The organic android kept thrashing about madly as his ki started to glow. His yells of pain began to take a sonic echo. His eyes were white, as though they had rolled back into his skull. Suddenly an aura of blue ki burst at Cell's feet; all that could be seen through the intense blue light was a black silhouette and an even more intense red light that seemed to radiate and glow from his eyes. Through the dust and wind, Mr. Satan squinted to see the silhouette starting to change. It was growing, the shoulders started to broaden; the arms were growing longer, and became bulkier; his legs made him taller, and were more massive; his neck thickened; and his chest expanded.
Finally the light died down to normal. People tried to readjust their eyesight so they could see in this natural light, and once they could see again, they were shocked to see the vision of Cell, smirking with confidence over his new and stronger body. By now Cell had completely regained his composure.
Incredible, I feel…stronger, stronger than I've ever felt before in my entire life! This is amazing. I feel as though my strength has possibly doubled…maybe even tripled, but…how could this be? I only experience a physical change when I absorb…"
Cell's face contorted with a sinister grin as his head slowly turned up and looked at a confused Majin Bu, the same Majin Bu created by the magic of the ancient wizard Bibidi…An artificial life form! Now he knew what he had to do.
Cell spread his longer wings, and soared to amazing heights at breakneck speed, paused, then swooped down to Bu like a demonic bat out of the deepest reaches of Hell, and punched Bu in the face in one fluid motion. It was a crushing blow, one Bu really felt, making him hold his face in pain. When Bu looked into his gloves, he saw through his blurred vision something he had not seen in years; his purple blood. He touched his mouth; more blood. His tongue searched his mouth and tasted blood. His bottom lip was bleeding. This green creature actually cut Majin Bu. He looked up from his mitt and saw Cell hovering over Mr. Satan, with his arms crossed.
Cell addressed Bu as he stared at the horrified hero, "Hmm. I remember this little one; he was present at the Game I hosted." He smirked at the sight of Mr. Satan quivering in fear. He sighed as he looked around at the city, and the buildings, at the billboards brandishing the fierce face of Mr. Satan. "I see he has profited quite well from my demise," he smirked, "I assume he must be shocked to see me again." He used his telepathic powers to raise a plaque to eyelevel and read the inscription aloud, "We, the people of the Earth, thank you Mr. Satan for defeating the enemy of Humanity, the monster Cell." Cell's demeanor changed by the time he finished reading. His eyes shifted to the incessantly weeping Mr. Satan, "How dare this weak little piece of garbage even conceive he could defeat a warrior like me. He is nothing like the one who defeated me. I should have killed him while I had the chance, now is the time to strike. But while I'm here, now is when I kill 'the only man to ever defeat Cell.'" He shattered the plaque using only his anger.
"No, leave Satan alone!" Bu said as the blood started to stream out of the corner of his mouth.
"Really? Well…it is apparent that you are no longer in any position to make demands…none the less make due on them."
Bu flew to Cell and tried a flurry of punches again, which Cell deflected with his palms; it was customary for these kinds of ki-powered warriors to fight "fist-to-palm." Cell casually glided back as Bu punched in futile attempts to hit Cell in the face. Finally, in an act to break the monotony of this attack, Cell decided to strike Bu with a sharp elbow to the chin. Bu's head snapped back, like putty; had he been a vertebrate, surely his neck would have snapped, but in this case, it simply stayed. Cell did not stop to observe the distortion of his opponent this time. Cell continued to punch him in the stomach, kicking him in the head, slashing at his eyes, delivering a back-handed punch to the cheek, a shattering kick to Bu's inner knee, elbows to the throat, and at the end of this vicious assault, he strangled Bu. Cell began to laugh as he sank his thumbs into Bu's larynx. Cell's attacks had the strength behind them to actually hurt Bu, and he knew this.
Bu tried a punch, but now he was exhausted. His ki was dangerously low. Now he was stumbling about, trying to attack while keeping his balance.
At this point Cell found it easy to coil his tail around Bu's neck and constrict. He lifted him off his feet, and turned him around; Cell started to punch him in the kidney area and squeezed tighter with every crippling blow; punching each side of Bu's lower back. Bu did not have kidneys but that was still a vulnerable area for him since he had not trained, Cell saw this as apparent and took full advantage of it.
