After the vicious battle against Freeza, our heroes prepare for the
future that Trunks warned them about. Three years remain before the coming of the Androids
that were said to wreck the future...
(*1)After years of anguish from a defeat that took place
decades ago, Dr. Gero continues to plot revenge against the character who
destroyed Red Ribbon and ruined him- Gokou. (*3)Dr. Gero begins a project, but the
development was taking too long, so he abandoned the project and left the computer running
the program...
Everyone is training to get ready for the Androids that Trunks warned them
about. Gohan, Gokou, and Piccolo train in the mountains. Vegeta trains himself under to
450 times the gravity of Earth in the gravity sector of Capsule 3, keeping in mind that
his main goal is to get stronger than Gokou. Yamcha, Klilyn, Tenshinhan, and Chauzu also
undergo rigorous training to prepare for the future.
Three years pass...
Android Saga...
Gokou, Gohan, and Piccolo fly to the southern island 90 km away from where
Trunks appeared to regroup with the others. They encounter Klilyn on the way and everyone
lands to meet with Yamcha and Tenshinhan (Chauzu was left behind because he wasn't too
strong to be of any use in fighing.) Bulma is also there holding a baby, to whom is
introduced as her child, Trunks. Bulma tells that she is there to see how the Androids
look like. Everyone except Gokou and Piccolo becomes startled that the baby is Vegeta's
kid. Yajirobe flies on a hovercraft in to give the warrioris a bag of senzu beans from
Karin. Everyone looks at the city below the cliff in which they stand on but see no signs
of the Androids.
Yajirobe is leaving and his ship mysteriously explodes. The Z Warriors separate
to investigate while Gohan brings Yajirobe to safety. Two mysterious figurs, Androids
19 and 20 jump around the city killing the people they pass by.
Yamcha unknowingly encounters the strange figures in his search for the androids. Android
20 grabs Yamcha by the mouth, stealing energy in the myst, and jabs a hand through him.
The others sense Yamcha's troubling ki and arrive to the scene. Klilyn takes Yamcha's body
back to Bulma for senzu. Gokou, Tenshinhan, Piccolo, and the Androids fly off to more
deserted areas for better fighting grounds.
The Androids request to stop at Stone Mountain. Piccolo sees it as the androids'
advantage for fighting because they can hide in the mountain mazes if they lose the
battle. Gokou and Android 19 battle first. Gokou has the advantage, but doesn't do
too well even in Super Saiyan level.
Yamcha is revived with a senzu. He tells that the androids have the ability to
absorb energy. Gohan, Klilyn, and Yamcha then go to warn their comrades of
this factor. Android 19 absorbs part of Gokou's energy via Gokou's kamehameha
before he is warned of the androids' ability. Gokou suddenly suffers from his heart
failure and collapses. Android 19 beats Gokou around and then begins to absorb the remains
of Gokou.
Vegeta leaps in to save Gokou, telling that it will be he who will be the one to
defeat Kakarot. To everyone's surprise, Vegeta powers up into Super Saiyan mode too. He
tells how during training, he relaized that he training methods were not going to be good
enough to defeat Gokou, so he got angry and turned into a Super Saiyan. Yamcha goes and
takes Gokou back to Master Roshi's place to recover. Vegeta beats Android 19 and purposely
lets him steal some of his energy. Then, he kills the android off. Android 20 watches and
realizes how he miscalculated the power levels of the Z Warriors. Thinking that he will
lose to Vegeta, Android 20 runs away. Vegeta demands a senzu to restore his energy and
then pursuits after his target. Everyone joins in the hunt. 
Trunks returns from the future and looks for the Z Warriors. Seeing the
decapitulated head of Android 19, he realizes that the Z Warriors were fighting the wrong
androids.
Android 20 sees that he's been surrounded and makes a move to absorb Piccolo's
energy. Gohan comes and saves him, and Piccolo is restored back to full energy with a
senzu. Android 20 is surrouned again and is about to be killed. Trunks also arrives to the
scene, telling that Androids 19 and 20 are not the ones that will terrorize the future.
Bulma flies in with baby Trunks and Yajirobe. 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. Android 20 is really Dr. Gero, who created Android 19 to
which he used in turn to make himself into an android. Trunks tells that Androids 19 and
20 are the wrong set of androids to fight. Androids 17 and 18
are the real targets, but are not yet awaken. Gohan carries Bulma, baby Trunks, and
Yajirobe to fly back home. Everyone else flies off to destroy Dr. Gero's lab before
Androids 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 Androids 17 and 18
have already been released. Everyone watches the androids. Androids 17 and 18 make a mess
of their creator's laboratory and then Android 17 slices Dr. Gero's head off before
crushing it. Androids 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, Androids 17 and
18 easily beat Tenshinhan, Piccolo, Trunks, and Vegeta. Android 16 refuses to fight,
telling that he was created to destroy Gokou only. Klilyn, too scared to fight, watches
the horror. The androids head to Klilyn 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.
Non-Perfect Cell Saga...
The Z Warriors suspect the Androids of coming to Gokou's house to kill him and
move Gokou to the Kame House. (*3)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 closeby 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. (*4)Kami, watcher of
the earth, watches an enemy unlike any other attack Gingertown. Victims are completely
consumed, and no one is spared. Kami tells Piccolo that the earch does not need a god now,
but a super powered being. (*5)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. (*6)The two fight. 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, another one of Dr. Gero's
creations. When Trunks returned to the future and killed Androids 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 powerup- Androids 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. (*7)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
Goku"a game.
