Videl arrived back at the blast zone half an hour later. She had successfully got the injured police officer to the closest hospital and had him tended to. Every minute that passed though made her more afraid, more irritable, more frustrated, she needed to help Saiyaman, she jumped out her Jet Copter and re-capsulised it as she fell. With the grace of a cat she crouched low upon contact with the ground, absorbing a good portion of the force. She ran over to where the road had bulged and now a small crowd had gathered around the area, and she was forced to fight her way through them, however in her worry she failed to take notice of the fact that the closer she got to the 4 foot wide circular hole, the hotter it got. She got within feet of the entry and jumped with the intent of dropping right in when a hand grabbed her by the back of her shirt and flew her back a few feet.

"Shit that was close, are you alright?" the person, now revealed by the deep grovelly voice to be a man, asked her. Videl turned to look at him and was met by a hooded figure, wearing some kind of white cloak and monk-like fighter gear underneath. She could make out a pair of lips with a thin scar running straight through the right side of them and a scar that ended on his jaw near his earlobe, though she couldn't see where it started.

The Raven haired girl jerked her shoulder to tug her shirt out the man's grasp and faced him with a slightly irritated scowl, "I'm fine thanks, I'm Videl Satan this is kind of my job, now if you'll excuse me someone's i-"

"You can't go in there, the temperature from the blast will melt the skin off your bones." He explained urgently, stopping her in her tracks. He knew her name, and being the daughter of a decent Martial Artist wouldn't protect her in there. The man was surprised however when he saw her look back at him with fear and sadness in her eyes. He had heard that she was supposed to be extremely tough and almost boyish. That meant she personally knew whoever was in there.

"So…You're saying Saiyaman is already-"

"Saiyaman?" he asked, that name, it sounded a lot like the word Saiyan, it could be coincidence but considering the nature of the situation he felt like he should be sure.

"Yes, as in the gold-haired hero who protected the city. That's him in there, but if it's that hot and its already been half an hour…" the girl trailed off and the man's mind blanked at that information.

"Gold hair, hero, name that sounds like Saiyan…" he didn't like the conclusion he was coming to and he reached out with his Ki, sensing the energy there, noting that it did indeed feel familiar. He ran it through his memory when it came to him and his eyes flew open, "Gohan!" his mind screamed and realisation hit him like the blast Gohan had been hit with. The energy was weak already yes but only now that he knew what to compare it too did he realise how dangerous it was. Gohan was in serious trouble. The fighter knew he couldn't withstand heat like that for long but now that he knew how bad it was he couldn't afford to wait for it to cool down anymore. He pulled his cloak off his shoulders and Videl was given a good look at the man's full face and was shocked by what she saw. Greater was her shock though at seeing the man charge at the entry with a sudden change of atitude.

"Hey what are you doing!? Didn't you ju-" once again she found herself cut off by a man in command, she brushed off her irritation to hear what he had to say for an explanation.

"Your friend is alive, I can sense him, but just barely. His body can withstand much greater heat than ours can, but he won't last long. I have a way to protect myself from the hot air for a short time and it should work just enough for me to get him out of there, get some cool water please, call for it, something, and a fair amount of it, we'll need it." He stated, before he turned and his body was suddenly surrounded by a sphere of something that looked a lot like glass. He dived into the hole in the ground and disappeared from sight completely.

Videl watched with worry for a moment before tearing her eyes away from the scene towards the people around her watching, before she started ordering them all to get water. Why they would need so much she did not know but she was inclined to listen to the strange man as he appeared to have similar powers to Saiyaman. As the people around her rushed and a few ambulances arrived at the scene she couldn't help but think about the guy. Not that she was attracted to him or anything but to be honest, she had never seen a man with 3 eyes before…

Underground: Meanwhile

Tien Shin-han was immediately met with boiling temperatures that not even his energy shield could protect him from. He looked around and it was pure chaos, it looked like every human depiction of hell down there. Super heated rock, open flames, rubble, jagged out-croppings, metal wreckage. And among if all somewhere was Gohan. This thought alone kicked Tien into gear as he began floating deeper into it all making sure he had his focus set on maintaining his energy shield. The heat rapidly began dehydrating Tien, as he sweat uncontrollably from every pore on his skin. He searched through it all for agonizingly slow minutes of pain, looking for the son of his late friend and rival.

