Then Kuririn began to scream in excruciating pain, and 18 turned to face him as blood began to pour from his nose, mouth and ears.

"NO!" She yelled.

"OH GOD! THE SCHMEAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!" Kuririn roared as his blood literally began to boil in his veins. His white eyes turned red as all of the blood vessels in them exploded and he fell to the floor.

"NO !!!!!!!", C18 yelled as her husband fell to the ground in wild twitches of sheer torture. He was so obsessed with getting rid of the pain that he didn't notice where it was falling.
His head hit a rock and 18 heard the sickening crack as his neck twisted so much that the muscles tore. Its main arteries were ruptured and soaked the floor with blood.

"Neeeiiiiiiinnnnn !!!!!!!", C18 cried when she landed and took her husband in her arms. Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked for a pulse. There was none.

"Kuririn," she sobbed. She had never thought that a simple kiss given as fun could bring so much joy into her life, and most of it had centered around the man she had come to love.

"AH HA HA HA HA! OOPS!" Laughed Agony as she landed next to C18.

18 turned around, her eyes full of fierce anger and a desire for revenge on this woman as she laughed at her husband's death.

"YOU ... BITCH!"

C18 flew at Agony, screaming her rage as she rammed an energized fist right through Agony's chest.
And understood when her arm suddenly went numb and she looked into Agony's soul-tearing eyes in horror that it was exactly what Agony had wanted.

Then Agony took C18's head and she screamed when something hit her like a blow and she felt as if she was inside on fire.

And then she was on fire, a terrible fire that broke out inside her body. As her flesh roasted and her organs boiled, C18 opened her mouth, even as her tongue exploded from the heat, and said her last word.

"Marron."

Then her brain was boiled and her burning body fell at Agony's feet, twitching. Agony rolled her eyes and sighed deeply as she soaked up 18's horrific pain of her death.

"Don't worry about that, Blondie. She's next."



Marron was beside herself when she flew with Goten. She had walked all the way home, a good two miles, and hadn't even noticed her lungs were on fire.There she found Gohan, who had been sent by Videl to check the situation because her mother was no longer on the line. Marron told the story sobbing, Gohan picked up the phone and within minutes the entire gang was there, even Yamcha, who was afraid but would not back down. The last to come was Goten with the stranger, Erik, and they had all gone to look for their parents.

"They said they would come back. They said they would come back ..." was all Marron could say, trying to hold down her fear with her mother's promise to follow her.

They landed in the clearing where C17 had lived. Goku, Vegeta, Oob and Yamcha, all spread out looking for a sign from Agony while Erik went to examine C17, and Goten stayed with Marron, holding her as she repeated her mantra over and over.

"Oh Jesus", Erik cursed when he saw C17. He knelt down examining the nature of the mutilation when Gohan came in from behind, he looked sick.

"What killed him?"

"From the nature of the injuries ... it looks like Agony ... grabbed his head and feet ... and then started turning each part in a different direction ..." Erik said, feeling himself bad. Realizing that Agony had killed 17 by grabbing him with energy and then wrestling him like a towel, Gohan promptly vomited again. Erik was grateful that he was sensitive enough to turn around.

"HEY!" Came Yamcha 's voice. "OVER HERE!"



Goku was the first to enter the gruesome scene. He saw it and froze.

"Oh no ..."

"NEEEEEIIIIINNNNN!", Marron sobbed, suddenly breaking through next to him. She fell to her knees between her dead father and mother and hugged her father's body with her hands. More blood came on her, mixed with her uncle's, but she didn't care.

"NEEEEIIINNNNN !!!!! DAPA! MAMA! DAPA! MAMA!" Sobbed Marron, as if her crying could somehow bring her back to life.One by one, the Z-fighters arrived, gasping for air at the gruesome view. Goten looked the worst, but he immediately came to Marron's side and held her, and she rolled into his shoulder to sob.

"They said they were coming back! THEY SAY THEY ARE COMING BACK!" Whined Marron and then collapsed when she could only cry. Goten held her, feeling her tears soak through his shirt, and swore that what Vegeta would do to Agony if he got his hands on her would be nothing compared to what he would do.

