When Sandra saw Gohan diving at her with a punch, the desperate woman attempted to avoid it. She leant back, hoping to sway under his blow, only to get nailed by another monstrous punch from below, which connected against her chin with a sonic boom. Feeling more blood fly out of her mouth, the pissed off female growled and flew back in, unleashing a storm of punches and swings upon the demi-Saiyan, all thrown with intent to crack his skull open. However, despite her speed and ferocity, Gohan dodged all of her attacks, his expression steeled with concentration as he suddenly lunged in, hit her in the temple with a cross counter, and struck her in the ribs with a bone-crunching body shot.
His attacks hit her so fast and so sharply that it almost looked like he'd thrown them simultaneous.
More blood gargling out of her mouth to pour down her top, the pissed off Sandra threw even more attacks with reckless abandon, desperately trying to catch her opponent in a pincer. Gohan, arms hanging at his sides, effortlessly avoided every single blow sent his way, her fists and kicks missing him by miles. When he dodged them all, he came back in with another lethal barrage of punches, which pulverized her waistline and doubled the woman over. When Sandra staggered away again, panting as heavily as Gohan was, the half-Saiyan sprinted at her and, with an animalistic snarl, uncorked a haymaker into Sandra's body, followed by another to her head, and one more to her side, bending her over and causing a strangled cry of pain to leave her lips.
Her legs almost buckling under the punishment and blood continuing to drool from her mouth, the wounded Sandra stumbled to a stop and gasped for air. When she saw Gohan's murderous eyes turn to her, his teeth grinding like a mad dog, the female warrior then cracked a drowsy smile. "Yes. YES! This is it! Oh, you beast! I knew it! You're a fucking animal, just like me!" Straightening up, the Super Saiyan 3 chuckled excitedly as she ran her bloody hands up her body and squeezed her right breast, "Don't stop! Give it to me! I want to feel you against me! Fuck me! Ravage me! Break me! RIGHT NOW!" All of a sudden, the woman lunged forward with a laugh and threw a right haymaker.
Gohan responded and, with a yell of his own, struck his opponent in the face in a simultaneous exchange. What followed immediately after that was a glorified slugfest, as the two warriors proceeded to beat on one another without pause or restraint. While Sandra was ecstatically dealing and receiving punches, her opponent was smashing and powering into her with so many attacks it almost looked like he was trying to kill multiple opponents at once. It seemed as though he was fighting a bunch of people who'd caused him a lifetime of pain and suffering, and whom he hated with every fiber of his being. That was the only possible explanation for the carnage now taking place before the audience.
Faces were bashed in by knuckles, abs was crushed by well-timed knees, and ribs were repeatedly caved in by shins, even after blood started pouring from the pair's every orifice. After several minutes of an agonizing exchange of mountain crushing blows, in which the pair assaulted one another senselessly and mercilessly, Sandra then dove at her opponent with a wicked right overhand, at the same time Gohan did with his left, their foreheads and fists slamming together and ending with the two grinding skulls against each other.
One grinning madly while the other simply glared the two then separated and attacked. Sandra went high while Gohan went low, which inevitably led to the latter hitting first with a crushing knee to the woman's gut. When the deranged female choked up blood, her legs finally gave out and she dropped to the floor like a sack of flour, while her opponent stumbled away, panting heavily.
As Sandra lay twitching and bleeding all over the floor, Gohan, watched on by the shocked audience nearby, suddenly blinked and shook his head. Life returning to his eyes, the young man then looked around in confusion, before his eyes landed on his opponent, who was now struggling to get back up.
"W-What the heck just happened?" the demi-Saiyan asked, his question earning bewildered looks from Zangya and the others. "Did I pass out or something? What was I…?" He then narrowed his eyes on Sandra, whom he saw form a fist in the dirt, "Why are you on the ground?"
Did he knock her down? What was going on? Thinking hard on it, all Gohan remembered seeing was the faces of all his past enemies leering and laughing at him, before his mental self proceeded to rush forward and beat the ever-loving daylights out of all of them. He'd been so convinced that the villains from his past had come back to haunt him that he'd lost all sense of self and control, which resulted in him annihilating every single one of them until they were just a series of bloody smears on the floor. At least that was what he'd envisioned.
But in the end, it had all been a dream, and the next thing Gohan knew upon waking up from it was finding himself standing in the middle of the desert, with his actual opponent Sandra lying in a broken down heap at his feet.
