A/N: …..um hi everyone….hehe um I'm serious sorry about the incredibly long wait (7 months actually) for a new chapter but um I can explain see um….first I got too into the recent Naruto manga, it's getting epic. But the BIG reason was that I was completely stuck with writer's block for this story (Which was sort of the reason why the last chapter was called What Now?) I didn't know how to continue hahaha I mean I have the whole story like the main events already planned out but it's the just the little details that always get me. But after meditating in the high mountains (listening to VOCALOID songs….) I have finally came up with something! (Thank you oh great Monk Miku!) So um hear you go!

Chapter 24- Sorrow…

'26…..' Yamcha slowly opened his eyes with a strange empty feeling in his heart. The first thing that he saw was a white ceiling. 'Where am I…?' He wondered before realization came to him. He was back at the Lookout, in the infirmary rooms from the looks of it. He rose up from the bed and groaned at the slight pain in his back. How did he get here? Where was Goku, Piccolo, 27 and…..He looked up at the wall with fear in his eyes. 'Where's 26…?'

"Yamcha you're awake!" He turned his head and noticed Bulma sitting by his side with a smile on her face. "I'm so glad."

"Where's 26?" Bulma bit her lip at his question. How was she to tell him that the girl that he was in love with….is gone….She was practiced again and again trying to be as careful as possible but….every time she thought of it, the outcome was the same. She couldn't even imagine the pain and sorrow that would flow in his eyes as she said those words. She just….she wished that she didn't have to do this.

"Yamcha….." Her eyes….in his eyes he could tell that something was wrong, that something happened to 26. He prayed that she was alright, that her smiling face was not gone from him, that her sweet voice would still fill the air bringing him peace. He wanted to see her and only her.

"I want to see 26." He said with a serious tone. Bulma saw the look in his eyes before down casting to the floor. "Bulma….tell me where 26 is!" Bulma still remained silent. "Bulma..!"

"She's gone!" Saying it to him like this was the last thing that she wanted to do but she couldn't hold back the truth from him any longer. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at the shocked expression on his face.

"….." Silence filled the room for the two humans. The only sound that could be heard was the soft breathing of Bulma fused with the shallow breaths of Yamcha. Bulma did not know what to say, she did not know what to do. How could she comfort him…when she didn't know how to comfort herself?

"Yamcha…I'm sorry….." She whispered while placing her hand on his. She felt it shaking underneath her touch and felt tears threatening to fall from her eyes. "She….she was absorbed by Fortissimo."

Yamcha clenched his teeth as he felt his heart shattering in two. No….how could this have…..no….Memories of the times he and 26 have shared filled his mind. The memory of her smiles….her laughter…her tears….her love….all those memories filled him with more grief and pain. He didn't want to believe it, we wanted 26 to jump out from behind Bulma and smile down at him. He wanted…..he wanted her back with him. "No….please Bulma….no…." He let a tear fall from his eyes. "…She can't be….SHE CAN'T BE!" Hot tears started to roll down his face. "She can't be gone she just can't!" He leaned his head on her shoulder. "She can't be gone she….." Bulma let a tear fall before wrapping her arm over his head. "…..I love her….."

"I know Yamcha….I know…." And after that they just sat there in the silence, the sound of Yamcha's loud sobs being the only thing to fill the empty air.

New Androids

Krillin sighed as he stared up at the sky with a troubled look in his eyes. Today had to have been the worst day he had ever experienced in his life. His wife, who he had never thought could even shed a tear, was breaking apart inside due to the death of Android 26. He could only imagine what everyone else was going through. 17, 27….Yamcha... He thinks that out of all of them he could understand Yamcha the most. He had been through this path before, literally. So he knew that Yamcha was not taking this well. He remembered when he saw it happen before his eyes. The muffled screams she sent out as she was pushed more and more into that monster's body. How helpless he felt knowing that he couldn't do a thing to stop him, no matter how hard he tried. Krillin knew exactly how Yamcha felt and knew that simple words of everything was going to be alright was not going to help him. Empty promises of a better tomorrow were not going to lessen the pain. Knowing that every tomorrow was going to be without them….knowing that your eyes would never be able to fall on them again. A feeling that like cannot be taking away by small words…..sometimes the feeling will always stay….

