Cyborg Gothic

Part 2

Up in the air above a motorway, Vegeta the Prince of All Saiyans, and Gothic, also known as Android 21, battled. The blows they traded could shatter concrete walls with ease, and the energy blasts they threw at each other were capable of creating craters in the ground.

Below them, three pairs of eyes tracked the fight between those powerful beings. Both of the fighters above were moving at the speed of sound, yet Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen had no trouble keeping up with the intense action that was going on in the sky.

"You know I think Vegeta really doesn't like Gothic" Android Seventeen said as he watched the Saiyan attempt to destroy Twenty One "How long have they been at it"

The cyborg knew very well how long the battle had been going on as he had an internal clock, he was just making conversation.

"About 20 minutes" Android 18, his twin sister, answered "But it feels like at least an hour".

She reached out and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear before saying anything else

"I don't get why this is taking so long" she then said "We all know that 21 can easily kill him. He should just get this over with".

17 smirked as he continues to watch the fight above. He understood exactly why his fellow cyborg was drawing things out.

Actually there were two reasons. The first was because Android X, as he was also known, wanted to find out exactly what he was a capable of doing. The other reason was that 21 wanted to hurt the prince.

"There's no fun in just killing him" the male twin explained "Besides giving Vegeta a chance to believe that he can win and then taking that hope away will hurt him more than anything X could do to his body".

Sixteen didn't care at all, but Eighteen did as she was bored. Still she rather liked 21 so she wouldn't interfere, at least not yet.

"Okay I'll give him some more time" she decided "But if this fight doesn't end soon I will end it".

Seventeen felt a chill run down his spin. Twenty One was the superior model, but Eighteen was a woman and therefore she was much scarier than any male cyborg could ever hope to be.

"What he's doing now?" Eighteen asked.

Seventeen focused his vision and saw that Gothic now had was surrounded by an aura the colour of blood.

"Hey, Sixteen" the male cyborg asked the red headed machine "Do you have any idea how Twenty One did that?".

In fact 16 did.

"Asides from being programmed with great fighting skills. Android X has the ability to replicate all known Ki techniques" the android explained "Currently he is using the Kaioken ".

Both of the cyborgs were confused.

"Kaio-What?" they asked.

Sixteen explained.

"It is a fighting technique that multiplies the power level of the user allowing them to inflict serious damage upon opponents who are normally considerably stronger than them" the android said "While in the state, the user's aura becomes crimson in colour".

That greatly surprised both Seventeen and Eighteen as while they'd known that Gothic already surpassed them, but they had also known that their combined power would be enough to destroy Android 21.

Now things were different, even with the aid of Sixteen they might not be able to stop Twenty One if he turned on them.

"Let's not piss him off, ever" Eighteen suggested.

Seventeen nodded his agreement and then he went back to watching the battle. By the looks of things the Prince of all Sayians was about to die.

(Line Break)

While I had no numbers on a screen to check I did know that I had been fighting the Prince of Nothing for more than a quarter of an hour, yet we continued to duke it out. I had some kind of internal clock that let me know how much time had passed, and also I knew that I still had enough energy to keep going.

Mostly this was because Vegeta was the one putting all the effort into the fight, he made me look like I wasn't even trying. All I had to do was either dodge or block every punch and kick, as for the energy blasts they were a little harder to deal with.

So far I'd avoided or deflected all of them, and that was making a big mess of the area, as Vegeta didn't seem to care about collateral damage. More than once he had attempted to blast me out of the sky only to end up destroying some poor sods down on the freeway. Hopefully someone would come along and close the road.

My not dying seemed to make the royal alien even more pissed off. Now it was like I was fighting a 5 year old with the powers of a god. He'd have a hissy fit, and other people would suffer for it. Then he would rant some more.

"Stand still and face me you coward!" Vegeta ordered "I'm going to turn you into spare parts and then sell you for scrap metal .

The single biggest reason why this fight had lasted this long was that the prince spent a lot of time insulting me, and also ranting about what a great fighter he was. Despite the fact that he had no evidence whatsoever to support this claim.

