Shift of Hearts, the first Dragon Ball Z / Tenchi Muyo! crossover posted here in about a year.
And the seventh in three years, I forgot to mention that.
By P. Dizzle tha Prime Legend Champion
Disclaimer Stuff: This story is an original concept, I own none of the characters except the Madri Scholar (though his appearance and a slight part of his name were inspired by the Madri Priests from X-men Legends II), no money is being made off of this, I'm tired of putting that on all my stories, etc.
Rating: T, as is everything else I've done, just for safety purposes.
NOTE: I love a good mystery. Or, at least the good mystery that I've introduced to you all so far. Who do you think is the person in the brown hooded robe that the Madri Scholar was talking to in that shed? Take a very good guess, and I will not tell you. Take a very bad guess, and I will not tell you. Take a guess not too good and not too bad, and I will not tell you. I will not tell you until he shows himself. But maybe this was pointless to state. What is not pointless to state, however, is that I'm glad I can post again.
Chapter 10: The Son Family Under Attack.
At the Masaki house, things went as one would think they had: Raditz, Eighteen, and Ryoko continued to search for a proper training spot in the woods, when suddenly, Ryoko had an idea.
"Hey! Why don't we have a little bit of a, um… preciseness exercise?" she suggested.
"It's precision," Raditz corrected immediately, beginning to get a little ticked at this point.
"Yeah, whatever," Ryoko shrugged it off, not caring all that much for the true word. Raditz did get slightly ticked off, but brushed it into the rear of his mental corridors. "Anyway, how about a three-way battle where our objective is to avoid getting hit into a tree or hitting down a tree? This little game of ours can be very helpful when it comes to keeping yourself in check and stuff like that."
"I could use a bit of a competitive stress release," Eighteen said in acceptance of this plan.
"Sure, why not? It's better than doing nothing," Raditz added to the list of reasons for doing this. At this point in time, they were not going to look for another spot. They found themselves in an area where there were many trees around them, but none within their field of space. It was a little close to the shrine, which meant Katsuhito would obviously hear it, but that was a moot point, for it was not time to worry about when he would arrive with his bokken.
Once the three were set up in a triangle position, they focused themselves on one thing and one thing only, and that was winning this strange battle between the three of them. Each of them looked back and forth between their two opponents, waiting for an opportunity to pounce on them. You had to be something scary as far as patience and cunning to actually win in this competition.
Raditz was the first to start losing his temper, as an angry growl developed on his face, and he finally made steps towards Eighteen. She looked at him and prepared to fire ki blasts when Ryoko teleported and leapt onto Raditz from behind. She expected him to start losing his balance, going crazy, and blasting all over the place, knocking down several trees and eliminating himself. However, he would smile, having her playing right into his hands, and used said hands to give a hard tap to her assets. Being that she never gave him permission and that it wasn't Tenchi, she immediately got ticked, got off him, and went for a spinning kick to his head from behind. However, he saw it coming and ducked it, following which he hit an energy blast on her, knocking the cyan-haired space pirate almost into a tree that was a good fifteen yards behind her before the blast. However, she managed to somehow teleport herself away from the blast, which hit and destroyed the tree anyway, so Raditz was out. Eighteen took advantage and used her energy field barrier to knock Ryoko back into another tree. The crafty space pirate managed to recollect her balance long enough to use her legs and kick off the tree, not knocking it down, flying back in the direction of the girl in Dr. Gero's former "Red Ribbon android family". Eighteen, though, managed to sidestep Ryoko's charging punch, then boot her into a tree. Eighteen won the challenge.
"Heh heh heh. I won," Eighteen softly bragged, a small smile coming on her face at the thought as Ryoko got back up from underneath the tree that she got crushed by. Raditz took a step closer to Eighteen, Ryoko still getting up, before a certain figure clearing his throat was heard.
"Interesting training challenge you all have devised. May I partake in it as well?" the voice of Katsuhito could be heard asking, as he was seen just coming out from behind a row of trees.
"As long as we don't have to use your bokkens or get squashed, perfect," Ryoko accepted, proud and glad under the conditions she just described. "Especially since I could use a victory over you since you put me in that cave 700 years ago."
