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*~East District 439~*
*~Gohan~*
As he neared his home, Gohan recalled the day's events. He made two friends, one of which was also a Half -Saiyan just like him, and another was the daughter of his dad's friends. He met up with Andrew, who he hasn't seen since the Cell Games, and he managed to see Vegeta storm out over a power level reading. That was actually a better day than he thought it would be. He actually expected someone to be following him, of for Vegeta to blow the school into oblivion.
He landed in front of the familiar dome of his family's home. As soon as he landed, he was bowled over by an orange and blue blur. the blur revealed themselves to be his younger brother and sister, Goten and Kara. They were jumping on his stomach, an act that would give a regular human heavy bruising. "Big Brother, you're back! How was school, was it fun?Can we come with you, huh? Can we, can we, can we?" yelled Goten as he was using Gohan as an effective trampoline. Kara had stopped, opting to sit nearby and watch the show. And sure enough...
"Weee! I'M A BIRDIE! LOOK KARA, A BIRDIE!" Yelled Goten as he was swatted out of the way, and was sent flying for the nearby trees. Right before he hit them however, he nimbly twisted in the air and used the trunk as a launchpad, barreling towards Gohan, who was just getting back up and hadn't noticed the live kinetic missile heading straight for his back.
Feeling pity for her older brother, Kara decided to warn him. "Look behind you Big Brother." He turned around and yelped as he immediately ducked for cover, Goten rocketing past them...
...and towards their house.
'crapbaskets'
*CRASH*
Trembling, Gohan turned to Kara and said, "Kara?"
"Y-yeah?" She said in a quiet voice.
Then Chi Chi screamed in the loudest voice she had ever used.
"GOHAN!"
Gohan turned towards his sister, panic in his eyes, and yelled, "RUN!"
And then they ran for the woods, hiding until they were sure their mother had calmed down.
*~Golden City~*
*~Videl~*
Videl landed in the backyard of her family's two story, three bedroom house, and walked in, getting greeted by her mother, who for once wasn't out training. Turning towards her daughter, she said, "So, how was school? Meet any new friends?" she said, then smirked, "Any potential mate's?"
Immediately, her mind went to her new friend, Gohan. She blushed, and pushed the thought to the back of her head.
Fasha noticed this though, and just smirked. 'So someone finally caught her eye,' she thought, 'About damn time. It's never too early to be a grandmother' "So, someone did catch your eye. When will I meet him? It's never too early to make me a grandmother, you know."
Videl just blushed and walked in her room, wanting to avoid this conversation. She didn't even know why she blushed, or thought of Gohan (I mean, she barely even met the kid today), but this 'grandchildren' conversation was getting old.
Her room, when she got there, was a mess. The sheets on her bed were in a corner, leaving the bed bare. There were random clothes thrown on the floor around her dresser, mostly consisting of her white shirt and spandex shorts combo, and the drawers were sticking out haphazardly out of there spots. Lastly, the floor was covered in candy wrappers from her 'stash'. A girl needs her sweets.
Groaning, she began cleaning the place, picking up and setting the clothes in their place, trowing away the wrappers (and finding a new hiding place for her sweets), and making the bed. After all was said and done, a blur barreled into her room, effectively messing up her room again. The blur slowed down enough to reveal a fourteen year old girl with short, spiky hair, wearing a red t-shirt that read 'Daddy's Girl' in pink glitter-covered letters and a set of skinny jeans. The outfit was smudged with chocolate, and her fingers had chocolate stains on them. She immediately ran towards the dresser, looking for more candy. She was obviously on a sugar rush.
Videl just huffed, not pleased that her hard work was all for nothing, and calmly grabbed her sister, dragged her out of her room, and dropped her in front of her mother. She then promptly walked to her room, and closed the door. Back to cleaning...
*~East District 439~*
*~Gohan~*
Back at the Son home, something terrible has happened...
*CLANG*
Chi Chi has found Gohan, and dragged him back home.
"Son Gohan*CLANG*, don't you ever*CLANG*, throw your brother*CLANG*, like that *CLANG*, EVER *CLANG* AGAIN! *CLANG* *CLANG*"
Dazed, Gohan could barely mumble an "Okay mom," before stumbling up the stairs into his room. Right when he plopped down on his bed, Goten poked his head in, worried for the well being of his Big Brother. Walking in, he timidly asked, "Big Brother, are you okay?"
Despite his pain (for painful lumps were starting to form already), Gohan lifted his throbbing head and said, in the most sincere voice he could manage, and said, "I'm alright, Squirt. It'll take more than that to take me down," he said, "Besides, don't you want to hear how my day went?"
Instantly brightening up, Goten said, "YEAH! Let me get Kara, then she can hear how awesome your school is!" he then bolted out of the room, yelling, "KARA, KARA! Come here! Gohan's gonna tell us how awesome school is!"
Gohan smiled at Goten's easy-to-please nature. It reminded him of his dad so much. He got sad when he thought of that. Goten and Kara wouldn't get to meet him, because he got too cocky and let Cell get desperate.
