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Vegeta: I'm tired of you talking! I STILL don't know how the Saiyan race survived extinction!
Gohan: Calm down Vegeta, I'm sure he's getting there
Vegeta: Keep out of it boy! I want my answers! NOW!
Jazuka: I'll explain this chapter, it's a lot less miraculous than you seem to be treating it though my lord
Vegeta: I don't care! I just want to know!
JJ: Well then I shant keep you awaiting, on with thy story!
Warning: There is a part of this chapter that is a little bit darker than usual, so as not to offend anyone or anything, if you do not wish to read the part with the unnecessary violence, then when it gets to that part I will put in large letters STOP when you reach that just scroll down until you see in large letters START, okay? It's not really THAT violent but it is rather dark, I wouldn't personally rate it M but it is certainly not "sunshine daisies butter mellow"
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Chapter 11: The story is told and Gohan becomes complete...
It was later that morning in the peaceful building known as Capsule Corp. that this chapter takes place. Where the young man named Gohan and his friends were currently in the lab as he had some more tests run on him. Vegeta was still unconcious in the regen-tank but other then that everyone was just fine. Well...maybe a little tired. But the point is that scientific stuff was happening and it included lots of numbers and names of chemicals the the writer, despite being rather good at spelling, doth not dare attempting in this story. But let me tell you the stuff that these chemicals can do is enough that surely our genius Bulma would soon know what was happening to the oldest of Saiyan half-breeds and everything about whatever is wrong, how it stemmed, what it meant exactly. Yep we can all rest peacefully because Bulma Briefs is on the case, and she will fix everything to do with this cell problem thingie.
"I CAN'T FIX ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS CELL PROBLEM THINGIE!" ... well f*ck
"What do you mean Bulma?" Yamcha asked,
"I mean I can't seem to find out anything about what's happening to Gohan" she explained, slightly annoyed,
"But don't you already know what's happening? I mean I heard you say that Gohan's cells are mutating slightly" Tien asked, but Bulma just shook her head,
"Of course I know what's happening! But I need to know what's happening!" Bulma explained matter-of-factly,
"Bulma that doesn't make alot of sense" Krillin stated,
"Alright what I mean is, that while I know that Gohan's cells are mutating, I'm not sure what cells are mutating them and what exactly they're mutating, so far the only thing I've been able to observe is slight change in size and a substantial change in colour" she told them while observing the sample she had collected earlier that morning.
"So what do we do from here?" Krillin asked,
"We wait for Gohan to get back from school and we run some more tests, (A.N Well don't they have a diverse way of telling what's wrong with people, "Let's run some more tests" "Now some more tests" and "Hey I have a crazy idea! Let's run some more tests!") I'll have to try to find where these cells are coming from and where they are going to find out what they actually are" Bulma informed him.
Vegeta had finally emerged from the tank and he was sitting with the others as they conversed. He then turned to Jazuka,
"So boy, you never told me, how are you a full-blooded Saiyan?" he asked,
"It's actually pretty simple, my however many greats grandfather and a large group of Saiyans had been on a long-term campaign against the GPF presence on a planet called Boraga. Eventually when they came back, there was no Planet Vegeta, so they moved on, and repopulated, there's actually a large population of us now, almost enough to wish for a new planet, once we get some new Dragonballs of course" He explained,
"T-That's it?! No story about a scientific mutation of any kind?! Just there were other off-world?!" Vegeta said flabbergasted,
"Well think about it, what were the chances, that of billions of people who have easy access to space travel and who constantly use it because their jobs are to fly around in space, only about 7 were not on the planet when it was destroyed?" He pointed out,
"Yes, yes I suppose you have a point" he replied begrudgingly,
"I was kind of hoping for a faith restoring story about a Saiyan who had been strong enough to shield his mate and himself from the explosion and who barely survived and after floating around in space finally found a planet to land on only to be attacked and having to fight a whole planet of monsters back after having not eaten in days or perhaps even weeks and after surviving genocide, and then winning the fight and restoring the race" He told him.
"...you know what that does sound better" Jazuka admitted. "However, there is another way that it happened, a reason that led to there being half-Saiyans on Earth even before I arrived"
"Well then what is it?" Vegeta questioned,
"I can't tell you, it's one of the "benefits" of being from the future. I can however say that you'll find out soon enough, it'll just be a matter of if you pick up on it as fast as you were rumored to do in my timeline"
Orange Star High School: Meanwhile
"Hey Gohan!" Erasa called out as soon as Gohan had entered the room to his 2nd period class,
"Sup Gohan" Sharpener greeted sounding friendly,
"Hey" Videl said,
"Hey guys! How are all of you?" Gohan asked after greeting them collectively,
"Nothing much, just telling Erasa about how you and Videl were getting all lovey dovey on me the other night in the copter" He replied mischievously,
"Huh?" Gohan was confused, he tried to remember what happened but no matter how much he thought about it he could not remember getting "lovey dovey" with Videl as Sharpener had put it.
"Oh come on Sharpener! You tripped me and you know it!" Videl replied angrily,
"Yea I do, but it's more fun to tease you" Sharpener explained leaning back in his chair.
"Oh, Trunks and 17 are here" Gohan said aloud,
"What are you talking about? Who is-" But Videl was cut off by the door opening. (A.N It's funny coz nobody even asked about 17 this whole time, he was not even mentioned and nobody cared XD) sure enough though, Trunks entered the room accompanied by the new kid, Andy.
