Well, here is the next installment:

I will use the robot idea from Shadow Dreamer 27.

On with the story!

Chapter 10: Robots + Chibis is not a good combination.

The day after the babysitting incident was a Sunday. Hercule decided that Videl should go over to Capsule Corp and see if they had any more robots so that they could make a presentation of what the new resident of the mansion would have to deal with.

Videl didn't really want to go be a "delivery girl", but her father said that she needed to go, or else it would be all over the news that she baby-sat someone. He knew as well as she did that the press would have a field day over someone famous stooping to so "low" a level.

She hopped into her jet copter and flew towards the large building on the other side of town.

Meanwhile:

Trunks had finally been released from being grounded, and he and Goten were secretly hiding in the robot department of Trunk's mom's lab.

"Trunks, I'm not sure we should do this to the robots…what would happen if we get caught?" asked a scared Goten as he watched his friend put some weird device on one of the robots.

"Stop worrying. I have it all figures out. All this will do is make the robot stronger. Dad always says that Mom needs to make stronger robots. Besides, I have a button to deactivate the power of the robot. Anyway, It won't be that much stronger…even you could fight it!" he exclaimed as he finished putting the device on the robot.

The robot looked like all those around it—it was reddish and almost the size of Videl. It looked humanoid, but was different enough that one could tell immediately that it was a robot. The sensors were in the usual places, so it would act like a human.

Goten had a bad feeling about it all, but he wasn't one to stand up to peer pressure, especially when it came to his best friend.

Trunks reassured him that everything would be okay, and with that, they both left the room to go to the kitchen and eat lunch.

Meanwhile with Videl:

She went up to the door and knocked. Seconds later, she was greeted by one of the many employees.

"Hello, may I ask why you are here?" asked the employee.

"Yeah, I'm Videl Satan, and Bulma Briefs has some robots that my dad sent me to fetch."

"Right this way, Ma'am," replied the employee as she led Videl through the building until she got to the office of Bulma.

"She will be right out," continued the employee. Videl said a quick thank-you, and the employee walked away.

A minute later, Bulma came out of the office and led Videl down through the confusing hallways of the building. On their way to the lab, they almost literally ran into Trunks and Goten, who were making their escape from the lab.

Videl noticed that Goten was with them, and apparently Goten recognized her. "Oh, hi, Videl," he said when they met, "Trunks and I were just playing in the lab…"

"Ummm…he means that we were playing near the lab," Trunks interrupted as he jabbed his best friend in the stomach. "We were just heading to lunch, weren't we, Goten?"

"Oh, yeah, lunch," he said, and the two boys were off as fast as they came.

"Strange…" said Videl as she continued to follow Bulma.

"So, where did you know Goten from?" asked Bulma.

"Oh, I had to baby-sit him yesterday. I am not much of a baby-sitter, but he was pretty easy. He only asked to be out of his room once, and when he did, he just ran around. I tried to see if I could teach him ant martial arts, but he said that his brother had already taught him. Is Gohan into martial arts?" she asked Bulma, hoping she would know.

"You could say that. He has always shown an apt for fighting, and he was trained by the best. However, for the last few years, he hasn't trained more than needed to keep in shape," Bulma answered, not wanting to release too much information to Videl, but not wanting to look vague.

"Well, he must have taught Goten a lot. Goten was a match for me. I was holding back a bit, but he beat me as if it was nothing."

"I think it runs in the family, but who am I to judge? Well, here we are: Robotics."

"How many robots do you think dad wants me to get?"

"Probably twenty or so of each. They can be programmed to any skill level. The ones for you are made special, however. They go from a power level of thirty on your dad's scale, to a level of two-hundred, that way your dad can fight them, if need be. If the person that trains with you has a higher power level, call me, and I will fix it to accommodate their power."

"Thank-you so much, Bulma. I'll take these robots over to my dad before he gets mad at me for being late," she said as she took the handcart with twenty red robots in it.

What she didn't know was that one of the robots was specially equipped to stand at a level of one thousand on Hercule's way of testing level.

The next day with Gohan:

Chi-Chi had somehow gotten a cold, and he had to stay home with her to take care of her. Goten was sent off to Bulma's to say out of the way. He watched television for the whole day, seeing what kind of interesting things were happening that day.

That day with Videl:

Videl was flying to school, thinking about what her dad was going to make her do: show people what the robots can do. She had trained with one already to test the power, and it was a great workout, but still, she didn't want to present it.

She took the robot into the gym and set it up. Her dad had told the school to have everybody there for the presentation that morning.

Hercule came into the large gym just as the last students were making their way to the seats. A team of workers had set up a small version of a fighting ring in the middle of the gym, so everybody could see it.

Videl was thinking, 'Why does Dad always do this? He never seems to get it that I am not as outgoing as he is, and I certainly am not good with doing things in front of people. At least I am fighting. That is one thing that I can do.'

She walked up into the ring, and the bell to start began. She pressed that button to make him start, and the match was on.

At first, it was an easy fight. The robot was going a lot slower than the one she had fought previously. She dodged its every attack, and she even got some hits in. But, after thirty seconds of fighting, she saw it speed up, and it kept doing so every ten seconds after that. Soon, it was all she could do to keep from getting seriously injured.

