Author Notes- Kioko: Writer's block is a terrible, terrible thing...Especially when your little sister is constantly playing the Hamtaro theme song over and over again while your trying to type!! I hate that cute, little fur ball!!!! *growls menacingly* Thanks for the reviews last chapter!!
Mirai Trunks: That damn little hamster is even cuter than me!! How dare they create something cuter than me?!
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z.
---------------------------------------
Chapter 9: No Need For Super Saiya-jins!!
"C-Cell and F-Frieza?!" Chibi Trunks asked. "But...But aren't they supposed to be dead?!"
"Yes." Mirai Trunks replied, his brow furrowing. "I have a feeling that this has something to do with the seven year of death agreement."
"You mean like what happened to Goku-san?"
"Exactly. I hardly think the Kaios are dumb enough to let to full-scale villains out of Hell for a whole week. This must be a one night thing or something," Mirai Trunks explained. "But what I don't understand is why Frieza is back for. He died well over ten years ago..."
"Dad and Gohan knew." Chibi Trunks interrupted.
"Huh? How do you know that?"
"During the intermission, they went to talk to each other and during the footage, when Gohan came back with Videl, he shot Dad a worried glance." Chibi Trunks explained. "They looked at you and Goku-san during the intermission too. I think they were going to wait until they actually did something and then tell the rest of us about it."
"You're an observant one. I never noticed that." Mirai Trunks congratulated. "But we've got no time for pleasantries now. We've got to follow those two and see what they're up to."
"You mean...we're not going to go get Dad or Goku-san?"
"No. That'd take to much time, Cell would probably sense us moving, and then they'd probably kill some more innocent people." Mirai Trunks replied. He noticed the look on Trunks' face. "You aren't scared are you?"
"Me?! Scared?! You've got to be kidding!" The chibi exclaimed indignantly. "I'm a saiya-jin warrior for crying out loud!"
"Good. Then act like one." Mirai said. Chibi Trunks glowered at him. "Suppress your ki to a normal human level. You can faze in and out when it's that low, can't you?"
"You seem to be doubting my abilities, Mirai. Tousan happens to have been training me since I was six for your information. Suppressing my ki comes second nature now."
"Fine then. We're going to faze out from here and then reappear where we heard the door slam, got it?"
"Yeah, whatever..." Chibi Trunks replied.
"One...two...three! Go!"
"Where did those boys get to?" Bulma muttered, looking over her shoulder to see Chibi Trunks' chair still unoccupied.
"Quit worrying yourself, onna. The brats will be just fine. They are super saiya-jins after all," Vegeta snorted, shifting in his seat. "Now shut up and watch the baka movie."
"Hmph. Well excuse me for worrying about my sons' well being," Bulma replied, glaring at her mate.
'There's nothing out there that'll threaten their well being. Except Frieza and Cell,' Vegeta thought, looking in Gohan's direction.
"You know, I'm starting to think that those two ditched us," Gohan whispered, as the two Trunks' kis became almost untraceable. "It's a Trunks kind of thing to do after all. I'm surprised they didn't take Goten along with them."
"Quite a pair of trouble makers you've let loose, isn't it?" Videl laughed, rolling her eyes at Gohan.
"You wouldn't believe..."
'But I'm afraid there's a worse pair of trouble makers loose than the two Trunks'...Much worse.' Gohan thought, frowning involuntarily.
Bulma, Vegeta, and Gohan weren't the only ones who noticed that Trunkses were gone for quite awhile. Son Goku had begun to notice it also. While the younger saiya-jin did not understand the warning glares Vegeta and Gohan kept sending his way, he had felt two strange kis enter the building around the start of the first documentary. The kis seemed awfully familiar, but Goku couldn't put his finger on who exactly the ki belonged to.
He, like Trunks, had heard the faint screams coming from the lobby. At first, he shrugged it off as some teenagers having some fun(AN: Not THAT kind of fun!), but that was until he saw the look on Mirai Trunks' face.
Not showing his usual optimism, Goku could only wonder what the hell those two boys were getting themselves into.
Both Trunks reappeared a second later by some large oak doors. The sign on one side of the wall clearly read 'Entrance to stage' and a dripping blood trail leading to a dead guard's body decorated the other side of the wall.
Chibi Trunks blanched again, while Mirai Trunks simply said, "Well, it looks like our buddies have struck here too."
"Y-Yeah..." Chibi Trunks mumbled. "Is...Is he dead...?"
"'Friad so squirt. Whatever killed him went straight through the heart. Instant death. He didn't suffer."
"How do you know that?"
"Cell killed me in a similar way after he came back to life. A brief sense of pain and then nothing."
"You died before?! Cool!!"
"No, not cool." Mirai Trunks snorted. "So we're going to be careful, because if you get killed, Dad will kill me, and if I get killed...again, Mom will kill you and Dad,"
"OK...So...are you going to open the door?" Chibi Trunks asked, shifting from one foot to another uncomfortably.
"Why don't you open the door?" Mirai replied smugly.
"Well, you're so much older and wiser and stronger than I am, so that's a few good reasons why you should be the one to open the door. Besides...you have powers of intimidation over Frieza..."
"Flattery won't get you anywhere, Chibi. If I'm going to start being your oniisan, you better learn that and quick," Mirai Trunks stated. He grasped the handle and pushed the door open slowly. Chibi Trunks snuck in first and Mirai followed, shutting the door ever so quietly.
"Who said that you're going to be my oniisan?" Chibi Trunks whispered, sneaking in the shadows of the wall.
The stage was dark, the only light coming from the screen, which only illuminated an area of twenty feet. Shadows from the equipment and the people(or diabolic aliens and evil androids). It was loud; do to the huge speakers on each side of the stage.
