Chapter 62

"The monster's here..." Piccolo turned to look as he arrived on the scene, then suddenly felt a jolt of alarm. "What?! What's going on? The energy I'm sensing from this guy..."

"Help... someone save me! I'm the richest man in town! Save me!" The human caught by Cell saw Piccolo and clung to him like a lifeline.

But money couldn't solve everything. (Though without money, you couldn't do anything.)

The man couldn't escape death after all. Cell's tail drained him dry...

"Next, it's your turn, King Piccolo!" Cell looked at Piccolo with an ugly grin.

Piccolo couldn't believe it. "Huh?! How do you know my name? Who are you?"

"Heh!" Cell unleashed his power. His energy included not only Piccolo's, but also Vegeta's, Goku's, and the others'. "I'm your brother."

He even had the energy of Frieza and his father. Krillin, Gohan, Trunks, and Yamcha sensed it elsewhere, too.

"Hey, what's going on? This energy...?" Even Master Roshi rushed out of Kame House.

"What's going on? This can't be..." In a place resembling Planet Vegeta, Vegeta couldn't believe it either.

"Monster... Tell me in detail what you really are," Piccolo said, his expression grave.

"There's no need. You're about to become my food." Cell still wore his ugly grin.

"Oh? You don't plan on telling me?" Piccolo suddenly smiled. "In that case, I won't ask again. I'll just take you down!"

"Heh... King Piccolo wants to kill me? I'm afraid..."

Before Cell could finish, Piccolo unleashed even greater power. The enormous crater in the ground made that clear.

Piccolo's battle power now exceeded 300 million!

"Unfortunately, I'm not Piccolo. You've got the wrong person!"

Trunks and Krillin were on their way there together. Krillin didn't want to go, but he had to.

"Another new energy just appeared, and it belongs to someone whose origins are unknown!" Trunks said as they flew.

"That's Piccolo!" Krillin suddenly realized. When everyone had split up in North City earlier, he'd already guessed what Piccolo was planning.

"Uh, but..."

"It has to be. Piccolo and God possess tremendous power. He's a Super Namekian!"

"Incredible. He's managed to raise his power to this level."

Suddenly, a massive shock wave forced Krillin and Trunks to stop in midair.

"Huh? What was that shock wave?"

"Look at the sky over there. The battle's begun!" Krillin said, watching the energy erupt in the distance.

Meanwhile, Androids 16, 17, and 18 were still in the north, leisurely cruising around in the truck they'd stolen.

Screech!

The truck braked hard, and 17 and 18 stepped out.

"The atmosphere really did shake just now, didn't it?" 17 asked from the side of the road, arms crossed.

"Yeah..." 18 agreed, hands on her hips.

"An erupting volcano? Or... Whatever it was, it's a long way away..."

"It's on the outskirts of West City!" 16's voice came from inside the truck. Then he got out, too. "Two powerful forces are probably fighting..."

"16, you have a radar for detecting power. Why didn't you say so earlier?" 17 asked, turning to him.

"Because you didn't ask."

"I see. Then can you also tell me who's fighting?"

"I don't have any information on them, but one of them is extremely powerful—strong enough to rival you." 16's expression turned serious.

"What?" 17 didn't believe him at all. "Dr. Gero made another mistake. Your radar must be malfunctioning. There's no one in this world whose power can rival mine."

"How stupid, 16!" 18 said as she and 17 opened the truck doors and climbed back in.

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