It wouldn't have been so bad had it just been the school, but the whole thing was broadcasted all across the world.

Soon, it was that every time she would attack, it would just get stronger and counter the attack, hitting her harder than she had tried.

She reached for the button to turn it off, but before she could press the button, the robot hit it out of her hands and smashed it beneath his metallic foot. She thought that it was all over at that point.

Meanwhile:

Trunks had just turned on the television, with Goten sitting right next to him. They were flipping through channels when they saw Videl fighting a robot. They saw it get stronger and stronger, aster and faster, and after watching it for a while, Goten asked, "Isn't that the robot that we modified?"

"Oh, SHOOT! Goten, we HAVE to get that button to turn off the extra power, or Mom is going to KILL us!"

Both boys screamed and rushed off to Trunks's bedroom.

Hearing the scream, Bulma ran into the room, dropping the invention she had just completed. 'Somehow, I know that those two boys have something to do with this,' she thought, as she ran to the phone to call her best friend.

Trunks and Goten were frantically searching the bedroom. Clothes and such were flying in every direction possible. They finally found the lost button after almost tearing the room apart. Trunks immediately pushed the button, and he knew that Videl was safe.

Oh, but had he pushed it a minute earlier, things would have been different.

Meanwhile, two minutes earlier:

Hercule was talking to the reporters, when one of them asked, "Um, Mr. Hercule, are you sure that your daughter can take all the beating she is getting?"

"What beating?" he asked. When he saw her cornered and looking up into the angry eyes of the robot, he immediately screamed, "I'm coming for you, Videl!"

He ran up into the ring, saying, "If you want to hurt my daughter, you're going to have to deal with ME!"

The robot turned around, seemingly studied Hercule, and then attacked. But, right when it was close to Hercule, the robot stopped for a second, and then it was down to a slow speed. Hercule fought the robot with everything he had to protect his daughter. Needless to say, the robot was down in a minute.

The crowds start cheering, "HERCULE! HERCULE! HERCULE!" getting louder and louder with every passing second until he got a microphone and started yelling into it.

"Yes, it is I, Hercule, the most powerful man in the world! Not even a robot can defeat my awesome power! Now, you all know what the challenge will be. But, I will make sure to have the robots tuned down a bit before the lucky boy wins! Now, I say I speak for all the teachers: GO TO CLASS!"

Everybody exited the school, not noticing Gohan standing near where Videl was.

"Videl, are you ok? I came here as soon as I could," said Gohan, looking her over for any major injury.

"I'm fine, but you aren't going to be when I get through with you!"

"Why is that?" he asked curiously.

"Because, you help with the robots at Capsule Corp! You must have looked over that one! It was weak at first, but it got stronger and stronger until it was able to beat me."

"I assure you that I have nothing to do with it, but I have an idea as to who it was that did it. I think that Trunks and Goten are behind it."

"You mean that sweet brother of yours is capable of this?"

"When with hi best friend, yes. I'll tell you more at a later time, but right now I have to go deal with my sick mother. She probably wants to know what happened."

"Good-bye, Gohan," she said as he walked away. She sat there, wondering exactly what happened and how Gohan got there so fast, but was quickly brought out of her thoughts by he dad.

"Who was that boy?" he asked accusingly.

"He is a friend of mine. He might know what happened with the robot."

"There was nothing wrong with the robot. You just need to train more like me!"

"I train for at least an hour a day more than you do, and you have the whole day to train! I only have a couple of hours."

"Excuses will get you no where. Clean yourself up. We're going home."

"But what about school?"

"School is not as important as your fighting abilities and my fame. We need to have a serious talk about your attitude."

"Whatever. I'll go get my bag." She walked over to where he stuff was. Her whole body ached from the beating, but she hid it as well as she could from her father. She knew that he would use it against her. He already had enough to use against her, and she didn't need anymore.

They walked out of the school, and were ambushed by all the reporters in the city. They asked Hercule about how he won, and they asked Videl about what it was like to lose. The whole interview took a couple of hours. By the time they finally left, Videl felt like she was going to fall down and never stand up again.

However, she kept it all hidden from her dad.

Meanwhile, at the Son residence:

Vegeta and Bulma had managed to round up both boys and take them to their friend's house, after finding out what had transpired. Together with Chi-Chi and Gohan, they found a reasonable punishment.

Because the previous grounding didn't do anything, they decided to not bring the boys next time they wanted to go somewhere. Gohan had a great idea for a baby-sitter, but he would not share his thoughts.

END CHAPTER

YAY! MY LONGEST CHAPTER SO FAR!

Sorry about everything being so summarized, but had I gone into detail, the chapter would have been a pain in the butt to write. Anyway, if anybody can guess who it is that will have to baby-sit the Chibis, send in a review. I already have it chosen, but this is just for fun.

Answers to reviews:

Rinoakes- I hope this one wasn't too slow. Here is the update!

Shadow Dreamer 27- I'm going to use your idea for descriptions, but his wasn't a descriptive chapter. If you want, send in a guess for the unfortunate soul that has to baby-sit.

The baby-sitting probably won't be for a while (I'm going on a three-week vacation in less than a week, and I won't have access to a computer). I'll be expecting reviews!