Usagi stood in between her friends and her foes. She was acting as their shield for they would not have been able to protect themselves from any more attacks from the clones. There was no way that she would allow her friends to be further hurt if she could prevent it. It had been her fault that they were in that position in the first place and she was not about to let it go on any further. She would end this right here and now without hesitation.
They had been fighting for a few minutes while her father was taking care of the original Cell. He was supposed to come and help her take out the clones but she figured that he must have gotten side tracked instead. But she didn't mind. She was able to take care of the quite easily by herself. "Are we not going to continue?" She asked cheekily as she grinned to the clones who stood in front of her, all with indentations in their protective skin. "I should have done this from the beginning."
Rei wasn't sure about their current situation. It seemed all too good to be true. She looked over to Goku and Cell. He seemed to be stronger than Cell and Usagi. Cell's power felt as if it had had a giant chunk of it taken out. Rei figured it had been from a beating that Goku had given him. But none the less, Cell's body was emitting a strange energy. A dark and powerful energy to be exact, which added an eerie felling to the already hate filled atmosphere. 'Something's up. Usagi, you better hurry up.'
17 had had enough of just sitting around and watching Usagi have a starring contest with the clones. He wasn't just going to sit on the sidelines and watch a perfectly good fight go to waste. "Screw this. You guys are a bore. I'm going to have me some fun. You wanna join me, 18?" He turned to her and noticed that she wasn't paying any attention to him. "Fine. Screw you too."
18 had in fact been listening to her partner. She just hadn't said anything because she didn't know what she wanted to do. She hadn't known at all what she was getting herself into when she came into the fight. She hadn't known that the clones would be so powerful. She turned to 17 with a slight hint of fear in her eyes. "I don't think that would be a good idea. I want to see what happens with this kid. She seems pretty powerful. She may be able to kill these guys for us and then we can..."
17 rolled his eyes. "Give me a break. This kid may be a little strong, but she sucks when it comes to fighting. Let me show you what a real fighter does." With that, he pushed past Usagi and jumped out at the clone who stood the closest to Usagi . "Go to hell you stupid bug." He said with complete calmness.
The clone just closed its eyes and sighed. "Gero failed to build you with any common sense." He reached out and grabbed 17 by his face, before he had a chance to make a hit, and threw him over his shoulder. "Anyone else want to try anything?"
Usagi frowned. Though 17 wasn't really fighting with them he definitely had not deserved that. "Why you little..." She bent her fingers just enough to make little claw like shapes with them and reached up to grab the clone in the chest. "You're not getting away with any of this." She dug her nails into its chest as hard as she could, causing the black protective skin to crumble away. "You're don't for Cell!"
She looked to her left and then to her right as she continued to pretty much paralyze her victim without any trouble. On her sides stood two of the other clones. "Let me guess, there's one behind me too, huh?" She didn't even have to look to know. It was obvious that they were going to try and attack her. But she wouldn't be dumb enough to let them attack. Without looking back, Usagi lifted her leg and kicked the clone, who stood behind her, in the knee. She quickly let go of her victim and extended her arms to the sides of her body and blasted the two on her left and right in the face. They all stumbled away from her. "This is fun."
Gohan landed by Piccolo, who was lying on the ground unable to move. "Piccolo, are you all right?" He kneeled down to look at the wounds all of his best friend's body.
"Don't worry about me, kid. I'm fine. You just worry about yourself and what you're going to do to protect these girls."
Gohan nodded. "Right. I need to get them out of here." He looked up to Usagi. She looked as though she had completely regained her power from the Senzu that their father had given her. He wondered if she had gotten a larger portion than him. His power had been replenished enough just to do simple things like flying and making small Ki blasts. Pretty much it was just to get him back on his feet. "She looks like she knows what she's doing."
"No she doesn't." Piccolo lifted his head to look at Usagi, who was just standing and staring into the clones' eyes again. "She's playing with them just like they did with her, and us. She doesn't have much discipline for being a student of Goku. She's acting just like Cell. Arrogant, cocky, overconfident, you name it."
"Just like Vejita would do."
Rei glanced back over to Goku and the real Cell and gasped at what she saw. White rays were being discharged from his body while the two fighters just stood and talked about who knows what. 'Now I know he's up to something. I can feel it. I can see it. Why isn't Goku doing anything.' "Usagi...IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THEM OFF DO IT NOW!"
Usagi jumped from being startled and loss her concentration. As a result, she left herself wide open for a swift punch to her stomach. "Owe!" She grabbed her stomach and took a step back. "Rei what's wrong?!" She looked over to her father and Cell. She couldn't see or feel what the problem was. "Don't scare me like that."
~*~*~
Goku kept his eyes straight onto Cell. He wouldn't make the mistake of letting his guard down. But something wasn't right. He could feel it more in his bones now than he could just a few moments ago. He knew that it had to do with Cell's threat of supposedly having an ultimate power that he was going to bring out. But he couldn't quite put his finger on what it could possibly be. "You're bluffing. You don't have any more power reserves left. You have reached the very end."
Cell smirked. "Is that a fact?" He turned his head to his clones, who appeared to be starting up their fight with Usagi again. "Get your asses over here!"
~*~*~
Usagi turned her attention back to her father and Cell. "What's he yelling about? Huh?" Her eyes picked up motion to her side. "Where are you guys going?" She watched as the half beaten clones flew back to their original form. "Hey wait! I'm not finished." She started running towards Cell, where she all of a sudden began to feel an energy more dark and morbid than before. It seemed familiar to her, which frightened her. "Whoa, that's not a good thing." Unconsciously, she stopped about halfway to her destination. It was as if her legs just would not move anymore, not that she really tried to move. She was just amazed at the type of feelings that were flooding her senses. "What's happening?"
Gohan was utterly confused now. He didn't know what the big hold up with Usagi was. He hadn't felt anything all that big arising from Cell. But the girls seemed to feel something bigger than he or anyone else of their group could feel. It was a little too strange for him. Why could they feel something that they could not? It just didn't make sense. They seemed a little freaked by it too. He stayed by Piccolo's side, knowing fully that he could not do anything more at this point. He was definitely not up to Cell's level of power and he would quickly fall further behind if what the girls were feeling was true. "What should we do Piccolo?"
"Just stay here. Goku should be able to take care of this."
"What about Usagi?" Gohan hoped that she wouldn't get herself nearly killed again. She seemed to be frozen in place.
"I'll be surprised if she gets anything done. She's a lot like you and Vejita mixed. She's seems to get scared when put into positions that she would rather not be put in, just like you did when we were fighting the Saiyans. But when she has more power, she's too cocky, like I said before. I know it's not exactly the best way to describe her, but it's true." Piccolo hoped that Usagi would get her act together soon.
"I wish we could have found a way to do our combined attack. It would have been so useful now. We could have had Cell taken out by now and probably gone home. This isn't fair." Minako whined
~*~*~
Cell's clones stood around him to form a circle. He couldn't wait to remerge. From then on, he would be indestructible. Nothing would penetrate his armor and the people he despised most would know his wrath. "You will pay for even hurting me at all Goku. You will be the first to go and then that brat from the future. But now is not the time for me to tell you what will become of you. Now I'm going to do something that I didn't think that I would have had to have done." He stretched his arms out away from his body. "Come to me my faithful comrades."
