"You can't stop me." Abri watched as Cell moved to him. 17 looked on and just then Cell turned his attention to 17 knocking Piccolo out out, he was no use to him because he already had his cells in him. So he raised his palm over his stomach and blasted him.

Gohan felt a click in his brain and Goku gasped. Abri almost was knocked unconscious.

"Oh my gosh." Gohan ran forward a little bit looking in the direction of his friend who was thrown in the ocean.

'Goku! Why won't you use Instant Transmission! We could save him!' Abri yelled in her mind but kept her mouth closed. She knew she couldn't say anything, something told her this was meant to be.

"Piccolo, guys we've lost him." Goku was now totally freaked out.

'Oh no, Piccolo." Gohan was lost for words. Mr. Popo had tears in his eyes and they were just about fall out by the bunch.

"Kami." Mr. Popo almost broke. Gohan shook almost about to break himself. He turned back slightly.

"I can't take this anymore." Gohan said.

"Gohan?" He looked as his son as he was about to take off.

"Gohan no!" Abri yelled and wrapped her arms tightly around him. Gohan was going to break her hold but her grabbing him gave Goku enough time to throw his arms around his son too. So now she was being sandwiched and crushed to death.

'MEH! Can't. Breath!' Abri started to to flap her arms like a retarded penguin

"No let go! It's not far let go of me. Piccolo needs me let go of me!" He struggled trying go get out of his fathers grip.

"Gohan listen you got to listen to me." Goku was trying to hold his son still. Abri now felt like she was going to pop. But if he let go then Gohan would escape. Abri was getting elbowed slightly and squashed but she bared with it as Goku talked to his son to calm him down, so far it wasn't working.

"No let go!" He still yelled not noticing he was hurting Abri.

"I know it's not fair, we only have one chance to beat that monster and we have to play to win.

"Gohan don't leave." Abri whispered into his ear and loosen her grip into a more making it into a more motherly hug. Gohan finally stopped struggling and when he let go falling to the ground. Abri fell with him holding him in her arms. He may be a strong half saiyan human fighter. But he was still a little boy behind all his strength. She held him in her lap cooing him motherly as she stroked his hair while he was shaking.

"But it hurts you daddy." This made Abri want to start crying. It hurt her just seeing Gohan in pain.

"I knowson." He said trying, he was trying to deal with his own rage. "I know."

'Trunks...Vegeta...where are you...times up...they can't hold up much longer.' Abri thought as she tried to hold Gohan together.

"Look hun, it's ok." She cood him like he was her own child. She rested her chin on his head and stroked the front part of his bangs pushing them away from his face.

"It's gonna be alright." Abri's voice slowly turned into a smooth singing voice. She didn't have the best voice on earth, but it was enough to get her feelings out to Gohan.

"Natsuhiboshi, naze akai?" She whispered the song lowly singing in Japanese. For some reason when she sung it, it came out in Japanese but English at the same time.

"Yuube kanashii yume wo mita." She started to rock him a bit. "Naite hanashita. Akai me yo." She sung the notes for the part of the song that only hand the bell like music playing.

"Natsuhiboshi, naze mayou?" She turned his head gently by his chin turning him to face her. "Kieta warashi wo sagashiteru." She slowly put her forehead on his closing her eyes. He just looked at her for a second a not knowing what to do, he was still angry, confused and didn't know what to do with himself. but her song was finally calming him down.

The humming in her chest from her singing was what he loved about it. It felt like a purr as she sung rumbling him in a way that calmed him down. Her words had a strange effect on him because of the way she sung it, it was just the wording and emotion she put in it just for him.

"Dakara kanashii yume wo miru. Natsuhiboshi..." She kept singing the songs verses till Gohan finally calmed in her arms. She wrapped her arms tightly around him as he leaned on her both physically and mentally.

This was too much for a boy his age to take. He lost his friend again, not of in front of him again but it was close enough to hurt him. She ignored the flashes of Cell and the flashing memory of him killing Piccolo. Suddenly Gohan bursted from her arms.

"I can't take this anymore! Forget the plan!" Gohan almost hit Abri in the face as he stood up. "Stay here if you want to!" Abri couldn't help but feel hurt at this.

"I'm going now, goodbye." Abri put her arm over her eyes as Gohan powered up and took off. Goku was in front of him before she could blink, but both and Mr. Popo's eyes nearly dropped when he punched him causing Gohan to crash on the floor slightly. The punch was not enough to harm him but to stop him.

"Ah! Gohan! Oh dear." Mr. Popo said as he slid a little before stopping, then he ran over to him. Abri was going to go over to him but froze when Goku landed in between her and him. It wasn't to stop her but he just happened to land there. She didn't feel like getting in the crossfire between father and son, she knew her place in this situation.

