I wanted to make a series about OP stories, but since the very FIRST review about it, during a preview with the first chapters of every story, was of an idiot that literally said that my work sucks and I was wasting his time I decided to keep only this and destroy the rest.
One thing though:
You people out there, You are NOT the saviors of the internet, no-one asked you to tell others how to write and what to, and you can be damn sure that "Bad fanfictions" as you call them will keep existing no matter what you say or do.
I don't care if you say that my stories suck, if this is all you need to jerk-off then do it, but do not expect me to feel sad, angry or change the way I work, this place is my way to cope with my insomnia in those many sleepless nights, so if you think I am going to renounce to this, that's the door...don't make it hit your ass on your way out.
So in short, so that everyone will be able to understand:
I write here. Period! Don't like what I write? Your problem, not mine.
For the others that still have a tiny bit of respect for other people's work, here is the story, it has an OP Naruto that will probably poke fun at the "Cliches" of the Dragon Ball Universe most of the times, just so you know.
"You bastard" - demon talking / jutsu
"Let's finish this" - dialogue
" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback
" Not so easy after all " - thoughts
Pairing: Naru/Eighteen/ female Seventeen (I was going to add Female Cell...but I still have no idea about how to do it)
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Dragon Ball Z or whatever I will use and I already used in this or any other story I write, wrote and will write nor I did this for money or any sort of compensation. Thank you for your time.
A word of advice, Naruto here will act slightly different from Canon due to some "Details" about his joining the DBZ world, to not spoil things I'll give an explanation in the SHORT AN at the end in case things are not clear enough.
Chapter 1: The mechanical rebirth of the Sage.
In a small house hidden on a remote island -
"HONEY! I am HOOOOME!" a young voice chirped happily while carrying few bags of groceries, her face splitting in two from the huge, satisfied smile she was sporting.
Only silence greeted her, and yet the young woman kept smiling while pressing her hand on an hidden panel, making the whole house lock-down in an instant once the security system recognized her hand-print.
"You will never guess who I have met back in the city while I was buying those fabulous shoes I talked about yesterday..." she said while descending the stairs to wards the hidden basement deep underground the house.
Once again ignoring the absolute silence the woman rapidly tapped a long series of numbers on the pad near the only metallic door present so to enter the sealed room.
"Yep! It was Joshua! That loser, you can't believe how much he is still pestering me to get back together...as if he will ever have a chance, especially if compared to you," she said, looking with love-struck eyes the young man sitting on the metallic chair inside the huge pod in the middle of the room.
"Aaah! Even with that breathing mask you look so goood..." she moaned lowly while caressing the small window of the pod, trailing with her eyes every single strand of blond hair and the thin whiskers-like marks on his cheeks.
"If only you could just activate, Android One...you would easily show to that Baka of Doctor Gero who's best, you would show everyone that I am the greatest mind of this world, and then take me in front of everyone and kiss me! So to show that even in Love we would triumph above everyone else!" the young woman said with a suffered sigh.
She was a young woman in her mid-forties with reddish-brown hair frizzled in an inhuman way, her cheeks still sporting a great deal of freckles under her greenish-gray eyes adorned by wide, bookwormish glasses; she was also on the "heavy side" with a small belly tightly constricted by a too tight shirt in a clear attempt at making it appear more flat, all covered by the lab coat she had donned as soon as she had entered the subterranean room.
"Don't worry, I had a flash of inspiration last night, today I am sure I will be able to activate you! Soon we will be happy together and our love will blind everyone with its glory!" she said with her eyes shining in adoration.
It had all started ten years earlier, she had just been kicked-out of her latest job in an half-forgotten lab where she was helping developing new machinery to aid factories in speeding-up production, it was a job she also despised with all her might as she saw it as a waste of her genius, but that was beside the point.
Ever since she had been a little girl she had showed an incredible intelligence, a child prodigy that had given her a brief spark of notoriety in the scientific world as "Doc Garter, the world's youngest Scientist." and had even attracted the attention of at the time infamous Red Ribbon Army so to aid them in their Android Program for the creation of powerful machines to add to the Organizations' forces.
All of that changed when Dr. Gero decided that "A brat with delusions of adequacy" like her was not suited to help the Red Ribbon Army in its quest and simply told her to never darken their door ever again...