Usagi was still unable to move from her trance of being dazed at what was happening not too far from her. Cell's clones, one by one, were approaching him. "What's this going to do? Nothing. He's just going to remerge again and become one...I hope."
Cell smirked once two of his clones placed their hands on top of his. "Good." He closed his eyes and allowed them to remerge into his tattered body, which Goku had done. "Next." The next two walked to him as he pulled his arms back close to his body. "You may want to move away. I don't think you want to be standing there when this happens. You too Usagi. I'm actually going to finish the job now. No more playing around." He re-extended his arms to his clones.
Goku crossed his arms. "I think I'll take my chances standing here."
Cell shrugged his shoulders. "Do as you please." He allowed his clones to be absorbed into his body. In a flash, his black aura once again over took his body, blocking it from anyone's view. A large burst of black power was shot out in all directions as his muscle mass increased, causing his arms to bulge out more than normal. "This is only the beginning."
Goku turned his head and covered his eyes with his arm so as to block any sand or rocks that would be thrown up in his direction. "Where the hell did all that power come from? He shouldn't be able to gain power from re-merging with himself." His feet began to slip from their place on the ground from the intensity of the power blasts. He had to use all of his strength just to keep from flying away.
"You seem to be a little distressed over there, Goku. Why don't I show you more to calm your nerves?" He clenched his fists to squeeze out anymore power that may be hidden away inside his body.
~*~*~
Usagi still stood behind Cell. Oddly enough, she seemed to be able to stand against Cell's power a bit easier. Though she still slipped back every so often. She was pretty much out of hope that she would be able to beat this enemy. Like her father, she couldn't figure out why Cell had gained so much power. He seemed to be four times as strong now than he was before. But how? He hadn't gone through any training. "This fight has been lost. This world has been lost...again. Therefore, all is lost." She shook her head as if she were snapping out of something. "Why do I know this power?"
Piccolo, now wrapped around a tree to keep from flying to far from the battle field, couldn't believe what he had just heard come from Usagi's mouth. It was much too mature to come from the mouth of an eight year old child. A child who does nothing but play and not study. 'What a strange child.'
~*~*~
Goku was loosing his footing more and more as Cell's power increased. "What is he made of?"
Cell gave out one last wave of power to the fighters who dared to oppose him as he smirked. "This is great. I haven't felt this great in...well...ever." He hopped up and down to test out his new agility.
Goku uncovered his face and turned to Cell. "My god..." Cell stood there, looking more flawless than ever. His protective armored skin was completely repaired. The skin was totally black except for his hands and the tips of his feet, which were now dark blue. His face was also black, a sign that told the group that his face was now well protected. His eyes were outlined in dark blue. Even his back had been repaired. "What happened to you? How did you get such a power boost?"
"I knew that question would surface. You see, my re-creators knew that there would be a chance that I could be beaten. It wasn't expected of me to have to use all of this power, but it's obvious that I have to use it. As a result of this knowledge, they made this technique for me."
"But your power. We want to know how you got it. Your power shouldn't have been able to increase just by merging back with your clones." Usagi wanted to punch him, to see if this new power that she was feeling was real.
"That splitting skill was acquired from Piccolo, yes. When I fought in four forms in the future, my power in all clones and I was decreased into a fourth of what it originally was, just as Piccolo's would have been. Yet, my re-creators really liked this skill, they didn't like that fact. So they found away around it. That's where their energy comes into play. Their energy was so abundant in my system that when I split, all clones, including me, had the same amount of energy. Now here's where it gets tricky. Let's see if you all are as smart as you claim to be. Now, when I re-merged in the future, my power went back to normal as all fourths were put back into one. But, since all of my clones had the same amount of power thanks to my dark energy, it was as if we were putting five different powers together, creating an even stronger me. Just as you would put together Goten and Trunks to make Gotenks. Or you Goku, and Vejita to make Gogeta or Vejito. They are twice as strong as a normal fighter since they are two people's powers put together."
"What? How did you know about the fusions?" Usagi never remembered telling Cell about the fusions at all. She never even remembered talking about it to her friends.
"My queen has been studying your family for a very long time, young one." He moved his eyes to look over his shoulder.
Goku was still confused. "So you're saying that you're now four times as strong as you were before? That's insane. You can just keep getting stronger and stronger with doing that."
"That's not entirely true. The scientists who did this to me didn't think that I would need anymore power than this. I can't split anymore. As you see my now is my ultimate form until I absorb Usagi's power, that is." He extended his energy absorbing fingernail like tubes again. "Think fast!" He flipped backwards and ran for Usagi at a much faster speed than her eyes could detect.
Goku couldn't allow that to happen. He had expected Cell to try something like that. As fast as he could, he pressed his fingers to her forehead and teleported to his daughter's location. Though he wasn't fast enough. Cell was about to dig his energy absorbers into her arm. She seemed to be frozen in place. She had to have seen him move from his place. "Get away from her you bastard!" He jumped in front of her, taking the blow from Cell. The energy absorbers began to work their magic as an acute pain ran up and down his body.
~*~*~
"DAD!" Gohan jumped out to help his father but felt a pair of hands wrap around his leg. He turned back. "Piccolo let me go!"
"No! You're going to get yourself killed if you go out there. You're dad can't even block against that!"
~*~*~
Usagi stepped back away from Cell and her father. She was in fear as she stared down at her helpless father. She trembled as her eyes watered. She wanted to help, but what could she do? She was just as weak as her father. She couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to plow into Cell and knock him off of his feet so she could throw consecutive punches at him. It wasn't fair. That energy absorbing wasn't met for him. It had been met for her. She should have been the one getting her energy sucked out of her body.
She snapped when she heard her father cry out in pain. That was it. She couldn't take it anymore. He shouldn't have been suffering because of her. No matter how much pain he had put her through, he hadn't meant it to be mean. At that point, she let her anger get the better of her as she jumped up and performed a roundhouse kick to Cell's face. "GET YOUR CLAWS OUT OF HIM!" Her eyes flashed silver for a couple of seconds. She wouldn't let her father die in this timeline. She hadn't come this far to let anyone die, especially him. He just risked his life for her, and now she would repay him the favor.
Cell's head flew to the side as he pulled his energy absorbers out of his victim. "Was that supposed to do anything? Or were you just trying to be a bit of comedy relief?" He turned his head back to look down at Usagi. "You're pretty brave for a runt you know that? Especially one who can't even begin to dream about beating me." He reached out and grabbed her throat, bringing her face to face to him. "Don't you know what happens to bad little girls?" He threw her on top of Goku. "They die along with their fathers!" He raised his foot and slammed it back down on top of Usagi, forcing to two Saiyan fighters to be pressed into the ground. "This is fun."
An unexpected blast from nowhere came tumbling towards him and crashed into the back of his head. A pair of white shoed feet dropped to the ground with a light tap. "My, my, my Kakorrotto. I leave to train in space for a few months and you start the fight without me. I'm so disappointed in you." A Super Saiyan Vejita, who had just finally returned from training, gazed upon Cell. "And who might you be? I believe killing Kakorrotto has been reserved for me."
Cell smiled as he pulled his foot back and turned back to the prince of Saiyans. "Vejita, I have been waiting for you. Now it's your turn to be beaten into a bloody pulp. By the way, I'm Cell from the future if you haven't figured it out yet."
