Five years of chasing…
Name: #9
Power Level: 3,375,000
New Characteristics: 25 years old physically. 28 years old
mentally. Armor and clothing in tatters. Hair is in a long pony tail that reaches to the middle of his back.
Chapter 64
I have failed. Nothing remains of the once wide spread technological civilization. Cities lay in ruins, people slaughtered by the millions. And time and time again, I would be beat back during my futile attempts to stop those two androids.
I chased them through America, North and South. Europe, Asia, Africa, and back to Japan too. Hell, even Antartica. But all of those lands are in ruins. I'm going to return to Japan. Perhaps Bulma, Trunks, and Gohan still live.
No matter how much power I have obtained, the androids become stronger still. Estimated power of 3,500,000… HA! After reaching that level of power and yet more, one would think I could at least damage those androids. But they still bat me away, spare me, toy with me.
What does it take to take these twins down? I had even unleashed my newest and most powerful move upon them at full force. A devestating beam that explodes with the power of several nuclear devices. The androids walked out of the force of a thousand suns as if it were nothing. Actually, they started laughing once they saw I did their work for them. The city was no more. But that didn't matter, it was already wasted and gone and the survivors killed were probably sent off to a better place anyway.
I will leave, now.
Three hours later…
Hope City doesn't seem that much better off than it was when I left. I'd think they would have rebuilt themselves by now. #18 and #17 must have hit Japan during the times when I couldn't find them. And I found myself losing track of them much too often.
I see it! Capsule Corporation in the distance. The building is pretty damaged though, but still intact. I land at the front door and knock without even taking a look around for familiar kis. Bulma opens it and looks at me. "#9! I thought you were dead! Where the hell did you go!" "Happy to see you too." I walk in. "Answer me! Where have you gone for the past five years?" she asks me with a mix of some anger and happiness. "Remember what I said five years back? I told you, I was going to chase down those androids. I think that sums it up." I answer her. "For five years?" "Yeah." "What had posessed you to do that?" "One reason was to study the androids. Another was that I found out there were still cities that remained untouched." Bulma stares at me surprised. "Yes, it's true. I was doing my damnedest to protect those cities. The supplies obtainable from those cities would have helped greatly. But those two androids beat me to each city, and beat me each time. That is, if I even knew where to go." "Are there any left?" "Nope. At least none that I know of." Bulma looks down.
"Who's that?" I look behind Bulma and see some purple haired kid pointing at me. "An old friend of mine." she replied to the child. "Is that Trunks?" I ask, Bulma nods. "Has he been training?" "Yes." "With who?" "Gohan." I grin. "So he still lives. Good, I'll have to talk to him soon." "He should be in the gravity chamber." Bulma tells me. "But clean up first!" Bulma orders. "Why?" "Look at yourself!" "I haven't worried about my looks for years since I started chasing the androids, why should I start now?" Bulma grumbles at me.
I notice a small rise in the ki of Trunks. Looking over, I notice he's staring at me. Bulma notices too. "What's wrong Trunks?" she asks. "He's one of them… he doesn't have any ki…" he mutters. I laugh, which unnerves the boy. "Trunks, come over here and I'll explain who he is. And you" she points at me "go talk to Gohan." I shrug and leave.
That boy has a pretty high power for his age. Somewhere around 575,000. Not nearly enough to defeat the androids, but still high for his age. It shows that we have a chance. I walk into the gravity chamber.
Gohan is training vigorously. His power is at 3,145,000. Mine's higher probably because I've been fighting those twins almost constantly for a very long time.
Another change is age. Gohan is much taller, broader, and looks about seventeen. His hair is less wild than it used to be, and is spiked straight up.
He hasn't noticed me yet, he must have had the gravity off since it would have changed back to normal if it had been on.