He was knocked out of his thoughts by the sound of thumping nearing his room. He was then met with two over-excited seven year olds, and began telling them about his day at school.
After an exhausting day, Gohan plopped onto his bed. After she calmed down, Chi Chi wanted to know how his day went, and didn't fail to notice how he talked about Videl. Apparently, he had a faraway look on his face, one Chi Chi recognized as love, but he actively denied it, to no avail. She was ranting about grandbabies in a blink of an eye. She wanted to meet his friends, most noticeably Videl, and demanded he bring them (her) over. He had no idea on how to bring it up.
Then his grandfather Bardock came back from training in the forest, and seeing his grandson's flustered face, decided to tease him His grandpa landed when he was fourteen, after drifting in space for a few years. He was injured, but fortunately for him, Gohan was training, and sensed the weak life force coming from Bardock's ship. Gohan made his way there, and took Bardock, leaving his pod behind. After healing him, Bardock decided to stay with his son's family, helping Chi Chi take care of Gohan, Kara, and Goten.
It was a long day for Gohan, and tomorrow, he had school.
*~Golden City~*
*~Videl~*
After she cleaned her room, Videl started to think about Gohan. He was a Saiyan (or at least half). Could go Super Saiyan, like her. And wasn't an arrogant ass (like a certain blond jock). Instead, he was modest, at least so far, and was smarter than average. He also didn't see her as the 'daughter of the world champ', instead seeing 'Videl'.
She then decided to watch the Cell Games footage, despite it being a painful memory to her. Ever since that day, she wanted to find out who was the boy that beat Cell, and thank him. That boy inadvertently avenged her father (and everyone that was killed) that day, by blasting him to hell. Of course, she didn't see who did it, because that day, wen she saw what happened to her father on live television, she transformed blasting apart the house in the process. Lucky for the family, her father had won the World Martial Arts Tournament earlier that year, or they would be living on the streets.
So with that in mind, she went online and searched for the Cell Games footage. After just a few minutes of searching, she found the video on ZTV's official website. She let it load, and sat back, ready to watch.
*~Cell Games: 7 Years Ago~*
"Here we are, just twenty minutes until the start of the Cell Games," the ZTV reporter said. "And by the looks of it, no-one has come to see the event for fear of their life's!"
At this point, Videl fast forwarded to where the man in the orange gi began fighting. She already knew what they said here.
Goku stepped onto the stage and made his way to Cell. Standing in front of him, he stared him down. Over beside the ring, Gohan said, "This, should be good" Besides him, Krillin responded with,"Yeah."
The atmosphere was tense, with good reason. The best fighter the earth had to offer was facing the biggest threat in it's entire history. Should he fall, the Earth was done for. The two opponents stared each other down, before the silence was broken by Cell. "I'm sure you know how I've been waiting for this," he said. "Killing the helpless quickly grows old," Cell then lowered himself into a stance. "I'm counting on you for some form of entertainment."
Dropping into his own stance Goku spoke, "So I hear you're designed to use all of our techniques against us." Cell merely smirked, and said, "Perfection."
After waiting for a few minutes, Cell smirked, and said, "Ding."
They both vanished, shock-waves crashing all around the area. Then they appeared with a booming shock-wave, both of them with an arm outstretched, punching each other's hand. They both smirked, before beginning another round of high speed fighting and this time, the were just slow enough to appear as a blur of motion, leaping around the ring, exchanging punches and kicks with dizzying speed.
A block here, a punch there, both fighter's seemed to be giving their all in this melee, moving the fight to the air now, not moving anymore, save for the rise in altitude. The level of skill here was tremendous. Both warriors were testing each other's reactions, getting a feel of each other while fighting at supersonic speeds.
Suddenly, they broke apart, neither of them panting, their energy levels never dropping from their original position. They both stared each other down, before Goku spoke. "How about we skip the warm-up for now, Cell?"
"As you wish, Goku," Cell replied, chuckling.
'So the guy's name is Goku, but I already knew that,' thought Videl, storing the information once again within her mind.
And with that, both warriors dropped into tighter stances, calling upon tremendous amounts of energy, both covered in a raging yellow aura, before once again disappearing from sight. this time, the shock-waves were deafening, some even cracking the arena below. both fighters exchanged blows so fast, all you could see were faint blurs of orange and green as they rocketed around each other. Suddenly, one hit landed, and the sound of flesh on armored flesh was prominent as Cell was sent rocketing towards the bare ground, dazed and out of control.
Seeing the ground approach at an alarming rate, Cell regained his bearings and righted himself before rocketing towards Goku. Instead of crashing into him to initiate another all-out brawl, he once again stopped in front of him. "This is truly a fight worthy of a warrior of your caliber, Goku," Cell said.
"Oh, boy" said Goku, with a hint of sarcasm.
