Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragonball V: A World Both Familiar and Foreign ❯ The Cell Games Round 2: Beauty on the Fire ( Chapter 36 )

DragonBall V: A World both Familiar and Foreign

Author's Note: Been a while, but I've been busy. Hope you all enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 36: The Cell Games Round 2: Beauty on the Fire

Korin, Roshi, and Videl all gasped simultaneously, sensing Trunks and Goku die and Gohan fall into a coma in rapid succession. "Oh… this doesn't look good I'm afraid." Roshi stated in a worried tone.

"That's a good way to understate it, Roshi." Korin commented sarcastically. Sweat was forming on his brow and he glanced over at Videl who looked to be in shock. "Eh… Videl? Snap out of it." He became even more worried when she didn't respond, even with a twitch at her name. "Videl!" He cried, trying to gain her attention, worried she had lost control of her newly discovered psychic powers again and became lost in Gohan's shattered mind.

Videl uttered a feral growl and glanced briefly at the other two. "Cell must die." She stated with grim certainty.

"Yes, I agree… uh… Videl?" Roshi scratched the back of his head. "Where'd she go?"

Korin sighed. "She'd gotten pretty darn fast. She's going to get herself killed though, assuming she even gets there before the fight is over. Erm… hopefully things will go well."

Videl flew as fast as she could towards the fight. She likely couldn't help, but she wasn't thinking about that right now. She was too busy worrying about Gohan and wishing agonizing death upon Cell. "No one kicks Gohan's ass but me." She uttered aloud during her flight.

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Peasa blasted forward, connecting with a staggering blow to Cell's cheek, knocking the monster back over a meter. She continued the motion, turning all the way around and bringing her foot forward in an arc to connect once again in the same place her fist had a moment before. As soon as her foot returned to the ground she jumped forward again and drove a fist in to Cell's gut hard enough to get him to cough up purple blood.

It gave Dr. Gero's greatest creation an opening, however, and he used it to grab the girl's golden glowing hair. He jumped up and bashed her face with his knee then threw the dazed girl into the ground. He took a moment to frown, because he hadn't felt the crunching of bone when his knee had connected, which puzzled him. Cell figured at the very least it would knock a few of her teeth out. 'Perhaps she is going to give me the fight I was hoping for.'

As if in answer, Peasa jumped up to her feet and used the momentum to drive her foot into Cell's jaw in a forward kick, knocking the creature into the air. The move was so fast and so hard that it sounded like a thunderclap.

"Holy shit!" Krillin cried at the move and at the Saiyan girl's immediate launch into the air after Cell. "I've never seen her move that fast before. Hell… I don't think I've seen anyone move that fast before!" The monk looked over at Gohan with a grim look on his face, wondering if the boy would recover from his overload. "Do you need a senzu bean, Piccolo?"

The Namek shook his head once. "Already shoved one down his throat. It didn't help. I could try helping him psychically but it'll leave both of us defenseless and would likely take a long time. If it'd help at all. It's not like I've ever tried this before." He took a moment to glance upwards, seeing the Saiyan princess and the bio-engineered Cell trading blows at an ever-increasing rate. Had he been less worried about his young pupil, he would have been staring at the fight in amazement. "Damn Saiyans." He muttered, using his cape to wipe off the blood from Gohan's face, a tear falling unchecked from his left eye.

"Where'd they go!?" Tien cried suddenly, getting Krillin's attention but not Piccolo's.

"They were up there last I saw." Yamcha responded, pointing at a certain part of the sky.

Krillin frowned in concentration. They weren't there anymore. They didn't seem to be anywhere. "They couldn't both be dead. We'd have felt it!" He exclaimed, exasperated. His eyes tripled in size suddenly. "MOVE!" He cried, jumping to the right.

Yamcha and Tien followed suit, though they were unsure of why. They got their reason less than a second later when a body crashed into the ground where they had been standing a moment before. The small fleck of green they saw in the crater let them know it was Cell. They looked up and saw Peasa, bleeding from various wounds and determination blazing in her eyes, floating about 40 meters in the air, her aura nearly blinding in its intensity. "Kami…" Krillin swore softly, never having seen this side of his former lover. It shamed him as he realized he was turned on by it, but he forced these thoughts aside. It was not the right place and no longer the right time for such thoughts.

