Orange Star High: The Cell Games
Chapter 13
The saliva continued to leak to the ground from Cell's mouth as he screamed. The blond woman that the monster had spit up was on the ground, covered in all of the creature's salvia. Cell fell to the ground on one knee and tried to pick up the blond woman. Most of the students had figured out that she might have had something to do with Cell. Cell stood up and his screams became louder. Gusts of wind along with smoke made by him could be seen. Then, what seemed to be a purple mist came from Cell's body, and he started to change. In a split second, Cell looked different! The creature had changed back to his Semi-Perfect form, but the students didn't know that. In fact, they were terrified of his new form. If they thought he was ugly and scary looking then, just think how they feel about him now.
Cell stood there breathing heavy in his Semi-Perfect form. He looked a bit bigger and his tail had grown longer, and overall he just looked plain ugly. The young Gohan saw the entire transformation and stared blankly at it all.
The monster turned his head back to Gohan, a mixture of fear and anger, mainly fear flowing through his body.
"BOY!" Cell shouted as he stomped his way closer to Gohan, cracking the ground,
"YOU LITTLE INSECT YOU DEFORMED ME!"
Although Cell knew he was completely powerless to more than just Gohan now, he still tried to attack. He launched himself at the young lad and tried to punch him, and it was easily dodged.
Cell's slower movements did not go unnoticed by the group of kids sitting on the bleachers in the gymnasium.
"I think Cell got slower!" A student shouted, seeing all of Cell's punches being dodged without effort.
"Now that you say that I think you may be right!"
Gohan had enough of dodging and jumped back a couple of yards, and flew forward to Cell again and punched him straight in the gut.
Videl's POV
That kid was right when he said that Cell was moving slower. Now, Videl could clearly see all of Cell's attacks. After some heavy thinking, Videl finally thought something.
"That blond woman that Cell regurgitated must have been the reason he transformed to this!" She mentally thought to herself.
Then, she saw Gohan punch the creature's gut. The creature flew back near a huge crack in the ground. Videl's face lit up in both excitement and victory as she turned her head to Gohan, only for it to fade away and be replaced with shock. Gohan didn't look happy at all. He looked like the complete opposite. Throughout most of the footage, she hadn't seen him show any sort of emotion except for earlier on. But now, his hands were balled into fists, and his breathing intensified. It almost looked like he was angry, or just really hurt about something.
"But what could it have been?"
Gohan walked towards Cell with no expression shown on his face as Cell struggled to get up from his punch. Cell looked back in total fear now.
"Stay away from me you monster!" Cell said, calling him a monster ironically once more. As ironic as it sounded to the students, a lot of them thought Cell was right when he called Gohan a monster. Not that Cell didn't deserve every kind of torture imaginable but wouldn't it be just best to kill the creature here and now? But it almost looked like it was a game to Gohan. A sick, twisted game that Gohan was enjoying.
As Gohan walked closer, Cell walked backwards until he fell through the abnormally huge crack. Luckily, Cell managed to grab the top of the surface to prevent himself from falling deep just in time. However, luck ran out for Cell as Gohan was now staring down at him.
Gohan put his foot on the hand that Cell used to keep himself hanging.
"GIVE UP, OR FALL!" He told Cell. But, no matter how scared Cell was, he was still thick headed.
"NOO!" Cell shouted at Gohan, trying to lift himself back up, now using two hands. Gohan gave an almost evil smirk once more at Cell and put his foot on Cell's head and made him fall down the crack.
The students cheered, thinking it was the end of Cell for what seemed like the 100th time. And like before, they were wrong.
Just as Gohan turned his back, Cell flew up and tried to attack, only to be kicked in the face and sent flying through boulders. He skidded on his rear end and came to a stop. Gohan started to walk over to Cell, his face still showing no emotion.
"I'll get you for this boy I swear I will!" Cell shouted.
"Cell, give up. You aren't going to beat me." Gohan told the creature.
His father, watching from the sides had enough of Gohan toying with Cell.
"NOW GOHAN! THERE'S NO TIME TO WASTE! DO IT NOW!" Goku shouted. Gohan did not respond back and continued to walk to Cell, who looked like he was going to shit himself.
"NO! Stand back!" Cell shouted, then gave one scream and powered up. Then, his eyes started to grow wider. His body, along with his arms, legs and face started to become puffer. Cell started to grow immensely, similar to what he did with Gohan earlier before, but now fatter. It almost looked like he was turning himself into a huge balloon to explode himself.
At this point, Cell was bigger than ever. His chest puffed out and his face was a lot chubbier. He raised his left hand up in the air, no reason why.
Nobody knew what was going on, so they all turned to Gohan for an explanation. However, the way Gohan looked showed that something was wrong with him. His fists were now turned white from squeezing them with so much pressure, and his eye started to twitch.
Gohan's POV
The first thing that popped in Gohan's mind when he agreed to let his friends and classmates see the original video was how they would react to seeing his powers. He tuned out every single thought, and focused on how he would explain everything to everyone. But right now, he couldn't care less about what anyone thought about him. His dad was all that he could think about.
It had taken some years to get Gohan to stop blaming himself for his father's death, and watching the way how he died just reminded him how much he failed. Yes, he had agreed to letting the class see it and even watching it with them, but that thought of his dad had never really came into mind. Now, he had to cope with seeing his father die in front of his eyes.. Again.
The young warrior could do nothing but stare in horror as he heard Cell say that he was going to explode himself and the world along with him. Cell laughed as his body still was growing larger and larger by the second.
