(Paprika & Kure)
Knuckles clashed in an explosive collision between two super powered beings as the Super Makyan Paprika, her white hair fanning out behind her under a strong gust of wind, slammed a right cross into the one thrown by her opponent. Teeth bared in anger, the tall green woman with horns protruding from her hair, snarled when she saw her adversary glare back at her with a wide smirk in play. Despite the fact that both of them were pressing their full body weight into one another, the feline woman didn't seem affected by the clash in the least, as her tail was whipping around behind her in a casual and taunting manner.
Now that their fight had taken their lot all the way out into the grassy valleys outside of Central City where they could really cut loose, frustrations were running high for all defenders of the Earth, as their opponent was proving to be a bit more than they could handle. This was evident by how irritated Paprika was getting.
Eye twitching when she saw the alien woman's ears flutter in a cute manner, the Makyan had just about enough.
"Stop that!" Paprika barked, lunging forward with a left hook. However, when she saw her opponent duck under her blow and drop to all fours like a cat, the supplementary Z-fighter then attempted to swing at her with a downward right thrust, only to have the female in glasses kick her forward leg out and wrap her tail around her extending wrist. "Hey. What the-WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" The Makyan was then promptly thrown across the valley, where she eventually crashed into a distant barn and the construct exploded in a shower of wood and splinters.
Giggling as she remained on all fours, Kure's eyes then snapped upwards when she sensed someone else attacking, and saw Videl dropping down at her at full speed.
"BANZAI!" the crime fighter shouted, lunging in with a kick.
Reacting quickly, Kure sprang away in time to see the human warrior crash into the hill with catastrophic force, sending dust and debris everywhere. Within seconds, the raven haired fighter leapt out of the clouds and chased her opponent across the countryside, throwing combinations of punches and kicks after the diplomat. However, in spite of Videl's terrific speed, none of her blows were connecting, as the cat woman merely slipped and dodged every single one of them easily.
Smiling, the female then elbowed out at Videl, forcing the girl to drop to the floor, before the teenager sprang at her with a swift uppercut. The cat woman leaned away to avoid it, causing her adversary to overshoot and setting her up for a clean counter. Twirling on the spot, Kure then kicked out at the human Z-fighter, only to suddenly see the raven haired teen catch her leg and straddle it. As soon as she locked on, the raven haired fighter let out a yell and thrust an elbow down towards Kure's kneecap, intent on snapping or breaking her limb.
The feline expected the blow and quickly dropped her leg, causing Videl to miss. Before the crime fighter could even touch back down, Kure began unleashing a storm of punches at her, which cut towards the human like powerful blades. "Shit! She's fast!" Videl speedily retreated, ducking and dodging the attacks that went flying past her head from all directions, with the knuckles making a loud 'whooshing' sound every time they missed. After several close calls, the teenager then leapt away, figuring she'd avoided the last of them, only to balk when she saw Kure's left fist stop just short of her nose.
This was merely a feint, as the cat woman suddenly retracted her jab and struck Videl across the face with a powerful right straight. The impact caused a sonic boom that knocked the crime fighter flying across the valley, before the stricken girl hit the brakes and slammed her feet into the floor, grinding to a stop. When Videl looked up, she had blood dripping from her nose and the corner of her mouth, with a purple bruise forming on her left cheek.
"She got me." Gasping, Videl dropped to her knee, as the damage from the hit finally got to her. "Ugh. That blow affected my legs. I can't move."
Smirking, Kure then brought her right hand up and prepared to fire a blast to knock the girl out of the game, only to duck when Yamcha teleported behind her and kicked at her head. Responding swiftly, the woman spun around and punched at her attacker, only to see the human dart out of the way and spring at her from the side. The woman then proceeded to dodge and block all of the man's attacks, a casual smile in play while the human shouted and yelled with every blow. Eventually Yamcha ended his attack with a straight, which he slammed into her face.
At first he thought he'd actually managed to hit her, only to realize moments later that she'd brought her hand up at the last second to stop it. When he felt the cat woman pull his knuckles away, the warrior groaned childishly, "Come on. Are you even trying to fight us?"
Kure giggled and smiled sweetly at him, "Would it help?"
