"My, my, my." The Grand Kai said watching the images on the mirror. "This is impressive indeed."
"I don't... believe it." King Kai stuttered as he saw what was happening. "I'd... always thought that... the second form was... just myth."
"Yes, well, you weren't around the last time it happened." the Grand Kai said. "Hadn't been born yet, you know. It was a long time ago, and you're, what, only a hundred thousand?"
"Hundred thousand and six." he corrected.
"Right, hundred thousand and six. It's been millions of years since I've seen this. And that was right here on my world, just after I got here in fact. I think... we shall see how things go from here..." he said, just as Gohan launched his first attack.
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Namek, Lookout:
Azura had watched Gohan's transformation with a mix of awe and curiosity. She had felt the powers awakening, the returning of the Legacy... and then it had faded. That boost, that rush of energy, mixed with Gohan's own innate power, had triggered something different to occur. Namek's Guardian was truly in awe of this child now. Even with the Guardian Powers once again dormant, his power had grown and exceeded that of Cell's.
As far as she could remember, in all the millions of years that she had lived, none living had ever transcended beyond Super Sai-jin. There had been the one in the afterlife, nearly five million years before, but that was, as far as she could recall, it. Gohan had unlocked power that was far more elusive and far more potent than Super Sai-jin.
She understood, now, why she hadn't been able to reveal Gohan's full power on Namek. Laying dormant within him had been more power than she could have imagined then. And now, hiding in the same place this power had once hidden, were the sleeping powers of the Guardian Sai-jin. She had never witnessed a partial awakening of them before, or an awakening of them within one who was already a Super Sai-jin. She had no idea what this might mean later, if the powers ever did truly awaken.
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Cell Games:
Cell hunched over and began to gather his energy but stopped a second later as Gohan suddenly appeared right in front of him. His eyes widened again but before he could do anything the young Super Sai-jin had knocked him into the sky. Gohan then appeared above him and slammed his elbow into his stomach knocking him back down again. Appearing below him, he snapped out a kick to his back knocking him up once. The again he was above him and a punch to the face knocked Cell back into the ground.
This time Gohan's assualt wasn't over as golden energy sparked to life in his hands. A second later the energy was raining down on the fallen Cell. The explosions as they impacted filled the sky with dust and shook the ground for hundreds of miles. After a moment the barrage of blasts stopped and the child cupped his hands at his side, blue light flaring to life between them. "Kamehameha!" he cried, thrusting his arm down.
The blue beam of Ki surged down into the dust cloud and slammed into its target before swelling massively and then exploding. The Z Fighters below were blown over by the force of the explosion and shakily got to their feet as the after effects subsided. "There's no way he survived that!" Krillin said smiling.
"Tsk, use your brain." Vegeta said brushing dust off his shoulders. "Gohan barely put a fraction of his strength into that. It wasn't meant to kill him."
"He's right." Tien said. "I can feel Cell's energy going up again."
Suddenly the dust clouds were blasted apart as Cell let out a rush of energy, his damaged body reforming the missing parts. Panting he looked back up to Gohan, both anger and fear in his eyes. Once again the half Sai-jin vanished only to appear in front of the Bio-droid slamming his knee into the other's face and driving him backward again.
The half Sai-jin landed only a foot away looking up at Cell. Then the Bio-droid's look of fear suddenly vanished and a smirk replaced it. His tail shot out for the boy's neck. However, the child movevd in and slammed his elbow into Cell's stomach knocking the powerful warrior back again.
Gohan moved after him and slammed a foot into his gut, spun, and kicked him in the abdomen with the other foot knocking him over onto his back. He then flipped in the air and dropped down driving both feet into his stomach. Back flipping off and landing on the ground again he watched as Cell covered his mouth, his body pulsing again as it had before.
"N-no way." Vegeta said in disbelief as he felt Cell's power fluctuating. "He's... going to revert back again!"
Sure enough, a second later, Cell rolled over onto his hands and knees and 17's head emerged from his mouth. Soon followed by the rest of him. And then his body began to morph and shift as it returned to it's Imperfect state. Gohan didn't even wait this time, as soon as Cell was done puking up the cyborg he shot in and kicked him in the side of the head knocking him even further from the others.
"I've got him!" Sango called dashing out and grabbing the unconcious 17 and pulling him back to safety.
"Out of the way!" Vegeta ordered turning toward the two and pointing an arm at 17, blue energy sparking to life in front of his palm. "The other one may have sided with us but that one didn't!"
