Cell vs. Dark Samus

## Description

*Two lifeforms unintentionally created by heroes collide. Will Cell seek his perfect battle, or will Dark Samus phaze through the Android?*

## Interlude

Hiro: Sometimes, heroes can unintentionally create their own worst enemies if, say, their DNA falls into the wrong hands.

**MBStarscream: And when it's used to create evil lifeforms who specialize in assimilating other beings, things really get bad. Something these two personify perfectly.**

Hiro: Cell, the perfect Android from Dragon Ball.

**MBStarscream: And Dark Samus, the reborn form of the Phazon-mutated Metroid Prime from... Metroid.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Cell

Hiro: The Red Ribbon Army was a paramilitary criminal organization bent on conquering the world by finding and collecting the seven Dragon Balls, but unfortunately for them, one Son Goku would put a wrench in their plans by destroying everything they had built.

**MBStarscream: In response to this, the army's chief scientist, Dr. Gero, spent his life creating powerful androids to kill Goku in revenge. But of all his creations, one stood above the rest.**

Hiro: This magnum opus of Dr. Gero, created by his supercomputer from the cell sample of the universe's strongest warriors, was called... Cell.

**MBStarscream: Possessing the genetic information of the greatest warriors in the universe, Cell was created with the sole purpose of being the "Perfect Warrior" and destroy Goku and the Z-Fighters. He needed Androids 17 and 18 to evolve, and when he discovered that they were already dead in his timeline, he killed the Trunks of his timeline and used his time machine to travel back in time.**

Hiro: He eventually absorbed both after many battles and ascended to his perfect form. He decided to hold the Cell Games, a tournament in which he fought against Earth's strongest fighters. Goku nominated his son Gohan to fight Cell in his place, and when Cell mercilessly killed Android 16, Gohan unlocked Super Saiyan 2 and effortlessly overpowered Cell in his rage.

**MBStarscream: In desperation, Cell tried to self-destruct and destroy the Earth, but Goku sacrificed himself to ensure that Cell detonated elsewhere. However, Cell was able to survive thanks to his unique physiology, which allowed him to regenerate from a special nucleus in his head and grow more powerful whenever he had almost been killed, returning to his Perfect form even stronger than before.**

Hiro: With victory in his grasp, Cell decided to destroy the planet with one last Kamehameha, claiming he had the power to destroy the entire Solar System. Assisted by his father in spirit, Gohan retaliated with his own Kamehameha, ultimately overpowering Cell with Vegeta's help, destroying his cell nucleus and killing him once and for all.

**MBStarscream: Cell is the last android created by Dr. Gero and the most powerful to date. He is a combination of genetic engineering and mechanical advancement that allowed him to be superior to his android brethren. Like Frieza's race, he can survive the gravest of injuries and live in the vacuum of space, remaining alive even after destroying most of his body with his self-destruction, and he has the regenerative capabilities of a Namekian.**

Hiro: However, his have been greatly enhanced, allowing him to regenerate as long as the special core nucleus contained within his head still remains. Even having the top half of his body vaporized or blowing himself to pieces is little more than a delay, and due to his Saiyan DNA, this will actually make him stronger.

**MBStarscream: Cell grows more powerful over the course of combat, allowing him to constantly push his own limits during a fight and rise to higher and higher peaks in power. This ability grants a substantial boost in power when Cell is badly injured, allowing him to reach a whole new level of power once he regenerates.**

Hiro: On top of these powers, Cell likely has the other traits of the species whose DNA he has incorporated, such as the Namekian ability to extend their limbs and grow to greater sizes. While he must absorb Androids 17 and 18 to reach his full power and achieve his Perfect form, once he has reached this form, his cells remember it.

**MBStarscream: Even if he is forcibly devolved into a lower level or regurgitates one of the Androids and loses the state, he will regenerate back into his Perfect form once injured. Cell can absorb others through his tail, either by stabbing them with it or opening it up to engulf them with it. When he stabs them with it, he breaks them down into an easily absorbed slurry of organic matter and absorbs their energy as well, leaving nothing but their clothing behind.**

Hiro: The second method absorbs his victim whole and keeps them unconscious within his body, where he can draw upon their power. And simiilarly to the Namekian ability to spawn eggs containing their children from their mouth, Cell can produce and spawn Cell Juniors through cellular mitosis and birth them from his tail. His Cell Juniors lack his exact power and regeneration, but are still quite powerful, and are capable of easily proving a match for Piccolo, Vegeta, and Trunks.

