Three
years passed since Trunks' arrival. A lot has changed since
then. Chibi Trunks is born, and Vegeta joins the Z
warriors, but having the same attitude. The Z fighters go to
the island where future Trunks Predicted the arrival of the
androids and they find #19 and #20 (Dr. Gero) Goku's
heart disease takes place while he is fighting 19 and then he
looses and Yamcha takes him back to get his medicine.
This is where SSJ VEGETA COMES IN. He seriously destroys
19. It was like a game to him. Dr. Gero got away
but everyone chased him.
Future
Trunks arrives from the future he realizes 19 and 20 are not
the androids that he new. This causes alarm especially
when Bulma reveals that 20 is actually Gero. Gero gets
away saying I will release 17 and 18 (the androids that Future
Trunks new about)
Gohan
was told to take Bulma and Yajirobe back to their homes while
Piccollo, Tien and Krillan search for Gero's lab thinking the
should destroy the androids before they are released.
Vegeta wants to "fight these androids face to face and
rip them with my bare hands" but Trunks tells him not to.
When Dr. Gero's secret lab is found he releases 17 and 18, 17
kills Gero and then 18 releases a new android called 16.
The
3 androids fly away in search of Goku. Since Goku is
still trying to heal everyone doesn't want them to find him.
First Vegeta takes on 18 and 17 agrees not to join the battle
if Trunks and the others don't either. Vegeta puts up a
good fight but these androids never run out of energy! Vegeta
gets beaten up really bad and Trunks joins in to help but ends
up getting his sword cracked. At this point 17 comes in
and starts beating up Tien and Piccolo while Krillan hides
like a wimp. When everyone gets beat up the androids
leave to find Goku in spite of Killings begging.
Right
now Vegeta and his "Saiyan pride" is very angry and
he flies away "saying I'll kill you Androids I WILL MAKE
YOU PAY." Now Trunks comes up with another
discovery. These androids are stronger than the ones in
his time. Trunks can't understand why history has
changed so much since his arrival. Piccolo realizes the
only way to beat these androids is to fuse with Kami and
become a "Super Namek." So he goes to Kami's
Lookout.
At
this point everyone is healed with senzu and they go to Goku's
house to get Goku and Chi Chi since they know that is where
the killer androids are going to attack. On the way they
phone Bulma and then she says Trunks that someone reported
they saw an unknown vehicle with a Capsule Corporation symbol
on it and when Trunks gets a picture he sees it's his time
machine. Trunks already had his time machine in his
pocket in a capsule so Gohan and Trunks go check the thing out
with Bulma. They see that there is a shell there and
some creature came out of the cell.
When
everyone gets to Roshi's place on the news they see towns are
being attacked and people are disappearing mysteriously.
Kami who still hasn't decided to merge with Piccolo notices
this he realizes he has no choice. When they fuse
Piccolo wakes away and Mr. Popo says "bye Kami I will
never forget you" and Piccolo says "I am
neither Piccolo or Kami, I am the Namek who has long forgotten
his name."
Piccolo
encounters the creature and sees that he has been absorbing
humans. He fights and realizes that he knows special
beam cannon and he also knows kamehemehe! Piccolo is very
confused even though it is apparent that he is more powerful.
Piccolo tricks the monster into telling who he really is, by pretending
that he surrenders and finds out Cell has been made my the
cells of the great fighters of the world. Even Freeza
and Goku. He also learns that Cell comes from the
computer and was created from a computer Dr. Gero had been programming
and it took 24 years. Cell kills Trunks of a third
timeline (in this timeline Trunks had killed the androids)
Trunks wanted to come back to tell everyone that he killed the
androids but instead Cell came. He had to go to his
larval form and then grow for 4 years in the present.
When Piccolo asks why he came back to this time was because of
his urge of power he needed to absorb 17 and 18 to become the
Perfect Being.
After
a while of Krillan, Tien and Picollo chasing down Cell as he
absorbs people along the way Goku finally recovers and tells
Chi-Chi he is going to have to take Gohan to train in a place
called the room of spirit and time in order to defeat Cell.
