~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
Minako and Rei hovered closely by Usagi, Makoto, and Ami as they all five watched the Cells retreat. Now that the girls seemed to have more power than them, they were scared. Though they knew that even if they died their brothers would use their left over energy to become stronger. But still, none of them WANTED to die, so they left.
Usagi lay on the ground as a smile began to form on her face since her energy was returning to her body. She hated being vulnerable like that and her tail was her worst form of vulnerability. She continued to scold herself for not remembering to keep her tail hidden well. But that didn't matter now. She was fine and her friends would be able to protect her until she regained all of her energy back. "Yeah! Run away! Cowards! You only fight when you know you can win." She slowly hoisted herself up to her feet as she looked to Makoto with a bright smile on her face. "Thanks for saving me back there Makoto. I didn't know what I would have done if he kept holding my tail like that." She turned to Ami with the same warm smile planted firmly on her face. "And thanks for catching me. I probably would have gotten really hurt if you didn't catch me."
Minako looked around to all of her friends, all of which were powered up much more than usual, except Usagi. She herself had even been powered up. The four of them stood facing each other with their bodies surrounded by a soft glow of their respective colors. "We should get inside before they come back."
Each of the girls nodded. "Right." They performed their teleportation and soon found themselves inside their base, which still could not be penetrated.
Usagi let herself collapse on the floor with all of her limbs spread as far away from her body as she could. She was still short of energy and teleporting took most of what she had already accumulated. "You guys are awesome."
Rei sat next to Usagi, still powered up. "What just happened here? Where did all of this power come from?" She looked at her hand, which had a small aura around it just as the rest of her body did. Although she wasn't angry, nor was she powering up, the aura stayed, which puzzled her even more.
Ami overlooked arms and then her legs on up to her body. It seemed to be totally covered in blue. "This is strange. How come Goku never told us about this before? I don't think that even Krillin is THIS strong. Isn't he supposed to be the strongest human? Mamoru isn't this strong either."
Makoto tested out her new speed by punching at imaginary enemies. "I don't know, but I like it." She stopped throwing her punches and looked to Usagi, who was now sitting up and leaning against a wall. "Hey, is it just me, or does each of our power feel unique? I don't think that Minako's power feels at all like Rei's or Ami's. Or even mine for that matter. None of them feel the same."
Usagi stayed silent as she did not have an answer to that question. Actually, the same question raced through her mind too. She wished that her father were there with them. Maybe he would have had the answers. But part of her knew that he probably wouldn't have known either. "I have a feeling that we aren't going to find out any time soon. This is just one of those things that happen…I guess." She let her head flop to the side.
Minako stopped examining herself and looked to Usagi with a worry. "What's wrong? You sound so…well…calm." She kneeled down and looked into Usagi's eyes. "You're scaring me, Usagi. Normally you're so hyper, even after something like that."
Usagi let out a small sigh. "Nothing. I'm just really tired. Getting your tail held for that long, and being hung upside down by it really takes a lot out of a person. But I can't exactly sleep right now. There's work to be done."
Minako stood up. "You've got that right. We need to talk about what just happened. You know, we need to tell each other what happened." She looked to Rei. "What happened to you? Everyone thought you were dead."
"I…uh…nearly did die, actually. I was ambushed by hundreds of Cells. My power was drained to almost as low as it could go. I was ready to give up. But then something inside my head clicked. I couldn't give up. I wouldn't give up. I wouldn't let myself become lunch for those stupid alien wanna bee's. I would not let them claim victory over me or any of you. But most of all, I thought about you guys. I wanted to be there to help you guys. I wanted to make it though so we can keep being best friends. I didn't want to be the one to make you guys upset because I was dead. I guess you could say that you were my motivation. That's how I got my power up."
"Well you sure made me upset, Rei. I lost control of my emotions when I thought you were gone. Once that happened, I was gone. Just the thought of loosing any of you to the hands of these monsters angered me, even after I knew you were all right. And you know the rest. You came in about the time that I gained my power." Ami had to stop there as her anger was rising just thinking about it."
"Rei was one of the reasons why I decided to fight back against those things today." Minako added. "I thought she really was dead. A million things were running through my head at that time. I needed to survive. I needed to help you guys too. I knew that if we came together as a group that we could make it through this. But, I also wanted to find Rei and help her if she was in fact still alive. But luckily, she was fine."
Makoto looked down as she thought about what happened to her. "I had given up at one point. But then I saw Usagi being held by that monster. I just had to help her. Even after she told me to get out of there, I stayed. And it ended up being the right thing. I wasn't about to leave without her." She turned to Usagi, who looked as if she was dozing off to sleep. "HERE THAT!? DON'T EVER TELL ME TO LEAVE YOU AGAIN! IT WILL JUST BE A WASTE OF GOOD ENERGY!"
Usagi jumped from the sudden noise. "WHAAA!?!?" Her heart raced within her chest as she looked around the room, half expecting to see someone being eaten alive. "What's going on?" She calmed down as she heard the soft laughter of her friends. "Fine! Be that way! Laugh at the unfortunate. See if I care!" She crossed her arms and looked away. But she couldn't keep a straight face for long. She too joined in the laughter of her friends. "Ok, ok. I guess that was a LITTLE funny." She smiled widely as she thought about her friend's words. "And thanks Makoto. I should know better than to tell any of you to leave me and save yourselves. You're all the best."
"Usagi, I've been meaning to ask you something. I know you used your dad's Kamehameha wave against Cell when there was still one of him before the fight got to big. And you used it again today. When did you learn it?" Makoto was thankful that she did know it. The Kamehameha wave was one of the most powerful attacks. Without it Usagi wouldn't have been able to kill off mass amounts of Cells at once.
"I kind of learned it from dad. But I also kind of taught it to myself." Her friends looked confused so she went on. "Ok here it goes. I studied his technique very, VERY carefully for a long time. Ever since we started training. I never asked him to teach it to me because I wanted to learn it on my own. And guess what, I did. And you wanna know when the first time I tired it was?" She paused long enough for everyone to nod. "Right before the androids showed up." She playfully smiled as her friends' faces were taken up by complete shock. "Pretty neat, huh?"
"Neat?! That's better than neat. And what would you have done if that hadn't worked? And one more thing, TEACH ME!" Makoto had always been interested in learning to Kamehameha attack, but never asked Goku for assistance. It looked like it took way too much energy to perform. Energy, which she didn't think that she had.
Usagi shrugged. "I dunno what I would have done if it didn't work against Cell. But it was worth a try. And it seemed to work. Too bad the androids had to show up otherwise we probably would have won." She leaned her head back against the wall.
The room was silent for about five minutes while everyone took the time to rest from their previous fight. Usagi taped her fingers on the floor, which produced the only sound around to be heard, until she decided to break the silence. "Do you guys ever wonder what it's like to have a normal life?"
This caught Minako's attention. "What do you mean? Aren't we normal? I mean, we aren't like mutants, are we?"
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is, how many kids our age have a dad like mine who teaches his kids how to fight like he does with us. How many kids, besides us, fight against creatures like Cell." The room was taken with silence once again as the group of girls thought about Usagi's words. For the first time, they finally began to realize that they in fact did not exactly live a 'normal' child's life. "Actually, I kind of liked not fighting for that year before we found out that we couldn't return home. I don't know why. It just seemed…well…right."