"So what?" Sango demanded, glaring up at him.
"You weren't here..."
"What's it matter now, anyway? You're all stronger than him by now." she returned.
"Let him be, Vegeta." Gohan said from where he still stood. His voice was low, barely even audible to the Humans or two Tanarians. But Vegeta and Piccolo both heard the edge to it, and the Sai-jin prince hesitated. Finally the energy vanished and he lowered his arm.
Gohan started his walk toward Cell again, his pace slow and calm. "I've had enough of this. It's time you paid for what you've done." he said, his eyes narrowing.
"No! I wont lose to you!" Cell cried shooting up into the air. "I will destroy this planet! I will wipe it out and everything on it!"
"Try it."
Cell smirked as best he could with his beak of a mouth. "You forget, boy, I'm made of the cells of the greatest fighters in the galaxy. I know all that they know. Allow me to introdcue you to an attack I've just devised." His legs spread out as he raised his arms above his head. "I call it the Wakusei Spirit Bomb! Now, planet, surrender your energy to me!"
"Ugh, no, it can't be!" Piccolo cried in disbelief. "Gohan, you have to stop him!"
Gohan said and did nothing as he watched Cell. The air around the Bio-droid was shimmering slightly, blue, green, and red energy flowing up into the sky above him. It didn't take long for the coalescing energy to start to take form, the attack growing steadily and steadily stronger. "The Spirit Bomb as it was known by Goku is not a technique I could use." Cell said, looking down at them.
"But thanks to some knowledge I gained from absorbing Sakura's DNA, namely her Wakusei Reikon Kougeki technique, I can create my own version of the two that is quite effective!"
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Otherworld, Grand Kai's World, Waiting Chamber:
"No..." Sakura said softly as she watched the attack forming. "Come on Gohan, don't just stand there!"
"Gohan..." Appla said softly as the image changed to show his face. "He's been completely consumed by his anger..."
Goku looked around. "Damn it, where's King Kai!?" Spying a set of doors at the other end of the hall he turned from the mirror and made his way toward them. The others watched him for a moment and then quickly followed after him. A second later they pushed the door open and stepped into the large chamber of the Grand Kai.
"Huh?" King Kai said, blinking, as he looked at the others. "Goku? You guys can't just come charging in here, this is the Grand Kai's main chamber!"
"I need to talk to Gohan!" Goku demanded, more than said. The short Kai blinked, he wasn't used to Goku being quite this forceful.
"Then speak." The Grand Kai said. "If you wish to talk to someone, all you must do while in this room is speak. They will hear your voice and theirs will come here for us to hear as well."
Goku nodded. "Gohan. Can you hear me?" he asked softly.
"Father?!" came the shocked reply.
"Listen to me Gohan, you have to stop him, now. Before he can fully charge his attack."
"I can stop anything he can throw at me."
It was Bardock that spoke next. "Don't let your power go to your head, Gohan. Cell did, and look at what's happened to him."
Trunks picked up from there. "This isn't like you Gohan, you fight to protect people, always have. You can end it all now."
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Cell Games:
The Z Fighters watched as Gohan, apparently, talked to himself. "No, he has to pay."
-Gohan...- It was Appla's voice now. -Look at yourself for a moment. Look real good. Do you recognize yourself right now, the way you're acting? I don't. This isn't you, Gohan. Not to speak bad about my prince but, you're acting more like Vegeta than yourself. More like...-
-Like Frieza.- came Sakura's voice. Her words drifted through his mind as he remembered the battle with Frieza. And as he did, he compared it to his fight with Cell. Sure, the motives were different but... the actions...
His gaze softened visably, the anger in his eyes fading away considerably and his features relaxing. As it faded his senses began to return to him. "I... I didn't..."
-It's ok, Gohan.- Goku said. -When I first transformed on Namek it took everything I had to keep the anger from taking over. It wasn't until I knew you were alive again that it left enough for me to think 100 clearly.-
-Gohan, stop him, before he's finished.- Trunks said. -Don't give him the chance to make all of this for nothing.-
Gohan nodded. "Right. I won't. And... thank-you." Shifting positions he cupped his hands at his side, blue energy sparking to life between his palms. "Kaaaaaaaameeeeeeee... haaaaaaaameeeeeeee... haaaaaaaa!" The blue beam of energy surged up at Cell but the creature simply grinned. Suddenly the wave of Ki, which had been going directly toward Cell, changed course for the forming energy.
