Save the Day

Chapter Seven

The counter was still going, but the fighters had ceased their battle. Xianghua bounced energetically from side to side. Nightmare stood as tall as an imposing mass of muscle could muster, Soul Edge clutched tightly in his malformed hand. The timer keep going and the fighters keep standing.

Kabu raised an inquisitive brow, his mouth pressed in a thin unamused line. On the floor resting lazily against the foot of the boy's bed Cell stared up at the intruder with wide interested eyes. He smacked nosily of the piece of candy in his mouth. His forearms balanced on his knees, hands still clutching the game controller, hanging carelessly in the air.

A tired sigh. "You know," Kabu started, lounging comfortably in the recliner aligned against the wall. "I thought we'd been through this?"

The brown haired girl broke her intimidating stare with the green haired bastard to look at her brother, briefly.

"So." She said plainly.

"Well, you weren't invited in." the flame haired boy continued.

The counter reached zero, Xianghua had won.

"That doesn't count." Cell said.

He was Nightmare.

"Right." The boy replied, watching his sister watching his friend.

"I need to talk to you…Kabu." Kilik said turning from the older boy back to her brother.

Cell turned back to the video game. "Rematch."

"Kabu." The girl said through a sneer.

"Now?" Her brother sighed.

"Yes. NOW."

The two tone haired boy got up reluctantly, turned to the emerald tressed youth, patted him on the head and said…

"Practice makes perfect."

To which Cell responded by slapping the teen's hand away and flashing a smile at Kilik, to which she sneered and stomped out of the room. Kabu addressed the android turned Saiyan and offered up something that was rarely seen on his placid face…and huge grin.

"Now…now…Cell." He said after a small chuckle. "You know that it's not nice to love them and leave them."

Cell gave a dead pan stare.

"And you know that it is not nice to get into other people's affairs." The elder boy said poorly suppressing a grin.

"Hn. So that's what it was…" Kabu said thoughtfully as he headed out of the door.

After the destruction of the first Capsule Corp building and the subsequent demolishing of West City and many others, Bulma and the remaining Z Senshi saw fit to rebuild in a more inconspicuous locale. It was odd that even after all this time there had never been an attack on what had once been the home of Son Goku and his family. Bulma had been bold in picking the same land where had once stood the Saiyan's home. But Chichi had concurred and so it had been that New Capsule Corp would become the new home of what was left of Goku's family.

Kilik still found the surroundings unnerving. She wasn't really apart of this family. Though the others would have denied the fact with much vehemence, anyone that Goku had ever saw fit to interact with on a semi regular basis was considered his family. But Kilik hadn't even been around long enough for that had she? Goku had been her father's mate though…And the Saiyan had a son with her father. So that made her family…she guessed.

She stopped abruptly when she realized where she was. It was the clearing that the one she had taken to calling 'The Bastard' had claimed as his own. She was staring directly at Cell's favorite tree. She smiled ruefully. And she could hear her brother chuckling lightly behind her.

"For a minute I thought you were going to run into it." Kabu joked.

Kilik replied with an annoyed sigh and plopped down on the grass. Kabu raised a brow in question but then gave up and took a seat himself.

"So, what the hell did you want?" He asked.

"Trunks wanted me to talk to you."

Kabu's eyes narrowed suspiciously. He and Trunks weren't exactly close but when his elder brother had something to say to him he was usually the one to say it. Why had he sent Kilik instead?

"And why couldn't he do the talking himself?" The fifteen year old asked.

"He's been…busy."

"Hn…"

The wry look had yet to leave the full blood's face. "With what?"

"He's been testing a time machine."

At that the boy's narrowed eyes widened and a small smirk appeared.

"I knew they were up to something." He whispered half to himself.

Trunks had always spent a lot of time in the lab with Bulma and sometimes even Goten occasionally disappearing from time to time in there as well. However, he been seen even more rarely than usual ever since Kilik and Cell showed up. This being directly after the fall of the Tyler Supremacy, which had been the hybrid, his mate and the boy's wayward sister's doing of course.

Even though he knew that his elder brother would have never jinxed it by saying it out right. His faith had been revived by the fact that the mighty Cell was now on their side, though it was not that it had been anyone left to fight.

But, even after all those years, even after all the horrendous acts Cell had caused there was hope now of fixing everything. How? One may have asked it they weren't as astute as young Son Kabu. But with what the name Trunks Vegeta Briefs was most associated with… A Time Machine.

The Demi Prince was a smart fucker. It was common knowledge that upon learning to control his more sinister half and increasing his power quite a bit Cell could now be considered semi stable. But Trunks couldn't really be thinking what Kabu thought he was thinking?

"So he actually did it huh?" Kabu asked. "He built a time machine?"

"They. He and Bulma built it." Kilik said as she played with a piece of grass. "They wanted me to convince you to go back with me."

"With you?!"

Kilik glanced up with an expression of silent offence.

"Yeah…with ME."

She waited for her little brother's response. He didn't look like he was planning on one.

"She wanted me to ask Cell too, but…"

"But what?"

Her pretty little face twisted into a grimace.

"I thought it would be better if you asked." She said low.

Kabu gave an irritated huff turning and staring off in a silent brood. He knew this fucking thing between Cell and his sister would be trouble. He'd saw it coming from a mile a way. He had noticed Kilik had been pinning after the older boy for a while now. It was the way of Saiyans once they hit puberty. She'd probably been in love with him for much longer but now it was really going to get bad.

Why'd the bastard have to go and fuck her in the first place? Why after all this time?

