So we had Bardock and Goku go Super Saiyan with Trunks. Now, we have Vegeta and Gohan going Super Saiyan 2 vs Cell. Oh god, how many Super Saiyan 3's are we gonna have? The wait on the last chapter was insane enough, so let's see if I get this one out in a timely fashion, shall we?

ONWARD BRAVE HEROES!

The monster was giddy. Here he stood with more power than he had ever imagined. Yet, with that power rose two exciting challengers. The green bug snickers. Bardock really knew what he was talking about. Maybe he'd send one of his Jrs off to the grave just to deliver a thank you? Maybe see if he can take a gift basket beyond the grave. If his memories inherited from Goku give any indication, they DO take their clothes and nearest possessions.

His eyes shut with a low chuckle. Maybe a gift basket WITH wine...

Down below, Gohan glared at the green figure with all his hate. Gohan takes a step forward, power pulsing and sending a ring of smoke blowing slowly away from his feet. Another step. Another ring pulses out from his power. The Cell Jr next to him takes a nervous step away. He was now fully to Gohan's side. The boy pays no attention to the little devil, who seems to grit his teeth in annoyance at being ignored.

However, with the last power up that came from Vegeta... The power he's feeling from this kid... The Cell Jr takes another step back. He twists around to find Raditz nearby. The Jr smiles, plan forming. Take a hostage for the victory. He turns his grin forward finding two teal eyes of death glaring at him. Gohan's now a mere foot away. The Jr flinches back, lifting off the ground... only for Gohan to flicker forward and kick directly through the blue devil, ripping it in half. The shock of the hit sends a wave of dust away as both halves of the creature burst into puffs of blue smoke.

Gohan lands with his back to the dead Jr, glaring back up at Cell.

Vegeta smirks. "Brat is finally showing some of his heritage." He looks back to the two Jrs in front of him. "The countdown is nearly over. Just one minute before we continue where we left off, Cell." The Prince smirks, matching the monster's own expression.

Cell chuckles. "Why waste the time? Children!" His remaining two Cell Jrs glance at him. "See to it that the boy remains at the kid's table." He tilts his head towards Gohan, keeping his eyes on the Prince. "The adults need to chat."

The two remaining Jrs each dash around Vegeta towards Gohan in the distance. Vegeta narrows his eyes, aiming one hand after them. "At what point did I agree they weren't mine? Big Bang-"

Cell flickers in front of him, aglow with a golden aura with lightning. A mad grin on his face, he elbow strikes Vegeta in the chest, launching the Prince into the ground below. "Your compliance isn't a factor." He watches the ground below erupt, Vegeta lifting from the ground with a light stagger. "Second verse, same as the first, eh Vegeta!"

Vegeta powers up, charging up at Cell with a roar.

Gohan watches the two clash, eyes widening in rage. Not worth it. He's dead. You're just a child. He's dead. Everyone else dies saving you! He's dead! His thoughts rage.

The two Jrs stop their charge. Both charge attacks, a Tri Beam and a Light Grenade. The two attacks fire out at full power... and hit dead on as Gohan focuses solely on the two soon-to-be dead monsters above him. Gohan disappears in the Ki from the two attacks.

The two Jrs shift from grinning to recoiling as Gohan roars through the blast, charging at them. A few wisps of blood dripping from his wounds from the attack disappear into the air around him. He doesn't care. His fist crashes into the nearest Jr, sending it careening away. The second charges, throwing a punch. Gohan thrusts his head forward, striking the punch with the center of his forehead. No reaction as the strikes halt each other. The Jr cringes a bit under Gohan stare, the boy unflinching as a light trail of blood trails down one side of his nose from behind the fist.

The next movement is too fast for the frightened Jr. He round house kicks the blue devil into the ground below. The Jr is imprinted into the ground, weakly opening it's eyes to find Gohan looming over him, standing at the Jr's feet.

The blue monster gives a faint whimper of fear before ripping his arms free from the ground. Both hands forward, a panicked high pitch voice screams. The beam fired lights the area in gold light that quickly dims. The Jr laughs weakly... until his face morphs in fear. Gohan remains standing over him, one open palm hand raised between himself and the Jr's hands.

