Chapter 9- A New Home
=Android 17=
We flew to the Kame house, to find Goten and Trunks playing cards and Chi-Chi yelling Gohan for something.
"…" I knocked at the door,
"hello? Can I come in?"
"WHO’S THERE?" Yelled Trunks.
"Me."
"Ahhhh, an android." I saw him look my way "both to be more precise".
"Hi 18, 17. How is life for androids these days?" Gohan asked friendlily.
"Not good, when you have android-eating monster on the loose." I mumbled hoping that Gohan wouldn’t hear me. "Good, I guess."
"What was that first part? About the android-eating monsters?"
"Oh nothing, just a 3rd android that’s not so android."
"CELL?!?" The 3 fighters yelled, frantic.
"In a matter of speaking" I told them.
"THIS IS REALLY NOT THE TIME FOR PHILOSOPHY!!"
"Well, cell has this, ummm, human form and it has a tail and almost ate 18 and killed me" I decided to leave Kara out, for now.
"Great, all we need is another cell. I guess that peace is so not possible." Gohan mumbled, aggravated.
"GOHAN!! GET BACK INTO YOUR ROOM AND STUDY!!!! I DON’T CARE WHO’S AT THE DOOR, GET BACK IN HERE!!!!" I heard Chi-Chi yell. I almost cracked up, but I couldn’t hide a laughing smile.
"BUT MOM, CELL IS BACK!!!"
"I DON’T CARE GET BACK IN YOUR ROOM!!!!"
"BUT MOM—"
"NO BUTS, YOUNG MAN!! HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED
TO GET A COLLEGE EDUCATION?!"
"If I survive that long, if I had the time" Gohan mumbled.
"Ummm, can we stay here for now?" 18 asked.
"Sure I guess" Goten told us. "As long as you can a find a place to sleep and something to eat, you can stay".
"Thank you so much" I told them gratefully.
"Good luck finding something to eat, we hardly do because Goten eats its all." Trunks told me with a chuckle.
I pointed out a flaw, "we don’t need to eat, we’re androids"
"Oh yeah. Hey, Goten, want to introduce them to Gotenks?" Trunks yelled up the stairs.
"Gotenks? I asked, totally confused.
I saw Goten come down the stairs, smiling a very Goku-like smile. Hey, they’re related, no wonder they’re so alike. I thought to myself, smiling. That guy is still in my thoughts, still in the other dimension with Piccolo and Krillin and- wait a sec… Can Cell be there? I wondered cautiously. I’ll thought to bring it up to Gohan, and I would later.
"Sure, why not?"
I saw Trunks whisper something to Goten and Goten cracked up. Goten walked over to Gohan and told him something.
"Gotenks! Get down here!!" Gohan yelled.
"He’s not coming" Trunks said, "Goten and me will get him."
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kara land. No don’t come now!! I screamed silently.
I heard a boom and I saw a teen, about Trunk’s age come down the stairs. He had the eyes of Trunks and the hair length, but everything else looked like Goten. Then I remembered something 18 had told me that Krillin had said when they fought cell without me. I hope that Trunks and Goten can get here so they can fuse into Gotenks. Yeah, that was it. Then why didn’t 18 remember?
"You guys aren’t fooling me, I just remembered that Goten and Trunks fuse to become Gotenks." 18 said smartly. I agreed silently.
"Hey Gohan? Can I talk to you privately?" I asked cautiously
"Sure" I walked him up the stairs and spoke in a whisper.
Chapter 10- More Problems
=Android 17=
"Listen, you probably wont know, but do you know if cell is in the other dimension with you dad and such?" I saw him froze. He was not sure.
"ummmm……..I don’t know. If he has this human body, doesn’t that mean he would be in this dimension?" Gohan asked, uncertain.
I heard 18 yell with surprise, but not fear. "You guys! Get down here now!" 18 yelled, very urgently.
Gohan and me went downstairs to find Trunks on a computer and 18 telling him to do stuff. I was extremely puzzled at the current window up at this moment.
=Android 18=
"Are you sure 18? This is not at all what I imagined to be Cell’s anatomy." Trunks asked uncertainly.
"I was inside him. I should know what his insides look like." I told him. "I’ll show you where I was." I pointed to a large sac, probably about Krillin’s size. "Very flexible". I missed that kid, Krillin, even though he was a nag. He, I guess, saved me. I remembered him blushing when Gohan saw his secret that he had a crush on me. I was quite a funny scene, but I had to keep the "serious" look up. Hmmmm…. a crush on an android. What do I have that a human doesn't? I had rethought this question over and over again and still had not found the answer.
"18? Hello? Earth to android 18? Are you still alive in there?" I snapped out of my thoughts to see 17 cracking up, and Goten shaking me. Trunks was waving a hand in front of my face. I smacked both Trunks and Goten, but I was just angry. "I was just thinking about Krillin."
"Ahhhhh, so you do have a crush on him." Gohan said in a smart-mouth tone. He was leaning a banister of the stairs. "I always thought so"
"Shut up, Gohan. I was just thinking about why he would have a crush on me." I said angrily. "You know, if Cell if or was ever in the other dimension. He would vaporize Krillin in an instant, and I would not give a shit.
"Yes you would. You care about that kid. He saved you and you still think about him as a jerk. I see right through you, 18." 17 said, seriously.
"Hey, umm, sorry to interrupt the Kodak moment, but where should I go next?" Trunks asked me, pointing to the computer.
"Go to the very end of his tail. If we can find out how he absorbs people, we can make something to stop it, hopefully." I said.
"Note the skeptism and pause on "hopefully" Goten pointed out.