And the other reason was that I badly wanted to find out what I could do. I didn't know what my limits were, and this was a good way to discover my new limits. However the fight was rapidly getting dull.

Since I now wanted to end things I waited until Prince of Nothing and No One attacked me as I intended to disable him I easily caught the fist he'd planned to hit me the face with.

"I'm sorry I can't hear you over how much you suck" I told the fighter "Care to say that again".

Vegeta snarled at me while struggling to free his hand from my grip, and I would have paid more attention to him but new information was flooding into my mind. Something called the Kaioken was available to me.

"Okay I have no idea what that is" I said to myself "The explantion was not helpful".

So I decided the best course of action was to try out this Kaioken.

::Warning this mode can not be sustained over long periods::

I found the voice in my head to be super freaky given that it sounded like Gero, but I still heeded the words.

"Kaioken!" I heard myself shout.

While I couldn't see myself I was able to feel the changes this technique brought about, my power had doubled, and it really startled Vegeta.

"Oh no not this again!" he called out.

It also surprised me because I so easily dislocated the wrist in my grip. While I could have done that before it would have taken some effort, now it was mere child's play.

Vegeta screamed out in pain as I then broke every bone in right hand. The cries of pain and the noise the breaking bones made came together as such sweet music.

"Oh what's the matter Vegeta?" I taunted "Did we shake hands to hard?"

A moment later I ended up ducking under a leg swipe while still in the air. The alien warrior was amazingly flexiable. Had he been female, and far less annoying, I would have enjoyed seeing what those legs could do.

I reached out and grabbed the limb that had nearly hit me, and doing that really limited the prince movement wise.

"This has been amusing, your highness" I said "But all fun things must come to an end".

My next action was to spin and then throw the short alien fight to the ground. I did it so hard that there seemed to be a short Earthquake upon impact. Several cars on the motorway below crashed, and I winced as I'd had no desire to hurt anyone else. Not unless I had to.

Seconds after the most recent multi car pileup, Vegeta emerged from the crater I'd made just by throwing him into the ground. With my enhanced eyes I was able to see all the bruises and cuts he had. Also I could see that his blonde hair had reverted back to normal.

I didn't know if it was pride or just plain stubbornness that allowed the Prince of Nothing to keep on fighting, but it did impress me. So rather than blast the fighter before he could even stand up I decided let him return to what I guessed to be his Super Saiyan form. Also I hoped that right now I didn't have wavy red hair like he had wavy gold hair that matched the colour of his aura as that would look so silly.

The alien warrior was about as subtle as rampaging rhino so I was easily able to anticipate his next attack. I countered the move and sent the Saiyan crashing back down into the crater that I had created before.

"Face down with another man beating your ass" I said the short alien fighter "Is it Friday Night already Vegeta?".

Rather than answer me my question the fool with the silly hair fired a big energy blast at me, but I just batted it aside.

"Well that was rude" I commented.

I felt a strong desire to destroy the prince then. My Kaioken mode not only increased my power two fold it also made me feel more aggressive. But that was fine with me as fighting the prince had stopped being enjoyable, and since he clearly wanted to destroy me I had no reason to spare his life.

By the time Vegeta had recovered enough to crawl out of the crater I was ready to end him.

"You're going to have to try a lot harder than that if you think you can beat me android." Vegeta boldly stated "For I am the Prince of all Sayians!".

That made me smirk.

"So your the ruler of a dead race and a blown up planet" I replied "Big whoop".

Somewhere in the back of my head there was information that Dr Gero, or perhaps his partner, had put there and aside from giving the info needed to isult people it told me how to do many interesting things. Including some signature moves of other fighters.

"BIG BANG ATTACK!" I shouted.

I had to admit that it was pretty awesome to be able to do stuff like that.

(Line Break)

"Well Vegeta is dead" I told Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen as I landed in front of them "I killed him with his own finishing move".

I so loved the irony of that.

"Vegeta is not dead" Sixteen then told me "One of his comrades was able to save him".

This made me very unhappy.

"Ah Crapbaskets" I moaned "Now I have to fight him again".