Raditz had been dead for almost six months now and Cell'd survived it…barely. But to Kabu's knowledge…Saiyans mated for life. Though Cell's situation was rather unique. According to the journal of Kilik's grandfather Cell shouldn't have survived his mate's death, but the Saiyan wasn't exactly normal to begin with. Bulma had hypothesized that it was possible that it was the small amount of Piccolo's cells or maybe even Frieza's that had saved him from the fate.

But even so the bond was still in tact. Cell had even told him once that he could still talk to Raditz from time to time. When there were the occasional dimensional storms the shifted the barriers between worlds slightly. Anyone else, even the Z Senshi under these circumstances would have thought it weird and down right creepy that the older Saiyan would have admitted to talking to a dead guy. But with Cell, Kabu had come to believe any and everything the boy told him. He was just not normal and everyone knew it. What benefit would he gain from lying about something like that?

Still, Cell shouldn't have had those types of feelings toward his sister, Kabu kept telling himself. Now things were going to become very complicated. Because all Cell would ever be able to give his sister was what he assumed was a good fuck from time to time and Kabu knew that she wanted much more than that.

She would be chasing after someone that she could never have for the rest of her life. And as much as he claimed he didn't care, it was kind of sad when he really let himself feel something for the sister he really had no clue about.

With every moment that passed Kilik got more and more fidgety. She should be used to this by now. Her brother was prone to moodiness and he only spoke when he was good and ready. She was surprised the she had gotten him to talk this much. She sighed and finally gave in.

"You think I won't talk to him because of what happened…between us. Don't you?" She droned.

"I was hoping that wasn't the case." Kabu replied finally.

His cold black eyes turned to stare directly into hers. She watched has his oddly patterned tail curled around his waist. He was about to delve into something that he was uncomfortable with, she had learned the signs.

"Has Trunks even thought about what he's asking?" He asked. "Seriously?"

"Is Cell really supposed to go back there and fight himself?" He continued.

When actually said aloud it didn't sound that realistic. Maybe that's why Trunks never said it out right. In truth that was the only plausible reason he wanted Cell to go. Kilik and Kabu were strong compared to the Demis but they were still no where near as strong as Vegeta and Goku. This meant of course that they didn't stand a chance against Cell then or now. The hybrid was the only one who could take on his past counterpart. But in doing so what would that mean for him? What would that mean for Kabu and Kilik? Their past selves would have surely been born by then…they couldn't just hop back into the time machine and just come back home. Everything they had ever known would be gone. Right?

"I don't know what Trunks is planning. He just told me to run the idea by you and Cell." The brown eyed teen sighed. "I don't know about you or Cell but I…"

She stumbled for the words and looked up him as if she was asking his help. He was speechless; he had never seen her this way. Her mouth quivered slightly before she broke eye contact, finally giving him a chance to breath.

"I'd like the chance to change things." Kilik said softly. "I'd like to know my mother…my dad. Wouldn't you?"

Kabu had never really thought much about it. His parents had just never been around. It was just a fact of his life. He had grown up with the Z Senshi. He had been trained by his older brothers to fight his own sister and the rest of Tyler's supporters. Thinking about how things could have been had never been something he'd had time for.

"I don't know. I mean how can you miss something you never had." He said eventually.

Kilik had expected as much. How else could the boy be best friends (or something like that) with the very person responsible for murdering his parents? Hell, for that matter why was she so close to Cell when he had done the exact same thing to her? It was too complicated to even to attempt delving into now. They had other things to consider now.

"So why are you so jittery about talking to him?"

"I just don't want to, Okay!" She screamed.

A crew of birds were distressed by the noise and made a fuss about it before flying off for quieter surroundings. Kabu stared at the girl accusingly. Kilik growled low in her throat.

"Could you just do it…Please?" She pleaded.

"No."

She looked at him in wide eyed and gaping mouthed disbelief.

"So," He ignored her. "You've already decided to go I suppose?"

"Yes." She replied through gritted teeth.

"Then I guess I'll go too." Kabu said dusting himself off. "Tell Princy that I'm in."

"…"

"You already know that he'll do it." Kabu blurted. "He'd do anything we asked him to."

He was right. Cell would go back to the past to fix thing even if it meant that he'd be spelling his own doom.

"He's not stupid you know." The younger sibling continued. "He's knows what everyone thinks of him even if you don't."

"…"

"Sure they all do it." He smiled regretfully. "Laugh and joke with him. Treat him like they don't really care. True, I really don't but them…they care. There's just nothing they can do about it."

Kilik didn't say a word. What could she say, it was all true. She had always felt the strangeness whenever Cell was around. They talked to him like they understood. Like they accepted him…but they really didn't. She was much easier to forgive she supposed. She had been taken…brainwashed so to speak. But Cell, he was just evil…or his other half was. The other half that was still around…lurking. Just waiting for his chance. Sure Cell said that he had control…but how could anyone really be sure?

Now she was questioning him? She had been the one to defend him. But what if she had been wrong too?

Kabu smirked upon seeing Kilik's drawn face. She was finally getting it.

"I can forgive him because I don't care. There is nothing to forgive. I have no idea what was taken from me. But the others….to them he will always be a reminder. On some level they understand…but it's still there and he knows it."

He sighed lightly and turned to leave.

"I'll send Cell out here." He said over his shoulder as he headed back to Capsule Corp.

He stopped suddenly and turned around.

"And talk to him." Kabu said "I refuse to time travel with you guys like this."

She watched him go, her stomach twisting in nervous knots. She almost wanted to call out to him and tell him to forget it. But she didn't she just sat there, almost sick with worry. But she would not let the bastard…those bastards win. She could do this. She was a Saiyan princess. And he was a green haired…bastard. Gods she loathed him.

A/N: That took a while didn't it? Sorriness…Working on the next bit. See ya…