Peasa raised her hands slightly and energy began to form above them. "DIE!" She cried, blasting two large energy balls forward. She didn't look surprised when Cell jumped out of the crater. "Meteor Volley!" She cried, launching an ungodly number of smaller energy balls forward at a breakneck rate. Cell flew into the air, keeping ahead of the blasts.

He laughed after over half a minute of these attacks, seeing that she had finally stopped trying to nail him with the rapid-fire ki blasts. "Too slow, girl! You can't match my speed!"

Peasa smirked in a manner that would have made Vegeta beam with pride. "You learned nothing from your last fight with me, bastard."

Cell scoffed, and then suddenly realized what she meant. He looked around him with widened eyes and saw hundreds of ki balls all around him. He began to sweat, not knowing if she could still control that amount of blasts or if they were more like mines. They would be difficult to navigate through, if it was the latter. He figured she couldn't control more than a few so he wasn't too worried yet. "Not bad, little girl. Did your daddy teach you that one?"

Peasa grimaced in concentration and raised both of her hands over her head, "Nope. Krillin did." She replied.

The genetic freak looked around carefully and spotted a path through the blasts. "Wasted energy, little girl. I can get out of here. You missed a spot." He laughed and started moving.

"It's called the eye of the storm, Cell. And you're about to see why!" The last surviving pure-bred Saiyan cried, bringing her hands down suddenly. Much to everyone's, especially Cell's, surprise, all of the floating energy balls crashed into him simultaneously.

"You got him!" Krillin yelled in excitement and started doing a little victory dance.

"Yeah! You go girl!" Yamcha joined in, and they both looked quite silly.

Tien shook his head. He wasn't so sure. He still felt uneasy. "Make sure!" He called up to the Saiyan girl.

"He's still there." Peasa replied calmly. She descended slowly until she landed on the ground.

Krillin stopped dancing immediately and looked up into the smoke cloud nervously. "Finish him off then, Peasa! What are you waiting for?!"

"A target." She replied coolly. Peasa's sharp eyes picked out Cell's outline and she brought her hands back. She frowned, then dropped her hands back down to her sides. "He isn't as softened up as I thought. Well, back to it." She blasted into the air and straight into the smoke cloud.

"What the hell?! She's enjoying this fight!" Yamcha cried in an accusing tone.

"What did you expect? She is a pure-blooded Saiyan. And look at who her father is." Krillin said in her defense. He frowned a moment later. "Are they still in that smoke cloud?"

Tien shrugged. "I can't see or sense them anymore. This is so frustrating… after all that training!"

"They're still in the smoke cloud." Piccolo stated in a grim tone, standing up finally after wrapping his cloak around Gohan, who had started to shiver. There was nothing more he could do for the boy until the fight was over, one way or the other. He walked forward to where the others were and looked up at the smoke cloud. "They're talking."

"Talking!?" Yamcha exclaimed, turning to look at the Namek as if he had grown a second head. "About what?!"

Piccolo frowned in concentration and listened as best as he could. "They're talking about what moves they're thinking about using on each other." Everyone else stared at him as if he had gone crazy. The Namek ignored, watching the smoke slowly dissipate.

Peasa and Cell came floating to the ground about 15 meters ahead of the others. "It's decided then?" Peasa asked.

"Yes, agreed. But who will go first?" Cell inquired with a frown.

"Rock-paper-scissors?" The Saiyan suggested.

"You must be joking." The monster stated dryly.

The princess shrugged. "Don't like that one, huh? Hmm. Fine, you go first."

Piccolo's mouth dropped in shock. "She can't be serious!"

"What the hell are they discussing!?" Krillin asked, looking at the green man anxiously.

Cell was equally surprised. "You'd actually let me go first? You're serious?"

Peasa nodded. "Yeah. Gimme a sec, ok? I'll let you know when I'm ready."

The bio-monster glared at her. "What are you trying to pull!?"

"Nothing. I'm just getting ready! Sheesh." The Saiyan grumbled. She stripped off her gi top and pants, leaving her in a sexy undershirt and panties. She tossed the clothes she had just removed onto the ground where they landed with a loud thud and made a depression in the ground. Free of the weight-enhanced training clothes she stretched for a few moments then her aura manifested once more, glowing so brightly everyone had to shade their eyes and squint.

