Chapter 7
From Bad to Worse
Cell and his Quest for Perfection!
"Hold on in here Zen!" said Vegeta to the woman in his arms
"Krillin do you have any senzu bean?" asked Yamcha
"No we are all out!" answered his friend
"Oh that's bad can you check Korin for some!" asked Tien
"Sure be right back" said Krillin
Vegeta was now at the hospital room looking at the comatose woman, while the doctor was telling him how much injuries she had suffer and how serious they were, but Vegeta wasn't listening he couldn't believe he was going to be a father again that is if the woman survived her injuries.
'Pregnant! She's pregnant? I should have never gone after her that day what I am going to do now?' he thought and angry he said aloud and went out through the window
"I really don't have time for this shit!"
"This just great with have two powerful androids in the loose, we don't know where Gokou is or if he's still alive and the only one who could tell us has her life hanging by a thread!" said Piccolo
"I am sure Gokou is ok but that doesn't help us right now" said Tien
"You are right these darn things are too powerful Vegeta and Zen couldn't even put a dent on them!" said Krillin
"What are we going to do!" asked Yamcha
"Let's try to find Gokou" said Krillin
At Zen spaceship Gohan had put his father to bed left him with his mother and went to look around, the place had everything they needed they could spend a year here with no problem, but the young half saiya-jin was worried about his friends. His father was getting better and he couldn't wait for him to heal completely, if Zen didn't get as fast as she did they would be probably dead by now. The boy didn't like the woman he actually despised her for reason of his own, the fact that she saved his life and his parents' didn't change anything about how he felt about her. He sat on the kitchen table and started examining the little black box which looked much more like than a puzzle box but every facet had a different motif and he tried to learn how to use it.
"It could become handy if I knew how to use that thing" he said turning it around in his hands
In space Dr Gero was furious, he had called the androids back to the space station but they had refused to come
"These damned androids they never follow my orders if they did Gokou will be dead by now" he had watched the fight of Zen with them and wasn't happy with the result, the woman had showed how imperfect they were
"I told you they couldn't be trusted! Please send me" said Cell in his first form
"No, not now"
"But master they aren't strong enough if that woman had help they would be destroy by now!"
"You are right, that woman was pretty strong, and if Gokou and Vegeta were there to help they could have taken them out. Prepare yourself you are going for a trip" said the Doctor and Cell smiled he couldn't wait to be perfect.
"What are going to do now? I can't detect Gokou's ki anywhere and the only one who knew is dead!" said 18
"Calm down, the Dr can't do anything to us! And who care about this Gokou if he resurface we'll kill him but now we got the whole world as our playground let's play!" he said flying away
"What about taking down his friends? This will be more fun" said 18
"Yes next stop Kame's house!" said 17 chuckling,
"Hey old man can you tell him where Gokou is?" said 17
"I am sorry young man Gokou is not here will you like to leave a message" replied master Roshi
"Actually yes" said 17 and raised his arm to blast the place when Krillin, Tien, Chiaotsu and Yamcha intervened
"Look 17 the whole gang is here, that should be fun" said 18
"I'll take the two bald one!" said 17
"Stop right there! We'll fight with you but not here!" said Piccolo
"Ok big guy I game" said 17
"Chiaotsu and Yamcha stay here in case if Gokou resurface Krillin and Tien come with me!" ordered Piccolo and the three warriors flew away followed by the two androids
"Who's going first?" asked Piccolo to them
"It's your turn 17 I took care of the two last fights!" said 18
"Yes it's my turn to have some fun!" said 17
"We'll fight at the condition that the other won't interfere for any reason" said Piccolo
"It's a duel than, ok that the weak perish and this mean you" said 17 taking a fighting pose
"What's the chance we survive this one?" asked Krillin
"Zero to none" replied Tien
"Thanks I feel much reassure now" complained Krillin
"I am sorry but I don't see how we can defeat these two"
"At least Vegeta could have come to help; I wonder where he is what now"
"Far away from here I guest"
The fight between 17 and Piccolo was not challenging for the android at least but the Namek was putting a good fight while hoping for a miracle to happen that's when Cell choose to show up
