Chapter 25: Stories from the Past
Part 2
Code Name: Nymph
Capsule Corporation
3rd P.O.V.
Gohan came out of Katie's room and shook his head.
"She said it helped a little, but I could tell it didn't do very much."
"I'll go next." Codie said, standing up.
"Remember, not too much too fast. Don't push her."
"Right, Supreme Kai." Codie headed into his mom's room.
1st P.O.V.
Codie walked in. I guessed he had a story, too.
"Hey mom."
"Hi." It still felt weird being called mom.
"Gohan said his story helped. You ready for another?"
"I guess so."
(2.5 years ago)
I was standing on the roof of Capsule Corp., thinking about my past. I couldn't sleep, as usual, but then Sayjins are nocturnal by nature. I love to look at the stars as I think about big things, and I guess all Sayjins do. Gohan, Mirai, and Vegeta do it, I know.
I thought on Vegeta's theory about the SSJ legend again. It felt so wrong knowing that Brolly was the only true SSJ. He was evil, right? We weren't when we became SSJ, even Vegeta was sort of a good guy then.
But the main reason I was out tonight was simple. I missed Cell so much, yet I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't visit him because technically he was down the hall, asleep in his room by now.
I was still amazed that Cell was able to implant his soul into my womb. He had many abilities that I had no clue about. He could enter my soul, he did it twice, and he summoned enough power in passing to implant his dying soul into me and to fuse with me.
Mirai was fine with that. Maybe on the inside he was angry, but he never showed it or any prejudice to Codie. Mirai knows I loved Cell, but that I loved him more. Cell was like my best friend, or a big brother, but Mirai is my one and only soul mate.
Something moved below, and as a predator it got my attention. There was a figure standing in the middle of the street. He looked scared, or lost. I went to call to him to see if he needed help, but he looked up at me as though he knew I was there.
"What the…?" the figure couldn't be who I thought it was. It just couldn't. It looked like Cell. "Cell?"
When the figure noticed that I had seen him, he took off. He started to run down the street in a hurry.
I jumped off the roof and followed as fast as I could. He was faster, but I kept him in sight.
"Cell! Wait!" I called. His Ki felt like Cell's as well.
The figure kept running, not even slowing down. He made a turn and when I got to that same turn, he was gone. I couldn't see him or sense him. I couldn't even smell him.
He must have used Instant Transmission. Dammit! That couldn't really have been Cell, though, could it? Cell was reborn as Codie.
But then who was that? Why did they run?
I took a moment to catch my breath, and then I walked home. Cell couldn't have been there.
It must have been something else. A shadow? No, but a prank? Maybe. Not being played on myself in particular, but that doesn't explain the Ki…
I went back to the residential area of Capsule Corp., and checked on Codie before I went back to bed. He was sound asleep.
Kanji and Andy were home, but I didn't have to check on them. They were on vacation from their schools, Kanji as the teacher and Andy as a student on spring break. I went back to bed, and I dreamed fighting dreams. And oddly enough, there was Cell, either fighting with me or against me.
"Then about a year ago Bebi attacked earth, and you got to see me as Nymph, the transformation I have that makes me look like father. Uh, Cell, that is. That's when everyone else found out about my relation to Cell."
"Cell and I really got that close, huh?"
"You still don't remember?" Codie asked. His heart was sinking on every word.
"I wish I did, really, but… I remember something… Cell and I fused?"
"Yeah, android 22! You did remember something!" he was really excited. I guess I was too, except that it was only part of one memory.
"What do you know about that?" I asked him.
"That was before I was born. Cell's soul was destroyed by a wizard, and before Cell was reincarnated, he fused with you to become Android 22. You gave it the code name Dragonfly. And you can't do it again. You were equal to, if not more powerful than, a Super Sayjin four."
"Cell did all that for me?"
"Yeah, and you two even kissed in the illusion." Codie added.
"He loved me?" tears fell down my face, "And Mirai, and Kanji, and Andy. They all loved me. And I can't remember them! I can't even remember you!" I hit my fists on the seat, frustrated, angry, and sad. Codie came over and put his hands on my shoulders to make me settle down.
"It'll be okay, mom. We can get through this. We beat Bebi and Super 17 together, and before that you did a lot of amazing things."
"I just wish I could remember." I responded.
"You will. You're better than this. We will get through this. Together."