Saiyance
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---The ball. She touched the crystal ball and it brought her here; maybe if she touched it again it would take her back! Gaiger started forwards, but recoiled when she realised the sheer size of the aliens; with one of the larger holding the crystal… or was it glass… ball in his enormous hand. Should she risk it?
King Cold, who was leaning against the back wall with his legs determinedly crossed, noticed the little human's sudden transfixed gaze on the sphere he held in his hand.
"Do not let her touch it," Cell warned. The android had hardly moved since the voices had started, but his sharp eyes stabbed like animate knives at everyone he looked at.
King Cold cast the glass globe to Cell. Gaiger felt what little hope had palpitated in her chest die and sink in dread when the ball was passed to the oversized grasshopper. She was dead now; the other aliens all looked like bodybuilders but she knew how much power Cell possessed. He had blown up islands… some people said with bombs, but from what she had seen at Nikki town she was inclined to believe the other rumours.
Cell scowled intensely into the clear sphere; "They should at least attempt to re-establish a connection once they find their friend is gone."
"Cell, we are all board but that does not excuse you chasing around young females in glass orbs for the simple pleasure of making them scream like that," Frieza snarled, quite obviously a little jealous of not getting to play with the new 'toy' that had fallen in Cell's hands himself. The ice-jinn wondered why no one ever tried to contact his dead spirit.
Cell pointed at the wide-eyed human clinging to the barred exit behind her, "If that female was able to get through into Hell, then it should not be too difficult to use this ball to transport us back into their world."
'Oh crap,' Gaiger thought, 'My world!'
'Gaiger! Gaiger! Where are you!'
That was Melani. Gaiger could hear the girl's voice yelling inside her head. Her hands grappled with her forehead, trying to make sense of it.
Cell held the ball in his hand, inspecting the image reflected in it. "You!" he boomed, breaking Gaiger from her self-infused trance. The android's feet squeaked as he walked over to her, physically imposing as well as mentally, towering over her.
"Young lady; you will deliver your friends the following message from me or you will not live to hear the end of it, do you understand?"
Gaiger gaped in fear, and the proximity, "Pleasedon'tkillme!"
"Tell your friends," Cell bit out slowly, "I want to strike a deal with them." His eyes were piercing enough to make her own burn painfully with the effort of maintaining his gaze.
"Guys, help me!"
'Gaiger what's going on?'
Gaiger's eyes didn't break their lock with the deadly android, "C-Cell wants to made a deal with you."
There was a long pause. Had they missed what she had said? 'What does he want? Are you okay? Where are you?'
Cell leaned his head even closer to the cowering female, "Tell them I will let you live if they transport me back through into their world the same way you travelled into mine."
"Ours," Ginyu muttered correctively.
Gaiger swallowed hard, but knew talking was the only thing that would get her out of this. She repeated what Cell said numbly, breaking eye contact. Her mind slowly came to light of what she was doing, 'Prison? Releasing Cell?'
"Guys! Get help! Do something, please." Gaiger yelled, squeezing her eyes shut, "Don't free Cell! Get help! Get Gohan, HUR—" what felt like living steel grabbed her face and silenced her. 'No!' her mind screamed, 'No! Save me, get Gohan before he kills me! Distract him, something!' Gaiger struggled futilely, squirming in Cell's grip of her face like a wild animal.
"Hey, they're gone," Recoome grumbled sallowly. Cell's magenta eyes flickered to the glass sphere and he noticed with disgust that his fleeting chance had gone. He tossed the ball back to King Cold and glared at the girl in his other hand slapping his arm and clawing at the pale appendage silencing her mouth.
Frieza chuckled, "At least we have a new toy to play with…" Gaiger saw something that glowed form in the palm of his hand as the pale alien leered at her.
"She is not a toy to play with, Frieza. She is bait," Cell smirked.
"Well you really should hide her; I don't think those two ogres are going to let us keep her if we're going to use her as bait," suggested Jeice with a shrug.
Cell looked out into the distance of Hell, considering his options.
"I know!" Jeice smiled, "Hide her behind Recoome! They'll never see her!"
"Providing Recoome doesn't sit on her," Guldo sneered.
"I'll try not to squish her, honest."
Cell turned his head slowly back to face Gaiger, considering the girl who had stopped struggling after the suggestion that she be hid behind one of the Ginyu members. Cell could hardly blame her, having to put up with the stench the lot of them gave off.
"Now, my dear," Cell addressed her formally, "Are you going to remain silent when I remove my hand or are you going to scream and fly into hysterics?" he paused to let the words sink into her thick head, and removed his hand.
"Please don't kill me, pleas—" Cell's hand clamped back down and he held a warning finger up, keeping calm as he could hear the trolls approaching in the distance.
"I strongly suggest you calm yourself, human, or I will have to concuss you," Cell explained politely. He hoped he wouldn't have to, in case she was unconscious when her friends tried to contact her again and presumed the female dead. Cell removed his hand again. Gaiger stood shaking, biting her lip until it turned white, but didn't make another sound.
