Yet another fic by me! I'm on a roll or something here. LOL.
I do not own Dragon Ball Z.
"Talking" • 'Thinking' • ~Telepathy~ • ::Bond::
Last of Two Planets
Part 1: An Evil Returns
Chapter 1: A False Death
Three years. Three years of peace. Three years since Cell was destroyed. Or at least three years since Cell was thought to have been defeated.
In those three years Cell has been biding his time, planning his revenge and awaiting the day when Son Gohan has grown soft and weak.
During the last three years Cell has hidden himself away, absorbing the occasional person or animal to increase his strength. And for the last three years he has been watching his supposed killer, Gohan. At first Cell thought that Gohan would not grow weaker as he hoped since he started to almost beat himself to death while training after finding out his mother was pregnant. Cell's fear that he would not be able to exact revenge grew even more when Goku was wished back to life just before Goten was born.
However, his worries proved to be unnecessary since both Goku and Gohan started to train only occasionally.
For the first time in his life, Goku decided that training and fighting are not the most important things in life. And so, after being wished back to life, he has been spending his time with his family.
And Gohan has, for the most part, put away his training gis in favor of schoolbooks. Since his brother was born he has been focusing on his studies like his mother has always wanted.
• • •
In the early morning sunlight Cell makes his way towards a city. It is a city named after the fraud Hercule Satan. The man who stole the credit for the defeat of Cell. And in doing so, he became rich and famous almost overnight.
'What a perfect place to start.' Cell thinks as he flies towards Satan City. "But first I'll have a light snack."
He adds out loud upon seeing a small city below him.
• • •
'What the hell!' Gohan thinks as his frenzied eating suddenly stops, a bowl of food held half to his mouth, while sensing something he should not. The pause in his eating draws the attention of his mother while his father and younger brother seem to have not noticed.
Chi-Chi looks at her eldest son oddly. "Are you ok Gohan?"
"There's no damn way!" Gohan exclaims as he realizes what, or rather whom, he is sensing. It is the one being whom he wants to forget yet can not help but remember. It is the one being that has caused him more pain in his life then any other. Even though his father was wished back within months of the Cell Games, his death still weighed heavily on Gohan's shoulders.
"SON GOHAN! WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!" Chi-Chi yells as she smacks him with her ever present frying pan, causing the other Saiya-jins to stop eating as they look on in fear. But Gohan does not seem to feel the blow.
"He's back. But how?"
"Who's back?" Goku asks since whatever Gohan is sensing is something major since he did not even seem to feel the frying pan hit his head.
"Cell." He answers grimly.
• • •
Swooping down between the buildings, Cell lands in the center of a busy intersection. Several cars swerve around him before skidding to a stop. "What's wro…" One of the drivers starts to shout, but realization of who he is yelling at causes his voice to die in his throat. All the people on the street stare at Cell in surprise and terror until his tail snakes out from his back and sucks the man right out of his car. The site of the man disappearing into the green monstrosity causes all hell to break lose as people run for their lives while shouting about Cell being back.
• • •
"MR. SATAN!" A butler yells as he bursts into Hercule's room. "CELL IS BACK!" But much to the butler's surprise, Hercule just snorts and continues to sleep.
"Thank you. I'll wake the big oaf up and tell him. You may go now." A woman with long black hair and enchanting black eyes says after yawning.
"Very well Mrs. Satan."
"Hercky-chan…it's time to get up." Celina whispers softly into Hercule's ear after the butler leaves.
"I don't wanna go to school mommy. The other boys make fun of me." Hercule mumbles in reply, causing Celina giggle in amusement.
"Hercule Satan! The world found out you didn't defeat Cell! And they want to know why you lied to them." She says sternly, making Hercule bolt upright.
"Those weird guys told me to lie about that! I swear!" He exclaims before realizing he's in bed and not in front of an angry mob of people. "W-why'd you wake me up?"
"Because Cell is back and your fans need you to go defeat him." Celina says with a smirk while trying not to laugh at the look on Hercule's face.
"C-Cell!?! What am I gonna do Celina? I can't beat that monster! And I don't know how to contact those weird guys who beat him before."
"I told you that you'd regret taking credit for defeating Cell."
• • •
This one name brings utter terror to Chi-Chi's face as she looks at her husband. For in the three years since the Cell Games, with them spending so much time around each other, the bond between them has become stronger then ever. "Cell can't be alive. He was killed." She says weakly.
Stretching out his ki sensing abilities, Goku finds a blackness that can only be Cell. "No…he's right." He says while sensing kis rapidly fluctuating and disappearing. "And it feels like he's attacking people."
~Goku! Can you hear me?~ A voice asks in the minds of all four members of the Son family. ~It's me, Dende.~
Goku looks around in confusion before saying, "Yeah, we can hear you Dende."
~I have some bad news. It's about Cell…~
"He's back. We know."
~Oh, in that case I'll skip to the point. He's attacking a small city.~ Dende says when those who can sense ki feel the population of the small city disappear one by one. ~Correction…he was attacking a city…he just finished absorbing everyone.~
"Come on Gohan. We have to stop him." Goku says as he jumps up from the table, the urgency of the situation causing him to forget his half-eaten meal.