Slowly people began to come out of their hiding places to watch the cruel beating the apprentice of Mr. Satan was taking. They wanted to step in, but felt powerless to do anything. That look of complete and utter helplessness could be seen on everyone's face as Bu's voice echoed throughout the park as he yelped out in pain; every hit could be heard, the sound of Cell's fists grinding into the back of the innocent Bu could be heard throughout the park. Children covered their ears. They started to cry.
Bu reached up to try and get a hold of Cell's tail. "Oh no you don't." Cell said as he grabbed Bu by the wrist, pulled on it, and tore Bu's arm off. With that arm, Cell started to slap Bu in the face. Each slap started to get harder and harder, eventually this disgusting display reached the point of a disturbing beating; Cell was literally beating Bu with his own arm. Bu did not even try to resist; his evil alter ego would have easily absorbed Cell as he held his arm, but that absorbing power was lost. That power Bu lost was still present, only it was used to turn people and things into edible treats. That power! Bu's eyes showed signs of life as he realized he was not as helpless as Cell thought; with his last ounce of strength he raised the whip-like antenna on his head.
"Oh come now, that ridiculous power? Again? Surely you can be more creative than that…probably not." Cell tossed the arm away and reached up, grabbed the transforming appendage and started to squeeze; Bu screamed in pain. Cell released Bu from the constricting power of his tail, and allowed him to fall to the ground. While holding the one armed Bu by the antenna on the top of his head, he hovered over to where he had thrown the arm. He dragged Bu along the way; he was literally unconscious as Cell picked the lifeless arm up. He shoved it into Bu's face, allowing it to become once again merge with its owner.
Cell looked down to the broken Bu, let go of the whip-like appendage and held Bu up by the yellow cape tied in a knot under his chin. "Such a great power, here, broken in my hands, pathetic." He brought Bu up, face to face, and Cell sneered in disgust, "Look at you, a fat, disgusting slob, obsessed with food and play; you make me sick. Such a pathetic warrior, I should kill you. I would be doing you a favor." Bu could not even listen. He may have been unconscious. "Oh, I have plans for you. You're going to help me, you are going to volunteer your immense power," as Cell spoke, his tail began to come up, and over Bu's head. The tip of the tail, which was normally like a hypodermic needle, became a funnel. It lowered over Bu's head. Cell, in a state of what apparently seemed like psychotic glee, kept talking to Bu as his head was inside his tail, "Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, and any of the others who tries to stop me now will be annihilated. After we become one, I will be an ultimate being; finally I will be able to do justice to the brilliance of Dr. Gero. Yes, you fat disgusting slob; you will help me. You will help me conquer the world, and anything beyond!" Cell's eyes were wide open, almost as though he had gone insane from visions of murderous grandeur; a wide smile spread across his face as his tail came over Bu's shoulders. Suddenly the tail struck down and constricted around the unconscious Bu and began to suck in the victim. Cell laughed.
His laugh echoed throughout the park, as did the pumping sound of the absorption process. The citizens of Satan City were horrified by what they were watching, the psychotic Cell laughing as the poor Bu was being taken. Mothers covered the eyes of their children, who were scared, probably traumatized by this scene.
"BUUU!!!" Shouted the helpless Mr. Satan as he witnessed what was happening, tears streamed down his eyes, "NO, BU, PLEASE, TRY AND FIGHT!!!"
The voice of Satan echoed inside of the tail, Bu opened his beady little eyes and realized where he was. He didn't know what would happen if he stayed there, but he wasn't going to wait to find out. Cell noticed the limp body of Bu was starting to show signs of life again, he started squirming; suddenly Bu's body turned into liquid and oozed out of Cell's grip. The ooze fell to the ground, yet did not reshape itself back into the Bu, but instead jumped up and the shapeless mass engulfed Cell, who was not expecting such a turn of events.
The civilians all watched as the tension rose to see what would happen next. Not one person took a breath, they all leaned forward with their mouths gaping open. Satan watched, Bee watched, all watched Cell struggle in the mass of goo.
"He did it…He did it! Ha! Ha-Ha! He did it! HE'S BEATEN CELL!!!" Satan cried. Satan excitedly ran out onto the battlefield to try and congratulate Bu, who was trying to keep Cell restrained. When he reached the blob, a rumbling could be heard. The blob was starting to swell; Satan stopped as the ground began to rumble.
Suddenly there was a huge ki-powered explosion! The impact from the explosion was so great everyone in the park was knocked to the ground and glass in the surrounding area shattered and rained down on the people on the street below.
Mr. Satan went crashing groin first into a tree.
