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A bright light hit her eyes with such intensity that she immediately awoke. Even with eyes closed, the sunlight penetrated her eyelids great enough to wake her. With both hands, she rubbed her eyes in attempt to compose herself. When she removed her hands, she attempted to scan her surroundings. It was terribly bright for a morning, especially since the curtains in her bedroom would block most of the sunlight. It was for one moment that she thought she left them wide open. But she wouldn't make a simple mistake like that, it would be unlike her. The brightness slowly dissipated, but before she could actually see her surroundings, she put her hands onto the ground.
"What the-" Kim felt the ground, recognizing the feel of it. It wasn't her bed. It was grass and dirt. She fully awakened and scrambled to her feet and glanced everywhere, her green orbs taking in the unbelievable. This definitely wasn't her bedroom, it was something entirely different and recognizable. The sight left her speechless.
"Impossible," she murmured, backing away until she bumped into a tree. The sight of the clearing spooked her so much that she began trembling on the spot. She prayed that this was all just a dream and that she would wake up at any moment.
'This isn't real, it's not real, it can't be real!' Kim continued scanning her surroundings in a panic. Something was missing, something incredibly important to her. She just couldn't decipher what it was exactly. Everything that occurred the day before was an entire blur, she could hardly recall anything.
"Team Go.. they were here, that definitely happened, but," she muttered to herself. "But.. what happened after that?"
There was no answer to her question. The heroine was mildly confused at the situation, and was actually curious to know everything she couldn't remember. All she could recall was that the team of superheroes arrived at the scene, but then poof, nothing. It was as if her brain was tapped by Drakken's infamous brain tap machine. Albeit, there was one thing she could recall with crystal clarity. She didn't have to think twice to see it clearly.
"Cell," she said aloud, looking around once more. "I don't see his jerky face around here, but where's-" A loud gasp left her mouth and she got off the tree briskly, realizing what it was that was missing. She began searching the clearing in a more panicked manner. "Ron!" she called out. Her green orbs failed to locate her boyfriend, causing a more panicked reaction to be released from her.
'What the heck happened yesterday?' She pleaded for a sign, at least one thing that could help her remember what happened. She just stood there in the clearing for a few minutes, straining to recall the events of yesterday. It all seemed just a hazy memory to her, but why was that?
"Did I.. get hit in the head?" Kim touched the back of her head, not feeling any injuries but somewhat recalling that she received an impact at the back of her head. She couldn't remember who or what caused it, but she was certain it was someone she scarcely met. The name of the person eluded her, possibly because they were never properly introduced. The heroine crossed her arms over her chest and sighed.
"So much for a great summer.."
Kim decided to depart from the clearing, thinking that perhaps the bio-android had left and that the other threat was gone, hence why she was still alive when she awoke. She would also try to locate her boyfriend, just to make sure he was safe.
Her first instinct was to contact Wade, but when she attempted to she couldn't get patched through. Her screen appeared similar to a TV when it wasn't working properly, a black and white fuzz covering the entirety of the screen. A sigh left her mouth, and with that she decided to go with her next best option.
"Then it's settled," she concluded to herself. "I'll leave this place and try to find civilization somewhere." The girl began strolling out of the clearing until she was stopped abruptly by an unknown force. She rose an eyebrow and waved her hand in the air near the edge of the clearing. It felt like there was an invisible wall stopping her from moving forward-could it be her imagination? No, it couldn't be, it was impossible. There's no way she could have just imagined such a thing. She didn't know why or what was stopping her, but she did have one clue.
"No, it.. it can't be." Kim pushed on the force in attempt to leave the clearing. "Oh come on! Why won't you just get out of the way?" She planted her back on the invisible wall and used her feet to push her back against it. "Let me leave!" She thrust herself against the wall repeatedly until she collapsed onto the ground on her knees, her hands on the invisible force.
"You really are a fool," a voice remarked with a laugh.
At that moment when the voice was heard, Kim's eyes widened to the size of saucers. Liquid heat pooled into her stomach and her heart started ramming itself against her sternum. Slightly turning her head, she glanced behind her and tried with all her might to not to lose her composure. Just when she thought the nightmare was over, it was standing right behind her with a wide smirk plastered upon its face. The moment was so shocking that it took her what felt like ages to actually think of something to say. Once her mind was settled, she slowly stood back up, her back against the invisible wall.
"Where's Ron?" she shot out, her voice quavering. "What did you do with him?" The thought of what the bio-android might have done to Ron was terrifying. The next thing you know, the corpse of your lifelong friend could turn up at any moment.
"You really don't remember, do you?" Cell asked, crossing his arms over his black-plated chest. "Watching you scrambling to find out what happened truly is an entertainment."
"Shut your mouth!" she interjected with a shout. "What happened to Ron? Why isn't he here?"
