Flesh and Steel

The sadistic twisted smirk spiraling on undead lips caused a spine tingling shiver in Goten's blood to freeze, he winced, feeling its icy pick drill into the back of his spine and fill his heart with malice and despair. He felt so sick……so sick and cold. Gohan looked like a twisted abomination of science and sin, a monstrosity raped and contorted from the once peaceful and loving brother that Goten had once known; now only a ghost remained.

A loud clank echoed the body soaked streets as blood ran like rivers across the battlefield of tears and shattered dreams. Human bodies stacked like dominos, burnt with blast marks and scorched scents of melting flesh rotted into the sky's already suffocating blackness and poisonous smog.

"In the name of all that is holy, what have they done to you?" Goten whispered.

The general voice was as frail and cold as his heart, the sight of his brother's gentle face being carelessly paraded like a disgusting Halloween mask was revolting to say the least.

Gohan laughed "Come now brother……don't tell me you're disgusted with the very same technology that helped you and Piccolo survive".

Piccolo replied "You are not Gohan……not my Gohan".

The cyborg laughed once more "Your pitiful sentimentality is not becoming of you Piccolo. You taught me better, only now the teacher has become the student. Or more accurately, the student is now you're superior".

Goten screamed "SHUT UP! You're nothing more then a puppet, a degenerating piece of flesh and blood that's been attached to a robot body like some sadistic hood ornament".

Piccolo nodded "He's right, they may have brought your mind back to life, but the real Gohan is dead and gone".

"As soon will be his comrades" Gohan hissed.

Raging energy waves surged like rippling tidal waves amongst Piccolo's mechanical, turbine engine like arms. Power began to generate inside the Namek's artificial limbs. Such pain and sorrow painted the green alien's eyes as he loathed the idea of killing the boy who had taught his hollow heart the meaning of love. The only difference was that Piccolo knew that boy was dead.

Piccolo frowned "Special beam mach cannons FIRE".

Spiraling devil colored energy beams drilled like satanic corkscrews towards the snickering, sadistic smiling abomination of metal and flesh once known as Gohan.

KABOOM!

An ear slicing explosion engulfed Gohan's twisted steel body in a raging sea of insidious destruction and utter oblivion. Gohan's shimmering body glittered like a silver bell on Christmas Eve, his robot form completely void of any type of damage. Piccolo gasped at the horror of seeing his attack proved to be utterly useless and completely harmless.

Gohan snarled "My turn".

SPLAT!

Before the pain of death could even sink in, Piccolo felt a crushing force of cold steel crush around his very flesh. A gurgling gallon of purple blood squirted from his body in a second of pain and silence.

Goten screamed "NO".

Gohan bitterly replied "Don't interrupt my FUN brother".

A powerful buster beam vibrated from Gohan's cybernetic fist, blasting Goten to the ground and silencing the sobbing cyborg Sayian in a cloud of dirt and bitter tasting blood.

"Gohan" Piccolo weakly replied.

The wounded Namek dropped to his quaking purple knees, feeling the cold, icy fingers of Gohan's robotic fist being savagely removed from his stomach. The crackling, splashing sound of rotted fruit echoed painfully in Piccolo's long ears as his chest was impaled.

"Resistance is futile organic trash, may you rot in the sodomizing bowels of hell along with the rest of god's insignificant creations" Gohan coldly said.

SHINK! SLICE!

Gohan shattered Piccolo's left robotic arm and carried the sparking, bleeding bionic appendage like a base ball bat. The Namek's sliced limb was then slit across his very throat. Piccolo gurgled incoherent jabbering amongst the taste of his purple blood gushing from his fanged lips. Gohan had slit Piccolo's throat with his own steel tipped fingers. The Namekian warrior dropped to the ground, broken, shattered, and dead……Gohan just laughed.

Rage boiled like a fiery venom in Goten's trembling legs, family and love disappeared from the cold hard depths of his mind like a memory long since past. The fallen general fell not for his brother's hollow face, Goten's eyes burned too brightly with passionate hatred and pain to even care anymore.

Cyborg Gohan grinned "Now you will die as well".

Goten frowned "So be it, but I'm taking you with me".

The bitter waves of agony crashed down upon Gohan like a thundering roller coaster, Goten unleashed vicious blow after vicious blow. Goten's mechanical arm bashed violently into his brother's, sickening, mockery of a face with every ounce the young general could muster. Golden rays flashed upon Goten's spiky black hairlines as he turned into a Super Saiyan. Gohan grunted and fell back, hammered by the marauding general's relentless fists.

Goten then reared back his cybernetic arm and crushed a jaw smashing swipe across Gohan's human jaw and fleshy face. A faint flicker of dried blood, mixed with slime like oil dribbled from the bitter snarling lips of the skinned head of Gohan. The cyborg frowned and jammed both his mechanical knuckles into the center of Goten's chest. Powerful energy beams burst out of Goten's back as his chest was literally blown wide open.

