Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Alternate Universe ❯ The Second Form ( Chapter 6 )

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The Alternate Universe

Chapter Six: The Second Form

Piccolo finished breifing Yamcha and Choatzu on the situation.Thier mouths hung open in disbelief.
"So what do we do now,guys?"Yamcha asked.
"I propose we chase him.His power signal is very faint...the only way I see it is if we follow..."he paused and gulped,"...follow his trail of victims..."
Yamcha and Choatzu looked horrified,but nodded.The trudged wearily towards the edge of the road and blasted away into the sky.

Cell threw himself into a bush,but it fell and he toppled out into the road.Half-covered in greenery he peered into the distance to see a large coach charging down the street towards him.He stood up fully and watched it come to him.It screeched to a halt a few feet away and the driver burst out of the door looking angry.
"Get out of the...the..."he looked widly at the green,scaly body and black slit-eyes."Your...your unnatural!"
Someone shouted from within the bus,"Get back,Eddie!"
Eddie turned back to see a tail,but then saw no more as it went through his head,and sucked the contents and more out.
Someone stepped out of the bus wearing sports gear,and saw Eddie's clothes and the beast.Cell kicked him in the face and stabbed his tail into his stomach.He walked onto the bus.This coach should provide me with sufficient hiding space.Yes,they will never think to look here.
He jumped into the seat without a word.The passengers looked horrified.Someone tried to move towards the door,but Cell's tail stabbed in him and began sucking for all to see as the bus raced along the road.The men stayed deadly silent.
The truck raced along the highway,doing seventy,eighty,ninety and stopping for nothing.People were falling to the ground,sick was flying everywhere but Cell ignored this.They were nearing another town,a larger one this time.
A roadblock had been set up with warnings about a "large,hijacked trucks,the most distingushable feature a giant,red-haired man"
Cell pondered,jumped straight through the roof and watched the coach flip on its side and collide with the roadblock.There was a screeching as the roadblock was torn away,screams of fear.Cell landed and walked forward.His tail stabbed into a police officer and drained him away.
Cell was preparing for a feast.He imagined that this city would do well.

Vegeta stood alone on a cliff overlooking a barren land of mountains and more cliffs.His head was tilted upwards,his face catching the oncoming rain,it dripping off his armour.The failure pained him.
Tell me Vegeta,what does it feel like to feel pain?
He growled.The androids.He would get them.

Goku floated around in his pod,the energy-fulfilling fluid flooding around him,liquidising his lungs.
It was 19's turn to be done.Even though they couldnt sense it,Tien and Krillin knew that 20 was now much stronger.
And in the space of a few hours.This man was a true genius.Krillin pressed his face against the glass,looking through at Goku,watching his body float gently up and down.
"How much longer is it,Dr?"Tien asked.
"It will be at least six hours before we are all complete"Gero explained.
"Six hours?"

Yamcha,Tien and Piccolo reached Nikkitown to see it,too was deserted.The entrance way had been completely blocked by an upturned truck.
They thought if they went up there they might catch Cell,but Piccolo overruled this by saying that Cell was probably still feasting and they needed to stop anyone else from dying.So they searched;deserted playgrounds,children's clothes left on swings,the occasional person cowering on the floor.The airport was empty,planes about to take off,empty helicopter pads were people had fought with each other to escape in.
Corpes lay crushed by the almighty planes as they raced to take off,but Cell had got there first and drained the whole place of life.
"Thats about...I'd say,at the least 60,000 gone.A whole city and this giant airport?Definately the least..."Yamcha was saying as they continued to stare at the clothes.
"Why are we here,Piccolo?"Choatzu asked."We should be chasing him!There is NOTHING we can do here!"
16,17 and 18 had decided,on 17's orders,that they would have some fun with the rest of them.They knew that Piccolo,Yamcha and Choatzu,thanks to 16,were close,and decided they would follow them.