The rest of the day for the Masaki clan basically went this way: the precision and patience training challenge continued between the four of them, and Katsuhito this time won most of them easily, until Raditz began to focus his Saiyan energy better. He managed to squeeze in three straight victories before time was up, after which Katsuhito's three training victims left him at the shrine, opting to go back down to the house and relax instead. The others just kept on doing what they usually do, including Sasami's two "assistants", until dinner time. Whilst at the table being treated to yet another excellent ensemble of Japanese rice dish, Ayeka had to be consoled due to worrying about Tenchi. Fortunately for Ms. Proper and Prim herself, Sakuya shared the worry, but had equal confidence (thanks in part to Goku), which she managed to share with the princess who most of the time would want nothing to do with her. Mihoshi almost broke the computer in hers and Kiyone's room afterwards, which Yugi had to be there to keep her from inadvertently doing. Finally, hell unleashed itself.
Going back in time again, except a few hours later during the sunset's time, we visit the home at Capsule Corporation. Vegeta and Trunks were done training, and Bulma had done her share of preparing meals and such for a certain couple of Super Saiyans. Currently, they were all eating spaghetti with steak and steak sauce… or should I say, one of them was. Bulma had to cook for eight, though, rather than two, because Saiyan appetites run too great. Vegeta had five dishes in front of him, Trunks two, and Bulma one. And still, she managed to be out-sped in the eating department by her man and their little man. Needless to say, they were thinking while waiting for her to finish, during which they started a conversation.
"I noticed someone," Bulma began after swallowing another forkful of spaghetti, whilst gathering more with her fork and knife so that she could take it in. "Someone cute."
"Who are you talking about?" Vegeta demanded at the very sound of what she said, fearing perhaps that she was getting interested in another man or something.
"Relax, Vegeta. I don't mean someone cute for me," she said, before taking in and eventually swallowing the spaghetti she'd just gathered in her fork. "I mean someone cute for Trunks." Upon hearing this, both Vegeta and Trunks crashed to the floor in disbelief.
"Mom!" Trunks called in complaining unbelief of what she just said, knowing perfectly who she was referring to. "First Gohan and that Madri Scholar guy, now you? How many people are gonna keep on trying to set me up with Sasami?"
"Speaking of Gohan, I wonder how he's doing with his training," Bulma quickly changed the subject, perfectly ignoring the grumbles of her son.
"Bah. I'm sure he and Tenchi are in there, slacking off and talking about girls," Vegeta arrogantly predicted, a look of frustration etched on his face at the thought.
"Wait, after he just got beat big time by Garlic Jr.?" Trunks asked, knowing full well that it was so embarrassing to lose to someone that Gohan had destroyed (according to the falsified information they occasionally (but not always) assumed due to never having met Garlic Jr., he was destroyed rather than banished to the Dead Zone) as a non-Super Saiyan kid, that if Gohan and Tenchi spent their training time talking about girls, it would be absolutely amazing and at the same time stupefying to watch.
"Would you stop reminding me about that? It was painful to watch!" Vegeta commanded with the same feelings of utter disgrace about that loss poking at the part of his heart that obtained his perpetually undying (but not unchanging) Saiyan pride. It was at that exact moment in time that something occurred to him, and he smilingly gasped.
"What is it?" his son and wife asked him simultaneously, poking their heads closer to the man of the house so as to know exactly what big good idea just crept into his mind.
"I believe that those two Supreme Kais have been called in to have something to do with Gohan and Tenchi's training, right?" Vegeta stated as well as asked for clarification.
"Yeah, you're right," Bulma said in glee at first, which quickly turned into disgust due to the next thing she figured. "Except that old Kai might remember that stupid promise from Goku and try to kiss me."
"Don't remind me," Vegeta seconded, smirking at the idea that the old man really thought he ever had a chance at it. He would probably get along a whole lot better with Master Roshi than anyone else in the group. "Now, the two of you have seen Raditz, one of my old partners in time. And even though he was weak compared to me and Nappa, I always preferred him because he wasn't such an idiot. Now he's a Super Saiyan, and from what I hear, he once blew Nappa to bits immediately after transforming."
"He's even more arrogant than you," Bulma interrupted, clearly disliking that certain quality about the long-haired Saiyan.
"And what's wrong with a little pride?" Vegeta asked with a smile, knowing that Bulma would recognize that he represented what was not wrong with a little pride. She couldn't help but smile back at the sweet and sour prince, but still quickly regained her more serious stance for the most part.
"Okay, there's a difference. You're arrogant because you're proud of yourself and of your race. He's arrogant because he thinks he's better than everyone else," Bulma finally retorted.
