One year later…
Name: #9
Power Level: 1,975,000
Side note: Has stopped growing in height. No longer needs
maintenance. Still ages. Is now physically about 24 years old. Has now been alive for about 23 years.
Name: Vegita
Normal Power Level: 800,000
Power Level at Super Saiyajin: 2,100,000
Name: Krillin
Power Level: 90,000
Name: Gohan
Power Level: 700,000
Name: Piccilo
Power Level: 1,500,000
Name: Teinshinhan
Power Level: 85,000
Name: Yamcha
Power Level: 80,000
Chapter 57
Vegita finally got out of his moroseness a while ago. Bulma also had her child, but Vegita paid little attention. What a surprise.
Later, Vegita seemed to pay some attention to his kid, who was named Trunks, after he saw Trunks has great fighting potential. I think that's what brought Vegita away from his moping. He has something to do.
I get up and turn on the TV in the living room while ignoring Vegita who's in the fridge. Feh, all of these stupid soap operas are such a waste. I turn it to a news channel, what TV should be ment for.
"News Flash! Penguin Village has been destroyed. We do not know how it has happened, but it is now wrecked. We will come back with more news later."
Huh! Why didn't I notice? I check the direction towards Penguin Village. There's a large 'hole' of no kis. "What's wrong?" Bulma asks me while holding Trunks. "Some place called Penguin Village was destroyed." "What?" "Yeah. But I didn't notice any type of power charge required to do that…" I mutter. "I'm going." I get up. "What about you Vegita?" I ask. "I don't care for the lives of this planet. I'm quite surprised you do." he replies. "I don't. I just want to know why I didn't notice it." I leave.
Ten minutes later. Piccilo, Krillin, and I are here. "You guys found out too?" I ask. "I saw it on the news." Krillin responds. Piccilo grunts. "Did you guys feel anything?" Krillin asks. "No." Piccilo and I reply. Strange.
We know it had to be someone proficient in ki manipulation just by the level of destruction… unless the world has started nuking itself.
I see a movement out of the corner of my eye. Looking down, I spot two floating figures I don't recognize. One tall and sort of slim, the other fat. "Hey, guys." I whisper and point at the two figures. "Let's check it out." Piccilo orders.
We move in rapidly and surround them. "Who are you?" I ask. The tallest one turns around. I see his face. "Gero!" I reel back in surprise. "You know him?" Piccilo asks. "What the hell? How-?" I barely manage to say.
"I am not 'Gero'. I am Number Twenty and I am in search of Son Goku." Gero says to us all. Krillin and Piccilo stare at me. "N-number Twenty!" I stutter. This is too much.
"Who is he!" Piccilo demands of me. I ignore him. #20 looks at Piccilo. "Piccilo, you are no match." he looks at Krillin "Krillin, you are no match." he then looks at me "Number Nine. Power undefined." Gero finishes. I can't read any of their powers. Must be a different version.
It's obvious now, they're androids.
"ANSWER ME!" Piccilo yells. "Just prepare for a fight." I respond. I notice that Gohan has arrived. "Who are those guys?" he asks. Teinshinhan, Chaozu, and Yamcha appear shortly after.
I lift my hand and fire a beam at Gero. He dodges with ease. "This time, I will give you no mercy!" I growl at him. The others stare at me as if I'm insane. I don't care. "Where is Son Goku?" he asks again. "Fuck you Gero!" I reply.
"So be it." Gero dashes at me and we start fighting all out. The fat one grins and attacks the others.
Gero hasn't hit me yet. I kick him in the throat, which didn't damage him. Expecting that, I leap back before he can get a hold on me. He fires a beam at me, I block with ease. After a long while of fighting with him, I notice that I'm actually much stronger than him. Gero notices too.
"DIE!" I kick him in the head, he reels back. "Number Nineteen!" he calls out. I get head butted right in my back. "What the?" I spin around and kick #19 back. "SWOOSH!" I turn around, but Gero is gone. "DAMN YOU!" I yell at #19. He grins, and I charge up a beam and blow his fool head off.
"Who was that?" Krillin asks me. I sigh. "Dr.Gero. A scientist who worked for the Red Ribbon army. He is who created me. Apparently he turned himself into an android as well." I tell them all. "Why do you want him to die if he created you?" Gohan asks innocently. "Because he didn't ask me if I wanted to be an android. I don't know much of my past life, but I do know I was human and that I didn't want to become what I am." I reply.
"I'm following him. He's probably heading for his laboratory. If he hasn't moved it, I'll find it in no time." I take off and the others follow me shortly afterwards.
