Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z and I never will unless one of my relatives buys the ownership rights for me for my birthday, but I doubt that will happen.
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Chapter 2: The Beginning of The End of My Life
'NO!! NO!! NO!! NO!!' Gohan screamed in his head. He was in a desolate hallway and was slamming his head against his locker. There was a good-sized dent in it already and he was working for the dent size Videl had on her locker. The locker was the one getting hurt; due to the fact Gohan's forehead was as hard as cement.
After releasing his frustration on the locker, he decided now would be a good time to pack up, head home, and tell his mother that reporters would be coming to their house tomorrow, but she probably knew that already. He opened the now dented locker, grabbed his bag, algebra, science and history book, slammed the door closed and walked out of the hallway.
He stomped up the stairs leading to the roof, pushed the red button as hard as possible, transforming him into Saiyaman. He leapt of the roof so hard, it left a dent in the surface.
'This isn't fair!! I have to act normal for five days a week, but NOW I have to act normal during the weekend!' he thought, traveling at the speed of light. 'Keeping Goten from blurting anything out about the Cell Games is gonna be hard enough!! Thank Dende Trunks isn't spending the night tonight. I don't think I could put up with the 'Super Smash Bros' marathon again. Now I know what Vegeta has to go through every night…'
When The Great Saiyaman reached home, he found two demi Saiya-jins sparring in the yard. He silently reminded himself not to scream until he had ki blasted the damn game console to Hell and back.
"Heya, Gohan!!" Goten called, running up to his brother. "Guess what?!"
"What, Goten…?" Gohan asked through clenched teeth.
"Trunksisstayingoverallweekendandanewscrewiscomingtomorrowandmomsayswehavetoactnormalwhateverthatmeansand…"
"Baka!!" Trunks interrupted, smacking Goten over the head. "Speak slower. No one but me understands your dialogue!"
"All right…yeesh." The mini-Goku replied, glaring at Trunks. "I said that Trunks is staying over all weekend and a news crew is coming tomorrow and mom says we have to act normal, whatever that means and…then Trunks cut me off."
"Acting normal means no ki-blasting, no flying, no my-dad-could-beat-your-dad-any-day-time-or-place, no Super Saiya-jins, and defiantly no talking about how I beat Cell," Gohan explained, as the two followed him into the house.
"What?" Goten cried. "But that's no fun!"
"Yeah! I came all the way over here to be BORED to death?" Trunks asked, horrified. "Ookay…We can safely say that our Ki Ball tournament is canceled then?"
"'Fraid so, squirts."
"Then we can finish our Super Smash Bros tournament instead! Right, Trunks?" Goten asked.
"Just make sure you don't finish it at night," Chi-chi exclaimed, walking in on the three demi Saiya-jins. "I want you all bright and ready for tomorrow. ZTV said that we have to act like they're not even there, but I want you three to act like normal children. You can go outside and have a ki-less spar of course, but if I see one ki blast, you'll get the frying pan."
There was a mumbled reply of "Yes, Ma'am,"
"Hey, Mom?" Gohan asked. "We can throw ki beams and fly IF we're miles away from the house, right?"
'Once again, Gohan proves that at least one member of the Son family has brains,' Trunks thought, glaring at Goten.
"Did ya hear that Trunks?" Goten cried, jumping up and down. "We can spar normally if we go ten miles away, where someone can't see us, and if we don't start any earthquakes!!"
"Hmm…The earthquake one's gonna be hard…" Trunks muttered. "We start a 2.5-magnitude whenever we power up."
"What's a magentdude?" Goten asked.
"It's magnitude, Goten." Gohan corrected, as he stomped up the stairs. "It's the measure of the earthquake epicenter."
"Oh…" the demi saiya-jin replied, working his way to the kitchen. Gohan waited on the stairs and a minute later, Goten came back in the doorway and asked, "What's an epicenter?"
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Dinner was quiet for the Sons and the Briefs' family representative-as quiet as it gets when you have three demi saiya-jins chowing down on ramen noodles faster than the speed of light. Chi-Chi quietly ate her food, acting as though the piles of dishes growing around her were normal, which it was.
