Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Alternate Universe ❯ Cell ( Chapter 5 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Cell

"You...you what?"Goku asked,perplexed.
"But maybe,I have to.Maybe I must...but I dont have any heart or will to do it.My army failed.I dont see any reason to hurt you"
Goku was smiling,too."Well,what do you propose we do?"
"We should proceed to deactivate 17 and 18.There may be some good we can do for 16..."
"So,these other androids,what are they like?"
"Totally reckless"20 replied."They are out of control and will destroy everything in their way"
"I see"Goku said.
"Drink up your medicine and we can go"20 said.He waited for Goku to down it.
Goku started up.
"Wait,Goku!"20 called."I'm sorry about your friends and your people.But I think maybe some Dragonballs can help us there..."
The four of them began flew off into the horizon.
"There is one problem.I cant sense the androids"Goku told 20.
"Dont worry,myself and 21 have detailed accounts of their whereabouts planted inside us.They are twenty-two miles from your house"
"So should we head them off there?"Goku asked.
"I think so"20 agreed.

Trunks,Piccolo,Krillin,Chaotzu and Tien landed on a wrecked road at the entrance to a large town,barely a city, named "Gingertown".
Rubble and soil lay piled up on the road and a nearby department store had its second floor wall smashed in.
"Where do we start?"Tien asked.
"This is where my father's power signal went out"Trunks explained,ignoring the fact that he had yet again told everyone that Vegeta was his father,"We should search that avalanche site.I suspect he fought the androids here"
Tien and Krillin landed on top of the pile.Most of the soil had crashed down below,blocking the river,but some had got over to the road and beyond.Tien looked up at the shattered cliff and jumped up there.It was a forest with many thick dark green trees.
Piccolo and Chaotzu splashed down in the river below.It sloshed over their feet,but they were on the shallow side.Over the other side of the soil the water was mounting against it.
"Up there!"Chaotzu said,pointing up at an arm protruding from the soil.It was a white glove.
Piccolo jumped up and stuck his feet into the mud.He pulled hard and a few seconds later Vegeta burst out,and he started taking in air quickly.Piccolo dropped his dirty body into the river.It drenched over him,and cleansed him.He gasped for air.
"I think this dam here is gonna blow.Lets get up there with his body"Piccolo said,and he and Chaotzu grabbed Vegeta and made their way back up.They left his body on the roadside.
"Gee Thanks!"Trunks said,picking up his father's body.He pulled out a capsule and pressed the top.Out burst a small syringe.
"Whats that?!"Chaotzu exclaimed.
"Its liquidized Senzu"he explaned,jabbing him in the arm."Much more concentrated and works much better"
Sure enough in three seconds Vegeta jumped up.
"Ahah!"he cried.He flipped over,punching the air.Then came flooding into his mind the defeat from the androids.
"What-"Trunks started,but Vegeta blasted away.
He's so proud and arrogant.Is there any way of reaching him?
"Trunks,I think you'd better take a look at this!"Krillin called down.
"Whats that?"Piccolo muttered.
"But...we've already found my father...what could this be?"Trunks mused.
"Lets go find out"Chaotzu said,and they sped off towards him.
Krillin was standing alone behind some trees.
"Just up ahead in this clearing"he said.They crept forward and saw a large ship,which looked like it had been standing there a very long time.Moss had clung to it and hung from the smashed glass hood.
"Wha.."Trunks muttered incomprehensively.
A trickle of slime led to a hole in the ground.
"What..is this?"Piccolo murmured.Tien had lifted up the broken hood of glass and was searching within.He withdrew himself with a slimy,spikey purple egg shell halves.
"Whats that?"Krillin asked.Tien hopped down,and strangely,gave it to Trunks.
"Why...but.."Trunks muttered."That ship is my time machine!But how did it get here?"
"Yours?"Chaotzu said,confused."But you only just arrived!"
"Its mine...but I didnt even come in it!Mine is tucked up in my capsule case!Right here!"he showed them it,then walked up and wiped away some slime.The word "HOPE" was carved into it."This is definately mine....yet at the same time it isnt mine..."
"Oh my gosh..."Krillin muttered,pointing to a backside and two small legs sticking out from beside a tree,a trail of slime leading to it.
Tien pulled it away for them to see.
