A lone warrior clad in the Red Training Gi that was once signified that the wearer had trained with the great Turtle Hermit Master Roshi, stood at the edge of a cliff overlook the ruins of a city, where in two powerful Androids that had been terrorizing the earth for nearly two decade waited.
It was not however, the person most recognized in it, Son Goku. So much so that people had started stopped associating it with the Style of martial arts, and with just him
Nor was it the that Man son, who had, in the living world at least, wore it for an even longer time
No it was the Second person to ever wear the gi, well maybe third or fourth, no one was sure if Master Roshi had his first two student wear it, the human warrior known only as Krillin.
He had arrived back on earth almost an hour ago, and he hadn't moved from this spot since..
However, unlike it would have been before his death, well the third one anyway, he wasn't just waiting because he thought he was too weak to do anything.
No, this time he was all on his own, this time he actually believed in his own strength.
Although this time he was still waiting for an old friend, not to arrive of course, it would be far too dangerous for her to be anywhere near this fight, but someone had to see the outcome of this fight; maybe his friend Bulma Briefs most of all.
So that's why he was waiting here on this cliff, because a witch that could travel to and from otherworld in an instant took over an hour to get to west City.
"But then again...there might not be a way to actually get to Other world slower than that." He muttered to himself, his shoulders slumping slightly.
As he spoke this words he couldn't help but think about about all the trips he had and time he had spent in other world.
The first time he had died he didn't even know he had been dead until he had been told he was when he was wished back. He didn't remember anything of the afterlife when he was wished back, he didn't remember seeing King Enma, he didn't remember waiting in line waiting for his soul to be judged, and he most definitely did not remember where his soul was sent for the short time between his death and revival with the Dragonballs.
In his almost two decades spent in the afterlife he knew that he could have always asked he was sure that the people that knew would have been more the glade enough to tell him. However, he was afraid of the answer, as if how he had been when he was 16 really mattered in the grand scheme of things.
The second time he died, that he remembered in detail. The joy he had been feeling thinking that the fight with Frieza was finally over. The horror to see that the monster hadn't been destroyed by the massive explosion of the giant Spirit Bomb. The helplessness as his body began to float against his will. The Pain as his body began to explode from the inside out as he called out for his best friend for help.
He also remember his entire time in the other world between that death, but it had been painfully uneventful and boring to the point of cruelty, and with all honestly he was extra glad to have been born on earth if that was how another planet's afterlife went.
His third death, well that was his last one, and really the one that hurt his pride the most.. Not because he lost. Not because everyone else also died. But because of how not tired he had actually been right before he had died. The other two times he had felt exhausted before the end.
That's why had volunteered to be the one to do this, so that he could feel like he earn the privilege to train on The Grand Kai's planet, and didn't just get to go there because his best friend said he deserved it.
"She's there." Krillin said, as he finally felt both Bulma's and Baba's small power's together, and instantly took off and flew down and over the city, his ki flaring loudly all around him even as he came to an instant stop to hover over the android.
"Oh look Sis, it looks like someone made one-arms clothes in kiddy sizes." Android 17 said with a smirk. "Oooh, are we gonna get a new toy, to play with, hopefully he's more durable then the man he's dressing like."
"Don't be stupid 17." Android 18 said with a dismissive scoff, "That was one of Son Goku's associates, Krillin, that we killed after you disposed of the good doctor."
"So, one of you didn't die after all?" 17 questioned with a shrug "What finally got you out of the hen house?"
"No, I did die, but I don't plan on dying a fourth time! I'm here on behalf of all the people you killed to put an end to your slaughter and destruction!" Krillin yelled out as his white aura of Ki began to surround his body again, the ground around him buckling under him before he blasted off to attack the dark haired android standing in front of him.
Krillin quickly began through a flurry of punches at the androids, sonic booms coming off the android each time his fist colloid with his chest. The human warrior then jumped his aura flaring larger than before and he put one powerful punch to the male androids face.
However, when the punch connected, the android jaw had just barely moved.
"Heh, that it? You're not even as strong as one arm when he had black hair." 17 said and turned his eyes to Krillin, raising his hand to smack him away with the back of his hand as if he was nothing but an annoying fly.
When his fist was going to collide the the short warrior it shockingly went straight through him.
"Wha-?" the android started to questioned, before the Monk appeared again and kicked the back of the androids knees, causing his legs to buckle and his back to bend forward slightly.
The Warrior in red pressed in his seeming advantage, cupping his fist in his other hand, smashing both of his hands to the back of the Android's head, forcing the android to catch himself on his hands or eat a facefull of dirt.
The Android angrily flipped back onto his, glaring and growling angrily at the human, yelling as he fired a Photon Blast from his hand, sending him flying off into a building, causing the build to explode and collapse in on itself.
The female android began chuckling slightly amused.
"What's so funny!?" 17 said with a slight glare at her as he dusted the dirt that had ended up on his hands and knees.
"Oh Nothing, just that you didn't even bother toying with him like you usually do." she said between another slightly louder fit of chuckles, "And you used our best attack"
"Yeah, so what? He wasn't even worth playing around with, he wasn't even on the top 5 threat list." 17 said, crossing his arms in in front of his chest, scoffing as his sister and turning his head away from her.
"So that was as strong as you get huh?" Krillin's voice was heard shouting from the wreakage, shifting just slightly before he yelled even louder "KAIOKEN!"
