"Oh my god! Trunks! What happened to him?" Bulma yelled, running over to Kia and smothering her son in her shaking arms. "And look at you!"
Kia winced in pain as Bulma also embraced him in a tight hug, his muscles screaming at him to just lie down and sleep. The Supreme Kai entered from behind Kia a few seconds later, Kabito resting in his outstretched arms.
"Who are they?" Bulma gasped in shock, breaking away from Kia.
Kia sighed, thankful that Bulma had finally stopped hugging him, "Don't worry, they are friends. Listen, I need you to get both Trunks and Kabito in the rejuvenation tanks right now."
Bulma nodded hesitantly as she took Trunks in her arms and began to walk towards the training room in which the tanks were kept.
"Follow Bulma, she will be able to heal Kabito." Kia said to the Supreme Kai.
"Thank you Kia, without you, both of us would be dead. I owe you my life." Supreme Kai said with a bow before following Bulma.
Kia nodded and made his way over to the living room, stumbling slightly as he did.
Bulma quickly stopped and turned toward Kia, concern on her face, "What do you think your doing, your coming with me, you need to get healed!"
Kia shook his head, placing his hand on the nearby wall for support, "No, I'll be fine, I just need to lay down for a while. Besides there is only room for two and Kabito and Trunks are the most injured. Go, I'll be ok really, I'll just watch some TV or something."
Bulma smiled slightly, "Only a Saiyan would sit down and watch TV after having a fight that had brought him to the brink of death. You remind me so much of your Grandfather."
Kia beamed with pride, being compared to Goku was a great honour to him. If only he was able to met him one day. He'd have to ask Bulma if he could have a lend of her time machine when this whole Majin Buu mess was dealt with.
Kia slumped down in the soft padded lounge chair, 20 painkillers and a large glass of water in his hand. The trouble with being a Saiyan was the fact that his body needed a lot more than a normal human. A lot more food, a lot more training and in this case a lot more pain killers in order to even make a little difference to the pain. Kia groaned as be began to swallow each tablet one by one, his throat burning as he did so. When he was on his 16th one and halfway through his glass of water he decided to turn the TV on to help get his mind off the pain.
A man's voice sounded for a few moments before the picture finally appeared as well.
"-We have no idea what's happening Linda but so far things seem to be getting weirder by the moment. I haven't seen such destruction since the rein of the androids."
Kia turned up the volume slightly as he swallowed another tablet.
"For those just joining us I am speaking to you live from Coal City, where it appears that all the residents have mysteriously disappeared."
Kia chocked, spitting out the water that was currently in his mouth, directing his full attention to the news broadcast.
"Earlier today the City had gone on alert, with the City's law enforcement calling for outside military help on an unknown enemy. By the time anything was done and help arrived the City was bare. I am currently here with Sergeant Wilson who is leading the military operation to find out what happened here and to uncover the very possible threat that is hiding. Sergeant, what do you think has happened?"
The camera then zoomed out to show a large man in green army clothes standing with his arms behind his back in a stern manner. Soldiers could be seen running around in the background looking through houses and doing various other things.
"It's hard to say. We were called here to help with an extremely dangerous threat, but there seems to be no one here. It's hard to believe that anything could of done this, but we are looking into it"
The newsman nodded, clearly intimidated by the larger man. "I see, do you have any leads at the moment?"
"No, no leads. Strangely the only thing that remains of the residents are their clothes, there isn't a single body to be seen. This makes no sense as there seems to of been a struggle of some sort as many weapons are littered through out the City, many of which have been emptied from firing at something that appears to not have been hit. If there was indeed a fight then there should at least be some casualties."
"Do you think it could be a new threat similar to the androids? Maybe there was more than two and they have only decided to show themselves now."
Sergeant Wilson sneered, speaking once more in his hard voice.
"It hard to say. If so it makes no sense that the androids would be in hiding until now, if there where more androids they would of stuck with the other two. It wouldn't benefit them to split up and then appear years after the last two were killed."
Some shouting was heard somewhere in the distance making the news reporter jump and look around behind him. Sergeant Wilson remained in his stern and upright pose.
"What was that?" He hissed looking around, before noticing he was still on live TV. Regaining his composure, he readjusted his glasses and carried on.
"…Er. Yes. Well perhaps they decided to stay in hiding when Hercule destroyed the last two androids? Maybe they were to scared to make a move encase they met with the same fate?"
