One month later…
Name: #9
Power Level: 2,275,000
Name: Vegita
Dead
Name: Krillin
Dead
Name: Gohan
Normal Power Level: 900,000
Power Level at Super Saiyajin: 2,000,000
Name: Piccilo
Dead
Name: Teinshinhan
Dead
Name: Yamcha
Dead
Chapter 62
The android's latest attacks have been in towns near Hope City that were reconstructing. Hope City is obviously their next target. Just great.
"So what will you do?" Bulma asks. "Probably fight them." "But they'll probably kill you." "I'm stronger now, and I want to get a feel for their power. I'll come out alive." I reply. "I'm going to follow them for a while. I just may learn something from it." "Isn't that dangerous?" "I have no ki to sense. I'll be hard to spot." I reason.
I see an explosion in the horizion. Here they are… I speed out of Capsule Corporation.
#17 and #18 are toying with the people trying to escape. "HAHAHA!" #17 cackles as he shoots someone with a finger beam. I shoot a beam right at him.
"NANI!" #17 turns around. "You again! Long time no see!" "Long time no see indeed…" I reply. "You ready to die this time?" #17 asks as he rushes at me.
I start attacking at full power and #17 matches me easily. "You've gotten stronger." #17 says as he punches me in the face. I pull out my sword and stab at him rapidly. Nothing hits.
We continue for a while. After some time, I'm able to gauge his power at least 3,000,000. Probably more like 3,500,000 minimum considering he's toying with me.
"Ja na!" I yell and use a blinding ki blast on both androids. Then I hide in the debris of a building.
"KUSO! Where is he!" #17 screams out in anger. "Leave it be brother. We can beat him if he ever shows up again." #17 grumbles something. They leave and I stalk them.
Four weeks later…
I've been following them for a long while. Even engaging in quick battles with them every now and then. There seems to be no particular pattern in which they destroy things. And I find no weaknesses. This is going nowhere fast. But I do find out that there are other areas still mostly untouched.
#17 and #18 also seem to be treating me as some sort of toy. They find it amusing to fight me over and over again.
"We're heading for America tomorrow." #17 had said. There's no way that I can let them take out the small, untouched populations. Those are very important, considering they would still have services that could be spread. Like medical services. REAL medical services.
The next morning I engage them.
"Look who's back!" #17 exclaims with glee. "It's our android friend!" #18 says in the same tone. "Gee, you seem so happy to see me. Bored of killing the helpless?" "Sort of. It's fun to torture them, but there's no real challenge. At least we can get a decent spar out of you." #17 replies.
"How about you go sis? I fought him last time." "Okay." #18 steps up. They fight in a pretty similar manner, but I think #17 is a bit stronger.
"DIE!" I fly right at her and swing my sword. I miss but twist my body, intercepting her flight path with a kick to the face. She responds by punching me in the jaw and stomach. No matter how much I throw into my attacks, they're all blocked as if they were nothing.
"HA!" I shoot a strong crescent shaped beam, which is dodged. "SHI-NE!" #18 blocks my kick. We start a string of kicks and punches.
Then she gets serious. I get kicked and punched several times, I couldn't keep up. Two feet slam into my back and I fly into the ground. "HA!" I do a machine gun beam attack. None hurt her and she rapidly punches me in the face and stomach.
"Let's go sis." #17 calls, and they start to fly off. I get up and kick #18 right at the base of her spine. #18 turns around cooly and backhands me across the face. She then does her own machine gun attack.
Several blasts hit me, and the ones that miss destroy the ruins below us. I start a slower, more powerful version of a machine gun attack using crescent beams.
#18 blocks most of them, but she gets cut a few times. She sneers at me and shoots a powerful beam that I cannot dodge. I 'catch' it in both of my hands.
Very powerful beam. After several minutes of struggling, I'm able to shrug it off to the side.
When I look up, they're both gone. "DAMNIT!"
Chapter 63
Five months later…
I've been very unsucessful so far. Not only have I been unable to estimate where they will strike very well, but when I am correct I get my ass kicked.
Fifteen cities have now been destroyed. They could do it in a matter of days, but they want to drag it out. They don't want to be come bored.
"Crap…" I mutter as I lay in a pretty beat up bed. I made myself a temporary home in the ruins of some apartment building. One of the few still standing.
I'm glad I'm at least somewhat skilled at tailoring. My armor would have fallen apart long ago without those skills.
A map is pinned to the wall showing the locations of destroyed and undestroyed cities. Not all of them are correct, but it's the best I can manage. If I'm correct, they're most likely to attack a town about thrity miles from here by tomorrow.
I get up and go towards the twin's last know location. Within twelve minutes I'm there. "I told you he'd show up." I hear behind me. Turning around swiftly, I come almost face to face with the two androids.
"So, who do I fight today?" I ask. "Nah. I don't want to get into buisiness just yet." #17 says casually. "You keep fighting us all the time, but you keep losing. Why don't you join us? It's a lot of fun!" "I'll pass." "I told you he wouldn't listen either." #18 says dryly. "Tsk. Don't be so foolish." #17 tells me. I hold back the urge to spit on him. "Dr.Gero really made you good, you know. You're very persistant." #18 rolls her eyes and says "If you're not going to fight, I will." "No. I don't feel like fighting him today. I don't want you to either." I raise an eyebrow in confusion.
"What? Why?" #18 asks. "I want to burn down some more towns, and fighting him will only take time." #17 reasons. "You know, sometimes you actually make sense." they start to leave.
"NO!" I shoot a beam at them. #17 bats it away without effort. "Go and train or something." I fly straight at him. Right as I was about to punch his lights out, his hand appears right in my face and fires a beam.
I'm flung backwards and into a building. They leave. "Kuso…" it's insulting, to be discarded so easily. I try to track them down, but they're long gone by now.
So now what? Might as well try to help survivors or something.
Hours pass as I look for survivors in the surrounding area, but the androids were very thorough. I return to my temporary home.
I laugh darkly as I think of my current predicament. Two warriors from nowhere appear and dismantle the planet bit by bit. The few warriors that are a match attempt to stop the two, but fail. Sounds very familiar.
But now I'm not the intruder. Instead, I try to protect the planet as one of the few able warriors. How often have I gone through this scenario?
I drop down on the mattress. It's so futile. I've seen this scenario hundreds of times, and it always ended in the same way.
I shake my head. Shouldn't think like that, we have a chance. And I will fight until I drop.