Cross! Clone vs bio-android (finale)

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Vegeta scoffed, glancing at Cross with a dismissive glare. He picked up the scouter from the defeated warrior, a symbol passed from one to the next, signifying the next challenger to the bio-android. He set it in place and stepped into the ring, Cell laughing.

"And just what do you hope to do, Prince of Saiyans? I have already defeated your little friends from your home world and all these other companions. All that's left is you, the boy, and the traveler."

"Shut up and fight," Vegeta dropped into a stance, his form flaring and taking on traits of an alligator, like an offshoot Saiyan.

They engaged, but Cell was leagues beyond him. The prince struck hard, snapping bones, but the bio-android simply recovered. When Cell struck back, Vegeta took on traits of a panda, weathering the attack with no damage, then retaliated with the claws of a wildcat, shifting through different Saiyan sub-breeds in the same way Cross would switch between her animal forms.

"Cute trick. Did the traveler teach it to you?"

Vegeta scoffed, "Like hell. Immortality is a gift from the dragon. My own form, my Super Saiyan One, draws upon the power of all the animals of Earth to grant me special abilities. Each animal, a different trick. Crocodile breaks armor and bones. Wildcat strikes fast and fierce. Panda negates damage. You're not fighting children anymore; you're fighting the prince of all Saiyans."

Cell gave a sadistic smirk. "Well, in that case, I guess I should stop playing around."

With a burst of speed incomprehensible to the prince, Cell shot forward, his fist tearing through Vegeta's stomach, knocking him out of the ring. If not for his immortality, it would have been the first death of the entire tournament. But even as Vegeta sat up, his wound closing, he had lost by ring out.

His hand shaking, Gohan moved to Vegeta, took the scouter, and stepped into the ring.

Cell laughed maniacally. "And now the actual child is challenging me!"

Gohan looked to his mother and his friends, his hair still golden. "I'm sorry, Mother. I have been holding back a secret because I knew you wouldn't approve, but I can't hold back anymore. I hope you can forgive me."

Gohan's body began to glow and grow, fur spreading across it, a tail lashing out, his body accelerating to an adult age. It was a form that took all the power of Super Saiyan and combined it with the strength of Ozaru, optimized for fighting, fully grown, fully mature, covered in fur from head to toe, red as blood, with matching hair and eyes blank as death.

Gohan surged forward and with one blow took all the wind out of Cell's gut. With another, he shattered the bones of the bio-android, introducing Cell to a new level of pain he had never understood.

It seemed like finally the entire cycle would come to an end here in a brutal, bloody combat between the bio-android and the child-made-man.

As Gohan stood over Cell's body, the bio-android simply cackled. Those damn Namekian cells knitted his bones back together as he stood back up. Gohan, still in his form, tried to strike him down, only for Cell to catch his foot, snap the bone, and throw the boy out of the arena. Gohan's secret weapon wasn't enough. The bio-android cackled as he stared at the last one who had not fought and taunted her, his aura flaring cold, like a Super Saiyan, as his power shot up even more.

"That aura... Cell can't... he can't seriously be a Super Saiyan himself."

He gloated, cracking his neck. He stood back in the center of the ring, staring at the last combatant, Cross. "And why can't I? I have you pathetic monkeys' cells inside me. If you can go Super, so can I."

Cross moved across the field to Gohan, healing his wounds and taking the scouter from his eye, setting it on hers. His voice was low and soft, regretful as well.

"Did I do it? Please tell me you have what you need to finish this fight."

Cross nodded. "One-on-one isn't really a style of my people, but you got me the information I needed. All of you did. Now..." She turned to Cell as she took out her transformation device, taking the form of a wildcat and pointing her finger like a gun at the bio-android.

"Bang."

Cell felt a shot of power hit him, and then, strangely, his body began reacting, shrinking back to his semi-perfect form. Cross entered the ring and proceeded to lay down the beatdown. As Cell was still trying to figure out what the hell was going on, the Juniors entered the ring, and Cross tore them apart. When she was in her suit, her power was absolutely unimaginable. Cell was not prepared for it.

"What did you do?"

"Remote teleportation, a gift I learned from a friend back in my old days. You see, none of us were sure if we could beat you on our own, and if we did, that meant 18 would still be lost."

She tapped her scouter. "So I redesigned one of these and had each one of them wear it as they fought you to collect bio-data on you. Because of your confidence during this little tournament, I have enough data to locate 18, and with Sam's gift, I simply pulled her out."

Cross dropped into a familiar stance, readying her signature move, Divine Princess Void. The Cell Juniors and Cell were once again sucked into the vortex, or at least most of them were. The attack was not as precise as she would have liked, and Cell regenerated along with a handful of his Juniors. Thanks to those damn cells, they were stronger now, and with his regeneration, he was back to perfect form. No longer holding back and with allies at his side, he began to lay into the traveler.

"You wasted too much energy healing the others, Cross. You're not as strong as you could be."

"And you have dropped the pretense of a tournament."

Cross smiled beneath her helmet. Behind her, all of her allies rose, their own devices transforming them into armored warriors like her as they charged into the fight. Sure, they may not have been as strong in base or modified form, but they had all been fully healed. And some of them were rivaling Cell. With all those allies, Cell began to crumble.

Of course, Cell was unreasonably powerful, and even with an all-on-one brawl, while their combined forces could take out some of the Cell Juniors and definitely make a dent in the bio-android, now that he wasn't holding back and had recovered himself from near death twice, he was even more ludicrously powerful.

Goku and Cross shared a look as the Saiyan raised his arms to the sky. "People of Earth, lend me your strength."

He was doing it. He was going to use the Spirit Bomb. But the people of Earth had no reason to trust this stranger. She was a nobody from the sticks. But then, no one expected it. The champion of Earth, the strongest fighter on the planet, Mr. Satan, turned to the cameras filming and said, "Everybody, raise your hands. Let's show this monster what the human spirit can do. Raise your hands and share your energy. Let's teach this abomination of science why humans never fall."

And so the Spirit Bomb grew in strength and power. But it was not their only ace. Gohan, Raditz, and everybody flew up to join Goku, charging their most powerful attacks. They were going to hit Cell with everything they had, with the full might of their power, while Cross kept him distracted on the ground. When Cell tried to flee or dodge, Cross was there to get him back in position. As their powers grew and reached their peak, ready to fire off, Cell just laughed, looking up at them from the ground.

"If you were going to fire, this is all a bluff. And besides, even if you did, as long as my nucleus survives, I'll just come back and kill all of you. This is all just a giant show of bluster."

"Bang."

Here's the final part with some edits to enhance clarity and flow:

Suddenly, the Cell Juniors found themselves in the sky, falling towards Goku and the others. How had they gotten up here before the Spirit Bomb and all the associated attacks? Cell's mind wandered back to Cross as he remembered her other technique—the one that had embarrassed him three times now as she pulled 17 and 18 out of him. She had used that same remote teleportation to move him and his Juniors into the air, their backs to space.

When the attack landed, there was no danger to Earth. They sailed out into space, the all-consuming light of power enveloping the bio-android—a light he could not resist. Cell and his Juniors, their nuclei consumed, were obliterated.

The bio-android was dead.

Cell was dead.

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