Genetically Mutated

Chapter Twenty-five

"SAY GOODNIGHT LEKIRA!" Orx shouted as he threw his hand forward. Areiko's body throbbed as her eyes flickered a teal color. Then a bright yellow light engulfed Areiko and Orx's attack.

Orx smirked thinking that he had won watching as the attack exploded. He started to laugh insanely till he heard someone's voice behind him.

"GOODNIGHT LEKIRA!"

Orx's eyes widened as he turned around. His stomach was thenblasted with a fire looking ki beam. Orx yelped in pain as he was blasted backwards. His body skid across the ground coming to a slow stop. He shook for the first time in pain. He slowly lifted up his head looking at his attacker.

The first thing he spotted was Areiko's cut up, bloody looking, bare feet. Yellow ki flared around her legs as he slowly moved his eyes upward looking at her body seeing how damaged it was from her skinburning away. His eyes widened when he came face to face with Areiko.

Her eyes were no longer their icy gray color nor were they blank. They were teal. Her soft brown hair had disappeared. Her hair was now spiked up and blonde. The roar of the yellow energy around her could be heard for miles and beyond as she stood there tightly clenching her fists.

Orx's eyes widened in fear. The creation he had created so long ago was not only dying, but it had became a super saiyan. He didn't think that it was possible for her to obtain that form since she really wasn't a saiyan. But, just like all the times before with different people, the mother of assumptions is the mother of all mess ups. But Areiko's transformation gave Orx a slight lead. Of course, since she was a super saiyan she was stronger then him. But since her body was decaying, sizzling, and burning away, the transformation only sped up the process of her body's death. Therefore giving Orx the upper hand at life.

He slowly got to his feet. Areiko gave him a death glare as she kept her eyes locked on him as he held his right arm that was bleeding. He huffed and puffed staring at the transformed creation. The small portion of his mouth smirked, and his only eye closed as he started to laugh.

Areiko didn't say word as she turned her body slightly to face him fully. "Do you want to know why I'm laughing my dear creation?"

Areiko stayed silent keeping her eyes locked on him.

"You may be stronger then me. But I have the upper hand at life." Orx removed his hand from his arm as he opened his eye. "You see, since your body is decaying, your super saiyan transformation is only speeding up the process, which means I have a better chance at living then you do."

Areiko kept her eyes locked on him. She knew perfectly well that Orx was right. She realized thatwhen she blasted Orx away; her body was in tremendous pain. Something that she has never felt before. It was like her body was imploding. But Areiko knew for her to beat Orx she had to with stand the pain, with stand the struggle, andwith stand the madness of this man before her.

"Does this face look like it gives two shits?"

Orx smirked at her, "it will when I win."

"The day you win is the day hell freezes over!"

"My dear, hell froze over when I landed on this doomed planet!"

Orx and Areiko charged at each other, colliding forearms. The two of them kept their eyes locked on each other as their arms started to hurt and burn the more they pressed against each other. Areiko's right eyebrow twitched from the pain as Orx's mouth did the same.

Areiko suddenly pulled herself away unable to bear the pain anymore. Orx threw his hand forward. Areiko ducked and slammed her fist into his stomach. Orx stumbled back but stayed on his feet. He looked up at Areiko as she came at him. Areiko punched his face throwing him into the ground. She then pounded her knee into his side breaking a few ribs. Orx let out a scream as he threw his hand forward blasting Areiko in her midsection.

But at the last second, Areiko teleported. She then reappeared behind him grabbing onto his hair. She swung him in circles and then let him go. She then got herself ready for her ultimate attack.

Areiko pulled her hands to her sides getting down low to the ground, basically putting herself into the Kamehameha stance. Orx did a few flips in the air coming to a complete stop looking down at Areiko. Her glaring teal eyes connected with his own freezing his body as if he was paralyzed.

Areiko lowered her eyebrows cringing her face. Energy started to form in her cupped hands pushing them away from each other. The energy swirled as it started to shine orange like fire. Areiko gritted her teeth trying to stay in control of the energy that she was twisting and altering in her hands.

"Fire…"

Orx's eyes widened at the power that this energy held. He couldn't believe what Areiko was doing. She was completely altering the energy flow in her body to make it more powerful. He's never seen anything like it before till now. He smirked knowing that he did prefect the ultimate saiyan being.

"Fire…" Areiko repeated. The energy in her hands bulged getting wider and got morepowerful as she repeated the word fire once more. Now the energy in her hands was about the size of her torso. "Ka… me… ha…"

Orx's eyes widened as he shook his head. "You wouldn't dare!" he shouted at her withhis voice echoing. "You launch that attack it's possible that you'll kill us both!"

Areiko smirked. "Point?" Areiko turned her head looking at her hands. The first layer of skin was gone showing a darker color. She then turned her head looking up at Orx. "Me… HAAAAH!"

Areiko threw her hands upward. The attack bursted from her hands lunging at Orx. The power of the beam threw Areiko's feet into the ground. Orx held out his hands catching the attack. Areiko continued to repeat the words 'fire kamehameha' perfecting her own Kamehameha Wave, something called Fire Kamehameha Wave.

