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horrible battle with Frieza was just the beginning. The lesson our heroes
learn as they begin to train for the future that Trunks predicted. As the
three years pass, the warriors train in their respective areas for the coming
of the androids in 3 years.
In the mountains Son Gokou, Son Gohan, and
Piccolo train vigorously paying special attention to raising Gohan's power. At
Capsule Corp. Vegeta trains in a space capsule at 300x normal earth gravity,
with the constant obsession to become stronger than Son Gokou. While the
others (Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu) train in a feeble effort to even keep
up with the others when the Androids arrive.
Three years then pass, the training vigorously continues, so enters the
Android Saga....
When the day finally arrives, Son Gokou, Gohan, and Piccolo fly to the island
that Trunk's said the androids would appear on. As they arrive they encounter
Kuririn and the others waiting for them. To their surprise Bulma has a son!
That's right, it's Trunks! Before they know it the Androids begin to attack,
the team rushes into the town below to track down the dastardly duo. The two
Androids continue the rampage through the town, when they get their eyes on
Yamcha. As he spots the Androids, Yamcha's screams are silenced by #20
stealing his Ki! Gokou and the others sense Yamcha's distress and go to help
him, but before they could reach his location, Gokou arrives and gives #20 a
welcome punch in the jaw. After deciding the city was not suitable fighting
grounds, they fly off.
The Androids ask to stop at a nearby Mountain range. Piccolo sees it as the
androids' advantage for fighting because they can hide in the mountain trails
if they lose the battle. Son Gokou and #19 battle first. Gokou has the
advantage, but doesn't do too well even in Super Saiyan level. Yamcha is
revived with a Senzu seed. He tells that the androids have the ability to
absorb Ki. Son Gohan, Kuririn, and Yamcha then go to warn their comrades of
this factor. #19 absorbs part of Gokou's energy through Gokou's Kamehameha
technique before he is warned of the androids' ability. Gokou suddenly suffers
from his heart failure and collapses. #19 beats Son Gokou around and then
begins to absorb the remains of his Ki.
Vegeta leaps in to save Gokou, telling that it will be he who will be the one
to defeat Kakarotto. To everyone's surprise, Vegeta powers up into a Super
Saiyan as well. He tells how during training, he discovered that he training
methods were not going to be good enough to defeat Gokou, so during his
frustration he no longer cared about being the best or beating Gokou, the act
that unlocked his hidden power. Yamcha goes and takes Son Gokou back to Master
Roshi's place to recover. Vegeta beats #19 and purposely lets him steal some
of his energy. During the battle Vegeta uses his Big Bang Attack for the first
time which easily finishes #19. #20 watches and realizes how he miscalculated
the power levels of the Z Warriors. Thinking that he will lose to Vegeta, #20
runs away. Vegeta demands a Senzu seed to restore his energy and then pursuits
after his target. Everyone joins in the chase after the scared android.
Trunks returns from the future and looks for the Z Warriors. Seeing the
destroyed head of #19, he realizes that the Z Warriors were fighting the wrong
androids. #20 sees that he's been surrounded and makes a move to absorb
Piccolo's energy. Son Gohan comes and saves him, and Piccolo is restored back
to full energy with a Senzu. #20 is surrounded again and is about to be
killed. Trunks also arrives to the scene, telling that #19 and #20 are not the
ones that will terrorize the future. Bulma flies in with baby Trunks and
Yajirobe. #20 (Dr. Gero) shatters the ship with a fireball to create a
diversion for escape.
Trunks rescues his mother and his baby self. Bulma tells the identity of the
android she saw. #20 is really Dr. Gero, who created #19 to which he used in
turn to make himself into an android. Trunks tells that #19 and #20 are the
wrong set of androids to fight. #17 and #18 are the real targets, but are not
yet awaken. Son Gohan carries Bulma, baby Trunks, and Yajirobe to fly back
home. Everyone else flies off to destroy Dr. Gero's lab before #17 and #18 can
be unleashed. Dr. Gero realizes this plan and also races towards his lab.
Dr. Gero, knowing the hidden location of his lab, gets to it faster than the Z
Warriors. The Z Warriors catch up, but by the time they reach the lab #17 and
#18 have already been released. Everyone watches the androids. #17 and #18
make a mess of their creator's laboratory and then #17 slices Dr. Gero's head
off before crushing it. #17 and #18 also head to the pod of another android
and release him, Android #16. Finally, they head to face the Z Warriors. In a
remote area, #17 and #18 easily beat Tenshinhan, Piccolo, Trunks, and Vegeta.
#16 refuses to fight, telling that he was created to destroy Son Gokou only.
Kuririn, too scared to fight, watches the horror. The androids head to Kuririn
and tell him that the Z Warriors are not dead yet. They confess that
everything is a game, and that they'll be glad to fight their enemies again
once they get stronger. So begins the Non Perfect Cell Saga.
