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Powerful winds twirled around the two Super Saiyans and the male android. On the other side, Goten lay strewn over Ayeka's unconscious body, keeping the barrier around the two of them active and steady.
Android Eighteen was standing atop one of the buildings closeby, dusting herself off as she watched below. She looked as though she was going to drift back down below, but someone else leaped right up next to her before she did. That someone turned out to be Ripper.
He tilted his head to the android, cutting each of his blades past each other in a calmly tinkering way as he started to walk toward her. "You can have just as good a time right up here."
Back down below, Jotaro turned to watch what was happening in front of him between the Saiyans and Seventeen. "You two...", started the android with his eyes arrogantly closed. "You'll never be as powerful as I am. Next time you reach the brink of death, you're not gonna come back."
Trunks was the first to lose patience, the slipping away of his tolerance previously evident for a good while now, and he flew up above the android like a hawk above its prey. "I'm am not going to stand for this anymore!!"
Following this, he raced downward with his arms spread out, and threw out a punch to Seventeen's stomach.
The android opened his eyes beforehand and caught Trunks's fist with his open palm, holding him back while staggering. The punch had much thrown into it, but yet...so did the android's resistance. Had the android possibly gotten stronger just as Trunks and his father did?
Vegeta was then heard at the other point of the area screaming out in anger, and he veered right into the lock of strength, snapping Trunks away from the android by tossing him by the arm in a split second, and then cut into Seventeen's distance, throwing out his own fist at the android in that same time.
Again, the punch was caught...and again the android did no more than stagger. "If you don't stop playing around with me, you're going to suffer even more, android!", yelled Vegeta as he stared the heartless creature right in the eye.
Seventeen smiled and released the Saiyan's fist, then threw out a foot to his stomach. Vegeta directly recieved the shot, but surprisingly just shook it off rapidly as if he was on some kind of numb drug and floated quickly towards Seventeen, smashing his knee into the android's ribs.
Trunks then appeared behind Seventeen and dug his elbow into the dizzy android's face a good number of times before he finally rocked him far over into a wall. The younger Saiyan's eyes then turned to his father's. No words were said, but his feelings were clearly shaken by Vegeta's act of tossing him aside. Vegeta looked as though he was a shred reluctant of it, but of course said nothing.
"Hey, friends!", came a call from Goten and Ayeka's direction. As Jotaro, Vegeta and Trunks looked over to the source, they found Seventeen standing easily inside the forcefield that was formed there, Goten remaining over Ayeka, glaring at Seventeen from the corner of his eye.
"Goten!", yelled Trunks as he took a step toward the shield, but then gritted his teeth as he felt the intense pressure coursing from it, knowing that he would not be able to cut through. "Seventeen...!", growled Vegeta as he too stood by with his teeth showing through.
The android then picked Goten up from the back of his collar, tugging him off of Ayeka as he smiled with a vile edge to everyone watching him. "You don't mind if I take this brainless boy with me for a little ride, do you?" Without making a sound, Goten swung like a propeller at the android with his fist, but in a most odd way, both he and the android became instantly phased out just before taking on a single cubic shape that diminished into nothingness.
Jotaro and the two Saiyans stood still, their mouths open and their eyes stopping. The forcefield died out like a flame after being doused in water, and Ayeka lay there out cold on the ground.