"So, Mom?" Gohan asked, putting down his bowl for a second. "We can eat like normal right? You're not going to make us eat human-sized proportions, are you?"
"Of course not, Gohan!" Chi-Chi sighed. "I'd never starve my boys!"
"Good. I was getting worried that I would only be fed not even half my breakfast amount for the whole day." Gohan replied.
"Soth Iw helar twhat youwr skchool isth celebratwing Mrth. Shatan Dawy nexth weez.(Translation: So, I hear that you school is celebrating Mr. Satan Day next week.)" Trunks muttered, spitting food out on the table. He swallowed when Chi-Chi gave him the I'll-use-my-frying-pan-next-time-you-do-that' look. "What are you going to do? Is that moron gonna give a big speech?"
"Yes," Gohan groaned. "And besides that damn documentary they're showing, guess what else they're gonna play at the Satan Horror Theater?"
"Lemme guess!" Goten pleaded. "I bet it's the actual Cell Games footage with research on the Z senshi that showed up on it!"
"Right Goten." Trunks exclaimed, darkly. "They ARE going to show that and guess what else they'll do? They'll wish Cell back from the dead and have Mr. Satan beat him up again!" (Please note the reference for future chapters.:)
"Really? That'd be so cool! But I thought Gohan was the one who defeated Cell-"
"Actually, Trunks, Goten was right. They are going to show the actual Cell Game footage." Gohan explained. "Videl told us at lunch. Maybe if you're good, I'll let you guys come along and you can watch exactly what happened."
"Hmph," Chi-Chi grunted. "I don't want to see that horrible day again. Seeing it seven years ago was bad enough. Although it replays in my mind every time I think of Cell or your father."
Trunks and Goten nodded furiously, even though they had no clue what Chi-Chi was talking about. Both simultaneously licked their bowls clean, dropped it on the table, and then raced up the stairs yelling, "The food was great!!"
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Son Gohan stared in horror at the alarm clock next to him. The red luminous numbers clearly read 1:30 AM. In the next room, he could hear the continuous beeping, whamming, powing, and clanging as Link and Yoshi battled it out for the 333rd time.
He cursed his heritage for having advanced hearing, before slamming his pillow back over his head.
'When I get up in the morning those two are so dead. I'll drag them ten miles away, beat them to a pulp, leave them there, and not come back from them until supper is over with.' Gohan thought darkly. The annoying voice of the computer announcer suddenly yelled, "Link! The Winner!!" 'But first I will rip that game console into pieces, rip those pieces into littler pieces, and then ki blast the whole thing to hell. Then, I will stomp 'Super Smash Bros' into the ground and ki blast that to hell with the game console.'
"Yoshi! The Winner!!" drifted into Gohan's room along with Trunks shout of, "What? You beat me? No way!"
"Way!" Goten added. "Now that makes to score…200 for you and 134 for me…So that means we have 666 more to go."
"Wow! You're not as dumb as you look Goten!"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Never mind…Let's just get back to playing. I wanna finish before five o'clock cause your Mom said the reporters are coming at seven…"
'WHAT? THAT MEANS I ONLY GET TWO HOURS OF SLEEP!!!' Gohan yelled mentally. 'Scratch the thought about leaving them in the middle nowhere…I'm going to blast them to Other World, wish them back, and then feed them to Toto and his wife...'
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"GGGGGGGOOOOOOOHHHHHHHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!" two annoyingly sweet demi saiya-jin's voices called.
Gohan groaned and looked at the alarm clock. It was seven thirty.
'Think of the bright side, Gohan…The little monsters let you sleep in a whole half an hour longer…' he thought, as the bedroom door burst open and Trunks and Goten bounded in.
"C'mon big brother! Wakey-wakey!" Goten exclaimed, jumping on the bed.
