Ch2- Prove Your Worth


Dr. Kochin stood in the center of Kurono's throne room, he shook with anger. The silver-haired man before him was the cause of it. Just prior he made fun of his three greatest creations; Bio-Warriors by the names of Misokatsun, Ebifurya, and Kishime, saying that they were abominations. 'How dare he?! My creations are the next evolutionary step for humanity! And he has the nerve to call them abominations?! Such ignorance! I shall see him suffer!'

"You are asking for an early grave!" Dr. Kochin yelled. "I will show you that my creations are they most powerful warriors you have ever had the displeasure of fighting!" He turned around to his bio-androids. "Ebifurya! Misokatsun! Kishime! Kill this ignorant youngster and prove that you three are the strongest fighters on Earth!" The three bio-androids smiled, they rushed to do the bidding of their maker.

Gilgamesh smiled as he took a fighting pose. 'This is going to be fun.' Within seconds, Dr. Kochin's creations where on him. They quickly surrounded him and unleashed a volley of punches and kicks on the Saiyan. Gilgamesh blocked, parried, or dodged every attack like it was child's play. Dr. Kochin grew even more furious, he slammed his cane angrily on the cold floor. "Stop messing around!" He yelled, believing that his creations were playing around. "Kill him already!"

Gilgamesh chuckled. 'Foolish old man, if only he knew. His abominations have been trying their hardest to hit me.' He looked at the faces of the 3 bio-androids in turn, their faces showed signs of struggle as they tried to hit him. 'I guess I need to show him the reality of the situation.' He caught a punch thrown by the android known as Ebifurya, pulled him in, mouthed the words "Goodbye" and punched the android in his face. The force of the punch sent Ebifurya soaring past his creator and into the throne room's double doors.

Dr. Kochin turned around to check if it was indeed his creation that flew into the huge doors and not the ignorant youngster he wish to see lie dead at his feet. He turned back around, wearing a face that made Gilgamesh burst out in laughter. Many of the Red Ribbon soldiers watching the fight were still, not sure on what to make of the situation, others gasped, they couldn't believe that one of the three androids that rid the world of Demon King Piccolo was cast aside so easily.

Kurono sat on his throne with a smile that stretched from cheek to cheek. 'Serves you right. It's about time Dr. Kochin had a reality check. Always boasting on and on about his creations, it was really driving my patience. Though I really couldn't do anything about it before.' He rested the left side of his face on hand, he eyed Dr. Gero. The doctor looked at the battle below with his normal, unemotional face. However, Kurono knew Gero was surprised, his mind racing as everything he expected out of this fight was blown out of proportion.

Kurono returned his gaze towards Gilgamesh and smiled. 'I have big plans for you, Gilgamesh. Big plans indeed.'

Gilgamesh ceased laughing and locked gazes with Kochin. "Now do you begin to realize that your pets aren't as invincible as you once believed or do you need more proof?" Dr. Kochin let out a nervous laugh. "I-if you think that a lucky punch will change my opin-" "WELL." Gilgamesh cut the doctor off. "I'll just have to show you how terrifying a Saiyan really is." He smirked. "And maybe then you will believe." Gilgamesh turned to the two bio-androids standing behind him. "So, who wants to die first?"

Both androids looked at each other, then back to the silver-haired Saiyan. The big, fat one -Misokatsun- charged at Gilgamesh. The latter smiled, he waited till the large android was right in front of him before extending his hand and unleashing an energy wave. The wave pushed Misokatsun a few feet before the monsterish looking android caught a foothold. The wave pushed through Misokatsun but did not pierce him, as the android's fat caught the wave and held it. Gilgamesh smirked. 'So these abominations have a few tricks after all.'

"In that case!" He vanished from sight and reappeared above the android, before Misokatsun could react Gilgamesh fired an energy blast, this time aimed at Misokatsun's head. The blast caught Kochin's creation and burnt its face off. Misokatsun's body fell with a loud thump. Gilgamesh chuckled, he turned his head towards Dr. Kochin, the doctor was petrified at the sight of his creation's downfall. "Still unconvinced?" Gilgamesh said. "Don't worry, I still have some toys to break thanks to you."

