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Princess Ayeka's startled pink gaze shifted up to look at the silent one that now tossed what he was holding above her head down to the ground. Off in the distance, Trunks and Android Eighteen could be seen hovering over to everyone as if both of their curiosities were stronger than their hatred towards each other.
Ripper stood next to Jotaro, who was still on the floor, sitting up, having sustained a wound when he fell. Vegeta watched the young man before him with a confused expression on his face. "Kakarott's son...?"
Goten turned what seemed like a look of pure and burning hatred to Seventeen, then to Eighteen in a cold and calmly straightforward way. His eyes then closed shut as he finally spoke quiet enough only to be heard by the one right beside him.
"Ayeka...it's very dangerous here now. The warehouse or any other structure would not have given you shelter had the androids had it their way. I beg of you...run away from this place. I need room to make them suffer the right way."
Eighteen turned to Seventeen and tilted her head in an inquisitive way. "Do you know what the hell he's doing?" Seventeen shrugged and yelled over to Goten. "You don't learn either, huh? You're going to die; do you understand that?"
Trunks stood by and growled underneath his breath, apparently not caring to ask questions anymore, just waiting for one of the androids to make a single false move.
Goten then knelt down beside the lady and opened his eyes to meet hers. "Please." Ayeka, stared right back to him, her eyes somewhat frozen, and she responded as if under hypnosis. "I understand. I'll...go."
Exactly as Ayeka started to stand to her feet, a practically invisible beam raced directly to her and pierced around her shoulders, causing blood to drain out from each side. Goten's eyes flickered with painful alarm as he tried to mentally backtrack the course of the beam to the one who fired. The visual road led him to Android Seventeen.
"You'll go nowhere", answered the stone-hearted artificial human as he lowered his hand with a hint of contentment. Son Goten's eyes had stopped on that visual road. He wanted so badly to make the android's fun disappear as he watched him, to bust it all into oblivion...but something was more important to the anxious man. Ayeka was bleeding.
Immediately as this came across his thinking, he turned to Ayeka with trembling open arms. But...he had found that she was a step ahead of him in a way. Power was flowing all around the lady, and there was a determined expression on her pure face as she raised her hands to Seventeen, energy circling widely and stiffly about.
"Leave us", she started to say as she kept her position, now hovering above the ground. "Leave us all...alone!" A light beam the color of teal was released from her hands, and it shot right into Seventeen, causing rocks to cloud his every surrounding as he continued to stand.
Time revealed that the beam had little or no effect on Seventeen, and the smile on his face held constant. The teal fires that encased Ayeka died as she saw the unscathed terror, and almost instantly, she had seen enough, her eyes closing shut as she fell toward Goten who had carefully caught her in his arms.
Android Seventeen then tilted his head to the two of them, looking unfulfilled as of yet. "Can't blame the poor thing for trying, now can I?" As Goten continued to hear the words from the fiendish android, he gently lowered Ayeka to the ground and knelt beside her, then turned his head to Seventeen.
"I'm going to see to it that when she wakes up, you'll both be nothing more than faded nightmares. I hope you've enjoyed yourself." No sooner than Goten was going to stand in a ready position, another beam was flicked out of the androids fingers, racing straight for Ayeka on the ground. At the point that it caught Goten's sensors, the Saiyan totally threw himself upon Ayeka's body and thereafter threw open a massive shield of white energy that the two of them seemed practically drowned in.
Vegeta, who was still watching the happenings in utter annoyance, said to himself sort of loudly... "What in the world does he think he's doing?!" Eighteen, who had her arms crossed over her chest, raised one of her hands, forming it into a gun shape, then said in a childish tone... "Let me try!"
She closed one of her eyes as the other one locked on to Goten and Ayeka's position, and then...she was tapped on the shoulder three times. In confusion, the female android lowered her hand and turned around...seeing Star Platinum standing there as if waiting for a bus. Next, as she felt someone behind her tugging on her hair like a rope, she heard Jotaro's voice. "Happy hour's over."
Her eyes widened in a rare way as Star Platinum then proceeded to swing each his fists directly at the android's face, one after the other like a constant pattern of fireworks. Jotaro then released her hair from his grasp and side-kicked her directly into Star Platinum's fist that sent a massive uppercut to her chin, knocking her high into the air, followed by the sound of her dropping onto a hard surface somewhere above.
Seventeen's head snapped over in that direction at the sound, and he narrowed his eyes in a very calm fashion, turning his body to meet the angle of Jotaro's. But...stepping toward him from opposite sides, surrounded with Super Saiyan power...were the father and son duo...Vegeta and Trunks.