Chapter the twenty-first

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"Vegeta! Oh my gosh, what happened?" Bulma screamed, as Trunks toted his father up to Bulma. Vegeta fought his way away from Trunks. "I'm fine now, Sheesh!" He said. He was feeling fine now, but he was still scared. That was so... scary, having a creature wandering around who could do that to someone! And what about Gohan? They hadn't been able to find him!
"How come you don't have your shirt on, Vegeta?" Bulma asked. It was then that Vegeta remembered the droppings he'd picked up. "Oh yeah! I found something I think we should look at." He pulled the bundle of shirt and crap out of his pocket and threw it to Trunks. "Oh God Dad... what IS it? It smells like death!" He exclaimed. Vegeta nodded. "I think it's the... waists... of that creature that stung me. It really smelled; I thought I was going to throw up." Bulma and Trunks were laughing; for Vegeta looked like someone had stuck trash under his nose. "Oh, shut up." He said. Trunks unwrapped the crap and instantly fell over, fainted. "Trunks!" Bulma exclaimed in worry as she bent down to help her son. Vegeta snickered. "Idiot. I told him it stunk." Then he walked over and sat down at the base of the tree while Trunks regained his conciousness.

"Eew... that looks like blood streaks." Bulma observed. "And human bone! I might need to run tests on this... this... this... specimen." She took the shirt/crap away from Trunks, wrapped it back up in a discusted manner and then stuffed it in her pocket. She went and sat down by Vegeta under the tree. Her husband was sleeping. Bulma figured he was tired, if the creature had sapped his energy like Trunks said it had. It began to rain very hard.
"Oh great... We've just got to find Gohan! Chi-Chi will freak if anything were to happen to him. And why you and Vegeta weren't able to sense his ki we'll never know." Bulma said to Trunks. "And this rain isn't exactly helping ANY of us healthwise." However, Trunks didn't want to leave until they found that space ship AND the creature that had mercilessly attacked his father. "We're not leaving yet." He said. "I'm going to go find Gohan. You stay RIGHT HERE with Vegeta until I get back, all right? I don't want anything to happen to you because of me."
Bulma smiled. "Sure, Trunks, I'll stay right here beside Veggie!" Trunks waved good bye and then ran off into the woods, leaving Bulma and the sleeping Vegeta alone.

Bulma was getting scared; for the rain and the darkness of the forest was enough to drive anyone mad. The rain was causing her hair to weigh down and her make up to run-ruining her beauty so to say. She sighed and rested her head on Vegeta's shoulder. "Why can't you be a good, protective husband?" She muttered. She was about to drift off to sleep when she heard a strange noise coming from the brush just north of her. Her big blue eyes gradually popped open, and she found herself staring at a huge and ugly green monster. We all know this monster to be known as First Form Cell, but Bulma didn't know that now did she? She freaked out and grabbed Vegeta with both arms. "Vegeta! Vegeta! Wake up!!" She cried. But Vegeta only stirred a bit. "Vegeta!" She shreiked, right in his ear. No dice. She began to sob helplessly, for she was sure that now was her true time to die. Cell chuckled that same icy chuckle he'd used with Vegeta. "I don't think shaking him will work very well. He's out like a light I imagine. I got more than half of his life force!" He took a step towards the frightened girl.
"Please don't hurt me! I have a husband and a baby son!" Bulma whimpered. "And you've already taken enough from Vegeta, so please, just... leave us alone. There's a nice guy named Yamcha, and I'd be pleased if you'd-"

"SHUT UP!"

Bulma instantly shut her mouth. "I've had enough LIVES. Didn't you see Gingertown? I just need to know the location of the androids." Cell said. Bulma hesitated. *What does he want with the androids?*She thought. But, she crossed her arms and stood her ground. "There is absolutely no way that I am telling you where the androids are!!" She griped. Cell looked stunned at how headstrong the woman was. Obviously the wife of Vegeta. "Very well then. I'll start by taking your husband's life, and then if you still won't tell me than I'll take yours." He said. He started towards Vegeta with his tail waving menacingly behind him. When he launched his tail at Vegeta, Vegeta's eyes popped open and he grabbed the monster's tail. "What do you think you're doing?" He asked. With one strong motion of his arm, Cell's tail was popped off and in his hand. "Yes! Ha Ha!" He cheered. He threw the bleeding extremity behind him and smirked. "Let's see how well you do without that thing!"