It was a huge beetle-like creature,at least twice the size of a man lying down.
"This is creepy..."Chaotzu muttered.
"Wait I sense Goku!"Tien shouted.
"Where is he?"Piccolo asked.
"He's in his house!Come on lets get there!"Tien shouted.
Tien and Krillin powered up and shot into the sky.
"Come on lets go,Trunks!"Chaotzu told him.
"Should I?"he asked Piccolo.
"You go,I'll check this beast out"he replied.
Trunks and Chaotzu left him.Piccolo turned and followed to where the bug was.It was actually a bug-shell.It had split,revealing a wall of slime.
Piccolo moved forward.There was a shadow which did not look like any tree he had ever seen.Piccolo bounded forward,but found nothing,just trees all around.He peered forward into a thicket of bushes.Nothing.
Then a scream.A wrenching scream.Piccolo turned back and dashed through the trees until he reached the cliff.He jumped over and landed beside a set of clothes.A suit,a shirt,shoes and a tie.Nothing else.
Piccolo stared down at them.There was no inclination of anything else that had happened,just some lost clothes.
Piccolo ran and jumped up into the hole in the wall of the department store.There was a line of broken and wrecked things where the hole had been created.Beside him was a rack of upturned clothes.There was upturned racks and tables,throwing clothes everywhere.Maybe the other clothes he saw on the road had just fallen out.
But then he saw it.A long,green tail with a beige tip,which he saw stab downwards into something.
Its body was covered by a clothes rack.From the other side of the rack he saw a hand fall out into his veiw.It started to shrink,the skin turned to flab and then began to be sucked away,leaving just a clothes arm.Piccolo fired a ball of energy,blowing away the rack.Behind it was a horrific sight.

Kajumi and Kasama were sitting idly beside the Capsule Corperation wreck,smoke still billowing from it.
"So where to now?Trunks escaped us"Kasama said.
"Yes.One of them did.The other doesnt know about us"she muttered in response.
"What?There are two of them?"
Kajumi laughed."Havnt you noticed yet?Your been relaxing too much.There is another Trunks from the future"
"Then what do we do?"she asked.
"We destroy them both!That way we can be certain we've eliminated all traces of him"Kajumi replied,relaxing on the grass.
"Lets head off now then!"Kasama told her sister.
"Why bother?"Kajumi replied,yawning.
"Well...well I'm going alone then!"she shouted.
"You go,I'll catch up...yerrr..."she yawned,and began to doze.
"So..."Kasama muttered,and then she took off into the sky.
"One Trunks is at Goku's old place....the other is at Master Roshi's house.Which one is stronger?No matter,Goku's house is closest"Kasama said to herself.She dived down and reached the hills leading to Goku's house.
She spotted it up ahead and went in for the kill.

Trunks and Chaotzu landed beside Krillin and Tien who instantly told them to be quite in a whisper.They pointed to the space just outside Goku's house.Seven fighters stood facing each other.
"What are you doing with him,old man?Isnt it your lifelong ambition to destroy this pathetic fool?"17 asked Gero.
"He's had a little change of heart"Goku replied,just as confident,"He's decided he'd rather bump you off!"
"Ahh well..."17 muttered."The creator has turned on his creations?No matter,we will kill you all,right 16?"he asked,turning to face a large warrior with thick red hair.
"Judging from my calculations we are almost even-"
"Thats enough for today 16 you'd blow out your circuits.Go sit down,you wont be any help.You're a mummy's boy anyway you'd just take Gero's side"17 told him,ordering him away.16 lumbered towards the door and propped himself up.
"Come on 17,lets leave"18 said,a very slight note of worry in her voice.
"Dont get cold feet,18,you dealt with Vegeta easy enough"17 replied,wiping away her timidity.
Goku smiled."You'll go down easily"he told him."And I've got a handicap.My body is right at this moment battling a grevious heart disease,but I dont get cold feet do I?"
"I wouldnt Goku"20 muttered nervously,"They have evil and power beyond your expectations"
Goku turned on him,whispering,"I'm bluffing..."
When Trunks and the others saw this they knew that they would have to move in at any moment.
17 aimed a punch at Goku but he caught it and threw him back.
"Good move.18,I'll get him and fatty,you take Gero and his bodyguard"he told her.