"That head injury surely took your memory, it's no wonder you can't recall a thing," he remarked. "Aren't you curious to know how it's gone away?"
Kim felt the back of her head again, not detecting any injuries. She was right after all, she did receive an injury, but she thought it was a small one, it couldn't have great enough to have taken her memory.. right?
The redhead turned back to Cell. "Tell me what happened right now," she ordered.
The bio-android chuckled at her command. "I know you've suffered from a severe head injury, but you couldn't have possibly forgotten what I am capable of. I'll leave you to reword your request."
The heroine crossed her arms and rose a brow. "And if I don't?"
"Then I'll just have to teach you respect. You don't want to end up like your friend now, do you?" Cell put his hand on his chin in thought, his smirk broadening. "His name, Hego, was it?"
The teen shifted uncomfortably at his question, a somewhat recognizable macabre memory appearing in her head, but leaving in an instant. What could it mean? She didn't know, but she was hesitant as she sought the answer. "What did you do to him?"
"Do you wish to know everything that occurred?" he asked, sounding sickeningly polite. "I'd be happy to tell you if you ask nicely."
Kim contemplated for a moment, trying to replace her bitterness with a convince-able kindness, even though it sickened her greatly. After shuddering slightly, she looked up at the bio-android. "Tell me what happened.. please," she said with gritted teeth, attempting to not be impertinent. It was both unsurprisingly and unexpectedly difficult.
Cell smirked proudly. "What a wise reply," he simply responded, before clearing his throat and preparing to explain to her the events of yesterday. "The Hego you know, is dead. The weakling didn't last a minute against me, as expected. His teammates charged after me, losing within seconds as well. At that point, it seemed you and your dimwitted partner took the chance to take flight, but you were stopped by an unknown fighter. Your partner fled, thus leaving you with this fighter, whom you had no chance against. He left you to die."
Kim couldn't believe it when he stated so cheerfully that he murdered Team Go, but when she heard that last part, her disbelief increased even more so. Ron would never leave her to die, they've known each other for as long as they could remember; they cared about each other, they loved each other. His safety was her main priority, the feeling should be mutual for the boy.
"No.. no way. You're lying." The heroine's eyes narrowed and she shot the fiend daggers. "Ron would.. he would never leave me to die! You seriously think I'm dumb enough to believe.. that?!"
"I am merely stating what I have seen with my own eyes, I do not lie, it is fool's errand." He ceased speaking and waited for her to continue, but heard no response. She must be in denial with what she head, he expected no less from a human. "You could, perhaps, thank yours truly for saving your measly life. I could have watched you die, but I've chosen not to."
"Now it's time to draw the line," she muttered angrily. "Why would you? It's not like my measly life has anything to benefit you anyway."
"I won't allow another to take your life, it will be I who will have the privilege." Cell uncrossed his arms and left them by his sides. "Besides, it was moments before you've awakened that I realized it was you who deserved the punishment. Your partner blindly followed you as result to his submissiveness. The poor fool didn't realize to abandon you until now, a smart move for someone such as him."
"Ugh, shut up!" she snapped. "Don't talk about him like you know him! You haven't known him like I have, you can't say anything about him. You just think he's some idiot who doesn't know any better!"
Cell let out a chuckle and looked down upon her. "So tell me, dear, is my assumption wrong?"
Kim narrowed her eyes and glared. "It wouldn't be the first," she answered venomously.
"You should keep that temper of yours in control, it might just determine your fate." The bio-android suppressed a laugh, chuckling at a remembrance of a little known fact. "Not like it will alter a thing, every life form on this planet will have the same fate. Denying it will only prove vanity."
The heroine decided not to respond and merely continued to glare at Cell, remembering all the moments in the past when she actually felt bad for him. Back then, she was under the impression that the poor, trapped guy was misunderstood or maybe even misled to do the unspeakable things he did. Inwardly, she could still feel bad for the bio-android, but maybe it was for herself for getting herself into a situation like this. Instead of him being viewed as the poor fool, it was actually her herself.
'God.. I've been so stupid, how could I let this happen?' Kim thought, then she felt a pang in her heart when her boyfriend came to mind.
Ron wouldn't leave her to die, he loved her immensely and it had always been that way. She had her doubts when they began the mission at Area 51, but grew to dismiss all of them, but it was now that they were being brought back.
"If you aren't going to say anything else, I might as well take my leave," the bio-android said suddenly, snapping Kim out of her contemplating. "My efforts to overpower Son Goku are more important than this vain conversation." Once he finished speaking, he began levitating a few feet into the air and off into the depths of the forest to continue his training, leaving the heroine trapped in the clearing all by herself.