The Z Warriors suspect the Androids of coming to Son Gokou's house to kill him
and move Gokou to the Kame House. On the journey, Bulma contacts the crew and
tells our the discovery of an abandoned time machine much like Trunks', but
Trunks has his machine a capsule with him. He tells that Bulma only made one
capsule in the future, and Trunks and Gohan fly in to investigate. Nearly, the
shell of a creature hatched not too long ago is discovered. In a nearby town,
the mysterious creature is absorbing everyone. Piccolo sees that the only way
to defeat the Androids would be to power up dramatically, and decides to fuse
back with Kami-sama. Kami-sama, god of the earth, watches an enemy unlike any
other attack Gingertown. Victims are completely consumed, and no one is
spared. Kami-sama tells Piccolo that the earth does not need a god now, but a
super powered being. The two fuse with Piccolo as the base, and the two become
one again. Piccolo flies to the town with the strange evil being who is
absorbing everyone. All the inhabitants of the town have vanished and only
empty clothing remain. The being hatched from the time machine shows itself.
The two begin to duke it out. Cell holds Piccolo captive and absorbs an arm.
Piccolo breaks free and demands to know more about his opponent before he
loses his life to it. Cell yields to what he believes to be Piccolo's final
wish before he absorbs him. It introduces itself as Cell, the greatest of Dr.
Gero's creations. When Trunks returned to the future and killed #17 and #18 of
that time, Cell killed Trunks and stole his time machine to return to the past
where the Androids were still alive. Cell reveals about how Dr. Gero abandoned
the project on him but left the computer on to develop him on its own. In
order to reach perfect form, he needed the beings of two figures crucial to
the power up, #17 and #18. As newly hatched, he needed energy. That is why he
has been absorbing people. Piccolo laughs and tells that he won't let Cell
reach perfect form. Then, he tears off his useless limb and regenerates his
arm. The two fight again, but Cell escapes the town to enter other parts of
the city, where he contiues to kill for energy. Piccolo and his comrades hunt
for Cell before it is too late... The Androids are heading for Gokou's house
via car and trashing any unlucky cities they pass by. When they finally reach
Gokou's house, they find it abandoned and then slowly travel to Kame's House,
thinking the whole process of "hunt and kill Son Gokou" a game.
Gokou recovers from his illness and, hearing everything while asleep, prepares
to join in fighting. He teleports for Gohan and then to Vegeta and Trunks'
location, telling of a place where they can train for one year in one day.
Everyone goes to Sky Palace and enter the Room of Spirit and Time, where time
passes by slower. Only two people can train at a time in the room. Vegeta and
Trunks enter first. After devouring many civilians, Cell grows strong enough
to face the Androids and head for them. The Androids reached the Kame House.
The Non-Saiyan Z Warriors are there and Piccolo stalls. Piccolo and the
Androids fly to a nearly island and battles #17 while the remaining Androids
watch. As the two fight, Cell reaches them. Cell easily beats Piccolo and
heads for #17. Android 17 knows nothing about Cell and attempts to bully him,
but Cell also easily beats the android. Before Cell is able to absorb #17,
Android 16 joins the fight. # 16 overwhelms Cell. Cell becomes buried in a
pile of rubble, but emerges atop #17 and absorbs him. Cell changes into his
Non-Perfect form. Cell becomes stronger than 16 and shatters him. Then, he
heads for #18 and devours her, reaching Perfect Form.
Meanwhile...
The training in the Room of Spirit and Time is complete and the Saiyan
warriors emerge stronger than ever. The parts of Android 16 are gathered and
Bulma rebuilds him to fight as a Z Warrior. Everyone is ready to face Cell
again. So begins the most important fight of DBZ to date, the deadly Cell
Games
A tournament is held to fight Cell in what is known as the "Cell
Games". In this "game", if Cell wins he will destroy the earth.