That was not a nice thing to say to a young, impressionable twelve-year-old girl such as herself, promising revenge for her crushed honor she had thrown herself on her studies and working here and there as an assistant for pretty much every scientist she could come across so to become a greater genius than Gero and so to show to the old bastard who was the best.
Unfortunately though she had not the same resources as the Red Ribbon Army so she had to improvise, gaining so many failures even she could not effectively measure them in numbers, that is, until someday a kid (from the few details she could gather) had single-handedly DESTROYED the RR Army and every creation of Gero, making the old man disappear into self-exile; the event, other than brightening considerably Garter's day, had left the young woman with the possibility to scavenge from the ruins all the materials she needed.
And boy, if she raided the place from top to bottom!
And yet, that too had not been enough, and as it had been already said, several years later she had caught a glimpse of a man scarily resembling Gero kidnap two young criminals while muttering about "Test Subjects", giving to Garter a moment of enlightenment; if purely-mechanical cyborgs could not give her the level of proficiency she wanted, then turning an human INTO an android would have certainly worked better...and if the old fart could do that himself, then Garter would have created a BETTER one, dammit! But She failed...repetitively.
She resolved the problem by creating a device able to 'transport' the first human being in a determined radius back to her and powering it with a little trip to a power plant during the night, as soon as she activated the teleportation,she saw the machine simply refuse to work; when in her blind rage for the new failure she smashed both fists on the keyboard destroying it, the computer governing the machine exploded in a shower of sparks and filling the screen in numbers in an apparently randomized order before the damaged computer managed to input enough small corrections to intercept an human fulfilling the requirements Garter had chosen for her Test Subject;
The result was a complete and absolute black-out in the whole city, a melt-down that destroyed the power plant in its entirety and an old man on his death-bed falling at the scientist's feet, every lamentation she had about the result had to wait until she returned home since the authorities were already reaching the place, forcing the young woman to take the old man on her van and sprint away barely missing getting arrested.
Once she had finished crying in despair for yet another failure the young woman decided to try all the same, uncaring to see from where the old man had come from Earth; his DNA had showed its being similar enough to the human one so she accepted it, but first, she decided to return him to a more younger appearance, making him more healthy and so more akin to instill awe and respect once turned into an android...
And Oh. My. God if he was handsome once returned to the age of twenty-five! Broad shoulders, chiseled abs and gold-blond hair that were spiky on their own, and even if dulled out of the shock of both transportation and rejuvenating, he also had the most beautiful, dashing pair of cerulean eyes she had ever seen, and those whiskers! Oh, how she adored caressing them during the various operations to turn him into an android!
Had she mentioned how handsome he was?...well, HE WAS!
He had the strangest power-source inside him and vital readings defying every notion she came to know about humans and other species, so other than being Fashion-model-hot he was also what she was looking for in terms of starting point to create the perfect boyfriend!...android, she meant android...
Luckily she HAD worked close to Doctor Gero so she knew how to hacker his own computer and 'borrow' few ideas; really, the old man was a genius in building but he sucked at passwords, 'Geroawesomegenius' and 'Redribbonrulez' were hardly difficult passwords to decipher all things considered, even without the decoding program she used.
"So he wants to copy other warrior's genes into a single being, eh? Well, I can do the same! NO! I can do BETTER! My handsome Android One will kick that ugly thing's ass and humiliate every other tin-can he has built!" she had said once visioned the file named 'Cell' and copied its content.
Following the details in those files she too had recovered samples of various warriors, not everyone since she lacked the mini-robots the old man had used and herself had to do the recovering by hand, but still, copying this 'Frieza' guy's DNA along his father (?) into Android One had been easy after a little trip to where Gero's mini-bots gathered it along Goku's own blood she stole from the hospital before he departed towards a strange 'Namek' place or something similar; she had even managed to capture one of the small drones before it could return to its base.
"I just hope the old fart won't discover me...and who is this Piccolo? What name is it even?" Garter muttered when seeing that the updated file on Gero's computer talked about two attempts being required to collect the sample she stole.
After that it had been all a matter of erasing the handsome Android's memories about his old life except few details like the fighting abilities he already possessed and the techniques he surprisingly had already in his arsenal; after all, his wife had been already dead and he himself had been pretty damn close at dying of old age; and even then, compared to that 'Hinata' (insert frown of the scientist) Garter knew that she was sooo much prettier than her and so more worthy of One's affections...if only he could wake-up and activate that is.
