Although the words were said quietly, they rang harshly through Piccolo's head:

"Now that we've gotten that vermin out of the way, you're next Piccolo."

Piccolo hadn't counted on the high intelligence this creature had. It had identified him! It was bad enough that this creature systematically wiped out a whole city, and possessed the strength of the galaxies greatest warriors, but the whole situation would be changed if this creature was truly intelligent life. And if this was true, how intelligent was it?

The creature gave out a pleased laugh.

"What's the matter?" it asked smugly. "You seem afraid, Piccolo."

"No." the Namek denied, gnashing his teeth. "Far from it, in fact. Now tell me how you know that name!"

"Well," the creature answered in its smug attitude, "one might say that we're brothers."

"What?!" Piccolo yelped in surprise. The creature let lose another laugh, but one that sounded more evil. Piccolo tried to keep himself aware of what he learned from this creature. This thing understood spoken languages. It must have been very intelligent. The Namek took control of his surprise, and continued his show of bravado. "Now, if you've finished showing off, I want answers. Who are you?"

The creature continued its smug looks and voice.

"Silly Piccolo." It pitied. "My secrets will not be unlocked so easily."

"No matter." Piccolo dismissed. "I'll kill you anyway, whoever you are."

"You're more amusing than I imagined." The creature chuckled. The statement caused Piccolo to smirk.

"Well, we'll see if you still feel that way after I've destroyed you."

The creature chuckled at the challenge.

"Such a fighting spirit." It noted. "I will enjoy absorbing you, Piccolo." Piccolo's eyes darted to the creature's tail, and the syringe-like spike attached to the tip. That was what the creature used to "absorb" humans. Piccolo didn't let that scare him.

"You keep using that name," Piccolo noted back, "but you've mistaken me for someone else." The Namek spread his arms, slowly increasing his ki power. "So, allow me to introduce myself!"

His power increased with a massive amount of speed and strength, causing the ground beneath him to crumble away. The strength of his power momentarily horrified the creature as it was slowly pushed away. Gaining a grip of the ground with its feet, the creature leaned into the surging power to keep from getting swept away. With a ki-ah, a surge of bright light enveloped over Piccolo, and spread over the entire town like wildfire.

After the light cleared, the creature and Piccolo still stood, but the power fluctuating from the Namek warrior was shaking both of the fighters. The creature growled in small frustration as it felt the power rumble in its bones. Piccolo took his turn to be smug.

"The Piccolo you know is gone!" he announced. "I am the Namek. And as for you…well…" Piccolo formed a very evil smirk on his face. "…you're very dead."

The creature yelped in surprise. Piccolo chuckled with pure evilness that counted the creature's almost equally. However, it regained its smugness, and chuckled right back.

"I'm impressed, Namek. Your power is astounding." It admired. "I’m sure you'll prove to be a satisfying meal."

"Don't count on it." Piccolo barked, as random sparks of electricity snaked around his body. "You've made one very critical mistake: you should have never emptied this city of its entire population."

"Why is that?"

"Because as long as there aren't any innocent bystanders to get in the way, I'm free to fight you with the best of my ability."

"So what's stopping you?"

"You know, that's a really good question."

Suddenly, the electricity and power surges stopped. Piccolo thrusted his left hand out to the creature with a ki-ah, and small points of light floated into the center of his hand. Energy gathering into his hand grew intense with power. The creature sensed an attack, and crouched into a defensive position. Just as suddenly as it started, the energizing of the attack stopped. With a loud growl, Piccolo released his Makouzen Attack from his hand. The attack lit up the town all over again, and knocked the creature off its feet, sending it flying. With the power from Piccolo's awesome attack, the entire city of Ginger Town exploded into a violent blast of light and smoke.

All was quiet after the light faded and the smoke cleared. All was destroyed, too. Proud buildings were shattered like ceramic figures. Innocently parked cars were pounded into the ground like tombstones. Nothing in the area was common city gray anymore. All remains of streets and sidewalks were smashed apart, and lay as light-bleached rocks. The entire city was ripped to ruin. Piccolo still stood, electricity once again snapping and sparking around his body. His eyes searched for the location of the fallen monster.