Minako unconsciously nodded with Usagi as she remembered back to the days when she didn't even have a single thought about fighting. "But you have to admit, fighting is a lot more interesting than just doing boring every day things."
"You guys are all lucky. I've been fighting since I was a little toddler. My dad has always wanted me to be a strong fighter. He started training me when I was very young. My mom once told me that he tried to teach me even when I was only a year old. Pretty pathetic, huh. It's pretty obvious that he wanted a boy. Whenever I'm not fighting, he tells me that I'm just being lazy. Boy, if he could only see some of the stuff I do." Makoto sighed as she remembered her parents. How she wished she could go and see them. While Usagi had the luxury of seeing younger versions of her parents, her own parents hadn't even been born yet so there was no way that she could have gone to visit them.
"I'm kind of with Makoto. My grandfather raised me around fighting. Though he didn't really ever make me fight. He just took me to all of the tournaments." She rested her head on her knees as she sighed. "Did you guys realize that there's a connection between our power that we got today?" She waited for a reply but when she didn't get one, she continued. "Well think about it. It's kind of like the bond. We all got it because we thought about our friends. We were each other's motivation. And Usagi got her power one, because she's a Saiyan, and two because her life was in danger and so was ours."
"Weird. I never thought of that Rei." Usagi lifted her head to look at Rei, who seemed to be drifting into thought. "Why do you think that is? I don't think any other human has ever gotten this…form you guys have. What should we call it?"
Minako jumped up and held her arms up as if she were a world champion. "I AM… SUPER MINAKO!" She giggled as did her friends.
"That's it, Minako. I can go Super Saiyan, why can't you guys go Super too? I guess that's what you would call it, right?" Usagi stood up and stretched her arms over her head as she yawned.
"I don't see why not. It sounds plausible to me." Ami powered down so she could rest. "I'm tired, what about you guys?" She lifted herself into one of the beds.
Usagi dashed to the other bed in the room. "Do you have to ask?" She quickly laid down without a second thought. "I'm going to sleep. If any of you aren't, I have one word for you. CRAZY!"
~*~*~
Outside the of the room of spirit and time everyone was still trying their hardest to figure out a way to get their fellow fighters out. So far, it looked quite hopeless. They couldn't really touch the door without completely destroying it, leaving the girls trapped inside forever.
Goku was probably the most persistent of them all. While the others began to give up after a while and decide to wait for Cell to come back and open it up for them, he wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. So there he stood, with Gohan, in front of the door that led in, trying desperately to find a way in. Only five minutes had past and everyone was already throwing in the towel, which angered Goku. Though they didn't really know Usagi and the others, it didn't give them a right to quit. "Gohan, you're a smart kid. How do you think we should go about this?"
Gohan shook his head as he gained a puzzled look from his father. "I have no idea. Maybe we should get Kami. He may know what to do."
"Already thought of that, Gohan." Chi-Chi walked through the group of fighters that stood in front of her husband and son. She stepped to the side as she reached her destination. "Kami is here. He might be able to help us out."
Kami carefully walked passed Goku and Gohan and began to analyze the door. Words were of no use at that point as his face told the whole story of what was going to happen. His face turned from concerned to worried in less than a second. "Well I don't see how we can do anything to get them out. One little jerk and this thing is gone. It's the only way that the thick metal wall can be opened too. Unless you find a way to get them out of there without using this door, the girls are going to be stuck in there forever. And you had better work quickly because if you wait more than a day and a half, the door vanishes and all hopes of retrieving them are out of the question." He turned to Goku and immediately felt a knot in his stomach by the look on his face. "I know you can do it Goku. You have never failed us before."
Goku looked to the ground in disappointment. He never would have thought that something like this would have happened. "It's my fault. I should have been more firm when I told her to leave."
"You did all you could dad. She's just more stubborn than I am."
Goku looked down at his son with a hint of a smile on his face. "Thanks. You both ARE pretty stubborn, aren't you?" He looked towards the metal wall behind the broken door for any cracks. "They've probably already gone through a month in there."
~*~*~
~~Inside~~
One week later…
It was about two in the morning and all of the girls, except one, were fast asleep. The one who was awake was Usagi, who was being kept up by a faint tapping sound in the distance. A tapping unlike anything that she had ever heard before. Though the tapping was faint it was still obviously there and could be heard clearly. It was loud enough to wake her up, though, not her friends.
She climbed over Minako, who way lying beside her, and tiptoed to the doorway to look out and see if anything was coming. There was nothing unusual about the night. The outside world still had its pink tint from the shield that protected them, which still held up quite well since the Cells didn't seem to be gaining too much power. She grabbed her arms as she tried to sense the area for any unusual presence, which got her no where for she couldn't read anything because of the shield. 'Dang. I wish I knew what that was.'
Usagi turned back around and walked back to Minako, placing her hand on the sleeping girl's shoulder, and shook her to wake her up. "Minako," She whispered. She didn't want to wake any of the others up if they didn't have to be wakened up. "Do you hear that?"
Minako groaned as she slapped Usagi's hand away. "Leave me alone. I want to sleep. Go play with Makoto." she rolled over onto her side, pretty much blowing off Usagi.
Usagi frowned at this and walked over to the other bed where Ami was sleeping on the outside. 'She better listen to me.' She kneeled down to look Ami in the face. "Hey…Ami…wake up. Don't you hear that?" She twitched her tail with annoyance as Ami pretty much did the same thing as Minako. "COME ON YOU GUYS! SOMETHING'S UP!"
THAT got everyone's attention. More like it gave everyone a heart attack. The four girls, who were previously sleeping, all jumped out of their beds, screaming I might add, and ran franticly around the room looking for what caused the disturbance. Usagi jumped backwards to the middle of the room and laughed as her friends bumped into the wall and each other, each time they challenged each other. "You guys, it's ok. Be quiet. I need to listen for something."
The room got quiet all right. But not because of Usagi's request. The room became quiet as the girls realized that it was their friend, Usagi, who had caused them to freak out. Now they glared at her, wanting desperately to get back at her for what she had just done.
Ami curiously walked over to Usagi and watched as she put her hands to her ears while concentrating hard. "What's wrong, Usagi. I know you wouldn't have waken us up for nothing? Do you hear something?"
"Well she obviously hears something. Look at her. Either that or she's trying to cover her mistakes up. And if that's true I'm SO going to get back at you, Usagi." Rei jumped to the center of the room and playfully threatened Usagi with her fist.
Usagi stopped concentrating. The room was now quiet enough for her to be able to hear the sound again. "Don't you hear that?" She waited for a response as her friends listened for what she was hearing. But they didn't seem to hear anything. "How can you NOT hear that? It's so loud. It kept me awake."
"Usagi, didn't you once tell me that a Saiyan has better hearing than humans?" Usagi nodded as Ami began to go on. "Well, you're picking up something that we can't. What kind of sound is it?" Ami was already sure that it had to do with their enemy.
"It's sounds like a tapping. Well no, more like a thousand feet marching. You know, like marching sounds from all those old war movies and…" She paused to shudder, "Documentaries that they make us watch at school? It's creepy."
