What if Piccolo had killed Android Twenty:

Vegeta laughed as he watched his blast soar through the skies. Down it came, looming over the fat android running for its artificial life. Vegeta felt absolutely no pity for it. It was his enemy, and he was going to kill it, no matter how weak it was compared to him.

The blast struck. The android screamed, but the sound of it was soon replaced with the rupture of Super Saiyan Vegeta's "Big Bang Attack". As the smoke of the aftermath cleared, Vegeta and the other Z Fighters observed the outcome: metal shards, now only useless scrap lay about the now blasted field, and the severed head of the white android; who had been known as Nineteen.

Vegeta laughed again and slowly hovered to the ground. The others watched on in awe as the new Super Saiyan relaxed. He sighed and his glow faded. He had returned to his base state. Vegeta turned and looked at the partner of the android he had just annihilated: Android Twenty. 'I've lost a lot of energy,' Vegeta said to the android. 'Now's your chance to defeat me, go ahead… come at me.'

The android just stood there in frustration wondering what kind of trick Vegeta was playing at. He clenched his robotic fist in rage.

Vegeta clearly had no patience for twenty. 'Come on!' he said annoyed. 'You yourself said that I had no hope. I can't imagine why. What did you mean?'

Twenty was even more frustrated now. He felt like striking, but his brain advised him against it. He let out a small laugh. 'Only that you may be more powerful than we calculated,' the android said replying to Vegeta's question. 'But you will always be far less powerful than us.'

Vegeta let out a snort signaling his disgust and amusement. 'Yeah,' he said. 'Well, I just think you're being a sore loser you robotic piece of shit.'

Twenty just stood there staring at the Saiyan. There was nothing he could do, except for one thing. In a split second, Android Twenty jumped in the air and retreated away from them at full speed.

'Hey!' Krillin, one of the Z Fighters yelled. 'He's getting away!'

Vegeta ignored the retreating android he now knew was a coward. 'Hey!' he yelled at Krillin. 'Give me a Senzu Bean!'

Krillin stood there unsure what to do. Vegeta had been their enemy for a long time, and now that he was their ally, it just seemed to confuse the matters.

'Do it now!' Vegeta yelled. 'Do you want the bastard to get away!?'

It was then when Piccolo, a Namekian and one of the more powerful of the Z Fighters stepped in. 'Krillin,' Piccolo said. 'Give it to him.'

With Piccolo's orders, Krillin had no choice, although he was comforted by Piccolo's assurance. Piccolo was after all, the only one of them besides a now sick Goku who was anywhere close to Vegeta in strength.

Krillin nodded. 'Okay,' he said. 'Here.' He tossed the bean at Vegeta who caught it.

'About time,' Vegeta said as he chewed on the bean. Idiots.' He felt the power return to his tired body. He yelled and a small but powerful aura appeared around him. Quickly, the aura expanded and Vegeta transformed into his now prized Super Saiyan form. He turned to look at the rest of the Z Fighters. 'Why don't you guys go home and drink some milk or something,' Vegeta said. 'Stay out of my way.'

At blistering speed, Vegeta soared through the air, away from them and towards the fleeing android.

'Hey!' Krillin yelled in frustration. 'Drink milk, my butt! - '

'He really did lose most of his power,' Piccolo cut in. 'Just to confirm that the androids drain Chi from their palms. If number Twenty had stood his ground, he'd have beaten Vegeta easily. It was a beautiful bluff. He truly is a great warrior… He might have surpassed even Goku.'

'Huh!' Krillin said. 'There's no way that's possible.'

'Okay I'm following him,' Tien, who was another member of the Z Fighters, said. 'I at least want to see those androids destroyed!'

'I'm going to,' Krillin replied.

'Me too,' Gohan, the youngest of them, said. 'There'd be no point to all that training if I didn't.'

Piccolo stood there contemplating Gohan's insistence. He had trained Gohan many years prior, and with Goku, Gohan's father, struggling to survive his fatal illness, Piccolo felt that Gohan was his responsibility to watch over. 'All right,' Piccolo said hesitantly. 'But don't try to fight him. I hate to say it, but none of you except for Vegeta and me can handle him. He has no Chi for us to trace. He might be hiding anywhere among the rocks. If you see him, tell me… or Vegeta. And be careful.'

