Babadi entered the main chamber of his ship with Dabura and Cell in tow. He just carefully kept rubbing the energy container.
"Alright then, let's just see how much energy they managed to get. I doubt we got much, but we have an entire planet to drain dry if needed."
Babadi placed the tip at the base of the machine holdings Buu's eggs and let all the energy flow into the machine.
"I take it you knew them?" He turned and asked Cell.
"The girl, wild spiky hair?" he started
"Yes the one who tried to attack you. What of it?" Dabura was annoyed. Always ways with word this one.
"She's the one who killed me seven years ago."
"What? You lost to a child? Why the hell did we revive you if a mere child can kill you?"
"Because I was already stronger than you a d guaranteed even more energy. And we've spent months training to make the both of us stronger for this moment."
"Calm down Dabura. Who cares what happened seven years ago. Besides he gave us wonderful Intel on this planet and its resources. Besides you both have had a massive power jump since you to started beating the crap out of each other."
Cell just smirked having gotten another on top of Dabura. Dabura hated this creature! It was bad enough it was already stronger than himself even before they started training. But he only widened the gap immeasurably despite his own exponential increase in power
"What the!?" Babadi shrieked.
"What's wrong master?" Dabura was quick to make sure he was okay, while Cell looked like he couldn't he bothered.
"Its...its...it's already at eighty percent?"
This caught Cells attention.
"We just might be able to awaken Majin Buu within the hour! With those idiots following, we can use their energy to fill in the gap!"
"Didn't they say they stole the energy from a single girl?" Dabura recalled just a moment ago.
"Yes, maybe I should have left one alive to tell me who it was."
"I can tell you that!" Cell smirked. "And I wouldn't recommend reviving him the moment you can."
"What was that? How dare you, explain yourself now!" Babadi snapped at Cell.
"The pod is charged at eighty percent. And from what I felt earlier, Gohana wasn't even close to full power if I had to guess. She's probably stronger than Majin Buu already if that's the power she has."
"Don't be stupid, the amount if energy it takes to awaken Majin Buu isn't the same as his actual power. His real power is far, far greater!"
Cell didn't continue the thought. He didn't see the need to anyway. He just crossed his arms and went to meditate in the corner.
"Master, it looks like they entered the ship." Dabura noticed the crystal ball showing them going down to the first level.
"Oh this will be good. Go and sent Pui Pui to great them."
Gohana was still trying to calm down fully. She was still extremely on edge, which no one blamed her for. But she had a control on her ki at least. Gohana landed first with Piccolo, Lime, and Krillin soon after. Shin and Kabito were still a bit behind but they soon landed.
"Alright, Babadi is most likely going to send his fighters. We need to make a plan."
"A plan? I say we just blast this and ship to oblivion! We obviously know where it is, and we can survive the blast."
"No, something like that could also release Majin Buu." Shin warned.
"Wait, if that's all it took, why doesn't he just do that in the first place?" Krillin asked confused.
"Probably he doesn't know about that." Kabito suggested.
"That's a safe bet assuming we are here trying to stop it." Shin thought.
It didnt take long before they heard one of the doors in the circular room open. Everyone glanced over and saw a weird looking alien show up.
"Ahh, it's Pui Pui." Shin was now worried.
"Welcome to Master Babadi's ship. We're currently on the first sub floor. You'll find Master Babadi down on Sub level 4. But it's not like you'll be able to even get past me."
They all just looked at him, not really sure what to think about him.
"Now who do I get the pleasure of killing first?" he go excited."
"Okay guys, we need to gang up on him so he doesn't have a chance to gather energy for Majin Buu!"
"Ha, that's a laugh! Lime's the weakest of us here and even she could mop the floor with this idiot." Vegeta crossed his arms amused.
"What are you saying? He may not look like much but he is vastly stronger than you think." Shin tried reasoning with Vegeta.
"As is Gohana, and you underestimated her already." Vegeta shot back, to which Shin really didn't have an answer to because Vegeta was correct.
"Oh come on, who do I get to kill first!" Pui Pui was getting impatient.
"Just make it quick Lime." Vegeta sounded annoyed. "I'd rather not waste my time with a weakling like him. Wouldn't even be a proper warm up."
Lime looked over at Gohana who just shrugged a bit. It wasn't like she didn't have all the backup she could ever ask for.
Lime had an odd rush of excitement and nervousness. She had been training hard for five years, and now she would actually be able to fight to help save Earth?
"What are you doing?" "We have to attack him together!" Shin and Kabito both shouted.
"Vegeta's right. Lime isn't even powered up and her ki is still stronger." Piccolo told them.
"Besides we can jump in if needed, right?" Krillin tried to reassure them.
Shin and Kabito both just looked on nervously as to what was about to happen. None of them were going to step in and help? Were they crazy?
"So the little girl is first eh? Well whatever, you'll all die soon enough"
He vanished as he started bouncing around the room quickly. Lime just kept glancing around wondering what he was even attempting to do. Was there a point to all of this?
Lime quickly ducked and slammed her fist up as Pui Pui went flying up into the ceiling. Lime figured he was trying to confuse her with his movements, but she was able to keep up with him just fine. He must have mistaken her glancing around for her not keeping up with him. It was just a nervous tick she developed before she could sense ki of fast moving fighters, she just never stopped despite she could tell where he was just fine.
"That was a lucky shot. But now for real!"
He started throwing a flurry of blows at her, but Lime was able to dodge and block pretty much all of them. Though it wasn't as effortless if say Piccolo was fighting him, she was still able to avoid him without really any effort.
Grabbing his leg when he tried to kick her, Lime kicked his other leg out from under him and slammed both her palms as a double palm strike into his chest while he was still in the air, causing him to slam back against the wall behind him.
"Man, he's slower than even Goten." she pointed out. Adding to that no Raina around, who was even faster then Goten, this was a cakewalk by comparison!
Dabura and Babadi watched the crystal ball in astonishment, how was she doing this?
"Hey Dabura where does Pui Pui fight the best?"
"I believe that would be his home planet of Zoon. It has a higher gravity."
"Perfect, that will show those idiots."
Cell just smirked, as if something that simple would ever work
Everyone looked around as suddenly the room totally changed. They were at a loss as to what was going on.
"Whoa, did the gravity just change?" Krilling asked being familiar with gravity training himself, though not as much as the others.
"That's right, this is my home planet." He picked up a rock.
"The gravity here is 10 times greater than that on earth." he dropped the rock. "Your chances of winning are falling even faster than that rock."
Lime just sighed In annoyance, even at 100 gravity she could still fight pretty damn effectively.
"Any last words before I-"
Lime quickly got in front of him and just front kicked him across the area. Since this was not a room now, he went a pretty good distance, slamming into a boulder..
"You talk too much" Lime said having shut him up. Vegeta couldn't help but laugh at this.
He didn't even have time to really adjust as Lime was suddenly in front of him again as she slammed her foot into the ground right in front of him.
"But how is this possible? At 10 times-"
"Please, I warm up with 30." Lime smirked.
"You little liar, I'll kill you!" Pui Pui got up and started throwing punches again but Lime continued to dodge effortlessly. Though she did raise her ki a bit and put more effort into dodging, she could still dodge him just fine.
Though Lime did have to admit she had to put in more of an effort. She could feel the difference but she was so used to even higher gravities that this didn't bother her much at all. She continued to be able to dodge everything knowing to avoid giving energy to Babadi.
Lime eventually grabbed both his wrists, jumped up and slammed her feet into his chest causing him to go backwards. And since Lime still had a vice grip on his wrists, she came with him. Only to slam down him hard again into the ground with a chest stomp then let him go. Pui Pui screamed in pain as she just hopped off and got a few meters away.
"If this is really the best you can do, you master is done." Lime smirked.
This visibly got on Pui Pui's nerves.
