The growing crowd of observers gasped as the newly born god just kept eating, it had been nearly an hour and he was inhaling food at a pace that was just quite frankly disgusting, Flash had stopped eating about twenty minutes ago but Gohan just kept on eating.
"You sure know how to pack food away don't you?" Said Flash, Gohan just chuckled as he briefly stopped.
"When you haven't eaten for over a year it happens to you…" Said Gohan as he felt his energy reserves. "Although I must say the food here really is good." Said Gohan as Flash nodded.
As each plate was finished a robot would just carry the plates back to the kitchen, one particular robot walked up to Flash. "Food reserves at 67%" As Flash nodded, he had a feeling the food supply would drastically drop after seeing Gohan devour his food at a speed similar to him.
"Wow, you dropped the Watch Tower's food reserves by 20%" Flash revealed.
"Is that a lot?" Gohan turned with a chicken wing held tightly in his left hand and soup in the right, the scene was somewhat comically to everyone who just laughed.
"Four weeks of food to be exact." Said Flash as he stifled his laughter, Gohan tilted his head to the left curiously.
'With the way he is acting you wouldn't say he could wipe the universe out of existence, honestly, he doesn't seem bad only weirdly down to earth for a god.' Flash thought as he stared at Gohan.
"I don't feel hungry anymore." Said one guy who was watching on the sidelines snapping Flash out of his thoughts.
"Well duh, he just ate for us all, for today, tomorrow, and well the day after that." Another female leaguer joked which got a good laugh out of everyone present - Gohan included.
"You are all part of the Justice League?" Gohan asked the woman wearing a bat costume, obviously somehow related to the man-bat, or was it, bat man? Whatever.
She looked a bit confused at the question but nodded anyway. "Yeah, I mean this is the watchtower…the better question is who are you mister mysterious?" She asked, unable to hold her curiosity back. "The league is very serious about who they bring here and if you are here you must be a leaguer or a villain." She continued. "Villains tend to invite themselves, unannounced as well." She added clarifying for Gohan.
"Well they wouldn't be villains if they said they were coming right?" Gohan said with a chuckle.
"Touché." She replied. "Not to rush you or anything but you finishing anytime soon or…"
Gohan looked at her while leaning back and sighing with satisfaction. "Finished…" As he relaxed his muscles.
"To answer your question Batgirl, this is Lord Gohan, he is a highly 'esteemed' guest of the league." Said Flash, although he somewhat stressed on the esteemed part.
"Oh, nobility, or is it royalty? You must not be a human with the way you eat! I knew it!" She said as Flash glared at her. "Ahem! Highly esteemed!" Flash said with a passive-aggressive smile.
She realized her mistake. "My bad, I didn't mean to offend you." She said as Gohan chuckled.
"It's fine, besides I'm not royalty or anything of the sort." He said as he glanced down at his hands his mood noticeably dropping before looking at her with a smile and answering. "Just a god…"
"I KNEW IT!" Zatanna exclaimed out loud before covering her mouth like a deer caught in headlights when everyone turned to look at her.
"I mean." Clearing her throat before continuing. "I could sense you weren't a mortal being, your entire existence, your very presence makes me want to bow down, it feels divine like…close to the…highest level…" She slowly came to realize who she was talking to or more specifically what she was talking to.
"If Zatanna says so…" "That's cool…" "A real god!?" "No way!" Such comments circulated the group.
"Holy shit…" She said as she backed up slowly and turned to Flash with a distressed look. "An actual god…you brought a god into the watchtower!" She said as Flash quickly spoke, he could tell Gohan seemed a little confused.
"Calm down Zatanna, he isn't bloodthirsty just kind of lost." Said Flash as she stared at him like she didn't believe a single word coming out of his mouth.
"Almost every single god I have come across is greedy, bloodthirsty, a perverted bastard, power-hungry, or a scheming snake!" She said as she readied herself for combat.
"Uhmmm…" Gohan spoke as Flash tried to calm Zatanna down they both looked at him. "I am neither of those…" Gohan tried to point out.
"See!" Flash said nervously. "Gohan here is a nice guy, not some maniac, but we don't want to provoke a god that you yourself said is on one of the. Highest. Levels." Flash insisted.
