Sorry for that long wait, I was busy with stuff in my life. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this chapter. A new enemy is about to emerge!
Chapter 9
Two days later, Wildfire's ship arrived on the deserted planet where Wildfire's army didn't respond. As everyone was minding their own business, Gohan was training in his room. When he was doing push-ups while the room is active, Piccolo spoke through the speakers.
"Gohan," Piccolo's voice said, "We're about to land."
As he was got up, he said "Thanks Piccolo, I'll be there."
As Gohan left, he wore a new set of armor. It contained a blue undersuit that covered his body, upper white body armor with golden abs and shoulder blades, white gloves and boots. When he left his ship with Piccolo, he saw Wildfire with two figures next to him. One of them was a reptilian hybrid with green scales while the other was a huge giant with grey stoned-skin.
"Hey Wildfire," Gohan said.
He then turned to him and replied "Gohan, ready for your mission?"
"Yeah," Gohan said as he looks at the figures.
Wildfire then said "These are my guards: the reptile is Deker and the giant is Boulder."
"Nice to meet you two," Gohan said in a kind way.
Deker and Boulder didn't reply.
"Okay then," Gohan said, "What's the plan?"
Wildfire replied "I need a squad to find out what happen to my men. That's why I need your Namekian friend here to go with my men."
Piccolo then said "Why me?"
"Because it is a rescue operation," Wildfire replied, "I need you to protect the medical team from any danger."
"Got it," Piccolo said.
Wildfire then looked at Gohan and said "Gohan, you and I will go to the laboratory to find more information. If we're lucky, we could find more of Dr. Gero's plans."
"Great," Gohan said, "Let's go already."
After he said that; Gohan, Wildfire and his guards flew towards the laboratory in one direction while Piccolo and the medical squad flew off in the other direction. It was already afternoon and the planet was covered with miles of freshly-green forests. After a few minutes later, as Gohan was flying by himself while Wildfire and his guards flew in a space shuttle, he was beginning to wonder if Wildfire knew where he was going.
"Do you know where we are going?" he asked.
Wildfire replied "We are almost there."
Soon enough, they encounter the mountain where Wildfire found the laboratory.
"Here we are," Boulder said in a deep voice.
Deker then said in a hissing way "Yes, this is where we found Android 17 and 18."
When they entered the cave, they walked until they all entered the laboratory.
"You weren't kidding," Gohan said, "Dr. Gero was really busy all these years."
Wildfire then said "Spread out and look for anything unusual."
The four of them spread everywhere and searched the lab. As Wildfire, Deker and Boulder searched the other side of the lab, Gohan was standing near the chambers where Steven and Stephanie stepped out of. He then raised his left hand towards the chamber and blue energy surrounded his hand.
When Wildfire, Deker and Boulder regrouped, Deker said "Nothing, sir."
"Same here," Boulder said, "We should follow the medical squad."
Wildfire said "Way ahead of you. Gohan, let's go…"
All of a sudden, Gohan fired the blast of blue energy towards the chambers, caused an explosion and sends smoke everywhere.
When the dust cleared, Wildfire yelled "Gohan! What the hell did you do?!"
Gohan replied as he looked through smoke "Look."
When the three of them walked up to Gohan, they saw a hidden room behind the destroyed chambers.
"A hidden room!" Wildfire said in a shocked way, "Who could have known!"
Boulder then said "How did you know there was a hidden room?"
Gohan replied in a stunned way "I didn't. I just destroyed it because it had the number 17 and 18 on it and thought it would be better to destroy it."
"Well, your performance paid off," Deker said, "You discovered a hidden lab."
After he said that, the four of them entered the hidden room and found computer with a circular tube that was empty.
"What in the world?" Gohan asked, "What is this place?"
As Wildfire analyzed the computer, he said "I don't know, but the data in this computer looks interesting."
Boulder then said "One question: What was in this tube?"
When Deker walked behind the tube, he saw a small purple cocoon that had small spikes on it that was split in two.
He picked it up and said "What the hell is this? An egg?"
"Let me see," Gohan said.
Deker threw the cocoon at Gohan and he grabbed it. He analyzed it and placed the two pieces together.
"It appears to be a shell," Gohan said, "Whatever came from this, it can't be good."
"Tell me about it," Wildfire said, "Whatever data this computer had was somehow transfer to the tube."
"Let me see," Gohan said.
When he saw the computer, he saw al lot of different DNA. When Deker took a step, he slipped and fell to the floor. As he got up, he saw a trail of purple slime leaving the lab.
"Check it out," Deker said, "Whatever was in here left a trail behind."
Wildfire looked at the trail and said "Gohan, follow it. If you find whatever made this trail, kill it."
When Gohan agreed he followed the trail that leads him outside the cave. The purple trail ended at the edge, where he looked down and saw more of the purple slime. As he descended to the ground below and followed it, the trail ended. Gohan looked around to find the mysterious thing that came out of the laboratory. Out of nowhere, Deker appeared from the air and stood next to Gohan.
"Did you find it?" Deker asked.
