by Jamie L. Word
"Terror Arrives"
Kien and Android Prime continued to clash with incredible speed and skill in the sky! The Zodorians were amazed and incredulous at the sight, and the androids were impressed and enraptured by the spectacle before them! Kien managed to sidestep a punch attempt by Android Prime, and then he responded by driving an uppercut into Android Prime's chin, knocking him skyward from the impact of the punch! While Android Prime was hurtling skyward, Kien charged up and fired his special beam cannon technique!
Regaining control of his unplanned flight, Android Prime swatted the special beam cannon attack into the sky where it exploded brilliantly! Android Prime didn't notice that, while he was deflecting the special beam attack of Kien, Kien had used his incredible speed to move in behind the android! Kien then attacked Android from behind with a rapid-fire scattershot attack, driving the android towards the ground!
Suddenly, Android Prime then blurred out of sight from under the scattershot attack! The blasts that missed crashed to the ground and exploded like nuclear artillery shells! Instantly, Kien realized that Android Prime had escaped from under the onslought and stopped firing his blasts! Android Prime appeared behind and above Kien and fired a powerful energy blast at Kien, and the Super Namek managed to turn around in time to see the blast and grimaced as he prepared to defend himself against it! Kien extended his hands to catch the blast, but he was still being pushed towards the ground by the mighty energy blast! Android Prime's expression was that of a smirk in the midst of strained exertion, but Kien's expression was just one of grim strained exertion! Both fighters began a drawn-out yell as they struggled to overpower each other!
Meanwhile Dr. Dreg and Yuko fired their energy blasts, and the blasts collided with each other midway between them! The blasts exploded upon impact with each other, and both Yuko and Dr. Dreg blurred out of sight from where they were and blurred back into sight around the outer edge of the explosion, engaging each other in a flurry of hand-to-hand techniques!
Meanwhile, Yoshio and Borgo were fighting at a higher level of intensity than the fight between Yuko and Dr. Dreg! Their greater power level and skill level were clearly evident in their clash! It was an incredible display of fighting prowess between the two powerful fighters! After several moments of this, they disengaged and separated from each other a fair distance!
"You might as well give up!" Borgo taunted Yoshio in his synthetic robot voice. "You can't beat me! I will crush you!"
"This guy's a lot stronger than those goons we beat up earlier!" Yoshio thought to himself as he prepared to renew the conflict. "I've got to stay focused if I'm going to beat him!"
Borgo screamed as he launched an energy blast out of his mouth at Yoshio! Wide-eyed and incredulous, Yoshio barely managed to evade the blast! As Yoshio was evading the blast, Borgo quickly moved to intercept Yoshio, driving a flying headbutt to Yoshio's forehead! Yoshio's forehead was bruised, and a trinkle of blood flowed down from the bruised place and down to his right eye! Yoshio grimaced in a mixture of pain and anger over his wound, but Borgo didn't give him much time to dwell on that pain!
Borgo quickly drove a flurry of punches into Yoshio's face, bruising him even more as well as bloodying his nose and lip in the process! Borgo then hammered Yoshio with a two-fisted smash, knocking him to the ground with a thud! From there, Borgo flew at Yoshio, but Yoshio leaped back into the air, avoiding Borgo's attack!
Yuko and Dr. Dreg disengaged and separated for a moment, and Dr. Dreg smiled! Yuko was confused!
"What's so funny?" Yuko inquired as she noted Dr. Dreg's curious smile. "I mean, it's not going to be very funny when my brother and I whip your sorry butts!"
"Silence, prattling Earthwoman!" Dr. Dreg retorted with a hing of irritation at her comments. "I think it's story time, little girl. You don't know who I am. I was once the top technical and scientific advisor to a great and mighty Changeling named Xarlok.
"We were on his space ship, orbitting the planet Veloria, when our instruments picked up a pair of sudden power surges from the planet below. You see, my former master was fighting against a Saiyan warrior named Koji. We couldn't believe that he was almost as strong as Xarlok in his final form. Then, something happened. There was a sudden power surge from Koji, and it caused the system on the ship to overload. You see, the effort to monitor both Xarlok's power level and Koji's power level was too much for the ship's equipment, and I was the only one to realize this in time.
