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"Speach"

Chapter 3- Gold Fighter

Goten sat at the edge of Gohan's bed contemplating an "appropriate" to wake him up. 'Jump on his chest? No, did that yesterday, how about a snake in his underpants? No, mom will catch me before I can bring it into our room.' Goten sat there resting a hand on his chin stroking it ever so slightly still deep in thought. He didn't notice that Gohan was now awake and starting at the small boy with an evil smirk.

"RAWWW IM THE BLANKET MONSTER AND IM HERE TO CLAIM YOUR FLESH!" Gohan screamed in a silly voice as he grabbed the small half-sayains head with a blanketed hand. Goten smacked the offending appendage while turning tail and fleeing the bedroom.

"AHHH NO I NEED MY FLESH! MOM HELP!" Goten cried as he sought refuge between Chi-chis legs. Chi-Chi gave him a smile as she turned back to the sputtering bacon. "Gohan! Stop teasing your brother and get your butt down here breakfast is almost ready!"

Gohan chuckled at his brothers antics and got out of bed and shuffled to his dresser to get his attire for the day. He grabbed some old jeans, a plain gray shirt and his socks and made his way to the bathroom. After completing his morning rituals(showering, brushing his teeth, and applying deodorant) he changed his clothes and slipped on his shoes and headed downstairs. He was greeted by a glaring Goten, who by now had figured out the true identity of the blanket monster, and a smiling Chi-Chi.

"Well don't you look handsome Gohan! Dressing nicely for the ladies I presume?" Chi-Chi clucked adding a small wink to the last part.

"No, this is just how NORMAL people dress, unlike the outfits you picked out for me." Gohan sighed as he rolled his eyes at his mother's comments towards Gohan and his love life.

He sat down awaiting the feast that was sure to come, he thought of the outfits that he had thrown to the back of his closet and forgotten about. Weakling, dork, nerd were some of the adjectives that people would have used to describe him if he wore those abhorrent pieces of cloth. He just wanted to be seen as normal, he didn't want to be liked for what he can do, his prestigious "lineage", he just wanted to be accepted for him. Gohan was broken from his trance when a small hand came into his view and started taking food from his plates. He took that as his cue to dig in and eat what he could before his brother ate more of his share.

With breakfast now over, brought the dishes from the table to the sink, gave his mother a peck on the cheek and tussled his brothers' wild locks and said his farewells. Goten followed Gohan out the door where he waited on the porch to see his brother off, as he did every morning Gohan had school. Gohan gave his brother a wave and flew off, he could hear his brothers fading shouts to come back soon as he was soaring away from his home. When he started to near civilization he clicked the button on his watch and ascended into SSJ2.

Videl was crouching behind a dividing wall in Satan Memorial bank, she was centering herself and getting ready to take out the last two of the crooks who had been holding up the bank in hopes of a easy payday. The last to crooks still had that mindset, the same couldn't be said for the other 7 who were now in custody with sore jaws and bruised faces thanks to the brave heroine who had taken them by surprise. Videl peered past the wall to see the last two frantically trying to break into a highly sophisticated vault with nothing but a blowtorch and a drill. She took a deep breath and made a running leap for the two unsuspecting criminals.

Gohan had covered the 500+ plus mile journey from his home in the mountains to the outskirts of Satan City in about 7 minutes. 'Well that's the perks of being a super sayain 2 I guess, he he. I have another 30 mins before school sta...' Gohan didn't finish his thoughts as he had just noticed a large mass of spectators and police surrounding Satan City's most illustrious bank. He was about to descend to lend a hand when he noticed two beaten men being dragged out of the bank by a very flustered and singed Videl. He had come to a stop and hovered, deciding to make sure there wasn't any further action.

Videl had disposed of the criminals in one of the waiting police cruisers, when out of her peripherals she noticed a golden streak come to a stop. She centered her vision so that the golden streak was now a golden man. She was stupefied, she had heard of the Gold Fighter and his abilities but she never witnessed them herself. She couldn't really tell what he was wearing, but she could defiantly make out his golden hair which seemed gravity resistant. She started walk closer to try and see this mysterious fighter but she had made it no more than 10 feet before he suddenly disappeared. 'What in the world?' She mentally screamed looking around to try and figure out where he had gone to. 'Am I going crazy? I swear I just saw him, either he moves so fast he can't be seen… or he uses those tricks my dad always blabs about.' She huffed in frustration and stomped back to her jet copter in hopes of getting to school in time to use the school computer lap for a little research.

