Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Face To Face With The Devil

Trunks soared onward from his irradiated battlefield over the western region of the planet toward West City. Preserving his strength, the newly awakened warrior to surpass a Super Saiyan now hurried toward the most important battlefield in his base form with his hair fluttering erratically to the sides. That way his mechanical implants were in plain view, though there was no one Trunks would have wanted to conceal them from in the vicinity.

While the future traveler couldn't tell where Dr. Puri was, he could trace where all the most important fighting was going on by tracing the Ki of other combatants. Someone with enough power to render both Son Goku, Vegeta, and Piccolo powerless could have only been Dr. Puri herself. Trunks' new power couldn't have awakened at a more opportune time. This was the strength he needed to save the future of this timeline. This was the strength to earn hope once more. Most importantly, it was the strength that would make him strong enough to save Chayote and create a peaceful world for his son. One Trunks himself didn't have the luxury to see.

"Solar Fist!" an unexpected croak resonated from below, stunning Trunks with how unexpected the interception was. The time traveler stopped and covered up his right eye while thrashing about in pain, focusing on his tearful eye.

Trunks' open hand shot out. It locked around the wrist of a green, chitinous shell and stopped a fist in place. A golden aura boomed from the traveler from the future, igniting the hopeful flash of gold in his spiky hair as well. With his right eye closed, Trunks turned to the unexpected enemy with a grumpy look. Mockery for how little effort the enemy thought would have sufficed to kill him.

"Impossible!" the enemy croaked with a low-pitched noise, reminding of the cricket's chirping modulated and added to human speech.

Trunks' right arm reached for his shotgun, pointing the two barrels at his opponent without as much as a twitch to his lips but just as the whiff of his opponent's Ki reached his sensory input, Trunks' hand stopped from pulling the trigger, and channeling his Ki to blast this mysterious interceptor to dust.

"Your Ki... It's... Chayote's... Who are you? You're not an Android of Dr. Puri's that I'm familiar with, are you a new model?" Trunks wondered. He should've blasted this insect away and moved on to join Chayote on the battlefield, but... There was no possible way for someone to have Chayote's Ki. One's Ki was unique to that person. It couldn't have been emulated. If this creature could have Chayote's Ki, it could've had the Ki of just about anyone or anything else.

As far as Trunks might have known, he might have been following another copy of this creature while trying to trace Chayote's Ki. It was for that reason that he must have had an answer. What if Dr. Puri was trying to emulate Chayote's Ki to clone her so that she could be able to finally kill the Saiyan and have her unconditional revenge?

"I see... It's that cybernetic eye of yours, isn't it? The last time we met, we didn't have a chance to fight properly, so I wasn't sure about how your Artificial Human parts worked..." the insectoid creature purred with a croaking tone.

Now that the flash of light had subsided, Trunks finally could have a clear look at the creature he ended up against. This enigmatic interloper was a humanoid-shaped creature, though it had many features to it that were alien to ordinary humans. He had minty-colored horns, a beak-like mouth that reminded him of a cicada's face, and three fingers for both his feet and hands. His body had been coated with segmented armor hard as steel, though it had a texture of chitin. Twin beetle wings twitched at the creature's back, though it seemed quite capable of flight using Ki.

It had predatorial, long, vertical eyes, though they appeared to have an armored membrane closing over it when the creature blinked that was deep green. The creature's abdomen had been pink and some segments of its armor had a color that didn't quite match the other segments, making him an odd sight to behold from afar.