The silver warrior smirked at the woman. "A fine effort. But you are a fool to think that I would fall for such an obvious sneak attack. I could sense you coming from a mile away."
Bulma, struggling to move her metal arm from the android's grasp, then threw a smirk up at her former creation. "Well… it was worth a shot."
Snorting at her attempt to act cool, Sentinel then raised a finger and pointed it towards her forehead. "Though I have no idea what you were trying to accomplish, it doesn't really matter now either way. As entertaining as your group has been to me over the last several years, I find that there's no more enjoyment to be had from you"
"Wait," Bulma exclaimed, looking the android in his blood-red eyes with a wry grin. "We could… always play twenty questions."
"Alright then. First question," the android replied with a smug grin. "Are you about to die?"
"… no," the scientist replied hesitantly.
"Uh-uh-uh," replied the silver abomination as the tip of his finger began to glow a hot orange, "No lying…"
At this, the blue haired woman pinned under the tyrant's heel, smirked. "Who says I'm lying?"
Baffled by her unusually calm response, the robot was then about to ask her what she meant by her retort when he felt a sharp sting in his back. Gasping in shock, Sentinel disengaged from his advantageous post and staggered away, reaching over his shoulder to pluck whatever it was that'd 'bit' him. When he opened his palm and looked down, he found a vial attached to a syringe sitting in his hand, which had his eyes widen before a sharp pain suddenly overcame his body. Crying out in agony and stumbling around like a drunk on a field day, the android's skin began to ripple, crawl and pump with varicose veins, which led to his horrified gaze landing on the person responsible for the stabbing.
He turned to find a very badly burnt but noticeably chipper looking Kaiser standing behind him with his hand extended. Having obviously tracked them down from the base where he'd been fighting, the man had been able to move swiftly and stealthily enough to get the drop on their enemy, who obviously wasn't expecting someone with such an insignificant presence to strike a blow at him.
The sight of his smiling face and his empty, open palm was all the evidence the silver android needed to know that it was this particular individual that had driven the needle into his skin.
"W-What the fuck did you do…?" the android questioned in a pained voice, watching the human with the goatee step away expectantly. Upon analyzing his systems to find out what the hell kind of toxin he'd been hit with, which didn't make any since considering he was immune to practically everything, Sentinel's eyes then flared red when he found the exact result of the injection. "You shut me out?"
"That's right, you prick," Kaiser exclaimed while Bulma sat up from the ground nearby and came to stand alongside her ally. The former businessman then pointed across at the android. "Now you're unable to transfer your consciousness to another body. You're stuck like that. Permanently."
Clenching his jaw tightly, the silver android thrust a fist out and cursed them outright. "So what? I'm the most powerful being in the entire universe! The alpha! The omega! I am the creator of an empire spanning four entire quadrants! Even if you knock out my transferring capabilities, I can still return to one of my factories and reverse whatever the hell you did to me!" That's what he thought anyway.
Following his little outburst, a sly smile formed across Bulma's face. "Not unless you're killed in the next fifty seconds."
Sentinel then balked. "What?" The exact moment he uttered that question, his body was suddenly grabbed from behind in a powerful bear hug and his feet were lifted off of the ground, causing him to look over his shoulder in shock. When he did, he found himself caught in a stranglehold by a still alive and well Super Android 17, who was now holding onto the mad tyrant with all the strength he could muster. He even managed to pin his tentacle against the man's spine. The sight of the black haired adult had the silver fighter's eyes widen in disbelief. "Y-You? What the hell are you doing?!"
The long haired automaton grinned, "What does it look like, bitch? I've got you… and now… you're not going anywhere."
Snarling, the silver warrior attempted to shake his way out of the man's arms, even throwing a few elbow strikes into his wounded stomach. But after several seconds of fruitless writhing, kicking and elbowing, the metallic android was unable to break loose. He then attempted to warp his body and teleport out of there, but thanks to the hold Android 17 had over him, he was incapable of even focusing his energy, as it was steadily being drained from his body.
"Oh, you miserable, long-haired punk! When I get out of this, I'm going to blow you and this entire miserable planet to nothing!" Sentinel roared, throwing his head back to try and hit the android in the nose, but missed every single time.
Seventeen chuckled and spoke sarcastically, "Sure. Whatever you say, little bro." He then looked across at Bulma and Kaiser to see both of them collapse to the ground and take a seat. Though their laidback actions baffled the silver man, it brought a smile of amusement to the fused android's face. "So… how long have we got?"
