"This…is a lot bigger than I was expecting." I muttered in awe as I walked into the white abyss that was the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, this one only having an hour glass on one side and two double beds on the other.
"Welcome to my own and personal Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Well, not mine since I didn't create it but since no one was using it, I took it for myself." Neva's words drew my attention back to him as I watched the Namekian sit down with a grunt while a frown adorned my face.
"What do you mean that you didn't create it? I thought Namekians were capable of doing so?"
"Oh, I'm not saying that Namekians aren't. I'm saying that I'm not the one who made this chamber itself. I only managed to create a doorway that leads to it, but since the time dilation inside is dependant on the entrance you use, I could only make a doorway that makes six months inside one day on the outside."
"So, you're saying that the space that makes up the inside of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber has existed since before even the first gateway into it was created."
"Like I said, there's a reason I call it the Room Beyond Space and Time. We are quite literally carving out a chunk of the space-time continuum and shoving it into a nigh-infinite dimension. The rapid shifting of the temperature, air density and gravity inside is simply parts of other dimensions leaking through the hole we made inside space and time and trying to take its place back inside here."
'…Holy shit, there is a lot more information on this place than I thought there would be.'
"I see. So, that is why I've always been able to sense it. As someone who has moved through space an time countless times, I am sensitive to the temporal energy inside it." Towa spoke up as she waved her staff around, the crystal orb at the top of it glowing and pulsing periodically before smirking as she turned to Neva with a curious look.
"Neva, while Cell is busy sorting his own things out, I have a few questions for you."
"Will you listen if I say no?"
"Not at all. Cell, will you be okay on your own?"
"It's just us in here, right?" I asked before shaking my head as Neva gave me a sly grin.
"Of course. Who else?"
"Hah, Neva. You do realize that I have the memories of the Grand Supreme Kai, correct? That means I have memories of sealing spells that will rip the mind, body and soul apart over the course of centuries while making sure you experience even the slightest hint of pain that's been boosted by a factor of thousands. So, is the room safe or no?"
"It's safe. Unless someone uses our entrance, no one can enter it any other way." The Namekian spoke with a slightly nervous smile and I nodded before turning to an amused Towa.
"I'll see you all in a couple of months…or maybe even a year or two."
"Sure, we'll be here." She answered and I nodded before deciding to see if I can fly, frowning a bit as I began to levitate and felt how much heavier the air was compared to what I was used it.
'This is maybe fifty times Earth gra-It just got heavier. Is it constantly adjusting the gravity around me to make sure I'm always under heavy gravity? Man, this room is amazing.' I thought with a grin before blasting off into the opposite direction of the doorway, my grin widening as I felt the gravity increasing more and more as I got further away until I was forced onto the floor just from how heavy it was.
Landing with a grunt, the ground under me exploded as I took off with a sprint, the Saiyan part of me feeling ecstatic at the fact that the white void was trying its best to force me to the ground and actually forced me to slow down the further I went.
When I finally came to a standstill, the air was so dense that even a deep breath took a bit of effort and I let out a sigh as I sat down, grunting as the ground trembled with every single one of my movement before I frowned as I crossed my legs and closed my eyes.
'Okay, this should be far enough. Time to check these memories out.' I thought with a frown as I finally let go of my consciousness, feeling myself being whisked away before grunting as my eyes snapped open & stared at the chaos around me.
Everywhere I looked within the kaleidoscope that was my mind, I saw nothing but what appeared to be millions of pages flying everywhere in the void, catching one of them before frowning as I read the title.
Memory of Si'L'Akqe at 43 years old according to the Nillowqir galaxy of the Western Galactic Quadrant. Day 1230 of 39 120 of the Second Year After the Inter-Stellar War.
'Is…is every page a memory of someone's day?' I thought in shock as I looked around, watching as the millions of memories flew around me like a storm.
No, forget millions. Kid Buu has probably absorbed quadrillions of people across the time that he was active and that means that there are probably decillions upon decillions of memories flying around.
'Do I even have the storage capacity to absorb them all?' I thought with a concerned frown before shaking my head as I knew that even if one memory was equivalent to a megabyte of storage, there was no way that I was even going to get half of the memories even if I do have a near-infinite data storage in my mind.
'But what if I don't? What if I copy the structure of that database into another? Do the Supreme Kais perhaps have such a spell? But that would mean I'd have to sift through so many memories to get it…unless…' I trailed off as I stretched my hands out while focusing, gritting my teeth as I compressed my magic to its absolute point before a roar escaped my lips as I sent it out as far as I could.
