Amidst the rubble of the Capsule Corporation and the surrounding structures, a new hero had emerged.

Gohanma held out a lone fist, cracking his knuckles audibly. He maintained the trademark Saotome smile, and soon powered up to Super-Saiyajin. The mutated Cell stood opposite him, head leaning forward, with its intense eyes focused just below the brow of the tan uni-pod that extended from his forehead. Its knobbed tail slowly waved back and forth in the air. Meanwhile, Videl was hurriedly shaking Akane, trying to get her awake.

"Come on, dammit! I can't believe you're gonna miss this!" She gently slapped Akane's face rapidly. Her eyes fluttered. "Yeah that's it, come back Akane!"

"Wha-?" Akane lifted her head, looking around.

"About time, Akane! Take a peek over there," she nodded in the direction of the two combatants. Akane's eyes opened wide.

"What happened to Trunkhan, I mean, who the heck is that!?" She sat up on her own.

"No, it can't be…" The shocking thought hit her right between the eyes.

"Yup, guess what you get when you add Gohan and Ranma together?" Videl smiled.

"That?"

"Gohanma. But yes, that really hot guy over there."

Cell and Gohanma launched at one another. Cell struck out in a flurry of punches, with each being blocked by the insanely fast merged warrior. The pair flew up into the air, continuing to trade attacks. Dodging a swipe at his head, Gohanma landed a solid blow just below Cell's neck, sending him back a few feet. It smiled, a weird gap appearing in the spherical protrusion of its mouth.

"NNNNnnnnneeaaaahhhhh…." It rasped. Gohanma smirked, then roundhoused the side of Cell's head, sending him crashing into the ground. It stretched out its claws, digging furrows into the dirt to stop its slide across the soil. Growling, Cell pounded his fists into the ground and leaped back into the air.

"Wow…" Akane murmured, watching the two go at it.

Gohanma caught Cell under the chin with the palm of his right hand. As Cell reeled backward, he spun mid-air and lashed out with his left elbow. It hit Cell in the gut, knocking him backward again. Cell rushed forward, bringing his tail up between the Super Saiyajin's legs. Gohanma easily caught it, thus sparing what could have been a potentially damaging attack. However, with his guard down, Cell head-butted him hard. Using his fingered foot, Cell grabbed Gohanma roughly by the neck and shook him like a rag doll. Grunting with pain, he managed to latch both hands onto Cell's ankle. Cell began to bat Gohanma's head back and forth with the deformed nub at the end of his tail.

Tossing his opponent into the air, Cell hammered Gohanma toward the ground with a double-fisted blow. Immediately before impact, Cell appeared beneath him, and delivered a sharp elbow at the base of his spine, sending the merged combatant into the air again. Cell stopped his ascent with an open palm to the face, and then wrapped his knobby tail around Gohanma's waist. The young warrior coughed several times, a stream of blood running from the corner of his mouth, down his chin, and ultimately forming a dark red stain on his shirt. He struggled to open an eye, and made a few weak strikes at Cell's head and torso before Cell decided to hold him out at arm's length. Cell backhanded him, and commenced beating either side of his face in a rhythmic pattern. Right. Left. Right. Left.

Gritting his teeth, Gohanma began to form a ball of energy in his right hand, which he held behind his back. As soon as it grew to near to the size of a basketball, he raised it over his head, ready to blow away Cell's head. Cell's vision focused on the energy attack, and easily batted it away with a quick, downward smack. The ball flew downward in a descending arc, and stuck a water mane. A large jet burst straight into the air, raining the cool water onto the combatants. Gohanma suddenly became female; a side effect Gohan had not considered when he had decided to perform Mergence with Ranma.

"Ah… crap…" she cursed. Cell had failed to notice the change, since Gohanma was in Super-Saiyajin form, and her hair color did not become red. Cell raised his deformed fist to strike the now female Gohanma yet again, when an odd whizzing sound filled the air. Cell's head jerked back and forth, searching for its source. Gohanma's ears perked up, and she noticed a shiny object out of the corner of her eye. Realizing what it was, she arched her back as far as she physically could. Trunk's sword tumbled end over end in the air, slicing completely through Cell's tail. Nearby, Trunks collapsed to the ground from this expenditure of energy.

