After Shocks
Chapter 10: Undercover?
Finally! Chapter ten! YAY! Sorry, I know it's been like, over a month since I updated, but I finally finished this chapter!!! Woo hoo!
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Z
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Gohan casually flew to school. Today was a great day so far. He'd gotten up earlier, so no annoying alarm clock, no Goten screaming for him to get up, no rushing around the house at the speed of light, no running into class half a second before the bell rang…ok scratch that last part. Fate can only be nice for so long, as Gohan discovered. A massive bank robbery was going on below, and it didn't look like the local police were anywhere near stopping it on their own.
"OK, YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO GET OUT HERE WITH YOUR HANDS UP, OR I'M COMING IN!" Videl screamed. "TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVVV-close enough- TIMES UP!"
Videl shot forward, fully intending to smash some bad guy butt, but just then, Gohan flew down right in front of her, and stopped her from making such a rash move.
"GAHHH! MOVE! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF STOPPING A BANK ROBBERY!"
"Um, yeah. You don't wanna go in there by yourself. I'm coming too."
"NO! YOU ARE NOT! THIS ONE'S MINE!"
" 'Del, there are thirty guys in there! Do you really think you can take out thirty armed men at once?!?"
"YES!…Maybe…grrrrr. Fine, just don't get in my way too much."
Gohan smiled happily and followed her into the building, ready to beat the crap out of some losers.
Meanwhile, the crowd that had gathered around the scene could only stand there in wonder. Who was this strange boy who had just flown into their midst? And how did Videl, the daughter of their city's 'hero' know him? Why was he going into the building too?
After a few minutes, and many shouts and gunshots later, Videl and the black-haired kid came out of the building. They were dragging what appeared to be the beaten and bruised body of the leader of the group, each holding onto one arm as his back scraped against the pavement. The two high fived each other, both smiling in delight.
"Hello there Videl." The police chief said. "Thanks again, we owe you one."
"It's more like you owe me fifty, but I'll let it slide." She said, still grinning from ear to ear, occasionally glancing at the tall boy next to her.
Now the crowd was even more curious. Videl? Joking? All they ever saw was her scowling after stopping a crime.
"Uh, erherm, and who is this Videl?" The police chief asked, gesturing towards the boy next to her.
"This is just…umm…err…You wanna tell him?" She asked. This was the first time that Gohan had appeared in public without his costume, and he wasn't powered up as a super saiyan to disguise himself.
"Oh…I'm Saiyaman. Or was rather." He said, sweat dropping. Apparently news of his not-so-secret identity hadn't spread around that much, surprisingly.
"Right kid. Now who are you really?"
"Saiyaman. But you can just call me Gohan now, seeing as it is my real name."
"Oh yeah!" Someone from the crowd screamed, stepping forward. "I recognize you from the Martial Arts Tournament! You're the Gold Fighter too aren't you!"
"Er, yeah! He said, transforming to prove it.
K, we really have to get going, we're late for school as it is!" Gohan said quickly. He hovered about a foot off of the ground for a second. "Comin' Videl?"
"Yeah, hold on two seconds would ya!"
The two crime fighting teens shot straight up in the air, and then, perfectly in sync, did a sort of barrel roll to straighten out and flew across the sky.
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In a few minutes, they had reached the school and landed on the roof.
"Well that was an exciting way to start the day! Hey I rhymed!"
Shaking her head from side to side in amusement, Videl rolled her eyes, grabbed Gohan's arm, and began to yank him towards the stairs.
"Come on Robert Frost. Wait 'till English class will you?"
"Fine. You're just jealous because you didn't get to say it! He said jokingly.
"Oh, yeah. That's me." She retorted sarcastically. "I am sooo jealous of you."
"Ah ha! I knew it!"
They then shared a laugh, and opened the door, having finally made it down the stairs. Just as the exited, the second bell rang, signaling that they were late. The two, along with a few other students who had ignored the first bell and continued to talk, ran to their respective classes.
Videl reached the door to their class ahead of Gohan, and slammed the door open.
"Sorry, robbery this morning!" Videl yelled on her way to take her seat.
"Ditto." Gohan said, hoping no questions were asked.
"Wait just a second you two." The teacher said. "Stay right there."
Gohan and Videl were left standing by the door in front of the class while the teacher went to her desk and collected a few papers.
"Hello class. I am Mrs. Maringo, and I'll be subbing in this class for your old teacher Mr. Aquari due to…health…problems… Anyways, back to you two. What's this about a bank robbery?"
"Oh, hi, I'm Videl, and I help out the police sometimes, and this is Gohan. He helps out too. That's why we're late. We sometimes have to leave during class too if the police call, so if we run out, that's where we're going."
