Author's note: Here is the update I promised, and I promise there will be some action in this chapter. I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 8: King of Games graces the Cell Games part 1
As the five of them flew, they ran into Yamcha and Tien, both of whom joined them. The Cell Games arena came into view, and Yugi could see what was presumably Cell, a camera crew and the World Martial Arts Champion Hercule. Yugi only recognized him as such because of an announcement relayed by Bulma, and thought he must have been very powerful to volunteer to take on Cell. Looking at him now, words could not describe how let down Yugi was. The man possessed no power. The seven of them landed near the arena, and Yugi got to meet Android 16 for the first time.
Fortunately for Yugi, staying in his Super Saiyan form probably stopped anyone from identifying him as the King of Games. He caught the cameraman getting a shot of him, but thankfully there was no rush to tell the reporter on the scene that there was a celebrity among the strangers. Yugi didn't know what to feel with regard to Hercule's constant boasts that he would bring Cell down: he was worried that Cell might kill him, but at the same time, found his flamboyance quite amusing to the point he had to stop himself from laughing several times. At a later point, this became anger, as the reporter ridiculed and insulted Goku for recommending that Hercule not fight. He would have probably destroyed the camera had the Pharaoh not calmed him down, telling him that it was alright for them to live in ignorance; the important part was that they live at all.
A loud female voice spoke a few minutes afterward, and then a helicopter appeared. Yugi didn't recognize anyone who jumped from it: there was one man with a bouquet of roses, whom he thought had selected this location for a date or something, then a huge muscled man with a mask and without any hint of power whatsoever, and lastly, a woman with a microphone, presumably the girlfriend of the man with the flowers. But apparently, the men were both fighters who claimed they would defeat Cell while the woman was their manager. "I sincerely hope that is their idea of a joke, they don't stand a chance," the Pharaoh spoke inside Yugi's head upon hearing this. Yugi couldn't agree more, especially after seeing the fighting techniques used by these people. The man with the flowers jumped into the air and got thrown higher by a simple burst of energy to land outside the ring. The man who could only be described as a blob charged at Cell only to be flicked away by another burst of energy. Then went Hercule, and it came as no surprise when Cell just took all the attacks without even flinching, and knocked his challenger into a nearby mountain.
Yugi's attention was only caught when Goku stepped into the ring. Yugi found he could keep up with the two fighters, but after their apparent warm-up, powers flared and he was amazed, he didn't know Goku had become so powerful. As the match went on, Yugi was just barely able to follow Goku and Cell, even losing them when things got even more intense. After Goku almost got disqualified due to almost falling out of the ring, Cell destroyed the arena, announcing that the whole area was the battleground, and that the survivor would be the victor. After another point, Yugi could see Goku charging a Kamehameha. He, the Pharaoh and, from the sounds of it, the other Z fighters were shocked; his firing position in relation to Cell's location indicated that maybe Goku was willing to blow up the Earth. The bigger surprise came when he suddenly teleported right in front of Cell and fired his Kamehameha at point blank range.
After that moment, Yugi became distracted. He had started sensing an unfamiliar power level for a brief moment, but as soon as he could begin to get an idea of where it was coming from, it vanished. He then looked at Cell, who was missing his upper half. Yugi's heart soared at the sight, thinking it was finally over, but the Pharaoh told him that something wasn't right. Indeed, a few minutes later, the half of Cell that was on the ground grew a new upper half, apparently thanks to the cells of Piccolo. The fight between Goku and Cell then resumed, and although both were losing energy, Yugi could sense that Goku was in more trouble than his opponent.
Goku eventually said something, and it shocked both Yugi and the Pharaoh to the very core: he was giving up the fight. Cell threatened he would destroy the planet if Goku was truly surrendering, but was surprised when he heard that there was one more person he had to fight. The person was revealed to be Gohan, but Yugi just couldn't get his head around this: why him? After a few words of reassurance to Gohan from his father, he descended to the desert floor from the cliff to fight. Yugi felt he couldn't just let this continue. The last straw came when Goku took a Senzu Bean and threw it towards Cell. As soon as the bean left his hand, Yugi attempted to intercept it, but it landed in Cell's hands as the King of Games appeared directly in between him and Goku.
