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// Cell: Intense Training 
// Story: Dragon Ball Z: Daughters of Destruction 
// by Blackdrag-rose 
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Rainbow stretched as she, Applejack, Vegeta, and Trunks walked down one of the streets that existed throughout Asgard and headed towards the palace, where she knew that Vegeta's parents, along with Goku's father, would be waiting for them to arrive. All four of them knew that the reason they had come here, to the Saiyan afterlife, was to train with Bardock and Mizuna, who had likely seen everything that Vegeta and Trunks had used and had modified their own power to match theirs. Even if the two dead Super Saiyans didn't know about the Second and Third Grades of the Super Saiyan form, the muscular and then even more muscular forms, Rainbow knew that they would be in for a hard fight, as their foes had much more experience with their transformed form than both Vegeta and Trunks.

The two dead Saiyans likely also knew about the powers that Rainbow and Applejack had developed in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, if they had been watching the fight with Cell, so the two of them knew that they would have to plan their attacks well in order to pull off their new abilities... though at the same time Rainbow knew that the Lightning Lance would never work, as they had seen her create the attack and would no doubt stop her from creating it if she tried to use it.

When they reached the palace, however, one of the guards stopped them before they could enter the building, to which they learned that the King and Queen were at the Training Yard at the moment, causing Vegeta to nod his head in understanding and thank them for giving him, his future son, and his friends the information. They turned in the direction of the Training Yard and walked towards it, where each of them wondered if the King and Queen were watching the other Saiyans train or if Vegeta's mother was fighting someone. The only person they could see Mizuna fighting, besides an entire group of Saiyan warriors, was Bardock, but at the same time they knew that they would discover what was going on when they arrived at their destination.

It took them a few minutes to reach the Training Yard, though when they reached their destination they walked up to the level of the room that King Vegeta and his wife would sit in when they weren't fighting, to which they discovered that Vegeta's father was alone at the moment... which was followed by them spotting Mizuna in the Training Yard, where she was exchanging blows with Bardock.

"Its nice to see my mother having fun," Vegeta commented, to which his voice stirred King Vegeta from what he was doing and caused him to turn and face them, thought that was immediately followed by the King grinning as he pulled himself from his chair and embraced his son, "its also good to see you again father."

"Its wonderful to see you again as well son," King Vegeta replied, though at the same time he noticed that his son had brought guests, as he immediately noticed Rainbow and Applejack standing behind him, while also noticing someone else, "and you brought our future grandson... which means that this isn't a social visit."

"I'm afraid not." Vegeta said, to which the two of them separated from each other and took some of the seats that lined the room his father had been sitting in, though that was followed by the others repeating his movements, "I'm not sure if you have been watching the events on Earth, especially the last few days, but our current opponent, the Bio-Android known as Cell, has finally reached his perfect form. We tried to destroy him, even going to the effort to use Rainbow's Lightning Lance on him, but apparently he's much stronger than all of us... and potentially Kakarot as well, though I have the feeling that he told me a half-truth in order to get us to train ourselves further."

"And that explains why you are here," King Vegeta stated, to which he nodded his head for a few seconds, though the motion told everyone that he had either been watching the fights on Earth or hadn't watched them and still knew what they were after, "Your mother and Bardock are the most knowledgeable when it comes to the Super Saiyan form, which means that they might know about the variations of the form you, your son, Kakarot, and his son have developed. Even if they don't know about the variations their power will be more than enough for you at the moment, which was the whole reason behind you coming here in the first place."

"We came here to train ourselves against the most powerful warriors the Saiyans of Asgard can provide," Rainbow said, causing the King to turn in her direction for a moment, but at the same time she didn't turn her head away at all, "Their full power still dwarfs all of us, especially when we use our full power, as annoying as it is, so because they have had at least thirty years of training with the Super Saiyan state they are some of the perfect training partners anyone could ask for... and they are happy to have such wonderful warriors to fight against."

