Status Report
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Pan squealed as her body suddenly materialized back into her original shape. The young girl rubbed her orange bandanna, groaning at the feeling of singed smoke wavering off her body.
"Ugh, now I know what a baseball feels like" Pan grumbled.
Back at the resistance base, Lance was able to reverse the energy flow from the spyder's pods rays and restore Pan back to normal. Meanwhile Pepper smiled sweetly to the handsome Trunks as she placed a senzu bean into his lips.
Pepper smirked "Now cheer up cutie, you'll feel loads better in a minute".
Trunks smiled as he chewed on the green bean, thanking the stars that Goten and the others had managed to genetically duplicate the beans for harvesting. In a flash all of Trunks wounds, cuts, and bruises vanished as the young teen felt better then ever.
Goku laughed "Wow you guys sure got some cool gizmos here in the future, I've never seen anything like em".
The pink haired young woman smirked and toyfully wrapped her delicate, slender arms around Lance's neck. Pepper's star cheek rubbed against Lance as he blushes a most embarrassed shade of red.
"That's just because Lance here is a certified genius, we wouldn't have half these toys if it wasn't for old blue here. He really is one sharp little cutie, a little stiff, but cute none the less" Pepper giggled.
Lance silently groaned "Pepper PLEASE……you know I hate it when you do that".
Pepper laughed "Oh you love it and you know it".
The electric colors in Pepper's hair flashed with small gobs of bright energy, increasing as her heartbeat elevated. Pepper kissed Lance on the cheek and smiled at her stiff companion. Though she teased him and was quite the tease herself, Pepper clearly thought the world of Lance, and even though he'll never admit it, Goku could tell that he felt the same way about her.
Pan blinked "Say what? Grandpa, is that you? You're a kid AGAIN?".
Goku nervously laughed "Yeah well it's uh kind of a long story".
"One that I'm sure we'd all love to hear dad" a voice said from behind.
Goku and the others turned to see General Goten and his cyborg commandos, Piccolo and Vegeta standing firmly behind him. Goku laughed and waved to his old friends, despite their obvious physical changes.
Goku smiled "Long time no see son, I heard about your arm, sorry I didn't arrive here sooner".
Piccolo chuckled "Same old Goku. Doesn't matter if it's 25 or a 100 years, you're still the same old you. An improvement over that brainless beast that's still causing trouble for both sides".
Vegeta scoffed behind his air mask "An embarrassment to all Saiyans, that creature has no respect for anyone or anything".
Goten firmly cut in "Perhaps explanations are best left for another time, right now I've got a bone to pick with you two".
The angry general was pointing his mechanical arm at Trunks and Pan, they gulped and suddenly remembered that they had snuck out and broken the rules. Goten's scowling, scarred face glared ferociously at his niece.
"Vegeta will fill you in on the rest dad, everyone except for Trunks and Pan can leave the room. There's an issue here that seriously needs to be discussed" Goten said.
Goku shrugged and hopped off the medical table Trunks and Pan were sitting on, his monkey tail wagging a bit as he approached Vegeta. The spiky haired Saiyan nearly gasped at sight of the mechanical mask attached to Vegeta's face.
The small Goku blurted out "Whoa what's with the hockey mask Vegeta?".
The prince growled "Just shut the hell up and get over here pipsqueak".
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Meanwhile……
"Must tell master……must tell master……must BZZT tell master" Android 19 squeaked.
The frantic android continued to babble his terrified ranting, screaming in pain every so often as wild sparks continued to fly from his open arm wound. After being completely humiliated and defeated in combat, Android 19 felt he had no choice but to run back to home base and tell his master what had happened. A towering pair of skyscraper sized steel walls soon came into view, the Red Ribbon army logo was painted on each wall.
Hundreds of cameras, mirror tanks and skybat jets stormed the front gates of the fortress of the machine empire. Android 18 and 17 units stood firmly placed at the front of the main gate, their arms loaded with massive sized energy blasters. Android 19 was halted by the sentry units as he approached.
Android 17 coldly demanded "Identify yourself".
Android 19 scowled "Just open the gates you fool".
The twin sibling cyborgs scanned over Android 19's ice blue eyes, confirming the synthetic retina scan and nodding in agreement. The gates slowly opened and Android 19 rushed into the machine base. Thousands of factories could be seen for miles and miles, android storm troopers marched at every corner. Machines building machines, repairing them, upgrading them, everywhere you looked there were endless amounts of machines.
Massive satellite dishes spun around as skybat jets circled above them with glaring red eye sensor lights. Android 18 waved red flashing lights as she signaled down a patrol of spyder pods, the black machines followed the lights and slowly landed. The white pearls were unloaded and taken to another factory where the androids put the captured humans into slavery. Screams of pain and agony echoed from the factory, so incredibly painful.
Mirror tanks roared past Android 19, another battalion of Android 18's was seen firing their energy chain guns at a blank wall. The testing ranges for the androids new weapons. Another factory with massive large, brown compress plates was seen churning out android storm troopers. The compress plates went down and clanged into each other, puffs of steam and light flashed from the plates. They removed to reveal a newly completed Android 17.
More and more androids were churned out as the armada of the machine empire grew stronger and larger with every passing minute, a truly unstoppable force of metal and steel. Android 19 quickly brushed past the guarding Android 17 units, racing to the top of the master tower. A colossal building that stretched to the black stained heavens. The building's top was a steel plated skull with bat wings jutting out of the side, serving as antenna.
At the very top of this tower, above the skull, was a skybox just below the infamous RR logo. This skybox belonged to none other then the ruling force behind the Red Ribbon Empire, the one known only as……Mastermind.
