"..." speaking

'...' thoughts

(...) Authors Note

Disclaimer: I own DBZ only in the magical land of my imagination. SO THERE!

Android Gohan

Chapter 1: No Tears to Weep

"How ironic that your father's death was the key to our escape, I so wanted to thank him personally but now you'll have to do it for me." Bojack smirked as he continued to crush Gohan in a massive bear hug.

"AAAAARRRAAAAHHHH!!" Gohan screamed throwing his head back as blood erupted from his throat.

"King Kai there must be something we can do!" Goku uttered furiously spinning to face the blue god.

"Uh uh." King Kai replied shaking his head.

Bojack chuckled at the groans of pain Gohan made as he continued to crush the life out of the 12 year old demi-saiyan

Gohan screamed as he felt his vertebrae begin to crack and break under the enormous pressure. His tortured cry echoed over the decimated mock city. It washed over the still forms of Piccolo, Miria Trunks and Vegeta all unconscious from the battle with the galactic warriors.

Drowning in his own blood as the life was squeezed out of him Gohan choked out one word "Father." before going limp.

"My son needs my help." Goku growled placing to fingers to his head and vanishing.

"You can't go Goku you're dead!" the shocked King Kai cried clutching at the air where Goku had been.

"Hmm hmm hmm" Bojack laughed as he continued to crush the limp form in his grasp.

"Yaaaarrhh!" a fist collided with Bojak's face eliciting a spray of purple blood from the tyrant's mouth and knocking him back, causing him to release Gohan both of whom now toppled off the roof's edge.

With a crash and a cloud of dust Bojack ploughed into the dirt making a small crater.

"Wake up, the world is depending on you Gohan." Goku said his voice echoing strangely as he looked down at his son cradle in his arms, a golden aura surrounding them both.

"Father?" Gohan groaned as he opened his eyes to stare up at the impossible image of his father.

"Believe in yourself son, unleash your true power! It's the only way." Goku said as he faded leaving Gohan lying on the hard earth.

"Yes sir." Gohan nodded still lying down.

The other three Galactic Warriors leapt down to surround their fallen leader as he clambered back to his feet.

With a groan Bojack shook his head as he regained his footing. "Was that... Goku?"

With a pained moan Gohan rolled onto his stomach, his tussled black hair swaying slightly as he spat the blood out of his throat on the parched earth. A golden aura surrounded his hand for a moment as Gohan felt the fires of determination stoked by his father's words, fuelling his rage, the power to do what he must.

Gohan stood, fired up, facing away from his opponents he called to heavens "I know you're out there father, you came back to save me and I won't let you down!" Gohan screamed the last part as the golden energy of a super saiyan flared around him, hair flashing to golden and eyes changing to a bright turquoise. "AAAAARRRAAAHHHH" Gohan cried again his resolve stiffened by his father's words and his own determination to honour his father whose uniform he wore. The orange gi rippled and swayed in the howling winds over the dark blue undershirt at the dust storm that exploded around the young hero. Spinning on his foot as the dust settled the young saiyan warrior faced the Galactic Warriors despite his injuries.

"I know your kind, you think you can just waltz in here and take our planet." Gohan growled through bloodied teeth as lightning crackled in front of his face.

Bojack chuckled at the young warrior, convinced of his own supremacy.

"But you forgot one thing. I'm my father's SSSOOOOOOOOONNNN!!" Gohan screamed as light exploded from the ground and the aura surrounding him. Cracks raced across the shaking ground, as the surrounding buildings were reduced to rubble, their supports blown away by the sheer power being unleashed.

The crowd screamed and cowered back in the central stadium as they watched the static on screen, most to terrified to run. Bulma clutched at young Trunks, held in her arms as the ceiling shook and dust feel along with flakes of concrete. It felt as if the world itself was shaking.

