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Gohan and Videl: A sweet surprise
Chapter 17: Frying Pan in action
Last time...
Videl unlocked the door by entering the twelve-digit security code and the young couple went straight for the kitchen. Naturally Gohan noticed that Videl's backpack was more filled than usual...
"Videl? What is in your backpack? It looks so heavy." he said.
His wife only smiled.
"You'll find out soon enough..."
Now the continuation...
As soon as they had entered the Satan mansion Gohan went to hit the showers and Videl to raid the fridge. She was getting increasingly hungry and feared the worst for her weight in the upcoming months.
Bulma had warned her that she might accumulate some more weight than a woman with a full-human pregnancy, and Videl did not like this prospect one bit.
And now her food-cravings had begun full force and she felt herself getting moodier and moodier. But hell, she could not help it...
Thus she opened the fridge, happily humming to herself at having the chance to satisfy her hunger.
"Cool! We have some meatballs!! And there, strawberry jam! Superb! Oh, and look at this! Some asparagus! Perfect!" she said to herself while fetching all the things that her hunger demanded.
She did not care at all about her food cravings and how they might look, for Bulma had told her that they were perfectly normal.
Her exact words had been:
"You may experience some days in which you seem to crave certain food items. The specific reason for this is not known, yet. Although I am doing research on this subject. It is however thought to be related to all the pregnancy hormones circulating in your system. Often this will pass after the first three months of pregnancy. As long as you make sure you are eating all the important nutrients needed for you and your baby, indulging in some of your cravings every now and then will likely be fine, Videl. But as you're carrying a part-Saiyan, those food-cravings could be... prolonged." the genius scientist had said.
Videl sighed. As much as she hated to give in into those food-cravings, the craving was just stronger than her!
It depressed her on one hand that she, a self-confident young woman was now controlled by cravings and it depressed her a bit, but on the other hand she found comfort in the thought that she needed those foods her body longed for.
And after all...
It's all your fault, Son Gohan!! she thought, suddenly getting angry. Men!! she thought angrily, before her mood suddenly changed and she began preparing her meal cheerily.
She happily combined the meatballs and strawberry jam, and once she was finished began eating it with gusto.
Mmhh, that tastes gooood! Videl thought, taking the next bite.
Yeah, some of the funniest foods and food combinations are eaten during pregnancy. Bulma had said so, and she was so right!
Now all that did matter to her was this meatball with strawberry jam and asparagus before her, and she was so absorbed with her food that she did not notice Gohan coming into the room, freshly showered.
"Hey sweetheart! Anything to eat for me?" he asked cheerily, ignoring the strange things his wife was eating.
Suddenly she looked up, anger flashing in her eyes.
"Expect me to stand in the kitchen and cook for you the whole day?" she asked angrily, her voice rising.
Gohan was a bit surprised.
"Uhm... yes?" he said sheepishly.
"What?? You want me to stand in the kitchen all day??!" she asked heatedly.
Now Gohan noticed that he had said something he better should not have…
Uhm, yeah, I want my food... he thought, but did not say anything out loud. He forgot however their bond…
Videl's face had contorted in fury and she had stopped eating. Faster than lightning she had fetched something from her backpack, all with amazing speed.
She stomped back towards the kitchen table, a menacing frown on her face, and…
BOOOOONNNG
Before Gohan knew what had hit him (and it hit quite hard) he was nursing a large bump on the back of his head.
Videl sat down again, frying pan in her hand, and smiled sweetly.
Forgot that I could hear your thoughts, eh, Gohan-chan?
Gohan paled. This could not be...
Damned! Darn those bloody mood-swings... he cursed mentally.
BOOOOOOOONNNNNGGG
Gohan groaned as his head was smashed flat, and slowly regained his balance, nursing another rising goose egg.
As Gohan mumbled and grumbled, now nursing two bumps, Videl glared at Gohan.
"That will teach you not to curse, Son Gohan!" she said sternly and resumed her lunch.
Gohan however slumped back in his chair, now suffering a slight head-ache. That... thing Videl was holding in her lap looked suspiciously like that damned, dreaded frying pan of doom of his mother! But that could not be! It must not be!
He had hoped that he had finally escaped that dreaded... thing that even his father feared more than all needles of the world put together!
Cautiously he asked
"Vid... Videl? What is this thing there in your lap?"
Videl looked up from her meal, smiling sweetly.
"Oh this..." she said, taking the frying pan from her lap, breathing upon it to polish its darker-than-dark surface and giving it a nearly lovingly look, "is a frying pan, my dear husband."
I wouldn't have guessed it myself... Gohan thought sarcastically, before regretting that deeply, for
BOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGGG
"Ouch! That hurt!!" Gohan complained loudly, now nursing a third rising goose egg.
"Then watch what you think, Son Gohan." she told him, resuming her lunch while placing the frying pan in her lap again, thinking
Heh, Chi-Chi was right. A frying pan really is the weapon of choice when fighting a Saiyan. And this frying pan is the hit!
This time Gohan had heard his wife's thoughts, and he paled visibly, fearing the worst.
