Trunks sat and drank his soda while talking to Dawn. They were waiting for the others to arrive before setting out to find the Dragonballs.
"I swear. It was so cool. She just beat the demon down in our basement with a pipe." Dawn exclaimed.
"The flooded basement?" Trunks asked
"Yeah. It was so cool." Dawn giggled, "Though it's not as cool as that story about how you and Goten entered that tournament as a one person."
"We were kids. We did crazy things." he smiled at her, "I look back and realize how much of a cocky little brat I was."
Vegeta looked in at them from the balcony.
"Children. Humph, where is Kakkarot? I swear he's the only person I know that can be anywhere instantly but still takes time to get there. Probably trying to get his sons out of their rooms studying. I swear…..if I were him I would not take that…type of harassment from my……..wife. What is that?" Vegeta thought to himself.
In this universe, most beings can be detected by power levels. The more powerful you are, the easier your presence can be felt. Vegeta is one of the more powerful creatures on the planet……and he has been overwhelmed by the intensity of this power level. Inside, Trunks stopped what he was saying and immediately stood up and walked to the balcony with Dawn right behind him, wondering what was wrong. In an instant, another man teleported on the balcony. He was a bit taller than either Vegeta or Trunks and had another mop of tangled hair on his head.
"Goku!" Trunks shouted when he appeared. Goku looked out over the horizon with Vegeta.
"Good of you to show up Kakkarot." Vegeta said to him, calling him by his Saiyen name.
"Do you feel that…power?" Goku asked
"Yes, I do. It's more energy than I've ever felt before. What can it be?" Vegeta asked.
Goku suddenly seemed to catch something in his line of sight. An instant later and he was up in the air, his black hair turning blonde. He was in his Super Saiyen form and he immediately fired a huge blast of energy. It connected with the mountain that had just been flung at them. Vegeta was soon in the air as well, likewise turned Super Saiyen, blasting a small plateau to dust. More and more chunks of rock came hurling at them and each time they were destroyed by the two warriors. And all this had happened in a few seconds. Dawn was flabbergasted.
"What's going on?" she asked before screaming at a blast shattering a mountain. Rubble fell to the streets below crushing some people.
"Oh no. Those people! Dad and Goku are stopping those mountains from connecting with the city, but whatever pieces they get blasted into are still big enough to cause major damage!" Trunks exclaimed.
"What can throw mountains?" Dawn screamed as another explosion rang out.
Bulma ran into the room screaming.
"What's going on?!" she demanded
"Nothing good. Mom you and Dawn get out of here. I need to help dad and Goku." Trunks said
"But Trunks!" Dawn exclaimed
"No buts honey, we need to get out of here." Bulma said dragging Dawn by the arm. Dawn broke free and kissed Trunks passionately. He returned it.
"You come back to me." Dawn said
"Count on it." Trunks said smirking and rocketing into the sky. He too had gone Super Saiyen and was deflecting the smeller debris as it came. Bulma grabbed Dawn and they both ran to an exit.
"Where are we going?" Dawn asked
"To one of my personal jets. We're going to find the Dragonballs ourselves. God knows we'll need them after today." Bulma responded
Outside Goku, Vegeta and Trunks were giving it their all to destroy the debris as it flew towards them. Vegeta roared as he incinerated a huge mountainside. Then the debris stopped coming.
"What?!" Vegeta asked, surprised.
"Maybe they ran out of mountains. Hopefully." Trunks said swallowing.
Goku scanned the horizon. His eyes got huge when he looked in the distance and saw who exactly was responsible for the mountains. And he was coming right at them.
"Vegeta! It's Cell!" came his warning as Vegeta turned, only to be slapped away over the horizon.
Cell then smiled at Goku. Goku charged up and fired multiple ki bolts at Cell. Cell just yawned and they simply diffused as they left Goku's hands. Trunks then tried to attack Cell by brute force and was caught by the throat.
