Oh please, Trunks don't die! Terra thought to herself as she hurled into the sky at blinding speed. This power was unlike anything she had previously felt. It was like all of her allies and enemies were pooled together in some bizarre energy. Goku, Krillin, Freiza, Piccolo, and even Vegeta were all in this and it made no sense to her. Terra knew that she could feel other energies near it or rushing their way to it so she wasn't alone in this. She had to be careful, whatever this was it wasn't likely to be an ally. Not that anything in this timeline has gone according to plan anyways. She closed her eyes to focus on the energies once again. It seemed as though the unknown energy was followed by another, as well as two familiar powers coming in. That has to be Trunks, I can sense him across the globe and it seems there's…Krillin with him; they must be investigating. I need to get there before anything happens to Trunks. Terra blasted off at full speed, unaware of the power level near her closely approaching. It wasn't until a few moments later that she was alerted to the nearby presence that she looked behind her with a jerk to find Vegeta on her tail.

She rolled her eyes, "Oh, and what do you want? Aren't you supposed to be somewhere licking your wounds?"

Vegeta scoffed, "As if I'd let a few washing machines have the best of me."

"Oh really? Cause I could've sworn you were pretty sensitive about their defeat over you." Terra snickered.

"That was one fight!" Vegeta growled, "I will destroy those machines!"

Terra sneered back, "Do you have any purpose in life other than being the largest jerk in the Galaxy!?"

Vegeta glared at his daughter, "And do you have a purpose other than being a brat?! You should show respect to me if anything."

Terra laughed darkly, "Of course, I should show respect to the single most infuriating man of all time, who has completely destroyed my mother's life! Yes, I should completely give you my respect!"

"Why should I care if I did!? You're lucky I didn't kill her or any of you worthless idiots on this planet!"

"You should!" Terra stared deeply into his obsidian eyes, "She's probably the only person in the universe who has ever cared about you."

Vegeta chose this moment to block Terra's path and grab her arm forcefully.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Terra shouted, "I demand that you let go of me at once!"

"You don't get to make demands to me!" Vegeta snarled. Terra scowled at Vegeta and with her free hand gave a hard slap across Vegeta's face, which released her from his grip.

Vegeta spun with an enraged look in his eye, "Why you-"

All of a sudden, a rush of energy was felt in the location of the anomaly Terra was supposed to be after. It was large like a blast or a power up. Terra couldn't believe its strength, its overwhelming weight startling her.

Terra turned to Vegeta with a serious look in her eye, "Look, we can settle the score later. Over there is what we are truly after. Whatever that power is I demand to know what it is."

Vegeta snorted, "You expect me to follow you willingly?"

"I expect you to follow the source of that energy, not me necessarily. If you want to stay here and mope around, fine by me. I'm leaving." Terra took towards the skies again with every intention of figuring out this mystery. She could feel Vegeta's energy trailing behind her. Can't even bring himself to say sorry for what he's done! The nerve of this monster! She snarled and bolted quickly for Trunks before he did anything stupid.

What the hell is that thing? Terra stared at the monster in front of her eyes. After flying what seemed like hours, Terra and Vegeta made their way to the location that Trunks had set off to just to find this big creature standing on rubble above Piccolo, Krillin, and Trunks. From what she could tell the creature was talking to the fighters about something, though she couldn't hear from the distance she and Vegeta were at. Terra looked over to Vegeta with an inquisitive glance only to find a similar expression on his face, but slightly grumpier. It seems he doesn't understand this situation either.

Looking back at the fighters, she saw that the monster was taking off into the air while the others sat idly by. Terra was confused, isn't this one of our foes? Shouldn't we destroy it or something? Why aren't they doing ANYTHING?

"Oh and fair warning make no attempt to stop me from achieving my perfect form. Or the next time we meet, I promise it won't end so well for you." The monster threatened as he stared down menacingly at the fighters. "Not if Piccolo here is the best you have to offer! Ha Ha!" The monster drew up his hands in front of his face with a smirk rendering all the other fighters motionless. Terra looked at the placement in his hands, both of which on the side of his face with only his fingertips touching his cheeks. Terra's eyes widened in fear, he's going to run away!

