Cell smiled as he directed his full attention to the androids. He knew that if he had let them go that they would become useful to him. But that didn't mean that he wouldn't kill them after he finished with Usagi and the others. They were still traitors to him and that's all that they would ever be. Nothing more, nothing less. "I'm guessing that you're expecting a thanks now."
17 turned to Cell and smirked. "No. We don't need anything from you. We just wanted to have some fun. We got annoyed with terrorizing the people in the city and felt the fight and decided that we were going to join."
Although Usagi was completely out of energy, she forced herself to sit up. She wouldn't allow herself to rest until the fight was over. Quitting was not an option in this situation. "What are you doing here? This isn't your fight!" 'I was winning too. I could have worn him down enough for the others to attack him. Now I don't know...' She rubbed off all of the rocks that stuck to her skin, leaving tiny indentations and cuts in their place.
17 turned to Usagi smirked. "This may not be our fight, but I don't really care about rules. There's no one here who can stop me from disrupting this fight. Plus, Dr. Gero did create us to kill your dad, kid."
Usagi blinked. "What? How did you know who my dad is?" She tried to stand up but her legs wouldn't budge due to lack of energy. 'Why is it getting worse and worse? Daddy said that I would win. It's all my fault. I should have turned Super Saiyan right away.'
"What do you take Gero for, a fool? He is responsible for creating the perfect fighting machines. He may not be too bright when it comes to handling normal everyday matters, but he is a genius when it comes to technology. He programmed us with sensors. You just happen to have the same energy type as Goku, who we were supposed to kill. You have the same energy type as he does, therefore you must be his daughter." 18 casually walked to Usagi. "You really are a pretty thing aren't you?" She kneeled down in front of her and rubbed the back of her hand on Usagi's wounded cheek. "Too bad your face won't stay very cute when I'm pounding it into the ground. You're going to die before this day is out, kid. I'm bored and killing you is just the remedy I need to cure that."
Usagi pulled her face away from 18's hand. At that point if she could have attacked, she would have. But she was still quite low on energy. It was a shame too. Usagi was so close to what appeared to be her enemy who was not harming her, and she didn't have enough strength to attack. 'Get away from me.'
18 frowned. "What you don't want to play with me? I'm hurt. I thought you would give me a challenge. You know, a run for my money. You seem to be the strongest fighter here besides Cell and I don't think it would be fair of you to expect me to fight my own ally." She stood up, pulling Usagi up with her by her throat, and looked her in the eye. "If you don't fight back it'll be all the same. I'll kill you and then go onto your little friends. It'll be fun. You'll see."
Cell stepped forward. He couldn't have that happen. "The girl is my kill. I suggest you learn your place very soon before I am forced to kill you." 'Ally? Why the hell do they think I'm their ally?'
18 smiled as she threw Usagi to the ground as if she were just an old rag. "You want the runt? Why?"
"Is that any of your business. She's mine and that's final." Cell couldn't have anyone interfering in his plans. He was there for a specific reason and he was not about to disappoint his queen by letting someone else kill Usagi. He still had to gain her energy. But he could tell that the androids were going to be stubborn, just as they were in his own timeline. "I'll cut you a deal here. If you let me have the girl, I'll give you the rest of the kids."
Usagi pulled her face out of the dirt and turned her head around to look at the two monsters who stood over her. "We aren't things to be owned. You can't just decide who gets to kill who. We will not go down. You will!"
17 walked to Usagi and kicked her in the ribs. "Shut up already."
~*~*~
Mamoru stood in pure disgust as he laid his eyes upon Cell, 17, and then 18. 'That's sick. How can they toy with her like that. Even I wouldn't stoop so low as to do this to her right before she's about to die. What's wrong with them?' He slowly and obscurely inched his way over to Rei while Cell had his back to them as he watched 17 and 18. "Rei, look at Cell's back where Usagi attacked him. That seems to be his weak point. There's no armor there or anything. Maybe we should attack."
Rei narrowed her eyes with anger as she gazed over in Mamoru's direction. "I should slap you for that."
Mamoru leaned back. "Huh?"
"You stupid idiot. Usagi is over there about to get beaten up even more and all you can think about is attacking Cell. Before we do anything else we have to save Usagi. We have to protect her just like she would protect us if we were in her situation. Don't be a fool about this Mamoru. If we do anything to make Cell angry he'll take it out on Usagi. He seems to be stuck on making her suffer since she's Goku's daughter."
Mamoru frowned. "I'm the idiot? You should really listen to what comes out of your mouth more often. Cell needs to be killed. You can't always think about saving people. There comes a time when you have to make some sacrifices. This is one of them. Usagi is will understand." He put his arm out to form and energy ball.
Rei calmly placed her hand on top of his arm and looked into his eyes. "Don't you even try it."
Mamoru yanked his arm away and grinned at Rei. "Watch me." Without turning to see where he was aiming, he fired. His vision was all of a sudden turned into a giant spiral of colors as he felt himself stumbling backwards. 'She did NOT just hit me!' He grabbed his cheek. His skin was warm to the touch, just one characteristic of a slap. The other, the pain that came with it, which was definitely something that he felt quite well.
The ball of energy hit Cell in the area on his back which was not covered in his protective skin, but he wasn't even the least bit phased by it. "Who did that?" He turned around to stare at the group of kids. "Who the HELL did that? Was it you boy?! It was stronger than the girls' so it must have been you! You're going to pay dearly for this! No one attacks me and gets away with it. Even if it didn't do any damage. I'll deal with you androids later. I'm going to take care of this right now. Do NOT touch the kid!" He left the scene to go and 'take care of' Mamoru.
18 looked down at Usagi and then back at the group of girls. "Maybe we should take hum up on his offer, 17."
"Why not. The more killing we get to do, the better."
~*~*~
Cell approached Mamoru at a relatively slow speed. "Did you really think that your weak human strength would hurt me? You're sadly mistaking if you did."
Mamoru stood his ground. There was no way that the was going to let himself be intimidated by an overgrown bug. There was just no way. "I didn't use all of my strength. I could easily take you out if I would have used my full power. I just didn't want to hurt you too bad."
Cell snorted. "Bad? Try you didn't hurt me at all. You have no power. Do you really think that I'm such an idiot as to believe that?"
Mamoru turned and glared as the girls scurried away. 'Cowards.' "So what if I was bluffing. You were going to kill me anyways."
"You're right about that. I AM going to kill you. I'm going to do it in a very painless manor. Well, painless for me that is. It's a total torture way for you, but that's the point." Cell stopped about one foot in front of Mamoru and stared down into his eyes. They weren't very readable, which annoyed Cell. He liked to see the fear in his victims' eyes before he attacked them. But Mamoru's weren't showing fear, nor were they showing anger or hate.
