An Afro followed by a pair of frightened eyes peaked over a rock. "So Hercule," exclaimed a loud voice behind the man which startled him and caused him to yell and spin around. "Great Hercule what's happening now?"
"AH, AH," Hercule stammered for a second before he laughed out obnoxiously though anyone could see he was very nervous, by the sweat running down his face, "that boy's out of it now, some girl is out there trying to use more stupid tricks."
"A girl?" The announcer asked as the cameraman looked up questioningly from his attempts at fixing the overloaded back up camera that had worked for a few minutes before it too had mysteriously exploded like the main one had. "You're going to help her, aren't you Hercule?" the announcer questioned.
"I… I… I would, but… ah… my stomach oh it hurts so bad," he exclaimed as he grabbed his abdomen and groaned in an obviously fake manner.
Any further comments were cut off as a loud explosion occurred in the sky, the effects of which sent everyone tumbling about wildly as they clutched onto anything they could.
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Only Human
By Verse12
Verse12 (at) hotmail (dot) com
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Disclaimer:
I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.
Note: Revised 7/17/07. Grammar and spelling mostly with some minor dialogue changes to help continuity and story flow and some other changes.
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Chapter Two
Perfect Cell vs. Ifurita
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A blast of energy ripped from Ifurita's staff straight at Cell signaling the start of their fight.
Cell was to fast though as he spun out of the path of the blast. The blast itself though kept on going until it blew up a mountain in the distance.
You have to do better than that girl," Cell screamed out as he zipped forward to attack Ifurita.
She flew backward and tried to dodge Cell's furious punches and kicks; desperately she tried to avoid the super fast limbs that flew at her, their deadly power evident to her senses as they tried to pummel her into oblivion.
Then Ifurita went on the offensive, she used her ability to analyze and replicate techniques on Cell's previous assault, then used those techniques against him. She tried to discover a weakness before he had a chance to land a counter blow. Hand to hand fighting with a being of Cells caliber was not something she had ever had to contend with. So she struggled to keep up with someone who moved faster than the human eye could normally follow.
Meanwhile on the ground the Z-senshi watched the one sided match with some trepidation and dismay.
"She's too slow, she seems to have a lot of power but she's not well versed in using hand to hand evidently," Piccolo muttered.
"Aw man I hoped that she could've taken him out," Krillan exclaimed in a whine.
"I told you that some girl couldn't beat that thing," Vegeta smirked.
"Gohan sit down and rest, you aren't helping anything by trying to be tough." Ranma said as he looked down at the boy who was holding onto his arm as he tried to steady himself on his wobbly legs.
"The punk's right, kid," said Piccolo as he looked at Gohan out of the corner of his eye.
"O… okay uncle, Mr. Piccolo," said Gohan as he collapsed into a slump on the ground.
"Ya kid, you need to rest up it looks like we may need your help after all," Yamcha commented with some fear in his voice.
The stalwart warriors looked at each other in increasing worry before they returned their attention once more to Cell and Ifurita just as Cell shouted out. "Come on girl I thought you would give me at least a little work out, anyone of the weaklings below could do better."
"Of course you are just a female eh" he finished with a demeaning smirk.
Ifurita floated out of Cells reach during his little speech as she ignored his comments. She paused though when he finished and raised her eyes to meet his, then she exclaimed in an oddly cool tone of voice with a smirk, "Evaluation complete, musculature and dexterity compensating, increasing speed and strength to match and exceed opponent in three dimensional hand to hand combat."
"WHAT?" resounded from the throats of all who heard her bizarre statement. There astonishment increased as Ifurita placed the staff behind her hooking it onto her belt, before she disappeared in a burst of speed that rivaled that of anyone they had ever seen.
"What? How?" Cell exclaimed unable to understand her sudden increase in speed and skill. He looked around trying to find her only to be slammed in the back of the head by Ifurita's fist.
After he righted himself he meet her furious onslaught of blows as he tried to block or dodge her sledgehammer like attacks. Finally her new found skills won out and an uppercut is followed up by a dual overhand blow to the back of Cell's neck that sent him to the ground where he crashed with a thunderous boom.
But even as debris rained down on the area Ifurita pulled out her staff and sent a rain of punishing blasts down on the crater he landed in. Before Cell could even think to recover from the brutal physical attack the dozens of punishing streaks of energy pounded down on him, their power exploded in a cacophony of absolute destruction.
Then out of the smoke and dust Cell appeared, slightly more singed, but relatively unhurt. He crouched down in the crater and braced himself on the ground; his hand was on the former sandy soil that was now fused into thick dark glass. He exploded faster than ever before and plowed into Ifurita he used his shoulder to slam into her gut while he screamed out "B#%&H." He grabbed her hair and spun her around in a circle before he threw her to the ground. As Cell watched her shoot toward the ground he dropped the small slip of fabric that she wore on the top her head which had come loose in his grip.