"Actually, I don't think he's actually that bad," Trunks spoke up, confusing his children. "I don't know what it is, but there's something about him I don't get. And I think it has something to do with that crazy cyan-haired space lady that got you in trouble with Goten's mom."
"She's practically even worse than they say her blonde friend is. She may not try to be, but she's nothing but trouble, and I haven't seen her fighting abilities yet," Vegeta shot, expressing instant disapproval about Ryoko. "I, for one, am glad she's obsessed with Tenchi and not me. Especially since for as much stronger as she's supposed to be than you, you might get angry enough to kill her before we see any of it."
"I know how mad Mom can get, so I'm gonna just… go ahead and second that," Trunks stated, stirring his parents' heads towards him as he laughed nervously. The laugh slowly changed and became more loose and free as opposed to nervous and forced, during which his parents looked at one another and finally burst into laughter of their own. Finally, the sound of a man clearing his throat interrupted the scene at the table, as all three of them looked towards Dr. Briefs, who just left the tech lab and arrived at the table.
"I was just contacted by your friend from the Muyo realm, I believe her name is Washu," Dr. Briefs first announced. The gazes of his daughter, grandson, and son-in-law became more serious at this point. "She's just said that she is in the middle of devising a way to adjust power frequencies so that you guys can all better handle performing special attacks, because she believes that it would make us become more effective against this evil force that's supposedly going to take over the planet. She's currently in the design stages, but it might work well for…"
"I don't like Washu ever since she's said she was better than me, but I do like the idea," Bulma admitted, not forgetting the defensive addition of her ill thought of her counterpart from the other realm in the meantime. "You should probably go over there and help her with it."
"I hope you mean the good doctor here's going to help her build the device, because I'm not becoming a test subject unless I know this works!" Vegeta yelled in immediate objection to a certain distinct possibility.
As for the rest of the day and night at Capsule Corp, it was actually quite obvious. While Bulma washed the dishes (and Trunks stuck around to help his mom out because he didn't have all that much to do), Vegeta patiently waited in the gravity room and Dr. Briefs (with that familiar black cat and his bumbling wife Bunny in the background as well) returned to the lab in order to continue discussing Washu's device with her. As soon as Bulma and her son/assistant were done with washing the plates, she decided to wash her son up before going to her father and joining his discussion with the self-proclaimed "greatest scientist in the universe". After getting clean, Trunks joined his father for more high-gravity sparring, due to the nature of the situation the earth was in, but not much more. Soon, they ended up having your typical friendly talk between father and son, and came out smiling and not too ached before learning a little bit more about the secret.
Elsewhere at that point in time, a certain four evil cohorts found a planet in a neighboring solar system near Earth's, from which they looked upon the planet on which their enemies lived. The three males of the dark side stood with their arms folded across their chests, while Nagi had one hand placed on her hip. Confidence exuded from the dark foursome as they smiled; unfortunately, it was not heavily noticed, or noticed by anything at all for that matter.
"Well, I'm sure now they realize that the rules of the game have changed," Cell spoke, with a bold confidence about it which could intimidate any normal human being.
"How so?" Nagi asked in a shrewd tone, her smile becoming a mean smirk as she awaited anxiously the answer of Cell. It was almost as if she expected, or wanted, to hear a certain something come out of the perfect bio-android's mouth. However, the answer would come from another.
"Now they realize that it's not about which warrior is the strongest anymore. It's about the smartest side," Kagato answered matter-of-factly. This was his trademark; no matter what the circumstances, he continued to stay cool through all the excitement of the world. Even when Tenchi had slashed him to death, he remained calm, much unlike Cell and Garlic Jr. once they found their plans foiled and themselves defeated by Gohan. His cool demeanor was now beginning to rub off on them as well, a little bit, at least at this point in time.
"Well, I, for one, love the idea that we won't go by the rules of so-called "honor" by letting them win if they are stronger than us no matter how little thought they put into battling," Garlic Jr. expressed his thought, a subtle pleasure emanating from him as he spoke. "Though a small piece of me wishes that I could have finished off Tenchi myself."
"To be honest, they did kinda use their brains, those friends of Tenchi's, when they verbally motivated him and distracted you so that he could get the edge in that attack from the Lighthawk Wings," Nagi noted in acknowledgement of what the good guys had managed to do in the earlier battle.
"They were equally using their hearts. And as you can see, Nagi, it wasn't enough," Kagato replied matter-of-factly before changing the subject. "As for our next order of business, I propose we go into space and find the broken remains of what used to be my battleship, the glorious Souja. I want to rebuild it."
