Chapter One

The two girls where completely confused as they took in their surroundings. They were standing in the Satan manor but for some reason it didn't look like it had been used in years, walls were missing and crumbling down, several large holes in the room, windows cracked or smashed in altogether and the very few that weren't where covered in a thick layer of dust. Plant life had managed to make its way into the building; all around it wasn't a pretty site.

"Videl" the taller of the two girls spoke softly and fearfully. "What happened to your house?"

"I don't know Erasa" she replied to her friend in confusion. It wasn't like that when they'd gone into the pool to cool down after a day of chase criminals or boys in Erasa's case, though Videl considered some of the boys that Erasa chased to be criminals.

Videl started dragging her friend through the house calling out for her father every room they went through. The rest of the house just as decrepit at the room they found themselves in. No sign of any of the staff. Erasa was dragged onto the street thinking what was happening was a bad dream. They lost track of how long they ran for but the more they ran the more they found everywhere deserted. No sign of human life anywhere around them.

"Gone, all gone" Videl shouted frantically. "This has to be a bad dream."

Erasa stopped gasping for air; she couldn't keep up with Videls pace any longer. "I don't know what's happened Del, but we need to keep a level head."

Videl looked at her normally air headed friend who's only thoughts consisted of boys, shopping, clothing and makeup. It usually went I have a date with such and such a boy so I need to go shopping for a new outfit and I'm out of whatever brand of makeup for my date tonight.

"You're right Erasa" Videl sighed looking up at the sky. Even that didn't look the same, there wasn't the haze of pollution from the cars and factories like what normally lingered in the air, it smelt cleaner.

Erasa took hold of her best friend's hand, the two girls not letting go of their grip for each other as if the other would disappear if one of them let go. Just having contact seemed to calm both girls.

They were walking around aimlessly but before they knew it the found themselves in front of the school, it was completely gone, just a crater where there school once stood. It was now a pool of water with fish and plant life occupying the space.

"Whatever happen, happened a long time ago" Erasa commented as they looked on.

"What I don't understand is how? We were at school this morning. Me, you your perverted dork of a brother and that smart arse Gohan who thinks that he's smarter than everyone else and sleeps through class as if to rub it in and make us feel stupid when he gets 100% on an exam." Videl ranted on and it made her feel slightly better.

"You know my brother loves you Videl, he'd do anything for you and those other girls mean nothing to him, he just dates them in an attempt to get over you since he knows you'll never return his feeling" Erasa explained, she'd explained it many times before.

"Come to think of it, you date just as many guys as Sharpener dates girls. Who are you trying to get over?"

Erasa laughed normally she wouldn't tell her friend telling her it was a secret that she had to guess, or tell her some boy that she'd dated previously but this wasn't a normal situation and she felt that she had to tell the truth in this odd situation. Besides the way things were looking it didn't look like she would ever get to see that person or her family or anyone besides Videl ever again.

"It's Gohan" She admitted. "I've tried everything for him to get him to notice me since he started going to our school but it hasn't work. Instead of checking me out in class when bored he falls asleep, if I drop something he picks it up for me but doesn't use it as a chance to perv like a normal guy would, he's kind to everyone and just not me. He likes me as a friend and nothing more. I've managed to get stuck in the friend zone."

The two girls walked away from the school, the sun was starting to set. Videl not making any comment about the blond liking Gohan. "So anyone you like Videl?" Erasa asked since she'd opened up about who she liked so it was the other girls turn.

"You know there's no one Erasa, I don't know why you keep bringing this subject up." Videl sighed, though the subject did make her feel better. "Besides even if I did like anyone, which I don't; my father would never let me date."

"You don't like girls do you" Erasa smiled at her best friend. She loved watching her best friends squirm.

"Now you're just being stupid." Videl replied in a friendly tone. "What is it that you like about Gohan."

"He's handsome, I find his shy personality fascinating, he's smart and kind. He doesn't look at the clothes I wear or the amount of people I've dated and label me as a slut or think I'm easy like so many other people do who see how I look and don't take the chance to get to know the real me. He treats me as an equal. His goofy grin, how nervous he gets when he's in a social situation he doesn't know how to deal with, he's strong and I mean really strong."

Videl started laughing at the last one. "Come on, that book worms not strong at all."

"Sharpener has seen him in the change room when getting ready for sports, he works out and has the muscles to prove it. Plus there have been several incidents since he's started school to prove his strength. Like that time the lockers started falling over and he pushed it back like it was nothing. He's pulled the door off his locker several times accidently and the door looks a mess and completely bent out of place. When he's been standing in the hall with the buckets for being late to class he holds them as if they weigh nothing and had spilt the water on himself several times when he's made his nervous move of putting his hand behind his head. Moving gym equipment with him he takes all the weight and acts like the weight he's carrying is nothing." The blond girl rattled off a heap more incidents.

