"Hey mom," Gohan slowly made his way into the kitchen a couple minutes after his friends left his house. The second they took off he realized that he really should have asked his mom if they could stay over, If she says no I'm fucked!
"Yes Gohan," Chi Chi turned around from the kitchen counter holding a large cutting knife that she was using to chop up vegetables. She noticed Gohan eyeing the knife nervously and decided not to put it down, "What is it sweety, you look nervous," she said in her most creepy voice still holding the knife in front of her.
"Umm, well you know how my friends all live in the city right," he waited for her to nod, "and their houses were all kinda destroyed," Chi Chi nodded again. "Well I invited them over to spend a couple weeks until school starts again." He mumbled so fast that it just sounded like 'wlinvit emove tospnd cplweks tilscolstrtain.' but Chi Chi was used to listening to her husband and boys talk with their mouths full and understood what he said completely. Oh yes, Gohans going to have two, two girls over for a couple weeks, grandbabies here we come. But he didn't ask me first and that's why he's nervous hmmm. She slammed the knife into the counter and it stuck straight up in the air.
Gohan stepped back wondering what his mother would say. "Gohan," she started, Gohan's face distorted so many things going through his mind, "good for you, that was a very nice thing you did offering them a place to stay." She turned back to her veggies and continued chopping. Gohan opened his mouth to say something but no words came out so he left and went up to his room. I guess there's no point in wearing a long sleeved shirt when it's this nice out now that they know what my arms look like anyway. He tossed on a t-shirt and a pair of sweatpants and decided to take a trip to Bulma's to see if she had a capsule house he could borrow.
"See ya mom, I'm gonna go ask Bulma for a capsule house." he shouted down from his room before taking off out the window and slamming straight into his kid brother. "Trunks, whoa sorry little man didn't mean to fly into you like that. Where's Goten?"
The lavender haired boy looked up at Gohan excitedly, "Gohan who were those people that were flying away from your house?" Gohan's jaw dropped, he didn't, "I gave them a good scare on my way over here. I saw a couple girls your age in there, was one of them your girlfriend?" Trunks was smirking.
"What do you mean scare?" Gohan asked wondering what the son of Vegeta could think would scare people.
The boy shrugged, "I just flew straight at them, it was like we were playing chicken, I totally won. They like swerved out of the way like wooosh and swoop." Trunks waved his arms left and right for emphasis and Gohan face palmed. "Anyway Gohan, since Goten can't fly yet I came over to get his teddy and pjs cuz he's gonna sleep over tonight." Gohan opened his mouth but Trunks knew what he was going to say, "It's okay my mom called your mom, wow Gohan don't be such a worry wart."
"Actually Trunks I was going to say let's fly back to your house together since I need to get something from your mom anyway." Gohan repied, "but now that your so confident you know what I'm going to say, what will I say next?" Trunks gulped and grabbed Goten's teddy and pjs tight and shrugged. "Race ya!"
Gohan flew out the window and Trunks flew after him shouting, "No fair, you got a head start." Gohan's head start didn't seem to matter as he kept getting farther and farther in front of the younger boy. Well if he's not going to slow down then I'll have to speed up. "Super Trunks away!" His purple hair turned yellow and he flew past Gohan giving a fake salute to the older boy who had stopped in his tracks out of surprise and fallen out of the air.
"Well, now everyones a super saiyan. Great, looks like I can speed it up a little bit." Gohan said aloud to himself before goiing gold and chasing the streak of light the other boy left behind. "I'm gaining on you Trunks," Gohan shouted and they both sped up a little bit more. They were a mile out of West City and closing in on the Briefs' compund fast. Gohan felt a twinge increase in Vegeta's ki in front of them and they would be at Capsule Corp. in ten seconds, "new plan Trunks." Gohan shouted in front of him but the second oldest half-saiyan didn't slow down. He's trying to trick me, Trunks thought, "Whoever can dodge the best wins!" Gohan shouted, Dodge the best what is he talking... crap as two yellow energy blasts flew into the sky intercepting Trunks mid-flight blowing up on impact and the other narrowly missing Gohan with a quick dodge to the left. Trunks started plummetting out of the air already out of his Super Saiyan state, Gohan caught him and went back to his base form as he landed on the front lawn of Bulma's house.
