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Chapter 14: Homage to The Fallen and Broken
Last time on Poor Mr. Son
After a while everyone was at Capsule Corp as the 4 last fighters healed from Regen tanks as Senzu's weren't enough for their injuries, especially Mirai, and as they all sat and talked in the lounge about the fights they saw save Vegeta and Piccolo, a strange energy was felt outside the building, Vegeta and Goku exchanged glances in which Goku looked at him questioningly and Vegeta nodded, Goku's face shifted to a serious one, it's about time he confronted this weirdo that was stalking his Son, he was not gonna let this guy come and threaten his families safety with his mere presence, he marched outside with the others close behind. He opened the door and proclaimed,
"Alright whoever you are I've come to stop you fro-"
"Why you're Son Goku! I am truly in the presence of greatness" the strange cloaked figure interrupted, bowing forwards to Goku,
"Huh?"
"I did not expect to meet the one and only Son Goku here" the man commented, rising up from his bow, "How are you sir?" he asked politely,
"I'm uh, pretty good Mr...guy, so have you been well since last time I-" Goku began cautiously,
"We've never met" Chan3 stated,
"Oh thank god! Or Kami or Kai or Bills or whatever" Goku said in relief,
"Well actually in my universe, it's a very powerful being, much more powerful than us, Though I'm on my way to-" Chan3 began to explain when Goku interrupted, "Enough! Why have you been stalking Son Gohan!" Goku demanded,
"Stalking?! Why sir I am not stalking him! I am merely constantly following him without his knowing to observe what he does...and...where...he...Okay I'm totally stalking him" Chan3 admitted, "But it's for good reason! I'll explain later though as I really must be going, it was a pleasure meeting you Son Goku...hmph...sounds familiar somehow" Chan3 commented as he left faster than anyone's eyes could even track,
"Well...he may not be all that strong but he's sure fast" Goku pointed out, alright guys I'll grab Gohan and Goten and get going, Chi chi is gonna be waiting for us.
And so Goku arrived home via instant transmission and set the boys in their bed, "Since when did Gohan get his own room? The house isn't physically big enough to fit both of these rooms come to think of it! How is this-!?" But Goku stopped himself, he always got a headache trying to understand physics, honestly it wasn't that he was THAT dumb, it just seemed to contradict itself, rather like the Buu saga actually...
The next morning Gohan awoke and prepared himself for school, his wounds were healed, he had even been having a good nights sleep right until he dreamed of himself with a much stiffer hair-cut, glasses which he didn't need as he could see thing moving much faster than light rather clearly and in a business suit talking to Videl who had grown a massive ponytail, his dream then turned to him being wailed on by a Super Saiyan Goten who looked about 20, after he woke up from that nightmare he vowed to himself never to get THAT far behind in his training, for once he was the strongest on Earth without having some kind of prophesized transformation to do it, he was just the strongest plain and simple. His fighting ability might not be as good but his power was definitely better, he just had to get back into the swing of things that's all. A few fights with an experienced fighter would get him back his combat instincts. As he flew to school he thought about all the different things that could get his identity revealed today at school and decided to watch out for them. What could he say? He was a strong believer in Murphy's Law.
Once he arrived at his school he went to class and sat down in his chair Erasa immediately began chatting to him, Videl turned and listened to the conversation when she noticed something odd about Gohan's "rad" outfit. It consisted of dark blue jeans, white canvas shoes and a long sleeved shirt. But what caught her off guard was what was on the shirt, it had a picture of 7 small orbs with different numbers of stars in them, the orbs were electrifying a 3D-font-that-looked-like-it-was-carved-out-of-ston e slogan that read, "First Immortality, then the bitches." After waiting for Erasa to stop talking and realising it was a bad plan she quickly interrupted her, "Gohan what's with the shirt?" she asked simply,
"What's wrong with it?" Gohan asked looking down at it, "I like it" he added, then the two blondes saw the shirt for themselves and gaped at at, Sharpener began to laugh while Erasa looked amused at the fact that Gohan would publicly wear something like that,
"It's not that it's a bad shirt...it just...doesn't seem your style" Videl explained,
"Yea? Well you know what?..." Gohan seemed to be thinking of something, "Shut up!" he eventually settled on, this confused Videl as Gohan had always been very shy and always backed down or took the easy escape and agreed with her, and even though he wasn't actually trying to insult her it surprised her. "I can't believe I argued back against her! Oh who am I kidding? That felt good!" As he left that class to go to lunch, Gohan thought about how he learned more about how the author who wrote about blue curtains somehow was trying to convey the mood of the character, I mean, did the teacher stop to consider the fact that maybe when the author said that the curtains were blue, he meant they were f*cking blue? But he digressed. "Hm, a storm is brewing, and it feels...foreboding somehow" Gohan just shook off the feeling and continued as the rain began to pelt outside and lightning began to flash.
