Disclaimer—Frozenflower: ::jumps around excitedly:: I've DONE IT! I've discovered the chemical formula for DBZ OWNERSHIP! It's H20!"
Veggie-chan: "-_-; that's water…."
Frozenflower: "……oh. Darn, back to the lab! Anyway, for NOW at least, I don't own DB/Z/GT!"
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Gohan sat next to Videl on the lawn of Capsule Corporation. It'd been three weeks since the whole 'Bring Your Father to School Day' incident, and though it was long over, it was definitely not forgotten.
Things had gone as planned at first—people had returned to school somewhat bleary eyed the next morning, convinced that the strange events of the day before had been nothing more than the conjurings of their own twisted psyches. The two blonde bombshells, Sharpener and Erasa, were the first things that had gone wrong.
Apparently, to Gohan's great misfortune, he considered Sharpener and Erasa friends. This meant that the air-headed duo had been exempted from the wish he made to the dragon, asking everyone (besides his friends and family) to think the day a dream.
"Dude—it's the G-man, the Gold Fighter, Saiyaman extreme, dude!" Sharpener exclaimed happily.
"Oh, Gohan?" Erasa fluttered her eyelashes sweetly, "Whatever happened to my purple hunka-muffin and his twin? Actually his father wasn't that bad either…"
As he had tried frantically to escape the chattering pair, Gohan had run into the one person he'd wished most to avoid: Videl.
After being cornered and grilled by the fiery Videl for nearly an hour, Gohan had finally been released, a bit dented, and somewhat worse for wear, (Videl had somehow managed to obtain a remarkable replica of the 'Almighty Frying Pan of Terror™') with his Inner Krillin laughing uproariously in his head.
Entering his second period classroom, with his new girlfriend at his side, Gohan had been startled when the room went quiet. Slowly making their way to their seats, Gohan had shot questioning looks at Sharpener and Erasa, who were more than happy to provide an explanation, "They were all talking about yesterday, Gohan—they all think it's a dream! But I know it's not—why would everybody have the same dream? I mean, seriously! And why do Sharpie and I remember what happened, and no one else does?"
Gohan's face had paled, and he had played the innocent—dream? What dream? What did they mean by everything that had 'happened' yesterday? Yesterday had been another normal day, just like the last….
They hadn't bought it. Rumors now flew wildly, and the 'mass dream' was being attributed to alien mind beams by the more gullible and prone to fantasy. The more realistic among the populace looked at Gohan with more than a bit of suspicion, and the rest regarded him with a mixture of awe and fear—if their dream were right, after all, Son Gohan wasn't someone you wanted to mess with.
On his back, looking up, Gohan snorted up at the puffy white clouds overhead—alien mind beams—how ridiculous! Any sane person would know it was the Eternal Dragon—not something as unlikely as alien mind beams…
Videl, catching this last thought, sweatdropped from her position in the grass beside Gohan, *Umm, Gohan?*
Gohan blinked, coming out of his reverie, *Yeah Videl?*
Videl thought for a moment, then sighed. It wasn't worth reminding Gohan that HE was an alien, and alien mind beams were JUST as reasonable as giant magic dragons that came out of pretty little orange balls. *Forget it….*
Gohan turned his head to gaze curiously at her, then shrugged and returned his eyes to the sky, *Oh, look Videl,* Gohan exclaimed through their link, *That cloud looks just like your dad!*
Videl gazed dubiously up at the cloud that looked vaguely like a human head buried beneath an immense afro, then giggled, *It does look like my dad!*
After several more friends and relatives had been found, including a pointy Vegeta cloud, a happy looking Goten cloud, and a surprisingly green, scowling Piccolo cloud, Gohan sighed and his hand unconsciously sought out Videl's.
Videl blushed as she felt Gohan grasp her hand, but snuggled closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder.
Gohan felt like his face was on fire, but he wrapped his arm around Videl nonetheless. He was content.
A flash of light and a clicking whir resounded, and Goten and Chibi Trunks leapt out of the tree that Gohan and Videl were resting under, camera in hand.
Gohan glared at the two chibi's before him. They smirked cheekily back. If his mother saw that picture, she'd hound him to no end—not to mention KRILLIN!
*AWWWWWW THAT WAS SOOOOO CUUUUUUUTE!*
Gohan viciously suppressed his Inner Krillin, stuffing the bald little Inner Voice into a little soundproofed Inner Box and locking it with a specialized, indestructible Inner Key. Faintly from within the box, the woeful cries of the Inner Krillin went unnoticed….*Waaaaahhhh! Gohan, let me ooooooooooouuuuuuuuttttttt!* Unfortunately for the Inner Krillin, it would be long time before any of the other Inner Voices realized that he was missing. Poor Inner Krillin.
Gohan turned his attention back to the two irrepressible monsters before him. He had to get that camera. His mother was already ordering bridal magazines! If she got hold of this picture, she'd probably copy it and send out invitations!
Gohan thought furiously, desperate for some way, ANY way to defeat the evil little children before him—preferably without blowing them up. Suddenly, it came to him—with an evil little smirk that would have scared the daylights out of New Mirai Trunks, Gohan said one simple word. "Sugar."
A look of horror crossed the chibi's faces. "You-you wouldn't." Trunks stuttered fearfully.
Gohan's grin grew, and he nodded affirmatively, "If I had to spoon feed you myself."
In utter terror the children screamed and dropped the camera, fleeing for their lives.
Videl cocked an eyebrow as Gohan opened the camera and
stuffed the roll of film into his side pocket, "Just what was THAT all about?"
Gohan grinned mysteriously. It had taken poor Chibi Trunks and Goten three days to descend from their sugar high. In that time, they had managed to destroy half of the Capsule Corp. complex, and incur Vegeta's wrath. Gohan almost chuckled as he remembered the Princes enraged screams, "SQUIRTLE? I'll show you a Squirtle you insane little brats!"
