With Goku's sudden outburst of power, both mysterious assailants pulled back and focused their attention on the powered-up Super Saiyan. Having finally gotten a moment to breathe freely, Chayote turned her attention to Goku's surging battle power as well. Having felt a tingle in her frozen and petrified limbs, she burst with a golden aura herself and shattered the restraints of ice and stone, liberating her arm and leg.
"Finally taking it seriously," she muttered, referencing Goku's death-inducing stare that he gave the two hybrid creatures before vanishing in a snap.
"Eek!" the maimed, humanoid creature squeaked before Goku's devastating cross to its mid-section busted down the barriers of personal space and blacked it out. Persistent to keep it going, Goku continued to mash the face of the effeminate insect humanoid into paste before kicking them away. The rampant Super Saiyan had completely absorbed his shimmering golden Ki inside his body until he delivered the last kick, at which point all the aura broke loose enveloping his kicking leg.
Instead of the aura bolstering the kick, it wrapped around the twitching, lifeless body of the horned humanoid like a cocoon before inertia did its deed and sent it flying far away enough. Just when the horrified Frieza insectoid was about to turn their attention back to Goku, a ripping blast overwhelmed their senses as their comrade blew up into tiny bits from the erupting pressure of Super Saiyan aura pent up inside them from Goku's decisive kick.
"I don't like the idea of killing someone as strong and talented as you. I'd have loved to see you learn many new techniques and keep honing my skills against you. However, when you came after my family and my friends and refused to back down from trying to hurt them, YOU CROSSED A LINE!" Goku clenched and hunched up, letting his Super Saiyan aura burst free and rampage around him, shrouding the skies above black and causing the atmosphere to become electric.
"It's clear that you're just a subordinate of a much larger and stronger threat. You're too strong to be a natural product of the universe's ecosystem. Still, you're also too braindead to have come across that strength yourself," Chayote pointed out as she descended by Goku's side, utterly freezing the remaining creature in terror of facing two Super Saiyans at once. "That being said, it's also evident that your master has set you up for failure. With your level of strength, there's no way you could have achieved anything here today. Sorry to break it to you, but your mastermind sent you here to die."
"Chayote! You're okay!" Goku broke out of his tunnel vision to congratulate his ally on the fact that her limbs weren't permanently frozen and petrified.
"I focused a great deal of Ki on my arm and leg before the Jelly-Beams hit them. That way, instead of turning it into blocks of ice and stone on a cellular level, those properties merely coated them," Chayote explained. "While the ability to copy any skill, you see in an instant is an impressive talent, it has a major flaw in that you're tasked with using that ability against the person who invented and mastered these techniques, meaning they are well aware of weaknesses of these abilities and countermeasures that need to be taken against them."
"Alright! Let's finish this guy off together," Goku pumped himself up with a smirk of excitement on his face.
"I'd like to beat some answers out of them first, normally, but it's clear that this shrieking imbecile won't give us any answers," Chayote sighed in disappointment. "Let's get to it, Kakarot."
Leaning forward, Super Saiyan Goku vanished in a flurry of snaps, closing the distance between him and the terrified mutant that now became resolved to fight as hard as it could for the sole reason that it had no other choice. The Super Saiyan threw a low kick to throw the enemy off-balance, but the freaky attacker rolled through the air like a living cannonball, trying to thrust its stinger into Goku's neck to drain him of some of his Ki.
Wary of his opponent's tricks, Goku grabbed the stinger while its tip was just millimeters away from his skin. Turning his opponent around by their tail, the Super Saiyan spun and released the enemy with a Dragon Throw before pursuing after them in mid-air and colliding with them, using a flying kick to the ribs. The overwhelmed insectoid Frieza lookalike gasped and frothed from the mouth. Pulling his leg out like a blade on which he had impaled his foe, Goku turned around while coating his round-housing leg with Ki for a disastrous roundhouse to the jaw that sent the enemy flying.
