Part XII:
"GOKU?!?!"
"GOKU!?!?"
Goku opened his eyes to reveal King Yema. "Goku?" King Yema insisted. "Goku, can you hear me, already?"
"Wait, what happened?" Goku gasped out as he looked around at the huge desk. "You died Goku," Goku looked back to Yema. Goku pondered for a moment. "I remember it now. Trunks was actually an android. Amazing how he tricked me into thinking he wasn't. So, what does this mean Yema?"
"I think, I can answer that for you, Goku," King Kai's voice boomed towards Goku from above, they all looked above. "Yema, send him to The Planet of the Kais, where myself, Elder Kai, Kabito-shin, and Goku's friends are."
Yema turned back to Goku but to only realize Goku had instant transmissioned....
A huge explosion out in space is seen by three men. "That takes care of that filthy planet, Earth," A deep, robotic, voice stated. "What now, X?" The voice of android Trunks said. X just started to laugh. "HAHAHA!!!! Nice job, Trunks," X gloated. "I can't believe he couldn't sense that ploy." Trunks looked on to his creator. "What shall we do now, though, X?" Trunks persisted. X stopped laughing and looked at his two creations. "Follow me...."
"Goku!" Krillin stammered as Goku appeared in front of the group of his friends. "Hi, Krillin," Goku said, flatly. "What's wrong?" Krillin asked, as the smile dissapeared from his face. Goku looked down. "Dad...?" Goku looked up again, and saw his youngest son. "Goten!" Goku exclaimed, going over to his son. "Dad...I know, it's hard, but it's also ok," Gohan said patted his father on the back. "What do you mean, son?" Goku said, trying to hide his obvious troubled-face.
"For once, we weren't able to protect the Earth, its people, and even our friends and family, but we'll get threw it, father." Goten said. Goku simply nodded his head, in agreement for his son knew exactly what was troubling him
"Shall we fill Goku, and everyone else, in on what really happened?" King Kai asked Elder Kai. Elder Kai approached the group of friends. "Gather round, all; that includes you Vegeta!" Goku looked over his shoulder to the man still in shadows, and under a tree. "Vegeta." Goku said lightly, but Vegeta paid him no mind. Goku looked around and saw all of his friends now, since they had gathered: Piccolo, Uub, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Gohan, 18, Vegeta, and Pan. He was surprised Pan hadn't galloped into his arms upon arrival but she did smile at her grandpa, and waved.
Goku than noticed Trunks, standing by his father's side, almost hidden by Vegeta. Trunks had his head down. "Goku, pay attention!" Elder Kai yelled. Goku snapped out of his survayance and looked back to Elder Kai. "Why are you here?" Goku aske bluntly to King Kai.
"Who? Me?" King Kai asked. "I was summoned here to do some jokes for Elder Kai, and Kabito-shin! Ad, Kabito-shin needed some info about something, but we'll get to that later!"
"As I was trying to say," started Elder Kai. "This is what really happened, back there on Earth. Trunks and some of Capsule Corps' finest began work on an android, even though it was illegal. They completed only one, the rest were duds, and were destroyed by this one! They codenamed him: Project X, of course. He immediately killed Trunks and most of Capsule Corp., he even killed Vegeta somewhere along the way. Well, after recreating most of these people he had killed into androids, he went on the search for The Z-Warriors. For what reasons at the time were unknown, but after some talk with Trunks, we now know that they had used the plans from Gero's own plans; meaning most of the commands were just in its mechanics! Very big mistake, obviously. Gero had a way of creating androids that were bent on evil. Although Trunks, and Capsule Corps'. finest had gotten rid of the emotions of an evil-being android, the whole basic complex of the android was evil enough; the emotions were literally irrelevant! Trunks had made some changes though before they activated it; giving it real human emotions. The emotions conflicted with the android's evilness, causing some ill-sided effects; crying irrationally, maybe delusions, and sleeping in weird places, plus more! Than, he went after all of you, killing you all, and having Vegeta, Trunks, and this new android on the side, jsut in case! Well, it seems that's generally what you all didn't know about this, any questions?"
No one said a word. "Good, now Goku," Goku looked at the Elder Kai. "We need to give you a little tiem to train some more, considering we have no clue how strong this other android may be! He was created by Android Trunks, even though X knows about him, he could still holster far more power than X!"