"True, you and Applejack provide some level of difficulty for my wife and Bardock," King Vegeta commented, once more nodding his head, as if he was agreeing with what Rainbow had said, though at the same time the girls knew that he was focusing on his wife at the moment, "Despite the fact that we have seen your Lightning Lance in action, and have seen the damage it does to its target and the environment around it, they know to watch out for any odd techniques that the two of you might use in a fight. I, on the other hand, am sure that one of you have already discovered and created a new power that you can use, though maybe you'll surprise me and show that the two of you created some new attacks."

Rainbow and Applejack exchanged a glance with each other, because they knew that King Vegeta and the other Saiyans would be surprised when they broke out their new attacks when their group started training with the two dead Super Saiyans. Rainbow wasn't planning on using the Wrath on either of them, because it took some time to develop and use in battle, but she knew that the other abilities she had created would be up to the task of helping them turn the tide against their opponents.

"I am eager to see what new techniques you might have developed," a voice said, to which the group noticed that both Mizuna and Bardock were floating in front of the room they were standing in, indicating that they had noticed their arrival and wanted to engage in a fight with them.

Rainbow grinned as she leapt into the Training Yard and flew towards the ground, where she noticed that Bardock was following her this time, as the last time she had fought the two she had focused on Vegeta's mother, so this would be a nice change of pace. The moment she had crossed a decent distance, and had left the room that King Vegeta was in behind, she spun around and swung her right leg at Bardock, who had just enough time to raise his arm to block the attack. That was immediately followed by Bardock throwing a punch at her, to which she moved backwards for a second, though the two of them then started throwing punches and kicks at each other as they headed towards the floor of the Training Yard.

As they landed on the floor Rainbow noticed that the area around them was changing into an arctic zone, telling her that someone had told the Master of the Training Yard where they wanted to fight this time around, though as she fought Bardock they both noticed that Applejack was coming their way. Rainbow knew that Vegeta and Trunks would be fighting Mizuna, considering the family bonds the three of them shared, though at the same time she seriously hoped that she would have a chance to fight the female Saiyan. The instant Applejack joined the fight, and tried to hit her target, Bardock jumped backwards and landed on an icy plateau, though a few seconds later he pushed himself into his Super Saiyan state... and caused the two of them to raise their guards.

"Come, Rainbow Dash and Applejack," Bardock said, to which he smiled as he beckoned for them to come at him, meaning that he wanted to give them the training they had come for, "show me the power you two have created... and see if you can beat me in this form."

The girls glanced at each other for a few seconds, as they were thinking about what they wanted to do in this training session, before they both let out a sigh and went straight into their base Kaio-Ken states, to which they were surrounded by the red ki of the technique. Rainbow, being the fastest of the two, was the first to strike, because she flashed in front of Bardock and slammed her right hoof into his chest, to which she knocked him backwards for a few seconds, though as he tried to correct himself Applejack brought her leg down on his shoulder and sent him flying into the ground. Instead of hitting the ground Bardock quickly moved back into the air and exchanged blows with Applejack, though while he fought her he kept his eyes open for any attacks coming his way.

One of the bad things about training with some of the same people, as Applejack noticed, was that they eventually learned all of your tricks and attack patterns, though at the same time she knew that Bardock wouldn't be expecting any of Rainbow's new techniques. The reason was because Rainbow surrounded herself in her ki, in a variation of her Lightning Blade technique, and slammed her fist into Bardock's side, which knocked him backwards for a moment... though as she landed on the floor next to her sister she noticed that the Saiyan shook his hand for a few seconds.

"An actual lightning based attack," Bardock commented, though instead of sounding annoyed he actually sounded like he was going to enjoy this training session, to which he turned towards Applejack, "How about you? What sort of abilities have you developed since we last fought each other?"

