Author's Note – Hey! I'm soooo sorry it took me so long to update. I was away visiting some family. Yay. But I'm back! Booyah! Anyhow, I'm also soooo sorry about what I had to do in the fic. I had to skip, in my opinion, detailing the GREATEST episodes in DBZ, and those, of course, would be in the Cell saga. Now, Perfect Cell is my absolute favorite character on DBZ, (He's SO hot!) and therefore my fav episodes are the Cell Games. But, the thing is, in this fanfic, the Cell games pretty much happen the same way, except with one extra character. And I decided, for the sake of you fans that you probably don't want to read exactly what you've seen on TV just with Zoa added into the script. So, I summarized the story up to the time Gohan starts going to high school and started from there. This is when the story starts to change a little bit, and obviously where the NC-17 come into play since Gohan and Zoa are now teenagers…but you'll see that for yourselves. Okay, yeah, this author's note is getting too long, so, I'll finish it up. And who knows? I may just have to write a fanfic dedicated to the Cell games and Perfect Cell after I finish this one to make myself feel better…muwahahaha! That would be cool! ;) But for now, I'll let you read Chapter 5!

Chapter 5 – The Troubles in Orange Star

          Krillin would soon discover that the dreadful Freiza had actually been remade by his father King Kold, and now they both had arrived on Earth, with plans to torment the humans and torture the Z Fighters, most especially one Super Saiyan Son Goku who had left Freiza nearly un-repairable not too long before. But, surprisingly enough, a young boy arrived and defeated the ghastly duo, by becoming, Super Saiyan? It was soon discovered that this boy was none other than Bulma and Vegeta's son Trunks, come back from the future to warn the Z Fighters of terrible dangers ahead. He gave Goku medicine for a fatal heart disease he would discover he had soon after and stayed to help the Z Fighters face what would be there most difficult challenge yet. A group of androids arrived and threatened to cause serious problems, but most were defeated after some effort by Earth's special forces. And then, the ultimate android arrived. His name was Cell, and after absorbing two other androids named 17 and 18, he reached his goal and became perfect, unbelievably powerful, and seemingly undefeatable. Cell announced a tournament called the Cell games, revealing that if no fighter could defeat him, he might decide to destroy the earth. The Z fighters were quick to accept the challenge, training to become as strong as possible for the Games. Gohan and Zoa both finally achieved the level of Super Saiyan, and Goku was pretty assured that they would win the tournament. But once the tournament got underway, and Goku was forced to forfeit, things looked bad. But Goku claimed to know a fighter who could defeat Cell, and that person was, Gohan? After many hardships, including Goku's noble sacrifice of his life, Gohan finally managed to emerge the victor and save the world. Dende's new dragon was summoned, but when the wish for Goku to return was made, he refused. And so, Goku stayed in the other world with King Kai and competed in a tournament, and the world saw about 7 years of peace. And now, Gohan and Zoa are about to face one of the most challenging battles ever, surviving in high school!!

  

          17-year-old Zoa frowned as she flew silently through the air from the Lookout Point to the Son house to meet her friend Gohan. She hardly noticed what a beautiful day it was turning out to be. The sun was slowly rising, and there were only a few noticeable clouds. All Zoa could think about however, was how early she had gotten up that morning.

I'm going to fall asleep on my books… Zoa let out a small tired sigh as she touched down on the grass just as Gohan came out the door. She shifted her book bag to her other shoulder and smiled sleepily at him.

"Alright! You made it!" Gohan beamed. He always had been a morning person… Zoa couldn't figure out how he did it. She watched as he adjusted his Orange Star pin on his vest and pulled his sleeves straight. "Well, we'd better get going! We wouldn't want to be late!"

"Good idea!" Zoa agreed as Gohan went to shut the door. But there was someone standing there.

