Vegeta started walking up to the platform. "Kakarrot, if you even think about stopping me from fighting Cell, I'll kill you on the spot."
"Don't worry, Vegeta," Goku agreed. "I think it's best that you do this alone."
"Folks, this is it!" Jimmy Firecracker yelled into his microphone. "Cell is about to face one of the mystery challengers! If Cell beat even Mister Satan without so much as a sweat, though, then this guy is about to die!"
"I had a leg cramp," remarked the latter. "It's hard to fight properly with a leg cramp. Otherwise, I'd've knocked Cell to the Moon!"
"Wow! Isn't he something, folks?" The reporter was actually buying Hercule's story, putting a wide grin on the fighter's face. "Now to get back to the fight."
"Well, Vegeta," Cell said as the Saiyan hopped on to the arena. "I see you've gotten stronger since our last little encounter."
"Shut up, Cell!" blasted Vegeta. "I'm about to wipe that smug smile off of your face! HAAAAAAAA!" An explosion emanating from the Prince's body sent wind and dust swirling the arena. When the cloud vanished, his hair was golden and his eyes were blue.
"What just happened?" asked Jimmy.
Hercule immediately made another excuse. "It's a magic trick of some sort. Somethin' with the lightin' and whatnot."
"Wow, it looks pretty good for an amateur's special effects," stated the journalist.
"He might not be a novice," pointed out the cameraman. "We don't know anything about these guys." Then, they all shut up.
The humanoid slow-clapped. "My, Vegeta, your strength is beyond that of even my semi-perfect form! I must congratulate you on such a small accomplishment!"
"Oh, this is nothing," the prince smirked. "My true power has yet to be revealed!" Vegeta started groaning and hunching over.
"What's going on?" asked Cell, noticing a slight change in Vegeta's Ki output.
Suddenly, Vegeta flexed every muscle he possibly could, something that Goku, Trunks, and I all recognized. 'Please don't tell me you're planning on taking it too far,' I thought.
Then, the Saiyan prince's golden aura expanded around his body violently, creating a crater underneath his feet. The wind sent rocks and pieces of the platform flying in all directions, the ones that hit the Z Fighters immediately crumbling to nothing in our activated auras. The news crew wasn't as fortunate, though.
"AHHH!" screamed Hercule when a small pebble twice the size of an ant hit his forehead as high speeds, creating a good-sized trickle of blood. His female assistant immediately pulled out a Band-Aid brand bandage ((unpaid advertising ftw)) and barely managed to put it over the wound.
Suddenly, Vegeta's muscles began expanding, making Gohan's eyes widen. The vicious Super Saiyan kept expanding his muscles until he was quite a bit stronger than before. When he was done, he relaxed his aura and the winds, returning everything to the area's previously tranquil setting.
"Is that all?" Cell boasted.
"You're about to find out!" Vegeta shouted, immediately charging at the bio-android.
Cell blocked Vegeta's first few punches with relative ease. Suddenly, though, Vegeta released a barely-charged energy attack at close range, catching Cell off-guard and giving him a few minuscule burn marks on his chest.
"That was awfully sneaky of you, Vegeta," said Cell. "What do you call that move?"
"It's something I came up with recently," explained the golden fighter. "I call it what it is: FINAL FLASH!" Vegeta forced his hands forward again, bottoms of the palms touching, before releasing a much more powerful energy beam.
"SHIIIIIIT!" cried Cell as his entire upper body was engulfed in white light, disintegrating everything it touched almost immediately. The energy beam harmlessly continued through the atmosphere and out into space where it later hit and destroyed one of Jupiter's moons.
"Damn bastard." Vegeta began walking away, not realizing something important.
Behind the Ascended Super Saiyan's back, Cell began regenerating. When he was finished, he had a smirk on his face. "That was an interesting maneuver."
Vegeta spun around. "What?! How is this possible?! I just killed you!"
"I have Piccolo's DNA, remember? I can regenerate endlessly."
On the sidelines, Jimmy and the cameraman were busy trying to fix the only camera, which had shorted out while Vegeta was powering up. Mister Satan and his companions were still covering their heads, expecting more wind and/or rocks. None of them had seen Vegeta's attack or Cell's regeneration.
"Idiot!" mumbled the buff Saiyan to himself.
"Now, how about we take this up a notch?" Cell moved his right foot back and cupped his hands together by his side, the palm of one against the back of the other. Then, he unleashed his aura. "I'm sure you know this one all too well, Vegeta."
Suddenly, Vegeta snapped out of it. "Cell, you have no idea what I can do now." He got into a similar position. I could sense Ki building up on both sides of the fight.
"GALICK GUN, FIRE!" shouted Cell. Vegeta just stood there, not even blinking.
When the attack was about to hit him in the face, he forced his hands forward and shouted, "GALICK SUPERNOVA!" The powerful red, orange, and yellow Ki of Vegeta's new attack collided with Cell's, immediately starting to push it back. Where they met, a ball of Ki was forming. The ground below Vegeta's attack was literally melting from the heat.
