We stand alone and yet together

Chapter 4: The End of the Z Fighters

This is my interpretation on how the battle with the androids went.

As Gohan and Piccolo got closer to the island, they caught sight of Krillin and Yamcha flying in same direction, they changed course to met up with them.

"Hi, Krillin, Yamcha!" Gohan said. They looked over at them and Krillin grinned.

"Hey Gohan!" Krillin said.

"Gohan." Yamcha said smiling.

"I take it you saw the news." Piccolo said. Yamcha looked at him with a hard face, he still didn't trust Piccolo very much.

"Yeah, it looks bad." Krillin said, as they continued flying.

"I think we should be careful of those two." Piccolo said.

"Why their just kids." Yamcha said.

"Gohan's a kid and we all now what he's capable of." Piccolo said.

"Piccolo's right." Gohan said. "We can't let ourselves get fooled by appearances." They continued their flight in silence, until they felt two more ki's heading towards them. Tien and Chiaotzu arrived and flew next to them.

"So you too?" Yamcha asked. Tien looked at him.

"We heard there was trouble, so we thought we'd check it out." He said.

"How come we never get to together, when it's not a fight?" Krillin asked. No one had an answer to that, and it was shortly after that, that they reached the island. It seemed like there wasn't a single building left that wasn't destroyed, damaged or on fire. They stopped and looked over the damage.

"You know, somethings not right here." Yamcha said.

"Yeah." Krillin said. "I don't feel anything out the ordinary down there. Do you think they've left?" There was an explosion and a building collapsed.

"I think they're still here." Piccolo said.

"But that came from no where!" Tien said. "I didn't feel anything." Vegeta appeared in front of them and looked at them.

"Are you going to come or are you going to just stay there?" He said and took off towards the source of the explosion. They looked at each other and followed him. They landed just behind Vegeta, who was watching the two teenagers, he seemed puzzled by something that was preventing him from attacking straight away.

The girl was sitting on the top of an upturned car, casually examining her nails, she looked very bored. The boy had an arm raised with a blast waiting to be fired at a building. He looked over at them, and smirked. He lowered his hand but kept the ball within it.

"Hey 18!" He said, and girl looked up. "It looks like we have company." 18 jumped down from where she was sitting and walked over.

"We should introduce ourselves, 17." She said.

"They have no ki." Vegeta said, it was only then that the others realised why they felt so nervous around these two. 17 smirked.

"He's figured it out already." He said.

"He's a smart one." 18 said. Vegeta growled.

"How can they not have ki's?" Gohan asked, looking at Piccolo for an answer he couldn't give.

"It's because we're androids." 17 said. "Dr Gero made us to conquer the world before he met his fate at my foot." They looked surprised at this.

"Why are you telling them that?" 18 asked. "We should just kill them." 17 smirked.

"Alright sis," He said. "A point for each we kill the highest number wins."

"But there's an even number." 18 pointed out. 17 raised his hand and let the blast within go, it hit Chiaotzu vaporising him, before he even had time to scream.

"Not anymore." 17 said.

"Chiaotzu!" Tien cried, and 18 pouted.

"Not fair." She said "You got a head start."

Tien launched himself at 17, powering up as he went, and hit him with full force in the face. 17 didn't even blink, Tien's fist was pressed up against his face, right between the eyes. 17 brushed Tien arm off like it was a fly, and smirked.

"What the!" Tien said as 17 pulled back his fist and no more then pushed Tien, which sent him flying back, straight into Krillin and Yamcha, knocking them all over. The others stared horrified by what they'd just seen.

"Oh look, human bowling pins." 17 said. Both he and 18 raised a hand and sent to blasts at the fallen warriors, there was a massive explosion. When it cleared there was no sign of any of them. Gohan stood staring at the place where his friends had once been. 18 looked at 17.

"Does that could as three for both of us?" She asked, and 17 shrugged.

"Gohan." Piccolo said. "Vegeta, we have to attack together, it's the best chance we have." Vegeta snorted.

"I fight alone, I don't need your help." He said.

"Gohan?" Piccolo asked, seeing that he was still staring at the same spot. Gohan felt the same as he did when he faced Nappa, he could feel the panic rising. "Gohan!" Piccolo snapped, and that snapped Gohan out of it enough to look at Piccolo. "Attack together." Gohan nodded.

"KAME"

"SPECAIL"

"HAME"

"BEAM"

"HAAA!"