That was exactly the problem, after ten long years of work he was ready and yet he refused to activate; the transformation into Android and the splicing of those warriors genes in the still biological parts of his body had been completed not long ago along the 'refining' of his already amazing abilities...and yet Garter's perfect creation was still unable to wake-up and embrace her, and love her and free her of that pesky virginity that was still plaguing her existence since she was not a big-breasted bimbo while her ass was instead slightly bigger than average!...and defeat Gero's creations, can't forget that.
"Why don't you wake-up, darling? Your princess is waiting for her dashing knight in shining armour to wake-up!" Garter muttered sadly while kissing the window of the healing pod and smearing it with cheap lipstick.
"...I don't know what is more sad, the fact that you are ready to 'build' your own boyfriend or the fact that such a nice model of Android has to owe its birth to someone as pathetic as you..." a deep, hissing voice said in amusement as pain erupted from Garter's back.
"AAAARGH!" the woman yelled while embracing the healing pod to stay upright.
"Who-who are you?" she said with a weak voice.
"Doctor Gero called me...Cell," the creature said in amusement while it kept feeding on the woman.
"G-Gero? Cell?!" she said while her body had started shriveling and deflating.
"Very weak...like this I will never gather enough power to absorb Seventeen and Eighteen." Cell muttered in disgust.
"Android One...please help meee..." the woman whispered before her whole being got absorbed by the creature leaving behind only her clothes.
"A pity...I remember you, you never got activated...so that woman was your creator? I'll do you a favour and take you out of your misery, better destroyed than simply sit there collecting rust. Even if it is still a waste of potential," Cell said with an almost-sad voice while pointing its open palm at the pod and launching a bullet of energy that opened a wide hole on One's chest almost cutting his whole body in two parts.
As it walked out the creature showed itself being a tall humanoid creature with its facial features retaining an orifice-like mouth, two sections of its head shooting off in different directions in a V-shape and orange color parts near the abdominal area, the back of his head, and near its groin area.
It had instead black sections near the abdominal area, in the middle between the two sections on its head, azure veins in both of the arms, legs, and even some in the upper body; two wings which were both emerald green with black spots, an emerald green and lime green mix all over his exoskeleton including head, arms and legs. The most distinguishing features of the android were its five fingers and three toes and a tail with a stinger at the end of it.
Back in the lab meanwhile something amazing was happening, because blinded by her desire of vengeance Garter had never thought that the two different kinds of modifications of One's body could clash and result in its non-activation, being both mechanic like Gero's normal androids AND "Organic" in a matter similar to Cell resulted in the two parts coming into conflict, short-circuiting the whole system.
But now, thanks to Cell's impromptu removal of the mechanical parts inside his chest and One's regenerating powers coming from the Namekian cells of Piccolo, strengthening the one he already possessed as an human, new organs were rapidly re-taking their rightful place leaving only the bare augmentations of brain, arms and legs intact, all the encompassed by the unknown (to Garter) special ability of both Frieza and the Saiyan blood in his veins giving him respectively the ability to survive that terrible wound and grow stronger from that near-death experience.
"...FUUUUUUCK!" with a startled scream the blond man opened his eyes and moved to sit on the floor before coughing at the sensation of air flooding his new lungs and blood getting pumped by a sparkling new heart.
"Whoa! Head-ache, nausea, world that spins like mad...hang-over?" a deep voice asked in the boy's mind.
"Kurama?" One asked in surprise.
"How do you know my name, Naruto?" the giant fox asked confused.
"And how do YOU know me?" One asked back.
"Okay, let's focus...We know each other...you are a shinobi and I am a Biju and we were fighting against...a woman with three eyes?" Kurama said while keeping his eyes shut tightly as to force his memories out.
"I remember a lot of fights, faces and places I can't give a name to, this not considering Haku and Zabuza and few others like Sarutobi-jiji at least..." the blond answered with a groan of dismay.
"Okay, it's still something. Probably we both will remember sooner or later, as for now you need clothes other than your boxers," the Biju said grinning.
"Yeah, you are right. Let's see if there is something wearable around." Naruto said nodding.
