Author Note

The votes favour Cooler over Broly, so I will do them in that order. This will be a much bigger battle than the last one I hope you all enjoy it.

Cyborg Gothic

Part 11

The Return of Cooler

"So Goku, couldn't you convince anyone else to join us?" Oolong, the talking pig, asked "Like Vegeta, or Trunks".

Goku was too busy eating to answer right away. He ate quite a lot so much in fact that if he'd been human I figured that his stomach would have ruptured by now. I could only assume that his ability to consume such vast amounts of food was a Saiyan thing.

"Trunks has gone back to the future" the fighter explained "and Vegeta took off in his own ship".

Which was a good thing because if that pitiful excuse for a prince and I had both ended up inside this space craft one of us would have blown the whole thing up by now in an attempt to murder the other.

"Tein and Chaozu" Goku went on to say "They're in the room of Time and Spirit doing some serious training".

Hopefully soon I would get a chance to enter that remarkable place. Even if it only did a fraction for me what it had done for Saiyans it would be well worth spending a year of my life within the Time Chamber.

"I thought that time and space chamber was too dangerous for humans" I said to Goku.

The hero swallowed some more food before answering.

"Nah they'll be okay" he then said "They trained on King Kai's planet".

That didn't actually answer my question, but the conversation moved on before I could find out more.

"What about 18" the talking pig then asked me "Why isn't she here".

Mostly it was because she didn't like any of these people.

"She said that visiting an alien world was a boy's thing" I informed everyone "Plus she wanted to do some girl stuff".

Everyone accepted that as the truth. Which it partly was as 18 did plan to hang out with Bulma, who's father had taken a liking to my idea about mobile phones. He was going to invent them and share the profits. Eighteen wanted to keep an eye on the project. I figured that she was worried that I was going to get ripped off.

I had no what Bulma was getting out of this new found friendship, and since women never made any sense to me I didn't bother to try figuring it out.

"Well, their loss" stated Krillin

As he spoke the tiny warrior reached out to grab the last riceball at the same time as Master Roshi did. This started a tugging match, which only ended when the old martial arts master picked up his cane and slapped Krillin upside his head with it.

While that was going on I spent my time envying those who could eat and get some sleep. If nothing else those things were good distractions, and I could have done with some of those as it turned out space travel was actually quite boring. Even if Goku's space ship, which speed had been improved upon, took days to get to New Naamak.

Still the trip was almost over now as the planet was only 20 minutes away, which meant we should be able to see it very soon.

"Whoa" I heard Gohan whisper.

I stood up and went to the window to find out what it was that had Goku's son so transfixed. Seeing it for myself didn't explain anything as I had no understanding of what I was seeing.

"Are there two planets?" asked Yamcha

The other thing, that I had no label for, was not a planet that much I was sure about.

"Yeah, and the smaller one seems to be trying to eat the bigger one!" Krillian said.

Now that I'd had some time to study whatever the thing was, I figured it looked more like a sickness the planet was suffering from rather than a separate object. However that was just a guess.

"I don't know what it is we're dealing with" Goku said "But I don't think its friendly, and the only way we are going to find out for sure is by going down there for a closer look".

He sounded confident enough, and while I could destroy whole planets if I wished too I got the feeling that this thing, whatever the hell it happened to be, wasn't going to be easy to destroy.

(Line Break)

As soon as the ship landed we took a look around and it became clear that New Naamek had been conquered. The invaders, a force made up of dozens or perhaps even hundreds of robots, were dragging the aliens off somewhere. I didn't think it could possibly be anywhere fun.

Then when we were close enough to see details we saw that one of the Naamekians was currently attacking a robot. The alien was fast, but the metal invader snatched him from the air, and tossed the green skinned being to the ground without much trouble.

Then the robot aimed a weapon at the wounded alien. The machine fired, however the blast was knocked away from its target by Gohan, and the kid was soon joined on the ground by the rest of us.

"I am only going to say this once" stated Goku "Leave this planet, now".

Somehow I didn't think that the robots were going to just pack up and get off this world, but the Saiyan was the honourable type so he had to at least give the bad guys the chance to run away.

"The Namekian race is not yours to conquer!" Picclo then called out.

Well they looked conquered to me, but I made no comment about that.

"YEAH!" shouted Oolong.

Despite the volume of his voice the pig quickly moved to hide behind Yajirobe, who was not a great meat shield given that he was just a man.

"You're outgunned!" Yamcha then said "You'll need a whole army...".

At this point 12 more robots dropped out of the sky and aimed their sci fi weapons at us.

"I'm giving you all one last chance!" stated Goku "Leave now, or it's the scrap heap for you"

That was when that chill returned to my spine, and I knew that something far more powerful than a load of tin cans with guns was close by.

"Even if my Cyclopian Guards could say anything, do you really think they would obey you?" a voice asked.

Goku immediately recognized the metal figure that had appeared.

"Cooler!" Goku shouted in alarm.

So this was Cooler, he didn't seem to be in any way organic which made me wonder how I had some of this dude's DNA. I could only assume that he hadn't always been made out of something so shiny.

"B..but, he's dead!" Piccolo called out.

Krillin took a step back and Gohan was shaking. Clearly they had all met this Cooler fella before, and it was also obvious that they feared him.

"I should be dead" Cooler said "however fate intervened, giving me a second chance to kill you".

After a bit of silence, the robots attacked

"Scatter!" Piccolo shouted.

