Disclaimer: Are you getting sick of these things or is it just I? Well, here's "Payback May Be A Bitch, But Here's Her Big Brother Instead!" Enjoy the show!
Goku had had enough of the Dark Gods, all these twists and turns they kept throwing out, and quite simply, he was PISSED OFF! He soared down the expansive hallways, following an enraged Gohan, swearing that he was going to help his son turn the robotic monster that had raped Videl inside out and backwards. He was about to cry out to Gohan to slow down a bit, when Gohan screeched to a halt and atomized a wall directly on his right, flying right through the new hole, with some kind of guttural language being vulgarly thrown at the berserk half Saiyin. Goku shot through the hole right on the heels of Gohan, emerging into the creepy lab he had just seen on the giant video monitor in the dinning hall. He saw Android 18, well, you could call her Super Android 18 now, struggling against her restraints, cursing and screaming obscenities at the demonic looking monster mech, and said monster mech giving Gohan a smug look that was probably going to earn him a Kamehameha wave right through the stomach.
As a matter of fact, Gohan had entered the position and charged up so fast, you'd swear he was always charged up, when the bony looking cyborg or whatever he was, grabbed Videl and held her possessively against his razor blade lined chest. He waved a long sword blade-like claw and said, in a condescending and almost patronizing way, "Ah ah ah, not so fast, young man, or else I shall skin this rather tasty morsel right in front of your eyes". He smirked as Gohan froze, a crazed look smeared across his usually calm and relaxed features, torn between firing off his Kamehameha wave and finishing this walking abomination once and for all, before he did anything else, and risking the life of the young woman who meant the world to the young Super Saiyin.
He was about to relent and power down, when he heard the sound of his father instant transmitting, and a startled, "GOTT EN HIEMEL!" before something made of metal was smashed to bits. He finally registered that his father had teleported right beside the sick bastard made out of metal, and punched a hole right through the side of his head before he could react. He was grateful for his fathers timely save of Videl, but he didn't like the look in his eyes: a look of supreme satisfaction, and a twisted sense of enjoyment. To say the least, it freaked him out somewhat, and was about to say something when Goku simply vaporized the twisted and contorted remains of the guys' head, then calmly walked over to the examination table where Super 18 was staring at him with worried eyes. Goku slashed the manacles off with knife-edge Karate chops, and then stalked out of the lab, blasting several Hybrids as he went. He stopped and turned around. He stared right into Gohan's eyes and simply said, "Enough is enough, I've had quite enough". He then instant transmitted out of the lab, but not out of the palace, as quick, violent spikes of power could be felt here and there.
Goku reappeared several minutes later, the rest of the girls in tow, each one dressed in rather scant numbers, and very nervous around the harsh mannered Goku. Then again, wouldn't you? Goku has never been one to use such stern methods or be the silent type, let alone act like this. It was like he was a completely different person. Gohan had to smile though; his Dad just saved him from having to get his hands dirty on the wretch, but he wouldn't have minded. He quickly left that thought alone and walked over to the horribly messed up Videl, who shrank away from him, terrified for the life of her, and trying rather hard to avoid physical contact with Gohan at the moment. Gohan looked like a deer in the headlights, stunned at being completely unable to help the girl he loved more than life itself, no matter how much power he had.
At this point he could do only one thing really: cry. It started off as muffled sobs, being reined in because he didn't want to freak Videl out anymore than she already was and send her off into a panic, but it quickly built into body wracking sobs then into harsh wailing and screaming, swearing and cursing, and incoherent ranting and roaring. Chi chi tried to go to her son, but Goku put up an arm to block her path, giving her the sternest look he had ever given his wife, or even any of his friends, which seemed to say 'don't even think about it'. He saw the pain and anguish in her face, the sorrow in her eyes, but realized that these two young people could only find solace in each other's arms. He was had a single thought running through his head after Marron yelled, "We don't have time for this!" That thought was 'then we will make the time!' Though fate had other ideas it seemed. Gohan suddenly quieted down, and everyone turn to see a horribly bruised and clawed up Videl gently stroke Gohan's face with her good hand, the other one being twisted into something unrecognizable. The two young people seemed frozen in time, unable to move, unwilling to speak. They simple fell into each other's arms.
"Well, well, nothing like two young folk in love, now, is there? The kind of thing to make all five of your stomachs twist and regurgitate. Fuck romance, I say. Straight fuck the bitch and be done with her. Set her on fire, have a few laughs, not this lovey dovey BS!" All eyes whipped around behind them to see a deep navy blue suit of armor gleam in the eerie greenish light of the lab. The bearer of the armor had his arms crossed, and was looking at the long nails of his right hand, with a look that spoke boredom total and compete plastered all over his scaly blue face, his icy yellow eyes glowing with intent, and none of it good.