Kim didn't know how long she would remain trapped in this little space she was in, but she wondered how long she would last without any necessities. Going on without food wouldn't kill her, but she wouldn't last long without water. It was obvious that she wouldn't be leaving this clearing anytime soon, so she guessed she would perish to the hands of the bio-android before then.
With no further ado, she collapsed onto the ground, questioning everything she had ever said or did in the past, and regretting it.
"Shego!" barked Drakken, as he barged into the lab within his lair searching for his sidekick. He spotted her on a lawn chair reading what he suspected to be a magazine.
The green villainess rose said magazine up, blocking her face and trying her best to ignore the evil scientist. She was already onto an interesting topic and she didn't want to be disrupted by a nuisance- a very big one at that.
"Shego, I know you can hear me," he growled. "I've got something important to ask of you."
"No, I did not steal your 'coco moo'. Even if I did, you shouldn't leave it out in the open where people can take it," Shego replied, very snarky.
"Not that!" Drakken exclaimed in frustration. "I've yet to found out who took it, but that's besides the point! I need to ask you something and you better answer truthfully."
Shego rose a brow. "Oh really? If it's about another outfit change, I'm out."
Drakken inhaled and exhaled deeply, attempting to not lose his temper. "No. Have you been in contact with our assassin in the last two days? She's been gone awhile."
The green villainess laid down the magazine on her lap, putting a hand on her chin in thought. "No, not recently. You think the princess beat her and sent her off to prison?"
"You know her well, Shego, the both of you fight practically everyday!" Drakken sighed, considering the idea that Kim Possible did defeat L. The mere thought of it was too much for the evil scientist to bear. He worked far too hard on his current plans for it to go to waste just like that.
"She probably got beat then," proclaimed the villainess. "Congrats, Dr. D, Kim Possible has won again. Call me back when you can think up an actual plan." With that, Shego stood up from her lawn chair and left the laboratory, leaving the evil scientist all by himself.
Before Drakken could consider quitting on this plan, he heard a loud banging in the other room. He quickly went to the nearest controls and opened up the security cameras. A grin appeared on his face as he saw his faithful assassin at the door, awaiting someone to open it.
"Yes!" he yelled, bolting out of the lab and to the other room to let her in. Once he made it, he opened the door briskly, and at that moment his smile was wiped clean off of his face.
"Get me medical help," ordered the assassin, before she collapsed onto the floor in front of him. Before Drakken could, he examined her injuries. She was bloody all over; third degree burns and contusions all over her body. This was definitely not the work of Kim Possible, but someone else she must have encountered on her quest- someone incredibly dangerous and powerful.
"SH-SHEGO!" Drakken yelled, before scrambling to the other room to fetch whatever medical supplies he had- which wasn't a lot.
"What convinced you to come back and visit us, Trunks?"
The half-Saiyan who had time traveled from the future turned to the other half-Saiyan flying beside him, whose name was Son Gohan.
"My mother told me that I should spend some time with my father, since we haven't really talked much," Trunks responded placidly, as he turned away from Gohan and gazed below for any signs of disturbance in the peace. This obscure power Dende sensed the day before had come up again today, so the time traveler decided to assist the others in locating it- along with Gohan who wanted to aid him. Both the half-Saiyans were in flight at the moment.
"That's funny, the both of you spent nearly a year in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber," Gohan pointed out in slight astonishment. "Then again, with Cell threatening the Earth and all, you both were probably absorbed in your training. Talking must have been the last thing on your mind."
"Looked like our training didn't do much though," Trunks added shortly afterwards. "Since you were the one who took him out." A somewhat proud smile stretched across the time traveler's face.
With the large distance between Gohan and the ground, he could see grasslands and forest terrains dispersed all over. He gazed down at the ground and sighed wearily. "Trust me, it wasn't easy. It's a good thing that it's all in the past now, it's definitely impossible that we're ever seeing him again."
Both had a laugh right after, making a few quips and jokes then and there about seven years ago. Especially about moments during battle when they were fighting Cell.
"Can't believe I didn't notice how slow I would've gotten if I got into that form," Trunks remarked. "I was so focused on getting the power I needed to beat him that I didn't even pay attention to other vital skills." He turned to Gohan with a mild grin. "You, however, managed to increase your power and speed at the same time. The sight was practically unbelievable."
"I remember Dad telling me about that when we were training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber," the half-Saiyan said to himself, before turning to Trunks with a question in mind. "Have you found anything on this enigmatic power yet?"
Trunks shook his head, a somewhat frustrated expression appearing on his face. "No, nothing yet unfortunately."
"Same here, I'm getting nothing," Gohan added. He continued scanning the ground until he came to a quite fast conclusion. "Should we head back to the lookout?"
"You can go on back, I'll keep searching," Trunks replied. "Maybe I'll stumble onto something."
