Goten

I breathed heavily, blocking every attack I could, but not getting even one opening to make my own move. I could only guess that Trunks and Gohan were in the same boat, but I couldn't see them through the crowd of Androids.

Then they all suddenly stopped and turned to the colosseum. I was about to take advantage of it, but curiosity took over and I looked to see what had distracted them.

A brilliant white light shot out of the colosseum, extending up into the air beyond my field of vision. I could feel Locke's ki quickly rising, to a level I'd never dreamed he'd reach, then it suddenly vanished, though the light remained.

"What?" The Androids resumed their attack, but the distraction had broken their formation, allowing me a better setup for fighting back.

Meadow

Bulma and I stared in amazement as Locke was completely enveloped by white light, making it difficult to look at him. The ground shook underneath us, and I just barely heard and saw the glass of Oreg's eyes shatter, only to be replaced. Strangely enough, snow started to fall as well, reflecting the light.

The light started to fade, leaving a figure covered with a glowing white shell, with a sparkling snow-white aura surrounding him like flames. The shell cracked, pieces floating off, slowly revealing the figure underneath. I gasped at the sight.

Locke stood, slightly thinner and taller than normal, looking almost exactly like a Super Saiyan. But the colors were all wrong. His spikey hair was a metallic white, and his eyes were the exact same, with a faint circle dividing his pupilless irises from his sclerae. He looked down at himself, his rage turning to surprise.

"What?" he breathed, inspecting his body. "I-I kinda expected a Super Saiyan Orchid 4 or something. What's this?"

Oreg growled, frustrated. "Your own God form." We all looked at the robot in surprise. "I couldn't program a ritual for you to attain the God ki, like Goku did, but the potential was more than possible. And you seem to have found the key."

Locke looked over himself again. "I'm... a God?"

"Yes," Oreg answered. "And this doesn't appear to be the normal Super Saiyan God; this may be your equivalent to Super Saiyan Blue."

"So I can do this again..." He clenched his fists and glared at Oreg again. "Well, I have the perfect test dummy, don't I? And with Darkness Form..." His face contorted, wisps of black flame starting to flicker in his eyes, but suddenly he screamed and covered his right eye.

Locke

The pain was the worst I'd ever felt. I'd tried to use my Darkness Form in conjunction with my God form, but when I tried, something went wrong.

I lowered my hand and stared at it, finding blood staining my palm. Oreg cackled. "Isn't that shocking?" he mocked.

"The hell?!" I demanded., clenching my bloody fist.

Oreg started his explanation. "The power of a God is a force of nature, made to be superior to all other life. The Noire Form, along with your evolved version, marks your artificial life." He wagged his finger. "Why would two polar opposites coincide peacefully?"

I gritted my teeth. "So it's just God form, then." I flexed my fingers, then took my battle stance. "That'll still be enough!" I lunged at him.

He grabbed my first punch, but he seemed to underestimate me, as I tore through his hand and smashed his face in. He stumbled back and started to repair, but I didn't give him the chance, launching into a combination of strikes. His body slowly but surely crumpled and cracked, glass shattering and metal shards falling to the dirt below us. I jumped and spun, sweeping my leg through the air, smashing his head and throwing it off his shoulders. He stumbled back, then crashed to the ground, falling apart.

I breathed heavily, though more from overstimulation that fatigue. The godly ki coursing through my veins still seemed endless, even after delivering the most damage of the day. "Was that it?" I complained. I turned back to Meadow and Bulma, grinning. "I guess he wasn't so tough after-" Something wrapped around my throat and I felt my energy being drained again.

I grabbed the vice and tore it apart, leaping forward and turning to see my attacker. Another Android stood before me, but this one was different. While I could tell that it was still synthetically mechanical, it was built in a way that seemed almost organic, the only proof of metal being the lines running from its eyes to its jaw and the red nodes on its palms. Primarilly, it looked like a young man with pale skin and unkempt orange hair, red eyes glowing between the locks. He wore plain brown trousers, a yellow polo shirt, and a lab coat with the Red Ribbon Army logo on his right breast.

The Android smirked. "You surprised me, boy," it commented. The voice was clearly Oreg's. "If I hadn't had another body prepared, that would have been the end of me."

The corner of my mouth raised in a snarl. "What's with the new look? Not into the classic sci-fi robots anymore?"

Oreg sighed and shrugged, shaking his head. "There was only so much that body could do; it was too clunky. This one, however, is specially designed. I have the same range of motion as a human, but no ki to be sensed, and my 'flesh' is practically indestructable. Despite that, I will still auto-repair any damage done." He then grinned. "As for why I chose this design, this happens to be what Dr. Gero looked like when he was young. Of course, his eyes were blue, and he didn't have my tell-tale signs of synthetic nature."

I dropped back into my battle stance. "I didn't ask for that last part, and I really don't care. The sooner I destroy you, the sooner I can get back to my life!" I rushed at him again, figuring that this new body couldn't be much stronger than the last one. On the contrary, when he caught my fist this time, I stopped cold, unable to even struggle against him.

