Chapter 25
Krillin
As soon as Shen's Androids went forward, Krillin grabbed Eighteen and Seventeen and flew back. Yamcha, Tien, Videl, and Marron let loose with ki balls, and to their surprise, the Androids started to avoid them all. "Marron! Get your Mom and Uncle out of here!" "But Dad!" Marron yelled only for him to interrupt, "THERE'S NO TIME TO ARGUE!" Krillin yelled as Shen's Androids regrouped and started blasting their own ki balls. Marron quickly took Seventeen and Eighteen and flew off. Krillin then raised summoned his power into his hands and blasted a powerful beam out at Shen's Androids. The seix men avoided it, and one who had dark hair in a ponytail said, "Nice try, Shrimp." Krillin smirked, "SCATTER SHOT!" The beam erupted into a hundred smaller beams and slammed into the muscular Androids before they could counter it.
"Way to go Krillin!" Yamcha yelled. "It's not over yet," Tien warned. The smoke cleared and the six of them were slightly battered but looked more angered than hurt by the attack. The tallest Android, a bald man with a scar that nearly cut his face in half down the middle and a bald head laughed at them as he said, "Shrimpy's mine." The six Androids then broke, two each going after Yamcha and Tien while the scarred bald one went for Krillin. Krillin dodged and blocked kicks from the apparent leader as fast as his skills allowed. It was obvious who was more skilled, but the Android made up for that with raw speed that kept him on the defensive the whole time. The tall man then lifted his hands for an overhead blow, and Krillin took his chance to kick him as hard as he could in his solar plexus.
That stopped the Android long enough to allow Krillin to throw a barrage of punches to follow-up, over three hundred in one minute. The large man caught Krillin by surprise by slamming a massive knee into his stomach, then following up by dropping his elbow on his bald head. Krillin barely rolled away from a stomp that would have shattered his skull and quickly got up. The scarred man was breathing hard by then and glaring pure death at Krillin. We overestimated them; they aren't too much stronger than us! Just gotta fight smart and we can win! "SUPER DODON RAY!" Krillin's opponent yelled, and Krillin quickly countered with a Kamehameha. The Super Dodon Ray slowly inched towards Krillin, and the short former monk focused hard as he yelled out, "KAIOKEN!" His power soared as his aura turned red, and Krillin's Kamehameha Wave quickly slammed into his opponent.
Yamcha
As Krillin battled his opponent, Yamcha and Tien had to team up to deal with five of Shen's Androids at once. Two of them looked like brothers with matching blue mohawks, their main difference in appearance was one had brown eyes and the other had blue eyes, one of the Androids was shirtless with an X shaped scar across his large chest and his hair in a long ponytail that reached to his butt, and the last one they faced looked completely normal, except for his large owl like eyes that never seemed to blink. The four of them looked at Tien and Yamcha arrogantly, certain that they could win. "Don't be afraid Yamcha, they may be stronger, but if the one Krillin is fighting is any indication, they're not that much more powerful, and their skills are lacking," Tien assured Yamcha.
Yelling at once, the four Androids charged at the experienced martial artists. Yamcha quickly blocked a punch and a kick from each Mohawk Brother while Tien deflected a kick from Owl Eyes and grabbed his leg to throw him into Scarred Ponytail. "TRI-BEAM!" Tien hit both his opponents at once while Yamcha flew down fast enough to dodge more kicks from the Mohawk Brothers and quickly yelled, "KAIOKEN!" The speed and power of the technique let him fly up and slam both fists into the Mohawk Brothers' chins with hard uppercuts before he kicked them aside with a hook kick. Meanwhile, Owl Eyes and Scarred Ponytail recovered enough to blast a barrage of ki balls at Tien, who was pushing himself hard to avoid their combo attack. The three-eyed warrior focused power into his hands as he flew before stopping and yelling, "KAMEHAMEHA!" His attack hit Scarred Ponytail dead on, but Owl Eyes dodged the attack.
Yamcha got careless and took a hard elbow to his back from the Blue-Eyed Mohawk Brother, and the Brown Eyed one axe kicked him in the face hard enough to send him plummeting to the ground. Yamcha stopped himself from hitting it, then quickly backflipped back fast enough to avoid a Tri-Beam from both Mohawk Brothers. Yamcha summoned power into his right hand and focused hard, "Spirit Ball!" The Earthling martial artist's attack shot forward and slammed into Blue Eye's stomach before hitting his chin and then flew around Brown Eyes to his confusion. The Spirit Ball then hit the back of his head then his back before Yamcha had it fly between the two brothers and it blew up.
Meanwhile, Tien and Owl Eyes were locked in hand to hand combat, the two of them throwing punches and kicks that no human without their exceptional eyes could possibly follow. Owl Eyes was starting to sweat as they fought on, while Tien's concentration was completely on his opponent, his expression never changing. Tien then saw his chance and slammed his fists into his opponent's chest hard enough to knock him back, and then kicked him in the solar plexus before he spun around in a front flip to axe kick Owl Eyes straight into the ground.
Videl
The guy Videl was fighting looked a lot like her old High School classmate, Sharpener, only bigger with red streaks in his hair. "I'd hate to mess up such a pretty face," Red Streaks said as he went up to her. Videl cracked her neck in response and said, "Then surrender right now." Red Streaks smirked at her then and licked his lips, "I love a woman who thinks she can fight." That was all Videl needed as she yelled, "KAIOKEN!" She then shot forward like a burning red bullet and kneed him right in the groin. His head lowered in shock and Videl deactivated Kaioken before grabbing Red Streaks' head and flipping him over her shoulder. "I don't 'think', I know I can fight," Videl smugly told him. Red Streaks glared at her, then blasted beams through his eyes. Videl barely avoided the eye beams, but it gave Red Streaks a chance to get up and hit her with a Dodon Ray to her left shoulder. Videl ignored the pain and quickly blocked several punches from him.
