A concussive explosion sent Gohan spiraling through the twentieth floor of a telecommunications administration building, crashing through dozens of cubicles and office desks before he ended up landing in the middle of a large park. Lying sprawled out at the bottom of the crater, the half-Saiyan groaned and sprang to his feet, looking up to see the girl that'd blasted him fly over the same building, charge an energy ball above her head and fling it down at him.
Gritting his teeth, the boy clapped his hands together at his side and, stepping forward with a superb pivot, smashed the ball back at its user. "FORE!"
The approaching Kana had a split second to look surprised before her blast impacted against her chest and detonated, sending her spinning to the ground. Forming a crater in the same park, Gohan pumped his fist victoriously and watched the cloud of dust fade away. When it did, he saw his opponent step out of the hole she'd formed surrounded by dozens of terrified civilians, all of whom were now standing back to watch the fight taking place between the two super-powered beings.
Glaring across at her opponent with her hair wafting behind her like a flame, Kana smirked and patted down her chest. "A fine hit. Nice follow-through." Once ridding herself of the scorch mark, she quickly frowned and glared back at the boy, watching him take a stance and square off against her.
Narrowing his eyes, the young hybrid let out a yell and charged forward, blasting across the ground at high speed before swinging out at the alien with an overhand. However, the moment his fist came within range, he suddenly saw the girl's form light up a dazzling gold before, like a shot of lightning, she vanished in a flash. His fist passing through air, Gohan had a moment to let out a gasp of surprise before he received a kick to the side from his opponent reappearing right next to him, which sent him bouncing across the reserve like a ragdoll.
Hitting the ground about three times at an insane speed, the boy was about to right himself until a second blow to the back from his opponent teleporting in his path smacked him in another direction. Gohan's body crashed through several trees and smashed into a statue of Hercule Satan, smashing it to pieces while he hit the ground behind it.
Heading spinning from the sudden directional changes and body sore from the swift beating, Gohan struggled to his hands and knees with a groan. Shaking his head, the bruised and battered youngster frowned while he glared at the footpath beneath him. "Okay. That's new."
Super speed was one thing. But teleportation? This was the first time he'd actually had to fight somebody who could do that.
Sucking it up, the boy rose to his feet and glared across the park from where he'd come. When he did, he saw his opponent appear before him in a golden flash, floating a story above the ground several yards away, and looking down at him intensely. Once both were facing each other, the pair exchanged heated glares until one of them decided to break the ice.
"You're a lot stronger than I had anticipated," the girl spoke, tilting her head curiously at the young warrior. "Judging from the conditions of this planet, you're also far too strong to be an ordinary human. Why is that?" She then produced the same hologram scouter over her left eye, which began to scan and analyze the boy a little more closely. After the flickering lights in the screen ended a few seconds later, Kana raised an eyebrow in surprise. "You have the characteristics of a human, but many of your other physical traits classify you as a Saiyan." She then smiled vibrantly, "You're a hybrid, aren't you?"
Gohan, a little caught off guard by her incredibly accurate analysis, smiled back at her, "Yeah. I'm a half-breed. Is that a problem?"
"Not at all. I'm just a little bit surprised to see that there's a Saiyan living in this part of space. Ever since the destruction of their home world, Saiya-jins have become an incredibly rare species in the universe. I've only ever seen ten others like you in the last decade," Kana replied, her scouter flickering some more before deactivating altogether. "It certainly answers the question as to why you're so strong… and why Frieza was probably killed."
Gohan furrowed his brow in obvious dislike of that name, "You knew that monster?"
"I knew him, yes, but only by reputation. We only ever had one meeting with each other and that was many years ago," the girl informed before bringing her right hand up and opening it at her side. When she did, she began gathering energy, which had her palm start to glow. It was a sight that put Gohan on immediate guard. "But let's stop talking about Frieza. I'm more interested in seeing what else you can do."
Just as the demi-Saiyan was about to guard against another attack, an explosion struck Kana in the side that sent the alien rocketing across the park. Plowing a trench into the floor when she landed, the girl expertly used her momentum to leap out of the dirt and back onto her feet. Body smoking from the surprise attack, she glared up to see several more figures descend from the sky and blinked in surprise at what she saw.
Floating at a vantage point side by side, she saw the spiky haired form of a man in Saiyan battle-armor and a lavender haired young man in black pants and a vest. Floating alongside them she also saw a green warrior in a purple gi, with a white turban on his head and a cape with a wide shoulder frame. And then, landing on the ground beneath them, she spotted a blonde haired woman in a trendy outfit and a short, bald man in casual clothing, both of them coming to stand defensively in her line of sight.
Blinking in surprise, Kana smirked, "My, my… this planet certainly is full of surprises." She said this while watching the newcomers land around Gohan, who took up formation in the center of their group while they all focused their attention on the foreigner.
