Orange Star High: The Cell Games
Chapter 7
"Well I hope that confidence has not been misplaced. Now where is he? Where is this great invisible Champion?"
"Oh he's here, he just doesn't know it yet."
"I am losing my patience Goku, say the name!"
"Alright guys, I'm afraid that I can't win this fight, I need someone to take over! That someone is you... Gohan!"
The video was paused and everyone in the gymnasium with the exception of Hercule turned to look at Gohan with their eyes widened in shock.
"Y-You fought Cell..?" Erasa asked Gohan.
Gohan turned his head towards Erasa and stared at her. Then he turned his head back towards the center part of the gym where the screen was, looking at it with extreme focus. The video had been paused to the part where the camera had pointed to the direction of the mysterious warriors.
The class started to speak loudly to each other, occasionally glancing and pointing at Gohan.
Mr. Satan looked at the class stare and point at Gohan with confusion.
'Why are they looking at that scrawny kid like that? He couldn't have been..' Hercule stopped short and his jaw hit the ground. He now knew why the kids were looking at the scrawny boy.
"T-that.. That scrawny kid was the boy from the Cell games..? Oh no, whats he doing here?" Hercule asked himself in fear, his face going pale.
Videl looked at the little boy with gravity-defying hair then looked back at Gohan to see the comparsion. Her eyes widened in shock once more when she saw the resemblance that Gohan had with the boy.
'Gohan was the Delivery Boy!?' She yelled to herself in her head.
"You never told me you fought Cell!" She then yelled at Gohan.
Gohan looked at Videl, his onyx eyes staring straight at her blue eyes. Videl blushed a little at this, and turned her head to the side so that Gohan wouldn't notice.
"Videl.. Yes I fought Cell. I never told anyone because I didn't want people to know that I could do all of those things.. They would just label me as some kind of freak." Gohan said to her.
Videl looked back at Gohan, her big blue eyes starting to gleam. 'Poor Gohan.. He was put in such a tough position at a young age.. It's no wonder he never wanted to tell anyone.. And all I did was annoy him about his secrets. I'm such a dumbass..' Videl thought, lowering her eyes to the ground in sorrow.
Gohan noticed this, and brung his hand to her chin to lift it up so that she was staring at him again.
"Its okay Videl. I know that your suspicions come from being a crime fighter. If I were in your position, I'd be the same way." He told her.
Videl stared at Gohan, her cheeks becoming hot. In the 3 weeks that Gohan had been in the school, she had developed a small crush for him. No matter how pushy she was, he was always being kind and sweet to her. Not to mention that he never wanted to be friends with her just because she was the daughter of Mr. Satan.
"Hey so if you're the Delivery Boy, that means you're the Golden Fighter as well, right?" She asked Gohan.
Gohan let out a soft sigh and smiled a little, "Yeah, I am. I'm sorry, I never wanted to interfere with your job, I just wanted to help." He said to her.
Videl saw the worry in Gohan's eyes. "No Gohan its okay.. I should actually be thanking you for saving me a couple of times.."
Gohan looked at Videl confused for a second, then smiled at her, making her stomach fill with butterflies.
"You're welcome Videl."
Mr. Toriyama had regained composure of himself and heard the chit-chats from his class.
"Class! Now lets get back to watching the video, shall we?"
He pressed the play button on the video and it picked up from where it was at before. They saw the younger Gohan speaking to Goku, not able to pick up what they were saying to each other. Finally, Gohan flew over towards the battlefield.
The little boy the class now knew as Gohan was standing on the battlefield, looking up at Cell who was floating in mid-air.
"So Child are you ready?" Cell asked the younger Gohan in the video.
"HAAAAAAA!" Gohan responded by giving out a loud yell. A huge ball of light exploded near him as huge gusts of wind started to form around the boy, as well as a golden aura. As his yell continued, the winds started to pick up, becoming faster and heavier. Mountains started to crack, and the rocks on the ground were flying in different directions. His yell grew even louder, and suddenly another explosion came from the younger Gohan. The class could see the wind being pushed even further, and the rocks being thrown in each and every direction once more.
The Camera was struggling to keep its focus on the young "Delivery Boy."
"I'm not so sure about this kid. I think not he is Delivery Boy." Pirozhki, one of Mr. Satan's students said.
