AN: Here we go again! Please read and review, and I mean that!
Chapter 6: Assistance
3rd P.O.V.
Mirai convinced Goku to take him to HFIL, and Vegeta insisted on going along. There was only one creature in HFIL who loved Katie as much as Mirai did, and that was Cell. Of all their time together, Mirai could still see that Katie felt something for Cell. It wasn't love, but a deep friendship. Cell had helped Katie twice that Mirai knew of. Katie loved Mirai more than anything, but Cell knew her better than Mirai ever could. Cell would and could help, and Mirai had a plan.
After convincing King Enma to let them pass, the group went to HFIL to find Cell. It wasn't so easy at first, because a lot of the guys down in HFIL hated Sayjins, especially these three.
"Get 'em!" a group of 6 fighters attacked Goku, Vegeta, and Mirai, but with their mission in mind they didn't feel much like prolonging a fight. It was over before it began.
Vegeta went and lifted one of the fighters by the collar of his shirt.
"I'm not in the mood for games, so tell me where Cell is and I'll let you go."
"Man, nobody knows where Cell went off to!"
"Then tell me who would know." Vegeta powered a Ki blast in his free hand.
"Alright! Calm down, dude! Frieza would know, those two are tight."
"And where is Frieza!" Vegeta cried angrily.
"He's in the workout yard in the western end of HFIL!" Vegeta dropped the guy and they headed west.
"Vegeta, you'll have to calm down. That is no way to help Katie."
"And how would you know, Kakorot? How else do I get answers out of these guys? Ask nice? I don't do nice, Kakorot."
"Maybe not, but what do you think Katie would say about that kind of behavior?"
Vegeta stopped and faced Goku.
"She would have said the same thing you just did." Vegeta sighed.
"Come on, we're almost there." Mirai said as he pulled to the front of the group.
At Goku's question, Vegeta remembered back at the time that Katie told him about her secret. She told him that he was her favorite character on the show at home. Vegeta was her hero, and he would not fail her now. Not after all the hard battles they had fought together.
Mirai was thinking the same thing at the question directed toward his dad. Katie told him that she liked him when she only knew him as a cartoon character. Though back then it seemed kind of creepy, now he realized they were meant to be together. He would help her, or get revenge on Drazark.
As they entered the workout yard they noticed it was empty except for Frieza. He was in a corner lifting weights. By the looks of it he was lifting a good couple of tons on each side. Before they even started toward him he stopped and got up to meet them.
"I was beginning to wonder how long it would take you to get here."
"And what is that suppose to mean?" Mirai asked.
"Everyone down here gets bored at one time to another, even me. I wanted to see what was happening in the mortal realm, so this morning I went to watch on the Crystal ball in the center of HFIL."
"So you saw what happened to Katie?" Goku asked.
"Yes, I did. That wizard is very clever."
"You know what he did to her?" Vegeta asked, keeping calm. The last time he lost his temper around Frieza (though it technically wasn't Frieza, but Roxx) he nearly got himself and Katie killed.
"The spell was spoken in my native tongue. Very few people now living can understand the Icejin language."
I knew it sounded familiar. Vegeta thought.
"Get to the point, Frieza." Goku said.
"His curse threw her mind into a fictional reality. It isn't quite another dimension, but a possible reality of this one, like the butterfly effect."
"What's the butterfly effect?" Goku asked.
"It's a theory, stating that every event leads to the next. Like when I came back from the future and changed yours." Mirai explained.
"The reality that she is in is very possible, therefore it is easy for her to believe it is real. But don't ask me what she is experiencing, only she knows that. She could be in the dimension she was raised in watching us on TV, like she use to, or she could be living as a Sayjin as she would have if she weren't taken away before I blew up Planet Vegeta. All I do know is that she doesn't remember any of you, or else she'd know something was wrong."
"That's a lie! Katie would never forget me!" Mirai screamed.
"Well, she has." Frieza replied very calmly, "That is the primary element in the curse for it to work. She could easily break free if she knew it wasn't real."
"Tell us exactly what the curse says."
"I think it said, let her forget her life and give her a new one. One that is false, but imaginable. Erase her mind and let her body rot. Once she is dead give me her amazing abilities. Three days to death. Three days to break free. That's the closet translation I can give."
"So we have three days to save her." Mirai stated.
"It would be at sunset. All curses revolve around the sun and moon cycles."
"How do you know so much about curses, Frieza?" Vegeta asked.
"What else can I do down here? I read up on witchcraft and all that kind of stuff. I was trying to find a way to break out at first, but soon I realized there was nothing short of the Dragonballs that could free me, and I've been dead for too long."
"Where is Cell?" Mirai asked.
"I don't know. No one does."
"We were told you knew." Goku said.
"Well your source lied."
"I think you're the one who's lying." Mirai said.
"Maybe I am, and maybe I'm not."
"You owe Katie your life!" Goku said.
"I'm dead, remember? And she helped put me here."
"Then your after life! She saved our entire dimension, plus countless others! You owe her that much!" Goku said angrily. And you know Goku doesn't usually get angry.
"And you think I owe her gratitude for this? This is HFIL!"
"Its better than nothing, isn't it?" Vegeta asked.
"For once Vegeta, I agree with you." Frieza said, taking in a large sigh, "Cell went to the mountains in the northern part of HFIL, alone. He told me not to tell anyone short of Katie herself, but I think he'll hear you out. Katie means a lot to him, like a sister."
"That's what I'm counting on." Mirai turned north and left without another word.
"Uh, thanks Frieza. Bye!" Goku turned after him as Vegeta followed.
"Vegeta, I know that we hate each other, that is a cold, hard fact, but we both respect Katie. I wish you luck on this… quest."
Vegeta nodded in agreement and followed Goku north.