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Part 28
Cell vs. Phil
(About bloody time!)
By Bobcat
Disclaimer: I don't have access to the illegal
substances necessary to think up most of these
characters.
Also, last chapter I misspelled symbiote "symobiote"
several times. This error will be corrected.
Days Left Until Battle with Cell: 0
Earth, Universe FC-1
Jusenkyo Springs, China
Phil ignited his lightsaber, and the sulfurous yellow
energy blade pierced the pre-dawn gloom. Far beneath
his feet stood SU5, Gohan, GoChibi and Omi. Phil
glared at his opponent. Cell clenched his fists, and
three adamantium blades
sprouted from each hand. Phil concentrated, feeling
Cell's strength. "Well, Cell. It looks as if you
haven't wasted the month we gave you."
"The same could be said of you."
"Shall we begin?"
"Let's shall." A bright yellow aura surrounded Cell.
Phil protested. "Whoa whoa whoa! Time out! There's a
method to this kind of fight. We have to do this in
stages."
"Huh?" Cell deactivated the Super Saiyan
transformation.
"Well, we've already done step one, where we have the
introductory fight, i.e., the World Martial Arts
Tournament. Then for step two, the first main
villains come along and they get killed. I.e. Yakon,
Nelka-Jo, Dabura, etc. Then, we have a semi-main
baddy, in this case, Majin Buu, come along and kick
everybody's communal butts. Then, we go off and train
and learn a new transformation or Powerup or
something. Then, along comes you, the main baddy.
You come along, somebody, in this case Omi, gets rid
of the semi-main baddy, the main baddy and hero fight
a bit, decide that the fight is too close to be
interesting, and then we train some more. Now, we
start off the fight at about a hundredth of our actual
potential, showcase any new techniques we've developed
and beat each other up. Then, once we've fought for
about ten minutes or so, whichever one of us is
getting his head handed to him reveals that they're
significantly less than their full power, and
everybody acts really surprised. After another couple
minutes, the person who didn't power up makes a
similar declaration. Then, we finally reveal our full
potential and good loses, which is OK since there's
always a good guy more powerful than the first
combatant ready to take his place."
Cell considered this for a moment. "You're right.
Where are my manners? Ready?"
"Yup."
"Let's go."
Author's Note: The rest of this chapter will be
composed mostly of yelling, powering up, firing huge,
insanely powerful attacks and the like. For those who
wish, you can skip to the bottom of the screen, then
onward to chapter 29. Then again, if you don't like
that sort of thing, what are you doing hanging around
the Dragon Ball Z section?
Cell faded away. Phil's Force senses barely alerted
him in time for him to parry a slashing attack from
Cell. The lightsaber and the adamantium claws
connected, sending sparks into the Spring of the
Drowned Mastodon. Phil struck out with his right
foot, catching Cell in the gut, sending the
genetically engineered warrior flying towards the
ground. Cell managed to halt his flight and sent
out a string of webbing flying towards Phil.
"I picked this one off of Venom." A line of webbing intercepted Cell's.
Phil smirked. "What do you know? So did I."
Cell nodded, comprehending. "So that's where the rest of the symbiote went."
Phil summoned a Chi bolt. "Destructo Disk!"
The jagged energy Frisbee flew out, closely following
Cell. At the last possible moment, Cell disappeared
in a puff of smoke, reappearing behind Phil. "Aw
shit!" Phil grabbed Cell's left fist, holding the
claws at bay while his left arm held Cell's right arm
blades at bay. "Take this." Beams of Chi went from
Phil's eyes, burning into Cell's torso. Cell backed
off for a moment. Phil pocketed his lightsaber.
"Where did you learn that one?"
"If Freeza can do it, then so can I."
"Point taken." Cell cupped his hands. "Ka... Me...
Ha... Me... Ha!" The blast of blue energy flew out
towards Phil. The Physics Policeman threw a little
ball of Chi into the center of Cell's attack, causing
a large explosion. The blast forced the spectators off
of their feet. He smirked.
"I hope that wasn't the best that you could do."
"You know it wasn't. Here's a full power one.
Masenko!" This time, a wall of yellow energy shot out
at Phil. He didn't seem the slightest bit nervous.
"Here's a little something that I've been working on.
