Hey everybody! Sorry for the wait. The first week was just laziness, but the second week I was away. So lets take a moment to get up to date
Hercule has just showed up and has dared to touch Gohan's mate. It was made very apparent from your reviews that you all hate Hercule and would love to see him get the slow and painful death that he deserves. Doing this might take a lot of the humor out of the fic as there would no longer be any Videl around to tease Gohan or anything. I really wasn't expecting that many people to answer Hercule. I'd like to thank everybody that emailed and told me to get off my ass and update, but unfortunately my ass was stuck on a plane for 3 hours.
Someone said that I should up the rating because I said fuck. Actually it was just f*ck, but I still get the point. I would like to know if I should up the rating to R or just put a warning in the summary. I'll ask again at the end of the chapter and I'll try to make this one a bit longer than my norm. Enjoy.
What if...
Trunks had finally managed to drag himself out of the hole that his body had created in the wall. His entire body ached. He had dropped out of his SS2 form the moment that Gohan's wave of energy had hit him, the same energy that had put him clean through the wall. Since he had dropped into his weaker form before the he passed trough the wall, it had hurt quite a bit. But at the moment, he wasn't really noticing it. His eye's were glued to the scene before him.
Hercule, the worlds false savior, was standing in front of the worlds true savior, Gohan, who was looking quite pissed. Gohan had his arm protectively around Videl, Hercule's daughter. Trunks immediately saw what had happened. Hercule must have touched Videl in a way that Gohan considered harmful. Saiyans were known for being incredibly protective about their mates. And while Gohan was only a half saiyan and he had not yet actually mated with Videl, the trip to Capsule Corps. had somehow kicked Gohan's saiyan side into life. And even the harm to a potential mate was enough to infuriate Gohan's mating instincts. And all of the Z warriors knew to always steer clear of an angry Gohan. Hercule was standing dangerously close to the still SS3 Gohan. If Gohan even let his aura return then it would probably blow the man through the wall just as Trunks was. Trunks was a very strong individual and it still felt like he'd gone a couple of rounds with his father in his GR. Hercule would most likely get every bone in his body broken.
By now Gohan was thoroughly fed up with the afroed liar before him and since he really couldn't kill him, at leat not in front of all these people, he had to settle for the next best thing. Reaching out, he grabbed the front of Hercule's hideous brown gi, and effortlessly tossed him into the ring. He suddenly appeared in front of the shaking man. Turning his glare onto the bell operator, Gohan said in a quiet voice," Hit the bell." The bell operator, who had been as stunned as everyone else, snapped out of it and began to fumble for his hammer to hit the bell with, but he kept dropping it. Gohan gave an impatient sigh and tossed a small ki blast into the bell. The bell exploded but it still gave the desired ring. Gohan slowly turned to look at Hercule and said in the same quiet whisper that somehow reached every bodies ears," How does it feel Hercule? How does it feel to face the being that achieved what you could not, who delivered when you could not, who fought when you could not?" Hercule's slow mind began to come to the realization of just who he was facing," How does it feel to meet the child who beat who you could not? Do you know who I am yet, Hercule." Hercule had begun to back slowly away from Gohan, his eye's wide with horror. Gohan went on without waiting for an answer and his voice began to gain in volume," I am Son Gohan, son of the legendary Son Goku (I usually think that Gohan should be pissed at Goku for deserting his family, but...). I am this planet's true protector! I AM THE TRUE CHAMPION OF THE CELL GAMES!" And he let loose. As Trunks predicted, Hercule was blown back towards the wall from the power. But instead of letting Hercule hit the wall, and certainly die, Gohan caught the man before he hit and used his foot to swing him back out over the ring. Appearing just above Hercule, Gohan sent his elbow into his back, sending him straight into the ring and creating a nice imprint of his body into it.
Videl watched it all with a sense of detachment. For some reason, she didn't care if Gohan beat the shit out of her father. Maybe it was Gohan's last statement that had done it. ' I am the true champion of the Cell Games', yes that was what he had said. That can't really be true can it. He would only be a little boy. But there was a little boy fighting. What if Gohan was that little boy. What if... Videl's train of thought was cut off as Gohan began to speak again.
" You go around lying to the world that you were the one that had beat Cell. You denied the true martial artists the respect that their sacrifice's deserve. One man was sacrificed his life for you. For this planet. But know one will ever know or care. Another man was killed. Did he get any mourning? Of course not. No one would ever know or care." Gohan obviously left out that Trunks was alive now and watching the whole exchange," And a young boy died. Any shred of childhood he had left was ripped to pieces and flung into the wind. The man who had sacrificed his life to try and stop Cell had a chance to come back, but he didn't. He stayed dead. Do you know why Hercule?" Gohan asked. Hercule had been trying to slide as far away from Gohan as possible." He stayed dead because he cared more about protecting the people of this planet than he did for his own family. So he stayed dead. AND FOR WHAT!!!! FOR A PLANET THAT DOESN'T EVEN GIVE A DAMN! HE LEFT MY MOTHER WITHOUT A WIFE! HE LEFT ME WITHOUT A FATHER!" Gohan's aura kept expanding. In his anger his power kept rising. Bolts of lightning kept shooting out from him and into the crowd. Many people had to jump aside as the bolts shot out. Any that missed shot into the wall or floor, leaving smoking holes. Only Videl was completely safe from them. Any that came toward her would suddenly bend away. One bolt that curved away from her went toward this nerdy kid that was sitting on a bench at the wall with a forgotten laptop in his lap. The bolt went straight through the laptop unabated and burnt a hole in the wall right next to the nerds head.
