While all this was going on, Cal, who'd reached the end of his patience, smiled and began sprinting across the courtyard towards the Z-fighters. When Vegeta saw the large humanoid in black spandex sprint around from behind Maya's oversized leg, the prince gritted his teeth and took a defensive stance.
"Terrific. Not giving me any time to warm up, huh?" Vegeta shouted, before his aura burst up around him and he jumped straight to Super Saiyan 2. The prince grinned enthusiastically, "BRING IT ON!"
By the time he'd reached full power, Cal was already upon him.
With a battle cry, the man in the black tights tackled Vegeta head-on and lifted him off the floor, before charging right through the middle of the Z-fighters' formation. Carrying the man on his shoulder, the humanoid bodyguard then leapt over one of the castle's buildings and across the city, where the pair soared over the skyline and into the valleys in the distance.
Noticing they were out of the metropolis and soaring over the countryside, the riled up and determined Vegeta, still trapped in the arms of his foe, gave a loud snarl and, cocking his head back, slammed it into his opponent's face. Forcefully breaking out of the hold, the Saiyan Prince brought both arms over, cupped his hands in the air, and slammed them down into Cal's back. The blow sent the big man plummeting to Earth, where he crashed with tremendous force and sent a cloud of dust and rubble shooting into the sky.
The still empowered Vegeta then brought his hand back, intent on following up with a Photon Bomber to sterilize the landing zone. But just as a blue sphere appeared above his palm, he suddenly saw two beams shoot up out of the cloud beneath him, which then slammed into his chest. The surprise attack knocked the wind out of the man's lungs and sent him spinning through the sky, trailing smoke. When he hit the ground a full kilometer away, he quickly sprang back to his feet and glared towards the spot his opponent had impacted, ignoring the two tiny burn marks on his front.
Just as he was watching the dust billowing from the crater settle, Vegeta was suddenly blindsided by his opponent appearing directly beside him and nailing him with a right cross, which sent him bouncing over the hills. After plowing a trench across the valley for several hundred meters, the prince came rocketing back at full power, his golden aura burning around him as he closed the gap on his foe and chopped at Cal's head with a right overhand. The bodyguard in black parried it and deflected Vegeta's uppercut, before retaliating with two straight blows to the short man's stomach and a chop to his neck. Upon which the large fighter then struck the prince in the gut and sent him skidding back along the floor.
Gasping from the sharp attack to the solar plexus, Vegeta looked up in time to see Cal lunging at him with a hook. Reacting fast, the Saiyan ducked it and nailed the man in the stomach with a body shot, his fist causing the man to lurch forward. He then attempted to follow-through, but ended up getting nailed across the face by an elbow. Stricken, the royal was then kicked in the stomach by the large fighter, sending him bouncing across the farmlands outside of Central City and up the side of a mountain. When he neared the peak, Vegeta rolled backwards, dug his feet into the ground and skidded to a stop.
Looking up, the flame haired man chuckled, "Oh-ho… this one might be more fun than I originally thought." A current of electricity shooting off of his form emphasized his excitement.
Cal, seeing his adversary looking back at him from the edifice several miles away, smirked as well before dropping to his knee. When he did, he crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and concentrated. In a matter of seconds, debris and dust began to levitate off of the ground around him, which began to quiver and tremble under an unseen force. Then as the rocks began to orbit around his position, orange flames began to pour out of the man's skin and surrounded him in a protective, fiery cloak. His energy coming out in an inferno, the warrior in spandex then opened his eyes and, setting his hand on the ground, grinned in a beastly and fearsome manner.
"BLAZING METEOR!" With his full power unleashed, Sandra's bodyguard and friend then leant forward into a sprinter's stance and, taking aim towards the mountain, took off like a bolt across the landscape. His fiery form tore a path across the valley and up the side of the edifice, leaving a trail of fire in his wake. In the blink of an eye, he was directly in front of Vegeta, charging towards him without any signs of slowing down.
The prince took immediate action, barreling out of the way just in time to avoid the swinging right hook his opponent threw at him. The punch struck the top of the mountain, taking it out in a shower of debris. As soon as his opponent missed, Vegeta spun in and nailed the defenseless warrior in the side with a roundhouse kick, only for his blow to strike the man's arm. Seeing his adversary guard against the shot prompted the Saiyan warrior to power through it and, with a yell, he kicked the man off of the mountain and into the sky at several times the speed of sound.
Upon becoming airborne, Cal took flight and rocketed into the clouds, with Vegeta in hot pursuit.
Back in the castle square, Zangya, still holding her own, then let out a yell and forced Maya off of her, sending the giant woman stumbling backwards. As soon as the foot was off, the Hera powered up and shot into the sky, where she was speedily intercepted by a left chop from the Super Oozaru. The Z-fighter blocked the blow from the side, but was pushed across the airspace by several meters, before being forced to guard against a massive punch from the woman. The blow caused another shockwave to wash over the landscape, causing the Z-fighters on the ground to lose their balance.
