It
is now 3 years after the arrival of the mysterious boy. He had told Gokou
that they were supposed to train for the arrival of two strong beings,
androids, created by Dr. Gero. They did as the mysterious boy told
them, they trained hard for three years. They waited for the arrival
of the two androids in the place that they were said to be, and there
they meet Android #19 and Android #20. Android #19 is the last of a
series of creations to destroy Gokou. Along with the scheme, Dr. Gero
requests Android #19 to make him (Dr. Gero) into a android so that he
would become stronger, and so Dr. Gero is transformed to Android #20.
The Z Warriors meet with Androids #19 and #20 and the two sides engage
in battle. Gokou leaves the battle because of his heart disease and
leaves the battle to Vegeta. The android is destroyed and Dr. Gero is
shattered. Despite the grave defeat, Dr. Gero's cybernetic programming
enables him to self-repair, so that he may live to fight again.
Android
#20 then works on developing a better android model. Meanwhile, he
unleashes two of his other creations, Android #17 and Android #18.
Androids #17 and #18 get annoyed of Dr. Gero. As a result, Android #17
kills Dr. Gero. Android #17 and Android #18 leave the lab and unleash
Android #16. But as it turns out, Android #16 is a peaceful android.
(This can be shown through his love towards the wild animals.) As time
passes, the Z Warriors become aware of the new androids as they battle
again and again but always reach a stalemate. However, the Z Warriors
are still not match for the androids because the androids are robots,
and therefore do not tire in a long battle while the Z Warriors
eventually run out of energy. Gokou suffers a heart attack in one
battle and retreats. Trunks, who was sent back in time by future Bulma
with medicine to heal Goku's heart so that Gokou would live to kill
the androids and thus change the future, gives Gokou the medicine. Gokou
is saved, but the Saiyan-Jins still do not continue to fight the
androids. Instead, they train in a chamber to get stronger. Meanwhile,
Piccolo fuses with Kami, his half father, to become stronger (His
story is told in the Dragon ball series.)
We
then learn about Cell, a creation made by Dr. Gero’s computer, it’s not
really an android, because he’s made of Cells from all the Z warriors. In one
of the the futures, all created by the Time Travel machine, Trunks has stopped
the androids using the emergency stop device, so Cell, who needs the androids to
become perfect, can’t find them, so he kills Trunks and use the Time Travel
Machine to come in our present. But he needs to make a reverse mutation to be
able to enter the time travel machine, so when he arrives on earth, he needs to
transform again, and it takes him many years, then, he devours the souls of the
unlucky civilians he passes to become stronger.
Dende,
a Namek child, replaces Kami as guardian of the dragon balls. Androids
#16, #17, and #18 go to seek Gokou to destroy him. Piccolo finds the
androids first and begins to fight them.
Cell is able to feel piccolo’s Ki, so, he flies to find
Androids #17 and #18. Finally, he meets with the other androids. To our
heroes' surprise, they learn that Androids #17 and #18 know nothing
about Cell. Cell and Android #17 threaten to kill each other. Android
#17 heads out to fight him. But, he does not stand up to Cell and is
easily defeated. This is when our heroes learn the great powers of Cell.
Android #18 is now worried, but Android #16 flies out to fight Cell. To
everybody's amazement, Android #16 is able to stand up to Cell. However,
he is still destroyed. Cell now heads for his goal and devours Android
#17 with his tail. Cell now changes into Cell--form 2. With the power of
Android #17 combined to his, he becomes stronger than ever. Then, Vegeta
comes out of the time and spirit room, and fight Cell, but he thinks
that Cell isn’t strong enough, so he lets him absorb #18.
