But only when it suits them…
By T.B. Stormshot, a girl. Not male. Female. For those who don't get it.
Hey! Look! It's a new part! Only a WEEK after the last one! Pretty cool, eh? And it's pretty long too, which says something more. Okay, okay, I had about four pages of this one done BEFORE the sixth chap, but at that point I had a serious mind block and I needed some time to think up what would basically happen next. (for me, everything just sort of… falls together as I'm writing.) But, I know exactly where I'm going now, and I can promise that the next chapter will be quite funny.
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Not that this one isn't.
By the way, I am really starting to *get annoyed* with Dragonball Z-the Buu saga I mean. Is it just me, or is Piccolo nothing more than a nursemaid now? I mean, really, I always wanted to see him being dragged around by his cape, but not by Gotenks. The whole saga is just KILLING me… I mean, I love DBZ, but everybody is just so powerful now it's getting ridiculous. I am really not looking forward to DB GT. I'm thinking maybe I'll just finish up with DBZ and be done with it. Toriyama didn't even DO it anyway. All he did was character sketches.
So anyway, enjoy! I don't own DBZ and had nothing at all to do with its concept, but I do a pretty good job using that concept to make up a really screwed up story! By the way, Mz. Icy is now colored and ready to be looked at in Mediaminer.Org. The link is: http://www.mediaminer.org/fanart/view.php?id=107471 uh, you might have to paste it yourself…
Excerpt from The Daily Ice-Jin.
Princess Icy was found dead late last night when her personal servants found her body sprawled in the palace garden. The servants had reported that she had been missed during her evening meal with her husband Prince Frieza. "We did not think anything of it at first, Princess Icy often excused herself from dinner with Master Frieza. She told us that she had a very delicate stomach," the servants say. Further examination showed that she had ingested a highly toxic poison, and had been dead for several hours before discovery. Examiners say that the poisons seem to have been mixed with her tea and must have been slipped in during her afternoon luncheon. Prince Frieza says, "I mourn for my dear departed wife, Icy, and I hope that we may all overcome this tragedy as quickly as possible... it's as she would want it. Until I might myself overcome my own grief I have decided to start an expedition to the nearby planet Vegeta. Hopefully we might make peace with this primitive planet." Prince Frieza is expected to leave immediately later this week as the primary ambassador to Planet Vegeta, the planet of the ape-like Saiyans. King Kold, has released early this morning that he will lead the search as to who murdered Princess Icy until Prince Frieza is emotionally capable again. "I can only imagine as to what my son feels over my precious daughter-in-law. She was truly the strongest woman on our small planet by far. And speaking of the strongest, while this pain is still fresh in everyone's hearts, I'm afraid we must still persevere in seeking out a new wife for my son-political reasons of course. So I ask all of you, the proud ice-jin of our planet, to search out for anyone, anyone, who might possibly be stronger than Princess Icy. Even if you must, a male will do, I'm sure my son wouldn't mind. Geneticists do wonders these days." Police forces have no leads as to who has poisoned Princess Icy, the only information that they have released to the press being-'the murderer was crafty, leaving no clues or prints behind. The crime site was totally clean and the poison was of an unknown origin." The Daily Ice-jin will release information as given, but for now, all we can ask is-Who killed Princess Icy?
"So what do we do?" Burter asked Jeice, trying not to panic. Sure, he was strong, but only in terms of his own race. Six Cell Jrs. were far above his, Jeice's, and Guldo's heads.
"Well let's just see what we have here. We are three Ginyu Force members, two strong people and one really weak person, right?" Jeice began to calculate slowly. Burter nodded in response while Guldo sulked. "Aaaand, we are up against six tiny, little, very small... kids."
"Yeah..." Burter responded in agreement.
"So here's the plan. We send Guldo in to distract Cell's kids while we make a break for it," Jeice concluded firmly.
"WHAT?! Why do I have to distract Cell's kids?!" Guldo cried out in protest.
"Duh, because you're a fat little butterball, Guldo. A green butterball at that. They couldn't possibly not notice you," Jeice snorted. Guldo opened his mouth to say something, but shut his mouth as his lip began to tremble extensively.
"But won't Cell be mad if we abandon his kids. You know how he was when he was just trying to get to them. He was crazy," Burter offered.
"Well yeah, but not if Guldo is around to watch them," Jeice shrugged.