"Lime finish him before he stars stealing your energy." Shin pleased
"Yeah, I got you!" Lime said, understanding his worry though, waving him off
"You really think you can defeat me? Think again!"
Pui Pui quickly started charging at Lime, but before he got very far Lime simply shot a one handed Kamehameha point blank at his chest. The blast wave obliterated his upper half, as Lime could see her beam tearing him apart. When she finished, just his hips and legs remained.
"Oh gross!" Lime stepped back as his legs were still twitching, her face looking pale.
Soon the room returned to normal and the hole in the middle opened up.
"Oh hey, looks like we can go down here." Krillin said as he was the first to spot the hole. Without missing a beat, Gohana and Vegeta dropped down, as the others soon followed.
Shin was surprised. He knew they were powerful even before they meet. And once they did, he realized they were more powerful than they though, and they were still proven to be more powerful. And Lime was supposedly the weakest of the group, and just a human? And she was able to handle Pui Pui like he was nothing.
"Just how powerful are these people?" he said as he followed them as well, with a renewed sense of hope that they could pull this off.
Babadi just looked on in disbelief! Pui Pui was killed so easy? Who were these people.
"Dabura, who's waiting for them on the second floor?"
"It doesn't matter. Until they fight Dabura or more likely myself, you could send your entire army and even that weakling who just killed Pui Pui could take them all on her own!" Cell casually spoke up.
"And just how the hell do you know that?" Babadi snapped at him.
"Simple, I can just sense the energy of everyone in here and it still doesnt even add up that that girl. Whoch I assure you is most likely the weakest of them."
"What? You're just lying! You can't sense their energy without a machine." Dabura snapped at him.
"Whatever. Make sure Yakon is ready to fight!" Babadi snapped, why would he listen to his own servants?
"His funeral then." Cell smirked.
When they got to the next floor, they were surprised it looked just like the last room.
"Is this some kind of magic room loop trick?" Lime asked, having seen video games do the same thing.
"No, no trick. Each floor of his ship is just identical, though this room seems a tad larger." Shin answered looking around.
"If he can teleport us, it doesn't matter how large the room is." Piccolo crossed his arms.
"So who's fighting us next?" Gohana asked, not sensing anyone just yet.
"I don't know, but it's safe to say that they will most likely send someone even stronger than Pui Pui." Shin ventured a guess.
"Master, do you think we should worry?" Kibito asked.
Shin looked at the group of fighters with them. He now wasn't even sure! Gohana even not powered up fully was vastly stronger than he had anticipated to begin with. Something about her ki also felt off. He could tell she was hiding a far greater strength, but what was it?
The door opened, and out walked a large bug frog like being. Lime was a little grossed out by how he looked.
"Oh god, that thing looks unnatural!" Lime shivered in disgust.
"No, Yakon too?" Shin panicked.
Dabura? Pui Pui? and now Yakon? And these fighters were obviously worried about that other fighter as well? Just how many people had Babadi brought to his side?
"So what's his deal?" Krillin asked. Though he was intimidated a little bit, he wasn't really worried. He'd fought worse stuff before.
"That's Yakon, a creature from the darkness! He is very dangerous! We need to be careful."
"I'll have this one." Piccolo walked forward.
"And what makes you think its your turn?" Vegeta demanded.
"You felt that Dabura, he's way above even Cell when Gohana killed him. And I'll bet Cell is even stronger too! Why else would he look so confident earlier." Vegeta raised his eyebrow, he had a point.
"If I'm guessing correctly, you and Gohana will have to handle those two. So that leaves me or Krillin to fight this one."
"Hey, he's all yours Piccolo!" Krillin conceded.
Quickly, the area around everyone went pitch black and they couldn't see in front of them.
"Hey, what the heck is this?" Gohana looked around in surprise. Unable to even see her hand in front of her.
"Babadi is trying to give him the best chance at taking our energy by giving his fighter the best chance!"
"Well were the hell are we then?" Vegeta angrily asked.
"Most likely Yakon's home world! No light exists there, and he eats whatever light makes it there."
"Huh? He eats light?" Goahans scientific mind was getting the better of her now. If he ate light, that must mean there's something there to eat! Maybe she could use that for some experimental theories later!
"Light or no light, doesn't change the outcome of this fight." Piccolo just walked forward and closed his eyes. Not that he needed to close them as he was already basically blind from the lack of light anyway.
"You must be shaking with fear! Unable to see me, but I can see you!" Yakon taunted Piccolo.
"You're a hundred meters just slightly to my left." Piccolo said.
Yakon was surpised at this, how could he know that?
"Lucky guess! But you still can't dodge what you can't see!"
He slashed at where Piccolo was, but Piccolo was instantly several meters away from his reach and just smirked. Yakon tried getting round him for another attack but Piccolo just casually avoided it, as well as the several dozen attacks he tried. Having had enough, Piccolo just kicked him in the gut, causing him to fly back.
"I don't even need my eyes to tell where you are! Besides." Piccolo flared hi ki, causing the entire battlefield to be bathed in light. "Looks like I can see you anyway."
Yakon was surpised at first, but soon his surprise turned I to a grin.
"Oh, so bright, it looks so tasty!" Piccolo was confused at first, but quickly recalled what Shin had said. Just as quickly as Piccolo lite the place up with his ki, he quickly stopped it and bathed the area back in light.
"What, hey give me back my food!"
"As if I'd give you or Babadi any of my energy. You want my energy, then you gotta take it." Piccolo spat back
Yakon wasted no time in trying to now slice Piccolo with his retractable blade in his forearms, But Piccolo was still able to avoid him just fine.
"No way! How is Piccolo able to fight like this?" Shin asked shocked.
"We've never stopped training pretty much since shortly after Cell." Gohana said. "That and we can all fight just by sensing ki, even when in total darkness."
"Cell? That creature that attacked us outside?" Shin asked.
"Yup, though he seemed fast stronger now. He must have been doing some training. This Yakon creature is nothing compared to what Cell was back then, and Piccolo makes old Cell look like nothing as well."
Shin just stared at Gohana. They were all this must stronger? They seemed all so calm. Despite he couldn't see them, he could feel no worry in any of them. The female human was a bit grossed out, but not an ounce of fear.
"Gohana, just how strong are you?" he flatly asked.
Gohana wasn't exactly sure how to even answer. Sure she had been doing training with Piccolo they even hadn't shown Vegeta, mainly because they were still figuring it out. So it wasn't useful now. But Shin was reading her mind this entire time and no one else saw the pure shock and aww in his face.
'No way, a mortal has this much power? And that power? How?'
"I've had enough." Piccolo was getting annoyed and grabbed his strike and quickly slashed his hand through Yakon's arm, causing the creature to shriek in pain.
"That look suits you." Piccolo said. "Think I should take the other one?"
Yakon tensed in fear and quickly turned to try fleeing. But Piccolo wasn't having any of it. He pointed his two extended fingers before firing off his Special Beam Cannon through Yakon's head, killing him instantly.
"Alright, two down. Pui Pui said Babadi was on floor four, right?" Piccolo looked back to the others.
"Yup!" Gohana said happily, as the room returned to normal.
"Hey look, the floor opened up again." Lime called out to the others, having been standing right on it.
"Come on, let's get this over with! This is turning out to be a massive disappointment!" Vegeta didn't even uncross his arms, and just hopped down.
The others all followed him soon afterwards and landing in another identical room.
"So who's next! It's my turn!" Vegeta called out annoyed. "And they had better be worth my time!"
"Vegeta, we can't underestimate him!"
"As you have already underestimated us? You said this Majin Buu was a massive threat, yet the weakling Earthling had no trouble handling that Pui Pui!"
"Yeah I barely tried. And I cant even lay a hand on Vegeta even in his base form!"
They were all vastly past his wildest expectations what Earthlings and Saiyans should be capable of. They even seemed above him, but how could Mortals do that?
