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 narrowed my eyes and tried to stare through the dust. I couldn't believe it, this could be it. She could finally be dead… At first as the dust cleared I saw nothing, but just as hope started to enter through me I saw a small movement by the corner of my eye. Turning, I felt my heart sink as I saw her. But as I focused in on her I saw I had nothing to worry about. The lower half of her body was gone, from about the wound was. Her chest, head and arms were only left. She was lying against a large rock and already a large pool of blood had started to form around her waist. Vegeta suddenly appeared in front of her, arms crossed and smirking. "I decided you didn't deserve a warriors death. You will bleed like an animal!" As Vegeta started to laugh Suiceene's head slowly rose. One eye opened revealing one green gem, a gem in a sea of blood. I moved forward slowly toward her until I was near Vegeta, noting the other humans and Goku doing the same. The Sayain prince had found a rock to lean against, his eyes never leaving Suiceene. The other warriors including myself stood in a wide half semicircle around Suiceene. We had to see her die, just to make sure. For the past two weeks our lives had been based around her, we needed closure. Hearing a noise I turned to find 18 standing beside me. There was a strange expression on her face as she stared at Suiceene, one I couldn't start to try reading. Suddenly hearing a cry I turned to see something was happening to Suiceene. Electricity had started to spark around her head causing her to cry out. But it was not a cry of rage, it was a cry of pain. What was happening? As I watched the electricity seemed to get worse spreading all over her body causing her reach her head back and cry out. Vegeta started forward toward her but before he could reach her she had lifted up one of her paws. It hung there for a moment before striking deep into her head. The cry that ensued was louder than any she had uttered before and was filled with so much pain that I could hardly bare to listen. But my continued to stare as her paw retracted shakily from her head, electricity sparking round it. Her paw fell to her side, something falling out of her paw and rolling across the ground. Bending down Vegeta lifted it off the ground, examining the tiny black object. "What is this?" Suiceene's breathing was heavy and her one open eye stared with apparent listlessness. Her voice was weak and pain racked when she finally spoke. "Thyloch inserted in into my head recently. He… he said it would help him follow my movements. I think he was trying to use it to… kill me."
Suiceene
Pain continued to run through my broken body. It was a heavy price to pay, a normal organism would have relapsed into shock and died but instead I was able to struggle on, able to live for a little longer but through out that while I would feel every drop of blood as it poured out of me sending a thousand flames though my body. I struggled to concentrate, my prince was saying something. "Why would he want to kill you?" It was hard to form the words in my head let alone in my mouth. "Because he doesn't…. want me to tell you where he is." Only a little bit more. I only had to wait a little bit more, soon my second heart would stop beating. A low laugh came to my ears. "Poor Suiceene, all alone. Abandoned by even her own Sayains." It wasn't a relevation. I had always been alone, the Sayains left alive had been too weak, none of them warriors. There had not been one who thought like me. It didn't matter, I preferred to be alone. All the Neophalies had been lone wolves.
Finally I felt it happen. As my second heart stopped beating a surge of power flew through me. Now at least I could think. It was the last weapon of the Neophalie. As we finally passed through the invisible barrier between living and dying, dying past all point of recovery we were granted one last surge of power. Usually it was used to defeat the one that killed us, or to self destruct taking as many as we could with us. But I couldn't do that, I had already decided not to kill Vegeta. The power would just serve to make my last moments a little easier. For the first time I was able to open both eyes and stare around me. Seven warriors stood around me, two Androids, three humans and two Sayains. After all the attempts on my life it seemed strange that this was finally it. This was the final planet I would see, the final aliens I would fight, the final time I lay felling my blood pouring from my body trying to ignore the pain. Goku's, Kakarot's voice rung out. "Will you tell us where he is, seeing he did try to kill you. He's now your enemy." "He could never be my enemy. He summoned me, I can't kill him. I always kill my enemies." "You haven't killed us". Enemy was a strong word, not given out lightly. I always killed my enemies. "Suiceene, where is Thyloch?" my prince asked. "The planet is in the middle of what used to be the dead territory. Its now one of the richest sectors in the Universe." "How?" For a second I was distracted by blood dripping past my eye from my head wound which was screaming particularly violently. "Thyloch