This is my romance attempt at Dragonball z and Mass Effect. Just be warned, I'm not sappy, so it might not be as good as it sounds.
I do not own anything, these characters belong to their respective owners and i claim no rights to them. I do not profit from this and this is purely for my and the readers enjoyment.
Chapter 1 Journey
5 Weeks Earlier
Finally his life work was done, but he couldn't test it on anybody. His androids body would reject the formula, he himself is a machine and he can't kidnap somebody now, with the risk of those pesky bastards out there. He knew he was the bad guy, but he had some great qualities to him. He was an avid environmentalist and tried curing human diseases... Well on his own terms, but did it make him evil? Not completely.
His invention would help soldiers on the battle field turn the tides. Nanites programmed to restore tissue damage and increase the strength, speed and stamina of its host. The nanites were complete, however it lacked the final component needed to make the ultimate Super Soldier. The DNA of those pesky Saiyans, the most powerful one at that too. Being the genius he is, he'd already have a solution to this problem, the small monitoring camera's he used to create Cell would gather the DNA required.
The doctor furiously typed away on his computer, sending the commands to his small gathering devices. Taking the special containers he built for this exactly occasion he added the synthesized nanite solution to it. The case looked like a sniper bullet, the top having a small opening for the collecting device to deposit the DNA into and seal the container. At the moment there was a small seal keeping the content from spilling, too small to take any physical damage.
'Bang! Bang! Darn it, their already here!' He quickly put the bullet formed containers thru a chain, and hanging it around the Androids necks as necklaces.
The doctor frowned, he had never taken away their free will, and he couldn't as a matter of fact. With free will came something else, he had already seen it in Android 18, they could experience love. If they ever experience it and is in danger of losing their loved ones due to injury like he did, they could use this to restore the person to full health. Deep down in his now mechanical body, he wasn't so evil, but he could never show that after his lover died...
Present
While a creature was facing a boy for that fate of their planet, a small mechanical bug took a sample of said boy's blood. It then zoomed past everyone and attached itself to the necklace around an unconscious body. Adding the final part to deceased doctor's nanite solution. It wasn't notice by anybody who was fighting, and nobody would ever find out.
"Gohan NOW!" Yelled Goku, the dead father of the boy combating the creature.
His son responded by adding all his energy to the beam he was maintaining, overpowering his enemy's beam and completely obliterating him. The Beam tore and picked up debris and took it out into space as it passed by. Android 18 among the rubble being tossed of the planet, carried off into space in a comatose state. She unconsciously protected herself by forming an energy shield around herself.
The beam faded as it lost energy to its surroundings, but her velocity remained unaffected as the laws of physics states. Two days later the android had travelled a great distance, when her speed started to rapidly increase. Amongst the bright area she was traveling thru was a black spot, a black hole sucking even light out of the area, taking the young beauty away forever.
Parallel Universe
Commander Jane Shepherd had taken a mission raiding one of Cerberus' Labs, she expected strange experiments of some sort, but not what she found. A pale skinned woman with blond hair in a body suite was situated in a pod labelled 'Black hole Extract'. The vital signs on the pod showed she was alright, but was in a chemical induced coma.
Liara and James walked with her towards the pod looking at it. 'Just what did they do to her?' Walking towards a data pad that sat on the side of the pod, she read what it said.
Project Universe Buster
Human female, pale white skin, blue eyes with partial cybernetics was extracted from a miniature black hole.
Project Universe Buster had opened a wormhole between universes and upon further analysis was confirmed that gateway between two universes are black holes or wormholes.
Subject seems to exert large amounts of pure energy, energy drain procedure to take to reduce high energy level had failed. Subject has an seemingly unlimited amount of this energy. Further analysis is required to fully understand the energy.
Shepherd looked at the pod again. 'So you're not from around here, huh? Well better not take any chances, since you got supposedly unlimited energy.'
"James, disable the pods sleeping agent. Liara, watch the parameter, we need to take her and the artefacts away from Ceberus." Shepherd ordered.
"On it." James replied
As he started to work on disabling the sleeping agents released in the pod, Shepherd and Liara stood watch, using their cybernetics to kill any Ceberus agents that came within range. There was a hissing sound and the two women turned around in time to see the pod open.
"Take her, we are meeting Cortez at the upper landing zone." She ordered James before turning to Liara. "We are defending him from enemy fire. Let's move!"
They ran down the hall, looking for the staircase that led up to the upper landing bay. When the team finally found it, there were centurions and guards stationed there. Liara and Shepherd threw vortexes behind the guardians, which effectively removed their shields, before they killed them. They took cover as the centurions opened fire on them. Switching to her sniper rifle, the Mantis V, Shepherd took out the two with headshots.
Moving past the corpses, Shepherd in front followed by James with the girl and then Liara who protected them from behind, they trudged up the stairs. Ahead of them was a small control centre, where Liara proceeded to disable the anti-aircraft guns. Shooting the console to ensure it couldn't be re-enabled, they looked at the footage on the screen. The security camera's showed a small group of troopers headed towards their location.
"Shepherd, I'm near the extraction point, hurry up and get there." Cortez said over the radio link.
"You heard him, let's go." The Commander ordered, locking the door behind them.
They arrived at the extraction point, a few troopers coming in from the left. Using her abilities, Liara sent the soldiers crashing into each other, buying enough time for them to make it to the shuttle and escape.
"Phew, that was a close call. Don't cut it so close next time Commander." Cortez called from the front.
"Sure thing Lieutenant. "Shepherd replied. "But then all the fun would go with that too."
"Trust the Great Commander Shepherd to want to have fun rather than surviving..." Cortez remarked, rolling his eyes.
