Title: A sweet surprise
Author name: Trugeta

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Akira Toriyama and Funimation. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

This story focuses on Gohan and Videl, and is set after the Majin Buu Saga. Reviews are welcome and appreciated.



A sweet surprise



Chapter 25: The worst punishment (for chibi Saiyans)



Last time...



Bulma gulped.
"Vegeta, are you sure that he is only teaching them a lesson? That sounds more like preparations for World War Three..."



Vegeta gruffed.
"Fine, onna. If you're so afraid, we go and check on them."



And that they did...



Now the continuation...



All Z-Fighters present had marched over to where the sounds where coming from, and only Vegeta was prepared for the sight that presented itself.



In fact, it caused the otherwise stoic and dignified Vegeta clutch his sides in barely contained laughter. Kakkarot's eldest son had obviously really discovered his Saiyan side and was now taking it out on the culprits.



Well, served them right for playing a prank on a stronger Saiyan. Thinking about it, Vegeta mused that the brats must have counted on being stronger than Gohan due to fusion, but they (as well as the rest) had greatly underestimated Gohan's true strength...



Meanwhile Bulma could seemingly not see the amusing side at all. She simply stared horrified in turns at her husband and at the sight that presented itself.



There stood Gohan on the ground, fully powered up and as intimidating as a Super Saiyan Three (and an outrageously strong Super Saiyan Three at that) can look, and his face was contorted in anger, while two golden blurs tried to evade the massive KI-blasts that were fired at them by the enraged Gohan.



Immediately on appearance at the sideKrillin and Yamcha had started to yell calming words at Gohan to bring some order into the situation, but to no avail. Gohan simply ignored them, and they had no hope in hell to stop him at all...



Apparently Gohan, in all his anger, did not think to fly and catch the pintsized mischief-makers with his superior speed, or else they would have been done for. The brats could count themselves lucky...



Vegeta doubted that even fusion would have helped them any, considering the power-level he was reading from Gohan, which he had to grudgingly admit, was enormous, and higher than Gotenks had ever been. The Saiyan Prince doubted, that even Goku could compare to Gohan´s strength...



By now Goku had finally shaken himself out of his shock. This powerhouse (he was even stronger than before, if possible) in front of them was really Gohan, and he looked decidedly pissed off. Even more so then since when Goku had last seen him...



His clothes were partially slashed and glass splinters were attached to his hair, but this seemed irrelevant to Gohan as he shot KI-blast after KI-blast at two unfortunate, dodging and speeding golden blurs, a crazy glint in his eyes that screamed revenge.



Goku walked over to Vegeta, who watched the whole scene with something akin to open amusement.
"What is Gohan doing? I thought you said he wanted to teach them a lesson. This looks more like he wants to send them straight into the afterlife!"



And truly, Gohan was looking more dangerously than ever. Never had anyone seen him this angry let alone powerful...



Vegeta had meanwhile regained his usual reservation.
"Correct, Kakkarot. It seems that your first spawn is indeed trying to send your second spawn and my first spawn to the next dimension." the Saiyan Prince said, well aware that he had called Gohan 'spawn'. But the young man was currently otherwisely occupied...



Sharpener, who had in the meantime arrived with Erasa, Barry and Alex, stood there slack-jawed, staring at an out-of-control Gohan.
"B... but why?" he stammered, while Alex had begun to root for Gohan. Those little prankster had it coming...



Vegeta smirked, despite the fact that a lowly human had dared to ask the mighty Prince of all Saiyans a question and despite the fact that Gohan was still trying to kill his son and Goten.
"I'd say because of the prank they played on him." he said, pointing at Gohan's fully powered up state, complete with lilac dyed hair. "Whatever the brats did to him, he is now unable to power down, and as you can see his hair is dyed lilac. To dye a Saiyan warriors' hair is one of the worst things one can do, for it is an insult to his honour, and that is what Gohan has become now. He acts more like a Saiyan. And who else besides my spawn and Kakarott's youngest spawn would dare to pull of such a prank? As the stronger Saiyan he is now teaching them a lesson." he finished, smirking.



Goku looked worried.
"Vegeta, this 'lesson' has gone far enough. We have to restrain him so he can calm down. Otherwise he might really hurt them."



Videl nodded, while sending this as a thought to Gohan via telepathy. To her surprise he seemed to block her deliberately, something she had not known he was capable of...
"Gohan, stop! This is enough!" she yelled, resorting to spoken words.



Furthermore Gohan seemed not to (want to) hear her, for he continued to growl and fired his KI-blasts at the chibis, each one more powerful than the last, lightning bolts flashing dangerously around him.