"W... what? My mother gave this... thing to you?" he stammered, barely able to believe it.
Videl nodded.
"Yeah, she said she could spare this one. Although she is using hers so long now it does not show the slightest signs of symptoms of old age. And now this trinket is mine!" she said while stroking her frying pan lovingly.
Gohan paled even more. His mother? His own mother? How could she betray him like this?
Meanwhile on the lookout
While the poor Gohan was asking himself these questions a certain Kami of Earth could be found rolling on the floor with hilarity.
This was going even better than he had thought! A pregnant Earth woman with mood swings and a frying pan of doom in her hands... what a combination!
He only had to ensure that Gohan and Vegeta would not be able to trace the frying pans back to him, but he had heard Chi-Chi's explanation, and it was good.
Now he only had to influence Bulma into finding the frying pan and calling Chi-Chi. Then the Son woman and Bulma could come up with a likely explanation why Bulma suddenly had one too...
Yeah, that sounded good. And so the green god went to work...
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Bulma, who was overseeing one of her ongoing experiments suddenly felt a strange urge to go straight into her kitchen and make herself an omelette with cheese and gammon.
She looked at her watch, and noticed that it was rather late. After Videl had left she had gone straight into the lab without lunch (conveniently playing Dende in the cards) to test out a new idea.
But regarding her hunger the only thing she wanted to test out right now were her cooking skills, which had luckily improved over the years.
Now she was sure that she would survive her own cooking skills, something she could not have claimed some years ago...
Thus Bulma assigned one of her assistants to the experiment, and the young woman felt extremely pleased with herself while Bulma could not have cared less.
Normally she cared for her employees, but right now the only thing that mattered to her was to get a good omelet with cheese and ham. Period!
She exited the lab and went straight into the house. Conveniently Trunks and Vegeta were training and Bra was being babysitted by her parents. Perfect!
Bulma fetched all the ingredients she needed for her omelet, but cripes, she could not find the darn frying pan.
Look in the kitchen cabinet! Dende told her, so that she would think it was one of her own thoughts. With his Kami-powers this was easy...
"I should look in the kitchen-cabinet..." the blue-haired genius scientist muttered to herself and did just that.
And found... a frying pan. A very normal thing to find in a kitchen cabinet, only that this one had a note attached to it.
'Use it wisely.' stood written upon it. Odd. Very odd...
She forgot her hunger instantly and grabbed the phone, dialing Chi-Chi's number. Seconds later the Son woman answered.
"Chi-Chi Son here."
"Hi Chi-Chi! This is Bulma!"
"Oh hi Bulma! Wanna chat some?"
"Would love too, but I have to tell you something first..."
"Fire away!" Chi-Chi said, her curiosity awoken.
"Something really odd happened to me some minutes ago. I wanted to make me an omelet and searched for a frying pan, until I found one in my kitchen cabinet."
"Yeah?" Chi-Chi asked in a tone the edged the other woman to continue.
"Only that I never possessed something like this. Darker-than-dark surface, good handling, heavy, but not too heavy..."
"Oh!" Chi-Chi squealed from the other end of the line. "You won't believe it when I tell you! The same thing happened to Videl!"
"Really?" Bulma asked, sitting down on a stool. This was getting interesting.
And really, during the next few minutes Chi-Chi told her everything regarding the frying pan of doom, that she had received one mysteriously some years ago, how she had claimed that her father had given it to her and everything else.
"That's awesome, Chi-Chi! And this thing is really strong enough to knock a Saiyan out?" she asked, disbelieving. After all, a Saiyans head was supposedly one of the hardest parts of their bodies! Stubbornness uncounted...
"You bet!" came from the other end of the line. "You wouldn't believe how often I used it on Goku, Gohan and Goten! As I already told Videl: A frying pan is the weapon of choice when fighting a man, but even more so a Saiyan. Its primary use, cooking, will distract them long enough with thoughts of food for you to get in one good hit. And using the frying pan of doom it works like a charm! I thanked all the gods in the universe that I finally had a weapon that could induce fear even in Saiyans, that I can tell you."
Bulma grinned. And her grin grew even wider. Chi-Chi could nearly hear the grin at the other end of the line...
"You mean that this frying pan of doom is harder than a Saiyans skull?" she asked with glee in her voice.
Chi-Chi smiled evilly at the other end of the line.
"That is for sure. Ask the heads of my men..."
"Hmm, these frying pans must be nearly indestructible, then..." Bulma mused, all the scientist she was know to be.
"Bulma, stop thinking about it. Don't act as a scientist, act as a woman. You finally have the weapon at hand to give Vegeta a run for his money. Don't you see the possibilities? You don't have to rely on threats any more, you have something far better now!" Chi-Chi said.
Thinking about it Bulma had to agree. This was indeed so, wasn't it?
"You're right. Vegeta is in for a nasty surprise..." Bulma said evilly, stroking her brand-new frying pan of doom while thinking about the infinite possibilities...
to be continued...
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== Next time: Bulma tests the frying pan of doom on her unsuspecting husband, while Gohan is tortured, too. Oh yeah, the joys of a pregnancy... poor Gohan! ==