Before they knew it they were in front of Erasa's house. The roof now missing, the garage door open and half falling off, no sign of life. It was starting to get cold and the sun was going down, no lights at all present from any of the visible houses or on the horizon.

"Let's go back to my house" Videl sighed not sure what she was expecting to find.

DBZ

As it got darker the girls couldn't see where they were going which ended up being a bad thing considering Erasa tripped and fell into a hole in the road. Videl was still holding onto her terrified friends hands.

"Erasa, are you okay" Videl asked trying to pull her friend up.

Erasa only whimpered, trying to grab onto Videl with her other hand. Videls heart stopped when the ground below her started to crumble with her falling into the hole after her friend. A splash was heard as they landed in water looking up through the hole they fell through stars where seen but no obvious way up. They had landed in the sewers but thankfully both girls were uninjured.

"Looks like we can't get out this way" Videl sighed, moving while they couldn't see didn't seem like a good idea since walking in the dark is what got them into this situation in the first place.

Erasa got her phone out using the screen to light the way the blond girl sighed as it didn't light up enough for them to walk safely. "I have service." She was in complete shock, it was the first time she'd checked the phone since they'd been in this place. Everything was so run down she wasn't expecting it to work. Going through her phone list she called her brother and listened as it rung and it was picked up after a few rings. "How did you get the phone number your calling from" the person on the other end shouted at her in an angry accusing tone. "I'm going to freaking kill whoever you are if this is some type of sick joke."

"Sharpener?" She asked the person on the other end. He certainly sounded like her brother, but whoever they where wasn't expecting to hear her voice.

"Erasa, no that's impossible. You're dead!" the person who sound like her brother replied, anger apparent in his voice. "Is this some sick knew joke from the androids, calling up with the voice of a loved one."

"Why you jerk" Videl yelled into the phone. Erasa had it on speaker so the Satan girl could hear every word her idiot friend had said. "You made my best friend and your sister cry! You better explain yourself, what do you mean Erasa's dead."

"No way is that Videl. You died at the very start in the first lot of attacks. In the explosions not even killed by their hand close up. The androids couldn't possibly know about you, why they would dig up something from the past and change you voice to make you sound older then when you died."

"Sharpie, I don't know what's going on or what these androids are but this afternoon Videl and I went for a swim in her pool and when we left the pool house we found ourselves here, in a destroyed version of home. Everything looks like it's been destroyed for years." Erasa explained to him. "The high school where we go to school together now a pond, the house falling apart and no people around anywhere." Erasa was now crying. "I didn't even know if I would get through to you when I saw I still had phone service."

"Where are you two girls?" Sharpener asked them. He'd never been to high school before since he was ten years old when the attacks first happened but wanted to find the two girls even if it was a trap sent by the androids.

"We fell into the sewers walking along the road that we've taken since we where kids from our house to Videls." Erasa told her brother hoping he knew where to find them.

Sharpener knew the opening very well, he had the whole city sewer system mapped out. "Stay where you are, I'll come and get you."

DBZ

Sharpener made his way along the sewers, he'd found the girls quickly but observed them from a distance. What he saw was a girl that resembled a kinder version of his sister, and when he said kinder he meant she didn't have the tough exterior and the battle scars or the muscle build of his sister, this girl looked soft and Videl she had grown up to be even more beautiful then he'd ever imagined his tomboyish friend would.

"What do you think this version of my brothers like" Erasa asked, Sharpener was listening to the conversation.

"He's probably playing some sick joke on us and laughing at this very minute by placing us in a very high tech virtual reality simulator made by Capsule Corp." Videl replied dryly. She was sitting in the sewer water, it grossed her out but her feet where killing her after all the walking they'd done.

"Do you really think my brother could even do that? I know he likes to play pranks on us but that's beyond his skills." Erasa told her. "If he was to play a prank on us while we where swimming he'd steal out clothing or put frogs in it."

"Just like he put a frog down our shirts when we eight." Videl rattled off a few dozen other pranks Sharpener had pulled on them. "Your dad works for Capsule Corp. Who knows what type of crazy inventions they have that you and your brother have access to."

