Hey there everyone, Happy new year to all of you in 2019! This is the 3rd year of this story and I hope to continue this story for more years to come (and considering my pacing, I'm not sure if I'm going to finish the Artificial Humans Saga until September of this year and maybe beyond). I want to thank all of your time that you give me by reading this story, which starts rather horribly (dumpster fire really) and got better as time went on. This arc right now is more planned than those before it and from here on out I actually have ideas and scenes actually in my head.
So I hope you all continue to read my story, and maybe leave a comment or so, since 1 review each chapter makes me a bit sad. Yeah, I know, I'm kinda ungrateful right now, but I still want to read what you think about my newer chapters of the Androids/Cell Saga of this story.
Anyway, let's get into the chapter.
Chapter 49: Cybernetic Adventures!
Artificial Humans Saga Part 2: The Rise of Cell- Part 3
[Musical Cue #1: Opening- Chase by batta (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Opening 2)]
[Musical Cue #2:One Winged Angel]
[Musical Cue #3: Ending- Monster by Skillet]
It was now sunset after what could be the longest and most surprise-filled day of the Z-Fighters. Three different fights throughout the day, with so many of their opponents being the victor. And the worst thing was the fact that now they were fighting each other, or at least two of them were while a third tried to stop them.
Clashing above in the sky, creating blasts of sound and air with every clash were the two Super Saiyans, desperately trying to rip the other's head off. Vegeta sent a powerful haymaker towards his former subordinate, who blocked the punch with his forearm a second before the punch connected, making a powerful shockwave that echoed with a loud "BOOM!" sound, pushing the two backwards in the air.
Raising their hands and charging energy in their palms, both golden-hired fighters fired a large volley of golden ki blasts, which clashed all over the sky as it was colored in the vibrant, powerful golden hue of the energy emitted by the two Saiyan fighters. The ground shook as well from the forces clashing in the sky as the entire Z-Fighters group shielded their eyes. All except Piccolo, who was radiating with powerful crimson hue that contrasted beautifully against the golden curtain as he was flying at insane speed towards his two allies.
He first reached Bryco, disappearing and reappearing behind the taller of the Super Saiyans, who stopped firing his volley of ki blasts as he noticed the Namekian behind him, only to turn slightly and be rammed with an elbow strike to the head that sent him plummeting down to the ground so fast that it took merely a second for him to impact it with a deafening "BOOM!" sound that also created an explosion of dust which rose to the air, while a shockwave created by the impact sent the rest of the defenders of Earth flying.
Without wasting any time as he noticed that his elbow was now broken and crumbled to dust by the force of the Kaioken x20 while all the area around it was splashing with purple blood flying everywhere and no skin at that area, the reincarnation of the evil half of Earth's guardian disappeared, moving at incredible speed that the shorter Super Saiyan couldn't even perceive him as he was looking down to see what the hell just happened, allowing the green-skinned fighter to appear next to the prince and slap him so hard with the damaged arm that everything below the crumbled elbow flew off it's place after hitting the flame-haired fighter, sending said fighter flying backwards while spewing a large amount of blood from his mouth.
Finishing the little scuffle, Piccolo appeared where Vegeta was flying towards, headbutting him so hard that he also was sent plummeting down to the ground with the speed and velocity as Bryco, creating an explosion so powerful that it created a large shockwave upon impact.
After hitting the prince of all Saiyans down to the ground, Piccolo allowed the technique to dissipate and leave his system. However, the moment he did, he screamed in anguish and agony as his muscles were torn apart throughout all of his body, cramping to a breaking point before tearing up into small pieces, making his limbs unmovable stumps of flesh, while his bones smashed into dust with "BRAFF!", "CRACK!" and "VRISH!" sounds echoing all inside his body, his enhanced hearing noticing every little sound of bone breaking, blood vessel popping up or a muscle tearing itself apart from inside his body.
This went on for maybe 10 seconds at most, but for the Namekian warrior it felt like an eternity of pain as he had lost all of his skin on his legs and left hand, which were now nothing but motionless limbs covered in purple blood. He then fell down from the sky quickly, plummeting down to the ground, hitting it with a loud "THUD!" sound as blood spread everywhere from his body on where his body hit, surrounded by large craters inside a gigantic crater which was filling with lava.
It didn't take long, but the Z-Fighters quickly flew to where their allies and Vegeta landed, picking them up before they become nothing but bones to the unwavering heat of the lava in the crater which used to be Ginger Town. Putting them somewhere distance from where the fight with Cell was, Krillin gave all three warriors a senzu bean, or more like an entire one to Kami's "evil" half and half a senzu to both Super Saiyans, who were staggered from the blow that each received.
Immediately standing up, the other half of Earth's guardian regenerated whatever he had lost from using the Kaioken up to times twenty. 'Dammit, that hurt like hell. Even with my regeneration, this was incredibly self destructive. Now I realize King Kai's warning to the humans about raising it to the same levels as Goku.' he thought to himself as he panted and sweated with effort.
"Well, from what I saw in your memory, King Kai did warn that the greater someone's power level increases, thus the greater the strain that the Kaioken does, right?" Nail asked as he tried to continue the line of thought for the one who absorbed his essence into his own body.
