(Gohan & Sandra)
Having initially kept their fight in the skies above the countryside, after trading devastating blows across the majority of the planet, the pair of Super Saiyan 3s eventually brought their battle back down to the ground. It was here Gohan had hoped to retake the advantage over his more agile quarry. But just like in the aerial scuffle they'd been waging before, he was soon to find that Sandra was even harder to hit when she was on a level playing field.
Ducking and weaving between blows, the Saiyan Empress kept her eyes and senses fixed squarely upon her enemy as he darted at her across the rocky desert. Thanks to their superhuman strength and agility, both of them were covering dozens of yards with every leap and side-step they made. To the naked eye, their forms were barely visible, appearing only as golden bolts of light dashing over the open ground, with the occasional exploding mountain and hill marking the path they were traveling. But in their eyes, through their insane speed and reflexes, both of them were able to see each other as clear as day.
Well… one of them was.
Despite the fact that Gohan's fists and feet were cutting through the air faster than laser bolts, Sandra was doing a fantastic job at avoiding them, back stepping and side stepping with deft, superfluous movements. While she practically danced around his blows, the demi-Saiyan stumbled and staggered, attempting to keep pace with her, but always finding his knuckles barely grazing her on every swing.
Yelling with his blows, Gohan attempted to cut her off, only to have his opponent dart in the opposite direction. Chasing after her, the teen pulled up right next to the girl as she ran, jabbing and kicking out at her. Just like before Sandra dodged, all the while running and returning fire against her opponent. The pair burned a trail of dust across the desert at mind-blowing speed, even plowing through two plateaus along the way like they were wall paper, which showered the surrounding area with debris.
Eventually after a swift running duel the pair hit the brakes and skidded to a stop. This was a moment Gohan opted to capitalize on and, gritting his teeth, dove in with a left body shot. His knuckles slammed into Sandra's right arm, who managed to telegraph his attack from below. As soon as she blocked it, his right arm then came chopping down at her at blinding speed. A loud crack suddenly rang out, followed by a spray of blood that filled the air around the duo, as it seemed like the hybrid had managed to nail his opponent.
But then, just when it seemed like Sandra had taken the blow, Gohan suddenly stumbled away with a blank look on his face and blood trickling out of his mouth. His opponent meanwhile, brought back her left fist and allowed it to swing in front of her tauntingly.
"You got careless," Sandra chuckled, her words snapping the demi-Saiyan out of his reverie, who barely managed to slam his rear foot into the ground to stop from falling over. Right now, with his vision blurry and making it seem like he was facing off against three Sandras, it was a miracle he was standing up at all. "Every time you try for a combo, you always start with a super obvious punch to distract your opponent from the second one to follow. Since your strongest arm is your right, you always follow-up with it to trap your opponent inside a crisscross, using a classic one-two-feint. Hell, I don't even have to read your rhythm to see it coming."
Gohan, gasping for air as he attempted to regain his sense of balance, then brought his hands up into another wide stance. "Shit. She didn't just shut down my attack, she totally dismantled it."Spitting out the blood from his mouth, he then darted forward, intent on pushing forward. "She blocked my shot from below and before I could hit her from above with my overhand, she nailed me with a super sharp, compact right hook as a counter. I was so focused on getting her with my right that I didn't even see her attack coming." To be able to match his speed in such a short amount of time was unreal.
When Gohan ducked in, he opened up with two right straights, which Sandra swayed around. He then tried for a left jab, only for her to parry it and bury a roundhouse kick into his side. The blow landed with a spine chilling crunch, knocking the wind out of the boy's lungs and sending him skidding over the sand. When he stopped, he threw a left jab at Sandra when she lunged at him, only to slip around it and hit him in the face with a left jolt counter that knocked his head flying backwards.
Vision almost going black, Gohan was unable to do anything when Sandra began nailing repeatedly kicks into his body. When she struck him with a left teep, she then followed up by switching to her right and, after loading it up, aimed at the hapless warrior.