Anyway back to the plot. He was stopped in the hallway by Jake and his goons,
"Not so tough without your buddy huh?" Jake taunted as he pushed Gohan around, come to think of it, where was Trunks? Then Gohan realised that he had forgotten to go get him earlier that morning so Trunks would be running a little late today. Realising that he could not stand up for himself due to him beong the supposed class nerd, Gohan began to bolt for it at slightly-above-human running speeds as a voice began commenting from an unknown place.
"You should have got him" said a deep male voice seemingly from nowhere, as Gohan turned down different hallways, trying to escape while a beat of a drum played somewhere, "They're already here" Gohan turned one way to find a goon there and so jumped over him and kept running, "Common sense told of their return" heslid underneath the legs of another while other simply watched the chase, "Their defeat...was merely a delay" Gohan ducked a punch that had aimed to clothesline him, his attacker roared at his back, "To the time that you returned to school" the voice continued as Gohan continued running using a group of people to hide as the guys ran past, he then ran the way the goons had come only to be seen and the group back back running at him, "When the students of Orange Star, would spill their own blood" Gohan ran up to a door at the end of the hallway and opened it finding that it was a balcony with no rail, who put that there? He was trapped now. "But no one wanted to believe" Gohan looked for anything that he could do that wouldn't make them suspect him but found that he was indeed trapped, "Believe that they still did this" The group was getting very close to Gohan as he looked out the balcony desperately, "And when the truth finally dawned..." the voice paused as Gohan realised what he had to do, Jake and his group appeared around Gohan on the balcony, "It dawned in douches!" music began to play as Gohan blocked all of their attacks, he kicked one in the knee, making the guy fall forward and his his head on the door's frame, and then blocked another's punch and pushed them by their head, but they all rushed at and pushed Gohan. He struggled to regain his balance and even though he could literally balance on needles he somehow failed to balance on this ledge and so was forced to grab onto the frame of the door to hold on. Videl and Sharpener saw Gohan almost fall off the balcony and Jake's goons surrounding him, and began running up the floors of the school for him. But Gohan was rather livid with the knowledge that they had been willing to kill him or atleast put him in hospital from this fall.
As Gohan pulled himself back onto the balcony his eyes portrayed an expression of rage, "But!...there is one they fear..." Jake and co. looked worried about the expression on Gohan's face as his face slowly rose to meet theirs, Videl and Sharpener get to that hallway in time to see and hear, "In their slang he is "Nerd-boy"...Son Go-han!" Gohan threw his arms out on either side of him and shouted,
"Just get LOST!" in three quick syllables his shout creating a wind current that could have thrown cars around, it destroyed the lockers and they all flew open causing papers to fly everywhere, the wind threw them all back down the hallway in slow motion as slow paced godly music played from somewhere, it sounded like a choir of men singing syllables, Videl and Sharpener were knocked over and their hair was flowing behind them in the intense wind for a moment as it passed over them, shattering glass all through the hallway, making the trees outside bend from the force. The music began to play faster as the bullies who had gotten up charged Gohan straight on, he stuck his foot out to trip one and dodged one in a way that caused his next attacker to punch a locker behind him, Gohan ducked between two other guys making them punch eachother in the face.
Jake was about 8 feet away from him and charging with his fist raised, because apparently the logical train of thought was to charge the guy who just shouted them down a hallway in an attempt to punch him. Gohan knew that if he didn't stop this then they would just continue so he decided to deal with them properly. Gohan looked to Sharpener and gestured at Videl and covered his eyes, Sharpener nodded and "accidentally" fell back on top of Videl, earning him a death threat from the aforementioned character, when Gohan looked back after watching the 10 second exchange Jake was conveniently 10 feet away now, and when the camera angle changed he was almost 15 feet away and the camera kept getting close-ups of Jake's screaming face and back to him running, how and why? Because DBZ and f*ck you that's why. Gohan blocked the punch with his index finger and dodged the kick that this ordinary high-school student who was probably on steroids managed to throw purely to make Gohan seem more badass when he avoided it. Gohan then flicked him lightly on the chest but still managed to break most of his ribs and send him flying back down the hallway. Whether or not he overdid it, was not a concern apparently.
