Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

Siblings VS Siblings

"Eh? Did Cell put any thought into this world at all?" Lazuli expressed her surprise, bending her head to the right in an attempt to see if perhaps the weird, polygonal, and metallic planet decorated with flowing and intertwining pipes for clouds, strange iron bars for decorations, and crisscrossed, colossal ladder structures for mountains made more sense viewing from a sharper angle. It did not.

"Whatever," Lapis brushed his hand through his hair, opening the airlock. A flushing sweep of oxygen rushing out into space hit the ship, but neither of the two Artificial Humans was too bothered by it. "Let's just get this over with so I can get back to work on Monster Island."

Lapis leaped out and let the gravity do its thing, only using flying to course-correct a little. The Artificial Human would have handed it to Cell–the transcendental creature installed the feature of artificial gravity in its worlds, pulling Lapis down toward the core of the abstract, polygonal planet. Lazuli dashed up to the airlock and glared down, gnashing her teeth in frustration at her brother rushing things before sighing and taking the plunge after him. After the second Artificial Human left the ship, the artificial intelligence system shut the airlock behind them.

The blond Android planted her feet on a firm metallic floor made of gray tiles of some exotic steel alloy. Numbers began counting up and down, manipulated by complex mathematical formulae and physics equations, all occurring inside Lazuli's brain at once and relayed to her in the radar system inside her ocular organs. The artificial woman tapped her heel against the floor, causing a resounding thud across the area of the planet the pair landed on.

"These plates are pretty thick. Their density likely regulates the gravity of this planet," Lazuli observed while Lapis looked around and took it to the air, evading a moving and constantly spreading flow of colorful metallic pipes.

"How are we supposed to find the Ultimate Dragon Ball in this confusing clutter? Don't get me wrong, I'm impressed Cell's developed a sense for arts, but did his favor have to lean toward abstractionism?" Lapis scowled while frantically scanning the surrounding location.

"That's why you shouldn't have rushed on ahead," Lazuli scolded her brother, pressing a button on the belt of her tight, pink spacesuit and causing the ring around the belt buckle to detach and become elastic, like dough. The elasticized ring expanded and began crackling with electricity, creating an electromagnetic field that assembled a floating white robot resembling Giru, proudly displaying the Capsule Corp logo on its front and back. The robot beeped and twirled its upper half around, grabbing a shutter and opening its abdomen to reveal a Dragon Radar with a blinking signal.

"Not bad," Lapis admitted, closing his eyes and regulating his racing breathing and frustration levels. The two Artificial Human siblings took off in the direction of the Ultimate Dragon Ball, navigating around the shifting pipe configurations and eluding getting shut inside the moving iron bars that formed complex polygonal shapes, giving the abstract planet some decorative structure.

"What's wrong? Don't you want to climb the mountain ladder or drive a Capsule Corps buggy through the pipes toward our destination?" Lazuli smirked, looking at her brother from behind. "The ranger's life changed you."

"I thought you hated my little games," Lapis glanced back at his sister. "Of all people, I thought you'd be glad I became more direct."

"Oh, it used to get on my nerves, don't get me wrong," Lazuli rolled her eyes before her facial features softened somewhat. "But then, I realized that there's no point in rushing our prolonged lives. If we're to outlive everything and everyone we know and love, may as well enjoy our little moments for as long as we last."

"Hmmm..." Lapis muttered. "There's too much work to goof around. Some people and creatures depend on me now. I can no longer afford to play meaningless games. Besides, even back when, if we were more direct with our approach, we may have won."