HFIL Fighter
By: Andross927
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball, Z, or GT. To the best of my knowledge, TOEI Animations owns Dragon Ball Z. I may be wrong. If so, please let me know so I can correct any error. I only own the original characters I make in this story, and I do not mind someone taking them, as long as they give me credit.
Summary: How different would Gohan's life have been if things had gone differently after the Cell Games?
Chapter 2
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It has been three days since Gohan came home with Pan. The three days were spent mostly on catching up on recent events in each others lives. Also it was spent getting living arrangements made for Pan and Gohan. Since it was always known to Chichi that Gohan would be coming home one day, she left his room untouched. Goten had taken another room, but it was too small for two people, so he moved in with Gohan while Pan took his old room. After those three days, everyone had been settled in.
Gohan sat on the couch, something he hadn't been able to do for over six years, and watched every news channel that he could find. Soon enough, some kind of advertisement came on for something Hercule was selling, using his fame as the world's champion and defeater of Cell. Gohan looked on in confusion.
"Hey mom. Who's this guy think he is? Did he get hit on the head during the Cell games or something?" Gohan asked his mother as she was walking through the room.
"That man! OH! I could just SMACK HIM!!!" Chichi exclaimed as she saw him on the TV.
For the next minute or so she went into a ranting about how he had taken her baby's credit and called them frauds and called all their hard work and sacrifice nothing but tricks. She also went on about all the tortures she would like to use on him for what he had done, from smashing him to pancake mix with her frying pan, to sending Icarus to burn his house down, to just taking Goten over there to 'play'.
Upon hearing of Hercule making his father's sacrifice a joke to the world, Gohan began to unconsciously power up until a yellow aura was surrounding his body. The ground was beginning to shake slightly, making various dishes all around the house rattle and shake. It was a very light amount of shaking, but enough to alert Chichi of how mad Gohan was becoming.
Suddenly the ground stopped shaking, and Gohan's aura disappeared again. He slowly stood up and began to stretch out a bit. His face was cold, near emotionless. However, Chichi knew her son well enough to detect the slow burning rage still in him.
"Mom, I'm going to go train for a while now. I'll probably head over to Capsule Corp to train with Vegeta and Trunks, uh, the older one. Want me to take Goten and Pan with me?" he asked in a softer voice then his face seemed.
"Sure honey, just be back in time for dinner." Chichi said, weary of her son's temper.
"Thanks." he said, flashing her a grateful smile.
Suddenly the sounds of a thunderclap rang from outside, and very close to the house. Gohan could feel the clashing of two rather high ki signatures, and he rushed out of the house, followed closely by Chichi. When they arrived outside, they saw something that neither of them really expected.
Goten and Pan were flying about, clashing fist for fist and kick for kick. Goten was fighting with great skill, showing several fighting techniques that were quite familiar to Gohan, though they were blended in ways he couldn't quite place his finger on. Pan was also fighting with great skill, especially since she was younger then Goten by over a year. Her techniques were different from Goten's but also held several similarities.
"Hold on. You two can fight too?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah! Mom taught me, and me and Trunks always play training games when he gets to come over!" Goten said happily.
"Goten, you should say Trunks and I!" Chichi corrected.
"Sorry mom. Mr. Piccolo also taught me to fly, and also how to fight some!" Goten said even happier. "He said that 'The son of Goku shouldn't be unable to fight properly.'"
"The Chichi from my timeline taught me too." Pan said with a sad smile. "Then Trunks taught me to fly and fight a little more." she said with a somewhat happier smile.
"Wow!" Gohan managed to get out.
'Man, mom sure has changed a lot since dad and I died. She not only lets Goten fight, but she even taught him!' Gohan thought.
"Well, how would you two like to come with me to visit Bulma and both Trunks's?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah!" both children exclaimed.
"Alright, gather around and hold my left hand." Gohan said as he extended his left arm and opened his hand.
