Chapter Four: I'm With Goku

Gohan walked out of the building with a fuming Videl at his side. He couldn't help but laugh at her anger since it was over the strangest things. He just glanced up at the sky to see a figure flying over to them. His eyes widened at who it was.

"Hey Gohan! Wassaaaaaap!" Goku laughed landing in front of the couple.

He wore a bright yellow tee shirt worn navy jeans and black sun glasses, that Gohan recognized as his own.

"Dad!" Gohan cried shoving Goku behind the bushes as a group of freshmen just happened to be passing by.

Videl looked around to see if anyone else had seen Goku come in and then jumped into the bushes with them. Gohan grabbed the sunglasses and placed them on his own head as he scolded his father.

"You can't do that, Dad. Remember?" Gohan stated. "It's not normal."

"I know," Goku smiled. "Sorry, Gohan. Chichi wanted me to come pick you up, so I raced Nimbus here."

Goku and Gohan both looked upwards to see where the gold cloud was now. Goku shook his head and sighed, "It lost."

"Nimbus? Like the cloud nimbus?" Videl asked.

"I'll tell you later, Videl," Gohan moaned. "So what? Is instant transmission out of style now, dad?"

"Awe. Well, it would look even stranger if I suddenly appeared in front of you school. Besides, I wanted to race nimbus!"

"Hewwwwwwo!" A shill voice made all three of the scream.

Eraza had found them and stuck her head into the bushes scaring the tar out of them. She cocked her head at their sudden panic of her finding them. She was still wearing the cute pink and yellow cheer leading skirt and top with two little pink bows in her blond hair. She blinked her eyes and then smiled,

"I was looking all over for you, Gohan. I thought for sure you would be home right now."

"He should be," Goku smirked.

"Oh!" Eraza exclaimed at the group exited the bushes. "You must be Gohan's dad. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. My name's Eraza."

She held out her hand and Goku took it smiling about as big as she was, "It's nice to meet you too, Eraza."

Sharpener suddenly exited the school and spotted them. Gohan slapped his forehead knowing he wasn't going home anytime soon.

"Hey! Let's go to the pizza place, since we are all still here."

"Uh…"

"Yay! Pizza!" Goku laughed ecstatically, "I love pizza!"

"Who are you?" Sharpener said mostly to himself.

"You love any kind of food," Gohan said sweat dropping. "But I really have to be going now, don't I, Dad."

"But pizza is important!" Goku cried, "Please! Pretty please, Gohan?"

"Yeah! Please, Gohan!" Eraza joined in with her puppy dog eyes.

"But-"

"Gohan is really busy!" Videl snapped, "He… has lots of homework."

"Hump." Goku huffed. "He can do it in the pizza place."

"Nice try, Videl," Gohan whispered. "But when my dad's hungry, best let him eat."


They all walked into the pizza place and took a booth. Gohan had given his father a talking to before they entered about eating slowly so not to gross his friends out. Goku agreed sadly but he was glad he was able to eat pizza.

"That guy might be fan, Gohan," Eraza stated nibbling on the end of her hot slice of dripping cheese pizza. "Maybe he thinks your really cool or something."

"I never thought of it that way before…" Gohan said thoughtfully moving his food away from his father's wandering hand. "I guess it's possible."

"Fan for what?" Videl said hotly. "Nerd club?"

"I'm sure they worship Gohan there," Sharpener added.

"Some friends," Gohan sighed. "Come on, guys. This might be serious."

"It's probably some new evil bad guy out to kill ya, Gohan," Goku stated starting slowly on his 13th slice.

Everyone stared at him in bewilderment. Goku suddenly burst out laughing and cried, "I was just joshing you!"

After that was said they all joined in except for Gohan who knew his father was serious. Maybe it was a new evil. But who could it have been? He had only known people to want to kill his father. He had never heard of anyone wanting to actually kill him except for Cell. And Cell had been interested in his father before him. Suddenly an idea came to him but before he could open his mouth the whole building gave a violent shutter.

Gohan grabbed his glass before it slipped all over Videl's lap. Videl was thrown on top of him by Sharpener who was flung into her. Goku caught a shaken Eraza who was startling to become hysterical.

"It's another earthquake!" Eraza screamed.

Everyone rushed for the doors with Sharpener and Eraza in the lead. Videl hugged her hand into Gohan's feeling his warmth. She had no reason to be scared if he was here. But strangely he was shaking ever so slightly and kept exchanging dark looks with his father. Was their something going on that she didn't know about? How many secrets can one guy hide?

Gohan, Videl, and Goku were the last ones to exit the shop when a strange feeling came over Gohan. His heart hammered hard against his rib cage as he pulled away from the group and retraced his steps backwards. Videl and Goku followed in complete puzzlement of his behavior. Gohan stopped dead at the opened back door his mouth wide opened. Videl only caught a glimpse of what was in front of him before everything went a bright gold and then black.


Gohan woke up momentarily on his stomach to the sounds of someone eating. He glanced upwards to see his father there engulfing some pizza.