The monster's eyes bug out. Gohan simply maintains his death glare, small wisps of smoke trailing from his fingers. "Congratulations." His voice is much gruffer than ever before. "You singed my finger nails." The Jr flinches, but Gohan doesn't give him time, hand lighting in pink energy. Raditz' Saturday Crash forms in Gohan's hand.

The pink orb fires out and engulfs the Jr. The resulting explosion leaves a crater in front of Gohan who glares straight ahead. The last remaining Cell Jr picks himself out of the ground in the distance, shaking off the hit. He sees Gohan glaring at him and panics. Dashing away, the Cell Jr finds the injured Krillin, landing behind the startled human.

Krillin tries to react, but he can barely move. He's pulled back as the Jr raises a hand to his neck with a grin, turning him to face Gohan. Said boy touches down just 10 yards away from the short monster and short man. Gohan glares at the monster, but still shows no emotion. "Now, how does this go?"

The Jr snickers as his nails grow and nick Krillin's neck. Krillin weakly mutters. "Just destroy him. Don't worry about me."

The Jr chuckles. "Ah, ah, ahhhh..."

However, Gohan seems to ignore this. "So you kill him. Then what?" The Jr and Krillin are each caught off guard by the statement. "Sure, I'll be furious if you do it-" Then Gohan's aura flares. "But it's a little hard to hurt me anymore than you monsters already have."

The Jr's hold on Krillin weakens under the unnerving glare.

"So, you can release him, and face what's to come, or you can kill him, and guarantee a more painful death." Gohan's eyes don't move as the boy stands frozen, unmoving. "Your choice."

The Jr flinches. He throws Krillin forward, launching a ki blast at the monk from behind as he flies away. Gohan flashes forward, catching Krillin. He whips around the injured monk and bashes the blast aside. Gohan lets Krillin down before glaring up at the retreating Jr.

Krillin chuckles. "Get him buddy!"

Gohan speeds after the Jr...

Vegeta bounces along the ground, recovering and skidding to a halt. He staggers, then glares up at Cell. "Well, this has been a good workout!" The two don't react to the massive explosion in the distance. "Alas, it seems round 2 is done. Unless, dear prince, you wish to throw a tantrum and flash me again."

Vegeta scoffs. "That bravado won't last when I've killed you, bug!"

Cell laughs. "One to speak of bravado! Ha!"

An object speeds through at Cell. The green bug raises his hand and catches it. He looks down, laughing. In his hand is a blue forearm. Cell looks up as Gohan lands between himself and Vegeta. Gohan fixes Cell with a glare of all his hate.

Cell's smile widens. He clenches the limb in his hand, his power disintegrating the arm into a puff of blue. "Well, boy, you're like a disease, aren't you? And here I didn't believe in vaccinating my kids against angsty teens."

Gohan mutters dryly. "Figures you're an anti vaxer. Speaks to your intelligence."

Cell lets out a hearty laugh. "And the boy has quips! My, I'm impressed already. Prince, have you rubbed off on him?"

Vegeta glares at Gohan. "Stay back boy. You can't take him." Vegeta stands straight walking forward and moving to pass Gohan.

However, Gohan's hand snaps up, firing a ki blast in front of Vegeta to cut him off. Both auras flare with electricity sparking. Gohan snaps at the prince, completely out of character. "You already tried and failed. He's mine!"

Vegeta's eyes narrowed. "What was that, brat?!"

Gohan powers up, fixing his glare back on Cell. "You left the Time Chamber to face Cell. Trunks died." The words actually make Vegeta's scowl intensify, just barely. "You faced Cell with a new power. Father died." Gohan grits his teeth. "I'm not interested in seeing who else you get killed."

Gohan doesn't wait for comeback. He kicks off and charges forward, straight at the smug monster. Gohan's first fist is caught by a strong hand. "Oh, yes. Give me what your father couldn't!" Gohan powers forward, pushing Cell back as he unleashes a barrage of punches and kicks.