Shrieking and desperate, the freaky opponent hurled themselves through the air with a flying double ax handle, which Goku had to block high. After disengaging from their minor power struggle, the enemy unleashed a flurry of punches while keeping their legs and tail open for surprise attacks or defensive measures. Goku answered its elbow shot with one of his own, entering another power struggle before the opponent's tail wrapped around Goku's neck from behind and pulled him back while choking him.
With a leg sky-drop, Chayote severed the Bio-Android's tail, shocking the insectoid Frieza doppelgänger and forcing them to back up while caressing their severed limb while unclear bio-fluid splattered from it. Having been freed from the stranglehold, Goku charged after Chayote's back while the female Super Saiyan leaned forward. With a textbook vault, Goku shot himself off of Chayote's back with a flying kick to his opponent's jaw that nearly pulled their entire head off and sent them crashing through a mountain.
"Nice!" Goku snickered, giving Chayote a thumb-up and applauding their team effort. "Teaming up really ain't my style, but if the other guys are doing it too, it can be pretty fun."
"The only reason I'm permitting you to step on my back, Kakarot, is because my outfit is ruined anyway," Chayote crossed her arms and turned away, peeved that she had to be the stepping stone for her partner's attack as opposed to the other way around.
With a shrill battle cry, the enemy let out a psychokinetic pulse, levitating the crumbled mountainous debris in the air and liberating themselves from their rocky mausoleum where Goku laid the Bio-Android to rest to. Chayote and Goku put their hands together, releasing a Ki wave, which split off into scattershot Ki blasts that obliterated the stray boulders that the enemy hurled at them with psychokinetic force.
"This guy's as hardy as the real deal, huh?" Goku's face shriveled in frustration at how tough this last Bio-Android proved to eliminate. "If he's really working with someone else, I'd rather not burn through the stamina of going Super Saiyan 2 just to dispose of this guy."
"At least your most powerful form doesn't rob you of your senses," Chayote rolled her eyes, feeling that Goku's frustrations at being drained of energy at a more rapid rate in his more advanced Super Saiyan version was a somewhat entitled complaint compared to her case.
Chayote leaned forward, preparing to attack. The enemy gargled something unintelligible and braced for impact. The Super Saiyan dashed forward with incomparable velocity, however, instead of crashing into her opponent, she duped them by flipping over them and locking her grip around their armpits. After flipping over the Bio-Android and standing up behind them, Chayote lifted the shrieking and thrashing enemy in the air for a crucifix powerbomb and slammed the insectoid mutant into the ground, rupturing it and causing a violent earthquake and fissuring ground collapse.
"Damn it, lost my grip on the bugger…" Chayote grumbled while the ground collapsed around her and the roaring river water foamed with calamitous waterfalls she formed by bombing the entire mountainous creek canyon like that. Right after the ground gave way, the enemy slithered out from her grip. The fact they didn't give out any Ki signature was troubling, as this enabled them to sneak up at any point.
"Watch out!" Goku yelled out, thrusting an open palm and sending a Kiai pulse at the sneaky little freak as it tried wrapping its arms around Chayote from behind and stabbing its stinger into her chest to drain off some of her Ki. The fact that the male Super Saiyan exclaimed his intentions let the Bio-Android expand his arms and legs to the sides and expel an explosive Ki wave that easily absorbed the shock of the concussive Kiai wave. However, it left the buggy version of Frieza gasping and panting.
"I guess these guys don't have infinite stamina like No. 17 and No. 18," Chayote took note of the fact that their feisty opponent was running low on Ki, which was why it was so desperate to drain some off of their opponents instead.
With a shrill yell, the cornered Bio-Android whipped with its tail, revealing that it had preserved the bit of tail that Chayote had chopped off and used it as some kind of handheld whip instead. With its tail severed, this must have been the only way that the freaky mutant could drain their opponents' Ki. Chayote leaned to the side, avoiding the lashing sting of the Bio-Android's tail. With her body utterly devoted to the evasive action, the Bio-Android waved its hand, creating an explosive, psychokinetic shockwave that burst from underneath her and blew Chayote away.
