NOTE: Not going to lie to you guys. My motivation to write this story has been dying, like I actually struggled to write this one out. At this point it feels like I'm forcing myself to write chapters for this story rather than actually enjoy writing for it. This doesn't mean that I'll be abandoning this story at all, just that updates will be much slower for it for a while until my motivation comes back. Sorry for the trouble.
Enjoy and review.
Chapter 74: Tiles and Tribulations
(Cut to Super Saiyan Gohan continuing his training inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber by throwing multiple ki blasts at the ground. As he lands on the ground and struggles to maintain his Super Saiyan form, the door suddenly flies open, and Chi-Chi walks inside.)
"Wait what?" Lucy blinks at the weirdness.
CHI-CHI: Gohan, where are you?!
GOHAN: Huh?
"Even he's confused," Yukino pointed out.
"I'd be confused too if my mother somehow entered a room with intense gravity inside of a palace high in the sky," Sting replied.
"Yeah, this definitely a dream," Levy figured out.
CHI-CHI: You've been slacking on your maths!
"Does math really matter when the world is in danger?" Natsu asked.
"Education is always important, Natsu," Erza answered.
"Even if everyone dies?" Lucy questioned Erza's answer.
"Maybe not as much as that."
GOHAN: Mo-Mom?! What are you doing here?
PICCOLO: (standing on the side) I-I'm sorry, Go-chan. She overpowered me!
"Go-chan?" Mira looked appalled hearing Piccolo say that.
GOHAN: Go-wha...?
CHI-CHI: If you fall behind on your vector calculus, how are you going to do your taxes?! We don't have the money to pay people for that!
GOHAN: Mom, I'm trying to help save the world, here.
CHI-CHI: What world is there if you have no idea how to prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis?!
"Someone shut her up, please!" Laxus groaned.
"What is she even talking about?" Lisanna asked.
"In simple terms it's a very difficult math equation that 10 year olds shouldn't be having to answer," Freed answered.
"Just adding more to the "Chi-Chi is one over-bearing mother" pile," Bickslow said.
GOHAN: The same one we live in now? I guess?
CHI-CHI: If you wanted to squander your potential and disappoint everyone, you should just become a politician!
Erza's eyes trailed over to Jellal for a split second, her eyes shifted back to the lacrama when he noticed her.
"Anything you want to say, Erza?"
"No."
Chi-Chi: Now, where's your father?
"Yeah, where is Goku?" Natsu asked.
PICCOLO: Yeah, where is he?
PERFECT CELL: Yes... (suddenly appears behind Chi-Chi) Where's Goku?
"W-What!?" Wendy gasped.
CHI-CHI: Huh? (turns around and gets slapped in the face by Perfect Cell and falls on the ground)
GOHAN/Yukino: Oh, thank God-I mean, OH, MY GOD!
(a snapping sound is heard and then shows Piccolo falling down on the ground)
The Strauss Siblings flinched at Piccolo's neck(I'm assuming) getting snapped again.
PERFECT CELL: My dear Gohan. (steps on Piccolo's head and crushes it, causing Piccolo to groan, and then floats up and lowers his foot above Chi-Chi's head) There's something you should know... (crushes Chi-Chi's head with his foot) I...
(Perfect Cell turns around is shown with Goku's face and speaks in Goku's voice)
GOKU: ...love you, son…
Every last person was disturbed to their very core by the scene that just transpired in front of them.
"Gohan needs a fucking therapist," Laxus released a breath. Nobody in the audience disagreed with him.
(shift to Gohan sleeping in a bed with Goku standing right next to him)
GOHAN: (in his sleep) OH, MY GOD! AHH!
GOKU: Why are you tripping, Gohan?
GOHAN: (opens his eyes) A nightmare... (gets up on the bed) A terrible nightmare!
"Something that will continue to haunt me for the next couple of months," Lucy shivered.
GOKU: Oh. Was it the one where your mom and Piccolo come in, then Cell shows up and kills them, and suddenly he has my face, and it's all like "Wha...?"
"I-Wha-How-I-WHAT!?" Carla screeches.
GOHAN: Yes...
GOKU: Aw, it's all good! I've been having that one for a week!
"They need to leave that chamber now," Erza and Mira said in unison.
"But, the training!" Natsu and Elfman whined. However, two harsh glares shut them both up instantly.
GOHAN: (lies back down on the bed) I think we've been in here too long.
GOKU: Eh... (looks at the wall, which is covered in red writing that reads "All training and no play makes Gohan a dull boy") Maybe just a little…
"Goku also needs a therapist," Gajeel added.