After effectively taking the punch, the Hera then blasted up into the sky and, upon stopping in the area above King Koku's castle, thrust her hand forward. With a yell, she unleashed a powerful green blast down at the golden ape, only to see Maya's hand shoot up and catch the attack in the palm of her hand, which exploded uselessly against her skin.
The woman cackled, "Oh. Did I forget to mention? The Oozaru transformation has the ability to multiply the Saiyan's durability-" All of a sudden, the woman's mouth opened wide and a massive blast of purple energy came gushing out, "AND THEIR POWER!" The wave of ki rushed towards Zangya at an insane speed, catching the red haired woman by surprise.
Reacting evasively, the Hera dodged to the side, barely avoiding the attack that rushed past her and into the sky above, where it disappeared into space. Sweat breaking out on her face, Zangya then grinned and looked back down at the ground. "Impressive. But your new form lacks speed." She then recoiled when she saw her opponent was no longer standing in the quad.
She'd been so caught up in avoiding the woman's attack that she didn't notice Maya's massive form materialize in the air directly behind her.
The Great Ape grinned widely, "Speed like this?"
Zangya then let out a cry of agony when she was struck from behind by a fist two times her size, which not only sent her flying across the city but the valleys outside of it. The force of the blow was so immense that the Hera ended up blacking out for three whole seconds, leaving her wide open for Maya, still suspended in the air, to fire off another blast from her mouth, which chased after her target. The purple beam struck the red haired woman in the back and knocked her out of the sky, slamming her into a hill below and transforming it into a smoking crater. The blast meanwhile traveled onwards and hit a mountain, engulfing it in a dome-shaped explosion that effectively incinerated the entire edifice.
Groaning as her burnt and battered body wafted with smoke, Zangya stood up and looked ahead of her. Vision clearing, the woman then cracked a smile of excitement, "Now that's more like it." She then spun around and took a defensive stance, looking up just in time to see Maya appear in the sky above and plummeting towards her foot first. Powering up allowed Zangya to crank her foot back and intercept the woman's kick with one of her own, the pair colliding in the form of a landscape reducing shockwave.
By the time Maya reengaged Zangya, back in King Koku's castle, the rest of the Z-fighters had thrown themselves into action.
When Paprika powered up, jumping straight into her Super Makyan form, Yamcha and Videl also went full power and rushed in. The three fighters dashed at Kure while the cat woman, acting on instinct, leapt into the sky and allowed the group of warriors to come blazing after her. Their forms streaking high up into the atmosphere, the cat alien managed to make it into the clouds before looking down in time to see her pursuers thrust their hands forward and launch a barrage of energy blasts after her.
Glasses shimmering, the female diplomat extended her arms and grinned. "Scatter!" Kure shouted, before opening her palms and performing an aerial twirl. Doing so allowed her to unleash a shower of energy spheres from her hands resembling flares, which spiraled outwards and away from her current path. The magnetic pull from each of the energy balls drew the blasts launched by the Z-fighters towards them, causing the attacks to veer off course and detonate harmlessly away from their intended target, filling the sky with a spontaneous fireworks display. When explosions blew away the cloud cover, Kure explosively changed directions and shot back towards her attackers, which she then promptly engaged.
Goten and Trunks, taking the initiative, went Super Saiyan and dashed towards their miniature opponents. The tiny cat robots, responding to their respective programming, fired up jets on their feet and took off in different directions, allowing the two boys to chase after them. Krillin and Chiaotzu did so as well, rushing forward to engage the miniature androids, which dashed off to different corners of the city so as to separate them from the masses.
As for Eighteen, the woman held her ground and watched her opponents charge towards her, forcing her to bring her right hand up. "Sorry about this!" She then fired off a series of golden blasts, which the two little robots dodged in a series of graceful aerial maneuvers. Blinking in surprise at how easily the bots avoided her, the blonde woman then crouched low and shot straight into the sky. As soon as she was airborne, the cool woman looked down with a grin. "This way, cuties."
The Cat Droids, tracking her, flew after the woman while she led them out of the city just like the others had before them.
Mobi, acting on his master's instructions and seeing his companions take wing, raised one of his massive arms and locked onto his target. Tien, his senses already fixed upon the large robot, bailed when he saw the armored unit fire the arm of its gauntlet straight at him in a manner very similar to one of their automaton allies. When it missed, the arm quickly returned to its owner with a snap, allowing the rotund robot to turn its sensors towards the sky and fly after its opponent. Mobi then pursued the three-eyed warrior, opening up a series of panels on its back and unleashing a cluster of missiles, determined to keep the Z-fighter on the defense.
