CHAPTER 21-Cell Games (part 3)
Hey everybody. Sorry for the delay, but I have had a busy and very dramatic vacation. Lucky for all of you, I'll be going home tomorrow. Thank you everyone that reviewed and to Ant Carrying a Rubber Tree I'm ok with if you only wanted to read about that, but they will eventually go back and you can read about it then, no worries.
A word from our stars-
ME-"Okay, who wants to go first?" *sweat drops as she notices Trunks and Kentana sitting with their eyes glued to the TV watching the story play*
TRUNKS-"Shhhh! Just hurry up so we can get on with the story! It's stuck on Kentana pulling my hair."
KENTANA-"Hey, you were going to kill an innocent human being."
TRUNKS-"What a hypocrite! You were about to brutally murder Mr. Satan." *Looks into her big turquoise orbs* "But you totally had the right. He shouldn't have treated you like that."
KENTANA-"And you were so totally hot when you got all jealous and defensive over me." *feeds fingers through his hair* "Don't worry, I wont pull it too hard this time."
TRUNKS-*Pulls Kentana into a hot smooch and starts making out on the couch*
ME- "EWWW! If anyone needs me, I'll be in the closet. Feel free to open the door and tell me you finished trading spit… and tongues." *Locks self in the closet* "DISCLAIMER-I won nothing except for Kentana, Kent, and Ai. Hey! Is that a bottle of vodka?"
The Cell Games were rather pitiful and painful to watch. Mr. Satan's star pupils were both easily defeated by the "amateur" Cell. They, the Z-fighters, were almost happy when he was thrown into the cliff side. It was truly pitiful to watch Cell defeat them without laying a hand on them. Finally Hercule walked onto the stage to fight for himself.
"This will be interesting," said Kentana, absentmindedly still holding Trunks' hair twisted around her hand. She ignored the announcer that seemed to feel the need to mention everything that the lunatic did. Hercule pulled a capsule out of his robe, the travel bag one if Kentana's memory from sorting through them with her timeline's Bulma was correct. He uncapsulized it and began stacking the blue ceramic squares that were inside.
Krillin face palmed. "That guys a real moron," stated the bald monk.
"This guys and idiot," said Yamcha.
Kentana, without turning to look at him stated, "For once I actually agree with you Yamcha."
The stack ended up as 15 ceramic tiles, something any of the Z-fighters could break without trying. Hercule started laughing before going into a "trans-like state" and began making strange sounds. He then brought his hand down on the ceramic tiles in a karate chop, breaking all but one, but apparently still enough to make the reporter, viewers, Ms. Piza, camera man, and the man nursing his throbbing hand amazed. Goku and friends could only stare, a little dumbstruck at the man's stupidity and arrogance that rivaled Vegeeta's.
His ignorance is painful, thought Cell. Happily for Kentana, Cell ended the match fast, but leaving him alive still. Kentana almost laughed when Hercule met rock wall. She was with Krillin who claimed to have been cheering for Cell in that fight.
"So," said the victorious Cell, "Let's get the tournament under way. Will it be Goku to start things off?"
Goku stepped past Vegeeta and onto the stage with grin as he said, "Let's do it."
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Goku stood across from Cell, face full of serious determination. Kentana wished she was stronger, she needed to get revenge for her other timeline counterpart that died with that Trunks at that monster's hands.
"As I'm sure you know by now," began Cell. "I've been waiting for this. Killing the helpless quickly grows old." He chuckled. "I'm counting on you for amusement while I test my body." He got into stance, Goku after him.
"I hear you desire to you all our techniques against us," answered the golden haired saiyan.
"Perfection."
Come on Uncle Kakarott, Kentana thought. She also thought, God, he must be stupid if I'm agreeing with both Yamcha, and Vegeeta's statements.
So this is it, this is why Goku has been acting so confident, thought Trunks. Ow! Ow! She's still pulling my hair! That's it, I'm having it cut back down.
"Goku is just awesome."
"His form, it's flawless."
"Just look at him, he's standing in front of Cell like it's just another day at the beach."
"Yeah, it would almost appear like he's enjoying the moment."
Kentana's hand absentmindedly loosened and Trunks' hair slipped out as he stood up straight. "With all this new control over the super saiyan, he's by far the best chance this planet has." Kentana could feel pride swelling in her for her uncle, and extra malice for the man who kept on insulting him.
The fight began as they both dodged each other's attacks with skill, neither laying a mark until Goku took a hit then planted his foot in Cell's face. Kentana cast a sideways glance at the dropped jaws.
