Chapter 8: Gohan's Choice
Cell was looking out the window at the city. Goku was behind him, strapped to a chair, stripped to the waist. He was wired to various monitors with white disk electrodes. Beside him, Number 17 sucks a serum from a glass vial, filling a hypodermic needle.
"Did you know that the first Cell Game was designed to be a perfect human world? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program," said Cell.
Number 17 jabbed the needle into Goku's shoulder and plunged down.
Cell sat down directly in front of Goku just as Number 18 came in. "There could be a problem."
Back in the Karin Temple, Gohan looked at Piccolo. "What are they doing to him?"
"They're draining his chi, making it easier to break into his mind. When they do, he'll tell them everything he knows."
"What do they want from him?"
"The codes to the Karin Temple. If they get inside, they could destroy us."
"That can't happen; I won't let it."
"What are you talking about?"
"Kami told me this would happen. He said that I would have to make a choice."
"What choice?"
Gohan walked to the Room of Spirit and Time. "I'm going in."
"Gohan, you can't. That building is very tight in security. There are three androids in there. This is suicide."
"No, it's not. I have to go."
"Why?"
"Because I believe I can bring him back."
Videl walked with him. "I'm coming with you."
Back in the office, Cell sat over Goku. "I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area."
He leaned forward.
"There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus." He smiled. "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we… are the cure."
Gohan and Videl were standing in the Room of Spirit and Time. Piccolo voiced over the intercom, "What do you need?"
Gohan looked around. "Guns; lots of guns."
Piccolo hit load and the Room of Spirit and Time filled with guns.
Videl looked at Gohan. "No one has ever done anything like this."
"That's why it's going to work."