Back to the HFIL
Even though Cell's upper half was non-existent, he could still hear the conversation between Goku and Pikkon. They were talking about the best way to destroy Cell and what they were going to do afterwards.
"... well, you could always kill him with your thunder flash attack, couldn't you?"
"maybe, but that still won't completely destroy him."
"I could use my kamehameha at the same time."
"You could. We should try that."
"What's really good is that King Yemma even allowed us to stay for a week here because of what we're doing."
"That's great. I'll spend some time with Piccolo. He seems like a nice person. Smarter than you as well."
Cell was thinking of a way for him to get out of his mess. 'Now what? It seems as if Goku has found someone else to do all the paperwork. Now I'll just have to survive long enough to kill Goku. That would be enough to make me happy so that I won't mind going back to the HFIL. Wait, Goku's already dead... hmmmm.... Well then I'll just have to half kill him.'
"So Pikkon, are you ready?" asked Goku. Pikkon nodded, and Goku turned into a super saiyan. Pikkon took off his training robes and started his thunder flash attack. Goku put his hands together and focused his energy into the kamehameha.
"Thunder..."
"Ka... me...."
"Flash..."
"Ha... me..."
"Attack!"
"Ha!"
Both blasts hit Cell full force, but unknown to them Cell had started regenerating and used the instant transmission to escape the blast. When all the smoke and debris cleared, Cell was nowhere to be seen. Gohan and Krillin started celebrating, and Piccolo was regaining consciousness.
"Man, what happened to me? The last thing I remember was that Cell was regenerating and that Pikkon was watching like it didn't matter, and then I don't remember anything else. Hey, where'd Cell go?"
Vegeta answered Piccolo's question. "It would appear that Cell has been killed by Goku and Pikkon."
"Are you sure?" asked Piccolo, not quite sure that he was hearing right.
"He should be dead, otherwise where could he be? He didn't even finish regenerating, so there's no way he could have gotten away," said Goku. "Let me go to King Yemma's and check."
Goku disappeared and reappeared on top of King Yemma's desk. King Yemma was surprised to see Goku, and said, "Goku, what are you doing here? I thought you and Pikkon were still trying to beat Cell so that you could send him back to the HFIL."
"What? You mean Cell's not here? You mean we still haven't killed him? Man, he's tough. And smart, too." Goku teleported back to the others and told them the bad news. No one was happy when they heard what happened.
"But how could he have escaped?"
"Are you looking for me?" asked Cell, suddenly appearing above them, and everyone looked up. "Well, you're forgetting that I can use the instant transmission ever since I self-destructed in the Cell games and somehow obtained Goku's cells."
Everyone groaned as they remembered, and started doubting that Cell would ever go back to the HFIL. Pikkon was thinking, and Piccolo telepathically communicated with him. 'Hey Pikkon, I'll try and distract Cell and then you go for the kill. Sound good?' Pikkon smiled, letting Piccolo know that he agreed. Piccolo started charging up a special beam cannon, and Goku caught on and prepared the kamehameha. Cell looked at them and got ready to defend against their attacks. Pikkon watched closely, and when Goku and Piccolo fired and Cell defended, Pikkon rushed to Cell and killed him.. Everyone except Vegeta cheered (only because Vegeta has and always will be Vegeta) and Goku took Cell and handed him over to King Yemma.
"Well, that's finally over. Now we have a whole week to enjoy ourselves before we go back to the other world," said Goku happily.
Everyone said their farewells and split up. Goku and Gohan went back home, Krillin and Android 18 back to the Kame house, Vegeta back to the Capsule Corp (heh, Vegeta didn't do much, did he? Oh well.) and Piccolo and Pikkon went to Kami's lookout. Mr. Popo was glad to see Piccolo again, and gave him and Pikkon a huge feast.
"Thanks Mr. Popo, but I don't each much," apologised Piccolo, but tried to eat some anyway. Pikkon found the food to be way better than Grand Kai's food and ate as much as he could. Mr. Popo was very impressed with Pikkon's manners.
"Pikkon, you have such nice table manners. a lot better than Goku's I must say."
Pikkon smiled and thanked him. They finished the meal and Popo brought them desert - fruit salad with fresh cream. Piccolo started eating the grapes, and Pikkon tried some and then concluded that it was his favourite food.
"Wow Piccolo, these round green things are really nicce. What are they?"
"They're called grapes."
"You think I could take some back to the other world? We don't have any back there."
"You mean grapes don't exist in the other world?! Then I never want to die! I just couldn't live without grapes!"
"You'd already be dead."
"Oh yeah."
They both laughed, and then Piccolo jumped off Kami's lookout. Pikkon ran to the edge and shouted, "why did you jump off like that?"
"I'm trying to kill myself!"
"Why would you want to do that?"
"Grapes don't exist in the other world!"
"You might not even go there!"
"Then where else is there to go?"
"The HFIL!"
"Do they have grapes?"
"Not sure."
"Still, life's no good without grapes and death isn't either!"
"So you're trying to kill yourself?"
"Yes!"
"But there's still a bowl full of grapes here!"
Piccolo had forgotten all about the grapes back on Kami's lookout, but it was too late. The ground rushed up to meet him, but instead of landing, he made a whole straight through the Earth and ended up in Australia. He painfully got up and made a mental note never to try and commit suicide again. 'Guess I might as well stay here for a while. I'll get to see what the Australians do. Oh yeah, and I also have to see if the toilet flushing theory is true.'
OK... I just discovered that in chapter seven I said that Cell didn't hear what the others were talking about, and for those of you that are confused (so am I), I meant that he was too busy regenerating to hear what they were saying. That should clear things up... I hope...
Yes, I know it's a crappy way to get Cell back to the HFIL, but at least I tried to make the ending interesting! (If you want to think of it as interesting.) Hopefully my next story will end better.
