Gohan stood, still reeling from the sudden death of both his father and the worst enemy he had ever faced, Cell. His hair had returned to the pale blonde shade of his Perfected Super Saiyan. Feeling the familiar, rough, clawed hand of Piccolo on his shoulder he looked up and smiled sadly as Piccolo squeezed his shoulder comfortingly.

"It's not so bad kid. Your father can be revived. And you've learned your lesson now haven't you?"

"Y-yea….T-that was so stupid of me….I could have avoided all this…" Gohan said dejectedly as he looked down at where his father and Cell had just disappeared from, the dust only now settling down.

Gohan only had a second to register the sudden appearance of a massive power-level to his right. On Instinct he threw himself back while shoving Piccolo, reflex kicking him into his active-Super Saiyan state as he did this. Allowing him to be the only one to react properly in time. Too fast for him to follow, at least as a SSJ, a beam of light blinded him momentarily as he slid back over the dirt. Coming to a quick stop and blinking a few times to re-adjust his vision. His gaze panned over his friends and he froze. His green eyes widened in shock and horror.

Before him were the collapsing bodies of all six of his friends and comrades. Oh-so familiar holes punched clean through all of them and oozing blood at alarming rates. Those beams had been modified versions of Freeza's death beams. But Freeza and everyone from his family was dead. So the only way someone could have used that move is-

Gohan whirled around, swinging his fist in midair and creating a strong gust of wind that rushed around him. Whipping away all the dust and allowing him to see the body attached to the overwhelming power signature exactly as he realized who the power belonged to.

"Cell!"

The bio-android clicked his tongue in annoyance and lowered his hand from where it had just been pointing towards him and his dying friends.

"A shame. I thought I aimed directly at you. But you can't fault me. With power as large as mine yours just aren't special enough to be told apart~"

"First Android Sixteen. Then my father. And now my friends." The pre-teen's power began to increase as he clenched his fists by his side "YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR!"

In an explosion of dust and debris, which was blown away from Cell's incredible power, Gohan jumped states from regular Super Saiyan to an Ascended Super Saiyan. His dark green eyes glaring hatefully at Cell as his hair once again rose into multitudes of thin spikes, other than that one stubborn lock which dangled down his forehead. The ground cracked beneath his feet but he paid no heed to such a negligent factor. His entire being focused on the smirking villain through rage-tinted glasses.

"Cute, brat. But your power could never match up to Perfection!" Cell roared and his power rose to match Gohan's.

So focused on each other. Neither of them ever noticed five of the six bodies disappearing into particles of golden light which seemed unaffected by the intense, buffeting winds the two emitted through their roaring power spikes.

Gohan roared and surged forward. His fist meeting the palm of Cell's with a resonating bang.

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Other World

Vegeta looked around in confusion. One moment he had been watching the world blur into darkness as he hit the floor and the next he was here. In this….strangely vibrant land with a fucking huge tree nearby, casting a large blanket of shade over a grassy terrain. The warrior stood up and flexed his hand, realizing he was fully healed. The confusion was evident on his face as he scrunched his eyebrows and forehead.

Multiple groans behind him caught his attention and made him whirl around, prepared for a fight. Instead, all he was met with was the forms of Yamcha, Krillin, Tien-Shinhan, and Piccolo as they all got to their feet.

"What is this? Where are we?" Vegeta asked heatedly, looking around before a familiar person entered his vision.

"Heya Vegeta!" Goku greeted with a cheeky grin.

"Kakarot!?" His exclamation caught the attention of the rest of the Z-fighters "What are you doing here? Wait. Where is here?"

"The Other World! You know, the place you go when you die" They all froze, their eyes wide in shock.

"We're dead? Wait. Where is this? I never saw this last time" Krillin asked in confusion, looking around.

"So fast…. I couldn't even avoid it…" Tien mumbled, staring at his fists which he angrily clenched at the fleeting memory of his second death.

"Gohan….Wait! Gohan isn't here! Does that mean he survived?" Piccolo asked while looking around, hoping to not find his young student among them.

"Son Gohan is still alive. Of that, you don't need to worry. Though his opponent is quite troublesome." A short figure stepped out from behind Goku.

Said figure had a spiky white mohawk and pink skin, yellow orb earrings hanging from his spiked ears. He wore fairly regal looking robes that just looked expensive and mystical.

"And who exactly are you?" Vegeta asked skeptically.