He grumbled as he mentally agreed with the fighter in his head while he walked towards the of the group, who were surrounding the two injured Saiyans, who were sitting with their back facing the other's as they seemed angry and had blood running from the lower lips, in Bryco's case, and from the forehead, in Vegeta's case.
"You two are idiots! Starting a fight over a grudge when we have bigger problems is childish and stupid!" the green-skinned alien shouted at the two warriors as he ground his teeth angrily, with the two Saiyans grumbling silently. "Now apologies!" he shouted angrily at the two of them, with the rest of the Z group to back off from the anger of the Namekian.
"Go to hell Namekian!" Vegeta shouted angrily while glaring at the "evil" half of Earth's guardian, who just punched the flame-haired prince in the face, making him spit blood and knocking him down once again on the ground.
Bryco growled. "Sorry Piccolo, but I'm not apologizing to someone who killed my comrade, who watched over us for twenty years!" he shouted angrily as he also was suddenly punched in the face, knocking him to the ground as well.
The bald former monk then spoke up. "Well, sorry to tell you Bryco, but that guy killed most of our friends, so we can't really feel bad for him." he said while shrugging his shoulders and laughing nervously, beads of sweat appearing on his brow.
"Well whatever!" the Namekian shouted as he materialized his clothes back on his frame as he rose to the air. "We're going back to the lookout to get several hours! Then we go look after Cell! We know his M.O. and he will pop up his head. Once he does, we find him and snuff him out!" he explained his new plan that he just came up with to the rest of the team. Then he pointed at the two full-blooded Saiyan warriors. "But don't give them senzu beans! Let them heal the wounds of their foolishness!" he screamed angrily as he flew away from everyone else.
That moment the rest of the group looked up at the Namekian, who was flying farther and farther from them. Even Trunks was shocked, which wasn't something new considering all the glorious amount of idiotic decisions he heard about today.
"Huh, who knew he could lead?" the former bandit with the scarred face said aloud as everyone looked up into the sky.
[Musical Cue #1: Opening- Chase by batta]
Darkness. All that was surrounding him was darkness. Everything was black. Nothing appeared in his vision. This was creepy, as he felt a chill going down his spine. He looked to the left and to the right, he turned around and looked back, seeing only bleak darkness.
'What is this? What is going on? Is this a dream?' he thought to himself as he was floating in that darkness as he felt coldness throughout his body and he felt something warm and wet covering him. The texture and warmth of it indicate that he was covered with blood. Why was he covered by blood?!
Suddenly he heard a voice, if only a silent echo growing slowly louder and louder within the darkness. He didn't recognize the voice, but he could feal some sort of bad feeling from it, like the owner was mentally unbalanced or unhinged, making him very concerned.
"Hello! Is anyone there?" he asked as his own voice echoed across the darkness, slowly fading away as he turned around, freaking out at his cold, scary environment of nothingness he was floating inside.
He then heard the voice again, but this time it was more clear in his ears. The sound was high pitched and sad, but it the same time it was laughing. The unusual laughing in such high pitch gave him the impression that it moght by an hyena, but then there was suddenly a white light blasting at his face, causing him to close his eyes to protect them from that blinding light.
When he opened his eyes to see a rocky terrain in front of him, surrounding him even. It has black clouds that poured lightining everywhere, with nothing but tall hills around him, with him standing at the top of one. "What is this place? What is going on?" he said to himself as he looked everywhere around him with a sense of uneasiness to his figure.
[Begin Musical Cue #2]
Then, once again, he felt the warm and wet feeling around his body, as he looked at his hands, and what he saw was blood. Red, red, purple and more red covered his hands as he screamed in terror as lightning struck in front of him, sending a blinding light that blinded his eyes and made him grind his teeth.
Then the laughter roared in his ears and echoed. A hyena with a voice that radiates a monstrous intent of destruction, but also a broken sadness. It was strange to him, as if he was feeling those emotions righ at this moment.
Then the blinding light disappeared after a few seconds and he could open his eyes again, which he immediately regretted. In front of him he saw bodies, loads and loads of bodies. Corpses filled with blood and mutilated till they were barely recognizable. He looked around in horror as he felt the blood flowing down his face, hands and entire body while he looked around him, recognizing every corpse he saw.
The first one he saw was that of his father and mother, Their faces mangled into thingness, with only their height and hairstyle making them recognizable to him. His body shook as tears ran down his cheek, melding with the blood as he screamed in terror. He tried to move but realized that his body was fighting against his will.
He looked at another direction, recognizing the bodies of Piccolo because of the corpse's green skin and it was more horrid looking that that of his beloved parents. Many limbs have been torn off its body as there were holes throughout the torso that showed that small fists impaled the Namekian fighter. Worst of all was the purple mash that used to be the head, showing signs as if it was punched until the brain itself turned to a puddle of blood.
The he looked on and on around him, feeling wind hitting his face and pushing his hair back. He looked around, seeing more ad more bodies of his friends mutilated with amputated limbs, holes punched through their bodies and the dead, lifeless look in their eyes.
"STOP! STOP! WHAT IS THIS! I WANNA WAKE UP! I WANNA WAKE UP!" he screamed as he tried to move without success, looking down at his bloodied hands. It must have been a dream, it had to be! He would never do this to his loved ones, never!
As he stood their something started to conceptualize in front of him, form from a weird, transparent liquid, which confused him, but couldn't remove the waves of horror that were overwhelming his mind.
