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?