Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Puri's Purgatory

It didn't take Chayote too long before she encountered the first wall of defense protecting the shoreline of West City. Rows of dreadnaughts with colossal cannons rolling up and looking to blast her out of the sky with world-shaking destructive power queued up to overwhelm the Saiyan. Aerial drones dislodged fusillades of missiles, each of which carried the same explosive charge present inside each of the Androids if they ever saw the need to self-destruct.

"I thought we stopped all of this... Didn't Muten Roshi destroy the marine base?" Chayote stopped her vain attempt to evade the overwhelming weapon of mass destruction hell homing in on her and spread her arms out, forming an energy barrier that absorbed the blows for her. The resulting destruction caused enough chaos for at least a temporary stoppage of firing.

"No... I'm sure that Trunks took care of the machine duplication lab and Chi-Chi must've taken care of the aerial suppression units already... Something's off..." Chayote clenched her fists. Her uniform began feeling tight around her body as her Ki began swelling up with an explosive aura around her. "Jelly-Beam!"

Colorful sparks of various colors, sprinkling various elements with their brilliance, lit up around the tips of Chayote's fingers before firing off in the shape of Ki beams straying off far and wide in all directions. Beams of focused heat that sought to incinerate their target, beams that froze the enemy solid, piercing and invisible beams, packing the punch of an entire hurricane, and beams of pure force punching through like a rolling boulder with hefty blunt force. The aerial squadron of Puri's drones disappeared almost at once in the cascade of colorful explosions.

"Well, well... If it isn't the destructive buffoon, Chayote! The bumbling brute that destroys all she touches and ruins the lives of everyone around her..." Dr. Puri's teasing voice boomed from down below where the dreadnaughts were grouping up for another combined fusillade of destruction. "Even now, I can see your primitive, fleshy heart bumping its best, hoping not to muck everything up for your friends, most of whom just sort of tolerate you because you were useful once or twice to them. They've tried their hardest, didn't they, destroying my bases and unraveling my plans... Or, at least, what their brawling minds thought my plans were. As you can see, my cybernetic defenses are just as strong as ever. Your friends failed."

"Yeah, I suppose none of us incorporated the importance you'd place in putting your face on screens on your warships when putting our battle plan together. Guess we really had no idea how you think..." Chayote barked out a response before taking a fighting pose and preparing to obliterate the dreadnaught legion just like she did to the jet drones earlier.

"You're fighting against the Android 21 of yesterday. Destroying the bases that I've established early on in my plan to save mankind. You've failed already, all this effort and you didn't realize that I can control and rebuild my cyborgs and androids without all that outdated and cumbersome tech. Just like that insufferable boy-toy of yours, you're fighting a battle on the wrong time," Dr. Puri looked awfully self-content for someone who had just lost all the bases that Chayote and Trunks had seen as a crux to Puri's plans. Even if she was a twisted artificial woman, what if the reason she was so overjoyed by the result was that she truly won, somehow?

What if she truly didn't need the military bases anymore? What if she's merged all of their functions already and all that the Dragon Team had achieved that day was exposing themselves for capture? Something that Dr. Puri could not do throughout the last year because of the guerilla tactics of Chayote Security efforts.

"Oh? That's such a delicious expression you have on your face right now. But it won't do. For ruining my family's life, our chance to bring back our son to life, it can never possibly do! Come to Puri & Co, if you can manage it. Bring all that doubt and insecurity with you, I'd love to taste it from up close," Android 21 laughed out before her face vanished from the tall and wide screens of the dreadnaughts, replaced by the modified Red Ribbon logo that was now split in between blue and red and had the numbers 2 and 1 decorating it instead of the usual R & R.