Hey there everybody. Been a while since the last chapter and now it's the time to finish the Yamcha vs Cell fight. However, before that there is some more things that I would like to write in this chapter. So let's go.
Chapter 61: One Final Push. Yamcha vs Cell Part 3
Artificial Humans Saga Part 2- The Rise of Cell- Part 15
[Musical Cue #1: Ave Satani (The Omen Theme)]
[Musical Cue #2: One-Winged Angel (Final Fantasy VII OST)]
[Musical Cue #3: Opening- Chase by batta (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable OP2)]
[Musical Cue #4: Girei (Naruto Shippuden OST)]
[Musical Cue #5: Ending- Monster by Skillet]
Inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, while Yamcha and Cell's fight was occurring,
In the white void of emptiness that was the Hyperbolic Time Chamber stood Son Goku in his Super Saiyan form, blocking hits from his son, who was trying his best to train with his father by sending a barrage of punches and a spin kick. However, everything was completely ineffective as he was basically doing nothing for his own training or his father's.
Slumping down, the raven-black haired boy started to cry and slam his hand on the floor of the dimension in frustration. "Darn it! I'm so useless! Too weak!" he cried as frustration overwhelming his voice as he kept slamming his hands on the ground. As tears fell down to the ground, his irises turned the same green hue of Super Saiyan and his black hair rose slightly upwards, only for a second, as the eyes turned black again and his hair fell down.
Goku knelt down in front of his 10-years-old boy and patted on his head. "It's okay Gohan, we only started our training. You may have stagnated and can't seem to control your anger to the degree that you'll turn Super Saiyan, which is odd because anger is supposed to be your shtick, but I believe you can do it, or else we're all doomed because I won't get stronger." he tactlessly talked to his son, knowing that being this blunt and rather condescending would probably push the young boy to reach the pinnacle of anger required to transform, or maybe just make him desperate enough to try something extreme.
The boy then lifted his head and looked with teary eyes at his father. "You really believe that, dad?" he asked with his voice filled with self-doubt and insecurities.
Bardock's youngest simply gave a cheerful and charismatic smile, which he was so well known for. "Sure I do, Gohan. I know you can do it, you just need to get angry groove back on and you'll be a Super Saiyan in no time." he said cheerfully as he put both hands on his waist with his giant smile plastered all over his face.
This caused the kid to stand up as he still sniffed and tried to fight the tears. His expression quickly changed to a motivated one as he glared at his golden-haired father. "Then I'll do it, no matter what it takes. Fire a ki blast at me, and I'll fight against it until I transform." he spoke without hesitation as his hands clenched into fists and his blue-white aura flared around him.
This actually shocked the defender of the planet as his jaw fell and his eyes widened. "Um...Gohan...I like the enthusiasm, but don't you think this is a little bit extreme?" he questioned his son, fearing that his attempts to hurt his pride and desire to help might have been too effective. After all, he still cared for his son's life. "If I do this you could die. You're supposed to be the smart one, after all." he mentioned the very big danger in this approach to his genius, half-breed son.
The boy nodded as he looked more determined than ever, his eyes still teary a bit. "I'm sure dad. Do it. Because you're right: if I won't go Super Saiyan, you won't get stronger yourself, and we're all doomed. I won't waste your time here anymore!" he said as he jumped back, aura still flaring around him and extended both arms with his palms forward. "I'm ready!" he declared as he then powered up to his absolute peak, trying to get angry to increase it further, without any success.
The defender of Earth smiled as he floated into the air as he started to charge energy in his right palm. After a few seconds of doing so, he then released a small beam of ki, which in itself already as big as his 10 years old son. It quickly crashed against the kid's arms and pushed him both downwards and backwards, with said kid grunting and straining his body to its limits, but it wasn't enough to even slow himself from heading even further into the infinite nothingness of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
"Gr..grr...grrr..." Gohan struggled as he felt the skin of both of his arms burn, causing him to flinch in pain, making the blast to overtake him even further. At that point his father had stopped channeling energy into the beam, causing it to merely looked as a sphere, but the young half-breed didn't know that. He tried to push on, take a step forward as he ground his teeth and groaned, trying to bring forth his anger.
'Why? Why can't I do this? Why can't I draw this power, this anger so naturally like dad or Vegeta or uncle Raditz can? Why can't I do this? It's unfair! It's infuriating! I have to do this or else everyone is going to die! Mom, dad, Mr. Piccolo, uncle Raditz, Bra, Bulma. Everyone will die because I wasn't strong enough to make dad stronger!' he thought to himself with an incredible amount of frustration and anger as the ball of ki finally engulfed him and then everything went black for the young 10 years old half-Saiyan.
Inside Gohan's Mind,
He floated in the blackness that seemed to expand everywhere. He couldn't see anything and he felt a sensation of a burning itch across his entire skin, as if it was being burned from the inside and he felt as life he wanted to rip apart his skin. He was now confused at what was happening, but his feelings of anger over his inability to draw out his hidden power still lingered heavily.
'What's going on here? Am I dead? Have I truly failed? Was I truly this useless?!' he thought to himself as his embers of anger and self-hatred still staying deep in his heart and starting to flame as he was on the fence between acceptance and denial of his failure, after he goaded his father so hard. All his hidden power, all his anger, all his potential. All Amounting to nothing.
"YOU PATHETIC LITTLE BRAT!" he suddenly heard a loud, deep voice in his head, causing him to turn around, where he saw the wooden door once again. The barrier that prevented him from achieving the power of his Super Form being held back behind such a fragile substance pissed him off to no end, and the fact that he couldn't bring out the anger to smash this pathetic piece of wood to pieces frustrated him more than anything. In front of it suddenly an ethereal wind formed a large Oozaru in front of it, it's eyes glowing with a powerful orange glow rather than its regular red eyes, while a bubbly orange aura surrounded it. "IS THIS THE MOST ANGER THE MORTAL INCARNATION OF WRATH CAN PRODUCE BY HIMSELF?! EMBARRASSING!" the Oozaru roared in fury as it released a wave of orange ki that pushed the boy backwards.
A second after regaining his balance, Gohan saw another Oozaru forming next to the first one, having the same orange eyes and aura. "YOU WERE ALWAYS A WEAK COWARD! YOU ARE NOT A WARRIOR!" it shouted at the boy, releasing another wave of energy, but this time Gohan managed to raise his guard, letting the wave hit against him with full force. He wasn't pushed back and he stared down the two with tears and sadness in his eyes, losing a bit of his anger and realizing that there was some truth in their words.
