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Hero? Doubt it
Chapter 4 – Revelations
Written By RJ
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Disclaimer: Can you guess what I'm gonna write here? Insert guess here
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A week passed and things were much the same, Gohan was still trying to stay invisible at school, although he had made rather good friends with Erasa, Videl and even Sharpner, who still often teased him about being a nerd nonetheless.
He was still given most girls undivided attention, which got on most teacher's nerves and he was even asked out quite a few times by girls whose names he didn't even know. It was quite freaky really. But like most things, you usually get used to it, and even though it was quite unnerving, Gohan got used to it eventually.
It had been a normal day at school, boring lessons, boring teachers, boring lunchtime, apart from the food of course. Gohan's day had been one big bore. He sighed as he shut his locker. 'Will my life ever get interesting again?' he thought but then quickly retracted that thought when he remembered that almost every time he'd thought that, they'd somehow ended up fighting an evil monster wanting to take over the world.
He was almost out the exit when he heard Videl calling him. After a few days of trying to figure out his secrets, she'd basically given up, although she still subconsciously sneakily slipped a question in here and there. Ever since she'd stopped, they'd become quite good friends, and Gohan had told her a little bit about his life. So she knew stuff like that he did martial arts and he had a little brother and a mother, she knew that he wasn't really that dedicated to his studies, and it was his mother who made him travel all this way to school, and she knew that his mother had made him study heaps and heaps when he was younger, which was why he was so smart now. Maybe sharing a little about himself had helped their friendship to grow, but whatever it was, she had become his closest friend and they felt quite at ease with each other now.
"Yeah, Videl?" Gohan asked as the girl ran to catch up with him
"Do you wanna come hang out for a while after school?" she asked
"Oh, I dunno, my mom wants me home straight after school" Gohan said
"Come on, spoilsport, it's a Friday and I'm sure you won't be that late home" Videl said, conveniently forgetting that he lived around 500 miles away, as she tugged on his arm, trying to pull him in the direction of the park where they usually hung out.
"Oh, alright then" Gohan said, following Videl towards the park "But I can't stay for too long"
Videl smiled at him and they continued to the park.
When they got to the park, they went and sat down on one of the benches, facing each other.
"Hey, are you going to enter the World Tournament?" Videl asked after a moment of silence
"What? Oh, I never really thought about it" Gohan said
"You should, if you've been doing martial arts for most of your life then you should be a really good fighter," Videl said "And I want all the best fighters in the competition, so there'll actually be some competition"
"I dunno, I'll have to see what my mom says, but I don't see why not, because both her and my dad fought in the 21st Tournament" Gohan said, but mostly he was thinking out loud.
"What? Your parents fought—" Videl was cut off by her watch beeping, she looked at it like she could kill it, then pressed the button on it so she could talk with the captain of the police force "Yes, Captain, go ahead" she said
~Videl, there's a major problem here, the mayor's been kidnapped and they're demanding a million dollars ransom~ Videl's eyes widened in shock ~One problem though, we don't know for sure where he's being held and we also think the Red Shark Gang's behind this, so be extra careful~
"Okay, Captain, I'm right on it" Videl said as she got up from her seat "I'm really sorry, Gohan, maybe we can talk another time" then she ran off down the street towards the police station.
Gohan sat on the bench wondering if Videl could handle this on her own, or whether she'd need his help, as Gold-fighter of course.
After pondering it for a few seconds, he decided that he'd help her, so quickly, he ran down the street looking for a suitable alleyway, when he found one, he transformed into Super-Saiyan and then took off into the air, looking out for Videl.
'I have to be careful around her, she'll notice that I've got the same clothes on, so I have to stay away from her if possible' Gohan thought
Suddenly, he spotted Videl's yellow jet copter flying to the right of him, and by the way she was slowly coming closer to him, he knew that she'd spotted him too.
'Dammit' Gohan thought as he suddenly changed his flying to a strange, erratic pattern, trying to lose her.
Videl gave up without much of a fight, probably cause she had another mission to complete. She sped up and flew towards the outskirts of the city.
Gohan flew close behind her, under her jet copter, because she obviously knew where she was going, and he had no idea, so it was better to follow her, and she couldn't see him behind her.
