After learning from Bulma about the time machine sighting, I immediately, right after getting our android allies to Capsule Corporation in order to get looked at, I then went to Ginger Town effective immediately, but keeping my energy hidden all the while. I then got on my Scouter... and I saw the numbers of a certain bad guy that was already in said town. As well as numerous small powers that were disappearing quickly.
"Oh no, he doesn't!" I shouted as I ran as fast as I could to the area and, when I finally got to the city, it was just in time for Cell to only have two different people left in the town to absorb, aside from the newspeople. And just looking at their energies? I knew who they were and HAD to save them! It was Hercule's wife and daughter! I rushed in before Cell could stick his stinger into Videl and slashed off the tail in an instant, Cell shouting in pain as I then punched the bastard in the face to the point he got decked into the nearest building.
"W-What the?! D-Did you save us?" asked Videl's mom while Videl, who was about 12 at this time, looked at me in concern.
"You need to get out of here as fast as possible," I said, them nodding.
"Y-You don't have to tell us twice! Come on, Videl, we need to go!" Videl's mom said as the duo then ran off with Videl crying and for Cell to only then emerge from the building and he looked at me in anger.
"Hmph. You've actually made this easier for me, little miss Sally Sawyers," he said, me gasping at that.
"Y-You know my name?!" I gawked.
"Indeed, I do. Though I must say, I'm surprised you knew exactly where to find me. That said, I'm sure you don't know about this!" he smirked as he then did something... that made me look on in astonishment. He proceeded to grow his body to the size of the skyscraper, me gasping at this as he then looked out towards the distance and I saw exactly who he was looking at. He was looking at Hercule's family!
"DON'T!" I shouted as I grew giant in an instant in order to stop his freshly regrown tail from slamming into the car that the duo of mother and daughter were in! And I only had barely enough time to do this! Cell then diverted his attention to me, him attempting to slam the stinger through the Katchin armor... and being shocked at how it couldn't go through.
"Nice try, monster!" I shouted at him as I then zapped him with an exhaustion beam, him gasping after as he then immediately reverted to normal size... and then I immediately shrunk down to match him... and only then did the new-and-improved Piccolo appear, which Cell looked at him with a smile. He then proceeded to form his hands in the stance.
"T-That stance... no... it can't be!" Piccolo gasped. I then sensed it... and it was overwhelming with Goku's power! He then did the thing.
"Ka... Me... Ha... Me... HAAAA!" he shouted as he sent out the Kamehameha at Piccolo, it hitting the Namekian and him then retreating to the sky. Cell then hid his power and zoomed up to me, specifically, and sent his stinger into my arm! I gasped at the feeling before then sending my fingers behind the bastared and forcing a powerful blast at his left side! It was enough to stop him from sucking no less than 1K power from my arm, me gawking at how it felt weaker... and less strong. I growled at him doing this and he then aimed for Piccolo... but not before zapping me with my own paralysis attack!
"And now, the MAIN COURSE!" Cell snickered as he then sucked from Piccolo's left arm! He managed to get at least 5K from this arm before Piccolo slammed his head into Cell and escaped his grasp, him being in pain as his left arm was drained to a shrivel of its former self.
"Well, it looks like the tables have turned, haven't they?" Cell asked with a snicker, me frowning at that.
"It appears that they have..." I growled, him smirking after. "We can't keep our balance in a battle anymore... not after what you just did to us," I growled, the monster smiling at me.
"Ahhh. You both know that your fate is sealed. But you should be happy! With the amount of power you two possess, you'll practically fuel my evolution! Just perfect!" he smiled. Piccolo caught on and proceeded to play along.
"Rgh.. before you add us to your collection... answer our questions. Just what sort of freak are you?! You've got Goku's Freiza's, all of our strengths! Even the Kamehameha and Sally's size changing!" Piccolo asked as I tried to pretend that my arm was limp like his.
"Oh, very well. I will tell you before I feed. I am Cell, and I am an android!" he smirked, me frowning at him.