Instead of saying anything, and allowing Bardock to grasp what she could have told him, Applejack raised her right hand up for a few seconds and balled it into a fist, to which she accessed her ki and started to gather a good fraction of it around her fist. As the sphere took on its shape, and completed itself, the floor around her cracked, though she wasn't too worried about it being destroyed, as the Training Yard would restore itself once they were done training. A few seconds later she charged at Bardock with all the speed she muster, though because the Saiyan was interested in her powers he stood there... which allowed her to appear in front of him and slam her fist into his chest.

The ground all around them cracked as Applejack used her attack, though at the same time she frowned as she realized that she had used the incomplete one again, as she wanted to hurt Bardock and ended up hitting the entire area around them... though once the quake was over she backed away and returned to her sister.

"A punch that's capable of shaking the ground around the user," Bardock added, to which he smiled as he stared at them, though how he was moving indicated that Applejack's attack had done next to nothing against the powerful Saiyan warrior, "Oh yes, this is going to be an interesting training session for all of us."

While the three of them continued their fight Vegeta and Trunks smiled at Mizuna, who was patiently waiting for the girls to finish their warmup before they got into the arena. Vegeta already knew about the new techniques that the girls had created, thanks to seeing them used against Cell, but she was interested in seeing how the other Saiyans reacted to her new abilities. At the same time he was interested in seeing how his mother reacted to him using the Final Flash, as he had created it from the Final Shine Attack she had used all those years ago... though he was interested in seeing what would happen when their attacks collided with each other.

As they watched the girls continue their warmup with Bardock, and crack the area around them, he had to wonder how Gale and Piccolo were doing in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber... because he was sure that they were going at each other's throats during their training.





Gale parried the attacks that Piccolo was sending her way, making sure to study her training partner's movements and when he decided to use a certain attack. The reasons she was doing that was because Cell was sure use a variety of attacks, in a different pattern than he had used after obtaining his perfect form, so she wanted to adapt to an opponent whose moves were always changing. A few seconds later she slammed her fist into Piccolo's chest and knocked him backwards, to which she called upon her ki and sent a barrage of ki blasts at her opponent, where they all detonated upon impact and kicked up a cloud of smoke.

That was followed by a blue aura flashing by her and heading towards the real Piccolo, as she had been training against him at half power... as he had been using the multiform technique to make sure she was up to the task of being a decent training partner.

"So, how did I do?" Gale asked, though at the same time she turned around and faced the real Piccolo, who had his arms crossed and had a frown on his face at the moment, though she knew that it wasn't how he was feeling on the inside, "Am I good enough to be your training partner, or do I need to break some more of your 'clones'?"

That was actually the third one that Gale had beaten so far, which gave the two of them some experience in how the other fought and gave them a slight boost, but at the same time they were getting nowhere fast. That was why she was asking him when he was going to take her seriously, especially since she had been created with the cells of Rainbow and Applejack added to the set that had created her brother. She stared at Piccolo for a few seconds, as she was curious as to what his decision was going to be, though that was before he raised his hands into the air, tugged at the clothing he was wearing, before pulling off the white pieces and tossing them to the ground.

It was the signal Gale had been waiting for, the one that Piccolo had told her about the moment they had started training, to which she actually smiled for a few seconds as the Namekian stepped into the area she was standing in... where they both dropped into their battle stances and waited for each other to make a move.

A few seconds later the two of them burst into the air and sailed at each other, to which they started to exchange a series of punches and kicks with each other as they raised into the sky above the building Piccolo had been standing near a few seconds ago. Gale parried one of the attacks that were coming her way and slammed her hoof into Piccolo's chest, though as he fell backwards she gathered her ki and started throwing ki blasts at him, to which he stood his ground and returned fire with the scatter shot attack he had developed so long ago. Gale stopped her attack and backed away from the smoke that followed, as Piccolo charged through it and attacked her once more, where they picked up where they had left off a few seconds ago.

