Looking drastic and scraped, Android 21 and Super Android 16 flew past the destructive path that Luud had made to reach the outermost layer of the Luud Star and stand on its surface tall and liberated. None of the inner corridors of the cybernetic space star could host this massive would-be Machine God, which was what led Luud outside into open space.
"What a massive Machine Mutant, this one might cause us problems. Maybe you should step back, mother?" Super No. 16 turned to Dr. Puri, who appeared completely unbothered by the scrapes and bruises decorating her exterior.
"Don't be ridiculous, dear. We've got this cult at its wit's end. Can't you see? Clearly, this "Machine God" of theirs wasn't designed to fight indoors. It was simply too massive. It was never meant to be activated. It's not some hidden ace that they try to make us believe it to be. It's powerful, I've got no doubt of that, but it's their last resort," No. 21 pointed out while the two hovered out from the hole and came face to face with the mechanical goliath.
Leaning over the pair with its massive size, Luud slammed its arm into the Luud Star's surface, cracking it like a shell before smashing it with its second free arm. While both Super No. 16 and No. 21 evaded these power strikes, when Luud dragged its arm across the surface, tearing a massive chasm in it, it knocked Dr. Puri away.
"You…!" Super Artificial Human No. 16 gnashed his teeth, charging straight at Luud. The incredible velocity of the rushing Artificial Human created a sonic boom at the forefront of his flight with No. 16 wielding it to his advantage as he accelerated past the point of logic and slammed into Luud with the collective concussive shockwave of the sonic boom and his own speed and power. With Luud stumbling back, Super No. 16 re-engaged his headstrong rush and slammed with the weight of his entire body right into Luud's head, which made the cosmic-size mechanical marvel vault backward in mid-air.
Appearing overhead his airborne humongous adversary, Super Android 16 charged down like a sledgehammer, crashing Luud straight into the cyber star's surface, which sent trembles across the entire structure, causing immense structural damage throughout. Luud crashed past a few floors' worth of corridors and laboratories and ended up stuck inside one of the reserve core chambers while Super No. 16 cast a strict glare down at his fumbled foe.
Blinding rays of light beamed from the spaces between Luud's parts and the outer sheet of material. Stunned by the sudden burst of energy, both Artificial Humans staggered back as their energy sensors became overloaded with information and began short-circuiting with electric sparkles and meek lingering trails of smoke. Just a second later, Dr. Puri peeled her eyes open slowly, only to see Luud's whiny face directly in front of her. Before the Android mastermind could react, Luud thwacked her away like a bothersome fly and stomped down on the fallen Artificial Human.
With a relaxed expression on her bruised face, Artificial Human No. 21 fell down into the chasm that the stamping destroyer sent her fumbling into, whacking her abdomen and head across many beams and pipes on her way down to some busted, fuming, and overheated engine room. Instead of pursuing the fallen Artificial Human for a finishing blow, Luud began thrashing around and crying with visible ripples that shook the surrounding space, disturbing the artificial atmosphere around the Luud Star's outermost layer.
"He's like a big baby…" Super No. 16 realized. He wanted to plunge after his mother, but he could still get solid readings from her energy signature, so he wasn't worried about No. 21's life being in danger. That being said, the recently ascended Super Android would've much rather seen this bothersome Machine God destroyed before Super No. 21 rejoins the battle since she underestimated the danger she was in which could've led to her premature end.
Super No. 16 wouldn't lose his makeshift family so soon after finding it. By showing them mercy, the Dragon Team gave them a chance to start anew. More so, they gave Android 16 something he would've never otherwise encountered – they activated him when his fate was to gather dust as a failed subject in Dr. Puri's lab. That meant that had Gohan not activated him, he'd have never been "born" and he'd have never found his family. To protect everything that is dear to Super Android 16, he had to destroy Luud as soon as possible.