Gohan snarled at the huge Dark God, but got a face full of gleaming silver chains, which seemed to spring right out of shadows. He was thrown against the wall, which the previously mentions chains forcefully put him through. They then proceeded to skewer his arms and legs, and pulled him toward the bored Dark God, as V'Raal began to clean his sharp nails, as if he had nothing better to do. He was smiling slightly, because Gohan's mom and girlfriend were both screaming bloody murder. Goku had some choice words to say, but some invisible force slammed him through a wall, and kept on slamming him, like a person throwing a vicious flurry of punches. He was forced through several walls, and eventually right out of the palace, then straight down into the ground, leaving a huge crater in the earth, and an unconscious Goku in an undignified and bloody heap. The air began to swirl around and flow into one spot above the crater, coalescing and taking shape, until a vague humanoid form appeared. After a handful of seconds past, distinct features and characteristics emerged, eventually revealing the glistening black and silver chrome armor of the resurrected and upgraded (twice!) bio-android known as Cell.
Cell looked down and Goku who had finally reverted back to his normal state (if the term 'normal' could apply to the Saiyin goofball), and smirked. He gently floated down into the crater and landed right next to the prone warrior. He sarcastically droned, "'Super Saiyin Three' indeed", and chuckled as he harshly kicked Goku in side with the toe of his boot, gracefully spun in place and walked off, softly singing 'It's A Small World After All". As he walked off, he felt Android 18's Ki signal back up in the lab and decided to "stop by and say 'hello'". He instant transmitted back up to lab, just in time to see V'Raal set Gohan on fire with black flame that was spewing out of his mouth. Instead of being burnt to a crisp, it looked like he was being changed, and into something most unpleasant, it seemed. Freiza and King Cold had shown up and were dealing with the handsomely upgraded Android 18, though they were having a slight bit of trouble.
As he watched, Kid Buu walked up beside him, ogling the lovely assortment of women that Vegeta Metallix had gathered for them. Kid Buu's attention was so rapt with the women he didn't realize he was salivating all over the floor, resulting in a rather large puddle. Cell remembered that if Buu had been attentive, he really wouldn't have cared one way or the other, though it was rather disgusting. He saw the Ginyu force walk in, followed by Brolly and Cooler, the latter of which hopped in to help his family deal with the PMS afflicted bionic bimbo. Brolly fond a chair and sat down, taking it all in. Cell Joined him, with Kid Buu now comically chasing after the rather attractive-for-their-age older women. Cell looked over to Brolly, who was sporting a mildly surprised look. The two Super Biomech warriors looked at each other and laughingly quipped simultaneously "Who knew?" then broke out laughing.
"Hey, boys, what all the laughs?" Everyone froze. All eyes looked over to the huge hole in wall left by Goku, and promptly bugged out. There stood two very, Very tall heavily cyber-armored warriors standing proudly, looking at the group through the protective eye-pieces of the helmet's which concealed any and every distinguishing facial characteristics, being designed to resemble a lizards head, even had teeth around the mouth piece. Their armor gleamed complete midnight black and seemed to soak up the light in the room. They quickly snapped into fighting stances, both fiercely proclaiming "its time to fight!" They launched themselves at king Cold and his hellish brood, smashing into the lot of them like two massive freight trains, sending them flying away from Android 18, right into Cell and Brolly. Kid Buu just stared at the goings-on, until he too got some comeuppance in the form a huge snap kick to the head, removing his head completely, which bounced off V'Raal's helmet.
V'Raal was not impressed in the slightest, and actually somewhat annoyed by the appearance of these two new comers, who were actually holding their own against the- yet again- enhanced super villains. He recognized the armor they wore. Well, not actually recognized it specifically, but recognized the specific style of the Armor. 'The Prometheus Star. It pulled a fast one on us. It was holding out the good stuff for………whatever these two are. Sneaky' The Dark God watched as King Cold and his two sons, now having a fighting power of sixty billion a piece were being brutalized by the midnight colored metal fighters. He snarled loudly, revealing his triple rows of pearly white raptor teeth. The whole lot of the super villains was given fighting powers of three billion plus when they were turned into Hybrids, then THAT was increased by a factor of twenty times when that Dark Metal Death Machine was created. He and the rest of the Dark Gods had not in fact merged, as so much loaned their bodies to the great machine to create a new body for the entity that had emerged. The entity actually had no actually name; Dark Metal Death Machine was more like the name of a commercial product, what it, rather 'he' was, not an actually name. He wasn't even dark! He was bone white! He was just covered in this nasty black grime. The entity had one simple goal, and a rather simple one too: choose a name for itself. Weird, huh?