Eventually, as his instinct to survive began screaming at him to get out of there, he laid eyes upon the young warrior, laying on a small raised section of Rock surrounded by flames and molten lava.

Gohan lay bleeding from many places but most all of the blood had dried against his skin from the heat in large streams over his face, chest, arms and legs. He had nothing on his torso but wounded, bleeding skin. His pants were in tatters and looked more like Swiss cheese than a garment. Through the many holes and tears, rivulets of blood could be seen on his legs. Tien knelt by his side and looked him over, he was in bad shape, and he was totally unconscious. He was about to lift him up when he realised something, he was unconscious! His Black hair would be a dead giveaway about his identity. Tien placed an open hand on his chest and transferred as much of his energy to the teen as he could without passing out. Gohan's face twisted in a grimace before his eyes opened and he found himself awake. He shot up into a sitting position, blinking a few times, obviously failing to notice Tien. "I'm…alive." He acknowledged in a low tone that turned into a deep growl, which then turned into a chuckle, "When there is no more room in hell, Gohan shall rise and walk the-!" he paused as he saw the flame and molten rock surrounding him, "-other hell, what the hell?" he questioned in a comical manner that made Tien chuckle himself, just audibly enough that Gohan COULD hear it.

He spun in surprise and saw a panting, exhausted Tien crouched low on the floor sweating and coughing. Moving to him and helping him to his feet Gohan fully came to his senses and remembered what had happened and figured Tien must have been near, "Tien, are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, just get us outta here quickly, we won't last long in here. I gave you the last of my energy, your friend is up there waiting, so turn Super Saiyan already to keep your identity and let's get the fuck out." Tien informed before promptly falling limp against Gohan, panting louder from exerting all the energy it took to tell him. Gohan nodded and transformed, throwing away all the slowly encroaching lava and flames before shooting up out of the hole into much cooler daylight in the city. He moved away from the blast zone and onto level ground before he dropped to his knees with Tien who also collapsed alongside him, both coughing and wheezing. Videl rushed over with bottles of water as Gohan keeled over and collapsed entirely, barely conscious, diverting all his energy into maintaining his Super Saiyan form. Tien looked up and seemed grateful and moved to reach out for a bottle but sweatdropped when she passed him up completely.

"That...bitch..." Tien muttered before being hit in the back of the head by a bottle. He growled and cracked the lid open taking a mouthful as he looked over to the girl kneeling over Gohan's injured form as she opened up a bottle for him. Gohan reached out for it but she smacked his hand away with an angry expression.

"Oh no, I'm not letting you use any more energy than you have to. For all I know you could die on me and I'll never get my training if you die" she scolded as if it was his fault. She looped her fingers underneath his neck and pulled him up onto her lap with what appeared to be a great deal of difficulty. "Drink." She ordered simply and Gohan simply glared at her and opened his mouth and drank from the bottle. Videl figured he had enough and moved to pull the bottle away but was interrupted when he grunted at her. Surprised she merely scowled at him but kept the bottle there as he continued drinking from it until it was empty. She pulled the empty water bottle up to her face and stared in disbelief. That was a 2 Liter bottle!

"Another please." His hoarse voice near begged the girl. Her frustration slowly wore off as she lifted another bottle to his lips and watched in curiosity as he guzzled it down just as quickly and thoroughly. She really didn't know what to do when he asked for yet another bottle other than just open it and raise it to his lips where he snatched it and tipped it further back. She stared amazed at what she was seeing when a single bead of the water escaped his mouth and rolled down his jaw. She made the mistake of following the drop as it rolled down his form and immediately she felt her face heat up and she looked away and caught Gohan's look, "You look like you need a bottle, It's still pretty hot around the blast zone so if you need some yourself don't be too shy-" he was cut off with a mouthy reply from the feisty girl.

