A/N: (pant, pant) I'm done! I finally finished re-uploading all of the previous chapters, and I've written a new one to celebrate! I did something about the terrible grammar, and also tried to break up all of the dialogue a little. Since I began reading English books, I spotted more and more flaws in my story. A few of them were small, the others just made your brains melt. I wanted to write a new chapter earlier, but I felt like fixing the older ones first. I'm a lot happier with my work now, and I hope you are too!

P.S. See? See? I actually wrote "too" instead of "to"! Mhuahahaha! Fear my linguistic super powers! FEAR THEM I SAY! (throws her head back and cackles madly)

P.S. P.S. the storyline has not changed, except for one tiny detail: in chapter 22, Mirai Lara says that she placed seventy shield emitters to keep the Borg at bay. However, it's supposed to be only seven shield emitters (my bad!). It's fixed now, but I figured I should mention this particular mistake here, to make sure no one gets confused later on.

Chapter 26: Susan's big mistake

Second turned into minutes as the two visitors from the future faced each other. The third one was still unconscious. The tension could be cut with a knife: who would make the first move? Susan cautiously glanced at Mirai Lara. Her sister had no visible injuries and did not seem to be in pain. This was good. Unfortunately, she was also being restrained by Cell, and this was bad.

Very bad.

"Let her go Cell!" Susan finally demanded, hoping she sounded braver than she felt.

"Or else what?" he grinned maliciously

"Or else, I'll…uhm…well…I don't know yet, but you're not going to like it!"

Ooooh… snappy comeback Susan, that'll certainly show him! She thought sarcastically.

Cell laughed, not impressed by her threats.

"I'm afraid you are no match for me, girl"

This time, Susan was the one who laughed.

"Ha! You're forgetting that I'm still faster than you, creep! And don't even think about your little 'energy beam thrust' manoeuvre, because I'm not going to fall for that old trick again!"

Cell, however, did not seem to be worried. He just stood there, looking confident as ever.

"My dear, have you taken a good look around?"

She raised an eyebrow, not sure what he was getting at. Cell noticed this and chuckled darkly.

"On your way here, how many humans did you see?"

Susan tried to remember. She had passed over a lot of towns on her way here, but there had not been a single living soul. Just empty clothes with….

Oh no…

A small gasp escaped her lips. How could she be have been so oblivious! Of course she knew he had absorbed them, but the fact that with every victim his power grew, had completely slipped her mind. How many humans had been living in those cities? Thousands? Tens of thousands? There already had been 15.000 lives lost in Ginger town alone, and some of the cities she had seen were even larger!

"Do you finally realise it now?" Cell smirked, "Thanks to their energy, I'm faster, stronger and more powerful than you can even begin to imagine! I don't need those silly 'tricks' to catch you anymore!"

Susan felt her stomach drop. He was not bluffing, she could sense it. She suddenly felt incredible foolish. As an Uranian, speed was very important to her. It was their pride, the thing that made other races throughout the galaxy either admire or envy them. Of course psychic powers were nice, but there were plenty of other species that had similar abilities. However, no one was as fast as an Uranian! It had never occurred to her, that this might not be the case in other dimensions, where all kinds of monsters roamed the galaxy and growing old was apparently a luxury, not many people got to enjoy. Their race was almost legendary where she came from, but here on this wretched planet, it meant absolutely nothing.

"Susan…"

Her thoughts were cut short by Mirai Lara, who was mumbling something.

"Fly…he can't catch you…if…"

Before she could finish her sentence, she slipped back into unconsciousness. It had been enough, though. So fast, that she even amazed herself, Susan jumped up into the air, making sure she was well out of Cells reach. He growled and prepared to follow her, but suddenly understood what his captive had meant.

Damn! I can't fly! I have to suppress my powerlevel, or else the Z-fighters will sense me, and I haven't fully recovered from that woman's attack yet!

He looked up at Susan, and was surprised to see that she hadn't left yet. The girl appeared to have an inner conflict.

Why isn't she…

His musings were interrupted, when he suddenly felt Lara stir a little.

Ah…of course…

He smirked evilly.

"What's wrong, girl?" he taunted, "This is your chance, I suggest you take it"

"I won't leave until you let her go!" she snapped at him, but her voice was very shaky. He could see fear in her eyes.

"You choose loyalty over life, even though you stand no chance at all?"

"Who says I don't stand a chance? As long as I don't land, you can't catch me!"