"Gohan!" I yell out. He stops and looks at me. "#9? What happened to you?" he asks. "Been chasing those damn androids all these years." I reply. "Really? And you lived?" "Only 'cause they wanted to toy with me…" I mumble. Gohan seems to have heard. "They like to do that. It's sick." Gohan hit it right on.
I then take my first good look at Gohan's face and almost gasp in surprise. While happiness shows on his face right now, I can still see the darkness behind this fascade of joy. The happy boy with boundless energy I knew years ago has now been replaced with an older and darker version of him. Now that I think of it, Bulma's face seemed darker too. The whole world looks dark and bleak.
"Let's go inside." Gohan offers. I follow him into the house. Bulma greets us. I see Chichi sitting on the couch. "Hello Chichi." she turns to me. "You! I should smack you for convincing me to let Gohan train to fight those cyborgs all these years! Not to mention you just go off and disappear!" Chichi scolds and I grin. "You still haven't changed yet?" Bulma asks. "What will I change into?" "Your room is still the same." Bulma replies. She must have noticed the slight surprise on my face. "I never had any reason to clear out that room or to go through your stuff, no matter how little of it is there. Now go!" Bulma yells.
True to her word, my room is still the same and untouched. I brush some dust off of my spare armor and put it on. I change my pants and coat too.
After that, I return to the living room area. "So, how bad has this area been hit?" I ask them all. Bulma speaks up "We tried to rebuild, but the androids came back every once and a while, destroying all of our work. The city barely has enough to live off of." I grimace. "What's the rest of the world like?" Gohan asks me. "Not much better. In some cases, even worse. Especially due to radiation in some areas." I respond.
Years ago, when the world was still somewhat in one piece the world powers resorted to trying to nuke the twins to death once they took notice of the problem. All that was achieved was strong radiation in several parts of the world and leveled cities. Now the governments are no more.
"Is there still currency left here?" I wonder aloud. "No." Gohan answers for me. Much like the rest of the world. That must put a big hole in the New York Stock Exchange. Well, aside from that beam #17 flung at it.
We then talk for the rest of the day.
Chapter 65
It feels strange waking up in a comfortable bed after years of makeshift homes. Not that I'm complaining. I get up, dress, and go out into the kitchen area where anyone awake would probably be.
Sure enough, everyone else living here is up and eating. Even Gohan and Chichi. "Came here early, huh?" I ask Gohan. "Actually, we live here now." Gohan answers. I didn't expect that.
I skip the meal and wait for everyone else. Once they're done, Gohan and Trunks get up. "Ready for this morning's work?" Gohan asks Trunks. "Yeah!" Trunks replies. "Work?" "Each day when we're not training we usually work on rebuilding the area. Want to help?" Gohan asks. "Sure." I tell them.
"Be careful Gohan!" I hear Chichi yell out. I roll my eyes. What exactly can falling concrete do to him? Gohan notices my expression and grins. "Hasn't changed one bit I see." I throw out.
We fly inside of the city ruins and land in an area with a relatively small population of people. I'd say there might be just less than three thousand people here.
"We're here." Gohan tells us. Several cheap homes are placed all around and rubble is piled up on the sides of the area. People greet Gohan and Trunks happily.
"Let's get to work. Today we should try and build some trenches for water, get electicity from running water, and maybe work on getting a road to the nearest forest for food." Gohan orders.
The trenches are harder than one might think. I can't just use my power to cut a trench, but I need to make the trenches very precise so that I don't miss, or destroy accidentally, any homes. We get to work on that first.
When I start working, people point and gasp at me. "He can do that too?" "Wow! He's just like Gohan and Trunks!" "Maybe he's that one person." they all start exclaiming.
'that one person'? What one person?
"He is!" huh? "What are you people talking about?" I ask them all.
A young man speaks "We've hear rumors about some person who can fly and do all that other stuff Gohan and Trunks can. He went around the world trying to save everyone from those androids. Are you him?"
"That's him alright." Gohan tells the small village. If he weren't one of the last hopes of this dying planet, I would kill him.