Videl flew towards a large abandoned warehouse and landed in the carpark next to it. Gohan broke away from the jet copter before she landed and, sneaking around the piles of rubbish in the car park, he followed Videl, who was making her way cautiously to the building. Ducking behind the last rubbish pile, Gohan watched as she kicked open the side door and cautiously made her way in.
Once she'd gone in, he waited a second before following her. For all he knew, it could be a trap, but he didn't want anything happening to her.
Gohan tiptoed quickly to the door and peered into the dark interior. It was probably purposely dark, so Videl wouldn't be able to see. But Gohan could see perfectly. They obviously didn't count on a Saiyan coming into the building.
Smirking inwardly, Gohan followed Videl down the hallway at a distance, he knew where she was going because he could hear her soft footsteps echoing down the hallway.
Suddenly, he heard the soft, but unmistakeable click of a bullet being loaded into a gun.
Realisation dawned on him, they wanted to get Videl!
'No!' he screamed in his head 'Not like this!'
Gohan phased out and reappeared in front of Videl, who was obviously shocked that he was there, it's not like she heard him or anything.
In that split second, there was a loud gunshot and a bullet came firing out of nowhere. But Gohan, having Saiyan reflexes and super strength, caught the bullet like it was nothing at all.
He heard Videl's gasp of surprise behind him and she whispered, "How did you do that?"
They heard footsteps disappear deeper into the building from the guy who just failed to do away with one of the city's main crime fighters.
"There's no time to explain, you should go, I can take care of this from here" Gohan said, quickly putting on a deeper voice so she wouldn't recognise it.
"No!" she whisper-shouted firmly "This is my job, not yours, and I see all my jobs to the end!"
Weighing up the consequences in a split second, Gohan decided that it would be better for her to come "Oh, alright then" he said "But you'd better stick close to me"
The two crime fighters made their way quickly down the dark hallway. Well, Gohan was making his way quickly, Videl was holding on to the back of his shirt, trying not to fall over at the pace he was going in the darkness.
"How can you go so fast?" she whispered to him
"Well…uhhh…" Gohan tried to think of an explanation quickly "There's no time for an explanation" he said hurriedly and he slowed his pace slightly because they were getting to the end of the long hallway.
At the end of the hallway, there was a bulky metal door. Gohan put his ear up to the door to see if he could hear anyone on the other side.
"Stand back" he instructed Videl, who moved back away from the door.
Gohan punched the door and his arm went right through the door and he pulled it off its hinges.
As soon as the door had been discarded of, he saw the mayor sitting in a chair in the middle of the room, under a single dim light, like in a movie scene.
He heard Videl gasp from behind him, she tried to get past Gohan so she could get to the mayor.
Gohan put his arm out and wouldn't let her go any further. Videl soon quit struggling when she realised that she couldn't get past.
"It's a trap," he whispered really quietly.
At that, Gohan took a step into the room and instantly, bullets fired at him from all sides. He dodged them all easily and dealt with each of the armed offenders accordingly. Let's just say that they wouldn't be picking up a gun again anytime soon.
While the kidnappers were distracted by Gohan's bullet-catching-and-dodging antics, Videl snuck forward and untied the mayor, who was still semi-doped up on whatever the kidnappers had given him to put him to sleep.
Videl helped the drowsy mayor out of the room while Gohan tied up the kidnappers, ready for the police to pick up.
Videl took the mayor slowly back down the dark hallway. It was more difficult this time, without the Gold-fighter leading the way.
'Man, that guy must have some special senses or something, he always senses things before I do. He's like Superman or Spiderman or something' Videl thought 'And what's up with the catching bullets? Does he think he has something to prove or something—' her thoughts were interrupted by the man in question himself. He suddenly appeared behind her and asked, "Are you okay there?"
"Yes, I'm fine" Videl said, kind of annoyed that he'd even asked the question. She was the daughter of the strongest man in the world, for goodness sake!
They emerged out of the building after what seemed like an eternity and Videl stood outside, squinting her eyes, trying to get used to the glare of the sun.
