A/N: Ok, you can blame this solely and utterly upon three things. One: My cousin for having to study using the computer… Two: My cats deciding to bring a dead bird onto my bed, and Three: Me having to go to the most boring birthday party ever… And it was for a two year old…. But, it is, once again, an excuse…
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Disclaimer: The difference between a person who writes about DBZ, and one who makes it… Is that one is poor, and the other rich…. I'm not the rich one.
Xequar Universe: Where 'Evil' Gohan and Videl came from. This is the universe where Radditz successfully kidnapped Gohan, and where Videl's parents were killed by Cell. Gohan is the strongest warrior in the galaxy due to his tough upbringing and Saiyan heritage. Videl has become the strongest female warrior in the galaxy, due to her tough past, and training under Gohan.
Malian Universe: Where 'Normal' Gohan and Videl reside. This is the universe where Radditz failed in kidnapping Gohan, and where Videl's father was credited with defeating Cell. Gohan is the strongest warrior on earth (His status in the galaxy is unknown) while Videl is the second strongest female warrior on Earth (After 18) (Her status in the galaxy is unknown as well)
Alirey Universe: Where 'Nice' Gohan and Videl came from. This is the universe where Radditz did not even reach earth (Unknown reasons), and where Gohan lived in ignorance of his own heritage, and where Videl's father never versed Cell (As he never existed). Gohan knows basic martial arts, while Videl also knows basic martial arts because of their parents.
'Evil' Gohan - Inekari
'Evil' Videl – Akki
'Normal' Gohan - Gohan
'Normal' Videl – Videl
'Nice' Gohan - Slayer
'Nice' Videl- Dara
Paralex
Chapter 11: Them
Previously:
Just as Gohan was about to answer Videl's question the floor above them broke. And down came, crashing into the floor, Slayer, Inekari, Akki and Dara. As well as the beds, which luckily hit no-one. Gohan shook his head, and massaged his forehead with his fingers.
"Videl, meet them…"
Present:
"This is why I didn't want to spar you!"
"No, you didn't want to spar me because you are a weakling…" Inekari spoke back calmly
Videl looked on at the argument, totally, and utterly confused.
"But that's…" she said pointing to Slayer, Inekari and lastly Gohan.
Gohan just nodded.
"And that's…" she said, this time pointing at Akki and Dara (who were remaining silent in all the chaos) and then of course finally pointing at herself.
"Yup…" Gohan said this, standing with his arms folded, and was amazed at his own calm.
"Oh…"
"That's somewhat along the lines of how I reacted." Said Akki from amongst the rubble.
"I remember it quite differently." Replied Inekari, breaking away from his argument with Slayer.
"You remember everything differently!"
"That's because you remember everything wrong."
Akki just returned the statement with the glare.
"Umm, I don't quite understand what's going on… SO WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN IT TO ME?"
Gohan was broken out of his calm demeanour, and suddenly became a whimpering ball.
"Uh you see, they, umm appeared, in my room, ah, quite suddenly, and now, they are ahh, stuck here."
"Hey! I've realised something, now that she knows who the fuck we are, can I finally meet my parents?" said Akki, a cross between angry and excited.
Slayer tried to answer the question without being berated.
"Yes?"
"I wasn't asking you weakling!"
He failed.
"Could everyone calm down, because if you don't my mother will come down and the pan-"
"Gohan… Why is Videl screaming? Why is someone swearing? And most importantly WHY IS THERE SUCH A MESS HERE?"
"Well... mum… You see, I have no idea, but those two know…" Gohan pointed at Slayer and Inekari.
"Oh… That's ok then! They are guests after all.
Gohan just stared at his mother incredulously…
"They could get away with bloody murder here…" Gohan muttered, and of course, his mother heard.
Chi-chi just grabbed Gohan's ear and dragged him up the stairs. Videl just looked at the scene before her still baffled at the complete and utter chaos of the Son household… Behind her was the spare bed, and Gohan's makeshift bed, unharmed, which provided a striking contrast to the rubble and dust covered beds before here, not to mention a broken couch. But what put the cherry on top of the cake were the two Gohan clones, and… She barely dared to think it… were two of her clones, standing there as if this were normal life.