Doing my best to ignore everyone else, I work on those trenches.
A while later…
The trenches are done and we're almost done with getting the town electicity. The electicity will be pretty basic, just enough to get some marginal heat and lighting, nothing much. But it's better than nothing.
Done! "Gohan! You guys done?" I ask. "Almost!" I fly over and help. We finish up pretty quickly.
"Now lets get that road done." I say. Gohan looks thoughtful. "You keep thinking while I make a path." I tell Gohan. I then float into the air and start using a weak ki attack to scorch a path to the nearest forest. Once I do that, I then use my telekinisis to force the burnt remains out of the path.
"How will we pave it?" Gohan asks. "How about we get some of that concrete that's laying all over the place and melt it. Then we can pour that onto the path." I offer. "We can do that. But how will we pour it?" Gohan looks thoughtful again.
"With a giant bowl!" Trunks yells out. "Do you see a giant bowl anywhere?" I ask Trunks humorously. "YEAH!" Trunks points behind me. Gohan and I both turn and see the remains of a water tower.
"Why the hell not?" I ask with a shrug.
About an hour later…
I really had no idea a water tower can hold melted concrete. Of course, I was the one who was forced to pour it. Metal is pretty damn good at conducting heat, and I was the only one there who can't feel pain. Gohan will pay for that when we spar…
We're all back at Capsule Corporation. And I have cool towels wrapped around my hands. Pain or not, I still had burns that needed some tending.
"How are you doing?" Gohan asks me. "Worse than if I forced you to pour that thing." I reply grinning. Gohan smiles back.
"Oh shit!" Gohan exclaims. Gohan, cussing? It sounds very strange coming from Gohan. "What?" "I was supposed to meet someone about five minutes ago!" "Who?" "A girl." "Then go." I tell him. He goes alright. World's going to hell but he still has time for a social life. Whatever.
"Where was Gohan going in such a hurry?" Bulma asks from somewhere near the front door. "To meet someone." I respond. Bulma shrugs it off.
"What's for dinner?" Trunks asks Bulma. "I'll find out when I start cooking." "Start cooking mom!" Trunks orders in a jokingly way. Sort of amusing, really.
With little else to do, I take a walk outside. The world is in a very sad shape right about now. I wonder if Kami's Palace is still floating around? I take off.
Within minutes I arrive at the floating palace. No sign of Mr.Popo. After some searching, I find that Mr.Popo sealed himself up to wait for the next Kami. Whatever suits him, probably better than watching this planet die.
I walk over to the edge of the giant platform and look down upon Earth. No longer does it look as beautiful as it used to. It's still a great sight, I'll admit that, but the sky seems more grimy, and if you look hard enough you can see the effects of constant battle and destruction on the planet's surface.
As always, this is a good place just to relax. Then I remember I still have those towels, I drop them on the platform. I remember rumors about some really cool things in this palace. Like a place where one day is actually a year.
I get up and start searching around.
Two hours later…
I found several very cool things, but it is of no use. Only a Kami, or former Kami, would be able to acess these things. Aside from the storage room of artifacts, none of which I want to mess around with after reading up on what they are.
For some reason, I think back to that fat guy with the katana and that white cat who lived in the tower below Kami's Palace. Yarjirobie and Korin, I believe. They had been killed a while back I was told, when they were outside of their tower. I don't have the details, nor do I care.
I sigh and sit on the edge of Kami's Palace. At least #8 and I had the decency to just waste a planet quickly, instead of just letting it suffer like this.
I knock a small rock off of the edge of the platform. If I'm lucky, maybe that rock, which will achieve very high speeds, will smack one of those twin androids in the head, drilling a hole into it's brain, and we'd all have one less problem to deal with. It'd be pretty funny to say the least.
Chapter 66
The next day we wake up and everyone else eats breakfast. I go to the gravity chamber to do some exercising. I throw my coat aside and crank it up to 250G. Been a while since I've used this.
