A/N: I've discovered I suck at relationship stuff. Utter and complete suckage :/ However, since I intended to have it in here, it will still be there.
iron-eyes24 - Don't worry, the bad guy is coming, and the other characters will be making more important appearances in due time. Thanks for the review! Now the rest of you need to leave some reviews.
Chapter Three - Shadows in the Stars
It had been a week since Gohan had started at Orange Star High and he was now sure he was friends with Videl, Daemon, Sheba, Erasa, and maybe Sharpner. It was on his second day at lunch he sat with Videl, Sharpner, and Erasa who were sitting with Daemon and Sheba... that had been awkward to say the least. Every time Videl talked to either him or Daemon Sharpner's face would bunch up in distaste. By the time lunch was over though he was sure they were friends, with the possible exception of Sharpner.
Of course Erasa was insisting on picking on poor Gohan. If he wasn't starring at Sheba then he was starring at Videl. Not that the raven haired girl was immune to her friends jabs either. Erasa was probably the only one who could suggest that Videl Satan had a crush on someone without being yelled at or at least smacked. This made class interesting as well, first Erasa would catch Videl starring at the back of Daemon's head and ask if she had a crush on him. Then when she denied it she'd ask if it was because she had a crush on Gohan. The girl practically looked sunburned after that.
Videl only added more fuel to the fire when she tailed either him or Daemon around the school insisting on discovering their secrets. That's one of the things that drew Gohan to Daemon and Sheba, they didn't ask questions, or answer them either. At first Gohan had thought that maybe they were just loners but he'd been almost certain he'd sensed their KI spike a few times. Then there were the 'incidents' as Bulma called them.
It was one of these that found Gohan at Capsule Corp asking for Bulma's help yet again. "So what happened?" she asked him as she leaned back on her couch.
Gohan sighed and plopped down on the chair still in his Saiyaman costume. "It started during our first class. Well, before actually. We we're waiting for the teacher and Daemon started a conversation. He mentioned that explosion yesterday, out at the mall."
"Yeah, I heard about that..." Bulma said nodding.
"Well... I said something I shouldn't have. Something that a bystander shouldn't have known."
"I see, you let slip something you'd seen as Saiyaman then?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, and... Videl isn't letting it drop this time."
Gohan went on for another half hour explaining the problem. He was friends with her and knew that if she found out about him, about her father, she wouldn't take it very well. He didn't want to hurt her. Then he moved on to the problem he was having with Sheba. This got a laugh out of Bulma.
"Gohan, you've got to make up your mind kid."
"Huh?"
Bulma rolled her eyes. "It's not nice to lead two girls on at the same time you know."
"W-wh-what! I-I'm not leading anyone anywhere!" he cried his face reddening.
Bulma laughed. "You are Gohan, trust me!" she sighed. "This may take some time, you're about as naive as your father." And she went on to explain the different things he'd done with both girls that he probably shouldn't have. As she finished she went to the kitchen to get another cup of coffee. "So, you have to pick. Which one do you like better?"
"What, no, it's not like that Bulma!"
"Sure. Then why come to me and not your mother?"
"You know how she'd react..."
"If you told her you had a girlfriend?" Bulma interrupted smirking.
Gohan turned as he heard a snort behind him to find Vegeta and Trunks standing there in very tattered outfits. Apparently just getting back from their 'Camping Trip'. "I don't see the problem kid." he grunted. "Just pick a woman and go with it. Your..." he stopped as Gohan turned away from him. Growling Vegeta walked past him and down the hall to the gravity room. Meanwhile Trunks was heading to his room to change clothes.
After he was gone and Bulma was done glaring down the hall he'd went down she turned back to Gohan. "Admit it kid, you've got a crush on both girls."
"Bulma! Not this again!" he cried.
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever kid, but you better get going. Your mother's going to throw a fit if you don't get moving."
Sighing Gohan stood up and walked out the front door knowing she was right... about everything. He flew over the city starring down at the street below him lost in thought. As he went his mind kept drifting to Sheba, there was something about her that just... fit. Over the last week he'd been able to relate to her more than Videl or Erasa. Maybe it was the similar attitudes they had. Whatever it was he still wasn't sure what to do as he stood atop a tall building in his Saiyaman costume.
"I knew it." a female voice said from behind him. Gohan turned around in shock to find Sheba standing behind him.
"Wh-wh..." he stammered before regaining his composure. In his deep Saiyaman voice he asked. "What did you know miss?"
Sheba smirked. "You can cut out the act... Gohan."
"How..."
"I matched your KI." she said simply. "Really Gohan, it's not like it was that hard."
"Matched... my.... KI? Wait, you can sense KI?" Beneath his helmet his eyes practically bugged out of his head as she lifted into the air so that their eyes were even. "You... you can... fly?"
She shook her head. "No, I can shrink people. Of course I can fly."
Gohan blinked. This wasn't the same Sheba from school, yet at the same time she was. This was really confusing. "Um... I... how..."
