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-YARN
As Kurai erupted from the seats and launched a ki blast at the two as they flew out of the way as their attacks dissipated. Ignoring the screams of the people in the crowd, Kurai flew till he was level with the assailants and stifled a groan.
Of course that bastard got these two for Babidi, they were probably the best way to anger the Z-fighters.
He focused as he saw the mirror images of Androids 17 and 18 smirking at him from either side with their arms crossed. The real thing that made him worry about the whole situation was the fact that they each had a Majin Symbol that stretched across their foreheads. Babidi was making his move in a different way, now he just needed to know how these two fit into everything. They had long since surpassed the androids, and that demon realm bastard knew it, even with the marked power boost that a Majin symbol provided, why choose them when the Z-fighters could easily obliterate them? Sure they had gotten stronger in the main timeline and found things far more valuable than destruction and death, but that didn't apply to these two.
"So you must be one of the new protectors that are here to keep Earth safe. I gotta say, I didn't imagine that we'd ever be back here." 17 drawled.
"This rock was no fun after all the human were killed." 18 shrugged, "After that it was all exploration of the stars, blew up a few planets, razed others to the ground. Was fun while it lasted. Guess doing again might be just as fun as the first time, only one way to find out, right?"
Kurai noted this and scowled as he realized they must have been pulled over from another timeline, not rebuilt, "Let me guess… In your timeline you killed Gohan and Trunks, and flew off into space after killing humanity to keep killing?"
"Bingo." 17 laughed cruelly, "I didn't think other people were in the know about the whole timeline shit... Not that it matters, because once you and whatever other pathetic resistance you might've gathered are all dead, we'll continue at it."
"Anyway," 18 said as she removed the energy draining lamp from her back, "I do hope you don't mind if we drain your energy. See we have someone who needs it and the fact that you're flying means you must have some potential."
Kurai got into his stance, "You're welcome to try, but let's not do this here."
"Right," A sharp voice came, "Not here."
Gohan was in the air flanked by Krillin, both of them radiating anger and hostility at the monsters who terrorized their world after killing most of them. Trunk and Xtrunks appeared and both of them looked furious at the monsters before them, ready to destroy them. Goku floated up behind Kurai and was followed by Vegeta, who was scowling at the memory at his death at 18's hands. The other human Z-fighters were herding people out of the stadium and away from ground zero if the fight started here.
17 smiled cruelly and fired a blast straight at the ground, eyes shining with malice as he waited for the explosion.
He didn't expect to see Tien look up and scowl as a he saw the approaching ki blast ready to obliterate the people.
Damn androids!
He flew up to intercept the ki blast, catching the blast in his hands and straining against it as he was being forced down to The Earth.
"Kaio-ken!" Tien howled as his aura and skin both turned red.
With a roar, he kicked the blast back up at 17 and whirled with his momentum to right himself while his red aura pulsed around him. The force of the blast had been too much for the triclops before his death but he was grinning with pride even as the red aura of the Kaio-ken dissipated. It may not have been a full-powered blast, but he would have never been able to even dream of pushing an attack with that much power behind it back. Before it would've annihilated him even if he used his strongest attack to try and block it. He had been putting every spare minute he had into training and he was proud of how far he had come from before. Part of him itched to join the other Z-fighters in the sky, but saving the people was far more important than testing his limits.
Android 17 was surprised when he saw one of the worthless humans of the Z-fighters still alive on this version of earth deflect his ki blast up and back. He hadn't put all of his power behind it, but it was still fairly powerful and he didn't expect a human to be able to deflect it at all, Z-fighter or no. Even more so the triclops had managed to send it back towards him with a kick while using the Kaio-ken technique he had seen recorded when Dr. Gero turned him into an android all those years ago. 18 moved towards Vegeta with the draining device but there was blur of motion that suddenly obscured his vision and causing him to flinch from surprise at the movement.
He would've moved if a fist hadn't crashed against his cheek and sent him hurtling through the sky at supersonic speeds. The blow was so powerful, 17 was surprised his head hadn't been torn clear off his shoulders from it. He couldn't even control his flight path as the sheer wind pressure and force was too much, but every single time he tried to reorient himself another blow would slam into him and keep him going.
By the time he slammed into solid ground, he had felt worse than he had in a very, very long time. He had forgotten how pain felt, and unfortunately he didn't think he would remember it as it was skipped straight over into agony even with the passive majin boost Babidi gave him dulling the sensation. He looked up and saw he was now in a lifeless desert area with a few rocky cliffs, much like where Gero had gathered some of Vegeta's DNA after his first defeat on Earth. A loud crash and rumble saw 18 embedded into a cliff wall before the cliff collapsed on top of her and up came a plume of dust from the landslide. A ki blast erupted from it only for her to drift up and clumsily float over to him before landing roughly on her hands and knees, clothes torn while bruises and scrapes littered her form. What had gone so wrong? They had killed the Gohan and Trunks — the toughest fighters of the androids' lives even though they easily crushed the half-saiyans — of their timeline and killed countless other warriors and fighters! Why were these iterations so different from the ones they had bested? There was no way for them to be able to win especially with the wizard augmenting his abilities after giving them a tattoo!
