DISC.: I do not own DBZ. I'm also too lazy to write up a decent disclaimer.

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I'm very sorry for how long it took for this chapter to come out. Due to a great amount of problems that I don't want to bug you all with right now, I haven't been able to post fics. I've got one thing to say . . . 'parents are hell.'

ALSO! I received a review from a person who was pissed at me for 'holding this chapter hostage' and 'blackmailing my readers to meet my own review demands.' I understand that what I did could be taken that way, and I'm sorry for any confusion that my wording might have caused. Some people seem to be under the impression that I have all of these chapters written and ready to post (and that I'm just being an ass and teasing you all by waving it above your heads); while in reality, this chapter wasn't even finished when I posted the last chapter (I've been 'burning the midnight oil' to get this chapter done)! I can't hold something hostage when the said thing doesn't exist. My only intent was to make this chapter something of a special occasion since I was rather close to 100 reviews (which is damn good considering my other stories), and I was depending on you all out there to make that last chapter break the 100 review point to make this a 100 review special. If you're one of the readers that is still not pleased with this explanation, give me your email address and we can continue this debate without annoying those who don't have a problem with it.

However, thank you to 'anonymous but annoyed' for informing me of the problem in my wording. Again, I apologize for any confusion and anger that this might have caused.

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Silence is Golden

Chapter 10: Why We Don't Get Gohan Mad!!!

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Videl watched as the Gold Fighter's shield seemed to collapse inward. Then there was a yell of anger and the golden light grew nearly three times as large and the shield disappeared altogether, leaving the beam's target free to be destroyed.

The men holding the blasters just laughed as there was an explosion where all seven beams met, kicking up dust and small pieces of rubble and sending them flying throughout the room.

A golden glow shone through the dust as it began to grow thinner and thinner. A few seconds later they were able to see a glowing form in the cloud of dust. "You'll have to do better than that to get rid of me." They heard the Gold Fighter's voice say as the dust cleared enough to reveal his form. Since most of the beams were aimed at his upper half (AN: Well duh, incinerating someone's legs won't kill them) the top portion of the gi was, well, not there. You could still see the ripped sections of it hanging over his waist. It gave a nice view of his toned body, but also proved that he was hurt. There were little streams of blood from countless cuts on his chest, back and arms. However what surprised Videl was that his hair seemed to be a couple inches longer and seemed more spiked than they did before. The single bang over his forehead had also grown to the point where it was even with his eyes. There were also bolts of blue lightning sparking around him. "What? Were you expecting me to be dead?" He asked with a smirk that could make Vegeta proud.

"Yea, but, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!?!?!?!" One of the men yelled as he dropped his blaster.

"I seem to be getting that a lot lately. Now just drop the blasters and stand against the wall and I won't blow you into the next dimension." The Gold Fighter said with the evil smirk still marring his face.

The men did as they were told, although looked questioning at the statement of the 'next dimension.'

Gohan walked over to the line of dropped blasters and kicked them into a pile before aiming an outstretched palm at the pile. Half a second, a flash of light, and a lot of twisted metal later, the seven blasters were laying on the ground as nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.

"Do you know what you just did?!" One of the gangsters yelled in, surprisingly, shock and fear.

"Yea, I just destroyed your weapons." The Gold Fighter stated as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I'm out of here! Those blasters had reactors that could explode at any second! I'll take the jail over being dead." The same man yelled as he picked up the still unconscious gang member before he and the others ran out the door.

Gohan turned around to see Videl with a knife cutting the ropes that held the manager and his employees together. After a couple of minutes, all of the workers were free and filing down the stairs and out of the bank.

"Uma!? Uma?!"

Gohan and Videl turned to the voice to see one of the female workers looking around the room with a frantic look on her face.

"Umm. What's wrong?" Videl asked her, still wary of the fact that the entire bank could blow at any second.

"My daughter, Uma, came to work with me today. When those men captured us, they took her someplace and I don't know where she is!" She explained as tears started to leak out of her eyes.

"Okay, right now though, you need to get out of here. We'll go look for your daughter." Videl tried to tell her.

