"Dragonball AS: Ultimate Cell Saga"

Chapter 70- "Shattered Peace"

By- Tiny

Kimuchi was standing on the edge of the Lookout early in the morning, gazing down upon the planet he had been born on and sworn to protect at all costs. The Saiya-jin's white hair waved limply behind him as his gray eyes gazed down upon the still sleeping little blue planet, worry clear on his face. He hadn't looked like this in years, not since just before the whole fiasco with Reiza, and it could only mean that something was about to happen.

Dende was sitting on the step to the interior of the living quarters, watching the young guardian with a hint of concern for the man's well-being on the brain. It wasn't like a Saiya-jin to get worried, even if there was some new danger headed their way, which could only mean that this new threat was something absolutely horrible.

"You've been out here for hours Kimuchi," Dende coaxed, "Why don't you go back to bed for a while? You need to rest."

"I can't rest, wise one," Kimuchi grumbled, rubbing his eyes, "Something is about to happen, something that will make Reiza look like a fly on the wall. I thought that we would be able to handle it at first, but it's beginning to look like we're in over our heads this time."

"The older fighters thought that back when Buu first showed up as well, but things worked out....decently back then," Dende reassured, "I'm certain that this will be no different."

"I'm not so sure about that one Dende, this is like nothing I've ever sensed before," Kimuchi shook his head, "This new power is odd, almost as though there's more than one in the same place."

"Here, let me see and prove to you that there is nothing to worry about!" Dende growled, "Then you need to go get some sleep!"

Kimuchi conceded to his old friend, allowing Dende to stretch out his finely-tuned senses towards the source of this disturbance. It took several minutes to find, but Dende found what appeared to be a fluctuating warp now fully developed somewhere nearby Ginger Town. There were two energies down next to the other side of the warp, one incredibly small and the other massive, so large that even Goku looked like an ant in comparison. What worried Dende most, however, was just how familiar those energies were...

"Oh no...not them," Dende gasped, backing off, "Not again..."

"What are you worried about Dende?" Kimuchi inquired, his face wrought with concern, "Who's on the other side of that gateway?"

"Babi-di, the wizard who resurrected Majin Buu....and....and...."

"And who, wise one?"

"Cell...."

"The warp is ready now Cell," Babi-di smirked, "We can go through at any time we wish."

Cell stood up out of his meditative stance, his violet eyes dancing like flames in a forest fire, as he gazed through the warp to the living world. It was opened in an alleyway somewhere in the city on Earth, people bustling by without a care in the world about their daily business. That was about to change in the blink of an eye...

"Very good wizard," Cell chuckled, "Now I can finally exact my revenge on those who put me in this infernal prison!"

"And I can have my vengeance on Vegeta and the reincarnate Ubuu!" Babi-di hissed, "I can't wait!"

"Who say's that you'll be going with me?" Cell smirked wickedly, "Your usefulness has ended wizard, and now you can go and watch with the rest of the weaklings like you!"

Babi-di looked as though he was about to open his big mouth again when Cell's massive hand came over his face and hoisted him into the air, laughing like an idiot all the while. With one light heave, to the bio-android at least, Babi-di soared across the rocky plains of Hell and came to a stop in a fire pool somewhere near the canyons, his curses echoing across the entire area. Cell smirked at the wizard's plight, turning to face the portal as his smirk widened into a malicious grin as he stalked away into the portal, several shadowy figures who had been hiding in the rocks following closely behind.

"Let the mayhem begin..."

Gohan was sitting down in the kitchen at his house, enjoying a nice homemade breakfast that his wife had worked very hard to provide. Having an empty nest now that the children were both gone made life much more relaxing for the aging warrior, his mornings now less hectic with the rambunctious Medon living on his own. Videl sat quietly across from Gohan as he ate, if that's what you want to call it, sipping at her coffee with a paper in her left hand.

Videl had the paper opened up to the travel section, looking around for any good advertisements for a cruise or something where she and her husband could get away from it all for a couple weeks. Not that they really needed to, but the couple hadn't really had a long getaway alone since their honeymoon so many years ago and nostalgia to see the world was creeping through their veins once more.

Gohan had suggested going on a trip to Nameksei for a few weeks and vacationing, but Videl had quickly put that idea aside much to the Saiya-jin man's discontent. The human woman sighed as she noticed that there was nothing new in the paper since the previous day and put the paper down, reaching over to her husband stroking his hand.

"Gohan, have you ever considered having another child?" Videl blurted out, her eyes gazing off longingly towards the ceiling, "It does get so lonely around here these days without the kids around."

"Videl, we're great-grandparents now with the twins around, so I don't think we need to consider having more children!" Gohan choked, beating his chest, "Besides, we're getting on up there in years, even if it doesn't show on the outside. I think people would notice if we had another kid when we're getting close to our eighties."

"I know what your saying Gohan and I agree, but why don't you ever get lonely without any children around?" Videl whimpered, "Even if it's only a little bit?"

"I have a father who acts like an overgrown kid at near a hundred years old, a younger brother who's just like our father, plus two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren," Gohan rattled off, finishing his food off, "There are always going children around!"

Videl poked out her lip in defeat, turning away to look out the window as her husband gathered up his dishes and took them over to the sink. She could've sworn she saw somebody moving around in the woods, but whatever it was she thought she saw was gone before she could pick it out again. As such, the human women prepared to go and wash the dishes when she heard them fall to the ground and saw Gohan's eyes narrow and become incredibly alert.

She knew from years of marriage into the Son family that they only got this way when something was going wrong, and she could tell that right now something was most definitely wrong. Gohan's teeth were bared like some kind of wild animal that had suddenly realized it was in a steel cage, his eyes wild and anxious as they looked down into to woods Videl has sworn something was in just moments before.

"Gohan, is something....WHOA!!!"

Videl never had time to finish her sentence as Gohan flashed into his Super Saiya-jin form, grabbing her around the waist and bursting right through the room of their home in the blink of an eye. The human woman was furious and opened her mouth to bawl out her husband but was silenced when the entire home exploded into a fiery blaze right before her eyes. The human woman couldn't believe what she was seeing, that her beautiful home was gone, but the part that really stunned her was what was standing just outside the rubble.

There was a man standing in the grass just beside the burning ruins of the couple's home, a silver tail flicking excitedly behind him as he stared at the descending pair with wild eyes. The man's was covered in a brilliant white fur on the arms, stomach, and back with a shimmering mane of silver hair trailing down his backside as he shifted his eyes to Gohan and his mate. Gohan searched out the man's energy and recognized it immediately, bursting all the way to the LSSJ form in less than two seconds, his eyes never leaving the man before them.

"Hello Gohan," Cell's smirked evilly, "I'm back..."

NEXT TIME: Cell has returned and already put his plan to exact revenge upon the one who ruined him into action! Does the now adult Saiya-jin man have what it takes to take down his long standing rival once more, or has the gap become too large to close and come out on top? More importantly, who else has accompanied the bio-android back into the living world? Find out in the next installment of Dragonball AS!!!!!!!