Stumbling as she got to her feet after her impact with Mars, Sandra attempted to regain her bearings. However, when she heard Gohan's scream echo down from above, she looked up just in time to get hit in the throat by the demi-Saiyan's arm crashing into her in the form of a charging clothesline.
Lifting the girl off her feet, Gohan rocketed across the landscape, tearing a path through the desert for several kilometers before happening upon the closest mountain. Flying straight into it, the boy slammed his stunned adversary into its side and punched a human-sized crater into the wall. The force of the collision bent the edifice and caused rubble to start cascading all around them. The moment Sandra was pinned, the powered-up hero leapt away and, still wearing his menacing expression, threw his head back and cackled in a very familiar manner.
"Hahahaha! What's the problem, Kakarot? Have you given up? That's too bad!" Gohan yelled, looking across the way to see his shocked opponent gaping back at him. Obviously the hit to the chest had taken the wind out of her lungs, giving the demi-Saiyan the perfect opportunity to gloat the way he remembered this particular person used to. "You don't have the power to stand up to the likes of me! I will crush you!" Giving yet another yell of rage, the boy then shot forward at blazing speed, catching his foe completely off guard.
Forgetting all style, grace and form, Gohan began laying punches into his opponent with reckless abandon. His fists came flying in from all directions in the form of full swings and haymakers, losing no speed whatsoever when his knuckles seemingly began striking his target from head to toe. In reality, he concentrated most of his attacks on his opponent's midsection and chest, determined to cave in her ribs in a way that Broly once tried to do to his father all those years ago. This quickly resulted in him pushing Sandra straight through the mountain, slowly but surely hammering her battered body all the way to the other side.
Sandra cried and choked in agony when she became riddled by Gohan's non-stop attacks, her back literally carving a path right through the enormous landmark. The huge slab of rock was split down the centre, with debris raining down upon the glowing duo. Moments later, Gohan punched Sandra out the other side, where she bounced across the desert for several miles and ended up crashing into another hill back first.
Spitting up blood all over her ruined battle suit, the female Super Saiyan 3 gasped for breath and quickly forced herself to her feet.
Once again her opponent was not going to give her any time to breathe, as Gohan speedily teleported directly in front of the stricken fighter with his arms folded and an arrogant, foxy smirk pulled across his lips. The hybrid's eyes had also become more animalistic; in a way that was hauntingly similar to a very powerful and dangerous goddess he'd met not too long ago.
"You think you'll rule this universe as the strongest? Ha! Don't make me laugh!" Gohan barked in a haughty and feminine manner, his Saiyan tail swishing about behind him as he struck a fighter's pose. "There is only one who is the strongest in this reality, and that is Set; the Goddess of Storms! If you pledge your loyalty to me, I will grant you eternal life and a place at my side."
Getting incredibly irked at his female impressions, Sandra lunged forward to strike at him with a sloppy jab, only to receive a swift elbow to the neck that dropped her to the ground. Leaping back up, the Saiyan female tried lashing out at the hybrid again, only to watch him avoid her blows with head slips and parries, before suddenly countering her with sharp palm and fist strike to the body. When she countered with a right cross, Gohan locked up her arm and struck the joint at the shoulder with a finger blow, before suddenly dropping to the floor and spinning. His tail swept and knocked Sandra's feet out from under her, suspending the girl above the ground and allowing Gohan to nail her with a powerful side kick that sent her sliding through the dirt.
Twirling on the spot, Gohan calmly assumed a wide stance with his hands outstretched, the heels of his hands exposed and his fingers bent somewhat, resembling the claws of a predatory animal. Remembering Set's style perfectly from his battle with her, the boy smirked and edged his feet along the floor, all the while marveling at his handiwork.
"Let's rattle her brain a little more…"
Sandra was deeply hurting by this point in time, bleeding out of the mouth and clutching her ribs, which had most certainly been cracked. When she got up, she immediately reeled forward, placing her hands on her knees and taking the few precious moments she had to recover. Due to the way she was panting, her opponent knew right away that she was struggling and was not enjoying this part of the bout in the slightest.
Unfortunately Sandra didn't have much time to contemplate the sudden change in the battle's pace, as she instantly sensed a shadow fall over her and peered up to see Gohan, a childlike smile in play, beaming at her from only three feet away.
He'd ended up bending so far forward that his face was practically right up in front of Sandra's, which startled the hell out of the female Saiyan.
"What's up, big sis?" Gohan asked in his best impersonation of his little brother. The effort was clearly shown by the little giggle he added at the end. "Do you want to keep playing?"
Veins pulsing on her forehead, an incredibly frustrated Sandra stood up as fast as she could and, cocking back her right fist, threw it at her opponent in anger. "RAAAAH!"
Grinning cheekily, the demi-Saiyan was all ready for her haymaker and, taking a basic horse riding stance, promptly countered her attack with a combo he remembered his kid brother use too long ago. He jabbed out, intercepting Sandra's punch with his own and shouting at the top of his lungs. "ROCK!" As soon as their attacks collided, he lunged forward with a right straight, nailing his opponent in the eyes with his middle and index fingers. "SCISSORS!" When Sandra yelped and covered her eyes with her hands, Gohan stepped in deep and struck her in the chest with an open-palm slap. "PAPER!"