"Why only me, why not everyone else? I wasn't able to defeat X, what makes you think I can defeat all three androids?" Goku started, but Elder Kai held up his hand with a smile. "They've been training Goku, can't you tell?" Goku looked around at everyone but could feel no new power. "No." Goku stated.
"Well, it is a good thing Elder Kai taught us something very handy and useful than!" Goku spun around to see who was speaking, it was Gohan. "GOHAN!" Goku exclaimed as he went to hug his son. "Good to see you too, father, but you must get to work."
"What do you mean?" Goku asked. "Follow me, would you, Goku!?" Elder Kai said getting irritated that he was being ignored so much....
"Where are we going, X?" Android Trunks asked again as he flew next to the unnamed android, with X in fron of them; out in the middle of space.
" Damn, you're annoying," X said flatly. Trunks had no reaction to X's words. "Just be patient, will you?! We're almost there!" X sped up, with the otehr two close behind, as they traveled faster through the galaxy....
"Do you think Goku can learn the technique, quick enough, and still have time for some training?" Gohan asked his brother. "I'm not sure, but he better hurry; do you feel them?"
Gohan looked up into the sky. "Yea, I do, they're getting here quicker than thought."
"We'll be able to take 'em," Vegeta said as he came up, and stood, next to the boys. Gohan looked at him. "Hope you're right...."
"Goku are you ready for this?" Goku nodded. Elder Kai placed his hand on Goku's head. Goku closed his eyes, just as Elder Kai did. Kabito-shin stood watching over the two. Goku found himself in a completely orange room that seemed endless each way he looked. Than, Elder Kai appeared in front of him. "Goku, I'm going to teach you some techniques, but you msut hurry, as the androids have their eyes fixed on coming here! You have 5 minutes, and what time can be spared by your companions! If they cannot hold the three off, and they find us; one touch to our bodies will kill us instantly, and since we're already dead that means we'll never ever be able to exist again, same goes for your friends! Do you hear me on this?!"
"How long should it take to learn these techniques?" Goku asked as he nodded his head to Elder Kai's question. "It takes 8 years!" Goku's jaw dropped. "WHAT!? Than, we have no tim-" Elder Kai interrupted him though. "The others proved my original thought wrong, though, with only 7-9 minutes; it is possible, but we must get started, Goku!"
The Z-Warriors stood almost shoulder-to-shoulder as they looked into the sky. "Goku has 4 and half minutes left," Piccolo stated. "And, however long we can last against them."
"We've trained, and learned some new tricks, it shouldn't be hard!" Goten said.
"Yes, but X has powered up to his max, which means he is far stronger than what most of us had already faced." Piccolo retorted looking at Goten.
"Me, you, and 18, were the last ones to be attacked by him, and he was only a few power-ups away from his maximum; it shouldn't be too hard, Piccolo!" Goten said and Piccolo said no more as he looked back into the sky.
Pan came and stood next to Kabito-shin. "Aren't you going to fight?" Kabito-shin asked. "No, I don't think I'll be much help; even with those new techniques. Besides, if they do get passed all our friends, than me and you are the only ones to try and stop them." Pan said.
"Comforting thought," Kabito-shin said, sarcastically.
"Are we almost there?" Android Trunks persisted.
"If you don't shutup, I'll kill you," X stated. "We are almost there, why not kick it up a notch; it'll shut you up, most likely!" X than reverted more ki into his speed, and so did the only two androids, as they sped-off even faster.
"Shit!" Vegeta said lightly. Everyone looked at him, except Piccolo. "What?" Goten asked. "They've increased their speed, somehow; I really did not expect this!" Piccolo answered.
Everyone looked back to the sky, and began to see a little dot began to grow bigger and bigger as it approached more rapidely. "Damn." Gohan stammered. "We needed more time than this. Father won't be able to finish when they get here in less than a minute. And, I don't think we can give him a good 3-5 more minutes!"
"Shutup, boy!" Vegeta snapped. "We can do this!"
"Do you have some new level of super saiya-jin? Huh? Do ya? Cause if you don't, I really doubt we can...." but Gohan trailed off at the smile on Vegeta's face.
