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Chapter 1 - When Opportunity Knocks
In the Dragonball Universe
It was a literal hell on Earth, as the dead were once again among the living and wreaking untold havoc, and devastation. The creature known as Janemba has created a barrier around King Yemma's Check-In station in the Other World, and its reality warping powers freed all of the denizens of hell to walk the Earth, including Frieza, the Ginyu Force, and many other villains that the Z Fighters defeated before. These villains were gathering together, and destroying anything, and everything in their path.
"Ha-hah-ha-ha-ha! This is great! Just look at these humans run in fear of us! Yeah!" Jeice, one of the members of the Ginyu Force yells with a pleased smile as he fires red colored ki-blasts from his hands at the fleeing civilian population. Jeice watches the other members of the Ginyu Force as they lend a hand in destroying the city, but an angry frown soon forms on Jeice's red face when he sees his red haired comrade not joining in.
"Hey Recoome! More destruction, less dance! I'll help you practice your poses later!" Recoome spins gracefully around, and sulks a bit before nodding. "Fine, fine. You better not break your promise, Jeice!" Recoome dawns a serious expression, and turns his head to a crowd of people, and opens his mouth. "*Recoome Ka-Boom! Eraser Gun!*" A powerful energy wave formed from Recoome's mouth, and traveled at the screaming crowd killing them in an instant.
Frieza walked with confidence over to the Ginyu Force with a wicked smile. "Good work men. All of this chaos is sure to bring that miserable monkey out of hiding." Frieza's long tail struck the concrete in anger like a whip at the memory of his defeat at the hands of Goku. The Ginyu Force started to sweat nervously, and accelerated their efforts to destroy the city.
"This rather pedestrian plan of yours won't work, Frieza." Frieza glanced over to the side, and saw Cell standing calmly with his green armored arms folded over his chest. Cell gave Frieza a bored look, and this had Frieza gritting his teeth with a tick mark forming on his forehead.
"Well, I'm sure someone with your brilliant intellect can think up a much better plan then." Frieza said sarcastically with a small mocking bow at the waist to Cell. Cell looked amused for a brief moment before turning his back on Frieza with his black wings folding inwards.
Cell stared at the chaos that the other denizens of hell were causing, and frowned slightly. "This gains us nothing. Destroying mere humans is beneath me. Play this game if you must, but I have much loftier goals than mere destruction." Cell began to walk through the other assembled villains, who quickly made a path for him when his pink eyes stared menacingly at them.
Cell was still making his way through the crowd of villains, when Frieza called out to him angrily. "Just where do you think you're going?! Do you really think that you can fight Goku by yourself?! You're a fool, Cell!" Cell stops moving, and a powerful yellow aura surrounds his body, with blue electricity crackling all around it. The assembled villains could feel the power Cell is generating, and ran for cover. Frieza was twitching in anger when he felt that Cell's power is greater than his own.
"I am the ruler of the Universe! I am Frieza! My armies laid to waste thousands of worlds! What are you...just some old man's experiment grown in a petri dish! Without my cells, you'd be nothing!" Frieza's men, and the Ginyu Force struggled to hold Frieza back. "Let me go this instant!" Frieza's tail batted several of his underlings away like flies. All of the Ginyu Force were barely able to restrain him for more than a few seconds.
Cell turned his head to look back at Frieza, and the other villains with disappointment etched on his face. "It is embarrassing to have your cells flowing in my veins. This imperfection troubles me greatly. Your so called 'army' is a joke, and my creation is a boon to the entire universe." Cell sighed deeply, and shook his head. "You're nothing more than a spoiled child that's throwing a temper tantrum because the universe is no longer your plaything. Truly pathetic." Cell glanced up when he felt a familiar power level approaching them from the skies to the west. "I do hope that your return trip to hell is as unpleasant as possible, Frieza." With these last words said, Cell moves his right hand up to his face with two fingers touching the middle of his forehead. Cell has a look of concentration, before disappearing from sight.
Recoome, Jeice, Burter, and Guido are frantically looking around while creating a protective circle around a surprised Frieza. "Where the hell did he get off to?! He bloody well vanished!" Jeice said while looking at his fellow Ginyu Force members in a panic. Recoome started to sweat nervously, and Guido was getting cross-eyed from looking in so many different directions.
"Stop this destruction right now, you villains!" All of the evil denizens of hell look up to see two costumed individuals fly down to land 20 feet from their location. The man is dressed in a black form fitting body suit with a green over-shirt that went past his waist with a black belt. He's wearing white boots, and gloves with a white bandana on his head covering his hair. He adjusts his dark sunglasses, and begins several outlandish poses and holds out a gloved hand at the villains.
