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Chapter 8: You aren't worthy!

"Don't make me laugh" responded 17 to Coolers boasting.

"What's that?" Cooler replied hastily.

"You are no match for us, I can sense your power level is even weaker than your brothers" 17 replied with venom in his voice.

"Is that so? Then why are you talking to an after-image?" Cooler replied.

17 had little time to react before Cooler grabbed him from behind and teleported him to the snowy plains of the muscle tower.

Cooler teleported back and grabbed 16 as well,but left 18 behind with Trunks.

"How did you do that?" 17 asked stunned at this technique he had never seen before.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Cooler responded, hate was evident in his voice.

"As a matter of fa-" 17 was cut off with a punch to the back of his head that was followed up with an elbow to the face which was finished by an overhead toss into a hill of snow.

"You shall have the honour of being killed by me" said Cooler as he fired a death beam into the snow which 17 was currently buried under.

The snow in said area melted from the heat generated from Coolers death beam and it had knocked 17 into the icy water.

17 drifted towards the ocean floor but suddenly his eyes flew open.

He resurfaced with vigour and met his opponent's gaze,17 had been lucky enough to shield himself and had no internal injuries from the beam.

16 decided to sit on the sidelines and watch the action from the viewpoint of the tower.

Cooler was surprised at the resilience shown by 17,he had not expected the android to survive that attack.

"You might make a decent challenge yet,give me your best for I shall not be holding back!" Cooler exclaimed in a fierce tone.

17 simply smirked in response , the two fighters rushed each other and engaged in a flurry of punches and kicks.

The speed of the two fighters caused sonic booms and to any civilian it would seem like they were under attack.

17 entered a power struggle with Cooler, arm against arm with both fighters giving it their all.

Cooler realised that he had to improvise to win this fight so he teleported both him and 17 into the icy cold depths of the sea.

Stunned at this move 17 was left open for an attack, something that Cooler took full advantage of.

Cooler slammed his left leg into 17's abdomen forcing the android to lose his grip,Cooler then followed up by slamming his fists on top of 17's head before delivering a kick to 17's ribs.

17 was hurting all over, he hated the fact that he could feel pain, it was a weakness he wasn't used to feeling.

Cooler saw that he had weakened the android with pain and rushed 17 yet again, he gave 17 a series of quick jabs to daze the android even further before he picked up 17 and tossed him back onto land.

17 landed in the snow with a thud, he struggled to get up even with his artificial enhancements aiding him.

17 couldn't believe that this Cooler had so much skill,this technique that allowed him to teleport at will gave Cooler a massive advantage that 17 had to end right now if he were to survive.

17 managed to stand up just in time for Cooler to teleport in front of him.

"I think it is time for you to die" Cooler exclaimed with antagonistic pleasure.

"I wont allow you to harm me any further alien" 17 replied with a grin on his face.

Cooler laughed and blades made of Ki appeared in each of his hands,Cooler brought his hands back ready to slash 17.

It is at this time that 17 made his move, when Cooler slashed at 17 he was met with a barrier made out of Ki.

"Gah what is this?" Cooler exclaimed in shock while maintaining his efforts.

17 simply smirked at the success of his technique, Coolers Ki blades were strong but 17's forcefield was stronger and he pushed Cooler back with extreme force.

"Your teleportation technique is incredible, but it is useless if you cant hurt me" 17 declared with a victorious smile.

"Your defence is strong I will admit that, but it is far from having no flaws." cooler responded coolly.

Cooler looked at the tower and made a grabbing motion with his hand, the tower started to shake and crack.

16 realised that Cooler must be doing something to it so she jumped off the tower and landed safely onto the snow.

The tower had now split in half and Cooler was levitating it via telekinesis.

Cooler positioned the half tower in front of 17 and brought it up before slamming it onto the forcefield.

The forcefield crackled slightly but held strongly, the tower made out of strong rock also held for now.

Cooler continued to slam the tower upon 17's forcefield and did not relent for even a second.

"You see, for even though you may have an ultimate defence, you will have to leave that forcefield sometime to get a shot at me...and when that happens I will be right here to squish you like a bug." Cooler stated with sadistic glee in his voice.

The tower continued to slam the forcefield,however 17 noticed that with every hit it was slightly weakening... a normal being wouldn't have noticed the tiny cracks but 17 was a cybernetic being.