Without any notice, Mamoru, being the over confident person that he his, quickly mad a fist and charged it up with Ki. He power punched Cell in the chest, knocking him backwards a bit for just a few seconds, but he quickly regained his footing . 'Damn! Not even the slightest mark on his skin. That was my most powerful punch too. I bet if I got him in the back it would do some damage.' "Ha, looks like I nearly knocked you off your feet."
Cell smirked. "No. I just wasn't expecting you to hold such a power. It is somewhat strong, but it will not even begin to hold up to me. How would you like it if I showed you what real power is?" Without giving Mamoru time to collect his thoughts, Cell lifted his knee and shoved it into Mamoru's stomach, causing him to double over in pain. "Seems as though you're not as strong as you think." He pulled back his arm as far as he could, forming a fist with his hand, and with acute force he threw it back towards Mamoru, allowing it to ram into his face.
Mamoru grabbed his face with his hand as he fell back to the ground. He had never felt so powerless in his life. "Damn...you...Ce..." He couldn't even finish his sentence before Cell was picking him up by his hair. Mamoru cried out from the intense pain that was being caused inside his body. "OWAHH!"
Cell laughed as he pulled Mamoru up to his face. "Don't fuck with me kid. I've got more power in my pinky than you do in you whole body." He threw Mamoru down to the ground and grinned. He was having too much fun with this. But it was his pay back. He placed his foot on the back of Mamoru's head and pressed down, forcing Mamoru's face into the dirt.
"That's enough, Cell." 17 walked to the action and looked down at Mamoru. "You said you would give us these six if we gave you the girl. You're killing one of ours. If you don't take your foot off of him now I'll tell 18 to kill the Saiyan."
Cell smiled as he slowly turned his attention to 17. "So you've decided to take my offer, huh? A very wise choice if you ask me. You can have the kids and that Yamcha over there." He took his foot of Mamoru's head and shoved the front of his foot under Mamoru's stomach. "Here you go." With one swift motion of his foot, Cell kicked Mamoru up and grabbed the back of his GI with one of his hands. "Make sure none of them get in my way." He threw Mamoru to 17, who caught him and then dropped him to the ground. "Something wrong?"
"No." He smirked as he turned to 18. "Come on. Let's start our fun, 18."
Cell wasn't exactly please with the fact that he had to give up killing the other six fighters that opposed him, but it was the only way that he would be assured Usagi's power. He couldn't forget that that was the reason why he was revived and sent back to the past. 'If I can't kill them myself, the second best thing would be to watch. I guess.' He began to make his way towards Usagi to make sure that she wouldn't try to do anything stupid like running away. On his way to her, he passed 18. Both of them glared at each other. 18 as if she knew that Cell was planning on killing her. Cell because he WAS actually going to kill her. 'Stupid android. Go ahead and have your fun now. But when I'm finished with Usagi, you're going down just like the rest of them.' He quietly laughed to himself as he proceeded to make his way to Usagi.
Usagi couldn't believe that any of this was happening. Her friends all about to become toys for the androids and there was nothing she could do to help. She was completely powerless at the moment. 'Please daddy. Please Gohan. Hurry up.' She looked up to see Cell standing tall over her. 'Uh-oh.' She closed her eyes and awaited a beating from him.
Cell grinned. "Don't worry. I'm not going to do anything to you right now. I want you to see your friends suffer before you die." He turned around and looked in the direction in which the androids were about to start their attack. "I'm afraid I can't take any chances with loosing you." With that, he plopped himself onto Usagi, squishing her further into the ground.
Usagi clenched some loose dirt from the pain that was being driven through her body as Cell put his full weight on her back. Her body felt like it had the day she snuck into Vejita's gravity chamber. She felt as though she was being crushed, that her body would explode into thousands of tiny pieces. Tears began to form in the base of her eyes as the pain only got worse with time. 'Why is he doing this to me? Why is the guardian of time making me stay here? I want to go home.'
~*~*~
Rei, Minako, Makoto, and Ami all backed away from the androids. They knew that they wouldn't have the power to defend anything that they attacked her with. It was impossible. Even Mamoru wouldn't have been able to help them now. He was pretty much out of it at the moment. Mamoru happened to be stronger than them. If he couldn't do it, then they definitely couldn't do it either.
Ami couldn't get a reading on the androids at all. She was completely blind in this fight, which scared her. She knew what kind of power they possessed. Goku had shown them what kind of power they would be going up against. But she never thought that they would actually HAVE to go up against them. 'Stay calm Ami. Don't loose your head. You have to concentrate. Don't do anything stupid.'
Makoto was a little more open with this situation. This was the day that she had been training for. She wasn't going to let it go to waste. Though she was backing away, she was only doing it in hopes of getting the androids to make the first move. It was a smart thing to do. It would allow her to try and dodge before they actually made a hit, if any at all. "Come on you stupid androids. Why don't you show us what you've got."
Minako shot a glance over to Makoto. 'Is she crazy?' "Hey, why are you going along with what Cell said? Don't you know that he tried to kill you in the past. Actually, he killed you 17 and he nearly killed 18." She remembered bits and pieces of the story that Usagi had once told her a few years ago. The thing that stuck in her mind the most was how Cell got his energy from absorbing the androids because she found that to be absolutely repulsive.
17 didn't exactly ignore that statement, but he didn't comment on it either. He didn't feel the need to. "Shut your mouth."
Rei unconsciously stopped moving as she turned to look at Mamoru. He was just lying on the ground looking so helpless. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Even though in her heart she knew that she shouldn't. He had caused Cell to pull his attention away from the androids onto them. He hadn't even cared about Usagi. Not that he ever had, but still, she had been put through so much from Cell and Mamoru hadn't even taken into consideration that he was doing the wrong thing by trying to create a new problem. She turned to look in front of her as she felt soft breathing on the top of her head. She gasped with fear when she saw who it was. 18 was standing over her, intimidating her with a nasty glare. "Whoa..." 'Now would be a good time for help guys.'
"Whoa is right kid. Say goodbye to all of your friends. Looks like you're the first to go in this game."
Rei flipped backwards as 18 swung at her. "Too slow, android. I've prepared for your power and know what to expect from you." 'As long as I don't make any mistakes and keep to my toes I should be able to hold up until help arrives.'
"Well look at that. The kid knows some moves. Maybe this will be more fun than I thought." She jumped at Rei with her right leg fully extended.
Rei quickly jumped to the side but didn't quite make it without her face being scraped by 18's foot. 'She's holding back. I wish I could sense her. This would be a lot easier.'
