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Thomas Drovin- Look for your quote! I used it in this chapter!

Chapter 23: His Final Goodbye

The two blasts hit Drazark, and an explosion ensued. We all had to cover our eyes, and the force of the wind nearly blew us all away. Mirai and I slid back a few feet, and trees and boulders were up rooted.

When the explosion died down there wasn't any trace of Drazark. I couldn't sense him at all. I stood up and ran to Goku and Vegeta as they landed.

"You guys were great! You did it!"

"Yes!" Pan cried out, pumping her fists into the air.

"I guess this means you two are finally equal in strength?" I asked.

"Yes, and it's about time, too." Vegeta sneered. That caused all of us to laugh.

Then two blasts came out of nowhere and hit Goku and Vegeta. They were thrown back, and when the dust died down I saw that they were out of SSJ4. But they weren't getting up.

"I told you your power didn't impress me, Sayjins." Drazark was back and meaner than ever.

"How did you survive!" I cried. Trunks and Goten went to check on their fathers.

"Grandpa!"

"Didn't you say you were nearly immortal in this form?"

"Damn." I hissed. "I'm still the strongest right now, even without my Angel abilities. I will take you down!" I attacked him, transforming to SSJ2, and fought at my hardest.

"You think you stand a chance? You were only the strongest because of your, what was it called, Inner Light? It's gone now, and your powers are hollow. I know you can feel it. You feel it every time you power up or launch an attack. It feels like you're throwing balloons. There isn't anything in your power anymore."

"Think again. I still have my love for my friends and my family. You rely too much on fire energy, so I'll extinguish you and reclaim my power!" I threw Ki blasts again and again, but it didn't look like it was working. I powered up some more and tried again.

If I only had Arina, this would be over already.

"Gatlik Wave!" I couldn't use it in its entirety because I had lost my Inner Light, but I could still try.

"You're pathetic." He said after deflecting my attack, "You are nothing without your Inner Light. I could easily destroy you now." He powered up a blast, "This ought to look familiar. It was one of my favorite attacks. XYZ-Mega Cannon!"

"That was my attack in the illusion!"

"I felt like I should give you something in return for your powers."

I was too close to him to dodge it in time, so I blocked it the best I could. I still took some damage, but I was still standing.

"Hey female, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? If not, you're about to unless you stay down!" he threw another Ki ball at me, and this time I was able to side step it.

"I'm a good dancer, Drazark." I said, smirking at him. I was tired, and I knew he knew that, but that didn't mean I'd lie about it.

I looked over to Goten and Trunks, and they didn't look happy. They walked back over to Gohan, and to Pan, and I saw their reactions. Pan was crying, and Gohan was holding her. Drazark began to laugh, and that couldn't be good.

"Gohan, what's wrong?" there was silence from them, "Someone tell me, what is it?" but I had an idea of what was wrong. I was scared to know.

"Vegeta's okay, but…" Gohan started.

"But what!"

"Katie, he's gone. Goku's gone." Trunks said.

"What? No, Goku! He isn't! He can't be!" I feel to my knees. I looked over at Goku. He wasn't moving, not even his chest to show breath. For the first time I felt like it was entirely my fault. Goku didn't choose to die this time.

"Katie, look out!" Drazark threw a blast at me, but I got up and dodged.

"You bastard!" I screamed. "I won't let you get away with this!"

In a mad fury I started attacking Drazark. I didn't care about myself, all I wanted was to hurt him. He stole Goku from me.

"Why do you still fight me?"

"You just don't know when to quit! You threw me into a nightmare, you nearly killed me, you nearly killed my husband, and now you've killed Goku! You won't get away with it!"

Suddenly Vegeta was there fighting as well, SSJ again.

"The only person allowed to defeat Kakorot is me!"

The two of us raged on, but that's the thing, when you're mad you don't fight as well as you normally would. Drazark hit me and sent me flying right into the dirt.

"Goku, don't worry, you'll be alive soon. I will stop him, and we'll bring you back." I said, though I doubted he could hear me now.

I got up and charged at Drazark again. He easily slapped me away.

"Katrin, let me take care of him! There's no way you can fight him now!"

"I claim Blood Right on him, Vegeta. He hurt me and my family, so let me fight him. Besides, if he kills me now, you can always bring me back, right?"

"So be it, Katrin. I'll claim Second Blood Right if you don't make it." Vegeta seemed shocked at my request, but he honored it.

"You still want to fight me? Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you!" Drazark laughed as I got up and made my way toward him again.

"I'll fight you until I can't fight anymore. You have taken too much away from me to let it pass."

"You fool." He made a Ki ball and threw it at me, and it was an electric Ki ball, so an immense and painful shock coursed through my body, sending me back several feet. I barely heard myself scream in pain.

"Katie!"

"No Pan, let her be." I heard Gohan say.

I got back up and made my way toward him again.

"Stay down, woman."

"Never." He sent another electric-Ki ball and it hit again. I was too weak to dodge or block anymore, but I got back up and walked toward him again.

"You should stay down!" he hit me again, but again I got up. Finally I was only a few feet away from him.

