Gohan pulled Videl purposefully across the grounds of Capsule Corps.

"Come on, Gohan!" pled Videl, "Where are you taking me?"

Gohan sniggered, and increased his pace.

"Don't worry!" he said amused, "You'll love it, I just know!"

Videl, who never really liked surprises, was less amused.

"Gohan, please, just tell me! Where are we going?"

Instead of answering, he tugged her around the corner of the huge Briefs mansion.

Amazed, Videl stared at the… thing. It was big, shaped like a ball, and looked as though E.T. might have something to do with it, even though it bared the Capsule Corps logo.

Gohan smirked.

"Yeah, I know. Wait 'til you see the inside!"

They ran across the lawn to its large door, which Gohan opened for her.

"After you…" he said with a gallant smile, always the perfect gentleman.

She giggled, and entered.

The insides were just amazing. By now, she was starting to believe this ship really was alien. Knowing Gohan's history, it might as well be.

"Cool, huh? Bulma made it."

Wow, so it wasn't alien. Neat.

Gohan looked around appreciative.

"She made it just like the spaceships my dad and Vegeta came in! Really amazing, I wouldn't have understood any of it, but she just figured it all out…"

Okay, so maybe it was.

"Is this what you wanted to show me?" asked Videl, walking around the spacious spaceship, letting her hand run across everything she passed.

He smirked again.

"Not exactly…" he teased.

The push of a button closed the big door again.

Videl eyed her best friend with growing curiosity.

"Brace yourself!"

She raised an eyebrow.

Another push of a button amplified gravity with 50.

"WOW!" Videl yelled in shock. Grasping her hyperactive heart, she managed to stay upright.

"YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST WARNED ME, SON GOHAN!"

Gohan, who hardly seemed to notice the massive change, suppressed his laughter.

"I did warn you," he sniggered.

At that he reduced gravity to only a half.

"Wow…" repeated Videl, astonished this time. Testing this new freedom, she jumped, reached the sealing, and graciously touched back down.

"Told you you'd like it!" said Gohan with a slight air of pride and arrogance, as though Vegeta's constant presence here affected his manner.

Acting very much like her own pride, she concluded: "Still, you should have given me a real warning! Brace yourself… Pah!"

"Vegeta uses this place to train all the time, you know," he informed her. She wasn't really paying a lot of attention, she was having too much fun with the minimal gravity.

"Puts gravity up to 500 times normal gravity, and then does push-ups and stuff all day long. Honestly, I don't envy him. Must be incredibly boring."

Finally Videl turned to face Gohan.

"Why isn't he here now?"

Wait, oh, no, what's that, thought Videl. A hint of evilness in Gohan? Impossible!

Gohan stared at his feet, fighting back a disturbingly evil smirk.

"I kinda inspired Goten to trick Vegeta into believing my dad came back from the dead for one day to finally fight with him. … On the other side of the earth. At this very moment."

Videl giggled.

"So that gives us, what?" she smiled, "Fifteen minutes?"

"Or less." Gohan smirked.

Suddenly a loud banging sound came from the door.

Gohan paled.

"We're dead." he muttered in total shock.

"VEGETA!" bellowed Bulma from the other side of the door. "TURN THE GRAVITY DOWN AND GET YOUR BUTT OUT OF THERE! I MEAN IT, MISTER! GET OUT NOW OR I'LL COOK YOUR DINNER MYSELF!"

Videl sighed in relief, but strangely enough, Gohan did not. In fact, he tensed up even more.

"Gohan…? Are you alright?" dared Videl.

He shook his head, turned gravity normal, and hid behind the control panel.

Videl too shook her head, only in disbelief instead of fear, and pushed a button next to the door she figured opened it. It did.

Before she knew what hit her, an injection needle did.

"Oh my god…!" muttered Bulma, and she slammed the door back shut in panic.

"Videl!" yelped Gohan, and he scrambled out of his hiding place just in time to catch Videl.

Looking quite surprised to find it there, she yanked the needle out of her bare leg.

"That's not very nice…" she managed to comment, and lost consciousness.

Gohan gently laid her down on the floor.

"Bulma?" he asked in a calm voice.

"Y-yes, Gohan?" came Bulma's trembling voice.

"Open the door."

Bulma hesitated outside the capsule.

