AN: Come on people, I know it's the holidays and all but I WANT REVIEWS!!!
I only got like five last chapter, and one was from my brother! Anyways,
in this chapter they have to explain everything to Bulma and a not so
trusting Vegeta, as well as a surprise guest appearance from an old foe. of
sorts. Then hopefully I'll get to the explanation to Videl, which should
involve yelling and the past finally coming back to bite Gohan in the a$$
(hehe).
SO ON WITH THE STORY
Chapter 15 Explanations
Gohan landed on the front lawn of Capsule Corp and was immediately attacked by two very angry women. "GOHAN WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING STEALING THAT SHIP! YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN YOURSELF KILLED," Chichi yelled as she rushed up and hugged him, "at least you're back safe and sound. But if you ever go off like that again, and without telling me first, then you'll have hell to pay mister."
"Hn. ok mom. can you let go now?" Chichi let do of Gohan before noticing the others standing there snickering at him.
"Why are Goten and Trunks with you? And Lime why aren't you in school?"
"And for that matter," Bulma added coming to stand next to Chichi, "why is the other Trunks here?" Chichi looked over at him for the first time and gasped.
"Oh no don't tell me there is some new monster out there who my poor Gohan will have to fight!"
"Uh, mom. why don't we find Vegeta and I'll tell all three of you at once, ok?" Gohan asked. She nodded and the group went inside CC. They all went to the main living room and were shocked to find none other than Vegeta standing there waiting for them.
"What took you so long, you should have been back a while ago," he said staring at Gohan disapprovingly.
"There was some trouble in Satan City, the Red Ribbon Army took the King of the World hostage."
"THE RED RIBBON ARMY!!!" Chichi and Bulma screamed together.
After uncovering his ears Trunks told them what had transpired, "Yeah, me and Goten saw it on TV and since you and Piccolo were training and Gohan was in space and everyone else was at that tournament we decided to go and stop em. We took out the TV cameras and then Gohan and Future Me appeared and finished the job. so we all came back here to tell you."
"Oh," Bulma stated slightly suspicious of his explanation of events.
"That doesn't explain why you're here boy," Vegeta said glaring at Mirai.
"Uhh. well it's been seven years since I've seen any of you guys and with my world at peace I haven't had much to do. So I decided to see if there was anything to do in this timeline. I arrived in the hanger where Gohan was taking off so I jumped on board and helped him get Dende back," Trunks said remembering their agreed upon cover story, "We defeated the guy who kidnapped Dende, it was this little lizard named Bibidi. He was a wizard and controlled this nasty demon by the name of Debura. but between me and Gohan here we didn't have too much of a problem dealing with them." Mirai looked at everyone and smiled innocently. No one doubted Gohan and Trunk's story, except Vegeta of course.
After Chichi and Bulma finished questioning Mirai and Gohan about what had happened in space it was getting rather late. "Wow, look at the time," Bulma commented, "Why do you and the kids spend the night here Chichi, it's much too late to be heading back out the 439 area, especially with two hungry Saiyans and two teenagers who have to be refreshed for school tomorrow." Chichi nodded her head in agreement and Goten and Trunks started jumping up and down in joy. "Well then we should go and eat dinner now." Bulma had barely even finished the statement when Goten and Trunks were already out the door. The two older women shook their heads with amusement and, long with Lime, followed the boys to the dinning room. Gohan and Mirai stood up to follow when they were stopped by Vegeta.
"Why did you lie brat?" Vegeta was glaring at Gohan and Mirai, causing them both to gulp in fear.
"What makes you think we were lying Vegeta?"
"Because I felt the ki of the guy who kidnapped Dende when he stole the first space ship, it was not a dark wizard or a demon. It was not evil at all. and felt strangely like your ki, brat," he said as he focused his glare on Mirai.
Mirai looked to Gohan for suggestions but he just shrugged his shoulders, "Well father. I can't say here, there are people listening in on our conversation. I will tell you soon I'm sorry. please don't ask any more questions that I can't answer now." With that Mirai turned and walked out of he room, his head hung low in shame.
"We only lied out of necessity Vegeta. He only wants you to be proud of him though. Sometime soon he and I will have to go meet a contact, if you come with us we'll explain everything, just don't ask anymore questions until then." Vegeta continued to glare at Gohan for a moment then "humph" ed his agreement before stalking off to diner himself. *Now all I have to worry about is Videl. She probably will wonder where I was for the past two days, and then the next time I appear as the Great Saiyaman I'll have to explain what happened with Goten and Trunks.* Gohan moaned in anger and frustration before finally turning to go and eat with the others.