As I expected, I'm a bit unused to the sudden change in gravity, but I adjust quickly and start some warm up katas.
An hour later…
The chamber opens up. Gohan and Trunks walk in and we greet each other. I turn off the gravity and they close the door. "What gravity are you used to Gohan?" I ask. "About 475G." "475G?" "Bulma upgraded this to 600G a while ago." Gohan answers for me. Awesome. "What about Trunks?" "120G." "Not bad for a young kid." I say.
"Trunks, go over there and turn on the gravity and start training." "Hai!" Trunks runs off to carry out Gohan's order. "While Trunks exercises, why don't we do some light sparring?" Gohan asks me. "So… you think you can take me, eh?" I throw back as I stretch "Sure." Gohan grins.
"Go easy Gohan!" Trunks pipes up. "Kid's pretty confident in you." I tell Gohan. "No one can beat Gohan!" Gohan seems quite a bit flattered. "We'll see about that…" I place my sword down on my coat.
Gohan drops into a defensive stance and I match his current power. I leap at him and flip around when Gohan dodges my punch. Gohan's kick misses me and I elbow him on the back of the head. As he stumbles forward, I grab his arm and slam him onto the ground.
"OOOF!" Gohan hits hard. Then Gohan's energy spikes and he flings me off. As soon as I turn around his boot hits me in the face. I fly with the attack and rebound off of the wall. When Gohan punches at me, I duck and uppercut him in the jaw.
Gohan runs straight at me and punches me in the gut. I counter by hitting his jaw with my knee and punching him hard inbetween the eyes. He staggers backwards and I kick him in the chest making him fly into the wall.
"Come on Gohan!" Trunks cheers as I dash right at Gohan. Right as I close in on him, he flips over me and kicks me in the back with both of his feet. While flying forward, I reach back and grab one of his feet.
Using my hold on Gohan, I slam him onto the ground, leap onto him, use him as a brake to stop my own momentum, and then fling him into the ceiling.
Gohan drops on the floor with a loud "THUD!" but isn't out of the battle yet. Shortly after landing not so gracefully, Gohan drags himself up and runs at me.
Naturally, I side step him and prepare to counter attack, but as he passes, he kicks off of the ground, manuvers behind me, and kicks me on the base of my skull. I stop myself just before I slam into the wall and leap straight up. Gohan's foot slams right into the wall I was about to hit.
Gohan flies right after me. "Why don't we take this up a notch Gohan?" I ask as we fly circles around the chamber. "Okay then." Gohan turns Super Saiyajin and I match his power.
I let Gohan catch up and we engage in a rapid series of punches and kicks, with the occasional point blank ki blast. As we fight, our power levels go up to our maximums. Since I have the higer power, I over come Gohan and start pounding on him.
After a bit of that, I let up and we both back up. Gohan returns to normal mode.
"WOAH! How'd you do that Gohan!" Trunks asks with excitement. "It's called Super Saiyajin." "How can I do it?" "It's very hard." Gohan replies vaguely.
"Good match Gohan." I say and Trunks sneers at me, at least, as much as he can. Reminds me of Vegita. "Gohan was just being nice to you. I know he could beat you any time!" Trunks tells me. "Trunks, you should be exercising." Gohan says just to shut the kid up. I grin.
The chamber opens up and Chichi steps in. "You guys want some snacks or- GOHAN!" Chichi totally flips out once she sees her beloved child bloodied up and in tattered clothing. "What did you do to him!" Chichi asks me angrily.
"Just a quick spar." "JUST a quick spar, huh?" I laugh at her response. "That's nothing Chichi. I wish I had data I could show you of spars I had when I was a mercenary. THOSE would really make you cringe." Chichi glares at me. "How much worse can it get?" Chichi wonders aloud "Imagine all out battle with powerful beams and swords. Not to mention broken bones, dislocated shoulders, stab wounds, severe burns…" I trail off. "Come on Gohan, get in a tank and you'll be patched right up!" Chichi drags him out of the chamber quickly.