"Vegeta, you're awake!" Bulma was saying. But Vegeta wasn't paying any attention to her. He was just looking at the monster in surprise. It was rejenerating its tail. " Hey!" Vegeta shouted. "Only... NAMEKIANS have that power!" The monster just smirked, and then fled through the woods. Instead of taking after it Vegeta just threw a rock. Then he ambled back over to his spot by the tree.
"Vegeta, you saved me!" Bulma said, still bawling. When Vegeta sat down she jumped into him and hugged him as tight as she could. "Thank you so much! He was going to kill you, and then kill me, and-" Bulma stopped in the middle of her sentence when she noticed that Vegeta wasn't pushing her off or anything at all like he usually did now. Bulma just continued to cry into his chest. "Thank you so, so much!!" She cried. Vegeta stroked her blue locks. "Any time," Vegeta said, "Unless they'res anyone else around." Bulma looked up, smiled at him and then planted him a huge kiss on his lips. Vegeta tugged his head away. "I heard Cell say something about wanting to know the locations of the androids. Why is that? Do you know?" He asked. Bulma shook her head. "No, I don't. It's weird." She said. Then, they had a romantic moment as they waited for Trunks to come back with Gohan.

Trunks and Gohan came back soon. Gohan had been attacked by Cell, but his wounds were no worse than Vegeta's were. "Me and Gohan have a prediction that the reason the monster wants to find the androids is so that he can absorb their abnormally powerful life force and destroy everything. If our prediction is true, then we need to stop that from happening at all cost." Geeta stood up and crossed his arms. "But are you certain that this is the purpose he wants to find the position of the androids?" He asked.
Trunks shook his head. "No, but it's a prediction. We need to go and find the androids, and try to warn them that we predict this. Better safe than sorry, as I always say." Bulma walked up to Vegeta's side and grabbed his hand. Vegeta was going to jerk away but then he saw that Trunks was not really paying any attention to Bulma and he's body language. "So what do you suppose we do? Find the androids and TEAM UP with them to beat that... creature? But why? They're EVIL, you said, and you said they completly destroyed your future..."

"Yes, but that other thing can destroy the world even faster than they can!"

Vegeta just shut up when he said this. Bulma stepped forward. "Do you still want me to work on those detonation devices?" She asked. Trunks nodded. "Sure. I'll take Vegeta; but you take Gohan home so Chi-Chi won't get mad. Me and Vegeta will see you around- IF we don't get our heads blown off." Then, he and Vegeta waved goodbye. But Bulma wasn't so ready to let her husband go. She ran up and grabbed his arm as he was about to leave. "What if they hurt you and Trunks, Vegeta? I don't want to lose my husband and my son!"
Vegeta jerked at his arm. "We won't get killed, sissy woman! Now let go of me!" He shouted. Bulma released his arm obediantly. "Good bye, Vegeta. Good bye, Trunks." She said, giving them both a kiss on the cheek. Then she threw her capsule down and her flying machine popped out. As it was flying away, she waved at them. Vegeta just gave a small two-finger salute and then flew off with Trunks.

"We've been searching for hours and still no sign of the androids." Trunks said. "But where could they possibly be? I know they were driving a milk truck to get around on the street." Vegeta just kept scanning the ground with his eyes. Eventually they saw a milk truck, being driven like a maniac down the road. Android 17 hadn't exactly tooken Driver's Ed. "That's gotta be them. Come on; let's get them off of the road." Trunks zoomed down and planted himself into standing position on the hood of the car, his landing so hard it made dents in the car's hood. The car began to swerve out of control and it finally ran off the side of the road and into a lake. The two androids flew out of the car before it hit the water and landed a few feet away from Trunks and Vegeta.
"Yes... Now we can finish our battle, beautiful." Vegeta said to Android #18. She frowned at him. "I don't want to hear your horny desires, I want to hear WHY you aren't already ripping my hair out! Any smart girl would know that you would have simply ki blasted the whole car with us in it instead of running it off the road. They'res something you want from us." She said. Trunks glanced at Vegeta, and Vegeta glanced back at Trunks. Vegeta inhaled deeply and said, "We need you to team up with us for very smart reasons. We can protect you and you can protect us." The android's laughter was the next thing heard. "You REALLY think we'd team up with YOU?" A hysterical android 17 asked. "You-- your reason was stupid! I think we should just kill you instead of listening to any more of this dribble."