"Cell... as in, Android Omega?" I asked, him looking surprised at that. "I thought we destroyed you in this timeline... according to Arale, you were just a baby bug in a test tube... how are you here?" I asked, him smiling at that.
"It's quite simple. I come from 28 years in the future, where I was created by Doctor Gero's computer long after he perished. I was created from the cells of Earth's greatest warriors... you, Piccolo, Goku, Vegeta, and Sally 'Chill' Sawyers. Your cells were taken when you fought during the so-called "Saiyan invasion." Then, during the instance of Frieza and his father's appearance, they took the cells of them alongside your pink Majin friend. We could have taken some cells from Trunks or the other Saiyans, but the computer concluded that there were already enough Saiyan cells," he said, me frowning at him.
"And you were also based off of the skin of the Lavos Space Tick. I found your true father and killed not only him, but his offspring, all off the coast of West City in the ocean," I said, Cell smirking at that.
"Indeed. Gero's drones found that monstrous tick when it was in its infancy, which he concluded that, eventually, Lavos would have perished from the pollution in the waters regardless, as it was comatose, even during the instance of Trunks arriving in this timeline," Cell said.
"But why come back here in the first place? You said you come from 28 years in the future, and Trunks comes from about 20 or so from now, so explain," I frowned.
"When I woke up in the future, I was given a simple goal. To find the androids of 17 and 18 in order to absorb them and achieve my perfect form! But for some reason, I could not find them in the timeline I'd appeared in. Trunks had managed to defeat them in the year I awoke. But he had a time machine, so I simply killed Trunks and stole his time machine. It was far too small, so I was forced to revert to my larval state as I pushed the button and went back in time. Once I arrived, I had to stay underground, constantly molting my skin until today," Cell smiled.
"But why go back so far? From what I heard from Bulma upon inspecting that time machine, it went back by 5 years from now, a whole 2 years prior to Trunks coming here to stop Frieza and King Cold," I frowned.
"The time machine's coordinates were already made. All I had to do was push a button," Cell said as I then frowned.
"Okay... we've heard enough... everything that we need to know," I said as I then showed him that my arm had since recovered on its own from the rest, me then raising its size to the form of a giant fist that I punched Cell clean in the face, sending him head first into the nearest building, me then gasping as I heard a voice.
"That was SO COOL!" I heard the voice of the little girl Videl, her being nearby and watching from the distance.
"I told you it's not safe! Get out of here no-" I was about to finished... before I then got zapped with a paralysis attack and Cell then proceeded to do something nasty. He used a Solar Flare on myself and Piccolo! I was blinded, but I sensed for him with my eyes closed... and he was heading for Videl! But due to the paralysis, I couldn't move a muscle! And I then shouted when I heard the sound of Videl getting impaled by Cell's tail!
"YOU MONSTER! STOP IT! SHE'S JUST A LITTLE GIRL!" I shouted. But Cell didn't listen. I then felt my eyes open in time to see Videl's body beginning to shrivel up, her having enough strength in her tiny body to say something before she was completely absorbed.
"Hercule... he'll make you pay... in hell..." she said before her entire body had been sucked dry, soul, mind, and everything into Cell's disgusting body.
"YOU BASTARD! Spit her out right now!" I shouted, Cell smirking at me.
"Heh, you really want me to do that?" he asked, me frowning at him.
"If you know what's good for you, you will release that little girl from your disgusting body before I blast you to kingdom come! We both know that my power far exceeds yours at this point!" I shouted, Cell then doing something... that made me sick to my stomach. He did release Videl from his body... but she was absolutely liquified and already dead... and I sensed her spirit going to the afterlife right after.
"You disgusting freak!" Piccolo shouted as he then proceeded to send a Light Grenade at Cell, but the bastard then used the resulting smoke to run off in an instant, him hiding his energy all the way to 0 and me gasping as he did something else. He actually made it so that my Scouter was getting a faulty reading by mixing his android half with his biological half! I couldn't sense him with the scouter!
