Hey, it's me! It's the next chapter! By the way, since I'm a HUGE star wars fan, I modeled Evil Gohan after one of my favorite characters, General Grevious. I don't own Star Wars in any way, although I wish I did. Plus, I stink at making up names.

Chapter 17

"Phew!" Gohan sighed as he reappeared on the front steps under the invisibility cloak. August had gone by pretty slowly. Nothing bad had happened so far, although they all had noticed was that there were several cloaked figures standing outside the house every day, although it was never the same two twice, which was what Gohan glanced at as he went inside.

"I didn't kill you." The demi-saiyan said to the Dumbledore dust figure, which exploded, causing his tongue to temporarily stick to his mouth. Gohan sighed as he walked through the hallway. He wished that Goten and Trunks had stayed, but they had taken off to join Fred and George again.

"Just as well… feeding them would have been a nightmare." Gohan sighed.

"Hey dad." Gohan turned to see Pan land in front of him.

"I was meditating." She quickly said to explain why she was floating after seeing the look of confusion on Gohan's face.

"Oh." Gohan said. He remembered that Piccolo was the same when he meditated. Pan followed him into the living room, where Harry and the others were.

"So, anything?" Harry looked at the copy of the Daily Prophet in Gohan's hand.

"Yeah. Pan was right." Gohan said .

"Huh?" Pan looked confused. Then, Gohan tossed the Prophet onto the table, revealing the headline.

"SEVERUS SNAPE NAMED AS HOGWARTS HEADMASTER." The title read.

"NO!" Ron and Hermione yelled while Harry snarled.

"I guess history repeats itself in some ways." Pan sighed.

"Severus Snape, long-standing Potions master at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and wizardry, was today appointed Headmaster in the most important of several staffing changes at the ancient school. Following the resignation of the previous Muggle Studies teacher, Alecto Carrow will take over the post while her brother, Amycus, fills the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. "I welcome the opportunity to uphold our finest Wizarding traditions and values." Hermione read.

"Well, that's a load of bull." Gohan crossed his arms.

"Obviously, but the teachers can't do anything about it. And those Carrows, I remember them. They're Death Eaters, and complete bitches." Pan said.

"You remember them?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah. They worshipped Morgana and other Slytherins. Personally, I believe Morgana is a cocky, arrogant, evil maipulator!" Pan snarled.

"Reminds me of the time that Gohan did a dance off against Viktor Krum at the Yule Ball." Ron said. Everyone stared at Ron.

"I was drunk!" Gohan protested.

"To be honest, that memory makes me think of Bill's bachelor party." Harry smirked. (That will be seen in either a bonus chapter of Half-Blood prince or in misadventures.)

"I'm still stuck between the French maid and the bad cop." Ron grinned at the memory.

"Hmph!" Hermione growled at Ron.

"My personal favorite was the bad schoolgirl." Harry piped up.

"That night was fantastic. It was hilarious when we tied master Roshi to a chair to keep him from ambushing the girls. Being a famous hero has its benefits." Gohan sighed.

"Enough!" Everyone turned to look at Pan, whose fist was clenched.

"I say that we should enter the ministry now! I'm sick and tired of sitting here while people are dying!" Pan pounded her fist on the table, causing it to break.

"I actually agree. We should go tomorrow." Harry said, getting everyone to look at him with surprise.

"I know that Pan has considerable experience with the Ministry, which has been invaluable, but I'm not so sure that our ministry is the same as yours." Hermione said.

"Everyone, shut up!" Gohan yelled, making everyone look at him.

"Dad, wha" Gohan put his hand up, making her go silent.

"There are two ki signatures at the door." He said, making everyone gape. Then, they heard the door open.

"Pan, let's take them." Gohan growled as his fist sparked. Pan nodded.

"Hold on." Them, Harry rushed past them and pointed his wand into the hall.

"Who's there?" he yelled

"Hold your fire, boy!" a familiar voice rang out, making Gohan gape.

"It's me, Remus!" a second voice added.

"Gramps?" Gohan looked past Harry and saw Bardock, with his hands over his head. Behind him was Lupin, who was in a shabby traveling cloak.

"Hang on. Who are you? Both of you." Harry asked, getting a confused look from Gohan.

"I am Bardock Son, son of Torza and Malaba, mate of Hansia, and father of Kakarot, now known as Goku, Raditz, and Turles. I still believe that Frieza is the biggest dickhead in the universe." Bardock smirked as he crossed his arms.

"I am Remus John Lupin, married to Nymphanda, and a member of the Mauraders."(I forgot the rest)

"Wait for one minute." Harry and Gohan turned to see Pan, holding an odd device.

"What's that?" Remus asked.

"It looks like some kind of scanner." Bardock observed as Pan pointed it at him and Remus.

"Right." Pan said. Then, she pushed the button. A red light shot from the device and passed over Lupin and Bardock head to toe and over, and then retracted into the device.

"They're not clones." Pan said after a minute.

"How can it tell?" Ron asked with confusion.

"The cells of clones are slightly different from the originals. This device was created by Bulma to keep clones of our allies from infiltrating the Order." Pan explained.

"Interesting." Bardock muttered as he glared at the device. Then, he was tackled in a hug by Gohan.

"Hey, it's good to see you too. Now, mind letting me go, I can't breathe." Bardock groaned.

"Sorry." Gohan said as he let go.

"So, how'd you two end up together?" Ron grinned. His grin quickly faded when Bardock put him in a headlock, causing him to gasp.

"Ever call me gay again, and I will make you cry like a little baby." Bardock snarled as Ron's face turned blue. Then, he released Ron, causing him to gasp for breath.

"It's great to see you, gramps. So, want something to drink?" Gohan asked as they all sat at the kitchen table.

