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// Cell: The Main Event 
// Story: Dragon Ball Z: Magic's New Life 
// by Blackdrag-rose 
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"You know, Twilight, I half expected you to let the others fight me first, to get them out of the way." Cell commented, as it would have tied into what he told the rest of the planet, to bring as many warriors as they wanted to bring him down by wearing him out, but at the same time he was more than pleased with this turn of events, "I am, however, glad that the other half, the one banking on you fighting me near the beginning, won out."

"Please, like I'd let someone else have a shot at you and risk losing such a promising opponent." Twilight replied, though as she said that she glanced at the others and made sure that they were staying where they had landed, before turning her focus back to the bio-android that was in front of her as she shifted her stance, "Shall we?"

"By all means, start when you're ready." Cell said, where he shifted his own stance, raising his arms as he made sure that his senses were at the ready, since there was no telling what sort of moves and techniques Twilight had, as she kept her cards close and hidden, meaning he was at a disadvantage this time.

Twilight said nothing to that as she leapt forward and spun around, where she kicked at Cell using the side of her right leg and found that he raised his arm to block the attack to the best of his ability, as while they were both using a low amount of their true power she found that her base strength was slightly greater than his. As Cell realized that fact, which put a bit of a smile on his face, both he and Twilight swung at each other, their fists colliding in the space between them as she pulled back, using the force to propel herself backwards so she could touch the floor for a moment. Cell was amazed by just how well she moved in those short few seconds, using her hand to catch herself before she even hit the marble floor, along with shifting it so she could propel herself onto her hooves, showing him that she was a skilled warrior. In the next instant the two were at each others' throats again, punches flying as both warriors tried to gain the upper hand against the other, though at the same time both knew that such a thing wouldn't happen at the very beginning of the fight, which just made them more excited for what was coming up next.

As he thought about that Twilight actually dropped down and let him pass over where she was resting, using her hooves to kick him up into the air for a moment, showing him that if he didn't pay full attention to what she was doing she would use those openings against him, without any sort of delay. In the next moment he found two Ki spheres rushing toward where he was located, once again showing him that Twilight was a skilled opponent, she was planning two to three steps ahead and if he became distracted for even a second she would get ahead of him. It was exhilarating, fighting a foe that was like this and not a hothead like Vegeta, or a novice like Trunks, and he wanted to see more of what Twilight had up her sleeves, since there had to be more than this considering who her father was. With that in mind Cell swung his hands and knocked the Ki blasts off to the side, allowing them to detonate in the air and away from where he was floating, though as he did that Twilight appeared behind him, upside down no less, and struck his right shoulder with her leg, sending him all the way down to the ring.

In the next moment he raised his hands and his clawed fingers dug into the marble flooring as he landed, cracking some of it in an instant, before Cell turned his head as Twilight landed nearby, as calm as one could be during a battle to the death, causing him to chuckle for a moment as he stood up.

"Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the warm-up with the Ginyu Force... but boy am I enjoying this one even more." Cell said, because fighting Twilight for a few moments had proved to be far more interesting than the warriors who came after the terrible annoyance that was Mr. Satan, even though the five warriors had been a great way to open the Cell Games, but as he considered what might happen next he braced himself, "Tell me, Twilight, are you ready to take this up a notch and get serious?"

"Go ahead and power up. I don't mind at all." Twilight replied, though as she said that the Z Warriors and the others took a few seconds to process what she had said, as it made her sound like she was being arrogant and overconfident at the same time, while her family didn't seem worried at all, because they knew her better than anyone else.

"Are you sure? I wouldn't want to seriously hurt you and bring an end to this fight prematurely." Cell stated, showing her that he valued her as a foe and wanted a real fight with her, instead of what he got when he was hunting down the pair of androids, along with the fact that part of him was worried that he'd mess her up in some manner if he used his full power while she was roughly at half her full power.

"Trust me, Cell, if you can do some serious damage to me I'll give you exactly what you want." Twilight remarked, where she was referring to her base power, that she would reveal all of her base power to him, because she wanted to save her Dark Form in case Cell happened to be hiding even more of his power from her, to which she shifted her stance and got ready for her foe to play his cards, "Until then, I think I'll stick to my current level of power."

Cell stood there for a moment, clearly debating whether or not she was messing with him in some manner, to get under his scales and piss him off, or if she was telling the truth about her power, the latter meaning that whatever training the couple of Saiyans had done had been completed by Twilight as well. In the next second he decided to power up anyway, where he raised his power to close to the highest point he could reach, mostly to see how he measured up before pulling out every drop of his potential to fight her, where the watchers found that his body was engulfed in a golden aura. With that done he and Twilight approached each other before he swung his fist and struck her right in the side of her face, showing everyone that his speed at this point was unmatched, though that was when his eyes widened as Twilight stood her ground, as she didn't get sent flying, and faced him. In that very moment Cell found that all his attack had done was draw a bit of blood, just like what happened when he first fought 'Super' Vegeta in his semi-perfect form, meaning that her power might be even greater than he thought it might be, which both frightened and excited him at the same time.