"How did you know Trunks was coming? And why'd you call the new guy 17?" Videl asked,
"Well...I heard them, and we call Andy 17 because he was the only guy in our group who is already 17"
(A.N Should probably point out that Gohan and co. are 16 here, as I know for a fact that that's how old he was stated to be, just as he was 9 when he killed Cell, he was about 10 if you count the rosat but that year never happened for anyone but he and Goku. It kinda annoys me that they call him teen Gohan in the games though. Technically it should go "Extremely literate Toddler Gohan, University level intelligence badass Kid Gohan, Lazy but still badass at times Teen Gohan" If they were to name the three different stages)
"Oh, well anyway I was just thinking about the other day and I remembered something" Videl told them all, "Gold-Fighter knew Trunks' name" Videl said, Trunks and Gohan immediately froze at that, "Actually, Trunks, I seem to remember you talking to him as if you knew him! Care to explain why?" She demanded, glaring the glare of glares at him,
"Not really" Trunks said quietly and nervously as his skin paled to a light grey.
"Well lucky for me I don't care what you want! HOW DO YOU KNOW HIM? WHO IS HE?!" Videl demanded of him loudly,
"Quiet down girl, nobody is going to be able to respond if you deafen them with your incessant screaming" Andy stated, annoyed that this girl was so demanding and annoying,
"...WHAT?! HOW DARE Y-" Videl never got the chance to finish her sentence because the hallway door was suddenly blown to pieces and several men armed with strange arm-mounted weapons walked in the room and fired into the air. "Those are enerby-blasters" Gohan noted as he had seen many during his adventures on Namek.
"EVERYONE STAY SEATED OR WE'LL BLOW YOU TO PIECES!" The men screamed at them,
"You have the best school days" Gohan's Saiyan side commented,
"Why does this always happen to ME?! I swear to Dende the universe wants my secrets uncovered!" Gohan panicked,
"Guy, the universe can't be against you beca-"
"SHUT THE F**K UP!" Gohan interrupted, "Fine! YEESH!"
This was bad, Gohan thought, if only someone here had the ability to attack these guys without blowing their cover,
"Videl can't handle them, they must be the cybernetically enhanced thugs they were hiring at that arena. I have never been so happy that I blew something to HFIL besides Cell" However Gohan was feeling a very strong urge to just get up and deal with them quickly, an urge he couldn't explain,
"I don't want it explained, you should just listen to it, you'd be a better Saiyan if you listened to those urges more often" his Saiyan side encouraged,
"Now you sound like Vegeta" Gohan commented while scanning the room, catching Videl as she mouthed to them to stay low, seemingly about to attack, but as she leapt towards the closest guard and kicked his weapon away, he merely grabbed her arm and did a sidekick that knocked her back onto the desk she launched off, "Anymore heroics like that and I'll kill all of you!" the thug yelled firmly and seriously,
"WAIT! 17! Thank god!" Gohan looked, relieved, toward 17 who was merely watching the whole thing with amusement, "Ah crap he's not doing anything anytime soon...wait THAT'S IT! I can't do anything, but Gold-Fighter can! I just have to find a way out of this room" Gohan looked to them and realised he only had one option.
He crawled over to where Sharpener had pulled a slightly injured Videl,
"Sharpener, I'm gonna make a break for it, I'm gonna go...get help" He said with a pointed look, Sharpener nodded knowingly,
"Gohan you can't try that! They'll kill you!" Erasa said,
"She's right Gohan! You can't try that, if they got me so easily what chance have you got? No we sit here and wait for help. My father will be here soon" Videl assured him,
"Not a big help here" Gohan noted after seeking out Hercule's Ki and finding that, although stronger than at the Cell games, it wasn't great enough to take even one of these guys. Gohan sat and waited for somebody, anybody, to arrive but nothing happened and the men in the room began questioning the students on their names and stuff, "They're looking for me!" Gohan realised with shock, he began to stand up and run for it but once again he was stopped when Videl grabbed his wrist,
"I said wait for my father or the police!" She hissed at him,
"Once my father get's here then we'll be fine" She told him, Gohan turned to her with slightly darkened eyes with emotion in them Videl didn't have time to process, she was too busy being shocked at the dark edge to them that seemed weird on Gohan.
"You say that a hero can save us, but I'm not gonna stand here and wait" He told her, (A.N See what I did there?It's a Nickelback reference, from the movie Spiderman)
At that he jumped up and ran for the door, and when one of the thugs turned to attack him he jumped on to his shoulders and leaned forward slightly before launching off causing the goon to be pushed forward and he collided with the ground face-first. he managed to make it out the door-way just as they began firing at the door with their strange weapons and blew the wall apart completely and chased him into the hallway where they had found that he had been cut off by more guards and they all pointed their weapons at him,
"GOHAN!" Sharpener cried before running out and punching the nearest guard in the back of the head to no effect other than them all turning their attention to him and advancing towards him before taking aim,
"Ya shouldn't 'a done that kid! I was in the mood for a kill anyway!" He said before powering up his weapon,
"No! This time he won't survive! This is my fault I should have just taken them down! I have to save him!" Gohan thought frantically.