There! I see movement in the canyon walls. "DIE!" I shoot a beam down. Gero flies out and shoots away from me at full speed. "No you don't!" I give chase. As fast as I am, Gero manages to keep ahead of me. As well as dodge my attacks. Damn him…
He is heading for the same laboratory though. The doors open and Gero shoots in. Then the doors close as I land. "Hmph!" I go to the keypad and start typing in the code.
"ERROR" the panel flashes at me. "DAMNIT!" I smash the panel. "What now?" Chaozu asks. "Just watch…" I charge up my sword and stab it right between the doors.
"HA!" I blow the doors apart. Then, I see Gero holding some remote control and two teenage androids, one male and one female, standing at attention.
"What is this Gero?" I ask. "Numbers Seventeen and Eighteen, attack them!" Gero orders. All of a sudden, the male android grabs that remote from Gero. "I don't think so…" he crushes the remote. I smile, reminds me a lot of #8 and I several years back.
"What are you doing #17?" Gero asks the male android. #17 decapitates Gero. His head rolls in front of me. "NO! You're still malfunctioning!" Gero's head says. I sneer and crush it under my boot.
"Well, what do we have here?" the other android asks, I assume she's #18. #17 turns to us. "Well, it looks like five warriors. One green martian, a bald monk, a triclops, a pale doll, and a kiless wonder!" #17 answers.
"Well, what do we do now?" #18 asks of #17. "I dunno. Might as well carry out our programming." #17 glances at us "Where's Son Goku?"
"Why do these guys want Goku?" Chaozu asks Teinshinhan. "He's dead." Piccilo answers. "What a shame." #17 mutters. "Now what sis?" "I dunno. How about havoc and destruction?" "Sounds like fun!" #17 exclaims.
Everyone behind me except Piccilo looks at each other nervously. I stare at #17. "Why not come with me?" I offer. Hey, it sounds better than destruction. "Nah, destruction has got to be more fun. How about you join us?" #18 throws back.
I sigh and pull out my sword. "You aren't going to wreck this planet." "Oh? And you're going to stop us with that toothpick?" #17 mocks. "Yeah, I am." #17 and #18 attack our group. I engage with #17 and ignore the other one.
SHIT! He's strong. I don't know how strong, but possibly stronger than me. "Tell me, can you feel pain?" #17 questions. "Nope." I kick him in the chest and he flies backwards. "Ok. Just curious." he shoots a beam at me, which I barely block and I reply with a cresent beam that misses. His fist hits my face and I knee him in the stomach. #17 just punches me again and I flip him into the ground.
"PICCILO!" I hear Gohan scream. His power rises drastically. Maybe he went Super Saiyajin or something. I get distracted and #17 slams me into the wall. "Concentrate on me." I head butt #17 and stab him through the chest.
"I bet that'd hurt if I could feel pain." #17 says in a bored tone and shoots a very strong beam at me. This time I can't block and I go flying right out of the laboratory. #17 follows and pummels me in the torso. I hit him right back. "You're good, but I'm the strongest!" #17 says as he flies into the air. I charge up a Bloody Eraser.
#17 then starts a powerful machine gun attack. "BLOODY ERASER!" I fire my beam which hits #17 right on. He has to be injured badly after that…
The smoke clears and #17 is floating inside of some sort of clear bubble which disappears. He then resumes his machine gun attack. I try my best to block or dodge them all, but the blasts are too fast, too many, and too strong to easily repel. I get severly cut up, and that last beam drained a lot of power.
"SHI-NE!" I swing my blade shooting a cresent beam. #17 bats it away. "Hmm… you're good, but flawed. That beam was weaker than it could have been. You don't have infinte energy." "Infinite energy?" "Yes. I, as well as my sis, can fire as many beams as we want for as long as we want." Damn…
"You've been amusing, but it's time I end this." #17 machine gun blasts me at point blank range until my body can't hold out any more and I shut down.
Chapter 58
I wake up. Damn… what's happened here? The surrounding area is leveled and the laboratory is mostly destroyed. My power has risen to 2,050,000.
"Piccilo…" I hear Gohan mutter. I walk over and arrive just in time to see Gohan's hair fade away from gold and go back to normal. "Gohan. What's our situation?" I demand of him. "#9! I thought that other guy killed you!" "Not quite. Situation?" "Uh… ah… we didn't get 'em." Gohan says. "Okay…" that wasn't exactly what I was looking for. A more descriptive answer would be nice. "Who's injured and or dead?" I ask. "Piccilo is dead. I think Chaozu is too… I can't find Teinshinhan either…" Gohan's face is the ultimate visage of sadness. "Kuso…" I mutter and look to the horizon. Fire seems to fill the sky.
