Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Alternate Universe ❯ The Third Form ( Chapter 7 )

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The Alternate Universe

Chapter Seven: The Third Form

"You monster!"Yamcha shouted."You-"
But Vegeta had thrown his arm back and knocked Yamcha into the muddy water.
"Do you want a challenge Vegeta?"Tien hissed,"You can lay off Piccolo!He put everything into this fight!"
"The Namek is weak"Vegeta spat."He deserves death,along with you rodents"
"You'll never change,you arrogant pig"Tien snapped.
He held up his arm and a golden ball of energy appeared in his hand,aiming right at Tien.
"Dont make me have to silence so good a runt as you"he said with narrowed eyes.
17 was screaming and writhing,and 16 was feebly crawling to help him.
"I dont care!"Tien shouted."You killed the others,why not me?"
"If you say so"Vegeta said with a smile."But if your the same as Piccolo and I so easily disposed of him,how will you have any chance?"
"Trust me"Tien said,"I'm strong"
Vegeta fired the energy attack but Tien knocked it away.Vegeta's black hair swayed in the wind.
"If you wanna go Super Saiyan to beat me and Cell,fine by me...next you'll be getting your mommy to fight your battles..."Tien mocked.
This had effect on Vegeta,"Lousy runt!I'll make a mockery of you!Four years ago you couldnt hold your own against Nappa,now you expect to defeat a Super Saiyan like me?"
"Dont get cockier than you already are!Your the weak one,you coward!You've hurt Krillin,Yamcha and Piccolo because of you insolent arrogance!"he shot a worried look at 17 who was dissapearing under Cell's tail,and shouted,"And NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"
Vegeta smiled,"I've been watching things...and now I know this guy"he indicated to Cell who had blank white eyes and was dribbling and rolling slightly on the floor,"Has to absorb the androids...and then we shall see the ultimate warrior..."his smile widened.
Vegeta's hair burst into golden life,his eyes a violent green.
Tien was now between him and Cell,and he conjured a destructo disc.
"Dont,fool"Vegeta advised."Just move"
"Destructo...!"Tien began.
"Move!"Vegeta hissed forcefully.
"...Disc..."
"MOVE!"Vegeta yelled,a burst of golden light appearing in his hand.
"ATTACK!"he sliced it down but he missed,and caused a fatal mistake.He swiped away his ally's arm-16 was now yelling as he was about to cut away Cell's tail.Not noticing this Vegeta screamed,
"MOVE OR I WILL MAKE YOU!"The ball of energy fired,and seeing no point to hang around Tien dodged as a wall of flame and smoke exploded into the trees behind him.He kept on going and landed on a cliff above to find an unexpected ally.
"Hey,Tien"Trunks said.
"Trunks?"Tien asked,half-turning round.
"Yeah,its me"
Tien smiled,"I'm glad I've got someone...your dad is totally rampage...why dont you step in and do something?"
"Do something?"Trunks repeated.He laughed coldly,"And risk everything I've worked to build up?"
"What...?"
Vegeta watched the creature writh,and 16 along with it.
Then there was an explosion of white energy,Cell took on some of 17's power,some very much-needed power.
Up until now he couldnt even control his body.It was pure instinct that allowed him to absorb 17,but now his legs were sprouting out of slime-covered,grey stumps.His arm was also coming back,and his normal one lost all its scarrings.Cell's head became pointed and normal again,all the cuts,burns and scarrings dissapeared,Cell was laughed.He jumped up and now used his newfound energy to suck 17 up extra fast.
And then it happened.
He threw his head back,his mouth wide open.His eyes rolled into the back of his head,he was dribbling from both the horrifying eyes and his mouth,seemingly unable to stop this.Insect-like wings sprouted out of his back,his head became pointed,a black shining ball with two triangle-like green razors at each side.He became smaller,his eyes turned a violent purple,he looked all the more evil.
Then a blinding white wall of energy surrounded him,almost liquid-like,swirling and swelling.Tien threw himself back towards Trunks as the wall blasted around him,then faded away.
Cell immediatly held his hands up and began staring at them.