"She's a monster," Vegeta said simply. The fresh deaths brought back the terrible memories of his son and daughter and he bit his tongue to stifle the pain. His pain quickly mingled with the rage that he had just missed her.

"WHY DID YOU NOT WALK? WHY?!?!?!?!", Marron cried.

* Because, child, no one can escape Agony unless she wants to.Nobody, thought Erik. He bowed his head and let his rage develop against the woman who had no right to live.

There was a sudden rush and everyone looked up as Goku screamed and exploded into the SSJ3. He was so insane that he could skip the first two steps together.

"FIRST TIEN, THEN TRUNKS, AND NOW KURIRIN! ENOUGH! YOU ARE DEAD, AGONY! CAN YOU HEAR ME? YOU ARE DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", Goku roared.

His scream echoed through the forest and mingled with Marron's sobs.



"How did you die?" Asked Gohan. At Erik's request, they sent the bodies to Capsule Corp. where Erik had examined them. Only Gohan and Goku were still there. Yamcha was somewhere else, Goten was trying to comfort his hysterical Marron, who had been crying for hours, and Vegeta was visiting Bulma, although there had been no changes in her condition.

Erik looked haunted, a terrible look for someone as strong as he was.

"As far as I can tell ... Kuririn died from a broken neck. But what's worse is that his body shows that even if it hadn't happened ... he would have died of the 'bends'."

"The what?" Said Goku, looking confused.

"The bends, Dad, is a condition that divers can get when they surface too quickly. Look, there is a certain amount of air pressure that is always on you, but your body is built to take it off But when you do certain things like go deep underwater the pressure starts to increase. If you do anything under the increased pressure that causes the pressure to decrease quickly, then some of your chemicals in the blood and body tissues become gases shape and start ... blistering, "Gohan said as a sick feeling crept up his stomach. Goku looked like he was having trouble understanding everything, but obviously he got the rough idea.

“What can these bubbles do?”

"They destroy tissue. The worse the air pressure, the bigger the blisters ..." said Erik and shook his head. "Kuririn's body was a complete mess inside."

"But that's impossible! Kuririn wasn't even near water! He couldn't have been under such high pressure ... except ..." Gohan said in horror.

"Except for Agony, the pressure around him was increasing the pressure with willpower," concluded Erik.

Goku understood it now and his face turned pure white again.

"So did Agony ..." he began. Not wanting to believe that something like this could happen, not wanting to believe that someone could actually kill like that.

"Agony somehow raised the air pressure around Kuririn to something a hundred times normal. It must have been like trying to breathe tar. But that wasn't her torture. It was that she suddenly released the pressure. Kuririn's own blood reacted so violently that it tore its own body to shreds from within.If he hadn't broken his neck, his heart would have exploded, it would have been so bad. But I can't check his heart Agony took it. "

Goku sat down with a thud.

"How can someone like that ..." said Goku. His mind was gone, his inability to understand the depths of Agony's madness or malice overwhelmed him.

The door opened and Goten entered.

"Marron cried himself to sleep. Oh God, I feel so bad ..." said Goten. "What happened to you?"

Erik repeated the Kuririn situation. Goten turned the same white color as his father when he listened.

"And C18?"

"You didn't tell me it was an android. But Agony knew. I don't know how. And she zapped C18 with an EMP."

Gohan understood immediately and turned green upon realization. It took Goten longer, but when it came to him it was tough.

"OH GOD!" He said."THAT F ****** BITCH!"

Goten reached out and made a dent in the metal wall with his fist.

"What is an EMP?" Asked Goku.

"Electromagnetic pulse. It's an invisible wave that knocks out everything that has to do with electricity. In reality, to be more accurate, it causes everything electrical to violently self-destruct. And since C18 was an android ..." < br />
"... Agony fried her inside with her own systems. Oh Kami ..." Gohan shuddered while trying to imagine how terrible this must have been for 18, her own systems putting her body on fire from within when they went up in flames themselves. No wonder her body was burned so badly.

"But how could she do that? EMPs are usually made when nuclear bombs go off. Even if she could generate something like that with her skills, those things would spread for miles and knock everything out!There were no reports of any forces at all! "said Goten.

"Except Agony somehow managed to get her will to drain power only on 18," Goku said quietly in a rare burst of intelligence.

"No! She couldn't do that! She couldn't do that any