"Come to think of it, that might be a good idea," Garlic Jr. approved of the proposition made by his clerical friend. "After all, we'll need a home base if we are to set up our empire of revenge and death. I'll help you look for the pieces to your ship, Kagato."
"While we're at that, Nagi will watch my back from afar as I enjoy a little sparring session against a family of old friends," Cell announced, turning towards her as she nodded darkly, war beginning to show up on her face.
And so, it is at this point that we finally head towards the next day. Yesterday, Goku and Chichi had decided on taking a little bit of a picnic outside, at the midpoint between home and the site of Ryo-Ohki's crater. Of course, little Son Goten came with them, seeing as how his brother wasn't here, and it would be cruel and unfair to leave the eight-year-old kid with nothing to do. Of course, Goku was staying a Super Saiyan the whole time, having mastered the energy of the super transformation. This even carried on as they had gone to sleep out there looking at the stars. Shortly after the sun fully rose, the three were still sleeping when they Ox-King had come out to their spot. Looking at them sleeping peacefully, he wanted to let the three continue to slumber, but knew that they had a heavy day ahead of them with finding out how much stronger Gohan got and if anything major was going to happen as far as Cell and company, so his next action was one that was taken with no other choice in mind.
"Goten! Goku! Chichi! Wake up!" he finally yelled out from right above them. Finally, the three began to stir. One by one, they could be seen struggling to open their eyes, rubbing some sand out of said eyes, and then finally opening them and getting up. Chichi was first in this cycle, followed by her husband - who stayed Super Saiyan - and their youngest son.
"Whoa, we stayed out here all night?" Goten asked, in a combination between confusion and amazement. Goku looked to him and nodded, then said a simple, "Yep."
"But now it's time for the three of you to come back home. We have a big day ahead of us, you never know what could happen," the Ox-King added, making sure the morale was up and the reminder was there. He then led the three back to the house while Chichi carried the bag and blanket. Only Ox-King and Chichi went inside, however, as Goku stopped and looked back for awhile, sensing something severely wrong in the air. Goten noticed his father's gaze and also stared back, although he didn't notice anything. They were oblivious to the exact nature of the fact that a certain green perfect being was watching from far above them, above their line of sight. Finally, though, Goten and Goku turned back around and started walking again toward the house, when a light started to emanate from behind them. But before they could turn around again, an explosion had already occurred not too far from behind them. In fact, the house actually shook a little bit, a few dishes could be heard breaking, and all four of them were knocked off balance. Goku and Goten, who were outside and right near the blast, were blown a few inches back. Once they finally recovered their balance, they turned around and found the ground before them charred and a thick cover of smoke clouding the area in front of them, though nothing happened to the house from the outside. While the smoke began to clear and a shape commenced in forming from behind it, Goku and Goten finally got back up and dusted themselves off, while Chichi came out in immediate concern.
"Goku! Goten! Are you okay?" she called, beginning to run towards the boys before seeing the look on his face. It was a look of fierce determination, the same kind of look he put on every time he was ready to battle another bad guy. Seeing this, she really saw no choice in the matter, even if she wanted to tell at whoever it was at the top of her lungs. She finally retreated towards the house, but made sure to watch from the windows, getting a front row sight at exactly what was the problem with the world right now. It was none other than…
"Cell!" Goku screamed out, immediately recognizing the face of this familiar white-faced enemy that is mostly black and green everywhere else. Cell had a confident smile on his face, which scared Goten a little bit, as well as seriously unnerved Goku.
"Goku and Goten! How nice of you to show yourselves! -Oh, I forgot. You didn't show yourselves, I did!" Cell joked around for one second.
"Quiet! Cell, do you really think I'm gonna believe that you're here to try and crack jokes?" Goku forcibly demanded, stirring up a slight shiver into Cell before the combination of the greatest fighters in the history of the Earth quickly got over it.
"So you're right. I'm not. That means you'll definitely take it as an omen," Cell began as his face and voice soon turned serious, "when I tell you that I came here to kill you. You and everyone else here!"