"MASTER, MASTER, I must speak to you at once, I must. Its Commander 19, I'm here to give you my full status report, it's quite urgent" Android 19 said.
The white faced android however was speaking to the back of a large, black leather chair with the RR logo printed on it, but painted in black and silver. The being in the chair refused to face Android 19 and simply stared out at the black scorned sky, his ice blue eyes squinting at his mechanical empire.
"It's about time Commander 19, it's been exactly 2 hours, 46 minutes and 239 seconds since I was last informed of our progress. Your behind schedule" Mastermind said.
19 gulped "Apologies sir but Android squad T-5034 was correct sir, the new intruders are indeed Saiyans".
Mastermind hummed "So I see, and you're certain that these were new Saiyans?".
The pale faced robot nodded and replied "Yes sir".
The dark master smirked "How interesting, the probability of such a thing happening is precisely 3 million, 428,000 and 500 to one".
Android 19 continued "Yes sir, even I could not have expected a full blooded Saiyan and a half blood to show up both at the same time".
"WHAT?" Mastermind screamed.
19 cringed in fear as his dark master turned around and bashed his fist into his table, a colossal crunch formed in the fractured metallic table. Android 19 gasped wide eyed at his enraged master.
"The report said there was only TWO Saiyan's and that they were only half bloods, nothing was ever mentioned of a pure blood" Mastermind shouted.
The Asian android gulped "Error sir, 3rd Saiyan just arrived today, was caught in the company of the two other half bloods reported earlier. This new Saiyan is a pure blood".
Mastermind screamed "Impossible! We've been controlling this planet for over 20 years and no trace of any pure blooded Saiyan has ever been found. The only pure bloods in our records are Vegeta and that blasted ape creature, so where in blazes did this new one come from?".
Android 19 nervously replied "Does not compute master, we have no idea. B-b-b-but I think its imp-p-p-ortant for you to know the new S-s-saiyan is".
"CEASE YOUR MALFUNCTIONING AND GET ON WITH IT" Mastermind howled.
The android squealed in terror "It's Goku, It's Goku, the primary target my master, it's Goku, he's here, now".
Mastermind simply stared at Android 19 and gasped at the sound of that accursed, legendary name. The name that has haunted the deepest, darkest corners of Mastermind's nightmares ever since Goku vanished 25 years ago. This was not that stupid beast that had destroyed the sun, no, this was the real Goku, the one that destroyed the Red Ribbon army not once, but twice. The most hated enemy of both his predecessors, Dr. Gero and Dr. Wrath.
Mastermind turned around and examined Android 19, noticing his arm had been completely destroyed. Android 19 was also reported to have been traveling with Android 14 at the time. Since Android 14 was no where in sight and Goku was reported to be in the area, Mastermind had already suspected it was Goku who destroyed both Android 14 and 19's arm. The dark being had great plans for this world and they were nearing completion.
If Goku has truly returned to this world, then Mastermind must hurry and complete his master plan before it is too late. There is too much at stake for Mastermind to let an old enemy stop him now. Mastermind clicked his mechanical fingers into his central desk keyboard and brought up a small monitor and a radio box.
"Patch me to the Gearworks factory, and send for my lieutenant" Mastermind said.
The monitor flashed to life as a televised image of a young, white haired man with a yellow, trucker style cap over his head. The man was Android 13 and he was inside what appeared to be some kind of mechanics factory.
"You wanted to see me sir?" Android 13 asked.
Mastermind replied "I want a status update on the Gigabot project".
13 nodded "Absolutely sir. We've got 17, and 18 units working round the clock and the new human arrivals are already being hog tied into furthering our work force. But were a little bit short handed thanks to those darn tooting rebels that keep rescuing our human slaves, it's slowing us down".
The dark lord growled "I don't care, just get it done. I want you to triple your efforts and work overtime, even if you have to work those humans into a pile of bones, I want it finished ASAP".
The red neck android nodded and flashed off the monitor screen. Android 19 stepped back as another being entered the room, it was a hulking, stone faced, giant of a man with a Frankenstein face and coal black hairstyle. There was a tiny scar under one of the brute's eyelids; his clothes were just as dull and grim as his personality. It was none other then Android 8.
"It's about time Lieutenant 8, we've got a serious problem on our hands, I think you can appreciate that" Mastermind said.
The silent, stone faced android said nothing and just grunted in response.
Mastermind smirked "Good, I want you to send Android 15 to the bio-chemical plants in Sector 4. Sensors indicate organic life forms have been sneaking around there. After that, dispatch a squad of mirror tanks along with a few android battalions to the Spyder pod depot. I want you to personally ensure that all slave orders are delivered without interference".
Android 8 said "It shall be done, for the glory of the Red Ribbon Empire".
The Frankenstein faced android turned and left, signaling for Android 15 and preparing to depart to the spyder pod depot as ordered. Mastermind roared angrily as he smacked Android 19 in the face with a desk lamp.
"You moron! Get out of my sight and get your sorry ass repaired immediately. And if anymore errors happen to occur during your watch Commander 19, I'm going to reprogram you into a waste disposal unit. Now LEAVE" Mastermind screamed.
Android 19 squealed in terror before running out the door in fear, Mastermind groaned and returned his ice cold gaze to the graveyard of metal he called an empire. The scope of the planet lay within this monster's grasp and he need only to crush one little boy in order to ensure absolute victory.
Mastermind grinned "All the pieces have finally fallen into place. With Goku here, I can finally extract my revenge on him and the rest of his filthy Saiyan comrades. And soon this world and every last organic creature on it will fall before the supreme might of the invincible Red Ribbon Empire".
HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!
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To be continued……