When the androids find Piccolo, Piccolo challenges 17 to a
fight
Piccolo
and 17 fight for a long time pointlessly since they have
similar power levels. After a while Cell appears and
seems to have killed Piccolo. This is where 16 starts
fighting so that Cell won't absorb 17 and 18. 16 is just
as strong as Cell's current or "imperfect" form.
After a while 17 gets absorbed and Cell Transforms. At
this point Tien comes into the battle to stop Cell. He
succeeds in his plan to let 16 and 18 run away. (Tien
eventually runs out of Energy but is later rescued by Goku and
as is Piccolo when he is found by the waterfront)
While
everything in the last paragraph was happening Goku told the
others to wait at Roshi's place until 2 days pass in which
Goku, Gohan, Trunks and Vegeta would have trained in the
spirit time. Since only two people can go into the
spirit room at one time Trunks and Vegeta go in. After a
day (which is a year in the time chamber) Trunks and Vegeta
come out, stronger than ever. At this point Trunks and
Vegeta go out to find Cell and Goku and Gohan go into the time
chamber.
Goku
and Gohan continue To train hard while Vegeta shows Cell that
he has no chance. When Cell realizes this he convinces Vegeta
to let him absorb 18 to have a better chance. Even
though Trunks tries to stop him Vegeta keeps coming in his way
and Cell finally absorbs the android 18 he turns into Perfect
Cell. No one can offer a challenge so he starts thinking of
all the fights as games (Thus the title, The Cell Game).
Cell
later announces that he will hold a tournament to the warriors
that think they can defeat him. Goku and Gohan come out of the
time chamber (Gohan turns into a super Saiyan in there)
Cell
gives 10 days before the tournament for everyone to train.
Bulma fixes up android 16, Goku gets Dende to become the guardian
of Earth and create more dragonballs, Goku finds the
dragonballs and the 10 days pass. The Cell Game begins.
First joins a fighter from Earth who thinks he is the
strongest, Mr. Satan (a.k.a. Hercule) gets his men to fight
and they all don't stand a chance.
When
Goku fights he fights for around 6 episodes and realizes that
Cell is stronger and that Gohan should fight. After
Gohan fights he starts to get beaten and warns Cell that if he
gets pushed far enough he will kill Cell with his hidden
powers. Cell wants to see these powers so he tries to
piss off Gohan so that he will be more challenging so he hurts
Gohan a lot. Android 16 tries to self-destruct on Cell
but Bulma disabled it (she rebuilt 16 so he could participate
in the fight, and Cell destroys 16 leaving nothing but his
head behind.
Cell
realizes the only way to make Gohan angry is to attack his
friends. The plan works when he creates seven Cell Jrs who attacks
his friends. Android 16 tells Mr. Satan to throw his
head to Gohan and he actually does. 16 tells Gohan to
protect the life he loves and to stop holding back and to
defeat Cell. Now Cell crushes 16's head. Gohan
gets pushed off the edge and powers up and reaches SSJ2, then
Cell realizes that he over did it. Gohan defeats the Cell Jrs
with just one kick to each of them. Gohan starts to attack
Cell. As the battle goes on, Cell realizes that he made a
mistake. Gohan kicks Cell in the face and that forces 18
out of his body. He know becomes his earlier form and
realizes he doesn't stand a chance, so he starts to self-destruct.
Goku realizes he needs to act faced to he sacrifices his life
to teleport Cell to King Kai's planet and he explodes there.
Even
though Cell exploded he had one Cell left and he regenerated
from that Cell and since he has the Saiyans genes he gets
stronger after he heals and goes back to his perfect form.
Cell returns to Earth and kills Trunks. This makes
Vegeta very angry and he attacks Cell but Cell overcomes him
easily. Gohan starts to fight and Gohan's right arm gets
crippled. He creates a Kamehameha, Cell than creates his own
Kamehameha, a stalemate is drawn only with the encouragement
of his dead father. Gohan over powers Cell and kills him with
only one arm! Everyone is wished back to life except Goku
because he was already wished back to life once. They still
have one more wish since Dende altered the dragon and Goku doesn't
want to come back so they wish the bombs out of android 17 and
18 instead.
Now
Trunks goes back to his original timeline and defeats the
androids in his alternate future ending the Cell Saga.