seething with anger. "HA HA HA ... really very funny! That was the third time this week!" - "Maybe you should try it with the girls your age ..." Trunks tried to advise his friend, but only reaped a poisonous look and a nod in the side that should not be underestimated.Goten could not stop this unqualified interference. What did the Trunks know about his ... private ... preferences? The older girls were just ... they had bigger ones ... they were more ... oh forget it! When it came to the subject of 'girls', Goten's doorbell rang ... Thanks to the curfew that nuts had imposed, he had completely forgotten one thing. He should have returned the borrowed books to Muten Roshi on Monday ... But he wasn't allowed to leave. Well ... the Lord of the Turtles would certainly understand if he kept these valuable literary masterpieces for a few more days ... after all, you have to educate yourself. "Tell me ... what do we have now?" asked Trunks. Ice, who had the complete timetable in his head, replied "First an hour of sociology and then Latin ... better said you have Latin ... I have Franzi ..." Goten made a face as if he had swallowed a living eel would have ... "Shit ...!I forgot my notebook! Did we have any homework ?! "Goten asked his friend Trunks, who had panicked a bit." No, we had nothing on ... "he replied, and Goten was relieved ... however ..." ... we're writing our first exam today! "So much for good humor and relief. He might as well have written his own death warrant, Goten thought. He had no idea what they were going to write about ... He hadn't paid any attention in the past few hours ... Goten came to the conclusion that mother would pluck it, tar it and feather it ... and cut it into four ... "Well ... judging by the expression on your face ... you don't have a pale haze!" Trunks stated factually. Goten just nodded ... as if stunned. "No problem! You just sit down next to me during the exam ... unlike you, I was careful! "The relief was evident in Goten ... Trunks would have him copy!"However, there is one condition ..." Trunks said with a raised index finger. "Which?" asked Goten. "You let me write off the physics test next week!" Well, if that's all! Goten was a nut not only in Latin ... but also in English. But he got along quite well in the natural sciences ... Trunks, on the other hand, got along with languages, but hated everything that had anything to do with natural sciences. Speak math, physics, chemistry, bio ... the whole annoying range. In this respect he did not come after his mother at all. And Ice ... He didn't really have any problems with any subject. He could be top of the class, no doubt ... but he didn't want to. He was only too happy to leave this post to Kimo ... It was just no fun to be criticized as a nerd. About as little fun as writing a Latin exam unprepared ...




The next morning, however, both the horrors of the Latin exam and the caustic house arrest were temporarily forgotten.In addition, the three of them were even overly punctual. For nothing in the world did they want to miss this excursion! Around eight o'clock in the morning the class was complete, the teacher on site, and the school bus was ready. The bus ride itself is not worth mentioning ... the usual. Chips, cola and chocolate ... thrown paper balls ... stolen caps ... and all sorts of odds and ends in the collar of the person in front of you. The everyday madness of a school trip. "ICE! I warn you! Woe to you sticking chips into my sweater again!" Trunks turned around with a jerk to the addressed ... he just grinned. "Your own fault, Trunks ..." said Goten and shrugged his shoulders "... what are you sitting in front of us ?!" Ice calmed down again ... "Yes, yes ... He Trunks ... in two months is the big tournament ... "Trunks gave his two friends a look that should say,` I can`t wait! "I know ... I'm with you! Father too ... what about you two?"Goten was faster than Ice with his answer, but only because he pinched his brother's tail ..." Of course we are both there! Papa also wanted ... maybe Gohan too ... we still have to work on that! And Piccolo ... I don't know ... but if Gohan takes part, Piccolo will also take part, I'd like to bet ... "Trunks rubbed his hands in anticipation ... THAT would be a tournament! Finally, really hearty fighting again. .. Is that nice! So when the bus drove into the parking lot of the municipal zoo, everyone got out, and there was the typical 'I-can-get-out-of-you' fights, which led to that two or three students wanted to go through the door at the same time. It stayed that way, because the people concerned wedged themselves hopelessly and got stuck. So it took a little longer again ... After the tickets had been bought ... which, as is well known, on school trips can easily end in chaos ... followed the also usual sermon of the supervising faculty ... Trunks was decidedly of the opinion that it should actually be called 'empty body'.Stay together, behave