Across the universes, Cell was having his way. Piccolo was slammed into the ground and had a hole blasted into him. Cell used Vegeta as a bat and slammed him into Goku. Gohan tried attacking from behind only to be savagely head butted by the turning Cell. Nearby, Krillin watched in horror as he and Goten tended to the injured Trunks.
"This is insane. Cell was NEVER this powerful." Krillin said wide-eyed in fear.
"Dad and Gohan can beat him though right Krillin? Right?" the fifteen year old Goten said gulping.
"Kid, a couple of years ago I would have said they could. Now, I'm not so sure." Krillin said closing his eyes remembering 18 getting sheared in half. A hand then touched Krillin's shoulder. It was Videl, Gohan's girlfriend.
"Krillin, we have to get out of here. We're sitting ducks. If Gohan and the rest can't defeat him, what chance do we have?" she asked.
"Absolutely none." Cell said smirking and striding towards them.
Krillin roared in defiance.
"DESTRUCTO DISK!" Krillin said sending the razor sharp disk of energy at Cell.
As it had done years before, the disk had no effect. Cell smiled and kept coming.
Goten instantly went Super Saiyen and charged Cell, only to be grabbed by the throat.
"Oh look. Another half Saiyen to strangle to death. What are the odds?" Cell said as he squeezed.
Goten tried to scream in pain. Videl, Krillin, and even the injured Trunks were upon him in a second. A second later they were all lying on the ground with broken bones as Cell smiled and kept squeezing Goten's throat.
"FUSION!"
A light flashed and Cell turned to see that Goku and Vegeta had merged into Vegetto, a more powerful form than either of the two were separately. Piccolo, completely outclassed and horribly injured, stood at Vegetto's side refusing to back down.
"Is this supposed to impress me?" Cell asked
"No. Kill you." Vegetto replied instantly transmitting to Goten and then transmitting him away…..with Cell's arm.
"Oh. The pain. The pain of it all." Cell laughed as his arm instantly regenerated.
Vegetto charged Cell with murder in his eyes. He struck Cell with extreme force and actually made the monster back up. Cell looked surprised and then smiled before returning in kind. Vegetto was knocked flat on his ass. He then shot up with a kick to Cell's face that carried him up completely vertically. Cell was then in the air with Vegetto and struck Vegetto's eye with his palm.
The eye swelled and bled but Vegetto refused to stop and started to respond in kind to Cell. Cell smiled again as his caught the palm strike and crushed Vegetto's hand. That's when Vegetto brought up his other hand an unleashed a wave of energy so intense it actually made Cell release him grip and then slammed him into the ground. Cell sat up instantly. Vegetto flew down at top speed only to be caught in a headlock.
"You know, I had rather hoped you'd be more of a challenge. You took what I gave you and even tried to give it back. Impressive, but still boring." Cell said as Vegetto began to instantly transmit out of his grip. Cell simply groaned and turned, firing a bolt of energy at where Vegetto had appeared that cut through him.
"I swear, you'd think after you two merged you'd at least get some new tactics." Cell said as Vegetto fell the ground in a heap.
He started to get up and Cell simply sent another shearing blast through him. Vegetto growled and tried to stand again only to receive another shearing blast. With each blast Cell took another step towards him. He shot out his hand and grabbed Vegetto by the neck before knocking him miles away. Cell then merely flicked his wrist backwards and slapped the approaching Piccolo into unconscious.
Instantly, Cell was where Vegetto had fallen. The two fused Saiyens STILL tried to rise but Cell simply placed them into another headlock.
"You know." Cell began, "I've been sitting in Hell for nearly two decades planning and plotting my revenge. You wouldn't believe the scenarios I planned out. Elaborate. Complex. I not only killed you all in a thousand ways, but I broke you in a thousand more. But when the day you plan and plan and plan for actually comes….well it's not really as thrilling as you'd like it to be. You have such high expectations and then you're disappointed. The disappointment is that this was entirely TOO easy. As a matter of fact, it's so easy I'm just going to destroy your world and be done with it."
"You won't win Cell….you won't!" Vegetto growled
"That's where you're wrong. I'm going to and there's nothing an invalid can do to stop me." Cell smiled.
CRACK!
Cell dropped Vegetto to the ground. He was still alive, but also quite paralyzed. Cell then simply rose into the air and looked down as the earth became smaller and smaller. Satisfied, he stopped outside the earth's atmosphere and looked down on it.
"Oh death, where is thy sting?" Cell smiled as he brought his hands upwards and together.
"Ka"
Blue energy flickered.
"Me"
The energy grew brighter.
"Ha"
The energy started to glow brighter and grew in intensity in his hands.
"Me"
The energy raged and begged for release. On earth, Vegetto looked skyward and saw a huge plume of blue energy.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Cell released the blast and like a bullet to Hell it sped to the earth, ripping a hole in the atmosphere, setting the very air itself on fire. Vegetto roared in anger as the burst kept coming. It was all over.
The blast struck a city and made it naught but a memory. Then it burrowed deep into the crust of the earth. It charred its way through the mantle and finally hit the core before going out the other side. The earth shook and bolts of blue energy arced from the ground. Chunks were blown out of it. The very planet was knocked off its axis. The explosion in the center issued forth tearing the planet to pieces.
And the jet carrying Bulma and Dawn was torn asunder and exploded. Dawn screamed and then fell silent as the rest of the world ended in a fiery blue burst.
It was gone. All of it. Earth was destroyed.
And Cell looked upon his work smiling.
"There is thy sting death. There."