Turning to Vegeta she yelled, "COVER YOUR EYES!"

"WHAT?!" Vegeta growled.

"HE'S GOING TO USE THE-" Terra tried to finish, but the bug creature was already ahead of her.

"SOLAR FLARE!" The creature shouted as a blinding ray of light burst onto the field blinding everyone in sight. Terra whimpered and tried to close her eyes but it was too late, she couldn't see a thing. Vegeta snarled grasping at his eyes to stop the paralyzing glare. Terra was starting to falter mid air when she grasped onto the closest thing near her, clutching as tightly as she could. When her eyes were starting to regain her strength she opened them softly and looked up to stare at Vegeta's dark eyes. Terra was surprised to not see anything condescending or full of malice, instead his eyes were neutral, staring at her as if to understand what she was doing. Terra quickly drew herself away and looked down at her feet and closed her eyes, letting out a breath she didn't know she was holding. Garnering the courage to look at Vegeta again they both glanced at each other with little to no thoughts in their minds. Although this moment didn't last as they both were alerted to the growing power level below. Terra looked over to see Piccolo going haywire, absolutely furious with himself, but she was more impressed by his power level. I guess he did merge with Kami, just like Krillin had said before. Vegeta looked down in disbelief, wondering if he was just imagining things.

"Is that Piccolo?" He questioned, "I don't believe it!"

"Well," Terra sighed, "Only one way to find out." She motioned towards the group of fighters and Vegeta merely nodded flying towards the ground as Terra followed suit. Of course they caught the attention of the other fighters once they touched down, most of whom were surprised.

"Vegeta? Terra?" Krillin said.

"Dad! You're here!" Trunks exclaimed only to look at his sister in disbelief, "Terra? I thought you were protecting mom? Why are you with dad? And where's mom? Is she okay?"

Terra raised her hand to silence her brother, "It's a long story, but mother is alright, she's safe at Capsule Corp. and there has been no sighting of the Androids nearby."

Trunks let out a sigh, "That's good. Although I would've thought you would've had your way with dad right now."

Terra snorted, "Well, he's a lot more tolerable when he shuts his yap." She chuckled ignoring the glare that Vegeta was giving her.

"Alright," Vegeta ordered Piccolo as he drew his attention away from his daughter, "Start talking: tell me everything that has happened."

Piccolo seemed unfazed by Vegeta's orders, "I can sense Tien's energy heading this way now, I'll start talking once he arrives."

Terra crossed her arms, "And why not now? If this is a matter of life and death we need to know ASAP. You can't just waste valuable time on one person. What about-"

Vegeta raised his hand, just as Terra did to Trunks before, to silence her, staring at Terra with his dark eyes. Surprisingly, Terra relented and allowed Vegeta to speak. "Then while we wait answer me this: How did you boost your power level so drastically in such short of time? It's like you're a whole different person!" Piccolo gave him nothing, only turning his back on Vegeta, "EXPLAIN YOURSELF!" Vegeta demanded.

Terra chuckled, "Because he is a different person now, Vegeta."

Vegeta turned his head over to Terra, questioning her without a word.

"Apparently Piccolo and Kami decided to merge again to combine their power." Trunks interjected.

"So that's why I couldn't recognize him." Vegeta muttered. Terra observed him from afar, he looked so conflicted so…lost. Terra couldn't help but feel some sort of sympathy but that was washed over by her intense hatred for the man before her.

"Hey look!" Krillin yelled.

"What is it Krillin?" Terra asked, turning to the short fighter.

"It's Tien, I can see him approaching." Terra and Trunks looked to the sky to see the fighter landing next to them. He must've felt the energy spike like the rest of us then if he arrived so timely.

"Ah Terra, good to see you again." Tien smiled at her.

Terra chuckled, "Yes, it must be nice not having to sweep me into your arms every other time."

Tien rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, "Well, its not the worst thing to happen on the battlefield."

"Is that so?" Terra questioned.

"I mean-" Tien started to say something when loud growl was being sounded off behind Terra. Tien's eyes narrowed to the person who uttered it and Terra found it to be Vegeta, who looked more annoyed than usual.

