(Ok, I have to change my Pen name due to my parents getting kind of nosy with my business here. So I'm telling you now just so you know. It's going to be Kichigai Joshi, which means Crazy girl in Japanese. (Onanoko was too long for girl so I used the other word for it) It's close enough to dizzychick, I guess. Not that I want to change my name, but oh well. I gotta do what I gotta do. Sorry about the inconvinence. Anuways, I'll leave you alone now. By for now.)
~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
Ten days have passed since the girls figured out a way to keep the miniature Cells from attacking them while they are resting or devising a plan. Their energy shield so far has been holding up to the Cells. Each time it is fired upon, however, the attack was bounced back to them by the shield just as Usagi's was when she first tested it out. Thus, badly injuring the attackers. After a few days, though, the tiny Cells began to learn not to attack the girls' base. It would only end in chaos. Even though the Cells would live after their own attacks backfired, the girls were not about to let them just walk away. They would teleport themselves out of their base and kill the Cells, ridding themselves of the annoyances.
~*~*~
Usagi lay in bed as she rested from a hard day of killing off hundreds of enemies who thought that it was their job to ambush her. Day after day the same thing happened. She would wake up, eat, and then go out to eliminate as many Cells as she could. They gained power little by little each day but they were still quite easy to beat as they hadn't gained quite enough power to beat her yet. Though, her friends were starting to seem to have a problem with fighting them off. They could still handle themselves alone, but they came in with more cuts and open wounds.
She sighed as she turned onto her side and looked over to her sleeping friend, Minako, who was in the bed across the room from her. Both of them had come in from fighting not three hours before then. Ami, Makoto, and Rei were still out fighting.
She lazily sat up and looked at the clock the hung over the door that was broken in. The only thing that was even keeping them in the room of spirit and time. 'I've only been resting here for only three hours?' She turned to look at the door that led out into the Cell infested world that, which was covered by a soft pink aura of power. 'I'm tired, but why can't I sleep?' She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and looked over to her tail as she felt some of the fur on it stiffen. 'Why am I getting the feeling that something is going on?' She stood up, ignoring the fact that her tail was now completely stiff.
Usagi got a chill down her spine as she hopped out of the bed and crept to the door of their base to see if there was anything happening outside. She couldn't feel anyone's power level as the shield stopped even their own senses from reaching the outside world. All she could sense was the shield itself. She grabbed her arms with her hands as she slowly peered out into the open fighting land. Things were not at all as they should have been. It was too quiet. Normally, fighting could be heard inside the fort. But there was nothing. It was utterly quite. 'This is starting to give me the creeps.' She stepped even closer to get a better look.
'Help!'
"Rei?" All of a sudden something red crashed into the shield that protected her, causing Usagi to scream and jump back. "What was that?" She was in her fighting stance, ready for anything. Her eyes looked to the top of the doorway to see nothing. She slowly moved her eyes down until they reached five beings. Four foes and one ally. "REI!" She swung around and ran to Minako, who was already wakened up by Usagi's first scream. "Minako! Minako! We have to help them!" She panicked as she stumbled over her own feet while running back to the doorway after she saw that Minako was getting out of bed.
Rei slightly moved her head enough to move her eyes to where she could see Usagi behind the shield ready to teleport to her aid. She then closed her eyes and began to concentrate. 'Don't come out here. You're drained right now. We'll be ok.' She winced as her message to Usagi took more of her much need energy.
Minako bolted to Usagi's side. She gazed down to Rei who was being batted around by the miniature Cells as if she were a soccer ball. "What's wrong with her? Why doesn't she want us to help her? Where are Makoto and Ami?" She turned her head away as she couldn't stand to watch her friend be beaten any longer.
"I don't know. I wish we could feel their energy. I don't know why Rei is loosing like this. They didn't beat you when you were fighting, Minako. It doesn't make sense." Usagi had to basically force herself to not teleport out there. But, she made a deal with herself. If no help arrived in a couple of minutes, she would go out there and help. She didn't care what Rei would say. She wasn't about to let her friend die such a violent death.
~*~*~
"HEY!" A voice echoed throughout the area. The person of which the voice belonged to stepped forward. "What do you think you're doing, you creep!" The person revealed herself as Ami, who looked more angry than ever. "How does hitting a person while they're down dignify you?" She paused as the Cells turned their heads to look at the girl in blue. The failed to say anything in time for her to start up again. "I see you have no answer. Well that's good because it doesn't dignify you. It just shows how much of a coward you are. You want to finish the threat off while you can."
One of the Cells stood up and decided to speak for the whole group. "What are you talking about? You are no longer a threat to us. Especially you. You are the weakest of them all." He and his friends laughed as he turned back to Rei, who was on the brink of becoming unconscious.
"I may not be as strong as the others, but that doesn't matter, does it? I have skill in other areas, which makes me a better overall fighter. So why don't you fight me!?"
"And me!" Makoto flew to the action, leading a pack of more Cells behind her. "Choose your enemies and do it fast." She stopped abruptly and turned to the Cells behind her. She out over the far reaches of the room of spirit and time, collecting all of the Cells that she could find. Taunting them to get them to follow. Once she felt the increase in their power she knew that they would want to fight. She knew that they would get cocky. Now would be the best time to kill them off since their power would obviously not stay the same. "Let's go guys. I can take you on by myself. Me and Ami can do it."
~*~*~
Usagi watched in horror as the Cells just kept coming and coming. "Minako, I think we should get out there and help them now. They're going to need it."
Minako nodded. "Right. Let's go!" Both fighters performed their teleportation technique and joined their friends out in the fight that would not be an easy one to win. They would have to really fight for it instead of shoving it off and not really pay attention to what they were doing.