Phil's ryu ougi!" A little white ball flew out,
intercepting the bolt.
GoChibi and the others stood off to the side, and the
young Saiyan had a perplexed look on her face. She
said, "Phil's desperation move? This is new."
This attack didn't cause an uncontrolled explosion.
Instead, it seemed to absorb the attack, and the
little ball grew larger. It flew past Cell. "Hah!
You missed!" That was when a massive blast sent Cell
flying. He crashed face first into the ground. "What
the hell?"
Phil grinned. "A modified Spirit Bomb. You see,
instead of slowly absorbing the energy from plants and
trees and stuff, it rapidly assimilates raw Chi, such
as is found in a Kamehameha or a Masenko. Also, I can
detonate it at will, as you just saw. It doesn't need
to be a direct hit, unlike most assaults. Not bad,
eh?"
Cell spat some grass from his mouth. "Yes. Very
impressive." Cell disappeared in another puff of
smoke, and grabbed Phil. "What say we go for a little
trip?" Before Phil could react, Cell was teleporting
across the battlefield.
Ralph winced. "Ouch. That's got to hurt."
Ecks said, "Huh?"
"It isn't very pleasant to be teleported by
Nightcrawler. I can really screw up your equilibrium."
Ecks said, "Whatever."
Phil also seemed to realize this. "Kaio-ken!" An
explosive red aura surrounded Phil, and he managed to
break away. Cell teleported away before he realized
that his passenger was gone. Phil used the Force to
predict where he would appear from next. Still
surrounded by his red aura, Phil pointed his hands at
Cell. "Shi Shi Houkou Dan!" The purple attack flew
out at Cell, causing him to disappear in the bright
flash. A moment later, Cell became visible again.
Smoke wafted from his singed hide.
"Ouch."
Suddenly, the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons
appeared from nowhere. "Hold on there! In Chapter
18, it was revealed that Phil could never use the
Kaio-ken ever again, lest he suffer a fatal heart
attack! Worst episode ever!"
Phil glared at him. "For your information, I've
determined that I'm only barred from the higher levels
of the Kaio-ken. So back off!"
"Very well. Now if you'll excuse me, I must return
to the Android's Dungeon." He waddled away, and
returned from whence he came.
Phil assumed a ready position. "Now, where were we?"
"Care t' hear the Banshee's wail, laddie?" Cell
inhaled.
Phil cursed. "Damn! The symbiote's weakness!" The
waves of sound buffeted him, causing Phil and his
alien companion significant pain. Phil gritted his
teeth. "So... horrible! Must... block... out... the
pain! Must... talk... like... this!" Phil
disappeared, then reappeared behind Cell, lightsaber
blazing. He stabbed Cell through one of his kidneys,
forcing him to stop. "You know, Cell, that adamantium
skeleton of yours doesn't do a thing for your guts."
Cell's face was a mask of pain. However, it was more
because of the pain the wailing had caused his own symbiote
than any effort on Phil's part. "I'll... have...
to... make a note... of that." Cell broke away, and
his body began to glow. "Now let us see how you fare
against the power of Storm."
"What, you got the X-Men to?"
"Yup." A hurricane of the likes not seen in human
history began to whirl around Phil. It was all that
Phil could do to maintain his position, much less
launch an attack. Then, the lightning began to
strike. It wasn't strong enough to significantly hurt
Phil, but it still stung.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. And did I mention ow?"
"East wind blow! North wind blow! Hail! Lightning!
Snow! Smog! I call upon you all!"
Phil began to gather energy. "I've got to time this
perfectly. I need to disrupt his control." Another
bolt of lightning struck him. "Owch! That hurts!" He
began to glow a bright yellow as his Chi began to
reach higher levels. Finally, Phil brought his hands
together, homing in on where he thought that Cell was.
"BIG BANG ATTACK!" A powerful wave of yellow energy
flew out.
Cell, still focused in utilizing his new control over
the elements, didn't notice the attack in time to
dodge it. "Aw crap." The Chi blast washed over him,
and the weather calmed, much to the relief of the
noncombatants. However, the shockwave that followed
Phil's attack knocked them around, almost dumping
Ralph into the Spring of the drowned Pig. He halted just a few
inches over the pit, using the Force to levitate himself.
"Hey! Watch it!"