"What the hell is this?" 17 snarled, trying to rationalize the events that took place, "What is happening?"
"Your death." Gohan said calmly as he landed, "You will not be allowed to live any longer after all that you have done. You won't be forgiven because of what you intend to do once you have a chance. You're just monsters that seek destruction and derive pleasure in the suffering of the innocent; you cannot be allowed to live."
17 and 18 realized that Gohan hadn't even gone Super Saiyan, his hair was still black and he didn't look even slightly winded. Then both Trunks and Xtrunks landed next to him and the androids both stared in horror at the pair, Vegeta had twins with that Bulma woman? As Goku landed they both felt a surge of rage, this was the person they had been literally built and programed to kill, and he was fine? As every single pathetic member of the 'Earth Special Defense Forces' or 'Z-fighters' landed, they realized that this wasn't the same game it was to them as before. This time, the world's defender had managed to beat them and trained extensively to make sure to never be put in that position ever again.
They were outmatched and needed to get away.
They both were already running when a fist hit them in the face, both androids landed a couple of feet away from the attack.
Kurai had been waiting for them to try and brushed his hands together, "Oh, do stay. They haven't even started paying you back for the crimes your deceased iterations did to them."
They both failed to notice Krillin holding the lamp and quickly moving away from the fight in order to make sure it couldn't be used.
Unsurprisingly, Vegeta demanded to kill 18 on his own, not caring that he didn't have to. She had killed him once, he wanted to return the favor.
Tenfold.
He kicked her hard and punted her across the wasteland, "Do not interfere. She dies by my hand alone."
Nobody argued.
When Vegeta landed away from 18; she was grunting as she stumbled to her feet, glaring hatred at the Saiyan she had killed in her time. Vegeta crossed his arms and waited patiently, taking pleasure in the fact she knew she and her bastard brother had bitten off far more than they could chew. He thought about killing her before she showed any more power, but decided to let her have some time to say goodbye to her life. He saw the hidden fear in her eyes and smiled cruelly at her, Babidi was an idiot for using these androids to gather any energy from them. They wouldn't make any of the them — minus the earthlings — break a sweat since it had been years and not a single person sat on their laurels waiting for a conflict.
"What's wrong android?" Vegeta mocked, "Are you afraid? Afraid to be destroyed? Because believe me, I intend to obliterate you. A fair trade considering a version of you killed debt must be paid."
18 bared her teeth as the Majin symbol pulse and a wave of purple energy erupted from her and buffeted the surrounding area. While the Majin boost had been minor, Babidi used Fuhai's help to impart time breaker ki as a sort of second power up if the user needed it. 18 was not going to hold back as she knew she would need every scrap of power to fight, even if it wasn't her own. The purple ki that flared coalesced around the android and pulsed steadily around her as she got into her combat stance, intent on tearing Vegeta apart.
Vegeta — on the other hand — only uncrossed his arms and and waited.
He didn't bother transforming for this.
18 blitzed forward and threw a punch only for Vegeta to effortlessly catch it and stop her dead in her tracks.
18's eyes widened in shock.
"Pathetic." He sneered.
He pulled her in with her caught fist and jammed a knee into her stomach, doubling her over his limb before spinning and lashing out with a kick that sent her into the ground and carving a thick trench. 18 grit her teeth and quickly got to her feet while glaring at The Prince with utter hatred, she refused to be humiliated by him of all people. She charged up several blasts and began firing a barrage at Vegeta, trying to take advantage of her limitless ki design to bombard Vegeta to death.
Amused, Vegeta began to simply smack away every single blast into the surrounding area while slowly walking forward, enjoying the growing panic on the android's face. She screamed in anger and fired a charged Ki blast with all her power only for Vegeta to kick it back at her, she managed to catch it, but she hadn't expected him to simply knock it back.
"No…" She growled, "This can't be…"
"Did you think that I would ever stop growing machine? I vowed to become the most powerful fighter in the universe, and I will be."
She turned and saw Vegeta with his hand extended, a Big Bang Attack already formed, "This isn't right! This is impossible!"
"Big Bang Attack!" Vegeta roared.
The android perished in an instant.