The ruins of the builds all began to fly away, and the androids had to raise their hands to shield themselves from the rapid wind blowing away from the short warrior who was on his feet yet again, a few noticeable cuts and scrapes over his face and arms, half of his outer red shirt completely destroyed. .
"If that's the case." Krillin said as the red aura faded, wiping some blood from his lip, before he ripped off the top half of his gi, and gripped the bottom of his dark blue undershirt "I guess I am going to have take this off after all."
As the former monk began to remove his shirt, the Android scoff speeding his feet apart to actually enter a battle stance "Gee, thanks for the little striptease, but don't think for one second that's going to save you. I don't swing that way, and my sister is waaaaay out of your league."
"Ugh, don't be just such a perv." 18 groaned slightly, giving the now topless monk a quick second glance before turning her back to both of them "That's what he's doing you idiot."
"Jeeze don't get your panties, in a bunch, I was only joking, I know they wear waited cloths, but it's not like the increase from taking off a hundred kilos is going to make a difference." he said with a chuckle, he kept his eyes on krillin now.
"You're right, that wouldn't make a difference." Krillin said as he rolled up the undershirt into a ball, and pitched it to the Android, who caught it easily, his eyes widening slightly, as the force of the toss pushed him back about a foot.
"But, two ton's might. Kaioken!" Krillin shouted, and charged towards to killer android, hitting him with a uppercut that sent him flying before he had time to drop the mass of weighted clothing and put up his defenses.
"Heh, what the matter brother, A shirtless man too distracting for you after all?" 18 scoffed, assuming her brother was still just toying with the man.
"Shut up, 18!" Yelled at her, as he started trading blows with the dead warrior.
The android and the human warrior continued to push each other back and forth until the human warrior's red aura faded, where the killer cyborg grabbed the short warrior buy his ankles, and threw him towards the ground, and instantly dived after him, feet first.
Krillin gasped out in pain when his back collided with the ground, the android feet passing straight through the image of the monk
"Pfft that again?" The Android said as he quickly spun around and kicked krillin out of the air, causing him to roll sideways across the the ground, sliding across it until he was stopped buy a slab of concrete.
"Our eyes are too good for that to ever really work." 18 said from her spot a short distance away.
"Yeah, you have really nice eyes." Krillin said, as he struggled to get to his feet
"Let's see if they can see this coming." he said once he was fully standing, he quickly brought his hands to the sides of his face while closing his eyes, and yelling out " Solar Flare!"
The two Androids yelled out in pain as the blinding flash of light struck the two, both clenching their eyes shut tightly, while try to rub the pain away with the palms of their.
"Now to finish this! Destructo Disk!" Krillin yelled out, as the distinct sound of a buzzing blade could be heard.
Even without their sight, the dead duo surrounded themselves with an their blue and pink energy barriers,
"That attack combo was never going to wo-What!? The dark haired man started to say as the pain left his eyes, opening them slowly then gasping out in shock at the sight before him.
The deadly energy disk hadn't dissipated upon contact with the powerful shield, it had embedded itself vertically within it.
"Kaioken!" The krillin yelled out, and was once again surrounded by the red aura once again, shouting as he held his hand out towards his earlier attack and it began to spin rapidly once more.
"18!" 17 shouted out, as the attack began to inch forward, his eyes wide as his blue barrier began to crack.
His sister instantly dropped her shield and dashed forward to attack the dead warrior.
Krillin gasped out in surprise, jumping back and just barely dodged the female warrior's punch, keeping his hand out to continue pushing his Destructo disk towards the other android.
18 continued to chase after Krillin, who flew backwards and up the side of one of the buildings just barely stay out of her reach.
"Just kill him already 18!" 17 yelled out just before his energy barrier shattered like glass, and the Android just barely managed to catch it between his hands before it sliced into his chest.
"Damn it! So close." Krillin yelled out, as he kept getting pushed back from avoiding 18's attacks.
"Stop dodging, you little...!" 18 growled out, changing a blast in her hands.
"Shit!" Krillin gasped out and brought to fingers to his forehead.
"Trying to use one of Piccolo's attack isn't going to help you!" 18 yelled out as she fired her blast at practically point blank range.
"It's not Piccolo's attack!" Krillin yelled out, disappearing just before the blast would have hit him and it destroyed the top to floors of the deserted building.
"What!?" both android gasped out in surprise, as their eyes darted around quickly to try and find the short fighter.
"It's Goku's!" Krillin's voice shouted out, appear out of nowhere just to the right of Android 17 with a blue sphere charging in his hand as the red Kaioken aura flared around him "Kame-!"
"No way!" 17 said eyes wide, staring directly into Krillin's eyes, it taking all of his power to hold of the Destructo Disk.
"Hame-!"
"Brother!" The blonde woman shouted, dive bombing back towards the ground.
"Ha!" Krillin shouted, as the signature move of the Turtle style school of martial Art's blasted from his hands and rammed right into the android on the ground.
The beam forced the dark haired killer to loose his grip on Krillin's earlier attack, it just barely missing his head as it sliced through him, cutting him unevenly, vertically in half.
"17!" 18 shouted out, stopping dead in mid-air, tears just barely forming in the corner of her eyes.
Not missing a beat, Krillin curved the energy up into the sky, and causing it to collide with the blond woman floating there.
It's over? Have the Android's finally been defeated!? Find out Next time on Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Krillin.