"Graaaaaah!!" Cell bellowed, grasping the stub of his tail, which pumped blue blood. The part that held Gohanma fell away, and writhed like a decapitated snake all the way to the ground. An idea occurred to Cell. He closed his eyes and clenched his fists. With an audible spurt, a new, but shorter tail formed. Cell waved it around experimentally, happy to have the extremity back. Gohanma hovered a few feet from the villain, breathing hard. Suddenly, Cell froze, his eyes widening as he beheld Gohanma. Apparently, Trunks' sword had cut into Gohanma's shirt in addition to cleaving Cell's tail in half. Cell's eyes fixated on Gohanma's bared right breast, which hung openly from her shirt.

"Huh…?" Gohanma noticed the exposed breast, and remained puzzled as to why Cell was staring so intensely at it. She quickly stuck it back in the remainder of her shirt. Cell harrumphed in disappointment.

"Wait a second!" Videl exclaimed. "Akane, give me your panties!" She said, turning to the other.

"WHAT!?!" Akane replied in disbelief.

"No time to explain, just give them to me, now!" Akane jumped into some nearby foliage and complied with Videl's strange request. Exiting the bushes, she firmly held her skirt down with one hand, and held her blue underwear outstretched in the other.

"I still don't understand the point of this-" Videl interrupted her friend as she powered up. The swirl of Videl's ki energy began to raise Akane's skirt into the air, and she struggled to prevent her nether regions from becoming visible, taking on a Marilyn Monroe-like pose.

"Gohanma! Catch!" Videl balled up the underwear and heaved it at the female warrior.

"Wha-?" She turned to the call of Videl's voice, and the panties flapped to a landing on her face. "EEEEYAAAAAGHH!!" She squealed, arms flailing around. Cell's attention focused to the blue underwear on his opponent's face.

"Pa….pa…panteeeeess!" Cell murmured, a perverted gleam in his eye. Gohanma's head snapped to face Cell. Her eyes peered out through the leg holes of Akane's underwear.

"So that's it!" She grabbed the panties from her face and held them out toward Cell. "You want these, huh?" Cell nodded vigorously, his fists clenched under his chin. "Go get 'em!" She tossed them like a Frisbee. Cell took the bait and dived for them. Gohanma cupped her hands at her side and began to power up.

"What's he doing to my poor undies!?" Akane demanded.

"KA….ME…"

"Uh oh…" Videl murmured.

"HA…ME…" a bluish ball flared in Gohanma's grasp.

"Get down!" Videl took Akane by the shoulders, and both got behind a block of rubble.

"S-s-silky darlingsssss!" Cell grabbed the panties.

"HAAAAAA!!!!!" The blue beam shot out, vaporizing the monster and his precious underwear. Gohanma's arms fell to her sides and she drifted to the ground. She sat back on her haunches, gasping for air. A green beam enveloped her, shooting into the sky. The light dissipated, and Gohan and a female Ranma lay side by side, continuing to pant.

"We… did it…" Gohan said between breaths.

"Yeah…" Ranma replied. A small form bounced across the ground, a large sack slung across its shoulder.

"Whatta haul! Whatta haul!" Happosai cheered. Ranma sat up and smacked him.

"This was all your fault, old man!" She grunted.

"What do you mean?!"

"So he was the imperfection in Cell!" Gohan blurted out.

"I have no idea what you guys are talking about, I just got here," Happosai eyed Akane's skirt. "Wahoo!" He grabbed it from behind and flung it upward. Catching a glance at her bare posterior, he froze, becoming stone. The others saw from the front, and Gohan fell over with a sudden nosebleed.

"Goin' commando, eh, Akane?" Ranma smirked.

"N-n-o panties…" Happosai choked. Infuriated, Akane backed up, and punted Happosai into the air. He soared at an incredible speed, crash-landing several blocks away.

"PERVERT!!!" Akane yelled after him.