Oreg smirked and licked his lips. "I think it's time I got a better taste of a God's energy." The node pressing into my knuckles glew brightly and started vacuuming up the white flames surrounding me. I tried to pull away, but his grip was unrelenting.

I growled, then sighed. "Well, you're taking it anyway." Oreg raised an eyebrow. "I may as well speed this up!" I had a theory to test. I growled again, and started pushing the energy into him faster. His eyes glew brightly, and he looked thrilled at first, but then his joy started to become terror and he released me, leaping backwards. "So I was right; you do have a limit. And my God form has enough energy to exceed it."

Oreg glared at me. "You're a smart kid," he spat. "I'll give you that. But you did just give me enough energy to kill you!" He thrust both hands toward me. "This time, there won't be a body left behind!" A huge ball of red energy grew from his outstretched hands, then he shot it towards me.

I waited, trying to judge it before deciding how to counter. Once it got close enough, I grabbed it and redirected it straight up. I fired a Death Beam after it, detonating it in midair and lighting up the whole sky.

I started to look back down, but found myself bent over as a fist buried itself in my stomach. Oreg grinned right in my face, unleashing energy onto my gut at point-blank. I was thrown backwards, a hole blown into my gi, but my flesh still intact. I landed on my feet and was about to run after him, but he took off into the sky, a comet of red. I quickly followed him.

We collided several times as we ascended, ramming into each other and just relying on brute force, not actually throwing any punches or blasts. I was about to rectify that, but suddenly he sped up, going up higher, then coming back down right on top of me. His knees drove into my stomach, knocking the air from my lungs, then he propelled us downwards.

We crashed into the ground with the strength of a meteorite, turning the arena into a crater, though the stands and spectators thankfully got out unharmed. I, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky. Blood erupted from my mouth as he crushed my abdomenal organs, splattering his face and my own.

He grinned and lapped at the blood with his tongue. "I'll admit," he laughed as I struggled to breathe, "this was fun. More than I ever thought I could have! But now the game is over." He pressed his knees down one more time, squeezing more blood from my throat, then leapt backwards. He held his hand behind him, collecting black and red energy in it. Rubble lifted and entered orbit of the energy, signifying the deadly capabilities. "It's time for you to die!" The energy grew brighter, dyeing the entire stadium crimson. I clenched my fists and stared in horror, preparing for my second and final death.

Suddenly, I saw energy shatter harmlessly against his back. Despite being uninjured, he let the energy fade and looked behind him. My breath caught, and a sense of foreboding overtook my fear of death. Meadow stood in the crater with us, smoke rising from the laser ring. Her expression slowly changed from desperation to horror as Oreg grinned at her.

"Now there's a thought..." He took a step towards her.

"Don't you take another step!" I shouted.

He only grinned wider and continued towards her. "If I recall correctly, you are the girl who worked her way into the hearts of both of my creations; Sanow's sister, and this one's beloved." Meadow started to back away, but quickly pressed against a wall. Bulma and I stared in horror, her too scared to move and myself too injured. "My goal is to kill all threats and conquer this planet, but I do take pleasure in torture. And what would make this boy lose his mind more..." His hand shot out, grabbing Meadow by the throat and lifting her up. "... than killing the one he thought he'd spend his life with?"

"Don't you f*cking dare!" I screamed, more panicked than angry. If we both died here, I'd go back to Hell, and her to Heaven. We'd never see each other again!

Oreg turned back to me and grinned, his flashing eyes wide with madness. "What are you going to do, Locke?" he taunted. "If you don't want her to die, then come save her!" I struggled to push myself up, but my muscles were failing, making even sitting up impossible. "Don't feel too bad; she would have most likely died when I took over anyway. Though it's existence is still hypothetical, I'm well aware of the child you may have planted inside of her, and I can't allow another of your kind to oppose me." His hand started tightening around her neck. "Say good bye."

I stared helplessly, trying to think of how to stop this. But with my current paralysis, and my transformation beginning to faulter, there was nothing. "Meadow..." I breathed, my voice conveying all of the dread I felt.

Meadow forced a sad smile, tears running down her cheeks. "I-I lo-" A sharp crack echoed through the colosseum. Oreg let her fall to the snow, limp. My wide eyes followed her as she fell, her eyes blank.

A low cry started in my throat, growing into a full-on scream of pure rage and despair. My ki rose again, widening the crater and pushing Oreg back. I floated to my feet, still screaming, grabbing my head and raking my nails across my scalp. Dammit! I mentally shouted. If I had a Senzu Bean, I could still save her! But I was a freaking idiot and forced Dad to take the last one with him! I reared my head back. "Damn you!" Oreg staggered back, staring with shock. He couldn't sense my energy, but he could clearly detect the danger. The snowfall around us was quickly becoming a blizzard. My eyes were wrenched back to him, glowing with a brilliant white light. "Y-you bastard!" No longer caring about the consequences, I pulled out all the stops. Blood seeped out of my eye sockets, staining my vision red and dripping into my mouth and off my chin. My white aura turned to black and white flames. I screamed, black flames bursting from my eyes. The entire Earth shook with my horrifying transformation. "You're going to die here, Oreg! And mark my words, I won't leave even an atom behind!" He crossed his arms in front of himself, but faster than even I could percieve, I smashed my fist into his temple, his "indestructable" skull crumpling. He went flying, smashing into the stands.

