Hello everyone, time for the new chapter of Changed Path. Enjoy.
Chapter 48: Fight the Monster! Vegeta and Bryco vs Cell Part 2!
Artificial Humans Saga Part 2: The Rise of Cell- Part 2
[Musical Cue #1: Opening- Chase by batta]
[Musical Cue #2: Ending- Monster by Skillet]
[Musical Cue #1: Opening]
The royal Super Saiyan was floating in the air in the same altitude as the other two fighters, who now seemed a bit fazed from their fight and looking at him with Cell smirking devilishly while Bryco was growling while sporting a scowl with his Super Saiyan aura flaring around him.
"Excuse you, you royal ass, what did you say? "My turn"? Yeah, like I'll allow you to take over my fight." he said angrily as he growled, blood flowing from between his teeth as he ground them in his state of flaming, golden anger. "Why don't you sit and watch as someone who didn't get smacked like a bitch by the cyborgs fight, you backstabbi-" the taller, middle-class Super Saiyan kept on insulting his supposed "ally", but he was cut off as Vegeta merely growled before appearing next to him using an afterimage and smash a roundhouse kick that sent Bryco flying through a building.
The flame-haired prince smirked confidently as he sighed. "Huh, good to get rid of that pain in the ass." he said to himself as he then turned to his monstrous opponent as he gave him a shit-eating grin. "Sorry, had to get rid of him, his performance was absolutely pathetic." he said while his flaming gold aura raged around him as he relaxed his body, stretching his white gloves.
Cell merely chuckled from the boast of his new foe. "And you think you'll do better?" he asked, making his foe scowl. "Look at you, you're an absolute mess! Your clothes look like they've been thrashed and face-fucked by a lawnmower! Hahaha!" he started to laugh loudly with a mocking tone to his raspy voice as tears came from his eyes.
Vegeta merely growled at the fact that his foe was mocking him and laughing hard at his evidence of defeat. He would fix that quickly. He then charged at his foe, ramming a powerful punch into Cell's gut in an uppercut motion, making the creature and bend over. Smirking, Vegeta followed up by flipping in the air, sending a knee strike from above into the gem at the center of the monster's head, which had been well hidden by the V-shaped crown, sending the creature plummeting down towards the ground.
However, much to the prince's annoyance, before his adversary could hit the ground, his frame seemed to disappear as he used the afterimage technique. "Dammit!" the prince yelled before his left cheek was clobbered by a powerful straight kick by the armored leg of the bug-looking monstrosity, sending him flying so fast that he broke the sound barrier.
However, the prince didn't fly back for too long, as after five seconds he managed to slow himself down and regain his barrings, balancing himself mid-air. Just as he finally gained perfect balance, he saw the monster heading his way at tremendous speed, preparing to hit him even further. Vegeta just smiled as he prepared himself for impact.
As Cell reached him, he sent both a thunderous right haymaker as well as sending his tail out like a spear to stab his pray, but unfortunately for the creature, both attacks passed through the image of his foe, which quickly became transparent. "Shoot me with dong, why don'tcha!" the bug-looking creature shouted with frustration as he looked around for his foe.
To his surprise, a powerful knee strike crashed into his groin area, making him squeal loudly with pain as he was sent flying high into the sky, only for the prince to appear above him and crash into him with a spinning elbow strike to the back, sending the now screeching beast crashing down yet again with a agonized scream, much to the pleasure of the flame-haired Super Saiyan.
As Cell plummeted towards the ground, a golden light suddenly smashed into the bug, with Bryco slamming a powerful spear kick into the cheek of the creature, fracturing his exoskeletal head protector, only to send the bug-looking creature fast to his left. Continuing the assault, the tall Super Saiyan flew forward to reach his target, only for Vegeta to appear beneath Cell and kick him in the stomach, sending him upwards into the sky.
This caused both fighters to stop as they growled and snarled at one another. "Would you stop stealing my kill, you bastard?!" the short-spiky haired fighter yelled at the shorter fighter, raising his fist in front of his face with objection.
The prince returned the favor by raising his hand in the exact same manor. "This is my fight now! You stay back!" he yelled angrily as both of them flared their auras in an attempt to make the other stand down.
Suddenly they felt a terrifying increase in Cell's power, as well as the fact that he was now heading towards the two of them. Dodging backwards, each in the different direction, they barely escaped a powerful punch from Cell, which caused such powerful wind currents that it gave each of the golden fighters a slash on the cheek, with blood flowing out of it. "Fuck you two, I'm killing you now!" the creature screeched furiously as he stopped himself mid-air, standing between both of his adversaries.
"RRRAAAGGGHHH!" he roared at the top of his lungs as he released a powerful explosive wave that atomized part of the remaining urban jungle around them, sending both Saiyans flying in different directions as they crossed their arms in front of their faces to defend themselves as they energy burned their forearms and the wind blasted them into buildings and rocks that were part of the use crater in the middle of the battlefield.
