Trunks was speechless. Another Android? They ought to have all been destroyed by now, either by being abandoned or dismantled by their creator or destroyed by their own sadistic siblings in field tests.
"Come now. I think that it's time to wake up our sleeping friend…" Android 17 said, his vacant expression casting an eerie glow over the situation. His sister nodded, and paced around the chamber, looking for an activation switch. Gero started forwards, pleading for the pair to stop;
"No! Don't listen to him! I haven't completed his programming yet!"
Outside the Z fighters were debating what to do. Finally Vegeta, brash as ever, stepped forwards. "Stand aside. I don't need your help to defeat these three." He boasted, barging past Trunks.
"Sixteen is just a prototype," Gero reasoned, "If you activate it, it may…malfunction!"
"Let's find put shall we?" 17 said, nodding to his sister, who had found the activation switch. Gero wheeled around when he heard the pod whirring to life, and started for Android 18.
"No Eighteen!" he yelled, grabbing her arm. Unfortunately, the weak spot she had possessed as a human had been eliminated by her cybernetic upgrade, and only served to make the girl angry.
"Time to send you to the scrapheap." She said, ramming her elbow into Android 20's metal gut. He flew backwards and crashed to the ground.
"If Sixteen is just a prototype, I have to wonder why you kept him for so long… I mean, you destroyed or decommissioned all the other Androids up to Fifteen, right?" she pondered aloud, peering at the slumbering figure within the chamber.
"I was planning to repair him someday! Listen, I made you what you are, I upgraded you and strengthened you, so I'm telling you, if you activate Sixteen, YOU WILL REGRET IT!" 20 finished with a roar.
"We'll regret it? I doubt that, old man." 17 smirked, calling up diagnostics for Android 16. Upon learning that the model had a weaker version of his own perpetual energy device, he dismissed the threat as negligible, "According to this data, I am much stronger than this model." He added.
"It makes no difference!" Gero yelled, at a loss to do anything else, other than attempt to reason with his creations.
17 ignored this and turned to his sister, "Eighteen, open the chamber. Now."
Gero lost check of his temper completely, "I AM YOUR CREATOR, AND YOU WILL DO AS I TELL YOU! STOP MEDDLING WITH ANDROID SIXTEEN NOW, OR I WILL FORCE YOU TO STOP!" he cried. 17 remained impassive.
"Your controller is broken." he pointed out.
"THEN I WILL MAKE ANOTHER!" Gero screamed.
18 smirked and she pressed the button, causing the ignition switch to rise out of the pod.
"FOR THE LAST TIME," Gero bellowed, "DO-NOT-RELEASE-HIM!"
What happened next was a blur. Gero started forwards, intent on stopping 18. But as he did, 17's fist hit the ageing cyborg's back. And went straight through it. Standing completely still, he turned to face his treacherous creation.
"Wh-what have…..you done….?" He asked weakly, wrenching himself free, "H-how dare you! Don't you know, I gave you life….And I can take it away!" Abruptly 17 leapt into the air, and swung out with a leg in a vicious kick, severing the cyborg's head from his shoulders. The still active head of Gero clattered and bounced along the floor, headed towards the Z fighters, landing at Krillin's feet. Dumbstruck, the diminutive Z fighter could only babble at the head while it spoke to itself.
"That does it! Now I am mad-" it began. But it was silenced by the heel of Android 17, who smashed the head and human brain inside all across the laboratory floor in a gory puddle.
"D-did you see that?" Krillin gibbered, breaking the ominous silence, "H-he squashed him like a bug!"
17 looked up from his handiwork with a slight smile and looked at the small bald man. With one finger the cyborg beckoned Krillin to come closer. Krillin reacted in the usual fashion;
"U-um, Vegeta? I t-think he wants to talk to you!" he squeaked as 17's grin broadened.
"You with the shiny head, c'mere ." he said. Krillin looked at Tien, half hopeful, but realised 17 had set his sights on the ex-monk instead.
"You-you talking to me?" he asked. 17 nodded, and Krillin yelped and slunk back behind Tien. "No way! Not me!" he squealed. 17 smiled and laughed a little as Vegeta decided to offer some words of encouragement.
"Don't be such a coward! Go on! Fight him!" he growled.
"All by myself? C'mon guys, we're supposed to be in this together! And I'd like to keep my head on my shoulders!" Krillin replied, looking into the vacant stare of the Android. Tien readied his fists, surprising everyone else.
"I've got your back. Don't worry Krillin." He said. He may not be of much use, should the monster try to attack Krillin, but he'd be damned if he stood idly by. Especially after what these monsters had done to Goku. Heartened by the taller man's courage, Krillin stepped out from behind his friend and edged towards 17. 17 waited until the man was within arm's reach, and promptly turned on his heels and walked away. Krillin let loose a sigh of relief, much to the chagrin of Vegeta.
"Looks like he took pity on you, loser. Now he knows that you're scared. Next time, he won't show any mercy at all!" Vegeta sneered. He was about to begin another tirade, when Trunks shoved him out of the way. Vegeta glared at the boy and was about to ask just as to what the hell he was playing at, when he registered the twin androids looking at the other stasis pod. One, the girl, reached for the release switch. Trunk's energy surged.
"If they set that Android free, it'll be the end of all of us! NOOOOOO!" he roared, transforming into a Super Saiyan as he went, thrusting his hands in front of him. Golden hued energy lanced forwards and headed towards the Androids, while the Z fighters ducked for various sources of cover. The mountainside ignited and vanished, leaving some very dusty (and at least one very angry) Z fighters, coughing in the debris cloud.
"Hey,Trunks! How about a little more warning the next time you do that!" Krillin called over. Vegeta snarled at the young man.
"Bad move. Why'd you have to go and do that for?" he asked, Trunks replied by asking what was wrong, "Well, look, down there." He answered by bobbing his head downwards towards the wrecked lab. There, unharmed were the Androids and their fellow's casket.
"I don't understand!" the half Saiyan cried, "That was my most intense blast!
"That's too bad!" Vegeta said, watching them gently set down the huge coffer, "By doing that, you've shown them just how weak you are!"
"Don't make me wait all day Eighteen. Are you going to open it or not?" 17 asked, quirking an eyebrow at the Z fighters. "Curious little creatures, humans," He mused, "I can scarcely believe that my sister and I used to be one." 18 tossed the huge capsule to the ground, and judging by the crash it made, easily weighed a couple of tons. Pressing the biggest red button on the box, the chamber whirred to life and the door slid open slowly. Eighteen kicked it off and peered at the huge, unmoving figure within it.
16's optics lit up a malevolent red as he came online.
AN: Hooray! I'm not dead! I'm sorry this one took so long to post, but for some reason, I wasn't really motivated for this chapter at all. So, it's shorter than I would have liked, lacks anything significant to the Godzilla half and is basically just them talking. Hey, we all have off days…or months.
Next chapter will be posted by next week, and !spoilers! For the next two or three:
It's the fight between Android 18 and Vegeta as our heroes learn about what's wrong with Godzilla. But not one, but two great evils are stirring in Japan. And should they ever meet…let's just say it'll be our second cross continuity fight will occur. And why are whales showing up beached all over the coastline, bleeding heavily from what look like bite marks?
EDIT:Fixed some mistakes kindly pointed out by SuperSaiyanInfinity. If anyone else could do the same for previous chapters, I'd be most greatful.
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