The shockwaves developed now within Goku, as he just realized that Chichi and the Ox-King were also in danger from this. He knew that Cell was trying to draw him out into going Super Saiyan 3 immediately, before he could get into the flow of the fight. While he was actually perceptive enough on the battlefield not to get caught into a trap like that, he had to consider that Cell was threatening his family here, and at least power himself up somewhat. So, while he did not lose his eyebrows and gain hair as long as Raditz, he did suddenly emanate a golden glow and let out a very loud scream of battle for about five to ten seconds, which shook up the ground underneath his building power. Soon after the scream was finished, his entire body turned a bright yellow, before getting back to all its normal color. The hair of the son of Bardock, as well as the rest of him, including his golden glowing ki signature, became tougher and more defined. Not only that, there were a few electric sparks to go along with that, clearly signifying that this was the Super Saiyan 2 power-up.
"Cell, I can see it in your eyes, that you truly intend to kill everyone here in the area, and everyone else on earth," Goku finally spoke, the fire in his voice and in his eyes saying the next part for him. Though many little rocks in the area had been strewn about during the transformation, Cell never really moved at all in response. "If you want anyone, you'll have to beat me first!"
"Actually, I'm not interested in you first. I want to know if your little son here can survive me at a fraction of my power," Cell refused and inquired at the same time. Both Goten and Goku now grew scowling faces.
"Oh, yeah? You think you're gonna get me like that, Cell? Come on! Fight me!" Goten stepped up and demanded, to the horror of Goku and of the in-house spectator known as Chichi, before transforming himself into a Super Saiyan. Goku instantly became alarmed to this and brushed his son behind him whilst telling him not to fight in this one because it's too dangerous.
"You're not gonna at least let me try, Daddy?" Goten objected to the request of his father.
"Goten, I'm sorry, but I don't want you getting hurt! Now stop trying to fight this one!" Goku advised in frustration at his son's stubbornness. He was definitely getting that from hanging around Trunks and being a half-Saiyan.
"No! He kills people, and I want to fight him!" Goten explained strongly, before rushing to confront Cell and firing away what seemed to be about sixteen blows a second, Cell managing to either block or dodge each and every single one of them, although the raging Goten was forcing him to back up quite a bit. Though no harm was being done to him, Cell was struggling big time, and had yet to find any opportunity to knock off the young warrior. It was around this same time that he had noticed Gohan's energy signal approaching. This put him further into the predicament of how not to get caught by surprise by this angry kid whose brother happens to be the reason Cell needed to come back from the dead in the first place, for he lost his focus for one millisecond and almost paid for it. Goten was still making him back up, which impressed Gohan (who was in the air in his Kai costume), Goku, and Chichi a little bit, but the furious-fisted Goten did not even notice anyone else. He had no intent to let up on this one, because this was his father that he was fighting for here, and he had no intention on letting Cell get to him early. Punch after punch after punch after punch, Goten was throwing, Cell was dodging, Goten was pushing himself forward, Cell was backing up, and yes, it seemed as if the eight-year-old boy was having a little bit of an upper hand, much like an eleven-year-old boy had the upper hand on the android of perfection just roughly about eight and something years ago, though not as imposed. Yes, it was clear that Cell was indeed the superior fighter just taken by surprise, but the mere sight of Goten fighting like this, the fact that this little guy could press so hard onto Cell, impressed his big brother, who was still in flight, thinking how much Goten reminds him of himself.
As if Cell being forced to back up with absolutely no time to recover was shocking, the next fact is going to come as a true surprise: finally came the time when Cell could no longer continue dodging Goten. He ended up taking a good fifty hits to his midsection in a mere matter of seconds, followed by a flying kick to the side of his face, which turned said face into the direction he was being blasted into. Cell was brought to his knees with his back turned to Goten, who took the time and opportunity to catch his breath for a few seconds, before all of a sudden firing with a monster barrage of ki energy blasts, all of which were able to penetrate Cell's barely set guard and hit him to deliver damage. This reminded Gohan of when his kid brother was throwing rocks at him, except he had time to get ready.
Wow. Look at him. He's amazing! were among Goku's thoughts as the Saiyan hero also wondered for how long his son was going to be able to keep this up. Now, sure, Goten was going strong, and he was half Saiyan, but even mixed blood Super Saiyan power has its limitations. That was something Goten quickly learned, for as he fought Cell, he quickly felt a lot of his energy beginning to drain from him. However, like any other kid when doing something they really considered important, he didn't really care how tired he got at first. However, now was when he knew he was going to have to get the last piece in.
I don't think this is enough! But I have to try! Goten convinced himself internally whilst building his energy and putting his hands and body in proper formation so as to prepare to deliver the attack by which he could finally finish this one. "Ka, me, ha, me, HA!"
