Chapter the twenty-third

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"Shut up, already! We'll be Okay as long as you just shut up!" Vegeta hollered at the android. She was still bawling like hell. "I don't want to DIIIEEE!!" She squeaked. "I don't want Krillin to blow me up OR to be absorbed by Cell! Both ways to go would be horrible!" Vegeta just rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. He layed down and huddled up. "Just shut up. I'm going to take a nap." He said. "I don't want to hear you bawl and squall all through my dreams, either. So just shut up before I slap you in the mouth."
Another blast hit the ground very close to the cave and shook Vegeta so hard that it made his head hurt; it felt like his brain was being jarred loose. #18 screamed louder. "OH MY GOD! OH MY-" Vegeta zipped over and covered her mouth. "Shut up, or I'll PUSH you out the mouth of this cave." He said. "Or throw you. And then say 'Cell, over here! Here's your android!' and I'll hold you down while he absorbs you. Do you want that?"
She shook her head. "Good." Vegeta said, taking his and off her mouth. "So you'd better be quiet." He lay down and closed his Geeta eyes. He started to wonder about what Bulma was probably thinking right now about her husband. He went off to retrieve a gorgeous woman and now it was taking him forever to get back. Now how did that sound? As he was just about to reach a pleasant slumber, the android crawled over and shook him. "Hey! Princey, wake up!" She ordered sharply. Vegeta scowled. "No." He said. She shook him harder. "Please?" She asked. Vegeta just rolled over and shook his head. "NO!" He exclaimed. He heard her whine and slump on the ground, right on her butt. She stilled and got very quiet for a moment. "You know, Vegeta..." She said. "I could help you get to sleep quite easily. I hold the powers right in my hands." Vegeta growled.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!"He snapped. But no sooner had he said this than she was massaging his back and shoulders in a pleasant way. Vegeta smiled and sighed. It took him a minute to realize that it was NOT Bulma who was doing it... He snapped up. "Stop it! Stop touching me!" He shouted. He crawled over to the other side of the cave and shut his eyes. He started to breathe heavily; a sign that said, "I'm still asleep so you'd better lay off." But, she didn't. She scooted over to him again and sat by him. "I need some company!" She complained.Vegeta didn't say nor do anything. He just kept up the sleepy act. He felt her slam her hand on his chest. Vegeta's eyes popped open. "What do you think you're doing, hm?" He asked. "You'd better get your little hand off me before I decided to snap it in two!"
She straddled herself over him. "Come on, Vegeta, you know you want me..." She said. Vegeta punted her off with his feet and then backed up into a corner. She followed him, and blocked him in that very corner. Vegeta was scared; for one thing this woman was much stronger than him, and for another she was EXTREMLY tempting. He just wanted to tackle her on the ground and screw her. But he wouldn't let her get in the way of Bulma and he's relationship.Even though he wouldn't say it in front of anyone, he loved Bulma with all of his heart. There was no way that he'd screw around with this android. "Get-Get awaaay from me!" He ordered. He started to kick his feet and scream. She just laughed at him. "What is your problem?" She asked. Vegeta looked into her blue eyes, breathing hard. "I was just thinking that I have this WONDERFUL wife, and here I am letting you walk all over me. Now get away from me." He said. He balled up one of his hands. "I'll punch!"

