"Stop right there!!"
Cell flew into a rage.
The Incubation Chamber contained the Cell of this timeline. What exactly was this mysterious Saiyan trying to do?
"I refuse to believe this!"
Cell's figure flickered again. His fists blurred with speed as elbow strikes, knee smashes, and whipping kicks rained down upon Gran's back in rapid succession.
Shockwaves blasted deep craters into the ground, while rubble and dust were swept up by violent currents of air. Yet each time an attack was about to touch Gran, it merely grazed a faint, drifting afterimage.
"How... did you do that?"
Cell swallowed hard.
By then, Gran had reached the Incubation Chamber. He glanced at the Embryo inside, then turned around. "That thing in there is the early version of you, right?"
"..."
Cell's entire body trembled. This guy really knew about him!!
"Since the early version of you is still here, yet you, who became Perfect Form, have appeared here as well, then..."
With his hands behind his back, Gran narrowed his eyes. "You are not the Cell from my timeline!"
In the Android Saga from the anime, the timeline indeed involved three timelines.
The first was the Main Timeline, while the second was Trunks's Future Timeline.
And the third timeline...
Was Cell's original timeline!
Cell's original timeline could also be called the Second Future Timeline. After seeing Trunks of the Second Future Timeline return from the past and kill Android 17 and Android 18, Cell ambushed and killed that Trunks.
He took Trunks's Time-Space Shuttle back to the "past," which was the Main Timeline. Only by returning to the Main Timeline could Cell regain the chance to enter Perfect Form.
However...
The Cell before him was different from the one in the original story. He had already entered Perfect Form when he