Cell flies back, blocking and parrying each hit coming his way. The boy shows his anger, throwing a powerful punch, but Cell sidesteps the punch, following Gohan's fist with his eye and smiling. Cell grabs the boy's extended arm by the wrist and throwing him to the sky. The golden aura around Gohan flares as he stops himself mid air. Floating upside down, Gohan looks up towards the Earth below him. He grits his teeth, eyes wide in fury.

"Kamehame-" His hands snap to his side, blue erupting from the golden aura. "-HA!" The blue beam paints the land as it fires at the monster.

In other circumstances, it would be a concern, but now? Cell snickers as he disappears in the beam. The silhouette of the monster begins flying through the beam towards the boy.

Gohan's eyes widen in shock as Cell's top half bursts out of the beam. "Ah, the disappointment." Cell says as he chops Gohan in the gut. The blue beam stops firing as Gohan coughs out in pain. The boy is launched out of the sky and into the ground. Gohan bounces on impact before skidding to a halt on his feet.

Gohan coughs out, falling to his knees with both arms over his gut. He gasps, but looks at Cell in defiance as the monster lands not far off. Cell smirks at him, energy gathering in his right hand.

"So, boy, you finally surpassed daddy. I hope you feel accomplished before I send you to the grave." White energy coats his right forearm and hand. His arm raises, mimicking one of Nappa's signature moves. He smiles wide. However, just as he throws the attack, a blue ki ball strikes Cell, igniting his own attack as well in a white explosion.

Gohan is confused as Vegeta slowly lowers down, arm stretched forward. Having just fired his Big Bang Attack, he lowers his arm. "Brat, you're barely able to stand against him. Just stay out of it."

Gohan sends a confused gaze at the Saiyan, seeming to struggle between biting back at him or ignoring it. However, before he decides to correct Vegeta on how HE'S outclassed as well...

"For the sake of the world, could you just fight together!"

Both fighters have their thought processes halted. Vegeta's head snaps back and forth. "What the-"

Gohan states, confused. "Trunks?"

The voice snaps at them. "The whole tournament idea has been thrown out the window. Cell needs to be stopped, and you two are the best shots at it. Just work together." The two warriors share a glance. Gohan takes a breath. Any anger at Vegeta was marginal at best. His focus comes back to Cell.

Vegeta keeps an angered gaze on the brat for a moment. He scoffs, but his biting comment is cut off.

"Father, you all worked together against Broly AND Hatchiyak. Now, show him the power of the Saiyan race." Trunks' voice dips with anger. "And get a good hit in for me."

That makes Vegeta's scowl slowly contort into a smirk. He shares another glance at Gohan. The boy nods slowly at him, Vegeta opting to simply turn his gaze forward. Gohan's left arm comes up to grip the ripped white neck warmer leftover from his outfit given by Piccolo.

The smoke and debris in the distance clears as Cell stands tall. His body is left unscathed save for the damage to his right forearm where the two attacks had detonated. Cell still smirked. "Well, it seems the Prince is able to help others after all!" Cell shakes his right arm, some trickles of blood flying away as any wound regenerates. Gotta love that Namekian healing.

Cell smiles at the two. "So, whose turn is it now?"

Both Saiyans' auras ignite with lightning arcing off. Gohan is still crouched over, Vegeta standing tall.

Cell's aura comes to life as well. "Oh, finally! Now, I can start trying."

Vegeta and Gohan's eyes each twitch. Gohan rips the neck warmer off... as both fighters flicker forward, the ground cracking as they dash away. The neck warmer is left as one of the arcs of lightning hits it, setting it ablaze.

The two streaks of gold approach Cell, who steps into his signature pose, arms extended forward with one over the other. The two streaks break apart, Cell crossing his arms and hands going up. The streaks dash inward, Gohan and Vegeta each throwing a punch at the monster from different sides. Cell catches both punches as all three auras clash, the ground shattering around them.

Cell's veins bulge in effort, despite the smirk. His right arm blocked Vegeta's punch from the left. His left arm blocked Gohan's from the right. "Now, let's have some fun."