Then he heard the hyena-like laughter again. It was unbearably high-pitched to the point that it sounded inhuman, but this time he heard it coming from his mouth as he felt more and more tears coming from his eyes while his frozen body shook.
The liquid finally stopped moving, forming a sort of a mirror in front of him, and he saw a reflection. That reflection was that of a boy with golden, spiky hair and emerald eyes bawling his guts out as tears that mixed with all the red and purple that drenched his face. But he noticed something more terrifying of the reflection, his expression. The expression was that of wide eyes with the irises in the size of pinpricks and a gigantic, maniacal smile that reached from ear to ear while it was also wide open to laugh that high-pitched maniacal laughter.
The scary thing was that he seemed broken in this reflection. He was now terrified as he realized that his body was feeling like in the same position as that reflection, not to mention that the color scheme suggested that the one in the mirror was a Super Saiyan.
No... no! Does this mean to prophesies that if he transforms he will slaughter everyone?! "NO! I'M NOT A MONSTER! I WAS NEVER A MONSTER! I'LL NEVER BE A MONSTER! WAKE UP YOU STUPID KID, THIS IS A DREAM! YOU'RE NOT A MONSTER! YOU'RE NOT A MONSTER!" he thought as he tried his best to shake his head, but it wouldn't budge as he was frozen in front of the mirrored figure, which was also frozen in place.
Suddenly he felt the laughter that was erupting from his mouth, much to his horror, as he saw that his Super Saiyan reflection in the mirror suddenly extended his had straight towards him, with the hand even coming out of the mirror, terrifying him as he saw the hand coming towards him.
"Why must we always refuse our nature? The fact that you're still trying makes me laugh." the reflections said with an extremely high-pitched tone to its voice to him as its hand wraps around his throat, strangling him. "Hahahaha!" it roared with the hyena-like, high-pitched voice as the grasp tightened around the Saiyan kid. "HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" it roared as it looked at the Saiyan kid.
[End Musical Cue #2]
"AHHHH!" the jet-black kid woke up frightened, his whole body drenched in sweat as he looked around him, initially not recognizing where he is. The room was dark with a few windows, which allowed light to come inside the room, but it wasn't much to see the room in detail.
He looked down at his hands with fear in his eyes as he could remember the nightmare that he had vividly in his mind, making him sick and terrified, causing his entire body to shake while his eyes where locked on his hands. He then felt a small ki signal right next to him, seeing his father in a bed, breathing heavily.
"Dad..." he thought to himself as he looked at his father with concern in his eyes and spoke with fear in his voice. He then looked back at his hands with an inkling of frustration in his heart. 'I want to protect you dad, and make sure that the planet is safe, but... I never wanted to live a life of fighting. I'm starting to see why just letting my anger take control of me is so bad.' he thought to himself as his body shook whole he bit his lip.
'I killed people before and didn't feel it, or maybe I didn't want to care. This dream...' he started to look at himself in defeat as he rubbed his throat as he still vividly remembered the hand of his reflection grabbing his throat. 'That dream may have opened my eyes.' he thought to himself as his eyes gained a glint of determination. 'I want to protect the people I care about, but I don't want to fight to the death anymore. I'll grow stronger, but I refuse. I refuse to harm another ever again. That dream showed me that if I continue the path of a warrior, I'll become a monster, and I refuse to become one!' the boy thought to himself with determination as he stood up, clenched his fists and walked out of the dark room.
May 13, Age 767, 11:14AM,
Over twenty four hours have past since the first attack from Dr. Gero and Doctor Wheelo at the island 9 miles outside of South City, and what an insane 24 hours it has been since then for the burly Saiyan, who had become a voluntary prisoner for the cybernetic twins created by the crazy, Kakarot-killing obsessed scientist, and the Kakarot-killing obsessed android created in the image of said obsessed scientist.
Right now the group were inside a large shopping mall inside South City, looking for some clothes. He himself wasn't completely against the argument, but he couldn't deny that he was bored out of his mind, not to mention that he was concerned if he could pay for everything that the twins had in mind, since they didn't have any money and one wrong move could cause chaos. He was trying to make sure they wouldn't hurt anyone, but he had to be on guard for that to happen and do anything to prevent that from happening. A hard job if he ever could describe one.
They were now inside one of the many clothing stores inside the mall, with both twins searching for new clothes. At first he had to request from workers of the store to take measurements because their clothes were so messed up from the fight yesterday that the maned Saiyan wasn't sure what their measurements were, only that it was similar. For Kami's sake, this was a gigantic pain for him.
Meanwhile, Android #16 was standing next to him, as if to watch him and make sure he wasn't doing anything funny. A smart decision, although a useless one, since he had no desire to fight in a crowded place with no chance of winning, as well as probably killing thousands, failing his mission and making the two into the world-destroying killing machines that caused so much pain to Trunks in his timeline. He watched the pair of cyborgs walk joyfully in the store and checking what they had. They even hummed the same tune in unison while in two separate locations inside the store, if not too far away from the other. It wasn't as bizarre as it was charming and innocent in a way.