"Hey now, it's ok." Mr. Popo sat him up, Gohan looked at him like 'daddddd! whhhhhhyyyyy!'

"Man, gosh dad." He said childishly still winded from the punch.

"You would have been killed son." Goku said straight out. Now it sounded like your everyday father son argument, Gohan was whining and Goku was lecturing.

"So, wouldn't that be better than just sitting around here?! Piccolo would never turn his back on you like this dad!" Gohan shot back. Goku turned around in the direction where the island was. Gohan suddenly felt guilty.

"Gohan," Mr. Popo said. "Your dad is hurting to son." This made

"He is?"" Gohan asked.

"Just as much as you or I, even Abri." He looked to Abri who was also looking in that direction as the images flashed.

"You must know that don't you?" He asked kindly.

"Then why don't we attack?!" Gohan balled up his fist. "Isn't that better than wasting our time up here and letting that monster get away with that?!

"Gohan, your dad is not letting Cell get away with it. He just wants to do what's best, Piccolo doesn't want you to die for him. He wants you to live. So get the training first. Fight Cell when it's at your advantage, not his." Gohan knew Mr. Popo was right but he just couldn't get past his anger.

"Huh?" They heard Abri say. Mr. Popo looked up, then Gohan. Goku was slowing yellow with a high rate of energy.

"Daddy wow." Gohan watched as it rippled off him. He could feel the waves of anger and despair, even hope.

"Even though it's hard to believe, i think it's even harder for him to wait, than it is for you." Mr. Popo explained.

"Uh, Dad...Abri." He looked at her for a second. "I'm sorry about what I said, and did." He direct that last part to Abri who nodded giving him a super friendly smile.

"It's ok Gohan I'm sorry that I knocked you down, I known how deeply you care about Piccolo. I promise, I won't let his sacrifice be in vain." Goku was looking fiercely in out to the sky with his eyebrows turned sharply down and teeth together. His yellow energy flared up as he thought mentally rushed the two in the Time Chamber.

Bulma flew in her jet as baby Trunks sung to himself and slapped his small hands. Then he saw the remote.

"Oh ah? Ah!" He laughed as he picked it up.

"Trunks! Hey no!" Bulma said quickly grabbing the remote .

"Here, can mommy have that?Thank you, you don't want this silly thing." She fake laughed smiling at him so he wouldn't cry. But Trunks fussed anyway reaching out to it making loud noises. Then he pulled his arms back pausing for a second before he started making a pouting crying face. He babbled some more baby words making the most pitiful face Bulma's ever seen.

"Oh Trunks." She looked at her sad little baby. "Hey wait a second. I know. Now where is that thing?" She started looking around as his face turned from sad to about go be angry. He started making noises like he was going to scream.

"Ah! Here!" She pulled out a box telephone. "Look Trunks, do you wanna play with mama's cell phone?~" She asked him. Trunks reached out for the new toy in front of him grabbing it.

"Haha! Good! Atta boy!" Bulma smiled. As soon as he was preoccupied Bulma leaned back in her seat.

"Fhew!" She looked up with a sigh.

"Ah! ah ah!" He said happily looking at it.

"Oh yea!" Bulma pressed a few button. "Touch this button here. Your grandpa should come on." She rubbed his head as trunks smiled.

"Dad! It's me Bulma, hey guess what?" She asked putting her hands back on the handles to stear.

"No another conference call!" Dr. Briefs said on the other side thinking it was something else.

"Yaya grandpa!" Bulma smiled as Trunks laughed at him.

"Trunks is that you?" Her dad asked. After a few minutes of talking, Trunks finally hung up on him. Then the phone rang again. Master Roshi was calling to tell her that Krillin was coming. He said it would be faster so Bulma grinned challenging that. She was told Tian and was told they thought Piccolo was down.

"Hey Trunks? You ready to hit the turbos?" Bulma asked grinning as she leaned forward a bit.

"Ya! Ya!" Baby Trunks cheered.

"All right then! Here we go!" She said as the jet picked up speed while the back of the jet lit up from the amount of power.

Abri sweat dropped as she saw this. This was the only time she saw a vision other than the fight with 17 and her first one. It was so off base.

'I'm not sure if Bulma is a terrible mother of if I want a mom like her.' Abri couldn't choose between the two. She really though Bulma was a great mother with the way she handled Trunks. She was also pretty cool because she had turbos and the adorable little Trunks was bouncing in his seat with joy as it speeded up. But that's where it stopped. Abri rolled over to look at the door.