"Uh-oh. I think they are planning on attacking us. All of them. They are gathering their troops to move in on us when they think that we are most defenseless. But we'll show them. Wont we girls?" Ami raised her fist into the air like a ring leader would when he was rallying his troops to prepare for battle.
Makoto jumped at a chance to defend their temporary home. She didn't have a problem with it, especially since the Cells didn't seem to be gaining enough power to REALLY hurt them yet. "I say we do it! I say we kill them all before they kill us. I know that they just use the dead bodies of their friends to gain more power faster, which is why we haven't been killing any. But since they all seem to be wanting to kill us right now, and they are getting all of their people to get us, it should be easy if we plan everything out right." She could tell that her friends were confused so she decided to map everything out. "Well, there are only five us of and well, probably a hundred thousand of them left, right? But they are weaker than us. If we just start killing them there will be lots and lots of bodies for them to absorb. But here's where my brilliant thinking comes into play. Now, if we wait for them to come to us, we have the advantage. We have the usage of our base here. So here's how that works. We can have three people fighting and killing off those monsters and the other two gather bodies and pile them in here until the rest are dead. It will be easy."
Ami thought hard about that one. It did seem good. "That's good. Too good to be true. Why would they be marching here if they knew that we have this shield, which they do know about. Maybe they are planning on knocking it down or something."
"I never thought about that. Well fine then. Two people are on killing duty, two on gathering bodies, and the other protects the base. This way, we can really work as a team for real. One person who is killing is followed around by another person who picks up the bodies. All we have to do is teleport in and out."
Usagi's face began to fill with a smile as she realized that that was actually one of the best ideas that any of them had come up with. "And once we get rid of them all, we only have to worry about getting out of here and beating the real Cell."
"Exactly, so what do you say girls? Wanna do this?" Makoto knew the answer before anyone even began to answer.
"YEAH!"
"Whose doing what duty then?" Usagi hoped that she had something good like elimination of their enemy. She looked around the room at her friends and thought of what their best placements would be. "Well I definitely think that Makoto should be out there fighting."
"I agree with you on this one, Usagi. And so should you." Ami smiled when she saw the happiness in her friend's eyes. "I'll gather the dead bodies. I'll stick close to Usagi. Rei, you and Minako figure out what you want to do."
Rei turned to Minako in hopes of doing one thing. "Can I guard this place? I want to kick their butts too. I also want to use my new power."
"Go ahead. I don't exactly want to fight them anymore. But, I will if I have to. I'm not going to let them walk all over me anymore. I guess I'll stay close to Makoto then." She looked around the room to her friends, all who had half excited looks planted on their faces. "READY!?"
"READY!" They all shouted with enthusiasm as they teleported out of their fort.
Once out in the open field again, they took their positions. Rei hovered directly over their protection, ready for an attack from any given area. She was completely alert. Usagi hovered over the building while Ami was on the ground beneath her. On the opposite side of the building were Minako, who was on the ground, and Makoto, who hovered directly above her.
Usagi got into fighting position as the marching became louder and louder. She was positive it was loud enough for the others to hear now. "Ready!? Prepare yourselves. This is the real thing. If we thought we were outnumbered last week, well this is worse. But we can do this. With my Super Saiyan power and your…I guess Super power we can do this if we try hard enough. Just like dad always says, if you believe in something, it will happen. I've found this to be true. Just promise me one thing, don't give up, and don't die. Because if you do, when I die I'm going to hunt you down and kill you again. Or at least beat you up." This got some laughter to arise from her friends.
Ami prepared herself and took to her fighting stance. She made herself more alert now. "That's one promise we all plan to keep."
"Just making sure." Usagi carefully wrapped her tail up around her waist and under skirt so she wouldn't have a replay of what happened before. Her muscles tensed up as she felt the Cells' presence coming closer. "Power up girls. They're almost here."
In a split second the whole area lit up in an array of magnificent colors. All of the girls stood with anger written in their eyes as their sparkling auras flamed around them. They couldn't wait to start the battle. They needed to rid themselves of all the Cells. They were angry at them. They were angry at what they stood for. They were the invaders. They needed to be taken out before they could further harm anyone.
Usagi bowed her head and closed her eyes. Her aura all of a sudden became tranquil and had the feeling of peace within it. "We must not let them succeed. The world shall not be allowed to fall by the hands of these people. Only the true keepers of peace will do harm to those that oppose it." She opened her eyes and looked up with the look of utter calmness as she remained silent for a few minutes.
Ami looked up to Rei as Rei looked to her and the two fighters on the other side of the building. All of them had the look of total confusion on her face. Though Rei seemed to be less confused than the rest. She sensed something inside of Usagi that she had never sensed before. 'Odd.' She forced herself to resist the temptation of leaving her post and going to Usagi. "Usagi…Usagi…USAGI!"
Usagi shook her head as if shaking something out of her head and looked back to Rei. Her aura went back to normal as well. "What is it? What's wrong?" She looked around the area. "I don't see any of the enemies around, what's the matter. I know that you're mad at me for waking you up but I har…"
Rei frowned as she put her hands on her waist. "What's your problem? You just say something really freaky and you act like it's all good again."
Usagi cocked her head to the side as she once again became perplexed by her friend's words, as she often was. "What are you talking about? I didn't say anything just now. Are you hearing things?"
Ami looked directly up at Usagi. "Yes you did. You said something about how the real keepers of peace will be able to do harm or something like that. That the world mustn't fall into the hands of these guys. Don't you remember any of that?"
Usagi shook her head. "Nope. I think you guys are crazy. You're just trying to get back at me. Well forget it. It ain't going to happen any time soon. I'm too smart for that." She glared at Rei as she heard quiet giggling coming from her area. "And what's so funny about me being smart?"
At that precise moment thousands of black creatures encircled the girls along with their base. None of them were without a scowl. None of them had a single ounce of their bodies that wasn't covered with power of hatred. They looked to have been prepping for this battle, which they believed that they would win.
Usagi stopped arguing with her friends and looked on towards her opponents. She took a deep breath in as she readied herself for the fight of her life. "Hey look, it's the wanna bee's." There came no reply. "Fine. Be sticks in the mud. See if I care. It wont matter. Soon we will dominate over you and there will be nothing left. You will learn what happens when you try to hurt us. Go!"
The fight started out with a bang, literally. Usagi and Makoto both dashed out towards their enemies, with Ami and Minako following closely behind. Usagi and Makoto both hit their enemies at the same time, which created the bang as well as a large Ki wave that swept over area, forcing everyone who was in the air away from their positions. Of course, the Cells who were attacked didn't live through the force. Especially Usagi's enemy. Her punch sent him flying backwards head first with a giant chunk taken out of his face where he was violently hit.
Usagi didn't waste any time waiting for the next ones to attack. She took the liberty of firing a huge Kamehameha at a rather large group of fifty, destroying them all in a heart beat. "This isn't any fun. It's WAY too easy. There's gotta be a catch." She looked down to the ground at Ami who was scrambling around trying to gather all of the bodies before the other Cells had a chance to grab them. She did her job by teleporting in and out of the protected base.
