I do not own DBZ or any of its characters.
"Adam where are we?" Stephanie cried. They had been tied up for weeks now. They had all kinds of I.V.s giving them food and water and some other substance.
"I don't know Steph but these stupid needles are hurting!"
"What is this guy doing to us!"
"I wish I knew," Adam said with a sigh, "I knew we shouldn't have gone with…"
"Shh, I hear something!" Stephanie interrupted with a harsh whisper.
"16!" Dr. Gero's voice said harshly, "what the hell happened?"
"I couldn't shoot that Ki blast at Goku," 16 said.
"Why the hell not! He was distracted with that Piccolo guy! You had a clear shot!"
"There were birds! I couldn't kill those innocent birds and animals that were around!" 16 cried, "plus they were at a martial arts tournament I couldn't kill all the innocent people around!"
"Android 16, you could have killed that spiky haired little brat once and for all!"
"He's not so little anymore," 16 commented.
"What people were around him? Who!"
"There was this lady with black hair in a ponytail…"
"Hmm, I don't know who that is, I'll send the bug to get info on her," Dr. Gero said, "who else, who else was there!"
"That blue-haired lady, the old man with the turtle shell, the pig, the guy with the three eyes, the girl who's hair changes when she sneezes, the guy with the scarred face, and the little bald guy."
"That's Bulma, Roshi, Oolong, Tien, Lunch, Yamcha, and Krillin!" Dr. Gero said, "those are the ones that are always helping Goku! If you would have killed them then they wouldn't have tried to find me to get revenge! You idiot! You could have killed two birds with one stone!"
"They're innocent! My mission is only to kill Goku!" 16 said.
"They are not innocent! Those stupid 'friends' of his are just as guilty as he is!"
"And what is he guilty of?"
"That doesn't matter! You are my android and you do as I say! You have too many emotions and the torture I will submit you will be excruciating!"
"Do what you want, I will not kill anybody but Goku," 16 said firmly.
"Fine then, I'll make new androids, two new androids that will not hesitate to kill Goku and anyone who gets in the fucking way," Dr. Gero said, "they will be synchronized, ruthless, undefeated! And you wanna know why? Because they're twins! They're children and at my disposal!"
"You monster!"
"Don't even think about it!" Dr. Gero shouted. A whirring sound filled the room and a clank was heard.
"Android?" Adam questioned, "isn't that a robot?" Adam and Stephanie looked at each other and trembled in fear as the door opened.
"Ahh, my beautiful twins," Dr. Gero said laughing evilly.
"Let us go you jack ass!" Adam shouted.
"What did you do to that Android 16 guy!" Stephanie cried.
"What I'm about to do to you!" Dr. Gero responded with a maniacal screech of laughter. Darkness enfolded the twins and their memories started fading away into the darkness.
…...
"Where are we?" 17 asked.
"Dr. Gero's lab," 18 responded, "did he flush your brain again?"
"Yeah he did," 17 said sadly.
"We have to get out of here bro."
"But we have nothing to go back to, as hard as we try we can't seem to retain our memories intact!"
"But we have the most important ones, that we are twins, that we were turned into androids, and that we are together," 18 said, "that's the most important thing."
"Any idea what are original names are 18?"
"Nope," 18 said sadly, "but maybe it's a good thing we don't remember."
"Maybe," 17 said, "I just know I want to kill this Goku guy just so we can be free of Dr. Gero and his supposable magnificence!"
"Exactly! We are more than capable of achieving that, but he says he won't release until he's completely done, he says three years."
"Three fucking years?" 17 said, "no we gotta try to get out before then!"
"No, then he'll do to us what he did to Android 16," 18 said, "you still remember that night?"
"Vaguely," 17 said, "but I know he pressed that red button and shut him down."
"We didn't need to see it to know that."
"I don't like the idea of being shut down into darkness by a simple button, we have to destroy it!"
"And destroy him!" 18 added, "he destroyed every shred of our humanity and now we have to live with these torturous nightmares probably for the rest of our days."
"I'm kind of glad we're not human anymore."
"Well I'd rather be human than be this monster! I don't want to be his little killing machine, I…"
"Want to be your own killing machine right?"
"Well…"
"Yeah just like me sis!" 17 said, "I don't want to be told to kill someone, I want to kill them because I feel like it!"
"But 17 I don't…"
"You don't either, I know, I know," 17 said.
18 sighed and said, "17 let's kill Dr. Gero now and escape, we don't have to kill Goku like he wants us to!"
"But I want to kill him, it's a challenge," 17 said, "we would have so much fun!"
"No 17 I…"
"Let's go!" 17 exclaimed jumping up and walking to the lab doors. 18 followed closely behind, though they normally did things she didn't want to, she didn't want to leave her brother alone. Even though she didn't want to kill Goku, she couldn't leave her brother alone against him, he would surely kill him. She internally wished she could remember her childhood, but she had to settle for certain instincts and hunches that she didn't understand.
The thing she did remember was her hatred of Dr. Gero. The twins stalked quietly up to his bedroom where he was lying on his bed watching T.V.
"Android 17, Android 18!" Dr. Gero shouted in alarm, "what are you doing here!"
"We're here to kill you!" 17 screamed lunging at him. Dr. Gero, who had just converted himself into an android was able to jump out of the way. Of course he met with 18's foot in his face. He slammed hard against the wall and gasped out for air when 17 punched him ferociously in the stomach. Dr. Gero scrambled away from the full grown twins he had "raised" as they approached him menacingly. He reached to the drawer and grabbed the control.
"No!" 18 shouted, but it was too late. Everything around them went into darkness and pain shot up their spines. Who knew if they would ever wake up.
…...
"Wake up! I need you!" Dr. Gero yelled opening the portals. 17 and 18 opened their eyes and stepped out of their pods. They heard chattering and yelling of people on the other side of the door, they were obviously trying to kill Dr. Gero. "They're Goku's friends, now kill them!"
18 crossed her arms over her chest and walked away from him. 17 scoffed and rolled his eyes. They both remembered what happened last time. Dr. Gero grabbed 18's arm firmly and said, "you must obey me!"
18 pulled her arm out and glared at him fiercely. "What if we don't want to?" 17 said in his cool monotone.
Dr. Gero pulled out the red button control and said, "you'll do it if you know what's best for you!"
18 made a frightened movement that caught Dr. Gero's attention, and his turning around to look was a fatal mistake. The control was taken from his hand and crushed by 17's. Dr. Gero cowered in fear and stepped away. "Now, w-w-wait I created you!"
17 and 18 walked forward toward the pod that was marked 16.
"No! You can't!" Dr. Gero's head said.
"Why are you so scared of this android Dr. Gero?" 17 said.
"He's defective!" Dr. Gero cried. 17 scoffed and pressed the button, releasing a giant android. For some reason, something happened in their childhood that made them drawn to this android. "NO!" Dr. Gero screamed.
17 lunged forward and sliced his hand through the air slicing off Dr. Gero's head. The door crashed open as Dr. Gero's head landed at the feet of several men ready for battle. 17 and 18 paid them no mind even though one of them looked ready to kill them. They walked forward followed by 16 who kept on saying "Find Goku." The fighters looked at the head in surprise.
One of the fighters, a scarred faced warrior registering as Yamcha, said, "three androids?"
The short, bald one, registering as Krillin, said, "I thought you said there was only two?"
"There was! I don't understand," a purple-haired guy with a sword said. The androids found it odd that he didn't register in their database. The androids simply ignored it and walked past the surprised warriors and flew off in search of Goku.