[OPENING SEQUENCE]
(cut to Piccolo and Tien on The Lookout)
PICCOLO: So, a development: Cell's gone.
BULMA: Wait. So, Trunks won?
"Sadly, no," Lucy frowned.
TIEN: No, he split. As in, grabbed his metaphorical shit and flew off.
BULMA: After killing Trunks?!
PICCOLO: No.
BULMA: Vegeta?!
"I only wish," Minerva said.
PICCOLO: Nobody's dead!
TIEN: Yet.
PICCOLO: I think he just got bored and left.
BULMA: So...we won, then?
"NO!"
PICCOLO: No!
TIEN: (rolls his eyes) Oh, my God!
(cut to Trunks on the islands)
TRUNKS: HYAH! (transforms into a Super Saiyan lets loose a burst of energy, emitting a bright light from high above the clouds as Vegeta and Krillin arrive and sees him down on his hands and knees)
"He got that from Vegeta," Makarov sighed.
KRILLIN: Aw, geez. He's taking it pretty rough.
VEGETA: It's pathetic. Find some honor in defeat, for God's sake!
"If that isn't the most hypocritical thing he's ever said…" Gajeel muttered, remembering every time Vegeta threw a tantrum whenever he lost.
KRILLIN: (under his breath) View must be great from that glass house of yours.
VEGETA: Hrm?!
"Don't get punched again, Krillin," Lucy said.
KRILLIN: (quickly) We should go check on him!
(shift to Vegeta landing in front of Trunks with his back turned away from him)
TRUNKS: (reverts back to his normal form) I... I'm sorry. (Krillin lands near Vegeta) I did my best, but...he just toyed with me! I couldn't do anything! And in the end...I wasn't even important enough to kill!
"Oh, Trunks," Lucy's heart went out to the boy.
VEGETA: Sucks, doesn't i-I mean, sucks to be you! (under his breath) Yeah, that was it.
KRILLIN: Again, guys. Come on. It's just me, Krillin. Everyone's friend.
"He really is everyone's friend. You just can't really hate Krillin," Lisanna smiled.
"I mean...I can try," Minerva muttered.
ANDROID 16: I would like more friends...
KRILLIN & TRUNKS: Huh?
ANDROID 16: I seem to have misplaced mine when Cell... Oh.
"16, I'll be your friend!" Wendy wanted to hug the robot.
TRUNKS: You've got to be kidding me! I would never be friends with you!
ANDROID 16: I was not speaking to you! I was speaking to the duck.
"I thought he was a bird," Romeo said.
KRILLIN: Well, quack, quack, big guy! Any friend of 18 is a friend of mine! Let's get you all patched up.
ANDROID 16: You are the pluckiest duck. Together we shall be the Bird and the B. The B stands for…
"Blast me through the skull," Minerva drawled, earning an elbow from Erza.
KRILLIN: Brobot!
ANDROID 16: Yes.
"AW! Krillin made a new friend!" Lucy smiled.
TRUNKS: What am I watching?
VEGETA: I don't know, but I hate it.
"We agree on something," Gajeel said.
TRUNKS: Well, hopefully he doesn't try to screw this one.
VEGETA: Ha! No robo.
"Ha! I get the joke," Bickslow laughed.
(Cut to Perfect Cell landing near a peaceful countryside with a man coming near a sink to splash water on his face and two birds drink water from a pond. Perfect Cell proceeds to level the entire area, causing the man to scream, and then telekinetically lifts a big rock from the ground and cuts it into a large white marble and then divides the marble into multiple tiles. Perfect Cell then thrust one arm forward and made all the tiles fall on the floor, making a giant ring.)
"W-Why did it make a ring?" Levy questioned.
"Maybe for a fighting tournament!?" Natsu guessed.
"No, that sounds too Goku-like," Levy rejected the idea.
PERFECT CELL: Ahhh, yes. The perfect place for my Cell Ga- (a short pause as it sees that one of the tiles is green) Son of an emerald whore, STARTING AGAIN! (flies off)
"The Perfect being likes to have everything perfect. Makes sense," Freed shrugged.
(cut to outside Capsule Corp. with Mrs. Briefs watering some flowers when Vegeta and Trunks lands behind her)
MRS. BRIEFS: Vegeta! It's been so long! How was space?
VEGETA: Hello, MILF.
"I'm sorry, did he actually just…" Romeo gaped.
"What?" Wendy asked.
"N-Nothing…" He responded, nervously.