With a throaty roar, a pile of enormous rubble was kicked away. The creature, laying on its back, lifted itself up to a sit, and scanned the area for danger.

Indeed, a danger named Piccolo was spotted charging at an incredible speed. Talk was over.

The creature hopped to its feet, and quickly threw a downward cross. Piccolo dodged it easily, and flew around to its behind. During the one second the creature took to regain its balance, Piccolo executed a Spinning Quadruple Back Kick that smashed into the creature's back. The force of the blow sent it skidding on its hands and knees.

The creature quickly turned its head to see Piccolo about to perform a roundhouse kick, and the Namek was clearly aiming his foot for the creature's head. Acting quickly, the monster jumped away, and continued jumping to get breathing space between itself and the Namek. However, Piccolo proved faster than the creature. Twenty feet from where he was once standing, Piccolo raced once again behind the creature, and flung it a powerful sidekick in its back. The creature was launched into the air, screaming in terror. Racing again, Piccolo calculated the spot where the creature would land, and skidded to a stop at the spot. Preparing to attack, Piccolo watched as the creature fell in his direction. With a scream, the creature caught itself in mid air, stopping his fall just inches from the defending Namek. Fanning out its wings, the creature suddenly zipped up into the air at an unimaginable speed, and stopped fifty feet in the air. Piccolo and the creature locked angry stares. Except for the growls rumbling in the creature's throat, the land was once again silent.

The creature put two fingers to his head, and a slight light glowed and radiated from them. Piccolo sneered suspiciously as the light grew slightly brighter and the creature chuckled in its throat. Suddenly, the creature shouted the attack name, leaving Piccolo in shock…

"Makkankosappo!"

The spiraling attack zipped at Piccolo. Thinking quickly, Piccolo slapped the attack back into the air with the back of his hand. It arched, and fell back to the ground, drilling a neat hole into a building before exploding into a ball of fire.

"H-he's good." Piccolo feared as the explosion died down. Piccolo suddenly noticed the monster's absence from the skies. He heard a roar behind him, indicating a sneak attack. Piccolo turned to the charging monster, and defended himself from its punches and jabs.

The creature tried a sidekick, but Piccolo jumped away from it and up into the air. The creature jumped after him, and attacked with split second jabs and punches while Piccolo blocked with his arms and dodged his head from attempted hooks and kicks. Mental note, Piccolo, this thing is a skilled fighter.

Piccolo noticed an opening in the monster's attacks, so he struck. Piccolo landed a right cross square on the monster's mouth. It roared in pain as Piccolo fell away for breathing space. It rightened itself in mid air with a frustrated roar, and Piccolo charged. The creature lashed out with a jab in an attempt to grab Piccolo, but the Namek flew by untouched. The creature turned to face his opponent, but was startled by the short distance away Piccolo was: right in his face! Piccolo released a hard front kick on the creature's head. The kick sent it hurtling to the ground, crashing into an explosion of dust, earth, and smoke. The monster promptly jumped to its feet as Piccolo landed to the ground.

The Namek let off one last, harmless spark of lightning before speaking.

"I must admit, you're stronger than I gave you credit for. But don't let that go to your head."

The creature laughed simply.

"You have yet to see my true strength." It boasted through its once again smug smile. "I was not able to gather enough energy in this city to reach my full power."

"Your full power?"

"Uh-huh." The creature grinned.

Now Piccolo's face showed horror.

"Monster!" he accused. "That's why you absorbed all these innocent people!"

"Yes." The monster chuckled proudly. "It is their living energy that gives me my power."

The fear on Piccolo's face was replaced with anger as he gnashed his teeth. All 15,000 of those men, women, and children were helplessly devoured by this nightmare.

"Who are you?" the Namek demanded, "And what kind of sick, twisted mind would even think of sending you through the time machine?"

"Eh?" Concern showed up on the monster's face. How did he know about the time capsule?

"Who sent you?!" Piccolo raised his voice. A few seconds passed before the monster returned to his never-ending smugness and answered.

"No one sent me. I came here on my own accord."

Small confusion appeared on Piccolo's face. But that's impossible. It came here in an egg. How could it choose to travel through time?