As Cell swallowed the bean, his power level rocketed back to its original state. Then Gohan powered up, and his power level seemed to be equal to or greater than Goku's. Yugi saw him hold his own for a bit with Cell, but grew concerned as he started getting pummeled into the ground. It only got worse, and after a couple more attacks against him, Gohan was beaten into the ground. Yugi began to get worried, but the Pharaoh silenced him, saying that if Goku had that much faith in Gohan, then it was a sure bet that the latter would pull through, as both of them knew what they were doing. Goku was also telling everyone to calm down, and after a while, they began to sense Gohan's energy after losing it for a minute, and it was still relatively the same as before even after all the punishment.
From where he was, Yugi could just barely hear a conversation that Gohan began having with Cell. He could hear something about a hidden power inside his friend. Yugi could vaguely remember what Gohan was telling Cell about; the arrival of Raditz. Yugi hadn't been there, but it was around the time he first met Gohan. At the time, he was seven years of age, and he had first taken an interest in Duel Monsters and solving the Millennium Puzzle. Goku and Gohan came to the Kame Game shop looking to purchase something, and that was when Yugi first met them and became friends with the latter. Supposedly after that visit was when Gohan encountered Raditz at Kame House. As Gohan continued telling the story of his hidden power, Yugi, only just getting bits and pieces, was quite amazed that, from the sounds of it, his friend had managed to single-handedly flatten Frieza, the tyrannical overlord who could destroy entire planets.
However, after Gohan was finished talking, Cell said a few words and proceeded to resume the fight, brutalizing him. Eventually, Gohan retaliated, but this only seemed to encourage his opponent, leading to him getting restrained in a bear-hug. After hearing his best friend cry out in pain, Yugi could think of nothing else to do but interfere. He was NOT going to let the one he was closest to aside from the Pharaoh die like this, so he powered up and started heading straight for Cell, but all of a sudden Goku appeared in front of him and elbowed him in the face, sending him flying back to the Z fighters, and reappeared by him telling him to not interfere, Cell will force Gohan's power out and get beaten afterwards. Piccolo began speaking out, saying Yugi had the right idea of going to help Gohan, he wasn't a warrior like his father. It didn't matter if Gohan was the strongest warrior on the planet; his mind was not on any thoughts of battle or competition, but on why his own father was making him suffer. This broke through to Goku, who asked for a Senzu Bean.
Before anything could be done, Cell appeared right by everyone and snatched the bag of beans out of Krillin's hands. Yugi saw Gohan on the ground, with Cell returning to tower over him. However, before he could do anything, Android 16 grabbed him in another bear-hug, announcing that he will self destruct. Yugi immediately took cover, but nothing happened. The only explosion came as Cell blasted the other Android to pieces. One organ on his back opened up after that, and then something burst out. "One," Cell stated. More strange beings kept emerging as he counted "Two, three, four, five, six, seven." Then he spotted Yugi, spawning another creature and saying "Oh yes, eight; one exclusively for the King of Games. Let's see if he can retain the title."
The creatures looked up at all of the Z fighters. They looked to Yugi like Cell in miniature, except their skin was blue instead of green. Cell ordered the creatures, the Cell Juniors, to attack, and Yugi powered up and prepared for battle, as did everyone else including Trunks and Vegeta, both of whom went Super Saiyan. As his Cell Junior closed in, it attacked Yugi. In his Super Saiyan form, Yugi was able to hold out for a bit against the monster, but then Cell's voice could be heard instructing all of his spawn that playtime was over. The Cell Juniors had apparently taken this to heart as Yugi found himself facing a much more difficult fight. After a while, he could see that everyone else, save for Vegeta and Trunks, had fallen.
Yugi held out for as long as he could, but was eventually thrown down just like the rest of them. At one point, however, he could suddenly hear Gohan yelling, and a very sharp power increase followed, sending shock waves throughout the ground Yugi was lying on. Both he and the Pharaoh were amazed; this was the first time that either of them sensed such a strong power coming from Gohan, and it seemed to possibly rival, maybe even surpass the might of the three Egyptian Gods themselves.