Dragonball Z

Gohan: Protector of Earth

Disclaimer:This is a Dragonball z fanfiction. I do not own or in anyway profit from Dragonball z or any of the characters in this story. This fic centers on Gohan, and begins right after the cell games. It is an AU, and reviews are welcome and much appreciated.

Chapter 5:

"Gohan! Gohan wake up."

"Huh, what are you doing? Get off of me."

Gohan opened his eyes to see his little brother Goten on top of him staring down at him. Every morning Gohan would be woken up by Goten jumping onto his bed and screaming his name. It was his own version of an alarm clock.

"Gohan, it's time for breakfast. Mom said to hurry up and get it before it gets cold."

"Okay relax Goten, I'm getting up."

Gohan quickly put on his gi and rushed to the kitchen table. He was always really hungry in the morning after a long night of sleep.

"Well are you excited Gohan? This is a big day for you after all," Chichi said as she put a large plate of fried rice in front of Gohan.

"Excited about what mom," Gohan asked as he devoured the plate of food in front of him.

"What! Don't tell me you forgot already. I thought we had this conversation last week. Today is your first day of school."

"Seriously? I thought I had more time until school started. Isn't it still summer?"

Chichi gave Gohan a serious look obviously not amused by his joke.

Gohan could remember the conversation he and his mother had about a week ago that led to this development.

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"Gohan, I think you should start going to school. You'd only have to go for one year and then you could go to college after that."

"Mom, I can't go to school. I told you I have to train."

"But Gohan, all you've done these last seven years has been training. I think it would be a good idea if you went not just to learn but to also make friends. You've always spent so much time with those friends of you father that you've never really had friends your own age. You know, there are people in this world who aren't martial artists and actually have normal lives."

Gohan couldn't disagree with that. Learning to fight enemies bent on world domination since the age of four didn't give Gohan much of an opportunity to make friends his own age. But he knew his greatest enemy was going to appear any day now. It had been over six years since he received the warning from the legendary super saiyan in his visions. Gohan had spent every day since then preparing for this new enemy who, he was told, would kill everyone he cared about.

"Gohan, I really think you need to do this. So much training can't be good for you, you need a break from it all. And you're so much more advanced than the kids your age you wouldn't have to do any school work at all. Just a few hours of class and then you could resume you training afterwards."

After much deliberation, Gohan decided his mother was right.

"Ok mom, I'll go to school. Who knows, it could be fun."

"That's the spirit Gohan. And who knows, maybe you'll meet a nice girl there and then you can get married and make grandchildren for me. Oh wouldn't that be just wonderful, you would be starting your own family."

Gohan rolled his eyes as his mom went into the usual speech about how she wanted grandchildren and how she wasn't much older than him when she got married.

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves here mom. I haven't even had my first day of school yet."

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Gohan looked up from his recollection of that conversation and could see his mother staring at him waiting for a response.

"Okay mom, I'll go to school today."

"Wonderful," said Chichi. "I have your school books packed by the front door and your school clothing is in the front pouch of your backpack. You can't wear a gi to class so I had to go to the city and buy you clothes to wear. Orange Star high school has a very strict tardiness policy so you better get going. School starts in under and hour and it's very far away."

Gohan finished eating and got up from the table.

"Ok mom, I'll see you after school."

"Gohan, can I go to school with you," Goten asked his brother.

"Sure, if you don't mind doing a lot of reading and math."

"Math, I don't want to do math. I'll just stay here and wait for you to get back from school. Then we can play before dinner."

"Ok Goten sounds good, I'll see you later. Bye mom."

"Bye Gohan, have a good day."

Gohan walked outside his house and put two fingers to his forehead.

"I might as well use instant transmission, that way I have some extra time to explore the city before school starts. It's been so long since I've explored the city, I wonder if it has changed much. Whenever I go and see Vegeta or Bulma I always use instant transmission so I never get a chance to actually see the city."

Gohan put his two fingers to his forehead and focused on Satan City. He reappeared on the edge of the city, so that nobody would be able to see that he had just appeared out of thin air. As Gohan walked into the city, he noticed how different it was from where he lived. There were tall buildings everywhere it seemed and crowds of people walking down the streets. Unlike the mountains where he lived, there were no trees or signs of nature anywhere. Most of the men were dressed in suits and ties meaning they must have been on their way to work. The streets were filled with cars that were hardly moving at all.

"So this is what rush hour traffic looks like. I don't know why people just don't walk to work; it seems to be more efficient than driving."

As Gohan continued walking down the street on his way to school he could hear screams emanating from around the corner. Gohan turned the corner and saw a large group of people standing outside of a bank.

