Welcome to the next chapter of my story. As for the new usual I don't really have that much to say. So, let's get on with the story.

Chapter 20

=Mr. Satan; A few days later=

Days past after the mansion was attacked and the cops were unable to find anything definitive. Meanwhile Mr. Satan was busy enough talking to construction crews about the house and trying to repair what he could. He also very active online using a fake name to try and sway the public from asking too many questions. Sadly, he was only able to do so much with so many questions cropping up. Something that came to a head in one of his usual public speeches.

"…So according to the builders approximately 50% of the Satan Manor needs to be demolished before repairs can be started safely. A process that will start immediately so I can live in comfort….errr…so my daughter can live in a nice safe house. Ya, that's right. Now any questions?" Mr. Satan asked.

"Yes Mr. Satan what are you going to do about the attackers?" a reporter asks. "I will be letting the police take care of justice. Just because I am the strongest does not mean I will attack people without letting proper justice happen." Mr. Satan states with a calm face. " I actually watched the tapes and even if those weirdos aren't the ones that were at the cell games they still could use those weird scary magic techniques! Let them hide away an never show up near me please!" He added mentally.

"But what about the reports of the damage. Was those attacks the real deal or did they somehow manage to push past your security system and place bombs without you knowing?" Another reporter asked.

"Umm" Mr. Satan started with a lot of sweat forming on his head. After all he was given a LOT of money by the company that made his security system. In the deal he was to advertise their greatness and state how 'the best would only use the best.' "Uhh…yea you got me. I…uh actually know that those light tricks are real. BUT they are too dangerous for normal people ya. So, I was keeping it a secret so that bad people wouldn't find out. And now that some of them have look what happened." Mr. Satan told them after struggling to find an answer for a few seconds.

"So, the moves you have been calling fake have been real this whole time?" the reporter asks.

"Yes. It is just far too dangerous for the average person to try and ummm…only a few people have the ability to use it ya."

"So, all of those people you have been calling tricksters and slandering you were lying about. Their names have been dragged through the mud for years now and they were just ok with it?" another reporter asks.

" Fuck! I really am caught in a tough situation this time! Come on Hercule think!" Mr. Satan mentally panicked but made sure to have none of it show on his face. "Umm. Ya the large majority of energy users accepted my idea of keeping the truth hidden. They umm accept that I am the strongest and respected me enough to follow my idea." He stated.

"But what about the several different videos and messages that have been trying to refute your claims for years?" Another reporter asked.

"Umm. Well you can't expect everyone to follow the rules. There will always be some outliers. I mean you haven't heard anything from the people that entered the cell games now have you?" Mr. Satan states. He then shivered as he felt a cold chill run down his spine.

" What was that feeling? It all of a sudden felt like a monster even worse than Cell was plotting my death all of a sudden." Mr. Satan thought worried as he tried to hide the fear that he now felt.

"So can you show us your powers then champ? The world now knows you have it so it has to be ok to at least show it once right?" Another reporter holding a camera asks excitedly with most of the crowd beginning to grow more and more excited and curious.

"No!" Mr. Satan states suddenly shocking everyone but quickly recovers by coughing into his hand a couple of times. "I-I mean you saw how much damage those low-level punks could do. If I dared to use my power again I could…uh…end up destroying a lot of the world as we know it. So, I have held myself back from using my power in order to keep this world safe. And I truly hope the day I need to release my ultimate move never comes again." Mr. Satan tells the group who cheers for him as they failed to see him shaking and sweating out of nervousness. Still the public appearance continued for some time after this. But it would be noted that the frequency of his public interviews has drastically been lowered in quantity and screened after this one.

_Chichi, Capsule Corp._

While the public interview was going on Chichi and her whole family were all at capsule corp. With her visiting Bulma and her family, the younger kids off surely causing trouble, and the older teens either visiting or sparring.

"How can those idiots believe this buffoon! I mean his lies are hardly close to making any sense anymore. But yet they are just eating it up while ignoring the massive plot holes that even a high school student could find." Chichi growled out glaring at the tv.

sigh* "I know it sucks having to deal with this ass. I mean you already know just how much he goes out of his way to annoy me after all. But he has been doing what the boys wanted rather well at least. We don't have all those reporters and nosy people breathing down our necks thanks to him being an attention whore." Bulma states.