"Right!"she replied,nodding.She moved forward and began grappling with 20 and 21 while 17 did the same with Goku and 19.
The beat into each other,everyone looking furious.It was not until a girl entered the ring did they stopped.17 lurched backwards,yelling,"I saw you before!"
"Who?"Trunks muttered.
"She's just one of the girls looking for you"Krillin whispered.
"Come on 19,you can do better than that!"17 shouted,dodging blasts from him.17 fired one back and 19 caught.
They have unlimited energy.We aren't going to last very long,especially with me not being able to go Super Saijin...I'm not yet fulled healed...
"KA-ME"Goku shouted,standing in front of the door as 19 battled furiously with 17."HA-ME!"19 was kicked away onto the floor."HA!"
17 was laughing at 19 when half of his face lit up a sapphire blue.He turned and his eyes became tiny with fright and surprise as the beam exploded into him.He went shooting backwards and exploded into one of the many hills surrounding Goku's home.
"I havn't got much energy left,19!"Goku called.
"Me neither!"he shouted back.17 burst out of smoke cloud and raged towards 19's back.
18 grabbed Gero from 21's tight protection and ripped one of his hands off.
"ARGHHH!"he screamed,falling backwards.21 lurched forward angrily and punched 18 harshly in the face so that she went flying backwards in between the shortening space between 19 and 17.17 was closing in.He lurched forward.
"19!!!!!!!!!!!"Goku shouted.19 turned round and was knocked high into the air.He crashed back down,smashing through Goku's roof.
An unseen kick from 17 hit Goku's cheek,sending him flying sideways along the grass.
The girl had been remembered again.She paced around,and everyone began to eye her suspiciously.
"Where is Trunks Breifs?"She asked them all.
"So you are the one looking for Trunks!"20 yelled back."We dont know,dont trouble us!"
"Quiet,old man,I know you are lying,Trunks is here!"she shouted.Just then Trunks and Tien burst out of the shadows and charged towards 17 and the girl respectively.
Tien rammed into her and she went flying into the hill.He made a triangle over his face and fired a huge golden energy attack which destroyed the hill and kept on going,destroying everything in its path.It stopped just short of a small lake Goku used to do all his fishing with,in a wooded area,quite closeby to a clearing with a large time machine.
Trunks,now Super Saijin,fired his own attack at 17 after kicked him in the face.
"Not another Super ahhh!"he shouted as he was blown back.
"NO!"18 shouted.She turned and kicked 20 into Goku's house.21 jumped forward but fell onto the ground.
"Come on,18!"17 shouted,standing with ripped clothing on the broken hill,"Maybe we should go!"
"16!"18 called to him."Come on!"
"16,would you betray me?"20 asked,landing beside him.
"Quiet you old fool!"18 hissed.
"Come on,16,I made you.You wouldnt want to betray me would you?"20 asked,slickly.
21 kicked 18 back towards her brother."We should terminate him.He is not completed"21 advised.
"No!"16 muttered.He stood and began making his way towards 17 and 18."They are my friends"
"Friends?"Gero mumured."You are an android you dont have friends!Look here,16,I made you and I am the one fighting for good arent I?"
"That is.."16 replied uncertainly,still making his way towards 17 and 18,"Must be incorrect..."
"Dont make the wrong decisions,16.I'll be waiting"20 said.
The three androids met,and then flew off.
"Back to the laboratory!"20 shouted."I have a plan!"

Piccolo walked over to see a man,crouching and whimpering beside the clothes rack,shuddering violently.A tall,green beast looking like a giant insect with a great tail loomed over him,and the tail snaked over the man's body,not yet pricking it.
"So..."Piccolo muttered quietly."We finally meet"
The creature spoke like a mix between a snake and a cat.It hissed towards his direction,"You were expecting me,Piccolo"
"Seems you were also expecting me"replied Piccolo,with more than a little surprise,"If you know my name"
"ahah..."it chuckled coldly,"I know much about you....Piccolo"
"Your all we need.Along with eight androids we got a monster..."
His eyes lit up."Androids,you say?Which ones?"he asked,trying to put on a kind tone but losing it and making it sound oily and slimy.
"Why should I tell you?"Piccolo snapped suspiciously."I'd like some answers from you"
"Like what,Namek?"