"Hello my brother and sister time to come back home" he said looking at the two androids while ignoring the others
"Who is that ugly creature?" asked 18
"Hey you get lost you are in the way" said 17
"Dr Gero is not very happy for your failures that's why he sent me to replace you but don't worry you'll be able to help out"
"Oh nightmare city!" said Krillin
"No killing what is that thing?" said Tien
"This one actually has a ki so he's not an android" said Piccolo
"Is that a good news or bad news" said Krillin
"I think this is a major bad news man" said Tien
"You don't have to worry I am not for you guys not now at least" said Cell walking in 17 direction
"Go away you freak we told Dr Gero we won't be coming back!" said 17
"Oh he didn't sent me to bring you back I am here to absorb you two and once I did I'll become the most stronger warrior in the universe" he said laughing and attacked the raven haired android
"Did you hear that?" said Krillin
"Yeah! What are we going to do?" said Tien
"I say we make a run for it!" replied Krillin
"No way we got to stop him!" said Tien running toward the battlefield and try to stop Cell for absorbing 17 but with no success
"17! No!" screamed 18 when Cell's tail swallowed his twin brother and his transformation begun under the eyes of the others who were taking aback by the energy that it created. When the transformation ended cell looked at himself glad of his new form
"Talking about of improvement!" said Tien
"He's even uglier than before!" Krillin
"Now my dear 18 time to join your brother" said Cell
"I would rather die than join with you" she said taking a fighting stance
"Ok there's the plan we'll try to hold him up while you take her out of here!" said Tien while attacking Cell with Piccolo
"Come one it's not safe for you around here, not for anyone of us actually" said Krillin while grabbing her arm and flew away with her. Tien and Piccolo were doing the impossible to hold him up but only to get beat up by Cell, in the same moment Gohan touched something in the box that opened a portal and he saw that it opened on the battlefield where the two warriors were struggling. When he saw his friends down he run through it and tried to help them out by fighting bravely but the young warrior was no match for the powerful new androids. He was going to blast him away when Vegeta came at his aide by fighting a powerful attacked that sent him far away
"Are you crazy? Get out of here!" said the saiya-jin
"I won't let my friends behind"
"How did you get here?" asked Vegeta
"I don't know the box Zen gave me opened a portal to here"
"Where is it?" asked Vegeta and the boy gave it to him
"Ok Vegeta now try to remember how this thing works?" he said to himself and opened a portal and signal the others to follow him through it
"Come back here!" said Cell who was coming in their way, Gohan put his tongue out while Vegeta flipped the bird and they disappeared
"I'll get you for this!" yelled Cell and added more calmly "First let's find 18" and flew at the direction he saw them leave. The portal opened to the hospital where Zen was in and the get out of it, Tien and Piccolo were brought to the emergencies
"Wow Vegeta you can control it!" said Gohan
"No I can it seems that this thing as a life of its own or Zen programmed it that way if I knew how I'll tried to heal them with it"
"So that thing has the same propriety as a senzu bean? That's neat!"
"Yeah if you can use it!"
"Where's your father?"
"In Zen's spaceship she had the time to open a portal and sent us there" explained Gohan
"Quick thinking but she should have stay out of this" said Vegeta
"What are we going to do now?"
"I wish I knew, let's hope that Cell doesn't find the girl before we have a good plan" said Vegeta
Far away from the battlefield Krillin and 18 were flying as fast as they could
"Stop! I think that the battle is over" said Krillin
"For your friends it is"
"Do you know anything about that Cell guy?"
"The fact he want to gobble me up is all I need to know"
"He's coming our way we better hide"
"Let's hide here in those caverns"
'I'll keep my ki low so he can track us"
They entered the caverns and looked for a good place to hide.
"Why are you helping me? I tried to kill you and your friends"
"Well for now you are not the enemy Cell is and it's not totally your fault that you are that way"
"We have been program to hate human you know but for some reason I do not hate you" said 18 stopping in her tract
"We better get moving, farther we get to the entrance better it will be"
"Krillin"
"Yes"
"Will you like to be with me?"
"Uh… what?"