"I'm not scared, Vegeta. I could kill you right now, in this same corner... with almost no pain. I'm almost twice as strong as you are." She playfully poked him in the chest. Vegeta grabbed her finger and bent it back as hard as he could. "You do not touch me!" He ordered. He threw her hand back in her face and pushed her on her back, but in a split second she'd jumped up and had him pinned to the wall with her hands. Her fingers were digging painfully into his skin. "Ouch! Stop!" Vegeta exclaimed. She dug her fingers in harder. "You know, I think I'll KILL you." She said, noticing Veggie become frantic. "No, there's no reason to do that..." He said. She banged him painfully into the wall and made him squeal. He was very scared; he had thought she was all fun. But he guessed that had all been an act. "The deal is over, Vegeta, so I CAN hurt you, and maybe break your arms like I did before. Now would you like THAT?!" Vegeta shook his head. "No, Oh no. I wouldn't like that." He was close to bawling; he prayed to god that he wouldn't start to sob helplessly to this woman. "Get off me. I'll tell you one more time." He said. But she didn't listen.
"Either you get out there and you kill Cell, or--I'll kill you." She said. "Even though you are sooo cute that I just might cry when I do it." Vegeta winced as she stroked a finger under his chin. He had been expecting her to blow his head off; but instead her touch was tender. "Don't..." He said. He kicked his feet as hard as he could, making it difficult for her to hang on. *Great, I'm stuck in a cave with a MURDERER!* He thought.

"You aren't for serious now are you?" Vegeta asked. "After all, if you do think I'm so cute than you'd let me go." A small smile came to her lips. "Maybe you're reading me... maybe your not. What if all this is just a crazy idea to turn you on, hm?" She asked. Vegeta figured that was the thing, because she was very much succeding in doing it. She brought her hand up to his face and brushed a thumb lightly across his cheek. Vegeta was so embarrassed that he was bright red. "Stop that, you know I'm married! Geezus, why'd I even volunteer to come help you get away from Cell? WHY?"
When Vegeta said this she stopped her actions. "Oh yes, I forgot about CELL!" She said. "Why we're screwing around, and if you get exited, then you might accidently flare up your ki and then... he'd find us." Vegeta growled. "I'd never screw around with you in a thousand years. Never while I'm married. I may not care about my wife but I know that a worthy saiyan would never break a promise unless it was absolutely nessesary. And I don't think breaking wedding vows is even in the picture." He lightly pushed her off and then looked outside. "Man, I miss Bulma. I wish she was here right now, but instead I'm stuck with a horny android that's only purpose it to flirt with me."

He turned around and looked at her. She was laying on the ground playing with a stick. "This is boring. Make yourself useful and go over there, and uh... drive Cell away." She said. Vegeta glared at her. "Do you REALLY have the nerve to ask me that?" He said. How much he hated that android... but he'd let Cell have her in time. Just a matter of playing the right cards. It would be a perfect opportunity when he had her good and fooled that he trusted her.
"Yes. Just go. If you're not going to have fun with me, there's no use for you to be here." She said. Vegeta scowled. "I can have plenty of fun with Bulma once I get out of here." He said. He sat down in the corner and hugged his knees up to his chest. He missed Bulma so much that he could cry. The android looked at him. "What's YOUR problem? You look as if you just got a divorce or something." She moaned. Vegeta frowned and kept staring at his feet. The ground shook again when Cell launched another ki blast. *I could drag that android out by her hair right now and give her to Cell.* He thought. This brought a smirk to his lips.

"Hey, come here for a second." He said in a mean voice. "I have something to... SHOW you." She looked at him mysteriously. "I don't trust you." She said. Vegeta shrugged. "You don't have to trust me." He said. "But it'd be best if you did."
She just stared at him for a minute and then walked over. "What do you want?" She asked. "I just want to wallow around in the misery that Cell IS going to kill me-" Vegeta yanked her down by an arm. "Shut up! Go and stand... over there." He said, pointing. She obeyed. He'd pointed to the wall across from him. Vegeta walked over and smirked. "Okay, now... this doesn't have to be a hard thing for me to do." He said. He grabbed her hair as hard as he could and yanked her forwards, and then started to walk. She screamed so loud it hurt his ears. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! LET ME GO OR I'LL KILL YOU!" Vegeta snickered and tried to drag her outside so that Cell would get her, but she bit his arm. "OOOUUCCHHH!!" Vegeta hollered, dropping her hair. He tried to run, but he couldn't before she headbutted him. He was seeing stars. "OUUUCH!" He screamed yet again. She pinned him on the ground with a foot on his chest. "OK, that was a crazy thing for you to do!" She said. She began to light up a ki blast in her hand. "I'm going to regret this, but, maybe it'll teach you not to betray people?" Vegeta was about to scream when Goku and Bulma came bursting in. "Oh no! Did Cell see you?" The android asked, horrified.

