Rescue Mission
"OW" Trunks grunted.
The boy's purple haired head bumped into a solid piece of jagged rock, the teen griping and silently cursing at the crumbling rocks above.
Trunks snorted "Pan, this is ridiculous; we should go back to the base and wait for the others".
Pan smirked "Don't be silly Trunks, we were sent here to help and that's exactly what were going to do. We can kick android butt just as good as Uncle Goten can".
Groaning as he rolled his eyes, Trunks reluctantly continued to follow as Pan scalped the staggering, blood red rocks and mountains that towered over the hellish ashes of the fallen future. Pan continued to eagerly climb higher and gaze her young eyes across the black and barren wasteland with excitement.
Trunks frowned "We can't just go chasing after weird crash landings Pan, even if the computer (groans) I mean my mother says so. This place is a war zone and the last thing we want to do is getting lost".
Pan flashed a confident victory sign to Trunks and laughed.
"With Pan on the job, nothing can go wrong" Pan said.
Trunks sighed "Pardon me if I don't hold my breath (winces) OW".
Pan pouted to Trunks as she lightly kicked his head with her leg. The young Saiyan girl returned her gaze and attention to the war torn landscape, searching for the source of the supposed crash landing. Trunks and Pan had no idea playing with Goten's central computer would alert them to something like this. While this world was still strange, violent, and twisted, the young teens still felt they could do good in this world of cybernetic war.
Trunks and Pan looked into the blackened sky, dark clouds suffocating the thundering landscape of ashes. The sun was gone forever and darkness would always remain, no matter how much time passes, a sad but truthful statement. The darkened skies however also made it much more difficult to locate any kind of aircraft or vehicle visible in the vicinity. No ships or planes could be seen on the ground, so then what was it the computer saw?
Suddenly footsteps could be heard echoing in the twisted caverns of the blood red mountains, dust trails started to kick up on the ground. Pan gasped as she saw a group of people in raggedy clothes running away from something.
"Weird, I wonder where there running off to" Pan asked.
Trunks nervously added "I'm more worried about what it is there running away from".
WHOOSH!
Massive black, spider like hovercraft spewed forth from the choking tombstone smoke of the blackened skies. The massive machines were about the size of an average speed boat, colored completely in black and armored to the teeth. The black, round head like front of the ship resembled a bowling ball with 2 bright headlight eyes for searchlights. Mechanical spider like legs could be seen huddled under the ship's belly like landing gear.
At the top of the ship, a black wire frame like railing that surrounded the top half of the spider like plane. Three Android 17's were seen piloting the insect robot as they chased after the humans.
Android 17 smirked "Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't escape me, I'm the Spyder pod man".
One of the dark haired androids smirked as his red scarf blew in the wind, reveling in the sight of the terrified humans fleeing for their lives. The 3rd Android 17 pressed a white, rectangle shaped button on the control panel that activated the spyder pod's headlights. The headlights fired powerful electrical beams out that struck a large, fat man with a short, brown, mop top. The fat man screamed as he suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Trunks and Pan gasped in horror as the man vanished in a flash of blinding, electrical light. A small white colored pearl like bead bounced on the dusty ground. Android 17 fired again and a tall man with long green hair was blasted by the beams as well, another white pearl appeared.
Pan gasped "They were turned into little white balls, this is just awful".
Trunks nervously gulped and nodded "I've never seen anything like this. Those beams somehow break down people's molecular structure, and rearrange them into those strange little white orbs. These machines……their down right barbaric".
A young woman with a crying baby frantically ran as her bare feet rushed faster and faster. The woman's brown dress was torn and littered with filth, her red hair bouncing in the cold, dark wind. More lighting beams fired from the pod's eyes as the androids continued to hunt after her.
Android 17 smiled wickedly "Game over rat brain".
ZAP!
