Vegeta barely had time to react. Alarms honed from years of battle filled his head and he dodged almost too late the punch that one of the humans threw at him. Already, his partner was on him, leading with an extended high kick. Vegeta leapt to the side, back-peddling away keeping his opponents in front of him. I can still barely sense their energy. They're not even briefly raising it when they attack then suppressing it, I would've noticed such spikes. Not even Kakarot or his brat has such phenomenal kai control.

Neither opponents relented as they hurtled towards Vegeta, launching a flurry of punches and kicks at him. The Saiyan deftly dodged them all, weaving and shifting between the two fighters, continually frustrating their efforts. They may be faster than I had anticipated, but not that fast. Lucky for me. Though I did say if they managed to land a punch on me then I would go with them. I guess that would include blocking their blows too. I'll just have to handicap myself a bit by only dodging for the moment. After all, wouldn't want to end the fun prematurely.

Vegeta watched the two carefully as they continued their unrelenting assault. They fought well together, one moving into position to defend his partner's blind spot when he launches an attack. Both synchronized their timings so it was as if Vegeta was fighting a singular four legged and four armed beast. Even though Vegeta was purely on the defensive and hadn't yet counter-attacked, neither had gone all out on the attack just yet and accidentally leave themselves exposes - wary of their mysterious opponent's capabilities. They're well trained for a pair of middling humans at least.

Stronger and faster than expected they may have been, they still weren't perfect. Vegeta noticed a small opening in one of the two's defenses and launched a fist forward, connecting with his jaw and staggering him back. Taking advantage of their momentary surprise, Vegeta dropped downwards and swept the legs of the second fighter before kicking him in the stomach, sending him flying away backwards. Vegeta turned his attention back to the original and now stunned fighter, punched him in the stomach, then uppercut him into the air. Both landed several hundred meters away.

"Owww," Jenkins moaned as he gingerly climbed back onto his feet while holding his head."Harris, you alright?"

"Just fine, might've had some of my internal organs rearranged, maybe some internal bleeding here and there. But other than that, just peachy."

"What are you two yammering on about over there?" the powerful strange being interrupted. "Giving up already? I was hoping I could at least work up a sweat before mopping your sorry asses all over the desert."

Vegeta looked across the desert at his foes, arms crossed, fingers tapping impatiently on his bicep. What are they doing? Maybe they have given up, but I guess that could only be expected.

"Confident little prick," Jenkins muttered under his breath with a decided emphasis on 'little.' "Say Harris, what say we kick this thing to the next level?"

"Maximum power then? "

He nodded in affirmation.

Jenkins furrowed his eyebrows and concentrated. Already he could feel the enhancements and implants within his body pushing into overdrive. His muscles screamed in protest, still sore from the earlier exertion and unused to the intense effects of such high energy outputs. Within him, the generators already methodically and quietly humming in the background whirled into life, feeding more and more power into his body. Muscles bulged forth as they became more and more massive and dense. He looked at his partner, watch a similar change sweep across his bulk, a process well under way in his own body. The energy strain was intensive, but he was confident it was still well within the limits of his generators. His still primarily human body on the other hand…

Vegeta looked on at the sight with curiosity. He sensed a slight increase in the two human's power levels, but their own bodies seemed to have bulked up tremendously. Rocks and pieces of detritus were beginning to rise off the ground, defiantly flouting gravity, before disintegrating into fine specs of dust. The faintest crackling of golden electricity began racing across their two enlarging bodies.

This is impossible, they're obviously powering up, but I still barely sense anything! How are they doing this? Unless they're…

"So I see a couple more of Doctor Gero's play things have escaped from his mad house. Are you here for your petty revenge? Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news but even your supposedly perfect brethren Cell was no match for the Prince of all Saiyans," Vegeta half-lied.

Jenkins and Harris both paused at that last remark.

"Dr. Gero?" the latter haltingly asked. The name sounded familiar. "I'm not quite sure of whom you're referring to. If you're talking about our enhancements, the scientists responsible for them aren't this Gero person. Maybe they are associates? And what do they and we have to do with Cell?"