The Sergeant very subtly rolled his eyes and looked away from the camera, "Hmm, for some reason I very much doubt that."
Kia smirked a little from the reaction the Sergeant made towards the comment about Hercule. Even before he knew Trunks he doubted that the claims Hercule had made that he was the one who killed the androids. Kia had asked Trunks many times why he hadn't come forward and Trunks had just said that the androids had been killed and that's all that he really cared about, he had enough fame than he wanted just being his mother's son. Kia understood some of this, but that didn't mean that weakling Hercule should get the credit for it.
Kia was quickly snapped out of his thoughts when gunfire and yelling was heard on the TV.
"Oh my god! What is that thing?" The news reporter yelled.
The Sargent's radio then began to be overcome with people's voices as he reached down for his gun.
"Team One hold your ground, keep shooting, Team Two Suppressive fire! SUPPRESSIVE FIRE!" The radio screamed. Sergeant Wilson tried to ignore the screams as he scanned the area.
By the time the cameraman had turned to the area of commotion there was nothing but the clothes of the many soldiers.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god." The cameraman continually repeated as he turned back to the news reporter and Sergeant Wilson who was still looking around trying to find what had attacked them.
Sergeant Wilson's eyes suddenly widened and he raised his gun towards the cameraman.
"Look out behind you!" He yelled, firing the gun several times before the TV was overcome with static.
Kia growled, turning off the TV and struggling to sit up.
"…This is bad."
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"Heh, heh, heh, more fuel for the fire!" The creature hissed joyfully, it's cold hand wrapped tightly around the cameraman's neck. The cameraman was struggling, desperately trying to pry the hand from his throat. His legs were swinging around wildly in the vein hope that they might hit his unknown attacker. Sergeant Wilson stood wide-eyed with his gun outstretched, the barrel still smoking.
"Wha…what are you?" He asked sternly, struggling not to give into the fear that was trying to overcome his body.
"Hungry." The creature said, showing a toothy grin.
The Sergeant looked at the creature in confusion.
"What do you-"
The cameraman suddenly began to scream out in agony as the creature laughing insanely. What seemed to be a tail, or something similar, was sticking into the cameraman's chest, whipping around violently.
Tightening his grip on his gun, he took a step back, unsure of what in the world was going on, the cameraman's screams were becoming more desperate and pain filled. What the hell was happening?
The creature's only answer was the same toothy grin and cackle as a sickening sucking noise was heard.
Sergeant Wilson's jaw dropped slightly as before his eyes the cameraman's body began to shrivel and disappear. His vein attempts at escape began to diminish as his arms and legs slowly retracted into his clothing until there was nothing but clothes resting on the strange, green creatures tail.
"You'd think the taste of humans would be sickening by now." The creature chuckled.
The two stared each other down for a moment longer before the Sergeant sighed, dropping his weapon to the ground. The creature's eyes widened slightly.
"I haven't spent most of my life in the army and not learnt anything. We both know that you can pick me apart easily, so I will go down honourably. But before I do, answer me one question. Who are you?"
The creature merely laughed as he licked his lips, taking a few steps closer, his tail whipping around behind him. The Sergeant didn't move, just stood firm and tall.
"I don't have to honour your request, you know that right? But sure, why not." The creature said raising his tail until it was just a few centimetres away from the Sergeant's neck. "My name is Cell."
Jamming the point of his tail into Sergeant Wilson's neck, he did the same as he had to the cameraman, adding another pair of clothes to the already large pile.
Cell cracked his neck and had a quick look around, clothes littered the area: there was no one else. He sneered, he could no longer sense the fight Trunks had been in, which meant that it must have ended. Unfortunately he couldn't sense Trunks, which meant there might be a chance that he was dead, but that was unlikely, especially with the power that had come from his friend. Cell grimaced, if Trunks were dead then he would have nothing left to work for.
"You'll pay for what you did to me Trunks. First you destroyed the androids, then you nearly killed me." Cell sneered, whipping his tail around violently. "I can't wait for the moment that we meet again, the odds will be stacked greatly in my favour this time."