"Hyakuretsu Yari!" (Hundred Rending Spears) Sandra shouted, before she unleashed a lightning fast barrage of side-kicks upon her opponent. Her attack came at Gohan in a continuous salvo of light speed blows, which nailed his body over and over, before the girl finished up with a big one, burying her foot into his ribs and sending him spiraling across the desert.
Bouncing for several kilometers, the demi-Saiyan eventually stopped when he crashed into a distant mountain, transforming it into a smoking crater.
When the dust settled around the rubble, it revealed Gohan, bruised and with a tattered gi, sitting in the center, bleeding from the face and panting heavily. Glaring in the direction he'd come, he saw his opponent standing several kilometers away in the distance, still set in her stance and waiting for him to get up.
Wiping away the blood from his chin, the boy cursed. "Forget her punches; her kicks are also a big problem. Damn. What reflexes. I've never fought anyone who could counter my attacks so easily before." He then frowned when he quickly noticed something off about this picture. "Wait a second… why isn't she firing any blasts at me? She knocked me down and has me in her sights. Is she even going to try?" After several moments of watching his opponent hold her position, revelation quickly hit Gohan like a pallet of bricks. "No. She won't. Sandra's too smart for that. She won't waste energy on long range attacks that have a high chance of missing their target when she can just as easily wait for me to get close to her." Clenching his jaw, Gohan quickly leapt to his feet and cupped his hands at his side, his aura bursting up around him at full power. "So that's your game, is it? Alright… if you won't come to me, then I'll just make you move!"
Sensing her opponent's energy spike, Sandra perked up in surprise. "Hm? What's this?"
"KA-ME-HA-ME… HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Gohan roared, thrusting both hands forward and unleashing an enormous blue energy blast from his hands. The beam came gushing out of his palms, expanding widthwise and traveling across the desert at a terrifying speed.
The attack was so powerful that the shockwave it generated cleared the sky of clouds and caused an earthquake to rock the entire country.
Sandra, seeing the attack approaching her in the form of a bright blue light that grew and grew at an alarming rate, gave her opponent an amused grin. "Aww. How cute. It has a name-OH SHIT!" An expression of pure horror quickly shot across her face when the sheer magnitude of the blast coming towards her finally hit. A split second later, the spear of the attack struck her head on, causing a sonic boom to ring out on impact and distorting the surface of the entire desert, before the rest of the enormous beam consumed its target.
After making its mark, the beam continued to travel across the planet and out into space, where it then rocketed far off into the cosmos to dissipate billions of miles away.
The attack faded sometime later, revealing a trench two miles wide had been carved across the entire country from end to end. Gohan, standing at the far end of the chasm, panted heavily while watching the billowing wall of dust in front of him settle. When the air finally cleared, the boy couldn't see any signs of his opponent. That was until a ping on his radar had him turn his attention skywards, where he immediately spotted his Super Saiyan 3 opponent hovering several hundred meters above ground zero.
Upon assessing the damage done to the area, Sandra breathed a heavy sigh of relief. "Phew. If I hadn't ditched at the last second, there's a good chance whatever was left of me would have ended up on the other side of the galaxy." Looking a tad bit frazzled after barely avoiding the planet reducing attack, the Empress then cracked a smile and fixed her gaze upon her foe, who didn't appear to be all that pleased at seeing her in one piece. "You almost had me there, big guy, but I'm afraid all you've managed to do is show me your hand."
Eye twitching, Gohan fisted his hands tightly before, with a grunt, he vanished from his spot in a flicker of movement. His sudden teleportation caused Sandra to recoil slightly, as she seemingly had no clue that her enemy had materialized directly behind her, with his right leg cocked back. However, when the demi-Saiyan struck, the girl ducked, thrusting her own leg back and attempting to nail her target in the chin, who managed to sway at the last second to avoid her deadly counter.
Panicking slightly when he felt the heat of her leg scorch his face, the golden haired warrior sprang away to a safe distance, at the same time avoiding her second kick.
"Okay. New strategy. In-and-out, hit and run attacks!" Gohan thought, before darting forward aggressively when he saw his opponent bring her leg back and load up for another. "Since I can't block or dodge her counters, I just have to outrun them!" He then threw a right roundhouse at his opponent, watching as she blocked it effortlessly with her left arm, before her jab came shooting out at him. Ducking the compact blow, the demi-Saiyan then dove in at her with an uppercut. "Great! Now I just have to-THWACK!" Just as his fist was coming up, his head was suddenly smacked to the side when Sandra retracted her jab and fired off a second left hook with the same arm, which knocked Gohan off course.
