Yurin's legs gave out from under her. She clenched her chest as her eyes fell onto the battlefield that was supposed to be her husbands. Instead she found a village gone, vanished in a crater, and one boy found. A headless human that wore Tarble's armor. It was impossible, she could not believe it. The forest nearby was set aflame with little to no care for the wilderness around it, smoldering at the rim of the crater and out of control even in the snowy land. Slowly the wind covered his body in a cold burial.

Yurin could only feel the wetness of her own tears streamed down her cheeks. Her body could only shake as she found herself hugging herself. She could not believe what she was seeing, what had happened to Tarble. Her chest felt like it was stabbed through, her body just felt heavy, she could barely hear Bulma's voice calling for her. A hand touching her shoulder, her tear full eyes turned to the concerned blue haired friend. "Yurin, what happened." Bulma asked softly, the instant sorrow that that crushed the serious look Yurin was worrying.

"T… Tarble is dead. His enemy… killed him… and took his-" Yurin's stomach lurched, the image of his frozen headless body now burnt in her mind. She could not hold the contents and retched.

"Yurin! Mr. Popo, take Yurin someplace she can rest." Bulma called out to the attendant, who was more than happy to get Yurin away from the edge of the Lookout. Bulma looked out to where Tarble had headed out, her finger pressed to the Dragon Scouter she had on to communicate with the others. "Attention, Tarble has been defeated. Anyone close to Jingle town, Be careful around that location." She announced to the others. The voice of Vegeta pierced into her ear to demand to know what happened. Garic stated that he was going that way, but was denied by Trunk with a statement he needed help still. A soft 'okay' came from Garic's comm. Chichi could be heard demanding where Vegeta was going. More and more it began to cause Bulma to have a headache. "Everyone quiet! Focus on the tasks. Threats have appeared all around the world and they cannot be found on scouters or be sensed. Our most advance equipment is damaged, and now our godly sight is missing. The Earth needs you to do what is needed, and stop this threat." She shouted, Goku backing her. He informed he would be headed to the next town to fight off who he could. "Goku, you sound groggy… you okay." Bulma asked her husband, who only commented that he woke up because of Vegeta's yelling in his ear.

-Svadhishthana-

Tarble's legs and arms burned as the strange creature burst forward at him. He pushed off his feet and tossed his own body to the side, his hands landing in the cool water and forced himself into the air. The same creature already zipped under him, barely dodged the bone breaking speed the creature went. Tarble quick to land on his feet and rotate his body to slip passed another burst. He was not sure how much longer he could deal with this, ever attempt to dodge the creature sped up and got closer. His eyes focused on the creature, when sudden a ball bopped of his head. Confused for a moment, but a moment to long. The creature slammed into his stomach and forced out all his air. Crashed into the water in a massive splash and raised dirt.

Nishi laughed loudly as she kicked into the air. "You should have seen your face. You were so surprised! You were all. 'I better focus or I will die. Wait did I get hit by a ball. BWAHH!'" She mocked, before laughing out loud. "You crack me up."

"Are you insane. You could have gotten me killed!" Tarble roared out, the creature shrank into his shell.

"Calm down, it was all in good fun." Nishi said, a wave of her hand showed how little she cared for his complaining. "Plus, your scaring Kulolo."

Tarble lifted the creatures shell and tossed him to the side. Nishi gasped when she saw this and her own face turned to anger as Tarble stood to stomp to her. "I expect an explanation of what the hell I am doing here damn it!"

"Apologize… Now." Nishi growled with her finger pointed to Tarble.

"Apologize? Why would I ever Apologize to you." Tarble screamed as his blood burned hot under his skin.

"Not to me you idiot. To Kulolo! He was just playing with you! And you throw him like he doesn't have feelings." Nishi pointed to the side. The turtle creature visible dejected. Its head hung low as it slowly walked away, hiccups caused the head to bob as it walked.

"He will get over it." Tarble said still angry as his sight turned to Nishi, a shocked looked on her face at his cold-hearted action.

"What turned you into his heartless monster?" She said in her surprise, her eyes shook in what appeared to be fear. She turned away, coughing into her own hand to collect herself. She turned to him, returned to her more serious look. "It is sad how often I tell you to play, and mention games… and still remain clueless. Cold, calculating, self-assured. All work and no play, such a pity."