The wind howled around the island as bolts of blue lightning scythed from the bruised clouds above to slam into the island and ocean alike whilst the waves seethed upon the boiling sea. The water began to glow with a strange golden light before bolts of yellow energy burst from the ocean to strike at the skies above.

Muscles bulging and hair standing up in dizzying spikes Gohan continued to ascend as bolts of electricity sparked and writhed within the pulsing golden light that surrounded him.

Bojack growled eyes widening in the beginnings of fear as the dust swirled like smoke as Gohan completed his transformation, he beheld a power the universe had only seen once before.

Striding through the settling dust Gohan approached the awaiting monsters, the dust pushed away from his glowing form.

"Boojin, Bedo." Bojack croaked and two of the remaining four charged forward to land either side of the approaching hero. Raising their arms they began to use the same energy binding move they had used earlier to devastating effect. Straight bolts of blue ki leap from their hands to ensnare the golden warrior, wrapping around his arms, chest and legs, pulsing like sparks.

However this time it seemed to have no affect as Gohan continued his slow advance despite the efforts made to restrain him or his substantial injuries.

Stopping between the two Gohan screamed again, blowing the pathetic attempt to constrain him away, buckling and shattering the ground beneath and around him with his power. Though the smoke screen Boojin and Bedo tried to attack, emitting fierce war cry's as they charged. Boojin was caught first with a fist to the stomach. The blow ripped him in half, purple blood splattering onto the ground before his half's exploded into dust. Bedo meet the same fate a moment later as a kick cut him in half also, blood spattering the orange uniform of his killer before he exploded.

Blood running past his eye from a cut on his forehead Gohan turned to face the Galactic Tyrant once more.

Zanguyan whimpered in fear as the young saiyan took flight in a low charge racing towards her and her master. Battered and ragged Gohan snarled as he rushed forward.

"HahahaHA!" Bojack laughed as he shoved Zanguyan forward before tossing an energy blast through her towards the approaching threat, hoping to catch him off guard but disintegrating her in the process.

Gohan leap up dodging the attack which sailed harmlessly beneath him. The blast sailed on and obliterated one of the few buildings still standing, leaving a smoking crater in its wake.

Jumping up Bojack launched another blast at the defiant hero standing before him as Gohan landed. The beam connected catching Gohan off guard with its strength. It seared his flesh and tore his clothes, rending the flesh beneath. Gohan managed to hold in a cry of pain as the energy ravaged his body. Hands almost stripped to the bone where held up to try and protect his face as Gohan felt the searing heat of the blast peeling the skin from his bones.

And then it was over. Blood coursing down his ruined body Gohan still stood in open defiance.

"I will kill you!" Bojack yelled in fury at seeing the saiyan still standing, all be it in a terrible state.

"YYYAAAARRRHHHH!!" with a cry Bojack charged forward, towards the one who would dear challenge his might and caused his blood to run cold. Just before he struck Bojack's eye's widened in shock and pain as he felt an arm pierce his stomach. A skeletal hand erupted from Bojack's back in a spray of purple blood, shredding internal organs in transit.

Bojack stood there for a moment gasping in pain, still impaled upon Gohan emancipated arm groan in pain as realisation rose up and hit him like a zombie with a grudge (Terry Pratchett quote).

Gohan just stood there his eyes filled with fire as he saw the blurred outline of his foe's side through his seared eyes.

Stumbling back off the arm running him through, Bojack clutched at the gaping hole in his body. "You Fool! Any last words before you die?" Bojack ground out from behind gritted teeth before coughing up a gout of purple blood which splashed onto the ground at his feet.

Leaping back and standing up straight the green skinned, muscle bound behemoth placed both arms out straight at shoulder height. Spiky red mullet hair whipped back and forth in an unnatural breeze as he gathered energy in to two massive balls of green light in each of his outstretched hands.

"Actually Bojack," Gohan retorted at the green blur through his red seared vision "there is one that comes to mind." Cupping his hands together Gohan placed them behind his body as blue energy formed a ball between his fingers, light splaying forth between the gaps. "KAMEHAME..."

