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Chapter XIII: The Cloudiest Date Ever

NerdsRule: Hey, it's been a short while since my last update... Okay, maybe I've been gone like three months. That's a fourth of a year! But I'm back, and I'll put my lame excuses on the bottom.

P.S. We skipped something in the timeline see; if you can find out what it is.

Disclaimer: Why do I even bother?

"But I know a way we can make you a warrior, even though now you're a wuss... It's the way of platypus!" -Phineas & Ferb

"Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue count as a date? They ended up snuggling under the moonlight, drenched in gore and pieces of brain - so it had PROBABLY been a date. If it wasn't, it was certainly a fun time had by all. Well, not ALL. But she and Saracen had sure had a blast."
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

Warning: FLUFFINESS AHEAD! But not this first scene... Actually, it's a few scenes later, just READ!

The next day...

Some guy's apartment...

"No! No!" A man yelled, "Please don't kill me. I'll do anything!"

"Heh heh..." The spiky-haired man laughed.

"Please don't! Why me? Is it because I hit on Videl when we were in highschool? I'm so, so sorry. P-Please put away that knife, please Goha-"

Meanwhile...

"Erasa! Ack! Stop! You're smothering me with make-up!" The raven-haired young woman cried.

"Well, tonight's your first date!" She cried, "You don't have many first dates in your life time."

"How do you have more than one?" Videl asked.

"Three words: Fake ages and lies." Erasa answered.

Videl's face scrunched up and she mouthed, 'What?' to no one imparticular.

"My face is still smothered in this 'supposedly organic face enhancer'." Videl added.

"Hmm... Maybe I put on too much blush..."

"Got any fives?" Trunks asked.

"Uh, I thought we were playing poker?" Naomi interjected.

"What kind of seven and eight-year-olds play poker?" Trunks asks.

"Yeah, we were playing 21!" Goten said.

"Wait, don't you have to be 22 to play 21? Or was it you have to be 21 to play 22...?" She mused, "I got it! You have to be 21 to play 21! Or is it you have to be 21 for 21 to play you...?"

"You not very bright, are you?" Trunks asked her.

"Nope! But I'm brighter than Goten!" Naomi said happily.

"True..." Goten agreed.

"How do you guys think Gohan and Videl's date will go?" Naomi asked.

Trunks spit out his coffee on poor Goten, "What?" The lavender-haired heir asked.

"You knew they were going out." Goten said wiping his friend's backwash off his face, "I think you just wanted to spit on me."

"Yep."

Gohan breathed heavily. He had to go on his second first date (his first first date being with Angela) with this girl he really liked (maybe even loved) and had no clue what to do, say, or do and say!

He looked in the mirror and said, "Don't freak out. She likes you to some degree or she wouldn't have kissed you and agreed to be your girlfriend, right...? Right...?"

"Wrong."

"Gah! Atrica, you just apologized for trying to kill me. Don't give me a heart attack." Gohan said trying to reclaim his dignity.

"You are an idiot. Even half-breeds don't suffer from those strange Earthling diseases or, heart attacks, or brain attacks, or liver attacks." She replied.

"It's sort of an expression, and, I don't think there are brain attacks, or liver attacks." Gohan explained.

"I'm sorry I don't know the Earth's problem inside-out and leftside-right." Atrica apologized sarcastically.

"Leftside-right?"

"Is that not a saying?" The teenage Saiyan asked.

"ATRICA!?" Chi-Chi called, "Come here and save your uncle!"

Then, Gohan was left is solitude, or so he thought.

"We're back..." A gruff voice said.

Gohan turned around and sighed, "You guys...?"

Videl's room...

"So, what are you wearing?" Erasa asked, "No! You can't wear a pants suit on a date!"

Videl frowned, "And why the heck not?"

"Just because...no! That's an immediate turn-off!"

"Well, he's already my boyfriend!" Videl argued as her best friend walked to her closet.

"You can still turn him off!" Erasa rebudled.

"That doesn't sound right..."

"I know- hey, you have a box full of outfits I gave you that you never wear!"

"That's not true!"

"It's labelled, 'Stupid Outfits Erasa Gave Me That I'll NEVER Wear'; I assume you don't like 'em."

"It's not that I don't like them, I just don't wanna wear 'em."

"Well, wear this!"

"A skirt? A skirt?" Videl asked, "Are you trying to give my dad a heart attack?"

"Look, I know you love your dad and you respect him, but are you dressing up for him or Gohan?"

"Remeber, if women dressed up for boys, we'd-"

"I know, but we can't say that in a story of this rating!"

"What?"

"You'll understand by the epilogue."

"What?"

"Just...put on the outfit."

"Wait, what does the shirt look like? ...Guh! Fine..."

Back to our other favorite teenage-demi Saiyan...

"Yeah, it's us." Saiyan Gohan said, "Haven't seen you since chapter 7."

"Hello." Human Gohan greets.

Gohan hung his head, "Sigh. I suppose you know I'm going out. Any advice. Or are you just going to give me a headache?"

"If he's here, he's just gonna give you a headache." Saiyan Gohan said motioning to his human counterpart.

"That's not nice!" Human Gohan frowns.

"See, this is what I'm talking about! His best comback is 'that's not nice'!" Saiyan Gohan said.

"Are...are you gonna give me advice, or a headache?" Gohan asked, "I'm picking up Videl in...ten minutes... Gah! I'm picking Videl in ten minutes!"

"Hey, Vide- Oh, wow!" Carilia said as she entered the room, "You look great, I forgot, you have a date with Gohan!"

"Yeah." Videl muses.

"Hey, Videl, I'm gonna go get something to finish off your hair." Erasa said.