Usagi looked back to the Cells, who were attacking in all directions. Rei seemed to have her hands full with trying to protect their base from any attacks from their foes. "You're all up to something." She heard the screams of the other Cells behind her as Makoto did her job. "You wouldn't be attacking us with such a low power if you weren't up to something. Unless you really are as stupid as you seem." She threw her hand out to the side and blasted a hole right through the stomach of one of the Cells. "You guys are pathetic. Not even any fun. Come on, I know your dad is A LOT stronger than this. I know he wants you all to beat us. Why aren't you waiting to attack us?" She couldn't figure out why in the world ever one of the Cells were attacking them at that point. All of them would be dead in no time and there wouldn't be anyone left to carry out their father's wishes. Until it hit her. "You DORKS! I know what you're doing. You came here so we would kill some of you huh? You were hoping to get power, weren't you? AH, HA, HA, HA! Well we showed you! We were prepared for you!"
One of the Cells smirked as he flew out to Usagi. "You think you know us so well, don't you?"
Usagi performed a round house kick to his head and pretty much kicked it off of his neck. "EWW! Why don't you put your head on tighter. That's gross." She glanced back at Makoto, who seemed to have over half of her opponents cleared out. 'Now I know they're up to something. With what he just said and all. And I know it's going to be something I don't like. We need to get out of here. But how? The door is broken and we can't budge it out of place either.' "Makoto, how's it going? And Rei too."
"Just great!" Rei smashed her fist into the jaw of her foe.
"Yeah! These guys have gained power in the past week, but not enough to beat us. I wonder what's up."
"Who cares. As long as we get rid of them."
~*~*~
About a half hour later the girls had totally taken out the Cells. The whole time they did it, it was with ease. But something didn't feel right about the whole situation. It didn't set right with them. For some reason, they didn't feel as if they had completed anything. They felt more like they had only begun something new. But they couldn't quite put their fingers on it. Though they didn't feel any more of the Cells. They seemed to be all gone and out of the way now.
They now sat in their little base packed with the bodies of Cell's children. There were so many that they had to even leave over half of them outside. But even though it was an easy victory, they were still very proud of themselves. They were proud that they kept their heads through the whole fight. And now it was over, for now.
Rei let out a sigh of relief as she leaned her head onto the shoulder of Minako. "That was exhausting. How about we don't do that again?"
"I'm for that." Usagi said as she scanned to impaled bodies of their opponents. "So what are we supposed to do with these guys?"
"Get rid of them I guess." Ami turned to the door. Now that the Cells were gone, that was their main objective. "I wonder how we're supposed to get out of here."
"Wait a minute I think I know how we might be able to get out. I've been thinking about this for a while." Her friends perked their heads towards her in curiosity. "I remember a time when I was really little and my big brother Goten was babysitting me. Him and Trunks were talking about 'the olden days'. You know, all that stuff that adults always talk about that we have no idea about. Well, I guess they fused to make this guy named Gotenks and they were talking about the time when they first met dad. I think they said something about getting stuck in here one time when they were first learning how to be Gotenks and they had to blast themselves out of the room because the door disappeared. I was thinking, what if we tried the same thing?" She jumped to her feet and walked to the wall, knocking on it when she got there. "It's like, pure metal or something."
Minako shot up from sitting. "Why didn't you tell us before?"
Usagi shrugged. "I dunno. I didn't think that we should have left before all of the Cells were killed. Plus, I didn't know if it would work. But I only thought of it a couple of days ago. I was going to tell you all real soon anyways."
Ami walked to the wall and knocked on it as well. "Yeah. I don't know how they could have broken it down. This stuff is pretty tough you know."
"Well it's worth a try, isn't it? I don't exactly want to stay in here for a year. I want to leave now, especially now that we have all these gross bodies to deal with. Gross. They stink too." When she got no reply decided that she had better go on. "Well here's an idea. If Goten and Trunks together make a person double the strength who could break down the walls of this place, why couldn't our combined attack work? I mean, we've got five people here who are really powerful."
Rei unconsciously nodded to agree with Usagi. "That sounds like it MAY work. I say we try it. If it fails, oh well. At least we tried." She jumped over the dead bodies and landed by the wall with Ami and Usagi. Minako and Makoto were soon to follow.
The girls positioned themselves together much like they did when they made their shield. Only this time Usagi was the only one who would be distributing power. She planned on giving it one last bit of power before it was thrown out of her body and into the wall. "Ok girls, pass your power along to each other down to me and we can get started."
The girls did what they were told as they once again created their bond between the five of them. The exchanged thoughts and power once again as the hoped that it would be for the last time while they were in the past. The powers came already mixed to Usagi. All she had to do was add her power and a little extra to make it stronger. 'Here goes nothing.' She fired a massive Ki attack, which contained no color at all. It was as white as the moon.
The girls' mood grew happier by the minute as they watched the beam of energy shoot from Usagi's hand onto the wall. It was slowly but surely puncturing the metal wall that was supposed to be energy proof. But it obviously was not. 'Just a little bit more. I can see some light.'
'It's dissolving the wall along with the shield.' Ami noted that the pink shield was disappearing.
'Who cares. At least it's working, right? No complaints here. There are no more Cells.'
~*~*~
~~Outside the Room of Spirit and Time~~
Only a matter of seconds had passed since Kami came out and pretty much told the gang that things were hopeless unless they found a new way to get them out. But now there was a small opening right by where the door stood. Behind it was a light to bright to look directly at.
Around the door stood a group of dumbfounded fighters just itching to see what was going to emerge from behind the hole that was slowly growing by the second. The power that seemed to be causing the hole to grow was nothing like they had ever felt before. It didn't feel at all like the girls' power either. It was too great for any of them anyways, even Usagi.
Goku squinted and bent down to look at the hole, which was almost big enough to fit a year old child through. "This is strange. Who do you think it is? It's not the Cell from the egg. It couldn't be that big this early. At least I don't think it could."
All of a sudden the metal around the blast was completely dissolved and a the giant colorless beam of energy came spiraling out. All of the fighters outside the room jumped away and readied themselves for whatever was about to come out. They would be prepared for any attack that would come from the new being.
But to their surprise, nothing new came out. Instead the five girls, Minako, Makoto, Ami, Rei, and Usagi, all came bouncing out with smiles that shone as bright as the sun. They made their happiness obvious as they turned to each other and screamed from being overjoyed by their escape.
Once they calmed down they turned and looked to the still shocked faces of their adult friends. Usagi stepped forward an acted as the spokes person. "What? Don't we get a welcome home party or anything?"
~*~*~
~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
Inside still lurked an evil that had the potential to be as great as the original Cell. A single child still lived on without the knowledge of Usagi and the others. One that had purposely stayed behind the rest. He stayed as far away from the fight as possible and did not move until the girls were in their base so as to not be detected. The less movement one made, the less likely that one will detect them.
He landed next to the dead bodies of his brothers and smiled as he began to absorb them all, one by one. His power increased tremendously as he did this. His goal, to make his power just as large as his father's so he could be there to fight along side of him.