Sheba giggled. "This is a nice surprise. I thought life would be boring on this planet."
"This planet? Wait, you mean you're an alien?"
******
Meanwhile Bulma was sitting in her lab working on some device or other. Just another invention to add to the pile. She was so lost in thought on the project which she'd dubbed 'Luna' that she hadn't heard the phone until Trunks came running in telling her she had a call from some guy. Leave it to Trunks call the King 'some guy'. "Oh... what a pleasant surprise." Bulma said as the furry face of the King appeared on her screen. "Is there something I can do for you?"
"Yes, yes there is Miss Briefs."
"Bulma please."
He nodded. "Well, Bulma, here's the situation. You probably know of the deep space probe we sent into space three years ago since most of the parts came from your company. Well... it came across something..." he shook his head. "I can't explain it, none of my people have any ideas. So I've come seeking your expertise."
"Sure, anything I can do to help."
"That's great to hear. I'll patch through the information we received before we lost contact with the probe." There was a moment of silence as the King did something on his side of the line. Then the picture shifted giving the King the top left corner while the other three quarters of the screen filled up with the data he sent.
"I'll get in touch with you as soon as I've found something."
"Very well. Good day Bulma."
As the King's face vanished the data rushed to fill in the void he left behind. Bulma quickly pulled up the video data the probe had recorded. "What the..." she said seeing a black shape moving through space. Obviously all of space is black but this shape was noticeable because it was passing a sun and blocking it out, yet she couldn't see anything. Wait, there was something... "What the hell? Is that... the probe? But..." she blinked a couple times as she remembered an encounter of her past. "A mirror coating! Then this has to be a ship... but is it them or someone else?"
She quickly punched in a few codes and accessed data that even the government didn't know was being transmitted. A scan of the object appeared and she knew, from her memories of the ship she'd encountered, that his wasn't the same one. It was to large. A few more key presses and lines branched from several points on the ship. The lines ended in boxes and numbers appeared inside each. She'd made it a habit to include scouter technology in anything destined for space. There were four boxes in all, three individual readings and one that listed how many people were on and their average.
According to the data there were over a million people on the ship. The weakest of the three readings as half a million. The second reading was at 1.7 million. The strongest reading was at 3.6 million. Nothing for any of them to worry about to much but still... It would be a good idea to let the others know, just in case. As she watched the video play back the ship suddenly changed course and intercepted the probe. That's when the video ended followed a second later by the other data. Last Known Trajectory: Intercept with Earth. ETA: Six months. Flashed on the screen.
iron-eyes24 - Don't worry, the bad guy is coming, and the other characters will be making more important appearances in due time. Thanks for the review! Now the rest of you need to leave some reviews.
Chapter Three - Shadows in the Stars
It had been a week since Gohan had started at Orange Star High and he was now sure he was friends with Videl, Daemon, Sheba, Erasa, and maybe Sharpner. It was on his second day at lunch he sat with Videl, Sharpner, and Erasa who were sitting with Daemon and Sheba... that had been awkward to say the least. Every time Videl talked to either him or Daemon Sharpner's face would bunch up in distaste. By the time lunch was over though he was sure they were friends, with the possible exception of Sharpner.
Of course Erasa was insisting on picking on poor Gohan. If he wasn't starring at Sheba then he was starring at Videl. Not that the raven haired girl was immune to her friends jabs either. Erasa was probably the only one who could suggest that Videl Satan had a crush on someone without being yelled at or at least smacked. This made class interesting as well, first Erasa would catch Videl starring at the back of Daemon's head and ask if she had a crush on him. Then when she denied it she'd ask if it was because she had a crush on Gohan. The girl practically looked sunburned after that.
Videl only added more fuel to the fire when she tailed either him or Daemon around the school insisting on discovering their secrets. That's one of the things that drew Gohan to Daemon and Sheba, they didn't ask questions, or answer them either. At first Gohan had thought that maybe they were just loners but he'd been almost certain he'd sensed their KI spike a few times. Then there were the 'incidents' as Bulma called them.
It was one of these that found Gohan at Capsule Corp asking for Bulma's help yet again. "So what happened?" she asked him as she leaned back on her couch.
Gohan sighed and plopped down on the chair still in his Saiyaman costume. "It started during our first class. Well, before actually. We we're waiting for the teacher and Daemon started a conversation. He mentioned that explosion yesterday, out at the mall."
"Yeah, I heard about that..." Bulma said nodding.
"Well... I said something I shouldn't have. Something that a bystander shouldn't have known."
"I see, you let slip something you'd seen as Saiyaman then?"
Gohan nodded. "Yeah, and... Videl isn't letting it drop this time."
Gohan went on for another half hour explaining the problem. He was friends with her and knew that if she found out about him, about her father, she wouldn't take it very well. He didn't want to hurt her. Then he moved on to the problem he was having with Sheba. This got a laugh out of Bulma.
"Gohan, you've got to make up your mind kid."