The android looked down at the shorter alien nonchalantly. "I understand fully what you are trying to do." he said with a monotone and robotic tone to his voice, making Raditz snap with his eyes widen as he looked up at the taller machine. "From the way the lavender-haired warrior talked about my siblings, it is if he had long time to experience suffering by their hands. The tone in his voice and all biological aspects such as his heart beat and brain waves showed that he was not lying." the android started to explain much to the burly fighter's shock.
Sixteen then continued his explanation. "Therefore, I can only calculate two incomprehensible theories: either he is from the future itself, where my siblings had turned into the killing machines Dr. Gero had created them to be, or he has a highly advanced form of precognition that allows him to experience everything he sees that will occur in the future, as if it has happened to him." Sixteen continued to explain and talk while the oldest son of Bardock looked at him with a shocked expression. "However, since he doesn't appear in my, and by extension, Gero's databases, yet shares the same genetic DNA code as Vegeta and Bulma Briefs, the former theory is the only one that is logical of the two theories that calculated within my super-computer generator in my head." the Mohawk red head continued on with his explanation as it shifted its cold and mechanical glare at his siblings, who were having the time of their lives looking around the place and picking up clothes.
Android Sixteen then returns his glare to the low-class Saiyan, who by now started to shake slightly and sweat profoundly. "Seeing by your biological and psychological reactions, I can only conclude I was right about the boy, which means my siblings will destroy the world." he said to Raditz, who was utterly frozen in his state of shock as he realized his entire plan was broken and assessed by the silent one of the mechanical group. "From what my computer brain can calculate, I conjecture that you intend to change their mind and go against the doctor's programing, to see if they can be altered from their fate since you did don't see any killing intent during your fight with Cyborg #18. That is the only reason I think of as to why you would voluntarily become our hostage. Am I wrong?" he finally asked the brother of Earth's finest fighter, who couldn't utter a word or move as his entire plan was bare in front of him by someone who he didn't know if he could call an enemy.
Raditz ground his teeth slightly as he kept on sweating. 'Damn, he's completely right? How did he process all the information around him like that? I guess I have no choice.' he thought to himself as he took a long breath. "No, you're not." he said with a defeated tone to his voice.
Sixteen just nodded. "As much as I am against manipulation, I have to agree with your goal." He said in his robotic tone as he looked at his siblings once more as she were shopping and going to measure some clothes, much to the Saiyan's surprise. "I possess Adrian Gero's love for life and for this world. Dr. Gero made sure that I would. As such, I feel the need to protect it." he said calmly and monotonically as he then looked around the store in general. "Look at all these people Raditz, walking around with no care in the world." he said to the low-class warrior with a melancholic tone to his robotic voice.
The giant then pointed at the direction of a little blonde girl in a pink dress, holding to her mother's hand with one of her hand while licking chocolate-mint ice-cream in the other, wearing a childish and joyful smile on her face. "Look at that child. See the blissful joy on her face, unaware of the dangers that the world and space itself possess?" the android said as he lowered his arm and smiled gently. "Seeing a smile like that is infectious, to the point that I want to smile as well." he kept on talking as he looked back at the shorter man. "I want people to live in peace, rather than be victims of what my siblings may cause if they become what Doctor Gero wanted them to become. I want my siblings to live like these people out there. So I support your plan." he told Raditz with a small smile on his face, to which the Saiyan just nodded.
"Okay, how do I look Sixteen?" they heard the voice of the blonde cyborg, making them look at the direction of her voice. She was now standing in front of the two wearing a long-sleeves black shirt with pink stripes that created a large "X" shape across it, with the woman wearing a light-blue jacket that reached down to her pelvis. She also wore blue jeans tied to her shirt with a brown belt with a silver belt-buckle along with the light-brown boots that she wore yesterday.
Raditz scoffed. "Tsk, you look like you're taking yourself too seriously." he said with a non-caring tone to his gruff voice, much to the cyborg's annoyance, who growled at this remark.
"And what's wrong with that, huh?" she asked him angrily as she walked towards him and stared daggers at him, to which the Saiyan just returned a similar glare in response.
Sixteen just smiled. "You look well Eighteen. The measurements of these clothes suit your figure more or less perfectly by my calculations. The colors do not have the best contrast that they could have, but they seem cheap enough to buy and allow us to have some money remaining." he said in his monotonous tone to his robotic voice, making the blonde look at him.
Eighteen smiled as she looked at her taller sibling. "Why thank you Sixteen, I'm glad at least someone here can compliment another person around here." she said as she then glared at the Saiyan, who glanced aside and snickered with annoyance at the remark while crossing his hands in front of his chest.
"Honestly, I'd replace that black and pink shirt." the black-haired cyborg said as he joined the group, wearing a white, long-sleeved shirt with green stripes along the arms, wearing black gloves made of wool on his hands. He also wore some jeans, but his belt was white with a golden belt-buckle. "Add some ed lipstick and you would look quite ridiculous, and kinda slutty if I made add." he said with a critical, yet jovial tone to his voice as after several seconds of finishing his sentence, he started to cackle a bit.
His twin didn't take appreciation to the insult, and didn't take appreciation to her brother's cackling. "Well excuse you, Mr. "I wanna be a park ranger", but you don't get to judge how I dress, with this lame attire." she said angrily as she glared daggers at him, ready to jump on him and strangle him at any instance.
Raditz sighed. "Whatever, so are you two going to buy these or are we just going to have to go through more clothes?" he asked the pair as he kept his hands crossed while carrying a stoic expression on his face as he tried to keep thing cool and make sure they wouldn't start anything destructive. Siblings do squabble all the time, at least Saiyan siblings.