~*~*~
Makoto flew to the side. Hundreds of the Cells followed her. 'Was this a bad idea? This many of them wanting to kill me may not be an easy thing to do. Maybe we should fight as a group. But they wont let us. Uh-oh.' She didn't let her thoughts get into her emotions as she didn't want to loose her concentration. 'Well if we get through this it will be good practice, I guess. What am I saying, if? We WILL get through this.' "Come on COWARDS! You've been hiding for days and now you've finally decided to come out! Let's get some action here!" She looked down to the ground to see Rei trying to regain her composure. 'She needs to get out of there.' Her attention was turned to Usagi and Minako, who appeared at Rei's side. They acted as body guards for her. 'I hope they can help her out.'
Her thoughts were interrupted by a disc of energy flying past her face, barely missing contact with her. 'Yikes.' She turned her attention back to her enemies, who didn't look too happy with her. "What? Did I upset you because I didn't start kicking your butts? I'm sorry, would you like me to do that now? I mean, I will if you want." She scanned her eyes across the group and noted their changes in height.
"Shut up, girl. You are no match for us. We are stronger than you now. There is no way that you will be able to defend against so many of us. Your days of victory end here. We will kill your four, and take the blonde girl captive, as our father instructed before we were made."
Makoto watched, half in horror, as her foes took to their fighting stances. "Are you going to be so unfair as to attack me all at once." She didn't get an answer. Not only did they seem to have gotten more power in a matter of a few hours, but they were also more arrogant. "Fine. It doesn't matter. We can beat you with our combined powers."
What appeared to be the leader crossed his arms and smirked. "Do you actually think that you will be able to over power us? We will just keep coming back even stronger and stronger. We will grow stronger every day. Do you wish to know how we even became this strong in such a short time?" He didn't wait for a reply as he knew that she would be curious. "We have found a way to extract the energy that was left over in out brothers' bodies by absorbing them into our bodies. So it is no use. The more you kill, the more powerful we become. It really is a wonderful thing."
Makoto looked down to the ground once again to see everyone, including the Cells, looking up into the sky, listening to their conversation. She looked back to the group in front of her. "You just don't know when to stop, do you?" There came no answer from the other party. "Fine."
With no further words spoken from either group, Makoto began her attack. She started out with a cluster of Ki attacks as she heard her friends start their attacks below, too. She made sure that she didn't get any closer to her foes than 50 feet. She didn't want to be close enough for them to launch their own attacks and have a good hit on her. She couldn't afford anymore energy loss than what she was putting out.
Soon, a cloud of dust covered the group of Cells. Makoto could no longer see any of them. But she could sense them easily. And what she was sensing was not something that she wanted to. They weren't really being hurt by her attacks. They were, but not enough to do much damage. At the rate that they were being affected by her attacks, she would have to use all of her energy at once in the form of one attack just to kill maybe the first couple of rows. The rest would still be alive and well enough to strike back. 'Maybe I should try to get down to the girls.' She looked down to the ground for a good spot to land. 'There.' She looked back her foes, who were approaching her with great speed. "See ya!" She discontinued her energy in her body and immediately began falling down to the ground in the style that Vejita first taught Usagi.
One of the Cells left the group and followed Makoto to the ground. He flew faster than she fell. "Hey kid! Watch yourself!" He reached out and grabbed her by her ponytail.
"AHOWWW! HELP!" She kicked her feet around, hoping that she could swing free, as she lifted her hands and dug her nails into the wrist of her attacker.
Usagi, now Super Saiyan, looked up from her fight, which she was currently winning. She glared at the being who was holding Rei in place while dozens of the others kicked at her dangling body. "You JERKS!" She blasted one last Cell in the face before leaping into the air and going to Makoto's aid. "Get away from her!" She pulled back both of her arms as far as she could.
"Usagi! Behind you!" Makoto pointed to the heard of Cells that tried to creep up behind Usagi as she continued to struggle free of her enemy's grip.
Usagi was already one step ahead of everyone though. She fully sensed the attack being formed behind her back. She wasn't about to let them go through with it though. She flew further up into the sky and performed a backward flip to be facing in the direction of her opponents. They hadn't quite been ready for her speed as they had never encountered her before. Usually any one of their people that did would die before telling others of her power. She did this for a reason. She didn't want any of them to be prepared for her. "If you ever think you can beat us, you're wrong!" She would not accept their assault on any of her friends. They would all pay, sooner or later. She didn't give her opponent a change to comprehend what was going on. Her goal was not to put them into awe over her power. "Say buh-bye now." She pulled her hands to her side. She wanted a fast and easy attack that would take out everyone in a wide area. "Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Ha!" She threw her hands back out in front of her, only this time she had a Ki blast in them to send to everyone down below her. "Try that on for size, guys."
Usagi turned back to Makoto before her last victims were even destroyed. She had faith that they would be gone within a few seconds. "Your turn." She grinned as the looks on their faces turned into that of a horrified person. "Scared? Why? I wouldn't be doing this if you would just leave us alone." She felt the sudden absence of power levels in the area. "Looks like your friends are gone."
"Yes, but their death will not be in vain. Our brothers down there will absorb them for their power and get stronger. The more you kill, the more powerful we become. Have I not already stated that?" He released his hold on Makoto and let her fall into the hands on one of his brothers. "I wish to for you to sit this out."
Usagi nearly burst out laughing at that one. "Are you nuts? I'm NOT sitting this one out. You're just afraid that I'm going to beat you all today. I'm not going to let you beat up my friends. Not in a million years. Anyone who tries ANYTHING is going to get it, big time. I don't care how, but I will defeat each and every one of you." She all of a sudden felt and increase of power below her. 'Uh-Oh. I should cut back on killing these guys. But if I do that, then they will live and kill us. Anyway we go about this, it's going to turn out bad.'
"We can't do that, little Usagi." 100 more Cells rose up to Usagi's altitude. "We're just getting started." The all laughed as Usagi turned around.
Usagi frowned. "What do you creeps want?" She didn't know how much longer she would be able to hold up against them. If she continued to kill them they would gain more power than her in a day. On the other hand, if they were to retreat now, they would be able to devise a plan to strike back against them all without having to worry about them getting more power. They would gain power everyday as they grew older, but not as fast as they would if they absorbed each other.
