"I have to thank you both, Piccolo, Orion. Without power levels, I would have been blindingly searching for who knows how long, but thanks to you both, I have finally found my prey." Cell told us as he jumped down from where he was.

"Ok, so am I alone, or did that not explain anything?!" 17 shouted.

"His name is Cell. He's one of Doctor Gero's creations!" Piccolo explained.

"And he's from the future. He's here to absorb you and your sister." I added.

"Oh, sure! He's from the FUTURE!" 17 exclaimed sarcastically. "Yeah, and I'm a park ranger!"

"That sounds nice." 16 and I commented.

"Can we FOCUS!?" Piccolo and 18 shouted. At that moment, Cell unleashed all of his power, causing an explosion around him. Piccolo and I immediately froze. He was much, much stronger than before. Cell then started walking past us, the two of us still frozen in shock.

"Oh, and you two, just one warning. This time, stay out of my way." Cell said as he continued walking by us.

"...How many?" I began. "How many people did you kill to get that power!?" I shouted as I turned to him.

"...Enough." Cell responded. "They should feel honored. I've made them one with the perfect being."

"Y-You…!" Piccolo stuttered in anger. Cell ignored us and made a b-line for 17, attempting to stab him with his tail. 17 dodged but was grabbed and thrown to the ground. Cell began to laugh as he brought his tail down at 17, but it was blocked by my Saturn's Shield. Piccolo then kicked Cell away as I helped 17 up.

"Oookay! Future bugman… Let's say I, uh...believe that now…" 17 panted. "Where do we go from here?"

"Inside me!"

"Stop it!"

"He's also a walking, talking petri dish of the galaxy's strongest fighters!" Piccolo added.

"No need for flattery, Piccolo. You're already inside me." Cell chuckled.

"Stop it!"

"Scared to ask, but, anything else?" 17 asked.

"If he absorbs you and 18, the world is pretty much screwed 5 times over." I told him.

"Oh please, Orion. At my peak, I'm confident that I can do a lot better than that!"

"Stop it!"

"Ok, then I guess all we have to do is destroy this freak then and everything will be fine." 17 said.

"No 17! You cannot fight him! Cell is much stronger than you! You cannot win!" 16 shouted. "If he reaches his perfect form, he will destroy the entire universe!"

"You finally open that big metal trap of yours and you're telling me to run away?" 17 asked, his expression growing angrier and angrier. "Not a chance! I won't run away from anything!" 17 rushed at Cell, but Cell just elbowed him into the ground. Piccolo then dashed to 17's rescue, but was knocked away with ease. Cell began to make his way to piccolo, who was slowly getting back up.

"Orion! Get 17 and 18 out of here! Protect them!" Piccolo shouted.

"But what about-"

"Just do it!"

"Y-Yeah… don't die." I told him as I dashed over to 17 to help him up.

"...You both should leave." 16 told 17 and 18 once I had helped 17 over to them. "Neither Piccolo nor you two can stand up to this Cell. You both aren't safe here."

"...No. I'm staying." 18 eventually said.

"What... she said." 17 groaned out.

"I believe that is a poor decision." 16 told them.

"Maybe, but it's ours to make." they told him. 16 and I sighed and looked at each other.

"You didn't add either yourself or me on that list. Do you think we have a chance against Cell? I think I can kill him if I go all out."

"I am equal in power to this Cell by my scanner's estimates. Alone, I would not be able to defeat him, but with you, we have a high chance of success." 16 told me.

"Good." I said as I continued to watch Piccolo struggle badly against Cell. "Hey, Piccolo! If you have any techniques left up your sleeve, now's the time!"

"Yeah...I think I have one…" Piccolo told me while bringing his hands together.

"Really? Since when?"

"About now-ish." Piccolo said as he began charging the attack. "LIGHT GRENADE!" He shouted as he fired the quick shot of energy. Once it made contact with Cell, the entire 20 mile area in front of Piccolo was engulfed in a large explosion. After a minute of silence, Cell slowly emerged from the water, completely undamaged.

"Oh…" Piccolo began.

"Shit…" I finished. "Ok, so...any last, last ditch efforts?"

"Just one…" Piccolo said as Cell walked towards him. "NAIL GU-" Cell then punched Piccolo in the face, knocking him out instantly. Cell then picked up Piccolo and placed his hand in front of Piccolo's chest.

"So, any last words, my big, green friend?" Cell asked. Piccolo made some gurgling sounds of pain in response. "Well said. Good game~." Cell then fired an energy beam through Piccolo's chest and tossed him into the water.

