"She's using a hard-fist style with an incredibly awkward defense that emphasizes a high amount of upper-body weaving, head slips and a low center of gravity. Her attacks are also ridiculously powerful and she seems to be favoring a very long-reaching left jab that doubles as a hook, so that makes counter attacks for the head and chin on my end impossible," Gohan thought as his eyes traced over every inch of Sandra's frame. Upon which he frowned. "Her swings are wide, but she compensates for this by being fast and aggressive with her attacks. I may not be able to go for her head, but her body and core are pretty much open season. Let's see if I can't work with that."
"You're thinking of going for my body, aren't you?" Sandra thought when she noticed his lingering gaze. "Go for it. I'll cut you down before you can land anything big." By this time she'd already finished her own assessment. "He's subtly changing his rhythm every time we engage, so I can't rely on my timing to finish the job. I'll have to use a more direct approach if I want to finish him off. He also seems to have taken a narrower stance with forward hand positions, so that means the rotation in his punches and kicks will be minimized considerably. If my instincts are telling me anything, his attacks are going to be coming in much faster than before." If she had to guess, it would place him in the exact same category she was fighting in.
Interesting.
Sandra's eyes then flashed mischievously. "But by favoring speed, you're sacrificing a great deal of power in your attacks… and that means softer punches. I wonder how you'll cope."
After sizing each other up, the invader decided to make the first move.
Eyes widening, Sandra fired an invisible kiai at Gohan's head, who head-slipped it before diving into her range. He then ducked to avoid the opening jabs and long hooks that Sandra began swinging out at him with terrifying accuracy. Dodging her punches, Gohan unloaded swift bursts of chain punches into her chest and torso, landing ten punches with every one she threw. His attacks hit like beestings, aggravating the woman and prompting her to swing out faster, only to miss when he dodged and hammered another chain punch combo into her side.
When he avoided another right straight, Gohan snapped a kick into her back leg, only to see her parry it with her leg and swing at him with yet another hook. Slipping under it, the demi-Saiyan fired a swift body blow into her side, followed by a shot to her head, which she skillfully parried and countered with an uppercut. Gohan barely avoided the blow when it grazed past his cheek and forced him to perform a series of parries, before dropping low and unleashing more chain punches into her stomach. Seeing his head directly beneath her, a determined Sandra aimed a body blow for the side of his head, only to watch the boy tuck-and-roll between her legs, catching her back-leg at the same time.
This maneuver forced Sandra into a split when Gohan used his full bodyweight to dislodge her foot and drag her leg back with his roll. The moment they stopped, with the demi-Saiyan lying on his back and hugging Sandra's extended calf, the boy swung his own leg back and slammed a kick into the girl's face, releasing her at the same time and sending the Saiyan Empress bolting across Pluto's surface, tearing a massive trench through the ice. She crashed into a mountain a hundred miles away, which went up in a shower of rubble.
Rolling back to his feet, Gohan gritted his teeth and took a stance, waiting for his opponent to retaliate. After watching the clouds in the distance fade, his eyes then widened when he saw her teleport directly in front of him, already in motion to throw a punch. Before he could even parry, Sandra clocked him with a killer right overhand, knocking blood and spit from his mouth. She then proceeded to bash him.
Recovering quickly, Gohan parried her next blows and checked her kick, before catching the girl's hook with his arm and, simultaneously, landing a chop on her neck.
A crack rang out when Gohan's blow hit, but the boy winced when he realized the muscles in her collar had dulled his pressure point blow and broke his finger. Recoiling in pain left the hybrid wide open for a punch from Sandra and sent the hero stumbling away. Before the girl could follow up with another blow, Gohan snapped a kick out at her stomach, stopping her momentarily.
Recovering from the shot to the face, Gohan shook his hand out and brought his guard back up, where he was quick to meet Sandra's next assault. Blocking and deflecting her heavy punches with a series of elaborate hand checks, the teen tried to lock her left arm up when she attempted to nail him with an uppercut. He countered with a palm strike to her face. But Sandra blocked it, freeing her arm from his hold and retaliating with hooks. Ducking her big swings and blocking her uppercut, Gohan then stuck his hand out at her face, alarming her and forcing the female Saiyan to bring both arms up to guard.
It was a good thing she did because the instant her arms went up Gohan unleashed a hell storm of chain punches on her arms that hammered her defense in a blur of motion. The sounds of rapid cannon fire rang out with every blow Gohan landed, Sandra's feet skidding back along the floor under the force of his assault.
Snarling through the salvo, Sandra forced Gohan's arms away and countered with hooks, only for the demi-Saiyan to block them and continue throwing chain punches at her. The boy maneuvered around the girl and her rock solid stance, peppering her body with endless chain punches, forcing her to curl up and move her arms around to protect herself. The moment her arms returned to her face, Gohan spotted an opening and slipped an uppercut right under her turtle guard, knocking her head skywards with a thunderclap. As soon as he did, he then uncorked a kick right into her chest and sent her sliding back.