That was swiftly followed by Piccolo slipping past her defenses and knocked Gale towards the ground, though before she could actually regain herself he released a burst of ki blasts that knocked her into the floor and detonated upon impact... to which he landed near the smoke and waited for her to show herself.

Gale growled as she bent the wind to her will and created a small wind shield around her, which ended up blowing the smoke away and allowing her to stare at Piccolo again, though at the same time she wondered which of her abilities she could use in this training session. A thought came to mind as she gathered the wind around her fists and her legs, to which she burst into the air and used the wind around her to bounce around Piccolo, who kept his eyes on her as she determined which direction to attack him from. She spotted an opening and burst into the area behind Piccolo, though as she did so he turned to face her, where she slammed her fist into his back and sent him flying with the burst of wind energy she had been gathering.

Instead of following Piccolo, and burning through her energy in the beginning of the fight, she lowered herself to the floor and canceled her ability, to which she let out a sigh as Piccolo returned to the area she was standing in... though that was when she noticed that he was smiling at her.

"You know, you, Rainbow, and Applejack make some of the most interesting training partners we have ever had." Piccolo commented, though at the same time he stretched his arms and legs for a few seconds, indicating that their battle had only just started.

"Really?" Gale inquired, because while she knew that Rainbow and Applejack had some decent skills, which she was trying to mimic, she had to wonder why she was going included in the list, "What makes you say that?"

"All of you have an elemental affinity," Piccolo replied, where he gestured to the wind that was still resting near Gale, which was something that she got rid of the moment he pointed it out to her, "Applejack has the ability to call upon the power of the ground and the planet itself, as she created a barrier from the energy and cracked the ground with a punch to the air, and that's only the start of her abilities. You have the ability to control the wind itself, as you have demonstrated the ability to use the wind to increase the power of your attacks or your speed, and I'm sure that, with your experience, that there are more abilities that you haven't shown me yet. And Rainbow, of course, has the ability to use lightning and the sky to her advantage... though I don't think I need to explain her affinity to you."

Gale chuckled as she raised her fists and readied herself for what was to come next, because she knew that all of this was training for when it was time to fight Cell... though as she and Piccolo continued to fight she had to wonder what her brother was doing at that exact moment, even as she and Piccolo blew each other back with their ki blasts.





Cell stood in the middle of his arena, which he hadn't left since Goku had arrived to study his perfect form and see what his power was like for himself, though at the same time he had done nothing else since seeing the Saiyan warrior. Unfortunately one of the downfalls of building the arena where he had, which was essentially in the middle of a road that appeared to be in the middle of nowhere, was that there weren't many visitors that wanted to see him or challenge him. He knew that he had scared off a large portion of the people that might have come to the arena when he promised that he was going to destroy the world, but he decided that now wasn't the time to be thinking about that at the moment.

Because there was no one to talk to, save for himself, or even terrify, as he felt no ki signatures in the surrounding area, he felt bored out of his mind... which influenced what he was going to do next.

"I might as well do some training while I want for the day of the tournament to arrive," Cell commented, though at the same time he thought about the abilities he had seen during his fight with the pony girls and the Saiyans, where he wondered which ones he would be able to use and which ones would be impossible to use without training, "I wonder if I can use that clone technique Rainbow developed... though I have no idea how she did that."

Cell looked up at the sky for a moment and spotted a cloud that happened to be passing by, to which he flew up to it and accessed his ki, where he wrapped his energy around the white cloud and brought it down to an area that was near the arena, because he really didn't want to break it after finishing the construction, despite how easy it was to complete. He stared at the cloud for a few seconds, where he wondered how Rainbow Dash went about using this technique, before he started to pour some of his ki into the cloud and focused on creating a mirror image of his perfect form. A few seconds passed before the cloud started changing shape, where he noticed that it was taking on the general shape of his perfect form... complete with the wings and the crown on his head.

A minute or two later he stopped pouring his ki into the cloud and took a step back, to which he stared at the perfect replica of himself, which seemed to move like he would as it studied the area around him.

