“…Y-You mean, everything the Doctor and Kirby said…is true?!” stammered Whis, his world crumbling around him.
“Yes,” replied Grand Zeno matter-of-factly. “I’ve long learned that there’s no such thing as a perfect being and who would want that? You look at the history of all the universes, and you’ll find that only tyrants say that and I don’t wanna be a tyrant. I’ve made mistakes and I learned from them. You’d be wise to learn from yours, Whis, not just cover them up in our usual indifference to mortals.”
“DONE!” called the Doctor. Everyone gave their attention to her and Kirby.
“All done!” confirmed Kirby. He then spotted Grand Zeno. “Oh! Hi!” The Doctor looked up and goggled.
“G-Grand Zeno?!” she yelped. “S-Sir, this matter with Cell is just a mortal trifle-!”
“I know,” replied Grand Zeno. “I’m gonna be going anyways. Beerus and Whis just needed to know that what you and Kirby said about me was right.” The Doctor smiled.
“Very kind of you to say, Grand Zeno,” she said.
“Oh, before I go, Doctor,” Grand Zeno handed the Doctor a button.
“Hey! You can visit him too!” called Goku.
“No, Goku, this is different to the button I gave you,” corrected Grand Zeno. “It’s only for emergencies that the rest of the gods and I think require a mortal touch, and the Grouping is one such mess. It only works in your TARDIS, Doctor. Press the green button when it flashes to get the briefing of whatever trouble we need your help with and press the yellow button to get to the spot where that trouble started. Squeeze the border of the device to teleport you back into this universe wherever you started once the trouble is over and you’re back in your TARDIS.”
“You of all people are asking for my help?” asked the Doctor. “The Grouping MUST be bad, then.”
“In the meantime, if you’re really done with your machine,” said Grand Zeno, “you’d better get on with it. I’ll see you around, Doctor!” He then vanished, leaving Whis and Beerus very shaken.
“…Well, it came from your highest superior, you two,” remarked the Doctor. “Perfection is best left for tyrants to flail around for. …Speaking of tyrants, we need to get to Cell.”
“I got a lock on him!” called Goku. “He’s outside of South City! Everyone, grab ahold!”
“Oh no, you don’t, Kakarot!” protested Vegeta. “I’m not doing that instant-!”
“Come on, Vegeta! We can’t always rely on Whis!” argued Goku.
“Goku, what is Vegeta talking about?” asked the Doctor.
“My Instant Transmission technique,” replied Goku.
“…That’s a Yardrat technique! How did you-?!”
“It’s a long story,” interrupted Goku. “Let’s just go. Everyone, get close!” Everyone gathered near to Goku and put a hand on him. Goku then put his pointer and middle finger onto his forehead and concentrated. In just a matter of milliseconds…the group vanished!
Cell was charging up an attack, ready to cause terror to summon Goku, when the group appeared. “Ah! So you just came running at the sound of potential terror!” laughed Cell. “Well, better be ready, Son Goku!” Cell fired, then Kirby leapt into the attack’s path and inhaled it. He then changed from Time Lord Kirby to Fighter Kirby.
“POYO!” he challenged.
“…Is that gonna be a thing these days?” muttered Cell. He then saw Goku adopt a familiar stance.
“Ka…me…ha…me…HAAAAAA!” shouted Goku as he thrust his hands forward and fired the Kamehameha Wave at Cell. Cell batted it aside.
“Goku, you DO remember that your DNA is a part of me, right?” asked Cell.
“RISING BREAK!” called Kirby as he delivered an uppercut to Cell’s jaw. Cell let himself get knocked into the air, planning on frying the pink menace, then he saw Goku put himself against the sun and put his hands to his head.
“SOLAR FLARE!” shouted Goku. A bright light filled Cell’s eyes and blinded him. Kirby took advantage of Cell’s blindness.
“VULCAN JAB!” Kirby jabbed Cell in the stomach, winding him. Cell collapsed to the ground.
“H-How-?!” he gasped.
“SPIN KICK!” shouted Kirby. He spun around and delivered multiple roundhouse kicks to Cell’s face.
“And for good measure!” called Goku. He then slammed his elbow into Cell’s gut, winding him again.
“NOW!” called the Doctor. Goku and Kirby broke off as the Doctor switched the machine on. An energy cage surrounded Cell. “Now, let’s see if I can actually send him back unlike what happened on Earth last time.” She pressed a few buttons. “Let’s see…aha! So, he came from then! Let’s send him back there!” She then flicked a switch. “Erasing his recent memories and…” Cell and the energy cage then vanished. “And there we go! Whis, could you double-check things?”
