Future of Despair!! The Man Who Lived Through Hell, Trunks

Cell watches Trunks silently. Dust flies up around Trunks. He continues screaming. He begins to bulk up. His chest and shoulders expand slightly. His arms, and then his legs, follow suit. Lightning strikes around the island. Rocks fly through the air, and the sea becomes choppy. Number 16 gasps. "This ki is really scary."

Trunks' power up shakes the ground even below Kuririn, as he flies Vegeta to Kame House. Kuririn flies through a small ravine and looks around as the walls crack on both sides. He stops and turns around, looking back at the island. A storm rages overhead. "It's Trunks' ki. Amazing. We can feel it, even at such a distance. Saiya-jin are so horrible." Lightning lashes out at the land as Kuririn looks on.

And still, Trunks screams. The rocks and debris of which power ups are so fond continue to swirl around Trunks. The ground shakes at Kame House. Yamucha struggles to keep from falling. Chichi, "It's an earthquake this time?" Chaouzu hugs the leg of a table. Muten Roshi walks in and falls with a yelp. He happens to land facing up right beside Chichi. He turns a little and stares straight up. "That's big trouble." Chichi turns and sees him. "What are you doing?!" She grabs the table that Chaouzu had been holding onto (and that she had been leaning on to keep her balance), swings it into the air, and smashes it down over Kamesennin. "Dirty old man!"

Cell watches as Trunks' ki STILL goes up. Lighting lights up the sky over God's Shrine. Piccolo stands back, arms crossed as usual. Tenshinhan stands hunched over, staring down at the Earth. Bulma stands further back toward the interior, watching the sky. Ten, "It's such a strong ki..." Piccolo, "It's Trunks' ki." Ten, "It's even stronger than Vegeta's. He can beat Cell for sure!"

Cell smiles. "What a power. Vegeta can't possibly match with you." Trunks, "I'll never let Artificial Humans like you go wild again. I won't let you go back to the hell of the tragic future."
A ruined city stands alone, completely deserted. Well...maybe not completely. Number 17 and Number 18 walk alone through the streets. A scream rings out. A man that stands with a cluster of other people hiding inside the remains of what was once a building states the obvious for us. "Artificial Humans! Artificial Humans! Artificial Humans have come to attack!" Another man finishes that statement of the obvious with more specific information. "Number 17 and Number 18!" As they walk, Number 17 sticks his right arm out, and without even looking, blasts a building. Number 18 does the same, but with her left arm, of course (otherwise, she'd hit Number 17...). A group of men stand back and shoot at the Artificial Humans, but of course, it is all to no avail. Number 17 smiles, and all of the bullets fall right off. Number 18 doesn't really smile, but her bullets fall, too. She sticks a finger out and blasts the men. She holds her hand up to the side of her head. "It's so fun to destroy a city." Her hand falls and she looks over to the side, looking out at the city. "It's taken hundreds of years for the city to develop to what it's like now, but it only takes a second to take it down." Number 17, "But that's not fun enough. Can there be someone who can match with us?" He looks out at the remains of the ruined city. Trunks, "Artificial Humans are too strong, way too strong. All the fighters who try to stop them are killed by them." Super Saiya-jin Vegeta fights with Number 17, but it's quite futile. "Even Vegeta..." Number 17 throws a blast and Vegeta falls to the ground. He sits up. "Damn it!" Number 17 hovers over him, sticks an arm out, and blasts Vegeta. "Piccolo-san..." Piccolo looks around, searching. He spots Number 18 above him. He flies up to attack, she vanishes. He looks around again. He finds her behind him, attacks, she dodges again. She gets right beside him, punches straight into his midsection, and blasts him from the inside. "Kuririn-san..." Kuririn runs, watching his back. Number 17 drops down in front of him. He gasps and stops. Number 17 blasts him, and Kuririn screams. "Tenshinhan-san..." Number 18's blast pierces Ten's chest. "Yamucha-san..." Number 17 blasts through Yamucha's torso. "Yajirobe-san..." Number 18 blasts Yajirobe. "...are all killed. Only Gohan-san and I are left."
Son Gohan and Trunks stand before the Artificial Humans. Number 17, "Son Gohan?" Gohan, "I won't let any of them go your own way." Number 18 tilts her head. "Piccolo and Vegeta, whom we've killed, were only bragging." She forms a blast in her hand to throw at the last two Z Senshi. She throws the blast, but they dodge. Son Gohan turns Super Saiya-jin. "Trunks, go away!" Trunks, "Okay." Gohan flies straight at Number 18, but she dodges. She attacks and begins beating up on him. Trunks watches from above. She flies forward and kicks Gohan into a building. He sits in the building, still recovering from the blow. Number 18 creates another blast. Trunks, "Gohan-san!" He flies in and slashes at Number 18 with his sword. He only succeeds in cutting off some of her hair, but it's sufficient to save Gohan's life. She brushes back her hair. "How dare you, my beautiful hair..." He flies forward again, but she blasts him away. Son Gohan flies in and hits her away. Number 17 retaliates by throwing Gohan into another ruined building. Number 18 gets up. "Damn you... Die!" She blasts the rubble in which Gohan lies. Gohan jumps up above them. "Masenkou!" He blasts the Artificial Humans. A decent-size explosion goes up in the city, followed by a large cloud of smoke. The smoke and dust clear and the Artificial Humans climb out from under the debris that fell on them. Son Gohan and Trunks gone. Number 18, "Damn it! Where is he?" Gohan and Trunks watch them from under and behind some slabs of concrete. "We must search thoroughly and destroy everything." The begin blasting random buildings. Trunks, "Gohan-san..." Gohan, "No way. We can't beat them." Trunks, "I'm so angry." Gohan, "If only Father, who died of a heart attack, was alive." He recalls Son Goku's death. "If Father were here, he could fight bravely under any circumstances. I hope I can be as brave as Father was." Trunks, "Gohan-san..." The Artificial Humans look at the work they've done on the city. "From then on, we continued to fight with the Artificial Humans." An explosion in the city. "Afterward, Gohan-san was finally killed, too. I became the only fighter who survived. Only two Artificial Humans, and they turn our future world into hell." Cell smiles at Trunks. "I don't ever want such a tragic future again. Cell, for the future of the Earth, I must kill you."