"W-why, Gohan?"

"So I can kill you." he snarled.

Another silence.

"Can I p-pass on that…?" Bulma tried.

"BULMA!" he roared.

"Coming, coming!"

A bang indicated Bulma hit the 'open' button.

A louder bang indicated it hadn't worked.

An even louder one told Gohan that if it wasn't broken before, it most definitely was now.

Then, a huge crash let him know that Vegeta had returned, and was not amused.

"Uh oh!" muttered Gohan, and he ran over to his half of the 'open' button before Vegeta in his rage completely destroyed the system. Alas, it appeared Bulma with her minimal human strength had already accomplished this.

A rush of panic overcame him, and he started banging on the walls.

"BULMA!" he screamed, "TELL ME I'M NOT GONNA DIE!"

"You're not going to die, Gohan!"

"Gohan? What, the brat's in there?" Vegeta said, clearly pissed off.

"TELL ME SHE'S NOT GONNA DIE EITHER!"

"I don't think Videl will die, either, Gohan!" came Bulma's reply.

"YOU THINK?"

"She won't die!" Bulma cried unconvincingly.

"The brat is in there with his mate?"

Suddenly, Vegeta enjoyed the situation a lot more than he had before.

"SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!"

"I didn't say that," muttered Vegeta, very pleased with himself.

"Gohan?" tried Bulma from the other side of the door, "Just hang in there! I'll get you out in no time, I just have to go and get my toolbox, okay?"

"No, wait!" Gohan yelped, "What did you do to Videl?"

Silence.

"I'm not sure!"

"You WHAT!"

"I don't know, I never tested it on humans before!" Bulma sounded desperate. In the background, Vegeta sniggered in malicious delight.

"YOU WHAT!" His voice accidentally skipped a few notches.

"I'll be right back, bye!"

"BULMA!" he shrieked, banging on the walls some more.

His sensitive ears picked up on someone, presumably Bulma, running away.

And then, something extremely disturbing happened.

Vegeta laughed.

A lot.

And loudly.

Gohan instinctively bent over the still unconscious Videl to protect her.

Finally, Vegeta calmed down.

"So!" he snarled, and Gohan could actually feel his evil smirk, "She gave your mate that shot of hers?"

"She's not my mate!" Gohan barked back, "And yes..."

"Ha! You're in for a wild ride, brat!"

Surprised, Gohan got up and walked back to the door. Somehow, he just knew Vegeta was lazily leaning against the other side of it.

"You… You know what it does? How!"

Vegeta snorted.

"Think I never tossed that cursed thing right back at her?" At that, he sniggered. "It has quite an astonishing effect on humans, really. Yep, I had quite some fun with that thing!"

"W-well, what does it do!"

Silence.

More silence.

"Vegeta?"

Long, disturbing silence.

Gohan had a very bad feeling about this.

"Vegeta?" he repeated, and placed one ear to the door.

His saiyan ears picked up on a metallic creak.

"Vegeta! What are you doing?"

"Meddling." came the smug reply.

A series of beeping sounds.

"Welcome to the Capsule Corporation Space-ship!" spoke a female voice on invisible speakers.

More beeps.

"Course set. Begin countdown."

"VEGETA!" roared a very terrified Gohan.

"Ten."

"DON'T YOU DARE - "

"Nine."

"- SEND US OFF INTO -"

"Eight."

"- OUTER SPACE!"

Mysteriously enough, none of this waked Videl.

"Seven."

By the sounds of it, Vegeta destroyed the ships wiring.

"Six."

"NO! I WON'T LET YOU -"

"Five."

"- DO THIS!"

"Four."

Gohan ran to the control panel.

"Three."

Desperately he tried every single abort-program he could remember, including Ctrl-Alt-Del.

"Invalid command. Invalid command. Two."

"VEGETAAAA!"

"One. Thank you for using the Capsule Corporation Space-ship. Have a nice journey!"

As the ship soared into the sky's, set for places only Vegeta seemed to know, Vegeta was feeling very smug. Sure, there would be hell to pay when the woman came back. But damn it, it would be worth every penny of it!

Oh, how Vegeta would have loved to see what was about to take place on that ship.

Better yet, he wondered how long the brat could resist. Something told him even the human girl would last longer...