After a rather uneventful dinner Gohan, Chichi, Lime and Mirai were shown to their rooms, Goten of course was staying in his normal room, one that connected to Trunks' (AN: So they could devise their devious plots all night long, hehe!). The next morning Gohan and Lime headed off to school in their normal fashions, Lime on Nimbus and Gohan flying in his Saiyaman outfit. They arrived on the roof of the school with time to spare, an amazing feat for Gohan.
"GOHAN!!!" Screamed a small blonde as she jumped up to hug Gohan, "I've missed you SO much! Where have you been?" Gohan turned deep red as he attempted to pry Erasa off of him; Lime was too busy laughing at Gohan to be of any help to him in loosening her death grip.
"Umm. Erasa if you let go of me so I can breathe right again, I'll tell you." Erasa let go of her hold on his neck, but wrapped her arms around his to keep him from going anywhere without her. "I friend of mine, named Dende, got himself into some trouble, and I had to go bail him out."
"Is this Dende famous for something too?" They turned round to see Videl standing there. (AN: She sneaks up on them a lot doesn't she?)
"You'll just have to wait and find out now won't you?" Gohan said smiling at her. She glared at him once again and sat down in her seat. Lime, meanwhile, was laughing at Videl's gross understatement of fact. *Dende.. Famous.. I can't wait to see the look on her face when she finds out who he REALLY is.*
"Anyway, Lime, I was wondering how is it that you know the Great Saiyaman?" With that Lime stopped laughing. She tensed up and glanced over at Gohan, actions that didn't go unnoticed by Videl.
"Umm.." She looked nervously at Gohan again. "Well uhh.. you see he.. umm.. I really can't say.. I'm sorry."
"Right and why can't you say? At least can you tell me who those two boys were? They wore masks the whole time, and they owe me for covering for them." Videl was now glaring at Lime.
"I can't tell you that either but trust me when I say that Saiyaman and his friend are going to punish those two in their own way. It's a very interesting punishment actually." She began to laugh again, even under Videl's death glare.
"Fine, be that way. Gohan we have to work on the next part of our project tomorrow after school."
"Sure Videl, what is this part on by the way?" Gohan said smiling at Videl, trying to take her mind off of Lime's continuing laughter.
"We have to go to Ginger Town; that was the first place that Cell attacked outright."
"I remember hearing about that.. It's a suburb of West City right?" Videl nodded in response. "Hmm.. I have an idea." Gohan turned to Lime and grinned. "I think you and I should stay in West City until this part of the project is over. We can stay with Bulma at Capsule Corp." Lime looked at him oddly.
"Why should we do that Gohan? I mean, I really don't want to be in a house with Vegeta, even if the house is as big as CC is," Lime pouted, "You can if you want, but I don't have to do this project, in fact I'm not gonna be in school for much longer anyways.."
"What do you mean Lime? Where are you going," Gohan asked, curiously.
"I have other things that I have to do Gohan; I know that I don't belong here.." Everyone was staring at Lime, trying to figure out what she meant. Lime was oblivious to this though as she was staring off into space, an extremely serious expression on her face. But, before anyone could ask Lime anymore questions, the teacher walked into the class and they were all forced to pay attention to the lesson being taught.
No one brought up the earlier conversation for the rest of the school day, and it went by quickly and uneventfully. After school Lime and Gohan returned to Capsule Corp, where Chichi and Goten still were. Against Lime's better judgment she agreed to stay with Gohan in CC for the rest of the week so he could "do his school work better and more efficiently". They all were unaware of Gohan's true reason for staying at CC for the rest of the week.
*Good,* Gohan thought as he lay in the grass, *My house is much harder to sneak out of than CC, and if Bulma sees any of us then we'll just tell her were going out for a little training.. Or not.. Midnight training sessions with Mirai and Vegeta in tow may seem odd. Oh well, I'll leave the explanations to Vegeta.* The door to the indoor park swished open and Mirai walked in. He saw Gohan lying on the grass and quietly moved over and sat down next to him.
"What are you thinking about Gohan?" He said after a few minutes of silence.
"Everything.. The meeting with Shin, you've heard that I'll be staying here?" Mirai nodded in response. "It'll be easier now that I'm here for a few days, less chance of being caught." Mirai nodded once again. There was silence once again as the two demi Saiyans sat in contemplation, the only sound to be heard was that of a frog "ribbet"ing strangely.