17 watched as the fight between his partner and Rei began to really take off. 'She's fast for a human. I wonder what power level she's at.' His eyes turned completely white as he started to scan her. 'That's odd. She has too high of a power for a human her age. Her power isn't even completely human. But, it isn't Saiyan either.' He turned to the other girls and scanned them too only to get the same results. 'What's going on? They have a strange power too. Only each girls' is different. What are they?' He turned back around to watch the fight with his fellow fighter and Rei, who had taken the fight into the air. The tables had been turned. Now, Rei was throwing all sorts of punches and kicks at 18, while 18 was blocking them very efficiently. Rei wasn't able to get a single hit in on 18 for 18 was too fast. All of a sudden, his head was thrown forward. "What the..."
Minako giggled as 17 turned around and scowled at her. "He, he. You suck!" She threw a rock up into the air and caught it again as if fell. "Here's another one for ya!" She threw a second rock at 17's face, this time he was able to dodge it with ease since he actually knew that it was coming. "Aww, that's not fair."
17 growled as he made two tight fists with his hands. "You're all beginning to piss me off!"
Cell yawned from boredom. "Please hurry up and finish the job before I come over there and kill you all."
17 diverted his attention to Cell. "You shut up. We will kill them when we please. This is the only REAL fun we are going to get on this planet now let us enjoy it."
Cell stood up and stepped forward. "Now you look here. You're lucky that I'm even allowing you to mess with them. I should kill you right now instead of waiting until later to do it." He turned around and picked up Usagi. "Now I'm not even in the mood to play with this kid anymore."
18 stopped her assault on Rei and looked down in Cell's direction. "You were planning to kill us later?"
"Not 17. Just you. But since he seems to like to talk back to me I'll have to do away with him too. He may become a traitor just like you." He let out and evil laugh as five long clear tubes extended from his finger tips. The tips of the tubes were pointed and had holes on the ends that led all the way down.
Mamoru slowly began to push himself away from the ground where he had been so rudely dropped by 17. 'Why do I feel like I need to protect Odango? I hate her.' "Leave...her...alone CELL!" 'Why am I doing this?'
Cell didn't turn around to look at the annoyance. He didn't have to. He didn't pose any threat to his plans now. He would quickly get Usagi's energy and then kill anyone and everyone he wanted. "Don't worry Usagi. Soon I'll have your power and you'll be able to go to hell where you belong." He raised his hand and shoved the sharp tubes into Usagi's neck.
Usagi's eyes bolted wide open as she felt the long slender tube like nails of Cell slither their way into her neck. 'Daddy...I'm sorry.' Tears of pain streamed down her cheeks as she looked into Cell's hate filled eyes.
Cell's eyes told his happiness. "Yes girl. Just hold still." He watched as the tubes were filled with energy. Usagi's life energy was being sucked out of her body and there was nothing she could do about it. "Finally. My queen will be able to rid the world of those who destroyed her." The energy in which he was extracting was filling his body with power. More power than he could have ever imagined. "It's hard to believe that such a runt could have held such a magnificent power. But it's mine now. All mine!"
"I don't think so Cell."
Cell looked over his shoulder at 17. "Once I completely gotten this power I will deal with you all. You will wish that Gero never created you."
"LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE!" A Super Saiyan Gohan jumped from the surrounding trees and rammed his foot right into Cell's unprotected face.
Cell pulled his energy extracting devices out of Usagi's neck and stumbled backwards. He hadn't even sensed Gohan's presence. 'Damn. While I was taking her energy I wasn't able to sense him. Stupid designers always have to have flaws when they make things.' "Damn you Gohan! I'll get you for this."
Gohan didn't waist any time getting to his sister's side. He hoped that he wasn't too late. He had JUST turned Super Saiyan in the room of spirit and time and his father literally kicked him out. When he did come out, his mother was surprisingly calm by his change in appearance. Training with the girls seemed to have changed her. "Usagi! Usagi!" He kneeled down to her side while keeping close tabs on Cell to make sure that he didn't miss any attack that he may have tried to throw at him. "Usagi are you all right?!" Her eyes were completely closed and she was barely breathing. From what he could tell, her energy hadn't really been reduced at all. "Cell you failed. You didn't take any of her energy. You idiot."
Cell grinned. "I disagree Gohan. I got some energy from her. Not enough to please my queen though. You're going to have to step aside if you don't want to be killed, yet." He slowly began to approach the two Saiyans. "Move out of the way."
Gohan stood up. He wouldn't budge out of the way. Even if it meant his own death. He would protect Usagi. "I wouldn't try anything if I were you." He shot a glance at the trees behind him. "Come on out guys."
Cell directed his attention to the trees that lay behind Gohan. "So everyone wants to play now? Are you all done running away?" Piccolo, Tienshin-han, and Krillin all walked out from the trees in the distance looking a bit on the pissed side.
"Seems like you're a bit out numbered now, Cell." 18 found this more invigorating than fighting the kids. At least Cell would prove to be a greater challenge. "You're going down for wanting to kill us."
Cell smirked. "Oh really? I don't think so. I've still got a few more tricks up my sleeve before I throw in the towel. You haven't seen anything yet." He planted his feet into the ground and began to power up. His body began to emit a black smoke like aura. "Piccolo, you of all people should know this move. After all, I got it from you." His body began to form a clear shadow of some sort as a second energy began to take form near his body.
Piccolo pushed past Usagi and Gohan. "You can't be serious. You'll cut your energy in half every time you split. You truly are a fool."
"I wouldn't count on that Piccolo. You forget, I'm not your normal foe here. I've been enhanced by they best scientists. I was built just for this purpose." He laughed loudly as two exact copies of himself emerged from his body. "You guys wanted a party and now you got it." Cell stood in between his clones, who were now performing the same technique that the original Cell just had. "Look, my brothers think that we need more in the family."
Usagi groaned with pain as she raised her head to see what was going on. She had blacked out for a few moments there. "Gohan? What are you doing here?" Her vision was blurred from the lose of energy she had just suffered from and could only make out colors and energy signatures. "Your hair is yellow. You must be a Super Sai..." She let her head pound against the ground as she passed out again.
Gohan turned around in shock. He never would have guessed that Usagi would have been able to withstand such a loss of energy and still be able to be conscious. He surely wouldn't have been able to do such a task. 'I need to get her out of here. She's too weak to fight anymore.' He glanced his eyes over his shoulder to check on the situation of Cell. He still seemed to be multiplying his fourth and fifth self. 'Don't have enough time.'
'Go ahead Gohan. I'll cover you.'
'Huh? Piccolo?'
'Just do it.'
'Right.' He bent over and picked up his sister, making sure that he didn't harm her any further. She needed her rest if she wanted to pull through. He wished that he knew his father's teleportation skill so he could take her to Kami's lookout and have her healed. But that wasn't an option at this point and he couldn't worry about things that weren't possible.
Cell noticed that Gohan was taking Usagi away but he didn't see it as something that he would have to worry about. He would take care of the others and then find Usagi. It wouldn't be too hard to locate her either. He would just have to follow her 'special' energy. "Now you have to fight five of me. Isn't that great? I think it is. I'm getting tired of playing with you ungrateful people. All you want to do is attack me. Well, here I am to attack. All five of me."