"...Say...who is this Garter's woman and why does she has tried to fill your head with notions about her? I mean, apparently we are no longer in the Elemental Countries so infos about how things work here is nice and all...but what about all this crap on her like her birthday, her favourite color and all the rest? Some of that stuff it's just plain creepy..." Kurama said while watching the blond examine a near closet with his "Name" on it.
"Dunno, sure as hell my name is not One, can you erase that stuff? I don't like the idea of someone fucking with my head adding stuff by their own, it makes me feel unclean," he replied.
"Can do, luckily she turned your head into a sort of computer we both share so I just need to influence a small part of your brain to erase those additions, it's like finding pieces of data lying around here and there randomly, I just take those and destroy them completely." Kurama answered with a shrug.
"Pay attention to not erase the few memories we have...and for the love of God! Did she buy anything she could find in the 'Clichè' bin of the Mall? Look at this crap!" Naruto said before gagging in disgust at the sad spectacle of the clothes that mysterious woman thought he would have used.
"Wow...never seen that much black, trench coats and cargo pants in one place..." the Nine-tailed Fox muttered in disbelief.
"Let's go away before that sicko arrives, I am ready to run away in my boxers if I have to, but I refuse to dress with that stuff!" the blond android said shivering.
"I agree, let's hurry before she returns. You don't want to know what kind of deviant things she will try to have you do otherwise."
And with that, the shinobi turned Android escaped the house as fast as he could, welcoming the ability to fly as a small blessing to speed-up his leaving of that strange place and oblivious that in the end, no matter her many flaws, he had been given new life thanks to a misguided benefactor that had been one of the first victims of Cell, the soon-to-be Perfect Being.
Two Weeks later – small island not too far from South City -
In a small cafe, sitting comfortably in one of the outside tables and sporting a black-and-orange jumpsuit pretty much identical to the one he remembered wearing before waking-up in Garter's laboratory stood Naruto, now relaxing with a small smile on his face at seeing the various women present stealing glances at him from the other tables.
"You know? I don't think I had all this success with women back home, at least not from what I can remember," the blond thought smirking, lowering the round sunglasses he was wearing to blink at the waitress that had just brought him his order and turning her into a blushing mess that hurried away in a fit of giggles.
"It shows that here women have a very poor variety of choices when it comes to men...but why the sunglasses? And the golden ring at your ear?" Kurama asked with a raised eyebrow.
"They add a nice +5 to my 'Charisma' Stat and 'Badass' Stat, how could I not wear them." the other replied while taking a sip of cappuccino to hide his smug grin.
"Someone got hooked-up on videogames, I see..." the Biju answered smirking.
"This place is awesome! And while Ramen exist here as well, thank God for that, everything else is sooo different! And if we got things right from the data Garter gave us we'll even have strong guys to fight with if we get bored, like that Goku and the others!...and even then, better wasting time with videogames than with those sappy Soap-Operas you are so hell-bent on watching!" Naruto thought with clear happiness shining on his face.
"HOY! 'The Bold and the Beautiful' is an amazing show! Do not insult that masterpiece!" Kurama replied in anger.
"I am not insulting it, I just hate the fact that in order for you to watch it, I have to sit there and watch it myself since you look through my eyes," Naruto said with a sigh, surprised to see a car pass flying near him once threw by an old man.
"Say...isn't that the Gero guy Garter was adamant in having us defeat?" the blond asked aloud.
"So it seems, but who is that fat-ass with him?" Kurama answered.
"I don't know, oh! Here is some of those Z Warriors," the Android said as Goku, Krillin, Tien Shinhan and Piccolo rapidly descended near the café to fight the Gero-lookalike and the chubby man with him.
"So you are finally here, Goku." Gero said with a pleased smile.
"Where is Yamcha?" Goku asked glaring at the old man.
"You want your friend? Here, take him!" at those words the fat man grabbed something behind him to throw it at Piccolo's feet, it was the barely-breathing Yamcha sporting an hole in his chest and losing blood in great quantity.
"YAMCHA!...damn it! Krillin, take him to Bulma and give him a Senzu Bean, maybe we can still save his life." Goku said with a furious voice.
"Okay," the small warrior answered with a nod while carefully nearing their fallen friend.
