After a month in the chamber, Gohan still hadn't achieved Super Saiyan. However, his base form had gotten quite a bit stronger.
"You want to keep trying, Gohan?" I asked him in the one-month anniversary of our entrance.
"I just need to get angry enough," he answered. "Just hit me with everything you've got!"
"Hit you? Why?" I stared at him, confused.
"I need a desperate situation to challenge me, just like when Dad transformed."
"I think I understand," I told the half-Saiyan. "I'll just fire a Kamehameha Wave at you, all right? All you have to do is block it and get yourself angry."
"Got it!" Gohan ran outside immediately to get ready.
'Wow, Gohan seems more excited than usual,' I thought as I flew into the "sky" above the Hyperbolic Time Chamber's floor.
"Ready?" I called.
"Ready!" he responded.
I cupped my hand by my side and quickly shot my hands forward in Gohan's direction. "HAAA!"
The boy immediately put his hands up to block it. 'Just make yourself angry,' I told him telepathically. 'That's all you need to do.'
'All right,' he responded, his telepathic speech showing signs of strain. 'I just...need...to be angry.' Suddenly, his tone changed. 'I'm a useless fighter. When Piccolo and Krillin hit Nappa in my direction, I just dodged and hid." His energy started to rise with his anger.
'You've got this,' I thought.
'During the fight with the Ginyu Force, I couldn't even hit Guldo.' I was starting to see a very faint golden glow coming off his body.
'Against Frieza, all that I did was get super angry and hit him a few times!' His tone was sounding angrier and angrier. 'That...that monster even killed Krillin and Vegeta because I wasn't strong enough to stop him before! I...must...become...STRONGER!'
Suddenly, it happened. Raging golden aura. Golden hair sticking straight up. Blue-green eyes. And it wasn't me.
"AAHHHHHHH!" shouted the new Super Saiyan as loudly and angrily as he possibly could while he completely deflected my attack.
I flew down to meet him. "Nice!" I told him. "You're finally a Super Saiyan!"
Gohan looked up, calming down slightly. "Thanks," he said between grit teeth.
I stood there as Gohan's blazing energy slowly died down. When the aura vanished, he finally reverted to his base form and collapsed, forcing me to carry him inside to his bed.
"Good thing he managed to do it," I thought out loud. "Hopefully he can get strong enough to help against Cell."
From there, I helped Gohan master the transformation. He quicky learned to transform at will, and the amount of time it took for him to transform kept shortening more and more. His ability to transform helped me train more effectively, too.
Something special that I noticed a few times from Gohan was a strange burst of unexpected power. His hair would spike up even more than in Super Saiyan, and small amounts of blue bio-electricity would surround his body. It only lasted a few seconds at a time, and then he'd pass out with no memory of the sudden boost in power.
By the third time it happened to Gohan, I had a slight understanding of what was happening: a new transformation had been discovered. This one was different than the bulky Ascended Super Saiyan and Ultra Super Saiyan transformations; instead, it was a power boost that added barely any muscle. I assumed that it had little if any speed loss.
I tried transforming myself. When Gohan was asleep, I would go out into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber's white emptiness and attempt to recreate whatever it was that the boy had been doing. The last few times I tried, my hair spiked up more than it did in my normal Super Saiyan form, but my energy level didn't rise as much as I was expecting. However, I was getting closer to this new power with every attempt.
We just kept training until our time was up. Then, the two of us exited the Hyperbolic Time Chamber while in our Full Power Super Saiyan forms.
"Wow, that felt incredible!" Gohan said excitedly as we walked through the doorway, books in hand. "I can't believe how strong we've both gotten!"
"You've made more progress than me," I told him. "You became a Super Saiyan in there!"
"Oh, so now the runt is one of us," said an unmistakable voice.
"Of course I am, Vegeta!" Gohan exclaimed. "It's not like I'm pure human!"
"You might as well be," the biased prince remarked before walking toward the entrance to the Room of Space and Time. "Trunks! I'm going in! Are you coming or not?"
"Coming!" The blue-haired hybrid came around the corner. "Oh, hey, Gohan! I see you managed to transform."
"Yeah!" Gohan moved the book into his left hand and flexed his right bicep. "I've gotten a lot stronger, too!"
"Hmph," huffed Vegeta as he walked through the doorway.
"That's awesome. Now listen, I can't stay and chat. See you when I come out!" Trunks waved and followed Vegeta, closing the door behind himself.
Gohan and I then walked to the outside part of the Lookout to see who was there. The only one there was Dende, who was busy looking down at the Earth below us.
"Hey, Gohan!" said the Namekian when he sensed his friend was nearby. "How was your training?"
"It was great! I've gotten a lot stronger!" Gohan flared his energy slightly to show what he'd achieved. "What are you looking at?" he then asked.
"I'm mainly just watching Cell," answered the Guardian of Earth. "There's a news team trying to get an interview out of him, but he's just standing in the middle of a marble platform. He probably made it by himself."
Suddenly, Dende looked surprised. "What's wrong?" I asked him.
"The military just showed up," he answered. "It looks like they've got a few nuclear bombs with them."
'How does Dende know about nuclear bombs already?' I wondered silently. My question was never answered.
At the Cell Games arena...
The news crew fled the scene when they saw a handful of tanks and planes approach. "Let's get out of here!" shouted one reporter, scared for his life as he hopped into the company's van before it drove away.
"Cell!" came a man's voice from a helicopter, magnified by a megaphone. "We, the army of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, have you surrounded! Now, if you would just call off this tournament and surrender peacefully, we won't use our most powerful weapons to kill you! Fail to comply and you WILL die immediately!"
The monster himself simply smirked. Then, projecting his voice, he responded, "You humans have no means of hurting my Perfect body." He kept his arms crossed across his chest stoically.
"All right, then! MEN, FIRE! FIRE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA!" The command was followed by hundreds of bullets and missiles going directly to Cell. The bullets just bounced off his skin, and the missiles' explosions were completely contained by energy shields around his unharmed body so that his arena wouldn't take damage.
"I know you haven't pulled the big guns out yet." Cell chuckled at his unintentional pun.
"You're a smart one, aren't you?" the military guy said. "Well, I might as well give you what you want."
High above the Cell Games arena, a low-orbiting satellite dropped the most powerful non-Ki-based bomb in the history of the galaxy. Immediately, it fell down on Cell, making him take all of its fury. As expected, he confined the explosion to hit him and nothing else, causing the amount of energy hitting his body to increase exponentially.
The army started cheering. In one tank, a few men took out some beer and got drunk almost right away.
When the smoke cleared, the bio-android's body showed that it hadn't taken any damage. "Is that the best you've got?" he asked nonchalantly.
There was a pause before the military backed away. "RETREAT! RETREAT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA!" ordered the guy over the megaphone. Everybody but the alcohol-filled tank immediately fled.
"Hmph, looks like they forgot some luggage. It's too bad that it's going to be thrown away." Cell blew it up with a small energy ball before returning to silently standing still with his arms across his chest.
Hey, guys! I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, this one being my favorite one so far. As you should already know, it summarizes Gohan and Frui's training and includes a scene where Cell scared the army. Pretty basic chapter.
Just so you know, the strongest nuke that was directed at Cell had enough power to kill 2% Final Form Frieza. Anybody stronger would likely survive.
Power Levels:
Base Gohan (when he first went SSJ): 22,700,000
SSJ Gohan (first time): 1,135,000,000
FP SSJ Gohan (suppressed) (after training): 2,080,000,000
FP SSJ Frui (suppressed) (after training): 2,640,000,000
Base Vegeta: 107,300,000
Base Trunks: 105,900,000