Mamoru kept his distance. Not only because he was still quite hurt, but because each Cell seemed to have the same amount of energy as the original. "How are you doing that? Your power should be split."
"No it shouldn't. My dark energy keeps me from splitting my energy. It regenerates my energy as it is used up. There is no way that you can kill me now. I will prevail over all of you weaklings." With the snap of his fingers, the original Cell had his clones out in all directions, attacking anyone they came across. "Time to sit back and watch the fun. I'm going to save my fun for Goku and his two brats." He put his hands on the back of his head and casually walked over to a tree and sat down. "This should be good. Everyone is going to die by me and when I remerge...wait a minute, when I remerge..." He paused for a moment to think about what he had just done. He had split to make four different versions of himself with the same amount of power. When he reemerged he wouldn't have the luxury of splitting again but the outcome would be rewarding. "That's it guys. Kill them all off."
~*~*~
Gohan carried his unconscious sister far away from the fighting. He didn't want her to be hurt anymore than she already was. He could feel the four different Cells fighting with his friends. Cell wasn't being fair. None of his friends were strong enough to fight even one Cell. But than again, no one ever said that your enemy had to be fair.
Gohan found a small dip in the forest ground that was surrounded by trees and boulders. "You should be safe here." He placed her down with great gentleness and care. He couldn't understand how she could have gotten herself so beaten up by Cell and the androids. Her power level was nearly as high as Cell's, if not his equal. Yet here she was, nearly dead. He would have his revenge on Cell. He would make him pay for what he had done. The androids too. They would wish that they never laid a single finger on his sister, even if she was only his sister from the future.
"Gohan..." Usagi slightly opened her eyes enough to see her older brother leaning over her. "I can fight still. Let me go, please." She put her hand on his arm. His skin was so much warmer than her own.
Gohan gasped at her cold touch. That was one sign of major energy loss. "No you aren't ok. I would be crazy to let you go. You can't even stand up on your own. Just stay here until the fight is over. We'll get you when it's safe."
"I can stand up. Honest. Watch." She clenched the dirt beneath her hands and used it for leverage. Her arms shook as she pushed herself about two inches off the ground and then collapsed. "I'll rest first. Yeah. That's it. If I rest I can go back right?" Her whole body began to shake from being so cold.
Gohan couldn't bare to see her like this. It was awful. She shouldn't have been put through this. No one should have. "Yeah sure. Whatever you like. Just as long as you're safe." He pulled his cape over his head and ripped off the material from the weighted shoulder pads. "Keep this on you so you stay warm." He put the cloth over Usagi and tucked the ends under her body. She was still loosing quite a bit of blood. "Hopefully dad will have a Senzu bean or something when he gets out of the room of spirit and time." 'Wait a minute, I don't think he has any left. Crap.' "I gotta go help the others."
~*~*~
~~Kami's lookout~~
Chi-Chi paced back and fourth. She knew that something was wrong. She couldn't sense Ki like the rest of the gang, but she didn't need to. She could feel it in the air. "I hope Gohan and Usagi are ok down there." She stopped her pacing and walked to Kami. "What's going on down there?"
Kami tried to keep a straight face. He knew what would happen if he actually told her. Everyone was in danger. They weren't holding up at all now that Cell was split. Gohan was on his way to fight now, but even he wouldn't be able to hold up against Cell. The androids were even having trouble. But he couldn't keep something like that away from Chi-Chi. She had a right to know what was going on. "I'm not going to go into detail but things are looking pretty grim from here."
~*~*~
"Why won't you just die!?" Makoto yelled as she flew backwards and fired about ten Ki blasts at one of the Cell clones, none of which seemed to do any damage. She had tried numerous times to hit it in the back where there was no protective skin but each time it would move and hit her before she had the chance to do anything.
The Cell clone deflected every single Ki attack that was shot at him with much ease. "Don't you have anything better than that? I'm bored here. I need a challenge."
"HERE'S A NICE CHALLENGE FOR YOU!" Together, Rei and Minako came at Cell from the side ready to kick him from both angles.
18 looked up from her fight with another of one of the clones. 'They're on to something.' She jumped to the air and pulled her shoulders and upper arms back all the way. 'It's his back that's vulnerable.' Two yellow energy balls formed in her hands as she increased her speed.
The clone closed his eyes and arrogantly laughed as he extended his arms out to his side. "Pitiful. Just pitiful." He immediately created his biggest energy balls in his hands and released them onto the girls. He reopened his eyes to look back at Makoto. "Now that that little disturbance is gone."
"Not quite cell!" 18 came from out of nowhere and released her own two attacks into the opening of the clone's protective skin. "Think fast!" She increased her speed to her fullest and quickly flew over his head while he was still struggling with her successful attack. "This will hurt just a bit but it's for your own good." Just as she got to his head, she grabbed onto his shoulders and used him as leverage to flip herself upside down, while now flying backwards. She put her hands out once again and created another Ki attack and fired it at him as soon as she got a clear shot.
Makoto took her chance to get out of there. She didn't want to be around when THAT clone regained himself. She raised herself to 18's level. "Thanks."
"I didn't do that to save you kid. I did it because he's going to try and kill me. And because it's fun. Once Cell is gone, we're still going to kill you and your friends." She flew back down to the Clone, who was starting to come back into the game.
~*~*~
Meanwhile...
The original Cell still sat against his tree and watched the fight. He was very entertained by the fact that his clones were winning. Not that he ever doubted that they would. He just didn't think that the other fighters would be able to put up such a great fight. He thought that they would have been dead by now. But they in fact were not. He had a particular interest in Mamoru and the young girls from the future. They, for some reason, were holding up a lot better than he ever would have thought. "This is too great. Now I just need some of that...what do the humans call it? Oh yes. Popcorn. I need some popcorn and I will be completely happy."
"Or you can just fight me."
Cell turned around to the person that the voice belonged to and smiled. "Gohan. So nice of you to join me here in such a place. Where's your sister. I'm not through with her yet."
Gohan let out a small growl. "She's not here. She's where you can't get your sleazy hands on her. As I recall it you have a thing against me. Why don't we settle the score right here, right now! You and me! If you get through me, that's it. Usagi is all yours since there will be no one else to stop you." 'Except dad but I'm not going to be dumb enough to tell him that.'
"You drive a hard bargain but I'll take it. I beat you, the girl is mine. That won't be too hard considering the fact that you're just as strong as she was when she first started fighting me. Then I kicked her ass, which is exactly what I'm going to do with you." He stood up and cracked his knuckles as she cocked his head from side to side. "I've been waiting for this day for too long. You don't know how overjoyed I am not that it's finally come."
