Chapter 65 - Down To The Very Last Cell

Cell he lashed out in retaliation, with a quick swipe. Goku grabbed his arm as it passed by and was ready to use it as leverage. He has seen enough of Goku's holds and decided to blast off his arm before he could go any further.

Surprised at the quick decision, Cell kicked him in the stomach before he could react. He skids back a little, but he was stopped much to his confusion. He was pushed towards Cell who was ready with a supercharged punched. With a very delicate touch and speed, he pushed Cell's arm to the side.

Even though he successfully diverted the punch, the momentum still made him fall to the ground. Rolling on the ground on purpose, he jumped up smoothly making sure not to leave any openings. He looked at who had pushed him and he saw a small little blue gremlin looking awfully similar to Cell.

He even had the dark and evil affect Cell had after absorbing Evil 21. It didn't take long for him to multiply surrounding Goku on all sides. Just one Cell neared his Cell, he needed to really focus to take these ones out.

The first one jumped and the rest followed. The main one stayed back watching but ready to pounce whenever. As the Cell Jr got into range, Goku launched a sweeping high kick to meet him in the middle.

Goku's foot exploded the little guy midair and his foot didn't stop in momentum at all. Attacked on all sides, he had no time to rest and meticulously destroyed them one by one. When two got their heads crushed by Goku's large hands, three replaced them.

They kept coming, like little blue germs, persistent and unwavering by death. Each Cell Jr was killed a different way, a back fist was Goku's personal favorite. It was like popping a balloon.

Cell saw that although the Cell Jr were employing different tactics to try and break Goku's defense, they kept on getting launched to their deaths. Changing plans, he started to charge his ki in a familiar motion.

"Ka-me-Ha-me..."

Suddenly all the Cell Jr stopped attacking and backed away jumping. As they jumped, they also put their hands to the side and charge up their ki. The miraculous blue light that emitted from each source shines brightly in his face. It was like looking at stars in the night sky. Deadly ones.

His hand went to the stop between his forehead as quick as he can, but how can Cell let him go that easily? Goku teleported to an outer edge Cell Jr, but the moment he did, all of the Cells' teleported at the same time keeping Goku in the center.

"Welp...copycats are the worst. Like, be a little more original."

Spinning in spot at torrential speed, he created his own wind cycle and eventually a tornado. it moved towards the edges before a Cell Jr before going back to the middle and did it several times.

"HA!"

All the Cells launched their Kamehameha Waves at the same time at the tornado. From top to the around him, there was no dead space for Goku to run out of and escape.

"AHHHH!"

Hearing the scream of his child, Cell looked over to where one of his Jr's died unexpectedly.

"How did he die?!"

He nearly found out for himself when a ki beam took a chunk of his hip with it into the beyond. Struggling to keep ahold, he had to wait for his regeneration factor to kick in.

'What!? That ki... it didn't feel like Goku... but one of my own!'

Looking at the tornado in the middle. That has to be the one causing this! What else can it be?

Beams of light went in and beams of light went out just as deadly aiming randomly.

Inside the tornado, Goku wasn't doing much at all. Even that was an understatement. All the tornado did was cover where he was and gave him ample room to dodge. The Kamehameha's that were coming back were merely the product of two beams colliding and bouncing off of each other.

Goku may influence some of them, but why use the effort.

"STOP THE COUNT!"

All of his Cell Jr's stopped firing, but as seamless as it could be, Goku sent out the rest of the ki blasted he needed and destroyed the rest as they were exhausted. Fully healed seconds ago, Cell was ready for a second round.

Goku however, knew better than indulge himself in the fight.

'I don't have much time left, I need to kill Cell right now. If I don't I am guaranteed to lose.

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"MOM! Where are you!"

Bulla and Gohan barged into the house carrying a broken down 16. He had tried his best and used all his firepower without reserves, but Cell still got the best of him. 18 and 17 followed behind a little slow and reluctantly. It was quite awkward to act like nothing happened, but after Cell absorbed 21, her control over them dwindled enough for the Androids to stomp the virus out.