Sharpener listened intently, a lot of the pranks matched up from when he was younger and a lot of them where only known by three people and those people being Erasa, Videl and himself and he knew that none of them had ever told anyone else about the pranks, it was a private thing they did amongst themselves. He pranked the girls and the girls would prank him back, like when Videl and Erasa had a sleep over and he woke up in a dress, his hair in braids and makeup on and the two girls where talking like his father was still alive when he'd died in one of the attacks the androids had done to Capsule Corp. a few years earlier.

He made himself known to the girls deciding that he'd waited long enough he had a gun pointed at the two girls and turned the flashlight on in their direction. Both girls taking their moment to shield their eyes while they got used to the light.

"What are you doing pointing a gun at us?!" Videl shouted as the first one to recover her eyesight.

He glanced over at the girls, Erasa looking at him long and hard, taking in every detail.

"You look different then my Sharpie." She finally stated, not at all phased by the gun. He was more buff then her brother, a scar running from his ear along his neck and past where the neckline was for his shirt, his hair was shorter hanging around his ears, greasy looking and brown in colour but the colouration was from not washing it for a long time, it was still obvious that his hair colour was the same shade of blond then her own. His eyes where hard, didn't show any lust like her brother, they showed sadness and pain but he was still her brother.

"What's the date?" She asked him.

He told her and she was honestly expecting a date way in the future by how mature her brother looked and was honestly surprised to find that the date was the same.

"Why is everything so different if the date is the same?" Erasa asked him. "What happened here to cause all the destruction?"

"Come with me" he instructed them. Erasa followed him with trust, Videl kept a close eye on him and had pulled out a hand gun.

He took the girls to one of his hideouts far away from the other population, he still hadn't determined if they where a threat or not.

DBZ

The girls took in what was an old maintenance cupboard which was located in the sewers. It had a bed, a fridge, and lots of medical supplied and small table with a computer. He bolted the door shut behind them and covered up all the gaps and turned on an air filtration and cooling system.

"Please have a seat" he motioned to the bed.

He could see that Videl was reluctant to sit down but Erasa managed to drag her onto the bed next to her and intertwined her hands with her best friends once again. She still had the hand gun out and he still had his rifle.

"Can you explain the destruction now?" Videl questioned him like he was the one being interrogated and not the other way round.

"Seven years ago two people known as the androids attacked. The destruction to the city above is only a mere scar in the terror they have left across the planet and they still rein terror to this very day." He told them with a smooth voice. Telling them how the androids appeared and the wave of destruction that followed.

"Seven years ago is when Cell incident happened" Erasa responded.

"What's the Cell incident?" Sharpener inquired. "I've never heard of it."

Erasa explained the wave of destruction caused by the green man.

"But then Videls dad beat him and everyone who died came back" Erasa finished up the story.

"Everyone came back? How is that even possible" Sharpener asked him.

Erasa shrugged in response.

"Whoever this Cell was he couldn't have been that tough if your father beat him" Sharpener replied.

"What's that supposed to mean!" Videl questioned in outrage.

"You're father was one of the first to die Videl" he told her seriously. "He challenged them, they accepted and he died on International TV with the whole world watching." Videl paled at how serious this Sharpener was, she could always tell when someone was lying and he wasn't lying to her.

"Videl you died that same month in the explosions when the city was attacked and Erasa only died last year while trying to find three children who thought it would be fun to play outside of the shelter we were staying at during that time. Needless to say those three children died along with my sister and a close friend of ours who went to help survived but lost his arm in the attack."

He walked over to the fridge getting out a meal for himself and the girls. It wasn't anything exciting but kept his stomach full and his body functioning.

"Is there any footage of your father beating this Cell?" he asked the girls. "Is he's tough as you two girls claim I still find it hard to believe that he beat them."

"There's footage of the fight with Cell but it cut out before the end" Videl replied harshly. She didn't like this version of Sharpener who thought her father was a liar. The Sharpener back home hero worshiped her father and did everything in his power to follow in his footsteps.

"I have a copy of the footage if you want to see it." Erasa pulled out her phone and went through video's to find the footage.

"Why would you walk around with that footage on your phone?" Videl asked her.

"Unlike you Del; Sharpener and I both died, killed and absorbed by Cell very early on. Re-watching the footage is the way that Sharpener and I know that our death really did happen and wasn't just a bad dream and we have to live life to the fullest with our second chance." Erasa explained before handing the phone over to her brother's counterpart.

"This is so high-tech" Sharpener exclaimed looking at how clear the picture was on the phone. "Technology here has been at a standstill for years only a few companies left release updated technology Capsule Corp being the main one and there interest has been shifted to weapons design and survival over fancy mobile phones and other gadgets."