Sandra smirked, "Sorry, but that won't work either. That's another pawn."
"Fuck! Her homing jab! I forgot about that!" Gohan cursed as he pulled back, only to be met by a barrage of swift left punches. The girl's fist cut towards him at blazing speed, hitting him across the face from several different angles. The demi-Saiyan attempted to hold them off by bringing his arms up to protect his face, but while these stopped the ones from the front, it did nothing to stop the shots that came from the sides, which forced him to fly back to get some distance. "Alright! If attacking from below won't work, then I'll just hit her from above!" Bringing his hands down to reveal a slightly swollen face, the boy then vanished with a crack of wind and appeared above his opponent, swinging down at her with an axe kick. "Take this!"
While the teen's leg was descending towards Sandra like a falling meteor, the female Super Saiyan, composed as ever, slipped to the side and avoided it. As a look of disbelief slowly appeared across Gohan's face, he was unable to do anything when the female warrior, her right fist primed at her side and glowing, shot it upwards and nailed him in the stomach with a vicious right straight. Her Senko buried into his abdominals with devastating force, the shockwave from the blow punching a hole in the atmosphere above them and tearing away the blue veil to reveal the space behind it. With Gohan stunned by the liver blow, he was then nailed in the chest by a left knee, before he was then kicked across the face by a roundhouse kick, which sent blood flying into the air and bent his body sideways.
With her opponent stunned by her counterattack, the confident Sandra then struck an elegant fighting pose and brought her right fist to her side in a showboating manner. "Here are a couple of useful tips for you, stallion. Firstly: never over think your moves. If you think too much, you hesitate and stop, leaving yourself wide open for your opponent's assault. Secondly: the objective of a combination move is to finish your opponent completely, so that they won't get up again. In order to deal maximum damage, each separate attack must be delivered with intent to kill. LIKE THIS!" Sandra then lunged forward, her right fist shooting towards her stunned target at blazing speed. "DAI KONRAN!" (Havoc)
All of a sudden, Gohan saw a wall of fists flying towards him, a split second before his entire body was engulfed by a storm of punches. Sandra's knuckles drilled into him over and over again at a ridiculous rate, pummeling and distorting his body mercilessly. The attack was so vicious and so powerful that the entire sky above the earth shook from the salvo, and the continent was drowned out by the sound of continuous thunderclaps. The impact of the thousand punch string dominated the atmosphere in such a way that you couldn't even hear Gohan's grunts and cries of agony, as they were muffled by the sound of his muscles and bones being broken down into mush.
After several seconds of unending punishment, Sandra finished her combo by bringing her left foot back and nailing the boy with a side kick, which sent the teen plummeting to the Earth below. When he struck a mountain, it exploded with the force of a nuke, as rubble and debris rained down across the planet.
With her opponent felled, the female Super Saiyan withdrew her leg and struck another elegant pose, as if she'd just finished a ballet dance. She then said in a sing-song voice, "She shoots… she scores… and the crowd goes wild! This is so much fun." She then blinked in surprise when she saw the dust cloud disperse and spotted Gohan's body at the bottom of the crater. The fact that he was still in one piece was one thing, but the fact that he was once again on his feet and conscious, had Sandra pause in shock. "Oh. Still alive, huh?" A mischievous grin then reappeared on her face. "That's impressive. You actually managed to survive my lethal onslaught. Bravo."
Ignoring the ringing in his ears and the blood dribbling down his face from his nose, mouth and forehead, a thoroughly beaten Gohan with a half-torn gi top, took a deep breath and smirked. Since he had blood visible in his teeth and mouth, it made his gesture more aggressive then he intended. "As painful as it is, I appreciate the compliment." Without warning, he then thrust his right hand up and unleashed a powerful blue beam of energy surrounded by golden lightning, "FLASH MADAN!" The beam exploded from his palm and filled the sky, shooting towards Sandra like a missile.
