Fanfiction and the character Unlimited is property of Josh Kovatch, 2008
Two From Another Reality
This is the first chapter of my new fic. Like I said before, I had planned to write more fics involving Unlimited, and this is how I believe he would have changed the course of history if he was there during the Android and Cell sagas.
So, ENJOY, and please read and review!
Chapter 1: The Meeting
As the Z-fighters stood outside the huge metal doors of Dr. Gero's lab, they hear more voices than just Android 20, now known as Gero himself.
"Aww man, we're too late," Krillin said from next to the others.
Piccolo, who had tried to blow open the door, had stopped to see what he could do to stop the Androids now. However, from behind, Vegeta suddenly yelled, "Out of my way, I'll blast it down!"
The other Z-fighters were alerted, and Trunks from behind Vegeta yelled, "NO DON'T! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW POWERFUL THEY ARE!"
"Too late kid, HAAAAAAAA!!"
With a powerful blast, Vegeta tore into the door and melted it completely off its hinges. Gero, who had been trying to calm 17 and 18 down inside the chamber, turned to the door to see it collapse at his feet.
Dust and smoke poured in from the opened doorway. The Z-fighters looked inside the chamber at the shadows in the dust, and soon, the smoke cleared. Standing now with Gero was the long-haired boy, known as 17, and his twin sister, known as 18.
Although most of the Z-fighters feared these new additions to the fight, Vegeta arrogantly said, "Well, what do we have here? A boy with long hair and a scarf around his neck, and a beautiful young girl. I take it these are the scary Androids we've heard so much about."
Trunks, knowing all too well these two Androids, answered, "That's them..."
Krillin, from beside them, said, "They're Androids? They look just like humans to me."
Trunks warned, "Don't be fooled by the way they look, they're both deadly. And they're stronger than all of us!"
Gero, now stuck in between his rebelling Androids and the Z-fighters, tried to stay calm and said, "Well... Goku's friends are very determined to stop us, but they will not. We will destroy them, just as they destroyed Android 19."
17 then said, "Android 19?"
The boy turned to Gero and said, "So you built him after all?"
Gero curtly answered, "Yes."
"I see. But he was a different model than 18 or myself, he was an energy-absorbing model, was he not?" 17 then asked.
"Yes he was," Gero replied, staying focused on the Z-fighters but becoming angry with his creations.
Then, from behind him, 18 said, "How very interesting."
As Gero grunted, 18 continued, "And you chose that same design for yourself? You thought that an energy-absorbing model like 19 would be easier to control?"
Gero gruffly responded, "Yes..."
"And now he's been destroyed," 18 said airily.
Gero then became frustrated and yelled, "That is enough questions for now, I order you to kill these intruders!"
17 then took control and said, "Be quiet, old man, we will deal with them when we are ready."
Gero turned to 17, irate, and yelled, "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
17 only chuckled, and 18 went over to another pod in the lab, and asked, "And what would this be?"
Gero then whipped around to 18 and yelled, "You stay away from there! I order you to get away from Android 16!"
Then, Trunks, who had no idea how anything so far off from his own timeline could be happening, thought, 16?! There's another Android I didn't know about?!
Gero, who was now profusely nervous, thought, I must take control of them.
Then, Gero tried to defend, "16 is just a prototype. If you activate him, he may malfunction."
17 only chuckled and said, "Let's find out."
18 nodded and turned to the capsule, and then Gero yelled, "No, 18!"
Gero tried to stop her himself, but 18 simply forced him back, unable to do anything to his own creation. Then, 18 said, "If 16 is just a prototype, I wonder why you kept him for so long? You destroyed all the other Androids up to 15, didn't you?"
"I was planning to repair him someday!" Gero tried to reason, and then said, "Listen, I made you. And if you don't get away from 16, you will regret it!"
"I doubt that, old man," 17 then said from behind, and then began to scan the Android within the capsule.
17 chuckled again and said, "According to this, I am much more powerful than this model is."
Gero turned to 17 and yelled, "IT-MAKES-NO-DIFFERENCE!!"
17 ignored him and said, "18, go ahead and open the chamber, now."
"I am your creator, you will do as I tell you to do! Stop meddling with Android 16 NOW! Or I will force you to stop!" Gero threatened.
"Your controller is broken," 17 pointed out.
"Then I will make another!" Gero shot back.
Then, 18 moved and pressed the button for the capsule release.
Gero, angry beyond all rational thought, turned fast and bellowed, "FOR THE LAST TIME, DO NOT RELEASE HIM!!"
It was then that 17 showed that it was over. With one movement and thrust, 17's hand had burst through Gero, who now stood shocked and in pain.
Outside the lab, all the Z-fighters were shocked and horrified, except for Trunks, whose anger was rising as the same events that had ruined his lifetime were being replayed.
Gero, who was still able to survive despite the huge hole in his chest, looked at 17 and said, "What have you done?! HOW DARE YOU!!"
17 then pulled his hand back, and Gero uttered, "Don't you know? I gave you life... AND I CAN TAKE IT AWAY?!"
It was one motion. 17 jumped, pulled back his leg, and knocked Gero's head off, which flew through the air and tumbled over towards the Z-fighters. As it rolled to a stop over by Krillin, it said, completely lost of rational thought, "Oh, that does it. Now I am mad."
Without so much as a second thought, 17 leaped through the air and sailed right for the head. With one last stomp, the remnant of Gero was crushed, and the Z-fighters in front of 17 stood in horror and shock.
"Whoa, did you see that? He squashed him like a bug!" Krillin nervously said.
17 smirked at the Z-fighters, then turned back to his sister and 16 and said, "Open the chamber."
Before anything was done however, Trunks from behind all of them yelled, "If they set that Android free it will be the end of all of us!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!"
