Their eyes locked on each other. Neither of them moved. The wind itself seemed to avoid hitting them. Their gazes where piercing. It was as if they where fighting with their stare alone.
The sky had grown dreary, and a rainy mist had started pouring down.
"How fitting", Ultimate 17 spoke, "the world is crying for your death already...this planet, as worthless as it is, already knows your future, and it cries for you", he finished, laughing afterwards. Trunks sneered.
"You weak fool", Trunks spoke, "Doesn't this setting look familiar?"
17 looked around, and then brought his attention back to Trunks, raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"This field for our battle...the mostly destroyed town...the dark sky...the rain...", Trunks said calmly, "It is the same setting you killed my Master Gohan in!"
"HA, yeah, Gohan. That stupid Saiyan fool", 17 replied to Trunks, "He should have never tried to fight us. We're at our strongest fighting together".
Ultimate 17 smiled at Trunks still and then raised his arm and fired a quick Ki blast at Trunks, which Trunks dodged by phasing and letting the blast go through him, when he turned his gaze back, 17 was gone.
"You still don't understand! We're at out strongest fighting together, now that we are in one body, we are even stronger!", 17 said from behind Trunks, which caused him to turn around. When he did, he received a swift punch in the jaw from 17.
Trunks stumbled back and looked back at 17. He then swiftly ducked down and sent a leg sweep at 17, sweeping him into the air. Trunks then grabbed 17's left foot and jumped up into the air, he used all of his force to bring The Android's body back down, crashing it onto a nearby building. 17's body hit with enough force to collapse the entire 6 floor building.
Knowing this would not kill him, Trunks charged up three blasts and sent them at the collapsed building, causing explosions in the building and surrounding area. Trunks hovered in the air and looked on, wishing he could sense the Android, but knowing he can't. Trunks waited a few minutes, and the Android had not made a reappearance yet. Trunks looked around the area, thinking the Android had snuck away.
Trunks hovered down to the buildings now demolished structure, and looked around slowly and cautiously. Trunks heard a noise and suddenly 17 had appeared within the rubble, with a charged Ki ball in his hand. Android 17 grinned and threw it at Trunks, catching him completely off-guard.
The blast hit Trunks and sent him flying into another building. Trunks got up and flew back over to 17 at top speed and they started exchanging punches and kicks faster then the eye could see. To them it wasn't that they where moving faster than normal, it was that everything else slowed down. Trunks and 17 exchanged various punch and kick combinations, moving faster and faster. The rain seemed to stop around them, as if it to avoid their strength. 17 broke the barrage of punches and kicks and moved backwards to catch his breathe, letting Trunks do the same. Both seemed to be losing energy quickly, putting everything they have into each punch and kick.
"You see...we ARE stronger, plain and simple", 17 said as Trunks finished exhaling, "you were such a fool for giving me time..."
17 was cut off when Trunks moved over, faster than 17 could see, and sent a strong uppercut into 17's chin. The force of the punch sent 17 through two buildings. 17's body stopped at the third one, where it left a silhouette imprint into the buildings cement structure.
Trunks screamed and flew over, sending his fist out to punch 17, whom disappeared from sight. Trunks stopped before he hit the building, and looked around. 17 appeared above him and hit a knee to the back of Trunks' head, sending him down into the ground. 17 kept his knee on Trunks head, and buried his face into the ground.
Trunks powered out and kicked 17 in the gut. 17 responded with a punch to Trunks face. The two started fighting at rapid speed again, raising into the air as they did. Energy formed around them and started bringing in high winds, which began pushing the rubble around them away.
Trunks jumped back in mid air and analyzed 17 for a second, he noticed that as this fight had gone on, 17's overall speed, strength, and stamina had been steadily increasing. If the fight went on too long, Trunks would eventually tire out and make some mistakes. Mistakes that could cost him his life. As Trunks thought this out, 17 noticed Trunks' focus had gone away from 17, himself. 17 grinned and moved over as fast as he could, kicking Trunks right in his shoulder.