The door opened up once again, but they were surprised to see both Dabura and Cell enter the room. Their ki was higher than it was earlier, they must have powered up a bit. And it was obvious Dabura was far stronger than Cell was years ago. Though Cell's ki in front of them was even higher by a large margin.
"It seems we have underestimated you lot. We still don't have any energy gathered from you. But that will soon change, for you now have to face us both." Dabura smirks, Cell just looked annoyed and crossed his arms.
"Gohana." Vegeta swallowed his pride. "I think will need to handle this together."
"Oh please, don't count me in on this. I'm just here to watch. I only care about fighting with Gohana over there and her alone." Cell corrected everyone.
Dabura, however, was very thrown off and getting impatient with him. The last few months have been nothing but this! He constantly bends Babadi's orders, doing as he pleases. Not to mention he was stronger than him. He looked back at Gohana and Vegeta. He wouldn't shut up about her.
"So, you're the one who killed him." he looked at Gohana. "Fine, lets get this started than."
"Your fight is with me you imbecile!" Vegeta started stretching out his arms, knowing full well Gohana would want Cell anyway. If nothing else he would give her that fight. He still have one in front of us.
"If you think it will be that easy, then think again." Dabura smirks.
"Vegeta, you need to be very careful! Don't let him spit on you!" Sin tried to warn Vegeta.
At this, literally everyone just stared at Shin in surprise. Why would anyone spit in a fight? Well it was a dirty trick so someone a slow as Dabura maybe? More importantly, why did Shin deem it important enough to mention something so obvious?
"Care to explain why you felt it worth nothing a pathetic trick like that to me?" Vegeta asked.
"Oh right. His spit turns what it hit's into stone, so avoid that."
That did get Vegeta's attention though. Though it was obvious from his face he was a bit disgusted at the thought of a warrior being taken out by something as simple as that! Still, he just stared back at Dabura. He knew he couldn't give energy to Buu, so he went straight into Super Saiyan. He could still get a decent warm up from this without getting hit.
"Cell, you think you want to help?" Dabura glanced back at him.
"As I already said, I'm here because Babadi ordered me to come with you."
"We can get more energy if we fight together!"
Vegeta just watched annoyed as they were bickering back and forth. He just crossed his arms impatiently as he tapped his finger against his arm.
"Gohana, do you think you can take Cell?" Piccolo asked.
Gohana glanced over at Cell, she couldn't help but become filled with rage, as her hair slightly quivered, but she remained as calm as she could. She knew full well he was hiding his ki, so she couldn't tell. But if she had to guess, based on how much he held back against Goku.
"If I can do that, no problem. Other than that, it may be difficult but it's possible. Depends how much he really improved."
"And we cant rely on that yet." Piccolo followed up, understanding.
Babadi however was watching, annoyed that his two minions were bickering at each other. He sent Cell in there to fight that girl and gather energy! How dare he not only not listen, but actively argue.
"Cell, get off your ungrateful butt and attack her!" Babadi screamed.
Cell held his head in pain, catching everybody off guard.
"See what happens when you disobey Master Babadi?" Dabura smirked.
Cell continued to look in pain, but soon he finally calmed down and returned to his regular calm looking state and glared at Gohana, Gohana glaring back.
"Gohana, you and I will fight right now."
Dabura chuckled, it was about time he got his head on straight.
"No, Gohana you cant. We cant allow him to revive Majin Buu! With your energy, it's almost a guarantee if you fight him!"
Dabura casually backed down and went behind Cell. He was curious how this would turn out now! Gohana just kept glaring at Cell, but Shin was right! She didn't know how much her energy helped, but if she actually had to fight Cell she would most definitely have to go all out. Assuming her assumption earlier was correct. Though deep down she hoped she could easily overpower him without that.
"Not going to fight, huh? Did 16's words mean nothing to you after all these years?" he taunted.
Gohana glared even more agrily at him as her hair slightly rose a bit! How dare he bring 16 up after what he did to him!
"Gohana, calm down! He's just trying to bait you into fighting!" Shin stated the obvious.
"Is it that obvious! But I'm guessing that you're too terrified to fight me and reviving Majin Buu! You know it will happen if you do!" He smiled menacingly.
Gohana tried calming herself down, taking a few deep breaths. She couldn't let Cell bait her like this!
"Always such a disappointment. Hey, Babadi! Teleport us to the tournament grounds!"
Everyone was instantly on edge and very much ready to pounce, but before they could they all found themselves back at the tournament ring suddenly!
"Hey what the!" they heard Hercule behind them.
Soon the excitement from the crowd stopped, noticing a bunch of people suddenly appearing. Though the quickly noticed Cell and everyone quickly started screaming and trying to get away.
"Stay were you are or else I blow up this entire island!" Cell shouted and projected his voice so he was louder than the screams.
This quickly got everyone to not move, everybody was too terrified to even move! Or even speak! What was just moments ago so loud you couldn't even hear your own thoughts, the gentle breeze was now audible.
"That's better. Now then, Gohana. I think you know where this is going don't you." Cell stated without any hint of a questioning tone, more as a fact.
Gohana was just trembling, she knew exactly what he was doing! How can he so casually put innocent people at risk? She knew, he was willing to literally suck people dry and leave nothing to get stronger in his weaker forms. So putting innocent bystanders at risk was not even an afterthought for him.
"Hercule, teach him a lesson!" someone eventually shouted from the stands.
This quickly got more to start cheering for Hercule. Soon most of the stadium was in on the cheering. Seeing Cell again somehow, but their savior Hercule was right there. And Hercule looked terrified at this! Sure he knew what Cell could do, he saw it back then! And he knew it wasn't a trick either. What would he do?
"Wait, Hercule?" Cell raised an eye and glanced over to him, seeing him shivering with fear.
"Gohana!" He shouted at her! "You mean to tell me these morons believe that weakling idiot killed me?" he asked her.
This threw Gohana off a lot. He sounded rather angry about this! She wasn't even sure really how to even respond. She just stared at him in disbelief.
"Well? Answer me!"
"Um, yeah." She nodded.
How could they believe he was that one to kill him? Cell was visibly shaking with anger, his eyes slowly becoming bloodshot, before he took a deep breath.
"And that goody too shoes nature of yours allowed him to take it." He sounded disgusting.
He could tell from her reaction he hit the nail on the head. It was weird seeing Gohana more confused about him rather than angry. Still, he didn't really care what she though, but he would not let his name be dragged through the mud like this! He quickly appeared at Hercule and held him up by the throat while staring directly at Gohana.
"Let's correct that shall we." He said to her, Gohana suddenly looking worried!
"You morons seriously believe this idiot killed me?" he projected his voice again, Hercule trying to get out of his grasp. "Dont make me laugh! This idiot couldnt even put a scratch on me!"
He threw Hercule into the stands suddenly. But Gohana was able to quickly grab him mid air and take the blow against the stadium. She slammed into the stadium seats, traveling a few rows up from the momentum as the bleachers crumbled under the force. Luckily no one else was hurt.
"I got you." Gohana said as she let him go and stood up before looking over at Cell. Gohana returned to the ring, glaring at Cell.
"Gohana, transform right now!" Cell screamed.
Gohana was surprised at this.
"You're the one who killed me, not that fucking idiot! And I will not have my good name sullied like that! Now transform and show the world the power you killed me with!" he screamed so everyone could hear.
Without warning he blasted the stadium to the side of him to make his point. Gohana looked over in horror, how many people did he just kill to prove a point! And this was still being aired! She could see the live stream on a giant tv, and it was squarely on her.
"So, you refuse?" Cell held his hand up to the other side and charged up a ki blast.
"You have five seconds to go into that Super Saiyan form you killed me with or I'll start killing everybody!" he screamed.
"Gohana, you cant!" Shin tried to reason.
