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TIGERLILY: Ok, everyone seemed pretty happy with the last chapter, which makes me happy! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
MIRAI CLONE: *blink* Didn't we have a talk about you going to see that 'doctor'?
TIGERLILY: *glares at her mate, who immediately shuts up*
TIGERLILY: That's better. Anyway, I have to inform my special reviews about the latest on their clones that are up for grabs, "puppet of he antler" had claimed the one in the armor, so "Kiteekat", "Kakarots-Frying-Pan", "Chaney", "adbzfan2K03", and "VideliGohan", I'm still waiting on you four to claim your new clones. But you'd better hurry. First come, first serve.
MIRAI CLONE: I still think you need to seek mental counciling, Lily. There's just something *not* right about you.
TIGERLILY: *glaring at her mate again* Do you have a deathwish or something?
MIRAI CLONE: *sweatdrops*
TIGERLILY: Now that my mate is finally quiet, here's the disclaimer. Do I really need to repeat myself, you all should get the drill by now anyway. But for you damn lawyers, I don't own the characters of DBZ. I own my clones, my own mate Mirai Trunks *points to her mate who just sweatdrops but doesn't say anything*, Mystic Gohan, Gambit from X-men Evolution, Neil from the Final Fantasy Movie, and my newest clone, Kou Leifoh, from the Bouncer for the PS2 game! They're all mine, except for Gohan, he's my best friend's mate. So now on with the story. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Dare
Chapter Sixteen: "Aliens"
"Gohan! Put me down! I sweat by Kami if you don't put me down this instant I'll....I'll......" Videl cried furiously, kicking and squirming to get out of Gohan's grasp.
Gohan frowned down at her.
"Videl, if you don't stop, I may accidently drop you." Gohan said seriously.
Videl looked down and gulped, before looking back up and immediately stopped fighting as she wrapped her arms around Gohan's neck, clinging on for dear life. She was too terrified to even notice the blush on Gohan's face.
"Gohan, don't drop me!" Videl said, trying to hide the fear in her voice as Gohan looked down at her.
"I won't drop you, I promise. We're almost there." Gohan said, looking straight ahead again.
"Where are we going?" Videl asked as Gohan smiled to himself.
"To a place I knew long ago. I trained there when I was a boy. Actually, Piccolo trained me, and I just struggled to stay alive." Gohan said with a chuckle as Videl looked up at him confused.
"Piccolo?" Videl asked as Gohan nodded as he looked down at her again.
"He was my first sensei. He was the one who taught me how to fight, at first anyway. After that, my Dad trained me. After he died fighting Cell, I trained myself." Gohan explained.
"Cell? What does he have to do with your father? And if you say your father died seven years ago, how is it that he's alive now?" Videl asked suspiciously as Gohan smiled to himself.
"I'm not exactly sure about that one myself, but I couldn't be happier. As for Cell, I'll get to that. But....what I have to tell you will be hard for you to understand, ok? But you *must* believe me when I tell you, alright? It's the truth, and you must believe me. I wouldn't lie about something like this to you, do you understand?" Gohan asked as Videl looked at him confused.
"Gohan? What are you talking about? Spit it out already!" Videl said impatiently. Gohan nodded as he looked below him.
"I will. We're here." Gohan said as he started to descend from the sky.
Videl clung to him until the second her feet were firmly planted on the ground. She let out a huge sigh of relief, before whirling around and punching Gohan in the shoulder angrily. Gohan blinked at her in shock. The punch hadn't hurt of course, but he was shocked that she had hit him.
"What was that for?" Gohan asked as Videl glared at him.
"*That* was for abducting me!" Videl cried.
"But.....I didn't abduct you Videl. I told you if you wanted me to tell you the truth, I had to talk to you alone, so I brought you here.....ok, maybe that is abducting you.....but....." Gohan began, scratching his head in confusion.
"Forget about it, Gohan. Yuo brought me all this way to talk to me.....so talk." Videl said, sitting down on the grass. Gohan took a seat a few feet away from her.
"Ok, let me think here for a moment.....it's a really long story, and I have to think where to begin.....ok, I got it. A long time ago, when my father was only a child, he was ound in the woods by a nice old man, who decided to raise my father as his own grandson. His name was Son Gohan, my father named me after him." Gohan explained.
