Chapter 3 is here. Sorry it took so long.
Disclaimer: If I owned DBZ, Goku would have opted to go to New Namek to get wished back during the Buu Saga to fight Majin Buu. Seeing as how that didn't happen, I do not own DBZ.
Gohan left home early so he could get to school early like he had promised Pegaro. Unfortunately, fate seemed to not be on his side that day.
"Man, what is up with these guys?" he asks himself as he dodges another volley of bullets. A group of robbers had taken over a convenience store and were firing out bullets endlessly. Videl had arrived before he had and was crouched behind a police vehicle so as to not get hit.
"Excuse me, need some help miss Videl?" he asks.
"What are you doing here?" Videl demands.
"Just helping out," Gohan says, then turns his attention to the robbers in the convenience store. 'Hmm, seven of them, all heavily armed. One is holding what appears to be… uh oh.'
He grabs Videl and the officer's that were hiding behind the car and runs away with them. Seconds later a rocket hits the police car and explodes.
Gohan sets them down a short distance away.
"You might want to consider finding better cover," he suggests.
"Thanks Saiyaman," one of the officer's says, "but we still can't get close to them."
"You leave that up to me," Gohan says, then blurs with his speed. He appears inside of the store in front of the crook with the rocket launcher. He tears the weapon from the crooks grip and throws it out the window.
"Freeze buddy," one of the other crooks says, aiming his assault rifle at Gohan, "I don't know how you got in here, but you certainly aren't getting out."
Gohan turns to face the crook. He vanishes, only to reappear directly in front of the crook. He twists the barrel of the gun, making it useless.
"How the?" the crook barely gets those words out before Gohan knocks him unconscious with a punch to the face.
The other crooks immediately open fire on Gohan. He turns and grabs all of the bullets out of the air. When they finish firing on him, he is unharmed.
Smirking at their astonished looks, Gohan opens his right hand and dumps the bullets he had just caught onto the ground.
"There's no way!" one of the crooks says before running out of the store and into Videl's fist.
"Freeze!" Videl shouts at the crooks, "that means you too Saiyaman."
"What is it with you?" Gohan demands, "can't you give me a break?"
"Now missy, that was a big mistake," one of the crooks says, leveling his gun with Videl.
"No!" Gohan yells, sending a small ki blast into the gun, melting the barrel with its heat.
"How in the world?" Videl gasps. But Gohan is already moving fast to disarm the other crooks and knocking them out. It only took enough time to blink twice. And Videl does just that after he has taken the crooks out.
"Well, I'll be seeing you miss Videl," Gohan says before flying off. He picks up speed so that Videl couldn't possibly follow him.
~Later at school, during lunch~
"He did what?" Erasa gasps. Videl was telling them what happened during the heist earlier.
"He sent some sort of ball of light at the gun and the gun melted," Videl repeats.
"It had to be some sort of trick," Sharpner snorts.
"I don't know," Videl says, "it looked pretty real and how else could he have melted the gun?"
"Maybe is was all a setup?" Erasa asks.
"I doubt it," Videl says, "why would Saiyaman go through all that trouble just to look good?"
"Maybe he wants to be popular like your dad," Sharpner says.
"If that's the case, then he should wait till the upcoming tournament and fight my dad there," Videl says.
"What tournament?" Gohan asks.
"The Tenkaichi Budoukai, the Supreme World Martial Arts Tournament," Videl responds, "there's another tournament in a few months. Dad and I have been training to compete."
"Maybe he doesn't know about the tournament," Gohan suggests, "I mean, I sure didn't know about it."
"Gohan, you are a nerd," Sharpner says, "nerds have no interest in physical sports like martial arts."
"Gohan's not a nerd, Sharpner," Erasa scolds.
"Sure he is," Sharpner protests, "look at him! I'll bet his mom dresses him."
"No, she just picks out my clothes because she claims I have no fashion sense," Gohan replies innocently, "and if I don't do what she says, I don't get dinner."
Erasa, Sharpner, and Videl all wince at that punishment. From the way they had seen Gohan eat, no dinner was about as bad as it could get for him.
"Hey Gohan," Pegaro says.
"Oh, hey Mr. Kawada," Gohan says.
"I told you Gohan, its Pegaro outside of the classroom," Pegaro says with a sigh.
"If my mom found out, I'd get no dinner for a week and I'd have to baby-sit Goten and Trunks for a month," Gohan replies.
Pegaro winces. "Okay, the no dinner for a week would be bad enough for you. But having to baby-sit your little brother and his best friend after school for a month? That's inhuman!"