"He's hidden his energy! And he can't even be sensed with my Scouter, because he's mixing his biological side with his mechanical side! We need to chase after him and warn everyone!" I shouted as I immediately contacted every single member of my groups that had Scouters and warned them of what had happened.
"We have a Code Red situation, all Battle Brigade! A monster has appeared from the future that plans to absorb the populace to add to his own power!" I said to them in the Scouters, me then explaining further. "His name is Cell and he looks like a human-sized bipedal bug. He's a mixture of biological cells based off of Earth's strongest warriors alongside the skin texture of a Lavos Space Tick and the mechanical Android status of Doctor Gero! He is Android Omega, and he's a danger to everyone!"
After this, Puar was the first one to speak with a Scouter of her own, which she could hide in a hammer space she had. "He's actually here?! I thought he was destroyed?!" Puar asked in fear as I explained further.
"This Cell claims to come nearly 30 years in the future from today. He comes from an alternate timeline where 17 and 18 have been destroyed by Trunks, where he proceeded to steal the time machine to come to our timeline after killing Trunks! We need to find a way to stop him before he can get to 17 and 18, because if he gets strong enough from absorbing innocent people, then he'll try to absorb 17 and 18 to increase his strength to a power that may be even stronger than myself! Especially since some of the cells he has in his body are from me and Lamp!" I said, which Vegeta growled at.
"ARGH! It's one thing after another, isn't it?! I'll take them out myself! And if Super Saiyan's not enough, I'll find a way to go beyond Super Saiyan! And I can assure that Kakarot will do the same when he wakes up!" Vegeta shouted in the Scouter, me frowning as I then tried to chase after Cell by sensing for other lifeforms that were losing power... and found he'd managed to find another nearby town and started to absorb more innocents! I immediately rushed in and saw that Cell was about to absorb a little boy this time! I then sent a blast at his head, him gasping as I'd managed to lop off the top of his head, him dropping the child and then running off after sending another Solar Flare at me!
But this time, I was prepared and closed my eyes, trusting my senses. And upon doing so, I sensed Cell was trying to rush at me, me then sending a punch right to the bastard's face, sending him to the ground and for me to then open my eyes and slam down on his stomach. "If you know what's good for you, children will NOT be on your list! HAVE SOME FUCKING DECENCY!" I shouted before then sending my fist through his face, him then regenerating it as he then tried to stick me with his tail, me dodging out of the way by jumping off and warping to Capsule Corporation via Instant Transmission! And when I did, I saw that it was when 17 was in the middle of getting reconfigured by Bulma, Doctor Briefs, and Arale's doctor, me seeing that it was... not Senbei like it was supposed to be. Instead, it was yet another different Akira Toriyama character, this one being Nene from Blue Dragon. Specifically, the old version.
"I must say, I never expected that an alien was the one who created Arale... and that you have such a great mind," Bulma admitted, not noticing me at all.
"Hmm... the general is here," he said, which Bulma looked at me and smiled.
"Oh, hi there, Sally! We're almost finished configuring 17 to get rid of his Goku hatred!... Only downside is that he had another code inside of him to destroy the world should he succeed. Good call on that one," Bulma said, me frowning at them.
"Guys, we have a major problem going on nearby," I said, them looking confused, as none of the ones in the room had a Scouter to work with. "That monster that appeared from the ancient time machine? It's fully grown, from the future, and it's already on the hunt, killing innocents to add to his own power," I said, which made 18 gasp as she looked surprised.
"W-What?! What kind of monster is this?" she asked.
"A monster that was designed by the same person that stole you, 17, and Maron from your old lives. It's Android Omega, codename of Cell," I said, which made Bulma gasp as she almost messed up when working on 17, but she stopped her hands from moving partway through.
"Cell's here from the future?! B-But if that's the case... oh god... that disgusting bug carapace we found... it's Cell?!" she asked, me nodding.