Once again, Cell was smoking. However, his healing
factor was already repairing the damage. "Should you
say it, or should I?"
"I'd like to. You can go next."
"Thank you."
"Cell, if you think that this is my true power, then
you are even stupider than you look! I'm currently
using less than a hundredth of my full potential!"
"Well, that was a nice warm up, wasn't it?"
"Indeed. Let's turn up the heat." With that, a blue
battle aura surrounded Phil, and a similar energy
surrounded Cell. Their power levels jumped up about
twenty times. Phil smirked. "Still holding back,
Cell?"
"No more than you."
"True enough. Improved Kamehameha!" Phil jerked his
hand back, sending a laser bolt at Cell. Cell used an
invisible force field to block the attack. However,
the powerful beam simply drilled through, blasting
away a good portion of Cell's right arm. The
adamantium skeleton glistened as the sun came
over the horizon. In a few moments, the nanobots
within Cell rebuilt the limb's flesh and skin.
"Well, Sue Richards' power is completely useless.
That didn't knock off more than one percent of the
energy from that beam. Flame on!" Cell regretted
this, as the flame toasted his symbiote. He grimaced.
"Oops. We forgot about that."
"Are we becoming a bit schizophrenic, Cell?"
"Stupid symbiote!" He considered his position. "I
can't extend my anatomy, thanks to the adamantium
skeleton, and I'm already using the Thing's strength
with my own... damn! I absorbed the Fantastic Four
for nothing!"
"Boo hoo." Phil summoned a pair of red and black
energy disks. "Destructo Disk!" He threw both at
Cell.
Cell simply ducked under the twin disks. "Hah! What
was that supposed to..." Even over the extreme
dangers of Jusenkyo Springs, Cell's Spider Sense
warned him of the coming attack. He narrowly evaded
the disks as they pulled a U-turn. "Borrowing attacks
from Vegeta and Freeza? My, how the mighty have
fallen."
Phil smirked arrogantly. "They're a couple of muscle
bound morons, but they know their stuff." Phil
twisted his arms around, sending one disk straight at
Cell while the other came in above from his right.
The first was dodged, but the other bit into his tail,
cutting off the blade. Phil thought, "Note to self:
that tail doesn't have an adamantium skeleton." He
simply let the energy disks dissipate. "Cell, all of
these fancy attacks aren't getting us anywhere. I
think that we'll have to go to good old fashioned
fisticuffs."
"Agreed." The two flew in straight at each other.
However, at the last moment Cell angled downwards,
then rebounded, placing both of his fists into Phil's
gut, sending the Physics Policeman flying. Phil
struggled for breath as the wind was knocked from him.
"Predictable, Phil."
"Ouch." Phil staggered back to his feet. Again,
Phil flew in. "Take this!" Phil and Cell began
trading blows. Phil blocked Cell's punch, then
launched a kick, which Cell leapt over. Continuing
his movement, Cell pulled a leapfrog maneuver, sending
Phil to the ground once again. "I reiterate: ouch."
By this time, Phil was covered with several large
bruises and cuts. Despite the repeated beatings
inflicted on Cell, he seemed to be unhurt.
"Alright! Enough playing around!" Phil's eyes
glowed white and the energy of the Mystical Powerup
surrounded him. Before Cell could respond, Phil had
placed a fist into Cell's gut. "Burn." He fired a
blast of energy into Cell's gut, vaporizing several
major organs. Cell cried out in pain. Phil saw an
oppening. "Time to finish this! Perfect Shi Shi
Houkou Dan!" A bright flash of light filled the air.
When it became bearable to look, there was no sign of Cell anywhere.
"I... won?"
GoChibi flashed Phil a thumbs up. "Nice work! Now
we can go home!"
"This isn't right! My blast wasn't strong enough to
vaporize that adamantium."
"Very good. You aren't as stupid as you look." Cell
stood behind Phil. He had placed a hand on his
stomach to keep his intestines from flopping out while
his healing factor and nanobots scrambled to undo the
damage. "That really hurt. You caught me by
surprise; so much for your stupid rules." Cell's body
was engulfed in a dull yellow glow. Phil activated
his lightsaber. "That toy can't hurt me. Put it
away."
