urged, thinking that Saiyaman might be having second thoughts about training her.
"No Videl don't stress, sometimes even the best warriors need a rest day. Besides, I have some things I need to attend to. Supplies, new clothes and a message to deliver to some people. I'll be back in the morning" He told her and she sighed in resignation.
Videl nodded at what he was saying and watched as he lifted off into the sky and disappeared in a Golden blur. She huffed as her training had to be postponed and headed inside. She noticed that she could actually kind of…FEEL Saiyaman. Or his energy or whatever. She had heard him say stuff about sensing people before, so this must be it. It's like she had a radar in her mind that would ping every now-and-then and she could actually feel the general direction he was in. It was a strange feeling but she definitely liked it. For now though, she would rest. Videl settled into bed and her exhaustion from constantly training and pushing her limits caught up with her, lulling her into a blissful sleep.
Alright everyone that's yet another chapter out of the way. I've been getting some PM's asking me if I intend to do the Broly scenario and I suppose I could fit him in the story if you want me to. However I should tell you that if I do this it'll kind of be done like the movie. I don't mean the events would be done like in the movie but I mean the fight would not have any effect on the main plot and would be a filler chapter of sorts. By this I mean if Gohan is gravely injured in the fight he will not get a Zenkai boost from it that would push his strength up from what it is now. But I can still do it if asked. It would give me more time to plot the finer details of the main story. Just tell me what you want.