Videl soon managed to throw Sharpener of of her despite him being almost 3 times her weight and got up to find most of them still trying to pick themselves up from that burst of wind that came from nowhere, nursing sore arms or faces or just plain unconscious, darn, she didn't even get to beat them up.
"Hey Gohan where did that burst of wind come from? And how come it didn't knock you over like the rest of us? Infact why did the wind happen to come as you shouted at them? And could whoever is still playing that damn music SHUT THE HELL UP!?" at that moment the godly music stopped immediately and Gohan just stood there and thought of an excuse,
"Well you see Videl, due to my placing upon the burst of the wind I was untouched as I happened to be nearer to it's origin, after travelling down the hallway it slowly became more powerful from it's momentum and soon was strong enough to knock everyone over" Gohan lied,
"That's not how it works!" Videl complained, "The wind seemed to be weaker by the time it got to me and even if it did somehow slowly grow stronger it wouldn't have had the capability to grow so powerful in the 2 feet between you and these guys that it would knock them over! For that to be possible then there would have to be some kind of super speed wind causing it to exponentially-!"
"SHUT UP I'M THE NERD HERE I KNOW BEST!" Gohan cried, hey, if he was gonna be labeled a nerd he wasn't going to be out-nerded by a boyish chick who had way too much common sense for her own good.
Videl seemed outraged that Gohan had just yelled at her and suddenly Gohan felt the hallway turn really cold, Videl was enraged and charged Gohan and kicked him where the sun don't shine with quite a bit of power, however instead of curling into a fetal position and whimpering in a voice a few octaves higher than usual he continued to stand there and he just glanced at her, folded his arms and then replied,
"I've got balls of steel..." which Videl responded to by kicking him in the small of his back, Gohan dropped to his knees clutching at the spot immediately, "Agh! RrrrrrrrAGH!" he cried rolling around in circles clutching it,
"Woah, I kicked harder that time cause the first kick had no effect, I didn't realise that only your crotch was indestructible Videl explained crouching to his level, but Gohan couldn't answer her at that moment, he was to busy crying in agony,
"Alright Gohan get up now it can't have hurt that mu-AGH!" she suddenly cried when Gohan lunged at her, she dodged just in time and Gohan went skidding down the hallway with a crazed look in his eyes, "Woah what the hell Gohan!? I know I hurt you but it was kind of an accident! If it helps I'm sorry" She told him, Gohan suddenly seemed to snap out of it,
"S-Sorry, I don't know what came over me" Gohan apologised,
"Hey Gohan? The hell is sticking out your back?" Videl questioned, Gohan turned and saw something he never thought he'd see again, a furry appendage swayed slightly behind him, damp with blood, "...well...f*ck" Gohan stated.
Gohan had told Videl he was fine and then backed out the hallway before turning around and moving faster than light all the way to the bathroom, he sat in one of the stalls and tried to open a telepathic link with Piccolo,
/Piccolo! Piccolo! My tail has-!/
/DODGE, BITCH! Get out the way, get out the way bitch DODGE out the way!/
/Piccolo?/
/Oh hey kid/
/What are you doing?/
/Well it's been 7 years since I last saw your dad so we figured we'd go out and drive cars for a while just like we used to/
/Uhhh okay...Anyway, my tail just grew back!/ Gohan told him in a panic,
/What!? This is bad...Gohan I'll get the details from you later today, just play it cool or people at your school might suspect you, meet me at Dende's tower...Shut up Nail! Dende owns it now Kami! Quit ya bitchin' bitch ass bitchin' bitch!/ and at that the link cut off,
"...Whatever" Gohan thought aloud ignoring his possibly insane mentor.