"What!?" Gohan cried in shock. As the Ki hit the forming energy it merged with it, adding to the power of Cell's attack. The large ball of energy flashed once and then solidified as it finished forming. A giant, swirling, pulsing ball of green, blue, and red Ki. And with a cry Cell brought his arms down and the attack began it's descent.
Cell had managed to gather up quite a lot of energy from the planet around him. And from Gohan's one attack. The boy could feel the power, it was greater than he was. His grandfather had been right. He'd let the power he had now go to his head, just as Cell had done, and now that action was going to come back and bite him in the ass. This attack was enough to kill him, and take the Earth out with it.
With the time-space tears gone thanks to the power of his transformation... if Cell survived he'd be able to get to other worlds. And he'd be the strongest one out there too, no one would be left to stand against him. Gohan shook his head as he watched the large attack nearing slowly.
/No, I wont let everything they've done be for nothing. I wont let grandma's sacrifice be for nothing./ he thought. /But... how do I stop it? He could probably just absorb another Kamehamea into it again, and then I'll be in even worse shape. I need something he can't... That's IT! It's not as stable of an attack so it'll be harder for him to channel it's energy into his attack!/
Grinning, Gohan raised his arms above his head and crossed his palms. Orange-gold energy flared to life before his hands, pulsing and growing as he channeled more power into it. "Maaaaaaasennnnnnnnkooooooo..." he called, the attack from Cell drawing closer and closer. The attack was nearly on him, only a few yards up now. Quickly he brought his arms down from above his head and thrust them out and up toward the attack. "Haaaaaaaaa!" he cried, the energy before his hands erupting into a stream of power and surging toward its target.
The half Sai-jin felt a slight tug on his beam just before it hit Cell's energy bomb. He'd been right, the Bio-droid was attempting to use what he'd learned from Sakura to channel the Masenko into his attack. But the Masenko's energy pattern was far to unstable for him to manipulate it as easily as he had the Kamehameha.
The energy bomb was absorbing a very small portion of the attack but not enough to matter in the slightest. Gohan grinned and continued focusing more of his power into the beam. It was still too weak to hold off the bomb. But second by second it's power climbed and climbed, and then the two attacks stalled one another.
"No, you wont be stopping me child!" Cell called, thrusting his arms down and adding his own strength to the force of the attack's descent. The added power began pushing it back down against the Masenko and it started nearing the Earth once more.
"We have to help somehow..." Hotaru said swallowing. The backwash of power from the clash of the attacks was making it hard for her to stand. Yamcha was holding on to her to stop from being blown away and Krillin was standing behind her, using her as a wind breaker.
Vegeta glanced over to her and then smirked. "The Tanarian has a point. Why are we just standing here?" He glanced over to Piccolo. "Even you're stronger than Cell now."
Piccolo turned his head and spat, a smirk forming. "Damn right. Let's go!" There was a flash of green around him, the ground beneath his feet cracked, and then he was off. A second later Vegeta followed after him in a burst of gold. And then, silver energy trailing behind her, Hotaru followed them. With Hotaru's sudden depature Yamcha, Krillin, and the still unconcious 18 were blown backward over a hundred yards to where the others had already retreated.
Cell saw the three streaks of light coming and immediately realized the danger. In his current state, thanks to the damage this child had done, all three of them were stronger than him, and capable of destroying him. Keeping one hand down toward the Wakusei Spirit Bomb he pointed the other toward the three nearing warriors and fired a volley of energy blasts. They were all easily deflected or dodged however.
And then all three zipped passed and above him. "Time for you to die Cell!" Vegeta called down.
Hotaru's voice accompained Vegeta's. "It's payback time Cell!"
"Good riddance!" Piccolo called.
Together the three of them pulled their arms back, orange energy flaring around Hotaru's hands, gold around Vegeta's, and green around Piccolo's. And then they thrust their arms down firing off powerful streams of energy. Cell's eyes widened as he tried to think of a way to escape, and then he heard a loud cry from below. Looking down again he saw Gohan's attack swell up in size as more energy was forced along it. And then his own attack was coming back at him.
"NO!" He cried, his head turning back and forth between the attacks. "NO! This can't BEEEE!" And then all the attacks slammed into him. His variation on the Spirit Bomb swelled and then exploded savagely blinding everyone for a moment. And as the glare faded they could feel it. Cell's Ki was finally and completely gone. The battle was over.