Goku and Gohan have finally completed their training. As a surprise to everyone, they come out of the hyperbolic time chamber as super saiyans and act as their normal selves. The first thing they do is eat. Goku and Gohan devour plates of food. When they are done, Trunks explains to everyone about the tournament that cell is holding. While Trunks tells the others, elsewhere, Cell picks a spot and constructs an arena. Cell goes over to a television studio and announces to the world of his tournament. Goku teleports to the arena and tells Cell that he will be his first opponent. When he teleports back, he feels that he still isn't ready to take on Cell.

Picollo takes his turn next in the hyperbolic time chamber. After Picollo comes out, Goku senses that he has gotten stronger, but he is still not strong enough to take on Cell, Vegeta is next and takes his turn in the chamber.

Upon hearing of the doomsday broadcast, many people flee the city. The militry tries desperately to destroy Cell with nuclear weopons and so forth. Cell is unharms after taking direct attacks fromt eh militarry weoponry. Then he wipes them out with a single blast. Goku and his family are in a car and Goku is driving. Once Goku hears the about the military on the radio, he is determined to bring them back. He teleports to the lookput and asks Picollo is he can de-fuse. Picollo says that fusions are temporary so he teleports to King Kai and asks him to locate new Namek.

Once Goku is on New Namek, he recruits Dende to be the new guardian of Earth. Goku and Dende arrive on earth. Gohan, Krillin and Dende are glad to see eachother. Dende revives the dragonballs and Goku begins to look for them so they can wish back the people who have been killed by Cell. Goku's search goes rather well, then he runs into General Tao, one of his old enemies. Tao sees that Goku has collected 5 of the dragonballs and makes a little deal with Goku, if he can solve 3 puzzles, he will give Goku the remainder of the balls. Goku gets busy and they run off. Goku completes the puzzle and teleports to Taos location. He takes his dragonballs and runs off. Tao is astonished that his trick backfired.

Ten days have finally passed and Cell awaits the Games to begin. A news team arrives at the arena. They await the first fighters. The z-fighters arrive but find that Mr. Satan, the worlds martial arts champion, has already arrived with his top students. The larger one of Satan's students is the first one to fight Cell. He is easily taking care of when Cell gives off little energy and blows him away. The next fighter is Jewel, a blond haired young man. Cell powers up and causes Jewel to be shot up into the sky, he then lands on the arena unconscious. Mr. Satan is the next one to fight. He declares that Cell has been using tricks and anounces that they will not work on him. Satan bombards cell with punches and kicks but Cell is unharmed. Cell lifts his arm and Satan goes flying into the nearest mountain.

Having taken care of Satan and the others, Cell is now ready to start the tournament. Goku steps into the ring and round one begins. Goku and Cell exchange blows and the earth trembles. The news man and Satan can't believe their eyes. Goku and Cell move at great speeds and only the Z-fighters are able to follow. When the fight is almost over, Goku punches Cell kinda hard and Cell gets him back. It is at this time that Cell announces that it was a pretty good warmup. Now the real match begins.

Cell demonstrates that he knows how to perform each of the Z-fighters' attacks. The kamehameha wave, Freeza's Kienzan, Picollo's makankozappo, and Tien's split form.The only difference between Cell's attacks and their proper owners is that Cell's are much stronger. Each of his split forms are equal in strength to the original Cell. Goku is able to withstand these attacks with clever moves of his own. Cell wants more of a challenge so he destroys the arena allowing more room for battle. Now, the only one who is left standing will be declared the winner.

Goku leaps high into the air and begins to power up a massive Kamehameha wave. Everyone thinks that Goku has went out of his mind because the attack is capable of destroying Planet Earth. Cell calls it a bluff as well because he knows Goku will not destroy the Earth. Goku continues to power it up and just before releasing it, he teleports right next to Cell and blasts him with the kamehameha. It looks like Cell has been defeated. Cell surprises everyone by putting Picollo's regenerative cells to use and growing his body back together. Goku forfeits the match and appoints Gohan as the next fighter. Goku throws Cell a senzu bean because he wants Cell to fight him at full strength, or it wouldn't be a fair fight.

Gohan seems to not be damaged at all from Cell's attacks. Gohan tells Cell that he has a secret power within himself and of Cell gets him mad enough, it will come out. Gohan is afraid of letting it out because he might have no conrol over it. Cell is determined to let out Gohan's power so he creates the Cell jrs, little blue versions of himself. He counts out 7, one for each of Gohan's friends.

As the Cell juniors attack his friends, Gohan gets angrier and angrier. The Cell jrs. pummel Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Picollo and the others. Android 16 leaps out onto Cell in an attempt to self-destruct. At the last moment, Krillin reveals that the bomb was removed during his repair, and Cell shatters the android. The androids head lands in from of Satan and persuades him to throw it at Gohan. It lands at his feet and tells Gohan that he can defeat Cell. Cell sees that Gohan needs one more push and orders the Cell Jrs. to kill his friends. Hearing android 16, Cell crushes his head with his foot and causes Gohan to ascend to Super saiyan level 2.

Ironic that Vegeta allowing Cell to become perfect was too much for him to handle. Now, after Cell made Gohan ascend, he is too much for Cell to handle. Gohan easily destroys the Cell jrs single handedly. Then he directs his attention to Cell. Gohan dodges Cell's attacks and Cell is not able to land a single punch on Cell. With one punch, Gohan brings Cell to his knees, causeing him to throw up android 18, and reverts to his second imperfect form. Seeing no way to win, Cell prepares to selfdestruct in order to destroy Earth and everyone on it.

Just as Cell is about to self destruct, Goku waves farewell to his friends and teleports himself and Cell to king Kais planet in order to save the earth. Cell explodes destroying king kai's planet, along with Goku, Kaio, Bubbles, and Gregory.

Cell returns! He has regenerated himself to his perfect form from a single Cell and used Goku's instantaneous movement technique to get to earth in a flash. Cell is now stronger than he was before due to his saiyan cells. He easily takes care of Vegeta and kills Trunks. It is up to Gohan to destroy Cell once and for all. The rest of the remaining Z-fighters, Picollo, Tien, Yamucha, and Krillin launch attacks at Cell from all sides. Cell launches energy blasts from his body and the fighters get thrown away, but they won't give up. Meanwhile, Goku couches Gohan from the other side using King Kai's telepathic power. Gohan, with only one hand, powers up a massive kamehameha blast. Cell also powers up a kamehameha using both of his hands. The two waves collide and both sides keep getting the upper hand until Vegeta delivers a blast at Cell, this is the perfect opportunity for Gohan to go all out and defeat Cell. Gohan strengthens his kamehameha and cell is defeated at last.

The Z-fighters take Gohan to the look-out to be healed by Dende and to summon the new eternal dragon. Shenron is summoned and Trunks is wished back to life. The dragon has the power to grant 2 wishes and is asked of Goku can be revived. Since the dragon was created from the same model, Goku cannot be brought back, which is ok because he does not want to come back. The second wish is used by Krillin to change android 18 to a human. Peace has once again returned, and the Cell games are over.