Needless to say, he was not happy. Far from it.
He was absolutely livid with himself.
"Did I seriously beat my opponent while I was out cold? How? When? And with what? Did I use a ki blast? A left jab? A right straight? An uppercut?! A kick?! A knee?! WHAT?!" Gohan growled, his hands turning to fists as his frustration spiked to an unbelievable degree. "How the hell can I call myself a fighter if I don't know how I defeated my opponent?! Sandra was the one who challenged me to this battle and I promised to fight her in a fair and equal contest! If I walked away now, it would be like I'd won this fight through pure luck! That's not even funny!" Feeling outraged and robbed of a clean victory, with the pain he was feeling spurring him on and firing him up, the demi-Saiyan let his feelings known with a yell of fury, "If I don't beat you with an attack I remember… I'M NOT GOING TO BE SATISFIED!" Sticking his arm up, he then began spinning it, winding it up and generating a vortex of wind beside him, "STAND UP AND FIGHT ME, YOU BITCH! I'M GOING TO KEEP POUNDING YOU UNTIL YOU'RE BEGGING FOR ME TO STOP!"
His words were powerful and angry, designed solely for intimidation. However, while Vegeta appeared stunned by his rather aggressive outburst, Zangya seemed somewhat mystified by it.
"Wow…" Placing a hand over her chest, the woman breathed in deeply as her eyes shimmered, "I'm actually pretty turned on right now."
"Second," Cal uttered in monotone.
"Third," Maya also whispered, sounding a bit out of breath.
Though it was quiet, Vegeta heard all three of them clearly, and slowly took a big step away from them. A big step. Seriously, what was wrong with these people?
After coughing up a bit more blood and rising to her feet seven seconds later, Sandra faced off against her enraged opponent with a more alive expression than ever. Her eyes no longer blood shot but having rings under them, especially the left one that was starting to swell over, the female Super Saiyan 3 analyzed her opponent carefully. Taking a moment to think back on the last few exchanged and events that'd transpired in their wake, the woman kneeling on the floor then gave a harsh chuckle, which she directed towards her adversary.
"So… you've finally decided to show me your true colors?" Sandra chuckled, wiping the blood from her nose and smearing it across her cheek. "That's good. It's no fun when the people who are supposed to be fighting each other are holding back. It's far more exciting when they're going all out…" Slurping up some more blood that dribbled down her nose, the Empress grinned lecherously at her foe. "I really like what I'm seeing. Got any more to give me, stallion?"
"Don't bite off more than you can chew," Gohan shot back, his own manic grin appearing through his bloody and bruised face. The fact that it was so busted up made him appear even more menacing than he actually intended. "You may be enjoying this battle as much as I am, but I can tell you're on your last legs. That last spurt really took it out of you." To be honest, he was almost running on fumes as well. He had some reserves left in the tank, but he needed that to be able to walk or fly back home.
If he was going to finish this fight, he was going to have to use them.
Sandra wheezed out a laugh as she shakily rose back to her feet, "True. But it won't be long before your engine conks out as well. And when it does, you can bet I'm going to enjoy taking full advantage of you and your immobile body." Her voice was laced with the undeniable tone of want and flirting, something that Zangya couldn't help but notice and frown at. Brushing a couple bangs of her golden mane out of the way, the woman then smirked, "Let's give it one more try. No more tricks, no more tactics, no more playing around. Just a straight up slugfest between two evenly matched warriors. Agreed?"
"Agreed," Gohan replied, sharing a smirk with his opponent. They'd felt each other out, tested each other's strengths and weaknesses, and engaged one another in a high-speed game of chess. Now that they'd gone way beyond their physical limits, it was time to see who would fall or pass out first. This had now become a battle of wills. "Ladies first."
"As you wish," Sandra murmured, before narrowing her eyes and dropping into a deep horse riding stance. The instant her hands curled into fists, golden energy began erupting out of her body like wild fire, filling the air around her before forming into a dome of rotating ki. As the sphere expanded the ground began to shake, purple lightning started shooting off of Sandra's body, and a hot wind starting to kick up around the group. It was the moment a hurricane formed in the sky above that Gohan and the others suddenly noticed the Saiyan's energy was skyrocketing, which had everyone in the vicinity recoil.
