118 At any cost

Vegeta stood in the middle of the stage and looked at his opponent, another Cell junior staring at him with a malicious gaze.

Vegeta smirked seeing that smug blue face, and suddenly he clenched his fist, in response to the stress his body was feeling, his forehead had veins bursting out.

"Haaaaaaah!"

Then he yelled out with all his might, his aura soon turned a glowing yellow as he quickly transformed into a Super Saiyan.

Ignoring the short Cell junior before him, Vegeta turned towards the big Cell and smirked.

"Cell, you might as well stop playing these silly games, my power is beyond your imagination."

Cell just laughed at Vegeta's arrogant words and looked at him confidently before saying.

"Is that so, Vegeta."

Vegeta scoffed at Cell in distaste, he would show Cell how wrong he was in underestimating him.

So he decided to give Cell a taste of what the prince of all- of what a super elite was capable of.

Smirking haughtily, Vegeta pointed his thumb towards himself and declared.

"You don't understand Cell do you."

"I am already way beyond your abilities, you think I don't know about the power you are hiding?"

Cell frowned slightly hearing Vegeta's words, did Vegeta know something about his Super Perfect form?

But Vegeta didn't give him the chance to think further, as once more he clenched his fists and veins popped on his forehead.

"Haaaaaah!"

Vegeta soon began screaming loudly again as he focused on releasing his energy outwards, time passed bit by bit and the arena began to shake uncontrollably.

An earthquake of magnitude 4 was beginning to take shape in the area, and as Vegeta kept powering up futher, the scale was only increasing.

*Wooooom*

It was as if a threshold was breached, when the earthquake reached it's most violent state, Vegeta's muscles began bulging rapidly.

"Aaagh!"

With a final shout Vegeta seems to have reached his desired threshold, and gave a final yell to solidify his power.

As the energy and winds died down, the z fighters and Cell could finally see it, there he was, Vegeta was standing there with his massive muscles.

"Wow, Vegeta really is stronger than Cell!"

Yamcha exclaimed, the Cell he sensed right now was somehow a bit weaker than Vegeta was!

But Nappa wasn't so optimistic.

"He is, but he can't maintain this state for long, this is called Super Saiyan grade 3."

"Vegeta shouldn't have used it here, he should have kept it against Cell, he might run out of energy before he can finish the job."

"It's too risky."

Nappa's words were echoed by the majority of the z fighters, they also understood this form not only was incredibly slow and cumbersome, but it was also extremely energy intensive.

Vegeta shouldn't be able to use it for long.

But Vegeta himself had no such thoughts, after he got rid of the speed issues of this state, he had the idea that as long as he finishes the fight quickly, the short time frame didn't matter at all.

So Vegeta's entire idea was getting rid of Cell junior as quickly as he can, before attacking Cell directly.

"You there, trash."

"Perish..!"

Vegeta turned towards the Cell junior before charging up a large ki blast with both hands, just when the Cell junior was panicking, Vegeta attacked the Cell junior, launching the energy blast straight at him.

*Crack*

The Cell junior at the last second moved his head out of the way, but his entire left side of the body couldn't move out in time, getting incinerated in the process.

"Aaaaa!"

The Cell junior yelled out in pain, before clutching his left side and glaring at Vegeta.

Vegeta looked back, amused at the torment his opponent was going through, but the smile on Vegeta's face didn't last long when the Cell junior's wounds wiggled.

*Splash*

And abruptly an entire new left side grew out of the mangled body.

This caused Vegeta to frown, before he smirked once more.

"Regeneration? Hah, it didn't stop the Namekian from killing you, why do you think it will stop me!"

Cell couldn't help but laugh at Vegeta's words in a low voice, breaking the atmosphere, which caused everyone present to look at him.

"Ha..Hahaha.. Hahahaha!!!"

This made Cell finally unable to control himself as he began laughing uncontrollably.

Everyone was on guard, Cell was smiling all this time as if killing Cell juniors didn't matter at all, and now this, he was laughing like a madman, something was off.

'So they realised something after all, oh well.'

Cell thought before smirking maliciously, then as if a scheme had succeeded he proudly spoke.