A third giant monkey one appeared next to the other two. "YOUR HUMANITY IS A BURDEN! IT MAKES YOU WEAK! MAKES YOU USELESS!" it screamed harshly at the young boy, who was starting to shiver as he floated in the darkness.
A fourth Oozaru appeared with the same orange eyes and aura surrounding it. "YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF POTENTIAL! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!" it roared like the beast that he was, releasing a third wave of energy, which slammed against the boy, sending him flying back even more.
Then the fifth and last Oozaru appeared with orange eyes and aura, but this time it had the horns of an ox, much like the helmet of the boy's own grandfather. "THE FACT THAT AFTER CULTIVATING AN ENTIRE BLOODLINE ON THIS WORTHLESS PLANET, AFTER FINALLY PRODUCING A VESSEL TO PROPERLY RELEASE MY POWER BACK TO THE UNIVERSE, IT'S SO SOFT AND SPINELESS. IT INFURIATES ME!" it finished its softer sentence with the loudest and most powerful of roars, causing the boy to scream in agony as he felt himself being burned alive from the inside.
It lasted for nearly half-a-minute, but it felt like an eternity for the half-Saiyan son of Earth's greatest fighter as pain was overwhelming his mind and he couldn't even register or explain exactly how this pain felt to him. He didn't know if he could ever become a Super Saiyan. He was just going to die and this was just what he would see before his soul would move to the afterlife, a final mockery to look upon.
[Musical Cue #1: Ave Satani]
He didn't know why, but these feelings, this new pain that he was overwhelmed by increased his level of anger to new heights as memories started to fill his memories. The first memory was short and quick, but he remembered it so very well. He remembered seeing Tien being blasted to smithereens by Bryco's Soulfire, and then his own battle with the tall Saiyan warrior. The expression of joy over a battle, the blows he had landed upon the five years old toddler in front of him, it infuriated the half-breed.
The second memory was the same Saiyan warrior killing Piccolo with a blow that was meant for him. He had been too weak and Bryco had been too strong. He never stood a chance, and his mentor, his master, his first friend had to die because of his weakness and low power. Because he wasn't strong enough to protect his father's friends and his planet, despite all of the hype that everyone did to uplift the boy for his potential. Remembering all that pressure to be that super duper ultimate weapon and his failure to live up to that, allowing his and his dad's friends to die because of that infuriated him even more.
The third memory was of him, Bulma and Yajirobe hiding on one of the Planet Trade Organization, looking hopelessly at the destruction that the soldiers caused to a planet full of innocents. He remembered the fields, houses and corpses burned to the ground. The enormous piles of dead men women and children, all having terrified expressions on their faces. Seeing this once again had turned his anger and hatred into a raging red, yellow and orange inferno as tears started to turn into a gigantic inferno that consumed everything else. The pain, the fear, the emotional pain from the insults. All gone. Now there was just rage.
The next memory then appeared. It was his fights all across Namek: Vegeta and Zarbon, Recoome, Vegeta and Bryco and of course Freeza. Images of his fights moved like light in his head, seeing a flash of when he killed Zarbon, which caused him euphoric joy. A flash of him landing a punch on Vegeta, and then another flash of him landing a hit on Bryco. All these flashes brought him joy, the joy and hopes of seeing the two Saiyan beaten, broken and bleeding.
Then he remembered Freeza hurting Mr. Piccolo. An instant later a flash appeared of Freeza shooting death beams at both Mr. Piccolo and Bryco, nearly killing them both. Another flash and this time the tyrant's death beams killed both Dende and Yajirobe. These flashes angered the boy even further. Then a flash appeared of his memory of how the lizard-looking alien drilled his uncle over and over with death beams, until finally killing him with a head shot. Making him feel nothing but fury and hatred.
It was then that the Oozaru shrunk, changing their appearances. However, they kept their orange eyes and auras, which now had ox horns shapes in the head area of each of the five. The first Oozaru changed to look exactly into Mr. Piccolo. "To think that you have such a gift, yet you can't use it stupefies me. I can't believe that I constantly have to goad you into training. You will never be a proper defender of this planet." the figure spoke with the exact voice of Gohan's mentor, but this didn't dissuade or even kicked down the inferno of emotions that was now Son Gohan. No, it was merely fuel to the fire, angering him even more than he already.
The second Oozaru had transformed into his uncle, Raditz. "To think that my own blood can't bring out Super Saiyan like myself is pathetic. I regret ever taking some of my time to make you stronger." the ethereal and fake form of his uncle insulted him like the fake Mr. Piccolo, but bringing to the same effect of angering the boy further.
The third giant monkey transformed into Bryco's image. "You are a pathetic coward. No desire to face an opponent in honorable single combat to stand to your ideals. You are nothing but a fake." the third fake image tried to insult to boy, making him angrier as this immediately brought a giant sign in the half-Saiyan's mind that said "HYPOCRISY!" as the memories of their first battle on planet Earth flashed into his mind again, causing his nager to reach new heights it had never reached before.
The fourth one turned into the image of the Saiyan prince Vegeta, crossing his arms with a look of disdain and disappointment on his face. "To think that you have Saiyan blood inside your body makes me want to puke. You share no traits with the proud, noble and mighty Saiyan race. You are nothing but a human wanna be who imitates true warriors." the fake Vegeta spoke with utter contempt and hatred of the boy in his voice, making Gohan reach his limit. He felt like he couldn't himself back anymore, like he was about to explode and destroy everything around him.
Finally the last one had turned into the image of his very father, a man whom he did look up to and loved with his heart, despite some levels of cynicism from time to time. "I can't believe I call you my son. I took you with me to help me grow stronger, yet you just prove that your nothing but a failure. Because of you, everyone will die and it's all your fault." the ethereal image of the youngest son of Bardock spoke with a poignant tone to his voice, which sounded exactly like the voice of the real Son Goku.
*SNAP*
That was the sound that the boy mentally heard after listening to the words of the fake image of his father. His rage had finally surpassed its limit, breaking the limit-breaking point. 'Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!' he yelled inside his own head at the five figures with venomous hatred in his voice as the wooden door cracked from the force of the shout. 'This is all your fault!' he kept shouting furiously as more and more cracks appeared on the wooden door. 'It was you dumbass, heartless brutes that you are who forced me into this world! I never asked for this! All I did was be another useless punching bag to give you time to rest!' he kept shouting furiously while pointing at the five figures with accusations as his voice started to shift, to crack several times.
His fury and hatred were flowing out and busting down the door behind the five figures, all the while a burning sensation flared up in his upper back. 'You want to see my hidden potential? Then I'll show it you you, and you'll be sorry when I'll kill you all.' he spoke inside his head and then looked at the fake Bryco, before the ethereal figure exploded spontaneously into a large smear of red, warm and delicious blood everywhere, making the boy laugh hysterically with murderous intent.