The woman screamed as she and her crying baby were vaporized into nothingness, two white marbles dropped to the ground. Pan's energy level sky rocketed as she screamed with rage and powered up a massive glow. Trunks gasped and tried to calm her down before she gave away their location, but the furious girl ignored him and blasted off towards the pod. The Spyder pod's massive spider legs extended down to collect the pearls.
The androids seemed to covert humans into these white balls, as a means of easier transportation of their human prisoners. The triple Android 17's were preparing to blast off when a rushing target suddenly came into view.
Pan roared "Choke on this you big, fat, JERKS".
A powerful energy ball smashed into the side of the Spyder pod and created a crippling explosion, the androids gasped as the ship started to stumble. Pan screamed out as she blasted another energy blast into the ship's engines. The Spyder pod crash landed and Pan quickly rushed to attack its pilots. Pan's small leg reared back and kicked one of the Android 17's heads right off. The android skull flew back like a football and struck the other 2 androids.
Pan cheered as she liberated the spyder pod, her young voice shouting for joy. Suddenly a barrage of laser gun fire forced the girl to duck down and hide behind the ship's railings. Reinforcement androids had surrounded the fallen spyder pod and were pummeling it with a barrage of laser cannon fire. Pan squeaked as wild sparks flew across the melting railings, her eyes closed shut. Trunks suddenly screamed into view as he lunged right at the androids.
SHINK!
The capsule corp. president smirked as he watched the androids guns fall into pieces, the androids themselves soon followed. Pan gasped as the army of mechanical minions had been diced into steel plated robot pasta in a matter of seconds. Trunks smirked as he proudly displayed his half cracked crystal sword.
Pan gasped "Wow Trunks, that was the coolest thing I've ever seen".
Trunks laughed "Yeah this thing may be broken, but that doesn't mean it can't still slice and dice".
More laser fire and explosions shattered the landscape into flying, fractured chunks of burnt rubble. Trunks looked back and saw more androids approaching with even bigger blasters. Plus, a twin pair of Android 18's flying in overhead on a pair of Skybat jets. Three more Spyder pods were seen blasting off a few blocks away from where Trunks and Pan were. It seemed the skybats and the army is supposed to distract the 2 Saiyans.
Trunks pointed out to the west and told Pan to shoot down those remaining Spyder pods, while he stayed behind and battled the skybat jets. Pan nodded and soared to the heavens with the thrilling, rush of the wind blowing in her dark hair and orange bandanna. Trunks concealed his sword and smirked as he flashed his Super Saiyan powers on.
"All right androids, time someone sent you back to the scrap heap where you belong" Trunks said.
Blazing gunfire lit up the tombstone skies as the androids blasted their eye beams, laser guns, and energy blasts towards Trunks, in a roaring ocean of electronic fire and energy. Trunks simply went faster and willingly plowed into the sea of android invaders with a grin on his young face. Explosions of golden light erupted all around the stockpiles of cybernetic warriors. Android 17's and 18's were seen flying in the sky like soaring baseballs.
Trunks put his hands together and fired a devastating energy blast, Android 18 screamed as she and 4 other androids were melted by the powerful attack. Six different Android 17 and 18's dog piled onto Trunks and started pummeling their robotic hands into him. More golden flashes bleed through the colossal mass of false flesh and electronic tissue. Trunks blasted the androids off him as if he were a living volcano made of gold and electricity.
Android 18 smirked as she jammed a blasted into Trunks back and fired at point blank range. The blistering smoke of the laser gunfire engulfed Trunks and the blonde bot in a sea of fog, but Android 18 gasped to see no sign of the teen when she ceased firing. The female android screamed as she turned around firing madly, hoping to shoot Trunks from wherever he was hiding. The golden haired teen laughed and appeared in front of 18's ice blue eyes.
Android 18 gulped as an energy blast was stuffed into her jaws by Trunks brown gloved hand. The android exploded and Trunks simply battled on, his sights now set on the oncoming skybat jets that were heading towards Pan's direction.
"I don't think so" Trunks said.
