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Meadow

The light faded, and all either of us, Gotenks and myself, could do was stare. Locke was breathing heavily, standing in an aura of bright purple light. His hair was spiked up like a Super Saiyan, but the same color as his aura. His formerly-yellow eyes were glowing red and pupilless. No matter how you looked at it, this was clearly some form of Super Saiyan.

He stumbled, his muscles still spasming, but not as much. His eyes were locked on Gotenks. "I'm your opponent, jackasses. How dare you hurt her!"

Gotenks took a step back. "Wh-what the hell?" he stuttered. "How-?" He cut off as he was thrown back, Locke's fist splitting his lip. He managed to land on his feet, but continued moving, his feet carving trenches in the dirt.

Locke's breathing stayed heavy. "You said you could go up to Super Saiyan 3, didn't you?" he panted. "Why don't we see if it's really as powerful as you say?"

Gotenks gritted his teeth, then his aura flared up again. I felt the ground shaking underneath me. Gotenks' screaming started to becoming almost pained, and his hair started growing even more, down almost to his knees. His eyebrows retreated into his skin, and the pupils returned to his eyes. The transformation ceased and he instantly rushed at Locke, unleashing a flurry of attacks so fast that I couldn't see them. They were invisible to me, but I could hear ever one make contact, with Locke not moving an inch.

"So it was a bluff," Locke grunted. I realized that he'd been blocking the attacks. "But you're almost on par with me now. I can't have that." His aura became hazy black with purple light shining through, and his sclerae flooded with darkness.

Locke

I took a step forward as Gotenks continued his assault, only to have every attack blocked with one hand. "Noire Form, and this new form of Super Saiyan... I don't know where either came from, but they're an invincible combo." I looked at the aura around my free arm, inspecting it carefully. "I don't think I've told you, but when I was little, I was hopelessly colorblind; I couldn't tell red from blue. It somehow cleared up, and I instantly fell in love with color. By the time I was ten, I knew most of the color pallette, every shade. So with that knowledge, I think I'll call this..." I threw a punch, knocking Gotenks back. I waited for him to scramble up to continue. "... Super Saiyan Orchid."

Gotenks ground his teeth, then took a deep breath. He exhaled, blowing out five white blobs that formed into ghostly copies of himself. "Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack-!" I quickly fired on the five ghosts, causing them to explode.

Gotenks

I was thrown back once more, but managed to recover much faster this time. Only when I looked up, Locke was missing. I looked around, then gasped as a huge pain erupted in my chest. Meadow gasped as well, her in shock, and I looked down. Sticking out of my chest was a bloody hand.

Locke

I don't know why I did it. Maybe I thought he'd just split back into Goten and Trunks, perfectly fine. Maybe I just wanted revenge for what he'd done to Meadow. Whatever it was, it was clear as his transformation vanished in a flash that I'd done something I'd never expected: I'd killed Gotenks. I withdrew my hand and let him fall to the ground. As expected(hopefully), he glew, then split back into the two demi-Saiyans, their eyes glazed over, but still perfectly alive.

I looked back at Meadow and started walking towards her. She looked terrified, but tried her best to hide it. I bent down and offered her my clean hand. "Are you alright?" I asked, releasing my transformations.

Seeing my normal form, she seemed to suddenly remember that it was still me she was talking to and accepted the hand. "I-I'm fine," she told me, though the bloody bruise staining her face set my temper aflame once more. She looked back at Goten and Trunks. "Are they...?"

"Alive," I assured her. "I didn't lose that much control." I looked at them as well. "I wanted to, though. So badly. But I fought it."

"Good," she said, then hugged me tightly. "I'm just happy..." She buried her face in my chest and started crying. "... that you're okay. They almost killed you."

I hugged her back, pressing the side of my head against her's. "I'm not going to leave you anytime soon." We pulled back slighty to look at each other, then kissed. Once I felt her trembling stop, we separated and I carefully picked her up bridal-style and lifted into the air. "I'll get you to safety, but first I need to save my dad." Gritting my teeth, I underwent both transformations again and blasted back to Cell and Vegeta.