"Nighty-night kid!" the thug in the front said as they all pointed their weapons at Sharpener who stood there growling at them and right before they fired everything slowed down for everybody and they all watched as the beams were fired and Sharpener fell backwards and was in a half-laying-half-sitting position as they approached him when suddenly a figure blocked his vision. Sharpener looked up to see Gohan with arms spread out wide and his head turned to him with a grim-looking smile on his face.
"Oh no..." Was the thought on everybody's mind as they saw Gohan step between the attacks and Sharpener with that look on his face. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sharpener yelled but was instantly forced to the ground flat on his back by the sheer force of the attacks colliding with Gohan, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gohan screamed in agony at the multiple blasts that could have easily killed Frieza at his best all making contact with him at once. His shirt slowly disintegrating off of his chest and his pants having holes through them all over. He tried to shield Sharpener from the blast as best as possible and Sharpener had been dug into the ground by the force of the attacks before him. By the time Gohan allowed the blasts to carry him off he had no shirt and he was missing his left pant leg up to just above his knee with his right pant leg being littered with tears and holes. He was pushed away from the classroom and along the hallway, out the 5th floor of OSH and into a rather tall abandoned factory across the street causing a large explosion that destroyed the entire 5th floor of the building Gohan had slammed into causing the floor above it to cave in just as Gohan fell back out and onto the street far below him followed by large pieces of rubble that were much bigger than he, and it settled atop the 4th floor, as if the 5th floor had never been there besides some rubble still falling.
"GOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" Trunks called out in panicked concern, any one of those blasts could have killed Frieza at his best 30 times over each and he was hit by about 8 of them.
"NOOO!" Videl and Erasa yelled out, Videl stood up and tried to fight them but she was knocked unconscious All was silent for about 10 minutes as everyone was getting over the shock,
"Grrrrrrrr! Gohan! Alright that's enough!" 17 thought as he realised he couldn't sense Gohan's energy, "AHHHHH!" he cried as he jumped from his desk and leapt at the nearest thug. The other students and the teacher saw this as an opportunity to escape and they all ran except for Trunks and Erasa who stayed to protect Videl. The thug 17 attacked didn't have time to avoid the knee to his head that knocked him out, then 17 turned and kicked another criminal back through the hole in the classroom wall that had been made when they were chasing him, causing him to land painfully on the teacher's desk. 17 began taking care of them until he reached the seventh and final thug, the one who had issued the attack on Sharpener which led to Gohan's injury. 17 currently had him dangling out the window in the room, "Please! MERCY! I'll go to prison quietly I promise!" the criminal promised him,
"Fine, but this is your only chance" he told him icily before pulling him back through, "Wait weren't there 8 beams hitting Gohan?" he thought,
"NEW KID LOOK OUT!" Erasa cried, and he turned just in time to catch the punch of the guy behind him, who he quickly disposed of,
"Almost had me there" 17 told him,
"Correction, I did get you there" he heard from behind him and he turned his head to see the thug whom he had spared shove a device into his back, before pressing a button which made a lot of electric sounding noises. At that moment 17's robotic components shorted and he fell unconscious.
They all stood there, not only had the new kid suddenly got up and attacked the thugs and defeated them easily where Videl had been defeated by only one. But now he was unconscious or perhaps even dead and there was no-one (To their knowledge) who could stop the last thug,
"This has gone on long enough, I can defeat one lousy criminal without blowing my cover too much, besides, this is the one who decided to attack Sharpener" Trunks thought as he prepared to attack, the thug however had other plans,
"I gotta get outta here!" he said noticing that all his backup was unconscious though he was rather pleased with himself for defeating 2 of the three highest Power Levels in the room, at first he was almost sure they were hiding some of their power but after how easily he defeated the first he had decided that they really must have been that weak. Besides, the kid who looked closest to the one they were looking for got blasted out the building, so he no longer had a mission objective. The class watched as he talked into a communicator on his wrist, "We couldn't find anyone who fit the kid's description well enough, the cops are comin' and the rest of my team is down, I can get out of here and take one of them but the rest will have to stay" they heard the person he was talking to say something along the lines of
"-muffled talking- Take one - more muffled talking- full report -another lot of muffled talking- next location" after several moments of talking he turned off his communicator and grabbed the closest unconscious teammate and began backing out of the room brandishing his weapon at the two.
STOP
As he backed out the door he waved a goodbye with his free hand and grinned cockily.
"Well kiddies it seems that it's time for me to go, but you haven't heard the last of me yet, expect to see me in the news for robbing a bank or-" but he never got to finish as his face suddenly contorted into an expression of pain and he fell forward to reveal a a very hurt, and very pissed off-looking Gohan standing behind him,
"Or for going to hell after holding a highschool hostage" Gohan finished with a cold look in his eye, looking down at the man. Just seeing Gohan alive, and standing even was enough to make Erasa's jaw drop, but for him to be extremely muscular and then go on to be cold and sadistic made her jaw hit the ground and her brain exploded because of the laws of the universe being broken before her eyes.
