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Merging Spirits: Legacy of Gohan Unchained
Chapter Six: The Spectacular Saiyan-Man
Throughout the day, Gohan had to deal with the heated glares from the blue-eyed "Hero," and honestly, it was annoying. As if Videl glaring at the back of his head mattered to him.
As long as she wasn't anything like Raditz, Nappa, Zarbon, Dodoria, the Ginyu Force, Frieza, and Cell, he could handle her childish anger at him all day.
Gohan rose up from his seat and yawned with the final bell of the day, his hand covering his mouth before grabbing his bag and walking down the stairs.
"Hey, wait!" bubbly voice rang out
Turning around, he saw a blonde girl and a red-haired girl dragging along a blond guy and Videl by their arms, a happy smile on her face, and for that moment, a sharp vision of her missing both an eye and an arm appeared before his eyes before repeatedly blinking to wipe it away.
"Were you talking to me?" Gohan asked with a point to his chest.
The girl nodded happily and replied, "Of course, silly. Who else would I be talking to?" releasing her two friends' arms and moved her hand in front of her, which Gohan grasped and shook softly.
"Hiya, my name is Erasa, and welcome to our class. I hope we can become friends," Erasa introduced with a friendly smile on her face.
"The name's Gohan. It's a pleasure to meet you, and I certainly hope so," Gohan replied with a friendly smile.
She bobbed her head, then turn to Sharpner and gave him a slight glare, making the male sigh and hold out his hand. "And my name's Sharpner, boxing extraordinaire and cousin to this blonde-haired pixie," Sharpner introduced.
Chuckling at the girl sticking her tongue out at the male teen, Gohan shook Sharpner's hand.
"It's nice to meet you too," Gohan replied once again before releasing his hand.
"Name's Angela," The red-haired girl introduced with a friendly smile. "Girlfriend of the "boxing extraordinaire" as he calls himself."
"It's simple fact," Sharpner grunted, which made Angela grin.
The trio then looked in Videl's direction, but instead of a handshake, she merely shrugged and said, "Yeah, it's nice to meet you," with a hint of an edge in her voice.
Gohan shook his head and replied, "Yeah, same here," with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
He could honestly say that he hated this stuck-up attitude that this girl had due to her father doing something he couldn't do.
He would need to break that haughtiness she had within her, but he was sure he couldn't fight her without critically injuring her just yet, so that would be the absolute last option, but he did know how to help her.
Videl didn't want Gohan to interfere in her affairs of being a hero, but to help her not cause her father grief and simultaneously piss her off, Gohan would become a hero.
And he knew exactly where to go to get all of this started.
"So, where do you live?" Erasa asked with a tilt of her head as she, her two friends, and Gohan walked down the hallway towards the school's exit.
"Me? Well, I live at 439 East District," four pairs of eyes were suddenly on him, which caused his cheeks to have a light dusting of red on them. Despite being one of the strongest beings on earth and more confident about himself, he still didn't like when too much attention was on him.
"How the hell do you get from there to here?" Sharpner asked with surprise in his voice.
Gohan nonchalantly shrugged and replied, "A helicopter, of course. How else would I get here otherwise?"
Videl grinned at this and replied with a haughty tone, "Maybe you can fly like those people who "beat" Cell."
while Sharpner and Angela let out a small chuckle at this, Erasa and Gohan merely frowned.
'Just my luck, they don't believe Hercule's truth either…Pathetic,' Gohan thought to himself with an inward sigh, but he did take note of Erasa's frown.
As the group walked out the doors, a ton of flashes assaulted their eyes.
"Excuse me, sir! Are you the one who stopped those bank robbers earlier today?" Gohan heard on reporter loudly asked while narrowing his eyes more.
Not wanting to deal with the spotlight, Gohan broke away from the three and ran through the crowd of the reporters while yelling at the four, "See you guys tomorrow, and it was nice to meet you guys!"
Gohan was really regretting not thinking that one through.