"Big brother's TIRED, Goten." Gohan groaned, ignoring the two boys jumping on his stomach. "Let me sleep a little bit longer…"
"Why are you tired for? We're the ones that played video games all night long." Trunks replied. "We're you playing video games too?"
"No!" the demi saiya-jin moaned. "I was up all night because of your 1000 games of Super Smash Bros!"
"But we went to bed at five and we're full of energy…How come you're not?" Goten asked, cocking his head in confusion.
"Because I'm not on a sugar high 24/7!"
"He's lazy, Goten. Dad said that Saiya-jins only need about five hours of sleep at the most." Trunks explained. "And he said since Gohan hasn't been training like a normal saiya-jin should, this causes his human genes to take over his every day schedule."
"Oh…" Goten replied. "C'mon! Get up Gohan! Let's go outside and play!"
"I've had it!" Gohan yelled suddenly. He ripped the covers off his bed-knocking the two boys to the floor-and sat up.. He put his hands near his forehead and began to chant, "MA…"
"Gohan? You're not s-serious are you…?" Trunks cried, scrambling to his feet.
"…SEN…"
"You know the rules Gohan! No ki blasts in the house!" Goten added, looking very frightened.
"…KO…"
"MMMMMOOOOOOOOMMMMM!" Goten yelled, running out of the room, Trunks following closely behind. "GOHAN'S GONNA FIRE A MASENKO IN THE HOUSE!"
Gohan chuckled and smirked very Vegetaish, before snuggling safely back into his covers. Safe, for the moment, that is. The pounding on the stairs could only mean one thing.
Chi-Chi had the frying pan.
Gohan reappeared in the kitchen five minutes later. He had a large bump on his head and a Vegeta-like scowl on his face. He eyed the camera crew, while deciding the pros and cons of using the laser eye technique on the five or so cameras around him.
Pros-Privacy…Think of the privacy, there'll be no documentary, and I'll save my dignity.
Cons- The frying pan, the frying pan, the frying pan, the frying pan…
Gohan pulled out a chair, plopped down, and started chowing down. The younger half saiya-jins thought it best to keep their mouths shut, so as not to provoke Gohan any more. Pushing Gohan over the edge today would be suicide.
"So what are you boys going to do today?" Chi-Chi asked, sitting down across from Gohan.
"Train," Came the reply.
"Did you finish your homework, Gohan?"
"Yes, Mom." Gohan replied, reaching for his tenth proportion. "I got it done last night before I went to sleep or tried to sleep anyways…"
Goten and Trunks looked at each other uneasily before going back to inhaling pancakes.
"You two stayed up and played video games again? How many times do I have to tell you that playing 1000 games of Smash Brothers in the dark will fry your brain and give you poor eyesight?" Chi-Chi questioned.
"Too many times if you ask me…" Trunks muttered, rolling his eyes.
"What was that Trunks Briefs?"
"Um…I said that you haven't told us enough times if you ask me…" Trunks replied, sweatdropping.
About two hundred pancakes and a half an hour and later, the three saiya-jins let out a large belch, and walked out the door yelling, "Great breakfast, Mom!!"
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The rest of the day went very uneventful, unless you count the small earthquake at one o'clock, but all three boys denied that they had anything to do with it.
It was nearing five o'clock, when the phone rang and Goten was the first to answer it. He eyed the cameras that followed him strangely, before asking, "This is the Son residence. How may I help you?"
"Does a Son Gohan live here?" a female voice demanded from the other line.
"Yeah…"
"Is he available?"
"Do you mean 'available' as to talk to or as to 'available' to date 'cause my Mom says Gohan's always available to date a girl if they called and since you called and you're a girl-"
"NO! I just want to talk to him!" the girl's voice yelled.
"Geez, you don't have to be so mean about it." Goten pouted. "Did anyone ever tell you you're really cranky?"
"JUST PUT GOHAN ON THE PHONE!"
"Gohan! There's a girl on the phone for you!!" Goten yelled, placing the receiver on the table.