Stopping, Sandra groaned and rubbed her chin, spitting out a tooth before looking at the footprint slapped against her breasts. Brushing it off, the female Super Saiyan 3 growled, slammed her knuckles into her chest like a wild woman, and brought her fists up into a boxing stance.
"COME ON! BRING IT!" she screamed, bolting forward with blazing speed.
Gohan braced himself and switched hand positions, before his eyes widened when he saw his opponent spin through the air and slice at him with an aerial heel kick, prompting him to cross both arms over his face.
The tremendous blow that followed powered Gohan across the planet, slamming into several mountains along the way. When he stopped several leagues across Pluto's surface, the young Saiyan brought his hands to his forehead and, powering up, chanted at the top of his lungs. "MAESENKO-HAAAAAA!" Golden energy erupted from his hand and thundered across the planet, shredding the surface as it traveled.
Sandra countered immediately by lifting up her glowing foot and thrusting a side kick towards the oncoming blast, hurtling a fully charged attack of her own across the icy land. "RAIKO YARIIIIII!"The two golden blasts impacted one another and engaged in a fierce tug-of-war match, which formed a golden, pulsating dome in the middle of the frozen countryside. The clashing blasts expanded, incinerating the land and sending rubble everywhere.
Seconds after the beams clashed, an enormous explosion went out, which gradually began to swallow up the entire celestial body. As Pluto started to split, inside the blast, both Gohan and Sandra charged at one another. Yelling at the top of their lungs, the pair of warriors collided in the heart of the cataclysm, moments before they vanished and the entire planet lit up like a thermonuclear firework.
For about ten seconds, the Solar System was graced with a second sun, before it vanished into nothing.
OOO
(Meanwhile)
(Grand Kai's Planet)
As Gohan and Sandra's battle raged on, the North and West Kai contingents watching the fight from the Grand Kai's front lawn via the television were clenching their fists in excitement; looking on as yet another planet was destroyed in their battle. While the fate of Pluto did have North Kai groan and slap his forehead, the other people there didn't give two flips about the ball of ice as they all began making bets as to who would throw in the towel first and which planet would crumble next.
Upon seeing the pair of Super Saiyans vanish via teleportation, Olibu leaned over and nudged Pikkon in the side, "A hundred thousand pushups says Mercury is next."
Glancing at his training rival and back towards the screen, the green warrior in the weighted training gear then cracked a smile, "A hundred and fifty thousand pushups says Earth's moon is next."
"Deal."
Goku, catching wind of the gambling going on behind him between his two friends, also turned around and held up a hand, "Hey, let me get in on that action."
While the three warriors began blurting out absurd, random numbers, since it was the only currency they had to spend as dead people, Baba, who was watching the screen with keen interest, floated closer to the television and narrowed her eyes. When she saw the two Saiyans remerge, plummeting towards the surface of the sun while simultaneously locked in combat, the old fortuneteller spoke up.
"Gohan and Sandra are nearly reaching their limits," Baba said, seeing the pair trade bone crushing blows to the body and face respectively. Her words drew the attention of the entire group, allowing the witch to turn around with a grave expression in play, "Even though the two of them seem to be holding up physically, they're still landing a tremendous amount of blows on each other. The fact that they're still able to see straight after all the hits they've received is astonishing."
"True. They may be powerful and incredibly gifted warriors… perhaps the greatest of their generation, the body can only take so much punishment," King Kai informed, his hands crossed and a bead of sweat trickling down the side of his face. "If this keeps up, both of them are going to end up beating each other to death."
"That is unless one of them burns out first," the West Kai concluded with a flash of his monocle, drawing a nod of agreement from his companions.
Hearing this line of talk caused the three apprentices in the troop to cease their elicit activity of wagering pushups and returned their attention to the television. There, they saw Gohan nail Sandra in the face with several chain punches, before the woman countered with a knee to his body. Hearing the sounds of battle carry on prompted the Saiyan father to clench his fists and narrow his eyes in determination.
"You can do it son. Just keep fighting at your own pace," Goku thought.
OOO
(Back on Earth)
(Tien & Mobi)
Dodging a hail of missiles fired from his opponent's back, the three-eyed martial artist, sporting burns and bruises all over his chiseled body, along with a fresh new scar across his abdominals, brought his hands forward and unleashed an onslaught of golden blasts at his foe. "Take this!" His attacks arced towards the rotund, armored robot hovering several stories above him. But just when they seemed like they would hit, the automaton fired up a couple of boosters from its side panel and evaded, while at the same time discharging a cluster of electrical balls that caused the fighter's energy blasts to veer away and follow them. "Damn it! Stop doing that!"
"Beep-beep!" the robot replied. (But if I do, you'll hit me)
Grunting as he dropped altitude sharply in order to stay in sight of his retreating foe, Tien grumbled to himself. "You're right. Dumb request." He then powered up and, crossing his arms over his chest, concentrated on his next technique. "Alright then. If one opponent isn't going to work on you, how about ten? Multi Form!" In the blink of an eye, the human warrior suddenly split himself into ten identical copies, all of whom scattered and charged towards the robot from all sides, with the intent of surrounding him.