"Hmm. Thought I killed you. Well, you won't be resurrected this time around." Cell said applying pressure to Trunks' throat.
Goku rushed Cell and hit him with a flurry of punches and kicks, hundreds per second. Cell simply smiled and began to crush Trunks' throat. Trunks was finding it very hard to breathe. His golden hair began to return to its original purple as Goku valiantly tried to break Cell's grip on the boy. Goku then quickly grabbed Trunks and managed to teleport him out of Cell's grasp. They both reappeared on the ground.
"Are you okay?" Goku asked the coughing Trunks.
"I'm good." Trunks tried to say without coughing. He immediately changed his opinion of his welfare when blood was coughed up.
"Get out of here. Cell seems even stronger than the last time he and I fouAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Goku roared in pain as Cell teleported above him and drove his foot down on top of his head, putting Goku into the ground like a spike being driven into it. Cell then landed and looked at Trunks.
"Hmmm. You obviously aren't the brat from the future. You must be his current incarnation. Oh well. A dead Saiyen is a dead Saiyen." Cell smiled, powering up a killing blast.
"Yeah. Well judging from that sonic boom, I'd say you're about to feel a world of hurt." Trunks smiled.
A second later Vegeta plowed into Cell with all the force his frame could muster. Cell was not moved. Goku erupted from the ground and instantly uppercutted Cell with as much force as he could. Cell didn't flinch. In that next instant all three were upon him. Cell only smiled as his energy built and the three were easily thrown into the next county. Cell was with them when they landed. An elbow sent Trunks down, blood dripping from the back of his head. Vegeta roared in anger, but was silenced when all the air was driven from his lungs by a punch to the stomach. Vegeta fell. Goku was then tossed into him.
"Childish. Is this as far as you have come? You are nothing to me, as ever was the case. I've waited so long for this. I'm holding back just to savor this. For now anyway. I suppose you're wondering how I'm back. Well, I was granted a boon in the underworld. I came back to inflict as much pain as I could on your families as I could. And Goku, I learned of your resurrection long ago. Word of something like that travels fast in the underworld. I'm going to torture you slowly. But none will be tortured more slowly than your son Gohan. His death will be most painful. Now then, do you have anything to say? Vegeta, any diatribes on how you're so much more powerful than anyone? Well, speak up." Cell laughed. Goku and Vegeta just looked at one another and nodded. They then cupped their hands.
"KAAAAAA…ME………HA…..ME………HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Goku roared firing a huge, blue bolt of energy at Cell
"GALAC GUN!" Vegeta roared firing bolts of his own at Cell.
Using his own energy as a shield, Cell actually batted away the massive Kamehameha wave Goku had fired. He then easily avoided all of Vegeta's blasts as well.
"My turn. TRI BEAM!" Cell said as he fired an intense wave of energy that knocked both Goku and Vegeta off of their feet and sent them flying backwards ripping up the landscape.
"And that was an attack from one of your infinitely weaker allies, Tien. Imagine what I could do with a destructo disk or a kamehameha or a…"
"SPIRAL BEAM!" a loud voice rang out as a yellow blast of energy nailed Cell in the back.
It didn't harm him, but it did merit his attention. He turned and saw the green skinned Namek called Piccolo standing there.
"Even you are an idiot Piccolo. To think that you would even attempt to stop me on your own borders on the absurd." Cell scoffed.
"He's not alone." said a young man dropping from the sky. He looked to be in his early twenties. He could only be…..Gohan. And in the sky was more help. Krillin, Android 18, Yamcha, Tien, Chaozhu, Videl, and Goten. In the distance Cell could see ground forces amassing.
"We all felt you Cell. And now we're all here to stop you." Piccolo growled.
"Then stop me." Cell smirked
"So I was all "Hey! I let you out of your bottle now grant my wishes!" She smartened up and did what she was told to do then." Autolycus smirked
"Craptacular." Buffy sighed.