Phil ignored Cell's taunting. He thought, "Man, do I
hurt. I can't take the time for a senzu bean, or else
he'll be all over me. Think... Think, damn you!"
Phil summoned another Chi ball. This one glowed a
black color, and red colored electricity traced along
it. "Dragon Blast!" The Chi ball was converted into
a bolt of black energy that flew out at Cell. The
composite warrior simply deflected the blow. It flew
into a nearby hill and exploded, spraying everybody
with thick loam.
"And what was that supposed to do? That was the
weakest attack you've thrown at me all day."
"It made a wonderful distraction, doesn't it?" Phil
caught Cell in the back of the head with a kick. Cell
didn't even seem to notice the strike. "Rapid-fire
Kamehameha!" A barrage of laser bolts flew into the
back of Cell. The thick, beetle like wings were shorn
away by the energy, but Cell didn't even seem to
notice. The wings grew back moments later. Undaunted,
Phil continued. "Sweet Chestnuts Roasting on an Open
Fire!" Phil's hands moved with even greater speed,
and the cartilage connecting the metal coated bones in
Cell's back snapped and cracked. Again, no visible
effect. Now Phil was nervous. He backed off. "How
the hell did you do that?"
Cell smirked. "Give up yet? I'm far more powerful than you could
ever imagine."
"I'll fight till I drop!" That was when Phil had a
flash of insight. "Which is exactly what you want.
So that's why you've been on the defensive this whole
time. You can last longer in a pitched battle than I
can!"
"Give the man a cigar." Cell caught Phil in the face
with a strike from his tail, sending the Physics
Policeman flying. Phil flew towards the Spring of the
Drowned Girl. (Cue a drum roll).
"Time out! I'd like to use a lifeline!"
Very well. With that, Phil was able to alter his
path to avoid a fate worse than any he could imagine.
Remember Phil, that was your last lifeline.
"Yeah, yeah. Author no baka. Solar Flare!" While Cell was blinded,
Phil reappeared behind Cell. This time, he didn't
waste any time on ineffective Chi techniques. Phil's
symbiote produced some webbing and stuck it to the
back of Cell's head.
"What, you're going to pester me to death?"
Phil unclipped a sonic grenade and placed it on the
sticky webbing. "G'Bye." Phil quickly flew away.
Cell attempted to grab the grenade, but was unable to in time. He shrieked in pain as the symbiote writhed in agony. Phil nodded. "Now I just need to keep hitting his weak spots."
Ralph agreed. "Charmelion, Fire Blast!"
"Char!" (Righto, old sport. We'll give 'em 'ell,
wot wot!").
Ralph readied his own spell. "Fireball!"
The twin flame attacks struck the disoriented Cell.
Again, Cell's connection to the symbiote caused his
extreme agony. Phil reappeared next to Gohan. "All
we've managed to do is distract him. Time to take it
to the next level. Fusion Dance!"
The pair began a complicated series of movements.
After a bright flash of light, Ph'lan stood there,
with a smirk plastered on his face. The fused warrior
snarfed a senzu bean. "Time for round two, you ugly
green bastard."
"Oh, I'm so afraid. What do you want on your
tombstone?" Then Cell smacked his forehead. "Oh
yeah, that's right! When I absorb you, there won't be
enough left for a funeral! Silly me."
"Up yours." Ph'lan concentrated. For a few moments,
nothing happened. Then, chunks of debris lifted off
of the ground.
"What, the Mystical Powerup again? How predictable."
Ph'lan ignored the taunt. The air around Ph'lan
began to shimmer, and Ph'lan's eyes shifted from their usual green
to turquoise orbs that lacked any visible pupil.
Then, the air began to fill with electricity.
Finally, Ph'lan's hair shifted to yellow and grew
upwards. The various bits of rock began to fall from
the sky. "What? But the Mystical Powerup is far more
effective than the Super Saiyan state!"
"Yes, but it isn't compatible with my advanced Chi
technique. This is. Alright, enough stalling."
Ph'lan faded away, then reappeared to Cell's right.
Cell attempted to catch the fused warrior with a slice
from his adamantium claws, but they only passed
through his afterimage. A one-two punch combo caught
Cell in the gut. It sent him flying into a nearby
cursed pool. When Cell exited, Ph'lan had to laugh.
"OK, now for a cliffhanger."