The other four figures looked happy as they saw it, giving evil smirks as Gohan's black pupil turned into pinpricks and his eyes widen, while a gigantic grin covered his face from ear to ear. 'I'll kill you all.' he said to the remaining four figures with an extremely high-pitched voice while looking at the fake Vegeta figure, before that one blew up into a bloody smear as well. 'I'll kill you all.' he spoke once again as he looked at the fake figure of his uncle, which disappeared in a spontaneous combustion that released blood everywhere. 'I'll kill you all!' the boy continue to talk with an unnerving amount of glee at the sight of the most important people in his life exploding in a bloodied and disturbing fashion as he looked at the fake Mr. Piccolo, who also exploded into a fountain of blood, this time purple.
Finally, he looked at the fake figure of his father. 'I'll kill you ALL!' he started to shout with a feeling of ecstasy, release and relief as he saw the figure explode into a fountain of blood. He felt like a gigantic stone fell from his heart and the burning sensation in his back started to tingle.
Gohan then looked at the door and kept his evil and sadistic smirk as he released all of the remaining anger at it. 'I'LL KILL YOU ALL!' he shouted the loudest that he could, pushing his lungs to their utmost limits, and the shockwaves that he released from his body shattered the door into tiny pieces.
A golden pillar of light rushed out of the hinges of the door, heading towards the boy, who rushed at the light with glee. 'You want to see what I can do?! I'll show every last one of you what I can fucking do!' he roared as he was finally engulfed by the raging, golden light of the Super Saiyan form.
[Musical Cue #1 End]
In the Time Chamber, at the same time outside of Gohan's mind,
The prime protector of the planet was scared when he saw that his ball of ki engulfed his son. He saw as the large, big, blue orb covered the area where his 10 years old son was just standing on and he could feel the boy's ki plummeting down. "Gohan!" he shouted in concern as he feared for the worse.
'What have I done?! I went too far. I shouldn't have listened to his pleas, I should have just stuck to what I was doing. I can't have him die here, Chi Chi would never forgive me. Neither would Piccolo or Raditz.' he thought to himself as he started to charge towards the orb of energy. 'I have to save him!' he thought to himself with fear overwhelming his mind, his concern for the safety of his son. "Hang on Gohan, I'm coming!" he shouted as his golden Super Saiyan aura burned around his frame and he flew in as fast as possible.
Then he felt the boy's ki skyrocket to a whole new plethora of power as he saw that his own attack that he had fired earlier was starting to split in the middle, causing him to stop all of his momentum and looked in a terrified sensation of awe at what was happening below.
After a few seconds after he stopped mid-air, he saw his son standing in the center of the blast and with his own hands he was gripping both sides of the ball of energy and ripping it in half with just raw power and ki pressure. The level of power froze the older warrior in his place as he felt the inconceivable well of power that he was filling. When the boy finished, he blew away the ki blast and now Goku could see his son and what his saw made him truly confused.
Gohan was still in his base form, but something was off about him. He was surrounded by an orange, bubbly aura that resembled one of an ox, even having the aura have horn shapes above the head. Also Gohan's eyes were glowing orange as he gave an unnatural, unhinged, animalistic roar with a low, deep voice of monster. The power that was emanating from his body was so huge that it made Goku descent down to the white, infinite ground and fall on his knees with terror filling his eyes as his golden hair fell down and returned to its natural black color.
'What is this? Is this Gohan's hidden potential?' he thought to himself as he could feel his body shaking. Not from excitement like it usually did, but of pure fear from what was roaring in front of him, releasing god-like amounts of ki. 'I...I can't stand up to this! There can't be anybody who can stand up to this! I have to calm him down before he destroys everything around him!' the full-blooded Saiyan thought to himself in his state of panic as he quickly got up and waved his hands at his son. "Gohan, calm down! If you destroy the exit, we'll be stuck here forever!" he tried to reason with his son, hoping that appealing to logic would manage to get to the kid.
A few seconds later, his son stopped screaming that unnatural, fierce roar and his orange aura disappeared completely as his arms slumped down and his body fell to the ground, the power that came with the strange aura disappearing as quickly as it came, much to the relief of Earth's mightiest warrior.
"Few, that's a relief. His power when back dow-" he started to speak when he cuy himself short.
He saw his son, looking exhausted from what had just happened slowly standing up on his feet, whole body shaking. This intrigued him now as he silently looked at what was going on. "...you all..." the full-blooded Saiyan could barely hear those two words coming out of his son's mouth, which left him confused.
"Um...son, did you say something?" he asked as a small smile appeared on his face.
The body of the boy then slowly crossed his arms in a X shape in front of his body while also crouching, bending his knees as his power started to rise up quickly to an incredible level, with his long black hair rising up, only to fall down. It then rose up again and then fell down quickly. Then a third time the hair rose up, this time turning gold as it did. Then it fell down, returning to it's black color.
This made Goku squee in excitement as he realized what was happening. His son was finally doing it, he was turning into a Super Saiyan. A giant smile of pride grew on the man's face as he saw the metamorphosis that was happening to his son, as several the boy's hair rose up and turned gold, only to fall down once more.
On the fifth and final time, Gohan spread his arms wide as a bone-chilling scream pierced the never-ending space of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber as a raging flame of gold surrounded his small frame and he opened his eyes, revealing a pair of teal-green pupil. "AAAHHHH!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, sending powerful winds across the entire dimension, which his father had to quickly resist by transforming into a Super Saiyan himself once again, while the boy's hair spiked before turning to gold and staying that way.
As he saw the transformation in front of him, Goku's jaw fell down as he still smiled with pride at his son's successful transformation. 'He did it, and it's really impressive too. He's stronger than when Raditz fought that Freeza's brother guy. That's great! His 3 years of training did pay off!' he thought to himself in excitement as he watched the kid finishing his transformation by lowering his head and grounding his teeth, struggling to keep up the transformation.
"That's it Gohan, you're doing great!" he cheered up as he tried to help his boy the best that he could to hold the transformation. "Remember what you were feeling. Use it to fuel yourself." he advised the best that he could as he couldn't wipe the huge smirk that was plastered all over his face.
[Musical Cue #2: One Winged Angel]
Suddenly the boy looked him straight in the eyes and he felt like a chill went down his spine, as if something dangerous was about to happen. A moment later he felt his son's ki spike astronomically high as he saw rage, hatred and murderous intent in his son's eyes, causing him to feel the same amount of terror as he did prior to his son's transformation.