The four of them blasted of the grounds at incredible speeds following Vegeta's trail.

Meanwhile, Vegeta stood amongst the countless towering rocks in the barred wasteland the android had hid himself in. Rocks towered everywhere in all directions. It was the ideal hiding place, especially for a being with undetectable energy.

Vegeta had begun to grow tired of this searching. 'Where are you!?' he screamed. 'Come out coward! Show yourself!'

As Vegeta's words echoed throughout the desert, Twenty hid behind one of the countless rocks, not daring to move a single one of his robotic muscles.

'The worm used the landscape to hide,' Vegeta said to himself, 'Just as I had expected.' Vegeta began to ascend from his ledge. 'In that case, I'll have to flush him out.' He raised his hand and outstretched his palm. He gathered a large portion of energy, to form a deadly sphere of chi.

The other Z Fighters had just arrived. Krillin was first to notice Vegeta. His mouth fell open when he saw what Vegeta was about to do. 'Stop it!' Krillin yelled. 'We're here too!'

Vegeta ignored him and threw his sphere randomly towards the pillars of rocks. Before it hit, Android Twenty ran from his spot of hiding, right under Vegeta's attack. He outstretched his hands and allowed the energy to be sucked into the absorbers in his palms. The android let out a sigh of satisfaction.

'What the hell!' Vegeta yelled.

Android Twenty let out a roar of laughter. 'The energy is mine!'

Vegeta shot foreword preparing to clobber the android, but he was too slow. Twenty moved with extreme speed to escape the oncoming Vegeta, and returned to a spot of seclusion.

Vegeta landed on the ground. 'Damn him! He's quicker than I thought!'

As Vegeta searched in vain, Twenty observed him from a crevice located high on one of the tallest rocks. 'So accustomed to tracking energy that they've lost their eyes for movement, I can see you, but you can't see me.' Twenty ascended to the top of the rock for a better observation. 'I still never calculated for such power from Vegeta. How shall I play with him? He never lets down his guard. The most logical option is to return to the lab. But I must avoid that if at all possible.'

As Twenty pondered his different options, he noticed another being: Gohan. 'So he's here too,' Twenty said. He looked around again and noticed Tien, and then Piccolo, and finally Krillin. Twenty laughed. 'Excellent. If I gather all their energy and add it to my own, then Vegeta is mine. Now then, whose energy shall I start with? Piccolo, the next strongest after Vegeta, he won't give me much trouble. Yes, just you wait Vegeta.'

Unaware of the approaching Android, Piccolo continued his search. 'Blast it,' he said. 'He might be far gone by now.'

At that moment, Twenty propelled himself foreword and dove at Piccolo. With lightning quick movements, twenty reached around and grabbed Piccolo's face and torso, immobilizing him.

Piccolo struggled to move but it was futile. 'You can't call your friends this way,' Twenty said. 'Your power is mine! They can't see us. I know where they all are.'

Realizing that there was no other option, Piccolo called out to Gohan through telekinetic vocals. 'Gohan,' Piccolo said. 'Come quickly, the android has me!'

Gohan immediately heard Piccolo's words. 'Piccolo, Where are you!' Gohan yelled, and then he felt something; 'a subtle distortion in Chi, that way!' Gohan leaped in the air and flew as fast as he possibly could to help his friend and mentor.'

Meanwhile, Android Twenty continued to greedily suck the energy from Piccolo's being. 'Yes,' he said. 'You're almost out of energy. I'll drain you until you die - '

Twenty's words were cut short by the slamming of fists on his back, sending him tumbling to the ground below. The noise of Gohan's attack had gathered the attention of all the other searchers, and soon, the android was surrounded.

Piccolo gasped for breath. 'Thank you, Gohan,'

'Impossible!' Twenty yelled. 'How did he know? There's no way he could have found me!'

Vegeta laughed as he looked upon the shaken Android.