"Hey Vegeta did you have to put so much power behind that blast?" Gohan asked as he walked over to the Prince handing him his unconscious son.
"Humph, he should have felt it coming and dodged, always be ready." Vegeta retorted taking his son out of Gohan's hands and heading inside.
"It was nice talking to you too." Gohan called after him before heading off to the science wing where Bulma was usually twenty hours a day, every day. I know she get's rich off this stuff but taking a break is good too. He flew in the window that was always open for him whenever he decided to stop by and help with some crazy new experiment.
"Gohan great you're here, can you hold this up for me?" Bulma asked barely glancing at the teenager. Gohan went over and lifted the two ton metal contraption that Bulma was working on with little difficulty so she could get under it and work on the bottom. That's how much she trusted him, he wouldn't drop that on her and crush her, she believed in him.
They could be arriving at any minute I need to get back quick. "Actually Bulma I didn't come to work on inventions tonight." Bulma slid out from under the metal thingy and nodded to Gohan who put it down gently, "I actually have some friends whose houses were destroyed in Hurricane Hercule," they both chuckled at the name, "and they are going to stay with me for a while so I can I please borrow a capsule house since ours isn't big enough for all three of them."
Bulma smiled, aww, he's so cute with his politeness, I wish my boys would treat me like he does. Trunks could learn from a role model like him. "Of course Gohan, I've got the newest model right here, somewhere," she rooted around a clump of small capsules looking for the one with the right label. "Ahh here it is, four bedroom, two bathroom, and a small living room in between where the front door opens up into. The perfect house for a group of teenagers living together."
"Oh but Bulma, we don't need four bedrooms, I'm going to stay in my house." Gohan told the blue haired woman.
The princess of the Saiyans frowned and shook her head, "Oh no you are not." Gohan looked confused, "you are their host, and besides, Chi Chi is going to make you stay in there anyway so she can have grandchildren, there is a girl right?" she asked.
"Two actually," Gohan replied knowing she was right.
"As I was saying, either you spend the nights there having to share a room with one of them in a smaller capsule house, or I can give you this one and you can each have your own room and might get out of having kids at eighteen." Gohan smiled, Bulma always thought ten steps ahead of everybody. "I know, I'm awesome," Bulma said tossing him the red capsule. Gohan caught it then looked around to see if Vegeta was around before giving Bulma a big hug.
"See ya, they're gonna be at my house any minute now." Gohan took off back out the window, "Tell Goten i said hi."
"Those Saiyans," Bulma looked back at her contraption, wait how am I supposed to work on this now, "VEGETA," she yelled. The Prince of the Saiyans had put Trunks to bed and nodded for the other little half saiyan to follow him when they hear Bulma's scream.
"Where are we going Mr. Vegeta?" Goten asked wide eyed as the Prince grabbed him by one arm and flew off into the night sky.
"Anywhere but here kid," Vegeta responded looking back to make sure Bulma wasn't following him in a plane like last time he took off.
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"Land us in the back this time Videl," Erasa told her friend as they approached Gohan's house. The sun had just set over the horizon and after another couple hours worth of flying they were finally back at Gohan's house. Videl was anticipating seeing Gohan again, last time she'd seen him, a couple hours earlier, she had gotten a glimpse of his arms and she really wanted to see how they felt. I have to make it accidental she thought landing her super fast helicopter in the back I'll pretend to slip and catch my balance by grabbing on to him, this is ridiculous I don't think like this. I just can't wait to see that Chi Chi either, Videl growled remembering the quick fight they had earlier which ended in her defeat. Can I really wait a little over a month to fight her? I'm going to be living with her!
"I thought Gohan would have come out to meet us what should we do?" Sharpner asked still sitting in the back of the copter.
"We could go up to the house," Erasa offered thought nobody seemed to like the idea of meeting Chi Chi without Gohan there.
"Follow me guys," Videl stated and started heading for the house slowly. The other two were close behind her having hopped out of the jetcopter and capsulizing it. Erasa handed Videl the capsule and she pocketed it as they reached the back door. Videl extended her arm inch by inch towards the back door and knocked quietly a couple times. Gohan was watching from the air above and decided to go in the front door before letting them in. He landed on the front and tossed a capsule releasing a house much nicer than his own except for the color. Instead of the nice white hosue that was the Son's, this new house was orange with a bunch of yellow poka dots.