"The hero of justice has arrived, Great Saiyaman is here!" Saiyaman claps his hands, and then makes a victory pose with his left arm flexed toward the sky with his other hand above his head with his hand open, and fingers spread out. His female companion looks on impressed, and smiles happily over at Saiyaman. "Wow, Gohan! That was your best pose yet!"
Saiyaman glances over his shoulder, and rubs the back of his head in embarrassment. "You really think so, Videl? It wasn't too flashy?" Videl walks over to Saiyaman, and pats him on the shoulder to reassure him. "No way, Gohan. It was perfect." Videl smiled up at Saiyaman, who started to blush at her praise.
The sound of multiple hands clapping got the young couple's attention, and they saw that the members of the Ginyu Force had looks of respect as they continued clapping with enthusiasm.
"Hooh? That was pretty good kid!" Burter said, and elbowed Jeice with a smile. "Do you think he's got what it takes to be a member?" Jeice shrugged his shoulders, and watched Recoome excitedly posing for the confused looking couple. "That's up to Lord Frieza, but he gets high marks for style." Guido starts to sweat thinking that his spot in the Ginyu Force may be in jeopardy. "Meh! He's not that good! Did you see how he didn't extend his leg when he made that high kick after he pirouetted?! Cause I did!" Guido grinned happily after he started sowing the seeds of doubt in the others.
Frieza, and the other villains were sweat-dropping and were trying to shake off the absurdity of the newcomer, and the Ginyu Force to get back to the matter at hand. Frieza stared at the oddly dressed man, and felt something familiar about him. Frieza then smiled eerily at Saiyaman. "Did she say that your name is Gohan? Funny, I remember a little monkey on Namek with that exact same name." Frieza smirked, and motioned with his hand. All of the other villains of hell started to surround the duo. Saiyaman took up a defensive position to protect his companion Videl, who also got into a fighting stance.
"Your kind isn't welcome here, Frieza. I will send you all back to hell where you belong." Saiyaman begins to power up, and a protective white aura envelops him, and Videl.
Frieza's tail lashes out angrily behind him, and he takes his own battle stance with his arms extended outwards, and a menacing red aura surrounding his form. "You Saiyans! Nothing but a bunch of filthy monkeys! I won't stop until you're all dead!" Frieza launches himself at Saiyaman, who then powers up to his base Super Saiyan form. "This is the end, Frieza! RRRRAAAA! *Justice Kamehameha!*" Gohan unleashes a spherical version of the Kamehameha wave, and Frieza is caught off guard by its power. Frieza is flying backwards with a large hole in his chest, and his body exploded when he landed in the middle of his comrades from hell. Most of them were caught in the explosion which greatly reduced their numbers. Gohan shielded Videl from being affected by the large explosion, and watched as the rest of Frieza's troops scurried away in fear.
"That was so awesome, Gohan! Way to go!" Videl pumped her right arm in the air with excitement. Saiyaman sends her a patented Son grin, and begins to do ridiculous poses for the next ten minutes,
Meanwhile - A Few blocks Away
Cell is standing on the rooftop of a tall building with his power level greatly suppressed to avoid detection, and he is staring disbelievingly down at the couple who are now both posing together and laughing out loud. Cell's left eye is twitching, and his fists are clenched so tightly that blood is seeping down his hands. "This...this is what sent me to the afterlife? The boy has become weak, and a fool to boot! His very existence is an affront to the senses." Cell frowned, and thought to himself out-loud. "He is no warrior now. Love isn't needed on the battlefield. The pure-blooded Saiyan cells in my body are screaming at me to purge this gnat from the universe. Fortunately, Piccolo's cells are now more dominant in me. He always was the strategist of the group, while the Saiyans are the blunt instruments." Cell chuckled mirthlessly, and unclenched his fists.
Cell turned around, and walked away. He jumped from the edge of the building, and used his tremendous speed to leave the city behind. Cell managed to avoid running into any humans who could've recognized him from his Cell Games, and was now very far from West City. Cell stopped running, and was now in a heavily wooded area. Cell looked around, and smirked when he sensed no Ki in the area. "Excellent. I should be far enough away to begin." Cell started powering up to his maximum, and touched two fingers to his forehead. "I love Instant Transmission. Such a useful technique. I simply must thank Goku the next time we meet." Cell began to concentrate. "Now, to find the farthest source of Ki in the Universe...there! Locked on!" Cell started to dematerialize until he was no longer in the forest.