"Oh my god it's a bank robbery," he could hear a woman yell from inside the mob of people. "And now they have hostages. This is just horrible!"

"This isn't good," thought Gohan to himself. "I should go in there and help everyone but I don't want to be recognized. Gohan looked at his clothing and realized he forgot to change into the school clothes his mom had packed for him. He was still wearing his usual purple gi that he had put on in the morning. "I know, if I transform into a super saiyan, people won't be able to distinguish me from my normal form. Then I can change into my school clothes and I'll be fine."

Gohan quickly took a look around to make sure nobody was looking at him and transformed into a super saiyan. He then casually walked through the crowd of people and tried to make his way into the bank. He was approached by an officer as he was about to reach the front door to the bank.

"Sir, get back behind the line! We have trained professionals who are here to handle the situation. We ask you to not get involved."

Gohan quickly glanced at the police officer but ignored what he was saying. He pushed the officer gently to the side and walked through the bank doors. The officer was shocked at how easily this mysterious blonde teenager was able to push him aside. The officer was well over two hundred pounds and the blonde teenager didn't even seem to exert any effort at all when he pushed him aside.

Gohan entered into the bank and saw three bank robbers each with a black ski mask covering their face, in order to conceal their identity. Each of the bank robbers was carrying a large semi automatic weapon to go along with the bags of money on the ground near them. There were about twenty people in the bank, all of whom were on the ground with their hands covering their head, except for one older woman who was being held hostage at gunpoint by one of the robbers.

"Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing kid?" yelled one of the bank robbers.

"I am going to say this once and once only," Gohan calmly replied to the robber. Release all the people here and surrender yourselves and you will not be harmed."

The three bank robbers started laughing hysterically at what Gohan had said.

"Who does this kid think he is," said one of the robbers to the other. "This kid must have a death wish or something. I guess I should oblige him then with that wish of his."

The bank robber confidently walked up to within five feet of Gohan, carrying the semiautomatic in his hand.

"Hey kid, I'll tell you what. If you get down on your knees and beg for mercy, I might not kill you. So what do you think?"

A disgusted look appeared on Gohan's face. He had given them the opportunity to redeem themselves but they had refused. Instead they mocked and then threatened him. Gohan grabbed the gun out of the guys hand quicker than anyone could see and turned it around on him, aiming it at his head.

"What the hell just happened?" said the stunned robber. Sweat started to pour down from his face, showing his fright from the sudden turn of events.

"I don't know boss, I didn't even see him move," said one of the other robbers.

"Well don't just stand there, shoot this punk."

The two other bank robbers started unloading bullets at Gohan. Hundreds of bullets made contact with the young saiyan but just fell to the ground immediately afterwards.

The bank robbers all stared in awe at the bullets that fell harmlessly to the ground. "There's something wrong with this kid, he's not human! He must be some kind of alien."

Gohan gave a slight smirk upon hearing the last comment before he swung the gun in his hand and knocked the first robber out cold. He made sure to not hit him hard enough to kill him, but with just enough force to knock him unconscious. Gohan then ran up to the other two bank robbers and hit them each in the gut, knocking them to the floor and forcing them to relinquish their weapons.

"Were there just the three of them or are there more in the back?" asked Gohan to the old lady who just a few minutes earlier had been a hostage of one of the robbers.

"No, there were just the three of them. Thank you so much for saving us, you are truly a hero."

"Don't worry about it," Gohan replied to the lady. "It was nothing really."

The rest of the hostages on the ground were too shocked to thank the mysterious golden haired teenager. They just all stared at him in utter amazement. It was unlike anything they had ever seen in their lives.

Gohan then proceeded to leave the bank and walked outside towards the mob of people. As he walked by one of the stunned officers, who had witnessed the entire incident, Gohan said, "The three robbers are unconscious. Now would be a good time to arrest them."

"Uh… yes definitely. Come on men," said the officer.

The group of police officers then ran into the bank and handcuffed the unconscious bank robbers. The whole crowd stared at Gohan as he walked down the street and vanished behind the corner. Gohan then quickly flew to the top of a nearby building and made sure he was out of sight. He took his school uniform out from his backpack and changed into it quickly; making sure to power down from super saiyan in the process. He now looked like the typical high school student from the city, with his black hair and strange clothing his mother had bought for him.

"Wow, I still have some time before school starts. I wonder if there are any coffee shops nearby, I could go for a hot cup of coffee."

Back at the scene of the crime, an attractive black haired girl rode up on her motorbike and quickly ran up to one of the police officers.