At the moment Piccolo,Choatzu and Yamcha were looking around a road where a pile of unused clothing lay.There were tire marks everywhere,like some large veichle had tore quickly away.
"Lets move it,guys"Piccolo grunted."I think he's gone along this road.And we havnt got any time to lose,lets go...I dont want any more dead people on our hands"
"How many...just how many have died today because of all this?"Yamcha asked,worridly.
"My sensors indicate that Dr.Gero killed around ten thousand at South City,Cell has killed three hundred and two and android eighteen has killed ten"a voice said.
Another,woman's voice hissed,"Quiet!"
"What was that?"Yamcha whispered,swivelling around.
"I dont like this..."Choatzu said with terror in his voice.Then out of the bushes burst androids 17,18 and 16.
"No!"Yamcha cried.
"You guys get AWAY FROM HERE!"Piccolo shouted."MOVE IT!"
"Its the androids!"Choatzu said,and they began to run but the androids were too quick.They appeared in front,and Choatzu was shot backwards.
"Nooo!"17 lifted his arm and like Krillin with Freiza closed his hand and there was a sickening crunch,a BAM and a whirl of flame and smoke and Chaotzu was gone,along with a whole section of highway.
"Nooo!"Yamcha shouted.He dashed forward but with a shot to the chest he fell down.
"Stop this!"Piccolo ordered.He dodged a beam from 18 and landed in front of 17.
"I took Vegeta,I think you should take this one"18 said.
"Sure,give me the leftovers..."17 muttered.
"I'm no pushover"Piccolo told him,"heh...you'll soon find out"
"Wait"16 called."There is someone...coming..."he looked suspiciously down the road Piccolo was headed.
"Quiet,16!Stop being a fool,16,theres nothing there!Like I said before,your malfunctioning"17 told him.
"Listen to him...its Cell..."Yamcha whispered.
"Yamcha,no!"Piccolo called.A pink beam from 18 silenced Yamcha."NO!"Piccolo called.
"What are you gonna do about it,Namek?"18 asked.
Piccolo ran forward without thinking and punched 18 across the jaw.Flecks of spit and blood stained the air as she fell backwards.
"That was a dirty trick,namek!"she called.
"You'll pay!"17 shouted angrily.He swung his leg round but Piccolo jumped and the leg kicked 18 into the ground.
"Now THAT is dirty!"Piccolo said,landing as 17 helped 18 up.
16 still stood transfixed on the end of the stretch of road,"Something is coming!We must leave!"
"Quiet down you idiot!"17 yelled."Your putting me off focuse..."he scowled at Piccolo.
Piccolo dashed forward and his elbow came swiftly down on 17's head.
"Ehh..."he groaned,and hit the floor.18 ran forward but Piccolo turned and fired his Special Beam Cannon which went straight through her chest and she collapsed onto the floor.
16 was then thrown back onto the floor and skidded along the road.Cell had bashed him down.
"Huh?"Piccolo murmured,turning round."You!"he shouted.16 got to his feet and fired his hand,followed by a hail of machine gun bullets from his wrist.The hand hit Cell's stomach,soared up and smashed into his chin then shot back and attatched neatly to 16's wrist.
"16 stop your meddling..."Cell hissed.He advanced towards 17.
"No!"Piccolo yelled.He kicked Cell in the face,knocking him backwards.Cell regained himself and charged forward,his tail outstretched,but in a flash 16 tore it off and it went slithering along the floor grotesquely.
"Ahh!"Cell shouted,but then the new tail burst out of the green-slimed stump."A little thing I'd like to thank you for,Piccolo"
Piccolo charged but Cell knocked away his punch.
"Come 16,embrace your masters commands!"Cell yelled.
This seemed to have some effect on 16."Dr...Gero...wanted...this?"he murmured.
"No 16 dont lis-"but Piccolo was kicked away.