"What, am I here to have fun? To enjoy myself while my friends are going to die? To wait for my wife and child to join me? To have died without a chance to defend myself and help them?" Tarble could still feel his blood still boiled.

"So, you instead take it out on someone that has no other goal than to make you happy?" Nishi's voice colder than usually. "Your anger to your own failure, it clouds your kinder side. You forget the reason why you train… or was it also to be a hero."

"Hero, I never saw myself as a hero." Tarble growled.

"You just said 'to have died without a chance to defend myself and help them.' You wanted to live so you could save the day, you even said 'To enjoy myself while my friends are going to die.' You don't even find your friends capable to finish a job you failed to do." Nishi's voice even shifted to match Tarble's when she spoke his words. "You cannot even let it go, knowing you cannot do anything. And enjoy your afterlife."

"It happened only a little while ago! You want me to move on in an instant." Tarble could feel his annoyance growing with her turning his words against him.

"Not an instant… but I want you to try." Nishi once more spoke coldly as she showed no fear of the warrior. She moved her hand before his face, a shimmer of sparkles. She then placed her fingers to her chin. "I see… so that is it. You're not use to this."

"What nonsense are you talking now?" Tarble growled as his fists tightened.

"You are not a happy person." Nishi snapped her fingers. "Of course, your rejecting this world so intensely. You don't know the sense of joy required to even take the first steps. I should have figured that out before trying to train you."

"You are talking like I am not even hear now. You speak like you know about me, but you do not. Not even Shin knows me that well, how can you?" Tarble's body shook as he was forced to deal with this woman.

"It feels bad when your ignored doesn't it. When you seek answers and are instead given nothing. But you still try the same way to get the answers. Yelling and throwing a tantrum. Ignoring your surroundings, ignoring those around you." Nishi returned her attention to Tarble. She shook her head softly. "I am going to have to force some empathy into you."

"Force some empathy! You speak like you care about me, but you refuse to provide any helpful information to what is going on." Tarble ranted. Nishi's hand went to his chest, and with a simply push he was sent back. His body skipped over the still water, again and again as his body was twisted by the sudden impacts.

"That probably felt really bad. No control. No one seeming to care." Nishi appeared over his head as he finally slides to a stop, a mound of sand peaked out of the water. "I am sorry, but I had to do it so you would know what it felt like."

Tarble confused by her statement, looked up to Nishi with a glare that at least told her that he was listening. Her finger only slightly shifted to point to Kulolo. The creature was still walking slowly, but its shell began to lose color and become a dull gray. Its walk seemed to look more like dragging then steps. Tarble still confused as he looked at the creature.

"Kulolo is the only other creature on this planet. He is all alone. And when you showed up, you were angry… sad… frustrated… and mean. But he still wanted to play with you, to make you happy. Then for all his hard work… you threw him to the side like he was nothing. You tossed him away like his life didn't matter. So, I threw you away to remind you… you are nothing to me. Your life does not matter. You won't be here long. I know your friends will win, because you died… and they will bring you back because of those dragon balls that brought me back." Nishi dropped down before Tarble and offered a hand. "The one thing here that cared about you, you ignored. Kulolo… he might not survive being rejected like he was."

"Why would he die simply because I made him sad." Tarble huffed, his eyes turned to the creature once more. Its legs seemed to give way, and it forced itself to stand.

"I don't know what it eats. But it seemed to enjoy me when I came for a visit, and stayed away from Minami. The man is too serious but not sorrow filled. He always preferred me, and I think it is because it survives on positive emotions. Maybe even just happiness." Nishi sighed. "And you are so negative, that you might have poisoned him. Your negative emotions, you scared him and then got rid of him. I am sure you know the feeling…"

"How would you know?" Tarble stood up with a grunt.

"Kulolo, he is like you when you were on planet Vegeta. Alone… fearing your father… and then tossed away when you were worthless." Nishi's voice faded.

When Tarble turned to face her, he was found with sand flattening and the endless still water. He looked to the pool of water at his feet. The ball once just dropped was at his feet. He thought for a moment on the joy filled noises the creature made when it tried to touch him. A groan left his throat, a quick grab of the ball as he rushed to Kulolo. Nishi obviously knew more than she let up, and it would be easier to get more answers without his mind focused Kulolo's condition.

