A week later, Gohan walks into the science classroom and sits down. Pegaro had yet to arrive.
He decides to ask Erasa where Pegaro was. "Hey guys, where's mister Kawada?"
"He's home sick today," Erasa replies, "we have a substitute teacher today."
Suddenly, a thin man with a mustache and a small blue afro walks into the room. He was carrying what appeared to be a whip in his right hand.
"Greetings class, I am your substitute teacher," the man says, "my name is Mr. Shuu. Now, I will not tolerate any horseplay or inattentiveness. I have permission from every school board on the planet to use my whip if I deem it necessary. Now, I will go through the roll to find out who is here and who is not."
Videl raises her hand.
"Um, yes, miss? What is it?"
"What happened to Mr. Kawada?"
"He caught the flu," Mr. Shuu replies, "now, I will go through the roll."
Slowly, Mr. Shuu goes through the roll, making mental notes of who sat where and who was absent.
"Satan, Videl,"
"Here."
His eyes widen at the next name.
"S- Son, Go- Gohan."
"Here, Mr. Shuu," Gohan replies, wondering what was up.
"You wouldn't happen to have had me for a tutor at one point, would you?" Mr. Shuu asks.
Gohan lets his thoughts drift back to when before his dad came back from space. He recalls a tutor who used a whip on him to try and make him obey.
"That was you," Gohan exclaims, "I thought you'd still be running after my mom threw you out my bedroom window."
Mr. Shuu tightens up. He hastily bows and begins to talk rapidly as he edges for the door. "I am terribly sorry but it appears that I cannot be your teacher today. Son Gohan will be your student teacher for today, because he was already ahead of all of you when I tutored him ten years ago. You will get some extra credit for this Gohan. Now, I must be going. Ta ta!"
With that, Mr. Shuu bolts out the classroom door screaming something about evil demon mothers and monster children.
Gohan sweatdrips at Mtr. Shuu's reaction. That had not gone well. Not well at all.
"Gohan," Videl asks, her voice dangerously low.
Gohan chuckles nervously. "Well, you see, years ago my mom decided that I wasn't working hard enough at my studies so she hired me a tutor. He worked me hard, using that whip just about all the time. But he was always polite whenever my mom was around. Finally, she was around at one point when he insulted my dad. My mom loves my dad as much as she loves life itself. That was Mr. Shuu's biggest mistake. He called dad a brainless oaf who left his children and cared nothing for his family. At that point I was ready to strangle him myself. Mom then calmly walked over to my bedroom window and opened it. Then she grabbed Mr. Shuu and threw him out the window. When he got back up, he yelled something about suing but then mom chased him off our property. We own quite a large amount of acreage and our house is in the middle of it. Mom chased him for more than four miles before she finally stopped. She let a wild boar do the rest, I think."
Videl and Erasa giggle at that while Sharpner laughs as well.
"Well, Gohan, are you gonna teach or just sit there all day?" Erasa asks.
"I guess I will," Gohan says with a sigh.
Gohan walks down in front of the class. "Okay guys, I'm gonna keep today's lesson as a simple recap of yesterday's lesson. If you work with me, it should only take half an hour at the least. An hour at the most. And I'll try to put everything in terms that everyone can understand."
The class seems to agree and they open their books to the previous lesson.
Later at lunch, Gohan, Erasa, Sharpner, and Videl all sit at their table, talking.
"So, Gohan, are there any other tutors that your mom terrorized?" Erasa asks.
"No, after Mr. Shuu she decided she'd just crack down harder on me herself," Gohan replies, "I almost preferred Mr. Shuu after that."
"He looked like he wasn't just afraid of the memory of your mom, but of you as well," Videl remarks.
"He was," Gohan replies with a small smirk, "he insulted dad before mom came into the room and I broke his whip in half. I walked towards him slowly with the intent of doing the same to him when mom came in."
"You were gonna attack your tutor?" Erasa says, aghast.
"Hey, he insulted my dad," Gohan replies indignantly, "I wouldn't care if you're Kami, if you insult my dad I'll make you wish you had never been born."
"You were close to your dad, weren't you?" Videl asks. The tone of her voice suggested that such a relationship was foreign to her.
"I would have died for him if I had to," Gohan replies.
"I wish I felt like that for my dad," Videl says wistfully.
"But you're dad's Hercule, the guy who defeated Cell and the World Champion of Martial Arts!" Erasa exclaims.