'When is Trunks and Vegeta going to get out of there?' She thought. Seeing younger Trunks kind of struck pain in her heart. She really did miss Future Trunks. It was a weird kind of pain too. Not like the kind where your stabbed with a knife...like the kind of pain where your crush walks past you and your heart does this weird retarded thing and hurts right in it's center. But this hurt worse. She felt her mood dampen as she thought about him, wondering if he's ok.

Did he get hurt in there and was healing. For all she knew he could be down for the count before he even comes out. She felt her vision come back. It had 16 telling 17 to leave, how earth was a good place and Cell wanted to destroy it. This lightened her heart abit. She closed her eyes and locked her hands together behind her and smiled sadly as 16 walked to his doom.

"By the way, I enjoyed the time we spent together you guys are...cool." 16 said as he walked off. His robotic voice and the way he paused made it sound funny yet it was still heart warming. Abri could not have chosen a worse time to burst out laughing. Goku, Gohan, and Mr. Popo looked at her like she was crazy.

"Why'd you laugh?" Gohan asked getting offended, he thought that she was laughing at the battle.

"No no! It's what 16 said- he-...sorry I can't tell you." She shook her head, she couldn't tell them yet, so she suddenly stood up. They watched as she decided to walk around. While she was walking around, she decided to let her emotions out. 16 just saved 17 from being absorbed by Cells tail.

'GOOOAALL!'' She threw her hands up and ran around the room before she hit a pillar because her eyes were open. She fell backwards hitting the ground hard. Cell just called 16 a piece of junk.

"Ohh." She made an O with her mouth. 'That was a bad burn...' Then she saw Cell strike 16 with his tail. She gasped as he stood still. But then he pulled out his tail. Cell forgot that 16 was not the same brand as 17 or 18. Abri paused in her walking stunned. She quickly ran to her room, making sure to walk calmly past Gohan, Goku, and Mr. Popo. But when she got in her room she saw a flash of 16 taking Cell by his tail and throwing him to the ground almost made her shout 'GOOOAALL' until Cell flew up again. 16 was really smart at fighting. Even everyone else was shocked as he was totally owning Cell. She gasped when he grabbed onto his tail and started to pull it off. She totally freaked when it ripped off. 16 threw it over his shoulder and smirked at him.

'Wait...he has Piccolo in him...can't he regenerate?!' She asked, just as she thought this, he grew another one. She watched as he laughed his butt off at 16's shocked expression.

"Wow, that's strange, Cells energy signature just took a nose dive." She heard Goku say.

"Yea, I felt it too dad. Is he losing?" Abri couldn't help but smile at the boys question.

"It doesn't seem possible but somebody seems to have the upper hand on him right now." Goku looked up. "Now if they could just hold on a little longer." Abri's smile could not get bigger. But someone on the inside was killing her, like a bad feeling. A really really bad feeling, like something was going to happen. 17 started bragging about how if they were to stick together no one could touch them even if 16 told him and 18 to run. Abri's entire being started shaking. Her mind, her heart, her soul.

'Oh gosh, I know what's going to happen next.' Abri's eyes went wide with fear. She ran out of the room nearly screamed as Cell appeared behind him. She was seeing it through her own eyes, so it was like she was right there next to the horrible bug monster. Goku stood up just as Abri ran into his arms grabbing onto him. She watched in horror as Cell made his tail tube bigger so it started to swallow 17 from his head to his waist trapping his arms in there two so there was no room for escape.

"What's wrong Abri?" Goku asked shaking her a bit. But she just tried to grab on to him.

She was scared out of her mind right now. She could already feel his energy signature raising the moment 17 was fully connected to him.. Cell laughed evilly as 17 shrunk. His body started to flash as he yelled while 17's the power flowed through his body. She felt herself tremble in fear at what Cell was becoming. Her memories of his next form were playing through her head.

He already scared the living day lights with what he looked light now. Just imagining him in his next form made her want to throw up. This was not the fun manga and anime she knew in love. This for for real, horrible, mind twisting truth. They were going to die. Mr. Popo came over and Abri started hugging him and he patted her back.

"Abri what's wrong?" He asked as she started to cry. Goku suddenly gasped and Gohan started shaking.

"Wow, this isn't good." Goku turned around gently making Abri lean on Mr. Popo. "It feel like Cells power level just went through the roof!"

"Yea." Gohan nodded. "But what's up with Abri?"

"It's what we feared. Cell must have gotten one of the androids Gohan." Goku said and it was Gohan's turn to gasp.

"She's some how connected to seeing them, and she's just experienced it first hand." He turned to Abri who was turning Mr. Popo blue because she was hugging him so hard.