Vejita just kept a calm face, with a smirk, as usual. "I'm not dumb enough to get into a fight with you. I've not even completed my training. Even though I know I would win. I just don't want to hurt your pride too much by beating the crap out of you with one hit." Though that's not what he was thinking at all. He knew that he would be beaten if he were to engage in a battle with the monster before him.
"Arrogant as always."
Vejita kept his smirk on his face as he ignored Cell and turned his attention to the Saiyan duo, who still lay on the ground. "That bastard surpassed me again. I get to his level and he goes and trains in that damned room just to be able to still be stronger than me. But that was a waste of time I see. He still got his ass kicked. Along with those two brats. Since when were they that strong? I'll bet he took them in that blasted room with him."
Cell was a bit confused at this point. "What room would you be talking about?"
"That damned room of spirit and time where a year passes in there and only a day passes a day out here. I heard him talking about it to the woman one day. But let's not worry about that. I've decided that I'm going to give you the ass kicking you deserve. Since I'm in a good mood, I'll go easy on you." 'Yeah right.'
'Room of spirit and time, huh? One year in there, and one day out here. Sounds promising.' "I don't have time for you right now. As much as I would love to beat you to a bloody pulp right now, I have more important things to worry about." Without waiting for a reply from Vejita, he took to the air and headed for Kami's lookout where no one was expecting him to show up at.
"He got scared and ran away. That's just how good I am I guess." Vejita continued to smirk as he walked to Goku and Usagi. He noted the others coming out of their 'hiding' spots and approaching them. He hated the fact that he had the power to kill Goku now that his power was so low, but he couldn't, He would have to wait until Cell was killed. Then he would have his revenge, after he too got to the level of power that Goku was now at. "Pathetic. You're not worthy of being called Saiyans."
"Vejita!" Gohan yelled as he ran as fast as he could. "We've been wondering where you've been and now you've showed up at the worst time."
Vejita ignored Gohan as he turned away. "If you want to know where that guy Cell has gone just go to Kami's place. He's headed there to go to the room of spirit and time since I told him about it." He crossed his arms and began to walk away.
'Kami's? Mom's there isn't she?' "Aren't you going to help us?" Gohan looked down to his father and sister and got a bad feeling in his gut.
"This isn't my fight. I didn't start it. I wasn't here when it started. I'll kill him after he kills you." He jumped to the air and flew away without any consideration of what he had just said. 'Fools.'
The girls definitely didn't like the sound of Cell heading to Kami's. They had to find a way to stop him, but how? There was nothing in the world that could stop him now. Not even Goku could do it and so far he was the strongest out of all of them. Minako was ready to give up. But she knew that if she were to give up, she and everyone else in the world would meet their deaths. "Kami's...isn't that an hour and a half fly from here?"
Ami shook her head. "Not with Cell's new speed. It will probably take him a half hour to get there.
Forty-five minutes max. We need to get there and warn everyone though. If we don't they will all die. I don't think Kami will allow Cell to use the room of spirit and time for his demented plan, whatever that will be. That's why Cell will kill Kami. To get him out of the way. And Chi-Chi will try to fight back too, I just know she will."
Usagi groaned she slowly raised her head out of her father's hair. "Teleport."
"That's an idea. We could get there faster than Cell."
"Get off Usagi." Goku moved his body around in the dirt.
Usagi jumped off her father from being startled. "You're alright? Cell didn't kill you?"
Goku stood up. "Of course not. He'll have to do better than that if he wants to kill me. All he did was take a little bit of energy from me." He could see the confusion in his friends' face as he grabbed his bloodied arm. "I didn't resist. If you resist something like that, more energy gets taken. It takes energy to resist right? When you resist, he absorbs the energy that is being used to resist, taking more of your energy. If you were watching, I didn't resist. It just took me a few minutes to recover though. I'm fine." He turned to Ami, who seemed to understand a little bit better than everyone else. "Do you guys really know how to teleport?" She nodded. "That's amazing. I never would have expected someone so young to be able to do something like that."
Ami smiled as she took in the compliment. "We don't have time for aftermath talk since the fight isn't over. We need to get to Kami's place before Cell does."
Goku nodded. "Agreed." He motioned for Gohan to come to him. "Let's go. I'll take Gohan with me. You girls each take a person too." He pressed his fingers to his forehead, after his son was within his grasp, and teleported away.
Usagi looked around to the group. Cell hadn't hurt her too much. Because of that, she was very nearly at her fullest power level. "I'll take Mamoru with me."
"Well I guess I have no choice since I don't like any of you. Just don't get too close to me. I don't want your stupidity to rub off of me." Mamoru walked to Usagi and grabbed her shoulder. "Don't put your hand on me. This is enough contact."
Usagi frowned. "Why are you always so mean to me? I'm not stupid." She didn't even give him a chance to say anything in reply before she teleported away.
Piccolo shook his head in disgust. "Those two need to learn how to get along. But it's true, Usagi doesn't seem to know what she's doing without her father telling her exactly what to do."
Makoto didn't think that at all. "LOOK PICCOLO! Usagi is begin very brave for her first REAL fight. You need to shut your mouth just like Mamoru does. You're both so mean."
~*~*~
Usagi arrived at Kami's lookout with Mamoru beside her father and Gohan as did everyone else. "Good, he's not here yet. That's a relief." She looked back to all of her friends. "Daddy, isn't there away that we can make them all better here?"
Goku looked behind him and examined everyone for the first time since he had left the room of spirit and time. They all looked pretty pitiful from the fights and most were in need of some serious medical help. "We can ask Kami."
"GOKU!"
Goku cringed at the sound of his wife yelling for him. "Looks like she's awake." He turned his attention to his wife, who was walking rather angrily towards them. "Ha, ha, hi Chi-Chi! How's it goin?"
Chi-Chi frowned as she crossed her arms. "Oh gee I don't know, now that I have splitting headache and a giant lump on the back of my head from where YOU HIT ME!" She raised her hand to slap him in the face but quickly re-thought her decision as she looked back to everyone who was standing right there.
Goku covered his head with his arms so he would be able to endure the blow. "Take it easy Chi-Chi."
Chi-Chi looked back to her husband. "Tell them to leave Goku. I need to talk to you."
Goku gulped. "Now? This isn't the best..."
"NOW!" Chi-Chi screamed loud enough for the whole earth below to hear. Goku didn't even need to ask for everyone to leave. They knew it was for the best that they left. They didn't want to be in the way when Chi-Chi went ballistic. They had all had the 'pleasure' of seeing it at least once in their lifetimes. "Gohan, Usagi, you stay here. This has to do with you two."
Gohan and Usagi looked at each other in fear of what their mother wanted to talk to them about. "Yes mom?" They both asked as they looked down to the ground, both still powered up to Super Saiyan, the same as Goku.
Chi-Chi ignored her children for a moment and glared into Goku's eyes. "You complete idiot."
Goku was more afraid of his wife at this moment than he had ever been. He knew she would have been mad at him for what he did, but he didn't think that she would have been THIS mad. He had hoped that she would have understood what he did. "Now Chi-Chi, be reasonable and don't do anything stupid. There are children present." He backed up in terror from the look that his wife was giving him.
"There's nothing here that their eyes have never seen or heard." He eyes flared with anger. "How dare you. How dare you attack me like that."
"I've already told you it was for your own good. I didn't do it to hurt you."
Chi-Chi grew even more furious. "You knew what was best? Only I decide what's best for me.