"No. I want to go look for her." The woman said, sounding even more panicked at the thought of not having any control over finding her daughter.

"Look." The Gold Fighter made his presence known, "At the moment, we're just wasting time. I don't feel like going up in smoke so if you want to come, then get moving!" With that, he turned and walked in the direction of another door in the room.

"Coming." Both women said simultaneously as they followed him; one looking severely annoyed, the other looking scared as hell.

A few fruitless minutes of searching later, the three people were getting quite nervous. Well, Videl and the woman because they'd die along with the little girl if the reactors blew while Gohan wasn't worried about dying, he could survive a blast like that, especially in his current ascended form. He was far more worried about what his mom would do to him when he got home. It was obvious that he was going to be late again. VERY late.

"Hey, do you think that you could turn down the heat a bit? The golden glow and the lightning are a bit too much." Videl told the boy walking next to her. It wasn't much of a question, more of an order.

Gohan looked down at himself only to realize that there were still blue bolts of energy shooting from his glowing body. "Fine." He said coolly as he walked a bit faster before powering down, still staying in SS2 form.

"He doesn't seem like the nicest of guys. I was expecting the valiant hero and perfect gentlemen." The woman said in a slightly joking tone.

"Don't worry. He's been like this. He's an odd guy, but he's pretty cool. I always thought that those blasters were deadly beyond reason, but he survived seven direct hits." Videl said with a slightly dreamy look on her face that made the woman chuckle a bit.

"Hey. We're here for a reason. Not that I don't mind being complimented or anything, but shut up and walk." The Gold Fighter muttered angrily as he continued to search rooms.

"Then again, he can be an ass too." Videl muttered angrily as she began searching too. 'See if I ever support him again!'

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''Damn. It's like she ceased to exist!" Gohan whispered as he leaned against the hall wall.

"I'm not giving up now. I need to find my daughter." Uma's mom said with determination in her voice.

Gohan slid down the wall and into a crossed-legged position with his arms folded in front of his chest. While sliding down the wall, he realized that his gi was still completely destroyed. At least his wounds had stopped stinging since his ascended form healed faster than his normal form. Dismissing the thoughts, he began meditating to search for the girl's ki. Everything around him seemed to become clearer as he stretched his ki throughout the building. He could sense everything from the women beside him down to the plants beside the front desk.

"Now's not the time for a break!" Both women yelled at him before his calm face became that of a scowl.

"I know that. I'm meditating for a second. If you want to find her, then shut up and wait." The Gold Fighter told them as he calmed down and continued meditating.

"Just what do you hope to accomplish by wasting more time?!" Videl growled at him.

"She's in the basement in the second room to the left of the main hall." Gohan muttered as he stood up.

"WHAT?! How can you tell?" Videl said with shock and suspicion clearly in her voice.

"I can sense her life force. She's in the basement." He told them before running down the hallway toward the stairs.

"You trust him?" Videl asked the woman beside her.

"At the moment, his word is all that we've got." She replied before running after him with Videl at her heels.

The three of them quickly got to the room with the destroyed blasters. The Gold Fighter walked up to the guns before laying a hand on one of them. His eyes shot open and Videl could clearly see panic in his expression for a second before it returned to his normal passive expression.

"They're going to explode soon, aren't they?" Videl asked.

"They're energy is unstable. It's also incredibly powerful. I'm not sure how long we have." He stated as he gazed down at the pile of twisted metal, completely regretting his choice of destroying them.

As the three of them ran down the stairs to the main level, Gohan made yet another oath to himself. He was through with ignoring people's problems. He had just gotten cocky and made a vital mistake, just like with Cell. He wasn't going to let anything happen to anybody ever again; he wasn't sure of just how many chances that he'd get before they died. After all, everyone who'd known him had died at some point, in some cases because of him. The thought of anything happening to Videl enraged his saiyan side beyond anything he'd ever felt before. No. He wouldn't let anyone get hurt again. There were people out there who deserved his compassion, and they would get it. That didn't mean that he would go against the gruff side of his personality. It didn't take much looking back to realize how much of a naïve idiot he'd been earlier in his life. That side was now a permanent side of him.