"Tell me, I wanna know!" Wendy pouted.
"It's not something you need to know about," He continued to deny.
MRS. BRIEFS: Oh, Veggie. I'm a grandmother now! Call me GILF.
"Can I at least know what that one is!?" Wendy asked.
"No," The boy continued to deny her.
VEGETA: Your culture is so confusing.
MRS. BRIEFS: (notices Trunks) Oh. And who is this lavender-haired gentleman you've brought with you?
"Wow, both his mother and Grandmother have hit on him," Gildarts laughed.
"Trunks has the worst luck," Yukino sighed.
"I don't know, I'd say that's pretty lucky in my book," Cana shrugged.
TRUNKS: (awkwardly) Umm...
KRILLIN: (arrives while carrying 16) Grandkid from the future. Leave the swinging for the park.
MRS. BRIEFS: Phooey.
KRILLIN: Now, where is Bulma at? We got an Android in desperate need of repair. (a bell rings) Huh?
DR. BRIEFS: (comes in riding a bicycle) Why come to the acorn when you have the mighty oak! I taught Bulma everything she knows! Except the dangers of miscegenation, apparently.
"Why would you even need to teach her that last thing?" Kagura asked.
KRILLIN: Heck, if you're volunteering to help, we won't say no.
DR. BRIEFS: Just try to keep the house guests to a minimum. We just got rid of Yajirobe, and we barely have enough food to accommodate anyone…
"That happened before, when I forgot to leave the fridge locked and Natsu somehow managed to sneak in," Mira sighed.
"And it was all delicious!" Natsu grinned.
"And when Erza ate all of the Strawberry cake that I had left in the freezer."
"T-That wasn't my fault! It smelled too delicious and tempting!" Erza blushed.
"Then that time when Cana drunk all the liquor in the storage."
"I got so drunk that I didn't even remember the previous month!" Cana laughed.
(a Capsule Corp. plane arrives and lands nearby)
MASTER ROSHI: (from inside the ship) What up, bitches?! Where my GILF at?!
DR. BRIEFS: ...else.
(cut to Trunks, Vegeta, Krillin, Mrs. Briefs, Chi-Chi, Chiaotzu, Master Roshi, Oolong, Puar, and Yamcha inside as Dr. Briefs begins working on 16)
"That is a lot of people," Mira giggled.
DR. BRIEFS: Alrighty, I'm going to hook your internal OS up to my system. There may be some involuntary oil release-that's natural. And... (boots up 16's memory on his PC, which shows a screen filled with multiple birds as "Surfin Bird" by the Trashmen plays on the monitor) Good God! How long has this been running?!
"I knew the guy liked birds, but that is just ridiculous!" Minerva exclaimed.
"I think it's adorable!" Wendy pouted.
"Of course you do, sweetie," Minerva replied.
ANDROID 16: How long has what been running?
DR. BRIEFS: We're just going to close that for a moment... (closes the bird-infested file, with the monitor changing to a flaming image of Goku with the words "KILL" popping up on the screen while Dr. Gero's voice is heard saying "Kill Son Goku!" over and over)
"Gero needed a therapist, not revenge," Levy said.
DR. BRIEFS: ...Well, bird's the word! (reopens the bird-infested file)
"A lot more interesting," Lisanna let out a sigh of relief.
TRUNKS: ...And then he just flew off. Now we don't know where he is, or what he's planning.
KRILLIN: Well, plus side, you're alive.
TRUNKS: Oh, thanks for the consolation.
"Honestly that is a consolation. I don't think your mother would appreciate you dying," Lucy said.
KRILLIN: Hey, don't knock it. Sometimes you ain't so lucky.
MASTER ROSHI: Yeah.
YAMCHA: Yuh-huh.
VEGETA: Mmm-hmm.
CHIAOTZU: Yup-yup-yup.
TRUNKS: Wait a second. Have all five of you died?!
"Ah, that's right you wouldn't have known that," Levy winced.
"Jeez, Future Bulma, what the shit!?" Sting quoted Krillin from earlier.
KRILLIN: Oh ho ho, yeah! Chiaotzu and I twice. First round was basically just Piccolo's dad being a dick.
"It's funny, because Namekians don't have penises," Gajeel laughed.
"Wait, they don't!?" Rogue was shocked.
CHIAOTZU: Yep. Second time, I blew myself up trying to kill Vegeta's dumbass friend. Now he's out there making movies or some shit.
"I wonder how Nappa's doing in that business?" Natsu wondered.