With the dazed Super Saiyan soaring high in the air after the rupturing blast, the sneaky bastard snapped up above her and stomped into Chayote's gut, then her face, before flipping over its front and driving a knee to her chest to send her crashing into the abyss of collapsed ground that Chayote had made earlier. With a crazed expression, the Bio-Android lunged down at where it had last seen Chayote plummet, but Goku caught it by the wrist and forced its hand up before crushing it with an ironclad grip.
"That's enough outta you," Goku proclaimed with a stern look before delivering a hook to the midsection and driving a calamitous uppercut that made all of his Super Saiyan Ki explode from his body at once. Everything became engulfed in a devouring white glow as the charring and senseless Bio-Android's howling drowned out in the thunderous rumble of Goku's energy. The burned-up body of the insectoid monster split in half vertically, ripped apart by the force of Goku's energized fist while its ruptured body split and burned up into ashes.
Chayote flew up, ready to engage the enemy before realizing that Goku had wrapped things up already. With a sigh of relief that her son was finally safe, she powered down. Giving his ally and friend an ecstatic "Peace" gesture with his fingers, Goku followed suit by returning to his base form before hovering off after the families they'd left behind.
"It's not fair!" Goten barked out the moment that Goku's feet touched the ground, stepping up on his toes to look larger while pressing his little fists to his sides to look more outraged and dangerous than the toddler really was. "That was my enemy!"
"Oh, well… You snooze, you lose," Goku snickered, playing it off without hurting his son's pride by stating that he had doubts if his son could have handled someone as dangerous as these two even with Navy backing him up.
"I wasn't snoozing, older brother was holding me!" Goten pouted.
Chayote wondered if she'd receive any similar flak from her son, but her little twerp just looked to be excited to finally be free of Videl's grasp and to be able to fly around freely. He was making burring plane noises while flying around and shadowboxing as the hyperactive little goofball that he was.
"Thanks for checking up on these two, you guys," Chayote nodded in Chi-Chi's direction. While Chi-Chi was a fighter strong enough to definitively shift the battle's tide and fight alongside two Super Saiyans and be of some assistance, she decided to stand on the front line protecting the kids who were the prime target of these two mysterious assailants in case they would slip out and try to spearhead another assault on the kids. Leaving just Gohan and Videl to that role while they were restraining the two rascals at the same time could have resulted in one or both of them getting caught. As a mother herself, Chi-Chi wouldn't allow that to happen.
"We're not just two friendly families, Chayote-san," Chi-Chi nodded with a comforting look. "We're all one big family together."
"Hmm… I wonder what those guys were…" Goku scratched his head. "We should talk to Bulma or Kami Upa about it. One of them should know something…"
"You talk to Bulma, I'll talk to Upa," to Chayote, the choice didn't look like much of a choice at all. She still felt awkward around Bulma and her family and they haven't been on best of terms since Chayote hooked up with the future version of her son and Bulma hooked up with the man whose guts Chayote couldn't stand and made this very apparent on multiple occasions.
"Alright!" Goku pumped himself up. "We should probably pick up some of the remains of those guys for Bulma to check out and anucide."
"Analyze…" Gohan sighed, accompanying Chayote and Goku as they hovered over to the battle site and looked around for any remains of either of the two combatants. Given how Goku dispatched the second one, there may not have been much to pick up, however, the first one should have felt plenty of samples to collect. Much to everyone's surprise–there were none.
"Hmm…" Chayote crossed her arms, hooking her fingers nervously into her biceps as she felt her teeth grinding and made a conscious effort to stop doing it. "Someone's making a fool out of us. Kakarot blew the first guy up, splattering him all over the place. The second one was obliterated whole, but their severed tail should have remained, at least. It's like there was someone else, someone who cleaned up after the first pair. Don't waste any time, head straight to Capsule Corps! Videl, please bring Navy home and watch over him for a bit."