"Vegeta, you might be able to destroy him, but for that you have to catch him."

Vegeta frowned, what did Cell mean by that?

Cell continued, as if he had full confidence he will win even if they knew what he was talking about.

"You see Vegeta, I have the cells of each one of you, I can regenerate like piccolo, I can split myself like Tien, I can a transform like King Cold."

"And the same trick dosen't work on me more than once, just like Goku!"

The z fighter's eyes went wide, and so did Cell's smile, he spread his arms before happily announcing.

"The more you fight the Cell juniors, the more ways you destroy them, the more they will learn!"

"You can never kill me or the Cell juniors in the same way twice! So go on! Go on, make me complete! Make me without a weakness!"

The z fighter's now understood, why Cell bothered with the tournament in the first place.

Cell knew he had everything needed to be the greatest warrior since birth, but one thing he didn't have was experience.

This was the only place he could ever be defeated in, to counter this, a tournament was held by him.

And now one of his goals was complete, this time around he learnt he could be trapped and obliterated, next time, this trick won't work on him again.

Piccolo who was the one to fight Cell before this, almost boiled listening to what he just heard.

"Dammit, we can't keep fighting the Cell juniors! If we defeat them he wins, if we lose, we die and he still wins!"

"The more we fight the more we will lose! We have to stop him now!"

Piccolo growled in a terrified way, the fighters also were starting to think this might be the best bet, but as if Cell knew what they were thinking, he raised a finger and waved in around.

"Uh uh uh, I wouldn't do that if I were you, unless you want west city to go up in flames."

"Poor Bulma, she might not make it at all..'

The z fighter's faltered once more, they were incredibly angry but there was nothing they could do!

But somehow even after hearing all this, Raditz's face was plain, although the veins wiggling all over his body clearly showed how much rage Raditz was burying inside him right now.

Cell smiled happily at the z fighter's reactions, but when he found out that Raditz was still not reacting, he clicked his tongue, he thought for sure he could see a helpless angry face on him, but alas, the Saiyan King seems to have exemplary control over his emotions.

Turning towards Vegeta who was incompetently raging because he understood he was being used as a training dummy, Cell laughed loudly.

'And then there is Vegeta, how pathetic.'

Cell thought, before he snapped his fingers, he just decided to make it quick.

He wanted to know his possible weaknesses as soon as possible, and then, he wanted to kill Goku before fighting Raditz to his heart's content.

"Kill him."

Ordered Cell, the Cell junior looked aghast at the order, but then angrily looked at Vegeta.

Who frowned seeing that reaction, he had seen that look before, that was the look of a person about to die.

Vegeta decided to not risk it and instantly appeared before the Cell junior.

*Booom*

And a hand knife destroyed the the entirety of the Cell junior's head.

*Thud*

Resulting in his headless body falling down as if it's strings were cut.

*Smirk*

Vegeta smirked seeing that, But before he could destroy the rest of the dead body, the fallen Cell junior's body moved as if possessed.

"What?! Let go!"

And grabbed onto Vegeta's leg, Vegeta tried to shake it off but almost at the same time, the headless torso grabbing onto him began to balloon up.

Gohan who had seen this before, exclaimed in shock.

"He going to self destruct!"

Vegeta's eyes opened wide and he quickly began punching the headless torso grabbing onto him.

*Bang*

*Bang*

*Bang*

"Let. Go. You. Worm!"

*Bang*

But even with the dented body the Cell junior's torso held onto Vegeta's leg with all it's might

"Tch."

Just before Vegeta could take the risk and blast off his leg together with the Cell junior, his eyes shrunk.

*Booooom*

And a blast of massive magnitude covered the arena, Raditz and Chiaotzu responded quickly and deployed a telekinetic barrier around them.

But it didn't stop the z fighters from feeling afraid, just now after that attack, Vegeta's ki vanished.

One mistake, that was all it took for Vegeta to die, even with all that strength, the bulkier form finally got to him.

If only he wasn't so pumped full of muscles, he would have kept his flexibility, this kind of build was why Chiaotzu could self destruct on Nappa's back and now Vegeta experienced the same thing himself.

Vegeta was now out of the fight, for good.

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