"N-No way...that monster...he killed him." 17 stammered in disgust.

"H-He's fine." I somehow said through my fears. "He's fine. He has to be…" I felt my hand twitch in anger. Damn it, 17 and 18 won't want to leave no matter what. I have to kill Cell. kill...can I really-No! Stop it! Cell is a monster! He can't be changed for the better! Talking...isn't an option. Before I could do anything, 17 rushed at Cell. "17, don't!" 17 didn't listen to me and tried to attack Cell, to which he was the one knocked down to the ground instead.

"Y'know, 16 was right, you know. This was a poor decision." Cell said as picked up 17 and prepared to absorb him. Before he did, 16 casually walked up to Cell, tapped his shoulder, and then punched him in the face, sending him back away from 17. Cell wiped some blood away from his mouth and turned to 16 with a growl. "...Got another one in ya?"

"Stop it!"

"Wh-What do you think you're doing, 16!? You aren't actually going to try to fight this thing, right?"

"I am. There is no other choice."

"But that's suicide!"

"I will be fine." 16 said. "Besides, he's here as well." 17 didn't understand until he saw me. I was starting to glow with a golden aura. I screamed and transformed into my Super Saiyan form. Cell's expression went from confident to concerned in an instant. I wasn't holding any of my power back anymore. I won't fail this time. I need to kill Cell. I will end this.

"I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to be joining you 16," I told him as I walked up next to him.

"I would appreciate it." 16 told me.

"Good. I wasn't taking no for an answer." I said as me and 16 flew right at Cell.

"Ok, so I guess we're doing this now!" Cell screamed. We clashed against Cell and began to rapidly throw multiple attacks at Cell. Cell was quickly losing ground, so he used his energy to blow us away. After blowing us away, Cell rushed at 16 and stabbed his tail into his neck.

"Oh! An admirable attempt, really. However, you should have known you never stood a chance against the perfect being." Cell said with a smile. "But don't feel too disappointed, for you shall now become a part of me!" However, when Cell tried to absorb 16's life energy, nothing happened. Cell tried and tried, but it just didn't work. "Gah, what the hell!? What are you made of? Pure METAL?"

"Affirmative. I am Android 16." 16 answered as he yanked out Cell's tail.

"Oh…" Cell said. "...Errors have been made." 16 then flew high into the air with Cell's tail in hand and threw him down to the ground. 16 then landed on Cell's tail and grabbed it again. "N-Now I know what you're thinking…!" Cell began to say. "'Should I rip off his tail?' And the answer might surprise-" Cell didn't get to finish as 16 forcibly ripped his tail off, causing Cell to scream in agony.

"...I was not ready for today." 17 said in the background.

"I don't think any of us were." 18 added.

"With your tail gone, now you cannot absorb 17 and 18." 16 said as Cell got back up.

"That's where you're wrong. I have Piccolo's DNA in me, so I can easily regenerate something as minor as my tail." Cell said as he regenerated said tail.

"Then our next attempt will have to be on your head!" I shouted as I appeared in front of Cell using my Instant Transmission and punched him in the face. I continued to barrage the bugman with attacks, repeatedly attacking him with my Jupiter Breaker to make my punches break through his guard. After multiple punches to his face, I punched his gut as hard as I could and grabbed his arm to throw him at 16. 16 aimed his arm towards us and shot his arm out as a rocket fist, which hit Cell and knocked him back to me so that I could grab him again and slam him into the ground, the impact creating a deep hole. 16 and I got to the edge of the hole and began charging our attacks.

"Hagh, what is HAPPENING right now!? Where the fuck am I?!" Cell yelled from within the hole as our attacks finished charging and started to create a powerful glow. "Wait a minute, now I see a light…"

"Walk towards it!" I shouted. "SUPER GEMINI KAMEHAMEHA!"

"HELL'S FLASH!" 16 also shouted as we both fired our attacks at Cell, the two energy blasts creating a giant pillar of energy in front of us from the hole. Our energy was so great that it broke out of the ground around us in multiple beams of light.

"Oh my god...those two are actually that strong!?" 18 shouted.

"I bet you're really happy that Orion guy didn't go all out against you now…" 17 joked.

"Why are you still here?!" 16 and I shouted at the two androids.

"What's there to worry about? You both just took care of Cell, I'd say." 18 said. I then used Instant Transmission to teleport behind 17 and fired a quick Galactic Photon Ray into the ground, causing an explosion that knocked Cell out of hiding. I then dashed at him and stabbed him through the chest with my Sword of Mars before firing him off it with another blast.