"Not only that, but Cell's already absorbed almost all of Ginger Town as well as most of Nikki Town! And the problem is that even my Scouter can't sense him, since he not only hides his own energy like our own fighters, but he can hide from my scouter model by mixing his bio traits with his mechanical side. Because of this, we need to try and divert Cell as far away from West City as possible. The last thing we need is for him to come here before 17 and 18 are freed of their kill Goku and secret evil coding," I explained, which Maron frowned at.
"Hate to burst your bubble, but I was deemed as a failed experiment for the simple fact that, due to my Majin infusions, the programming for almost everything else in me was negated. The only one that succeeded was my copy ability," Maron explained, me frowning at that.
"And one more thing. We had to get rid of the bombs that we have in our bodies. From what Doctor Nene explained, the bombs would be powerful enough to destroy half the planet," 16 explained, me nodding at him.
"Then we need to act fast. Because in order for Cell to get to his maximum power, he needs to absorb two specific people into his body. And they happen to be twins and in this very room," I said, 18 gasping as she looked at 17 as Bulma had finished fixing him up.
"H-He wants to absorb us for our power?... T-That's horrifying..." 18 said.
"His power as of now is about half of yours. But if he's left to his own devices for too long, absorbing people left and right, he could very easily absorb the entire population of the planet in order to get strong enough to overpower you both and absorb you," I explained, which 18 shuddered at.
"N-No! I won't let that monster hurt them! They don't deserve it!" Krillin shouted from outside the room, me looking at him and sighing.
"Then we need to act fast. As of current, there are only 5 of us in our group that are strong enough to take on Cell as he is now. Those people are myself, Piccolo, Lamp, Maron, and 16. All of the others in our group aren't able to contend with the jerk," I said, 16 nodding as he then had some stuff happen in his left eye.
"I will assist in attempting to locate Cell... it appears my scanners are capable of detecting his energy... his location as of current is the northern mountain village. The same one where Goku befriended Android 8 when he was a child," 16 said, me nodding at that.
"Got it. I'll get there as fast as possible! Until then, take this Scouter so you can communicate with me from a long distance," I said, 16 nodding at me as I then sensed for a specific person in said village... and immediately honed in on Android 8, me zooming to the location in time to see that Cell was actually entering a battle against the hulking brute, with me warping myself enough away so that I wouldn't be seen. And I saw that, where I was, I was right next to a young adult woman, me looking at her and her gasping.
"Don't worry, I'm not a danger. I'm here to help Eighter defeat this green monster," I explained, her gulping at that.
"Y-You know Eighter?... Are you... Are you friends with Goku, too?" she asked, me nodding. And upon further inspection on her, I understood why she'd ask that.
"It's good to see you're doing well, Suno," I said, her gasping at that as I then looked down and saw that, as of current, Cell and Eighter were fairly evenly matched. But then, Cell proceeded to slam his fist into Eighter's arm and I gawked at how sparks happened after and some of his arm's metal dented in the process!
"Gugh... evil beast..." Eighter growled.
"Peh! You've always been a disgrace to the Red Ribbon Army, Android 8. Doctor Gero should've just blown you up the moment you were created!" Cell said with a sinister grin, Eighter growling at that.
"The people of this village are innocent! They have done nothing to harm you, yet you absorb half of my friends for your own gain. You are pure evil. And I will fight to protect the rest!" Eighter shouted as he went forward at full force, his hulking frame actually being quite fast! But Cell managed to be faster as he jumped above Eighter's attack and then slammed his feet down on his right arm! And I gasped as his entire right arm broke off in the process!
"Are you ready to go back to the scrap heap?" Cell asked, but then Suno shouted.
"STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" she shouted as she jumped out of hiding and I gawked at what happened. She was FLYING! And she rushed right to Cell and stood in between him and Eighter!
"If you want someone to kill, do it to me, not him!" she shouted, Cell smiling as he licked his lips and aimed his tail for her. But I rushed in with barely a sound... and before Cell could plunge his tail into her, I sent a Rose Ray right through Cell's face from right to left, him gasping at the fact that I'd made it bigger to basically blow his head off! And he managed to fall to the ground as I looked at Suno and Eigther.
"You two, grab onto me and don't let go!" I shouted as I sensed it. Cell was regenerating his head.