Not you. You had no right to force me to your will. You know NOTHING. Do you hear me? You don't know ANYTHING!"
Goku began to glare a little bit himself. He had only done it for her well being. Not to make her upset. "I KNEW WHAT WAS BEST."
"Just like you knew what you were doing with Usagi becoming a Super Saiyan? You knew that it was best to attack her? And what's worse is that you brought Gohan in on it too. You knew that it was best to fill our son's head with ideas that he can just go around and be rude to someone because they have some power that he wants to bring out. What if he trains someone? He's going to think that he can just beat the hell out of them to 'get their power out."
"No I'm not mom."
Chi-Chi shot a glare at her son. "Shut up!" Gohan coward away.
"I knew what..."
"No you didn't!" Chi-Chi yelled. Across the courtyard, she could be heard yelling by all of the other fighters.
"I did too. You just don't understand."
"Liar! Why do you insist on lying to me all the time Goku?" Chi-Chi was furious. Never in her life had she expected to be having this conversation.
Goku too was becoming furious. He hated to be challenged like this. Especially in front of Gohan. He couldn't state his true feelings. "I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING!"
Chi-Chi snorted. "You knew what you were doing, huh?"
"Yes, why is that so hard for you to understand?"
Chi-Chi wanted to touch onto another subject. There was so much bottled up anger and feelings that she wanted to get out right there and then. "Then I can trust the kids' welfare with you, right?"
"What the hell kind of question is that supposed to be?"
Chi-Chi's glare turned into a scowl as her mood was quickly deteriorating. "Just answer the damned question."
"Fine. Right. You can trust me with the kids." Goku had no idea what she was trying to prove with it.
Chi-Chi didn't fully believe that. "You'd never hurt them, right? They will always be safe with you right?"
"What do you take me for? An abusive father? Of course I'll always make sure they are safe with me!"
Chi-Chi crossed her arms and furiously tapped her feet on the ground. "Liar. You and your pride are as bad as mine. You said you knew what you were doing; yet you had no idea what would happen to Usagi when you pulled that boneheaded stunt. In that situation, yes, you were being abusive. And what of Gohan? Did you beat the bloody crap out of him too when you were training him?"
Goku couldn't believe these accusations that his wife was coming up with. Out of all the times that she could have picked to have this conversation with him, she had to pick this one. "It worked. It was the only way to do it."
"It nearly killed her. If her father hadn't shown she would be dead now and it would have been all your fault. Now tell me, HOW THE HELL ARE THEY SAFE WHEN YOU DO THAT?"
"I didn't know that would happen"
"There's one lie, you had just said you KNEW what you were doing."
"How could I have known? Gohan's body never reacted to power like that."
"You dumbass. After living with Usagi for a year you should have known that she is very different than Gohan. She is more fragile and you should have taken that into consideration. How about the fact that your future self knew not to do it. He's been training her for years and wouldn't try to bring out her power. Why did you think you knew so much more than he does?"
Goku didn't know how to respond to that one. "I..."
"And that stunt with attacking me. I won't take any abuse from you. I know I hit you a lot. I admit that I shouldn't do it. But when I hit you it's the only way to get your attention. I know I can't hurt you. But you intentionally hit me knowing full well that it would hurt me. You were a Super Saiyan for god sakes."
Goku powered down. He didn't want to be accused of trying to intimidate her. "I did it to stop you from trying to fight Cell."
"You idiot I wasn't going to fight I knew I wouldn't stand a chance. I wanted to help my KIDS. I wanted to help them if they needed it. You know, be a parent. Unlike you, Mr. Let's just try to kill the kid in hopes that the power comes out."
"Chi-Chi you know I don't think that way. You know that I love Gohan, and even Usagi. And, I didn't know that's why you wanted to go."
"You didn't ask."
"I..."
"ENOUGH FIGHT ME!" She crouched down into fighting position.
Goku hoped that he didn't hear what he thought he just heared. "WHAT?!"
" You heard me fight me. If you win, I do what you say and will not go to the battles. But if I win, you stop lying to me. You didn't even consult me on the training that you were going to give Usagi. Next time, you will tell me what you are planning. Plus, you will STOP interrupting Gohan's studies. Yes, I know all the times that he has faked his studying. No more flying off when you're scared to actually continue a conversation. Like when the girls had that water fight in the bathroom. They should have been the ones to clean it up, not me. Now we fight, and don't hold back. Power back up to Super Saiyan IF YOU CAN."
Goku wasn't about to fight his wife. If she was complaining about being hurt by him now, he didn't even want to think about what would have happened to her if her fought her for real. "Chi-Chi I'm not going to fight you. I don't want..."
"What's wrong Goku? Afraid to fight me anymore? Come on. We used to do it all the time. Now I'm just raising the stakes a little bit. Your ideas Vs. mine. So FIGHT ME!" Chi-Chi taunted her husband with her hands.
"I'm not afraid to fight you, I'm just afraid to hurt you."
"You didn't seem to be phased by that before. Come on!"
Usagi didn't know what was going on. She had never seen her parents talking to each other like this before. She had seen them argue many times but never to this extent. Her mother had never challenged her father before. She was scared that something may happen. "Wai..." She stopped when she saw her mother glaring at her. 'Is this partly my fault?'
"We start now! Go Super Saiyan NOW!"
Goku would have to give in to this one. Chi-Chi wouldn't drop this until one person was a victor. He sighed. "Fine" He began to concentrate his energy to return to the form of being Super Saiyan.
Chi-Chi didn't give Goku a chance to so much as move before she made her first move. Knowing if she were to allow him to, she would have lost, she rushed towards him, making it look like she was going to ram into him, but instead skid down between his legs and hit him in the groin as hard as she could with both of her hands put together to form a bigger fist. Losing concentration, Goku collapsed to the ground.
Chi-Chi quickly stood up and turned to her husband, who was now on the ground in pain. "You have to concentrate to become Super Saiyan that's a weak spot that you may want to fix."
Concentrating her ki as the girls showed her; she powered up a power punch and hit him in the back of the neck just above the shoulder. Normally this secrete nerve punch her father taught her wouldn't effect Goku, but with the added ki energy and his pain, it worked, causing him to become immobile.
Usagi couldn't believe it. That had to be the first time that she had seen her father unwillingly loose a fight to ANYONE. "You won mamma."
Chi-Chi rubbed her wrist. "Yes little one. Winning a battle doesn't mean most powerful, skill and determination also count. You only truly lose if you give up, remember that Usagi, Gohan. It will come in handy."
Usagi looked at her father than back to her mother and in a quivering voice asked; "Are you going to get a divorce now?" She remembered some kids talking at her school who had parents who were divorced because they had a big fight, similar to this one, only without the violence.
Gohan's face was overtaken with fear as he shuddered from the thought. He would hate it if his parents got a divorce. He never wanted to think about that. "Please don't mom."
That hadn't ever crossed her mind as it was never a desired thing for her. She always wanted to be with Goku no matter what. "No, NO. I love your father with all my heart. I would never leave him. This isn't about me not loving him anymore. This is about respect. But please don't worry about this right now. You have to prepare for Cell's arrival."
(Ok, that's it for this part. Look at that, I nearly reached 11 pages. I do have to say that the idea for that last segment was Comet Moon's idea. He wrote that fight seen. I just added detail to it and cleaned it up a bit to put into story format. He also made a lot of the dialogue. I loved it though and I really wanted to use it. So, what did you think? Gotta go. Homework calls. Ja!)
