Chapter 5: Awareness Grows
He slowly got out of his bed and changed even slower. When he finally got to the kitchen, there was some visitor waiting for him.
"Gohan! I'm glad you made it safely back home!" Mirai Trunks yelled.
"…Gohan… we need to talk," Piccolo said. Vegeta stood next to him, with his usual, annoyed look on.
"Ok," Gohan said with a nod.
"Not so fast mister!!" Chichi said, "you can go talk to your friends AFTER you finish studying today."
"But… but mom!! This is really important!!"
"LIKE STUDYING ISN'T?!?!"
Trunks, Piccolo, and Vegeta simply stared as Chichi shouted.
"Ok mom… I'll study first…" Gohan said, trying to hide his smile.
"Good!! And as for you three," Chichi turned to Trunks, Vegeta, and Piccolo, "Gohan will talk to you three later!"
Chichi stormed off and the four breathed a sigh of relief.
"I still don't know how you put up with her Gohan," Piccolo said.
"Haha. Ok, so I'll meet you outside my room ok?"
Half an hour later, Gohan sneaked out of his room, after making sure his mother was taking a nap. Sure enough, the others were there to greet him.
"Gohan, let's go," Trunks said. The four took off and landed at the Lookout. Mr. Popo and Dende greeted them.
"Gohan, a strange evil has arrived on Earth," Dende said, "Lately, in my visions, I have seen death and blood all over the Earth… it's terrible. I'm sure this is evil is the one causing these visions."
"What can we do?" Piccolo asked.
"Destroy it. It's the only hope this planet has!!"
"But… we don't know where it is!" Trunks said, "It could be on the other side of the planet by now! No one felt its energy again after Gohan left Capsule Corp."-
"Um… actually… I did…" Gohan said with a grim look, "As I was flying home, I felt its energy getting closer and closer. Soon, I felt its eyes… looking at me through a tree. Then, wind blew, I think I heard it chuckle, and the power vanished…"
O_O "Are you serious?" Trunks asked.
"Mm hm… and then… also last night… I had a dream. I was in this… weird place and this guy comes who looks exactly like me and says that he is me… he just sounded a little different. He told me that soon, I'll see my friends as enemies. He disappeared and then Cell came. He was trying to bring out my hidden power again. My power was unleashed… but…"
"But what Gohan?" Piccolo asked seriously.
"… It didn't seem like any Super Saiyan form I'd ever seen… I had golden spikes of hair… but my eyes, they remained black, and had extreme coldness in them. Cell seemed pleased with this transformation, and I did too, but in my mind, I didn't. I was so confused and wanted to get out of that body."
"And then?" Dende asked.
"And then I woke up…"
Everyone remained silent. No one said anything, they were all wondering about this evil and the strange dream Gohan had.
"But it was probably nothing… I was probably just thinking about this evil thing too much…" Gohan said, trying to convince himself that rather than his friends.
"Perhaps, but Cell does seem like a possible enemy. I mean, we didn't find him in my timeline," Trunks said thoughtfully.
"Yes, perhaps so, but how could he have gotten to this time?" Piccolo asked.
"How did he get to Trunks's timeline in the first place?" Gohan asked, "Cell died in our timeline… shouldn't he have returned in our timeline as well?"
"… true," Vegeta said, "Well, whatever it is, I don't want any of you getting in my way. I alone have the power to destroy this evil."
" -_-() Father… isn't that what you said during the preparation of the Cell Games…?"
"Argh… quiet boy!" Vegeta snapped back.
"The point is, Vegeta, not a single one of us alone can destroy this creature, not even Gohan," Piccolo said.
"So, what do we do?" Gohan asked.
"The only thing we can do… prepare for the worst…" Piccolo said.
Over the next few weeks, the four of them had seen of mysterious deaths around on the streets around Capsule Corp. Gohan had seen it on the news, and Piccolo had seen it during meditations.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Bulma screamed.
Trunks and Vegeta instantly ran to help. Bulma was at the front door, fidgeting with fear.
"TRUNKS!!! VEGETA!!! GET OVER HERE!!"
"Mother! What is it?!"
"THAT'S WHAT!!!!" Bulma shouted, pointing outside the door.
Both Trunks and Vegeta peered outside the door and found a dead body on their lawn. It was saturated with blood which seemed to come from his stomach. He was also bleeding around the neck, face, arms, legs, wrists, and ankles. The expression on his face was of utter surprise.
"W…..w….." He began to say.
"GAH!!! IT'S ALIVE STIL?!?!" Bulma shrieked.
"Sir!" Trunks ran to help the man out, but the man coughed out a lot of blood and continued to stutter, tears began to form in his eyes.
"We…… need….. Her….cule…"
"Hercule? Why?"
"H…..he's…. he's…. back….." The man continued. Suddenly the man let out his last breath, and died.
Trunks walked up to him and whispered, "Hercule… who's back?"
"Stand aside boy!!!" Vegeta shouted.
Trunks jumped aside as his father shot a chi wave and left the body disintegrated.
"Feh, well, that takes care of that," Vegeta said quietly.
"What do you mean it takes care of that?!!" Bulma shouted, "LOOK AT THE LAWN!!! IT'S COVERED IN ASHES BECAUSE YOU KEEP DESTROYING THOSE BODIES!!!!!"
"Alright fine then!!! Next time we get a dead body I'll leave it there to rot!!! How's that?!" Vegeta shouted. He went inside the house and Bulma followed.