"Y-You saved us..." she gasped as I warped us away right before Cell could skewer me with his tail! After this, I warped us directly to Capsule Corporation, where Arale looked at us and gasped.
"8! Suno! W-What happened?!" she asked, the big guy kneeling on his one knee in the process.
"The green beast... he is stronger than he looks... I was just slightly weaker than him... and he managed to rip my arm off... and damage the circuits in my left..." he said with a groan.
"I... I remember this guy... yeah, yeah! He's Android 8. I remember seeing his designs when Gero was working on me and 17! He was deemed a failure because he's a pacifist..." 17 said, me seeing he was now awake and 18 was about to go under for her surgery.
"I require repairs... extensive ones..." he said with pain, which Nene looked at him with a smile.
"You're lucky that I know how to work on all of the single digit androids of the past. These double-digit androids are much more complex, so repairing you should be a cinch," he said as he then led himself and Android 8 to another room of the lab and leaving Bulma and Doctor Briefs to look at 18 with seriousness.
"It may take a bit longer to work on you until 8 is finished being looked at by Doctor Nene. You ready to go under?" Bulma asked her, 18 nodding.
"Do it. I don't want to kill anyone..." she said, her then automatically entering Sleep Mode and for the duo of scientists to start working on her.
"Cell is currently hiding his power level to nearly 0. He now knows that you're sensing him through other means... if he slips up and raises his strength, I will immediately let you know... though it appears we have a new problem," 16 said as he looked at 17 and he sighed.
"It seems that, after the codes were removed from me... I'm now a sitting duck. I can be sensed both biological and mechanical... if Cell really wanted to, he could find me in an instant and absorb me, should he get strong enough," 17 said, me frowning at that.
"Then it would appear that I need to find a way to get you a power-up of some kind... I think I know what to do. To not only increase your power, but to also get me some training in the process," I smiled, which he looked confused at.
"You mean you want to take me somewhere to train? But we wouldn't have time, considering how fast and crafty Cell is!" 17 said, me frowning at him.
"Actually, there is. There exists an area called Kami's Lookout, where a special room lies inside. Goku told me about a room called the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, a special training room that, upon entering, will allow whoever enters to get a year's worth of training in a single day," I smiled, which 17 smiled at.
"You know what? That sounds right up my alley! Why don't we go there right away?" he asked, me nodding as I then spoke to Piccolo from afar with his insane hearing powers.
"Piccolo? I need your ears perked up to listen to 16 should he ever sense Cell's exact location. Once he appears or gets careless, proceed to Cell immediately and try your hardest to destroy him. But be careful not to get caught by his tail," I said, him then speaking to me from afar in my mind.
"And what are you going to do in the process?" he asked.
"I'm going to train 17 in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. In case Cell does manage to get too strong, the least we can do is train at least one of the newly reformed Androids to get strong enough to take him down," I said, him nodding.
"Should I also assist? Maybe I can gain that instant warping trick of yours, by touching your arm?" Maron asked, me nodding at her.
"You better not use my powers for evil, because my strength scares me," I frowned as she then touched me, and she gasped at the strength that entered her.
"Oh... Oh god... this strength you're hiding inside of you... I see why it scares you... it even scares me..." she admitted.
"And that's why I refuse to go all out. Should I use too much, I risk destroying this entire planet... and I don't want to do that," I sighed. "Let's get going, 17. We need to get stronger while your sister gets looked at... but before I do that... do you happen to have names like Maron does?" I asked, him smiling at me.
"Yes, we do. I used to be called Lapis and my sister was Lazuli... but we were caught by Gero because we had nothing left... he saw to that when he killed our entire family. We were on the run for 2 years before he finally managed to catch us and force us to be androids," 17 sighed.
"I'll be willing to call you Lapis if you want," I smirked at him.
"I'd... I'd like that," he smiled as I then held his hand and zoomed our duo to Kami's Lookout. I had to try and get him stronger... I didn't know why, but I felt it might be of a benefit in the future.