Gohana screamed as he ki erupted around her as she powered up. She didn't bother holding back much but soon she stood there with her aura blazing around her, lighting dancing around her as well as she glared at Cell. Even Dabura looked worried having stayed out of this interaction up to this point, sensing the history between these two prior.
"Leave them alone!" she threatened with a cold malicious voice! She didnt even care at the moment this was being broadcasted to the entire world.
"Ahhh, good." he stopped the ki blast. "This is your real savior everyone! The one who killed me and saved you, Son Gohana!" he announced, Gohana lightly tensing at that.
"And now you get to watch your last hope die!"
Cell quickly launched himself at Gohana, but Gohana blocked him with her forearm.
"Good, I see you didn't slack off!" Gohana retaliated by pushing him back.
"Babadi! Take us somewhere else deserted, you fucking bastard!" Gohana screamed into the sky knowing he was listening! Probably even watching.
"What, Gohana you cant be serious!" Shin screamed as he got in between Gohana and Cell.
"As powerful as Cell is, we cant let Majin Buu be revived! He's too dangerous!"
"Not another one of these sentimental buffoons. Lets change that shall we." He pointed and shot a Special Beam Cannon, right through Shins chest.
Shin quickly fell to the ground, having barely had time to register anything. Kabito quickly went over to him in horror, not wasting any time in trying to heal him. But he soon found he wasn't going to be able to do anything.
"No, Supreme Kai! That also mean that..." he trembled.
"Kabito, get Shin to the lookout! Lime, show him the way. Will revive Shin later with the Dragon Balls." Gohana coldly instructed him.
"Earth has Dragon Balls?" Kabito was shocked they even knew about them, let alone had some.
"Babadi! I said teleport us and I'll fight!" Gohana screamed again over everyone else screaming and scrambling, causing a mass panic.
Cell just crossed his arms and was smiling. He didnt care everyone around him was trying to stampede out of here! He was getting what he wanted! A rematch against Gohana! That's all that mattered to him!
Lime went over to Shin and Kabito and Shin was held in his arms.
"Put your hand on me and focus on this lookout." He instructed her. She placed her hands on his arm, thinking about the lookout. They soon vanished. Shortly after they disappeared, the rest of the fighters soon found themselves out in the middle of nowhere. Cell looked around and couldn't help but chuckle a little bit.
"Were back where we started. Looks a little bit like where we fought now that I think about it. Such fond memories wouldn't you say Gohana?" he smirked at her as they were near the ships entrance. A bit away but they could see it.
"Cell, lets get this over with and revive Majin Buu." Dabura walked up to his side, cracking his knuckles, smirking.
"You will stay out of this Dabura! This is between me and her." Cell glarred back at him.
"What did you say?" Dabura was surprised and looked over to Cell in disbelief.
"I said stay the hell out of my fight!" Cell threatened him.
"Master Babadi won-"
"Babadi can shove it! He only wants energy to revive Majij Buu. He gets that energy from me fighting her. And I only want to fight her. I will kill you where you stand if you dare interfere with me rematch!"
Dabura looked in shock at what was transpiring before him. How dare he talk about Master Babadi like that! Though a small part of him did agree, they needed energy. And if l Cell wanted out of this was to fight that girl, they'd still get energy for Majin Buu.
Taking a few steps back, he glanced over at Vegeta, who had remained oddly silent this whole time, though he was still that blond form of his.
"Hey spikey, you and I still have a fight to start ourselves." wanting to at least have some fun.
"Shove it up you ass." Vegeta powered down.
Krillin looked a little bit worried at the as Kabito suddenly appeared next to him again.
"Man don't do that suddely! You scared me!" Kirllin didnt like when Goku teleported right next to him, he still didnt like it.
"Supreme Kai is safe at the lookout. We need to use the Dragon Balls quickly to revive him." He said.
"We can revive him and everybody else once this is over." Krillin told him.
"No, we need to specifically revive him, immediately."
Krillin looked a bit confused, but right now he was more focused on the fight about to happen in front of him.
"So, Gohana. Are you ready?" Cell smirked and quickly powered up.
His ki shot up exponentially, causing a violent dust storm. Gohana was quickly caught off guard with the suddenness of it and took a powerful punch to the gut. She doubled over in pain, before quickly grabbing his shoulders and slamming him down hard into her knee, returning the blow.
Cell just smirked once the pain wasn't as sharp and threw a punch at Gohana's face. Gohana was able to block it with her arm. She quickly grabbed his fist and slammed her feet into his side, causing Cell to go flying. Gohana speed after him and slammed her fist into him, causing Cell to slam into the ground. His momentum continued though as he flipped around and kicked upwards at Gohana's stomach. Goahan tried bracing but it still hurt like hell!
"Glad we didnt slack off from our training." Vegeta spoke up.
"Yeah, I'll say. That Dabura guy feels bad enough. Do you think he'll jump in?"
"He may, I'm keeping an eye on him."
Dabura was more so glaring at them, rather than watching the fight. He could easily handle them, he was sure of it! But he knew he was weaker than Cell, and so far he was going toe to toe with that girl who seemed to be able to keep up! He had to wait for the right momeent, and he would come in and assist, wither Cell liked it or not.
Cell shot a ki blast right at Gohana's face, causing her to block it, but the forced caused her to slam into the rocks behind her as she indented into it.
"Man, if I hadn't kept training I'd probably have been dead from just that first blow!" Gohana floated forward a bit and quickly charged her energy up more.
Cell, not wanting to give her much time to power up, slammed her back into the rocks behind her. He repeatedly kept slamming her in the gut over and over and they were being pushed deeper into the mountain, until the entire thing cracked and started crumbling around them. With nothing to resist her, Gohana went flying from Cells punches.
She was able to stop herself in the air as she wiped away the blood from her lips a bit. She had to admit though, a small part of her was enjoying this fight already! She had noticed over the years sparring with Vegeta, she had slowly grown to love the thrill of fighting. She suddenly had an odd sense she understood her dad a little bit more.
Cell teleported right behind her and slammed Gohana in the back with a kick. It hurt like a bitch, as Gohana went flying back the way she came from, but she flipped over and shot back a Masenko at him. Cell just held his hand out and caught it, not minding the explosion that followed. Looking at his hand he noticed it looked a bit banged up.
"Just from that little blast, huh?" He clenched his fist and smiled. Yes, this is what he wanted!
Videl was quickly making her way to Capsule Corp. She felt bad she couldn't be much help, but she also knew her power and limits. And she was still so new to this. She was ready to handle city level threats, but not universal threats!
She was close to her destination when she quickly saw two ki trails headed towards her. She quickly recognized Goten's energy having spent a lot of time with him, but she wasn't so sure of the other. They both stopped once they got to her.
"Videl! What happened to Gohana?" Goten wasted no time.
"She's fine Goten, he's healed up." she quickly tried to comfort Goten.
It worked and he just sighed with relief. He didn't watch the stream any longer after they saw Gohana get stabbed. And Vegeta had almost instantly flown off, ordering them to not follow. Obviously they hadn't listened.
"You didn't answer what's going on!" Trunks pointed out annoyed.
"Someone's trying to revive someone called Majin Buu. He's supposed to he a huge threat."
"Whoa really" Trunks sounded a bit excited.
"This isn't something to he excited about! The entire world's in danger!"
"Really? We wanna help then!" Goten enthusiastically exclaimed.
Videl wasn't sure what to do. They were just kids! She knew Goten was stronger than her, heck he was stronger than Lime and she was apparently strong enough to go help! No, they were just kids!
"Goten you cant be serious! This isn't a game!" Videl tried to reason with him.
"Hey Goten, I can sense their ki stopped. They must be at wherever they're going. Wanna race?" Trunks said.
"You're on Trunks!"
