A/N: Hey thanks for all your reviews, very appreciated. This chapter's not very long,
but hey I got it up in less than a week, plus the next one will be longer. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I still don't own DBZ or Gohan.
Chapter 9: Explanations for Benny
Gohan pulled Benny down a deserted alleyway and lightly slapped him across the face to bring him back to reality.
"Huh?" Benny muttered, shaking his head.
"Benny, it's me. It's Gohan." Gohan said, in a soft, reassuring voice.
Benny rubbed his eyes and stared at Gohan. "Your not glowing anymore!" He said in utter confusion. "Why were you glowing?"
"It's…a long story." Gohan answered, and proceeded to tell him about Saiyans in the best way he could think of.
Several minutes later, Benny had finally gotten his head round the fact that Gohan was half alien, as he put it.
"So your dad's an alien and your mum's a human." Benny said, an enlightened expression filling his eyes.
"Yeah, I guess." Gohan agreed, rubbing the back of his head in Goku fashion.
"So why were you glowing?" Benny asked again.
"I'd lost my abilities. You know the flying and ki blasts I told you about. Well anyway, Emerald was restoring them for me." Gohan replied, simply, so that Benny understood him properly this time.
"So you can fly again. Will you show me?" Benny asked, his eyes wide in anticipation.
Gohan grinned, pleased that he could use his abilities again, and pleased that he could share them with a friend his own age, who wasn't a Z fighter. He focused his energy to his feet and pushed away from the ground, floating a few feet up from the floor. He was glad he wasn't rusty after all this time.
Benny gaped in amazement as Gohan's feet left the ground, and he hung, suspended in the air, as if he was sitting on an invisible box or something. How was it possible to fly? He thought in intrigue.
Gohan then proceeded to show off a bit and flew round Benny several times, before finally landing, as he felt slightly dizzy through lack of practice, recently. A broad grin covered his face. The excitement of having his abilities back making him forget about the danger he was in.
"That was so cool." Benny enthused, when he finally stopped doing his goldfish impression. "What else did you say you could do?"
"Fire ki blasts." Gohan replied, with a look that said duh! All over it.
Benny looked at him in confusion.
Gohan sighed. "Balls of light energy." He explained. "Watch."
Benny watched in awe as Gohan formed a mass of yellow light in his hand. He gasped in shock as Gohan threw the light at a rubbish bin, standing a few feet away, which immediately blew up, not a trace of it left.
"Woah!" Benny said, his eyes fixed to the spot where the bin had stood.
Gohan laughed at Benny's reaction before getting a serious look again.
"There's more to tell." He said, getting Benny's full attention again. "I'm not from this time. I was transported here from the future. From Japan."
Benny stared at Gohan, even more surprised.
"Seriously?" Benny asked, not completely convinced.
"Of course." Gohan replied. "I don't know how it happened, but one minute I was fishing with my dad, the next minute I'm tumbling through time and then land on the floor in London, in the past."
Benny looked as if the information was going to be too much for him, but he quickly regained his composure and said. "Is there anything else I should know?"
"Yeah!" Gohan replied. "Emerald told me that there's this guy who's after me. He's evil and very powerful, she said, and that I've gotta be careful when he comes."
"I'll help you." Benny offered, bravely.
Gohan smiled. "Thanks, Benny, but there's not a lot you can do."
Benny put on a hurt face, but then shook his head and smiled, before looking at the sun in horror.
"Gohan! The sun! It's passed lunchtime. We're gonna be in serious trouble." Benny cried, a scared look on his face.
Gohan smirked. "Don't worry, Benny. I got my abilities back now. Time to enact some revenge on a couple of people." Gohan said, laughing.
Benny grinned from ear to ear. "Oh yeah!"
They made their way back through London. Their spirits high as they planned what they were gonna do to Bob and Mr Pooley. The worry about the imminent danger wedged into the back of Gohan's mind.
Half an hour's walk later, Benny pushed open the iron workhouse gates, and they made their way down the long pathway to the 'inmates' entrance, and were greeted by Bob's sneering face.
"You two are in big trouble." Bob stated, nastily. "You've got to go to see Mr Broom right now."
Gohan and Benny put on fearful expressions as they followed Bob towards Mr Broom's study.
Bob knocked on the door, smirking evilly at the boys.
"Come in." Mr Broom said, impatiently.
Bob opened the door and pushed both boys in, before turning and leaving, still smirking.
Mr Broom eyed the two boys standing in front of his desk, with distaste.
"I thought I told you two to deliver the letter and come straight back. You've been gone over two hours! What have you been doing?" Mr Broom said, his voice raised dangerously.
Benny looked down at his feet not sure what to say.
Gohan, on the other hand, looked at Mr Broom, putting on his most innocent face.
"The old lady there offered us a drink. We couldn't possibly turn it down in fear of hurting her feelings." Gohan explained, his confidence brimming over because of his restored abilities.
Mr Broom stared at Gohan, speechless. Not believing that a nine-year-old orphan could come up with something so smart and with such confidence as well.
Quickly regaining his dignity, Mr Broom replied to Gohan's comment, in a stern voice. "You were under strict orders to return straight away, no matter what the circumstances. As a result you have both missed lunch. Which is a punishment in itself, but to add to that, you will both clean the entire dining room floor after your evening chores."
Benny gaped. "But, sir, we'll hardly get any sleep!" He exclaimed in dismay.
"You should have thought of that before." Mr Broom snapped, satisfied with the punishment.
Gohan just stood there, smirking, knowing he could clean the floor in no time at with his super speed now restored.
Mr Broom ignored Gohan's smirk, bored of dealing with the two boys, and told them to go to their afternoon lessons with Mr Pooley.
Gohan and Benny left Mr Broom's study, grinning at each other, remembering what they had in store for Mr Pooley to avenge him for the bad treatment he'd dealt out to them.
End chapter.
So what did ya think? I know it was shorter than most of my other chapters, but like I said before, chapter 10 will be longer. So r&r and I'll put up the next chapter soon. Oh yeah, and if anyone has any special requests for types of revenge on Mr Pooley or Bob let me know.
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