"Fine then!" Deciding on a new course of action, the warrior quickly dove straight down to Capsule Corp and the android standing squarely in his sights. "I'll just beat you down the old-fashioned way!"
Sentinel grunted and retracted his rocket launchers. Immediately upon doing so his eyes flashed a bright red before firing two lasers up at the approaching Saiyan.
Spotting the fast-moving beams, Vegeta dropped altitude immediately, avoiding them. Stopping himself just feet above the ground, the man then powered up and, with a loud battle cry and a sonic boom, shot towards the android and uncorked the mother of all punches into its face. His fist connected with a deafening thunderclap and, not only did it cock the automaton's head to the side, it also had him skid along the ground for a couple of feet.
However, upon burying his knuckles into the robot's metal cheek, Vegeta then looked up in shock when he saw the robot was unaffected and grinning smugly at him.
"Attack failed. Damage incurred: zero. I'm afraid that amount of force will not be sufficient enough to pierce through this armor," Sentinel spoke, effortlessly craning his head around to stare at the stunned Saiyan, "The reinforced adamantine frame making up my body was an extra precaution designed by Bulma Briefs to ensure the same fate did not befall this model of Android 16 as it did the last one. Useless sentimentality from a useless woman."
Growling, Vegeta cocked his fist back and prepared for another punch, only to get hit across the face by a hook from the android that sent him spinning across the lawn. Before he could come to a complete stop, Sentinel darted forward and elbowed the prince in the face, sending him bouncing across the property.
Slamming his feet into the ground to stop, the prince's blue aura exploded around him and he shot up into the sky, where he stopped and glared down at the deceptively quick robot.
"Is that all you've got?!" Vegeta barked, ignoring the blood running out of the corner of his mouth.
Sentinel smirked, "As a matter of fact…" Almost instantly, every single plate on his body opened up and produced a rocket launcher, all of which loaded and aimed straight at the Saiyan floating high above. "Ice Blitzkrieg!" He then fired everything he had; sending over ten dozens rockets of all shapes and sizes hurtling towards the persistent warrior hanging above the property.
Giving a yell of effort, the raven haired fighter blasted backwards as fast as he could, curling left and right before being assaulted by the storm of projectiles. The rockets impacted him one after the other and exploded, revealing their ammunition to be sheaths of liquid nitrogen-like rounds that caused icy blasts capable of freezing anything.
When it seemed like Vegeta was going to be frozen into submission by the onslaught of missiles, the Saiyan Prince was actually deflecting each individual rocket so that they exploded away from him, before cocking his fist back and hooking the last wave with a power punch that destroyed them all in a brilliant flash of golden light.
The smoke from the explosion clouded the air and blocked Sentinel's view of his target, leaving him in suspense for several seconds. Moments later, Vegeta suddenly shot out of the side of the cloud and, hand held forward, unleashed a golden blast down at the abomination. "Big Bang Attack!" The ball of energy shot out of his hand towards the android and slammed straight into his face, detonating with an almighty bang that rocked the entire block.
At first the Saiyan thought he got him, but just seconds after the flash of light faded, revealing a cloud of black smoke hovering above the property, the smog parted sharply and Sentinel came shooting up at him propelled by a collection of rocket pads on his back and feet.
While flying towards the Saiyan Prince, the android suddenly tucked and retracted all of his limbs into his body, his plates shifting and incasing him in a protective, cocoon-like shell. Reacting in alarm at the robot-turned-projectile, Vegeta threw his hands forward and unleashed three powerful ki blasts at his adversary, only to watch his attacks bounce off of his slopped armor uselessly.
Counter failed, the man threw himself out of the way and watched his foe blow past him, only to change course sharply and land on the roof of a distant office building. Unfolding and landing with a heavy thud, Sentinel then sprang through the air in another direction and spun around, opening his mouth and producing a second cannon, which he immediately aimed at the Saiyan Prince.
"Pellet Shooter!" With a series of loud bangs, the android unleashed a volley of high-velocity blasts towards his opponent.
Vegeta avoided the first few shots, which rocketed past him like artillery rounds, only to then be hit headlong by the last two, which exploded with ridiculous force and sent him spiraling to the ground. With a yell of shock, the Saiyan collided with one of Capsule Corp's smaller buildings, causing the entire roof to cave in on itself.
Target hit, Sentinel flew back down to ground level and landed with a metallic thud on the grass. Smiling at his success, the android then began to march towards the crash site, intent on finishing his opponent.
"You think you can destroy me?" Sentinel asked with a smile. "I've analyzed all of your training sessions recorded in the gravity room and added your attack patterns to my combat routines. Nothing you can do will surprise me." Feeling invigorated, the android clenched and unclenched his fists repeatedly, gathering energy for one last attack.