Seeing the giant robot fire upon him immediately forced Tien to counter its attacks, where he wound up switching between shooting the missiles and kicking them. After the human fighter dispersed of its opening assault, Mobi quickly honed in on him, tackling the bald fighter with its massive shoulder plating and sending him flying over the metropolis. Tien quickly retaliated with a series of ki blasts from one hand, which the armored robot powered through and carried on assaulting him, forcing the human into a steady retreat. When it came at him with a wild hook, Tien leapt over the giant man and kicked it in the back, knocking the automaton towards a skyscraper. When it seemed like it would collide with it, the black, armored android kicked its boosters into action and dodged, before rocketing towards the horizon and leaving the district far behind.
Tien, powering up to maximum, wasted no time in giving pursuit.
The instant all fighters and their opponents left the area, the hovering cameras that'd previously been circling the palace scattered and shot after them at blinding speed.
Bulma meanwhile, after seeing her friends and the roving drones disappear, then turned her attention to San. When she saw the giant spider tank turn to her, the scientist immediately primed one of her weapons to attack.
However, just before she could follow up, she then lowered her arm, to which the alien tank did as well. As soon as the atmosphere settled, the spider automaton then marched forward, its legs making low piston sounds as it scuttled towards the scientist and stopped in front of her. Using one of its forward arms, it then brought it up to where its forehead was and saluted the woman proudly.
"Hello," the mobile tank chirped.
A little taken aback by the machine's politeness, Bulma smiled and waved nervously, "H-Hey…" She then laughed a little at the end.
With its optical lens spinning excitedly in place, San held her hand out and pointed towards the one camera still floating in the area. "Wanna watch our friends fight?"
Regarding the giddy, childlike robot momentarily, the blue haired scientist beamed pleasantly and nodded. "Sure. I could use a break." She then retracted her helmet, allowing her to get a better view of the world.
"Alrighty then!" Immediately following his exclamation, San quickly opened up a compartment in its undercarriage and dropped a disk like device onto the floor. "Step right up! Step right up! It's time to start screening our main event! On tonight's program: we have approximately three hours of bone-mangling, spirit-crushing action and excitement, as the New Saiyan Empire takes on the challengers from the beautiful blue planet Earth! Place your bets right now!" Sliding it forward, he then activated it with a quick press of a bottom, which then produced several hologram screens in the air in front of them, each one showing a different view of the world. Once the modem was done synchronizing with the mobile cameras, they quickly brought up the half a dozen battles taking place across the plain.
There were plenty of events to choose from. Gohan and Sandra, who were currently trading shots over a desert, Zangya and Maya, who were brawling across the grassy valleys, Vegeta and Cal, who were busy tackling and throwing each other inside a mountainous area, Paprika and Kure, both of whom were being accompanied by Videl and Yamcha, Goten and Trunks playing tag with the Cat robots along with Krillin, Chiaotzu and Eighteen, and finally Tien and Mobi, who'd taken their battle to some place along the coastline.
Bulma whistled when she saw the high definition pictures come alive. "Damn. You're actually processing all of this at the same time?"
"Uh-huh. Ms Kure upgraded my software with the latest media package from her home planet. That means I can keep track of anyone no matter how fast they're moving… even someone as quick as Ms Sandra," San replied cheerfully, obviously feeling proud of his capabilities.
This drew a chuckle from Bulma, who removed her helmet and set it underneath her arm. "Damn. I gotta learn more about you guys. Your technology is insane." Hell, with what she'd seen so far, she was positive she could use their information to help bulk up her armor designs.
Rotating about, the spider tank quickly turned its attention towards King Koku and the crowd of civilians watching from the sidelines, all of whom immediately freaked out when the machine rounded on them. However, instead of doing something hostile like they expected, the large robot waved them over in an enthusiastic manner. "Come on, you guys! What are you all standing over there for? Come watch the fights with us! You won't be able to see anything sitting behind a wall!"
Initially hesitant, King Koku and his staff quickly assessed the potential danger behind breaking ranks and approaching the fighters. Considering the fact that all but two of the warriors had left the area, and that the remaining members of both parties were now offering them a place on the sidelines to witness the events firsthand, the leaders of the country and the palace visitors accompanying them threw all caution to the trash, and slowly made their way over the dividing wall and into the center of the quad.
Bulma actually cracked a smile at seeing how nervous they appeared, as she was well aware of what being in their position was like.
They then gathered around the hologram projector, where they proceeded to watch the bloody mashups now taking place beyond the city. The moment King Koku, his subordinates, and the rest of the world fixed their eyes on the projections; they immediately bore witness to what would become known as the greatest boxing tournament in all of Earth's history…