The injured Yamcha coughed slightly and got to his feet,his eyes half closed.He had a dazed expression around him.
"Destructo Disc!"he shouted.Cell,with his back turned and his tail poised to absorb 17,did not notice as the disc tore through him.He screamed as everywhere from the bottom of his chest downwards was torn away.His elbows had been cut and he was now barely alive.He gurgled.
"Good work,Yamcha!"Piccolo called,getting out of the rock that he had been kicked into,
16 still did not say anything.Then he said quietly,"You should leave"
Cell was smiling,and then the rest of his chest,stomach,legs and arms sprouted back out again.He flexed them and charged at 16.
But 16 swung his heavy arm back and with the force of a thousand aeroplanes at top speed he was thrown back across the road,skidding along it.
"Now!"16 shouted.
Yamcha and Piccolo recoiled.Then Yamcha said,"Come on"he made to move but fell and grabbed his wounds were a fresh load of blood was pouring out.
"Eugh...glrug..."he murmured incoherently,then he collapsed,blood coming from his mouth."Forget about me..."he whispered.
"NO!"Piccolo cried,bending down.
"Get out!"16 yelled,but more to the now-awake 17 and 18 rather than Piccolo and Yamcha.
Cell was rushing back as Piccolo dragged Yamcha to his feet and put his arm around Piccolo's neck.
"Come...ON!"he told Yamcha forcefully.His head lolled back and blood burst from his mouth and rolled back along his face.
Cell's tail landed on 17's head but 16 kicked 17 out of the way.
"NO!"he shouted.He fired a blast of energy which threw Cell back with a hiss,but he controlled it and it went bouncing off into the sky.
He moved forward and kicked 16 with all the force he could muster and his head broke right off.He crashed into the ground,the head rolling away.The cliff was coming closer but 18 grabbed it,just in time.
Cell's tail now went for 17 and it closed over his screaming head.He struggled.17 dashed forward but Cell's leg came out of nowhere and he was sent flying right off the road,16's head still clutched in his hand,and now into the river below.
Cell's tail was now past 17's shoulders.His arms were struggling feebly,trying to push up the tail,but to no avail.
Yamcha had hit the ground,but had stopped bleeding.Piccolo tried to wrestle with Cell but Cell pointed his hand at Yamcha and fired a blast of energy which blew him high into the sky in a whirl of black cloud and rubble.Piccolo looked over through the cloud,then back at Cell.
17's legs were dissapearing away in the tail.
"Special Beam Cannon Attack!"Piccolo shouted,but Cell just let it tear through him as he dribbled,the power radiating through him.
"Destructo Disc!"A voice shouted,and a razor-sharp golden disc shot down towards Cell,who's face widened with horror.
His tail was cut away and 17 landed on the floor,pulled himself out of the slime and dashed towards his sister.Cell dashed alongside him and kicked his face,so he was thrown along the ground.18 dropped 16's head and 17 grabbed it.
"Keep hold of him!"she called.
"Will do..."17 replied,getting up slowly.Cell was behind 18,17 screamed out,18 turned but the tail was thrown down over her.
Weak and headless 16 just lay motionless on the ground;the destructo disc was fired once more but it missed Cell by inches.
"Tribeam!"a voice which had to be Tien's shouted,but the golden triangle attack just drove itself into the ground.This super-determined form of Cell had thrown himself sky-high.He was rising in the air,dodging the cloud of black smoke rising upwards.
Piccolo appeared beside him,but Cell rose higher still.18 dissapeared under his tail,and as a small ball shot up to the root.
He laughed,and landed back on the ground.
Cell screamed,a golden ball of fire surrounded him.He was flooded with it,sparks flew in every direction.Piccolo,tearing himself away from the sight just as 17 landed back up with 16's head,and following his instructions,fitted his head back onto his neck.
As 16 began to repair himself,Piccolo grabbed Yamcha,and with him over his shoulder up on the cliff,turned back.
