The capsule copter landed on top of the helipad. As soon as it's motor stopped, two dozen cameramen surrounded the copter and started clicking away.
"Agh! Grandpa did you have to let the media in as well?", Gohan groaned, he hated the bloody media. Especially when they asked him questions. He was once surrounded by an army of reporters, and he couldn't have just flown away since he was keeping his Saiyan heritage and powers a secret. That was perhaps the most terrifying moment of his life. Gohan shuddered at the thought of being surrounded by reporters again.
" Damn reporters", Gohan muttered.
"Gohan we obviously cannot ban the entrance of the media in a diplomatic meeting. You know that. I like them no better than you do", the ox King sighed.
" Oh don't worry my Lords. I will handle the media myself. That is why I tagged along after all!", the chief minister Porunda said with his usual jolly tone.
Ox King, Gohan, Porunda and the driver got off the copter once the helipad had been surrounded by the ox King's guards.
The cleared a way through the reporters and camera men as then entered Orange city's mayor's mansion. Actually it was Satan city now. Gohan hadn't realized that the city had been renamed until Grandpa has organization a diplomatic meet with the mayor yesterday.
Gohan chuckled. Now when the ox kingdom organized anything, everyone would stand read in attention and prepare everything in just under a day. And to think that just half a decade earlier the ox kingdom was considered a terrorist organization just because they preferred to be isolated.
"See Gohan. While I can't ban the paparazzis, I can at least make preparations to keep us safe from them. The guard came useful after all didn't they", the ox King said with a grin," We don't want another West city incident now do we".
Gohan shuddered again at the thought of the West city incident. Cameramen everywhere. The blinding flashes. The constant questioning. Oh the nightmares!
'Damn you jerks!", Gohan thought as the camera flashes blinded him. The guards could stop the reporters from surrounding him but who was going to stop the damn camera men from their visual assault.
Once inside the mayor's mansion, Gohan, the ox King and Porunda conducted the meeting with the mayor.
They discussed security, financial support from the ox King and resolved a few minor diplomatic problems.
Throughout the whole meeting the mayor couldn't seem to shut up about how sorry he was that Mr Satan himself couldn't make it to the meeting. After each discussion he felt the compulsion to remind the ox King that Mr Satan himself was a citizen of this city, and that Mr Satan was unfortunately out of the country and hence couldn't make it to the meeting.
'Oh just shut up you fanboy', Gohan yelled in his mind and seriously considered yelling it out loudly.
Finally after then meeting was over everyone moved into a small auditorium present inside the mayor's mansion.
Once Gohan was settled on the dias he looked ahead of him, and to his horror at least thousands of reporters ( There were only about forty, besides the auditorium couldn't even house more than fifty) occupied the seats in front of him.
The entire conference was being shown live on TV. So when Porunda would make the dreaded announcement, the entire world would hear it. Gohan gulped, he fate was about to be sealed. As of now, his mother was already meeting up with the principal of orange star high. Gohan wondered whether the principal would believe that the woman who had come for her son's admission was really the mother of the Ox prince, perhaps he wouldn't believe, but after this live telecast, there would definitely be no doubt in his mind.
The conference began with the mayor apologizing(again) for the absence of Mr Satan who was currently out of the country. After which Porunda and the mayor's secretary answered any questions that the reporters asked.
After a while, Porunda suddenly cleared his throat and spoke, "the ox kingdom wishes to make an announcement to the people of Satan city. We recognize that out education system is not as development as that of Satan city, we hope that one day it would be just as efficient as that of Satan city, but as of now, literacy is still a weak point of the Ox kingdom. Now as you all know, the ox Prince had turned fourteen this year. The Prince has always been home schooled by private tutors. But now, his mother desires the Prince to receive a proper high school education, that is in a level with that of Satan city's education it self! But as the ox kingdom lacks such a prosperous education system, we have decided, that as soon as the new semester at Orange star high starts, the Prince shall be one of it's new students! We trust our Prince's education shall be handled properly by the teachers of this city!"