(Well there it is. The next part. And now I can honestly say that this chapter is almost over. ^_^ anyways, what did you think? Good, or bad? Gotta go. Ja ^_~ )
Minako and Rei hovered closely by Usagi, Makoto, and Ami as they all five watched the Cells retreat. Now that the girls seemed to have more power than them, they were scared. Though they knew that even if they died their brothers would use their left over energy to become stronger. But still, none of them WANTED to die, so they left.
Usagi lay on the ground as a smile began to form on her face since her energy was returning to her body. She hated being vulnerable like that and her tail was her worst form of vulnerability. She continued to scold herself for not remembering to keep her tail hidden well. But that didn't matter now. She was fine and her friends would be able to protect her until she regained all of her energy back. "Yeah! Run away! Cowards! You only fight when you know you can win." She slowly hoisted herself up to her feet as she looked to Makoto with a bright smile on her face. "Thanks for saving me back there Makoto. I didn't know what I would have done if he kept holding my tail like that." She turned to Ami with the same warm smile planted firmly on her face. "And thanks for catching me. I probably would have gotten really hurt if you didn't catch me."
Minako looked around to all of her friends, all of which were powered up much more than usual, except Usagi. She herself had even been powered up. The four of them stood facing each other with their bodies surrounded by a soft glow of their respective colors. "We should get inside before they come back."
Each of the girls nodded. "Right." They performed their teleportation and soon found themselves inside their base, which still could not be penetrated.
Usagi let herself collapse on the floor with all of her limbs spread as far away from her body as she could. She was still short of energy and teleporting took most of what she had already accumulated. "You guys are awesome."
Rei sat next to Usagi, still powered up. "What just happened here? Where did all of this power come from?" She looked at her hand, which had a small aura around it just as the rest of her body did. Although she wasn't angry, nor was she powering up, the aura stayed, which puzzled her even more.
Ami overlooked arms and then her legs on up to her body. It seemed to be totally covered in blue. "This is strange. How come Goku never told us about this before? I don't think that even Krillin is THIS strong. Isn't he supposed to be the strongest human? Mamoru isn't this strong either."
Makoto tested out her new speed by punching at imaginary enemies. "I don't know, but I like it." She stopped throwing her punches and looked to Usagi, who was now sitting up and leaning against a wall. "Hey, is it just me, or does each of our power feel unique? I don't think that Minako's power feels at all like Rei's or Ami's. Or even mine for that matter. None of them feel the same."
Usagi stayed silent as she did not have an answer to that question. Actually, the same question raced through her mind too. She wished that her father were there with them. Maybe he would have had the answers. But part of her knew that he probably wouldn't have known either. "I have a feeling that we aren't going to find out any time soon. This is just one of those things that happen…I guess." She let her head flop to the side.
Minako stopped examining herself and looked to Usagi with a worry. "What's wrong? You sound so…well…calm." She kneeled down and looked into Usagi's eyes. "You're scaring me, Usagi. Normally you're so hyper, even after something like that."
Usagi let out a small sigh. "Nothing. I'm just really tired. Getting your tail held for that long, and being hung upside down by it really takes a lot out of a person. But I can't exactly sleep right now. There's work to be done."
Minako stood up. "You've got that right. We need to talk about what just happened. You know, we need to tell each other what happened." She looked to Rei. "What happened to you? Everyone thought you were dead."
"I…uh…nearly did die, actually. I was ambushed by hundreds of Cells. My power was drained to almost as low as it could go. I was ready to give up. But then something inside my head clicked. I couldn't give up. I wouldn't give up. I wouldn't let myself become lunch for those stupid alien wanna bee's. I would not let them claim victory over me or any of you. But most of all, I thought about you guys. I wanted to be there to help you guys. I wanted to make it though so we can keep being best friends. I didn't want to be the one to make you guys upset because I was dead. I guess you could say that you were my motivation. That's how I got my power up."
"Well you sure made me upset, Rei. I lost control of my emotions when I thought you were gone. Once that happened, I was gone. Just the thought of loosing any of you to the hands of these monsters angered me, even after I knew you were all right. And you know the rest. You came in about the time that I gained my power." Ami had to stop there as her anger was rising just thinking about it."
"Rei was one of the reasons why I decided to fight back against those things today." Minako added. "I thought she really was dead. A million things were running through my head at that time. I needed to survive. I needed to help you guys too. I knew that if we came together as a group that we could make it through this. But, I also wanted to find Rei and help her if she was in fact still alive. But luckily, she was fine."
Makoto looked down as she thought about what happened to her. "I had given up at one point. But then I saw Usagi being held by that monster. I just had to help her. Even after she told me to get out of there, I stayed. And it ended up being the right thing. I wasn't about to leave without her." She turned to Usagi, who looked as if she was dozing off to sleep. "HERE THAT!? DON'T EVER TELL ME TO LEAVE YOU AGAIN! IT WILL JUST BE A WASTE OF GOOD ENERGY!"
Usagi jumped from the sudden noise. "WHAAA!?!?" Her heart raced within her chest as she looked around the room, half expecting to see someone being eaten alive. "What's going on?" She calmed down as she heard the soft laughter of her friends. "Fine! Be that way! Laugh at the unfortunate. See if I care!" She crossed her arms and looked away. But she couldn't keep a straight face for long. She too joined in the laughter of her friends. "Ok, ok. I guess that was a LITTLE funny." She smiled widely as she thought about her friend's words. "And thanks Makoto. I should know better than to tell any of you to leave me and save yourselves. You're all the best."
"Usagi, I've been meaning to ask you something. I know you used your dad's Kamehameha wave against Cell when there was still one of him before the fight got to big. And you used it again today. When did you learn it?" Makoto was thankful that she did know it. The Kamehameha wave was one of the most powerful attacks. Without it Usagi wouldn't have been able to kill off mass amounts of Cells at once.
"I kind of learned it from dad. But I also kind of taught it to myself." Her friends looked confused so she went on. "Ok here it goes. I studied his technique very, VERY carefully for a long time. Ever since we started training. I never asked him to teach it to me because I wanted to learn it on my own. And guess what, I did. And you wanna know when the first time I tired it was?" She paused long enough for everyone to nod. "Right before the androids showed up." She playfully smiled as her friends' faces were taken up by complete shock. "Pretty neat, huh?"
"Neat?! That's better than neat. And what would you have done if that hadn't worked? And one more thing, TEACH ME!" Makoto had always been interested in learning to Kamehameha attack, but never asked Goku for assistance. It looked like it took way too much energy to perform. Energy, which she didn't think that she had.
Usagi shrugged. "I dunno what I would have done if it didn't work against Cell. But it was worth a try. And it seemed to work. Too bad the androids had to show up otherwise we probably would have won." She leaned her head back against the wall.
The room was silent for about five minutes while everyone took the time to rest from their previous fight. Usagi taped her fingers on the floor, which produced the only sound around to be heard, until she decided to break the silence. "Do you guys ever wonder what it's like to have a normal life?"
This caught Minako's attention. "What do you mean? Aren't we normal? I mean, we aren't like mutants, are we?"
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is, how many kids our age have a dad like mine who teaches his kids how to fight like he does with us. How many kids, besides us, fight against creatures like Cell." The room was taken with silence once again as the group of girls thought about Usagi's words. For the first time, they finally began to realize that they in fact did not exactly live a 'normal' child's life. "Actually, I kind of liked not fighting for that year before we found out that we couldn't return home. I don't know why. It just seemed…well…right."