Both Saiyans yell out, auras pushing in on Cell. Cell bursts back from between the two, Gohan and Vegeta dashing after him as the two vs one begins a strike exchange. Cell throws a counter punch, passing through Gohan's after image. Vegeta throws a kick to capitalize, but Cell ducks it and strikes the Prince back.

Cell raises his hand to fire at the Prince, but Gohan appears again, kicking the outstretched arm aside to save Vegeta. Gohan's hands fly forward to Cell's shocked face. "Masenko!" The beam hits the monster back. Cell stops himself in the air, recovering.

Gohan charges him, gathering energy in his hands. Just before reaching Cell, he fires into the ground, propelling himself into the sky. Cell keeps his gaze on Gohan just too long as Vegeta flickers in behind him. Cell senses the coming attack, turning his head to see Vegeta. His grits his teeth as he extends his tail out of his back to jab at the Saiyan.

Vegeta reacts, dodging the tail's jab. He jumps as the tail swipes at him, but is caught by Cell's fist, sending him into a mound of rubble. The tail retracts into his back as he whips back to face Gohan, who is charging down from above.

He raises his hand, pointing down, then flicking his fingers up. Nappa's move. The entire area around Cell erupts up in an explosion up towards Gohan, blasting him up into the air. The explosion clears, revealing Cell smiling up at the injured brat. His hands flash out, each creating pink discs of energy, Frieza's Death Saucers. He throws both up at the boy.

Gohan's eyes widen. He spins in the air to dodge both attacks, one of them gashing his back. His eye clenches shut in pain, but his other eye focuses on the saucers as they come back. Violet energy forms in his hands as he uses his uncle's technique. "Double Sunday!" He fires two beams, striking the saucers and destroying them.

Cell smirks, firing a Death Beam at Gohan while his back is turned. However, a stray ki blast hits the Death Beam before it hits the boy. Cell's eye flicks to the side, but Vegeta back. The Saiyan slide kicks Cell's leg's out.

Vegeta grabs the ground for leverage, kicking up and striking Cell into the air. Vegeta spins back to his feet, energy forming around him. Vegeta glares up at Cell. Well, Trunks wanted a hit in for him... Might as well use one of his attacks. Energy forms around Vegeta as he throws his hands directly up, ki erupting around and firing straight up above Vegeta at Cell. "HEAT DOME!"

The beam engulfs the monster above, Gohan looking in awe of the attack. However, that relief is gone as the beam is split by the appearance of Cell's Android Barrier. Cell's limbs are outstretched as he maintains the barrier. He seems damaged by the attack, but smirks down. One hand glows with white.

The barrier drops as he pulls the hand back. "Courtesy of Bardock!" He throws his hand forward as a blue ki ball fires out. Bardock's Riot Javelin. The ball clashes with the Heat Dome, pushing through quickly. Gohan fires a ki ball, throwing it around Cell and detonating the two clashing attacks. The ki around Vegeta dissipates as the techniques all detonate overhead.

Gohan charges Cell, energy coating his body as he headbutts the back of the monster. Cell's focused too much on Vegeta, so the ambush lands, knocking him downward towards the Prince.

Vegeta charges ki and rapid fires ki blasts up through the smoke at the descending Cell. The attacks hit, creating a massive cloud of smoke. Vegeta ceases his attack, waiting for the smoke to clear. The wait isn't long, however. Cell erupts up from the smoke towards Gohan. Cell's hand sparks as he fires Bardock's Tyrant Lancer up at Gohan.

The boy throws up a block as the attack detonates. He's engulfed in smoke as Cell whips around to dodge a ki blast from Vegeta.

The smoke clears, revealing Gohan floating in the air, blooding trickling from all his limbs. He grunts and gasps in pain. Cell smirks, lifting his hand and using Chaotzu's telekinesis once more, Gohan's limbs locking in. Gohan releases a pained cry as the invisible force constricts him.

Cell smiles down at Vegeta. "Might want to catch the kid, Prince!" He looks to the distance and throws his hand, Gohan moving like a rocket towards the ground far off. Cell waits two seconds as Gohan gains distance before bringing two fingers to his head. Sparks fly for a mere second before he throws his fingers down. "Special Beam Cannon!"