"GIGANTIC SLAMMER!" Bojack howled at his diminutive adversary as he brought his hands together unleashing a green wave of destruction.

"HHHAAAAAAAA!!" Gohan cried in return brining his hands forward and sending an opposing blue beam back at Bojack.

The beams meet with a blinding flash. Bojack didn't even get time to see what had happened before he felt his body being torn asunder by Gohan's kamehameha wave.

With a dying scream Bojack vanished with a flash of light never to be seen again. Lightning ravaged the sky as they were blinded by a flash of light that lit up half the horizon before both sea and sky returned to normal, a slightly cloudy but still sunny day with only a light breeze to ruffle the waters of the sea surrounding battle island.

With a rumbling as the rubble settled Gohan returned to normal, hair falling from its upsweep spikes to become an unruly black mess, golden aura and accompanying electricity fading. With barely a sigh Gohan fell back to crash land in the dirt, a splatter of blood accompanying him as he did so from his ruined limbs and shredded torso.

"Yup that's my boy." Goku said gazing down at his son from other world.

"Even though you had to break the rules so he could do it." King Kai said with a malicious grin.

With a startled look Goku spun around to face the blue faced smiling god. "I'm sorry how many have I broken?"

"I don't know ask the monkey, he's the one keeping score." King Kai replied with a snort before breaking into uncontrollable laughter, soon joined by Bubbles the monkey, Gregory the cricket and Goku himself.

"Mr Satan saves world twice." Krillin read from his hospital bed, bandages wrapping up his arms and head while tubes fed into his left hand. Lowering the paper Krillin gazed around at the rest of the room's occupants, Master Roshi, Yamcha, Bulma and young Trunks, Miria Trunks also bed ridden and in a slightly worse condition due to the whole in chest but still alive, Oolong, Puar, Chiaotzu, Tien, Piccolo and Chichi.

"Yeah when it comes to stealing credit from Gohan that guys a real pro." Oolong commented earning a few laughs from the others.

"How's Gohan doing?" Yamcha asked Chichi softly. Te rest of the rooms occupants stiffened as they waited for the answer. Gohan had been hurt really badly and had been rushed to a private room upon arrival where he was immediately placed on life support.

"It's..." Chichi tried twisting her apron."It's... It's not looking hopeful." She stammered Before bursting into tears.

Using her free arm Bulma pulled the younger women into a tight embrace. "There there Chichi, it'll be all alright. Gohan's one tough kid."

"Yeah he'll be fine, and if worst comes to worst there's always the dragon balls." Yamcha added.

This only caused Chichi to sob harder at the thought of losing her oldest son too, right when he'd just become a big brother too.

Shooting a venomous look at Yamcha Bulma tried to console the distraught Chichi "Don't worry about it; we won't let it come to that I promise."

Chichi sniffed and looked at her blue haired friend. "Thanks Bulma. I could really use your help, or rather, Gohan could. The doctors just don't know what to do. They're talking about amp... amp..." Chichi breathed in deeply. "They're saying they may need to amputate both his arms." And with that Chichi broke down again into more sobs.

Everyone around the room paled, they'd know Gohan was badly injured but this badly?

"What about a sensu bean?" Krillin suggested.

"We're all out and we won't have any more for a couple of months jet." Tien said morosely.

"Dende?" Krillin inquired

"There's only a limit to what he can heal and Gohan's past it, it appears." Piccolo said.

"Damn." Yamcha swore. "Surely there's something we can do? I mean that's the second time that kids saved all our lives, we owe t to him!"

"Your right Yamcha." Bulma said while rubbing Chichi's back as she cried onto her shoulder, her other arm still holding a sleeping baby Trunks. "I'll go take a look at him and then have it arranged for him to be transferred to Capsule Corp. in a couple of days, that should give me time to set up."

"Set up what?" Chiaotzu inquired.