"I'm fine! I do NOT need any water! Ugh, you're such a macho. You just got caught in a giant catastrophe and you're covered in blood and injuries, but you still feel the need to make me the damsel in distress." She yelled at him with a reprimanding tone.

"What?! No Videl I-" he tried to say with a panicked expression when he was interrupted yet again before he could finish his sentence.

"Besides you look like you need it more at the rate you're drinking these. What are you a camel?" She asked with a pouty face and Gohan smiled as he realized she was just trying to take the attention off of herself.

"Girls are weird." He thought to himself as he continued drinking, "To answer your question no I'm obviously not a camel. But I have a huge metabolism due to the energy my abilities take to use, well that and it's a genetic trait in my family." He told her as he finished his bottle. She seemed to perk up at that.

"You've never mentioned a family before..." Videl tentatively probed the superhero who looked at her with a raised brow.

"Well of course I have a family, I had to come from somewhere. I didn't just sprout out of the ground one day." He remarked mockingly to which she blushed again, this time out of embarrassment, as she looked off to the side, avoiding Saiyaman's smug gaze.

"I dunno, I guess I just figured you were some kind of alien sent as a baby from a dying planet or something…" she muttered out to him, causing him to chuckle good-naturedly at her.

"What you mean like Superman?" he asked with another laugh, which made her go redder. He suddenly felt bad for her…maybe he should…give her something to go on. His mind was screaming at him not to say anything and that it was a bad idea to giver her any information about his personal life. But his heart bled for her and she had been so sure of herself, he felt the need to indulge her a bit. "You aren't far off you know?"

At that Videl's eyes snapped to his in complete surprise, what did he mean by that? "W-what do y-"

"I was born here on Earth, just like you, I didn't even know until I was 4 years old…" he explained and she furrowed her brow quizically. Didn't he just imply her alien statement had some measure of truth to it? So what did he mean?

"Didn't know what?" she asked him. Saiyaman sat there and stared off into the sky wistfully, face relaxed and a slight upward curve gracing his lips.

"My father like me, was a great warrior. For many years of his life he simply believed that he was gifted as a fighter, which was true, but it extended far beyond that…" he closed his eyes as if making some final decision in his mind before continuing, "After I was born, when I was about 4 years old, my father's true origins were revealed to us." That statement immediately got Videl's attention, he noted however that many other prying ears and eyes were set upon the duo, and even a few news crews were filming the situation. He growled in annoyance, confusing Videl. "Sorry Videl, too many people…maybe another time. Let's go Tien." He said pulling Tien to his feet.

Videl got up in a bid to stop him but Saiyaman was far too fast for her, and shot into the sky with his 3-eyed friend. "Dammit! Just as he was about to tell me something really important! The nerve of that guy!" she shouted out loud to no-one in particular. A snicker from the crowd redirected her attention to them, "YOU! You nosy people are the reason he took off! Haven't you all ever heard of privacy!?" she bellowed at them all before hopping in her Jet-copter and taking off for home. Today had simply been too much.

Meanwhile: with Gohan

"Stupid stupid stupid!" Gohan yelled out loud, berating himself very audibly and thoroughly. Tien simply looked ahead with a dumbfounded expression on his face as he listened to Gohan's rant, not sure if he should be paying attention or not. "What the hell is wrong with me!? For fucks sake I'm smarter than that, yet there I was, ready to spill my life story to this…this HUMAN girl!" he said with a disgusted snarl on his face, "How could I be so pathetic!? And now I've probably hurt her feelings for taking off on her! God dammit! Am I, or am I not the worst excuse for Earth's protector possible?" Gohan asked aloud. Tien opened his mouth to reassure the boy he was a great protector but was cut off by more ranting. Tien sweat-dropped with a nervous expression on his face.

"You sure have grown up kid." Tien thought as he watched the power house of a fighter argue with himself. He hadn't seen him since he fought Cell and, surprisingly, he felt good seeing him. He thought he enjoyed the loneliness after the incident but seeing the boy now, reminding Tien so much of Goku himself, and experiencing his company first-hand, he felt…happy. Perhaps he had spent enough time in solitude.