After managing to get away from the paparazzi, Gohan flew to West city and landed in front of the Brief's home, smiling as he saw Trunks running around in the front yard of their home with Bulma lounging on a beach chair in a blue bikini.
"It's Gohan, Mom!" The teen heard the violet-haired child exclaim with excitement in his voice as he landed on the yard to grab the lunging Trunks into his arms.
Despite Trunks not being of blood, Gohan saw him just as much as a brother as he did Goten and loved the boy dearly.
Gohan laughed while Trunks rubbed his cheek against Gohan's gently, causing Gohan to shut one eye. "I missed you, big bro," Trunks said happily after being sat down on the ground with Gohan kneeling in front of him.
"I missed you too, Trunks," Gohan replied happily, causing the boy to smile wider and bounce away happily, leaving Gohan to talk to Bulma.
"Well, Well, Well, if it isn't our world savior. Here to visit after three long months," Bulma teased while leaning up from her beach chair.
"Hey Bulma," Gohan said with a grin. "I kind of need some help with something."
Bulma smiled at him and motioned for him to follow her inside after grabbing her son's hand and telling him it's time to go back inside, which Trunks grumbled but nodded, slowly getting tired.
After telling Bulma his troubles, Bulma asked, "That's it? A heroic costume?"
"Think you'll be able to do it?" Gohan asked.
"That request is super easy, barely an inconvenience," Bulma quipped. "Why don't you take Trunks to his room for his nap and then come back down here in two hours. I should have it ready by then."
Gohan nodded.
After taking the sleeping Trunks to his room and training with Vegeta for two hours, Gohan was back down in Bulma's lab, where she now wore her usual red dress, but with a white lab coat over it and goggles hanging from her neck.
"Both of these watches have a costume in them. All you have to do is press the red button on the side of the watch," Bulma told him as she handed him two watches. "And then choose the one that works for you."
Gohan nodded and picked up the first one and pressed the red button on it and with a flash, Gohan found himself green tunic, black tights, white gloves, and boots similar to what he wore when he wore the Saiyan armor on Namek, a red cape, and an orange-and-black helmet with a visor.
"I'm digging it, but it's too colorful. I'll save this as a backup," Gohan said before pressing the button, leaving him back in his typical attire. "Are you able to workshop this one some more?" Gohan asked.
"I should be able to," Bulma replied. "I might make it into durable armor. I'll call you once I finish. Now try the second one."
Gohan nodded, slipped on the second watch, then pressed the button, and with a flash, Gohan was in a new outfit.
What had materialized on Gohan's body was a flowing black vest with a long backside secured by a white sash around his waist, a form-fitting long-sleeved midnight-blue undershirt with a turtleneck and midnight-blue pants.
Gohan also wore white gloves with black armor around his wrists and forearm and white boots with black armor around the ankle and shin.
Finally, Gohan wore a "V" shaped white tinted glass mask that covered his face while leaving his hair visible with horns on each side of the mask with a metal band that connected in the back of his head, keeping the mask secured.
"This is more me," Gohan said as he patted the clothes. He then looked into a mirror that showed his mask and asked, "Despite it being glass, I can't see my face."
"Well, this mask is made out of the same material as a scouter and functions like one as well, but I made it more durable. So unless you're fighting someone stronger than a Super Saiyan 2 like yourself, it won't break," Bulma explained. "It is a prototype, however, so I do expect you to tell me how good it is at protecting you, got it?"
Gohan nodded.
"Also, since this is your hero uniform, I added a special feature in the mask. Do you see those horns on the sides of your mask? The button on the right horn activates the scouter functions for the mask," Bulma explained. "The mask also acts on vocal commands, so if you need to find a particular person or place or if you need to listen in on police scanners, you have to say their name while holding down the button on the right horn, and presto!"
Gohan nodded.
For just two hours, Bulma had a lot of work done on this already. "Now for the left horn, there are two buttons. Press the upper button."
Gohan followed her instructions and asked, "What does it do?" but to his surprise, his voice was more mechanical and deeper.
"Now the lower button," Bulma said.