"Let's go to Capsule Corporation Gohan." I say. Gohan nods and we leave.
"What's going on?" Bulma asks me as we land. "Know Dr.Gero?" "Of course!" "Well, he made some more androids and all hell is breaking loose. Many people have died." I tell her.
"Honto?" Vegita asks. "Yeah." Vegita leaves. "Just wanted to make sure they haven't hit here. I suggest you call up your friends and that you all get the hell out of here." I say. "What?" "The androids already killed Piccilo and Chaozu. Teinshinhan is missing, possibly dead. This is serious shit and the area will probably be a warzone shortly." I leave her with those words.
"What about me?" Gohan asks as I leave. "Go with Bulma. Chichi would want you back alive." I say and take off after Vegita.
When I arrive, Vegita, already in Super Saiyajin, and #18 are fighting in the middle of a highway. I'm not noticed yet and I spot #17 below me. Heh, perfect. I charge up my Bloody Eraser. As soon as I fire, #17 looks up. "NANI KUSO!" and he's winged by my beam.
"You again… I thought I killed you." "Nah. I'm made of sterner stuff!" #17 grins. "Shall we continue then?" "Of course." we start fighting again.
We end up fighting among #18 and Vegita. This highway is getting pretty torn up. All of a sudden, Vegita slams into me. "Watch where you're going!" Vegita yells. Two beams hit us both.
I fight on, but Vegita is stunned. "DIE!" I fling a very powered up crescent shaped beam from my sword. #17 is flung to the ground and it cuts through the mountain ahead of us.
"HAHA! Very good! I guess I should fight seriously, ne?" "Fight seriously?" "Hai!" #17 slams his fist into my face and I fly backwards. I kick at #17's gut as he flies at me again, but he disappears and his foot connects with my back.
"SHIMATTA!" Vegita screams. #17 barely misses my skull with his fist but then I get kicked in the torso. Flying up, I start shooting dual beams, but none connect with #17. I leap back and land on a moving truck. #17 catches up quickly and lands. We engage in a string of kicks and punches. #17 easily overcomes me.
"KISAMA!" I scream and let loose my 'ki bomb'. Basically, my suicide move where I release my ki in an explosive manner with no direction. #17 is flung back and slams into the ground. But he is uninjured.
#17 looks at me for a second, then turns around and watches the battle with #18 and Vegita. He's ignoring me! "He's almost dead you know." #17 says without turning towards me. He's right. Vegita, while fighting ferociously, is weakening.
Then #18 shoves her fist through Vegita's chest. "Ah… ah… no…" #18 grins. "Can't… die… yet…" blood starts to dribble out of Vegita's mouth. "I beg to differ." #18 says coolly. Vegita tries to say something, but he only gurgles blood. "Aw… did my sis break her new toy?" #17 says mockingly.
"What about him?" #18 points at me. "Oh yeah." #17 turns towards me and I prepare myself for the fight of my life. "Wait!" "Huh? Why?" #17 is confused. "Let him live for now." "Why should I?" "I like him." #17 lifts an eyebrow, then grins. #18 smacks him upside the head. "Not that way, baka. I like him because he's one of us. An android, no matter how outdated. He's part of our family, and we don't kill family, at least, not right away…" #18 grins. #17 shrugs "Fine." then they both leave.
They SPARED me? I was SPARED! Anger boils inside of me. No… there are more important matters. Like the news of Vegita's death. I pick up his body and carry it to Capsule Corporation.
Chapter 59
"What happened!" Bulma asks once she sees Vegita and I. "I thought I told you to leave." "Everyone else left." "So? You leave too." "I demmand to know what happened!" I drop Vegita carefully.
"I told you, they're powerful. I can't stop them and neither could Vegita. I was lucky to escape with my life." I answer her. "What are you doing with Vegita?" "Giving him the most proper funeral I can." I then incinerate him. "Where'd everyone go?" I ask. "To Roshi's Island." "Then get in your plane and go." I order her. She actually listens this time and leaves, but not tearlessly. Since Piccilo's dead, Kami's dead too. So Vegita's dead for good. Argh, didn't we just get over that with Kakarotto?
Bulma leaves in her plane. I look towards the towns, doesn't seem to be much happening right now. I sigh. I've been sighing a lot lately. Nowhere to go. I go to Kami's Palace. Why? I don't know, just felt like it.