"What's your problem?" Terra accused Vegeta.

"What's going on here?" He snarled.

"Nothing," Terra shrugged, "We are just trying to converse. Something you aren't good at."

Vegeta's eyes were piercing Terra's when Trunks stepped in, "Alright, cut it out both of you." Vegeta huffed, turning away and crossing his arms. Terra snorted and mimicked his own movements.

Krillin, finally deciding that the minor squabble was over, decided to take the chance to get some information out of Piccolo, "Hey, Piccolo…I mean Kami…I mean Picco-Kami, ugh." Krillin stumbled over his words, "You, whatever your name is now, its time to snap out of it, Tien's here."

Piccolo turned to face the fighters, a serious and demanding expression painted on his face, "Then listen! Cell's another Android."

"What? Another one? How can this be, Piccolo?" Terra asked with concern

"That's insane!" Vegeta exclaimed.

"Crazy as it sounds," Piccolo continued, "The monster who attacked this town is actually an Android from the future, created by Dr. Gero's computer 24 years from now."

"How's that possible?!" Krillin asked.

"If you can be quiet for a moment and let me explain, then maybe you'll gather some insight." Piccolo stated as he continued to describe this Cell creature. As he got more and more in depth, it all sounded so strange to her. How is it possible that this thing is an Android like the others? He seems more buggy than robot like? Terra thought to herself. However, the most disturbing of the information was that this Cell was the embodiment of every great warrior who fought on Earth; Goku, Piccolo, Krillin, even Vegeta and Freiza. If that's so, then this Cell is going to be one pain in my ass.

"Whoa, that does sound crazy." Krillin exasperated, rubbing a hand on his bald head.

"My DNA and Kakarrot's?" Vegeta questioned in disbelief.

Piccolo looked down and nodded, "That's what we're up against, in order to prevent Cell from reaching his perfect form, we'll either need to find him and destroy him or we'll have to figure out a way to destroy Android 17 and 18. Its one or the other."

Terra sighed and shook her head, "And here I thought time travelling would make our lives simpler, instead its made things even more…complicated."

"I say we track Cell while we still have a chance against him" Piccolo announced, "before he has enough energy to be unstoppable."

The look of shock radiated on all of the fighters faces. This was going to be nearly impossible; to kill two Androids whom are the strongest opponents they didn't stand chance against or a very intelligent Android that knew everything about everyone. Defeating either is a feat that neither of us can accomplish.

"So, there you have it, Cell's here for the sole purpose of absorbing 17 and 18. He won't rest until he has succeeded and achieved his perfect form."

Krillin looked shaken, "And…in the meantime…he's going to keep wiping out cities to make himself stronger, unless we stop him."

Terra was more concerned about her twin brother, who had been silent thus far. Placing a tentative hand on his shoulder, her eyes softened as she looked at him, "Trunks."

"We have to find him first," Trunks said softly as he placed his own hand over Terra's to give her some reassurance, "Now that he knows Piccolo's a threat to him in his current form, he'll keep moving from place to place with his energy hidden, we'll just be left chasing his shadow."

"I agree," Terra stated as she rubbed her chin and closed her eyes, trying to think of something yet coming up with nothing, "This is his game for now, unless someone has a more brilliant plan than a wild goose chase."

"Man!" Tien shouted, "Unless we get a step ahead of him before he absorbs those Androids we're going to have a real problem. The whole planet could be in danger!"

"Yes, and not just our planet." Piccolo stated, "In his Perfect Form, Cell could pose a threat to the whole universe. I'd assume with Freiza's DNA makeup he's not lacking in ambition."

Terra snorted, "You don't need just Freiza's ambition to be that driven."

"Exactly," Vegeta sneered, turning everyone's attention to him, "Where you see a threat, I see a challenge. If Cell wants to absorb these Androids then I say let him. If it will save me the trouble of hunting them all down one by one. Then we'll see how perfect he is when I scrap him from my boot heels."

"Don't underestimate yourself," Piccolo scolded the Saiyan, "If Cell absorbs 17 and 18, his strength will be more than both of yours combined. And you remember how you fared with just one."

