Cell smiled to himself as the realization of what the girls had just done finally hit him. They had just chased his egg into the exact place that he had hoped to place it in. He hadn't seen what happened for he was more busy with Mamoru and the others at the moment, but he had as sharp of hearing as Piccolo did. He knew that Piccolo too knew, but that didn't matter. There really was nothing that Piccolo could do at this point. Piccolo was not nearly as fast as he was. "You seem to have a problem on your hands Goku." He turned and gazed upon the room of spirit of time as if it were his only chance at winning this fight.
Goku stopped glaring at Cell and turned his direction to what the monster seemed to be peering at. "What are you talking about?" He scanned the area from top to bottom; looking for the girls but could not find them anywhere. His bones began to ache as his stomach turned inside and out from the eerie feeling that arose within him. 'Wait a minute.' He noted the black goop that lay in the ground. "Where's the egg?"
"You needn't worry about that, Goku. It is in a safe place." Without any further hesitation, Cell leapt backwards and gracefully landed to his feet, facing the room of spirit and time. "Now watch carefully." He jumped back into the air, only this time he had a real destination, the room of spirit and time.
Goku knew immediately what Cell had plotted in his sick sadistic mind. "You wouldn't dare!" Knowing full well that Cell would, Goku jumped out at Cell. His speed wasn't quite enough for that of Cell's.
Cell turned his head to look at Goku and grinned. "Just watch and find out." While still in the air, Cell acted quickly by extending his leg out away from his body towards the door of the room of spirit and time. "Time for those little brats to meet their doom!" His leg crashed into the door with a loud bang that sounded as if a large rolling thunder cloud was just overhead. The force from his leg created a giant indentation of it in the door as it slammed shut, locking the girls inside. He let his body fall to the ground with thud as he was feeling pretty happy with what he had just done.
Goku, on the other hand, wasn't too happy with Cell. After everything that had already happened Cell had managed to make things even worse. His muscles tensed up as his breathing became louder and deeper with anger. Cell was messing with the wrong people now. He would have to learn. "You bastard!"
Cell smiled as he laughed with great arrogance. "You seem to be a bit on the angry side, Goku. What's wrong?" His plans were being carried out as planned. Everyone was as good as dead now. There was no way that he could be stopped. Now that he had an official 'partner' being created, he would be unstoppable. "I'll leave now and come back later. If any of you try to follow me, I'll kill you without hesitation." He turned around and jumped into the air.
~*~*~
~~Inside the Room of Spirit and Time~~
The girls had just gotten into the room of spirit and time when they were startled by a loud crash that seemed to come from outside. The girls all stopped in the places, allowing the newly created egg to bounce further and further away from them in the opening.
Ami, who was the farthest behind the others, stood in front of the only building that resided in the room of spirit and time. "What was that?" Not knowing what to expect, she slowly turned around and began to walk forward. It didn't take much for her to realize what had just happened. All she had to do was take one step forward and look up and see that there was now a door in front of what used to be an open doorway. "Oh no guys. Come look."
Usagi didn't waste any time at all as she raced past her friends right on into an unsuspecting Ami. Both girls toppled over from a loss of footing. Before either of them had a chance to step back to their feet, Rei arrived on the scene and was immediately frozen by the site of what lay before her. Usagi rubbed her head as she looked up to Rei and saw the look of lost hope in her eyes. "Rei?" She turned her head to look behind her. Her jaw dropped in fear. There was only one person dumb enough to close the door with them in it with such force. "Cell…" Makoto and Minako lightly pushed past Rei to look upon what all the fuss was about. Both were utterly speechless. Usagi stood up while helping Ami back to her feet by pulling on her arms. "Come on. We've gotta get it open!" She let go of Ami's hands and ran to the door. She pressed her body against the door and began to push as hard as she could, but to no avail.
Minako jumped to Usagi's side. "Come on guys, let's help her." She too began to use her full strength as she pushed against the door. But even with her help it was no use. The door wouldn't budge.
Rei, Ami, and Makoto nodded in compliance as they went to help their friends. Though Minako and Usagi couldn't do it alone, there was no telling what they could do when they worked together. Makoto powered up to her fullest power as she pushed harder and harder onto the door. "It wont move. Maybe we should try to blast it open?" She backed up and built up a small green Ki blast.
Ami put her arm out in front of Makoto. "Wait. Let's see what we can do with this first. I want to see if there are any cracks in the door that could help us free ourselves from this room."
Makoto powered down and let her Ki blast dissipate. "I guess you're right. We wouldn't want to blow away all of our chances of getting out of here. But, why wont it open?"
Ami shrugged. "I have no idea. I wonder if it can be opened from the outside." She kneeled to the side of the door and began to examine the hinges. They were all distorted and ripped out of place. "Whoever did this really hit the door hard. Look at all of these cracks in the wall next to the door." She pointed to a numerous amount of cracks that lay in the wall.
Minako walked to where Ami was. "Well, why don't we pull away all of this wall and get out that way?" She definitely didn't want to stay in that room for another year. She had had her fair share of being in there.
Ami didn't find that t o be too bad of an idea. "Ok." She began to pull big chunks of the wall away from its base and threw them to the ground. "Hey look it's working." Piece after piece the wall tore away. She was beginning to get a good feeling about getting out. Then all of a sudden the unexpected happen. She hit a layer that had not been broken in yet. It was a wall made completely of metal. "Uh-oh." She knocked on it, which didn't produce the best sound in the world for them. "Looks like it's not hollow at all. I'd say that there are at least ten layers of metal, iron, steel, you name it, it's in this wall." 'I wonder if they can here me out there. Probably not. Only a few seconds have gone by since this happened.' "I don't think that this will work." She examined the area. The door didn't seem like it could be broken in very easily for the fact that it looked to be planted in very deeply into the side of the wall.
"I still say we should blast it away. That would work, wouldn't it Ami?" Makoto wasn't about to give up. She was determined to get out of that room. She didn't want to imagine being stuck in there for the rest of her life.