"Ah," Burter understood, nodding in agreement.
"Wha-What?! But why do I have to stay?! I want to go with you guys!" Guldo whined unhappily.
"Guldo! I'm surprised with you!" Jeice said in a disappointed tone. "We all had to make sacrifices when we joined the Ginyu Force and I can't believe that you think you can just waltz through with out a scratch! You're the kind of person who thinks life is just a game isn't it?" Jeice frowned.
"Yeah, that's really shallow Guldo," Burter frowned angrily.
"B-But I got KILLED being in the Ginyu Force!" Guldo shouted frantically.
"Pfft, and that's your excuse? I really expected better of you Guldo," Jeice tsked as he shook his head. "I thought you were more mature than that."
"Yeah, you're acting like a baby Guldo," Burter agreed.
"Guldo's just a big BABY," Jeice sneered.
"BABY," Burter snorted in disgust.
Guldo sniffed and looked like he was about to cry. "I-I'm NOT a BABY!"
"Then prove it," Jeice sniffed.
"Yeah, prove it," Burter echoed.
"Okay, then I WILL!" Guldo shouted angrily.
"Then go and distract those Cell Jrs!" Jeice ordered as he pointed towards the entrance to the nursery.
"That's exactly what I'm going to do!" Guldo yelled as he marched through the doorway, closing the door behind him. Both Jeice and Burter waited a moment before snorting in laughter. "What a idiot," Burter laughed.
"Yeah, he really IS a baby," Jeice agreed. "Now let's get out of here before he has second thoughts!" With that both members of the Ginyu force took off without so much as a glance back at the unfortunate Guldo.
"... Do we know where we're going?" Nucleus asked uncertainly.
"I'm going to Lord Yemma's, Pinky's going straight to HELL if he doesn't put down that bag in the backseat right now," Mz. Icy growled.
"Ha! Too late! I'm already IN H.E.L.L.!" Frieza grinned triumphantly as he continued fiddling with the knots on the strange opaque plastic bag.
"You KNOW what I meant! And you'd better put that thing down!" Mz. Icy yelled angrily.
"Ah! Aha! See? You AREN'T WATCHING THE ROAD! How'd you manage to get your damned license anyway? Damned women drivers..." Cell muttered in annoyance.
"I checked the MIRRORS you over-grown COCKROACH! And as for that ill-made comment on women drivers, well-" Mz. Icy started to rant.
"Uh, Mz. Icy-" Nucleus tried to interrupt politely.
"Not now kid! Me and your dad have to have an ADULT conversation!" Mz. Icy yelled angrily, still driving as fast as the little worse-of-for-wear jeep could go."
"That's 'Your dad and I' and all I have to say to YOU is-" Cell spouted angrily.
"MZ. ICY WATCH THE ROAD!" Nucleus screeched in panic as he pointed in front of them.
"Oh, now don't YOU started with me!" Mz. Icy yelled as she looked forward. Her eyes widened as she swerved to miss large semi which was crossing at the intersection they were just about to enter. "Oh shi-!!" She had just enough time to squawk before they collided side-to-side with the semi.
BOOM!!!! the semi, which had coincidentally been caring a largely pressurized load of gas, exploded, taking the ill-forsaken jeep with it.
A few minutes later and all that was left were the burning skeletons of the two vehicles.
Mz. Icy then proceeded to drag herself out of the wreckage with Cell picking himself up just behind. Mz. Icy looked angrily at Cell. "I blame this all on YOU, you know," she growled as she wiped some suit from her chin.
"What?! What did I do?!" Cell yelled angrily.
"YOU-" Mz. Icy began.
"Never mind! I don't care! Just help me get this wreckage off of Nucleus! I need to make sure he's okay!" Cell interrupted angrily as he began pulling off the twisted remains of the jeep and semi-in one large chunk. He blinked and stared at the lump in his hands. "Never mind, I guess I can do this myself," he muttered as he lugged the pile some few miles to the left.
"No shit," Mz. Icy muttered.
"Nucleus! Are you alright?" he asked in alarm as his cloned son picked himself off the ground.
"Yeah," Nucleus responded as he coughed and slowly stood up, "but next time I want someone else to drive."
"I'm fine," Frieza said as he dusted himself off.