17 was already going at full power plus his Majin boost and had nothing to show for it despite more injuries and a distinct blow to his pride that hurt more than anything else. Gohan blocked or dodged all of 17's attacks with no effort and the bastard hadn't even gone Super Saiyan. If anything, he was dragging it out by not hitting back, giving 17 a chance to realize just how out of his league he had tried to go. 17 howled his rage as he began to attack even faster, completely abandoning technique and skill for sheer speed trying to overwhelm the demi-saiyan. Gohan sighed in disappointment and jammed his fist into 17's stomach, causing the android to double over in pain. Gohan then proceeded to kick 17 into the air and raise his hands as his aura flared slightly and yellow ki gathered in his hands.
"Masenko." Gohan said without any enthusiasm.
The powerful beam erupted from his hands and destroyed 17 in a roar of yellow ki.
Tien, Yamcha, Chaotzu, and Krillin were not in a good spot.
After Krillin had returned to where the other Z-fighters were, they all decided to destroy the lamp. Maybe Babidi could make another one, but this would've at least set him back a little. Moments after that decision, a blue-skinned alien with orange-hair and an 'M' on his forehead came out of nowhere and snatched the lamp before he handed it off to a cute female alien of the same race who waited for them to fight. When they tried to attack her to get the lamp, the blue-skinned alien immediately smashed them out of the air into a heap before laughing at them.
Krillin immediately charged the alien and began to attack, but the alien blocked his attacks with insulting ease. Tien and Yamcha both leapt in to help Krillin, but the alien took them on with a mocking sneer and continued to fend them off. Then he just switched to offense as he backhanded Krillin into the ground, choke-slammed Yamcha, and head-butted Tien away all at the same time before taking a few steps away from his handiwork. They all crashed into the ground and got back to their feet, faces twisted in anger at how easily he just knocked them down.
"Kaio-ken!" They all declared.
Their aura flared red and Bojack blinked at the humans as they all rushed at him much faster than before; Tien slammed a fist into his jaw, Yamcha slammed a kicked into his temple, and Krillin fired a kamehameha right into Bojack's face as his friends shifted out of the way. The alien winced as the blows landed and let out a pained grunt as the beam struck him and blasted him off his feet. The human Z-fighters quickly dismissed the Kiao-ken as using the technique in small bursts didn't strain their bodies as it would if they kept it up for extended periods. Bojack landed on his back and quickly rolled to his feet, thumb wiping the small trickle of blood coming from his mouth. He rubbed his fingers together and considered the purple stains that were his blood before looking up at the humans with a smile.
"At least you have some power." He sneered, "Zangya, prepare to drain them when they are pinned."
He rushed the three humans with insane speed and began to attack with heavy punches and swift kicks that sent them scrambling to defend themselves. Each blow sent tremors down their limbs and damn near fractured their bones when they connected. They all called upon their Kaio-ken-times-two to outpace the alien, but even with all their training and their Kaio-ken boost, they weren't able to slip any attacks in as he kept pace easily. Half a minute later and Bojack stepped it up and began to move faster and began landing blows on the humans that even they couldn't deflect with he Kaio-ken. Desperate to try to outmaneuver Bojack, they dispersed in a flash of red and landed around the alien, panting in exertion. The Kaio-ken faded and they could tell the techniques strain was starting to really affect their bodies.
Times two was even more straining now that they were using it in combat, but compounded with the battle damage they accumulated were already almost dead on their feet. They all scowled as their combined attacks did little more than some superficial damage and a split lip. Bojack charged up a ki blast and held it up, "Don't worry too much, I'll wait to kill you after the extraction. you may not have anywhere near enough ki, but it's a step in the right direction."
Just then a green, white, and purple blur smashed into Bojack and sent him flying away into the ground hard enough to leave a sizable crater on his impact. In an instant, a burst of ki erupted from the crater and Bojack flew into the air, a bruise on his cheek.
Piccolo stood tall and glared at the alien with contempt, his cape billowing in the wind as he let his tightly controlled ki build and a wave of force spread from him.
Bojack scoffed at the show of power, "Zangya, leave and tell the wizard he'll have to try some other time."
Zangya hadn't even seen Piccolo approach and drifted away slightly before spinning and flying off as fast as she could, intent on reaching Babidi.
Piccolo quickly tossed a bag to Krillin and said, "Take these senzu and get out of here, this guy is too much for you all right now. One of you find Dende and tell him to pass a telepathic message to everyone to search for Babidi by following the other alien I saw as I got here, the other two should be able to sense her and catch up."
Krillin grimaced but agreed, they just weren't at the level that was necessary to actually win against someone like Bojack yet. He quickly passed out the senzu beans and the three bit into them as they felt their strength return; they hesitated as they wanted to help Piccolo, but the namekian shook his head.
"I'll handle him. Go."
As they flew away, Bojack landed in front of Piccolo, "Big talk coming from you, namekian. I've crushed your kind before."
"All the more reason this'll be satisfying when I kill you." Piccolo replied.
They flew at each other and a shockwave erupted as they crashed against each other.