"Well, Makoto I don't think that blasting it will work for one reason. And that would be because this room was built to train very heavily in. This should be very hard material that can stand up to a lot of damage and still hold its shape."
Makoto walked to the door and pounded on it. The door let out a large hollow banging sound that seemed to echo throughout the room. "Maybe you're right. But then why would it be destroyed now?"
Ami picked at some of the ruble that lie on the floor. "I think that is because of the intensity that the door was hit by outside. I really don't think that anything like this could be done from in here. There's got to be something outside that is keeping us in here. There's just gotta be. Why else would we not be able to get out of here? And who knows how long we'll be in here before the others get us out. It could be months by our times but only a matter of minutes by there."
"By that time the new Cell will be born and already. It'll kill us. They're going to open up this room and find us dead. This isn't fair! This isn't fair at all!" Usagi walked to the doorway that led out into the giant training room and began to scan the area for Cell's egg. "Where are you? You stupid slime ball!" She stepped out onto the large opening. "I hope it isn't all the way out where we wont be able to find it."
Makoto stepped up besides Usagi and put her hand over her forehead to get a clearer view of the area. "Yeah I know. Who knows how long it'll take for it to get all the way around if it just keeps bouncing forever." She ran out further in hopes to find it stopped somewhere. She ran out even further once she couldn't find it.
Ami dashed out from behind Usagi. She remembered what Goku had told them about what would happen if you were to venture out too far. "Makoto wait! You'll get lost and wont be able to find your way back easily!"
That got the girl in green to stop as she didn't want to waste any energy having to teleport back. It was bad enough that she would have to regenerate energy from the day's wear. "I guess you're right. I wouldn't want to be drained if it came back and hatched." She looked to the ground and let her eyes wander across a trail of black slime. "Hey wait! The slime! It leaves a trail of slime every time it hits the ground. Why don't we just follow it? It'll take less time to follow it then to wait."
Minako let her legs collapse as she fell to the ground. "I'm too tired right now. I want to rest for a little while, while we can. Like you said, who knows when that thing will come back. I want to be plenty rested for it when it does. Can't we just rest for a few days? Please?"
Usagi could agree with that. She wouldn't have minded a nice long rest for a few days. "I'm up for that. I'm so tired. You know, nearly getting killed really makes a person tired. I just want to get into a nice fluffy bed and go to sleep for the rest of my life. I think then I would be the happiest girl in the world." She walked back into the building and looked at the two beds that were placed on the sides and remembered how they would have to share a bed again. Not that the beds were too small for them, she just liked having a lot of room to stretch out when she slept, something that she couldn't do for that past year and a half while living in the past. 'Oh well.' She shrugged off her concern and proceeded to one of the beds. At least with her mother and father gone they could share both beds instead of just one. She rubbed her hands together as she gazed upon one of the beds and smiled as if she hadn't seen a more beautiful site. "Time for a nice LONG rest." She looked to her right at Minako, who had a similar expression on her face.
Ami walked in just as both girls were about to jump into the bed. "Wait!"
Minako and Usagi both turned around as they groaned to the voice of their friend. "What?"
"What if that egg hatches while we're asleep? What if it tries to come and attack us? We can't let our guard down. Not even for sleeping. Something may happen. Someone needs to keep a lookout while the rest of us sleep." She put her hands to her waist as Rei and Makoto joined her. The three of them looked at Usagi and Minako as if they had something plan.
Usagi and Minako turned to look at each other and then back at their friends. Minako opened her mouth to protest. "You can't be talking about me, can you? I can't be a lookout. Not with this low of energy. I'll die for sure. Come on. Usagi is a much better person for the job. She has a lot more power than us. All she got from Cell was thrown to the ground. That's about it."
Usagi's jaw dropped as she glared over in Minako's direction. "You CAN'T be serious! I'm NOT going to be a lookout while all you guys get to sleep. That just isn't fair at all. Think about it. You don't want me to be on the lookout first, especially when I'm THIS tired. Just because dad gave me the Senzu doesn't mean I'm NOT tired from being beaten up. Give me a break. You can think of a better person. Take Rei for example. She's into that psychic type of stuff. She'll know when the enemy is on the attack before it even gets here. Or even Makoto. She can tak…"
"Just shut up Usagi and quit trying to make excuses. You know as well as the rest of us that you have more energy to do this right now. Don't worry, as soon as the first of us wakes up, we'll take your spot. You have nothing to worry about. If that thing does come back then you can wake us up." Rei walked into the room and sat down on the bed, bouncing on it a bit to check its softness.
Minako sat down on the bed, which she was closest too. "When we all wake up we can go see where that slime trail leads to. And then hopefully we can destroy that thing and then worry about finding a way out of here."
Usagi sighed. It was everyone against her. They had all made up their minds that she would be the first lookout whether she liked it or not. They all wanted to sleep. It would be their way or none. "Fine. But you guys owe me big time. I'm going to remember this." She walked to the edge of the building to the doorway and peered out for anything unusual. What was once a safe room to be in was now a new battle ground for them to be protected by them at all costs. She crossed her arms as she leaned against the doorway. She listened as her friends all crawled into the beds, two in each one. She imagined how comfortable they must have been at that moment. She envied them. There they were, in nice warm beds, and there she was, guarding them from evil.
Her eyes became droopy from thinking about resting as she shook her head to keep herself awake. There was no way that she was going to let her friends down by falling asleep. They were trusting her to do her job correctly. But the temptation was too great.
She began to let her mind wander as she gazed out upon the vast amount of nothingness that she was once again faced with. She wondered what would become of them in the coming year. She hoped that they would be able to keep Cell's offspring under control while they were in the room. She wished that they may be able to kill him before he even gained all of his power. But the chances of that happening were very slim. Cell's ideas seemed to evolve more than she could think of ways that the situation could possibly get worse. She also wondered about what the situation was outside the room. They had to have been freaking out by now. Of course, as Ami said, only a few seconds had probably passed by out there.