Ignoring Chibi Trunks' question, the two continued to creep along the shadows of the wall, until they were in the far right corner, and could clearly see Frieza and Cell. They were standing around twenty feet from the back of the stage building and behind the screen.
"I don't see why we just don't attack and kill them all now." Frieza sighed in annoyance. "They're probably caught onto what we're doing by now anyways,"
"That's a negative, Frieza. Only Vegeta and Gohan know that we're here and they've chosen to do nothing about it," Chibi Trunks gave Mirai Trunks an 'I-told-ya-so' look. "The others-especially Son Goku-are too ignorant to notice anything suspicious going on, unless it slaps them right in the face."
Both Trunkses glared. They were not ignorant! Just misunderstood, that was all.
"So when does this plan of yours come into action? When the seventh hour ends?" Frieza asked rather irritably.
Mirai Trunks' eyes narrowed. The seventh hour? What in the world did Frieza mean by that? Were they going to blow the Earth up in seven hours?
Mirai decided not to take any chances. He wasn't going to let them reach the end of the seventh hour at all costs. He undid his bowtie and then took his jacket off and laid it on the ground without a sound.
As he rolled up his sleeves, Chibi Trunks mouthed, "What are you doing?! This is no time to change!!"
"You expect me to fight Cell with these kinds of clothes on?" Mirai Trunks mouthed back, careful not to make a sound.
Chibi Trunks nodded in understand meant. He followed Mirai Trunks' example and began taking off extra parts of his tuxedo. Unlike his counterpart, he did not do this with ease. His bow tie simply did not want to come off and neither did his cufflinks. Mirai Trunks had chosen not to wear his cufflinks for the oddest reason and now he thought he knew why.
When Chibi Trunks had finally gotten them off he accidentally dropped them. Mirai Trunks watched in horror, as they seemed to fall in slow motion towards the metal floor. He hoped, no, he prayed that the sound in the back of the stage would be loud enough to cover the 'plings' of metal against metal from even Cell's level of hearing. When they hit, Mirai held his breath and kept his eyes on the two villains.
A second later...Two seconds later...and they hadn't moved an inch.
"Shit!" Chibi Trunks hissed realizing his grave error with the cufflinks a bit too late.
Mirai froze as Cell twitched. They had missed the cufflinks, but they couldn't have missed the curse from Chibi Trunks...even with Mr. Satan's ranting magnified ten times louder than it should be.
"Well, Frieza, it seems that we have two little guests that missed the extermination process we held earlier," Cell mused. "Do you want the honors?"
Chibi and Mirai looked at each other in surprise.
'Cell and Frieza think we're humans?? Of course! Our kis are still at a normal human level!' Mirai Trunks thought.
"Why, thank you for asking," Frieza replied, as he lazily raised a finger and pointed it over his shoulder. "I'll give the little pests ten seconds to run...Not like it'll matter to begin with. One..."
Chibi Trunks gave Mirai Trunks a 'Can I Kill Him Now??? Pretty Please??' look. Mirai nodded and whispered, "Only if I get Cell."
"Two..."
"I really don't think you want to do that, Frieza," Chibi Trunks stated. The Ice-jin's tail froze. "I mean, you might damage the theater building and it was quite nicely constructed and probably really expensive cause it's marble and really high class quality marble too..."
"Who the hell are you, brat?!" Frieza demanded, lowering his finger and turning his head to try and find the two. "And where are you and your little friend hiding at?! Show yourselves!!"
"Hmph. Don't worry yourself, Frieza. It's just Vegeta's little brat, Chibi Trunks, and his future counterpart." Cell snorted. "No concern what-so-ever...especially with their super saiya-jin abilities taken away."
Both demi saiya-jins stumbled out of the shadows in surprise. Mirai Trunks quickly caught himself and lowered into a fighting stance. Chibi Trunks just tumbled to the floor, scuffing up one of his good shoes.
"W-What do you mean by 'their super saiya-jin abilities taken away'?" Mirai Trunks demanded, fearing the answer. "And what are you doing back alive and on Earth?!"
"I was hoping you'd ask that question." Cell sneered. "You see, Son Goku isn't the only one who gets break from being dead. Frieza and I got a seven-year anniversary agreement also, but we don't have a full week to reek all the havoc we want. Just seven hours on the day of our deaths."
"But Frieza died ten years ago! So he shouldn't be here!" Chibi Trunks interrupted, picking himself off the ground.
"True, but fortunately that ogre was dumb enough to let me out as a make-up for not letting me out on my actual seventh year of death," The corners of Frieza's mouth twitched, as though he was itching to smirk at the boys. "He was also dumb enough to tell us about...a request that we got for this happy occasion. Each of us got a request, anything we wanted for seven hours. And do you know what our first request of them was?"
"To take away the super saiya-jin powers of the saiya-jins over fifteen, that way, none of you stand a chance against our awesome might," Cell finished, as he turned and slowly started walking towards the boys. Mirai seemed to have gone into a bit of shock and Chibi Trunks looked steamed. But both did put up a fight when Cell grabbed onto the fronts of their shirts. "Three of our precious hours have been wasted watching this baka human celebration, so we're going to spend the next four hours kicking you and your family member's asses!"
"Q-Question?" Mirai Trunks gasped out. Cell was cutting off his air and it wasn't very pleasant. "Why...did you only take away...teenagers and up super saiya-jin powers away?"
"Because your fellow counterpart and his friend can't do have that ability yet, so it's be useless to take away something that isn't there," Frieza replied, rolling his eyes. "Now, why don't you go share this tidbit of information with those other monkeys out there, all right?"
