An Instant-Speed Collision!

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Before Yamcha decided what the best course of action was, he would need to determine exactly what the difference in strength here was. Depending on the fact which one of them was stronger, Yamcha would decide if he was best off trying to slip away from Cell via Instant Transmission, fending Cell off until the creature itself decided that continuing the fight wasn't worth it, or utterly destroying Cell himself and solving this problem that's been giving everyone headaches.

The major problem was that, given what little he knew about Cell, Yamcha felt sealed off from employing any of his moves that Cell might not have known. If Cell had faced anyone else, he may have picked up the Kamehameha already. However, if Yamcha showed him something like the Spirit Ball or Instant Movement, he'd essentially make Cell a much bigger problem for whoever would have to deal with Cell next. That was why Yamcha needed to scope which moves Cell already knew and try to fend him off using only those moves.

"What's wrong? Is my predator's gaze keeping you locked up, stiff with fear?" Cell smirked with mockery.

"What's with this obsession with predators? That's a new one amongst you Artificial Humans," Yamcha sneered with contempt. "What, did Puri stop trying to assimilate everyone into becoming Artificial Humans after being soundly beaten? Is she now at the Artificial Human superiority stage?"

"While I have no intention of explaining anything to my prey, that's about to nourish me with its energy, let's make one thing abundantly clear–I am not associated with that evil woman!" Cell gnashed his teeth with hatred, abandoning any semblance of teasing and mockery that he approached the fight with previously.

"Wait, what?" Yamcha gasped in surprise. That sudden drop of his guard together with Cell's escalating rage caused the Bio-Android to lash out with a sudden, dashing elbow strike to Yamcha's cheek. The blinding speed of the creature stunned Yamcha and the strength with which it struck made him blank out for a second there.

Cell advanced with weighty, hammering fist strikes from the sides, mirroring how a sluggish powerhouse like Artificial Human No. 8 would fight. Yamcha snapped out of his daze and moved his arms, crossed by his wrists and his hands shaped like butterfly wings, to intercept the incoming combination of attacks. Even if it wasn't particularly efficient to intercept one-armed swings with both arms, as it required the turning of his entire body to shift sides and transfer his kinetic energy to block the next swing, Yamcha fended off the first couple of strikes.

Finally, beginning to feel confident about being able to read Cell's moves and match his pace, Yamcha snapped his arms to the sides, deflecting both of Cell's arms to the sides and creating an opening for himself. With a step-in, vertical backhand strike, he rocked Cell's head and made his face pulse with red tension after a mean scrape.

Cell's tail reeled in from behind with a thrust that was aiming to impale Yamcha from the back and start draining him of energy. Yamcha couldn't feel it coming per se, but given how he knew Cell's intention to drain him of energy and he already saw Cell using the stinger on his tail, believing it to be the key to draining energy, he was experienced enough to put it all together. Reading Cell's move, Yamcha rolled forward and through Cell's side, putting Cell's own body in between him and the stinging tail while shooting his arms out and stopping himself in an upside-down position.

Using his legs, Yamcha began rapidly kicking at Cell's exposed back, as if he were running upside-down. With a stiffer kick, extending his body in a graceful, C-shaped arc, Yamcha drove his left leg into Cell's spine, bending the Bio-Android backward and sending him flying off to the side. With a rapid flurry of vanishes, Yamcha pursued his opponent with his hands ready in Wolf Fang Fist stance. However, just before he was going to execute it, Yamcha remembered he was trying to prevent Cell from learning any new moves.

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