Going to be pretty busy tomorrow so I decided to release the chapter today, early for once, haha! I have some good news at the end of the chapter as well, so stick around!

Without further ado, Chapter 11.

The atmosphere was ghastly reticent, the tension so thick it could be cut with a knife.

Save for Vegeta, the Z-Fighters stared at the androids in complete shock and horror—no one could believe that the androids were still fully functional. They had figured that, without their creator to control them, the teenage cyborgs would simply become statues of their former robotic selves. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case, as proved by the androids' deadly smirks of confidence.

Suddenly, Vegeta broke the silence after a few moments, pushing Bulma away from him and taking a step forward as he sized up the twin terrors before him. Those red lines that had been on their irises seemingly had vanished; what this meant, the prince didn't know, but it was apparent that there was a difference within the cyborgs.

His glance then shot towards the Z-Fighters, who were all huddled together as if they were small children. His eyes roamed over each one of them, before, finally, he spoke.

"You, useless one," the flame-haired Saiyan said, "take Bulma to Kakarot's home. This battle will not be for either of you."

"What do you mean, useless one?! I'm more than capable of-"

Vegeta growled, immediately cutting him off. He then began to speak, his words a harsh blow to the human."Shut up! Right now you are the weakest of the five of us. If you had spent the last two and a half years actually training yourself instead of hitting on every damn woman you see, maybe you'd actually be able to do something other than the grunt work! Since it's obvious you won't be able to make a difference in this fight, make yourself useful and take the only woman who ever even slightly cared about you to Kakarot's house where she'll be at least somewhat safe!"

Everyone turned to look at the prince; however, no one's facial expression could evoke more horror than the scar-faced bandit himself—Yamcha had a look between shock and anger on his face. Yamcha admitted defeat, finally, and took Bulma in his arms. It wasn't the usual way the two flew together, Bulma resting in both of his arms, her arms wrapped around his neck. This time Yamcha held her in one arm, minimal body contact.

Vegeta saw the looks he was getting and spoke up, "You all know of that punk's inability to fight. If anything, he would've hindered you in this battle."

As the duo took off into the air and though the androids looked at them, they made no move to go after the two weakest of the bunch. The mechanical fighter's turned their attention to the Z warriors.

"Look, it's four on two, 18. I'll be a nice brother and let you take the first pick." 17 smiled evilly as he spoke to his sister. The blonde frowned, looking closely at the assembled group of warriors.

Finally, her gaze settled on one.

"I'll take Vegeta. You got to take him on under Gero's control, so it's only fair I get a crack at him," 18 replied.

Vegeta let out a scowl, "They're picking which of us to fight! There's no way any one is fighting with me, I go alone!" With that he dashed forward and kicked 18 in the face. She spiraled backwards a few feet before she caught herself and looked back at him, smirking.

"Fine, I get the other three then!" 17 exclaimed with a smirk. He let out another grin as he shot towards the remaining Z fighters, disappearing halfway through his flight.

The Z-Fighters were too stunned to make even the slightest movement.

He appeared again in the middle of the three, 17 punched Tien in the gut, making him double over and grabbed him in a headlock. Using Tien as grounding he leaped up and kicked Gohan in the back using both legs, and as he landed on the ground he used his momentum to throw the three eyed monk into Piccolo. All three fighters slowly got to their feet, 17 smiled at them again and assumed a battle stance. "So, are the three of you actually going to put up a challenge or what?"

"Tien, Piccolo, stand down," Gohan said, "I want to see how much I've improved."

"Gohan, that's idiotic! You saw how strong they were under Gero's control and now they're even stronger!" Tien yelled. Gohan looked back and showed half a smile.

"I was holding back before." He gave a thumbs up before revving his ki up to the max. Tien and Piccolo's jaws dropped; his power was unbelievable. The aura around Gohan was a violent yellow and his muscles expanded slightly. Even Vegeta stopped mid swing and looked over at Gohan, awed by the intensity of his power. Finally, the demi-Saiyan's ki peaked at an amazingly high level; not even the androids could hide their shock at his unadulterated power. Without another word, Gohan raced over and punched 17 in the chest with his good arm. The boy android immediately rocketed off and took down two cliffs while he was flying back. 17 got up and brushed the debris off his shoulders.

