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"What a rude thing to do", said the lady android Eighteen as she placed her hands on her hips, watching everything from above another building, some pieces of her clothes torn...evidently from Ripper's blades. She gazed down at her clothes as she continued to talk to herself. "Seventeen just totally forgot about me. He's going to pay for this one later."
The low tone of Ripper became audible behind her then. "You're just as forgetful as he is to turn your back on me." Eighteen did not turn around this time, just laughed in a quietly taunting manner. "Or maybe it's just you who's foolish to think that you can win this game."
Faster footsteps could now be heard behind her and then she turned, catching both of Ripper's arms, both of the fighters floating back above a building farther down the line. The fierce killer threw out his foot to the android's stomach, but she was able to hold it back with her knee, Ripper still struggling to break out of her grasp and failing to do so.
The android had full control of the hold, and she smiled to him as she floated back in the other direction, pulling him over by a tower on the other end of the water, directly across from the shattered warehouse. Ripper continued to kick, only to be met with her knee.
Eighteen then forcefully bent Ripper's arms in the opposite direction, low crackles being heard from his bones in the process while he winced in pain, his kicking getting weaker. Afterwards, the female android went on to plunge both of his still firmly gripped blades into nearly the highest point of the tower.
Ripper struggled to hang on, trying to fight off the pain in his bones while Eighteen opened up into a fast kick combo directed at Ripper's chest. The killer's head rocked back as he spit out a quick flood of blood from his mouth. The android continued for a good while longer until Ripper's head finally tilted down, his breathing barely being able to be heard.
Eighteen shrugged in a teasing way and floated up to the very top of the tower, landing firmly on the highest point as she turned her attention out toward the waters nearby. The sun was half up now, and it was fairly brighter than when the fighting started.
The android then rested her hands on her hips again as she began to talk. "It's not a bad place, this town. Maybe I can find more things to do than I thought, huh? Without Seventeen here I'll probably be able to just kill those annoyances down below and have some more time for me."
She then turned around to look at the sight of the town that appeared like a quiet ghost town, wreckage surrounding the parts nearest her. Then there was something below her, rising. Something that was burning like flames after a line of gasoline connects with them. She backed up to the other side and looked where Ripper previously was out of the corner of her eye. Gone.
Immediately as she turned back around she saw him...flipping toward her with violent and energetically full flames of a killer's wrath surrounding him. Instantly afterwards, with an injured arm, he flailed one of his blades precisely ahead his position, the sharp weapon sliding right through Eighteen's forehead.
Sparks sprinkled down the sides of her face, the whites of her eyes looking shot, but no sound coming from her lips. She was just breathless. Ripper stood there with his unsteadily hung arm which continued to grip the life-taking blade that remained inserted into the android's head like a compact disc.
He got a good look at her expression and spoke with a deadly and satisfied tone. "You look a lot prettier when you win, girl. Now you're just a waste." The victorious Ripper then removed his blade from her head, still gripping it, and kicked her with a shot of dismissal, knocking her body off into the water in the distance.
The considerably exhausted killer then made his way to the other side of the tower, kneeling down, and he looked below to Jotaro, the Saiyans and the still unconscious Ayeka below. Trunks was holding his head, mumbling something to himself while Vegeta stood at an opposite wall with his arms folded, looking at the floor. Jotaro was standing where he had been, checking the wounds that he sustained. One of the android terrors may have been erased from the list, but no one had really learned anything from them yet. What was the source of that bewildering trick that Seventeen used disappear with Goten? How were the monstrous fighters getting even stronger than they had been?
.....where Goten was right now, the darkness revealed nothing. The incredibly confused young man opened his eyes and stood up amidst the nothingness to have a look at what was happening. The place was very narrow, and only small pieces of light seemed to come through very tiny open pieces in the midnight walls.
Goten looked up to discover more about it by getting a look at the ceiling. There was some kind of opening in it...and a moderately large, darkish emerald pipe that led down to Goten's unusual confinement. What in the name of heaven was happening?
He sensed none of their energies anymore where he was. Even long distance power readings were untraceable to him. There was no Vegeta, no Trunks, ...no Ayeka. They all could not have died, could they?
Interrupting his thoughts, someone had slipped down through the pipe above him and dropped down straight in front of him. There stood android Seventeen, his body emitting a light blue glow for a split second as the whites of his eyes cut across to Goten's.
"Hello, Son Goten. Do you like my little dwelling?", spoke the android as he remained standing loosely. The Saiyan gave him an even deeper version of the look of hate he had flashed him before. "....what the fuck have you done? Where is everyone?"
Seventeen clutched both fists of his and slid forward toward Goten. "Defeat me and I just might tell you." Energy of a wild orange color exploded around Goten as he slid in a matching fashion to the android, rising up at the end of the slide perfectly to snap-kick him right across the face, free of blockage.
Android Seventeen had been hit clearly in his head...and it looked certainly as though it hurt him. But then...the android smiled and cracked his neck in place. "Very good", said Seventeen. "This is perfect...just as I suspected." Goten kept at a very close distance to the android as he asked..."Perfect? What do you mean? What the hell are you up to?!"
The response of the android was to grab Goten by the hair and slam the side of his head into a metal surface that felt like bars on a cage, but it could not clearly be seen in these shadows. The Saiyan grunted in pain and used his hands to spring back up, ramming into Seventeen with one of his elbows. His hair turned golden directly after this attack connected with Seventeen's quickly thrusted opposite elbow. It seemed as though Goten was just getting started as he slammed his power forward, Seventeen smiling in some kind of orgasmic way as he was being jolted back considerably into the wall.
"Fantastic! What is it that you're running on, boy?" Goten started now to run against his foe in a charging way, and the android spoke again as he saw this coming. "Don't feel like answering, do you? Maybe you need a different view of things to become more active." He then struck Goten's neck with the back of his hand in a stiffly concentrated way, and after the young man had taken this hit, he felt himself being pulled back down into a hole that seemed to manifest itself out of thin air, this scene before him even drowning under new light.