Tsk* Chichi clicks her teeth in annoyance but knew that they would hate the publicity more than they would enjoy the easy money.

"Now don't click your teeth now. You practically beat manors into those boys of yours. You don't wanna go showing them a bad example do you?" Bulma asked with a smirk not bothered at all by the glare that she got.

"Don't you even start. You know damn well how hard it is to get those saiyans to listen. Not to mention it seems like ALL of the males of that race are even more hard headed." Chichi states making Bulma chuckle a bit.

"You got that right. But you have done well with all of them. Kami knows I wish I could get Vegeta to act more human like." Bulma admits.

"Tsk, never woman." Vegeta growls out as he walks up to them holding a large bottle of an sports drink.

"Oh you are actually out of your precious training chamber. And here I thought that you lived in there." Bulma states ignoring his rage.

"Can it woman! I just needed a drink after my last round fighting. I will be ready to go back in as soon as the brats finish their match. I will show them who is the mightiest Saiyan yet." Vegeta states with a vicious smile.

"Tsk, hasn't Gohan firmly had a hold of that title for ages now and you aren't any closer to taking it from him." Bulma muttered but was heard.

"Shut up woman Kakorot's brat is just getting lucky. I will prove his incompetence soon enough." Vegeta states.

"-accept that I am the strongest and respected me enough to follow" the tv clearly had Mr. Satan say.

"Oh and who would be foolish enough to follow a weak earthling like him?" Vegeta asked with a smirk. Course the smirk quickly faded with the next line Mr. Satan said and he began to walk in the general direction of the door.

"Oh no you don't mister! I know he is a dumbass but you aren't allowed to kill him!" Bulma states getting in front of him and pushing him to try and stop his movement. Something that worked only because he allowed it to.

"You heard that bastard! He dares say that not only is the group under him but a proud prince of all Saiyans bows his head to him! He deserves to be ripped to shreds for trying to insult me so!" Vegeta growls out and tries to move around his wife only for her to continue. "Now move woman! I am being nice enough to not fly through this precious building of yours but I will if you don't let me move outside." He threatens. At this time Gohan and Miara walked into the room looking for Vegeta.

"Hey Vegeta the brats want to have a round but it is your turn…what is going on?" Gohan asks confused.

sigh* "Just Vegeta being Vegeta. Can you two please bring him back into the gravity room to cool off for a while?" Chichi asked happy to see the two of them. The two teens then looked at each other and grabbed onto Vegeta who struggled a bit in their hold.

"Let go of me brats! I must defend my honor!" Vegeta states only to be ignored as he was dragged away.

"Yes, yes honor. Well let's start by seeing if you can keep your honor against the boys. They've been saying that the can push you past your base form for a while now." Miara tells him.

"WHAT!? Those pipsqueaks are no where near my greatness!...I will deal with that buffoon at another time." Vegeta tells the girls who wave him off as he stops struggling to escape from the boys.

sigh* "Well that was another great timed save from those two. Honestly if they weren't some of the only people that could give him a challenge, I'd hire them to solely keep that man from do stupid shit." Bulma states feeling tired now.

"We will see how much time my Gohan has after he becomes a doctor or a scientist." Chichi states getting a weird look from Bulma.

"You are still pushing for that? I thought you lightened up on especially after he became the crowned prince for the Ox king." Bulma asked.

"Hmm? Well there is always time for my boy to show just how smart he is with a few licenses before he has to take over for dad." Chichi states simply getting an eye roll from her friend.

~Satan Gym renovated living~

Videl was currently sitting on a pillow practicing with her KI as she was watching tv. It had become a habit to do so as Gohan put so much focus on controlling her KI. Course she was already close to a point that her control was relatively perfect. She couldn't pull things off that Krillen managed but was around the control level the other humans KI users were at. Something she could only pull off through having a decent teacher focus on it and her sheer stubbornness.