"Hopefully he's succeeding," Lisanna hoped.
TRUNKS: Oh, wait. So how did Yamcha die?
YAMCHA: Ah... Um...
VEGETA: Oh, yes. Go ahead. Tell us how you died! I'll fact check.
"I'll fact check as well," Gajeel laughed.
YAMCHA: On my feet, like a man!
VEGETA/Gajeel: Well, you're half-right.
MASTER ROSHI: If you're finished picking on Yamcha...
VEGETA/Gajeel: Never!
MASTER ROSHI: ...we've got bigger fish to fry. Cell's out there, and we have no idea what insidious plot he's brewing.
(cut to Perfect Cell floating above a circular ring)
PERFECT CELL: How did all these squares make a circle?!
"PFFT! Y-Yeah! Definitely evil!" Levy and most others had to keep themselves from laughing at Cell. Remembering when Popo was tripping balls.
PERFECT CELL: I just-! ...No, no. It's fine. It's fine. It doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother me... It bothers me, it bothers me a lot! (the screen zooms out to reveal one tile in the ring still colored green) AND THAT ONE'S STILL GREEN!
Full blown laughter erupted at that point from Cell's OCD.
(cut to Dr. Briefs scanning 16's skeletal structure inside his lab)
DR. BRIEFS: Thanks to the schematics Bulma brought me, I should be able to repair you! However, after rooting around in your system for a bit, I've discovered that you're missing an extensive portion of data.
"Probably due to the giant hole in his head," Meredy pointed out.
DR. BRIEFS: Unfortunately, Gero's server was destroyed with his lab, so...
ANDROID 16: That is fine. I am my own Android. I will live my life accordingly. Faults and all.
DR. BRIEFS: I could always give you a sick gatling gun.
ANDROID 16: Appreciated, but unnecessary. (notices Dr. Briefs' cat on his shoulder) What is that creature on your shoulder?
DR. BRIEFS: This? Oh, this is my pussycat!
ANDROID 16: May I touch your pussy? (Dr. Briefs' cat meows)
"Cana, no!" Lucy stopped Cana quickly.
"But…"
"NO!"
DR. BRIEFS: As long as you don't crush it. (16 takes his cat from his shoulder)
ANDROID 16: Hello, pussycat. (Dr. Briefs' cat licks his face) It is licking me now. Should I lick the pussy?
"NO!"
"LET ME MAKE THE JOKE, LUCY!"
CHI-CHI: (voice over) Absolutely not!
"Chi-Chi agrees!" Lucy crossed her arms.
"I'm sure she's talking about something else," Erza sweat dropped.
(cut to everyone else outside Capsule Corp)
TRUNKS: But Chi-Chi, if and when we have to fight Cell again, we're going to need Gohan!
CHI-CHI: What you need is to get it through your heads! I told Goku he could train with Gohan. I never said anything about letting him fight!
"Then you and Goku have two very different understandings of training," Gajeel said.
"I agree with Chi-Chi, Gohan shouldn't be fighting," Mira said.
"Mira…" Whatever Erza was going to say was cut off by Mira.
"I'm serious! He's a child! Since the age of 5 he's been thrusted into life or death battles left and right! No child, no matter their heritage or desire should be thrusted into things like that!" Mira argued her point.
KRILLIN: You cannot keep him out of this-he's a fighter!
"Exactly! Gohan's taken on an alien warlord! He can handle a fight with Cell!" Natsu argued back.
CHI-CHI/Mira: He's ten!
KRILLIN: And he's the third strongest fighter I know!
VEGETA: (glares at Krillin) Who's the fourth?
"Seems you already know that answer to that," Minerva laughed.
KRILLIN: Umm...
CHI-CHI: I'm a fighter too, you know! How do you think I landed the strongest man on the planet?
"Food," Almost everyone answered.
VEGETA: Arguably.
CHI-CHI: Do not make me come over there! I will rip your world a-f**king-sunder!
VEGETA: (nervously looks away, and groans)
"Smartest decision he's ever made," Gajeel said.
CHI-CHI: Look, I might be books in and books out, but that's because I want something better for my son, instead of surviving off prize money and welfare. Now, I know that I can't stop him. But if he fights and gets hurt, or God forbid dies, and any of you could have stopped it...there's no dragon in this universe that will save you from me.
"I get it. She's just scared of losing her son, that's where all of her obsessiveness stems from. A parent's worst fear is their child dying before them and being unable to prevent it," Makarov said. Any other parents in the guild understood Chi-Chi's feelings of wanting to protect her child.