"You'll just have to wait and see, I hope it doesn't come to it, but if needs must then by god I'll make Doctor Gero's research do some good in the world!" Bulma said leading Chichi out to go see Gohan again.

"What does she mean by that? And it's already done some good, look at my wife." Krillin said from his recumbent position on the bed.

"Who knows?" Yamcha answered him.

"Hmmm." Master Roshi murmured. "I wonder."

Five days later

"Alright bring him in here, gently." Bulma abolished the medical staff wheeling the bed containing Gohan into the main medical lab at Capsule Corp.. Soon followed by all the equipment currently needed to keep the young demi-saiyan alive the hospital staff retreated as a few of Bulma's scientist walked in followed by her father.

"Hey Dad, you brought everyone up to speed on what where going to be doing?" Bulma asked her grey haired father, his black cat permanently clamped to one shoulder.

"Yes dear, where all ready to begin." Dr. Briefs replied.

"Alright I'll just go tell Chichi and we can begin when I get back." Bulma said over her shoulder as she exited through the doorway.

"You sure you're okay with this Chichi?" Bulma asked he black haired friend as they sat on a couch in the living area of Capsule Corp..

Chichi nodded a determined glint in her eye as she cradled her newly born son, Goten, in her arms. "If if means my little Goten will have a brother and that my Gohan lives I'd do anything."

"Alright I'd best get back then and we'll begin. Why don't you go get some rest, the operation's going to take a long time, a day at the least despite all the prep work we've done. So you go rest so that the first thing that boy sees when he wakes up is his mother and his little brother."

"Alright, but you make sure he's ready to study as soon as possible."

Sweat ran down the back of Bulma's head "Ahh, sure thing."

"Alright there sweaty, ready to begin then hmm?" Dr. Briefs asked as Bulma walked back into the med lab, the other scientist she'd roped in glancing up from the schematics they'd been pouring over.

"Let's do it dad, Now had me those schematics of Android 17 and 16." Bulma instructed. Upon receiving them Bulma pinned them up to one wall, the complex diagrams of both androids covering the entire left wall whilst the right was covered by entirely new schematics of something else, a mixture of the other two and something entirely new.

"I understand why your using 17's design as he used techno-organic cell's and circatory so it should be able to be integrated into the already existing cellular and nerve structure but 16 was purely mechanical so what could will his design do?" Dr. Briefs mused to his daughter gazing at the diagrams on the right as the other scientists aside from Bulma began collecting operating and mechanical equipment and checking vitals read outs of the young boy lying on an operating table in the lab's center.

"It's because 16 was a lot more powerful than 17, so in order for the new prosthetics to be able to keep up with a saiyan's power I'm using the best features of both to make the alterations." Bulma replied.

"Oh, if you say so dear."

"Alright let's get started shall we?" Bulma said rubbing her hands and stepping towards to Gohan's prone form on the table. "Where were we starting again?"

"The left arm Ms Brief's." a young scientist piped up.

"Alright then, pass me the scalpel."

2 Days later

"Well we finally finished." Bulma said slumping down on the couch next to Chichi while nursing a cup of black coffee.

"So how's he doing?" Yamcha asked from by the living room window.

"He's doing well now, he should be waking up in a few minutes." Bulma replied to the room in general, intending for all those gathered to hear, they were the same who had been in the hospital ward after the tournament minus Miria Trunks who had gone back to his own time.

"I wonder how he'll take it." Tien voiced.

"I don't know about you but waking up and finding I'm a robot would shore scare the hell out of me." Oolong said.

"Can we see him yet?" Chiaotzu asked Bulma.

"Not just yet, I think the first person to see him should be Chichi." Bulma replied to the question.

"Just be mindful Chichi, we haven't put on the synthetic skin yet so his appearance may come as a bit of a shock." Bulma said leading Chichi out of the room and down a corridor two the medical research wing.

"Just take me to my baby." Chichi said clutching the happily gurgling Goten.