Gohan sneakily his his tail the whole time by wrapping it up around his waist and then pulling his shirt down over it, thank god this shirt was rather baggy. At the end of the day he began to head home when he felt a weird presence, he suddenly stopped when he felt a presence below him in the city, the strangest thing however was that it had no Ki signature, but nonetheless he knew it was following him, he floated down closer to the city and attempted to turn Super Saiyan but found that he couldn't,
"Huh? What's going on with my energy?!" Gohan couldn't form Ki-blasts and it was slowly becoming harder for him to fly, "Agh! What's happening to me!?" and at that moment a tall grey muscular man wearing a simple dark grey t-shirt, black trousers and combat boots floated up to slightly above Gohan, the man was bald and had a 1 tattooed on his cheek, he had pupiless eyes and was expressionless,
"Son Gohan, it is my duty to eliminate you" the man said, his mouth not moving whatsoever,
"Y-You're an android!" Gohan realised, and upon seeing the number 1 on the man's cheek he began to panic, he blocked a kick, dodged a punch but did not escape the elbow to the temple, he managed to avoid a knee to the stomach by jumping and he kicked the android in the head but to no effect, the battle continued for 2 minutes after that, Gohan slowly becoming weaker and weaker, he was being savagely beat but still refused to back down, standing back up and charging everytime, eventually he could barely keep himself afloat and the android raised his arm which turned to a kind of cannon,
"Tar-get...eliminated..." he said with a very robotic sounding voice, before placing the cannon to Gohan's chest and firing a massive energy wave, it pushed against his chest,
"AAGGHH AGGHHHHHAAAAGHH AGH " he screamed out a long and continuous scream of pain as it finally pierced his chest, the android then charged the attack more, completely engulfing Gohan in the attack, his eyes wide with shock and disbelief, his mouth wide in a pained shape. Suddenly, the reflection of a white bird, not unlike the one reflected in his eyes upon Android 16's death by Cell, passed by his eyes, "AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH!" the beam now totally encompassed him and launched him down into a mountain a few miles in the distance exploding and destroying the entire desert area.
Kame House: Now
Krillin was just telling Master Roshi about how Goku was back and promised to visit Roshi some time this week, Yamcha, Tien, Chiaoutzu, Oolong, 18, Marron, Puar, Turtle, everyone in Kame house suddenly looked to the ceiling, looking mortified, 18 with a grim look on her face.
Satan City: Now
Videl had been in the middle of training whilst Sharpener spoke to Erasa when they all suddenly stopped, feeling sick to the stomach, "Something's happened to Gohan!" Videl stated, the two blonds nodded, not questioning how they all knew such a thing. They ll ran outside and Videl pulled out a capsule.
Capsule Corp: Now
Bulma stopped working on her doo-hickey and looked around urgently suddenly thinking of Gohan she had a bad feeling in her stomach, Trunks dropped the controller to his video game console and a shocked look came over his face, Mirai and Vegeta rushed out of his GR and stared at the sky, Mirai mumbling urgently to himself about deja-vu while Vegeta simply adorned a shocked look on his face, his mouth wide open as his hands twitched.
Son Residence: Now
Goten's eyes suddenly went wide and he dropped the remote, a plate smashed into the ground from the kitchen and Goku shot up from his spot outside, his eyes darting to the sky,
"GOHAN!" Goku teleported to Korin's tower to get a Senzu bean only to find no Korin or Yajirobe, he floated up higher and found only rubble, "Oh no..." Goku whispered before dropping down and running over to a half dead Piccolo lying among the ruin of the lookout,
"H-He came for Dende...An an-andr-oid...He's gone Go-ku... the Dragonballs are gone..." Piccolo forced then passed out and Goku found a stray Senzu and took Piccolo with him to where he had last sensed Gohan.
West City Desert: 10 minutes later
The whole gang had assembled, including those who couldn't fight, as everyone who could fly save Mirai, 18 and the boys who protected the others had begun the search for him, but everything had been turned to rubble, there were collapsed mountains around and Gohan's energy was completely missing. However after no results they soon heard a scream from a little way's away, the search party all straight away phased to the approximate position and were shocked at what they saw.
Videl had flown here with her friends as fast as she could and demanded that Sharpener stay behind with Erasa in the copter. She had been running around aimlessly, getting her boots stuck in the thick mud caused by this constant rain for about 5 minutes when she saw something, a scrap of drenched material on a rock that had a small orb with 4 stars in it and lightning surrounding it. She then began frantically searching when she saw it, a leg sticking out from a rock and she ran over and tossed the boulders to the side, getting her hands covered by mud before the rain washed most of it away quickly, under the rocks lie Gohan, his shirt was completely gone and his left pant leg didn't even reach his knee as his right pant leg made it halfway down his shin, holes and tears were found throughout what was left of his clothing with cuts and gashes all over his body that still leaked of blood, the middle of his chest was merely a hole that allowed you to see through to the blood that had pooled and spread through the mud beneath Gohan, he had bit's of debris still covering him in places covering some of the smaller wounds, but what killed Videl the most was his face, Blood leaked out the right side of his mouth which was angled towards the ground, his eyes were pupiless and his face was spattered with dirt and blood, as if he had coughed some up and didn't have the energy to turn his head away, his hair was full of it too, drenched with rain, mud and blood, his face still carried the pained expression even though his mouth was still only slightly open, his eyes were still wide though, showing Videl that he had probably been taken by surprise, no chance to call for help or even fight back. She let out an ear piercing scream of horror and anger, and a few seconds later she was surrounded by alot of people, also drenched, they approached Videl and Gohan and she was instantly wary that perhaps they had done this when she saw a man, with wild spiky hair that poked in every direction, his face was just like Gohan's, but not just in appearance, also in the warmth and cheeriness that Gohan's eyes always carried, but right now they were filled with sadness, anger and hate, they were haunted eyes, haunted by what he was now seeing, some of the other looked vaguely familiar but she didn't really focus on them, she was hugging Gohan's head and apologizing for all the mean things she had ever said to him, she apologised for being so nosy all the time and she apologised for not being a better friend to him before he died.