Cell

I lay on my back, struggling to breathe. His foot ground into my chest, slowly crushing my lungs. My vision started to fade. "Locke... Rachel... I'm sorry..." I closed my eyes, but instantly felt Vegeta's foot vanish. I opened my eyes and saw Locke standing over me, setting down his Earthling girlfriend. But he was different. He was in Noire Form, but there was more; it was almost like he was a miscolored Super Saiyan. I turned my head and saw Vegeta struggling to sit up, rubbing his neck.

Locke knelt beside me and placed a hand on my chest. "Jeez, he messed you up worse than I did to Gotenks. Just hang on, Dad." His reference to me was unexpected, but I was in no condition to question him. He looked back at the girl. "Meadow, put a hand on my shoulder." She did as he said, and he moved two fingers to his forehead.

"Oh, no, you don't!" Vegeta shouted, firing a blast at us, but we were gone long before it hit us.

We reappeared in the living room of our home, startling Rachel.

Rachel

I struggled to comprehend what had just appeared in front of me. It was clearly Locke, Cell, and Meadow, but the first two looked drastically different from this morning. Namely, Locke's black and red eyes and spiky purple hair, and Cell's mutilated state.

Locke heaved a heavy breath and returned to normal, then lifted Cell and moved him to the couch. "Okay, Cell; you can regenerate now," he urged.

Cell slowly shook his head, grimacing. "I can't..." he grunted. "The robot... it neutralized my healing abilites."

Locke's eyes widened and he turned to me. "Mom, get the first-aid kit!" I nodded and hurried to follow his command.

A half hour later, we'd bandaged Cell as much as we could, but without his regeneration, there was little we could do. Only his physiology from Frieza's cells was keeping him alive, although it would continue to do so for a fairly long time. The Android had passed out from pain as we tended to him, and he now lay in a deep slumber.

I held his head in my lap, running my hand over the glossy black crystal set atop it. "What happened?" I asked my son.

He explained, and I became more astonished as he spoke. "I managed to beat Gotenks pretty easily after turning Super Saiyan Orchid, but Vegeta took a big hit and only seemed to cramp a little." He sighed. "They'll definitely be after us, unless Goku can talk some sense into them."

"What do we do?" Meadow asked. "And don't tell me to stay out of this. I want to help; if Cell means so much to you, then I want to help you protect him."

Locke thought. "Gran and Gramps have a private surgeon. If we can get to them, we can have him try and fix up Cell. And if he can't, then we can stay in hiding until the Dragon Balls reactivate and use them to heal him. Either way, we'll need to keep a low profile, so Cell and I will need to keep our Power Levels low. Not that that'll be a problem for him." He sighed. "And they'll probably be patrolling the skies, so flying's out of the question."

"Then what?" I asked.

"Anyone up for a road trip?" he asked. We discussed it for a while, making plans, then Locke changed the subject.

"By the way, Mom, who the hell were you banging that made me some kind of Saiyan?" he asked.

I gulped and looked at the laptop on the table. "Actually..."

A few minutes later, Locke was staring at the screen, his eyes blank with shock. "I'm... an Android?" I nodded. "Then when that figure said 'Android', it meant me." That one went right over my head. "Was it... looking for me?" Then he perked up. "Mom, turn on the news."

I did so, and instantly we were all shocked. "Strange dark silhouettes have appeared all over the world, blocking traffic between cities and killing any who try to escape. Their objective is unknown, but it is advised that no one venture anywhere near them."

"This is all happening so fast," Meadow breathed.

"And those damned Z-Fighters are going to think Cell did it." Locke looked at the document. "Guys, crazy thought, but those might be Androids. Look here: it said that if the seeds were planted successfully, more would be, with programming to follow orders. Well, we grew just fine; me and this George..." He trailed off. "Meadow, you have a twin brother, right?"

She nodded. "George," she said grimly. "He doesn't look human at all; that's kinda why I barely mention him." She brought her knees up to cover her face. "So apparently my brother and boyfriend are Androids. Just great."

I looked down at Cell's sleeping face. "What did your father start, Cell?"