The Androids Perspective
Copyright- Dragonabll Z and its characters in no way at all belong to me in any sence of the word. My character ????? or Suiceene is mine though and can only be used in others works if I am asked first.
Android 17
I didn't like his lack of fear. Here was I, infinitely more powerful than he could ever hope to be and he wasn't even breaking a sweat. He must have something up his sleeve, that or he was mad. "I wonder where the dear doctor is? Preparing a grand entrance or something. Just after showing off his news toys. I really want to talk to him. Can you lead me to your master? I suppose that's what you are here for." My response was as cold as I could keep it, what with my anger rising. "There seems to be some misunderstanding. I am not under the control of anybody. Dr Gero who you allude to is dead. I killed him." His eyebrows rose faintly but his expression remained the same. "So I must presume you are here because of your own reasons. Do you want a new master or something?" His response goaded me further and I had to struggle to keep my composure. "No we are not in need of a master. We are here for a different reason. We need your help." and I struggled to say the last part to him. He was so cocky and self assured it got under my skin. While waiting for his response I envisioned different ways of killing him. "But of course, I will help. I assume you would kill be or something if I didn't comply." he said with a little laugh. I clenched my fists harder and willed myself not to hurt him. "I have watched the tapes from the security camera's in the last base about a dozen times. I know of your power that is why there was so little resistance here. In fact I have spent the last couple of days waiting for you two to arrive." His words only continued to anger me further. Why had I spent so long looking round the base trying to create a plan? Here he was saying that the base had been open and ready for us to arrive. How could I have been so dumb? But I banished these thoughts. Had to think about other things, namely, where was 18? I couldn't sense her presence anywhere. She could be in trouble….
But I couldn't just run off and look for her. I had Speilding now and I didn't want him to escape again. Only one option then. Reaching forward I grabbed hold of his lab coat. For the first time I thought I saw fear in his eyes for a second. "Ever flown before?" I said before leaping up into the air. Reaching up with the other hand I fired a small ki blast upwards. Almost immediately I felt the down-surge in power as it left my hand. It was only a small attack and yet I still felt it. I really needed to get more powerful. As I flew through the hole I had made in the room out into the chilly air of the night I couldn't help but think about some of the things that Speilding had said. He and Gero obviously knew each other but what I found strange was that he seemed to know that we were Androids. Gero must have confided at least a little bit in him. Or more likely Gero had boasted about our powers and us. It might explain Speilding's response to us. That might be why he showed no fear at the sight of me. He didn't believe we would hurt him. He might even think this might be a elaborate joke on Gero's part, designed to scare him. Flying up high into the sky I took a couple a couple of seconds to look about, trying to locate 18. Hanging below me, Speilding started to squirm a bit. I sensed he didn't like being up so high, without any sort of safety harness. Suddenly I spotted 18. But something was wrong. She was lying on the ground. Something must have happened! Not caring how much energy it wasted I blasted downwards as quick as I could manage. Seconds later I landed beside 18's body. Letting go of Speilding I was at 18's side checking her trying to find what was wrong. It was only then that I realised that I might have just stepped into a trap. But no one was jumping out at anything or me so I dispensed with this idea. It was then that I noticed the burning hulk of the power station and then I realised what must have happened. 18 had blasted it instead of using the weapons I had given her. She had used up too much power the fool! Beneath me 18's eyelids started to flicker before they opened up. "W-what happened?" "You're ok 18. Just stand up. We have to go." Slowly 18 made her way to her feet, only to stumble and I only just managed to catch her. I then directed her attention to the man standing beside us. "This is Speilding."