The woman watched from beside Gohan as a seemingly hundred of expressions crossed his face. The two most prominent were hurt which turned into a look of understanding, and then it was back to his usual blank expression. There was more to this boy than she'd ever seen in someone before. His eyes showed pain beyond his years before they became hard and unfeeling again.

They reached the main floor and Videl walked in front of the group, trying to find a stairway of some sort. They wandered the main room before Videl questioned the female employee. "Don't you know where the stairs are?"

"No. Only the manager and the janitors are allowed in the basement. The upstairs is all that I know about." The woman said sadly as she continued looking.

"What's that?" Videl said out loud as she noticed a hallway leading off from behind the main desk. The three quickly made their way down the hall where they found a door that said 'Basement' in big, bold, letters.

Videl took out her knife again and stuck it in the crack between the wall and the door. A minute, lots of stress, and a click later they were through the door and making their way down the stairs into the dark basement.

"Hey, Gold Fighter. Now's the time for that glow." Videl told him.

He just scowled at her command. After all, his eyes could see just fine in the dark. But for the sake of not having one of them fall down the stairs and hit him, sending him into the ground below, he powered up enough to make a golden glow surround his form.

The three just stared as the boy became a walking candle. The basement was filled with boilers that glowed with red flames. It was obviously a very old building, and very dangerous.

The three looked around the room, trying to find a sign of the girl. The room was smoldering hot, even making the shirtless Gohan sweat, he didn't even want to think of what the other two women felt like. Then he felt an odd sensation in the ki field he was emitting. Something was disturbing the room, something big.

"Who's there?" Gohan yelled out as he dropped into a fighting stance.

The lights flashed on revealing a huge, giant of a man. He was leaning against the far wall of the room with a young girl tossed over his shoulder.

"So you're the ones who defeated my gang." The man said as he glared at them. "I was expecting a human but it seems that I got a saiyan. I haven't seen one in many years."

"What do you know about the Saiyans?" Gohan asked him.

"Oh, I know plenty about them. I was in frieza's army, one of his elite soldiers. I could have taken down the Ginyu Force with ease then and now I'm even stronger." The man smirked, "I was there when Lord Frieza destroyed the planet Vegeta, although I didn't know that any escaped."

"You were there?" Gohan repeated in a stunned voice.

"Yea. It was fun hearing the screams of agony as their bodies were roasted alive. It's been a while since I've been so excited, those monkeys were weaklings."

"You were there when Frieza killed them all?!" Gohan repeated loudly as he crouched before his ki grew even more, the fiery golden glow nearly tripling in size to the point where the ground was shaking. "You watched as all the Saiyans were destroyed. Frieza's killing of the men was bad, but he fried women and children too." Gohan whispered as he remembered what Vegeta had told him about his home planet.

Gohan's ki continued to rise as he thought of the hundreds of people who were destroyed at Frieza's hand. This man was gloating over Frieza's accomplishments, he was asking for his death!

"You wish to fight me, monkey?" The man taunted. "Fine. You'll get my true form!"

The man laughed insanely as his body began to bulge and expand. His skin turned a deep purple and white spikes started to grow out of his back, arms, shoulders, head, and knees. He also grew to the point of touching the roof. As the transformation ended, the man now looked like a giant, muscular, purple skinned, and white spiked humanoid. The girl was still lying limp over his giant shoulder.

"Can you handle this, monkey?" The man's voice was now deep and powerful, making dust fall from places on the machines.

Gohan dashed at the form and kicked it square in the chest. The humanoid just laughed in its deep voice as it rubbed its chest. "HAHA! That tickled. You'll have to be stronger than that to beat me in this form!" With that, he slammed his giant purple fist into Gohan's body, sending him flying to the ground where he created a miniature canyon right through the cement, stopping right at Videl's feet.

"Well, that was fun. I haven't had to throw a punch that powerful in a long time. It seems as though seven years of training has finally paid off. Even Cell wouldn't have stood a chance against this!" The purple man laughed as he slowly made his way toward Gohan's limp body.