Cell chased after Vegeta as he prepared to kick him with a powerful attack aimed for the scrotum, but the kick moved through an afterimage yet again, pissing off the creature. "Nice shot, nearly grazed my neck." the prince of all Saiyans said as he appeared behind the monster and smacked him aside the head with a powerful roundhouse kick, sending him flying through the walls of the building.
Flying up, the royal elite fired a volley of dozens upon dozens of energy blasts towards the building, atomizing it into dust from pure, raw energy. "DIE! DIE! DIE!" he roared angrily as he fired more and more bolts of ki at the area where he sent his opponent flying. After the 100th bolt there was a gigantic sphere of energy made of 100 smaller spheres that span around themselves as Vegeta extended his arm with his fingers facing upwards. "You're going straight to hell. BIG BANG ATTACK!" he roared as he fired his sphere attack towards the many explosions.
However, much to the prince's annoyance, a green sphere of ki was also flying towards the explosions that he made, reaching at the same time as his finishing move, making both spheres collide in the center and explode into a massive pillar of green and blue, which destroyed the entire 10 kilometer of buildings, roads, bridges and whatever was in that area into complete atomic oblivion.
The two panted as they watched the destruction of everything around them occur, as they see how the buildings and everything turn into atoms and burn into nothingness. After about twenty seconds of this the pillar of light and heat disappeared as the two fighters glared at each other: Vegeta looked at his taller comrade angrily while Bryco looked at him smugly.
"Stole you're kill, princess?" he asked the flame-haired elite fighter as he crossed his hands in front of his face with satisfaction. "That's what you get for entering in the middle of my fight." he said as he turned to the center of the origin of the explosion as he started to sense the ki of the monster. "But it's definitely not other, not until we solve his mystery." he said as he returned into his fighting stance and ignited his fiery, golden aura around his muscular and tall frame.
"Tsk!" the prince just snickered angrily as he looked at the same direction as his supposed "ally" from above. As the dust and smoke cleared, they saw the creature below as it slowly but surely ascended up into the air. Most of the exoskeleton around the head and stomach was missing, along with his entire right arm and left leg, along with no tail limping behind.
The creature focused his glare at Vegeta. "You pricks!" he shouted as with a massive scream his missing limbs popped right out of their stumps with a loud, meaty "SKWELSH!" and "POP!" sounds and his exoskeleton reformed around the around the body with many "CRUNCH!" sounds as a shockwave echoed and pushed the two warriors back an inch. He then disappeared with an afterimage, appearing beside Bryco and kicking him in the shin, making the eyes of the tall defender of Earth to bulge out as he was sent skidding and bouncing across the gigantic crater.
Continuing on, Cell charged at Vegeta with a spear strike from his tail, which said opponent dodged under using his shorter height to his own advantage, as he surged under the tail and tried to hit the bug-looking humanoid with an uppercut. Unfortunately for the prince of all Saiyans, the monster managed to quickly spin backwards to dodge the uppercut, with a knee strike of his own crashing into the chin of the Super Saiyan with enormously loud "BRISH!" sound as a shockwave sent him flying upwards with blood flowing out of his mouth.
Pursuing the flame-haired fighter, Cell started to hammer into his adversary with a barrage of kicks into his abdomen, making said adversary to spew blood from his mouth with each kick that landed. After the twenty fourth kick, the blue-skinned humanoid bug smashed a leopard punch into his foe's right breastplate, sending him flying so fast and with such force that he broke the sound barrier twice before crashing down into the crater with a "BOOM!" sound and an explosion of air that raised dust 50 meters into the air.
Cell panted heavily as many beads of sweat covered his brow. "NOT SO ARROGANT NOW, HUH?! YOU BASTARD!" he roared furiously at the top of his lugs as several blasts of air blew out around him as he sent the air currents like a shockwave of deadly deadly wind blades in his fury.
"Geo Blast!" a ball of green-blue ki flew towards Cell from below, which he managed to detect as it was quickly heading his way. He turned around and as the attack reached him, he quickly sliced it into two with a swipe of his hand. "Not this time!" he shouted as the two parts of the blast flew behind him.
Not giving up, the Super Saiyan closed his fist. "Expand!" he roared as the two halves of the attack started to expand massively quick, startling the blue-skinned creature to the point that his eyes widened in surprise. "You ain't winning me this easily!" the human-like alien shouted confidently with a smirk on his face.
However, Cell dashed forward and down, heading towards his old opponent, much to said opponent's surprise and shock as the creature easily outpaced the expanding orbs, breaking the sound barrier with ease, causing a mach cone to form around him as he flew down towards his foe.
Not giving Bryco any time to move, the bug-looking monster quickly slammed his foot into the face of the golden-haired defender of Earth, crashing his body against the ground, while his foot dragged and pushed the fighter across the ground, creating deep trenches of dirt as the muscular body as skidding deep into the surface.