He turned to Kishime. The android stood still, shocked at his counterpart's death. "Well?" Gilgamesh raised his left hand, gesturing for the android to come at him. "What are you waiting for? You abomination, created by a senile old man who looks like he's about to wet himself." Gilgamesh tilted his head towards Kochin as he said the last part. "What's wrong? Afraid?" Gilgamesh laughed. "I don't blame you. I would be afraid too if I was you." He looked Kishime in his eyes. "Not that it matters, I'm still going to kill you."

Kishime roared, wires sprouted out of his arm and wrapped around the end of his hand, forming a wipe. It glowed yellow, Kishime swung his arm towards Gilgamesh. The latter caught it, and felt an electrical current surge through his body. Kishime smiled, thinking that his victory was all but curtain. At that moment, Ebifurya regained his senses and freed himself from the double doors. Dr. Kochin spun around to see his creation free himself. "Ah, Ebifurya. Good, good. You're just in time to see Kishime finish off this arrogant brat." Kochin chuckled and spun back around, only to be disappointed by followed.

Laughter echoed through the throne room, Gilgamesh's laughter. Kishime stared at his opponent like he had gone mad. Gilgamesh meet the bio-android's gaze. "Did you think that this would hurt me?" He tightened his grip around Kishime's electrical wipe and pulled, taking Kishime's entire arm off. Gilgamesh tossed the lib aside, he walked up to his frightened prey. "I have experienced pain far worse than any simple electrocution attack can give me. I have been through the brink of death and back again so many times that pain like this is nothing more to me than a simple insect bite."

Gilgamesh grabbed Kishime's head and began to squeeze it, the android screamed in pain. "The pain you are feeling right now is nothing compared to the hells I have been through." He chuckled. "Even though you are an abomination, you still experience pain and fear. How...entertaining for me." Gilgamesh continued to squeeze Kishime's head, gradually adding more and more pressure until the android's head finally caved in. Circuits and wires exploded out of the now dead android's head.

Kishime's body slumped to the floor. Gilagmesh slowly turned to the only android created by Dr. Kochin left standing. "And then there was one." Ebifurya took a nervous step backward, he was terrified. Dr. Kochin turned to his frightened creation. "Ebifurya! What are you doing?! Attack him! Attack him now!" Despite his creator's efforts, Ebifurya remained where he was, the bio-android began to tremble in fear. Gilgamesh took a step forward, causing the pink brute to stumble backwards. "Well old man," Gilgamesh crossed his arms. "It looks like your abomination realizes how powerful I am."

"Don't act so cocky! My creations are the grea-" "Stop kidding yourself Kochin." Kurono cut in, Dr. Kochin and Gilgamesh turned their heads towards him. "Gilgamesh here has proven that he is far greater than your creations could ever hope to be." Kurono sighed. "He has destroyed two of you androids with ease and you still think the third one has a chance? I suppose Gilgamesh here will have to show you the hard way, wouldn't you my friend?"

Friend. Gilgamesh smiled as Kurono said that word. 'One less person to win over.' He turned to face the trembling Ebifurya. "It was my intention from the start." Ebifurya's eyes widened, he panicked, stumbling to get up. He ran for the double doors, hoping to escape his fate. Gilgamesh smiled, vanished, and reappeared in front of the pink brute, the latter stopped in his tracks. "Going somewhere?" The bio-android turned around and ran back the way he came.

Gilgamesh chuckled, the sight reminded him of some of his older hunts. As entertaining as the thought of reenacting those memories was, he thought it best to end it here. He dashed towards his prey, closing the gap between them in seconds, he brought his fist back and launched it, piercing Ebifurya's chest. Gilgamesh released his hand from the brute's chest, the latter took a few steps forward, grasping at the hole in his chest, and fell in front of his creator. "So fragile." The silver-haired Saiyan looked up at the old man, waiting for his response.