As he considered what to do next Twilight struck him in the chest with her fist, causing him to bend over a little before she kicked him backwards, sending him straight for the edge of the ring and caused Cell to open his wings, where using them and his Ki stopped him from being knocked out.

"It would seem that you are having trouble." a familiar voice said, where Cell noticed that time itself seemed to have come to a stop and discovered that Putine was floating nearby, the former being confirmed by the fact that no one else was moving right now, so it was just the two of them talking, "I can offer you additional power... and before you answer with how that's dishonorable or whatever, just know that Twilight's hiding most of her true incredible power from you. I estimate that what you are fighting right now is half her base power, possibly a quarter of her full power considering the transformation that she's keeping from you... if you continue like this, struggling against her might, you'll never win."

Cell said nothing for a moment as he considered that information, Twilight was definitely hiding her full power from him, he could tell that much due to the exchanges they had engaged in so far, but if Putine was right, and his foe was keeping most of her power from him, he was at a massive disadvantage. In the end he decided to accept the offer, because with his genes he would get used to it in no time at all, especially against someone like Twilight, and to the untrained eye it would seem as if his power had exploded from fighting her. Putine, true to form, shocked his body a little as he felt his power rise to brand new heights, though the instant she finished time seemed to resume and he made it seem like he was calling forth the rest of his body as he rushed back into the arena. This time around he struck his foe in the chest with his knee, causing her to bend a little in the process, before he went on the offensive and struck her several times with his fists, showing everyone in the audience that he wasn't to be underestimated and that he would win no matter what.

With that in mind he kicked upward and struck Twilight in the chin, sending her flying up into the air above the arena, but this time Cell gathered his energy as his hands moved to the right side of his body, causing those that were familiar with the technique to gasp as they realized what he was going to do next.

"Ka... me... ha... me... HA!" Cell stated, quickly charging his Ki into the attack he wanted to use before firing a beam of blue straight at his opponent while she was still stunned from what he just did, because this would convince her to take him seriously and not hold back, if he trusted what Putine had told him anyway.

He expected the beam to make contact with Twilight and detonate in the air far above the arena, which would do a bit of damage to her and possibly convince her to take this seriously, but that was when he found that the beam didn't go too far beyond his target location, as it didn't go into space or anything. In the next moment Cell remembered the key fact about Twilight, that she was capable of absorbing Ki and that meant she could eat attacks made out of the energy, but he thought that she had to be facing the attack in question for her ability to work. As he considered that information he had to wonder if he might have uncovered the truth about her power, that she was actually able to absorb all energy in the area she was in, regardless if she was facing an attack or not, and if that happened to be the case his attack would never reach his target. If that was the case he needed to figure out some way to actually hurt her, a way that didn't involve using Ki attacks, where he glanced at his claws for a moment and realized that he had another method available, he just had to figure out how to get to her, or he could utilize the one move he was told about and see how Twilight handed it.

In the next moment Twilight appeared next to him and struck him with her right hoof, the kick sending him flying again, but he was able to regain himself and not get thrown out of the arena, where he maintained his full speed and moved all over the arena, to utilize the Multiform technique until there were four of him in the arena. While it was true that this did divide his power equally between himself and his three copies, thus making them weaker than Twilight, even with Putine's power boost, he knew that there was no way for her to compensate for there being three additional enemies, despite her earlier claims of having fought armies in the past. What surprised him, however, was that he heard a chuckle come from Twilight as she did something he wasn't expecting from her, she closed her eyes and shifted her stance, either to piss him off by how she was treating this like a game, which was entirely possible, or to give herself a challenge. For a moment both he and Twilight remained still, simply waiting for the other to make the first move, before Cell took it upon himself to take the first move as he rushed forward, to which he and his copies zeroed in on her and attacked her without delay, mostly to knock her to the ground and force her to take this seriously.

What actually happened was that Twilight moved her body out of the way of his attacks, dodging the punches and kicks he and his copies used against her, even blocking a few to show that she was capable of such a thing, something that caused Demigra to consider something.

"Towa, when did Twilight start to tap into that all powerful technique?" Demigra asked, though as he did so he found that Twilight even moved into the air while keeping up her battle with Cell and his copies, all without opening her eyes to see his movements, making him wonder about a godly technique he had observed in the past.

"I know what you're thinking, Demigra, but this isn't that... Twilight's senses are focused on her enemy's Ki signature, or those of her enemies in this case, and she's reacting on her own." Towa replied, as she knew about Ultra Instinct as well, including the fact that it was a skill that was incredibly difficult to achieve, and had already come to the conclusion that this wasn't the technique, though it was interesting to see Twilight do this as she fought Cell.

