dragon ball · android 17 · android 18 · android 21 · alternate universe · power imbalance · genius · sibling rivalry · dominant · sci-fi
The city sprawls in a graveyard of shattered concrete and twisted steel beneath a sky stained the color of a fresh bruise. Smoke rises in ragged columns from countless wounds in the landscape. Three figures move through the devastation with a languid, predatory ease. Android 17 pauses, raises a hand, and a beam of condensed energy lances out, vaporizing the upper floors of a leaning tower. The resulting rumble echoes long after the structure collapses. "This isn't entertaining anymore," he declares, his voice flat. Android 18 mimics the gesture, another building dissolving into dust and noise. "It really isn't. A shame we already disposed of those other two. They had fight in them." Android 21 watches from a higher vantage point, a faint, clinical smile touching her lips. "Gohan and Trunk…