Terra chuckled darkly, glancing at Vegeta with ridiculing eyes, He has a point, you idiot!

"Oh and don't get patronizing with me, Namekian!" Vegeta challenged, "Not unless you want me to deal with you first." The two glared at each other but it seemed to Terra that Piccolo deemed it wasn't worth it to fight Vegeta.

"Look," Vegeta continued, "I promise you I will defeat them. And if Super Saiyan isn't enough, I'll go beyond."

"Beyond Super Saiyan? Is that even possible?" Trunks questioned.

Terra scoffed, "I hardly doubt it."

"I'm sure Kakarrot will do the same when he wakes up," Vegeta continued, "Yes, I think I stick to doing things my way. You fools can do whatever you want on your own." Before he turned to leave he was confronted by Terra who blocked his path. Placing a hand on his chest a wave of energy rushed through her and darkened the daylight around them.

"Uh Trunks, what's up with your sister?" Krillin stammered, obviously unnerved.

Trunks growled at his sister, "Terra get a hold of yourself, let him go."

Vegeta looked at Terra, completely annoyed, when she stared directly into his eyes and a tremor was sent through his body. The energy around him became a dark purple tingling at every nerve in him. Her eyes, once a lively blue, turned pitch black from her pupils to the whites of her eyes. She leaned in close to his ear and whispered, her voice deep and raspy "If you keep following the path you are on Vegeta, you're going to have a bad time…"

Trunks grabbed Terra's arm to try to shake her out of this consciousness, "Terra! That's enough!" Terra's eyes and the energy around her dissipated to a normal state and groaned clutching her head as her hands started to shake.

Trunks looked at his father and only said one word, "Leave." Vegeta didn't hesitate, launching himself into the air and flying into the horizon.

Trunks grabbed Terra by her shoulders, "What were you thinking!? You could've gotten yourself hurt! Are you….!...Are you okay?" Trunks couldn't stay angry at his sister for long, not since he could feel her tremors through his vice grip. Terra looked down in shame not uttering a word, only to see her brother transferring some energy to her through his hands. The shaking gradually stopped and Terra silently thanked her brother in which he nodded and gave her a small grin. Turning to the other fighters, they all decided to ignore the actions that had transpired instead returning to the focus of their impending doom.

"Imagine a level beyond Super Saiyan," Piccolo muttered. He sighed and let out a breath, "I don't know, but let's hope he's right."

"Listen, Trunks," Trunks and Terra looked over to Krillin, who looked quite determined as his face knotted.

"These rules for time travel: you said it wouldn't be any good if we tried to destroy the androids before they waked right?"

"Yeah, right," Trunks nodded, "We could create a new timeline where the Androids didn't exist but it wouldn't help us get rid of the ones here."

"Then I guess it would be a waste of time if I said let's go back to Gero's lab and destroy the Mini Cell that's still in the tank or whatever, right?"

"No," Terra grunted out, "We should do it anyway. We can at least make sure that another Cell doesn't appear in the next 20 years in this timeline's future."

"Then it's settled," Piccolo stated looking at the teenagers and Krillin, "You four head to the lab, I'll search through the area here and see if I can try to pick up Cell's trail."

"Right," Trunks agreed

"I'll stay," Tien interjected, "You need the extra eyes."

Terra chuckled, "Aww, not going to stay with us?"

"Would that I could, Princess, but we need to destroy this threat." Tien smiled

"Understood." Terra nodded.

"Okay," Krillin said, "But if you guys haven't found him in a few hours, come meet us back at Master Roshi's. If we keep an eye on the TV, the news will tell us the next time he pops his head up."

"Yeah" Tien agreed.

Krillin turned to the twins, "Ready?"

"I am" Trunks stated, looking at his sister he spoke to her telepathically, "You going to be fine flying?"

Terra nodded, "I'm fine, thanks to you." She smiled as the trio took to the sky. Hopefully nothing like that will happen again soon…

Hey guys sorry its been so long. I 've been in constant school work and have barely had the time to write. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed this new chapter. Please Read and Review!