Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chibi Potion ❯ Rice Wars Part 1 ( Chapter 17 )

Chibi-Gohan: I'm sorry I haven't updated this any sooner, my computer keeps messing up and I'm trying to get a new one. I was gonna ask Bulma for one, but Mom made me get a job to buy one.

Chichi: That's right! I'm not gonna have two jobless bums under my roof! *glares at Goku*

Goku: *eating a sandwich* What? Is there something on my face?

Chichi: *rolls her eyes* Oh forget it!

#17 Rice Wars Part 1

It had been nearly two hours since Videl had reported Gohan missing to the police. Erasa had finally calmed down enough to have Videl talk her into going home, and now Videl was struggling on one thing. Should she call Goku first, or Chichi?

~*~

"Whew! That was a good spar huh, Vegeta?" Goku asked, as he plopped down on his chair.

Vegeta plopped down in to the other one, and smirked. "It seemed alright for a warm up."

Goku smiled back at him. "Yeah, once we get done eating lets take it up a few levels."

"You're on Kakkarot!" Vegeta agreed as the robotic servants began placing plate after plate of food on to the table as the two hungry Saiya-jins started digging in.

Suddenly the phone began ringing, causing Vegeta to growl. Trunks had taken Goten and Chibi Trunks to the movies and the answering machine was broken, which meant that Vegeta had to either answer the phone, or let it keep ringing. And if it was Bulma on the other end, he'd be getting the couch for a month.

Grumbling to himself, Vegeta rose from his seat, watching Goku chow down on the food. "There'd better be some left, or I swear there'll be hell to pay!" Vegeta yelled as he lifted the receiver.

"What do you want!"

"Vegeta! Is Goku still there"

Vegeta smirked once he realized it was Videl who called. "He's here, what's it to you?"

"Can you put him on the phone? It's important!"

"Say "please" first and I'll think about it."

"PUT HIM ON NOW!" Videl screamed into the phone.

"Alright sheesh!" Vegeta said rubbing his ears. "Kakarot! Phone's for you!"

"Thanks Vegeta." Videl said as Vegeta handed Goku the phone, muttering about how Videl was just as bad as the Harpy.

"Hello?" Goku asked into the phone, as Vegeta decided to stay in the same room. The way Videl sounded made Vegeta think that something good was up.

"Oh hey Videl! How's Gohan doing? He's what?! Okay! I'll be there as soon as I can, don't worry!" Goku quickly hung up the phone and was about to Instant Transmit himself to Videl's location when Vegeta stopped him.

"Where the Hell are you going Kakkarot! We still haven't finished our spar!" Vegeta demanded.

"Sorry Vegeta, but I have to get going, Videl called and said that Gohan's missing, and she suspects he's been kidnapped. I have to go find him before something bad happens."

"To him or for the ones that took him?" Vegeta thought before telling Goku. "Why not teleport to where he is then we can get back to what's really important, sparring."

Goku nodded, and put his fingers back to his head, as he searched for Gohan's ki. After a few minutes, he gave a worried glance to Vegeta.

" I can't sense it! What if-"

"Don't be a fool!" Vegeta barked. "We would've sensed something if that happened. That brat's probably sleeping."

"Well, I'm going to go help Videl search for him. Watch Goten for awhile when Trunks brings them back from the movies, and don't say anything about Gohan missing, because Goten'll probably tell Chichi, and she tends to over-react."

Vegeta raised an eyebrow, "Tends to"

Goku gave a shrug and disappeared.

~*~

Meanwhile Sho, Mai and Pilaf were tracking down Gohan's crawl marks when they came to a building.

"You think he went inside?" Sho asked, which earned him a tongue-lashing from Pilaf.

"Of course you moron! The tracks end here, so he has to be here."

"Let's just go in and get him." Mai said, opening the door.

"Peweh! What smells?" Shao gagged as they walked into the building.

"Hmm, must be the Monkey Exhibit." Mai said, glancing around the building.

"That's just great!" Pilaf shouted, frightening some of the monkeys, "How're we supposed to find the kid, when he's ... he's ...he's."

"Pilaf sir! What is it?!" Mai asked, trying to shake the imp out of his stupor.

"He's with the monkeys!" Pilaf cried out pointing to a nearby cage where several monkeys were huddled together sleeping, and right in the center of the sleeping monkeys was a napping Gohan.

