Captain's Orders
Chapter 2

also by TAFKAE

Disclaimer: Same as the one in chapter 1.

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"Hey Mom, have you seen Goten?"

Chi-chi turned around to look at Gohan. "No, I haven't, not since last night." She sighed and turned back to the dishes. "He probably ran off first thing with Trunks. I don't think I'll ever understand that kid."

Gohan suddenly looked at his watch. "Omigosh! I'm gonna be late for school!" Quickly, he slung his bookbag over his shoulder and pressed a button on the aforementioned watch, transforming his school clothes into the Great Saiyaman costume. "See ya, mom!"

"Bye, Gohan!" Chi-chi shouted as he bolted out the front door and rose into the sky.

Needless to say, the frog hiding in his bookbag had one heck of a ride.

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Goten jumped in the air, then started buzzing around like a little fly. "Wow!" he yelled. "This body is amazing!"

I realize that it's hard to imagine a voice from just reading a fanfic, but if you can imagine Goten's voice, and then imagine that the voice coming out was definitely not that. Anyone could recognize it. Some would immediately say, "Omigaw! It's the annoying 'Next-time-on-DBZ' guy!" while others would say, "Omigaw! It's Captain Ginyu!"

(Stupid choice, I know.)

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"Hi, Gohan!" Erasa greeted cheerfully as Gohan took his seat. He waved.

The teacher started on the lesson. Gohan was diligently taking notes until his pencil broke. He reached into his bookbag for another one...

"YEAAAAAUGH!!!!!"

The teacher gave him an odd look. "Is there something you'd like to share with the class, Gohan?"

"No, ma'am!" Gohan yelled a little too loudly. He'd just found something cold, wet, and slimy in his bookbag. He pulled it out into his lap and made the "shhhhhh" sign to it.

It made the sign back, then the "ok" sign. Then it jumped up on his paper, grabbed the broken pencil point, and scrawled out a "G" on Gohan's paper.

"'G'?" he wondered aloud, but under his breath, as he hid the animal with his textbook.
Over the course of the next few minutes, the frog scratched out an "O", a "T", an "E" and an "N".

"'Goten'?" Gohan whispered. "You're a pretty smart frog, but what's anything got to do with Goten?"

The frog drew an arrow and sat near the pointy end.

Gohan might have screamed - if a frog claiming to be his brother had made any sense, that is.

Erasa leaned over to him. "Wow, you have a pet frog?"

"It's not my pet. My brother must have put it in there," he figured.

"Yeah, and it knows how to write, too! That's neat!"

Gohan grimaced. "C'mon, Erasa, don't get us in trouble..."

Videl leaned forward and looked at him. "Gohan? Why did you bring a frog to class?"

"I DIDN'T!" Gohan shouted a little too loudly, then found the entire class looking at him funny.

The teacher adjusted her glasses. "Are you sure you don't have anything you'd like to tell us?"

"I'm sure, ma'am," he said, a little too hastily.

The frog laughed. It came out as a rather loud ribbit. The teacher heard it.

"Oh," she said, narrowing her eyes. "Perhaps you'd like to show your little pet to the HALL MONITOR!!!"

"It's not my pet!" Gohan yelled. "My brother must have snuck it into my bag or something!"

"That is no excuse for disrupting the class, young man!" She pointed to the door. "Now go out in the hall this instant! We will discuss this AFTER CLASS."

Gohan stood and headed towards the door. The frog kept laughing.

"And take that animal with you!"

He grabbed the frog in one hand and ran out the door, his class laughing behind him.

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"Good going," he mumbled to the frog, or maybe to himself, sitting down next to the door. "I wonder if Goten has any idea of how dead he is."

The frog moaned, then started ribbiting hysterically.

"Are you laughing at me again?" Gohan asked it. After all, it wasn't like he had anyone else to talk to out here.

The frog shook its head.

"Then what are you doing? Maybe you can write, but you can't talk."

The frog started jumping up and down, then out of nowhere pulled out the paper Gohan's notes were on, and sat near the pointy end of the arrow again.

Suddenly, a light bulb went on in the teenager's head. "Are you saying that you're Goten?"

The frog nodded vigorously.

"Well, how's that possible? Goten's my brother, not a frog."

The frog shrugged.

"So, how did you get in my bookbag anyway?"

Froggy started hopping. Gohan moaned. "Of course..." He rubbed the frog's head, then noticed the two antennae.

"Wait a second," he thought aloud. "You don't look much like an Earth frog... but there were frogs like this on..." He paused as a redheaded girl walked by, giving him an odd look, then continued. "...Namek! And one of them ended up coming to Earth because it was -" Suddenly, everything clicked. Gohan stood up and ran out of the school, a clueless frog in one hand.

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He didn't stop at home. He knew his mom would be *extremely* ticked off if she knew he was cutting class. Besides, Goten's power level was elsewhere, and Goten was who he was looking for. He eventually found him playing in a field with a couple of mice. As in, blasting them. The frog in his right hand growled, if that was possible. The mice ran.

"Hey Goten!" he yelled at his younger brother.

"Whaddaya want?" the boy replied, in a voice Gohan was quite familiar with, then caught himself. "I mean, uh," then in a very fake Goten voice, "hi there, Gohan!"

"I think you've got something that's not yours," Gohan responded, narrowing his eyes.

Goten turned. "What're you talking about?"

His brother held up the frog. "Does this look familiar?"

Goten's face went kind of funny. It was one of those looks that says, "Where the hell did you find THAT?!?"

"I thought so. Change him back now, Ginyu. Don't go thinking I don't remember what you did to my dad on Namek." [1]

They stared at each other for a while, then Ginyu spoke, in the fake-sounding Goten voice. "I don't get it. What're you talking about, Gohan?"

"I think you know." Gohan held the frog in front of him. "Change him back. NOW."

Ginyu smirked, not bothering to fake the voice. "Make me, lame-o."

Gohan wasn't expecting that. "What?!"

"I said make me. You want me to change back, you're gonna have to fight me."

Gohan growled. I don't wanna hurt Goten... he thought, looking down at his right hand. The frog (or the real Goten, as it were) looked up at him and gave him a thumbs-up.

his brother thought. He turned to Ginyu. "Well then, if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you're gonna get."

Ginyu jumped. He wasn't expecting that. And it looked very much like Gohan was going to keep his word. he thought.

Gohan set his brother down on the ground, then moved a ways away and got into a fighting stance. Ginyu watched in utter shock as Gohan's hair began to flutter upwards. Then the teenager exploded with energy, his hair turning a bright golden color and his eyes becoming deep and green.

"WHAT THE HELL?!??!" Ginyu screamed. "Good God, what did you just do?!"

"It's called going Super Saiyan," Gohan replied calmly. "And if I remember correctly, that's how my dad beat Frieza."

Ginyu was speechless.

Gohan continued. "It's also how I beat Goten the last time we trained together."

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Yippee! Finally, a fight! Can't have a DBZ fanfic without one! Well, keep reading, because I'm gonna keep writing no matter what!

(o^.^o) The Artist Formerly Known As Ed

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FOOTNOTE

[1] In case you don't remember, Ginyu switched bodies with Goku, then deliberately got beaten up by Vegeta, then tried to switch with Vegeta, but Goku jumped in the way and got changed back. Ginyu then tried to switch with Vegeta again, but Goku threw a frog into the way. Hence, Captain Ginyu was a frog for a VERY LONG TIME.