"No thanks. Anyway, it took us awhile to ditch those dicks in the robes, and that weird guy in the spacesuit." Bardock answered as he propped his feet up while Lupin sipped the glass of water that Gohan had brought for him. Gohan and Pan glanced nervously at each other.

"So, what happened at the wedding, after all the chaos?" Hermione asked.

"Most of the guests, including your father and the others, escaped before the Death Eaters arrived. Those of us who stayed behind were interrogated. We were all quite roughed up a bit, but nothing severe. And no, your old friends didn't show up, Gohan." Lupin said.

"But how could the Death Eaters act like that, I mean, they wouldn't." Harry began to say.

"The Death Eaters have got the full might of the Ministry on their side now. They've got the power to perform brutal spells without fear of identification or arrest. They managed to penetrate every defensive spell we'd cast against them, and once inside, they were completely open about why they'd come." Lupin interrupted.

"What I want to know is who that man in the metal suit was, and why he seemed so interested in you." Bardock was glaring at Pan.

"Okay, so I might have forgotten to mention a few details." Pan muttered as she looked down.

"We kinda already went through this earlier." Gohan interrupted, wanting to save Pan grief.

"I can imagine…" Bardock muttered.

"Anyway, do you know what happened to my dad?" Gohan asked.

"Well, I know that he grabbed the harpy and took off, with that girl behind him. The evil prankster took off somewhere else." Bardock answered. Gohan sighed. At least his family was safe.

"What did Vegeta do?" Harry asked.

"I wasn't sure at first, but I felt both their energies on a spaceship that left Earth." Bardock answered, getting gapes. Vegeta wasn't one to run from a fight.

"What are you up to, Vegeta?" Gohan wondered.

"Anyway, did you hear that your clone's been busy?" Bardock asked Gohan.

"What?" Gohan asked in surprise.

"Oh yeah, only now, he's called General Morbius." Bardock said, getting surprised looks.

"But the better name for him is the… Mudblood Killer." Lupin said, earning gasps from Hermione and everyone else, save Bardock.

"He isn't!" Gohan snarled.

"He's notoriously known to collect the wands of the wizards that he's killed as trophies." Bardock added.

"That's disgusting! Doesn't he know the saying " The wand chooses the wizard? Those wands won't work for him!" Hermione asked with shock.

"He doesn't care. And don't think that he kills just muggleborns. He'll kill any wizards that gets in his way, regardless of your blood purity." Bardock said.

"Anyway, I understand that Dumbledore left you a mission?" Lupin asked with interest.

"Yes, and we'll follow it through to the end." Gohan answered coolly.

"That's partly the reason why I came here. How about I join you? Five will become six, and seven, if Bardock joins us." Lupin suggested.

"What about Tonks?" Harry asked.

"She'll be fine. She's at her mother's house." Lupin answered while looking nervous.

"Oh for crying out loud, are you going to start this again?" Bardock groaned.

"Start what?" Ron asked.

"You don't understand!" Lupin stood out of his chair so fast that it crashed to the floor. Then, he pulled a clump of his own hair out!

"What don't we understand?" Pan asked.

"Don't you understand what I've done to my wife and my unborn child? I should never have married her, I've made her an outcast! And the child - the child...my kind don't usually breed! It will be like me, I am convinced of it! How can I forgive myself when I knowingly risked passing on my own condition to an innocent child? And if, by some miracle, it is not like me, then it will be better off, a hundred times so, without a father of whom it should always be ashamed!" Lupin growled as he slammed his fist into the table.

"But Lupin, my dad's not completely human, and me, Kiara, and Goten are examples of that! We turned out fine!" Gohan protested.

"You of all people should understand what I mean! You turn into a mindless monster at the full moon as well! Did your father not kill his own grandfather during one of his transformations?" Lupin asked.

"He did, but grampa Gohan forgave him. Do you know how happy I was after that World Martial Arts Tournament, the one where Jackie Chun destroyed the moon?" Lupin asked as he looked at everyone, who didn't say anything.

"I was free! I didn't have to worry about any more transformations! I was free to live my life, without anymore fear! And then, one night, I saw the crescent moon in the sky, and my life became hell once more! Curse your Kami!" Lupin hissed. Then, to everyone's shock, Pan had her sword at Lupin's throat!

"Pan, what are you?" Gohan asked with shock.

"QUIET!" Pan hissed, making Gohan gape at her.

"You're nothing but a coward. I know what it is like to grow up without a father. But at least my father was trying to do something good, unlike you, who is simply hiding! Uncle Goten was the closest thing I had to a father, and he was always off fighting to free a planet. So, either you go back to your wife, or I will cut your throat." Pan hissed.

"I like you already." Bardock grinned.

After a few moments of staring at each other, Lupin stood from the chair and departed from the room, vanishing with a crack several seconds later.

"I'm impressed." Bardock chuckled.

"That was the right thing to do, Pan." Harry smirked.

"Thanks. I kinda lost it for a minute." Pan laughed nervously as she lowered her sword.

"Well, I take it you don't want me along, huh?" Bardock chuckled.

"I'm really sorry gramps, but." Gohan began to say.

"Ahhh, save it. I'd rather be out there kicking Frieza's ass. Real reason I followed wolf-face was so I could give you these." Bardock tossed several capsules at Gohan.

"Just a few devices I've been working on. Even wrote a manual for each one. Oh, and here." Gohan caught a round device that Bardock tossed at him. It looked like a black circle with a red button in the center.

"If you ever need me… just press the button." Bardock smiled. Then, he leaped out of the chair and rushed from the room.

"Did he?" Gohan asked.

"Fly out the window?" Hermione nodded.

"Okay guys, here's the plan…" Gohan smiled as he leaned forward.

Will Gohan's plan go according to plan, or will something go wrong? What lies ahead for Gohan and friends? Review!