"So, how's 18….?" Krillin asked the approaching body.

17 sighed. "Not good…" He stood next to the shorter male. "Better than before though."

"I guess that's a step in the right direction." Krillin muttered. 17 nodded before facing the sky. "I still can't believe that this is happening, I thought that for once we were done with all this fighting."

"Trust me I know how you feel." 17 crossed his arms over his chest. "I wanted to spend the rest of my life wandering, trying to find a purpose for my life. I never thought that I would be fighting once again."

"A purpose?"

17 nodded. "After the whole cell thing I decided to stop trying to kill Goku but that left me with a question…What was my purpose? So I thought that journeying around the world would eventually help me understand why I lived." He sighed. "I'm starting to think however that maybe my purpose is to fight."

Krillin chuckled. "Yeah I'm starting to think that same for me." He chuckled. The light mood slowly changed back to solemn as Krillin's smile dropped. "It's sad to see someone like 26 leave us like that." Krillin may not have known 26 personally but he could tell that she was a good person. And that someone like her did not deserve to leave this world in such a way.

17 nodded slowly. "She was someone that also felt as if she had another purpose in life besides murder." 17 had always envied 26's pure innocence and optimism. Her ability to not let the horrors that surrounded her shatter her belief in happiness and peace. He wished that he had that strength. "She was more human than any of us…."

"Yeah…I can't imagine how 18 must be feeling now…."

"To tell you the truth, I am more concerned about 27." Krillin glanced at the dark haired android. "Ever since his creation, 26 and him have always had a strong bond. They were like siblings, always willing to protect the other. Android 27 however had a more protective attitude than her. He would do anything so long as she was safe. Go through vigorous test, experimentations….all to insure that she was not the one to be tested. She was his sister, his only sister. So to have her become a part of a monster such as Fortissimo must be hitting him harder than anyone. There's no telling what he might do in his state of mind at the moment." 17 saw the look in his eyes, he knew what was going through 27's head.

"You don't think…." Krillin stopped. "He could be planning on going after Fortissimo?" He had to be stupid to be thinking of such a thing. Krillin too had this thought when 18 was taken from him but unlike 27, he had the common sense to know when he was beat.

"I am…not sure. But what I am sure of is that the thought has probably gone through his head more than once." 17 does hope that 27 would know that this would not help anything. He could not do anything when Fortissimo was at his weakened form, what would make him believe that he could compete with him with his power increased. "WE should keep a watchful eye on him…and 18…." Krillin nodded.

"Yeah…there's no telling what they might do…"

New Androids

What was he to do? 27 fumed as the darkness of his room covered over him like a blanket of shadows. How could they just sit here while that monster continues to live with the blood of his sister on his hands? Why couldn't they understand him….why couldn't they….wait…of course they wouldn't understand him. They do not know how strong he and 26's bond was. She was his sister, the first person that had showed him such kindness. She was the only one that he didn't despise. She gave him a purpose, a reason besides to kill Goku. His purpose was to protect her and yet…he failed. How could they understand how useless he felt? How could they understand his pain? They couldn't, they could never know the feelings that he was facing.

27 stared at the door with rage. What was he to do? The first thought that came to his head was revenge. He wanted to make Fortissimo pay for taking away his dear sister. He wanted to release all his anger and pain out on the monster that caused it but…would that be what 26 would have wanted him to do? Would she want him to seek vengeance? Would she want him to forget his life and to completely go all out on Fortissimo? Android 27 wanted to believe that she did but knew that she wouldn't want him to that at all. His peace loving sister wouldn't want him to risk his life just because of her. But wouldn't she understand that he had no other option. This rage, this hate for the monster was eating him up. He wanted to destroy; he wanted to see everything around him in flames, anything to help him with his inner demons.