"CANNON!"

The two beams hit 17 dead on, the dust obscured the view of the two androids. Vegeta folded his arms and waited, Piccolo watched the dust closely and Gohan grinned.

"That must had been enough!" He said. The dust started to started to clear, to reveal a completely unharmed 17.

"That's not possible!" Piccolo exclaimed.

"That was pathetic, don't you think 18?" 17 said.

"Yes, very weak." She said. "I think I should show them how it's done."

"Be my guest." 17 said and stepped aside. 18 raised a hand at Piccolo and Gohan, a blast appeared in her hand. She was about to fire when Vegeta jumped in front of Gohan and Piccolo.

"Get out of here!" He yelled to them. "Piccolo, dragonballs!" It was all he needed to say to make them understand. "GALIC GUN!" Vegeta yelled as 18's blast bore down on them. Gohan and Piccolo started to fly away. Soon Vegeta's beam started to get pushed back by 18's.

"We need to help him!" Gohan said and went to fly back, but Piccolo grabbed his arm.

"Vegeta's right, Gohan." He said. "We need to leave."

Below, Vegeta knew that he couldn't last much longer against the android. It wasn't right! He'd just found somewhere he felt safe to be, something he'd never had before and that woman, Bulma, she made it so. He never made his feeling clear to her, he could never do that. But ever since that night of passion that had resulted in his son, Trunks, he'd felt almost happy to be on this planet. there were worse places to be after all. Trunks, Vegeta thought, my son, everyone thinks I don't care, but I do. You're the only thing in my life that matters. I can't let this thing over come me, I can't let them hurt you! Something snapped.

Suddenly Gohan and Piccolo saw something they never expected, Vegeta's aura flared, his hair flashed gold, once, twice then stayed gold as his aura became gold as well.

"I can't believe it!" Piccolo said.

"Vegeta's a super saiyan!" Gohan said. Vegeta's beam started push back towards 18. Vegeta grinned, he'd done it! He was super saiyan! They was nothing that could stop him now he was going to crush these androids like bugs. He pushed everything he had into his attack and the beam got even closer to 18. Suddenly 17 appeared next to Vegeta, Vegeta's eyes widened at the sight of the ki blast in his hand. There was nothing that he could do to defend against another attack.

"Vegeta!" Gohan yelled and started to fly back down, Piccolo quickly chased him. 17 fired the blast at Vegeta, it wasn't very strong and did very little damage, but it distracted Vegeta just enough to cause 18's attack to bare down on him, with deadly speed and force. The last thing on Vegeta mind before the blast hit him was that he'd failed his son.

The shock wave from the blast, sent both Gohan and Piccolo flying backwards out of control. Gohan hit a building which collapsed on top of him, and Piccolo managed to steady himself.

"Gohan!" He yelled, looking everywhere, he felt Gohan's ki, from within a fallen building. At least he was alive. Piccolo sighed in relief, then he looked for Vegeta, there was nothing. Suddenly 17 and 18 appeared in front of Piccolo, he gulped. They had just taken out a super saiyan, what chance did he have against them. The only thing he could hope for, was that they wouldn't realise that Gohan was still alive.

"What's wrong, green man, you don't look to well." 17 said.

"He looks scared." 18 said bored. "Perhaps we should put him out of his misery."

"Your so charitable 18." 17 said. 18 shrugged. Piccolo powered up and attacked 18. She blocked all his attacks with a bored look on her face.

"Hey, sis, I thought you were going to kill him, not dance with him." 17 said, smirking. 18 looked very annoyed at this comment and sent a fist into Piccolo's gut, which passed right though to the other side. Piccolo coughed up blood and fell down to the ground.

"Ugh!" 18 said, looking her blood stained sleeve. "I'm going to need a new outfit now!"

"He's still alive you know." 17 said. She shot him an annoyed look.

"I'm getting to it." She said. "Honestly, 17, your so impatient!" She raised a hand at Piccolo and sent a blast down at him. Piccolo was still in the middle of regenerating the hole in his gut, so he wasn't able to defend himself as the blast hit him. 18 flew away.

"Come on, 17." She said. "There was to be a city nearby where I can get some new clothes." 17 shrugged.

"Whatever." He said, as they flew towards South City.

So what do you think?

Did I get 17 and 18 right?

What do you think about Vegeta going super saiyan before he died