Vegeta got mad. "You WILL listen to what we have to say, or we WILL let that creature out there have you as shish-ca-bobs! For some reason he wants to locate you. Trunks found his ship; I found his dung; and Bulma found him. Well, actually I found him first but he attacked me." The androids still didn't understand what Vegeta and Trunks were trying to say. "That alien is out to get you, and we need to stop him from doing it. One poke from that tail of his and he'll have you! You should see Gingertown!!"

Both androids just rolled their eyes. "Say it from the beginning, stupid." #18 said to poor Trunks. Trunks got sad. "Okay. I will. I found this ship earlier today that we think might belong to the alien that Vegeta found in the woods. The alien had a needle on its tail, in which it used to absorb power, and he also said he's the one who caused Gingertown to vanish. We think that he wants to absorb the both of you because it'll make him stronger; regular humans don't. Only androids made from a human base." The androids were still scratching their heads after Trunks's somewhat thourough explanation. "Come again?" #17 said. Vegeta sighed. He could tell this was going to take a LONG time.

After a while, #18 and #17 finally got it. "Oh... Okay. Uh... Can we think upon this or something? Because, beleive it or not, you'd be dead by now if you hadn't have put such an impact on us. That's progress, really." #17 said. He and his sister walked a ways over and started to discuss things. Vegeta snickered. "This is just great. We're going to let that freak absorb them, right?" He asked. Trunks stomped a foot.
"NO, IDIOT! WE NEED THEM ON OUR SIDE IN ORDER TO BEAT THE ALIEN, AND THEN WE CAN KILL THEM! IF WE LET HIM ABSORB THEM THAN WE'D BE DIGGING OUR OWN GRAVES!!" Trunks shreiked. Vegeta decided he'd shut up until the androids were done discussing on the matter. They finally walked over to Trunks and Vegeta. "We've agreed on the matter to become your TEMPORARY compainions, meaning we can break the bond." Android 18 said. "The moment he's dead, you will be too unless you can somehow have a miracle and beat us."
Trunks held out a hand. "Shake on it first, to make sure you're not liying." He said to the android. Android 18 gave him her hand and they shook on it. Trunks realized just how much he enjoyed holding the drop-dead gorgeous woman's hand, but he didn't say anything. "Now you." Trunks said to #17. #17 walked on over and gave Trunks his hand. They shook on it. "Vegeta! You too!" #18 said. "I know how you are. You could betray us all any second." Vegeta just turned his head away from them. "Hmph. I don't want to have anything to do with this mess. It's absurd." But he immedeantly changed his mind when android 18 came up to him, wrapped her arms around him and pressed her balloony chest against his own. "If you agree on the deal, I'll give you a kiss." She said. "Not a little peck; a BIG, SLOPPY one. One that will leave you stuttering. And, if you act now, I'll throw in a bit of good sex." Vegeta was utterly stunned. *I'm freaking married.* He thought. He just looked at her face, stunned by her beauty. Trunks and #17 were laughing together like old friends. Vegeta pushed her off of him. "All....right. The kiss, but no sex. I'm married you know." He stuck out his hand and turned his head. She shook his hand, and then so did #17.
The next thing Vegeta knew was that he was getting the best kiss of his life, but when he realized it was happening it was over and she was starting to walk back over to her brother.

"Okay , the alien should be somewhere in that woods that we searched through with Bulma and Gohan." Trunks stated. "Let's divide into partners this time; single is too dangerous. I'll take #17 and Vegeta, you go with #18." Vegeta stuttered. "Why can't YOU go with her? I want to go with YOU! Let them go together!" He griped. Even though he DID want to go with her for obvious reasons he didn't want to make it clear. "No, Vegeta. If the androids are together by themselves they may deceive us. You go with #18 and try to make friends... or more." That led to more laughter by Trunks and #17. Vegeta growled. "Oh... Just come on, woman, and let's get this over with." He and #18 took off to the north, while Trunks and #17 got the south. Vegeta was really starting to miss Bulma.