Taking advantage of her temporary blindness, Gohan suddenly took off and flew quickly away so there wasn't a chance that he could get caught out.
Videl watched the small dot in the sky, which was the Gold-fighter, disappear into the distance.
'Dammit! He's too smart, why can't I ever see him? I want to know who he is!' Videl thought angrily, but quickly snapped back to attention when she heard police sirens coming down the road.
Shaking the still drowsy mayor awake from his not-so-glamorous position slumped against the side of a building, she walked over to the police cars entering the parking lot.
"The kidnappers are in the building in the room at the end of the hallway, they should be tied up, and the mayor was doped on something, but he should be okay soon" she said quickly to the Captain "If you don't mind, may I go now, I have some personal business to take care of"
"Yeah, sure, go ahead" the Captain said with a big smile on his face, "You've done more than enough work for today"
"Thanks Captain" Videl said, then released her jet copter and took to the skies, no doubt in search of the Gold-fighter.
Videl flew her jet copter over the city, scanning the skies for the Gold-fighter. She spotted him in the distance and a smirk formed on her face.
"I'm not letting you get away this time," she said as she gritted her teeth and pushed the jet copter to its limits, trying to catch up with the Gold-fighter.
"Come on! Can't this thing go any faster!?" she yelled to no one in particular, tightening her grip on the controls which were already pushed to the max.
"I'm gonna find out who you are Mr Gold-fighter" Videl said, but was interrupted by a loud beeping sound.
"What's wrong now?" she said as she looked down at the instrument panel and saw a flashing red light.
"Oops, that can't be good" she said when she saw that the label under the light said 'Low Fuel'.
"Dammit, now I gotta land somewhere" Videl said as she looked around for a suitable landing place. She spotted a deserted road and braced herself for a rough landing.
The jet copter touched down once, bounced and then finally came to a stop.
Videl jumped out of the copter and deciding that it was useless, she re-capsulated it.
She looked around, trying to find out where she was, and then blindly started walking down the street, hoping she was going in the right direction.
Gohan soon noticed the disappearance of the incessant buzzing noise and quickly turned around to see where Videl had gone.
He stopped and scanned the skies, but when he found nothing, Gohan decided to backtrack.
He flew back slowly from where he came, looking at the streets below, trying to find where Videl had gone.
'Why am I so intent on finding her and making sure she's okay?' Gohan wondered 'It's not like I like her or anything' (Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that, Gohan)
Suddenly he spotted her walking uncertainly down a street.
'Well, at least I found her' he thought as he flew past her to try and deliberately get her attention.
'There he is!' Videl thought as she saw the glowing form of none other than the Gold-fighter swoop past her.
'That's so cool, how I'd love to fly like that' Videl thought 'But how am I gonna learn if I don't find out who he is?'
That thought made her more determined to find out whom this mysterious Gold-fighter is and she ran down the street, following her flying quarry.
Gohan looked behind him to see Videl running down the street after him. He smirked inwardly, he knew she would never give up. Although he had no idea why he found that so funny.
'Maybe I should let her know who I am, it would get her off my back at least' Gohan thought
Deciding that it would probably be better if she knew, he made the quick decision to reveal his identity.
Seeing a suitable alleyway up ahead to his right, he quickly reached out with his ki to see if anyone was in there, finding no signs of life, except for a few rats and insects, he ducked into the alleyway and stood at the back and waited.
A few moments later, Videl burst into the alleyway, panting from her run. She stopped suddenly as if she was surprised to still see him there.
"Who are you?" she demanded
"Hold on and I'll show you" Gohan said "But you have to promise not to tell anybody, I only use this disguise to protect my family, they don't want any media attention, they just want to be like a normal family" his voice turned really sad when he mentioned his family, Videl started to worry that she'd dug a bit too deep.
"It's okay, if you really wanna stay a secret, I won't hassle you anymore" she said quickly
"No, I should tell you, you're kind of like my partner, so you should know my true identity"
At that, the Gold-fighter turned around to face Videl.
"………G-Go-han…?"
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Author's Notes: Hahaha, I made a cliffie!! How will Videl react to the fact that her superhero fighting partner is none other than her new best friend?? See in the next chappie of Hero? Doubt it!!