Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story! Akira
Toriyama does! I do own the ORIGINAL characters, so if any body sues, or
pinches my guys, I will put boot to Ass!! Got me?!
It was midday as the Z-warriors began to amass at Bulma's house for a group meeting to discuss how they were going to handle Hurakan, a transformed Vegeta, and some strange monster that had recently killed Krillin. Tien and Yamcha were the last to arrive. As the two surveyed the group, they sensed nothing but anger, frustration, and heartbreak, and a serious lack of merriment. Tien and Yamcha hadn't yet learned of Krillin's demise, so when Tien noticed Krillin's absence, he piped up, "Hey, has any body seen Krillin?" all hell broke loose, starting with the near hysterical Marron tearing out of the room, tears bursting from her eyes even more fiercely, pushing past the two startled, and confused warriors. The next event was Android 18 turning into a deranged blonde streak as she tried to tear Tien's three-eyed head right off his shoulders. She savagely screamed at him, "YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHERE DO YOU THINK HE IS?! HE'S DEAD!!!" This sudden news shocked him to no ends as the beautiful android hoisted him off the ground and prepared to put her fist through his head when a sound caught her attention. It was like a cross between a streaking noise and wind blowing. Her sensors suddenly picked up a new Ki signature, and a massive one at that.
She turned around, and her eyes widened in shock as she stared at a Super Saiyin Three Goku standing in the middle of the room. His crystal green eyes bore into hers, a commanding power deep inside causing them to shine. He calmly stated, but with authority, "Put him down 18, that isn't going to help anything and you know it, so calm down and just take it easy". As she looked at Goku, then back to Tien, she gently put him down and lowered her head in shame; quiet sobs beginning to come out of her. Goku's features softened and walked over to the blonde android and wrapped his arms around her in a comforting hug, letting her tears soak his orange Gi. He soothed her by stroking the back of her head and whispered, "Listen 18, you may not like what I have to say, but it's the truth: I do know what your going through". Suddenly, 18 pushed away from the gentle Saiyin and threw a haymaker for all she's worth right at his head. This caught everyone off guard, enticing a few startled cries, especially from Chi Chi, but they needn't have worried. Goku caught her fist with casual ease, but didn't look angry in the slightest, nor surprised. He looked sad, but also somewhat relieved, like he knew she was going to do that and glad it was over with, but still saddened by the fact it happened at all.
He held onto her fist with enough strength so she could get it out of his grasp, but gently enough to avoid hurting her even more than she already was. The bionic bombshell was pulling for all she was worth, not caring if her hand was ripped off in the process, she just wanted to cave Goku's sloping forehead into his boots! Goku realized this was going to get really nasty really fast so he reluctantly chose a course of action. She wasn't going to listen to reason, not when she was like this, so he reared back and rammed his head into hers, hard enough to knock her out, but lacking the power to do any considerable damage. 18's head was whipped back so far, Goku actually thought he had broken her neck, which he could done with childish ease if he had wanted to, but most certainly did NOT want to do.
18's head whipped forward, smashing into his with the force of a pile driver, taking him completely by surprise, causing him to let go of the angry android, sending him through the wall to the outside, seeing stars and shaking his head to get rid of all the stars he was seeing at the moment. He didn't have long to do it, because Android 18 cut loose with a level of speed and power that she just shouldn't be able to even touch, and was right in his face before he could get any full thought to process. After a quick scan, and one hell of a right cross, Goku was shocked to realize that the amount of power she was now putting out was something pretty damn close to Super Saiyin Three, and it was throwing Goku right off the game, but not for long. He focused his thoughts, and left the questions for when he'd have an opportunity to ask them, and gave it his all. He was loathe doing it, but with Android 18's power somehow boosted to near the level he was currently occupying, not to mention her emotional distress, there was no telling how much havoc she could cause, or who'd she'd take her grief out on. He decided that since her power was now almost perfectly equal, he sorrowfully chose to use a full power Kamehameha wave, hoping that her sudden explosion of power could give her the ability to survive, at least in one, fairly intact piece.
Unfortunately, 18 seemed to guess his plan, and was up in his face before Goku could blink, and went absolutely berserk with punches, kicks, and even a couple of low-blows. The first one caught Goku of guard, earning him the feeling like his testicle had been rocketed into his throat. He felt like screaming, it hurt so damn much, but let loose with a rather angry Ki blast instead. 18 got slammed by a force that would have made a cargo train proud, and was promptly thrown to the ground, a micro-nuclear weapon type explosion resulting from the Ki blast detonating. As Goku looked on, he felt 18's aura and got into his patented stance. "Kaa-Meeee-haaaaa- meeeeeeeeee", he started, focusing eyes, mind and spirit at the currently deranged cyborg. He felt the Ki wave form in the palms of his hands, building, growing, crackling with a force he wished to never use on a friend, but knew if he hesitated, someone who never deserved it, would incur 18's wrath. As the android step out of the small crater the first Ki had left, she slowly stalked toward Goku, her usually ice blue eyes now a solid blood red, and what looked like metal blades coming out her finger tips. Goku actually looked surprised, but not for long, as he roared out the last of his charging mantra, "HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" and let loose the most powerful Kamehameha wave he ever had, and hit a bulls eye. 18 saw it coming, but thought Goku too soft-hearted to actually go through with it, lacking a machines ability to be cold, calculating, and the ability do make choices that would have been influenced by an organics emotions. Boy did she get a syntax error there, folks!
Android 18 was caught completely off guard by the unrestrained Kamehameha wave, and was promptly blown right off her feet, and with a slight repositioning of stance on Goku's part, and into the bright blue sky. Her screams all but silenced over the roar of the blast wave. Goku decided to go up after her, either when the wave went KA-BOOM or when she began to drop back to the ground, no matter her condition. After deciding on what to do, he looked skyward for the blinding light. He got it. The flash was so bright, it even caught him off guard, and he brought his arm in front of his eyes to block the burning light, and silently pleaded for 18 to be okay. As the light began to die away, he slowly lowered his arms, but he was squinting so hard, it was beginning to actually hurt. Soon the light all but faded away, leaving the blue of the sky visible again. Goku lowered his arms completely and focused his eyes heavenward, searching for the sultry cyborg, and hit a bull's eye again. He locked onto her Ki signature and shot upward, angling himself so he'd come right under her.
As he closed in on his target, he got a funny feeling that something was different about her, and got conformation when she fell close enough to see with the normal eye. Goku decided to wait to figure out the specifics about her change, and got under her to catch her. When she hit, Goku absolutely knew she had packed on some weight, and seemed to have change physically quite a bit. A quick glance revealed she wasn't so much as burned, or even slightly ruffled. Goku was justifiably amazed.
He flew back down to the ground where his friends and family had gathered by the hole that he had made when 18 put him through the wall. He gently floated to the ground a few yards from them and began walking, his mane of golden hair bouncing as he walked. Everyone swarmed him asking, "Is she alright?" and "what happened?" he wasn't quite sure but he was sure of who could answer that question. He scanned the crowd looking for his friend Bulma, and became quite worried when he didn't find her. "Hey guys, where's Bulma?" He got saddened looks, and heard some muffled crying in back. Discerning them as Bulma's mom, Trunks, Puar, Yamcha, and Bra, he became very distressed, asking with a hint of panic in his usually cool voice, "Where is she?" Piccolo slowly made his way through the crowd, gently easing past everyone, a deep frown on his face, and a single tear slowly running down one green cheek
"She's dead Goku. Murdered....by some piece of shit named Hurakan. His name is Mayan or something like that, but that's not important. His name literally means 'Death God'. He killed Bulma to goad Vegeta into fighting him". He looked Goku right in the eye, and immediately took a step back. Goku looked ready to explode. He seethed with rage, hate, and power. For anyone who knew the Saiyin personally, hatred was not a normal part of his emotional repertoire. He just started to power up when Piccolo gave him a solid right cross in the head, stunning to no end, and causing him to lose his balance and fall flat on his ass, still holding the unconscious android. He suddenly remembered that he was still holding her, and realized he could of hurt her even more, or even killed her if had powered up. He looked up at Piccolo, and gave a nervous smile, asking "Could you give me a hand, she's a bit heavy", and reached up to the seven foot Namek, who returned the smile, clasped Goku's hand in his own, and hoisted him up. As Goku righted himself, he passed the blonde android over to Piccolo. He then scanned the crowd and found Bulma's father, Dr. Briefs, then called him over to have a look at Android 18. When Piccolo looked down at her, he was stunned, and that's putting it lightly. As he looked her over, Goku, himself, and now Dr. Briefs who had come up to the two warriors from the left and all wore stunned expressions, a fairly loud gasp issuing from the doctor. The gasp brought everyone to surround the four, trying to get a look at what had caused the gasp. They quickly found out.