While the ki signature wasn't as powerful as it was with that strange orange aura, Gohan's Super Saiyan power far surpassed his own with that giant spike, as now his son flexed his entire body while crouching and his aura grew threefold in size. He looked like a predator going in to kill its pray.
"RAGHR!" the son of Earth's strongest fighter charged in, instantly closing in the gap between the two of them as his palm wrapped around his father's face. He flew forward while slamming his the head of Earth's strongest fighter into the white, never ending floor of the chamber and dragging him across it for what seemed to be hundreds of kilometers, all the while screeching and laughing maniacally as he did.
He finally let go of his father's face and launched him up to the sky with tremendous force, but he was ready to continue massacring the man who had barely spent any time with him just for his own selfish desires. He was going to pay with blood. Son Gohan put his index and Middle finger on his forehead, disappearing and instantly reappearing in front of where he had launched his neglecting, air-headed father and caught him by the foot. He then started to spin him rapidly with all of his might until he dropped him into the ground, causing a large explosion that echoed across the endless space with a loud "BOOM!" sound.
It took several seconds for the dust to settle, but when it did the Saiyan born on Earth was lying on the ground, his body filled with bruises and scratches as he moaned in pain, surprised about how much damage he took from simply two attacks from his enraged son.
Suddenly said rampaging child appeared in front of him with his right index and middle fingers on his brow while his left hand was cocked back, prepared to strike right through his father. And strike through his father he did, as the fist dug itself into the floor of the dimension and passing right through the image of his father, which then suddenly disappeared.
The adult Super Saiyan appeared several meter away from where his son had landed the devastating attack that he barely avoided with the afterimage technique, sliding back to gain even more distance between him and his rampaging son. 'Darn, he's fast and strong. When he just transformed he was around the usual level of a fresh Super Saiyan. But as he is now, I'll die if I try to stop without powering up further. Unfortunately I don't think he'll let me get the time I need to do that.' he thought to himself nervously as entered a combat stance.
He looked back, knowing that behind him was the entrance to the time chamber, and that if his son would destroy it they would be stuck there forever. He had to stop Gohan's rampage, as the boy was now glaring at him again with eyes filled with murderous intent as he was snarling in the man's general direction. "Oh boy, that isn't really a good look for you Gohan, but you're really powerful." the father said as his body was shaking and a large smile appeared on his face as he prepared to take on everything Gohan would throw at him.
"RAAAARGH!" the boy roared like an animal as he ascended to the air and charged energy in his hands, which made Goku tense his muscles even more as he felt fully prepared to deal with it. The young and fresh rampaging Super Saiyan then sent forth a massive amount of ki blasts towards his golden-haired father, flying in huge numbers like incredibly powerful missiles.
Goku smirked as he then charged towards the barrage of blasts while focusing most of his energy in his hands. As the blasts reached him, he started punching each and everyone of them away with a big grin of excitement on his face as he felt immense pain from a burning sensation whenever his fists touched the attack, but he pushed that pain back with the utter rush of adrenaline that he was getting from facing such a challenge of stopping his much more powerful son from either severly injuring him or even killing him.
He then stopped in the air while looking up at his son, who was all but fuming with unstoppable rage, which seemed to grow further and further. Knocking him out seemed like the only good option in this situation. "Is this nowhere everything you have son. Show me everything." he taunted his son with a giant smirk as he then crouched and started to draw out more power. "Ahhhh..." he started with a low growl as his muscles started to grow in size and his hair spiked up even further while cold winds appeared in the chamber. "AH!" he then gave one big shout that didn't last long, in which his muscles bulged to their limits, reaching more than thrice their original mass and his hair spiked further, showing that he was now in Super Saiyan Grade 3.
"Show me how strong you are Gohan, because these little blasts won't cut it." he kept on taunting, knowing that this would focus his son's attention even further, and if he would be able to put a small opening in that concentration of fury, he would be able to stop the boy from causing more damage to the area.
"GAH! DIE!" the enraged Super Saiyan child finally said something that wasn't a grunt as he raised both of his hands above his head, with the right palm over his left, and a large golden orb was charged on it. "MASENKO HA!" he screamed in his rage as he launched his attack, which dwarfed even the massive defender of Earth, which made said defender of the planet grin even more.
"Yeah, that's good enough." Son Goku said as he cupped both of his hands next to his waist as he focused as much energy as possible from his current form into the attack he was making. "Ka..." he started to chant as his power increased.
"Me..." he continued to chant as the large golden beam headed his way.
Then between his cupped hands a giant ball of energy formed. "Ha..." he chanted as the velocity of the beam channeled from his son headed right towards him.
"Me..." he continued to chant as the ball stored more power and grew as he prepared to release the Turtle Destruction Wave technique.
Just the beam reached him, he finally extended his arms forward. "HAAAA!" he screamed at the top of his lungs as he released the compressed energy in between his arms into a gigantic beam that clashed with the golden beam of his son, releasing massive waves of heat across the entire white, infinite planes of the dimension. With increasing effort from both sides, Goku managed to start pushing the beam back, but doing so wasted so much of his ki since he was still going all out and then some against the Masenko. It reminded him of the several fights that he had with Piccolo before Raditz showed up.
Taking steps forward, the defender of Earth grounded his teeth to the point that he felt an extreme amount of pain in his mouth and jaws from the strain. However, he still managed to push back the Masenko further and further from him. "HYAA!" he gave one final shout as he released all of his power and used his incredible skill in ki control to change the trajectory of his beam to rise up into the ski, taking his son's attack with it, before it detonated into a gigantic beam of gold and blue, which made the rampaging half-Saiyan to look up at it in shock.
'Now's my chance!' Goku thought to himself as he put his right index and middle fingers on his brow, and with a "ZIP" sound instantly appeared from where he was to being behind his son, finished the rampage with a quick karate chop to the back of the head with his left arm, knocking his son out cold as the boy's eyes went completely black from the strike.
[Musical Cue #2 End]
"GAH!" was the only sound that came from Gohan's throat as his eyes went blank white and his hair fell down and turned black. As he fell down to the ground below him, Goku's hair also fell down and returned to its black color, along with his teal-green eyes returning back to black and his giant muscles quickly returning to their original size. All of this was happening while his right index and middle fingers were still on his forehead, so he instantly appeared beneath his son's falling body and grabbed him with his left arm.
"Few, that was really harsh. His hidden potential truly is exciting...and scary." he said to himself out loud as he looked at his son. Then, a few seconds after he finished saying that, a light bulb turned on in his head before exploding outward with light as an idea popped into his head, making him grin like a maniac.
"I have an idea." he said before he then felt that he had almost no energy left in his body and his muscles started to spazz out and contort, making him scream in agony as he fell down to the ground. It took about 10 seconds before he lost consciousness.