"Grandpa Gohan, as my father called him, found my father in the woods, but he found him in a space pod. My father was a Saiyan warrior that had been sent to Earth, and was supposed to destroy the entire population so the planet could be sold to the highest bidder. Yuo see, the Saiyans worked for this powerful tyrant named Frieza." Gohan began.
"While my father was on Earth, he was a little terror, to say the least. He wanted nothing more than to destroy everything around him, until one day, he fell down a ravine, and hit his head. When he awoke for the coma that fall had put him in, it was like he was a completely different kid. He became the warm hearted Goku everyone knows to this day." Gohan explained.
Gohan went on to tell Videl all about how his father had met Bulma when she nearly ran his over with her car, and how Goku had met Chichi, and how he was basically tricked into marrying her. And how Goku had met the rest of the Z fighters, and about the day of the big tournament, when Goku was eighteen, how he fought and married Chichi in the same day. And how five years later, Goku had brought the five year old Gohan with him to meet his old friends, when Radittz first showed up. He explained how Radittz told Goku about the Saiyans and about Vegeta's arrival on Earth, and Goku's battle with Frieza. And he told her about Mirai Trunks's warning about the Andriods and Goku's deadly heart virus.
An hour and a half later, Gohan suddenly stopped talking as he looked at Videl strangely. This was the part he knew she wasn't going to like to hear. The part where her father hadn't been the one to defeat Cell, but rather Gohan himself.
He gulped.
"Gohan, why did you stop talking? That's not the end is it? It can't be." Videl said as Gohan slowly shook his head at her.
"No, there's more, it's just that.....I'm having a hard time trying to think of a way to tell you this next thing without it being too much of a shock to you." Gohan said, frowning to himself.
"Just tell me." Videl said as Gohan sighed.
"Ok, here goes nothing. Anway, after the Andriods had shown up, we started to have a few problems. While we were dealing with the three andriods, a new threat showed up. Cell. At that time, he was only just starting to absorb people, and he was looking for Seventeen and Eighteen so he could become complete. Eventually, he absorbed Seventeen, and thanks to Vegeta's cockiness and Krillin's crush on Eighteen, he also managed to absorb her as well." Gohan explained.
"Basically Vegeta and Mirai Trunks were no match for Cell, so he announced that he would be holding his own tournament, or the Cell Games. You basically know how he announced it to the public." Gohan said.
"You see, everyone thought that my father would be the one to finally defeat Cell, but in the end.....he proved to be an even match for Cell, and he withdrew from the battle. Instead, I was chosen to fight Cell." Gohan said as Videl stared at him in shock.
"You?! But you were only a child!" Videl cried as Gohan nodded at her.
"I know. Trust me, my Mom wasn't exactly *thrilled* with the idea eaither, or so I heard later from my grandfather. Anyway, I didn't fight him at first, I even pleaded with him not to make me angry. I don't know how to explain it, but things just.....*happen* when I get angry." Gohan began.
"But he wouldn't listen. And he tried every trick he had to make me snap, including torturing my father and my friends. He made these, little blue replicas of himself, I guess you could say. He called them his children, and he ordered them to attack the others, and so they did." Gohan said.
"Gohan?" Videl began softly as Gohan shook his head at her.
"No, let me continue. Anyway, finally it did happen, when Cell killed Andriod Sixteen. I snapped, and I transformed, I ascended to the second level of Super Saiyan. And the power was incredible. It was such a rush. I hadn't felt anything like it in my entire life, and yet it felt so great." Gohan said.
"The truth is, I started to get cocky, and my power started to go to my head. And because of it, I didn't finish Cell when I had the chance. And it cost my father his life. *That's* how he died, he sacrificed his own life when Cell was about to blow up the planet." Gohan said.
"He had blown himself up like a balloon, and when he popped, he was going to take the Earth with him. And since he was composed of the cells of the other Z fighters and the other powerful beings in the universe, he had Piccolo's ability to regenerate, a Saiyan's abiltity to become stronger after every battle, and Frieza's ability to breathe in space. He was practically indestructable. So we would have all died, but he would have lived. He would have won." Gohan said.
"But he didn't." Videl said softly.
"I know, but it was my fault my father died. And I've had to live with that everyday for the past seven years. And everytime I looked at Goten, I realized that he would never get to meet Dad because of me." Gohan said.
"But.....that's not true Gohan. He's back now. And that's all that's important." Videl said with a smile. After a minute, Gohan smiled at her in appreciation.
"Thanks." Gohan said.