A group of three managed to get in front of the droid, who applied its airbrakes to stop from crashing into the group when they rushed him. Its cracked visor flickering with various numbers and calculations, the large robot was unable to process its opponent's intentions fast enough when it was suddenly assaulted from all sides by ten Tiens. The group of clones pummeled the robot's armor from above, behind, in front and below, driving home attacks with the hopes of piercing through and getting at the droid's soft underbelly.
However, its armor was tough, and even with their combined efforts, the Tiens were hard-pressed trying to land any good damage on it.
The fact that they weren't able to land a solid hit meant that Mobi was able to perform a daring and successful escape. The robot suddenly launched itself into a spin with its arms outstretched, smacking its attackers away, before using the rockets on its feet to blast upwards. In doing so it unleashed another cluster of electrical flashes, which scattered between a couple of the Tien clones and electrocuted them.
When the clones vanished back into its host, the remaining few then aimed their fingers up at the retreating droid and powered up.
"Not so fast!" one of the remaining Tiens shouted.
"Dodon Ray!" the clones yelled in unison, before unleashing multiple orange beams after the flying robot.
Spotting the incoming attacks, Mobi began maneuvering between the blasts as quickly and gracefully as it could. Performing rolls and flips like a jet fighter, the robot was able to avoid a majority of the warrior's shots. That was until a single beam hit it in the foot and knocked out one of its primary thrusters. Its rocket boot exploding in a shower of debris, the droid then began a long plummet towards the Earth's surface, with Tien letting out a successful yell of triumph.
"Bulls eye!" the bruised and battered martial artist exclaimed.
His victory was short-lived however. As Mobi was falling back towards the planet, the battle-damaged automaton suddenly took aim and fired a cluster of red energy balls at the martial artist, forcing him and his copies to avoid. However, the energy spheres didn't need to make contact with their targets to cause damage, as they all detonated prematurely and caught the original Tien in the center. The bald martial artist ended up falling out of the sky too; crashing into the landmass the pair had been fighting over. His clones quickly dispelled back into him.
After both fighters ended up burying themselves in the ground and the dust settled around them, they then struggled to their feet and glared across at one another.
Lights flickering and blinking, the armored Mobi stomped out of the crater he'd formed and began marching towards Tien's position.
Seeing his opponent approaching, the warrior acted quickly and leapt to his feet. Setting himself into a firm stance, the man concentrated and held his hands up to form a diamond shape in front of him. Taking it a step further, Tien then used his Four Witches Technique to produce two more arms from his shoulders, and arranged them into a second diamond directly in front of the first. It was through this technique he intended to magnify his next attack and hit his opponent with several times the force he would with the conventional blast.
With his foe standing directly in his crosshairs, the Z-fighter was ready.
White aura springing up around him, Tien unleashed his attack, "TRI-BEEEAAAM-HAAAAAAAA!" A deafening howl rang out as an orange blast erupted from his hands, tearing across the landscape and incinerating the ground it covered. When the head of the attack eventually reached Mobi, it hit the walking tank like a tsunami of light and fire, engulfing the robot and causing the land around it to crumble.
As the ground disintegrated inside the eye of the attack, the automaton continued to march through it, raising its right arm in an attempt to block out the storm. Tien continued to feed energy into his attack, gritting his teeth as he watched his foe draw closer and closer. Eventually, just when Mobi was several feet away from its goal, the blast finally got to him, the inferno of the attack knocking the robot off his feet and sending him tumbling across the countryside.
When Tien saw his opponent go down, he cut off the energy to his blast and powered down. Panting heavily as he watched the dust settle across the island, he saw that a massive, square-shaped trench had been carved through the earth all the way to the ocean. A great deal of water had been evaporated from the force of his attack, as evident by the enormous cloud of condensation hanging above the bay.
Limping down the length of geometrically perfect destruction, the battle-damaged and effectively shirtless rendered Tien arrived at a pile of broken pieces of armor. Sitting not too far away from it, he spotted the unmistakable form of his opponent lying under a mound of dust and debris. When he noticed it sift, the human immediately dropped into a defensive stance, expecting his foe to attack.
But when Mobi sat up, the bald martial artist blinked in surprise when he saw that, underneath the plates of armor, the robot was actually big, white, bubble man, with two black optical sensors for eyes, stubby arms, stubby legs, and a big torso. When he saw the robot turn to him and stare, Tien stared right back at it.
"Beep," (I lost) Mobi spoke.
Eye swollen, the bald Z-fighter tilted his head, "Umm… okay?" He then became even more perplexed when he saw the robot stand up, waddle out of the trench, and instantly find interest in a couple of birds fluttering around, which he absently followed. Tien watched the squishy robot walk off, completely losing interest in him and their fight. "So… what do I do now?"
Just let the robot wander off by his lonesome or take him back with him? Honestly, he was more used to destroying opponents completely and asking questions later. This was a first for him.