The Android Who Didn't Play By The Rules

BOOM!

Perhaps it was a coincidence—it must have been a coincidence—but Vegeta landed right at the entrance of Dr. Gero's laboratory.

One only had to look at the collapsed mountain to understand just how much force Frieza had put into that kick.

Vegeta himself was fine; for a Super Saiyan, such an impact was nothing, but the people inside the laboratory were a different story.

It wasn't that they had suffered any major injuries, but they were certainly buried alive.

It wasn't just Android 17 and Android 18; Frieza, who had been located even deeper underground, was buried right along with them.

As for Dr. Gero, who had modified himself into Android 20, he still could not escape his fate of being killed by Android 17.

The only silver lining was that he was already buried, so there was no need to worry about his corpse being left out in the wilderness.

THUD!

THUD!

BOOM!

Android 17 burst out from the underground carrying a massive stasis pod, accompanied by the young girl, Android 18.

The third explosion was caused by Frieza, who blasted the entire mountain to smithereens.

Surrounded by a purple aura, Frieza floated in the air, his expression incredibly foul.

He, Frieza, had actually been buried alive! The physical damage was negligible, but the insult was immense!

Seeing Vegeta shaking his head as he stood up from the dirt, Frieza instantly understood what had happened.

This was a bit awkward.

This luck—it was better than just "good"!

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Future Trunks and the others arrived shortly after.

Future Trunks, in particular, was overcome with rage the moment he saw Android 17 and Android 18. However, unlike Vegeta or Bulma, he managed to restrain himself, setting Bulma down on the ground and gently placing Baby Trunks into her arms.

"Android 17! Android 18! Prepare to die!"

ROAR!

Future Trunks powered up once more, his combat power reaching 300 million. Fueled by a surge of rage and newfound confidence, he launched himself toward Android 17.

SWISH!

BANG!

"ARGH!"

It seemed the tragedy of Future Trunks was not yet over; challenging someone with 900 million combat power with only 300 million meant the outcome was already set in stone.

This time, Future Trunks did not disappear into the horizon with a ding; he was caught by Gohan.

"This is impossible. 17 shouldn't be this strong. I should have been able to fight him to a standstill!"

"Hmph. There is no such thing as impossible. Forget the Androids that just emerged; even the previous ones could have beaten you with a single hand!"

Vegeta was deeply disappointed in this future son of his. Combat power could be trained, but a lack of intelligence was truly a thorny issue.

After a moment of thought, realizing there was no easy cure for stupidity, Vegeta decided to just fight the Androids first and worry about it later.

As for the fact that he had just been kicked away by Frieza? Did that even happen?

Pardon him, but Vegeta had chosen to conveniently forget.

"You two are Android 17 and 18, right? Fight me!"

"I refuse."

"I refuse as well."

At that moment, 17 opened the stasis pod labeled "16," and a massive man—or perhaps it would be more accurate to call him a robot in the shape of a man—climbed out.

"He's made entirely of metal. If Dr. Gero had the skill to do this, why did he bother modifying us?"

18 tapped 16's arm, producing a metallic clanging sound, and looked on with confusion.

17 and 18 had originally been ordinary humans, but Dr. Gero had selected them for his Android project. Although they remained human, they had nano-elements within them that altered their thoughts, along with emergency shutdown and self-destruct mechanisms.

Most importantly, the process of their modification had been a living hell—why else would they harbor such hatred for Dr. Gero?

"Why refuse to fight me? Weren't you created to destroy humanity?"

17 looked up at Vegeta in the distance and asked, puzzled.

"Who told you we were here to destroy humanity? We are human ourselves!"

"Oh, you mean Dr. Gero? The mission he gave us wasn't to destroy humanity! The thing I hated most about Dr. Gero's missions was that he actually ordered me to woo Bulma!"

"Hmph! You're a man; is it really that hard to accept wooing a beautiful woman? What about me?! I was ordered to seduce Son Goku and tear his family apart!"

"Damn that old geezer and his damn missions!"

WHOOSH...

The wind continued to howl, and everyone present was stunned by the mission stated by Android 17 and Android 18.

Bulma felt her heart tremble, but she immediately pretended not to hear it and focused on checking the injuries of Future Trunks.

Son Gohan pointed at himself, then looked at Piccolo and said, "Uncle Piccolo, did that female Android just say she wants to break up my family? To make my dad and mom separate?"

Piccolo rubbed Son Gohan's head with a pained heart and closed his eyes helplessly.

"If we aren't suffering from auditory hallucinations, then you heard it very clearly! It's okay, Gohan, Uncle Piccolo won't leave you!"

What a thing to say!

It was as if Android 18 had already succeeded, and Son Goku and Chi-Chi had already split up!

At this moment, even Frieza was petrified; had the plot really become this bizarre?

Was what followed not a battle, but a teen romance drama, or perhaps a story about a mistress taking over?

This was just ridiculously absurd!

However, everyone had forgotten that when it came to anger, Vegeta was absolutely the one who took the crown.

He had been looked down upon to his face, and on top of that, they wanted to hit on his woman and cuckold him!!

Future Trunks was even more dumbfounded, with ten thousand grass mud horses galloping through his heart. All he could think was: I want to leave this timeline, this place doesn't belong to me, I want to go, I'm leaving, I want to go find my mom!

However, did you think things ended there?

No, Android 18 first compared heights with Android 16, then asked, "Big guy, what is your mission?"

Android 16 looked at the sky with pure eyes, and a tear of machine oil fell.

"My mission! My mission is to go film a movie; only when my popularity exceeds that of Optimus Prime can I be accompanied by the little animals I like!"

The wind continued to blow, and the plot galloped wildly down the path of absurdity!

Bang!

A Time Machine appeared, and Future Trunks, with a face full of despair, prepared to make a run for it.

Bang!

The Time Machine turned back into a capsule, but this time it wasn't Frieza who acted, but the quick-handed Bulma.

"Don't be in such a rush to leave. Although this timeline has undergone changes that are hard to accept, your future has not changed. You need to become stronger to save your devastated future!"

Future Trunks was stunned; Mom's words made so much sense that he didn't know how to refute them.

"To prevent you from failing to endure your father's training, I will keep this capsule for you. When your father acknowledges you, and you feel you can defeat the Androids of the future, I will return the Time Machine to you!"

"Mom!!!"

Future Trunks was moved to tears by Bulma and dropped to his knees before his mother.

In this world, only one's own mother truly loves them the most.

"Oh ho ho ho!"

"Bulma, you just want to take a close look at how fit your future son is and how popular he is with girls, right!"

Future Trunks froze and instinctively looked up at his mother.

He saw Bulma's eyes darting away, her face full of the shyness of someone whose thoughts had been exposed!

Future Trunks...

He was about to shut down completely!!