Sorry if I've been gone for a long time but I was so busy. I got headaches and such but I'm getting better now unless school gives me one or something. Glad everyone enjoyed the last chapter. I wrote it and updated it on the same day I thought of it so I'm glad it was good. This story's not ending THAT soon it's just getting up to it and all…why am I telling you all this? Well, enjoy.

Only One Shot

Chapter 24: Beginnings of a Plan

"So I take you didn't tell or ask Videl yet hm?" Vincent asked as he calmly sipped the glass of soda in front of him, typing quickly on his laptop.

"No…" Gohan muttered as he sat at the cushioned chair in front of his father's desk wearing black jeans and a white short-sleeved t-shirt.

"If I were you Gohan I'd tell her that I knew immediately. I'd be more afraid of what she'd do after you tell her that you knew but didn't say anything, especially with those mood swings. I remind myself everyday to keep my shoes away from the door after hearing about what happened to Trunks…" Vincent said with a slight shiver. "Chichi kept me on my toes with that frying pan of hers as well. Scared the shit out of me just to see her near it…"

Gohan laughed and Vegeta soon entered, just polishing off a subway sandwich. Vincent just glanced up at Vegeta and continued typing. The Prince of Saiya-jins sat down at the second of the two chairs in front of Vincent's desk, looking bored and annoyed.

"Are we going to do this or what? I already had that sniveling bastard asking me to join some club of his. Seems he's been losing his employers ever since Vincent 'The Black Cat' Valentine had shown up and took out his knee cap."

Vincent leaned back in his chair and nodded. "Yes I've heard about that. It seems the only ones he has left are Salvatore, some millionaire named Richard Jones, and my arch rival from Spain, the mobster Rico Gaspar."

Gohan raised an eyebrow at that. "Your arch rival from Spain?"

"Yes my arch rival from Spain." Vincent said with a frown, obviously annoyed at the whole thing. "He was one of my major problems when I was trying to get out of Italy. Don't ask."

"So who do we have to work with besides Syracuse, Avon, Heiji, and Trunks?" Vegeta yawned as he looked at his gold watch.

"Well we have my friend Leon Santo, a mobster friend of mine from Italia who said he'd help me out, the Diablos if we want them, the Triads on occasion…" Vincent said slowly, trying to remember who else he had.

"I have the police in my pocket and I know some high officials from FBI." Vegeta added.

They glanced at Gohan who flipped open his cell phone and dialed some numbers. The two full saiya-jins glanced at each other with curious looks then looked back at Gohan who was now talking on the phone.

"Amon Divante! How long has it been? Six or so months? Ha-ha yeah, sorry for not contacting you a while back I had things to sort out. Oh you're in Japan? Great! Hey meet me at Cortez's old mansion, yeah the one he use to hold parties at. Yeah, finally decided to kill him. You'll be there? Alright see you then."

Gohan closed his phone while Vegeta looked puzzled and Vincent leaned back in his chair thoughtfully rubbing his chin.

"Amon Divante…" the Black Cat muttered to himself, "Where have I heard that name before…"

"Sounds like a loser." Vegeta commented as he answered his cell phone and walked out of the room yelling at it.

"He's an assassin…" Gohan grumbled and Vincent snapped his fingers.

"Yes that's right he is an assassin. My colleagues met with him once when I was out of the country and paid him to kill me. Funny thing is I had already paid him a much larger sum to kill them. They…unfortunately didn't make it out of the office that day."

"Amon and I grew up together, we're practically brothers. Went through high school, college, assassin training camp, sniper training camp, marines…we even did a bit of undercover-spy work for the feds."

"What did I miss?" Vegeta said gruffly as he closed his flip phone and sat down in the chair again, looking at the father and son.

"We now have an assassin helping us."

"Ooh an assassin…" Vegeta said with a hint of interest, "Do I know this assassin?"

"His name is Amon Divante." Gohan said with a frown. "Don't refer to him as 'assassin'. It gets on his nerves…and mine." Gohan muttered the last part to himself.

"Amon Divante…Amon Divante…ah yes the Amon Divante. I helped him out a bit myself in the court cases, got him not-guilty in all of them. I'm pretty proud of that accomplishment if I do say so myself." The saiya-jin lawyer smirked as he leaned back in the chair. The other two rolled their eyes.

Gohan looked at his diamond-studded gold watch with a frown. "I have to go get Videl from that police station. I'll see you two later tonight. We'll have dinner or something." Gohan got up, dusting himself of and nodded to the two before leaving.

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Videl scowled at the amount of paperwork on her desk. It was piled almost as high as her cd cases once were in her apartment. My poor apartment… she thought sadly as she remembered the explosion that decimated her apartment.

"Hey babe what's up?"

Videl rolled her eyes and looked up expecting Sharpner to enter her office with his usual clean-cut business suit and smiling smile. She was more than shocked to see him enter in a regular white t-shirt and jeans with casts and wrappings.

He had an arm cast, a neck cast, a leg cast, a cane, and wrappings around his forehead, hand on the cane, and faintly seen under his white t-shirt. He still had his Rolex watch around his wrist yet looked out of place and strange without his suit and alligator shoes.

"What happened to you?"

Sharpner gave a nervous laugh. "It's a long story…"

"I have time." Videl then leaned forward, resting her elbows on the mahogany desk littered with papers and resting her chin on her hands as she stared at Sharpner intensely.

"Um…well…uh…you see…what had happened was…"

Sharpner was saved by Gohan's entrance into the office. The demi-saiya-jin looked suspiciously at the two, especially eyeing Sharpner. Videl brightened up at seeing Gohan and Sharpner looked like he wanted to die as well as relieved that Gohan had come when he had.

"Hey Hun," Gohan said as he kissed Videl on the cheek. "Working hard?"

"Yup." Videl replied happily and Gohan eyed the blonde once more with a careful, suspicious look. Sharpner was shocked at the revelation before him and couldn't think straight as well as nervous under Gohan's cold stare.

"Close your mouth Sharpner, you're letting in flies." Gohan said with a hint of amusement in both his voice and eyes.

Sharpner snapped his mouth shut and cleared his throat, motioning to them both. "Ahem, uh, when did this happen?"

"Sharpner you're a little late on the uptake." Videl laughed and left the room with Gohan who gave Sharpner a warning glance and closed the door.

"Gohan Son, the sniper and assassin, stole my girl?" The blonde muttered in disbelief and stomped his foot on the floor with a shout of anger, only to jump up and down from using his injured foot.

"You're a worthy rival Gohan, but even you won't be able to come back from this." Sharpner finished evilly, exiting the office with a maniacal laugh that had everyone staring at him.

Wow I haven't updated in how long? Sorry about that. Had some personal issues that came up and that cursed science fair so this chapter's pretty short. (sighs) Life is hard for the rookie author. I bet you're wondering a few things:

1) what are they going to do to Cortez?

2) will Gohan ever tell Videl he knows?

3) will Videl find out what they're planning?

4) who is this Amon Divante?

5) what did Sharpner mean by that?

Well guess what, you're going to have to wait on those questions since most of them will be answered in the next one. Until the next chapter then, review!