Both children obeyed and held his hand as he lifted his right hand to his head. He placed his index and middle finger against his forehead and closed his head. Concentrating, he searched out Vegeta's ki. Once he located it, he concentrated and then they were gone, disappeared into thin air. Chichi gasped for a second, before she just shrugged it off. She had seen her family do too many extraordinary things in her life to be too surprised by anything anymore.
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Gohan, Goten, and Pan materialized on the front yard of Capsule Corp. They walked over to the front door and Goten entered his own personal entry code. The door slid open with the quietest hissing sound, and they entered. Almost immediately Goten lead Pan off to find the younger of the two Trunks's. Gohan just searched out Vegeta's ki and headed for the gravity chamber he felt him in.
It was only a few minutes later that Gohan was standing in front of the door to the gravity chamber Vegeta happened to be using at the moment. He casually looked at the gravity readout placed next to the entrance button. It stated that the gravity was set at four hundred fifty times Earth's normal gravity.
Gohan pressed the open button, and waited a few seconds as the gravity reset to standard gravity at a safe rate. Ten seconds later, the door opened to reveal a smirking super saiyan Vegeta wearing a torn up training outfit.
"What's the matter brat? Couldn't wait until Thursday to get your butt kicked?" he mocked.
"I'm glad to see your enthusiastic today Vegeta. I need a good work out today." Gohan stated in a cold voice laced with rage.
"What's got you so pissed?" Vegeta asked as he set the gravity back to its previous setting, letting his body adjust for a moment.
"Found out about Hercule." Gohan stated.
"Oh." Vegeta said in his closest version to an understanding voice. "Makes you want to kill him, doesn't it?" he asked, his smirk growing.
"YES!!!" Gohan shouted out as his power shot up, almost dwarfing Vegeta's.
Vegeta took the familiar stance of powering up and began to summon all his strength. His aura shot out from his body and surrounded him, ripping up the tiles of the room. Despite the best dampeners and shock absorbers the room was installed with, the room began to shake. Wind kicked up around him, causing the broken pieces of the floor to spin around him like a ferocious tornado. Gohan could tell that he was on the brink of going level two with his power, but couldn't quite get there. Vegeta didn't mind however, as he wasn't trying to get there at this moment.
As his shouting began to lessen, while his power continued to creep upwards towards his absolute maximum, Vegeta began to speak again. "You know what's worse? That fool has the entire world convinced. Do you know what is worse then that?" Vegeta asked, the smirk on his face growing wider.
"What?" Gohan asked, his own rage building higher along with his power.
"The lying weakling has his own daughter believing his lies. He lies to his own blood." Vegeta said with a surprisingly calm voice.
Gohan's anger shot even higher, followed closely by his power, just as Vegeta had anticipated. Energy shot off their bodies as their powers combated for supremacy, each one trying to go higher then the other. More and more tiles from the floor broke off of the ground and began to fly about the room before smashing against one of the walls. Finally, their starring match ended.
The room rocked and the ground shook as a sonic boom was released as their fists slammed against each other for the first of many times. Small explosions of energy erupted with every connection of their fists and legs as they slammed against each other. For nearly an entire minute, they continued to parry and deflect each attack that was thrown against them, trying to get in a strike at the other.
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Elsewhere in the building, in another gravity chamber, the youngest Trunks trained hard. Since the moment that his older counterpart had shown up, he had become determined to become stronger then he was, before he got to be his age. He had the gravity set to three hundred, and he was training as hard as he could. He felt as though it wouldn't be long before he would have to give in to the intense gravity, or lower it. He would not let that happen, and he began to call out more power from within. Wind started to kick up around him despite the strong gravity.
Suddenly, the wind began to shoot around wildly as the gravity began to lower. Trunks growled in frustration as he realized that someone was coming in. If it was his older counterpart or his father, then he wouldn't be able to go super saiyan and he would have to lower the gravity. Finally the door slid open, and in walked Goten and a girl. Trunks guessed that she must be this Pan that his older version was talking about. All the frustration that Trunks had before was gone in an instant at seeing his best friend.
"Goten!" Trunks shouted as he charged his best friend.