[Musical Cue #3: Opening- Chase by batta]
*BOOM!*
A powerful noise echoed in the sky as a shock waves spread from an impact point from above the island chains to up to an entire continent, shocking the entire planet. Cell and Yamcha were the ones to clash, as forearm pushing against forearm. Both angrily ground their teeth as they tried to push against one another.
That lasted for around half a minute before the human in his Mastered Super Form and clad in Natural ki put even more effort and pushed his amalgamated foe backwards, then he closed the distance instantly and slammed a powerful, thunderous punch into the amalgamated creature's stomach, doubling the humanoid over and winding him. Continuing the assault, the human slammed a double-ax hammer on top of the creature's head, sending him flying down insanely fast.
However he moved faster, diving downward effortlessly quick and appearing beneath his foe instantly after hitting him above, only to then send a bone-crunching straight kick into the back of his foe, snapping his spine in half and sending him flying forward while pushing a large amount of blood as he cried in agony.
"GUAH!" Cell cried as he was sent forward in hypersonic speeds across the air, moving hundreds of kilometers within instances. About a few seconds later his spine managed to reconstruct itself and he regained his balance in the air. He was now confused as to where he was or where his opponent was. He tensed his body as he prepared for whatever his foe was preparing for him, also closing his eyes and sharpening his sense of smell and sound, so that he would be able to sense and locate the Mastered Burst Limit user better.
"HA!" he heard coming from afar, making him quickly open his eyes in shock and panic as he realized that a Kamehameha wave was heading towards him, and he could feel that it was nothing like the previous ones that the human had tried to use against him previously in the fight. This was over several times stronger. 'If I'm hit by this, I'm dead for sure!' he thought to himself as he prepared himself to dodge the attack the moment it would be close to him.
Sure enough, the gigantic beam of ki reached him quite quickly, and sure enough he dodged with not much effort, and he smirked as he flew upwards while the beam continued on moving straight. Then the gigantic wave of energy moved up into the sky, causing the perfect being to stop in his spot and look up. It was a few seconds later that he looked in terror as the Kamehameha wave split apart into several smaller beams, though they were still enough to be consider bigger than Cell himself.
Then they all started heading towards his direction. Like rockets homed on their target, ready to completely annihilate it with as much overkill as possible.
"Oh...Kamehameha combined with Krillin's scattershot...damn." he said as all of the beams headed towards his location. When one of the beams seemed to hit him, he used the afterimage technique to dodge it completely as he seemed to sweet with an expression of concern filling his face while growling his teeth. 'What was that feeling? When it was about to hit me, I felt the heat of a planet about to burn me into a crisp, but it felt so serene and peaceful. Was that the effect of that weird power that he's using?' he thought to himself with confusion, intrigue and anger as the beams continued to chase after him.
He continued ti fly as fast as he could while the Scattered Kamehameha wave continued to chase after him without slowing down or not leaving his sight. He knew that it wasn't going to stop until it destroyed him. However it didn't matter, he would outsmart Yamcha and his stupid trick. He continued to fly, doing spins in the air like a plane trying to evade an enemy's projectiles, whenever a beam came too close, allowing him to evade, only for the beam that missed to quickly change trajectory and continue its chase.
When he stopped in the air, all the beams converged upon him, preparing to crash into his body and atomize it, but Cell merely smirked, as in the last second dived down at speeds beyond the speed of light, allowing him to dodge before he got hit. Fortunately for him, this maneuver caused two of the beams to crash into one another, exploding in a bright, dazzling azure light. Unfortunately for him, three other beams continued to chase after him, making him frown with a bit of disappointment.
He continued to fly in different patterns in the air to try and evade the remaining beams, but this game of cat and mouse continued on and on and this made the ultimate life form more and more annoyed with the situation. "THAT'S IT!" he shouted in anger as veins throbbed on his brow, while also stopping in the air and grabbed his head as hard as he could. "You want to destroy me that badly, Yamcha, then I'll grant you your wish!" he shouted as he started to pull his head up with all of his might while screaming in agony.
In just a second he managed to decapitate himself by ripping his own head of and throwing it away from the body, before all the three remaining beams hit the lifeless body, atomizing it and burning every cell in it into oblivion while exploding in a gigantic azure explosion that the entire planet violently.
While the head fell from the sky, it looked up at the explosion. It then smirked as with a gigantic release of ki, the creation of Dr. Gero and Dr. Wheelo managed to regenerate it's entire body from the head down in a few seconds alone. He quickly regained his balance in the air as he felt how much his power skyrocketed from this near death experience, thanks to the Zenkai of his Saiyan genes. He smirked as he felt that the rise in power was enough to cover for his lost of energy to regenerate his entire body.
"Such power!" he screamed in utter joy as he powered up as much as he could, releasing waves of golden energy across the skies that were still painted azure from the explosion that still lasted up until this moment. He then looked forward and managed to spot his opponent, who looked right back at him, making the ultimate life form smirked as he entered a fighting stance.
He then immediately charged in, coming at the silver-haired human with a fast spin-kick from the left. His human foe did react fast, raising his right forearm, which the kick crashed against it, creating a powerful shockwave that shook the entire planet violently, but the human didn't budge an inch and seemed like he was barely straining. The amalgamated creature tried to continue his assault with a palm strike to the face, which his human foe manged to grab with his left hand around the wrist area before the hand could hit his face. However the amalgamated creature smiled, as he tried to land a thunderous left hook against the temple of his foe, who casually dodged the attack without any effort.
Not giving up on his chance to gain an advantage in melee, Cell released a kiai wave from his palm, directing said palm so that the invisible wave of force would crash against his opponent, which it did. Yamcha himself was sent flying backwards and down towards the sea, but he quickly readjusted himself midair. When he did, Cell charged in and slammed with his armored head against his skull, sending him back even more, but he was completely unharmed by the effort.
Seeing as his efforts had caused little to no damage, Cell growled with frustration. He clenched his hands into fists, which shook in anger and so did his body, until he noticed something. He squinted his eyes as he looked at the green vail of energy that was surrounding his foe and he then noticed that a bit of energy was being released by it, causing it to slowly but surely decrees in size, even by a minuscule amount.
This then caused him to smirk. "Ah... I see. Whatever this power up is, you're slowly losing it by the second. You get weaker and weaker as the fight will drag on, so that's why you tried to utterly atomize me earlier with that Scatter Kamehameha technique you used, correct?" he inquired with quite a bit of confidence now in his voice as he started to figure it out. "And If the answer is 'yes', then that means that the more big energy attacks you use, the quicker you lose that power up and this fight." he continued to said his hypothesis as he smirked and entered a combat stance, ready to go for another round.