Bulma you're killing me, Gohan used his super speed to run inside where he heard his mother walking towards the back door where Videl was still knocking almost inaudibly. Gotta do this fast, he ran to the closet and took out a can of black paint and a paint roller, faster, he went super saiyan and sped up so that time was slowed down for him. He went outside and painted the entire house in a matter of seconds, then knowing that he couldn't let the paint stay wet as they had just flown over and would get suspicious he sent weak kiais all around the building drying the paint fast.
"Oh hello, I believe Gohan just got back with your sleeping arrangements he's in the front." Chi Chi said as she opened the door letting the teens in. They said thanks and started making their way to the front door.
Fwew done, now for the big reveal, Gohan capsulized the house and held in in his hand. The teens walked out the front door to see Gohan standing in front of them with a big smile on his face, "Hey Gohan what's up?" Erasa asked skipping over to him and he held up a hand, turning away from his house he tossed the capsule. Popthe capsule opened showing an amazing, one story building that was wide and elegant. It was rounded at the top like most other houses but there were more that one bump, the biggest being right after the front door, then four more bumps surrounding it where the bedrooms each were.
"Whoaa," the three said at once, "Gohan, this is too cool." Sharpner said running over and throwing the newly painted black door open to check out the inside. Gohan hadn't checked out the inside yet and was hoping that the colors of the inner walls were different from those of the outside. While Sharpner instantly plopped down on the couch in front of the 54 inch plasma screen television and started watching boxing, Erasa ran over to the bathroom between the four rooms.
"Oh, My, God." Erasa said in shock. "It's so big, and the shower has so many different settings, and the mirror is so big, and the sink area is so big for all my makeup." She turned around to see Gohan and Videl looking at her holding back laughs at how giddy she was, "I mean it's like, really big." They couldn't hold it in anymore and just started laughing and soon Erasa joined in.
"Yeah!" Sharpner threw an arm up in the air, his favorite boxer had just won again, knockout in the third round. He spun around and imitated the move that had one the match, "And Killa wins his eighth match in a row, there's no doubt he's gonna win the WMAT this year." Videl scowled at her blonde friend who quickly realized his mistake, "I mean win second place, I meant second."
She grinned, "You better have."
Chi Chi threw open the door with a couple bags in her hands, "Here you go Gohan, you didn't think you'd be leaving your friends in here by themselves did you?" she smirked.
"Nope, not at all." Gohan grabbed the bags which were filled with his clothes and towels and a blanket and brought them over to one of the bedrooms. Unlike the living room which had tan walls, his were a dark shade of blue. "Bulma made the house to have four rooms in it." Chi Chi frowned disappointed that her son wouldn't be sharing a room with one of the girls but living in the same house was enough, it would happen sooner or later.
"Did you say Bulma?" Erasa asked Gohan after his mom shut the door again and walked back to the main house. "As in Bulma Briefs?"
Shit, I can't really say no, and Bulma isn't really a common name, at least it's not like they're figuring out I can fly or something. "Yeah my mom and me are friends with her actually her whole family." Videl and Sharpner's jaws dropped. Erasa on the other hand was bouncing up and down excitedly.
"Bulma Briefs head of Capsule Corporation is your friend, this is fantastic. She's the head of many departments related to space travel and spaceship engineering right." She asked but she already knew the answer, Bulma was her idol since she was like seven years old. "You have to introduce me to her." she demanded.
"Ummm why?" Gohan asked but before Erasa could go on a humongous rant Videl interjected.
"She wants to be the first person to discover an alien species." Videl said rolling her eyes, as if there are such things as aliens.
"It's been my dream ever since I was a little kid to go up into the stars in a spaceship, I even went to space camp when I was fourteen." Erasa kept talking, obviously her favorite subject, "Most people think I'm jsut a dinky blonde who just cares about boys and such, but I also like space. A lot!"
Gohan never would have guessed that this girl actually went to space camp, I mean space camp is for nerds, they must have been drooling over a girl like her the entire time. "Sorry Erasa but weren't there already aliens discovered?" Gohan asked.