Vegeta pouted, for it was a pleasure to see a more Saiyan Gohan in action, but Kakkarot had a valid point there. This had really gone far enough. Punishment had been dealt.
'Kakkarot is right. Suppose we should stop him before he succeeds in turning the brats into burnt crispies. The onna would screech at me for months if I allowed this, despite the fact that they would deserve it and that we could wish them back...' the Saiyan Prince thought, remembering all the pranks those two had played on him, and how often he had been tempted to blast the brats straight into the next dimension...
"Right, Kakkarot." he finally said and powered up to his maximum as a Super Saiyan Two, while Goku powered up to his maximum as a Super Saiyan Three.



Between the two of them they managed to get a hold on the growling and livid Gohan, and could restrain him.
As they were both sufficiently strong Super Saiyans Gohan's aura did them no harm, and they managed to get a decent hold at Gohan on both sides, forcing him to calm down.



It took several minutes, but finally Gohan had calmed down enough so he would not kill the chibis right away, and finally said that the chibis could descend slowly and cautiously to the ground.



As soon as they had sat down onto the grass, Bulma looked sternly at her son who sat there panting, next to a slightly singed, but decidedly happy and grinning Goten.



Trunks too was chuckling in mirthful laughter beside a Goten who was by now clutching his sides, obviously thinking that this had been the funniest thing in the world.



Both seemingly failed to realize how close they had been from being blasted into the next dimension. Well, if the outrageously strong Gohan had failed to make a sufficient impression, they as their mothers would try a different approach. A working approach...



The chibis' happy expressions and laughter faded quickly as their respective mothers stepped in front of them, faces set and obviously very angry. Both were in pissed-off--harpy-on-the-warpath-mode, something you would not want to encounter at all or even touch with a yard-long Bulmatium-covered pincer and behind protective measures to boot. Add to it that both women were hefting their frying pans of doom™ in their hands. Kami knows where they had spawned those things from, but the fpods did not fail to make the desired impression on the chibis...



Trunks and Goten looked at each other and gulped, sensing what was to come.
"Busted!" they said in eerie unison.



And then the yelling started, while everyone with Saiyan hearing (beside the poor chibis who did not dare to move a muscle) covered their ears.



Meanwhile Videl had walked over to Gohan who had plunged down onto one of the chairs, trying to comfort him, while her husband was silently growling at the two pranksters who were now being lectured by their mothers.



All good and well, but he wanted to punish them! As the yelling continued, he began to think of an appropriate punishment, his before grumpy face now filled with evil delight. He would let the onnas screech at the chibis, and once they were due he would have come up with a decent punishment. Yeah, that sounded like a satisfying plan...



"What do have to say to your defence, young man? Are you crazy?" Bulma yelled at her son, anger obvious on her face. "What were you thinking when you played this prank on Gohan? Did you think at all? He was so angry, he could have killed you! Your father and Goku had a hard time restraining him! Do you have a death wish, young man?" she screamed at the top of her lungs, making her son and Goten cringe.



Then it was Chi-Chi's turn, and she breathed in deeply (run for the hills!) before yelling,
"Yeah! What would have happened if Goku (and Vegeta)" she added grudgingly, for she still did not like the Saiyan Prince very much, "had not kept Gohan from blasting you to the afterlife? I would have lost one of my sons! And why? Because of some stupid prank he played on his older brother which turned him into a monster!" she screeched, whereas Gohan harrumphed loudly at her for referring to him as "monster", but not bothering to correct her as he was too busy growling at the little demis and fixing them with his penetrating stare, making them squirm in discomfort.



Chi-Chi however continued absolutely unfazed, also ignoring Vegeta's outraged instant-death-glare-just-add-water, for calling the pinnacle of a Saiyans' power a "monster",
"You know that what you did to Gohan was wrong! Why did you do it, then?" she finally asked dangerously.



It was Trunks who looked up with his best puppy-dog eyes that had always worked so well on his mother until now and he aimed them both at his mother and Chi-Chi.
"Sorry, mom, Mrs. Son. We were just playing a prank. We thought Gohan would think it was funny, and we thought it would be harmless and cause some laughs." he said earnestly.



"That it surely did, brat." Vegeta mumbled quietly to himself, an amused smirk on his face.



The women looked sternly at their respective sons, preparing to launch themselves into the next rant. This was however prevented, when Goten looked at his best friend with a bewildered expression.
"Hey Trunks, that's not what you told me! You said Gohan would get so mad at us that he would try to blast us into next century, and boy were you right!"



Trunks just sighed at his best friend's cluelessness. What was a master-plan good for if your best friend spoiled it anyway? Life just wasn't fair...



From the chairs at the table, several yards away, a low, threatening growl emitted from Gohan's throat, and the sea of lightning bolts around him even increased. Trunks and Goten gulped, quickly switching to Super Saiyan to be on the (relatively) safe side...



Videl, who was sitting next to him, still unable to touch her husband, looked like she was about to growl too. And then the yelling started again, this time with even more volume...