The first thing they noticed was that Android 18 was taller, and not by a few inches. If she had been standing, they guessed she would of come close to Piccolo's height, SHORT by only a few mere inches! The second thing they noticed was the battle suit; it was basically a skintight black body suit that gleamed like metal (which it felt like) with some serious decoration. The most elaborate piece was the body armor that covered her shoulders and everything above her breasts, which had conforming armor plates curled around them from the back, in bright lavender colored armor that spiked off at the shoulders, stopping just at the base of her neck which was sheathed in the same material the body suit was made out of. The body armor was topped off with a bright blue pentagon at the collarbone. She also wore metallic thigh-high high-heeled armored boots that looked even tighter than the body suit. They were open along the top of the foot and front of the ankle half way up the shins, and the toes looked sharp enough like they could cut through steel. To complete she had large rubies encrusted bracelets that stretched into forearm pads, and what looked like a crown which ringed her head, adorn with a rather over the top horn.
"Well, I always thought she looked like a queen, with an attitude to match, but man oh man, does she look it!" Piccolo thought to himself, not realizing that he smiling like the proverbial cat who ate the friggin' canary, then gouged himself on the unfortunate birds family members for good measure. He slowly closed his eyes and lowered his puckered lips to 18's but never got there, as he was slammed hard on the back of the head by something metallic. It seemed Chi Chi had decided to act her emotions again, and was patting the dented frying pan against her hand, like she some of gang banger. She had a sour look on her face, and an even sourer one in her eyes, and was just about to let Piccolo have a pointy ear full, but got a sound boot to the backside from Piccolo before any kind of speech could be issued. Goku was a bit shocked by this, as was everybody else, especially Chi Chi, who was across the street massaging her evilly sore posterior from Piccolo's kick, wishing for a shotgun and some government agents to give the alien a good going over.
"What?" he questioned when they started to give him the evil eye. "Who in their right minds hasn't dreamed of shutting that loud mouth up?" Only Puar, Bra, Pan, and Ms. Briefs raised their hands. As Chi Chi limped over, Piccolo passed 18 over to Tien, and calmly walked up to Chi Chi, who was royally pissed, but with a flick of the finger to the head, she was out like a drunkard at an all-night drinking party. He flung her over his shoulder and flatly requested, "look at the back of her neck". They all wondered why he wanted them all to look at the back of Chi Chi's neck, and why he had knocked her out. What they saw was shocking, and provoked a sense of awe over the Namek's actions. What it was was some sort of robotic bug that had latched onto her neck with creepy looking machine legs, and had what looked like metal wires running from its torso into Chi Chi's neck. Just before anybody could ask the obvious question of what it was, Piccolo's gruff voice answered, "It's a mind control device used for provoking certain actions in the people they're attached to. In Chi chi's case, this thing's job was to knock my head off, or at least try to. When she hit me, it was like someone with Freeza's second form had just slugged me, plus the frying pan added to it. By the way, didn't anybody notice she had it?" Everybody looked quite nervous all of a sudden, and took about five steps back. Piccolo exploded with a resounding, "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME SHE HAD IT WHEN SHE CAME OUT!!" All in attendance took off running, considering that Piccolo had now armed himself with the aforementioned kitchen utility and was swinging it with the intent to bludgeon some unfortunate soul with a zealous rage. He focused on Trunks and Goten, intent on paying back the demi-Saiyins for all the years off emotional torment they had imparted to him, intentional or not.
Hurakan was watching the whole scene at Capsule Corp. literally play out in front of him. Being able to become invisible to all things, sight and Ki detection being top of the list, was a wonderful talent. He was laughing and cackling out loud, unconcerned about being discovered because his stealth ability prevents anybody close to him from hearing any kind of noise he makes, no matter how loud. If the Z-warriors could hear him, they'd experience exquisite pain as skull rattling, ear piercing, thunderous explosions of sound that vaguely sounded like laughter pounded their ears. Hurakan cringed though when Piccolo landed a bull's eye to each of the boy's sex organs, then being restrained by several Z-warriors, several of who met with similar fates. Hurakan sympathetically whispered, "I don't care if they are my enemies, you just don't smack somebody's happy sack with a TEFLON FRYING PAN. It just ain't right, dog". He never noticed young Bra positioning in front of him, afraid for her little life, completely oblivious to Hurakan's presence. Hurakan decided to move himself out of her way, just to be safe. He never saw Piccolo charge at Bra, saliva dripping off the Namek's lips (if you ever wondered why Piccolo goes super sex crazy, it's because Hurakan "enhanced" the drug that gave Piccolo a willy). He also never saw the frying pan miss Bra and come right down onto his head. Now if he had wanted to, Hurakan could have also become intangible, and Piccolo would have passed right through him like he was a ghost. Three problems: he thought he didn't need to go intangible, and needs about five seconds to BECOME intangible, plus...he only had about five tenths of a second.
Piccolo's wild swing struck home on something, but what he didn't know, for he couldn't see what he hit, and for a second thought he imagined it...until a half conscious Hurakan appeared right in front of him, teetering on way or another, looking just about ready to conk out. Everybody simply stared at the demonic looking Grim Reaper/lizard man cross that just appeared in front of them all. Piccolo went from stunned to insanely pissed off and screamed out the demons name like a hideous curse. "HHHHHUUUUUURRRRAAAAAAKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!" and took threw a punch that would have made Kami himself take notice. Hurakan's hideous cranium exploded in an eruption of oil black blood, brain, bone, and other kinds of living tissue...well, formerly living tissue, or so everybody else thought. Hurakan's body had fallen to a forty five degree angle, then suddenly righted itself, leaping into the air, thrusting it's foot out, and slamming Piccolo's head back hard enough to smash an ordinary human's head to pieces, but it only gave the mighty Namek a severe case of whiplash, which was already beginning to heal. Piccolo never even felt the pain, he was so crazed right now, and he was soon joined by a near psychotic Trunks, a furious Goten, and everybody else, save for Tien who was left holding the bag, metaphorically of course. He was fumbling with the unconscious android in his arms, unused to carrying someone as tall as she was, in his arms. Tien was so far successful in trying NOT to grope the armored sleeping beauty in his arms, and blushing so fiercely, you'd swear his head would burst from the pressure.
As the three-eyed monk tried to support the prone female android, the rest of the Z-fighters were going at Hurakan with everything they had. The ones having the best success in pounding the over-dressed death god was Goku and Piccolo, and the other Demi-Saiyins, which included a ticked off Goten, Trunks, and Gohan, all of which had powered up and each fired off rage fueled Kamehameha waves right at the headless death god...who promptly backhanded the three waves consecutively, deflecting them with casual ease. As his body grabbed both Gohan and Goten, a new head burst from his neck, complete except for the horns, which almost immediately popped out as though remembering to emerge from the flesh after failing to pop out when Hurakan's new head first formed. Hurakan's pulled his new lips into a wicked smile as he smashed the two brothers heads together, then threw them at Trunks like they were throwing hammers, and hitting him even harder. A solid CRACK was heard over the pounding of fists and feet, signaling that some bones had been broken, but hopefully nothing serious. The next to feel the death god's wrath was poor Yamcha, who met with an end that was definitely not a way to go; Hurakan grabbed at Yamcha's groin, getting a rather harsh hold on the guy's whole man hood, and sadistically ripped it off. The inhuman screech that followed made everyone stop, and all the guys stare in shock, and well as make a grabbing motion to their groins, a gesture that summed up what they were thinking: "Man, oh man, do we feel your pain!" Piccolo was especially sorrowful for his friend, due to his new "additions".