Things seemed to have taken a turn for the worse and, as usual, it was her fault. She seemed to find fault with everything she had done lately. It had been her fault that she was even in the past. Had she have listened to her father and stayed at Gohan's house, none of this would have happened. She wouldn't be in trouble with her parents. She wouldn't be in trouble with Bulma. She wouldn't have lost some of her family's trust. And then there was what she had just pulled. She had deliberately disobeyed her father yet again by not leaving Kami's tower as she was told. And here she was, stuck in the room of spirit and time with no help what so ever. 'Boy. Maybe I should listen to daddy more often. That's it. From this day forward, I'm going to do exactly what him and mom tell me to do. That way, maybe, hopefully, I wont get myself into so much trouble.' She sat down. Her eyes soon became heavy. She closed them for just a moment, thinking that she wouldn't fall asleep. About a minute later, she was fast asleep and deep in a dream.
~*~*~
~~Outside~~
Goku rushed to the door, which Cell had just violently kicked in. "What the hell did he do that for?! I bet those kids are scared out of their minds. They haven't come out yet so I'm guessing that they can't because of this damage." He looked upon the damage that was created by Cell. The giant indentation of Cell's leg pretty much collapsed the door in on itself. Well, the outside layer at least. The middle layers looked to still be in tact. "That's an unbreakable door."
Chi-Chi ran up beside her husband as she too began to analyze the damage. "Goku, are we going to be able to get them out of there?" She noted the damage to the side of the door, which even on the outside looked to be shoved into the wall.
Goku shook his head, not knowing quite what to say. He had failed himself. He had promised his future self that he would keep Usagi safe yet here she was inside the room of spirit and time with a monster that will be born in who knows what time. "I honestly don't know. This looks pretty bad. Look at that, the door is crooked, except for the metal parts in the middle. The floor beneath it is caved in from the force. This doesn't look to good."
"Maybe you should try and blast it, Goku." 18 walked to the Saiyan and his wife. "This doesn't look all that tough."
Goku turned to 18, more surprised than ever. He never would have thought that an android would have given him a suggestion on how to save one of his own. "I'm not sure if that would work. If we destroy this door, then there will be no way out. Kami designed this to where if it were to be destroyed on the outside, than it would disappear and no one would ever be able to go in or out. But there is a slight chance that we can blast a small hole through this metal here. It can be made big enough to fit the girls' bodies through."
"That's risky dad." Gohan hoped that his father wouldn't be serious about wanting to do such a task. One little screw up and the girls would be lost forever.
"I know, son. Which is why I'm not going to try it. What we can do is try to get Kami down here to tell us what to do."
"No, Goku. Kami wont know what to do because I don't know what to do. We share a link, remember? There is no way to get that door open without destroying it. I suggest you try opening it with force first, and if that doesn't work, then try blasting the hole in it." Piccolo walked forward to the door as he offered his help to his fellow fighter.
"I'll do the opening with force thing. But I'm not going to try and blast a hole in it. It's too dangerous."
"You're insane Goku. If we can't pull it open then there is no way to get those girls out. They will be lost in there forever since there is no way in or out except for this here door. You're going to have to deal with those facts. So hurry up and let's see if pulling on it works." He placed his hands on the edge of the metal plating as did Goku. "Everyone get over here and help us. If this doesn't work than we are going to blast a hole in it."
Goku frowned. "No we aren't." He would not risk the girls' lives like that. "There has to be a way other than using Ki to get them out. We just have to think. Now everybody pull as hard as you can. I know you're tired but right now this is the most important thing that we could possibly be doing."
"Right dad. On three. One…Two…Three!" The group began pulling at the door as hard as they possibly could. The metal proved to be stronger than all of their combined strength, keeping in mind the fact that most of them lost more than half of their energy while fighting with the clones. The door also seemed to be caught on something, which was making it even harder to complete their task.
~*~*~
~~The Room of Spirit and Time~~
Minako and Rei sat at the table that was in the middle of the living quarters. It had been about a two weeks since they had been locked in against their will and there was still no sign of the egg. They learned not to allow Usagi to be a lookout. Every time that she was, she seemed to fall asleep just a few minutes after they did.
Rei looked up as she heard a noise, which sounded a lot like combined grunts, coming from just outside the damaged door, which was supposed to lead out into the real world. "Hey, do you think they're going to get out now?"
Minako, who also heard it, turned her head to the noise. "I hope so. I don't want to wait around long enough for that gross egg to hatch. How long do you think it's been out there since we've been in here."
Rei shrugged. "You got me. Maybe five minutes or so. I hope they get us out of here soon. I'm so bored with waiting for that stupid thing to come back here. I wonder how long it takes to bounce around the world, gees." She rested her head in her hand as she fiddled with an apple.
Minako yawned of boredom. "I know. I think it may have gone sight seeing or something. But I hope it doesn't get back here anytime soon. Then we wont have to fight it. I just wish we could train for it, but we don't want to wear ourselves out just in case."
"That doesn't mean we can't want to. I wonder where the others are." Rei said as she looked to the doorway that led outside.
'Do you think that thing will ever hatch?'
Rei looked up. "Did you say something Minako?"
Minako shook her head. "Nope. Not one word form me. Are you hearing things now?"
"I'm not sure. I just all of a sudden heard something. I could have sworn it was the voice of Makoto, but, she's not here. You are."
Minako shrugged. "Oh well. This is what happens when you're completely bored. This is what we get to look forward to if we survive Cell's attack. If we never get out of here, we are going to be so bored for the rest of our lives. And to think, I'll never get to go out on a date like all of the older girls do."
~*~*~
~~Outside~~
The group of fighters pulled away from the door in exhaustion. It was obvious that they weren't going to be able to pull it open by force. Goku kept his eye on Piccolo for he didn't want him to try anything funny with attempting to blast it open. "This could prove to be harder than we originally thought. Cell really jammed that thing in there."
Piccolo jumped back away from the door. "Move out of the way. I'm going to shoot a Ki beam at it and force a hole into the room. If the it's destroyed, oh well. We'll just use the Dragon Balls to revive them." Without waiting for Goku's consent, Piccolo formed a blue Ki beam and fired it onto the door of the room and spirit and time. It was quickly deflected away and hit a pillar instead of its original target. "Who did that?" He looked around. Everyone seemed to be in their same spots as when he fired the beam. Even Goku. Except for one person. And that was his son. He turned his back to his friends to stand face to face with the boy in the black Gi. "What's with you? You never want to protect her. I would have thought that you would be the last person to want to save her."