"Kami-sama!" I hear Mr.Popo cry in anguish. Never talked to Mr.Popo much, but I know he's devoted and doesn't deserve to lose his friend. I look over the edge. Here and there I see small flames, showing where those two androids are at. They're destroying this planet, and there's not a damned thing I can do about it.
"DAMNIT!" I scream at the world.
Chapter 60
It's been three weeks since the appearance of #17 and #18. I relocated to Roshi's island as well, but still go to Kami's Palace often. From Kami's Palace, I can watch what is happening, keep an eye on this world. Not to mention it's an excellent training area.
Right now, the 'twin terrors' are leaping quickly from area to area. They made short work of the rest of the world, but they seem to like Japan. Or hate it…
While they just flat out leveled the rest of the planet, the two anroids seem to enjoy toying with Japan. They will go town to town, toying with the people. It's a sad sight indeed. Bulma ought to be glad she listened to me, two days ago, Hope City, which also includes Capsule Corporation, was attacked.
Bulma now wants to go back. That's fine, they probably won't come back to Hope City for a while anyway.
"Let's go!" Bulma cries out. I turn away from the ocean. "Goodbye and good luck!" Roshi calls out as she goes to her plane. While Roshi is a pervert, he is also cares more than he lets on through his perverted demeanor.
Chichi also boards the plane. The plane is somewhat packed, but not overly so. Not many valubles were taken in such a short amount of time. "Meet you there!" Bulma yells out to Gohan and I.
"Ready?" I ask Gohan. He nods and we fly to Capsule Corporation.
Ten or so minutes later…
Gohan and I land in the back yard area of Capsule Corporation. "We're going to have to train hard to beat those androids. Follow me Gohan." I say shortly after we land. Gohan looks at me curiously. I lead the child inside the gravity chamber. "Wow… I've always wondered what it's like in here…" "Not too special though." "Yeah, but Vegita would never let me in." I laugh lightly. "He wouldn't huh? Should've asked me, I would have let you in. It is my chamber after all." "Honto?" "Yeah. Bulma gave me the specs to it and I built it." I respond.
"Well, how about we start at 20G?" I ask. Gohan shrugs. As the gravity slowly increases to 20, Gohan seems noticably strained. "You'll get used to it shortly. You should definatly be able to take well over 20G, this is just to get you used to the chamber." I tell him. Gohan starts some warm up exercises. "So…" Gohan starts inbetween push ups "when are we… gonna… spar?" "Not now since Bulma and your mother will be here shortly. Besides now, whenever you feel ready." I respond.
"What… do we do… for now?" "Train." "But they… are killing… people." "What else can we do? Fighting them now would practically be suicide." Gohan frowns. That frown looks strange on Gohan. It just doesn't fit.
"Sometime soon I'll go and see what I can find at Gero's lab. Maybe I can find a way to kill the cyborgs." I continue. Gohan's face brightens up at that.
"GOHAN!" Chichi yells from outside. I turn off the gravity and we leave. "There you are! What were you two doing?" Chichi looks at me. "I was just getting Gohan used to the gravity chamber." Chichi glares at me. "Why would that be? You certantly don't plan to send my son out to fight, do you?" "Mom…" Gohan complains. "Actually, I do." "WHAT!" "Chichi, clam down for a second." "YOU ARE GOING TO GET MY SON KILLED!" Chichi screams. "No. He will not fight until he is MUCH stronger. I would not send anyone but myself out on a suicide mission." Chichi looks at me skeptically.
"We're going home Gohan." "Why?" "Because we should get back. And you want dinner, don't you?" Gohan looks at Chichi with gleaming eyes. "Now that's my little boy." they both leave.
"What was that screaming about?" Bulma questions while holding Trunks. "Just Chich getting angery over that I want Gohan to help fight the androids." "I can't blame her. Gohan is only a child." "Child or not, all warriors are needed." I reply. Bulma looks thoughtful for a second. "What is going to happen now?" she asks.
"For now, we sit back and prepare. I'm also going to go to Dr.Gero's laboratory sometime within the next few days and see what I can salvage." I inform Bulma.
"By the way Bulma." "Yes?" "Trunks seems to have fighting potential…" I start. "Oh no you don't!" "All fighters are needed. I want to train him to be able to fight." "My son will not fight!" "Would you rather the world is destroyed?" Bulma stares at me. "Oh fine! It's not like I could stop you anyway. But I still don't like it!" "Good enough." I reply.
Aren't I slick? Pissing off two women within half an hour.
"Mind if I use your laboratory room?" "What for?" "An upgrade on myself." I tell her. THAT spikes her intrest. "Of course…" I just KNOW she's going to watch. "It's nothing big, just some programming upgrade." she follows anyway.