Back in the ring Gohan made an attempt to protect the crowd and put a shield around himself to keep the lightning in with him. His rage, however, went unchecked and more lightning began to issue from him. Soon there was so much lightning bouncing around the inside of the shield that there was only the occasional glimpse of the SS3. Suddenly Gohan's voice issued from the bubble of lightning," His sacrifice will never be remembered. But what do you care. You got money, fame, glory. At other people's expense. I would have been fine with it. But you know what tested my restraint. It was you, getting up in front of a world full of people and telling them all that the people that had done the fighting, that had sacrificed there time and bodies, pushing themselves to their breaking point, were just losers. A couple of nobodies that were out for money. You lied to a planet. You lied to your daughter." Then Gohan let the shield go and all the pent up lightning shot at Hercule.
Hercule closed his eyes and waited to die. He waited for a couple moments. When he felt nothing he peeked up at the long haired boy in front of him. He was looking at him through a curtain of smoke. He looked at the ground around him and saw that there were holes outlining his body perfectly. He looked up just in time to see a leg swing out of no where and hit him in the face. He flew with the speed of a bullet toward the wall. But apparently this boy was much faster than a bullet as he was waiting behind him. He was hit again, and sent flying back across the ring. This was repeated several times until Hercule was just clinging to consciousness. He felt himself tossed roughly out of the ring.
Gohan walked over to the edge and hopped out. He powered back down to normal and nodded at Videl and turned to leave when he heard Hercule speak in a gasping voice," But...they...were...all...tricks." Gohan whipped around snarling and his eyes flickering from a dark hate filled black to a dangerous turquoise. He slowly raised his hand and pointed it at Hercule. A ball of energy, to bright to look at, slowly began to form. Gohan was about to release it when (sorry guys) he felt a small hand on his arm. Gohan looked over, and saw that Videl had layed a comforting hand on him and she had a soft look in her eyes. Gohan's own gaze immediately softened and without looking at Hercule, let the ball of energy fade and his arm dropped to his side. Videl took Gohan's hand and raised it to her cheek, then she slowly lowered it and squeezed it gently. With a nod from Gohan they walked toward the door. Gohan sensed that Hercule was about to speak, probably about how he let Gohan win, and so he turned around fatser than the human eye could see and fired a ki blast at him. It flew right past his head, taking a portion of his afro with it.
Videl looked at her father in amusment. It was quite humorous to see him with part of his afro missing. She turned back to the door and tugged Gohan out into the hall. Wordlessly, they began to just walk.
After leaving a beaten and bruised Hercule behind, Videl and Gohan began to aimlessly wonder the halls of CC, hand-in-hand. After turning a corner they saw someone walking in the opposite direction, reading some papers in her hand, and not really concentating on where she was going. Gohan paid no attention to her, but Videl suddenly froze. Feeling someone watching her the young woman looked up and, after a moment, her face split into a huge grin. Videl suddenly yelled," Andrea what are you doing here!"
"Well hello to you too, Videl. And I work here, just like half the other people in this city."
Videl laughed. It had been a several years since she had seen Andrea. They had been close friends, despite the the fact that Videl was several years younger. A few years ago she had gone off to a colledge in another town.
They began to talk about all the things that had happened over the last couple years. Discussing all the changes in there lives.
Gohan waited patiantly for a while, growing ever more curious on who Videl's friend was. He waited a while before gently sqeezing her hand. Videl jumped slightly. She had forgotten Gohan was there. "Oh sorry Gohan. Andrea this is Gohan, Gohan this is Andrea."
Andrea turned toward Gohan and he held out his left hand, the other one was taken. Andrea unconsciosly glanced over at his right hand. Her face fell.
Suddenly Videl said in a triumphant voice," Yep, that's right. Pay up!"
Gohan looked confused. " Did I miss something." he said, as Andrea hand some money over to Videl looking forlorn.
Andrea looked at Gohan and said glumly," Before I left to go to another town I made a bet that she wouldn't have a boyfriend by the time she graduated. I lost." She suddenly cheered up a bit," And here I thought she would be stuck dating some preppy rich guy or some stuck up jock that her father pushed on her. Well at least ya picked a cute one Videl. I gotta get back to work, so I'll call you some time and we can have lunch." And she walked back down the hall, leaving the two smirking teenagers alone.
Sorry if there were a lot of misspelled words. I had to use WordPad and it doesn't have spell check. I finally got 20 thousand words. I'll try to update soon. But in the meantime, why don't you tell me whether I should up the rating or not. Sorry for the wait.