Should he stay and help or run away and restore Yamcha to health?Should he sacrifice Yamcha?
He watched 16 stir and throw 17 behind him.He seemed reluctant to leave.
"Leave!"16 ordered.
"Not without you!"
Piccolo hesitated,but he neednt worry.
Behind him landed Tien and Krillin.
"Hey!"Krillin whispered.
"Goku is still in healing"Tien explained."But we've come to offer whatever we can"
"Thanks"Piccolo said."Someone"he continued,"take Yamcha and get him some senzu beans"
"No need!"Krillin said,bending down and feeding him one from a little sack in his hand,"I have some left"
"Good"Piccolo murmured,and he and Tien watched as the smoke cleared and this new form of Cell stood tall.
"Come,16!"he called."I shall destroy you if you do!"
16 growled angrily to himself.
"I thought not"Cell muttered,smiling."And you"he whispered,still not looking at either 16 nor 18."...18.You still have not left?Foolish girl...oh well,I shall absorb you now"
"NO!"16 shouted.He turned and threw 17 a good thirty feet into the air.He seemed to get the message,and throwing one last desperate look at 16,blasted away.
16 turned back to Cell.
"You will not find him"he said,reading Cell's look of anger as he watched 17 away."For I will stop you"
Cell turned back to him."Try me!"
16 raised his arms together."Energy 401!"he shouted.
Cell's face lit up with surprise as the giant blue attack covered him completely and blasted straight along the road.
Krillin,Yamcha,Tien and Piccolo looked on hopefully.
The smoke cleared and then they saw the damage;Cell was cut down one half,as he had only half-turned when the attack had come.
"What...have...you...done to....me...."he gurgled.
Tien raised his arms along with Krillin and Yamcha.
"No!"Piccolo hissed,holding them back with his arm.They looked surprised and confused.
"What?!"
"No!"Piccolo repeated."He doenst know we are here..."
"He wont need to know once we finish him off!"Krillin explained patronisingly.
"He's bluffing..."Piccolo murmured.
He was right.Cell quickly reformed himself and rammed 16 very hard around the waist.He was thrown into the floor.
"Ka...me..."Cell muttered.16 jumped back up and fired an energy attack into Cell's stomach,throwing him back instead.But he muttered under his breath,"Ha...me..."
"16 LOOK OUT!"Piccolo bellowed,which in truth was not the right thing to do,as 16 turned just as Cell hissed "HA!" and so the ball of white-blue energy blasted into 16 and tore through his armour.It disintegrated and so did most of his skin and the stretchy black ware underneath his armour.He stood,one arm badly torn,the flesh ripped right from it.
"hhahaha!"Cell laughed."You are no match for me,16!FACE IT!"
16's face screwed up,but he was back on the battlefeild.Maybe it was because he had shouted "HA!" just as Piccolo had yelled his warning,but for whatever reason Cell was still ignoring the four Z fighters on the cliff.
Cell kicked into 16's chin and he stumbled back then he punched into his armour-less stomach and he slammed into the floor
Cell was in the air,facing 16.They stared hard at each other,then 16 fired his hands upwards.The foot's gap between them widened as the hands pushed Cell up into the air,then fitted themselves back on 16's wrists.
"Throat energy fixture 122!"16 shouted,and he laid his head back into the ground and a giant red beam,making his mouth look hardly capable of containing it hit Cell in the stomach and tore right through.For a few seconds Cell floated around in the air,bits of his flesh along with him.
Then he did a strange thing.
"DESTRUCTO DISC!"and he created one and sawn everything below his neck away.His head hit the ground.
16 moved closer and his boot raised itself.It was just about to crush Cell's head when it reformed and in an instant Cell had backflipped up and swung his leg round.It collided with 16's artificial and heavily-scarred cheek sending him flying into the cliff about Twenty feet below the four Z Fighters.The cliff shook very violently and peices of rock and rubble and dust came down to the ground
Cell turned but only halfway so his bulky shoulder was facing 16,and pulled his arm furthest away from them all into the air.