"Shutup! They're almost here!" Piccolo said as he began to power-up. Everyone else began to power-up as the dot was now three figures in the sky, approaching. Gohan, Goten, and Vegeta went to their SSJ2 forms, as everyone powered-up to their max. "Got anyone you want to personally fight, Namek?" Vegeta laughed. Piccolo smiled. "You mean you're letting me have the first choice, and match?" Vegeta jsut returned the smile. "Fine, I get the new one, and test his strengths out, and you can have X; deal?"
Vegeta smiled and looked back to the oncoming three androids. "Deal!"
"That fake is mine!" Trunks said as he burst into his second level of Super Saiya-jin. No one said anything. "What about the rest of us, though?" Gohan asked.
"You can have whatever's left, boy!" Vegeta said as he blasted off to meet his foes head-on. Trunks and Piccolo, quickly followed. "Damn, they're anxious to fight, aren't they?" Goten laughed. "Well, let's not get left behind and let them have all the fun, whilst we sit back here and miss all the action." Krillin said as he blasted off. Yamcha, 18, Tien, and Uub followed. "C'mon bro," Goten said as he took off. Gohan did not follow, he stood, and reverted back to his regular state.
The three androids were surprised at their greeting of arrival. Vegeta had decked X hard across the face as they collided. Piccolo and Trunks followed up by crushing their opponents from above with well-planted kicks to the face, as the two androids were caught off-guard by the sudden arrival and take-out of their master.
Vegeta was trading blow-for-blow with X. X had a hard time keeping up with the pumped Vegeta, as his head would real backwards from the powerful punches Vegeta would rock him with. "DAMN!" X burst out as he got a little power-up, which was quite hard to do seeing as how he was at his maximum. Vegeta flew back some from the increase in ki, but he did not let up as he head-butted the android hard! X flew down, and held his head.
"Stop playing around and fight back already!" Vegeta yelled as he kicked X in the face. X realed back and was soon back on the defensive as Vegeta began to punch and kick him. X shielded his face, but couldn't help but get pummeled in the gut. He took each blow to his gut without much fight. "You're no fun, X. ATTACK ME!" Vegeta screamed out as he put more power into his attacks.
Trunks was exchanging some kicks and punches with his counterpart-android. For every planted punch to one, the other would land a kick to the other. It seemed like a stalemate. Android Trunks landed a kick to Trunks' privates, and Trunks was unable to not act like he was hit there. "That was cheap!" Trunks spat out. The android could only smile as he now had the advantage. He approached Trunks and began to kick him all across the sky.
Trunks flew through five clouds, high in the sky, before his android counterpart decked him across the face. Trunks tried to go on the offensive, but his android-self seemed to have too much of an upper hand on Trunks. Trunks was leveled by a powerful right kick to the stomach, and he was sent flying back to the planet, and created a massive crater upon impact. Android Trunks floated down and surveyed the hole. The debris and dust soon settled and Trunks was on one knee, gasping for breath. "That hurt, did it not, Trunks?" The android taunted him.
Trunks glared up at the android and shot off towards him. The android side-stepped Trunks' punch, and punched at Trunks. But, his fist went right through Trunks' body. "After-Image" Android Trunks whispered to himself, and he spun around to catch Trunks' foot coming straight at his chest. "Nice move, Trunks, but wasn't too great, nor well thought out!" The android continued to mock Trunks as he began slapping Trunks' face with his free hand. Trunks brought up his other foot, but the android simply swatted it away and continued to slap Trunks. The android than begun to spin Trunks around. The android spun at great speeds, and Trunks had to close his eyes just so he wouldn't be too dizzy, or throw-up. The android let go of Trunks, and watched as Trunks hurtled into a small pilar of rocks, which came crumbling down on the second level super saiya-jin.
Android Trunks hovered over the spot where Trunks was, once again. Trunks powered up and dissintergrated all the rocks that lay atop him. "Still alive, are you?" The android taunted, again. Trunks smiled, and powered up a little bit more. "That won't help you!" The android stated. Trunks dashed up towards the android and began throwing punches and kicks at the android. Android Trunks very easily dodged each, and every, attack that Trunks attempted. Android Trunks got furious at Trunks' weak atatcks, and went on his offensive again. He punched Trunks in the face, than in the stomach, to the chin, to the chest, back to the face, than the ribs, than he grabbed Trunks' hair, and kneed the saiya-jin in the stomach. Trunks hurled over, and Android Trunks smashed Trunks' back, sending him flying, yet again, into another block of rocks.
