Author Note

Over the last month or so I've had some more messages encouraging me to write an anime fanfic.

Since I finally got around to watching Dragonball Z I thought I'd do a sample chapter. The androids are my favourite character so I decided that his Gothic will become a cyborg.

Cyborg Gothic

Sample Chapter

"Where...am I?" I asked.

That was the first thing I said, but it wasn't the first thing I did. Before I'd even inquired about my location I'd already found out what had happened to me. As soon as I'd wanted to know the information had just popped into my head, like it had been locked in the back of my mind somewhere and then let out.

I'd been brought to this dimension by some mysterious being who had been working with a mad scientist called Dr. Gero. The brilliant, and oh so insane, man had spent years of his life turning people into what he called Androids. Which was wrong because many of his creations still had organic parts, and that meant that they were Cyborgs.

To my surprise I too was part machine, and even odder than that my DNA had been modified. So I was also part alien, although I didn't have tail. Which was something to be happy about.

"A-Another android?!" some purple-haired guy shouted out in what sounded like panic "What else is different in this time line?!"

I knew nothing about the young man who currently very upset. Which made me want to find out more.

"Who are you?" I asked him.

It wasn't him who answered.

"I am your creator" Dr. Gero needlessly reminded me "I gave you life".

Well he had not given me life my parents had done that, and I hadn't been talking to him anyway. I knew who he was as I had a loads of information about him going through my brain. If just a tenth of it was true then Gero needed to die, as he was a monster.

"Huh" I then said "I...don't really remember my own life"

Well that wasn't completely true. There were bits of pieces, and it all seemed to be as boring as fuck. Honestly getting turned into a cyborg who also happened to have alien DNA was actually rather interesting when compared to what came before. Although I was pretty sure that I should be freak out about the whole thing.

The movements of the others then forced me to pay more attention to what was going on. I looked to see Androids Seventeen and Eighteen who were both also actually cyborgs.

I had loads of data on those two. I knew that either of them alone were no match for me, but combined they could end my existence. With this in mind I figured it would be a good idea to stay on their good side.

Seventeen was smiling about something and I guessed his mirth was due to the fact that he held a deactivation controller in hand. Which was good because the doctor, or someone else, could have easily switched us all off with that unimportant looking device.

"Give that back!" Gero demanded.

For some reason I didn't think that Seventeen was going to do that.

"You mean this?" the dark haired cyborg said with what passed for an innocent smile on this face "I think I'll hold onto it"

The cyborg then started to squeeze, exerting great amounts of pressure. The metal and plastic that made up the device shattered. Destroying the sturdy remote had been no trouble for Seventeen than crushing a chicken egg.

"No!" the doctor exclaimed

Gero lunged at his project, desperate to save his precious controller, but it was too little, too late

"Do you have any idea how long it took for me to create that?!" Gero asked of Seventeen.

I assumed the question didn't require an answer.

"Not really, no." Seventeen replied with a shrug.

The two 'Androids' then turned their attention to me. They didn't seem at all worried about anyone else.

"Hey, buddy" Seventeen greeted in a friendly way "I guess you're one of Gero's newer models".

I had no idea what to say to them as while I knew a little about them they were in fact total strangers to me.

"Not one for words, are you" Seventeen commented.

Normally I could be chatty, however I was still rather confused. There were some people here staring at us and two part machine people acting as if they didn't have a care in the world. However I was pretty sure that the people currently staring at us wanted to harm us.

"Let me try, Seventeen" said Eighteen.

She was Seventeen's twin sister, and kinda cute.

"Hey, Twenty-One" she greeted.

I couldn't help check her out. Blondes were normally trouble in my experience, although not as bad as red heads, yet her confidence combined with her body made her attractive.

"He's kinda cute" Eighteen then said.

I'd just thought that about her. That was weird, and also I'd never thought of myself as cute. Rugged in a handsome way perhaps, but never cute, not since I was a kid.

"Thank you" I told her.

It had seemed polite to reply to the complement.

"So you can speak" Eighteen then said, sounding overjoyed. "I was beginning to think Dr. Gero forgot to give you a voice box"

Actually my voice box was only partly a machine. My internal files told me that the tech used to make me a cyborg was extremely advanced, and therefore nearly all of me could pass for organic. But I would have problems boarding a plane as I'd set off metal dectors.

"Twenty-One!" Gero then ordered "Kill the allies of Son Goku! Now!"

Now that he'd said a name the information about this 'Son Goku' along with his known associates was mine to access. In theory I could defeat this Goku and any of his friends, but I had no real desire to. I was far more interested in finding out what my new body could do.

Also I was annoyed with the evil doctor because 21 was not my name, it was the physical age of this body for some reason, but that was the only connection I had to that number.

"That is not my name" I stated.

My real name was still known to me, but according to my files my other creator had a different title in mind for me.

"You are Android Twenty-One!" Gero shouted "Now perform the task you were created for".

I still had human free will. I could chose not to obey orders.

"My name is Gothic" I told the doctor "And I am not an android".

I was a cyborg. I was not a machine. I was still a person. One who just happened to have a high metal content.