Bulma jumped off Goku's back and ran over to Vegeta, pushing #18 off of him. "Oh Vegeta! Oh Baby! What horrible things did she do to you? Well, it's Okay now. Bulma's here to make everything better!" She hugged Vegeta as tight as she could, nestling her face in his shoulder. "I thought you were cheating... but you were bring killed!"
Goku and the android were in a screaming fight. "SHUT UP BEFORE YOU ATTRACT CELL!" #18 screamed. Everyone shut up. "Okay, now... everyone be quiet. When Cell leaves than we can leave." She said. Bulma continued to cradle her husband's head. "What has she put you through Punkin?" She asked. Vegeta frowned. "Shut up." He whispered.
The android smiled. "I didn't do anything to that lil cutie! I almost did, but-"

"DON'T YOU CALL HIM PET NAMES!"

#18 obediantly shut her mouth. Vegeta pushed Bulma off. "Get off of me woman!" He scolded. "How many times have I told you not to hug me?" Bulma obediantly let Vegeta go. She crossed her arms. "Thanks a lot Goku you got us stuck in here with Cell outside!" Bulma said. Vegeta crawled over and looked outside. "He's still outside." He exclaimed. Bulma walked up. "I know. . . but don't worry. We'll be out soon." She reached down and tousled his hair with a hand. Veggie growled and slapped her hand away. "Don't!" He said. He walked back in the cave and layed down against the wall. *God, help us...* He thought.

That night in the cave, it was almost pitch dark in there. "Hey, Vegeta... could you light a fire with a ki blast?" Bulma asked. "It's too dark." Vegeta grabbed a couple sticks that were inside the cave and then lit them with a ki blast, resulting in a pretty fire. Then, he, Goku, Bulma and #18 gathered around it. Bulma saw Vegeta yawn louder than he ever had in his life. He was tired; she was sure he was from what he'd been through that day. He had been literally almost killed by that android. She was surprised when he scooted into her arms and leaned himself against her, and with one huge breath he closed his eyes and went to sleep. Goku's eyes widened. "Is that VEGETA?" He asked. Bulma nodded. "Yes. He's just very tired I imagine. I'll bet that ANDROID knows exactly why." She shot #18 a look of hatred. The android cringed back. "I wasn't trying to kill him before. I was... well, trying to be nice before. But when he tried to feed me to Cell I had to resist in the worst possible way." Bulma still frowned. "Aw well. It was still mean to try to blow his head off!!!" She hugged her hubby up to her chest tighter. Vegeta stirred a little bit.
"I bet we can take out Cell tomorrow morning." Goku said. "It'll be just a matter of timing... or I'll bet that he'll leave tomorrow. It's obvious you're 'not here'" Even though these words were meant to comfort the android, it wasn't working. She knew that she was either going to die with Cell doing it or without, and she knew that Goku and Vegeta combined would overpower her if she tried anything suspicious. So she was bound to die, unless.... If something were to pull through in Krillin.