At least it was limp.

Gohan shot out of the mini-canyon with a flash of golden light. "Ka . . . Me . . . Ha . . . Me . . . " A blue ball of light formed in-between his hands as he held them beside his body, "HAAAAAAAA!" As if on command, blue beam of light shot out of Gohan's hands in the direction of the giant of a creature.

The man just laughed and held out a hand to stop the attack. He wasn't ready for the amount of energy put into the attack as it burned right through his arm, completely incinerating the appendage. The girl was still on his opposite shoulder.

The mother looked ready to faint at how much danger her daughter was in. The Gold Fighter seemed too reckless, shooting like that. Didn't Hercule say that those were tricks though? It sure looked real.

'But my dad said that those were tricks?! What was that? The guy's going to kill that little girl at this rate! He's supposed to save her, not fry her!!!' Videl thought as she stared at the Gold Fighter.

"ARGH!" The purple man yelled as his other arm held the bloody stump that used to be an arm, sending the girl falling to the ground.

That was the chance that Videl was waiting for. She ran forward as fast as her feet could carry her and scooped up the little girl off the ground. She'd taken a nasty fall and would probably have a broken bone or two, but at least she was alive!

Videl noticed something out of the corner of her eye. The giant man was glaring at her with his fist raised, ready to smash it into her body.

Time seemed to slow down as the fist came down at Videl. She would have dove to the side, but the added weight of the girl was slowing her down.

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Gohan could only watch in shock as the fist came down at Videl, then it smashed into the ground, sending dust and broken pieces of cement flying around the room. His only thoughts were, ' I failed. I was supposed to protect her, and I failed.' Gohan's mind started to fly. 'I always fail. I failed dad at the Cell Games, I failed my brother because he has to grow up without a father. I failed my mom because she can't see her husband any more. And I broke my promise that I would protect Videl . . .' "DAMN IT!!!!!" Gohan yelled as his ki began to rise again. He wasn't paying any attention to the ground that started to shake with his rising ki. He paid no attention to the boilers which were beginning to levitate off the ground as his ki rose even more. He was furious, more than furious. He'd failed at everything that he set out to do, and he'd be damned if he was going to fail again. He was going to kill this man no matter what it took.

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The woman just watched in shock as the fist came down toward Videl and her daughter. Then the fist hit the ground, sending rubble flying through the air. Then she noticed something. The air seemed charged with electricity; she could actually see bolts of blue lightning sparking between the metal boilers. She looked at the Gold Fighter and nearly fainted. His hair seemed to be growing as his muscles expanded and grew to the point where they could be noticed through his baggy gi pants. She could see that his face seemed to be changing. His eyebrows seemed to be absorbed into his head, giving him an almost Neanderthal look as the single bang over his forehead grew where it was level with his nose. She felt as though something was pulling her into the air, then she noticed that broken pieces of cement that actually were floating around her. They seemed to spiral around the Gold Fighter. She would have thought that it was beautiful should she not have been in such a dangerous situation.

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The purple man laughed as his fist hit the ground. He could feel the cement cracking below his hands as it was crushed. His eyes traveled to the Gold Fighter before widening. The boy seemed to be changing. His muscles were growing, along with his hair. Lightning started to crackle around him as the cement started to float into the air. His power was growing at an incredible rate as well. The man suddenly realized his mistake. He'd angered a saiyan. When a saiyan got mad, they tended to get stronger. This must have been a new level of super saiyan. He knew about the super Saiyans as he'd seen the Cell Games, but he hadn't felt any power like this before! It was incredible.

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"You'll die. I swear that you'll die slowly and painfully. You'll be begging me to kill you before I'll actually kill you." Gohan growled as his energy stopped rising and his hair stopped growing; it was already down to his waist. He didn't care about anything at the moment. He knew that he felt stronger, and he was going to use every ounce of that strength to beat this guy into the ground!

With that thought, he dashed at the man again and punched him in the gut. That punch was followed by another, then another, then another. Each punch was nothing more than a blurr as shockwaves were realeased from the impacts. With each blow, the man stumbled back a few steps.