With a last glare and a growl in his voice, Krillin managed to lift the taller man and take him away, leaving just the three Z warriors to face Gero and his companion.
"The tension is rising pretty rapidly," Naruto muttered.
"Yep, should we intervene?" Kurama asked.
"Something tells me that in the past I would have gladly jumped-in...now I am feeling quite detached from things," the blond replied unsure.
"We got turned into an Android, I guess our 'Morals' took a small dive between that AND the erasing of memories, but I am not sure," the Biju answered.
"Leave this place, boy. This will get messy," Piccolo said while stealing a glance at the former shinobi.
"Trust me, Namekian; I saw worse and did worse than fighting an Android or two," Naruto replied with a shrug.
"How do you..." the green-skinned warrior muttered in surprise.
"I am finding surprising that you of all people know that we are Androids to begin with, young man." Gero answered amused.
"With that face? I never saw people that funny-looking before so you were either a duo of weirdos OR two machines...I just tried my luck." the blond answered.
"Charming." Gero replied as his eyes lightened-up before shooting a thin laser towards the young man and engulfing the blond's body in an huge explosion.
"Ah!" the three Z Warriors gasped in horror while watching the cloud of smoke cover the whole café and the remains of the table silently burning behind them.
"Good! Now that the distractions are over we can..." the old man started saying before a loud groan erupted from the smoke.
"Really? REALLY?! You had to blow-up my breakfast? Have you any idea how much I NEED to have my cappuccino in the morning?! Now I am pissed!" a completely unharmed Naruto growled while coming out of the fire with a deep scowl on his face.
"Interesting, how did you survive?" Gero asked.
"I am awesome and leave it at that. Hoy! Can I join? I'll leave the old fart to you Goku, but fatso there I wish to turn to scraps if you don't mind." the blond young man said while discarding the ruined sunglasses with a sigh.
"If your request is about a swift death then I will make you happy; Attack him, Nineteen!" Gero said, making the fat Android sprint at blinding speed towards the former shinobi.
"NOO!" Goku yelled as the fat-looking machine grabbed Naruto's face with its hand.
"Sigh! A thing I should have said before, I am not exactly 'Human' per se." the blond said before grabbing Nineteen's arm at the wrist and tearing the whole thing away up to the shoulder with apparent ease.
"WHAT?!" Gero growled in anger.
"My designation, if we want to call it like that, is 'Android One'. But other than few extra gadgets, I am still the badass blond I was before, now fly, fat-ass!" One said in glee, launching Nineteen back with a palm-thrust strong enough to send the Android fly all the way to Gero with a deep imprint of his left hand on its chest.
"Another Android?" Tien Shinhan muttered between clenched teeth.
"Yep, but a butchered one; that Doctor Garter only managed to erase my memories, other than that I don't exactly have 'Orders' to follow since me and a friend erased those once I woke-up; you know, I kind of like to think for myself like I did before that woman kidnapped me to turn my body into this," Naruto replied shrugging.
"Eh! I always knew that a brat like her could never do the work of a proper scientist, it's a miracle in itself that you are working at all, Android One." Gero said smirking.
"Please, my name is Naruto. As of now I only have few mechanical parts in me," the blond replied.
"So you will help us?" Goku asked.
"Uhm!...not exactly, I still have orders about destroying every creation of Gero and humiliate him, but I am not exactly into an hurry to obey that...so for now I'll just tag-along and see how you people fight, I am not here to steal your show." he answered.
"This is not a game," Piccolo said with narrowed eyes.
"For me it is. I just want to fight strong opponents, Piccolo; whatever I was before doesn't matter now that I am still trying to understand WHO I am, so forgive me if I still don't want to take a stance in your Good Vs Evil moment here," the other said.
"But please, let's take the fight somewhere else! wouldn't want some stranger interrupt our game right? Please Gero-jiji, make this young Android happy!" One asked with an overly polite tone and a small, mocking bow.
"Tch! Youngsters these days...come on, Goku! Show us a better place for our fight." Gero said while he and the damaged Nineteen moved up in the air.
"This way," the gentle Saiyan muttered while taking the lead of the small group that soon flew away at high speed.
"With that tone, he remembered me of Frieza for an instant..." Piccolo muttered to himself, unsure as to why the blond Android behind him actually chuckled as if he had heard him.