"N-No," Yamcha stammered awkwardly, not really comfortable being this close to her. "But at least try to make it look like you're struggling."
"If it'll make you feel any better, then sure, I can definitely try-"
"DUCK!"
Hearing a shout from behind prompted the scar-faced man to hit the deck. A split second later, Videl flew right over Yamcha's position, her right fist crackling with electricity and a blue aura burning around her, before she slammed an earthshaking haymaker straight into Kure's face. "HAWK ARROW!" The blow connected with a loud crack and knocked the woman off her feet, drawing a yelp of pain from her and sending the cat flying over the valley. Both human fighters then watched while her body bounced over the hills and collided with a distant tree, which snapped at the base and collapsed on top of her.
Assuming another fighting stance, a battered and bruised Videl threw a smile down at her fellow martial artist. "Thanks for distracting her."
Scratching his head, the scar-faced fighter smiled sheepishly, "That wasn't really my intention, but… you're welcome?"
Before the two of them could finish patting each other's backs, they failed to notice the tree Kure had landed in several hundred meters away burst into a shower of splinters and their opponent materialize right next to them. Using damn near untraceable speed, the feline woman spun at Videl with a kick, slamming into her guard and knocking the teen into Yamcha's back, sending both of them bouncing across the land. When they tumbled to a stop over a dozen yards away, the two warriors painfully sat up to see their adversary land from her elegantly executed move with a trickle of blood running down from the corner of her mouth.
Reaching up to rub it away, the female warrior smirked, "Nice one. Got any more like that?"
Seeing that she was only bruised had the two thoroughly beaten human fighters laugh nervously, before they both sprang to their feet and stood side-by-side. Both using completely different fighting poses to one another, they focused all their attention on their adversary while also beginning to whisper to one another.
"What do we do now? She's too strong to fight head-on and we can't just throw her down," Videl said, beads of sweat appearing on the side of her head. "We need to come up with some sort of strategy."
"Yeah. But what?" Yamcha asked, seeing their opponent set herself into a playful fighting form and begin swaying back and forth. "She doesn't fight like a normal person, nor does she move like one. Her reflexes are also top-notch, so coming at her with feints and sneak attacks are out of the question. The only way we'll be able to catch her off guard is to knock out her senses before going in for the kill."
After staring at the woman for several moments, Videl then realized something and narrowed her eyes on her opponent. Analyzing her movements for a moment, she then nudged the man in the side, "Hey. Why don't we try going for her tail?"
"Huh? Her tail?" Yamcha repeated.
"Yeah. I mean, Gohan told me that grabbing a Saiyan by the tail can cause them extreme pain and paralysis, robbing them of their strength and leaving them wide open for attack. Maybe grabbing her tail while she's not looking will do the same to her."
Processing the girl's words and taking in the woman standing several yards away, the baseball champion nodded in understanding, "That doesn't seem like a bad plan. But how do we know it'll work?" After all, she wasn't a Saiyan.
In fact, they didn't know what she was, aside from the fact that she had feline qualities.
"Do you have any better ideas?"
The man cringed at the anger in the teen's voice. "No. No. I don't. Let's go with yours." He then extended his right arm and grabbed his wrist with his left, upon which he started to concentrate her energy. "Do you think you can set me up so I can tag her?"
Videl smiled, "No problem." She then brought her index and middle finger up to her forehead, readying herself for their next move.
Watching the pair with interest, Kure tilted her head when she saw the pair of human fighters cease talking and take battle ready positions. Her initial thought was that they'd come up with some sort of strategy to flank her. However, she was caught a little bit by surprise when she suddenly saw the raven haired girl place her fingers to her forehead and, after gathering a significant amount of energy, brought her hand around and jabbed her digits in her direction.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!" the girl roared while firing an orange spiral beam from her right, which shot towards Kure like a drill.
The speed of the attack forced Kure to react with all haste, leaping high into the sky to avoid the beam striking the spot where she'd been standing and detonating with terrifying force, filling the sky with a fiery explosion. The hybrid feline felt relieved at having avoided the attack, since it'd been way too fast to have been a conventional beam. However, before she could catch her breath, she then looked up in surprise when she sensed another spike in energy and saw Yamcha cocking back his hand, with a white ball of energy hovering above his index and middle fingers.