took a lot of spoils from the planets I destroyed and though various agreements." It was because of this that I hated this area. I remembered the first time I had returned home. The violent shock and anger as I saw planet after planet of slaves surrounding our home planet which had developed into a rich trading centre. Sayains did not live like that, we never used slaves. We always made our own food. I had wanted so badly to destroy it all but Thyloch stopped me. Because of the bond created between us when he summoned me I was unable to go directly against his wishes. After that I only visited my home planet once more, after the war with the Changelings was over, barely a two months ago. How could Sayains have got so weak? There they admitted their birthright but they were weak. Here they were strong warriors but refused to accept their birthright and lived as humans. I had created a Universe safe for Sayains to live in, defeated all their enemies but I had failed to save the Sayain race. My race was in a bad position when I was first born but there still a chance I could have saved it. Instead I had stayed away, concentrating on fighting hoping that once the Changelings were dead everything would be alright. Instead things had got worse. And now I was lying bleeding to death feeling depressed about it all. I tried to banish the thoughts from my head. An idea was forming in my head. One that went against everything I stood for but one which in my weakened state started to take form. Vegeta was my prince. Every Neophalie had been the guardian of the prince, so far all I had done was fight against him. Perhaps I should finally settle the scores between us, so that perhaps I could die knowing I had done something for him. But there was only one thing I could do for him. The one thing that represented his weakness, representing the side of him I hated above all. I swallowed. Could I do this, could I be so weak? Could I destroy the beliefs that meant so much to me?
Stop wallowing in self pity. Its all this thinking of dying. You have a chance to do something for your prince. It may be painful to do it but don't think by doing it you are sacrificing your own beliefs. He has made his choice, he wants the life of a human. Ultimately he will have to answer for his deeds but that is nothing to you. Sacrifice your pride and give him what he craves. This is your last chance to do something for him, think of it as pavement for all the times you failed to help him.
The ritual was pretty simple, deceptively so. All it required was a large piece of flesh, the Ancient chant of death and a huge amount of power. Brining two people back to life would take a large amount of my energy and shorten my life span. But I only had a couple of minutes more anyway.
Android 18
Her eyes closed and for a second I thought she was slipping away before she started to chant. What was she going to do now? As I watched she slowly moved her paws down to the large hole of the bottom of her chest where the blood flow had started to slow. With a swift action she reached her paws in. Her face clenched with pain and her voice seemed to hesitate letting loose a painful moan before continuing. I felt sick as I saw her paws emerge covered in blood. How could she do something like that? Goku and the humans had tensed summoning power around them, Vegeta remained still, still smirking. He wasn't afraid, didn't think Suiceene could do anything. I suddenly felt myself hoping that she could do something to him. Clutching the flesh between her shaking paws she continued to chant. Her paws started to glow green, the colour becoming brighter and brighter till I could no longer see Suiceene, blinded by the bright light, my eyes trying to compensate desperately. Suddenly there was a loud thunderclap than seemed to shake through the earth. As the brightness dimmed I was shocked to see two figures standing in front of Suiceene. But I was not as shocked as the humans. "Bulma!!" "Ch-chi!!!"
17 and I took our chance to move closer to Suiceene while the humans celebrated. Her face was now a deathly pale and when her eyes opened to look at us I was amazed by the paleness of her pupils which had had gone from a dark to a scarily light green. These looked dully at us and couldn't seem to focus. "Why did you do that?" Her voice was slow and weak, "he's my prince." " Suiceene, I have informed 17 of what happened. I made him understand not to say a word to them." 17 spoke up "But on one condition. You have to bring back 16 I don't think he will be able to come back with the Dragonballs!" "Suiceene!" Vegeta's voice was angry "What trickery are you trying to pull? I assume you have linked your lives to these two try and make us help you live!" "No Prince. If I die they are not effected, anyway I'm too far gone to be healed." "Then why have you done this!" "Consider that all my debts to you are paid. I can now hate you without feeling guilty about not helping any of the royal family." This answer seemed to satisfy Vegeta if not Bulma who had started to shout at Vegeta about being refereed to as "these two". Suiceene turned back to us. "You would dare blackmail me?" "Consider it that we will help you if you help us." Remembering something Suiceene had said earlier I continued. "You talked earlier about fighting with honour and dying an honourable death. 