It was getting dark and Hercules was still talking to those kids. And she was forced to listen to Autolycus go on and on. He was handsome, but very conceited. Buffy just listened, sighed and looked at her watch. It said six AM. Yet it was dark here.
"Damn alternate universes and time zones."
That's when the bell sounded. Ioulus was ringing it frantically. Autolycus looked up at him.
"Oh no." he muttered
"What is it?" Buffy asked
"Trouble." Autolycus replied. Hercules shot out of the hut where the children were and yelled up.
"Ioulus?!" Hercules asked
"Orcs! A lot of them too! Hundreds, maybe thousands!" Ioulus screamed.
"How far?!" Hercules asked
"Judging from the lay of the land, a little under five miles!" Ioulus added
"Not good. They'll be here in a few minutes. ARCHERS! GET TO YOUR POSITIONS! Everyone else take up arms! We have to protect the children and the women! We have to protect the stone!" Hercules yelled
Buffy ran to a ladder and climbed up it to the top of the wall where Ioulus stood. She looked out and in the distance, they were coming. So many she couldn't count. They covered the landscape like ants and they were coming closer. She tensed and knew that they could not win this fight without a miracle. On the ground, various warriors were consulting Hercules.
"WE cannot fight that many Orcs, Hercules. We can barely hold this fort to a few. We have to go!" one said
"Yes, we can take the Stone with us. We'll keep it safe on the run!" another added
"Don't you get it? We can't outrun Orcs! We can't keep the Stone safe outside the confines of the fort!" Hercules said
"But we have to leave! We can't win! Hercules we have to run!" still another said.
This display was making Buffy sick. She had had enough and was about to give those cowards a piece of her mind. She breathed in deeply and let it all out.
"WELL GO AHEAD AND RUN! RUN HOME TO MOMMA! ME, I'M STAYING!" Buffy roared on top the wall.
They all looked up at her. She was the very image of Xena. Hercules smiled.
"Are all women from your world as brash as you?" Hercules asked
"Just me baby, just me." Buffy responded
"Hmm. That's a good line. I'm going to write that down." Autolycus thought
Hercules climbed the ladder and met Buffy at the top.
"How good are you with a bow?" Hercules asked
"Good enough." she responded
"Ioulus. Get her some weaponry." Hercules said.
"You don't have enough arrows to put them down." Buffy said
"No. We don't" Hercules added
"Do you have any catapults?" Buffy asked
"No. We have me." Hercules said leaping over the side of the wall to where several large rocks were sitting.
Buffy watched as he picked up boulder after boulder and threw them towards the advancing Orcs. Buffy could see, even from such a far distance, that the rocks were having and immediate effect.
"How's that doing?"
"Great. I can see some of them scattering. Their torches are going everywhere. Looks like some more are coming with a lot more torches." Buffy said down to Hercules.
Hercules leapt upwards and Buffy was amazed as he actually climbed the wall. He got back to where she was and looked out over the horizon.
"Wish we had more rocks." Hercules said to her.
"It's really getting bright back there." Buffy said
"Those are awfully big torches." Hercules said with a hint of dread.
Indeed, miles away the Orcs led by the powerful Lurtz and the insidious creature known as the Creeper were feeling the effects of Hercules' bombardment.
"Kill the wounded. We may need rations." Lurtz barked out crudely.
"Hercules was undoubtedly responsible." the Creeper said to Lurtz
"All he did was make us madder." Lurtz growled.
"So what do you plan on doing now?" Creeper asked
"We kill them." Lurtz reasoned
"What a plan." the Creeper sarcastically said
"We kill them…..with our friend." Lurtz smiled sickeningly as a huge figure walked up behind them.
It was thirty feet tall and its body glowed with the orange hue of fire. It stepped on any Orcs foolish enough to be in its way. It roared loudly and Hercules heard it all the way at the Fort.
"By the gods. They brought the Balrog." He said