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"Poor 17" Android 16 said, picking up the pieces of his former friend. There were two android 17s, but he knew which pieces belonged to which. "Now that Dr. Mew and Dr. Gero are gone for good, no will be controlling 17 anymore," he said rounded up the pieces and setting them on the table, "I think it's fair that he gets a chance to amend the damage he has done. I know he didn't want to kill 18's husband or 18 for that matter. In any case I could easily shut him down if he tries to get out of hand." 16 set off to work, putting the pieces in the proper places and putting in more circuits to compensate for the human parts of him that were destroyed or burned to ashes. 16 knew that 17 would be less human now, but he would try his best to keep 17's emotions intact and never tell him about his additional machinery so that 17 would be the same as he was before he was taken over. 16 also destroyed his brain chip as to insure that no one would ever be able to control him ever again. 18 didn't need her chip removed, she had almost succumbed to the control but when Krillin spoke to her, because of her love for him, her chip was destroyed and she snapped out of it. Unfortunately, 17 wasn't so lucky.

It took 16 about two years to fix 17 and activate him once more. 17's eyes flickered open. He had a confused expression on his face. He remembered every single thing that happened when he was being controlled, and he also knew that Goku and 18 had destroyed him. He could not understand how he was alive. "Hello my friend," 16 said looking down on 17 who was lying on the table 16 had set his pieces two years ago.

"16?" 17 said shocked, "where am I?"

"My house," 16 said, "I found your body in pieces and I decided to fix you up and rebuild you."

"Why did you do that? You know what I did don't you?"

"I also know that you were under the control of Dr. Gero, Dr. Mew, and an exact replica of you from hell," 16 said, "everything you did was out of your control. Thanks like blaming yourself for what Cell did. Cell absorbed you, you were powerless against it. It's the same thing with this situation."

17 sighed knowing that it was true, but he couldn't help but feel remorse. "I wish there was something I could do to apologize for everything I did…"

"And amend yourself?" 16 said finishing his sentence.

"Exactly," 17 said.

"Well there's a way," 16 said.

"What! Tell me I wanna do it!" 17 said excitedly.

"Ok, well the only threat that Goku actually got rid of on his own was Frieza. With Vegeta and the Saiyans, Goku got help, or rather sacrifices, from Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien, Chiatzu, Krillin, and even Gohan; with Cell, Goku sacrificed himself and Gohan was the one who defeated him; with Majin Buu, Goku got the idea from Vegeta and the power from the people of Earth; with Baby, Goku got power from Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Pan, who were brought back by Kapito-Kai; and with Omega Shenron, Goku again got power from Gohan, Goten, and Trunks, help from Vegeta, and power from all over the universe," 16 started, "you see Goku saved the universe plenty of times, but he had help. Even Hercule Satan helped out! I think dangers and threats will always attack this planet and Goku cannot be left alone to deal with it himself."

"What can we do about it," 17 said not understanding 16's point, "they're all gonna age and die eventually, and I doubt their great-grandkids will be as strong as them."

"Which is exactly my point," 16 said, "to amend yourself why don't you give Goku and all his friends eternal youth so that they could defend the universe and train new defenders for the rest of eternity."

"That sounds amazing but how the hell am I gonna do that?" 17 said thinking that 16 must be malfunctioning.

16 pulled out a jar with red light inside, "this is a special power called eternal flame," 16 said. "I will pour the light on you and you will not only get eternal youth but you'll also have the power to give others eternal youth."

"Really?" 17 said incredulously, "I just like point my finger at them, say eternal flame, and hit them with the light and they get eternal youth?"

"Exactly!" 16 said, "once it's in their bodies it stays in the bloodstream and is passed on to their children and so on and so forth."

"Okay so who do I start with?" 17 said getting excited about the idea.

"Start with the youngest of the fighters and move on up to Goku, he'll be last."

"Yes but the youngest is like 15, I'm pretty sure she won't wanna stay 15 forever," 17 said.

"She won't stay 15," 16 said, "she'll grow up to her adult form and then stay that way."

"What is the adult form?"

"About 25 to 30 years old. Just like Goten or Trunks," 16 explained.

"What if they're older than that?" 17 said.

"Then their bodies will return to the state they were in at that age and they will stay that way," 16 said getting ready to open the bottle, "do you understand everything?"

"Yes, but let's make a list of everybody before I head out," 17 said.

"Of course, are you ready?"

17 nodded and 16 opened the bottle and poured the red light into 17's mouth. 17 swallowed and his whole body started gleaming. The few wrinkles that were barely visible under his eyes vanished and the two strands of grey hair he had on his head turned pitch black. 17 smiled at his success and said, "okay 16 let's make the list!"

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