Videl watched as they both went Super Saiyan and speed off insanely fast. So that other kid was so a Saiyan, that must have been Trunks! She knew he looked familiar! She'd seen him a few times at Capsule Corp but never really interacted with him. But should she chase them?
She didn't want to be in any more danger than she needed to be and make Gohana worry though. She quickly speed back off to Capsule Corp. She could at least inform Chichi and Bulma what was going on.
She quickly noticed another ki coming at her.
"Raina?" Videl stopped in the air, Raina quickly stopping at her as well.
"Videl! Trunks and Goten went off!" she sounded worried.
Videl didnt really know what to say, but she just sighed.
"I just ran into them, but they just speed off. I couldn't stop them."
"What, but Vegeta told us to stay put! Why would they just leave like that?"
"Boys will be boys." Videl sounded annoyed.
"Boys are idiots! Videl I need to get them back. Can you apologize to mom! And that I'll bring them both back?" Raina quickly powered up to Super Saiyan 2 and speed of towards them.
Videl was still getting used to just how powerful these kids were! She knew she couldn't catch them, and they were better equipped to handle themselves. She wanted to be useful, and right now that meant getting to Capsule Corp, so she speed back off towards there.
Cell found himself on the defensive as Gohana was quickly throwing a flurry of punches and kicks at him. She had slowly been raising her ki during their fight. Good, he wanted a fun challenge.
He teleported just as Gohana was about to land a punch, and Gohana quickly tried finding his ki.
"Damn it where are you hiding?" She said and tried to also check if she could see him.
Gohana quickly crossed her arms above her head as Cell's leg slammed into them, sending her back to the ground. Cell followed Gohana as he returned to the ground as well.
"I must say Gohana I'm impressed." he started clapping.
"Fphhh, I dont need your approval Cell!" She spat at him.
"Ah, cold. Just like then. If I recall that's exactly how you got your father killed!"
Cell didnt even have time to react as Gohana was instantly at him, her fist slamming into his face as he fell to the ground. Gohana started repeatedly slamming her fists into his torso.
"Shut up, you son of bitch!" she screamed as she kept punching him hard, sending him deeper into the ground with each punch.
Cell was surprise at this and was struggling to find a way to react. He had to think of something. Though he didn't need to wait long. Gohana quickly bounced away as Dabura slashed at her with his sword.
"Cell, stop playing around and get her energy! We can't use yours!"
Cell looked pissed off as he got up, glaring at Dabura.
"Just what the hell do you think you're doing?" he demanded of the demon.
"If you wont get the energy we need, then I'll just do it myself!" he got into a stance with his sword.
"In case you hadn't noticed but were both pretty banged up. I'm pretty sure Babadi is getting the stupid energy he needs. Now get the hell out of my way!"
Gohana got into her stance, worried she would have to fight them both off! Cell was already stronger than she though, and she couldn't risk going all out either and having just the power up give energy to Babadi. But if she had to fight them both she wouldn't have a choice!
Vegeta quickly slammed his foot into Dabura, sending the demon lord into a nearby mountain.
"Your fight is with me you freak, not her!"
"Well Vegeta I must say I'm rather surprised at you. Sure you don't want to take a shot at me as well?" she smirked, trying to appease his Saiyan pride.
Vegeta just glarred at him and scowled.
"I'd like nothing more to get revenge on you for what you did to Trunks. But this is Gohana's fight." he turned towards where Dabura was.
Was Vegeta being serious? He couldn't fathom why he was turning down an opportunity for a challenge. What has happened these past seven years?
"Gohana, stop playing around and fight for real." Vegeta said and quickly went off to fight Dabura.
Cell noticed this line and looked over at Gohana.
"So, you have been holding back like I thought.
"You are to!" Gohana just glared at him.
"I must admit, I am. Though to be honest I wasn't sure just how much more powerful you had become. You see, I got a pretty nice power boost once Babadi revived me. Add to that he unlocked my dormant potential. I didn't want this to end so soon." he smirked.
Gohana looked a bit worried. If he got a power boost, and the jump he got was like what she and Krillin got on Namek, this wasn't good.
"Fine, you want to fight me seriously?" Gohana said and started powering up. "Then go all out right now."
"Oh I will I assure you!" Cell started powering up hard.
Cell focused all his effort on powering up as much as he could. He knew it was the only way to get Gohana to take him seriously. And he didn't truly care if he died again or not. He just wanted to try again against Gohana. Gohana quickly kept her power raising as well. She made sure to power up past him.
"No way, Cell's this much more powerful!" Krilling was worried.
"I wouldn't worry." Piccolo said somewhat calmly. "If this really is Cells new maximum power than Gohana doesnt have anything to worry about. If we can buy her a few minutes."
"Huh, a few minutes?"
Gohana didnt want to waste any time in finishing Cell. Yes she was worried about letting Majin Buu be revived, but what did it matter if they were all killed anyway. She had to go all out. She kept powering up even past Cell and quickly starting going at him!
Cell was surprised at how sudden this was but he had to admit he was having a good time.
"So, are you really the king of anything?" Vegeta taunted Dabura as he came out of the rubble.
"And just who are you to speak to a king like that?" Dabura retorted. Vegeta just smirked.
"Oh, you think just because you are a king that impresses me? Don't make me laugh!" Vegeta smirked.
"You'll regret those words." Dabura was quickly surrounded by dark purple energy as he powered up. He powered up far more than Vegeta expected though he would.
Using this surprise to his advantage, Dabura quickly speed forward and started attacking Vegeta. He got a few good hits on him before Vegeta quickly able to start keeping up with him. This surprised Dabura. He had thought Cell was kidding about their power, but it seems he had not.
Dabura was without his sword right now so he would have to rely on hi s fighting skills without it. He tried punching Vegeta in the gut but it missed as Vegeta followed up with his knee in Daburas stomach instead. Vegeta spun around and slammed his other foot into his face, sending Dabura away.
Vegeta quickly continued the assault on him. He was slightly unimpressed right now, but he had his suspicions Dabura wasnt going all out. Good, neither was he!
"Piccolo, can we do anything to get them to end this quickly! I fear they are giving too much energy to Majin Buu!" Kabito asked with a worried tone
Piccolo just looked over to him, and looked a bit unsure.
"Maybe, but unfortunately it would require us to buy Gohana several minutes. And I dont think any of us could get her that much time. So not likely."
"Still it's worth a shot, right? I mean besides what could Gohana do with a few minutes?" Krillin asked.
"It doesn't matter. I doubt even if all of us joined Vegeta we couldn't make it happen." Piccolo said.
"Still we must try! Whatever this is could it beat them?" Kabito asked.
"Yeah, absolutely." Piccolo sounded so sure.
"Then we gotta try."
Vegeta kept slamming Dabura into the ground, trying to stay out of Gohana's fight. Though that was easier said than done. Numerous times one of them would get flung last the two, nearly hitting them. It was unintended but unavoidable as well.
Vegeta just smirked, even after Dabura powered up again, and Vegeta could tell it was his max, simply going Super Saiyan 2 was all he needed to do.
"I must admit, you are pretty powerful. But you're no match for me." he smirked.
Dabura was worried. Even after all that training he and Cell did, he though himself invincible yet he was having a hard time with this one! He had gotten in plenty of good blows though. Though it was obvious he couldn't get much more from him.
Gohana noticed Vegeta seemed to be handling himself against Dabura but she had to admit she wasn't having as easy of a time against Cell. She still had the upper hand a bit, but he had been getting in some pretty solid hits as well. There was no telling when Majin Buu would be revived!
Cell teleported in front of her again, and caused Gohana to go flying back into Vegeta. Both saiyans were annoyed at this and they both got back up. Vegeta glaring at Dabura, and Gohana at Cell.
"Having a hard time there?" Vegeta asked Gohana.
Gohana just glared at Cell. She was having a hard time. He would just power up any time she did.