He then teleported in front of me and grabbed me around the throat, siphoning my energy again. Instead of resisting, I roared and pumped a huge pulse of energy into him. His hand exploded, sending him skidding back. It quickly rebuilt, though the skin didn't recover and left the metal bare. I closed the distance between us and let out all of my anger.

His body was smashed more times than I could care to count, flattened against the dirt, walls, or sometimes shattered to pieces that reassembled. I was too caught up in my vengence to notice Cell arrive.

Cell

The scene unfolding before my eyes haunted me for weeks to come. Locke was in a strange new form, terrifying on its own but amplified by the blood cascading from his eye sockets. There was a new Android that I assumed to be Oreg from his voice, and Locke was beating the living daylights out of him. Each blow mutilated Oreg's body, again and again, with Oreg repairing every time, only to be destroyed again. I looked around, trying to find the source of my son's uncharacteristic brutality.

The I saw her. Meadow lay in the snow, seemingly dead. Hoping that I was mistaken, I hurried over and dropped to my knees, feeling the vein in her neck. To my shock and joy, there was still a weak pulse, but fading fast. Acting quickly, I took out the last Senzu Bean and placed it in her mouth, moving her jaw to chew it.

Seconds later, a groan escaped her lips and her eyes refocused. "Huh...?" she mumbled, looking up at me. "Cell? What's-?" The memories seemed to come rushing back to her. "L-Locke!" We both turned to watch the fight. Meadow gasped at Locke's brutal assault. He grabbed Oreg's head and slammed him into the ground, flattening his skull, then jumped backwards as it reinflated.

Locke

I huffed, feeling myself grow faint from blood loss. "I can't beat you... if you keep healing..." Oreg got to his feet. "... so I'll have to finish you in one blow." I put my hands in front of me, together at the wrists. My body started trembling as I forced copious amounts of black and white ki into a small ball, growing fast despite my attempts to condense it. Oreg's eyes widened and he put his own hands out, the nodes flashing as he prepared to absorb it.

The ground cracked beneath me, the crevices extending far beyond the colosseum. The ball of ki was now twice my height, and still growing. "Try absorbing this!" I shouted at Oreg. "Cataclysm Ultima!" I fired a gigantic blast of swirling black and white energy. The moment it reached Oreg, it was sucked into his nodes, but I could tell by his panicked expression that he was filling up. "Die, Oreg!" I pushed against the blast. Glowing cracks started to run through his body, and the absorption abruptly stopped.

"N-no! This can't be! I created you; you shouldn't be the superior!" Oreg screamed as he was overtaken by the blast. "Damn it!" I continued putting out energy until an explosion knocked me unconscious, but I'd achieved my goal: that explosion had been the sign that I'd succeeded in carrying out my threat. I'd destroyed even his atoms.

It couldn't have been too much later, as the stars were still out and the moon had only moved a little, but when I finally opened my eyes, laying in the soft snow, everyone was standing over me. By their faces, I knew what had happened: we won.

Goten helped me sit up, but the moment I did, I was tackled back down by Meadow. "M-Meadow?!" Confusion and joy welled up inside me. "You're alive?"

She pulled away, smiling, with tears in her eyes. "Yeah," she responded. "Cell gave me a Senzu Bean while you were going insane."

"I went and got a few more from Korin, so we we could spare the one," Goku added. "Without them, I don't think you would have woken up."

I immediately exploded into sobs and hugged her tightly. "Thank God... Thank God..." I choked.

Meadow pulled away again and wiped away my tears. "Everything's okay now, Locke," she assured me. "You didn't leave anything behind; Oreg's gone."

"It was amazing!" Goku laughed. "You- ha, well, see for youself!" Everyone stepped aside to let me marvel at my work. My eyes widened in amazement.

We were still in the colosseum, but everything in front of us was destroyed- no, gone is more like it. Only a colossal trench remained, everything else blasted to atoms or less.

Vegeta smiled, a rarity from what I'd seen. "You fought like a true Saiyan," he commented. "Oreg never stood a chance."

"So it's over..." I sighed with relief and slumped into Meadow's arms. "Everyone's safe." Then another thought popped to mind. "What about the other Androids?" I asked.

Trunks chuckled and pointed up. I looked, and to my surprise, the army of Androids floated stationary, as though waiting for an order. "They can't function without Oreg. Now they're just empty shells."

I smiled. "Good." I looked around at everyone. "This calls for a celebration, and I think I know the perfect one." Cell chuckled at my pun.

"Already?" Goku asked.

"First, we go home and get some much-deserved rest." I yawned right on cue. "Then..." I looked at Goten and Trunks. "I think it's time I finally settled the score with Gotenks."