Goten barely dodged his friend's charge and jumped out of the way, before trying to tackle him back. Soon the two boys were wrestling all over the room. Pan just looked on at them, amusement on her face, while longing was visible too.
"Hey, are we going to spar or just play around?" she asked.
"Aren't they the same thing?" both boys asked.
"Yeah, but I want to spar, not just wrestle around."
"Alright, just let me reset the gravity." Trunks said as he walked over to the console.
Realizing that they still shouldn't go super while around Pan, and this may be her first time in a gravity room, Trunks only set the gravity to one hundred times normal gravity, mostly to observe her reaction to the gravity change. Surprisingly, she didn't fall down, instead she only stumbled a bit, not having expected the gravity change to happen so quickly. Trunks smiled as he walked away from the console, deciding to leave it at one hundred so they could still fight well, instead of laboring to move at all.
Immediately he began to power up to his maximum just below super saiyan. Goten took the hint, surprisingly to Trunks, and followed suite. Afterwards they both looked at Pan, waiting for her to power up too. Pan looked at them both for a moment, gauging their strengths, and then she took the familiar stance to power up. Wind began to slowly pickup around her body, blowing her hair upwards some, and causing her clothes to ruffle up.
Slowly she began to growl a bit, brining it up to a full blown scream as power began to surge from her body. Small bolts of power shot off her body in random directions, breaking the floor. Debris began to fly into the air, before crumbling from coming too close to her growing aura. The air around her body heated up and began to swirl around, creating a small tornado as her screams only increased. The ground began to shake ever so slightly as her power kept on growing ever so slowly.
Finally her screams stopped, and the ground stopped shaking, even the wind died around her. However, her aura was still there, burning the air around her. She smiled as she looked up at the boys, innocent happiness present in her eyes, as well as grief as memories of training with Chichi and Trunks came flowing back. She shook her head to free herself of them, reminding herself that her grandmother had wanted her to come here and live in peace.
"Well?" she asked the boys.
They felt out and gauged her power, then smiled in approval towards her. She wasn't quite as strong as they were, but could easily catch up to them if she trained hard enough. They each took their stances, unanimously deciding for a free for all. As they reached out with their power more, readying themselves for attack from any side, their senses increased as well. The tension in the air grew and grew, until if finally snapped.
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Gohan flew into the wall of one side of the room as Vegeta almost smashed through the wall on the other side of the room. Using Instant Transmission, Gohan was upon Vegeta again before he could blink. Gohan's fist attempted to impale Vegeta's stomach as he smashed it into him. Then his left leg slammed into his side, before his fist made an attempt to smash his face.
Vegeta managed to duck away from it, and managed to grab Gohan by his arm, to swing him into the wall. Gohan punched at Vegeta's chest in retaliation, but only grazed him. Instead, Vegeta's legs slammed into Gohan's stomach before Gohan pushed Vegeta back with a ki blast.
"How do you stand it Vegeta? You have the worst temper of us all. How do you keep yourself from killing him?!" Gohan shouted in rage as he continued to give his all in the fight.
"The woman makes me." Vegeta said with a smirk as he dodged a punch to the face, and blocked a kick to the ribs.
"Then how do I keep from killing him?!" Gohan shouted again, throwing multiple punches at Vegeta's body, trying to sneak in a kick.
"See him for what his is." Vegeta answered as he blocked the hidden kick, turning it against Gohan by twirling him away, only to get kicked in the face.
"And what's that?" Gohan asked in frustration as he suddenly stopped fighting and lowered his power level to show this.
Vegeta lowered his power level and backed away as well before answered. "A worthless worm. Someone not worth the energy it would take to kill him. A man with his head buried in the ground. And, someone who you actually owe gratitude too." Vegeta answered.
"Gratitude to him? What for?!" Gohan shouted again.
"Think boy! You were dead! If the world had found out you were the one who killed Cell, the whole planet of weaklings would have bothered your mother about it. Your little brother would have grown up with the eye of the world on him. Would you want that for them?" Vegeta asked, almost casually.
"No." Gohan admitted in a cold voice.