Gohan phased out and reappeared behind the man, then kicked him in the back of the head, sending the giant of a man flying into a wall which he bounced off of with a sickening crunch, shattering the cement wall, letting dirt and chunks of cement rain down on his body.

"Get up. I know that you're stronger than that!" Gohan yelled as the man picked himself off the ground.

The man didn't even get to his feet before he was punched in the chin, sending him flying up and into the ceiling.

Uma's mother just watched in awe. This boy that had gotten beaten in the begining was now pummeling the monster that. . . that . . . killed her daughter and Videl. She actually hoped that the Gold Fighter followed through on his promise to kill the humanoid.

Gohan grabbed the creature by his feet and pulled him out of the main floor and back into the basement where he was smashed against the cement floor. All the teen cared about was finding the most painful ways to make this bastard suffer without actuall killing him. His saiyan side wouldn't allow him to just end it. The man would, no, HAD TO, suffer; then he would die. Gohan would make sure of that.

The half saiyan pulled his arms beside him as the man started to get up agian. Instead of putting both hands together, he had one hand on either side of his body. "Ka . . . "

A golden ball of light began to form in each hand. The balls seemed to get brighter as he continued.

"Me . . . "

The golden balls were compacted with every bit of ki Gohan could muster.

"Ha . . . "

His hands were starting to burn with the ki, just waiting to be released.

"Me . . ."

The burning was getting unbearable. Gohan was starting to feel as if he were too weak to hold the ki for so long. He'd put too much ki into this attack and he could now barely hold it in. It didn't matter. The finishing touches were done.

"HHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" Gohan yelled as he thrust both arms forward, setting them wrist-to-wrist in front of him.

A beam of blue light formed from the ki in his hands, shooting towards the now wide eyed man.

Gohan angled the beam down towards the man's feet before angling it straight up.

The beam hit the man, pushing him into the air. He went right through the roof and kept on going, the blue and gold beam of ki pushing him up into the sky.

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Lime, the other employees, and nearly every reporter in the city watched in amazement as the ground started to shake. Pieces of the bank started to collapse as the effect of whatever was going on in there.

'That has to be Gohan. They haven't come out yet . . . I hope that they're all right . . .' Lime thought as she watched the building.

A few minutes later, the windows in the main floor exploded outward as a blinding gold light shone through the holes where the windows once were. Then the same happened to the windows on the second story. Then the entire building shook as a beam of golden light burst through the roof.

Everyone outside watched as the beam went higher and higher into the sky. Lime could have sworn that she'd seen a giant human being pushed into the sky by the beam, but at the moment, trying not to go deaf was more inportant. Most of the crowd was either screaming in fear or cheering in excitement as the beam grew thinner before dissapearing completely.

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Gohan smirked a bit as his beam exhausted itself and dissapeared from view. He'd gotten his revenge all right, but why did he feel so, well, empty?

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AN: Well, that's it for this chapter. Yes, Gohan did just go SS3 for those who actually care. I also know that you're all probably going to be hunting my head until I get the next chapter out.

I also know that this fight scene was rather long, no it is not the final fight. I just needed something to make Gohan go SS3 and decided to make a huge show out of it. What can I say? It's a sweet level of super saiyan!

-Ligar Zero X

PS: The original plan was for this chapter to have the results from my little challenge earlier. Due to the same problems, I'm just now tallying up how many got it right and how many didn't. I should have the results posted at the end of the next chapter, and my already overflowing inbox is making finding the emails VERY hard.

PPS: This chapter was supposed to be longer than the others, yet I still wrote it up faster than the others so that I could get it out ASAP. Please email or review with any spelling errors that I missed in my haste.

PPPS: WAAA! I'm running out of ideas of where to go from here! Writer's block sucks!!!

PPPPS: JUST REVIEW IN GENERAL!!! I haven't been able to write anything for a while and still want to make sure that my writing hasn't gotten rusty (or completely rusted over!).

Basically, NOW I'm making review demands, or there might not be a next chapter until I can think of somewhere to go from this point.