End Part 28
Part 28
Cell vs. Phil
(About bloody time!)
By Bobcat
Disclaimer: I don't have access to the illegal
substances necessary to think up most of these
characters.
Also, last chapter I misspelled symbiote "symobiote"
several times. This error will be corrected.
Days Left Until Battle with Cell: 0
Earth, Universe FC-1
Jusenkyo Springs, China
Phil ignited his lightsaber, and the sulfurous yellow
energy blade pierced the pre-dawn gloom. Far beneath
his feet stood SU5, Gohan, GoChibi and Omi. Phil
glared at his opponent. Cell clenched his fists, and
three adamantium blades
sprouted from each hand. Phil concentrated, feeling
Cell's strength. "Well, Cell. It looks as if you
haven't wasted the month we gave you."
"The same could be said of you."
"Shall we begin?"
"Let's shall." A bright yellow aura surrounded Cell.
Phil protested. "Whoa whoa whoa! Time out! There's a
method to this kind of fight. We have to do this in
stages."
"Huh?" Cell deactivated the Super Saiyan
transformation.
"Well, we've already done step one, where we have the
introductory fight, i.e., the World Martial Arts
Tournament. Then for step two, the first main
villains come along and they get killed. I.e. Yakon,
Nelka-Jo, Dabura, etc. Then, we have a semi-main
baddy, in this case, Majin Buu, come along and kick
everybody's communal butts. Then, we go off and train
and learn a new transformation or Powerup or
something. Then, along comes you, the main baddy.
You come along, somebody, in this case Omi, gets rid
of the semi-main baddy, the main baddy and hero fight
a bit, decide that the fight is too close to be
interesting, and then we train some more. Now, we
start off the fight at about a hundredth of our actual
potential, showcase any new techniques we've developed
and beat each other up. Then, once we've fought for
about ten minutes or so, whichever one of us is
getting his head handed to him reveals that they're
significantly less than their full power, and
everybody acts really surprised. After another couple
minutes, the person who didn't power up makes a
similar declaration. Then, we finally reveal our full
potential and good loses, which is OK since there's
always a good guy more powerful than the first
combatant ready to take his place."
Cell considered this for a moment. "You're right.
Where are my manners? Ready?"
"Yup."
"Let's go."
Author's Note: The rest of this chapter will be
composed mostly of yelling, powering up, firing huge,
insanely powerful attacks and the like. For those who
wish, you can skip to the bottom of the screen, then
onward to chapter 29. Then again, if you don't like
that sort of thing, what are you doing hanging around
the Dragon Ball Z section?
Cell faded away. Phil's Force senses barely alerted
him in time for him to parry a slashing attack from
Cell. The lightsaber and the adamantium claws
connected, sending sparks into the Spring of the
Drowned Mastodon. Phil struck out with his right
foot, catching Cell in the gut, sending the
genetically engineered warrior flying towards the
ground. Cell managed to halt his flight and sent
out a string of webbing flying towards Phil.
"I picked this one off of Venom." A line of webbing intercepted Cell's.
Phil smirked. "What do you know? So did I."
Cell nodded, comprehending. "So that's where the rest of the symbiote went."
Phil summoned a Chi bolt. "Destructo Disk!"
The jagged energy Frisbee flew out, closely following
Cell. At the last possible moment, Cell disappeared
in a puff of smoke, reappearing behind Phil. "Aw
shit!" Phil grabbed Cell's left fist, holding the
claws at bay while his left arm held Cell's right arm
blades at bay. "Take this." Beams of Chi went from
Phil's eyes, burning into Cell's torso. Cell backed
off for a moment. Phil pocketed his lightsaber.
"Where did you learn that one?"
"If Freeza can do it, then so can I."
"Point taken." Cell cupped his hands. "Ka... Me...
Ha... Me... Ha!" The blast of blue energy flew out
towards Phil. The Physics Policeman threw a little
ball of Chi into the center of Cell's attack, causing
a large explosion. The blast forced the spectators off
of their feet. He smirked.
"I hope that wasn't the best that you could do."
"You know it wasn't. Here's a full power one.
Masenko!" This time, a wall of yellow energy shot out
at Phil. He didn't seem the slightest bit nervous.
"Here's a little something that I've been working on.
