Uchiha Hiko had no intention of waiting until he fought Cell, only for this guy to self-destruct and blow him into minced meat.
Moreover, Cell had another characteristic: his entire body was like a meat grinder. No, more accurately, he was some kind of fusion machine.
It was somewhat like devouring, but the difference was that he devoured genes!
As Uchiha Hiko remembered, after Cell self-destructed and blew himself into cells, some of those cells contained Son Goku's corpse. That portion of his cells fused with Son Goku's cells, and relying on the immense power of Saiyan genes, he came back to life.
He even became the final Perfect Form, Super Cell. Even the Cell Juniors he created by imitating Tien Shinhan's Multi-Form Technique could easily fight Vegeta to a draw.
Not to mention how terrifying Cell himself had been at the time.
If Son Goku's son, Son Gohan, had not suddenly risen to prominence and erupted into Mystic Son Gohan, Goku would probably have died at Cell's hands.
Of course, Super Saiyan 2 was merely an early peak stage in Super Saiyan evolution. After it came Super Saiyan 3; after Super Saiyan 3 came the Potara Earrings; then Super Saiyan God; then Super Saiyan Blue God Ultimate; followed by the Golden Great Ape formed when tailed Super Saiyan 3 was bathed in extreme moonlight, and finally the ultimate version of Super Saiyan 4 after overcoming the berserk rage in one's heart.
It could be called the ultimate version of the Super Saiyan bloodline. Its power had probably surpassed even the Great Kaioshin of that time. In any case, Son Goku used Super Saiyan 4 to defeat the final boss, Evil... Star Dragon, and then disappeared.
No one knew where he had gone. Perhaps he had gone to serve the