Balking in shock at the speed of the attack, Sandra quickly ducked under it and avoided the blast, which shot past her and up into space. The moment she did evade however, the woman then saw a salvo of golden blasts flying up at her, which quickly pushed her into action.
Taking the initiative, Gohan began unleashing a continuous barrage of ki attacks at his adversary, whom he saw start ducking and weaving around them as she speedily flew towards him. The demi-warrior followed her with his senses, leading the girl with his hands and firing off attacks wherever he thought she would end up. However, despite his terrific speed and timing, every single blast he threw at the swift girl was effectively dodged and, in a matter of seconds, Sandra had managed to close the ten kilometer gap between them, all the while avoiding his high speed barrage.
When Gohan thrust his right hand up to fire one last laser bolt, Sandra was already inside his range, diving right under his arm and avoiding his blast. The demi-Saiyan saw her duck to his side in slow motion, a sight that confounded him at first, before he was suddenly nailed in the chin by a right uppercut. The attack smashed his head skywards, the female Saiyan managing to hit him with a running blow. As soon as he was hit, Sandra dashed right past him, turning around and smirking when she saw the teen stumble backwards.
"Now that is how you do a hit-and-run attack," the girl informed.
Gritting his teeth to shake off the damage from the razor sharp blow, Gohan spun around with his hands cupped. Aura blazing, he then took aim at his foe, "KA-ME-HA-" Before he could finish, he suddenly saw Sandra's face appear directly in front of him, her right hand had seizing his wrist. Her agility astonished the Z-fighter and kept him frozen in place.
"That technique won't work on me twice," Sandra said, before quickly twisting his wrist around and kicking his foot out from under him. Powering up, the girl then, with a mighty heave, tossed the boy into the air above her. The instant her opponent was airborne and suspended above the ground, the female warrior used her momentum to cock her leg back and charge it. Blue lightning shooting up and down her body, her entire foot lit up a bright gold, before she thrust it straight into her stunned foe. "This one is mine. RAIKO YARI!" (Lightning Spear)
Gohan let out a cry of agony when a golden blast suddenly shot out of his enemy's foot and slammed into his stomach, sending him rocketing into the sky and off of the planet. With his body flat up against the head of the attack, the teen felt every burn and sting from the blast on every fiber of his being for a full minute. By the time he'd reached satellite orbit of the Earth, he managed to roll out of the way and allow the attack to shoot off into space. Ignoring the smoke wafting off of his skin, the winded Gohan spun to face the planet, priming his hand as his senses worked on locating his enemy. He took a defensive stance just to be safe.
However, a ping on his radar had him look up in shock, as he suddenly sensed a presence directly behind him. When he spun around, he saw Sandra spinning down at him with a kick, which she connected with a deafening shockwave. Her foot sunk into his stomach, causing Gohan to lurch forward as he was effectively kicked back towards the planet.
"Sh-She can teleport, too?" Gohan thought in shock, at the same time spitting out blood. Throwing his arms out, the teen let off a burst of ki and stopped his fall short. "This changes things."Upon which he then let out a mighty bellow, thrust both his hands forward and unleashed two golden blasts at his attacker.
Sandra, reacting instantaneously, slapped one of the beams away and dodged the second, before taking off across the solar system in the form of a bolt. Gohan, powering up as well, rocketed after her, in which the pair began a deadly game of tag through the vacuum of the cosmos.
When Gohan attempted to hit his opponent again, Sandra caught his arm, nailed him across the face with an elbow, and then tossed him through the void. Spinning around as he flew, the hybrid then fired a couple of blasts at the Empress, only to see her dodge them effortlessly before lunging at him with a kick. He then attempted to kick back, only to receive a hook in the face when she faked the blow. The girl then attempted to follow up with another punch, but was unable to when Gohan suddenly ducked in and got her in a clinch. She reversed it however and, with both fighters gripping the other's shoulders, plummeted towards the surface of Mars.
The pair burned up on entry and collided with the endless red desert of the planet, with their impact being marked by an explosion of dust equivalent to several dozen thermonuclear bombs going off at once…