**MBStarscream: Cell's Saiyan DNA has granted him a state similar to that of the legendary Super Saiyan transformation, as evidenced by his identical aura and similar scale of power. He is able to maintain this state effectively indefinitely, similarly to the Full Power Super Saiyan transformation, and, as with Saiyans, can access higher forms and scales of power.**

Hiro: He can utilize the Second and Third grades of the transformation, bulking himself up by forcibly flooding ki throughout his entire body, but such forms are inefficient, and the Third grade will become more of a detriment than a boon, slowing him down considerably in exchange for a great boost in power. After his Zenkai, Cell gained the crackling electrical aura of a Super Saiyan 2 as well as its power, allowing him to match SSJ2 Gohan.

**MBStarscream: Cell possesses ki, the fighting power and life force of a martial artist, a tangible energy derived from the user's vigor, courage, and mind. It can be used in a number of ways, such as to surpass the limits of one's body to greatly increase in strength, and it can be fired as blasts of energy or used to create defensive barriers.**

Hiro: Ki is a large part of Cell's superhuman abilities, alongside his unusual composition and the varied DNA he possesses. Due to his nature as a hybrid created from the DNA of many fighters, Cell possesses many of their techniques, including the Kamehameha wave, Death Beam, Instant Transmission, and the Spirit Bomb, which is utilized by gathering a vast amount of energy from all the lifeforms in his surroundings to create a massive, incredibly destructive sphere of ki.

**MBStarscream: While one must have a pure heart to utilize it, it is possible that Cell is able to use it due to being pure evil, if he is even capable of using it at all. While it is incredibly powerful and can prove capable of completely destroying an opponent when used with sufficient power, it takes a very long time to charge and is therefore very difficult to use, though the charge time can be sped up by gathering energy from those who willingly and knowingly provide it.**

Hiro: Given that Cell is a monster, however, there are few who would be willing to give him the ki for a Spirit Bomb. Few would even want to face him for that matter, given his accomplishments.

**MBStarscream: He's defeated Trunks, Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin, Android 16, 17 and 18, successfully managed to absorb Androids 17 and 18, absorbed thousands of people into his body, almost destroyed the whole solar system from Earth, and was the second person to kill Goku himself, though this was a self-sacrifice in this case.**

Hiro: However, Cell isn't as perfect as he claims to be. He is extremely overconfident, and due to his Saiyan blood, he relishes a good challenge and will avoid fighting at full power and let opponents reach their most powerful states to get one. When outmatched, Cell will begin to panic and fly into a rage, fighting more irrationally than normal.

**MBStarscream: He cannot absorb mechanical beings by puncturing them with his tail, and powerful enough strikes to his stomach can cause him to regurgitate whoever he absorbed by engulfing them with his tail, causing him to devolve if he regurgitates one of the androids, and his regeneration has limits, as his body can be destroyed once every cell in his body is destroyed.**

Hiro: But perhaps Dr. Gero did get his revenge when he created one of Goku's most formidable foes.

*Cell: You see, I'm perfect, my strength is perfect, and with that I shall bring equally perfect destruction through the rest of the universe.*

## Dark Samus

Hiro: The Chozo, a species that inhabited the planet Tallon IV, foretold a prophecy that a "worm" would infest their planet, devour it from within, and bring along with it a "great poison". However, a great "Defender" would appear to confront the "worm".

**MBStarscream: Eventually, the prophecy came to pass - a Leviathan from Phaaze smashed into the planet, spreading Phazon, the "great poison". Sometime after this, a single Metroid wandered within the Leviathan, and was corrupted when it absorbed large amounts of Phazon in the Phazon core.**

Hiro: The Metroid Prime would be the guardian of Tallon IV's Leviatha until Samus Aran encountered and nearly killed it in a heated confrontation at the Impact Crater. In a last-ditch effort to save its own life, it latched on to Samus and stripped her of her Phazon suit, reducing her to the Gravity Suit. This birthed a new foe, a being of Phazon and the Phazon suit taking on Samus' form.

**MBStarscream: This... was Dark Samus.**

Hiro: Dark Samus traveled in search of phazon, which would have her often come into conflict with the real Samus, first on the planet Aether by coincidence as Samus ventured there to assist a Galactic Federation ship and the planet's inhabitants. After that Dark Samus sought her counterpart out, using her newfound abilities to corrupt and control creatures using Phazon to spread the substance across the universe.

**MBStarscream: Being a clone of Samus has lots of benefits. Arguably the greatest manipulator of Phazon, Dark Samus has shown most of the abilities Phazon has granted one way or another and has greater control over it after fusing with Phaaze.**

Hiro: Unprotected life forms that touch Phazon directly will die very quickly; anything that does survive is horribly mutated by it. Dark Samus utilizes many abilities similar to Samus herself, in more powerful forms.

