Chapter 10

A/N: I can't believe it's been 10 chapters all ready! Thanks everyone for both support and critique, I have separated the dialogue up in chapters 1-5 to match up with how I write after making those adjustments from the advice from YOUR reviews! :) If you were confused at all in the first 5 chapters, then try again! Much easier to follow, sorry I was writing it so…"rough" as FinalFlashX described. :)

Today, we pick up where we left off. The Genocilians are in for one hell of a ride! Enjoy!

Flying through outer space like a comet, one lone space pod was flying past Uranus.

POV - Nappa

I pressed a button on the controls of my pod, and saw it had been over 2 hours since I'd left Earth. "Vegeta should be gaining consciousness now. It should've worn off by now…" I muttered. Assuming those fools didn't realize he was still alive. But how could they? I stuck him with that needle, after all.

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POV - Vegeta

I forced my eyes open. I grunted a sigh of relief as I scanned my surroundings, no one was here, I lay alone, crippled in most parts of my body. It'll only make me stronger though. I smiled at that thought.

"Those fools have actually made me stronger! They may have won the battle, but not the war," I let out a chuckle. "I will surpass Kershall soon enough! Even if it kills me!" I shouted out into the echo of the ruined, battle torn city.

I reached into the compartment of my armor and brought out my remote. I pushed a few buttons, and awaited my ride.

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POV - Tien

When the massive power levels that belonged to the transformed Saiyans disappeared, I set off in their last known location. If the battle isn't over, and the fact that the power level I'm sensing is very faint. It's likely that I can end it. Goku's also back, I realized. Everyone was heading somewhere else, in the company of those other aliens we encountered. But as I approached East city, I still sensed something…

Did Goku actually spare one of those freaks?

Movement in the sky caught my attention out of my deep thoughts. It was a spherical…thing, I had never encountered anything like it before. It descended down to the ruins of East city. Someone, pulled himself up from the ground, barely. His severely damaged armor crumpled off of him, leaving few bits of it that remained caught onto the material of his spandex. Vegeta.

I watched as he slowly crawled into the pod, half of me assumed Goku spared his life…and although it never felt completely right, Goku had given that same mercy to a lot of people. The other half of me could only think of what happened to Chiaotzu. How he died…fighting a Saiyan, protecting the Earth…and I…I Failed him!

Vegeta finally noticed me above, and his eyes widened as he pushed coordinates frantically into his navigation panel. The hatch closed and the pod took off into the sky.

Am I going to watch…completely still…as the murderer, who's partner killed Chiaotzu make his escape? NO!

In a quick, last second effort, I formed a triangle with my hands and directly hit the pod with my signature technique.

I saw the pod begin to emit smoke, it didn't explode, but I certainly damaged it.

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POV - Vegeta

Fuck! That god damn earthling shot the pod! The pod was spinning way off course, and the computer was giving Vegeta voice warnings nonstop for about eight minutes.

Eventually Vegeta grew tired of that and smacked his hand into the circuit board and "disable" the audio. Vegeta was growing increasingly dizzy, and may throw up in the near future…BUT it will at least be quiet…

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POV - Massa

We advanced a little further after the battle, estimating we were still short of the rendezvous coordinates. Not the slightest bit afraid of being engaged by a squad of androids, we took no precaution by allotting Barasi to stick to the skies, moving with us, but with a vantage point to find Vesaun and the others.

The Genocilians we assisted stuck to the ground, with me. Kesf, an Arvan warrior, an military officer in one of the several Arvan countries, had a high power level, if I were to estimate…those damn scouters would probably register him at roughly 14k-16k. Impressive, of course, it was common for Arvans to be above 10k…his age is what made his level so surprising. Young man has a future.

"Massa!" Barasi called from above.

Everyone in our party came to a halt, and I leapt to the air to see for myself. Vesaun and the others were nearby, we found them! But they were combating a large group of androids. "group" Is understatement of the year I realized. There were well over 100 of them. While Barasi and I were eager to assist our allies, Kesf and his group of survivors felt much different.

"There are too many…let's high tail it out of here!" One of them advised.

I snorted. "Stay here. Barasi and I don't need any of your help." While Kesf and the others were grateful of our help earlier, they appeared to think we had a death wish to tangle with so many. Barasi and I had nothing to fear really. In the distance, we could see Vesaun handling one of them with excellent poise.

He delivered an android straight to the ground with a cupped hand blow. The android, surprisingly attempted to stand back up, which was uncharacteristic of them, a blow with that much power behind it would destroy any normal one…I brushed the thought aside, it didn't matter, Vesaun was making sport of him.

I looked to Barasi. "Let's go."

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POV - Yucanas

There were tons of these metal freaks. They seemed to feel pain, and show expressions…and courtesy of us Mercs…fear was quite a common one for them.

I ducked a kick, sidestepped an orb of energy, and slid to the ground, performing a ground sweep to the first one. I hopped on top of the android and smashed my hand into its metallic skull repeatedly until it stopped struggling. I took that as a sign of its "death."