Chibi Trunks glared and open his mouth to share the truth with Cell and Frieza, but before he got that chance, Cell lifted them off the ground and launched them into the screen.
People in the theater screamed when two people-a child and a teenager-came crashing through the screen, abruptly stopping onscreen Cell from doing any more harm to onscreen Gohan.
Vegeta and Bulma recognized both figures at once.
"TRUNKS!!!" Bulma screamed, shooting out of her seat, just in time to watch her sons crash into the back wall, making two cartoonish types of holes.
Goten, who had broken free of the ki shackles, out of his seat at once, shortly followed Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta.
"Who...Who did that Gohan?!" Videl demanded, clamping herself onto Gohan's arm, trying not to get dragged with the panicking crowd.
"I've got one guess...and that's Frieza and Cell..." Gohan growled, in a rather un-Gohanish voice. His head slowly turned to the ruined screen, where both villains were making their way out of the holes made by the Trunkes.
"C-C-Cell?!" Videl squeaked in horror.
When the people saw Cell appear in the spotlight of the stage with another freakish alien-type thing, the panic that they had before increased by ten fold. People screamed louder and started rushing towards the exits, Mr. Satan in the lead by far. Some jumped over the seats and onto other people as they tried to get away from the stage as fast of they could. Little children were getting left behind, cowering in the seats, while within the mad rush, teenagers and adults alike were getting trampled by their peers.
In short, all hell was breaking loose.
"One!" Chibi Trunks and Mirai Trunks counted together as they smashed through the first wall.
They flew through the rest of the wall and into the lobby, their momentum slowed down a bit by the wall.
"Two!" came as they went crashing through the back lobby wall and into the swimming pool area(AN: Remember, this was being held at a hotel), startling many of the swimmers.
"Three!" was when they smashed into the large bay windows at the other end of the swimming area and flew into the over crowded parking lot.
Hitting the cars was not as fun as hitting the walls, because some of the cars the crashed into were quite nice. Take for instance, the yellow Ferri that now had two holes in it; a large one in the engine area and a small one in the trunk area. And the red Viper that now was split down the middle. But they did end up hitting Mr. Satan's limo, wrecking any chance of him escaping.
They finally stopped after they flew into a Mini Mart, knocked over half the displays, and landed in what once was a pyramid of pop cans.
"...Four..." they finished.
"Ow!" Chibi Trunks groaned as a Coke can smacked him square on the head. "Hey...! Is that Mountain Dew?!"
Mirai Trunks flared his aura, sending the pop cans on top of him into the walls nearby. "Who cares if they have Mountain Dew?! What we need to worry about is Cell and Frieza!! We'll never be able to defeat them if none of us our super saiya-jins!!"
"Oh quit whining," Chibi Trunks snorted. He took a sip of dented Mountain Dew can. "We'll just go hang out in the mountains until the four hours are up! I mean we got an enough soda and there's plenty of junk food for all of us," Chibi Trunks paused when he saw Mirai Trunks glare. "Or Goten and I could kick both their asses if that's what you really want..."
"How can you and Goten even kick Frieza's ass? You're just kids! And you two aren't even super saiya-jins yet!" Mirai Trunks sighed. He buried his face in his hands. "It's hopeless...Maybe we should go with your first plan..."
"Wait just a second!" Chibi Trunks threw his Mountain Dew down in disgust. "What makes you think that we're not super saiya-jins for?!"
Mirai Trunks slowly lifted his face out his hands. "Are you saying...That you...and Goten...really are super saiya-jins?!"
"Duh! We've been super saiya-jins for a long time...I forgot when I first transformed," Chibi explained and Mirai's jaw dropped. "Dad doesn't know yet! I was gonna surprise him at the tournament. Gohan knows cause Goten told him, that baka..."
"Thank you Kami!! You and Goten are a miracle in disguise!! You two can beat Frieza and then we can worry about Cell after that!!" Mirai Trunks praised, grabbing Chibi Trunks by the hand and blasting off through the roof of the Mini Mart.
"I wasn't finished with my Mountain Dew, Mirai!!"
By the time Mirai and Chibi Trunks had landed in the Mini Mart, the theater had been emptied of most of the occupants. Those remaining were most of the front row and a few of the squashed humans.
Bulma was wrapped in Vegeta's arms protectively, Chi-Chi was holding onto Goku's right arm, with Goten standing a few feet away, and Gohan had his arm around Videl's waist and had pulled her closer to him each time Cell made any type of threatening movement.
"It looks like our purple haired buddies made quite an entrance for us," Frieza laughed, pointing the holes that the two demi saiya-jins had made. "How hard did you toss them anyway?"
Ignoring Frieza's comment, Cell floated down to the floor and landed in front of Gohan. Gohan tensed up and moved just a bit so he was blocking Cell's view of Videl.
"Ah, Son Gohan...It's been awhile since we last met, hasn't it?" Cell said, smirking at Gohan. Gohan moved a step back but his gaze did not waver. "You've gotten taller and older too, but not a much stronger. Pity, pity...how are you ever going to defeat me this time around with a depleted power level?" His eyes fell upon Videl. "And look! You've even got yourself a girlfriend, how sweet! You can die together!"
"What the hell do you want from us Cell?" Gohan growled. "Didn't you cause enough trouble when you were alive?"
"Yes, of course I did." Cell snorted. "But that's not the reason we came back. We wanted a little something called 'revenge'."
"And how do you plan on doing that? Especially when there are four super saiya-jins in this very room?" Gohan asked, coolly. "I may not have been training much, but my Dad and Vegeta-san have been. They're both as strong as I was when I defeated you."
