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Last time...

The next week rolled by pretty fast and Gohan had made a full recovery. Or at least, his body had. Bulma was still concerned with the strange readings she got from the brain activity monitor just before he woke up in the tank. She hadn't told him about it, but it still puzzled her. Little did she know that the young half-Saiyan was also puzzled with his own mystery, one that was directly connected to her own.

TO BE CONTINUED...


Note: The Capsule Corp fieldtrip thing is just a way to reunite Videl with Gohan.
Chapter 10: Discoveries

It was a week after the incident at school and Videl was sleeping. It was the first night since the ordeal that she had been able to sleep through the night. But, unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...

The sound of an annoying alarm clock pierced the calm atmosphere violently. Videl was startled at first, because she hadn't bothered to set the alarm the past week. When she realised why the sound came she calmed down a bit. But not enough to leave the alarm clock in one piece. As she got up and walked to her bathroom to get ready, pieces of metal and plastic littered the once spotless floor.

'Ugh!' Videl thought as she thought of the bunch of field trips planned for the next week. Erasa had indeed been right. The school building had to come down. They demolished it five days ago and had already begun rebuilding the four storey building. All students were told that they would be going on field trips for a while. Many field trips were scheduled throughout the year, but since they no longer had a permanent school building they would do all field trips sooner. This way they woudn't lose any academic time and also it would be cheaper since they would have to pay for a temporary place they could go to school to.

'I am not looking forward to all these so-called field trips. Well, maybe not all. There's a rumour that we're going to Capsule Corp on one of the trips. I hope we do, I've always wanted to see the inside of that place.' Videl was now walking to the mall. That was where all the students had to meet the teachers and the busses. The parking lot of the mall was more than big enough. As she rounded the corner she saw the mall, the teachers, the busses, and her friends. All except Gohan.

'Well, if he is alive he probably wouldn't come back.' She thought miserably as she nearly walked infront of a car. "HEY! Watch where you're going you crazy kid!" A man exclaimed while driving on. She walked on, unphased, and stopped next to Erasa.

"Hey Videl! How are ya?" She asked happily.

"Pretty good." she said before she looked at the sky for no aparent reason. She always did that when her heart felt heavy. It was as though the solution to all her problems were somewhere up there. Erasa knew Videl was lying.

"Don't lie Videl. What's up?" The blond girl asked with worry in her eyes. This was very unusual for her so Videl told her.

"I wonder if he's okay." She said as she klutched her fists. She looked up at the sky as though expecting Gohan to come soaring down. 'Why do I feel like this. I've only known him for six weeks, but I haven't seen him at all during this last week. I hope he's alr... What is wrong with me! Why do I feel like this! I better get my mind of it.' Videl decided to keep on talking to Erasa. "So where are we going today?" Videl asked as Erasa was about to say someting. Erasa completely forgot about how Videl was feeling and squeeled.

"You'll never guess! We're going to Capsule Corp on the first day!" At that Videl's face brightened up a bit as she got on the bus with Erasa.

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"Wakey! Wakey!" The sound of two voices simutaneously came as the door to Gohan's room burst open to reveal two wide awake little terrors. Gohan groaned at the unpleasant way his brothers always got him out of bed. As soon as he did he felt two thumps hit him on his back as he burried his face into his pillow. They were now crawling all over him. Finally the teenager gave up and got up.

"Alright, alright. I'm up, I'm up." Gohan got dressed after he relaxed under the shower as hot water ran down his back. Then he headed down to where his little brothers had already begun to wolf down their food. Breakfast continued just like any other day and soon there were nothing left but empty plates. Feeling quite satisfied, to say the least, Gohan made his way to Lab 27. It was his personal lab that Bulma gave him as a fourteenth birthday present. Since then when he wasn't training, playing with the little terrors, or helping Bulma, he would experiment, invent and study in his lab.

He used it as his own little place where he could go to think, but he usually would fly around to do that. He also had a mission to figure out why he always knows about Keeper's attacks and sometimes gets visions. So far nothing in his lab seemed to be helping. He decided that he would have to seek the answers elsewhere and through meditation.

Gohan was just about to open the door to his lab when he heard whispering inside. "Gohan's gonna be so angry!" Trunks said excitedly to his 'twin brother'.

"Yeah, but he's gonna kill us Trunks." Goten said a bit hesitantly.

"Don't be such a chicken Goten. This is gonna be our greatest achievement yet!" Trunks said as he continued to rig Gohan's equipment so it would malfunction horribly when turned on. A lot of Gohan's machinery had oil pipes that kept it running smoothly. Goten and Trunks had already drained the oil and was currently busy filling it back up with pink shampoo. Of course, the moment Gohan heard their voices he peeked inside to see what they were doing.

'I'm gonna KILL them!' He thought as he watched the happy pranksters sabotageing his machines. Just then an idea popped into Gohan's head. 'I'm NOT gonna kill them after all.' He thought with a sly grin. 'Every time they prank me or Vegeta they run like hell when we try to blast them. What if I...' His thoughts continued as he saw them finish up. Gohan quickly disappeared back to his room and wrote down a few equations that were correct but didn't mean anything to him at that time; he only needed to fool the terrors.

'Speek of the devils!' Gohan thought as the 'twins' came bounding in his room.

"Are you gonna work today Gohan?" Trunks asked with a smile.

"Yeah big brother, when are you gonna make us a new toy!" Goten asked excitedly. Gohan always made them some weird toy when he got the time to do so.

"I have an idea!" Gohan exclaimed. "Why don't you two help me make you one? It'll be the best one yet!" Then he made his way to his lab, the pranksters following. He was going to ask them to help him with something in his lab, but when Goten asked about a new toy, the perfect opportunity presented itself. Gohan got them so excited over the 'new toy' that they completely forgot about what they had done to his lad equipment.