"KAMEHAMEHA!"he shouted,and a whirl of blue and white energy,three times as big as 16 each way tore through the cliff where 16 stood.They did not hear any screams or protests,and then the cliff slid towards Cell.
Piccolo pulled himself and Yamcha back,but Tien and Krillin fell forward as the cliff collapsed onto the ground.
Cell now had no choice but to notice them;he grabbed Krillin as Tien jumped back.
"Solar flare!"Tien shouted,but Cell had already thrown Krillin into the air and was about to blast him away when the Solar Flare caught him straight in the face and he stumbled back.Piccolo,Yamcha and Krillin were floating high above.
"Tien get out of there!"Piccolo roared,but Tien was looking scared.He only had time to point upwards but Piccolo knew.
He dodged Cell's hand as it sliced downwards,going for his weak shoulder muscles.
Piccolo's hand grabbed Cell's face and threw him to the ground.Piccolo pulled off his weighed clothing.
He fired a ball of pink energy which exploded over Cell,and he saw Tien jumping up just above the clouds of smoke.
Cell was now below Tien.He grabbed his foot and swung him around and fired a ball of white energy after him.
"AHH!"he screamed,and he crashed right through a cliff before the energy attack got to him.Instead it destroyed one whole mountain which imploded,sending hails of rubble and dust everywhere.Piccolo found Cell but Cell appeared behind him.
"Destructo Disc!"Krillin shouted,but Cell's tail whipped round so fast that the Destructo Disc bounced off back at Krillin who just about ducked.
Cell punched Krillin the in stomach and swung his leg round,and it collided with his temple and sent him flying down to the ground.
"He didnt deserve that"Piccolo spat."Leave him out of it!"
"Who said anyone deserved anything?"Cell asked.His hissing tone had dissapeared and replaced with a macho,deep one.
He then sent his leg into Piccolo's stomach and he flew through the air.
"A little thing Goku taught me!"he called."KAIOKEN FIVE FOLD KAMEHAMEHA!"
A red-blue Kamehameha with jagged white edges appeared in his palm,charging itself up.But he did not get there.
16 had come out of nowhere,right up between the root of Cell's legs he headbutted,sending him flying higher and higher into the air.
"Thanks"Piccolo called.16 did not answer.His heavily scarred body looked like it wouldnt last much longer;there was little skin left and deep gashes into the metal and wire within everywhere.But in some places there was actual blood and flesh visible,and around the head Piccolo could see a purply red-black gash.
"16 are you...?"Piccolo asked.
"I'm fine"he said."You should go.Make sure-"but he broke off as a beam went right through his chest.He turned horizontal and began floating down to Earth.
"The end of him..."Cell said,looking down at him.
"He was an android!"Piccolo spluttered."Dont you care for your own?"
"Care for my own?"Cell repeated,laughing."I am about to kill the remaining android and absorb her,in my opinion worthless body to become perfection?Do you think I posses a shred of emotion for these fools..do you think I ever will?"
Piccolo hesitated.Could he?"Dont bother fathoming it...it doenst matter now"Cell said."Shall we proceed?"he inclined to his clenched fists.
Piccolo just nodded and they then blasted forward and clashed in the air,exchanging punches and kicks as hard as they could.
"Were not getting..."Piccolo breathed and then kicked furiously out at Cell,knocking him back a few feet,"...anywhere!"
"For my pleasure we ARE!"Cell shouted back and he fired ball of energy which Piccolo easily knocked away.
"Then I shall not fufill your desires!"Piccolo yelled back,backflipping to avoid another ball of energy.
"Do you have a choice?"Cell asked,driving his knee up into Piccolo's chin.Piccolo pushed it down.
"Free will is something I will always have"Piccolo replied."If you force me I shall not comply.I am no weakling!"he finished this with a shouted as he fired a ball of green energy down at Cell who knocked it away.