Gohan nodded, and suddenly, his hair was now white.
"Tada. Instant disguise!" Bulma said. "Unfortunately, this can only change your base hair color, so if you turn Super Saiyan, it will turn into its golden-yellow color."
"Works for me," Gohan said as he stared at his uniform with pride.
Oh yes, this was perfect.
Twirling around in the darkened air in his new heroic suit, Gohan soared down to Hercule city, floated down to the town hall, and landed on its roof, crossing his arms and staring down at the town, the lower half of his long vest flowing in the wind as he closed his eyes.
He had just gotten back from Bulma's place and decided to wait for a crime to happen, but as he did, he couldn't help but gaze out at the city.
Despite all the lights being used in every house and business in the city, causing stars above him to be faint, Gohan found that it made the city look beautiful.
'Yeah…If anything, this city looks kind of nice with all of these different colored lights shining. It's like a sparkling river during sunset. Well, at least to me…' Gohan thought to himself with a slight chuckle, but then he pressed a silvery-white button on the right horn and listened to the police chatter coming from their transmitters.
He had waited on top of town for two entire hours, hearing nothing but stories to the occasional flirting from one cop to an operator and decided to call it a night, but that's when he heard a female's urgent voice on the transmitter,
"A silent alarm has been triggered at the Orange star jewelry store! All units respond!"
Gohan pressed the button on the right horn and said, "Orange Star Jewelry Store."
Suddenly, his mask turned lime-green while a yellow map of the city appeared before him.
A red flag appeared over the map area where the store was located, and to Gohan's surprise, he realized that he was a few streets away from it.
"It seems I get to test this whole superhero business out tonight after all," Gohan murmured with a slight grin on his face as he jumped off of the town hall building and soared down to his location.
When he got close enough, noticed a hooded man sitting on the roof of a building across fro
Due to seeing the uniform of Orange star's police force, Gohan knew that this guy didn't belong to the force, so with a smirk, Gohan slowly floated down behind the man with his arm crossed and slowly floated behind him.
Wordlessly, Gohan grabbed the man by the back of his shirt and punched the man in his stomach, causing the man to let out a strangled gasp before falling unconscious in Gohan's grasp.
Slinging the guy on his shoulders, Gohan leaped down to the ground gently and placed the man on the ground and saw a large van a few feet away and rolled his eyes. Whoever planned this robbery seemed to watch too many old TV shows.
A few minutes later, five robbers came busting out of the store with duffle bags, broad smiles on their uncovered smiles as they hollered their victory over the law, but when they turned their heads, they noticed that their van was missing.
"D-Did Shaver leave us?" One of the robbers asked his crew.
Gohan's voice suddenly chimed out, "Did you guys lose something?"
Turning around, the men saw Gohan flying in the air, holding up their van with one hand.
"It couldn't be this thing, could it?" he told them with a chuckle before tossing the van backward onto the road, grinning behind his mask at the horrified expressions.
"Well, if it did belong to you guys, I'm sorry to tell you all …" Gohan then let a smirk form on his hidden face, his voice getting dangerously low while muttering out loud enough for them to hear, "It's broken."
"W-Who the hell are you?!" the one who Gohan had deduced was the leader pulled out a machine gun and held it up in his direction.
Gohan chuckled and cocked his head back before flickering out of existence, only to appear in front of the gun-toting burglar.
The burglar took a step back in alarm and pulled the trigger, firing at Gohan, but to the man and his crew's surprise, the bullets seemed to bounce of Gohan's form.
But then their surprise turned to horror when Gohan grabbed the gun and crushed it before rushing forward and landing a solid punch to the man's stomach, causing the bullets to stop instantly and the man to lurch forward.
Gohan slowly moved his fist away from the man's stomach and gingerly pushed the man with his index finger, causing the guy to fall to the pavement.
The four remaining men steeled themselves and threw themselves to Gohan, trying as hard as possible to strike him. Gohan effortlessly dodged them while simultaneously landing critical blows onto their bodies, stilling them all for a moment before all of them dropped to the ground.
