The Ultimate Android took a single bold step forward, raising his twitching right hand before him as he stared at the reinforcement fighters with previously unseen antagonism. Immediately, Yamcha, Goku, and Bardock took fighting stances as an invisible gale picked up and tossed both the airborne diamond ice dust and the cinders of the booming magma storm from the sum of damage the planet had suffered.
"Even if it confuses me as to how you've managed to arrive here, Son Goku, I'll take solace in the fact that I know for certain that you won't be leaving," the Ultimate Artificial Human proclaimed. His eyes carefully wandered off to focus on Yamcha. "You appeared to be the user of that peculiar transportation technique that isn't bothered by electromagnetic protons or cosmic distance. That will come in handy."
"Maybe you should take a hike, Yamcha? Just in case. This can get seedy and you're mighty weak," Bardock teased the Earthling warrior with a slight artificial pitch to his voice. Even though the extensive modifications that Dr. Puri put him through were absent, the Saiyan warrior asked Bulma to leave a few of them intact for a leg-up in fighting to protect his family.
"Excuse me? For your information, I was the first one to sniff out that something odd was going on in Bulma's space station. You two would still be sleeping if it weren't for me!" Yamcha pointed at himself. "Plus, even if I'm an ace at both galactic and Earth baseball, I've kept up with my training."
"We'll know what to do when we trade blows," Goku spoke his mind. "I can't get a lone whiff of this guy, so he's gotta be an Android. We won't know how tough he is until we fight him for a little bit."
"Annoying gnats, I'll give you more fight than you can handle!" the furious Ultimate Android launched himself at the trio. Almost immediately, both Goku and Bardock responded with combined energy waves fired toward the rushing juggernaut though their energy waves stopped in their tracks. Even when Yamcha joined in with the combined energy wave attack, the Ultimate No. 20 skipped just one step before forcing himself right through the torrent of Ki to where he stood face-to-face with all three reinforcing combatants.
"Shit!" Goku freaked out, gaping his eyes and stretching his mouth out in a sudden shock at the opponent's incredible power.
"Immovable bastard!" Bardock cursed, jumping out in front of the Ultimate Android to intercept his attack. The musclebound Artificial Human tossed a standing push kick at Son Goku, but his father shuffled in to block it. A pulse of golden energy passed from the core of Bardock's body both up and down, transforming the augmented Saiyan into a Super Saiyan.
Despite the sudden jump to guard, the kick blew up with a fiery expulsion of energy and sent the augmented Super Saiyan skidding back across dense ice platforms and rivers of magma alike while Goku transformed as well and jumped to trade blows with the monstrous Artificial Human. The Ultimate Gero placed his arms over his shoulders, crossing them up, and withstood the barrage of Goku's blows and kicks. Seeing his opening, the Ultimate Artificial human stomped at Goku's legs to trip him and open him up, but Goku vanished in an instant with a sharp snapping sound.
"Behind you!" Goku yelled out, coming with a flying kick from behind the Ultimate Android. The bulky Artificial Human grabbed hold of Goku's boot and swung him about over his head. That was before Bardock's energy ball hit him clear in the face and the roaring Super Saiyan rushed in with a vanishing barrage of punches, beating down on each of the Ultimate Android's sides before appearing over his head and stomping his foot into the soft middle of his extended arm which forced the bulky Android to release Son Goku and give the two an opportunity to put some distance between them.
"Would it hurt you not to warn him when you're attacking from behind?" Yamcha objected to what felt to him like a waste of his Instant Transmission technique.
"It didn't seem fair to attack from behind. Not when we're already ganging up on the guy three-to-one," Goku snickered.
"You should care less about fair play and care more about making out of this alive. I gave this guy a full piece of my mind and he barely registered any of it. If he really gave Chayote trouble, we may be in for a hard time," Bardock fixed his wristbands and rolled his knuckles to ease the strain of having tried to punch what felt like a brick wall a couple of thousand times at once.
"You may be right, this doesn't look like a guy we can underestimate," Goku nodded, with the goofy smirk vanishing from his face.
"You've all come here to throw your lives away," the Ultimate Artificial Human grumbled out. "Bardock, you're a creator, why are you wasting your life looking out for old and obsolete creations like Son Goku? I'd have done him a favor by removing him from the equation so you can set out and create new and superior offspring based on your improved genetic code."