After a 50 meters long trench was created by using the middle-class Saiyan's body as a shovel, Cell removed his foot from his adversary's face and chuckled evilly. "Had enough yet Bryco? Ready to admit defeat?" he asked with a sinister tone to his voice. However Cell was also panting heavily as beads of sweat now covered his entire body.
Then the Super Saiyan started to chuckle himself, much to the confusion of the monstrous being, who had a matching expression of confusion and perplexity on his bug-like face. "The hell are you laughing about?" he asked as the warrior started to laugh louder and louder, which made the creature feel a bit uneasy.
The laugh then grew and grew as more and more blood came out of the face of the downed warrior, making him laugh maniacally as he spewed blood from his temple, forehead, mouth and nose. "I figured part of your mystery, Cell!" he exclaimed with a declaration as he raised his left arm and pointed at the creature.
This made Cell look eerily concerned as his eyes widen in shock and he started to sweat heavily while also panting and having his body shake at the sound of this proclamation. "What do you mean by that?!" the monstrous being demanded an answer while also grabbing his opponent by the neck of his red spandex suit.
However, when Cell lifted up his adversary, Bryco just smirked as he began to whistle, which at first confused the blue-skinned being at first, as he was confused to why his foe was whistling, but then he realized what the Saiyan was doing, as his eardrums started to burn from the inside while as he felt he was listening to nails scratching a board with a mic next to it.
Cell then dropped his whistling foe and covered the area of his eardrums in agony as he screeched in pain and fell to his knees. "SHIIIIT! WHAT THE FUCK?! WHY THE FUCK AM I IN SUCH A FUCKING PAIN?!" he started to squeal and swear in agony as his body shook and tried his hardest to stop the sound from entering his head, but he was unsuccessful.
The short-spiky, golden haired fighter sat up as he smirked. "In one of the times I met Kakarot and Raditz at Bulma's place, Raditz told me that Piccolo's Namekian hearing is sensitive to whistling." he explained as he chuckled victoriously and smirked with confidence. "He told me that he was once bored and whistled to himself, and after a few seconds he noticed that Piccolo, who was close to him was in agonizing pain!" the Super Saiyan declared as he slowly started to rise from the ground, using his right hand to support his body to get up. "The regeneration, the hearing, they are Namekian!" he declared as he clenched his fists and shouted, igniting his flaming golden aura around himself. "Thus you get tired the more you regenerate, just like Piccolo! I've figured you out!" he declared victoriously as he prepared to charge at his foe with a ball of energy in his hand.
The Saiyan charged as he cocked his hand back, preparing to slam his energy blast into the stomach of the blue-skinned bug. "I WIN!" he roared as he flew as fast as he could in his state with a big smile of satisfaction on his face as he left a trail of gold behind him.
Suddenly he realized that he had stopped whistling a while ago to explain what he did to his foe, which was a gigantic mistake on his part. His eyes widen with realization. 'Oh no.' he thought to himself as the monstrous being turned around quickly, and while still kneeling on the ground, extended his finger, which had a red beam of ki being fired from it that moved so quickly that Bryco didn't have time to react before it pierced his leg, causing him to fall face first into the ground and the ball of ki he had in his palm to fade away.
Both fighters panted as the middle-class Super Saiyan forced himself to get up, despite the large amounts of pain that he was feeling in his right leg, which was dripping with blood through the hole in it, making him growl and snarl in pain as he closed one eye and ground his teeth.
Cell slowly walked to him while heavily panting, a large layer of sweat covering his blue-skinned armored body as he seemed tired. "You fucking punk. Just because you found out something about me means you won? I'm fucking stronger, faster and better than your shitty, bratty ass in every goddamn day of the fucking week!" he swore and cursed furiously with a snarl as his human-looking foe could barely move, with his heavily injured body shaking unsteadily while also panting. Cell then rammed a powerful counter-clockwise roundhouse kick into the right temple of his adversary, sending his limping body skidding across the ground as his golden hair turned black and the Saiyan finally lost consciousness.
The bug-looking creature then walked towards his downed foe as he raised his tail up and aimed its stinger towards the unconscious man. "Now go the fuck to sleep, FOREVER!" he suddenly shouted as he launched his stinger at the full-blooded Saiyan, but before it managed to reach its target, the prince came back and slammed a powerful knee strike into the neck of the creature of unknown origins.
Cell span in the air as he spewed blood as he had a bit of time breathing, causing his breath to become heavier and more tired as he fell on his back with a "THUD!" on the ground, as he groaned with pained huffs and puffs coming from his mouth, as now his throat was also strained a bit. "BLAGH!" he spat some more blood as he turned his head to the side so he won't choke on his own blood.