"Yeah, he's s been training clearly." Gohana was breathing heavily.
"What should we do?" Vegeta asked, wanting her input.
"We dont know how much longer until Buu is revived. But we have to end this quick. If Buu is stronger than these guys, we rely are in a lot of trouble.
Babadi was just watching through his crystal , enjoying watching them gathering energy. Though he was annoyed by how little they were getting hurt, it still helped.
"Damn it what can I do to give them an edge! Those two fighters are beyond all calculations! Still, as long as we can get-" He was cut off by repeated beeping noise.
Looking over at Buus egg, he noticed the gauge had gone down? How had it gone down? It was at nearly eighty percent earlier! How could? He saw the needle tick ever so slightly and it hit him, it didn't go down at all! it went past full and was at one hundred and fifty one percent! These fighters were barely getting hurt but that still gave off that much energy!
"Oh my yes yes! Majin Buu will be awakened!" he started cackling
Back on the battlefield, Gohana and Vegeta were trying to figure out a strategy. What could they do? They had to think of something.
"Got any tricks up your sleeve you and Piccolo have been working on?" he asked.
"Id...need like five minutes to do it."
"Its not that spirit bomb thing is it?" Vegeta asked, not even sure watching else it could be.
"No, its..." Gohana and Vegeta immediately tensed as they suddenly felt it.
Cell did as well as all three of them just stared in the same direction. Dabura was lost by what they were doing. He glanced over at the three non combatants, they were all looking in the same direction. And all of them, except Cell who just looked annoyed, looked terrified. Looking in that direction, he didnt see anything.
'Wait, these beings can sense energies like Cell. Could it be?'
They were not too far from the entrance to Babadi's ship and they could see him emerging from the door with a wicked grin on his face. Behind him stepped out a large fat pink looking creature. Gohana and Vegeta were just staring in disbelief.
"No way...is...that..." Vegeta stuttered.
"Majin Buu?" Gohana finished his sentence, terrified at how strong his ki was.
"Wow, it bright!" Buu childishly said as he brought his hand up over his eyes as he looked around.
"Yes I imagine it would be after being in a sealed dark ball. Now Buu, you see thsoe two with the blond hair?" Babadi pointed towards Gohana and Vegeta.
"Oh, hahaha, she looks funny!" he started clapping.
"She wants to put you back in that ball I just released you from. You don't want that do you?"
Buu immediately stopped smiling and looked angrily at her.
"What, mean girl put Buu back in ball?" Buu released steam from vents along his body.
"Yes, now go and take care of them!"
Everyone was in shock at how powerful his ki is, Shin was right! They should have taken it more seriously despite how weak Babadi's minions had been! But now it was too late.
Buu started hoping towards Gohana and Vegeta a bit, but he just grinned and full speed head butted Gohana from the far distance.
Gohana was so in surprise she didnt even have time to ready hersf as she started skidding along the ground. She got a hold of her senses and quickly caught herself on the ground but was surprised Buu was right there in front of her.
"What the!" Gohana started punching Buu, though now she let her energy spike rapidly. She obviously didnt have to worry about accidentally giving Buu energy because he was right in front of her. Gohana hoped back after many punches but had a puzzled look on her face as Buu suddenly looked like she was punching bread dough.
Buu just looked down at his now misshapen torso. He just rubbed where his belly would have been and felt it indented. He quickly tensed his stomach and it popped back to normal.
Vegeta snapped out of his shock and surprise and quickly went to try and help Gohana, but Cell teleported in front of him.
"Now now Vegeta, its my turn to play with you! Be a good little prince and keep us company would you."
Gohana could see Cell blocking Vegeta from getting to her. She needed his help! They had to go at this together! She quickly sprinted around Buu and got to Cell before punching him away as hard as she could. Since Cell hadn't raised his power level any more, Gohana vastly overpowered him.
"Vegeta, we gotta beat this thing and fast!" Gohana shouted.
Vegeta looked up and saw Buu flying at her, and he quickly shoved her aside as he slammed his fist into Buu's face, his arm just going into Buu. Vegeta quickly recoiled his hand from her as Buu just reformed his head.
"Wow you two strong. Let's keep going!" He punched both of them in the face.
Neither were prepared for how strong his strikes would be, and both were in a lot of pain. At least now they could be ready for it.
"Fuck, i didn't expect him to be so strong." Vegeta spat out some blood.
"Vegeta, we have to think about the possibility of Cell and Dabura fighting alongside Buu." Gohana pointed out.
This made Vegeta shudder. Just this thing in front of them seemed unimaginably strong, even he had to admit if Cell or Dabura jumped in they'd be dead. If this thing didn't kill them first.
"What do we do then?"
"Vegeta, I need you to try and buy me a couple minutes!" Gohana desperately asked.
"You mean to try whatever it is you were talking about earlier?"
"Yes." she looked a bit nervous, Vegeta picking up on this.
"Fine, but try to hurry it up."
Gohana quickly got to the ground and quickly let her power erupt around her as she tried to power up fast. Cell immediately slammed his foot into her, causing her to go flying.
"Dont think its that easy Gohana!" Cell taunted her.
"Krillin, we have to try buying Gohana some time to finish powering up!" Piccolo threw his weighted turban and shoulders pads down and flew off to fave Cell.
"Ah man, what's he expect me to do?" Krillin complained, but flew off anyway.
Kabito was just in shock, they had no hope left.
Gohana just caught herself and got back to teying to power up as fast as she could! Luckily that blow didnt cause her ki to go down. But if Cell was going to continue this, she wasnt sure if she could do this!
Piccolo caught up to her and powered up himself.
"We're going to try and buy you the time you need for whatever you're doing!" Krillin said as he soon got to her as well.
Gohana nodded and quickly went back to trying to powering up.
Cell noticed this and just laughed a bit.
"A foolish game for you both to play. Especially with the two of us here!" Cell smirked at them, Dabura realizing he really could sense energies as he got close.
"Doesn't matter, we don't need to kill you!" Piccolo snarled and lunged at Cell, Krillin futilely following up at Dabura.
Dabura just swatted Kirllin away and went right at Gohana. He grabbed her and slammed her fave first into the ground, as he repeatedly kept slamming her face first into it. Krillin was able to get the jump on him and kick his hand hard, releasing Gohana who bolted away as fast as she could to resume. She was really taking damage and getting hurt trying to power up. But at the moment, it seemed like their only hope.
"Nimble little bug aren't you!" Dabura commented as she scattered away.
Piccolo kept trying to block Cell, but combine his speed, as well his teleportation, he wasn't having much luck! Cell got around him and went straight after Gohana, kicking her as hard as he could in the stomach. Gohana doubled over in pain, having the wind knocked out of her as she fell to her hands and knees coughing.
She glared up at Cell, she needed to get away from him!
Vegeta didnt stop his barrage against Buu. It didnt matter it just left indents on his body, only to go away as if nothing happened.
"Just what the hell are you!" he commented.
Buu just laughed as if nothing had been going on and started his own flurry of punches at Vegeta. Almost every strike was hitting, and Vegeta could really fell every single blow! How were they going to beat this thing?
Vegeta managed to block a few and got far enough away, as he charged up his ki in his hands.
"Galicl Gun!" He shot his ki right at center mass! If he couldn't hurt Buu with physical blows, he would have to do it with ki!
Buu didnt even block it, but took the blast to his stomach as it shot right through him. Vegeta grinned at this! Maybe he could end it right here! When Vegeta finished, he saw the huge hole he left in Buu's stomach.
"Was it seriously that easy?" He said under his breath.
Buu stuck his hand inside the new hole in his body and just laughed it off. The empty space soon filled with the pink goo that made his body, and he looked back to normal.
"No way! He can regenerate?"