"Damnit!" X exclaimed as he stood back up and flew to Vegeta's position in the air, sizing him up. They hovered, looking at eachother, and not saying a word.
Than, Vegeta dissapeared, and reappeared behind X. X side-stepped Vegeta's fist. X went to punch Vegeta but Vegeta dissolved as X's fist went threw him. X sensed Vegeta again though, from below, and flipped backwards to avoid Vegeta's up-straight head-butt. But, when X looked to see where Vegeta was in the air, he couldn't find him. He sensed, looking around to find him. He than felt Vegeta directly in front of him. X went to kick Vegeta but it went through him again. X yelled out with frustration, and caught Vegeta's fist, jsut in time, in front of his face. "Finally! wiat...what?" X saw Vegeta's hand, and body, start to fade away again. He than felt a strong surge of ki behind him. He spun and saw a ki ball heading his direction. He swatted it away, but felt another power surge behind him. He turned just in time to swat this one away, as well.
"Vegeta! This is too easy!" X yelled out, infuriated that Vegeta was only sending him after-images and weak ki balls. X than sensed a ki ball heading his direction from behind, but he saw Vegeta in front of him. "So, which is the real one, huh?" X asked aloud. He waited til the last minute, when Vegeta outstretched his arm to punch him, and when the ki ball would make contact upon his back, and he side-stepped them both.
To his horror though, the ball of ki just went through the after-image of Vegeta. He than felt Vegeta behind him, and he spun and punched Vegeta directly in the forehead. Vegeta's head rocked back from the blow, and he left it there. X just looked on. "You forgot about the ki ball," Vegeta said from his position. X's eyes widened and he couldn't even spin around before the ball of ki exploded upon X's back, sending him flying past Vegeta, who was watching, and smiling, from his upside down head.
Piccolo was even with the android with skunk-like hair. Neither had caused the other enough damage to really get an advantage. Piccolo was attacking with fists, kicks, and his martial arts moves. Whereas, the android with no name just attacked with ki balls, most of the time. Piccolo found this troublesome, considering the android would never fully run out of ki balls, whereas Piccolo's ki would drop anytime he would use any of his ki attacks. Piccolo flew at the android and began to unleash powerful punches to the android. The android blocked most of the attacks, but Piccolo still got some shots in. The android grabbed Piccolo's left arm and pulled the Namek in close, and clobbered Piccolo with a huge clothesline. Piccolo did several backflips, spinning out of control, as he flipped around, and finally landing on the ground.
The android drew near awaiting Piccolo to stand back up. Piccolo stood up, and turned to face the android. The android didn't even have a smile upon his face. Piccolo found this strange considering Android Trunks, Android Vegeta, and X had all had emotions. Piccolo also found it strange that the android was not pleased at finally getting an upper-hand over him. Piccolo raced towards the android, dissmissing his thoughts, and began to pummel his fists into the android. The android was getting drilled backwards from the power unleashed by Piccolo. Piccolo than kicked the android in the head, sending him rocking backwards, and falling like a tree onto his back.
Piccolo than placed his pointer, and middle-finger, to his forehead. He began to gather ki, quickly. i"I'll end this now!"/i Piccolo thought, as he began to push more ki into his attack. He watched as the android lay there on the ground, not moving, almost as if he were already dead, or at least, waiting for death. Piccolo than had all the power he needed to launch his attack. But, before he could even mutter teh words of his attack, the android dissapeared. Piccolo's eyes widened and he looked around, hoping to see the android. Piccolo was than hammered from behind. Piccolo toppled out of control across the ground, hitting rocks that gave him deep gashes across his body.
Finally, Piccolo rolled onto his stomach, in control, and grinded to a hault. Blood oozed from his nose, and mouth. A trial of blood begun to fall from his left eye and from atop his head. He was in bad condition, and the android was approaching. "Damnit!" Piccolo coughed up some blood. He stood up, and saw the android in his face. Piccolo gritted his teeth and attempted a punch to the android's face. The android caught teh punch and twisted Piccolo's fist, twisting his arm in the process. Piccolo gringed from the pain, closing his eyes to hope the pain would go away. The android than placed his hand up to Piccolo's face. Piccolo opened his eyes, for he could feel the android's hand lurking over his face. His eyes widened in fear as he knew this was the end, he had no energy to retailiate, than he saw it. On the android's face was a sinister smile starting to appear. This drove even more fear down Piccolo's spine, he just closed his eyes, accepting his soon to be death.