"Your telling me," Gohan grumbles, "I'd still trying to find my favorite picture of dad from the last time I had to baby-sit those two little heathens."
"Oh, come on Gohan, it can't be that bad," Erasa says gently.
"You haven't met his little brother or his little brother's best friend," Pegaro chides, "those two can be like a pair of monsters when left unsupervised for more than a few seconds."
"I normally just tie them up," Gohan says, "or if they wiggle out of the ropes, I tell them that I'll recommend to Trunks dad that they want some intense training with him for the next month or so."
"Gohan, they're just little kids!" Pegaro says, shocked, "Trunks' dad would nearly kill them in training. At least, that's the impression I got when I met him when I came over to your house for dinner last night."
"Oh, he would," Gohan says with a surprisingly devilish grin. The grin unnerves Sharpner, Erasa, and even Videl. This was a totally different side of Gohan that they were seeing!
"Then why would you suggest such a thing?" Pegaro demands.
"The threat is enough to keep even those two obedient for an entire night," Gohan replies.
Pegaro chuckles. "Let me guess: that wasn't you first threat to them, was it?"
"Nope," Gohan replies, "my first threat was no dinner for them."
"How in the world could that not work?" Pegaro asks, "those two each eat almost as much as you do and their not even half your age!"
"They know how to hunt for their own food," Gohan replies, "plus they have several stashes of dried food hidden all over. I sometimes raid them when I'm hungry and mom's off visiting a friend or grandpa."
"What, can't you cook?" Sharpner asks scornfully, "it seems you can do just about everything else that requires a lot of brainpower."
"I can't cook to save my life," Gohan replies with a wry grin, "literally."
"I can believe that," Pegaro says, "so Gohan, what were you talking about before I arrived?"
"We were talking about a heist a bunch of robbers tried earlier today," Erasa says, "Saiyaman showed up and melted one of the guns with a strange ball of light."
"I remember hearing about something like that from one of the previous Tenkaichi Budoukai's," Pegaro remarks, "if it is what I think it is, it is called a ki attack. The previous champion, Goku, was a master at such techniques."
"My dad said that he was a trickster and couldn't fight," Videl says. Gohan tenses.
"I wouldn't say that," Pegaro says, "after all, he was supposed to be taught by Master Roshi, the greatest martial arts master of all time."
"He couldn't beat Hecule," Sharpner says, "besides, if they were so tough, why didn't they appear at the last tournament?"
"Who knows?" Pegaro replies, "maybe they had a good reason. Say, how many of you recall when those aliens landed 10 years ago?"
"I remember it a bit," Videl says, "Earth's Special Forces, led by Captain Yajirobe, fought off a pair of aliens who were bent on destroying the world or something."
"Do you remember the names of those fighters?" Pegaro inquires.
"I remember a couple of them," Erasa says, "there was a guy named Tenshinhan, who was a previous winner of the Tenkaichi Budoukai, a guy named Yamcha who is a famous baseball player and a longtime competitor in the tournament like Tenshinhan. There was also supposed to be the young emperor Chiao Tzu. Then there was Krillin, a short bald man who had been competing since he was 13. There was also supposed to be a guy by the name of Goku."
"Probably the same guy who won the previous tournament," Pegaro says.
"Maybe," Erasa says, "there were a couple of others as I recall. One of them was supposed to be the Demon King Piccolo. The last person the camera's caught was a little boy."
"Wow Erasa, I never knew you had such a memory," Videl says, obviously impressed.
Erasa blushes. "What can I say? I like the news."
"There goes that ditzy blonde appearance," Pegaro chuckles, "I'm glad I didn't take for what you appeared to be."
"Thank you," Erasa giggles.
"So, whats this about another tournament?" Gohan asks.
"Well, there's another Supreme Martial Arts Tournament in a few months," Videl explains, "my dad and I are both competing in it. And since school is let out for the day of, the day before, and the day after the tournament I won't need a permission slip to skip school for those days."
"Think you'll win?" Pegaro asks.
"Me beat my dad?" Videl scoffs, "if anyone can beat him, its me. He told me himself."
"But do you think you'll win?" Pegaro asks again.
"Maybe," Videl says, "you never know what can happen in a martial arts tournament. I may be able to get my dad in a ring out if I'm lucky."
"Beating Hercule through a ring out is a cheap way to win," Sharpner says, "you wouldn't be able to beat him in a real fight."
'I wouldn't be too sure about that,' Gohan smirks to himself, 'Videl is stronger than her dad and he knows it. He probably lies even to himself about it, but deep down I'm sure he knows that she's stronger than him.'