Ifurita caught herself as she landed in a bad fall, she crashed in kneeling position her feet and knee had slammed into the ground and created a small crater about her. The tails of her waistcoat flapped behind her and reveled the socket in her lower back for a split second. She looked up at Cell while still in a crouched position she locked her eyes with his, then she launched herself up at him, she meet him a flurry of blows that moved faster and faster till they were naught but blurs.
They appeared and disappeared as they flashed across the sky, their arms and legs moved in a blur of motion. The thunder of their blows caused waves of pressurized air to crash as they blasted across the desert landscape.
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The Z-senshi stood with their mouths open in astonishment utterly amazed. "How in the world did she get so good so fast," Krillan muttered.
"She said she was evaluating and not only matching but exceeding Cell's abilities," intruded Piccolo's gruff voice in a contemplative fashion. "It seems she has powers similar to Cell's."
"No not actually," Ranma intruded "what I've seen from watching Cell is that he has to have cells implanted in him when he was gestating for him to duplicate their power or techniques." He paused to let the others absorb this before he continued, "Ifurita though, seems to be able to duplicate not only power but techniques from observation only. Plus she seems to have changed her physical power to match Cells to."
"She can't have unlimited power, at a certain level she will be overwhelmed by Cell, and then I the Prince of all Saiya-jin's will be the one to step in and finish the job," Vegeta smirked.
"Whatever you say you stupid S.O.B. I doubt if you could ever do as good as she's doing against Cell," Ranma exclaimed to the arrogant prince.
"YOU STUPID HUMAN I SHOULD SNUFF YOU OUT LIKE THE BUG YOU ARE," Vegeta screamed in a rage as he took his anger at his ineffectualness against cell out against the best target he had. His anger though cooled suddenly and his face turned to a smirk, thinking of a better revenge, with that he mockingly tossed the comment. "Of course at least I have at least some possibility of beating Cell, you on the other hand cannot even defeat the Namek over there, you're just a weak… pitiful… human," he finished in a contemptuous tone.
"I may be human, but... I am... Ranma Saotome, and I, do not lose. Do you hear me, I do not lose, someday; somehow I will find a way to take you down."
"BWHAHAHAHAHA, that is absolutely hilarious little human," Vegeta's smirk turned downright mean as he said quietly "of course in your other form you may make decent breeding stock for a Saiya-jin, maybe the brat will take you as a mate in a few years. I of course wouldn't lower myself, but the boy seems fond of you." He chuckled at Ranma's enraged face, Krillan, Yamcha and Piccolo held him back from attacking the prince of the Saiya-jin. Vegeta glanced up nonchalantly, oh it seems something is happening" He turned his gaze to the sky as he watched the fight Vegeta chuckled to himself.
"I'LL KILL YOU, YOU STUPID $# %!$^% &%$ &*%$&, YOU WILL #$%'n DIE," Ranma screamed out
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"KA ME HA ME HA!" Cell shouted and his blue white blast of energy headed toward Ifurita. With no time to grab her staff for a counter blast Ifurita just held up her arms in an x pattern and tried to block some of the blast with her version of a battle aura.
As the smoke cleared it revealed Ifurita as she stood there, her clothing was ripped and dirty. Soot and smoke covered her hair and face; she lowered her arms and coughed slightly, a small puff of smoke came out of her mouth. Ifurita paused and floated to the ground only to be followed by Cell who settled down across from her.
"Interesting direct energy projection from the hands," murmured Ifurita. "Analysis complete," she smirked at Cell and placed her hand together, she moved them in a very familiar pattern and as they begin to glow she yelled out, "KA ME HA ME HA!"
As Ifurita's blast screamed toward Cell he desperately countered with his own blast,
"KA ME HA ME HA!!!!" he yelled.
Meeting in the middle the two beams fought for dominance as the convergence point moved back and forth. Sweat poured from her brow as she panted with exertion and slid back as her feet dug down into the rocky ground and left furrows behind.
"See girl," Cell yelled out unable to hide his fatigue. "You will never defeat me; you will die screaming you LITTLE PIECE OF NOTHING."
"Shut up you green B*%#d I will win, I have too for Akane and Auntie Saotome, for everyone I... have... too... fulfill my promise to them."
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While this was going on the others watched on with differing emotions.
"She will soon be defeated," Vegeta exclaimed smugly.
"Shut up Vegeta," Ranma muttered "I think she just may be able to it."
"Whatever fool, when she falls then I will step in."
"If she falls then we better hope Gohan is able to step back in," Piccolo interrupted "because he already has shown no one else except this new girl can keep up with him."
Everyone looked over to Gohan as he sat and regained his strength, while he cradled his hurt arm and avoided looking over at the black and red metals that were the remains of the destroyed android 16.
