Just thought I'd add this fun little blip for after chapter 11.
~Silverleone
(Last Chapter) I looked up and noticed that the sun had set. The stars were out and shining brightly.
Maybe, with time...I can help him. I smiled up at the sky as Cell started laughing as Vegeta tried to form an argument. But there was none. Cell was the most dangerous enemy we had faced yet. But, with some help, he had changed sides.
Today was a good day.
Epilogue
I had started to explain what happened to the others, and with many, many protests, I finally got them to speak one at a time.
"Look, Cell could easily kill anyone except Gohan and I right now, but he hasn't even tried. You all gave Vegeta a second chance, didn't you?" Behind me, Vegeta scoffed in disbelief that he was being used as a comparison.
"But this is different!" Trunks protested. "Cell's killed tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people!"
"Vegeta blew up an entire planet."
"Cell tried to, and did, kill Goku!"
"Vegeta almost did too, and don't forget, Goku stopped Krillin who was about to kill him, because he wanted to fight him again."
"That doesn't matter! What matters, is Cell doesn't deserve to live!"
"Then neither does Vegeta." I said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"I...you...grrr." Trunks looked ready to punch something...either me or Cell would work at the moment apparently.
"I don't care what Cell has done, if Vegeta was in this position again, you'd give him another chance, because he's changed...even if he doesn't want to admit it." I looked over at Vegeta and he scoffed again, turning away. "Cell is in the same boat as Vegeta was, why not give him a second chance?" There was silence in the group as everyone thought it over. Then Gohan looked up and walked over to Cell and I. I shifted my stance and put my hands in my pockets. He stopped right in front of Cell and looked over at me. Being in his unmastered SSJ2 form, he always looked angry. But right now, he looked solemn and calm. I nodded to him and he turned to look Cell in the eyes. Cell had stayed silent the entire time, not want to say something to break any progress I might have made with the others.
"You killed my father." I almost smacked my head at that. Cell looked shocked at the bluntness, unsure how to respond.
"...Yes...I did...and if I could bring him back, I would." Cell looked uncertain, but kept eye contact with the ten year old, not wanted to shift into a stance that seemed battle ready. Gohan turned and walked away, saying something I'd never forget.
"Fine, but threaten my planet ever again, and you'll be sorry." He walked over and sat on a random rock jutting out of the ground. I heard Vegeta in the background, a mocking tone evident in his voice.
"Threaten my planet again and you'll be sorry...little brat needs to learn who's the prince around here!" I rolled my eyes and looked around at our ragtag little band of warriors. Vegeta and Trunks were both glaring death beams at anyone who moved, and Krillin was looking around, uncertain of himself.
"Krillin, do you have something to say? Or am I imagining things?" He jumped at his name and looked in between Cell and Android 18, who he was sitting next to. He hopped up and walked over to the imposing figure that was Cell. Honestly, I'm surprised he had the guts to even look in this direction, Cell was already very tall, and Krillin wasn't exactly the tallest person on the planet. He stopped about 5 feet away.
"Um...uh..Mister Cell...?"
"Please, call me Cell...I have a lot of work to do before I earn that title." Krillin looked up in shock.
"Oh...uh-okay then...uh, Cell, I know it wasn't intentional, but thank you for not trying to take 18 back..." He looked up in uncertainty.
"I'm going to be honest, I didn't know what would happen if I tried to absorb her again, I didn't know if Gero had planned for me to absorb anyone after I reached my perfect form and was fearful of the results." Cell looked over at her as she lay unconscious on the ground. "Now I'd wish she'd wake up so I could apologize to her." As they were talking, I walked over to Gohan as he sat facing away from everyone else.
"Hey, are you gonna be okay Gohan?" He turned and looked at me out of the corner of his eye.
"Honestly, I don't know, how am I going to explain to mom...what happened to father..." He looked up at me with unshed tears in his eyes.
"Um...she kind of already knows...heh." I rubbed the back of my neck. "When I ran you back to your house, I had to tell her everything before she saw you, otherwise she might have panicked and passed out."
"She...she knows? Great, now she's gonna ground me for leaving again..." He shifted and stretched out his arms, trying to get a kink out of his back.
"That new form looks painful...why don't you drop out of it?"
"I uh...I don't know how..."
"What? How's that?"
"Once my Super Sayian transformation was stable, my dad and I stayed in the form to help our bodies to adjust to the power output...I never...exactly, learned how to turn it off..." I sat there staring at Gohan as his face flushed red.
"You...heh heh-you can't drop into a regular Sayian's form...? Haha...haHAHAHAHA! That's great!" Gohan blushed in embarrassment as everyone turned to find out why I was laughing so hard.
"Shut up! It's not like you know how either!" He dropped the bomb on me. I stopped laughing as it hit me.
"Oh no."
The End
Well I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. I had to go back through the A/Ns and edit them, because I didn't have work all week, I was able to write this in pretty much one go, not uploading any chapters until I was finished! I hope my writing is up to par on FF, I honestly have no idea.
~Silverleone