Red Streaks then hit Videl point blank in her face with a ki ball. Videl saw only white, but there was not real pain, it was a distraction so he could get behind her and wrap her into a sleeper hold. Videl grabbed his arm and managed to keep it from choking her out, but she was struggling hard against her opponent's strength. "Just give up," he said, "Master Shen said that after he's taken over, we each get a whole country. You could be a Queen for me." Red Streaks used the hand that wasn't choking her to feel Videl up as he spoke. Videl grit her teeth as she said, "I'm a happily married woman. KAIOKEN TIMES THREE!" She then threw her arm back as hard as she could, her elbow broke Red Streaks' ribs when it hit. He let her go and she quickly kicked him as hard as she could in his stomach, sending him flying back.
Videl flew as fast as she could and stopped her perverted opponent with a reinforced elbow to his back, nearly bending him backwards in half. She finished him off by walking up and slamming her palm into his jaw hard enough to crack teeth. She then deactivated Kaioken, and the pain hit her all at once. She managed to remain standing, but her knees were shaking, and it felt like every nerve in her body was on fire. "Overused…Kaioken…too long…" she realized. She looked as her friends battled their opponents. She wasn't sure if she had gotten hers by surprise, or if Red Streaks was the weakest one, but Krillin, Yamcha, and Tien were still fighting, and although they were injuring their opponents, every blow that Shen's Androids landed was clearly hurting the Z-Warriors more than the blows Shen's Androids took.
Suddenly, she sensed a powerful ki signature coming, and recognized it. "Marron!" Videl yelled as the young girl flew past her. "Videl! Take this!" Marron yelled and tossed a senzu bean to her. Videl quickly ate it and followed Marron into the fray. The two of them powered up, and yelled, "HIT THE DIRT!" Yamcha, Tien, and Krillin all did as they said, leaving their opponents shocked and wide open as they unleashed a barrage of ki balls at them. The Androids didn't know what hit them as they were overcome by thousands of ki balls all at once.
When the smoke cleared, they were all unconscious and on the ground. Krillin, Yamcha, and Tien went to them, all of them looked beat up and exhausted. "Good job," Krillin said, "Where're Eighteen and Seventeen?" Marron answered, "With Master Roshi. He gave me some senzu beans he was saving, but there's only two left, sorry." Marron gave Krillin a senzu bean and split one between Yamcha and Tien. "That's better," Krillin said.
"DAMN YOU ALL!"
Everyone turned and saw the one that Krillin had fought getting up while Shen continued to scream. He yelled at his Androids, "UNLEASH THE ULTIMATE ATTACK!" The other Androids all stood up and the six of them floated up into the air. Shen was laughing like a madman now, it was clear that he had lost his mind, "DESTROY THEM ALL!" The six Androids lifted their right hands as they concentrated power into them all together. "Oh man," Krillin yelled, "Get ready! We all know what we need to use this time!" Everyone powered up as much as they could, together Krillin, Tien, Videl, Yamcha, and Marron all started the familiar chant, "KAA-MEE…"
The Androids' power flared out as they yelled, "ULTIMATE! DODON! RAY!" Their collective power merged into one beam that flew at the Z-Warriors.
Together the Z-Warriors defiantly yelled, "HAA-MEE-HHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!"
The two beams slammed into each other in an explosion of light that coulc be seen for miles around. Immediately, the Ultimate Dodon Ray pushed the Combination Kamehameha back. "MORE POWER!" Krillin yelled as he, Marron, Videl, and Yamcha screamed, "KAIOKEN!" The Combination Kamehameha pushed the Ultimate Dodon Ray back, but the Androids unleashed more of their power, stopping them between the two groups. After five seconds of stalemate, the Androids started to win the struggle as their attack pushed the Combination Kamehameha was pushed back once more, slower though. "EVERYTHING!" Videl screamed, "EVERYTHING WE HAVE! KAIOKEN! TIMES! FIVE!"
Yamcha, Krillin, and Marron screamed out as they did as she said, together their power multiplied by five as the Combination Kamehameha turned bright red. "IMPOSSIBLE!" The Androids' Leader screamed as the Combination Kamehameha wiped the Androids out of existence.
Videl, Krillin, Yamcha, and Marron immediately released Kaioken once the Androids were destroyed. That said, they all nearly collapsed from exhaustion, their bodies pushed far past what they could go. Videl and Tien were slightly better than the rest and glared at Shen and Tao. Videl forced herself to stand tall, her body feeling like it weighed a million tons as she said, "Surrender!" "Never!" Tao and Shen immediately yelled. Tao's right arm then fell as he pointed the cannon it hid at the Z-Warriors. "DIE!"
"DESTRUCTO-DISC!" Krillin screamed. Shen managed to jump over the buzzsaw of energy, but Tao was caught by surprise and was cut in half at the waist. Videl saw her chance and darted forward as fast as she could and slammed her elbow in Shen's face. Shen kicked her back, but the woman refused to let him get away as she yelled one more time, "KAIOKEN TIMES FIVE!" Every cell in her body cried out in agony as she darted forth like a red missile, her fists moving faster than she ever imagined as she pummeled Shen, every blow striking accurately and painfully.
Her last attack was only for five seconds, but it felt like the five most painul days of Videl's life before at last she knocked Shen through his castle with a palm strike that could destroy a tree; and finally collapsed. Her last thought before losing consciousness was, What's wrong with my heart?