The Coal Saga: Chapter 7
(All characters except the ones I made up are from DBZ, in other words don't sue me. I'm just writing a fanfic here.)
Gohan's eyes flickered in cold intensity as he destroyed the last Cell Jr. Which watching this, Cell for the first time actually felt a bit a fear from the boy. He had tried to hard to push him to his limit to see his true power. But now that he had seen it, he was slightly worried. This worry though was quickly replaced with confidence as he watched the small fighter walk towards him.
Everyone up on top of the mountain watched in amazement as they saw Gohan walking towards Cell.
"Heh...didn't I tell ya. Didn't I tell ya he was powerful." Goku managed to mutter as he felt his strength being regained from the Senzu bean that he had eaten.
"This is....this is impossible!" Vegita exclaimed. Realizing after he had so much trouble fighting one Cell Jr. Gohan had easily defeated them all. He had truelly ascended from a Super Saiyan.
"Now its your turn Cell." Gohan stated coldly as he walked towards the tyrant. He now looked at Cell as nothing more then his enemy that had to be defeated.
"Boy, you will soon see how powerless you truelly are." Cell retorted, not letting the cool confidence Gohan seemed to generate affect him.
After this there was a short conversation between the two, that mostly comprised of Cell speaking of how powerful he is. Though it all ended when Gohan just told him to shut up.
"I'm tired of talking Cell. So are we going to fight or not?" he asked abruptly.
"You wanna see a fight boy! Then so be it!" he cried, and dashed forward to finish this fight quick with a blow to Gohan's head. Though as he went to punch him, his fist went right through Gohan, and Cell soon found himself reeling back. Gohan had punched him hard in the stomach, though he wasn't through yet. Immediately after Gohan charged forward and upper-cutted the tyrant. This caused Cell to go tumbling back, and fall to his knees, unable to stand up.
Everyone watched in quiet shock as it seemed that Gohan had won the battle with only two punches.
Cell kneeled on the ground. His anger caused him to tremble with emotion. He couldn't believe that he was losing.
"How can I be losing. To this...to this boy! This is impossible! I can barely move after only two punches! I have to...I have to.....I have to....." Cell started to say in his mind, though all of a sudden he started to feel funny.
"Hey you guys, is it just me, or is Cell starting to change color?" Krillin asked to the others as he watched the fight.
"Yeah. Oh my gosh, he's turned completely black!" Yamcha stated, not believing what he was seeing.
"Oh no! Does Cell have some new power level that we don't even know about!" Trunx yelled. His words were reflected in Cell's actions as he slowly started to stand up, looking totally revived from that last punch.
"This looks bad you guys, real bad." Yamcha put simply, his eyes starting to once again be replaced with worry. This worry could be seen in everyone's eyes, even including Goku.
Coal stared down at his new body.
"Hmm, not as powerful as my last one. But enough for me to destroy this world. I wonder when Cell will be getting here. I really had hoped to be able to destroy him immediately. Though I guess I'll just have to entertain myself with his friends in this dimension." Coal mused to himself, as he seemed to be inspecting his body.
Gohan stared at him for a moment in shock. But his shock was immediately replaced with pure determination.
"I don't care what color you are! I'll just destroy you Cell!" Gohan screamed, and charged at Coal. Though this proved to be a bad idea, since with only a flick of his hand, Gohan had been planted in the nearby mountain.
The annoucer guy looked shocked, as he clutched a small twig tightly in his hand.
"Oh my ladies and gentlmen! It seems that Cell has somehow changed color. And the young boy who seemed to be winning a moment ago, looks to be powerless against him. I think this is the end!" he yelled into the twig.
"Uh you know the camera and the mic are still broken." the camera man stated, turning away from his attempt at fixing the camera.
"Argh! The story of the century and we're missing it! Satan what will planet earth do with this new menace!" the annoucer yelled, turning to the cowering Satan next to him.
"Satan?!"
"What? Uh yes, I uh think there is no need for alarm. For uh, if Cell does beat these amateurs I will defeat him easily. I just hope my stomach virus clears up in time." Hercule said in a burst of cockiness, then shrunk back down below the rock, clutching his stomach.
"I guess all hope isn't lost yet folks."
Goku started to breath heavily as he watched the events transpire.
"Gohan....he's....unconscience." Goku stated in horror, as he watched his son slump to the ground.
"Oh my god guys! This is really it! We're all going to die!" yelled Yamcha in panic, as he saw Coal starting to make his way towards them.
"I don't know what happened. All of a sudden he seemed to get a power boost. But how? And why does he seem to be moving so slowly. It almost as if he's taking his time to make it up here, sorta like he's waiting for something." Trunx stated, with wide eyes.
Suddenly they all heard a noise from behind them.