"You?! You're alive! That means you're him! The one we were looking for! What did you do to me?!" the criminal demanded,
"I just paralyzed the bottom half of your body" he told him, "Good luck walking ever again" Gohan said with a sadistic tone and violent poison dripping from his tongue with every word he spoke. He then stomped the arm that had the energy blaster and the communicator on it, crushing the bone to dust as he did so, resulting in a resounding cry of agony, "Oops, sorry, I bet that hurts alot, huh? Let's hope I don't make any more mistakes" Gohan said lifting his foot to hover above the thugs head with a smirk, malice and sarcasm laced in his words, as the man continued his pained screaming. The implications he was making were brutal enough to make Erasa feel sick to the stomach,
"GOHAN! Enough it's over!" Trunks told him after getting over the shock of his words,
"Why?" Gohan asked with hate in his eyes, "He tried to kill me so it's only fair I get to try and kill him, though I can guarantee that I won't fail" he said turning back to the man before stomping on his other arm, crushing the bone again,
"AGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The criminal screamed. He then began punching him in the face with his knees upon the thugs broken arms, until blood covered his hands and fists. He then punched him in the nose harder than before and a loud sickening CRACK was heard. Blood then began slowly pouring out of the thugs nose and mouth steadily. Then he picked him up by the collar and drop-kicked him but not quite hard enough to send him flying more than 5 feet back. He then picked him up slightly by the leg so that it was straight and he kicked his knee causing a loud SNAP to emit from the limb, the man was still trying to scream but with him being upside down his blood was just gathering in his mouth causing him to choke and make gargled screaming noises. Then he kicked him in the ribs and let go of his leg at once causing him to go sliding across the room. Gohan stood up straight, walked over to him and hovered his foot above his head again,
"Now let's get on with this shall we?" He asked the thug who was now silent, Erasa couldn't take it anymore and she ran to the window and puked, and didn't turn back, unable to look at what might be about to happen. But she couldn't stand here and let this happen could she? No she couldn't. "Nighty-night kid" Gohan mimicked and began to bring his foot down.
"NO!" Erasa screamed as she ran over and stood infront of him, "GOHAN DON'T!" Erasa begged, tears welling up in her eyes, as she stood in between him and the man. Then something snapped in Gohan and his eyes lost the dark edge and instantly went back to their normal caring self.
"E-Erasa?" he suddenly recognized Erasa standing there crying with a green tint to her skin as she begged him to stop, he looked around him, and remembered what had happened, and what was about to happen, he looked down at his hands and saw the blood that covered them, "Wha-? Oh-Oh God...I-he-Oh no..." Suddenly Gohan felt sick as well and turned a sickly green colour. "I-W-What have I done?" he asked no-one in particular as he sank to his knees and sat there staring at the mangled man as police rushed in and assessed the situation, they had to force Gohan to stand and come outside to the ambulance.
START
Once outside the paramedics insisted that Gohan go to a hospital to treat the various burns and wounds that covered his body but agreed to let him go when he told them he could go to Capsule Corp and be checked up there. So they merely gave him some new clothes and waited for Videl and Sharpener to wake up. Eventually the two came around and did a check up on Videl and Sharpener. In Videl's case they confirmed that she would be okay besides some bruising, with Sharpeners injuries being more superficial, mainly from being cut by some rocks that had been flying around from the force of the attack the criminals' weapons dished out.
During the checkup Gohan pulled Erasa aside, behind a nearby wall,
"Erasa" He started but she quickly flinched away from him, and Gohan instantly felt sad and guilty, even his own friend was terrified of him, next she would tell Videl and then she would have him arrested. Seeing the look on Gohan's face Erasa quickly made amends, while what happened in there did scare her, she knew that he wouldn't hurt her,
"No no no no! Gohan I'm not scared! You just startled me is all" She quickly explained, Gohan's expression immediately turned into one of happiness and relief,
"Thank god" She heard him whisper,
"Erasa, I need to ask you a favor it's really important" He told her,
"Okay but can it wait? I need to go tell Videl the whole story" Erasa told him as she started walking in her best friends direction,
"Erasa wait! That's what this is about...I really need you to hear me out for this one ok?" he begged her, Upon seeing his expression and hearing the plea in his voice she walked back over to him,
"Oh...ok"
"Thanks, now Erasa what happened in there, it needs to stay between you and me" He told her,
"It's very important that other people don't find out anything about what happened in there" he explained to her,
"Huh?...Why?" She questioned,
"I'll explain later, Videl is making her way here now but promise me you'll do this, please, please don't tell anyone, especially not Videl, can you do that for me?" He asked her. Erasa seemed to think on it for a moment, but she eventually made a decision,
"Sure thing! But you have to explain it to me later" She compromised,
"Yes, sure I'll explain later, Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you" He said hugging her tightly.
Videl, Sharpener and Trunks supporting 17, who had just rebooted and was still a bit out of it, were all walking solemnly to Erasa and eventually arrived where Gohan and Erasa were standing. They had seen Erasa talking to someone who was behind the wall. When they walked around the corner and saw Gohan, it was safe to say that they were all surprised except Trunks. All was silent as they stared at the boy they believed to be dead, standing before them with a nervous smile on his face and a hand scratching the back of his head.