Gohan sighed in relief as he OSH came into view, 'That was close! Cant give away myself just yet! I can't do the poses unless I have done something heroic to warrant such awesome displays of agility and um, stuff.' He touched down on the roof doing a quick check, being satisfied that no one was around he powered down and deactivated his watch. He threw open the door and ran down the stairs and into the halls. He checked his watch to see he had 10 minutes till his first class. As he looked up from his watch he narrowly avoided running into his science teacher carrying a large box. 'Danger explosive liquids… Hmmm… Science looks interesting today!' Gohan smiled yelling his apologies to his teacher as he jogged past. Out of his peripherals saw Videl and Erasa standing off to the side of the lockers, Videl was scowling at Gohan and Erasa looking like she had just been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. He mentally shrugged and continued on his way.

" I don't think he heard you Erasa. Anyways, so your saying that he told you that he lives in the 439 mountain area, and that everyone you have asked said that he isn't seen after the last bell?" videl questioned.

"Yea! Everyone says he just kind of, ya know, disappears. Like a couple of people have seen him by his locker and whatnot but that's about it! No one sees him leave the school, no one sees him with any capsule cars or jets. He just simply vanishes." Erasa nodded her head making she her recollections of everyone's accounts were correct.

Videls brain had gone into overdrive; it made connections between Gohan and the Gold Fighter and their abilities to simply "vanish", making her own lucid suspicions seem even more plausible . 'I've got you now Gohan, ill make sure to "speak" with you during lunch.' Videl schemed. After saying her goodbyes to Erasa she went into her next class, only three more periods till she vowed to get her answers.

Gohan was sitting threw his history class, trying to wake himself up from sleeping all of literature class, when he heard a small whump and a few frenzied screams. 'What the heck was that?' After about 5 minutes of wondering what had happened and mindlessly jotting notes down, the principal entered the room handing the teacher a note and excused himself.

The teacher cleared his throat and began to read from newly acquired memo.

"Due to a highly toxic and corrosive chemical exposure on the first floor, next period classes will be cancelled and the time typically allotted to the 3rd period will be protracting your regular lunch period. " The teacher sat down his note and was started to continue with his lecture.

"Umm, What?" a student in the second row with a confused look on his face questioned.

The teacher sighed, "IT means you will have a longer lunch."

"OH, sweet." The student chirped.

Gohan was stoked, for this unexpected luxury, 'Food and meditation? Alright!'

Class soon ended and he was making his way to his new found spot under the tree, where he could eat his fill away from prying eyes and maybe get in 45 minutes of meditation before his fifth period began. Due to his inability to think of anything else but food and mental training he didn't realize he was being followed.

Gohan sat himself at the base of the tree and de-capsulized his lunch, after giving it a once over he decided to start with his favorite, spicy fish chunks with rice. Videl rounded the corner and looked around, she had seen Gohan come this way and was having trouble spotting him within the large field. Once she spotted him by the tree, a genuine smile graced her lips; to most people it was a happy smile, a smile that said I just got the most adorable puppy for Christmas. But this smile meant so much more to her, finally almost two whole hours for her to interrogate this mysterious Gohan, she wasn't about to let him escape. She calmly sauntered over to the tree where Gohan was demolishing his food with gusto, smile still planted on her face.

Gohan had made it thru his 14th bowl of spicy fish, and was about to attack a large piece of charred meat, but when he reached over to grab said meat he was welcomed by to small feet. He looked up to the most beautiful smile he had ever seen, he pause for a moment before he stuttered out a smile hello. "H-hey V-Videl." Still entranced by her smile. "haven't seen you out here before for lunch, um, would you like to join me?"