"What happened here? I was alerted of a bank robbery and hostage situation; how did this get resolved?" she asked the officer.

"Oh Videl, you never would have believed it. This mysterious golden haired teenager just walked into the bank and knocked out all of the robbers. He was so fast nobody could even see him move. It was really incredible."

"What, that doesn't make any sense. I've never heard of any golden haired crime fighter before."

"Oh you should have seen him Videl, he was absolutely incredible," said an old man standing a few feet away from the girl. "I think he might be one of your school buddies, he was wearing a backpack when he went in to the bank and he looked to be around your age."

"Someone at my school? It couldn't be."

Videl walked off from the bank and headed off to school.

"This is really strange," Videl thought to herself. I'm going to have to look into who this guy is."

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After finding a coffee shop and relaxing for a little while Gohan finally arrived at school. His mom had put his class schedule into his backpack so he knew where his home room was located. As he arrived to the door he saw the teacher about to make his way in.

"Excuse me professor," said Gohan. "Hi, this is my first day in your class. My name is Gohan."

"Oh Gohan, I've heard quite a bit about you. Your test scores were remarkable; you must be a superb student."

"I do what I can," Gohan replied.

"Well let me introduce you to the class first before we start.

The teacher, an older man probably in his seventies, proceeded to walk into the class room with Gohan following behind him. Gohan glanced around the room and saw about twenty to thirty kids sitting in a lecture hall arranged class room with descending rows of tables starting from the back.

"Good morning, my young scholars," said the professor to the whole class. "Today we are being graced with a new class member who actually knows how to read. His name is Gohan and he received perfect test scores on all of his exams. Unlike you delinquents, Gohan here actually has a future, so please don't try to corrupt him. He should provide a good example to all of you on how a proper student should act."

"Example this," said some fat kid in the front row right before he unleashing a loud fart.

"Silence. You kids are an embarrassment to public school system. Oh my, what's happened to this generation?"

The professor then turned to Gohan and said "You may take a seat wherever you like."

"This was turning out great so far," Gohan thought to himself. "How am I supposed to fit in when the professor makes me look like some kind of nerdy genius on the first day of class?

As Gohan debated what seat he should take, a blonde girl towards the back row stood up and waved at him and then pointed to the seat next to her.

"Hey new boy, there's a seat right here."

"That looks like a good seat," Gohan thought to himself. The blonde girl is pretty cute and I don't think I would get along well sitting next to the fat kid with a gas problem."

Gohan proceeded to walk to the back of the class and took a seat next to the blonde girl.

"Hi I'm Erasa, with an E," said the blonde haired girl. "And this is my friend Videl."

Sitting next to the blonde girl was an attractive blacked haired girl who was not nearly as friendly as her blonde counterpart. She gave Gohan a slight nod before looking back at her text book.

The next couple hours of class went by pretty uneventful until the blond haired girl started to talk to Gohan once more.

"Gohan you want to know who Videl's father is. I think you'll be surprised. She's the daughter of the one and only Mr. Satan?"

"Mr. Satan, who's that?"

"You don't know who Mr. Satan is? Where have you been for the last seven years? He's the one who defeated Cell and saved the entire world from destruction."

Everyone who heard what Gohan had said was staring at him with a bewildered look.

"Wait a second, is his first name Hercule."

"Yea," responded Erasa. "The great Hercule Satan, martial arts champion of the world."

Gohan reflected back to the cell games. "He was that guy cowering in the corner when I fought Cell," Gohan thought to himself. "I can't believe he took credit for what I did, and people actually believe him. Didn't anybody see the footage of that fight, how could anybody think he was capable of defeating Cell. And they actually named this city in honor of that fraud, ridiculous."

"Oh I was just kidding; I know who Mr. Satan is. I usually refer to him by his first name, that's all."

"Well that makes sense, I guess," said Erasa.

"Wow, so you're Mr. Satan's daughter. That must be pretty cool, being the daughter of a celebrity and all."

"Wait a second," blurted Videl. "You have the same backpack as the gold fighter when he went into the bank this morning. He had a black backpack with golden trim just like yours."

"Gold fighter, who's he?" Gohan replied, looking confused.

"Wow you really are out of the social loop," said Erasa. "The gold fighter is some new crime fighter with super strength and super speed. They say he is a teenage boy except he has glowing golden hair. Everyone is talking about him."

"Oh great," Gohan thought. "I haven't even finished my first day of school and they're already making a legend out of me."

Gohan looked over at Videl and could see she was still staring at him with a serious look on her face.

"So why do you have the same backpack as the gold fighter," she asked.

"I don't know, it's a pretty common backpack. Just a coincidence I guess."

