Chapter 6: The Return Home

Sure enough by the time Gohan got home it was dark and he was in trouble. He didn't even need to see his mom to sense the angry energy coming from the house. He should've guessed that time worked the same in both worlds. For some reason he thought he could get away with it. Like that story of the magic wardrobe that led to another world where time froze on one end.

Gohan figured he could go without asking for dinner as he slipped into the house quietly.

"Hey Gohan!" a familiar voice called out. Gohan winced and turned around, shushing his younger brother.

"Shhhh - Goten - be quiet! I don't want mom to hea-"

"GOHAN!" but it was too late. His cover had already been blown. The older son of Goku turned towards the source of his fears at the moment and found his mother with fire in her eyes as she glared at him with a look of rage and disappointment.

"U-Uh, h-hey mother." Gohan said, his voice shaking from fear as he started to laugh nervously, rubbing the back of his head with his hand. "H-How's your day been?"

"Mister, my day has been full of stress because of you. I got a call from your school asking if you had come home sick because you didn't show up to class after your lunch break. What was I supposed to tell them?" She turned around and clasped her hands together, tears in her eyes as she imagined the worst. "Oh Goku, where did I go wrong with our boy? He used to be such a kind-hearted young boy who loved to study and listen to his mother but now he's turned into an awful delinquent who's dressing up weird and skipping class now, too!" She brought her hands to her face and began to sob. "Oh what happened to my dear precious Gohan!"

"Mom, please don't cry." Gohan begged as he began to comfort her. "I'm sorry for skipping class, I was just caught up in finding myself out and knowing what I want to do with my life but it's okay! I've got it all figured out now."

Chi-Chi looked up from her hands, staring at her eldest son with a look of sadness and curiosity in her eyes. "R-Really?"

"Yeah mom!" Gohan exclaimed, stumbling through his words. "I-I uh w-want to study the ki inside us and how people like dad and myself are able to manipulate it and create things out of it!"

"Oh honey, do you know how much money you can get for that kind of research! If you prove to a board of directors that you can do all that, then they'll just be throwing money at you asking you to study it!" Chi-Chi's tone suddenly shifted from melancholy to excitement at the news.

Gohan let out a breath of air in a relieved sigh. He didn't expect his mom to be so enthusiastic about it but he wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. If she was happy with his decision and his 'destiny' that his new friends helped him learn, he could break the news to her about the other world a lot easier when the time came for it.

Goten blinked, looking back and forth from his mother and his older brother with only one thought running through his head. 'Grown-ups are weird.'

Chi-Chi put her hands on her hips and glared at Gohan "But don't think this gets you off the hook! If you're going to have a chance at that research you need a good education to back you up and you can't get that if you're skipping school! So no dinner tonight, got it?"

Gohan sighed and hung his head. "Yes ma'am."

"Now march to that room of yours mister and go think about what you did!"

The oldest son of Goku nodded, walking into the small Son family household and towards his room that he shared with Goten. He closed the door behind him and laid on his bed, staring up at the ceiling thinking.

'A world full of talking ponies, cutie marks, and it's own society based on magic.' Gohan grinned. 'Dad, I wish I could speak to you right now, because you'd never believe the kind of adventure I'm on right now!'