"Seems pretty amazed with them,doesnt he?"Tien whispered to Trunks.Then without hearing any reply,he added,"What respect...?"
"I mean"Trunks replied,"That myself and my father have been training for a year now"
"A year?How?Where?Could it...you didnt...in the Hyperbo-"
"Yes"Trunks said,nodding,"I remember it when I was young,when we went up there for safety.People trained in there,hard and long.When I went up with my father yesterday I saw nobody was there.My father was very skeptical but I pushed him on,and now he should thank me...now that he has ascended"
"Ascended?"Tien repeated.
"Are you going to be staring at your hands all day or are you going to fight me,Cell?"Vegeta shouted.
Krillin stirred,coughing.He got up,looking weak,and ran towards Cell.
"You brute!"he screamed,but Cell threw his arm out and Krillin was whacked far away into the forest,screaming.
Yamcha too stood,staring hard at the Super Saiyan.
"You'll pay for this.Vegeta!"he shouted,but Vegeta kicked upwards into Yamcha's face,knocking him out.He then flew high into the sky and crashed back down again at a different part of the river.
Vegeta turned back to Cell to see him smiling,his arms tensed.He smiled,too.
"Finally a challenge"Vegeta whispered."Behind me up there,thats my son.If you can get past me,which I doubt,you will have him to deal with.Though admittedly,he is weaker than me..."
"You cannot defeat perfection"Cell told him.This time his voice was not deep and rough or a hiss.It was a sort of fused version;it was strong and powerful.He boomed out over everything.
"I'll have my try,then we'll see who's right about that"Vegeta said.
"We will"Cell replied."You'll see I am perfection,and there is nothing higher than perfection"
Vegeta jumped forward and kicked Cell in the face.He shot backwards and hit the floor,pretending he was injured.
Vegeta appeared above him and kicked downwards but Cell flipped backwards out the way,grabbed his arm and threw him back towards the river,a ball of red energy firing after him.It exploded into him and he was thrown down into the mud.
He jumped up,growling,his back covered in a thick sludge.
"Bassienko!"Cell called and a green ball of energy,about as big as Vegeta's head,came spinning towards him.He knocked it away behind him,but it came back round and smashed into his back,sending him flying forward into the mud,his face deep in it.
Cell laughed as he pulled himself out,now nearly covered in it from all sides.
He stormed through the mud and out onto the bank,but as he reached Cell he dissapeared and reappeared behind,his fists smashing down onto Cell's head.He fired a ball of blue energy into his head which exploded,sending smoke and flame about.
"Graghh!"Cell grunted.
He fired a blast of red light which collided with the smoke,then landed back on the ground a few feet away,smiling contentedly.
But then as the smoke cleared Vegeta saw Cell,his arms folded in boredom.
"Dont make me kill you,Vegeta"he said.A ball of energy appeared in his hand.
"I guess I'll have to up it to the next level a bit early"Vegeta said,wiping his hand across his blooded mouth."Tell me Cell,can you handle a Super Saiyan Grade 2?"
"What?"Cell asked.
"An ascended Saiyan...be prepared"he said,smiling.Then he clenched his fists,his muscles bulged.His head fell down and his eyes closed, and a rumbling growl echoed about the place,and then Vegeta's head snapped up and he began to scream aloud,energy surging through him,to such a pitch that it could only be disposed by being shot off as golden sparks.A crater created itself on the bank,stretching wider and wider,which the river was more than happy to fill.Vegeta lifted into the air,and his muscles expanded tremendously.
His power level shot up,and then his golden,sparkling aura died down and away.
"Its still not as good as perfection...nowhere near"Cell said,hardly impressed by Vegeta's performance.
"We shall see,Cell"he said.
"You will!"Cell shouted.A ball of blue energy appeared in his palm and fired towards Vegeta,but Vegeta knocked it away.
Then he raced forward,but Cell dodged him.
"Dont make a mockery of me!"Vegeta hissed.He turned but Cell's knuckles smashed into his face and he slammed into the ground,dust billowing around him.
Trunks did nothing,standing back.Tien was on the edge of the cliff,staring intently.
"Trunks,how long can your dad keep this up?"