A few minutes later the door swished open again and Vegeta and Trunks walked in the door. Vegeta knew that Gohan and Mirai were there but did nothing to acknowledge their presence.
"Brat," Vegeta said to Trunks, "I want you to go and find the creature that is responsible for the odd sound echoing around this room. Don't kill it; bring it back to me.. I have something interesting to show you." Trunks immediately went in search of the frog and found it in less that a minute. Gohan and Mirai looked at each other questioningly for a moment before returning their gaze to Vegeta and his strange lesson. Vegeta then took the creature and moved into Gohan and Mirai's eyesight before continuing.
"Now brat, watch this." Vegeta released the frog-like creature from his grasp and it sat there cowering under his stare, "You sad excuse for a creature.. If you don't amuse me in the next thirty seconds I'll blast you into the next dimension."
*What is Dad doing?* Both Trunks' thought simultaneously, *Has he gone insane or something.. He's talking to a frog.* But before either could voice their confusion the frog jumped into action and began doing as many strange poses as it could. Trunks was on the floor rolling with laughter as he watched the frog. Mirai, meanwhile, was staring in shock. Gohan turned as white as a ghost as he realized what, or should I say WHO that creature was.
"Mirai," Gohan asked softly, "please tell me I don't look like that when I'm Saiyaman."
Mirai, stifling a laugh, responded, "No, you have that bucket on your head making you look even funnier." No longer able to contain himself Mirai burst out laughing as well.
Gohan was a pale green by now, "If I ever try and do a stupid pose again, hit me as hard as you can to knock some sense into me alright..."
"Sure.. Gohan.." Mirai gasped between laughs. Vegeta smirked at Gohan before grabbing the frog again.
"That's enough fun Brat, let's get back to training." Vegeta threw the frog creature all the way across the park, its tiny body hitting the wall with a crunch.
AN: Hehe, I hope you liked that last part. I GOT RID OF THE POSES YAY!!! I don't know what happened to Ginyu really so don't flame me and say isn't there, it's just a random moment of comic relief. Anyway, I've decided to start a mailing list thing, so if you want an email when I update a chapter just tell me in a review or an email, everyone in my yahoo mail address book is already on it (so if I sent you an email for this chapter and you want off the list tell me in the same fashion). Anyway, there may not be another chapter for a few weeks, I haven't pieced together all the stuff about the bad guy as of yet so I need to do that before I can really continue, but I have a backup plan if I can't find he info I need, so no worries! I hope to post again before I restart school on the 13th but who knows.. Anyway PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
Chapter 15 Explanations
Gohan landed on the front lawn of Capsule Corp and was immediately attacked by two very angry women. "GOHAN WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING STEALING THAT SHIP! YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN YOURSELF KILLED," Chichi yelled as she rushed up and hugged him, "at least you're back safe and sound. But if you ever go off like that again, and without telling me first, then you'll have hell to pay mister."
"Hn. ok mom. can you let go now?" Chichi let do of Gohan before noticing the others standing there snickering at him.
"Why are Goten and Trunks with you? And Lime why aren't you in school?"
"And for that matter," Bulma added coming to stand next to Chichi, "why is the other Trunks here?" Chichi looked over at him for the first time and gasped.
"Oh no don't tell me there is some new monster out there who my poor Gohan will have to fight!"
"Uh, mom. why don't we find Vegeta and I'll tell all three of you at once, ok?" Gohan asked. She nodded and the group went inside CC. They all went to the main living room and were shocked to find none other than Vegeta standing there waiting for them.
"What took you so long, you should have been back a while ago," he said staring at Gohan disapprovingly.
"There was some trouble in Satan City, the Red Ribbon Army took the King of the World hostage."
"THE RED RIBBON ARMY!!!" Chichi and Bulma screamed together.
After uncovering his ears Trunks told them what had transpired, "Yeah, me and Goten saw it on TV and since you and Piccolo were training and Gohan was in space and everyone else was at that tournament we decided to go and stop em. We took out the TV cameras and then Gohan and Future Me appeared and finished the job. so we all came back here to tell you."
"Oh," Bulma stated slightly suspicious of his explanation of events.
"That doesn't explain why you're here boy," Vegeta said glaring at Mirai.
"Uhh. well it's been seven years since I've seen any of you guys and with my world at peace I haven't had much to do. So I decided to see if there was anything to do in this timeline. I arrived in the hanger where Gohan was taking off so I jumped on board and helped him get Dende back," Trunks said remembering their agreed upon cover story, "We defeated the guy who kidnapped Dende, it was this little lizard named Bibidi. He was a wizard and controlled this nasty demon by the name of Debura. but between me and Gohan here we didn't have too much of a problem dealing with them." Mirai looked at everyone and smiled innocently. No one doubted Gohan and Trunk's story, except Vegeta of course.
