Chapter 2

:The Prank

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.

Over the course of the next four weeks, Gohan continued to train Videl in the GR chamber while Vegeta and Future Trunks trained in the holochamber. Bulma and Chi-Chi were left to hang around with each other, mostly chatting, lounging, relaxing in the recreation room and also preparing lunch for the others when they took their breaks. They largely stayed friendly with each other but they did clash frequently over stuff and when they did they found that their tempers were equally matched. However, since Chi-Chi was a bit hormonal with her pregnancy it gave her a slight advantage in that she could be more easily set off. Even Bulma started to fear an angry Chi-Chi. But it was a good thing for everyone else on the ship that they kept each other company since it meant that their tempers would usually be directed at each other instead of everyone else.

A few days before their arrival at New Namek, Gohan and Videl were coming out of one of the training rooms for dinner. Videl had completed 100 times gravity training a few days previous and she had now graduated to holochamber sparring with Gohan. "Wow Videl! I can't believe how fast you're progressing! I think you may be strong enough for an attempt at the Super Saiyan transformation next time." exclaimed Gohan as they came out. "Gee Gohan, Do you really think so? Thanks!" Videl said with small blush on her cheeks, feeling modest. Just then, Vegeta came out of the opposite room behind them, looking tired after a hard workout. Vegeta then just stood there and stared at them with his arms crossed and a look of disapproval directed at Videl. "Humph! I honestly don't know why you're waisting you're time training this weakling. There's no way that she could ever be as strong as me or you." said Vegeta with a mocking smile, as if there was something funny to him. "WHAT!? What did you say?" screamed Videl as she tried to rush at Vegeta but Gohan stuck out his arm and stopped her. "And exactly what do you mean by that Vegeta?" Gohan said with a scowl and looking serious at him. "She is the daughter of nothing more than a low-class saiyan warrior woman and a pathetically weak loud-mouth human. Not only that, but she is also a female and therefore she will always be weaker than you and most especially me." Vegeta said, showing his prejudicially snobby attitude behind his arrogant smirk. Both Videl and Gohan had to hold themselves back from attacking him but they settled for growling at him as he left. "Grrrrrr.. I can't believe that guy! Who does he think he is, the king of the universe?" Videl shouted in frustration as she hit the wall with her fist and caused a large dent. Gohan also shared her feelings of frustration at Vegeta, but a deviant thought came into his head. "I think it's about time we get back at him. How do you feel about giving him 'the plan' now?" suggested Gohan with a devilish smile on his face. Videl quickly caught on to his suggestion and responded with a devilish smirk of her own in return.

Vegeta was tired out from his workout in the GR chamber and so he decided to take a nap in the recreation room. Gohan and Videl saw their opportunity and quickly came into the room to take advantage. Videl set up a video camera on top of the book shelf opposite from the couch Vegeta was on in order to record their misdeeds. Gohan and Videl both began to carefully apply the 'items' of their prank on Vegeta while being careful not to wake him. Eventually, Gohan and Videl's constant giggling began to stir Vegeta up, but fortunately not before they were finished with their task. They quickly ran out of the recreation room into their room and began giggling heavily as they waited for Vegeta to wake up. "Oh man! I can't wait to see the look on his face when he wakes up." whispered Videl in between a fit of the giggles. "Me too." responded Gohan in his own fit of giggles.

Suddenly, there was a loud scream that came out from the recreation room. Everyone recognised the scream as being Vegeta's. Soon Bulma, Trunks and Chi-Chi were quick to react and came at the door to see what was the matter with him but what they found left them stunned. Standing in the middle of the room was Vegeta, wearing a pink tutu dress over his saiyan armor, with red and blue scribbles marks all over his face. Vegeta had been looking down at the dress when they came in and when he looked up to see them his face looked like it was screaming 'OOOOH NOOOO!'. The others all tried to suppress the urge to laugh at first, but it was just too funny and soon they all broke out in fits of teary eyed laughter. Vegeta grew red in the face and tore up the dress and threw it to the ground. Vegeta stomped off past his laughing comrades and locked himself in his room.

