Disclaimer: No DBZ is owned by me. *Tra-lala* The only things I own are...Foreign, Squeegle, Houyoku, Creator, Phaythe, and Sanrioki! And all the other stuff I created within the depths/shallows of my mind. ....Man, I love routine.

The second to last chapter has arrived. The next one will be the last and will undoubtedly be out MUCH sooner than I got this one out. What can I say, life is rough and I've been busy. Christmas break is coming up, though, and things are slowly winding down.

Stay tuned for the last of the last; and if you so desire, the possibility of a sequel. (Which, if it does happen, will be better than this.)

You'll probably be really surprised by what happens in the next chapter.

A Special Thanks and Dedication to: RoxyJoy, for bringing back my inspiration. We need more reviewers like you. Thank you so much! :D

End Game, Part Two

One Night in Eden

"Dost the moon fair morbid bright? Of the dark, yet of the light."

It didn't take more than a second before Vegeta launched into the fray.

Foreign was nearly overwhelmed. Unlike Gohan, it was obvious this saiyajin Vegeta trained daily. And it showed.

Cell and Foreign were now more than ever dependant on each other as they faced the onslaught of the double saiyajin threat.

WHAM!

Foreign felt the punches coming. Hissing, she returned them in pure anger. How dare these newcomers attack her!

...How dare they!

Cell was growing tired, fast.

Vegeta was playing with him, and the android knew it.

If only...

If only he were...

...Perfect.

Gohan was nearly to the point of laughing. He almost had Cell! Once and for all, he'd make sure the demon never returned!

And obviously if this woman was helping him, she was bad news too.

He'd destroy them both, to make the world safe again...

So his dad could be proud.

Vegeta was on a high. Finally, he would destroy the threat--these annoying pests--so he could show Kakarot he was not the only one worthy enough to bring an end to a foe!

The blood lust...the POWER!

It was maddening!

-_-_-_-

Houyoku stared at the pretty woman.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you...where did you two kids come from?" Bulma asked pleasantly, extending a hand.

Squeegle nervously watched Houyoku as the little girl hesitantly took a step forward, chewing on her lip.

Houyoku couldn't place it, but...something about this woman reminded the little girl of her other friend...Foreign.

Bulma studied the haggard appearance of the children and smiled warmly, holding out her other hand to Squeegle. "Let me take you to the cabin. I can take you home and see if we can find your parents. You don't need to be out here right now...it's dangerous."

She was thinking of Gohan.

Houyoku timidly took Bulma's hand. Something about this lady made her trust her.

And maybe...just maybe...

This woman could help her find her other friends!

Houyoku was really starting to miss them...

Even the scary green man.

-_-_-_-

"Haha! It's SHOWTIME!" Creator cackled, throwing his hands up into the hair and bellowing in laughter. The nothingness around him seemed to retreat for a moment as the wretched creature poured out all of its malice in its voice.

"Come, Foreign! Bring chaos! Bring destruction!"

Laughter.

"Bring this game to its end!"

-_-_-_-

Phaythe's eyes widened as she saw Foreign jerk violently on screen.

"What are you doing?!" Phaythe screamed at the screen, her words directed at her brother though he could not hear them. "You idiot!! You've gone mad!"

Panic.
"You'll lose the game for both of us!"

-_-_-_-

Foreign shrieked before knocking the assaulting Gohan to the side. The startled saiyajin tumbled backwards through the air, about to launch a counter assault when he noticed the unbelievable.

The woman was attacking Cell!

Cell's eyes widened. He was already to the point of exhaustion when suddenly Foreign turned from Gohan to HIM!

"What are you doing?!" Cell hissed, attempting to fend off the blur of her blows from connecting with him.

Foreign's eyes were wild, and distant, as if covered in cloth.

-Is this the game?!- Cell screamed at himself.

Vegeta temporarily paused, as baffled as Gohan, though recovering much more quickly. "Fool! I'll still kill you!" He launched at Foreign's back.

But Foreign did not seem to notice as Vegeta beat at her back. She did not seem to feel any of the pain that lanced through her body.