"Their strength appears to be equal," said 16 in his monotone voice.
"And so far, it looks like neither of them are short of breath," said Yamcha.
They flew at each other again before Goku leaped into the air and fazed away, stunning the audience, before reappearing behind Cell and beginning his attack again. The fight was marvelous (making the Cell Games my favorite part of the entire series). Cell was almost knocked out when Goku's after image tricked him, but he stopped himself midair and flew back onto the arena. Kentana couldn't believe it herself when they both claimed to not have been fighting full potential. The speed of which the two fought kept her eyes moving, struggling to keep up with her Ki tracking, and she couldn't help but wonder what in hell Vegeeta was smirking about. She also couldn't believe the red headed idiot for praising Hercule on his "knowledge" with the false mirror trick idea.
The two faced each other again. She wondered why Gohan was scolding Krillin and why Krillin was chuckling. She had stopped paying attention to the normal stupid humans who had already lost when they were going on about nonsense with cheap tricks.
"Goku, the edge of the ring," informed Krillin with a panic expression. Indeed Cell's punches were pushing their hero towards the edge, inch by inch, Shit! If Goku loses we're all doomed!
Trunks stared seriously as the green freakish android pushed Goku closer and closer to the edge. "Well, it looks like Cell's in control."
"But how come?" spoke up the blonde Gohan. Eyes turned to him. "How come Dad isn't taking this seriously?"
"What?" exclaimed Kentana and her mate in unison.
Cell swung once again at Goku, but this time his fist went through and the image of the saiyan faded into nothingness. The Z-fighters stared in shock. They sure as hell didn't expect that, but when did anything ever go as expected in the world of Dragonball Z? He turned around with a satisfied smirk on his face. "Oh, you're good." Goku responded with a slight smirk of his own before they went at each other again.
Cell flew at Goku who blocked. He bent backwards and landed on his back before flinging the monster into the air with a push from his feet. Goku jumped up to him with his hands cupped at his side. "Kame hame ha!" He shot out the signature move of the turtle hermit dojo. Cell dodged it, but Goku fazed behind him and delivered his hands down in a quick strike against his enemy. Cell angrily glared and hit back, then pounded him down to the stage.
"That makes a good enough warm up," decided Cell, satisfied.
"Yeah," agreed the blonde haired super saiyan.
"That was just their warm up," whimpered the reporter for ZTV.
Kentana chuckled and mumbled to herself, "Never underestimate a saiyan."
She only half believed that they were only warming up, the other half wasn't paying attention to the fight. She couldn't focus fully when her thoughts kept drifting to Kent and Ai, her innocent little newborns. It was a weakness to the primal instincts of saiyans. When the mother is out and there is a fight that could lead to the death of her young should a specific party lose, then that mother can think of nothing but their young and protecting them. That's where the wrath of the saiyan mothers comes in. Mothers would do anything to protect their young. Rarely are they not on the mother's mind, some of those times being in more intimate situations with the father.
Some might have thought her distraction was her mate in the spandex that showed off each detail of his chiseled body and gave her a great view of his butt, but she had seen him naked numerous times so who gave a rats ass about that? The only thing she cared about was her young, keeping her friends and family safe, and kicking that green bug-like freaks ass into the next dimension.
Krillin said, "Well, it looks like they're ready to get down to it for real."
Goku and Cell stared at one another, neither in their fighting stances. Goku had a confident smirk on his face, still. What was going on in their heads? was a common question that only they, Goku and Cell, could answer for them.
Suddenly, Goku got into a hoarse stance and showed his grit teeth. "Now!" A golden aura surrounded him when he crossed his arms over his face. The stage around him was tipped up and flung about. His Ki was sky rocketing and none of them had ever felt anything like it before. All of that power… it was over whelming. It was a true thing to envy amongst the fighters. Red electricity flew about, radiating off of him and his flaming aura.
"What power," exclaimed Yamcha.
"That's for sure," Tien agreed, both unable to remove their eyes.
Kentana and Trunks shared their sentiments. "That's incredible," they said in unison. Apparently even slightly their minds could still reach each other and share thoughts that they didn't work to hide or leave in their head.
Vegeeta stared with wide eyes. "That fool!"
As Goku reached the power he had been pulling for, he let out a yell and threw up his arms, making a flashy red dome of pure energy. Smoke blew up in great plumes and wind blew hair away, pushing back Trunks' lavender locks and knocking Kentana's loose ponytails together behind her head. Then Cell released his own power.
A great many beams of light shot into the sky and through the thick dark clouds. He roared out and the numbers of lights grew. The force of the wind was much greater, making it troublesome for many to stand, almost not affecting the balance of Gohan.