"He's the Supreme Kai! He's like the boss of King Kai!" Goku interjected cheerfully, getting a side-eye and raised an eyebrow from said Kai.

"Indeed I am. I'm the leader of all the Kai's. Essentially a true God of Creation" Shin said with a polite smile and tone.

"Woah…that's so cool!" Krillin and Yamcha said as they bounced up.

"Not to be rude. But why are we here?" Tien asked, looking around at the lush land.

"Feels like a sacred place." Piccolo grunted.

"That's because it is. This is the home of the Supreme Kai's"

"There's more than one?" Yamcha asked in surprise.

"There…..used to be. Long ago there were five Supreme Kai's in total. But a great evil killed all but one. Luckily that evil was soon after defeated and sealed." Shin explained before shaking his head lightly "Nevermind that. I was discussing a…troubling, matter with the North Kai and your friend Goku here when he sensed all of you entering this dimension and asked I bring you here"

"Yeah! What's up with that! What killed you guys?" Goku asked his friends, his arms out and face twisted into confusion.

"Grrrrr" Vegeta grit his teeth and a vein in his forehead bulged ever-so-slightly at the fresh memory.

"Turns out your heroic sacrifice wasn't as successful as you thought. Gero created a nucleus which wouldn't be destroyed in his little kamikaze and he came back even stronger than before" Piccolo informed the Saiyan.

"Did you not hear me mention your sons opponent just moments prior?" Shin asked, polite amusement tinkling through his tone.

"I-i…W-wha" Goku stuttered as his eyes shrank in horror.

At that moment Vegeta noticed something, looking around in angry confusion but not finding ahead of lavender hair anywhere. Immensely confused and hopeful that maybe he had survived. Turning back to Shin, he opened his mouth to question him before a sudden pressure slammed down on everyone in the immediate vicinity.

Appearing in a shimmering beam of rainbow light was a tall effeminate man with blue skin, white hair which stood up high above his head, and violet eyes. The man in question held a long staff with a black orb surrounding by a blue ring floating above one end of the staff. Around his neck was also a floating blue ring resembling a large halo that fell from his head and got caught on his shoulders.

"O-oh. Hello Whis-Sama" Shin said respectfully while bowing, immediately catching everyone's attention while they tried to get their breath back.

"W-what gives? A-aren't you the boss? Who is this person?" Krillin asked in confusion.

"I am Whis. An Angel and attendant to Lord Beerus" Whis greeted them happily, the pressure disappearing as if it was never there as Whis seemed to understand his mistake.

"L-Lorrrrr- Lord Beerus?" Vegeta asked, eyes wide in fear as he began to break out into a cold sweat, being the only one other than Shin to recognize the name.

"The one and the same~" Whis replied cheerfully before turning to Goku "Would you be Son Goku? The one who defeated the Tyrant Freeza?"

"That'd be me!" Goku replied bouncing slightly and grinning in his infectious manner.

"That's good. I need your assistance with something" Goku raised his eyebrow and everyone looked between the two of them in confusion.

"Uhhhh. Sure? I'd be happy to help!"

"Oh that's good. You see, recently Freeza and some 'allies' of his somehow escaped from Hell and my sister from Universe 6 contacted me. They also somehow found their way into her universe from ours. Seeing as they were from our universe, her and their God of Destruction, Lord Champa, have stated that someone from our universe needs to clean up the mess before they wage Universal war~" Everyone stared at him with gaped jaws and bug eyes.

"H-Hey now- You're throwing a lot of new stuff at us so maybe just sl-" Yamcha tried to plead with his hands up before Whis continued, seemingly not hearing him.

"And seeing as Freeza escaped into their dimension with five allies. And they're all still dead. They will only allow six of you to enter, and if you're dead. And seeing as there's six of you right here. And you're the group that leads to Freeza's demise in the first place. What do you say?" Whis asked jovially.

"Hmmmmm. Well, the Earth will be fine with Gohan protecting it! I'm in, uhhhh Lord Whis sir?" Goku guesses with a sheepish smile and laugh.

"Excellent! Well, off you all go!" Suddenly all six of the Z-fighters began to feel an identical feeling, though only Vegeta and Piccolo realized what it was fast enough.

"Wait, what the hell are you do-" Before Vegeta could finish all of them disappeared in identical beams of light.

"Whis-sama. O-only Goku had agreed to go" Shin stammered with wide eyes.

