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"Noooooooooo!" Daucus yelled.

His father had vanished along with the puffed up bomb that was Semi-Perfect Cell.

His vanity in his new form had made him toy with Perfect Cell instead of killing him quickly. That vanity had now cost him his father, who used Instant Transmission to take Cell away from Earth.

Daucus collapsed to his knees, tears streaming down his face, angry with himself for having failed to end things.

Krilin approached him.

"I screamed up....why didn't I just finish him when I had the chance?" The young saiyan asked himself. He had thought himself better than his father who had let Frieza go on Namek. He thought that he wouldn't make the same mistake, but this new power had made him too prideful. SSJ2 had clouded his judgement.

Kriling kneled next to him. "Daucus, Karakot may be gone, but we still have the dragon balls. We can bring him back."

Daucus realized that his mistake could be rectified. "Yeah..yeah, the dragon balls." He stood up and collected his thoughts, trying to overcome the burst of grief and anger that had gripped him.

Krilin picked up the unconscious Andriod 18 and began walking away, leaving Daucus to himself.

Just as he thought that it was all over, a blast of wind knocked him a step forward. A blue ball of energy was the source.

Before anyone could react, Cell shot an energy beam from his finger and pierced Future Trunks straight through the chest. Trunks was knocked back, barely clinging to life.

Cell boasted how that shot was aimed for Tien, but it was so hard to tell the Z Warriors apart since hey were all so weak.

Daucus and the Z Warriors were shocked as they felt the energy of Perfect Cell again.

Cell gloated, telling them that Karakot's sacrifice had been in vain. He was back and stronger than ever after a Zenkai Boost. He claimed that even SSJ2 Daucus couldn't defeat him now as the blue sparks of Super Saiyan 2 discharged from his body and yellow ki energy radiated from him.

Daucus yelled, enraged.

Yamcha ran to his son's side as he called to help, but he was too late. Trunks died. He stood mouth a gasp and eyes wide as he looked over his son's corpse. "Trunks!" He yelled desperately.

Despite the massive different in their power levels, Yamcha still raged and charged at Cell, who only laughed at the futile attempt at revenge.

Cell tanked a beam from Yamcha as if it was a light breeze hitting his body, still laughing. He then lunged forward and with one punch sent the Z warrior flying into a nearby cliff, knocked out. He was about to kill Yamcha with a large energy beam, when Daucus jumped in the way.

"For Yamcha, really?" Cell asked jokingly.

Daucus had saved the human, but the blast had greatly injured his left arm. It hung limp and bleeding as the saiyan stood back up. "As long as I'm still breathing, you won't kill anyone else." He said defiantly.

"That is easy to rectify." Cell said and flew down. He placed his hands together and gathered ki in between his palms. "Kaaameee..."

"Krilin! Senzu bean now!" Piccolo yelled.

"We're out of senzu beans!" Krilin revealed.

Daucus would need to fight while injured. The Z warriors were sweating as they watched Cell charge his attack, none of them were strong enough to help.

"This blast will not only kill you, Daucus, but the entire world. It's my swan song for this planet." Cell taunted him, charging his ki and concentrating it onto the Kamehameha.

Daucus cursed himself. The death of his father and then Trunks had left him emotionally compromised. If he had let Cell kill Yamcha, they could've all been brought back to life later and he wouldn't be fighting with one arm. "So this is how I die, down an arm and killed by an android." Daucus muttered to himself.

"Daucus, snap out of it!" Piccolo yelled. "Your father wouldn't sit there and wallow in pity. He'd fight to his last breath and so should you! I believe in you!"

"Mr. Piccolo..." Daucus looked over at his teacher and the others.

"You want to do right by Karakot, then don't let that bastard scare you!" Piccolo continued.

"He's right, brat. There is no point in being afraid of the innevitable." Cell interrupted.

Daucus looked on at his foe, his eyes filled with a burning determination. "Yeah, I guess you're right." He powered up, a wave of ki errupting from his body with blue sparks flying outwards. He held one hand out and charged his ki into it. "Kaaaameeeeehaaaammmeeee..."

"With only one arm." Tien muttered, shocked.

Cell looked surprised. "Magnificent, one last stand against me. Give me all you've got!"

"HAAAAA!" They both yelled as they blasted the energy beams against one another. The two beams collided and created a sphere of energy as they tried to overtake one another.

The Z Warriors retreated with the bodies, getting away from the massive discharge of energy from the beam struggle.

"Kill him, runt." Piccolo said as he flew away to a safe distance along with the others.

Cell grinned and Daucus gritted his teeth, he could barely hold the beam together as Cell's kamehameha was slowly overtaking his. The android taunted him all the while.

''Damn it. ''Daucus cursed in his head. My legs feel like they are about to give out, I can't feel my arm and Cell isn't shutting the hell up.

"Looks like you're in trouble there, son." Daucus could hear a voice in his head.

"Dad!" The lad exclaimed internally.

"Sorry it too so long to call, but I had to make it back through Snake Way." Kakarot explained. He was using King Kai to communicate through telepathy.

"Dad, I don't think I can do this. He's so much stronger and...and it's all my fault." Daucus said. "It was my cowardess, my hubris and now my weakness. We're all gonna..."

"Daucus, if you don't do this. Piccolo is gonna die. Your mom is gonna die. Everyone is gonna die, but before all that...if you don't do this, you're gonna die. You're better than that, you're better than him, you're better than me." Kakarot encouraged him.

Daucus felt a surge of energy as his doubts evaporated away. His beam pushed Cell's back to the middle.

"See, I'm not even close to that strong. You're more than just my son, you're Daucus. Now plant your feet, grit your teeth and win!" Kakarot yelled into his mind.

"AHHHHHHH!" Daucus yelled, feeling his body fill up with energy as his father's words filled him with strength.

Daucus' beam pushed Cell's back, finally making the android struggle.

"What's this brat? Your second wind or your dying gasp?" He joked, trying to get under his skin. Cell put all his strength into his Kamehameha and pushed the saiyan's beam back again.

Daucus was almost knocked back, but his feet were planted firmly on the ground.

"Take solace, Daucus. Though you may have fought alone, you will not die alone." Cell taunted him one last time.

Suddenly, a blast errupted at Cell's back. Daucus' uncle, Raditz, had shot a ki blast at his rear. It wasn't enough to hurt the android, but it did distract him.

"Do it now!" Kakarot yelled.

Daucus overloaded his Kamehameha with all his power and quickly turned the tide of the beam struggle.

Cell was panicking, his eyes wide.

Daucus walked forward as his beam got closer and closer to Cell.

Mouth a gasp, Cell yelled as the Kamehameha overtook him and engulfed him. He was atomized as he beam shot off into space, nothing remained of the android.

Daucus collapsed, totally exhausted as he had spent all his power on killing Perfect Cell. His hair reverted back to black as he fell out of SSJ2 and into a coma.