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OK, last chapter ended like so...
'Wow...' Gohan thought, 'I'm gonna be a big brother...this is awesome!' After Gohan finished this thought he put his hands to his head as his head felt as though it was going to burst. Endless pain seemed to settle itself between Gohan's ears as he tried his hardest to stay conscious. He dropped to his knees and was vaguely aware that he was screaming. He felt a pair of hands grip his sholders and a voice he recognised, but couldn't make sense of what the person was saying. Finally the young saiyan gave in, the pain was just to severe, he let the black abyss overtake him as he lost consciousness...
And now for chapter 2!
Chapter 2: Strange Trees and Capsule Corp
'Oh, my aching head...Where am I? What is this place?' Gohan had just awoken after his horrible headsplitting headache. He was in the weirdest place. 'This definitely doesn't look like home.' He started walking around as his head slowly returned to normal. 'Weird...' Gohan thought. Weird was an understatement! He walked around on what appeared to be a very dry wasteland. All around he could see tiny cracks in the reddish-brown ground. There were trees there, or at least he thought they were trees.
Gohan sat down on a big rock and stared at his surroundings. The so called trees were very strange, they swayed, but there was no wind. It was almost as if they were made of rubber or something, and they didn't have a single leaf. Their colour was also a bit...off, gray, white, and black. The sky was red with gray clouds looming about.
He closed his eyes and tried to sense the Z-fighters. No such luck however. 'This place is dead, there is not a single living thing out here...I don't sense anything!' Gohan was beginning to panic. He got up and transformed to Super Saiyan 2. With his heightened senses he tried again to sense any sort of life...nothing. He was all alone.
Gohan calmed himself down as he started to fly around, searching for anything that might help him get out of there...
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"Bulma! What's wrong with him?" a worried Chi-chi asked her best friend, panic clearly audible in her voice.
"That's what confuses me! I did every test I could think of and still I couldn't find ANYTHING wrong with him! This is very confusing..." Bulma said as she was drifting towards her own thoughts. Bulma's head shot up and asked for what appeared to be the 10th time in two hours, "What EXACTLY happened?"
"It's like we told you before, Bulma. Gohan was just as happy as we were to hear about the baby. We were all laughing together and then just suddenly, Gohan grabbed his head and started screaming. He was obviously in pain. I tried to calm him down, but when I touched him I could almost feel his pain and confusion. He was starting to shake violently while I tried to hold him steady. It got a lot worse. And then he just passed out." an exasperated Krillin repeated for the 10th time.
"I see." Bulma simply stated. After a moments' silence Bulma spoke again, "Well. I can't find anything physically wrong with him. Maybe he'll wake up on his own soon."
"We'll just have to keep an eye on the brat." Vegeta had just entered the room.
"I didn't know you cared Vegeta." Krillin said with a big smirk on his face.
"Hmph, you can wipe that smirk of your face, baldy. I care nothing for the brat! My only concern is what it was that was able to take down a person with that kind of strength. If we don't figure it out we could all wind up like that brat over there. Hmph, I thought he was stronger than that. But I guess I was wrong! He is nothing but a weakling! I bet it's the contamination caused by his human blo..."
"SHUT UP! MY Gohan is NOT WEAK!" Chi-chi yelled at Vegeta, rage burning in her eyes.
"Hahahahahahaha!" Vegeta ignored the ringing in his ears and was now laughing. "I don't have anymore time to waste here." And with that he walked of towards the gravity room still laughing while Bulma yelled at him. Vegeta quickly stopped when she threatened to shut down the gravity room.
Chi-chi was crying while lying on her arms on the table. Krillin was rubbing the distressed woman's back gently. She was wondering if Gohan was going to be alright...
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Gohan had been flying around for what he thought were hours. The scenery still hadn't changed. Then out of nowhere a ki-blast came hurtling his way. He deflected the blast with ease, now searching for its origin. He felt a ki just below him and quickly descended. When he hit the ground the energy signal was gone.
'Just my luck.' Gohan thought miserably. He felt a subtle vibration in the air around him and ducked just in time to avoid losing his head. It was a blade two feet long that nearly decapitated him. "Where did that come from!" Gohan exclaimed aloud as he jumped back. Then he realised that the blade was attached to the tree he just landed next to.
This tree was different than the others. It was much, much bigger and also had a lot more branches than the others. Hesitantly, Gohan walked forward to get a better look at something that had caught his eye. There seemed to be an opening in the tree near the ground. Gohan walked forward out of pure curiosity and with the hope that this would be his way out.
Then without warning the elastic tree shot out hundreds of blades from its branches. It looked like a black tree with shining silver leaves. Gohan would have considered it beautiful if it hadn't tried to kill him.
Gohan dodged the blades using his Super Saiyan 2 speed and put enough distance between the two of them so he wouldn't have to. 'I'm not getting anywhere like this!' He saw the opening at the base of the tree widen as the tree got more ferocious. Gohan tried to reach it, but had to avoid being killed, so he backed off again.