And there stood Cell at the center of a crater with his back hunched, breathing heavily with anger. His eyes shifted from side to side, in a "come-on-I'm-ready" manner; all of the pink pieces that surrounded him quivered with life. Cell looked around; he knew what was going to happen next. Suddenly all of the pieces jumped up and tried to smother Cell again, but missed when he leaped high into the air. There was a bit of activity in the newly formed blob, but since nothing was caught it turned back into Bu.
Bu looked around feverishly trying to find his opponent. He planted his feet firmly into one spot and madly swung about trying to find Cell, keeping an eye on his back at all times.
Bu finally realized just how dangerous Cell could be.
"I suppose," Bu turned his head up in a heavy motion, "you have realized by now that I am a very versatile warrior. Judging by that stream of blood coming from your mouth, it's fairly obvious. Anyway, I would really like to thank you. Before today, I dangerously unaware of just how weak I truly was; of what new strength had come to the earth since my…untimely demise, but now, whether you knew it or not, you've helped make me stronger, and not only physically, but mentally. You have helped me discover the lethal potential I truly have. And once I absorb you, my dear pink blob, I will once again be the most powerful being in the universe."
"What are you talking about? Why are you doing this?"
"That does not concern you, I am here to attend to matters that have stirred within me well before your arrival."
"What?"
"Revenge you idiot, revenge. You are going to help me get revenge on Goku and his son Gohan."
"No, Goku is my friend. I like Gohan, I would never hurt them, not again."
Cell brought his tail up, "You are going to help me whether you want to or not."
"You'll have to kill me before I help you."
Cell smirked, "So be it." With those words Cell disappeared.
Bu turned quickly to try and find the demon. He appeared behind a young lady, unbeknownst to her, but did nothing. He reached out to caress her soft brown hair before he disappeared again. Bu turned to face the direction Cell just stood at, having barely missed him.
Cell appeared behind a mother holding her child. They were shivering with fear as they kept an eye out for Cell. They did not know Cell had appeared behind them, his hand extended slowly over the little boy's head, his fingers spread wide ready to crush the five year-old's skull. Just as his hand came down, he disappeared before Bu faced him.
Huddled in a ball all alone was a little girl. She was crying quietly to herself whispering, "Mommy, where are you? Where are you?" The little girl had her eyes closed tight and could not see Cell. He knelt by the little girl. She trembled with fear, but did not know that the greatest evil was beside her. He held his hand just about an inch away from her face, and lightly brushed his hand over her face and the top of her head. He looked up and teleported away.
High above was Cell; he looked down, pathetic insects. He put his hands up in front of him, touched index fingers and thumbs. "BU!!!! PREPARE TO FEEL THE RAW POWER…"
Satan looked up, "God no."
"OF THE RED RIBBON ARMY…"
Cell targeted Bu in the diamond shape his hands made.
"Everyone, RUN!!!" Satan shouted. Chaos erupted once again as everyone ran. In the chaos, Bu was unmoved, looking into Cell's eyes, wondering what sort of evil could drive a creature to such actions.
Amid the panic was the little girl who had her encounter with Cell. She knelt by her mother, who was lying in a pool of blood, and next to her head was a large rock that was thrown by Cell's explosion. The little girl was crying as Mr. Satan scooped her up into his arms and ran for shelter. She was screaming, crying at the sight of her blood soaked hands and sweater. The dog Bee ran just behind them.
At this point, Bu was alone. "You're insane."
Cell smirked, "Maybe, but if you will not join me, YOU AND THIS ENTIRE GOD DAMN CITY WILL DIE!!!"
Bu braced himself. He knew that if he refused, this entire city would be destroyed, as would he, but Cell would not become more powerful. Goku could still defeat him at this level; he had faith in his friend's strength. But Bu knew that he could not let himself be absorbed by this maniac; that would mean the end of the world.
Cell let his smile disappear, and it was replaced with a sneer of disgust. "KI-KO-HO!!! HAAAAA!!!" With that scream came an explosion of ki in the shape of the diamond made by Cell's hands, the Kikoho, Tenshinhan's most powerful attack used for purposes of evil.
Bu watched this attack charge forward. He grit his teeth, for the first time Bu felt fear. All Bu could do was put up his scrawny little arms to block the attack and hope. When the yellow light rained down onto the pink warrior, everything was engulfed. The intense brightness of the attack made everything solid look black, and all that could be seen was a silhouette of Bu blocking and the ground under him rising up and disintegrating.