Several miles away – remote island -
Once arrived in the desolated area the Z Fighters, Gero and Nineteen and Android One each moved in a different side of the small clearing they had landed on, each member of the three group seizing the others for any opening they could exploit.
"Nice place, if it survives our fight I think I will build here a nice home to call my own," Naruto muttered while sitting on a near rock to watch the fight unfold.
"I take that you won't take part, Android One?" Gero asked amused.
"Not at the moment, but before Goku collapse I want to leave him have a shot at your Nineteen toy," the blond answered.
"So you noticed," Goku said while biting down the exhaustion the short trip had already given him.
"I have always been an observant guy. Now go and have fun, I will step-in later," Naruto answered.
"So be it, finally I will have my revenge, Goku! I will make you pay for destroying the Red Ribbon Army and the fruit of all my hard work! NINETEEN!" Gero ordered with a growling scream making the fat Android shot towards Goku at max speed.
"AAH!" with a mighty yell the Super Saiyan made his appearance, blocking the flying kick of Nineteen and answering with his elbow slamming with pure power on the machine's stomach, sending it fly against a tall group of rocks in an explosion of debris.
"Nice!" Naruto commented smirking.
"Not bad, wasn't there that woman back home that could do the same? Tsunade perhaps?" Kurama asked.
"Maybe, the Power Level of the man is pretty awesome on itself even if not at the top of his health. What do you think? Would two tails be enough?" the blond answered.
"Better play safe with a three-tailed cloak, we can't know how strong he is normally just by trusting the Battle Data Gero had, I won't trust blindly few numbers on a screen,"
"That is also true," Naruto said nodding, rapidly rolling to the side to evade a stray ki blast of Nineteen that almost beheaded him.
"HOY! Don't make me come there, bastard! Check your damn accuracy!" Android One yelled frowning.
"Who were you talking with?" Piccolo asked without stopping from following the fight.
"The friend that helped me in cleaning my head from all those useless orders," the blond answered while tapping his own forehead.
"Hn..."
"...Come on! This is taking forever! He even has only one arm!" the former shinobi groaned after a short silence.
"He is getting weaker, the Heart virus?" Tien muttered between clenched teeth.
"What virus?"
"He has a debilitating illness, we tried to stop him from coming but he didn't want to leave those Androids any time to make victims," Piccolo explained.
"Idiot, that's why then he is having all those problems with that tin-can, he is aggravating things further by stressing himself by fighting and transforming."
Naruto had to admit it though, Goku's strength was something to respect, even if suffering from an heart condition the saiyan was easily pummeling Nineteen with various punches and kicks that would have destroyed a normal man with one hit, showing speed and reflexes the blond found mesmerizing to watch, he even found himself cheering when with a particularly powerful kick Nineteen had been shot all the way down from the sky and in a deep crater in front of the former shinobi.
"Oh, well...I think it's time for me to intervene, your friend is panting with an hand on his chest; it means his heart just reached the limit," Naruto said sighing while going through some stretching.
True to his words Goku was slowly floating down while taking in huge gasps of air, his hand grabbing his chest in a tight grip of agony before completely losing consciousness and falling down to the floor.
"So even you are no match for us, Goku, I am glad. Finish him, Nineteen!" Gero ordered with a pleased smile as the fat Android dashed forward smiling gleefully.
In that same moment a golden bullet of ki slammed on the back of Nineteen, sending it careening on the floor and against a wall of rock soon collapsing under the impact.
"Oh! I knew that I was smelling arrogance, it was you then?" Naruto asked as a new saiyan joined the fight already in the Super state of transformation and a wide smirk smelling of superiority complex.
"Who's the brat?" the man asked.
"A new Android that somehow Trunks failed to warn us about, Vegeta." Tien said while watching as Krillin and Trunks also joined the scene briefly followed by Goku's son Gohan.
"Another?!" the Time-travelling young man gasped in horror.
"Stop your ki, boy! I am still deciding which side I am in, it was not Gero to create me," Naruto answered unconcerned.
"Oh..."
"Can we trust the pile of metal?" Vegeta asked with a glare.
"Charming, I guess you are the King of parties back home," the blond replied smirking.
"How dare you!" the Prince of Saiyans growled while grabbing the front of the shinobi's clothes to better glare at him.
