In the vast barren and rocky desert a white news truck came bouncing over the rugged terrain, the man who was steering the vehicle was cursing the whole way. "Stupid Fuji, he gets the assignment of a life time and he screws it up gets his whole news van blown away. Of course this gives me my chance to make my come back, for years they have ridiculed me for taking the stance I have on these fighters, they never saw the old Budokai tournaments." In a mocking tone of voice he continued talking to himself, "Ko Daku you're washed up, Ko Daku you're crazy to think that all those old tall tales were true, Ko Daku you seen any flying men lately. Stupid punks, if my camera hadn't overloaded somehow at the 23rd Budokai I would have had all the evidence I needed.
"I was the only one left to send though, everyone else was out on assignment and the boss didn't have a choice but to send me with a new truck. But now I will have my chance, I'll show the morons at the station what true martial artists can do. And with my new camera I won't have to worry about it overloading," he commented as he lovingly patted the camera at his side. "Built this baby from scratch, shielded against all forms of energy, THERE IT IS," he exclaimed as he ranted to himself while he pulled up behind a large rock formation some distance away from the battle.
He activated the feed to the station and he waited for the confirmation that the station was receiving the signal before he hopped out and started shooting everything he could with his camera as he ran up to another rock formation, "Ko Daku, cameraman for Z.T.V. news here," the news man huffed and puffed as he ran the rest of the distance to the edge of the battle.
"Ko Daku this is Dirk Takahashi channel four news anchor do you see any sign of The Great Hercule or Cell," the Anchor man questioned through the miniature speaker/microphone in the camera man's ear.
"Not yet Dirk, I have arrived close to the site of the Cell Games but I don't see any sign of the first news crew or twenty fourth Budokai champion Hercule but," he began as he crouched down behind a rock before he leaned around and zoomed in on the conflict. "As you can see in the distance Cell is defiantly floating in the air somehow, across from him appears to be some kind of glowing blue ghostly figure. Could the very ghosts of Cell's Victims have come to exact retribution on him?"
"Off to the side three other figures stand, a short bald man, a young boy, and another short man with wild hair." As he zoomed in closer to the figures off to the side he got a good shot of their faces. "I do recognize two of these people, ladies and gentlemen; the man is a semi-finalist of three Budokai tournaments, the warrior monk Krillan chestnut a student of the great Kame Sennin. And the boy... is that really who I think it is? He may have golden hair somehow but I am certain that the young boy the same who has been fighting Cell for some time now is none other than Son-Gohan. His father Son-Goku won the 23rd Budokai tournament, and of course everyone knows who his mother and her family are."
"Wait something's happening," he exclaimed in an excited tone to the millions of people as they watched and listened at home.
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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 (09/08/08)
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Chapter Five
Supreme Cell Finale
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Makoto floated up in between Gohan and Cell, "Ifurita are you really in there somewhere? I can feel you somehow, what's happened," he asked lovingly.
Cell halted in confusion and grimaced as he began to hold his head as if in pain.
Then suddenly in Ifurita's voice Cell murmured "Makoto?"
"Get AWAY FROM ME," Cell roared fearfully at Makoto in his own voice. In a wide stance as he floated in midair he held his head in his left hand in obvious pain. The monster took his right arm and swung it out in a wide arc and unleashed a torrent of power at the energy being in front of him. Makoto willed his energy body to drop down and away quickly from the blast but it still hit the ground beneath him anyway and exploded in a deafening roar.
"VEGETA HOLD HIM OFF FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN," Gohan barked.
"I don't take orders from children, boy," Vegeta smirked, "I order you not the other way around. Maybe I'll just let him finish you off and when he is weakened I will finish him off."
Vegeta ignored Gohan's ensuing rant as he looked up at Cell who was obviously confused and in some kind of pain "but," he said with a purely Saiyan smirk as the lust for battle arose in him, "this I'll do for myself."
"The challenge of a lifetime," Vegeta murmured as he flew off to battle with the still disoriented Cell, "not even Kakkarot could defeat him." Gohan and Krillan ran quickly over too where they last saw Makoto. "MAKOTO?" the monk questioned, as the half human boy warrior questioned Krillan on who was Makoto.
"Whew, that was close," Makoto commented as he floated up from deep underground. "My current state may be intangible towards matter but I don't know what a blast of energy like that could do to me. Who are all of you and what exactly is going on?"
"We need to talk and fast," Krillan said as he glanced up at Vegeta as he fought with the disoriented monster.
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Vegeta roared into his super Saiyan state as he rocketed up at Cell. With everything he had he unloaded on the distracted monster, punches, kicks, Ki Blasts he unleashed his full fury on the monstrous creation of Dr. Gero.
Cell, distracted by his internal battle did his best to counter the attacks by the saiyan prince but his timing was off and most blows he threw were deftly avoided by the prince.
