Alright, people! This is my second MCF special: Gods vs Guardians! If you've never read The Misadventures of Cell & Frieza or know anything about the Dragon Ball Z Xenoverse game, then a lot of this will be very foreign to you. If you have read my story and know about the game, then prepare yourself for an awesome story!

Hope you all enjoy!

The Misadventures of Cell & Frieza: Gods vs Guardians

Today was business as usual on the Planet of the Kais. The scenery was beautiful, as always. A subtle breeze wafted over the surface, leaving the temperature perfect for a lazy day spread out on the planet's endless fluffy grass. It was practically heaven, at least to most people anyway.

"I swear, if I have to read one more tragic story of an alien species' annihilation by a reckless tyrant, I'm going to create a supernova just to kill myself," Frieza groaned, a look of utter distaste on his face as he angrily flipped through the large book that contained history of the universe dating back centuries. The former tyrant was laid across the grass, lying on his side with one hand used to prop himself up and the other for violently flipping through the book. "I thought this was a book of history, not tales of the weak."

"Careful, Frieza," Cell cautioned with a highly amused smirk on his face as he walked over to his friend. Another volume of the universal history book was carefully balanced in one of the android's hands as he stepped. As he got closer, Frieza looked up and the utter look of annoyance flashing over the frost demon's face was enough to make Cell chuckle. "I don't think the old kai would be happy to hear those kind of words come out of the mouth of Otherworld's guardian." Cell motioned over to where the two kais sat, far away from the duo and atop a ledge that overlooked a lake of serene water, while in deep meditation.

Frieza followed the glance and rolled his eyes at the mere sight of Elder Kai, aka Frieza's tormentor. It was by the kai's demand that Cell and Frieza become dedicated students that read ancient history for twenty hours a day, and if Frieza or Cell was caught lazing around for even a second, here came Attila the Kai to reprimand them.

But then, a child-like smile graced his face before sitting up. "Good thing he's busy," he said. "Think now's a perfect time for a break!"

That thought wasn't able to stay in Frieza's head long enough for the tyrant to get off the ground, however. The second Frieza moved to stand, a rather large pebble smashed into the side of his head and disintegrated on impact from the sheer force behind it. As for Frieza, the sharp pain was enough to jolt him from the ground and rub at the bruised side of his forehead as he whipped around to who'd dare throw a rock at him. Of course, it was Attila.

"What's your problem, old man?!"

"My problem is you, you lazy slacker!" Old Kai screamed back, whatever meditative trance he'd been in long gone as he now argued with Frieza, leaving Kibito Kai to just sigh in exasperation. "It's only been five hours since your last break and now you want to take another one!"

"DID YOU EVEN HEAR THE WORDS YOU JUST SAID!"

The elder looked just about ready to blow a gasket, but instead of joining Frieza in a screaming match, he floated down to the grass just a few meters in front of the tyrant. "I did actually," he said, almost sounding regal as he stood there with his hands behind his back. The change in attitude took Frieza off his guard, even Cell looked surprised. But then, old kai continued. "Maybe if you spent less time complaining, you'd be more ahead in your studies and then you wouldn't need to read so much. Cell is already three volumes ahead of you, Frieza. Maybe you should be more like him."

"Uh oh," Cell hissed and then cautioned a glance in Frieza's direction.

Cell is – without a doubt – Frieza's closest and most trusted friend. With that being said, Frieza hated being compared to the android. Maybe it was because Cell always had some kind of competitive advantage over Frieza, or because Frieza was secretly jealous of how easy things came to the android. Either way, comparing the two vocally wasn't something anyone was encouraged to do in Frieza's presence. And judging by the almost fiery aura radiating off the Ice-jin, old kai's words had definitely struck a chord.

"Want to repeat that?" Frieza practically growled out in anger, the illumination of his dangerous aura growing brighter and brighter.

"Of course I will," Elder kai offered immediately, not the least bit fazed by Frieza's overwhelming angry energy. He even paused to clear his throat, wanting to make sure every syllable rolled out perfectly.

"Elder, please!" Kibito Kai begged.

"I said, 'Maybe…'" The sky grew dark.

"'…you should…'" The streams, rivers, and lakes began to tremble.

"'…be more like…'" Lightning and thunder rung through the air.