16 was the only fighter who gave everything he had to defeat you. The only one who died to try and defeat you. He…." "Perhaps Android, I do respect him as a warrior but I am still not in the habit of bringing warriors back to life who have tried to kill me. On the other hand I owe you Androids." She sighed. "At this point with death so close other things lose their importance. I am too weak now to bring him back to life." Before I could say anything she went on closing her eyes. "Your energy won't help me, if you can convince some of them to give me their energy I will bring him back. If not leave me. Tell them if you must." Suiceene's voice had carried and as I turned I became aware that the humans were staring at us. "Why are those Androids still alive? Aren't you going to destroy them?" Bulma was staring at us, her face flushed with anger. "They helped us defeat Suiceene, they give Vegeta a senzu bean just before Suiceene could destroy him." Chi-chi was looking curiously at Goku. "Who's Suiceene?" 17 cleared his throat, "Suiceene says she will bring 16 back if you give her some energy." "And you trust her, Android? All she wants the energy for is to try and destroy us!" I was surprised at Goku. In the past he had always been trustful, but if he wasn't going to help us who would. Vegeta smirked as I looked at him. "Don't try your luck Android. I wouldn't touch that freak again unless it was too kill her" Anger started to boil inside me. Suiceene had given up her life for him and yet he openly insulted her. Again I asked myself why she did it? And why did she bring back his wife who she had been in such a hurry to kill earlier? I started to think about telling them what Suiceene had done when suddenly a voice spoke up. "I'll help." Krillen stepped forward. "You risked your lives to help us when you could have escaped. Its only fair we help you now." Tien then stepped forward. "I agree with Krillen. Anyway if she was going to steal energy from us, its not like she would get much." There was a small pause before the third human, Yamsha followed his friends. "I'm not going to let you guys do it alone." The three walked forward toward us. For a moment I was stunned. These were the weakest, the most at risk from an attack from Suiceene and yet they were willing to help us. I suddenly felt gratitude, a feeling I never thought I feel toward the human race, and especially from these three who had been enemies of Dr Gero's. Bulma's shrill voice sounded in my ears. "What do you think you are doing? Did you see what that monster did to me!?" Goku's voice sounded wary "I hope what you guys know what you are doing. She is our enemy." Aside from apologetic expressions from Yamsha and Krillen the three kept going until they stood beside Suiceene. Her eyes opened slightly to look at them. "You're brave for humans. I could easily make a mistake and kill you" She paused take a deep breath. "Place your hands on my head." They did so. Seconds later Suiceene started to chant. As she moved her paw down to her waist I saw her body give an involuntary shudder. This time I looked away as she tore out a section of her inside. Turning back I saw white fire mixed with a hint of green flow around her paw. The three humans eyes were closed and faces clenched, veins standing out all over their bodies. Slowly this time the light started to go to a bright white colour. This time I forced myself to look, as the light grew and grew until I couldn't see anything other than bright white light. Then much weaker than before I heard a thunderclap and the ground shook. The light faded, faded over dark green armour. Over all tall frame, over our red haired friend. 16!!!!!!!!!
Suiceene
I fell backwards releasing the three humans at the same time. Pain washed over me, striking me again and again. For a second I felt my last heart pause before continuing, its beat deathly slow. And with each beat I felt myself slip away. Memories flooded back, my victory over Freesia's Grandmother, the most powerful Changeling in history, breaking Forte Quixante the impenetrable fortress, to the first ever Changeling I killed, to my first ever battle, to my first ever kill. With a supreme effort I clawed myself back to reality. I couldn't let death claim me just yet. One last thing, one last thing. I had already repaid my debt to the humans, a great gift to all three of them. A gift they would soon realise. But they were not important. The prince, the prince! Concentrating all my will I beat back the feelings of nausea and light-headedness and managed to open one eye. Through the sea of colour my eyes searched for him, for my prince! There I saw him, I could see him! I screamed at my paw, screamed until it rose up and touched my head in a salute. I felt my heart shake and then stop, I felt myself falling away but I continued to stare, to stare at his face. Slowly his hand raised to his head and he saluted. I felt a wave a happiness wash over me and I allowed myself to fall back. Allowed my eyes to close, to drift away…..
