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Silva had been elected the one to tell the surviving Shamen the plan of escape.

After quickly outlining the basic idea, he left them to chose where they would fit in.

Most choose to flee the village but a good fifty of them elected to fight to the end with the Tenth Oracles.

Silva knew that this fight would quickly prove to be overwhelmed, but he prayed that they would be able to hold on long enough for the others to escape.

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Shenar, Lord of the Stars, stood silently in the circular room. Stainless metallic walls reflected what little light there was, intensifying it by a hundred times.

Before him there was a bank of computer screens, divided into three sections. Each section showing a different world.

He was pleased. The conquest of the worlds was going very well, this Earth was clearly the weakest of them all and already the military had been all but crushed, however, the Shamen world was proving to be the toughest, with their determination and their numbers the Shamen had held back his plans several times, but now their numbers had dwindled and the next attack would mark their end.

The world containing Saiyans had put up the fiercest resistance, they had continued to fight back long after their military had been crushed and their cities destroyed.

It was almost enough for Shenar to spare them...Almost.

Now, Goku and Vegeta were gone, the resistance had lost its strongest members.

Even thinking about Goku and Vegeta brought a smile to his face, those fools truly thought that Goku and Vegeta were dead. Doubtless the two Saiyans wished they were dead but Shenar had at last found a use for such insignificant beings as the Saiyans.

They would power his forces for centuries yet.

As he thought of this, one computer beeped a message to him. Shenar read it, and was no longer smiling.

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Minutes later, Shenar stood outside the Cutting Room. The place stank of blood, this was where the humans were taken and cut up into segments, each segment then taken to a different reactor where it was used to fuel the robotic war machine.

The unique energy that was produced by the reactors was enough to power an army of robots for an unlimited amount of time.

Before him stood a small robot, nothing like the bulky soldiers, this one was solely made to oversee the energy process and as such possessed a far smaller body.

" I'm here," snapped Shenar, " This had better be worth my time."

The robot spoke in a mechanised voice " It has been discovered that a small percentage of humans have shown an ability to resist cutter."

Shenar growled, "Is that the reason you brought me here? To tell me something so useless?"

The robot responded quickly, aware that its existence would be terminated in seconds if Shenar decided that it had wasted his time, " Sir he resisted the cutter! No human can do that! Indeed, when we examined him farther it was determined that he was not always human!"

Shenar paused for a second, " You mean that?"

The robot said " It appears that he was once a machine, or at least, had the body of a machine.. we've managed to restore his programming and made upgrades to his body. I thought you'd want to see him."

Shenar nodded, " Show me this robot. What's his name?"

" Vitrolic, sir."

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Fifty robots travelled, hey shot though the air over a ruined city, in the centre, one of the Meta Coolers rode, in his hands a long object rapped in silk, the second of a set of three.

These three weapons would prove to be Cooler's greatest asset. For with them he would became unstoppable.

Who knew that this Earth, while it possessed no Dragon Balls, had something equally as powerful? And when they found the last one it would make Cooler invincible.

A single figure stood before them, the robots reacted in seconds, letting loose a barrage of laser fire! But the figure had phased away, he reappeared above one with a powerful fist!

The others swarmed at him, but with a scream his aura surged, sending them flying back, and David grinned, " Is that all you've got?"

They made another attack but David easily fended them off in his Super Saiyan Two state. Smashing them with powerful kicks!

Cooler saw his small group being blown apart, and fled! I have to get the Item to safety, if the rebels gain it they could unlock its power!

He saw the last of the robots explode as he got away smirking. Suddenly a fist sent him the ground!

Cooler shrieked as he crashed through several buildings and formed a crater.

By the time he pulled himself out, he was facing two Super Saiyans.

David extended a hand, " Give me the item."

Cooler smirked, " You thought such a simple ambush would win you the day? You seem to have forgotten something."

David asked, " What is that?"

Cooler said, " I know Instant Transmission!"

At once, more and more Coolers began to appear, until they outnumbered the Saiyans ten to one.

David frowned, " Damn it, this could be harder then I thought. Looks like I'll have to go Super Saiyan Three!"

But a barrage of Death Beam forced them to jump aside! David cursed, " they're not going to give us enough time!"

Five Coolers attacked him, he ducked and dodged, sweating as he fended off their blows. Ok, at this stage I'm slightly stronger then Cooler. But I'll wear down long before he runs out of troops to send against me.

