True Power

Chapter 1: The Awakening

Cell's power was now complete and so began his rampage of terror over the earth, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in one fellow swoop with absolutely no regrets what so ever. Entire cities gone in just seconds, leaving nothing behind but ruins and only a few lucky survivors who had somehow managed toescape. As the rest of the world watched in fear as it surely seemed like there was no way to stop the monster Dr. Gero had created.

Now Cell had decided to throw a tournament to give the earth a small chance of survival by telling the people of the planet to gather all their strongest fighters to face against him. Cell's message was televised throughout the world during those ten days till the tournament Earth's strongest fighters were preparing for the battle to come.

At long last the day of the tournament had arrived and Cell stood waiting at the fighting ring that he had created just for the occasion. All of the Z Fighters were present and ready to fight the android, along with a one Hercule Satan the current Martial Arts Champion of the World and his top two students Caroni and Piroshike. An announcer and camera man were also along with an orange-haired woman that served as Hercule's personal announcer, to announce and broadcast the fight live all over the world.

As cocky and arrogant as ever the ever pompous Hercule decided to go first lasting no more than a few seconds in the ring before Cell beat him with one hit sending the Earth's so called last hope flying out of the ring and straight into the face of a cliff before sliding down... along with his ego.

With the clown out of the way, the games could finally begin with Goku up first in his Super Saiyan mode ready to take Cell on. The real battle for Earth had begun and at first it seemed that Cell and Goku were evenly matched until Goku started losing energy faster than Cell was and the tables had turned on Earth's hero as he was beaten up. Without warning Goku decided to give-up and hands the battle over to his eleven-year-old son Gohan!

All of the Z fighters were shocked to hear that Goku was actually giving up but was now sending his own son out to fight a monster like Cell. Goku reassured them that he knew what he was doing and that Gohan was the only one among them who had any chance of defeating the dangerous android. All were a little apprehensive and surely thought that the Saiyan had surely gone mad for suggesting such a thing but allowed it so, ready to come into the fight if things got to be too dangerous for Gohan.

The fight between the android and the young Saiyan hybrid began as all over the world the human race watched as an eleven-year-old child began to fight Cell and actually stand his ground against him. At least for a while...

Cell, from the beginning, could sense that Gohan was holding something back and became determined to unleash Gohan's true power. So began the brutal beatings as Cell over and over again continued to hit Gohan with an assault of his power while all the boy could do was dodge the attacks as best as he could and try to hit Cell back but with little success. No matter how hard Cell hit him, Gohan would not allow for his emotions to get the best of him and unleash his true power.

Just then Android 16 came to the rescue ready to activate the self-destruct bomb in his chest that would destroy him and Cell. Unfortunately, while he was being repaired, Dr. Briefs had removed the bomb. Cell quickly escaped 16's grasp and destroyed the android's body. While the young warrior looked on with tears at the terrible display of violence his new friend had just gone through for the good of the earth.

Seeing that attacking Gohan physically was going nowhere Cell decided to take a different approach and attack the demi-saiyan emotionally by attacking his friends that were standing on a cliff speculating the whole thing. Cell created seven little blue Cells, one for each of the Z fighters to fight. Gohan watched helplessly as his friends were being brutally beaten by the Cell Jrs who seemed to be just as powerful as the original that they had come out of.