"…hi –,"

"Hey guys!" Goku suddenly called out, appearing completely out of nowhere via his instant transmission. The Saiyan appeared just before Old Kai could finish his word and now stood awkwardly to watch Frieza and the elder in one of the most intense stand offs he'd seen in ages. "Um…am I interrupting something?" he asked cautiously.

"Goku!" Kibito Kai yelled out in elation. A barely audible, "Oh thank the heavens," rolling under his breath before he ran over to Goku's side. "Look everyone, Goku's here! No need to be angry! Come say hi!"

Judging by the way the Supreme Kai was pulling Goku between the glares of Old Kai and Frieza, the Saiyan could tell he'd come just in time to interrupt something, and with a smile blossoming on his face, decided he didn't even want to know what that something was.

"Hello, Goku," Elder said, being the first to break the intense stare down with Frieza to instead look at the hero. "I can only assume that everything's been well with everyone on Earth since the Janemba incident four years ago."

"Oh yeah! No problems at all!" Goku happily replied with a cheesy grin. "It's been so quiet these past few years, I'm not sure what to do with myself." Then, as if an afterthought, he laughed and added, "Hehe! I almost wish a little action would come around and spice things up a bit to be honest!"

Kibito Kai frowned. "You know, Goku, you should never ever wish for something like that. It's almost certain to come true."

"Wow, Supreme Kai," Goku gaped openly at the kai, making Kibito Kai startle. "It's so weird. Those are the exact same words that Piccolo told me."

Cell chuckled at the expressions of the two – Goku's one of wonder and the kai's one of awkwardness. "Maybe Piccolo should've been awarded a guardian position, too. He's certainly wise enough," he said with a smirk.

"And certainly studious enough," Old Kai muttered, though not nearly quiet enough.

"What was that!" Frieza screamed and practically lunged for the old man, but Cell held his shoulder in a firm grasp.

"Oh nothing," the elder replied and then flicked his head away from Frieza as if dismissing a fly, the action alone making Frieza's aura roar around him. The kai then addressed Goku once more. "It is nice to see you once again, Goku, but I must return to my meditation. It keeps my mind and body centered, and a kai must always be in a state of homeostasis."

Though looking very sad about it, Kibito Kai also added,"I fear I must join him as well, Goku. It is a rather important chore, I'm afraid."

"No problem!" the Saiyan assured with a nod to the kais as they began walking away. "I'll come back sometime later to catch up with you both!" He offered them both a wave as they returned to their meditation above the serene lake, and then turned back to look at Cell and Frieza, the latter attempting to make old kai combust by glare alone. "Things don't change much, do they Frieza?" Goku asked with a bright chuckle.

The frost demon turned that deadly leer upon Goku, whose smile at the situation only grew, and then glanced back at Cell, who'd also begun to laugh at that point. Then, he scoffed and turned his nose up at the Saiyan. "Whatever!" he snapped in an attempt to pass his anger off on the two. "Do as much reading as I do, and we'll see how happy you are!"

"I actually manage pretty well," Cell spoke up, earning yet another scathing glare from the short alien.

Another scoff rolled from Frieza's lips. "Freakish androids aside…" he said, turning away from Cell and landing those red irises back on Goku. "What exactly are you doing here anyway?"

"Who me?" Goku questioned innocently, as if Frieza was talking to anyone else, and then added, "Well, I was actually on my way to visit King Kai when I thought about how long it'd been since I saw you guys. Figured it wouldn't hurt to take a detour to the Planet of the Kais and catch up with old friends!" He offered the two former villains wide smiles after he'd called the two actually friends, a smile that they both returned with a smirk. "I would invite you two to come along, but…well…he's just gotten his planet restored…" Goku scratched at the back of his head awkwardly and looked up at Cell. "Things hadn't exactly gone the best last time Cell and I were both on King Kai's planet at the same time…"

The brief memory of the incident passed through both Goku's and Cell's mind, Semi-perfect Cell's bloated body and Goku appearing on the tiny planet with King Kai screaming his head off and Goku offering a meek apology before they were all blown to space dust.

"Wasn't the best of first impressions, was it?" Cell mentioned with a smile tugging at his lips as he casually tapped his chin. His android eyes darted down to Goku, who offered his own sheepish smile before bursting with laughter.

"He was so mad!" Goku laughed out. "I thought he'd kill me all over again! Man, I can't tell you what I had to do to get him to forgive me for that one!"

