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"Speech"
Thoughts
'Telepathic'
Summary: What if Goku had been more involved in training Gohan at an early age? This story starts at the beginning of dbz.
Chapter 38
Eighteen looked up with a groan. Her brother had been fighting the Namek for nearly an hour. "Why doesn't Seventeen just finish it?"
"He can't," Sixteen said in a matter of fact tone. "Piccolo is more powerful than him but he is wearing down."
Piccolo dodged to the left of another one of Seventeen's blows. Surprisingly even with the power advantage he was having a hard time finishing this fight. And it kept getting worse and worse as time ticked by. I need to finish this quickly, he thought. Suddenly maniacal laughter interrupted his thoughts. Piccolo and Seventeen both turned away from the fight to look at the new comer.
"I'd like to thank you for leading me to the androids," Cell said landing on the island. "It saved me a lot of trouble."
"Oh no," Piccolo said. "As if things weren't bad enough. Now I have to deal with Cell too."
"Stay out of this loser," Seventeen said.
"You don't understand how dangerous he is," Piccolo said.
Seventeen ignored him and took the opportunity to elbow Piccolo and send him flying into the ground. "Let's just finish this and then I'll take out him too."
Before he could even continue Cell charged at him and began to throw some punches of his own at the android.
Seventeen was caught completely unprepared and was soon sent flying into the ground after Piccolo.
Cell landed near the downed android and grinned. He looked down at Seventeen with hunger in his eyes.
-Dbz-
"Cell's there," Tien said with his eyes shooting open. Now we need to go."
"Right," Krillin said heading out the door. Suddenly the phone began to ring in the living room. "Wait I should answer that first. Hello," he said picking up the phone. A few seconds later he hung it up. "That was Bulma. She's managed to make a remote to deactivate the androids. You and Yamcha go ahead and stall. I'm going to meet Bulma half way. What ever you do don't let Cell absorb Seventeen or Eighteen." With that Krillin took off toward Capsule Corp while Tien and Yamcha both headed to the fight.
-Dbz-
"Cell's there," Gohan said snapping out of his meditation on the Lookout.
Goku also looked up. "I know."
"I'm going to help," Gohan said bringing his fingers up to his forehead.
"No," Goku said. "If you get killed one of our chances of beating Cell is gone. We must stay here."
"But what about Piccolo?"
"He'll take care of himself. Hopefully he'll keep Cell from absorbing the androids too."
-Dbz-
Piccolo shot out of the water as fast as he possibly could and rammed his whole body into Cell knocking him back. "You'll have to get through me if you want to absorb the androids."
"Absorb us?" Eighteen said in confusion.
"Yes," Cell replied. "I am Dr. Gero's ultimate creation. But I need to absorb both you and Seventeen to become perfect."
"That's not going to happen," Piccolo said. "I'll stop you."
"You fool," Cell laughed. "You have no idea how much my power has grown in just the last few days." Cell clenched his fists at his side and was soon surrounded by a green aura as his power began to rise. Piccolo's eyes shot out in amazement as the android's power finally leveled off. "Now you see the futility of fighting me?"
"No," Piccolo growled. "I will stop you." With that Piccolo charged at Cell once again and began throwing kicks and punches like crazy at the monster.
Cell simply laughed and managed to dodge every one of them with ease. "This is pathetic. You may have had a slight chance if you weren't worn out but you have no chance against me as you are." With that Cell brought his elbow down hard on Piccolo's head sending the Namekian to the ground hard. Cell never let up for a minute and hammered Piccolo with blow after blow before finally throwing the now unconscious Piccolo into the water where he slowly began to sink.
-Dbz-
"Piccolo," Gohan shouted out as he felt his mentor's power fading. "I've got to go get him."
"No, Gohan," Goku said. "We have to get strong enough to beat Cell. It's our only hope. Besides you know as well as I do that right now Piccolo was stronger than both of us. What makes you think you have a chance against Cell?"
"I have to try," Gohan replied.
-Dbz-
Cell loomed over Seventeen ready to absorb the weaker android.
"Stop," Sixteen finally said. The big android charged forward and knocked Cell back. "I will not allow you to do this."
"You won't allow me?" Cell said with amusement. "It's not like you are in a position to stop me."
"I will stop you," Sixteen said.
"What are you doing, Sixteen?" Eighteen asked. "Didn't you see how strong he is?"
"Yes," Sixteen replied. "We are about equal." With that the big android charged at Cell and began to deliver blow after blow on the unprepared monster. Cell dodged and blocked the best he could but couldn't manage to stay ahead of Sixteen's onslaught.
Sixteen brought his knee up hard into the monster's stomach doubling him over in pain. Before Cell could recover, Sixteen brought an elbow down onto his head hard sending him crashing to the ground.
"Oh no," Tien said as he and Yamcha arrived on the scene. "It looks like we may be too late to save Piccolo."
"At least there's someone stopping Cell," Yamcha replied looking over where Sixteen was delivering blow after blow to the monster.
"Yeah," Tien said. "If he manages to absorb those androids we're in trouble."
-Dbz-
"Here's the remote," Bulma said handing the device to Krillin.
"Thanks," the monk replied. "I got to go there isn't much time." With that Krillin was enveloped in a great red aura as he shot off at amazing speed.