As Cell fought Twilight, or attempted to anyway since she seemed to see this as more of a game, he could tell that there were instances of time slowing down or even stopping totally for a few seconds, Putine likely bolstering his power to new heights so he could stand up to Twilight's power. Normally he would disapprove of something like this, but when his own chosen foe was holding back and not taking this seriously, well, he needed every advantage he could get to force her to show him more of her seemingly greater power. Putine and her allies seemed willing to grant him more power so he could hold his own against Twilight, though even then he could tell that they weren't expecting his foe to be so much stronger than him, given the surprised look he spotted on his benefactor's face at one point. In the next moment he found that all four of them were knocked away from where Twilight was standing, allowing them to land in the four corners of the arena, where he paused for a few seconds to get another massive boost of power from his strange allies before charging up the Special Beam Cannon.

His thoughts were that Twilight could only absorb what she was looking at, as in one of them, so three would hit her while she was distracted, but when he fired his attack he found that his foe spun around and absorbed all four attacks easily, all before rushing at each of them and knocked them into the air with a kick, followed by another to pile them on top of each other in the center of the ring.

"You've used plenty of Ki attacks against me so far, so here's one in return." Twilight stated, where she held her hand out towards her foe, and the arena that was resting below him, before she grinned as she loosed a blast of energy right at her target, which hit Cell in his chest and sent him flying into the arena, which exploded upon impact.

The resulting detonation kicked up enough wind that knocked everyone away from where the arena rested, though as the smoke cleared everyone discovered that she had blasted a large crater into the ground, destroying the ring as well, while Cell was only missing the right side of his body, which he quickly regenerated with ease.

"You know, I would be annoyed with the loss of the ring, but this makes things much better... now if only you would get a little more serious." Cell remarked, as he was fine with the destruction of the arena, in fact he had planned on doing so as soon as he had enough fun with whoever happened to entertain him enough, but he desperately wanted to see just how powerful Twilight was and have some real fun.

"Is that all you can think about? Fine, I'll stop holding back." Twilight said, where her aura washed over her as she shifted into her Dark Form without wasting anymore time, the sheer power of her energy causing many to stagger as they felt her full might for the first time, to which she held her hand out as she floated down to Cell's position, her staff rushing into her hand as she landed, "I developed this during my training for the games, so I hope you appreciate being the first opponent that this is used against. Essence of Power: Light. Essence of Power: Darkness."

As Twilight said that Cell watched as something interesting happened, two large spheres, each half the size of a person, formed in the space in front of her, where the one on her right took on a bright white light while the other one seemed to be full of darkness. He could tell that no one else knew what Twilight was doing, while her mother and the other demons seemed surprised by what she was doing, meaning it had to be dangerous in some capacity, and when she moved both of her arms the two spheres started to spin in opposite directions. In the next few seconds the two spheres started to move towards each other and he found that something seemed to be forming in the center of it all, two powers combining into a single point as they created a deep bluish-purple sphere with a light gray outline. As it formed he found that the sky was also affected, turning dark for a moment as black lightning flashed in the air, causing Cell to wonder how powerful and dangerous this attack was going to be, and whether or not he needed to dodge it.

"Eclipse Cannon." Twilight said, which allowed Cell to know the name of her attack, though in the following moment a grin appeared on her face as she launched it, as she knew how dangerous it was and was eager to test it against an actual foe, instead of firing it off into the depths of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Cell discovered that the sphere moved far too fast for something of it's size, meaning it wasn't like the Spirit Bomb or the slower moving attacks, rather it was fast and he barely had time to dodge the incoming mass, as it ate his wings and dug into his backside as it tore into the ground below it, destroying everything in it's path before colliding with a hill, which caused it to blast the area around it to pieces.

"Okay, note to self: we seriously underestimated her." Putine said, meaning time had slowed to a crawl once more, where Cell kept his wing regeneration at bay for a moment since he didn't want to reveal this secret to Twilight just yet, though as she said that Cell also noticed something by him that he hadn't seen before, a dark red orb that reminded him of the file on the Dragon Balls that was on Gero's computer, with two black stars on it.

"That may be so, but I have an idea." Cell remarked, as he could feel a vast power coming from the corrupted Dragon Ball, power that might be just what he needed to overwhelm Twilight and actually get some fun out of this fight, and while it might be cheating he really needed every advantage he could get to deal with her power, "Just keep doing what you've been doing and I'll keep fighting her."

He waited for a second as time resumed, where he made his move and grabbed the ball before his wings regenerated, all while noticing that Twilight seemed pleased that he was in one piece, causing him to bring the sphere to his chest and found that it merged with his chest, causing black markings with a red outline to appear on his chest, like claws reaching out towards his limbs.

"Be prepared, Twilight, as I'm no longer holding back." Cell stated, shifting his stance to let her know that he meant what he was telling her, who just stood there with a smile on her face, meaning she likely didn't mind what he was doing right now, where he hoped that this power boost would be enough to deal with her.

As that happened, however, Cell found that this was still enjoyable and hoped that Twilight continued to provide him with some level of entertainment, especially since he was going to be busting out his actual trump card soon, making him look forward to what might happen next for them.