Chapter 364, The truth of #21
Lapis and Lazuli are flying in the air following #16 and #21.
"Hey! Lawn Sculpture! Just where are we going?!"
"Hey! Lapis! How would you like it if someone called you that?!"
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS BITCH!"
"It's alright Mommy, he doesn't mean any harm by it. As to answer your question I don't exactly know either."
1 hour ago
The two cyborgs were in silence, they didn't know how to respond to the piece of information they were just given.
But then Lazuli broke the silence, "What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck? You? YOU?! You're that bitch's son?! You've gotta be punking us right?!"
"I do know want you mean by 'punking' but I truly am a creation of the person in front of you, I'm truly called RR4648T1600RS, lab assistant and security guard before I was put in my capsule."
"Bon comme toujours, although weren't you suppose to come to me it ever you feel my energy? Pourquoi ne fais pas oui?"
"I figured that RR4649T1700RS and RR4649T1800RS were trying to avoid you, I thought that they would follow if I suddenly went to find you."
"Good answer, but it feels like you're only telling un demi-vérité. Is there another reason why you tried to avoid your own mother? Hmm?"
#16 just simply looked away shaking.
"YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
#21 looked to Lapis with dismay.
"He didn't do anything wrong while he was with us! So why are you grilling him?!"
"He's my son, and don't think you're tiré d'affaire. You two have stolen property of the Red Ribbon Army. And also, he has unfortunately disobeyed his directive."
"Mom, the only directive that have been given is to kill Son Goku."
"That is your cover directive given by Dr. Gero, I'm talking about your premier directive. The one you've been given since I first programmed your circuitry. Poursuivs! I know that you know it…"
#16 only looked down at him mother nervously, unsure of what would happen if you said anything, and she was giving him an intense glare that went through him. He made his choice.
"Obey…Mommy…no matter what…"
« Bravo, te rappelés ! »
"Hey! We don't have time for your game bitch! What's your deal!"
"Ma affaire? Why I was minding myself when I bumped into you. Not like I really was exactly trying to bother you. Although, merci beaucoup pour le retour de biens de Armée de Ruban Rouge ! »
"COULD YOU PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH! FUCK! You're only confusing us and the readers!"
"Bro, the original creator is Japanese, so shouldn't we speak Japanese?!"
"Yeah well are supposed to be Caucasian?! I have no fucking idea?! And could he properly choose our fucking hair colors properly already! I mean he couldn't choose between silver and blonde for your hair and I think I was once blonde myself! JUST WHAT THE FUCK?!"
"Eh-hem," they turn to #21, "Our current writer thinks that I'm a better antagonist what the original author decided. And he just wishes to clean up the mess that he left behind through doing that."
Lapis and Lazuli just stood there confused.
"You seem to be confounded by all this sudden information. If you wish to know then follow me," she turned to #16, "As for you, follow this order, do not try to interfere unless I order so."
« Oui Maman. »
Current time:
The four were flying in a rather remote desert area flying in a direct not known to the cyborgs.
"Hey! Jugs!"
"Hmmn?"
"Just what did Lawn Sculpture mean by 'obey you no matter what'?"
"Just that, always obey moi. That includes most importantly not attacking moi, always come to moi if separated, and execute orders from only moi with no question!"
"Just when will you stop with the French?!"
"I'm the antagonist so I can speak whatever I want?"
"And throw off everyone…"
"Well, we're practically at our destination now, regardes!"
The four came up upon a short craggy mountain with large characters of "千錘百煉" written on the front side, the top had a ledge leading to an opening indicating a hollow interior.
They landed on the balcony.
"Now, will you stay out here and keep watch?"
« Oui Maman. »
« Bon ! » she took her sandals off, "I'll just now glisses dans quelque chose mieux."
She turns to Lapis and winks along with mischievously sticking her tongue out.
The two curious follow her in.