Back and forth the two fought but as time went on it became obvious that whatever internal battle was going on, Cell was winning. Soon he would turn his full force on Vegeta, because even though the Prince had landed many blows they hadn't caused enough damage to truly slow down the monster.
When Cell would be able to finally focus his full attention on the fight Vegeta would be in big trouble.
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"Oh god," Makoto gasped, after the quick rundown on what had happened in this world both before and after Ifurita had arrived.
"Ifurita must be fighting him is my guess," he said after a moment to think. "That's the only answer to how she was able to respond when I confronted this Cell. I, could sense her, you know?" he said with a worried look to his eyes as he looked at the two warriors, "I knew she was there."
With a sigh and a shake of his head Makoto cleared his mind and focused on what was going on in the here and now, "the technology in Ifurita and in Cell must not be one hundred percent compatible with each other. So he can't yet fully subsume her like he could Android 17 and 18."
"That's what Ifurita said when I was trying to free her from Cell," Krillan exclaimed.
The two geniuses focused on the short warrior, "What EXACTLY did she say Krillan," Makoto asked.
"Well," he mused for a moment as he tried to remember the exact wording, "She said, 'rebooting systems into safe mode,' first. Then she said, 'firewall emplaced, systems not completely compatible,' and then she looked right at me and said 'use the power key staff'."
"Looks like you were right about their systems not being able to mesh perfectly," Gohan stated.
"Yes," Makoto murmured, "but the rest I'm not sure."
"Well rebooting into some kind of safe mode I don't know what that was for but the firewall may be that she was trying to protect some kind of specific command codes from Cell's hacking."
"INTER-REALITY TRAVEL," Krillan exclaimed suddenly. "Remember when they were fighting Cell seemed REAL interested in being able to travel to other realities."
"That's probably part of it," Gohan agreed, "that firewall is probably all that is protecting her higher functions from being completely erased by Cell."
"WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING," Makoto begged desperately.
"I agree but we need to come up with some kind of plan first though," Gohan stated with a sigh. He continued with a shake of his head, "This is one of the things that Ranma was talking about, using my human side, the brains my mother gave me, we are going to have to out think Cell."
Then in a scared tone of voice Krillan said, "You guys better come up with something soon, because I don't think Vegeta will last long to much longer, it looks like Cell is beginning to regroup." With a nod to each other the two geniuses put their heads together and begin to outline a plan of action.
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Vegeta crashed into the ground nearby them and his arm was nearly wrenched off by Cells twisting of it. Gohan then turned to the others and said, "We're ready," Gohan flew up into Cell's field of view as Krillan and Makoto rushed over to the remains of Android #16.
Gohan floated a little ways away from the green beast that still held his head in his hand as he railed internally against Ifurita as no matter what he did he couldn't completely destroy her presence. With a sigh Son-Gohan said, "Your fight is with me not Vegeta." He then sat back and waited for Cell to make the next move he hoped he could buy Makoto enough time to instruct Krillan on how to build what they were going to need.
'If he is wrong in this it could be the end of everything in all realities, it does make sense though if by rebooting her systems she was trying to tell us that she reinitialized the disabled security/slave protocols Makoto mentioned it could be the key to stopping him and maybe saving Ifurita as well.'
As Cell swung around erratically as he cursed Ifurita, Gohan and anyone else that popped into his demented head. During all of that Gohan got a chance to see his back up close, 'yeah he was right there is a socket in his back now, small though, let's hope we can nail this.'
"Well here goes," Gohan sighed in resignation. "You know you are so stupid Cell how could you think it would be easy to take in an unknown form of technology, how pathetic you are, can't even beat a girl in your own head."
"SHUT UP!" the brute bellowed as he powered up and he began to finally put down Ifurita's struggles.
As he turned to face Gohan the boy in question screamed "NOW," and lunged forward so he could hold Cell in his current position even if only for a second.
With a murmured "please" Krillan hurled the power key staff like a javelin. Straight as an arrow the staff knifed through the air before it hit the socket on Cells back dead on which caused Cell to scream in pain as the staffs charging and slave circuits began to use their master command codes to override his own that had been altered by the subsumed Ifurita.
Before Cell could react to the new sensations that ripped through him Gohan used an anything goes move to flip around behind him. He grasped the handle of the staff as he began to turn it backwards in a counter clockwise movement. Energy began to bleed from Cell in a surge as it flowed into the staff and then feed into a heavy cable which had been connected to it. The cable which was made from components that had been taken from # 16 trailed back to Krillan and Makoto and attached to a rod also made of components taken from the android duplicate of Ranma's remains.
"NO," Cell screeched as he tried to fight the loss of energy but it got harder and harder for him the more power he lost. His hands clenched futilely as he tried to make himself shake off Gohan's efforts.