"Thinking quickly, I took my life's work in capsule form and fled to an escape pod. As I jettisoned into space and initiated the ignition of the escape capsule's thrusters, the first of the series of explosions began to tear through Xarlok's ship. The first explosion set off a chain reaction that led to even more explosions, and eventually the ship was rendered damaged beyond any hope of repair by chain reaction which ripped through its innards.
"I arrived on this planet just a few days later. Here, I built my lab into the hollowed-out insides of that cave behind you. I then began renewing my work once again. With the help of the mercenaries you and your brother just vanquished and drone robots I had created to assist my computer with the menial tasks, I succeeded in placing my brain into the body of an android, as you can plainly see. Within five years, I had completed not only that project, but I also built Borgo over there and the android trio of Android Alpha, Android Titan, and Android Prime, whom I believe you have already become familiar with. But that was just the prelude of things to come.
"Over the next three years, I completed my most ultimate creation, an incubus android made up of cells from the most powerful warriors we had ever encountered. I named my creation Usami, and within him were cell samples from Koji the Saiyan, Xarlok the Changeling, Kien the Namek, Kuang the Namek, the Zodorians Sumio and Sumie, Yukio the Saiyan disguised as an Arcosian, the laconic Tao, and Kun the demon. He was incubated in a special incubation chamber in the lab until he was ready to be released.
"There is yet another of my creations yet to be released, but he doesn't have the potential of my ultimate creation Usami. Usami is not yet at his maximum power potential. He needs to absorb Android Alpha, Android Titan, and Android Prime to reach his final perfect form. Then he will be undefeatable - without equal in strength, speed, or ability!"
"Oh, can it, you mechanical misfit!" Yuko screamed as she charged at the demented doctor in a rage. "When Koji gets done training in the Chamber of Spirit and Time, he'll annihilate your precious Usami! Yoshio is going to rip your overly plump sidekick Borgo into pieces, and I'm going to finish you!"
Dr. Dreg grimaced in anger as he and Yuko engaged once more in hand-to-hand combat! There was a little more intensity in their clash this time, and both combatants were a little miffed at each other! The fate of Yoshio and Borgo no longer so pressing on their minds, they fought with renewed vigor!
Meanwhile, Kien and Android Prime continued their struggle, and Kien finally, after about fifteen or twenty seconds, managed to heave Android Prime's energy blast skyward, where it exploded like a nuclear missle! Android Prime blurred out of sight and appeared behind Kien again, trying to hit him with a mighty punch, but Kien blurred out of sight and appeared right behind Android Prime! Before Android Prime could react, Kien slammed a kick right into Android Prime's back, knocking him skyward! As Android Prime was hurtling skyward, Kien charged up a masenko ball and fired it at the android!"
The android managed to regain control of his unplanned flight and charged up a powerful deflection at the end of his open hand as he extended that hand palm-first towards the incoming masenko ball! The masenko ball slammed into Android Prime's hand and sprayed all around him as he ruptured the attack with his hand! Kien grimaced as he flew up to the android and once again engaged him in a hand-to-hand skirmish!
Back at Dr. Dreg's place, Yoshio and Borgo continued to fight, and then Borgo drove a knee into Yoshio's midsection, doubling him over and stunning him! Borgo followed that up with a kneelift to the face, knocking him back a short distance! Borgo laughed as he celebrated his success against the stalwart Earth fighter!
"You liked that little exchange, huh?" Yoshio muttered aloud as he grimaced at Borgo. "Well, let's just see how you like this!"
Yoshio held his hands up in front of his face and discharged a solar flare attack as Borgo unwittingly gave the smaller human fighter his utmost attention! Yoshio then executed a backflip somersault kick into the face of the temporarily blinded android, knocking him skyward with that maneuver! As he finished the backflip portion of his maneuver, Yoshio assumed a kamehameha stance, then he charged and fired the attack as he ended his previous maneuver facing the android once more!
Borgo finally managed to regain control of his unplanned flight, but, when he opened his eyes, his vision was badly blurred! He could see some sort of bright light, but he couldn't make out exactly what it was! He began looking around, desperately trying to gain some sort of idea as to his position and the location and position of his opponent Yoshio!