"And he's hardly paid any attention to me since he beat Cell," Videl replies dryly, "he let the fame completely go to his head. I can hardly stand him anymore."
"I'm sorry you feel that way," Gohan replies, "but since when has being the World Champion of Martial Arts been a multi-media spectacle?"
"You mean it didn't use to be?" Videl asks.
"Videl, before your dad won only hardcore martial arts fans attended the events and only truly serious martial artists competed," Erasa replies, "in fact, you could even say he's a buffoon compared to some of the previous contestants, not to mention the champions."
"Erasa, why are you so interested in the World Martial Arts Tournament?" Sharpner asks.
"Well, the announcer is a cousin of mine," Erasa replies, "he says I have the perfect personality to take his place when he retires after a couple more tournaments have taken place."
"That's interesting," Gohan says, "you're definitely the kind of girl who can go far in a business like that."
"You know, my cousin is always mourning the way things have turned out in the world of martial arts," Erasa says, "he keeps insisting that all of the contestants at the last tournament would've gotten the floors mopped with them against some of the competitors that he'd seen."
"Tell him that Son Goku's son agrees with him," Gohan says, "I may be able to talk Krillin or Yamcha into competing in the next tournament. Maybe Tien will compete."
"You know Krillin and Yamcha, the famous martial artists?" Erasa demands.
"Krillin trained under Master Roshi with my dad," Gohan replies, "they've been friends ever since, though Krillin has never been as strong as my dad and freely admits it. As for Yamcha, well, I've never found out how he came to know Yamcha, but they are great friends."
"Does he knows any other great martial artists?" Videl asks.
"Well, he was a good friend of Tenshinhan, the guy who beat him for the second tournament that he entered," Gohan replies, "and I'm named after his grandpa, who also studied under Master Roshi."
"Hey, I seem to recall an amazing martial artist named Gohan who lived several years ago," Videl says, "dad said that he would have been a great challenge for him if he was still alive and not so old."
"Dad said that his grandpa was one of the strongest martial artists that he had ever seen," Gohan chuckles, "he was one of the greatest martial artists to ever live."
"You're not only named after a great martial artist, but he's your great-grandfather?" Videl demands.
"I was named after him because after three hours of trying to come up with a name, I shut up from crying whenever the name 'Gohan' was mentioned," Gohan replies, "it was my grandpa who realized that while mom was yelling at dad for wanting to go fishing while I was lying there nameless."
"Your dad didn't actually do that, did he?" Erasa giggles.
"He did," Gohan sighs, "dad could be so dense at times. But he was a good man. There was absolutely no evil in his heart. The thought of deception was completely foreign to him. He spared a guy who had sworn to kill him just because he thought that he could change. He always tried to see the good in people."
"Sounds like a complete idiot," Sharpner says scornfully. Gohan's eyes flash dangerously.
"Sharpner, I'm gonna pretend that I didn't hear that," Gohan says, his voice dangerous and low.
"And if I said it again?" Sharpner demands.
"Then I'LL kick your butt," Videl says, "you should apologize to Gohan."
"It's alright Videl," Gohan says, standing up, "as long as he says nothing else like that ever again."
Gohan walks out of the lunchroom to head for the next class.
Later, after school, Gohan is walking home when Videl, Erasa, and Sharpner all rush by.
"Hey guys, whats up?" Gohan asks.
"An alien spaceship just landed in front of city hall," Videl replies, "the police want me to come and help control everything and take care of them in case their hostile."
"We're going because we want to see the aliens," Erasa says.
'What now?' Gohan groans mentally, 'guess I'd better go along in case something happens. I'm not sensing any powerful ki readings, so either these guys are fakes, know how to suppress their ki, or they just aren't that strong. If they're not strong and they have intents of invading, then they'll get a big surprise in the form of me.'
Gohan hurries after his three schoolmates to city hall.
Upon arriving at the city hall, Gohan spots an oddly familiar ship. The surface of it was mirror-like. It reflected things so perfectly that it would have made perfect camouflage out in space. The basic shape of the ship was like a hot air balloon.
A doorway opens close to the bottom of the ship and out comes several humanoid figures. In fact, they appeared to be human. And they were packing some serious firepower. They wore varied outfit, but their leader was what caught Gohan's attention. It was black, spiky, and very wavy. Beside him stood a man with long black hair and a scar on his left cheek. And they seemed very familiar to Gohan.