Trunks cried out in pain, knowing that 17 had just dislocated his shoulder. 17 laughed as he watched Trunks cry in pain. His laughter soon turned to shock as Trunks let himself drop onto the ground arm first, pushing his shoulder back into his socket, causing Trunks more pain.
"Good move, Trunks, it seems you have been training and learning some tricks along the way", 17 said, "But, there are no tricks that you can use to stop me from killing you".
Trunks let a smile creep on to his face and pointed away from himself, at the ground nearby. 17 grinned, but did not turn a glance. He knew it was an obvious trap. He would look away and Trunks would get in a cheap punch. 17's internal processors told him it was an 80 probability.
"You think THAT will work on ME?", 17 asked then added, "I know what you're going to do. You're gonna get me to look away, the sneak in a attack, to try and turn the momentum of this fight into your favor. It isn't going to work, so just do whatever you wanted to and get it over with, already!"
"Ok, I gave you fair warning", Trunks said as he raised his arm and fired a large golden Ki blast.
"Say goodbye to 18's body!", Trunks screamed at 17, with a sly smile on his face.
"What?", Android 17 said in shock. He looked down as Trunks energy blast headed towards his sisters now lifeless body.
"NO!", Android 17 screamed and flew down at maximum speed to get in front of the blast. He landed on the ground and looked up, bracing himself to counter the blast. It came down and hit 17 and exploded, causing a dust cloud to form around him.
17 looked down at his sister and smiled because her body was safe. He wanted to save it, so that he could give her a proper funeral, one that she deserves.
"You fool, how could you even try something so lame?", Android 17 said as the dust cleared, but Trunks was gone, "Hey, where did you...!".
Thirty feet behind 17, Trunks stood and raised his hands. his hands and arms did perfectly synchronized motions, finally stopping next to each other. His glare became focused and his Ki fluctuated wildly.
"Burning...".
As Trunks said it, 17's scanners had already picked up the change in the air. Trunks voice pattern was also picked up, giving 17 his exact location. 17 turned and raised his right arm, sending a blast at Trunks.
"ATTACK!", Trunks finished, sending the large Ki blast straight at 17. The Burning Attack swallowed up 17's Ki blast and continued on its path straight at 17 and 18's body.
17 threw his arms up quickly to defend against the blast. It hit his hands with an extreme amount of force, shaking the ground around 17 and 18's body. Trunks tightened his arm muscles to increase his hold on the attack, and force it towards 17. As he tightened his grip on the blast, 17 was pushed back about 10 feet. He screamed and grabbed hold of the blast and forced it back at Trunks, who moved out of the way, letting the blast go into orbit and dissipate.
"You fool, what was the point in wasting energy like that?", Android 17 questioned.
"I known your biggest weakness...", Trunks said.
"Impossible, I have NO weakness!", Android 17 said, and then raised his hand and lifted his middle finger. Trunks smiled as 17 flipped him off, and then continued.
"You idiot, the weakness is your sister!", Trunks yelled at 17.
17's eyes went wide and he unknowingly gritted his teeth. He knew Trunks was right, but he didn't want to admit or accept it. It angered him even more knowing that Trunks had his weakness figured out.
"The funny thing is...you're trying to protect her to give her a proper funeral. She doesn't deserve one, and neither do you!", Trunks yelled. Trunks then spit some blood out, and pulled out a loose tooth. He ripped off a piece of his pants and wiped the blood that was gathering on his body and threw that into the wind, letting it blow away.
Android 17 was getting angrier and angrier, much to the delight of Trunks. He knew sooner or later, 17's anger would cause him to slip up. Trunks moved over in front of 17, and slowly walked over. He took a quick glance towards 18 as he did, and muttered "Pitiful". 17 quickly threw his left fist into Trunks' face. Trunks didn't dodge, as the first hit and caused blood to trickle down from his cheek. 17 smiled in amusement at the sight of Trunks' blood.