With the help of Pikachu, aka Goku, Chibi Trunks and Goten had enjoyed a nice long vacation courtesy of Vegeta's GR Spa. They had just emerged from the room, shaken, starved and drained, four days ago. Gohan had been inadvertent witness to their fervent vows as they swore off sugar forever. He wondered how long it would take them to forget that vow—he was certain it wouldn't last a week, but for now at least, sugar reigned high on the list of 'Things to Terrorize the Chibi's With.'
Gohan looked innocently at Videl. "I don't know—hey, you want a soda or something?" Gohan stood up, offering a hand to help Videl to her feet. He was really grateful that that Bulma was allowing him and his family to hang out here at Capsule Corporation. The first few days after the INCIDENT, as he'd taken to calling it, dozens of students had arrived at his house, curious about 'the dream,' and why he played such a big role in it. He couldn't even threaten to blast them, unless he wanted their suspicions proven out.
Sighing, Gohan, trailed by Videl, walked lazily into the kitchen to find both Mirai Trunks' playing some sort of card game at the table—surprisingly enough, Vegeta was also participating. Gohan had to suppress a laugh when Vegeta growled, "Go fish," at Old Mirai Trunks.
Three heads rose as he and Videl entered the room. One face looked at Gohan with the cheerful love and respect that one would grant a duplicate of their old master, while one glared with barely suppressed anger and fear, and the last looked at him with an expression that Gohan was definitely not used to—an expression bordering on respect.
With a gleeful shout, Old Mirai exclaimed "I WIN!" laying his cards down on the table.
Vegeta growled petulantly, and demanded a spar, to prove just who was the REAL winner. It was OBVIOUS that someone had cheated. OBVIOUS. HE was the Prince of the Saiyans after all—Princes ALWAYS won at Go Fish. It was a rule somewhere—he was sure.
Old Mirai grinned carelessly, "Sure father, whatever." He shot a questioning look at New Mirai, Gohan and Videl. "What do you say? You guys up for it?"
New Mirai glanced warily at Gohan, but nodded, Gohan shrugged in agreement, and Videl crowed in delight. She was so far below their level, they didn't often take the time to spar with her—this would be fun!
As Gohan and the other changed into fighting gi's, somewhere, in Otherworld, two souls were LOOOOOONG overdue for their seven year vacation.
Bardock looked questioningly at King Vegeta, "So, where do you want to go? We've got a whole day, all to ourselves."
King Vegeta glared at Bardock, momentarily miffed at his casual speech, then sighed. Tapping his ominous looking pitchfork against the ground, he shrugged, "I have no idea—Vegeta-sei is long gone, and Frieza's dead, so we can't go after him…"
Bardock thought for a moment, then brightened, and pushed away the annoying harp that insisted on floating around after him, no matter how many times he tried to lose it, "What do you say we go visit Kakkarot and Prince Vegeta? Last time Enma let me have a look, they were both on some planet called Earth, in the eastern sector." Grasping desperately for an excuse to see his son that wouldn't seem too un-Saiyan-like, Bardock said, "If Kakkarot's there, they'll probably have some good food!"
King Vegeta sweatdropped. Bardock would never admit that he just wanted to see his son. And neither would he. "Alright, let's go. But they better have plenty of food!"
Bardock turned to the man who had informed them of this vacation day, and verbalized their request. As the two long dead warriors of the Saiyan race disappeared in a haze of light, the small figure smirked. Sometimes it was so GOOD to be evil!
Had Dende known the Supreme Kai, he'd have recognized that evil smile as his own, and he might have realized—THIS was where he'd gotten it from!
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Gohan walked cheerily from the house, and towards the Gravity Room, whistling a happy tune, ready for training. Videl was already in there, and from the sound of muffled explosions, so was Vegeta.
Rounding the corner, he almost ran into a growing haze of golden light. From the light, emerged….
"No…" Gohan exclaimed in a choked whisper, "You—you're not real—you're not! You're just figments of my imagination…that's what they said…Mom…Dad…the doctor—she said those drugs would make you go away!"
Gohan fell to his knees, clutching his head and cursing the poor quality of modern day psychiatric medications. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
King Vegeta swished his tail and looked questioningly at Bardock, "This child is of your line, is he not?" At Bardock's shocked nod, King Vegeta snorted, "Figures."
Looking at the twitching, whimpering boy on the ground Bardock reached up to scratch his head in a very familiar gesture. "Was it something we said?"
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In the laundry room, oblivious to her son's latest fit of insanity, Chi-Chi plodded wearily through piles and piles of laundry. In one particular pair of pants, she felt a small lump. Reaching inside, she discovered a roll of film.
Now, Chi-Chi wasn't normally a nosy person, but seeing this roll of film, something inexplicable told her that she'd be very VERY happy if she went and developed it.
Giving in to the strange urge, Chi-Chi abandoned the laundry, and made a special trip down to the store, for specifically that purpose. After one very long hour, an insanely happy Chi-Chi held dozens of prints in one hand, and a shopping bag full of invitations in the other.
Humming happily, Chi-Chi skipped in the door at Capsule Corporation, completely missing the Angel Goku and Devil Vegeta look-alikes standing above her sobbing son so great was her state of bliss.
Sitting, she began quickly filling out the wedding invitations. *Grandchildren, grandchildren, GRANDCHILDREN!* Her mind shrieked joyously. Let the planning begin!
***Alright! Epilogue, epilogue, EPILOGUE! Sorry this took so long to bring out. With the introduction of these new characters, I am considering making a sequel. It won't come out for awhile though =) Hope you liked this, R&R please!***