David blocked two more fists, and struck back, using a series of punches and kicks to tear one foe apart!

But there was always more, he blocked blow upon blow for what seemed like hours, until his arms ached and his legs were numb, but still he fought on, powering up attack after attack, he was worried about what had happened to his friend, Will, but he hadn't the energy to waste checking on him, David knew that Will's power was only slightly lower then his own Super Saiyan Two form, so will had to be doing all right.

A fist made it through his guard then another and another!

David doubled up as blows rained down upon him! Then an upper-cut sent him flying! A foe phased above him with another crushing blow, but David caught himself and let loose a Ki storm, blowing the Cooler apart!

But more came, more blows which he couldn't defend against, more pain as each one he didn't block met its target, and slowly, numbness as his body started to shut down.

At last, he fell to his knees . To tired to fight on.

Cooler raised a fist to finish the job but a hand caught his!

" You really don't want to finish that attack."

Cooler turned slowly, remembering that voice. " Arkh?!"

The Namek grinned, " I see you remember me."

Cooler said, " What can you do to save him? You'll be overwhelmed as easily as he is!"

Arkh grinned again, " don't count on it. Oversoul!"
A golden light filled the city, and then, Arkh gestured and a huge explosion! More and more explosions as each Meta Cooler was sought out and destroyed.

The last one fell, the silk-rapped item was sent tumbling into the air, Arkh leapt up and caught it easily!

The silk blew away, to show a blade of ancient make, it was cracked and dulled, in its hilt there was set a ruby and ancient writings covered its blade.

Arkh examined it, ignoring David, who was busy pulling himself to his feet.

" Its hard to believe that these are what Cooler is seeking." the Namek said to himself.

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Shenar raged! How could this have happened?! His perfect plan was ruined! With that blade gone he had no choice but to divert a lot of resources to getting it back, this would slow his conquest of the other worlds, but the real trouble was that now one of the blades was possessed by an enemy that the rebels might be able to figure out his plan

He growled, knowing that David was somehow behind this...

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Everything was black, he could see nothing but darkness, then, slowly he opened his eyes. Yoh Asakura felt wasted, numb and pointless Manta...

He felt like crawling into a hole and dyeing, he had failed, Manta had died because he, Yoh Asakura, hadn't been there in time to save him.

" Yoh..?"

The voice, Anna. But she sounded so worried, so strained, not like her at all.

Anna's voice... Yoh felt like just sinking back down into sleep, just dyeing. He would have but Anna... he couldn't leave Anna.

Slowly he opened his eyes, " Anna."

" Yoh.."

Nether of them knew what to say, Manta had died, Anna knew that Yoh blamed himself for it, but she didn't know how she could convince him that it wasn't his fault, besides that she didn't have time to.

" Yoh, the robots are coming again, the Tenth Oracle are going to hold them off while we escape."

Yoh shook his head, " No, I'm staying."
" What!?"

Yoh looked around the room, saw Ren, Horohoro, Ryu, Faust, and Joco.

Ryu cried out " master Yoh! Don't be stupid! You're not recovered yet and even if you were, staying here is suicide!"

Ren smirked, " I knew you'd say that."

The others turned to him and Ren said, " Yoh isn't the kind to let innocent people suffer, The Tenth Oracle are tough but Yoh would rather be fighting then running. In addition, if there is anyone who has the Furiouku to revive Manta they will be a Tenth Oracle. Also, Yoh knows that the chances of the others escaping are slime to none. So he came to the conclusion that if he fights in the battle, and if luck is on our side, he can allow the others to escape and then get away himself."

Horohoro gaped, " H-how do you know that?!"

Ren answered, " Because, I came to the same conclusion."

Yoh nodded, " Ren.."

The Tao nodded, " Yes, the chances are we will not survive this battle."

Faust said, " If you are going to fight, Yoh then I will as well. Death holds no fear for me."

Ryu growled, " If you are fighting so am I!"

Horohoro said " Are you crazy? You'll all die!"

Ryu said, " Master Yoh has gotten us out of worse situations, I'm sure we'll get away."

Ren said, " I'm a Tao, I could never look my family in the eye if I ran now."

" I don't believe it..."

Everyone looked at Joco. " My whole life... trying to get away from violence... Trying to became a comedian.. All useless... But I will NOT stand back and let you fight alone, Yoh I'm with you!"

Yoh turned to Anna, she was pale. " Y-Yoh...