Mamoru grinned. "Well you don't know me all that well, do you father? I don't like Odango very much. But I don't think you should sacrifice her. Isn't the whole reason why we are trying to get that door open because we want to save them? Not so we can lock them in there and then get the Dragon Balls to get them back out again. Where is the logic in that. I never thought I would EVER say this, but I'm going to have to side with Goku on this one, father." He shuddered at the thought of agreeing with a Son.
~*~*~
~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
One week later…
Usagi and Minako had decided to make a habit of running an average of ten miles everyday just to keep their speed up. While it helped to keep the in shape, it wasn't something that would completely wear them out.
Well, Usagi and Minako were running one day, as they had been for the past week. They ran five miles away from the main building, and then five miles back. So far, they had only gone about a mile away as they had only started out a few moments before. They stopped when they heard a loud squishing noise. Usagi perked her ears to listen better. She could hear things that were far away more clear than Minako due to her Saiyan genes. "Hey, I think that egg is returning now." She looked to Minako.
"We need to warn the others before it gets here." She powered up to her fullest power.
Usagi did the same as she wasn't going to take ANY chances with screwing up with the egg. She didn't know if the organism inside had its full strength by the time it hatched. "Let's go Minako. Full speed to the others." Her senses all of a sudden picked up something familiar nearing them at a rapid pace. "Hey, how do you like that? They're already coming here. They must have known that something was wrong when we raised our power levels. How nice. We don't even have to leave our spots."
"Um…Usagi…" Minako's voice cracked with each of those words as she watched the egg plop down in front of them. It's black slime seemed to spray out everywhere, covering them in a soft blanket of warm goop. "Gross. Get it off of me." Minako grabbed some of it and tried to pull it off of her face, but it was like a rubber. It just wouldn't budge.
Usagi had a similar reaction, only more exaggerated. "EEWWWWW GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" She shook her body as she hoped that it would fly off of her, some did, while a majority of it stuck to her body. "DON'T JUST STAND THERE! ATTACK IT FOR WHAT IT DID TO US! GROSS!" She jumped away from the egg and put her hands in front of her body, which still dripped with the slime that was deposited onto her body.
Rei, who was one of the ones lucky enough not to get hit for she wasn't at the scene yet when it happened, also powered up for an attack. She wasn't about to let that thing hatched. She was just happy that it attacked now. She was getting nervous with anxiety from waiting for it to come. "Now or never girls."
All of the girls took their signal from Rei and began launching of series of their largest Ki attacks onto the blob. None of which seemed to be doing any good. Ami was the first to stop her attacks as everyone else continued. She knew that something was wrong with it. From the moment that it didn't break when Minako dropped it onto the ground she knew that there was something oddly peculiar about that egg. And now, when it wasn't shattering into thousands of pieces, her suspicions rose. "Stop for a minute." Her friends reluctantly complied. "It's not being destroyed. Let's watch it for a minute to see what it does."
As they started to watch the egg, it started to grow. Its size enlarged at an incredible rate. Instead of being the size of a normal Namek egg, it was now the size of a small village. The girls, who were confused at what was happening, began another attack on the egg, only to result in the increasing of the egg's size. They stopped soon after they realized that it was utterly useless. The egg was now the size of a town.
Usagi began to feel fear as her main emotion. She backed away from the egg, which was now about fifty feet taller than her. "Wha…Wha…what's going on…here?" She could barely spit her words out.
"This egg is special. Made of unique power and conductive material, it seems to absorb our powers to grow larger. It's feeding off of our energy. We need to stop our attacks on it now, girls." As many things as Bulma had shown her before, this was the most advanced piece of work that Ami had ever seen. She wished she knew how it worked. That would have given her somewhat of an advantage.
"Well why doest it need to be so big?" Usagi continued to back away, along with Minako.
"I don't know, but look at how it pulsates, it's like it was alive. What is this thing? I thought it was just an egg." Ami wanted badly to go up to the thing and analyze it to find out what was happening with it but was too afraid to get near it. She was glad that she was not the only one afraid to do so.
"Man that's huge." Makoto said as she rubbed her arms from being both nervous and scared.
"And slimy. Look at all the DISGUSTING juice falling of it. And look at me too. I'm just as nasty looking." Minako tried desperately to wipe off the juice that was so rudely sprayed onto her body.
"You're right about it being alive. I sense lots of life energy from it, and hate." Rei had sensed it all along, but now it was an even greater hate. All of the girls turned their attention to the egg as it started to crack open. "There's more than one being more, A LOT MORE."
Ami backed up even more. She didn't want to be in the new Cell's pathway one he arose from his egg. He would be more powerful than before now that he was using their own power. "It's using Piccolo's powers to reproduce, and multiply, with what ever that extras energy was added to it by us. We should destroy it now while we have the chance." The others nodded in compliance. But even as they started to build up for an attack, the egg cracked completely.
To their disgust and with a growing sense of doom, the group of friends saw what was hatched. Two feet and eight inches in height, emerged an exact replica of Cell. Two hundred thousand cells swarmed out of the egg after him before the girls had a chance to react. But they sensed the power level coming from the girls and all of them scattered, remembering their father's words that he had put into their minds.
'You must grow my sons. It will take a year to reach full power, the same level as myself, but when you do, we shall merge and this time WE will rule all. Even My queen will bow to me. With my new power I get from that brat Usagi I will have more power than the queen.'
Rei's psychic senses picked this thought up. Usually she wouldn't have been able to pick it up without effort, but with the same thoughts coming from two hundred thousand minds, it was overwhelming. As Rei began to collapse, Usagi rushed to catch her as she fell, while Makoto began to chase after a clump of the Cells.