Destroy Cell.

Destroy him.

For Master.

For the Game.

Everything is for the Game.

Destroy!

Foreign was the only thing giving Cell the advantage in the fight. Without her, he would lose.

And now, even she had turned against him!

This was not right.

This could not be.

Not after all the work.

He REFUSED to lose.

"Vegeta! I don't know what's going on but I have a plan!" Gohan screamed above the nearly deafening explosion of ki between Foreign and Cell. Vegeta froze in mid attack and swiveled his head to face Gohan, scowling.

"What is it, boy?!"

Gohan lowered his voice, watching Cell and Foreign out of the corner of his eye.

Cell grabbed Foreign's wrist as it whizzed by his head, and sent his knee into her gut. She choked, faltering slightly as he then grabbed one of her ears and jerked her face up.

"Listen to me! Cease this madness, wench!"

Foreign hissed audibly.

"I can't."

Cell frowned, freezing momentarily. Was that Foreign's normal voice?

"Program..." Foreign then spat in Cell's face and wrenched her ear from his grasp, crashing her forehead into his.

Cell stumbled backwards in the air, clutching his bleeding forehead as Foreign brought back her elbow, a bright splice of ki blossoming in her palm. He understood what Foreign was saying.

-She's being controlled...

...Like I was once.

Controlled with the desire to be Perfect.

..Yet...suddenly the idea doesn't look to appealing to me.

Why gain it once more, only to lose it again?-

Cell's own thoughts tore him in half. What exactly was he fighting for? His Perfection? Revenge? Animosity?

Foreign launched at Cell again, and the android suddenly wondered where the two saiyajins had gone to.

Vegeta couldn't believe he was listening to that brat, Kakarot's son. He would rather end this of his own accord, but Gohan had a point...

"Ready?!" Gohan called to Vegeta, holding in his hands. "...NOW!"

Vegeta nodded gruffly, then suddenly roared in exuberance as he followed lead.

Cell arched his tail, mostly in intimidation as Foreign raced down from the sky to induce another flurry of attacks. He was tired, and Foreign was tired, but there was no stop. They had no choice. For once in his life, Cell had no idea. No clue. It was just confusion.

Then...

Foreign froze.

A voice in the background.

"Ka...me...ha...me...."

"Final..."

Cell's eyes widened as his beak opened in pure astonishment as the area behind Foreign suddenly exploded in a bright flash of intense heat, radiation and blinding light.

And then, the waves of energy off the blast shot forward, spilling over, tearing, ripping, crushing.

Cell felt them go right through him, ripping at his armor, hissing at his eyes, careening his body backwards crazily, spiraling.

With the lone figure, spiraling beside him.

She knew before she felt it.

"...HA!!!!"

"FLASH!!"

Foreign paused, completely frozen in her mid-attack on Cell. She saw his eyes widen, his beak part. She saw it. She could hear the sudden blast of energy behind her before it ever reached her. She felt the heat prickling the back of her neck, and then, it came.

Light flooded around her, blew past her, shattered her vision. The heat engulfed her, tearing at her back, scalding her skin and ripping at her. The energy careened forward, shattering her spine, blowing her body forward as if it were made of paper.

-_-_-_-

The earth buckled under Bulma's feet. Squeaking she fell to the ground before a huge heat wave rushed over her, howling through the trees with incredible force.

"Under me!" Bulma grabbed Houyoku and Squeegle, throwing herself on top of them as the force plowed by overhead. Stealing a glance up, Bulma could see the familiar radioactive glow of ki looming in the otherwise clear sky.

-That can't be good!- Bulma chattered inwardly, ducking her head down again before the wind gradually died down.

It wasn't until then that Bulma felt something lynch out from under her and take off running. A surprised 'Squee!' followed it.

Jerking up, Bulma blinked and realized only the little boy was sitting there. "Where's the girl?!" Bulma shrieked.

Squeegle blinked in surprise and dashed up, racing after his friend. Bulma, now desperate, stumbled up and followed him, waving her arms and screaming 'Hey STOP!!'.