"Cells isn't going to go down without a fight!" I shouted. "You both have your lives ahead of you! I will NOT let Cell kill you both!" I shouted. "I refuse to fail this time! Even if I hate killing, I will do what has to be done here!" I said as I began to fire a multitude of blasts at Cell to hold him back away from us.

"Orion is right!" 16 shouted. "If we fail to stop Cell and he absorbs you two, Cell will destroy everything! I cannot allow him to destroy the people and world I have grown to love! You both need to go!"

"Absolutely not! I am not running away!" 17 shouted. "I'm stronger than I ever was! I'm going to live life how I want to, not how anyone else tells me too!"

"Oh for the love of- Let go of your pride!" I shouted. "This isn't a matter of being told what to do! It's a matter of living or not!"

"If I'm going to die, I'm going to die fighting!" 17 shouted back.

"Good answer, 17! And die here you shall!" Cell shouted as he jumped out of my rapid blast attack and got up high in the air. "I'm going to absorb you whether you like it or not! SOLAR FLARE!" A blinding light shot out of him and blinded each of us. The searing pain in my eye prevented me from seeing him, but I could still sense him.

"Don't think just because you took my eyesight means you've stopped me!" I shouted as I fired multiple blasts at Cell despite the pain I was in from being blinded.

"You've been a pain in my side for long enough!" Cell shouted as I then felt a large energy blast knock me away from where I was. Damn it! How the hell did he get a blast that strong that fast!? Shit, he has my ki control and can charge and use ki like me! By the time I got up, I was able to see again, but what I saw was horrifying. Cell had gotten 17 and had absorbed him. We all could do nothing as Cell's body began to glow and change right in front of us. After a few seconds, Cell was in his Semi-Perfect form. Cell looked at his body before his eyes slowly moved onto 18.

"...Come with me if you want to live!" 16 said as he turned around and grabbed 18's arm and began to run without even waiting for a response. Cell quickly got in front of them with incredible speed. I began to shake a little. He's...He's faster than me...and stronger...he's… NO! I can still beat him. I just need to outplay him. As Cell got in 16's way, 16 quickly threw a punch at Cell, but Cell didn't even flinch when the attack landed. In response, Cell just smiled and fired a simple 'weak' blast at 16, tearing a chunk of his head along with it. 18 quickly moved her hand to her chest in desperation.

"Stay back! Come any closer and I'll self-destruct!" 18 shouted. That's right, she and 17 had bombs put inside them.

"Don't bother. It'll take you a second or two to power up the blast to self-destruct, which is more than enough time that I need to close the distance between us." Cell said.

"Then maybe you'll settle for me!" I shouted as I teleported in front of Cell and kicked him away again. Being caught off guard by me, he was sent back quite a bit. I quickly turned around to 18 with a desperate and apologetic face. "I'm sorry I couldn't save 17, but I'll do everything to buy you time or kill Cell, whichever comes first! Now do me a favor and leave! I don't really care what you do after that at this point!" I shouted before turning back to Cell and flying straight at him. Cell had just gotten up, but was again greeted by a flurry of attacks. I was using everything I had. Jupiter Breaker, my Sword of Mars, everything I had to try to put Cell down, but nothing I was doing was leaving noticeable damage. I punched Cell again, pushing him back as I panted heavily.

"Listen, Orion, I appreciate the effort, but this is starting to get old." Cell told me as he popped his neck, as if all my attacks were just making him stiff. "I have more important things to do, so here's the deal. I want you to hit me as hard as you can. And I don't mean half as hard or some other arbitrary percentage. I want you to hit me as hard as you can."

"And if I don't?"

"Well, I guess it's true that you'll never be able to protect anyone you care about from dying." I immediately reacted to that statement with a swift kick to the face, but I barely even nudged his head. "See, like I said… you'll never be able to protect anyone like that." Cell then punched me several feet away, with me crashing through multiple hills and trees before stopping. Cell made his way back towards me with a cocky grin. "Seriously Orion, why do you even try? You've never been able to make a difference before, so why did you think you could change anything now? You're still the same weakling you've always been."

"Sh-Shut up!" I shouted back as I slowly got back up.

"No, seriously, what have you done that makes you think that you could stand up to me?" Cell asked. "You couldn't save Goku back when Raditz first showed up, and you couldn't save everyone who died during the Saiyan invasion. Hell, you couldn't even save 17, so what makes you think that you can save anyone now?"