She looked down to Makoto, keeping her senses on her enemies. Makoto didn't look all that hurt, even though she was in the arms of one of the Cells. She had been through worse. Especially with the hair pulling contest they used to have when they were younger. Makoto should have been used to it by then. But there was the still the question of Rei, Ami, and Minako. They had all ventured away from the base with their fights. Usagi could still feel them, but their power was being trampled over by the Cells. "Why don't you just release her? You know I can come down there and kick you away from her any day, right? Why don't you make it easier on yourself and just let go."
The Cell smirked. "Like I'm going to fall for that. Your friend will be out of harms reach and then you're going to kill me, right? Yeah right. I think I'll just hold onto your little friend. That way you can't do anything to me." He tightened his grip around Makoto's arms.
Usagi shook her head in disgust. "I can come down there and kill you even WITH Makoto there. I'm just being nice."
"Right little girl. Right."
"I am." She frowned. "Fine. Be that way." He obviously wasn't going to let Makoto go. She pressed her fingers to her forehead and teleported to the space just behind him, in between him and another Cell. Without saying a word to either, she karate chopped at both of them, hitting one in the chest and the other back. "I told you I wouldn't kill you." She didn't hit either of them hard enough to kill them as she didn't want any of the others to gain their power. She wanted to talk over some plans with the others first.
"Hey, hey, hey. Kid, what's that behind your back?" One of the Cells with more power jumped behind Usagi and grabbed her tail, which she had failed to tuck securely under her Gi before she entered the fight.
Usagi curled up from severe pain racing around her body. 'I'm such an idiot. Why did I forget that? Daddy told me to always keep it away from the enemy.' "OOOOOWWWWWE!!!" She couldn't help but scream out in pain.
The Cell who held onto her tail laughed out. "Hey guys, this is the kid's weakness. I say we kill her friends while we have her in our hold since we can't kill her." He held her upside down by her tail as he pulled her up to his face. "Even though I think we should since she already killed so many of our brothers." He poked at Usagi's stiff body. She didn't seem to feel it at all. "Heh, you're not so tough when your tail is held. In fact, you're kinda cute."
"Don't go soft on us now. We still have a mission to complete. You hold her. We'll take care of this other kid who thinks she can beat us."
Makoto looked in straight, to her left, to her right, and then behind her to see that she was completely encircled by hundreds of Cells. She gulped as she made sure that she was in the direct center of the circle, as far away from any of them as possible. She could no longer feel any of Usagi's energy. It was completely drained down to her normal life energy, which was not exactly the best thing in the world. She knew that this was probably what was happening to the others. But there was only one way to go through a situation like this. And that would be to go through it doing your best and no worry about outcomes. Just worry about staying alive. She prepared for the fight of her life.
Usagi found that she couldn't move at all. This had been the longest that she had ever lost energy due to having her tail being pulled. She didn't know how much longer she would be able to stand it. 'What kind of a weakness is this anyways? Why does it have to be the tail?' "Re…tre…at."
"Huh?" Makoto lost her concentration as her attention was directed back to Usagi.
"RETREAT!"
"Not without you I'm not!" She turned back to her opponents as they began to come at her, full speed. "Whoa!" She couldn't even dodge them coming at her. With the near hundred who got major power ups from the Cells that Usagi killed, they were too much for her. They all jumped onto her as if she had the ball in a game of football and was just standing there with it. 'A little help guys!'
~*~*~
Ami had a similar problem. Each Cell that she had killed only produced a stronger one. She had done what Usagi had and just resorted to not killing any more. But before she had a chance to teleport back to base she was bombarded with attacks. 'I would if I could but I'm having a bit of…' Her bond was broken off by a swift punch to the jaw bone and was then tossed around as if she were a volleyball. Her body felt as if it was being thrown off a mountain side.
~*~*~
'Having the same problem here. Where'd Usagi go?' Minako was a bit better off than the rest of her friends. While they had maybe a hundred to deal with, she had maybe fifty. Most of them seemed to want to follow Usagi though. She was glad of that. Usagi could easily deal with them, where as the rest couldn't.
There was no response from Rei.
~*~*~
'Rei…What's wrong with her?' Makoto covered her face with her arms and curled her legs to protect her stomach. There really was no way to get out of the attacks that were being thrown upon her.
For the first time that the egg had hatched Usagi actually felt fear. There was nothing that they could do at this point. She had heard the mental messages that were sent between her friends. She had heard of the trouble they were in. She had also not heard Rei, who was already low on energy when all of the Cells attacked. This time things didn't look as if they were going to work out for them. "Retreat, Makoto! Please!"
The Cell who held Usagi's tail raised his hand and slapped her in the face. He tightened his grip on her tail, causing her to howl out in even more pain. "Shut up!"
Makoto hadn't seen what just happened, but judging by the sound of the slap and her Usagi's crying of pain, she knew what was going on. But even with the knowledge of what was going on, what could she do? Nothing. She was stuck in the middle of a bunch of Cells being beaten, probably to death. 'Why am I thinking this way? Why am I thinking that this is the end? Goku never taught us to give up. He always told us to believe that we would win. And if we did, we would. Yeah. That's it.' "I AM NOT GIVING UP!" Her muscles tensed up as she became angrier and angrier with the current condition of the fight. "YOU WILL NOT WIN!"
~*~*~
The Cells that had been playing with Ami let her fall to the ground as they felt a sudden rising of power coming from the girls' base. "What is that? It feels like that brown headed kid."
Ami sat up and scowled at the so called people who had just assaulted her. She too felt the increase in Makoto's power, but she didn't know what it was. Then all of a sudden she could no longer feel Rei's power. 'Oh no.' She turned her head to the direction that Rei's power formerly was. 'They didn't…' She looked harder for the power, which should have been Rei's. But to her dismay, there was nothing there. "REI! NO!"