**MBStarscream: She can fire two types of Phazon beams at enemies in the form of either a continuous stream of small shard-like bursts, or a thin laser Beam which she shoots in an arc. She possesses standard Missiles as well as Super Missiles to blast opponents into bits, and uses what appears to be a Phazon-charged Ice Spreader attack.**

Hiro: She can also do a powerful dive bomb attack which could be a Phazon-based Screw Attack, Shinespark or a combination of both, a Phazon Boost Ball that generates vast amounts of kinetic energy in alarmingly short times, raise pillars of crystallized Phazon in this form, is capable of both flight and levitation, and can render herself invisible.

**MBStarscream: Dark Samus can produce near-perfect clones of herself fittingly called Dark Echoes and is highly resilient to Phazon attacks, though Hyper Missiles are still effective on her. Combining with the Echoes temporarily also allows her to form a purple energy shield around her body which renders her invulnerable until she has to separate back into herself and the Echoes.**

Hiro: After blasting Samus and several other bounty hunters, they all became corrupted by Dark Samus, gaining the ability to naturally create phazon. If this corruption gets too strong, they get brought under the control of Dark Samus, with the Space Pirates under such corruption gaining a fanatical religious view of her.

**MBStarscream: Dark Samus is very durable, able to regenerate from any injury short of total atomic disruption, and traveling unaided through space and freely between the Dark and Light Dimensions of Aether, and even showing immunity to the caustic atmosphere of Dark Aether. She can survive in the vastness of space, travel through it, and survive the explosions of planets, even whole dimensions.**

Hiro: This is how she has constantly been able to regenerate herself after defeat and fly to another planet for Phazon absorption. Her incredible regenerative abilities combined with Phazon-enhanced versions of Samus' devastating abilities make her nearly impossible to defeat. In fact, she may have temporarily held the place of most powerful being in the Metroid universe.

**MBStarscream: She singlehandedly defeated Samus, Rundas, Ghor and Gandrayda with a single blast, took over the Space Pirates, gained control of Phaaze, led a massive invasion on Norion, and not even a pocket realm collapsing on her or a massive planet exploding could kill her, rather leaving her only in a damaged state that she could recover from.**

Hiro: But Dark Samus still has her limits. When she consumes too much Phazon, she gains the disadvantages she possessed as Metroid Prime; although she was eventually able to render herself invulnerable to all conventional weaponry, Phazon fired at her could overload and destabilize her, resulting in her generating very powerful Phazon attacks to discharge the used Phazon radiation from her body, including a massive beam of pure, highly concentrated Phazon.

**MBStarscream: Dark Samus also seems to be somewhat incomplete; this is supported by the fact that she is constantly absorbing Phazon, looks slightly deformed, and has a range of chaotic attack moves. Metroid Prime's tentacle was broken off of Samus prematurely, possibly not absorbing enough DNA to create a whole, stable Dark Samus.**

Hiro: Dark Samus seems to act mentally unstable, even laughing maniacally in several instances. Dark Samus also became physically unstable due to excessive Phazon exposure. But this doesn't change that she might just be Samus' greatest foe in her career, and when you consider what she goes up against on a daily basis, that's saying a lot.

*Dark Samus: (Speaking through Ghor): Soon, everything will be corrupted, including you!*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: The territory advantage goes to Cell, but will that help him win against the clone of Samus Aran?

**MBStarscream: Guess it's time to find out the deadlier lifeform.**

*World Tournament Arena*

Today marked the first day of the Cell Games in the World Tournament Arena, and its host was eagerly awaiting the arrival of a challenger. A humanoid creature with white and green skin, large black wings, and pink/purple irises floated above the arena, arms folded across his chest. This was a "bio-android"; a synthetic man made using the collected cells of the strongest warriors in the universe. His name... was **Cell**.

"I wonder what fool will step up to challenge my perfection." He said to himself. His question would be answered when a dark puddle formed on the ground. A hand suddenly burst out of it, to Cell's surprise. He watched as a figure then pulled themselves out of the puddle and began levitating above the ground, looking right at Cell.

They were clad in black armor with blue highlights along its extremities, including large growths of Phazon within the shoulderpads. They had a narrow visor and possessed noticeable claws on their feet and right hand; their other hand was replaced with an arm cannon of some sort.

This creature was **Dark Samus**, doppelganger of the legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran.