"I gave Krillin something to blow you up with." Bulma said. "I hope he does it. He should, and pretty soon too." She threw another stick in the fire to make it flare even higher.
"*YAWWWN* I'm gonna hit the hay in that corner over there." Goku said, pointing to the corner in which Vegeta had been held against his will in. He curled up in a ball and started to snore. "God he's hot. Do you think that he'd...?" The android asked Bulma. Bulma shook her head. "Oh no. He's very good at keeping his wedding vows. He'd never sleep with anyone other than Chi-Chi-- even though she DOES look very much like a man." She explained. #18 slowly nodded, and then turned her gaze at Veggie. How could such a rude man be so sweet to this woman? There must be some good qualities in her that needed to be discovered... she COULD be a really nice person maybe if she didn't get ticked off. Bulma looked down at her sleeping husband and ran a hand through his hair. Vegeta snuggled up to Bulma a little bit more.
"You know... It's funny. Vegeta left me and I still love him so much, and he still loves me so much..." Bulma said outloud. "It's like it never happened. But I've got a feeling when he goes home and sees Trunks again than everything will be different." #18 was nodding understandably. She took off her jacket and handed it to Bulma. "Here. Put this on. I'll bet your cold and all with that short sleeve shirt on. I'm an android; I don't need it." Bulma looked at #18 curiously as she took the jacket from her.
"What, do androids, like... not have feelings or something? Like, you can't be cold?" She asked. "You can't... love, or anything?" #18 shook her head. "We can be cold, it just doesn't bother us as much as humans... and No, we can't love. When I was flirting with Vegeta it was just for fun. I had no intention of loving him or anything. It was just my nature." As the android said this it got Bulma thinking about poor Krillin. Krillin liked... or loved #18 so much, and... she couldn't love. Maybe something could be done about that?

"Oh, that's terrible. I know I couldn't live without loving Vegeta. I've loved him for three whole years now, and it's seemed like forever. It all started in the funniest way, though. It started with one of my inventions collapsing on him." When she recalled this, she hugged Vegeta closer. It had got her to thinking about how close she'd come to losing him... and if she'd had lost him she would have lived her whole life a loveless, dull woman with no children... and no Vegeta. Vegeta surely had changed her outlook on life. She was a very happy woman now as opposed to the unhappy and cross one she had been. She stroked the sleeping man's cheek to silently thank him for all of that. She leaned down and kissed his forehead. But when she did this she noticed he was shivering.
Bulma took off the jacket #18 had given her to snuggle up with and draped it over Vegeta's shoulders. Vegeta stopped shivering.

Then, Bulma layed down with her husband still in her arms and closed her eyes. She heard the haunting sound of one of Cell's yells as another blast hit the ground. "COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE!!" He was screaming. Bulma almost had to unwrap her arms from Vegeta and cover her ears but she didn't. Bulma looked over and noticed that the android was huddled scared in the corner. She was trying to go to sleep.
Bulma felt Vegeta squirm around in her grasp. He had heard Cell in his sleep and was getting frantic. After a minute, he stopped moving and continued to sleep. "We've got to do something about this." Bulma silently whispered. "You and Goku. I can't put up with this a second longer." She gave him a little squeeze. She looked up and over at Goku, who was now as happily in slumber as Veggie was. The android was now in a light sleep. "If only I could sleep..." Bulma said, snuggling her head in under the asleep Vegeta's chin. But she couldn't, with Cell outside scaring her so badly. If he were to think about looking inside that cave, well then... they'd be toast. All of them, for he'd absorb #18 and then kill Goku, Vegeta... and herself. She realized then that they HAD to get out of there. There was no other possible way to stay alive. She lovingly stroked a hand through Vegeta's hair in hopes to wake him up, but he didn't budge. As she was about to give up and go to sleep, a cold gust of wind brought the end of the fire. She came close to screaming; instead she snuggled into Vegeta even harder.
"I want out of here!" She whispered to herself. #18 stirred and rolled over from the noise of her whisper. Another shake meant the hit of another ki blast to the ground. Vegeta made a slight groan and shifted in her arms. Bulma wanted to tell him that it was Okay; that Cell was gone and it was all right. But she wasn't sure of that herself. It wasn't all right. If Cell would just come down and search the island instead of shooting ki blasts at it... he'd find them. But why was he spending so much time looking for them on that same island? Did he know they were there? Had he seen her and Goku fly in? So many questions with so few answers! Why couldn't Veggie just wake up and protect her?