"Look, Goten, You may Cell as a joke, but I don’t. Goku couldn’t have been more right when he said that Cell doesn't have any weaknesses. Now we have the time to look, but we may still not find any true weaknesses. You think all Cell was built to do was destroy. But I see a bigger point, a much more powerful position that Dr. Gero didn’t intend, but then again, he didn’t intend for 17 to chop his head off. Cell is powerful, more powerful then you could ever imagine." Goten apparently was not listening, and Trunks was checking out the several sections of Cell’s tail, the most horrible thing in this universe, possibly even worse. Then I realized. It had all been a trap.
Chapter 11- Another of Cell’s Traps
=Trunks=
As I looked through the anatomy of Cell’s tail, I was amazed the structure, the design. Dr. Gero was a genius. A mad scientist would be the better term, but he was brilliant. It was a pity he skills could not be used for other, better, things, not the most destructive creature to be in this universe. Suddenly, 18 hurled a ki blast at the computer I had been using.
"What the hell was that for?" I asked angrily.
"We have to get out of here. Now." She was panicked, but was trying to stay calm. "Cell is coming" I saw here fly away a top speed. I followed, lost as a flame in heaven. I had to use a lot of ki to catch up.
"Now, What the hell was that for?"
"Cell put his plans on that computer on purpose. He is using them to track us." 18 told me. Suddenly, I understood it all. Cell’s anatomy wasn’t anywhere on any computer.
Cell had been there before, when me and Goten and Gohan were having a race. Chi-Chi was yelling at Gohan, of course.
I saw a green blur, but it didn’t look like Cell. It had a tail, so I went straight into a fighting stance.
"Did you realize?" The alien asked 18.
"Yes, but I don’t think we were in time, Kara. I think he has our ki stuck and following it" 18 told this alien, apparently named Kara. Both of them looked at me.
"Oh yeah. Trunks, this is Kara. Kara, that’s Trunks. We need to get out of here."
"You are Trunks?" Kara asked, excitedly.
"Yeah. You know me?"
"You and you partner, Goten are heroes to our kind. Your destruction, or so-called destruction of Cell makes you heroes."
"umm, can you back me up on the 411?" I asked uncertainly. I was totally lost.
"Well, cell destroyed my planet and most of my race, so anyone that defeats him is a hero. Get it?"
"Now I do"
"Evil creature will a life-sucking tail at 4 o’clock." Gohan told us in a radio-imitating voice.
"Now, we don’t know any evil creatures with life-sucking tails, do we?" Goten asked sarcastically.
I shook my head, making my pinkish hair go in all directions. That was Goten’s job alright. Making sure we didn’t stress ourselves to death. I couldn’t help smiling.
"Do you mind keeping your hair out of my face?" 18 said, a smirk on her face.
"Sure, anything for the queen of perfection." I rolled my eyes and did a few flips to let off my feelings.
Chapter 12- 2 Souls, One Body
=Trunks=
"Hello? Earth to Trunks! CELL IS GONNA GRAB YOU!!" Kara screamed at me. I looked and I saw a human, with empty blue eyes and a long green tail hanging out of a trench coat. He was a middle-aged man, probably about 50 or so. He had rich brown hair.
"Shall we, Cell?" Cell asked. But who?
"Of course, Terrace." Wait a sec, Cell answering himself?
What? Cell was talking to himself? What the hell was going on here?! What was with this, this creature?
18 was carrying me away, still staring at this creature. It was 2 souls, one body.
=Cell=
I watched them fly away, very satisfied with Terrace and myself. We were a good team, his knowledge of humans and his body for my smarts and trickery, not to mention power, ki. They had walked right into my trap. Again. I decide to give them a few moments of terror. Using the instant transmission technique I had picked up from a useful saiyan named Goku, I landed directly in front of them. Studying their faces I determined that 1) both androids were as scared as hell, 2) Gohan and Goten were not scared and 3) Trunks was scared because he couldn’t do anything because he was still out of whack.
"I see that Trunks is very curious about my talking to myself." I said, maliciously, starring at Trunks "is anybody else? Perhaps I shall explain"
"Perhaps you should" growled Kara, I could Trunks’s and Goten’s ki disappear, but then felt Gotenks’s.
"After Gohan defeated me, I was nothing but a spirit of the weakest thing. I was hanging on to life by a thread. I took shelter in the forest, the particular that 18 and 17 happened to be in. Then I met Terrace McNown. He knew of the saiyans and wanted them destroyed. When he discovered me, he allowed me to use his body for mine, and his purposes. To destroy the saiyans. Now, I just simply couldn’t stand not having a tail. So I took many forest animals, and using their life energy, recreated my tail. I told Terrace of the androids. He agreed to help me catch them and absorb them, and then we would go after you Gohan and Trunks and Goten. When I have enough energy, I will recreate my true body, and a new, more powerful body for Terrace, since he deserves much more then just a puny human body."
"Nice speech." Gotenks said, clapping sarcastically. "Pity you didn’t let go when you were hanging on to life" A roar of laugher came from the remaining Z warriors.
"And once I have that body, I will destroy you" I pointed at Gotenks.
"Yup, sure, whatever, get a life. Literally" He said, and didn’t care the least about it
"You have quite a mouth" I remarked
"You have quite a tail" he mocked me
"Shut up" I said. I was beginning to get angry
"Make me," he said, still not caring
"Okay"
I flew at Gotenks, and aimed for his head. I missed, and hit him in the stomach. Good Enough.
"That hurt" Gotenks said
"It meant to. Duh" I told him and then kicked him in the place that only human boys have that is between the legs.
Kara scooped up Gotenks and gave him to Gohan.
"This is my dirt ball. Last time I scooped him under the couch. This time he goes in the vacuum cleaner." Kara said, staring at me.
To be Continued…
How will the Z warriors beat this new creation? Does Dendai have any ideas? Find out in Cell’s Return 4!!!!