Finally, he released the extra powerful wave towards Cell and, amazingly, showed total control over it. He didn't even wait for the smoke that had built up due to his ki barrage to clear: he knew where Cell was, and he intended to strike that spot. He did exactly so, and there was even more smoke in the area now. Finally, after the Kamehameha, Goten tired out and tried to catch his breath, having expended a lot of energy and fury into that non-verbal but yet more than verbal assault. However, he did not revert to normal form, nor did he stop glowing. The smoke was now just starting to clear, all spectators standing there, frozen at the scene. From this point, Goten watched intently, waiting for his opportunity to pounce. As soon as he saw a single piece of Cell that was not behind any smoke, Goten ran for his head… but instead of being able to attack, Goten became victim to a blow-away exertion of wind energy, which sent him flying backwards, continuing even after he passed behind Goku. Finally, Cell could be seen, seemingly teleporting out of the smoke-filled zone, and getting behind Goten, so as to knee him in the back of the head, sending him flying upwards. Cell, however, flew high himself at a faster rate than Goten, eventually deciding to stop so he could catch his leg, swing the child around like a lasso, and finally throw him down in the direction of the ground right before his father. Goten fell to a crashing thud, landing hard into the ground. As Goten laid there in front of his appalled father, he refused to pass out or get back to normal mode, but at the same time, he didn't make much effort to get up for the first few seconds. Goten clenched his fists and ground his teeth, his entire body shaking in anger as Cell went up to the sky, and raised his hands in a familiar position.
"Oh, no!" Goku exclaimed. "He's setting up for the Spirit Bomb!" Gohan heard him, and his eyes began to narrow in fear a slight bit, before they returned to normal at the sound of his anger inside. Meanwhile, Goku was right on the money, but even more right than he figured. What was above Cell's hands turned from nothing to a massive green ball of energy capable of destroying any planet. And it became so in a matter seconds. Cell was smiling and laughing now, as he knew he had the power to end this fight, and pretty much all life on earth here.
"Yes! Goku, for once you were right! This is a Spirit Bomb! But not just any Spirit Bomb. This isn't developed by nature, fool! This is developed by the cells of every warrior within me, including you, Goku, and your now futile son, Gohan!" the crazed Cell exclaimed, as he was ready to destroy. "Begone!"
"HAAAAAAA!" Gohan screamed out, stirring all others into turning around as he shot a running wave of energy straight into the ball. Like a balloon, Cell's ball was able to stretch itself inwardly at first, but after a good long while and a strong push from Gohan, his wave was able to go right through the ball, tearing a hole in it and causing it to explode right above Cell. The light from that explosion was extremely bright, but not enough to really blind anyone. However, it did cause Cell a little discomfort, in the form of a temporary body-wide stinger. A few seconds later, he was able to look over at the perpetrator of the blast, as did everyone else, and finally realized exactly who was there.
"Gohan!" Goku called up loudly, after which Gohan turned around to his dad and smiled, giving a thumbs up to the man before he turned back to Cell.
"You want to destroy my little brother and my dad, Cell?" he asked, in the strong but somewhat silent tone of the power-heightened warrior. However, his voice did start to raise a little with each of the following questions. "You want to destroy everyone and everything I hold dear, as well as everything else, huh? Is that what you want, Cell? Then… you'll have to go through me!"
"Oh, and what can you do? You've weakened from being a school boy once again," Cell duly noted in full brash underestimation of the one that killed him in the past. Then, finally, he noticed the Ki glow of Gohan: it was blue, as was the electricity that currently surrounded Gohan at the moment.
"Here's a tip, Cell. There's more where that came from. And it's time for you to see what I can do," Gohan promised. Now this fight is beginning to get interesting.
END OF CHAPTER, PREVIEW OF THE NEXT
-Cell: "Impressive display of power. But, I'm going to tell you this as if I ever needed to. I am superior to you in every way. You can't win. Your victory is impossible."
-Goku: "I can see you've gotten stronger as well. But you're still not going to beat me, or Gohan, or Goten, or anyone else!"
-Cell: "You and your son are facing me at the pinnacle of your power, and I'm still holding my own about as much as you. Explain to me how you have a chance once I use a certain higher muscle even more!"
-Gohan: "Next time on Shift of Hearts, the first Dragon Ball Z / Tenchi Muyo! crossover posted here in about a year, it's time for me to show Cell what I'm all about once again in Chapter 11: Rise of Power."
-Kagato: "Finally, evil's destiny awaits."