The blue haired scientist looked down at her mech's wrist and, sliding back the panel, saw the exact position of the countdown. "About… forty-five more seconds." She then looked back up at her companions and sighed. "Might as well just sit back and enjoy the fireworks."
Eyes darting between the smirking group members, the android antagonist then shot a glare towards his 'mother'. "What the hell are you talking about? What's going on?!"
Grinning from ear-to-ear, Kaiser grinned at the confused tyrant and began to speak. "Since these are going to be your last few seconds as grand chancellor of the universe, I guess we can let you in on our little secret. You know that energy build up that you detected back at our headquarters?" Seeing the android's eyes narrow, the magnate chuckled. "That 'power' was actually coming from a specially designed bomb we had planted in the cellar. Its core is outfitted with a unique power source we were able to manufacture through the particle accelerator we had setup alongside it."
"Power source? What power source?"
Bulma shrugged, "A new type of matter composed entirely out of pure energy, which we call a 'God Particle'… a little something that Whis helped us in naming when we were assembling the quantum trigger system. When exposed to a powerful enough charge, this particular element can generate an explosion equivalent to a miniature Big Bang."
"We ran the calculations ourselves. The device has a successful utilization record of one point two-trillion simulated in one-actual. It is ready to fire… on demand," Kaiser nodded affirmatively with a proud look on his face.
"If our numbers are correct, the blast will produce a series of chain explosions that will stretch from one corner of the universe to the other, wiping out every single known galaxy until the entire cosmos has been completely sterilized of life, both synthetic and natural." She then looked across at her scientific partner. "It's an invention only two of the smartest, maddest people on the planet can possibly concoct… and something only the most desperate can ever think of putting into practice." She then shared a fist-bump with their group's former enemy, before they went back to staring at their current enemy, who was now gaping at them in horror. "I think you can guess what's going to happen in fifteen more seconds."
"No. NO! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Sentinel roared, thrashing even wildly against Android 17's hold in a final bid to break free. But try as he might, he was unable to budge. "If you do that, every single one of you will die!"
A grim smile forming, Bulma shared a nod with the android as she settled in for the final curtain. "A small sacrifice, but one that is well worth it, if it means wiping you from the pages of history…"
As Sentinel proceeded to continue struggling to break out of Seventeen's hold, the two scientists sat in deathly silence for several seconds. Then, as the second hand was about to reach zero, Kaiser looked up towards the clouds swirling high above and spoke.
"You know… if it's any consolation," the bearded man said while glancing across at Bulma,"This is going to be really… really painful for me."
Grinning a little, the blue haired scientist shook her head and smiled up towards the sky along with him. "Ah… shut up, you wuss."
Then… it happened.
From the center of West City, a blinding white light shot up into the sky, followed immediately by a deafening thunderclap that sent a catastrophic shockwave in all direction, and causing a visible ripple to shift across the fabric of reality. What came next was a blinding, dome of white light that began expanding at an alarming rate, producing countless small explosions that grew larger and larger as it traveled outwards.
The first to go was Broly who, after tearing into another one of Sentinel's giant androids, turned his attention to the wall of approaching light. In typical madman fashion, he attempted to punch it. The Legendary Super Saiyan then vanished shortly afterwards with a final scream of his arch nemesis's name before his body was completely atomized. The wall of fire then engulfed Zangya, Vegeta and Piccolo's bodies, then Trunks, and then finally Videl. Continuing to cradle her dead son in her arms, the mother vanished inside the wall of light without a single cry or scream, her soul passing into the afterlife peacefully.
Sentinel, eyes widening in horror, tried one last fruitless attempt to wrestle his way out before the wall of energy washed over the group in the blink of an eye. The android's scream marked the deaths of all the remaining Z-fighters as he, Android 17, Bulma and Kaiser vanished into nothingness.
From the moon's orbit, the first explosion was seen as a tiny gleam on the darkest side of the planet. That light then grew and expanded until it engulfed over half of the world. Then, in spectacular fashion, thousands more explosions began ripping across the planet and then out into space. The world became engulfed in lightning and hellfire and then, within a matter of moments, so did the rest of the solar system, the Milky Way, and finally the rest of the quadrant…
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(Present Day)
In a clearing inside of a dense forest not too far outside of Satan City, a flash and a loud hum suddenly shook the trees and startled a flock of birds from their roost. The cause of this anomaly quickly revealed itself to be the familiar, four-legged time capsule from the not too distant future, which floated down from the air to gently land in the middle of the patch of grass. Its engines slowly powering down the moment it touched the clearing, the top of the pod soon opened, allowing the two pilots working the controls to hop out and land on solid ground.