"So?" Mz. Icy asked, as she glanced with an annoyed look on her face at Frieza. Frieza sneered at Mz. Icy in response.
"That's it! I've had it up to HERE with you Ms.-Mrs.-" Cell stuttered.
"MZ! The name is MZ. ICY. No MRS," Mz. Icy hissed angrily at Cell.
"WHATEVER!" Cell shouted angrily. "I don't even know WHY I put up with you in the first place, but I've had ENOUGH! Nucleus and I are leaving! We are going BACK to that hell hole picking up the rest of my children, and getting as far away from YOU as possible! YOU are an incompetent moron and I don't know HOW you managed to get a hold of such a precarious job as CHILD CARE! As far as I'm concerned YOU AND FRIEZA BELONG TOGETHER!"
Mz. Icy looked aghast. And then very pissed as she walked right up to Cell and stood up on her tiptoes to stare up furiously in his face. "YOU-YOU-YOU GIANT GREEN, DISGUSTING, IDIOTIC, FRIEZA-SPAWNED ASSHOLE! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO ME?!?! How can you call me an incompetent moron anyway? Aren't YOU these boys' father??! Aren't YOU supposed to be the primary care giver?? Aren't YOU supposed to protect them?? Well GEE WHIZ! I THINK YOU ARE! OR AT LEAST WERE! Because as far as I see, the Cell Juniors are all DEAD! AND THAT DOESN'T SEEM VERY COMPETENT TO ME!!!!" Mz. Icy shrieked.
Cell was at a loss for words for a moment, but only for a moment. "HEY! What happened, HAPPENED! But now I plan to take care of my kids! And at least in H.E.L.L. they can't DIE! Alright?? Because that's obviously where we're going here! Nucleus, come now, we're going to get your siblings, and then we're out of here!" He pushed Mz. Icy away from him who stumbled back a step, but regained her footing almost instantly.
Nucleus took a step towards his dad.
"Hold on a second Nucleus!" Mz. Icy said angrily. "Now listen up Cell! On a GOOD day, when I'm feeling GOOD, and PLEASANT, and KIND, I might not care if you took your kids and left. But you just pissed me off. And I've had a hard day. I lost another employee, AND I had a bunch of IDIOTS blast holes all over my domain AND practically stomp my SPINE into DUST. So I'm NOT feeling GOOD, or PLEASANT, OR KIND. I'm feeling PISSED. And MEAN. And I'm going to take it ALL OUT ON YOU!"
Cell snorted and spread his arms out wide. "So go ahead. ATTACK me. Let's see just how GOOD you are!"
"Oh yeah, I'm going to ATTACK you alright. I'm going to attack you the politically CORRECT way!" Mz. Icy shouted triumphantly.
"...What?" Cell asked after a moment's pause.
"The government of H.E.L.L. entrusted ME to take care of these kids. Granted, I didn't do it by choice but here I am anyway. But what I'm trying to say here, is that legally these kids are MINE. You get that? MINE. I am their legal guardian. Not YOU. ME. Papers and everything. Which means if you attempt take them away from me without my consent, you are KIDNAPPING them. And you know where that'll land YOU?" Mz. Icy laughed triumphantly.
"Right back in imprisonment Cell," Frieza answered in alarm. "And that means ME too! Damn it Cell! If you do anything, ANYTHING..."
"You'll what?!" Cell shouted angrily at Frieza. But he did get the point.
"Now listen up," said Mz. Icy, somewhat calmer, her manner demanding attention from all members present. "Listen up, I'm willing to concede. You can have your kids-but ONLY if you be nice, and don't bug me on the this ENTIRE trip. Okay? And Nucleus will help me out with all the legal junk like the good little brainiac he is, and then, after all that is done, and me and Queenie are divorced, we, meaning I, can sign custody back over to you. And then you can take your kids, leave, and we can all live happily ever after. And I can kill Pinky. Sounds all good?"
Cell narrowed his eyes in thought while Frieza fumed. He had to admit, it seemed the best course of action to take. All he had to do was be patient, and Kami knew if it was one thing he did well, it was being patient... of course luckily, he did many things quite well, being perfect was quite a wonderful experience.
"Alright, but I want to take the shortest route as possible. I really don't want to hang around YOU for any length of time," Cell reluctantly agreed.
"Fine by me, I want to be divorced as soon as possible here, so the sooner we get to Lord Enma, the better we're all off," Mz. Icy agreed, nodding her head once.