They had been fighting for a few minutes while her father was taking care of the original Cell. He was supposed to come and help her take out the clones but she figured that he must have gotten side tracked instead. But she didn't mind. She was able to take care of the quite easily by herself. "Are we not going to continue?" She asked cheekily as she grinned to the clones who stood in front of her, all with indentations in their protective skin. "I should have done this from the beginning."
Rei wasn't sure about their current situation. It seemed all too good to be true. She looked over to Goku and Cell. He seemed to be stronger than Cell and Usagi. Cell's power felt as if it had had a giant chunk of it taken out. Rei figured it had been from a beating that Goku had given him. But none the less, Cell's body was emitting a strange energy. A dark and powerful energy to be exact, which added an eerie felling to the already hate filled atmosphere. 'Something's up. Usagi, you better hurry up.'
17 had had enough of just sitting around and watching Usagi have a starring contest with the clones. He wasn't just going to sit on the sidelines and watch a perfectly good fight go to waste. "Screw this. You guys are a bore. I'm going to have me some fun. You wanna join me, 18?" He turned to her and noticed that she wasn't paying any attention to him. "Fine. Screw you too."
18 had in fact been listening to her partner. She just hadn't said anything because she didn't know what she wanted to do. She hadn't known at all what she was getting herself into when she came into the fight. She hadn't known that the clones would be so powerful. She turned to 17 with a slight hint of fear in her eyes. "I don't think that would be a good idea. I want to see what happens with this kid. She seems pretty powerful. She may be able to kill these guys for us and then we can..."
17 rolled his eyes. "Give me a break. This kid may be a little strong, but she sucks when it comes to fighting. Let me show you what a real fighter does." With that, he pushed past Usagi and jumped out at the clone who stood the closest to Usagi . "Go to hell you stupid bug." He said with complete calmness.
The clone just closed its eyes and sighed. "Gero failed to build you with any common sense." He reached out and grabbed 17 by his face, before he had a chance to make a hit, and threw him over his shoulder. "Anyone else want to try anything?"
Usagi frowned. Though 17 wasn't really fighting with them he definitely had not deserved that. "Why you little..." She bent her fingers just enough to make little claw like shapes with them and reached up to grab the clone in the chest. "You're not getting away with any of this." She dug her nails into its chest as hard as she could, causing the black protective skin to crumble away. "You're don't for Cell!"
She looked to her left and then to her right as she continued to pretty much paralyze her victim without any trouble. On her sides stood two of the other clones. "Let me guess, there's one behind me too, huh?" She didn't even have to look to know. It was obvious that they were going to try and attack her. But she wouldn't be dumb enough to let them attack. Without looking back, Usagi lifted her leg and kicked the clone, who stood behind her, in the knee. She quickly let go of her victim and extended her arms to the sides of her body and blasted the two on her left and right in the face. They all stumbled away from her. "This is fun."
Gohan landed by Piccolo, who was lying on the ground unable to move. "Piccolo, are you all right?" He kneeled down to look at the wounds all of his best friend's body.
"Don't worry about me, kid. I'm fine. You just worry about yourself and what you're going to do to protect these girls."
Gohan nodded. "Right. I need to get them out of here." He looked up to Usagi. She looked as though she had completely regained her power from the Senzu that their father had given her. He wondered if she had gotten a larger portion than him. His power had been replenished enough just to do simple things like flying and making small Ki blasts. Pretty much it was just to get him back on his feet. "She looks like she knows what she's doing."
"No she doesn't." Piccolo lifted his head to look at Usagi, who was just standing and staring into the clones' eyes again. "She's playing with them just like they did with her, and us. She doesn't have much discipline for being a student of Goku. She's acting just like Cell. Arrogant, cocky, overconfident, you name it."
"Just like Vejita would do."
Rei glanced back over to Goku and the real Cell and gasped at what she saw. White rays were being discharged from his body while the two fighters just stood and talked about who knows what. 'Now I know he's up to something. I can feel it. I can see it. Why isn't Goku doing anything.' "Usagi...IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THEM OFF DO IT NOW!"
Usagi jumped from being startled and loss her concentration. As a result, she left herself wide open for a swift punch to her stomach. "Owe!" She grabbed her stomach and took a step back. "Rei what's wrong?!" She looked over to her father and Cell. She couldn't see or feel what the problem was. "Don't scare me like that."
~*~*~
Goku kept his eyes straight onto Cell. He wouldn't make the mistake of letting his guard down. But something wasn't right. He could feel it more in his bones now than he could just a few moments ago. He knew that it had to do with Cell's threat of supposedly having an ultimate power that he was going to bring out. But he couldn't quite put his finger on what it could possibly be. "You're bluffing. You don't have any more power reserves left. You have reached the very end."
Cell smirked. "Is that a fact?" He turned his head to his clones, who appeared to be starting up their fight with Usagi again. "Get your asses over here!"
~*~*~
Usagi turned her attention back to her father and Cell. "What's he yelling about? Huh?" Her eyes picked up motion to her side. "Where are you guys going?" She watched as the half beaten clones flew back to their original form. "Hey wait! I'm not finished." She started running towards Cell, where she all of a sudden began to feel an energy more dark and morbid than before. It seemed familiar to her, which frightened her. "Whoa, that's not a good thing." Unconsciously, she stopped about halfway to her destination. It was as if her legs just would not move anymore, not that she really tried to move. She was just amazed at the type of feelings that were flooding her senses. "What's happening?"
Gohan was utterly confused now. He didn't know what the big hold up with Usagi was. He hadn't felt anything all that big arising from Cell. But the girls seemed to feel something bigger than he or anyone else of their group could feel. It was a little too strange for him. Why could they feel something that they could not? It just didn't make sense. They seemed a little freaked by it too. He stayed by Piccolo's side, knowing fully that he could not do anything more at this point. He was definitely not up to Cell's level of power and he would quickly fall further behind if what the girls were feeling was true. "What should we do Piccolo?"
"Just stay here. Goku should be able to take care of this."
"What about Usagi?" Gohan hoped that she wouldn't get herself nearly killed again. She seemed to be frozen in place.
"I'll be surprised if she gets anything done. She's a lot like you and Vejita mixed. She's seems to get scared when put into positions that she would rather not be put in, just like you did when we were fighting the Saiyans. But when she has more power, she's too cocky, like I said before. I know it's not exactly the best way to describe her, but it's true." Piccolo hoped that Usagi would get her act together soon.
"I wish we could have found a way to do our combined attack. It would have been so useful now. We could have had Cell taken out by now and probably gone home. This isn't fair." Minako whined
~*~*~
Cell's clones stood around him to form a circle. He couldn't wait to remerge. From then on, he would be indestructible. Nothing would penetrate his armor and the people he despised most would know his wrath. "You will pay for even hurting me at all Goku. You will be the first to go and then that brat from the future. But now is not the time for me to tell you what will become of you. Now I'm going to do something that I didn't think that I would have had to have done." He stretched his arms out away from his body. "Come to me my faithful comrades."
Usagi was still unable to move from her trance of being dazed at what was happening not too far from her. Cell's clones, one by one, were approaching him. "What's this going to do? Nothing. He's just going to remerge again and become one...I hope."
