After Goku and I finished our year of training, we exited the Hyperbolic Time Chamber as Super Saiyans, both of us suppressing our power heavily. After about thirty seconds, we could hear fast, light footsteps from a certain half-Saiyan.

"Dad!" Gohan ran over, grinning widely.

"Hey, Gohan! What did we miss?" asked Goku. "Other than lunch, of course." His stomach growled loudly.

Gohan and I fell over. "Same old Goku," I said nonchalantly to Gohan as we got up.

Gohan smiled a bit before becoming serious. "Something's happened with Cell," he explained. "He's become stronger than any of us could have ever dreamed, and it makes no sense."

"I bet I could take him on," I said. "After that training, I feel like I could lift the Moon with my pinkie." ((NOTE: Not an official statement.))

"He already blew that up," Gohan responded, still frowning. "There's no telling what consequences the Moon's destruction could have on -"

"NERD!" shouted Piccolo from the other side of the Lookout.

"W...what?" the half-Saiyan asked, confused. I slammed my palm into my forehead.

"So Cell's not playing nice," stated Goku angrily. "We have to stop him!"

There was some silence before I asked, "Where IS Cell right now?"

"When Trunks fought Cell, he was somewhere near East City," answered Goku's son.

'I hope Trunks is okay,' I thought before saying, "Thanks." Goku and I then used Instant Transmission to get to East City.

Once we were there, we saw the full extent of the destruction that Cell had caused. Random rubble from demolished buildings littered the ground, and the lucky buildings had simply been cut in half. A handful of corpses were scattered across the area, most of them human (there was a random flamingo that was there for no particular reason). Cell was nowhere to be seen or sensed.

"Looks like he brought the apocalypse here," I pointed out.

"You could say that again," Goku agreed.

We walked around in the rubble before hearing some groaning. Walking over to the source, we found a familiar face lying in the destruction, injured and bleeding to death. His black hair was turning red from the precious liquid.

"Vegeta!" My Saiyan friend exclaimed. "Are you all right?!"

"Do I look 'all right' to you, Kakarrot?!" replied the arrogant Prince before coughing up some blood. "You really are…an idiotic excuse of a Saiyan."

"What happened?" I asked.

"That creature...Cell..." Vegeta coughed again. "He did this."

"Cell did this?!" I was surprised, considering that the last time I saw Cell, he was too weak to do anything against a Super Saiyan.

"He was...too...powerfuuu..." Vegeta passed out.

"Senzu bean!" Goku shouted as he put a bean into his Saiyan comrade's mouth. Forcing Vegeta to chew and swallow, Goku moved swiftly to keep his brethren alive.

Vegeta's wounds instantly healed, and his energy returned to normal. He coughed a few times before opening his eyes.

"Kakarrot, you dope!" shouted the Saiyan Prince. "I was going to die a warrior's death, and you had to interfere! This is worse than the time your pathetic Earth guardian revived me after being killed by Frieza!"

"Sorry about that, Vegeta," Goku laughed, scratching the back of his head.

"And why are you Super Saiyans? Is Cell nearby?" Vegeta got up and immediately transformed. "Shut up, Nappa! My hair does NOT look like a Pikachu!" Goku and I ignored that part.

"No, it's a part of our training," I explained. I then told Vegeta about the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and our training.

"Interesting..." the Saiyan mumbled. "Would it be possible for me to have a turn?" he asked more loudly.

"Okay." Goku quickly grabbed Vegeta and teleported them both to the Lookout. Within a minute, Goku was back with me.

"Vegeta is safe," he announced. "Trunks came out from inside the kitchen, and I think they're going to train together."

"That's good to hear," I said. 'So Trunks must have gone back to the Lookout earlier,' I thought.

Goku and I then continued walking around, looking underneath buildings for survivors and Cell. The only survivors who were found were an elderly man with a gray mustache and glasses holding a Spider-Man comic book and a young child (not with Stan Lee). Goku and I took both of them to North City immediately to keep them out of the way.

"Hello...Goku," said a sudden deep voice after Goku returned from dropping off the kid. It sounded slightly familiar, but I didn't know who was talking.

"Who's there?" I called. Goku and I instantly got into our fighting stances, preparing to block an attack from any side.

A tall, muscular figure stepped out of the shadow of a collapsed building in front of us. His head crest looked almost like a helmet. He was obviously suppressing his strength so we couldn't sense it. His large lips reminded me of Mr. Popo. "Remember me, Fruiota?" asked the creature.

"Who are you?" I asked. "You look familiar, but I don't know where I've seen you before."

"This might ring a bell. KIENZAN!" Semi-Perfect Cell lifted his right hand and threw a spinning disk of sharp energy at my feet.

"No...way..." I mumbled as I activated my aura. The attack harmlessly broke when it hit my golden energy.

"I see that you're thinking this time around," the Android teased. "I wonder where you learned to use your brain."

"Shut up, Cell," I told him. "I don't know how you changed so suddenly, but your evil stops today."

"Hmph," huffed the bio-android, getting ready to fight. "I'd like to see that."

Hey, guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I had to make Cell's return as dramatic and sudden as possible because the Cell Arc in canon DBZ occurs over the course of less than a month. This time, though, nobody expected Cell to suddenly change after the fall of 17, especially not within a literal day.

The form that Frui and Goku are using is commonly referred to as Full Powered Super Saiyan. It's basically a mastered version of the SSJ 1 form: no strain, no energy wasted to transform, no anger necessary, and no effort required to maintain the transformation. Once you've achieved FP SSJ, you can't use normal SSJ 1 anymore (not that you'd want to). It's the same form that Goku and Gohan used in the canon Cell Games.

Power Levels:
FP SSJ Frui (suppressed): 2,240,000,000
FP SSJ Frui (suppressed with aura): 8,960,000,000
FP SSJ Goku (suppressed): 1,920,000,000
Vegeta (post-Zenkai): 34,400,000
SSJ Vegeta (post-Zenkai): 1,720,000,000
Stan Lee: over 9,000 (because he's Marvelous)
Semi-Perfect Cell: 6,700,000,000