What? They're unaware of Gero's involvement with Cell? Vegeta paused slightly. "Not one of Gero's? No matter, I'll defeat you all regardless!" With a shout, he immediately powered himself up. Bluish white energy flickering away at the edges of his body. He charged forth.

The two cyborgs raised their arms up as they readied themselves for whatever was about to be thrown their way. Rushing forwards, Vegeta unleashed a torrent of golden kai blasts at his two opponents. Rather than dodge they matched his attack blow for blow, sending their own energy beams forward. What blasts from the Saiyan that avoided interception, they deflected or dodged as they blasted through the air a scant few meters off the ground.

Vegeta raced past the smoke and dust erupting from the explosions and honed in on the human-level kais racing towards him at such breath taking speed. Right before they collided, Vegeta suddenly stopped, made a 90 degree adjustment and rapidly accelerated into the air. The two below him over shot him, not anticipating the sudden maneuver and nearly collided into one another. Before long, however, they too shot up into the air in hot pursuit.

Let's see how they take to aerial combat.

Vegeta looked down, then zoomed in on the nearer of the two and fired off a kai blast. The man deflected it and hastily threw a punch at him. Anticipating the counter-attack, Vegeta burst to the left and kicked. The fighter raised his left arm to block the blow, but Vegeta was already speeding back downwards then up and towards his exposed bottom. Just when the prince was about to launch a devastating finisher, the other one intercepted him with his own series of rapid punches and kicks. Vegeta dodged them all then flared his kai, his interloper tossed back from the fury of the expanding sphere of energy. Rather than launching a head on attack, Vegeta veered off again, racing towards the back of his original target.

"Where'd he go?" Jenkins muttered; his mind already a blur from the dizzying 3d acrobatics. I really need to spend more time in the simulators. His sensors were also on the fritz, warning him of the stranger's ever changing location. One second he was on top, then to the left, then to the bottom, now behind… "Oh Shit!" He made to turn around, but was too late as he felt a fist embed itself into his back.

Vegeta grinned when he saw his target flying through the air away before impacting through a nearby mountain. Too easy, now where did the other one go? However, he didn't have to search long as he glimpsed a streaking blur racing towards him, fists cocked back ready to unleash a torrent of abuse.

Caught slightly off guard by the sudden attack, it was all Vegeta could do to avoid the avalanche of punches and kicks. Furiously back-peddling to put some space between them, he didn't notice that the fighter he had just put down had picked himself back up and was hurtling upwards to re-enter the fray. Too busy dancing around the barrage, Vegeta almost didn't pick up the second faint energy signal blasting his way until the last second. He tried to re-orient himself to keep both fighters in front but they seemed to be learning, taking advantage of the maneuverability afforded by the 3d aerial environment and made to box him in between them.

Vegeta twisted his body to one side to dodge yet another punch but that left him slightly off-balanced as his legs twisted into the wind. He flared his energy in a bid to right himself, but it was too late as the second fighter took advantage of his momentary disorientation to press his attack. Vegeta could see the incoming fist approaching his face in slow motion, the first one to be landed on his person. He wouldn't be able to dodge it. Not bad human. The prince felt it thud on his cheek and glared at the owner of the hand. He merely grinned back a smug smile.

"Gotcha."

Vegeta awarded his impudence with a swift punch.

Exuberance turned into a pained expression as he staggered back under the force of the blow. That fucking hurts. Harris clutched his arms around his abdomen, trying to choke back the bile building up in the back of his throat, intermingling with the copper-like taste of his blood. Prying his eyelids open and trying to ignore the stinging pain as his sweat seeped into his eyes, he could barely make out the man who had just caused him so much pain. Of course, that ever present smirk was still plastered over his face.

"Well well human, you managed to hit me. Congratulations. As you've fulfilled your end of the agreement, I suppose I will as well. However, I'm curious about one thing: that armor you two are wearing," Vegeta slightly leaned forward inquiringly. "Wherever did you get it from?"

The two panting soldiers looked across from each other then shrugged.

"These are standard issue armor from the Earth military, but I believe the primary supplier is Capsule Corporation."

"Interesting."

"Most interesting indeed," an observing Piccolo quietly said.