The inside appeared rather simplistic with a large round table in the center, behind it appeared to be a blue old French dresser, toward the right was a bed, toward the left was a refrigerator, next to it was a cupboard full of sweets, next to the dresser was a desk table that was covered in porn mags and sex toys, right next the refrigerator was a sink and then stove of sorts, and next to the bed was a pole that seem to lead to a room underneath, and floor was littered with multiple articles of clothing.
As for #21 herself, she took off her sunhat and then slipped off her jumper, she was braless, and it revealed her extremely curvaceous, now well-tanned, body. You could see her breasts from behind her back. Although she did wear rainbow colored panties.
The two blushed upon seeing that as she grabbed from the top of the fridge a black crop top that said 'La Salope Forte!' and put it on.
She then opened the fridge, "Want something to drink? I've got Vin de La Pépie Muscadet!"
"Uh… No thanks…"
"Then how about thé?"
"No…"
"Crème glacée Lapis? Don't you like that?"
"WE'RE NOT TAKING ANYTHING FROM YOU!"
"Hmph, well then," she brings out a glass and a wine bottle and closes the fridge with her butt, "I guess I'm drinking on my own then," she says while she pours, "wish to sit down at least?"
The two did so while #21 sips her wine.
Lazuli speaks, "So I'm just confused, how is #16 your son?"
"Well we need to talk about moi first. You see, I've been Gero's head assistant of the Red Ribbon engineering branch ever since I was a little girl, at the time I didn't immediately know how things would work out. Although he saw the greatness in me when I was able to fix RR4648P800RS, and I was able to work up the ranks rather quickly. Although when the Red Ribbon Army was raided by whom you call Goku he became obsessed with revenge and dedicated his future creations to killing him. Although that soon came to fault with about every single android failing the testing phase and needed to be scrapped. With no other choice on what to do he decided to try making cyborgs instead but he needed a test subject. That was when I decided to volunteer, I was then designated RR4649P1600RS or #16…"
"WAIT! Then why is he out there also called #16?"
"You see #16 more refers to the project number than exactly the serial number. And I think it's more appropriate to say I was the 16th project done while he is the 16th android made. I'm currently though the 21st project. And during the time of making #9 to #15, I took parts of the scrapped androids and used them to build a pet project I was working on to help Dr. Gero feel better."
"Pet Project?"
"The one that you see on the balcony."
"Well, what's so special about him?"
#21 stopped sipping her wine, she then put her glass down and crossed her hands and leaned her face against them and sighed sadly, "Gero and I had a son together…"
"WHAT?!" they both exclaimed.
"You can't be serious?"
"But I am, I really did not expect it though but I decided to go through with it anyway. It's just that unfortunately he died during the raid, but I thought that if I could create an android that had the image and memories our son, it could convince Gero to stop his obsession of killing Goku."
"And…"
Her fingers tightened, "He… instead… wanted me… to destroy him! Claiming that our son could never be replaced. I ended up in a big argument with him that lasted hours, all I was able to convince him to do was to allow Android #16 to act as a security guard so he didn't need to see him."
"So how did #16 get in his holding container?"
"When I left, I pretty much let Gero do what he wanted with him."
"And how are you the 21st cyborg now?"
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"What?"
"Spoilers!"
"I thought agreed to no mindfucking!"
"You did, I did not…"
"Could somebody pass the bottle? This is too weird for me…"
#21 happily gave the bottle to Lazuli who then took a very large swig.
-GLUG!
-GLUG!
-GLUG!
-TAP!
"Uuuuh, HICCUP!"
"You know, I get the feeling that you didn't simply bring us here simply to tell your backstory, did you?"
"En effet, I see that you're starting to put it together. You see, I have an offre for you two."
"Sorry, bitch but no offers."
"Oh, but it is an offer that I'm sure you'll really like, although it falls upon this question. Would you like to be turned back into humans?"
There was a glint of shock and curiosity came into their eyes as it seemed too good to be true.
However, "Didn't the Blowhard say that it was impossible to go back?"