'Krillin,' Gohan yelled. 'Give Piccolo a Senzu Bean!'

'Right,' Krillin replied. Without hesitation like he had done with Vegeta, he threw the bean to his ally. Piccolo caught it and ate it.

With full power surging through his body once again, Piccolo descended down until he was level with the android, which now stood between Piccolo and Vegeta. Things were looking bleak for Twenty.

Piccolo grabbed the weighted turban on his head and the weighted cape he wore, and threw them to the side. 'Let me do it, Vegeta,' Piccolo insisted. 'Don't interfere,'

Vegeta hovered there in consideration. 'Fine,' he replied. 'I don't care if you get yourself killed. But won't you just be giving him more energy?'

Piccolo said nothing.

Android twenty smiled. This was the perfect opportunity to take more energy and then to kill Vegeta.

His scheme was quickly proven to be impossible. Piccolo's knee struck Twenty in the face, throwing him back a great distance.

'Well, well,' Vegeta said. 'Looks like I was wrong.'

Twenty stood there flabbergasted. There was no way the Namekian should have been able to do that. Twenty dove foreword at his foe, only to feel the elbow of the clearly stronger being strike him hard on the back, sending him smashing into the rocks below.

Slowly getting up, Twenty looked on in almost terror at the Namekian warrior. 'This is impossible,' he yelled. 'I was far more powerful to begin with – and now I've added his energy to mine!'

As Piccolo continued his domination, far away on the island of South City, where the androids had first attacked, hovered a Saiyan named Trunks, the twenty year old son of Vegeta. He was from the future. It was he who had told the Z Fighters of the oncoming Android invasion three years prior, and now he had returned to help them battle the threat.

He stared down at the ruined city. 'No sign of Goku's friends or the androids. I was too late. The Island is a mess. What happened? I wish I could go back a little further in the time machine, but I only have enough energy to get home, and I can't risk even the slightest inaccuracy.'

At that moment, Trunks felt the Chi of a strong warrior, clearly in the midst of battle. 'Chi,' Trunks yelled. 'I feel battle Chi! Of course, they're fighting somewhere else.' Trunks began to fly towards them.

Another blow from Piccolo's fists of fury struck the helpless android. Blow by blow, the confidence in Android Twenty shrunk, and Piccolo's grew. Every spectator except for an emotionless Vegeta watched on in sheer awe at the might Piccolo was displaying.

'He's so powerful,' Krillin shuddered. 'He's not even a Super Saiyan. What kind of training has he been doing?'

Piccolo struck the android in the face, leaving a huge gash. Number Twenty's face carried an expression of pure terror. He tried desperately to block Piccolo's next assault. The Namekian raised his hand and brought it down in a chop, severing the hand of the defending Twenty.

Twenty stepped back and looked at his useless limb in shock. Piccolo smiled. 'Remember this:' he said. 'In battle, we can amplify what you call energy in one tremendous burst. What you stole from me just now was nothing.'

Gohan smiled as he watched Piccolo slam his fist into the stomach of Twenty. 'We won,' he said with confidence for the first time that day.

Piccolo loomed over the Android. 'Time to die,' he said with inflicting terror amplified throughout his words. Twenty fled backwards in a desperate attempt to flee, but it was to no avail. Piccolo jumped foreword and blocked the android. He generated all of his weight and power into his fist, and slammed in into the gut of Twenty.

Something resembling oil began to flow from the wound. Piccolo dug his arm deeper, and then the impalement was complete.

Before Twenty could do anything, Piccolo raised his free arm and brought it down on its robotic neck, severing its head, and ending its artificial life.

Piccolo yanked his hand from the mechanical corpse and let it fall to the ground, spitting on it.

A short distance away, where Vegeta had "disposed" of the previous Android, stood Trunks, staring down at the lifeless severed head of Android nineteen. 'What is this?' Trunks said. 'What is this android, what on earth are they fighting.'

At that moment, Trunks noticed a massive explosion coming from the mountains. Without thought, he flew towards it. Little did he know, Piccolo had just blown the body of Twenty to bits.