The half-Saiyan nodded at the time traveler and flew off in the opposite direction towards the lookout. Trunks stared off into the direction in which he left until he could no longer see him. Afterwards, he continued searching for this evil power that the Earth's guardian told them about.
"This makes no sense," he muttered to himself. "What kind of person or thing can keep their power hidden like this?" Trunks didn't bother answering his own question, as there wasn't exactly an answer to it. He knew you could mask your power, but not in this way, not in a way where the guardian of Earth can't decipher the location or the owner. This was incredibly odd to the time traveler, as it was to the rest of the Z-fighters.
"Something definitely feels awry," Trunks remarked warily, furrowing his eyebrows and narrowing his eyes in concentration. "Too awry." He slowed down his flying and made his way onto the ground. He decided to search the land at a closer distance to have a better view of the land.
'Not that it would make much difference. If Dende can't find whoever's power this is, how can I?'
The time traveler sighed and dismissed any further thoughts. "I shouldn't debate with myself. I should just keep searching for this this power," he said, groaning shortly afterwards. "It's the only thing I can do.."
Before he continued forward, he contemplated some more. 'Dende also said that this power is also large and growing. The more time we waste not finding it, the more it grows. What are we even up against? It's like we need a machine to find this power.' The time traveler clenched his fists and tried to think of a solution to this current predicament. This was a very complicated situation with seemingly no answers.
'Wait a minute-' A lightbulb moment came up, causing Trunks' eyes to broaden, yet this idea he quickly formulated seemed incredibly implausible. 'He can't possibly exist in my timeline.. but no one there has checked Dr. Gero's lab, so there must still be a chance. He can definitely help us.' With that in mind, he levitated in the air and blasted off into the sky and right for Capsule Corporation, where his time machine lies.
Bulma stood in front of the time machine with a cigarette in hand, awaiting the return of her son, Trunks. As in the one who have time traveled from his timeline to visit everyone in this one. Her son from the present was still missing, and she wondered why was that.
'Chi Chi hasn't seen him either, along with Goten. I hope they're okay, but they're in a load of trouble for causing all this concern!'
Bulma sighed, lighting up her cigarette and taking a long drag from it and then blowing out a puff of smoke. "They better not be running into any trouble," she started, flicking away the rest of her cigarette into a nearby trashcan, losing interest in smoking. "They can handle themselves anyway."
"Mother!" someone called out suddenly, landing on the ground from the sky behind the blue haired woman.
"Huh?" Bulma glanced back, a bit surprised to see her son from a future timeline. "Trunks? Is that you?"
"Yes, it's me, Mom," Trunks replied placidly. "I need to use my time machine immediately, it's an emergency."
"What? You're leaving so soon?" Bulma asked, incredulous at this sudden news. "You just got here yesterday! We haven't even started the picnic yet!"
"Yes, I know, and I'm very sorry for that," apologized her son, very brisk. "But it's incredibly urgent. I won't be late for the picnic, I'll be back before you know it, okay?" Trunks inspected her face for any signs of worry or distress, but found frustration. It must be because her other son, young Trunks, was still missing, but it probably wasn't that much of an issue.
"Well, as long as you come back before it starts, then I guess it's okay." Bulma replaced her frustrated expression with a weary smile. "Make sure to come back soon, okay? The picnic won't be complete without the entire gang here."
A grin stretched across the time traveler's face as he heard his mother's approval. He didn't think that his mother would approve of his depart so quickly. On the way to Capsule Corporation, he thought about ways to convince her otherwise if she denied. Turns out, he didn't have to after all.
"Thank you, Mother!" Trunks gave her a quick embrace before leaping up into the air and opening the entrance to the time machine. He took his seat and waved. "I won't be long, I swear!" And with that, the time machine levitated into the air before disappearing completely, leaving Bulma in silence.
The time machine landed nearby the slightly ruined building of Capsule Corporation, albeit, it's original location was supposed to be within it. It was decided by the half-Saiyan that it was better to not see his mother in his timeline- only to avoid greeting her once more and providing a false permanent return.
"Alright, back in the capsule you go," Trunks said, as he took out his capsule and pushed the button. Then, he threw it near the machine until the entirety of it had gone into the capsule. He strolled over towards the capsule and picked it up, sliding it into the pocket in his jacket. He glanced up before blasting off into the sky and starting his way towards North City, where in its mountains Dr. Gero's laboratory lies.
Whilst in flight, the time traveler began to contemplate on certain things. Explicitly, the choice he had just made recently. He had no clue if the android existed in his timeline, for all he knew the laboratory could have been destroyed by androids 17 and 18 when they turned on their creator. It was likely, but even so he had to try and see if the other android still existed.
"I've got no choice but to try," he said to himself, before increasing his speed to finish his current mission immediately.
Wow, this is certainly a late update. I apologize, I procrastinated and thought I could finish it last week.
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