Cell stared at the newcomer, then hmmphed. "Destroying you can be a decent warmup. Show me your strength." Dark Samus aimed her arm cannon while Cell took a fighting stance.

Only one lifeform would survive in this arena.

**FIGHT!**

Dark Samus started by flying towards Cell and grappling with the android before trading blows with him. Cell managed to kick Dark Samus into the air, then teleported above her and punched her back to the ground. Dark Samus looked up as Cell charged up a Special Beam Cannon, then quickly curled into her Morph Ball and rolled away, Cell's blast hitting the ground behind her. Cell sent several ki blasts Dark Samus' way, who dodged every projectile. Dark Samus turned around and fired a missile from her arm cannon at Cell, who blocked with one hand. He flew towards Dark Samus, but the clone grabbed him and held them down before firing a point-blank blast of Phazon at him. Dark Samus leapt away as Cell got up and fired a wave of blue energy at the opponent from his cupped hands.

Jumping above the Kamehameha, Dark Samus aimed her arm cannon and fired a sphere of Phazon, but Cell jumped backward to dodge it. Dark Samus flew down at Cell and tackled him, pinning him down and punching at his face until the android disappeared ina flash and reappeared beside Dark Samus, kicking the Dark Hunter towards a wall. Cell shot several Death Beams that only hit the wall as Dark Samus floated into the air. Cell shot another Death Beam up at her just as the doppelganger fired a missile. Cell teleported behind Dark Samus, grabbed her by the head with hand, and punched her hard in the back, sending her flying.

As Dark Samus crashed to the ground, Cell raised his hand and charged energy in it before swinging his hand outward, causing a row of explosions to go off on the ground in front of him. Suddenly, Dark Samus leapt out of the explosions in her Morph Ball and hit Cell at high speed. In mid-air, Dark Samus punched him several times, even slashing at his face with her claws. Cell retaliated with blows of his own, before he grabbed Dark Samus and got her into a bear hug that cracked her back before he threw her away. Dark Samus charged her arm cannon, but Cell instantly appeared in front of her and used a simple flick of his finger to launch her away.

"Pathetic!" Cell laughed evilly. Unamused by Cell's taunt, Dark Samus formed a puddle of Phazon under the android, which formed into a series of Phazon tentacles that wrapped around Cell and started brutally slamming him into the ground. Dark Samus then aimed her arm cannon at Cell as the tentacles flung him into the air, followed by firing a missile at him, engulfing him in an explosion. Dark Samus followed up by lunging at Cell and punching him several more times until the creation of Dr. Gero let out a cry of "Solar Flare!" and Dark Samus' vision was instantly consumed by a blinding light, even behind her visor.

As Dark Samus tried to recover from the Solar Flare, Cell axe-handle punched the clone, then side kicked her away and flew after her to punch her in the stomach. Finally, Cell put his hand forward and knocked Dark Samus away with a Kiai, causing her to hit the ground. Cell floated down as Dark Samus pushed herself up and looked back at him. Then, to Cell's surprise, several identical clones of Dark Samus appeared around her, all aiming their arm cannons.

"Bringing in the cavalry, hmm?" said Cell. Then he called out, "Kids! There's some people who wanna play with ya!"

Dark Samus tilted her head in confusion, before a group of smaller, blue-colored Cells jumped out from behind Cell, all wearing evil smiles. Without looking at the Cell Jrs, Cell pointed at Dark Samus and her Dark Echoes. "So why don't you do daddy a favor and *kill them all?*"

That was all the Cell Jrs needed to hear before they leapt in action, meeting the Dark Echoes head on.

As their pawns picked each other off, Cell and Dark Samus charged behind them. The Dark Echoes and Cell Jrs were quite evenly matched, Phazon and ki blasts flying everywhere. Locked in their own fight, Cell and Dark Samus punched each other repeatedly at breakneck speeds. When the two lifeforms found themselves in a grapple, Cell couldn't help but look up at the fight between his children and the Dark Echoes. He smiled, knowing that Dark Samus would soon be outnumbered.

A big mistake on his part.

Dark Samus hit a distracted Cell in the stomach with her arm cannon before curling into her Morph Ball and launched into the air while spinning and emitting Phazon, followed by diving towards the ground while still in the Morph Ball for a powerful slam attack. Blasting Cell away, Dark Samus looked towards the Cell Jrs, then charged up her arm cannon and fired a massive beam of Phazon that obliterated every one of the Cell Jrs in one shot.