Soon though the man Videl believed to be Gohan's father knelt down and she moved away so the man could be there with his son, he leaned forward and reached out with his hand closing Gohan's eyelids with his hands, wiping away most of the blood in the process, then he stood up and carried his son to a rather dry area that was sheltered by rocks and began burying him under all of them. Once he was done he stood and simply stared at his hands, covered in Gohan's blood, his eyes those of a man who had to bury his own son before they even got to experience everything life had to offer,
"Kakarot, please" Vegeta requested and Goku stood aside, Vegeta knelt before the grave and used his energy to carve a symbol into the foremost rock as he chanted s phrase in another language, "Please allow this boy to a land where he will have peace, he died an honourable death worthy of an elite. He was a good comrade and even saved my life once. So I beg of you as the Prince of Saiyans, send him to a place where he can fight forever in the eternal battleground of the gods. He lived a life of battle from the time he could walk and even form sentences, he has seen much death and has killed more than his fair share in battle, he is worthy of living in eternal content, bettering himself so that in his next life he may live and die in battle even more honourably than now" Vegeta prayed in the Saiyan Language. Goku turned to Videl and saw her crying and picked her up and gestured for the others to follow.
The group arrived back at where the other were, who were confused and worried to find that Gohan was not with them,
"G-Goku?" Chi-chi questioned timidly, Goku looked to her with a haunted look and Chi-chi immediately knew what had happened, Goku simple put Videl down and hugged his wife. Goten looked at his friend with tears in his eyes as Trunks also wept, "F-Father? Why is e-everyone c-crying for? Where's Gohan?" Mirai asked, looking to Vegeta who merely shook his head, causing Mirai's eyes to drop as he tried to overcome the shock, he knelt down to grab the two boys and hugged them,
"Gohan's gone...isn't he?" Trunks asked knowingly,
"No! Don't say that! He'll be back! Gohan can't die! Right dad?" Goten turned to Goku with a pleading look in his eyes, Goku just looked at his youngest before kneeling to his level,
"I'm afraid so squirt, Gohan's gone on a trip to a place where he can train, but he can't come back from there" Goku tried to explain,
"N-No, he can't be gone! GOHAN! WHERE ARE YOU? GOHA-!"
"Goten!" Goku stated firmly, silencing him,
"Let your brother rest now, he's sleeping" Goku told him,
"H-hey why so gloomy guys? We can just bring him back...right?" Krillin asked suddenly feeling really bad. Goku shook his head, now giving Piccolo the full bean instead of just half,
"Dende was killed earlier today, we didn't notice because it was an android" Goku explained,
"An android? Dende's dead? But that means we can't...bring...anyone...back...Oh no...no...no...no" Krillin began to mutter as his best friends son, was gone, and this time, it was for keeps. The women were in tears and most of the men were still in shock that the extremely powerful boy they had all known since he was 4 was now dead.
Somewhere in the distance stood a hooded figure with glowing red eyes, a man we have come to know as Chan3, and right now, he was pissed, and when I say pissed I mean pissed,
"Who did this!? He was MINE!? When I find who did this they will pay! You hear me android? THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY!" Cried the man, "HEADS...WILL...ROLL!"
"RAGH!" Vegeta screamed punching the ground, "THIS DIRTY SONOFABITCH ATTACKED GOHAN BY SURPRISE! GOHAN DIDN'T TRANSFORM SO IT MUST HAVE BEEN BY SURPRISE! IT PISSES ME OFF!" Vegeta screamed punching the ground repeatedly, "WHERE ARE YOU ANDROID?! HUH!? SHOW YOURSELF!" Vegeta demanded turning Super, "SHOW YOURSEEEEEEEELF!"
