Hey, everyone! The third day is underway for our two special people...that is, if Arina doesn't do something about her husband's deadly advances on me. Help!
Arina: Stop, hubby!
Cell: Absolutely not, until I kill that vile woman.
Arina: I'll cry...-sniffle-
Cell: -panicking- No, please. Anything but the crying...
Y.A.R.: Why didn't I think of that?
Chapter 3- Sweet Treats (not the way you think)
He thought that she wasn't going to return back to the arena.
He thought that the annoying woman wouldn't try to test his patience once more, as well as bugging him for the rest of the day.
Well, he thought wrong. Horribly wrong.
Cell couldn't believe that Arina was standing in front of him right after he witnessed her departure yesterday afternoon. Why did this irritating girl have to come back? This was the definition of persistence; he'll give her credit for that. But, her motives were still a mystery as well as of her origins and there was no prior knowledge of her presence recorded in the doctor's computer. So why wasn't Cell been able to pick up her DNA when she was on planet Earth? And more importantly: why was she so much interested in him?
Arina, however, was quite happy that she returned to see her very interest. Her training friend Sunset though, was far away from the arena 'playing' babysitter to her other two companions. Hopefully, when she comes back, Sunset wouldn't kill her for abandoning her. However, her stomach was craving for food as it growled quite loudly, making the android look at her with glaring eyes.
"You know, you should have eaten before you got over here." Cell said.
"You're actually showing concern over me?" Arina asked, eyes sparkling with hope.
"Wh-What makes you think that I care about your well being?" Cell garbled. "I show no concern about anyone else but myself!"
"You're lying again!" Arina whined.
"Am not!" Cell retorted.
"Are too!" Arina countered.
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Not!"
"Too!"
"Ugh, this isn't going anywhere if we continue like this." Cell stated, pinching his nose to avoid furthering the already growing headache. "What exactly do you eat?"
"Hmm...Mostly anything that comes around in my mind!" Arina chirped.
"You're insane..." Cell muttered.
"I'm not insane; watch this!" Arina inquired.
With a fast movement of her right index finger, Arina made a clear pink bubble right out of thin air, widening Cell's eyes right before his very sight. Did this girl just made a bubble completely with less than a percent of her power? Now he knew that obtaining Arina's DNA was impossible at this point, or even in his developing stages for that matter. The questions just kept piling up: who was this girl?
Holding the bubble in her hands, Arina lightly tossed it into the air and once it hit the ground, a lot of sweets burst right in her very eyes. She was quite happy about the items that appeared in front of her, and proceeded to take a few items and stuffed them into her mouth. Cell just stood there in disbelief; did this girl have any manners when it came eating? Arina stopped and looked at the bionic android with curiosity.
"Aren't you hungry?" Arina asked.
"I don't need anything to eat to survive!" Cell said. "I live off of nothing!"
"Liar; your stomach says otherwise." Arina chimed.
"Damn you and your observations." Cell muttered.
"No, I can hear your stomach growling like crazy since there's barely any noise around." Arina said.
"Are you trying to annoy me to the brink of insanity?" Cell growled.
"You're doing that completely on your own." Arina said. "All I'm doing is chatting with you and offering my hospitality. So, do you want some of this lovely cake? It's yummy!"
He detested sweets. He hated anything that clashes against his demeanor; it was not his style! Cell started to notice that Arina approached him with one of the small desserts that she conjured up from the bubble, trying to feed the android with little effort. He started to back away from her in hopes of controlling his anger, but she stepped forward to match his steps. It became from small steps into running around the whole prairie to avoid eating the sweet concoction. Finally, after ten minutes...Cell had no choice but to eat the treat, considering that this was the second time that he had to surrender to the persistent girl. That, and he didn't want her following him around anymore
"Fine! I'll eat the damn thing if it will make you stop following me!" Cell bellowed.
"Yay! Say Ahhh..." Arina echoed.
Hesitation came upon his entire body; who knows what she put inside the sugary treat! Cell squirmed as he opened his mouth just to take one bite of the cake, as Arina grasped her hands in anticipation and hopefully the expression of joy on his face. As his teeth sank into the spongy cake, he was actually surprised that it tasted fine without any effects to his body, though the expression he gave led Arina in a wave of bubbly happiness.
"You like it!" Arina chirped.
"...It's so-so." Cell muttered.
"It's still tastes good, right? I told you that it was tasty!" Arina said.
"Why are you trying this hard to convince me of turning over a new leaf of myself?" Cell asked.
"That's not my mission; I'm only trying to convince you to come along with me in hopes of reuniting you with someone you might have forgotten for years." Arina said.
"What person do you think that I wouldn't remember about? I was programmed to accomplish everything that Dr. Gero had in store for the revenge of the Red Ribbon Army!" Cell retorted.
"Actually, there was another android like you that he created in secrecy should you've been destroyed by his enemies. You truly don't know about this being because she was in stationary mode until her time of activation. Does the name Iris ring a bell?" Arina questioned him.
"Iris...is here?" Cell asked, befuddled by the sudden information that Arina just told him.
"Yeah." Arina said.
Cell couldn't believe it. If he remembered correctly from the files of his supercomputer, Dr. Gero created another bionic android should Cell be destroyed as a last resort to extract his revenge. Iris was in stationary mode awaiting orders, but the lab that held her was demolished by 17 and 18 in the timeline that Trunks came from, erasing her from existing in that timeline. The sheer presence of Iris in this timeline should give him the edge of destroying the Earth, but something didn't add up. If Iris was activated, didn't that mean the Cell in this timeline was exterminated before completing the evolution process? But, what had become of Iris herself?
"If you want to know so badly, you should meet with her in person!" Arina said.
"I'm not leaving this spot; even if I do want to know what has become of her." Cell said.
"Fine, be that way." Arina shouted. "I have to go anyway; see you tomorrow!"
"As if I care!" Cell yelled.
And with the end of the third day approaching, Cell now knows about Arina's mission...but he was still clueless about her true identity.
Just who the hell is she?
Finally done! Man, I hate procrastination!
R&R, people!