And while Cell and Goku both laughed at what surely was quite the fond memory, Frieza stood aside, glancing back and forth between the two. After a few more seconds of their joyous moment, the tyrant finally cleared his throat, the sound working to pause Cell and Goku's laughter, as well as gain their attentions. "I have no idea what either of you find so funny," he said, almost sounding irritated with the situation. "But all jokes aside, Goku, shouldn't you be on Earth helping the others prepare for the celebration? I mean, Cell and I planned on being fashionably late, but thanks to that insufferable tyrant over there…" Frieza turned a deadly glare to old kai, who miraculously managed to hear and also landed a lethal glare right back, before turning away and back to Goku. "…it looks like we'll be forced to stay here and catch up on our reading."

"Speak for yourself, Frieza. I'm ahead of schedule," Cell mused, almost smugly.

"What!" the tyrant barked and turned around to address the android, who was smiling wickedly. "You bastard! We're supposed to be a team! You can't abandon me here!"

"Maybe you should've thought about that before you slacked off," the bio-android shrugged, inwardly loving how angry Frieza was getting.

"…um…guys?" Goku questioned, stealing the guardians' attention as he looked at them as if they'd grown two, fire-breathing heads. They'd lost him at celebration. "What are you two talking about? What celebration?"

The look of utter shock in Goku's question struck Frieza and Cell like frying pans to the face. Both completely stilled upon the hero's inquiry, too shocked to truly believe that Goku had actually forgot about the massive birthday party for his best friend since he was a child. And while the guardians stood there, mouth agape, Goku could only stare back with crippling confusion.

"Goku, how could you…"

"Nope," Frieza demanded and slapped a hand up to cover Cell's mouth before he could continue talking. "For this battle, Cell, we will be no help," he went on to say, his red irises watching as Goku slouched in mock defeat. "Forgetting something like this should be unforgiveable, Goku. You want to know what's happening today? You'll just have to remember it on your own because I know you've been told about it numerous times. I'd go so far as to say your wife and kids reminded you of it this morning."

"But –!"

"No buts!" Frieza snapped with a dismissive wave of his hand. "You're on your own."

Goku's shoulder slumped in defeat. "You just want to see me suffer, don't you?"

"In ways that you could never understand," Frieza mused with a conniving smile that only made Goku whine as Cell shook his head in unbelievable enjoyment of Frieza's torture.

"Could you at least tell me how long I've got until the celebration starts!" Goku demanded like a child on the verge of a temper tantrum.

Frieza briefly glanced up at Cell, locking eyes with the android as if silently asking should he do the Saiyan the favor. He then looked back at Goku and said, "It's hard to judge Earth's time from up here, but I'd say that you have about five minutes, Goku." He even held up a hand with all five digits spread to emphasize the statement. "If I were you, I wouldn't waste any time."

Goku watched Frieza's hand for a moment, as if processing the information, before he jolted with an idea. "Okay!" he declared happily. "That means I should have plenty of time to visit King Kai and probably get in a little training with the new planet's gravity before I head back to Earth! Thanks, guys, but there's no time to waste!" Goku pressed his index and middle finger to his forehead while waving at the duo with his other hand. "See ya on Earth!"

And with that, the hero vanished into thin air right before the guardians, leaving both Cell and Frieza a little shell-shocked. Then, as if an afterthought, Frieza turned to Cell and asked, "Did he just insult me?"

Cell pondered over the question for a moment, as if torn between answering truthfully and being kind to Frieza. "It's really only an insult if it's not true," the bio-android said and then casually walked away from the tyrant, hoping for that to be the end of their conversation, but Frieza's rebuttal was right on the verge of being yelled when they both suddenly caught the glimmer of movement far, far out into the sky.

The angry words dying in the frost demon's throat, Frieza said, "Did you see that?"

Before Cell could answer, they both caught sight of the object. It was a spaceship of some kind with a huge clock on the face of the ship, and it was barreling towards the planet like a fiery meteor. The kais both took note of the flaming spacecraft as it sped through the air, their meditative trances broken once more to look upon the sight. And then they were forced into the sky as the spacecraft whipped through the air, right over the spot where they'd been floating. Cell and Frieza both ducked as the runaway ship whizzed right over their bodies and careened on further down the surface before crashing violently into the face of a small hill.

"What is that?" Kibito Kai announced as he floated above the guardians, his eyes glued to the scene, watching as smoke bellowed from the small crater the spaceship had created.

"I think who would be more accurate," Cell mused, arms folding impatiently as he waited out the view of their unexpected visitor.