He could still remember the last time he and Trunks had fought; it was when he had gone to steal Trunks's time machine, and for some reason Trunks had know he was coming. Even though Dr Gero's computer had informed him that Trunks was no threat he was overtaken by his power, being almost completely destroyed by the young Saiyan's blast. If it weren't for the few cells that hadn't been vaporised he would have been sitting in HIFL right now. But luckily for him Trunks was to cocky to make sure he had finished what he'd started, and so Cell went into hiding, sneaking from city to city absorbing as many people as he could, waiting for the day that he would finally have enough power to destroy his enemy.
Cracking his knuckles, he let his senses scan the area one last time in the search of any more humans to absorb. Coming up with nothing he began to sprint out of the town and into the mountains, being unable to fly as it would give out to much energy and alert Trunks, and he wasn't quite ready for that yet.
Cell had learnt all the information that he had needed from the fight that Trunks had with Isaac. He hadn't been there, but he had sensed exactly how strong Trunks was at full power, and after today's pickings, he would be strong enough to finally beat him. He'd been training and absorbing people ever since his defeat by Trunks, the whole time thinking about only one thing: Destroying Trunks. Once Trunks was out of his way, and he had a bit more fun with the population in this time line, he would use the Trunks's Time Machine like he had originally planned. His only concern was the other power he had sensed.
It had seemed like nothing to being with, it was much weaker than Trunks let alone the person they had been fighting. But then all of a sudden the weaker fighter's power shot through the roof, easily doubling Trunks's and soaring well above the one they had been fighting.
Cell could sense a nearby village or town in the distance, licking his lips with anticipation, he increased his speed, dodging and weaving between the many trees in his path. His mind soon went back to the fighter he had just been thinking about. It was a huge pain that such a powerful fighter had allied with Trunks, by the feel of him it was probably another damned Saiyan. But although he was strong, very strong, Cell was glad that he had been there, otherwise the thing that Trunks had been fighting against would of killed him, which meant that he wouldn't of had the pleasure of getting revenge on the Saiyan hybrid himself. Of course now he had to find some way to take the new Saiyan out of the picture and as much as he hated to admit it, he didn't stand a chance in hell of defeating the power he sensed. Maybe if he were able to become perfect, maybe he'd have enough strength to take him down, but seeing as Trunks had already destroyed the androids he would have to turn to…alternative options.
It wouldn't be as fun, but if he wanted to survive then he was going to have to absorb Trunks in order to gain enough of a power boost to destroy the new Z Warrior on the scene. This had ruined most of his plans for Trunks's demise, but then again what better way to get revenge on him than to absorb him and make him a part of himself, a part of the destruction of his family, friends, earth and eventually the entire universe. Yes, absorbing Trunks would have to be a good enough option, and besides, he'd still be able to have fun with him before he eventually made him apart of his soon to be perfect body.
Once that was done he would travel to the past and do what his other self could not: kill off the Z Warriors and claim the Universe as his own.
Cell suddenly began to start slowing down, eventually coming to a stop next to a sign that read 'Nataday Village'
A smirk came over his face.
"Looks like I should be meeting up with Trunks sooner than I thought."
I know this was short, but I had a fight with my girlfriend and then broke up so I was in a shit mood and didn't feel like writing. All good now so I finally posted it (through much annoyance) sorry it took so long.
The name the Nataday Village was the name of a Village in the gameboy advanced game 'Dragon Ball Z Legacy Of Goku 3: Buu's Fury' (Which I might add was surprisingly a pretty good game) I just thought I'd use it because I couldn't think of a decent Dragon Ball town name at the time of night I was writing that certain part so I just thought I'd nick…er… 'borrow' that one.
Kylewin: Yes, hate chem with a passion. Thanks for the reviews, they really help when it comes to writing the story. I'll fix that chapter up one day when I don't forget (not right now as it is 11 30 at night and I haven't had a decent nights sleep all week (groan) Anyway glad you like my story. Things will start to heat up soon and poor Trunks and Kia wont know what hit them.
Fallen Ryu: Hey, a new review, cool. Glad you like my story, hopefully I wont be so damn lazy and take so long to update next time. Hope you had luck with adding me to your fav's, nice to know you like my story that much.
Erica: Yes, Isaac was a bit of a misunderstood person. I feel sorry for him now. Originally he was just going to be a complete asshole that was going to die quickly, but then I started to give him detail and …(groan) yeah. Isaac may come back in a later chapter, depends on what kind of mood I am or which way this story goes (I cant seem to make up my mind) Till next time. Keep up the reviews.s