well, don't annoy the animals. And and and. You know. But nobody cares. Finally we started ... First stop: Exotarium. Looking for the arach-something. The animal was found quickly. While the teacher, supported by a staff member of the zoo, gave a lecture on this remarkable example of the terrestrial fauna, the object itself was eyed disinterestedly by the students. In a glass container about the size of a shoebox with a lid, in which there was plenty of green stuff, sat a brown hairy lump with eight legs, which were also hairy. The whole thing was hardly bigger than a hen's egg and showed not the slightest ambition to move a millimeter. How exciting. Well, a few of the more sensitive girls didn't dare get that close, but that's how these silly women behave with an average earthworm. Of course, the rest of the zoo should also be visited if you've been there before.However, Goten, Ice and Trunks used the first opportunity to secretly, quietly and quietly get away ... they just had to be back in time for the return trip, because then the teacher would definitely count again. But until then ... well, you could still have a lot of fun until then. The first official act of the three deserters was to eat an ice cream sundae in the zoo cafe ... a record sundae. And they made plans how the rest of the morning should be spent ... While the three of them were sitting around a round table and spooning their ice cream, Ice said "Well ... I really want to see the penguins ... they are really funny! "Trunks waved that off. "Really Ice ... a lot of kid stuff! They have real pterosaurs here! And I think a T-Rex too ... SUCH THAT is interesting!" - "But I want to see the penguins!" Ice insisted on his point of view. "Well ... we have plenty of time ... What's going on in the Zookino?"Goten fished out the brochure he had taken at the entrance to answer Trunks' question." Let's see ... from nine to half past ten ... 'Illustrated lecture on the love life of the spotted aphid' ... and from eleven to two ... 'Saurians - territorial warfare and hunting behavior' ... "Trunks was enthusiastic." That sounds really good about the dinosaurs ... What do you think? "-" Already ... but we wanted to go back at two ... that will be close! "Ice pointed out ..." Oh what ... we just leave the performance five minutes earlier and hurry up said Trunks. So the visit to the cinema was a done deal. After everyone had completely consumed their sundae, the three set off. It would take a few hours before the film started ... and yet they wanted to be used!




While his little brother was still having fun, Gohan waited in the desert. His professor in applied higher mathematics had surprisingly failed, and so he had arranged to meet Piccolo for a training session at short notice.Actually, it should have been there for half an hour. Gohan would probably have been worried, it wasn't Piccolo's way of being late at all, but he could feel his friend's aura. He was already on the way here, albeit a lot slower than usual. But since his aura was still strong and steady as always, Gohan wasn't worried ... it remained a miracle. Anyway, Piccolo had changed a lot in the last three or four weeks. During training, he was often not quite up to speed, which had never happened before, and he had even accepted the invitation to Videl's birthday, which he would never have done before. It's strange ... Gohan's thoughts were interrupted when he spotted a small dark point in the sky, still some distance away. Piccolo, without a doubt. Gohan was not mistaken, his friend was fine, he just flew a little slowly. He couldn't see the reason for this until his old friend landed.Gohan couldn't believe his eyes! Piccolo was holding a little Namek in his arms ... and the little one had clung anxiously to his neck and snuggled into the folds of his cloak. The greeting almost got stuck in Gohan's throat. "Ha ... Hello Piccolo ... who ..." Piccolo set the little one down. "Hello Gohan! This is Nail, Dende's son ..." Phew! Gohan had actually believed for a moment that the piccolos ... but he had heard a lot from Nail. "Hello Nail ..." Gohan said kindly. Nail looked at him uncertainly ... "Hello you ..." came back hesitantly. Except for Vegeta, whom he had only seen briefly, he only knew his father, Piccolo and Mr.Popo. This black-haired, pink-skinned guy was creepy to him. Slowly but surely, Nail took a few steps backwards, and finally hid behind Piccolo's legs. But since there was also a certain curiosity, he peeked carefully from behind Piccolo's knee ... Gohan had to laugh."Piccolo ... Nail is so sweet! Why didn't you bring him with you earlier?" - "He's afraid of flying ..." came the annoyed reply, and immediately afterwards a defiant "Not true at all ! " from below up. "Do we want to train then? That means ... if we can leave Nail alone?" - "We can ..." said Piccolo and took off his cloak and turban. "May I join!?" Nail squealed in between. Piccolo rolled his eyes in