"Kids? Has he broken again? What are you doing to him?"

Bulma walked out in her casual home clothes stretching after she took a quick nap to rejuvenate herself. Chichi also stepped out with curiosity behind her.

"Yeah! Dad is going up against this super baddie and he absorbed this other..."

"Wait what!"

Out of nowhere, Caulifla barged into the living room where they were talking.

"You said Goku is fighting a bad guy and he hasn't come back yet? Are you talking about those Androids?"

"Uh..." Gohan looked over at the other two Androids, "...kinda?"

"I need to go over there and help him. Tell Kale I will be right back."

"Y-You can't! Dad told us not to intervene!"

Chichi chuckled at that respite.

"Your Dad may be incredibly strong but he doesn't know everything. Go and help them, Bulma and I will fix 16."

Caulifla nodded. It felt like they all had a mental connection knowing what the other was thinking and feeling. A little strange but Caulifla didn't question it and dashed off.

"Where has Caulifla gone!" Kale came barreling through where Caulifla just came out of. No words were said, only everyone pointing at the open door that was swinging by the force it was open.

"Wait for me!"

"Ahh, Saiyans..." Looking over where she felt eyes trained on her, Gohan and Bulla were looking at her with the biggest googly eyes they could muster. Chichi slapped herself while shaking her head.

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'It's like he has infinite energy!'

Goku has already popped another Senzu bean to keep himself in the fight. Another 5 minutes thought Goku to himself. The battlefield was a mess with craters and Cell Jr guts scattered.

The more he fought Cell, even though he was beating him, he couldn't defeat him due to his natural abilities. To make matters worst, as they kept on the fight, Cell was getting more and more acclimated with his power gaining a boost in power.

'I just need one opening! Then I will blast him out of this world!'

Goku tripped Cell by pulling his ankle forward with his foot. With his other, he kicked him in the back as he fell down. Normally that would cripple or at least stall the other party, but Cell instead uses Goku's leg to balance and shot ki blast accurately at his face.

Swatting them away, Cell was once again in his face and they engaged in another slugfest. He needed a change in tactics.

"Solar Flare!" An old trick but works like a charm. Cell staggered back letting Goku push him back with more punches to his chest. Once a significant distance away, he charged his ki to the side and got ready to fire.

"Kamehame..."

Still blind, Cell also put his hands on his side and powered up. His battle sense was top-notch and he knew this was one of the only ways for him to survive.

"Ha!"

Their two beams met in the middle. One blue with yellow-golden energy surrounding him. He pumped some of that energy into the Kamehameha pushing forward his beam more while also turning his beam redder. Regaining his vision, Cell extracted the dark ki he gained into his own Kamehameha and infused it with his own beam corrupting its natural blue color with a purple-black.

It was met in the middle once again, Goku didn't know what else to do to increase his power. He had to try though. The Earth was on the line.

Stimulating his ki into the transformative process instead of output, the advantage started going to Cell.

"What's wrong?! Feeling a little tired? Don't worry, I will put you into permanent sleep in my belly!"

Goku's ki just went up and up as if in response to that taunt. Veins appeared every and even his animalistic eyes started to sporadically move around his eye.

'More! More power.'

Faint sparks of lighting started to surround Goku. It took an immense amount of effort and it still seemed so far but Goku kept pushing for it.

'Cmon!'

The lighting connected to the ground and circled Goku while still being part of his body. Depleting fast, his ki reserves were looking dire, to say the least.

'I-I don't think I can transform again. What else can I do? Maybe another Senzu and try kamikaze? I have been meaning to go to the otherworld, this may be my perfect chance...'

"Having trouble Kakkarot? Never would have thought, the 'strongest Saiyan' would struggle against vermin like him!"

"Vegeta!" Flying down creating a triangle with the other two, he had his arms crossed in his signature blue outfit.