"You'd really do that?" Trunks asks me and I nod in response. "COOL!" Trunks yells out and continues his training. Despite all of the crap, this kid seems pretty damned optimistic.
I leave the chamber and go inside the house. "It was only a quick spar Chichi! We've all seen Goku and Vegita do much worse to each other in one of their 'spars'!" Bulma exclaims as she tries to calm down Chichi. "Damn straight we have." I throw in as I walk past. Chichi glares at me and Bulma follows me.
"Why'd you go off and spar with Gohan?" Bulma whispers to me, a tad angrily. "To train." "He trains plenty enough." "One does not gain power by just merely throwing punches into the air." I say. "Couldn't you have been a bit more easy?" I laugh loudly at that. "I did go light! What do you expect? Two people who can demolish planets spar and you don't expect us to have any injuries?" I continue to laugh as I walk towards my room.
I lay onto my bed and pull out a CD player. For some reason, I really enjoy music from Earth. At least rock music, I despise country. I play Metalica's 'Unforgiven' and work on my telekinesis.
Juggling objects has become too easy. I make a can float up into the air. Let's see, I've been able to push things around mentally, but have I been able to destroy things? I don't believe so…
I concentrate strongly and start to pull the can apart. Hot damn! It's working. Within several seconds I've ripped the can into shreds and I dump the scraps into my trashcan. Cool.
Using my telekinesis once again, I pull out my sword and start to sharpen it with my ki, since I don't have a stone wheel on me. Besides, if you do it just right, sharpening with ki is much more efficient.
A little while after I finish sharpening my sword, someone knocks on my door. I open it with my mind. "Are you going to help us work?" Gohan asks.
"Sure." I respond as I get up. Gohan, Trunks, and I fly off to another village. Each village is sparsly populated, but there are many of them. I think the Hope City area has the most living people in it out of the entire planet.
"Alright, what we're doing today…" Gohan starts, but then a loud explosion drowns his voice out. "What the hell!" I yell out.
"Hey sis, look who's here!" a familiar male voice calls out. Just great…
"I knew this would be the town to pick. I'm so glad we have such amusing toys in 'our' town!" #18 exclaims. "Your town?" I question. "We pretty much wasted everything else, but to keep ourselves from getting bored, we decided to choose an area to toy with for a long time. And Japan is it!" #17 explains for me.
Trunks seems afraid and Gohan looks pissed off like all hell. "We'll start with this village!" #17 says as he blows up the small town with little effort.
"Trunks, get back home. Gohan, you take #18 and I'll take #17." I order, Gohan nods. "But…" "No arguing. Just go Trunks!" Gohan snaps. Trunks runs off to Capsule Corporation.
I fly forward and kick at #17's face, which he cleanly dodges. Gohan goes Super Saiyajin and starts to fight #18.
#17 shoots a beam at me, but I fling it to the side and kick him in the head. Brushing it off as nothing, #17 socks me three times in the face and kicks me on the side of my head. As I fly back, I shoot a beam at him, which does nothing.
#17 chases me, slams me downwards, and follows. As soon as I hit the ground I bounce off of my hands and slam both of my feet into #17's chest, making him fly upwards.
"HA!" I start a machine gun ki attack on #17. A few hit, but the rest are just knocked off to the side. #17 drops straight down and slams into me. Undaunted, I grab his arm and fling him towards the ground, but #17 goes with the flow of my swing and swings me instead!
I land on my feet, pull out my sword, and fling it at him tip first. My sword misses him, but I use telekinesis to turn it around and it flys at him again. #17 notices the tiny whistling sound behind him. "Huh?" #17 moves and the sword misses him again and I grab it's handle.
"Neat trick." he compliments me. "Thanks." I concentrate all of my power on #17. "What the!" #17 starts twitching. "Come on damnit… work…" I mutter. "ARGH!" #17 yells as he strains against my hold. Finally, he breaks free and the power he used unleashes in every direction, flinging me backwards.