He said nothing, merely looking at her.

At last she bowed her head, " Yoh."

He followed her out of the room.

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Goldva looked around him, feeling both pride and despair, pride because the Tenth Oracle stood tall even now, despair because he was surely facing his death and the death of everyone around him.

He spoke, " Today we face an enemy not human! Though we will surely die, lets not make it easy for them!"

The robots moved towards them, slowly, and Goldva continued " Remember! If the others are to survive then we must hold them here for at least fifteen minutes! In that amount of time, the others will have escaped into the desert, once there they're on their own. Good luck everyone!"

The robots fired their first shots at the small group, protected by Furiouku shields. The lasers did not damage.

Goldva led the first charge, the Shamen battered through the robot front-line.

They dug deep into the huge robotic host, hoping to scatter them.

The first few minutes went well.

More lasers slammed into the shield, causing several Shamen to faint with the effort of holding it.

Then, the fighting reached Goldva!

He battled with his greatest strength, shattering robots left right and centre but always more came.

The huge weight of numbers slowly forced Goldva's army back, he bellowed for them to charge, but the robots still moved relentlessly forwards.

Goldva saw that they were in danger of having a wedge driven between them and led a charge to the endangered area.

The robots were think around him, he fought them off as best he could his spirit lending him power. But Shamen were being pushed back, he called to them to rally around him.

More robots swarmed around him, their lasers no longer blocked by a shield they started to cause deaths, screams filled the air.

Four robots turned to him and fired! Goldva dodged to the side but one of the beams struck him! Pain!

He fell to the ground, clutching at his gut.

The robot fired again.

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Ryu was breathing heavily, sweat ran down his face as he dodged another beam, behind him he heard a scream as someone died. " Bastards."

he leapt into the air, splitting a robot in half with a single stroke upon landing!

He slashed to the side, claiming another two 'bots! A third fell before his blade.

He jumped to the right in time to avoid another laser blast!

He turned in mid-air and cut the robots apart, then a beam came form nowhere and struck his shoulder!

He called out in pain. Falling to the ground. But he rose again, thinking of his friends, " Yoh, Ren, Faust, Horohoro, I will not fail you!"

He split another four robots in as many minutes, but still more came, his arms ached and burned where the beam had struck him.

Then, he saw a friend! Faust was battling just ahead of him! The necromancer was wounded badly, blood pouring from his gut, but he seemed to be non the weaker!

Ryu surged forward! His friends were in danger! He cut down two more robots and damaged a third but Faust seemed to be even farther away!

Ryu screamed and sped up, caring not for his own safety as he battled to reach his friend and team-mate. But he saw Faust take another beam to the chest! The necromancer's face paled, and he folded up.

Ryu bellowed, " FAUST! NOO!"

He landed beside the fallen shaman and cut down the robots around him, fighting with a berserker rage.

Not noticing that he had been separated from the main body of Shamen. He cut down four robots, ten, twenty, he lost count. It seemed that in infinite amount of time passed as he battled there. Then, he felt something press against his back and he fell, the robots reloaded and fired again.

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Joco cut through two more 'bots but it seemed there was no limit to their numbers! He growled and slashed at another robot, but it seemed that a tide surged around him and a group of fifty or more robots surged towards him!

A quick glance told him he was too far away from the main group to save himself. Joco leapt forward to meet them!

Cutting them down in great slashes! Ten fell before the others could react even! But one smashed a metal fist into his back, breaking bones.

Joco hit the ground and knew no more.

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Ren fought in the front. The Shamen around him let loose screams as they were cut down but Ren fought on, his power enough to hold the robots back...For now.

His Double-Medium had proved enough to keep him alive so far and he was destroying robots too quickly to count. Yet more always came.

He was slowly growing tired, then he saw something overhead!

A metallic arrow, the size of a blade, it struck the ground before him and exploded in an almighty bang!
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Silva growled as his wings cut through another group of 'bots, then the bombers came, where they touched the ground they killed anyone near.

After several seconds of constant bombardment, the surviving Shamen were scattered and leaderless, easily cut down by the robots' never ending army.

Silva shot up into the sky, looking around he saw that the Shamen were broken, many fleeing for their lives, Goldva was dead and no-one seemed to be in charge.

He sent out the called out to retreat, and all over the battlefield, the few survivors ran.

Silva hoped the others had got away, this whole battle had been a disaster.