Enemy Lines
KABOOM!
Trunks and Pan screamed as a mountainous sea of cosmic fire exploded behind them, like a violent volcano, erupting from the deepest, darkest, fiercest bowels of Hell. The android army fired multiple laser blasts at the two Saiyan's in a barrage of cosmic fire. Chunks of fractured gravel collapsed down on Pan's head as she and Trunks tried to use the look out tower as cover. Android 17 and 18's army grew closer as they fired.
Trunks groaned "So, anymore bright ideas?".
Pan answered "Well, I don't see any ideas shooting out from your mouth Mr. Capsule corp. president".
Trunks snapped back "Hey, less insulting, more planning".
"I've got a plan for ya" Pan said, smirking.
The androids started to circle around the fallen tower, their hyper chain blasters armed and ready to finish off the cowering Saiyans. Suddenly Pan leapt from the ground screaming as she smashed a jump kick into 17's dark haired head. Trunks regretfully followed Pan's direct attack approach, he rushed forward and head butted 18 into the ground. The fierce Saiyan boy then grabbed 17's blaster and smashed it across his face like a baseball bat.
Three 17's and an 18 leapt into the air and attacked Trunks, he raged into battle and took on all four androids at once. The fearsome, blinding speed of the warrior's fists vanished like dueling ghosts amongst the darkness of the black soaked sky. Trunks vanished in and out of fight as he fought the androids, his young muscles working overtime to keep up with the machine warriors. Pan was busy battling 2 Android 18's and one Android 17.
Pan smirked "You guys think you're hot stuff huh? Well wait do you get a load of me, HAAA".
Pan unleashed a powerful energy blast with both hands and vaporized the Android 17. Twin golden haired 18's soared towards Pan and started chasing her in the air. Long swipes and kicks flew at Pan's orange bandanna head, the girl gasped as she frantically used her small size to try and dodge all of the attacks. Android 18 reared back her black spandex leg and was about to kick Pan, the second Android 18 flashed her glowing ice blue eyes at Pan.
"Oh crud" Pan gulped.
The young female Saiyan screamed as she clutched her fingerless gloved hands over her head and ducked down. The twin Android 18's struck each other with their own moves, kicking off one head and blasting the other's off with a pair of eye beams. Pan blinked in shock as the golden blonde android heads dropped to the ground and cracked open like rotting watermelons.
Pan rubbed her nose and laughed "See, nothing to it".
But surprisingly, the headless android bodies remained ready and willing to battle Pan. The girl screamed as the headless 18 bodies struck Pan down and crashed her into the ground. The machines would let nothing stop them, not even losing a head or two. Pan cried out in pain as the twin headless android females started pummeling their steel fists into Pan's face on the ground. Trunks turned away from his furious battle to see Pan being double teamed.
Bruises and cuts started to slash open all around Pan's soft cheeks, Trunks gasped and shouted to her.
"Hold on Pan, I'm coming" Trunks said.
Green eyes flashed and a golden aura surrounded Trunks as he transformed into a Super Saiyan, temporarily blasting off the 4 androids. Trunks soared straight for Pan and crunched a powerful air born fist into one of the headless 18 androids. The android flew back and crashed into the second headless body, destroying both in a single attack. Trunks then quickly turned around and fired a double handed energy blast, destroying his 4 androids.
Pan winced a bit as Trunks helped her up, his golden glowing hair turning back to purple as he cradled Pan in his hands. The young girl blinked as she saw Trunks smiling face warmly greeting her own.
Trunks laughed "Has anyone ever told you not to bite off more then you can chew?".
Pan growled "Hey".
Trunks laughed again "Has anyone ever told you how cute you look when you bite off more then you can chew?".
Stumbled stutters escape Pan as she looked away, flashing the most adorable shade of tomato red on her bashful, blushing cheeks. Trunks simply smiled and laughed alongside his female friend.
KABLAM!
An ear shattering sonic boom exploded behind Trunks, he screamed in pain as a burst of blood sprayed forth from his shoulder. The teen dropped to the ground with a gaping wound in his left shoulder. Pan gasped and reached for Trunks, watching in horror as the dark, rose red colored blood bled through the light brown coat Trunks always looked so handsome in.
