~Saiyaman Saga~

Chapter 7 – Back to...Normal?

The weekend passed quickly for Gohan, and before he knew it Monday had come. His alarm clock failed to wake him up again, but his backup Goten bounced on his back a few times to complete the clocks task. "Gohan, breakfast is ready and I can't eat till you get down there too! Hurry up!"

Gohan pulled himself out of bed and dressed quickly, the smell of food slowly making it's way to his room. As he made his way to the kitchen, he saw Goten in his chair, eyeing up the food before looking his way. "Man you're slow. Come on, I'm hungry!"

Gohan chuckled as he sat down and started to eat with his brother. After the small four course breakfast Gohan headed out to school. Goten waved to him in the doorway with Chi-Chi behind him. "Bye big brother!"

As Gohan disappeared from site, Goten looked up at Chi-Chi. "Is big brother better now? He doesn't look sad anymore."

Chi-Chi nodded. "I think he'll be fine."

"So are we gonna start playing then?" Goten looked up happy things were back to normal.

"First you have to help me with laundry, then we'll spar." Chi-Chi turned and waked inside.

"Awww...do I have to?" Goten whined as he followed her in.

-DBZ-

The weekend had passed extremely slow for Videl. Between her fathers constant watching of her and the presses constant presence around her house, she was stuck in her room for the two days after getting out of the hospital. The first day she talked to the chief about what had happened over her watch, re-assuring him that she was ready to still help. The chief then told her that none of the Red Rain men taken in were talking, and the assailant that had nearly killed Videl was still out cold from Saiyaman's punch. So basicly, they had no new info still.

The Sunday was worse though. With nothing to do, she had tried to sneak down the the training dojo only to be hauled away by her fathers pupils. They had been told that if anyone let her train, they'd be expelled. Back in her room, she decided she could shadow box in the least. All she did that day was train.

But finally it was Monday and she had good reason to leave the house. Mr Satan had hired a small group of guards for her, but she ditched them about half way to school. Finally getting there, she sighed. Man, I've been in my room for so long, I'm considering school my freedom.

-DBZ-

The day has gone pretty much like most days did. Boring, but Videl was happy to be out of her room and Gohan was happy there wasn't an empty desk a few seats down. At lunch time however, Erasa linked arms with her best friend and slowed their pace while the boys hurried up to get their food.

"All right girl, spill it." Erasa giggled as Videl looked back at her clueless.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about you and Gohan."

"W-what do you mean?" Videl did her best to control herself and not blush.

"What do I mean? Come on girl. On Friday when me and Sharpner came back from getting food you were totally red! Not to mention whenever you leave class Gohan does too."

Videl couldn't hold the red back now. "W-what? I was not."

Erasa giggled. "Fine, don't believe me, but you got it bad."

Videl was loosing, so she tried to change subjects. "N-No I don't! And what about you and Sharpner? You two took your sweet time getting that food."

Erasa simply smiled back. "So?"

Videl grumbled. She's so much better at this interrogation stuff than I am...

-DBZ-

Lunch had come and gone, and the group was headed back when Videl's watch went off. Holding it up and pressing the talk button, she saw a very worried chief. "Videl! I'm sorry we have to call you so soon...but there's this monster of a man terrorizing the town! He's picking up cars and throwing them at us!"

"I'll be right there Chief." Turning to her friends. "Tell the teacher I'm leaving. Thanks!" And with that Videl uncapsulized her jet-copter and was off.

Erasa shivered. I really wish Videl wouldn't have to go out there so soon. She turned to where Gohan was, to see if he was taking it just has hard as she was, only to find him missing. "Where did Gohan go?"

Sharpner looked around. "Not sure, but hey. We're alone now."

Erasa giggled. "Please, it's time for class."

-DBZ-

Gohan hid himself behind a tree waiting for the rest of the school to go back inside, and once they were gone he fazed into costume. I'm not going to be late this time. Powering up, he shot towards where Videl had been heading

-DBZ-

Videl landed in the middle of a war. A rather large man was punching up the street, near by buildings and throwing cars at the police.

Getting out of her jet-copter, she stepped forward. "Hey, why don't you pick on someone who can actually fight back?"

The man turned to face her, dropping a car that he was about to throw behind him. The man was at least seven feet tall, and he looked something like a sumo wrestler. He had short black hair, and a mustache to go with it. The thing Videl noticed was these strange metallic gloves the man was using. They looked bulky, not smooth or streamlined, but they extended up the length of both arms.

"Ah, the bate has finally come. Sorry little lady, but you're not a challenge for me."