"If you're someone who constantly swears and curses, it shows you have no class, you damn bug." the prince of all Saiyans said smugly as he stood next to the unconscious body of his supposed "ally", chuckling at both the downed Saiyan's and his own foe's misery.
The bug-looking being got up as he coughed up a bit, spitting blood with every cough. He snarled at the shorter fighter angrily. "Damn *pant* you *pant* Vegeta. You're *Pant* next." he said as he charged at his smug foe, who easily sidestepped the charge, despite its speed.
Laughing loudly, the royal warrior prince showed his confidence. "You're slower and more predictable. You still maybe stronger and faster, but you're so goddamn tired it's not even fun anymore!" he declared arrogantly as he span around and attempted to hit his foe with a spinning kick into the creature's beak-mouth, but he missed by several inches as Cell bent backwards just a bit, before charging in once more when his target was less balanced and smashing a mighty leopard punch into his cheekbone, sending him flying back.
The creature then raised his finger towards where he sent the prince flying while taking deep breaths. "Eat this pretty girl! Dodonpa!" he yelled as a large beam of energy was launched out of his finger towards his flame-haired elite adversary with a smile of satisfaction on his face as he kept inhaling deep breaths.
Regaining back his balance as he skid on the ground, Vegeta saw the beam coming his way and raised his left hand next to his right cheek. "This battle has just began, don't think such a pathetic punch will stop me." he said with a serious look in his eyes and a smirk of the thrill of adrenaline in his blood as he prepared himself for the impact. As the beam was reaching him, he performed a powerful slap that smacked the attack away from him with relative ease, burning the glove on his hand completely.
Vegeta then looked at his exposed hand and clenched it as he felt the burning pain surging through it. 'I keep losing more and more clothes today. I need to have that bitch repair my armor.' he thought to himself as he bit his lower lip to fight back the pain that he was feeling from the burning sensation in the back of his left hand. 'Maybe I'll sleep with her again just to piss off that annoying human again. Although just sleeping with her last time was fun on its own, aside from making that failure of a son.' he thought to himself as he smirked while shifting his gaze to his panting, tired foe.
As a retort to the bug-looking, monstrous creature of unknown origins, the flame-haired Super Saiyan raised his left hand, extended his arm towards the blue, armored skin foe and gestured to him to just come at him full throttle. "Was that your best, or do you still think you can play with me?" he asked smugly as his smirk turned into a complete shit-eating grin, which pissed off the being in front of him.
"STOP MOCKING ME!" Cell roared in fury as he charged at the prince.
Meanwhile, far, far, far, far away from the fight itself, the group of two cyborgs, one android and one Saiyan were inside a doughnut truck that the pair of cyborgs stole, with Cyborg #17 driving, Cyborg #18 sitting in the seat beside him and the other two sitting at the back of the truck along with all the doughnuts, which Raditz was more that happy to wolf down to regain his strength after his harsh fight with Eighteen.
Android Sixteen at the moment was sitting silently with his legs curled up close to his chest and his arms wrapped around them. He seemed focused and stoic, like he has been ever since he had been woken up. He was looking at the back door of the van as he was completely silent, which was completely opposite of the loud eating of the older brother of Earth's greatest warrior.
"You felt it two, didn't you Raditz?" he suddenly spoke, much to the surprise of the burly warrior that he stopped eating joyfully and actually looked at the android with a serious, stoic expression of his own. "You felt Vegeta and Bryco energy signatures clash with this bizarre amalgamation of energy signatures. Did you not?" the mohawked giant repeated his question silently, as if he was whispering it so his sibling could be blissfully unaware of what is going on.
The log-haired Saiyan got closer to the tall android. "Yeah, of course I did." he whispered as he looked at the pair of cyborgs as he talked, trying not to alert them. "I assume they either don't care or don't have an implant that allows the to pick up ki signatures, correct?" the son of Bardock asked as he picked another doughnut and ate it slowly, waiting for the mechanical being to answer.
Sixteen didn't move his head at all and stayed at his stationary position. "Affirmative." he answered as he kept looking at the back door, as it he was looking outside at the direction of where the fight was taking place, which unnerved the tall Saiyan slightly as he kept eating to restore his strength.
The blonde teen then turn her head to look back at the pair. "What are you two talking about?" she asked with a bored tone to her voice as he put her hands behind her head to relax while her brother was busy driving.
Raditz just glared at her as he kept on picking up doughnut after doughnut, eating them all extremely quickly. "Nothing you should concern yourself about." he told her coldly as his glance was locked on her.
Eighteen glared at him silently for a few seconds, only to snare with a retort. "Whatever, just stop wolfing down all that food, it's disgusting." she complained venomously as she looked back at the road ahead.
The maned Saiyan just snared back at her. "Hey, you don't need to eat to restore power and energy to your body, I do, so just shut up and stop complaining." her said with an annoyed tone to his voice, which caused a vein to throb on the forehead of the blonde cybernetic human.