“Very well, Doctor,” replied Whis. He looked into his staff. “…Well, looks like time unfolded as it’s supposed to. Cell’s still in Hell.”
“In that case, Kirby, you ready?” “Kirby knew what the Doctor was driving at.
“Poyo!” he agreed.
“What’s going on?” asked Goku.
“A victory dance!” replied the Doctor. “Just follow along with Kirby!” She pulled Goku into the group and the two of them danced along with Kirby.
“HAI!” Kirby called at the end of the dance.
“That was actually fun!” chuckled Goku. “I gotta do a victory dance sometimes!”
“And look more ridiculous than you do right now, Kakarot?” scoffed Vegeta.
“Oh, don’t be such a sourpuss, Vegeta!” complained Goku. His stomach then growled. “…Hey, before we send Kirby back, maybe we could get some food in us?”
“Poyo,” agreed Kirby as his own tummy grumbled.
“I’ll take us back,” offered Whis.
After Whis took them all back to Capsule Corp, everyone was eating well. The Saiyans were in an impromptu eating contest with Kirby when they discovered how much he could eat! “How much do you want to bet they’ll lose?” Beerus asked Whis.
“That’s too easy of a bet to make, Lord Beerus,” remarked Whis. The Saiyans finally stopped.
“Phew! That hit the spot!” said Goku. “What do you think, Vegeta? …V-Vegeta?”
“Kakarot, LOOK!” yelped Vegeta as he pointed at Kirby. Goku goggled in surprise at seeing Kirby still going! By now, everyone was looking at the little pink puffball.
“…He just ate 57 Saiyan-sized full-course meals!” gulped Bulma.
“I lost count at 40,” replied the Doctor. Kirby finished his meal and sighed.
“…Poyo?” he asked the Capsule Corp waiter as he held out his bowl. Everyone yelped.
“Kirby, I think you’ve had enough!” gulped Tysar. Kirby looked at the bowl, then nodded. He then pulled out the dessert menu.
“Poyo!” he said. Everyone yelped again.
After the banquet, Goku and Vegeta joined with Beerus and Whis. “So long!” called Goku. “We’re doing some training!”
“Be careful, you two, all right?!” called Bulma.
“Kirby,” said Whis, attracting Kirby’s attention. Kirby looked at the Angel. “…Keep up the good work, will you? The universe needs some joy these days.”
“Poyo!” replied Kirby with a smile. Whis then transported himself, his master, and the Saiyans away from the planet.
“And then there was you, Kirby,” mused the Doctor. “I’ve disabled the memory-wipe, since you only traveled a few seconds into the past instead of years into the future and space-travel isn’t unusual for you. You’ll be able to remember your adventures here.” She fixed up the machine she and Kirby built and switched it on.
“It was fun having you, Kirby!” cheered Bulma. “See you later!”
“Poyo!” bid Kirby as the machine took him back.
“…And now there’s us,” said the Doctor. “That’s these chronal surges fixed up.”
“Doctor, you sure you don’t want to stay a bit longer?” asked Bulma.
“I can’t, Dr. Briefs,” replied the Doctor. “Tysar needs to get back to New Davius, and I need to continue fixing up the Grouping.”
“Just keep us informed if any chronal surges take anyone, okay?” asked Tysar.
“Will do,” promised Bulma. “Of course, that’s if I don’t wish on the Dragonballs to fix that.”
“I don’t think Shenron can undo the Grouping, but you’re welcome to try,” remarked the Doctor. She and Tysar returned to the TARDIS, and it took off.
“Bye, Doctor!” called Bulma. That was when the waiter arrived.
“The bill for that banquet, Ma’am,” he said.
“Oh, yeah, that. Let’s…” Bulma paled when she saw how much money it cost. “…That’s…triple…my usual…food budget!” she whimpered.
“I had heard Saiyans can eat a lot,” remarked Tysar, “but I didn’t think they ate that much.”
“Well, it’s a bit to do with biology,” replied the Doctor. “The Saiyans can burn through calories faster than most humanoid species. The food on the planet of Vegeta was rich in calories, so the normal human portions would have filled their bellies if they used their ingriedients. Sadly, those ingriedients died along with the planet and species.”
“I heard about the Vegeta Catastrophe,” said Tysar.
“If you heard it was a catastrophe, then you didn’t get the full story,” corrected the Doctor. “Those in the know call it the Saiyan Genocide.”
“…Daleks?”
“No, but that WOULD be their MO. No, this was the result of an Ice-jin mutant called Frieza.” As the Doctor explained, the TARDIS spun through the Time Vortex, probing for the next chronal surge.