Cell's eyes went wide as the sudden teleportation ride came to abrupt end, and he was suddenly face down in the dirt. His mind quickly moved to what had happened to his family, when they too suddenly landed right on top of him.
"ACK!"
"Oh my gosh Cell! I'm so sorry." Jade stated quickly, helping her daughter get off of him, along with herself..
"Its...no problem....really." he stated shakily. He then started to stand up.
"So is everyone alright?"
"Yeah Daddy...but where are we?" Sapphire asked. Her eyes scanning the terrain, they then moved to where all the others were standing a few feet away.
"Hey! Its Goku, and everyone else!" she cried, standing up, and run over to him. Caught up in the joy of just seeing them, she immediately latched onto Goku.
"Goku! You're here! I thought we had lost you guys! What happened!?" she asked quickly.
"Uh Goku do you know this girl?" Krillin asked with a puzzled look.
"No, I've never seen her before. She looks sorta like Cell actually." he said, stating the obvious. Suddenly everyone eyes turned to Yamcha who seemed to be panicking over something.
Everyone gasped as Cell and Jade walked over to them.
"Oh my god!!! It's Cell you guys!" Krillin screamed, starting to run around in panic.
"But thats impossible! Cell is down there!" Vegita yelled, looking towards Coal, to see that he was still slowly making his way towards them.
"Uh, and who is that woman with him?" Tien asked.
"Ahhhh she looks just like Cell!" Krillin screamed, then looked at Sapphire agian.
"They all look like Cell!"
Jade and Cell gave each other a look. Then Cell walked up to Goku.
"Uh Goku? What's wrong with Krillin?" he asked casually. Goku just gave him a strange look, but then smiled.
"I guess he just not used to you being such a nice guy." he stated, his goofy smile remaining.
"Who is that girl! I demand to know!" Vegita yelled, cutting in.
"Vegita!? How dare you mock me! You know very well that this is my wife, and thats my daughter over there!" Cell yelled, utterly perturbed by Vegita's rudeness.
"WIFE!!!! DAUGHTER!!!!" many seemed to yell in unison.
"I didn't know you were married Cell. Or even had a daughter. But thats not what's important. What is, is that our Cell is destroying the earth. Do you think you could help us out?" Goku asked, still not acting very surprised by the whole situation.
"Kakkarot! How you can you act so casual, when the very one we've been fighting for so long is standing right in front of you treating you like he's your best friend!" Vegita screamed.
"Well I think its because King Kai is always telling me stuff about alternate dimenstions. And I just sorta assumed..."
"You assumed! I don't get you at all!" Vegita cut in again.
"Well I mean, look at Trunx." Goku said, motioning to him.
Trunx started to ponder what Goku said in his head, and it all started to make a lot of sense.
"So your saying that you, and these two girls are from another timeline? Just like me?" Trunx asked, starting to understand this.
"Then that must mean that thing down there is from your timeline to!" Tien yelled, also understanding it.
"What thing?" Cell asked.
"That!" they said in unison, pointing at Coal. They all realized that Cell knew who it was by the way his muscles seemed to tighten when he saw the black Cell.
"Coal.....how did he get here! Wait, he must of somehow transported us here, as to get a hold of a different Cell!" Cell yelled in understanding. Jade nodded in agreement.
"Which means that we have to defeat him now. Or else he just jump to another timeline with another Cell."
"So that thing's name is Coal?" Goku asked.
"Yes. He's a monster from our timeline. Dr. Gero's final project. He's programmed to take over the body of Cell, destroy Goku, and destroy this world. Those are his main orders. Though like Gero's other creations, he chose not to obey completly, and destroyed the computer from which he was spawned." Cell explained.
"Coal...I can't believe that Dr. Gero is creating horrible creations in even more timelines then my own." Trunx said between clenched teeth. Though his thought was broken when he felt someone tug on his shirt. He looked down to see Sapphire there.
"Are you really Trunx?" she asked with a curious look.
"Uh yeah...I am." he answered, sorta confused.
"Wow. You sure are cute when you're all growed up." she said in a cute voice. This only seemed to leave Trunx looking very confused. Realizing that this was no time for girlish fantasies, she then turned away from him to face her father. Her mind swaying to what that sword said in her dream.
"C'mon daddy. There are only three people who are strong enough to defeat Coal now. Me, you, and one other." she stated. She then pointed down to the canyone below, to where Gohan lay.
Cell nodded, then tried powering up to Super Saiyan-jin 2, but found himself only able to get to a regular super saiyan.
"Darn. I can't powerup fully. I'm to weak from all that time spent with my body being controlled by Coal. It seems that you and Gohan will have to face him alone Saphy. I'm sorry..." he said with a low voice, knowing that he was of no use.