Golden flames twisted around Sandra like a gale, burning the ground at her feet and incinerating anything that got too close. At first they thought it was just an ordinary power up. But when her golden aura suddenly turned purple and the lightning shooting off of her suddenly turned black, the audience quickly realized that this was something else. This became evident when Sandra, screaming in rage, suddenly began to transform. Her muscles expanded, her height increased, her teeth sharpened, and her expression became all the more feral, accentuated by the white in her eyes turning blood red. What's more, not only did her golden tail increase in length, but glowing, purple veins started to appear all over the parts of her body that were exposed, which pulsed and throbbed from all the blood rushing through them.
Once the popping and cracking of her metamorphosis finally subsided, the Empress then crouched down and dug the claws of her right hand into the dirt, at the same time steam started to pour off of her body in a hot cloud.
"Moon Burst!" Sandra growled in a beastly and agro tone of voice, which sent a shiver down Gohan's spine. By this point, the woman had grown to be a full half a person taller than her opponent, and was now leering him down like a hungry tigress.
With the way her veins were showing, she may as well have been.
Zangya blinked in astonishment, "Whoa. What's happening to her? She's gotten bigger."
"Her power level just… exploded," Vegeta exclaimed, unable to believe what he was seeing either. "What is she doing?"
"That move is called Moon Drop or Moon Burst. It's a technique Sandra and I developed on Corvus," Maya informed, gritting her teeth as she fought back against the winds hammering them across the battlefield. "Since we were constantly being exposed to the radiation being generated by the planet's ten moons, we spent the last couple of years learning how to gather and store that energy inside our bodies. If we ever wound up running out of energy during a battle, we would be able to tap into the Blutz radiation in our bodies, and use it to give us an extra burst of strength and power." She then turned to Zangya with a frown. "Saiyans increase their strength from the light of the moon and use it to transform into the Oozaru. But Sandra and I learned how to master that power and taught ourselves how to suppress the urge to transform completely."
This information had Zangya blink, "You can do that?" After speaking to all of her friends, she assumed that whenever a Saiyan looked at a full moon, they were unable to stop themselves from transforming. She'd even asked Vegeta about it and he was the source material for the Z-fighter on all things Saiyan related.
But it seemed like some members of his race have been experimenting with the process.
"While the massive bulk of the Great Ape form can have a huge advantage on the battlefield, there are some battles where the size of the Oozaru can prove to be a great hindrance. Not only can it cause a lot of unwanted damage to the surrounding area, the form's frame also prevents it from fighting smaller and more elusive opponents. Aside from the risk of glancing at a full moon and transforming in a densely populated area, the Great Ape form can also inadvertently endanger your comrades' lives. I learned that last part the hard way," Maya informed, before turning back to the battle taking place in front of her. "Both Sandra and I practice completely different fighting styles. While I prefer using the full transformation to increase my power and durability, she uses it to increase her strength and speed."
"With that much power coming off of her…" Vegeta murmured, sweat breaking out on his face as the full impact of what he'd learned finally hit him like a ton of bricks.
All things considered, it looked as though Gohan was finished.
However, just when it seemed like Sandra had the upper hand; the demi-Saiyan quietly and discreetly clenched his fists and teeth, before widening up his stance. Despite the fact every muscle in his body was screaming at him, telling him not to do this, Gohan knew he had no other choice and cracked a pained smile. "My body's going to hate me for this later… but… Kaioken times-!"
Before Gohan could finish his sentence, a deafening thunderclap rang out, followed by a purple flash as Sandra launched herself at her foe at full speed. The act of doing so caused the ground and the air around her to catch fire, while a trench was carved into the floor in the direction she was traveling. The audience didn't even have time to look surprised when, without warning, the Saiyan Empress drove a fist into Gohan's face, the impact of which caused a shockwave so great it sent a twister of purple fire blasting across the desert behind her target.
Several miles of rock, grassland and forest was practically incinerated in an instant by the force of Sandra's punch traveling over the planet, sending smoke and dust into the atmosphere and terrifying everyone near enough to feel the tremors. As the earth crumbled under the shockwaves rippling through the sky, Gohan's body was sent hurtling through the vortex, tumbling like a ragdoll while his female opponent pursued him. In an instant, Sandra set upon the hapless Saiyan with a vicious onslaught of blows, which rained down on the Z-fighter from all directions and pummeled him into submission. The attack was rapid, unending and fast, and continued to carry on as the duo rocketed across the planet.