"Pssh you mean that hoax thirteen years ago, like that was a real alien invasion." Sharpner said, "the only spaceship that was recovered just happened to explode the day after the incident."
"Shut it Sharpner," Erasa commanded using her most grown up voice, "I always believed it wasn't a hoax, even when the international science community agreed that it was." Erasa continued, "I want to actually meet a species though, a friendly race of aliens, not ones that destroy cities." She grabbed one of her eight bags and dragged it into the purple bedroom, "nice my favorite color."
Videl went and opened one of the remaining two rooms and closed the door quickly then opened the next and mumbled, "At least it's better than pink," and tossed her one bag on the king sized bed in the middle of the white room. The room looked like it was pretty boring with all the walls looking alike and only one dresser and a window facing the forest. Good I don't want that Chi Chi woman to be able to watch me sleep.
"Wait what was that about pink?" Sharpner asked walking over to the last available bedroom. "You've got to be kidding me," the others walked into his room and couldn't help but giggle at how ridiculous the room looked. "Does she think I'm a three year old girl!" He shouted, even the bed, unlike the other three was only a queen not a king.
"Bulma had no idea which room you would choose Sharpner so stop your whining," Erasa demanded protecting Bulma like they were long time friends.
Gohan looked at Videl and they made eye contact, perfect time to trip and land in his arms, "Hey Videl what color are you going to paint your room or are you just going to leave it white?" The others looked at him and tilted their heads sideways.
"We can change the color of our rooms sweet." Sharpner was already sick of his room only being there for a minute.
"You can't but Videl can," Sharpner was about to yell back, "Bulma is lending me the house but she said the white room has paint in the closet and whoever sleeps there can change the color for good for when this design is released to the public and mass-produced.
Wow no pressure Videl, just remember that this choice will determine the future of a product. "I guess I'll just make it red, it's my favorite color." The teens all got ready to go to bed in their new home, some more reluctantly than others, finally after much heated debate Sharpner agreed not to paint his room a different color, who would want to piss off the most powerful woman in the world?
The next morning Gohan awoke to find all the other bedrooms empty, his bedroom also came with its own private bathroom, so he had taken a shower before heading out. The first thing he noticed when he walked outside were Videl and his mother, both on opposite sides of the front yard doing some intense martial arts training. He was impressed by Videl's speed and strength, she far surpasses her father, however his mother was obviously ahead in almost every aspect except youth. She was faster, threw harder punches and kicks, and far more experienced. The only thing Videl has going for her is that she has a stronger father, wait, she might have a stronger father. That would be a good match up, Ox King vs Champion of the World Hercule Satan.
Erasa came out of the main house and Gohan jogged over to her as she smelled of pancakes, "Hi Gohan, good morning," he barely acknowledged her and made his way straight for the table.
Sharpner was still eating his breakfast and asked between mouthfuls, "So Gohan," munch munch, "where's this brother of yours that we heard so much about. What was his name, Goten?"
"He was sleeping over Bulma's house last night, she has a kid about the same age, a little older." Gohan just then decided to look for his brother's ki and gulped, swallowing a full pancake before he was done chewing. "Oh no," Gohan walked outside and saw Videl and Erasa staring wide-eyed into the sky where Vegeta was floating with Goten held by one arm.
"Here's your son back," he called down and tossed Goten from fifty feet in the air towards the Son house before shooting back into the sky in the direction of West City, (west). I would have loved to stay and ruin Kakarotts oldest son's social life, but Bulma says if I do I'll have to cook my own food. Still I'm sure that little stunt was enough to get some payback from our spar. 'Remember Vegeta, don't get Gohan mad, I might not be there to save you next time.' Oh that Namek pisses me off.
Gohan stuck his head in his hands as Vegeta flew off, thankfully not as a super saiyan, the real problem was Goten. The boy was falling and Videl and Erasa were screaming, Videl was sprinting to where Goten was going to land but he was falling too fast. This will be interesting, Gohan thought as his brother landed on two feet bending his knees slightly on the landing to lighten the fall. Seeing the amazed looks of Gohan's girl friends he shouted "Ta Da!"
A/N As always thanks for the reviews, I love the input. Told you I'd get another chapter in soon, I'll try to get another one in maybe two before I leave on Thursday. Hope you enjoy.