(Ill have to hold my ground till the tower shatters,then I will strike.) 17 devised in his head.

"What's wrong? Not having fun anymore?" Cooler mocked while continuing to slam the barrier with the piece of tower.

17 waited patiently, the cracks in the tower were growing bigger, it wouldn't be long till he could make a move.

Meanwhile …..

Trunk's still laid unconscious, the exhaustion from fighting Cell and 16 had taken its toll on him.

18 watched his sleeping form with curiosity,his jacket had been torn from numerous battles and the sleeves of his pants had been torn.

The sword strapped to his back seemed to be the only form of apparel worn by Trunks that was undamaged.

18 wondered why he wasn't listed in her data-bank and decided that she would get a hair sample to compare DNA with those that were in her data-bank.

She quickly yanked a strand of hair from his head and scanned it through her sensors.

The database went through multiple profiles until it stopped with four people.

It appeared that he was related to Bulma, a friend of Goku's as his DNA matched Bulma's and her parents DNA, interestingly though it also came up as a match to Vegeta.

18 concluded that he must be the son of Bulma and Vegeta,when this coupling happened she had no idea, however this explained a few things to her.

It explained why he was so strong and why he bore the capsule corp logo on his jacket.

18 had no clue where her brother and 16 had been taken to and she knew she wouldn't be able to find them any time soon, so she sat down next to Trunks and waited for them to return.

Back in the snowy regions...

The tower slammed against the barrier one more time before it shattered,17 quickly lowered his barrier and fired a barrage of purple Ki at Cooler taking the alien by complete surprise.

The barrage sent Cooler flying back until he hit a pile of snow effectively caving him under.

Blood seeped into the snow from Coolers injuries effectively creating a big red patch.

17 watched the patch intently before deciding to finish him off.

17 raised his hand outward facing Cooler, a Ki ball was generated and continuously gained size until it was almost bigger than 17 himself and then he fired it directly at Cooler.

The blast vaporised the snow patch and the radius around it, effectively taking a huge chunk out of the snowy island.

Cooler lay underwater bleeding profusely from the combined attacks, the icy water quickly seeped into his wounds numbing them.

Cooler found it hard to move his body and struggled to move his battered and numb body.

16 monitored the situation closely, intent on there being no more distractions she decided to help 17 completely finish off Cooler.

"17 stand back while I do what should have been done in the first place" 16 stated as she powered up a ball of energy in her hands.

"What are you doing?" 17 shouted at 16 as the ball of energy grew to the size of a small moon.

"Doing what you should have done from the start, but of course..never send a man to do a woman's job" 16 replied in a cold tone.

"You could seriously damage the planet! There's no fun in that!" 17 replied in shock.

"You would stop me from finishing this insignificant worm off? Stop me from completing my programming ?" 16 asked with anger evident in her voice.

"He's done, there is no need to cause that kind of destruction." 17 stated in reply.

"Then I guess you are of no longer use to me." 16 replied before quickly throwing the ball of Ki at 17.

17 caught the ball of pure Ki in his hands, the immense pressure knocked him back with every second threatening to annihilate him from existence.

"Got to...get... rid.. of.. this.." 17 said out loud to himself as he struggled to hold onto the ball of pure Ki.

Suddenly a figure came to assist him, it was none other than Cell.

The two managed to push the Ki blast back at 16 sending her flying back to the mainland a few miles from Kami's place where she fell to the ground and sparked from the immense damage she had received.

"Who are you?" 17 asked Cell, surprised at the assistance he had received.

"I guess you could say I am your brother.." Cell replied in his creepy voice.

"What! I don't have a brother!" 17 replied in anger at the mind games this creature was playing with him.

"Oh but you do, I am an android created by Dr Gero just like you..."

"The only reason I saved you from that abomination is because I need you to become complete."Cell replied with a grin on his face.

"What do you mean complete? And how come Dr gero never mentioned you?"17 replied in confusion.

"That's for me to know and for you to find out." replied cell with a grin as he opened his tail into what looked like a sucker or a large plunger.

"Stay away from me freak!" 17 yelled as he backed away from Cell.

But Cell was faster and he stuck the sucker over 17's head and started to laugh.