The dreaded announcement had been made. And with it came the dreaded questions, aimed not at Porunda, not at grandpa, not at the mayor, but right at him. A thousand questions flooded Gohan's ears, and a billion camera flashes dazed him.
All he could do is turn to Porunda and mutter, "why".
Porunda merely whispered a sorry.
And then suddenly, all hell broke loose.
The three windows on the eastern side of the auditorium shattered and three armed men in military gear jumped through them. The door way that connected the auditorium to the mansion was kicked down and four more armed men in military grade gear entered the auditorium. Even the back door to the auditorium was broken down and another three armed military men entered the auditorium.
The there were ten mayor guards and seven ox King guards inside the auditorium who quickly readied their weapons, but suddenly four of the mayor guards and two of the Ox King guards jumped back from and shot down their comrades.
" NO!", the ox King yelled as four of his chosen guard were killed.
Sixteen armed hostiles. Sixteen armed hostiles along with live cameras and reporters…they made him helpless, he couldn't do anything. He couldn't risk everyone knowing about his true power.
Grandpa and Porunda were the only two people in this auditorium that knew who he really was. And he couldn't let anyone else know. That would put his mother, and his four year old brother at risk.
His father had decided to stay dead simply because his very existence brought about challenge from extremely dangerous threats. He was know throughout the galaxy as the man who killed Freeza. And that constantly brought other space warlords to earth to test their strength. In fact even after Goku died, at least four warlords had tried to conquer earth. Thankfully Gohan and the other z fighters had easily taken care of them and hand not let them become public threats.
But he couldn't risk taking out these men. He could have done it. He could have beaten them before they could blink an eye. But at base form he wasn't fast enough to be invisible to the human eye. Perhaps if he turned super…but then he doubted that anyone would fail to see a man suddenly starting to shine. No he couldn't do anything…and especially not with the telecast still being live and over forty nosy reporters standing right in from of him. They would never keep quite about his powers even if he destroyed their cameras.
No…he was helpless. Just like everyone else. He wound not risk his families safety, or the ox kingdoms safety, by showing his powers. That would only end up being an invitation for blood thirsty maniacs.
Videl and her friend Ersa were engrossed in the Game of crowns.
'Damn this show is good', Videl thought as she saw Lord Red Harp get beheaded by the teenage King of the iron crown.
"Oh my god!", Ersa cried out as the closed her eyes. She had no stomach for gore. She only saw the show because she thought the guys in it were hot, as well as for the plot. This show had everything! And it didn't flinch to kill of main characters either!
Suddenly Videl's watch began to beep. She groaned as she paused the show then looked at her watch to see whose call it was.
"Tristan? Great! Time for some action!", Tristan was her contact from the police. Whenever some criminal activity was going down, Tristan would tell her, and she would lay a beat down up it.
" Hey man! So, what's up?", Videl spoke through her watch.
"Videl, just switch on you TV and look at the news, it's on every channel", Tristan said through her watch.
" Ersa, news".
"Yup", Ersa quickly changed to a news channel.
It showed the live coverage of the conference taking place at the mayor's mansion. And the head line was that the mansion had been taken over by terrorist forces.
A tall blue haired man, dressed in military gear and armed with an assault rifle, walked up to the cameras and spoke, " All right citizens of Satan city! Today you have the opportunity to witness live, the take over of your beloved city! That's right people! It isn't just this auditorium that's in a hostage situation! It's your whole goddamn city! Oh yeah! Right now every single news station in this city has already been taken over. That's why you are gonna get this whole telecast live! Otherwise those pussy assed losers in the broadcast towers usually shut down all transmission cos they are pussies! But fear not dear citizens of Satan city! For today is going to be the most exciting day of you life!"
Suddenly the man took out a watch from one of his many pockets in his vest.
"Oh yeah, also, people living next to a police precinct, expect a loud boom in….in three seconds!"
"What the fuck!", Videl yelled out as she suddenly heard the sound of an explosion from the TV. There was a police precinct right next to he mayor's mansion.
"Oh you guys heard that right? I purposely planted a bigger bomb in the precinct nearby. So that everyone else who isn't near a precinct can also hear that lovely sound of shit blowing up", the man said with a crazy grin on his face.