~*~*~
Minako's chasers also stopped to feel the increase in power. Only now there were two power increases. One coming from Makoto, and the other coming from Ami. "What are these kids? where can they get such power even though they've been beaten nearly to death?"
Minako couldn't believe what was happening. She never knew that Ami and Makoto possessed such power. They were powering up to be even stronger than her. "See? We WILL beat you guys."
The Cells turned back to Minako, all with a smirk on their faces. "Will you now?" They all jumped onto her without giving her time to react to the statement. Each one got in as many kicks and punches to Minako as possible. They weren't about to let her get powered up like the rest of her friends seemed to be doing. "Looks like one of your friends is already dead."
A bright red light filled the air in the distance, which the Cells didn't bother to take notice. With this spectacular light came a power like no other. It had a unique flavor to it. Something none of them had ever felt before. But still, they didn't pay attention to it. They just kept beating into Minako, who was getting very put out with the attacks. Though, she did note the new power that was oddly born. 'That's gotta be Rei. I thought she was gone.'
One of the Cells picked Minako up by her feet and threw her into the air. He jumped into the air and jammed one of his feet into her chest. He could hear the bones inside crack as he pushed up harder. "You wont win this, girl."
Minako grinned. "Oh yeah?!" She quickly made a Ki blast with the last of her power and fired it down to Cells below. She could feel the anger rushing through her veins, which made her push harder and want to kill them even more. She would not let them win. She couldn't let them win.
~*~*~
Even though Rei seemed to be ok, Ami couldn't keep from being angry. It seemed to have overtaken her body. "You will pay for what you have done. You wont get away with this!" Her body began to glow a soft blue as her angry increased and her muscles grew stiffer.
~*~*~
The Cells backed away from Makoto as her power increased more and more. They weren't sure what was going on but they had never felt her power. It was much different from that of Rei's new power, and that of Ami's increasing power. Even Minako had started to gain power somehow. None of them knew what was going on. Their father hadn't warned them that something like this would happen.
But there was Makoto. I'm the center of a ring of hundreds of Cells, gaining power by the second. Her body began to glow pale green as she stared into the hate filled eyes of her enemies. All they wanted to do was destroy her and her friends. They didn't care that they too were living beings. They didn't care that their deaths would affect the lives of others. They just didn't care about anything, which is why she had to make them pay. Beings like them couldn't be free to roam the universe. "I'm not going to let you get away with THIS!" Her aura darkened and shot out in all directions as her power boosted up one last time.
~*~*~
Rei teleported to Ami's destination to help her out. "Ami! These guys mean business. They nearly killed me. Come on. Let's get the others and get out of here. We won't be able to be them right now. The ones I killed are being absorbed as we speak by thousands of others. So le…Ami, are you listening to me?"
"We can't let it happen Rei. We can't let them gain power. We have to stop them now." She closed here eyes to try and calm herself but it was no use. She didn't like not having control over herself. She didn't know what was going on. "What's happening to me?!" Her aura slowly grew as her power increase came to a halt. Once this happened, her emotions were much more controllable. Her whole body felt strange as she turned to Rei. "What's going on? Why did that happen?"
"I don't know. It was much worse for me though? My power just burst out. Makoto's did too. Did you see it?"
Ami shook her head. "I tried to make my anger go away, I think that's why mine didn't get so violent. You guys just let yours out."
"You're probably right. You always are. But I think we should go and get the others. You go to Makoto and Usagi to find out what's going on there. I'm going to go and get Minako before anything bad happens to her. Then we need to figure out what just happened."
One of the Cells approached the two girls, who currently seemed to have larger power level than him. "We aren't letting you two go anywhere."
Ami turned to the Cell and smirked. "Look, we have to go." Rei and Ami both teleported to their destinations, which only made that group of Cells angrier.
~*~*~
When Rei got to Minako and her group of Cells, she was still firing her attack upon them. She seemed to have the upper hand at the moment. Little did she know what she was gaining power every second, just like Rei and the others had. Her will to come out of the fight alive was her motivation to keep going. And her motivation for more power. It amazed Rei that they could all reach new heights just by being put into danger. Just by wanting to live and prevail over evil. She thought that only Saiyans or any race with natural power could do that. What kind of power could a human possess that would make them do that. It would only be a matter of time before Minako would let her anger go all the way and she would have new power, just like the rest of the girls.
~*~*~
Makoto laughed into the faces of all who stared at her. She had done it. She had gained more power than them and now there was no way that they could really harm her. As long as she didn't kill anyone she would be fine. She only had one more thing she had to do before she was finished though. She turned to the direction of Usagi, who was still being held by her tail. But the one who was holding her appeared to be somewhat frightened. "I suggest you put her down, unless you want to die."
The Cell stood tall, trying to show that he wasn't in the least bit scared of the girl in green. "Kill me if you please. My brothers will just take my power."
Makoto thought about her options and remembered how Usagi saved her. "I don't have to kill you." She teleported behind him and kicked in the center of his backbone, causing his back to break. "Freak, you can't even stand up to a kick in the back anymore."
One of the Cells from the group that had previously beaten Makoto analyzed her new power as well as the other girls' power. "Why is that power in my knowledge bank? Why would father know what that kind of power is? Especially since it is all different kinds of power."
Ami appeared just below Usagi as she fell to the ground. She caught her friend in her arms and looked up to Makoto, who kick the Cell with the broken back down to the ground. "Minako and Rei will be here soon."
Makoto looked down as she wiped her forehead. "Glad to see you're all right." Everyone's attention was diverted to a loud explosion followed by the sky being lit completely in orange. "Go Minako!"
Ami put Usagi down on the ground. "Are you ok?" She didn't see any physical injuries on her.
Usagi panted as her energy was being returned to her body. "I'll be fine. Just make sure you don't kill anyone right now." She couldn't wait to find out why her friends were getting power ups, and why their new power felt so different than their normal power. It didn't have the same feel to it. It felt as if it were from a totally different person, as if it were added onto them.