Seventeen chuckled, breaking the ice of a silence that had just started in the van after Raditz had finished talking. "Ah, lovers quarrel." he said jokingly as he was stirring the wheel with a gigantic grin on his face that reached from ear to ear.
Hearing this made the mechanical being give her twin a glare of daggers with immense killing intent. "Say that again, and I'll strangle you in your sleep." she talked him with an angry whisper, to which the teenager just snickered with satisfaction, keeping his grin as smug as he possibly could.
Across the sky there were many shokwaves appearing all around a certain area as two great powers clashed physically over and over again. Cell sent a powerful roundhouse kick towards the flame-haired royal's temple, which was ducked under very quickly by the shorter fighter, who then tried to slam a punch into the armored abdomen of the creature, only for said creature to raise his knee to block the attack, causing a powerful shockwave to explode with a powerful "BOOM!" sound that shook the planet itself.
Splitting apart and gaining some distance from one another, Vegeta fired a powerful Big Bang Attack at his monstrous foe, who easily and almost lazily moved to the left just enough for the big ball of energy to bypass his larger body and fly into a distance, where it exploded into another section of the city that still wasn't ruined, demolishing that area in a blinding light of blue which tore the ground apart from the force and atomized everything in the vicinity. Away from the explosion, Cell just smirked.
Charging in, the bug-looking freak attack with a rapid bicycle kick that was headed towards the golden haired elite, but his frame disappeared immediately with great speed, smashing a powerful elbow into the beak-mouth of the creature, making a sonic boom as it send the blue-skinned monster flying. "You're getting sloppy." the prince of all Saiyans said mockingly with a smug grin on his face as he chased after his foe and hammered a barrage of powerful punches into the upper body of Cell with glee.
As he cocked back a punch with his right hand, which he cloaked with golden ki, he left himself open long enough for the creature to retaliate with a powerful headbutt that made a loud "CRUNCH!" sound as it sent the Super Saiyan flying backwards with blood trailing of his forehead. Following up, Cell started to hammer a barrage of his own, using his long legs to slam kicks into Vegeta's back while using punches to hit the stomach and chest, breaking many of the Super Saiyan's ribs, making him spew blood.
Finishing his barrage, the bug-looking being slammed a double-axe hammer on top of the royal fighter's chest, sending him crashing down into the ground, which exploded and sent dust into the air with a loud "BOOM!" sound upon impact. "And you're getting too arrogant for your own good, Vegeta." the creature said with a tired yet confident tone as he kept breathing hard while also slowly starting to descend from the air down to the ground.
The monster sneered. 'Damn it all to hell, I'm getting too tired for this. I'm losing power by the second. I'll have to bolt soon to get some rest before starting to drink again.' he thought to himself angrily as he descended to the ground slowly as he huffed and puffed all the way down.
As the monster was close to the ground, Vegeta suddenly bounced up and smacked his grotesque adversary in the jaw, sending him flying up with saliva coming out of his mouth. "You don't punch as hard as before." the Super Saiyan smirked as he talked smugly, arrogance oozing from his frame as he followed the creature up into the sky and prepared to strike him with a double-axe hammer from above, but his attack passed through an afterimage. "Shit!" he swore angrily as Cell appeared in the exact same pose as Vegeta right above him, intending to strike with a double-axe hammer of his own, which also passed through an afterimage the prince used at the last second before being hit.
"Oh you flaming bastard!" the bug-looking being swore angrily as once again Vegeta appeared above him with the intention of slamming both his hands on top of his adversary's head, but said adversary did as both he and Vegeta made before, by dodging so fast that only an afterimage remained for the fist to pass through it, much to the annoyance of the royal elite warrior.
"Fuck!" the Super Saiyan swore again in frustration as once more his foe appeared above him with the intention of ramming a double-axe hammer into the Saiyan's head, which again passed through an afterimage for the fourth time now. However, when the last royal Saiyan appeared above his foe, said foe used his tail, which quickly wrapped around the neck of the golden-haired fighter, who started to grasp for breath as he was being chocked slowly, with his ominous enemy started to cackle about the situation, which was obviously in his favor.
"*pant* You see Vegeta? *pant* You're still a *pant* dumb *pant* dead man." he said as he gasped for breath while his tail's grasp was tightening around the prince's neck further and further. This caused the monster to rejoice in his assurance of his victory. He turned around so his face would then face that of his adversary while descending to the ground till the point that his feet landed and made a "TAP!" sound when he made the slightest of impacts with it.
"When you *pant* get to hell, Vegeta, *pant* tell your mommy I said hello." he mocked the prince, laughing while doing so, and raised his right index finger and charging red ki on its tip. All the while the flame-haired Super Saiyan was fighting for his life, trying to pull the tail away.