"NOOOO!"

Orx's scream faded as anexplosion engulfed the whole area including Areiko.

Goku's eyes widened as he felt an enormous ki rise and explode into nothing. Chichi and Bulma looked at Goku as he stood there staring at the lookout's deck. Vegeta felt it as well. His eyes widened as he pushed himself off of the wall. He lowered his arms from his chest. He turned running to the front of the building looking at Goku.

"Kakkarot."

Goku turned his head looking at Vegeta. The look on the saiyans' faces turned serious as their wives still sat there and pondered about what was going on.

"Guys," Bulma started looking at them. "What's going on?"

"We'll be right back." Goku said as the two saiyans kept their eyes locked on each other.

"But—" Bulma didn't bother to finish her sentence. The two saiyan's teleported off to the battlefield to check on everything.

Vegeta and Goku appeared there in the air. Their eyes widened to the sight before them. There was nothing there. There was only a gigantic crater laying in the ground where the explosion took place. Everything around it was gone or on fire from the shockwaves. There was also no sight of Orx… or Areiko.

"REIKO!" Goku called out cupping his hands around his mouth forming a horn. "AREIKO! WHERE ARE YOU?"

Vegeta looked around trying to find any sign of life. But there was nothing. No movements, no ki readings, nothing. The area was empty. The wind started to blow blowing the dust that had rested on the battlefield into the air. When the dust lifted into the air, a few spots of blood could be seen. Some of it was in smears from someone being thrown against the ground.

The prince looked at the lower class ranked saiyan as he looked around for Areiko. Vegeta knew that if Areiko turned up dead, it was going to take a toll on his ally. Goku and Areiko were really close; they were even closer to each other then Aya and himself. Vegeta might not want to admit it but he didn't want to see Goku go through the same pain that he's going through at this very moment over Aya's death. But the saiyan prince knew that he would have to accept Aya's death and Goku would have to accept Areiko's.

"Kakkarot…" Vegeta called as he continued to watch him.

"Areiko! Areiko! If you can hear me please! Give me some kind of sign that you're alive!"

"Kakkarot!" Vegeta shouted loudly. Goku turned his head looking at him. Vegeta sighed deeply as he looked at his ally. "I'm going to be blunt about this since there's no other way of putting it." Vegeta started, "Areiko… she could be dead."

"No." Goku said in completedenial. "I'm not accepting Areiko being dead till I see a body!"

"There might not be!" Vegeta shouted. "Take a look around you Kakkarot. Look at the damage that attack had created."

Goku looked around him at the emptiness of the area. Dust continued to raise and fall with the wind. Blood smears on the ground worried Goku a little bit as he turned his head looking at Vegeta once again.

"Her body could've dissolved in the attack along with Orx's." Vegeta said looking at him straight in the eye. "Kakkarot, just because there's no body doesn't mean she's alive."

Goku looked to the side looking at the ground as he began to think that Areiko was dead. Tears whelmed up in his eyes as he tried his hardest to hold them back. But a few tears escaped his eyes. Vegeta looked at him. He then hehimself turned his head; kind of giving Goku the honor to cry over Areiko.

"Kakkarot…"

"I know Vegeta." Goku said wiping his eyes as he turned his eyes looking at the saiyan prince as the prince did the same. "Don't worry about it."

Rustle. Rustle.

Vegeta and Goku's good saiyan hearing picked up a rustling noise in the distance. They glanced around. The noise continued as if there were rocks being shifted around the place. Goku then turned around looking behind him as Vegeta looked over his shoulder to see in the distance a pile of rubble and rocks.

Small pieces of the debris fell as something underneath it moved. Suddenly, Goku's hopes sky rocketed hoping that would be Areiko. He hoped that Areiko was the one underneath those rocks. He hoped that the girl he had come to known as his daughter would be alive.

A rock began to lift up. A small smile appeared on Goku's face as he watched closely. But what had emerged from underneath the rock put both the low rank warrior and the prince in a state of shock.

Coming out of the rubble and debris was Orx. He was almost untouched. The only thing that was wrong with him were the wounds that he had sustained from Areiko during the fight and his disfigured face. His clothes looked like they took the most damage.

Orx placed his hand onto his head and shook it a little shaking the dizziness out of him. When he stood upright, his body began to tilt backwards. But Orx caught his balance only stumbling a little bit. He looked at his hands to make sure that he was alive. He then turned his head and looked at Goku and Vegeta who stood there wide eyed and in disbelief.

Vegeta and Goku couldn't believe what they were seeing. Orx was alive! That powerful attack that Areiko had launched did nothing. It didn't even bruise or burn him. They began to think that there was no stopping this man from doing anything. They almost lost hope at that very moment when they realized that Orx was still alive. They just couldn't believe the fact that he was alive and that he managed to walk away from that attack without even a scratch.

Orx smirked as he started to laugh madly. "MUWHAHAHAHA!"

Goku and Vegeta continued to stare in horror. As he laughed, his power sky rocketed. His ki now read well over Goku's Super Saiyan three transformation. Orx looked straight ahead at the shocked saiyans and began to approachthem without even a limp in his walk.