Epilogue
After leaving her lie still for a moment Vegeta went over and checked she was dead. After he was sure he powered up a Big Bang and destroyed her empty body. Bulma and Chi-Chi were the only ones happy at her death, Chi-chi though with only the vague understanding that she was evil. Goku was depressed after so much death and Vegeta flew off. Tien, Krillen and Yamsha felt strangely depressed at Suiceene's passing though they were not exactly sure why. All three did know that Suiceene had passed something into their bodies but didn't decide to say anything. 17 and 18 were happy to finally have 16 back but both also felt depressed at her passing, 18 especially. 16 was still confused at to what was going on. After Goku went to New Namek he wished back Piccolo, Trunks and Gohan. Dende decided to go back with him to become the new guardian of earth. Goku collected the new Dragonballs and called on Shenron. It had been decided that they would go to Suiceene's home planet, Vegeta to settle some scores and to primarily stop Thyloch from calling another Neophalie. In any case it didn't matter, a Neophalie can only be called once every thousand years and only at a time of great peril. As well as Vegeta, Goku, Piccolo and Trunks went along, as well as Androids 17 and 18 and Krillen, Tein and Yamsha. Gohan wanted to go but was stopped by Chi-chi and was forced to stay at home studying. After commanding the dragon to send them to Suiceene's home planet, they destroyed it with little effort after Goku freed all the slaves and Vegeta personally destroyed the royal palace. Thyloch was already dead. Though he couldn't see it he had known Suiceene had died and killed himself rather than face the wrath of his numerous enemies in the Universe who he had forced to give over land and money and slaves. The fighters returned to earth in a ship stolen off the planet unaware of the great turmoil they would start in space. Following the destruction of the Sayains home world all the major nations had readied arms expecting Suiceene to restart her campaign. But when no attack was forthcoming after a couple of months rumours started that Suiceene had died on the planet.
Peace reigned on Earth thought. Goku, Chi-chi and Gohan got back to living a normal family life. Goku returned to normal after a while but occasionally he will stare into the skies, his eyes glazed. He still keeps up his strict training schedule, training with Piccolo, rarely with his son and sometimes with Vegeta. Vegeta has become rather amenable to fighting with Goku now that he is stronger but most of the time he continues to train alone at high gravity. The fact he is the strongest fighter on earth doesn't stop him trying to get stronger. Bulma is happy to have her baby back and she only occasionally has nightmares about her death. Capsule Corp was fully rebuilt soon after. Trunks returned to the future soon after and defeated the Androids with ease. Piccolo gratified that the new guardian didn't have to be him stays in Kami tower occasionally visiting Gohan and continued training against Goku determined to catch up to his rival. Gohan was forced to step up his study now that there were no enemies to fight. The three Androids, after some heavy thinking decided to buy a house (they had access to Gero's accounts which held huge amounts of stolen money). 16 was the first to decide he wanted a job, as a forester. He was happy to be with nature and content with his job no matter how many times 17 and 18 told him he didn't need to work, they didn't need to eat after all. Eventually they became bored just training or sitting around the house. Both eventually decided to take jobs, 18 in fashion and 17 as a mechanic. After looking at both of them 16 decided that the conversion to both of them had failed to remove their human persona and while their bodies were completely metal they still had some human emotions. 17 and 18 were also content with their jobs, and while they sometimes socialised with the Z fighter's they kept largely alone. Krillen, Yamsha and Tein soon found that with training their power levels started to rise like they had never before. The three meet every day to train and to pour over different books they had managed to take from Thyloch's palace. Strangely the Sayain language started to come easily to them.
Suiceene's spirit moved into the afterlife and she was able to keep control of her body and started to hunt for Freesia. After eventually finding him she beat him into a pulp and though unable to destroy him, she was able to destroy his body for three days. After that she started to look for the kingdom of the Sayains content at finally been able to do to Freesia what she had yearned to do for years.
The End
So this is finally it, the final chapter. It is rather long but once I started I couldn't stop. Myself I am amazed I actually finished a story and that it was this long. The idea first came to me Christmas 2001 when I was drawing a picture of the Androids. From thinking what a bad deal they got it turned into this. Also I wanted Vegeta to be the hero for once and I wanted Tein, Kirllen and Yamsha to be more powerful. They tend to be outclassed by all the Super Sayains. Unfortunatly I wasn't able to get this across in this story so much. And of cource I had to include Suiceene into the story. Her character changed as I wrote this so some of the early chapters I might have to change. In fact I will have to read over it and change some of the writing. Well I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks especially to all those who reviewed this story. Your comments were a great help to me. Now for the last time can everyone who is reading this, review now. Any questions I will answer by email. Thanks once again for reading this.