He turned back to Hurakan, an animal-like snarl playing across his deep green face, and two fingers placed firmly against his forehead, watching as Hurakan proceeded to split Yamcha in two, pulling his legs apart like he was some kind of human wishbone, guts, blood, and bone spraying all over the immediate landscape, Hurakan himself, and everyone close to him. The death god began to lick Yamcha's blood from his hands like he were a cat, and just when Piccolo's rage had build to a crescendo, and his Special Beam Cannon ready to obliterate the demonic reptile, a massive, rage driven Tri- Beam slammed him right square in the face, sending hurtling through the air, tumbling ass over elbows into a building across the street, through the building, and out the other side. Tien had unceremoniously dropped Android 18 and nailed a bull's eye for his slaughtered friend, and was now flying after the death god to exact some personal payback as well.
When he came to rest, Hurakan was lying flat on his back, eyes wide with surprise, and a stunned look dominating his face. He wasn't angry in the least, just surprised. He sat up and stared forward, just in time to get a savagely powerful knee right to the forehead, the culprit a Saiyin with a mane of golden hair. Goku following up with an upper cut that sent Hurakan flying into another building. Just before Goku could reach him, though, the building exploded in a horrendous blast of violet light and Ki, forming a ball of deadly power that left a shallow crater in the ground where it touched the ground. The spherical Ki field gradually began to dissipate, revealing a very angry looking death god, eyes burning like ruby fire, and shark-like teeth bore for all to see. His all-encompassing roes were fluttering in the wind created from Hurakan's outburst, looking more like a ridiculously massive coat then actual robes. In fact he was wearing a coat of some sort style to look just like all of his robes. He was also wearing genuine jeans; heavy looking biker boots, and his mane tied back in five tight ponytails completed the more relaxed look, but still didn't make looking at him any easier.
"I HAVE HAD QUITE ENOUGH!!" the god of death roared, shaking every building for miles. He glared at Goku and the rest, getting into a fighting stance in mid-air and shouting fiercely, "Bring...it...ON!" accenting that last part, and shot toward them like a massive comet. He moved so fast, and struck with such power, it was like a wall of violet light punches all of the remaining Z-fighters all at once, then doubled back, and proceeded to pound them like he was some kind of berserker. He was so fed up with all these insects thinking he was a push over. He LET them gain up on him, but even with a Super Saiyin Three Goku, a pissed off Piccolo, and three raging demi-Saiyins going at him all at once, he deflected all of their attacks like it was child's play. Tien joined in, but it made very little difference to the equation. Hurakan was chuckling to himself, thinking how much fun it would be to slaughter them all, when something sharp stabbed the back of his ugly head, the expression on his face something between incredible shock and surprise, and a final snap of sanity.
He shot straight up, not caring whom the fuck he smacked into; it would be like a bug against the windshield of a cargo train. After getting some distance, he whipped his head in all directions to see who had the audacity to spear him in the back of the head, and whom he would personally send screaming to Hell. He was far more than angry; he was potently enraged, fiery hatred burning from his blood red eyes. He had gut feeling that told him to look up, and so he did. What he saw mildly surprised him, but also it put an acid smile on his twisted visage: It was Android 18, fully awake, ice blue eyes staring hard at him, her light blonde hair flowing in the breeze like a river of pale gold, arms crossed over her impressive chest, and an gentle smile on her full, red lips. She looked down at Hurakan and gave him a wink and smile, succeeding in actually making him blush a bit (if you could actually tell), and place fists to hips. Android 18 bent over and placed her left hand over both her knees, and placed the gloved fingers of her right to her lips, kissed them and blew the kiss to Hurakan, who promptly whistled, loudly.
"By the Twelve Dark Lords, child, you are quite the vixen! I have not seen your likings for a thousand lifetimes, and that is a very long time for someone to wait for an angel to visit him, I think. Cynenba will truly have his dark pleasures with you, one who would shame Aphrodite herself with such beauty. Oh yes, he will be most 'entertained' with you tonight. Perhaps I shall have a turn, my old 'playmate' broke much too easily. After a mere five hours of pleasure, she snapped in twain, but you...I think I will have a proper night I do perceive", Hurakan purred after licking his teeth with a long forked tongue, flashing a lady-killer smile, or what he thought was one, at Android 18, who stifled a rather large gag with the back of her hand.
With her mouth still covered by her hand, she rebuked, "Oh for Kami's sake, you are a sick mother fucker! Wait a minute? Who's Cynenba?" The Death God replied, in a somewhat sultry voice, "Why the being I created from Janenba, Cooler, Brolly, Majin Buu, Android 16, the two mad scientists Dr.Gero and Myu, the Ginyu force, the former king of the Truffles, and a combat robot of my own design...the being who killed you husband my dear, if that helps you recollection. Oh, by the way, my dear mother found me most pleasing", and smiled a twisted grimace of a smile. Hurakan saw the shock, disgust and blossoming rage in 18's crystalline eyes, and was just about to make another sick comment, but then saw stars and 18 kicked him in the family jewels with so much force, Hurakan felt like he was snapped in two! She followed with a spin kick after spin kick, all landing true to the demonic being's temple, pile driver-force punches. When she looked like she was going to punch him, Hurakan brought him arms in front of face, but got the shock of his very long life when her arms, stopping just below the elbow, shot off like rockets, nailing him square in the stomach! Android 18 wasn't done yet, as she got below him and began powering up for a Ki blast, and was now aiming Android 16-style blasters right at Hurakan's face, stunned surprise plastered all over it. She screamed, "You murdering son of a bitch, it was you! You sent that...that...THING after us! You ruined our lives! You were the one who killed Bulma and Vegeta! You ruined my family's life! You ruined my friend's lives! You killed my husband with that gold plated Frankenstein, you perverted fuck-ass! I have no idea how many people you've killed, but I know that poor Yamcha died trying to take you down, so...for all my friends, my loved ones, my WORLD, I hope you burn in Hell!! BLASTERS FIRE!!"
With that righteously angry cry, Android 18 discharged a Ki blast so wide, Hurakan couldn't get around it, so angry it was like years worth of heartache and heartbreak, frustration, pain, and rage were pouring into the blast, and so sudden, the shock waves sent everyone flying, and Hurakan was sent rocketing up through the stratosphere, and right out into space, and far beyond the limits of out solar system, where he, the Ki blast, and several errant asteroids, blew to so many incandescent particles in an explosion that border-lined on being on the magnitude of a super nova. Just before his body disintegrated, a single thought formed in his mind: 'I'm going to fuckin' mutilate that bitch for that!"
Back on Earth, Android 18 smiled wistfully as she whispered, "Damn, I never knew I had it in me", and passed out from the exertion. She didn't fall far, as a certain Namek was there to catch her just as she started to fall, Goku right beside him. The two looked at 18's smiling face, in sheer awe of the amount of power she had acquired. They smiled at each other, as though to say, "What a lady!" and floated back toward Capsule Corp.
Later in the lab, Doctor Briefs was giving 18 a good looking over (and no, not kind! Hentai!) after tending to an unconscious Chi Chi by removing that device with Piccolo's assistance, examining her and trying to make heads or tails of her armor and other upgrades, trying to take his mind off his daughter and son-in-law. He was finished with the actual examination after a few short minutes, though was still without any decent answers. B that time, 18 had fully awoken again, but didn't look happy one bit. She was sitting up on the examination table, her knees against her chest, her arms wrapped around her legs, rocking back and forth. Seeing that her mood wasn't so good, Tien swallowed up some fear and walked over to the bionic beauty, aware that Piccolo was giving him a look that said, "Are you nuts?!" but Tien waved off the concern and head straight for her. He came up on her left so she'd see him coming and warily put a comforting hand on her shoulder. She responded by pouncing on him. Quickly realizing he was doomed, he silently prayed for a quick end, but soon came to the knowledge that he wasn't dead, and also came to realize that Android 18 was now profusely crying into his chest, and that she was squeezing him to death in a bear hug. Everyone else had thought for that split second that 18 was going to throttle Tien, but were quite relieved to discover otherwise. Tien managed to right the both of them, and gave the heartbroken android a comforting hug, despite feeling everyone of ribs about to crack. He had no idea what to say to the poor women in her time of grief, so he just held her and let her cry.