"We do have one more senzu bean left." Krillin stated, holding one out.
"Good. Sapphy, take this down to Gohan. Give it to him, and then you two can fight." Cell said with a thoughtful look, taking the bean.
"But daddy, why don't me and you fight...."
"No. I'm weakened beyond the power of senzu bean's healing ability. I'll only recover in time. The fate of the world is in your and Gohan's hands Saphy. Make me proud." Cell stated, giving the senzu bean to Sapphire.
"I won't let you down." Sapphire said, her eyes now burning with determination. She prepared to fly down to where Gohan was. In one hand she held the senzu bean, in the other she held the earrings that she had received from that strange dream.
All of a sudden though Coal landed right in front of her.
"Oh I'm sorry. Did I crash the party. So glad that you and your family could make it Cell. I was worried that I would have to kill you with absolutely no opposition. But I guess I'll get to have the fun of killing them also." Coal stated with an evil sneer.
Cell suddenly sprang forward and slammed into Coal, knocking him down.
"Sapphy! Go now!" he yelled. Sapphire took that moment to fly off the cliff and land next to where Gohan lay.
"Insolent little....!" Coal yelled in disgust, slamming Cell in the back and casting him aside.
"I'll return for you, once I kill your stupid offspring!" Coal yelled, utter loathing streaming from his voice. Cell tried to stand up to do something, but found himself to weakened to move. Jade kneeled beside him to help him up.
"I guess its all up to Sapphy." she stated Solemnly.
"Don't worry. She can do it."
Sapphire landed next to Gohan, kneeling down next to him, so that she may be able to revive him. After propping him up on her knee, she pushed the bean into his mouth.
"Ok now Gohan chew." she said softly. Her heart was raised, as she began to see that he was still conscience enough to chew. Her mind started to realize how weird it was to see Gohan the same age as her. Ever since she could remember, Gohan had always been someone much older then her. He would always teach her how to be a good person, and she had always looked up to him as a role model. But for the time being she would have to rely on him as her partner, in finally destroying Coal.
Gohan looked up to see the strangest creature staring back down at him.
"What? What's going on?!" he asked suddenly, sitting up, his eyes burning with determination.
"Cell! Cell, where are you?!" he cried standing up, immediately ready for a fight. Sapphire looked up to him in wonder.
"What's happened to him. He seems so different in this timeline. From his hair it seems that he has made it to Super Saiyan-jin 2. But for some reason it has seemed to done something to his peronality." she thought to herself.
Coal took that moment to land in front of the two.
"Cell! There you are! I'll destroy you!" Gohan screamed, and started to charge at Coal. Though he found that he was being held back.
"Hey are you stupid or something! We have to work together or we won't be able to beat him!" Sapphire cried, realizing how stupid a mistake it would be to charge at Coal with no plan of action.
"Let me go! I can destroy him! Just watch!" Gohan retored, and broke free from Sapphire's grip.
"Thatta boy." Coal said with a grin, as he watched the charging Gohan. Though the moment before he was about to pound him into the mountain like before, he was suddenly hit from the side by Sapphire. She then took that moment to pull the stunned Gohan aside.
"Hey! I don't know who you are, or what you are! But I don't need your help in defeating Cell!" Gohan yelled in anger, desperately trying to get free of Sapphire's grasps. Sapphire, now fed up with Gohan's attitude made her aura flare, as she powered up to Super Saiyan-jin 2.
"See this! I'm just as powerful as you! Probably a lot more powerful! But I still don't stand a chance against Coal! Now we have to come up with a plan, or we're both toast!" she screamed, almost shaking Gohan a bit.
"I don't know what you are talking about with this Coal or whatever. But I'm sure that I can defeat Cell. Now let go!" he yelled, but Sapphire refused to let up.
"This is the fate of the world we're talking about here. Your father risked his life and yours so that the world would be safe. Are you really just going to throw that away, just because you think you're so powerful that you don't need any help." she yelled in his face, getting very angry.
"But I...."
"Gohan! Think, this isn't the real you. The real Gohan doesn't like to hurt people. Now channel your power so that it isn't purely destructive!" she yelled, shaking him once more.
"I..."
"Yes, c'mon Gohan! Think about who you are, and what you have to do!"
"I am.....I am...I am the defender of this planet." he said shakily. At the sound of this, Sapphire was finally sure that Gohan was ready to fight, and let him stand on his own once again.
"Good. Now as defender of this planet, lets get rid of that threat over there." she said, pointing to the approaching Coal.
"Yes. I don't know who you are. But I'll help you in any way I can." Gohan stated, his humanity having now returned to him. They both prepared themselves to give Coal everything they had, and defeat him for good. Their only hope was that in his weaker form, Coal would be able to be defeated.