Meanwhile, Pan chased after the fleeing Spyder pods as she fired blast after blast, filling the sky with dozens of energy blasts and exploding particles. The androids desperately tried to shoot back as they swerved and soared in circles to avoid Pan's attacks.
Android 18 snarled "Enemy target in my sight, preparing to terminate".
The female fighter pilot flipped open her blaster control panel and eagerly pressed down on the red and green buttons in order to fire upon Pan.
KABOOM!
Pan looked behind at the blinding explosion from 18's vaporized skybat jet. Trunks had cleverly tossed random androids into the sky at random, hoping and praying they would strike the skybat jets and destroy them before Pan could be hit.
Pan smiled and flashed Trunks a thumbs up "Thanks a bunch Trunks, I can take it from here".
Trunks nodded "Show em what you're made of Pan, I'll be right here if".
Trunks suddenly cut his sentence short; the whirring sound of grinding gears alerted his attention elsewhere. A massive black machine was sparking wildly and gushing out chunks of steam and air choking fumes. The two Android 17's that Pan had knocked off were trying to restart the spyder pod she had grounded. But what was even worse, the spyder pod was seemingly only being tilted upward slightly, aiming their eye blasters into the sky.
"Oh no, there going to shoot Pan out of the sky. PAN, GET OUT OF THERE NOW" Trunks screamed.
Pan blinked as she couldn't make out what Trunks was saying, the powerful rush and force of the wind blowing on her soft cheeks and dark hair grew stronger as she flew higher. Android 17 cackled as he fired the lighting energy beams towards Pan as Trunks frantically raced after her.
Pan blinked "Huh? Say what's that GAHHHH".
Pan screamed as the beam struck her dead on, her young, powerful little body spasmed wildly. The young girl cried out as her voice started to grow weaker and weaker. Trunks screamed as he watched in horror Pan's transformation, the girl vanished in a blinding sea of cybernetic light and bone chilling screams. Pan was transformed into a small, white pearl.
Android 17 laughed from below "Ha, bull's eye, that's one Saiyan piece of trash we won't have to worry about anymore".
Trunks growled "You're not going to have to worry about anything anymore tin man, BURNING ATTACK".
Trunks rapidly jerked his brown suited arms in a series of rapid movements, his Super Saiyan green eyes glaring hatefully at the sight of the dark, ice eyed android soldier. A powerful energy ball was fired from Trunks hands. Android 17 gasped and quickly turned to escape the oncoming blast, his android team mate stumbled and tripped over his green socks and blue sneakers. The attack vaporized both androids and the spyder pod instantly.
Trunks panted as he watched dozens of small white pearls rain down from the mangled remains of the spyder pod. The Saiyan then groaned and slapped himself, almost forgetting about Pan. Trunks flared into full speed and quickly dove to the ground to catch Pan's falling white orb. He grunted in pain as skid marks raked across his face, grinding face down into the dirt with his hands outstretched. Trunks sighed with relief as he caught the pearl.
"Hoo boy……sorry about that Pan, heh, I think I've had as much of this vacation as I can take" Trunks panted.
CLICK!
Silver barrels flashed in front of Trunks diamond blue eyes, his grape colored hair locks dripping with sweat at sight of the army of cyber gun barrels. Androids 18 and 17 were around every corner of Trunks eyes, he was completely surrounded.
Trunks groaned "Oh give me a break for crying out loud".
"DESTRUCTO DISC"
KERSHINK!
The androids heads suddenly fell backwards and left sparking holes, and fried wires in their places. Trunks blinked as the watched the androids bodies collapse onto their backs. Something had just decapitated the android army in one, swift move; Trunks rubbed his face with confusion. Expecting to see a war torn, futuristic version of Krillin standing over him, Trunks turned his head back and smiled. The boy however was clearly mistaken.
A young, child like voice laughed "Hey how's it going Trunks, ha, ha, that's a funny place to take a nap".
Trunks eyes bulged as he gasped "What the? GOKU? Is that really you?".
----------------------------------------
To be continued……