"Oh. . . . my head. . . my head. . . . my damned head." Piccolo groaned clutching her head with bloodied hands. "I'm gonna. . . . oh gawd." The namek puked. Piccolo looked at her own puke with disgust, "I can't believe I just did that . . . What the hell am I wearing?" She looked down at the black leather pants, black tight shirt, black leather boots, black leather jacket, and black fingerless gloves.

"Freeze beast!" A police officer was holding up an elephant shot gun. "Stay still or I'll shoot."

Piccolo raised an eyebrow then shrugged. "Whatever." She climbed to her feet and dusted off. "What now?"

"Um. . . .err. . . FREEZE! You have the right to remain silent!" The cop stuttered. Deputy sheriff Shay was obviously new on the job and had never encountered an alien, much less one that could talk. He was 5'11 and thin, not slender I mean thin as in paper, he had a messy mass of blonde hair on his head and green eyes.

"So you gonna take me in? Handcuff me?" Piccolo asked nonchalantly. "No? Fine I'll just leave." And with that said she flew off leaving a bewildered deputy stunned on the ground below.

Shay fell backwards and said in a tense voice, "Now what am I gonna tell the others?"

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"There! I did it! I . . .I de-love-potionized everyone! Now can we go help Piccolo?!" Gohan asked sulkily. I'm sure you know the reason why, so there.

Vegeta hmphed not taking his eyes off the page he was reading in a magazine, "No need. She's off the stuff now. Piccolo's back to normal and I do believe she's on her way here to kill you for dumping that stuff into her drink. Remember when you told her about dumping some stuff in her drink? She's pissed and is on her way to eat your bloody carcass." He turned the page. "Did you know that if you farted, non-stop, for 47 months and lit it up you'd get an explosion equal to that of the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima?"

"I'M ABOUT TO GET KILLED BY MY EX AND ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS FARTING?!?!?!?!?!?!" Gohan yelled in anger.

"Nah. I'm also thinking about the fact that I should be baby-sitting Trunks and Kakarrot brat 2, but they seem to be playing nicely in my dungeon."

"Dungeon?" The demi-saiyan said his eyes growing wide.

"Basement, five meters from the left of the door turn right to face the wall 6 bricks up 12 bricks from the left. Press the brick, an opening will appear go in get a torch and light it, close the opening by slapping the green brick, and slap HARD. Then go up the stairwell, despite the sounds you hear, go right then open the BLACK door. NOT the gold door. I can't stress that enough. Oh and do be careful, before you actually enter stick the torch in first or you'll die. You'll not only be safe there but you can watch over the two brats." Vegeta said nonchalantly.

Gohan walked down to the basement, "Why should I be surprised he has a dungeon?! After all he is a mage!"

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"And this is my favorite item! The Iron Maiden! Now the Iron Maiden was constructed in the Funfeckiger Castle Tower in Nuremberg, Germany in 1533. Despite early written reports of this torture device, there wasn't an actual example of it discovered until the 1890's. The device is shaped like a maiden and has doors which open. The inside of the doors contain sharp pointed devices which would penetrate the body laying in the chamber. As shown" Trunks said. The you boy opened one of the doors of the device and pointed out all the spikes that was stuck all over the inside of it. Goten 'oohed' and 'ahhed' while taking some snap shots. "The whole device sat over a trap door and flesh eating fishes would swim in water below the trap door. The Iron Maiden was principally used in Germany.

"The spikes on the inside of the doors had similar spikes, when the accused was inside the doors were closed slowly. The object of the device was not to use the Iron Maid to quickly kill someone but rather inflict anguishing pain and punishment. Then again there was a written reference to the Maiden used for execution in 1515. Although an accurate history of the Iron Maiden is not clear, there is evidence that is was used as early as August 14, 1515. On that day, a German who had forged coins was tortured with the device. As the doors were slowly shut, spikes penetrated the forger's body just enough to cause excruciating anguish but not enough to kill him. Crying in vain, the forger lived two days. Well that's the end of our tour."

Goten clapped, "Great tour! I really really liked The Guillotine better though. But the Iron Maiden is my second favorite."

The lavender haired boy grinned, "Cool, The Guillotine is my 3rd fav but my 2nd fav is The Electric Chair."

Goten walked over to The Electric Chair that sat high on a platform, "I wish this thing had some power. But you're dad probably thinks we'll kill ourselves on this thing. . . . . you're dad sure is cool."

Trunks walked over to his friend and beamed, "My dad is the coolest! How many other dads do you know have their very own secret dungeon AND a whole collection of torture devices AND know how the secrets of witchcraft AND is a prince! None I bet!"

Goten smiled, "You're right. Can we go to The Guillotine again? I wanna cut up a watermelon!"

Trunks sighed, "Again? You've done it at least a dozen times. . . . but I am getting pretty hungry again. Hey! We can go play with Harmonica after." Trunks dragged the son of Goku towards the watermelons.

"Harmonica?" The black haired demi-saiyan questioned. The two halflings each grabbed a watermelon and headed toward The Guillotine.

"Dad's pet. He named her Harmonica because he really likes it when people playing the harmonica. But despite the fact that he's all gutsy, and I mean gutsy literally, he's the nicest."

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"All right spill it Vegeta! Where is Gohan." Piccolo growled. She had landed in the Briefs' backyard. The namek had her old attire back on and was interrogating the prince on the whereabouts of the demi-saiyan she wished to destroy.

"Don't know and don't care." Vegeta snarled back.

"You do know!" Piccolo spat, "And in any case I know he's here somewhere, that little son of a - "

"Vegeta! Where's Trunks and Goten?" Bulma yelled out the question through an open window. She stuck her head out and waited for an answer.

"They're with Gooooooooooooozende. Yeah Gozende he's a brother of Dende's from Namek who came to visit the guardian and the brats wanted to go fishing with him. . . yeah. . . ." Vegeta glanced at Piccolo who's eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Oh that's nice." Bulma went back inside. She didn't even notice the nervous expression on the saiyan's face.

"Gozende, eh? Funny how I never saw him on the Lookout, or even sensed his ki before." The namekian warrior said menacingly.

"Well. . . uh. . . you see he doesn't actually live on the Lookout at the moment and uh. . . . he has a device on him that hides his . . . . . . . You aren't buying any of this crap are you?" The prince said dully.

"I wasn't born yesterday. Now tell me where he is! The sooner I rip out his heart and devour it that better!" She glowered.

"Basement, five meters from the left of the door turn right to face the wall 6 bricks up 12 bricks from the left. Press the brick, an opening will appear go in get a torch and light it, close the opening by slapping the green brick, and slap HARD. Then go up the stairwell, despite the sounds you hear, go right then open the BLACK door. NOT the gold door. Or else. But before you actually enter stick the torch in first or you'll die. And if you see my pet, Harmonica, do not, I repeat DO NOT attack it or scream just pat his head and ihe won't kill you."

"Whatever." Piccolo grunted. She walked down to the basement and sniffed, "He's been here." she growled.

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