The two young fighters charged at Coal, full force, trying to catch him off gaurd. Though Coal being as poweful as he was at this point merely dodged their attack, and slammed them into the ground.
They both immediately got up though, and actually were able to push Coal into a fist fight with both of them. Though to their dismay they seemed to be on the loosing end. And after a few seconds of the lightning fast punches, Gohan and Sapphire found themselves starting to let more and more of Coal's attacks get through.
"What's wrong children! You don't wanna play with me anymore!" Coal said with a laugh as he finally got a hold of the two, holding them by their necks, one in each hand.
"You.....won't win...Coal...." Sapphire managed to sputter.
"We...can....beat you...." Gohan added.
"Hmph, rubbish." Coal mutterd, and threw the two violently into the same place where he had thrown Gohan before. They slammed hard into the mountain side and sunk to the ground.
"He's to strong....we can't beat him." Gohan stated, painfully getting back to his feet.
"Don't say that, there has to be a way." Sapphire retorted, tightening her fist. But opened her fist, after feeling something pierce her skin. As she did, she noticed that she had been holding onto those earrings throughout the entire fight.
Gohan's attention moved from the approaching Coal, and turned to Sapphire.
"What are we goin......hey what're those?" he asked, mystified at the earrings. The reason being that they had just started to glow.
"I don't know..."
Almost as if automatically she placed one of the earrings on her left ear.
"Gohan, I don't know why I'm doing this, but I have this hunch. Here put this on your right ear." she stated, her voice monotone and tired, as if she was in a trance.
"But what are they? I don't know if I...."
"Just do it!"
"Ok ok. Just give me a sec." he said, taking the earring. As his hand moved to put it on his ear, he felt as if he could feel his power beginning to surge as he it moved closer. And the second he placed it on his ear fully, him and Sapphire all of a sudden flew at each as if they had a magnetic attraction.
"Ladies and gentlemen. It seems that our two young heroes are unable to defeat the new black Cell. They cannot fight against his.....What is this. There seems to be a large glowing light coming from a corner of the canyon. But the rocks are obscuring my view so I can't see what's going on." stated the annoucer, entranced by the course of events.
"You know that thing's still broken."
"Yes I know! I just have to keep talking. Who knows, maybe someone out there can hear me. Anways, so Satan do you know what is going on over there?"
"Uh, yes of course I do. They must have some artillery cannon hidden in the canyon, which they are going to try to use against Cell. Amaeturs would of course resort of weapons, since they are to weak to fight him themselves." Satan said proudly, beaming with cockiness.
"Oh Hercule. I bet you could beat Cell with one arm tied behind your back." his lovely assistant cooed, taking that moment to add her two cents.
"I...probably could." he said with a smirk. His confindence due to the fact that Coal was a very long distance away from them now.
Back up on the mountain, everyone watched in wonder as they saw a bright light swallow up both Gohan and Sapphire.
"What's going on down there? I can't see." Krillin asked.
"I don't know. But something happend to Gohan, and that other girl." Piccolo stated.
"Oh no....Sapphire." Jade said softly. Her worry both on her daughter, and her husband which was slumped against her shoulder.
"Don't worry.....I'm sure...Sapphire will think of something." Cell managed to mumble, trying to reassure everyone that she knew what she was doing.
"Don't you think that you're putting to much faith in her." Jade stated, having trouble believing her husband, which at the time being was only able to stand with her help.
"Just watch...."
Gohan and Sapphire looked down at themselves. As they gazed that started to realize something was very wrong with how they felt. They were sure they were two individual people, but for the time being there was only one person standing there, where two should be.
As they continued to inspect their new body, they had no idea what the heck had just happened. From outward appearence, the person they had become looked a lot like Gohan, except he was wearing Sapphire's blue armor, and her tail was protruding from his lower back. Though there was something missing from the armor. The wings that went along with it, were nowhere to be found. Finally even though it looked like Gohan, his hair was the wrong color, and instead was blood red, just like Sapphire's was.
Other then that, ther person could be easily be mistaken for Gohan, and people could just think that he had died his hair, and somehow gotten Sapphire's outfit somewhere. Though what made this being special was not the looks at all, but the immense power that seemed to be eminating from them.
They shook their head, as if they were having some sorta inner conflict. Coal could only watch in amazement as he gazed at this new fighter standing in front of him. He watched for a few moments as the person seemed to be talking to himself, though Coal soon got sick of watching and wanted to get some answers.
"Who are you! I demand to know!" Coal yelled in confusion. The person, after hearing his words, turned towards him with a smirk. The fire of determination entered their eyes, as they prepared to enter combat.
"We ar.....I mean I am.....I am...."
"Well out with it!! Who are you?!"
"I guess you can call me......Gophire."
