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Prologue: The Discovery

The last thing Videl could remember was finding herself lying on the ground atop a sidewalk somewhere in West City. It felt as if she had just woken up from a dream, but she knew better than that. She could remember dying by the hands of Majin Buu. She had been sentenced by some ogre who went by the title, King Yama, to go to Otherworld. She bumped into Gohan's Mom and her friend Bulma there. They had asked her if she could assist them in finding Gohan, and of course she gladly did.

They weren't having luck in their search, come to think of it, she couldn't find her dad either. In the midst of searching, all of a sudden, she had found herself waking up back on Earth. After that, she had heard familiar voices ringing throughout the air, begging for everyone to lift up their arms, and help assist them in defeating Buu by giving them their precious energy. Videl could have sworn she had recognized those voices, but she just couldn't pin-point who they belonged to.

No-one was listening to the mysterious voices, that is... until a familiar one started talking. Her father, Hercule, Earth's Savior spoke of needing their energy too, to help aid him defeat Majin Buu. Of course, everyone listened to him. After it was announced that Buu was defeated, everyone began rejoicing, and Videl began searching for her father.

So far, she had been searching all day long, having no luck at all. But just as she was about to give up, and head home, she heard cheering coming from a few blocks down. She immediately dashed toward the direction of the voices, and saw a crowd of people surrounding her father. She wasn't surprised. She had known the instant she her the shouting from down the road, that they were praising none other than her father, Hercule.

"Dad!" Videl shouted as relief washed over her with the view of her unharmed father.

He had taken on that horrid pink monster Buu, and he had beaten him! It was amazing, he seemed to have come out of the dual completely unscathed. Normally, something should have rung a bell in Videl's sharp mind, but she was still a teenager. She was still so naive. She wanted to believe that her father was a hero.

Hercule smiled at his daughter, a smile holding back regret, regret for all of the many lies he had told her, and so many other people. But he couldn't help it any longer, he loved the fame, the glory of it. He was addicted to the brilliance of being known as a savior, a hero.

Everyone loved him, they practically worshiped him as if he were a god! He had marble statues of himself holding up a peace sign in practically every city on Earth. If they knew, he'd be ruined. Everyone would hate him if they knew what a fake he was. Even worse, his daughter wouldn't even be able to bare looking at him anymore if she were aware of the detestable truth.

And so, Hercule would play his facade as the righteous do-gooder superman of his time. He would soak it all in like the cocky scum he was, but at the end of the day, a little part of his un-conceited self would rear up again in the back of his mind... and all he could feel was regret...

He wished that he could tell his beloved daughter about the Cell Games. How that friend of hers, Gohan, had actually been the one who had defeated Cell. He also wished he could tell her that he wasn't the one who had defeated Buu, Gohan's Father, Goku, had. He wished a lot of things that he knew would never become a reality. Hercule was about to give his daughter the biggest bear-hug he could possibly muster, but before he could reach her, he was enshrouded by the press.

Videl frowned slightly as she saw her father's 'worshipers' surround him completely. 'Why do I even try?' she thought sullenly. 'I had better get out of here before they start asking my opinion on things again.'

Videl suddenly caught sight of someone familiar out of her peripheral view. She smiled one of the biggest smiles she thought she had ever accomplished before. Pure and utter joy glimmered in her cerulean orbs as the image of Gohan reflected in her line of sight.

She had been so worried after having searched for him with Bulma and Gohan's mom, ChiChi, in Otherworld and having no luck in finding him. She thought something terrible must have happened to have him not appear in the land of the dead. The only other option she could think of was the other place... HFIL. But Gohan was pure, she was sure of that, and she never lost hope.

She remembered making him enter the martial arts tournament and laughed slightly in nostalgia. He had taught her how to fly beforehand, during those lessons, she'd really began to start to like him. She met him at the tournament, but she had been knocked out in one of her fights so she didn't get to see him fight at all.

Gohan's father, Son Goku, had given her some odd bean that healed her completely, but by the time she had returned to the fights again, he had disapeared. Soon after, Goku did too. She was left completely out in the blue.

She couldn't help, but wonder, 'What if Gohan and his Dad had something to do with the defeat of Buu?' She chose to shake away that thought rather quickly.

"Videl!" Gohan exclaimed, shaking Videl out of her thoughts.

"Gohan, you're alright!" Videl shouted, wrenching an unsuspecting Gohan into a huge hug.

Once she let go, she smiled slightly as she noticed the deep red blush that had crept onto Gohan's cheeks. Gohan scratched the back of his head, and peered at his sneakers shyly.

"I'm glad you're alright too, Videl," murmured Gohan. "I was about to leave to go to Bulma's house to pick someone up. Would you... er... maybe... um... like to... uh?"

"I'd love to come with you, Gohan!" Videl finished, saving Gohan from being embarrassed.

Gohan and Videl decided to take a hover car to Bulma's instead of flying, they didn't want to attract any unwanted attention.

"So who are we picking up?" inquired Videl casually.

"My mom wanted me to get Goten. He's there playing with Trunks. She wants him home," replied Gohan.

"Oh," murmured Videl, glancing out the window to gaze at the scenery beyond it.

Once they arrived at Capsule Corp. and were within the compounds, Gohan said, "Wait here Videl, I'll go get him."

Videl tried to stay still, but there were so many rooms. She was curious as to what was in them. This was Capsule Corporation, the biggest company on Earth. She just had to take a tiny tour around the place.

'Gohan won't notice,' she thought, smirking to herself. 'I'll be back before he even realizes that I'm gone!'

She snuck past security, and began snooping in the many rooms. So far, to her astonishment, everything had been boring. There had been absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.

'Some amazing tour,' she thought sarcastically, 'this place isn't anything special like I always thought it would be when I was a kid.'

Suddenly, a small silver bracelet lying on a desk caught her attention. It had a few odd symbols on it that she figured were just the design. She suddenly had a desire to try it on for size, and see how it would look on her.

'No...' she thought shaking her head. 'Me putting that on would be wrong! It's not mine. Plus it looks so expensive, I might brake it.' Videl began to turn to leave the room, but paused, turning back around, 'Well, I guess it couldn't hurt if I only put it on for a second...'

She hesitantly slipped the small bit of jewelry onto her slender wrist. She smiled slightly, and thought, 'How cool, it fits perfectly!'

She rubbed her finger along the symbols, and gasped as the bracelet suddenly lit up. She immediately began to yank the bracelet off, fearing she'd broken it in some way or another. As she was pulling it off, some off the symbols her fingers were gripping pressed inward.

Videl gazed at her hands completely dumbfounded as they began to glow the same iridescent silver color as the bracelet. Soon, her whole body was enshrouded in the beautiful aesthetic silver glow.

'This can't be good,' she thought, but oddly, she found herself no-longer afraid, but rather entranced by the luminous glow surrounding her entire being.

'Whatever this is, I think actually found a cool gadget in this place! Finally! I knew there had to be something interesting here!' thought Videl triumphantly as her body slowly turned into an after-image.