Chapter 23

Future Gohan was a character I've always cherished. He's essentially a Son Gohan who had to already go through the traumatic shit of Dragon Ball Z as a toddler all the way up to the BAD END future which saw him as the only proficient fighter against the Androids. He parted ways from his mom, all of his friends were dead, he couldn't revive the dead, and he lacked any guidance to train him to his fullest potential. Everything he has was self-taught against foes who wouldn't give him enough of a fair challenge to improve.

Yet in spite of all that hardship, in spite of being a good person who fought for the earth and sacrificed his childhood and personal wants…he was killed off by a pair of homicidal little shits who left his cooling corpse in a puddle.

No justice was given to the poor soul as his fate would then indubitably be passed on to Trunks who would become a Super Saiyan but still wouldn't amount to half of what the androids would be.

As a child, it was always so depressing to watch that old Special. The only relief you can gain from it was the knowledge that the androids got theirs after the Cell Saga. Both in the timeline where Imperfect Cell killed Trunks for his Time Machine via their bombs and in the Main Future Timeline where Trunks kills them himself.

That's why what I'm about to do is more for me than for them. Sure, I wanted to help and ensure that one Future Gohan lives to see another day, but this right here…I'm here to get satisfaction from the suffering of these two…disgusting teenagers!

Keeping my eyes locked on the two heaving androids, who probably didn't expect to receive damage, I raised a single hand in Gohan's direction and gave him a bounteous amount of my Ki to replenish his dwindling stores.

"Th-This power it's almost like d-!" Its good to hear that he's restored to full stamina, but we had two issues that needed to be dealt with.

"Allow me to join you in this fight, Son Gohan." I grunted and flared my Ki, followed by him doing the same albeit at lower intensity. "These monsters have been an eyesore for too long, and it's about time that they've been overdue for a shutdown."

"Right, and thanks…" The sole remaining Z-fighter of earth took his stance beside me. It irked me to hear just how relieved he sounded. Sure, he was prepared to die, but no one wants to die. Not even the two assholes who were steadily recovering to glower at me.

"Urgh! Honestly, the first time that you came to fight us with a kid, I thought you were desperate, Gohan. So, would you mind sharing how you found this guy?" Android 17 spat out some blood.

"Who the hell cares! He got me to puke all over my favorite blouse. Both of them are dropping dead for all I care!" Android 18 growled.

An insidious thought came to mind as I laughed.

"What's so funny, asshole!" 18 hissed.

"Wow, you must really like that blouse to kill me over it. I mean, losing it may as well be like abandoning your own child. But of course, you must know how that must feel…right?" I smirked.

"What are y-?" 17 raised an eyebrow.

"Well, don't worry, I'm sure that after this that you can adopt a new blouse to wear…right?" Both the eyes of the androids widened but I continued to rile them up. "You know, I orphan get told that I'm quite a fashionista so maybe can help you go shopping after this…right?"

"Shut. Up."

"Buddy, you won't live long enough to regret this if you don't quit it."

Ohoho, now I've gotten them truly pissed off. Gohan thankfully remained quiet as I basically executed my strategy of riling them up with some good old fashion shit talking.

"No, you guys are right. I apologize, I really shouldn't be teasing you, Lapis and Lazuli."

"Wha-!?"

"How-!?"

"I'm sure that your parents must be very proud of you."

"Don't you even-!"

"Oh, wait. Why they be proud of you if they abandoned you in the first place? I mean, personally, would I really want to be a father to a couple of kids called Lapis and Lazuli? I think they fit more as stage names for strippers. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the purpose of your names before he scrapped the idea and tossed you two out. A shame, I'm sure that loads of people would have loved a twin set."

I instinctively raised my arms and felt the ground buckle and crater from the simultaneous blows of the two androids landing upon my forearms.

"What's wrong? Did I touch a nerve Lapis and Lazuli?"

"No holding back, 17!"

"I know, sis. Kill this bastard, full power!"

Pretty presumptuous that the two of you still feel like you have a chance. "HAAA!" I released a Kiai that sent both of them and unfortunately Gohan reeling into the sky. I focused on the twins and chose the black haired one as my opponent. In a burst of Ki, I executed a Dragon Rush to overtake him before he could right himself in the sky.

"What the-!?" I channeled my Ki to my hand and molded it to sharpen along my fingertips. With one swing, I disconnected 17's arm from his shoulder. His look of bafflement transformed to agonized horror as he gripped his bleeding stump.