"27….?" The last thing that 27 wanted to do was to see someone at the moment. Not only did he not want anyone to see him in such a state of weakness, not that cared much at all, but he did not trust himself in this state. If someone were to say something beyond his liking at the moment…he might kill them. He slowly looked up however and saw 18 staring at him with tired eyes, probably from crying.

"What do you want?" He spat out with venom in his voice.

18 sighed and saw down next to him. "I….I don't know…"

"Well if you don't know then get the hell out!" He roared. "Because if you're here just to tell me that everything is going to be alright you can just do jump off the damn edge!" He did not need their lies. He didn't need to hear their pitiful empty words of a promised bright future. He was no fool and knew that nothing will be the same. The days will always be dark and void of light. His heart would always be empty with no way to fill it again. He had his only reason to live, his only purpose for living in this pitiful world, taken from him. Now he wasn't planning on ending his life, he had too much pride for that. But his mind and body was filled with too much pain for him to continue truly living life…. "I don't want to hear your lies; I don't want to hear your pathetic attempts to understand how I feel. Today that bastard has taken the only family I had! All because I couldn't protect her, because I was too weak! I failed her….I failed to keep the promise that I made to both her and to myself. Don't sit there and act like you can understand how it feels to have someone close to be taken away!" He stared at her closely, trying to find some sort of a reaction. He wanted to see her suffer with him, so that he would be alone. But all she did was…sit there. She sat there with a solemn look on her face. She sat nothing, did nothing but sat there staring at him. The room was tense with the silence that fell over them.

"Listen 27…" She finally spoke. "Don't you dare tell me that I don't know how you feel." 27 was about to respond when her cold stare forced him to silenced him. "When I was on my path to killing Goku and when cell first came around….he took 17 right in front of me….I tried to save him, I tried to protect him but he….was taken….he was taken from me….So don't say that I don't understand how you feel." Android 27 had no idea what to say. 18….18 had lost 17 at one point? He may have vague memories of the past but what he could remember was that both 17 and 18 where practically inseparable so to here that at one point 18 had to go through the suffering of losing him was a shock to him. "I lived years with the belief that the only brother I had was gone forever, now I have to deal with the loss of someone who I too thought of as a sister. So don't tell me that I don't understand you because out of every one here I should be one of the only people who can actually relate to your feelings!" What surprised him more were the tears that fell from her eyes.

"…." He did not know how to respond to this. He had sat here this whole time convincing himself that no one could understand him yet here was 18 telling him that she did…..He was too confused, too fueled with anger, to say anything back. He was so deep within his own thoughts that he did not notice 18 getting up and walking away, leaving him to himself once more. He hated this….He hated everything about this. "Damn it….!" He muttered. '26…..'

New Androids

The sky grew back as fire rose within the now destroyed city. Sounds of thousands of screams of innocent people filled the war like air. Blood flowed down the cracked streets as if a river of flowing water. Nightmares would fill the thoughts of the surviving citizens of this day. Nothing but pure and utter fear would fill their hearts till the end of their days. And within the center of this chaos laid a monster smirking amongst the flames. This was all music to him. The sounds of bodies dropping to the ground were like drums, the sounds of the never seizing screams were like a choir of angels singing their praises to their king, him. The world needed to hear his song, his voice of death. The monster opened his mouth and let in a breath before blowing out a sound of to some would be a soft breeze but in reality….was the sound of their death. The running people stopped as the sound hit their ears. It wasn't until they heard the sound of someone screaming in the distance did the terror begin. Everyone cried out in unbearable pain as the sound became a mind destroying screech. Blood quickly started to ooze out of some while other's heads simply blew up as if they had become a balloon which had been filled with too much air.

"Ah, the sweet sound of their agony, such music to my ears." He chuckled. "But they had yet to truly grasp my voice. They still do not understand what my art is truly giving them." He crossed his arms. "What to do what to do….?" He stopped as he felt a something pinched his back. He turned slightly to see a poor looking man with a gun in his hands.