-Dbz-
Sixteen continued to use his slight advantage to pound Cell mercilessly. Finally the big lug brought both fists down on the monster's head and sent him into the ground hard making a big hole. Before the monster could get out, Sixteen landed beside him and unfolded his arms. "Hellfire blast," he shouted as he filled the hole with fire.
"I guess we don't have to worry about him anymore," Seventeen said.
"Get out of here," Sixteen insisted. "Cell's not gone."
"Don't worry," Seventeen said. "He's a pushover. We can handle him."
"Oh you can?" Cell said from right behind Seventeen where he'd burrowed his way out of the ground. Before the android could even react, Cell clamped down on him with the end of his tail and began to suck the helpless android inside. Suddenly he was enveloped in a great green aura and lightning began to flash around him as his body began to slowly change. He suddenly became much more bulky. Where his feet had been claw-like, they now became more human shaped. His face morphed from his insect features to human-like with a red band across his chin. And to top it off his power shot through the roof.
-Dbz-
"Oh no," Goku exclaimed to a still tense Gohan. "Cell must have absorbed one of the androids. His power's shot through the roof."
"We need to help them," Gohan said. "I can feel Tien and Yamcha there too now."
"We need to get strong enough," Goku said. If we go and die now the Earth will be doomed."
-Dbz-
"You should get out of here," Sixteen said to Eighteen.
"What about you?"
"I will stay and delay Cell." With that the android charged at the newly transformed monster only to receive a back hand that took part of his head off and sent him flying back to land at Eighteen's feet.
Cell then calmly began to walk toward the beautiful android with dreams of perfection in his head.
"We have to do something," Tien said.
"Like what?" Yamcha replied.
"Delay Cell," Tien answered powering up with a red aura. "Kaioken x25" He then brought his hands out in front of him and began to gather energy focusing on Cell.
"What are you doing," Yamcha said. "You know using the Kaioken and Tri-beam together could kill you."
Tien didn't reply he just shouted, "Tri-beam." The attack shot out and sent Cell crashing into the ground in a crater but did no damage to the stronger warrior. But Tien didn't let up at all. He fired beam after beam at the android, knocking him back into the crater before he could ever escape.
Yamcha turned to the two stunned androids, "Get out of here while you can. He's sacrificing himself for you. Don't waste it. Kaioken x25," he shouted as he was enveloped red aura and began to gather blue energy in his hands. "Kamehameha," he shouted as he added his own attacks to Tien's
With that Eighteen grabbed Sixteen and flew away trying to put as much distance between them and Cell as possible.
"HA!" Tien continued his onslaught firing several more beams at the monster. Finally he couldn't take anymore and collapsed in exhaustion falling to the ground.
"I have to stop Cell or he'll kill Tien," Yamcha said. "Kaioken x30" Suddenly his aura expanded as more power than he could handle safely coursed through his body. He gathered as much energy into his fist as he possibly could and charged at Cell as he came out of his crater trying to land a critical blow. Cell didn't even blink as he backhanded the warrior away like a fly sending him to land next to Tien.
He then began to walk toward them to make them pay for delaying him.
-Dbz-
"Let's go get them," Goku said to Gohan. "We can't just let Cell finish them. But remember just use Instant Transmission to get there and get Tien and Yamcha and get back. Don't engage Cell."
"Right," Gohan said as he and his father both raised their fingers to their heads and disappeared.
-Dbz-
Gohan and Goku appeared right next to Yamcha and Tien before Cell could close the distance. The android stopped in his tracks seeing Goku and Gohan appear. "Well what do we have here? Two Saiyans in a hurry to die."
"I'm not ready to fight you," Goku said. "I still need a day to prepare and then I'll beat you." He bent down and picked up both Tien and Yamcha. "But I'm not going to let you hurt my friends."
Gohan suddenly turned his head to the side. Piccolo's still alive. It's faint but I can still feel his power. With that he raise two fingers to his head and appeared at the beach where Piccolo lie. Putting his fingers back to his forehead he disappeared as Goku disappeared with Tien and Yamcha.
Cell blinked in surprise. "How'd they do that? No matter. I have an android to find. She couldn't have gotten far. I will find her and become perfect," he said as he shot out to search the surrounding islands.
A/N: I'd like to thank you all for reviewing the last chapter. And as a reward or just because I'm pretty well caught up whatever you want to believe, I decided to post this chapter early. I know this chapter is really similar to what happened in the show but it is needed for setting up stuff for future chapters and this seemed like the best way to do it. It should start being a bit different again after the next chapter or so. Anyway, I hope everyone reviews this chapter. It really does help motivate me to get more done. So please take a second or two to review.
Power levels
Gohan
6.4 million
(with weights)
7.75 million (w/o weights)
Goku
6.25 million
(recovered with weights)
7.5 million (recovered w/o weights)
Vegeta
8 million
Trunks
5.5 million
Piccolo
350 million
(with weights)
450 million (w/o weights)
Krillin
6 million
120 million (using a Kaioken x20 for extra speed)
Tien
5 million
125
million (Kaioken x25)
Yamcha
5 million
125
million (Kaioken x25)
150 million (Kaioken x30)
Chiaotzu
3 million
Seventeen
350
million
Eighteen
350
million
Sixteen
500 million
Cell
450 million
500
million (after absorbing humans)
1 billion (after absorbing
Seventeen)
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