"I'm coming in when the time is right"
Vegeta jumped up,and fired a ball of green energy which seered past Cell and exploded onto the cliff Tien and Trunks where on.
Cell was smiling,but Vegeta lashed out and kicked him into the cliff,followed by a web of golden energy which pinned him into it,sinking closer and closer towards him.
"Whats this?!!"he screamed,struggling against his bindings.
"Super Bang Attack!"Vegeta shouted,his arm outstretched and a golden-blue ball of energy appearing in it.It grew until it was the size of Vegeta,doubled in size and power and began to spin very very fast.
"What...is...going...on!"Cell shouted,his face being squeezed into the cliff.
"FIRE!"Vegeta shouted.
"Jump!"Trunks ordered,and he and Tien jumped as the cliff was obliterated,and whatever was far away enough not to be burned into nothingness spilling its contents into the now enormous river.
There was an almighty explosion,sending water even up to where Tien and Trunks where and above,and as it crashed back down again they noticed the sludge and rubble was gone,it was now a fast-flowing superriver,collecting trees and junk in its water and throwing them downstream.
Knee-high in water near the bank Vegeta stood triumphant.It sloshed over and past him.
"Looks like you neednt prove yourself after all,boy!"he called up to Trunks.He laughed quietly to himself,but as he made to move he felt a hand gripping his foot.
"Ah...dah...ahh...nahhh!!"he screamed,as the hand dragged him under the water and through a foot of soil and stone into a watery cavern below.
Cell was unharmed,and his arm threw Vegeta down onto the hard,cold,watery floor.
It seemed to be made of a gleaming white stone,cracked in places where water and rock spikes were seeping through.
"Its the end for you,Vegeta!"Cell shouted,a ball of blue energy in his hands."KAMEHAMEHA!"
The ball fired,followed by a stream of energy which exploded onto Vegeta,making him cry out and hurling him across the stone floor,spikes coming upwards breaking away with the force of his weight.
There was an explosion which sent black smoke into the cavern,so much so that it could not escape.
The place were Cell and Vegeta had entered was now cracked open and water was filling the place.
Cell smashed through the heavy stone and right above the water,then shouted,"KAMEHAMEHA!!!!"and the same familar white-blue beam shot downwards and pushed him high up into the sky.
Tien and Trunks parted as the giant beam rose higher and higher.
The river was once again fiercely active,and was pouring downwards into the cave.The beam thinned and then dissapeared,with Cell high high above Trunks and Tien.
The river began to calm.
"Is he gone?"Tien asked.
Trunks was silent.

Kasama tracked down,finally,the younger Trunks and was heading for him at Kame House.
Meanwhile at Kame house Kami was regaining his health,slowly but surely,Popo at his side.
"Kami...oh,Kami..."he kept repeating,ferverently attending to him needlessly as the others glued themselves to the screen.
But Kasama was heading for them,as her older sister headed for Miria Trunks.

Trunks felt a kick in his back.He flew forward and collided with Tien,and they bounced apart.
"What the...?"Trunks said,turning around.
Tien stared too.Above them,Cell was gliding downwards.Vegeta burst out of the water,gasping for breath,and led himself to the bank where he collapsed into the ground.Cell headed towards him.
Kajumi appeared behind Tien and kicked him forward.
"Ahh!"he shouted,and he slammed into the cliff face and through it.
"You!"Trunks hissed.
"Scared of me,Trunks?"she asked."Is that why you run off?I had great fun killing the useless humans"
"You monster!"Trunks shouted.
"Crazy Flame!"she shouted,and a dancing green flame appeared in her hand and she fired it at Trunks by blowing it towards him.It burnt his armour harshly,and she appeared from behind and using her fists like a hammer whacked into the back of his head,sending him flying downwards.
Then a ball of blue energy was sent flying down afterwards,which collided with Trunks' burnt body sending black smoke everywhere.
Cell had landed on the floor in front of the heavily injured Vegeta.He just managed to stand,then ran forward but Cell kicked him upwards and he was sent screaming,into the sky.He regained himself,just,and hurtled back at Cell.