" Dad seemed real stressed talking to the reporters. But at least he gave me conformation of what I was thinking. He really DOES know what KI is he just can't show the world. But I do wonder why he couldn't tell me at least. I mean if he did I wouldn't have had quite the scare I had earlier…course I never did talk to him about it. After all I figured he'd just have freaked out about his 'baby' being hurt. But still if he taught me maybe I could have even beat Gohan….why did he not train me to the next level or even show me it?" Videl thought confused. But with no real way to figure it out without the man in question there. So, instead she switched the channel to something to watch something else figuring her dad was about done with the talk.

A while later

After finishing up with all the reporters and his own team Mr. Satan was exhausted. All he wanted to do was go rest on his luxury couch with a nice glace of whiskey. Thankfully he made sure that the movers got his favorite relaxation set up perfectly copied in their room. It came second only to his daughter's room; not that Videl actually wanted that much changed.

"Hey Videl I am home…er here I guess." Mr. Satan calls out finding it strange to call these rooms in the gym a home even after they have spent quite a while in them. He honestly wished that the construction would be done already. But even with all of the technological advancements it took quite a while for the construction crew to order and create all of the custom fancy stuff he had the manor built with. But to him it was worth the wait. After all who would ever think of the world hero living in anything but the best house money can buy. Though he was rather annoyed that Capsule Corp. gave them zero help with this. The didn't even offer a capsule home for them to stay in or buy for a discount. Not that he would have settled for a place that the average person could stay at of course. Hence why he settled for staying in his gym after Videl refused to go to a five-star hotel. At least here he already souped the area as much as he could.

"Hmm she must not have heard me." Mr. Satan muttered rubbing his chin. "Well I might as well see what she is doing before I relax. I am sure she missed me after not seeing each other all dad Hahaha" He stated happily then went to her room and knocked.

"Come in." Videl called out from the room and he quickly opened the door. "Hi honey I just wanted to see how you were do…ing" Mr. Satan started then saw the small ki ball forming and disappearing in front of her hands. " W-what!? Even my own little girl has figured out this weird energy stuff before I can? How did this happen? When did it happen?...Can she teach me?" Mr. Satan thought in sheer disbelief. But he also quickly noticed that this was one of the best chances for him to learn without the world finding out that he was faking everything.

"Hey honey what are you doing?" Mr. Satan asked getting Videl's focus from her show.

"Huh oh I am just practicing KI control. I was gonna surprise you with it after I got real good at using KI but I guess it's pointless when you know how to use it already." Videl told him with a shrug.

"Ha…Ha…yea. So, how do you exactly do this KI control stuff?" Mr. Satan asked awkwardly.

"Hmm? You mean you haven't done it before? Wow you must have a lot of KI to be able to use super strong attacks without worrying about wasting any. Gohan said that even the best of fighters have to make sure they have good control." Videl told him impressed.

"Oh so Gohan was the one to teach you huh? And yea my power is just that good hahaha." Mr. Satan told her with a strained laugh at the end.

"Well even if you do we gotta see how much of an improvement you can get from controlling all of it. And while we are at it you can teach me some of your techniques." Videl told him excited to learn more.

"Wha?" Mr. Satan asked confused.

"Oh come on dad! I know you said you couldn't teach people because it's dangerous but you HAVE to know that I will only use it for good. So come on please teach me." Videl asked hopeful.

"Err, uhh…" Mr. Satan started trying to look anywhere but his daughter but eventually had to bite the bullet and look at her pleading with him. " This is the first time in years that she has ever tried to get any help from me in anything. After I had to turn her down with training because she managed to get stronger than me using some bullshit excuse. After that she never asked for my help again for some reason…" he thought looking down at her excited face. *sigh*

"Ok hun let's get started with this control thing then go from there." He told her getting a loud cheer from Videl. One of the first times she acted young that he's seen in several years.

"Yay! Thank you, dad! I promise that I won't disappoint you! In fact, I am gonna go train some more to make sure I can get a good start." Videl stated running down surely towards one of the training rooms.