"You should listen to me...", Trunks said, "Neither of you deserve to live. Hmph, killing you might even be dishonorable to my family".
"Our deaths?", 17 responded, "Heh, you say that to try and excuse yourself from doing something you know that you can't".
"Our?", Trunks said back, "You need to accept the facts. She is dead, there is no "Our" or "Us" or "We" anymore".
"SHUT UP!", 17 screamed, before regaining his composure, "It's time to finally end this. I will rip your heart out and laugh as I squeeze it in my hand!"
"Talk all you want, you freak!", Trunks screamed back, "I will be the one to end your worthless existence!".
17 flew back into the air and held his hands together, forming a red Ki blast. He screamed as he charged it with more Ki until it was the size of a small house. He then sent the blast straight at Trunks. Trunks crossed his arms to brace himself to shield the blast.
The blast hit Trunks and he started feeling electricity jolt in to his body. This instantly told Trunks what 17 was trying to accomplish with this attack. 17 wanted to attack Trunks' central nervous system. Trunks kept moving back slowly, he didn't want to make full contact with the blast. If he did, it could very well end the fight. After a few moments of fighting it, Trunks finally decided to go for it, he grabbed the attack with both hands and screamed as the electricity seared it's way into his body. Trunks came up with an idea, and decided to go for it. He powered up and sent his own energy into the blast, sending it into the opposite direction. 17 looked at Trunks, seemingly impressed.
The blast exploded and several buildings collapsed. Trunks wasn't worried about anyone being around. The town was desolate when Trunks arrived, he assumed they all ran away once The Androids started attacking. However, it had been lingering in his mind that someone may not have left, and was in hiding. Trunks had already thought about such a circumstance. He considered it a necessary loss. One of Trunks' eyes twitched as necessary loss went through his mind. He was taught that every life is important, however, he wanted this nightmare to end. Even if one innocent person died, it would end, and everyone else would live.
As Trunks threw a few Ki blasts at 17, his conscious silently begged for forgiveness from his mother. If someone innocent did die, it would be on his head. He knew that, yet he accepted that he would not win this without causing mass amounts of damage to the planet and city. As Trunks thought, he decided to use something he had been saving up until this moment.
"So...", Trunks said, looking around, "I don't see 18's body anymore...".
17's eyes went wide. He looked around franticly searching for his sister, yet he did not find her.
"What...when...WHERE IS SHE YOU BASTARD!", 17 screamed at Trunks.
"Wait! Hold on there, you shouldn't be yelling at me, it wasn't MY blast that destroyed her body!", Trunks yelled back.
That was it. Trunks knew it, he saw the look on 17's face. Trunks grinned, he knew he just hit a huge psychological attack on 17. Trunks wasn't satisfied though. His mother had suffered, and yet, this didn't feel enough to satisfy Trunks. 17 had gone too far, and it had changed Trunks, Trunks enjoyed hurting 17. He enjoyed maiming 18. He enjoyed killing. He enjoyed it with every part of his being.
17's eyes again went wide, this time in shock. He had let Trunks get the better of him, and it caused him to lose his sisters body. 17 feel onto his knees, staring at the ground. His gaze showed that he was obviously disturbed. His body started shaking uncontrollably. Trunks had hoped for this.
Trunks took his time search the area, finding a destroyed weaponry shop. He busted down the door, went in and grabbed the best sword he could find. When he had walked back, he found that 17's entire body was rocking back and forth. 17 had started crying and muttering to himself that it wasn't his fault.
Trunks smiled. He smiled from the bottom of his heart. 17 was in deep pain, and soon, Trunks would end it all. Trunks pulled the sword out of its sheath. He held it over 17's head and lifted it up, smiling the entire time.