To be Continued.
(All characters except the ones I made up are from DBZ, in other words don't sue me. I'm just writing a fanfic here.)
Gohan's eyes flickered in cold intensity as he destroyed the last Cell Jr. Which watching this, Cell for the first time actually felt a bit a fear from the boy. He had tried to hard to push him to his limit to see his true power. But now that he had seen it, he was slightly worried. This worry though was quickly replaced with confidence as he watched the small fighter walk towards him.
Everyone up on top of the mountain watched in amazement as they saw Gohan walking towards Cell.
"Heh...didn't I tell ya. Didn't I tell ya he was powerful." Goku managed to mutter as he felt his strength being regained from the Senzu bean that he had eaten.
"This is....this is impossible!" Vegita exclaimed. Realizing after he had so much trouble fighting one Cell Jr. Gohan had easily defeated them all. He had truelly ascended from a Super Saiyan.
"Now its your turn Cell." Gohan stated coldly as he walked towards the tyrant. He now looked at Cell as nothing more then his enemy that had to be defeated.
"Boy, you will soon see how powerless you truelly are." Cell retorted, not letting the cool confidence Gohan seemed to generate affect him.
After this there was a short conversation between the two, that mostly comprised of Cell speaking of how powerful he is. Though it all ended when Gohan just told him to shut up.
"I'm tired of talking Cell. So are we going to fight or not?" he asked abruptly.
"You wanna see a fight boy! Then so be it!" he cried, and dashed forward to finish this fight quick with a blow to Gohan's head. Though as he went to punch him, his fist went right through Gohan, and Cell soon found himself reeling back. Gohan had punched him hard in the stomach, though he wasn't through yet. Immediately after Gohan charged forward and upper-cutted the tyrant. This caused Cell to go tumbling back, and fall to his knees, unable to stand up.
Everyone watched in quiet shock as it seemed that Gohan had won the battle with only two punches.
Cell kneeled on the ground. His anger caused him to tremble with emotion. He couldn't believe that he was losing.
"How can I be losing. To this...to this boy! This is impossible! I can barely move after only two punches! I have to...I have to.....I have to....." Cell started to say in his mind, though all of a sudden he started to feel funny.
"Hey you guys, is it just me, or is Cell starting to change color?" Krillin asked to the others as he watched the fight.
"Yeah. Oh my gosh, he's turned completely black!" Yamcha stated, not believing what he was seeing.
"Oh no! Does Cell have some new power level that we don't even know about!" Trunx yelled. His words were reflected in Cell's actions as he slowly started to stand up, looking totally revived from that last punch.
"This looks bad you guys, real bad." Yamcha put simply, his eyes starting to once again be replaced with worry. This worry could be seen in everyone's eyes, even including Goku.
Coal stared down at his new body.
"Hmm, not as powerful as my last one. But enough for me to destroy this world. I wonder when Cell will be getting here. I really had hoped to be able to destroy him immediately. Though I guess I'll just have to entertain myself with his friends in this dimension." Coal mused to himself, as he seemed to be inspecting his body.
Gohan stared at him for a moment in shock. But his shock was immediately replaced with pure determination.
"I don't care what color you are! I'll just destroy you Cell!" Gohan screamed, and charged at Coal. Though this proved to be a bad idea, since with only a flick of his hand, Gohan had been planted in the nearby mountain.
The annoucer guy looked shocked, as he clutched a small twig tightly in his hand.
"Oh my ladies and gentlmen! It seems that Cell has somehow changed color. And the young boy who seemed to be winning a moment ago, looks to be powerless against him. I think this is the end!" he yelled into the twig.
"Uh you know the camera and the mic are still broken." the camera man stated, turning away from his attempt at fixing the camera.
"Argh! The story of the century and we're missing it! Satan what will planet earth do with this new menace!" the annoucer yelled, turning to the cowering Satan next to him.
"Satan?!"
"What? Uh yes, I uh think there is no need for alarm. For uh, if Cell does beat these amateurs I will defeat him easily. I just hope my stomach virus clears up in time." Hercule said in a burst of cockiness, then shrunk back down below the rock, clutching his stomach.
"I guess all hope isn't lost yet folks."
Goku started to breath heavily as he watched the events transpire.
"Gohan....he's....unconscience." Goku stated in horror, as he watched his son slump to the ground.
"Oh my god guys! This is really it! We're all going to die!" yelled Yamcha in panic, as he saw Coal starting to make his way towards them.
"I don't know what happened. All of a sudden he seemed to get a power boost. But how? And why does he seem to be moving so slowly. It almost as if he's taking his time to make it up here, sorta like he's waiting for something." Trunx stated, with wide eyes.
Suddenly they all heard a noise from behind them.