Her prayers were answered when she was on the brink of sleep, and Vegeta started to struggle against her death grip on him. At first Bulma thought he was having a night terror; but then she noticed he was prying at her arms. "Vegeta? What are you doing? Stop it and go back to sleep, I was almost there myself!!" Bulma exclaimed. She held him tighter. Vegeta stopped struggling and layed the side of his face on the floor. "I want to go outside and see if Cell is still there." Vegeta said. "I don't hear him nor sense him nor feel his ki blasts... which means that he's gone."
Bulma shook her head. "Not necessarily! What if he's waiting for a stupid guy like you to come wondering out of this cave and get his head blown off! Just stay in here until morning and then you and Goku can-"

"Enough about Kakarott! I'm going out right now! I'm tired of staying in here and bickering with you!"

Bulma cringed back. She could not stop him; she could only plead with him not to go. "Please.... Please, don't... stay in here and be safe!" She pleaded. Vegeta just chuckled and pushed her off of him. "Shut up woman. You know I can take care of myself." He stood up and started to walk through the cave door. Bulma took a death-defiying leap and grabbed his muscular leg. "No! I won't let you!" She shouted. Vegeta looked down at her and scowled. "Bulma, I'll be perfectly fine!"

"Please don't chance it! I couldn't live without you!"

Vegeta sighed and plopped to the floor on his butt. "All right, fine. We'll wait until tomorrow morning, and if he still isn't gone than I'm either giving him the android or going out there and beating him." Bulma smiled and slid her arms around Vegeta's waist. "Now can you please lay down with me and go to sleep? I'd really appreciate it. You could protect me."
Vegeta groaned and layed down with Bulma. Bulma wrapped her arms around him and pulled him close. "Thanks." She whispered, her lips lightly brushing his ear. Vegeta frowned. He didn't feel like going to sleep; instead he opened his eyes and stared at Bulma's chest that heaved with her sleep. *Maybe I could slip away from her and go outside... And kill Cell...* But then he got to thinking that it was a suicide attempt, even though...
"I'm stronger than Cell." Vegeta said out loud. "That's great honey. Now go to sleep." Bulma wearily said. Vegeta frowned and rolled away from Bulma, who was not aware of this. He stood up and wondered outside the cave. He looked up and saw Cell, sitting on the top of a tree not to far from Vegeta's current position. Vegeta instantly surpressed his ki and tiptoed a little bit closer. It was then that Cell, still quite blind of the fact that Vegeta was standing there, launched himself into the air and started to shoot ki blasts. He was starting his search again. *Why THIS island? How come he's only searching THIS one?* Vegeta thought, as he saw a ki blast come careening towards him. Vegeta tried to jump out of the way and dodge it, but it was too late. Vegeta was hit by the powerball and rolled across the ground. His body smoked when he came to a stop.

"Well well well, looky here! Look what I found!" Cell said to himself, looking down and seeing the mortally wounded Vegeta. Vegeta was trying to get to his feet but was failing miserably. He sensed Cell coming for him. "No, no no please please please..." Vegeta murmured, but it was too late. Cell flew down and planted a foot on our Prince's back. Vegeta could not get up. "Get off of me you... fool!" Vegeta shouted. He grasped the sand in his fists, trying to get up. But he was failing at that. "Help! Somebody, please! HEEEELL-" Cell reached down and covered Vegeta's loud mouth with a hand. "Shut up!" He said. "This won't hurt... well, it might for a second!" He reached his tail down to stick Vegeta with it, but Vegeta squirmed so that it was hard to keep him contained. "Stop moving you dolt!" Cell said. But Vegeta kept on squirming. Cell finally knew that he'd have to make a deal. "Tell me where the android is and I'll spare you." Cell said. "But if you tell me wrong and I find out... you're a dead man."
Vegeta was breathing hard. If he told Cell where #18 was... he'd be revealing Bulma's location too! Why did he EVER come out here? Why? Cell shook Vegeta wildly. "Answer me! Deal or no Deal?" He asked.
Vegeta boldly shook his head. "Nope." He said. Cell grew angry and threw a blow right at Vegeta's tummy. The blow hit Vegeta and caused him to cough out a great amount of blood, and caused his appendix to feel like it was going to rupture. Vegeta was now doubled up and crying on the ground. Cell just smiled at the helpless man. "Now will you tell me?" He asked. Vegeta thought of the face of his beloved wife and realized that he couldn't tell, not for the life of him. "No!" He groaned. Cell smirked, then bent down and elbowed Vegeta in the stomach. Vegeta was in so much pain that he was seeing in tunnel vision. He only cried harder. *I have to keep this up... for Bulma.* He thought as Cell kicked him in the stomach again.