After Chichi and Bulma finished questioning Mirai and Gohan about what had happened in space it was getting rather late. "Wow, look at the time," Bulma commented, "Why do you and the kids spend the night here Chichi, it's much too late to be heading back out the 439 area, especially with two hungry Saiyans and two teenagers who have to be refreshed for school tomorrow." Chichi nodded her head in agreement and Goten and Trunks started jumping up and down in joy. "Well then we should go and eat dinner now." Bulma had barely even finished the statement when Goten and Trunks were already out the door. The two older women shook their heads with amusement and, long with Lime, followed the boys to the dinning room. Gohan and Mirai stood up to follow when they were stopped by Vegeta.
"Why did you lie brat?" Vegeta was glaring at Gohan and Mirai, causing them both to gulp in fear.
"What makes you think we were lying Vegeta?"
"Because I felt the ki of the guy who kidnapped Dende when he stole the first space ship, it was not a dark wizard or a demon. It was not evil at all. and felt strangely like your ki, brat," he said as he focused his glare on Mirai.
Mirai looked to Gohan for suggestions but he just shrugged his shoulders, "Well father. I can't say here, there are people listening in on our conversation. I will tell you soon I'm sorry. please don't ask any more questions that I can't answer now." With that Mirai turned and walked out of he room, his head hung low in shame.
"We only lied out of necessity Vegeta. He only wants you to be proud of him though. Sometime soon he and I will have to go meet a contact, if you come with us we'll explain everything, just don't ask anymore questions until then." Vegeta continued to glare at Gohan for a moment then "humph" ed his agreement before stalking off to diner himself. *Now all I have to worry about is Videl. She probably will wonder where I was for the past two days, and then the next time I appear as the Great Saiyaman I'll have to explain what happened with Goten and Trunks.* Gohan moaned in anger and frustration before finally turning to go and eat with the others.
After a rather uneventful dinner Gohan, Chichi, Lime and Mirai were shown to their rooms, Goten of course was staying in his normal room, one that connected to Trunks' (AN: So they could devise their devious plots all night long, hehe!). The next morning Gohan and Lime headed off to school in their normal fashions, Lime on Nimbus and Gohan flying in his Saiyaman outfit. They arrived on the roof of the school with time to spare, an amazing feat for Gohan.
"GOHAN!!!" Screamed a small blonde as she jumped up to hug Gohan, "I've missed you SO much! Where have you been?" Gohan turned deep red as he attempted to pry Erasa off of him; Lime was too busy laughing at Gohan to be of any help to him in loosening her death grip.
"Umm. Erasa if you let go of me so I can breathe right again, I'll tell you." Erasa let go of her hold on his neck, but wrapped her arms around his to keep him from going anywhere without her. "I friend of mine, named Dende, got himself into some trouble, and I had to go bail him out."
"Is this Dende famous for something too?" They turned round to see Videl standing there. (AN: She sneaks up on them a lot doesn't she?)
"You'll just have to wait and find out now won't you?" Gohan said smiling at her. She glared at him once again and sat down in her seat. Lime, meanwhile, was laughing at Videl's gross understatement of fact. *Dende.. Famous.. I can't wait to see the look on her face when she finds out who he REALLY is.*
"Anyway, Lime, I was wondering how is it that you know the Great Saiyaman?" With that Lime stopped laughing. She tensed up and glanced over at Gohan, actions that didn't go unnoticed by Videl.
"Umm.." She looked nervously at Gohan again. "Well uhh.. you see he.. umm.. I really can't say.. I'm sorry."
"Right and why can't you say? At least can you tell me who those two boys were? They wore masks the whole time, and they owe me for covering for them." Videl was now glaring at Lime.
"I can't tell you that either but trust me when I say that Saiyaman and his friend are going to punish those two in their own way. It's a very interesting punishment actually." She began to laugh again, even under Videl's death glare.
"Fine, be that way. Gohan we have to work on the next part of our project tomorrow after school."
"Sure Videl, what is this part on by the way?" Gohan said smiling at Videl, trying to take her mind off of Lime's continuing laughter.
"We have to go to Ginger Town; that was the first place that Cell attacked outright."