"Thank you Gohan, of course! That is very kind of you." Videl said just a tad surprised by is inherent politeness

Gohan was confused, all his encounters with her had been brash, rude, terrifying even. But with that smile he couldn't really decipher any hidden agenda behind this newly found side to her. With a shake of his head he tried his hardest to concentrate on the task at hand, food. He had slowed down considerably… For a sayain that is, not wanting to spook Videl because he could eat 200 portions in under 15 minutes. He stole a glance after eating all of the charred beef to see Videl sitting there, brown lunch bag still in hand, with her head cocked to one side, slightly wide-eyed. He questioned if she was okay, and she managed to straighten up and nod, while slightly digging into her lunch. She pulled out an apple and started to slowly bite off small pieces while she watched Gohan literally inhale enough food to feed a small town. Gohan finished his giant meal, well almost he decided it wise not to crack open his dessert capsule. He leaned back and allowed his food to digest, soaking up the warm air in the comfort of the shade as he did.

'Well here goes nothing' Videl thought, finally choosing a tactful way to get some questions answered. "So Gohan, we haven't really talked… and I thought a good way to get to know each other would be to ask each other some questions, sound good?" Videl stated smoothly.

"Sure Videl! Anything you wan… ermm… Yea that sounds fine." Gohan recovered hoping she hadn't heard his willingness for Videl. He also noticed that his ki was rising slightly even though he had been suppressing it, he didn't want to break someone's shoulder by bumping into them. 'Man this is weird, she smiles once and I turn into a love sick puppy, and I am not able to keep my ki depressed to a normal humans level, thank goodness it stopped before it got any higher.' Gohan pondered.

"Um, OK! Great. First question where do you live?

"439 Mountain area."

"Wow! How do you get here every day?" she tried to sound as surprised as she could.

"Um, well I fly here and back" Not really a lie he thought.

"Hmm, what kinda capsule jet do you have?"

"I kind of forget the name of it, it's a um.. brand new prototype? Just got it before I started school" Gohan lied hoping she would believe him.

"How did you get a prototype from Capsule Corporation? My dad can't even get them. Can I see?" She questioned, doubting him.

"I know a person, and the agreed to let me test one, but I don't have it on…" He was explaining, but was interrupted by Videl and her communicator. After squabbling with the chief for a minute she excused herself and started to leave.

"After school meet me here! I can't wait to see your capsule jet!" She yelled over her shoulder at gohan.

'Well crap how am I going to get out of this? First thing is first, I think I will secretly tag along to see how well she does.' Gohan thought. 'But I can't help that feel that I am going for some totally unrelated reason, she obviously won't need my help, she's been doing this for years now. I should really just stay out of her way, she can handle it.' Gohan finally decided. He sat there for another thirty seconds before he started to feel an unusual anxious sensation, forcing him to get up and head to the roof. He sighed when he reached the roof, wondering why he felt so endeared to this girl after just acquainting himself with her, well more like her acquainting herself with him but still, the need to protect and keep her safe wouldn't let him be idle while she risked her wellbeing. He ascended into SSJ2 and activated his watch, he checked the time that was displayed and he had less than forty minutes till lunch was over.

He find her ki easily enough, hers being the highest in the city it made it extremely simple in fact. 'Crap, she's already there and it seems like she already started fighting.' Gohan worried. After 30 seconds of flying he was at the crime scene, it was a large capitol building, and what he had discerned from the conversation with Videl and her communicator the mayor was being held for ransom. He bypassed the front of front entrance and went thru a sky light on the third floor. There were scattered unconscious bodies laying around, four to be exact, two shot guns laid smoking on the floor, but he could feel Videl's moving towards another large ki. He moved silently thru the corridors till he stopped behind one of the door frames where he peeked around to see Videl exchanging not so kind words with the supposed leader. Gohan extended his senses to find who he believed were the Mayor and another henchman, hiding in the connected room.