As the video showed the group of warriors standing on the hill who challenged Cell the blond haired teenager pointed to the youngest boy standing in the group. "I'd pick him for being the one who truly beat Cell."

"Why's that?" Videl questioned. He hadn't even seen the fight yet and already he was picking the boy that no-one knew the name of.

"His name is Gohan Son" Sharpener started telling the girls, ignoring the shocked look on Videls face and the fascinated look on Erasa's. "He's been standing up to the androids since they surfaced seven years ago. He's the only one to ever stand up to them and ever survive. When the androids first appeared there where two people that everyone through would be able to stand up to them. The previous two winners of the martial arts tournaments; Hercule Satan the most recent winner and Goku Son the previous winner who'd already saved the world from King Piccolo and the Red Ribbon armies. Hercule called him a coward for not standing up and facing the androids told the world that the previous champion had only won with trickery and that he was too scared to come forward since he'd been exposed.

"What the world didn't know at the time was Goku Son has died three months before the androids attacked. Apparently he'd been too sick to attend the world tournament and defend his title, he already knew he was terminally ill at that stage. But then he appeared, the son of the former champion. He couldn't beat them but would fight them allowing for some people to escape and then retreat before the android could kill him. No one knew who he was at first and at that point he couldn't turn his hair the golden colour. But eventually word got out that the person fighting the androids was the second in line for the throne of the Ox Kingdom, the son of Princess Chi-Chi World Woman's Martial arts champion and Goku Son former World Martial arts champion the only grandchild of the Ox King."

The girls sat and listened, entranced by Sharpener's story continuing to pick at their meals as he spoke. He stopped just before the footage of the Cell games was due to cut out. He looked on horrified at the woman who was spit out by cell.

"She's one of the androids" Sharpener finally told them. "Horrible beast of destruction. I have to show this footage to Gohan first thing tomorrow. He may be able to explain how and why you two ended up here. He's not just strong enough to keep the androids at bay he's extremely intelligent.

"We'll try to get some sleep. You two girls can have the bed tonight" Sharpener told them as he laid down on the cold cement floor without a blanket.

Videl was surprised how much of a gentleman this Sharpener was compared to their Sharpener. Her Sharpener would've used it as an excuse to try and get close to her.

"Don't be stupid!" Erasa spoke up, pulling her brother off the floor and pushing him onto the bed on top of Videl. "We've shared a bed plenty of times. I'll sleep in the middle."

DBZ

It was squishy with the three in the bed and even though both girls where in a strange place they managed to sleep. The bed was surprisingly comfortable considering it was located in the sewers. Never in a million years did Erasa or Videl think they would spend the night in the sewers let alone in a comfortable bed. Before long morning came, not that they could tell the difference between morning and night since there was nowhere for the sun to shine.

"Are we going to meet Gohan now?" Erasa questioned her brother. "It will be interesting to know if he's the same as our Gohan back home. He was home schooled his whole life and only recently started attending school with us and is the top of the class, comes from the middle of nowhere but never shown any interest in martial arts."

"So where do we find Gohan anyway?" Videl asked. They'd been walking through the sewers for a while now.

"West City Capsule Corp. he always returns there eventually." Sharpener told them. "Where going to have to do the whole trip through the sewers so it will take a while. The female android hates getting dirty and hates smelly things so they tend to stay away. We're coming up to a camp, one of many that is located down here."

"Yo Sharp" a woman yelled out as they got closer. She was only in her thirties but due to the stress of constantly being attacked her hair was already streaked with grey and she wasn't wearing any clothing the two girls could see her body was littered with scars. "What's with the two lovely ladies?"

"New arrivals to the city, going to take them to meet Gohan, they have interesting information I want him to know." Sharpener replied, keeping eye contact the whole time, never once ogling her body she wasn't the only person naked. A barrel of water was sitting over a fire on the edge the underground village a good majority of people where dipping rags into the water giving themselves sponge baths.

"Proper baths are a luxury of the past" Sharpener told them after he'd finished talking to the naked lady. "Some towns above ground still function like they did before the androids having never been attacked, but it's just a matter of time before they are attacked. The androids could have our whole population wiped out by now if they choose to but like to keep us on our toes and use us as play things."

They walked in silence after they left the underground town, the only sounds that could be heard was there breathing and each step they took.

Sharpener bit his lip in frustration as they came to a dead end.

"Get us lost?" Videl asked dryly.

"Recent cave in, we need to head back and then head to the surface" Sharpener replied in frustration. "It's going to be dangerous on the surface, and we need to be quiet. Don't want the androids to hear us."