"Okay..." Videl said, "Is she gone?"

"Yeah..." Carilia said, "Why?"

"Wish me the best of luck..." Videl said.

"What are you talking abo-oh! My! Dende! Just when it grew back..."

"Well, I know Gohan liked my hair better when it was short, and, this is for Gohan..."

Erasa walked in the room and said, "Okay, I..." She walked back out and muttered, "She didn't do it, she didn't do it."

And when our favorite movie star (not Arnold Schwarzenegger) came back she screamed, "Gah! She did do it!"

"You said I was dressing up for Gohan, and he likes my short hair so, ta-da!" Videl explains.

"But how'd you make it look like it used to, I mean, just like it?" Erasa asked.

"Author magic?" Carilia guessed.

"Well, Gohan's supposed to pick me up now so, wish me luck..."

And just as Videl is about to open the door...

"Where do you think you're going?"

Videl cringes, 'So close...' "Hi, Daddy."

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"Out?"

"To?"

"A spa." She lied quickly, "W-With Erasa and Carilia."

"In a skirt?"

"Uh...I lost a bet."

Hercule raised his eyebrow, "Really?"

"Mhm." She nodded.

"You're going on a date with that Grokan...Gohan guy, aren't you?" He asked.

"I...I..." Videl hung her head.

"You can go."

"W-What?"

"I said you could date boy stronger than me, and he could blow up the planet with his pinkie finger, he doesn't seem to have any bad intentions for you, and you seem to really, really like this boy."

"I do." She says.

"Just go before I change my mind."

She quickly dashed out of the house giving her father a swift, 'I love you'.

"My little girl's all grown up... Naomi won't grow up on me. She'll be my little girl forever...right?"

Gohan was stunned, to say the least, when Videl came outside. He uh...fell through Nimbus.

"Ow." He moaned.

"Are you okay?" She asked slightly worried.

He nodded as he stood up and then he looked at the cloud, "Why'd I fall through?"

Nimbus began to make circle around Videl's person and she stood looking confused at her date. Gohan on the other hand, was blushing deeply.

"Gohan why'd you fall off the clou- you pervert..."

Gohan sat back on Nimbus and said, "V-V-V-Videl, please don't b-"

Videl sighed, "Shut up," as she sat down behind Gohan and wrapped her arms around him.

"You don't have to hold on to me you know." He said with pink cheeks, "You're pure of heart."

"I know. This is for if you have another evil thought." She smiled

"So...where is it your taking me on a yellow cloud?" She asked.

"To another cloud." He anwered

"What?" She asked with a confused face.

"We're here."

"Are...we having a picnic...on a cloud?"

"Yep."

She smiled, "I know you say you're not good at this stuff but, this really romantic."

"Well, I try." Gohan said putting his hand behind his head.

'That's so cute.' Videl thought smiling.

Gohan stepped off Nimbus and threw down the capsule and there was a a big array of plates of food (and a picnic blanket because you can't have a real picnic without a picnic blanket).

Videl licked her lips. "Mmm... I'm a whole lot hungrier than I thought. Come to think of it, I woke up late so, I haven't eaten all day."

"Well, dig in!" Gohan said happily.

"Are...are you sure this is safe?" Chi-Chi asked.

"Sure." Bulma said smiling, "I do this for people all the time!"

"But... I don't know Bulma." She said, "It looks dangerous."

"There is nothing dangerous about it." Bulma reassured.

Chi-Chi sighed and took a deep breath, "And it won't hurt me or the baby?"

"Come on Chi, this time you'll know what you're having; you'll be prepared!"

"Fine." She said.

"Okay, we'll need to smear this on your stomach."

Chi-Chi's eyebrows raise, "What? Why?"

"It's like an X-Ray gel." Bulma explained.

"I don't think so..." Chi-Chi said slowly backing away.

"Chi...Chi-Chi come back. Wait! Come back!" Bulma cried.

Back to our favorite Demi-Saiyans...

Videl poked her spaghetti and meatballs and sheepishly looked at Gohan who was eating much slower than usual and with more manners.

"Videl?" He began, "Are you okay?"

"Huh? Yeah. Why do you ask?" She inquired.

"Well, you said you were really hungry, but you barely touched your food. You're not having fun, are you?"

"I...I...I'm not good at dating."

"What?"

"I'm not good at dating. I always get hot and sweaty and nervous and shy and awkward. And all my dates have ended in disaster!"

"Disaster?" He inquired, "How so?"

Videl sighed, "Well, my first date ended up in a water fountain, the second off a cliff, it was ski thing, and it wasn't very high up... But the third fell into a manhole..."

Gohan raised his eyebrow, "A manhole?"

"Yeah..."

"Well, I already fell of a cloud. Does that count?"

Videl sniggered, "I guess so."

"We don't have to finish the date if you don't want to." He said.

"But all this food..." She began.

"You can eat it whenever." He dismissed.

"Thanks."

"By the way, Bulma's having a party next week-"

"Got it." She said.

"Guess I should take you home now..."

"Yeah, I can't wait to tell Erasa how this went. She'll have a cow!"

Lizaria hit the bars with a mug, "Lemme out! Lemme out! Don't I get a phone call?"

"Shut up!"

"But I want a phone call."

"And I want a raise, but here I am. I'm going to my quarters; be quiet."

As the guard walks up the stairs, Astella smiles.

"Hello?" She asked the device.

"Hello?" A blue haired woman asked, "Who are you?"

"We're Astella and Lizaria."

Bulma smiled, "You Videl's family, right?"

"Yes. We need you to pass on a message."

"What?"

"Refridge and Neroz are headed to Earth."

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-1/10/14

-3:11 p.m.