"Same here," Frieza also agreed, possibly the only time he would EVER agree with Mz. Icy.
"I still get my ice cream, right?" Nucleus asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm the kind of gal who keeps her promises, kid," Mz. Icy shrugged in response.
"Alright then," Nucleus responded in relief.
A silence spread over the group.
"Well," Frieza said, reluctantly braking the stoned silence, "I guess this means we're flying."
"No! No flying!" Mz. Icy said suddenly, a panicked undertone present.
"Why?" Cell asked in annoyance. "BECAUSE, I don't want to. Flying isn't... uh, fashionable!" Mz. Icy grinned and laughed nervously. "You know me, I only do the trendy!"
"What-how the heck is flying not fashionable? And how can flying even be considered like that anyway?" Cell demanded angrily.
"Um, Dad, maybe you should just lay off a bit," Nucleus said nervously, knowing exactly why flying wasn't considered fashionable, and wishing to steer away from the subject.
"No! I want to know exactly how this ice-jin can get it into her head, that-" Cell began to state.
"Oh, Kami. NOW I remember..." Frieza suddenly groaned.
"Nah, you don't remember," Mz. Icy grinned nervously. "I'm sure it's just one of those little fantasies again, you know, like-"
"Shut up," Frieza stated bluntly. "I remember exactly why you don't like to fly."
"Why?" Cell asked curiously.
"She's afraid of heights!" Frieza accused, a slight smirk crossing his lips as he turned to look at Mz. Icy.
"Heights? Heights?! That's why we've been through all this?! Because she's afraid of heights?!" Cell asked angrily, his voice raising a little each time.
"HEY! It's a perfectly acceptable phobia!" Mz. Icy growled. "There are plenty of worse ones I could have you know!"
"Like what? Frieza asked in a incredulous tone.
"Like-like arachnophobia! Better to be afraid of the air, than afraid of a bug," Mz. Icy stated triumphantly.
"That, is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of," Frieza stated back giving a loud sniff.
"Plus a spider is an arachnid, not a bug," Nucleus added informatively.
"Traitor," Mz. Icy muttered, giving Nucleus a poisonous glare.
Suddenly, before anyone could go on, a tiny white blur shot into the middle of the half-circle. A tiny, white cursing blur.
Frieza looked at the weak spirit in disgust. "Oh, just go away. We don't need you to deal with right now." The spirit squeaked in angry tones and Frieza looked furious as he began to power up, ready to blow something up after all the days mishaps. Mz. Icy hit him in the arm.
"Cool off, Pink-boy. We don't need trouble. Now what?" Mz. Icy asked as she looked at the white puffy, and very, very angry cloud.
The cloud squeaked angrily. Mz. Icy nodded. "Yeah okay, so that was your semi."
The cloud squawked.
"Yeah, that was our jeep. Wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't," Mz. Icy nodded. She listened to the cloud and snorted. "Damages? You want us to pay for damages and the loss of your cargo? No can do pal. I don't have any money as it is. And even if I did pal, I sure wouldn't want to spend it on your truck."
With that, the tiny cloud burst into a frenzy of squeaks and squeals, each representing some form of curse, insult, or threat against Mz. Icy.
"Geez man, no need to go postal," Mz. Icy snorted, not impressed.
The tiny cloud made a series of ill-mannered squawks.
"Kill me? Okay, and how are you going to achieve that? I'M ALREADY DEAD!" Mz. Icy yelled. She listened to the cloud and raised her eyebrow. "Just like who killed Pikkon? I hated that guy just as much as the next person-he was constantly hitting on me uggh-but wasn't he already dead?"
The tiny cloud squealed angrily.
"Okay, okay. So let me get this straight, this Breezy person, came sweeping in, snuck a bomb in Pikkon's gi, and blew the guy to kingdom come."
The cloud made a nodding motion.
"And he died?"
The cloud nodded again.
"As in no longer around. Disappeared. Did not pass go. Did not collect $200. Gone. Wiped out. Is history. Just was no longer any part of the spirit world?"
The cloud nodded once more, adding some squeaks and squeals.
"Huh, impressive," Mz. Icy whistled, "I always did wonder where he went after that one time."
The cloud nodded excitedly, adding some squawks.