"You dare disobey me" Gero said with anger in his voice "Perform your function and dispose of them immediately!"

I had no purpose. My programming gave me options, but there was nothing in my head that compelled me to do anything.

"And why should I listen to you?" I asked the mad man "What's in it for me?".

I had a whole new life now so he if was willing to pay then I'd kill people. The idea of murdering didn't bother me anymore, and neither did I have any real desire to end lives. So I would need something to motivate me.

"What?" Gero asked back.

Before the doctor could say anything else an arm erupted out his chest. It was like the scene out of Alien movie.

I was only slightly less surprised than Gero to find out that Seventeen had decided to go ahead and destroy our creator.

"How...How dare you!" the insane genius said with his dying breathes "I created you!"

I wondered if his partner in mad science would have taken offence to that had he been here to hear those words spoke.

"You're not giving the orders anymore" Seventeen informed Gero

Then the dark haired cyborg then turned to me.

"You can kill him, if you want to, Twenty-One" he offered.

I gave the cyborg a glare.

"My name is Gothic" I told him

Also I was called Android-X in some of my files. I had no idea.

"Sorry, Gothic" Seventeen corrected himself "Do you want to kill him?"

I mulled it over.

"You know what I think I just might take you up on that kind offer" I told Seventeen.

The guy had been abducting people, and while some of them had become powerful beings the vast majority had died in many different nasty ways. All because Gero, who was still hanging onto life, had wanted revenge on this Son Goku fellow. Who hadn't done anything wrong as far my files told me.

So I then decided to kill the doctor and without warning I lunged forward and soon I had Gero's throat in my grasp. Next I slammed Gero into the concrete floor of the lab hard enough to dash the man's brains out, which he still had in a case of some sort under a hat.

The purple-haired guy looked about ready to snap at this point, and I had no idea why. He was taking this all very personally, however I had no idea who he was because he wasn't in my files.

I then glanced over my shoulder. I saw that Seventeen and Eighteen investigating another of those coffin things. This one bore the number Sixteen and again my files popped into my head. Sixteen was a real android, not a cyborg like Seventeen, Eighteen and myself.

"Let's open it" Seventeen decided.

I was good with that. No one, machine or not, should remain sealed away in a pod.

"Fine be me" Eighteen said as she reached for the catch that would open the pod's door "Lets see what else Gero made".

I too wanted to see as my files didn't tell me what sixteen looked like.

"Um...guys?" one of the on lookers, Krillin my mind told me, was now saying to the others "Shouldn't we do something?"

For some reason they were still just standing around, and this gave me ample time to study them. They were Vegeta, Tien, Piccolo, and Krillin. But still I had no idea who the purple-haired guy was, the only thing I knew about him was that he didn't like me. Actually I knew two things, about him. I was going to steal his cool looking sword.

"Now there are four androids!" sword guy shouted in rage "No, no, no, no, this can't be happening!".

Then some sort of golden energy enveloped the guy and he used his super powers to trigger a massive explosion. Gero's lab was blown to pieces however no was one hurt, even our clothes remained more or less intact. Also I oddly found myself floating, in the air

"Eighteen, are you going to open it or not?" Seventeen complained.

Neither of them seemed to even care that someone had just tried to kill us.

"Fine!" she replied with a huff "Don't be such an impatient brat"

The blonde cyborg threw the pod to the ground. The occupant within did not react in anyway however, at least not until Eighteen pressed a button on the side of the pod. The lid slowly opened, but she had no patience so she kicked it right off.

"Father!" I heard the purple-haired guy cry out "What are you doing?! We have to retreat!"

That would be wise of them as the red headed android was now waking up, or logging on, or whatever.

"Stay out of this, Trunks!" the prince of no one and nothing at all shouted back "This is my fight".

Given that this guy had tried to destroy this version of Earth I had no problem ending him as well. He was more a bad guy then even Gero.

"Trunks I'm taking your sword" I told the purple-haired guy "It can be over your dead body or...

The Prince did not like me paying attention to someone else, and he cut me off.

"Nice try Android!" Vegteta said "But you are going to fight me not the boy, and I'm going to crush you. Nothing can stand against the might of a Super Saiyan!"

He was so wrong about that.

"Okay if you want to die then come at me bro" I replied "But don't say I didn't warn you".

Without hesitation Vegeta launched himself right at me as he did that he become all golden too. Only he was still slower than me, and I was easily able to dodge his attack.

"Stop dancing and face me coward!" the prince of nothing ordered.

I was processing everything with frightening speed. Every punch, every kick, and every energy blast I was able to dodge in such a way as to conserve my own power while Vegeta was tiring himself out.

When the alien spent a moment ranting at me I took the opportunity to hit the Prince of Saiyan in the face with one hand and then using my other fist to hurt Vegeta's stomach.

The attack brought the elite fighter to his knees and his hair stopped being golden.

"Father!" Trunks called out.

I was just thinking that Vegeta couldn't be old enough to have a fully grown son, only I never got a chance to inquire about that as now all the fighters were rushing at me.

"Help!" I called out.

I could be trouble.