"The only one to send him to hell is me, now turn around." the creature suddenly felt a gigantic burst of energy from behind him, and by seeing the light reflecting on him, he immediately knew who it was. Turning around, all he saw was the bleeding, beaten-down Super Saiyan holding his arms forward to face the creature's face, his palms in a state in which the left palm was in an entirely horizontal line, while his right palm was in a vertical line. Both met each hand's wrist, creating a perfect 90 degrees between them in that point, while on the palm itself was a fully charged up orange and purple ball of ki spinning around itself with purple and orange flames surrounding it.
This utterly shocked and terrified Cell immediately, but it was too late for him to react, as the ball instantly lost stability, because the user was too tired to fully send it forward as a concentrated and powerful beam as he usually does. "Die." Bryco whispered as released the attack at full force, point-blank. "SOULFIRE!" at the top of his lungs one last time as the entire area exploded with orange and purple light, encasing everything in it as the blast exploded forth and painted the skies orange, the ground in purple, as what remained of the city as a result of the fight was completely atomized, leaving only a gigantic wave of orange and purple that was seen from the lookout itself.
Wind currents were erupting like crazy, creating several tornadoes in the next dozens of miles from the city, while the planet itself shook on and on and on from the power of the attack that was launched by the Super Saiyan. The ground cracked apart in the area, letting gashes spill out lava like geysers in the 5 miles around Ginger Town, while everything in the blast itself that wasn't on the level to take it head on was turned into nothingness, leaving nothing behind.
Kami's Lookout,
In a dark room with only windows to serve as light, a powerful beacon had pulled him back from the pain. Something was happening down on Earth and he couldn't understand what. All he had been feeling was pain. Now he felt an explosion, an event of annihilation which called for him. Desires to face the power that was raging down on the planet.
"What? What's going on?" the Earth's greatest defender said as he tried to get up, but his muscles were so weak that he could barely move, if not at all. Son Goku felt powerless and feeble. He was needed to defend his home from the cyborgs, and he was feeling the end of a fight, the feeling of two of his friends leaving barely any amount of energy to them left, and he was lying somewhere powerless.
All he could do now is go back to sleep and regain his strength.
The blast had finally died down after an entire minte of destruction, and all that was left from Ginger Town as the dust cleared was a crater with a small layer of lava at the bottom of it. However there were several rocks formations which could be islands in what was starting to become this lake of lava.
On one of those spots stood the red-spandex wearing Saiyan, his hair in its black color as he lost the power to wield his Super Saiyan transformation. He panted heavily as fell to his knees, barely able to remain conscious anymore. His vision was blurry as he looked everywhere to see what other life aside from him survived the blast.
In a corner far away from him lied the Saiyan prince's unconscious body as he had also lost his Super form, but he was still alive, despite the horrible burns that covered almost his entire wind passed through the area as it carried more dust with it.
Suddenly the barely conscious, middle-class Saiyan felt the power of his foe still flickering and pumping, proving that said foe was still alive, despite the power of the attack he had received, which while not as powerful as he could make it as a Super Saiyan, was still incredibly powerful in its own right.
The dust cleared completely, revealing the freakish thing as it lacked an entire lower half of his body, as well as the entire left side of his upper half, leaving him completely demolished and at his last leg. "You bastard..." he said as he panted while blood was spilling everywhere from his wounds, despite being half closed by the heat of the attack. "You short-spiky haired motherfucker! BLAGH!" he swore again angrily as he spat blood.
With a devilish scream of anguish and pain his destroyed half of his upper body sprouted from the injuries of the monster as another arm and half a head reformed instantly, much to the horror of the Saiyan, who now fell completely to the ground. "You made me use all my remaining strength to regenerate, you fuck!" the creature roared in fury and anguish as he started using his arms to dig into the ground.
To the shock of the red-spandex wearing defender of earth, the movement speed of the arms became quicker and quicker with each second. "I'll remember this! I will return and beat you to death in the most horrifying ways possible!" the monster declared with unfathomable rage as it dug himself deep into the ground, even swimming through the lava, before disappearing out of sight. At this moment was when Bryco lost consciousness for the second and last time in the fight.
The Saiyan prince's eyes snapped open his he felt himself filled with energy and life once again. He immediately sat up, only to see the desolated and destroyed town he was fighting with, but his clothes were completely intact from when he first fought earlier today against the androids. Even his armor was back.
He looked around him, only to see the defenders of Earth sitting around and talking to the middle-class Saiyan, all except one. His own son was standing above him, looking down at him with a concerned glare. The time traveler then crouched to face height of his shorter father.
"Good to see you awake, now we can here both of your versions for confirmation." he said with a serious tone to his voice, which made the the prince glare at his future son. A second later Trunks' eyes soften as he extended his hand forward to help the prince up and smiled. "Glad to see that you're still alive dad." he said with a lot of relief in his voice as he almost appeared to sigh.