Goku smiled at his friend and decided to take over for him. He actually HEARD Tien's ribs straining not to break! He placed a hand on Tien's shoulder and gave a thankful nod, and said, "Hey man, you'd better get those ribs looked after", and gestured down to Tien's chest which looked like one massive bruise, courtesy of the dead death god, Hurakan. At least, Goku hoped the guy was dead. That way, they'd only have Cynenba to worry about. Tien acknowledged him with a nod and began to back away, but when 18 saw Tien's chest, she looked ready to break down even more and whimpered, "Oh, Tien! You chest! I...I'm...so sorry, oh Kami, what did I do?! I tried to kill you and turned into some kind of psycho-bitch going after Goku like that!" and exploded with sorrow, slipping to her knees, Goku catching her just in time, and slowly let themselves slide to the floor. She wept tears so biter, the youngsters left the room in fear of breaking down themselves from their own grief.
As 18 cried her heart out into Goku's Gi, he held her gently, rubbing her back to soothe the distraught cyborg's broken heart. He let her cry, not wanting to stop her, just letting her get it out of her system. He softly whispered in her ear, "I know what your feeling 18, I really do". Suddenly 18 stopped crying and looked right into Goku's eyes...and punched him solidly in the chops, but more like a sharp tap right now due to her using up most of power in the one sided fight with Hurakan.
All stared slack-jawed as Goku kept smiling, then hit the floor when he said, with a ridiculous grin stretching from ear to ear, "Now doesn't that feel better". Everyone save for him and 18 face-vaulted, then fell over, twitching like fish out of water. 18 stared wide-eyed at the Saiyin, completely taken aback by Goku's rather upbeat response. Goku continued, "Listen 18, me and Krillin go way, way back, years before he ever laid eyes on your pretty face", wiping an errant tear from her cheek, "we used to be bitter rivals when we trained under Master Roshi. He always tried to outperform me, but you know what? I didn't care, I thought it was friendly competition, and I still do. We fought in several World Martial Arts tournaments together, and soon after we really started to become friends. This was years before I ran into my brother Radditz, who wanted me to become some kind of "planet broker" like him. After him, came Vegeta and that over-sized bully, Nappa, and after them came Freiza, and then you and Android 17, Cell, Majin Buu, Dr. Myu and Baby, and a whole bunch of other guys who thought they were better than everybody else. My point is that through all, my best friend, your husband, and Marron's dad stuck by my side, and has even died a couple of times, but you know what?" Goku asked with a smile still on his face, his voice mildly cheery. He answered his own question, "I know it hurts, and I really do know how much it hurts, because I've been through the exact same thing, and not just with Krillin, but with all the guys who ever went into battle with me. Besides we can always wish him back with the Dragon Balls, and the same goes with everybody else". 18 blinked about five times, then clamped onto Goku, fresh tears flowing, but tears of joy, whispering between sobs, "Thank you Goku, thank you".
Goku happily sighed at 18's reaction, glad that he had paid attention when that police negotiator and psychiatrist had taught him how to talk to people when they're like this, and of course, diffuse potentially explosive situations! He stood up, helping 18 to her feet and said softly, "We're going to come up with a plan to deal with this Cynenba character and anything else that Hurakan cooked up. If you want to, you can stay and help us plan, but also if you want to, you can step outside for some fresh air for a minute and collect yourself. We'll wait for you if you want, or we could just let you in on what we're planning to do when you come back in. So, what do want to do?" he asked as he looked up into her tear blurred eyes. She seemed to think about for a second, bite her lip, and then say, in almost a whisper, "I think I'll get some air. Laboratories always make me feel antsy". Goku nodded, then beckoned Chi chi over and ask her to escort 18 outside, and be a ear if she wants to talk. Chi chi smiled warmly at her husband, always amazed at his latent talents with dealing with people, and also, as an after thought, how damned sexy he looked with that mane of golden hair and sloped forehead! She then led the down slightly cheered up android out back, willing to listen to anything that the android might want to, or have to say.
Goku turned back to his friends, to Piccolo in particular and got serious. "Okay Piccolo, tell us everything you know about Hurakan. Where did you meet him, what did you think of him at first, how he acted generally, everything and anything that could prepare us for whatever the hell he made in this Cynenba guy, and if he would whip up something else as a back-up". Piccolo lowered his arms to his side and was about to answer, when a hideous scream echoed through the building, along with a thunderous boom preceding it. Everyone took off running out of the lab, and down the hall. When they came to the living room, they found it in shambles, and huge hole in the wall. What shocked them wasn't the hole in the wall, but what was standing in the hole.
It was simply put something you don't see everyday. It was heavily muscled, so much in fact everyone thought it would be all but impossible for this thing to move at all. Instead of two arms, it had four huge arms held out to the side, as though showing off its appearance, the primary pair sporting five deep silver-blue talons on the hands instead of fingers, clawed digits on its secondary pair of hands, a hauntingly long metal tail sweeping the air behind it. The biomech was sheer black from head to toe. It wore blood red, knee high metal boots, armored in ornate, organic looking plating. The biomech's feet were two-thirds the length of the creatures legs, ending in four thick, black digits, which ended in silver- gray talons that stuck out of the open toes of the boots and stood on the balls of its blade-like toes like some kind of animal. It had heavily armored matching gauntlets one each of its four arms, each decorated with singular rows of lizard scale shaped plates, each one sporting a rounded blue crystal in the center. The rounded gauntlets covered ever thing from the elbow up to the hands, but left the jet-black fingers bare, allowing them to show off six foot polished silver-blue serrated claws they sported.
At the base of its spine, a thickly muscled tail whipped back and forth, reaching a length of over forty-five feet, sporting a line of vertebrae- like armor running the tails length and up the back of the biomech, stopping at the base of the skull. The biomech's armor was completed by the form-fitting body armor that covered the entire upper body, the chest, and lower body (which oddly made it look like it was wearing a tight metal speedo!). To complete the horrid picture, it wore a helmet with a wide spread metal plate spreading back from the crown of its head decorated by five metal spikes along the edge of the plate, with a mane of spiky golden hair sticking out from behind the helmet.
The creature in question had all the girls wrapped in metal tentacles that came out of the sides of its huge neck. Pan and Bra were struggling like crazy, while Chi Chi was swearing as well as fighting back, but poor Marron was freaking out completely, but Videl was nowhere to be seen. Goku could swear he was getting a very familiar feel from this thing, but kept doubting himself about its identity. He was just about to open his mouth when Android 18 erupted through the wall, screaming obscenities and curses upon the cybernetic beast, only to be flattened by a massive armored fist, and was promptly tied up just like the other girls. It smiled at its newest acquisition and then turned toward the Z-fighters and smugly quipped, "Miss me? I thought that you'd guys would be lonely without me so I decided to, hehe, crash the party". Goku was shocked, but also stunned that he was totally right about WHO this monster was, the answer the name of someone who could never seem to get out of the "shadow" he said that Goku cast over him, someone who lost his whole race thanks to the so called "owner of the universe", Freiza: "Vegeta?"
The name of the Saiyin prince drew all eyes to Goku, wide with shock, and all filled with disbelief, or the severe need for it. The giant mechanoid began to chuckle out loud, then burst into hysterical laughter, a high- pitched sound that reverberated with sheer sonic force. It then settled down, but suddenly exploded with more laughter, and declared though its own insane cackling, "OF COURSE ITS ME! Who else would be this charming?" He got his answer as both Piccolo and Tien let loose their most powerful attacks out of nowhere, startling Goku, but getting a smile from Vegeta as he disappeared, reappearing outside, proclaiming, "I was in error when I said that my name was Vegeta. I have become something far, far more! I AM...VEGETA METALLIX!!" He was now in mid-air, backing away from Capsule Corp., his cargo squirming and thrashing to get out of his steely grip but to no avail. The remaining Z-fighters couldn't believe their eyes, let alone their ears. As they watched, Vegeta Metallix touched his index and middle finger to his forehead and shot off a salute to his former allies and called after them as he flew away, "come to Kami's lookout if you want to see your ladies again! Bye-bye!"
As he flew away, Goku's voice was just a whisper, and barely even that. Everyone turned their eyes to Goku, who repeated himself, but now a bit louder: "Guys...we've got an unholy amount of planning to do".
Author's Notes: Hey everybody! I finally have chapter eight finished! Yay! I promise to get chapter nine, "Battle Plans and Pain" out as soon as I can, and I thank you my loyal ones for sticking with me as you have. I humbly ask forgiveness for not getting chapter eight done sooner, but it will not happen again. Until next time, adios muchachos!