Android 18
It was about an hour or two since 17 had woken me up. We were in one of Speilding's main labs. 17 finally finished a short dialogue of our lives so far. He left out the parts about the Z fighter's but spoke quite a bit about Suiceene and her power. The way he told it Suiceene was a conqueror from another planet and we were the only chance humanity had of surviving. "As far as I understand it Dr, you have watched us in action at the previous lab. What you saw there barely scratches the surface of the power we used to have. Suiceene's power eclipses even that. There is no weapon which man possesses which can stop her, no army capable of stopping her. If every man and woman on this planet was to take to arms it wouldn't be enough. We are humanity's only chance of survival." Nice I thought, making it seem as if we are helping the humans. "But according to you, you both have already fought her and you both lost. How do you suggest I help you?" "What I have here," 17 said holding up the two blueprints which he had pulled from the bag on his back, "is blueprints which Dr Gero made. On one of them are the specifications for us. On the other is the specifications for our friend Android 16." Hearing a startled gasp I turned to see scientists in white lab coats surrounded us. They must have come in with out me noticing. They all crowded round Speilding while he looked at the two documents. At first he seemed sceptical of the two documents. But the more he read the more interested he became. "Ah now I see. This is how he did it." he exclaimed. "But," he said with a calmer voice, "if you are right about me having a certain time limit I would have to say it would be impossible. It would take me maybe a year to construct another Android 16." "But we are not asking that,"17 cut in. "All I want is you to update the both of us. Make us both like Android 16." His response clearly startled the scientist. "I'm not sure if that would be possible. And even if it was, why would I want to" he said in a cold voice. Before 17 could reply he went on. "You are not going to make me waste huge amounts of money and time preparing for a danger that I have no proof of. You two could just be trying to make yourselves powerful enough to take over the planet." And don't bother trying to threaten me. I know you won't kill me. You need me to repair the female Android. Am I not right in saying she hasn't got much longer to live?" I could see the anger seething in my brother. But he managed to get it under control before he addressed Speilding. "You could have anything you ever wanted. Power, fame, money, anything. Control over the entire world, even. If you do this for us we would give you anything you ever wanted." I replied catching the doctors eye. I noted as his eyes moved down staring at my body. But of course, we were planning to kill the doctor once he finished us. "How can I trust you?" "How can we trust you? Once you start to rebuild us you could pull the plug on both of us at any minute. We would be helpless." The doctor stared hard at the both of us for a minute before replying. "My staff and I will have to look over these documents. See if what you plan is possible." And with that he and the rest of his staff left the room. I made a move as if to stop them as they left the room, but 17 stopped me. "No point 18. Speilding won't run. He knows he won't get far if he does. Anyway, I think he is interested. From what I can see of him, he will make a better leader than Gero. He looks more intelligent." All this was for the benefit for the listening devices spread around the room. I lay back on the table that I had been sitting on. It was looking like it might be a long night.
Android 17
It was sometime the next morning before the doctor returned. Actually I knew the time, I always knew the time. It was 10 AM, the doctor had been gone 9 hours and if I hadn't known that he was in the other room I would have got worried. I really had to thank Gero for his infrared eyesight, which we could turn on and off. As soon as he re-entered the roof he started to talk. Most of what he said made no sense at all to me, but I wasn't going to let him know that. It would seem like a weakness. From he said I picked up enough to be sure that he was able to change us to be like 16 but at a price. When I asked him what he asked one of his assistants to bring in a chart. Seconds later the assistant re-appeared with a large chart on wheels. On it was a copy of both blueprints blown up to about three times's their normal size. "To change you're designs is going to take a huge influx of parts which neither of you have. At the present neither of you have the space for these parts. From what I have observed from the plans there is only one real quick method in which we can do this. We will have to remove, this, this and these," he said pointing at several parts of the diagram. Looking at our confused faces he explained with a hint of a gloat. "These are the remaining parts of you're body which are human. From what I understand you both were humans to begin with until Dr Gero started to change you're bodies. Frankly I'm surprised you survived." I was completely unprepared for his words and for a minute I was unable to think. I was a human! The very thing I hated above all? I was human born. But….
Dimly I heard myself ask him "And what will happen if you do remove these parts." "You will become fully Android. You will be a pure machine, though I'm not sure if that will help you. I can't see how 16 would be more powerful than you two. A human base should be much more powerful than a machine one's." These words hit me as another blow. I would become fully Android. That was what I always believed I was, what I believed was better. I had just learnt of my human lineage and here it was being taken away from me again. "I will give you two some time to think it over," he said silently leaving the room. I sat rocking forward and back with my head between my arms. How could I be a human? How could I have not known? How could I not remember anything? Again and again I scourged my mind searching for any titbit, and tiny piece or morsel of information that might be of use. But there was nothing, absolute blankness. How could I be a human and not remember anything? Who was I? Who were my parents? What life had I had? Who was I really? How much was me and how much was Dr Gero? WHO WAS I! How could I not know? HOW COULD I NOT REMEMBER!!