As if he had read his mind Gohan suddenly dropped out of Super Saiyan and addressed the older fighter, "Sorry about that, I'm a grown man now I shouldn't be having temper tantrums. Thank you for saving me today, I'm actually glad to see you. It's been so long since I've seen anyone from the old group but Krillin or Vegeta." The teenager lamented, turning to look at Tien with a grin on his face, "Say, would you like to come to my apartment for dinner? It's the least I can do for an old friend who did so much to help my dad AND saved my ass."

Tien accepted the young warrior's offer and followed him through the darkening city. After arriving Gohan ordered a bunch of pizzas and they watched TV together and just talked for a while. Gohan eventually brought the topic of the Dragonballs up, "I talked to Dende. He said that his teachings from Namek got him a good portion of the way to creating new Dragonballs. But he's reached a point where he's stuck, as Dad pulled him here before he finished his training." Gohan explained.

"That's okay, it's too late to bring them all back anyway." Tien added sadly. The older fighter however was surprised when he felt Gohan's energy raise a fair amount, "Gohan, are you alright?" the 3-eyed Martial Artist asked politely.

At that the energy in the room lowered back down a little bit and Gohan unclenched his fists, "Yeah sorry, its just I…lost someone recently. A friend. Kinda hard living without those Dragonballs huh? Guess we became too reliant on them and the universe had to remind us to deal with our own problems." He said slowly. Tien thought it was a slightly depressing thought but figured that he was right to a degree. In the beginning the Dragonballs were only used in emergencies but they had grown reliant on them instead of adapting to their situation. The older fighter could do nothing but nod in agreement with the young man's words of wisdom.

Meanwhile: With Videl

The teenaged girl was still in a huff when she arrived home that night. She went and had a shower straight away before plunking in bed, staring at the ceiling of her bedroom. Her father still wasn't home from his business trip and the servants weren't exactly conversationalists. It was during her internal rant about a certain superhero that she remembered she was supposed to return to him with information about how be did what he did. He would train her if she could do that, then she would get all the information she wanted.

With that thought in mind the girl took to her laptop, researching all the public information about Saiyaman and his powers, which was next to nothing. "That 3-eyed guy had similar powers to Saiyaman and seemed a lot older than him. Plus Saiyaman himself told me that I could learn it myself, so it isn't exclusive to Aliens or gold-haired Super humans. Which means that Saiyaman isn't the first person to use these powers…" she felt she was onto something. She thought that SOMEONE must know something. She typed in "Saiyaman's powers" into the Capsule Corp search engine and kept going through every page to find what she wanted. Page after page of results flew by as she began to do it more out of habit. She was beginning to believe there was nothing to be found and she felt depressed that she wouldn't get trained by Saiyaman after all. It was right at that moment that an article caught her eye. It read "Saiyaman a Turtle School master?"

As she clicked on it and was directed to the website her first impression was that it was some kind of conspiracy theorist nesting ground, and she was tempted to close it and give up for the night but out of curiosity she read the opening paragraph and found herself quickly hooked and writing notes.

If you've not been living under a rock these past few days, no matter where you're from, you'd have heard of Saiyaman. The golden-haired superhero saving Satan City, and its quite obvious that he is capable of fantastical feats of strength and speed, as well as the trademark Super Hero ability, flight.

But after monitoring footage closely of Saiyaman, its quite evident that he has an astounding amount of skill in the Martial Arts. *GIF image of Saiyaman striking criminals in nerve systems and pressure points in slow motion on CCTV footage*

With this knowledge in mind, we were forced to ask ourselves, "Is Saiyaman just a biological phenomenon, born with Super human abilities? Or has he merely trained his body beyond its limits to achieve total control of his being?

Now a long time ago, before this latest generation was born, there were Martial Artists who could display similar abilities to Saiyaman's, none more renowned than The legendary Turtle Hermit Master Roshi.