"I remember hearing about that.. It's a suburb of West City right?" Videl nodded in response. "Hmm.. I have an idea." Gohan turned to Lime and grinned. "I think you and I should stay in West City until this part of the project is over. We can stay with Bulma at Capsule Corp." Lime looked at him oddly.
"Why should we do that Gohan? I mean, I really don't want to be in a house with Vegeta, even if the house is as big as CC is," Lime pouted, "You can if you want, but I don't have to do this project, in fact I'm not gonna be in school for much longer anyways.."
"What do you mean Lime? Where are you going," Gohan asked, curiously.
"I have other things that I have to do Gohan; I know that I don't belong here.." Everyone was staring at Lime, trying to figure out what she meant. Lime was oblivious to this though as she was staring off into space, an extremely serious expression on her face. But, before anyone could ask Lime anymore questions, the teacher walked into the class and they were all forced to pay attention to the lesson being taught.
No one brought up the earlier conversation for the rest of the school day, and it went by quickly and uneventfully. After school Lime and Gohan returned to Capsule Corp, where Chichi and Goten still were. Against Lime's better judgment she agreed to stay with Gohan in CC for the rest of the week so he could "do his school work better and more efficiently". They all were unaware of Gohan's true reason for staying at CC for the rest of the week.
*Good,* Gohan thought as he lay in the grass, *My house is much harder to sneak out of than CC, and if Bulma sees any of us then we'll just tell her were going out for a little training.. Or not.. Midnight training sessions with Mirai and Vegeta in tow may seem odd. Oh well, I'll leave the explanations to Vegeta.* The door to the indoor park swished open and Mirai walked in. He saw Gohan lying on the grass and quietly moved over and sat down next to him.
"What are you thinking about Gohan?" He said after a few minutes of silence.
"Everything.. The meeting with Shin, you've heard that I'll be staying here?" Mirai nodded in response. "It'll be easier now that I'm here for a few days, less chance of being caught." Mirai nodded once again. There was silence once again as the two demi Saiyans sat in contemplation, the only sound to be heard was that of a frog "ribbet"ing strangely.
A few minutes later the door swished open again and Vegeta and Trunks walked in the door. Vegeta knew that Gohan and Mirai were there but did nothing to acknowledge their presence.
"Brat," Vegeta said to Trunks, "I want you to go and find the creature that is responsible for the odd sound echoing around this room. Don't kill it; bring it back to me.. I have something interesting to show you." Trunks immediately went in search of the frog and found it in less that a minute. Gohan and Mirai looked at each other questioningly for a moment before returning their gaze to Vegeta and his strange lesson. Vegeta then took the creature and moved into Gohan and Mirai's eyesight before continuing.
"Now brat, watch this." Vegeta released the frog-like creature from his grasp and it sat there cowering under his stare, "You sad excuse for a creature.. If you don't amuse me in the next thirty seconds I'll blast you into the next dimension."
*What is Dad doing?* Both Trunks' thought simultaneously, *Has he gone insane or something.. He's talking to a frog.* But before either could voice their confusion the frog jumped into action and began doing as many strange poses as it could. Trunks was on the floor rolling with laughter as he watched the frog. Mirai, meanwhile, was staring in shock. Gohan turned as white as a ghost as he realized what, or should I say WHO that creature was.
"Mirai," Gohan asked softly, "please tell me I don't look like that when I'm Saiyaman."
Mirai, stifling a laugh, responded, "No, you have that bucket on your head making you look even funnier." No longer able to contain himself Mirai burst out laughing as well.
Gohan was a pale green by now, "If I ever try and do a stupid pose again, hit me as hard as you can to knock some sense into me alright..."
"Sure.. Gohan.." Mirai gasped between laughs. Vegeta smirked at Gohan before grabbing the frog again.
"That's enough fun Brat, let's get back to training." Vegeta threw the frog creature all the way across the park, its tiny body hitting the wall with a crunch.
AN: Hehe, I hope you liked that last part. I GOT RID OF THE POSES YAY!!! I don't know what happened to Ginyu really so don't flame me and say isn't there, it's just a random moment of comic relief. Anyway, I've decided to start a mailing list thing, so if you want an email when I update a chapter just tell me in a review or an email, everyone in my yahoo mail address book is already on it (so if I sent you an email for this chapter and you want off the list tell me in the same fashion). Anyway, there may not be another chapter for a few weeks, I haven't pieced together all the stuff about the bad guy as of yet so I need to do that before I can really continue, but I have a backup plan if I can't find he info I need, so no worries! I hope to post again before I restart school on the 13th but who knows.. Anyway PLEASE REVIEW!!!!