"W-what did I just do? How am I going to break it to her that I don't actually have energy and need her to teach ME….I just can't say it seeing as she is so excited. Especially after making her marry that prince against her will. What am I going to do?" Mr. Satan quietly asked himself terrified. He now couldn't even think of resting now that he has yet another problem to try to fix. And this time it was a cell sized one…at least to him. (and this is the 'man' named cell. Not a real cell)

His walk to the training room felt even shorter than it already was as Mr. Satan desperately tried to figure out something to fix this issue. Sadly, before a proper plan could be formed, he found himself in the room with his daughter looking at him excitedly. Something he hadn't seen in a long time since she outdid him.

"So, umm how does this control thing work?" Mr. Satan asks.

"It's pretty simple. First come sit in front of me." Videl tells him and he quickly follows. She then cupped her hands in front of herself.

"For this way what you are supposed to do is let your ki flow through your body to your hands to form a basic ki ball. You then push the amount of ki in the ball further while making sure it stays the same size. Finally, instead of letting the ki blast go you must gradually take the ki out of the blast again while making sure the form never changes." Videl shows him. They actually went through a few different control training methods but this is the one that she liked the most.

"Umm ok then." Mr. Satan mutters sweating a bit seeing as this 'simple' thing was far out of the range of stuff he could do. But instead of admitting this he sat there trying to push his body to form something in between hi empty hands. But of course nothing came no matter how hard he tried.

"Umm are you ok dad?" Videl asks confused seeing this.

"Ya…ya! I just have uhh never pushed my energy out of my body before so this is pretty hard. Do you think you can show me?"

"I can kind of…but how did you use a ki blast if you can't push it out of your body?"

"Well…uh it just automatically launched out of my fist when I throw my most dangerous punch." Mr. Satan states with a halfhearted laugh that became even more strained as he saw his daughter's confusion.

" So without controlling it he is able to push out a blast strong enough to finish off Cell? But something doesn't make sense. I mean even if my ki wasn't amazing I still had it flowing that it should have happened to me right? I was definitely using my full power when I was accidently using it." Videl thought.

"Ok…you need to simply find the ki inside of yourself and pull it out. It should be pretty easy with how powerful it is." Videl told him simply.

"Um ok." Mr. Satan muttered and tried to do that just that. Time then passed as he desperately tired to find the power that was supposedly inside of him but with no success. This lead to him desperately trying tensing his entire body while mentally sweating buckets. "Come on energy thing just come out already! I need to have this in order to not have my sweet daughter lose all respect in me!" he thought having already had nightmares of thinking how Videl would act after finding out his secrets.

"Are you ok dad?" Videl asked seeing as he seemed to be struggling.

sigh* "…Videl I think I need to talk to you about something very important." He told her finally giving up. "What's up?" Videl asked confused.

"I-I have to let you in on a secret…" Mr. Satan told her struggling to push out the words he wanted. "I have never actually been able to do this energy stuff"

"What!?" Videl called out shocked. "But you just told the entire world that you could!" Videl stated

"I know I did. But what was I going to do? Those gangsters just destroyed our house with it. I had to either say that the stuff was real or have our security system's company rake us through hot coals." He told her honestly.

"But wait how on earth did you beat cell if you can't use energy at all? I was stuck not able to get any stronger for so long but you had a way to break past that blockage without energy? And you didn't tell me?" Videl stated hurt.

"Err…if I had a way to do it I would have told you my princess I promise." Mr. Satan told her trying to make her feel a bit better but still struggling himself. " M-maybe I should just tell her that I have one and just didn't realize she was at a spot of stagnation. Or maybe I can just say mine was some sort of unique thing that wouldn't help her…No…I must commit and just tell her the truth! No more lies. I just can't do it to her anymore…not to mention that it is only going to become harder and harder to keep up with how convoluted it would get. No, I finally need to get her in on this." Mr. Satan thought refocusing himself.

"So, you don't have a way to push past your limits like ki let's you? But then there is no way that you could have gotten to cell's level! He clearly showed that he used energy and crazy amounts at that. If you can't use ki and didn't find a way around it then how did you ever manage to beat that monster?" Videl asked instantly breaking down all the previous things she thought she knew with this new information.

"A-a-about that…I actually…might have not…beat…cell…MYSELF" Mr. Satan told her having to force himself to continue as he watched Videl's expression change. " Hah, hopefully I can save myself by saying I didn't just let those golden guys do everything…I did throw that guys head over and that made the kid somehow stronger right." Mr. Satan thinks.