"It's the only explanation, from what we feel and Abri's reaction." Goku watched

as Abri freaked out, there was nothing they could do about it. They didn't know how to stop these visions from happening, they couldn't ask her because it could mess everything up. So she had to suffer the enter experiance till it was over or she was able to shut it off some how.

'I hate this! I absolutely hate this!' Abri yelled at herself. 'All I've done here is cry

and scream, almost pass out and cause trouble.' She really wanted this to stop happening. she couldn't keep herself from screaming when Cell grinned cutting off 16 and 18 from running away. His voice made her shiver, his eyes struck fear into her heart, his smile made her wanna cry. 16's punches didn't even phase Cell anymore it only made him angry. After he knocked him down, 18 threatened to decimate herself.

Cell tried to trick her by using 17's voice trying to convince her to join them. 16 tried to

warn her he was just using his voice when she removed her hand from the part of her chest that had the dedication trigger. She narrowed her eyes, it wasn't him when he said follow Gero's order to become a supreme.

18 yelled about how 17 would not trade his adventurous life to become something not even something like cell. She put her hand back on her chest but Cell pointed out that it would take a few seconds to charge and one for him to get her. 16 struggled to get up but it wasn't working. Just then Cell looked up to see Tien. He clapped his hands together making them into a triangle.

"AAHHH! TRI BEAM!" He yelled as he blasted him. 18 fell to the ground. Abri flinched when Goku jumped from his spot.

"OH NO!" Goku yelled.

"Tien just jumped in didn't he?!" Gohan asked.

"We had a plan, he wasn't even supposed to be there what's the deal?!" Goku yelled. He looked to Abri how had gone quiet. She knew he was probably going to ask what happened. But she just clinged on to Mr. Popo not turning around. 18 started to escape with 16 while Tien kept using the Tri Beam. over and over pushing Cell deeper or pushing him back into the ground so he couldn't get out.

"He's putting out too much energy. DARN IT! What's he doing! he knows he can't sustain an effort like that!" He yelled. "Were gonna lose him!" Goku yelled.

"Abri what's going on!?" Goku yelled but she just kept quiet. She bit her lip trying to make sure she didn't let anything slip. She refused to cry again as he yelled at her to tell and as 16 told 18 he couldn't fly anymore and to leave him.

"No Tien! Get out of there!" Goku yelled in vain. He stopped picking on Abri for a second as he felt his energy level drop. Abri watched as both fighters were in pain. Tien from using so much energy, Cell because he was taking blow after blow. The androids finally flew away but Tien was not letting up on Cell. He was over exerting himself, she could see it as he shook.

"Ugh, man how long can Tien keep fighting?" Gohan was shaken. "He's strong, but Cell is stronger."

"Tien will not be able to last much longer. His life force is slipping away. He must stop or the next energy blast he fires could be his last." Mr. Popo said, this made Abri feel depressed.

"Oh I didn't mean to say that!" He said watching Abri let go of him and go crawl into her emo corner cross the room and draw circles on the ground.

"No! I won't let that happen!" Goku was sitting down on the ground frustrated as he felt his friend slowly slip away.

"All we need is some more time!" He let out a loud frustrated growl. Abri looked up from her emo corner. She really wished that she could do something to help them. She was only make it worse with her reactions. Goku growled even louder as Abri saw Tien fall out of the sky and on the ground. To keep herself from reacting she just stayed over there.

"Tien has given out." Mr. Popo said. Gohan was clenching his teeth so hard he felt they would shader.

"Dad, we've got to help him!" Gohan begged.

"I...know." Goku struggled to get the angry words out.

'Goku...please...please use instant transmission now.' She silently begged in her mind. She bit her lip harder almost drawing blood. Suddenly Gohan gasped. Abri turned around to see Goku gone.

"Where'd...he go?" Gohan asked. She breath out in relief.

'At least someone will be saved.' She thought. She absolutely hated watching all her favorite characters vanish before her eyes. It was even harder now because they were real. Abri smiled as Goku appeared on the battlefield. Cell's eyes widen in disbelief as he looked at him. Goku told him to back off. Cell just smirked. He told him he needed one more day to beat him.

He called him a coward. Suddenly he felt Piccolo's life energy. Abri nearly jumped for joy when he found him. But she had to keep quiet, she wanted Gohan to be surprised. Cell nearly attacked Goku but he used Instant Transmission right before he touched him.

'HA! IN YO FACE!" Abri thought as Cell looked amazed. She turned just as Goku arrived back outside. Gohan and Abri ran out to meet him.

"Piccolo." Gohan went over to his friend. They were both on the floor passed out.

"Yes son, but they both need a senzu bean." Goku explained.