As Bulma, Trunks and Chi-Chi continued to laugh at what they'd just witnessed, Gohan and Videl emerged from their room leaning on each others shoulder and laughing their butts off. "Hahahaha! It looks like we have a couple of little masterminds to thank for this. Hahahaha!" exclaimed Trunks in the middle of his laughter. "Where did you two get the idea for this?" asked Bulma as she started to get control over herself. "It was Videl's idea." Gohan said as he struggled to get control of himself. "I saw a picture of Vegeta in a pink shirt and since he looked so happy in it, I figured he would love a tutu even more. Hahahaha!" Videl explained and everyone laughed at her little joke. Pretty soon afterwards though, Chi-Chi looked like she was going to give them a serious scolding for what they'd done. "You know, that wasn't very nice what you two did. And no matter how much fun this little caper of yours was you still have to be punished." said Chi-Chi in her scolding tone. Bulma came alongside Chi-Chi and mimicked her posture. "I agree." said Bulma, looking equally displeased. Both Gohan and Videl gulped at the prospect of their punishment. "The next time you do something like that again there will be some dire consequences. But for now, we'll let you two off with just a warning." Chi-Chi said as a small smile graced her face. Gohan and Videl felt relieved that they were getting away with just a warning this time and they both went to their room counting their lucky stars that Chi-Chi decided to show some mercy for once.

For the rest of the day, Gohan and Videl trained while Vegeta stayed in his room sulking. The next morning, Gohan and Videl headed to the holochamber for their daily training session when they passed Vegeta. "Listen brats! I don't know how or when yet, but someday I will make you pay for what you did yesterday." Vegeta threatened in a low but very menacing sounding voice and then left. Now Gohan wasn't phased at all by Vegeta's little threat, but Videl however sure was. "Gohan! Aren't you worried about what he'll do? He sounded pretty serious about this and you know better than me about how long he can hold a grudge." Videl asked while looking pretty scared. "Nah! I'm not worried. Vegeta's not clever enough to come up with something good enough before we land and after that he'll be too busy buggin my dad on the trip back to remember about us." Gohan naively said, clearly underestimating Vegeta's determination. However, this act of confidence reassured Videl and they both then went into the chamber.

Once inside the chamber, Gohan set the machine to simulate their training spot on Earth. "Okay Gohan, what do you have planned for me today?" Videl asked as she prepared herself in a stance in the middle of the field. "Today, we're going to concentrate on trying to get you to transform into a Super Saiyan." Gohan proudly stated. "So you weren't just kidding about that yesterday? But do you honestly think I'm strong enough yet to become a Super Saiyan?" Videl asked, not sure about her abilities. "While it is true that you're not quite as powerful as me or my dad was when we turned into Super Saiyans. But I think that you're strong enough now that we can try." Gohan explained.

For the rest of the day Videl tried to transform with Gohan's encouragement, but at the end of the day nothing had materialised for her. "I'm sorry Gohan. Maybe I just don't have what it takes." Videl said depressingly as they came out of chamber. "Don't worry, no one get's it just like that on their first day. You just haven't found the right trigger yet. It took me weeks before I found mine. All we need to do is find yours." Gohan said while reassuringly patting her on the shoulder. This act lifted her spirits up. "Do you really think we'll find it?" Videl asked. "I know we will." Gohan said with confidence. Videl smiled at him and then they made their way back to their room.

A few days later, Bulma's voice suddenly came up on the loudspeakers. "Hold on everybody, we'll be arriving at New planet Namek in a few minutes. So you'd better move your butts up here to the bridge and strap yourselves in before you end up as pancakes on the ceiling." Bulma screamed out over the intercoms. Everyone immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed to the bridge. They all strapped themselves in to their assigned seats and braced themselves for the ride of their lives.

As they made their approach, the new planet Namek came into view and it hung hugely in front of their cockpit window. "Is it just me or does the new planet Namek look exactly like the old one?" asked Gohan. "Yes, it does. Doesn't it?" said Bulma, affirming the observation. This observation was lost on Chi-Chi, Videl's and Trunks' parts since they hadn't seen the old one from space before, but they took the word of the others for it. "Man! I didn't expect it to be so big." mumbled Trunks as he stared at the enormous green planet.