"I was going to fight Nineteen, if you hurry-up you will have your occasion to shine, pretty boy! Or do you prefer watching ME destroy that thing?" the Android said smirking, not even flinching when Vegeta punched his stomach in pure pettiness before charging at Nineteen.
"Oh, boy! I think we have a broody saiyan," the shinobi said while patting his slightly bruised chest in annoyance.
"Can't actually say you are wrong in there..." Yamcha muttered while skillfully ignoring Trunks' offended frown at his words.
Contrary to Goku, Vegeta was in top form and could give his best from the very beginning, the problem was the sheer ego he displayed during the whole thing; every punch or kick was followed by a long rant about how Nineteen should feel honoured at fighting him, 'The Prince of All Saiyans!' and Naruto could almost see the capital letters in that title by how the man was saying it.
He WAS strong, the blond and the Biju had no problem admitting that, but by the few past experiences they could still recall, all that arrogance was an Achilles' Heel just waiting to be exploited by an enemy with just a tiny bit more of brain.
"Is that all you have, Android? No more tricks to use against me? It's a pity that you have just one arm, like that you have even less chances to defeat me," Vegeta said while grabbing Nineteen's head with both hands to deliver a devastating head-butt that managed to leave a sizable dent in the machine's forehead before throwing it up in the sky.
"Uhg! Too much macho-talk!" Naruto muttered between exaggerated gagging noises.
"What's wrong? Wasn't I in your calculations?" the Saiyan prince taunted once appeared in front of Nineteen in a burst of speed.
"GRAAAAH!" with a scream of pure rage the Android tried once again to hit Vegeta with a flurry of punches and kicks, showing a very human-like face of madness at watching the other dodge with an unnerving smirk on his face or even swat away the attacks every once in a while.
"Oh, God! If this keeps up it will take months...are you all just going to stand there gaping like idiots? Why not, you know, shoot ki blasts at Nineteen so he drops his guard or even at Gero so to stop him now that he is completely focused on Vegeta's fight and has his guard down?" Naruto asked while watching Piccolo and the others staying with mouths hanging open at seeing Vegeta's fight.
"His Power Level is unbelievable..."
"He is so powerful..."
"Incredible! He got so strong thanks to his training!"
"Really?" Naruto muttered with a sweat-drop at their lack of response.
"No wonders the guy has an inflated Ego, if instead of helping they stand there commenting about everything they see then he can show-off all he wants," Kurama said with a groan of disbelief.
"TAKE THIS!" Vegeta yelled before his hammer-punch landed on Nineteen's back and shooting the Android at Mach speed towards the others watching, but while Piccolo, Krillin and the rest of the Z Warriors we happy to simply dodge the falling machine, the blond ex-shinobi stood his ground and cocked-back his hand.
"Not yet...not yet...Ah-ha! Rasengan!" the blond said while energy started amassing in his palm into a spiraling sphere, once Nineteen had been close enough the destructive jutsu went slammed on the Android's stomach easily drilling an hole in its armour and circuitry in a shower of blood-like oil, launching it all the way back and to the ground with a giant hole in its chest.
"Cool! Stronger than what I remembered it to be...the ki maybe? No, I definitely used chakra," the Android mused with a low voice.
"YOU! Do not interfere in my fight! I am the one that will destroy that thing!" Vegeta yelled in fury.
In answer the former shinobi pointed his open palm at the damaged remains of Nineteen to shot an huge bullet of purple ki that completely erased the Android with the resulting explosion and cleaned a wide area around it of anything, leaving only a smooth surface of burned earth once done.
"Uh? Sorry, I couldn't hear you while I destroyed that thing interfering in your fight," Naruto said smirking.
"You little..." the Saiyan prince was about to say before a slow clapping echoed in the area.
"Interesting, you do have a nice design and a great destructive power, why don't you join me then? You said you were a 'butchered Android' because of your faulty creation, if you want, I can intervene and fix whatever barely-acceptable job that brat did to you...recovery of your memories comprised," Gero said.
"I admit that finally remembering who the hell I am would be nice," the blond said, all for the shock of the Z Warriors.
"That would be exceptionally easy, considering the poor level of work I remember your creator being capable of, probably several fragments are still buried in some obscure partition of your brain; come with me and I assure you that everything will become clearer," the old man said nodding.
