Chapter 25: The Last Day
It's the last day for us in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, so Vegeta said we'd take it 'easy'. I've pushed myself, and I finally made it to Ultra Super Sayjin. Trunks and Vegeta made it to Ultra SSJ weeks ago, before I even made it to SSJ. They kept it hidden from me until I obtained SSJ.
But a girl isn't supposed to look this bulky. I look like China from the WWF on steroids (or at least more steroids) as an Ultra SSJ. But I'm satisfied. I did a lot of work in the past year.
Now, something I needed to do. I need to explain how I look as a SSJ. My eyes do turn green-blue, and my hair does turn blonde, but it's different. My hair does flow upward, but it was so frustrating having my hair this long and flowing upward, so I cut my hair while I was in here. My hair is about the length of Trunks' hair, before he entered the chamber. His hair grew, of course, as do all half-Sayjins hair. Vegeta said mine would grow back eventually, but a true Sayjin's hair grows slowly after its cut, so it could be years before it's long again. I knew my mom would kill me if she saw my hair now.
But when I'm SSJ, my hair stands up like Trunks' did (before it grew), but it has the bangs, too, so it is up, too. Unlike Trunks, who didn't have bangs.
So, for today's training, we're staying as SSJ as long as we can. We're just going to do whatever remaining as SSJ until nightfall.
And that brings up a good point: SSJ feels weird. I didn't notice the very first time because I was so mad, but right now I do. It feels… happy? Like pure emotion. And everything you do, your emotions are supercharged. Vegeta is a lot more short tempered, so Trunks and I have stayed away from him. But eventually we would have to make contact with him.
After we ate dinner in utter silence, I decided that now would be the best time to reveal the flaw in Ultra SSJ. With a full stomach, I thought Vegeta would be more reasonable. I was wrong.
"A flaw? There is no flaw to the new form!" Vegeta screamed.
"Listen to me, Vegeta. There is a flaw, and it's a major flaw at that." I said calmly, praying he'd hear me out.
"Then what is it!" he screamed.
"With the growth of our muscles, our speed declines. We will become slower when we transform."
"Nonsense! I won't need speed to defeat Cell!"
"Vegeta!"
"There is no way Cell can be stronger than me. Not ever!" Vegeta stormed off, not listening to reason, as usual. And I stormed off to my room, leaving Trunks standing there dumbfounded.
Night fell, and it was for the last time while we were in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. I felt that Trunks and Vegeta revert back to normal, so I did as well. We'd be sleeping soon, anyway. You can't hold onto SSJ in any form if you're unconscious. Tomorrow we would leave to face Cell, and I knew we were all nervous.
I was sitting on my futon thinking about tomorrow. Cell would be in a different form, and it was the one I liked the least. Out of his three forms, I liked his 'Perfect' form the most. Though the situation was different now that he was a real bad guy. I had to help destroy him somehow, but what could I do unless I became a SSJ2?
As I sat there thinking, I got a cramp in my left arm. I got up and paced the room, rubbing the soreness out of my arm. That's when there was a knock at my door, it was Trunks, I sensed.
"Katie, can I come in?"
"Yeah, its open." Trunks came in, wearing only a pair of shorts. But it wasn't so bad as what I was wearing. I had an old shirt from Trunks that was too big. I never thought of getting clothes out of my room at the Son house when we went to move Goku earlier.
"I felt your Ki jump, what's up?"
"Just nervous about tomorrow."
"Aren't we all?" Trunks sighed.
"Yeah, but I think I would prefer to be scared of the unknown than what we'll face soon. I rambled again, didn't I? But hell, it's just so easy to talk to you, Trunks."
"Katie, is it true that Goku and my dad became stronger after they died?" he asked.
"Yeah, Sayjins recover from injury become stronger, so after dying from a wound and then coming back, you become stronger." why would he ask that? Unless… "But don't you think of trying it! Piccolo's gone, remember?"
"No! That wasn't what I meant, I meant that, well, I'm scared to die. Death keeps following me…" Trunks turned away, and I thought for a moment I saw tears forming, but he blinked them away before I could be sure.
"Death isn't following you, Trunks. If it were, Vegeta or I would be dead already, right? And you said Goku would die from a heart virus, but he didn't."
"But you guys are dead, in my time."
"You were a baby! Just stop thinking like that, okay? It is not your fault." I said as I looked right into Trunks' eyes, my hands on his shoulders.
"Katie, I'm scared."
"I am too." Then my left arm started cramping again, and I winced noticeably.
"What's wrong?" Trunks asked.
"It's just my arm cramping up." I said as I rubbed it again.
"Here." Trunks moved behind me and started rubbing my shoulders.
"That feels so good." I said as I relaxed, the first time since, well, since Frieza came back. Trunks lowered his head and kissed my cheek, and I turned out of his grasp and kissed him back. We slid onto the futon and he lifted off my shirt.
"What about Vegeta?" I hissed.
"Who cares? If he walked in right now, I wouldn't be ashamed."
"Neither would I."
In the heat of the passion, though in some strange way I knew exactly what I was doing, I bit into his neck, on the left side, and he did the same.