"People of Earth, we mean you no harm," the leader says. Gohan takes a quick mental check and notices that all of their guns were either holstered or in a position of 'truce'.
"We have come to your planet because our planet was conquered by an evil space tyrant. We learned about a year ago that this tyrant was killed and his empire shattered beyond repair, so we started looking for a new planet to call home. We chose this planet because it is very much like our own was. We cannot go to our own planet because the reason it was conquered was so that it could be sold to another race, and this other race is far too strong for us to defeat so we have chosen a new world."
"We met some people from this planet many years ago when they were traveling in space to help some friends," the man with the scar says, "but we lost the coordinates that they had given us and we had to backtrack their ship's path. This has taken us some time to do."
"And now you think you can just waltz in and take over?" Videl asks angrily.
"No, we come in peace," the alien leader says firmly, "we have no intention of hostility."
"Then why the weapons?" Videl snaps.
"We have been on edge way too long," the man with the scar says, "and we could not be sure that the Earthlings we met were a good representation of your race."
"I suggest you leave," Videl says, her eyes like ice, "we have enough problems on Earth without aliens ruining it. We've had nothing but bad run-ins with aliens for the last ten years."
"And yet you're still around," the man with the scar says mockingly.
"Why you!" Videl growls before crouching into a stance, ready to leap at the man with the scar. The guy with scar the scar reaches for his gun.
"Bund, don't!" the leader commands. At that moment, everything clicks in Gohan's mind. But he barely has time to react before Bund fires on Videl.
Without thinking, Gohan reaches out with his right hand and grabs the bullet before it would hit Videl. He glares at the leader of the aliens as they look at him in wonder. Videl was frozen in place in shock.
"You really should try and reign him in Zeshin," Gohan says with a smirk. He opens his hand and the bullet falls to the ground, still burning hot. "And I can't believe you lost the coordinates we gave you."
~~
For those of you who might be wondering, Mr. Shuu showed up during the first episode of the Trunks Saga. I doubt all of what I described here was accurate, but it all came down to the same end. Zeshin, Bund, and the alien craft are from the Namek Saga, when Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan were traveling to Namek to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to wish their friends back. And sorry for the cliffhanger, but it was the best way I could think of ending this chapter.
He decides to ask Erasa where Pegaro was. "Hey guys, where's mister Kawada?"
"He's home sick today," Erasa replies, "we have a substitute teacher today."
Suddenly, a thin man with a mustache and a small blue afro walks into the room. He was carrying what appeared to be a whip in his right hand.
"Greetings class, I am your substitute teacher," the man says, "my name is Mr. Shuu. Now, I will not tolerate any horseplay or inattentiveness. I have permission from every school board on the planet to use my whip if I deem it necessary. Now, I will go through the roll to find out who is here and who is not."
Videl raises her hand.
"Um, yes, miss? What is it?"
"What happened to Mr. Kawada?"
"He caught the flu," Mr. Shuu replies, "now, I will go through the roll."
Slowly, Mr. Shuu goes through the roll, making mental notes of who sat where and who was absent.
"Satan, Videl,"
"Here."
His eyes widen at the next name.
"S- Son, Go- Gohan."
"Here, Mr. Shuu," Gohan replies, wondering what was up.
"You wouldn't happen to have had me for a tutor at one point, would you?" Mr. Shuu asks.
Gohan lets his thoughts drift back to when before his dad came back from space. He recalls a tutor who used a whip on him to try and make him obey.
"That was you," Gohan exclaims, "I thought you'd still be running after my mom threw you out my bedroom window."
Mr. Shuu tightens up. He hastily bows and begins to talk rapidly as he edges for the door. "I am terribly sorry but it appears that I cannot be your teacher today. Son Gohan will be your student teacher for today, because he was already ahead of all of you when I tutored him ten years ago. You will get some extra credit for this Gohan. Now, I must be going. Ta ta!"
With that, Mr. Shuu bolts out the classroom door screaming something about evil demon mothers and monster children.
Gohan sweatdrips at Mtr. Shuu's reaction. That had not gone well. Not well at all.
"Gohan," Videl asks, her voice dangerously low.