Quickly dusting themselves off and making sure they didn't leave anything behind, the two young teenagers then went about pocketing the time machine. Hitting the button underneath the panel on the outer side of the hull, Pan watched the vehicle vanish in a puff of white smoke and a Capsule drop to the ground from the cloud a moment later. Picking it up and slipping it into her bag, the raven haired child then had a quick scan of the area before jogging over to the tree line.
She was completely oblivious to what was going on behind her.
"Come on, Eva. If we're going to stop that metal freak from constructing his army, we have to get to North City and find him as fast as we can," the young Saiyan chirped before turning her gaze back towards her partner and best friend. "Come on. The sooner we get this done, the be-" She then noticed the look on her half-sister's face and, looking at her wide eyes and pale complexion, slowly approached her. "Eva? What's wrong?" Receiving no immediate response, the worried girl jogged over to her. "Are you alright?"
When she reached out to try and grab her shoulder, Pan then saw the red-haired fighter look up at her robotically. As soon as their eyes met, the youngster wielding Goku's signature power pole then looked on in shock as tears started to run down Eva's face, and her voice spoke up in a croaky and broken manner.
"Th-They're gone…" Eva murmured, her pupils shimmering as the usually brave and calm teenager sniffled with hurt. "I can sense it. They're… they're all gone. Mum… Videl… Bulma… th-they all just…" Gritting her teeth, the half-Hera, half-Saiyan reached up with her arm and sobbed into it, unable to contain her sorrow any longer than she could.
Not knowing how to respond, Pan remained silent for the longest time. Reaching up with her hand, she hesitated in making physical contact with her sister, as she didn't know how she was going to react. It was only after hearing the girl start to weep and seeing her tense up that the raven haired fighter acted, and placed a hand on Eva's shoulder, prompting the young Z-fighter to look up and meet her gaze. Videl's daughter then offered her a warm smile as the waterworks shimmered in her own eyes.
"We can save our tears for later. But right now, we have a job to do," Pan whispered, bracing her sister's shoulders tightly and shaking her ever so slightly, showing just how much she was hanging on both mentally and emotionally. "I won't be able to do this mission on my own… not without you, Eva. You're the toughest, bravest, and the strongest out of the two of us. If there's anyone that should be trying to shake some sense into someone when they lose it, it's gotta be you."
Hearing her sibling's words loud and clear, the red haired teen slowly nodded and quickly dried her face on her arm. "Y-You're right." As soon as she'd cleaned herself off and calmed down, she then looked up at her partner with a renewed look of determination. "Thanks."
Returning her gratefulness with a warm smile, Pan then straightened up, returned her hands to her sides, and looked around. "The time machine landed us outside of Satan City. That means we've got quite a ways to go to get to where Doctor Gero's lab is." She then turned to smile at her sister. "Come on. I'll race you there." She then began to gather her energy. But just before she could take off, she was suddenly grabbed by the shoulder and forcefully turned to face the redhead. A look of surprise immediately appeared on Pan's face. "Hey? What gives?"
"Don't you remember what Bulma said?" Eva hissed, stopping her half-sister from doing anything reckless. "Sentinel is still in hiding and building his army. That means he's monitoring every single super power on this planet from, dad's to Yamcha's, for any signs of unusual activity. If he even catches a whiff of someone strong approaching him, he's just going to bail out of there and head to another mountain. We have to do this quietly."
Pan, hearing her sister's words loud and clear, then narrowed her eyes on her. "Then what do you propose we do?"
Adjusting her bag, the red-haired half-Hera then walked around her sibling and proceeded towards the tree line. "We need to keep our power levels hidden and as suppressed as possible. That way we won't get picked up by any of his drones." She then glanced across at her teammate when she fell in step with her. "We're gonna have to get there on foot."
Breathing out in frustration, the raven haired girl groaned, "Alright then. If you say so."
As the pair proceeded to march into the forest and towards the nearest highway, where they hoped they would be able to barter some sort of transportation, the two of them took a moment to admire their scenery. Not used to seeing the earth so lush and full of life, with fauna and flora sitting everywhere they looked, the sisters figured they'd enjoy their time here before they continued on to the serious stages of their mission.
While jogging downhill, Pan then looked across at her partner in crime and gave her an inquisitive look. "Do you think dad would recognize us if he saw us?"
Pursing her lips thoughtfully, Eva shrugged. "I don't know. Mum said he was one of the densest people in the galaxy. Even if we do happen to bump into him, I doubt he would be able to tell we are his daughters."
"Ugh…" Pan grunted, narrowing her eyes in annoyance. "I wonder what he's doing right now."
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