Eighteen glanced aside at him and looked at the maned Z-Fighter. "No, I'm good." she said as she looked at her brother. "How about you bro? Satisfied?" she asked as she scowled a bit.
Seventeen chuckled. "More than I should be. This clothes have some pretty good merchandise on their hands. I wonder where they by it from?" he thought to himself as he put his right ring finger on his chin and raised it somewhat.
Raditz just scoffed. "Whatever, just chance back and we'll go and pay for these clothes." he said as he waved his hand dismissively at the pair, who both just scowled and did as they were told.
About an hour later, the group was driving in their van across the city, or to be frankly honest, were stuck in traffic for the last half-an-hour. Raditz and Sixteen were sitting at the back of the car while Seventeen honked along with all the drivers that were stuck in the traffic jam, while his sister rolled her eyes with a bored and annoyed expression, constantly groaning.
The burly Saiyan looked at the seat next to the driver's seat. "Could you stop groaning already? You annoyance is annoying me." he said with irritation in his gruff voice as he glared daggers at the blonde teen-looking machine while crossing his arms in front of his chest and sitting with his legs crossed.
Eighteen then looked at the back of the truck, glaring daggers back at the maned Z-Fighter and scowled with probably contempt in her expression. "Yeah, well nobody asked you caveman, so just shut up and be a good prisoner." she said with irritation in her own voice as she returned to look at the road ahead.
the large red-head was looking outside thorough the window, to see if he could find some birds. Seventeen was just humming to himself as he was honking over and over just for his own amusement, which didn't bother the oldest son of Bardock too much, even if the noises were incredibly annoying, and arguing with the cyborg didn't really help. Eventually he just decided to just leave it be and spare everyone an argument.
It took nearly an hour before the traffic started to move freely, which was just annoying and boring in side the van that was filled with silence. Luckily for the man, there was still some doughnuts from yesterday as he began to eat to pass the time until he finished all of the sugary sweets and just looked outside of the window himself until the traffic moved without much waiting anymore.
He sighed with relief as he felt the vehicle move once again as he looked at Sixteen, who was completely quiet. "So android, what can you tell me about the guy that your creator based you on?" he asked as he kept his arms and legs crossed as he patiently waited for an answer and even some details, so he could get more into the head of the scientist who wanted his brother dead. Sure, wanting vengeance for a dead child is warranted in his mind, but the nature of the child could shift that justification to other directions.
The android slowly looked at the Saiyan brother of Earth's greatest defender with the same look that he always had on his face: a serious, cold and robotic expression. "You mean Adrian Gero?" he asks in his robotic monotone voice, to which the maned warrior just nodded.
The cyborgs perked up as the blonde stood on her seat, turned around and put her chin on her arms, which were now on top of her seat's back supporters. "Yeah, I'd like to hear that as well. What was about the guy that made his dad jumped down the asshole rabbit hole for revenge? Not that I'm crying over that buckets of bolt brains." she asked with an intrigued tone to her voice as she insulted the doctor who kidnapped her and her brother once again.
The black-haired teen was still keeping his eyes on the road, but he was smiling as he was listening to everyone talking. "I want in on that party. Maybe you can tell it as a ghost story? Eh, Sixteen?" he asked with a humorous tone to his voice as he drove the car across the asphalt roads of the city, heading in the direction out of the city.
The robot looked at his newer model siblings. "I apologize Seventeen, but I lack the social capabilities required to tell ghost stories." he said with a serious tone to his voice as he answered the male cyborg's question in refusal. "Now then, since I don't really have the man's memories, I can only tell you about Adrian Gero through implanted facts and traits that are integrated into my personality." he started to explain as he talked to the group of people in the van.
Cyborg #18 scowled. "Well, I wanna know, so just spill it out." she said with a bit of agitation to her voice, which showed the Saiyan of her impatient nature.
The large robot with the Mohawk kept on his emotionless expression on his face as he looked on at the back door of the van. "I shall read what I know from my data. Adrian Gero was born on the 13th of November, Age 728 and died on the day of the fall of the Red Ribbon Army, May 12th, Age 750, 17 years 14 hours and 1 minute ago. He was a pacifist and a combat medic who refused to carry a firearm for self-defense and spent most of his energy to rescue injured soldiers off the battlefield." the android said as his glare stayed the same as it has for most of the time he was activated.
"Huh," the black-haired teen said as he was driving the truck in the comfortable speed of 87 kilometers per hour. "Sounded like a pretty interesting guy in some aspects. So you carry those traits of pacifism?" the white-green wearing cyborg asked as he kept his eyes on the road.
Android 16 nodded solemnly. "Affirmative. I do desire to harm others except for Son Goku, who I am obliged to assassinate in the name of my creator's wishes for vengeance." he said with coldness in his voice that frightened the Saiyan a bit, knowing that his brother was in mortal danger anyway.
"So what do you like other than the old fart's murder boner for Son Goku?" The blonde cyborg asked as she sighed with annoyance of hearing the name of Earth's defender, rolling her eyes as she asked her question, much to the annoyance of the burly low-class warrior.