With a gasp, I felt my mindscape for the first time as I made my magic encompass it in its entirety, taking deep breaths as I felt myself being connected with every single memory of every single person that Buu has absorbed.
However, I forced myself to stop viewing every memory as I pushed them back, gritting my teeth as I focused on the image of the Supreme Kais.
With a grin, I watched as nearly half of the memories were pushed back while the other half began to sort themselves into five sections, my grin fading and a groan escaping my lips as I saw the sections still being nearly the same size as the tallest skyscrapers that I've seen in my past life.
The funny thing was that each of them had fifty stacks or more behind them that was all grew smaller the further back the stacks were made until I watched the final one being made with a distance of an entire football field between the last stack and me.
'…Okay, okay. Check for a spell that has to do with one's mind.' I asked and watched as the memories were all removed from their stacks and shuffled once more, this time almost all but maybe a couple thousand pages being pushed back to join the others while those that were left all formed one stack that was now the same size as a five-story building.
"Okay, that's far more manageable than I expected. Now, find me memories on spells that would help one to copy their mental storage capacity without it having any negative or neutral side-effects, without it being harmful to its user and without it creating a split personality of any kind." I spoke out loud and rolled my eyes as I saw only one out of the thousands of spells floating down towards me, the others joining the rest of the memory storm around me as I slowly read the memory in front of me.
'Memory Vampirism. Using the desires of my subconscious and conscious minds, it turns the memory those two minds want the most into vampiric parasites that devours the unnecessary memories and uses the mental power from them to boost the vampiric memories to the point that it feels as if I was there learning them. I see, so the memories are basically turned into leeches that suck off the mental blood of the lesser important memories in order to boost how they look from my point of view.'
"That…sounds perfect and I'm fairly sure the Supreme Kais and Grand Supreme Kais have memories of nearly everything in existence up until a few million years ago when Shin killed Bibidi and left the sealed Buu on Earth.
'At least, I think that's how it happened. Strange how that's the one memory that I can't see.' I thought with a frown as I scanned my mind, noting how every memory of my own was still perfect except for that exact one memory.
"Eh, it's probably just Zeno's working like the Grand Supreme Kai said. I guess I'll figure it out at another time. As for you, assimilate." I chanted out loud and let the memory sink into my mind, grinning as I could feel myself learning the spell just from watching it play over & over inside my head.
As I pressed my hands together with only the fingertips touching, a red orb made out of what was probably thousands of miniature strands appeared floating in between my hands, my eyes widening as I felt the pure and divine energy coming from the chaotic orb of energy.
'So, the spell uses divine ki instead of magic, eh? I see. Now, time to get these memories sorted.'
"Memory…Vampirism." I chanted as I spread my arms out wide, the air around me shimmering as the orb grew out to envelop my entire body before I grinned as millions of energy strands flew out and attached to a memory that belonged to a Supreme Kai, my grin growing as I watched the world slowly being dyed with a scarlet hue.
'Now, time to finally become one.'
"How long has it been?" Neva asked as he and Towa sat on the floor right in front of the doorway that led to the First Demon World, Towa frowning as they both felt Cell's magical energy flickering constantly even with how far they were from him.
"Almost seven months. How much longer do you think it will be?"
"Considering his magical signature has slowed down in its fluctuations and the fact that his ki is becoming more and more awful to my senses, I'd say we have about a month or so before he's finally finished." Neva answered and Towa nodded as she played with her ponytail.
She had to admit that Neva was right though as even with the Glind blood that she had added to her DNA thanks to some samples from her sister-in-law, divine ki still made her uneasy and Cell's ki itself reminded her of one divine being that she never wanted to encounter again.
The Dark King Mechikabura was a faithful friend to their father Abura, but it was that faith that made their father's mind weak to his friend's mental spells, which allowed him to become ruler of the Demon Realm from the shadows before she and her brothers finally took their Realm back.
Even after they killed their father and put him to rest, they all still had to fight the Dark King himself and it was only through that interjection from Chronoa and her Time Patrol taking away Mechikabura to deal with him themselves that they were all still alive.
Ignoring the powerful spells the Glind had, the man's ki was divine itself despite being an inhabitant of the Demon Realm seeing as he trained alongside Chronoa before he was kicked out for trying to steal Tokitoki's egg to try and manipulate the time streams as he pleased.