Phil's ryu ougi!" A little white ball flew out,
intercepting the bolt.
GoChibi and the others stood off to the side, and the
young Saiyan had a perplexed look on her face. She
said, "Phil's desperation move? This is new."
This attack didn't cause an uncontrolled explosion.
Instead, it seemed to absorb the attack, and the
little ball grew larger. It flew past Cell. "Hah!
You missed!" That was when a massive blast sent Cell
flying. He crashed face first into the ground. "What
the hell?"
Phil grinned. "A modified Spirit Bomb. You see,
instead of slowly absorbing the energy from plants and
trees and stuff, it rapidly assimilates raw Chi, such
as is found in a Kamehameha or a Masenko. Also, I can
detonate it at will, as you just saw. It doesn't need
to be a direct hit, unlike most assaults. Not bad,
eh?"
Cell spat some grass from his mouth. "Yes. Very
impressive." Cell disappeared in another puff of
smoke, and grabbed Phil. "What say we go for a little
trip?" Before Phil could react, Cell was teleporting
across the battlefield.
Ralph winced. "Ouch. That's got to hurt."
Ecks said, "Huh?"
"It isn't very pleasant to be teleported by
Nightcrawler. I can really screw up your equilibrium."
Ecks said, "Whatever."
Phil also seemed to realize this. "Kaio-ken!" An
explosive red aura surrounded Phil, and he managed to
break away. Cell teleported away before he realized
that his passenger was gone. Phil used the Force to
predict where he would appear from next. Still
surrounded by his red aura, Phil pointed his hands at
Cell. "Shi Shi Houkou Dan!" The purple attack flew
out at Cell, causing him to disappear in the bright
flash. A moment later, Cell became visible again.
Smoke wafted from his singed hide.
"Ouch."
Suddenly, the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons
appeared from nowhere. "Hold on there! In Chapter
18, it was revealed that Phil could never use the
Kaio-ken ever again, lest he suffer a fatal heart
attack! Worst episode ever!"
Phil glared at him. "For your information, I've
determined that I'm only barred from the higher levels
of the Kaio-ken. So back off!"
"Very well. Now if you'll excuse me, I must return
to the Android's Dungeon." He waddled away, and
returned from whence he came.
Phil assumed a ready position. "Now, where were we?"
"Care t' hear the Banshee's wail, laddie?" Cell
inhaled.
Phil cursed. "Damn! The symbiote's weakness!" The
waves of sound buffeted him, causing Phil and his
alien companion significant pain. Phil gritted his
teeth. "So... horrible! Must... block... out... the
pain! Must... talk... like... this!" Phil
disappeared, then reappeared behind Cell, lightsaber
blazing. He stabbed Cell through one of his kidneys,
forcing him to stop. "You know, Cell, that adamantium
skeleton of yours doesn't do a thing for your guts."
Cell's face was a mask of pain. However, it was more
because of the pain the wailing had caused his own symbiote
than any effort on Phil's part. "I'll... have...
to... make a note... of that." Cell broke away, and
his body began to glow. "Now let us see how you fare
against the power of Storm."
"What, you got the X-Men to?"
"Yup." A hurricane of the likes not seen in human
history began to whirl around Phil. It was all that
Phil could do to maintain his position, much less
launch an attack. Then, the lightning began to
strike. It wasn't strong enough to significantly hurt
Phil, but it still stung.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. And did I mention ow?"
"East wind blow! North wind blow! Hail! Lightning!
Snow! Smog! I call upon you all!"
Phil began to gather energy. "I've got to time this
perfectly. I need to disrupt his control." Another
bolt of lightning struck him. "Owch! That hurts!" He
began to glow a bright yellow as his Chi began to
reach higher levels. Finally, Phil brought his hands
together, homing in on where he thought that Cell was.
"BIG BANG ATTACK!" A powerful wave of yellow energy
flew out.
Cell, still focused in utilizing his new control over
the elements, didn't notice the attack in time to
dodge it. "Aw crap." The Chi blast washed over him,
and the weather calmed, much to the relief of the
noncombatants. However, the shockwave that followed
Phil's attack knocked them around, almost dumping
Ralph into the Spring of the drowned Pig. He halted just a few
inches over the pit, using the Force to levitate himself.
"Hey! Watch it!"
