Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

Cell's Hunt

A snow-white fusion between insect and human crawled forward, perfectly blending in with the snow to the point where, because of the pelting snowstorm, it was completely invisible. Cell's outer shell, his wings, and his horns changed their color, imitating the camouflage abilities of native reptiles whom Cell sampled the cells of eventually. Upon sneaking up straight to the door of the lab at the northern edge of Jingle Village, Cell straightened out to examine the building where Dr. Flappe lived and worked.

The entire laboratory was fashioned after a giant cup of coffee. Cell wasn't completely sure where the eyelet fit into all this, maybe Dr. Flappe fit a staircase into it, but the structure even had a ring of ventilation pipes on the top that let out the steam and fumes of the lab in a manner that very much resembled a steaming cup of coffee. This didn't look like any lab that Cell has been in. Then again, after escaping Dr. Puri's laboratory and all the experiments that were done on him in there, it wasn't like he sought other labs out for comparison.

After approaching the door, Cell realized he would need a different coating to camouflage indoors, closing his eyes and focusing on changing colors again. Camouflage wasn't Cell's primary concern. Getting through the door was. Dr. Puri had entire server rooms of records of historical events to the minute details as all the codes and passwords that Capsule Corps and other laboratories used. The problem was that the timeline Cell snuck into has diverged too much from the timeline he was so intimately familiar with. Even the exorbitant task of absorbing all that information and perfectly memorizing every historical event and every relevant detail about it until the point where the timelines significantly diverged wouldn't have helped Cell bypass Dr. Flappe's security.

That was why it was so surprising to hear the mechanical door sliding open just after Cell changed the colors of his horns, wings, and shell to a mix of coffee and chocolate brown look. Cell opened his eyes in surprise, but, before he could react, a tight, murky green hand shut tightly around his face and lifted him into the air. Because it obstructed Cell's face, the kicking Bio-Android couldn't determine who it was that intercepted his mission to silence Dr. Flappe before he spilled the beans to the troublesome folks of the Dragon Team about Cell.

"My radar picked up your life signature, though it doesn't emanate any energy. Even as I look at you right in front of me, I can't, for the life of me, tell who you are. I thought my sensory systems were broken after picking up your signal, but Dr. Flappe thought he knew what was happening. He was right, as always..." a low-pitched voice that could have alternated between being that of a soft bear or a terrifying monster, depending on the volume and pitch that its owner chose rumbled. "You're him, aren't you? Cell..."

Super Artificial Human No. 8 squinted and grumbled as his ocular sensors kept shifting between thousands of different statements of whose head he pressed in his large hand right now. Everything from different mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and even some alien species that were known to his database kept frantically scrolling as his radars simply couldn't decide what he was looking at.

Being completely entrapped in Super Android 8's grip, Cell slipped his tail and stinger out from his back and swung it at the Super Class Artificial Human. Super Android 8 exclaimed in surprise when the stinger embedded into his chest, beginning to pump genetic material of the bodies that the Artificial Human was patched up from, even converting his electronic parts into liquid energy and pumping it into Cell. Stunned by the realization that this creature could drain not only the energy, but the very genetic material down to the cellular level from even someone as complex as a Super Android, Super No. 8 wound his chunky fist back and pounded Cell, sending him flying aside and dragging his feet across the snowy floor of the frozen lake and the vast surrounding tundra.

"Impressive," Cell noted, wiping his black lip with a trail of violet blood squirted on top of it. It took no time at all for the crack on his lip to close as if it had never been there, to begin with. "I've never encountered genetic material I couldn't immediately assimilate with one sting. Then again, I suppose someone like a Super Android won't go down easily. I've always been a little curious, since I possess the cells of an Artificial Human, if I absorbed the cells of another, could I too ascend to the Super Class stage?"