"Well, that was surprising," muttered 17 as he prepared to re-engage his foe.

Gohan looked back at the others and gave a smile. "Go help Vegeta, I'll be fine here." He snapped back to the fight a second before 17 made a jab for his face, blocking it just in time with his good arm.

Piccolo looked over at Tien and nodded. The two of them flew up and watched over Vegeta's fight. "Don't interfere unless it's absolutely needed, if you get in the way Vegeta is just as likely to become an enemy."

"Heh, right." Tien agreed.

Vegeta ducked under a punch from 18 and used his right arm to swipe her legs. As she was swept off her feet Vegeta kicked at her face, but 18's hand moved up and grabbed it just in time before it connected. She turned around several times before letting go of the Saiyan's leg, sending him flying up into the air. She tailed after him without wasting a second. Her fist connected solidly with Vegeta's face, sending him even faster into the stratosphere. She managed to land three more hits on Vegeta, each just as crippling as the last before he shot a kiai out of his entire body, preventing her from reaching him and allowing him enough time to correct himself.

He rushed down at 18 and backhanded her across the face, the effect of the hit was less than Vegeta had hoped for, but he still took it. He floated back a couple of feet and held his arms out in front of his chest. As 18 turned towards him he launched a volley of ki blasts as fast as he could. Every ki blast found it's mark somewhere on 18's body, whether it was her vital areas or not so vital areas. When the smoke cleared 18 rushed out, just in time to find Vegeta waiting, charging a large blue sphere in his outstretched hands.

Gohan sailed back as 17's fist collided with his chest. As the android followed up the one-armed Saiyan ducked down and delivered a punch to 17's ribcage.

"Heh, you're not in my files at all, and you're certainly stronger than any of these other fighters… who are you?" 17 asked as he clutched his gut.

"Yeah, it'd make sense that you don't know who I am, but I am in your files." Gohan responded while he kicked at the android's head, 17 blocked it with his elbow. Had he not been an android, the bones in his arm would have shattered.

"You are?" the boy was clearly shocked.

"My name is Son Gohan. In another time you killed my best friend, and I'll never forgive you. I came back to prevent the hell I live in from existing for eternity! Prepare to die, android!."

"It won't be that easy!" 17 hissed, throwing his leg forward. However, the demi-Saiyan easily evaded it by tilting his head; with that, Gohan charged up a beam in his hand and fired it right into the android's chest.

"Big Bang Attack!" Vegeta yelled, releasing the built up ki in a sphere of energy. It flew towards 18 and blew up the second she put her hands up to block the attack. The blast expanded and obliterated the surroundings. Vegeta scanned the area, looking for the blonde android. The androids not having a ki signature was extremely inconvenient; he had no way of knowing where she was or if he had destroyed all of the cyborg. His attack had effectively gotten rid on any hiding spots in the general area, so it wasn't like he wouldn't see her if she was still around. "Ha, looks like there's nothing left—I really must control myself more."

"Would you quit gloating and get back to fighting me?" Vegeta whipped around and saw 18 hovering behind him. She had a couple of tears in her clothes, but that was about it. Vegeta's jaw dropped and shortly afterwards he dropped to the ground, the result of 18 ax handle smashing him on the top of his head. She dove down towards the proud Saiyan fists first and landed on his chest. She straddled him and raised her right fist, bringing it down across Vegeta's face. She repeated the same motion with her left fist and kept up the pummeling for a few minutes.

"You know, I expected more from you, Vegeta, the mighty prince of Saiyans." 18 mocked. "My files didn't say that you could go blonde, but that didn't really improve your chances of beating me, I guess. Poor little Vegeta, I'll finish this now and save you some face." She drew her right arm back and charged a yellow ki blast in her palm, with her left hand she held Vegeta's throat. "Time to die."

As she brought her hand towards the Super Saiyan she suddenly disappeared. Vegeta let out a gasp of shock before his hair returned to its black shade and he lost consciousness.

Piccolo held the blonde android between his arms, desperate to save one of his most powerful comrades from death. Though the Namekian certainly didn't like him, he knew that Vegeta was one of the Earth's greatest hopes for survival.