And Videl guessed that it was.
Gohan was painfully aware of the woman pulling his ear, he realised he could easily do something about it, but ignored those thoughts… After all, the woman pulling his ear was his mother.
"Muum, let go! I was just joking, I didn't mean to say that, they are guests after all, they should be treated with respect…"
Chi-chi continued pulling; she was heading toward the spare room. Gohan sighed; it looks like he had to use his last resort, the one which he hated using.
"What would Videl think, my mum pulling my ear in front of everyone, maybe it's enough to stop us getting married?"
Chi-chi stopped at the door of the spare room, and let go.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Get down there and explain!"
And with those last words Chi-chi threw her son into the room which was missing a floor. Unfortunately for Gohan, and everyone beneath she threw him a bit too hard (she is an ex-martial artist after all), and he smashed into the wall, the wall against the bathroom that is, and Gohan coincidentally hit the water main, and ruptured it, before falling in to the living room below.
Videl heard a thump above her, and looked upward, with a slight sense of dread. She already knew that nothing 'thumped' in this house without it meaning something bad, only for Gohan to fall on her. She was so exhausted from all of today's shock that Gohan falling on her, was causing her to lose consciousness.
Gohan lied unconscious on top of Videl; it seemed as if it was his head which had hit the water pipe.
Videl just stared at the body on top of her feeling that warm feeling flow through her, but her vision was going hazy at the same time… Her last though was 'Why is it getting wet?"
Chi-chi looked at her son below her, and then looked across at the broken water pipe…
"Oops…"
Chi-chi, at that time, realised something, Gohan had hit his head much harder before, and stayed conscious… She shrugged it off, and calmly went downstairs.
"God dammit! Why is there always something to stop me seeing my parents! First it was all 'She don't know who you are, it'd cause confusion.' Then it was 'Let him fall in love first yadiyada…' And now there' this! 'She got knocked out because 100 tonnes of muscle fell on her…' Stop with these excuses, I want to see my parents!"
Slayer looked down at the two unconscious bodies and the growing puddle of water forming around them, and then looked at Akki. He decided not to comment… And then he remembered he had his own agenda too, he had to learn about Saiyans, seeing as everyone was so weak on the subject, except Vegeta, the man with a temper to challenge Inekari.
"Oh man… I am so stuffed over…"
He felt someone patting his back, and looked back, only to see his beautiful girlfriend…
"I'm not going to lie to you dear… You are indeed stuffed over."
Slayer fell over in shock, from the brutally frank words coming from his soul mate
"Gee, thanks…" He said sarcastically, and then realised everyone was looking at him.
"What?"
"You were being sarcastic… But you can't be sarcastic, you're too optimistic." said Inekari in shock, only to realise everyone had turned their heads to him.
"You didn't swear! And you were surprised as well!" said Slayer, with a face reflecting the same expression Inekari had a few moments ago.
During this discussion of the attitudes of the two 'Gohan's' Videl and Gohan lay forgotten, unconscious, and wet in the middle of the room… Surrounded by four beds.
"Woman, what are you doing! Find me the chef, I'm hungry!"
"Find him yourself Vegeta!" Bulma thought back, and remembered the last time Vegeta had to find the chef; the poor man was scared out of his wits… "Actually, on second thoughts, I'll get him… Stay here Vegeta and make sure Trunks doesn't touch anything in my lab that also means you! Just because it looks like a soft drink, doesn't mean it is one! You were just lucky there were no side effects last time!"
Bulma ran off, while Vegeta waited at the door. He looked down at his hands and started examining his wrist. He saw a talon thing growing out of it. (1)
"Huh… That wasn't there before… Meh, whatever…"
'You know what… I just remembered something… I have two sons… I haven't seen one for about two hours. I wonder where he is.' Chi-chi thought. It took her a while for the panic to catch up to her mind.
'Two sons, haven't seen, two hours, missing, 8 years old, Goten.' This all slowly registered in Chi-chi's mind, and she reeled back.
"GOOOTTEEEN!"
Meanwhile Goten was entertaining himself by walking upside down on his mothers ceiling…
"I'm so glad Gohan told me to fly! This is so fun!"
Goten looked behind him, and saw a series of muddy footprints on the ceiling.