"What a fascinating technique," Cell commented, to which his clone stopped looking around the area and stared at him, though at the same time the two of them smiled at each other, "where the user of the technique pours their ki into a cloud and transforms it into a perfect copy of themselves... without a single detail being missed."

"It seems that Rainbow Dash has some of the more interesting skills," the copy said, surprising Cell for a moment, because he had no idea they could do that, though that was followed by his smile returning in full force, "Want to try another one? Maybe that Lightning Blade she used against us?"

Cell raised his right hand up for a moment and focused his ki around it, where it shimmered for a few seconds, though he recalled what happened to Rainbow's hand and immediately manipulated it into the same shape that had been used against him. He had to wonder if it was because of Rainbow's cells, or the fact that he shared Goku's ability to learn skills by observing and understanding them, but he mentally chuckled as his ki took on the shape of a blade, to which he cast a glance at the copy for a few seconds.

"Is it okay if I test this on you?" Cell asked, because while he wanted to test all of Rainbow's known skills, besides the unknown Wrath skill she had mentioned, he also wanted to see how well the copy of himself held up under certain attacks.

"By all means, go right ahead," the copy replied, holding its hand out for him to strike, though its smile only widened as it did so, "that was the point of all of this... seeing which skills you could use to your advantage."

Cell nodded and retracted the blade back into a sphere around his fist, which he pressed against the copy's chest and held it there for a few seconds, though that was followed by the blade tearing its way through the copy's body and coming out of the back side. Cell watched as the copy slowly turned back into a cloud and broke apart, telling him that they could sustain serious damage until their core was destroyed, where they would return to normal and drift back into the sky. That was followed by him getting rid of the Lightning Blade and flying into the sky, because he wanted to get away from the planet and use a certain ability without doing serious damage to the Earth... as he planned on destroying it soon after he beat the Z Warriors in battle once more.

Thanks to the cells of Frieza and his father coursing through his veins he was able to breath in space, where he traveled some distance from the Earth and started breaking apart the various pieces of rock that were heading towards the planet, which would create a meteor shower for the people to watch. It was a simple exercise of his fists and arms, though as he did it he noticed a larger asteroid that was heading towards the planet, one that could ruin a good portion of the Earth if it was allowed to make contact. Cell smiled as he brought his hands together and gathered his ki, as he had discovered that the difference between his lance and Rainbow's lance was that she always changed her energy into pure power, which was why she was always exhausted after she used the attack.

All Cell had to do was convert a large portion of his ki energy into pure power and he would create a lance that was equal to Rainbow's lance... maybe even overpower all of the ones she has created over the years.

He waited five minutes before he pulled his hands apart, where his energy changed shape and became the eerie green lance he had used against Rainbow before she destroyed it, to which he smiled as he looked down at it and felt the power that was coursing through it. He gripped the lance and spun it around, enjoying the feeling that came with creating the same attack that the technique's creator could make, before he stared at the asteroid that was heading his way. It happened to be the perfect target for him to test the attack on, as even if the lance didn't detonate he would wreck the asteroid anyway... which was why his arm was pulled back at the moment.

Cell stood there for a few seconds, allowing the tip to face the asteroid, before he swung his arm at the large rock and sent the lance flying through space, where it went flying until it made contact with the center of the rock. He had to raise his right hand to block his eyes for a few seconds, as the lance had detonated upon connecting with his target, though when the light faded Cell grinned as he noticed that the asteroid was gone. He had replicated the lance, with the same power that Rainbow packed into it, and had earned himself a new technique that he would use to great effect against his opponents... though instead of following through with his training he headed back down to the Earth so he could rest.

He determined that the lance was a dual edge sword, where it packed quite the punch at the cost of wiping the user out in the process... though even as he flew back down to the arena he knew who his first target would be, as he intended to use the lance on Gale when he had the chance to fight her again.