Videl smiled again, but didn't say anymore. Then suddenly she looked at Gohan, as she remembered something.....or someone.
"But that doesn't explain why that little girl called me Mama earlier." Videl began.
Gohan sweatdropped as he blushed.
"Well, you see.....she's not from this time. Remember how I told you Mirai Trunks was from a time where my father had died from the heart virus, and the Andriods had shown up and killed the Z fighers and taken over?" Gohan asked as Videl nodded.
"Yeah? But what does that have to do with her?" Videl asked as Gohan blushed again.
"Well......in her time.....you're her.....you're her mother." Gohan said as Videl stared at him in shock.
"I'm her *what?!*" Videl cried as Gohan sweatdropped.
"In that time, Videl." Gohan said as Videl raised an eyebrow at him.
"Let's say, for the time being, I believe you. So why does she follow *you* around? And why does she have a tail? I thought you said only Saiyans......had...........tails......" Videl began, realization dawning on her as her face drained of color. She stared blankly ahead of her for a moment before turning to look at Gohan.
"She has Saiyan blood.....doesn't she?" Videl asked as Gohan nodded his head nervously.
"You mean.....you're her.....and I'm her.....and we.....?" Videl began, her face growing redder by the second.
Gohan didn't say anything, but the blush on his face gave Videl her answer.
The blood rushed to her temples, her eyes rolled in the back of her head, and her knees collapsed as she fainted for the second time that day. Gohan barely had time to catch her before she hit the ground.
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MIRAI CLONE: *blinks* I've just come to the realization that you're evil Lily.
TIGERLILY: You're just now noticing this? Where have you been for the last sixteen chapters?
MIRAI CLONE: I need to keep you *away* from my father.
TIGERLILY: *Anyway* that was a great chapter, if I do say so myself. I better get a lot of reviews to! Or no new chapter for you! *looks at audience* So what are you still doing reading this? Go! Review! You're wasting time!
MIRAI CLONE: *sweatdrops* I apologize for my damn crazy onna of a mate.
TIGERLILY: You behave or I'll have Gohan take out his frustrations on you in the next chapter!
MIRAI CLONE: *gulps*
TIGERLILY: Good mate. Until next chapter, everyone, and please review. I likies the reviews!
TIGERLILY: Ok, everyone seemed pretty happy with the last chapter, which makes me happy! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
MIRAI CLONE: *blink* Didn't we have a talk about you going to see that 'doctor'?
TIGERLILY: *glares at her mate, who immediately shuts up*
TIGERLILY: That's better. Anyway, I have to inform my special reviews about the latest on their clones that are up for grabs, "puppet of he antler" had claimed the one in the armor, so "Kiteekat", "Kakarots-Frying-Pan", "Chaney", "adbzfan2K03", and "VideliGohan", I'm still waiting on you four to claim your new clones. But you'd better hurry. First come, first serve.
MIRAI CLONE: I still think you need to seek mental counciling, Lily. There's just something *not* right about you.
TIGERLILY: *glaring at her mate again* Do you have a deathwish or something?
MIRAI CLONE: *sweatdrops*
TIGERLILY: Now that my mate is finally quiet, here's the disclaimer. Do I really need to repeat myself, you all should get the drill by now anyway. But for you damn lawyers, I don't own the characters of DBZ. I own my clones, my own mate Mirai Trunks *points to her mate who just sweatdrops but doesn't say anything*, Mystic Gohan, Gambit from X-men Evolution, Neil from the Final Fantasy Movie, and my newest clone, Kou Leifoh, from the Bouncer for the PS2 game! They're all mine, except for Gohan, he's my best friend's mate. So now on with the story. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Dare
Chapter Sixteen: "Aliens"
"Gohan! Put me down! I sweat by Kami if you don't put me down this instant I'll....I'll......" Videl cried furiously, kicking and squirming to get out of Gohan's grasp.
Gohan frowned down at her.
"Videl, if you don't stop, I may accidently drop you." Gohan said seriously.
Videl looked down and gulped, before looking back up and immediately stopped fighting as she wrapped her arms around Gohan's neck, clinging on for dear life. She was too terrified to even notice the blush on Gohan's face.
"Gohan, don't drop me!" Videl said, trying to hide the fear in her voice as Gohan looked down at her.
"I won't drop you, I promise. We're almost there." Gohan said, looking straight ahead again.
"Where are we going?" Videl asked as Gohan smiled to himself.