Suiceene
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 narrowed my eyes and tried to stare through the dust. I couldn't believe it, this could be it. She could finally be dead… At first as the dust cleared I saw nothing, but just as hope started to enter through me I saw a small movement by the corner of my eye. Turning, I felt my heart sink as I saw her. But as I focused in on her I saw I had nothing to worry about. The lower half of her body was gone, from about the wound was. Her chest, head and arms were only left. She was lying against a large rock and already a large pool of blood had started to form around her waist. Vegeta suddenly appeared in front of her, arms crossed and smirking. "I decided you didn't deserve a warriors death. You will bleed like an animal!" As Vegeta started to laugh Suiceene's head slowly rose. One eye opened revealing one green gem, a gem in a sea of blood. I moved forward slowly toward her until I was near Vegeta, noting the other humans and Goku doing the same. The Sayain prince had found a rock to lean against, his eyes never leaving Suiceene. The other warriors including myself stood in a wide half semicircle around Suiceene. We had to see her die, just to make sure. For the past two weeks our lives had been based around her, we needed closure. Hearing a noise I turned to find 18 standing beside me. There was a strange expression on her face as she stared at Suiceene, one I couldn't start to try reading. Suddenly hearing a cry I turned to see something was happening to Suiceene. Electricity had started to spark around her head causing her to cry out. But it was not a cry of rage, it was a cry of pain. What was happening? As I watched the electricity seemed to get worse spreading all over her body causing her reach her head back and cry out. Vegeta started forward toward her but before he could reach her she had lifted up one of her paws. It hung there for a moment before striking deep into her head. The cry that ensued was louder than any she had uttered before and was filled with so much pain that I could hardly bare to listen. But my continued to stare as her paw retracted shakily from her head, electricity sparking round it. Her paw fell to her side, something falling out of her paw and rolling across the ground. Bending down Vegeta lifted it off the ground, examining the tiny black object. "What is this?" Suiceene's breathing was heavy and her one open eye stared with apparent listlessness. Her voice was weak and pain racked when she finally spoke. "Thyloch inserted in into my head recently. He… he said it would help him follow my movements. I think he was trying to use it to… kill me."
Suiceene
Pain continued to run through my broken body. It was a heavy price to pay, a normal organism would have relapsed into shock and died but instead I was able to struggle on, able to live for a little longer but through out that while I would feel every drop of blood as it poured out of me sending a thousand flames though my body. I struggled to concentrate, my prince was saying something. "Why would he want to kill you?" It was hard to form the words in my head let alone in my mouth. "Because he doesn't…. want me to tell you where he is." Only a little bit more. I only had to wait a little bit more, soon my second heart would stop beating. A low laugh came to my ears. "Poor Suiceene, all alone. Abandoned by even her own Sayains." It wasn't a relevation. I had always been alone, the Sayains left alive had been too weak, none of them warriors. There had not been one who thought like me. It didn't matter, I preferred to be alone. All the Neophalies had been lone wolves.
Finally I felt it happen. As my second heart stopped beating a surge of power flew through me. Now at least I could think. It was the last weapon of the Neophalie. As we finally passed through the invisible barrier between living and dying, dying past all point of recovery we were granted one last surge of power. Usually it was used to defeat the one that killed us, or to self destruct taking as many as we could with us. But I couldn't do that, I had already decided not to kill Vegeta. The power would just serve to make my last moments a little easier. For the first time I was able to open both eyes and stare around me. Seven warriors stood around me, two Androids, three humans and two Sayains. After all the attempts on my life it seemed strange that this was finally it. This was the final planet I would see, the final aliens I would fight, the final time I lay felling my blood pouring from my body trying to ignore the pain. Goku's, Kakarot's voice rung out. "Will you tell us where he is, seeing he did try to kill you. He's now your enemy." "He could never be my enemy. He summoned me, I can't kill him. I always kill my enemies." "You haven't killed us". Enemy was a strong word, not given out lightly. I always killed my enemies. "Suiceene, where is Thyloch?" my prince asked. "The planet is in the middle of what used to be the dead territory. Its now one of the richest sectors in the Universe." "How?" For a second I was distracted by blood dripping past my eye from my head wound which was screaming particularly violently. "Thyloch