Chapter 7 – First encounter
Gohan walked to the school entrance this time. He had been wary of flying to the school's rooftop for a while now. Ever since Videl caught him leaving the school via the rooftop he had been avoiding that route. He was about to enter the school when he noticed that Videl was at the entrance inspecting the students as they entered the school.
"Oh come on! Why does she insist?" he thought.
Videl must have realized that he was not coming through the roof anymore. As he was about to walk through, her eyes fell on him. He tried to look as inconspicuous as possible but failed miserably. She stopped him by standing in his way. She looked directly at him, he tried to go to her right, and she stood on his way, to the left and the same happened.
"What's the matter Gohan? Did a car drive over your toe? Why are you walking so queerly?" she asked him.
"My brother stepped on my toe this morning and it's kinda sore." He told her.
"Really? Is that why you walked just fine until you were close to the entrance?" she asked him.
"It doesn't hurt all the time. You know, like when the pain comes and goes," he replied.
"You're a terrible liar did you now that?" she told him.
"It's the truth," he told her.
"C'mon Gohan, out with it! What are you hiding from everyone?" she asked him a bit too loud and soon people turned to stare.
"What? I'm not hiding anything from anyone," he told her.
"Don't try to fool me. How do you get from your home till here everyday? I've never seen you driving any sort of vehicle, you just seem to arrive out of nowhere," she told him.
"But I do have a vehicle, its right here with me," he told her.
"You have it in a capsule? Show it to me!" she ordered him.
"It's far too large and we're already blocking the transit into the school," he told her.
She looked around and realized that he was telling the truth, the students were getting impatient and started muttering curses at them. She looked back at Gohan and saw that he was gone. She scanned the area around her and saw that he was nowhere in sight. She silently cursed; he always managed to get away.
Gohan on the other hand was relieved to get away from her. He quickly got to class and sat down next to Erasa, who had just started unpacking her stuff. He got his stuff out quickly and sat looking at the door.
"Gohan, what's the matter? Why are you so nervous?" she asked him.
"I'm not nervous, just a bit excited about class today." He told her.
"Oh Gohan, only you would say something like that," she told him.
Sharpner arrived a few moments later and sat down at his place, took out his stuff and put himself in a cool and comfortable position. He looked at Gohan and saw that he was very nervous about something.
"What's the matter Gohan you look like you had a B in a test," he told Gohan.
"I'm fine, why is everyone asking me something like that today?" he moaned.
Videl just walked in, and gave him a death glare that wasn't missed by either Sharpner or Erasa. Gohan sighed and sank into his seat. This day kept getting better and better.
Meanwhile…
Dyra walked up to the rift site and saw all the scientists getting ready for the test. She walked up to the rift. One of the scientists showed her the way into the equipment storage compartment. She got all the required equipment and once again walked up to the rift. She climbed into a small ship in front of the rift and closed the opening hatch. The scientists started the process of opening the rift.
The rift started glowing white and spinning slowly. Then it accelerated and glowed orange, finally it achieved full speed and turned blue. The scientist gave her the signal that it was safe to go through. She pushed the start up button and the ship started its engines and hovered over the ground. Then she pushed the accelerator key in front of her and the ship blasted off into the rift.
The ship rocked to its sides a bit and a little turbulence took place, but it was nothing it couldn't handle. She stared in awe at the vortex that she was traveling through and could not comprehend what she was seeing. It seemed that she was rushing by the gateway to countless dimensions. It boggled her. Suddenly, she stopped.
She looked outside and saw that she was in space. She checked the communicator and saw that it was on the wrong frequency. She took a few minutes to sort it out, but got it working nonetheless.
"This is Dyra, I have crossed the rift and arrived at destination with no problems, the rift is a success. The survival of our people from the Annihilation is at hand," she said through the communicator.
She heard cheering from the other side and couldn't help but smile. She had done it, she traveled into another dimension, and she would save her people.
"Copy that Dyra. This is home base; we have received your message. Your father, the Ruler, wants to talk to you," one of the scientists cut into her thoughts.
"All right, put him through," she ordered. She heard her father ordering people out of the room so that they could talk alone.
"Dyra, you made through safe and sound. You should know that I am very proud of you my daughter," he told her,
"Thanks father, that means a lot to me," she told him.
"Just for that act you will be remembered in our history as the first one to venture out of our dimension and show us the way into salvation," he told her.
She was stunned at this; she never realized that this would make her famous as a saviour and a hero.
"One last thing remains, find a planet for our people and communicate to us as soon as you get there," he told her.
"Right away father, over and out!" she told him and scanned the galaxies for an optimum planet for her people.
Back to Gohan…
Suddenly Gohan looked up at the sky through the window, he felt an energy signature approaching. He couldn't tell whether it was good or evil, he never felt such a kind of energy before. Videl looked curiously at him. Gohan stood up and walked to the teacher and asked permission to go to the bathroom. The teacher was about to refuse but he saw the serious look on Gohan's face and said it was fine.
He rushed up to the roof at incredible speeds and flew off in the direction of the energy without even putting on his superhero outfit. He felt the rest of the Z-fighters still at home so he thought that they trusted that he could handle it by himself. The ship took almost an hour to get in to the range of his sight. He saw and felt that the ship only housed one passenger.
The passenger got out of the ship and he saw that t was a woman. Well not really, more like a girl, probably not even his age yet. She looked at him and he looked back.
"Who are you and what do you want on this planet? What are your intentions?" he questioned her.
She looked at him and sensed his powerlevel with a machine that looked like a scouter; it was much lower than hers, so she shouldn't bother with him. Gohan naturally, was masking his ki, so that it seemed low. She gave a snort as if she was much superior to him and told him.
"Get out of here, you do not know who you are messing with," she told him.
"Oh, but I do know. I can sense your powerlevel; you on the other hand have no idea of how strong I am, you see, I can fool that little device you have there to sense powerlevels," he told her.
"You lie, no one can fool our technology," she said outraged.
"Just try me," he said.
"Your funeral," she said and fired a blast she thought would be powerful enough to send him to otherworld.
Gohan was not even a bit scared and swatted the blast upwards with one hand and looked at her. "Is that proof enough?" he asked with a mocking tone.
"Well then, enlighten me. Show me how strong you are," she told him angrily.
"Fine, I'll show you power," he told her.
Gohan cupped his hands to his sides and summoned his power from inside him. His power started growing and growing until it was a bit higher than hers and stopped masking his ki. She was incredulous. How could he fool the scanning machine like this? He was as strong as her, no, stronger than she when she wasn't using her power up technique.
"I told you, you have no idea of how strong I am or what I could do." He told her.
She thought about it and knew it was true; this could pose a bit of a problem.
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I'll stop here for now. It's three AM and I need to sleep. I hope you review lots. So that I can keep writing. See ya later.