"TRUNKS NO" Pan cried out.
The thundering roar of the steel faced, skull tanks that had been accompanying the android army could be heard. The tank was sent in to take out the two Saiyans after the android soldiers failed. Another shot was fired from the tank's laser cannon, Pan gasped as huge chunk of dirt exploded in front of them. The young girl bravely defended her beloved boyfriend and stretched her arms forward. Pan planned on battling the skull tank head on.
Pan angrily snarled "You want Trunks, you're going to have to go through ME first. And I can promise you that's not going to be easy".
Powerful globes of energy formed in Pan's hands as she was planning to unleash her double Sunday attack. The massive skull tank made no attempt to move out of the way, or fire upon Pan as she charged her attack. Pan roared out all the female fury her brave, love filled heart could muster for Trunks and fired her attack. The twin energy beams struck the front of the steel tank, but instead of destroying it, the tank somehow reflected it back.
"Crud" Pan squeaked.
BOOM!
Pan's own attack was reflected back by the mirror like surface on the front of the skull tank. The young girl groaned as she dropped unconscious beside Trunks, her little body fried and burnt from the energy waves. The android army marched their mechanical footsteps towards the two fallen Saiyans. An Android 18 waved towards the skull tank, signaling it to move back as Android 17 stared down at the Saiyan teens.
Android 17 scoffed "Stupid organics, such pitiful and fragile creatures. Even if they do have Saiyan DNA".
Android 18 responded "I detect no biological fluctuations in the brain scan, both Saiyans appear to be unconscious".
Android 17 nodded "Excellent, contact Commander 19 and have him meet us here immediately. It's time for our daily sector report away".
Android 18 coldly smiled "Our productivity schedule will be increased greatly, I'll send some spyder pods in to clean up the leftovers in sector 6".
The two androids bent down to pick up the unconscious Pan and Trunks, foolishly proud of themselves over such an easy victory. A small clank was heard as a small black and blue ball rolled towards the 2 Androids. A curious Android 17 unit picked up the ball and flexed his ice colored scanning eyes into it, another Android 17 looked at it and gasped.
"ABORT, ABORT, drop it before" the black haired android said.
A massive electronic shockwave like blast erupted from the bomb like device, the androids collapsed into half liquefied, puddle like robot parts. Dark haired men and women with war torn battle suits, and fingerless gloves suddenly leapt out from behind and charged forward screaming.
A voice shouted "Throw out more EMP grenades, we can't let them get those kids".
The EMP grenades continued to rain down upon the 17 and 18 series androids. The twin sibling cyborgs screamed as they collapsed and melted into mutilated metal, the electronic magnetic pulse bombs were overloading their systems. More ragged, filthy clothed men and women rushed onto the scene and quickly grabbed Trunks and Pan. A young woman with long, hot pink hair that stretched down to her butt, shouted at the raggedy soldiers.
"You heard the general, get them out of here, we'll handle the drones" the pink haired girl said.
Two men screamed as they blasted multiple energy blasts from their gloves, striking down the Androids like bowling pins. Android 18 appeared behind a man with shaggy, long black hair mixed with red highlights in it. The shaggy haired man turned around to blast 18, but she grabbed him by the throat and jerked him off the ground, his dark green boots kicking frantically. Cold smiles painted the peach colored cheeks of 18 as she laughed at the human.
The shaggy man screamed as a loud SNAP silenced him forever, Android 18 dropped the man after breaking his neck. The shaggy man's partner, a dusty blonde haired man with a short, crew cut like style screamed in horror as he watched his friend die. The blonde man was suddenly mowed down by a barrage of blood splattering bullets and explosive energy bursts. Units from Android 17 and 18 fired twin cyber chain gun blasters at the blonde man.
The pink haired girl screamed "Merrick, Kevin, NO".