Bulma woke up and immedeantly realized that her husband was not in her arms. "Veggie? Baby?" She asked. She looked around and noticed that he was nowhere in the cave. She grew frantic. "Veggie!" She shouted. She sat still and cried, knowing that he'd been stupid and went out of the cave. Was he dead or alive? Just as she was thinking this, She heard raspy cries coming from outside the cave. She recognized them as Vegeta's cries. But why would he be crying?
"What's wrong with him?" She asked herself. Then she heard Cell's mocking laughter, and realized that her husband was being attacked. She started to cry even harder. How could she help him, SHE, a weak human being? She crawled over to Goku. "Goku! Wake up!" She said. Goku only snored. Bulma grew angry and punched him. "Wake up you dolt!" She shouted. Goku's eyes flittered open. "Hello Bulma! How come you woke me up so rudely in the middle of the night?" He asked. Bulma grabbed his arm and hoisted him up. "Help me. Vegeta was an idiot and went outside, and now Cell is beating him up, and... IT'S HORRIBLE LISTENING TO IT AND I WANT YOU TO STOP CELL!!"
Goku stared at her. "Geez, that sure is a lot to ask, but... Okay, I'll go and fend off Cell. You stay in here, you hear? Don't even watch. I don't want to risk Cell finding you." Bulma nodded and thanked her best friend as he flew outside to help Vegeta out.

Vegeta looked up with his watery eyes and saw Kakarott was the reason that Cell had stopped punching. "Kaka...rott...." He muttered, as he saw Goku plant a fist in the monster's head. Vegeta started the slow process of getting up. *Okay Vegeta... it'll be all right. Just get back into shelter with Bulma and you'll be fine!* He slowly pried himself off of the grassy ground with his muscular arms, being careful. His stomach churned, and before Vegeta could stop it from happening a huge bout of throw up came into his mouth, forcing him to bend over and throw up in violent spasms. When he was through, he lay on the ground for a second breathing hard.
*Get a move on!* Vegeta's mind told him. Vegeta started to scoot himself towards the mouth of the cave. But unfortunatly, Cell saw him. "Well, look. The chicken's decided to run off instead of fighting like a man. Well, I'll stop that!" Cell raced down towards Vegeta with a blinding speed. Vegeta looked up and screamed.
"Shit shit shit!" He said, and with all his effort, managed to shoot a ki blast at Cell. It missed. "No!!" Vegeta shouted. He closed his eyes and hoped for the worst, but... Goku came and grabbed Cell's tail. "Vegeta! Run!" He said. Vegeta looked back at the fight one last time and then used the very last of his energy to quickly fly back into the cave before Cell saw. He landed right next to Bulma.

"VEGETA!" Bulma shouted, grabbing Vegeta's head and cradling it. "Oh my god! You're such an idiot! Why'd you go and DO that?" She kissed him on the lips as hard as she could, noticing the fresh trickle of blood that had started out his mouth. Bulma took a hankie from her pocket and wiped the blood off of Vegeta's face. "My god. You look bad." She noticed. Vegeta slowly nodded. "Yes."
Bulma noticed that his whole body was literally a bruise. Cell had probably given him the worst beating that he'd ever been through. "Oh honey... I can't believe this happened to you...." She said. She hugged him tight. "I love you so much...." Vegeta's eyes widened. *I love you too!* He wanted to shout. Instead he just 'humphed'. "When Goku gets us out of here, then we'll give you a senzu bean and make you all better!" Bulma explained. "And then you can go and make trash of Cell, and we can all live happily... See? The world isn't about to end after all!!" Vegeta gave a meek smile and then fell back asleep on her lap.