Super No. 16 crashed down with an elbow slam, knocking Luud into a stumble. The Super Android swooped in at the Machine God's head, winding his arm back for a devastating crash, but, out of nowhere, Luud's hands crashed from both sides and began squeezing Super No. 16 out of his life. The immense pressure sent rippling shockwaves from Luud's hands and Super No. 16 heard the steel alloy in his body singing, screaming as the impossible force of pressure bent and broke it out of shape.
Rays of light gleamed from underneath Luud's hands before an explosive energy wave busted Super Android 16 out of Luud's grip and pushed the Machine God away from Super No. 16 who panted and wiped the blood trickling from his nostril with the back of his hand. Even when he was acting just like a big baby, Luud was still dangerous. Maybe even more so, his thrashing, random fighting style combined with his strange abilities made it a difficult combination to read.
Luud's eyes flashed with a golden light, emitting a thunderbolt from them that slammed straight at the Super Android, engulfing him whole while the surroundings flashed with sparkling lemon-colored light. With stuttering movements, the Super Android gazed at his hands, witnessing them shift their texture and consistency from the adamantine steel alloy that Dr. Puri made her Artificial Humans of into mere plastic. Suddenly, Super No. 16 realized that he was stuck that way and had no more control over his movements. Gravity became impossible to resist and not too long after Luud's Doll Beam puffed away into smoke, Super No. 16 smacked down on the ground as a mere plastic doll.
Luud opened its mouth, creating an apocalyptic gale that pulled all sorts of loose junk into its abyssal mouth while also dragging the limp and lifeless plastic doll of Super No. 16 straight into the engine of majestic power that was meant to fuel the entire cyber-verse once the Four-Star Plan came to fruition. The toddler-like Machine God munched its mouth and smacked its round belly while vibrant electric-color light sparkled around its body.
Super No. 16 got turned into a doll and gobbled up!
"Good, good! Those invaders are powerless against the invincible Lord Luud, the Machine God of the cyber-verse!" Dolltaki laughed out to himself while picking up his dolls that had scattered everywhere and dragging them across the room to their tiny plastic chairs that were set up around pink and frilly tablecloth where a tea set was set up for Dolltaki's favorite dolls. "Now those horrible bullies won't bother me anymore and I can play with my dolls in some peace and quiet…"
The Luud Star trembled and quaked, busted pipes began falling from Dolltaki's roof with the frightened overlord of the Cult of Luud covering up his head and curling into a ball. His eyes teared up when a pipe bounced off of his right side. When Dolltaki opened his eyes, he saw the fallen dolls scattered across the room and the ruined tea set crushed by a fallen panel of the roof. All the dolls fell to the side which left them looking right at him.
"What are you looking at!?" Dolltaki cried out. "It's not embarrassing at all for grown men to play with dolls! It's cool!"
Frustrated, Dolltaki kicked one of his nearest dolls off to smack at the wall and then tried kicking the fallen pipe before realizing how long and hard it was. With his foot twinging in pain, the grandmaster and the last survivor of the Cult of Luud began bouncing on one leg with tears squirting from the corners of his eyes. Just as soon as he could place the tormented foot back down on the ground, Dolltaki pulled on his soccer mom's haircut while seething at the forced guests of his grim tea party.
"Shut up! I'm not crying! I'm not crying at all! And… Even if I was crying, that's actually a very healthy reaction to pain! Here… I'll show you! I'll make all of you cry now!" in a fit of rage and insecurity, Dolltaki began throwing and kicking his doll friends around his room which also served as his office. "I'm such a cool guy. I'm so important… You'll pay for making fun of me during my tea party… I'll show all of you! Luud is under my command, and Dr. Myuu and Dr. Lychee can't enact their plan without me! Just maybe I'll have Luud destroy their stars and then I'll rule the entire universe on my own!"