I was unaware of the tears falling down from my eyes as I smashed my fists down again and again into the table in front of me. What had that sick fiend done to me? Where was Gero!! I wanted to kill him all over again! "17" I dimly heard 18 call but I ignored her. How could this happen to me, why was I a human, I had done so well hating them, and now I was one. Now I was a human. "17!" 18 shouted, this getting my attention. "Will you listen to me!" I turned to look at my sister. Her face was contorted in pain but not the physical kind and her eyes were also streaming. "We have to decide about this. Are we going to go through with this or not?" For a second I didn't know what she was talking about. And then it hit me. Suiceene, we had to defeat her. But at a cost… We would have to give up our humanity, become simple robots. Five minute ago I hated humanity but now… Somewhere out there I had a life, I had an existence. There was so much more I could be, so much I was going to give up if I decided. I was going to give up any chance of that life, of a human life. Why did I have to make this choice? Why did I have to care? I never thought I had a human part, never cared, but now I knew could I give it up? I would be taking something from inside of me and ripping it out. Taking away, removing any past I might have had. I could even be removing myself, I suddenly thought. The consciousness that was I, the part that thought, made choices, and had fun, the part that was I might go. I might me and just leave a robot. Something, which took order's and carried them out. Could I take that risk? And if I didn't?
18 would die in the next couple of days; we would all die in matter of time. Suiceene was going to strike again and that would it. What was I stopping her for, if I was going to die? The human race, but I hated them so! I still did even though I knew I was one. But I mightn't be one much longer. I was going to have to decide now, decide now or run out of time. I had to decide for both of us. Looking across at 18 I looked at her injured and damaged body. How much longer, before she died? This was chance, a chance to live but at a terrible price. Was it better to die than to live half-life? A life without my human side….
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Copyright- Dragonabll Z and its characters in no way at all belong to me in any sence of the word. My character ????? or Suiceene is mine though and can only be used in others works if I am asked first.
Android 17
I didn't like his lack of fear. Here was I, infinitely more powerful than he could ever hope to be and he wasn't even breaking a sweat. He must have something up his sleeve, that or he was mad. "I wonder where the dear doctor is? Preparing a grand entrance or something. Just after showing off his news toys. I really want to talk to him. Can you lead me to your master? I suppose that's what you are here for." My response was as cold as I could keep it, what with my anger rising. "There seems to be some misunderstanding. I am not under the control of anybody. Dr Gero who you allude to is dead. I killed him." His eyebrows rose faintly but his expression remained the same. "So I must presume you are here because of your own reasons. Do you want a new master or something?" His response goaded me further and I had to struggle to keep my composure. "No we are not in need of a master. We are here for a different reason. We need your help." and I struggled to say the last part to him. He was so cocky and self assured it got under my skin. While waiting for his response I envisioned different ways of killing him. "But of course, I will help. I assume you would kill be or something if I didn't comply." he said with a little laugh. I clenched my fists harder and willed myself not to hurt him. "I have watched the tapes from the security camera's in the last base about a dozen times. I know of your power that is why there was so little resistance here. In fact I have spent the last couple of days waiting for you two to arrive." His words only continued to anger me further. Why had I spent so long looking round the base trying to create a plan? Here he was saying that the base had been open and ready for us to arrive. How could I have been so dumb? But I banished these thoughts. Had to think about other things, namely, where was 18? I couldn't sense her presence anywhere. She could be in trouble….