However, when he was about half way across the property, a shockwave suddenly rang out followed immediately by a blast of wind that pelted Sentinel in the face with a cloud of debris. Stopping in his tracks and looking up in momentary confusion, the mechanized fighter saw the entire roof of the collapsed building blow away and a golden aura burst out of it like an inferno. This was shortly followed by a slightly banged-up Vegeta emerging from the rubble assumed in his Super Saiyan form, his hair blonde and an intense, teal glare fixed upon the silver-plated android.
His sensors quickly analyzing the man's new appearance and power level, the robot chuckled, "I see you've made some… modifications. Altering your original combat chassis will not help you."Sentinel then threw both his hands forward, clenching them into fists before the plates shifted back and transformed into two identical cannons. The morphing of his arms was instantly followed by the android's expression intensifying tenfold. "Do not prolong the inevitable."
"Shut your mouth!" Vegeta frowned, his energy warping around him furiously, "It's time to put your metal ass down once and for all." Throwing his arms out to his sides, the Saiyan then gave a mighty bellow and, in an explosive show of force, his aura blasted off of him in all directions and began to fluctuate like crazy. This was instantly followed by two blue spheres of energy wrapping around his hands, which sparkled and crackled as he poured all the ki he needed into his palms.
Eyes flickering with numbers and warning lights, Sentinel's gaze reflected a momentary sense of astonishment. This then prompted the android to also begin powering up and in a matter of seconds, the insides of the two barrels he'd produced from his arms began to glow a hot orange. His internal nuclear furnace burning brightly and emitting a loud humming noise, the android took aim at his target and, with a sonic boom and the howl of a powerful engine, the android unleashed his attack.
"Hell Flash!" Two orange blasts rocketed out of his arms and fused into one, forming into a single beam that charged towards the Super Saiyan in a wall of death.
In response, Vegeta roared at the top of his lungs and, upon bringing his hands together with his fingers spread, the Prince of all Saiyans unleashed an attack that hadn't been seen since his fight on Namek.
"Final Crash!" His yell was soon drowned out by his attack, which gushed out of his hands and shot towards the approaching orange beam in a tidal wave of energy.
The attacks collided in midair like comets running each other down, a shockwave ringing out as a result that punched a massive crater into the ground beneath them. But then, just seconds into the tug-of-war match, Vegeta's blast effortlessly dominated Sentinel's and, overwhelming the opposing blast, charged towards the android. Moments later, the robot was struck headlong by the attack, knocked off its feet, and sent barreling across the city, flying over hundreds of skyscrapers before eventually colliding with a mountain safely on the other side, way out of reach of the community's populace.
The impact was marked by a brilliant flash of purple light followed by a colossal explosion several hundred times more powerful than a nuke. Fire filled the sky and shot right up into the atmosphere, parting the clouds with a shockwave that rattled the city to its foundations. A full minute later, the explosion ended, leaving a plume of black smoke gushing into the air from the crater that'd formed where the edifice once stood.
Panting from the attack and still assumed in his transformed state, Vegeta took flight and headed to where his attack had planted his annoying adversary into the earth. Arriving there in no time at all, the man slowly lowered himself from the sky to hover above the center of the cataclysm, where he spent the next few minutes looking around for the remains of his quarry.
Sure enough, he found them. Bits and pieces of highly durable tech lay scattered around the gorge, along with a thoroughly ruined arm, one of the rocket pods the android had used before, and half a skull. The optical lens, which once served as Sentinel's eye, flickered a few times in warning before dying out.
Grunting, Vegeta raised a hand towards it and fired a couple of blasts, disintegrating both the arm and the remains of the head. "Not taking any chances," the prince thought, remembering what the last android they'd encountered had been capable of.
The warrior then powered down when the smoke cleared, giving him a few moments to catch his breath before flying back to Capsule Corp. Once he returned to the facility, he quickly flew in through the hole in the side of the main building, where he quickly saw Mrs. Briefs, his son and Bulma gathered around Doctor Briefs's body.
At first remaining calm when he approached the group, Vegeta then stopped when he saw the blue haired woman cradling her father's head in her lap with tears streaming down her cheeks. Trunks was currently being held by his grandmother, who was doing her best to keep the boy from seeing his grandfather in such a way. But despite her best efforts, she couldn't stop the youngster from hearing his mother's cries.
Sobbing, Bulma turned away from her loved one to look up at Vegeta, whom she saw standing nearby clothed in a tattered gi with burns covering his entire body. Giving the Saiyan Prince a look, she then saw the warrior nod stiffly, answering a question she didn't have the strength to ask. Upon which the blue haired scientist set her father's head down, rose to her feet, walked over to the man, and threw herself at him.
Gripping his top, Bulma cried into Vegeta's shoulder, earning a slightly surprised look from the Saiyan who, after a moment of hesitation, wrapped an arm around her in comfort.
As the woman cried and the rest of the family remained as they were the familiar form of Doctor Brief's black kitten, Tama, walked in from the corridor and towards the fallen scientist. When he stopped by his head, the cat nuzzled him momentarily, only to pull away when he realized he was no longer there.
The cat then sat down and, giving a sad meow, continued to stare at the doctor as the people in the room grieved…
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