Two small children soon landed in the forest searching around for the power that they sensed. "Hey Goten! Are you sure the massive power spike came from here? It was pretty big, and I thought it was coming from the city." The child with short purple hair, and green fighting Gi asked to the spiky haired youth. "Na-uh, Trunks! Gohan said that was this guy called Frieza! This one felt different, but it's gone now!" The boy named Goten scratched the back of his head in confusion.
"That's too bad. Those soldier guys in the old tanks, and that short one with the funny mustache weren't even a light workout. Oh well! Why don't you come over to my house! Mom is ordering takeout again!"
The boy with the spiky black hair stared wide eyed at his friend, and wiped some drool from his mouth. "Really? Come on! Let's go!" Goten grabbed Trunks' arm, and repeatedly said the word food. This had Trunks laughing hysterically as they flew back to West City.
In Deep Space - West Galaxy
Cell stopped the Instant Transmission technique, and stared up over his head. "No! The halo is still there! I must go farther, much farther...past King Yemma's jurisdiction. I can feel it! He's trying to pull me back to the Check-In station!" Cell started the Instant Transmission technique again, and vanished from sight.
In Other World - King Yemma's Check In Station
King Yemma sat behind his desk grumbling loudly, and using his Yemma stamp to re-send the dead that escaped back to Heaven, or Hell. "That Janemba sure made a mess of things! Hell, Hell, Heaven, Hell, Heaven, Heaven, Hell..." Yemma trailed off, and lost himself in the mountain of paperwork on his desk. One of his ogre attendants nervously shuffled towards the front of King Yemma's desk, and wiped some sweat off his brow with a handkerchief. "U..uuumm, e...excuse me, King Yemma sir?"
King Yemma looked over the stacks of paperwork to see one of his workers nervously fumbling with his shirt. "Yes, what is it?!" Yemma slammed his giant fist down, and caused the stacks of papers to fall all over his desk. King Yemma growled angrily, and gave the worker a look of inner rage. The worker jumped 10 feet in the air in fright, and shook with a paper in his hand.
"Sir! The warriors that Mister Goku defeated are not all accounted for! One is missing, sir!" The Ogre worker took several deep breaths to try and calm his nerves.
King Yemma has a look of worry on his face, and pushed all of the paperwork off his desk, and slammed both fists on it. "Who is missing!" Yemma gritted his teeth at the worker.
"It's Cell, King Yemma." The Ogre has his head down, and is trembling at the thought of Cell on the loose. Yemma's eyes grew wide, but then he seemed to calm down. "Leave this to me! He is still dead, and under my direct command! When I catch him, he is going to the deepest, darkest part of Hell I know of!" Yemma closed his eyes, and concentrated. "Where are you, Cell? A-HA! There he is...now to...What?! Gone?! No...wait...THERE! Now I've...Damn it! He keeps on disappearing on me! This time for...NO! I can't sense him at all now!" King Yemma slumped down lifelessly in his chair, and rubbed his face with his hand in exhaustion.
"King Yemma sir! Are you alright, sir?!" The Ogre worker asked, and went around the desk to see if he was okay. Yemma mumbled something incoherently, and looked down at the worker with an uneasy expression. "No Cecil...I'm not alright. Cell has passed beyond the boundary of this dimension, where I have no jurisdiction in the slightest. He's out there now...without a leash in some unknown dimension with no one to stop him." King Yemma pulled out his desk drawer, and lifted out his intercom. He held the mike of the intercom, and yelled so loudly that Princess Snake jumped out of her bath water. "SOMEONE GET ME GOKU!"
Justice League Universe - Metropolis
Cell is standing on top of the Daily Planet's globe with a grin on his face from ear to ear. Cell looks up, and sees no halo to be seen. "Perfection. So sorry King Yemma, but I won't be returning. This place is really growing on me. Ha-ha-ha-ha! Yes! I'm free!" Cell stares off into the distance, and takes on a thinking pose. "Now...what shall I do first? This is such a lovely city, it's difficult to know where to start?" Cell uses his super speed, and disappears in an instant to re-appear in an alley away from the civilians.
Cell looks around and finds a discarded newspaper, and begins reading it. "Superman saves luxury liner from sinking...Superman, is it? What an odd little outfit you're wearing. Is this what warriors wear on this planet? Tasteless." Cell turns up his nose, and threw the paper away. "Yes. Why limit myself to one city, when the world is now graced with my perfection! Time to introduce myself to my soon to be adoring public." Cell smirked, and began to levitate out of the alley. Cell flew away at high speed, and upwards until he was in this Earth's orbit. Cell smiled, and spread out his arms in an exaggerated manner. "This world is now mine!"
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