-Roshi's Island-

"17 and 18, I know you are in there. I wish to speak to you both." 16 called out loudly. "I mean no harm, but will activate defensive measures if myself or 21 is attacked."

16 stood himself away from the door, between it and his ward. The large imposing body for the first time turned on both the androids, 18 remembered the power he had. She was sure she could manage him if he was not upgraded. But with the upgrades she was given as well as her brother, she could not suspect that 16 had no received the same treatment.

"I'll go out and speak to him, you stay here and run out with Krillin if it gets heavy." 17 spoke calmly. His thoughts were on the pain it would be to face against the only other being that appreciated wildlife like he did. Sure, he was just a robot, but years they had spent together protecting their little hunk of the world. ~I am the one who should do the deed if the deed needs done. ~ He thought to himself as he walked to the door.

"17, don't go out alone!" 18 tried to argue, Roshi's hand went to her shoulder. The blonde turned confused.

"This is something he needs to do. I don't think it will end poorly." The older man spoke his aged wisdom. "You are not far. You can jump in if you feel your brother is in danger." He also reassured, knowing that if things did take a turn, she would could not be stopped. "As for the other woman… I think we need to have a talk with her." He stood and headed to the back of his house; 18 not sure she was comfortable with the old lecher having ideas.

17 opened the door quickly, his cold blue eyes stared with the same intensity they use to when he first was turned to an android. 16's own soft intense stare, stern face showed no real emotion. The two did not speak at first, 17 took a few steps out into the sand. The young man once found the quietness of 16 to be annoying, until he realized that 16 tends to react to questions or statements than initiate the conversation.

"You said you had something to say. Speak up." The raven-haired android lifted his hand to lightly shift his hair back, a quirk he and his sister shared from time to time. A sign that they were prepared to fight. His eyes shifted to the woman behind 16, the robot positioned himself between the two.

"Where is 18? she should hear what is to be said as well." 16 spoke with his cold tone.

"I am the one you will be speaking to 16, 18 will hear what needs to be said later." 17 spoke quick and like a whip to end the line of questioning.

"Very well. 17, I have come to ask for your assistance."

"Assistance? Let me guess, you need me to come to an undisclosed location for help."

"There are more details, but that is the basic format of my request."

"Oh, so there is more. Feel free to tell me, I would love to hear this. Such as why that woman is here. I think you called her 21, she another android that Gero hid from us?" 17's feigned interest, but grew distrusting to 16's request already.

"I cannot give information I do not know. I can only share what I do know. Android 21 is a by product of Dr. Gero's machines, the same of Cell. She wishes to stop what is happening now. The entity in charge of this mass attack, the shift of power, and return of threats to earth. The capture of you, 18, and myself was due to this being's request. She assisted in freeing me of it's control, by giving me access to destroy the computer acting as a central brain."

"Are you saying you're the same 16 that I hung out with?" 17 was a little surprised, but his natural cold exterior did not break.

"Gero originally built me with programming to be passive, and put fail safes in my programing to now allow tampering. I could store information there, and the directive program would layer on top of it to look like a hiccup. I have stored my life since awakening with you all there. Several hundred years, most of it was filled with empty space though and was removed to conserve space. But my time with you, finding out about it when my directive changed to capture 18 the first time, and my time spent with you. When 21 reacted poorly to the most recent events, and my directive to follow her orders. I was able to override the computer's commands and remove the center of information."

"Well good for you bro. Now why come here."

"21 believes that the Cell we were attacked by will overpower the two of us. We need you two, as your strength is not directly affected by the Ki Wave Inhibitor that was activated. It has also put a limit to the person in control, as it has weakened and is currently suppressed. We could not kill it as it is now still, but possibly if we ruin its plans, we can weaken it enough for everyone to finish it."

"So, you want me and 18 to trust that what you say is true, and risk being turned into weapons again."

"If I was controlled to capture you, I would have attempted to measure power output to kill Roshi and Krillin, but force you both unconscious. Cell wished to test himself before, I do not care to find my limits."

"I guess that is a direct way of saying, that I came with friendly intension."

"Correct."

-Roshi-

While the conversation was going on, Roshi knew his Ki was small compared to the others. It was possibly that he would go unnoticed even being a relatively powerful being for humans. He stepped out of the back of his long-time home, lightly stretched his back which was followed by a series of pops. Twisting his neck to pop it as well before a slight shift of his body parts released the tension of old age. He then leaped forward into the ocean; he did not have much time after all. Diving deep into the sea, before propelling himself quickly through the water. He held his breath for a long time, a show of the amazing bodily control he had as he circled his own island. Slipping out behind 21, his body dripped with the sea water. He lifted himself out slowly and steadily regained his breath.