"Uh, hey guys" he greeted meekly, and was instantly being hugged by Sharpener, who was almost crying,
"You saved my life! Bless you Gohan...BLESS YOU!" He said aloud as he hugged Gohan and openly cried on his shoulder, making Gohan sweat drop as he awkwardly patted Sharpener on the back. Eventually Sharpener pulled away at wiped a tear from his eye as Videl was a little more resistant to the waterworks,
"You're alive...but how? I thought you were dead...I thought I had lost someone else and-" But she was cut off by a hug from Gohan, who pulled her close,
"It's okay Videl, I'm alright" he assured her, Videl managed to keep the tears in as she pulled away and smiled at him. Normally she would have punched him for touching her without permission but she felt that him nearly dying and the fact that he was only trying to help her was a good enough reason to let it go.
Then she noticed the rather large scratch that he had on his left cheek and remembered something,
"Gohan how did you survive getting shot-" She started,
"Well the thing is-" Gohan began explaining nervously but he was interrupted by Videl continuing her question,
"By a laser type beam weapon"
"The answer to that is a long and boring-"
"From 8 different people" she continued beginning to get suspicious,
"It's actually not that hard to-"
"With such power that the hallway was being torn up around you"
"You know what? I'm hungry who wants to go get some-"
"And then survive it for 2 whole minutes"
"You know I need to be doing something at home-"
"Before being launched out of the 5th story of our building and across the street" her voice was slowly getting angrier,
"You know that reminds me of a joke where a-" Gohan was desperate to change the subject now but he had no such luck as Videl began advancing on him,
"Into a building, causing an explosion big enough to wipe out all the supports on that entire floor!"
"Can't we all just be happy I'm okay?"
"And THEN falling to the street below from 5 STORIES HIGH and more than likely being COVERED in RUBBLE from the building that was COLLAPSING AROUND YOU!?" she finished staring in his eyes knowing that she would be able to tell if he were to try and lie.
"Uhhhhhhh, I guess God just really likes me" he explained, it wasn't a lie because he and God were great friends, this way just meant that he didn't have to have an explanation and because she didn't know he was friends with god it would seem as if he really didn't know how he did, it was the perfect cover. And as was planned Videl saw no signs of him lying, but she could also tell that there was something off about his answer, there was something that he knew about his answer and the situation that she didn't.
"Grrrrrrr!"
"Oh hey look that cop is calling you Videl" she turned and sure enough the chief was waving to her, "Phew! The Police really do save lives!"
"What is it Chief?" Videl asked,
"We just need a recount of what happened in there" He told her,
"Well they kinda just stormed into our class and told us not to move but of course I tried to sneak up on one of the goons-" and so Videl told the story right up to the part where Gohan was fired out the building, which the chief had a hard time believing, and she was knocked out shortly after. The Chief walked into the room with Videl behind him as he went through them,
"They all seem to be unconscious do you know who did this?" The chief said as he could hear them breathing,
"On my way towards my friends I was told that apparently the new kid Andy did it while I was out and he was knocked out by a device by the last one" she told him, and so the chief made his way to the thug with a machine the size of a walkie-talkie and a remote on his belt near the doorway. Upon further inspection the chief noticed that he couldn't hear breathing from this one. Videl watched as he knelt down and began checking for a pulse, after a moment he stood back up, pulled his hat lower over his eyes and shifted uncomfortably,
"Bring some stretchers!" he called out, "And a bag" he added to the two paramedics, who nodded solemnly, "Videl after the new kid was knocked out who else could have fought back?" he asked quietly, confused Videl answered,
"Ugh, Trunks I guess, why?" The chief pulled out a notepad and asked,
"Trunks who?"
"Trunks Briefs, but why?" she answered, something was wrong,
"Briefs you say... just great" he mumbled,
"Chief what is this about!" She demanded, the chief looked at her and glanced to the side slightly,
"That last man in there is dead, it looks like he was beat to death" he told her, Videl's jaw dropped, surely none of her friends would do that!
The two made their way out and stood on the opposite side of the doorway to her friends as paramedics began doing what was needed. Videl watched as Gohan stood by the door as they carried out the seven unconscious men and what looked like someone in a body-bag. She watched as Gohan looked at the body-bag and his eyes glanced up and made contact with hers momentarily before they went blank and he turned and walked away a little where he vomited all over the floor by the building. Now that was very suspicious, but Gohan wouldn't hurt a fly!
"He must be squeamish" Videl thought but a small part of her mind told her that what she saw in his eyes wasn't just disgust. Erasa had been standing next to Gohan when they began carrying them out, and she was now telling him that it was okay as she rubbed his back as he vomited. She couldn't believe it, Gohan had killed somebody. Nerdy, naive, dorky, modest, nice and mysterious Gohan, had killed somebody, right infront of them, not only that but he did it easily to someone who Videl couldn't lay a finger on. The worst part is though, as Erasa could see by looking in his eyes, he hated himself for it. She suspected that Gohan didn't even know he was doing it until she called to him, judging by the change in his eyes she witnessed.
So no. Nerdy, naive, dorky, modest, nice and mysterious Gohan didn't kill anybody. Whoever that physco was that killed the thug was not Gohan, it was a sick, twisted individual who's very name conjures up dark thoughts of unnecessary brutality and violence. A name that makes people sink into such a deep dark state of their being that they don't even want to know who they are anymore because the mere mention of the name is enough to bring out anyone's darkside. Who knows what kind of sick thoughts were running through it's mind right now as Gohan is left to deal with the mental trauma and the reality of the situation that has befallen him.