Videl's eye twitched. "Try backing that up! It'll probably take a year for you to get over here ya tub."

Now it was the mans turn to get pissed off. "That little taught earned you a death sentence. And I'll make sure you stay down!"

The man started to run at her with surprising speed for his size. Videl dropped into a fighting stance. The gloves started to make a whirling sound as they lit up, the sound froze Videl. Her mind started to flash back to the man before who had killed her. It's the same technology as last time! I-if I die again, I might not be able to get back! I...I...

The man smirked as Videl's eyes widened. She had the look of a deer in headlights, completely frozen stiff in fear. The man got withing striking distance and still Videl couldn't move. Winding up, he threw a powered up punch right at Videl's face.

Videl closed her eyes in fear, waiting for the incoming punch. All she heard was a thud. Slowly she opened here eyes, going wide eyed again at what had happened.

A green and red blur had fazed in just between the man and Videl, and since the blur was taller, he took the hit in the stomach, but it didn't seem to hurt him.

Videl slowly looked up, noting two antennas coming from the orange helmet of the man now in front of her. "S-saiyaman?"

Gohan turned to her and smiled, taking another punch from the attacker as he did. "Miss Videl? It looked like you suffered a little bit more from your last battle. Please, step back and let me take this one."

Videl could only nod and to as told, her entire body shaking. W-what happened to me?

Gohan turned to the attacker, this time blocking his third punch. The man backed up and smirked slighty. "Looks like the fish as come. Nothing personal Saiyaman, but I have to kill you now."

"Evil will be punished, I must warn you sir!" Gohan shot back with his heroic voice.

"Please, no human can take a punch from these special gloves at full power, not even myself!" The gloves started to light up even brighter now. The man charged in, swinging a punch down at Saiyaman.

Gohan simply fazed out of the man's attack leaving an after image, and reappeared behind him. The attacker lost balance as his attack went through his target and hit the pavement, creating a small crater. Gohan smirked. "Fighting lesson number one. Any attack, no matter how powerful, is useless if you cant hit your target." The man started to turn to the voice, only to be met by Gohan landing a punch into the man's stomach.

The man gasped, trying to get air back into his lungs as he stumbled back. Wide eyed, he looked from his stomach back to Saiyaman. "I-impossible. No normal person..."

Saiyaman started to run around the man, leaving after images all around him. All the saiyaman's then pointed at the very scared man in the middle. "Lesson two! There will always be styles of fighting that you've never seen before. Be ready for anything! Now give up before I have to hurt you!"

The man was terrified now, looking for a way out. He held his hands up, "I-I surrender!"

Saiyaman stopped moving, letting the after images fade away. The man smirked. "I have you now you little rat!" The gloves quickly powered up and the man threw a punch. Saiyaman simply held up his left hand and caught it. The fear on the man's face appeared once again. "I...impossible..."

Gohan tightened his grip, crushing the metallic glove of the man and ripped it off of his arm. Taking it, he crushed the metal into a small ball, he wound up, and threw it baseball style at the man. The ball struck the attacker in the face and sent him flying back, out cold.

Gohan waved to the police near by, giving them the all clear. After that, he walked over to where Videl was. "Miss Satan, are you ok? It's not like you to freeze like that."

Videl broke from her trance-like state. "Huh? Oh...I don't, I mean, I..."

Gohan placed his hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's only natural to be scared. You did almost die just a few days ago. Give it time, you'll get back to normal."

With that, Saiyaman few off, leaving Videl there with her thoughts.

-DBZ-

Dino flipped off his tv and turned to his two men. "Seems both of your best men pail in comparison to Saiyaman."

Nuncio and Claudio stiffened. Claudio's cockyness was only thrown in his face when Saiyaman took care of his best just as easily as his brothers best was taken care off. "Boss, let me go after this punk. I'll make him pay."

Dino shook his head. "No. Both of you would have to work together to even stand a chance." Dino started to roll a silver coin in his fingers. "We'll lay low for a while. Our activities lately have gained us a lot of attention. We'll have to wait for the heat to cool to make our last move. Now's the time to gather info."

A third man in a suit then entered the room. His collar was popped, hiding his neck and most of his face, with a hat that matched his suit cocked down to hid the rest of his face in shadow.

Dino gestured to the new man. "Let me introduce you to the best private eye that money can buy, Bob."

Both Claudio and Nuncio blinked, looking for each other. Bob?