Trunks' ki begins to rise again, going even higher. Cell, "Good, that's great. A powerful force. Maybe you're already better than me. I'm very glad." Trunks gasps. "I'm sure Dr. Gero would be glad, too, because I can finally find someone for me to test the power of the whole body." Cell laughs.

Dr. Gero's computer builds Cell. A small lump of organic material floats in the middle of the tank. The computer makes different calculations. The lump grows. "Cell, I am Dr. Gero. You're a computer-made Artificial Human..." As Dr. Gero speaks, images of the Z Senshi fly over the computer. "...made with cells gathered from martial arts masters. I have high hope in you. If you're completely, you'll have a power like the devil, an invincible one. You'll become the most powerful Artificial Human." Over time, Cell continues to grow in the tank. Finally, he grows too big. The tank cracks and breaks open. Cell crawls away. "Cell, if you absorb the energy of living bodies, you can continue to grow stronger. Then when you absorb Number 17 and Number 18 and become a whole body, you'll become an unbeatable Artificial Human." Part of Dr. Gero's lab explodes. Cell crawls away. Eventually, he breaks free of his shell. It splits down the middle, and a bright line shines out of it. Original Cell emerges. But what he finds is a planet in ruins. He happens upon a few people, of course. Screams are heard, empty sets of clothing lay on the ground. Cell walks on. Man, "What is this monster?" A group of men huddle around Cell. One man attacks Cell in the back of the head with a huge sledge hammer. The sledge shatters. Cell looks back at the man. The man stares in amazement at the sledge handle and screams. Cell throws him into the air with his tail. Old man, "Don't be scared off! Stop that monster!" They all begin to fire machine guns at Cell. Of course, none of it does any good. Cell begins to glow, then an explosion of ki expands out from him. The men scream as they're thrown back. The blast dies down. Old man, "Run!" Cell catches them with his tail as they go, absorbing them one by one. Cell grins as he finishes the last person. "Dr. Gero's study is perfect. Made from the cells of martial arts masters, I am invincible. I tried so hard to find Number 17 and Number 18, but in vain." A city lays in ruins, empty clothes strewn about. Cell sucks the life out of another unfortunate human.

Lighting strikes around Trunks and Cell. "When I came out from underground, Number 17 and Number 18 were already gone. It seems that you'd destroyed them." He laughs. Trunks stares at him silently. "But thanks to your time machine, which took me back to the past, I've found Number 17 and Number 18 in this timeline and become the whole body. My wish has finally come true." He laughs again. Trunks glares at him, and Cell smiles back. Cell raises his fists a few inches. "I'm very anxious to try the power of this whole body." He develops an aura and begins to raise his ki. He laughs. Trunks, "Cell, just as you wish, but first, let me show you the real power of Saiya-jin." He screams, and the ground begins to break up under him as his ki goes up again. Large rocks begin to rise. Cell smiles. Trunks physically grows as his muscles bulk up.

He leaps forward and attacks Cell. Cell catches himself in the air and looks up. He vanishes, reappears higher up, looks down. Trunks appears right in front of him and begins throwing ki blasts. The cloud of dust, of course, expands around Cell until it fills the whole screen. Trunks finishes his attack and the smoke clears. He gasps. "What?!" Cell is gone. Cell appears behind him and kicks him in the back, but Trunks catches himself in the air and appears behind Cell. He kicks Cell in the back, then flies down and stops in front of Cell, punching him in the head when Cell gets there. Cell falls back, but then attacks and they go into a few seconds of the hit/kick/block/dodge thing. They jump back a few meters across from each other when they finish. Number 16, "They're so powerful. I can't even see their movements." Cell laughs. Trunks, "I'm going to kill you. I won't let you Artificial Humans carry out your evil deeds on the Earth." Trunks' aura returns, and then so does Cell's. Trunks flies forward, but Cell catches his fist. The lock arms, neither appearing to be any stronger than the other. Electrical currents run over both of them and flow straight to the hands, which begin to glow with ki. Lightning strikes around the island. The ground splits apart. Trunks screams. Cell kicks him away. Trunks flies back, but stops himself. He flies straight back up and hits Cell in the face. They go into another frenzy, with shockwaves running out from points of impact. This frenzy is dominated by Trunks, and when he's had enough, he let's Cell fall a bit and throws a ki blast at him. Cell rides the ki blast into a cliff side. Cell sits up and Trunks hovers above him. Cell laughs, his eyes shut. "I see. Very powerful, indeed. You've really excelled me." Trunks glares at him in anger. "But you can't beat me like that. Not at all." He opens his eyes. Trunks lands across from him. "That's complete rubbish." Cell smiles. "Is it?" He laughs once again, and the two stare each other down as they prepare to continue the fight.