(Ok, that's it for this part. Sorry it's out so late. It's finals week and I had A LOT of homework that I had to do. But it stayed up late and pushed to get this part done so I could get it out before I had to go to school. Anyways, this will only go on for a couple more days since the last day of finals is Thursday. YAY! ^_^ so I better be going. Please tell me what you thought. Thanks. Ja Ne)
Goku stopped glaring at Cell and turned his direction to what the monster seemed to be peering at. "What are you talking about?" He scanned the area from top to bottom; looking for the girls but could not find them anywhere. His bones began to ache as his stomach turned inside and out from the eerie feeling that arose within him. 'Wait a minute.' He noted the black goop that lay in the ground. "Where's the egg?"
"You needn't worry about that, Goku. It is in a safe place." Without any further hesitation, Cell leapt backwards and gracefully landed to his feet, facing the room of spirit and time. "Now watch carefully." He jumped back into the air, only this time he had a real destination, the room of spirit and time.
Goku knew immediately what Cell had plotted in his sick sadistic mind. "You wouldn't dare!" Knowing full well that Cell would, Goku jumped out at Cell. His speed wasn't quite enough for that of Cell's.
Cell turned his head to look at Goku and grinned. "Just watch and find out." While still in the air, Cell acted quickly by extending his leg out away from his body towards the door of the room of spirit and time. "Time for those little brats to meet their doom!" His leg crashed into the door with a loud bang that sounded as if a large rolling thunder cloud was just overhead. The force from his leg created a giant indentation of it in the door as it slammed shut, locking the girls inside. He let his body fall to the ground with thud as he was feeling pretty happy with what he had just done.
Goku, on the other hand, wasn't too happy with Cell. After everything that had already happened Cell had managed to make things even worse. His muscles tensed up as his breathing became louder and deeper with anger. Cell was messing with the wrong people now. He would have to learn. "You bastard!"
Cell smiled as he laughed with great arrogance. "You seem to be a bit on the angry side, Goku. What's wrong?" His plans were being carried out as planned. Everyone was as good as dead now. There was no way that he could be stopped. Now that he had an official 'partner' being created, he would be unstoppable. "I'll leave now and come back later. If any of you try to follow me, I'll kill you without hesitation." He turned around and jumped into the air.
~*~*~
~~Inside the Room of Spirit and Time~~
The girls had just gotten into the room of spirit and time when they were startled by a loud crash that seemed to come from outside. The girls all stopped in the places, allowing the newly created egg to bounce further and further away from them in the opening.
Ami, who was the farthest behind the others, stood in front of the only building that resided in the room of spirit and time. "What was that?" Not knowing what to expect, she slowly turned around and began to walk forward. It didn't take much for her to realize what had just happened. All she had to do was take one step forward and look up and see that there was now a door in front of what used to be an open doorway. "Oh no guys. Come look."
Usagi didn't waste any time at all as she raced past her friends right on into an unsuspecting Ami. Both girls toppled over from a loss of footing. Before either of them had a chance to step back to their feet, Rei arrived on the scene and was immediately frozen by the site of what lay before her. Usagi rubbed her head as she looked up to Rei and saw the look of lost hope in her eyes. "Rei?" She turned her head to look behind her. Her jaw dropped in fear. There was only one person dumb enough to close the door with them in it with such force. "Cell…" Makoto and Minako lightly pushed past Rei to look upon what all the fuss was about. Both were utterly speechless. Usagi stood up while helping Ami back to her feet by pulling on her arms. "Come on. We've gotta get it open!" She let go of Ami's hands and ran to the door. She pressed her body against the door and began to push as hard as she could, but to no avail.
Minako jumped to Usagi's side. "Come on guys, let's help her." She too began to use her full strength as she pushed against the door. But even with her help it was no use. The door wouldn't budge.
Rei, Ami, and Makoto nodded in compliance as they went to help their friends. Though Minako and Usagi couldn't do it alone, there was no telling what they could do when they worked together. Makoto powered up to her fullest power as she pushed harder and harder onto the door. "It wont move. Maybe we should try to blast it open?" She backed up and built up a small green Ki blast.
Ami put her arm out in front of Makoto. "Wait. Let's see what we can do with this first. I want to see if there are any cracks in the door that could help us free ourselves from this room."
Makoto powered down and let her Ki blast dissipate. "I guess you're right. We wouldn't want to blow away all of our chances of getting out of here. But, why wont it open?"
Ami shrugged. "I have no idea. I wonder if it can be opened from the outside." She kneeled to the side of the door and began to examine the hinges. They were all distorted and ripped out of place. "Whoever did this really hit the door hard. Look at all of these cracks in the wall next to the door." She pointed to a numerous amount of cracks that lay in the wall.
Minako walked to where Ami was. "Well, why don't we pull away all of this wall and get out that way?" She definitely didn't want to stay in that room for another year. She had had her fair share of being in there.
Ami didn't find that t o be too bad of an idea. "Ok." She began to pull big chunks of the wall away from its base and threw them to the ground. "Hey look it's working." Piece after piece the wall tore away. She was beginning to get a good feeling about getting out. Then all of a sudden the unexpected happen. She hit a layer that had not been broken in yet. It was a wall made completely of metal. "Uh-oh." She knocked on it, which didn't produce the best sound in the world for them. "Looks like it's not hollow at all. I'd say that there are at least ten layers of metal, iron, steel, you name it, it's in this wall." 'I wonder if they can here me out there. Probably not. Only a few seconds have gone by since this happened.' "I don't think that this will work." She examined the area. The door didn't seem like it could be broken in very easily for the fact that it looked to be planted in very deeply into the side of the wall.
"I still say we should blast it away. That would work, wouldn't it Ami?" Makoto wasn't about to give up. She was determined to get out of that room. She didn't want to imagine being stuck in there for the rest of her life.
"Well, Makoto I don't think that blasting it will work for one reason. And that would be because this room was built to train very heavily in. This should be very hard material that can stand up to a lot of damage and still hold its shape."
Makoto walked to the door and pounded on it. The door let out a large hollow banging sound that seemed to echo throughout the room. "Maybe you're right. But then why would it be destroyed now?"