Even now, she still had some nightmares from her battles against him, where each of her temporal and spacial spells were knocked aside or taken control of like they were nothing, forcing her to resort to basic ki attacks in order to just support her brothers.
'However, Cell is not like him. From what it looks like, he has the same confidence and cocky attitude as Cell himself, but there's a certain…humanness to him that makes it easy to see that he's not like the others across the timelines.' Towa thought with a smirk before her eyes widened as she felt Cell's ki and magic spike tremendously, Neva sounding just as shocked as she felt as she heard the Namekian choke on his own cough while they flew to their feet.
"W-What the hell?" Neva muttered as he felt Cell's magical energy surpassing his own when he was barely at his level before, his hands shaking as the being's ki was actually growing alongside it until both were far beyond what he expected them to be after the assimilation.
"Uh, T-Towa, think he's still going to be a friend?" He asked and before Towa could answer, they froze as Cell's energy vanished before they felt a disturbance in the air behind them, slowly turning around only to be surprised by the sight of Cell in his Imperfect Form standing behind them.
"Hehe~ So this is the form I truly desire, huh?" Cell muttered out loud with a smirk as he twisted his arms around while shifting their composition, watching as they turned into the goo-like state of Buu before back into the flesh and blood form that was his Mira form.
"Cell?" Towa asked with a slight frown as she gripped her staff slightly, waiting a bit as Cell glanced at her before glaring at him as he chuckled with an amused smile.
"Scared, Towa?" Cell asked as his voice transformed back to normal, the feeling of his divine ki and magic slowly being pulled back into his body as Neva finally let out a relieved sigh right before his eyes widened as Cell's tail stabbed into his chest.
However, this time, the Namekian tried to activate his Astral Form spell and felt his soul pulling away before gasping as it was pulled back into his body with ease, Cell smirking with amusement as he held out a hand towards the Namekian that was glowing with an eerie light blue aura.
"No escape this time, man. This time, I'm going to make sure you die."
"W-Wait! W-What if I give you the Dragon Balls?!"
"I can just kill the Tamagamis and take them myself." Cell answered with his Perfect voice as he locked Neva's soul to his body and the Namekian looked horrified at that before turning to the amused Towa.
"Towa! Princess, please! I have been a loyal servant to your family for centuries!"
"And we thank you for your service, but it appears we have a new friend now that will do everything you can and better!" Towa said and Neva gritted his teeth before Cell raised an eyebrow as the man's magical energy surged.
"Then, I'll make sure none of you will leave here!" He roared as a pillar of chaotic purple energy rippled from his form, the Android simply tilting his head as he watched the hundreds of runic patterns from earlier shooting out from the Namekian's body before they all curved through the air and latched onto the door.
"Hahaha! Even if I die here, I'll make sure you never leave here! You'll rot away in this white abyss, never to see the light of the Demon Realm aga-!"
"Really?" Towa asked with a raised eyebrow as the crystal orb on her staff lit up and Neva's eyes widened in horror as the runic patterns of the door were pulled back and onto his own body before they could activate, the Namekian gasping in pain as he felt the spell latch onto his own magic.
"Time reversal spell. Learned it after the last battle where I struggled to fight someone with time spells." She answered and Cell nodded before turning back to Neva, who was still glaring at them despite the fact that Cell had his stinger through his chest.
Without wasting any time, the Bio-Android/ Supreme Kai pulled his tail out and crushed the Namekian into a ball of flesh in the blink of an eye, his stinger opening up and fully sucking up the crumbled body of the Namekian before storing Neva's memory into his new and improved data storage that he created with a few of the other spells that he found.
"Hmm, that spell was also a detonation one that would create an explosion spanning ten kilometers that would also erase all magic inside of it."
"…Hah, that's to be expected of the Trickster Namekian, I suppose." Towa muttered and Cell chuckled before smirking as he clenched his fists.
"You know, I'm going to need some way to test out my new capabilities."
"I see you haven't lost that Saiyan side of yours at least." Towa spoke with an amused smirk despite the fact that she twirled her staff, to which Cell simply chuckled as a divine aura formed around his body.
"I don't see you denying my request."
"It's not every day you get to do combat against a Cell-Buu-Supreme Kai fusion. Hmm, I'll think of a scientific name that will fit you."
"No ki?" Cell asked after chuckling at her words, smirking as the demoness nodded while flaring her magic proudly.
"Of course. On the count of three?"