(*2)Gokou recovers from his illness and, hearing everything
while asleep, prepares to join in fighitng. 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 Android 17
while the remaining Androids watch. As the two fight, Cell reaches them. Cell easily beats
Piccolo and heads for Android 17. (*8)Android 17 knows nothing about Cell
and attempts to bully him, but Cell also easily beats the android.
Before Cell is able to absorb Android 17, Android 16 joins the fight. (*9)Android
16 overwhelms Cell. Cell becomes buried in a pile of rubble, but emerges atop Android 17
and absorbs him. Cell changes into form 2. Cell becomes stronger than Android 16 and
shatters him. Then, he heads for Android 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.
Cell Game...
A tournament is held to fight Cell in what is known as the "Cell
Game". In this "game", if Cell wins he will destroy the earth. Gokou and
Cell battle to a standstill. The battle gets intense, but Gokou suddenly surrenders and
tells 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.
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. Gokou calmly
watches while Gohan is still not angry enough to fight back. Gohan is getting beaten badly
but Gokou tells his comrades to just watch and wait. Android 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. Klilyn 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- Gokou, Vegeta,
Trunks, Klilyn, Tenshin-han, Yamcha, and Piccolo. Cell flies to Klilyn 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, Sataan, his disciples, a reporter, and a camera-man have been
boardcasting the fight. Android 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 Android 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 Kaiou's planet. (*11)Cell
explodes and Kaiou's tiny planet gets ruined. Gokou, Kaiou, 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. Saiyans 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
Kaiou, Gokou yells to encourage his son. The remaining Z Warriors (Yamcha, Tenshin-han,
Klilyn, 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 Saiyans (Gokou and Gohan) to be stronger than him, an elite
warrior and also Prince of all Saiyans. 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. (*11)Sataan and the
news reporters revive back to consciousness. Sataan, 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 Sataan, the Z Warriors are in Sky Palace. Dende heals
Gohan and Trunks. Android 18 awakens. The Z Warriors threaten to kill her, but Klilyn
tells them not to. Android 18 flees. The warriors yell at Klilyn for his decision,
but then tease that he has a crush on her. The dragonballs have been gathered.
(*12)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 Kaiou, Gokou tells that it is okay. The Z Warriors all
reflect on Gokou's life.
Sataan emerges a hero. Gohan breaks the news about Gokou to his mother.
Seven years pass, and Gohan is 16...
Next, the Boo
Series...
Notes:
*1 -In the Red Ribbon Series of Dragonball, Gokou destroyed the corrupt
military organization. Dr. Gero had been the robot designer working for Red Ribbon, and
vowed to have revenge one day.
When Dr. Gero's lab got destroyed, the lair
where Cell (an embryo at the time) was developing was located far beneath the lab so it
survived. No one but Dr. Gero knew of it, so Cell slowly developed. After 24 years, Cell
was finally grown and he unleashed himself. This was the same time as Future Trunks'
timeline, and explains why Androids 17 and 18 do not know about Cell. Cell needed to
absorb Androids 17 and 18 to reach perfect form, but Trunks had already killed them.
Therefore, he needed a time machine to travel to a time where they existed, and he
encountered Trunks...
*4 -The strange being from the shell possessed the auras (powers) of Gokou,
Piccolo, Vegeta, Freeza, and Cold. Cell told that during the battles of the Vegeta Series
and the Freeza
Series, Dr. Gero sent little misquito-like robots to gather blood samples
(DNA) of the warriors. All the traits were put in to produce the "clone" Cell.
*5 -At first, the guardian of the Earth was one Namek being. It split into two
forms- Kami and Daimoa. Daimoa was killed by Gokou, but his essence was
"reproduced" into Piccolo. Thus, Piccolo was Daimoa. When Piccolo and Kami
fused, the two became the original Namek again.
With Kami gone, Dende succeed Kami's position as God of
the Earth.
*6 -During the battle, Cell did a Kamehameha blast at Piccolo. Piccolo lauged
that because Gokou's blood sample was taken at the time he fought Vegeta, the blast was
weak. Gokou had powered up a lot since to fight Freeza.
*7 -Nameks are slug-like beings with the ability to regenerate any loss body
part.
*8 -Androids 17 and 18 believe that they were programmed to be undefeatable, and
therefore the strongest of all.
*9 -Android 16 never fought before. He told that his only opponent was Gokou and
that there was no reason to destroy another else. Everyone was shocked that he was
stronger than Androids 17 and 18.
*10-Dr. Gero placed bombs inside his android creations to allow the trigger of a
self-destruct option.
*11-Sataan was a popular fighting hero with the reputation of the world's
strongest called into the area to defeat Cell. In reality, Sataan is just a averge human
who has built a false reputatin for himself. Sataan's popularity is boosted more when he
claims to have killed Cell and saved the world.
*12-Under normal circumstances, Shenlong can only grant one wish at a time.
Because Dende is the guardian of the dragonballs and it was he who summoned Shenlong,
Shenlong can grant three.
Tao Pai-Pai, a character from the original Dragonball series, made an appearance
in this series. He built a fort that was advertised to be safe. People paid for hide in it
for protection from Cell. Gohan discovered it and easily destroyed the building. After
learning that Gohan was the son of Gokou, Tao Pai-Pai fled away.
The actual Trunks of the time was a baby. There was a scene where Bulma and baby
Trunks were in a aircraft that exploded. Future Trunks caught baby Trunks.
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