(Well there you have it. Another chapter just for you. ^_^ Anyways, guess what? Now I only have two weeks until school is out. Isn't that great? Two weeks and then I can get one chapter out every night just like I used to. Well, I gotta go. Ja ne)
17 turned to Cell and smirked. "No. We don't need anything from you. We just wanted to have some fun. We got annoyed with terrorizing the people in the city and felt the fight and decided that we were going to join."
Although Usagi was completely out of energy, she forced herself to sit up. She wouldn't allow herself to rest until the fight was over. Quitting was not an option in this situation. "What are you doing here? This isn't your fight!" 'I was winning too. I could have worn him down enough for the others to attack him. Now I don't know...' She rubbed off all of the rocks that stuck to her skin, leaving tiny indentations and cuts in their place.
17 turned to Usagi smirked. "This may not be our fight, but I don't really care about rules. There's no one here who can stop me from disrupting this fight. Plus, Dr. Gero did create us to kill your dad, kid."
Usagi blinked. "What? How did you know who my dad is?" She tried to stand up but her legs wouldn't budge due to lack of energy. 'Why is it getting worse and worse? Daddy said that I would win. It's all my fault. I should have turned Super Saiyan right away.'
"What do you take Gero for, a fool? He is responsible for creating the perfect fighting machines. He may not be too bright when it comes to handling normal everyday matters, but he is a genius when it comes to technology. He programmed us with sensors. You just happen to have the same energy type as Goku, who we were supposed to kill. You have the same energy type as he does, therefore you must be his daughter." 18 casually walked to Usagi. "You really are a pretty thing aren't you?" She kneeled down in front of her and rubbed the back of her hand on Usagi's wounded cheek. "Too bad your face won't stay very cute when I'm pounding it into the ground. You're going to die before this day is out, kid. I'm bored and killing you is just the remedy I need to cure that."
Usagi pulled her face away from 18's hand. At that point if she could have attacked, she would have. But she was still quite low on energy. It was a shame too. Usagi was so close to what appeared to be her enemy who was not harming her, and she didn't have enough strength to attack. 'Get away from me.'
18 frowned. "What you don't want to play with me? I'm hurt. I thought you would give me a challenge. You know, a run for my money. You seem to be the strongest fighter here besides Cell and I don't think it would be fair of you to expect me to fight my own ally." She stood up, pulling Usagi up with her by her throat, and looked her in the eye. "If you don't fight back it'll be all the same. I'll kill you and then go onto your little friends. It'll be fun. You'll see."
Cell stepped forward. He couldn't have that happen. "The girl is my kill. I suggest you learn your place very soon before I am forced to kill you." 'Ally? Why the hell do they think I'm their ally?'
18 smiled as she threw Usagi to the ground as if she were just an old rag. "You want the runt? Why?"
"Is that any of your business. She's mine and that's final." Cell couldn't have anyone interfering in his plans. He was there for a specific reason and he was not about to disappoint his queen by letting someone else kill Usagi. He still had to gain her energy. But he could tell that the androids were going to be stubborn, just as they were in his own timeline. "I'll cut you a deal here. If you let me have the girl, I'll give you the rest of the kids."
Usagi pulled her face out of the dirt and turned her head around to look at the two monsters who stood over her. "We aren't things to be owned. You can't just decide who gets to kill who. We will not go down. You will!"
17 walked to Usagi and kicked her in the ribs. "Shut up already."
~*~*~
Mamoru stood in pure disgust as he laid his eyes upon Cell, 17, and then 18. 'That's sick. How can they toy with her like that. Even I wouldn't stoop so low as to do this to her right before she's about to die. What's wrong with them?' He slowly and obscurely inched his way over to Rei while Cell had his back to them as he watched 17 and 18. "Rei, look at Cell's back where Usagi attacked him. That seems to be his weak point. There's no armor there or anything. Maybe we should attack."
Rei narrowed her eyes with anger as she gazed over in Mamoru's direction. "I should slap you for that."
Mamoru leaned back. "Huh?"
"You stupid idiot. Usagi is over there about to get beaten up even more and all you can think about is attacking Cell. Before we do anything else we have to save Usagi. We have to protect her just like she would protect us if we were in her situation. Don't be a fool about this Mamoru. If we do anything to make Cell angry he'll take it out on Usagi. He seems to be stuck on making her suffer since she's Goku's daughter."
Mamoru frowned. "I'm the idiot? You should really listen to what comes out of your mouth more often. Cell needs to be killed. You can't always think about saving people. There comes a time when you have to make some sacrifices. This is one of them. Usagi is will understand." He put his arm out to form and energy ball.
Rei calmly placed her hand on top of his arm and looked into his eyes. "Don't you even try it."
Mamoru yanked his arm away and grinned at Rei. "Watch me." Without turning to see where he was aiming, he fired. His vision was all of a sudden turned into a giant spiral of colors as he felt himself stumbling backwards. 'She did NOT just hit me!' He grabbed his cheek. His skin was warm to the touch, just one characteristic of a slap. The other, the pain that came with it, which was definitely something that he felt quite well.
The ball of energy hit Cell in the area on his back which was not covered in his protective skin, but he wasn't even the least bit phased by it. "Who did that?" He turned around to stare at the group of kids. "Who the HELL did that? Was it you boy?! It was stronger than the girls' so it must have been you! You're going to pay dearly for this! No one attacks me and gets away with it. Even if it didn't do any damage. I'll deal with you androids later. I'm going to take care of this right now. Do NOT touch the kid!" He left the scene to go and 'take care of' Mamoru.
18 looked down at Usagi and then back at the group of girls. "Maybe we should take hum up on his offer, 17."
"Why not. The more killing we get to do, the better."
~*~*~
Cell approached Mamoru at a relatively slow speed. "Did you really think that your weak human strength would hurt me? You're sadly mistaking if you did."
Mamoru stood his ground. There was no way that the was going to let himself be intimidated by an overgrown bug. There was just no way. "I didn't use all of my strength. I could easily take you out if I would have used my full power. I just didn't want to hurt you too bad."
Cell snorted. "Bad? Try you didn't hurt me at all. You have no power. Do you really think that I'm such an idiot as to believe that?"
Mamoru turned and glared as the girls scurried away. 'Cowards.' "So what if I was bluffing. You were going to kill me anyways."
"You're right about that. I AM going to kill you. I'm going to do it in a very painless manor. Well, painless for me that is. It's a total torture way for you, but that's the point." Cell stopped about one foot in front of Mamoru and stared down into his eyes. They weren't very readable, which annoyed Cell. He liked to see the fear in his victims' eyes before he attacked them. But Mamoru's weren't showing fear, nor were they showing anger or hate.
Without any notice, Mamoru, being the over confident person that he his, quickly mad a fist and charged it up with Ki. He power punched Cell in the chest, knocking him backwards a bit for just a few seconds, but he quickly regained his footing . 'Damn! Not even the slightest mark on his skin. That was my most powerful punch too. I bet if I got him in the back it would do some damage.' "Ha, looks like I nearly knocked you off your feet."