Videl was starting to get fatigued; her confrontation with the previous henchmen was a little more than she bargained for. Dodging and shotgun blasts and knocking four men unconscious really takes a toll on you. After demanding that he give up and getting the routine insult back, Videl took time to size up her opponent , He had shoulder length brown hair that was tied back in a ponytail of sorts, A black tanktop and a pair of overused, over stained beige cargo pants. He was srawny yet had obvious muscle so she assumed he would be quick and pack a wallop, she also noticed a red bandana tied on his bicep and a knife strapped to his ankle, she made a mental note to take and discard of that as soon as she had the chance. She dropped into a stance and barked out one final order to surrender the mayor and himself. He spoke nothing but gave her a small laugh and proceeded to get in a stance of his own. 'Gotcha, what an obvious opening, somebody's been watching too many Kung-Fu movies.' She thought as a smirk appeared on her face. She Pounced, She sent a kick at his exposed left side, to make sure she didn't fall to the ground after landing the kick she was mentally preparing to catch herself and deliver the finishing move once he was on the ground. Only to have her kick blocked and to have her head driven into the ground by his free hand, the pain was immediate and constant. Before she had the chance to recover she felt a boot dig into her side and the resulting force sent her skidding five feet.

"Come one little girl, Get up! You shouldn't be so cocky… If you weren't then you would have spotted my trap. Too bad I thought the daughter of the champ would be more able than this! This is Pathetic! They don't call me Trick for nothing!" Trick spat.

Videl finally had got to her feet, she took a deep breath to center herself, pushing the pain and the trickle of blood she could feel making its way down the back of her neck. He once again got in his stance, and again she spotted an obvious opening. She attacked once again, she feigned a punch at his exposed head and again he went in for the block, but she learns from her mistakes. She sent another kick to is left side this time nailing him right in the kidney, She caught herself with one hand using the momentum from the kick to swing her around and land safely on two feet.

"NOW MARTY!" Trick screamed spittle laden with blood spewing everywhere. Suddenly the door flung open and the second crook that was guarding the mayor sprang from his position grabbing Videl in a choke hold. She clawed and kicked but with everything she threw at him, he applied more pressure. Barely able to breath she stopped her futile flailing to conserve what little oxygen she could take in.

"Well thank Kami for hired help, if he wasn't hiding I would have been thrown in the slammer, but good thing I always plan ahead." Trick laughed, un-sheathing the knife that was strapped to his ankle. "So Marty, what do you think we should do? Deflower her pretty self.. Then cut on her a bit? Or cut on her then.." Trick said no more has he was thrown thru the window with a punch to the cheek, his knife falling idly by Marty's feet. Marty was terrified; he had seen this strange golden warrior coming with the look of pure anger carved into his facial features. He dropped Videl and fell on his but, he was sure that this golden haired maniac was going to kill him. He panicked and grabbed Tricks' knife that had abandoned him on his way out the window, picking up Videl by her pigtails he placed the knife to her throat.

"BACK OFF OR SHE GETS A NEW HOLE TO BREATHE THRU!" He yelled trying act tough as the urine soaked his pants.

"You have 5 seconds to let her go and turn yourself in before I make you wish you would have cut your own throat." Gohan spat bitterly trying to control his anger and Ki before he blasted this man into the afterworld.

Videl kept her eyes shut to try and pretend this was all a lucid bad dream, but after hearing that hoarse threating mystery voice demanding her safety she opening her eyes only to be blinded by pulsating golden light and cracks of what she believed to be mini lighting. After her eyes adjusted from the blinding light she could make out her could be rescuer. His golden hair stood straight up with on lock of it flapping wilding in his face, He wore a mask that only covered from the bridge of his nose to the bottom of his chin, leaving he intense turquoise eyes staring directly at Marty. He was also bare chested sporting only two black wristbands, his muscles were beyond on anything she has ever seen, he had the largest muscle structure she had ever seen, but it was also just as defined. She moved down to see his black gi and his white boots with gold tips. He was defiantly from their encounter this moring. She was shaken from her assessment when he began his countdown.

"FIVE…FOUR…" He was loud and assertive, his aura fading from view and his facial features turned from angered and blood thirsty to an eerie calm within seconds. "THREE….. TWWWOOO…." Gohan spotted that he had spooked the wannabe criminal.

Videl heard the Golden fighter elongate the number two, she could feel the cowardice coming from Marty, he was shaking and cause the knife to slice just thru her neck, but only enough to draw a tiny bit of blood. Before she had time to say her last words, she felt a rush of heated wind fly by her, only seconds later to have her hair released. She slumped to the floor relishing the feeling of not having a knife against her throat, she was broken from her happy tidings by bones cracking and blood curdling screams and the clank of the knife falling harmlessly to the floor. She looked up to see the Gold Fighter Crushing the appendage that had wielded that blade that almost ended her, it wasn't pretty she wasn't ever sure he deserved this. His hand fell limply to his side more resembling five crushed uncooked sausages that she guessed was his fingers, the rest of his hand and wrist weren't looking so great either.

