The Scenario
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Originally posted by carver9
You repeated everything that I said. It took seconds for them to get there and cell wiped a city clean. How would everyone know why the woman was screaming? How can a city be evacuated in less than 30 seconds LOL. How long dos it take a person to flee a CITY? Why would cell let anyone get away? Why didn't piccolo or anyone see a soul when they arrived in the city? Your assumption is straight out CRAZY.
You seem to be misunderstanding me. At no point did I ever say that the entire city was evacuated. You can't evacuate a city in 40 seconds. And at no point was it shown that the entire city was even affected. As I said before, the whole scene took place on one street, with maybe a dozen people actually shown in the area. I don't know how long it would take for a person to escape a city on foot, but they do not need to get out the city to get away from Cell. They could have simply run to a different street or a few blocks away or into a building, and Cell couldn't risk chasing them because Piccolo was coming. Again, I don't know, these are just possibilities. Piccolo likely didn't see anyone because they were hiding from the monster absorbing people in the middle of the street, who knows? I personally find the assumption that Cell was able to absorb a city in 40 seconds to be much crazier than anything I've said.
Again, I'm just going based off of what was shown in the episode I posted. What was shown was a single street, and there was nothing there to indicate more than a single street.
Give cell his props, he is fast as hell and piccolo even states this when he say "he is fast". What makes ypu think tien comment meant that he waqs referring to cell getting away and why would he say it right after piccolo said "he is fast" because cell rushed. Again, just because cell taunted piccolo with absorbing people in slow motion doesn't mean he can't do it in super speed.
Cell is quite fast, that I do not doubt. However, Cell has consistently displayed the inability to absorb someone in less than 10 seconds, even in situations where he is supposedly rushing. In the scene I linked, Cell absorbed at least two people on screen, while Piccolo was not nearby (in fact, was not in the city yet) and Cell was trying to go as fast as possible to regain his strength. Even when Piccolo began heading towards the city, Cell did not speed up noticeably. You cannot assume that Cell can absorb at super speed when all on screen depictions of absorpsion are of a painfully slow process. Cell was fast enough to get away from Piccolo; nothing more.