"Huh?"
Bulma rolled her eyes. "It's not nice to lead two girls on at the same time you know."
"W-wh-what! I-I'm not leading anyone anywhere!" he cried his face reddening.
Bulma laughed. "You are Gohan, trust me!" she sighed. "This may take some time, you're about as naive as your father." And she went on to explain the different things he'd done with both girls that he probably shouldn't have. As she finished she went to the kitchen to get another cup of coffee. "So, you have to pick. Which one do you like better?"
"What, no, it's not like that Bulma!"
"Sure. Then why come to me and not your mother?"
"You know how she'd react..."
"If you told her you had a girlfriend?" Bulma interrupted smirking.
Gohan turned as he heard a snort behind him to find Vegeta and Trunks standing there in very tattered outfits. Apparently just getting back from their 'Camping Trip'. "I don't see the problem kid." he grunted. "Just pick a woman and go with it. Your..." he stopped as Gohan turned away from him. Growling Vegeta walked past him and down the hall to the gravity room. Meanwhile Trunks was heading to his room to change clothes.
After he was gone and Bulma was done glaring down the hall he'd went down she turned back to Gohan. "Admit it kid, you've got a crush on both girls."
"Bulma! Not this again!" he cried.
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever kid, but you better get going. Your mother's going to throw a fit if you don't get moving."
Sighing Gohan stood up and walked out the front door knowing she was right... about everything. He flew over the city starring down at the street below him lost in thought. As he went his mind kept drifting to Sheba, there was something about her that just... fit. Over the last week he'd been able to relate to her more than Videl or Erasa. Maybe it was the similar attitudes they had. Whatever it was he still wasn't sure what to do as he stood atop a tall building in his Saiyaman costume.
"I knew it." a female voice said from behind him. Gohan turned around in shock to find Sheba standing behind him.
"Wh-wh..." he stammered before regaining his composure. In his deep Saiyaman voice he asked. "What did you know miss?"
Sheba smirked. "You can cut out the act... Gohan."
"How..."
"I matched your KI." she said simply. "Really Gohan, it's not like it was that hard."
"Matched... my.... KI? Wait, you can sense KI?" Beneath his helmet his eyes practically bugged out of his head as she lifted into the air so that their eyes were even. "You... you can... fly?"
She shook her head. "No, I can shrink people. Of course I can fly."
Gohan blinked. This wasn't the same Sheba from school, yet at the same time she was. This was really confusing. "Um... I... how..."
Sheba giggled. "This is a nice surprise. I thought life would be boring on this planet."
"This planet? Wait, you mean you're an alien?"
******
Meanwhile Bulma was sitting in her lab working on some device or other. Just another invention to add to the pile. She was so lost in thought on the project which she'd dubbed 'Luna' that she hadn't heard the phone until Trunks came running in telling her she had a call from some guy. Leave it to Trunks call the King 'some guy'. "Oh... what a pleasant surprise." Bulma said as the furry face of the King appeared on her screen. "Is there something I can do for you?"
"Yes, yes there is Miss Briefs."
"Bulma please."
He nodded. "Well, Bulma, here's the situation. You probably know of the deep space probe we sent into space three years ago since most of the parts came from your company. Well... it came across something..." he shook his head. "I can't explain it, none of my people have any ideas. So I've come seeking your expertise."
"Sure, anything I can do to help."
"That's great to hear. I'll patch through the information we received before we lost contact with the probe." There was a moment of silence as the King did something on his side of the line. Then the picture shifted giving the King the top left corner while the other three quarters of the screen filled up with the data he sent.
"I'll get in touch with you as soon as I've found something."
"Very well. Good day Bulma."
As the King's face vanished the data rushed to fill in the void he left behind. Bulma quickly pulled up the video data the probe had recorded. "What the..." she said seeing a black shape moving through space. Obviously all of space is black but this shape was noticeable because it was passing a sun and blocking it out, yet she couldn't see anything. Wait, there was something... "What the hell? Is that... the probe? But..." she blinked a couple times as she remembered an encounter of her past. "A mirror coating! Then this has to be a ship... but is it them or someone else?"
She quickly punched in a few codes and accessed data that even the government didn't know was being transmitted. A scan of the object appeared and she knew, from her memories of the ship she'd encountered, that his wasn't the same one. It was to large. A few more key presses and lines branched from several points on the ship. The lines ended in boxes and numbers appeared inside each. She'd made it a habit to include scouter technology in anything destined for space. There were four boxes in all, three individual readings and one that listed how many people were on and their average.
According to the data there were over a million people on the ship. The weakest of the three readings as half a million. The second reading was at 1.7 million. The strongest reading was at 3.6 million. Nothing for any of them to worry about to much but still... It would be a good idea to let the others know, just in case. As she watched the video play back the ship suddenly changed course and intercepted the probe. That's when the video ended followed a second later by the other data. Last Known Trajectory: Intercept with Earth. ETA: Six months. Flashed on the screen.