Twirling the pulsating energy sphere to gain momentum, the man then lunged forward with a roar, "SPIRIT BALL ATTACK!" The warrior then flung the attack at the woman, the ball flying towards her at an amazing speed.
Alarm bell going off, Kure quickly head slipped to the side, barely avoiding the sphere of ki as it shot past her. She then saw it fly into the distance, only to suddenly change directions and zip into her blind spot. "Whoa. What the-" She then attempted to follow it with her senses, so as to keep it in her sights.
Yamcha meanwhile, taking advantage of her surprise, then began guiding his attack with a series of swift hand movements, pointing his index and middle finger in various directions. This altered the trajectory of his fast moving attack, which began orbiting Kure's position and shooting past her at awkward angles. He eventually guided it downwards, before sharply changing its direction and causing the ball to shoot towards their foe. This came at Kure directly from below and, when the woman attempted to see where it was, ended up getting nailed in the chin.
What followed was an onslaught of continuous hits as Yamcha directed his attack at his opponent again and again, slamming into her body from all sides. The ball bounced off of her multiple times, before eventually soaring upwards and positioning itself in the sky several meters above its target. Then, with one more decisive yell, the man pointed his fingers downwards and slammed his attack into the back of Kure's head, knocking the woman out of the sky and towards the Earth.
"YES!" Videl shouted, punching a fist into the air in triumph.
Spinning as she fell, the woman let out a cry of shock while she approached the ground at breakneck speed. Just before she could hit, she suddenly flipped into an upright position and dropped to the floor with a super-hero-like landing, knee and fist in the ground and an intense expression on her face. "Wow. That was a good volley. His high-speed aerial barrage actually winded me a little." She then looked up with a glare. "That was a really well-coordinated attack. Hard to believe they were able to come up with that on the fly. A highly concentrated beam of negative energy with a corkscrew spin used to set me up for a telepathically guided ball of compressed positive force energy. Those are two very high level moves… not something an amateur would use. These guys have experience." When she spotted Videl standing in the same place she'd attacked from, Kure then recoiled a little. "Hey. What happened to the cute one?"
All of a sudden, the ground behind her burst upwards in a shower of rubble and, amidst the hail of debris, Yamcha sprang out of the dirt. A big grin plastered on his face, the man then lunged forward in an epic dive, catching the cat woman completely off guard.
In the blink of an eye, the man grabbed hold of the woman's tail and held it tightly. "GOT YAH!"
"KYAAAAAA!" came Kure's shriek, the female warrior's back stiffening and her hair bristling. Almost immediately after Yamcha caught her, she reeled forward and dropped to her knee, a sight that put a triumphant expression on both humans' faces.
Feeling victory just seconds away, Videl then dashed forward and flew towards Kure as fast as she could, her right fist primed for a hit. "YES! Hold her still, Yamcha!" Her aura bursting up around her, the raven haired girl prepared for a final blow.
However, while the scar-faced man gripped the woman's tail with one hand, he suddenly became aware of a shivering sensation coming over her and looked at the ambassador from another world in surprise. Hearing the sounds of panting, Yamcha then watched as Kure turned to look at him. When she did, he saw that her cheeks were bright red and her lungs struggling to breathe.
Swallowing nervously, the woman with glasses whispered in a breathy and pleasure-filled voice, "P-Please don't grab my tail."
Face paling, Yamcha quickly released the feline's appendage, watching the woman drop to all fours, while being completely unaware of Videl swinging in with a punch. "GAAAAH! I-I-I'm very sorry!"
"YOU IDIOT! WHAT ARE YOU-" WHAM! The crime fighter was unable to finish as she ended up missing Kure's head by two feet and crashing into her scar-faced teammate at full speed. The two ended up rolling across the valley for several yards, where they eventually tumbled to a stop on the other side at the bottom of a hill, where they wound up sprawled out and covered in dirt.
Pulling her face out of the grass, Videl then threw her partner a glare, "Dude… are you fucking kidding me?"
The former mercenary, looking slightly shaken from the events, stammered meekly. "I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking straight."