"Because I have too!" I shouted back. "I don't care what happens to me! Toture me! Break me! Kill me! I'll take it all! I refuse to let anyone die in front of me when I could have done something! Not anymore! That's the only reason why I'm even here in this world! I will not fail now! I can't afford to!"

"Now there's the spirit! So how about it? The offer is still up. You. Me. Hard as you can. Are we clear?" I rubbed some blood off my lip as I slowly nodded.

"Crystal!" I muttered as I brought two energy orbs together and brought them to my side. "Gemini...Ka...me…"

"Really? A Gemini Kamehameha?" Cell asked. "That is a powerful attack, especially with that spiral ki of yours, but you couldn't have come up with something more original?"

"Oh, you just wait…!" I told the bugman. "In a few moments...all you'll be feeling… is OBLIVION!"

"That or disappointment. And considering your track record, I think we both know which side that coin is going to land on."

"Raarrgh…!" I growled as I continued to charge my attack. Don't let him get to you, Orion. He still hasn't figured out what you're doing. You can easily kill him with this. You just need to keep him in the dark for long enough. I continued to charge all of my energy into the attack, energy particles now floating off the ground like stars and began spinning around me in a spiral. I put all of my energy into this attack, so much so that my Super Saiyan form would have dissipated if I hadn't already mastered how to hold the form without putting stress on my body or draining energy.

As soon as I felt like I had put enough energy into the attack, I shot my hands out in front of me. "HAAAAAAA!" The beam burst out of my palms and straight at Cell, who was still smiling and ready to take the blast head on. That's when I finally surprised him by directing the blast to move up right before it hit him, having it fly straight up into the air.

"You...missed me…?" Cell asked. "How did you miss me!? It was like...a foot in front of me! How did you think-" Cell immediately shut up as soon as he looked up to where the blast went. I smiled widely as I brought my open hands up above my head in an extremely familiar pose. I never did learn how to use the spirit bomb, but I took it's concept of gathering energy from other living things and implemented it into this move.

That sword I shot up into the air earlier before fighting with 17 and 18 was when it started. By shooting out the swords into the air, I allowed it to stay in the air and passively charge energy from the living things around me. It's been gathering energy this entire time from then till now. The energy from my sword that was originally the size of my arm was now the size of an island. Sure, this move might not be able to charge as fast as the spirit bomb since it's a passive charge, but as a last insurance move, it's perfect, especially after I poured all my remaining energy into it by letting it absorb that Gemini Kamehameha. I came up with this move back on King Kai's planet, but it took until weeks before I got sick to perfect it. Cell might have now noticed it, but there was nothing he could do now.

"Too late." I told him as I swung my hands down quickly. "METEOR CRASH!" The large ball of energy shrank down into a tiny orb and shot down at Cell like lightning-no, it was much faster than lightning. It was almost undetectable, the clouds parting away from it in an instant as it shot down towards the earth. Cell could barely react as the beam made contact, immediately engulfing the entire island in a massive explosion, the energy creating a massive pillar of light that was taller than anything I had ever seen. After the explosion dissipated, rubble began to fall all around me as I looked at the massive crater that was left behind. The crater was so deep that the ocean underneath the island was spilling out of some sections of it. I smiled in relief at the sight. "It's done." I said as I turned around and began walking away.

"Not quite." I stopped and quickly turned around, only to be blasted away. I moved my head in the direction of the shot to see Cell, well...half of him. 60% of him, his entire left side and most of his tail and torso, was gone. He was on his remaining knee and had shot the blast at me with his right arm.

"No…!" I stuttered.

"I'm afraid so, Orion." Cell growled in a furious voice as he quickly charged his energy and regenerated all of the body parts that were gone. "I was surprised. That attack was by far the strongest thing I have ever seen. It would have killed me if I hadn't luckily moved partially out of the way. I was lucky that the parts of me that weren't hit dead on survived somehow." I didn't let him continue as I gathered what little energy I had left and shot it out at him, but he just walked through it like it was nothing. "Orion, you know you don't have any energy left after that attack, so why are you even trying?" Cell asked as he slapped me several yards away. I struggled to get up, but I was then hoisted up by my collar by Cell as he put his hand in front of my face.

"Now Orion, let me give you some advice. For the future." He told me with a smile that turned into a serious grimace. "Next time, how about you act a bit more quickly and use your last ditch effort a little sooner, like when 17 was still alive. Then maybe you would've been able to save someone." Right after saying that, Cell fired his energy blast right in my face. The blast engulfed me and sent me flying away. I felt my body hit the ground with a heavy thud as my Super Saiyan form faded away. Cell's words rang out constantly in my mind as I slowly blacked out.