But I couldn't just run off and look for her. I had Speilding now and I didn't want him to escape again. Only one option then. Reaching forward I grabbed hold of his lab coat. For the first time I thought I saw fear in his eyes for a second. "Ever flown before?" I said before leaping up into the air. Reaching up with the other hand I fired a small ki blast upwards. Almost immediately I felt the down-surge in power as it left my hand. It was only a small attack and yet I still felt it. I really needed to get more powerful. As I flew through the hole I had made in the room out into the chilly air of the night I couldn't help but think about some of the things that Speilding had said. He and Gero obviously knew each other but what I found strange was that he seemed to know that we were Androids. Gero must have confided at least a little bit in him. Or more likely Gero had boasted about our powers and us. It might explain Speilding's response to us. That might be why he showed no fear at the sight of me. He didn't believe we would hurt him. He might even think this might be a elaborate joke on Gero's part, designed to scare him. Flying up high into the sky I took a couple a couple of seconds to look about, trying to locate 18. Hanging below me, Speilding started to squirm a bit. I sensed he didn't like being up so high, without any sort of safety harness. Suddenly I spotted 18. But something was wrong. She was lying on the ground. Something must have happened! Not caring how much energy it wasted I blasted downwards as quick as I could manage. Seconds later I landed beside 18's body. Letting go of Speilding I was at 18's side checking her trying to find what was wrong. It was only then that I realised that I might have just stepped into a trap. But no one was jumping out at anything or me so I dispensed with this idea. It was then that I noticed the burning hulk of the power station and then I realised what must have happened. 18 had blasted it instead of using the weapons I had given her. She had used up too much power the fool! Beneath me 18's eyelids started to flicker before they opened up. "W-what happened?" "You're ok 18. Just stand up. We have to go." Slowly 18 made her way to her feet, only to stumble and I only just managed to catch her. I then directed her attention to the man standing beside us. "This is Speilding."
Android 18
It was about an hour or two since 17 had woken me up. We were in one of Speilding's main labs. 17 finally finished a short dialogue of our lives so far. He left out the parts about the Z fighter's but spoke quite a bit about Suiceene and her power. The way he told it Suiceene was a conqueror from another planet and we were the only chance humanity had of surviving. "As far as I understand it Dr, you have watched us in action at the previous lab. What you saw there barely scratches the surface of the power we used to have. Suiceene's power eclipses even that. There is no weapon which man possesses which can stop her, no army capable of stopping her. If every man and woman on this planet was to take to arms it wouldn't be enough. We are humanity's only chance of survival." Nice I thought, making it seem as if we are helping the humans. "But according to you, you both have already fought her and you both lost. How do you suggest I help you?" "What I have here," 17 said holding up the two blueprints which he had pulled from the bag on his back, "is blueprints which Dr Gero made. On one of them are the specifications for us. On the other is the specifications for our friend Android 16." Hearing a startled gasp I turned to see scientists in white lab coats surrounded us. They must have come in with out me noticing. They all crowded round Speilding while he looked at the two documents. At first he seemed sceptical of the two documents. But the more he read the more interested he became. "Ah now I see. This is how he did it." he exclaimed. "But," he said with a calmer voice, "if you are right about me having a certain time limit I would have to say it would be impossible. It would take me maybe a year to construct another Android 16." "But we are not asking that,"17 cut in. "All I want is you to update the both of us. Make us both like Android 16." His response clearly startled the scientist. "I'm not sure if that would be possible. And even if it was, why would I want to" he said in a cold voice. Before 17 could reply he went on. "You are not going to make me waste huge amounts of money and time preparing for a danger that I have no proof of. You two could just be trying to make yourselves powerful enough to take over the planet." And don't bother trying to threaten me. I know you won't kill me. You need me to repair the female Android. Am I not right in saying she hasn't got much longer to live?" I could see the anger seething in my brother. But he managed to get it under control before he addressed Speilding. "You could have anything you ever wanted. Power, fame, money, anything. Control over the entire world, even. If you do this for us we would give you anything you ever wanted." I replied catching the doctors eye. I noted as his eyes moved down staring at my body. But of course, we were planning to kill the doctor once he finished us. "How can I trust you?" "How can we trust you? Once you start to rebuild us you could pull the plug on both of us at any minute. We would be helpless." The doctor stared hard at the both of us for a minute before replying. "My staff and I will have to look over these documents. See if what you plan is possible." And with that he and the rest of his staff left the room. I made a move as if to stop them as they left the room, but 17 stopped me. "No point 18. Speilding won't run. He knows he won't get far if he does. Anyway, I think he is interested. From what I can see of him, he will make a better leader than Gero. He looks more intelligent." All this was for the benefit for the listening devices spread around the room. I lay back on the table that I had been sitting on. It was looking like it might be a long night.