Vegeta growled as he immediately snarled and pushed back the adolescent fighter back and got up, getting everyone to glare at him, including the red-spandex wearing fighter who "helped" him fighting the monstrous bug monster. The flame-haired fighter pointed angrily at the taller Saiyan. "You stole my kill again, didn't you?!" he asked angrily as a vein throbbed on his forehead.
Piccolo stood between both fighters. "I need you to tell me everything that happened. To confirm what he told us." the Namekian said with a cold and professional tone, keeping his stoic expression while crossing both arms in front of his chest. "So care to add anything?" he asked the warrior prince with a stoic tone to his voice.
Vegeta growl as he glared daggers at the green-skined fighter. "What happened" he started to explain as he pointed at the swordsman from the future. "Is that an alternate timeline version of this pathetic excuse for a fighter got killed like a bitch by that Cell creature, who looks like a hybrid of humans, pukes and bugs, which could describe each and everyone of you assholes, by the way!" the prince started to explain as he yelled angrily while pointing at each of the Z-Fighters around him. He then pointed at the other Saiyan. "And because this clown fought like a complete embarrassment, I had to step in, AND HE STOLE MY KILL!" the prince roared angrily as he flared up his white-blue aura.
Bryco just spat on the ground in response to seeing his supposed "ally" furious. "He isn't dead yet. My attack almost killed him, but he escaped." he said as he stretched, his statement shocking the powerful prince of all Saiyans enough to make his dispel his aura. "You'll have another shot at him, because he'll take a while to come back, and we know his MO." he said with a bit of a defeated tone to his deep voice as he lowered his head a bit and bit his lip.
The former bandit bandit rubbed his chin with confusion. "So... to conclude, we have some crazy time traveling bug monster who is as strong as a Super Saiyan eating people to get stronger and wants to achieve perfection?" the Turtle School disciple asked as he tried to summarize the information they had just heard from the Saiyans.
Tien snared at this comment. "Whatever that means." he says with an annoyed and frustrated tone to his voice as he crosses his arms in front of his chest before looking at the tall middle-class Saiyan fighter. "Did he even mention what it even means to become perfect? Because just these words are too general." the tri-clops inquired out of his ally, who got up while shaking his head.
"He only mentioned that it's got something to do with the cyborgs, but he refused to say more." Bryco explained as he talked with his defeated tone while growling in frustration. He tapped his foot on the ground as he ground his teeth while clenching his hand into a fist. "We don't know if he'll just join up with them, by we can't charge at him head-on until we figure out everything about him." he said with focus and determination in his voice, enhanced by his frustration over the result of the fight with the monster.
Krillin, who had just sat there and listened in fright of the terrible descriptions of what occurred in the city before the battle and during the battle itself. He was soaking the info into himself as he was shaking in horror and sweating as he quivered while sitting on a rock, while his Saiyan girlfriend hugged him from behind, trying to calm him down.
The noseless former monk then raised his head as he seemed to think of something. "Hey guys, what if that Cell thing is like Piccolo Daimao's spaws, one that you didn't know about Piccolo?" he asked as he seemed pleased with his hypothesis. "Think about it: he can regenerate like a Namekian and is vulnerable to whistling and, as Bryco described, shows signs of enhanced hearing. All points lead to him being a Namekian." the small fighter analyzed the clues the group's hands, putting his hands on his waist and raised a big smile on his face.
The female Saiyan chuckled while patting on the small man's head. "Good job, Krilli-Billy." she said with a joyous tone to her voice as she smiled a smile so wide that it reached from ear to ear.
Piccolo shook his head. "Not possible. There is no way a Namekian spawn would be stronger than a Super Saiyan, no matter how many years it trains." the green-skinned warrior shut down Krillin's theory in a an instant with his counter-argument, as he also started to think about what Cell could possibly be. "But I agree with Bryco, we shouldn't engage him before we find out everything about him." the alien said as he seemed focused about thinking as hard as he could.
Vegeta, much to everyone's dismay, just walked away from everyone else and punched a rock so hard that it shattered into the smallest pieces. "THAT DOESN'T MATTER! Fighting alongside the cyborgs or not, we just find Cell and kill him! I could have even done that myself if Bryco wasn't such a pathetic, kill stealing BITCH!" he shouted furiously as he snarled with anger.
Trunks, who stood between the rest of the group and the last royal Saiyan, he nodded with a serious look on his face. "I agree, we should kill Cell before he become a bigger threat and we should act right now. If we end him sooner, he'll have less chances to fight him alongside the cyborgs and-" the teen swordsman from the future started to explain his reasoning to agree with his father, but he was cut by a scream.
