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Beaner-Bop
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A/N: *sniff* My next chapter is the epilogue…CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?! I'M ALMOST DONE WITH THIS FIC!!!
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Disclaimer: Please! *sniff* Don't ask me to say it! My fic is almost done! Let me live in the dreams of blah blah blah…
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Chapter Nine: But How…?
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Gohan looked down at Videl. She was a good reason for living…{1} He looked up and saw that the look out was only a few hundred meters away roughly. He started to slow down and nudged Videl a little bit. He pointed over to the look out and she gasped.
"Wha-What is that?" She whispered.
"Dende's Lookout. You can call it Kami's lookout also though, since that's Dende's position." Videl looked up at it again and snuggled closer into Gohan. She would have said something like 'You know God?!?!' but it just wouldn't have felt right…
She felt Gohan land and he set her down gently. He looked around the lookout until he just started walking one way, Videl following him close behind.
Gohan turned the corner and came face-to-face with Piccolo.
"Welcome back kid." Gohan nodded his head.
"Yeah…Piccolo? Could you do me a quick favor? I wouldn't want to ask you this but…" Piccolo nodded his head.
"As long as its within reason." Gohan nodded his head again.
"Can you erasa my memory?" Piccolo looked at him strangely.
" Your memory?" Gohan thought about what he said for a minute and then understood where Piccolo was getting at.
"Not me-me, I'm talking about the younger me."
"Why?"
"Because…" Gohan remembered what he talked with Piccolo about the last time at the waterfall, "Life really isn't that bad. It could be better, yes, but…" Piccolo nodded.
"I guess you just want the memories of you and the girl gone from his head." Gohan nodded. "Do you want the rest of them or-"
"No, just me. Everyone else can remember." Piccolo nodded his head. He was about to leave but then remembered something.
"Bulma told me to give you these if I saw you. Said they'd take you back into your time. The only problem with them is that you have to go a few days into the future for them to work correctly. They can go much farther once you do that though." Gohan nodded his head. They were pretty much identical bracelets to the ones that he and Videl were still wearing at this current moment and time. He took them from Piccolo's outstretched hand and handed one over to Videl who watched the whole conversation quietly as she had been doing since Gohan really started to try and get them home.
He waved bye to Piccolo along with Videl and pressed the 'go' button on the bracelet thing. They opened their eyes to see not the lookout like they were expecting, but a rocky area. Videl recognized it earlier then Gohan did, meaning he couldn't make a quick lie about it and why and how they had gotten here in the first place.
"This is where my dad fought Cell!" She said. Before Gohan could say anything, Videl had already started running over to where she remember the Cell games being fought. The worst thing though, to Gohan, was that she looked giddy. She could finally see her dad 'beat' Cell.
Another bad thing for Gohan was how far away they were from the field, which really isn't much. He looked at the bracelet again, he just noticed that he couldn't feel Videl's ki. Bulma must have put a ki conceal-er or something on it…
Videl turned the corner and her happy expression left her face quickly. In front of her was the scene. They were at least a thousand meters away, but she could still see everything as thought she was only fifty feet away.
Her father was cowering and Gohan's dad, somehow she knew this, had taken Cell somewhere and died with the blast. She was now seeing the 'new' Cell come and start to fight the boy again. She looked at the scene and her father. She looked over to Gohan who just walked up behind her and started watching the scene quietly as well.
"Why-" Gohan put his hand over her mouth quickly. He knew that the Z-warriors more than likely knew that they were watching now but he did not need Cell or himself to know that. The Z-Warriors probably already know that his younger-self doesn't 'remember' him.
The end of the Cell games approached and they both watched silently, Videl from shock and Gohan from remembering what he did.
It must have been a few hours that they stood there watching. Finally, Vegeta came and was able to distract Cell long enough for Gohan to power up the last bit of strength that he needed to win against the thing.
Videl saw the boy power down and nearly cried out. It was Gohan. His younger self of course but it was Gohan. How come he never told…anyone that he beat Cell?! She looked over at Gohan again who was currently glaring at something. Videl turned and saw that her father was saying that he beat Cell and all of that stuff that she had just now learned was a load of crap. How could she have ever believed it? How could her father have beaten Cell?
And for that matter, how could Gohan?
She turned around but Gohan caught her wrist. He pressed something on the bracelet and looked at his. She looked at him confused.
"Wha-"
"Press go again." He whispered. She glared at him but did as she was told. After all. She could always ask Gohan about this when they were back home.
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When they opened their eyes again they were in yet another location. This one where they started out at. Gohan grinned at the desk. Just as he had thought the little TV was there. He went over and grabbed it quickly.
Right by it was a letter. He read it quickly and handed it to Videl who was just recovering from the shock about her dad.
Hey you two! How was your trip? Hope you liked it! I nearly died when I found out Trunks got the something stuck in the time machine thing making the number stay on 11, but then I remembered Gohan popping up and what do you know! If you were wondering about the 15 on the machine, that was talking about radius. If you were 15 feet radius away from the person holding it, you would also be transported into what ever time that was set. I hope you had fun! Luv ya! -Bulma
"She made that thing?!" Videl said after reading the short note. Gohan nodded his head.
"She made it because she 'remembered' that I was there in the past."
"But you didn't- Oh…you got your memory erased…" Gohan nodded his head.
"Come on. I know for a fact that Time travel thing took a few minutes. If we're not out of here soon, people might get worried." She nodded at him, and followed him outside.
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A/N: EPILOGUE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!
{1} - Read '100 Reviews' if you haven't. It might make more sense…You can also ignore that one line and it won't make any difference…^_^
[I know it's short but I wanted to save some material for the epilogue!]