"Ah yes. Unfortunately, I have my sister and Lord Champa grouching in my mind via telepathy so I merely went off what I managed to skim off a surface look and sent them all. After all they all seem to follow after Son Goku anyway" Whis said cheerfully with a regal smile.

"That's an….astute observation" Shin muttered with a sweatdrop.

"I thought so as well! Now if you excuse me I must be returning to check on Lord Beerus"

"W-wait Whis-sama there's recently been an issue and-"

"I'm sure you can work it out. You're an intelligent Kai. Toodaloo!" The Angel disappeared in another column of rainbow light and Shin was left to stew in his angst.

"Bojack and his crew have been released again…" He finished off his earlier sentence before hanging his head and sighing.

The pink skinned Kai took a deep breath and slapped both of his cheeks at once before shaking his head and looking up.

"Alright, Shin. You've managed to make it two millennia with the little training you got. You can do this. You've seen that strong individuals have been able to rise. Someone should have been born by now that can defeat Bojack…..hopefully."

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Cell smashed through three boulders before meeting the earth and skipping along its surface at high speed. During the flight of his third skip, he managed to regain control of his bearings and with a roar his aura surrounded him. Swelling slightly as he used it to suddenly shoot out of his skipping motion and high into the air. Feeling the almost even power-level of Gohan approaching at alarming speeds he sent out a shockwave of Ki to give himself a moment of reprieve. Feeling Gohan hesitate for just a few fractions of a second too long he wound up and struck his hand forward, stretching his arm to grab the tense arm of the eleven year old boy and reel him in while preparing a ball of energy in his other hand.

Gohan glared at the murderous monster as he was pulled in, managing to adjust the position of his body to dig his heels into the monster's abdomen. Of course he still took the brunt of the energy ball Cell had created, but he also managed to get a nasty hit in himself. Ignoring the pain as best he could, the pre-teen used his energy to stay still in midair even as he kicked off Cell's stomach. Twisting and spinning in the air before lashing out with a leg and sending the bio-android hurtling into the ground at ludicrous speeds. Creating a hole and cracking the earth for meters around the hole as the ground shook like an earthquake had hit.

With a furious growl, he shot down towards the hole of Cell he created, both his feet aiming towards the hole with murderous intent as he hurtled down. Disappearing into the hole all was still for a few fractions of a second before the ground shook violently once more and the hole grew larger and larger as the ground surrounding it cracked heavily and began to fall apart.

A green and purple figure shot out of the debris and skidded back along the dirt. Perfect Cell scowling furiously while leaking purple blood from his mouth, some of the liquid covering his teeth as he grit them and growled furiously.

"How…How can you dare to touch perfection!?" He screamed, swiping an arm to the side as Gohan also launched himself out of the hole and skidded back in the opposite direction to Cell.

"Did you not learn from me Cell? The power is going to your head..You'll end up making a mistake. Just like me…only yours will cost you your life" Gohan intoned gravely. His deep seafoam eyes glaring hatefully into Cell's.

"You think you can kill me? I'm immortal brat! Or did your fathers 'sacrifice' teach you nothing?~" Gohan grit his teeth together.

Cell lowered into a half-crouch and placed two fingers on his forehead. The pre-teen tensed, his senses exploding to life, expecting an instant-transmission. Instead met with a ball of energy beginning to form at the end of the bio-android's fingers as he grinned darkly at the halfling.

"Pop Quiz brat. Whose move is this?~" Gohan disappeared in a flicker of movement, Cell's eyes widening.

Before he could even think of firing the attack or even dissipating it to defend himself the pre-teen struck. A sickening snap sounding out as he broke both Cell's forearm and three of his ribs with a single kick. Putting a little more power into the kick to send him grinding back through the dirt uncontrollably. Cell growled and tried to dig his feet in and for roughly thirty meters all he managed to achieve was creating deeper trenches. Abandoning the Makankosappo in favor of healing his forearm he raised his left arm into the air while beginning to slow down.

Above his hand a disc of golden energy began to form only for an intense Ki blast to hit his hand, mangling the limb and causing the Destructo Disc to fizzle away as Cell roared in pain, finally grinding to a stop.

"How dare you." Gohan heaved violently as he spat the words out "You murdered all of my friends with a smile on your face. How dare you even try to use their techniques!"

"They should be thanking me brat! I can take their techniques. All of their techniques, to an even greater level than they ever could!" Gohan roared and shot forward.

