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The shadows lifted from the man that now stood before the precautioned group. Trunks. And the guy did not look very happy at all. His clothes were all ragged, his hair looking damp and empty. He took another slow step forward. "You guys.....where's my father?"
Ripper then sunk back down into a sitting position. "Pheh." Jotaro folded his arms and looked Trunks over carefully. "Your father? None of us know that. What are you doing here?"
Trunks looked away from them and spat out some blood. "Seventeen. That fucking soulless weasel. He attacked the Aqua Halo bar a short time ago. Father and I tried to stop him, but he was just too--".....he kicked over a box in fury.
Jotaro looked up in thought for a moment. "Seventeen....the male android?" Ripper spoke again in that fierce, sort of dull tone of voice. "It's an android; who gives a shit? Makes no difference if it's the male or the female. They're both gonna die."
Trunks turned to face Ripper quickly. "Don't underestimate them! They're not ordinary androids as you'd expect! There's something very bizarre about them. I don't know what exactly it is that's behind their force. Not yet."
Princess Ayeka who had moved little in her spot on the floor looked up from one of them to the next in a worried manner. She had never known that the situation would escalate to the point where she'd be sitting in a warehouse. Nonetheless, she felt a certain security in the power that surrounded each of them.
Jotaro looked ahead at something, or rather nothing, into space, as if he'd just realized an alternative. He punched an open palm firmly. "But do these things have any spirit energy?" Trunks shook his head a slight bit. "They're not supposed to....but lately I think there's some other form of power that's giving them this advantage."
The four of them now lowered their heads in even further thought. Not just androids? But weren't they created in a lab to do everything they had been doing, even now? Obviously not everything. It was total inevitability that Trunks, Vegeta, and Goten had been caught up with for quite some time, each time having devised alternatives of sure success that had been failing....but it was a progressive failure.
Each time the two vile things had appeared for the confrontation, their ways of defending got considerably diabolically nastier every time. It seemed as if they were advancing in an unorthodox pattern. It was a very strange phenomenon to behold.
Trunks turned his eyes down to Ripper in an inquisitive way. "Hey...if you don't mind me asking, I'd like to know how you got dragged into all this." Just as Trunks had predicted, that defensive look glanced right back at him from Ripper's eyes.
"They caught me at the wrong time. What I'd like to know though is why you asked me and not him", he answered while pointing his blade in the direction of Jotaro. "He told me that he got screwed into it the same time that I did."
Jotaro cut in quickly. "Drop it! I don't give a damn and I don't think any of you should either! Fuck it! No matter how any of us got pulled into this, we're gonna pull ourselves out, even if I have to do it alone!"
Ayeka then lowered her head even further, wincing in a purely agitated way. Her soft sigh could barely be heard. Jotaro then turned his back to them all and tucked his cap over his eyes, his voice lowered a great deal as he spoke again.
"I'm sorry if I'm making you uncomfortable, young lady. I'll calm down." Ayeka did not answer, she just nodded a very small bit. Ripper snarled under his breath and slid abit in the other direction, looking again to his blade. Trunks gritted his teeth and looked down at the floor. "Man...did my father just dump me here and go after those things by himself? Ghhhh....he has to snap out of it."
Jotaro slowly turned back around to face them all again, sliding his hands into his pockets. "But didnt you say that you came from the Aqua Halo? I thought that was all the way on the other side of town. Why would he--".....
CRASH! Not just the door, but a good deal around it came crashing down before them. The three men quickly turned their heads to it, Ayeka's gasp cutting through the noise. And there he was once again. Android Seventeen. He stood amidst the dust and spoke in what sounded like the most arrogant tone possible. "Weaklings gathering together? Forming a pathetic cabal? Maybe I can kill four birds with one stone."