Videl knew that name very well. He was revered widely as the greatest Martial Artist who had ever lived.

Master ROSHI was the fabled inventor of the Turtle Style of combat. And though he trained very few pupils, each was notable and were powerhouses in many World Martial Arts Tournaments. Yamcha, Krillin, and most notably, Goku. Now judging on what little footage we have of both the tournaments, and of Saiyaman in action, we were able to piece together a comparison video of their techniques.

Videl clicked the play button, still somewhat skeptical of it all. The first clip showed a young boy with wild hair challenging another boy, bald and with no nose. The video slowed down and zoomed in for emphasis on the punching and kicking techniques of both fighters. Then it played footage of Saiyaman taking on various criminals in slow motion and, to Videl's surprise, the techniques were almost exactly the same. Almost wasn't enough for one thing and it didn't really prove anything about Saiyaman other than he possibly learned a similar style.

She continued watching the videos and reading the article. Then she came across a video about the 'Kamehameha wave' and witnessed a blurry video of an old man with grey hair and a tall muscular bald man in a ring across each other. There was inaudible conversation between them until the tall bald one took a strange stance and brought his hands to his sides, a few moments passed of nothing until a ball of blue light began to form between his hands. He cast his hands forward and a tunnel of bright blue light soared from his palms right at his opponent.

Recognition flashed across Videl's features as she remembered seeing a similar but much smaller gold light pierce the chest of the criminal who almost killed her, from the finger of Saiyaman, then again when Tao had fired one at her and Saiyaman. Okay she was damn near convinced after that video. But there were more, she saw a video of the same bald man floating in the air using an ability called Baku-jutsu, this video had a close up and the camera stilled for a moment, and it was clear in that instant. And Videl recognised a much younger Tien. The same Tien who helped Gohan today. The same Tien who FLEW off with him. NOW she was convinced.

There were a few other videos and from them she learned that Tien, despite using the Kamehameha wave, was actually from the Turtle schools rival school, the Crane school. The Crane style featured many unique abilities, one of which being the Dodonpa. Which made sense once she saw that Tao was once a member of the school but was defeated all those years ago, which would explain why Tao and Saiyaman seemed to know each other despite being a generation apart.

There was a final paragraph and it set all of the pieces of the puzzle into place for her.

All the abilities you have seen here were achieved through a rigorous training that allowed them to physically manifest their energy allowing them to achieve incredible results. Based on the information we have on Saiyaman, it is likely that he is not simply strong and fast, but that he has pushed his body above and beyond its natural limitations to achieve what many would consider the impossible.

Videl simply sat there looking at the screen for a while with her mind going blank. She had discovered so much from this one site that she found by complete chance. She wrote notes on all that she had discovered, memorized it and prepared it in a way that would make sense when she next told Saiyaman about her findings. She felt excitement fuel her every move, every thought, every smile. She just knew that with this much information there was no chance she wouldn't get training now.

The teenaged girl layed lower in her bed and turned the TV on, scrolling through the news channels she saw a surplus of stupid rumours about her and Saiyaman circling. On one hand she was pissed off and knew her father could become furious with her if he thought she was hiding a secret boyfriend from him, Super powers or not. On the other hand she felt like she understood the media and that from an outside perspective and based on the way she coddled and helped Saiyaman it may appear as if there were some secret relationship forming between her and the golden-haired hero.

Suddenly her TV lost signal. Videl attempted switching through channels but all of them merely showed static that flickered black occasionally. She stood up and walked out onto her bedrooms balcony, looking up at the roof and checking her antenna. It was perfectly fine, it wasn't crooked, there weren't any birds on it, it wasn't storming, she didn't understand what was wrong.

Right then she heard a voice from her TV and figured that the TV had started working again. The picture was still fuzzy and the sound was warbled. It was a dark room with a shadowed figure very close to the screen. She must have landed on a channel playing some old horror movie. She walked over to the remote on her bed and hit the button to change channel…only for nothing to happen. She tried again and found that every channel was displaying the same thing. "What could be causing ZTV to play the same program on every-"

"Greetings inhabitants of Planet Earth" the deep, throaty voice of the shadowed man announced, sending chills through Videl's spine as she viewed what appeared to be a near-exact imitation of the announcement of the Cell Games 7 years ago. She closely scrutinised the man's features.