Ami picked at some of the ruble that lie on the floor. "I think that is because of the intensity that the door was hit by outside. I really don't think that anything like this could be done from in here. There's got to be something outside that is keeping us in here. There's just gotta be. Why else would we not be able to get out of here? And who knows how long we'll be in here before the others get us out. It could be months by our times but only a matter of minutes by there."
"By that time the new Cell will be born and already. It'll kill us. They're going to open up this room and find us dead. This isn't fair! This isn't fair at all!" Usagi walked to the doorway that led out into the giant training room and began to scan the area for Cell's egg. "Where are you? You stupid slime ball!" She stepped out onto the large opening. "I hope it isn't all the way out where we wont be able to find it."
Makoto stepped up besides Usagi and put her hand over her forehead to get a clearer view of the area. "Yeah I know. Who knows how long it'll take for it to get all the way around if it just keeps bouncing forever." She ran out further in hopes to find it stopped somewhere. She ran out even further once she couldn't find it.
Ami dashed out from behind Usagi. She remembered what Goku had told them about what would happen if you were to venture out too far. "Makoto wait! You'll get lost and wont be able to find your way back easily!"
That got the girl in green to stop as she didn't want to waste any energy having to teleport back. It was bad enough that she would have to regenerate energy from the day's wear. "I guess you're right. I wouldn't want to be drained if it came back and hatched." She looked to the ground and let her eyes wander across a trail of black slime. "Hey wait! The slime! It leaves a trail of slime every time it hits the ground. Why don't we just follow it? It'll take less time to follow it then to wait."
Minako let her legs collapse as she fell to the ground. "I'm too tired right now. I want to rest for a little while, while we can. Like you said, who knows when that thing will come back. I want to be plenty rested for it when it does. Can't we just rest for a few days? Please?"
Usagi could agree with that. She wouldn't have minded a nice long rest for a few days. "I'm up for that. I'm so tired. You know, nearly getting killed really makes a person tired. I just want to get into a nice fluffy bed and go to sleep for the rest of my life. I think then I would be the happiest girl in the world." She walked back into the building and looked at the two beds that were placed on the sides and remembered how they would have to share a bed again. Not that the beds were too small for them, she just liked having a lot of room to stretch out when she slept, something that she couldn't do for that past year and a half while living in the past. 'Oh well.' She shrugged off her concern and proceeded to one of the beds. At least with her mother and father gone they could share both beds instead of just one. She rubbed her hands together as she gazed upon one of the beds and smiled as if she hadn't seen a more beautiful site. "Time for a nice LONG rest." She looked to her right at Minako, who had a similar expression on her face.
Ami walked in just as both girls were about to jump into the bed. "Wait!"
Minako and Usagi both turned around as they groaned to the voice of their friend. "What?"
"What if that egg hatches while we're asleep? What if it tries to come and attack us? We can't let our guard down. Not even for sleeping. Something may happen. Someone needs to keep a lookout while the rest of us sleep." She put her hands to her waist as Rei and Makoto joined her. The three of them looked at Usagi and Minako as if they had something plan.
Usagi and Minako turned to look at each other and then back at their friends. Minako opened her mouth to protest. "You can't be talking about me, can you? I can't be a lookout. Not with this low of energy. I'll die for sure. Come on. Usagi is a much better person for the job. She has a lot more power than us. All she got from Cell was thrown to the ground. That's about it."
Usagi's jaw dropped as she glared over in Minako's direction. "You CAN'T be serious! I'm NOT going to be a lookout while all you guys get to sleep. That just isn't fair at all. Think about it. You don't want me to be on the lookout first, especially when I'm THIS tired. Just because dad gave me the Senzu doesn't mean I'm NOT tired from being beaten up. Give me a break. You can think of a better person. Take Rei for example. She's into that psychic type of stuff. She'll know when the enemy is on the attack before it even gets here. Or even Makoto. She can tak…"
"Just shut up Usagi and quit trying to make excuses. You know as well as the rest of us that you have more energy to do this right now. Don't worry, as soon as the first of us wakes up, we'll take your spot. You have nothing to worry about. If that thing does come back then you can wake us up." Rei walked into the room and sat down on the bed, bouncing on it a bit to check its softness.
Minako sat down on the bed, which she was closest too. "When we all wake up we can go see where that slime trail leads to. And then hopefully we can destroy that thing and then worry about finding a way out of here."
Usagi sighed. It was everyone against her. They had all made up their minds that she would be the first lookout whether she liked it or not. They all wanted to sleep. It would be their way or none. "Fine. But you guys owe me big time. I'm going to remember this." She walked to the edge of the building to the doorway and peered out for anything unusual. What was once a safe room to be in was now a new battle ground for them to be protected by them at all costs. She crossed her arms as she leaned against the doorway. She listened as her friends all crawled into the beds, two in each one. She imagined how comfortable they must have been at that moment. She envied them. There they were, in nice warm beds, and there she was, guarding them from evil.
Her eyes became droopy from thinking about resting as she shook her head to keep herself awake. There was no way that she was going to let her friends down by falling asleep. They were trusting her to do her job correctly. But the temptation was too great.
She began to let her mind wander as she gazed out upon the vast amount of nothingness that she was once again faced with. She wondered what would become of them in the coming year. She hoped that they would be able to keep Cell's offspring under control while they were in the room. She wished that they may be able to kill him before he even gained all of his power. But the chances of that happening were very slim. Cell's ideas seemed to evolve more than she could think of ways that the situation could possibly get worse. She also wondered about what the situation was outside the room. They had to have been freaking out by now. Of course, as Ami said, only a few seconds had probably passed by out there.