It was midday as the Z-warriors began to amass at Bulma's house for a group meeting to discuss how they were going to handle Hurakan, a transformed Vegeta, and some strange monster that had recently killed Krillin. Tien and Yamcha were the last to arrive. As the two surveyed the group, they sensed nothing but anger, frustration, and heartbreak, and a serious lack of merriment. Tien and Yamcha hadn't yet learned of Krillin's demise, so when Tien noticed Krillin's absence, he piped up, "Hey, has any body seen Krillin?" all hell broke loose, starting with the near hysterical Marron tearing out of the room, tears bursting from her eyes even more fiercely, pushing past the two startled, and confused warriors. The next event was Android 18 turning into a deranged blonde streak as she tried to tear Tien's three-eyed head right off his shoulders. She savagely screamed at him, "YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHERE DO YOU THINK HE IS?! HE'S DEAD!!!" This sudden news shocked him to no ends as the beautiful android hoisted him off the ground and prepared to put her fist through his head when a sound caught her attention. It was like a cross between a streaking noise and wind blowing. Her sensors suddenly picked up a new Ki signature, and a massive one at that.
She turned around, and her eyes widened in shock as she stared at a Super Saiyin Three Goku standing in the middle of the room. His crystal green eyes bore into hers, a commanding power deep inside causing them to shine. He calmly stated, but with authority, "Put him down 18, that isn't going to help anything and you know it, so calm down and just take it easy". As she looked at Goku, then back to Tien, she gently put him down and lowered her head in shame; quiet sobs beginning to come out of her. Goku's features softened and walked over to the blonde android and wrapped his arms around her in a comforting hug, letting her tears soak his orange Gi. He soothed her by stroking the back of her head and whispered, "Listen 18, you may not like what I have to say, but it's the truth: I do know what your going through". Suddenly, 18 pushed away from the gentle Saiyin and threw a haymaker for all she's worth right at his head. This caught everyone off guard, enticing a few startled cries, especially from Chi Chi, but they needn't have worried. Goku caught her fist with casual ease, but didn't look angry in the slightest, nor surprised. He looked sad, but also somewhat relieved, like he knew she was going to do that and glad it was over with, but still saddened by the fact it happened at all.
He held onto her fist with enough strength so she could get it out of his grasp, but gently enough to avoid hurting her even more than she already was. The bionic bombshell was pulling for all she was worth, not caring if her hand was ripped off in the process, she just wanted to cave Goku's sloping forehead into his boots! Goku realized this was going to get really nasty really fast so he reluctantly chose a course of action. She wasn't going to listen to reason, not when she was like this, so he reared back and rammed his head into hers, hard enough to knock her out, but lacking the power to do any considerable damage. 18's head was whipped back so far, Goku actually thought he had broken her neck, which he could done with childish ease if he had wanted to, but most certainly did NOT want to do.
18's head whipped forward, smashing into his with the force of a pile driver, taking him completely by surprise, causing him to let go of the angry android, sending him through the wall to the outside, seeing stars and shaking his head to get rid of all the stars he was seeing at the moment. He didn't have long to do it, because Android 18 cut loose with a level of speed and power that she just shouldn't be able to even touch, and was right in his face before he could get any full thought to process. After a quick scan, and one hell of a right cross, Goku was shocked to realize that the amount of power she was now putting out was something pretty damn close to Super Saiyin Three, and it was throwing Goku right off the game, but not for long. He focused his thoughts, and left the questions for when he'd have an opportunity to ask them, and gave it his all. He was loathe doing it, but with Android 18's power somehow boosted to near the level he was currently occupying, not to mention her emotional distress, there was no telling how much havoc she could cause, or who'd she'd take her grief out on. He decided that since her power was now almost perfectly equal, he sorrowfully chose to use a full power Kamehameha wave, hoping that her sudden explosion of power could give her the ability to survive, at least in one, fairly intact piece.
Unfortunately, 18 seemed to guess his plan, and was up in his face before Goku could blink, and went absolutely berserk with punches, kicks, and even a couple of low-blows. The first one caught Goku of guard, earning him the feeling like his testicle had been rocketed into his throat. He felt like screaming, it hurt so damn much, but let loose with a rather angry Ki blast instead. 18 got slammed by a force that would have made a cargo train proud, and was promptly thrown to the ground, a micro-nuclear weapon type explosion resulting from the Ki blast detonating. As Goku looked on, he felt 18's aura and got into his patented stance. "Kaa-Meeee-haaaaa- meeeeeeeeee", he started, focusing eyes, mind and spirit at the currently deranged cyborg. He felt the Ki wave form in the palms of his hands, building, growing, crackling with a force he wished to never use on a friend, but knew if he hesitated, someone who never deserved it, would incur 18's wrath. As the android step out of the small crater the first Ki had left, she slowly stalked toward Goku, her usually ice blue eyes now a solid blood red, and what looked like metal blades coming out her finger tips. Goku actually looked surprised, but not for long, as he roared out the last of his charging mantra, "HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" and let loose the most powerful Kamehameha wave he ever had, and hit a bulls eye. 18 saw it coming, but thought Goku too soft-hearted to actually go through with it, lacking a machines ability to be cold, calculating, and the ability do make choices that would have been influenced by an organics emotions. Boy did she get a syntax error there, folks!
Android 18 was caught completely off guard by the unrestrained Kamehameha wave, and was promptly blown right off her feet, and with a slight repositioning of stance on Goku's part, and into the bright blue sky. Her screams all but silenced over the roar of the blast wave. Goku decided to go up after her, either when the wave went KA-BOOM or when she began to drop back to the ground, no matter her condition. After deciding on what to do, he looked skyward for the blinding light. He got it. The flash was so bright, it even caught him off guard, and he brought his arm in front of his eyes to block the burning light, and silently pleaded for 18 to be okay. As the light began to die away, he slowly lowered his arms, but he was squinting so hard, it was beginning to actually hurt. Soon the light all but faded away, leaving the blue of the sky visible again. Goku lowered his arms completely and focused his eyes heavenward, searching for the sultry cyborg, and hit a bull's eye again. He locked onto her Ki signature and shot upward, angling himself so he'd come right under her.
As he closed in on his target, he got a funny feeling that something was different about her, and got conformation when she fell close enough to see with the normal eye. Goku decided to wait to figure out the specifics about her change, and got under her to catch her. When she hit, Goku absolutely knew she had packed on some weight, and seemed to have change physically quite a bit. A quick glance revealed she wasn't so much as burned, or even slightly ruffled. Goku was justifiably amazed.
He flew back down to the ground where his friends and family had gathered by the hole that he had made when 18 put him through the wall. He gently floated to the ground a few yards from them and began walking, his mane of golden hair bouncing as he walked. Everyone swarmed him asking, "Is she alright?" and "what happened?" he wasn't quite sure but he was sure of who could answer that question. He scanned the crowd looking for his friend Bulma, and became quite worried when he didn't find her. "Hey guys, where's Bulma?" He got saddened looks, and heard some muffled crying in back. Discerning them as Bulma's mom, Trunks, Puar, Yamcha, and Bra, he became very distressed, asking with a hint of panic in his usually cool voice, "Where is she?" Piccolo slowly made his way through the crowd, gently easing past everyone, a deep frown on his face, and a single tear slowly running down one green cheek
"She's dead Goku. Murdered....by some piece of shit named Hurakan. His name is Mayan or something like that, but that's not important. His name literally means 'Death God'. He killed Bulma to goad Vegeta into fighting him". He looked Goku right in the eye, and immediately took a step back. Goku looked ready to explode. He seethed with rage, hate, and power. For anyone who knew the Saiyin personally, hatred was not a normal part of his emotional repertoire. He just started to power up when Piccolo gave him a solid right cross in the head, stunning to no end, and causing him to lose his balance and fall flat on his ass, still holding the unconscious android. He suddenly remembered that he was still holding her, and realized he could of hurt her even more, or even killed her if had powered up. He looked up at Piccolo, and gave a nervous smile, asking "Could you give me a hand, she's a bit heavy", and reached up to the seven foot Namek, who returned the smile, clasped Goku's hand in his own, and hoisted him up. As Goku righted himself, he passed the blonde android over to Piccolo. He then scanned the crowd and found Bulma's father, Dr. Briefs, then called him over to have a look at Android 18. When Piccolo looked down at her, he was stunned, and that's putting it lightly. As he looked her over, Goku, himself, and now Dr. Briefs who had come up to the two warriors from the left and all wore stunned expressions, a fairly loud gasp issuing from the doctor. The gasp brought everyone to surround the four, trying to get a look at what had caused the gasp. They quickly found out.