He glared daggers at her. "Excuse me, you know you're still talking nonchalantly about killing my brother right next to me, right?" he asked her angrily as she glared back at him as he kept his level of power as low as possible, to make sure that the android could assure the pair of mechanical twins that he wasn't going to be physically aggressive towards them.
His angry eyes met hers, and she gave him a chilling glare that could kill a thousand of times. "I don't really care." she said as she turned back and returned to sitting on her seat once again as she crossed her arms and huffed angrily. "Annoying prick." she said as she looked ahead at the road in front of them.
The brother of Goku snorted angrily as he kept glaring at her seat. "Damn bitch." he said as he looked at the wall of the truck parallel to the one he was pressing his back against. After that there was nothing but a sense of tense silence between them while the male cyborg smiled smugly while looking at the road ahead.
Suddenly, after a few minutes, right before an intersection, Sixteen shifted his gaze towards the direction of the intersection with his eyes glowing and beeping red. "Seventeen, I request that you turn right in the coming intersection." he requested with the robotic seriousness to his voice that had become so much integrated into his personality, but this time there was an actual air of seriousness to his voice.
This made the driver curious of the request as he did so, maybe so he could find something fun to do. "Sure thing bud, but why?" he asked with curiosity in his voice as he moved to the right part of the road as he started to see smoke rising up to the air. "Huh, what is all that smoke?" he asked with curiosity as both he and his sister looked at the black smoke.
The giant pushed his head between the gap of the two seats as his eyes focused on the black clouds ahead. "There is a burning building 4.73 kilometers away from here. You asked what Adrian Gero was like? He was an idealistic young man who desired to preserve life. I wish to follow the wish of the man I was modeled after. Now drive." he said with what seemed to be determination in his voice as he went back to sit next to the large, burly Saiyan.
The android's request confused the defender of Earth as he looked with a cautious glare at the tall machine. "Why are you doing this? Of the three of you, you desire to kill my brother is greater than theirs, so what are you exactly doing?" he asked with a cold and serious tone to his voice, which matched the expression on his face as his arms and legs remained crossed.
The android looked at Raditz as his eyes gave him a warm look and a smile formed on his face. "Because I want to preserve life, even humanity's." he whispered calmly and silently to the Saiyan so only the maned Z-Fighter could hear what the giant of a man was telling him. "I said I approve of your goals, so if I want to protect humanity from my siblings, then I want them to save a life before taking one." he continued on his explanation as Raditz's eyes widen with shock at what he just heard from the large mechanical being.
The group had driven for less than five minutes with the instructions of the giant before they saw an apartment block which was 7 stories tall and was completely engulf in flames, as the city's fire department trying to put out the flames without much of a success in their valiant efforts.
A "Bleep" sound was heard over and over from the eyes of the android as he watched the building from the gap between the seats his siblings were sitting on. His face seemed more determined, or at least their was a filling of determination oozing off his frame as he looked at the building, much to the confusion and interest of his cybernetic siblings.
Raditz, on the other hand, used his ki sensing to try and feel out the area inside the burning building. When his sense caught on several very low ki signatures inside the building, it didn't surprise him. However, he probably knew that the android counted on the situation to be in a dire state, so it's up to him to do something about it.
After a few more seconds, the bleeping sounds stopped and Sixteen's eyes stopped flashing red. "There are currently six living people stuck inside the building right now. My desire is to preserve all life in the area." he says with his robotic voice as he looks at his blonde-haired sister. "Eighteen, I request that you assist me in helping me with this. I believe that with our speed we can rescue all of these people in less than 2 minutes and 30 seconds if we work at maximum efficiency." he tells her as she just puffs her cheeks and crosses her arms.
She scoffed. "Why should I do it? Why can't Seventeen do it? Why are we supposed to help you? Or why are you even doing this instead of going after Son Goku?" she asked the giant of a man many questions with an annoyed tone to her voice as she refused to do as the android requested.
Said android kept his gaze at her without showing any real emotion aside from determination. "I shall answer your questions by the order you asked them." he told her as she just looked at him. "I believe you should do it because Gero designed you to be the fastest and most agile, and you can halt your breathing mechanisms for 10 minutes without causing damage to your brain from the lack of oxygen. I also require someone to guard our hostage, and the two of you are clearly in each other's throats, therefore Seventeen shall guard him and prevent him from escaping." he explained to his sister as he immediately answered two of her questions, much to her annoyance.
Not allowing her mood to stop his explanation, he continued to speak. "I also cannot take Raditz with me alone, for he is completely biological, therefore less capable than yourself inside a building filled with CO2. He might also try to escape when I'm not looking. Most importantly, I was modeled after Adrian Gero, implanted with mental personality traits that were similar to his own. I desire to keep those around me safe if I can. I can easily track Son Goku whenever I desired, but at this moment, my desire is to save the people in that building." he explained thoroughly as he glared at the burning building.
Cyborg #18 just sighed with an annoyed and defeated tone to her voice. "Fiiiine, I'll help you. Are you happy now?" she asked him, to which the Mohawk giant simply looked at her with a big, warm smile with a warm expression in his eyes.
The large robot in human skin then looked at the black-haired cyborg and driver of their van. "Seventeen, may you please park the car here, two blocks away from the burning building? I would like for the most efficient distance for Eighteen and myself to get to the building without getting in the way of the firefighters." he asked his newer model sibling before explaining his reasons for such a request with his monotone voice, which made him look calm in all of the mania surrounding the area from the local city folks.