Cell
now changes into Cell form 3, and becomes "Perfect Cell", and he's now
stronger than Vegeta so Cell beats him up a little. Then Trunks take his turn
but he isn’t as strong as Cell. Cell leaves, and tell them about the Cell
Game, a tournament he wants to organize to see if people can be stronger than
him. After Cell is gone, Bulma collects the body parts of Android #16 and
repairs him. Android 16 is re-programmed to fight on the Z Warriors' side. Our
heroes now head out to the Cell Game. Mr. Satan attempts to fight to fight Cell,
claiming to be the strongest man in the world, but does no damage to Cell. It is
now Goku's turn to do battle with Cell. A battle that is so fast, that a regular
person cannot see it with the naked eye. At first, the two just play around and
give the other hopes, but later on, they fight for real and this proves to be a
very hard battle. Gokou does a Kamehameha to Cell that blows away his head and
arms, but Cell, with Piccolo's power is able to grow out a new one. After this
things look bad for Gokou, and so he gives up and tells his son, Gohan to fight
instead. Gohan does as his father tells him, but is still not fighting with his
maximum power. Cell tries to make Gohan angry so he can release his powers by
expelling from his body 7 Cell Juniors, miniature blue duplicates of Cell. These
Cell Juniors are beating up all of Goku's friends while he is just watching
everything. Android 16 tries to destroy Cell by self destructing, but Bulma had
taken away the bomb inside him and so Cell kills him.
After
he is dead his head is still able to talk. And so Android 16 asks Mr.
Satan to throw his head towards Gohan so he can talk to him and so he
does (this is the only real thing that Mr. Satan does in this
tournament). When Android 16's head arrives at Gohan's feet, he talks
to him and tells him that some people will never understand with
words, and to let out all of his hidden powers. At this Cell walks
towards Gohan and steps on Android 16's head, which finally kills him.
The death of Android 16 triggers his anger, an enraged teenage Gohan
powers up and reaches Super Saiya-Jin level 2. Gohan then destroys all
the Cell Juniors and fights Cell easily, while not even Gokou was able
to keep up with them (The Cell Jrs.).
In
a following battle, Cell is kicked and Android #18 is spit back out. (She is
unconscious.) Cell turns back into form 2 and is defeated. But, he activates his
self destruction mode so that when he dies, the world will blow up with him. To
save the Earth, Gokou teleports Cell out of Earth and into Kaioh's planet, where
Cell blows up. Thus, Gokou, Kaioh, Bubbles, and Gregory die as well.
The Z Warriors mourn the loss of Gokou, but cheer at the victory over Cell at
the same time. A fireball flies out of nowhere and pierces through Trunks. Upon
Trunks' death, Cell, in form 3, appears. He tells that when he blew up, a brain
cell survived. From the cell, other cells multiplied and he was once again
formed. Cell happily laughs as he tells that he is amazed he is able to rebuild
himself into form 3!
Then,
Cell threatens to destroy the earth. Now it is up to Gohan to try to
save our planet. With one arm (the other injured when he went to let a
fireball meant for Vegeta hit him), Cell prepares a fireball. He fires
at Gohan but Gohan is not able to fire back. A stalemate is meant, but
with Kaioh's help, Gokou is able to talk to Gohan and encourages him. So
Gohan finally fires back. Meanwhile, Krillin protects the unconscious
Android #18 and Yamcha, Tien, and Vegeta attack Cell in hope that this
will distract Cell. With the help of the now dead Kaioh, Gokou, also
dead, is able to communicate with Gohan and encourages him to use all
his power to defeat Cell. Gohan overpowers Cell and Cell is
disintegrated by Gohan's fireball. (But, Satan takes credit for Cell's
death because of his lies to the reporters.)
At
the end, the warriors gather the dragon balls to bring those killed by Cell back
to life. However, Gokou is still dead because he was already brought back to
life once and cannot come back again, but tells that he is okay and is now with
Kaioh. Android #16 can't be revived because he was a robot. Android #18 awakens
and flees. However, everybody learns here that Krillin has developed a crush on
Android #18! At the end of this series, there is a short memorial about the life
of Gokou. And there is peace on Earth.
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