"She's lost her mind. She's going to get killed!" Piccolo grumbled, shaking his head.

"What's going on?!" Krillin demanded, nearly ripping out his hair in frustration.

Piccolo sighed. "They're each going to hit each other as hard as they can, And Peasa offered Cell the first hit." He explained.

"She's crazy! She'll be killed!" Krillin cried, much to Tien's and Yamcha's agreement.

"I already said that…" Piccolo grumbled.

The energy aura disappeared and Cell stared at the girl in surprise. "You were still holding back!?" He demanded.

Peasa shrugged with a smirk on her face. "I'm a Saiyan." She offered in an ambiguous reply. The girl stood with her arms at her sides, leaving herself wide open for attack, offering up no defense at all. "I'm ready. Go for it."

Cell watched her for several moments as if expecting her to suddenly change her mind. He couldn't figure out what her plan was… surely she wasn't going to take his strongest attack. He decided to test her first. He rushed forward and started throwing a punch but stopped right before it connected, bringing up his other arm to block any surprise attacks. He blinked in surprise when he saw she was still standing there, not having made any move to block or even tense up for the blow. "You were going to just let me hit you." He stated, almost accusingly.

"Wow, Cell, you're a bright one. Can't get anything past you. Was that your best attack? I didn't feel a thing." She taunted him.

Krillin slapped his forehead with his hand. "Oh great, now she's pissing him off. What's her angle?"

"She's crazy. I thought we already established that." Piccolo deadpanned.

Cell backed off again. "Funny girl. Here comes my real attack!" He ran forward and threw the full force of his power into his punch. He connected solidly and he smiled in satisfaction as she crumbled to the ground in a boneless heap. He shook his hand, grimacing at how numb it was after the strike. "Well, that was easy."

"Peasa!" Krillin cried, shocked that she had really taken the blow. It had landed with so much force that the ground shook and a sound almost like thunder had been emitted. Blood had flown from the girl's mouth and she was likely dead or paralyzed now. He was about to run forward and take over when Piccolo's hand came to rest on his shoulder. "Let me go!" He growled at the Namek.

"Wait a moment." The green man told him.

"For what!?" The monk demanded. He shared a confused look with Yamcha and Tien then turned back to look at Cell who was looking at them.

"Ok, who's next?" The monstrosity inquired, wondering if any of them would give him half as good a fight as he got from Peasa.

"You are. You forget our deal already?" Peasa said suddenly, climbing up to her feet unsteadily.

Cell stared at her, shocked that she could even move after his punch. It had indeed been as hard as he could make it, he hadn't held back anything. And she was still moving. "What?!" He still couldn't believe it.

"You hit me as hard as you can, then I do the same to you. You have a short memory span, Cell." Peasa teased him as she rubbed her cheek. She shook herself for a few moments to get the blood flowing through all her limbs and then assumed a fighting stance. "You ready?"

Cell still stared at her, unable to comprehend how she wasn't dead. He growled and stood in the same manner that she had before, wondering if she even had enough energy to reach him, let alone do any significant damage. "Fine then, girl. Go for it."

"I can't believe it." Krillin stated softly, staring with wide eyes, afraid to blink.

"She went loose. She didn't resist the force at all, just let it pass through her. She really is a genius." Piccolo informed the girl's former lover.

Yamcha grinned. "You can say that again, Piccolo. She's amazing!"

Peasa ran forward so fast that a blink would have missed it and punched with all her might. In that split second, Cell realized the girl had barely been injured by his blow and her counter-attack might cripple him. He vanished at the last instant so her punch went through his after image and he reappeared behind her laughing, feeling no shame from cheating. At least until his brain received the signal of pain a moment before his eyes registered the Saiyan princess smiling up at him with her fist buried in his gut. She had created an after image at the same time as he had, as she had expected it, and punched the real Cell instead. "What?!" Cell demanded, spewing purple blood and staggering back, gripping his stomach as the pain finally brought him down to his knees. "How did you… AAAGH!!" He coughed up more blood and the monster's eyes widened when he realized Android 18's arm was hanging out of his mouth and he was about to spew her up. He shoved her arm back down and held his hand over his mouth as he tried to prevent her from being vomited up. He looked up and saw the girl was on her knees, likely winded by her attack. They both knew what had just happened, as was obvious from the knowing grin on the girl's face.