(Well there you have it. That's it for this part. What did you think? Was it good? Or was it Bad? Gotta go. Ja Ne )
~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
Ten days have passed since the girls figured out a way to keep the miniature Cells from attacking them while they are resting or devising a plan. Their energy shield so far has been holding up to the Cells. Each time it is fired upon, however, the attack was bounced back to them by the shield just as Usagi's was when she first tested it out. Thus, badly injuring the attackers. After a few days, though, the tiny Cells began to learn not to attack the girls' base. It would only end in chaos. Even though the Cells would live after their own attacks backfired, the girls were not about to let them just walk away. They would teleport themselves out of their base and kill the Cells, ridding themselves of the annoyances.
~*~*~
Usagi lay in bed as she rested from a hard day of killing off hundreds of enemies who thought that it was their job to ambush her. Day after day the same thing happened. She would wake up, eat, and then go out to eliminate as many Cells as she could. They gained power little by little each day but they were still quite easy to beat as they hadn't gained quite enough power to beat her yet. Though, her friends were starting to seem to have a problem with fighting them off. They could still handle themselves alone, but they came in with more cuts and open wounds.
She sighed as she turned onto her side and looked over to her sleeping friend, Minako, who was in the bed across the room from her. Both of them had come in from fighting not three hours before then. Ami, Makoto, and Rei were still out fighting.
She lazily sat up and looked at the clock the hung over the door that was broken in. The only thing that was even keeping them in the room of spirit and time. 'I've only been resting here for only three hours?' She turned to look at the door that led out into the Cell infested world that, which was covered by a soft pink aura of power. 'I'm tired, but why can't I sleep?' She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and looked over to her tail as she felt some of the fur on it stiffen. 'Why am I getting the feeling that something is going on?' She stood up, ignoring the fact that her tail was now completely stiff.
Usagi got a chill down her spine as she hopped out of the bed and crept to the door of their base to see if there was anything happening outside. She couldn't feel anyone's power level as the shield stopped even their own senses from reaching the outside world. All she could sense was the shield itself. She grabbed her arms with her hands as she slowly peered out into the open fighting land. Things were not at all as they should have been. It was too quiet. Normally, fighting could be heard inside the fort. But there was nothing. It was utterly quite. 'This is starting to give me the creeps.' She stepped even closer to get a better look.
'Help!'
"Rei?" All of a sudden something red crashed into the shield that protected her, causing Usagi to scream and jump back. "What was that?" She was in her fighting stance, ready for anything. Her eyes looked to the top of the doorway to see nothing. She slowly moved her eyes down until they reached five beings. Four foes and one ally. "REI!" She swung around and ran to Minako, who was already wakened up by Usagi's first scream. "Minako! Minako! We have to help them!" She panicked as she stumbled over her own feet while running back to the doorway after she saw that Minako was getting out of bed.
Rei slightly moved her head enough to move her eyes to where she could see Usagi behind the shield ready to teleport to her aid. She then closed her eyes and began to concentrate. 'Don't come out here. You're drained right now. We'll be ok.' She winced as her message to Usagi took more of her much need energy.
Minako bolted to Usagi's side. She gazed down to Rei who was being batted around by the miniature Cells as if she were a soccer ball. "What's wrong with her? Why doesn't she want us to help her? Where are Makoto and Ami?" She turned her head away as she couldn't stand to watch her friend be beaten any longer.
"I don't know. I wish we could feel their energy. I don't know why Rei is loosing like this. They didn't beat you when you were fighting, Minako. It doesn't make sense." Usagi had to basically force herself to not teleport out there. But, she made a deal with herself. If no help arrived in a couple of minutes, she would go out there and help. She didn't care what Rei would say. She wasn't about to let her friend die such a violent death.
~*~*~
"HEY!" A voice echoed throughout the area. The person of which the voice belonged to stepped forward. "What do you think you're doing, you creep!" The person revealed herself as Ami, who looked more angry than ever. "How does hitting a person while they're down dignify you?" She paused as the Cells turned their heads to look at the girl in blue. The failed to say anything in time for her to start up again. "I see you have no answer. Well that's good because it doesn't dignify you. It just shows how much of a coward you are. You want to finish the threat off while you can."
One of the Cells stood up and decided to speak for the whole group. "What are you talking about? You are no longer a threat to us. Especially you. You are the weakest of them all." He and his friends laughed as he turned back to Rei, who was on the brink of becoming unconscious.
"I may not be as strong as the others, but that doesn't matter, does it? I have skill in other areas, which makes me a better overall fighter. So why don't you fight me!?"
"And me!" Makoto flew to the action, leading a pack of more Cells behind her. "Choose your enemies and do it fast." She stopped abruptly and turned to the Cells behind her. She out over the far reaches of the room of spirit and time, collecting all of the Cells that she could find. Taunting them to get them to follow. Once she felt the increase in their power she knew that they would want to fight. She knew that they would get cocky. Now would be the best time to kill them off since their power would obviously not stay the same. "Let's go guys. I can take you on by myself. Me and Ami can do it."
~*~*~
Usagi watched in horror as the Cells just kept coming and coming. "Minako, I think we should get out there and help them now. They're going to need it."
Minako nodded. "Right. Let's go!" Both fighters performed their teleportation technique and joined their friends out in the fight that would not be an easy one to win. They would have to really fight for it instead of shoving it off and not really pay attention to what they were doing.
~*~*~
Makoto flew to the side. Hundreds of the Cells followed her. 'Was this a bad idea? This many of them wanting to kill me may not be an easy thing to do. Maybe we should fight as a group. But they wont let us. Uh-oh.' She didn't let her thoughts get into her emotions as she didn't want to loose her concentration. 'Well if we get through this it will be good practice, I guess. What am I saying, if? We WILL get through this.' "Come on COWARDS! You've been hiding for days and now you've finally decided to come out! Let's get some action here!" She looked down to the ground to see Rei trying to regain her composure. 'She needs to get out of there.' Her attention was turned to Usagi and Minako, who appeared at Rei's side. They acted as body guards for her. 'I hope they can help her out.'