Dr. Dreg noticed Borgo's predicament, but, before he could respond to help his assistant, Yuko hammered him with a two-fisted smash to the cheek, knocking him to the ground on his backside! He looked up, a bit embarassed by the situation, to see Yuko posing nonchalantly over his position!
"You know, you shouldn't have taken your eyes off of me," she informed the android scientist. "You see, not only do I have beauty, but I'm one tough cookie to boot!"
"Foolish girl!" Dr. Dreg snarled as glared menacingly at her from a seated position. "You are no match for me! I am not one of those pathetic cannon fodder losers you and your brother made such short work of earlier! I am far stronger than those fools could ever hope to be!"
"He's right!" Yuko thought to herself as she noted his aggressive demeanor and responded by assuming a fighting stance once again. "He's a lot stronger than those mindless minions he sent out to greet us first! I'll have to remember everything that Koji and Yoshio taught me about fighting if I want to defeat this guy!"
"Stupid human! This is your end!" the demented, diabolical doctor yelled at her as he moved from his prone position to attack her with blinding speed and unmitigated animosity.
Yuko managed to cover up and defend herself from the mad scientist android, and she was purely on the defensive now! However, it didn't take Dr. Dreg long to begin breaching her defenses and connecting with his punches to her face and midsection, bruising her with his frenzied flurry!
Meanwhile, Kien and Android Prime continued their fight in the sky! Android Prime threw a punch at Kien, but Kien ducked under it and hammered Android Prime with a powerful uppercut to the chin, rocking the android's head back! Android Prime then dodged the follow-up punch by Kien and drove a knee into Kien's midsection, doubling him over stunned! The android then drove a two-fisted smash into Kien's back, knocking him towards the ground!
Android Prime then caught Kien by the back of his shirt to stop his fall, and Kien nailed Android Prime with a double-footed back mule kick to the midsection, breaking his grip on Kien's shirt and stunning him momentarily! Kien then tagged the android with a back elbow smash to the face, rocking Android Prime's head, and went for a reverse spin kick to the head, but Android Prime ducked under it and nailed Kien with a knee to the small of the back, stunning the Namek! Android Prime then ducked under another attempt at a back elbow smash and clobbered Kien with a thunderous uppercut, rocking Kien's head back viciously! Android Prime then grabbed Kien by the ankle, spun him around in a giant swing maneuver, and flung him through the air!
Kien regained control of his unplanned flight in time to see Android Prime flying up to attack him! Kien responded by firing his scattershot attack once again, but Android Prime evaded each and every blast with a bit of effort! Android Prime launched several blasts of his own at Kien, but the Namek evaded each attack as the android had done moments before! Both fighters renewed their hand-to-hand combat for several moments before disengaging and putting a bit of distance between themselves!
Kien charged up another masenko ball as Android Prime charged up a powerful energy blast of his own! Each fighter fired his attack at the other, and both blasts met in mid-flight, colliding and pushing against each other! Kien and the android grunted and grimaced as they each pumped more energy into their energy attacks! Moments later, their blasts exploded between them like a nuclear warhead detonating! The fury of their exploding attacks swept across the landscape with phenomenal force, pushing hard against everyone in the area! When the explosion subsided, the two fighters glared angrilly at each other in preparation to renew the conflict! Both of them were heavilly battered, and their garments also showed signs of battle damage!
The sound of a single person applauding slowly drew everyone's attention to a spot across the battlefield. Usami stood there with one foot propped up on a rock, applauding the two combatants in admiration and respect for their performance in their battle. Everyone was confused by this new visitor, and Kien and the Zodorians were concerned by what they sensed from the monstrous newcomer.
"Bravo!" Usami called out to them, expressing his appreciative respect for them. "I must commend you on an impressive performance. You're truly a credit to your people, Namek. I hate to interrupt this little contest, but I have a lunch date with the three androids you've brought to this place, and that takes precedence over everything else!"
"What?" Android Prime inquired in confusion as he regarded Usami. "What are you talking about? Can't you see we're busy? Who are you, and what do you want?"
Everyone cast their eyes on Usami, awaiting his response to Android Prime's inquiries. Usami smiled evilly.