Buu held his hands in a similar manner to Vegeta and shot his own Galick Gun right at Vegeta. Vegeta barely had time to brace for it as it hit him dead on, causing a massive explosion.
Vegeta was panting, he had barely gone at it with this thing and already he was this hurt and exhausted? He never felt this way even fighting Gohana!
"You fun! Lets keep playing!" Buu said cheerfully as he head-butted Vegeta.
Gohana kept trying to power up as fast as she could, but she was barely getting anywhere! And it didnt help it was mainly Piccolo even trying, Krillin being obviously injured. Piccolo had used the multi form to attack both Dabura and Cell together, bit this only cause dit to be harder. Gohana was so focused she wasn't even defending herself! If she couldn't pull this off they were as good as dead! She had to do it! No matter how badly she was getting injured.
Vegeta eventually slammed into Gohana, both battered and breathing heavily. Gohana got up and just trembling from pain.
"Damn it."
Cell was casually making his way to Gohana.
"Come on Gohana, got some hidden power trying to pull out like last time?" he mocked her.
"Damn it, got any bright ideas left?" Vegeta asked her.
Gohana held her stomach in pain. She was out of ideas! She knew she couldn't pull off what she was trying since she couldn't power up fast enough. She hadn't even gotten close and she was having less and less time between attacks. Damn it, what was the point in mastering it if she couldn't even power up fast enough to be useful in actual combat!
"No...I can't do it fast enough!" she was trying to catch her breath.
Dabura was handling both Piccolo's with ease at this point as Cell just made his way towards them, Buu as well from the other side.
"I didn't think Buu would be this tough." She grunted. She was battered, as was Vegeta. And Piccolo and Krillin couldn't help anymore.
"Well, let's at least try something." Vegeta grunted as he held his arm.
"Trying to figure out something are you?" Cell said and held his hands out making a ki blast, smirking.
Looking behind her, Buu was getting close, just laughing. He seemed amused by what Cell was doing and was following suit.
"I'm down for one last attempt. You ready?" She asked, Vegeta nodding and getting ready , neither really having any idea what they'd do.
Goten quickly slammed hard into Cells stomach, sending him away from Gohana and Vegeta, Trunks quickly following up with his feet into Buu's face.
"Hey, leave them the hell alone you freak!" Trunks tried acting tough. Vegeta and Gohana both looked in horror, what were they doing here?
"Trunks, what the hell do you think you are doing?" Vegeta demanded.
Cell held his stomach, getting caught off guard did hurt. He looked over and was surprised! It looked like a little Trunks and Goku were with them? Oh of course, Trunks must be the one from this timeline, not his own. And that little Goku has to be his kid.
"Calling in backup I see." He got up, then looked up noticing another one coming.
"Trunks, Goten! Mom and Bulma are so mad at you! Get back to Capsule Corp!" Raina yelled at them.
"What are you three doing here!" Gohana yelled at them. "You need to leave right now! This isn't safe!"
"But we saw you get stabbed and wanted to help!" Goten defended them.
"Yeah, besides we just saved you two. Cant you at least be a little grateful" Trunks acted all cocky.
"Oh, some reinforcements I see. Well it doesn't matter! They can bring hundreds and it wouldn't matter. Dabura! Cell! Finish those three off! But keep those two you've been fighting alive to watch!" Babadi commanded.
Gohana's eyes widened in shock and then turned back to them.
"Get the hell out of here, now!" She yelled at them, shocking both Goten and Raina! They had never seen her angry like this!
Raina grabbed a hold of Goten and Trunks and tried to get them moving. But neither of them were budging.
Dabura appeared besides them in an instant aiming to hit Trunks. Vegeta moved before he could even think, slamming his fist into Daburas face looking pissed.
"Kids, get the hell out of here!" He yelled at them and got into his stance between them!
Cell was struggling, holding his head in extreme pain. Gohana was glaring at him, ready for whatever he did. Was this some new technique? But he just stood there, trying to resist.
"Not...again...This..."
"Cell, stop arguing and start attacking those kids! Now!" Babadi repeated.
Cell doubled over in pain again before suddenly calming down and standing up calmly. He looked at Gohana, then at Raina. But it seemed like, he had been fighting this? He teleported next to everyone and slammed his fist into Raina, causing her to slam into the ground. Gohana wasted no time and kicking Cell away from her.
"Raina, are you okay?" Gohana asked worried.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Raina climbed out from the rubble and rubbed her stomach.
"Then get out of here now!" Gohana yelled at her.
Vegeta managed to block a strike from Dabura, trying to take another crack at Trunks. But Cell quickly followed up and grabbed Vegeta's hand and twisted it and pushed Vegeta face first into the ground.
"Calm now, Vegeta. Babadi ordered it and it shall be done." he smirked.
Gohana kicked Cell away from Vegeta as Trunks shot a ki blast for good measure at Cell. He wouldn't let someone hurt his dad.
"They sure seem more energized once protecting those three." Dabura commented.
Cell glared back at Gohana! He was scared a bit, though not fully. But what would happen if she snapped like last time. He resisted a little bit again as Dabura continued the assault. Vegeta and Gohana did their best to protect the kids, Goten and Trunks still refusing to leave.
"Dad, we're not going to leave you two alone! We're here to help!"
"I know that Trunks but leave now!" Vegeta demanded.
"But dad, I-" Trunks couldn't even finish his statement as he was doubled over in pain, Gohana's fist having slammed into his stomach.
"This is not a fucking joke now fucking get out of here!" Gohana screamed at him, terrifying the kids. Even Cell looked surprised Gohana would attack him like that to get him to listen.
"Okay...I get...it. We'll go." Trunks admitted defeat. He had seen Gohana angry before but not like this. And never directed at him!
"If you think we will let them leave you have another thing coming." Dabura charged at them.
Gohana and Vegeta were still both badly hurt and neither could react as fast as they should. Dabura was able to grab Goten by the head and repeatedly slam him fist into his stomach, causing him to fall out of Super Saiyan. Gohana was quickly able to stop this though as her ki started spiking in rage.
She grabbed Daburas fist, and followed it up with returning back what he was doing to Goten. Goten now free, tried crawling away, he needed a few moments to catch his breath. But Cell shot a blast towards him.
Vegeta was able to deflect it as well, also enraged. Though his anger didn't give him nearly the boost it gave Gohana, he was still on a second wind again. With Dabura the closest, Gohana let his hand go and Vegeta slammed his foot as hard as he could into Dabura's stomach. Raising his fists above his head, Vegeta slammed them down as hard as he could into Daburas face, the ground shattering as he hit.
Goten could finally catch his breath, as the three Saiyans quickly took to the sky trying to get away. But Cell didn't let them. He simply teleported in front of them, causing them to stop in fear.
"Just were do you think you are going children?" he said before blasting all three of them back down to the ground.
They all landed hard, and all three were visibly scared now. Vegeta and Gohana quickly got to them before Dabura or Cell could attack them again.
"Will try making a diversion. You three, wait for an opening and make a run for it!" Vegeta looking over at Cell, Gohana back at Dabura. Both of their ki's were surging around them as electric arcs violently arching around them.
"It seems we have to step it up a bit. Buu, would you mind helping them?" Babadi asked.
Buu just sat down playing with some pebbles.
"Nahh, Buu have fun here."
"What? Listen to me you bloated buffoon. I am your master!" Babadi demanded, Buu just ignoring him.
With Gohana and Vegeta attacking Dabura and Cell, the kids tried making a break for it. But they couldn't get very far as this time Dabura got to them, ready to shoot them point blank. The three of them managed to scatter and avoid the beam though, but they had to try going another direction. They were too scared to scatter, they had quickly realized how bad a situation this was, especially if Gohana snapped like that! They tried staying together.