Minako unconsciously nodded with Usagi as she remembered back to the days when she didn't even have a single thought about fighting. "But you have to admit, fighting is a lot more interesting than just doing boring every day things."
"You guys are all lucky. I've been fighting since I was a little toddler. My dad has always wanted me to be a strong fighter. He started training me when I was very young. My mom once told me that he tried to teach me even when I was only a year old. Pretty pathetic, huh. It's pretty obvious that he wanted a boy. Whenever I'm not fighting, he tells me that I'm just being lazy. Boy, if he could only see some of the stuff I do." Makoto sighed as she remembered her parents. How she wished she could go and see them. While Usagi had the luxury of seeing younger versions of her parents, her own parents hadn't even been born yet so there was no way that she could have gone to visit them.
"I'm kind of with Makoto. My grandfather raised me around fighting. Though he didn't really ever make me fight. He just took me to all of the tournaments." She rested her head on her knees as she sighed. "Did you guys realize that there's a connection between our power that we got today?" She waited for a reply but when she didn't get one, she continued. "Well think about it. It's kind of like the bond. We all got it because we thought about our friends. We were each other's motivation. And Usagi got her power one, because she's a Saiyan, and two because her life was in danger and so was ours."
"Weird. I never thought of that Rei." Usagi lifted her head to look at Rei, who seemed to be drifting into thought. "Why do you think that is? I don't think any other human has ever gotten this…form you guys have. What should we call it?"
Minako jumped up and held her arms up as if she were a world champion. "I AM… SUPER MINAKO!" She giggled as did her friends.
"That's it, Minako. I can go Super Saiyan, why can't you guys go Super too? I guess that's what you would call it, right?" Usagi stood up and stretched her arms over her head as she yawned.
"I don't see why not. It sounds plausible to me." Ami powered down so she could rest. "I'm tired, what about you guys?" She lifted herself into one of the beds.
Usagi dashed to the other bed in the room. "Do you have to ask?" She quickly laid down without a second thought. "I'm going to sleep. If any of you aren't, I have one word for you. CRAZY!"
~*~*~
Outside the of the room of spirit and time everyone was still trying their hardest to figure out a way to get their fellow fighters out. So far, it looked quite hopeless. They couldn't really touch the door without completely destroying it, leaving the girls trapped inside forever.
Goku was probably the most persistent of them all. While the others began to give up after a while and decide to wait for Cell to come back and open it up for them, he wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. So there he stood, with Gohan, in front of the door that led in, trying desperately to find a way in. Only five minutes had past and everyone was already throwing in the towel, which angered Goku. Though they didn't really know Usagi and the others, it didn't give them a right to quit. "Gohan, you're a smart kid. How do you think we should go about this?"
Gohan shook his head as he gained a puzzled look from his father. "I have no idea. Maybe we should get Kami. He may know what to do."
"Already thought of that, Gohan." Chi-Chi walked through the group of fighters that stood in front of her husband and son. She stepped to the side as she reached her destination. "Kami is here. He might be able to help us out."
Kami carefully walked passed Goku and Gohan and began to analyze the door. Words were of no use at that point as his face told the whole story of what was going to happen. His face turned from concerned to worried in less than a second. "Well I don't see how we can do anything to get them out. One little jerk and this thing is gone. It's the only way that the thick metal wall can be opened too. Unless you find a way to get them out of there without using this door, the girls are going to be stuck in there forever. And you had better work quickly because if you wait more than a day and a half, the door vanishes and all hopes of retrieving them are out of the question." He turned to Goku and immediately felt a knot in his stomach by the look on his face. "I know you can do it Goku. You have never failed us before."
Goku looked to the ground in disappointment. He never would have thought that something like this would have happened. "It's my fault. I should have been more firm when I told her to leave."
"You did all you could dad. She's just more stubborn than I am."
Goku looked down at his son with a hint of a smile on his face. "Thanks. You both ARE pretty stubborn, aren't you?" He looked towards the metal wall behind the broken door for any cracks. "They've probably already gone through a month in there."
~*~*~
~~Inside~~
One week later…
It was about two in the morning and all of the girls, except one, were fast asleep. The one who was awake was Usagi, who was being kept up by a faint tapping sound in the distance. A tapping unlike anything that she had ever heard before. Though the tapping was faint it was still obviously there and could be heard clearly. It was loud enough to wake her up, though, not her friends.
She climbed over Minako, who way lying beside her, and tiptoed to the doorway to look out and see if anything was coming. There was nothing unusual about the night. The outside world still had its pink tint from the shield that protected them, which still held up quite well since the Cells didn't seem to be gaining too much power. She grabbed her arms as she tried to sense the area for any unusual presence, which got her no where for she couldn't read anything because of the shield. 'Dang. I wish I knew what that was.'
Usagi turned back around and walked back to Minako, placing her hand on the sleeping girl's shoulder, and shook her to wake her up. "Minako," She whispered. She didn't want to wake any of the others up if they didn't have to be wakened up. "Do you hear that?"
Minako groaned as she slapped Usagi's hand away. "Leave me alone. I want to sleep. Go play with Makoto." she rolled over onto her side, pretty much blowing off Usagi.
Usagi frowned at this and walked over to the other bed where Ami was sleeping on the outside. 'She better listen to me.' She kneeled down to look Ami in the face. "Hey…Ami…wake up. Don't you hear that?" She twitched her tail with annoyance as Ami pretty much did the same thing as Minako. "COME ON YOU GUYS! SOMETHING'S UP!"
THAT got everyone's attention. More like it gave everyone a heart attack. The four girls, who were previously sleeping, all jumped out of their beds, screaming I might add, and ran franticly around the room looking for what caused the disturbance. Usagi jumped backwards to the middle of the room and laughed as her friends bumped into the wall and each other, each time they challenged each other. "You guys, it's ok. Be quiet. I need to listen for something."
The room got quiet all right. But not because of Usagi's request. The room became quiet as the girls realized that it was their friend, Usagi, who had caused them to freak out. Now they glared at her, wanting desperately to get back at her for what she had just done.
Ami curiously walked over to Usagi and watched as she put her hands to her ears while concentrating hard. "What's wrong, Usagi. I know you wouldn't have waken us up for nothing? Do you hear something?"
"Well she obviously hears something. Look at her. Either that or she's trying to cover her mistakes up. And if that's true I'm SO going to get back at you, Usagi." Rei jumped to the center of the room and playfully threatened Usagi with her fist.
Usagi stopped concentrating. The room was now quiet enough for her to be able to hear the sound again. "Don't you hear that?" She waited for a response as her friends listened for what she was hearing. But they didn't seem to hear anything. "How can you NOT hear that? It's so loud. It kept me awake."
"Usagi, didn't you once tell me that a Saiyan has better hearing than humans?" Usagi nodded as Ami began to go on. "Well, you're picking up something that we can't. What kind of sound is it?" Ami was already sure that it had to do with their enemy.
"It's sounds like a tapping. Well no, more like a thousand feet marching. You know, like marching sounds from all those old war movies and…" She paused to shudder, "Documentaries that they make us watch at school? It's creepy."
