//------------------------------// // Cell vs. Tempest Shadow // Story: Cell Vs The Rainbooms #CellGames // by Dawn Flower //------------------------------// Perfect Cell stood completely silently in the middle of his arena, with his arms crossed and his eyes closed, napping meditating peacefully. Suddenly, his eyes opened when he detected someone approaching the ring, so he turned to face them. It was another young woman, and when he saw her, he immediately smirked. “Well, let’s see here: dark purple colour, crew cut hair, black armour, stern expression, and a scar on your face. Hey,” he suddenly raised his voice, now clearly addressing her. “Riku from Kingdom Hearts called – he says to turn down the edgelord.” The young woman halted in her approach, stopping just a few feet in front of Cell. Her expression was unreadable, and she simply stared back at Cell, unflinching. “Perfect Cell,” she began. “My name is Tempest Shadow.” “Oh yeah, definitely an edgelord.” Cell whispered to himself. “I came here to stop you,” Tempest Shadow continued. “You’re evil, plain and simple; you care about nothing but yourself and what you want, and you don’t care who you have to hurt in order to get it.” She then looked away, knowingly. “I know this because I was just like you once.” She then raised her hand and looked at it, almost introspectively. “Princess Twilight saved my life, in more ways than one, even after I had done nothing but hurt and harass her and her friends, and I clearly didn’t deserve her mercy; and I always wondered why she did that.” She then looked back at Cell, her expression still stern, but now with a fiery determination behind her eyes. “But now I know; it’s so that I could be the one to avenge her murder,” she said, bearing down and baring her fangs. Throughout her long speech, Cell simply grinned smugly in response. “Wow, that was quite the inspiring speech there, Tempest Shadow, but unfortunately, it will be all for naught. You see, if you were smart, you would have heeded your friend’s own demise and stayed as far away from…” However, while he was distracted by his monologuing, Tempest quickly grabbed an orb from around her belt and threw it at him. Before Cell could realise what it was, it had already struck him, creating a small cloud of purple smoke on impact. Simply looking down at the impact site on his chest, Cell’s expression changed to one of mild curiosity. “Wh-what was that? Some kind of party favour or…” Suddenly, Cell felt his skin begin to harden, and looking back down at where he had been struck again, he noticed that he seemed to be becoming encased in some sort of dark, crystalline substance. “Wait, what the fu…” Cell began to scream out, but the crystals quickly encased his entire body, leaving him frozen in a state of panic. Still in the throwing position, Tempest simply smirked in triumph at her victory. “Wow, those orbs are seriously OP.” She deadpanned to herself. She then began slowly walking over towards Cell’s crystal form. “Sorry, Cell. You may be incredibly powerful, but it seems you still lack the one power you need to be able to best those orbs. The ability…” Her smirk deepened. “To dodge.” Since Cell couldn’t talk back in this state, there was nothing but silence in the Cell Games Arena. Knowing that he was still alive within the crystal, though, Tempest knew that she hadn’t quite avenged Princess Twilight just yet. Turning to the side, she saw a bunch of high cliffs in the distance, not too far away. “Well, I guess all that’s left now is to drag his statue up those cliffs and throw him over and…” However, she was suddenly cut off when the ground beneath her started shaking. While she was trying to figure out what was going on, she suddenly noticed cracks appearing over Cell’s crystal form. Another moment later, the crystal covering Cell shattered away like glass in an instant, leaving Cell once again standing in front of her, crystal-free, but now with a look of pure rage etched on his face. Tempest was incredibly confused that he had apparently broken out of his crystal prison so easily. “Wait, how did you…” “No!” Cell interrupted her, now well and truly pissed off. Tempest blinked. “What…” “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!” Cell repeated angrily. “You do not… get to use… the dodge card… against me.” Tempest was once again confused at his sudden personality change, and for several long moments, neither of them dared to move an inch or even say a thing. The entire arena was deathly silent. … … … … Tempest quickly moved to grab for another crystal orb, but Cell was faster, and immediately obliterated her with a giant Ki blast, leaving nothing but a scorch mark on his perfectly crafted stage, but right now, he was still too angry to care about that. Once Cell was once again the only living thing in the area, he took a moment to breathe in and try to calm himself down. “Calm down, Cell. It’s over now,” he said quietly to himself. “Also, I’m really starting to build up a body count before the tournament even starts. On the infinitesimally slim chance that Goku and his friends actually do kill me and gather the Dragon Balls, this place is suddenly going to get very crowded.”