Chapter Two

Hercule was awoken that morning by an almost crippling sense of hunger. 'I did not eat anything but breakfast yesterday' he realized. Due to the excitement of discovering the home address of the greatest martial artist to ever live Hercule had not even gotten his daughter or her friends their promised ice cream. Coming to the conclusion that food would not magically appear before him to satisfy his growing appetite he began to get up. Only to notice that sure enough a pile of food seemed to traveling from the kitchen down the short hallway to his room.

Only when the seemingly magical pile of food was at his door way did he notice that it had legs. Trying to clear the sleep from his eyes, and his head, he came to the only logical conclusion 'Videl must be under there somewhere' he thought to himself.

And sure enough once the food was on his bedside table his daughter became visible. 'she is still wearing the same clothes from yesterday' was his first thought on seeing her then turning to the food he noticed that the term food barely applied ' it looks like she just grabbed stuff from the fridge and but it together' he thought.

"I made you breakfast" Videl said pride obvious in her voice. "Well… what do you call this Videl?" Hercule asked looking at the mostly organic pile before him. "Daddy…" Videl said slowly "I already told you its breakfast" Hercule sighed 'sometimes she can be so literal' he thought 'daddy sure is stupid in the morning' Videl thought

"I meant what did you make breakfast from Videl" Hercule said while sitting up. "Oh" Videl said happy to tell her father how creative she was. She felt a swell of pride in her chest as she thought 'not only am I the strongest kid ever, smart, and pretty, I can cook to!'

"Well" Videl said "when I woke up I thought that you might like breakfast in bed cause you were so tired when you got home" at this Hercule smiled 'well at least she can be considerate to me. Now if only I could make her show all similar courtesy to other people'

"At first I was just going to make you waffles from the freezer" Videl continued not noticing her father's grin "but then I remember you telling me home made waffles are much better so I decided to try to make waffles" Hearing this Hercule shot up and ran to the kitchen 'maybe it will not be that bad' Hercule thought as he moved 'there is no law that says she inherited her mother's cooking ability'

Going through the dining room without really noticing anything he soon arrived at the kitchen to see that sure enough this was one of the ways that Videl took after her mother. There were scorch marks on the white walls, flour on the floor and ceiling, egg yolks on the refrigerator, a whisk was hanging from it proper place on the cabinet where they kept their forks and plates apparently put there after mixing something green and white (a semi solid mucus like substance connected the whisk to the counter beneath it) and last but not least there was a small fire guttering in the sink.

" It was harder to make waffles then I thought" Videl said from behind her father " So You were going to get frozen waffles any way but I wanted it to be extra special so I cooked eggs on top of your frozen waffles cause I know how much you like eggs. Then I sliced up some sausage on top for protein" At this point her father was looking down at her and she was looking up 'he has a strange look on his face' she thought 'I wonder what it means'

That strange look was a combination of irritation at having to clean up this mess, happiness that his daughter had made the attempt, exasperation that she was an even worse cook then her mother, and sadness at the memories it brought to the surface. 'I had a similar conversation with her mother the day after our honeymoon ended' he thought.

"What did you use the blender for?" he asked hesitantly almost afraid to know as he eyed the object while puting out the fire in the sink (it was on its side and partly filled with a brown and purple substance slowly leaking out onto the stainless steel counter.

"How do you think I cut the sausage? You told me it was dangerous to use the knives without you around." " I also made you a smoothie with it" Videl said proudly

Not wanting to know what was in the smoothie, knowing he was going to have to drink it anyway or risk hurting his daughter, he decided to move the conversation to a safer area. 'at least there are no poisonous substances in the house' he thought with a sigh. "Thank you for making me breakfast honey bean why don't you go take a bath while I eat then once you are all cleaned up we can go find the great master Roshi!"

"Okay daddy don't forget you need one to and you need to make me breakfast" Hercule nodded 'smart enough to not eat her own experiment' he thought with a grin "okay sweetie go get clean I'll have breakfast for you when you're done."

Fifteen minutes later Videl was clean and dressed in another gi like the one she wore yesterday (Brown gi pants with a white short sleeve gi shirt and a brown cloth belt). "Did you wash behind your ears" Hercule asked with mock seriousness. "Yes Daddy" Videl said with a giggle

"good now eat up while I go get my shower" Hercule said while walking towards their single bathroom.

"Wait daddy" Videl cried Hercule paused and looked back "yes?" he asked "did you eat your breakfast?" Videl asked with hope in her voice

"Not yet sweet pea" Hercule said "I will eat after I shower" 'ug I was hoping she forgot about that' he thought

"okay" Videl said "it will be on the table when you get out so hurry up" with that taken care of Videl began to eat her food she knew that her father would take at least half an hour in the shower because of his hair so she was in no hurry to get his meal.

After an invigorating morning shower Hercule went out to the dining room and the meal his daughter prepared for him 'this is'nt as bad as I thought it would be' Hercule thought to himself 'strange tasting but at least I did not pass out like the first time I ate my wife's cooking' Soon Hercule had finished his meal, much to the dilight of his daughter.

'I'll make you secound daddy"Videl shouted as she darted to the kitchen

"That is not neccessary Videl" Hercule hurridly replyed "It's time for us to leave for the great Master Roshi's house"

At this Videl switched direction and rushed out the front of the house. Hercule moving at a more sedate pace still cought up to her fairly quickly due to the fact the he had the jet copter and she could not leave with out him.

Once he was beside her he threw the capsule a safe distace and waited for the smoke to clear. Once the copter appeared Hercule and Videl got in. 'With the money from the tournament I could by the best jet copter on the market with money to spare' Hercule relaized. "Videl don't forget to fasten your seatbelt" Hercule saidwhile following his own advice.

And with that they launched into the air and swiftly approached the limits of Orange Star City. Hercule selected the address from his list of destinations and saw with a shock that it was almost 1200 miles away "this is going to take a while" Hercule said with a sigh.

Authors note: Thak you to the five people who reviewed my first chapter.

To Layab The Dark Saiyan:,my very first review ever!, Yes Hercule will be likeable in this story although to do so he is very much out of character most of the time. Also is this update fast enough for you?

To books52: thank you for the compliment hopefully Videl in this chapter was more to your likeing.

To Jrik23: Im happy you like it. This is only one year before Cell (even though according to the "official" time line Hercule won the tournament only 19 days before the Cell games) also Im not sure if Cell will occur "on time" in this story.

To RaiStar: Thsnk you for your vote of confidance.

and finally To Little Dragon Girl: My story is probably going to be a little heavy on the dialogue, four or more people talking with each other, would'nt starting a new paragraph each time some pipes up with a one liner lead to a stillted and artifical feeling conversation? Thank you for taking the time to give me your advice I will try to incorparate it into the story.

Authors note 2: Thank you medicaldolphin8 for your review I saw it about a minute before I posted this chapter.