"So can we get something to eat?" his Saiyan side asked, "All you're puking is making my stomach run empty and I need a refill"
"Y-You m-made me k-kill him!...I-I killed a person, and all y-you care ab-about is food?!" Gohan scolded the inner voice, "DID YOU SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!? HE WAS MANGLED! HIS BODY WAS DESTROYED, I BROKE BOTH OF HIS ARMS FOR FUN AND PARALYZED HIM BECAUSE I FELT LIKE HE DESERVED IT AND YOU WANT ME TO FEED YOU!?" Gohan screamed, unable to shake the thoughts,
"Whoa Whoa Whoa Woah! Hold on! You've killed before! Plenty of times! And also "I" made you kill him? You're forgetting that I am you! I am just the part of your brain that encourages you to indulge in your darkest desires!" his Saiyan side argued back,
"No..." Gohan whispered aloud, already knowing what was being implied and what was going to be said, and knowing that it was all true, causing his friends to look at him as they had been standing next to him, trying to work up the courage to comfort him.
"You know what that means?! Huh?! Do you Gohan!?"
"No!..." He stated firmly aloud as he began shaking his head with his hands gripped in his hair,
"No what? Gohan? What's up?" Trunks asked him,
"Deep down, you wanted to hurt him, to kill him, to make his death as painful as was in your power to do so. I didn't kill that man, you murdered him, because deep down...you-are-a-cold...blooded...murderer"
Gohan screamed as he fell to his knees his hands in his hair as he threw his head back and bellowed at the sky,
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He was clenching his fists so tightly that his hands began to bleed and he almost transformed right then and there, almost accessing a power he had not in 7 years, a power that he avoided unless absolutely necessary in fear of releasing a side of him that he did not want anyone to see. In order to spare him the pain Trunks quickly knocked him out with a chop to his neck before anyone began making connections between him, and the sudden cloudy skies and rising winds. He then told them that he would get Gohan home safely, and he took off for Capsule Corp. Once he was out of view.
Trunks flew through the entrance on the roof and landed in the lounge where a few of the Z-Gang were waiting, including Yamcha, Jazuka, Piccolo and Tien. They all stood up quickly upon seeing Gohan's unconscious form,
"We sensed his power skyrocket again for a moment what happened?" Piccolo asked,
"I honestly don't know, all I know is that he was whispering something to himself that sounded like "no" then he started screaming so I knocked him out" Trunks explained. Trunks took Gohan to his mother's lab where he layed him on the table and Bulma soon entered and after being filled in on what happened, began taking blood samples, checking his eyes, his throat and all that doctorish stuff that they do. As she was looking at the blood sample she noted that those weird cells had multiplied but she still had no clue as to what they were.
"GRAH!" Bulma yelled in frustration flailing her hands above her head, "I still don't know what's happening! His cells are changing somehow and I cant tell what's wrong a-"
"WOMAN!" Vegeta interrupted, "Calm down, let me take a look" he said as he stepped up to the microscope,
"Good luck finding out what those cells are and what they're doing to him" Bulma said, "I've been trying to do it for the past-"
"I know what's wrong" He stated almost instantly.
"Well what is it then!?" Bulma challenged, not ready to believe that he had found the problem so quickly,
"I shall tell you all after I tell the boy, he needs to be the first to know" Vegeta explained simply.
Bulma looked as if she was going to explode before calming down.
"Looks like the boy is more Saiyan than I thought" Vegeta remarked with a smirk after studying the sample a moment longer to be sure of his diagnosis,
"I'm guessing that whatever the problem is, it would explain why he went overboard on that criminal wouldn't it?" Trunks guessed,
"What criminal?" Krillin asked as Vegeta tilted his head so that his ear was facing them,
"Oh yea, our school was being held up by a bunch of criminals at school today. One of them called an order to kill one of his friends so he tried to stop them and they blasted Gohan instead. They had to carry the remains of that guy out in a plastic bag" Jazuka's eyes widened,
"What? What happened to the guy?" he asked Trunks,
"He, uh...well he...he has-"
Satan City Morgue: Meanwhile
"-A shattered lower spine, both his arms have been completely crushed, while it looks fine from the outside, the bone in his left leg has been seperated at the knee, several shattered ribs, a broken nose, his skull was cracked in several places, and several fragments of bone from his nose area were lodged into his brain" the coroner named David explained to the chief and Videl as he went through all the x-rays and notes he had on the matter,
"All injuries have been caused by blunt objects and we even found a few imprints of what is likely to be a fist all over his face and one on his back. whoever inflicted these injuries, has some kind of super-human strength or something" The coroner joked slightly getting a look from the two,
"DAVID! Too soon!" Videl reprimanded,
"Right sorry, but It's true" he said handing them the information, "He managed to inflict crippling amounts of damage with single punches"
Videl pulled out her phone as she left the morgue and got ready to fly off in her jetcopter, she dialed Erasa's number as she took off, clipping the bluetooth-esque...thing on her ear.
"Hey Videl! What's up?" Erasa asked upon answering,
"Erasa! Get everyone to meet up at my place at six tonight, everyone! Sharpener, Trunks, Andy, Gohan! Can you do that 'Rase?" Videl asked urgently. Hearing the tone in her friends voice Erasa knew not to question,
"Got it! I'll do it now" Erasa confirmed, Videl thanked her friend and took off for home, she had a bad feeling about all of this.