He was largely hidden in Shadow and the camera only encompassed most of his face. But she could make out a goatee on a strong jaw, a pronounced, sharp nose, thick protruding brow bones and shallow-set eyes with a calligraphic 'M' imprinted on his forehead.

"Who I am is not important, but rather, why I'm here is the part that matters. Surely by now many of you would have heard of the great devastation in West City and much more recently, Satan City. These events have intrigued me and so I have taken it upon myself to revive the once powerful Red Ribbon army in order to reach my ends." The nameless figure announced to the world. He paused to let this information sink in and sure enough it did, people everywhere perked up at the name of the Red Ribbon army, many remembering it from history books, and many more remembering their awful reign.

Meanwhile: Gohan's apartment

Tien and Gohan were on high alert in his apartment when the phone started to ring, Gohan walked over to it, keeping his eyes on the TV the whole time as he answered the call, "Hello?...Vegeta?...yea I'm watching the news, Tien Shinhan is here with me….Yeah I sense it too, this can't be good...Agreed, we'll meet on the lookout after this, gather up who's left." At that Gohan hung up the phone, he looked at Tien who hadn't even needed to hear the conversation to know, he simply nodded at the adolescent hero and turned back to the screen.

"Today you all experienced the technology we possess in the form of a group of murderous androids who attacked the Satan City Police Station. And your hero Saiyaman experienced a much larger example. Soon we will begin sending more and more of these machines to attack the city, so you'd best prepare yourselves for war. We will take the city if you do not resist, and we WILL kill indiscriminately. Ready yourself Earth, the age of the Majin is upon you." The figure said forebodingly before the transmission was abruptly cut and the massive evil presence disappeared from Gohan's 6th sense. Worse was that Gohan recognised that Ki, as he had sensed it very recently and forgotten about it, worse still, was that this time he got a clearer reading on the Ki, and it was greater than Cell...

3 Weeks Later: A large battle in downtown Satan City

Ever since the appearance of the first few robots who sprung the criminals free from Prison and injured Saiyaman, the police department had been forced to take it up a notch. Saiyaman took a retrieved firing arm from one of the robots to a "genius friend" of his and returned with dozens of similar weapons all military grade with the Capsule Corp stamp of approval. Apparently Capsule Corporation had supplied the World Army and every other major police station on the planet with these weapons. As it turned out the weapons fired some kind of ionised bolts of plasma, extremely dangerous and far more effective than bullets against both human, and machine. Within the police department a special taskforce was formed to combat the growing threat of trained mercenaries and killer robots, now revealed to be the muscle of a resurgence by the Red Ribbon Army. The task force was labeled 'A.R.R.A.F' or 'Anti Red Ribbon Army Force'.

Downtown Satan City was currently the battleground of one of many battles being fought worldwide against the criminal/machine threat. The Red Ribbon army had supposedly sprung free criminals all over the world and sent them back out to fight for their cause, highly trained, and with that same tattoo on all their foreheads.

A small group of men huddled behind an armored vehicle, firing off when they could at the invaders. "We can't hold them off they just keep pressing! They aren't afraid enough of death to stay behind cover and wait!" one of them screamed over the noise. The highest ranking soldier in the group peeked over the hood of the car and sure enough the enemy kept advancing constantly.

"Then we need to halt their advance with more than suppressive fire, shoot to kill! Stay on me we're going to flank them!" he barked, getting nervous expressions and dutiful nods from the men in front of him. On his command they charged out from behind the vehicle and moved to the right of the field. Several bolts flew over and around them as they moved into position, opening fire on the advancing enemies who were quickly eliminated by the heavy flanking fire. One managed to get a shot off back at them and it struck one of them in the shoulder between the plating, searing right through his arm and hitting his comrade behind him square in the chest, killing him.