"Like why you killed all these people"Piccolo replied.The man on the floor gave a soft scream and crawled forward but the beast's tail shot into his leg,pinning him down.He screamed and writhed,but was stuck.
"Leave him"Piccolo told the monster firmly.
"Oh thank you!Thank you kind si-"he began,but the deadly tail withdrew itself and stabbed into his head,and began sucking.In a few seconds flabby skin was sucked away into just clothes.
"Ahh..."Piccolo whispered in horror,watching the life being sucked away.
The creature jumped into the air and bounced along.It found another person,stabbed the tail in and brought its body along as he skipped towards the hole,extracting the life as he went.Piccolo followed angrily.
"Goodbye,Piccolo..."he hissed,and he jumped out onto the ground,looking around for more people.A man in a car swerved to avoid hitting him.
"Hey what are you doing here?"he asked.A tail snaked forward and stabbed into the man's leg.He tripped up and watched it being sucked into rotting,mamed flesh.Then the beast when soaring into the pile of soil,and the man stumbled into his car,but waited.
The beast pulled himself out of the mud,half covered in it and glaring angrily at Piccolo.
"Sooooo"he hissed menacingly,"What do you want from me,Piccolo?"
"To stop hurting these people and tell me who you are..."Piccolo mumured,looking at the man in the car.
"For that..."Cell said loudly with a note of amusment,"You'd have to fight me!But I see no bother in telling you...that my name is...Cell"
"Cell!Cell!"the man in the car cried,and he turned it around and raced back along the road.
"Grrr.."Cell growled,watching the car speed away."No matter"he added,"It will give an intresting news flash for these pethetic people"
"Then I'll just have to fight you!"Piccolo replied.He ripped off his heavy weighed clothing to reveal his black training gear.
"Say Piccolo,how is Kami doing?"the creature sneered.Piccolo felt a searing pain;Kami was in trouble.This coupled with the fact that Cell knew so much threw him off guard,and Cell chose the opportune moment,and in a split second had powered up and drove his fist into Piccolo's face.
It threw him down across the floor and he skid fastly,harshly burning and ripping his clothes.
"Vegeta?"Piccolo muttered distractedly.He could sense Vegeta very strongly,like he was very closeby.The beast was smiling and had folded his arms in triumph.Piccolo stood up and ran forward,but again he was thrown off guard as he sensed Gohan.A flash of red light exploded in his face.He was thrown back and crashed into the floor.It was definately Gohan who fired that blast...or was it?
Piccolo wearily stood,staring Cell hard in the face.Cell bounded forward,kicked him down into the floor,punched him back up and unleashed his snake tail into his arm.It sliced right through to the other side,and Piccolo screamed as he began to drain and drain.

Back at Master Roshi's place,Kame House,eleven people were seated or lying down.Popo and Yamcha were beside Kami,looking down on the old guardian as he lay on the makeshift stretcher,sleeping.
Chi-Chi was ordering Gohan to study,bearing down on him and checking his answers.Roshi,Oolong,Puuar,Ox-King,Bulma,Dr.Breifs and Mrs.Breifs,along with baby Trunks,were watching the flickering television screen.
A female reporter with a small microphone was standing in front of a deserted city,and began to speak.
"It seems that here in deserted Nikkitown something has been attacking the people,or scaring them away.There seems"she turned sideways and held her hand out,"no evidence of any resistance.The only evidence of foulplay is the piles and piles of clothing just left about the city.The significance of this is unknown but w-"she stopped and turned fully around to the sound of screaming,hissing and gunshots.
"Ahahah foolish earthlings!"a voice screamed in a hiss.
"This"the woman muttered,running along the street,"Suggests an alien attack"she took a breath as she and the cameraman bounded along,"But we cannot be sure.The noise and commotion seems to be coming from the street just left of here"she stopped and lowered her voice to a barely audible whisper,"The monster or creature that has caused this horror seems to have completed its attack,and as an evil silence falls upon this town we can only assume that the danger as past but...ahh!ahah!"the woman screamed for no reason,her eyes unfocused.Then out of the pit of her stomach a beige spike appeared,and she began to shrink.The beige tip shot through to reveal a large green tail,but it retracted and poked into another place.She began to lose weight,her body shrank,her eyes dried up.