Once again, Cell was smoking. However, his healing
factor was already repairing the damage. "Should you
say it, or should I?"
"I'd like to. You can go next."
"Thank you."
"Cell, if you think that this is my true power, then
you are even stupider than you look! I'm currently
using less than a hundredth of my full potential!"
"Well, that was a nice warm up, wasn't it?"
"Indeed. Let's turn up the heat." With that, a blue
battle aura surrounded Phil, and a similar energy
surrounded Cell. Their power levels jumped up about
twenty times. Phil smirked. "Still holding back,
Cell?"
"No more than you."
"True enough. Improved Kamehameha!" Phil jerked his
hand back, sending a laser bolt at Cell. Cell used an
invisible force field to block the attack. However,
the powerful beam simply drilled through, blasting
away a good portion of Cell's right arm. The
adamantium skeleton glistened as the sun came
over the horizon. In a few moments, the nanobots
within Cell rebuilt the limb's flesh and skin.
"Well, Sue Richards' power is completely useless.
That didn't knock off more than one percent of the
energy from that beam. Flame on!" Cell regretted
this, as the flame toasted his symbiote. He grimaced.
"Oops. We forgot about that."
"Are we becoming a bit schizophrenic, Cell?"
"Stupid symbiote!" He considered his position. "I
can't extend my anatomy, thanks to the adamantium
skeleton, and I'm already using the Thing's strength
with my own... damn! I absorbed the Fantastic Four
for nothing!"
"Boo hoo." Phil summoned a pair of red and black
energy disks. "Destructo Disk!" He threw both at
Cell.
Cell simply ducked under the twin disks. "Hah! What
was that supposed to..." Even over the extreme
dangers of Jusenkyo Springs, Cell's Spider Sense
warned him of the coming attack. He narrowly evaded
the disks as they pulled a U-turn. "Borrowing attacks
from Vegeta and Freeza? My, how the mighty have
fallen."
Phil smirked arrogantly. "They're a couple of muscle
bound morons, but they know their stuff." Phil
twisted his arms around, sending one disk straight at
Cell while the other came in above from his right.
The first was dodged, but the other bit into his tail,
cutting off the blade. Phil thought, "Note to self:
that tail doesn't have an adamantium skeleton." He
simply let the energy disks dissipate. "Cell, all of
these fancy attacks aren't getting us anywhere. I
think that we'll have to go to good old fashioned
fisticuffs."
"Agreed." The two flew in straight at each other.
However, at the last moment Cell angled downwards,
then rebounded, placing both of his fists into Phil's
gut, sending the Physics Policeman flying. Phil
struggled for breath as the wind was knocked from him.
"Predictable, Phil."
"Ouch." Phil staggered back to his feet. Again,
Phil flew in. "Take this!" Phil and Cell began
trading blows. Phil blocked Cell's punch, then
launched a kick, which Cell leapt over. Continuing
his movement, Cell pulled a leapfrog maneuver, sending
Phil to the ground once again. "I reiterate: ouch."
By this time, Phil was covered with several large
bruises and cuts. Despite the repeated beatings
inflicted on Cell, he seemed to be unhurt.
"Alright! Enough playing around!" Phil's eyes
glowed white and the energy of the Mystical Powerup
surrounded him. Before Cell could respond, Phil had
placed a fist into Cell's gut. "Burn." He fired a
blast of energy into Cell's gut, vaporizing several
major organs. Cell cried out in pain. Phil saw an
oppening. "Time to finish this! Perfect Shi Shi
Houkou Dan!" A bright flash of light filled the air.
When it became bearable to look, there was no sign of Cell anywhere.
"I... won?"
GoChibi flashed Phil a thumbs up. "Nice work! Now
we can go home!"
"This isn't right! My blast wasn't strong enough to
vaporize that adamantium."
"Very good. You aren't as stupid as you look." Cell
stood behind Phil. He had placed a hand on his
stomach to keep his intestines from flopping out while
his healing factor and nanobots scrambled to undo the
damage. "That really hurt. You caught me by
surprise; so much for your stupid rules." Cell's body
was engulfed in a dull yellow glow. Phil activated
his lightsaber. "That toy can't hurt me. Put it
away."