Gohan merely shook his head at the crew pooled around his body and arranged their unconscious bodies, so they were in a circle and saw the bag of stolen jewelry.
Gohan hoisted the stolen items over his shoulder, deciding to take the goods to the police department, but then he looked at the men around him and knew he had to do something about this.
Using a steel pole, Gohan placed the group of men together and wrapped the steel pole around their forms to keep them still then flew up to a light fixture hung them on it and just in time because he could hear police sirens in the distance where he then decided to fly off into the dark sky.
'Now to the police station….' Gohan thought.
Videl couldn't believe what she was hearing from out of this man's mouth as she listened to his story.
Videl and the police department arrived at the crime scene with the criminals wrapped in steel around a light pole.
It took the jaws of life to untie the men from their steel trap, where they were arrested. Videl pulled aside the leader of the team after he had gained consciousness and asked him what happened.
After hearing the entire story, Videl figured the man was fooling her and asked another member of his team, only to receive the same story.
After going through the entire team, Videl realized that maybe these men had been attacked by this mysterious masked man.
Still, she couldn't believe that a single person could lift a van with one hand.
Videl decided that she's had enough for the night and decided to leave, but as she walked out the door of the police department, she was shocked to see a duffle bag full of jewelry on the sidewalk with a small note on it.
Tilting her head in confusion, Videl kneeled in front of the bag, took the note off the bag, and read it.
"Here is the bag of jewelry those kind "Gentlemen" had tried to steal. I figured that I should bring it here. I would have done it much earlier, but I don't need the world knowing about me just yet.
Until next time,
The Spectacular Saiyan-Man."
Videl then looked up at the moon and noticed a figure floating in front of it, his vest flowing in the wind with his mask glowing from the moonlight.
Videl was stunned at seeing this figure, but she then stood up and yelled out, "Are you the one who did this?!"
The figure nodded, then placed his index finger where his mouth would be before shaking his head, instantly answering the question coming into her mind.
Before Videl could do anything else, the figure let a light blue aura flare around him before turning around and flying off into the distance, leaving her stunned but then she looked back at the note, a slight frown written on her face.
"The Spectacular Saiyan-Man…." Videl whispered.
It was early morning when Gohan entered Hercule city with a bored expression on his face with his book bag on his shoulder when he passed a TV shop where he heard this something that had astonished him.
On TV was a blurry image of himself in his uniform tossing that van up and down in his hand before tossing it back. Then the video shrunk towards the left corner, showing an attractive newswoman.
"This mysterious figure was seen stopping a robbery last night thanks to a video caught on a citizen's cellphone around Ten O'clock last evening. The police department has not given any statement about this mysterious hero's identity nor his name, but we all hope that this hero soon shows up again."
Gohan blinked in surprise at this and shook his head.
"So much for being mysterious…." The boy muttered in disbelief before stalking off to school, a smile forming on his face as he noticed that no one had tried to come up to him about him stopping a bank robbery.
Perhaps everyone was too preoccupied thinking about his alter ego, The Spectacular Saiyan-Man.
Honestly, he didn't know what possessed him even to call himself that, but it was better than the first name popped up in his head.
Saiyan Hero G-Man.
Gohan shuddered at the name.
The name he had chosen had more pizazz to it, while the first name he had thought of sounded so goofy.
Gohan was shaken from his thoughts when he saw a bus full of people speed past him down a large hill, the screams of the passengers as well as the people watching the bus going down the slope filling his ears.
"Oh boy… it looks like the Spectacular Saiyan-Man is getting another appearance…." Gohan muttered to himself as he ducked into an alleyway and pressed a button on his watch, closing his eyes as the light blinded him for a moment before Saiyan-Man stood in his place.
Saiyan-Man wasted no time flying out from the alley and down towards the bus, not responding to the shocks of gasps he heard at his presence and instead sped up until he was in front of the bus. Saiyan-Man knew he needed to slow it down. Otherwise, when he stopped it, he could cause damage to the passengers inside.