"The time capsule was much too small for me to fit in while in my present state. I was forced to regress to my larval form and enclose myself in an egg. Ingenious, don't you think?"

Piccolo couldn't agree. The last statement didn't make much sense. Regress to a larval form?

"Yes." The creature answered for Piccolo, shifting its shoulders. "You know much, Piccolo. But there is still much more for you to learn." It stretched out its arms, and pressed them together so that its wrists were touching. Its hands were flexed and its fingers arched as though they were the claws of a cat. Piccolo had seen this arm display before, and he was sensing a very familiar power.

The creature gave out a small growl as it positioned its feet into a prepared crouch, then its growl grew deeper as it spoke.

"Kaaaa…" it chanted, "…meeee…"

"No way!" Piccolo outbursted in fear.

"…haaaa…meeee…"

"It…it can't be!"

But it was. As the creature chanted, a ball of pure energy formed in its flexed hands, releasing a brilliant light. If it was doing what Piccolo thought it was doing…

"No! This is impossible! Where did you learn the Kamehameha Wave?! Who taught you?! Who are you, damn it?!"

The only answers the creature gave were the last chant, and the deployment of Goku's trademark attack.

Dragonball Z Outtakes

Piccolo: At last we… **surprised, then quotes Predator** You are one ugly mother [CENSORED!]

Cell: **lol** Okay, what happened?

Piccolo: **embarrassed** I forgot my lines.

Director: Cut!

Cell: It's "At last we meet, face to face."

Piccolo: Okay, I'll get it right.

Piccolo: At last we…[CENSORED!]

Piccolo: At last we meet…**pauses, then cracks up** Man! I know it, I know it, don't help me! Aw, damn!

Piccolo: Who wants to be a millionaire?!

Cell: **shakes his head** This is going to be a long day…

Cell: Silly Piccolo. My secrets will not be unlocked so easily.

Piccolo: **growl** Whatever. I'll kill you anyway, whoever you are.

Cell: **chuckle** You're more amusing than I imagined.

Piccolo: **smirks** At last we meet, face to face.

Cell: **blink blink** **angry** Oh, now you remember that line?! Jeezus!

Director: Cut! Piccolo, what's going on? How come you can't get your lines right?

Piccolo: **shrugs** I dunno. Maybe it's something in the coffee…

Cell: Silly Piccolo. My secrets will not be unlocked so easily.

Piccolo: Why do I have to unlock your secrets when I already know what they are?

Cell: **sweatdrop** You don't know my secrets.

Piccolo: Yeah I do. There's a cue card right in front of me. **points**

Cell: **turns to see Trunks holding up cue cards for the "My Name is Cell" monologue** Grrr…Trunks! Dammit!

Trunks: **grins** Hee hee!

Piccolo: **holding his lame arm** But before I submit to you, I want you to honor my last request. Tell me, who are you? And why do I sense Goku's power in you? And Freeza's? And Vegeta's?

Cell: **laughs and stands straighter** Very well. Since you're literally "dying" to know, I don’t see any harm in telling you. My name is Cell. I am an android.

Piccolo: **startled** You…you're an android?

Cell: … **kicks the ground** Aw, [CENSORED!] I don't believe this!

Director: What?

Cell: **looks at the director** I completely forgot what comes after that.

Piccolo: **lol** You forgot your lines! **falls over laughing**

Cell: **glares at Piccolo** At least it's a fifteen minute monologue and not one sentence, Mr. I-Know-The-Script-Like-The-Back-Of-My-Hand.

Director: Knock it off you two!

Piccolo: So what made you come to this specific time?

Cell: I didn't. The quartenants were preset by Trunks. I simply pushed a button, and …

Cell: Grrr…not now! **takes out his cell phone** Hello?

Director: I thought you turned your phone off.

Cell: **brings the phone away from his face** Hell no. I might get an important call.

Piccolo: You have to keep your phone turned off, or you'll drain the batteries.

Cell: Well, look at you! You have two pagers!

Piccolo: I don't leave them on when I'm filming.

Cell: **turns his attention back to his call** So, can I call you back?

Piccolo: **looks at the camera** Cut! I can't work like this! I'll be in my trailer! **walks away**