took a lot of spoils from the planets I destroyed and though various agreements." It was because of this that I hated this area. I remembered the first time I had returned home. The violent shock and anger as I saw planet after planet of slaves surrounding our home planet which had developed into a rich trading centre. Sayains did not live like that, we never used slaves. We always made our own food. I had wanted so badly to destroy it all but Thyloch stopped me. Because of the bond created between us when he summoned me I was unable to go directly against his wishes. After that I only visited my home planet once more, after the war with the Changelings was over, barely a two months ago. How could Sayains have got so weak? There they admitted their birthright but they were weak. Here they were strong warriors but refused to accept their birthright and lived as humans. I had created a Universe safe for Sayains to live in, defeated all their enemies but I had failed to save the Sayain race. My race was in a bad position when I was first born but there still a chance I could have saved it. Instead I had stayed away, concentrating on fighting hoping that once the Changelings were dead everything would be alright. Instead things had got worse. And now I was lying bleeding to death feeling depressed about it all. I tried to banish the thoughts from my head. An idea was forming in my head. One that went against everything I stood for but one which in my weakened state started to take form. Vegeta was my prince. Every Neophalie had been the guardian of the prince, so far all I had done was fight against him. Perhaps I should finally settle the scores between us, so that perhaps I could die knowing I had done something for him. But there was only one thing I could do for him. The one thing that represented his weakness, representing the side of him I hated above all. I swallowed. Could I do this, could I be so weak? Could I destroy the beliefs that meant so much to me?
Stop wallowing in self pity. Its all this thinking of dying. You have a chance to do something for your prince. It may be painful to do it but don't think by doing it you are sacrificing your own beliefs. He has made his choice, he wants the life of a human. Ultimately he will have to answer for his deeds but that is nothing to you. Sacrifice your pride and give him what he craves. This is your last chance to do something for him, think of it as pavement for all the times you failed to help him.
The ritual was pretty simple, deceptively so. All it required was a large piece of flesh, the Ancient chant of death and a huge amount of power. Brining two people back to life would take a large amount of my energy and shorten my life span. But I only had a couple of minutes more anyway.
Android 18
Her eyes closed and for a second I thought she was slipping away before she started to chant. What was she going to do now? As I watched she slowly moved her paws down to the large hole of the bottom of her chest where the blood flow had started to slow. With a swift action she reached her paws in. Her face clenched with pain and her voice seemed to hesitate letting loose a painful moan before continuing. I felt sick as I saw her paws emerge covered in blood. How could she do something like that? Goku and the humans had tensed summoning power around them, Vegeta remained still, still smirking. He wasn't afraid, didn't think Suiceene could do anything. I suddenly felt myself hoping that she could do something to him. Clutching the flesh between her shaking paws she continued to chant. Her paws started to glow green, the colour becoming brighter and brighter till I could no longer see Suiceene, blinded by the bright light, my eyes trying to compensate desperately. Suddenly there was a loud thunderclap than seemed to shake through the earth. As the brightness dimmed I was shocked to see two figures standing in front of Suiceene. But I was not as shocked as the humans. "Bulma!!" "Ch-chi!!!"
17 and I took our chance to move closer to Suiceene while the humans celebrated. Her face was now a deathly pale and when her eyes opened to look at us I was amazed by the paleness of her pupils which had had gone from a dark to a scarily light green. These looked dully at us and couldn't seem to focus. "Why did you do that?" Her voice was slow and weak, "he's my prince." " Suiceene, I have informed 17 of what happened. I made him understand not to say a word to them." 17 spoke up "But on one condition. You have to bring back 16 I don't think he will be able to come back with the Dragonballs!" "Suiceene!" Vegeta's voice was angry "What trickery are you trying to pull? I assume you have linked your lives to these two try and make us help you live!" "No Prince. If I die they are not effected, anyway I'm too far gone to be healed." "Then why have you done this!" "Consider that all my debts to you are paid. I can now hate you without feeling guilty about not helping any of the royal family." This answer seemed to satisfy Vegeta if not Bulma who had started to shout at Vegeta about being refereed to as "these two". Suiceene turned back to us. "You would dare blackmail me?" "Consider it that we will help you if you help us." Remembering something Suiceene had said earlier I continued. "You talked earlier about fighting with honour and dying an honourable death. 