After about two hours, I've finished upgrading my built in scouter. Now I can read power levels that are much higher than before. "Intresting…" Bulma mutters when I'm done. I look for Gohan and check his power. 1,700,000. Not bad at all. Bulma walks off to put Trunks in bed.
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure at all exactly how much Super Saiyajin increases your power by. It increased Vegita's more than it has Gohan's. I think that you get more power from it as you get more skilled and use the ability more. But I'm still not sure.
I lay on the couch and flip on the TV. Nothing but snow. I change channels, but I get the same result. Damn I'm bored.
Bulma walks in. "Why don't you tell me about yourself?" I look up. Is she psychic? Soon as I'm bored Bulma walks in and trys to get me to do something. Or maybe it's just that obvious.
"I've already told you about myself." I reply knowing damn well what she meant. "Tell me about what you wouldn't mention before." "Why?" "I'm curious." I sigh. "Would you want to tell people about Vegita's death?" I ask. "Not really. Why'd you ask that?" "Because it's the same case." I tell her.
"You'll always be bothered unless you tell someone." "Feh! And how should that help?" "I don't know. It just does." Bulma tells me. "Sounds like very foolish logic to me." "Fine! Be stubborn." Bulma doesn't leave though.
"Why must you know so badly?" "Because I'm curious what bothers you so much." "One would think you would've tried to hack my brain or something by now." "That's a good idea…" I roll my eyes.
"What is this? The 'bug the guy until he either caves or gets pissed and destroys something' logic?" I ask. "Pretty much. But you have to cave since there's nothing left to destroy." Bulma replies with a straight face.
"Okay, fine. It's obvious you won't leave me be. I'll tell you…" and I tell her in detail about my life since activation. Including my most impacting missions, everyone I've killed and watch be killed, and my death.
Many hours later…
I finish. Bulma is now pale and sad looking. "I had no idea…" "That's why I didn't want to talk." I reply as I get up and go to my room.
Locking the door, I lay down in my bed. All that talk has me thinking about it all again. How many people that I knew, as well as liked, have died? My computerized brain comes up with an answer quickly. About nine. Small number, large impact.
And now the same havoc I've seen during my mercenary work as well as created has returned and hit Earth.
Chapter 61
Four days later…
Not much left. I gaze over the remains of Dr.Gero's laboratory. Might as well check what's left. I drop down into the laboratory and go downstairs. Still destroyed. I keep going down until I hit an intact room.
Hmm… things are pretty rattled up down here, but mostly intact. Nothing is pertaining to the androids though. And this is the last floor. I do find out about something called 'Cell'. Sounds dangerous, so I find the canister with Cell and disintegrate it. That's taken care of.
Damnit! Nothing is left on the androids. What I'd really like is some specs on them so I could make some sort of self destruct device. But there's nothing of that sort left.
I sigh and return to Capsule Corporation.
"You're back early." Bulma says. "Nothing of value is left." I reply sadly. "Gohan's in the gravity chamber." Bulma informs me.
I was finally able to get Chichi to relinquish her hold on Gohan. While over protective, she eventually did listen to reason. Ever since then Gohan's been making a lot of progress. His power is now at 1,756,000 max.
"Konnichi Wa, Gohan!" I greet as I enter the chamber. "Hi #17!" Gohan greets back. I check the number on the console. 125G. I should upgrade this to about 500G so that I can get a challenge out of it again.
"Come on Gohan! You should be able to do better than this!" Gohan stops his exercises. "Lets try, say… 175G." "What! That's 50G more than I'm used to!" "Better adapt quickly then!" I crank it up. Gohan struggles to stand, but finally steadies himself.
"See, it wasn't so bad." Gohan walks towards me, slowly and bowlegged. "It's hard to walk…" "Move around until you adjust." Gohan walks around a bit. A few minutes later, he starts to walk normaly. Then he starts to exercise again. I do some exercising too.
An hour later…
Gohan's still exercising. Using my telekinisis, I start messing with the air currents inside the chamber.
"Hey!" some wind pushes him back. "How's there wind in here?" Gohan asks me. "I have magic powers…" another gust of wind pushes Gohan. "Stop it!" I stop.
"Gohan!" Bulma calls. Gohan leaves the chamber and I follow. "It's time for you to go home now." "Oh. Okay!" Gohan flies back home.
"He's making progress." I tell Bulma. "Already?" "Yes. He'll probably grow to become much more stronger than I will ever be." "You really think so?" "Of course. Saiyajins, half breeds or not, were born to fight." I reply.