"You don't have to YELL Goten!! I have ears!!" Gohan replied, as his brother skipped out of the room. He picked up the phone and asked grumpily, "Hello, this is Gohan. Please state what you want so I can get back to torturing my sibling."
"My…aren't we Mr. Sunshine and Daisies today?" The female voice mocked.
"Videl?" Gohan asked, mentally smacking himself. "Oh geez, I'm sorry for sounding rude. It's been like this all day."
"Did you only get two hours of sleep or something?"
"Two and a half hours to be exact. My little brother and his friend kept me up all night with video games."
"Ah…So how's the documentary going? The cameras getting to you yet?"
Gohan dearly wanted to say, 'Yes!! They're annoying the hell out of me! How can you put up with this every, SINGLE day of your life?' but instead his lips formed the words, "Not really…Excuse me once again if I sound rude, Videl, but why are you calling? Are they about the lessons?"
"Yes. I wanted to know if it's OK if I can come over tomorrow and start learning?" Videl asked. "I know this week's hard on you but I want to learn before it gets to close to the Tenkachi Budouki…"
"That's perfectly fine Videl. How about you come over to my house at..10 o'clock tomorrow? And you do know where I like, right?"
"Gotcha. 10 o'clock, 439 Mountain Area?" Videl replied. "Thanks a bunch Gohan! See you tomorrow!"
"Yeah…see ya…" Gohan ended, placing the phone gently back on the cradle.
"Oooh!! Gohan's got a girlfriend! Gohan's got a girlfriend! Gohan's got a girlfriend!" two demi saiya-jins chanted from the kitchen doorway.
"You have a girlfriend and didn't tell me?" Chi-Chi demanded instantly "Who is she? Is she rich? Am I expecting any grandchildren soon?"
"What? No, Mom! And she's not my girlfriend! She's just a friend that happens to be a girl who's coming over tomorrow so I can give her some lessons…"
"She's coming over tomorrow? Oh my!! I get to meet my future daughter-in-law tomorrow?" Chi-Chi continued, ignoring Gohan's comments. "Do you even know her last name?"
"MOM!" Gohan yelled, turning beet red. "Yes, I know her last name!! She's Satan Videl…Mr. Satan's daughter…"
"Y-Your…your serious…?" Chi-Chi asked, shocked, as she tried to imagine Mr. Satan's daughter and Trunks and Goten howled with laughter. "Well dear you certainly have an…interesting…taste in girlfriends…"
"She's not my girlfriend for the last time!" Gohan cried. "She's coming over for some lessons on how to control ki!"
"Yeah, sure Gohan." Trunks replied. "Are you sure it's just for that or are you guys going to have a make out session too?"
"TRUNKS!!"
Later that night-after a heated argument over what Gohan's real intentions of inviting Videl over were-the ZTV camera crew left the Son home, but not before handing Chi-Chi a check for 100,000 zeni. Needless to say, she was going to be quite happy for the next few days.
Up in Goten's room, the devilish duo were ready to begin another round of Super Smash Bros when Gohan walked in.
"Hey, Gohan!! You wanna play too?" Goten asked, not looking away from the TV.
"Nah. But I've got a math equation for you to solve."
Trunks paused the game and glared at Gohan. "Can you get any more boring?"
"Probably…But try and figure out the answer," Gohan grinned. "What do you get when you add one very, tired older brother and one, very annoying game console?"
"Uh…I dunno…" Goten replied.
"You get this." Gohan formed a ki blast and shot it at the game console, incinerating it in an instant. "Well, I'm off to bed…See you in the morning."
It took the boys to a bit to register what just happened in their brains but when they did…"GGGOOOHHHAAANNN!!!!!!!!!"
"THANKS A LOT!AND I ONLY BROUGHT ONE WITH ME TOO!" Trunks cried.
'Revenge is sweet…' Gohan thought, before drifting off into a much-needed sleep.
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NEXT CHAPTER: Gohan teaches Videl how to fly in the next chapter!! And what's this? Goten and Trunks have revenge up their sleeves!! Find out next time in, 'Flying 101'!!