16 was the only fighter who gave everything he had to defeat you. The only one who died to try and defeat you. He…." "Perhaps Android, I do respect him as a warrior but I am still not in the habit of bringing warriors back to life who have tried to kill me. On the other hand I owe you Androids." She sighed. "At this point with death so close other things lose their importance. I am too weak now to bring him back to life." Before I could say anything she went on closing her eyes. "Your energy won't help me, if you can convince some of them to give me their energy I will bring him back. If not leave me. Tell them if you must." Suiceene's voice had carried and as I turned I became aware that the humans were staring at us. "Why are those Androids still alive? Aren't you going to destroy them?" Bulma was staring at us, her face flushed with anger. "They helped us defeat Suiceene, they give Vegeta a senzu bean just before Suiceene could destroy him." Chi-chi was looking curiously at Goku. "Who's Suiceene?" 17 cleared his throat, "Suiceene says she will bring 16 back if you give her some energy." "And you trust her, Android? All she wants the energy for is to try and destroy us!" I was surprised at Goku. In the past he had always been trustful, but if he wasn't going to help us who would. Vegeta smirked as I looked at him. "Don't try your luck Android. I wouldn't touch that freak again unless it was too kill her" Anger started to boil inside me. Suiceene had given up her life for him and yet he openly insulted her. Again I asked myself why she did it? And why did she bring back his wife who she had been in such a hurry to kill earlier? I started to think about telling them what Suiceene had done when suddenly a voice spoke up. "I'll help." Krillen stepped forward. "You risked your lives to help us when you could have escaped. Its only fair we help you now." Tien then stepped forward. "I agree with Krillen. Anyway if she was going to steal energy from us, its not like she would get much." There was a small pause before the third human, Yamsha followed his friends. "I'm not going to let you guys do it alone." The three walked forward toward us. For a moment I was stunned. These were the weakest, the most at risk from an attack from Suiceene and yet they were willing to help us. I suddenly felt gratitude, a feeling I never thought I feel toward the human race, and especially from these three who had been enemies of Dr Gero's. Bulma's shrill voice sounded in my ears. "What do you think you are doing? Did you see what that monster did to me!?" Goku's voice sounded wary "I hope what you guys know what you are doing. She is our enemy." Aside from apologetic expressions from Yamsha and Krillen the three kept going until they stood beside Suiceene. Her eyes opened slightly to look at them. "You're brave for humans. I could easily make a mistake and kill you" She paused take a deep breath. "Place your hands on my head." They did so. Seconds later Suiceene started to chant. As she moved her paw down to her waist I saw her body give an involuntary shudder. This time I looked away as she tore out a section of her inside. Turning back I saw white fire mixed with a hint of green flow around her paw. The three humans eyes were closed and faces clenched, veins standing out all over their bodies. Slowly this time the light started to go to a bright white colour. This time I forced myself to look, as the light grew and grew until I couldn't see anything other than bright white light. Then much weaker than before I heard a thunderclap and the ground shook. The light faded, faded over dark green armour. Over all tall frame, over our red haired friend. 16!!!!!!!!!
Suiceene
I fell backwards releasing the three humans at the same time. Pain washed over me, striking me again and again. For a second I felt my last heart pause before continuing, its beat deathly slow. And with each beat I felt myself slip away. Memories flooded back, my victory over Freesia's Grandmother, the most powerful Changeling in history, breaking Forte Quixante the impenetrable fortress, to the first ever Changeling I killed, to my first ever battle, to my first ever kill. With a supreme effort I clawed myself back to reality. I couldn't let death claim me just yet. One last thing, one last thing. I had already repaid my debt to the humans, a great gift to all three of them. A gift they would soon realise. But they were not important. The prince, the prince! Concentrating all my will I beat back the feelings of nausea and light-headedness and managed to open one eye. Through the sea of colour my eyes searched for him, for my prince! There I saw him, I could see him! I screamed at my paw, screamed until it rose up and touched my head in a salute. I felt my heart shake and then stop, I felt myself falling away but I continued to stare, to stare at his face. Slowly his hand raised to his head and he saluted. I felt a wave a happiness wash over me and I allowed myself to fall back. Allowed my eyes to close, to drift away…..