Things seemed to have taken a turn for the worse and, as usual, it was her fault. She seemed to find fault with everything she had done lately. It had been her fault that she was even in the past. Had she have listened to her father and stayed at Gohan's house, none of this would have happened. She wouldn't be in trouble with her parents. She wouldn't be in trouble with Bulma. She wouldn't have lost some of her family's trust. And then there was what she had just pulled. She had deliberately disobeyed her father yet again by not leaving Kami's tower as she was told. And here she was, stuck in the room of spirit and time with no help what so ever. 'Boy. Maybe I should listen to daddy more often. That's it. From this day forward, I'm going to do exactly what him and mom tell me to do. That way, maybe, hopefully, I wont get myself into so much trouble.' She sat down. Her eyes soon became heavy. She closed them for just a moment, thinking that she wouldn't fall asleep. About a minute later, she was fast asleep and deep in a dream.
~*~*~
~~Outside~~
Goku rushed to the door, which Cell had just violently kicked in. "What the hell did he do that for?! I bet those kids are scared out of their minds. They haven't come out yet so I'm guessing that they can't because of this damage." He looked upon the damage that was created by Cell. The giant indentation of Cell's leg pretty much collapsed the door in on itself. Well, the outside layer at least. The middle layers looked to still be in tact. "That's an unbreakable door."
Chi-Chi ran up beside her husband as she too began to analyze the damage. "Goku, are we going to be able to get them out of there?" She noted the damage to the side of the door, which even on the outside looked to be shoved into the wall.
Goku shook his head, not knowing quite what to say. He had failed himself. He had promised his future self that he would keep Usagi safe yet here she was inside the room of spirit and time with a monster that will be born in who knows what time. "I honestly don't know. This looks pretty bad. Look at that, the door is crooked, except for the metal parts in the middle. The floor beneath it is caved in from the force. This doesn't look to good."
"Maybe you should try and blast it, Goku." 18 walked to the Saiyan and his wife. "This doesn't look all that tough."
Goku turned to 18, more surprised than ever. He never would have thought that an android would have given him a suggestion on how to save one of his own. "I'm not sure if that would work. If we destroy this door, then there will be no way out. Kami designed this to where if it were to be destroyed on the outside, than it would disappear and no one would ever be able to go in or out. But there is a slight chance that we can blast a small hole through this metal here. It can be made big enough to fit the girls' bodies through."
"That's risky dad." Gohan hoped that his father wouldn't be serious about wanting to do such a task. One little screw up and the girls would be lost forever.
"I know, son. Which is why I'm not going to try it. What we can do is try to get Kami down here to tell us what to do."
"No, Goku. Kami wont know what to do because I don't know what to do. We share a link, remember? There is no way to get that door open without destroying it. I suggest you try opening it with force first, and if that doesn't work, then try blasting the hole in it." Piccolo walked forward to the door as he offered his help to his fellow fighter.
"I'll do the opening with force thing. But I'm not going to try and blast a hole in it. It's too dangerous."
"You're insane Goku. If we can't pull it open then there is no way to get those girls out. They will be lost in there forever since there is no way in or out except for this here door. You're going to have to deal with those facts. So hurry up and let's see if pulling on it works." He placed his hands on the edge of the metal plating as did Goku. "Everyone get over here and help us. If this doesn't work than we are going to blast a hole in it."
Goku frowned. "No we aren't." He would not risk the girls' lives like that. "There has to be a way other than using Ki to get them out. We just have to think. Now everybody pull as hard as you can. I know you're tired but right now this is the most important thing that we could possibly be doing."
"Right dad. On three. One…Two…Three!" The group began pulling at the door as hard as they possibly could. The metal proved to be stronger than all of their combined strength, keeping in mind the fact that most of them lost more than half of their energy while fighting with the clones. The door also seemed to be caught on something, which was making it even harder to complete their task.
~*~*~
~~The Room of Spirit and Time~~
Minako and Rei sat at the table that was in the middle of the living quarters. It had been about a two weeks since they had been locked in against their will and there was still no sign of the egg. They learned not to allow Usagi to be a lookout. Every time that she was, she seemed to fall asleep just a few minutes after they did.
Rei looked up as she heard a noise, which sounded a lot like combined grunts, coming from just outside the damaged door, which was supposed to lead out into the real world. "Hey, do you think they're going to get out now?"
Minako, who also heard it, turned her head to the noise. "I hope so. I don't want to wait around long enough for that gross egg to hatch. How long do you think it's been out there since we've been in here."
Rei shrugged. "You got me. Maybe five minutes or so. I hope they get us out of here soon. I'm so bored with waiting for that stupid thing to come back here. I wonder how long it takes to bounce around the world, gees." She rested her head in her hand as she fiddled with an apple.
Minako yawned of boredom. "I know. I think it may have gone sight seeing or something. But I hope it doesn't get back here anytime soon. Then we wont have to fight it. I just wish we could train for it, but we don't want to wear ourselves out just in case."
"That doesn't mean we can't want to. I wonder where the others are." Rei said as she looked to the doorway that led outside.
'Do you think that thing will ever hatch?'
Rei looked up. "Did you say something Minako?"
Minako shook her head. "Nope. Not one word form me. Are you hearing things now?"
"I'm not sure. I just all of a sudden heard something. I could have sworn it was the voice of Makoto, but, she's not here. You are."
Minako shrugged. "Oh well. This is what happens when you're completely bored. This is what we get to look forward to if we survive Cell's attack. If we never get out of here, we are going to be so bored for the rest of our lives. And to think, I'll never get to go out on a date like all of the older girls do."
~*~*~
~~Outside~~
The group of fighters pulled away from the door in exhaustion. It was obvious that they weren't going to be able to pull it open by force. Goku kept his eye on Piccolo for he didn't want him to try anything funny with attempting to blast it open. "This could prove to be harder than we originally thought. Cell really jammed that thing in there."
Piccolo jumped back away from the door. "Move out of the way. I'm going to shoot a Ki beam at it and force a hole into the room. If the it's destroyed, oh well. We'll just use the Dragon Balls to revive them." Without waiting for Goku's consent, Piccolo formed a blue Ki beam and fired it onto the door of the room and spirit and time. It was quickly deflected away and hit a pillar instead of its original target. "Who did that?" He looked around. Everyone seemed to be in their same spots as when he fired the beam. Even Goku. Except for one person. And that was his son. He turned his back to his friends to stand face to face with the boy in the black Gi. "What's with you? You never want to protect her. I would have thought that you would be the last person to want to save her."
