John tried again and he brought out a small energy ball that burst. He said, excited "I did it!"
Goku said "Yep. Now you just need practice."
"I'll practice tonight."
"We can use the tools until then." Goku then remembered something. He asked "What day is it?"
John looked at him "Wednesday. Why?"
Goku smiled nervously and put his hand behind his head. "I was talking to Vegeta...he wants to meet you. Are you busy tonight?"
John looked at him more closely. "Why do I think I have little choice in this?"
Goku smiled apologetically.
John asked "Wait. Vegeta Briefs?"
"Yes." Goku said surprised.
John said "He's Bulma Brief's husband and he's a fighter like you, right?"
"To put it simply. So, can you come?"
"...I guess. I need to call my wife and tell her I'll be home late." He took out his phone. "Hey."
Goku could just pick up a woman's voice ask "Is everthing ok?" He doubted the surveillance equipment could hear him, though.
John answered "Yeah, everything's fine. Slow day."
"So, what's up?"
"I called to tell you I'll be home late. My boss extended my hours and I've got to go over to my fellow workers house to go over some things. We're starting a big project."
"What kind of a big project do a bunch of janitors have? Does he make you cover for the maintanence crew?"
"Yeah, we're kind of the maitanence crew sometimes and the place needs fixing up. We've got to work on strategy. This place is huge."
"Well, when will you be home?"
"I'll be later than usual, I don't know."
"John! You've been getting home later and later everynight? Do you want us to wait up for you?"
He sighed "No, you and the kids go on to bed. I don't know when I'll get in."
"John, you spend more time there than you do here. What's more important to you? Your job or your family?"
"Don't be that way. You know I love you and the kids more than anything."
A sigh. "I know, jt's just...I miss you I guess I'll see you at home when you get here."
"Yeah, see you home too. Probably in the morning." He hung up.
Goku said "Yeah, Chichi won't be happy about my new hours either." He sighed.
John said "But what can we do?"
Goku said "Work and wait, I guess."
"I guess."
They kept working and worked the rest of the day. Goku went back to his office to get some more paper to diagram on. He found a group of students. He said "Hello, what are the lot of you doing here?" He recognized many of them from his classes, but two stood out in particular. Miss Jessica Daniels, from his gym class and Seth Zaigon from gym and many of his other classes.
Jessica said "What happened to you? You left!"
Goku looked down "I got reassigned to something else."
"How dare you quit being a teacher!"
"I couldn't help it. Boss's orders."
Jessica said "How dare he, then? You are the best teacher we've ever had!" All the other students nodded.
Seth said "We'd thought they did something to you. Glad to see you're still here at least."
Goku half smiled.
One asked "When are you going to go back to teaching?"
"I don't know if I ever will."
"You can't do that!" "Yeah!" "Don't do that!" "I'll complain to the high ups" "Me too." "Me too!" He heard a chorus of agreement. One girl said "I'll withdraw." "So will I." "Me too."
Goku smiled. He said "No, don't withdraw because of me. ITI's a good school, for what it's worth."
They looked at him and digested his statement. Seth said "Ok. Mr. S?"
"Yes, Seth?"
"I want you to know that we are all behind you 100 if you need us, all the way!" He heard a chorus of agreement and cheers again.
He said "Thanks guys. Now, go on to where you're suppossed to be. I wouldn't want you getting kicked out for a stupid reason like being tardy or for inciting a riot." He smiled at the last one.
Seth nodded and saluted kung fu style and bowed. Then the rest of the students did. Goku returned the gesture, touched and they left.
Goku got the paper and walked back to the lab, wondering at the loyalty of these students. Of the fact that he had 52 students willing to risk expulsion for him. He thought 'They're good kids at heart.' He went back into the lab.
Next time on dragonball Z...Vegeta and John meet and who knows what will happen then? The deadlines pressing forward. Jhones is getting nervous. Wait...who was that weird person on the comms screen? He even had Jhones looking scared.
'Something tells me I'm in deeper than I thought.'