"Listen to me boy. I'm not saying what he did was right, certainly not making your father's sacrifice any less then what it was. I'm not saying that calling everything we did nothing but tricks was right. I'm saying he's a weakling who uses the people of this world to make himself feel strong and secure. He's not worth our time." Vegeta finished, and walked out of the gravity room and towards the showers.
Gohan just sat down, thinking about what Vegeta said. Finally he couldn't stand the confusion in his mind, and did something he hadn't done in years. He started to meditate like Piccolo had taught him. He stayed like this for almost an hour. Finally an explosion awoke him from his calm state, and he rushed to check it out.
He came across what was left of the wall to the gravity room the children had been using. They were laying at separate sides of the room, each beat up and scraped. However, they were conscious and looking happy, yet sheepish at what they had done. They each slowly stood up again, and headed toward Gohan.
"Are you three okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, we just got a little carried away." Trunks admitted.
"We poured too much power into our blasts and it got away from us." Pan finished.
"But boy was it fun!" Goten chirped.
"BOYS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW?!!!" Bulma screeched as she rounded the corner.
"Sorry mom!" Trunks said quickly as bots followed closely behind Bulma and began to repair the room.
"I swear that you have to cause destruction every time your around each other!" Bulma exclaimed.
"It's partly my fault auntie Bulma." Pan admitted.
Bulma took a deep breath before calming considerably. "Don't worry about it Pan. This sort of thing happens all the time. It's a good thing Gohan made that wish for those bags of senzu beans." Bulma said as she pulled out three senzu beans she had kept on her for emergencies. The kids ate the beans happily, thankful to be back at full strength again. Gohan could feel the power they had gained from this fight alone, and it was quite a bit.
"Well Goten and Pan, I'll have to start to train you two at home, won't I? Trunks, I'll give you lessons anytime your over too. It seems that you'll all have to learn to control your power better. If you do well, I'll teach you some of the things I learned while training for the last six years." Gohan said.
"Yeah!" all three kids answered almost at once.
"Well, we have to get home you two. Hey, where's Future Trunks?" Gohan asked, looking up at Bulma.
"He's at the mall buying clothes to wear Gohan. Sorry he couldn't be here to see you. I have to get back to work on my latest project, so I'll see you later Gohan. Oh! One more thing, here's personal entry codes for you Gohan, and for you Pan." Bulma said before walking away.
The three made their way out of the maze of Capsule Corp, Trunks walking with them the whole way talking to Goten about the latest game that was coming out. It had them both rather excited. Gohan watched them the whole time, almost wishing he had had a childhood that simple. Of course, he remembered that if he had, then everyone would be dead by now.
Finally they reached the outside world, and took off towards home. Trunks waved goodbye as they left. Gohan was definitely going to like the little guy.
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A week passed, full of activity. They were busy finding out how much Pan knew, and Chichi was pleased to find that she was quite the learned little girl. They worked out a schedule for sparring and studying, Chichi knowing she couldn't keep them from sparring, and not wanting them to stop anyways. She wouldn't admit it often, but she was proud of how strong her sons were, and her future granddaughter. Every time she looked at her, she thought about how long it would be until Gohan would meet her mother, or if he ever would. The timeline had changed quite a lot from hers.
Chichi was also beginning to worry about Gohan. The entire time he had been home, only for the first hour had he been dropped out of super saiyan level two. The rest of the time, he held that transformation. She was beginning to worry that he was ashamed of who he really was. One day she approached him about it.
She quietly walked into the room as Gohan sat there, watching more news while doing more school work. She was happy that he had kept up his studies while he was gone from her. He looked up at her as she came nearer.
"I know what your thinking mom. Don't worry, I'm not ashamed of who I am. I… I just feel like I should do this, in honor of dad. When he comes back, I'll go back to normal, until then I stay like this." Gohan said gently, softly, as emotion was attempting to take his voice.
Chichi only nodded, understanding that he wanted to feel closer to his father while he was gone.
'Goku, come home soon. We miss you…'
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Well, there you go. Another chapter. How did you like it? Tell me please!