VEGETA: (muttering under his breath) Don't make me come over there...
(cut to Perfect Cell floating above his now complete ring)
PERFECT CELL: Finally! It is complete! Perfectly square, a fine marble white, and a full twenty-four by twenty- (notices a half-tile on the ring and stares at it).
The laughter came back in full.
PERFECT CELL: ...Let it go, Cell. You have shit to do. (flies off)
(cut to inside Capsule Corp with a Hetap commercial on the TV)
ACTOR 1: Hey, man. Is that the last Hetap?
ACTOR 2: Yeah, and it's all mine! (a gunshot is heard while it shifts to Krillin, Trunks, Yamcha, Puar, and Vegeta watching the commercial) Ahh! Ahh! Oh, God! Oh, Jesus! Why?! (another gunshot is heard)
"Uh? W-What's going on?" Lector asked.
"Frosch finds that commercial weird," Frosch said.
NARRATOR: Hetap. Come on, you've killed for less.
VEGETA: (thinking) That's not untrue…
"Yeah, I'd believe it," Gajeel said.
KRILLIN: Hey, so not that I mind a good ol' veg sesh, but do we need everyone for this?
TRUNKS: You guys can go ahead and take off. I'll stick around and watch for Cell. It's been kind of neat to watch old TV shows. I checked out the country music channel earlier. Did you know that country is actually awful?
"That's why the androids destroyed all traces of it in your timeline," Bickslow said.
YAMCHA: Well then, if it's all the same to you, I'm gonna hit the gym. Make sure I'm ready for if Cell comes back.
KRILLIN: Oh, can I join you? We'll make a day out of it, get some FroYo after. It is my cheat day.
VEGETA: Oh, that sounds like fun. Mind if I join? Maybe we can see a movie, too.
KRILLIN: Sure! That sounds awesome! I've been waiting for-you're being sarcastic, aren't you?
"How did you almost fall for that?" Kagura sighed.
VEGETA: Careful! It's learning.
YAMCHA: You know, if you're going to skulk around, you could at least try to not be a total dick about it!
VEGETA: Oh, you're right. Allow me to try again. *clears throat* Hello, earthling. How's that gaping chest wound?
YAMCHA: Just fine! How's your spine?
"Yamcha's growing balls! Let's see where this takes him," Gajeel laughed.
VEGETA: ...I'm giving you a five minute head start.
YAMCHA: Thank you. I'm going to need it. You're very fast.
"Didn't take him far," Laxus pinched his nose.
BULMA: (quickly runs inside the room) Where is he? I heard he's here! Where's my baby?!
MRS. BRIEFS: You're holding him, darling!
BULMA: No, the big baby!
MRS. BRIEFS: Well, Vegeta's right over there, across from Trunks!
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
BULMA: Oh, thank God! (appears in front of Trunks, causing him to stumble back) You okay, sweetie? I heard about everything! Do you need a snack? Maybe a juice box?
TRUNKS: Mom, I'm eighteen.
BULMA: Oh, right. Um, stiff drink?
TRUNKS: Mom, still eighteen.
"At 18 she was probably drinking," Lucy sighed.
"I know I was," Cana smirked.
(shift to Master Roshi watching an aerobics show on TV)
AEROBATICS INSTRUCTOR: Work your body! Work your body! Make sure you don't hurt nobody!
OOLONG: (approaches Master Roshi and sits next to him) You know there's actual porn on the Internet, right?
MASTER ROSHI: Pig, you've gotta be able to appreciate the classics! It's what separates the perverts from the connoisseurs.
"I agree, there's always something great about looking at the old school," Macao and Wakaba smirked.
AEROBATICS INSTRUCTOR: One! Two! One- (light starts erupts from the ground) Huh? (the floor explodes and shows Perfect Cell rising up from below the instructor) Ahh!
"CELL!?"
(Master Roshi and Oolong both scream and huddle back from the TV, which also catches Vegeta, Trunks, Bulma, and Chi-Chi's attention)
AEROBATICS INSTRUCTOR: (falls down to the ground as Perfect Cell ascends to the next floor) Ahh! You have great glutes!
"Cell has a butt?" Happy asked.
(everyone minus Vegeta is seen gathered in front of the TV)
KRILLIN: Roshi! Change the channel!
(Master Roshi changes the channel and shows Perfect Cell rising in a cooking show in one channel, a soap opera in another channel, and then shows an anime movie)
CHIAOTZU: Oh, wait! I love this movie! Leave it here!