Gohan at this point and time was no more, all his anger and rage once again had surfaced and had taken control. He was going in for the kill, Marty had cease to function and was just sobbing in a corner slowly losing consciousness. He raised he palm to face his opponent and charged his ki meaning to obliterate every atom that made up this piece of scum.

Videl could hear the crackling of pure energy and feel the heat it gave off, all her life being told that this was a trick some illusion with explosives and mirrors. She could see now that this was no trick, and she could tell it was going to be just as deadly as she remembered in the cell games. She rose to her feet using a nearby chair to help her get her footing.

"STOP! He has suffered enough. If you kill him, that would make you no different from him.." she spoke softly.

The rage started to clear and he cut off the ki that he used to charge his energy blast and slowly it fizzled from his palm into nothingness. He knelt down to the now unconscious man, he gently picked up what was left of his hand, he growled in frustration and anger at himself. 'I'll have to give hime a sensu bean.. I don't even know if it would do anything to help at this point…' Gohan reached inside of his gi to retrieve a sensu bean he had stashed in a hidden pocket, and deposited it in his mouth. After forcing him to swallow the bean within seconds he hand started to magically restore its self. 'Well that looks better… but he might have some issues with it.' He thought regretfully. He stood up and turned to videl.

"Tell your friends to come take the criminals into custody, and have them bring a stretcher for the mayor. He knocked him unconscious before he grabbed you." He said pointing at Marty. "After They have received the information, we are leaving." He stated.

"Leaving? I'm not leaving; I have a job to do!" Videl screamed causing her head to erupt in pain and she would have fell over if Gohan hadn't scooped her up bridal style.

"Hurry up and tell them so I can take you to hospital. I don't have all day!" Gohan snapped.

Videl defeated, relayed the information and as soon she cut off her communications with the chief she was flying out the window that Trick had flown thru. She stifled a giggle when she saw Trick sprawled out in a tree babbling incoherently. She wrapped her arms around his neck and looked at his softened face, she could tell that he was troubled by the things he did but her musings where torn away from her mind when she saw a bright red blush tinged his cheeks.

"So what the hell happened back there? Why did you almost kill that man, and why are you forcing me to go to the hospital?" Videl question.

"I don't think anyone should be treated the way they were going to treat you. And you possibly have a concussion, and I don't want yo… anyone getting hurt when I am around." Gohan said solemnly.

She was going to question further when she felt him land; she looked up to see Satan City Urgent care. Not letting her down he eyed her suspiciously, "Now I think you know how to check yourself in right? Because if you leave after I do without getting checked out, I WILL come back and force you. Got it?"

"Yea yea! I got it!" she huffed annoyingly and wiggled from his grasp.

He turned on his heel and was preparing to take off before he felt a small hand grab his gi.

"Hey! Not yet I still want to ask you some questions!" she tiredly spoke.

He could see her exhaustion catching up with her, and felt that it was better to defer her questions to later date instead of just blasting off back towards school. "Just go in and get checked out, and I promise that you will see me around, and we will have time later to talk. OK?"

She hmphed and walked towards the door. Stealing one last glance at the handsome superhero, she saw him lift off backwards into the air yelling about something about 'He would know'. She pushed open the doors and walked over to the front desk her shirt spattered with her own dried blood, she tiredly yet politely gave her name and asked to be checked in. she glance out the window to see a golden streak slowly disappear from her vision. She sighed as she felt a prick then a nurse hurriedly pushed the Champs' daughter into an awaiting suite. She hated getting special attention just because she was the daughter of the man who saved the world.

'I hate you Goldie locks. I swear I will make you pay.' She mused feeling slightly fuzzy all of a sudden. "Maybe I will see if your abs can juice lemons, then pour it in your eyes for making me come to this ass kissing hell hole.. Mmmm… yea ab juice.' Videl drooled, as she succumbed to the numbing effects of painkillers being dripped intravenously.