"Hiya Gohan," Goku smiled through a mouthful. "Welcome back."

"Is that my pizza?" Gohan asked suspiciously pointing to the plate of pizza in his lap.

Goku dunked the whole contains into his mouth and swallowed quickly, "What pizza?"

"Argh! Dad!"

"What?" Goku asked innocently.

"Where are we?" Gohan gulped looking around the place they were in.

It looked as though the whole pizza place had been crushed and blown apart. Gohan could barely recognize it. He bit his lip as he noticed Videl laying unconscious on the ground next to him with a large lump on her head.

"She's not going to happy when she comes to…"

"Pizza, Gohan?" Goku asked offering Gohan a box.

"Dad? How will we get out of here?"

"Well, we can't blast the top off cause we might cause it to cave in and we can't blow out one side cause it might collapse that way too. So I suggest we just wait for the z gang to dig us out," Goku said logically. "Pizza?"

"I guess" Gohan sighed taking the box and digging in.

Videl suddenly stirred and sat up with a jolt. She rubbed her sore head and gazed blankly at Gohan who was eating now, "Am I dead?"

"No," Gohan smiled liking his fingers. "But I bet you have a headache."

"A-are we stuck? Ah!" Videl suddenly let out a high pitched scream at the realization to where she was. "How are we going to survive! We need oxygen!"

"Videl… Calm-"

"Shut up! You are using all the air!" Videl snapped at Gohan who immediately hushed.

Goku stopped eating at tried holding his breath to please Videl. Gohan gave him a side glance before continuing,

"You're overreacting. We will be fine."

"How do you know?"

"Cause I have been in many worse situations," Gohan said sensibly. "We have plenty of oxygen. Trust me."

Videl finally seemed to have regained most of her calm while Goku was going purple in the face for lack of oxygen.

"That was directed to you too, dad," Gohan sighed. "You can breathe."

Goku let out his breath and panted hard in new air. Gohan laughed which cause Videl to join in. Videl leaned back next to Gohan as he began to eat again. She watched him uncertainly, "Why are you eating?"

"Nothing better to do," Gohan shrugged. "Besides, I'm hungry."

"Why not help us get out of here?"

"But-"

"Gohan!" Videl snapped, "Stop eating!"

"But I'm hungry!"

Gohan held onto one side of the pizza box while Videl clung onto the other. Between the two of them they ripped the box and the pizza fell onto the floor. The three of them stared at it sadly.

"Ten second rule," Goku proclaimed reaching over and snatching it.

Gohan and Videl made grossed out faces and backed away as Goku ate the food. Videl once again turned on Gohan, "So…"

"Okay! Okay!"

Gohan formed a small ki blast in the center of his palm and hurled it up in the center of the ceiling. It created a small hole the shown a small shower of sunlight and sky. Videl hovered up the hole and scowled, "Sure. I'll be able to fit through that."

"It's not for you to fit through," Gohan explained. "It's for my friends to find us…"

As soon as Gohan said that a voice rang down the hole to them, "Hey! Is Gohan or Goku down there?"

"Yes!" Gohan shouted. "Is that you Krillen?"

"In the flesh," Krillen called back. "I felt a strong presence so me, Vegeta, and Piccolo came flying… I mean running."

"Can you tell Vegeta to get us out?" Gohan asked. "Videl, my friend is down here so we can't get out the normal way."

"Gotcha."


"Why not Vegeta?" Krillen asked Vegeta in confusion. "Do you hate Goku so much that you want him to die down there?"

"No." Vegeta growled. "I would never wish such a thing. That is extremely dishonorable. Only I kill Kakarot."

"Then why?" Piccolo asked in his slow voice.

"I was hoping he would eat himself out of shape. It is a pizza place he is trapped in right?" Vegeta snapped. "I only hoped he would cause himself obesity."

"Fat chance," Krillen snickered. "Goku could eat all the food in the world and still be stronger than you, Vegeta… No offence."

"None taken. I suppose I was just de-illusioning myself anyhow. Surely not even all the pizza houses in the world would cause Goku to get out of shape," Vegeta scowled. "Might as well get them out. My son really like Gohan as a playmate anyhow…"

Once everyone was freed, Videl was completely devastated by the time. She nearly choked Gohan as she saw the position of the Sun in the sky. It was nearly seven at night.

"I never got my flying lessons!" Videl shrieked. "It's not fair."

"We have all weekend, Videl," Gohan sighed.

"Oh yeah…"

Videl took the skies and waved back down at the group as she left, "See ya! Nice to see you all again!"

"How can she fly?" Krillen asked suddenly.

"Gohan taught her," Piccolo answered.

"Oh. So Goku's got a daughter in law now?"

"Take that back!" Gohan shouted making Krillen back up.

"It's true, isn't it?!"

"I would quit while you're ahead, Krillen," Piccolo said sensibly as Gohan's face burned a bright red.

"Is that sunburn Gohan, or are you blushing?" Goku laughed.


To Be Continued…
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Next chapter is some more visions and a sparring match between Gohan and Trunks. Stay tuned!