Capsule Corporation: Several hours later
Gohan was just beginning to wake up and he saw Vegeta hovering above him,
"Arise boy, we have much to discuss" Gohan sat up as Vegeta walked over to the gravity room, gesturing for him to follow. Gohan glanced down to his watch, noting that it was 3 in the afternoon,
"I've been out since 2nd period, meaning about 10am"
"Lazy ass"his Saiyan side commented,
"..."
"What? Not talking to me now?" it asked after several moments of silence as Gohan put on one of his signature blue and red gi's including the undershirt and weighted boots that he kept in his reserved room at Capsule Corp. "Buzz kill..." it commented as Gohan walked into the gravity room with Vegeta. He sat before Vegeta who was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the room,
"Boy, there is something you need to know" Vegeta told him,
"Oh? What's up?" Gohan asked, he didn't like the look on Vegeta's face, half pitying him, half reveling in whatever information was about to be imparted to him.
"While you were unconscious we had another test of your blood and while the woman could not identify it, I could" Vegeta explained, "Now as you are aware, you're cells have been mutating themselves recently, changing them into something else, it was initially thought to be a sickness of some kind, but you're Saiyan genes do not allow you to be harmed by any chemical or illness on this planet, and Namek was far too long ago for you to have contracted it there. So we thought little to nothing on it, as it seemed to have no negative side effects on your person. But we now know what it is that plagues you."
"You see the Saiyan race is a very dominant and controlling race, they like to be the best and be in control of everything, so it's only natural that they would have dominant genes correct?" he asked Gohan,
"Right, that's why we were all born with tails even though we are only half-Saiyans isn't it?" Gohan asked,
"That is correct, however, it seems that the genes that are carried to a child through the blood is more powerful than was previously thought. So much so that if someone were to try and suppress the Saiyan parts of their mind, It would become highly controlling and be able to change the DNA structure of a living being to make it more Saiyan" Gohan didn't like where this was going, "Even if said DNA structure had been set in a particular way for a long period of time, the genes that carried the Saiyan influence would become more influential in order to make the being more Saiyan so that it's body would be able to withstand the metamorphic process, and it's mind the sudden change in behavior and attitude and the conflicting thoughts on morality that may drive the being to insanity. Basically making it more Saiyan-like in order to prepare the body for the change" Gohan was becoming pale at the information being given to him, he had a general idea of what was happening, "Now if ones behavior and attitude were to be against the idea of being like a Saiyan, and thinking of itself as one, it would become impossible to prepare the mind for the change, likely resulting in the subject committing suicide because of the insanity that would result" Gohan's throat ran dry and his face lost all colour, "Gohan, the cells that are mutating your cells, are your Saiyan genes" he said, confirming all of Gohan's worries and speculations.
"I-I'm going to die! And there's not a damned thing I can DO ABOUT IT!" he thought, his Saiyan side making itself known slightly,
"However..." Vegeta continued,
"Huh?"
"Something happened in your case Gohan" Vegeta explained with a hint of wonder in his voice,
"Your mind is developed and calm and at peace, that it did not panic and shut off" Vegeta said with wide eyes, it seemed that spending all this time with Bulma had given him an interest in science,
"Somehow, your sub-conscious mind did something incomprehensible...it actually used it's Saiyan genes to allow a second entity into you're consciousness one that did not seem unreasonable and reckless, one that you could relate to, one that your conscious mind would not feel alarmed about and cut off, ultimately causing your death! Your mind created a whole different you! One that would give you a second option in your head so that you could choose whatever your moral compass told you was acceptable. Yet you're body can still safely undergo the metamorphosis. Your mind on it's own, is so calculated and so calm, rational and above all else so powerful, that not only could it see the benefits of the change and create a way for your conscious mind to accept the change, but that it created life inside of your head!" He explained, causing Gohan's jaw to drop,
"That's what you are? You're not just a figment of my imagination?" Gohan thought to his Saiyan side,
"I-I'm a l-life form? I-I'm a person? I'm alive?" it thought in bewilderment,
"Heh I'm alive, I'm alive, I am alive! I'M ALIIIIIIIVVVEEEEE!" Gohan smiled at the happiness he could feel from his Saiyan side, he saw that good and the innocence that could come from the Saiyan side, he saw that it wasn't really that bad...
The rest of the Z-gang had been watching from the display room the whole time and were watching the exchange,Vegeta saw the smile on Gohan's face and knew it was time,
"Transform boy, do what you have not for the first time in 7 years and become what you were meant to be!" He said, his hand clasping Gohan's wrist and vice-versa as they stood. Gohan began powering up quickly reaching his first Super Saiyan State,
"Rrrrrgghhhhh grrrrghh, agghhh agggghhhhhrgggghhhghghhhhhh Haaaghh aghAGH!" Gohan was trying to make the jump but there was something holding him back, then suddenly,
/Forget your fears and worries boy...Use the power of your rage...Your anger is what fueled you last time use it!/ Gohan heard Vegeta's voice in his head and looked up to see him looking on expectantly when suddenly.
/G-G-Gohan.../ A voice echoed, Gohan knew that voice,
"F-Father?"