Dolltaki picked the Super One-Nine's doll by her hair and pulled it closer to his sneering, wet, and frog-like face. "After everything I did, after all the cute dresses I gifted you and after I invited you to my cool tea party, you would still look at me with those eyes and judge me? I thought that what we had was something special. That's okay, you can look at me with those eyes all you want, I'll take over the entire universe and then I'll have a million, no, a billion friends who will think I'm the coolest, and nobody will judge me, because, if they will, they'll become a part of Luud! I'll have entire planets, no, the whole universe as one giant party!"
Dolltaki approached his door and scanned his hand. The door lit up red and malfunctioned, but upon smashing his hammering fist into the panel and inputting something into the command center; the door opened halfway, staying stuck diagonally though, leaving enough space for Dolltaki to walk through. Luud's rampage outside made it impossible to traverse the Luud Star or to work. Dolltaki approached the edge of a broken passageway railing and extended his hand, giving Super One-Nine a sadistic smile while she dangled over the edge of a massive firestorm raging down in an engine room.
"You'll pay for betraying me, you'll all pay. I'll give you one chance to look at me nice and say, "Dolltaki's the cutest guy and he's so cool and he's going to be the master of the whole universe with a million-billion friends! No? Well, you can take your judgment to hell!"
Just as Dolltaki wound his hand back to heave the doll away. His body stiffened and became frozen in that stance. Dolltaki's eyes bulged out from his amphibian, mud-colored face and he turned his glare as far behind him as he could. Instead of tossing Super One-Nine's doll away, he turned around and hugged her in his crossed hands while he began twirling in a goofy ballet routine while slowly skipping and prancing away from the railing.
"Y-You…!?" Dolltaki seethed with bloodshot eyes upon seeing outlandish blue-skinned aliens with skintight red bodysuits and egg-shaped heads.
"That expression doesn't suit you, boss!" Bon Para said with a confident look on his face. "Here, why don't we give you a big, wide smile!?"
In perfect synchrony, the three Para Brothers turned around and stopped in a goofy-looking pose while holding the tips of their lips in a forced smile by hooking their index fingers inside them and pulling the lip corners upward.
"Y-You dared not surrender your energy to Luud!? You'll pay. The moment I regain my movement, I'll turn all of you into dolls and feed you to Luud myself, you hear me? Now release me from this ridiculous, uncool dance at once!" Dolltaki demanded with a sour and outraged look.
"Now why would you say that, boss?" Don Para asked bluntly, while all three brothers kept their dance up and kept Dolltaki dancing too. "That only makes us wanna let you go even less."
"That's right," Son Para squeaked out. "You and Mutchy-sama always treated us like dirt, like we're expandable busybodies for your cult. Those Earthling robots, however, they saved our lives, and they treated us with kindness. We decided we don't like you being in charge of the Luud Star anymore."
"So what…? Do you think you'll just keep me dancing here forever? You need all three of you to dance in perfect synchrony at once to keep me locked into this stupid dance. That means that you can't do anything else, you can't take that Earthling doll away from me, nor can you contact those Earthling invaders. Meanwhile, without my control, Luud will tear this station down one sheet of metal at a time!" Dolltaki threatened the Para Brothers. "You'll stay floating in space forever! No one will want ridiculous goofballs nobody likes working for them! You heard me!? Nobody likes you!"
"I beg to differ," a calm, feminine voice made Dolltaki's heart sink to his heels as cold sweat poured down his face. "Right now, these three oafs are my favorite people in the entire universe."
Before Dolltaki could whine anything, a red and black energy blade lit up around Dr. Puri's forearm and she slashed it across Dolltaki's back, slicing the amphibian alien clean into two. The upper side of Dolltaki slid off of the lower one with rolled back eyes and stuck out tongue and fell off the edge and into the roaring engine blaze below. Gently, Android 21 hovered above the railing and picked up Super One-Nine's doll. Then she looked at the Para Brothers.