When the team arrived on the Normandy, James took the girl back to the Medi-bay. Liara following him to check on her vital signs.
"No... You can't have me I'll rather kill myself then be part of you." The girl started to mutter in James's arms. "I know I'm part of your conscience Cell, and know this, when Gohan kills us, I'll be happy you monster."
"What's she talking about?" Asked James
"I think she's mumbling about something in her past. It seems like at some point she was in symbiosis with another being called Cell." Liara answered
"From the shaking and the things she said, I don't think he was a good guy." James commented.
Liara nodded. James, who deactivated the pod, knew why this Cell had taken her. After all he saw her files, unlimited energy was something quite desirable. His question however was, how she obtained this unlimited source.
"I'm sorry Gohan..." She mumbled again
He looked down at her, there were tears forming in her closed eyes. Whatever this Cell was, he had caused a lot of pain to her, the look on her face just didn't suite her. James thought about what they could do for her while he walk past the crew's courters towards the med-bay, the one thing he knew was that Ceberus couldn't get her back. He gently laid her down on one of the beds, covering her with a blanket.
Shepherd came into the med-bay, looking at Liara and James who were examining the girl. There was a haunted look on James' face, something she needed to talk about later. Liara looked curious and a little on edge.
"Liara, James..."
"Commander, she seems stable. She mumbled in her sleep earlier though." Liara stated
"What did she say?"
"Something about being part of something called Cell. She said she's rather die than be part of the monster. I don't know what this means, but it sounded a lot like a symbiosis to me Commander Shepherd."
"It's because of her unlimited supply of energy. Having a bond with her would mean a never ending supply of energy." James slowly said, his voice had subtle traces of anger.
"Liara, mind giving me a minute with James?" Asked Shepherd
"Sure." She said before she left.
"James, what's bothering you? When you saw her in that pod, you had this expression on your face. Then earlier when Liara mentioned the symbiosis, you looked almost like you were about to kill something."
"It's not something I'd like to talk about Commander. It just reminds me of something I could have prevented... She looks like one of them, but I know she's not..."
"James, whatever this is, don't blame yourself. I trust that you had done what you cold to save those you can. Don't beat yourself up over this."
"I guess your right Lola..." He said in a defeated tone.
Shepherd however knew he wouldn't stop just then, she needed to figure out what was wrong before he would make peace with it. With that last thought she walked out of the room, leaving James to his thoughts.
"You know she's right." An unfamiliar voice came from behind him.
Turning around, he saw the girl they saved attempt to walk, only to stagger and almost fall, had he not saved her from the humiliation. He caught her and their eyes locked with each other's, her arctic blue eyes with his muddy brown eyes. Their gazes locked into each other, before she broke contact, a blush creeping on her face. James brought her upright and steadied her.
18 opened her hand and noticed a sniper bullet shaped pendant, she frowned before her face showed recognition. She took the necklace and tried to hang it around her neck, while struggling she felt two warm hands move hers away and tie the necklace at the back. A blush krept onto her face, nobody had ever done this for her...
"You heard what we talked about?" He asked as he tied the necklace
"Yah, I just woke up when I heard she asked the blue alien for a minute alone with you." She said
Moving from behind her, he extended his hand introducing himself. "James Vega."
"Crystal Summers, but everybody calls me 18."
"Well, I'd rather call you Crystal. Your name matches your eyes Muñeca."
"Hmm, I might look like a doll, but I assure you I don't fight like one." She said smirking. The smirk on her face catching herself of guard.
A smirk made its way onto his face. "I'll just have to see that for myself Muñeca." He taunted
"You're on Hulk."
Deep in thought, Shepherd walked back to the med-bay. She didn't realise she walked back until she kicked something that stood in her way.
"Commander Shepherd, this is Crystal Summers." James said jumping at the sound she made. 18 smirked when she saw this.
"I can introduce myself Captain America. Crystal Summers, Commander Shepherd."
"Jane Shepherd. I see you and Lieutenant Vega are quite comfortable talking here, but I have to ask you to answer a few of my questions."
"Okay, go ahead and ask."
"Do you have any combat experience and do you know how to work a gun?" Asked the Commander
"I'm a hand to hand combat expert, I do have experience with rifles and shotguns."
"Welcome aboard the Normandy. Lieutenant James Vega here will tell you of your recovery and show you around." Shepherd said and left the room.
"What does she mean?" Asked 18
A sigh escaped his lips before he started off by explaining about the mission they took at the Ceberus labs to recover some artefacts and technology, then went on to explain how they found her in a stasis pod. He took a deep breath before continuing his story, telling her what he read while opening her stasis pod.
"I'm sorry..." He said after a long pause
"It's not your fault. I'm free from my past now... So it doesn't matter."
He looked at her, unsure what to say. He was torn up inside, wanting to comfort her on the one hand and on the other he wanted to know more about her. Another sigh escaped her lips.
"I just wish my brother could have been here to share this new start with me."
"Actually Muñeca, the Galaxy is being invaded by Reapers, synthetic beings bent on purging all organic live from the Galaxy."
"Still, it's a new start and I doubt it's anything as bad as Frieza."
"Who's that?"
"A gender confused Acrosian bent on taking over the universe. He destroyed planets for his amusement, and purged others and sold them to the highest bidder."
"Wow, that's worse... I mean, he's a gender confused genocidal maniac..."
She laughed at him... 'Trust a guy to mention the gender issue. This is my chance to be the good guy- er girl...' "So, the Commander mentioned something about a tour around the ship?"
"Oh yeah, please follow me, your official our guide." He replied with a smile.
Please Read and review! This is somewhat different than my usual style! And do not fret (No clue that word existed) I have more chapters waiting to be reviewed before publishing!