Prolog:
"KAAAAAMEEEEHHAAAAMEEEEHHHAAAAAAA!"
The giant ball of blue and white energy shot forth and collided with another ball of blue and white energy.
"Just give it up kid, admit your weakness! You'll never defeat me!" shouted a creature named Cell, struggling to be heard over the roar of the battle. The boy he was addressing, though, never heard the monster's yell, for he was engaged in another battle—a mental battle, which was taking place within his own head.
'I don't have enough energy to stop him. I need more, but I....I don't know what to do. Dad! Please help me....why....why didn't I listen to you?'
Cell was gaining the upper hand—the battle was now turning in favor for the monster. AS he slowly started to over take the boys blast. He knew victory was close... and so he pushed harder....harder…
'Gohan!'
'D—Dad!?!' The boy shifted his eyes, scanning the heavens above for the voice he knew only too well.
'Yes, Gohan.'
'Dad…' He faltered for words, 'I don't have enough energy to beat him…I…I don't know what to do…'
'Do you want my sacrifice to be in vain?'
'No!' he shouted back, horrified.
'Do you want everyone on this planet to die?'
'NO!' Of course he didn't, and yet, what was holding him back? 'But…'
'Then use everything you have, all the power within you, and kill Cell! Otherwise everyone will die, and countless billions and billions of others in the universe will die too—if you do not kill him now.'
There was a coldness in Goku's voice as he talked to his son—a way in which Gohan had never heard him talk before. The words Goku spoke were burning in Gohan's mind like red-hot fire brands, and pictures of everyone dead flashed through his mind. Chichi, Yamcha, Krillin...all of them dead, killed by a sneering, laughing Cell...He was laughing as he killed each and every one of them...
SNAP
Cell's laughing died away as he started to notice Gohan's power rising, slowly at first, but then faster. "It's time to end this, little boy. Now die!!" Cell gave it all he had with a mighty yell, very nearly overtaking Gohan's blast.
"No!" he heard the boy yell, deep rage resonating out across the plain.
"Wh—What?"
"No—I can't...No, I won't lose to you!"
Gohan's eyes burst open, his blue irises almost whited out, taking the visions of death away from him, with his anger and power soaring now even higher.
'Gohan, do it now!'
"Hhhhaaaaaaaa—AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" As his yell rose, so did the intensity of the blast, fueled by his fury. He pushed with every thing he had despit the immense pain eminating from his broken left arm. The cuts and wounds were bleeding and mixing with sweat and dirt as he pushed his power and body to its max.
The tides had turned, and now it was the monster who was losing. He was losing to a kid…He was losing to a KID!! Cell, this immaculately perfect creature, was losing to this snot-nosed brat standing before him. How could this be?
These were merely a few of the thoughts running through his mind as he beheld the child's power. Cell was giving his all, pushing everything, and yet this 11-year-old boy's power simply kept growing, with no sign of stopping.
'How can this be?'
Gohan was pushing himself to his utmost limit…He didn't care if he died, so long as Cell was killed as well.
He gave one last push, channeling all the anger and power he had left into his blast. Even though white-hot pain ripped through every muscle and joint that moved, he slowly began to walk forward, towards the monster—ever so slowly bridging the gap between them.
The might and passion from the blast was all too much for Cell, though, and he was overtaken by it. But before he died, he saw all the hate and anger and pain in the boy's pale blue eyes that was caused by him—that is when he realized that he had made a grave mistake. In his quest to find out this power and then snuff out the kid he had greatly under estimated him.
Time slowed down for Cell making his death seem like an eternity. As he died he realized that he was his own downfall. He let out a horrible scream from the pain from the blast as he was being disintegrated. Then he was gone—and not even one atom was left of him to regenerate from.
"That was it…It's finally over," was the last thing said by Gohan before any strength he had left fled him, and he collapsed and hit the ground from fatigue.
Right before he slipped unconscious into a dreamless sleep, a girl appeared in his mind. He tried to make out her face but couldn't see through the shadows that covered it. She simply said, "Thank you…" and then disappeared as he fell into darkness.
That was seven years ago…