Cell smirked. "No. I just wasn't expecting you to hold such a power. It is somewhat strong, but it will not even begin to hold up to me. How would you like it if I showed you what real power is?" Without giving Mamoru time to collect his thoughts, Cell lifted his knee and shoved it into Mamoru's stomach, causing him to double over in pain. "Seems as though you're not as strong as you think." He pulled back his arm as far as he could, forming a fist with his hand, and with acute force he threw it back towards Mamoru, allowing it to ram into his face.
Mamoru grabbed his face with his hand as he fell back to the ground. He had never felt so powerless in his life. "Damn...you...Ce..." He couldn't even finish his sentence before Cell was picking him up by his hair. Mamoru cried out from the intense pain that was being caused inside his body. "OWAHH!"
Cell laughed as he pulled Mamoru up to his face. "Don't fuck with me kid. I've got more power in my pinky than you do in you whole body." He threw Mamoru down to the ground and grinned. He was having too much fun with this. But it was his pay back. He placed his foot on the back of Mamoru's head and pressed down, forcing Mamoru's face into the dirt.
"That's enough, Cell." 17 walked to the action and looked down at Mamoru. "You said you would give us these six if we gave you the girl. You're killing one of ours. If you don't take your foot off of him now I'll tell 18 to kill the Saiyan."
Cell smiled as he slowly turned his attention to 17. "So you've decided to take my offer, huh? A very wise choice if you ask me. You can have the kids and that Yamcha over there." He took his foot of Mamoru's head and shoved the front of his foot under Mamoru's stomach. "Here you go." With one swift motion of his foot, Cell kicked Mamoru up and grabbed the back of his GI with one of his hands. "Make sure none of them get in my way." He threw Mamoru to 17, who caught him and then dropped him to the ground. "Something wrong?"
"No." He smirked as he turned to 18. "Come on. Let's start our fun, 18."
Cell wasn't exactly please with the fact that he had to give up killing the other six fighters that opposed him, but it was the only way that he would be assured Usagi's power. He couldn't forget that that was the reason why he was revived and sent back to the past. 'If I can't kill them myself, the second best thing would be to watch. I guess.' He began to make his way towards Usagi to make sure that she wouldn't try to do anything stupid like running away. On his way to her, he passed 18. Both of them glared at each other. 18 as if she knew that Cell was planning on killing her. Cell because he WAS actually going to kill her. 'Stupid android. Go ahead and have your fun now. But when I'm finished with Usagi, you're going down just like the rest of them.' He quietly laughed to himself as he proceeded to make his way to Usagi.
Usagi couldn't believe that any of this was happening. Her friends all about to become toys for the androids and there was nothing she could do to help. She was completely powerless at the moment. 'Please daddy. Please Gohan. Hurry up.' She looked up to see Cell standing tall over her. 'Uh-oh.' She closed her eyes and awaited a beating from him.
Cell grinned. "Don't worry. I'm not going to do anything to you right now. I want you to see your friends suffer before you die." He turned around and looked in the direction in which the androids were about to start their attack. "I'm afraid I can't take any chances with loosing you." With that, he plopped himself onto Usagi, squishing her further into the ground.
Usagi clenched some loose dirt from the pain that was being driven through her body as Cell put his full weight on her back. Her body felt like it had the day she snuck into Vejita's gravity chamber. She felt as though she was being crushed, that her body would explode into thousands of tiny pieces. Tears began to form in the base of her eyes as the pain only got worse with time. 'Why is he doing this to me? Why is the guardian of time making me stay here? I want to go home.'
~*~*~
Rei, Minako, Makoto, and Ami all backed away from the androids. They knew that they wouldn't have the power to defend anything that they attacked her with. It was impossible. Even Mamoru wouldn't have been able to help them now. He was pretty much out of it at the moment. Mamoru happened to be stronger than them. If he couldn't do it, then they definitely couldn't do it either.
Ami couldn't get a reading on the androids at all. She was completely blind in this fight, which scared her. She knew what kind of power they possessed. Goku had shown them what kind of power they would be going up against. But she never thought that they would actually HAVE to go up against them. 'Stay calm Ami. Don't loose your head. You have to concentrate. Don't do anything stupid.'
Makoto was a little more open with this situation. This was the day that she had been training for. She wasn't going to let it go to waste. Though she was backing away, she was only doing it in hopes of getting the androids to make the first move. It was a smart thing to do. It would allow her to try and dodge before they actually made a hit, if any at all. "Come on you stupid androids. Why don't you show us what you've got."
Minako shot a glance over to Makoto. 'Is she crazy?' "Hey, why are you going along with what Cell said? Don't you know that he tried to kill you in the past. Actually, he killed you 17 and he nearly killed 18." She remembered bits and pieces of the story that Usagi had once told her a few years ago. The thing that stuck in her mind the most was how Cell got his energy from absorbing the androids because she found that to be absolutely repulsive.
17 didn't exactly ignore that statement, but he didn't comment on it either. He didn't feel the need to. "Shut your mouth."
Rei unconsciously stopped moving as she turned to look at Mamoru. He was just lying on the ground looking so helpless. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Even though in her heart she knew that she shouldn't. He had caused Cell to pull his attention away from the androids onto them. He hadn't even cared about Usagi. Not that he ever had, but still, she had been put through so much from Cell and Mamoru hadn't even taken into consideration that he was doing the wrong thing by trying to create a new problem. She turned to look in front of her as she felt soft breathing on the top of her head. She gasped with fear when she saw who it was. 18 was standing over her, intimidating her with a nasty glare. "Whoa..." 'Now would be a good time for help guys.'
"Whoa is right kid. Say goodbye to all of your friends. Looks like you're the first to go in this game."
Rei flipped backwards as 18 swung at her. "Too slow, android. I've prepared for your power and know what to expect from you." 'As long as I don't make any mistakes and keep to my toes I should be able to hold up until help arrives.'
"Well look at that. The kid knows some moves. Maybe this will be more fun than I thought." She jumped at Rei with her right leg fully extended.
Rei quickly jumped to the side but didn't quite make it without her face being scraped by 18's foot. 'She's holding back. I wish I could sense her. This would be a lot easier.'
17 watched as the fight between his partner and Rei began to really take off. 'She's fast for a human. I wonder what power level she's at.' His eyes turned completely white as he started to scan her. 'That's odd. She has too high of a power for a human her age. Her power isn't even completely human. But, it isn't Saiyan either.' He turned to the other girls and scanned them too only to get the same results. 'What's going on? They have a strange power too. Only each girls' is different. What are they?' He turned back around to watch the fight with his fellow fighter and Rei, who had taken the fight into the air. The tables had been turned. Now, Rei was throwing all sorts of punches and kicks at 18, while 18 was blocking them very efficiently. Rei wasn't able to get a single hit in on 18 for 18 was too fast. All of a sudden, his head was thrown forward. "What the..."
