(Back on Mars)
When the dust settled in the crater formed in Mars's surface, a pair of smooth and incredibly attractive legs could be seen jutting out of the ground, with Gohan standing just a few yards away from them, hands on his hips and an obnoxious, Hercule-like grin in play. After watching the legs twitch for several seconds, he then saw them drop to the floor before the person they were attached to yanked their upper body out of the floor. With a gasp and a shout, Sandra's dusty form appeared from the ground, where she then remained on her hands and knees, coughing, spluttering, and regaining her bearings.
By the time she'd caught her breath, the female Super Saiyan 3's eyes snapped up, where she quickly spotted her foe grinning widely at her.
"Your technique is sublime and your fighting sense is astonishing. But even though you can perfectly predict your opponent's moves right down to the last millisecond, there's a massive blind spot in your routine that any fighter sharp enough can exploit," Gohan informed, before tapping the side of his head. "I noticed it just before you started using your Muay Thai style. The moment you memorize your opponent's rhythm, the fight is pretty much over for them and the battle becomes completely one-sided. However, it takes a certain amount of time for you to perfectly analyze a person's fighting patterns and match them to your own, which means any counters you try during the process end up messy. Since you're so focused on fighting based on numbers and using your perfect trace, you become flustered when an opponent does something you don't expect them to do and you have to recalculate. You panic, you lose focus… and that leaves you wide open."
There was no doubt in Gohan's mind that Sandra was, by far, the most skilled and technical fighter he'd ever had the pleasure of coming across. While Set had definitely been the most powerful, the goddess only relied on one fighting style throughout their battle and never once changed her approach against him, which emphasized brute strength and overwhelming telekinetic force over refined counters and tactics. Considering she was a deity of a single genre and was unanimously regarded as the strongest force in the universe, it made sense that she wouldn't give two shits about technique, approach, or any other forms of martial arts practiced by other civilizations, since she was so used to breezing through every single opponent who came her way and could shrug off blows that would normally be fatal to most.
Sandra was of a different breed to the goddess and, because the Empress's main strength lay in her sense of timing and fighting technique, the weaknesses she had were much different from an opponent who relied primarily on power.
Hearing the teen's comments drew a growl from the battered girl, who powered up and sprinted at him in a fury. "Damn you!" Sandra practically screamed, opening up on him with a series of punches aimed for his head. When Gohan began dodging them, backing out of the crater at the same time, the Saiyan's impatience only increased and her attacks came in at a faster rate. "Damn you! Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!" After throwing a kick that was timely avoided, she then pulled back her right fist and took aim from a karate-like stance. "This is ridiculous! Why don't you pick a style and stick with it?" She then grinned menacingly as she then lunged forward. "Or are you just a damn copycat after all?!"
The moment he saw his foe fire off another Senko in his direction, Gohan's expression changed. His eyes sharpening and his face becoming serious, the boy swiftly blocked the girl's shot, curved his arm around hers while it was still in motion, and performed a swift throw. "Hmph. Sheer ignorance." Sandra let out a yelp as her body was picked up off of the floor and tossed through the air, where she ended up crashing into a hill several yards away. When she leapt to her feet and turned her attention back to her foe, she suddenly saw him assume a wide stance with his hands outstretched. At the same time, she swore she saw a third eye hovering over the center of his forehead. "You'll never defeat me with such shallow thinking. All fighters know that to study martial arts, one must always begin with the art of imitation." With his palms open and arms outstretched, the demi-Saiyan grinned in a manner similar to one of his group's senior members. "Now, it's time for you to taste Tienshinhan's White Crane Style!"
Shaking her arm out after another failed attack, Sandra shook her head before rushing forward. "I'll break it down like the rest!" She then opened up with a series of swift punches and kicks.
The instant she started attacking however, Gohan began a series of fancy blocks and parries, his arms swinging around and redirecting all of the woman's blows. When she advanced, he backed off, using wide and graceful footwork to reposition himself and shift his adversary's weight around. After effectively checking a kick and deflecting a right chop, the demi-Saiyan then thrust his left fist up at his foe's chin, only for her to block it. Upon which his right fist came around and clocked her across the head, before then slipping both hands down and performing a double palm strike into her ribs. The attack knocked Sandra back and stunned her, allowing Gohan to duck in, grab the back of her ankle with his hand, and toss the woman.
