An Unwanted Reunion
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Chapter 2: The evil is alive
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As expected, Eighteen showed up,at her
brothers cabin later that day in a highly pissed off mood.
"Seventeen you didn't have to do that!
You and Vegeta wrecked the whole reunion! How could you!!" She screamed
at him. Seventeen was reclined on the couch, reading a news magazine. Since
his love for fighting had diminished quite a bit, he devoted his time to
quiet reading quite a lot. He glanced up at her, a small grin on his face.
"I didn't start the fight. I was content here in my cabin until you dragged
me off to a god-forsaken little house in the middle of the ocean to eat
with a bunch of weakling humans. Honestly Eighteen I don't see why you
want to marry that little guy..whats his name again? Baldin? Shortin?"
Seventeen teased. Eighteen growled at him " His name is Krillen! And he
may be short and bald but at least he doesn't act like an ass!" Seventeen
opened his mouth to reply but a thunderous explosion shook the ground,
shattering all the windows in his cabin. Seventeen and Eighteen looked
wide-eyed at the area where the force had came from, an abandoned part
of the desert nearby. "Thats Vegetas Big Bang Attack!" Eighteen exclaimed.
She quickly abandoned her brother and took off towards the source of the
blast. Seventeen took off right behind her, as anxious as her to find out
why Vegeta suddenly started blasting.
******Meanwhile in an empty part of the
desert...
"Vegeta!! Do you ALWAYS have to take these
sparring sessions so seriously? Its just for..WHOA!!" Goku ducked
as Vegeta sent another blast, this one aimed right for Gokus head. Goku
vanished, appearing behind Vegeta and kicking him square in the back of
the head. Vegeta fell like a meteor, crashing through the ground
and leaving a huge crator where he hit. Goku hovered overhead, looking
for him to emerge. Underneath 80 or 90 feet of rock, Vegeta lay thinking.
Suddenly an idea hit him. Bringing his hands together, much like Trunk's
Finish Buster, he fired a blast through the rocks. Goku's eyes widened
and he flew backwards to avoid the blast and flying rocks. Thats exactly
what Vegeta wanted. He burst out of the rocks right under Goku, both palms
pointed towards him. Goku had just enough time for what was going on to
register in his brain.
"Twin Big Bang Attack!!" Vegeta screamed
as a Big Bang blast burst from each palm and scored a direct hit on Goku.
The explosion ripped canyons in the ground and turned the sky white for
a few moments. Even though Goku took the blast full-force, it didn't cause
enough damage to make him stop fighting. The explosion blasted him through
several mountains and clear into the sky. Eighteen and Seventeen arrived
just in time to see the blast. They watched in amazement as Vegeta blew
Goku right out of the battlefield. Vegeta looked around, trying to sense
Goku's Ki. To his shock he couldn't! 'Oh no' He thought, 'I've killed him...Oh
DAMN!!' Vegeta began to panic. "Ok Vegeta, calm down. That blast wasen't
enough to kill Kakarot right? I mean..hes survived loads more than that.."
He said to himself. Seventeen and Eighteen, watching from a cliff, looked
around but couldn't see Goku anywhere. Vegeta looked like he was ready
to crack. Not only because he thought he'd killed Goku, but because he
realized his life is lterally over. His wife would leave him, his son would
hate him, and all of Goku's friends would gang-up on him at once. Suddenly,
Vegeta, Eighteen and Seventeen heard a very familiar word..
"Kaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeee!!!"
Vegeta looked around frantically. He could
hear Goku but couldn't see him or feel his Ki. For a moment he thought
he had imagined it. Seventeen looked over at Eighteen "I hear Goku, but
I neither see him nor sense his energy signal." Eighteen nodded in
agreement and looked around for him.
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!"
Vegeta was on the verge of a panic attack
now. But then he stopped as a realization hit him.
"So..Kakarot has figured out how to completly
mask his Ki..very cleaver......KAKAROT!! COME OUT AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN!!!"
He screamed. Suddenly Goku appeared right behind him, his golden aura so
bright it rivaled the sun. Vegeta could feel every hair on his body tingle
from Goku's sheer power.
"This better Vegeta?" Goku asked very softly.
Vegeta wheeled around and was met at point blank range with the biggest
blast he'd ever seen Goku unleash.
"HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!" Goku yelled as he
thrust his cupped hands, crackling with energy, right at Vegeta. The shockwave
of the blast circled the Earth at least 4 times. Vegeta's whole world turned
a blinding blue as the blast slammed into him and drove him at neckbreaking
speed through the ground and deep into the Earth. After a few seconds Goku
concentratred,willing the blast to explode. It immediently detonated, blowing
a crater almost a half-mile deep in the Earth and 2 square miles in diameter.
Seventeen and Eighteen's jaws almost hit the floor! "Incredible!!," Eighteen
yelled over the roar of the explosion, "Imagine what that would have done
to us!" Seventeen said nothing, but knew deep down if Goku had ever
hit him like that there wouldn't be a chance in hell of him surviving.
Both androids took cover as hunks of rock and dirt rained down everywhere.
Goku flew down to the edge of the crater
and looked into the burned, smoking hole. He reached in his pocket and
pulled a senzu bean out. He threw it in, knowing Vegeta would find it and
eat it before attempting to crawl out of the crater. He didn't even notice
the probe implanted in the ground a few feet away,not did he notice it
suddenly slip back underground.
****Meanwhile in the secret underground
section of his lab
The tube that held the clone Gero's brain
shook violently, but somehow didn't tip over and shatter like all the rest.