Minako giggled as 17 turned around and scowled at her. "He, he. You suck!" She threw a rock up into the air and caught it again as if fell. "Here's another one for ya!" She threw a second rock at 17's face, this time he was able to dodge it with ease since he actually knew that it was coming. "Aww, that's not fair."
17 growled as he made two tight fists with his hands. "You're all beginning to piss me off!"
Cell yawned from boredom. "Please hurry up and finish the job before I come over there and kill you all."
17 diverted his attention to Cell. "You shut up. We will kill them when we please. This is the only REAL fun we are going to get on this planet now let us enjoy it."
Cell stood up and stepped forward. "Now you look here. You're lucky that I'm even allowing you to mess with them. I should kill you right now instead of waiting until later to do it." He turned around and picked up Usagi. "Now I'm not even in the mood to play with this kid anymore."
18 stopped her assault on Rei and looked down in Cell's direction. "You were planning to kill us later?"
"Not 17. Just you. But since he seems to like to talk back to me I'll have to do away with him too. He may become a traitor just like you." He let out and evil laugh as five long clear tubes extended from his finger tips. The tips of the tubes were pointed and had holes on the ends that led all the way down.
Mamoru slowly began to push himself away from the ground where he had been so rudely dropped by 17. 'Why do I feel like I need to protect Odango? I hate her.' "Leave...her...alone CELL!" 'Why am I doing this?'
Cell didn't turn around to look at the annoyance. He didn't have to. He didn't pose any threat to his plans now. He would quickly get Usagi's energy and then kill anyone and everyone he wanted. "Don't worry Usagi. Soon I'll have your power and you'll be able to go to hell where you belong." He raised his hand and shoved the sharp tubes into Usagi's neck.
Usagi's eyes bolted wide open as she felt the long slender tube like nails of Cell slither their way into her neck. 'Daddy...I'm sorry.' Tears of pain streamed down her cheeks as she looked into Cell's hate filled eyes.
Cell's eyes told his happiness. "Yes girl. Just hold still." He watched as the tubes were filled with energy. Usagi's life energy was being sucked out of her body and there was nothing she could do about it. "Finally. My queen will be able to rid the world of those who destroyed her." The energy in which he was extracting was filling his body with power. More power than he could have ever imagined. "It's hard to believe that such a runt could have held such a magnificent power. But it's mine now. All mine!"
"I don't think so Cell."
Cell looked over his shoulder at 17. "Once I completely gotten this power I will deal with you all. You will wish that Gero never created you."
"LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE!" A Super Saiyan Gohan jumped from the surrounding trees and rammed his foot right into Cell's unprotected face.
Cell pulled his energy extracting devices out of Usagi's neck and stumbled backwards. He hadn't even sensed Gohan's presence. 'Damn. While I was taking her energy I wasn't able to sense him. Stupid designers always have to have flaws when they make things.' "Damn you Gohan! I'll get you for this."
Gohan didn't waist any time getting to his sister's side. He hoped that he wasn't too late. He had JUST turned Super Saiyan in the room of spirit and time and his father literally kicked him out. When he did come out, his mother was surprisingly calm by his change in appearance. Training with the girls seemed to have changed her. "Usagi! Usagi!" He kneeled down to her side while keeping close tabs on Cell to make sure that he didn't miss any attack that he may have tried to throw at him. "Usagi are you all right?!" Her eyes were completely closed and she was barely breathing. From what he could tell, her energy hadn't really been reduced at all. "Cell you failed. You didn't take any of her energy. You idiot."
Cell grinned. "I disagree Gohan. I got some energy from her. Not enough to please my queen though. You're going to have to step aside if you don't want to be killed, yet." He slowly began to approach the two Saiyans. "Move out of the way."
Gohan stood up. He wouldn't budge out of the way. Even if it meant his own death. He would protect Usagi. "I wouldn't try anything if I were you." He shot a glance at the trees behind him. "Come on out guys."
Cell directed his attention to the trees that lay behind Gohan. "So everyone wants to play now? Are you all done running away?" Piccolo, Tienshin-han, and Krillin all walked out from the trees in the distance looking a bit on the pissed side.
"Seems like you're a bit out numbered now, Cell." 18 found this more invigorating than fighting the kids. At least Cell would prove to be a greater challenge. "You're going down for wanting to kill us."
Cell smirked. "Oh really? I don't think so. I've still got a few more tricks up my sleeve before I throw in the towel. You haven't seen anything yet." He planted his feet into the ground and began to power up. His body began to emit a black smoke like aura. "Piccolo, you of all people should know this move. After all, I got it from you." His body began to form a clear shadow of some sort as a second energy began to take form near his body.
Piccolo pushed past Usagi and Gohan. "You can't be serious. You'll cut your energy in half every time you split. You truly are a fool."
"I wouldn't count on that Piccolo. You forget, I'm not your normal foe here. I've been enhanced by they best scientists. I was built just for this purpose." He laughed loudly as two exact copies of himself emerged from his body. "You guys wanted a party and now you got it." Cell stood in between his clones, who were now performing the same technique that the original Cell just had. "Look, my brothers think that we need more in the family."
Usagi groaned with pain as she raised her head to see what was going on. She had blacked out for a few moments there. "Gohan? What are you doing here?" Her vision was blurred from the lose of energy she had just suffered from and could only make out colors and energy signatures. "Your hair is yellow. You must be a Super Sai..." She let her head pound against the ground as she passed out again.
Gohan turned around in shock. He never would have guessed that Usagi would have been able to withstand such a loss of energy and still be able to be conscious. He surely wouldn't have been able to do such a task. 'I need to get her out of here. She's too weak to fight anymore.' He glanced his eyes over his shoulder to check on the situation of Cell. He still seemed to be multiplying his fourth and fifth self. 'Don't have enough time.'
'Go ahead Gohan. I'll cover you.'
'Huh? Piccolo?'
'Just do it.'
'Right.' He bent over and picked up his sister, making sure that he didn't harm her any further. She needed her rest if she wanted to pull through. He wished that he knew his father's teleportation skill so he could take her to Kami's lookout and have her healed. But that wasn't an option at this point and he couldn't worry about things that weren't possible.
Cell noticed that Gohan was taking Usagi away but he didn't see it as something that he would have to worry about. He would take care of the others and then find Usagi. It wouldn't be too hard to locate her either. He would just have to follow her 'special' energy. "Now you have to fight five of me. Isn't that great? I think it is. I'm getting tired of playing with you ungrateful people. All you want to do is attack me. Well, here I am to attack. All five of me."
