Chapter 12: Of Memories Better Off Forgotten…

3rd P.O.V. - Cell

Cell stood outside of the bedroom as Frieza began to rape Katie. Her screams filled the castle, and Cell desperately wanted to help her, but he couldn't. He was intangible in this realm, and she wouldn't believe him to save herself. There wasn't anything he could do for her here, so he left the illusion reluctantly and stepped back out into Katie's mind, where her Inner Light was more strongly visible from her waist up now. Her legs looked like faintly colored glass.

"I failed. I failed her and I failed myself." Cell said as he lowered his head. He had never felt this bad, not even when Gohan defeated him over 20 years ago.

"Katie is headstrong. She just couldn't accept the truth. I can feel her pain." the Inner Light said.

"I only wish I were tangible in there. I could have stopped Frieza."

"That doesn't matter now."

"Keep sending her memories. I know I was close." Cell ordered.

"I'll try, but I'm growing weaker by the minute. I may not have the strength to send her many more."

"I pray it'll be enough."

3rd P.O.V.- Normal

Cell opened his eyes, back to Katie's room in the Lookout. Mirai, Goku, and Vegeta were still in there and half-asleep, but most of the others were at their homes, sleeping since it was well into the night. Cell removed his tail and stood up.

"How did it go?" Goku asked sleepily.

"I failed her, there was nothing else I could do for her in there. She just wouldn't accept the truth." Cell said. Instead of arguing or accusing Cell in some way, Mirai just looked over to Katie. Her Ki was fluctuating worse and more often now.

"That's understandable. I guess it's all up to her now." Goku replied.

"No! Stop, please!" Katie started to scream.

"What kind of hell is she in?" Vegeta asked. They all had picked up some of Katie's unique sayings like 'go to hell' or 'heaven help us'. It still amazed the Z Senshi group that she had kept her faith in her God, even after all she had been through, all she had seen, and even though she was the only one who in the dimension who believed in her God.

"The illusion is Planet Vegeta. Its playing out as though she isn't the Angel Sayjin and that Frieza didn't blow up the planet. She's… Frieza is forcing her to marry him at sundown tomorrow, when the curse is set to kill her. I couldn't do anything in there, I was like a ghost."

"What's happening to her now?" Mirai asked. They all took notice to her wild Ki fluctuation.

"When I left her, she was being… violated by Frieza."

"You don't mean she's…?" Goku started, but couldn't find the heart to finish as Cell nodded.

"No! Please, by the gods! I beg you!" Katie's screams sounded more horrified and painful.

"Damn him. That sounds exactly like something he would do." Vegeta spat.

"What are you talking about, dad?"

"Frieza often abducted women for his own pleasure. He had an entire bordello of harlots. Sayjin, Icejin, anything female, pretty, sentient, and strong."

"What does strength have to do with anything?" Mirai asked.

"He wanted them to be able to… survive." Vegeta turned in disgust.

"Oh dear Kami, no." Goku said.

"And I unwillingly found out she can feel everything. Before I left he slapped her and drew blood." Cell stated.

"And he licked it off." Vegeta stated. Cell nodded.

"How do you know, dad?"

"I witnessed similar things happen on Freiza's ship."

Mirai turned back to Katie, watching her as her Ki fell and then went back up higher than it was a moment earlier.

"Stop! Stop…!"

"Fight him, Katie. Remember us and come home. Remember me."

Vegeta went to the chair in the corner and remembered back to his younger days on Freiza's ship. Vegeta knew Frieza licked off the blood because Frieza had done it to him. Back then Vegeta was known as the Bloody Prince, one because he would never live down the title of Sayjin Prince, and two because he had grown quite fond of killing. Once Vegeta began to kill, he kept killing to drive away the guilt. He had never really noticed this until he started a family on earth.

But to Frieza, Vegeta was just another slave, a piece of property that was his own to enjoy however he wanted. Frieza was a sick freak who enjoyed women and little boys. Vegeta could imagine exactly what Frieza was doing to Katie in the illusion, and he knew how awful it was. He hoped she'd wake up from the nightmare before it was too late, because a tortured soul cannot find peace even after death. He had shared some dark memories that were best to be forgotten with her, and now he could return the favor from her, though he wished it could have been different.

And Goku of all people was imagining what was happening to her. Pure-hearted Goku had barely known what the word 'rape' meant until Roxx began to torture him. No, Roxx didn't rape Goku, Roxx didn't even touch Goku, but instead he used the collar to fill Goku's mind with images of brutal molestations of little children. Goku's pure-heart broke that day, and he hadn't been able to ride the Nimbus cloud since.

Mirai could almost feel Katie's pain, just thinking of what Frieza could be doing to her. He knew, as they all did, that it really wasn't Frieza hurting Katie, but that didn't matter. Mirai was the only one who had never been exposed to sexual violations, but he had seen some things the androids had done that made his blood turn cold. And now he realized that this would be another painful memory for Katie to have to deal with, and he hoped she could find someone who would help her, even if it weren't him.

And even Cell was thinking of things he had done that now made him feel guilty. He had 'eaten' innocent people, and by human standards that was disgusting. But Katie dealt with it, and she didn't seem bothered by his habit. She used it as a way to get the best of him, waiting until he had left to feed so she could try to find a weakness. Now what she had said made sense, that no man could defeat him, for it was a boy who had been the instrument of his undoing.

She was clever, she was just, and she was brave. Pride rarely inhibited her actions, unlike most Sayjins, and she could control her emotions. Maybe in another life she could have been an actress, but now she was in another life, and it was killing her.

Her beauty was high, though she wasn't exactly a super model; she was too well built and healthy for that. Her smile could bring light into the darkest hearts and her laugh was contagious. Her speed was that of a fireball, and her strength was far surpassed that of Goku's own. She had been evil once, but that didn't matter to her friends and family.

Everyone just wanted Katie back.