Chapter 59 - On Edge

"Kale!" Caulifla went up to the down Kale and picked her up. Checking her breathing, she was indeed still alive. She let out a small sigh of relief at the intense situation.

"Kakarrot, we have to bring her back to check if she is ok."

"Sure, go to Bulma before me. I'll check the situation here."

Caulifla nodded her headed and flared her aura up and flew away. Such a crazy situation that no one knew what to do with making her nervous for Kale's wellbeing.

Goku flew over to where the other Z-fighters were to get an update on the situation. Vegeta already left when he saw Kale transforming back while the Androids were just off to the side brushing the dirt that they accumulated during the short fight.

"Yeah, so this happened..."

After getting the information from Krillin he really thought about the situation.

'It makes more sense that it was Android 21 was the culprit that matched the description. I should have known honestly. From the account of what Krillin got from Caulifla, the people were still alive and were being continuously robbed of their ki. That's probably what that machine was...'

The other Z-fighters saw that they had nothing more to do started leaving one by one. Goku was also about to leave and check how the kids were but the Androids stopped them.

"Yeah, I feel way too slimy and grimy."

"Uh...sure. Just go to Capsule Corp and tell them that Goku sent you. Bulma should have some good clothes."

"Thanks." With that, they dashed off to Capsule Corps headquarters. Such a weird and unusual encounter. Goku put two fingers on his forehead, when he felt the two kids as vibrant as ever, he smiled and wisped away.

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"You two kids got more powerful than ever. Ahh!"

"Uncle Piccolo!"

Piccolo fell down on one knee panting with sweat dripping down continuously. Two ran up to him to see what was wrong.

"It's alright, I just fused with Kami. Using so much ki drained my body a bit. I'll be fine in a little bit."

"You were amazing Uncle Piccolo! The way you dramatically started talking even though it was entirely unnecessary was amazing too!"

"You!-"

"Yeah! You were like 'Namkiens shouldn't be looked down upon!' and stuff! It was super cool with the drool from your mouth!"

"W-What!" Piccolo put his hand where his mouth was but he didn't feel anything. Just before he was about to explode, Goku popped out of nowhere.

"Sup! How's it goin'?"

The two kids instantly ran behind Goku for protection against the big bad wolf. Piccolo cooled his anger for now but vowed to get those rascals at a later date.

"Woah you did a number on 16! Hey Piccolo, did you help? Last time I saw you were passed out like you had a blackout. It was quite sad honestly..."

"Ahh, you Saiyans drive me crazy! Let's go Dende, these Saiyans can handle themselves." Piccolo stormed out of the hallway with Dende hurrying behind him. He didn't forget to say goodbye to his friends before he left.

"What should we do with that guy?" Bulla pointed at the downed 16 with a medium-sized hole drilled in his stomach.

"Hmm, honestly I am surprised you won leaving him in such good condition to boot. Let's carry him to the house. Maybe even fix him up."

"Fix him up!? But why! He was so mean..."

"Oh you should have noticed too Gohan, he isn't mean."

"I guess..."

Goku assumed what happened in the game is also happening here. Android 16 was reprogrammed to help 21 but instead of helping her control her evil side, she was already corrupted before 16 was reprogrammed making it so that 16's purpose is to just help her.

With Bulma's help, they can probably return him back to his old self.

"Do we have to carry him? Can't we use instant teleportation? It's so much better!"

"Oh just hush, we can't use Instant Transmission when coming back to see your mothers, lets just go through the front door. Cmon, pick him up. Let's go!"

"Ugh, this is going to do a number on my hair."

"Not like it was good to start with!"

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"Stupid! Stupid! STUPID! This wasn't supposed to turn out like this! Everything isn't going how it suppose to be!" 21 punched the metal wall that surrounded her and Cell. Her fist buried inches deep in the metal wall finding dirt on the other side.

She was still in her pink transformed state. Her eyes red near insanity from the situation that unfolded.

"You! What happened back there! You didn't tell me there was going to be a monster like her as one of our opponents! She kept and getting more powerful with no end in sight!"