Gohan shook his head and said "Be on your guard. It could be close."
Suddenly, he felt a strange presence near them. When he told Deker to have his rifle ready to attack, they moved closer to a nearby bush. As Gohan peaked over the bush, he saw nothing. When he was about to walk away, a shady figure jumped out of nowhere and landed on Gohan.
As Gohan was blurred from the sudden ambush, the mysterious figure said in a hippie accent "At last, someone to rescue me!"
When Gohan pushed the figure away from him, he saw that it was an old man that stood over 4' tall who had grey skin, pointy ears and a long, puffy white hair, beard and mustache. He was wearing black sunglasses, a white shirt with short sleeves, a light blue Levi vest with matching pants, a brown belt with a yellow buckle with matching gloves and boots. He was also wearing earrings that had little chains with a small yellow ball attached on each chain.
Deker walked up to the hippie being, pointed his rifle at him and said "What are you doing here, you crazy fool? This is a restricted planet."
Gohan then got up and said "Be nice, Deker. We don't know what he is."
The hippie then said "Tell him, brother."
Gohan then looks at him and asked "Who are you? And why are you here?"
The hippie replied "Call me Guy. And my ship crashed here days ago."
"Guy?" Deker asked, "That is the stupidest name I ever heard."
Guy then said "I need help to get out of here. Care to help me?"
Gohan, as he was looking around, said "As much as we want to, we are kind of busy. You see, we are looking for something that came by here and…"
Before he was going to finish, he saw something unusual. When he walked closer, he saw a giant grasshopper-like alien that had dark green skin.
"Deker," Gohan said, "I found something."
When Deker and Guy rushed up to Gohan, they both saw the grasshopper body.
"What the hell is that?" Deker asked.
As Gohan looked closer, he noticed a small crack across its body. When he observe closer and reached his hand near it, he saw the purple slim on the edge of the crack.
"Looks like we found our missing lab experiment," Gohan said.
Guy then said "Is it dead?"
Gohan replied "No. From the looks of it, this is nothing more than a shell."
"A shell?" Deker asked, "You mean to tell me that it shed its skin?"
"It appears so," Gohan said as he turns to Deker, "Tell Wildfire about what happened."
"What about him?" Deker asked as he pointed at Guy.
Gohan thought for a moment and said "Take him with you."
Before Deker was going to reply, Guy said in an excited way "Thank you, my man!"
Deker let out a sign of stress and said "Do we have to get him involved?"
Gohan replied "Talk later. Regroup with Wildfire, I'll follow Piccolo."
As that was happening, Piccolo and the medical team arrived at the base of the Omega Men. While Piccolo landed on the ground, the medic team landed their shuttle and exited the ship. When they looked around, it was nothing more than a ghost town. They found no one in the buildings or in the base. All they found was the Omega armor lying around the floor.
"What happen here?" one of the medic member asked.
Piccolo replied "I don't know. But it can't be good."
He looked around and said "I'll look ahead."
When he walked away and out of sight, an Omega member jumped out of nowhere and pointed their rifle at the medic team.
"Stand down, soldier," one of the medics said, "We are here to help."
The Omega soldier said in a panicked way "Is it gone? Is the green monster gone?"
The medic replied "The Namekian? He's gone, but he didn't do anything."
"No," the soldier said, "Not Namekian, something else. He killed them. He killed them all."
"Who killed them?" another medic asked.
As Piccolo walked around to look for someone, he heard something crash.
He turned towards the sound and said "Who's there?"
Suddenly, a figure emerged from the darkness with its cold eyes looking at Piccolo. This figure was a skinny, 6' tall humanoid-insect that had pink eyes, an insect-like wings, a long tail with a spiky grey tip, his skin was both light and dark green with black spots all over its body and had three toes in each of his feet. It also had two grasshopper-like horns pointing backwards, a black oval bead on its forehead and black abs section, an orange stripe on its groin area and an orange stripe on its mouth.
The figure was dragging an unconscious Omega soldier on its right hand. Piccolo was startled by the mysterious being, he never seen an alien like it before.
When the Omega soldier gained conscious and looked at Piccolo, he said in a pleading way "Namekian, help me! Save me!"
Piccolo then said in a demanding way "So, you're the one behind all of this."
The being didn't reply.
"Look," Piccolo said, "If you want to fight someone, fight me then. Let go of him."
The mysterious being then drops the soldier to the ground and the soldier starts to crawl away from it. Before anything can happen, the being struck the soldier with the tip of its tail into the soldier's back. As Piccolo was stun in fear, the creature began to suck every blood, organs and everything else from the soldier's body into the creature's own. When he was done, all that was left was the armor the soldier was wearing.
"I see," Piccolo said in a startled way, "No wonder there are armors lying around every where, you somehow devour your prey."
The creature then said in a high-pitch voice "And you will be next."
"What are you?" Piccolo demanded.
The creature laughed and replied "My name is Cell, I am your brother."
Exciting isn't it? If you guessed that is was Cell, that would have been a no-brainer. Next time: Piccolo vs. Cell!
