Disclaimer: This applies to all chapters, I do not own DBZ or Shinzo or any of their characters. All I own is Allegra. This fanfic is a crossover with Shinzo, but written for a DBZ-reading audience that knows nothing about Shinzo, so don't worry! All will be explained. Happy reading!
The Creations- CicadaS
Chapter Six
"Thought you could escape me, did you?" Cell smirked suavely, touching down beside the huddled Enterran.
Allegra scowled, "I wasn't trying to escape you. I just needed to get away."
"Killing innocent humans too taxing for you, my dear?"
"I couldn't kill them," the Enterran hissed, "I was supposed to destroy them and I couldn't kill even one of them."
"I did not think that you would."
Allegra turned sharply, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"You seemed far too innocent to be a villainous mass-murderer, and you have obviously never had the proper opportunity to find that out by yourself. I thought you had more brains than vengeance," Cell smiled, pleased at his own correct assumption.
'Too innocent?' Allegra could hear the humans' voices in the back of her mind calling her their angel, their saviour. Allegra leapt to her feet, "I am nobody's saviour!"
Cell's look turned stony; "Did you think they were going to be scared by your pretty face?"
"They should have been!"
"You said yourself, Allegra, that fighting was not your forte. You were made to be a defender rather than a fighter and your recent actions have only proven that point. Creations such as you ally themselves against me to protect humans and other weak beings. In all truth you should be with Goku and the others plotting my demise," Cell reminded her coldly.
"I can choose to do what I want," Allegra spat stubbornly.
"Such as choosing to wage a war on the humans because you want to, Allegra?"
Allegra looked away. Her face contorted into another scowl and she looked back at the green monster she stood before, "Why are you saying this to me?"
"Because I fail to see why you are so obsessed with destroying humans when you are clearly unable to cause them harm once face-to-face with them."
"You saw what happened with the humans, didn't you?" the Enterran huffed quietly.
"Did you think I was playing around in the rubble all throughout that time? You tried attacking the humans; it had no effect on them. It is in my curious nature that I find a need to ask why your attack had no effect," Cell explained.
"I couldn't do it. We're supposed to… that's what we've always been told. We are Enterrans; the humans created us to serve them and… we are supposed to hate them. Kill them. Annihilate them," Allegra shook her head, "But that girl's face… it didn't look evil. None of them looked evil. Well, this one fat man near the back looked a little corrupted but the rest were… innocent. I tried to kill them…"
"You could condemn humanity as a faceless whole to the pits of the netherworld but not kill one that stood before you. You are as corrupt as they are," Cell noted dully.
"I just don't want to let them down…" Allegra murmured, "They mean so much to me. Home, family… all that is important."
A silence stretched between them. Cell's brain bloomed with a thousand questions, the android carefully picking the right ones to ask. Allegra's mind sank like a lead weight, completely void of ideas or arguments. The voice telling her that all humans should be killed and the voice telling her that humans were not evil held each other in a stalemate.
"The humans… There was a meteorite headed towards Enterra a long time ago. It bore a virus that would destroy the human race, but animals proved to be resistant to the virus samples they collected. The humans tried to mix animal DNA with that of humans, creating a race of beings known as the Enterrans. The first Enterrans were the most powerful; Rusephine and Mushrambo were some of the very first Enterrans. When the meteorite landed, a lot of humans died. The Enterrans realised what was being done to them and rebelled. The Seven Generals; Lord Daku, Lord Ryuma, Lady Rusephine, Lady Franken, Lord Diehanger, Lord Kimyras and Lord Mushrambo, they led the war against the humans. We won. Few survived… and ever since then we have done all we can to destroy the remaining humans… should they rise again against us."
"And then Frieza destroyed you…"
Allegra looked down at her hands; "He blew up our planet. Those that could survive in space drifted helplessly until they were captured; some managed to escape, they were strong enough and fast enough to do so."
"You were not strong or fast enough to escape with them?"
"I was injured. My sister Allegre managed to escape."
"I see creativity was hardly a virtue when it came to naming among you people," Cell sighed.