"One…" Cell began as he began to circulate his magic through his body.
"Two…" Towa continued as she pointed the orb at the top of her staff at her foe, who had already gathered magic to his hands in the form of a scarlet-red aura, both of them looking at each other before the world around shifted as they activated their spells.
"Three!"
Destination has been reached. Welcome to Planet Cereal, Lord Meruem.
'Those scientists sure work fast.' Meruem thought with an impressed smirk as he walked off the spaceship, not missing how the new AI sounded like Bonyu's voice as well as the fact that they've already coded in command prompts just for him.
Combine that with the fact that they gave him a personal spaceship that was nearly triple the size of the one he used to rescue Paragus and Broly, he was starting to feel more and more like the Emperor he was aiming to be.
As soon as he exited the spaceship, he smirked as he saw the looks of awe aimed at him from the denizens of the planet, who appeared to be humanoid-looking axolotls dressed in oversized and heavy coats that made them look pretty goofy and cute in the eyes of the clone.
'No, Meruem! Quit fawning over the goofy idiots and find Granolah.' Meruem thought with a frown as he continued walking off, nodding and smiling at the Sugarians while making his way to the outside of the city.
As soon as he took his first step outside, he was flying high up in the sky the next moment, frowning a bit as he stretched his ki out wide to encompass the entire planet before smirking as he felt only two ki signatures near the outskirts of the city.
However, Meruem's smirk faded slightly as he looked at the ruins in the distance near the town, noting the large paw prints on the ground as well as the destruction that was left within them.
'Man, the Saiyans really were dickheads to the end, huh? Hah, I really hope he doesn't attack me first thing when I explain who I am.' Meruem thought with a sigh as he began flying in the direction where the two ki signatures were, readying himself for a battle that he was hoping he didn't have to do.
After all, he didn't want to take the life of the last Cerealian and erase the species from the living world.
It didn't take him long to land just outside the house that was build in the spherical dome-styled house similar to that of the Namekians on Namek, which made sense given that it was a Namekian that also built this house.
However, Meruem was more focused on how the weaker of the two energies stood up, a slight smile on his face as he walked up to the door before knocking softly on it.
"Coming!" An elderly voice called out from behind it and Meruem waited as he felt the energy walking closer right before the door opened, the old Namekian behind it surprised to see a smiling green humanoid with a helmet making up the top of his head, long earlobes and a stinger-like tail behind him.
"Hello, sir. Is the house where Granolah the Bounty Hunter stays?"
"Uh, no. He probably lives closer to the ruins." Monaito, the Namekian that has raised Granolah from the time since his species were killed, spoke with a shaky smile and Meruem smiled before speaking.
"I can feel his energy inside, Mr. Monaito. Please, just a few minutes of his time and if he doesn't wish to listen to my proposition, I shall leave."
"Hey, the man told you to leave so leave."
"Granolah, I can handle this!" Monaito spoke up with a frown aimed at the tall man walking out from the room to the right, a frown on his face and his visible dark green eye narrowed at me as he was still dressed in his bounty hunter get-up with his wavy green hair styled upwards.
"Sure, but I just want to make sure he knows that we're not buying what he's selling."
"Even if it means you find out who truly killed your mother?" Meruem asked with a raised eyebrow, watching as both men in front of him froze before he sighed as Granolah's ki began to radiate from his body.
"One second. You have one second to turn around before I-!"
"The Heeters killed your mother, Elec to be specific. If you're still willing to talk to me, my spaceship's in the city. It's the biggest one." Before either of them could snap out of their shock, Meruem disappeared and found himself scaring the Sugarian he appeared next to.
"Apologies for that." The clone spoke with a smile as he patted the Sugarian on the shoulder, the Sugarian giving him a shaky yet thankful smile before he stood up and began walking back to his ship.
'Now, it's time to wait.'
A/N: And Cell has finally assimilated all of his memories while Meruem is playing a dangerous game as he lays down bait for Granolah! How will that turn out? We'll have to find out next chapter.
Also, I finally have a story line for each side, with Meruem now starting on his journey to become the new Emperor of the Universe while Cell is going to try & clap Towa's cheeks~!
Nah, just kidding. Cell on the other hand is going to get a surprise in the next couple of chapters that will push him to his limits!
Also, where are the Z-Fighters & what are they doing? To be honest, I don't care. This is a story about Cell & Meruem, not them so they can stay in the background for as long as they want.
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