"Do you?"he asked.Provoking him...thats all he was doing,Piccolo thought.He cant rise..."Because the Saiyans are much,much stronger than pathetic weakling Namekians like yourself"
Piccolo fired another ball of energy,"I am no weakling!"he repeated.Cell fired back his own attack,so Piccolo followed it up with another.
"Goku and Vegeta are leaps and bounds ahead!Do you really think YOU have any chance?"
"ENOUGH!"Piccolo yelled,and he fired a giant beam of emerald-green energy which exploded over Cell,making him scream and sending him crashing into the ground.
Yamcha had fired from one side at the same time and then had knocked Cell one way and the other so that he was litreally crushed and then thrown down.
Yamcha showed himself now and Piccolo smiled down at him.
"Good work"he said,though he didnt mean it.It should have been him,Piccolo...not...
"Thanks"Yamcha said,looking down where Cell had landed.Out of the rubble burst android 16,and now none of his black vest was left,just torn skin,wires,metal and blood.He rose slowly towards them.
"Get away,android"Piccolo snarled.
"Please...I mean you no harm..."16 said.The three of them stared down where Cell was half-buried in rubble.Tien and Krillin were rising too.
This wasnt how it was supposed to be,Piccolo thought,he was supposed to do it alone...
"Are you okay,Piccolo?"Krillin asked,watching his scarred face and torn clothes.
"Fine"Piccolo replied,not thinking.Then he looked over at Krillin,and sunlight seemed to appear out of nowhere as he smiled.
It was over.He didnt need to prove himself now,Vegeta and Goku could do that...he knew that...
"Where now?"Yamcha asked.
"We need to destroy Cell once and for all"16 told them.
"What do you mean,he is dead!"Tien said.
"He is not"16 replied.
BAM! There was a burst of greyish light and the rubble exploded around and Cell came flying,his face contorted with anger.
He sent a punch into Piccolo's stomach,sending him flying into the air.
"Massenkopapo!"Cell screeched,so a golden beam surrounded by a spinning wreath of red light was sent into Piccolo.
He knocked it away.
Yamcha and Tien appeared at either side of him.
"Getting the Earthlings to fight your battles for you now,Namek?"Cell hissed.
"Get away!"Piccolo snapped,pushing Yamcha and Tien aside.
"Massenko-Senko!"Piccolo shouted,sending a beam of red light surrounded by balls of white light.The beam was pushed back by Cell as the white balls surrounded him.Piccolo fired his Massenkopapo into the red beam which came out the other end,right through Cell's mouth.
His arms pulled away and the beam of red light covered him.Then the white light converged into him and exploded.
"KAMEHAMEHA!"Yamcha and Krillin shouted,firing blasts of Sapphire-White energy at Cell.
"TRIBEAM!"Tien screamed,and a spinning triangle of golden energy growing larger and larger came in from behind towards Cell.
16 silently fired a giant red-gold ball of fire from his mouth followed by a beam of golden energy which hit Cell in the head.
There was a wave of wind and energy which the fighters struggled to overcome.
Then there was the noise.An overwhelming noise was thrown at them,screaming,banging,bamming.The trees were shook from their roots,the y birds fluttered away screeching wildy,the road and cliff began to crumble away in a tremendous amount of heat and pressure laid into it,and where the river curved round the high cliff with the road on it there was soon nothing but a clogged-up river,which lots of mud and rubble blocking up certain parts or mud-filled water sloshing very fast in other parts.
Then it stopped.The smoke billowed into the air and spiralled downwards with rubble,mud and the charred remains of Cell.
Then the trees stopped shaking;the birds returned,chirping.Light itself seemed to grow and migrate to their area;the river began to break through the slush of mess and was clean.The sunlight rose and split the clouds,and soft music began to play,accompained by a tremendous sense of self-acheivement.They had done it,all alone,with no Saiyan to help them.