Cell's eyes went wide as the sudden teleportation ride came to abrupt end, and he was suddenly face down in the dirt. His mind quickly moved to what had happened to his family, when they too suddenly landed right on top of him.
"ACK!"
"Oh my gosh Cell! I'm so sorry." Jade stated quickly, helping her daughter get off of him, along with herself..
"Its...no problem....really." he stated shakily. He then started to stand up.
"So is everyone alright?"
"Yeah Daddy...but where are we?" Sapphire asked. Her eyes scanning the terrain, they then moved to where all the others were standing a few feet away.
"Hey! Its Goku, and everyone else!" she cried, standing up, and run over to him. Caught up in the joy of just seeing them, she immediately latched onto Goku.
"Goku! You're here! I thought we had lost you guys! What happened!?" she asked quickly.
"Uh Goku do you know this girl?" Krillin asked with a puzzled look.
"No, I've never seen her before. She looks sorta like Cell actually." he said, stating the obvious. Suddenly everyone eyes turned to Yamcha who seemed to be panicking over something.
Everyone gasped as Cell and Jade walked over to them.
"Oh my god!!! It's Cell you guys!" Krillin screamed, starting to run around in panic.
"But thats impossible! Cell is down there!" Vegita yelled, looking towards Coal, to see that he was still slowly making his way towards them.
"Uh, and who is that woman with him?" Tien asked.
"Ahhhh she looks just like Cell!" Krillin screamed, then looked at Sapphire agian.
"They all look like Cell!"
Jade and Cell gave each other a look. Then Cell walked up to Goku.
"Uh Goku? What's wrong with Krillin?" he asked casually. Goku just gave him a strange look, but then smiled.
"I guess he just not used to you being such a nice guy." he stated, his goofy smile remaining.
"Who is that girl! I demand to know!" Vegita yelled, cutting in.
"Vegita!? How dare you mock me! You know very well that this is my wife, and thats my daughter over there!" Cell yelled, utterly perturbed by Vegita's rudeness.
"WIFE!!!! DAUGHTER!!!!" many seemed to yell in unison.
"I didn't know you were married Cell. Or even had a daughter. But thats not what's important. What is, is that our Cell is destroying the earth. Do you think you could help us out?" Goku asked, still not acting very surprised by the whole situation.
"Kakkarot! How you can you act so casual, when the very one we've been fighting for so long is standing right in front of you treating you like he's your best friend!" Vegita screamed.
"Well I think its because King Kai is always telling me stuff about alternate dimenstions. And I just sorta assumed..."
"You assumed! I don't get you at all!" Vegita cut in again.
"Well I mean, look at Trunx." Goku said, motioning to him.
Trunx started to ponder what Goku said in his head, and it all started to make a lot of sense.
"So your saying that you, and these two girls are from another timeline? Just like me?" Trunx asked, starting to understand this.
"Then that must mean that thing down there is from your timeline to!" Tien yelled, also understanding it.
"What thing?" Cell asked.
"That!" they said in unison, pointing at Coal. They all realized that Cell knew who it was by the way his muscles seemed to tighten when he saw the black Cell.
"Coal.....how did he get here! Wait, he must of somehow transported us here, as to get a hold of a different Cell!" Cell yelled in understanding. Jade nodded in agreement.
"Which means that we have to defeat him now. Or else he just jump to another timeline with another Cell."
"So that thing's name is Coal?" Goku asked.
"Yes. He's a monster from our timeline. Dr. Gero's final project. He's programmed to take over the body of Cell, destroy Goku, and destroy this world. Those are his main orders. Though like Gero's other creations, he chose not to obey completly, and destroyed the computer from which he was spawned." Cell explained.
"Coal...I can't believe that Dr. Gero is creating horrible creations in even more timelines then my own." Trunx said between clenched teeth. Though his thought was broken when he felt someone tug on his shirt. He looked down to see Sapphire there.
"Are you really Trunx?" she asked with a curious look.
"Uh yeah...I am." he answered, sorta confused.
"Wow. You sure are cute when you're all growed up." she said in a cute voice. This only seemed to leave Trunx looking very confused. Realizing that this was no time for girlish fantasies, she then turned away from him to face her father. Her mind swaying to what that sword said in her dream.
"C'mon daddy. There are only three people who are strong enough to defeat Coal now. Me, you, and one other." she stated. She then pointed down to the canyone below, to where Gohan lay.
Cell nodded, then tried powering up to Super Saiyan-jin 2, but found himself only able to get to a regular super saiyan.
"Darn. I can't powerup fully. I'm to weak from all that time spent with my body being controlled by Coal. It seems that you and Gohan will have to face him alone Saphy. I'm sorry..." he said with a low voice, knowing that he was of no use.