Skidding across the ground with a handprint engraved in the front of her suit, Sandra gasped in shock and hit the brakes. She managed to stop herself just several yards later and, watching the clouds of dust billow about her, looked up to see what her opponent was doing now. It came as a big shock to her when she saw him standing directly in front of her, just a few inches out of reach, his hands cupped at his side and lightning shooting off of his body.
A serious and focused expression framed his face as he took aim at the woman. "KA-ME-HA-ME-"
"Fuck!" Sandra shouted, realizing she had no time to dodge when she sensed his energy spike. Unable to counter due to being off balance, the woman instead threw her hands up into a cross arm guard, covering her face and bracing herself for the inevitable impact. She shut her eyes and held her breath, ready to feel the burning sensation of a several billion megaton blast engulfing her entire body.
However, after a few seconds of standing there and not feeling anything, the woman cracked open an eye to see what was going on.
All of a sudden, a shockwave rang out and Sandra's entire body doubled over when her opponent's fist buried itself into her stomach up to the wrist. Eyes bugging out of their sockets, the female Super Saiyan could only gape in disbelief while Gohan, standing two feet in front of her, grinned mischievously and kept his knuckles pressed against her abs.
"Fooled yah," Gohan sung.
When he removed his fist moments later, he allowed Sandra to stagger away, trembling from head to toe and gripping her stomach with both her arms. The pain became too much for her to handle and eventually the girl dropped to her knees, curling forward and crying out in agony. Gohan, being the good sport that he was, simply watched and waited for his foe to come around. He even held out a hope that his opponent would give up, considering her stricken state and the amount of pain she was apparently in. Honestly, a part of him wanted to apologize for hitting her with such a strong punch.
But then, just when he thought it was over, Gohan saw the female Saiyan look up, her teeth clenched and fury burning in her eyes.
Huffing angrily, the haze filling Sandra's vision quickly cleared and revealed her opponent standing perfectly still several yards away. At that moment, the woman felt the overwhelming and irresistible urge to jump in and beat the living snot out of the smug teenager. "I'm going to rip that dirty bastard a new one!" But then, before she could power up and run down her opponent, the Empress suddenly stopped dead in her tracks. "No… wait a second… that's exactly what he wants me to do!" Looking at his face, she could see his plan all too clearly, as if he was telling it directly to her. He wanted to get her frustrated and make her panic, so that he could take advantage of her lack of focus and tear her down. "He's baiting me… waiting for me to slip up and make a mistake." After seeing him tilt his head, the female Saiyan frowned and, reaching up, brushed away the blood dripping down her chin with the back of her glove. "Attacking him while I'm flustered won't get me anywhere. I need to calm down and start over." She then closed her eyes.
Gohan looked on as he saw Sandra take several deep breaths. Watching her shoulders rise and fall, and her shivering lift like a bad spell, he then saw her stop and, after several seconds of meditation, glare up at him with a renewed glimmer of self-assurance in her eyes. This brought a serious look to the hybrid and prompted him to take a cautionary step back. "It looks like she's ready for another round." A bolt of lightning crackled from his forehead and struck the desert. "Okay; enough playing around and enough acting. It's time to get serious."
Rising up, a now calm and collected Sandra slid her feet into a completely new position and brought her hands up. Upon which an excited smile graced her face, "It seems I was right about you all along. Your speed, strength and skills are absolutely breathtaking, and the amount of talent you possess is beyond anything I could've imagined. All things considered, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that you've impressed me."
Her compliments put a grin back on Gohan's face, "Thanks. After all the things you've shown me today, I'd say that feeling's mutual. I've never faced an opponent as skilled and incredible as you before."
Sandra smirked, "Touché. But let's not get caught up in senseless flattery. I think it's time to begin round three of our battle." Widening her feet, the woman curled her fingers and assumed a stance Gohan had never seen her use before. This put him on immediate guard and had him flex his fingers anxiously. "There hasn't been a single fighter capable enough to overwhelm my perfect trace. The amount of personas and fighting styles that you know is simply astonishing. But now it has me wondering…" The girl cocked an eyebrow at her foe, "Do you know more than me?"
This question had Gohan's heartbeat quicken with anticipation and his smile widen even more, "I don't know. Want to find out?"
Sandra licked her lips sensuously. "Let's."
Skipping on the spot in a very Bruce Lee like manner, Gohan then slid his feet into yet another stance and, bringing his right hand up to his chin while his left remained suspended around his chest, the demi-Saiyan took on the Jeet Kune Do form and steadied his breathing. Compiling all of the fighting styles he knew and pushing them to the front, the warrior prepared once again for what was to be a spectacular fight. His opponent meanwhile set herself into a narrow stance and what he assumed was the Baguazhang martial arts form, but figured it was a similar fighting style from a different planet.
As soon as both warriors had assumed stances, they powered up, their auras bursting around them and lightning filling the sky…