The two engaged in a lightning fast blitz of hand-to-hand combat. Gohan using his smaller size and a slightly larger energy pool to his advantage to pummel Cell. Every combo he pulls off fueling his rage and satisfaction and helping him to power through his pain and exhaustion.

Gohan skidded back a few meters and shot forward as Cell focused on trying to fix the elbow the young warrior had popped out of its socket. Coming to an instant stop in front of the bio-android. The Pre-Teen leaned back and snapped his right leg up, nailing Cell in the solar-plexus and launching him high into the sky with the sound of a gunshot. Spinning his risen leg behind him and planting it on the floor the half-Saiyan stood upright, bringing his arms together in front of him.

"Kaaaaaa-"

Snapping his limbs out and flaring his aura, Cell came to an abrupt stop in midair. Coughing up a little more purple blood while he began to try and gain his breath back.

"Meeeeee-"

From this height, and surrounded by his flaring aura, the words were barely a whisper on the wind but his inherited battle instincts screamed to him as he tried to identify them.

"Haaaaaa-"

Cell's eyes widened and he finally checked his Ki senses, realizing how much power Gohan was pooling into a rapidly growing energy ball.

"Meeeee-"

"You upstart little BRAT!" Cell roared as he realized what Gohan was trying to do, trying to mimic his pose and build up as much power as quickly as possible.

"HAAAAAAA!"

"HAAAAAAAAA!"

Both beams shots towards each other. But just from the perspective of even a regular human, one fact was made imminently clear. Gohan's beam was far stronger than Cell's. At nearly twice the diameter and heading towards Cell with a speed almost double that of his own beam the difference was made abundantly clear.

Both beams struck and whipped up an intense shockwave of wind which ripped up the land for hundreds of meters underneath the clash zone. Gohan grit his teeth and dug his feet in as he felt Cell quickly trying to feed more power into his beam as Gohan's own began to grow closer and closer. Soon the raw, hot, terrifying energy of Gohan's beam was mere meters from Cell. The bio-android sweating and gritting his teeth as he tried to push back and avoid being swallowed by the massive energy beam, even as he fed power into his own to try and even the power gap Gohan's charge time gave him. Of course, flying during this whole process didn't make it any easier to achieve this.

"You think you can destroy Perfection!? I'll only come back stronger! A being as perfect as me cannot die! Don't you understand, Gohan!?" Cell roared, both to release some of his anger and to try and throw Gohan off.

"Will you just shut up! I don't care how perfect you think you are! Everything can die! I'll avenge all my friends! I'll make you pay! I'll make sure not a single atom of you remains!" Gohan snapped in return "This is the end Cell! Your PERFECT DEATH!" Gohan's blue beam suddenly took on a cyan hue as it began to destabilize from the sheer amount of energy flowing through it. Increasing drastically in size and swallowing Cell whole as he screamed in fear and pain.

Gohan had never felt his senses as powerful as they were now. He felt like he could feel a particle of dust in the air, like he could hear every sound for miles around, like his eyesight had enhanced seven-fold. But most importantly his Ki sense heightened to levels he hadn't known possible. All of his attention split between maintaining his overkill Kamehame-Ha and focusing on Cell's energy signature. Feeling it finally disappear he kept up his beam for another three seconds before finally dropping it. The surrounding environment beginning to return to a state resembling normalcy as rocks and boulders fell from the sky, where the two warriors beam clash had risen them, and the wind began to die down.

Gohan knew he had to act quickly before the adrenaline left his system and his body began to relax. As quickly as he could, he jumped up, surveying the landscape and only seeing Trunks and Android 18. Frowning he went to look around again before a twinge of pain caught his attention. He was rapidly running out of time. Flying down he scooped the both of them up and began to fly to the lookout, his body beginning to fail him rapidly.

Within half a minute of leaving the area, he was forced to drop out of his new Ascended Super Saiyan transformation and into a regular Super Saiyan. He was quick to drop even further down into his Perfect Super Saiyan state to try and conserve energy but he could feel his body beginning to grow lax and his vision hazy, nearly dropping Trunks and Eighteen a few times as he tried to fly. As he began to finally drop out of the sky he caught the sight of something in the horizon, a white shape in the sky, growing rapidly closer.

'I-is the lookout getting…closerrrrrr?' Gohan thought before passing out completely, his hair returning to its normal jet black and all three warriors dropping out of the sky like stones.