"Um, alright. I see a note about you Videl, but I don't seem to have anything about your partner here."
"Yeah, that's because he used to have a secret identity, and he always snuck out of class by pretending he had to go to the bathroom or something."
"I was the Great Saiyaman." Supplied Gohan.
"Yes, I've heard of him. Well, go to your seats then. I don't like to be interrupted, so if you have to do your police business, please don't make a big commotion."
"We won't Mrs. Maringo!" They both yelled, finally going to their seats.
The way Sharpener and Erasa were seated, there was a seat between Sharpener and Erasa, and then another seat on the end of the row. Gohan scooched in and was seated between the two, and Videl sat on the end next to Erasa.
"Hey cutie!" Erasa greeted. "Is there some reason you're staying like this?" She said, grabbing a lock of his hair.
"Whaaa…OH! I forgot!" Gohan yelled.
The teacher glared at him for a second, but went on collecting all the notes to begin the lesson.
Gohan cringed, and then looked back at Erasa. He quickly dropped out of Super Saiyan, because he had completely forgotten that he'd demonstrated to the crowd that he was indeed, the Gold Fighter.
"There. Is that better?"
"Not really. You look surprisingly good as a blonde…" She pouted.
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The rest of the day was going perfectly, including gym, where they were still practicing martial arts, until their final class. They were in the middle of an extremely boring lecture, and many people seemed to be concentrating harder on the teeth marks on their pencils than on the lesson. Suddenly, Videl's watch went off, scaring the majority of the class half to death.
"Videl? Videl are you there?" The police chiefs voice came over the watch.
"Yeah. Whadduuwann." She said sleepily.
"Um, we need you and Saiyaman-err, what's his name- to come down to the station."
"Now? Is there some sort of emergency?"
"Not exactly. Just-just come here as soon as school's over."
"We can come now! It's out last class anyways!" Then in a softer tone, "please, please, please say now!"
"Whenever's fine."
Videl grabbed Gohan by the arm and began yanking him towards the door.
"Sorry, police business!" She called to the teacher as they left.
"So," Gohan started "do you have any idea what this is about?"
"Nope, none whatsoever. I'm just glad we got an excuse to get out of here. Now let's go!"
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They reached the police station fairly quickly, and landed at the side of the building and proceeded to walk inside.
"Hey! That was quick!" The chief of police greeted. "Come with me please." He said, ushering them into a small side room.
"What's up chief?" Videl asked in her no-nonsense, let's-get-down-to-business voice.
"We have a uh, situation at in the jail…"
"Was there a break-out? Do you want us to take care of it?" Videl asked hurriedly, preparing to leave in a moment.
"No no no, see, there have been some, well, rumors that need to be taken seriously. You see, someone in the jail has apparently found a way to communicate with someone on the outside. There have been rumors of a full-scale jailbreak, and bombings that are to be set up all over town. It would be mass chaos if this sort of thing were to happen, or even if word of something like this spread to the public. I've called you here, because we need someone to be on the inside and find out what's going on. We need to find out if these rumors are true, or not. It could be something that one of the inmates made up, but this has been going on for a while now, and we just cannot ignore something of this magnitude."
"So…"
"Saiyaman, I hate to ask this, but none of the inmates know your face yet, and we know you'd be able to handle any trouble that might occur. I-we need you to go undercover as one of the inmates. None of the guards would even know who you are, and would treat you no differently than anyone else though."
"When would I be doing this?"
"As soon as possible. Tomorrow I'd say, if that's possible."
"Well, I'd be willing to do it, I guess, but my mom…"
"Ouch." Videl butted in. "I'm guessing she would definitely NOT go for anything that would interfere with school."
"Yeah."
"Well, it's not like you had every single concept we cover completely mastered by the time you were, what, ten? You don't even pay attention half the time and you get perfect scores on everything!"
"Yes, but, you know my mom!"
"Please," the police chief continued, "we really need you to do this. Plus, if you're as smart as Videl here claims, you may even be able to solve this case!"
"I'll ask, but I'm not making any promises. I'll be right back in, say, half an hour tops?"
"Ok see ya." Videl called as he left to check with his mom.
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Twenty-five minutes later, Gohan come back into the small room where the policeman and Videl were chatting.
"So? How'd it go?" Videl asked casually.
"Painful." He said, rubbing his head. "Let's just say that the shape of my head has been immortalized in the bottom of her frying pan."
"I mean, what did she say about going under cover!"
"Well…"
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Alrightie-o! That's it for chapter 10!
I am aware that something like the police asking Gohan to go undercover like that would never happen in real life, but this is a fiction, so please don't yell at me for anything wrong!
Please review and stick around for chapter 11!