As the power from Cell got to the rod it traveled up its length and then it lanced deep into space in a beam of pure white power. "It's working," Krillan screamed over the sound of the power shooting into space. "Yes, the dispersal rod seems to be working like the ones Ifurita told me about. It's a good thing she told me how her creators would drain her kind of energy before they put them into storage." Makoto commented as his scientific reason remained in control as he tried to not think about the fact that his love is in trouble and pain while he couldn't do anything else to help her. "I can't even use my power because I can't actually touch him to make contact and infiltrate his systems."
"Uh Makoto?" Krillan questioned as he looked at the dispersal rod as it began to shake and smoke.
Seeing the jury-rigged tech as it began to break down Makoto yelled out too Gohan to hurry.
The screams of Cell and the pounding of his blood in his ears though meant that Gohan couldn't hear the worried yell of Makoto as the demi-saiya-jin though tried to turn the staff as quickly as he could. Its surface was blazing hot and smoking and it shook in his hands as it was not designed to handle this much raw energy, especially at so fast a pace. His hands were aching and burnt as Son-Gohan sweated thru grit teeth and tried to ignore the smell of his own burning skin. "8… 9… "Gohan grunted as he shook in an effort to hold it together.
"10," he screamed just as the dispersal rod exploded in a horrendous blast and the power key staff burnt out into a hunk of slag in Gohan's hands as Makoto's thought form was rocketed back thru the void between worlds like a snapped rubber band.
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Ranma Universe
The others appeared from the house as Kasumi had reached Makoto. "What's happened to Makoto?" Akane asked concerned.
"He was talking about coming in for a snack then he just screamed for Ifurita before he collapsed," she said in a worried tone of voice.
Any further discussion was cut off as Makoto's head stirred and he crooked out a questioning "Ifurita?" before he passed out again.
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DBZ Universe
As he rose from the ground Gohan looked around and he saw Krillan beginning to sit up on the ground some distance away and he was relieved greatly to see that at least one of his friends was still alive. Cell though was unmoving as he laid face down in the dirt; the melted power key staff was still sticking from his lower back. He walked over and he yanked the ruined metal out with a wince at the pain coming from his hands. Using his foot he flipped Cell over and he looked into Cell's wide open yet vacant eyes the boy calmly asked him "Cell?"
"Yes," the beast replied soullessly.
"Release Ifurita," the boy ordered.
"At once master," Cell stood up and his mouth began to expand until he leaned over and he disgorged Ifurita. As her head came into view Krillan staggered up as he yelled, "NO, we don't know if that will release him from your control or not. He may even still keep his Supreme state even without her; think about what happened when 18 got out and he came back from exploding."
Krillan's argument though was too late as Ifurita flopped onto the ground and Cell began to glow as he staggered back. Gohan picked up Ifurita and handed her to Krillan as he asked for him to get her out of there. The monk nodded his agreement as he flew some distance away.
As he faced the obscured form of Cell Son-Gohan got into a fighting stance and he heard Cells voice as it called out through the glow. When Cell stepped forward he laughed "I may not be Supreme anymore, but, I'm still perfect."
As he looked at Cell's restored perfect form Gohan commented with a snort "So what, KA-ME-HA-ME-HA!"
The blast began to rip thru Cell's unprepared defenses as his body was almost completely drained by the staff before he was forced to fall back to his perfect form.
As Cell tried to tried to mount a defense against Gohan's assault, Gohan taunted him in true Saotome fashion, "you're weak and pathetic Cell, Perfect my $$, I'm even stronger now than I was the last time I faced your 'perfectness' he mocked.
As he powered up even more Gohan's blast increased in strength, the beatings from Cell's supreme form and subsequent healings had increased his power so much so that he could completely overwhelm Cell's weakened perfect form. Then with a furious roar he vaporized the fiend in an explosion of unrelenting power.
The explosion expanded into a sphere of energy until it detonated and the shockwave washed over the area as a large mushroom shaped cloud filled the sky.
As the smoke cleared from the blast radius Gohan staggered over to Krillan and with a muttered "it's over," as he collapsed to the ground next to his friend. Gohan looked around at the bodies and unconscious forms that littered the ground around them. "What are we going to do now Krillan," Gohan asked quietly for once he sounded like the boy he was.
As he glanced at Vegeta's, 18 and Ifurita's unconscious forms as well as the bodies of fallen friends he looked at Gohan and said "now, we go to the lookout get healed and use the Dragon Balls as much as we can."
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To be continued in:
Chapter Six: Shades of the Future
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Endnotes:
Please let me know what you think and review, please. This ends the Cell Saga, there will be an aftermath saga then the next phase of this tale will begin.
Thank you and please review.
Signed: Verse12.