Cell smirked once two of his clones placed their hands on top of his. "Good." He closed his eyes and allowed them to remerge into his tattered body, which Goku had done. "Next." The next two walked to him as he pulled his arms back close to his body. "You may want to move away. I don't think you want to be standing there when this happens. You too Usagi. I'm actually going to finish the job now. No more playing around." He re-extended his arms to his clones.
Goku crossed his arms. "I think I'll take my chances standing here."
Cell shrugged his shoulders. "Do as you please." He allowed his clones to be absorbed into his body. In a flash, his black aura once again over took his body, blocking it from anyone's view. A large burst of black power was shot out in all directions as his muscle mass increased, causing his arms to bulge out more than normal. "This is only the beginning."
Goku turned his head and covered his eyes with his arm so as to block any sand or rocks that would be thrown up in his direction. "Where the hell did all that power come from? He shouldn't be able to gain power from re-merging with himself." His feet began to slip from their place on the ground from the intensity of the power blasts. He had to use all of his strength just to keep from flying away.
"You seem to be a little distressed over there, Goku. Why don't I show you more to calm your nerves?" He clenched his fists to squeeze out anymore power that may be hidden away inside his body.
~*~*~
Usagi still stood behind Cell. Oddly enough, she seemed to be able to stand against Cell's power a bit easier. Though she still slipped back every so often. She was pretty much out of hope that she would be able to beat this enemy. Like her father, she couldn't figure out why Cell had gained so much power. He seemed to be four times as strong now than he was before. But how? He hadn't gone through any training. "This fight has been lost. This world has been lost...again. Therefore, all is lost." She shook her head as if she were snapping out of something. "Why do I know this power?"
Piccolo, now wrapped around a tree to keep from flying to far from the battle field, couldn't believe what he had just heard come from Usagi's mouth. It was much too mature to come from the mouth of an eight year old child. A child who does nothing but play and not study. 'What a strange child.'
~*~*~
Goku was loosing his footing more and more as Cell's power increased. "What is he made of?"
Cell gave out one last wave of power to the fighters who dared to oppose him as he smirked. "This is great. I haven't felt this great in...well...ever." He hopped up and down to test out his new agility.
Goku uncovered his face and turned to Cell. "My god..." Cell stood there, looking more flawless than ever. His protective armored skin was completely repaired. The skin was totally black except for his hands and the tips of his feet, which were now dark blue. His face was also black, a sign that told the group that his face was now well protected. His eyes were outlined in dark blue. Even his back had been repaired. "What happened to you? How did you get such a power boost?"
"I knew that question would surface. You see, my re-creators knew that there would be a chance that I could be beaten. It wasn't expected of me to have to use all of this power, but it's obvious that I have to use it. As a result of this knowledge, they made this technique for me."
"But your power. We want to know how you got it. Your power shouldn't have been able to increase just by merging back with your clones." Usagi wanted to punch him, to see if this new power that she was feeling was real.
"That splitting skill was acquired from Piccolo, yes. When I fought in four forms in the future, my power in all clones and I was decreased into a fourth of what it originally was, just as Piccolo's would have been. Yet, my re-creators really liked this skill, they didn't like that fact. So they found away around it. That's where their energy comes into play. Their energy was so abundant in my system that when I split, all clones, including me, had the same amount of energy. Now here's where it gets tricky. Let's see if you all are as smart as you claim to be. Now, when I re-merged in the future, my power went back to normal as all fourths were put back into one. But, since all of my clones had the same amount of power thanks to my dark energy, it was as if we were putting five different powers together, creating an even stronger me. Just as you would put together Goten and Trunks to make Gotenks. Or you Goku, and Vejita to make Gogeta or Vejito. They are twice as strong as a normal fighter since they are two people's powers put together."
"What? How did you know about the fusions?" Usagi never remembered telling Cell about the fusions at all. She never even remembered talking about it to her friends.
"My queen has been studying your family for a very long time, young one." He moved his eyes to look over his shoulder.
Goku was still confused. "So you're saying that you're now four times as strong as you were before? That's insane. You can just keep getting stronger and stronger with doing that."
"That's not entirely true. The scientists who did this to me didn't think that I would need anymore power than this. I can't split anymore. As you see my now is my ultimate form until I absorb Usagi's power, that is." He extended his energy absorbing fingernail like tubes again. "Think fast!" He flipped backwards and ran for Usagi at a much faster speed than her eyes could detect.
Goku couldn't allow that to happen. He had expected Cell to try something like that. As fast as he could, he pressed his fingers to her forehead and teleported to his daughter's location. Though he wasn't fast enough. Cell was about to dig his energy absorbers into her arm. She seemed to be frozen in place. She had to have seen him move from his place. "Get away from her you bastard!" He jumped in front of her, taking the blow from Cell. The energy absorbers began to work their magic as an acute pain ran up and down his body.
~*~*~
"DAD!" Gohan jumped out to help his father but felt a pair of hands wrap around his leg. He turned back. "Piccolo let me go!"
"No! You're going to get yourself killed if you go out there. You're dad can't even block against that!"
~*~*~
Usagi stepped back away from Cell and her father. She was in fear as she stared down at her helpless father. She trembled as her eyes watered. She wanted to help, but what could she do? She was just as weak as her father. She couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to plow into Cell and knock him off of his feet so she could throw consecutive punches at him. It wasn't fair. That energy absorbing wasn't met for him. It had been met for her. She should have been the one getting her energy sucked out of her body.
She snapped when she heard her father cry out in pain. That was it. She couldn't take it anymore. He shouldn't have been suffering because of her. No matter how much pain he had put her through, he hadn't meant it to be mean. At that point, she let her anger get the better of her as she jumped up and performed a roundhouse kick to Cell's face. "GET YOUR CLAWS OUT OF HIM!" Her eyes flashed silver for a couple of seconds. She wouldn't let her father die in this timeline. She hadn't come this far to let anyone die, especially him. He just risked his life for her, and now she would repay him the favor.
Cell's head flew to the side as he pulled his energy absorbers out of his victim. "Was that supposed to do anything? Or were you just trying to be a bit of comedy relief?" He turned his head back to look down at Usagi. "You're pretty brave for a runt you know that? Especially one who can't even begin to dream about beating me." He reached out and grabbed her throat, bringing her face to face to him. "Don't you know what happens to bad little girls?" He threw her on top of Goku. "They die along with their fathers!" He raised his foot and slammed it back down on top of Usagi, forcing to two Saiyan fighters to be pressed into the ground. "This is fun."
An unexpected blast from nowhere came tumbling towards him and crashed into the back of his head. A pair of white shoed feet dropped to the ground with a light tap. "My, my, my Kakorrotto. I leave to train in space for a few months and you start the fight without me. I'm so disappointed in you." A Super Saiyan Vejita, who had just finally returned from training, gazed upon Cell. "And who might you be? I believe killing Kakorrotto has been reserved for me."
Cell smiled as he pulled his foot back and turned back to the prince of Saiyans. "Vejita, I have been waiting for you. Now it's your turn to be beaten into a bloody pulp. By the way, I'm Cell from the future if you haven't figured it out yet."
Vejita just kept a calm face, with a smirk, as usual. "I'm not dumb enough to get into a fight with you. I've not even completed my training. Even though I know I would win. I just don't want to hurt your pride too much by beating the crap out of you with one hit." Though that's not what he was thinking at all. He knew that he would be beaten if he were to engage in a battle with the monster before him.