Videl's eyes widened when she heard this news. Son Gohan was the one who beat Cell and not her father?! She was beginning to think that Gohan and his family did have something to do with the Cell Games do to how strange Gohan was acting tonight, but she never expected to hear those words come out of his mouth!
"Feh. Mirai Trunks said something around those very same lines, but look what happened to him?" Cell smirked got wider. "And we trusted those boys with our big secret too."
"...Secret...?" Vegeta and Goku whispered together.
They looked at each other. Cell and Frieza had made plans! This was bad. Really bad.
"Hmph. It looks like those rats have finally returned." Frieza pointed out, as the two Trunks' burst through the same wall, creating two new holes under their first ones. Both landed swiftly in one of the empty side aisles.
"Don't do anything stupid yet!!" Mirai Trunks commanded instantly. "We won't stand a chance if you do!!"
"What do you mean, boy?!" Vegeta demanded, glaring at his older son. "Of course we stand a chance over these bakas!!"
"No, Dad, we don't!! Frieza and Cell got two requests for coming back from the dead!" Mirai Trunks continued, waving his arms wildly. "And one of them is that saiya-jins over the age of fifteen can't transform!! None of us can turn into super saiya-jins for four hours!!"
There was a deadly silence following that statement. Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta stared at Mirai Trunks in shock, with a bit of dismay mixed in, as though he had caused the whole thing. Frieza and Cell chuckled at their reactions.
Goten's brow furrowed in confusion. What were the adults worried about? He and Trunks' super saiya-jin powers hadn't been taken away, so what was the problem? He was about to point this out to his father, but Chibi Trunks caught his eye first. The purple haired boy was making frantic gestures that spelled out the message: SHUT UP, YOU BAKA!!!
Frieza seemed to interpret this message also. He frowned. Those half-breeds were hiding something and he was going to find out what.
In a flash of movement, Frieza was gone from his place on the stage and Goten had disappeared from his spot on the floor.
"GOTEN!!" Chi-Chi screamed, drawing Goku and Gohan out of their stupor. "TH-THAT THING HAS MY BABY!!"
The elder Sons looked to where Chi-Chi was pointing and saw a horrible sight. Frieza was hovering near the ceiling and was slowly choking Goten to death. Goten was struggling as best as he could, but his short legs and arms were nothing compared to Frieza's iron grip.
"GOTEN!!"
"Tell me what you're hiding, brat!" Frieza snarled.
"Wha...What...are...y-you...talking about?!" Goten gasped out, trying to pry the Ice-jins cold hands off his neck.
"You and the second purple haired rat were communicating with each other." Frieza explained, shooting a glare at Chibi Trunks. "If you tell me what it is was about, I'll let go back to dear old father down there."
"N..Never!!
"Then die...!!" Frieza replied. He took on hand off of Goten's neck and placed it in front of his chest.
Goten's stomach lurched and he closed his eyes as he felt Frieza's ki intensify and he braced himself for the killing blow...
...That never came.
"MASENKO...HAAAA!!!"
"KA...ME...HA...ME...HAAA!!!"
"FINAL...FLASH!!!
All three saiya-jins called their attacks out in unison, using their full force against Frieza. The Ice-jin was surprised to see three awesome ki blasts heading his way. He dropped Goten as a result and tried to defend himself against the attacks. But it was too much for out buddy Frieza.
He let out an agonizing scream as the Final Flash tore into him first, shortly followed by the Masenko and the Kamehameha. His body began to slowly disintegrate into little pieces when it could no longer stand the heat and pressure from the ki. When the shadow of his form and his ki disappeared completely, was the time when the three saiya-jins discontinued their attacks.
"Goku!! Catch Goten!!" Chi-Chi cried in horror.
Goten had continued to fall, not daring to open his eyes. When nothing painful had happened and he heard his mother's shout, he cracked his eye open slightly. He squeaked in fright when he saw how close the ground was. Gohan hadn't taught him how to stop at close calls like this yet!! He was going to be squished like a pancake!!
Suddenly, Son Goten felt strong, warm arms wrap around him and he stopped falling.
"Papa!!" he cried happily, looking up into his father's eyes. "Thanks for saving me!!"
"Goten..." Goku breathed, smiling at his youngest son. "You're not hurt too bad, are you?"
"Nope! My throat hurts a bit, but that's all!" Goten chirped. "You and Gohan and Vegeta-san all attacked at just the right time!! It was soo awesome!!"
"Well, Cell, it looks like your little army has been depleted quite a bit," Vegeta snarled, glaring at the oversized grasshopper. "What are you going to do without little old Frieza? He seemed to be the brains behind our damned operations."
"And besides," Gohan added. "Even without our super saiya-jin powers, all of us at our highest levels combined will have enough power to stop you! Dad still has Kaio-Ken after all!"
"What you said about your father is true, Gohan, but not about Frieza...Especially that part about Frieza..." Cell mocked.
"What are you talking about Cell?" Goku demanded, as he set Goten back on the ground. "Frieza's gone! If you die during the time you get back, that's it! You're stuck in Hell until your other chance comes along!"
"Ah, but that's not so entirely true for us," Frieza's voice sing-songed, as his form slowly began to rematerialize by Cell. "We never did get to tell you what our second request was, did we?"
"Frieza and I have been granted immortality for our seven hours on Earth. No matter how many times you kill us in that time period, it won't matter. We'll keep coming back until we kill you all." Cell explained, an evil smirk crossing his face.
---------------------------------------------
Kioko: Well, I think this has to be a record for me! I got this chapter done within a week! And I liked how it turned out too!
Mirai Trunks: I think what made her speed up was all the death threats she got.
Kioko: *nervously* Heck yeah!! Remember to review!
Next Chapter: The tables begin to turn on Cell and Frieza when Goku and Vegeta spring a new plan on the villains: fusion! Gotenks is born in the next chapter of 'Nothing But The Truth'!!