"Damn… you're more powerful than I thought. I'll fight all out now!" and #17 seemingly disappears. Seeing this before, I leap straight into the air as quickly as possible and his fist barely misses me. But #17 leaps straight up and hits me under the jaw.
A foot hits my chest and a knee hits my spine. #17 practically plays pong with me and I can't really do a damned thing. I block a knee but get kicked in the face, I dodge a punch and get kneed in the chest. At one point #17 grabs my left arm and dislocates it, but I just yank it back in place as we fight.
Eventually, I get lucky and am able to get in a few of my own hits. I punch him in the face, knee him in the jaw, and kick him in the throat. But he just counters with a strong beam and it flings me into the ground.
"AHHH!" Gohan screams, but I can't see what happened. I pull myself out of the ground and see both of the twin androids toying with Gohan. Finally, they stop and Gohan drops out of Super Saiyajin and slams onto the ground.
The twins laugh evily and fly off. "Gohan!" I rush over and check for his pulse. Still alive, thankfully but in bad shape. He has a broken arm, gashes all over, severe burns, and a hole in his lower stomach. I pick him up and carry him back to Capsule Corporation swiftly.
Now that I think about it, they must have known they didn't finish the job. Like they said, they don't want to be bored for all eternity. I muse this over as I fly back to Capsule Corporation.
"Here they are!" Trunks yells out. "Oh my God! Gohan!" Chichi exclaims as I push past her and Bulma to get to the regeration tanks. I carefully place Gohan in a tank and turn it on.
"Damn…" I mutter and slump against the wall, not so much out of exhaustion as from the bitterness of such a thorough defeat. Glancing around, I see a mirror. I look pretty bad. Blood dripping from my mouth, a gash over my right eye pouring blood down my face, burns, and a slightly out of place left arm. Not to mention broken armor and torn clothing. Bulma walks in.
"Hello Bulma…" I greet as I grab my left arm and twist it completely back into place. Bulma winces when I do that. "What happened? Trunks ran in and was yelling something about the androids." Bulma inquires. "We went out to work, but the twin androids of terror appeared. As soon as we got Trunks' ass out of there, we had no choice but to fight them." "What about the village?" "Destroyed." I say emotionlessly. Sadness shows on Bulma's face almost instantly.
"Take the other tank." Bulma orders. I grumble about it, but comply. I take off my coat, armor, and sword but don't even bother with the rest of my clothing. The tank fills up quickly and I'm immersed in it's clear, healing liquid.
Bulma leaves us be.
Well, at least I'll get a large power increase from this. Is this how it will go? Countless suicide attacks until we either die or overpower the twin androids? It's definitely the quickest way to raise our power, I won't argue that, but it's also dangerous as all hell.
But then there's another dilemma. Do we do countless suicide attacks in weak attempts to protect what is left of this world, or just stand back to save ourselves but watch as many people die? I can easily do the latter, but I don't think Gohan, or anyone else for that matter, will agree to that.
With little else to do, I relax within the tank and fall asleep.
Chapter 67
Gohan and I ended up spending the night in the tanks. Sometime in the morning Bulma came in and hauled us out.
I was right, our power leaped. I am at 3,750,000 and Gohan is at 3,700,000.
I get out of the tank once it opens and dry myself with a quick burst of energy.
"You need a haircut." Bulma says disapprovingly as I still blink myself awake. I usually don't have problems waking up, but I always seem to have problems waking up after spending a long time in a regeneration tank.
"Hair tends to get long after five years…" I mutter "That's why you need a haircut." Bulma responds. I shrug at that, put on my armor, and pick up my coat and sword. Gohan stretches himself.
"Where are you going?" Bulma asks. "I haven't got a clue…" I mutter. "Aren't you hungry?" "A little. I guess I'll eat with you this morning." I tell her.