Cell stared in shock, before his face twisted in anger. He started charging energy into his hands as Dark Samus turned to him. "KamehameHA!" Cell shouted as a massive blast erupted from his hands. Dark Samus rolled away in her Morph Ball as the Kamehameha destroyed her clones, and rolled towards Cell, but the android kicked her away. Dark Samus as Cell lunged at her and blocked a furious array from blows from the artificial bug-man. With a mighty kick, Cell launched Dark Samus high above the arena.

Teleporting in front of Dark Samus, Cell kicked the reborn Metroid Prime across the sky while teleporting from one spot to the next until Dark Samus fired a missile at him. Several missiles and ki blasts exploded in the sky as each lifeform blasted one another in a seemingly endless stalemate.

Dark Samus eventually ceased firing and tackled her opponent. The two of them punched at each other until Dark Samus hit Cell with a Phazon blast. But Cell responded with an upward punch that sent Dark Samus flying further into the air. From there, Cell continued to punch Dark Samus further and further into the atmosphere until the two creations were out of the Earth's orbit. Cell teleported above Dark Samus and kicked her towards the planet, but she managed to stop herself and glared up at the android.

Cell likewise had an angry stare on his face as he looked down upon Dark Samus. "This has been fun, but all good things must come to an end. So prepare for *your* end while you still live, because you don't have much longer."

Dark Samus didn't give him a reply, only putting a hand on her arm cannon. Cell closed his eyes and began to concentrate. Soon, his ki was charged up to its limit, surrounding him with a glowing golden aura of energy that started giving off sparks of electricity. Cell then cups his hands to his sides and charges up a sphere of blue energy within them as the aura of ki around him rapidly expanded to a much larger size. "Ka... me... ha... me..."

Seeing what Cell was planning, Dark Samus started charging up her arm cannon in a similar way until it reached its maximum.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

A gigantic Kamehameha met Dark Samus' Phazon blast head-on like two trains on a collision course. The very universe seemed to shake as the two beams struggled against each other in a contest of power. Cell and Dark Samus were putting their all into their attacks, each one fighting for victory in this deadly game.

Cell's narrowed eyes soon started to widen with growing horror as a realization hit him. It seemed his Kamehameha had met its superior; the Phazon beam gradually overpowered its fellow beam, getting closer and closer to Cell with each moment that passed.

"No. No. No, no, no, no, t-this isn't possible!"

Try as he might to deny it, Cell could not stop what was inevitable.

The Kamehameha disappeared as Cell was completely consumed by the Phazon beam. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

His last word echoed across the stars as his body was eradicated with no trace.

Dark Samus ceased fire and stared at the empty space where Cell had once been, then with nothing to say, she departed to Earth as the victor of this hard-fought battle.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: I think she got 'em.**

Hiro: Cell had far superior physicality and the ability to absorb any organic being into himself to become more powerful, but Dark Samus was in a league of her own.

**MBStarscream: She *could* be hurt by non-Phazon attacks, they just have to be really, REALLY powerful attacks, which Cell undenibly has. The real questions here are can Cell absorb Dark Samus and can Dark Samus infect Cell? Well, let's go through this, shall we?**

Hiro: Cell has absorbed powerful beings before, but he has never absorbed a being like Dark Samus. In fact, absorbing Dark Samus would be digging his own grave, as she would then take over his body and destroy his mind. Also, no matter how many times Cell kills Dark Samus, unless he finds a way to finish her soul off, she'll always come back, stronger than ever. That's even better regeneration than Cell has.

**MBStarscream: Next is whether or not Dark Samus could even infect a being like Cell. After all, he's a robot. Well, yeah, Dark Samus can absolutely infect Cell. And once she does, the MOMENT a single nanogram of Phazon enters Cell's body, Dark Samus can immediately turn him into a zombie, possess him, take over his mind, or even just absorb HIM. And unlike Cell, Dark Samus CAN absorb inorganic beings, such as Ghor.**

Hiro: Cell's hax was also useless here thanks to Phazon. Ki shield? Soul hax. Regen? Bio/tech hax. Absorption? Mind hax. Instant Transmission? Space hax. Dark Samus split a planet into two dimensions, all of this from Phazon, not Dark Samus herself. Dark Samus herself is far more dangerous than normal everyday Phazon, which fodderizes space radiation in terms of actual radioactivity.

**MBStarscream: Cell had far more sheer power, but Dark Samus was too unkillable, too radioactive, and had better absorption than Cell can possibly withstand. In the end, Dark Samus gave Cell a perfectly fitting end.**

Hiro: Dark Samus wins.

## Advantages

### Dark Samus (Winner)

* Superior absorption
* Can counter Cell's hax
* Better healing
* Faster
* Can easily infect Cell with Phazon