Chapter 15: Discoveries

17 released Gosen from his grasp. They descended to the area of carnage that 18 unleashed on to the z-fighters. Gosen turned back to normal and held Gohan in his arms. He saw that Gohan was shaken up, but not bad. Same went for the others. Vegeta on the other hand was in critical condition. "They're going to be fine for the most part, but Vegeta needs to be taken care of soon." Gosen looked at 18 as if she were a hopeless girl. "Did you really have to dominate Vegeta like how you did?"

18 closed her eyes and turned her head quickly. "He got on my nerves."

"Still though..." Gosen added smiling a bit. Gosen heard some mumbling and saw that Krillin was waking up. When Krillin managed to open his eyes, he saw that Gosen was with 17 and 18. Krillin was startled immensely. "Krillin relax. They won't hurt you...anymore." Krillin managed to relax his muscles and calmed down. "How're you feeling?"

"If I'm the first to wake up then better than everyone else I guess." Krillin answered.

Gosen smiled and said, "You have a point." He turned his attention to the android twins and asked, "So you guys really don't know what you're going to do?"

17 put his hands behind his head. "Not a clue. With only 2 people to fight, it would get dull very fast."

"Then come with me for a second." 17 and 18 rose an eyebrow, confused about Gosen's offer.

"What for?" 18 asked, playing with her earring.

"I want to check Gero's lab for something. If what I want to find is there, then I can probably end things right away. What do you say? You feeling up to it?"

"Well, we have nothing better to do, c'mon 17." 17 and 18 flew up slowly and Gosen followed. He turned to Krillin and said, "Watch over them for me. Tell them the situation if any of them wake up."

"What about if Vegeta wakes up?"

"Trust me. That fool isn't waking up anytime soon." 18 answered.

Gosen was scared. He turned back to Krillin with his eyes closed smiling with cold sweat dripping down his face. "W-Well, there's your answer!" They landed in the lab where 17 and 18 came out from. The lab wasn't in ruins, but there were a lot of rubble from the explosion. Gosen walked forward and looked on both of his sides. Behind him, 17 walked over to his pod with his hands in his pocket and 18 was looking on a pod labeled "16".

"Hey, what's this?" 17 and Gosen looked over at the pod 18 referred to.

"It looks like the doc made an android before us." 17 assumed. Gosen turned his head to the right. 18 saw the look in Gosen's eyes. She innocently widened her eyes and asked Gosen what the problem was. 17 and 18 turned their attention to the area Gosen was so fixated on. There were pods labeled 13, 14, 15 lined up in a row. 17 whistled and said, "The doc was a busy man."

"Let's just leave these pods alone for now. Come on. I see a path over there. Let's follow it." 17 peeped at the remote Gero was going to use to turn them off. He picked it up, crushed it, and let the pieces fall to the floor without a care in the world. They found a hole that would lead to the basement. They slowly descended down there. Gosen felt the wall to find a light switch, and as he turned it on he saw Dr. Gero's master computer, some android blueprints, and a tank with a larva in there. 17 whistled again.

"The doc was definitely a busy man for his old age." Gosen walked over to the tank with a stern face. The label on the tank read "Cell".

"I found you." Gosen said under his breath. 18 walked up to it with her hands crossed. She bent her upper body slightly taking a closer look.

"What is this?"

"This is Cell. He was the android I originally encountered from my timeline. This is just his larva state though. If he were to mature he'd be more powerful than all 3 of us."

"I'm confused in more ways than one." 18 said. She bent over and looked Gosen in the eye. "From your timeline?" Gosen's cheeks turned red and he turned away.

"I'm from a different reality from this one. I came here because there was nothing left for me there."

"Ok, and another thing. Stronger than the 3 of us? That's an exaggeration don't you think?" 17 said.

"Exactly. We are the doctor's best weapons, well, until we backfired on him that is." 18 added.

"Twin minds think alike I guess. I've been there. Realistically though, your power isn't even close to his. I'm more or less equal to your level of power right now, but I still remember the amount of power he could put out. It was too crazy for words." 17 and 18 remained silent. Gosen looked at the android blueprints. Some of those were for 17 and 18. "Eh? You guys are 17?"

"Yeah." 17 answered.

"We're right around the same age then." Gosen looked on Cell's design to see if there was a way to stop him. He looked through it about 5 times before giving up. Cell's design was absolutely flawless. "Well then, let's blow this place to hell and get out of here." 17, 18, and Gosen all fired at the basement repeatedly. Soon they aimed for Cell's tank and blasted it along with Cell's larva state. "Good riddance."

As the place broke down, destroying everything along with the other pods within the lab, the trio flew back to where the Z-fighters were resting. At this point, everyone had woken up except for Vegeta, who was probably more out of it now than before. "Big Bro! What happened!" Gohan asked curiously.

Gosen walked up to them with his hands in his pockets and with the android twins following behind him. There wasn't much inside there. I only saw Cell's larva state, though it's erased from existence now.

"S-So our time is at peace now?" Krillin asked. He was just about ready to party. Gosen looked over at 17 and 18. 17 shrugged his shoulders and 18 looked like she wanted to sleep. Gosen turned back to them giving an assuring smile. Everyone except for Piccolo and Tien smiled and partied around. Piccolo was more pessimistic, not trusting 17 and 18 right away. Tien was smiling, though he just didn't dance around.

"Though things aren't done yet." Gosen said. Everyone stopped. "My dad. I still don't know what his problem was. I want to go to him now. Let's not waste another minute!" Piccolo picked up Vegeta and everyone began to fly from the direction they came. Gosen looked down and he was astonished to see what he had saw. "It can't be."

Gosen descended quickly to the ground. "Trunks!" He yelled out. His best friend, Trunks was beaten down to the ground, unable to move. His time machine was right there as well. Gosen held him up. His face was bloody and he was within an inch of his life. Trunks tried to speak, but he was having a hard time doing so. Gosen brought himself closer so he can hear what Trunks had to say. Even with his ear almost pressed against his lips, it was still nearly impossible to hear him. But he managed to find a way. Once Trunks had told Gosen what he wanted to tell him, Gosen's eyes became nearly lifeless. He was still as if he were a statue. The words Trunks said kept replaying in his mind. In a dark void with no light. The traumatizing words kept playing again, and again, and again, and again.

"Cell is here."

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