After Shocks

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Chapter 13: Information

Soft murmuring resonated through the darkness. Two voices carried on a quick conversation in the quiet jail, but quickly ended, and the sounds of soft footsteps could be heard padding down the stone floors.

One Son Gohan barely registered this though, as he was in the zenith of a dream and deeply enthralled in it.

"Pssst! Psst!"

Gohan swatted out idly with one arm, trying to get rid of the annoying insect.

"Pssst! Gohan! Wake up!"

A talking insect?

"Gohan!"

The last stage whisper broke Gohan from his dream world and brought him to reality with an unpleasant start. "Gack! Wagaaagele!"

"Gohan!" The voice persisted.

Gohan replied with an offhand 'what!' as he pulled himself up. When he'd been woken up, any and all concentration had broken, causing him to crash to the broken remains of his bed. Now tangled up, he was trying to remove himself from the mess.

"How are thing going?"

He began brushing some saw dust off his outfit when he abruptly looked up. He knew that voice.

"Videl? What are you doing here? What time is it?"

"I'm just checking up on you, is that a crime? And it's almost 6 am, so the guards will probably wake everyone up soon. So have you found out anything?"

"Not really. I have a few suspects for something, but whether or not that something is threats and rumors we were warned of, I don't know. Oh, and I'm fine, except for the bed thing…" He said, making a motion with his arm back at the bed.

"Ok, well I have to get back home now and get ready for school. I'll stop by after school though, ok Gohan?"

"Yeah, now you'd better get going before some inmates see you talking to me. That'll seem just a little suspicious if you know what I mean."

"I know. See ya later G!"

Gohan glanced irately at the broken bed, wondering what was going to happen. His thoughts were abruptly cut off though, as some guard who thought he was being cool ran down the hall smacking all the bars of the cells with a night stick to wake the prisoners up. Another guard came to his cell immediately after that and for some reason, he unlocked it.

A sweat drop ran down the side of Gohan's face as he thought about just how close he'd come to being revealed. If Videl hadn't come by to confer with him, he would have been caught floating in mid-air. That's not something you can just causally explain off, considering everyone knew Saiyaman flew…

"Now don't try any funny business kid." The guard said confidently. "I'm just here to move you to a new cell; we have to make room for some more newbies. Please put your hands behind your back and everything will be fine."

Gohan put his hands back and the guard stalked over, hand cuffed him, and gave a short but sharp shove forward. A swift walk down the hall, the guard opened another cell and gave him another sharp shove into it. He relieved Gohan of the cuffs, and then briskly walked out and locked the door again.

Gohan stared at the door for a second, before turning to inspect his new room…and new room mate apparently.

"Hi. I'm Stan." The man said. He was of average height, but not very built, as many of the occupants of this jail were.

"Uh, hi?"

The two just looked at each other for a while in an uncomfortable silence. The small man finally interluded. "And your name is…?"

"Oh, sorry. I'm Gohan."

Hours later, after another couple of…interesting meals, Gohan and Stan sat in their cell chatting away. Although Gohan had been wary of trusting the man at first, he'd become friends with Stan and had been talking nearly nonstop since they'd introduced themselves. Since then, Stan had proven that he was trustworthy. The man claimed he was innocent, but for some reason, Gohan believed him. Stan said he was framed for his offense, and was extremely riled about it at first. He then stated that he got over it, because as long as he knew he was innocent, that's all that mattered. Gohan sincerely hoped his trust wasn't misplaced. Practically everyone seemed to claim they were innocent, but Stan just had a sincere manner about him.

Since Stan had been in jail for a while, Gohan felt now was the right opportunity to question about the rumors.

"Yeah, there's this rumor going around about something like that." Stan had answered to Gohan's interrogation. "I once heard about this secret warehouse full of weapons and stuff. They called it 7-A, does that mean anything to you? Anyways, those three guys that hand around together-the big one was the one who challenged you to an eating contest yesterday- yeah, they're the one's always talking to each other about that sort of stuff. I think they're planning something, but they aren't' very careful about it. I think they have a boss on the outside. I'm not sure though, I only heard the big man talk about something 'chief' ordered them to do. I guess that's what they call their boss. At the time I only assumed they were talking about a past heist or something, but I heard them talking about it again, so now I'm not so sure…"

Suddenly a guard came by with orders to escort Gohan to the head of the police. Gohan was hand cuffed once again, and lead down the halls. He was pushed into an office and left alone.

"Ah, Gohan!" The police chief said as he spun around in his chair to face Gohan. "How are things going?"

"Pretty good I guess, considering I'm in jail in all."

The policeman gave a small chuckle. "So have you found out any information yet? I know you've only been here a day, but I was just curious."

"Actually sir, I have."

The policeman raised an eyebrow. "And?"

"Well, I don't know if it's true or not, but I found out about this warehouse. Several men know about it, and it's supposedly full of weaponry. I only know it's called 7-A. Don't know if that's helpful or not though."

"Yes, thank you Gohan. A guard is waiting for you outside the room. You may go now."

Once they had been walking for a while, Gohan noticed they weren't heading back in the direction of his cell. "Where are we going? This isn't the way t-"

"Shut up. I have orders to take you to an interrogation room for the time being."

Interrogation room? I haven't really committed a crime, so what could they possibly want?

They were suddenly there, and Gohan found himself in a room with a familiar face.

"Videl! Hey, long time no see, eh?"

"Told you I'd come back after school."

"Is it that late already? Yikes! Time flies when you're solving a crime doesn't it?"

"So, any new info Gohan?"

"Yeah, I just talked to the police chief actually. Warehouse 7-A is supposed to be full of weapons, so I guess the police are going to check it out sometime. He didn't really say."

"I'll talk to him then. I feel more involved in this since you're here, so I'm going to check it out with him. It'll probably be a sneak operation tonight. Well, I gotta jet. I hope to see you out of here soon Gohan!"

"Yeah, me too!"

The two teens smiled at each other before Videl left, and the unknowing guard came in to drag Gohan to his cell once again.


Ooo, chapter 13. Good thing I'm not superstitious or anything!

Oh, I originally wasn't going to put anything about Goku and the students, but that's cuz I never even thought about doing it! I think I'll add that into next chapter! Thanks!

Well, I hope you liked the new chapter (finally…yikes!)

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