Chapter 2: Ditching the New Semester, Gohan's Trip to Equestria

The next day was pretty quiet as far as school was concerned. No emergencies from the city and nothing interesting being taught. Also no daily runaway from Videl as the Great Saiyaman.

So throughout the day Gohan wrote to his new friend behind the textbooks. Twilight Sparkle was a genius, he figured out. She told him how she made the previous portal by harnessing the magic from the other book she has and combining it with the magic mirror. Gohan couldn't help but laugh at the use of magic as if it were a science but he couldn't judge. Most people called his usage of ki a trick, especially Videl's father during the Cell Games seven years ago.

He studied the notes she copied over to him and figured out how he could make the same thing using a regular old mirror from his house. From the sound of how things worked with this Sunset Shimmer's world, his portal didn't need to be fueled by a magical object so having the book would be enough. Which was good news for Gohan, seeing as he didn't want to be stuck in this new world away from his family or friends.

By the time break rolled by Gohan was anxious, he really wanted to visit this magic world now but he couldn't let any of the other students see this portal or mess with it in any way. That left Gohan with one option…

Ditching.

His mom would certainly be upset with him but all the same he was sure he could handle missing a day or two. Or maybe three. However long he needed to stay. Once they got the portal working, he should be able to travel freely between the two worlds so there would be no real reason to stay for too long at a time. Who knows, if everything went well maybe he could invite Goten and Trunks next time. He was sure they would enjoy it from the way Twilight described it. And who knew, maybe he could invite Twilight and her friends over to his world.

Gohan carefully moved through the hallways of the school, making sure not to make any noise that would alert the teachers or other students in class on their own breaks of him ditching. He walked into another part of the hallway, seeing the exit to the roof nearby and grinned as he began to walk-

"Well, well, what do we have here." Came a voice from behind Gohan causing him to freeze in panic and fear. He turned to see a girl with black hair tied in pigtails, wearing a white shirt and black shorts looking at him with a smirk on her face. "Is Son Gohan actually ditching class for a bit of fresh air?"

"I-I um…" Gohan stuttered trying to find an answer. "I just wanted to eat lunch up on the roof Videl."

Videl glared at him. "A likely story. You always eat lunch in the classroom, what makes today any different?"

Gohan inwardly groaned at the situation but he kept a straight face as best he could. "Well, it's only been a couple of days. A little early to decide where to eat for good, ya know?"

Videl's eyes narrowed even more at Gohan, she had been keeping an eye on his since he started coming to this school, all those strange occurrences around him, especially when they played baseball together. And then the sudden appearance of the Great Saiyaman only a day after Gohan showed up. It was suspicious.

"Yeah. Sure. Then I'll bet you won't mind if I eat with you."

Gohan choked a bit on his own saliva as he heard what she just said. How was he supposed to sneak away if he had to deal with Videl being by his side most of the time?

"O-Oh yeah sure Videl!" Gohan nervously spoke as he gripped his bag a bit.

Just then, his savior came and Videl's watch began to go off.

"This is Videl, go ahead." Videl spoke into the watch with a more authoritative tone than the more playful one she used when speaking with Gohan earlier.

"Videl, several individuals have broken into the Satan City bank, we need backup A.S.A.P!" Spoke a concerned policeman through the watch as gunfire could be heard from the background of said call.

"On my way!" Videl stated as she began to run away towards the exit but not before giving Gohan one last look. "Don't think this is over Son Gohan! I expect to see you here when I get back!"

And with that, the daughter of Mr. Satan took off, leaving Gohan behind. As much as Gohan wanted to jump in to help as well, he knew this was his golden opportunity to go up to the roof, fly off and ditch school. And that's exactly what he did.

As he flew through the sky he pulled his special book out of its bag and began writing to Twilight once more.

"I'm leaving school now. Then we can get to work on that portal." A few minutes passed and before there was a response.

"Oh good. I've already got the portal on my end done so you just let me know when you're ready and I'll infuse some of my magic into it and get it started up."

Gohan grinned. This was actually happening. He was going to travel to another world, he hasn't been able to explore other worlds since the time he traveled to Planet Namek with Kurirn and Bulma when he was little!

Once he made it home he got to work. Careful of avoiding his mother (which was quite a challenge) and little brother (also quite a challenge) he snuck into the bathroom and picked up the standing mirror that sat against the wall, carefully carrying it outside and to the lake where his father would go fishing with him.

Once there, he began putting the different pieces together. It was simple, really. Twilight would handle all the magic part so all he had to do was place conductors on the book and the mirror to connect them so that the portal would open where he could travel through it.

"Alright, that should do it." Gohan sighed, wiping the imaginary sweat from his forehead as he stared down at the soon to be portal. "Now I just have to wait for Twilight's side."

A few hours passed with Gohan hanging around waiting for the portal to open before he saw the mirror glow. Tentatively he touched the bright object and almost fell over as he hand went right through. Swallowing his fears he pushed himself through and began the transformation that he wasn't expecting.

It took him a couple of minutes to blink into reality but the first thing he noticed was that he was struggling to balance on two legs so he fell over onto his...hands? His eyes grew wide. Those weren't hands. Those were, hooves, was it? He knew this was a land of magical ponies but he didn't expect to turn into one!

A purple pony with a darker colored purple mane with lighter highlights in it squeed in happiness and danced a bit on her spot. "It WORKED! I'm so happy it worked! I mean, I know my hypothesis was perfect but for an experiment to work the first time is still quite the accomplishment!"

Gohan struggled to stand on his...hooves, as he stared at the pretty purple pony in front of him and smiled. "You must be Twilight Sparkle."

Twilight Sparkle smiled back at the newest pony to Equestria and replied back to him. "And you must be Son Gohan."