"Well, well, well." Orx began coming to a stop a few yards away from the saiyans. "I thought I was dead there for a minute. Lekira is amazing is she not?"

Goku and Vegeta stared, without answering.

Orx's smirk widened as far as it could go. "Amazing. She managed to kill herself with her own attack."

Goku smirked. "Not before disfiguring your face."

Orx growled. "SHUT UP YOU PIECE OF SAIYAN TRASH!" Orx vanished. Goku was suddenly hit in his stomach. He got thrown backwards bouncing off of the ground. Orx appeared in front of him in the air. Goku's eyes widened at the speed that he gave off. But Vegeta turned and threw a ki ball at Orx's back getting him good. Orx was thrown over Goku's head. He tumbled and came to a stop on his feet as he turned his head looking at Vegeta.

Vegeta stood there glaring at Orx. Orx smirked as he then pushed his body forward gliding through the air heading towards Vegeta. Vegeta thrusted his elbows back automatically getting into his super saiyan form. Then Orx was right in front of his face. The two of them then got locked in a fight made up with a series of fast punches and kicks.

Vegeta was hit every time. Even when he tired his hardest to dodge or block. Orx powered up a blast in his hand as he thrusted his arm forward placing it against Vegeta's chest. Vegeta's eyes widened as he was thrown back skidding across the dirt flinging dust into the air. Orx then threw his fist downwards into Vegeta's stomach throwing him deep within the crust of the earth.

The prince fell to his normal form passing out from the blow to his stomach. Orx looked into the crater hovering above the ground a few inches. He then placed his feet onto the dirt smirking as he looked at the prince laying there. He held his palm towards him as a black blast started to form.

"ORX!"

Orx turned his head. Suddenly Goku slammed his fist into Orx's bottom jaw. His jaw snapped as he was thrown to the ground. Goku placed his feet on the spot where Orx once stood. He watched as his enemy started to stand.

Orx turned facing Goku. His bottom jaw hung low touching his upper chest a little bit. Goku's pupils dilated as he watched Orx grab a hold of his disfigured jaw snapping it back into place. He then clamped his teeth together making sure that he got his jaw back into its joints right. He then cracked his neck and rolled his shoulders cracking those as well.

"Nicely done Goku." Orx said rotating his jaw a little bit more. "I've never taken such a hard hit in my life. No one has ever knocked my jaw out of place."

"Are you giving me an award for it?" Goku asked coldly glaring. "I would love to have one."

"Oh I bet you do." Orx smirked. "But sadly you won't be getting one."

"Will you give me one if I do it again?"

"Keyword on that sentence my friend is 'if'."

"I'm not your friend!" Goku shouted clenching his fists. Orx smirked.

"Well, what am I supposed to call you? You did take care of my daughter for two years."

"She's NOT your daughter." Goku stated coldly as a growl escaped his throat.

"Then whose daughter is she?"

"Mine." Goku answered truthfully as he lunged forward. With a burst of energy he powered up to super saiyan three throwing his fist forward. Orx grabbed onto his hand gripping it tightly digging his nails into his skin.

The right side of Goku's mouth twitched in pain as he then swung up his leg. Orx lifted up his other hand grabbing a hold of his ankle. Goku's eyes widened spotting Orx's smirk on his face.

'This is bad…' Goku thought.

Orx then lifted him above his head. He then began to pull down on his arm and leg arching Goku's back making an upside down U. Goku started screaming. Every time Orx yanked down harder, Goku's back cracked loudly. He clenched his eyes shut tightly as he continued to scream. Goku knew that if someone didn't save him. Orx was going to snap his body in half.

"DAAAD!"

Suddenly, Goten came out of nowhere in his super saiyan form punching Orx right across his face. Trunks then appeared in front of the enemy holding his hands out in front of him.

"BUSTER CANNON!"

Orx was blasted by a dark blue beam. He let go of Goku dropping him onto the ground as he went flying backwards. Once Goku was saved, Trunks turned sliding down the crater that his father rested in getting to his dad's side. Goten knelt down by his own father helping him sit up slowly since his back was throbbing in pain.

"You alright dad?" Goten asked looking at his father's dusty looking face.

Goku opened one eye turning it to look at his son who was still in bandages. "Yeah… but I want you to get out of here."

"Can't do that dad." Goten stated shaking his head. Goku opened his other eye looking at his son.

"Why not?"

"Because we were asked by mom and Chichi to come and help you guys out." Came Trunks voice as he carried his father – who was now conscious – up and out of the crater.

Goku blinked, "Bulma and Chichi asked you to help us?"

"That doesn't sound like the onnas we know." Vegeta said pulling away from hisson and wrapping his arm around his stomach.

"Well, they wanted us to help," Goten started to explain as he helped his father up. "They knew that something was wrong when you guys just teleported off the way you did. And they told us right there and then that we should get ready and come down to help."

"How touching."

Vegeta, Trunks, Goku, and Goten turned their heads in the direction of Orx as he stood up like nothing happened.

"Fathers and sons together." Orx smirked. "Now that you're all here, I can kill you all at once!"