Vegeta's insult was the final straw. The tall, middle-class, full blooded Saiyan turned and glared daggers at the flame-haired prince and gave a vicious snare to his former superior. "Okay, THAT IS IT!" he howled in a state of fury as a flame of gold surrounded him in an instant as his short and spiky hair to spike up even more and turned gold, while his eyes turned from black to emerald, all in an instant. After his transformation, he charged at full speed towards Vegeta, pushing Trunks out of the way, sending the boy flying away as he himself pinned the prince to the ground.
The Super Saiyan raised his fist and cocked it back, preparing to strike the full-blooded elite. "LET'S SEE HOW BIG THAT MOUTH IS WHEN I SMASH YOU FACE IN!" he roared in fury as he released his fist, which headed towards the target of his rage. However, Vegeta managed to transform himself into a Super Saiyan in the last second before the punch crashed into his cheek, making him spew blood from his mouth instead of having his head turned to paste.
Glaring daggers at the taller fighter, the prince of all Saiyans gave a low growl. "Is that the best you've got?" he asked smugly as well as keeping a serious expression to his face and to the tone of his voice. Reacting all based on his anger, Bryco raised his other fist to punch the other Saiyan elite in the face once again, but this left him open for the Saiyan elite to open his palm and hit him with a powerful and invisible kiai that sent him flying up into the sky.
Vegeta then charged forward into the sky, reaching up to his new foe instantly and slammed a punch into his jaw so hard that it created a shockwave and made a loud "POW!" sound as it sent him into a boulder, making a loud explosion of dust and making a loud "BOOM!" sound upon impact.
The prince started to laugh while floating in the air as he looked down at his supposed "ally", who was now bleeding from his nose and mouth, while Vegeta himself was bleeding slightly from his mouth as well. "HA! Serves you right for trying to attack you better, traitor!" he said smugly with arrogant oozing from his frame as his aura burned around him.
Bryco growled furiously as he ignited his raging, golden, wildfire of an aura as the boulder he was smashed into was atomized completely. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" he screamed at the top of of lugs as he charged towards the Saiyan prince, who entered a fighting stance.
The rest of the Z-Fighters were looking from below, shaking at what was now occurring, all except Piccolo, who just snarled with annoyance and irritation. "Dammit! Now I have to stop them from making greater fools of themselves." he spoke angrily as he threw the white turban off his head on the ground, while also removing the weighted, caped shoulder-pads he was wearing and putting it on the ground.
He clenched his fists and put them to his sides as he crouched a bit, entering a horse stance to charge up his power. Debris rose from the ground as he started to grunt with effort and pain as veins started to throb all over his body: his forehead, his arms, his legs, his neck and even his torso. His muscles seemed to bulge and grow slightly from the power he was now charging in himself. "KAIOKEN TIMES 20!' he roared at the top of his lunges as a fiery crimson aura exploded around his frame, releasing an incredible amount of power as he grunted so hard that blood started to flow out of his mouth in several small streams of purple.
With a jump into the air so powerful that it tore his skin off his legs, the green-skinned Z-Warrior flew towards the pair of Super Saiyan, who were clashing with such force that it created large and powerful shockwaves that shook the planet to its core, intending to make them stop, whatever means necessary.
{To Be Continued]
[Musical Cue #2: Ending]
With Cell retreating, the team must find out the truth about him before he can cause more damage and loss of life, but first Piccolo takes the challenge to stop two Super Saiyans from fighting to the death, a battle that could tear the world itself apart. Will he succeed in his endeavor, risking his own life on the line with the extreme boost of Kaioken x20? What truly is Cell? What are his intentions for the cyborgs? Find out on the next chapter of Changed Path...
Woah boy, hard chapter to write. After all I wanted to show last chapter with Bryco vs Cell, I had a hard time figuring out how this would work with Vegeta thrown into the mix, so it took me a long fucking while to write this chapter. Sorry. If you want to know, I consider this fight's conclusion as a draw. Now R&A:
R&A:
R: Okay, I guess I just jumped to conclusions in Cell's appearance. Taking the more adult Cell Junior-y look makes sense, and it further diversifies your Cell from the norm. Not that you didn't show that this chapter, Namekian healing and hearing interesting additions.
I thoroughly enjoyed this chapter from top to bottom. Bryco's arrogance being wholly pointless as the fight went on, the argument with Vegeta was a nice touch by the way. Cell's character is going to take a little while to get used to but I can tell there is an effort there to diversify him.
Geo being adding in front of his attack names, and I may be looking into this too much, could show his acceptance of the Earth which is a nice touch. And the diversity of attacks including a Hellzone Grenade-like attack shows his tactical abilities. His strata was on display too, unfortunately that didn't work.
Vegeta's turn now, that'll be fun.
Can't wait for the next chapter.
A: Well, hope the long ass wait was worth for this chapter. I really had a hard time planning out how to end this fight and I still think I did a pretty OK job. Now.
Glad you liked the last chapter and hope you like this one as well.
For now guys and gals, this is all I offer you. I'll see you next chapter and have a nice day.