Phil ignored Cell's taunting. He thought, "Man, do I
hurt. I can't take the time for a senzu bean, or else
he'll be all over me. Think... Think, damn you!"
Phil summoned another Chi ball. This one glowed a
black color, and red colored electricity traced along
it. "Dragon Blast!" The Chi ball was converted into
a bolt of black energy that flew out at Cell. The
composite warrior simply deflected the blow. It flew
into a nearby hill and exploded, spraying everybody
with thick loam.
"And what was that supposed to do? That was the
weakest attack you've thrown at me all day."
"It made a wonderful distraction, doesn't it?" Phil
caught Cell in the back of the head with a kick. Cell
didn't even seem to notice the strike. "Rapid-fire
Kamehameha!" A barrage of laser bolts flew into the
back of Cell. The thick, beetle like wings were shorn
away by the energy, but Cell didn't even seem to
notice. The wings grew back moments later. Undaunted,
Phil continued. "Sweet Chestnuts Roasting on an Open
Fire!" Phil's hands moved with even greater speed,
and the cartilage connecting the metal coated bones in
Cell's back snapped and cracked. Again, no visible
effect. Now Phil was nervous. He backed off. "How
the hell did you do that?"
Cell smirked. "Give up yet? I'm far more powerful than you could
ever imagine."
"I'll fight till I drop!" That was when Phil had a
flash of insight. "Which is exactly what you want.
So that's why you've been on the defensive this whole
time. You can last longer in a pitched battle than I
can!"
"Give the man a cigar." Cell caught Phil in the face
with a strike from his tail, sending the Physics
Policeman flying. Phil flew towards the Spring of the
Drowned Girl. (Cue a drum roll).
"Time out! I'd like to use a lifeline!"
Very well. With that, Phil was able to alter his
path to avoid a fate worse than any he could imagine.
Remember Phil, that was your last lifeline.
"Yeah, yeah. Author no baka. Solar Flare!" While Cell was blinded,
Phil reappeared behind Cell. This time, he didn't
waste any time on ineffective Chi techniques. Phil's
symbiote produced some webbing and stuck it to the
back of Cell's head.
"What, you're going to pester me to death?"
Phil unclipped a sonic grenade and placed it on the
sticky webbing. "G'Bye." Phil quickly flew away.
Cell attempted to grab the grenade, but was unable to in time. He shrieked in pain as the symbiote writhed in agony. Phil nodded. "Now I just need to keep hitting his weak spots."
Ralph agreed. "Charmelion, Fire Blast!"
"Char!" (Righto, old sport. We'll give 'em 'ell,
wot wot!").
Ralph readied his own spell. "Fireball!"
The twin flame attacks struck the disoriented Cell.
Again, Cell's connection to the symbiote caused his
extreme agony. Phil reappeared next to Gohan. "All
we've managed to do is distract him. Time to take it
to the next level. Fusion Dance!"
The pair began a complicated series of movements.
After a bright flash of light, Ph'lan stood there,
with a smirk plastered on his face. The fused warrior
snarfed a senzu bean. "Time for round two, you ugly
green bastard."
"Oh, I'm so afraid. What do you want on your
tombstone?" Then Cell smacked his forehead. "Oh
yeah, that's right! When I absorb you, there won't be
enough left for a funeral! Silly me."
"Up yours." Ph'lan concentrated. For a few moments,
nothing happened. Then, chunks of debris lifted off
of the ground.
"What, the Mystical Powerup again? How predictable."
Ph'lan ignored the taunt. The air around Ph'lan
began to shimmer, and Ph'lan's eyes shifted from their usual green
to turquoise orbs that lacked any visible pupil.
Then, the air began to fill with electricity.
Finally, Ph'lan's hair shifted to yellow and grew
upwards. The various bits of rock began to fall from
the sky. "What? But the Mystical Powerup is far more
effective than the Super Saiyan state!"
"Yes, but it isn't compatible with my advanced Chi
technique. This is. Alright, enough stalling."
Ph'lan faded away, then reappeared to Cell's right.
Cell attempted to catch the fused warrior with a slice
from his adamantium claws, but they only passed
through his afterimage. A one-two punch combo caught
Cell in the gut. It sent him flying into a nearby
cursed pool. When Cell exited, Ph'lan had to laugh.
"OK, now for a cliffhanger."
End Part 28
