Back in the low lit room deep underground of what was once Capsule Corp, Bulma Briefs and Fortune Teller Baba sat on the floor with their jaw slightly agape at the scene that they just witness before them.
"Oh my god! He did it!" Bulma shouted out happily, grabbing the older witch and pulled her into a tight hug "Krillin defeated the Androids!"
"Well yes, it would certain-" the old fortuneteller started to object, trying to pull herself from the grip of the ecstatic blue haired genius, when an alarm started blaring from one of the many computers in the room.
"No, it couldn't be." Bulma said, suddenly freezing up, her grip loosening enough for Baba to free herself from it.
"What? What's that sound mean?" Baba questioned confused.
"It couldn't be!?" Bulma said as she quickly stood up and ran over to her computer, quickly pressing keys.
"What is it?" Baba asked again, walking next to the her to look at the computer screen as well, not that it helped any, she was witch, and couldn't make heads or tails of anything on the computer screen.
"It is!" Bulma shout out, before she broke out into laughter and started dashing from the room.
"What is it!" Baba shouted out, quickly hopping onto her Crystal ball and floating after the running woman.
"It's the time machine! It's coming back!" Bulma shout as she made her way to the surface bursting open the doors that led to the outside "Trunks is alive! He's come home!"
It was true, there floating in mid air was the yellow capsuled time machine, the word Hope still their across its front as it landed on the ground in front of the domed build.
The purpled haired pilot jumped out of the machine, and upon land said "Hey Mom I'm- oof"
The half-saiyan warriors greeting was cut off with his mother running full dash into him, and wrapping her arms around him and hugging him as tightly as she could "You're back! Thank god! You had me so worried!"
"Yeah, I'm sorry Mom, It just ended up taking a little more than two weeks to resolve everything-" Trunks started to explain, but had to grip his stomach at the mild pain that had appeared there "Ow."
"Two weeks, huh!" the angry woman said rubbing her hands after punching her son, in all likelihood doing more damage to it then her son "And what were you doing the other hundred and four, huh? What did you meet some floozy in the past and just couldn't bring yourself to tell me about her? And don't go saying you introduced her to my past self! I'm your mother! Not me!"
Trunks blinked at his mother confused, as Bulma continued to go on listing things she thought he might have been doing in the past, even making mention that she was still too young to be a grandmother, when he opened his mouth to ask her to calm down, he was suddenly struck with the feeling and end "What's that...there's a huge power that just showed up, and it's skyrocketing?"
"Oh that? That's probably just Krillin on his way here after taking care of the Androids," Bulma said dismissively, "He had came back because someone decide to take his sweet time in the past that everyone thought he was dead and the earth was doomed."
"What? That's Krillin? What's going on?" Trunks said confused look at his mother, and the old woman he wasn't sure if he had ever met before.
"Well, let's take another quick look. See how far out he is." Baba said as she got off the crystal ball to find the scene of Krillin once more.
Back on the battlefield Krillin was staring up at the smoke cloud his attack had made on contact with the female android.
"Did I do it?" Krillin asked himself, panting slightly as his kaio-ken faded, staring up at the cloud of smoke in the air.
Krillin, sighed to himself as when the smoke cleared the female Android was still there, and the only damage done to her was some minor scuffing to her cloths "Of course not...that would've been way too easy."
"You...you're dead!" 18 yelled out, her hand shaking in rage, instantly diving down and before krillin had a chance to activate his kaio-ken yet again, and punched him in the chest. Sending him flying into the air, where she quickly followed after him and kicked his side and sent fly into one of the collapsed buildings, then instantly began to bombard the building with energy blasts.
She continued blasting the building for several moments, fired beam after beam from her hands until the building was nothing but dust.
"Yaknow," Krillin voice sounded from behind the Android, when she finally stopped firing at the ground "You're a lot stronger than your brother."
"Don't think you can flatter me saying something like that." 18 said as she slowly turned around in the air, giving the short human a cold glare.
"No, I mean it," Krillin said putting his hand behind his head scratching the back of it, muttering under his breath "If I was trying to flatter there are dozen's of other things I would have said before that."
"Don't try and delude yourself, Human." She said, as she dashed forward to attack him yet again, this time however he managed to yell out and activate the kaioken in time to block some of her punches "Me and him are made exactly the same way, we have exactly the same amount of strength, I'm just not toying with you like he would!"
"No, that's not it ... but it might still be the reason." Krillin said as he continued to defend against the android's assault "Because whatever it is that give you two your great strength might not be as infinite as you thought ... and he's been wasting more of it, so while I'm stronger than him, you're still stronger then me as I am now."
"If that's true, you better start using a higher kaio-ken's; maybe a three or four, if you can, little man!" 18 said before she finally landed a decent blow against Krillin, sending him flying to the ground, just barely managing to stop himself before he hit the ground.
Krillin dodge the Android as she came down to the ground fist first, leaving a crater on the ground just below where he had been "Okay, good to know, your info is outdated."
"What's that suppose to mean?" 18 said as she kept chasing after him. "You trying to say you can become more than fives times the strength you've been using, I don't buy that for a second, you would have used it already if you could."