Gohan chuckles nervously. "Well, you see, years ago my mom decided that I wasn't working hard enough at my studies so she hired me a tutor. He worked me hard, using that whip just about all the time. But he was always polite whenever my mom was around. Finally, she was around at one point when he insulted my dad. My mom loves my dad as much as she loves life itself. That was Mr. Shuu's biggest mistake. He called dad a brainless oaf who left his children and cared nothing for his family. At that point I was ready to strangle him myself. Mom then calmly walked over to my bedroom window and opened it. Then she grabbed Mr. Shuu and threw him out the window. When he got back up, he yelled something about suing but then mom chased him off our property. We own quite a large amount of acreage and our house is in the middle of it. Mom chased him for more than four miles before she finally stopped. She let a wild boar do the rest, I think."
Videl and Erasa giggle at that while Sharpner laughs as well.
"Well, Gohan, are you gonna teach or just sit there all day?" Erasa asks.
"I guess I will," Gohan says with a sigh.
Gohan walks down in front of the class. "Okay guys, I'm gonna keep today's lesson as a simple recap of yesterday's lesson. If you work with me, it should only take half an hour at the least. An hour at the most. And I'll try to put everything in terms that everyone can understand."
The class seems to agree and they open their books to the previous lesson.
Later at lunch, Gohan, Erasa, Sharpner, and Videl all sit at their table, talking.
"So, Gohan, are there any other tutors that your mom terrorized?" Erasa asks.
"No, after Mr. Shuu she decided she'd just crack down harder on me herself," Gohan replies, "I almost preferred Mr. Shuu after that."
"He looked like he wasn't just afraid of the memory of your mom, but of you as well," Videl remarks.
"He was," Gohan replies with a small smirk, "he insulted dad before mom came into the room and I broke his whip in half. I walked towards him slowly with the intent of doing the same to him when mom came in."
"You were gonna attack your tutor?" Erasa says, aghast.
"Hey, he insulted my dad," Gohan replies indignantly, "I wouldn't care if you're Kami, if you insult my dad I'll make you wish you had never been born."
"You were close to your dad, weren't you?" Videl asks. The tone of her voice suggested that such a relationship was foreign to her.
"I would have died for him if I had to," Gohan replies.
"I wish I felt like that for my dad," Videl says wistfully.
"But you're dad's Hercule, the guy who defeated Cell and the World Champion of Martial Arts!" Erasa exclaims.
"And he's hardly paid any attention to me since he beat Cell," Videl replies dryly, "he let the fame completely go to his head. I can hardly stand him anymore."
"I'm sorry you feel that way," Gohan replies, "but since when has being the World Champion of Martial Arts been a multi-media spectacle?"
"You mean it didn't use to be?" Videl asks.
"Videl, before your dad won only hardcore martial arts fans attended the events and only truly serious martial artists competed," Erasa replies, "in fact, you could even say he's a buffoon compared to some of the previous contestants, not to mention the champions."
"Erasa, why are you so interested in the World Martial Arts Tournament?" Sharpner asks.
"Well, the announcer is a cousin of mine," Erasa replies, "he says I have the perfect personality to take his place when he retires after a couple more tournaments have taken place."
"That's interesting," Gohan says, "you're definitely the kind of girl who can go far in a business like that."
"You know, my cousin is always mourning the way things have turned out in the world of martial arts," Erasa says, "he keeps insisting that all of the contestants at the last tournament would've gotten the floors mopped with them against some of the competitors that he'd seen."
"Tell him that Son Goku's son agrees with him," Gohan says, "I may be able to talk Krillin or Yamcha into competing in the next tournament. Maybe Tien will compete."
"You know Krillin and Yamcha, the famous martial artists?" Erasa demands.
"Krillin trained under Master Roshi with my dad," Gohan replies, "they've been friends ever since, though Krillin has never been as strong as my dad and freely admits it. As for Yamcha, well, I've never found out how he came to know Yamcha, but they are great friends."
"Does he knows any other great martial artists?" Videl asks.
"Well, he was a good friend of Tenshinhan, the guy who beat him for the second tournament that he entered," Gohan replies, "and I'm named after his grandpa, who also studied under Master Roshi."
"Hey, I seem to recall an amazing martial artist named Gohan who lived several years ago," Videl says, "dad said that he would have been a great challenge for him if he was still alive and not so old."
"Dad said that his grandpa was one of the strongest martial artists that he had ever seen," Gohan chuckles, "he was one of the greatest martial artists to ever live."
"You're not only named after a great martial artist, but he's your great-grandfather?" Videl demands.