"Too many things are happening that is not in the timeline! Goku isn't supposed to be this powerful and to top it off he supposed to be an idiot! There are new Saiyans everywhere that are too powerful! What is happening?"

21 wasn't paying attention at all to the voice behind her too engulfed in talking to herself crazily.

"He even has a harem swimming with babies! Maybe having more people equal higher competence and power?-"

"Hey!" Cell was fed up with this crazy woman and her antics. He grabbed her shoulder to get her attention and assert his dominance.

The millisecond that his finger touched her shoulder, she turned in Cell's direction and started to lift him up by the neck. He still had no chance against the overwhelming power that he once again felt since the first time he met her. He started to choke with no air and his eyes turned red as he looked down at the girl.

"Don't you forget who is in charge here Cell. Don't think that I didn't notice you looking a little too free from my chains during that fight back there. Maybe I have been too easy on you."

21 threw Cell on the wall of the lab where he crashed and created a small dent. He had an angry look on his face but quickly had it disappear when 21 looked over in his direction.

"Let's stay here a while and recoup our strength. We will figure out a plan later."

21 started walking away to her bedroom while thinking to herself.

'Stronger or not, I will have my way this time. Mark my words Goku.'

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"Honeys, I am home!" Goku burst through the door of the Capsule Corp building expecting a warm welcome. However, there was dead silence bringing Goku's mood down a bit.

Both of his kids were panting behind him, the lack of ki due to their fight plus carrying the giant hunk of man really got them tired out.

"We are down here!" Bulma's voice echoed across the house entering the ears of the new people

They navigated around the house before they entered the laboratory. In the middle, Kale was getting scanned with various machines hooked up to her. Bulma was reading something on the screen while Caulifla was nervously biting her nails.

The Androids were also there for some reason. They were cleaned and had a new set of clothes each. Bulma lent some of her clothes to 18 and some of Goku's to 17. They would be lying to themselves if they said they weren't curious about Kale's special condition. Blending in the background, they didn't bother anyone and kept to themselves.

"How is it going?"

"Her vitals seem to be stable. I don't know what you want me to look at here, she looks completely fine."

"Yeah but what if she turns all big and scary again? My poor Kale..."

Caulifla insisted Bulma to keep looking. She rolled her eyes at the Saiyan's persistence and pretended to look busy looking at the same screen.

"She is ok, probably has a special composition as a Saiyan. We will look at the book later.

"B-But..."

"Look at her sleeping peacefully, she is fine."

Caulifla conceded defeat that Kale was fine.

"On another note, Bulma, I need you to fix this guy up. And maybe reprogram him as well."

Revealing the kids holding 16 behind him. Bulma who would usually look excited sighed.

"What am I to you Saiyans? Always coming to me when you have problems."

"It's your fault you are the smart one."

"True... Bulla come and move Kale to another spot."

Bulla went to where Kale was sleeping and with Caulifla following, went up to her room to lay her down. Gohan put 16 on the table to replace her and soon disappeared as well to play with Bulla.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, reprogram him? He isn't an emotionless machine, you can't just do that." The Androids were a little uncomfortable at the situation considering Bulma could technically do that to them as well if Goku wanted to.

"Don't worry, we are just restoring him back to his old self from what 21 already did."

"How do you know that?"

"No, he is right. There is some advanced stuff mixed in with some old programming. Like two different hand-writings. Programming is not my forte so it will take a while."

"Hmm." 16 was pretty nice in the short time that they were together with him.

"You guys can stay here for a while if you want. We will still be going after 21 and Cell after 16 wakes up."

"I am going to decline for now and stay here with 16 to make sure your wife doesn't do any damage to him. Right 18?"

"You do what you want 17. I on the other hand saw a hot tub on our way over here. I am going to hit up that for a while. Bulma is it ok if I borrow some of your clothes and a towel?"

"Sure, sure. Goku, Chichi went to her Dad's house so I'll be picking her up later tonight. We'll join you Caulifla in bed later."

Bulma absent-mindedly said yes. 18 walked towards Goku who was near the exit. Before she left, she winked at the blonde man and brushed her shoulder on his, and left the room.