-Surp.
"He said that, not moi. I conducted the research a while ago and below us is a laboratoire where I can perform the operation."
They almost squealed upon those words but then, "You're not doing this for free, ARE YOU BITCH?!"
She sighed, "You know when I found you two, you wanted to become stronger quickly."
"That was to keep our turf, and you said it was a super serum! Instead you doped us and made us go through horrible and torturous experiments to get what we are! Are you into BDSM? Because those experiments felt like that!"
"Well, the method of creating cyborgs was not perfected to be efficient."
"That's not the fucking point! And anyway, what do want from us?"
#21 smiled devilishly, "Gohan, I want you to bring him to me."
The two cyborgs were confused for a moment, but then Lazuli only groaned and took another swig, and Lapis rolled his eyes.
"No thanks bitch! We're not simply going on a wild goose chase to get the brat of the Blowhard's target to turn back!"
"Well then, vous choisissez vos morts !"
"What?"
"By refusing my proposal you've only got a couple of outcomes. One, as like with Piccolo before, Goku or one of his friends will quickly get stronger and destroy you, two, which might be my favorite, become my new accessoires érotiques, or three, get eaten."
"Get eaten? What the fuck do you mean?"
"Been listening to the radio? There is a heap of biomass, made of the same material as the fighters you encountered earlier, that's been going around the world getting stronger to kill me and then achieve its Corps Complet by eating the two of you. And as of right now he has taken out half of the human population just for that purpose."
"You've just gotta be shitting us bitch…"
"J'ai bien peur que non, I actually encountered it myself. Not that I had to worry to much at the time, although it has gotten stronger to where it might actually give me some trou…"
"Maman! There's something out in the desert, should I go and destroy it?"
#21 made a demonic smirk, "Let me look first…"
She grabbed her almost empty wine glass and walked out to the balcony.
Down below a distance away on an elevated rock, a creature stood. A green bug-like creature that had speckles all over its body with an orange orifice-like mouth, its face resembled that of the remote tracking device.
"D'accord, looks like it found me."
#17 ran out to see too, "What… the fuck… is THAT… weird looking thing?"
"The heap of biomass I was talking about," she turned to #16, "Stay here, Momma's got some trash to take out, okay?"
"What are you going to do?"
"Might want to change into something proper first, I shouldn't confront it with my seins unsecured. There's also this special vin I've been saving, now seems like the right time for drinking it."
She starts walking in, and soon comes out with a new glass of wine wearing a yellow sweater that exposed her shoulders and a bra, a tight magenta skirt, and black sheer tights.
At the bottom of the Temple:
"So, does this go here?"
"No!" Mr. Popo exclaimed, "I thought I showed you how to put the Kami no Daikagimusubime together, don't you remember."
"Sorry, my memory is kind of foggy. It's been a long time since I tried this, puzzles aren't my strong suit."
Piccolo spoke, "Weren't you going to talk to Trunks about #21?"
"Well I talked to Trunks and then Bulma and this might take a while, and I decided why not surprise Chi-Chi and Gohan by unlocking the Chamber for them and getting them out. I just didn't anticipate on just how hard it was, guess I should've not refused Kami's offer to succeed him after all."
Piccolo when into deep thought at those words, "I may need to tell them soon, perhaps it would be best when at least the Chamber gets unlocked."
On the platform:
"WHAT POWER!" exclaimed Tenshinhan, "It surpasses Frieza's dozens of times of over!"
"Yeah," Kuririn agreed, "And it belongs to Cell. So this is what absorbing half the population does."
Back in the desert:
#21 took a sip, "So, you've decided to face me again?"
Cell then jumped down from the rock-TP!
"Heh," Cell then clenched his fists and started to power up, "HYAAAAAAAHH!"
-HWAH!
A large portion of the rock Cell was standing on had exploded and crumbled away. There were still pieces falling.
-KLATA!
-KLATA!
-KLATA!