"Oh no, mum's gonna kill me…"
He looked around frantically, and saw a rabbit through the window. He quickly flew outside, and caught the bunny, put the rabbit inside his mothers room, took of his shoes, and fastened them to the rabbits feet.
"Now I just have to get some other shoes…"
He ran to his room and put a new pair on… 'Perfect, mum will never guess that it was me who walked on the ceiling! She'll think it was the rabbit.'
Goten thought it would be fun to jump in the mud again, now that his shoes were clean… And then he could walk on the ceiling in his room!
"Today sure is great!"
An hour later, Videl slowly regained consciousness, and heard her two clones, and Gohan's two clones talking about something, and then she saw Gohan on top of her, and the warm feeling came rushing back. Why was she feeling wet though? She saw past Gohan, and up onto the higher floor, where a water main which was bursting a minute ago, was finally running out of liquid to throw into the living room. And lastly, she realised she was about to drown under the water which had accumulated to the depth of a wading pool. She tapped Gohan urgently trying to get (although she didn't want to, it would have been a nice way to die) Gohan off her, so she could live.
"Ugh… What?"
Gohan looked around.
"Oh…"
Chi-chi walked into the room as the two were getting up.
"Do you know where Goten is? And why there's a rabbit in every room wearing a pair of muddy shoes?"
Gohan looked unusually at his mother…
"Uh, no mum… For both of the questions."
"Oh no! You two are soaking wet! Why don't you two go up stairs and get dry! There's a heater in Gohan's room, the fireplace here, probably won't work (2). Videl, I'm pretty sure Gohan can give you a change of clothes."
Bulma was back to work, after finding the chef for Vegeta. She stared at the computer before, working on a problem that was the essence of the amazing thing she saw the other day. Two clones of Gohan, and this 'Videl' girl had appeared, with very different personalities. As if they were the people from an alternate timeline… The only problem was, from the story she had heard, that they hadn't come here by any machine. They were here because of some kind of portal between the universes. There was a universe where Radditz kidnapped Gohan successfully, a universe where he never showed, and finally, this universe, where Radditz came, but was defeated. It seemed as if this must have been the turning points in all the Gohan's lives, and Radditz was the catalyst of change. But then there was the problem of Videl… Her life centered around Cell, and that's what seemed to be the turning point there. There was a universe where Cell killed almost all of the population before being defeated, a universe where he never showed, and once again our universe, where he came, but was defeated comparatively early.
"So…" Bulma asked herself "Why, and how the hell did they come to our universe? Our universe which seems to be the 'average' of the other two universes." And then there was the question of how to get them back. They obviously could not stay here for ever…
Gohan and Videl had cleaned themselves, and had dried themselves, and saw that, for some reason, there was a rabbit wearing muddy shoes in Gohan's room.
"Uh, he-heres a chan-change of clothes Vi-videl." Gohan said while blushing, because he was holding out a set of clothing, which included underwear.
"Thanks Gohan…" replied Videl, also blushing furiously
After they had changed, Gohan proposed an idea to Videl.
"Now that you know of them. It'll be OK to sleep here, or would you rather sleep downstairs.?"
Videl, for what seemed the 100th time today, heart beat got faster, and she once again, felt that 'warm feeling'. She tried to surpress it, and casually reply.
"Yeah, sure…"
Gohan gave her a grin, a grin which she found incredibly attractive. But Gohan's expression soon changed to give out a sombre mood.
"Well, I guess you want to know about the 'clones'? Which you handled extremely well by the way… Well, anyway, I'll tell you the story of them and then you could ask about the rest of the questions tomorrow…" "It is already nine pm." Gohan said when he saw Videl's annoyed face.
"Ok, just tell the story…"
"Well, I was coming home from school on Friday, thinking about… friends, and when I got home, and went to my room-"
(1): No side effects eh?
(2): It's uhh, waterlogged
A/N: A much longer chapter to make up for my absence… I'm really sorry guys… So that was a redemption of sorts. Anyway, I did this chapter in parts, seeing as I was stopped quite often, so if it doesn't meld you can understand why… I wasn't too happy with this chapter, but maybe you guys like it… So could you readers all
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