Vegeta woke up later in... his bed at Capsule Corporation? He blinked twice and noticed that he was fully healed; his body didn't hurt anymore. Bulma had given him a senzu bean and then left him to rest! How nice of her! He slowly sat up. Yep, he was as good as new! But how had they gotten out of the cave? What had become of Cell? Did he absorb the android? Vegeta got up and ran down the stairs, yelling Bulma's name. He found her on the balcolny... Yes, the old balcolny! And she was holding... BABY TRUNKS! Vegeta wanted to run up and whack the baby but didn't. Instead he came and sat by Bulma. "I missed this place." He remarked, looking down off the balcolny. Bulma smiled and gave his hand a nice and plentiful squeeze.
"Yes... I'm glad you missed it. That means that you liked being here, which means that you like me. I'm so happy about that because for a while there I thought you didn't love me." Vegeta turned his head and looked at her, with a look of sheer bewilderment on his face. She should have known that saiyans didn't love, at least didn't ACT like they loved. Was he turning into a soft person from having his baby? Bulma leaned up and gave her husband a kiss. "You know, Vegeta... I seriously thought you were going to die last night... when I tried to give you the senzu bean in your sleep, you wouldn't take it, and you wouldn't wake up to take it... I had to crush it and force it down your throat. But Goku's injuries were much worse. You should thank that man for saving you the way that you did. I'd appreciate it."
Vegeta spat beside his shoe. "Never. I didn't ask for Kakarott's help." He said. Bulma just shrugged. "I don't know how you can possibly live being such a selfish man, but all right." She said, then sort of threw Baby Trunks into Vegeta's lap. "Here. Hold him for a sec." She said as she ran inside. A stunned Vegeta stared at the baby. Baby Trunks looked up into his Daddy's eyes and said, "Da-Da." Vegeta noticed how cute the baby was. "Don't call me that." He said in the familar way he always said to Future Trunks. And that reminded him... was Future Trunks staying with them? Vegeta homed on his ki, and sure enough... he was. That was probably what Bulma was bringing out to show him.

Bulma brought future Trunks in. "Trunks is going to stay with us. He is our son, you know." She said. Vegeta slowly nodded and looked down at Baby Trunks. "Can you take him now?"
Future Trunks took Baby Trunks from Vegeta. "Dad, Cell is not dead if that's what you're wondering. He's far from dead... but he's insane. He said that in ten days, on LIVE T.V, all of us Z warriors are to show up on the arena for something he wants to call 'The Cell Games.' Sounds like lunacy yes, but... I think we should all be there." Vegeta just smirked. What was the point of waiting ten days? Ten days didn't mean much of anything... not to him anyways. "Did he absorb that android?" Vegeta asked. He knew by the look on Trunks's face that Cell had as a matter of fact absorbed her. "Yes, Vegeta... He did." He said. Vegeta's smirk broadened. "Good." He said. Then he left Bulma and both Trunks's on the balcolny while he went to train.

After training at 500 times normal gravity, Vegeta was pooped. But all he could do was stare at the television and hope that Cell's freaky face would appear on the flat screen. But it never did. Vegeta wanted to see Cell, because some changes were going on inside of him.
First of all, after he was so brutally beaten up by Cell that time he was kind of scared of fighting Cell. He didn't want to go through that kind of torture again.Cell would probably chew them all up like overused chewing gum.
He was also scared of the mockery that he might lose to Cell in front of God and everybody on T.V. He'd never live it down if he were to do that... but he really didn't see the point of showing up to the Cell games anyhow if they weren't going to win.

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