• • •
Opening one of the many doors inside their mansion, Celina sees a fourteen-year-old girl with black hair asleep in her bed. 'Only a few more years then I'll have to tell her.' She thinks while walking across the room and waking the girl up.
"What's goin' on Momma?" The girl asks groggily while rubbing the sleep from her deep blue eyes. Outside she can make out the sounds of people cheering.
"Cell's back dear. And all those people want your father to save them again."
The girl looks up in surprise, instantly wide-awake. "Really? Are we gonna go with Poppa this time?"
"Yeah. I told him we are. Now get dressed Videl. We're leaving in a few minutes." Celina says while leaving the room.
• • •
With the destruction of the city, Cell resumes his flight towards Satan City when two figures suddenly appear in from of him causing his lips to twist into an evil grin. "Son Goku. Son Gohan. It's so nice to see you again."
"Stuff it Cell. If you want a fight then let's go someplace where people won't get hurt." Goku says coolly.
"What do you mean? There's no one here." He says with a smirk. "But we could use a more open area to fight in." Cell adds before firing a ki blast at the city below, leveling all the buildings and turning everything within a mile into a barren landscape of dirt and rock. "There. That's much better."
"What, no ring this time?" Gohan growls in anger.
"A ring? I guess we can have one…but I doubt it will last long." Cell says before slicing one of the larger rocks into large tiles to form a fighting ring just as the rest of the Z-Senshi arrive.
• • •
"Listen Videl. When we get there I want you to stay in the plane." Hercule tells Videl as they approach the desolated landscape that was a city only minutes before.
"Why Poppa? I'm sure I can help."
"No dear, listen to your father. You'll be safe here." Celina says while thinking, 'You don't know it yet Videl. But you're stronger then Hercule and I already.'
• • •
"Well if it isn't green bean." Vegeta says as he lands beside Goku, Gohan, and Cell. "Looks like the brat failed to do his job again after all."
"Well Vegeta…Gohan did come a lot closer to defeating Cell then you." 18 says with a smirk while Krillin tries to contain his laughter at the blush creeping across Vegeta's face.
"Listen you mechan…" Vegeta starts, only to be drowned out by the sound of a jet-copter, followed be a larger one, landing a short distance away.
With a roar Hercule jumps out of the plane to put on a show for the cameraman that got out of the smaller copter while the Z-Senshi and Cell look on in amusement.
• • •
"What a moron." Krillin says.
"If that fool isn't killed by Cell then I'm going to kill him."
"You know Bulma wouldn't like that Vegeta." Goku says before something catches his attention about the woman that is with him. "Hey guys…is it just me or does that woman seem different?"
"Goku, surely you know all women look different." Yamcha says with a chuckle.
"That's not what I meant. Her ki is…"
"Saiya-jin!?! It can't be!"
• • •
"Never fear! Your hero is here!" Hercule yells while striking several poses.
::You're wrong Hercky-chan. The real hero's were already here.::
::Ahh! Damn it Celina. You know I don't like it when you talk in my mind.::
::Sorry, but I didn't think you'd want that said out loud.::
• • •
"Enough talking." Cell says angrily. "We fight now!"
"Umm…ok." Hercule says in fear as he slowly makes his way to the ring.
Deciding that it is best to get rid of the camera now instead of later, Piccolo blows it up with his ki.
Hercule sees the camera explode and pretends to slip on a rock, twisting his ankle in the process. With a false yell of pain, he falls to the ground holding his ankle as Celina rushes to his side, a smirk on her face.
"I take it you're not going to fight Cell this time." She says quietly so the cameraman can not hear her.
"Nope. I don't want to die." He answers back with a slight smile. "You guys!" Hercule calls as he waves his hand. "You can fight him until I get my strength back." Hercule yells to the Z-Senshi.
"Well at least he's smart enough not to try and fight Cell again." Tien says, making the rest of the Z-Senshi laugh or smirk.
• • •
Videl watches her father as he shows off for the camera before walking towards the ring, and is surprised when he seems to injure himself on a small rock. She can see her parents talking about something before her father waves at someone she can not see. Moving to a different window, she can see a group of nine people standing around laughing at something. Videl is surprised to see a boy, with black spiky hair, standing among them. 'Who is that?' She wonders. 'He almost looks familiar.'
• • •
"I SAID I WANT TO FIGHT!" Cell yells at the group of laughing, and smirking, people.
Gohan stops laughing almost as soon as he hears Cell's yell. "Fine Cell! I'll fight you. And I'll finish you off for good this time." Gohan yells back before floating up into the air and onto the ring. Once his feet touch the stone of the ring, Gohan transforms. His hair seems to come alive with energy as it turns gold. And his eyes turn a fiery bluish green filled with hate as they glare at Cell.
• • •
Videl almost falls out of her seat in surprise and shock as she watches the boy transform. "It's him! It's the boy that fought Cell before!" She yells in excitement, but no one hears her yell for she is the only one in the plane and it's fuselage is sound proof.
Hopefully you all enjoyed that chapter. I think that this story will end up being pretty original.
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