Her thoughts were interrupted by a disc of energy flying past her face, barely missing contact with her. 'Yikes.' She turned her attention back to her enemies, who didn't look too happy with her. "What? Did I upset you because I didn't start kicking your butts? I'm sorry, would you like me to do that now? I mean, I will if you want." She scanned her eyes across the group and noted their changes in height.
"Shut up, girl. You are no match for us. We are stronger than you now. There is no way that you will be able to defend against so many of us. Your days of victory end here. We will kill your four, and take the blonde girl captive, as our father instructed before we were made."
Makoto watched, half in horror, as her foes took to their fighting stances. "Are you going to be so unfair as to attack me all at once." She didn't get an answer. Not only did they seem to have gotten more power in a matter of a few hours, but they were also more arrogant. "Fine. It doesn't matter. We can beat you with our combined powers."
What appeared to be the leader crossed his arms and smirked. "Do you actually think that you will be able to over power us? We will just keep coming back even stronger and stronger. We will grow stronger every day. Do you wish to know how we even became this strong in such a short time?" He didn't wait for a reply as he knew that she would be curious. "We have found a way to extract the energy that was left over in out brothers' bodies by absorbing them into our bodies. So it is no use. The more you kill, the more powerful we become. It really is a wonderful thing."
Makoto looked down to the ground once again to see everyone, including the Cells, looking up into the sky, listening to their conversation. She looked back to the group in front of her. "You just don't know when to stop, do you?" There came no answer from the other party. "Fine."
With no further words spoken from either group, Makoto began her attack. She started out with a cluster of Ki attacks as she heard her friends start their attacks below, too. She made sure that she didn't get any closer to her foes than 50 feet. She didn't want to be close enough for them to launch their own attacks and have a good hit on her. She couldn't afford anymore energy loss than what she was putting out.
Soon, a cloud of dust covered the group of Cells. Makoto could no longer see any of them. But she could sense them easily. And what she was sensing was not something that she wanted to. They weren't really being hurt by her attacks. They were, but not enough to do much damage. At the rate that they were being affected by her attacks, she would have to use all of her energy at once in the form of one attack just to kill maybe the first couple of rows. The rest would still be alive and well enough to strike back. 'Maybe I should try to get down to the girls.' She looked down to the ground for a good spot to land. 'There.' She looked back her foes, who were approaching her with great speed. "See ya!" She discontinued her energy in her body and immediately began falling down to the ground in the style that Vejita first taught Usagi.
One of the Cells left the group and followed Makoto to the ground. He flew faster than she fell. "Hey kid! Watch yourself!" He reached out and grabbed her by her ponytail.
"AHOWWW! HELP!" She kicked her feet around, hoping that she could swing free, as she lifted her hands and dug her nails into the wrist of her attacker.
Usagi, now Super Saiyan, looked up from her fight, which she was currently winning. She glared at the being who was holding Rei in place while dozens of the others kicked at her dangling body. "You JERKS!" She blasted one last Cell in the face before leaping into the air and going to Makoto's aid. "Get away from her!" She pulled back both of her arms as far as she could.
"Usagi! Behind you!" Makoto pointed to the heard of Cells that tried to creep up behind Usagi as she continued to struggle free of her enemy's grip.
Usagi was already one step ahead of everyone though. She fully sensed the attack being formed behind her back. She wasn't about to let them go through with it though. She flew further up into the sky and performed a backward flip to be facing in the direction of her opponents. They hadn't quite been ready for her speed as they had never encountered her before. Usually any one of their people that did would die before telling others of her power. She did this for a reason. She didn't want any of them to be prepared for her. "If you ever think you can beat us, you're wrong!" She would not accept their assault on any of her friends. They would all pay, sooner or later. She didn't give her opponent a change to comprehend what was going on. Her goal was not to put them into awe over her power. "Say buh-bye now." She pulled her hands to her side. She wanted a fast and easy attack that would take out everyone in a wide area. "Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Ha!" She threw her hands back out in front of her, only this time she had a Ki blast in them to send to everyone down below her. "Try that on for size, guys."
Usagi turned back to Makoto before her last victims were even destroyed. She had faith that they would be gone within a few seconds. "Your turn." She grinned as the looks on their faces turned into that of a horrified person. "Scared? Why? I wouldn't be doing this if you would just leave us alone." She felt the sudden absence of power levels in the area. "Looks like your friends are gone."
"Yes, but their death will not be in vain. Our brothers down there will absorb them for their power and get stronger. The more you kill, the more powerful we become. Have I not already stated that?" He released his hold on Makoto and let her fall into the hands on one of his brothers. "I wish to for you to sit this out."
Usagi nearly burst out laughing at that one. "Are you nuts? I'm NOT sitting this one out. You're just afraid that I'm going to beat you all today. I'm not going to let you beat up my friends. Not in a million years. Anyone who tries ANYTHING is going to get it, big time. I don't care how, but I will defeat each and every one of you." She all of a sudden felt and increase of power below her. 'Uh-Oh. I should cut back on killing these guys. But if I do that, then they will live and kill us. Anyway we go about this, it's going to turn out bad.'
"We can't do that, little Usagi." 100 more Cells rose up to Usagi's altitude. "We're just getting started." The all laughed as Usagi turned around.
Usagi frowned. "What do you creeps want?" She didn't know how much longer she would be able to hold up against them. If she continued to kill them they would gain more power than her in a day. On the other hand, if they were to retreat now, they would be able to devise a plan to strike back against them all without having to worry about them getting more power. They would gain power everyday as they grew older, but not as fast as they would if they absorbed each other.