"To a place I knew long ago. I trained there when I was a boy. Actually, Piccolo trained me, and I just struggled to stay alive." Gohan said with a chuckle as Videl looked up at him confused.
"Piccolo?" Videl asked as Gohan nodded as he looked down at her again.
"He was my first sensei. He was the one who taught me how to fight, at first anyway. After that, my Dad trained me. After he died fighting Cell, I trained myself." Gohan explained.
"Cell? What does he have to do with your father? And if you say your father died seven years ago, how is it that he's alive now?" Videl asked suspiciously as Gohan smiled to himself.
"I'm not exactly sure about that one myself, but I couldn't be happier. As for Cell, I'll get to that. But....what I have to tell you will be hard for you to understand, ok? But you *must* believe me when I tell you, alright? It's the truth, and you must believe me. I wouldn't lie about something like this to you, do you understand?" Gohan asked as Videl looked at him confused.
"Gohan? What are you talking about? Spit it out already!" Videl said impatiently. Gohan nodded as he looked below him.
"I will. We're here." Gohan said as he started to descend from the sky.
Videl clung to him until the second her feet were firmly planted on the ground. She let out a huge sigh of relief, before whirling around and punching Gohan in the shoulder angrily. Gohan blinked at her in shock. The punch hadn't hurt of course, but he was shocked that she had hit him.
"What was that for?" Gohan asked as Videl glared at him.
"*That* was for abducting me!" Videl cried.
"But.....I didn't abduct you Videl. I told you if you wanted me to tell you the truth, I had to talk to you alone, so I brought you here.....ok, maybe that is abducting you.....but....." Gohan began, scratching his head in confusion.
"Forget about it, Gohan. Yuo brought me all this way to talk to me.....so talk." Videl said, sitting down on the grass. Gohan took a seat a few feet away from her.
"Ok, let me think here for a moment.....it's a really long story, and I have to think where to begin.....ok, I got it. A long time ago, when my father was only a child, he was ound in the woods by a nice old man, who decided to raise my father as his own grandson. His name was Son Gohan, my father named me after him." Gohan explained.
"Grandpa Gohan, as my father called him, found my father in the woods, but he found him in a space pod. My father was a Saiyan warrior that had been sent to Earth, and was supposed to destroy the entire population so the planet could be sold to the highest bidder. Yuo see, the Saiyans worked for this powerful tyrant named Frieza." Gohan began.
"While my father was on Earth, he was a little terror, to say the least. He wanted nothing more than to destroy everything around him, until one day, he fell down a ravine, and hit his head. When he awoke for the coma that fall had put him in, it was like he was a completely different kid. He became the warm hearted Goku everyone knows to this day." Gohan explained.
Gohan went on to tell Videl all about how his father had met Bulma when she nearly ran his over with her car, and how Goku had met Chichi, and how he was basically tricked into marrying her. And how Goku had met the rest of the Z fighters, and about the day of the big tournament, when Goku was eighteen, how he fought and married Chichi in the same day. And how five years later, Goku had brought the five year old Gohan with him to meet his old friends, when Radittz first showed up. He explained how Radittz told Goku about the Saiyans and about Vegeta's arrival on Earth, and Goku's battle with Frieza. And he told her about Mirai Trunks's warning about the Andriods and Goku's deadly heart virus.
An hour and a half later, Gohan suddenly stopped talking as he looked at Videl strangely. This was the part he knew she wasn't going to like to hear. The part where her father hadn't been the one to defeat Cell, but rather Gohan himself.
He gulped.
"Gohan, why did you stop talking? That's not the end is it? It can't be." Videl said as Gohan slowly shook his head at her.
"No, there's more, it's just that.....I'm having a hard time trying to think of a way to tell you this next thing without it being too much of a shock to you." Gohan said, frowning to himself.
"Just tell me." Videl said as Gohan sighed.
"Ok, here goes nothing. Anway, after the Andriods had shown up, we started to have a few problems. While we were dealing with the three andriods, a new threat showed up. Cell. At that time, he was only just starting to absorb people, and he was looking for Seventeen and Eighteen so he could become complete. Eventually, he absorbed Seventeen, and thanks to Vegeta's cockiness and Krillin's crush on Eighteen, he also managed to absorb her as well." Gohan explained.
"Basically Vegeta and Mirai Trunks were no match for Cell, so he announced that he would be holding his own tournament, or the Cell Games. You basically know how he announced it to the public." Gohan said.