"What the...?!" gasped Cell.
Jimmy Firecracker looked up. "Wow," he murmured. "That's some crazy firepower."
"Firepower?" boasted Mister Satan. "That's nothin' but some more magic tricks, maybe with some weird weaponry!"
"They really know how to fake things," said the reporter, dumbstruck.
Cell barely managed to dodge Vegeta's attack. Knowing that it would destroy his entire body, he jumped to the side as quickly as possible, leaving an after-image in his place. Vegeta saw this and stopped his attack.
"What was that?!" exclaimed the bio-android.
"I told you, you don't know everything about me," explained Vegeta sarcastically. "I've been training since our last encounter, and I learned a few new techniques. For example, GALICK STORM!"
Suddenly, Vegeta's aura started swirling around him more violently than anything I'd ever seen. As it expanded in the shape of a sphere, everything in its path was destroyed, even the rocky ground. Vegeta ended up having to levitate just to stay in one place, as he was right above the exact center of a massive circular crater that just kept growing.
Cell and the Z Fighters immediately flew out of the way. However, Mister Satan and his companions stayed put, still believing that it was a light show. Because of that, I used Instant Transmission to get to them quickly and move them out of the way.
Once they were moved, the big oaf in the leotard looked around in confusion. "Where are we? What just happened?"
Hercule looked up and saw me standing above them. "Hey, what're you doin' here? Aren't you with that group of magicians or whatever you are?"
"I don't know any magic tricks," I said before using Instant Transmission to rejoin the others, leaving Hercule, Jimmy, and the rest of their group dumbstruck. 'They sure do get dumbstruck a lot,' I noted.
Vegeta's spherical aura stopped expanding after about a minute, leaving a perfect (but not as perfect as Cell) crater with a radius of about 1,500 feet (457.2 meters), everything that was within it except Vegeta having been disintegrated. Then, Vegeta let it shrink into his body so he could survey the damage and see if Cell had survived. Once he was visible, I was able to tell that he was sweating heavily from the taxing technique.
"That was an amazing technique, Vegeta!" Cell shouted from the edge of the hole. He wasn't flying; his feet were touching the ground.
The exhausted Super Saiyan smirked triumphantly. "I just won, insect."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you one final rule," responded the Android coldly. "If the ring is destroyed, the whole world becomes our ring."
Vegeta immediately exploded with anger (figuratively; don't think that he actually blew up). "YOU JUST MADE THAT UP! YOU SHOULDN'T BE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE!"
"Sorry, Vegeta," said Cell. "Rules are rules."
Immediately, Vegeta used what was left of his stamina to charge at Cell and attempt some powerful kicks and punches that were easily dodged.
"Give up, Vegeta," whispered Cell. "You can't win."
Vegeta then shouted, "A TRUE SAIYAN WARRIOR NEVER BACKS AWAY FROM A FIGHT!" Then, he punched Cell in the gut with all his strength. Nothing happened.
"A true warrior also knows when he's outmatched," added Cell before he hit Vegeta with a simple chop to the neck. Immediately, Vegeta's muscles shrank and relaxed, and his hair turned black again. He was unconscious.
Thirty-five seconds later, Trunks flew over and carried his father back to where everybody else was watching. "That monster," Trunks whispered to himself. "I'm going to beat him to a pulp."
Hey, guys! I know what you're thinking: "What are Galick Supernova and Galick Storm?" Well, you know how Vegeta has Galick Gun and Galick Flash? I figured that I could build on the Galick family of Ki attacks with another, and I was stuck between Galick Nova (SSJ form being Galick Supernova) and Galick Storm. Instead, I made two, each having one of those names.
This chapter is also named after the Galick attacks. For example, Galick Gun and Garlic Gun are the exact same attack. That's why TFS Goku thought Vegeta said something about garlic (DBZ Abridged Episode 10 Part 1).
If you didn't notice, I implied that Cell started using more of his power after he realized how much of a threat Vegeta was.
And yes, I realize that this chapter is what some might call a few days late. I purposely waited, though, so HAH! (The real reason is that I forgot. Sorry, guys.) At least I'm working on a special chapter right now, and I'll try to get it out sometime next week.
Power Levels:
Base Vegeta: 360,000,000
SSJ Vegeta: 18,000,000,000
ASSJ Vegeta: 27,000,000,000
Perfect Cell (suppressed): 23,760,000,000
ASSJ Vegeta (Final Flash, weak): 28,350,000,000
ASSJ Vegeta (Final Flash, strong): 47,250,000,000
Perfect Cell (suppressed with aura): 29,700,000,000
Perfect Cell (Galick Gun): 37,125,600,000
ASSJ Vegeta (Galick Supernova): 94,500,000,000
ASSJ Vegeta (Galick Storm): 87,750,000,000