She looked down to Makoto, keeping her senses on her enemies. Makoto didn't look all that hurt, even though she was in the arms of one of the Cells. She had been through worse. Especially with the hair pulling contest they used to have when they were younger. Makoto should have been used to it by then. But there was the still the question of Rei, Ami, and Minako. They had all ventured away from the base with their fights. Usagi could still feel them, but their power was being trampled over by the Cells. "Why don't you just release her? You know I can come down there and kick you away from her any day, right? Why don't you make it easier on yourself and just let go."
The Cell smirked. "Like I'm going to fall for that. Your friend will be out of harms reach and then you're going to kill me, right? Yeah right. I think I'll just hold onto your little friend. That way you can't do anything to me." He tightened his grip around Makoto's arms.
Usagi shook her head in disgust. "I can come down there and kill you even WITH Makoto there. I'm just being nice."
"Right little girl. Right."
"I am." She frowned. "Fine. Be that way." He obviously wasn't going to let Makoto go. She pressed her fingers to her forehead and teleported to the space just behind him, in between him and another Cell. Without saying a word to either, she karate chopped at both of them, hitting one in the chest and the other back. "I told you I wouldn't kill you." She didn't hit either of them hard enough to kill them as she didn't want any of the others to gain their power. She wanted to talk over some plans with the others first.
"Hey, hey, hey. Kid, what's that behind your back?" One of the Cells with more power jumped behind Usagi and grabbed her tail, which she had failed to tuck securely under her Gi before she entered the fight.
Usagi curled up from severe pain racing around her body. 'I'm such an idiot. Why did I forget that? Daddy told me to always keep it away from the enemy.' "OOOOOWWWWWE!!!" She couldn't help but scream out in pain.
The Cell who held onto her tail laughed out. "Hey guys, this is the kid's weakness. I say we kill her friends while we have her in our hold since we can't kill her." He held her upside down by her tail as he pulled her up to his face. "Even though I think we should since she already killed so many of our brothers." He poked at Usagi's stiff body. She didn't seem to feel it at all. "Heh, you're not so tough when your tail is held. In fact, you're kinda cute."
"Don't go soft on us now. We still have a mission to complete. You hold her. We'll take care of this other kid who thinks she can beat us."
Makoto looked in straight, to her left, to her right, and then behind her to see that she was completely encircled by hundreds of Cells. She gulped as she made sure that she was in the direct center of the circle, as far away from any of them as possible. She could no longer feel any of Usagi's energy. It was completely drained down to her normal life energy, which was not exactly the best thing in the world. She knew that this was probably what was happening to the others. But there was only one way to go through a situation like this. And that would be to go through it doing your best and no worry about outcomes. Just worry about staying alive. She prepared for the fight of her life.
Usagi found that she couldn't move at all. This had been the longest that she had ever lost energy due to having her tail being pulled. She didn't know how much longer she would be able to stand it. 'What kind of a weakness is this anyways? Why does it have to be the tail?' "Re…tre…at."
"Huh?" Makoto lost her concentration as her attention was directed back to Usagi.
"RETREAT!"
"Not without you I'm not!" She turned back to her opponents as they began to come at her, full speed. "Whoa!" She couldn't even dodge them coming at her. With the near hundred who got major power ups from the Cells that Usagi killed, they were too much for her. They all jumped onto her as if she had the ball in a game of football and was just standing there with it. 'A little help guys!'
~*~*~
Ami had a similar problem. Each Cell that she had killed only produced a stronger one. She had done what Usagi had and just resorted to not killing any more. But before she had a chance to teleport back to base she was bombarded with attacks. 'I would if I could but I'm having a bit of…' Her bond was broken off by a swift punch to the jaw bone and was then tossed around as if she were a volleyball. Her body felt as if it was being thrown off a mountain side.
~*~*~
'Having the same problem here. Where'd Usagi go?' Minako was a bit better off than the rest of her friends. While they had maybe a hundred to deal with, she had maybe fifty. Most of them seemed to want to follow Usagi though. She was glad of that. Usagi could easily deal with them, where as the rest couldn't.
There was no response from Rei.
~*~*~
'Rei…What's wrong with her?' Makoto covered her face with her arms and curled her legs to protect her stomach. There really was no way to get out of the attacks that were being thrown upon her.
For the first time that the egg had hatched Usagi actually felt fear. There was nothing that they could do at this point. She had heard the mental messages that were sent between her friends. She had heard of the trouble they were in. She had also not heard Rei, who was already low on energy when all of the Cells attacked. This time things didn't look as if they were going to work out for them. "Retreat, Makoto! Please!"
The Cell who held Usagi's tail raised his hand and slapped her in the face. He tightened his grip on her tail, causing her to howl out in even more pain. "Shut up!"
Makoto hadn't seen what just happened, but judging by the sound of the slap and her Usagi's crying of pain, she knew what was going on. But even with the knowledge of what was going on, what could she do? Nothing. She was stuck in the middle of a bunch of Cells being beaten, probably to death. 'Why am I thinking this way? Why am I thinking that this is the end? Goku never taught us to give up. He always told us to believe that we would win. And if we did, we would. Yeah. That's it.' "I AM NOT GIVING UP!" Her muscles tensed up as she became angrier and angrier with the current condition of the fight. "YOU WILL NOT WIN!"
~*~*~
The Cells that had been playing with Ami let her fall to the ground as they felt a sudden rising of power coming from the girls' base. "What is that? It feels like that brown headed kid."
Ami sat up and scowled at the so called people who had just assaulted her. She too felt the increase in Makoto's power, but she didn't know what it was. Then all of a sudden she could no longer feel Rei's power. 'Oh no.' She turned her head to the direction that Rei's power formerly was. 'They didn't…' She looked harder for the power, which should have been Rei's. But to her dismay, there was nothing there. "REI! NO!"
~*~*~
Minako's chasers also stopped to feel the increase in power. Only now there were two power increases. One coming from Makoto, and the other coming from Ami. "What are these kids? where can they get such power even though they've been beaten nearly to death?"