17 was still muttering to himself that it wasn't his fault. He finally said that it was Trunks fault, and he stopped shaking. Trunks took notice of this and figured that 17 must have found an answer inside himself that he could accept.
"Tch, you find a way out of it, huh?", Trunks grumbled. Trunks grabbed the sword with both hands and quickly swung it downwards as quickly as he could, however 17's hand came up and stopped it. 17 took no notice of the fact that the blade had cut into his hand. 17 looked up, his eyes shown that he had fully gone insane.
"My sister is gone...its YOUR FAULT!", 17 screamed at Trunks, "NOW YOU DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!". 17 grabbed the sword out of Trunks' hand, flipped it over, and quickly jammed it into Trunks stomach. Blood began to pour out of Trunks, through his stomach, back, and his mouth.
Trunks stumbled back and fell onto his rear. He put his hands over his stomach and coughed, trying to stop the bleeding. He knew what had to be done. He grimaced and pulled the sword out of his stomach. He knew it was foolish to do that, knowing it could cause more damage, but it had to come out.
Trunks threw the blade away into the air, hearing it land edge first into the ground a few hundred feet away. 17 stood pointing and laughing maniacally at Trunks. Trunks had truly driven him insane. Trunks did his best to stand up, but his mid-section was in an extreme amount of pain. He got to his knees, and powered his legs up, his left arm holding his stomach.
"Now I'll finish you!", 17 said, cackling loudly, "I'LL SEND YOU TO HELL. HELL HELL HELL HELL!". 17 ran over and wrapped his arms around Trunks. His arms reached around Trunks' shoulders so he couldn't move or escape. 17 was still grinning like a hyena as his eyes started changing from blue to red. Trunks looked closely and could see numbers in them.
10...9...8.
Trunks knew what it meant. The insane Android was going to blow himself and Trunks up. 17 had activated his self destruction bomb. Trunks had to break free, but his stomach was bleeding excessively. Trunks struggled and started head butting 17, but 17's hold would not release. Trunks looked at him, he saw the number 2 move down to 1, and he screamed "OH SHI...!", but he was cut off.
The explosion was of great magnitude. The bright white light spread and consumed everything in its path, ravaging everything in a 20 mile radius. As the explosion died down, a deep crater appeared from out of the smoke. The force of the explosion blew Trunks' body into the sky. He used as best a Ki shield as it could, but it didn't seem to make much difference.
Trunks body fell down through the air and smoke, hitting the ground near the center of the crater. His body felt numb, yet, when he tried to move, pain shot through his entire body. His body was struggling for air, and his lungs hurt like hell while breathing. The lung motion sent pain shooting into his stomach area. He tried sitting up, but couldn't make it all the way and fell back down onto his back. His hair went back to normal, as his transformation ended.
As he lie there, struggling for air, he looked at the sky. Trunks head lie in a small puddle of water filled with his own blood. He used what energy he had left to force himself to sit up. The blast was meant to kill them both, yet Trunks was still alive. He looked at the sky, it was a bright white, as if the explosion still lingered. 17 was obliterated.
Trunks felt the rain hit his face, yet, he could not hear it. He couldn't hear anything. The sound of the explosion had deafened him. Trunks moved his arm up and wiped some blood out of his eyes. He looked down at his torso, and saw that his left leg was almost completely blown off, and his right leg was missing everything from the knee down. He closed his eyes and smirked.
"It...was...", Trunks muttered, coughing blood out of his mouth, "...worth it".
The rain stopped, and the sun broke through the clouds, as if to welcome Trunks face as he gazed upwards to the sky.
"Gohan...was this...enough?", Trunks questioned, looking back down at his body. "Mom, please don't be mad, peace is costly.".
Trunks chest started slowing, and he fell back onto the ground. His heart stopped beating as he closed his eyes.
It took less the an hour for the call to ring out across the world that they were saved by a mysterious hero, and a little girl in an Orphanage smiled, because she knew her Guardian Angel had saved them.