"Arrogant as always."
Vejita kept his smirk on his face as he ignored Cell and turned his attention to the Saiyan duo, who still lay on the ground. "That bastard surpassed me again. I get to his level and he goes and trains in that damned room just to be able to still be stronger than me. But that was a waste of time I see. He still got his ass kicked. Along with those two brats. Since when were they that strong? I'll bet he took them in that blasted room with him."
Cell was a bit confused at this point. "What room would you be talking about?"
"That damned room of spirit and time where a year passes in there and only a day passes a day out here. I heard him talking about it to the woman one day. But let's not worry about that. I've decided that I'm going to give you the ass kicking you deserve. Since I'm in a good mood, I'll go easy on you." 'Yeah right.'
'Room of spirit and time, huh? One year in there, and one day out here. Sounds promising.' "I don't have time for you right now. As much as I would love to beat you to a bloody pulp right now, I have more important things to worry about." Without waiting for a reply from Vejita, he took to the air and headed for Kami's lookout where no one was expecting him to show up at.
"He got scared and ran away. That's just how good I am I guess." Vejita continued to smirk as he walked to Goku and Usagi. He noted the others coming out of their 'hiding' spots and approaching them. He hated the fact that he had the power to kill Goku now that his power was so low, but he couldn't, He would have to wait until Cell was killed. Then he would have his revenge, after he too got to the level of power that Goku was now at. "Pathetic. You're not worthy of being called Saiyans."
"Vejita!" Gohan yelled as he ran as fast as he could. "We've been wondering where you've been and now you've showed up at the worst time."
Vejita ignored Gohan as he turned away. "If you want to know where that guy Cell has gone just go to Kami's place. He's headed there to go to the room of spirit and time since I told him about it." He crossed his arms and began to walk away.
'Kami's? Mom's there isn't she?' "Aren't you going to help us?" Gohan looked down to his father and sister and got a bad feeling in his gut.
"This isn't my fight. I didn't start it. I wasn't here when it started. I'll kill him after he kills you." He jumped to the air and flew away without any consideration of what he had just said. 'Fools.'
The girls definitely didn't like the sound of Cell heading to Kami's. They had to find a way to stop him, but how? There was nothing in the world that could stop him now. Not even Goku could do it and so far he was the strongest out of all of them. Minako was ready to give up. But she knew that if she were to give up, she and everyone else in the world would meet their deaths. "Kami's...isn't that an hour and a half fly from here?"
Ami shook her head. "Not with Cell's new speed. It will probably take him a half hour to get there.
Forty-five minutes max. We need to get there and warn everyone though. If we don't they will all die. I don't think Kami will allow Cell to use the room of spirit and time for his demented plan, whatever that will be. That's why Cell will kill Kami. To get him out of the way. And Chi-Chi will try to fight back too, I just know she will."
Usagi groaned she slowly raised her head out of her father's hair. "Teleport."
"That's an idea. We could get there faster than Cell."
"Get off Usagi." Goku moved his body around in the dirt.
Usagi jumped off her father from being startled. "You're alright? Cell didn't kill you?"
Goku stood up. "Of course not. He'll have to do better than that if he wants to kill me. All he did was take a little bit of energy from me." He could see the confusion in his friends' face as he grabbed his bloodied arm. "I didn't resist. If you resist something like that, more energy gets taken. It takes energy to resist right? When you resist, he absorbs the energy that is being used to resist, taking more of your energy. If you were watching, I didn't resist. It just took me a few minutes to recover though. I'm fine." He turned to Ami, who seemed to understand a little bit better than everyone else. "Do you guys really know how to teleport?" She nodded. "That's amazing. I never would have expected someone so young to be able to do something like that."
Ami smiled as she took in the compliment. "We don't have time for aftermath talk since the fight isn't over. We need to get to Kami's place before Cell does."
Goku nodded. "Agreed." He motioned for Gohan to come to him. "Let's go. I'll take Gohan with me. You girls each take a person too." He pressed his fingers to his forehead, after his son was within his grasp, and teleported away.
Usagi looked around to the group. Cell hadn't hurt her too much. Because of that, she was very nearly at her fullest power level. "I'll take Mamoru with me."
"Well I guess I have no choice since I don't like any of you. Just don't get too close to me. I don't want your stupidity to rub off of me." Mamoru walked to Usagi and grabbed her shoulder. "Don't put your hand on me. This is enough contact."
Usagi frowned. "Why are you always so mean to me? I'm not stupid." She didn't even give him a chance to say anything in reply before she teleported away.
Piccolo shook his head in disgust. "Those two need to learn how to get along. But it's true, Usagi doesn't seem to know what she's doing without her father telling her exactly what to do."
Makoto didn't think that at all. "LOOK PICCOLO! Usagi is begin very brave for her first REAL fight. You need to shut your mouth just like Mamoru does. You're both so mean."
~*~*~
Usagi arrived at Kami's lookout with Mamoru beside her father and Gohan as did everyone else. "Good, he's not here yet. That's a relief." She looked back to all of her friends. "Daddy, isn't there away that we can make them all better here?"
Goku looked behind him and examined everyone for the first time since he had left the room of spirit and time. They all looked pretty pitiful from the fights and most were in need of some serious medical help. "We can ask Kami."
"GOKU!"
Goku cringed at the sound of his wife yelling for him. "Looks like she's awake." He turned his attention to his wife, who was walking rather angrily towards them. "Ha, ha, hi Chi-Chi! How's it goin?"
Chi-Chi frowned as she crossed her arms. "Oh gee I don't know, now that I have splitting headache and a giant lump on the back of my head from where YOU HIT ME!" She raised her hand to slap him in the face but quickly re-thought her decision as she looked back to everyone who was standing right there.
Goku covered his head with his arms so he would be able to endure the blow. "Take it easy Chi-Chi."
Chi-Chi looked back to her husband. "Tell them to leave Goku. I need to talk to you."
Goku gulped. "Now? This isn't the best..."
"NOW!" Chi-Chi screamed loud enough for the whole earth below to hear. Goku didn't even need to ask for everyone to leave. They knew it was for the best that they left. They didn't want to be in the way when Chi-Chi went ballistic. They had all had the 'pleasure' of seeing it at least once in their lifetimes. "Gohan, Usagi, you stay here. This has to do with you two."
Gohan and Usagi looked at each other in fear of what their mother wanted to talk to them about. "Yes mom?" They both asked as they looked down to the ground, both still powered up to Super Saiyan, the same as Goku.
Chi-Chi ignored her children for a moment and glared into Goku's eyes. "You complete idiot."
Goku was more afraid of his wife at this moment than he had ever been. He knew she would have been mad at him for what he did, but he didn't think that she would have been THIS mad. He had hoped that she would have understood what he did. "Now Chi-Chi, be reasonable and don't do anything stupid. There are children present." He backed up in terror from the look that his wife was giving him.
"There's nothing here that their eyes have never seen or heard." He eyes flared with anger. "How dare you. How dare you attack me like that."
"I've already told you it was for your own good. I didn't do it to hurt you."
Chi-Chi grew even more furious. "You knew what was best? Only I decide what's best for me.
Not you. You had no right to force me to your will. You know NOTHING. Do you hear me? You don't know ANYTHING!"