"Just like when she snuck a bomb in who's spandex??" Mz. Icy asked incredulously.
The cloud repeated the part.
"Vegeta's??" she whistled again.
The cloud nodded.
"Where would you stick a bomb in Vegeta's spandex?" Frieza wondered.
"Oh, like you wouldn't know," Mz. Icy muttered.
"KAMI! Can you just PLEASE get off my back about that?!" Frieza shouted in frustration.
"I'll think about it... when you 'fess up about MURDERING ME!" Mz. Icy shouted angrily as she took a menacing step in Frieza's direction.
"I'M TELLING YOU, I. DIDN'T. DO IT!!" Frieza screamed back in her direction.
"Yeah WHATEVER you lying, GAY, bastard!" Mz. Icy yelled.
"FOR THE LAST TIME DAMN IT! I'M NOT GAY!" Frieza screeched, violet-colored lightning bolts beginning to erupt from his body. They only served to accent the green ones Mz. Icy was putting out in her own rage.
"Hey! Can we get a handle out here?" Cell yelled angrily, quite frustrated of having to put up with these ice-jin.
"SHUT UP!" both Frieza and Mz. Icy yelled angrily, as they turned towards Cell. Both their lightning bolts shot towards Cell in their anger as well, but luckily, Cell was much more agile than either of the two and easily jumped out of the way.
The tiny white cloud right behind him however, was not.
"Oh no..." Cell muttered as he looked at the singed and screaming spirit. Luckily, since it was already dead, there was no need to worry about whether or not it would survive, however death did not mingle in with pain factor.
Frieza and Mz. Icy both forgot about their argument almost instantly as the crying cloud's wails interrupted their battle. Mz. Icy looked worried as she walked cautiously up to the cloud.
"Uh, hey. Real sorry about that, is was an-" Mz. Icy was interrupted by the cloud's shouted obscenities, which obviously took Mz. Icy by surprise. "Hey, c'mon! There's no need to tell the authorities! We didn't mean to-" the cloud produced a single lightning bolt which hit Mz. Icy smack in the face, and raged off speedily into the distance, fairly quick for a cloud. Mz. Icy rubbed her nose where the lightning bolt had stung her, and looked accusingly at Frieza. "This is all YOUR fault you know," she shouted angrily.
"WHAT! You were the one who called me gay!" Frieza responded furiously.
"Yeah? Well YOU KILLED ME!" Mz. Icy yelled back.
"I TOLD you! I didn't DO it!" Frieza yelled.
"SHUT UP!" Cell yelled as loudly as he could. Immediately there was silence. Cell blinked, and calmed himself, looking sternly at the ice-jin couple. "Now listen. I did NOT come all the way out here to watch you two mess up my one chance to get out of hell with your incessant arguing. So please, shut up. Now that little rain cloud, what did it say about the authorities?"
Mz. Icy gritted her teeth. "That little tattle- of a cloud is going to go tell whatever demon he can get about how he got zapped by some, uh, he was a a tad colorful at this point, but anyway, he's going to tell on us! And even though it was REALLY Baldy's fault-"
"Oh, so NOW you're going to attack my hereditary GENES aren't you??" Frieza interjected angrily.
"-I happened to be at the scene of the crime. You know what that means??!" Mz. Icy shrieked.
"Do tell," Cell responded dryly.
"They are going to blame ME, partially. Since it wasn't really my fault. But that's ALL it takes man! I'm on probation! All I need is one strike! I DON'T WANT THAT STRIKE DAMNIT!" Mz. Icy shouted in a panicked voice.
"I share your sentiments," Cell said very calmly as he squinted his eyes in the direction of the tiny white spirit. "Well, then what we need to do, is shut him up."
Mz. Icy blinked, and then looked at Cell incredulously. "Hey, this isn't the world of the Living you know. This is H.E.L.L.. And we aren't that Breezy-person, you know."
"Did I say KILL him? Did I? Because I thought I said shut him up. Believe me, when I want to kill someone. I'll say it. Now what can we do, to bribe a weak, little spirit? Or as least scare him enough to never go to the authorities?" Cell asked, looking at Mz. Icy in disgust.
"Heh? Oh, well uh. Money. Yeah, that's what would probably shut me up," Mz. Icy said, looking rather thoughtful.
"Mz. Icy, that's really shallow," Nucleus snorted.