"Be nice," Allegra chided. The Enterran sighed, "I wonder what happened to her…" She turned to Cell, hands on her hips, "And how did you get your hands on Frieza's DNA? You didn't seem strong enough to even take on the likes of Krillin when I first ran into you; you could never have absorbed the likes of Frieza, though I heard he did come back from the assumed dead on Earth some time before you showed up."
Cell shook his head, smirking, "My dear I was created with Frieza's DNA."
Allegra froze, hackles rising; "You're his son? He had a son?"
Cell actually laughed, "No indeed. I am a bio-android, dear Allegra; did we not discuss this earlier? I was created artificially from the DNA of the universe's greatest fighters, much like the Enterrans were, as you explained. Vegeta, Nappa, Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, the other Z fighters and, of course, Frieza are all part of my genetic make up."
Allegra just stood before Cell in a shocked daze, "What?"
Gyasa frowned and rubbed his chalk-white nose irritably, "So why do I have to be the diversion? Is it because I'm evil?"
Tien sighed exasperatedly, "You are an Enterran, so is Allegra. Judging on what we know of Cell's intellect and behaviour he will probably be at least a little curious about a species that he's never heard before, data that he does not have. If that fails, you're more than capable of aggravating Cell enough to make him chase you."
The Enterran laughed and thumped the human on the back, "Talk to you for a couple of hours and I feel like you know me already!" Gyasa steepled his fingertips in thought, "So, as to sneakery…"
"I will lower my power level and take Allegra to Kami's Lookout…"
"Long pause?"
"This idea is very dangerous."
Gyasa shrugged it off, "What is will be, I'm just happy I can do something to save Allegra. I was one of the ones fast enough to escape Frieza when he destroyed our planet. The group of us that did survive divided soon after. I came here, to hide, most dishonourably; but everyone who went back to fight Frieza died," he shook his head, yellow snakes that made up his hair swaying tamely, "Such waste…"
"You run fast, faster than any being I have ever seen. I have great faith that you will be able to escape Cell," Tien stated bracingly.
"Running, always running," Gyasa shook his head but grinned, "Which direction do we go?"
"…That way." Tien pointed and Gyasa became a dusty blur, drawing a line of dust across the hills as the Enterran scaled the horizon in fractions of a second. Tien sighed, "May there be no more waste of this dwindling race…" he flew off in his pre-planned direction.
Cell stood passively in the centre of his ring as Allegra paced in small ellipses, her mind and feet working feverishly as she tried to reach for some conclusion. Cell watched with growing concern, "Allegra, your fraying state of mental wellbeing is beginning to concern me. You should sit down."
"Stop talking like that," Allegra murmured.
"Allegra, stop pacing." Allegra stopped. Cell smirked in acceptance, "Better."
"You're like us. You were created, they made you—"
"Then we are a lot less unique than we both first thought."
"But it's bigger than that; you were created original. I had a mother and father, I was sixth generation Enterran, but you… you are a first. An actual creation. I don't think you understand the gravity of what you are… in the eyes of an Enterran."
Cell couldn't judge whether Allegra's stunned speech was in awe or… revulsion? Disappointment? Cell scowled, trying to make head and tail of the extremities, "In the eyes of an Enterran—" the android started warningly.
"In the eyes of an Enterran you are tall, green and covered in spots!" declared a bravado voice from atop the cliffs. Gyasa stood proudly in the most masculine pose he could muster, the slightly manic voice booming out across the valley; "Cell the android, I wish to challenge you—" "Gyasa! You're alive!" Allegra squealed.
"Captain! We have a cling-on!"
"You're alive! It's you, you're real! I'm not the last one!" Allegra squealed with a grin five miles wide.
"Allegra, this isn't going to work," Gyasa frowned down at the winged Enterran clinging tightly to his chest. She blinked up at him bewildered. "I'm the diversion! You're not supposed to follow me, Geisha-face is. You're supposed to go in the other direction."
"What?"
A ki ball seared across Gyasa's head. The Enterran yelped and jumped away, whacking at the burnt snakeskin, "Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"I must congratulate you on your insult; I did not expect that. You did, however, challenge me," Cell announced, eyes narrow and another ki blast ready in his hand. A ball of wind hit him sideways around the head. He glared sharply at Allegra, "And you are still my hostage."