Mirai Trunks: That damn little hamster is even cuter than me!! How dare they create something cuter than me?!
Disclaimer: I don't own Dragonball Z.
---------------------------------------
Chapter 9: No Need For Super Saiya-jins!!
"C-Cell and F-Frieza?!" Chibi Trunks asked. "But...But aren't they supposed to be dead?!"
"Yes." Mirai Trunks replied, his brow furrowing. "I have a feeling that this has something to do with the seven year of death agreement."
"You mean like what happened to Goku-san?"
"Exactly. I hardly think the Kaios are dumb enough to let to full-scale villains out of Hell for a whole week. This must be a one night thing or something," Mirai Trunks explained. "But what I don't understand is why Frieza is back for. He died well over ten years ago..."
"Dad and Gohan knew." Chibi Trunks interrupted.
"Huh? How do you know that?"
"During the intermission, they went to talk to each other and during the footage, when Gohan came back with Videl, he shot Dad a worried glance." Chibi Trunks explained. "They looked at you and Goku-san during the intermission too. I think they were going to wait until they actually did something and then tell the rest of us about it."
"You're an observant one. I never noticed that." Mirai Trunks congratulated. "But we've got no time for pleasantries now. We've got to follow those two and see what they're up to."
"You mean...we're not going to go get Dad or Goku-san?"
"No. That'd take to much time, Cell would probably sense us moving, and then they'd probably kill some more innocent people." Mirai Trunks replied. He noticed the look on Trunks' face. "You aren't scared are you?"
"Me?! Scared?! You've got to be kidding!" The chibi exclaimed indignantly. "I'm a saiya-jin warrior for crying out loud!"
"Good. Then act like one." Mirai said. Chibi Trunks glowered at him. "Suppress your ki to a normal human level. You can faze in and out when it's that low, can't you?"
"You seem to be doubting my abilities, Mirai. Tousan happens to have been training me since I was six for your information. Suppressing my ki comes second nature now."
"Fine then. We're going to faze out from here and then reappear where we heard the door slam, got it?"
"Yeah, whatever..." Chibi Trunks replied.
"One...two...three! Go!"
"Where did those boys get to?" Bulma muttered, looking over her shoulder to see Chibi Trunks' chair still unoccupied.
"Quit worrying yourself, onna. The brats will be just fine. They are super saiya-jins after all," Vegeta snorted, shifting in his seat. "Now shut up and watch the baka movie."
"Hmph. Well excuse me for worrying about my sons' well being," Bulma replied, glaring at her mate.
'There's nothing out there that'll threaten their well being. Except Frieza and Cell,' Vegeta thought, looking in Gohan's direction.
"You know, I'm starting to think that those two ditched us," Gohan whispered, as the two Trunks' kis became almost untraceable. "It's a Trunks kind of thing to do after all. I'm surprised they didn't take Goten along with them."
"Quite a pair of trouble makers you've let loose, isn't it?" Videl laughed, rolling her eyes at Gohan.
"You wouldn't believe..."
'But I'm afraid there's a worse pair of trouble makers loose than the two Trunks'...Much worse.' Gohan thought, frowning involuntarily.
Bulma, Vegeta, and Gohan weren't the only ones who noticed that Trunkses were gone for quite awhile. Son Goku had begun to notice it also. While the younger saiya-jin did not understand the warning glares Vegeta and Gohan kept sending his way, he had felt two strange kis enter the building around the start of the first documentary. The kis seemed awfully familiar, but Goku couldn't put his finger on who exactly the ki belonged to.
He, like Trunks, had heard the faint screams coming from the lobby. At first, he shrugged it off as some teenagers having some fun(AN: Not THAT kind of fun!), but that was until he saw the look on Mirai Trunks' face.
Not showing his usual optimism, Goku could only wonder what the hell those two boys were getting themselves into.
Both Trunks reappeared a second later by some large oak doors. The sign on one side of the wall clearly read 'Entrance to stage' and a dripping blood trail leading to a dead guard's body decorated the other side of the wall.
Chibi Trunks blanched again, while Mirai Trunks simply said, "Well, it looks like our buddies have struck here too."
"Y-Yeah..." Chibi Trunks mumbled. "Is...Is he dead...?"
"'Friad so squirt. Whatever killed him went straight through the heart. Instant death. He didn't suffer."
"How do you know that?"
"Cell killed me in a similar way after he came back to life. A brief sense of pain and then nothing."
"You died before?! Cool!!"
"No, not cool." Mirai Trunks snorted. "So we're going to be careful, because if you get killed, Dad will kill me, and if I get killed...again, Mom will kill you and Dad,"
"OK...So...are you going to open the door?" Chibi Trunks asked, shifting from one foot to another uncomfortably.
"Why don't you open the door?" Mirai replied smugly.
"Well, you're so much older and wiser and stronger than I am, so that's a few good reasons why you should be the one to open the door. Besides...you have powers of intimidation over Frieza..."
"Flattery won't get you anywhere, Chibi. If I'm going to start being your oniisan, you better learn that and quick," Mirai Trunks stated. He grasped the handle and pushed the door open slowly. Chibi Trunks snuck in first and Mirai followed, shutting the door ever so quietly.
"Who said that you're going to be my oniisan?" Chibi Trunks whispered, sneaking in the shadows of the wall.
The stage was dark, the only light coming from the screen, which only illuminated an area of twenty feet. Shadows from the equipment and the people(or diabolic aliens and evil androids). It was loud; do to the huge speakers on each side of the stage.
