Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ War ❯ The loss of a Friend ( Chapter 1 )

Author's Notes: This is part three to my trilogy "Life of a Hero", Saiyan X takes place about eight to ten years after the first, just to tell you the age categories are approximate, they are not definite.

Disclaimer: This fiction will be rated PG-13 due to violent content and possible language content. I don't own any content relating to Dragon Ball Z or any of its affiliates, I do own this fiction and my original character Jared.

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WAR

Chapter 1: The loss of a friend

It has been a while since the terrorist scare of September 11th of 2001, throughout this time the American Government has been wielding its mighty sword of "justice" all around the world marching in and destroying countless countries in search of single men who are "believed" to have terrorist actions in the works. This madness all started with president George Bush Jr. who declared war on Osama bin Laden and his Taliban troops. I can't believe he blew almost every chunk of that county up and he hadn't gotten the little fucker. That was just the beginning, after that Bush went on a power trip and ended up going to war with Iraq, he even went against the U.N.'s orders and used weapons of mass destruction. Just so he couldn't be kicked out of office he changed the law stating the maximum length of a presidential term from 4 years to 10 years. Now all hell has broken loose and we are back in Somalia, trying to get another warlord out of that country, I still remember seeing the mess from the first time around god that was insane. Just after the mutant power scare eight years ago, Earth's special forces was reassembled, the new forces were assembled from groups of mutants and some humans from all around the world, even four sayains joined. Gohan, Trunks, and Goten, and I we made up a select bunch, which were designated the SSS for Super Sayain Soldier. But we were more known as the SS, we were feared just like the SS of World War II simply for the fact we were a one-man army (literally). We had the speed and firepower of jets, the stealth of S.E.A.L's and the onslaught force of weapons of mass destruction. If we wanted to we could roll over an army in a day and not even break a sweat. This decision that we had made didn't roll over well with family members but we stuck with it and they understood. Rouge, my wife of eight years, couldn't have been more proud; the same with my son Ness who was developing into a powerful young man had already developed his mutant abilities from his mother. He had very heightened senses and very strong bones, this along with his sayain heritage from both sides made for possibly a very powerful individual. I mean it wasn't that bad we were home ten months out of the year and we had great government pay. But then all this happened and the world was going for shit, Gohan and I were called out to the American base just in the outskirts of the wild parts of the capital city. They were planning an attack to the core of the city and wanted us as back up, nothing to it right, wrong. There was something out there lurking in the shadows that had even me spooked. It would head out at night lurk in the depths of the debris and blast away entire city blocks filled with American troops. This is where everything got interesting.

One morning I went out on patrol just to survey the area, the most recent of the attacks was on a sector on the east side of the controlled area, that area had a high civilian rate and it made good cover for our troops, but I guess it didn't care. As I arrived I found nothing it looked like a nuclear device had been set off right in the center, the epicenter had a blast radius of nearly 300 feet, this was creepy

It was a sunny morning and everything was going great nothing was happening and Gohan and I headed out on our now daily patrols. This most recent attack was the worst so we had to start watching our back, whoever was out there had a great deal of energy and knew how to use it. Flying about there were people everywhere trying to assess the damage to not only the property but the human lives as well, just a few blocks down from the site we found what appeared to be a small lab, the equipment on the other hand was really banged up. It appeared to be a repair location of some sorts openly accessable to all military personnel. Assuming nothing of it we left the site and headed back to the allied base with no leads on to who was killing all these soldiers. Then out of the corner of my eye I caught it and energy blast heading square for me, I stopped to deflect it and soon found the origin of the blast. The figure slinked back into the shadows as we came down to meet him head on, looking around he was gone then out of the blue Gohan was hit from behind which sent him into the wall ahead of me. Picking himself up He came at the figure locking him in battle. I watched tensely as the two exchanged blows each were monumental but something didn't seem right the being that had shown himself before us was different his style was too relaxed almost as if he wasn't trying. Gohan was getting a little tense as he realized the damage he was doing to him was pretty insignificant while he was taking a beating and barely holding his own. Blow for blow the two matched; Gohan threw a punch and the person caught it soon stuffing Gohan's arm under his own then catching Gohan's second punch and doing the same. The being went in to give Gohan a head butt but Gohan got his knee in between the two and soon had them pushed apart. Fearing the worst Gohan came down to ground level. The fighter finally came into the light were I could see him and was a mid sized person with a fine build sporting glimpses of computer hardware integrated into his body, his face was dark and deeply scarred giving away his harsh lifestyle.