Tubes hooked into the brain had come to life earlier that day and were
already sending orders to the computer. Even though it was just a clone,
it still had all of Dr. Geros old thoughts and memories. The brain stayed
suspended, but it could still remember. Thats all it had done. It remembered
a little boy named Goku single-handedly defeating the entire mightly Red
Ribbon Army...it remembered the years spent on creating the Androids to
kill Goku. It remembered the original Dr. Gero being beheaded by Android
17..It remembered the lab being blown up twice..once by Trunks, and then
by Trunks and Krillen..
Suddenly the tube that was hooked up to
the brain vibrated with energy. The Dr. Gero brain clone suddenly tingled
a bit as the probe delivered what little bit of the blast energy it had
absorbed to him. 'Yesss...now I have enough energy to command these machines...I
can make them start work on me a new body now..' the brain thought. Dende
only knows how long the brain had been down there, syphoning every bit
of energy it could. Dr. Gero, in his great genius, knew Goku loved to fight
and would do so out here in the abandoned desert, away from all the cities
and people. What a perfect place to set these energy stealing probes......
******Outside at the battlefield, Seventeen
and Eighteen had landed near Goku. Being androids, Goku never felt them
coming..
"Oh hi! Didn't know you two were here!"
Goku chirped in his usual friendly voice. Seventeen looked into the hole,
even though he couldn't sense the fighters Ki, he had a feeling Vegeta
was NOT going to be happy when he got out of there. Eighteen looked at
Goku, "Why were you trying to kill Vegeta?" she asked. "Kill him?!" He
replied, "I'm not trying to kill him, we do this all the time, its only
for fun." 'Well, at lease I happen to think it is' he thought. "Kak..a...rot.."
Came a weak sounding voice from the hole. Goku yelled down to him, "Eat
the senzu bean Vegeta!!", then turned to Eighteen, "Since we've beaten
all the monsters that threatened our world we really don't have a whole
lot to do, so we come out here and spar with each other almost everyday
and whenever a tournament comes along, we enter." Vegeta floated out of
the hole and smirked at Goku, "You know Kakarot, you would have never got
me if you didn't learn to hide your power like that." 'Great...he sure
didn't stay down there long' Seventeen thought.
"You like that? I always thought there
was a way to do that and it took me a while, but I finally figured it out."
Goku said with a goofy grin on his face. Vegeta just smirked at him and
looked past Goku's shoulder, noticing Seventeen and Eighteen. "Oh look
Kakarot, you must have a magnet on you because your attracting a lot of
scrap metal. Eighteen rolled her eyes and ignored him, used to such insults.
Seventeen however, did a perfect imitation of Vegetas smirk at him, which
angered the hot-tempered Prince even more. Vegeta powered back into SSJ
and prepared to lunge at Seventeen when Goku put a hand on him to stop
him. "Vegeta, you did start it with him you know." Goku said, trying to
calm the fellow Saiyan down. Seventeen, unable to resist, replied, "Whats
the matter little pwincy wincy? Big bad Goku made you cry?" Seventeen started
doing an impersonation of a crying baby. Vegeta screamed and jumped at
him. Goku tackled Vegeta to try and keep Seventeen from being turned into
rubble. "You guys better get outta here until he calms down!" Goku yelled
over Vegetas cursing and death-threats to everyone, Goku included. Eighteen
flew off. Seventeen smirked at Vegeta and followed his sister. All of them
unaware of the events happening underground below them..
*******Back underground..
The machines in Dr. Geros lab buzzed with
life. After absorbing some of the energy from Vegeta and Goku's attacks,
the brain finally had enough energy to begin his reign of evil again. But,
he couldn't do anything trapped in this damned tube. So he had commanded
the droids and machines to begin building himself a new body. It was scarcely
an hour ago, but his body was almost finished. He couldn't see it literally,
but the computer had downloaded an image of it to him. It was beautiful,
almost exactly like the one he had as Android #20, but a little bigger
and this time without so much hair. As the one who would rule Earth, he
wanted to look young and powerful, not like some old coot. He chuckled
silently to himself. 'What a genius I am..its only been about an hour and
my body is already completed..the only thing that will take a while is
to get..."settled in"..oh yes..I can almost taste Goku's blood now..' the
brain thought. Then everything went black as the extraction and relocation
process began..
******Roughly 4 hours later..
Dr. Gero blinked...then slowly his systems
came online. His eyes focused and he could see. A screen opened on his
vision, detailing the statistics of his body;
Vision....100%
Hearing...100%
Touch...100%
Taste...100%
Smell...100%
Another screen opened up..
Artifical nervous system...100%
Artifical muscle mass...100%
Power level...100,000,000+
'Oh yes!!' he thought, 'according to these
calculations I am as strong as Perfect Cell 3 times over!'
A screen opened that read "Memory transplant
sucessful" He smiled and looked down at his new body and gasped. He was
stark naked! "Damn! All the time spent planning this body and I forgot
clothes!" he shrugged it off. No matter, he had a selection of clothing
in a locker he used for the Androids. A screen opened and he blinked in
shock. "Well well...abilities list! I forgot I had implanted this!" He
read over the abilities listed: Kamehameha, Big Bang, Finish Buster, Regeneration,
Barrier, Special Beam Cannon, Masenko, Tri-Beam, Destructo Disk, Telekenesis,
Dematerialization, Solar Flare, Galic Gunblast, Instantaneous Movement...He
smiled with evil as the last two flashed on the screen; Final Flash.....Spirit
Bomb...
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Well! Finally the end of Chapter
2! What do you think? Keep it going or yank it out?