Zatanna calmed down somewhat. "He seems pretty normal to me…" Batgirl said. "I know he has a reason for being here but I haven't met a god before so that's pretty neat…" Batgirl said.
"I guess he isn't a dark god." Zatanna continued, she was a powerful sorceress and had fought with lower-tier gods before but the amount of power hidden inside the person she was staring at was just mind-numbing and she knew it was just the tip of the iceberg.
She knew lower-tier gods could control minds, if the amount of power behind this being was any indication if he wanted to control the minds of non-magic users it would be as simple as a snap of the finger, hell even powerful magic users might not be able to resist.
"Calm down Zatanna," Batman spoke into her mind via man hunter. "Do not provoke him, he is a Celestial plus level being, possibly Mobius level, not something we can realistically handle." The voice explained.
"Why is he here? Don't gods on that level look down on normal people, how did you guys find him?" She asked in her mind, calming down.
"That's not important Zatanna," Batman said, she grunted and lowered her guard.
Gohan sighed in relief as she dropped her hostile aura, although he could tell she was still on guard. "How about we leave?" Flash said as Gohan nodded and they left, Gohan waved at Batgirl who waved back.
"Yeah…" As he turned and walked away with Flash.
"Sorry about that, Zatanna has come across a lot of gods who are just plain bad, but none of them are on your level, I am sure that stuff is beneath you," Flash said nervously as he patted Gohan's back.
"No sweat, I would be wary of me too, I felt her poke at my soul to find information, I gave her small insight hoping that she would see I am not evil or something but I guess it backfired." He said as Flash chuckled.
'She had weird energy, felt like Babidi's must be magic or something.' Gohan thought before blushing lightly. 'But man this universe has some beautiful woman…' He thought as two blonde females walked past him.
They both spared him a glance as they passed one another. 'New guy?'
Zatanna stared at Gohan's back as he walked away, she had a curious look on her face. "You don't like him do you?" Batgirl asked, she wasn't worried she knew Bruce knew he was here and Bruce was probably the most paranoid person on earth, he must have Gohan on 24/7 surveillance.
"It's not that, quite the contrary, he is actually not bad both in the looks department and the personality but you can't sense what I'm sensing…" She said as she turned and looked at Batgirl with a smile.
'I guess since I am the only one able to sense his power I feel so uneasy knowing someone that powerful is here.' She thought.
"It doesn't matter, Batman seems to know what he's doing." She said as Power Girl and Supergirl stopped in front of them.
"Hey." Kara greeted. "Who was that?"
"Some god," Batgirl answered.
"God? As in a deity? A real one or…" She asked.
"A real one," Zatanna said. "Darkseid wishes he had that much raw power…"
"He doesn't seem all that strong to me." Said Power Girl as Supergirl spoke.
"You don't seem all that strong either but we all know otherwise." Said Kara as Power Girl just shrugged.
"Whatever." As she turned and walked away. "I won't be stood up by some wannabe god." Said Power Girl as Supergirl just sighed.
Zatanna stared at Power Girl. 'Yes…wannabe god…if only.' Zatanna thought just as Diana walked past.
"You all waste time talking about someone you don't know." Said Wonder woman as Supergirl shrugged.
"We're curious." Said Supergirl as Wonder Woman smiled.
"Well, I am sure more will come to light in the future." As she walked away, soon the crowd dispersed, and news of a real god being in the watchtower spread.
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Gohan put his head down on the pillow in his room, Flash had shown him the room and left, telling him to enjoy his sleep and the kitchen was always open.
'Mother…' Gohan as he clenched his fist and buried his face in the pillow as he cried again, the pain hurt more, it stung him deeply. 'I will never see you again, I will never see anyone again…this death is permanent…'
He had no idea how long he had his face in the pillow crying his heart out but the sound of an alarm clock caught his attention. "5:09 PM…it's late in the afternoon…" He turned in his bed, Beerus filling his mind, with earths defenders gone, the planet was either gone or most of its people dead from the cat god.
Somehow he felt like the destroyer wouldn't waste his time mercilessly slaughtering people, he seemed more of a 'Blow up the world and be done with it.' kind of guy, the earth had to be long gone by now…he clenched his fist and thought of Videl…he and her were just starting to get close she was his first friend his age, he also liked the girl, I mean who wouldn't, she took jack shit from no one…not even Vegeta, Gohan chuckled at that as a lone tear slid down his face.