The super Saiyan glow on Goten's hair faded as his teal eyes turned back to black. Goten dropped to the floor unable to utter, move, or breath outside of the garbling gobs of blood that violently splashed out of his horrified jaws and gaping chest wounds. Gohan smirked as he stared down upon Goten.

"Say good bye brother dear" Gohan said.

"Papa?" a dove like voice said.

The curious, tender sounding voice of the young female angel that so innocently called out to her sinister, cybernetic monstrosity of a father, trembled as it spoke. Pan and Trunks stared in mortified horror too powerful or crippling to even begin to imagine. Gohan turned and smiled at them.

"Well, well, if it isn't daddy's little girl" Gohan said.

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Meanwhile back in space……

The cold, chilling gasps of vacating air crystallized around Vegeta's breathing mask, endless shadows of shapeless nightmares dance upon the starless sky as he raced deeper into its vacuous belly. The thrilling, burning flames bursting from the quartet of nuclear missiles brought no warmth or light to the dismal situation that lay within the prince's mission.

"I've done so much wrong in this world" Vegeta said.

The prince's white gloved fists burst into one of the missiles compartments, shattered metal cracks and crunches under the pressuring force of Vegeta's fist. Vegeta was trying to access the nuclear missile's core directly.

"If there is a God then please listen close, I do not deserve your praise nor your prayers, the ghosts of my past have remained a stain on my spirit. Even after all I have fought for, all that I have lost, and all that I have yet to lose please……let me succeed" Vegeta begged.

One of the 4 missiles started to veer off to the far right, another started to spiral downward back towards the Earth. Vegeta crushed to the center and spread his arms and legs out like a spider on a torture rack.

CRANK!

Vegeta violently jammed his fists into 2 of the missiles compartments, his legs and feet into 2 others. The roaring winds of the space filled sky started to freeze the metallic confines of Vegeta's breathing mask. Vegeta screamed as the mask shattered and broke apart, revealing a ghastly skeletal grin and mouth. The missiles were forcefully trying to separate with Vegeta in them.

"I will not die a monster; I will die as the role I have always been destined to follow. Not a warrior, not a prince……but an Earthling……goodbye my son……and farewell……Goku" Vegeta said.

The valiant Saiyan screamed like the devil himself was clawing at his very soul; a golden Super Saiyan flash engulfed Vegeta and surrounded his limbs and muscles.

KABOOM!

The missiles erupted with a gargantuan explosion of radioactive and epic proportions; the sky was set ablaze from the radioactive fire and atomic cinders of charred flesh and melted metal.

Vegeta was dead.

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The tiny Saiyan Goku lunged forward and slammed his fists into Gero's, his elderly; open palms grasped Goku's hands and clenched them tightly. The dark and wicked doctor growled savagely as he locked eyes, fists, and glares with his most hated and loathsome of enemies. Goku's Super Saiyan 3 hair sparkled wildly as rage boiled vividly in the warriors clashing bodies.

"Twin wolves" Gero laughed.

Goku blinked "What did you say?".

Gero laughed again "Were just like twin wolves Goku, you and I. They say that when 2 wolves meet upon a field of death, their souls become locked forever, sealed away in a memory that will never leave and never fade. They are doomed to repeat that fight until the end of time, two old warriors, destined to fight a never ending battle across time, space, and death.

You and I Goku, WE are those twin wolves, we are eternal enemies, and I have enjoyed every minute of making your life a living hell".

Goku frowned "You're a monster".

Gero replied "And who is the REAL monster here? The alien that made the monster, or the monster that made the alien? It's no surprise after all these years, all this time, you would look exactly the way you did when you first destroyed the Red Ribbon Empire. Decades later, and we have remained here to do battle, again and again and again, its destiny Goku……destiny".

Goku cried out "No, I won't let my Saiyan heritage kill anymore people, and I won't let you destroy my family and friends like you destroyed Planet Earth".

Gero laughed "Take a look down there Goku, your family's already dead, at the hands of your first born son no less".

Horror swelled up in Goku's eyes as his green glowing orbs stared down upon the battlefield, his heart turned black and cracked apart. He saw Gohan……and he saw Pan was there too.

"Papa? Papa? What happened to you? What's going on?" Pan whimpered.

The innocent little girl could barely speak, her little heart trembled while her eyes dribbled tears of confusion. Such terror and pain in those dove like eyes, such fear brewing from the sight of her loving and caring father. Pan never feared her father, never……now she's more scared of him then death itself.

Gohan grinned "Don't worry sweetheart……it will all be over so very soon".

Trunks gasped "Pan get the hell away from him".

The purple haired boy grabbed Pan and jerked her behind his brown coat, Trunks spread his arms and immediately defended Pan.

"Trunks? Papa? What are you doing? Please tell me what's going on" Pan said, slowly starting to cry.

"He's not your father anymore" Trunks said.