The beam fires after the defenseless boy. Vegeta's eyes widen. Damn it! He powers up and charges towards Gohan. He realizes that the beam attack will hit before he gets there. . .

The onlookers all react in shock. Piccolo lets out a shout in horror. "GOHAN!"

However, Vegeta gathers power in his hand and throws it out. The air warps as Vegeta launches a Kiai, the raw shockwave hits the point of the beam cannon technique. The beam doesn't detonate, instead veering off and missing the boy it was aimed at. Vegeta continues his dash and stops in front of Gohan, catching him.

Vegeta spins in place, lightly tossing Gohan on the ground beside him before whipping an energy charged hand up to Cell- where is he?

Right behind the two Saiyans, Cell flickers into view. Cell smirks as his arm points at Vegeta. "Surprise Prince."

As he fires the ki blast, Vegeta releases an explosive wave to cancel it, the attacks clashing and detonating in all three fighters' faces. The explosion rocks the land. From one side, Vegeta and Gohan fly back, skidding to a halt as smoke trails off the both of them. Both breath heavily, falling to their knees.

In the smoke of the attack, Cell reveals himself, still smirking, but showing more damage. Blood trickles off his arm as his body shows damage. He wipes some blood from his mouth as his aura flares to life once more. "I'm impressed! I think I agree with Frieza with how hard it is to wipe you monkeys out!"

The two Saiyans stumble to their feet, unable to stop swaying a bit. Cell eyes them happily. "How about we finally put this all to an end?" Cell slowly raises his hands in front of him. "In honor of you, dear Prince, let's end it with your own attack." He chuckles darkly. "Tell me how it's supposed to feel."

Golden power lights around Cell as yellow lightning arcs off his hands. Vegeta's eyes widen. His technique? Cell's charging a Final- "Shit..."

Gohan looks down, doubt filling him. "He's so strong! Damn it! DAMN IT!" The boy punches the ground, hand digging into the earth. "We're running on empty, and he's still got so much power left."

The golden energy glowing from Cell lights the land as the two Saiyans can only stare in awe. That is, until a new voice pops into their heads.

"Come on, guys! You have more than enough power to take him down!" Both Vegeta and Gohan go wide eyed.

Gohan looks up. "D-...Dad?"

. . . . .

Goku smiles, hand on King Kai's back. "Hey son. Hey Vegeta! I see you two are having a pretty rough time, huh." Goku sighs, his off hand scratching the back of his head. "I see my plan to help threw things out of whack! Although, I'm told by a reliable source that it was the right way to go." Goku sweat drops as he glances off to see Bardock a few feet away with a smirk.

Trunks steps forward, placing his hand on King Kai's right shoulder. "Father, Gohan, you guys have to put everything you have into this. You can kill him. You can win! It's what you both trained for!"

. . . . .

Vegeta keeps his eyes focused on Cell in the distance, Gohan still staring into space with little focus. Trunks' voice continues. "Father, I believe you can do this."

The prince scoffs. "I don't need a pep talk, boy! I fight to my dying breath." To punctuate that, his aura flares to life.

Goku's snickers fill the two's heads. "Man, the power you two have, I've got nowhere near as much... yet." Goku's added word makes Vegeta's eyes twitch. The hidden challenge behind it adding motivation to the stubborn warrior. Goku continues. "Gohan, you can't give up."

Gohan looks up. "I haven't... but I'm not you. How can you be so sure?"

"... Son, you're not like me." Gohan looks down at that. "You're better than me." Gohan's gaze comes up, looking at the storm of power Cell is gathering. "You're better than him!" Gohan stands straight. "Now, plant your feet, grit your teeth,and show him everything you have!"

Gohan's aura flares to life, his close proximity to Vegeta making the two auras merge to a large golden glow with sparks arcing off. Gohan steps up to Vegeta's right. His hands cup at his sides. Blue builds at his side.

Vegeta places his left palm on the back of his right hand, pulling both hands to his left as he plants his feet. Purple ki bursts to life around him. The bright golden aura around the two turns half purple and half blue.

