What am I?
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What was I born to do?
Where did I come from?
Where am I going?
Android Eighteen's mind was tortured by her confused feelings.
She closed her merising blue eyes as she felt the pain in her mind which had not been changed so that she would never contemplate things like this again.
When Eighteen had asked herself why she had been 'born' she had not been thinking about the reason for why she had been given birth to by her mother.
Oh no.
Eighteen was wondering why the insane scientist Gero had taken she and her brother and changed them stealing away their every traces of humanity forever.
That was simple.
Gero had 'improved' her to kill.
Android Eighteen had been built by him to be the vessel of his evil revenge on Son Goku the warrior who had crushed his plans to rule the world through his Red Ribbon army years ago.
That had been his plan but the plans of a man like destiny and the passage of time do not always go as one might expect.
Somehow the stream of fate had given Eighteen a second chance.
Life had allowed her to walk away from the battle with the psychotic Cell who had 'eaten' Seventeen the brother she had loved and she had been able to escape still technically alive.
But where was she supposed to go from here?
That was the real question that had been praying at Android Eighteen's mind, a mesh of electronics and organics, for what seemed like an eternity.
Actually it had been only a week since the fall of Cell and the heroic death of Son Goku.
On that day many had rejoiced although the Z-Fighters a chosen few had grieved for their losses rather than celebrating their salvation.
After Goku the hero who had single-handedly defeated the Red Ribbon army all those years ago killed the evil demon king Piccollo-Daiomuo saved the world from Raditz Nappa and Prince Vegeta who he had redeemed and turned from his violent ways and freed the galaxy from the threat of the tyrant Freeza was bound to be missed and mourned.
Herself Eighteen did not know what to think about this great mans demise.
The android had been given a new life to kill him but now that he was gone she just felt empty.
And perhaps...some regret that she had not had a chance to make her peace with the Saiyan warrior brought up on earth and pure of heart.
But this thinking was too deep for her she realised with a shake of her blonde head.
Eighteen closed her deep blue eyes and sighed.
She was an android.
Cyborg.
Machine.
Man-made thing.
Warrioress not created by nature.
She had ceased to be human since that time so what right did she have to think about least of all feel tenderness towards a great man like Son Goku when she was just a...freak?
It only made things worse for her to think of the life she had shared with her dearest brother.
After all how could there be a heaven for a being such as she and so what did she have to look forward to when she finally went the way of her brother?
"And what stranger approaches us now?"
It was a female voice light high and slightly teasing in quality that brought Android Eighteen out of her deep contemplation for what she had never been intended to induldge in.
She had been wandering along the coast line and had arrived at a yellow sandy beach while she had been thinking so deeply.
Eighteen's eyes came to a pair of teenage girls about her own age if she had actually HAD one sitting on a few towels at the sea edge.
They had noticed her and had all turned to gaze at her as one of them had callled out to her.
Eighteen stared at them blankly not knowing what to say or do.
The girls were bikini-clad and had been applying sun-oil to one antoher as she had neared them.
"Hi!" the same girl continued when she did not reply. "You must be feeling the heat in those clothes! Why dont you come over? We have a spare bikini. Well?"
The girls manner was friendly.
Eighteen realised just how much she had been able to define human feelings over the past few events of a the first three weeks of her life.
The android realised with a sudden crash of loneliness that friendship and human contact was just what she wanted above all else.
Eighteen hesitated and then started across the beach towards he girls.
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What was I born to do?
Where did I come from?
Where am I going?
Android Eighteen's mind was tortured by her confused feelings.
She closed her merising blue eyes as she felt the pain in her mind which had not been changed so that she would never contemplate things like this again.
When Eighteen had asked herself why she had been 'born' she had not been thinking about the reason for why she had been given birth to by her mother.
Oh no.
Eighteen was wondering why the insane scientist Gero had taken she and her brother and changed them stealing away their every traces of humanity forever.
That was simple.
Gero had 'improved' her to kill.
Android Eighteen had been built by him to be the vessel of his evil revenge on Son Goku the warrior who had crushed his plans to rule the world through his Red Ribbon army years ago.
That had been his plan but the plans of a man like destiny and the passage of time do not always go as one might expect.
Somehow the stream of fate had given Eighteen a second chance.
Life had allowed her to walk away from the battle with the psychotic Cell who had 'eaten' Seventeen the brother she had loved and she had been able to escape still technically alive.
But where was she supposed to go from here?
That was the real question that had been praying at Android Eighteen's mind, a mesh of electronics and organics, for what seemed like an eternity.
Actually it had been only a week since the fall of Cell and the heroic death of Son Goku.
On that day many had rejoiced although the Z-Fighters a chosen few had grieved for their losses rather than celebrating their salvation.
After Goku the hero who had single-handedly defeated the Red Ribbon army all those years ago killed the evil demon king Piccollo-Daiomuo saved the world from Raditz Nappa and Prince Vegeta who he had redeemed and turned from his violent ways and freed the galaxy from the threat of the tyrant Freeza was bound to be missed and mourned.
Herself Eighteen did not know what to think about this great mans demise.
The android had been given a new life to kill him but now that he was gone she just felt empty.
And perhaps...some regret that she had not had a chance to make her peace with the Saiyan warrior brought up on earth and pure of heart.
But this thinking was too deep for her she realised with a shake of her blonde head.
Eighteen closed her deep blue eyes and sighed.
She was an android.
Cyborg.
Machine.
Man-made thing.
Warrioress not created by nature.
She had ceased to be human since that time so what right did she have to think about least of all feel tenderness towards a great man like Son Goku when she was just a...freak?
It only made things worse for her to think of the life she had shared with her dearest brother.
After all how could there be a heaven for a being such as she and so what did she have to look forward to when she finally went the way of her brother?
"And what stranger approaches us now?"
It was a female voice light high and slightly teasing in quality that brought Android Eighteen out of her deep contemplation for what she had never been intended to induldge in.
She had been wandering along the coast line and had arrived at a yellow sandy beach while she had been thinking so deeply.
Eighteen's eyes came to a pair of teenage girls about her own age if she had actually HAD one sitting on a few towels at the sea edge.
They had noticed her and had all turned to gaze at her as one of them had callled out to her.
Eighteen stared at them blankly not knowing what to say or do.
The girls were bikini-clad and had been applying sun-oil to one antoher as she had neared them.
"Hi!" the same girl continued when she did not reply. "You must be feeling the heat in those clothes! Why dont you come over? We have a spare bikini. Well?"
The girls manner was friendly.
Eighteen realised just how much she had been able to define human feelings over the past few events of a the first three weeks of her life.
The android realised with a sudden crash of loneliness that friendship and human contact was just what she wanted above all else.
Eighteen hesitated and then started across the beach towards he girls.