By now completely ignorant towards the yelling due to unearthly hunger, Goten was drooling at the barbecue, in fact nearly salivating, while Trunks was in a similar state, only that he was trying to keep his dignity. He was the son of Vegeta after all. But it had been soooo long since they had last eaten something...



Meanwhile the mothers had proceeded as far as the punishment was now decided.
"Trunks, you are grounded for a month this time! No Computer, X-Box, Play Station, Nintendo or other related stuff during this time! And no visits from Goten!" Bulma shouted.



Trunks groaned. That was a rather severe punishment...



Chi-Chi had finished her rant with the punishment for Goten, too. The demi was also grounded for a month and was not allowed to visit Trunks during this time, either. AND no electronic toys regardless which type. Well, there were always Cell-Phones...



But...



"And..." Bulma continued, "absolutely NO phone calls during this period of time. Neither normal nor cell phones! Plus no internet chats and or e-mails or anything else regarding communication." she finished, and Chi-Chi nodded.



The protests were immediate.
"But Mom!" Trunks wailed, "You can't do this to us! You are crippling our ways to inform us! To communicate!" and Goten added "No internet? Mom, you can't do this!"



"You should have thought about it before you did what you did! Hopefully this will show you that your doings have consequences, young men!" Bulma and Chi-Chi stated in unison.



"Aww darn it!" Trunks and Goten exclaimed, and the others laughed. But the women were not finished yet. This time the boys would learn...



Bulma and Chi-Chi looked at each other and nodded. They had found the perfect immediate punishment...
"Trunks, Goten, as you admitted that you knew it was wrong what you did to Gohan your immediate punishment will be the following: you will get no lunch today. None at all. And if you ever prank anyone again, the consequences will be most dire. Remember this."



That said, Bulma and Chi-Chi looked at each other again.
"We warned you what would happen if you played any more pranks. But obviously you did not listen. We hope you learn your lesson this time."



Trunks and Goten looked at their mothers as if they were hell-spawned demons. Goten for his part knew instantly that his mother was in fact serious. He knew that look. But no food! No fair!



His last coherent thoughts were, 'Look at all that pretty ice cream...' as his eyes glazed over and he fell to the ground like a felled oak tree, blissfully unconscious. The privation of his food had been too much for him...



Trunks looked at his fallen comrade in the art of pranks. Turning his eyes upward, he saw Gohan looking at him with a downright evil gleam of satisfaction in his eyes, and as he looked into the round only Goku's eyes were filled with something akin pity.



Trunks' last thoughts before he hit the ground beside his best friend were, 'Gohan... cursed water... punishment... no fair!'



Goku gazed down at the fallen pranksters with pity. He winced at the punishment his wife and Bulma had inflicted upon the chibis, but he had to admit that they deserved it. They had gone too far this time and they should have known better...



Sighing he grabbed a plate and helped himself to some decent lunch.



Vegeta on the other hand looked quite amused. His son and Kakkarot's youngest spawn had fought tough battles, had been absorbed by Majin Buu, had even fought the outrageously strong Brolli without flinching, but when Bulma and Chi-Chi had taken away the food, those two were reduced to the hungry brats that they were. Almost amusing. Almost...



After this the picnic proceeded normally, well as normal as a picnic with Saiyans involved could proceed. Sharpie nearly fainted as he saw how many lunch-capsules the Saiyans unencapsulated, and when they started eating in earnest his eyes nearly bugged out.



To see them eat that much in a span of mere minutes was enough to make it clear, that Gohan's eating habits he had displayed during his days at Orange Star were a laugh against this.



But the biggest shock was to see the still fully-powered up Gohan dig into his food. Due to his increased need of energy he ate more helpings than even his dad, and that was saying something...



TBC...



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Next time: You think the punishment is complete? Wrong! Gohan himself has more in store for the chibis. Plus, the Z-Fighters begin to suspect that something odd is going on. And... Gohan stands up to his mother and gives her a run for her money! And what about Goku? This day will hold some surprises! So stay tuned!



Thanks for reading! And please review!



As always very special thanks to my beta Rose Vaughn, who is doing a great job! Thx, Ash!

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Thanks for all those reviews! You guys motivate me greatly time and time again to write more new chapters! Thank you, guys!



Rejhan: Yeah, that he did. I see you're catching up. Well done. And glad that you still like it!



Son Oliver: Yup, that we do. Though Gohan did not kill them; and I have to disappoint you, Vegeta won't become a Super Saiyan Three until after they punish Dende. But he will get the means to do so soon. I have some nice plans. As for Bulma, that's just her way of acting towards Vegeta, but I'm sure that he will pay her back... :)
But Videl will play a part in the Dende punishment, and a surprising one at that. You'll see...
And you can be sure the Saiyans will find out soon, it's not long from here on, so bear with me. :)



goldfighter: Thank you! And he did show 'em that he is one not to mess with. I doubt they'll play a prank on him ever again. And I'll do my best to keep up the 'great work'.



ladybugg: Thanks, I'm glad that you liked them. Yeah, that's very important, to sever the old ties and start something new, something of your own. I'm glad that I manage to write it believable. Nice to hear that you liked the part where they conversed about the name, I put quite some thought into that one...



