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18 extended her other hand to try and reach her torturer, but the painful way he was locking her made it impossible! She then tried to lean on this free hand to counter the terrible pressure that was crushing her to the ground, but there again, all her efforts were useless: Vegeta was pressing always harder, inflicting her painful excruciating jolts that buried her delicate face into the dusty cement each time a bit more.

The merciless twisting on her arm, the dreadful pressure of the foot on her face didn't give the young woman any way to move. She gritted her teeth as, for the first time in her life, a feeling of powerlessness and panic rose in her. Would it be possible for him to tear her arm off if he kept twisting it in the extreme? She didn't want to run this risk... She had to find a way to get out of the Saiyan's clutch, and at short notice!

From the corner of the only eye that still emerged the slightest bit from the hole in which her face was buried, she saw her brother fighting with Son Gohan a bit farther.

Her shot had been efficient and enough to unbalance the young fighter for a while. It had enabled the freed cyborg to launch another attack. Since then, they had been vehemently fighting and her brother, utterly concentrated on his battle, hadn't noticed the difficult situation of his sister.

The high pitched sound of an energy blast, followed by a dull blow made her bionic heart beat faster. Vegeta, who was determined to finish it, had just lighted up his aura to dispose of even more power.

Quick! Gathering at much energy as possible in her free arm, 18 managed to raise it in the right direction... and to shot another energy ball. 17 was surprised by the shock of the general attack that her sister threw and he swiftly turned around to see with surprise the unpleasant position of his twin.

He didn't have time to react. Seizing the opportunity that fate had given him, Son Gohan crashed into him and brutally pushed him forwards, going after him with a double energy blast concentrated in his two hands.

17 didn't understand what was the goal of such a maneuver, but it didn't matter... He had thrown him closer to the young woman in a difficult position. What a chance! The two fighters weren't far from the pair on the ground; so 17 suddenly stopped the momentum that was throwing him forwards. He resisted Son Gohan's energy who, as he was surprised, and out of reflex, increased the intensity.

A smirk grew on the bionic hybrid's lips as he was now turning around. The young fighter, not paying attention to his opponent as he was engrossed in his effort, went with the slight change of position without really caring about it, until 17 suddenly eluded him, as he has let the double concentrated energy shot carry him away before leaving its trajectory. The Saiyan's energy blast went on its way and Vegeta hardly had time to get down to dodge the terrible impact that deeply went through the cement rubble!

His victim jumped at the chance. Freed from the hellish pressure that kept her on the ground, she suddenly got up and brutally pushed her torturer away in the air and then caught him by the neck to savagely press him on the ground. The struggle was rough for a short while as the fighter put up a fierce opposition to the pressure of the steel hand that was now crushing his throat.

With his hand, the Prince of Saiyan now abruptly covered the small face, that sported the scar of their previous fights, in order to throw a ball made of concentrated energy right in her face. 18 resisted his attack and tightened her grip. Screaming, Vegeta generated another and much stronger energy ball. The cyborg gave up on her grip this time and in extremis propelled him backwards and dodged the explosion that finally was lost in the devastated landscape.

The aerial fight had also taken a different turn: Son Gohan, probably confused by the fact he had been fooled, had lost concentration.

And he paid for this mistake! The cyborg suddenly appeared in front of him and literally paralysed him with a double atemis on both carotids that are immediately followed by a formidable headbutt in Gohan's forehead. The young fighter, completely stunned, fell once again, swirling and whirling, without being able to control it.

Being rid of his opponent, 17 now landed near his sister who was trying to see her poor hair, that has really been tried. In the other side, Vegeta, who had just got up, starred at the two machines with hatred burning in his eyes.