Mamoru kept his distance. Not only because he was still quite hurt, but because each Cell seemed to have the same amount of energy as the original. "How are you doing that? Your power should be split."
"No it shouldn't. My dark energy keeps me from splitting my energy. It regenerates my energy as it is used up. There is no way that you can kill me now. I will prevail over all of you weaklings." With the snap of his fingers, the original Cell had his clones out in all directions, attacking anyone they came across. "Time to sit back and watch the fun. I'm going to save my fun for Goku and his two brats." He put his hands on the back of his head and casually walked over to a tree and sat down. "This should be good. Everyone is going to die by me and when I remerge...wait a minute, when I remerge..." He paused for a moment to think about what he had just done. He had split to make four different versions of himself with the same amount of power. When he reemerged he wouldn't have the luxury of splitting again but the outcome would be rewarding. "That's it guys. Kill them all off."
~*~*~
Gohan carried his unconscious sister far away from the fighting. He didn't want her to be hurt anymore than she already was. He could feel the four different Cells fighting with his friends. Cell wasn't being fair. None of his friends were strong enough to fight even one Cell. But than again, no one ever said that your enemy had to be fair.
Gohan found a small dip in the forest ground that was surrounded by trees and boulders. "You should be safe here." He placed her down with great gentleness and care. He couldn't understand how she could have gotten herself so beaten up by Cell and the androids. Her power level was nearly as high as Cell's, if not his equal. Yet here she was, nearly dead. He would have his revenge on Cell. He would make him pay for what he had done. The androids too. They would wish that they never laid a single finger on his sister, even if she was only his sister from the future.
"Gohan..." Usagi slightly opened her eyes enough to see her older brother leaning over her. "I can fight still. Let me go, please." She put her hand on his arm. His skin was so much warmer than her own.
Gohan gasped at her cold touch. That was one sign of major energy loss. "No you aren't ok. I would be crazy to let you go. You can't even stand up on your own. Just stay here until the fight is over. We'll get you when it's safe."
"I can stand up. Honest. Watch." She clenched the dirt beneath her hands and used it for leverage. Her arms shook as she pushed herself about two inches off the ground and then collapsed. "I'll rest first. Yeah. That's it. If I rest I can go back right?" Her whole body began to shake from being so cold.
Gohan couldn't bare to see her like this. It was awful. She shouldn't have been put through this. No one should have. "Yeah sure. Whatever you like. Just as long as you're safe." He pulled his cape over his head and ripped off the material from the weighted shoulder pads. "Keep this on you so you stay warm." He put the cloth over Usagi and tucked the ends under her body. She was still loosing quite a bit of blood. "Hopefully dad will have a Senzu bean or something when he gets out of the room of spirit and time." 'Wait a minute, I don't think he has any left. Crap.' "I gotta go help the others."
~*~*~
~~Kami's lookout~~
Chi-Chi paced back and fourth. She knew that something was wrong. She couldn't sense Ki like the rest of the gang, but she didn't need to. She could feel it in the air. "I hope Gohan and Usagi are ok down there." She stopped her pacing and walked to Kami. "What's going on down there?"
Kami tried to keep a straight face. He knew what would happen if he actually told her. Everyone was in danger. They weren't holding up at all now that Cell was split. Gohan was on his way to fight now, but even he wouldn't be able to hold up against Cell. The androids were even having trouble. But he couldn't keep something like that away from Chi-Chi. She had a right to know what was going on. "I'm not going to go into detail but things are looking pretty grim from here."
~*~*~
"Why won't you just die!?" Makoto yelled as she flew backwards and fired about ten Ki blasts at one of the Cell clones, none of which seemed to do any damage. She had tried numerous times to hit it in the back where there was no protective skin but each time it would move and hit her before she had the chance to do anything.
The Cell clone deflected every single Ki attack that was shot at him with much ease. "Don't you have anything better than that? I'm bored here. I need a challenge."
"HERE'S A NICE CHALLENGE FOR YOU!" Together, Rei and Minako came at Cell from the side ready to kick him from both angles.
18 looked up from her fight with another of one of the clones. 'They're on to something.' She jumped to the air and pulled her shoulders and upper arms back all the way. 'It's his back that's vulnerable.' Two yellow energy balls formed in her hands as she increased her speed.
The clone closed his eyes and arrogantly laughed as he extended his arms out to his side. "Pitiful. Just pitiful." He immediately created his biggest energy balls in his hands and released them onto the girls. He reopened his eyes to look back at Makoto. "Now that that little disturbance is gone."
"Not quite cell!" 18 came from out of nowhere and released her own two attacks into the opening of the clone's protective skin. "Think fast!" She increased her speed to her fullest and quickly flew over his head while he was still struggling with her successful attack. "This will hurt just a bit but it's for your own good." Just as she got to his head, she grabbed onto his shoulders and used him as leverage to flip herself upside down, while now flying backwards. She put her hands out once again and created another Ki attack and fired it at him as soon as she got a clear shot.
Makoto took her chance to get out of there. She didn't want to be around when THAT clone regained himself. She raised herself to 18's level. "Thanks."
"I didn't do that to save you kid. I did it because he's going to try and kill me. And because it's fun. Once Cell is gone, we're still going to kill you and your friends." She flew back down to the Clone, who was starting to come back into the game.
~*~*~
Meanwhile...
The original Cell still sat against his tree and watched the fight. He was very entertained by the fact that his clones were winning. Not that he ever doubted that they would. He just didn't think that the other fighters would be able to put up such a great fight. He thought that they would have been dead by now. But they in fact were not. He had a particular interest in Mamoru and the young girls from the future. They, for some reason, were holding up a lot better than he ever would have thought. "This is too great. Now I just need some of that...what do the humans call it? Oh yes. Popcorn. I need some popcorn and I will be completely happy."
"Or you can just fight me."
Cell turned around to the person that the voice belonged to and smiled. "Gohan. So nice of you to join me here in such a place. Where's your sister. I'm not through with her yet."
Gohan let out a small growl. "She's not here. She's where you can't get your sleazy hands on her. As I recall it you have a thing against me. Why don't we settle the score right here, right now! You and me! If you get through me, that's it. Usagi is all yours since there will be no one else to stop you." 'Except dad but I'm not going to be dumb enough to tell him that.'
"You drive a hard bargain but I'll take it. I beat you, the girl is mine. That won't be too hard considering the fact that you're just as strong as she was when she first started fighting me. Then I kicked her ass, which is exactly what I'm going to do with you." He stood up and cracked his knuckles as she cocked his head from side to side. "I've been waiting for this day for too long. You don't know how overjoyed I am not that it's finally come."
(Well there you have it. Another chapter just for you. ^_^ Anyways, guess what? Now I only have two weeks until school is out. Isn't that great? Two weeks and then I can get one chapter out every night just like I used to. Well, I gotta go. Ja ne)