"Come on Videl, you know he can't be the gold fighter. Who in the world has ever heard of a little book worm secretly being a super hero? Besides, the gold fighter would have to be buff to pull off those moves," said the blonde guy sitting next to Videl.

"Oh just ignore Sharpner," said Erasa.

Gohan glanced over at the blonde jock sitting to the right of Videl. He had his arms stretched behind his head with a cocky smile spread across his face.

"I hope we're boxing for physical education," thought Gohan. I'd like to knock that stupid smile off of his face."

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The next class was indeed physical education but to the chagrin of Gohan they were playing baseball instead of boxing.

"Brains, you know what baseball is?" said Sharpner in a condescending tone.

"Yea, I think I know how to play it."

"Well we have enough people on our team. He can be on your team Videl."

"Gee, thanks Sharpner. Ok Gohan, you can play right field."

"That's on the right side of the field, right?"

Videl gave Gohan an annoyed look and nodded yes. Gohan stood ready in right field for a while but didn't get any balls hit his way. As Sharpner approached the plate, Gohan started to grin.

"I hope he hits it this way," thought Gohan. "I'd love to make a fool out of that dimwitted jock."

Videl, who was pitching, threw a fast ball that missed its location and went right down the middle. Sharpner reacted quickly and crushed the ball to right field. Gohan ran to the edge of the field and jumped about twenty feet in the air robbing Sharpner of a homerun. He then threw the ball to third base completing the double play and ending the inning.

Gohan trotted back to the bench and noticed everyone gazing at him in shock.

"It must be the shoes I just bought some of those special ones with the cushions. They really are amazing, and very comfortable."

Surprisingly, everyone bought the lame excuse Gohan thought up.

When it was Gohan's turn to bat, he noticed that it was Sharpner pitching. He had the urge to hit the ball right back at him but he knew he already got his revenge with his play in the field. Gohan stood in the batter's box as Sharpner threw a fastball that went soaring straight at Gohan's head. Gohan nonchalantly bent his back at an angle in one quick motion causing the ball to miss his nose by less than an inch. He could have easily dodged it by more than just an inch but he didn't want Sharpner to get the satisfaction of forcing him to fall to the ground. He could have also let the ball hit him in the head but he knew people would realize something was wrong when he'd be standing there afterwards completely unfazed.

"If that's how he wants to play it, let's see if he's still smiling after what I'm about to do next."

Sharpner, obviously upset he didn't get more of a reaction out of Gohan, set up his delivery for the next pitch. As the pitch crossed the plate, Gohan lightly swung his bat and aimed the ball up the middle towards the pitcher. The ball flew back at a decent speed and made contact with Sharpner before he had time to move his mitt. The ball hit him right in the groin causing him to fall to the ground in pain. Gohan briskly jogged to first base before walking to the pitchers mound to check on Sharpner.

Gohan lowered his hand and helped Sharpner to his feet but not before whispering to him "It's not so fun when someone hits you with the ball, is it? I wouldn't throw at anybody's head again if I were you."

The coach decided to call off the game after that incident and everyone proceeded to return to the classroom.

"Where did you learn to play baseball like that Gohan? You were amazing," said Erasa.

"Actually, my friend Yamcha taught me how to play a long time ago."

"You learned how to play baseball from Yamcha! He's the greatest baseball player in the world. No wonder you're so good at baseball."

"Yea I guess that's it."

The rest of the day went rather uneventful for Gohan. Sharpner had learned his lesson and was more polite to Gohan while Erasa was friendly, like usual. Videl, on the other hand would suspiciously glance over at Gohan from time to time making him a bit nervous.

After the last class had ended Erasa came up to Gohan in the hallway.

"Hey Gohan, where do you live? Maybe we can do our homework together now that school is over."

"Actually I live kind of far away, the 439 Mountain Area to be exact."

"Are you kidding? That's over five hundred miles away. How are you able to make the commute?"

"Well I'm really committed to studying."

Gohan left Erasa with a shocked look on her face and then proceed to walk home. He noticed Videl was following him from a distance, obviously to see how he was going to get home since it was so far away. She overheard him mention where he lived when he was talking to Erasa outside of class. As he turned the corner, Gohan flew to the top of the nearby building and left Videl standing there wondering where he had gone. After standing in shock for about a minute, Videl turned around and headed home.

"That Videl is awfully suspicious of me. I'm going to have to be careful around her. I can't let her find out about my abilities."

Gohan then used instant transmission and returned home, officially ending his first day at school.

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The tone of the story is going to change a bit while Gohan is in high school but I will get back to the main storyline soon. Let me know what you think.