Inescapable

By Silverlynxgirl

Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ.

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Mission Brief:

Go to the 439 Mountain Area find and Kill Son Goku, family and friends. Basic search and destroy mission. Follow through until mission is completed or unit is destroyed.

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Thinking Son Goku, I have no quarrel with you, I don't even know you, but today you die. As 21 powered up and blasted towards the 439 Mountain Area, 18 felt a twinge of guilt, because of bold face lying to Krillin, and a small amount of worry. She knew that Goku was safe and sound in otherworld, but she wasn't as sure about the safety of the others. Not that she particularly cared about the others, but she knew of the possibility of her family being in danger since Krillin was Goku's best friend. She turned to Krillin, her Ice blue eyes caught the sunrays and sparked in the midday sun, "I'm sorry I lied, I was doing it to keep you from worry, but after thinking it over I should probably tell you." Krillin, who by this point had laid back into the sand to start relaxing again, sat back up. "I knew something was wrong. What is it, Cell's back, Marron's terminally, what?" Krillin looked quite sick after the mention of latter of the two crisis. 18, however, at the mentioning of the later of the two crisis merely gave her worrisome husband a quizzical glance and continue.

"Another android has just been released, Android 21, she is very powerful. To be frank she may be more powerful than Cell, but fortunately unable to regenerate. More than likely her mission is to kill Goku. As you know Goku is dead, but it is quite likely that Dr. Gero programmed her to go after all who are connect to Goku in some way or another and that includes us since you're are his best friend. Although 18 rarely smiled anyway, one could tell that she was more serious at this particular point in time. Krillin, who had thus far been able to convince himself that 18 was over exaggerating, crumbled upon the mentioning of possible danger to his family. Searching for a ray of hope he asked yet another question almost afraid of the answer, "so there's a chance we're in danger?" 18 hated to worry Krillin since he had a slight tendency to get hysterical, but she told him nonetheless, "More than a chance."

This was the point that Krillin decided to start getting slightly hysterical, "Oh, great another android it was bad enough when you and your brother were going around cause mayhem uhh..." 18 stared blankly at her husband but says nothing. "I got let everyone know. Especially Gohan, Yikes! She's probably on her way there now looking for Goku." Krillin gets up hurriedly and, nearly trips, rushes into the house. Once he finally gets into the house to the phone, surprisingly without waking Marron, He dials the number for the son residence as fast as he can without breaking the phone. Master Roshi who did hear Krillin rushing and tripping through the house went to see what the problem was. "What's all the hurry for Krillin? You weren't this worked up when 18 was pregnant, he he," asked Master Roshi jokingly. Master Roshi had known Krillin since he was 13 years old and knew Krillin got worked easily then and still did even now.

Poor Krillin was quite worked up and he had good reason to be, after all there was lethal android after his friend (who was already dead) and his family (again). He had been waiting for someone to pick up the phone, all of 30 seconds, and nobody had picked up the phone so naturally he was getting worried. Ok, He had been worried from the start but know he was worried even more worried. "Come on Gohan, don't do this to me. Pick up the phone." Master Roshi cleared his throat to get his former pupil's attention. Said pupil was rather uptight and snapped, "Not now Roshi!" Finally someone picked up the phone. "Son residence, what'cha want...fussing heard in background I mean whose speaking?

Our small noseless stressed out friend, Krillin nearly jumped out his skin when he heard Goten's voice. "Goten, I need to talk to your brother right now." Krillin was rather on edge right now and the last thing he needed was to have to explain the situation to child who wasn't even old enough to spell the word. "Gohan's not back from school yet, but he should be home soon." Goten was very happy that since his mother was busy, although not too busy to correct him when answered the phone, and his brother not home yet, that he was allowed to answer the phone. Unfortunately for the pint-sized demi Saiyan, once he finally was allowed to answer the phone, the call was not for him. "Goten this is Krillin, I need to speak to Gohan. It's really important." Goten wondered what was so important that Krillin need Gohan that instant, to bad Gohan wasn't home yet. "Sorry Krillin, Gohan isn't home yet." This innocent statement, although brief, presented a world of endless possibilities and none of them good.