"We do have one more senzu bean left." Krillin stated, holding one out.
"Good. Sapphy, take this down to Gohan. Give it to him, and then you two can fight." Cell said with a thoughtful look, taking the bean.
"But daddy, why don't me and you fight...."
"No. I'm weakened beyond the power of senzu bean's healing ability. I'll only recover in time. The fate of the world is in your and Gohan's hands Saphy. Make me proud." Cell stated, giving the senzu bean to Sapphire.
"I won't let you down." Sapphire said, her eyes now burning with determination. She prepared to fly down to where Gohan was. In one hand she held the senzu bean, in the other she held the earrings that she had received from that strange dream.
All of a sudden though Coal landed right in front of her.
"Oh I'm sorry. Did I crash the party. So glad that you and your family could make it Cell. I was worried that I would have to kill you with absolutely no opposition. But I guess I'll get to have the fun of killing them also." Coal stated with an evil sneer.
Cell suddenly sprang forward and slammed into Coal, knocking him down.
"Sapphy! Go now!" he yelled. Sapphire took that moment to fly off the cliff and land next to where Gohan lay.
"Insolent little....!" Coal yelled in disgust, slamming Cell in the back and casting him aside.
"I'll return for you, once I kill your stupid offspring!" Coal yelled, utter loathing streaming from his voice. Cell tried to stand up to do something, but found himself to weakened to move. Jade kneeled beside him to help him up.
"I guess its all up to Sapphy." she stated Solemnly.
"Don't worry. She can do it."
Sapphire landed next to Gohan, kneeling down next to him, so that she may be able to revive him. After propping him up on her knee, she pushed the bean into his mouth.
"Ok now Gohan chew." she said softly. Her heart was raised, as she began to see that he was still conscience enough to chew. Her mind started to realize how weird it was to see Gohan the same age as her. Ever since she could remember, Gohan had always been someone much older then her. He would always teach her how to be a good person, and she had always looked up to him as a role model. But for the time being she would have to rely on him as her partner, in finally destroying Coal.
Gohan looked up to see the strangest creature staring back down at him.
"What? What's going on?!" he asked suddenly, sitting up, his eyes burning with determination.
"Cell! Cell, where are you?!" he cried standing up, immediately ready for a fight. Sapphire looked up to him in wonder.
"What's happened to him. He seems so different in this timeline. From his hair it seems that he has made it to Super Saiyan-jin 2. But for some reason it has seemed to done something to his peronality." she thought to herself.
Coal took that moment to land in front of the two.
"Cell! There you are! I'll destroy you!" Gohan screamed, and started to charge at Coal. Though he found that he was being held back.
"Hey are you stupid or something! We have to work together or we won't be able to beat him!" Sapphire cried, realizing how stupid a mistake it would be to charge at Coal with no plan of action.
"Let me go! I can destroy him! Just watch!" Gohan retored, and broke free from Sapphire's grip.
"Thatta boy." Coal said with a grin, as he watched the charging Gohan. Though the moment before he was about to pound him into the mountain like before, he was suddenly hit from the side by Sapphire. She then took that moment to pull the stunned Gohan aside.
"Hey! I don't know who you are, or what you are! But I don't need your help in defeating Cell!" Gohan yelled in anger, desperately trying to get free of Sapphire's grasps. Sapphire, now fed up with Gohan's attitude made her aura flare, as she powered up to Super Saiyan-jin 2.
"See this! I'm just as powerful as you! Probably a lot more powerful! But I still don't stand a chance against Coal! Now we have to come up with a plan, or we're both toast!" she screamed, almost shaking Gohan a bit.
"I don't know what you are talking about with this Coal or whatever. But I'm sure that I can defeat Cell. Now let go!" he yelled, but Sapphire refused to let up.
"This is the fate of the world we're talking about here. Your father risked his life and yours so that the world would be safe. Are you really just going to throw that away, just because you think you're so powerful that you don't need any help." she yelled in his face, getting very angry.
"But I...."
"Gohan! Think, this isn't the real you. The real Gohan doesn't like to hurt people. Now channel your power so that it isn't purely destructive!" she yelled, shaking him once more.
"I..."
"Yes, c'mon Gohan! Think about who you are, and what you have to do!"
"I am.....I am...I am the defender of this planet." he said shakily. At the sound of this, Sapphire was finally sure that Gohan was ready to fight, and let him stand on his own once again.
"Good. Now as defender of this planet, lets get rid of that threat over there." she said, pointing to the approaching Coal.
"Yes. I don't know who you are. But I'll help you in any way I can." Gohan stated, his humanity having now returned to him. They both prepared themselves to give Coal everything they had, and defeat him for good. Their only hope was that in his weaker form, Coal would be able to be defeated.