"So...what am I looking for? How does it look?" #18 asked Vegeta as they walked through the woods.Vegeta shurgged. "Anything that looks like a MONSTER! Goodness, I always thought Bulma was fibbing when she said blondes are dumb." The android frowned at Vegeta's remark and then turned her head back down to watch her feet as she walked. It was quite obvious that they both didn't feel comfortable around eachother. Vegeta was scared that he'd blush if he looked at her, and she was scared that he'd try to feel her up again.
"I'm tired! I want to find somewhere to sit down and rest my feet." #18 complained after about 15 minutes. Vegeta growled. "What now? You've already complained that 'The wind was messing your hair up' and that 'your mascara was running!'" The android simply turned around and sat on a log. She crossed her legs in a lady-like fashion and then stared up at her companion, who was of course non other than our handsome prince. "You know, Princey... You're one hot son of a bitch. Your wife isn't here, and my brother's not here, so what do you say we-" Vegeta's gaze snapped immedeantly to her. "WHAT?! ARE YOU IMPLIYING THAT I HAVE SEX WITH YOU? NO WAY!" He snapped. She just smiled sweetly at him. "hey, I was just offering..." Vegeta growled and turned his back to her. "The sooner we find the alien the better." He murmured. He could just imagine what Bulma would say if she caught him screwing around with an android. "Do androids even get PREGNANT? Because if they don't, I guess that means you have all the freedom you want to be a hooker."
He kicked a pine cone. "I'm going to go that way. If your poor feet are up to it, then I guess you could tag along." She obediantly got up and started to follow Vegeta. Vegeta was starting to get very uncomfortable. "You have a very nice ass. How'd you get it?" She asked Vegeta as she walked behind him. Vegeta whirled around and prepared to slap her. "Shut UP, you hussy! ARGH, I can't wait until I get rid of you!" He stared in her eyes, breathing hard. "One more comment about my... assets, and you're going to get it." He then whirled around and started to walk. His tagalong caught right up to him. "What, can't you take a compliment?" She asked. Vegeta shrugged. "Only non sexual ones."

Vegeta was getting tired of this. He pulled out the little cell phone Bulma had given him and started trying to figure out how to work it. The beautiful woman was charming him and making him think indecent thoughts. "Do you know how to work cell phones?" He asked #18, who was throwing rocks at squirrels. "No. They weren't invented before I was put in that stupid chamber that I woke up out of." She said. Vegeta sighed and rolled his eyes. She was STILL just as useless as she'd ever been! He just started pushing in the numbers that Bulma made him memorize just in case he ever learned how to use a phone, and put it up to his ear like he always saw Bulma do. To his surprise he heard it ring. "Yes." He silently chanted.
Soon, the sweet voice of his wife answered, "Hello?" Vegeta could almost cry from hearing her voice. He missed her so much; how instead of using sexual and uncomfortable words like the android did, she'd use sweet and loving ones. Of course, he knew the android didn't love him; she just thought he was a handsome peice of ass. And during their battle, she'd probably been just trying to tease him and make him an easier target. "Bulma?" Vegeta asked. He was keeping up the apperance that he wasn't very happy to see her so that the android wouldn't laugh at him. "Yes, Punkin, it's me. If I might ask, why'd you call? You aren't... worried, are you?" She asked. *Duh. Of course I'm worried.* vegeta thought. But instead, he answered, "No. Why would I be worried? I was just calling to tell you that I'm looking for the alien, and Trunks made me team up with this hussy android and I want you to be here so that she doesn't try anything!"
He noticed the android look up when he said this. Vegeta smirked at her and then got his serious expression back on. "Vegeta, I can't come out there. I'm working on something! But, I need to tell you something. I did a scan on the...fices you gave me, and it shows an extraterrestrial called Cell created by Dr. Gero.... WITH YOUR CELLS IN IT!!"

Vegeta was shocked. HIS cells? In that monster? It was then that he remembered the being's ability to rejenerate lost body parts. "Does he by any chance have Piccolo's genes, too?" Vegeta asked softly. Bulma answered back immedeantly. "Uh-huh! AND Goku and Frieza's!!" She howled. Vegeta had to keep himself from dropping the phone. "But how? HOW could he have gotten our cells? Beleive me; if Dr.Gero was trying to take my cells then I'd definitely know about it."
"I don't know, I don't KNOW." Bulma said. "I just want you to come home! I'm so worried... having you out where Cell and the androids could destroy you! Please come back home, Vegeta! I know you left me.... But come back!" Vegeta hung up the cell phone as she said this. *Come back... Come back... should I? I mean... I don't think... I don't KNOW!* Vegeta stomped his foot and then started to walk off. The android followed him. "You look disturbed. What did your 'wife' say?" She asked. Vegeta didn't answer her. It was none of her business anyhow. "Let's just get this over with, o.k?" He asked. "No more dumb questions. We're allied enemies here."