With a sudden jolt of energy and a quaking transformation, Super Saiyan Trunks launched a blast at the Androids to destroy them once and for all.
As it neared its target, Krillin yelled, "GET DOWN!!"
Then, a bone-shaking explosion shook the mountain range where the lab was, and the lab was blown into oblivion. There was a massive earthquake and a massive plume of smoke and dust rose up from the remains of the lab. A mushroom cloud could be seen for miles, and the tremors of the blast pulsed across the land.
The Z-fighters had just removed themselves from the blast area in time. They floated above the remains of the lab and looked down upon Trunks's work.
Then, Krillin yelled, "Hey Trunks! How about a little more warning next time?"
Vegeta, who was floating nearby, then said, "What did you go and do that for?"
Trunks, unsure why Vegeta was irritated, answered, "What's wrong?"
Vegeta nodded to the rubble and said, "Have a look."
Trunks, in total disbelief, looked at the remains of the lab and said, "There's no way they could have survived that! That was my most intense blast!"
"Looks like you spoke too soon," Vegeta told him condescendingly, "Now you just showed them how weak you are."
As unbelievable as it was, Vegeta was right. Even though the blast was incredible, 17 and 18 both stood perfectly unharmed on the mountain foundation, 18 holding 16's capsule above her head.
Below, 17 said to 18, "Come on, 18, I don't have all day. Are you going to open that thing or what?"
18, without reply, tossed the capsule down and pushed the release button. The door to the capsule slowly raised from the new addition's pod, but was unceremoniously kicked off by 18. The Z-fighters watched as the being known as 16 opened its eyes and slowly got to its feet. It was a hulking humanlike machine, over 8 feet tall, with green armor and black fighting suit. Its eyes were blank and indifferent, and it just simply scanned the environment, almost bored.
17, from beside the new fighter, asked, "Well, new guy, huh? You got a name?"
Although 17 already knew his name, the long-haired Android wanted to see if the monstrous Android actually worked. Somewhat expectedly, 16 didn't reply, and 17 repeated, "Hello, anybody home?"
"Maybe Dr. Gero made this one without a voicebox," 18 said.
17 then asked 16, "Well, if Dr. Gero created you, what mission did he give you?"
Then, the huge Android seemingly came to life and said, "I am designed as an instrument to kill Goku."
"Oh, so the big guy can speak," 17 said in satisfaction.
"Well, if he's after Goku, I say we go have a little fun," 18 suggested.
"Yeah, that sounds good," 17 said, "Hey 16, we're going to go find Goku, want to come?"
Again, the Android did not say anything, and 17 simply said, "Fine, don't speak, maybe it's better that way."
Then, the three Androids lifted from the ground and started in a seemingly random direction. The Z-fighters noticed that they were leaving without even fighting, and Krillin said, "Whoa, there they go!"
Vegeta, annoyed said, "They're going because they're scared to fight me! Well, at least they're being smart, but I'm not leaving without a fight."
Trunks, however, got in his way, and said, "No, don't follow them! We need to wait for Goku! That's the only way we can beat these Androids!"
Vegeta angrily yelled, "I don't need help from anyone, not you, and especially not that clown Kakarot!"
Trunks defended, "But if you go, you'll be killed for sure!"
Vegeta snidely said, "Sure, if I was like you. Now, out of my way!!"
And with that, Vegeta blasted right past his future son, leaving Trunks to worry.
"Well, that didn't work very well," Tien commented.
"We can't let those Androids escape in any case," Piccolo pointed out, "We need to follow them."
Trunks again piped up and said, "No, we can't! We need to wait for Goku if we want to have a chance to beat them."
"Right now, Goku's not a possibility, and we need to stop those Androids from getting to him, so I say we follow them," Piccolo stated.
Although Trunks was not happy, he did not argue, and the Z-fighters flew off towards where Vegeta was flying.
Meanwhile, a distance away from the Z-fighters, the three Androids landed and looked around.
18 then asked, "Why did we stop here?"
17 then answered strangely, "I have an idea about how to get to Goku. We'll just hitch a ride with the next person that comes along."
"And why would we do that?" 18 asked, a little annoyed.
"Because it's something we've never done before," 17 smartly replied.
The three Androids waited a couple of minutes, and then, they saw a car coming in their direction. However, just before they could get to it, something suddenly appeared in the path of the car. The driver was startled greatly and crashed into the cliffside, the car bursting into flames.
17 and 18 looked at what had just appeared and noticed, contrasted in the flames, that it was a person.
"And who might this be?" 18 asked.
In front of the flames, the mysterious newcomer looked at the Androids and smirked, saying, "What good luck. I managed to find exactly who I was looking for."
The person was young sounding, and then began to raise his hand. As he brought it up, it formed into a snap. With a quick motion, the teen snapped his fingers, and light flew to the fire behind him and instantly put the fire out.
The Androids noticed the figure a bit better now: he was definitely tall, in a completely black fighting outfit. On the arm opposite the one that he had just snapped with, three bracelets were attached. Finally, the most unusual thing about this newcomer was his deep, determined blue eyes.
The Androids didn't say anything, but were not afraid. Then, breaking the silence, the new being said, "Allow me to introduce myself. I am your end, but you can call me Unlimited."
Androids 17 and 18 have both been released and have destroyed their creator and all his work. But before the Z-fighters could fight them, or even before the Androids could begin their search for Goku, this new fighter, Unlimited, has just appeared. What can this newcomer do to the dreaded Androids?
Preview for Chapter 2: Powers Beyond Comprehension: The fighter Unlimited, after meeting the Z-fighters briefly, begins to fight the Androids. Even though the Androids seem dreadfully more powerful, Unlimited does not seem fazed. Can Unlimited stop these new threats to Earth? Stay tuned for the next chapter of Two From Another Reality!