"You see, everyone thought that my father would be the one to finally defeat Cell, but in the end.....he proved to be an even match for Cell, and he withdrew from the battle. Instead, I was chosen to fight Cell." Gohan said as Videl stared at him in shock.
"You?! But you were only a child!" Videl cried as Gohan nodded at her.
"I know. Trust me, my Mom wasn't exactly *thrilled* with the idea eaither, or so I heard later from my grandfather. Anyway, I didn't fight him at first, I even pleaded with him not to make me angry. I don't know how to explain it, but things just.....*happen* when I get angry." Gohan began.
"But he wouldn't listen. And he tried every trick he had to make me snap, including torturing my father and my friends. He made these, little blue replicas of himself, I guess you could say. He called them his children, and he ordered them to attack the others, and so they did." Gohan said.
"Gohan?" Videl began softly as Gohan shook his head at her.
"No, let me continue. Anyway, finally it did happen, when Cell killed Andriod Sixteen. I snapped, and I transformed, I ascended to the second level of Super Saiyan. And the power was incredible. It was such a rush. I hadn't felt anything like it in my entire life, and yet it felt so great." Gohan said.
"The truth is, I started to get cocky, and my power started to go to my head. And because of it, I didn't finish Cell when I had the chance. And it cost my father his life. *That's* how he died, he sacrificed his own life when Cell was about to blow up the planet." Gohan said.
"He had blown himself up like a balloon, and when he popped, he was going to take the Earth with him. And since he was composed of the cells of the other Z fighters and the other powerful beings in the universe, he had Piccolo's ability to regenerate, a Saiyan's abiltity to become stronger after every battle, and Frieza's ability to breathe in space. He was practically indestructable. So we would have all died, but he would have lived. He would have won." Gohan said.
"But he didn't." Videl said softly.
"I know, but it was my fault my father died. And I've had to live with that everyday for the past seven years. And everytime I looked at Goten, I realized that he would never get to meet Dad because of me." Gohan said.
"But.....that's not true Gohan. He's back now. And that's all that's important." Videl said with a smile. After a minute, Gohan smiled at her in appreciation.
"Thanks." Gohan said.
Videl smiled again, but didn't say anymore. Then suddenly she looked at Gohan, as she remembered something.....or someone.
"But that doesn't explain why that little girl called me Mama earlier." Videl began.
Gohan sweatdropped as he blushed.
"Well, you see.....she's not from this time. Remember how I told you Mirai Trunks was from a time where my father had died from the heart virus, and the Andriods had shown up and killed the Z fighers and taken over?" Gohan asked as Videl nodded.
"Yeah? But what does that have to do with her?" Videl asked as Gohan blushed again.
"Well......in her time.....you're her.....you're her mother." Gohan said as Videl stared at him in shock.
"I'm her *what?!*" Videl cried as Gohan sweatdropped.
"In that time, Videl." Gohan said as Videl raised an eyebrow at him.
"Let's say, for the time being, I believe you. So why does she follow *you* around? And why does she have a tail? I thought you said only Saiyans......had...........tails......" Videl began, realization dawning on her as her face drained of color. She stared blankly ahead of her for a moment before turning to look at Gohan.
"She has Saiyan blood.....doesn't she?" Videl asked as Gohan nodded his head nervously.
"You mean.....you're her.....and I'm her.....and we.....?" Videl began, her face growing redder by the second.
Gohan didn't say anything, but the blush on his face gave Videl her answer.
The blood rushed to her temples, her eyes rolled in the back of her head, and her knees collapsed as she fainted for the second time that day. Gohan barely had time to catch her before she hit the ground.
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MIRAI CLONE: *blinks* I've just come to the realization that you're evil Lily.
TIGERLILY: You're just now noticing this? Where have you been for the last sixteen chapters?
MIRAI CLONE: I need to keep you *away* from my father.
TIGERLILY: *Anyway* that was a great chapter, if I do say so myself. I better get a lot of reviews to! Or no new chapter for you! *looks at audience* So what are you still doing reading this? Go! Review! You're wasting time!
MIRAI CLONE: *sweatdrops* I apologize for my damn crazy onna of a mate.
TIGERLILY: You behave or I'll have Gohan take out his frustrations on you in the next chapter!
MIRAI CLONE: *gulps*
TIGERLILY: Good mate. Until next chapter, everyone, and please review. I likies the reviews!