"So, um, Pegaro, what made you decide to go into teaching?" Videl asks.
"Well, I never had much of an education myself," Pegaro says, "but after I met Gohan and saw how smart he was from all the studying his mom made him do, it made me want to better myself. It took me a while, but within a year after I met Gohan I was finishing up my education and learning how to be a teacher. This is my first teaching job."
"What other kinds of jobs have you done?" Erasa asks.
"Practically everything," Pegaro says, "from unloading trucks to driving them, to even carrying drugs for a drug cartel. Though once I found out what I was carrying I turned them all in to the police."
"Oh really?" Videl asks.
"Yeah," Pegaro says, "but I got lucky that they were just an amateur racket and not very professional. They all have life in prison with no chance for parole so I don't have to worry about any retribution unless one of them gets out."
"And even if they do get out, you have Videl here to help protect you," Sharpner says.
"I don't really need anyone's help protecting myself unless they have guns," Pegaro says.
"Yeah, Pegaro's tough," Gohan says, "he's always been tough. A guy to look up to in terms of strength."
"Yeah right," Shjarpner snorts, "he's probably as much a nerd as you are Gohan."
"Gohan's not a nerd!" Erasa asserts.
"Yeah Sharpner," Videl says, "he's a lot cooler than you are."
At hearing that, Gohan blushes slightly.
"Well, its almost time for the rest of the school day to continue," Pegaro says, "see you tomorrow."
Out in space, something approaches the Earth. At a glance, it appears like nothing is there. But if the observer drew closer, they would see themselves or the craft they were in reflected right back at them.
The ship is coated with a mirror-like substance to protect the people within it. Years ago their home planet was taken over by the diabolical Frieza and his henchmen. Now however, years after Frieza's death, they have come to a planet that they think might receive them. They are tired of running. A group of traveler's who were heading for the planet Namek had given them the coordinates for their home planet, but a slight miscalculation threw them over a decade off course. Nearly eleven years, in fact.
But now they had finally found a planet similar enough to theirs to inhabit. The only question was would they be accepted by the people already inhabiting the planet Earth.
Well, what do you think? Not as long as the previous chapter, but I just couldn't come up with anything. Still, I think I did fairly good. Please tell me what you think of this story in a review.
Disclaimer: If I owned DBZ, Goku would have opted to go to New Namek to get wished back during the Buu Saga to fight Majin Buu. Seeing as how that didn't happen, I do not own DBZ.
Gohan left home early so he could get to school early like he had promised Pegaro. Unfortunately, fate seemed to not be on his side that day.
"Man, what is up with these guys?" he asks himself as he dodges another volley of bullets. A group of robbers had taken over a convenience store and were firing out bullets endlessly. Videl had arrived before he had and was crouched behind a police vehicle so as to not get hit.
"Excuse me, need some help miss Videl?" he asks.
"What are you doing here?" Videl demands.
"Just helping out," Gohan says, then turns his attention to the robbers in the convenience store. 'Hmm, seven of them, all heavily armed. One is holding what appears to be… uh oh.'
He grabs Videl and the officer's that were hiding behind the car and runs away with them. Seconds later a rocket hits the police car and explodes.
Gohan sets them down a short distance away.
"You might want to consider finding better cover," he suggests.
"Thanks Saiyaman," one of the officer's says, "but we still can't get close to them."
"You leave that up to me," Gohan says, then blurs with his speed. He appears inside of the store in front of the crook with the rocket launcher. He tears the weapon from the crooks grip and throws it out the window.
"Freeze buddy," one of the other crooks says, aiming his assault rifle at Gohan, "I don't know how you got in here, but you certainly aren't getting out."
Gohan turns to face the crook. He vanishes, only to reappear directly in front of the crook. He twists the barrel of the gun, making it useless.
"How the?" the crook barely gets those words out before Gohan knocks him unconscious with a punch to the face.
The other crooks immediately open fire on Gohan. He turns and grabs all of the bullets out of the air. When they finish firing on him, he is unharmed.
Smirking at their astonished looks, Gohan opens his right hand and dumps the bullets he had just caught onto the ground.
"There's no way!" one of the crooks says before running out of the store and into Videl's fist.
"Freeze!" Videl shouts at the crooks, "that means you too Saiyaman."
"What is it with you?" Gohan demands, "can't you give me a break?"
"Now missy, that was a big mistake," one of the crooks says, leveling his gun with Videl.
"No!" Gohan yells, sending a small ki blast into the gun, melting the barrel with its heat.
