"Phew" Trunks thought as he rubbed his hand across his brow, Trunks jumped back to admire his handy work. It had been a while since Trunks' began construction the space craft that would help him and Gohan fly beyond the atmosphere in search of New Namek. Trunks' initial estimate of 1 week to finish the ship had been naive as it ended up taking him the past 2 weeks.
"I wonder if they'll be back soon." Trunks pondered aloud wondering when Gohan and Videl would come back from their not-a-date date.
...
"Over here, Gohan!" Videl shouted as she found what Gohan and she had been looking for.
They were in a mountain area just outside of North City searching for Dr. Gero's lab hoping to find out if there might be any more surprises from the now dead doctor.
"Alright, we found the lab quicker than expected!" Gohan shouted as he landed next Videl after jumping from where he had just been.
"You want to open it, or can I do the honors?" Videl asked looking back at Gohan with her big blue eyes sparkling
"I'll leave it to you" Gohan said chuckling at the short haired Girl
Cupping her hands together in front of her Videl felt the exhilarating feeling of energy flowing through her and gathering in between her hands before sending the blast at the rusted in door. Thus resulting in an explosion, as the smoke cleared it could be seen that the door was destroyed in the blast along with a good part of the surrounding rock and dirt on the ground.
"Wow, you're getting good at that." Gohan said complimenting Videl
"Thank you," Videl responded looking back at Gohan, "I had a good teacher"
"Y-your welcome" Gohan said looking away, his cheeks reddening as he remembered the steamy ends to the training sessions
Gohan took the lead and walked into the lab only to see most of the computers, jars, and various other appliances destroyed and cracked. The surprisingly even floor was the same color as the rock outside. Looking up Gohan saw light fixtures, momentarily questioning how they work before pushing it out of his mind. He walked over to the only computer that looked in working shape and was hooked up to a phone line, which would provide internet connectivity, and turned the computer on waiting for the old dinosaur to come online. After several minutes the old computer woke up Gohan, with Videl looking over his shoulder, began leafing through the systems saved files and various other applications on the system.
"What the" Gohan said widening his eyes in surprise
"H-hey isn't that...?" Videl asked trailing off as she stared at the screen
"Yeah... looks like blueprints for various androids and other robotic creations" Gohan answered
"H-how many are there?" Videl asked
"Not sure of how many exactly but so far I see 8." Gohan retorted
"That's... a lot" Videl said
"We should head back," Gohan said, "I'll save this data to the hard drive and take this to Trunks' he'll know what to do better than me"
"Videl?" Gohan, after saving the data, turned around after hearing an explosion.
"Yeah," Videl said over her shoulder before jumping down the hole she created, followed shortly behind by Gohan.
"Why'd you make this hole and jump down here?" Gohan asked after he landed
"I saw something about a bio something or other being created below the top floor and THAT," Videl said pointing to a broken tube straight in front of them, "seems to prove that something was created and has escaped."
Gohan walked over and examined the weird tube as well as the wires and computer around it. Gohan punched the computer in anger as he seemed unable to access it.
"Now how is THAT going to help?" Videl asked
"It's not," Gohan retorted, "but it made me feel better"
"Boys." Videl said in mock disgust
Gohan narrowed his eyes at Videl before moving past her and flying up through the hole.
"Whatever escaped will show itself eventually" Gohan said over his shoulder.
Videl flew up after Gohan and grabbed the computer pushing Gohan's hand away when he went to pick it up and flew at top speed out of the cave/lab looking back and sticking her tongue out at Gohan. Gohan held back a laugh and flew after her.
...
Trunks' stood outside with his hands on his hips and his best "you're late" look on his face as Gohan and Videl landed with what he could only assume was a fossil of a computer.
"Where have you two been?" Trunks asked immediately
"We went and found Dr. Gero's lab and brought you a present" Videl answered pushing the computer into Trunks' hands
"There are all kinds of data and blueprints about the androids," Gohan explained, "i figured you'd be able to understand better than me"
"O-okay..." Trunks sputtered as Gohan ran off after Videl, probably for one of their "training" sessions.
Trunks couldn't help but laugh as his mentor and capsule corps newest freeloader ran inside the Capsule Corp. insta-mansion his mother had designed. It took less than 10 minutes for Trunks' to get back to his lab, set up the computer and got it working. Within seconds Trunks' gave up on working with the old computer and was able to transfer the files on the old computer to a memory stick and on his own PC.
"I see" Trunks said after hours upon hours of searching through the files.
As it turned out Android 17 and 18 had been humans known as Lapis and Lazuli who were kidnapped as children and injected with loads of body enhancers and eventually had their bodies enhanced even further by a chip implanted in the base of their skulls which allowed Gero to upload centuries of fighting experience to their minds from masters all around in an instant. Their power and skill was boosted even more upon the arrival of the Saiyans Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz and even the arrival of Frieza and King Cold. Because of their centuries of experience and extreme technological enhancement the androids were able to use Ki without being sensed and were able to use a small amount of Ki to do most of their fighting techniques creating an illusion of infinite energy.
"According to this information there are 20 androids in total, 15 are considered failures. Of those 15, 14 were destroyed, 1 has gone missing in action... Interesting..." Trunks murmured aloud
Apparently there were 2 androids that were activated before 17 and 18. Android 19 and 20 were odd models capable of absorbing energy from nodes in their palms. However these androids were killed by Piccolo, or so Bulma had told Trunks, before 17 and 18 were activated as a fail-safe and they then proceeded to do all the damage they did.
"I wonder..." Trunks started before his weariness overcame him and he slumped over in front of his computer falling asleep instantly.
...
"Poor kid," Gohan thought as he saw Trunks' slumped over in front of his PC, "He shouldn't have pushed himself"
Gohan picked Trunks up and carried him out of the lab, to the elevator at the end of the long corridor, stepping inside the elevator and pushing the button for the top floor. Upon reaching the top floor Gohan walked Trunk's to the room furthest from the elevator and leaning Trunks against the wall opened the door to Trunks' suit. The room was mostly bland in design; the walls were muted beige with pictures of Bulma and Trunks on the walls. In the middle of the room was a large bed that could support an elephant if need be with a blue comforter and 2 big blue pillows. On the night stand there was a picture of Bulma next to a picture of Vegeta Bulma must have taken when the two were spending time together before Vegeta's death. Gohan laid trunks on the bed removing his shirt and shoes and pulling the comforter and sheets over Trunks whispering "Good Night" before walking out.