" And guess what people of Satan city…nay! People of the world! Today is our lucky day! We were planning to take over the city for almost a year now! And on the day we decided to finally put our plan in motion, guess what? The freaking ox King shows up! What fabulous luck! Of course we had some difficulty in replacing a few of his personal guard. But thank God for technology huh!"
Suddenly the faces of two of men who were standing behind him started to flicker. The two men were wearing the armor of the Ox kingdom, their flickering faces suddenly changed in completely different faces, and though there wasn't a significant change, Videl noticed that the two men were now slightly taller than they were before.
"Oh yeah! Also this isn't the only place my boys have taken over! Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! As of now Orange city stadium, Grand star amusement park, and Orange star university have also been taken over! Also the city has been blocked away from the outside world by a plasma field! Oh yeah! You boys and girls are stuck in here now!
" Well you are must be wondering why this crazy person is making your life so miserable. Well the answer to that question is simple guys! Hercule goddamn Satan! That's right people! Well I hope you are listening Hercule my boy! Cos this is a direct message to you! I want to kill you Hercule. Plain and simple. I want to kill you, and show the world that I AM THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE! You better get here soon Hercule. Oh yeah, cos for each hour of delay, I will kill one of the media assholes present in this room. Also if you don't get here within 24 hours, I am just gonna blow up this whole city. That's right. Mayor's mansion, Orange star university, grand star amusement park, Orange city stadium, they all go boom boom. With all the hostages still inside. Of course before that I get to kill 23 media personnel, which would be very satisfying cos I freaking hate the media. When you arrive outside Satan city, I will pull down the city wide plasma field, you can enter, but you alone. Cos otherwise if anyone else decided to walk in with you, I will still make everything go boom boom. Oh yeah, also, in about…uh…another 10 seconds, your mansion front door is gonna get blown away and every man and woman who works for you is gonna get a freaking bullet in their head. And if you daughter is still at home….that super bonus! HA! Alright people meet you in an hour for a live execution. Tata! Oh and till then every channel will run the Game of crowns from season one, episode one non stop, cos I freaking love that show. Bye!"
"Holy shit! Oh my god Videl did you hear him! Oh my god there are people coming over here Videl! Oh god", Ersa ranted on in her panic attack.
Videl wasn't feeling any better. 'He said ten seconds!'
And then Videl felt them. Nearly fourteen hostile auras appeared in front of her house.
And then the whole building shook. Dust fell from the ceiling and the TV toppled over. They were inside.
" OH MY GOD! VIDEL THEY ARE COMING INSIDE!", Ersa yelled, and then she began to sob.
"I know", Videl whispered. And then she smirked. Because she could feel them, and she knew…she knew that she could defeat them. And that was all she needed to calm down. They were crazy, they were evil, they were armed, but they were still not going to beat Videl.
" Alright Ersa, listen up. I SAID LISTEN TO ME! Ersa this house has two floors with twelve rooms each, plus a large dojo attached to it. We are on the second floor's last room. I will take them down Ersa. I will protect you, I promise. Just calm down and hide under the bed".
Ersa stopped crying and nodded,"O..Ok". As she started to get under the bed.
Ersa always was braver than she looked. And Videl was always a fighter, who never gave up. She wasn't going to go down without a fight, it just wasn't in her blood.
How could this be possible. An entire city. How could no one have noticed. How could such a thing be possible. How could he have not noticed.
And how dare this man threaten his city.
"Vixen", he addressed his trusted second in command, a pretty woman, with blue hair and eyes, short in stature, but deadly, perhaps the deadliest fighter he knew.
" Yes sir", she stood next to him waiting for her orders.
"Orange star university, send in the faceless man. The petrodactyl brothers go to the stadium, as well as the bomb King. You will handle the amusement park personally. It is large so be alert. And find the bomb first".
" Yes sir! I will send your command to the others, then leave immediately ", Vixen left his side.
He now sat alone, in silent fury.
'This is my city. And no one threatens my city'.