In a matter of seconds 18 had broken Piccolo's hold on her. She punched the Namekian in the face, sending him hurtling towards the ground at a breakneck speed. Before she could go after him she was smacked in the back by a ki blast. When she whipped around she was punched in her gut. She joined Piccolo's trajectory towards the earth below.

"I usually don't like to hit girls, but I have decided to make an exception, just for you." All four Tiens said at once. Piccolo saw this as well.Let's hope he has made the technique better than it was before.

18 broke her fall just feet before crashing into the ground. She spat to the side before grinning and flying up in the air. She lunged at Tien, her right leg extended and aimed directly for his chest. He threw his arm up just in time to block it. There was a sickening crack afterwords that could be heard around the battle field. The clone of Tien dropped to the ground, gripping his shattered arm and howling in pain.

Before the blonde killer could make it to the next replica of the three eyed human a fist smashed into her jaw, sending her into the air.

"Tien follow my lead!" Piccolo barked as he flew up towards his opponent. The three remaining Tien's shot a look at one another before darting up after their comrade. As Piccolo smacked her up into the air once again, one of the Tien's burst up parallel with her and placed his hands in front of his face, forming a triangle with his thumbs and pointer fingers. He charged a bit of ki in the space between his hands, he released it and it smashed itself into the female android just as Piccolo reached her and delivered another punch to her mechanical frame.

Piccolo smirked. "Good job! Let's keep it up Tien!" He hollered, if they kept going at this pace they may keep her off her feet long enough to come up with a better plan.

Android 17 and Gohan stood facing one another, eyes locked, searching for the perfect time to strike.. Gohan's chest heaved up and down as he breathed in. He was better than the android, he was sure of it. Though this 17 was stronger than the one in his time line, this one had a disadvantage; he was alone. While 17 may have been more powerful than Gohan, the latter was more skilled in martial arts. The android smirked at the half Saiyan fighter.

"Ready for round two, Future Boy?" His cocky attitude pissed Gohan off to no extent. He would pay, he would pay for the sins of his counterparts. He would pay for the death of Trunks.

With that last thought Gohan exploded in a burst of energy. He rocketed in at 17 and without a moment's hesitation he drop kicked the android, sending him face first into the hard mountain rock. Without letting up for a second Gohan drove his fist into the raven-haired machine's back. 17 didn't have any time to recover from the onslaught.

Gohan jumped in the air and landed on the monster's back. The android cried out in pain as his foe's feet drove into his back. The warrior from the future jumped again, landing on the same spot. He jumped up once again. 17 braced himself for the inevitable landing that followed the weight lifting off his back. It didn't come though. 17 turned himself around and looked up to see Gohan levitating above him. His hand was raised above his head and above that rested a disc of ki.

"Shit." Without another beat Gohan hurled the Kienzan at his opponent. It arced down towards the mechanized teenage boy at an alarming speed. The whizzing buzz saw motion of the ki got close enough to cut a few strands of hair from 17's face before he stopped it by filling his palms with ki and sandwiching the attack. Gohan's ki was dissolved, but not without a large amount of effort on Gohan's part.

17 glared daggers at the other warrior before him. "You may have the upper hand at the moment, but remember that I have unlimited energy! I can go for eternity, whereas at some point you will tire out, and I'm going to guess that the point where you tire out is coming soon." He smirked.

18 floated in place, surrounded by three Tiens and Piccolo. She had been repeatedly battered by the quartet of fighters for the past few minutes. The only reason she had gotten free is because she figured out the rhythm of the fighter's attacks and narrowly dodged one of Piccolo's fists. She cracked her knuckles and gave her opponents a large grin.

"So, are you both ready for the real fight to begin?" Piccolo was taken aback for a second before he smiled. It wasn't a smile of happiness or eagerness to fight. It was a smile of hopelessness, of realizing that he was outclassed by this android and this was possibly where he would die.

"Tien, go. Warn the others." Tien gave Piccolo a look of confusion and hurt; Piccolo saw this and explained, "If we are defeated here then no one will be able to warn the Son family or Yamcha. You must go now, Tien! You're the last defense, you have to go Goku's, I'm counting on you!"