"17!" 18, concerned for her brother, immediately let her guard down and left an opening for me to exploit.

"Dodon Ray!"

"…F-Fuck…!" Tch, she dodged at the last minute. I was aiming for her chest, but instead got her right side. What a shame. I snipped off two strands of hairs to quickly create clones to shapeshift as insects and latch onto the clothes of the two androids. Since I can't sense them, I'll use my clones as Ki beacons to keep track of them should they even think to escape.

"Y-You piece of sh-!" 18 glowered at me and tensed her hands out, huge balls of Ki were primed to be slung at me. 17 was still reeling from literally losing his arm, so he was less receptive besides glaring bloody murder at me.

"KAMEHAMEHA!" Unfortunately, they forgot that this was a 2v2 as Gohan blasted 18's ass with a wave of Ki so hard that it had sent her crashing through a couple of buildings. "I've got 18, you deal with 17!" I smiled as that bit of confidence returned in Gohan's voice as he rushed to pursue the injured blonde android.

"You got it." I nodded.

"18!" Even down an arm, 17 pursued Gohan with his arm outraised to shoot him out of the sky. I intercepted the blast and smacked it to some other part of the city to blow up. "Yo-You!"

"Me!" I laughed in catharsis watching the always smug 17 get worked up for once. In a burst of speed, I quickly traveled the distance between us and punched that prick face of his and sent him careening toward the ground with the force of a torpedo. The dust from his body impacting the ground did mask his form, but I detected my own energy signature begin to pass me from below.

"That doesn't make sense." I didn't see anyone on the road behind me.

Although once the dust clears, I noticed that the road was nor destroyed with a gaping hole leading into the sewers. The clone disguised as an insect that clung to 17 made me guess that he was making a beeline for Android 18.

"Tch, pussy. Can't even finish a fight yourself…" I clicked my tongue as I felt my energy signature, and Instant Transmission'd to his location. I had to suppress a gag as old sewage pervaded my senses. Thankfully, I had 17's horrified expression to distract me from the other rotten shit down here.

"Impossible how did you-!?"

"Dodon Ray."

"Barrier!" I clicked my tongue as the black-haired murder cyborg raised that annoying ass green barrier. My blast was nullified upon contact. "Nice try, dickhead! I'm not going to fall for that like 18!" He didn't seem keen on lowering his barrier after I tossed a few causal Dodon Rays his way.

Welp, since he wants to strand himself in a Safe Zone, then I'll just keep playing dirty. I mentally gave a command to the insect transformed clone clinging to 17's back, and in a poof, he reverted back to resemble me and lock him the androgynous android in a clean full nelson.

"Gotcha bitch!"

"Wha-? How!? How are you able to do all this!? Just who in the hell are you!?" The android struggled to break free from my clone's hold as he kicked and flailed. He had even dared to try to use a Ki blast to blow up the entire sewer, but…

Nah.

*WHAAAAAAAAAAAM!*

Alternating between my Super Saiyan 1 and 2 forms in a split second, I crossed the distance and landed a mean hook to the fucker's face. His head snapped back with a wicked crack as a nasty red welt formed on his cheek.

"Not dead." My clone nodded.

"Good." I wasn't about to let this asshole explode the sewer and get shit all over me just to escape. Flexing my Shroud, I alternated to the Cyber Shroud and shoved it through the unconscious android's mouth for twice the effectiveness. Capturing him was the plan, but I was mostly searching for…

"There." In a whispy etheric light resembling a hand, the Shroud grasped what I assumed to either be the artificial energy generator or that massive nuke implanted in his chest. Either way, I quickly made my Shroud fiddle around with it and forcibly turn it "OFF" or at least as inactive as it could possibly be. It took 5 grueling minutes, but I managed to deactivate what was supposedly the bomb before searching for, finding, and deactivating his energy generator.

"Now he's as strong as any ordinary human, or regular Cyborg without Ki to toughen them up." Letting my Shroud to the work, I captured Android 17 on the spot and fully restored him to full health with that freebie thanks to Body Defense. However, I heavily imposed my will upon his psyche to not awaken.

[Lapis/Android 17 (Tier 10) Captured – 1200 Credits]

Take him to the Demiplane, and prepare him for me.

My clone heeded my orders and absconded with 17, now I just needed 18 and I'll have the twin set to do as I please. But first…

"He's struggling?" I blinked in surprise and teleported to Gohan's location. Mid-teleport, I caught the fist to a haggardly breathing 18, who's breathing hitched upon my sudden appearance. Taking in everything, Gohan was now literally on his last legs behind me while Android 18 seemed on the verge of keeling over.