Epilogue
After leaving her lie still for a moment Vegeta went over and checked she was dead. After he was sure he powered up a Big Bang and destroyed her empty body. Bulma and Chi-Chi were the only ones happy at her death, Chi-chi though with only the vague understanding that she was evil. Goku was depressed after so much death and Vegeta flew off. Tien, Krillen and Yamsha felt strangely depressed at Suiceene's passing though they were not exactly sure why. All three did know that Suiceene had passed something into their bodies but didn't decide to say anything. 17 and 18 were happy to finally have 16 back but both also felt depressed at her passing, 18 especially. 16 was still confused at to what was going on. After Goku went to New Namek he wished back Piccolo, Trunks and Gohan. Dende decided to go back with him to become the new guardian of earth. Goku collected the new Dragonballs and called on Shenron. It had been decided that they would go to Suiceene's home planet, Vegeta to settle some scores and to primarily stop Thyloch from calling another Neophalie. In any case it didn't matter, a Neophalie can only be called once every thousand years and only at a time of great peril. As well as Vegeta, Goku, Piccolo and Trunks went along, as well as Androids 17 and 18 and Krillen, Tein and Yamsha. Gohan wanted to go but was stopped by Chi-chi and was forced to stay at home studying. After commanding the dragon to send them to Suiceene's home planet, they destroyed it with little effort after Goku freed all the slaves and Vegeta personally destroyed the royal palace. Thyloch was already dead. Though he couldn't see it he had known Suiceene had died and killed himself rather than face the wrath of his numerous enemies in the Universe who he had forced to give over land and money and slaves. The fighters returned to earth in a ship stolen off the planet unaware of the great turmoil they would start in space. Following the destruction of the Sayains home world all the major nations had readied arms expecting Suiceene to restart her campaign. But when no attack was forthcoming after a couple of months rumours started that Suiceene had died on the planet.
Peace reigned on Earth thought. Goku, Chi-chi and Gohan got back to living a normal family life. Goku returned to normal after a while but occasionally he will stare into the skies, his eyes glazed. He still keeps up his strict training schedule, training with Piccolo, rarely with his son and sometimes with Vegeta. Vegeta has become rather amenable to fighting with Goku now that he is stronger but most of the time he continues to train alone at high gravity. The fact he is the strongest fighter on earth doesn't stop him trying to get stronger. Bulma is happy to have her baby back and she only occasionally has nightmares about her death. Capsule Corp was fully rebuilt soon after. Trunks returned to the future soon after and defeated the Androids with ease. Piccolo gratified that the new guardian didn't have to be him stays in Kami tower occasionally visiting Gohan and continued training against Goku determined to catch up to his rival. Gohan was forced to step up his study now that there were no enemies to fight. The three Androids, after some heavy thinking decided to buy a house (they had access to Gero's accounts which held huge amounts of stolen money). 16 was the first to decide he wanted a job, as a forester. He was happy to be with nature and content with his job no matter how many times 17 and 18 told him he didn't need to work, they didn't need to eat after all. Eventually they became bored just training or sitting around the house. Both eventually decided to take jobs, 18 in fashion and 17 as a mechanic. After looking at both of them 16 decided that the conversion to both of them had failed to remove their human persona and while their bodies were completely metal they still had some human emotions. 17 and 18 were also content with their jobs, and while they sometimes socialised with the Z fighter's they kept largely alone. Krillen, Yamsha and Tein soon found that with training their power levels started to rise like they had never before. The three meet every day to train and to pour over different books they had managed to take from Thyloch's palace. Strangely the Sayain language started to come easily to them.
Suiceene's spirit moved into the afterlife and she was able to keep control of her body and started to hunt for Freesia. After eventually finding him she beat him into a pulp and though unable to destroy him, she was able to destroy his body for three days. After that she started to look for the kingdom of the Sayains content at finally been able to do to Freesia what she had yearned to do for years.
The End
So this is finally it, the final chapter. It is rather long but once I started I couldn't stop. Myself I am amazed I actually finished a story and that it was this long. The idea first came to me Christmas 2001 when I was drawing a picture of the Androids. From thinking what a bad deal they got it turned into this. Also I wanted Vegeta to be the hero for once and I wanted Tein, Kirllen and Yamsha to be more powerful. They tend to be outclassed by all the Super Sayains. Unfortunatly I wasn't able to get this across in this story so much. And of cource I had to include Suiceene into the story. Her character changed as I wrote this so some of the early chapters I might have to change. In fact I will have to read over it and change some of the writing. Well I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thanks especially to all those who reviewed this story. Your comments were a great help to me. Now for the last time can everyone who is reading this, review now. Any questions I will answer by email. Thanks once again for reading this.
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