KRILLIN: Chiaotzu.
CHIAOTZU: Fine, whatever.
(Master Roshi changes the channel to a news reporter on WHN news)
NEWS REPORTER: And as you can see, every dog has its- (Perfect Cell erupts underground right beside him) Aaahhhh! (Perfect Cell grabs him by the neck and lifts him into the air)
PERFECT CELL: The following contains violence, coarse language and adult situations not suitable for minors. Viewer discretion is advised. (snaps the news reporter's neck off-screen while everyone at Capsule Corp minus Chiaotzu watches in horror)
"That...that was just unnecessary," Sting growled.
CHIAOTZU: Whoa! Brutal!
PERFECT CELL: Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, and that technicolor rainbow in between, I am Cell. You may remember me from the following cities. (shows a quick scroll down of all the cities he has visited) Of course if you lived in those cities, you won't remember because you are now part of my biomass as I absorbed you. But that's not what I'm here to talk about today. Today, I'm making an announcement!
KRILLIN: Please be leaving the planet forever. Please be leaving the planet forever. Please be leaving the planet forever!
"You're being hopeful again, Krillin! Stop being hopeful!" Lucy shouted.
PERFECT CELL: I am leaving the planet forever.
KRILLIN: WOO-HOO!
PERFECT CELL: After I blow it up!
KRILLIN: OH, NO!
PERFECT CELL: Unless!
KRILLIN: (wheezes)
"STOP!" Lucy shouted again.
PERFECT CELL: One of your planet's (takes an aside glance) "champions" can best me in one-on-one combat!
BULMA/Everyone: So Goku, then.
VEGETA: (off-screen) Shut up!
PERFECT CELL: I am officially hosting a once-in-your-lifetime event! A tournament so grand, it will leave you breathless! I hereby dub it...the Cell Games! Be part of the conversation on Twitter at #CellGames!
"TOLD YOU!" Natsu celebrated.
"Wow...Cell really has embraced its inner Goku," Levy wrote down the Cell Games.
YAMCHA: (looking at his phone) Annnnnd he's already trending.
PERFECT CELL: For all of you familiar with your adorable little World Martial Arts Tournament, I'll be borrowing the rules. No brackets this time, however. Yours truly will be your only opponent. And much like Vegeta's mother, (winks) I will accept all comers.
"Even I have to admit that was a low blow," Minerva winced.
VEGETA: How dare...?
KRILLIN: (off-screen) ...Why'd you take off your shirt?
"Gray, your clothes!"
"GACK!"
(shift to The Lookout with Piccolo, Tien and Mr. Popo watching the news on a TV)
PERFECT CELL: The location of this marvelous event is 28 KS Point 5. If you don't know where that is, blame the cartographers. The games will start at noon one week from today. That should give you plenty of time to prepare. Or for those not participating, time to connect with loved ones, get your affairs in order, or maybe just kill your boss! Get a purge going! Live a little! Because in one week's time... (chuckles and raises one hand at the back of the studio) Well, to give you an idea... (fires a blast through the back to the studio that destroys many buildings and a mountain) So, keep that in mind, and I'll see you next Sunday! Also, feel free to pray to your God. But spoilers-I won't be listening.
"A game to decide the fate of the world…" Jellal grit his teeth.
"Sounds like fun!" Natsu grinned.
"Heh, it'd be boring if it was just a straight brawl! This at least is adding some flare!" Gajeel agreed.
"I'd blow that damn bug away with my lighting!" Laxus grit his teeth.
"Rogue and I would win these Cell games no problem, right partner!?" Sting grinned.
"Heh, undoubtedly, Sting," Rogue fist bumped Sting.
"I-I'd help too!" Wendy didn't want to be left out.
"Of course you guys would be excited about it," Lucy sighed.
(Perfect Cell flies out of the hole in the studio as the gang over at Kame House look in shock and fear at the static in the TV...until it abruptly changes to a porn channel.)
KRILLIN: Roshi, what the hel-
MASTER ROSHI: He said one week! I'm usin' it!
"Goddamn pervert…" Kagura sighed.
[ENDING SEQUENCE]
[STINGER]
("Someone is Calling" ringtone starts playing before someone picks up the phone)
?: Hello? (someone speaks over the phone) Oh yeah, I saw it. I've already got my promo team on it. We'll have you on a plane tomorrow. You just do some pushups, sit ups, and pull plenty of buses... (the person on the phone is revealed to be Nappa) ...champ.
"What is Nappa planning?" Levy wondered.
Chapter End