Having witnessed the collision first hand, a surprised Kure stared across at them with wide eyes and an uncomfortable expression. "Are you guys okay?"
Growling as she pushed herself up, the teenage crime fighter glared back at the cat woman. "We're fine! Don't worry about us!"
"Oh, good," Kure murmured, bringing her hand up and nibbling on the tip of her finger, at the same time her ears drooped in embarrassment. "It's just… your attack really caught me by surprise back there. I never expected one of you to grab my tail the way you did." She then shuffled on the spot anxiously, obviously still reeling from the affects of their assault. "You see, unlike the Saiyans, who experience intense pain and paralysis whenever their appendages are grabbed, my people instead experience extreme waves of pleasure whenever the fur and muscles in the tail are stimulated. It's a very indecent act, grabbing each other's rears in public, which is why we only practice such rituals in private."
Videl recoiled at this news, "Augh! Too much information!" When she saw the woman look away shyly, the crime fighter then shouted at her. "AND STOP MAKING THAT FACE! IT'S WEIRD!"
All of a sudden, the barn a whole field across from them suddenly went up in a fiery blast. Splinters and slabs of wood flying in all directions, the air quickly cleared to reveal a very ticked off Paprika marching out of the works, with hay covering her uniform and her hair all a mess. When she saw the cat woman sitting in the middle of the valley with the two Z-fighters staring back at her, the Makyan dusted her arm and craned her head, her expression becoming even more beastly in appearance.
"I've had enough of this shit." The moment she said this, the provisional Z-fighter became surrounded by a menacing red aura, which engulfed her entire body in a field of fire and electricity. With a loud yell, the demon girl's power level skyrocketed, alerting the trio to her presence and drawing their gazes over to her. They managed to look just in time to see Paprika's muscles bulk up, her height increase, and her entire body shape begin to change. Along with her increase in size, the green girl's horns grew and curled, transforming into ram horns that gave her a more demonic appearance, with her nails also extending and sharpening. The moment her transformation came full circle, Paprika gave one last howl of rage and her red aura blasted off of her in an inferno.
Once her scream petered out, Videl and Yamcha could be seen gaping at their newly powered-up teammate.
They had no idea the girl had had a second form beyond her first one. Of course, from what they could gather, this wouldn't be classified as a second transformation state, as it was more of a bulked up version of her first form. For comparison's sakes, this was how much Paprika changed. While in her base form the teen was exactly the same height and build as Videl, her Super Makyan form increased her size to about Piccolo's range, with muscles befitting her drastic height, weight and power shift. This alteration alone was intimidating enough.
This new Super Makyan form she'd taken increased her height by at least half a person, making her the same height as Super Android 13, and made her appear even more terrifying, as her horns had grown quite a lot and her aura had taken on red lightning.
As she stood in the middle of the field surrounded by her bio-field, Paprika then spoke in a deeper voice, "Enough playing around, bitch. You've held back long enough. Let's see what you can really do."
Kure, sensing her opponent's drastic increase in power, took on a more serious expression and stood up. "Very well. If a real battle is what you wish, then I'll be more than happy to oblige!" Reaching up and removing her glasses, she quickly pocketed them. As soon as she did, she then spread her legs, dropped into a horse-riding stance, and set her hands at her sides. Once she'd assumed the position, a pure white mist of an aura began pouring out of her body like smoke, surrounding her and shielding her. The fog then transformed into a white inferno, spiking up the woman's hair as her expression became more feral, eyes sharpening, fangs and jagged whiskers appearing, and claws extending from her fingertips. Once her body had finished transforming, she then got onto all fours and grinned across at her opponent. "All restraints have been unlocked. Now I'll show you the full power of my race! Beast Mode!"
Yamcha and Videl quivered, as they could almost taste the amount of power now radiating off of both warriors.
Once she saw her cat-like opponent take on her most powerful form, Paprika shifted her weight forward and, in a blast of wind, charged at the woman at full speed. The demon girl literally tore across the valley in an instant, appearing directly in front of Kure and swinging down at her with a wild haymaker. The impact caused an explosion equivalent to a small meteor colliding with the countryside, sending dust and rubble into the sky…