Cell: After years of anguish from
a defeat that took place decades ago, Dr. Gerault continues to plot revenge
against the character who destroyed Red Ribbon and ruined him, Goku. Android
Cyborge #19 (I call C19) is the first of a series of creations to destroy Goku.
Along with the scheme, Dr Gerault requests C19 to make him into a cyborge so
that he would become stronger, and this bears witness of the transformation of
Dr. Gerault to C20. The Z Warriors meet with C19 and C20 and the two sides
engage in battle. Goku leaves the battle while Vegeta faces C19. The android is
destroyed and C20 is shattered. Despite the grave defeat, Dr. Gerault's
cybernetic programming enables him to self repair, so that he may live to fight
again. C20 then works on developing a better android model. Meanwhile, he
unleashes two of his other creations, C17 and C18. C17 and C18 get annoyed of
Dr. Gerault. As a result, C17 kills Dr. Gerault. But, the doctor had just
finished creating C21, who is still developing in a giant test tube. Before he
dies, he issues the final command to his new android to feast on the
rebellionous androids. C17 and C18 leave the lab and unleash C16. But as it
turns out, C16 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. Goku 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 Goku would live to kill the androids and thus change
the future, gives Goku the medicine. Goku is saved, but the Saiyan's 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 Dragonball series.) Dende, a Nameck child, replaces
Kami as guardian of the dragonballs. Cell flies to find C17 and C18. On his way
devours the souls of the unlucky civilians he passes to become stronger.
Finally, he meets with the other androids. To our heroes surprise, they learn
that C17 and C18 know nothing about Cell. Cell and C17 threaten to kill each
other. C17 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. C18 is
now worried, but C16 flies out to fight Cell. To everybody's amazement, C16 is
able to stand up to Cell. However, he is still destroyed. Cell now heads for his
goal and devours C17 with his tail. Cell now changes into his 2nd form. With the
power of C17 combined to his, he becomes stronger than ever. Then, he heads over
to devour C18. C18 tries to escape, but she is still eventually devoured. Cell
now changes into his 3rd form1, and becomes "Perfect Cell" Cell, after devouring
the souls of so many people, is no longer an android and becomes organic. After
Cell is gone, Bulma collects the body parts of C16 and repairs him. C16 is
reprogrammed to fight on the Z Warriors side. Our heroes now head out to fight
Cell, and C16 is once again destroyed. Cell grows strong enough and reproduces.
From his body come 7 Cell Juniors, miniature blue duplicates of Cell. With the
death of C16, an enraged teenage Gohan powers up and reaches Super Saiyan level
2. Gohan then destroys all the Cell Juniors and fights Cell. In a following
battle, Cell is kicked and C18 is spit back out (She is unconscious). Cell turns
back into his 2nd form 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,
Goku teleports Cell out of Earth and into Kaio's planet, where Cell blows up.
Thus, Goku, Kaio, Bubbles, and Gregory die as well. The Z Warriors mourn the
loss of Goku, 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 his
3rd form, 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 his 3rd
form! 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), Gohan prepares a fireball. He fires at Cell and Cell
fires back. A stalemate is meant, but with Kaio's help, Goku is able to talk to
Gohan and encourages him. Meanwhile, Krillan protects the unconscious C18 and
Yamcha, Tenshinhan and Vegeta attack Cell in hope that this will distract Cell.
With the help of the now dead Kaio, Goku, 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 dragonballs to bring those killed by Cell back to life. However, Goku
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 Kaio. C18 awakens and
flees. However, everybody learns that Krillan has developed a crush on C18! At the
end of this series, there is a short memorial about the life of Goku.