The first thing they noticed was that Android 18 was taller, and not by a few inches. If she had been standing, they guessed she would of come close to Piccolo's height, SHORT by only a few mere inches! The second thing they noticed was the battle suit; it was basically a skintight black body suit that gleamed like metal (which it felt like) with some serious decoration. The most elaborate piece was the body armor that covered her shoulders and everything above her breasts, which had conforming armor plates curled around them from the back, in bright lavender colored armor that spiked off at the shoulders, stopping just at the base of her neck which was sheathed in the same material the body suit was made out of. The body armor was topped off with a bright blue pentagon at the collarbone. She also wore metallic thigh-high high-heeled armored boots that looked even tighter than the body suit. They were open along the top of the foot and front of the ankle half way up the shins, and the toes looked sharp enough like they could cut through steel. To complete she had large rubies encrusted bracelets that stretched into forearm pads, and what looked like a crown which ringed her head, adorn with a rather over the top horn.
"Well, I always thought she looked like a queen, with an attitude to match, but man oh man, does she look it!" Piccolo thought to himself, not realizing that he smiling like the proverbial cat who ate the friggin' canary, then gouged himself on the unfortunate birds family members for good measure. He slowly closed his eyes and lowered his puckered lips to 18's but never got there, as he was slammed hard on the back of the head by something metallic. It seemed Chi Chi had decided to act her emotions again, and was patting the dented frying pan against her hand, like she some of gang banger. She had a sour look on her face, and an even sourer one in her eyes, and was just about to let Piccolo have a pointy ear full, but got a sound boot to the backside from Piccolo before any kind of speech could be issued. Goku was a bit shocked by this, as was everybody else, especially Chi Chi, who was across the street massaging her evilly sore posterior from Piccolo's kick, wishing for a shotgun and some government agents to give the alien a good going over.
"What?" he questioned when they started to give him the evil eye. "Who in their right minds hasn't dreamed of shutting that loud mouth up?" Only Puar, Bra, Pan, and Ms. Briefs raised their hands. As Chi Chi limped over, Piccolo passed 18 over to Tien, and calmly walked up to Chi Chi, who was royally pissed, but with a flick of the finger to the head, she was out like a drunkard at an all-night drinking party. He flung her over his shoulder and flatly requested, "look at the back of her neck". They all wondered why he wanted them all to look at the back of Chi Chi's neck, and why he had knocked her out. What they saw was shocking, and provoked a sense of awe over the Namek's actions. What it was was some sort of robotic bug that had latched onto her neck with creepy looking machine legs, and had what looked like metal wires running from its torso into Chi Chi's neck. Just before anybody could ask the obvious question of what it was, Piccolo's gruff voice answered, "It's a mind control device used for provoking certain actions in the people they're attached to. In Chi chi's case, this thing's job was to knock my head off, or at least try to. When she hit me, it was like someone with Freeza's second form had just slugged me, plus the frying pan added to it. By the way, didn't anybody notice she had it?" Everybody looked quite nervous all of a sudden, and took about five steps back. Piccolo exploded with a resounding, "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T ANYBODY TELL ME SHE HAD IT WHEN SHE CAME OUT!!" All in attendance took off running, considering that Piccolo had now armed himself with the aforementioned kitchen utility and was swinging it with the intent to bludgeon some unfortunate soul with a zealous rage. He focused on Trunks and Goten, intent on paying back the demi-Saiyins for all the years off emotional torment they had imparted to him, intentional or not.
Hurakan was watching the whole scene at Capsule Corp. literally play out in front of him. Being able to become invisible to all things, sight and Ki detection being top of the list, was a wonderful talent. He was laughing and cackling out loud, unconcerned about being discovered because his stealth ability prevents anybody close to him from hearing any kind of noise he makes, no matter how loud. If the Z-warriors could hear him, they'd experience exquisite pain as skull rattling, ear piercing, thunderous explosions of sound that vaguely sounded like laughter pounded their ears. Hurakan cringed though when Piccolo landed a bull's eye to each of the boy's sex organs, then being restrained by several Z-warriors, several of who met with similar fates. Hurakan sympathetically whispered, "I don't care if they are my enemies, you just don't smack somebody's happy sack with a TEFLON FRYING PAN. It just ain't right, dog". He never noticed young Bra positioning in front of him, afraid for her little life, completely oblivious to Hurakan's presence. Hurakan decided to move himself out of her way, just to be safe. He never saw Piccolo charge at Bra, saliva dripping off the Namek's lips (if you ever wondered why Piccolo goes super sex crazy, it's because Hurakan "enhanced" the drug that gave Piccolo a willy). He also never saw the frying pan miss Bra and come right down onto his head. Now if he had wanted to, Hurakan could have also become intangible, and Piccolo would have passed right through him like he was a ghost. Three problems: he thought he didn't need to go intangible, and needs about five seconds to BECOME intangible, plus...he only had about five tenths of a second.
Piccolo's wild swing struck home on something, but what he didn't know, for he couldn't see what he hit, and for a second thought he imagined it...until a half conscious Hurakan appeared right in front of him, teetering on way or another, looking just about ready to conk out. Everybody simply stared at the demonic looking Grim Reaper/lizard man cross that just appeared in front of them all. Piccolo went from stunned to insanely pissed off and screamed out the demons name like a hideous curse. "HHHHHUUUUUURRRRAAAAAAKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!" and took threw a punch that would have made Kami himself take notice. Hurakan's hideous cranium exploded in an eruption of oil black blood, brain, bone, and other kinds of living tissue...well, formerly living tissue, or so everybody else thought. Hurakan's body had fallen to a forty five degree angle, then suddenly righted itself, leaping into the air, thrusting it's foot out, and slamming Piccolo's head back hard enough to smash an ordinary human's head to pieces, but it only gave the mighty Namek a severe case of whiplash, which was already beginning to heal. Piccolo never even felt the pain, he was so crazed right now, and he was soon joined by a near psychotic Trunks, a furious Goten, and everybody else, save for Tien who was left holding the bag, metaphorically of course. He was fumbling with the unconscious android in his arms, unused to carrying someone as tall as she was, in his arms. Tien was so far successful in trying NOT to grope the armored sleeping beauty in his arms, and blushing so fiercely, you'd swear his head would burst from the pressure.
As the three-eyed monk tried to support the prone female android, the rest of the Z-fighters were going at Hurakan with everything they had. The ones having the best success in pounding the over-dressed death god was Goku and Piccolo, and the other Demi-Saiyins, which included a ticked off Goten, Trunks, and Gohan, all of which had powered up and each fired off rage fueled Kamehameha waves right at the headless death god...who promptly backhanded the three waves consecutively, deflecting them with casual ease. As his body grabbed both Gohan and Goten, a new head burst from his neck, complete except for the horns, which almost immediately popped out as though remembering to emerge from the flesh after failing to pop out when Hurakan's new head first formed. Hurakan's pulled his new lips into a wicked smile as he smashed the two brothers heads together, then threw them at Trunks like they were throwing hammers, and hitting him even harder. A solid CRACK was heard over the pounding of fists and feet, signaling that some bones had been broken, but hopefully nothing serious. The next to feel the death god's wrath was poor Yamcha, who met with an end that was definitely not a way to go; Hurakan grabbed at Yamcha's groin, getting a rather harsh hold on the guy's whole man hood, and sadistically ripped it off. The inhuman screech that followed made everyone stop, and all the guys stare in shock, and well as make a grabbing motion to their groins, a gesture that summed up what they were thinking: "Man, oh man, do we feel your pain!" Piccolo was especially sorrowful for his friend, due to his new "additions".