"Okay," Videl nodded.
"Gohan, Chi-Chi, I'm leaving Goten to you two. I'm off to get this sorted out," Goku turned to the two, who nodded in understanding.
"Sharpner-kun, maybe I should take you home?" Gohan turned to the jock, who was beginning to feel like a dog's fifth leg here after having just begun his journey as a martial artist. "This looks like it could be another whole thing, which means that your training might have to wait for a bit."
"Another whole thing?" Sharpner's left eye twitched. "You're saying it like getting attacked by mutant freaks is just a common everyday occurrence to you."
"You'd be surprised…" Gohan answered with a somber look on his face.
"Don't worry about me. I've got a jet capsule that I brought along. I didn't expect to be flying home today anyway," Sharpner brushed it off. "You take care of your family and keep them safe, Gohan. You've got a caring family and good friends. Don't squander that."
"Right…" Gohan nodded, looking a bit confused as to why his friend would choose to emphasize something like that.
Goku and Chayote took off for Capsule Corps and God Temple, respectively. Chi-Chi, Gohan, and Goten took off to Mount Paozu with Videl accompanying Sharpner's jet to the city before she turned to Chayote's estate to watch over Navy.
"Not bad…" Cell observed to himself after absorbing the splattered chunks of the split-off Cell Jrs he sent after the kids to draw out Goku and Chayote to fight them. As Cell feared, the pair of Saiyans left very little of his children to absorb back, but it didn't matter. Just a tiny little sample of cells was enough for Cell to assimilate back the samples of Frieza and Earthling cells he'd expelled from his body in the form of these two Cell Jrs. "You two somehow managed to force those two to show a few interesting techniques for me to see. Your efforts exceeded my expectations, however, it's time that you return what I gave you."
Goku and Chayote's family were so meticulous to stick together. If Cell was foolish enough to attack either of them on their way home, they'd simply raise their battle powers and alert the rest. It's more than likely that Piccolo had already noticed a battle taking place here merely because of how much Goku had powered up. He would have overlooked a certain amount of power being radiated here because this was a training trip after all, but Goku went ahead and used his actual strength for a second there. Nevermind that…
Those fools misunderstood Cell's intentions completely. They thought that just because he sent the Cell Jrs after the kids; he wanted them dead. Truth be told, this was all according to Cell's plan. He weakened himself on purpose in splitting off these two Cells Jrs, all so he could irritate Chayote and Son Goku, two of the bigger powerhouses around Planet Earth, into revealing some of their techniques to him. By observing the battle from a safe distance and keeping the Artificial Human property of emitting no Ki signature, he could copy their techniques the same way his Cell Jrs did.
With Cell absorbing the cells back in his own body, he'd once again re-assimilate all the properties he had lost in creating these two, to begin with. Now, he could challenge the others and assert his place as the apex predator of the entire universe. One by one, he would best all the strongest fighters and place himself at the very top of the food chain. After all, it was as that loathsome poacher said: only the apex predator, the one at the very top of the mountain, could live safely and fear nothing. Only the strongest one was truly free to live their lives to the fullest, without concern.
For the sake of the life he was entitled to, for the sake of his one-of-a-kind species as Cell, Cell will sacrifice anything and everything. Not even the lives of his children, the Cell Jrs, were above being sacrificed for that goal. It just so happened that most of the Earth's strongest martial artists were out in space, questing for the Ultimate Dragon Balls. This proved to be incredibly fortunate for Cell, after all, with Piccolo, Lapis, Chayote, and Goku still here, it was dangerous to make any drastic moves on Earth. Out there… He could challenge anyone he wanted and sample the entire universe of cells until he became the Perfect, Ultimate Creature.
The Apex Predator.
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