Uchiha Hikaru had no intention of waiting until he fought Cell, only for the guy to self-destruct and blast him into minced meat.
And 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 Hikaru remembered, after Cell self-destructed and blew himself into cells, Son Goku's corpse was among them. Part of Cell's cells fused with Son Goku's, and relying on the powerful strength of Saiyan genes, he came back to life.
He even became his final Perfect Form, Super Cell. Even the miniature Cells created by his imitation of Tien Shinhan's Multi-Form Technique could easily fight Vegeta to a draw.
That was nothing compared to how terrifying Cell had been at the time.
If Son Goku's son, Gohan, had not suddenly risen to prominence and explosively become Mystic Gohan Plus, he probably would have died at Cell's hands.
Of course, Super Saiyan Two was merely the initial pinnacle of Super Saiyan evolution. After it came Super Saiyan 3, then the Potara Earrings, followed by Super Saiyan God, then Super Saiyan Blue God's Ultimate. After that came the Golden Great Ape transformed from tailed Super Saiyan 3 under the radiance of the ultimate moonlight, and finally the ultimate version of Super Saiyan Four, having overcome the berserk fury of the mind.
It could be called the ultimate form of the Super Saiyan bloodline. Its power had probably surpassed the Grand Kaioshin of that time. In any case, Son Goku used Super Saiyan Four 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 Omni-King, who governed the twelve