He turned back to Hurakan, an animal-like snarl playing across his deep green face, and two fingers placed firmly against his forehead, watching as Hurakan proceeded to split Yamcha in two, pulling his legs apart like he was some kind of human wishbone, guts, blood, and bone spraying all over the immediate landscape, Hurakan himself, and everyone close to him. The death god began to lick Yamcha's blood from his hands like he were a cat, and just when Piccolo's rage had build to a crescendo, and his Special Beam Cannon ready to obliterate the demonic reptile, a massive, rage driven Tri- Beam slammed him right square in the face, sending hurtling through the air, tumbling ass over elbows into a building across the street, through the building, and out the other side. Tien had unceremoniously dropped Android 18 and nailed a bull's eye for his slaughtered friend, and was now flying after the death god to exact some personal payback as well.
When he came to rest, Hurakan was lying flat on his back, eyes wide with surprise, and a stunned look dominating his face. He wasn't angry in the least, just surprised. He sat up and stared forward, just in time to get a savagely powerful knee right to the forehead, the culprit a Saiyin with a mane of golden hair. Goku following up with an upper cut that sent Hurakan flying into another building. Just before Goku could reach him, though, the building exploded in a horrendous blast of violet light and Ki, forming a ball of deadly power that left a shallow crater in the ground where it touched the ground. The spherical Ki field gradually began to dissipate, revealing a very angry looking death god, eyes burning like ruby fire, and shark-like teeth bore for all to see. His all-encompassing roes were fluttering in the wind created from Hurakan's outburst, looking more like a ridiculously massive coat then actual robes. In fact he was wearing a coat of some sort style to look just like all of his robes. He was also wearing genuine jeans; heavy looking biker boots, and his mane tied back in five tight ponytails completed the more relaxed look, but still didn't make looking at him any easier.
"I HAVE HAD QUITE ENOUGH!!" the god of death roared, shaking every building for miles. He glared at Goku and the rest, getting into a fighting stance in mid-air and shouting fiercely, "Bring...it...ON!" accenting that last part, and shot toward them like a massive comet. He moved so fast, and struck with such power, it was like a wall of violet light punches all of the remaining Z-fighters all at once, then doubled back, and proceeded to pound them like he was some kind of berserker. He was so fed up with all these insects thinking he was a push over. He LET them gain up on him, but even with a Super Saiyin Three Goku, a pissed off Piccolo, and three raging demi-Saiyins going at him all at once, he deflected all of their attacks like it was child's play. Tien joined in, but it made very little difference to the equation. Hurakan was chuckling to himself, thinking how much fun it would be to slaughter them all, when something sharp stabbed the back of his ugly head, the expression on his face something between incredible shock and surprise, and a final snap of sanity.
He shot straight up, not caring whom the fuck he smacked into; it would be like a bug against the windshield of a cargo train. After getting some distance, he whipped his head in all directions to see who had the audacity to spear him in the back of the head, and whom he would personally send screaming to Hell. He was far more than angry; he was potently enraged, fiery hatred burning from his blood red eyes. He had gut feeling that told him to look up, and so he did. What he saw mildly surprised him, but also it put an acid smile on his twisted visage: It was Android 18, fully awake, ice blue eyes staring hard at him, her light blonde hair flowing in the breeze like a river of pale gold, arms crossed over her impressive chest, and an gentle smile on her full, red lips. She looked down at Hurakan and gave him a wink and smile, succeeding in actually making him blush a bit (if you could actually tell), and place fists to hips. Android 18 bent over and placed her left hand over both her knees, and placed the gloved fingers of her right to her lips, kissed them and blew the kiss to Hurakan, who promptly whistled, loudly.
"By the Twelve Dark Lords, child, you are quite the vixen! I have not seen your likings for a thousand lifetimes, and that is a very long time for someone to wait for an angel to visit him, I think. Cynenba will truly have his dark pleasures with you, one who would shame Aphrodite herself with such beauty. Oh yes, he will be most 'entertained' with you tonight. Perhaps I shall have a turn, my old 'playmate' broke much too easily. After a mere five hours of pleasure, she snapped in twain, but you...I think I will have a proper night I do perceive", Hurakan purred after licking his teeth with a long forked tongue, flashing a lady-killer smile, or what he thought was one, at Android 18, who stifled a rather large gag with the back of her hand.
With her mouth still covered by her hand, she rebuked, "Oh for Kami's sake, you are a sick mother fucker! Wait a minute? Who's Cynenba?" The Death God replied, in a somewhat sultry voice, "Why the being I created from Janenba, Cooler, Brolly, Majin Buu, Android 16, the two mad scientists Dr.Gero and Myu, the Ginyu force, the former king of the Truffles, and a combat robot of my own design...the being who killed you husband my dear, if that helps you recollection. Oh, by the way, my dear mother found me most pleasing", and smiled a twisted grimace of a smile. Hurakan saw the shock, disgust and blossoming rage in 18's crystalline eyes, and was just about to make another sick comment, but then saw stars and 18 kicked him in the family jewels with so much force, Hurakan felt like he was snapped in two! She followed with a spin kick after spin kick, all landing true to the demonic being's temple, pile driver-force punches. When she looked like she was going to punch him, Hurakan brought him arms in front of face, but got the shock of his very long life when her arms, stopping just below the elbow, shot off like rockets, nailing him square in the stomach! Android 18 wasn't done yet, as she got below him and began powering up for a Ki blast, and was now aiming Android 16-style blasters right at Hurakan's face, stunned surprise plastered all over it. She screamed, "You murdering son of a bitch, it was you! You sent that...that...THING after us! You ruined our lives! You were the one who killed Bulma and Vegeta! You ruined my family's life! You ruined my friend's lives! You killed my husband with that gold plated Frankenstein, you perverted fuck-ass! I have no idea how many people you've killed, but I know that poor Yamcha died trying to take you down, so...for all my friends, my loved ones, my WORLD, I hope you burn in Hell!! BLASTERS FIRE!!"
With that righteously angry cry, Android 18 discharged a Ki blast so wide, Hurakan couldn't get around it, so angry it was like years worth of heartache and heartbreak, frustration, pain, and rage were pouring into the blast, and so sudden, the shock waves sent everyone flying, and Hurakan was sent rocketing up through the stratosphere, and right out into space, and far beyond the limits of out solar system, where he, the Ki blast, and several errant asteroids, blew to so many incandescent particles in an explosion that border-lined on being on the magnitude of a super nova. Just before his body disintegrated, a single thought formed in his mind: 'I'm going to fuckin' mutilate that bitch for that!"
Back on Earth, Android 18 smiled wistfully as she whispered, "Damn, I never knew I had it in me", and passed out from the exertion. She didn't fall far, as a certain Namek was there to catch her just as she started to fall, Goku right beside him. The two looked at 18's smiling face, in sheer awe of the amount of power she had acquired. They smiled at each other, as though to say, "What a lady!" and floated back toward Capsule Corp.
Later in the lab, Doctor Briefs was giving 18 a good looking over (and no, not kind! Hentai!) after tending to an unconscious Chi Chi by removing that device with Piccolo's assistance, examining her and trying to make heads or tails of her armor and other upgrades, trying to take his mind off his daughter and son-in-law. He was finished with the actual examination after a few short minutes, though was still without any decent answers. B that time, 18 had fully awoken again, but didn't look happy one bit. She was sitting up on the examination table, her knees against her chest, her arms wrapped around her legs, rocking back and forth. Seeing that her mood wasn't so good, Tien swallowed up some fear and walked over to the bionic beauty, aware that Piccolo was giving him a look that said, "Are you nuts?!" but Tien waved off the concern and head straight for her. He came up on her left so she'd see him coming and warily put a comforting hand on her shoulder. She responded by pouncing on him. Quickly realizing he was doomed, he silently prayed for a quick end, but soon came to the knowledge that he wasn't dead, and also came to realize that Android 18 was now profusely crying into his chest, and that she was squeezing him to death in a bear hug. Everyone else had thought for that split second that 18 was going to throttle Tien, but were quite relieved to discover otherwise. Tien managed to right the both of them, and gave the heartbroken android a comforting hug, despite feeling everyone of ribs about to crack. He had no idea what to say to the poor women in her time of grief, so he just held her and let her cry.