"No, this is as strong as I can get with just the kaio-ken, and it is even greater than twenty time my strength without it." Krillin said, grabbing her wrist and kicking her stomach,
"No way, you need to yell out the multiplier for that technique to work." 18 grunted out, gripping her stomach, and floating backwards, glaring at him.
"No, yelling the multiplier makes it easier, just like with yelling the name of any attack, but the max you can take it will never be a whole number, so anyone using it better off not saying any at all!" Krillin yelled as he relight his kaio-ken aura, and began to change and launched a Kamehameha wave at the "But, you never need to do it!"
The Android 18 blocked the wave with her hands, it pushing her back until her back collided with
with her building, it continuing to press down on her before it detonated in her hands.
"In a way...I kinda owe it to you that I even got this strong." Krillin said, the red aura around him fading, knowing that his last attack wouldn't have destroyed her.
"Before I was killed that last time, I was just about ready to give up Martial arts," Krillin went on as the smoked cleared yet again to reveal the android, as she removed the remains of the blue vest with the Red Ribbon army logo on the back.
"To let my hair grow out, meet a nice girl, get a full time job." he said as the androids charged at him again, and he went on as he reactivated his kaio-ken and charged back at her, meeting the android halfway "Maybe I'd try and be a cop or something!"
"Oh yeah I'm sure you'd look real cute in bike shorts writing out ticket." 18 said with a smirk,
"I was thinking more like a detective, not a Meter Maid." Krillin said with a pout, as he kept up his offensive against the android.
"Oh I'm sure you were, looking forward to helping all those weak girls looking for help?" she said rolling her eyes.
"Hehe, actually I'd rather have a girl who's almost more trouble than she's worth." he said with a chuckle, a small blush forming on his cheek, the distraction causing his kaio-ken to slip.
"Heh, yeah? You sure you could have actually handled a woman like that?" 18 questioned with a smirk, taking advantage of his drop in power to backhand him out of the sky. Sending him flying down through the roof and several floors of another building
"This is getting a little too personal." Krillin said still blushing, bursting through the side of the building he had just "But, as I was about to say. Dying let meet people that were actually stronger then a super saiyan. I even met a human who was stronger than Goku when he wasn't one. And that reminded me of something I had actually forgot ... that I've already gone past human limitations, so the only thing keeping me from getting stronger is me and a bit of hard work."
"Pfft, whatever." 18 scoffed, tucking her hair behind her ear "That's all well and good, but you've already admitted I'm too strong for you."
"No, I said you're stronger than I am right now." Krillin corrected, as floated up so that he was face to face with the Android "But fight's don't always come down to strength, and I have techniques that have let me injure opponents many times greater than myself. Let me show you a new one."
Krillin then began to shout as he surrounded himself with the kaio-ken yet again, this time spreading his arms out to his side and his palms out, a yellow disk of energy forming on both sides of him as he called out "De...struc...to..."
"Oh yeah, this looks like a real new technique." she said with a chuckle, but got herself ready to blast the disks out of the sky when the came towards her.
"Fists!" Krillin yelled out, his arms shooting out, and grabbing hold of the disks and the began spinning around them, the whir that accompanied them began to become higher and higher in pitch as the disks began to shrink in size, until they were just barely larger than his normal hands and floating over the back of his hands.
"What?" she said confused for a split second, before he began to charging towards her, causing her to flinch and fire a large blast at him.
Krillin however just put his left fist forward, her attack split off in two as her as he continued towards her, unimpeded by her as he moved forward, once he had made it through the blast everything started to slow down.
Krillin's right fist kept moving towards her face.
18 eyes widened in fear.
Just before the ki spinning around his hand made contact with her, Krillin's fist suddenly turned to the left, slicing through bites of her hair and then sunk into her right should, then pressed his shoulder into her chest. His aura flaring more, his muscles, bulging as he sent them both travel like a rocket straight to the ground, a loud sickening crack could be heard, whatever materials of the Androids spine was made of cracking upon impact.
"I...I did it..." Krillin said, as he collapsed where he was.
"Great it's over...now just finish us off." 17 voice spoke out, a short distance away from them " Or at least me so I don't have to listen to you two flirt badly anymore."
"I wasn't flirting!" Krillin said shocked, blushing as he realized where his face was, and looked up to see a still conscious, glaring at him with a small blush of her own. At the sight of this Krillin rolled himself off of her as quickly as he could, crying out in pain as his shoulder
"Just do whatever you're going to do already and make it quick." 18 said defeatedly, closing her eyes.
"Ugh, what did I just say about not wanting to hear anymore flirting." 17 groaned out in disgust.
"Shu-...oh just stop being a jerk..."
Krillin managed to get himself on his feet as the cyborg siblings bantered, letting out a sigh as he said "Guess it's time to end this."
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Krillin." a fourth voice, one that none of the people present had ever heard before, spoke out as slow steps of someone walking up behind them.
"What, what are you?" Krillin gasped out in shock at the tall green insectoid creature walking up behind him.
"I am Cell the ultimate lifeform." Cell introduced himself, holding his hands out "And you weak pathetic human have led me to my perfection."
Oh no! Just when he finally achieved victory, an even stronger enemy has appeared! Can Krillin defeat this new foe? Can he even survive long enough for Trunks to arrive? Can either of them stop Cell from achieving his perfect form in this timeline as well?
Find out Next time on Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Krillin.