Cell's own aura was golden with the appearance of wailing souls.
#21 meanwhile was smirking, "Ça alors ! Is this what ingesting half of humanity has brought you?"
"Oh but I wasn't simply doing just that. You see, your lecture on how I 'was a collage of cells that just couldn't think past its programing', it gave me an epiphany. One that told me I didn't need to just follow my programming to achieve perfection. I actually did some, let's say, experimentation with the cells in me."
She took enough sip, « Oh ! Alors, t'as arriver dire merci. »
"I'd rather you not speak that tongue and confuse the readers! And what should I thank you for?! Although," Cell chuckles, "You did in a way give me my name, I could thank you for that. Although there is something else gave me on that day, some of your own cells!"
"And how is that of any importance?"
"We're the same… AREN'T WE!"
On the ledge Lapis and Lazuli looked on in shock and confusion.
"How the fuck are they the same!? THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THAT AT ALL!"
#21 was scowling at those words, "Tell me. What make you think you and I are the same?"
"I only needed to put the pieces together, while I waited for my stinger to grow back, I actually started to feel euphoric and energized! And then my power started to grow and my body started to grow and contort. I was in utter confusion since Gero's computer told me that should only happen when I absorbed either #17 or #18, but yet it was happening to me anyway."
"Oh, but how are you still in this form?"
"I vomited and then my body soon reverted afterwards but I realized though why you were so strong despite your appearance, you have a base similar to the cyborgs but you seem to also have Saiyajin and Freeza but how did you regenerate your leg? I didn't feel any Namekian in you."
She smiled, "Réponds à me-ce. Was there something else in what you absorbed from me?"
"Actually, there was something, I really have no idea what it was though. I think that's what caused me to vomit, my cells simply disagreed with yours and couldn't process it. Although the vomits itself was a weird pink goo. I couldn't identify what it was made of."
"And that's really where the similarités start to end. You may think we're the same type of cyborg or android but in reality we're levels apart."
"Levels apart? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!"
"As I said before you are a collage of cells, all of the cells in my body are my own! The ADN in my body is my own, I just only added on to it what I needed from the cell samples I already had on me. Although if you wonder what that other thing was, let's say I came upon a weird géode that was un casse-couilles to open. But when I did, its contents were, comme tu mets le, a weird ball of pink goo held by the crystals inside. Although, I was curious about its properties and well, et on connaît la suite."
"It didn't occur to me that there were other races that could regenerate so well. Especially compared to myself."
"True but you still have a weakness despite your regenerative ability."
"Weakness, what do you mean? I did make sure to contract the end of my tail into me so that won't happen this time."
"Your noyau, if that is destroyed there is no coming back. Where do you keep it, in your head? Wonder what would happen if someone blew your top half off?"
"What about you though?"
"That's one of the perks of using that something over Namekian ADN, I don't need a core to keep going, and also, why go through all the trouble of collecting the cyborgs to become perfect when you could be 'perfect' in your initial form?" she stuck her tongue out at Cell.
This infuriates the bug creature, "ENOUGH TALK! I'M GONNA KILL YOU NOW!"
Cell took up a stance and #21 chuckled, "Well then," she drops the wine glass, "I'll give you a free shot."
At those words Cell lunged at the auburnette was had her arms out to the side. They aimed a punch to her face, and it connects-BOK!
It has caused #21 to move back a step and her head was turned, and then she spoke, "Not bad, I'm more than sure you could take out Lapis, Lazuli, most of the Dragon Team, and probably #16. I might need to put some effort into this. Although," she turned her head back to Cell, "is that the best you can do?"
Before Cell could attack again-BOK!
#21 suddenly punches the bio-android away her, Cell stops though, "So that's how it's going to be, well then get a load of this…"
Cell raises their hand to the air and a large amount of ki starts forming into three disks above.
"Oh, is this what you mean by experimentation?"
"Now I'm starting to worry," #21 thought.
"TRIPLE KIENZAN!"