Dr. Kochin stood speechless, his three greatest creations that he spent decades working on, brushed aside like nothing! He continued to stare at the remains of Ebifurya. "H-how?" He muttered, his mind grew blank. All of those decades of study under his mentor, all the effort and resources used on his bio-androids, wasted.

Kurono smiled as he watched Kochin absorbed in speechless shock, he lean over to Dr. Gero. "I say that Gilgamesh has proven himself to be far more capable than we thought." Kurono eyed his adviser, he had the same unemotional face as usual. 'So even something like this doesn't shake his composure.' "Indeed." Gero said. "He has far surpassed my expectations," He placed his hand on his chin. "This Saiyan would make a fine subject for my experiments." Kurono chuckled. "I'm sorry doctor, but I can't have you making a guinea pig of him...At least, not yet." Gero nodded in response, showing no disappointment in the commander's decision, not even in the slightest.

"I would like you to fetch Tao and Dr. Wheelo." Dr. Gero looked down and meet Kurono's gaze. "I need to discuss a few things with them and it wouldn't hurt to introduce them to Gilgamesh." Dr. Gero swirled around, brought the heel of his feet together and bowed slightly."It shall be done." He quickly turned and paced out of the room through one of the many side exits. Kurono watched Gero until he left his sight, then continued to gaze at Gilgamesh and Dr. Kochin.

Gilgamesh paced over to the shaken doctor. "So tell me," He placed his hand on Kochin's shoulder and smiled. "Do you believe now?" The gesture shook Dr. Kochin out of his trance, he quickly knocked Gilgamesh's hand off of him. "You dare taunt me?! I, the great Dr. Kochin?" Gilgamesh just smiled, entertained by Kochin's little "rant" if one would call it that.

Kochin took offence to his smile. "Do you think this is funny?! I'll show you yet!" The old man flipped the top off of his cane, revealing a red button. Kochin lifted the cane up and faced it towards Gilgamesh, he pressed the button, unleashing a massive purplish colored energy wave. The wave caught the Saiyan by surprise, the force of the wave sent him back a few feet before he retained his footing. Thought the blast was massive, it was weak and easy to cancel out, so he did just that. "Nice trick. Any more to show off?"

Kochin dropped his cane, shocked at how easily Gilgamesh handled his attack. The old doctor regained his cool and extended his right arm, the skin on his arm exploded, revealing a dark blue robotic hand. The hand morphed into a gatling gun, Kochin aimed it at Gilgamesh. "Eat this!" His gun hand fired, hundreds of rounds speed towards the Saiyan. "Hmph, fool." Gilgamesh extended his left hand outward and deflected every round, they bounced off of the surrounding walls, the roof, and into some unfortunate guards standing nearby. Soon enough, Kochin stopped, he gasped.

Gilgamesh smiled, he vanished once more and reappeared next to Dr. Kochin. Without a second though, he ripped the doctor's gun hand off and crushed it. "Any thing else you like to try?" He said tauntingly. "No need to stop on my account." Kochin took a few steps away from the Saiyan. He was about to say something when Kurono cut him off. "Dr. Kochin," The doctor turned his head towards the Red Ribbon Commander. "You're arrogance and foul attitude towards me is one thing, but I will not tolerate you shooting up my throne room." The young commander sat up straight. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Bah, what do I care about your precious little throne room?" Kochin yelled. "In case you haven't noticed, I'm TRYING to kill this nightmare of a youngster, which might I add you brought before me AND SHOT UP YOUR THRONE ROOM!" Gilgamesh chuckled. "It was your gun arm that caused this mess, you senile old man." Dr. Kochin shot Gilgamesh a glare that would have stopped a tiger or any such animal cold.