"Thanks, I must admit, I didn't expect you three to do anything useful and, frankly, I thought you three were dead. In any case, I'm grateful for what you did. Grateful enough to leave you alive even," Dr. Puri attached the Super One-Nine doll to her belt before running her hand across her messy hairdo. Somewhere amidst all this chaos, Artificial Human No. 21 lost her glasses, and it was a notable loss to her style.
"W-Wait, we can help you out lots more!" Bon Para called out. "We know how you can use that staff in Dolltaki's office to turn that robot back to normal. We can help you keep Luud distracted too!"
"Hmm… Very well, you can be the butlers of my family," Dr. Puri ran her hand across her hair before looking up at the ruined chasm over the head where she saw Luud stepping over it and continuing its rampage elsewhere. "Let's hurry and restore Super One-Nine. Unless we handle that big baby, he'll wreck this entire star apart and we'll have to look for another home. It should be in your best interests to help. Our ship where we stayed before is too small for three more freeloaders, so we'll be leaving you three behind unless we can take over this star."
"R-Right!" the Para Para Brothers bowed and ran off in an exaggerated, cartoonish jog to their right. Quickly, Artificial Human No. 21 vaulted over the edge of the railing and flew over to the platform they were just on to follow them into the bowels of the collapsing cybernetic star.
It was fortunate for everyone still alive and not a part of Luud that the gigantic baby-faced Machine God didn't have the best control over its peerless power capable of sustaining the cybernetic universe that the Big Gete Star was meant to create. Because of its toddler-level intelligence, Luud resorted to just throwing its fists around, slamming, yanking, and throwing things around, or chomping on metallic skyscrapers instead of actually doing some real harm to the star-sized cybernetic space station.
Crescent-shaped, yellow ki swipes flew out from a dark chasm and slammed against Luud's face, making the grumpy cybernetic baby frown and thrash about. With heels and greaves glowing with yellow light, Dr. Puri emerged from the abyssal chasm with tattered clothes and bruised up, bravely challenging the capricious Machine God to a duel with her defiant disposition.
"Settle down now. Unfortunately for you, I don't have the time of day to take care of three kids, not to mention the fact that you must be gobbling up heaps. I'll have to send you to the scrapyard but them's the breaks, as they say…" Dr. Puri smirked, knowing full well that the mechanical goliath would shriek in disdain for the Artificial Human that caused him pain with her heel Ki blasts.
Luud reached for Android 21, looking to grab her and crush her in between its continent-sized hands until a barrage of white energy bullets with hunter-green outlines hurled straight into the Machine God's face, sending the machine monster into a backward stagger and slapping its own face to cancel the resounding alarms, relaying that Luud should feel pain, and taking care of itself that were resonating throughout its body. While Luud was fumbling about, a pale-skinned teen with a long, brown dress and a black vest blitzed out from the chasm with a thunderous right fist shimmering with white and green energy that she thrust with a clamorous thud into Luud's chin and downed the gigantic colossus.
"Nice punch, dear," Android 21 commended her artificial daughter oozing with sass.
"Being turned into a doll and ogled by that creep! I'll make this stupid cult pay…!" Super One-Nine, usually cool and stoic, clenched her subtle fists by his sides and showed some genuine hints of the fury brimming inside her.
"Let's find a way to pull your worrywart brother out of that monster's engine first. Even if it is unfortunate that Luud absorbed him, I don't think that all of his boundless energy would just vanish like that. Super 16 must be giving this big toddler the worst case of indigestion imaginable, so we should help him out with that," Android 21 relayed the plan.
"We're here too!" Para Para Brothers lined up with flexing poses on a nearby cybernetic station tower.
"Let's make that baby dance, everyone!" Bon Para hyped up his brothers.
"Right!" Son Para and Don Para nodded in enthusiastic agreement.
The final fight against Machine God Luud to determine the master of the Luud Star was about to begin. It may just have been a battle that, unbeknownst to Dr. Puri and her family, would have major ramifications for the battles waging across the universe against the enactment of the Four-Star Plan!