From space, the satellites in orbit were able to spot a golden bolt of energy traveling around the Earth in its upper stratosphere. The object was moving so fast that it was able to lap the planet twelve times in only three seconds, leaving a trail of golden energy in its wake.
Sandra, being the source of this unusual anomaly, ignored the audience watching their battle and continued to attack Gohan with a ferocity that was unmatched. When her glowing form shot over a series of snow covered Mountain Ranges in the North, a little too close for the planet's liking, not only did the act of doing so carve a trench into the surface, but two seconds after they'd passed, a sonic boom rang out that caused all of the edifices for three miles to crumble to the ground. A split second later, the heat from the shockwave hit the countryside, incinerating the ground instantly and causing it to melt.
Just from flying over them, Sandra was able to transform a series of mountains from solid bedrock into an ocean of molten lava.
The same happened to a couple of other unfortunate high points that got in the way of Sandra's flight path. After several more laps of the planet, the Saiyan Empress's route became more erratic and spontaneous, as the woman flew circles, loops and arcs through the sky, all the while continuing to hammer her opponent mercilessly with attacks. As the sky began to catch fire from the speed the two warriors were traveling, Sandra eventually ended her combo of attacks by grabbing Gohan by the leg and tossing him to the other side of the world.
As she flew after him, the woman yelled at him with a manic grin in play. "This form represents the sum total of all my years of hard work and training! With the power of the Oozaru behind me, our race's greatest and most recognized trait, I have become the closest living Saiyan to reach the coveted Super Saiyan 4 form in over one thousand years!" Catching up to her opponent, she slammed a fist into a stomach and sent Gohan rag dolling over the continent, smashing through another mountain, incinerating it, and then bouncing up into the sky, where Sandra quickly intercepted him. "The energy shunted from my body in this halfway state transforms me into a propelling force…" Grabbing him by the leg a second time, Sandra then spun him around several times, before then tossing him towards the ocean, "elevating speed and power beyond the limitations…" Intercepting him a second time, the woman brought her hands above her head before slamming her fists down into the unresponsive Gohan's back. "OF LIVING FLESH!"
As Gohan's broken body was sent shooting towards the planet's surface, Sandra was able to shoot past him and cut him off. Blazing across the ocean and evaporating much of the water, the woman then shot up into the sky and caught Gohan just milliseconds before he could hit the water. She drove her knee into his stomach, causing a deafening impact sound to ring out, as the clouds were parted and so was the ocean, right down to the seabed. Lightning shot off of Sandra's body and struck the surrounding sea, sterilizing the air before, with a scream of effort, the woman kicked Gohan straight up into space, his body shooting through the atmosphere at such speed he probably incinerated what was left of the ozone layer.
Traveling well over Mach 100, Gohan's body eventually impacted a solid five seconds after being kicked. When his body punched a crater into the surface he'd struck, the still remarkably conscious teen realized he'd not only been kicked into space, he'd left Earth's entirely. In fact, from the looks of it, Sandra had managed to kick him so hard he'd flown straight through Saturn, punched a hole in it, and straight into one of the planet's moons. Judging from the position of the ringed celestial body above him, as well as the debris orbiting the vacuum of his crash site, he'd apparently smacked right into the planet's moon of Rhea.
Still lying flat out in the crater, Gohan allowed the full realization of what'd hit him percolate in his mind. Upon realizing that Sandra had just hit him with everything she could possibly muster with her body alone, the demi-Saiyan then cracked an exhilarated smile and chuckled.
"Good one. Now… it's my turn," the half-Saiyan chirped, his skin glowing red with excitement. However, it turned out to be more than just an emotional response, as he'd discreetly activated his Kaioken form before Sandra could hit him, allowing him to withstand her following assault. After making sure that the most important bones in his body were intact and that he was still in one piece, Gohan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. "Super Kaioken… TIMES TWENTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! AAAAAAAAAGHHH!" With a mighty scream, red energy began pouring out of his body and ripping the moon apart around him, his muscles bulking up and veins beginning to pulse with blood.
The instant he powered up, the boy then leapt to his feet and jumped off of the moon, causing the satellite to explode into a cloud of rubble as he left a trail of red ki in his wake…