"You insignificant worm! You DARE talk back to me!?" Kurono shot up from his throne. "I am the reason you and Dr. Wheelo walk amongst us! If it wasn't for me and my foresight, the both of you would still be trapped in that iceberg! I should have you executed for you insolence!" Gilgamesh smiled, the perfect excuse to kill this old man presented itself, and he wasn't about to let that chance slip away. "Allow me, Commander." He extended his right hand towards Dr. Kochin, he pointed his index finger at the doctor. "Die." Gilgamesh launched a Death Beam, the technique he stole from the tyrant Frieza, at the old man.

The beam pierced through his chest, Kochin fell back, hitting the cold floor with a thump. The dead doctor's chest exploded a second after, revealing burnt wires and broken circuits. "So he was a robot all along." Gilgamesh let his right hand fall to his side. "A piece of junk that created abominations: Hilarious."

"Yes, well that 'piece of junk' was a useful assistant." A new voice said, coming from behind him. Gilgamesh turned around, he saw Dr. Gero standing by two other men. The closer one to Gero was a tall male with small, beady eyes, a pointed nose, a small thin mustache, with black hair and a ponytail. He wore a pink long coat(or chang pao) that covered a matching shirt and pants, and slip on shoes. the coat had an enigma of some sort of human writing that Gilgamesh couldn't read. The human paid no attention to him, so he turned his gaze to the other man.

This one looked much younger than the other human, he was a half a head shorter too. He had short brown hair, and grey eyes. He wore a long, white coat that covered a black shirt, brown-green dress pants and black shoes. He looked directly at Gilgamesh, the latter assumed he was the one who spoke before.

The man turned his gaze towards the broken body of Dr. Kochin. "Kochin, you were a great help to my research when I first started. I thank you for all the years you spent with me. You will be missed." He returned his gaze towards Gilgamesh. "I see you've defeated Kochin's three bio-androids, and with ease I hear. Tell me, who are you?" Gilgamesh smirked. "I am called Gilgamesh, a Saiyan." The young man raised his eyebrow. "A Saiyan? Never heard of such a thing."

"Ahem," Dr. Gero coughed in his hand. "If you two are done conversing, Commander Kurono would like to say something to everyone." Kurono, who was sitting on his throne in his usually "relaxed" position, sat up straight. "Thank you Gero." The latter bowed and returned to the young commander's side. "Before we get down to business, I believe introductions are in order." Kurono gestured at Gilgamesh. "This man here is known as Gilgamesh, he is an alien, a Saiyan warrior, from a planet known as Vegeta."

Kurono gestured at the tall man wearing the pink long coat next. "This man is Mercenary Tao, he is a trained assassin that works for us for a fee." "Normally, I charge ten billion zeni per kill." Tao spoke. "But I have given Commander Kurono and the Red Ribbon Army my 26th anniversary discount, so I charge them fifty million zeni per kill." Gilgamesh and Tao exchanged looks for a moment before Tao returned his gaze to...whatever the hell he was looking at. Gilgamesh smiled. "The man next to him," Kurono continued. "Is the infamous Dr. Wheelo, an expert in biotechnology and currently in charge of Research & Development."

Dr. Wheelo nodded. "It's a pleasure, Gilgamesh." Gilgamesh raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you a little young to be Dr. Wheelo? As I understand that doctor I killed was your apprentice or something right? A little odd that a young man would be a mentor to an older...robot man." Dr. Wheelo chuckled. "Yes well, there is a simple explanation." He took a few steps toward the Saiyan. "I assure you that I am much older than Kochin appeared to be. I am Dr. Wheelo, but this isn't my original body. I swapped my former shell for this younger body." Wheelo turned towards Kurono. "Thanks to our deal, Commender." "I see..." Gilgamesh said, he didn't understand at all. How does one "swap" bodies and not perish? He decided to look into it, you never know when such a process might come in handy.