"Uh-oh. I think they are planning on attacking us. All of them. They are gathering their troops to move in on us when they think that we are most defenseless. But we'll show them. Wont we girls?" Ami raised her fist into the air like a ring leader would when he was rallying his troops to prepare for battle.
Makoto jumped at a chance to defend their temporary home. She didn't have a problem with it, especially since the Cells didn't seem to be gaining enough power to REALLY hurt them yet. "I say we do it! I say we kill them all before they kill us. I know that they just use the dead bodies of their friends to gain more power faster, which is why we haven't been killing any. But since they all seem to be wanting to kill us right now, and they are getting all of their people to get us, it should be easy if we plan everything out right." She could tell that her friends were confused so she decided to map everything out. "Well, there are only five us of and well, probably a hundred thousand of them left, right? But they are weaker than us. If we just start killing them there will be lots and lots of bodies for them to absorb. But here's where my brilliant thinking comes into play. Now, if we wait for them to come to us, we have the advantage. We have the usage of our base here. So here's how that works. We can have three people fighting and killing off those monsters and the other two gather bodies and pile them in here until the rest are dead. It will be easy."
Ami thought hard about that one. It did seem good. "That's good. Too good to be true. Why would they be marching here if they knew that we have this shield, which they do know about. Maybe they are planning on knocking it down or something."
"I never thought about that. Well fine then. Two people are on killing duty, two on gathering bodies, and the other protects the base. This way, we can really work as a team for real. One person who is killing is followed around by another person who picks up the bodies. All we have to do is teleport in and out."
Usagi's face began to fill with a smile as she realized that that was actually one of the best ideas that any of them had come up with. "And once we get rid of them all, we only have to worry about getting out of here and beating the real Cell."
"Exactly, so what do you say girls? Wanna do this?" Makoto knew the answer before anyone even began to answer.
"YEAH!"
"Whose doing what duty then?" Usagi hoped that she had something good like elimination of their enemy. She looked around the room at her friends and thought of what their best placements would be. "Well I definitely think that Makoto should be out there fighting."
"I agree with you on this one, Usagi. And so should you." Ami smiled when she saw the happiness in her friend's eyes. "I'll gather the dead bodies. I'll stick close to Usagi. Rei, you and Minako figure out what you want to do."
Rei turned to Minako in hopes of doing one thing. "Can I guard this place? I want to kick their butts too. I also want to use my new power."
"Go ahead. I don't exactly want to fight them anymore. But, I will if I have to. I'm not going to let them walk all over me anymore. I guess I'll stay close to Makoto then." She looked around the room to her friends, all who had half excited looks planted on their faces. "READY!?"
"READY!" They all shouted with enthusiasm as they teleported out of their fort.
Once out in the open field again, they took their positions. Rei hovered directly over their protection, ready for an attack from any given area. She was completely alert. Usagi hovered over the building while Ami was on the ground beneath her. On the opposite side of the building were Minako, who was on the ground, and Makoto, who hovered directly above her.
Usagi got into fighting position as the marching became louder and louder. She was positive it was loud enough for the others to hear now. "Ready!? Prepare yourselves. This is the real thing. If we thought we were outnumbered last week, well this is worse. But we can do this. With my Super Saiyan power and your…I guess Super power we can do this if we try hard enough. Just like dad always says, if you believe in something, it will happen. I've found this to be true. Just promise me one thing, don't give up, and don't die. Because if you do, when I die I'm going to hunt you down and kill you again. Or at least beat you up." This got some laughter to arise from her friends.
Ami prepared herself and took to her fighting stance. She made herself more alert now. "That's one promise we all plan to keep."
"Just making sure." Usagi carefully wrapped her tail up around her waist and under skirt so she wouldn't have a replay of what happened before. Her muscles tensed up as she felt the Cells' presence coming closer. "Power up girls. They're almost here."
In a split second the whole area lit up in an array of magnificent colors. All of the girls stood with anger written in their eyes as their sparkling auras flamed around them. They couldn't wait to start the battle. They needed to rid themselves of all the Cells. They were angry at them. They were angry at what they stood for. They were the invaders. They needed to be taken out before they could further harm anyone.
Usagi bowed her head and closed her eyes. Her aura all of a sudden became tranquil and had the feeling of peace within it. "We must not let them succeed. The world shall not be allowed to fall by the hands of these people. Only the true keepers of peace will do harm to those that oppose it." She opened her eyes and looked up with the look of utter calmness as she remained silent for a few minutes.
Ami looked up to Rei as Rei looked to her and the two fighters on the other side of the building. All of them had the look of total confusion on her face. Though Rei seemed to be less confused than the rest. She sensed something inside of Usagi that she had never sensed before. 'Odd.' She forced herself to resist the temptation of leaving her post and going to Usagi. "Usagi…Usagi…USAGI!"
Usagi shook her head as if shaking something out of her head and looked back to Rei. Her aura went back to normal as well. "What is it? What's wrong?" She looked around the area. "I don't see any of the enemies around, what's the matter. I know that you're mad at me for waking you up but I har…"
Rei frowned as she put her hands on her waist. "What's your problem? You just say something really freaky and you act like it's all good again."
Usagi cocked her head to the side as she once again became perplexed by her friend's words, as she often was. "What are you talking about? I didn't say anything just now. Are you hearing things?"
Ami looked directly up at Usagi. "Yes you did. You said something about how the real keepers of peace will be able to do harm or something like that. That the world mustn't fall into the hands of these guys. Don't you remember any of that?"
Usagi shook her head. "Nope. I think you guys are crazy. You're just trying to get back at me. Well forget it. It ain't going to happen any time soon. I'm too smart for that." She glared at Rei as she heard quiet giggling coming from her area. "And what's so funny about me being smart?"
At that precise moment thousands of black creatures encircled the girls along with their base. None of them were without a scowl. None of them had a single ounce of their bodies that wasn't covered with power of hatred. They looked to have been prepping for this battle, which they believed that they would win.
Usagi stopped arguing with her friends and looked on towards her opponents. She took a deep breath in as she readied herself for the fight of her life. "Hey look, it's the wanna bee's." There came no reply. "Fine. Be sticks in the mud. See if I care. It wont matter. Soon we will dominate over you and there will be nothing left. You will learn what happens when you try to hurt us. Go!"
The fight started out with a bang, literally. Usagi and Makoto both dashed out towards their enemies, with Ami and Minako following closely behind. Usagi and Makoto both hit their enemies at the same time, which created the bang as well as a large Ki wave that swept over area, forcing everyone who was in the air away from their positions. Of course, the Cells who were attacked didn't live through the force. Especially Usagi's enemy. Her punch sent him flying backwards head first with a giant chunk taken out of his face where he was violently hit.
Usagi didn't waste any time waiting for the next ones to attack. She took the liberty of firing a huge Kamehameha at a rather large group of fifty, destroying them all in a heart beat. "This isn't any fun. It's WAY too easy. There's gotta be a catch." She looked down to the ground at Ami who was scrambling around trying to gather all of the bodies before the other Cells had a chance to grab them. She did her job by teleporting in and out of the protected base.