"Well that's what happens when you are a really shallow person," Frieza muttered in annoyance.
"So WHAT? So what if I would keep my mouth shut for a few bucks? It's a win-win situation! I get money, the poor sucker who I caught doesn't have to worry. I mean, when you think about it, you really can't go wrong if you have money," Mz. Icy protested angrily.
"I wouldn't know. I don't need it, and I never had. Perfect people don't need to deal with such petty things as money," Cell smirked as he folded his arms onto his chest.
"Oh yeah? How would you know? You're dead. And you're saying money wouldn't have helped you in any way at all?" Mz. Icy asked.
"Damned sure," Cell responded. Mz. Icy snorted.
"Yeah, suuuure you are," she smirked.
"Hey? If we're supposed to bribe this guy, what are we going to do it with? I mean, we don't have any money! Dad doesn't have any money. And I don't have any money," Nucleus began to state, trying to keep the group on track. He really felt he needn't be concerned with getting to Lord Enma's temple quickly, he had no immediate problems with anybody, however, this business with a small, white cloud worried him. If Mz. Icy went to jail, and Cell went to jail, who was going to take care of him and his brothers? "Wait, how about-"
"I don't have any money. Besides, I don't think H.E.L.L. would take ice-jin currency anyway," Frieza sighed as he crossed his death-white arms, looking resigned.
"Actually, you would be surprised how flexible H.E.L.L. can be," Mz. Icy interjected, looking thoughtful..
"Yeah, and Mz. Icy just said she doesn't have any money either, so-" Nucleus began to add.
"-That's not necessarily true," Frieza interrupted, an arrogant grin on his face. "No, not necessarily..."
"What do you mean by that?" Mz. Icy asked suspiciously, Frieza simply grinned at her.
"Now if I know Mz. Icy at all-which is not really all that hard considering she is a fairly shallow person-she is totally and utterly greedy. And she would never, ever go anywhere or do anything without a few dollars in my pocket. Am I right?" Frieza asked, glancing at Nucleus.
"Yeah, pretty much," Nucleus admitted, looking thoughtful.
"Hey!" Mz. Icy protested hurtfully.
"So therefore, she's got to have some money stashed away somewhere. Now where is it? Cough it up MRS.," Frieza demanded, holding out is hand.
"I don't got a dime!" Mz. Icy denied.
Frieza grinned. "Well then what's this?" he asked as he suddenly reached into the remains of the wreckage, dug around for a bit, and pulled out a strange, opaque, plastic bag. The same one with which he had been fiddling with before Mz. Icy had accidentally rammed the semi.
Mz. Icy looked shocked, and if possible turned a paler shade of white. Of which was followed by a deep shade of lavender. "You little-little shrimp! You put that back!" she yelled angrily.
"Ooo, now why would I want to do that? What could POSSIBLY be that important, that you would ask me to put a strange, opaque, plastic bag back into a burning wreckage? Hm, let's just see," Frieza mocked as he began pulling open the bag.
"You give that back RIGHT NOW!" Mz. Icy screeched as she ran over to the spot in which Frieza was standing, intent on taking back the bag. Frieza laughed and jumped into the air with the bag, floating up to about fifteen feet in order to keep out of Mz. Icy's reach. Not to say that she didn't try.
"You CREEP! Give it back! If you don't give it back now I am going to-" Mz. Icy yelled angrily.
"You're going to what? Come up and get me? And how do you propose to do that? Fly?" Frieza laughed arrogantly. "Now about this bag, what could possibly be inside it...?" Frieza muttered comically as he opened the bag. "Oh my! I would never have thought! It's a giant bag full of MONEY!" Frieza shouted as he pulled out a giant handful of bills.
"You were holding back on us?!" Cell asked angrily.
"Uh..." Mz. Icy said as she tried to search for something soothing to say, finally she just gave up and returned to yelling at Frieza. "Freiza! Come down here RIGHT NOW and maybe I'll think about not beating the dead CRAP out of you! You can't stay up there FOREVER!"
"Okay now, listen to me dear," Frieza hissed as he finally stopped taunting Mz. Icy. "We need this money to shut that little cloud up. And we're going to use it while you like it or not. I mean, what's better, losing the money, or going to prison?"
Mz. Icy looked thoughtful.
"It really shouldn't be that hard of a choice," Frieza said, looking exasperated.