Houyoku knew that ki very well. She knew that it was not her friends' ki, it was odd and new and she had not seen it before. And it was very strong because the wind blew the trees like a big storm.

Her friends couldn't be in trouble! She wouldn't let them be in trouble! She had to apologize to them and tell them she did not mean to run away and that she would be their friend again and wouldn't bother the green man anymore, even if he did have a scary tail and itchy voice.

Tearing through briars, the smell of smoke flared in the young girl's nostrils as she stumbled forward. Just a little farther and she would know, she could help!

Suddenly another lurch buckled the earth.

And this one was very different.

-_-_-_-

Even as Cell spiraled through the air, trying to regain his balance and push himself out of the assaulting twin finishing moves, his mind was elsewhere.

-They snuck up on me...those wretches...

They never could fight honorably!!-

Raising his battered arms in front of him, Cell knew there was no way he could survive this. Even if a cell of him survived, he would still be Imperfect. His code had been morphed, changed and distorted and he was stuck this way.

What a pathetic end.

-Where's the wench?-

Cell tore an eye from his impending doom and searched around him. He could see her on the ground where she had landed, the earth cracked and shattered around her. She was curled up on her side, perfectly limp and motionless.

All of this just to die again. Even with all his knowledge of his previous life, Cell knew he was going to go to Hell once more. Once more to spend eternity with Frieza and his Ginyu Goons, suffering through endless rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors and Hang Man.

-All for revenge against Gohan. And still I lost.

Revenge against all of them for taking life from me.

Ah the gods of irony are surely laughing this day...

With my Imperfect mind I blindly plundered forward and believed I could 'right' my 'wrongs'.

...What it all really was, was me trying to proof myself...to myself.-

So that was it.

Wait a minute.

He could feel his body shutting down. Tearing apart.

Your revival left you with a defect, Cell," she muttered darkly. "When I was in you I felt it. Something inside of you is damaged internally and with it damaged you will never be Perfect."

That's what Foreign had said.

Damaged, but NOT destroyed!

Why hadn't he seen it before?! He could fix himself!

How, he did not know.

Only if he survived this.

Suddenly, the drive to survive reared its head and Cell twisted his body around splayed out his fingers, palms toward the driving ki. He was spiraling right into the sky, toward the sun. The ki kept pushing him there. Perfect.

Squeezing his eyes shut, the android performed his move.

"SOLAR FLARE!!"

"VEGETA!" Gohan had to disconnect himself from his ki as the blinding light, only amplified by the stray ki scattered in the air after their combined attack, blinded the boy's eyes. Bright spots exploded in his vision as he stumbled backwards, landing on the ground. He couldn't tell where anything was, or what anything was; he could feel the dirt underneath him and heat but that was it. Blindly feeling around, Gohan opened and rapidly blinked his eyes. His hand was on something soft, but cold; he could make out something shadowy in front of him. What..?

"You should... watch where you're... going, boy."

BAM.

Vegeta snarled, tearing his hands from his eyes as he blinked away the cloud of light that had enveloped his vision. Where WAS that damned android?!? He'd KILL HIM!

That's when the Saiyajin Prince looked up, and his eyes widened.

"Hell..."

-_-_-_-

Houyoku stumbled outside of the greenery and blinked at the battered landscape in front of her. Where was everybody? She looked around and thought she saw movement on the ground, but a cloud of dust blocked her vision. That's when the young girl looked up and blinked. She could hear movement behind her and finally a thump as Squeegle and Bulma stopped beside her, huffing and panting. Well, Squeegle was on the ground, but he was still panting.

Houyoku continued to stare at the thing in the sky.

Who was that...?

-_-_-_-

Beep.

Terminal system; override.

system function; ...pending....check.

complete metamorphosis; check.

power level; 345% increase...pending...

phase; complete.

A/N:

Sorry. I couldn't HELP but to leave you hanging. Sometime in some live after this one I'll probably go back and edit all the chapters to where they suit me but probably not.

But I do hate long author's notes, so; Candy canes to everyone!