"And that's most likely the second last Enterran in existence and you're trying to kill him! I don't want to be an extinct race, you know!"
"I don't think we're that extinct—no excuse to kill me of course!"
"How many are there?" the other two asked in unison, frowning at each other.
Gyasa blinked, scratched his head and shrugged, "Me?"
"And what a refined being to represent such an acclaimed race," Cell muttered darkly.
Allegra rolled her eyes. "Gyasa… …what are you doing here?"
"I'm a diversion," Gyasa folded his lanky arms proudly, "A refined diversion." He struck a pose, "Are you not diverted?"
The Winged Enterran winced angrily as Cell gripped her upper arm; "Cell—" her protest was cut short as Cell gripped her tighter.
"You are a hostage, not a pet," Cell muttered sharply. Allegra's paling eyes held his gaze defiantly.
"Cell, let me go." Allegra hissed.
"Allegra! Stop diverting Cell!" the Enterran whined.
"Cell, please," Allegra ground out, "I need to go with Gyasa."
"If you think your pathetic pleads will sway me to release you from your hostage situation then you are as impaired as the rest of your race," the android bit out.
"Come on! What about that old human proverb, 'if you love something, let it go?'" the Enterran undertoned in a hurry.
Cell gave her an odd look and released her arm. Allegra's expression fell, the action was more of a condemning than a release. She withdrew her arm, watching Cell.
Cell sighed, "You really do try my patience some days, Allegra." A rumbling ball of energy shot out from Cell's hand and fired towards Gyasa. Allegra yelped as the blast hit Gyasa full on, sending his body spinning to the floor, completely ashen.
Cell turned back to Allegra, but she was still staring at Gyasa's fallen corpse. The pallid body shuddered and Gyasa burst free from what looked like a chrysalis of dead snakeskin. He shook his head, droplets of some anonymous liquid flying in all directions. He was completely unscathed.
"…That was interesting," Cell frowned.
"Gyasa get out of here before he kills you," Allegra yelled in a shaking voice.
"Oh fine! But you'd better have a good excuse for this!" Gyasa yelled back. He paused, "Should I take Tien with me?"
"YES, Gyasa!"
"Tien?" Cell chortled, "What pathetic two-person rescue did they have in mind?"
"Would you stop being so…" Allegra began before being silenced by a white finger crossing her lips.
Cell clucked disapprovingly, "Such language does not become of a lady."
Gyasa narrowed his eyes in concern, glinting green in the desert light. He wanted to protect Allegra; she'd always been so close to him. If he had to do one heroic thing… No. Heed her orders, retreat and take that human with him. Gyasa lamented his own lack of strategist skills; Ryuma would've had a plan to take their white flag back from that… monster.
Allegra whipped around to face the android, her black hair swinging elegantly. Cell had to pull his eyes off her whirling dynamics and onto that less-than-appealing scowl. "You were going to kill him."
"He was diverting my attention from far more important things," Cell grinned wolfishly, "Such as you, my dear."
"I hate you."
"I hardly believe that, my dear."
"Oh, for the sake of your own ego!"
"Who wouldn't be attracted to such perfection?" Cell smirked playfully.
Allegra laughed, despite her best efforts to stay angry, "Your narcissism is shameful."
"Who said I meant myself?"
The scowl returned. "Let me go. I have to find Gohan."
"You are a hostage, Allegra. You relinquished your rights to traverse this earth freely when you so foolishly crossed my path for a thirdconsecutive time. Now, since we have deviated this far from our original plans to terrorise the locals, what do you feel like doing now?"
"Gohan is going to hate me—"
"And he doesn't even know that you have kissed me."
"I didn't kiss you. You kissed me!"
"But as that old proverb goes, Allegra, 'it takes two to tango'."
"Cell!"
"Do you want me to kiss you again?" the android demanded with sharp curiosity, towering over the smaller Enterran with boldly folded arms.
"No?"
"Then cease emitting those pheromones, my dear; I find them distracting."
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