"How often do you eat?" Gohan asks as we walk out of the room. "Almost never. My body makes efficient use of what little food I eat." I answer him.
"Gohan! Are you okay?" Chichi asks frantically. "I'm alright mom." Gohan tells her. I find myself a seat at the dining table. Chichi glares at me "You promised Gohan will live." "He's alive, isn't he?" I reply defensively.
"Drop it and help me Chichi. Two half Saiyajins aren't easy to cook for you know." Bulma yells out from the kitchen. "I know too well…" Chichi mutters and walks to the kitchen.
Gohan slumps into a chair across from me. "Hey Gohan." I call. "Yeah?" "I was thinking about the twin androids…" "I know, how are we supposed to stop them?" Gohan despairs. "Easy, we don't." "What!" Gohan stares at me. "What can we do? Answer me that. They are much more powerful than us, will bat us away, and will continue killing anyway." Gohan is silent for a second.
"So you just want to give up?" he asks. "No. But there's no way we can keep fighting them day after day. It'd do nothing but get us killed. The best we can do is just train as hard as possible and only intervene when they come dangerously close to our location." I tell him. "… You're right. As cold as it is, you are right…" Gohan mutters.
Chichi and Bulma bring out a large breakfast. It consists of stored several homemade pancakes with butter and sides of homemade sausages. Since food is much harder to come by, the bread for the pancakes was grown from nearby villages and the meat was from hunted animals. It's still good.
I have what I think most humans would consider a normal serving. A few pancakes, a few sausages, and a glass of orange juice. Of course, Gohan and Trunks have well over a normal serving.
Once done, Gohan, Trunks, and I retreat to the gravity chamber.
"What gravity are you used to boy?" I ask Trunks. "120G." "We're speeding up your training. Get used to 140G." Gohan smiles as he remembers I pulled the same thing on him. "140G! That's 20 more than I'm used to!" Trunks exclaims. "Very good, I see that you are proficient at basic math." I taunt as I turn up the gravity.
"Ugh!" Trunks squats down. "Get moving around and get used to this." I order and Trunks complies. "You'd make a great drill sargeant." Gohan tells me. Is that a compliment or an insult? "Thanks." I say with a grin.
"Nah… he'd be… harsher then…" Trunks says between breaths. Even though he's having a rough time, he's starting to walk normaly. "Oh? What was that I heard? Did you want me to be harsher?" I ask Trunks. "No!" Gohan's smile just gets wider.
I start my warm up exercises and Gohan does the same.
"How long do you think it will take to overcome the androids?" Gohan asks. "I wouldn't know for sure, but definitely not for a long while." I say during some sword swings.
"Don't say that! You can beat them!" Trunks states. "Um… no. In case you hadn't noticed, we got our asses beat." I respond. Trunks seems to just ignore that last comment of mine. "They aren't all that powerful!" Trunks continues with his little confidence speech. Whatever.
After a few hours of training…
"Alright, that's enough. Let's take a break." Gohan tells us all. I shrug and Trunks stops exercising. We walk outside and see some flashing lights far off in the distance.
"That's them! Let's go beat them!" Trunks yells out. "No…" Gohan says. "Why not?" "We're not strong enough." I tell the child. "Fine, if you don't fight them, I will!" "Yeah, whatever. Let's just go inside. There's nothing we can do…" I reply. "But…" "There really is nothing we can do. Come on Trunks." Gohan confirms. Trunks follows us sadly.
"I don't get it! You guys are so powerful!" Trunks argues. "And however powerful we are, those two androids are that much more powerful." I argue back. "Fine. I'll just beat them for you!" Trunks states. "No you won't!" I stop him. "You guys can take them!" "Trunks, Gohan and I fought all out yesterday. We were still no match. I am over five times more powerful than you are, and I was defeated easily. And I was only fighting one of them, let alone both of them!" I tell him, finishing the argument.