The one that missed the energy orb a moment ago (I can only tell by his unique design painted on his chest, he had a green symbol of some sort) charged at me. I dodged each rapid punches with ease, I countered with a knee to its mechanical chin. It quickly recovered with a handspring, and fired formless shots rapidly like a machine gun.

I dodged at first, but it was growing too difficult and I got hit by a few bullets. I put my guard up instead, and absorbed the powerful energy into my block. My arms were numbing and my eyes were closed as I was actually struggling with this one.

I sensed a raising power for a second behind me, just before getting struck by a missile shaped energy. The explosion forced me downward into the planet, creating a very small crater. Damn it! Beaten by a machine? Hell no!

"Leave this one to me, destroy the others." I heard one call, in a command-like tone. So they can speak the common tongue after all? I struggled to my feet and saw the one with the green symbol on his chest approach me. He was smiling, he seemed very confident in his own abilities.

I flared my aura up, and started raising my power; this one might be a bit trickier. I thought.

The mechanical being smirked. "Your power level is the highest I've ever faced one on one. No matter, I will not fail my Lord." He stated, calmly.

"I will not fail my Lord" distracted me, as if this "Lord" was in our presence. He sighted my distraction, and immediately took advantage. Before I could react, I had an energy wave in my face! I managed to get my hands up at the last second to hold it back…I tried to push it upward, but this energy was too concentrated…I couldn't budge it, damn energy that the androids use is somewhat different than ours…

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POV - Vesaun

An emphatic explosion rang through the air, several androids stopped and looked about. Vasile and I also paused our fighting, and turned to see who was at the other end of that. The others chose to continue reaping through the android's numbers as they had a diversion to work with. When the smoke eventually cleared, Yucanas' scorched, crippled body laid face in the dirt. I could sense a faint signal of life force, but he needed help. But where could we take him? Nowhere on the planet is safe…not now.

"Shit…Yucanas!" Vasile called. No response of course, he was clinging onto life.

Since Vasile was the only one who took an intermission from the fighting, it seemed best I send him away. "Vasile, take Yucanas and the Genocilians Massa and Barasi rescued, and get to hell out of here!"

"B-But where?" He asked in a confused tone.

"Anywhere…we can sense power levels after all…keep yours suppressed so they don't find you, when we drop ours, raise yours and we'll find you." I explained.

I spun around and kicked a cloaked android full force. It decloaked and revealed an android with a massive dent in its upper body.

Vasile gathered the other Genocilians and left. I went back into the fray, defeating androids one after another, one hit kill, one hit kill, one hit kill. Just as things were getting easier, one android ordered the others to back off from me.

It stared at me, eye to eye.

"You must be the one who defeated Hotflash."

I raised my eyebrows. "What?"

"Hotflash…my fellow lieutenant, accompanied me here, he lays on the ground over there, discombobulated…dead as a rock." He gestured to an android that was completely smashed, dented all over, it's body split into 3 separate areas…spread amongst the terrain. I realized he was right…I did kill this…Hotflash person.

"Androids have names?" I stated...not really a question, just something I found odd.

"Hey…we're people too…but, before you die, I suppose I can explain that." The metal figure said with grim amusement.

"You see..." He went on. "All of us serve our commanding officers, and our one and true Lord…who is the strongest and smartest of our armies. Our Lord, and troops of a certain rank, are allotted to give…permission, to those who have earned themselves a name in combat."

I nodded…trying to prolong him, the more information about this…"Lord", the better.

"Some name themselves something they feel sounds…"cool", others name themselves after something of a memorable moment…some, even the city or planet they took part of conquering in order to achieve the right of a name. Every one of us has a personality to contrast the programming."

This was getting dreary…I was hoping he would rant on about useful information, not about names…I mean come on? I know the name of only one of these damn can openers and I've wiped out fifteen or so by myself.

"So, that clears up that."

"Gee…thanks, I learned so much about nothing." I replied in a bored, sardonic tone.

The metallic being let out a confident chuckle. "Your move." He challenged.

I brought both arms to my sides, focused my energy carefully…and shaped it, into dual wield swords. They were blue, the perfect size and length for my body, and could cut through most materials with ease.

The lieutenant standing before me grinned, as if excited about my choice of technique. "Oh man! I can't believe my luck! Not every day I get a chance to do this!" He shouted before his hands 'hide' and his own purple, dual swords were generated.

"I all ready took one of you down, let's see how you fare."

So this is the same one who managed to beat Yucanas so easily. I have to admit, this one is crafty, I better stay on edge.

A/N: Eh, not the greatest chapter but like I said, having trouble being comfortable on these scenes…I'll improve on it. Chapter 11 will be very exciting though! Vesaun will fight the swords android…but then a far greater threat will come. Their "Lord"? nope.

Spoiler: Commander Contra and his first appearance…is he an android? Or a person? Not telling lol.

Anyways, I promise to make the climatic fight of Genocilia exciting…then they'll have to make an escape. Til next time.