Frieza's stance mirrored his comrades, impatient and attentive of the scene. "I could always use a distraction!" he called out, the idea of battle making his blood rush.

But old kai silenced all of their concerns as he rushed ahead of them and threw an arm out to the side as if to stop anyone from doing anything hasty. "Don't you dare think about harming this spacecraft or the person in it!" he demanded heatedly. "There's already so few of us left! I won't stand by and allow another kai to be eliminated!"

"A KAI!" all three spectators announced shocked.

On cue, a hatch at the roof of the craft exploded off the ship. The second it did, a rather large yellow bird rushed out as if trying to escape hell itself, and right on the bird's coattails was a small girl, definitely of the kai species with her pointy ears, pink skin, and ruby red hair. If that wasn't enough of a distinguisher, she was even dressed in the regal clothing associated with the Kais of the Sacred World, and had a pair of Potara earrings on.

"You stupid bird!" she yelled out angrily as she flew off after the creature, trying desperately to attack it or at least capture it. "Were you trying to kill me?! I let you take the wheel for one second and you fly us directly into a sun AND an asteroid field! ARE YOU CRAZY?!"

"TOKI! TOKI!"

The quartet stood by and followed the scene in awe. The girl chased after the bird for what felt like two full minutes and she finally caught up to it, she smacked it over the head with enough force to make the poor creature fall out of the sky with a smoldering bump on his head. And after her eventful time, she took a long breather up in the sky to reclaim some sense of nobility.

They gave her a respectable amount of time before old kai finally decided to clear his throat to get her attention. The unexpected sound made the girl kai jolt upward and look down at the others, who all collectively waved up at her. Looking utterly mortified to be seen in such an undignified manner, she carefully floated out of the sky, back to the grass, and then turned to face them all. She straightened her back, lifted her head, and took the pose befitting of a woman in her supreme position.

"Greetings," she said, as if the comical fight she'd just had with a bird did not just happen.

"She cannot be serious," Frieza mused, with an eyebrow quirked.

"Be quiet!" old kai shushed and then turned back to the girl, and even took two steps forward. She was a small kai, only landing somewhere around Frieza's shoulder height. So then, it wasn't much for old kai to look down on the girl as he stepped closer. "I-It's been awhile, Jiran," Old kai spoke, sounding utterly nerve-wrecked as he stood before the kai.

"I could say the same thing about you, old man," Jiran replied, taking a brief second to look Elder Kai over with a hint of disdain in her eye before she shifted her weight and folded her arms condescendingly. "I see someone finally freed you from the Z Sword. They must've had some incredible power to do so." Old kai nodded in kind to the girl's word, almost blushing as he did so, and carefully took another step towards her, but then Jiran spoke again. "But that's beside the point!" she asserted and walked around the elder as if he had never been standing there in the first place. "I'm not here to chat, I'm afraid," she went on to say and walked right up to Kibito Kai, Cell, and Frieza. "I've come with rather terrible news, news that I must share with the last of the kais."

The rather noble and assertive tone in the girl's features nearly made Kibito Kai's instints as a deity come alert. He met her professional exterior with one of his own as he said, "Not to sound crass, but I am going to have to ask who you are. It's obvious that you're a kai, but I have no knowledge of your existence. So please, explain yourself."

If the girl was surprised by Kibito Kai's question, it didn't show. "I've been known to many of my kai brethren as Jiran," she replied casually, arms folded behind her back as she looked up at the taller kai. "However, to many other deities and entities of Otherworld, I am also known as the Supreme Kai of Time." Jiran paused in that moment, watching as the shock of her announcement dawned on her three spectators. "It's my job to oversee the flow of time and make sure no absurd anomalies arise. Most often, I am the one that passes down knowledge of certain threats in the galaxies because of what horror crimes they may commit in the near future. Essentially, gentlemen, I am the overseer of time and space."

While Frieza and Cell took their own respectable amounts of time to process this information, Kibito Kai stood like a deer in headlights as he tried to think through what Jiran had just announced. "I…I can't believe this. Th-there is a Supreme Kai of Time and I knew nothing about it," he gaped.

"You really shouldn't feel bad," the girl spoke with a slight tilt of her head, almost to look sympathetic. "My position isn't known to very many people and being how the kais were basically driven to extinction by Majin Buu, it doesn't surprise me that the knowledge of my position wasn't passed on to you." She then took her eyes off of Shin to look back and forth between Cell and Frieza. "Judging by what I've seen of your pasts and what could've become of your futures," she said. "I'm not entirely sure I agree with Shin's decision to have you here on this planet."