Cell then spoke again, "It would be a shame if the match ended with a cheap win, like a ring out," he said, while gathering energy in his hand.
"Wait, Cell! Don't do this," an alarmed Goku pleaded.
"I would advise you warn your friends, because this blast would surely kill them," Cell said, forming a ball of purple ki, and aiming it at the ring.
Turning towards his friends, Goku yelled, "Hey!" Goku yelled, "Get away from the ring! NOW!' and not a second after they scrambled for cover, the ring was engulfed in a fiery inferno of energy, stirring dust everywhere. A huge crater was now the only sing that the ring was even there to begin with.
"How do you like that, Goku? Quite the improvement, isn't it?" asked a smirking Cell, eyeing the area with little care. "Now the whole desert is our ring. Let's say the last man standing wins the game."
"I see," Goku said, eyeing the area, "so it's a fight to the finish."
"Would you have it any other way?"
"No, I guess not" Goku said, while limbering up.
"Good, now let the games continue."
Videl watched on as the fight went on, watching Cell blast at Goku as he flew at top speed, evading each blast with only inches to spare. She watched as Goku got ready to blast at the Earth with a Kamehameha, only to vanish and reappear right in front of Cell, completely obliterating his upper body, and saw the disgusting regeneration of Cell. She then got to the part where she would always leave from. Right before Goku announced who was fighting next, her father would go up and challenge Cell once more.
"This next match will probably be the last match of the tournament. If the next person can't beat you, no-one in the planet can," said Goku
"Now I'm intrigued. So tell me, if the great Goku Son can't beat me, then who can? Is it Trunks? Piccolo? Or perhaps Vegeta?" Cell asked, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"None of them actually. The one I'm thinking about is-"
"CELL! I challenge you once again!" roared Hercule, running towards them, "I'm going to beat you! I don't care if you can kill me with a single punch! I'd rather go out fighting than hiding behind a rock! COME AT ME!"
Cell looked at him, annoyed. Then, faster than Goku could react, Cell suddenly appeared in front of Hercule, and rammed a fist clean through his chest. "What a waste of energy," Cell spat, throwing the lifeless body off his arm. He then turned to Goku, and said, "So, who's next?"
Although shaken at the senseless brutality, Goku turned around, and called out to his son, "Gohan!"
Although pained at the sight of her father's dead body, she heard the one word Goku Son uttered: Gohan.
*~East District 439~*
*~Gohan~*
Gohan awoke once again to the jumping bodies of his younger siblings. Once again swatting them away, he made his way to the restroom, where he took a quick shower, and got dressed. This time, he wore blue jeans with a white long-sleeve undershirt over a blank yellow t-shirt. After eating a large breakfast, he picked up his thing, and blasted off towards school.
On his way there, he ran into another crime scene. Another bank robbery was taking place. Gohan made his way to a nearby rooftop, dropping his stuff on the empty roof. He powered up into a Super Saiyan with ease and dropped down towards the scene, already spotting Videl down there. This time, no words were said as they took care of the crooks, Within minutes, the crooks were apprehended, and both teens blasting off to school (after Gohan retrieved his school items, of course).
*~HFIL~*
*~? ? ? ?~*
Down in the deepest pits of HFIL, a lone figure was training, sparks flying from his figure. He was throwing punches and kicks to an invisible opponent, moving so fast he was barely even a blur. Sweat dripped from his forehead as he awaited the time when he would break out of this literal hellhole.
'Soon, Gohan Son,' he thought, 'I will break out of here, and round two shall begin...'
And with than, an evil laugh echoed throughout HFIL.
*~Orange Star High School~*
*~Gohan~*
Gohan made his way back towards the rooftop of the school, deep in thought.
'Videl really seemed out of it for some reason,' he thought, taking out two food capsules instead of one. His mother said, in her exact words: "No daughter in law of mine is going to starve to death if I can do anything about it!" Gohan blushed at the memory. His mother sent him off with a last minute reminder of his current situation. He had to find a way to ask both Videl and Erasa to come over to his home, or else his mother would have to buy a brand-new frying pan.
He walked onto the roof, seeing Videl already on it, waiting for him. She was, after all, the one who called him up here. She was pleasantly surprised at the extra food capsule he brought, but managed to remain serious nonetheless.
Releasing his lunch form the capsule, Gohan picked up a random food item and asked, "So, what did you want to talk to me about?" he said, " It seemed pretty serious when you brought it up during class."
Releasing the contents of the capsule Gohan gave her, Videl revealed a lunch around the same size as Gohan's. Before she dug in though, she said, "Gohan, I need to ask you a serious question, but I think It'll be too personal for you" she then waited for him to answer her.
After taking a bite out of a grilled burger (who knows when Chi Chi had the time to make it), Gohan just said, "Just ask it. If it's too personal, I'll let you know."
"Alright, if you say so..." she said, getting anxious.
"So, umm, were you at the Cell Games?"
Kinda rushed it, and filled in space with the Cell Games scene, but I think I did alright.