The opening was now very large. 'I can't even get past a stupid tree! Maybe that's not the way out. But if it's not, why is the tree so violent.' As his thoughts raced through his mind Gohan's heart began to beet faster as he saw his mother crying. "That is the way out! AAAARRRGGHH!" Gohan powered up to his absolute maximum and charged towards the opening.
The tree attacked and Gohan dodged. Then he hit the tree with an energy-blast and was so shocked he thought his eyes were going to fall out. Immediately after that he felt foolish. The black tree had turned pure white as the blades receded back into its branches. The opening was now at its widest and the tree looked calm. Angry that he didn't throw an energy-blast sooner, Gohan couldn't even form a scowl because of the feeling he got from looking at the sight before him. The sparkling white tree made him feel calm. Slowly he walked forward and through the opening in the tree.
A strange sensation came over his body. He felt warm and fuzzy! 'Wow, I feel like...like...I feel great! It's like I'm being re-energized.' Everything around him was a bright white and then he was asleep...
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Gohan opened his eyes. The last thing he remembered was the weird white tree, but now he was staring at a green-metal ceiling. He sat up, looked around and realised he was in the medical bay of Capsule Corp. The entire room, the walls, floor and the ceiling, was fitted with metal plating. There was strange equipment stored next to the walls. Gohan recognised one of the machines as a replica of the regeneration tank. 'So, Bulma finally figured that one out.' He thought as he stood up.
At first he was a little confused. Then he remembered why he had seen a white tree. He remembered the splitting headache and that weird place he had just escaped from. 'Mom and Krillin must have brought me here. I screamed pretty loud when I got that headache. I should go find them and tell them that I'm ok.'
He got up and headed to the door. He could sense his mother, Krillin, Bulma, and little Trunks, all sitting in the living room. When he got to the living room door he paused and tried to figure out what he was going to tell them had happened. 'Hi, guys! I just visited this weird place with rubber trees while you were all worried sick! Yeah, that would go well.' Gohan thought sarcastically. 'They'd probably throw me into a mental institution without a second thought.'
His hand was inches from the door when a voice said, "So...?"
Gohan turned and saw that it was only Vegeta. "Oh. Hello Vegeta." Gohan said not really paying him any attention.
"So...?" Vegeta stated again, impatience evident in his voice.
"So, what?" Gohan asked confused.
"So what happened brat!"
"Oh. Nothing." Gohan said indifferently.
"Ha, yeah right! You just decided to pass out on your own did you. The only time a Saiyan is allowed that luxury is when he dies." Vegeta stated firmly.
Right at that moment the living room door opened and Chi-Chi grabbed Gohan in a saiyan-strangle-hold, otherwise known as a hug. The young Saiyan struggled to breathe and felt ready to pass out again as Bulma gently made her friend let go.
"You ok son?"
"Yeah, I'm fine mom!" Gohan said happily.
"You had us so worried! What happened?" His mother asked with a shaking voice.
"My head hurt and then nothing until I woke up here." Gohan hated lying to his mom, but he couldn't tell them. Not yet.
"Well, I want to keep you here for a while Gohan. Just to see if it happens again. I couldn't find anything wrong with you, and I did every test I could think of! Chi-Chi is it alright if Gohan stays here for a while? You're welcome to stay too, of course." when Bulma finished talking Chi-Chi answered that it was just fine.
Gohan was confused. He was a terrible liar and he was sure they would see straight through him, but they didn't!
Night was now falling and Gohan was left with more questions than he had when he first woke up from that dream. He was heading to the kitchen when Vegeta pulled him into the gravity room.
"What's the big idea Vegeta!" Gohan asked as the door closed and Vegeta locked it from the inside.
"I want to know why you're lying!" Vegeta stated monotonously
"I don't know what you're talking about." The eleven year old stated with a false confidence.
"Hmph! Liar!" Vegeta said with a smirk.Gohan just stared at him. "Well brat? Are you going to tell me or do I have to beat it out of you?"
Gohan suppressed a giggle. Vegeta could never beat him at his current power level. 'I don't want to tell him anything.' Gohan thought. He sat down on the floor with his legs stretched out in front of him. He was leaning on his hands with his head tilted up, and staring at the white ceiling, finding it incredibly interesting at that moment. 'Also metal plated, white this time. It's probably reinforced so Vegeta doesn't blow it up within two seconds.' Gohan smirked inwardly.
Vegeta was getting impatient. "Out with it Gohan." Gohan's gaze shot in Vegeta's direction. He never called him by his name, it was always 'brat' or something worse. His tone of voice shocked him even more. It sounded almost fatherly. And then Gohan had a strange feeling that he could trust Vegeta. 'This day is getting weirder by the minute!' Gohan thought just before he spilled his guts to the Saiyan prince.
In the elastic tree wasteland a man had just watched as Gohan took the exit through the opening. The man muttered to himself, "He is the one..."
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Well, ok! How was that? Please review and tell me what you think, and please give me an honest opinion. Piccolo should come into the story pretty soon now (for all you Piccolo fans out there)