Bulma switched on the onboard Dragon Radar and the life force scanner so she could locate where all the namekian villages were so she could land at one. "Well, this is strange. According to my instruments there are two large groups of people on the surface. The smaller group is closer to us while the larger group is located on the far side of the planet. The smaller group also has all seven Dragonballs near or around their position. I would've thought that the namekian villages would've been more scattered, along with the Dragonballs." said Bulma as she checked her instruments. "By all accounts they should be. Maybe someone is trying to steal their Dragonballs again!" Gohan exclaimed, worried about his friends the namekians. Everyone grew concerned faces and began contemplating over the possibility. "Well I think we should land directly on top of the group who has the Dragonballs. They're what we came here for weren't they? If they are namekian we'll be able to ask them for it and if their not, then we'll have just have to take them from them. This way we'll get it done more quickly either way." gruffly suggested Vegeta. Everyone else thought about Vegeta's suggestion. While they all felt that Vegeta was just being impatient, they all concluded that this time he was right. By simply landing on top of their heads like this they'd have the element of surprise on their side in case they'd run into any trouble with whoever had the balls. Everybody nodded at each other in silent agreement over the plan. "Alright Vegeta. We'll do things your way, this time." Bulma begrudgingly said as she began landing procedures.

The ship began to make a beeline for the center of the planet's surface. As they began entering the planet's atmosphere the ship started to violently shake and the ship became encircled by flames. The ship's passengers all felt like they were in the middle of an earthquake as the ship smashed its way through re-entry. Pretty soon the shaking stopped and the ship leveled off just above the clouds and began racing along the cloud cover in a slow descending pattern. They then descended down through the cloud cover and the surface of New Namek just raced along below them. The ship began to drastically slow down its speed and pretty soon what looked like a namekian village appeared below them. The ship then stopped in midair near the village, turned around until it's right side faced the village and then landed on some flat ground several yards away from the village.

Everyone looked off to their right side an at the village through the large bubble window of the bridge. From their end the village looked to be deserted. "Bulma? Are you sure that this is the right place? There doesn't seem to be anyone here." asked Gohan, stating what everyone else was thinking. Bulma took another look at her flashing instruments just to make sure she wasn't off. "Absolutely! There are definite life sign readings out there. I guess that whoever is out there must be hiding from us." Bulma said. "Maybe the Nameks are scared of us? I mean, this ship does look like Frieza's ship doesn't it?" Videl said, hopefull that the Nameks were there. "Or it could be that their enemies are lying in wait to ambush us." Vegeta grimly stated. "Well, that is still a possibility. But what do we do about it?" asked Bulma. "I suggest we send in Kakarot's brat first. As much as I hate to admit it, that brat is still the strongest one of us right now. So if anything goes wrong he should be able to handle it and if those greenbean freaks are out there than he'll be covered since he's friends with them. Either way he's the best choice to send out first and Trunks and I will be ready to back him up in case there's trouble." suggested Vegeta. Everyone contemplated Vegeta's reasoning and they had to admit that it made sense. However, Chi-Chi didn't want to admit to her son going off into a potentially dangerous situation and she gave her son a look that read 'please don't go' but Gohan just smiled at her. "Don't worry mom. I'll be fine." Gohan said with a confident smile. His confidence reassured Chi-Chi a little bit and the fact that there could still be no danger out there meant that she could accept it.

Gohan unbuckled his seatbelt, got out of his seat and made his way to the exit door on the right side of the circular bridge. Vegeta and Trunks also got out of their seats and made their way until they were on each side of the door and next to Gohan. Gohan gave a last look to his mother and Videl and then gave a nod to both Vegeta and Trunks each as the door opened up and the light from the outside blinded everybody. Gohan stepped into the light of the unknown not knowing whether friend or foe awaited him on the other side.

Author's Final Thoughts: Alright... So Gohan and Videl played a prank on Vegeta. This idea came from a similar scene from Two Halves of a Soul where Gohan and Videl pranked both Vegeta and Mr. Satan. But I decided that I couldn't afford to bring Hercule along since his repeated buffoonery would distract too much the overall story so I had to settle for them just to do it to Vegeta. But don't worry, Vegeta will get even enough later by the end of the story. And now they've finally landed on New Namek. I tried to make it as dramatic as possible. There's no telling what kind of trouble they'll find there. Well... except I do! You'll just have to keep reading to find out.