This made Yamcha nervous immediately. 'How?! How did he figure out how the Natural Ki boost works out so quickly?!' he thought to himself as he started to lose his confidence over his adversary's analyzing, only to quickly shake his head. 'No, do not panic! Remember what you fight for! This planet, your friends, your daughter!' he said to himself mentally as he crouched and clenched his hands into fists, igniting his silver, flaming aura with red tips around him, which was contained by the watery flow of the green aura around it. "I WILL NOT LOSE!" he screamed with determination in his voice as he prepared to go at it once more.
He moved so quickly that Perfect Cell couldn't even see him. Within an instant he appeared behind him and slammed a thunderous punch into Perfect Cell's back so hard that it pierced through the armored exoskeleton and the back, coming out of stomach of Perfect Cell, covered in purple blood.
Feeling immense pain from that one hit, the ultimate life form puked a large amount of blood as he fell slightly forward. He was slowly slid down from the arm that pierced him, only to then grab the arm with all of his might and moving back with his head, slamming it into the nose of his human foe. While he manged to jerk back the head of the man, it caused no damage whatsoever.
Yamcha took out his fist from his foe's back and flew backwards about several meters back. "Fine, I get it. You get slightly stronger every second and every attempt to kill you will only make you stronger. However, I do have one several staged plans to take you out for good. Permanently." he said with a serious tone to his voice as he raised both of his hands to face height and two yellow orbs appeared on the palms.
Perfect Cell merely scoffed when he saw the two orbs in his palms. "Really? That's your ultimate attack? Another Sokidan?" he asked with a disappointed and mocking tone as he frowned and crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Even the double Sokidan won't work on me anymore. You really should try to make some new techniques or just go with another Kamehameha wave. That would do much more damage than just your lame Sokidan." he kept mocking as he dismissed the attack already.
The Full Power Burst Limit user then threw the two orbs with all of his strength, sending them fast towards the amalgamated creature, who was utterly bored with the attack to the point that he still stood with his arms crossed in front of his chest. He seemed to care that little about the attack itself, knowing he already thought of a way to counter it. However, much to his surprise, the two orbs stopped right next to his shoulders of each side, not completely anticipating that they would stop.
The human then clapped his hands and the two orbs changed shape completely, turning into tendrils of energy that wrapped themselves around the ultimate life form, which shocked said ultimate life form completely, causing him to gasp as the ki of his tenacious foe wrapped around his upper body to the point that he could no longer move and he just struggled with the layered ties of energy that kept him from moving.
"How's this for original. I knew that if I would an ultimate technique then I would have to first make sure that my enemy doesn't evade it, right?" he asked as he then clenched his hands into fists tightly, just as his aura ignited around his body. "So what I did in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber was not only master my Burst Limit form, but to create new attacks and mess up with my old ones in varied ways to create a plan involved of several stages to utterly destroy you specifically. The first would usually to start with a Taiyoken, then follow up with a Kienzan and my new Sokidan Bind. Which reminds me." he said as he raised his left arm above his head, opened the fist into a palm and formed a Kienzan, which he then threw at his foe's midsection, splitting it in half. With a few hand movements, the binds of the Sokidan Bind extended and wrapped themselves around the falling half of the amalgamated creature's body.
"GAH! YOU BASTARD!" Cell cursed furiously as pain overwhelmed his mind. However, the insult did nothing to phase his human foe.
[Musical Cue #4: Girei (Naruto Shippuden OST)]
"It's over Cell." Yamcha spoke as he finally crouched and clenched his fists so hard that veins across his entire body throbbed: all over his arms, his chest, his neck, face and brow as black clouds from the distance started heading towards their location. "Ahh..." he started with a low growl of effort as his aura started to grow larger and larger and his power slowly began to rise even further than what it only was before, enhanced by the incredible power of Natural ki.
Winds started to blow harshly and the planet shook a little bit in about a magnitude of a level 3 Earthquake, but it shook constantly so it was the same as if it was an even stronger earthquake. Cell felt the ki signature of his opponent rising up and his aura slowly growing in size as well, which made him rather concerned at what kind of technique this actually was.
Suddenly, Yamcha's silver and green auras exploded twice in size as he seemed to strain even further and his ki level skyrocketed instantly, creating large and stronger gusts of wind and making the planet shake even more violently than before. "AHHHH..." he continued to loudly growl as his muscles seemed to grow in size as more and more ki seemed to be stored in them.
A few seconds later there was another large and sudden burst, as Yamcha's auras blasted outward and grew thrice in size, then four times, then five times bigger than before. It continued on further and further until it was no longer a regular fiery aura, but a gigantic pillar of ki that completely enguled Yamcha, making him look like the outline of a small ant inside of a gigant pillar of silver-green ki that reached out into the heavens themselves, while the storm clouds arrived and started to rain down storms of lightning across the entire area again, way more than before. Now all the clouds on the planet seemed to be centered around that area completely.
Tornadoes and hurricanes the largest the planet has ever seen span around the gigantic pillar of energy, while the entire planet Earth shook harder than it ever had throughout the entire fight. Across the other side of the planet, continents were being split apart from the force of the earthquake caused by the human's ki, which caused a mass panic throughout cities which were being torn apart and falling to the sea.
Kami's Lookout,
Everyone saw the gigantic pillar from where they stood. They were all freaking out internally, while externally they were frozen in fear, silent in awe, shaking in their boots and sweating buckets at the size of the attack, at the power of the ki and the cluster of all of the planet's clouds into one place.
"Incredible..." Piccolo said with barely any capability of speech from the mental state he was now stuck in.
"I can't believe it. What is this power?" Krillin asked as he was so frozen with terror from the power he was feeling that he couldn't even fall down on his knees. He even lacked the power to do that.
"What did he do inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber that caused him to gain so much power?" Tien asked as he was also frozen in that mixture of awe and terror as he felt the power grabbing him by the spine.
"This can't be happening. First Natural ki, now a spirit animal attack? How did he discover all of this? Did he meditate so hard that he found his inner spirit animal?" the guardian of the planet asked out loud in utter terror as he sensed and saw everything that was going on down there. His eyes widened only to then look at his attendant. "Mister Popo, repair the planet as quickly as possible! Make sure to keep every human down there alive!" he ordered his assistant and best friend with a panicked tone to his voice, while the pitch-black colored djinn was already making some kind of spell to complete that exact task.