Son Gokou and Cell battle to a standstill. The battle gets intense, but Gokou
suddenly surrenders and tells Son Gohan to take his place. Gokou gives Cell a
senzu bean to make it fair for Cell and Gohan enters the ring. Everyone is
shocked at what Gokou did. Son Gohan tells that he understands why his father
is making him fight. He tells that whenever he gets angry, he powers up
unbelievably. Cell boasts that he wants to see this hidden strength of Gohan's
and begins torturing him to make him angry. Son Gokou calmly watches while
Gohan is still not angry enough to fight back. Son Gohan is getting beaten
badly but Gokou tells his comrades to just watch and wait. #16, a robot, has
no "ki" so he can't be sensed. The android silently walks to Cell
and puts him into a lock-hold Android 16 tells everyone to clear out because
he will ignite the doomsday device that Dr. Gero placed in his creations as a
backup plan. Kuririn shouts that it won't work because Bulma removed the bomb
when he rebuild the robot. Cell laughs and shatters Android 16 again. Cell
grows tired of this and threatens to harm the spectators, Son Gokou, Vegeta,
Trunks, Kuririn, Tenshin-han, Yamcha, and Piccolo. Cell flies to Kuririn to
steals his bag of senzu beans and heads back to Gohan. He counts seven
spectators and, from his tail, spits out seven miniature blue duplicates of
himself. The Cell Juniors are born. Gohan watches desperately as the seven
little monsters fly towards his comrades. Gokou, too weak to fight after
fighting Cell, is unable to fend off the Juniors. The other Z Warriors get
beaten as well. Gohan only watches in distress, seeing that it's because of
him that Cell afflicted the attacks upon his comrades. In the background,
Satan, his disciples, a reporter, and a camera man have been broadcasting the
fight. #16's head was thrown in the direction of Satan. The head begins to
talk and request that it be brought close to Gohan, telling that this is the
only way that the world can be saved. After much reluctance, Satan cowardly
carries the head across the battlefield, throws it in front of Gohan, and
hides behind a rock again. Android 16's head encourages Gohan to fight. Cell
sees the touching scene and splatters the head with a foot. The death of #16
triggers the hidden rage in Gohan and Gohan powers up to Super Saiyan level 2,
surpassing the limits of the ordinary Super Saiyan level. Gohan steals the
senzu back from Cell and then single-handed kills all Cell Juniors. Gohan
heads for Cell and bullies him. Cell powers up to 100% and attacks, but is
still unable to defeat Gohan. With a kick in the body, Cell spits Android 18
back out and degrades back into form 2. Seeing no way to win in an even weaker
form, Cell activates his self-destruct sequence (the bomb in his body) so that
the planet will go with him. To save the Earth, Gokou teleports Cell to Kaio-shin's
planet. (*11)Cell explodes and Kaio-shin's tiny planet gets ruined. Gokou,
Kaio-shin, Bubbles, and Gregory die at the cost of saving the earth. The Z
Warriors stand stunned at what happened, not knowing whether to mourn the loss
of Gokou or cheer the victory that the earth has been saved. An unexpected
fireball flies out and pierces through Trunks. Trunks dies before he hits the
ground. Cell, in perfect form, appears smiling. The Z Warriors must face Cell
again, without Gokou. Cell tells that when he exploded, the nucleus of one of
his brain cells survived. From the cell, mitosis was possible and he was able
to regenerate his entire body. Cell boasts that he was also able to rebuild
himself in perfect form, commenting that it may be the work of the Saiyan
cells in possesses. Saiya-jins grow stronger each time they reach the brink of
death, and likewise with these cells, Cell is now stronger. Vegeta becomes
outraged and shoots hundreds of fireballs at Cell. The smoke clears and
reveals Cell unscathed. Cell flies over and knocks Vegeta out. Then, he aims a
fireball at Vegeta's helpless body and shoots. Gohan intervenes the blast to
save Vegeta's life, taking the blast for him. Gohan gets back up with half his
body bloody. Cell and Gohan blast Kamehameha blasts at each other and a
fireball duel is followed to see who can hold out longer. Cell's fireball
begins to overwhelm Gohan's, but Gohan simply tries to hold out without much
effort of fighting back. Through Northern Kaiou, Gokou yells to encourage his
son. The remaining Z Warriors (Yamcha, Tenshinhan, Kuririn, and Piccolo) shoot
fireballs at Cell to try to help Gohan, but Cell's aura blows them away each
time. Vegeta wakes back up and flies above Cell, telling himself that it is
impossible for low class Saiya-jins (Gokou and Gohan) to be stronger than him,
an elite warrior and also Prince of all Saiya-jins. He charges up a fireball
and blasts it at Cell. In this distraction, Gokou tells Gohan that now's his
chance. Gohan strengthens his fireball and overwhelms Cell, disintegrating the
monster in the blast. The Z Warriors cheer over this victory and head to Sky
Palace. Vegeta staggers away in disbelief that Gohan is stronger than he.
Satan and the news reporters revive back to consciousness. Satan, seeing the
area empty, takes advantage and takes credit for killing Cell, taking titles
for "The World Champion who saved the world from Cell" and "The
Strongest Man in the Universe". As the world parades for Satan, the Z
Warriors are in Sky Palace. Dende heals Gohan and Trunks. Android 18 awakens.
The Z Warriors threaten to kill her, but Kuririn tells them not to. Android 18
flees. The warriors yell at Kuririn for his decision, but then tease that he
has a crush on her. The Dragonballs have been gathered. Three wishes are
permitted. A wish is made to remove the bombs in the Androids. Another is made
to revive all those killed by Cell. However, Gokou is still dead. Through Kaio-shin,
Gokou tells that it is okay. The Z Warriors all reflect on Gokou's life.
Satan emerges a hero. Gohan breaks the news about Son Gokou to his mother.
Seven years pass, and Gohan is 16...