Ignoring Chibi Trunks' question, the two continued to creep along the shadows of the wall, until they were in the far right corner, and could clearly see Frieza and Cell. They were standing around twenty feet from the back of the stage building and behind the screen.
"I don't see why we just don't attack and kill them all now." Frieza sighed in annoyance. "They're probably caught onto what we're doing by now anyways,"
"That's a negative, Frieza. Only Vegeta and Gohan know that we're here and they've chosen to do nothing about it," Chibi Trunks gave Mirai Trunks an 'I-told-ya-so' look. "The others-especially Son Goku-are too ignorant to notice anything suspicious going on, unless it slaps them right in the face."
Both Trunkses glared. They were not ignorant! Just misunderstood, that was all.
"So when does this plan of yours come into action? When the seventh hour ends?" Frieza asked rather irritably.
Mirai Trunks' eyes narrowed. The seventh hour? What in the world did Frieza mean by that? Were they going to blow the Earth up in seven hours?
Mirai decided not to take any chances. He wasn't going to let them reach the end of the seventh hour at all costs. He undid his bowtie and then took his jacket off and laid it on the ground without a sound.
As he rolled up his sleeves, Chibi Trunks mouthed, "What are you doing?! This is no time to change!!"
"You expect me to fight Cell with these kinds of clothes on?" Mirai Trunks mouthed back, careful not to make a sound.
Chibi Trunks nodded in understand meant. He followed Mirai Trunks' example and began taking off extra parts of his tuxedo. Unlike his counterpart, he did not do this with ease. His bow tie simply did not want to come off and neither did his cufflinks. Mirai Trunks had chosen not to wear his cufflinks for the oddest reason and now he thought he knew why.
When Chibi Trunks had finally gotten them off he accidentally dropped them. Mirai Trunks watched in horror, as they seemed to fall in slow motion towards the metal floor. He hoped, no, he prayed that the sound in the back of the stage would be loud enough to cover the 'plings' of metal against metal from even Cell's level of hearing. When they hit, Mirai held his breath and kept his eyes on the two villains.
A second later...Two seconds later...and they hadn't moved an inch.
"Shit!" Chibi Trunks hissed realizing his grave error with the cufflinks a bit too late.
Mirai froze as Cell twitched. They had missed the cufflinks, but they couldn't have missed the curse from Chibi Trunks...even with Mr. Satan's ranting magnified ten times louder than it should be.
"Well, Frieza, it seems that we have two little guests that missed the extermination process we held earlier," Cell mused. "Do you want the honors?"
Chibi and Mirai looked at each other in surprise.
'Cell and Frieza think we're humans?? Of course! Our kis are still at a normal human level!' Mirai Trunks thought.
"Why, thank you for asking," Frieza replied, as he lazily raised a finger and pointed it over his shoulder. "I'll give the little pests ten seconds to run...Not like it'll matter to begin with. One..."
Chibi Trunks gave Mirai Trunks a 'Can I Kill Him Now??? Pretty Please??' look. Mirai nodded and whispered, "Only if I get Cell."
"Two..."
"I really don't think you want to do that, Frieza," Chibi Trunks stated. The Ice-jin's tail froze. "I mean, you might damage the theater building and it was quite nicely constructed and probably really expensive cause it's marble and really high class quality marble too..."
"Who the hell are you, brat?!" Frieza demanded, lowering his finger and turning his head to try and find the two. "And where are you and your little friend hiding at?! Show yourselves!!"
"Hmph. Don't worry yourself, Frieza. It's just Vegeta's little brat, Chibi Trunks, and his future counterpart." Cell snorted. "No concern what-so-ever...especially with their super saiya-jin abilities taken away."
Both demi saiya-jins stumbled out of the shadows in surprise. Mirai Trunks quickly caught himself and lowered into a fighting stance. Chibi Trunks just tumbled to the floor, scuffing up one of his good shoes.
"W-What do you mean by 'their super saiya-jin abilities taken away'?" Mirai Trunks demanded, fearing the answer. "And what are you doing back alive and on Earth?!"
"I was hoping you'd ask that question." Cell sneered. "You see, Son Goku isn't the only one who gets break from being dead. Frieza and I got a seven-year anniversary agreement also, but we don't have a full week to reek all the havoc we want. Just seven hours on the day of our deaths."
"But Frieza died ten years ago! So he shouldn't be here!" Chibi Trunks interrupted, picking himself off the ground.
"True, but fortunately that ogre was dumb enough to let me out as a make-up for not letting me out on my actual seventh year of death," The corners of Frieza's mouth twitched, as though he was itching to smirk at the boys. "He was also dumb enough to tell us about...a request that we got for this happy occasion. Each of us got a request, anything we wanted for seven hours. And do you know what our first request of them was?"
"To take away the super saiya-jin powers of the saiya-jins over fifteen, that way, none of you stand a chance against our awesome might," Cell finished, as he turned and slowly started walking towards the boys. Mirai seemed to have gone into a bit of shock and Chibi Trunks looked steamed. But both did put up a fight when Cell grabbed onto the fronts of their shirts. "Three of our precious hours have been wasted watching this baka human celebration, so we're going to spend the next four hours kicking you and your family member's asses!"
"Q-Question?" Mirai Trunks gasped out. Cell was cutting off his air and it wasn't very pleasant. "Why...did you only take away...teenagers and up super saiya-jin powers away?"
"Because your fellow counterpart and his friend can't do have that ability yet, so it's be useless to take away something that isn't there," Frieza replied, rolling his eyes. "Now, why don't you go share this tidbit of information with those other monkeys out there, all right?"
Chibi Trunks glared and open his mouth to share the truth with Cell and Frieza, but before he got that chance, Cell lifted them off the ground and launched them into the screen.