"You're a fool!" he screamed. He took one of his clawed hands and slashed me across the stomach. I fell to my knees in pain and clutched my stomach. My eyes were closed tight in pain, but I used my other senses to feel around me just the same.

Vegeta and the others made a move to come toward me, but I couldn't let them get in the way.

"This is my fight, so stay back! This is all my fault, and I don't want anyone else to get hurt."

"It i-isn't your f-fault, Katie. It isn't ev-ever your fault." I heard Mirai say. His voice was broken as he tried to speak.

"This time I have to disagree, love. If it wasn't for me he wouldn't have come here, and then Goku would still…"

"Cry some more, why don't you?" Drazark said as he came and delivered a powerful kick on my stomach, right where the gash was. He sent me flying twenty feet, and when I hit the ground I rolled three or four times, finally landing face-up.

"I just can't seem to summon the strength I need to fight anymore." I tried to get up, but I couldn't move. "Forgive me, Goku."

"Katie, come on!" I heard Goten cry.

"I'm sorry, but I just can't get up." I said.

Then there was a light, and everyone took notice to it. It was forming next to me, and soon it took the shape of a humanoid figure. I thought I was going crazy, but the others saw him, too.

"Cell?" Vegeta said. It was Cell, but he seemed different. He was glowing, and he was transparent.

"Cell, what's going on?" Cell helped me up as I asked him the simple, yet complicated question.

"I sacrificed my soul to save you, Katie."

"Then you really were in the illusion with me."

"Yes, but I was killed in the illusion, so my soul was destroyed."

"But you're right here." I said. Tears were forming as I spoke to him. He was holding my hands, not having let go since he helped me up.

"This is all that's left of me."

"No, it can't be. You have to be-"

"Its true, but I have enough strength to give you something before I'm gone."

"Cell, I'll never see you again, will I?"

"…No." I started crying.

"You've done so much for me over the years, but now I'll never get to repay you."

"You don't owe me anything, Katie. Just knowing you has been enough."

"Cell, please don't go."

"I don't have a choice." He took his hands away and an energy came out from each one. He motioned to his left hand; "This one is to help you fight Drazark."

"And the other one?" I asked, looking at it.

"You'll find out later." He said as the two energies went to me. I held out my hands and grasped them and they disappeared, seemingly absorbed into my hands.

"Cell, you just can't leave me. You can't!"

"I'll never leave you, Katie. Besides, you still have the runt."

I laughed, but then I stared crying all over again. He reached over to wipe a tear away, but his hand went right through my face.

"Cell?" I reached out to touch him, but my hand went right through him, "No, Cell, please-"

"I'm sorry. I have to go."

"Where?"

"Wherever I go, I'll be close to you." he smiled at me.

"Cell!" then he vanished.

"How touching." Drazark said sarcastically. I clenched my fists tight, and blood started to drip from my palms. My side was burning from the previous cut, but I was numb with anger and grief.

"Shut up right now. That's two of my friends you've taken now, and I won't let you live to take another."

"Yes, indeed. Cell, was it? He was only a machine, I'm surprised he even had a soul." Drazark laughed.

"You are to never say his name! Never! He was more than a machine, he had a soul more real than yours." I looked right at Drazark, my eyes harder than ever. "You're worse than Frieza, you're worse than Roxx, you're worse than any enemy I have ever fought. At least they had a heart, somewhere, but your heart is a black hole. The only joy you know is killing. I will not let you live!"

My Ki went through the roof, surpassing anything I had ever felt before.

"This is for Goku and Cell!" my energy exploded, and I felt something different. I had transformed, but into what?

What's happened to me? Is this Cell's gift?

"Katie, is that you?"

"I think so." I felt so weird, so inhuman. I wasn't Sayjin, either.

"You look like Cell." Vegeta said with wide eyes.

Closer examination proved true. My skin was green, I had a pair of black wings on my back, and my tail was retractable with a needle at the end. My eyes had turned pink, but my hair was still black. I looked like a female Cell.

My senses were changed as well. Its hard to explain, but it was mechanic. My vision was as if I was looking through the Sayjin Scouters, and my other senses were heightened as well. I felt a power flowing through me, like I was more than one person.

"I wonder if this is a fusion of some kind?"

"It is. I can communicate with you for only a short time, so listen carefully, Katie."

"Cell? Where are you?"

"I'm not really anywhere, I guess. But you have to listen. I don't know if you'll ever be able to do this again, but this is my gift. Our bodies have fused together. Its called Android 22. You have all of my abilities now."

"Thank you, Cell."

"Goodbye, Katie. Thank you for being my friend. My best friend."

I'm not going to cry anymore, not until this is finished. I'm honored to have been your best friend, Cell.

"Katie, what's going on?" Trunks asked.

"Cell's first gift. His final goodbye. It's a sort of fusion between us. I'm Android 22. No, I'm Dragonfly."

"I don't care what you're name is now, you're still going to die!" Drazark charged at me, but I wasn't worried at all. He hit me hard, but I didn't feel it.

"You're the fool now, Drazark. You don't know how hard Cell was to kill, and now together we're stronger than we were as two. You don't stand a chance."