Mamoru grinned. "Well you don't know me all that well, do you father? I don't like Odango very much. But I don't think you should sacrifice her. Isn't the whole reason why we are trying to get that door open because we want to save them? Not so we can lock them in there and then get the Dragon Balls to get them back out again. Where is the logic in that. I never thought I would EVER say this, but I'm going to have to side with Goku on this one, father." He shuddered at the thought of agreeing with a Son.
~*~*~
~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
One week later…
Usagi and Minako had decided to make a habit of running an average of ten miles everyday just to keep their speed up. While it helped to keep the in shape, it wasn't something that would completely wear them out.
Well, Usagi and Minako were running one day, as they had been for the past week. They ran five miles away from the main building, and then five miles back. So far, they had only gone about a mile away as they had only started out a few moments before. They stopped when they heard a loud squishing noise. Usagi perked her ears to listen better. She could hear things that were far away more clear than Minako due to her Saiyan genes. "Hey, I think that egg is returning now." She looked to Minako.
"We need to warn the others before it gets here." She powered up to her fullest power.
Usagi did the same as she wasn't going to take ANY chances with screwing up with the egg. She didn't know if the organism inside had its full strength by the time it hatched. "Let's go Minako. Full speed to the others." Her senses all of a sudden picked up something familiar nearing them at a rapid pace. "Hey, how do you like that? They're already coming here. They must have known that something was wrong when we raised our power levels. How nice. We don't even have to leave our spots."
"Um…Usagi…" Minako's voice cracked with each of those words as she watched the egg plop down in front of them. It's black slime seemed to spray out everywhere, covering them in a soft blanket of warm goop. "Gross. Get it off of me." Minako grabbed some of it and tried to pull it off of her face, but it was like a rubber. It just wouldn't budge.
Usagi had a similar reaction, only more exaggerated. "EEWWWWW GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!" She shook her body as she hoped that it would fly off of her, some did, while a majority of it stuck to her body. "DON'T JUST STAND THERE! ATTACK IT FOR WHAT IT DID TO US! GROSS!" She jumped away from the egg and put her hands in front of her body, which still dripped with the slime that was deposited onto her body.
Rei, who was one of the ones lucky enough not to get hit for she wasn't at the scene yet when it happened, also powered up for an attack. She wasn't about to let that thing hatched. She was just happy that it attacked now. She was getting nervous with anxiety from waiting for it to come. "Now or never girls."
All of the girls took their signal from Rei and began launching of series of their largest Ki attacks onto the blob. None of which seemed to be doing any good. Ami was the first to stop her attacks as everyone else continued. She knew that something was wrong with it. From the moment that it didn't break when Minako dropped it onto the ground she knew that there was something oddly peculiar about that egg. And now, when it wasn't shattering into thousands of pieces, her suspicions rose. "Stop for a minute." Her friends reluctantly complied. "It's not being destroyed. Let's watch it for a minute to see what it does."
As they started to watch the egg, it started to grow. Its size enlarged at an incredible rate. Instead of being the size of a normal Namek egg, it was now the size of a small village. The girls, who were confused at what was happening, began another attack on the egg, only to result in the increasing of the egg's size. They stopped soon after they realized that it was utterly useless. The egg was now the size of a town.
Usagi began to feel fear as her main emotion. She backed away from the egg, which was now about fifty feet taller than her. "Wha…Wha…what's going on…here?" She could barely spit her words out.
"This egg is special. Made of unique power and conductive material, it seems to absorb our powers to grow larger. It's feeding off of our energy. We need to stop our attacks on it now, girls." As many things as Bulma had shown her before, this was the most advanced piece of work that Ami had ever seen. She wished she knew how it worked. That would have given her somewhat of an advantage.
"Well why doest it need to be so big?" Usagi continued to back away, along with Minako.
"I don't know, but look at how it pulsates, it's like it was alive. What is this thing? I thought it was just an egg." Ami wanted badly to go up to the thing and analyze it to find out what was happening with it but was too afraid to get near it. She was glad that she was not the only one afraid to do so.
"Man that's huge." Makoto said as she rubbed her arms from being both nervous and scared.
"And slimy. Look at all the DISGUSTING juice falling of it. And look at me too. I'm just as nasty looking." Minako tried desperately to wipe off the juice that was so rudely sprayed onto her body.
"You're right about it being alive. I sense lots of life energy from it, and hate." Rei had sensed it all along, but now it was an even greater hate. All of the girls turned their attention to the egg as it started to crack open. "There's more than one being more, A LOT MORE."
Ami backed up even more. She didn't want to be in the new Cell's pathway one he arose from his egg. He would be more powerful than before now that he was using their own power. "It's using Piccolo's powers to reproduce, and multiply, with what ever that extras energy was added to it by us. We should destroy it now while we have the chance." The others nodded in compliance. But even as they started to build up for an attack, the egg cracked completely.
To their disgust and with a growing sense of doom, the group of friends saw what was hatched. Two feet and eight inches in height, emerged an exact replica of Cell. Two hundred thousand cells swarmed out of the egg after him before the girls had a chance to react. But they sensed the power level coming from the girls and all of them scattered, remembering their father's words that he had put into their minds.
'You must grow my sons. It will take a year to reach full power, the same level as myself, but when you do, we shall merge and this time WE will rule all. Even My queen will bow to me. With my new power I get from that brat Usagi I will have more power than the queen.'
Rei's psychic senses picked this thought up. Usually she wouldn't have been able to pick it up without effort, but with the same thoughts coming from two hundred thousand minds, it was overwhelming. As Rei began to collapse, Usagi rushed to catch her as she fell, while Makoto began to chase after a clump of the Cells.
(Ok, that's it for this part. Sorry it's out so late. It's finals week and I had A LOT of homework that I had to do. But it stayed up late and pushed to get this part done so I could get it out before I had to go to school. Anyways, this will only go on for a couple more days since the last day of finals is Thursday. YAY! ^_^ so I better be going. Please tell me what you thought. Thanks. Ja Ne)