"Aren't you even going to say goodbye?" Chi Chi demanded as Gohan apologized for nearly slamming the door into her. "Oh! Right! Sorry Mom, I guess I'm just excited!" Chi Chi smiled; Zoa raised an eyebrow. Chi Chi always seemed to be so proud of what she had done to Gohan, making him study almost twenty four seven. But truth be told, the whole thing kind of bothered Zoa. Gohan was the strongest Z Fighter, and he really should have been allowed to train more often. Who knew how powerful he would be if he had trained all that time instead of studied! But there was nothing wrong with being smart of course. But come on… Zoa shook her head. No point worrying about it right now. She couldn't actually believe she was going to high school! This was madness. The only reason she was going was because Gohan was her best friend, and he had asked her. It wouldn't be that bad, right? What had Piccolo's response been, oh yes, laughter.

"Hey, Zoa? Zoa? You okay?"

"Wha?" Zoa blinked a few times as Gohan waved his hand in front of her face, wearing a quizzical expression. "Oh, yeah, I was just thinking about stuff! Sorry!" Zoa smiled, blushing a little. Gohan shrugged, breaking out into a bright Son grin. "No prob! My Mom just had to give me my lunch. I was in such a rush I almost forgot! We can go now, right?" Chi Chi nodded, putting her hands on her hips. "Yes, and you two better be careful!" She demanded as Gohan leapt onto Nimbus, squeezing over as much as possible to make room for Zoa.

"I still don't see why we can't just fly! I doubt any one would notice." Zoa decided, as Nimbus was really more of a 'one person' transportation system… But Gohan was dead set against letting anyone see them fly.

"Well, we don't want to take chances, right? And besides, it's not all that far. See you Mom!" He shouted as they took off into the sky. Zoa tried to wave, but almost fell off in the process. Luckily, Gohan grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back on.

"Just hold on to me." Gohan stated as Zoa regained her balance on the cloud. She complied, gripping onto Gohan's waist. She was extremely troubled by the degree to which this created butterflies in her stomach. Don't tell me I'm getting excited about school too… She frowned at the thought. It would definitely be an interesting experience.

"So, Goten slept in huh?" She asked, idly making conversation to try to break up the somewhat uncomfortable silence. After a few moments, Gohan nodded, smiling. "Yeah, I know he wanted to say goodbye, but he was still sleeping, and I didn't want to wake him up. He stayed up till around midnight last night playing this new video game that mom got for him. Man, lucky kid. He's not forced to spend every spare moment studying like I was…" Zoa furrowed her eyebrows at this comment. "How come?"

Gohan frowned. "How come he's lucky?" Zoa laughed. "No, how come he doesn't have to study all the time like you did. Do you know?" Gohan shook his head, frowning as he pondered the question for a moment. "No, not exactly. But I think it has something to do with the fact that my dad didn't come back from the other world."

Suddenly, Gohan looked down. "Well, we should probably get off here. We can walk the rest of the way." Zoa nodded and leapt off the small floating cloud onto the ground. Gohan followed, and, after thanking Nimbus, the two headed off to the school. Gohan's eyes widened as he looked at his watch.

"Oh no! We're going to be late if we don't hurry up!" He declared, reaching back and grabbing Zoa by the hand. "Come on, let's speed up a little bit!" Zoa let out a small yell as Gohan took off at top speed. She matched his pace, and frowned as she noticed that they were running faster than a car along the street was driving.

"Um, Gohan?"

"Yeah?"

"Don't you think we should slow down a little bit?"

Gohan looked over, also noticing the very strange expressions of the people in the car as they passed them by. He grinned sheepishly and nodded. "Oh, yeah. Good idea. Hey!" Gohan stopped dead short as he noticed something ahead of them. Of course, he stopped so quickly that Zoa kept moving and flew right into him. They both went tumbling across the pavement and landed a short ways ahead, upside down, and watching the scene in front of them.

"They're robbing the bank!" Zoa exclaimed, flipping over to sit up, a worried tone in her voice as she watched men with guns running into the building across the street. Gohan got to his feet, his expression turning stony. "Yeah… Hey, I've got an idea. Keep going to the school, okay? I'll meet you there." Zoa looked up at him suspiciously. "Gohan, what exactly are you going to do?"