It was the Earth,and they were fighting their own battles now.
The warriors,scarred and exhausted,fell to the ground,into the muddy river,but they did not care.Yamcha buried himself in the mud,Krillin let the water roll over him,Tien didnt bother to meditate or find a rock or boulder to rest on,he merely collapsed,gasping,into the floor.
Piccolo laid himself against the now very wide banks of the river,and 16 clambered,drenched into water,out onto the bank.
"We...did...it..."Yamcha gasped,his eyes closed.
"Without Goku...we did it alright..."Krillin said,smiling.
"We did it all alone!"Tien exclaimed,as though this fact had only just become apparent to him.
"Yeah!"Krillin and Yamcha said together,sitting up and revealing mud drenched all down them,"WE DID IT ALONE!"
They suddenly forgot that they were exhausted and jumped up,laughing merrily.
17 landed on the bank,looking down at the injured 16.
"Feeling okay,buddy?"he asked.
"Fine..."16 replied,though he didnt look or sound it.
"ahh!"Tien shouted,jumping back and sending a wave of liquidy mud over Krillin and Yamcha."17!!"
Piccolo looked up and snarled,"What are you doing here?!"
"Your not going to attack,are you?"Yamcha asked.
17 was smiling,"You guys saved my life...I owe you to the extent that I'll spare you..."he turned round and breathed in,"Come 16"he said,not looking at him.16 stood wearily and made to move when Krillin asked;
"Your not going to kill anyone,are you?"
17's head turned,and his smile was wider now,"I'll have to decide"he said,but his eyes were twinkling.He opened his mouth again but then froze in horror,and the sparkle was lost.His eyes burst alive with fear,and noticing this Piccolo turned to see a hideous sight.
Cell was lying,covered in thick green slime,presumably his blood,and was without legs.He had one arm missing up to the elbow and his head was smooth and shiny and very black.Blood,or the green slime,was splashed over him,like a broken robot his arm moved slowly and rickety towards the sky,and he gurgled pathetically.It looked broken.
"Helllpp....me..."he moaned,his eyes rolling about.Well,one of his eyes was.The other had a giant red burn across it which stopped at the tip of his shining,green slime-covered black head.
Krillin jumped back and slipped into the water,but this did not provoke a laugh,especially not to those who remembered what happened on Namek....
Yamcha stared stupidly,then raised his arm.
"Nn...n.argh..."he whispered.
"Why should we spare a monster like you?!"Piccolo spat,not noticing his tail slithering slowly about the mud.
He inched forward,crawling,not as everyone though,towards Piccolo,but towards another...
A grin was trying very hard to break through his face but he darent let it escape-he tried to focuse on the pain he was feeling.
He was beggining to reach the bank,water pouring over him,talking as he did so to distract them.
"Pl...pleagh..."he gurgled.
Piccolo was eyeing him closely,but said nothing.
"Why didnt regenerate?"Yamcha asked as he grasped the edge of the bank for support.
"I dont have enough energy...not..."he shook his head,and then using his free arm and mustering ever ounce of energy let his tail rise but before 16,as he jumped in front of 17,could fire any attack two screams penetrated the air.
Piccolo fell onto the riverbed,his leg at an odd angle.Someone grabbed his foot,pulled it out of the flesh it was in and threw his limp body away,and it was carried along by the fast-flowing river.He shot a ball of energy which tore through 16,paving his path for 17.
The warrior laughed wildly,and Krillin ran forward,kicking and punching wildly.The warrior grabbed hold of his head and threw him into the ground.
"Get up"he snarled,grabbing Cell's barely-alive body,and throwing him at 17.The man leapt,in one move,ahead of 17 and grabbed him by the throat,then stuffed him up Cell's tail.
"Goodbye"he muttered softly,his eyes fluttering.
Yes,he thought,the Prince would prove his title once again...