Cell was struggling on the ground, wanting to crawl away, but he was so brutally injured that even that was hard for him to do.
And Piccolo was just about to arrive, he was doomed.
'I should have finished off Raditz before this, Dammit.'
Not everyone has to chance to receive a beatdown from the Legendary Super Saiyan, it's a special kind of an experience.
The experience of fighting against an unstoppable force without an immovable shield isn't a pleasant one, but it's surely one of a kind.
"Hey, let me take care of him will ya."
Piccolo heard these words just when he was about to strike Cell, turning back he saw Nappa coming from behind.
Frowning his brow Piccolo looked at Nappa, and Nappa stared back while slowly explaining his part.
"He killed Vegeta, let me finish him off in king's place."
Nappa's resolve was there, and Piccolo who had fused with Kami wasn't as heartless as his previous self, he understood what it meant for Nappa to do this.
Vegeta was a Saiyan under Raditz's rule, and Raditz the Saiyan King was unable to finish him off, so Nappa wanted to do this in his stead.
Both for Raditz's pride and for his personal revenge, he wanted to kill Cell on his own.
Nappa might not show it, but he was the most caring Saiyan of them all, at least the one who identified the most with his people if nothing else.
"Alright, have at it, be sure to finish him off."
Piccolo backed away, giving Nappa the position, and Nappa smirked right away as he watched the struggling Cell.
"Hahaha, don't worry about it, I'll go all out."
Nappa laughed out loud, he was Ultimate Nappa right now, this should be enough to finish off the brutalized super perfect Cell, but for the sake of caution, he decided to use his strongest trick.
"You see this Cell, this is Saiyan kind's strongest ability."
Nappa raised his palm up in a grip like fashion, and concentrated.
*Wiiiing*
Soon a bright ball of energy began to take shape on top of Nappa's palm.
Smirking while looking at the artificial moon in his hands, Nappa raised his hand and threw it up into the sky with a shout.
"Ha!"
Watching the moon rush up and position itself at a considerable height, Nappa started staring at it.
Currently only Raditz and him had tails, all others lost theirs sometime or the other, so he didn't worry about someone like Kakarot who was without training transforming by mistake.
*Growl*
Nappa soon started to growl as his eyeballs turned red, his height began to rise exponentially and his body began to bulk up even more.
Soon after a few seconds, a tall Oozaru stood in place of Nappa, roaring into the air to show it's arrival.
'Mystic Ooazru or Ultimate Oozaru, which one sounds better?'
Raditz wondered, Nappa went Oozaru after a long time, no Saiyan had went Ultimate Oozaru until today, this was a brand new thing, Raditz had no idea how this form would behave.
"Cell, go to hell!"
But Nappa looked just fine, so Raditz let his worries go, after all ultimate was just using all of your strength in base, this was not that different from Nappa going Ooazru normally.
Cell himself looked utterly terrified and angry, he looked at the massive Nappa and that moon which was responsible for this.
"Dammit! Why! I am the perfect bein..."
"W..hy.."
Cell stuttered mid sentence and became silent, this seemed a weird to Nappa but he didn't pay it much mind, after all people giving up hope before unwinnable circumstances wasn't all that uncommon.
But Cell was feeling something different, his mind was becoming hazy for some reason, he wasn't able to think clearly, as if going into a daze.
*Thump*
Piccolo's eyes narrowed, courtesy of his ears he heard a loud heartbeat just came from Cell.
Piccolo then looked at Cell closely, Cell looked like he was staring blankly at the artificial moon, as if he had given up all hope.
But Piccolo had a bad feeling about this, something was feeling off.
"Nappa, don't waste time! Finish him off quickly!"
Piccolo said out loud, but most of the z fighters, Nappa included weren't all that worried right now so Piccolo's words caught them off guard.
Yamcha waved his hand at Piccolo and laughed.
"Relax Piccolo, Cell has given up hope look at him, he isn't even trying anymore."
But Piccolo wasn't convinced, his feelings of foreboding became stronger by the second.
*Thump*
*Thump*
*Thump*
"Nappa, do it quick!"
Piccolo almost hysterically yelled, and Nappa was taken aback by that, so was Raditz, he didn't know what was wrong with Piccolo as he didn't have Namekian ears, but for Piccolo to act like this, something had to be off.
Nappa finally snapped out of being yelled at by Piccolo, but he also didn't understand why Piccolo was acting this way, and Nappa was a Saiyan, he didn't like getting commanded.
"Grr, don't lecture me Namekian, I'll punish him first."
Piccolo spat hearing those words.
"This idiot..!"
Not caring about anything else Piccolo directly charged up a masenko and blasted it towards Cell.
"Hey!"
Nappa barked angrily, this was his prey, Piccolo was out of line.
The z fighters were surprised at Piccolo's actions as well, it was an unspoken rule to not interfere in someone's battle, but soon they widened their eyes, because even with Piccolo drowning Cell in masenko, Cell's energy didn't dissipate.
"Piccolo, what's going on..?"
Raditz asked slightly shocked, he didn't like this one bit, something weird was happening to Cell, he should have been dead from the blast just now.
But Piccolo didn't have to answer Raditz, the low growl escaping from Cell's throat did.
*Growl*
Raditz widened his eyes, Cell was growing in size, his energy was spiking every second and his eyes went completely bloodthirsty.
'Oh shit, is that an Ooazru?! Cell can go Oozaru?!?'
Raditz cursed in himself for missing something obvious like this, of course Cell could go Ooazru, why wouldn't he!
He had Saiyan DNA inside of him, he could go Super Saiyan, he had a tail, everything needed to go Oozaru was right there.
The only reason he didn't go Ooazru in orginal was because it was daytime and there wasn't a moon.
But the most problematic of them all was the Cell was a 'Super Saiyan', so this wasn't any normal Oozaru, this was a golden Oozaru.
"Dammit..!"
Piccolo angrily spat, his attack failed and now Cell was stronger than ever.
Raditz was tired from ultra instinct, besides him none of them were capable of beating even Super Perfect cell, now Cell went ahead and multiplied his power so many times on top of that.
"Aaaaaah!"
The gigantic Cell had completed his transformation, yet he didn't seem to care as he roared and flailed around instinctively.
Nappa's eyes shrunk as that large flailing hand rushed towards him.
*BANG*
Somehow from raw experience, Nappa managed to block it in time but the sheer weight behind the attack threw his massive Oozaru body into the air.
*CRASH*
His body crashed into the mountains, Nappa's large physique crushed the cliffs like sand castles, yet his body tumbled backwards even more before finally coming to a stop after hitting another cliff.
"Huff huff."
Nappa looked at his hands, they were shaking from resisting the impact just now.
Nappa realised he had just made a horrible blunder, not only did he not avenge Vegeta, he also put all of them in hot water.
Now they were tired, one man down and Cell, their enemy was ten times as strong as he was before, victory which was within their grasp was lost just like that.
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