Then, Gohan's yelling had stopped. The golden aura was still seen around his body, and the gusts of wind was still strong. Beams of what seemed to be light started to fall from the sky, coming towards Gohan. A last ball of explosion appeared and the winds had stopped. A look of determination was seen from the younger Gohan as he stared up at Cell again.
Gohan took a slight stance and yelled out, "Okay Cell, I'm ready!"
Cell's mouth started to move as if he was talking, but no audible words could be heard. Then, Cell had descended to the ground behind the young boy. Gohan had turned around to face cell, now taking on a full fighting stance.
The shocked students saw this and knew that this was the beginning of the battle.
Cell launched a kick at Gohan as fast as lightning, which Gohan had blocked with his arm. He then threw out a combination of punches along with Gohan, both dodging each others hits. Cell then back flipped in the air and tried to kick Gohan, which he dodged. Both fighters took off up in the air, where Cell once again tried to throw a kick at Gohan, and missed.
As Gohan landed on the ground, Cell flew down to him at impossible speeds and hit the ground, creating a huge mass of smoke to be created.
Both fighters flew up to the sky again and Cell appeared in front of Gohan, throwing out a lot of punches, all of which Gohan dodged.
"Alright Gohan, you're doing it!" A student shouted.
"You're the man!" Another called out.
Videl, who was in a state of both shock and wonder turned her head to look at Gohan, who was looking at the fight with a serious expression. She turned her head back to the screen to watch the battle.
Gohan was still dodging all of Cell's punches, and it almost seemed like he was winning. Both fighters gapped from each other and Cell started to talk to Gohan. The camera couldn't pick up on every word, but had managed to hear Cell say, "Now lets see how you maneuver against my true speed!" In the blink of an eye, Cell had hit Gohan in the face and grabbed him by his collar. He then proceeded to punch Gohan in the face, much to the students horror.
"He's gonna hurt that cutie!"Angela yelled.
Most of the girls were yelling out similar comments as Cell continued to punch the little boy. Gohan chose to ignore them and remain watching his battle with focus.
Cell then threw Gohan down, where he hit the ground. The students all thought that was the end for the young warrior. Suddenly, to their amazement, Gohan simply got up and took a stance.
Mr. Satan's POV
Mr. Satan was stunned by the fight he was watching. He hadn't completely seen the fight this close. As he watched the boy dodge and block Cell's attack, he started to think to himself.
"Oh no.. What will the people think once they find out the truth? My life will be over!" He gulped.
"Hey Mr. Satan, I thought you said that these were nothing but tricks? But looking at the fight this close, I don't see any ropes, wires or cranes." The teacher said him.
Mr. Satan looked at the teacher, sweat starting to pound his face.
"Uhhh.." was all he could say before he fell to the ground.
"My life is so over.." He said to himself.
Videl's POV
Looking at the fight, Videl could clearly see that none of these moves that Gohan and Cell were doing were tricks. She always had her doubts about her father being the one to beat Cell. But why would he lie to public and more importantly to her?
She looked at Gohan, who had a serious look on his face, still tuned to the fight.
'Gohan.. Were you the one?' She asked herself before turning to watch the fight again.
The fight resumed after Cell flew into the air and threw a blast at Gohan, who had managed to dodge it just in time. Cell was on Gohan and threw yet another blast at him, another one that he barely escaped. Cell threw a 3rd blast that knocked Gohan on the ground, then threw out his 4th one that Gohan had to roll in order to avoid. Somehow, Cell had made the blast follow Gohan, until he had fully escaped it. He threw out more blasts at the young lad, who dodged them all. Cell teleported behind Gohan, who was surprised and kicked him in the face. He got another hit on him, and tried to get another one, but fortunately Gohan moved away.
Cell flew at Gohan and hit him hard on his head, then kicked him, sending him flying backwards in the air. He teleported to Gohan and hit him square in the face.
"Good fight kid. But I'm afraid to say like all good things it must come to an end." Cell said.
"HAAAAA!" He yelled out while another white blast came out of his hand. Gohan was hit by the blast and was thrown into 2 mountains.
The kids gasped as the mountain crumbled on top of the boy, thinking that it had to kill him.
"Oh no he couldn't have survived that one!"
"Poor little cutie!"
"What evil monster could do such a thing?"
Cell turned to the group of fighters. "Well Goku! It seems that I have won. Are you going to fight me or not?"
"Nope!" Goku said. "Take a look behind you."