17 and 16 were still in her conversation as 21 nervously stood waiting. It did not sound like 17 was believing 16. She feared that the two of them might even get into a battle. Was it wrong for her to seek out the two modified humans? Would it have been better for her to risk going out on her own to stop everything? ~You are going to fail anyway ~ A voice in her mind kept nagging her. She could feel her darker side constantly poking at her walls, trying to find a chink in her mind to torment her more. Her mind snapped its attention away from the darker side's provocation, when she felt a hand place firmly on her butt. Her eyes went wide, her hands lifted to her lips to stop herself from making a noise. Her body quickly shifted away as her gaze turned to an older man that came up behind her with no warning, noising him dripping wet.

"Hehehe, hello there." Roshi remarked as his hand fell behind him and he took a more master like stance. "I am the one known as Muten Roshi; I don't take many students… but I feel you might have what it takes to move beyond human potential. I could train you, if you would like. It won't be easy." The older man placed his sunglasses onto his face.

"Umm… thanks… But that is not why…" 21 felt more confused, and not sure what to expect of the old man. "I thank you for your offer, but we are looking to have 17 and 18 join us. I am not looking to learn martial arts."

"Such wasted potential." Roshi sighed as he stroked his beard. "So why do you stand behind your friend? Surely it would be better if you stood next to him."

"What do you mean?" 21 asked confused.

"Games are less fun when you're not playing along. You cannot always stay in the sidelines after all. Take that for all that it is; you decide what it means to you." Roshi said as he walked forward. "When you are done with all this, feel free to come by and I can teach you a thing or two. It would be nice to have another woman around the house, especially one that is not married. Hohoho"

21 blushed lightly from the oldman's advancement as he spoke of training her. "I… I have a boyfriend." She admitted; her mind turned to Raditz. Her memories of just walking with him around the labs, how he was so strict with security and determined to protect his sister-in-law and everything she owned. Her mind then shifted to the events of her capture, and him possibly killed under rubble. "Raditz…"

Roshi walked to the two men speaking, 16 finally registering Roshi nearby. The human's power was so low that he did not register as a threat, which still caught the robot by surprise. Roshi just waved as if to brush away the robot's concern with an absentminded gesture. "Young man, I sensed no need to worry. The young lady over there is trustworthy, I need no more time to determine that. You and 18 should help them out, I will watch out for Krillin and have him head out once he is up and ready."

"It is not that easy, old man. We are still talking here." 17 did not appreciate Roshi butting in the way he did, and had no reason to accept his advice.

"You should know when it is good to take advice, I am not your enemy." Roshi remarked as he stepped into the house. "You should go out and join them, I know you want to." He spoke to 18, the woman stood with her arms crossed.

"What makes you so sure?" She said with her eyes glared down at the old man.

"You are not the kind of woman to let her family be threatened. From what happened to Krillin, we can only suspect the others had the same thing happen. You two might be the only two who can help stop it. But you are smarter than your brother out there." Roshi laughed slightly, he could feel the glare from 17. "I better head up stairs before your brother makes a vacancy in this house."

18 watched as Roshi moved to the upstairs of his own house, the old man still soaked and trailing water into the house. "Clean up your mess." 18 shouted, before she exited the door way. "Bring 21 up. I want answers."

16 nodded before he turned to face 21, a simple motion for her to approach. She was nervous and walked forward with her hands held together in front of her. She looked to the ground at first, feeling responsible as it was her evil side that recent forced them into their new battle armor which they still wore, and tricked into upgrading for the purpose to act as pawns. The eyes of both 17 and 18 were intense.

"So… what is your plan? Step by step. I want to know how stupid it will be." 18's voice stern as she did not care for the meek nature of 21.

"R-right. The plan." 21 for a moment stopped to think of the plan. "My idea was… Gero has many labs. Each of them helps the others but have specific means of their own progress. By that, I mean that I mean each had its own major project. Some are none necessary, such as the one working on a ship for space travel. What we will be targeting is a man power location. By doing so, we will limit the production of all the others. It will also allow the others to move against the clones attacking."