After 'planning' the toy out on paper Gohan told them to each turn on a machine. He was dumbfounded when they actually went to turn it on. 'Can they really be this stupid! They just put shampoo in those! Ha, this is gonna be fun!' Right after Gohan had this thought he heard two big booms, followed by pink-covered kids. Gohan couldn't help it, he laughed out loud at the way they looked.

"This was all your fault Trunks!" Goten said angrily.

"No it wasn't! Hey Gohan why are you laughing!" Trunks said with a scowl.

"You two look so funny!" He managed to say between laughs. He was able to stop laughing and walked over to his machines. 'Better play dumb.' Gohan thought. "I wonder what could have made the machinery blow up?" he 'mused'. "Maybe it was the damn cleaning-bot I had change the oil yesterday. Sorry you guys. I didn't know this was gonna happen. Are you two alright?" Gohan asked as he acted all innocent and concerned.

"Yeah." they both said in unison, feeling guilty. They left to get cleaned up and when the door closed completely, and left the room soundproof, Gohan couldn't contain himself any longer. He burst out laughing as he de-capsulated two cleaning-bots to clean up the mess, and one repair-bot to fix his machines. His laughter abruptly stopped and his eyes saddened as he opened his desk drawer. Inside was a picture of him and Videl on swings, playing like little kids. He remembered that day well.

Flashback

"Hey! What do you say we go to the park after school?" Videl asked Gohan as they had lunch together. It was Gohan's third week at OSH and he and Videl had become good friends. "We can hang out there for a bit, you know, just relax. It is Friday after all."

"Yeah, sure, sounds like fun!" He said with the biggest of smiles and Videl just laughed at his child-like smile.

So after they arrived Videl went and sat on a bench next to some swings, staring out across the lake. Gohan looked at her and wondered if she, the tough girl of the school, would actually play on a swing like a child. He decided to test his theory. And so Gohan sat on the swing and started swinging with a big smile on his face. Videl looked around slowly as she heard the sound the swing made as it went back and forth. "Gohan! What are you doing?" she asked shocked.

"What? Can't I have some fun?" He asked with a big smile. Then he stopped and said to Videl, "Hey there's another swing. Wanna join me?" He smiled again as she looked at him like he was crazy.

She simply said, "No!" and folded her arms across her chest.

"Suit yourself!" The young saiyan said as he started swinging again.

Videl just stared at him, 'Well he's definitely not your average guy.' she thought as she walked a little closer. "Gohan, you're acting like such a little kid! You are seventeen for goodness sake, you are not a child anymore!" she said.

"That doesn't mean I can't still have some fun. You should try it! Contrary to what you might say, I know you'll like it!" He answered with a big grin.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Ye..hahahaha..hahaha...Yes! Hahahahah..hahah!" Gohan burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at!" Videl said getting angry.

"Don't you see Videl?" He said as he contained himself. "By arguing with me like that you are already acting like a little kid! Now get on it and swing!" He said as he pointed to the swing seat next to him.

"Fine, I'll sit but I am NOT swinging." And so she sat down. Gohan got off his own seat and started pushing her. "Gohan WHAT are you DOING!"

"What does it look like Videl? I'm pushing your swing." He answered politely and she gave up. She knew she wasn't going to win when he was so adorable.

After she achieved a good height Gohan sat back down on his own swing and tried to match the movement of Videl's swing. They stayed there, swinging, for nearly half an hour. An elderly man came up to them and took two pictures of them with his Polaroid camera while they were swinging. When they got off the swings, laughing like little kids, he approached them. "Here you go youngsters! Keep these! Its memories like these that will mean so much to you when you are as old as I am. The simple things in life are the things that make us happy. Never lose your child-like spirits!" Then he left without another word.

End Flashback

Gohan smiled as he remembered the way Videl smiled and laughed that day. But then his face saddened as he thought of the last time he saw her. 'She probably thinks I'm dead. I know! I'll visit her as soon as I finish these schematics for Bulma. He started working with renewed vigour. He needed to see her. He had been feeling so lonely the past week, and he finally decided to do something about it.

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"Hey! Look Videl! We're here!" The ditzy blonde said as she jumped off the bus.

"Well, duh Erasa! Why else would we get off the bus?" Videl replied exasperatedly.

"Welcome to Capsule Corp!" Bulma said as she greeted the class. "We will start our tour momentarily. A malfunction occurred with one of our experiments and it will take about an hour to sort out. During that time we, unfortunately, can't begin with the tour. So for the time being, let me show you all the way to the lounge and cafeteria." They all followed Bulma. As Videl looked at her watch she realized that it was already 10:41. 'Wow, those busses went slower than I thought!'

Bulma led them to the cafeteria and told them they could eat, drink, and be merry! Of course there were no alcoholic beverages being served, they had to drink soda. Just when Bulma was about to leave she heard a name that rose above all the other conversations going on around the lounge.

"So what do you want Videl?" a blonde girl asked a girl with black hair. Bulma walked closer to see if this girl was the same Videl that Gohan had spoken of. The girl turned around and Bulma saw that she was indeed the Videl from the picture Gohan showed her about two weeks ago. The scientist noted how lonely she seemed to look. She had seen the exact look in Gohan's eyes since the incident at OSH. Then a smirk grew on Bulma's face as she thought of something. She calmly walked over to Videl and spoke.

"You're Videl Satan if I'm not mistaken?"

"That's right Mrs. Briefs. Is there something I can do for you?" Videl asked as politely as she could.

"Please, call me Bulma!" She said cheerily, "And yes, there is something you can do for me. Follow me and I'll explain."

"Okay...see you later Erasa." And with that Videl followed the richest woman in the world to who-knows-where.

TO BE CONTINUED...


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