"Big bang..."he started,landing in front of Cell,a ball of energy in his hands."ATTACK!"
It fired out and devoured Cell,smothering him.He screamed as Vegeta pushed as much energy as he could into the attack,then he stumbled back.
Cell was armless again,half of his body down to the hip gone,horrible ashen-grey flesh covered in thick slime remaining.
Vegeta,unable to sustain his level,dropped down to normal Saiyan,grinning.
"I've...defeated you..."he said.
"No you havnt"Cell replied with a smirk.His body reformed itself and he shot forward and kicked his leg upwards with such force that Vegeta was immediatly knocked unconcious,just as Trunks burst out of the water.He clambered onto the shore and tore across towards Cell,but he stretched his arm out and Trunks foolishly collided with and fell backwards.
"Super Saiyan!"he screamed in desperation,just about dodging Cell's punch.It instead hit Kasama.
"You stupid girl!"Cell shouted."Out of the WAY!!"
"I want to get my hands on that brute,you monster..."she said,indicating to Trunks.
The Super Saiyan form moved forward and threw a punch at Kajumi,sending her away.
"Thank-you for disposing of her,Trunks"Cell said,in his strong tone."Now we can continue the proper battle"
Cell's elbow drove downwards into Trunks' bent back,and he hit the ground with a groan.
"Do you think my father was the only one able to ascend?"Trunks asked."Well far from it!"
Cell backflipped over Trunks to watch his,in his opinion,pitiful transformation.
"Trunks there is no use"he said."I shall destroy you"
"There's use when you have HOPE!!"he shouted,and this seemed to trigger something.Surges of energy pulsated through him,"NO HOLDING BACK!MY LEVELS ARE HIGHER THAN THAT OF MY FATHER'S!"
His hair grew,outwards,inwards and upwards.His power level burst into indescribable hights,his muscles bulged greatly.
"I HAVE ASCENDED!"he shouted.A whirl of wind blew past picking up any debris."A Super Saiyan Grade 3..."he murmured.
"You are pathetic,Trunks...you'll die just like your father"
"We'll see!"Trunks shouted back,and he punch Cell in the stomach.Cell kicked downwards into his back and Trunks headbutted upwards.
It seemed an equal match.Kajumi then reappeared and kicked Cell in the chin,and sent her foot down into Trunks' back,so he smashed into the floor.He jumped aside and so her second blow sent her foot into the ground.Trunks grabbed the leg and threw her up in the air,then fired a ball of energy after her.Cell came in from behind and kicked into his back,sending him skidding along the ground.
Trunks fired a beam of power but Cell dodged and appeared behind him,then struck down.He hit the floor with a groan.
"Trunks..dont you see your weakness?"Cell asked patronisingly.
"Shut up!"Trunks shouted.Cell laughed and his knee went up into Trunks' face,his foot smashing down on his head.Trunks fell down again and so Cell kicked his foot into Trunks' back,lifted him up by the hair and sent a haze with energy into his face from inches away.Trunks screamed and was thrown back onto the floor.
"Destructo...disc!"Cell shouted and a golden disc appeared in each hand,and fired towards Trunks.He backflipped and avoided them,but they came spinning back.
"So thats your game,is it?"Trunks sneered after ducking beneath them.They went high into the sky and curved down again.
Trunks jumped high and then began to race around.Trunks did not notice Cell create a ball of blue-white energy in his hands.
Trunks dived underwater and the discs followed,cutting right through the ground below.He emerged from the water and pinned himself to the cliff,but then moved aside to see the discs cut through that instead.
"KAMEHAMEHA!"Cell shouted and a giant beam of energy started racing towards Trunks.He tried to dodge but found he was too slow,and then from behind he just managed to dodge the discs.
"ARGHHHH!"he screamed as the attack hit him in the air above the lake.A blur of blue lit the sky,and giant explosion of smoke,flame and noise boomed in every direction.
Cell relaxed his tensile position and saw the annoying girl arrive again.
"You've killed him!That was my job!"she screeched.
"Quiet you fool!"Cell shouted back.
"The other Trunks shall be mine!"she shouted,and then dissapeared.