The camera turned and moved but fell and blurred out.
The room shivered with the cold of this evil.
"Wait,Gohan,do you sense that?"Yamcha muttered.He half-turned to Gohan who was studying.
"Dont trouble him in his stuides,Yamcha!"Chi-Chi told him angrily.
"Its...its my dad..."Gohan mumured.
"Wait no!"Yamcha said,louder,"I sense...you..."
"And you!"Gohan replied.
"This doesnt make sense..."Yamcha muttered.For a while,around twenty minutes,everything was silent,then Yamcha started up again.
"Its Vegeta!"he yelled.
"Really!He has to stu-"Chi-Chi began.
"He's fighting Piccolo!"Gohan shouted.
"Well..lets go check it out!"Yamcha replied.
"Yamcha!"Chi-Chi screamed,horrified.
"Yamcha,no-"Bulma began reasoningly.
"I think I could help"a voice said.Trunks was standing in the doorway,his hair fluttering in the wind.
"Hey Trunks!"Yamcha said.Bulma injertected,"Strange thing,y'see,my son is called Trunks too!"
"Thats because they're the same person"Gohan explained,and everyone stared at him,while Trunks blushed.
"Yes,we are the same"
"Hey!"Chaotzu added,bobbing in."Tien..."he looked down,slightly ashamed,"Sent me here.Said I'd just get hurt if I stay..."
"Dont worry Chaotzu!"Gohan told him sympathetically,"I've been told that loads of times!And your as powerful if not more powerful than me!"
Chaotzu blushed and then turned as Yamcha spoke to Trunks.
"Where are the others?"Yamcha asked.
"Piccolo has gone to check out this new enemy thats popped up..."Chaotzu replied.
"Strange....I sensed him before fighting with...but it couldnt be...with Goku"Trunks whispered.
"I felt Vegeta and Yamcha there as well!"Gohan added.
"This is weird..."Yamcha mumured."I felt Gohan and Tien!"
"Should we check it out?"Gohan asked.
"Lets go Gohan.And you,Choatzu"Yamcha said.
"Why yes!"Trunks exclaimed."Come on lets go check this out"
"Should we?"Gohan asked,looking at Choatzu.
"Gohan,me and you should try and find those girls"Trunks said.
"But they're after you arent they?What if yo-"Gohan started,but he was interrupted by Trunks.
"No,Gohan,I wont be killed.We've got to get to the bottom of them"he said.
"Yamcha,you and Chaotzu should go find Piccolo"Gohan said.
"Your right,come on lets go!"Yamcha agreed,and he and Chaotzu burst out of the door and flew through the sky.
"We'd better go after them.Come,Gohan"Trunks said.Gohan took to the air and began to move but Trunk's stayed.
"Hey Trunks!"Bulma called."Come visit me when your done!"
Trunks blushed and moved away,leaving the door to swing silently in the breeze.
White sand lifted and was blown away into the distance.The sea swirled and waves broke hard on the shore as a creature far more terrible than the androids gave battle with Piccolo.

Tien,Krillin and Goku reached the laboratory behind Dr.Gero,19 and 21 as the door slid open.
"Inside,come"20 motioned his arm and they dashed inside.The empty pods lay sprung open,all except 16's which was lying on the ground outside.20 dashed over to a Supercomputer with a huge screen and began tapping keys.
"Once I have completed repairs and updates to myself,19,and perhaps 21,we can think of what we should do next"
"Updates...well,how long will that take?"Goku asked,slightly annoyed.
"Do not trouble yourself.You have a heart disease,Goku,rest yourself in my healing machine.Based on Freiza's designs"he explained.
Goku walked over to a familiar,but better-looking huge tub now slowly filling up with a blue-green bubbly liquid.
"I remember this"he said,running his hand down its smooth surface."But where are the oxygen suppliers?"
"They are un-needed"Gero explained,ferreting around some draws,"It is a special type of liquid which the womb fluid is largely composed of"
"I see..."said Goku.He opened it,just before it flooded out,as there was an knee-high step to stop it flowing out.He got in,lay down and tried to sleep.The water filled around him,scented and calming,and when it filled his mouth until he could hold it no more he swallowed,and felt fulfilled and strong,and he fell into a deep sleep.