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Ifurita fell to her knees and grit her teeth as she yelled out "FOR MAKOTO." Her Ka-me-ha-me-ha increased in strength and began to push Cell back, which caused him to swear as he began to realize he may yet be overcome by this piece of nothing he wasn't panicking yet because he still had an ace up his proverbial sleeve still.
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"She's doing it," Krillan yelled as he bounced excitedly on the balls of his feet.
Vegeta simply grunted at the thought unhappy at being upstaged especially by some slip of a girl, Piccolo though began to frown.
Gohan leaned over after he saw Piccolo's expression "what's wrong mister Piccolo" he asked. "It looks like things are going our way now."
"Yeah it does, but look closely at Cell he seems to be strangely calm about that fact, I think he may have some trick left in his bag," Piccolo grunted. "I think though that Vegeta may actually have had a point earlier though."
"What do you mean Piccolo-san," Gohan asked.
"She can't have unlimited power, no mortal being can. So the question is will she be able to keep exceeding his power continuously or will he be able to surpass her."
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As Cell was almost overwhelmed he grunted out "well girl looks like you have me, unbelievable, as that seems."
"I told you I would defeat you, you will not harm these that are under my protection," Ifurita said as her systems strained, in the struggle. "I am sworn to return Ranma home to his family" she spat out at him.
Cell smiled an eerie smile and shouted out loudly enough to be heard by all, "very interesting girl thank you for that little scuffle, it actually helps me figure some things out."
He paused and smirked evilly, "Oh and girl remember when I said it looked like you had me," she looked back at him with a confused expression as Cell withdrew a bean from a pouch he had hidden. "LOOKS CAN BE DECEVING!" Cell shouted out evilly. When the Z-senshi saw the bean they began to shout out, to late though as Cell popped the senzu into his mouth. Instantly Cells Ka-me-ha-me-ha was restored to full strength and quickly overwhelmed Ifurita's blast.
Just as she was about to be obliterated Ranma dashed in from the side, he used all his speed and grabbed her on the fly and pulled her away from the blast with everything he had and narrowly avoided being incinerated.
They rolled across the rocky ground as Ranma tried to protect Ifurita from more damage with his own body only to tumble to a stop against a large rock with a crash.
They were scratched and bruised and the two struggled to remain conscious as they labored to catch their breath. Only to feel their blood run cold at the peculiar tone of Cell's feet as they walked across the ground toward them. They glanced up they see Cell as he stood over them with a smirk on his face "nice move boy, futile but nice." He grinned as he held up a hand that glowed and crackled with energy.
Just as he released the blast Ranma jumped so he could try to protect Ifurita even though he knew he wouldn't be fast enough. It was lucky for them that Cells aim was thrown off by blasts that came from Piccolo and Gohan. Cell smirked as he used his superior speed to dash around Ranma and grabbed Ifurita by the neck. He took her as a hostage and caused the approaching duo to hold short.
"Let her go Cell" Ranma yelled out as he winced as Ifurita's breath rasped and her feet thrashed in the air underneath her.
"Just stay back fools," Cell yelled out "I will deal with you later." Cell gasped in pain as Ifurita began to rain blows on his chest and stomach using her still free hands. With an unintelligible roar he changed his hold to one that locked up her hands as well.
Cell looked at Ifurita's pained yet defiant countenance his grin grew wider he then moved his face closer to hers, and sniffed her cheek in a manner that disturbed everyone who saw it. "So little one, you put up quite a fight, much better than even 17 or 18 did plus you're abilities to match powers are even more intriguing to me"
"Yet you also mentioned taking Ranma home as well, hum? No answer? That's okay; you see Doctor Gero knew of Ranma not being of this reality so for you to take him home you must have the power to traverse between realities and that is an ABILITY THAT ONLY I CAN CONTROL YOU LIITTLE B&%#H." With this statement Cells tail, fast as lightning extended out of his back like it used to in his imperfect state. It reached around his hip while the tip of it opened up and began to swallow Ifurita's legs whole like a snake as he began to try to add her power to his even though their systems were not completely compatible with each other.
While Cell talked quietly to Ifurita the others waited for a clear shot to free her. But at Cell's shout and subsequent tail maneuverings they had to spring into action.
Ranma being closest leapt to Ifurita's aid but he was quickly backhanded by Cell and his head snapped back from the force of the blow, his vision blurred with gray spots that danced in front of his eyes. Ifurita pulled one hand free and started to shoot blasts at Cells face but those soon stopped almost as soon as she started them to the surprise of Ifurita, "How?" Her expression turned from confused to frightened though as she looked up at Cell as he defended himself from Piccolo's attacks. "You're hacking my systems?"