"I was named after him because after three hours of trying to come up with a name, I shut up from crying whenever the name 'Gohan' was mentioned," Gohan replies, "it was my grandpa who realized that while mom was yelling at dad for wanting to go fishing while I was lying there nameless."
"Your dad didn't actually do that, did he?" Erasa giggles.
"He did," Gohan sighs, "dad could be so dense at times. But he was a good man. There was absolutely no evil in his heart. The thought of deception was completely foreign to him. He spared a guy who had sworn to kill him just because he thought that he could change. He always tried to see the good in people."
"Sounds like a complete idiot," Sharpner says scornfully. Gohan's eyes flash dangerously.
"Sharpner, I'm gonna pretend that I didn't hear that," Gohan says, his voice dangerous and low.
"And if I said it again?" Sharpner demands.
"Then I'LL kick your butt," Videl says, "you should apologize to Gohan."
"It's alright Videl," Gohan says, standing up, "as long as he says nothing else like that ever again."
Gohan walks out of the lunchroom to head for the next class.
Later, after school, Gohan is walking home when Videl, Erasa, and Sharpner all rush by.
"Hey guys, whats up?" Gohan asks.
"An alien spaceship just landed in front of city hall," Videl replies, "the police want me to come and help control everything and take care of them in case their hostile."
"We're going because we want to see the aliens," Erasa says.
'What now?' Gohan groans mentally, 'guess I'd better go along in case something happens. I'm not sensing any powerful ki readings, so either these guys are fakes, know how to suppress their ki, or they just aren't that strong. If they're not strong and they have intents of invading, then they'll get a big surprise in the form of me.'
Gohan hurries after his three schoolmates to city hall.
Upon arriving at the city hall, Gohan spots an oddly familiar ship. The surface of it was mirror-like. It reflected things so perfectly that it would have made perfect camouflage out in space. The basic shape of the ship was like a hot air balloon.
A doorway opens close to the bottom of the ship and out comes several humanoid figures. In fact, they appeared to be human. And they were packing some serious firepower. They wore varied outfit, but their leader was what caught Gohan's attention. It was black, spiky, and very wavy. Beside him stood a man with long black hair and a scar on his left cheek. And they seemed very familiar to Gohan.
"People of Earth, we mean you no harm," the leader says. Gohan takes a quick mental check and notices that all of their guns were either holstered or in a position of 'truce'.
"We have come to your planet because our planet was conquered by an evil space tyrant. We learned about a year ago that this tyrant was killed and his empire shattered beyond repair, so we started looking for a new planet to call home. We chose this planet because it is very much like our own was. We cannot go to our own planet because the reason it was conquered was so that it could be sold to another race, and this other race is far too strong for us to defeat so we have chosen a new world."
"We met some people from this planet many years ago when they were traveling in space to help some friends," the man with the scar says, "but we lost the coordinates that they had given us and we had to backtrack their ship's path. This has taken us some time to do."
"And now you think you can just waltz in and take over?" Videl asks angrily.
"No, we come in peace," the alien leader says firmly, "we have no intention of hostility."
"Then why the weapons?" Videl snaps.
"We have been on edge way too long," the man with the scar says, "and we could not be sure that the Earthlings we met were a good representation of your race."
"I suggest you leave," Videl says, her eyes like ice, "we have enough problems on Earth without aliens ruining it. We've had nothing but bad run-ins with aliens for the last ten years."
"And yet you're still around," the man with the scar says mockingly.
"Why you!" Videl growls before crouching into a stance, ready to leap at the man with the scar. The guy with scar the scar reaches for his gun.
"Bund, don't!" the leader commands. At that moment, everything clicks in Gohan's mind. But he barely has time to react before Bund fires on Videl.
Without thinking, Gohan reaches out with his right hand and grabs the bullet before it would hit Videl. He glares at the leader of the aliens as they look at him in wonder. Videl was frozen in place in shock.
"You really should try and reign him in Zeshin," Gohan says with a smirk. He opens his hand and the bullet falls to the ground, still burning hot. "And I can't believe you lost the coordinates we gave you."
~~
For those of you who might be wondering, Mr. Shuu showed up during the first episode of the Trunks Saga. I doubt all of what I described here was accurate, but it all came down to the same end. Zeshin, Bund, and the alien craft are from the Namek Saga, when Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan were traveling to Namek to use the Namekian Dragon Balls to wish their friends back. And sorry for the cliffhanger, but it was the best way I could think of ending this chapter.