Saiyan-Man slammed his feet onto the ground and placed his hands in front of him, creating an invisible wave of energy to slow down the bus just enough.
Hence, when the bus did collide with his palms, it was slow enough for everyone not to come rushing forward but still fast enough to cause him to skid on the ground for a few moments before stopping.
Taking a small breath, Saiyan-Man removed his hands from the bus and looked around at the shocked look on everyone's face and merely looked at his watch and blinked in shock.
He was late for school, so with a hidden grin and a small salute to everyone, Saiyan-Man quickly flickered from existence, barely hearing the shouts of "Wow!"
"God, all you three have been talking about is this "Saiyan-Man" Guy. Give it a rest," Videl said as she walked beside her three friends with a frown.
Videl had been annoyed ever since the mysterious hero appeared last night.
And it certainly didn't help that his actions this morning were causing a frenzy with the media, but while everyone else was blind, she was not.
Videl didn't buy into this guy as everyone did.
She honestly believed that him arriving right as a crime or some form of chaos was being committed was far too was too coincidental for her tastes.
For all they knew, he had planned those strings of attacks.
"Hey, look, Gohan's here," Erasa said with an excited tone as she shouted, "Hey, Gohan!"
Videl watched as Gohal turned his head and gave a small smile and a wave before he came over.
Why was Gohan coming down the stairs from the roof?
"Dude, you have got to hear about what happened on the East side of town this morning," Sharpner said.
As Videl watched Gohan, Sharpner, Angela, and Erasa talk, she turned stared at Gohan long and hard, her frown deepening.
Videl didn't know why but she believed that Gohan had something to do with this guy appearing.
Gohan bashed her on her choice of being a hero yesterday. Then all of a sudden, this new "hero" appears out of nowhere?
What did he take her for, a fool?!
"Oh, come on, Videl, you've been in a bad mood ever since this morning. What is up with you?" Erasa asked in concern, worried about her friend.
Videl turned to her friend and let an annoyed sigh leave her lips before she replied, "I'm just so tired of hearing of this guy. He's here one night, and already people are making folk songs out of him. It's all so stupid."
Gohan shrugged and turned to face the girl and said, "Maybe, but you should be glad. You now have some help in cleaning up the city."
Videl scowled at Gohan and hissed out, "I never needed any help Gohan. I can take care of myself and this city on my own. This Saiyan-Man guy can kiss my ass because there is no way I would ever let harm come to this place!"
"My lord! We have finally found a planet on our voyage!" a French-accented voice exclaimed into the dark blue-colored room.
Sitting on the throne in a lone room was a tall, lean, muscled purple-skinned being with a masculine-looking face with red streaks going down from beneath his eyes to his jawline, which had a black outline on them, black lips, and a long tail that rested against his three-toed foot.
And on his body were several armor-like carapaces on his chest, shoulders, shins, and head, where a large purple jewel-like object was stretched out from the front of his head to the back of it.
The figure opened his eyes to reveal red irises and stared at the soldier with annoyance. "A planet? Did you truly interrupt my rest just to tell me that, Salza?" he asked with a smooth, deep voice.
Standing before him was a sky blue-skinned man with chestnut-colored hair, purple eyes, a skin-tight purple suit with lime green armor above it, and a sizeable armored shoulder pad brown that was connected to the left side of the armor.
The person also wore white gloves and boots and finally, a dark blue colored scouter hidden by his hair and this man looked nervous. "Not just a planet, my lord…The planet," the man said.
Red eyes narrowed as an amused laugh tore through his throat.
"So we have finally found it…Earth…The home of the Saiyan that killed my brother…." The being stood up from his chair and walked towards the large window that showed the image of the blue planet, his arms crossing and smirk playing on his lips.
"Land as soon as possible. It is time we finished what my brother failed to do all those years ago…."
Captain Blues: And that is where I'm ending it. That's right! A new arc is how we'll start this and what a way to start it, am I right? Tell me what you guys think in a review! Until the next chapter…