"It's a standoff," narrated Krillin. "They're both fighting at maximum power."
Goku's smirk was gone and replaced by a serious slight frown. Cell on the other hand had a smirk like before. Goku walked across the arena and towards his android enemy. He stopped feat away, Goku looking up at him.
"Your move," stated Cell.
Goku responded with his returned smirk, "Of course."
He threw a punch at Cell's stomach, then another hit, and another. The fight carried out. Cell spoke words after the punches were thrown and Goku responded, but Kentana couldn't hear anything over the pounding in her ears. She probably shouldn't have taken her after birth meds earlier that day. didn't the doctor say not to take them before a fight or something that'll get your heart pounding. Eh, what's the worst that could happen?
Trunks said unsteadily, "Hey Krillin, between the two of them, who do you think is gonna win?" Cold sweat crept its way down the back of his neck.
"I say Goku is the man," responded the bald ex-monk. "And Cell is going down," he cheered. Kentana felt a surge of more hope at Krillin's statements.
Goku can do this, she thought. And no one else can.
They flew at each other once more and began trading intense kicks and punches, the kind that have you sitting on the edge of your seat while watching. It was intense. None of them could have survived in Goku's shoes at that moment.
(Now I'm going to skip a bit because all I'm really doing is writing what's happening during the Cell Games) Cell becomes four, Goku defeats the four of them and they rejoin, Goku tricks Cell… Now to Cell's Kamehameha.
"No! You can't put that much power into the Kamehameha. It's too dangerous!" warned Goku as he raised a hand as if it could stop the mad monster.
"HAAAAAAMEEEEEEE" yelled Cell as he put even more energy into it.
Vegeeta's eyes widened as he exclaimed, "He'll kill us all!"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAA" Cell released the beam right at Goku.
The beam was massive and flaming with energy. Everyone had to shield their eyes from the light and force of the attack. Kentana's and Trunks' hair blew about from the wind made by the energy. So much power… thought Kentana, gritting her teeth.
Goku leaped into the air yelling, "Cell, up here!"
Kentana peeked open her eye and watched as Cell redirected the beam away from the Earth and the rest of them. He's leading it away! She watched painstakingly as the beam surrounded Goku, engulfing her uncle in its blue light. "Uncle Kakarott!" she screamed a bit like a snarl of rage because he had doomed them all with his death. She watched curiously and hurt as the beacon of light trailed off into the sky, wondering how far it'll go before it hit something and if that something was going to be wrenched from someone else's life. Uncle Kakarott is no more.
And there you have it. Sorry I took so long to update. I was on vacation at my Grandma's and she kept me busy the whole time, then I had a very long commute back home, then my younger aunt around my age was staying with us for a while and she lives very far away so I don't get to see her often so I took the time to spend it with her. Sorry about that.
ME-"Dum ta de dum dum…"
Trunks and Kentana open the door.
TRUNKS- "What are you doing?"
ME- *grins sheepishly* I'm chilling with my boy. Kauffman," raises the bottle at hand.
TRUNKS- *looks at the half empty bottle of Kauffmen in my hand* "You have a bottle of $225 Russian vodka just sitting in the closet, and yet you can't give me a raise."
KENTANA- "Pff. Like you need a raise rich boy."
ME- "What? $225… Oh… That was meant for your birthday present…" *holds bottle up to Trunks* "Happy Birthday!"
KENTANA-"It's your birthday?"
TRUNKS-"How do you not know my birthday? We freaking had kids together and you don't know my birthday!"
KENTANA-"You don't know mine!"
TRUNKS-"YES I DO! I think you're insane, and I think you're drunk. Are you even old enough to drink?"
ME- *hiccup*
KENTANA- "Well, that answers your question." *takes bottle* "I think I'll have myself some vodka." *takes a swig*
TRUNKS-"You drink vodka even though you're not old enough either."
KENTANA-"I prefer whiskey or some good brandy, but this'll do."
ME-*hiccup* "I have whiskey in a compartment in the back of my wine cabinet."
KENTANA- "Sweet."
TRUNKS- *sighs and rolls eyes* "Am I the only responsible person here? Give me your keys."
KENTANA-"I don't have a car."
TRUNKS-"Then why are their keys jingling in your pocket?"
KENTANA-"Their yours." *runs off laughing hysterically*
TRUNKS-"Come back here!" *runs after her*
ME- Sounds off a car speeding down the road can be heard, then a crash. *hiccups* "Dum ta de dum dum…"