While the first man writhed and clutched at his arm the ranking officer radioed in with his sitrep.

Videl Satan was in an evacuated multi-story apartment building right next to their forces fighting down on the street. She was armored up like some kind of Special Ops soldier in silver alloy-plated armor over a black padded body suit that supposedly could withstand glancing or small fire once or twice with only minimal injury to the wearer. She was being briefed on her objective as she looked out the window down at the chaos.

Blue and Red bolts streaked back and forth from the battle field, scorching walls, flesh, metal and anything else it touched. And she pitied the injured and dead. She had been called out of class over 2 hours ago as she was suited up for her mission but she had been distracted.

Gohan hadn't been to school the past few days. She and the blondes had noticed a slight change in Gohan's demeanor over the past few weeks, ever since the broadcast. He seemed much more stressed and tired, but he still hung out with them frequently and talked to them online when he could. But he had entirely disappeared these past few days and she feared he had been hurt or worse.

But she would have to look into it later because right now they needed her and her team to secure the building across the street and to their right to gain a foothold over their enemy. They put their helmets on, which were essentially dome-topped Spartan helmets of the same silver metal that covered the whole head and face except for an inch-and-a-half wide glass covered slit that they saw through. It had a built in HUD with heat scanners and a radio system. The small team zip-lined high over the battle field onto the roof of the slightly shorter multi-story building. They detached from the lines and primed their weapons as they crept to the access door on the roof. They opened the door almost silently and quietly made their way down the stairwell to the floor below them. As they reached it they found themselves in a big empty hallway that was lined with doors and other hallways.

"Videl, my heat scanners are picking up this floor as empty, but there's a fair amount of life on the floor below us." Someone told her from behind. Looking down and switching her heat sensor on, she indeed saw signatures below them, some milling about, others being still, there was about 12 in total. Videl had a team of 7 in total, including herself, they had the element of surprise, they could pull this off.

"According to the floor plans that is some kind of lobby, but where those 2 heat signatures on the side are separated from the group, they're down a long hallway and through 2 sets of doors. They shouldn't hear our plasma rounds as long as we only hit them." Videl calculated in her head. Hearing affirmative responses from her team they made their way down the next flight of stairs and came to a 'u bend'. They were around the corner and down the hall. Videl signaled with her hand to one of the others and they moved up to the corner and pulled out a snake cam. She placed it on the floor and slid it out around the corner, pulling out a monitor. The two guards were facing away from them.

Videl ordered her team to stay where they were but to keep their weapons ready incase it all went wrong. Through experience sneaking into criminal encampments, she had learned that if ambushed they generally attempted to defend themselves for 5-10 seconds before their judgement caught up with them and they thought to run off and tell the boss, so she told her team to take care of it if she took more than 7 seconds after engaging them.

She handed her rifle to someone else and took only her side-arm. She could just shoot them both in the back but every shot they took risked them missing and hitting a wall or the roof, which would be very loud and distinct and attract the others' attention. Plus she would really rather avoid killing anyone. She had avoided it until now and she aimed to keep it that way.

Videl snuck up behind them until she was only 15 feet away and then bolted at them as quick as possible. They heard her and began to turn to face her and she jumped, landed feet-first on the door between them and crouched, absorbing all the force, negating any real sound. She immediately launched off at one and wrapped her arms around the head of the one on her left and yanked him headfirst into the ground, incapacitating him. The other turned to point his gun at her and she arched her foot up and kicked the gun out his hands. She rolled over her back onto her feet and blocked a punch and immediately felt massive force behind the blow. She ducked a wide swing and while crouched used her forearms to stop a low kick aimed at her head. The force of the kick threw her sprawling across the ground. She watched the killer charge her and her shaking hand glided down her side to her pistol holster and she pulled it out as the man picked her up by the plating on her shoulders, clamping her arms to her sides. She felt herself pinned against a wall and in a completely instinctual reaction she bent her arm at the elbow and fired into her assailants gut, his grip on Videl loosened and so the heroine planted her feet against his chest and pushed off, loosing several blue bolts of plasma into his torso as she fell.