Usagi looked back to the Cells, who were attacking in all directions. Rei seemed to have her hands full with trying to protect their base from any attacks from their foes. "You're all up to something." She heard the screams of the other Cells behind her as Makoto did her job. "You wouldn't be attacking us with such a low power if you weren't up to something. Unless you really are as stupid as you seem." She threw her hand out to the side and blasted a hole right through the stomach of one of the Cells. "You guys are pathetic. Not even any fun. Come on, I know your dad is A LOT stronger than this. I know he wants you all to beat us. Why aren't you waiting to attack us?" She couldn't figure out why in the world ever one of the Cells were attacking them at that point. All of them would be dead in no time and there wouldn't be anyone left to carry out their father's wishes. Until it hit her. "You DORKS! I know what you're doing. You came here so we would kill some of you huh? You were hoping to get power, weren't you? AH, HA, HA, HA! Well we showed you! We were prepared for you!"
One of the Cells smirked as he flew out to Usagi. "You think you know us so well, don't you?"
Usagi performed a round house kick to his head and pretty much kicked it off of his neck. "EWW! Why don't you put your head on tighter. That's gross." She glanced back at Makoto, who seemed to have over half of her opponents cleared out. 'Now I know they're up to something. With what he just said and all. And I know it's going to be something I don't like. We need to get out of here. But how? The door is broken and we can't budge it out of place either.' "Makoto, how's it going? And Rei too."
"Just great!" Rei smashed her fist into the jaw of her foe.
"Yeah! These guys have gained power in the past week, but not enough to beat us. I wonder what's up."
"Who cares. As long as we get rid of them."
~*~*~
About a half hour later the girls had totally taken out the Cells. The whole time they did it, it was with ease. But something didn't feel right about the whole situation. It didn't set right with them. For some reason, they didn't feel as if they had completed anything. They felt more like they had only begun something new. But they couldn't quite put their fingers on it. Though they didn't feel any more of the Cells. They seemed to be all gone and out of the way now.
They now sat in their little base packed with the bodies of Cell's children. There were so many that they had to even leave over half of them outside. But even though it was an easy victory, they were still very proud of themselves. They were proud that they kept their heads through the whole fight. And now it was over, for now.
Rei let out a sigh of relief as she leaned her head onto the shoulder of Minako. "That was exhausting. How about we don't do that again?"
"I'm for that." Usagi said as she scanned to impaled bodies of their opponents. "So what are we supposed to do with these guys?"
"Get rid of them I guess." Ami turned to the door. Now that the Cells were gone, that was their main objective. "I wonder how we're supposed to get out of here."
"Wait a minute I think I know how we might be able to get out. I've been thinking about this for a while." Her friends perked their heads towards her in curiosity. "I remember a time when I was really little and my big brother Goten was babysitting me. Him and Trunks were talking about 'the olden days'. You know, all that stuff that adults always talk about that we have no idea about. Well, I guess they fused to make this guy named Gotenks and they were talking about the time when they first met dad. I think they said something about getting stuck in here one time when they were first learning how to be Gotenks and they had to blast themselves out of the room because the door disappeared. I was thinking, what if we tried the same thing?" She jumped to her feet and walked to the wall, knocking on it when she got there. "It's like, pure metal or something."
Minako shot up from sitting. "Why didn't you tell us before?"
Usagi shrugged. "I dunno. I didn't think that we should have left before all of the Cells were killed. Plus, I didn't know if it would work. But I only thought of it a couple of days ago. I was going to tell you all real soon anyways."
Ami walked to the wall and knocked on it as well. "Yeah. I don't know how they could have broken it down. This stuff is pretty tough you know."
"Well it's worth a try, isn't it? I don't exactly want to stay in here for a year. I want to leave now, especially now that we have all these gross bodies to deal with. Gross. They stink too." When she got no reply decided that she had better go on. "Well here's an idea. If Goten and Trunks together make a person double the strength who could break down the walls of this place, why couldn't our combined attack work? I mean, we've got five people here who are really powerful."
Rei unconsciously nodded to agree with Usagi. "That sounds like it MAY work. I say we try it. If it fails, oh well. At least we tried." She jumped over the dead bodies and landed by the wall with Ami and Usagi. Minako and Makoto were soon to follow.
The girls positioned themselves together much like they did when they made their shield. Only this time Usagi was the only one who would be distributing power. She planned on giving it one last bit of power before it was thrown out of her body and into the wall. "Ok girls, pass your power along to each other down to me and we can get started."
The girls did what they were told as they once again created their bond between the five of them. The exchanged thoughts and power once again as the hoped that it would be for the last time while they were in the past. The powers came already mixed to Usagi. All she had to do was add her power and a little extra to make it stronger. 'Here goes nothing.' She fired a massive Ki attack, which contained no color at all. It was as white as the moon.
The girls' mood grew happier by the minute as they watched the beam of energy shoot from Usagi's hand onto the wall. It was slowly but surely puncturing the metal wall that was supposed to be energy proof. But it obviously was not. 'Just a little bit more. I can see some light.'
'It's dissolving the wall along with the shield.' Ami noted that the pink shield was disappearing.
'Who cares. At least it's working, right? No complaints here. There are no more Cells.'
~*~*~
~~Outside the Room of Spirit and Time~~
Only a matter of seconds had passed since Kami came out and pretty much told the gang that things were hopeless unless they found a new way to get them out. But now there was a small opening right by where the door stood. Behind it was a light to bright to look directly at.
Around the door stood a group of dumbfounded fighters just itching to see what was going to emerge from behind the hole that was slowly growing by the second. The power that seemed to be causing the hole to grow was nothing like they had ever felt before. It didn't feel at all like the girls' power either. It was too great for any of them anyways, even Usagi.
Goku squinted and bent down to look at the hole, which was almost big enough to fit a year old child through. "This is strange. Who do you think it is? It's not the Cell from the egg. It couldn't be that big this early. At least I don't think it could."
All of a sudden the metal around the blast was completely dissolved and a the giant colorless beam of energy came spiraling out. All of the fighters outside the room jumped away and readied themselves for whatever was about to come out. They would be prepared for any attack that would come from the new being.
But to their surprise, nothing new came out. Instead the five girls, Minako, Makoto, Ami, Rei, and Usagi, all came bouncing out with smiles that shone as bright as the sun. They made their happiness obvious as they turned to each other and screamed from being overjoyed by their escape.
Once they calmed down they turned and looked to the still shocked faces of their adult friends. Usagi stepped forward an acted as the spokes person. "What? Don't we get a welcome home party or anything?"
~*~*~
~~Room of Spirit and Time~~
Inside still lurked an evil that had the potential to be as great as the original Cell. A single child still lived on without the knowledge of Usagi and the others. One that had purposely stayed behind the rest. He stayed as far away from the fight as possible and did not move until the girls were in their base so as to not be detected. The less movement one made, the less likely that one will detect them.
He landed next to the dead bodies of his brothers and smiled as he began to absorb them all, one by one. His power increased tremendously as he did this. His goal, to make his power just as large as his father's so he could be there to fight along side of him.
(Well there it is. The next part. And now I can honestly say that this chapter is almost over. ^_^ anyways, what did you think? Good, or bad? Gotta go. Ja ^_~ )