Chapter Three

Sharpener tried his sister's number for the millionth time, okay it wasn't that many times but it sure felt like it. He's been alternating between her number and Videls for over a week now. Both girls had gone for a swim at Videls place and he hadn't seen them since. Hercule had seen them disappear apparently one moment they'd been leaving the pool house and the next they were gone, like they had turned invisible or teleported away. No trace of the girls at all.

"The number you are trying to ..." Sharpener hung up before the message could complete. He felt empty without his sister around. He walked to school for the first time since they'd gone missing. Hanging around the Satan Mansion with his father, Mr Satan and two Dr Briefs was too depressing, and Dr. Bulma Briefs was on his top ten list for beautiful woman but even she wasn't that appealing when he didn't know what had happened to his beloved sister and childhood friend. How sad when school seemed so appealing.

Since his father worked for Capsule Corporation he'd gone and asked for time off, explaining why he wanted time off which had ended up intriguing the Capsule Corps president and his daughter.

"Sharpener" he heard a familiar voice call out to him, a worried sounding voice. "Is everything okay? I haven't seen you or the two girls at school all week."

The concern on his face was genuine; he really did care about the welfare of both girls and himself. He hadn't been sure at first when his sister had invited Gohan to be a part of the group, but it turned out to be the right decision, he was a nice guy and didn't take advantage of any of them, especially Videl who'd been hurt in the past by so called friends once her dad became famous. The only reason he could think for not liking him was the fact he was competition when it came to Videl, after all Videl had shown an unnatural interest in the country kid.

"The girls disappeared right in front of Mr Satan, no one has seen them since." Sharpener explained in detail about what had happened. Instead of going to the class they'd gone to the roof. He didn't even feel up to teasing the class nerd about missing class, but then again, the class nerd missed more class then he did.

DBZ

Gohan was concerned about the two girls and hadn't noticed that the girls were missing till the first day back at school after the weekend when they'd disappeared. It has been a peaceful morning, stopping some thugs holding up a service station, putting out a house fire on the way to school, all without being harassed by Videl. It didn't feel right fighting crime without his fellow classmate trying to best him and find out his true identity. He actually managed to get to class on time when he didn't have Videl following him around everywhere. He was sitting in the back of the class searching for her ki signature curious to know why she was late to school, if she'd managed to get into trouble. Even though she could look after herself quiet well she had a bad habit of taking on more then she could chew and was then to proud to admit she'd put herself and everyone around her in danger. He frowned when he couldn't find her ki anywhere. He tried to keep himself calm and think of a logical explanation why he couldn't sense her it had been a long time since he'd had trouble finding the ki of someone who hadn't been trained to conceal their ki. He turned to the spot next to him to ask Erasa if she'd seen Videl at all only to find that she wasn't at school either and the same went for Sharpener. A quick look for the twins ki's revealed Sharpener but not Erasa, and from how his ki was fluctuating he was worried about something, most likely the girls. It was like they had died, but he was hoping that wasn't the case and that some other reason would explain their disappearance. Though if they had died he could wish them back with the Dragon Balls, in most circumstances though if they'd died he assumed it was an unnatural death.

The disappearance of Gohan's three friends hadn't gone un-noticed, but since the martial arts tournament was coming up everyone just assumed Videl and Sharpener where training together and Erasa had gone with them. No-one in the class was concerned besides Gohan.

He put up his hand giving his teacher his normal excuse that he had to go to the bathroom and then left school with no intention of going back. He flew to one of Piccolo's training grounds and found a nice place to meditate, with a clear mind he was hoping that he'd be able to sense the girls ki's a little easier.

DBZ

Meditation had got him nowhere, so the next step was to confirm if they'd died and he had the means to do just that. He paid a visit to Master Roshi's fortune telling sister Baba who was able to travel between the two worlds. She was a costly person to see, since she was so greedy and normally got what she wanted since she was the best at what she did and knew that he wouldn't be given the option to fight her challengers since he could beat them with ease. He'd be given a different task.

He had to bring her some precious magical artefact which luckily for him his grandfather happened to own and was happy to hand over since all it was doing was gathering dust.

"Now that we have the payment out of the way" the old fortune teller said. "I paid a visit to the other world, neither of the girls are dead. They've fallen into a parallel universe to this one."

"Are they safe in the parallel universe, is there any way for them to come back?" Gohan asked in surprise. He'd never considered something like that happening to the girls.

"That I can't say" Baba replied, frustrated with her crystal ball, something was blocking her ability to see the fate of the two girls.

DBZ

His work as Saiyanman had been a lot easier since Videl wasn't chasing him down trying to find out who he was, and he found that he missed the Saiyanman routine he'd gotten used to, missed being late to school because he was trying to keep his superhero identity a secret, missed the suspicious glances that Videl gave him, he missed the excuses he made so he could follower her to keep her safe he missed Videl and everyday Videl was gone hurt more and more, it was a surprise to find that it was almost as painful as when his father died at the hand of Cell and he knew he wasn't coming back. He guessed he missed Erasa as well and hated not knowing what the world was like they'd fallen into. Was is more dangerous than their own world, did they know they were in a different universe, was it mostly the same or extremely different?

With Sharpener back at school and the two girls still missing the rumours started to spread and since Sharpener wasn't giving any answeres the rumours became more wild, though the most common and normal belief was Sharpener was sick of losing at martial arts to Videl and had dropped out of attending the martial arts tournament as a competitor, Erasa staying behind to continue to support her best friend in training, making sure she took breaks and didn't get to absorbed in training.

School just wasn't the same without them and wherever the girls where he hoped they were both safe.

Authors Notes: Just a short chapter with the normal universe, next chapter will have the alternate universe again. Had a few comments about pairings last chapter and all I have to say is you'll have to wait and see.

Disastrousmaster, I didn't realise I had the Videls personality was out and it's something I'll try to get her closer to her normal personality. Erasa on the other hand I was aware of since she is in so few episodes I tend to play around with both herself and Sharpener.

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