"Alright he's just through here." Bulma pulled open a door to a recovery room.

"My Baby!" Chichi cried rushing over to the sleeping Gohan and wrapping her arms around him despite the cold. Goten now free from his mother crawled up his brother's chest and gazed at his face, an inquisitive look on his face as he'd never seen anyone look like this before.

Groggily Gohan opened his eyes as the general anaesthetic wearing off, coupled with his mother's voice, brought him round.

"Hey mum." Gohan mumbled sleepily, gazing up at Chichi.

"Oh my Gohan." Chichi cried while sobbing on the blankets wrapped around Gohan.

"I'm fine mum." Gohan said softly as Chichi continued to sob.

"Gohan." Bulma interjected at seeing the distraught state Chichi was in. "there's something we need to tell you."

"What is it? Bojack didn't survive did he? I'm sure I beat him, I did, didn't I?" Gohan's face, or the remains there of took on a fearful expression.

"You sure did." Bulma said injecting her voice with confidence "but that's not what we needed to tell you. You see after your fight with Bojack you were beat up pretty good."

"Hee hee, I sure was, felt like I'd lost half my face." Gohan joked, the laughter dying on his lips as he looked at Bulma's face.

"Like I said you were pretty messed up and it looked like you wouldn't make it."

"But I did so that's alright then isn't it?" Gohan said beginning to worry as his mother looked up at him with tear filled eyes.

"You made it but we had to fix you up so you would. Ahh, it's no good trying to soften the blow. I'm sorry Gohan but we had to use doctor Gero's research to help fix you up so you'd live. Just, just take a look in the mirror." Bulma said handing Gohan a hand mirror.

Filled with worry at what he would see based on his mother's expression and what Bulma had said it was with some trepidation Gohan raised the mirror to look into it. Gohan gasped and nearly dropped the mirror. There stareing out at him instead of his once soft face was a cold visage made of metal. Grey titanium plates surrounded his eyes and covered his forehead, a black joint line breaking the cool surface as it ran around as far as he could see, crossing the bridge of his nose, intersected by both eyes. Running down just beside the edge of his mouth on the left side, a second plate of grey metal, another black joint line, designed to give movement, ran in a slight upward curve away from his lips following the curve of his jaw. The metal of the main face plate stopped about a centimetre above his top lip, his nose entirely replaced with a metal doppelganger. Curving up slightly on either side the face plate ran around till it met his hair at the back of his head. Gohan stared at the only part of his face he could recognise, his mouth and right cheek, the top of which was covered by the curving face plate. Raising a hand to touch his face Gohan noted with a feeling of unreality that it was an entirely metal prosthetic, devoid of the sensations of touch. But perhaps the thing that haunted him most were his eyes. His coal black eyes, once so full of life and who had displayed his every emotion where now lifeless and cold. Eyes that didn't look like they belonged to something living. They were unnatural and Gohan new just where he had seen them before, staring out of the faces of androids 16, 17 and 18. They were eyes that anyone could immediately tell did not belong to something human.

Gohan dropped the mirror his grip going limp, although he couldn't feel it. Turning he gazed with those cold eyes at Bulma an imploring look on what remained of his face.

"I'm sorry Gohan, I truly am." Bulma whispered to the young hero who couldn't cry as he had no tears to weep.

Well guys I hope you like it. I wondering if people would like to see this fic continued, I've got a plan for it but I don't know if people like it or not. So you know what to do, tell me what you think and review, review, review.

Is there anything you like, didn't like or would like to see added? The interesting part is how will this affect his going to high school and Videl trying to get his secrets out of him, causes he's just got I'm an android added to his list, muwahahahaha.

Any and all idea's welcome, and to those of you have read my other fic Gohan's Rage no I'm not abandoning it, I just needed to get this idea down and out before I forgot it. I promise never to leave a fic unfinished.

Anyway see you hopefully and thanks for reading form Major Session.