A Galick gun hit Dabura point blank, and Vegeta was soon on Dabura, repeatedly hitting him before sending him hurtling towards the ground. But Dabura caught himself and shot an even stronger beam at them, which Vegeta countered with a follow up Galick gun. The two beams clashed, giving the kids a shot at getting away again.
"Give it up, you won't save them!" Dabura mocked him.
Vegeta looked even angrier now.
"I'll die before I let you hurt my son!" Vegeta pushed more ki into his blast as he screamed at the top of his lungs
"Yes, that's the point!" Dabura pushed back even more, overpowering Vegeta's beam being not as exhausted and battle damaged.
"What were you two thinking!" Raina asked as they tried making a break for it while Vegeta kept Dabura busy.
"I was worried about Nee chan!" Goten looked back crying. Raina didnt blame him, she wanted to blast off immediately to help as well.
They couldn't make it very far as they were all quickly blinded out of nowhere. They screamed in pain as they covered their eyes, trying to get the pain from the solar flare to go away. Cell had managed to teleport to them again, and before Gohana could get there he had temporarily blinded them. Cell grabbed Trunks and threw him back into the fight, as he shot a weak blast at Goten and Raina to do the same. Gohana diverted from targeting Cell to get to the kids.
"Are you guys alright?" She asked worried, Vegeta slamming into the ground next to them.
Gohana was looking around. All that training, and they couldn't even handle this? She looked back at the kids, as they were starting to get their vision back.
'Dad, what do I do?' she though to herself looking terrified.
"Gohana, this is your fault." Cell taunted her, as she just glared back at him. Not expecting him to teleport next to her.
Gohana didn't even think and started attacking Cell again, but he was able to keep up with her. He recognized this pattern from last time to, and he suddenly tensed and stopped again, as Gohana didnt let up beating him to a pulp.
"You three, go now!" Vegeta blasted the ground to make a smoke shield, having figured out that Dabura probably couldn't sense ki, and Cell being busy with Gohana. This was their best time to get out they've had yet.
The three of them flew away as fast as they could as Vegeta got ready to cover their exit, but soon realized he couldn't see Dabura. He quickly looked around.
'The kids!' Piccolo screamed in Gohana's and Vegeta's mind having been watching this whole time but able to even move from his injuries. They looked up and panicked as Dabura had cut them off again.
"Well kids, this is it. Time to end this little game." Dabura smiled evily at them, the three young Saiyan's to terrified to move.
He pulled back his hand and aimed at Trunks, not holding back this time. Before his fist could hit Trunks, Raian had pushed him out of the way. Dabura' fist slammed into Raina just below her neck, sending her flying to the ground.
"Raina!" Gohana shrieked in terror.
Dabura spit and hit Goten's hand as he tried blocking it from hitting his face, before Dabura sent both Trunks and Goten into the ground
Gohana watched as Raina hit the ground hard, as her body started violently shaking and trembling. Gohana was quickly at her side, and her face went pale seeing her little sister like this. She knew what happened, and she was helpless watching her sisters limp body shaking and convulsing, as her eyes were staring off into nothing with a blank expression. Gohana's face went pale, she couldn't do anything!
Goten and Trunks hit the ground soon, Gohana couldn't stop crying staring at Raina feeling helpless. She suddenly heard Goten start screaming in horror. SHE looked over and saw his hand slowly going grey, and Goten looked like he was trying to bat away whatever was happening away. The greyness traveled up his arm and he just kept trying to get away from his own.
"Nee chan I'm scared! Please help me! Ple--"
Gohana watched and saw the terror in Goten face permanently frozen. Even his tears were solidified. Gohana eyes wpuldnt atop tearing.
Kabito appeared with Lime. Lime looked shocked at what she was seeing but quickly ran to Piccolo and Krillin. Kabito quickly made his way over to Goten and Raina, and once Lime was back holding onto Trunks, he teleported them wall away. They had immediately realized what to do in their own way. The kids were out of the battlefield, but Gohana just stood there frozen, unable to look away at where Goten and Raina just were. Even though they weren't there anymore, as she had seen Kabito teleport them away, she could still see her brothers terrified face and her sister's convulsing dying body.
"Gohana, come on we need to get out of here to think of something." Krillin got next to her, healed from the senzu beans Lime brought.
But Gohana wouldn't budge. Piccolo got next to them as well. He was healed too, but they only had two beans so none left for Gohana or Vegeta.
Vegeta was at least glad Trunks got away. But he was still pissed as he just glared at the ground. They want to run? There had to be something. But he knew there was nothing.
"Dabura, what have you done." Cell muttered to himself under his breath, still struggling to fight off Babadi.
Dabura landed near everyone with an evil smile.
"Oh, looks like I caught a nerve." He noticed Gohana's state of being, having been the strongest of the group, she was now a sniffling little girl in his eyes.
"Goten...Raina...I...I..." Gohana struggled to breath. Or even see clearly through her emotions and tears as she started to hyperventilate.
Everyone got ready try and do anything as Dabura walked closer to then. Even Vegeta knew they couldn't hold them off for long. Even with Piccolo and Krilling back to full strength, without Gohana they didn't stand a chance!
Dabura stopped and looked between everybody. He was enjoying this, and if Cell was going to repeatedly disobey Master Babadi and not enjoy this, the more for him! He raised his hands up and started charging a blast aimed in their general direction.
"Three down, but who's next?"
A blood curdling scream erupted through the battlefield, and it was only made even worse that it was also echoing off the rocks around them! Everyone was pushed back a little bit but they could all hear Gohana's screams as a torrent of ki shot upward. It gave everyone goosebumps. Not from the power, but just Gohana's scream! But her exponentially spiking energy was also scarring them! Gohana vanished as the ground around where she was destroyed. They couldn't see Gohana anywhere, but the scream could still momentarily be heard for a moment.
They barely had time to register anything before they heard a loud booming noise where Dabura had been as he quickly hit up into the sky. Everyone was in shock at the energy they felt, even Cell had taken notice of this and was terrified.
"What the hell is this?" Vegeta asked Piccolo.
"This...is just like at the bank!" Krillin recognized this, whatever it was!
Dabura quickly fell from the sky and hit the ground hard, Gohana quickly appearing next to him, grabbing him by his shirt. She picked him up while almost growling at him and started brutally slamming him over and over , and over into the ground, shaking the earth each time.
Kabito teleported next to everyone again, having got the kids to the Lookout. Piccolo was the only one to notice, the rest were dumbfounded watching what was unfolding, and staring at Gohana. What was this?
"Are the kids safe?" Piccolo asked worried.
"Yes, I healed the girl, and the other boy will be fine. But the boy who is stone, the only way to heal him is to kill Dabura." Kabito was watching as was everyone else.
Gohana held up Dabura and glared at him, her aura still surging intensely. Dabura was to dumbfounded, and hurt, to even know what to do! Gohana scowled at him as she slammed him once more into the ground before throwing him up into the sky.
Gohana was breathing heavily, more like grunting, with rage. She raised her arms up and started shooting energy blasts straight at Dabura. Every single one hit their mark, as Dabura struggled to even respond to them. When he finally stopped getting hit, he floated there and tried to ready himself for the next assault. But he didnt see her on the ground. But he didn't have any time to even brace from Gohana slamming him back at the ground. He hit the ground so hard it shook the ground and caused a dust storm.
Gohana landed in front of everyone, making sure she was between them and Dabura. Everyone watched as her aura kept surging, causing her now knee length hair to flow wildly behind her. It was obvious that she was breathing heavily from how hers torso and arms moved with each breath.
"Piccolo, what...is this?" Kabito finally asked, everyone looking at Piccolo as they suddenly noticed he seemed more proud than shocked. He knew what this was?
Piccolo just smirked as he crossed his arms. He was upset it took something this for her to figure it out how to transform quickly and not take several minutes, but he was proud none the less she got the last key to making this a viable option in battle.
"We've been calling this Super Saiyan 3."