Minako couldn't believe what was happening. She never knew that Ami and Makoto possessed such power. They were powering up to be even stronger than her. "See? We WILL beat you guys."
The Cells turned back to Minako, all with a smirk on their faces. "Will you now?" They all jumped onto her without giving her time to react to the statement. Each one got in as many kicks and punches to Minako as possible. They weren't about to let her get powered up like the rest of her friends seemed to be doing. "Looks like one of your friends is already dead."
A bright red light filled the air in the distance, which the Cells didn't bother to take notice. With this spectacular light came a power like no other. It had a unique flavor to it. Something none of them had ever felt before. But still, they didn't pay attention to it. They just kept beating into Minako, who was getting very put out with the attacks. Though, she did note the new power that was oddly born. 'That's gotta be Rei. I thought she was gone.'
One of the Cells picked Minako up by her feet and threw her into the air. He jumped into the air and jammed one of his feet into her chest. He could hear the bones inside crack as he pushed up harder. "You wont win this, girl."
Minako grinned. "Oh yeah?!" She quickly made a Ki blast with the last of her power and fired it down to Cells below. She could feel the anger rushing through her veins, which made her push harder and want to kill them even more. She would not let them win. She couldn't let them win.
~*~*~
Even though Rei seemed to be ok, Ami couldn't keep from being angry. It seemed to have overtaken her body. "You will pay for what you have done. You wont get away with this!" Her body began to glow a soft blue as her angry increased and her muscles grew stiffer.
~*~*~
The Cells backed away from Makoto as her power increased more and more. They weren't sure what was going on but they had never felt her power. It was much different from that of Rei's new power, and that of Ami's increasing power. Even Minako had started to gain power somehow. None of them knew what was going on. Their father hadn't warned them that something like this would happen.
But there was Makoto. I'm the center of a ring of hundreds of Cells, gaining power by the second. Her body began to glow pale green as she stared into the hate filled eyes of her enemies. All they wanted to do was destroy her and her friends. They didn't care that they too were living beings. They didn't care that their deaths would affect the lives of others. They just didn't care about anything, which is why she had to make them pay. Beings like them couldn't be free to roam the universe. "I'm not going to let you get away with THIS!" Her aura darkened and shot out in all directions as her power boosted up one last time.
~*~*~
Rei teleported to Ami's destination to help her out. "Ami! These guys mean business. They nearly killed me. Come on. Let's get the others and get out of here. We won't be able to be them right now. The ones I killed are being absorbed as we speak by thousands of others. So le…Ami, are you listening to me?"
"We can't let it happen Rei. We can't let them gain power. We have to stop them now." She closed here eyes to try and calm herself but it was no use. She didn't like not having control over herself. She didn't know what was going on. "What's happening to me?!" Her aura slowly grew as her power increase came to a halt. Once this happened, her emotions were much more controllable. Her whole body felt strange as she turned to Rei. "What's going on? Why did that happen?"
"I don't know. It was much worse for me though? My power just burst out. Makoto's did too. Did you see it?"
Ami shook her head. "I tried to make my anger go away, I think that's why mine didn't get so violent. You guys just let yours out."
"You're probably right. You always are. But I think we should go and get the others. You go to Makoto and Usagi to find out what's going on there. I'm going to go and get Minako before anything bad happens to her. Then we need to figure out what just happened."
One of the Cells approached the two girls, who currently seemed to have larger power level than him. "We aren't letting you two go anywhere."
Ami turned to the Cell and smirked. "Look, we have to go." Rei and Ami both teleported to their destinations, which only made that group of Cells angrier.
~*~*~
When Rei got to Minako and her group of Cells, she was still firing her attack upon them. She seemed to have the upper hand at the moment. Little did she know what she was gaining power every second, just like Rei and the others had. Her will to come out of the fight alive was her motivation to keep going. And her motivation for more power. It amazed Rei that they could all reach new heights just by being put into danger. Just by wanting to live and prevail over evil. She thought that only Saiyans or any race with natural power could do that. What kind of power could a human possess that would make them do that. It would only be a matter of time before Minako would let her anger go all the way and she would have new power, just like the rest of the girls.
~*~*~
Makoto laughed into the faces of all who stared at her. She had done it. She had gained more power than them and now there was no way that they could really harm her. As long as she didn't kill anyone she would be fine. She only had one more thing she had to do before she was finished though. She turned to the direction of Usagi, who was still being held by her tail. But the one who was holding her appeared to be somewhat frightened. "I suggest you put her down, unless you want to die."
The Cell stood tall, trying to show that he wasn't in the least bit scared of the girl in green. "Kill me if you please. My brothers will just take my power."
Makoto thought about her options and remembered how Usagi saved her. "I don't have to kill you." She teleported behind him and kicked in the center of his backbone, causing his back to break. "Freak, you can't even stand up to a kick in the back anymore."
One of the Cells from the group that had previously beaten Makoto analyzed her new power as well as the other girls' power. "Why is that power in my knowledge bank? Why would father know what that kind of power is? Especially since it is all different kinds of power."
Ami appeared just below Usagi as she fell to the ground. She caught her friend in her arms and looked up to Makoto, who kick the Cell with the broken back down to the ground. "Minako and Rei will be here soon."
Makoto looked down as she wiped her forehead. "Glad to see you're all right." Everyone's attention was diverted to a loud explosion followed by the sky being lit completely in orange. "Go Minako!"
Ami put Usagi down on the ground. "Are you ok?" She didn't see any physical injuries on her.
Usagi panted as her energy was being returned to her body. "I'll be fine. Just make sure you don't kill anyone right now." She couldn't wait to find out why her friends were getting power ups, and why their new power felt so different than their normal power. It didn't have the same feel to it. It felt as if it were from a totally different person, as if it were added onto them.
(Well there you have it. That's it for this part. What did you think? Was it good? Or was it Bad? Gotta go. Ja Ne )