"How will it help the others work against… Clone did you say?" 17 asked, confused as they had not been attacked by clones as of yet.

"Yes, part of the world assault was to use clones of the greatest fighters. It could ruin any good will to them, as well as provide an effective fighting force. Though their powers are not greater than the original." 16 spoke up to inform the other two. "Clones have become activated, and if left alone they will cause mass destruction."

"And if we get ride of this power center, they will sudden be dealt with?" 18 asked wish some suspicion to her voice.

"Not directly, but the clones all care something called a Ki Distribution Emitter. It is a device with a small battery on its own, it won't last more than a few minutes. Its main power comes from the wireless relay array hidden with the other labs. If we destroy where that power comes from, the labs will all center their own power stations to themselves and the emitters will deactivate. Once they do, their Ki will be something that can be sensed and we can start targeting clone clusters to eliminate threats."

"Okay, but how does this stop the big boss?" 17 asked.

"The 'big boss', as you call it, can absorb and devour creatures. Like the Buu creature did only a few years ago." 21 drew upon the knowledge her evil-self had to try and explain the situation. Since she was absorbed, she could pull on knowledge on the surface of her darker side. "So, knowing where they are and destroying them makes it so our enemy cannot grow stronger."

"Then we should target the cloning lab first and skip the clones already out to deal with them later." 18 argued against the plan.

"No, if we do that… we will end up fighting the enemies greatest ally. We need to ensure we have others able to help or able to attack the location." 21's face turned to worry, the twins looking at her strangely. "Sorry, we need to target the power area first. Then the body guard will be forced to move as well, and leave the cloning lab unguarded. Then we eliminate the food source for our bigger enemy. We then can target other labs along the way, but leave the wave inhibitor lab for last."

"Why last? Everyone being more powerful would mean we have a better chance." 18's eyes glaring intensified.

"If we target it to soon, the creature will come out sooner. We need time to prepare. I give off Ki, which means the others will be able to find use through me."

"You make it sound like your powerful, why do you need us again?" 18 asked, looking over the not very warrior like woman.

"I… I am meant to be used as a power enhancer for the creature. I give off a lot of Ki so it can find me and absorb me. My plan was to…" 21 eyes shifted to 16 as she spoke. "To use that Ki to instead detonate at the Ki Inhibitor location, to remove any trace of it and allow you all to gather allies to fight the enemy if it does not take it out as well."

"So, your purpose was to be absorbed… Gero must have a fetish for forcing people to be components of the next project." 17 spoke with some disgust.

"Well, the plan is not as bad as I thought. So, if we meet this boy guard, we all fight him as one." 18 placed her hands to her side. "Might be fun, and it will allow me to get some of this hatred I have for who ever did this. It won't be cured tell I get to the person responsible and I tear them to shreds, but it will have to do."

"Does that mean you will join us?" 21 ask, hope in her eyes as she looked at the twins.

The two smiled and nodded. "But only because you brought our friend back to us." 17 remarked as he held out his fist for 16, the robot lifted his hand to bump into the long-time friend. "And that was my final test. Took me months telling 16 to do that, tell he just simply did it when ever I put my fist out. Doubt a reprogrammed 16 would know to do that."

21 surprised and could only giggle at the action. The four of them soon took off for the first lab. They hoped to take care of things quickly. It was not like they had infinite time. 21 could feel the dark side's claws in her psyche. The occasional clone battle allowed 17 and 18 to realize their power was must greater than before, 16 joined in to hold back others to remind them he was still power on their own. 21 stood behind to cheer, but could feel herself begin regretting not joining in. She wanted to step up. Every time she thought about it, she also felt she could lose herself. A fine line was drawn, and she was not sure she could tread on it without tipping over.

Tarble's training seems to be taking a rocky start, is it because of Nishi's poor teaching or is there another reason Tarble is having trouble taking to this moon? Mean while the others are reacting to Tarble's death, without knowing where the other Earth Dragon Balls are, and not knowing that Namek's Dragon Balls were used. 21 and the others now making moves to try and counter evil 21's, though not by telling the truth. Will we see things play out in our hero's favor, or will things shift for the worse? Let's see what happened in the next chapter!

Also, CHAPTER 100! I honestly did not think I would go so far. Thank you all that have kept up this whole time! I have been enjoying this little project, and will try to continue into super!