"You-! Where's 17!?" Right about now your average saiyan would be the time where I come up with some witty retort and embarrassingly demean her in a fight. Good thing I'm not one of them otherwise we'd get a potential Resurrection of F pulled on the planet by a desperate homicidal android.

*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!*

One Super Saiyan 2 enhanced gut punch did the trick in knocking the consciousness out of her. Then next, I used my Cyber Shroud to deactivate her bomb and Ki generator before engulfing her limp body into it just to get more credits and complete the twin set.

[Lazuli/Android 18 (Tier 10) Captured – 1200 Credits]

Now with a captured 18 in my possession, I gripped her by the neck and concentrated on the insect disguised clone on her back.

Before the attack hits, take her to the Demiplane.

Casually throwing her into the air, I bombarded Lazuli's falling body with a heavy barrage of Ki blasts that would obliterate anything weaker than I in a heartbeat. Luckily, I didn't get a notification that she was dead, so my clone naturally followed through with my orders.

Quickly turning to Gohan, I inhaled sharply and rushed to his side. He was clutching a hand sized chest wound that was just pouring with blood. His body looked super pale and his gaze unfocused. Shit, I took too long with 17.

This guy may have had a boost from me giving him my power but he was still on death's door from his prior beating from the Androids ganging up on him. He must have used up all of his energy and risked his own health to cause 18 that much damage.

"T-Thanks…did you…?" He wheezed out between bloody gasps for air.

"Yeah…I did." I took his arm and bit into it so hard that it drew blood. Treasure Hoarder should go into effect in 5 minutes. "They won't ever come back." I'll see to it that comes true."

"T-That's good…I'm…relieved…" The man began to fell back, but I quickly caught him. I winced as I felt blood pool on my hand that held his back…a back with another gaping wound.

Shit…

Without hesitation, I just Shrouded Gohan's dying body and decided to just capture him through the Shroud, and fully healed him with Body Tune-Up's free Full Heal benefit. Now his Power Level went up from the recovery AND he has his arm back.

[Future Son Gohan (T10) Captured – 1200 Credits]

"Phew…" Now I can feel less like crap. Leaving the man unconscious on the ground, I decided to do some more last minute meddling. I created a legion of clones to search for Kami's Place and in 10 minutes of scouring the globe, they found it, but it was in ruins. Bright side though, it's Room of Spirit and Time were still functioning.

So, I had a clone locate Future Teen Trunks's unconscious body while I gnabbed Gohan then took them to the Lookout. Placing them on the old, dusty beds in of the many floating castle's rooms, I wrote a note detailing everything I knew for the future.

-Majin Buu and Babidi

-Beerus the God of Destruction

-Goku Black

-The Hyperbolic Time Chamber

-Tips and tricks to achieve Super Saiyan 2, 3 & 4

-Encouragement to build a Rocket Ship instead of a Time Machine to search for New Namek (I heavily brought up Dende due to Gohan's friendship with him and also because Gohan desperately needed friends)

After jotting down everything that came to mind, I left them both with one of Nion's standard Healing Pods, Scouters, and other equipment that would best help their efforts in their now freed and scarred world. Giving the two a once over, I gave him a salute escaped back to my Demiplane.

"Phew, that was cathartic." I sighed in relief. "Good thing I chose a version of Dragon Ball that the Time Patrol and Time Breakers would NEVER investigate or exploit. It's its own World now and now it was up to Gohan and Trunks to take up the reigns and protect it.

Huh, I wonder if I accidentally made Dragon Ball Absalom…nah…

Powering back down to my base form, I teleported to the room where Lapis and Lazuli were being held by my clones. Both were in compromising positions with Lazuli's arms tied behind her back and her legs spread to reveal her torn leggings, pure white panties, and beautifully pink vagina while the androgynous Lapis was face down with his jeans pulled down to reveal his girlish, wide ass.

Both of them were ready to be plundered and broken, and I was going to sure as hell enjoy taking out my pent up rage and frustration on them!

AN: And there! Yeah, it didn't seem feasible for the SI to drag things out. He came, mutilated the androids, gave Gohan a heads up, then dipped. It's anticlimatic, but if he wasn't going all out and utilizing his perks and skills, then he'd be a poor Contractor, who struggles to get results.

Now next chapter will undoubtely be a Lemon, so look forward to that!

Anyways, I'm Out so Peace Out and have a lovely day, everyone!