Princess of the Saiyans 16: Thank you! I'm glad that you think it's funny, and I'll do my best to update often!



GOGI: Hope you didn't hurt yaself. :) Glad that you enjoyed it!



Megs21: Sorry for the wait, but having no i-net access for about 9 days causes update problems...
Thanks for the compliment, and I'll do my best to keep this a good story. And your reaction will come, only it will be some chapters until then. I have more planned...



zfighter1989: Nah, I could not bring it about to kill the chibis. Though the punishment was rather severe, wouldn't you agree? And the punishment from Gohan is still in the making...
Heh, that sounds like you were a prankster to, eh? Yea, good ole times... #sigh#



Candy the Duck: Umm, dunno if I'd dare to laugh if I saw Gohan with purple hair, but then I too would know I had gone bonkers...
As for the clothes, nope, then the clothes of the Saiyans would be shredded each time they power up. Actually I'd say their trainings uniforms are made of a material which can cope with the energies released by the power-ups...



KaylaTheHedgehog: Nah, not dead, but quite severely punished. I hope I updated fast enough...



Tootsy: I can imagine that you're eager to see your daughter. But it's a good thing that it is a September-birth, thus it ain't too warm any more. And I'm sure you and your boyfriend will be good parents, don't worry.

I'm glad that you enjoyed the chapter. I always wanted to make Gohan more Saiyan, and most important, more powerful. And yeah, I'd say Goten and Trunks were quite afraid, and they had every reason to be! I would not want to have a SSJ3 on my heels either...



Mr.Staypuft: Thanks! Also the revenge was not complete, and still is not. And no problem with your use of the fpods in your story, that was quite a funny solution for the problem. Though my approach will be different, but you'll see soon.
I'll go check your Ranma fic out once I've got the time. C ya!



ElectraBlack: Hey, I'm glad to hear that I could cheer you up! That sounds like you got a bad bout of cold. Hope you're better soon!
And no, I did not want Gohan to kill the chibis, thus 'only' punishment had to be dealt, though the punishment from Gohan is still pending. I think too that they won't dare to prank Gohan or any of his friends for a loooong time...



Laurenke1: Thank you! I'll do my best to keep it up!



Some DBZ Fan: Thanks, will try my best to do so!



cosmictwilight: Heh, good to hear that. And no problem, I myself know what being 'super busy' means. And I know that prevention-tactic of yours all too well...
Uni is going quite well. Actually, it will cause some problems in the next few weeks, but that will be part of an announcement I'll make...



Marshmellow13Dragon: Yea, they should have done this. But then, on the other hand: Gohan is so much faster and stronger, can detect KI... so hiding was not really an option. And I'd say Chi-Chi and Bulma made quite an lasting impression on their sons...
Sarki: Bulma and Chi-Chi do prefer the fpods, that's safe to say...
As for reviewing your stories, you're welcome. I stick to what I say in my bio, and besides, gotta love your stories!



Joou Himeko Dah: Oh yea, that he was. Gladly he has calmed down now, giving him time to think... oO



Rose Vaughn: Nah, my dear beta, never! :)
Hope you succeed in getting that image outta there...



animeprincess1452: Thank you! Yea, I always wanted to bring about that change in Gohan, and finally I had my chance. But you'll see more changes in Gohan in the next few chapters (nope, no foreshadowing here, I only say this much: it will be one hell of a surprise for Chi-Chi). And I'm glad that you liked those line, I always try to bring some humour into my chappies...



nick-lover1991: That's something I always wanted to do. And you're right, the Gohan of the series was much to weak. I loved to change this...



Cappucine: Heh, I'm glad to hear that. And thank you for the great compliment, but you yourself write very well too. But Gohan would never hurt you, he's only stronger, but still a good guy, even if more acting like a Saiyan.



Saiyan-of-the-Seas: Nope, I would not want to be them too. First nearly blasted into afterlife, then punished severely, and the punishment from Gohan is still pending. oO...



zara m: Yup, but I don´t have anything against nice long reviews. Rather the opposite...
Oops, that escaped me and my beta completely. Heh, corrected it...
And yeah, that sub-level idea made so much sense that I included it. Hope you´re not mad at me. :)
As for the PL-masking technique, that was a spontaneous idea of mine to explain why the others had not sensed Gohan´s ascension to higher power. I will come up with a (hopefully satisfying) exanation in one of thee next chapters. Thanks for the constructive critics, Psi!



Please continue to read and review. I greatly enjoy everyone's feedback. Thank you!