How They Became - Chapter 3: Reconstruction and Resurrection ***Chapter 3: Reconstruction and Resurrection***

The room Seth and his sister found themselves wheeled into resembled a giant hospital operating room. The flourescent lights glowed softly overhead. The walls were all made of steel, the floor of concrete. It had large surgery lights overhead. In the corner was cabinets and storage units filled with all sorts of medical equipment. Electrocardiographs, EKG machines, life support systems, surgical tools, anything used in the medical profession was here.

He walked over to Seth, hooking him up to a life support machine to keep him alive. Moments later he did the same to Savannah. He smiled slightly. Looking around the room one could never confuse it with an evil man hellbent on the destruction of Goku. So long the man had been waiting. Ever since Goku had single-handedly destroyed the Red Ribbon army years ago, Gero had been plotting his revenge. Now, at long long last, it would be realized.

Stepping over to a computer monitor, he read and then re-read the plans and instructions for the automation process. They were still a bit unclear so he decided he'd have to glance at the screen every now and then to be sure he was doing this right. He looked at the tools he would require, the saws and blades, artificial organs and a vat of artificial skin, the hardest part would be the bone transplant.

He decided to do the boy first. Stepping over to him, he could see the boys heartline wavering a little bit. Then it jumped suddenly as Seth regained consciousness. He looked up at Gero with wide eyes full of fear, to which Gero returned an icey, but somehow soothing stare.

"Night night little boy..." Gero said in a sing-song manner, then he yanked the life-support cord out of the wall. Seths hands contracted and he gasped for air before he slowly died in front of Gero. Chuckling evily, Gero proceded to strip the boy of all his clothing and toss it aside so he could begin work.

He first drilled a hole in the forehead of Seth, to which he attached a tube to blow oxygen to the brain. This way he doesn't have to risk brain damage. That done, he took his scalpel and made a cut from Seth's neck to his groin. The next few hours went by slowly. He removed his ribcage and replaced it with a lightweight one made of an alloy that made titanium look like tinfoil. Through much effort, he replaced every bone in Seths body with this same material. He removed the stomach, liver, appendix, kidneys, and bladder.

He decided to leave the heart and blood system intact, to furthur disguise him as an android. He pulled out his I.E.P.M.S. (Internal Energy Production and Magnification System). It was only the size of a pocket radio, but it would more than serve its purpose. He implanted it in Seth, next to his heart. Finally, he produced a small metal device the size of a standard baseball and began to implant it. It was a self-destruct bomb with about half the force of a standard nuclear weapon. 'These beings having human minds may one day turn on me..' Gero reasoned. He then closed up the opening in his chest.

Next, using a motor-driven saw, he sawed the top of Seths head off, exposing his gray brain. This part had to be done quickly. Producing a device no bigger than a quarter, he pressed it down into Seths brain, right in the back where the brain stem ends. The prongs of the device penetrated and expanded outward, sealing itself in his brain. He then removed Seth's eyes, replacing them with artifical ones capable of seeing distances far greater than any human could ever hope. After re-attaching the part of Seths head he had removed, he used a small laser to "weld" the skin back together.

After making more incisions, Gero implanted artifical muscles into Seths arms and legs. Not enough to give him any sort of built look, but enough to make him deadly. He had did a scan on him and Savannah previously and found their bodies and muscles to be physically weak. To counter this, he implanted artifical muscles that would never rip or tear and would grow stronger over time.

He then produced a large jar of a pink slime substance. Working vigerously, he rubbed it all over Seths body, covering ever inch of him evenly. From the top of his head (which he shaved) to the bottom of his toes he rubbed the stuff. After letting it set for a moment, he rolled a giant heatlamp over and held it on Seths prone body. The intense heat radiated down on him and within 5 minutes it was completly dry. It matched his skin perfectly, except any blemished he might have had were covered.

He stood back to admire his work. Seth was missing something....."Hair! I forgot to give the kid hair!" Gero exclaimed. Not knowing much about popular hairstyles, he simple had the computer regenerate his black hair to chin lenght and let it go at that. Stepping back, he admired his new creation. Artifical muscles, bones, internal organs, and a brain better than any living person on Earth.

Taking care of minor technicalites, he replaced Seths teeth and nails with hard as steel material. He toyed with the idea of robbing him of his anatomical correctness, but soon dismissed the idea, seeing as how an object such as that would be irrelevant in a fight any damn ways.

The final phase was simply to erase Seths memory and fill his mind with battle tactics. This was done by inserting a probe and, using small bursts of electricity, fried the internal body circuits for memory, giving him complete amnesia. After hooking a wire to the chip in his brain, Gero uploaded all the needed info his new Android would need: The battles of Goku and company, their fighting styles, moves, even a few things about Seths previous life, such as his love of firearms and his smartass attitude.

Going to a nearby closed, he found an old pair of ripped blue jeans, a white long-sleeve shirt, and a red bandanna. He dressed the boy, but then got an idea. Furthur inspection found a black shirt in an old bag. After sowing a Red Ribbon emblem upon it, he put that on the boy over his long-sleeve shirt. He then outfitted the boy with a pair of socks and shoes, trying to make him look as close to human as possible. Finally, he tied the bandanna around his neck.

With a smile, he wheeled Seth over to the corner and laid him on one of the "recovery" beds. He haden't activated him yet, but he knew he'd survive not being activated. The IEPMS system would see to that. It would keep him alive even though he was not fully activated as of yet. ":Sleep well Android #17" Gero cooed to him with an evil smile.

The automation process with his sister went just the same. Gero performed the exact same procedure, except he for some odd reason decided to leave Savannahs reproductive system intact. 'Don't know why, she'd never make use of it anyway. Guess I don't feel like going through all that trouble' he thought. After replacing her teeth, nails, eyes, bones, organs, muscles, and skin, Gero clothed her in black and white striped leggings, a knee-lenght denim skirt, a denim vest (which he took the liberty to sow a Red Ribbon emblem on) black and white striped long-sleeve shirt, and boots.

Just like her brother, Savannah had chin lenght hair, only hers was pale blonde while Seths was jet black. Also like Seth, he had erased her memory, filling her brain with fighting techs, battles, fighter bios, and a tidbit of personal information, like the love of shopping. Gero decided that he would leave in the part that they are brother and sister, but omit the fact that they were ever born from a human mother. He decided it best to let them believe they were created by him solely.

For 4 days he watched them lie prone on the recovery beds. The monitors hooked up to them showed they were surviving nicely and the IEPMS was functioning at 100%. Finally on the 5th day, he decided to test it. Going over to a console, he pressed some switches and buttons. Immediently, Seths eyes opened and he sat up with a gasp. He looked around the room he was in, touching himself all over to be sure this wasen't a dream.

Gero threw his head back and erupted in laughter. "It works! It works! Now, to test the other one!" he cackled. He pressed a few more buttons and Savannah also bolted upright, gasping for breath. The twins looked at Gero, trying to clear the fuzz out of their vision. Then it suddenly came to them: His name was Alfred Gero, and he was their master.

**Chapter 4: Life begins again, will be up soon!