The teen smirked as he waved his right hand nonchalantly. "No prob, I can do that." he said nonchalantly as he quickly drove to a parking area next to a sidewalk, as the large man opened the back door of the van and jumped off, which could be felt as the entire vehicle shook, while the late-teen looking girl opened the door next to her and jumped out as well.
At that time, the black-haired boy looked at the defender of Earth with a jovial smile on his face. "So... just recommendations for the future, what's your favorite food?" he asked with a jovial tone to his voice that matched his expression, not that the Saiyan really cared at the moment.
Raditz shrugged his shoulders and gave the male cyborg a grin. "Oh please, 'favorite'? There is no favorite food for a Saiyan." he said as he chuckled for a bit, confusing the young man. "Just put a table full of food and we'll eat it right up. Buuut... if I had to choose, I think every Saiyan has a preferred meat type." he continues as he puts his index finger on his chin. "Mine is definitely pork, Vegeta's definitely alien bug meat, Bryco loves his chicken meat, Nappa used to eat up ducks and Kakarot... Kakarot... huh, what is Kakarot's favorite meat type?" he asked himself aloud as he talked.
The two creations of Dr. Gero ran as fast as they could, reaching into the burning building within seconds after leaving the van. They bypassed all of the authorities within moments, with Android #16 entering through the front door at amazing speeds, while Cyborg #18 jumped incredibly fast and entered the building through the second floor window. It took a few seconds afterthe two mechanical beings entered the building for a powerful shockwave to push back all the humans outside of the building, fire trucks and cars included.
As the two looked around, they saw everything around them was on fire, with Sixteen on the first floor for people using a breathing detector, finding the ragged breath of injured people who were stuck and inhaling carbon dioxide into their lungs. He passed through the first 3 rooms in a row, where he did now find any signs of life, but going into other rooms where he did detect oxygen rising into the air before dying out, saving people left and right by carrying them on his broad shoulders and between his armpits.
Eighteen on the other hand, with no capability to detect life energy life her older model sibling, ran across the floor with frustration as she kicked down door after door and look inside every apartment thoroughly in order to find someone, whether it was a corpse or a living person. Just to find someone. She was only in on her second apartment as she growled in frustration once again as she kicked down the door for the apartment's restroom, finding nothing once more. In her agitation she just left the room and ran back to the window she entered into the floor from.
As she landed on the ground she saw the giant of a man coming out with three people that he was carrying, putting them on the ground before seeing the blonde girl brushing her hair behind her left ear in aggravation as she grounded her teeth. She then walked towards the older mechanical being with an annoyed look on her face.
"Here, we saved some people, can we leave now? I'm getting annoyed!" she said like a child as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
Sixteen then glared daggers at her before looking back at the building. "You will not. There are two people in the seventh floor, save them them both while I'll save the person at the third floor." he said as he entered through the front door immediately once again.
The cyborg snarled angrily as she followed her giant brother as she saw that he was dashing up the stairs and she quickly followed him. 'Dammit! Let me speak my mind dammit! How can he be so fast that I'm having trouble following him?' she thought to herself as she started dashing up the floors to see if she could just finish up with the entire ordeal.
It took her at least ten seconds until she reached the seventh floor and saw that it was covered with smoke, but had the least amount of flames covering the walls. She saw the door to the first apartment in the floor as she kicked down the door, trying to look for someone, checking inside every room and closet that she could find in the apartment, which made a vein throb on her forehead in her state of annoyance and lack of patience.
"Dammit! Why do I have to do this crap?! Sixteen is entirely wrong here! There isn't anyone else here!" she shouted as she kicked down a wall between two apartments and the entire building shook as the wall crashed down into rubble as she growled and snarled as she kicked the rubble over and over again.
Then a sound reached her ears. It was faint, but she heard something, a cry. She returned back to the hallway of the floor as she started to run towards the origin of the cry that she heard, which was now starting to get stronger and louder. The blonde cyborg had gears running in her head, until she realized what was crying: it was a baby, an infant, not old enough to talk and capable of only emote it's fear for its safety in the situation through crying.
She started to go from apartment to apartment, kicking down door to see if she can hear the voice of the baby louder in each part of the floor clearer than the last. On the eighth or ninth door that she kicked down, she saw a room that was filled with clouds of carbon dioxide. The voice of the baby was now clearer than ever as she entered the room and looked around. When she entered the room in which the baby was staying, she saw the infant being held by an unconscious teenage girl, who was probably trying to protect the child in her arms, but most likely lost consciousness from inhaling all of the CO2.
Eighteen sighed at the sight. She then also saw a window in the room, which was leading down to the fire escape. "Is she his mother? Good grief." she said as she picked up the teenager and the crying baby in her arms and walked towards the window, kicking the glass and breaking it apart, only to jump out of it and float down slowly until her feet made a "TAP!" sound as they hit the ground.
She then ran around the side of the building as she reached the firefighters and saw Sixteen already talking to them, before he looked at her. She was confused for a second as after about two seconds she saw that a medical staff was coming her way before she thought of the woman and crying baby in her arms.