Goku noticed something different about him since he last saw him. The air around him changed even though he was talking the same. Has he changed this much in only 1 year? What Goku didn't know, was that this change was very recent. Recent as in this day recent.

"I will help you, only because I want revenge on this ugly bast*rd" Powering up, Goku was thoroughly surprised when he saw lighting around his character as he turned Super Saiyan indicating Vegeta's advancement. His level of progress was the same as him or faster even with Goku and his wish! A true prodigy.

Vegeta put his hand together in front of him and started charging up yellowish ki with lightning crackling all around.

"Final Flash!"

Cell couldn't stop his beam now, or Goku's would disintegrate him. Vegeta's didn't look like a weak one either considering how much his power skyrocketed. Opening his tail large enough, Cell jutted out a Cell Jr and he quickly leaped into action. With a portion of his strength given to him, Cell's beam got weaker getting the two back into a stalemate.

The Cell Jr unleashed his Kamehameha to counter Vegeta and they both stopped right in the middle.

"Vegeta don't intervene! I thought you were supposed to be prideful or something? This is my fight, don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong."

"Shut up you germ."

He was about to spew more words until he noticed more ki signatures show up. Caulifla and Kale, who caught up arrived landing on the ground creating a T-shape from a birds-eye view.

"Looks like you need help Kakarrot, I knew it."

"More Saiyans? For an extinct race, you sure bang like monkeys!"

"Your just jealous, lets roast this man. Kale."

"Yes, Caulifla!"

Caulifla powered up into a Super Saiyan while Kale extracted some power from her Wrath form. It wasn't nearly the same as its prime or even Super Saiyan, but once she got more control over it, she would be a force to reckon with.

"Crush Cannon!"

"Resist Cannon!"

The red and green ki combined for a swirl of fun headed towards Cell. Much to his chagrin, he created another Cell Jr to counter that beam too. Meeting it in the middle, Cell lost more momentum to Goku.

'Alright, now that that Saiyan is dealt with, I just need to kill Goku and kill them next. Phew, life as a supervillain is hard. Now then...'

Just as he was thinking that he felt 2 more behind him. Feeling the ki behind as not that much, he felt he could barely make this to survive.

"Hey, Dad! Do you need help!"

"It seems as if everyone already got their spot. Look, we are a square around Cell throwing our beams at him, there is no way they could win."

"Yeah, but let's use the move, there is no reason not to."

"Ok sure, just don't mess it up this time."

"Yeah, yeah whatever."

Distancing themselves from one another, they both got into a weird pose with their arms facing away from each other. Sliding toward each other while moving their hands. counter-clockwise, they were in perfect sync.

Then in two swift motions of back and forth, their fingers touched in the middle covering them in a thin layer of ki. Once that ki was dispersed, what came out wasn't what came in. One being instead of two. Two voices instead of one. Insurmountable power of fusion.

"Hell yeah, we did it! Man the power e feel is amazing. We can probably take down Cell all by ourselves."

"Bulhan."

"Yes Dad..."

Charging up their ki, they also launched it into Cell. Releasing another Cell Jr, he was trapped on all 4 sides with only his 3 Cell Jrs to support him. And from the looks of how close Goku's beam was to his face, he didn't know how much longer he had.

"Look around Cell it's over. You, who have thrown and abandoned all of your fellow Androids for power. It has left you all alone while surrounded by members of my race. I would say learn from your mistakes but you won't be able to do much thinking in the overworld."

"Damn you Goku and all you treacherous Saiyans! I swear I will come back for revenge, find a way! Always look behind your shoulder or your family might be gone the next instance! Hahaha!"

Goku had enough of this maniac. Pushing his ki a little more, Cell's hands were getting burned. The next second, his control broke and the blast enveloped his body. His outline was visible as he was floating in the ki lifelessly.

The Cell Jrs was next to go on all sides at the same time as their leader who was giving them power was down.

"Cross the streams!" They did just that. All four blasts converged in the middle creating a massive ball of ki in the middle destroying anything within it. All the way down to the very last Cell.