It would not be anywhere near as fun the second time. I'd have to snap his neck or something as nothing else would shut the guy up.

"How do you know he survived?" 18 then asked of 16.

His answer wasn't long in coming.

"I can still detect his power level" the android explained "If he had been terminated then I would not be able to do that".

Well that made sense. Although what wasn't so reasonable was why I wasn't able to sense him. It seemed like a flaw to me.

"At the moment of your attack I sensed another high power level close by" the red head then informed us "Therefore I concluded that Vegata was saved by one of his friends".

Which meant that I might have to kill some other people as well.

"Don't worry about it, Gothic" assured Eighteen "Once we kill Goku we can take his friends out when ever we want".

That was when I sensed something. It was a very human feeling, that tingle in the spine.

"Or we could just kill them now" 17 suggested.

I turned to see the rest of Goku's friend and I wondered what they had been doing for the half an hour I'd been messing about with Vegeta and talking with the 17,18 and 16. Then I wondered how the heck the prince was even standing right now. He'd been nearly dead when last I saw him and now he looked much better.

"Oh come on, I need to go clothes shopping; I don't want to kill Son Goku looking like this" Eighteen was now saying "Do we really have to fight these guys right now".

Given that we were still waiting for some transport to make its way down this road, which wasn't the same one that I'd destroyed, we couldn't have gone anywhere. Well we could have but Seventeen really wanted to drive, and for some reason we were indulging him.

"Hey look a truck!" Seventeen called out.

Driving that would be very cool, assuming one of us even knew how to drive, but there was a one small problem.

"We need something with four seats" I pointed out "Cause you know there's four of us".

Seventeen deflated a little upon hearing that, but not for long as the truck driver lost his control of his vehicle, most likely because he'd tried to avoid running someone over, and seconds later the truck was going off the edge. It even exploded, for some reason.

"Let's just keep an eye for a car" I then suggested "A not exploding model".

Hopefully one would be along sooner rather than later. I was itching to get moving.

"You dare ignore me!" the prince of a blown up world suddenly shouted.

Making Vegeta mad was so much fun it should be illegal, and as for the rest of them they just didn't seem to grasp how meaningless they were when compared to beings of such power. Had I been alone I might have worried, but we were hardly outnumbered.

"Oh I forgot, you're still around" I said in a bored tone of voice "What do you want? Can't you see were busy waiting for a car to drive by so we can steal it?".

Plus we really did need to go shopping for new outfits. Mine was getting damaged, and I really preferred to be in all black. My red ribbon t-shirt really didn't suit me.

"You're not going anywhere" the alien warrior declared.

That was when I turned my back on him. This really annoyed him.

"I will not be ignored android!" Vegeta yelled

The short alien began to fire beams of energy at me. However I skilfully avoided each blast. It was almost too easy.

"Your aim is terrible" I mocked.

That didn't stop him from trying to blast me again, but I couldn't be bothered to keep dodging so I started slapping away the few energy blasts sent my way that actually had a chance of hitting me. I didn't know how I could do such a thing, but it was super cool, or at least it was until I missed a blast and got hit. It actually hurt, at least a little.

"Okay I'm going to start hitting you now" I told the prince "And I don't know if I will ever be able to stop".

That was when Seventeen addressed the others

"And if anyone gets in his way I will make you regret it" the promised.

Before any of Goku's friends could say anything I was standing in front of Vegeta and soon the prince was no longer able to stay on his feet. My kick to his gut badly winded him, and the punches I'd landed on other parts of his body didn't do him any favours.

I would have finished him off right there and then, but the purple haired guy decided that he wanted a turn. This didn't work out well for him as I was finally able to take his sword. As for the rest of the fighters they didn't fair much better either as Seventeen and Eighteen kicked their asses in short order.

"As much as we would love to stay and fight you guys some more" I told the warriors "We do have places to be".

I really did need some new clothes, and now that I had a sword so I had to get myself a nice scabbard to with it.

"Come on, seventeen, twenty-one" Eighteen urged "We're leaving. We'll find a car later".

I took off into the air and followed the others as we headed to where ever it was we were going.