"And just how are you going to save your sister if you wont come down?" he laughed at her, "The only reason she's still breathing, is because I allow her to. You can leave now, or try to attack, but it wont do her any good"

"Ooh, I wouldn't be so sure about that!" she smirked, "It would be a shame if I fled and alerted the Z-fighters, wouldn't it? It will certainly make things more difficult for you. There is another option, though: you forget about killing her, and I'll forget ever seeing you here. Do we have a deal?"

Cell just snorted, and rolled his eyes in sarcasm.

"And I suppose you know exactly where your friends are, even though you obviously can't sense powerlevels?"

D'OH!

"Uhm…well…" she stuttered, mentally smacking herself.

"And if you find them, you can tell them what happened and get back here, all in less than a second, so I won't have time to hide in another town and absorb her there in peace?"

And again: D'OH!

"If you're trying to scare me," he sneered, "I'm afraid you'll have to do better than…"

"HYYYYYYYYIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAA!"

With a loud cry, Susan suddenly dashed forward and kicked him straight in the face! Startled by her sudden assault, he let go of Lara. For a minute, Susan felt like she was floating outside her body and was watching everything from a distance. She had acted pure out of instinct. In the confusion that followed, she quickly grabbed her sister and flew away at breakneck speed.

A bit bewildered, Cell slowly reached for his face. His mind was still trying to register what just had happened. She attacked him! That girl had actually attacked him!

He growled: how dared she! Needless to say, Susan was asking herself the same question

"Oh man! I can't believe I did that!" she panicked, as she fled away with Mirai Lara in her arms. Susan didn't try to look over her shoulder, afraid that it would slow her down. She glanced at her sister.

Where did you come from? she thought. What happened to you? Why did you run from your friends, and into the arms of that…that monster? I don't know why, but somehow, I doubt that you just stumbled into him by accident.

A few minutes later, Susan stopped and took a look around. Strangely, there was no sign of Cell, but she did spot a deserted hospital.

Good, she thought, I'll just hide in there for a while until I'm sure he's gone, and in the mean time, maybe I can find something to patch up Lara.

With a sigh of relief, she quickly dived down, but suddenly crashed into something that felt like a brick wall. Unfortunately, the "wall" happened to be the raven haired leader of a certain trio, Susan really had not wanted to come across…

Earlier that afternoon…

"He aims, he shoots, HE SCORES!"

17 laughed, and prepared to fire at another car, but 18 beat him to it

"Too slow, brother!" she shouted above the explosion.

"Just wait, I'll show you how its done!" he yelled back, while blowing up an abandoned school bus.

"Hey 16!" 18 called out, "any sign of Goku yet?"

"No" he answered. The androids had dumped the van a few hours ago, when 17 finally got bored of driving. They killed time by having fun with passing humans, but at some point during their journey, all the towns that they passed were empty, so they decided to blow op cars instead. The strangest thing was, that the streets were covered with clothes. This would've been android 18's dream come true, if it had not been for all the holes in them. It was like the entire population had taken of their clothes, cut them up with some scissors, and was now running around naked somewhere in a secret hiding place. 17 had been almost certain that this was the case, until walked into an electronics store and heard something on the radio about "the Monster of Nicky Town". It's description resembled that of the creature, that girl had told him about. What had happened to her anyway? Perhaps that thing got her? Not like he cared, of course.

Suddenly, he spotted a very strange vehicle hidden behind a large tree. It was rather small, but all the windows were darkened, so he figured it was owned by some paranoid rich guy who didn't want to be spotted by bored snipers, or something like that. Humans often were stupid that way.

He smirked evilly, a mischievous gleam in his icy blue eyes.

"Hey sis!" he shouted, "see that car over there?"

"The one with the fancy windows?"

"Yeah! Bonus points to whoever blows it up first!"

"You're on, 17!"

Laughing, she quickly fired a small ki-blast at the windshield, only to be surprised by a explosion that was a lot bigger than she had expected.

"What was THAT!" 18 exclaimed, and turned pale when she realised that she was covered in slime.

"ARGH! My hair! It's ruined!"

"Chill out sis," he chuckled, "see that hospital over there? You can take a shower, while 16 scouts the area and finishes his scan for Goku"

The female android frowned.

"And what about you?" she asked, knowing how easily her brother got bored.

"Don't worry," he smirked when he saw a familiar face approaching in the distance, "I already found a way to entertain myself…"

A/N: Sooooooo, loved it? Hated it? Crying because I got tired of writing a corny end chapter note every single time (I might write one from time to time, though)? Let me know!