20 put himself on top of a metal stretcher than had slid out of the wall.He lay down and 19 pressed a button so that it slid back inside.
"What's happening?"Tien asked.
"Dr.Gero is making significant modifications to himself.He has just inputted them into the computer now"21 explained.
The Computer showed data and a birdseye camera veiw of Gero being attatched to his old hand again,and the implications being set in place.
First his neck was sliced open,much to Tien and Krillin's disgust,and a new unlimited battery charge was fitted into his head.
Next,into his stomach,went a simple metallic black block,with which the computer displayed a trail of data.
"It should increase his abilities"
"What?"Krillin said,not understanding this statement from 19.
"Better intelligence,speed,strength"21 added.
"Will you all be getting these upgrades?"Tien asked,looking around.
"I think so.But we may get some exclusive features.We shall wait and see"21 replied.
"I just hope the androids dont get up to too much trouble while were away..."Krillin muttered.

Piccolo felt his arm being sucked away,felt his power drain and his blood lessen,his muscles swelled and then shrunk into deformed rotting flesh.The pain was unbearable,but he held it.He unleashed an amazing amount of energy all at once.Hissing and spitting Cell was thrown back onto the ground.
"Its over,Piccolo"Cell called over."Give me you energy!"
"Hahhehe...well,if you say it is.I know when I'm beaten"Piccolo replied.
Cell raised what should have been an eyebrow suspiciously.
"I dont have nearly enough energy left to defeat you"he said,pulling on his training clothes,"Or"he added,"To defeat you in the first place"
"That is an amazing revelation,Piccolo...now I shall have ALL of your Namekian power!"he growled.
"Thats true"Piccolo replied."But even such a warrior like yourself should..."he gave a whimper and half-closed his eyes to make him look like he was very weak,and continued,"...should honour the warrior's code.As a last dying wish,please grant me the truth about your origin.Tell me all about you..."
"Curious,Piccolo..."he hissed."Nevertheless,I shall tell you"
He explained.Explained all about why he was created,by Gero,to kill Goku,how Gero had gathered Cell's of the greatest fighters on Earth and beyond.How he hatched out in Trunk's timeline,but the android's were gone and how he had gone back in time using Trunk's time machine four years ago and burrowed into the ground,biding his time and growing and growing.Piccolo realised that THIS was what caused the radical changes in time.When Cell finally finished,Piccolo was satisfied he had all the information he needed to know.
"So,you see Piccolo"Cell hissed,"I had to come back to this time to gain more power"
"Thank you"Piccolo muttered tiredly."Thank you...I shall be at rest now..."
He dropped down onto the floor.
"Ahah...ahha..."Cell chuckled madly,advancing on his prey.His tail slithered into veiw of Piccolo's glazed eyes.
Piccolo sezied his oppourtunity.He jumped up,yanked the tail and tore it free from the body.He ripped off his own arm,threw it into Cell's face and it crumbled over it.Cell screamed in pain.Piccolo's new arm shot out,covered in green slime.
"You!"he screeched between his howling,"You tricked me!"
"Now you cant absorb any more people,can you Cell?"Piccolo sneered.
"ahah...."Cell calmed down,and began to laugh."Have you not been listening,Piccolo?Like you I have these regenerative powers"
A new tail burst out of the wrecked stump.
"Now say goodbye,Piccolo"Cell mumured."SOLAR FLARE!"he yelled,dashing away.He jumped into the trees and ran further and faster.Piccolo was blinded with light and rage.He stumbled and tripped.The faint signal of Cell's power got further and further away,and then vanished suddenly.Piccolo clutched his face,growling like a wounded dog.When he came round,an eiree whistling wind shot through the deserted town,and Cell had bounded away.Piccolo turned and tried to find more powers.He couldnt sense Tien,Krillin or Goku.He could sense Yamcha and Chaotzu coming closer and closer to him.He searched further.He felt Trunks and Gohan heading for capsule corperation and he could sense,through instinct,that Kami was recovering in Roshi's house.
Look's like I'll be paying the old coot a visit...if we fuse,maybe we could have a chance,just maybe...
Yamcha landed in front of him,followed close behind by Choatzu.The barrage of questions started,but Piccolo halted them and began to explain all he had heard.



















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