Cell laughs. "That's the spirit! Two half dead warriors standing in a last ditch effort!" He cackles as the gold around him builds more. Lightning arcs off all three fighters.

Gohan glares. "Kaaaaaameeeeeehaaaaaa... meeeEEE-"

Vegeta scowls. "Galick GUN-"

Cell grins. "FINAL... FLASH!" The golden beam fires out in a chaotic wave.

Gohan throws his hands forward, the image of his father mirroring his stance behind him. "-HA!"

Vegeta's hands fly forward, the image of his son mirroring him as well. "FI-RE!"

The two attacks combine, forming a deep indigo center with a thick blue outline to the beam. Purple lightning arcs off the combination attack. The deep indigo beam chaotically clashes with the bright gold.

Then entire planet is shaken in an earth quake.

The beam clash creates a storm of colors over the land. Gohan and Vegeta grunt in pain as they keep up the attack. Vegeta grits his teeth. "Damn it, don't you dare quit out now!" Gohan roars as he releases more and more power.

The combination attack gains ground. Cell's eyes widen as his attack is actually pushed. However, he smiles. "Yes! Give me a real effort here!"

The indigo beam pushes further. It gains ground as it seems Cell is losing out. He still has that smile...

. . . . .

The island shakes violently. Roshi grabs Baba, keeping her steady. Launch and Bulma each hold the screaming baby Trunks and Raunch, shielding them from anything that might fall from the ceiling.

Gine looks around with wide eyes, her scouter finally bursting in sparks. She flinches, but keeps her eyes locked in the direction of the struggle.

. . . . .

The Lookout shakes lightly. Dende keeps his gaze over the side. His eyes were wide in shock, but he keeps what composure he can. "Do it... End this, Gohan!"

. . . . .

The indigo beam has pushed the Final Flash back almost to Cell's hands. The land is painted blue and purple, just Cell's location emitting a golden glow. Vegeta and Gohan keep the pressure as the beam threatens to take Cell over.

The monster smirks. "... It's been fun." Within the golden light of his attack, a few blurs of red ki spark through his aura.

Vegeta and Gohan each go wide eyed. Their resolve wavers, anticipating the coming force.

Cell laughs. "Goodbye, fools!" He calls out. The golden light of the Final Flash intensifies, lighting the land gold. "KAI-O-KE-"

His call out for victory is cut short... as a purple beam and a spiral beam both hit him from behind. Cell, caught off guard, is knocked off balance, the red fading. He glares back, seeing Piccolo and Raditz each in the distance behind him. They fired their own attacks, Weekend and Special Beam Cannon!

"DO IT NOW!" Goku and Trunks' voices each scream.

The waver in Gohan and Vegeta leaves as they double their efforts, each roaring out with all their power. The land is once more painted purple and blue... as the beam rips through the golden attack and engulfs the wide eyed monster. Cell screams as he begins disappearing.

And so the battle is slowly coming to a close. Maybe it's predictable, but Cell as a villain is all about risking his victory for fun. He COULD have simply overwhelmed a one armed Gohan in melee, but instead beam struggled where Gohan had a chance. He COULD have killed various characters off prior to the Cell Games. He didn't. He COULD have absorbed more people after becoming perfect. He didn't. It's the fault of being both prideful AND a warrior.

If it's not obvious by how many times I've put it in this fic, and how I use the Ocean Dub call out for it, Galick Gun is my favorite move in all of Dragon Ball. I hate that the Funimation dub has "Gun" be the final call out for it. I will always love that one detail from the Ocean dub of adding "Fire" after it. That's also how Team Four Star does it as well, with Lani sounding closer to Chris Sabat's Vegeta while using the Ocean dub call out. It's perfect.

Powers:

Super Perfect Cell – 2,200,000,000

Super Perfect Cell Kaioken – 4,400,000,000

If he had pulled that off.

Vegeta Super Saiyan 2 – 1,520,000,000

Gohan Super Saiyan 2 – 1,440,000,000

Galick Kamehameha – 2,960,000,000