"Now then," Kurono brought his hands together, the action created a single clapping noise. "On to business, Dr. Wheelo, what's the status of that latest project you and Gero are working on? He says everything is 'within expectations', but I would like to hear your opinion." Wheelo sighed. "Well, 'within expectations' is Dr. Gero's way of saying nothing extraordinary." He eyed Gero, the latter looked down at him in his usual unemotional manner. "They'll be stronger than Kochin's three bio-warriors, that much I can guarantee but without stronger subjects to observe. I'm afraid they will fall short of my expectations." Dr. Wheelo eyed Gilgamesh for a split second. 'But I think that will not be a problem now.' He smiled.

Kurono nodded. "I'm sure the two of you will do all you can. You may return to your work." Wheelo bowed slightly, turned, and left out the way he came. "Tao," The mercenary raised his head toward his client. "This is about the matter we discussed before. We found them, right under our noses the entire time." "So you want me to kill them all or just the ones your army can't handle?" Kurono smiled. "I want you to take care of those three that have given our men such a hard time. With them out of the way, the remnants of the Royal Army will fall without much incident." Kurono looked at Gilgamesh, who remained quite this entire time.

"Tell me Gilgamesh, would you help Tao rid us of these rebels?" The Saiyan smiled. "I suppose it could be fun," He looked at Tao. "You mind me tagging along?" "Do as you like, as long as I get paid of course." Tao said without as much as looking in the Saiyan's direction. Gilgamesh smirked. "So where are these rebels anyway?" "In a place known as Diablo Desert, they have a camp in the Mushroom Forest." Kurono answered. "We have a base in that sector, the person in charge must be quite embarrassed by this news. I look forward to hearing his excuses about why he didn't detect them sooner." He said the last bit sarcastically.

Dr. Gero picked up from there. "The two of you will proceed to the base, contact the person in charge and have him reveal the location of the rebel camp. Afterward, you are to destroy three highly valued targets, these men posses powers similar to yours, so they might be a challenge." Gilgamesh smirked as Gero said "might" "Afterward, our forces in the area will launch an attack on the camp, mopping up the last remnants of the Royal Army and ending this rebellion."

Tao and Gilgamesh nodded, turned around and began to head for the double doors when Kurono called out to the Saiyan."I hope you will continue to amaze us Gilgamesh," He said with a smile. "Have fun."

With a smile, Gilgamesh turned his head toward the young commander. "Gladly."


Power Levels:

Gilgamesh- 18,300

Misokatsun- 2,500

Ebifurya- 2,500

Kishime-2,500

Dr. Kochin-10


Hello all, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Mainly plot stuff, but interesting no? As always I'll be addressing some potential questions.

First, Gilgamesh's power up through zenkai. Given that he is now immortal, and that there never has been an immortal Saiyan in DBZ before, one wonders if zenkai would still apply to that Saiyan. Zenkai would either be thrown to the wayside when a Saiyan is immortal or it would become a sort of "insta-zenkai" due to the regeneration that comes with immortality in DBZ. So I went with the insta-zenkai for this instance, especially after the asskicking he got from his brother. Guy would have died at least 4 times over if not for his immortality. However, I limited the zenkai boasts cause of said immortality. (Zenkai only carries a Saiyan so far anyway.)

So now Gilgamesh and any other immortal Saiyan in my story will only get zenkai boasts if they regenerate from wounds that normally would place one in a "life or death struggle for life" to "dead and buried 50 foot under" and so on. (Gilgamesh received about two of those from Riddic)

Second, Dr. Wheelo's new body. As you may or may not know, Dr. Wheelo's aimed for the body of the strongest in the world. However due to the situation of the world, and the deal he made with Kurono, Wheelo settled for the youngest, strongest body the Red Ribbon Army could offer. Whether he "tampered" with his new body first or just rushed into his new, attractive body is anyone's guess at this point. (Except me Shi Lolololololololo)

Who are these three rebels who have similar powers to Tao and Gilgamesh? What exactly is the project Wheelo and Gero are working on? What are the details of Wheelo and Kurono's deal? Just who the hell is Kurono anyway? And will Gilgamesh finally find a change of cloths? The answers will come eventually, so keep reading! (Best. Monologue/Narration. Ever)