"Okay, okay. You're making some sense here, but I'm not going to do it because I like it!" Mz. Icy finally agreed with a sigh.
"Fine by me! Now let's go already!" Cell butted in as he floated into the air, Nucleus following suit.
"Wait! We're going to fly?! Uh-uh, no WAY! You ain't getting me up there!" Mz. Icy stated, her eyes widening as she noticed Cell and Nucleus already turning to leave.
"Damn it, not this again... what is so utterly wrong with flying?" Cell sighed in annoyance.
"Well let's see... you're in the air, high up in the air, the thin air, with no supports, no ground underneath your feet, just YOU in the AIR-"
"Get to the point," Cell growled.
"Do you know how easy it would be to FALL, from up in the air? And how easy it would be to DIE??" Mz. Icy squawked. Cell blinked.
"No, not really," he said, blinking again. "I don't see why it should worry any decent ki user however. Especially a dead one. Flying should be just like breathing. It's natural."
"No, walking is natural, that's why we have legs. Eating is natural, that's why we have stomachs. FLYING is not natural. We do not have wings-" Mz. Icy blinked as she noticed the two large, black wings sprouting from both Cell's and Nucleus' backs. "-ice-jin don't have wings. No ice-jin has any business in the air. NONE."
"Have you ever actually tried?!" Cell yelled angrily.
"Yes, yes I have. It was not fun. It was damned scary. I don't care how many people say it. Flying is scary. It's not fun. Not in the least bit," Mz. Icy shivered.
"But you can fly? Right?" Cell dug, looking at Mz. Icy with narrowed eyes.
"Yeah, I can do it, sorta..." Mz. Icy conceded reluctantly. "But whenever I do-"
"That's good enough!" Cell shouted as he swooped down to grab Mz. Icy. Mz. Icy shrieked as she was suddenly high up in the dreaded AIR.
"AAAAAAAAHHHH! GOOD GOD I'M GONNA DIIIIEEE!!!" Mz. Icy screamed.
"You're already dead so you can stop your whining!" Cell yelled angrily and rather exasperatingly.
"Watch out for her tail!" Frieza yelled with a malicious grin on his face as he followed the quickly ascending green cockroach.
"What-" Cell began to shout back as suddenly, Mz Icy's tail which had been totally forgotten up to this point by everybody including the author herself, swung around Cell's neck in a death grip. Cell, who was unable to be killed by merely being suffocated, and was of course, already dead to began with, didn't really need to worry about the powerfully muscled tail around his neck, but it was awfully painful.
"Geh!" Cell squawked as he finally decided he was high enough and stopped. He let go of Mz. Icy, but to his surprise, she did not fall. In fact, the pain around his neck grew even more as Mz. Icy increased her grip on it. He grabbed the thick tail with his hands to try and pull it off, but only succeeded in loosening it. "Get OFF of ME!!" he yelled.
"Hell no! I'll FALL!" Mz. Icy shrieked, panicking at the sight of so much air underneath her.
"Damn it, GET OFF!" Cell shouted.
"NO!"
"I'll get her off," Frieza sighed as he and Nucleus shot up next to Cell.
"Wat'cha going to do?" Nucleus asked curiously.
"Watch," Frieza told him. "Now SWEETY, this isn't going to hurt. And for once I actually mean it." With that he swung himself upside-down and began to tickle Mz. Icy's stomach. Mz. Icy jerked.
"Heh-HEH! HEH! Hahha*giggle* You Jerk! Hahha! Stop *giggle* tickling me!" Mz. Icy managed to choke out through her laughter. Her tail's grip around Cell's neck began to loosen. Immediately, Cell took advantage of the momentary weakness and tore the tail off his neck.
"Alright, I'm done," Frieza said as he stopped tickling Mz. Icy and flipped right side-up again. For a moment there was silence as they sat there, floating in the sky. Cell held Mz. Icy upside-down by the tail, rubbing his neck in relief.
"You better not be thinking what I think you're thinking!" Mz. Icy screeched as she struggled to look up at Cell in a mixture of rage and terror.
"Now what could that possibly be?" Cell grinned maliciously.
"That you're going to let me-" that was as far as Mz. Icy got before Cell suddenly let go of Mz. Icy's tail. "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" she screamed.