Tien nodded and stretched his arms out. Both of the remaining clones shot into him and the third one came a second later. "Alright. Don't die on me, Piccolo." With that he blasted back towards the East District. 18 made no motion to go after him, instead keeping her gaze on the Namekian warrior hovering in front of her.

"You aren't going to live through this, Piccolo," she said bluntly and then burst forward, kneeing the fighter in the gut. She brought her elbow down on his bald green head and with her other fist she delivered a punch to his ribs. She gave him a split second to recover before she continued the harsh beat down. She punched him across the face, sending him flying off to the East. Using her super speed she rushed over and caught him by the back of his neck. She pulled her arm back and enveloped it with ki, she moved her arm down in a slicing motion. Piccolo let out a scream as his right arm plummeted to the Earth far below. "Quit your screaming, I know that Namekians can grow back their limbs; it was one of the generous 'donations' your friend Bulma gave us."

The android had been right, he hated to admit. Gohan was running out of energy, at a pretty fast pace. Soon he would be out if he didn't finish the fight now. He charged his fist with a ball of ki and looked around for 17. After they had exchanged a volley of energy blasts. In the dust he had slipped out of Gohan's sight, something not easily done. "Come out, 17! Let's end this now!"

Gohan continued to scan everything in his field of vision and charging the ki in his hand. He focused all around him, trying to find his opponent. Finally he felt something, it was small but it was approaching him at a quick speed. He whipped around just in time to drive his fist into the leather jacket clad android's gut. He unleashed a kiai that sent 17 spiraling away and followed after him quickly. As he rushed in he drew his fist back and brought it at his foe a second later. Instead of making contact with something solid he felt nothing but thin air. Before he had time to question it 17 reappeared on his right side and punched him solidly in the face. Gohan flew into a nearby plateau edge and was implanted into the cliffs edge. He revved up his ki and broke part of the rock that was holding him in away. As he began to get up and exit the rocky grip 17 appeared in front of him and punched him in even further. He repeated the action until they were about halfway through the cliff. The rock began to give out and the top part of the cavern that they had created started to cave in. 17 flew out of the cavern before he was trapped in it as well.

He took a second to admire his handy work. The plateau was half caved in, nearly fifty tons of rock was on his Saiyan challenger. He chuckled to himself. "Whoops ma, I think I broke the mountain."

He looked over at his sister. She was currently smacking Piccolo around like he was a rag doll. It was an outcome that was pretty much expected. He didn't see Tien anywhere, she must have completely eradicated his body. He glanced over at Gero's lab. The place was essentially destroyed, half was disintegrated in Vegeta's attack and the other half was piled under boulders and broken machinery. Something caused a buzzing feeling in the back of his head, he couldn't tell what it was, but when he turned around it stopped. He turned around just in time too, rising from the rubble of the collapsed rock was Gohan, leaning over his right side and a brilliant blue light shining from his palm.

18 looked down at the bleeding form of Piccolo. He had taken a huge beating from the girl for the rest of their battle. In fact it had been completely one sided with Piccolo getting virtually no hits in since Tien's leave of the battlefield. He now knelt in front of her, his arms both missing, leaving two bleeding stumps in their place. His bruises also had some blood pouring out of them. Blood dripped from his mouth and onto the terrain beneath him, staining the light brown rock with deep purple droplets.

As she drew her fist back in order to deliver the finishing blow to Piccolo's head something caught her eye. She turned around to see Gohan floating high above the Earth with a nearly full powered Kamehameha in his hand.

"Dammit," She turned back to Piccolo, "It's your lucky day."

His attack was almost to the point where he could release it and know for sure that the android would be gone forever. 17 was rushing in towards him, but he knew that there was no way the android would get there in time to stop him. It seemed that for someone with an infinite supply of energy, he could in fact get tired after a while. It wasn't that it was extremely visible, but after fighting both this incarnation and the one in his time line he could tell, he had worn him out a bit.

"This is it! Say your prayers, 17, you're going straight to Hell!" He moved his arm out to release the blast but instead of flying towards his enemy he found himself falling towards the ground, the right side of his face burning with pain. As he turned his head to look up he saw the blonde android looking down oat him. "No!"