"How in the world?" Videl gasps. But Gohan is already moving fast to disarm the other crooks and knocking them out. It only took enough time to blink twice. And Videl does just that after he has taken the crooks out.
"Well, I'll be seeing you miss Videl," Gohan says before flying off. He picks up speed so that Videl couldn't possibly follow him.
~Later at school, during lunch~
"He did what?" Erasa gasps. Videl was telling them what happened during the heist earlier.
"He sent some sort of ball of light at the gun and the gun melted," Videl repeats.
"It had to be some sort of trick," Sharpner snorts.
"I don't know," Videl says, "it looked pretty real and how else could he have melted the gun?"
"Maybe is was all a setup?" Erasa asks.
"I doubt it," Videl says, "why would Saiyaman go through all that trouble just to look good?"
"Maybe he wants to be popular like your dad," Sharpner says.
"If that's the case, then he should wait till the upcoming tournament and fight my dad there," Videl says.
"What tournament?" Gohan asks.
"The Tenkaichi Budoukai, the Supreme World Martial Arts Tournament," Videl responds, "there's another tournament in a few months. Dad and I have been training to compete."
"Maybe he doesn't know about the tournament," Gohan suggests, "I mean, I sure didn't know about it."
"Gohan, you are a nerd," Sharpner says, "nerds have no interest in physical sports like martial arts."
"Gohan's not a nerd, Sharpner," Erasa scolds.
"Sure he is," Sharpner protests, "look at him! I'll bet his mom dresses him."
"No, she just picks out my clothes because she claims I have no fashion sense," Gohan replies innocently, "and if I don't do what she says, I don't get dinner."
Erasa, Sharpner, and Videl all wince at that punishment. From the way they had seen Gohan eat, no dinner was about as bad as it could get for him.
"Hey Gohan," Pegaro says.
"Oh, hey Mr. Kawada," Gohan says.
"I told you Gohan, its Pegaro outside of the classroom," Pegaro says with a sigh.
"If my mom found out, I'd get no dinner for a week and I'd have to baby-sit Goten and Trunks for a month," Gohan replies.
Pegaro winces. "Okay, the no dinner for a week would be bad enough for you. But having to baby-sit your little brother and his best friend after school for a month? That's inhuman!"
"Your telling me," Gohan grumbles, "I'd still trying to find my favorite picture of dad from the last time I had to baby-sit those two little heathens."
"Oh, come on Gohan, it can't be that bad," Erasa says gently.
"You haven't met his little brother or his little brother's best friend," Pegaro chides, "those two can be like a pair of monsters when left unsupervised for more than a few seconds."
"I normally just tie them up," Gohan says, "or if they wiggle out of the ropes, I tell them that I'll recommend to Trunks dad that they want some intense training with him for the next month or so."
"Gohan, they're just little kids!" Pegaro says, shocked, "Trunks' dad would nearly kill them in training. At least, that's the impression I got when I met him when I came over to your house for dinner last night."
"Oh, he would," Gohan says with a surprisingly devilish grin. The grin unnerves Sharpner, Erasa, and even Videl. This was a totally different side of Gohan that they were seeing!
"Then why would you suggest such a thing?" Pegaro demands.
"The threat is enough to keep even those two obedient for an entire night," Gohan replies.
Pegaro chuckles. "Let me guess: that wasn't you first threat to them, was it?"
"Nope," Gohan replies, "my first threat was no dinner for them."
"How in the world could that not work?" Pegaro asks, "those two each eat almost as much as you do and their not even half your age!"
"They know how to hunt for their own food," Gohan replies, "plus they have several stashes of dried food hidden all over. I sometimes raid them when I'm hungry and mom's off visiting a friend or grandpa."
"What, can't you cook?" Sharpner asks scornfully, "it seems you can do just about everything else that requires a lot of brainpower."
"I can't cook to save my life," Gohan replies with a wry grin, "literally."
"I can believe that," Pegaro says, "so Gohan, what were you talking about before I arrived?"
"We were talking about a heist a bunch of robbers tried earlier today," Erasa says, "Saiyaman showed up and melted one of the guns with a strange ball of light."
"I remember hearing about something like that from one of the previous Tenkaichi Budoukai's," Pegaro remarks, "if it is what I think it is, it is called a ki attack. The previous champion, Goku, was a master at such techniques."
"My dad said that he was a trickster and couldn't fight," Videl says. Gohan tenses.
"I wouldn't say that," Pegaro says, "after all, he was supposed to be taught by Master Roshi, the greatest martial arts master of all time."