Sandra flipped through the air before crashing face down into the floor with a yelp of pain. Glaring up, the Super Saiyan 3 quickly performed a break-dancing spin, kicking out at her opponent and forcing him to leap away. When she jumped back into a proper stance, she quickly powered up again and darted forward.
"I've got your rhythm!" Sandra shouted, catching her opponent seemingly off guard as she unleashed a roundhouse kick at his head.
Gohan blinked, spotting his opponent's attack coming right at him. "She's sped up her pattern reading, huh? If that's the case, I just need to change it up even faster." Cracking a smile, the hybrid then thought of another person closest to him and quickly switched over to their pattern. Expression changing, he suddenly darted forward and drove an elbow across Sandra's face, nailing her in the cheek and sending her flying. When he landed, Gohan then performed a very graceful twirl, before striking an elegant pose with his hand on his hip and the other running through his long hair. When he saw his opponent look at him in bewilderment, he then stuck his nose in the air and grinned in a feminine manner. "It's time for Zangya to take the stage. Come at me, girl."
Still appearing irritated, especially at the boy's incredibly flamboyant display, Sandra huffed and vanished with a crack of wind. Performing an instant teleport, the woman suddenly materialized out of her dimension directly behind her opponent, coming at him with a chopping strike. Through quick reflexes, Gohan detected the girl's appearance and spun out of the way, avoiding her opening strike and the ones to follow. The teen then began an uncharacteristically graceful aerial dance, allowing him to dodge and avoid all of the attacks his foe was now chasing after him with.
Swaying around a punch, the demi-Saiyan darted in and nailed his opponent with a swift kick straight into her stomach, "Vicious Combo!" All of a sudden, attacks began raining down on Sandra from all sides, starting with a swift cross to her face and then a knee to the stomach, which lifted her higher into the sky. Upon which Gohan elbowed the woman in the back and kicked her towards the horizon. When he saw her recover and vanish into super speed, he quickly gave chase.
The duo darted across Mars at incredible speeds, their forms appearing as nothing but a pair golden blurs spiraling around one another. After a lengthy scuffle that saw them pretty much cover the planet's entire terrain, the duo then reappeared in the sky high above the planet, their legs slamming into each other through two simultaneous kicks. With Gohan effortlessly holding his knee in place, he watched Sandra growl before throwing a swift left jab his way.
Knowing that a curve shot was to follow, the demi-Saiyan quickly took action, performing a speedy swayback in order to avoid it. His move startled Sandra, but not as much as the next move when his legs suddenly shot up and wrapped around her waist, allowing him to perform a backwards throw that sent the girl spinning across the sky. By the time she halted herself in midair and turned to refocus on her target, she saw Gohan had once again switched out personas and was now looking across at her with his hands locked into taekwondo positions and an aggressive expression in play.
"You're catching onto my strategy pretty quick. Not bad. But being sharp isn't going to be enough to put Videl Satan down for the count!" His aura bursting up around him, Gohan shot forward in a flash, nailing Sandra in the guard with a sharp kick. At the same time his right fist cocked back and sparkled with electricity. "Catch this! Hawk Arrow!" A gutsy battle cry leaving his lips, the teen lunged in with a right punch, which Sandra hurriedly attempted to block. His punch collided with her arms with a deafening shockwave, before the blow corkscrewed through her guard and burrowed into the female Saiyan's face. The impact of the shot sent Sandra flying back down towards the planet, a cry of surprise echoing all around. Spinning as she fell, the empress then slammed her hands and knees into the desert, punching a huge crater several meters into the floor as the entire world slowed her momentum.
After Gohan saw his enemy land, he too dropped down to the planet not far from her position. As soon as he rose up, the young warrior, still imitating Videl's movements, then looked up thoughtfully and scratched his head. "Hmm… who should I imitate next?" Several seconds of contemplation later, a rather evil grin then crossed his lips. "Oh. I know."
Muscles stinging from taking the blow, Sandra looked up with a start and cursed. "This guy… is starting to get on my nerves." Gritting her teeth, the woman leapt to her feet and spun around, sensing her opponent had touched down somewhere behind her.