Android 17
It was sometime the next morning before the doctor returned. Actually I knew the time, I always knew the time. It was 10 AM, the doctor had been gone 9 hours and if I hadn't known that he was in the other room I would have got worried. I really had to thank Gero for his infrared eyesight, which we could turn on and off. As soon as he re-entered the roof he started to talk. Most of what he said made no sense at all to me, but I wasn't going to let him know that. It would seem like a weakness. From he said I picked up enough to be sure that he was able to change us to be like 16 but at a price. When I asked him what he asked one of his assistants to bring in a chart. Seconds later the assistant re-appeared with a large chart on wheels. On it was a copy of both blueprints blown up to about three times's their normal size. "To change you're designs is going to take a huge influx of parts which neither of you have. At the present neither of you have the space for these parts. From what I have observed from the plans there is only one real quick method in which we can do this. We will have to remove, this, this and these," he said pointing at several parts of the diagram. Looking at our confused faces he explained with a hint of a gloat. "These are the remaining parts of you're body which are human. From what I understand you both were humans to begin with until Dr Gero started to change you're bodies. Frankly I'm surprised you survived." I was completely unprepared for his words and for a minute I was unable to think. I was a human! The very thing I hated above all? I was human born. But….
Dimly I heard myself ask him "And what will happen if you do remove these parts." "You will become fully Android. You will be a pure machine, though I'm not sure if that will help you. I can't see how 16 would be more powerful than you two. A human base should be much more powerful than a machine one's." These words hit me as another blow. I would become fully Android. That was what I always believed I was, what I believed was better. I had just learnt of my human lineage and here it was being taken away from me again. "I will give you two some time to think it over," he said silently leaving the room. I sat rocking forward and back with my head between my arms. How could I be a human? How could I have not known? How could I not remember anything? Again and again I scourged my mind searching for any titbit, and tiny piece or morsel of information that might be of use. But there was nothing, absolute blankness. How could I be a human and not remember anything? Who was I? Who were my parents? What life had I had? Who was I really? How much was me and how much was Dr Gero? WHO WAS I! How could I not know? HOW COULD I NOT REMEMBER!!
I was unaware of the tears falling down from my eyes as I smashed my fists down again and again into the table in front of me. What had that sick fiend done to me? Where was Gero!! I wanted to kill him all over again! "17" I dimly heard 18 call but I ignored her. How could this happen to me, why was I a human, I had done so well hating them, and now I was one. Now I was a human. "17!" 18 shouted, this getting my attention. "Will you listen to me!" I turned to look at my sister. Her face was contorted in pain but not the physical kind and her eyes were also streaming. "We have to decide about this. Are we going to go through with this or not?" For a second I didn't know what she was talking about. And then it hit me. Suiceene, we had to defeat her. But at a cost… We would have to give up our humanity, become simple robots. Five minute ago I hated humanity but now… Somewhere out there I had a life, I had an existence. There was so much more I could be, so much I was going to give up if I decided. I was going to give up any chance of that life, of a human life. Why did I have to make this choice? Why did I have to care? I never thought I had a human part, never cared, but now I knew could I give it up? I would be taking something from inside of me and ripping it out. Taking away, removing any past I might have had. I could even be removing myself, I suddenly thought. The consciousness that was I, the part that thought, made choices, and had fun, the part that was I might go. I might me and just leave a robot. Something, which took order's and carried them out. Could I take that risk? And if I didn't?
18 would die in the next couple of days; we would all die in matter of time. Suiceene was going to strike again and that would it. What was I stopping her for, if I was going to die? The human race, but I hated them so! I still did even though I knew I was one. But I mightn't be one much longer. I was going to have to decide now, decide now or run out of time. I had to decide for both of us. Looking across at 18 I looked at her injured and damaged body. How much longer, before she died? This was chance, a chance to live but at a terrible price. Was it better to die than to live half-life? A life without my human side….
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