"I'm not sure what the heck this asshole's yappin' on about, but it makes me mad!" Bardock clenched his fist, erupting with a wild golden aura as he charged forward with a wound back fist.
"Wait, dad!" Goku called out.
Vanishing to move out in front of the Ultimate Artificial Human, Bardock jabbed with a nigh invisible punch to the jaw that failed to turn the Android's head. "Damn it!" Bardock cursed with a rowdy rumble and clenched both his hands together to slam down from above with a double ax handle. This made the stout mechanical juggernaut dip his head a bit.
The maddened Super Saiyan vanished, appearing beneath the Ultimate Android's feet with a sweep, but his sweeping leg hit an immovable obstacle that nearly broke it by the middle. Wincing in pain, Bardock extended both hands to propel a barrage of teal energy blasts in the opponent's face while he repositioned for a flying kick. Bardock's follow-up attack made the grim Artificial Human stumbled back. Vanishing with a golden halo, Bardock turned around while delivering roundhouse kicks with each turn, but they appeared to just bounce off of the Ultimate Android's face.
"Damn it, damn you!" Bardock cursed again, vanishing to appear right in front of the perturbed Ultimate Android and begin clobbering his head from the upper back position. Though the head of the Ultimate Artificial human seemed to turn down each time, it barely seemed to leave any lasting grazes on the musclebound titan.
The closed distance between the raging Super Saiyan and his foe allowed the Ultimate Android to grab his seething opponent with a single sweep of his hand. The monstrous Android punched the Super Saiyan right out of the augmented Saiyan and extended his hand to form a red Ki blast point-blank to Bardock's chest that blasted him away with its detonation. The attack tore up and burnt away all the clothes over Bardock's upper chest and sent the injured Saiyan flying back and skimming over magma and ice platforms alike before smashing into a nearby glacier with enough force of impact to crumble it.
"I've been merely testing my power until now. Though fathers that place their integral lives in danger to protect their expendable offspring put me in a foul mood and I find it difficult to restrain myself," the Ultimate Android spoke to himself before straightening his back and approaching Son Goku and Yamcha slowly yet methodically. "I suggest you two run. Though there are few places in this universe I won't be able to find you in. With this ultimate body, space travel is of no concern to me and with my infinite energy and the most advanced radar system in the universe, I'll track you to the outer ends of existence itself to teach you just how irrelevant you are, Son Goku."
"Tsk… What a crazy guy!" Goku grit his teeth, intensifying the energy output of his Super Saiyan transformation to burn through his stamina faster for greater strength, speed, and toughness compared to the default state. "I'm not gonna let you off the hook for hurting Gohan and dad!"
"What an utter imbecile…" the Ultimate Android froze in place as Goku dashed up to him with a rushing punch and transitioned into a flurry straight into the unmoving and unflinching face of the merciless Artificial Human. Goku's face became twisted with rage as he thrust his charged elbow strike right into the middle of the Ultimate Artificial Human's face, making him stagger back lightly while Goku jumped up with a roundhouse as a follow-up.
Pushing himself off of his opponent, Goku cupped his hands together and drew them back. "Super Kamehameha!" he yelled out. The Super Saiyan had little time to charge the attack up, but the suddenness of a weaker Kamehameha still had its uses. Despite the force of a Super Kamehameha taking off right in his face, the Ultimate Android barely leaned back at all. Instead, reaching out to grab the raging Super Saiyan through his beaming cerulean energy wave.
Goku winced, but Yamcha's swift use of Instant Transmission to bring him up to the two fighters and then another one to bring Goku away from harm's way made him sigh in relief. That was until a red eye laser beam took off from the Ultimate Android's eyes and turned in a sharp degree to pursue whatever was behind him. Yamcha placed his fingers to his forehead and vanished again, though the beams curved once more. Despite the martial artist's attempts to teleport away from the beams' path, they punched clean through his chest all the same.
"Yamcha!" Goku yelled out with a shocked look on his face. His old-time friend and rival fell flat on his back with a grisly thud. The impact forced more blood to shoot out from the gaping wounds and the mouth of the blank-stared, perforated fighter.
"Your friend is the last person you should be worried about, Son Goku," the Ultimate Android turned around to look at Goku with an expression of sadistic snickering. "As I've said, I still have use of his ability to teleport throughout the universe. That's why I blasted cleanly around his heart, avoiding lethal injury. Maybe I'll torture him a bit more after you and your disgrace of a father cease vexing me. Break his arms and legs in a few places, if he is still hesitant to obey, but he'll outlive you for certain."