A quick blast to Piccolo's chest knocked him back and sent him sliding across the ground. In this brief lull he smirked down on her as she was being swallowed up. "That's right girl soon you will be completely part of my systems and your power and abilities will make me better than even my current level of perfection."
His attention was drawn back to the fight as Vegeta jumped in and his fists blurred. "Stupid monster you will die now," Vegeta yelled out in his usual arrogant manner. Occupied with Vegeta Cell's absorption of Ifurita stalled for a moment and he failed to notice Krillan as he snuck up on him.
He glanced back though when he felt Krillan as he tried to free Ifurita from his grasp, the glazed expression on her face cracked into comprehension for a moment as she mumbled something only Krillan could hear.
"FOOL," Cell yelled out and used his extended tail with Ifurita still half way inside as a club and knocked Krillan aside. This distraction was costly though as Vegeta used this moment to land a punishing roundhouse kick to Cell's head. Cell went skipping along the ground before he crashed into a mesa that then crumbled down on top of him and Ifurita who was now swallowed up to her neck.
Piccolo climbed to his feet and stumbled over to Gohan as he yelled out "GOHAN, EVERYONE, HIT HIM NOW BEFORE HE CAN FULLY ASSIMALTE HER."
Piccolo sensed Gohan's worry about the possibility of hurting Ifurita but knew they didn't have a choice anymore so he screamed out "NOW GOHAN." The boy whispered a quiet "forgive me," Gohan's power ascended up through super saiyan to level two.
"KA ME HA ME HA!" Gohan yelled and unleashed a torrent of power through his one good arm that rocketed for Cell as everyone else added everything they could with blasts of their own.
With tears that streamed from his eyes, Gohan wept at having to do this to the woman who came just to help them. He screamed out all his anger and rage at this whole situation, his father, Trunks, android 16, and all the other countless lives that were lost and now Ifurita had joined them, all lost.
Gohan held the blast for a whole minute before he let up, his energy exhausted he then slumped to his knees and teetered on the verge of passing out. Ranma walked over to the exhausted boy and puts his hand on his shoulder "its okay Gohan we'll use the Dragon balls to wish her back, you had to do it."
"I know uncle Ranma it's just, a lot you know, to take in," Gohan mumbled in exhaustion.
"The punks right Gohan," Piccolo's gravelly voice grumbled "it was all that could be done, just rest for now."
Krillan staggered over to the group and asked, "Do you really think Cells gone?"
"I don't know, I can't sense him though," Piccolo said as he squinted his eyes and looked in the direction where Cell had ended up. But the area was still being obscured by smoke and dust and made it hard to see.
"How about you Ranma" asked Krillan "do you sense him?" He knew that of all of the Z-senshi Ranma had the best ki senses.
"No, no I... don't, but there is something...," he muttered as he looked on with a confused frown.
"Is it Cell?" Yamcha questioned as he arrived on scene with Teinshinhan.
"I don't think so it feels different, no wait its gone now," Ranma exclaimed in surprise.
Any further conversation was cut off as a sound like that of an earthquake resounded through the area. Lightning began to arc about where Cell had fallen, shafts of power that shot up from the rubble blazed into the heavens that quickly darkened as heavy laden clouds rolled in. The clouds began to move in a circular pattern and developed an eye in the center that surrounded the mesa that collapsed on Cell. The Rumbling increased as the rocks that made up the mesa, those both large and small began to rise into the air.
From within, a power began to rise, slowly at first something not unlike the power one would sense from Bulma, then it felt like maybe Krillan's power level. Then it began to move up and up to greater and greater heights, as the power arced up to obscene levels a voice with an ominous tone resounded through the valley. "OH, YOU WANTED TO SENSE MY STRENGTH DID YOU."
From the clouds of smoke and dust that filled the air a figure stalked out. And the power continued to grow in intensity until it dwarfed even Gohan at his full strength.
The Z-senshi stood in amazed horror at the power that approached them. "Who, how?" one of them muttered under his breath.
This quiet utterance was heard though by the creature that approached them still obscured from their sight. "How? You ask, how did perfection get improved upon."
From the smoke stepped the creature that once called itself perfect Cell, it was now more human like in appearance than before, his exoskeleton was more flush and streamlined. The coloring was darker green and black without any splotches, while his face and hands were an even more pale blue. The wings and tail that were formerly on the back were no more, and the fins on his head, instead of going straight up now arced back and out from the sides. (A.N. think like wolverines mask but more jagged on the edges.)
"The how should be obvious even to little creatures like you. The who on the other hand..." the creature began as he drew closer and his power shook the ground and left scorched foot prints behind him. The power literally froze the Z-senshi in their places with its intensity. "IF I WAS PERFECT BEFORE NOW AND FOR ALL TIME… I AM… SUPREME CELL!!!
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To be continued in:
Chapter Three: Supreme Cell vs. Ranma?
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Signed: Verse12