People in the theater screamed when two people-a child and a teenager-came crashing through the screen, abruptly stopping onscreen Cell from doing any more harm to onscreen Gohan.
Vegeta and Bulma recognized both figures at once.
"TRUNKS!!!" Bulma screamed, shooting out of her seat, just in time to watch her sons crash into the back wall, making two cartoonish types of holes.
Goten, who had broken free of the ki shackles, out of his seat at once, shortly followed Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta.
"Who...Who did that Gohan?!" Videl demanded, clamping herself onto Gohan's arm, trying not to get dragged with the panicking crowd.
"I've got one guess...and that's Frieza and Cell..." Gohan growled, in a rather un-Gohanish voice. His head slowly turned to the ruined screen, where both villains were making their way out of the holes made by the Trunkes.
"C-C-Cell?!" Videl squeaked in horror.
When the people saw Cell appear in the spotlight of the stage with another freakish alien-type thing, the panic that they had before increased by ten fold. People screamed louder and started rushing towards the exits, Mr. Satan in the lead by far. Some jumped over the seats and onto other people as they tried to get away from the stage as fast of they could. Little children were getting left behind, cowering in the seats, while within the mad rush, teenagers and adults alike were getting trampled by their peers.
In short, all hell was breaking loose.
"One!" Chibi Trunks and Mirai Trunks counted together as they smashed through the first wall.
They flew through the rest of the wall and into the lobby, their momentum slowed down a bit by the wall.
"Two!" came as they went crashing through the back lobby wall and into the swimming pool area(AN: Remember, this was being held at a hotel), startling many of the swimmers.
"Three!" was when they smashed into the large bay windows at the other end of the swimming area and flew into the over crowded parking lot.
Hitting the cars was not as fun as hitting the walls, because some of the cars the crashed into were quite nice. Take for instance, the yellow Ferri that now had two holes in it; a large one in the engine area and a small one in the trunk area. And the red Viper that now was split down the middle. But they did end up hitting Mr. Satan's limo, wrecking any chance of him escaping.
They finally stopped after they flew into a Mini Mart, knocked over half the displays, and landed in what once was a pyramid of pop cans.
"...Four..." they finished.
"Ow!" Chibi Trunks groaned as a Coke can smacked him square on the head. "Hey...! Is that Mountain Dew?!"
Mirai Trunks flared his aura, sending the pop cans on top of him into the walls nearby. "Who cares if they have Mountain Dew?! What we need to worry about is Cell and Frieza!! We'll never be able to defeat them if none of us our super saiya-jins!!"
"Oh quit whining," Chibi Trunks snorted. He took a sip of dented Mountain Dew can. "We'll just go hang out in the mountains until the four hours are up! I mean we got an enough soda and there's plenty of junk food for all of us," Chibi Trunks paused when he saw Mirai Trunks glare. "Or Goten and I could kick both their asses if that's what you really want..."
"How can you and Goten even kick Frieza's ass? You're just kids! And you two aren't even super saiya-jins yet!" Mirai Trunks sighed. He buried his face in his hands. "It's hopeless...Maybe we should go with your first plan..."
"Wait just a second!" Chibi Trunks threw his Mountain Dew down in disgust. "What makes you think that we're not super saiya-jins for?!"
Mirai Trunks slowly lifted his face out his hands. "Are you saying...That you...and Goten...really are super saiya-jins?!"
"Duh! We've been super saiya-jins for a long time...I forgot when I first transformed," Chibi explained and Mirai's jaw dropped. "Dad doesn't know yet! I was gonna surprise him at the tournament. Gohan knows cause Goten told him, that baka..."
"Thank you Kami!! You and Goten are a miracle in disguise!! You two can beat Frieza and then we can worry about Cell after that!!" Mirai Trunks praised, grabbing Chibi Trunks by the hand and blasting off through the roof of the Mini Mart.
"I wasn't finished with my Mountain Dew, Mirai!!"
By the time Mirai and Chibi Trunks had landed in the Mini Mart, the theater had been emptied of most of the occupants. Those remaining were most of the front row and a few of the squashed humans.
Bulma was wrapped in Vegeta's arms protectively, Chi-Chi was holding onto Goku's right arm, with Goten standing a few feet away, and Gohan had his arm around Videl's waist and had pulled her closer to him each time Cell made any type of threatening movement.
"It looks like our purple haired buddies made quite an entrance for us," Frieza laughed, pointing the holes that the two demi saiya-jins had made. "How hard did you toss them anyway?"
Ignoring Frieza's comment, Cell floated down to the floor and landed in front of Gohan. Gohan tensed up and moved just a bit so he was blocking Cell's view of Videl.
"Ah, Son Gohan...It's been awhile since we last met, hasn't it?" Cell said, smirking at Gohan. Gohan moved a step back but his gaze did not waver. "You've gotten taller and older too, but not a much stronger. Pity, pity...how are you ever going to defeat me this time around with a depleted power level?" His eyes fell upon Videl. "And look! You've even got yourself a girlfriend, how sweet! You can die together!"
"What the hell do you want from us Cell?" Gohan growled. "Didn't you cause enough trouble when you were alive?"
"Yes, of course I did." Cell snorted. "But that's not the reason we came back. We wanted a little something called 'revenge'."
"And how do you plan on doing that? Especially when there are four super saiya-jins in this very room?" Gohan asked, coolly. "I may not have been training much, but my Dad and Vegeta-san have been. They're both as strong as I was when I defeated you."
Videl's eyes widened when she heard this news. Son Gohan was the one who beat Cell and not her father?! She was beginning to think that Gohan and his family did have something to do with the Cell Games do to how strange Gohan was acting tonight, but she never expected to hear those words come out of his mouth!