Both androids shared a look and then dove down towards their prey. 18 got to him first, punching him in the gut. He moved to block her next attack, but 17 swooped in and hit him in his weak spot, the right shoulder. As he tried to defend the blind area the androids continually beat him down, not allowing him to get a moments reprieve. He tried to focus enough to use a kiai to push his assailants away, but he was too injured from his earlier fight and too preoccupied with his current one to do so. They were brutally thorough, annihilating any hope Gohan had earlier of getting the upper hand. When it was just one of them he could pull it off, but now that he had to face them both, it was just like in his time line, he was outnumbered. He could feel each time they made contact, it was like time slowed down, just to remind him that this was one more time that he failed. One more time to add to an ever-increasing list. In one last-ditch effort he revved up his ki and tried firing a blast at one of them. Before he could aim it the androids sandwiched his arm between their fists, breaking it. He screamed in pain before reverting back from Super Saiyan.

"Look sis, he isn't a blonde any more." 17 mocked as he kept his part of the assault up.

"Good, he doesn't deserve to share any characteristics with me." 18 replied, delivering a particularly heavy punch to Gohan's chest.

"But now he looks a bit more like me. That isn't fair." They kept up their brutal attack for the next few minutes, Gohan fading in and out of consciousness. This wasn't the first time he had been beaten to within an inch of his life, but it very well may be the last. He had no guarantee they had the same drive to play games with his life that his androids did. With a chop to the back of his neck Gohan's world went blank.

The half-Saiyan's body fell to the ground.

"Did we kill him sis?" 17 asked, half sincere and half mocking.

"I'm not sure. Who cares though, the real fun will be killing Goku." she replied to her cyborg brother.

"We don't know where he is though. He wasn't here to help fight us, maybe he's dead."

"No, I heard Piccolo talking to Tien about going to Goku's house, he's alive. And I know where to look."

Hey everyone! Hope everyone had a good past couple of weeks and enjoyed this chapter, I certainly had a blast writing it! This one was exciting to write, especially since it sets up so quite a bit for further on in the story.

I have some pretty awesome news to announce so everyone hold on to your seats! Super Vegetarott, the author of the amazing story Sins of the Father, has somehow found the time to make my story sound, look and flow better even with doing his own huge work load. Please welcome him to the team and maybe when you're done reading and reviewing *cough*cough* go check out Sins of the Father. It is definitely a read that you won't regret!

Reviewer response time, let's get it started!

Ky111 – Thanks! Yeah, Gero couldn't control all of their movements and still fight against Tien and Yamcha as well, so they weren't able to fight at full strength or at their top skill level. Glad that you're liking the story and the twists so far, stay tuned for more!

AfanAddict – Yes, sadly Trunks has died. I was really conflicted with this for awhile about whether he would be dead or just in a coma sort of deal. I even wrote out two different scenes for whatever I decided on. At the end of the day though that's how it had to be. For Gohan to be who he needs to be in this story, Trunks couldn't be alive. Sorry for making you sad!

Ness – Sorry about that! I was going to state outright which android she was working on but decided to allude to it instead (points if you can figure out which it was!). Must not have deleted the whole sentence! I thought Tien had been a monk at some point in order to get his third eye? I'm probably wrong ha. I am all for Team Human as well, there will be a lot more progress for both of these characters along with Krillin, who we haven't seen for the past few chapters (my bad guys, sorry!). Piccolo is very intelligent, and he will remain that way throughout the story!

JadedMom – Thanks! Mirai Gohan is the best and I hadn't seen a fic with him in it before so I had to give it a shot! Vegeta and Bulma's relationship will definitely be built up more than in canon, but this won't be just a B/V fic, sorry! I hope you continue to read and enjoy this story and I look forward to future reviews! :)

Luke – Still a toss up this chapter! We'll find out their intentions next chapter!

Drak – Answered via PM, hope you enjoyed this chapter man!

Lucif – Thanks for the Review and you weren't harsh at all! :) Gohan's presence will definitely make a difference, especially in present Gohan's training and lifestyle. They are going to figure out how different the same person can be ha!

That's about it for this chapter guys! Hope you enjoyed it! Til next chapter!

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