"Yamcha, if you can still hear me, teleport away with dad! I'll hold this guy off myself for as long as Gohan needs!" Goku yelled out with desperation sprinkling in his voice. Yamcha tilted his head, though that was about all that he could do at this time.
"You shouldn't have come here, Son Goku. What did you hope to achieve here? Defeat me? Ridiculous! The very concept of defeat eludes an Ultimate Artificial Human. No. You came here to die, and you brought a friend and a father with you…" the Ultimate Android turned around with his full body and began to approach Goku without any hint of haste to his step. The unrelenting Super Saiyan didn't take a single step back, instead adopting a fighting pose and waiting for a chance to counterattack.
"You're far worse than your father, do you know why? It's because an offspring's purpose is to serve their maker, whereas you pulled your maker into a fight they could not win. Effectively, you've sentenced your maker to death and committed a cardinal sin of any creation. Oh… But you've sinned twice, Son Goku, you've come here to, as you'd say "Knock me flat", for trying to do your job in disciplining your son? Not only did you sin against your maker, but you've also put your body on the line to protect an expendable creation, which was the same sin your father committed. You, Son Goku, you make me simply storm in rage!"
The Ultimate Android flexed his muscles and hunched over, expelling a violent burst of wine-red colored aura that made Goku flinch in place because of its intensity. Rampant, twitching veins splintered all across the wrathful Android's body as his already titanic body swelled up further into a veritable mountain of muscle, hair, and self-righteousness.
"This is bad…" Goku panted out, covering himself up so that the turbulent expulsion of energy didn't utterly wash him away like a helpless rag doll.
Despite the tremendous pressure of his opponent, the brave Super Saiyan drew his arm back and closed his eyes to stabilize his breathing. In a single breath, Goku withdrew his aura back inside of his body and made his golden and shiny hair turn creamy bright and for all of his supernatural luster to vanish. Assuming his perfected Super Saiyan form, Goku prepared to hold his own against the powered-up Ultimate Android.
Expelling a thunderous shout from his chest, the Ultimate Artificial Human stomped at the ground, creating a savage quake that spewed magma geysers and diamond-hard, sharp ice shards from underground and the exploding concussive force of the stamping earthquake. Goku hunkered down, stonewalling his opponent's punishment as the magma burnt off some of his Gi and the icy chips left scrapes all over the Super Saiyan's skin.
Rumbling, the Ultimate Android charged forward, itching to mercilessly ravage the Super Saiyan who offended every principle of the philosophy he subscribed to. Unexpectedly to the rushing Artificial Human, however, all the Ki that Goku withdrew inside of his body allowed him to withstand the beatdown as a little bar of hunkered iron before exploding outward with Goku's counterattack. Goku yelled out while shooting a low uppercut and channeling all the Ki he had withdrawn into it. Goku's forearm lit up with a golden luster that turned white on impact and even the Ultimate Android stopped in place and grumbled.
Seeing his opening, Goku followed it up with a cross to the Ultimate Gero's jaw and then a jumping roundhouse, but it felt like kicking a mountainous pillar. Seeing no results from his attacks, Goku twisted his face in anger and drew his arms back. He roared out while releasing a sudden Kamehameha straight to the face of the flinched Ultimate Android point-blank. Goku's voice resonated through the hectic field of a wounded planet as he released all of his pent-up Ki and rushed at his opponent the moment he saw his Kamehameha failed to as much as move the Ultimate Android.
Spinning around like a spinning top, Goku unleashed a barrage of stiff kicks. He drew his resonating aura back to encase his legs and focus all of his surging Super Saiyan strength on his legs alone. Seeing some semblance of a flinching effect from this barrage of kicks, Goku punted straight into the Ultimate Android's face, rocking his head back. Reading his opponent like an open book, the Perfect Super Saiyan vanished from sight at just the right moment to avoid the double arm smashing attack and re-appeared to dash in for a counterattack when his massive opponent was wide open. Goku's fist crashed into the Ultimate No. 20, but it barely made the giant teeter on his legs.
"It's insulting that you even measure your power against mine!" the Ultimate Dr. Gero proclaimed, charging onward with a shoulder crash and knocking Goku back, with the latter letting out a pain-ridden shout. "Your technique is impressive, albeit flawed, like your body. A mere Super Saiyan has no chance of measuring up against an Ultimate Android. You should have only dared show your face when you too have entered the world of ultimate power."