"Feh. Mirai Trunks said something around those very same lines, but look what happened to him?" Cell smirked got wider. "And we trusted those boys with our big secret too."
"...Secret...?" Vegeta and Goku whispered together.
They looked at each other. Cell and Frieza had made plans! This was bad. Really bad.
"Hmph. It looks like those rats have finally returned." Frieza pointed out, as the two Trunks' burst through the same wall, creating two new holes under their first ones. Both landed swiftly in one of the empty side aisles.
"Don't do anything stupid yet!!" Mirai Trunks commanded instantly. "We won't stand a chance if you do!!"
"What do you mean, boy?!" Vegeta demanded, glaring at his older son. "Of course we stand a chance over these bakas!!"
"No, Dad, we don't!! Frieza and Cell got two requests for coming back from the dead!" Mirai Trunks continued, waving his arms wildly. "And one of them is that saiya-jins over the age of fifteen can't transform!! None of us can turn into super saiya-jins for four hours!!"
There was a deadly silence following that statement. Goku, Gohan, and Vegeta stared at Mirai Trunks in shock, with a bit of dismay mixed in, as though he had caused the whole thing. Frieza and Cell chuckled at their reactions.
Goten's brow furrowed in confusion. What were the adults worried about? He and Trunks' super saiya-jin powers hadn't been taken away, so what was the problem? He was about to point this out to his father, but Chibi Trunks caught his eye first. The purple haired boy was making frantic gestures that spelled out the message: SHUT UP, YOU BAKA!!!
Frieza seemed to interpret this message also. He frowned. Those half-breeds were hiding something and he was going to find out what.
In a flash of movement, Frieza was gone from his place on the stage and Goten had disappeared from his spot on the floor.
"GOTEN!!" Chi-Chi screamed, drawing Goku and Gohan out of their stupor. "TH-THAT THING HAS MY BABY!!"
The elder Sons looked to where Chi-Chi was pointing and saw a horrible sight. Frieza was hovering near the ceiling and was slowly choking Goten to death. Goten was struggling as best as he could, but his short legs and arms were nothing compared to Frieza's iron grip.
"GOTEN!!"
"Tell me what you're hiding, brat!" Frieza snarled.
"Wha...What...are...y-you...talking about?!" Goten gasped out, trying to pry the Ice-jins cold hands off his neck.
"You and the second purple haired rat were communicating with each other." Frieza explained, shooting a glare at Chibi Trunks. "If you tell me what it is was about, I'll let go back to dear old father down there."
"N..Never!!
"Then die...!!" Frieza replied. He took on hand off of Goten's neck and placed it in front of his chest.
Goten's stomach lurched and he closed his eyes as he felt Frieza's ki intensify and he braced himself for the killing blow...
...That never came.
"MASENKO...HAAAA!!!"
"KA...ME...HA...ME...HAAA!!!"
"FINAL...FLASH!!!
All three saiya-jins called their attacks out in unison, using their full force against Frieza. The Ice-jin was surprised to see three awesome ki blasts heading his way. He dropped Goten as a result and tried to defend himself against the attacks. But it was too much for out buddy Frieza.
He let out an agonizing scream as the Final Flash tore into him first, shortly followed by the Masenko and the Kamehameha. His body began to slowly disintegrate into little pieces when it could no longer stand the heat and pressure from the ki. When the shadow of his form and his ki disappeared completely, was the time when the three saiya-jins discontinued their attacks.
"Goku!! Catch Goten!!" Chi-Chi cried in horror.
Goten had continued to fall, not daring to open his eyes. When nothing painful had happened and he heard his mother's shout, he cracked his eye open slightly. He squeaked in fright when he saw how close the ground was. Gohan hadn't taught him how to stop at close calls like this yet!! He was going to be squished like a pancake!!
Suddenly, Son Goten felt strong, warm arms wrap around him and he stopped falling.
"Papa!!" he cried happily, looking up into his father's eyes. "Thanks for saving me!!"
"Goten..." Goku breathed, smiling at his youngest son. "You're not hurt too bad, are you?"
"Nope! My throat hurts a bit, but that's all!" Goten chirped. "You and Gohan and Vegeta-san all attacked at just the right time!! It was soo awesome!!"
"Well, Cell, it looks like your little army has been depleted quite a bit," Vegeta snarled, glaring at the oversized grasshopper. "What are you going to do without little old Frieza? He seemed to be the brains behind our damned operations."
"And besides," Gohan added. "Even without our super saiya-jin powers, all of us at our highest levels combined will have enough power to stop you! Dad still has Kaio-Ken after all!"
"What you said about your father is true, Gohan, but not about Frieza...Especially that part about Frieza..." Cell mocked.
"What are you talking about Cell?" Goku demanded, as he set Goten back on the ground. "Frieza's gone! If you die during the time you get back, that's it! You're stuck in Hell until your other chance comes along!"
"Ah, but that's not so entirely true for us," Frieza's voice sing-songed, as his form slowly began to rematerialize by Cell. "We never did get to tell you what our second request was, did we?"
"Frieza and I have been granted immortality for our seven hours on Earth. No matter how many times you kill us in that time period, it won't matter. We'll keep coming back until we kill you all." Cell explained, an evil smirk crossing his face.
---------------------------------------------
Kioko: Well, I think this has to be a record for me! I got this chapter done within a week! And I liked how it turned out too!
Mirai Trunks: I think what made her speed up was all the death threats she got.
Kioko: *nervously* Heck yeah!! Remember to review!
Next Chapter: The tables begin to turn on Cell and Frieza when Goku and Vegeta spring a new plan on the villains: fusion! Gotenks is born in the next chapter of 'Nothing But The Truth'!!