The cyborg gently laid the pair on the ground as she took several steps back, only for the medics to use a stretcher to carry the woman to the ambulance, putting a respirator on the teen's mouth as they carried her away. On of them looked at the blonde cyborg. "Thank you ma'am." he told her with a genuinely thankful tone, taking aback the mechanical being. She was clearly shocked to hear these words, words she had never heard with such a grateful tone from another person aside fron her brother.
"You saved that girl's life. I don't know how you did it, by I'm grateful that you did." the medic told Eighteen as he went to the ambulance with the stretcher that had the teen girl on, while the baby was crying in the arms of one of the other medics. This put the robotic girl in a state of shock, as she didn't know how to react to such a grateful words, so she silently walked back slowly to the truck.
Capsule Corporation, 13:21 PM,
It was busy and filled with people in her father's lab, but Bulma had taken the egg that she had found yesterday and started testing it, especially after she heard about the monstrous creature that had come out of it and slaughtered all of Ginger Town. The fact that the thing was still alive and breathing made the scientist concerned, and she wanted to discover more about it in her lab.
She was working all night on that fucking egg, taking out samples and doing every possible test that she could think off, but she could find were several sets of DNA in the large egg, which she took from a piece of flesh that she tore from the inside of the damn thing herself. She cut out as many samples of flesh as she could.
After finding each set of DNA in the egg, she had started to scan them in her computers, trying to match it to some some of DNA that she was familiar with. Some of which was successful, as she found the DNA of both a cockroach and a cobra meld inside the piece of flesh along with the other DNA samples that she was unfamiliar with.
"Still, the part that this Cell thing is part cockroach and cobra is unsettling in itself. The only thing that could possibly create something like that was a scientist, and I can't think of a person insane enough to create something like this." she talked to herself aloud as she walked around the laboratory as she waited for the results of the other DNA sets, all the while her and her father's workers were doing other things for the financial state of the company, not that she really cared at the moment.
"Another weird thing is how strong that Cell thing was according to Trunk's words, like he was afraid. Granted, something that can kick Vegeta's ass is scary." she spoke aloud to herself again as she put her right middle, ring and pinky fingers on the edge of her chin as she thought about the creature and what exactly he could be. That whole thing was a mystery that only someone as smart as her could unfold, which meant a challenge. That kind of thought made the genius heir of Capsule Corp. to smile smugly.
The computer suddenly beeped, as she looked at the screen, which showed a notification that the scanning of the different sets of DNA within the egg had finally been deciphered by her technological machines and her genius intellect. She sat down on the chair and opened up the results. As she saw it her eyes went wide with shock as he jaw dropped like a stone in water.
"WHAT THE HELL?! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!" she shouted as she quickly saved the results in a file, got up and ran to the nearest phone.
{To Be Continued]
Musical Cue #3: Ending- Monster by Skillet
With Raditz hoping he could find a way to get the cyborgs off their homicidal plan, it seems Sixteen has took the first step in attempting to help the cyborgs gain some humanity. Will their efforts succeed? With Bulma, what did she discover from the egg of Cell that is freaking her out so much? And will our heroes on the lookout succeed in finding and killing Cell before he reemerges once more to slaughter cities? Find out on the next chapter of Changed Path...
Wow! Holy fuck! This took way too long to write! I'm sorry everyone, I knew what I wanted to do for this chapter, but I didn't know how I wanted to write it, making the important scenes come out as rushed. I'm very fatigued at the moment, but I'll try my best to make the next chapter better and have things return to their usual self with more involvement from Cell and be more connected to him. Now time for R&A.
R&A
R: Whilst probably not the best, in depth, review I will say this was an incredibly fun chapter. The language grew a little coarse at places and there was an odd fascination with genitalia that garnered attention it was fun.
The fighting was top notch and one could truly feel the impacts of every blow. Bryco and Vegeta bouncing back and forth off one another verbally while fumbling against one another in an attempt to take on Cell was fantastic. Cell for its/his part was a treat as ever providing a slimy heel to counter out fledgling heroes.
Raditz riding with the cyborgs was nice. His conversation with Sixteen was very well done, and the touch of eating sugary food to boost up his energy was fairly nice too, then again they did take a food service truck so I shouldn't be too surprised. Eighteen was also quite sassy which was a trait in her character that I feel is often over looked so good on that too.
That is pretty much all, like I said this is not best review I could give, but I have last minute Christmas stuff to do so I hope that is understandable. This was a fun chapter and I can't wait to see where things proceed from here.
Until next time, Happy New Year (I assume the next chapter is going to come out in 2019 if earlier I will retract this statement).
A: Yeah, you should get used to at least Vegeta swearing a lot when he's angry (oh and spoiler character, which you know who), so I guess my love for cursing is going to be more of a make it or break it by this point. This Chapter I tried to do more of Raditz and the cyborgs (and android), which will continue next chapter, but I'm glad that you at least enjoyed that part last chapter, since I liked it too.
R (Chapter 3): Is this going to be Raditz and Launch cuz I'm super tired of them getting together ️️️️️️️
A: Hahahahaha! Nope! Way too fucking easy!
R: Update please soon?!
A: Here you go. Trust me, I wanted to update sooner, but I had a lot of problems with this chapter. Now that I kinda rushed things, it came out not like I wanted, but I'm okay with that, since I'll just try to be better next chapter.
Wlep, now that's all, folks! See ya in a month or less! Have a good goddamn day!