/Gohan, I'm sorry my son, I'm sorry that I left, but I want you to know that I'm proud of you son...but you need to let go...let go of your regret...nobody blames you for my death...but you need to find happiness...leave all the guilt and the regret behind you, Your anger won't work now Gohan, you need to believe in yourself, let your anger and your guilt go...do you hear me Gohan Let It Go!/ Suddenly Gohan began tipping the scales towards the transformation but he couldn't quite make it still, /Gohan, you can't be afraid if your heritage, that's what held me back against Frieza and only when he killed Krillin did I realise that I had to stop denying my heritage and embrace it! Gohan, the Saiyans may have been a violent and murderous race but that was only because that's what Frieza made them, the Saiyans aren't killers, they were fighters! And you're my son Gohan, you ARE a fighter! Now embrace your Saiyan heritage and feel the pride that accompanies it! Become the REAL you Gohan!/ Then suddenly he could see his father standing all the way out in otherworld looking him straight in his mind's eye, as if he were right here, "BE THE WARRIOR YOU WERE BORN TO BE!"
And at that moment something happened to Gohan, he was no longer afraid that he might kill out of rage, or that he might make the same mistake as he did against Cell, he no longer felt the need to pretend he didn't have all that power and hide from himself, he was no longer scared of his Saiyan heritage, in fact, he kinda liked it, and then he felt it. His two states of being fusing together over his conscious mind and becoming one.
He felt the strength, but he felt the intellect too
He felt the anxiety, but the confidence leveled it out
He felt the anger, but the calm came with it
He felt the sadness, but it was accompanied by the happiness
He felt the guilt of killing his father, but the assurance that no-one blamed him for it too.
Gohan finally felt complete, all his thoughts from both his Human and Saiyan sides joined together, their opinons and morals joined together, they themselves joined together and became one being, he suddenly felt all the bad, destructive, violent emotions of his Saiyan side at once, but he also felt all the human emotions of happiness, hope, life and calm counteract them and control them. He felt as if everything in his life was cut in half and they had finally glued everything together again. He felt complete...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHH!" His energy was enough to blow Vegeta to the far side of the GR where he was being held against the wall in a similar fashion to how one would be when they collapsed training in high gravity, unable to get up. "AAAAGGHHHHHAAAGGHHHHHHHH N-NO WAY!" Jazuka called out, feeling the force of Gohan's power even here,
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He propelled his aura outwards enveloping everything in a gold light that no-one could see through, with power that rocked the planet. Then suddenly everything went still and quiet, and all that was left was the golden light.
After several moments the light began to recede until it was just golden light fitting the shape of Gohan's body, meaning that they could just see a golden Gohan-shaped mass of energy. As everyone stood up and brushed themselves off and looked on with a mixture of awe and fear on their faces the light began to disappear. And eventually there stood Gohan, his hair even spikier than before, his teal eyes completely blank and empty of emotion, his mouth was set in a straight line so as not to reveal any emotion. The GR had been ripped apart by the force of Gohan's energy and he could now see the other members of the Z-gang as they stared at him, amazed by his power. He looked to Vegeta who had finally stood up and gave him a questioning gaze, to which the prince merely nodded his head to confirm it. Gohan turned to the rest of the Z-gang who were waiting for him to lose control and kill them all when suddenly,
"Hey guys" he said, a wide grin stretching across his face,
"GOHAN!" they all shouted as they ran to him, hugged him, pat him on the back, congratulated him and asked him questions. He slowly dropped out his hair eventually stopped waving, faded to black and his aura died.
"How do you feel boy?" Vegeta asked him,
"Like a Saiyan" he responded calmly, to which Vegeta raised an eyebrow,
"You know boy, it is in a Saiyan's nature to revel in his power, especially a teenage male" Vegeta hinted to him with a smirk, Gohan gestured for everyone to stand back,
"Well that's good, because I-feel-AWESOME!" He screamed as he jumped into the air cratering the ground beneath him going straight up reaching the clouds before bursting off breaking the sound barrier and picking up his speed till he was flying hundreds of times faster than light and out in space.
It was cold, and he noted that even after twenty minutes he felt no need to breathe, not even a slight pressure like he used to feel,
"full Saiyans must be able to hold their breath longer than half Saiyans" Gohan noted as he flew, after making it to Namek and saying hi to all the Nameks that he remembered, stopping by and chatting shortly with Moori he decided it was time to go back because he was sensing Vegeta's Ki flaring in an attempt to call him back. "Let's see how fast I really am" Gohan thought, picking the Saiyan option for this particular choice, he turned around and suddenly there was a large bang and he was gone. By the time the Namekians decided to try and sense him he was already far beyond their range, "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OO!" Gohan whooped as he did loops around the Earth at high speeds and eventually went back to Capsule Corp. "What's up Vegeta?" He asked,
"You're friend Erasa called and asked me to tell you to be at Videl's house by Six okay?" Bulma said, tossing his phone to him,
"Got it!" Gohan told her,
"Don't be late!" Krillin called out,
"Me? Never" then he was gone.
JJ: Phew! Done! That was cool wasn't it? Now let's see if Mirai Trunks goes through it shall we? I haven't decided if he should go through something similar or not, I dunno you decide! I also haven't decided if I'm going to bring Goku back, help me with that one too. But even if I do decide to I wont do it just yet coz I'm still trying to build the bond between Gohan and Vegeta first, then I gotta do GohanxVidel which means I'll have to get advice from Stikchan3. But I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thanks for reading but now could you do me a favour and review? That'd be great thanks!