"Eat something that didn't agree with you, Cell?" Peasa taunted him. She stood up and looked him over carefully, assessing the damage dealt.

The bio-monster swallowed a few times to ensure the android girl would stay put and climbed up to his feet, wobbling a bit. He couldn't believe what had just happened, and what had nearly happened. He wouldn't make that mistake again. "It's time for you to DIE!" He cried, running forward at full speed.

"That... that was 18's…" Krillin tried to speak, but was shocked by what he had seen.

Cell and Peasa were trading blows at a lightning fast intensity now, both seemed determined to end the fight as quickly as possible. The bio-monster knocked the girl flat on her back and took a step forward but she was already up and kicking him in the stomach. He backed up a few steps and shook off the blow. They were both breathing heavily, but neither looked ready to throw in the towel. As if on an unspoken agreement, they both took to the air and started trading blows again.

Peasa cracked Cell in the jaw, then Cell countered by kicking her in the side. The Saiyan girl drove an elbow into the genetic freak's ribs and the creature retaliated by backhanding her across the cheek. They fought for several minutes like that and suddenly Peasa crashed into the earth and formed a small crater in the ground. She climbed out of the hole and flew back into the sky moments later and their fight resumed. A minute later, Gero's monster crashed into the ground and it was his turn to struggle back up and into the fray.

"They seem to be pretty evenly matched up." Yamcha stated with awe.

"Perhaps." Piccolo stated ambiguously.

"Something seems… off. Right Piccolo?" Tien inquired, glancing over at the green man.

"I sense it too. Cell is holding back still. I can't tell if Peasa is at her limit yet or not." Krillin added.

They all gasped in shock when Cell's arm went into the Saiyan girl's gut and burst out the other side, blood and entrails flying everywhere. "NO!!!" Krillin cried. He was a split second from flying up to join the fight and hopefully saving his former lover's life when she reappeared behind Cell and drove both of her fists into the creature's back as the after-image around his arm vanished.

"She's… she's not hurt! It was an illusion? I've never seen someone use the after-image technique like that before." Tien murmured in awe. He thought he had felt the blood droplets falling onto his face, but nothing was there.

Cell, meanwhile, was climbing up out of the ground again. He frowned up at Peasa who gazed back at him with a smug look on her face. "You think you're getting the better of me, don't you?" He inquired. The bio-engineered monstrosity smiled when he saw the calculating look she gaze him. He began to glow with a white aura and sighed as ki flowed through his body once more. Most of his wounds disappeared as well and he shook off the blood that had accumulated on his body. He was annoyed when she didn't look surprised.

"You still haven't gotten it through your thick head, Cell. I'm not stupid." She started glowing as well and a few moments later she spat out some blood from her mouth and assumed a fighting stance once more.

Cell growled, but then smiled a few moments later. "Well, I had wanted someone to take me to my limits, and you've certainly done that. But it's time to end it now. No more games."

"Of course." The Saiyan princess replied. As one, they resumed their fight.

Cell drove his fist into Peasa's gut and then elbowed her in the back of the head, sending her plummeting to the ground. She stopped her descent and flew back up at him and resumed trading blows. A few moments later she vanished and reappeared behind the soulless monster and kicked him as hard as she could, sending him forward out of control. She brought her hands up and they began to glow. "Cosmic ray!" She cried, pointing her fingers forward and a beam similar to Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon shot forward and straight through Cell's chest, blowing a hole through it. He fell to the ground and crashed, bloody and seemingly broken. "Big bang attack!" She cried, throwing the other hand forward palm out and a large fast moving ki blast shot out and collided with the prone monster. "Vegeta taught me that one, freak." She stated grimly, touching down on the ground and walking forward slowly. She was looking pretty winded and her energy level was dropping, but she might have already ended the monster.