As she lay there breathing deeply she was subconsciously aware that she had just killed someone for the first time in her life. Consciously however she refused to acknowledge that now as she had a job to do. She quickly got to her feet as her team came running down the hall to her, asking if she was okay. With an affirmative nod they continued through the doors and down the hallway beyond them where they came to the last set of doors before the lobby. They primed their weapons and breached the door, finding themselves in a nice dining area lined with dozens of tables, chairs and dim lit candles. They're sudden entry caught the men inside by surprise, and before they could even react 3 of the remaining 10 men were shot by members of Videl's team. A retaliatory shot flew past her helmet and contacted a wall behind her, throwing small debris and a loud bang throughout the room. One of the larger men in Videl's group grabbed a long table near them and pulled it on its side to provide 4 of them with cover. Videl was not close enough and with the help of her other two comrades they pulled up their own table, but right as they moved to duck below it a bolt struck the woman on her right in the throat area. She didn't even get the chance to scream as she was killed instantly. Videl attempted to ignore it and took cover. Heavy fire began being flung across the room. It was then that Videl realized she never took her rifle back and was limited to her side arm. She looked to the other group of her team just in time to see a bolt break the table and shower the larger guy who pulled the first table with wooden shrapnel, hitting him in multiple places between his armor plating. The thick padding saved him however he was stunned and failed to move away from the hole in his cover, causing him to be struck center mass by a following blast. He survived but he was badly hurt. Videl retaliated with several haphazard blasts at the enemy, only one of which hit a target, but it did succeed in killing them.

A shot hit her forearm suddenly and luckily it was on such an angle that her armor ricocheted it to a wall, but her arm still felt the force and she was thrown on her side, luckily staying behind cover. She watched in a daze as the doors around them opened and dozens of the androids poured in, viciously gunning down 3 of her men and injuring the last 2. She reached up to change frequencies, "Videl to Base, it's a trap, abort mission, I repeat-" but before she could finish a man yanked her helmet right off her head, tossing it aside and pointing his weapon right at her face.

But before he could even say a word a deathly silence filled the room, and then the a whooshing sound became audible and steady foot-steps broke the silence. Videl and her captor both turned to see what it was and saw a very pissed off, glowing-gold superhero. All the enemies simply stared at him for a long moment. "Well are you going to attack me or not?" he asked with a tone of bored frustration. At this comment they snapped into action and all charged at him. His scowl deepened for a moment before his eyes widened and his face twisted into a furious scream, the pressure of his anger and power crushing and throwing everyone away, against the walls of the room and across the floor and roof.

The last remaining man, pointing his gun at Videl's face only gawked in surprise and disbelief in what he had witnessed. Gohan walked right towards Videl and the man stepped out of his way to the side. Gohan stopped right at Videl before slowly turning his head to the man who grew increasingly nervous about his situation. Then, in a blur of motion, the son of Goku back handed him through a window on the far wall of the room where he fell to his death, screaming all the way. With that out of the way Gohan's expression softened and he bent down, offering a helping hand to the raven-haired raven-haired girl, "I need you to come with me Videl."

That's a wrap yo. This chapter is bigger for you guys because I had the time to write more for it, your welcome. I'm sure you'll be happy to know that by the time you read this I'll already have started off the next chapter. Also WHO WATCHED THE LATEST EPISODE OF DB SUPER!? IT WAS THE BEST SO FAR! *Spoilers start here so if you don't want anything spoiled for you then stop reading here.* God DAYUM was it a good episode! Vegeta's beat down on Frieza was awesome and the part of the Earth exploding and you see everyone dying in the explosion was really heart wrenching and well done. And then my personal favorite part of the episode, Gohan announcing that he wanted to start training again near the end of the episode. IT'S FINALLY HAPPENED. I was so hyped when he said that, I was like OH SHIT FOR REAL MAN!? Not even forced to train this time he decided all on his own that he wanted to get stronger, that shits DOPE! Anyway, until next time all.