"You didn't beat cell?" Videl asked looked practically winded.

"…no…but I did play a part in his defeat." Mr. Satan told her honestly. "Those golden guys did play a part as well but they all up and left after the battle and the world was looking to see how the fight ended. So…I gave them the answer they wanted and let them put a face to it so they wouldn't fear that Cell was still out there. After all I was already a widely respected figure so the people were happier to trust me rather than think about overpowered unknown entities that just showed up out of nowhere." Mr. Satan explained.

"But you still lied! I trusted you! The world trusted you! And you just lied your way through it as you sucked up loads of rewards and benefits." Videl growled out annoyed.

"H-honey like I said I helped with the defeat." Mr. Satan told her.

"Tsk, and then branded those that you helped as nobodies and weaklings. And even made the world believe their hard training was some useless show they did."

"I did it FOR the world! Like I said do you really think the world would like having some unknown people be the ones strong enough to kill cell? It would just be something new they had to fear seeing as they disappeared and STILL have hardly showed any signs of even existing anymore. It is better for there to be a face that the people can place their eyes upon as a hero rather than making some unknown group be speculated about. I did it for the world to have peace and tried to make things make sense the best I could." Mr. Satan told her. " Because honestly even a quarter of what I saw was far too crazy for me to believe it was real. Without seeing it myself I would never believe that something like that wasn't CGI or something. Those guys were throwing out missile sized explosions like they were candy." Mr. Satan thought with a shiver of fear.

"Now…can you please teach me about this energy stuff that you found out about?" He asked.

"I-I just need some time to think." Videl told him walking to her room. Her mind running far too fast for her to trust herself to do anything at the moment.

"…sure honey." Was all Mr. Satan could say. " I hope she doesn't do anything too crazy with knowing this. Also, I still want my baby girl to look up to me even if I am not the invincible man she once thought I was." He thought sad. But deep down he knew that he wouldn't be able to fool EVERYONE forever. But still he cursed the group of weird energy people for making things fall apart so much faster than he assumed would be possible.

~Look out~

Dende was looking down at the world with worry on his face.

"What are you doing?" Piccolo asks walking up to him.

"I am trying to find where those ki users' base is. With their average strength being better than a normal human it should be pretty easy to find them. But I have had no success even after paying more attention to each point of stronger humans." Dende tells him.

"I mean the average human eve if 'stronger' does not actually show that much noticeable strength. Though you have to be careful seeing as while it is good to get the world threats watched we also are not supposed to be taking care of all the worlds problems."

"What!? But we helped try to find cell and even my predecessor helped Goku loads of times!"

"He did but those problems were much more drastic than a small gang of slightly stronger humans trying to show off. My father, Me, and Cell were all beings that would do a lot of damage to the world if not destroy it. As much as I would love to help the brat we also have to remember that Kai's have rules to follow. If Gohan could find the group he could easily demolish the entire group without facing an real problems."

"But they are trying to take over the world!"

"And the red ribbon army was as well. And my other half left them alone because that is what kais do. You are to protect the world not make it follow what you think it should do. In fact the fact that we fought anyone is a rather grey area that is never fully ironed out. Instead the world simply fixes the problem by making the beings we face be stronger than us normal kais." Piccolo tells him.

(AN: Honestly it always seemed a bit crazy that some of the stuff that was happening was allowed and other was tried to be stopped. In theory with being able to watch all the world they should have seen that he red ribbon army had something brewing but could not for the sake of the story (could be completely wrong with my understanding but its not a big deal). But basically Dende should by all means notice the kis of the group disappearing/getting stronger but he doesn't notice/can't say anything about it. Because in this story if it is not a world destruction chance or causing a massive amount of damage they can't 'legally' act on it…basically a grey area that is always a bit confusing for me)

Anyways that is where I am going to end this chapter. It finally happened. Mr. Satan has told Videl the truth. Now the outcome of said truth will have to be determined. Course to the rest of the world the lie is still more than working. But now Videl has a few choices and actions to think about. But we will find out in the next chapter. For now Ja Ne.