"Y-You stay back you monster!" Fortissimo smirked.

"Oh look, someone who had survived my voice?" He chuckled. "And thinks that he could actually harm me? This is such a street." He noticed how the man's hand was shaking, causing the rattling of the weapon in his hand. His eyes were filled with fear, pain and anger. His legs wobbled as if they wanted to detach themselves from his body and run away. He loved to see the human's reaction to him. They were either filled with complete fear, anger or both. "You humans interest me…." He floated down to the ground, his height towering over the man beneath him. "No matter how obvious an enemy is greater to you in strength and skill you still want to fight them. You for some reason believe that you still have a chance to go up against me." He grabbed the gun and burned it within his hands. "How pitiful…" He chuckled before thrusting his hand through the man's chest, his heart firmly in his hand. He pulled his arm out and stared at the muscle in his hand, studying how the heart is still thumping in his hands. 'The human heart…what a strange thing….' How can such a small thing be the key to these fools' lives? He shrugged then dropped it on the ground. "That was actually not as interesting as I thought it would be." He floated back into the air. "In fact…this whole city bores me." He raised his hand in the air. "As much fun as this performance has been, it's time for the final number!" Suddenly a ball of dark blue energy hovered above him, its intimidating size causing the remaining citizens to scream out in horror. Plies of mercy filled the air, causing him to frown. That is what disappointed him about the human race. They like to talk a big talk and walk a big walk but when they can see that there is nothing for them to do…they beg for their lives. They throw away any pride that they boasted for the safety of their own lives. They would sell their bodies, their loved ones, anything just so that they could continue to live their pitiful life on this planet. It sickened him. The let out one last chuckled before throwing down the ball of energy at the city and watched the whole area blow up in a bright blue explosion, leaving only behind a crater of what was before.

Fortissimo saw in the distance the sun slowly rising. "And thus a new day of destruction begins….yet….I am now bored with this power as great as it is. Maybe it is time for me to call back the androids, so that I can achieve my full strength." He cleared his throat before sending another soft note into the air. "~Ooooooooooooooooo~" It's haunting sound flowing through the air. Fortissimo continued to chuckle as his voice faded into the sky. "Soon….my power will grow…."

New Androids

"So…how's Yamcha?" Bulma jumped then turned her gaze from the sink to the direction of the voice. She sighed seeing that it was only Chi-Chi.

"He's….trying to take everything in….." Bulma did not want to tell her that she had to literally hold him down in order to calm him. She didn't want to tell her of the tears that fell down on his face. How broken he looked when she told of him 26's fate. She didn't want to tell her because….she didn't want to relive those events. It hurt too much to see her friend breaking before her the first time that even speaking of it again would bring her to tears.

"I bet it must be hardest for him. He was in love with her." Chi-Chi knows of the pain that Yamcha must be going through, having dealt with it many times with Goku, so she understand how Bulma must be hiding all the unbearable pain that must have been in her eyes.

"Yeah….Damn it I hate this!" Bulma muttered with held back rage. "This is so unfair! How can something like this happen to such a good person how can…?" Bulma watched how kind hearted 26 was. How she was able to bring back the smile that was once on Yamcha's face and now because that monster it was taken away.

"Bulma I-." She stopped when she saw Videl running towards them in a hurry. "Videl what are you-."

"Chi-Chi Bulma quick you need to hide away to safety!" She said while pulling them out of the kitchen and down the hall.

"What are you talking about?" Bulma was completely confused of this behavior. What did they need to be safe from?

"It's Android 27!" Bothe women gasped.

A/N: So I now that it's pretty short but this chapter was pretty hard to do. I mean with all the emotional stuff and everything and I'm not really good at sad scenes. Also I hope the scene with Fortissimo was graphic enough hahaha. Again I'm really sorry about the long wait and I promise that I will try to make that not to happen again. Till next time!