Trunks' body sloshed up against the bank.He was alive,but barely.
Vegeta arrived back,just in time.He powered up to Super Saiyan.
"I didnt know you had that much energy left,Vegeta"Cell said with a note of boredom."Why dont you just roll over and die like the worm you are?"
"YOU CAN TAKE THAT BACK,CELL!"Vegeta screamed,and he blasted towards Cell.Cell knocked the fast-flying body into the ground,making him skid along it.Cell appeared in front of the body and kicked him high into the air,followed by a blast of energy which exploded onto Vegeta.
He hit the ground and slid off the bank into river,but seconds later he had burst out again,but this time his hair was black again.
"I'VE HAD ABOUT AS MUCH AS I CAN TAKE!"he screamed angrily,"I'VE HAD TO LET MY SON TAKE CARE OF YOU!!!DO YOU HAVE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST IDEA OF THE SHAME I HAVE BURDENED?DO YOU?!??!?!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He exploded into Super Saiyan again,and raced forward.Cell's elbow came down on his head followed by a ball of energy which hit his back.
Cell crushed his back further,making Vegeta cry out in pain.Cell picked up his limp body and began punching it in the stomach unrelentlessly.
"Big bang attack!"Cell shouted and the beam of energy caught Vegeta in the stomach and pushed him along,finally exploding about him.
16 lurched in from behind but Cell's arm acted as a clothsline and 16 tumbled over it,and Cell kicked his body away,muttering,"This is all too easy..."
But Cell was caught off guard as Tien came in from behind with a ball of energy which hit Cell's shoulder.He half-turned to see who had sent the attack and was hit bang in the face with the tribeam,sending him flying forward.He tore through a cliff of rock which crumbled down on him into boulders.But Cell burst out of them,racing towards Tien.
"Solar Flare!"he shouted,and Cell was stopped in his tracks-he hit the ground and slid along it towards Tien.
"Tribeam!!!!!!!!"Tien bellowed into the air,conjuring whatever energy was left inside of him and sending a haze of golden light down into Cell's body,so intense that he was blasted by up through the air as though on a rocket.Faced with no energy he fell back onto a cliff and crouched low,catching his breath.
The smoke cleared to reveal Cell,heavily scarred.The combined forces of Vegeta,Trunks and Tien were finally weighing down on him...or were they?
Trunks came in from behind and sent a punch into Cell's back but he dodged it.
"Your too slow Trunks...alas,you are stronger than me in this form.But I am yet to power up to maximum,and I have much more speed"he whispered this in Trunks' ear and then send his elbow into Trunks' back,so he crashed down to the ground in a crumpled heap.
And it hit him.At grade three he was too slow;all this bulk was slowing him down.
"I wont let you win!"he shouted,and jumped up.Facing decreased speed and grade three and not enough energy for grade two Trunks had to power down to normal Super Saiyan.He charged forward like and angrily bull but Cell fired a ball of energy at him.It hit his face and he stumbled backwards.From behind Cell hammered down on his head and Trunks fell to the ground,his hair pink again.
"Is there no challengers from Earth left?!"Cell called out.Tien jumped up."No one?Oh well,its goodbye for Trunks here..."
He created a ball of energy in his hand and pointed it at Trunks.
"NOOO!!!"Tien shouted,and in a last ditch attempt send a flying kick into Cell's head.He was thrown aside and the energy attack blasted on him.Tien was gasping for breath.
"Good,two more victims then!"Cell said slyly,and he ran forward and kicked Tien in the stomach,then reappeared behind him and elbowed him back down into the ground with a thud.And now he conjured an energy ball in both hands,and pointed one at Tien and one at Trunks.
"Goodbye..."he said.
"DESTRUCTO DISC!"Krillin shouted,and a golden disc came towards Cell and through his neck.
"Not...again..."he groaned,blood flying everywhere.His head hit the ground but almost instantly reformed.
Tien jumped in from behind but Cell threw him to the ground and he lay motionless.
"Come on...Goku..."he whispered.
"Hang in there,Tien..."Trunks told him."We might just..."
"Noo!!"Krillin shouted,and he dashed forward but Cell rose into the air and he tripped over his comrades.Cell was now high above them.