However, when she spotted Gohan standing several yards away, her mouth dropped at what she saw him doing next.
With an innocent and rather mischievous look on his face, the Super Saiyan 3 hybrid suddenly struck a ballet-dancer-like pose, standing up on the toes of his right foot while lifting his left knee to his chest. When he brought his hands and clapped them above his head, Gohan then yelled at the top of his lungs, "RECOOOOOOOME…!" He then cocked his head to the side and grinned, "KICK!" In the blink of an eye, his aura exploded around him and he rocketed forward so fast that Sandra lost track of him.
The female Saiyan only had enough time to gasp before she was struck in the face by the mother of all knees. The impact was marked by a colossal shockwave that shook the entire planet and sent her careening across the desert, blood trailing from her mouth and a bruise imprinted on her chin. After several miles of flight, Sandra shook herself out of her daze with a snarl and, back flipping into an upright position, softly touched down on the ground. "That's it! I'm sick of this!" She then powered up and charged back across the desert in the form of a golden bolt, tearing a path through the dunes until she was directly in front of her opponent. "You're going down!"
The second she was in range, Sandra threw a right hook, which Gohan blocked and retaliated with a right elbow, slamming it into his attacker's guard. What soon followed was a brisk and fast-paced boxing match, in which the female Saiyan began unloading lightning fast punches and kicks upon her half-blooded target, who proceeded to block, parry and slap away her blows in the most awkward and fanciest ways imaginable, similar in style to the member of the Ginyu Force he'd fought years ago. Shockwaves rang out as the pair ascended into the sky, circling one another while locked in a heated engagement.
Despite the fact Sandra was giving her foe everything she had, attacking him with a flurry of blows, the demi-Saiyan simply shrugged them off, all the while grinning in an obnoxious manner. While she continued to fire off attacks, Gohan then spoke in a bullheaded manner, "Ha! You've got some pretty nice moves, Sandra. But you'll need more then fancy punches and kicks to defeat the Ginyu Force!" Deflecting a kick, the demi-Saiyan suddenly raised his right arm overhead and yelled out, "RECOOOOOOOME…" By the time Sandra spotted it, it was too late, "ELBOW!" He then cracked her on the skull with a vicious elbow, sending her plummeting towards the ground.
When Sandra struck the surface of Mars, an atomic like shockwave rippled outwards as she was literally punched into the planet's crust. As the dust billowed into the sky, an airborne Gohan looked on as the earthquake he'd caused settled moments later and an amused chuckle left his lips.
"Wow. What a rush." When he saw the fumes choking up the air begin to disperse, the young warrior then looked up and thought out loud, "Who knew acting and fighting at the same time could be such a blast? Maybe I can try imitating Frieza next. Though I don't have an extra long tail like his, I'm sure I can make it work if I try-" Unfortunately he was unable to finish his little breakdown.
All of a sudden, the ground several yards away from Sandra's newly formed crater exploded and, with her golden aura and lightning trailing off of her, the female Saiyan rocketed up towards the hybrid at a terrifying speed. With a mighty yell, the woman drove her knee into the boy's gut, lifting him up and causing a thunderclap to echo across the heavens.
A shocked expression appeared across Gohan's face, while his adversary cracked a triumphant smile of her own. "How do you like that?"
Gaping in pain, the half-human warrior remained where he was, hunched over the girl's leg and on the verge of throwing up. But then, just when Sandra thought her opponent was going to pass out, she suddenly saw his face turn to her and recoiled in shock when she saw a look of pure rage and anger staring back at her. Teeth clenched, brow furrowed and eyes a hollow white, devoid of any irises or pupils, Gohan snarled at his adversary like a wild dog, causing the female to back off worriedly. But just before she could pull away, the hybrid suddenly reared back, cupped his hands over his head, and slammed them down onto Sandra like a hammer, sending her plummeting to the ground with a sonic boom. When the Empress crashed into Mars's surface for the fifth time in a row, the entire world shuddered violently as the once perfectly round orb literally distorted into a slightly more oval shape.
"RAAAAAAAAGH!" Gohan bellowed at the top of his lungs, his aura exploding off of him like wildfire before he shot towards the planet like a comet. "KAKAROOOOOOOOT!"