Gohan leaped at the android and crushed his face in. The android lsot his grip on Piccolo and flew back. "Piccolo, you ok?" Gohan said with seriousness. Piccolo opened his eyes. "Yes, I'm fine. Thank you."
"Thanks can come later, Piccolo; we've got to deal with this android first!" Gohan stated as he watched the android get up and begin to charge at the two warriors.
Android Trunks kicked Trunks across the back, as the saiya-jin screamed out in pain. Android Trunks held up his palm, facing towards Trunks, getting ready to finish him off for good when Goten slammed both of his fists into Android Trunks' neck. The android flew back, grasping his neck, and gasping for air. "Trunks, you alright?" Goten asked. Trunks turned around, and cracked his neck. "Yeah, I'm fine, Goten."
"What do you say, Trunks; let's go olde skool?" Goten asked, with a smile. Trunks knew right-off what Goten meant. "Hell yeah!" Trunks than leaped to the side of Goten. They performed a silly looking dance, and connected their pointer fingers together, yelling out. "FUSION-HA!" Android Trunks looked up, after getting his air, and saw a new warrior before him. "Gotenks, huh?" Android Trunks stated.
"Yep, and I'm here to destroy you, you imposter!" Gotenks said in his combined voice of Goten and Trunks. Android Trunks simply smiled. "you won't be smiling for long!" Gotenks said as he dissapeared. Trunks dissapeared soon after. Gotenks burried his foot deep into Android Trunks' stomach. Android Trunks coughed up blood, as Gotenks began to charge up a small ball of ki. He launched it at the android, and Trunks was blasted back. Gotenks flew after him and began to pummel Trunks' face in with radical punches. Gotenks than unleashed a powerful right spin-kick to Trunks' head, and Trunks went flying to the ground below.
"Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack!"
"C'mon X, you're not even a challenge," Vegeta laughed. "I could get a better challenge from your other two androids, than you!" X sneered at Vegeta mocking him. X stood up and wiped some blood away from his mouth. Vegeta than pounced on him and began punching the android in the stomach. X coughed up more and more of his blood each time Vegeta hit him. X had a rush of rage in him for a brief second as he placed his hands together to make a fist out of both of them and he ax-hammered Vegeta's back. Vegeta stopped his onsluaght, and stood up straight. X looked at his combined fist, and back to Vegeta. Vegeta wasn't even fazed by X's attempt to club him in the back. Vegeta gave a sinister smile to X, as he lifted up his arm, palm facing X, and fired a large red ball of ki at X's figure.
X flew back some, and crashed into a large rock, which crumbled over him. Vegeta floated up into the air. He outstretched his arms, and began building ki in each hand. His muscles buldged greatly, and veins appeared all around his arms. His aura faded as most of his power was draining into his attack. His spiked-up super saiya-jin two hair, didn't even move in the breeze, from the emense amount of power in his palms that held anything around him, at bay.
X, infuriated, screamed out and blew the rock up with his power. "VEGETA!!!!!" X screamed as he looked around to find him. "COME OUT HERE!!!"
Vegeta smirked, as his attack was complete, and seeing as how X had no clue where he was, made it all the more funny. X than felt Vegeta's power, and the attack which was brewing; it would kill him for sure. Vegeta brought his arms out in front of him. He connected his wrists, with his palms facing directly at X. X turned jsut as Vegeta screamed out his attack. "FINAL FLASH!!!"
The beam darted at X with blinding speed, X could only stand there as the huge wave of energy got bigger and bigger and headed in his direction. The ball connected with its target, and X was heard screaming as the ball of ki blew up along with X....
"YEAH!!!!" Piccolo screamed out, as everybody watched the event unfold. Gohan smiled at Vegeta who stood proud, and high above the clouds. "Way to go, Vegeta!" Gohan yelled out. Cheers were heard from the rest of the Z-Warriors from the side-lines.
Gotenks smiled, and so did his little army of Ghost Kamikaze look-alikes, as they looked back to Trunks. "Now, what do you think? You wanna give up? Do you wish to die? Are you gonna run away? Which is it?" Gotenks mocked to the android. Trunks was in disbelief that his master was dead. His mouth was agap and Trunks was just completely stunned by the matter.