"I don't know what you are but your strong, that's good I haven't had a good match in a long while," Gohan said starting to power up.

"Do what you must, the end is inevitable," the being said still risen above the battlefield.

Gohan's energy flowed fourth in a massive wave as he changed into his SSJ form; his energy swirled around him creating three golden pillars as they moved. His change finished leaving his calm and steady. Flying up the two met again in another battle, just as I feared his opponent was able to match him again infuriating Gohan to his limits and pushing his patience until it happened. Gohan was about to charge him and work around to try and bring this fighter to the ground, he missed and he was hit square in the spine sending him crashing into the ground below. Gohan got up slowly, he was beat there was no doubt about that.

"Who are you" I called out to him.

"You may call me 21 - E I'm Gero's last android," he said.

"That's impossible we destroyed all of them, his last and final project was Cell there is no way you could have been built by him,"

"Oh but it is,"

"How?"

"I'm actually one of his first creations, I have been both grown and assembled. Starting off as a tiny embryo I was build as I grew developing into the perfect being, my energy cannot deplete because of my mechanics and my energy can increase because of my biochemical aspects, Cell may have thought that he was the perfect power in Gero's arsenal but he was wrong I was dormant and waiting allowing my body to grow with the one and only desire to conquer the Earth in the name of the Red Ribbon Army," he explained.

"You know that you're a bit nuts there guy," Gohan said coyly picking himself up off the ground blasting off toward him.

"No, Gohan don't!!!" I yelled to him but it was too late.

"Here shut your mouth for a bit, if your friend wants to die that is his wish," the android said throwing a small sphere at my face.

The cartridge blew up in front of face causing me to inhale some sort of bacteria or something along those lines. Immediately I started to chough and choke on the spores, they were painful, each feeling like little needles piercing my throat and chest. I figured I could divert some of my energy to fight them maybe it would destroy them and I could get back to the matter at hand. I started my power up to SSJ 10; the Earth shook with my energy as my body took on its change. My figure grew to its enormous stature before my hair finally grew out and my new fur and clothing appeared across my body, a large crater formed below me giving way for my energy. The energy arcs my body produced were enormous and strayed wildly about me, while I stood there. My hair grew out and turned white just as my fur did the same. 21 - E just looked at me seeming pleased with me, almost like he expected me to do that as he held Gohan at bay.

"What's so funny android?" I bellowed out to him.

"Oh nothing really just that you are making it only hard on yourself, those spores are not biological they are nanomachines that I developed myself, when released they enter the bloodstream and cause severe damage to your internal organs slowly infecting the liver and the heart as it begins to shut them down. All you are doing is delaying it my friend you will die!" he said grabbing Gohan by the throat. "Your death may take a while but his on the other hand with happen that much sooner".

I watched as he held Gohan there, I could do nothing for I was in too much pain as it was they were attacking me inside throughout my lungs and stomach. Falling to my knees I saw Gohan there in his grasp trying everything to break free but it was pointless 21-E was too strong. Gohan knew what was coming so he just closed his eyes as the android threw snapped his neck tossing his body into the wind and annihilating it with a single energy blast leaving nothing left. Tears flowed down my face as I struggled to keep my strength from these machines, I was running out of options and fast I didn't know what I was going to do.