Dino continued. "Bob here has all ready found out that Saiyaman has ties to Capsule Corp. That little bit of info lead me to believe that our rival company has once again beaten us to the punch." Dino lost control of his silver coin, catching it just before it fell from his fingers. "The technology we've been developing. I believe that is the source of Saiyaman's power. He got some high level technology from Capsule Corp. Bob is going to try and sneak into Capsule Corp tonight and steal some of that tech so we can combine it with ours. My scientists say we don't need to, but it would help their efforts."

Claudio nodded. "I see, so that's how he's so crazy strong and fast."

Dino grinned again. "If all goes well, we'll be ready for this 'super hero' soon."

-DBZ-

Videl was standing in front a punching back. The bag had been a new one, but the way it looked now would lead someone to guess it's been taking punishing punches for years. She was extremely tired, but she wasn't going to let herself rest.

I can't believe I froze like that. I've been in life and death situations before, so why now? Just cause I died? She started mixing kicks along with punches. Saiyaman...grr, acting like my protector now. I'll never freeze like that again. Just you wait Saiyaman. I do not need to be protected! Videl wound up and punched the back, ripping it in two.

A few of Hercules pupils along with Mr Satan himself had been watching Videl take her anger out on the back, wide eyed. Videl turned and glared at the people watching her. "Could you guys put up a new one? I'm going for a run."

"Uh...ya, sure." One of the pupils nervously stuttered.

Hercule himself watched his daughter as she left. Sheesh. S-she's incredibly strong for her age...she might be able to beat me...I-I might need to actually train for this next tournament.

-DBZ-

It was nigh time now, and Bob was standing just outside the gates of Capsule Corp. The man looked to the left, and then to the right to make sure no one was there. He then opened his jacket, pulling out a long rope with a metal hook on the end. Throwing it up over the wall, Bob gave it a few tugs to make sure the rope was secure. Lifting himself up and over the wall, the man crouched on top, wrapping the rope back up and placing it back inside his jacket.

Bob then jumped down. His left leg landed on one of Trunk's many toy cars. The car shot forward under the Bob, sending the man flying backwards landing on his head.

Bob sat up, rubbing the back of his head. Slowly he regained composure, standing up, he quietly snuck towards the building that had been identified as the research and development lab. About halfway across the complex, some small black objects sprouted up from the ground.

Bob swore under his breath as he fell to the ground, expecting lazers or some kind of high tech defense system. The black things made a click sound, and then water started to spray everywhere, getting Bob wet. Blinking, Bob was frozen on the ground. S-sprinklers?

Bob was soaking wet and had a pounding headache from pounding his head into the ground. Not ready to quit, he finally made his way to the R and D building. Reaching into his jacket, he pulled out an armful of technical looking equipment that shouldn't have been able to fit in his jacket to get passed the door, when suddenly the door opened on it's own. Confused, Bob popped his head in and looked in. There was a single hallway that lead to another door.

Putting his things back into his jacket, he snuck inside, the door closing behind him. He slowly made it down the hallway. At about half way, a rope tightened just as Bob was about to pass it, causing the man to trip. As he went down, the man started to flail his hands around trying to catch himself, but landed on his face none the less. Sitting up, again he rubbed his face in pain until he noticed the rope that seemingly came from nowhere. Bob looked around, seeing nothing.

Trunks, who had been watching through a camera, nearly laughed himself out of his chair as he watched the man fall. He had been watching the man for a while now, and he had never seen such a thing in his life. He was loving every moment of it.

Bob slowly stood up, and carefully stepped over the rope. Looking around, he quickly made his way to the door at the end of the hallway and opened it. The room was dark, so Bob took a few steps in when suddenly the door slammed behind him. Just as the door slammed, the lights turned on, blinding him.

When his eyes adjusted, he could see a relatively small man with very spiky black hair standing in front of him with a small boy at his legs. They both had their arms crossed and a slight grin across their faces.

Bob stepped back stunned. Vegeta was the first to talk to the man. "You're going to regret coming here."

Trunks took a step forward. "We're the security system here Mr, so you're gonna have to deal with us!"

Bob, for the first time, spoke. "H...how did you know I was here!"

Vegeta answered simply. "I could sense you as soon as you took your first step on the grounds here, even though your energy level is tiny."

Trunks grinned, almost evilly. "This guy is funny, can I play with him?"

Vegeta smiled back. "Fine, but be quite so you don't wake your mother."

Trunks nodded, slowly walking towards the man, his grin growing larger. Bob back up until his back was against the wall behind him. "S-stay away from me..." As Trunks got closer, Bob let out a yell of pure terror, only to be muffled by the walls of the building.

Author's Annotation:

There's chapter 7. Thanks for all the reviews so far and please keep them coming!