Night time approached Vegeta and Android #18 about two hours later. Vegeta didn't feel comfortable sleeping and knowing that Cell was roaming about with that needle tail that he could stick into people. Vegeta stopped walking and turned to #18. "We need to stop and make camp up here." He said. "We don't want the darkness to blind us in the woods. I could get struck by a poisenous snake."
The android stopped and layed down on the ground. "Glad you finally said it. I need to catch some z's myself. We should take turns keeping up watch." She said. She took off her jacket and used it as a pillow. "It's pitch dark out here. You might want to make a fire, princey-boy." Vegeta scowled at her taunting name towards him. She didn't like him and he didn't like her, so she was ready to make his time with her a living hell. "We're finding Trunks and #17 tomorrow. I can't stand being near a peice of junkyard scrap metal one day longer." Veggie mumbled as he piled up some sticks and hit them with a ki blast, causing a fire to start. "And I'm not keeping watch. Unlike you and your brother I can sense Cell's ki. If he comes close then I can probably sense him in my sleep and wake up like I did earlier; unless I'm in a deep sleep. You could probably sense him too." He pulled off his shirt, watching the android's blue eyes widen. "Wow. You've got the best muscles I've ever seen."
When Vegeta pulled off his pants too to sleep in his underwear like he usually did her eyes almost bugged out of her head. Vegeta quickly curled up in a ball. "If you're cold, why don't you sleep in your clothes, you retard?" She asked again. Vegeta just shut his eyes and snuggled up next to the fire. It made a pleasant warmness on his back that calmed him. It calmed his mind almost as much as Bulma did when she would hold him in her arms and sing to him. Vegeta missed Bulma so much and wanted to move in with her so much that tears came into his eyes. And it was the android's fault he was in this misery. He never would have fallen in love with Bulma if he hadn't have moved in to train in the Gravity Room. The cold and shivering Vegeta finally managed to get warm enough by the fire to go into a restless sleep with many dreams.

Vegeta woke up in the pitch blackness of 1:00 AM at night. His sleep had been filled with nightmares of Cell sticking him with that needle tail and taking his life force away, and Vegeta had woken up breathing hard, thinking Cell was after him. But then he'd remember that it'd only been a dream and that Cell was probably a long ways from there. If he had been looking for the androids then he of course would have went somewhere other than a woods to look. Vegeta didn't rise from his somewhat cramped position; instead he barely peeked open his eyes and looked around. Their fire had gone out by now leaving their area very dark. He couldn't even see #18 it was so dark. Vegeta, with his keen hearing, heard lots of animals and things... but no Cell. His ki was not showing.
Vegeta closed his eyes to go back night-night. Bulma showed vividly in his mind. "Bulma..." He mumbled as he began to drift into sleep again. If she were here, she'd be helping him get back to sleep by singing to him, or cooing to him... something. She wouldn't leave him alone in the darkness like this. When he went back to sleep, all his dreams were about Bulma. About Bulma dancing like she always wanted too, except this time her clumsiness did not show.

"Get up, princey! Time to go and find your son and #17!" Vegeta heard the next morning. He sprung up and saw the android standing next to him with her same boring look on her face. Vegeta didn't speak to her; he just turned to find his clothing but could not find it anywhere. "What did you do with my shirt and pants? Hm?" He asked hatefully. She made a sad expression and then flew up and grabbed them out of the tree, where she'd placed them very high up. "I was hoping you wouldn't ask." She said. Vegeta scowled and began to walk. "Just come on." He griped. He was thinking about seeing Bulma's face again, and stroking that akward but beautiful blue hair. *I could play with that hair all I wanted if I would move back in with her.* He thought. He shook his head and continued walking. He tuned in to sense Trunks's ki. It wasn't very far; just about a mile away. "Trunks is about a mile away, meaning that #17 is too. Would you rather walk or fly?" Veggie asked.
"Walk. It burns calories." His companion said. Vegeta shrugged. "All right, but I don't want to hear anything about 'tired feet'." He said. He and Android #18 started in on closing the distance between Trunks and they. "But aren't we supposed to be looking for Cell? I don't want him to kill me." #18 said. Vegeta gave a small giggle. He turned around, his arms crossed. "To tell you the truth, I WANT Cell to absorb you. When Trunks told me he thought Cell wanted to absorb you and your brother, my plan was to act as your teammate and then let Cell absorb you. But Trunks figured Cell would get stronger if he absorbed you and #17. So, I was stuck with this hopeless idea of travelling with a very attractive android in which I wish death upon." He gave a fake smile and then whirled around and began to walk again. #18 just looked after him for a moment, and then ran up to his side to begin bugging him again about his personal life.