Frieza scoffed brazenly in the kai's presence. "Take a number and stand in line with the rest of the people who don't think that we're good for our positions," he snapped. "I enjoy an audience."

Jiran took a moment to look Frieza up and down before clicking her tongue in irritation and looking back at Shin. "Be that as it may, I'm here on pressing matters, Shin. As per my job, it's my responsibility to look over the various multi-verses that arise. There are certain beings that are capable of altering timelines, mostly for their own nefarious purposes, and I – alongside my Time Patrollers – stop these creatures and fix time for all." Jiran reached into a small sack tied to her waist and pulled out a small scroll that seemed to be engulfed in black fire. "But I fear that a knew enemy against time has risen and not even my Time Patrollers have been able to stand a chance against him or the terrible creatures that he's created."

By that point, Old Kai had walked back over and he frozen up the sight of the dark fire scroll. His eyes grew wide and he seemed to break into a nervous sweat as he watched. Even Kibito Kai seemed taken aback by whatever maleficent energy that coiled in the time scroll.

"Wh-what is that power I feel radiating from the scroll you're holding? I…it feels so, chillingly dark!" Shin exclaimed, and even took a step back from the scroll.

Cell quirked a brow upon Shin's exclaim and looked back and forth between the scroll and kai as if he'd missed some crucial information. "What energy? What darkness are you talking about?" he questioned upon the kai and even walked over to the scroll. "I don't feel a thing," he said and even reached out to poke at it.

"That isn't surprising," Elder kai spoke up, reclaiming some sense of composure as he folded his arms behind his back. "What we're dealing with is a power that mortals aren't allowed to sense, for they are unworthy. Are you saying that he's been released, Jiran?"

The kai of time nodded her head in kind to the question and stuffed the scroll back into the pouch. "He has, and I have no idea how," she said and then looked back to Shin. "Since he's been released, he's been wreaking all kind of havoc upon the multi-verses and I have no idea what he could possibly be after. The reason that I've come to see you all now, is because he's landed somewhere in the vast dimension of this universe, but there's this unbreachable cloud that's contaminating this universe's future." Jiran sighed and ran a hand through her red hair. "It's something that rarely occurs, but when it does, it usually means trouble."

"But you're the Supreme Kai of Time," Cell declared, almost heatedly as he looked down upon the deity. "What could possibly keep you from seeing what happens in a timeline?"

Elder Kai's long and deep sigh stole everyone's attention before the girl could reply. His gaze looked distant as he looked into the sky, inwardly dreading what this would mean for the entire universe. "The power…of a god," he breathed.

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Meanwhile, somewhere light-years away from the Earth, the Planet of the Kais, or even farther beyond Otherworld sat a collection of small planets. Each of them surrounded, what could only be seen as an inverted pyramid with a massive tree growing out of the soil. And as one viewed this serene, somewhat beautiful planet, a series of deadly explosions rang off in the distance, explosions that seemed to be emanating from within the tree.

Deeper within the scene, now inside of the massive tree, we find a figure that looked positively regal. He had cyan-colored skin, clothing and robes of a royal caliber, and carried a tall staff as he walked up a set of winding stairs that carried him into a bedroom filled with several floating hourglasses, two of which managed to explode the very second the deity walked into the room.

"That was your second snooze alarm," the man said, now looking up to a small floating rock with a creature of a feline nature curled into a comfy ball.

"Not now! Come back in a few years!" the cat man demanded and rolled over to face the opposite wall and yank the cover over his head, while yet another hourglass exploded.

The cyan skinned deity could only sigh in exasperation before pulling out a microphone from within his robe, a conniving grin on his face. "You can either get up willingly or be woken out of bed by my brilliant singing! You choose!"

The thought alone of hearing the man sing was enough to make the cat man leap out of the bed and onto the floor. "No…singing…ever!" he demanded, looking almost intimidating despite his rather cute, animal nature. "We've been through this already, Whis!"

"Yes, you're right," Whis admitted cheerfully and watched as the cat man proceeded to sit on the floor and scratch himself. "Be that as it may, it's time to rise and shine. You've apparently got big plans ahead for this day. Come on now, Lord Beerus," the man said as he walked to the door and ushered out a hand to get the deity to move along. "Time waits for no man, not even the God of Destruction."