"YOU LOSE LITTLE MAN! I'M GOING TO DESTROY THIS PLANET!" Although Gohan knew that it was too late to do anything, he took his stance, ready to do anything it would take him to do to save his planet.
"No you won't!" Gohan shouted at Cell.
"Watch out, you might make me explode! Don't make me upset, a little shock could set me off!" Cell told Gohan.
"Then it's bye bye Goku, bye bye Gohan and bye bye Earth!" Those words angered and hurt both the younger Gohan and the now teenage Gohan.
"One minute boy then It'll all be over!" Cell said, still growing. It was over. Gohan could've beaten Cell when he had him but he let his cockiness take control of him. There was nothing to do but take defeat.
The younger Gohan fell to his knees, beating himself up for not finishing off Cell.
"I've failed.. What have I done?" He asked himself. His balled his fists together and started to pound them to the ground as hard as he can.
"I've been a fool! I let Cell win again!"
The echoes of Cell's laughter was heard on the battlefield. It almost seemed like these echoes could be heard in the gymnasium. What started out to be a one-man show turned out to be a fatal mistake. Was this the end for them?
Then, out of nowhere, a man appeared in between Cell and Gohan. It was Goku. Cell was surprised to see Goku come so close to him as he was about to blow himself up. Gohan looked up at his father, who had 2 fingers to his forehead while placing his hand in Cell's abnormally large stomach.
"Hey.. You put up a good fight Gohan, I'm proud of you." Goku told Gohan.
The shocked and confused Gohan could not form any words. He uttered a "What, daddy? to his father.
"Take care of your mother for me, she needs you. Tell her that I had to do this Gohan." Goku said, a smile of pride forming on his lips.
"Goodbye.." Was Goku's final words before he disappeared, taking Cell along with him.
The young Gohan ran to the spot where his father was at, not believing this that was all true.
"NO COME BACK!" He yelled out. But it was too late. His father had sacrificed himself to save the world.
Gohan's POV
It was at this moment that Gohan could not hold his emotions anymore. His tears fell down to his cheek as he heard his fathers final words. It was sad that his last memory of his father was him sacrificing himself because of his failures.
"Dad.." Gohan said weakly before bursting into tears. Tears of hopelessness, regret, sorrow. His fists were still balled tight, the skin breaking. What turned out to be the day that Mr. Satan was labeled a fraud to the world somehow turned into the day that Gohan was reminded of his mistake.
Gohan got up out of his seat in the bleachers, quickly getting out of the gymnasium. He needed a moment to himself to think.
Videl saw Gohan leave the gymnasium and immediately got up to follow him. The video was paused and no one could do anything but watch as Gohan rushed out of the gymnasium, going outside and Videl following along. Although they couldn't actually see where Goku had went with Cell, they knew that he had sacrificed himself. The man they thought was a trickster and a liar turned out to be one of the heroes of Earth.
"Damn.." Was all that Sharpner could say, stunned at what he saw.
Gohan and Videl
Stepping outside at the front of the school's building, the cold air blew at Gohan's tears. Gohan didn't want to watch the rest of the video, seeing Cell come back to life and watching another loved one, Mirai Trunks, die in front of him.
"I'm sorry Bulma.. I can't.." He told himself, getting ready to fly home. Before he could take off, he heard a familiar voice call his name. It was Videl. She had followed him out of the gymnasium.
"Gohan wait!" She yelled out, running to him.
"I'm sorry Videl.. I can't stay here and watch my failures all over again. I thought I could do this, but I can't.." He told her, tears still falling down his cheek.
"Gohan.. I'm sorry that all of this happened.. I.. I never knew that you were exposed to these kinds of situations.."
"This is my life Videl. All of my life I've done nothing but watch my friends and family die in front of me.. I broke the one chance I had to destroy evil and live life normally with my family.. I let myself down and I let everyone down.." Gohan said, turning the other direction to take off. But Videl had other plans. She grabbed him and forced him to turn to her and look her in the eyes.
"Gohan, this is not your fault. You did the best that you could to beat Cell. Your father was proud that you were so strong. You did what no other person would ever do and you fought your hardest. You and your father both are the bravest and most courageous people I've ever met." She said in an unusual soft tone. Gohan's eyes stared at Videl's eyes in shock and amazement. In the 3 weeks he's been in school, he had not heard Videl use this kind of tone with him, or even anyone.
"Videl.. My father's sacrifice was in vain.. Cell came back and.. And it was just too much for us to handle.." He told her, narrowing his eyes to the ground. Videl, expressing her feelings more than she could ever think cupped Gohan's face with her hands.
"I know it's hard to cope with but.. Your father had no other choice. He did what was best for the world, and he did what was best for you Gohan. Besides, Cell is gone now and we have you to thank because of it. You're the Earth's hero Gohan.. More importantly, you're my hero.." Videl moved in closer before closing the gap between them completely. Gohan's eyes widened to the size of the planet, being taken by surprise. He quickly got of this and responded to Videl's kiss, putting his hands on her waist while she wrapped her arms around his neck. This was their first kiss, and so far it felt like magic. The 3 weeks of hiding affections and feelings was finally let free. Pulling away, Gohan looked at Videl, a huge weight on his shoulders finally gone.
"Thank you Videl." He told her, smiling. She returned the smile and pecked him on the lips.
"You're welcome Gohan. Do you still want to watch the video?" She asked him. Gohan thought for a brief moment before giving her an answer.
"Yes, I do. I feel like I could cope with what I'll see." He told her. Both of them walked back to the gymnasium holding hands, fingers intertwined with each other.