But Yamcha slipped his arms inside Cell's and they interlocked in mid-air.
"I thought there was another runt about!"Cell hissed.He tried to push out.
"I'm going...and I'm taking you with me Cell..."he said."GUYS!"he shouted down to the others,"WISH ME BACK,OKAY?!"
"Yamcha!"Krillin shouted.
But Cell's arms burst out so violently that Yamcha's broke.He was sent screaming into the ground beside Trunks and Tien.
Using one arm Cell created the Big Bang Attack and in the other the Kamehameha.They charged as Krillin came closer,and then he put his hands together and they merged.His foot kicked Krillin back down to Earth alongside Trunks,Tien and Yamcha.
"SUPER BANG KAMEHAMEHA!!!"he shouted,and a blue-green beam of energy shot towards the Z fighters.
"This is it you guys..."Krillin muttered,not able to keep his eyes open.
"Nice knowing you..."Trunks whispered back.
But nothing happened.Then,something did.The sky stopped being lit the colour of the ferocious attack.It calmed to its normal state.
There was an enermous "BOOM" and "BANG" but the Z fighters found they were still alive.
Krillin managed to raise his head.
"Guys...its...but it cant be!"he exclaimed.
The others looked up.
They were on a cliff,crouching low.Beside them was an unconcious Vegeta and a broken-armed Yamcha.
Android 20, 19 and 21 were standing behind Goku,who had his arm in a defensive position.He had knocked the blast away single handedly and he wasnt even a Super Saiyan yet.
"Wow...he's amazing..."Krillin said,his eyes half-closed."Thats Goku for you!"
Goku was staring hard up at Cell,and Cell was doing the same back to him.Behind the five of them lurked another android,just waiting to attack.
"16,are you alright?"20 asked him,going over to the battered figure.20 fitted his sawed-off hand back on and lasered the two together.
"I am experiencing great malfunctions..."he murmured.
"Come"20 said.He lifted 16 up and appeared up beside the five fighters.Vegeta,unconcious,noticed nothing.Yamcha toppled back and the other four,still half-crouching half-lying down out of weakness backed away.20 let 16 drop in their midst,and dissapeared again.
"Hey,Yamcha"Tien said,shuffling over."How's Choatzu doing?"
"He...he didnt make it..."Yamcha replied."I'm sorry..."
Tien silently moved back into place to watch.
"So Cell!"Goku shouted up."Did you get any challenge out of them"
"Quite a bit,Goku!"he replied."They are strong"he appeared in front of Goku,"But you are the real challenge"
"We'll see,Cell.This may be one fight you wont come out on top of"he tensed up into his fighting position,his eyes narrowed."Cell...I'll make you pay for what you did...what you did to everyone..."Images of Trunks, Tien and Krillin being beating up flitted into his mind,of Yamcha breaking his arms,of Piccolo floating down a river,and of Choatzu being blown away.His face screwed up in anger.His brows furrowed.
Cell tensed too.
"The fight of the titans begins"he whispered.

Gohan looked out of the window at Roshi's place.He thought he had just saw something.Much to the worry of his mother he went to inspect,but only looking out the window.If they were looking for Trunks or his father,they would have to go through him first.
He saw the waves lap up gently against the shore,the palm trees sway and the old turtle slide out onto the shore,the sunlight shining,and he relaxed.There was nothing there.Nothing to be worried of.
He smiled and turned around to an unusual silence,and he saw the back door open.
And in came Kasama.
The others did not notice so quickly.Kasama and Gohan looked into each other's eyes harshly.
"I've come for you,baby Trunks"she said.
At this everyone jumped around.There was mayhem.Gohan and Kasama still stared at each other hard.
Chi-Chi grabbed Gohan and began trying to tug him away but he would not budge.
"Come...on!!"she sobbed.Bulma burst out of the door to find the yellow ship they came in wrecked.
"NOO!!"she screamed.
Only Kami,a sobbing Chi-Chi,a determined Popo and Gohan remained.
He had let everyone down before because he was scared.He wouldnt do it again.He would prove himself.