Suddenly Lance and Pepper leapt in front of Trunks and flashed on their synthetic super Saiyan glows, their pink and blue auras shined vibrantly with raw energy. Gohan smiled evilly and cracked his mechanical knuckles.

"Trunks, grab Pan and run away from here as fast as you can. We'll hold him off as long we can" Lance said.

"That's suicide! I won't do it, you can't just expect me to" Trunks said.

"I said get out of here" Lance screamed.

Without another word or glance, Trunks nodded and quickly turned away, holding Pan ever so tightly in his arms and running with tears burning in his eyes. The Saiyan teen never looked back and he preyed Pan did the same.

Gohan growled "Death waits for no Saiyan, they won't escape me".

Lance snapped back "Not unless you get past us first".

The young man rose from the ground and attacked the cyborg Gohan, Lance's neo force burned as brightly as a solar flare. The brave and powerful warrior heard shattering clangs as his fists and feet struck Gohan's cyborg body, Lance gasped as Gohan seemed unaffected by his attacks. Gohan grabbed 1 of Lance's legs and loudly snapped it by twisting his wrist. Lance screamed as the bone was shattered, Gohan quickly broke his other leg.

The cyborg monster then hurled Lance towards a large wall and laughed as the hero bounced his head off the wall. Pepper gasped in horror as blood stained the back of Lance's head, he remained on the ground lifeless.

Pepper screamed "You son of a bitch!".

The pink haired girl jammed her delicate fists into the ground and sent a tidal wave sized plasma thunder attack directly into the Earth. Cyborg Gohan laughed as the lighting attack struck his body, the electricity actually recharged his body rather then damage it. Pepper's neck was suddenly snared in a series of steel wire ropes fired from Cyborg Gohan's metal fingers. The robot general then unleashed high voltage into those wire ropes.

Pepper screamed as the devastating shock fried her body inside and out. Gohan yanked the once feisty and spunky female warrior towards his iron foot, and savagely kicked her across the field to lie beside her fallen boyfriend, Lance.

Lance and Pepper had failed.

The frantic and frightened Trunks and Pan continued to run towards the exit of this abominable graveyard, tears dripping from their eyes, their hands held tight and shaking nervously.

"Trunks, where are we going, we can't just leave grandpa and my papa. We've got to go back" Pan begged.

"Gohan's gone Pan, there's nothing more we can do for him. We'll come back for Goku as soon as we can though, I promise" Trunks said.

Suddenly a huge dark shadow emerged in front of the broken gates, Trunks and Pan screamed and jumped back.

"Ya'll are gonna pay mighty dearly for what you've done to me" Android 13 scowled.

The ruthless, redneck android had survived his previous fight with Lance and Pepper, 13 growled at the Saiyan teens as he stood staggering before them, operating what remained of his shambling, broken Gigabot. Pan and Trunks stepped back as the lurching robot suit raised a single mighty fist.

"Adios me amigos" 13 said.

"Hyper Masenko HA!"

KABOOM!

Cyborg Gohan's forearms converted into bazooka like energy cannons, they fired and instantly vaporized Android 13 and Gigabot in a phenomenal explosion. Trunks and Pan gasped as the clanging, shattered remains of the robot suit rained down around them like snow flakes. Cyborg Gohan scowled bitterly at the Saiyan teens as he stormed towards them.

"I don't believe it……papa……your OKAY. I knew you'd save us" Pan squealed.

The young girl eagerly leapt from the ground and ran running towards her father. Trunks gasped and reached out to grab her, begging for her to come back.

"Stupid organic" Gohan said.

WHAM!

Pan cried out as blood and bruises formed on her soft, delicate cheek. The girl dropped to the ground and held her face in tear drenched horror. Pan's father just smacked her across the face.

"Do you really think I'd willingly save a rat brain like yourself? That cowboy hick was meddling in my business, it is I who have the right to terminate you Saiyan scum and I alone. Now it's your turn" Gohan said.

"You leave her alone right now" Trunks screamed.

Trunks leapt forward and turned Super Saiyan, he smashed his fist right into Gohan's face. Gohan laughed and swatted Trunks away like a fly. Pan gasped and quickly ran to Trunks, Gohan suddenly vanished into thin air.

"Trunks, oh my god are you all right?" Pan asked.

Suddenly Gohan appeared right behind Pan, Trunks eyes widened in horror.

"Pan, for the love of god, NO" Trunks begged.

Before the young girl could even blink, Gohan wrapped his steel forearms around her neck, Pan squeaked and gargled at the feel of cold metal around her neck. Gohan's eyes widened with twisted delight as he laughed aloud.

"Now sing for daddy" Gohan said.

CRACK!

Pan's neck was snapped, her eyes went blank as her voice went silent. Trunks simply stared as Gohan released her body, Pan dropped face down on the ground……motionless, voiceless……and lifeless.

Pan was dead.

Trunks choked "No…….no……NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".

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To be continued……