Electric sparks surged around the pink girl's mile long hair, her bare legs flexed pulsating veins from under her blue jean shorts. The pink girl fired a powerful sonic pink like energy blast from her hands and destroyed the Androids that had killed Kevin, the blonde man. The girl's commanding officer called out to her, she stopped and turned to the man's voice.
"Cease and desist Pepper, your mission is to secure the safety and security of our prisoners of war" the general said.
Pepper protested "But they killed them, we can't just".
"That's an ORDER" the general screamed.
Regretfully nodding to her commanding officer, Pepper nodded and flew into the sky after her retreating comrades. A pair of teardrops dripped from Pepper's grape colored eyes as her friends bodies lay, lifelessly on the war torn ground. The general approached the android army as they pushed the massive skull tank forward.
Android 18 laughed "Let's see you stop this one general, probability factor is at 0.2 percent, lousy odds for a mere human".
The general roared as he rushed forward and flexed out his powerful, cybernetic arm. The robotic arm plowed into the tank's mirror shield and sent it flying back at the android army. 18 and 17 screamed as their entire fleet was crushed and flattened by the flying mirror skull tank. The general smirked as he turned his short black hair to the androids, his face marching towards his comrades. Sparkling smoke fizzled from the mangled androids.
The general replied "Lousy odds indeed, oh and by the way……I'm a Saiyan, android".
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Hours later……
Pan's innocent, dove like eyes weakly flashed open as the splashing, stinging cold jabs of dripping water stirred her from her sleep. The girl groaned and rubbed her throbbing skull from under her orange bandanna.
"Ugh boy, that sure was scary, hey Trunks, you won't believe me but I just had the weirdest dream" Pan said.
But as the girl's dark, raven locks brushed against her soft, baby smooth skinned cheeks, Pan soon realized she was alone. Pan also realized that she wasn't dreaming. The room she was in was dark, dank, and dripping water leaked all over the floor. Pan was lying on a single white cot, positioned over a dim lamp that flickered under a rusty, rotting bulb and lamp shade. Pan immediately remembered the android army and those nasty tanks.
Pan gasped "Oh my gosh, Trunks was hurt, I've got to go find him".
The young Saiyan rushed to the exit and found a steel door with a single, porthole like window at the top of it. Pan grabbed the handle and grunted as it was locked. Wasting no time on ramming it, Pan blasted the door down and charged blindly into the grungy looking hallway. More dimly lit lights and leaking water cracked down from the sour, yellow colored walls. Loud rumbling came from up above, as if someone was stomping on the ground.
Pan eventually found a door marked "sick bay" and not seeing any other promising doors, she ran in. Trunks was seen lying on his back, unconscious and on top of a white cot just like the one Pan was on. She immediately ran to him and gasped as she saw bandages on Trunks shoulder. The young girl sighed and rubbed her face gently into Trunks dirty brown coat.
"Oh Trunks, poor Trunks, look what they did to you. Don't worry, I'm going to get you out of here and pay those creeps back for cutting up your shoulder" Pan said.
"Actually, we patched up his shoulder" a voice said from behind.
Pan frantically turned around and pointed her open palms forward, two yellow energy balls formed in her hands. The girl spotted a shadow lurking in the darkness, no doubt the source of that voice, and those piercing black eyes. Pan growled, fiercely protecting Trunks from the approaching shadow.
Pan snarled "You stay the hell away from Trunks, you hear me? I'm not gonna let you put so much as a finger on him you meanie".
The shadow gasped in shock, her voice stirring ancient memories within him.
The voice nervously asked "Pan? Pan is that really you? After all these years?".
Pan blinked "Huh you know me?".
The shadowy man smiled as he entered the flickering ceiling lights. The man was in his late 40's, rugged, black spiky hair, scars on his chin and near his right eyebrow. Wearing a faded white, sleeveless shirt with a blue belt, pants were dark black and had smeared military camouflage make up on them. A massive, robotic arm flexed mechanical muscles in the man's robotic left arm. Pan gasped as the man revealed his face and smiled warmly to her.
"Don't tell me you've forgotten your dear old Uncle Goten?" he said.
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To be continued……