"...Hoy? I heard a lot of good things about a certain Bulma Briefs, would she be able to do the same things he is promising?" Naruto asked to Piccolo.
"It's not my field of expertise, but yes, I think she should be able," the Namekian answered.
"Cool! Then I refuse, Gero-san...I can smell the bullshits you are telling me from all the way here and even if my memories are a mess, you remember me of a pale asshole with a fetish for snakes, and part of me doesn't want to touch that kind of offer not even with a ten-meters-long pole." the Android answered.
"DAMN IT! Very well, but remember, this was your last chance to save yourself from destruction! once I will activate Androids Seventeen and Eighteen you all will die!" Gero said before moving his hands in a wide swipe creating a tremendous explosion to cover his escape.
"I can see you! Don't you dare run, old man! Death Beam!" the blond said with a frown while extending his right arm and firing a small, thin, very fast and concentrated laser-like beam of ki from his index finger that managed to hit Gero and sever his right arm away.
"Gah!" the old man screamed while speeding-up in his retreat and barely avoiding the second beam that almost beheaded him and instead just destroyed the hat he had been wearing, showing the man's brain under a protective dome hidden under it.
"He managed to dodge, I am impressed," Naruto said before turning to watch at the assembled Z Warriors now pointing their already charged-up ki blasts at him.
"What?" the Android asked.
"Your Aura turned into a replica of Frieza's while shooting that attack, why?" Piccolo asked with narrowed eyes.
"Meh! If I have to listen to what Garter's data in my head say, I have a little bit of that guy, of his probable father, of you and Goku inside of my body giving me your abilities among other things. Why?" the other answered with a shrug.
"You..." before Krillin could finish his sentence the blond simply walked pass him to lift Goku and carry him on his shoulders.
"I'll take him to his home, he seems to need medical attention; can someone show me where to take him?" Naruto asked.
"I'll accompany him, if I stay I risk getting in the way otherwise," Yamcha said while nearing the blond.
"My father..." Gohan muttered.
"If I wanted him dead, I would have snapped his neck five minutes ago when he collapsed. I want instead to fight him as soon as he recovers so I'll play the good guy just for a little while and help him, as for now you can be certain that from me he will have nothing to fear until he gets better," the Android answered before flying up behind Yamcha and following him.
"Tche! Now we are getting help from a pile of scraps, quite a blow to my self-esteem." Vegeta muttered with a sneer.
"Please refrain yourself from adding another enemy to our list, it's already long by itself. I am going to chase that old man." Piccolo said before zooming away to chase Gero.
"I am coming, Mister Piccolo!" Gohan said while hurrying-up to follow the Namekian.
"Hoy! Wait for meee!" Krillin said as he too joined the chase.
The problems for the planet Earth were just starting to show their most ugly sides as Gero was rapidly moving to activate the so-called Androids Seventeen and Eighteen, turning the Z Warriors attention on them and the possibility of those two being the two evil machines that Trunks had so worriedly warned them against, the fact that a third Android was also around and not created by Gero was adding more variables than the Time-travelling Saiyan himself wanted to consider.
Okay! This was the first chapter.
A small explanation as to why Naruto act so differently.
His design is basically very similar to Cell's one, a warrior created by using the cells and abilities of several different warriors, but in Naruto's case by adding only some of them (King Cold, Frieza, Piccolo and Goku) to a pre-existing living being and so "Adding" those abilities to the ones already in the blond's arsenal.
That also means that he gained several "Traits" from that foreign DNA that Garter had added to his body, those traits had also filled the empty spots the badly-made memory erasure had left behind, completing those 'empty spots' resulting from the removal of the wrong memories/experiences.
Those are not dominant, but do show-up sometimes; we have some Cunning from Piccolo, some arrogance/drive to fight strong opponents from Saiyans in general and a slight lay-back attitude from Goku in particular, a touch of Frieza's polite mannerisms (with bouts of snide sarcasm) and a spark of the ruler's sadism that will become apparent later; and also from King Cold he will get a more calm, high-class attitude with elegant mannerisms but with some impatience.
He still has his own self-confidence and view of the world, albeit slightly "Dirtied" by those traits coming from the DNA he had been modified with and the lack of some key memories, I am still unsure about how much this will impact on his personality though, but I wanted to make him a little bit different from Canon.