About an hour later Vegeta heard a rustling from not very far away from he and #18. "What was that?" He asked, frantic. Cell popped brightly in his mind, Cell who could just stick that tail in his leg out of the brush and Vegeta would be done for. He didn't sense Cell's ki, though. Could he be hiding it?

"What was what? I didn't hear anything." The android said. She was whipping her head from side to side in a way that made Vegeta see her pretty neck and made her big chest bounce. Vegeta felt an erection coming on. "I thought I heard something. But I guess I'm just being stupid." Vegeta said. "It could have been a snake or something. Let's just walk on." So the android followed Vegeta as he walked on. But the closer they got towards Trunks and #17 Vegeta noticed another ki closing in on his son. "Something's wrong. I think maybe... Cell's coming to find Trunks and #17! He's going to absorb your brother!!" Vegeta shreiked, reality hitting him in his handsome face. "Come on! We've got to fly!" He blasted off and started to fly with the android following. But it was too late.
When Trunks and #17 came into view, Trunks and #17 were madly trying to fend off Cell. Vegeta saw that his son was already badly beaten up and that #17 was getting that way. "Come on! Let's go help them!" #18 said, zooming down. Vegeta just stayed suspended in the air. He wanted the androids absorbed so he wasn't going to help them not be absorbed. His son was a weakling; and let weaklings work for themselves. Vegeta just sat back on a tree branch and chilled out.

Trunks swiped hand for Cell's needle like tail, but he missed by a longshot. "Damn!" He exclaimed. Cell whirled around and punched him into a tree. Trunks hit with a slam, into the same tree that Vegeta had been sitting in. Vegeta lost his balance. "Whhoa!" He said, windmilling his arms. He fell on top of his son in a heap. "Stupid boy!" He snarled. He pushed himself off of Trunks and just stared at him. "You're so pitiful. It's hard to beleive I conceived you." Vegeta said. He was about to fly back in his tree when he felt Cell's fist hit him in the back of the head and send him flying into Trunks's body again. He pushed himself off and then flew at Cell, his foot jutted out to kick him. But Cell just grabbed his foot and twisted the ankle, making Vegeta scream out loud. "Father! Go somewhere else! Cell could kill us both-"

"SHUT UP,BOY!!"

Trunks obediantly shut his mouth. Vegeta stood in fighting stance, looking at the green monster. Both androids stood beside him to help him fight. That gave Vegeta an idea. He crossed his arms. "Hey, Cell!" He shouted.

Trunks's mouth dropped open. "NO, FATHER!!" He screamed. "NO! DON'T! DON'T LET HIM ABSORB EVEN ONE OF THE ANDROIDS!" He jumped up and tackled Vegeta, shutting up his sentence. As Vegeta and Trunks lay in a jumbled and nearly unconcious heap, they saw Cell walk over to the androids. "No..." Vegeta heard Trunks mutter. Trunks tried to get up, but both legs were broken from his battle with Cell. Vegeta was just fine, but he wasn't about to get up and stop Cell from absorbing an android.
Both androids rushed forward in preparation to beat him to death, but... Cell was faster. With one motion of his tail, it was jammed in Android #17's leg. "No!!" Trunks shouted. He tried to get up once more, but his legs failed him. Android #18 was kicking and punching Cell but couldn't make a mark. Her brother was being absorbed before her very eyes.

Finally, #17 was gone. Just gone. There was no trace of him anywhere except for his clothing. "17!!" #18 shouted. Vegeta pushed himself out from under Trunks and crossed his arms. "Yes, I guess that takes care of- AGGGHHHH!!"
The Cell standing in front of them was NOT the Cell that used to be. This Cell looked... different, and his ki was out the roof. Vegeta couldn't beleive what he had done.

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I know this was a bit short of a chapter, but I wanted to end it on that dramatic note. But aren't you glad that Vegeta didn't get hurt this time? Anyway, next chapter, Vegeta and Trunks go to fight 2nd stage Cell. (Oh no, I suck at fights!) There will be no hyperbolic time chamber for Vegeta and Trunks in this story; just SSJ2 for Vegeta and Trunks. Anyways, I'll try to put more romance between our couple in the next chapter. Bye!

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