"Goten, I need for you and your mother to get as far away from your house as you can. There is a deadly android on her way to your house." Goten, being a little boy, replied, "Cool, what's an android?" "Would ya just trust me on this one, get out of the house!" Krillin wasn't one to normally yell at kids but killer androids don't normally go hunting people. If Krillin's blood pressure wasn't sufficiently raised at this point then it was about to be. "Someone's knocking at the do Bye. click Before Krillin had the chance to tell Goten not to answer the door he had hung up. Our poor noseless defender of earth looked, not like a guy who had help to defend the earth on countless occasions, but like a guy who just couldn't catch a break to save his neck. Master Roshi, having had his "Oh so important question" answered decided that it would be best just to leave Krillin alone.

Meanwhile, at the Son residence Goten was explaining to his mother what Krillin been so worked up about. Unfortunately, Goten, being a child, had a very convoluted way of explaining things and didn't even get to the lethal android part until his mother had opened the door. For the most part though, opening the door explained the rest. (Now in the mountains, neighbors are needless to say far and few in between and sales people are next to non-existent. I say next to non-existent because if they're really determined to sale you something they'll find you no matter where you are.) Chi Chi looked out and saw the usual hills, the forest and everything else that happen to be around her house everyday, but just because she saw it doesn't mean that it registered in her mind. The reason for her mind lagging behind is because directly in front of her was a woman who didn't look like she lived around there or someone who had any business being there.

This woman was around 5' 9", which was considerably taller than Chi Chi. She had brown hair with red and blonde highlights. Her skin was of a medium brown complexion. She had on black cat suit and a cold expression on her face. The only colder than her expression were her eyes. They were a deep brown nearly black from a distance, but the were void of all emotion. Although the color in itself was warm, her eyes might as well been icy gray. She looked down on the small housewife assessed who she was, how powerful she was, and how she was related to Goku. All of this took mere seconds since this information was all stored in her memory banks and since she had been upgraded the efficiency of her memory recall had improved. "Good Day Chi Chi, is Goku home?" Chi Chi would have known, even without Krillin's warning, that this is not the type of person Goku would associate with, under normal circumstances, even though Goku is known to associate with a wide range of out of the ordinary people.

Having a sharp mind, which was needed to keep three super Saiyans under your thumb, she analyzed the situation and deduces that this was the android and that brains was need more that brawn right now. "Sure, thing he went out fishing, I'll send Goten to go get him." Chi Chi would rather 21 not know that that Goten even existed, but it kind of hard to hid a kid that's standing right there. She sent him off although the poor boy was confused; he decided to go find Trunks why his mother wanted him to find his dead father. He knew now was probably not the time to go wandering off, since there was an android on the loose (not that he would know one if he saw one), but he wasn't wandering off, he was going to Trunks' house. Beside maybe Trunks knew what was going on. Even if he didn't know what was going on he probably had food which was more than he could say right now.

Just as Goten calls the Flying Nimbus Gohan comes home. "What's going on here," asked Gohan, 21 turned her gaze away from Chi Chi and stared straight into Gohan's eyes piercing through his very soul. "I'm here to carry out my mission. Kill Son Goku, his family and friends." Chi Chi unable to control her temper, or her maternal instinct any longer, charges straight into 21 trying to run her though. Chi Chi, however, isn't strong enough to do any substantial damage, therefore 21 is able to fully recover from the surprise attack and returns with an attack of her own.

Gohan is unable to react quick enough to pull his mother out of harm's way and is only able to watch as his mother is flung aside as if she were a feather. Chi Chi managed to survive only because the attack was only meant to get her out the way. Gohan was furious,21 did not seem fazed on the outside, but on the inside the was a conflict between good and bad of epic proportions.

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Thinking Why must I kill them. They've done me no wrong. What have I done wrong to be sentence to an eternity of torment by having to unquestionably follow Dr. Gero's orders. I wasn't always this way in fact none of us were this way until Gero changed us. We used laugh, cry, and be happy but all of that was taken from us. Just like my free will. If there was any to stop myself I would believe me I would but there just isn't. I just hope, even thought it's not likely to happen, that one I might be forgiven for what I have to do.