"I always wanted how it feels to be touch by a human like I saw it on TV"
"Uh… umm… well"
"What do you say? I mean it's probable that we never made it out of these caverns alive you know" she said kissing him
"Don't say that we'll make it alright I promise"
"How? You cannot even protect yourself"
"Well we just have to stay alive until Gokou gets better"
"And you think that Gokou will help me"
"Sure he will"
"If you say so" she said while taking off his outfit
"Uh… 18 I've never been with an android before"
"Don't worry I've never been with a human either"
Chichi was worried; she had been looking for her son all around the ship but couldn't found him. So she returned to the room where Gokou was sleeping only to find it empty.
"Gokou where are you?" she called
"I am here Chichi" said Gokou behind her
"Oh Gokou you are awake!" she said jumping in his arms
"Uh Chichi I am hungry"
"I'll make you something to eat"
Gokou was eating while his wife was telling him the latest news
"That's all in the nut shell" she concluded
"You don't know what happened to her"
"No Gokou"
"I think she got hurt I can barely feel her ki but all the others are ok"
"What are we going to do now?"
"I am going to get Vegeta and Gohan to the lookout for training" he said putting two fingers in his forehead
"Wait what about me?"
"I think you better come with me" he said and they both dematerialized and rematerialized in front of Vegeta and Gohan who were in their way to the spaceship
"Dad you are ok!" said Gohan
"Yes son I am glad to see you too"
"Kakorott things are bad"
"I know but I know a way to defeat the androids"
"How?"
"Tell me Vegeta do you think we can get much stronger if we got an extensive training"
"It's possible now that I think about it I think that we can go far beyond the simple level of super saiya-jin I just know it"
"So we'll need to train"
"But dad it's a matter of time before Cell find 18 and absorbed her and Kami knows what he's plan on doing"
"Don't worry we just need a few days" said Gokou
"Are you mad? It will take us at least a year to ascend" said Vegeta
"That's all we need"
"I don't think Cell will crossed his arms while you go train" said Chichi
"Yes he could destroy the whole planet" said Gohan
"But we just need two to three days!"
"You need to get a whole year of training in three days that's impossible"
"No it's not if we use the hyperbolic time chamber" said Gokou
"What's that?"
"It's a magical place where we can spent a whole year while only a day has pass here"
"Where is such a place?"
"In the lookout where Kami lives"
"Show me!" said Vegeta and Gokou used instant transmission to bring them there. After asking Kami the permission to use it Gokou said
"Vegeta you don't mind to go first I have something to take care of"
"No problem" replied the saiya-jin price and entered the room
"Dad why did you do that for?" asked Gohan
"I have to go get the others and bring them to safety here, do you still have Zen's box"
"Yes" said the boy giving it to him with regret and Gokou was going to leave when Chichi said
"Wait Gokou! I have something to tell you" the warrior turned to face her wondering what she has to say
"Gokou I…" she began and thought
'I realize you're
seeing someone new
But I don't believe she knows you like I do
Your temperamental moody side
The one you always try to hide from me
But I know when you've
got something on your mind
You've been trying to tell me for the longest time
But before you break my heart in two
There's something I've been trying to say to you
CHORUS
But the words get in the way
There's so much I want to say
But it's locked deep inside
and if you look in my eyes
We might fall in love again
I won't even start to cry
Before we say goodbye
I'm trying to say I love you
but the words get in the way
Your heart has always
been an open book
But baby I don't even know you anymore
And despite the fact it's hurting me
I know the time has come to set you free
CHORUS
I'm trying to say I
love you
but the words get in the way'
(Words Get in the Way
Miami Sound Machine/Gloria Estefan)
"Just come back to us safely" she said finally
"Sure I'll be extra careful!" said Gokou and left
Gokou rematerialized at the hospital in Zen's room where she was still in a coma, he slowly approached her bed and kneeled before it taking her hand in his
"Why did you have to go and do this for? Please my don't die…my love" said Gokou kissing her lips
Hi everybody Chiaotsu here! Now that we have a plan it's a matter of time before we defeat Cell but before stay tuned for the next chapter of DBZM "The Secret" Gokou and Zen Love Affair see you soon!