Goku smiled at his friend and decided to take over for him. He actually HEARD Tien's ribs straining not to break! He placed a hand on Tien's shoulder and gave a thankful nod, and said, "Hey man, you'd better get those ribs looked after", and gestured down to Tien's chest which looked like one massive bruise, courtesy of the dead death god, Hurakan. At least, Goku hoped the guy was dead. That way, they'd only have Cynenba to worry about. Tien acknowledged him with a nod and began to back away, but when 18 saw Tien's chest, she looked ready to break down even more and whimpered, "Oh, Tien! You chest! I...I'm...so sorry, oh Kami, what did I do?! I tried to kill you and turned into some kind of psycho-bitch going after Goku like that!" and exploded with sorrow, slipping to her knees, Goku catching her just in time, and slowly let themselves slide to the floor. She wept tears so biter, the youngsters left the room in fear of breaking down themselves from their own grief.
As 18 cried her heart out into Goku's Gi, he held her gently, rubbing her back to soothe the distraught cyborg's broken heart. He let her cry, not wanting to stop her, just letting her get it out of her system. He softly whispered in her ear, "I know what your feeling 18, I really do". Suddenly 18 stopped crying and looked right into Goku's eyes...and punched him solidly in the chops, but more like a sharp tap right now due to her using up most of power in the one sided fight with Hurakan.
All stared slack-jawed as Goku kept smiling, then hit the floor when he said, with a ridiculous grin stretching from ear to ear, "Now doesn't that feel better". Everyone save for him and 18 face-vaulted, then fell over, twitching like fish out of water. 18 stared wide-eyed at the Saiyin, completely taken aback by Goku's rather upbeat response. Goku continued, "Listen 18, me and Krillin go way, way back, years before he ever laid eyes on your pretty face", wiping an errant tear from her cheek, "we used to be bitter rivals when we trained under Master Roshi. He always tried to outperform me, but you know what? I didn't care, I thought it was friendly competition, and I still do. We fought in several World Martial Arts tournaments together, and soon after we really started to become friends. This was years before I ran into my brother Radditz, who wanted me to become some kind of "planet broker" like him. After him, came Vegeta and that over-sized bully, Nappa, and after them came Freiza, and then you and Android 17, Cell, Majin Buu, Dr. Myu and Baby, and a whole bunch of other guys who thought they were better than everybody else. My point is that through all, my best friend, your husband, and Marron's dad stuck by my side, and has even died a couple of times, but you know what?" Goku asked with a smile still on his face, his voice mildly cheery. He answered his own question, "I know it hurts, and I really do know how much it hurts, because I've been through the exact same thing, and not just with Krillin, but with all the guys who ever went into battle with me. Besides we can always wish him back with the Dragon Balls, and the same goes with everybody else". 18 blinked about five times, then clamped onto Goku, fresh tears flowing, but tears of joy, whispering between sobs, "Thank you Goku, thank you".
Goku happily sighed at 18's reaction, glad that he had paid attention when that police negotiator and psychiatrist had taught him how to talk to people when they're like this, and of course, diffuse potentially explosive situations! He stood up, helping 18 to her feet and said softly, "We're going to come up with a plan to deal with this Cynenba character and anything else that Hurakan cooked up. If you want to, you can stay and help us plan, but also if you want to, you can step outside for some fresh air for a minute and collect yourself. We'll wait for you if you want, or we could just let you in on what we're planning to do when you come back in. So, what do want to do?" he asked as he looked up into her tear blurred eyes. She seemed to think about for a second, bite her lip, and then say, in almost a whisper, "I think I'll get some air. Laboratories always make me feel antsy". Goku nodded, then beckoned Chi chi over and ask her to escort 18 outside, and be a ear if she wants to talk. Chi chi smiled warmly at her husband, always amazed at his latent talents with dealing with people, and also, as an after thought, how damned sexy he looked with that mane of golden hair and sloped forehead! She then led the down slightly cheered up android out back, willing to listen to anything that the android might want to, or have to say.
Goku turned back to his friends, to Piccolo in particular and got serious. "Okay Piccolo, tell us everything you know about Hurakan. Where did you meet him, what did you think of him at first, how he acted generally, everything and anything that could prepare us for whatever the hell he made in this Cynenba guy, and if he would whip up something else as a back-up". Piccolo lowered his arms to his side and was about to answer, when a hideous scream echoed through the building, along with a thunderous boom preceding it. Everyone took off running out of the lab, and down the hall. When they came to the living room, they found it in shambles, and huge hole in the wall. What shocked them wasn't the hole in the wall, but what was standing in the hole.
It was simply put something you don't see everyday. It was heavily muscled, so much in fact everyone thought it would be all but impossible for this thing to move at all. Instead of two arms, it had four huge arms held out to the side, as though showing off its appearance, the primary pair sporting five deep silver-blue talons on the hands instead of fingers, clawed digits on its secondary pair of hands, a hauntingly long metal tail sweeping the air behind it. The biomech was sheer black from head to toe. It wore blood red, knee high metal boots, armored in ornate, organic looking plating. The biomech's feet were two-thirds the length of the creatures legs, ending in four thick, black digits, which ended in silver- gray talons that stuck out of the open toes of the boots and stood on the balls of its blade-like toes like some kind of animal. It had heavily armored matching gauntlets one each of its four arms, each decorated with singular rows of lizard scale shaped plates, each one sporting a rounded blue crystal in the center. The rounded gauntlets covered ever thing from the elbow up to the hands, but left the jet-black fingers bare, allowing them to show off six foot polished silver-blue serrated claws they sported.
At the base of its spine, a thickly muscled tail whipped back and forth, reaching a length of over forty-five feet, sporting a line of vertebrae- like armor running the tails length and up the back of the biomech, stopping at the base of the skull. The biomech's armor was completed by the form-fitting body armor that covered the entire upper body, the chest, and lower body (which oddly made it look like it was wearing a tight metal speedo!). To complete the horrid picture, it wore a helmet with a wide spread metal plate spreading back from the crown of its head decorated by five metal spikes along the edge of the plate, with a mane of spiky golden hair sticking out from behind the helmet.
The creature in question had all the girls wrapped in metal tentacles that came out of the sides of its huge neck. Pan and Bra were struggling like crazy, while Chi Chi was swearing as well as fighting back, but poor Marron was freaking out completely, but Videl was nowhere to be seen. Goku could swear he was getting a very familiar feel from this thing, but kept doubting himself about its identity. He was just about to open his mouth when Android 18 erupted through the wall, screaming obscenities and curses upon the cybernetic beast, only to be flattened by a massive armored fist, and was promptly tied up just like the other girls. It smiled at its newest acquisition and then turned toward the Z-fighters and smugly quipped, "Miss me? I thought that you'd guys would be lonely without me so I decided to, hehe, crash the party". Goku was shocked, but also stunned that he was totally right about WHO this monster was, the answer the name of someone who could never seem to get out of the "shadow" he said that Goku cast over him, someone who lost his whole race thanks to the so called "owner of the universe", Freiza: "Vegeta?"
The name of the Saiyin prince drew all eyes to Goku, wide with shock, and all filled with disbelief, or the severe need for it. The giant mechanoid began to chuckle out loud, then burst into hysterical laughter, a high- pitched sound that reverberated with sheer sonic force. It then settled down, but suddenly exploded with more laughter, and declared though its own insane cackling, "OF COURSE ITS ME! Who else would be this charming?" He got his answer as both Piccolo and Tien let loose their most powerful attacks out of nowhere, startling Goku, but getting a smile from Vegeta as he disappeared, reappearing outside, proclaiming, "I was in error when I said that my name was Vegeta. I have become something far, far more! I AM...VEGETA METALLIX!!" He was now in mid-air, backing away from Capsule Corp., his cargo squirming and thrashing to get out of his steely grip but to no avail. The remaining Z-fighters couldn't believe their eyes, let alone their ears. As they watched, Vegeta Metallix touched his index and middle finger to his forehead and shot off a salute to his former allies and called after them as he flew away, "come to Kami's lookout if you want to see your ladies again! Bye-bye!"
As he flew away, Goku's voice was just a whisper, and barely even that. Everyone turned their eyes to Goku, who repeated himself, but now a bit louder: "Guys...we've got an unholy amount of planning to do".
Author's Notes: Hey everybody! I finally have chapter eight finished! Yay! I promise to get chapter nine, "Battle Plans and Pain" out as soon as I can, and I thank you my loyal ones for sticking with me as you have. I humbly ask forgiveness for not getting chapter eight done sooner, but it will not happen again. Until next time, adios muchachos!