The two young fighters charged at Coal, full force, trying to catch him off gaurd. Though Coal being as poweful as he was at this point merely dodged their attack, and slammed them into the ground.
They both immediately got up though, and actually were able to push Coal into a fist fight with both of them. Though to their dismay they seemed to be on the loosing end. And after a few seconds of the lightning fast punches, Gohan and Sapphire found themselves starting to let more and more of Coal's attacks get through.
"What's wrong children! You don't wanna play with me anymore!" Coal said with a laugh as he finally got a hold of the two, holding them by their necks, one in each hand.
"You.....won't win...Coal...." Sapphire managed to sputter.
"We...can....beat you...." Gohan added.
"Hmph, rubbish." Coal mutterd, and threw the two violently into the same place where he had thrown Gohan before. They slammed hard into the mountain side and sunk to the ground.
"He's to strong....we can't beat him." Gohan stated, painfully getting back to his feet.
"Don't say that, there has to be a way." Sapphire retorted, tightening her fist. But opened her fist, after feeling something pierce her skin. As she did, she noticed that she had been holding onto those earrings throughout the entire fight.
Gohan's attention moved from the approaching Coal, and turned to Sapphire.
"What are we goin......hey what're those?" he asked, mystified at the earrings. The reason being that they had just started to glow.
"I don't know..."
Almost as if automatically she placed one of the earrings on her left ear.
"Gohan, I don't know why I'm doing this, but I have this hunch. Here put this on your right ear." she stated, her voice monotone and tired, as if she was in a trance.
"But what are they? I don't know if I...."
"Just do it!"
"Ok ok. Just give me a sec." he said, taking the earring. As his hand moved to put it on his ear, he felt as if he could feel his power beginning to surge as he it moved closer. And the second he placed it on his ear fully, him and Sapphire all of a sudden flew at each as if they had a magnetic attraction.
"Ladies and gentlemen. It seems that our two young heroes are unable to defeat the new black Cell. They cannot fight against his.....What is this. There seems to be a large glowing light coming from a corner of the canyon. But the rocks are obscuring my view so I can't see what's going on." stated the annoucer, entranced by the course of events.
"You know that thing's still broken."
"Yes I know! I just have to keep talking. Who knows, maybe someone out there can hear me. Anways, so Satan do you know what is going on over there?"
"Uh, yes of course I do. They must have some artillery cannon hidden in the canyon, which they are going to try to use against Cell. Amaeturs would of course resort of weapons, since they are to weak to fight him themselves." Satan said proudly, beaming with cockiness.
"Oh Hercule. I bet you could beat Cell with one arm tied behind your back." his lovely assistant cooed, taking that moment to add her two cents.
"I...probably could." he said with a smirk. His confindence due to the fact that Coal was a very long distance away from them now.
Back up on the mountain, everyone watched in wonder as they saw a bright light swallow up both Gohan and Sapphire.
"What's going on down there? I can't see." Krillin asked.
"I don't know. But something happend to Gohan, and that other girl." Piccolo stated.
"Oh no....Sapphire." Jade said softly. Her worry both on her daughter, and her husband which was slumped against her shoulder.
"Don't worry.....I'm sure...Sapphire will think of something." Cell managed to mumble, trying to reassure everyone that she knew what she was doing.
"Don't you think that you're putting to much faith in her." Jade stated, having trouble believing her husband, which at the time being was only able to stand with her help.
"Just watch...."
Gohan and Sapphire looked down at themselves. As they gazed that started to realize something was very wrong with how they felt. They were sure they were two individual people, but for the time being there was only one person standing there, where two should be.
As they continued to inspect their new body, they had no idea what the heck had just happened. From outward appearence, the person they had become looked a lot like Gohan, except he was wearing Sapphire's blue armor, and her tail was protruding from his lower back. Though there was something missing from the armor. The wings that went along with it, were nowhere to be found. Finally even though it looked like Gohan, his hair was the wrong color, and instead was blood red, just like Sapphire's was.
Other then that, ther person could be easily be mistaken for Gohan, and people could just think that he had died his hair, and somehow gotten Sapphire's outfit somewhere. Though what made this being special was not the looks at all, but the immense power that seemed to be eminating from them.
They shook their head, as if they were having some sorta inner conflict. Coal could only watch in amazement as he gazed at this new fighter standing in front of him. He watched for a few moments as the person seemed to be talking to himself, though Coal soon got sick of watching and wanted to get some answers.
"Who are you! I demand to know!" Coal yelled in confusion. The person, after hearing his words, turned towards him with a smirk. The fire of determination entered their eyes, as they prepared to enter combat.
"We ar.....I mean I am.....I am...."
"Well out with it!! Who are you?!"
"I guess you can call me......Gophire."
To be Continued.