"What now?" Cell said as he turned his head to the recently destroyed mountain. The eyes of the students nearly popped out of their heads as they saw a huge light explosion blast the remaining parts of the mountain. There stood Gohan, blood trickling down his forehead and his mouth.
The young Gohan casually walked over to Cell, a look of anger and seriousness on his face.
"Well, maybe I misjudged you. Seems like you got a lot more nerve than I gave you credit more." Cell told the boy.
"We don't have to do this. This fight Cell, its meaningless." The boy said to Cell.
Many of the students turned to Gohan and gave a "Why would you say that?" look only to realize that Gohan was not paying attention to them. His face was stuck on the fight.
Cell laughed at the boy. "You sound just like your father! Do you honestly think that I'll stop my Cell Games because you think its meaningless?"
"Yes." Gohan quietly responded.
"Well think again. Let me explain something to you. You have to fight. Unless you beat me here today, I'll destroy the Earth! Now how's that for meaning?"
"I'm telling you I don't want to fight anymore Cell. Even though you're evil, I have no desire to kill you."
Mr. Toriyama's POV
The middle-aged teacher watched his student fight the green creature, losing by each hit. He saw the young boy get hit repeatedly in the face, and thrown to the ground, and get up the next second.
'Wow, Gohan's amazing!' Mr. Toriyama thought to himself.
Cell had threw many blasts at Gohan, all that the kid had avoided. Then, Cell had hit Gohan with a blast that sent him flying to a Mountain. After Gohan had gone through 2 mountains, the rubble fell on top of him.
Mr. Toriyama's face was in total fear. Surely no human being could ever survive being thrown into 2 mountains, and then being crushed by a pile of rocks. What he didn't know was that Gohan was no ordinary human being.
A loud yell was heard from the area Gohan was thrown at and a huge light explosion was seen. The rocks were blown to bits and flew all across the battlefield. Gohan was standing, fully alive!
Mr. Toriyama could not believe his own eyes. A child had just been crushed by huge rocks and there he was just standing there! It was at that moment that he knew Mr. Satan couldn't have killed Cell.
'If Gohan had gone through all of that and survived, Mr. Satan couldn't have been the one to defeat Cell. But if it wasn't him, who was it?'
"You don't have to continue with this senseless violence. You can put an end to it all right now. I don't want-"
"You don't want to fight, yes I understand that!" Gohan was cut off by Cell.
"Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but did I just hear you threaten to kill me?"
Gohan didn't respond.
"Interesting. Now what makes you think you can carry out this threat? Really, do tell."
"I know now what my father meant. I know now why I'm the only one that can take you down!"
Cell smirked.
"Don't make me laugh. You can't touch me kid."
"No, maybe not right now. But I think its important for you to know what is going to happen if you push me."
Gohan explained to Cell what had happened in the past when his power had awoken whenever he was angry.
"That was the past. Now I'm much stronger. My dad even thinks that I'm much stronger than he is now."
"I think that he realized that if I got pushed too far, if I were to lose control, there's no telling how powerful I would become. And there's no telling what kind of damage the power like that must cause."
Cell listened to the boy, intrigued by what he was hearing. Then he laughed out loud.
"An interesting story. But it didn't work." He told the boy.
The younger Gohan looked up at Cell, shocked.
"Huh?"
"Well, not in the way you intended. But now you've given me something to work for."
"You see Gohan, this hidden power of yours intrigues me, and now that I know about it, I'm determined to see it for myself!" Cell said while suddenly punching Gohan in the face. He then elbowed Gohan's head, causing him to fall on the ground. He put his foot on Gohan's head and put pressure on it, enjoying the shouts of pain from the boy.
Videl's POV
Videl watched in horror as the boy's skull was being crushed by Cell. Her classmates were yelling at the screen, begging for someone to help the little child.
She looked at Gohan once again who had winced at what he was seeing, finally giving in some sort of emotion.
"Why wasn't anyone helping you out?" She asked him.
Gohan turned to her, his expression still as serious as it was at the beginning of the film.
"Just keep watching the video, you'll find out why eventually." He calmly told her before going back to the screen.
Videl just sat there, confused at what he meant. His words seemed to to replay in her head many times.
"'Just keep watching the video, you'll find out why eventually..'
She turned her head back to screen after thinking,
'I hope so Gohan, I need to know everything.'