Goku began to glare a little bit himself. He had only done it for her well being. Not to make her upset. "I KNEW WHAT WAS BEST."
"Just like you knew what you were doing with Usagi becoming a Super Saiyan? You knew that it was best to attack her? And what's worse is that you brought Gohan in on it too. You knew that it was best to fill our son's head with ideas that he can just go around and be rude to someone because they have some power that he wants to bring out. What if he trains someone? He's going to think that he can just beat the hell out of them to 'get their power out."
"No I'm not mom."
Chi-Chi shot a glare at her son. "Shut up!" Gohan coward away.
"I knew what..."
"No you didn't!" Chi-Chi yelled. Across the courtyard, she could be heard yelling by all of the other fighters.
"I did too. You just don't understand."
"Liar! Why do you insist on lying to me all the time Goku?" Chi-Chi was furious. Never in her life had she expected to be having this conversation.
Goku too was becoming furious. He hated to be challenged like this. Especially in front of Gohan. He couldn't state his true feelings. "I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING!"
Chi-Chi snorted. "You knew what you were doing, huh?"
"Yes, why is that so hard for you to understand?"
Chi-Chi wanted to touch onto another subject. There was so much bottled up anger and feelings that she wanted to get out right there and then. "Then I can trust the kids' welfare with you, right?"
"What the hell kind of question is that supposed to be?"
Chi-Chi's glare turned into a scowl as her mood was quickly deteriorating. "Just answer the damned question."
"Fine. Right. You can trust me with the kids." Goku had no idea what she was trying to prove with it.
Chi-Chi didn't fully believe that. "You'd never hurt them, right? They will always be safe with you right?"
"What do you take me for? An abusive father? Of course I'll always make sure they are safe with me!"
Chi-Chi crossed her arms and furiously tapped her feet on the ground. "Liar. You and your pride are as bad as mine. You said you knew what you were doing; yet you had no idea what would happen to Usagi when you pulled that boneheaded stunt. In that situation, yes, you were being abusive. And what of Gohan? Did you beat the bloody crap out of him too when you were training him?"
Goku couldn't believe these accusations that his wife was coming up with. Out of all the times that she could have picked to have this conversation with him, she had to pick this one. "It worked. It was the only way to do it."
"It nearly killed her. If her father hadn't shown she would be dead now and it would have been all your fault. Now tell me, HOW THE HELL ARE THEY SAFE WHEN YOU DO THAT?"
"I didn't know that would happen"
"There's one lie, you had just said you KNEW what you were doing."
"How could I have known? Gohan's body never reacted to power like that."
"You dumbass. After living with Usagi for a year you should have known that she is very different than Gohan. She is more fragile and you should have taken that into consideration. How about the fact that your future self knew not to do it. He's been training her for years and wouldn't try to bring out her power. Why did you think you knew so much more than he does?"
Goku didn't know how to respond to that one. "I..."
"And that stunt with attacking me. I won't take any abuse from you. I know I hit you a lot. I admit that I shouldn't do it. But when I hit you it's the only way to get your attention. I know I can't hurt you. But you intentionally hit me knowing full well that it would hurt me. You were a Super Saiyan for god sakes."
Goku powered down. He didn't want to be accused of trying to intimidate her. "I did it to stop you from trying to fight Cell."
"You idiot I wasn't going to fight I knew I wouldn't stand a chance. I wanted to help my KIDS. I wanted to help them if they needed it. You know, be a parent. Unlike you, Mr. Let's just try to kill the kid in hopes that the power comes out."
"Chi-Chi you know I don't think that way. You know that I love Gohan, and even Usagi. And, I didn't know that's why you wanted to go."
"You didn't ask."
"I..."
"ENOUGH FIGHT ME!" She crouched down into fighting position.
Goku hoped that he didn't hear what he thought he just heared. "WHAT?!"
" You heard me fight me. If you win, I do what you say and will not go to the battles. But if I win, you stop lying to me. You didn't even consult me on the training that you were going to give Usagi. Next time, you will tell me what you are planning. Plus, you will STOP interrupting Gohan's studies. Yes, I know all the times that he has faked his studying. No more flying off when you're scared to actually continue a conversation. Like when the girls had that water fight in the bathroom. They should have been the ones to clean it up, not me. Now we fight, and don't hold back. Power back up to Super Saiyan IF YOU CAN."
Goku wasn't about to fight his wife. If she was complaining about being hurt by him now, he didn't even want to think about what would have happened to her if her fought her for real. "Chi-Chi I'm not going to fight you. I don't want..."
"What's wrong Goku? Afraid to fight me anymore? Come on. We used to do it all the time. Now I'm just raising the stakes a little bit. Your ideas Vs. mine. So FIGHT ME!" Chi-Chi taunted her husband with her hands.
"I'm not afraid to fight you, I'm just afraid to hurt you."
"You didn't seem to be phased by that before. Come on!"
Usagi didn't know what was going on. She had never seen her parents talking to each other like this before. She had seen them argue many times but never to this extent. Her mother had never challenged her father before. She was scared that something may happen. "Wai..." She stopped when she saw her mother glaring at her. 'Is this partly my fault?'
"We start now! Go Super Saiyan NOW!"
Goku would have to give in to this one. Chi-Chi wouldn't drop this until one person was a victor. He sighed. "Fine" He began to concentrate his energy to return to the form of being Super Saiyan.
Chi-Chi didn't give Goku a chance to so much as move before she made her first move. Knowing if she were to allow him to, she would have lost, she rushed towards him, making it look like she was going to ram into him, but instead skid down between his legs and hit him in the groin as hard as she could with both of her hands put together to form a bigger fist. Losing concentration, Goku collapsed to the ground.
Chi-Chi quickly stood up and turned to her husband, who was now on the ground in pain. "You have to concentrate to become Super Saiyan that's a weak spot that you may want to fix."
Concentrating her ki as the girls showed her; she powered up a power punch and hit him in the back of the neck just above the shoulder. Normally this secrete nerve punch her father taught her wouldn't effect Goku, but with the added ki energy and his pain, it worked, causing him to become immobile.
Usagi couldn't believe it. That had to be the first time that she had seen her father unwillingly loose a fight to ANYONE. "You won mamma."
Chi-Chi rubbed her wrist. "Yes little one. Winning a battle doesn't mean most powerful, skill and determination also count. You only truly lose if you give up, remember that Usagi, Gohan. It will come in handy."
Usagi looked at her father than back to her mother and in a quivering voice asked; "Are you going to get a divorce now?" She remembered some kids talking at her school who had parents who were divorced because they had a big fight, similar to this one, only without the violence.
Gohan's face was overtaken with fear as he shuddered from the thought. He would hate it if his parents got a divorce. He never wanted to think about that. "Please don't mom."
That hadn't ever crossed her mind as it was never a desired thing for her. She always wanted to be with Goku no matter what. "No, NO. I love your father with all my heart. I would never leave him. This isn't about me not loving him anymore. This is about respect. But please don't worry about this right now. You have to prepare for Cell's arrival."
(Ok, that's it for this part. Look at that, I nearly reached 11 pages. I do have to say that the idea for that last segment was Comet Moon's idea. He wrote that fight seen. I just added detail to it and cleaned it up a bit to put into story format. He also made a lot of the dialogue. I loved it though and I really wanted to use it. So, what did you think? Gotta go. Homework calls. Ja!)