"Quick! They're coming!" Guldo hissed. Jeice looked around, grabbed a stunned Gaiger by the arm and stuffed her quickly between Recoome and the corner of the cave, trying to stand innocently beside the huge warrior to obscure any trace of the girl.
"If I start breaking any of your bones, you'll tell me won't you?" Recoome asked the wall behind him, earning himself a kick from Jeice.
"Shut up!"
Gaiger was trying not to hyperventilate as she was pressed between a rock and… another, perhaps harder, hard place. Her face and shoulder were jammed up hard against the surface of the cave wall and the stench of a big sweaty man-back in her face was something else.
Mez squinted suspiciously at the convicts on the other side of the bars. He couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. Why were they all staring at him? Why was most of the Ginyu Force grinning? "What are you doing?" Mez demanded.
"Plotting an escape plan," Cell drawled in a low tone.
"And this time, it is going to work," added Frieza.
Mez rubbed his chin thoughtfully, eyeing them up. He shrugged mammoth shoulders. They were always planning something. They wouldn't get far… the only time they managed to get out of the prison; Goku and his friend set them straight anyway. Though Mez had got a rather heavy-handed punishment for letting them get that far, if he did say so himself. Which he did.
"Yeah right," Mez sneered, turning away from the evil-doers, "See you when Santa comes around." The ogre left hurriedly, not liking the way their eyes followed him in some horrible foreshadowing of a very bad mistake.
Gaiger had emitted a silent shriek at the reflection of a giant horned ogre she spied in the glass ball the larger white alien was playing with. Was that the devil? 'Am I really in hell? Where's the fire? Am I dead!'
Recoome moved from the wall and Gaiger fell flat on her face, quickly curling up and getting to her knees to get up. "Am I dead?" she asked shakily.
"No, I didn't squish you at all. Even for a tiny human with no power reading. You aren't hurt, are you?"
Gaiger shook her head, "No."
"And what are you proposing to do with it now? Keep it?" Frieza hissed.
"Human nature dictates that her friends will try to re-establish contact; and most likely sooner than later. Humans have an abundance of curiosity and a definite lack of common sense. We should not have to wait too long," Cell eyed the girl suspiciously.
"But… you can't kill me if I'm already in Hell," Gaiger insisted.
"You should consider that hypothesis before enticing any of us to invalidate that claim, my dear." Cell took the girl's blank and frightened look into consideration and continued, "Just think; if we were to kill you, how would you get back to your friends? A dead human is still a dead human."
"Am I already dead?"
"Do you have a halo?"
Gaiger looked upwards, then around, "No."
"Then you are most definitely alive; in some perversion of physics and chance."
"And you're… not going to kill me," Gaiger tried, hoping to at least cement some certainty.
"I may. It all depends on how much you talk, and whom to."
Gaiger's chest sank, again. What was she supposed to do? She couldn't sit still without talking, and if she did? She'd be killed, most likely painfully.
"Can we at least break off one of her arms?" Frieza complained out of boredom. Gaiger shrieked and scampered as far away from the small white one as possible. Cell scowled at Frieza, his sensitive ears ringing from the noise. He did not need this kind of headache; oh how he wanted to leave behind these morons he had been jailed with. The android turned to address the little human when something bright flew past him.
A sly grin had found its way onto Frieza's face. The ice-jinn hurled a ki blast at the human huddled against the wall to just miss her, sending her into screaming hysterics to which Cell reacted to like magnesium to a flame.
Gaiger parted her arms that had crossed up before her face in defence, brushing her singed arm hastily to put out any flame. Cell had yelled something in that ear-quaking yell of his and now the white one that had fired on her was mostly blackened with ash. The cards that the group had been playing with had been vaporised. Gaiger had no doubt now of the speculations that Cell had shot fire and light from his hands.
"My winning hand!" Jeice yelled in despair, pawing around for any trace of the incinerated playing deck.
Cell and Frieza suddenly launched into a full-fledged martial arts fight. Gaiger slammed her own fists to her mouth to stop herself screaming again. Balls of light flew in all directions, rattling the dirt cage that they were locked in but never doing any real damage. Gaiger was quick to notice the order of status of the imprisoned creatures. The short green man was backed up against a wall almost as worried as she was. Cell and the white one must have been two of the more dangerous opponents; and Gaiger was glad for that at least, in some little way. She found herself wishing Cell to win and shook her head suddenly.
The two were still fighting. Gaiger darted between to the opening of the cave and crammed herself sideways between two bars, adrenalin forcing her bones and behind through the narrow gap. She shoved herself off from the bars as the blue and the orange one noticed her and started shouting.
Gaiger yelped and ran, which was a foolish mistake to make as she slipped feet first off the short ledge, clawing at the dirt with her hands to hold onto the crumbly surface. She didn't care if she made noise or talked too much now, at least she was out of the cave. Her arms burned with the effort, her pale fingers slipping and scratching over the loose pebbles.
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