She was fierce and had the drive to fight and get stronger, Gohan wasn't much of a fighter but his Saiyan blood was drawn to her drive and it made him like her spirit and tenacity more than he cared to admit, yawning he closed his eyes and pictured them in his mind.
He never even knew it but he had fallen asleep, a soft snore could be heard as he rested again.
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Batman stared at his screen that showed the Saiyan asleep as Flash spoke. "I guess the next few weeks are going to be stressful." Said Flash as Batman grunted as he walked away.
"Well, you don't have to tell me," Flash said sarcastically as Superman walked in.
"I am with you on this one Barry." Said Superman. "Either way, we will know what he is capable of tomorrow." Said Superman as the watch tower's alarms sounded off, Batman was already back and frightened Flash.
After typing and checking, he saw the problem. "Metallo…" Said Batman as Superman clenched his fists.
"Doesn't he ever learn" Said Flash as Superman was about to turn and leave but Batman stopped him.
"You can't go Clark." Said Batman as Superman was about to say something but Diana cut him off.
"Then I shall, Metallo's Kryptonite cannot affect me." Said Wonder Woman as Batman nodded.
"Flash you go with and evacuate civilians, make sure no one gets hurt." Said Batman as Flash nodded and Diana walked away, Batman glanced at the monitor and watched as Gohan made his way towards them, he turned the corner and walked past Diana and Barry as they headed to the invisible jet before flying down to earth.
"I saw red flashing lights and a siren woke me up…what's going?" Asked Gohan as Superman answered.
"Some bad guy is destroying the south district of Metropolis, a city on earth, Wonder Woman and Flash have gone to stop him." Said Superman as Batman just continued typing away.
Gohan nodded and watched the screen that displayed Metallo about to destroy a car just as a blur of gold and red knocked the metal man back on his ass.
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"Flash!" Said Metallo as he got back up. "I am surprised to see you here, is Super-bitch too scared to face me?" Asked Metallo as Wonder Woman landed behind him and kicked him blasting the metal man forward, he smashed into a building before he stood up unscathed.
"Is that all?" Asked Metallo as Wonder Woman smirked.
"Seems you have gotten stronger metal man," Said Wonder Woman as Metallo smirked.
"Of course, upgrades were in order, right now the only thing that can tear me apart is nothing short of God himself," Said Metallo as Flash spoke.
"Never took you for a religious guy," Said Flash as Metallo scoffed.
"Who said I was?" As his arm morphed into a gun firing off bolts of energy, Flash dodged them and ran up punching the metal man before howling in pain.
"The same attack doesn't work on me." Said Metallo as he looked at Flash. "I upgrade as I fight now you dumb fuck!" Said Metallo as Wonder Woman rushed him and punched him in the face Metallo could only fly away into a building, Flash grinned and spoke to Diana.
"Well you have things under control here" Flash gave a small salute and sped around the district looking for people and evacuating them.
"Okay…I won't lie…I felt that one, for a woman you punch nearly as hard as Superman," Said Metallo as Wonder Woman was already upon him.
"You flatter me, but that wasn't anywhere near my full strength!" Exclaimed Wonder Woman as she threw another punch that made Metallo bend over she then brought down her elbow on his back effectively smacking him face flat on the concrete creating spider web cracks on the ground.
Metallo groaned as he tried to get up but Wonder Woman grabbed him and smirked. "Tell me, metal man, do you think you will be awake after this?" She asked and pulled her fist back, her arm bulged slightly and the ground cracked beneath her as she decked him across the face with enough force to shatter the windows of the buildings and vehicles around her, the ground trembled as Metallo fell face-first into the ground unconscious.
"I guess not." She stared down at Metallo in disgust.
Flash appeared next to her grinning. "Guess you didn't need my help," Diana smiled as cheers from the people could be heard.
"You saved the lives of those in the car he was about to destroy and evacuated everyone in immediate danger, I wasn't fast enough but you were, you helped stop Metallo as much as I," Said Wonder Woman as Flash just smiled bashfully.
"I guess you are right," Said Flash as Wonder Woman wrapped Metallo in her lasso and let the police restrain him the two league members headed back to the jet.
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