The tiny fighter, Krillin, was immediately grabbed, and thrown into a plateau before I could do anything to help him. Not that I was exactly motivated to aid any of them as only Goku seemed to like me that much.

"Krillin!" yelled Yamcha.

Before the guy with the scars could rush to aid the bald guy his way was blocked by three of the robots. The human warrior fired a blast of ki energy, sadly it had little effect.

"Oh fine I'll help" I muttered.

I landed on top of one of the machines and drove it into the ground hard enough that it shattered into pieces. Then I span on the spot and kicked the two other robots so hard that they ended up impacting some nearby rock formations. I didn't know if that destroyed them, but I figured that I'd evened up the odds enough that the mere humans wouldn't die so soon.

Then I took a look around. I saw that Piccolo and Gohan were able to do more than take care of themselves, or at least that was the case until the machines started to work together.

The robots all fought as a team, which made me suspect that were being controlled by a powerful computer that was distance away rather by then some sort of internal CPU.

"Hey Sixteen are these robots connected to a network by any chance?" I asked.

An answer wasn't long in coming.

::Affirmative::

I smiled.

"See if you mess it up" I said "You know jam it or hack it, or whatever".

I was reminded then about my need to learn more about technology.

::Working::

If Sixteen anything else to say I couldn't afford to listen as this was when I saw that Piccolo was about to get blasted into pieces. Since I wanted to earn the trust of Earth's defenders, if only so they'd leave me alone, I decided to help him out. To this I formed two spheres of ki energy, one in each hand, and then I blew up a couple of robots.

::I Am Unable To Disrupt The Network::

Well that disappointing, however it wasn't too worrying as the tide of battle was already turning against the robots.

Then I turned my eye upon the big bad to see what that metal guy was up to. Son Goku and Cooler were still staring at each other in total silence, but the ground around them was starting to crumble. Their anger for each other was plain to see and so was the fact that they were both gathering a lot of energy.

Since I knew the whole powering up thing would take a while I was able to spend a few moments checking on everyone else, but not before I trashed a couple of robots who had decided that I was now a valid target.

When I was free my attention turned to Master Roshi and Yajirobe who currently only had three robots to worry about. My intention at first had been to rush in and save them, only now I wanted to see what they would do so I stopped myself.

Master Roshi used what I guessed to a pressure point technique, one of the robots simply fell apart and ended up littering the ground. Yajirobe used his sword and focused all his energy into one slash. This act cut the second robot in half. Finally I blasted the third machine as it had been in the process of grabbing the talking pig.

"Gothic get up here I need help!" Piccolo called out.

Since he didn't call me Twenty-One I decided that he'd earned my aid.

"Be there in a second" I replied.

As I moved I saw Piccolo take off his weighted turban and cape, before he turned to Goku's brat.

"No more holding back" the green guy ordered.

It might seem foolish that they had not devoted everything they had to the battle, however it was actually a very smart thing to do as no matter how powerful they had became they all had a limited amount of energy. So holding back at the start meant they had reserves to call upon later should their enemy prove to be more powerful than expected, or in case should their foes have backup.

This was one of the times when the whole backup thing proved to be a problem. Even more robots were turning up. Perhaps even too many for us to deal with, at least not without taking some losses.

That was when I sensed something and I turned to see that Gohan's hair was turning gold, and that his eyes were now glowing green. He was going Super Saiyan, and judging by the sheer amount of power I could feel he was also going for Super Saiyan 2. The kid was not messing about.

"Help" someone else called.

I turned to see Krillin who was backed into a corner by more than ten of the killer robots

"You go help him" Piccolo said to me "Gohan and I will deal with the rest of this trash".

I really wanted a good fight now, and taking on a whole army of machine minions seemed like fun, but having Krillan owe me his life might be a good thing should I need a favour one day.

"Fine" I said

In short order I attacked the ten robots.

"Hey you metal bastards!" I shouted.

As I moved I saw the tiny fighter charge the robots. He was brave, but each blow he made had little to no effect. Even when Yamcha jumped in he just got slapped to the ground, and as the scarred fighter tried to recover, another robot kicked him in the ribs.

I grabbed that robot and crushed its skull with my bare hands before kicking its body into the air. Next I blasted the other droids, so that those left turned to attack me. I deafeated them in short and I found the whole thing to be far too easy.

"Hey buddy how you doing?" I heard Krillin ask his friend "Are your ribs broken?"

Before the other fighter could answer the bald guy was handing over one of those magic beans they all used for quick healing.

"I wish I was back home, but thanks for asking" Yamcha replied.

Judging by the way they spoke to each other it was obvious that they had been friends for a long time.

"I so glad I'm not the only one who thinks that!" Krillin said with a laugh. "So what now?"

Piccolo and golden Gohan landed next to us, and they both looked rather worried about something.

"We've got incoming" the Green guy warned.

I couldn't sense the machines, but I had eyes so I was at least able to see them coming. They landed in groups of three and pretty soon there were more than thirty of things standing before us. Then they started to arrive in groups of thirty, so I figured that we'd soon be fighting hundreds of robots at this rate.

"Great there's more of them!" whimpered Krillin

I for one wasn't worried.

"Okay everyone I have a plan" I said "Someone needs to fly over them and distract the robots while the rest of use the Kamehameha".

It was the only way we'd be able to take out hundreds of the war machines before they overwhelmed even me.

"Let me be the diversion" the green guy insisted

That worked for me, and as soon the robots were all trying to blast Piccolo out of the sky. While this was going on the rest of us charged up and soon a tidal wave of ki energy washed the robots away.