This immediately caught the attention of the Z-Fighters who weren't completely mentally shut down, such as Krillin, Vegeta, Bryco and Archako, who were just looking at the pillar in the distance. "What did you just say, Kami? What's a spirit animal attack?" the oldest son of Bardock asked with intrigue in his voice when it wasn't drowned by the awe he felt at the power of the human warrior.
The eternally young sage sighed as a sweat dropped from his brow. "When someone meditates for a prolonged enough time, he can find his inner flame, which is his ki. However, at a certain point of meditation, you can find within you the image of power in your eyes, a representation of your complete personality, complete with it's darkest aspects." explained as the power of the ki of their ally finally caused the palace of Earth's god to shake violently, causing everyone with the exception of the chubby djinn to fall down. "King Kai had informed me that while fighting against Freeza on Namek, Goku used an attack that gave him a dragon-shaped aura, which was the attack that finished that fight. That was without a doubt his spirit animal technique." the Dragon Clan Namekian kept explaining as the lookout kept on shaking violently.
While this was going on, the djinn was fixing whatever damage was caused below, bringing out people and buildings out of the ocean, fixing together the shattered continents, all while stuck within his own thoughts. 'This isn't just a normal attack. He isn't only powering it by his own energy, even with the Natural ki involved. The only thing in the universe outside of the gods with as much power is either corporeal or sealed for good, so that must be the former. Which means...' he thought to himself as he was budy of repairing the damage faster than the earthquakes could cause them.
Back on the battlefield, the human's power kept on rising as his pillar of auras kept getting bigger and bigger, much to the utmost terror of his perfect foe, who had now ignited his aura and powered up as much as he could, struggling to rip through the binds as he body was slowly mending its two halves.
"AHHH!" now the silver-haired human screamed at the top of his lungs as giant geysers of lava erupted from the surrounding islands, reaching high to the point that they were growing to the height of the center of the pillar itself, only to quickly stop as magic repaired the crust.
At the same time the pillar itself started to change shape once again. Now instead of a fiery aura or a pillar of light, it was taking a much more constructed and clear shape rather than what it was before. It was slowly shaping itself while the man roared in a never-ending scream to the heavens that kept shaking the planet and caused even more tornadoes to form around the energy, which caused Cell to try harder and harder to escape his binds and evade the powerful attack.
Eventually the humongous mass of energy had finally stopped shaping itself and had finally gained a proper form. It now appeared as a gigantic, 100 feet tall silver-green wolf, with four gigantic paws with five massive claws in each paw. It's tail was bigger than a skyscraper and it's head was at least 50 feet tall by itself. It was a monster of unimaginable proportions made entirely out of ki and it self like something that was incredibly destructive. A power not even Cell wanted to face with.
This made the ultimate life form shake as his eyes popped out of their sockets and pushed even harder than before to break through his bindings, his lower half finally properly connecting with his upper half. 'This is insane! Even if I throw the biggest Kamehameha in the history of Kamehamehas I wouldn't even put a dent in that! I have to evade this at all cost!' he thought to himself with fear in his mental voice as he pushed further and further beyond his limits.
"RARGH!" the bug-man shouted as he finally searched deep within himself for more power, where he found a deeper floor in the well of his power, which he pulled out with every bit of willpower that he possessed, which gave him a dramatic boost in power, allowing him to bust through the Sokidan Bind at long last.
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRR! the wolf roared with incredible force, creating powerful shockwaves that spread the storm cloud so much that they instantly moved hundreds of kilometers away and the entire storm that charging the mass of energy that formed the wolf instantly disappeared, including all of the tornadoes and hurricanes. The roar was so ridiculously loud that the amalgamated creation of Dr. Gero and Dr. Wheelo had to cover his ears from the incredible pain it was causing him through the enhanced hearing he possessed.
However, Yamcha was already charging straight at him while flying inside the center of the head of the beast, allowing the wolf itself to dash forward at unimaginable and unrelenting speed that would put even the fastest attacks to shame. "I told you this is over, Cell! WOLF FANG CELESTIAL DEVOURING DASH!" he screamed at the top of his lungs as he charged forward while Cell immediately acted and flew as fast as possible, or at least as fast as he could, away from the powerful attack.
Despite his newly gained amazing speed, the ultimate life form had still been engulfed almost completely by the stupendously gigantic attack that had been heading towards him and preparing to completely annihilating him. Then all he could see was white.
At the same time the human stopped flying forward to move the gigantic mass of ki that was his attack, and simply thrust his arms forward like when he was unleashing a Kamehameha wave. "HYA!" he shouted once last time with the same intensity as when he created his attack, causing the monstrous wolf to dash even faster than before, quickly leaving the planet and running across the empty vast of space.
The monster roared as it dashed across the stars, instantly moving forward and forward until it left the solar system completely. On Kami's Lookout, everyone sighed with relief when they could no longer see the wolf anymore, even though they still felt its gigantic amount of power that it possessed.
The former desert bandit's attack kept on moving so fast and with such ferocity, that within minutes, it reached the Alpha Centauri solar system as well. It ran between the stars, hunger filling it as the thing seemed to possess a mind of its own, until it reached the sun of that solar system about a less than a dozen seconds later. It quickly pounced on the sun, wrapping all of its limbs around it, only to then form back into a mass of energy, which now devoured the large star.
The result was a powerful supernova that spread the silver ki as a massive, powerful shockwave across the entire Alpha Centauri solar system, burning not only the planets inside it with ease, but destroying even the black matter that held everything together, resulting in the 8 seconds destruction of the entire Alpha Centauri solar system.
[End Musical Cue #4]
Back on Earth, Yamcha felt completely drained from the attack, with his green aura of Natural ki disappearing completely and his hair, mustache, beard and eyes returning to their black color. He quickly lost his ability to fly, causing his entire body to fall down, dropping towards the sea beneath him. As his body was plummeting down, he was wearing a gigantic smile on his face as in his mind he saw visions of him holding his baby girl as a toddler, with both him and his lavender-haired girl both smiling happily.
'Bra, I did it. I saved the world just for you, my sweet little daughter.' he thought to himself as he closed his eyes with a blissful smile that grew bigger on his face with every second.
Then his leg was caught, stopping his drop mid-air. "You have quite the nerve to nearly kill me like that, you pathetic excuse for a fool." the voice of the amalgamated creature entered his ears, causing his eyes to snap open and his expression to turn into that of utter terror as he realized that his attack failed.