The enraged Ultimate Android grabbed Goku's shin and pulled the airborne Saiyan back in for a beating. Swinging Goku over his head and smashing the Super Saiyan behind him, then stomping on the fallen Saiyan with his foot and forcing an agonizing grunt to squeeze out of the crushed Saiyan as his eyes whited out temporarily. The Ultimate Gero scooped the fallen Saiyan off the ground by his ankle and spun him around, in complete control of his opponent. Grappling with the Super Saiyan, the Ultimate Android hoisted him up and made him drop over his raised knee, smashing at Goku's groin. This twisted the Super Saiyan's face in agony and lose the creamy luster of his hair.
Seeing his twitching and bruised opponent in free-fall, the Ultimate Gero tackled him to the ground and began pounding on the fallen Son Goku from both sides. Even though Goku may have still had some fight left in him, the immense pressure of his opponent left him unable to transform into a Super Saiyan again after the agonizing shock to his nether regions. It was as if the Ultimate Android thought Goku's offense against his philosophy to be so grave that he doomed Goku to never be able to create any offspring ever again.
"You've got some toughness in you, runt, I'll admit. The melon of any lesser man would've burst into tomato splatter right about now…" the Ultimate Artificial Human cheered himself on with a hearty chuckle and a pause in between the merciless battery.
"Get off of him!" Bardock's voice resonated through the glacier he had crumbled over himself. The baffled Ultimate No. 20 turned to where the roar came from, only to witness a pillar of booming energy and weightless compressed by gravity ice pillars rising into the air like feathers in an updraft. Bardock emerged from the wreckage with spiked-up hair and whited-out eyes, twitching and with colorful, cybernetic vessels shining over his muscles underneath his skin. "I've welcomed these ridiculous gizmos inside my body so I can better protect my family and that I don't have to lose anyone ever again! I won't let you hurt my son or my grandson! I refuse to lose anyone else!"
"Hmph… You are not without grievous insults to everything rational as well, father of Son Goku," the Ultimate Android stood up from Goku's sprawled and dizzy body, staring lifelessly off to the side in his base form with torn and singed clothes. The titan cracked his knuckles and began slowly approaching the revealed warrior. "You've received my wife's gift of cybernetic implants, yet you pulled out of becoming even a mere Artificial Human. That means you're not even in a class of an Artificial Human, so what makes you think you can stand up to even a Super Artificial Human, let alone an Ultimate one?"
"The fact that you're really pissing me off!" Bardock burst with anger and charged some intense mass of energy in his right hand. In a blink, the Super Saiyan took creating a bright energy field around him, vaguely shaped like a roaring Great Ape monster as he rushed forward and slammed his fist straight into the center of the Ultimate Artificial Human's face. This dented the Ultimate Gero's nose inward and made him lightly stagger backward. "Rebellion Hammer!" Bardock grumbled.
The detonating, overflowing with Ki, fist made a cone-shaped explosion tunneling in the direction of the punch and utterly engulfing the overwhelmed Ultimate Android. When the blast had its dues, the Ultimate No. 20 staggered out from the smoke, looking bruised and lightly scorched all over. The entirety of what remained of his vizor shattered off his face, revealing a deadpan stare of dull, human-like eyes underneath.
"Impossible! Me… An Ultimate Artificial Human… Driven to the point of injury and stress at the peak of my power! It's true that I've been fighting these dull dregs the whole day, over and over again, but my stamina is infinite! I am the Ultimate War Machine!" The Ultimate Android stared at his shaking hands that had tears on his leather gloves, making his fingers peek out.
"Your stamina may be infinite…" Goku rose from his knockout with a half-shut eyelid over his left eye and a heavy pant, clutching his right arm. "But your body… Ain't. Even if every single one of us… Leaves just one dent… Eventually… It'll stack up."
"Heh, heh… By now… Even you must've gotten a fair enough beating for me to join in the battle…" Yamcha chuckled through the pain and fatigue, powering through his grievous injury as he rose off the ground. It appeared that the energy beams blasting through his chest had burnt up the injury from bleeding somewhat. That, on top of Yamcha's excellent Ki control and martial arts training, allowed him to push his body further than any known human limit before collapsing.
With light stumbles, the trio gathered in a triangular formation around the awestruck Ultimate No. 20 for the ultimate confrontation that might have proven deadly to either of them.