V'Raal's train of thought was interrupted when the Ginyu force were vaporized by the two cyborgs tag team attack, simply referred to as "Twin Buster". The strange thing was, the Ginyu force didn't regenerate, but stayed dead. V'Raal quickly realized why; each warrior gave off two distinct energy signals: one was their life force signal, the other was from a device called a special ability neutralizer, a device designed to prevent the Mega Hybrids from using their powers in the first place, including their regeneration abilities! Crap! Cell and Brolly were still ticking, but King Cold and his sons were being expertly pulped, and Buu was a fluffy pink blob on the floor.
"ARRRGGHH!" KAA-BOOOM! 'Okay, scratch Brolly' As the head of the Legendary Super Saiyin went flying past his head, V'Raal realized that he was about to be out a whole bunch of servants. Just as one of the cyber-warriors vaporized Buu's remains, he raised his hands and released a static electricity-like energy wave. When the wave hit the two cyborgs, it caused a component on the back of their helmet to short out and spark. This startled the two long enough for the remaining evil warriors to regroup and huddle around V'Raal.
Cell was standing, but in somewhat rough shape, Tabasco was right beside him and looking rather well, despite missing all four of his arms, and King Cold was putting all his weight on his still intact left leg while he waited for his right to grow back. Freiza and Cooler had been dispatched, along with almost everybody else, excluding Android 16 and 17, and Babidi, who were nowhere to be found. V'Raal hated to admit it, but these guys were pretty powerful, even without the special ability neutralizers. With the devices, they were twice as strong as the Mega-Hybrids, but without them, they were exactly equal. This was going to be a good fight, slightly uneven in numbers, but perfectly equal in how much brute power each guy fighting had.
He was just about to let them have at it, when a Ki blast hit him square in the face. The blast burnt through the chains, which somehow issued harsh, shrill screams, and thrashed about like they were being electrocuted. They pulled out of the very pale Gohan and slinked up their master's legs, and into the shadows of the folds of V'Raal expansive cloak and disappeared. One of the cyborgs grabbed Gohan and brought him over to the women, who quickly huddled around him, trying their best to rouse him. The cyborg opened a compartment in his arm and revealed what looked like a pill bottle. In a gruff voice that they somewhat recognized, he spoke, "Give him a couple of these, they're super sensu beans. Fix him up in no time, plus provide a very nice power boost too". He was about to get back to the fight-to-come when Chichi quietly asked, "Who are you?" The cyborg replied, also quietly, "I'm someone you know, and also a friend. Well, sort of". He zipped off.
Chichi was left quite perplexed. 'I know him, and he's a friend? Who is that guy?" she wondered, somewhat frustrated that he had just took off without being straight with her. She hated cryptic people! Oh, well, if they make it out of this nightmare, she's going to teach mister robot-o some manners! She was just about to turn around when one of the cyborgs helmets bounced pasted her feet, making her jump. She turned around and couldn't stifle a gasp, as the person beneath the helmet was none other than Piccolo! He waved at her, then gave the fully regenerated King Cold a kick to the mommy and daddy parts, then backed up to the hole in the wall, where the other cyborg was carrying a much better looking Goku, was half way between the land of the living and dream land.
"THAT TEARS IT! WHO THE HELL FIRED THAT KI BLAST AT MY BEAUTIFUL FACE!" The roar from the ballistic Dark God, who had just recovered from said blast and was missing an eye, was answered with by soft, deep bass rumble voice. "I did", the voice said simply. V'Raal whirled to the side, and was promptly beside himself with indignation, as the culprit was none other than Android 16! Android 16, or Mega-16 if you will (because he had been upgraded twice, like Tabasco), had his right arm straight out, a glowing fist pointed right at the sadistic scale-faced deity. Two of his now four arms were limp at his sides, but his primary left arm was tensed up, itching to clock somebody. His other arms lifted were brought into "firing position" and swiftly turned into huge assault cannons, bright blue energy swirling deep within in the barrels of the weapons.
"If you're looking for a good fight, Dark God, why don't you try fighting yourself instead of having minions do it for you?" Mega-16 stared V'Raal right in the eye, and V'Raal glared right back, quite intent on giving the arrogant automaton exactly what he was asking for. He pulled his sword from behind his back, which shifted itself into its battle form, and got in a sword stance, facing right side onto Mega-16 with his sword pointing right at his opponent in the hand of his outstretched right arm, his left arm trailing behind, right foot forward, left foot bracing his weight. He looked at his 'minions' as Mega-16 had called them, and sniggered. He said quite simply, "actions speak louder than words", and went into action.
The battle was joined.
Author's Note's: Again a short chapter, but I haven't gotten out in so long. My time in University has slowed me down, but I'm not out! See you all later with "The Nameless One! Dark God Protégé!"