Above him floated Cell, or at least his left arm, a bit of remaining upper torso, neck and head, all grievously damaged from the attack to the point that his head no longer had the 5th Form Cooler crown on the from anymore, but was just the exposed bio-gem on his head. Cell then spewed a large amount of blood from his throat, which also spilled a bit on the man's face. "You destroyed almost all of my body. Now I have barely half a torso, one lung, a neck and a head." he spoke with a furious tone to his voice. "Fortunately for me my Namekian healing grew so much more that it no longer requires an insane amount of stamina to perform to this degree all the time." he said with the same venomous tone as he instantly, with one painful grunt and then shout, restored his entire body.
The exhausted Z-Fighter looked up with an expression on utter terror in his eyes as he realized that he was going to die, all the while the blue-exoskeleton covered being slowly descended down from the sky towards one of the islands in the area that they were on, or what remained of the area they were fighting in.
While he was slowly descending down towards the ground, the scarred former bandit had incredibly horrendous thoughts about how he was going to die. 'What's he going to do to me? Is he going to rip me apart limb by limb? Is he going to quickly atomize me? is he going to break and destroy every organ I have one by one? What is he going to do to my friends? To my family?' he thought to himself in terror as he had not enough power to even move or reach for his sash to take out and drink the F.A.D. he had left, not that foe would let him.
Just before his own feet touched the ground of the island which hosted a now doomed city, the perfect being threw his powerless adversary onto the ground, right into the gigantic crater that was left of the city that was destroyed in their fight earlier, where said adversary landed harshly with a loud "THUD!" sound. Then the perfect being landed inside the crater as well with a now smug and sadistic expression plastered all over his face.
"Look at you now. Not so high and mighty now, are you clown?" he asked as he stepped on one of Yamcha's legs with enough force to break it, making the human scream in complete agony over the pain, which made him feel something that he didn't expect, something that he could not really describe. For some reason there a bit in his several hearts that made him feel bad for doing so. He couldn't understand what was going on.
This made Cell remove his leg from his helpless victim's broken leg with a confused look on his face. He then started to walk around from one side to another, confused as to why he was feeling this way. 'What was that?' he thought to himself as he strode around. 'This is a new feeling that I never felt before. I didn't have it when I fought with him throughout all this fight, or when I punched him so hard that his crash destroyed an entire city. So why am I feeling like I'm hesitating now?' he asked himself once more.
He then walked over to his downed foe and raised his hand in front of his face, charging a ki blast in his palm. Yamcha immediately flinched and closed his eyes, anticipating death. However, upon looking at his face, Cell felt his arm shaking. He couldn't keep himself steady as that feeling returned to him, causing him to stop his intended attack, the energy of it returning into his body. He then looked at his hand with frustration, not knowing what was happening to him. When he saw that Yamcha opened one eye to peak, Cell kicked him in to stomach with enough force to make him puke, but not much else.
'Did I just subconsciously held back my power? What's going on with me?! Never mind! For now, focus! Improvise!' he thought to himself angrily as he then faked a big, smug smile on his face. "Well Yamcha, I think this is your lucky day." he said with an overconfident tone that covered his own anger at himself and this new feeling that made it so hard for him to land a killing blow. "I've decided to let you live long enough to see me beat Goku and destroy the planet. Because I still know you have some hope down there that Goku would avenge your death. So why let you die and give you the satisfaction? I want to take the hope and break the will of every last one of you pieces of shit when you see me kill Son Goku. Especially Tien's, Vegeta's and Bryco's. I really hate them the most." he told the human defender of the planet as he started to rise up to the sky.
Yamcha looked up while lying on the ground, feeling an extreme amount of pain in his stomach. "Do not worry buffoon, you will all know when I will be ready for you all. In the meantime, enjoy life." he told his defeated human foe before he flew away at light speed, disappearing into the distance, leaving the human confused and grateful at the same time before losing consciousness.
{To Be Continued]
[Musical Cue #5: Ending- Monster by Skillet]
With Yamcha now defeated, it is now up to Son Goku and the rest of the Z-Fighters to take the fight to Cell and defeat him once and for all. What is Cell's maniacal plan? What are these feelings that seem to hold him back? Will this give Goku the advantage he needs to defeat Cell when the time comes? Will Goku grow in power enough to defeat Cell, now that he had managed to turn Gohan into a Super Saiyan? Find out on the next chapter of Changed Path...
Few, took me way too fucking long again to write this fucking chapter. I finally have more time to be at home and try to write down the chapters now thanks to the virus that is rampaging around the world, even though so many people are suffering and dying from it. It is such a dark time for all of our countries and I hope that we can all find things to make us enjoy ourselves. Hope that this chapter would be one of those things to so many of you.
Well, not much to really say about this chapter, so I'd rather go to R&A right now.
R&A:
R: Excellent chapter, honestly truly exquisite. The fighting between Cell and Yamcha was well paced and choreographed and has left a very good cliff hanger. The action flowed so well that honestly I was impressed and every hit carried a weight behind it. The constant conversing and mockery from Cell only for Yamcha to step up and meet him was excellent. And the end, with Yamcha's final gambit laid bare we have Piccolo's hesitance become known. Very curious to see where this goes.
A: Well, there wasn't much of Yamcha vs Cell this time, despite this being the final part of their fight. Well, it was more of Yamcha just charging one last attack to try and finally destroy Cell. Therefore the chapter is called "One Final Push". The title, funnily enough, also fits Gohan and his transformation this chapter really well, which I thought was just the best with the additions of Ave Satani and One Winged Angel. What did you think about Gohan's transformation scene, by the way?
R: I loved the battle between cell and yancha was also spectacular the idea of mixing natural chakra from Naruto Shippuden. I would like the social circle of the characters to diversify more as well as you did with 17 finding that island and that girl I know you can do very well, I do not like that everything revolves around them, how to say each of them has 365 days approx. a year they may get tired of fighting and go for a walk around meeting a girl who is not Canon or yes, or making new stories
A: Well, I hoped you love this chapter as well, because I tell ya, working on these chapters in so hard sometimes you wouldn't even believe it. Thank you for all of your reviews throughout your time reading Changed Path, as well as for reading it with such dedication and encouraged me with your kind words. Natural Ki was something that was intended to be added on early in the story, and last chapter gave quite the intel about why I decided to use it in the Yamcha vs Cell Fight.
As for a circle of friends, I do plan to have the high school parts of the Buu Saga last for a bit, since it would include both Gohan and this story's Bra in Orange Star High School and their circle of friends. For the most part in that arc the Z-Fighters would just be cameos who don't have a big influence on the story until the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai. I'm also glad you liked the farm girl and Lapis bits. I came up with that idea after Super as to explain his family in that time period in my story.
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Well, that's all for now. I'm totally beat and I have so many fucking things to do today. God, I'm so fucking lazy that I can't fucking go one after writing several thousand words. Anyway, stay safe everyone and have a nice, goddamn day.