17 struggled to lift the sucker off his head but it continued to suck him inwards,17 started to charge a Ki blast with his right hand as a last resort but quickly found his hands incapacitated.

17 slowly went in further down the sucker until he went all the way down the tube like tail and was absorbed.

Cell's Ki began to flare and he screamed loudly as his body began to change shape, his head became more human like, his arms became longer,his legs became longer and his tail shrunk in size.

When the transformation was complete Cell grinned to himself, he had gained a massive boost in power as well as all of 17's techniques.

Now all he needed to complete his transformation was to absorb android 18,however he had no idea where she was.

Cell had expected her to be with 17 but instead another android had been here, he wouldn't of known 17 was here if it hadn't been for that moon like Ki ball.

Cell flew off towards north city a place he had not checked yet,not noticing a battered Cooler emerge from the sea.

Meanwhile Trunks slowly regained conciousness and attempted to stand but found himself too weak.

"I see you're finally awake" 18 remarked.

"Why didn't you finish me off?"asked Trunks as he eyed 18 with suspicion.

" I told you before, I have no problem with you."18 replied.

"If that's the case what happened here?" Trunks asked still wary of 18.

"You were knocked flat on your ass by an alien,then the alien fought with 16 for awhile till it was seriously injured but then another alien claiming to be its brother showed up and took my brother and 16 away somewhere." 18 replied casually.

"Frieza! I should have known it was him!" Trunks stated with anger.

"Frieza? How do you know that is his name?" 18 asked with curiosity.

"My mother told me stories about him when I was young" Trunks replied slightly letting his guard down.

Trunks felt at ease with 18 for some reason, she wasn't like the 18 from his timeline at all.

Deciding to take the risk Trunks asked for her assistance to Kami's lookout.

"Hey I can't move, could you help me to somewhere.." Trunks asked.

"You want me to carry you? Aren't you a little big for that?" 18 replied.

"Ohh come on knock it off,will you help me or what?" replied Trunks.

"Fine..its not like I have anything else better to do.." 18 replied with a tinge of boredom.

"I warn you though,when my brother gets back if you attempt to stop us I will fight you." 18 warned Trunks before picking him up.

Trunks mulled this over in his mind for a bit before deciding it was a risk he had to take, if he stayed here the other androids may return and trunks was sure they weren't as friendly and besides that he also had Cell to worry about.

It was definitely better for 18 to be near him so he could keep an eye on her.

"Ok I got it.." Trunks finally replied.

"Where to then soldier?" 18 asked with a smile on her face.

"Its not far from here,up in the sky you should see it" Trunks replied.

Sure enough 18 spotted the tower and took off toward it with Trunks in her arms.

Meanwhile back at Frieza's ship...

"Oh quit being such a baby" Bulma scolded Frieza as she was reattaching his tail.

"There!" "All done now" Bulma remarked happy with her work.

Frieza looked in a mirror to view his tail and found that he was satisfied.

"Excellent work, I remember my father's idiotic scientists took weeks to fix that tail up." Frieza complemented Bulma.

"Kid, I think we need to have a talk" Frieza directed at Gohan.

"Yes Frieza?" Gohan replied meekly, he was still afraid of Frieza but he had oddly gotten used to being around him and quite a lot of his hate and fear had vanished.

"I remember on Namek that you were almost killed but yet you ate some kind of bean and miraculously survived.. Where did that bean come from?"asked Frieza.

"That's easy they come from a place called Korin's tower!" Gohan replied.

"Take me there...and don't even think of escaping!" Frieza demanded.

"We can't let you do that" said one of Coolers soldiers.

Frieza made them implode with his telekinesis just like he did to Krillin back on namek.

"Now then..shall we go?"said Frieza with a sadistic grin on his face.

Not long after Gohan and Frieza arrived at Korin's tower, the cat jumped out of his skin at the sight of Frieza and Yajirobe ran for cover.

"I've come for some beans" Frieza said with a sadistic smile.

Cell has absorbed 17! 16 has gone haywire and Trunks has led 18 to the last refuge that he knows!

What will become of Master Roshi and the others? Will trunks be able to recover in time? Will Cell absorb 18 too? Will Cooler and Frieza be able to settle their differences?

Find out in the next chapter!