The Saiyan girl reached stood at the top of the huge crater formed by the second energy attack and looked into it. She glanced at the others and then lept into the hole. A moment later she came hurtling out of it and crashed limply to the ground, blood oozing from her mouth. She had reached Cell just as one of his arms had regenerated and had been clipped by it. The engineered monster flew out of the hole and landed on her chest with both feet and laughed as blood sprayed upwards. "Such a shame to kill a pretty girl like you. But no matter." His hand raised up to finish her with a ki blast to the head and was surprised when she twisted around and forced him to lose his balance. As he fell, she kicked him in the back of the head. She rose to her feet unsteadily, but ended up collapsing flat on her back, her tail stretched out limply. She realized she had lost and wondered if she'd see Vegeta in the Spirit World. It brought some sense of peace to her. She was going to die like a true Saiyan.

Cell struggled up to his feet and staggered then fell to his knees. "Damn you girl… I'm going to rip your heart out of your chest and shove it down your throat for that!" He got up to his feet and started towards her again. Krillin raised his hand, ready to summon up a Destructo Disk when the sound of someone flying caused him, and Cell, to pause. Cell looked at the approaching person in interest. "Another challenger? How interesting… I wonder who it could be."

The newcomer landed a moment later, and it was Bulma holding a device that looked like a rocket launcher. "Never fear, Bulma is here!" She cried in triumphantly. She looked around and gasped when she saw Trunks, Goku, and Gohan lying prone on the ground, figuring them all to be dead. She sniffed and shook her head, knowing there would be time later for tears. Now, Cell was to die. She looked around and spotted Peasa, seeing the girl struggling to raise herself up but not being too successful. "Oh good, she's still alive. Phew!" The blue-haired woman grinned.

"Bulma!? What kind of challenge could you possibly offer this fight? Oh, you're going to shoot me with your little rocket launcher. Pardon me while I yawn." Cell taunted, shaking his head in his disbelief. He had been hoping another powerful fighter was in the plane, instead he saw a weakling scientist. He frowned in thought. "When did she learn how to fly?"

Vegeta's mate shook her head. "Oh, I'm not going to shoot you with it. I'm going to do this!" She pointed the rocket launcher towards the sky and squeezed the trigger. The rocket shot into the sky and a moment later it exploded in brilliant silver light. The woman looked at a readout screen that had popped out of the rocket launcher and smiled. "Perfect! Peasa, look at the sky!"

Krillin looked up and gasped. He had seen something similar before… "Bulma! You're crazy!" He cried in fear.

Peasa cracked her eyes open and looked up at the sky, wondering what was going on. She was having trouble hearing everything that was said. "What?" Her eyes fixed on the ball of light that was floating in the sky. Her pupils suddenly dilated and her attention was fixed on it.

Cell stared at the light, wondering what it was supposed to be doing. He realized the answer a moment later when he felt Peasa's energy level rising at an alarming rate. "What?! No!" He cried, flying forward as fast as he could. A moment later the monster reached her and started punching her prone body as hard as he could but she still stared at the light. And she was changing. "What's going on?!" Cell demanded, stopping his assault when he realized it wasn't doing anything but wasting his energy.

Peasa laughed as golden fur sprouted all over her body and her eyes glowed red. Fangs became prominent and her size increased. In less than a minute she had gone from a somewhat small cute bloody and battered girl to a humongous golden-furred ape. Peasa roared and beat her chest as her power rose to ungodly levels.

Krillin landed next to Bulma and started yelling at her. "What have you done, Bulma?! She's gunna kill us all now!"

The blue-haired woman shook her head with a big grin. "Nope. She was raised with full knowledge of her transformations, just like Vegeta. She mentioned once that she and her uncle could control themselves just fine in Oozaru form, which was important since her brother couldn't reach that form anymore since his tail was removed. They didn't want to step on him or anything, ya know? Peasa's just going to kill Cell, not us."

The big ape in question looked down at the puny Cell and smiled. "Time for round 2, Cell! Get ready!" Peasa shouted, readying to attack the monster who still stared in shock, wondering what had happened. Dr. Gero had apparently missed something in his observations on Saiyans, or at least Peasa…

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End of Chapter 36. Next chapter: Cell gets the crap beaten out of him by a big golden ape, obviously. Teehee. Stay tuned for the end of Cell! Though he won't go down without a fight, of course… See ya next time!