"Uh, how are we gonna get him out of there?" Shao asked, realizing that they were all huddled near the center of the cage.

"Simple," Pilaf answered, "grab the kid by his tail and pull him out. He should stay asleep once you get a hold of it, then we'll get out of here."
"Me! Why me?" Shao cried, backing away from the little blue imp.

"Because I'm telling you to!" Pilaf shouted, pushing Shao towards the monkey cage.

"Well you don't have to yell about it." Shao muttered as he reached his hand into the cage and grabbed at one of the tails. "Sure hope this works." he said to himself as he yanked on the tail.

~*~

Goku and Videl were heading towards the food court after Goku suggested, that Gohan could've gotten hungry, and admitted that he was too, when a loud scream was heard.

"What the heck was that?" Videl wondered as people turned their heads to where the scream came from.

"It came from the monkey house!" somebody shouted as people started heading out towards the monkeys.

Videl glanced at Goku, "You don't think...."

"I don't know, but lets go see anyway."

~*~

"Ow! ow! ow! Get it off me!" Shao screamed as the monkey continued to bite as Mai and Pilaf tried desperately to pry the monkey off his hand.

Gohan sat inside the cage and laughed at the three, until he saw a butterfly flutter by him. Following the insect, he crawled to the door as several zookeepers ran inside to see what was making all the noise, and made his way outside.

"Oh no! Sir! We lost him again!" Mai cried as she saw Gohan slip between the keepers' legs without them noticing.

"Dammit! Go after him Mai, I'll take care of this monkey, you just make sure nothing happens to that one or we won't get those Dragon Balls!"

"Yes sir!" Mai saluted and ran past the keepers.

~*~

"What the heck were you thinking? You should never pull a wild animal's tail, just because the animal is in a zoo doesn't mean that the animal is tamed. Are you hearing me?" the keeper asked angrily at Shao and Pilaf.

"Yes sir."

"Now, are you all caught up on your important shots?"

"Yes, luckily I had my Rabies shot last month." Shao answered proudly.

"Yeah, well uh, just so you make sure, Satan City Zoo is not responsible for guests provoking the animals, just incase if you tried to sue us."

"Provoking?"

"You pulled the monkey's tail! And the wrong monkey at that!" Pilaf shouted.

"What was that?" the zookeeper asked.

"Nothing! Nothing at all!"

"Right..."

~*~

Meanwhile....

"Now that I think about it, this isn't the first time Kakarot's kid has been kidnapped. Does the kid have money strapped to his back with a note saying "Take me!" I just hope Kakarot finds him soon, cause it'll be Hell if the Harpy finds out."

"Finds out about what?" Chichi asked as she walked through the door with Bulma.

"N-Nothing! Damn can't I think out loud?" Vegeta asked angrily.

"Not when you say something about someone not finding out." Bulma said. "Now tell us what it is."

"Hell no!"

"Fine! Chichi?"

"I all over it!" Chichi said as she pulled out a brand new non-stick frying pan.

"Now Vegeta," Bulma smirked as Vegeta's face paled. "Will you tell us what it is?"

"No!"

BWANG!

"Now?"

"N-no!"

BWANG!

"How about now?"

"No."

BWANG!

"Alright! Alright! Kakarot's brat is missing around the zoo! Just don't hit me anymore!" Vegeta shouted out, clutching his head.

"What?!" Chichi shouted, as she ran out the door.

Bulma looked over at the open door and then back at Vegeta, "You know, this is the kinda thing you shouldn't tell her."

"Oh shut up!"

~*~

Mai was just about to catch up to Gohan when Shao and Pilaf rounded the corner and bumped into her.

"Ow! Darn it Mai watch where you're going!" Pilaf shouted, holding his head. "Did you find the kid?"

"Yes sir, I was about to apprehend him before we collided."

"Well, where is he?"

Mai pointed as Gohan sat looking up at a balloon stand.

"Shao, give me a dollar," Pilaf smirked, "I have a plan"

Chibi-Gohan: Like I said at the beginning of this chapter: I am very very sorry this came out so late!

I had originally planned for this to come out around October or November at the latest, but I had too much to do, I didn't have enough time to finish this up. Hopefully though, I can get the next chapter up a lot sooner than it took me to get this one up.

Vegeta: Yeah right!

Chibi-Gohan: Well I know it isn't gonna take me another 7 months to get the next chapter up. I'll get the next one up as soon as I can!