Cell, Nucleus, and Frieza watched her calmly as she fell, screaming very loudly along the way.
"Um, she's going to start flying before she reaches the ground, right?" Nucleus asked nervously.
"Yes, flying is partially instinctive you know," Cell told him confidently.
"Not that it would be any loss if she didn't," Frieza muttered.
A sudden whining noise signaled Mz. Icy's ki usage as the rest of the group looked down and watched her slowing descent.
"See. I told you," Cell said to Nucleus.
"Ah," Nucleus responded, nodding.
Suddenly, a loud explosion came from below as Mz. Icy suddenly started to shoot up towards the super-villains.
"Huh, not bad for someone who's never really flown before," Cell remarked as he crossed his arms across his chest.
Nucleus also crossed his arms. "Yeah, but she might want to slow down now. She's going to pass us at that rate. What's with all that screaming though?"
"Yes, I've been wondering about that..." Cell agreed, staring down at the shrieking Mz. Icy.
"You know, this rings a bell," Frieza muttered, trying to remember something he'd forgotten after many happy years without Mz. Icy.
Nucleus' eyes widened. "I don't think she's trying to slow Dad!" he said as he looked at Cell.
"You know what, I don't think she's trying to slow either..."
"Oh, now I remember..." as suddenly that missing bit of information dawned upon Frieza.
"SCATTER!" Cell suddenly shouted as he grabbed Nucleus and shot out of the way. Mz. Icy suddenly blasted straight through the spot where the three had been floating, clipping Frieza in the process. However, considering how she was shrieking, it was probably more an accident than a deliberate hit.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! KAMI! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" she screamed as she shot straight up, about three-hundred more yards up and she suddenly shot directly to her right, than down, than to her side again... and than up... and down... and up some more...
"What's THIS all about??" Cell asked as he stared at the frantic, directionless flying Mz. Icy was performing.
"It took me a moment to remember, but it seems her power is a bit... jerky. When she flies, she can't control her power fluctuation so she can't control her flight or speed. That's why she's afraid of flying, right?" Frieza asked as he looked over at Nucleus. Nucleus nodded.
"Yeah, exactly why. We found out when we flew away that one time we stole her, um, well we stole some stuff from her. We really did expect her to come up after us," Nucleus nodded in acknowledgment.
"So, she couldn't stop you?" Cell asked hopefully.
"Oh, no. Then she started firing ki-blasts at us. We dodged most of them," Nucleus shrugged.
"Obnoxious witch," Cell growled, his eyes narrowing in rage.
"Hey, if I can deal with her, so can you son," Frieza said in annoyance.
"Where'd she go?" Nucleus suddenly asked, squinting into the distance, apparently Mz. Icy had gone in one direction long enough to go out of sight.
"Off in that direction," Cell sensed, pointing in the direction she had been going. He looked thoughtful before adding, "Well, at least she went in the same direction as that weakling spirit."
"Well then let's catch up with her!" Nucleus said, eager to be going, he blasted off in the direction of Mz. Icy.
Cell watched his son for a moment before glancing back at Frieza. "Ready Dad?" he asked.
Frieza snorted. "Ready when you are son."
With that, they both blasted off..
Aighty, and so another chapter comes to an end. You know, going back and reading through the entire story, I realize I have quite improved in my writing skills over the last year… or at least my style has improved. Learning even rudimentary HTML is a real help. I might just go back and touch up the first few chapters with it. Nothing would really change, just style and spelling errors. I'm afraid it might repel readers in search of a really good story. This is a really good story (or so I'm told), I DON'T WANT TO SCARE AWAY READERS JUST BECAUSE THE FIRST FEW CHAPS LOOK LIKE A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD DID THEM!!! *blinks*
Okay then, anyway, like I said, I'm going to be trying harder on this fic. My grade in Anatomy finally reached a C, and I now don't have a whole lot of academic problems to deal with. This makes me happy. And when I'm happy, I write better. I'm able to think better. I do have three stories going on now though (the third one is not quite up yet, but it's Animorphs anyway so you probably won't care), so I'm getting down a rotation. It's up in my bio, which includes several fun facts, such as my sex, age, and interests. You should read them. That way nobody will think of me as a guy. There is a story behind that. One I do not really want to talk about… *blinks* Okay, I'm out of here, till the next time!
T.B. Stormshot-Female and lovin' it.