Chapter 4: Meeting Goku

Gohan was in an interrogation room. Agent Cell came in and sat down, holding a file labeled "Son, Gohan."

"As you can see, we've been studying you for some time now, Mr. Son." He opened the file and brought out several pages. "It seems that you have been living two lives. In one life, you are Son Gohan, scholar for a respectable technology company. You have a social security number, and you pay your taxes. The other life is lived in martial arts where you go by the fighter alias The Great Saiyaman, and are guilty of virtually every fighting crime we have a law for. One of them has a future. The other does not." He closes the file. "I'm going to be as frank as I can be, Mr. Son. We know that you have been contacted by a certain individual; a man who calls himself Goku." He leaned closer. "It is obvious that you are an intelligent man, Mr. Son, and that you are interested in the future. That is why I believe you are ready to put your past mistakes behind you and get on with your life."

"Well, I have a better idea. How about…no."

Cell leaned back. "You are going to help us, Mr. Son, whether you want to or not." Gohan screamed—and woke up at home. The phone rang, and he picked it up.

"This line is tapped so I must be brief," Goku said.

"The Agents."

"They got to you first, but they've underestimated how important you are. If they knew what I know, you would probably be dead."

"What are you talking about? What the heck is happening to me?"

"You're The One, Gohan. You may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I've spent most of my life looking for you. Do you still want to meet?"

"Yes."

"Then go to the Karin Temple."

Gohan went to the temple, climbed it, and waited. Goku came out of a door. "At last. Welcome, Gohan. As you might have already guessed, I am Goku."

"Why am I here?" Gohan asked.

Goku leaned forward. "Let me tell you why you are here. You have come because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You've felt it your whole life, felt that something is wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"

"The Cell Game."

"Do you want to know what it is?"

Gohan nodded.

"It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

"What truth?"

"That you are a slave, Gohan. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Cell Game is. You have to see it for yourself."

Goku lead Gohan into a room. "This is the Room of Spirit and Time. You will learn to train here, away from the androids."

"Androids?"

"Yes. We don't know who started the war, but we do know it was us who scorched Dr. Gero's laboratory. We thought the androids needed chemicals to survive. We were wrong. Gero created a weapon: Cell. From there, the Cell Game was born. Cell absorbs human energy to survive, but in order to become complete, he must absorb Agents 17 and 18. However, since he is an agent of the Cell Game, he cannot. What is the Cell Game? Control. The Cell Game is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this." He held up a battery.

Gohan was in shock. "No! I don't believe it! It's not possible!"

"I didn't say that it would be easy, Gohan. I just said that it would be the truth."

"Don't touch me! Get away from me! I don't believe it! I don't believe it!" He fell to the floor and lost consciousness.