"He couldn't beat Hecule," Sharpner says, "besides, if they were so tough, why didn't they appear at the last tournament?"
"Who knows?" Pegaro replies, "maybe they had a good reason. Say, how many of you recall when those aliens landed 10 years ago?"
"I remember it a bit," Videl says, "Earth's Special Forces, led by Captain Yajirobe, fought off a pair of aliens who were bent on destroying the world or something."
"Do you remember the names of those fighters?" Pegaro inquires.
"I remember a couple of them," Erasa says, "there was a guy named Tenshinhan, who was a previous winner of the Tenkaichi Budoukai, a guy named Yamcha who is a famous baseball player and a longtime competitor in the tournament like Tenshinhan. There was also supposed to be the young emperor Chiao Tzu. Then there was Krillin, a short bald man who had been competing since he was 13. There was also supposed to be a guy by the name of Goku."
"Probably the same guy who won the previous tournament," Pegaro says.
"Maybe," Erasa says, "there were a couple of others as I recall. One of them was supposed to be the Demon King Piccolo. The last person the camera's caught was a little boy."
"Wow Erasa, I never knew you had such a memory," Videl says, obviously impressed.
Erasa blushes. "What can I say? I like the news."
"There goes that ditzy blonde appearance," Pegaro chuckles, "I'm glad I didn't take for what you appeared to be."
"Thank you," Erasa giggles.
"So, whats this about another tournament?" Gohan asks.
"Well, there's another Supreme Martial Arts Tournament in a few months," Videl explains, "my dad and I are both competing in it. And since school is let out for the day of, the day before, and the day after the tournament I won't need a permission slip to skip school for those days."
"Think you'll win?" Pegaro asks.
"Me beat my dad?" Videl scoffs, "if anyone can beat him, its me. He told me himself."
"But do you think you'll win?" Pegaro asks again.
"Maybe," Videl says, "you never know what can happen in a martial arts tournament. I may be able to get my dad in a ring out if I'm lucky."
"Beating Hercule through a ring out is a cheap way to win," Sharpner says, "you wouldn't be able to beat him in a real fight."
'I wouldn't be too sure about that,' Gohan smirks to himself, 'Videl is stronger than her dad and he knows it. He probably lies even to himself about it, but deep down I'm sure he knows that she's stronger than him.'
"So, um, Pegaro, what made you decide to go into teaching?" Videl asks.
"Well, I never had much of an education myself," Pegaro says, "but after I met Gohan and saw how smart he was from all the studying his mom made him do, it made me want to better myself. It took me a while, but within a year after I met Gohan I was finishing up my education and learning how to be a teacher. This is my first teaching job."
"What other kinds of jobs have you done?" Erasa asks.
"Practically everything," Pegaro says, "from unloading trucks to driving them, to even carrying drugs for a drug cartel. Though once I found out what I was carrying I turned them all in to the police."
"Oh really?" Videl asks.
"Yeah," Pegaro says, "but I got lucky that they were just an amateur racket and not very professional. They all have life in prison with no chance for parole so I don't have to worry about any retribution unless one of them gets out."
"And even if they do get out, you have Videl here to help protect you," Sharpner says.
"I don't really need anyone's help protecting myself unless they have guns," Pegaro says.
"Yeah, Pegaro's tough," Gohan says, "he's always been tough. A guy to look up to in terms of strength."
"Yeah right," Shjarpner snorts, "he's probably as much a nerd as you are Gohan."
"Gohan's not a nerd!" Erasa asserts.
"Yeah Sharpner," Videl says, "he's a lot cooler than you are."
At hearing that, Gohan blushes slightly.
"Well, its almost time for the rest of the school day to continue," Pegaro says, "see you tomorrow."
Out in space, something approaches the Earth. At a glance, it appears like nothing is there. But if the observer drew closer, they would see themselves or the craft they were in reflected right back at them.
The ship is coated with a mirror-like substance to protect the people within it. Years ago their home planet was taken over by the diabolical Frieza and his henchmen. Now however, years after Frieza's death, they have come to a planet that they think might receive them. They are tired of running. A group of traveler's who were heading for the planet Namek had given them the coordinates for their home planet, but a slight miscalculation threw them over a decade off course. Nearly eleven years, in fact.
But now they had finally found a planet similar enough to theirs to inhabit. The only question was would they be accepted by the people already inhabiting the planet Earth.
Well, what do you think? Not as long as the previous chapter, but I just couldn't come up with anything. Still, I think I did fairly good. Please tell me what you think of this story in a review.