"So you're the one causing all the fuss around here," Piccolo spoke, his cape ruffling on the breeze. "Makes sense since you're obviously an out-of-towner. But you certainly put on quite a show for us up there."
Beads of sweat running down his head as he looked the radiant stranger over, Krillin glanced across at the others, "Yeah but… what is she?" He looked back at the girl and made note of her glowing hair. "She's not like any alien I've ever seen before." Of the many races they were able to meet during their battle against Frieza and his horde, this one differed from every single one of them in many extremely noticeable ways.
Of course, being the one to have the most knowledge in this regard, the ever imposing Vegeta stepped forward. "She's a Seirei," the prince spoke, drawing glances from the Z-fighters around him and narrowing his glare, "A very rare and old race from a planet close to the centre of the universe. Their people have an incredibly strong life force, able to live for hundreds of years without growing old. They also possess incredibly advanced technology and are born with the ability to manipulate light." This information had the entire group regard this new figure with a little more caution, which then led Vegeta into another important segment. "They don't stray too far from their world either. All Seirei prefer to stay close to one another and away from the affairs of other planets."
"Then what's this one doing so far from home?" Piccolo asked, arms folded and his serious expression unchanged.
Grunting, the man with the flame-style haircut looked across at the girl with his game face in full play. Figuring he'd beaten around the bush enough, the ill-tempered Saiyan moved forward once again. "It's been a long time, Kana."
Appearing unsurprised by the appearance of the man, the orange haired invader smiled, "It certainly has been, Prince Vegeta."
Gohan glanced across at his dad's rival curiously, "You know her?"
"Yes. We met over twenty years ago, back when my people were still pushing papers for that chrome dome of a former boss of mine," the Saiyan royal responded, narrowing his eyes. "I was a kid back then, but I remember seeing her when she was visiting my father's palace to discuss business regarding our planet and its inhabitants. She was a bit of an airhead then and she still looks like an airhead now." His remark earned a playful grin from the glowing girl, which had all the Z-fighters present sweat drop, including Eighteen. "But don't be fooled by her appearance. She is incredibly strong, somebody who Frieza detested but wouldn't dare to cross. Even after all this time, she looks like she hasn't aged a day."
"Seriously?" Krillin looked a little gob smacked at that, turning to stare at the radiant being in the sophisticated plug suit. "Twenty years ago, right? She still looks like she's sixteen!"
"She ages gracefully, that's for sure," Trunks voiced in, narrowing his gaze on the long haired alien, "But that doesn't explain the reason for her being here and why she's not on her home planet."
This was yet another question that was easy to answer. "It's because she's a wanderer," Vegeta went on, stopping any and all other remarks in their tracks, "Rogue, drifter, whatever you want to call her. She's a freelancer-slash-explorer who traipses about the universe visiting other worlds and studying their cultures. She also moonlights as a member of the Planet Trade Organization, the one that Frieza and his family was formerly a part of. If I remember correctly, this girl was charged with the inquisition and acquisition of rare and valuable planets. Her main job for the group was to determine whether or not the security of a planet and its inhabitants were in good hands, and whether the guardian of the world, otherwise known as the strongest warrior on the planet, was able to meet the organization's standards for chief overseer of that region."
"Huh. Sounds like a big job," Gohan commented.
"If you like to call it that. Frankly, I like to think of it as a fun weekend; hopping from planet to planet and beating the stuffing out of the strongest people on them," Vegeta said, at the same time narrowing his eyes. "Basically, if the guardian of the planet fails to meet the inquirer's standards, then she takes the planet for herself, transports it, and sells it to another galaxy to be safe guarded, until the role of protector can be passed on to somebody who is deemed worthy."
This quickly had Krillin's attention. "Sh-She takes planets and sells them? How?" Even Eighteen appeared a little bit surprised.
"Using her home world's technology, she's able to compress entire worlds into code and transport them via ship, which is floating above our heads as we speak," Vegeta informed, prompting a couple members of the group to turn their gazes skywards before focusing back on the person in front of them. The sight of her standing there with her glowing orange head brought a spit from the flame-haired man. "In my opinion I think that's a very stupid practice. It's basically the organization's way of playing God with every single person in the universe."
"I think so too," Kana spoke up, alerting the group to her presence once more while she stood there, perfectly still, with a curious smile on her face. "But I'm not interested in what the organization does, which is why I only work for them part time. I'm just in it for the money." She said this while tilting her head and giving the group a very cute look. "I left my home planet a long time ago to explore the universe and to take in everything there was to see… not to mention have as much fun along the way as possible. Since I'm a security investigator, the last thing I want to do is wreck a perfectly good planet such as this one. That's the demolition department's job… which of course happens to be the same section that your group terminated when you killed Frieza and his family. So you don't have to worry about the earth being destroyed by me. Something like that will just depreciate its value."
Okay, so while this girl loved planets and wanted to avoid destroying them, she also worked for cold hard cash as a mercenary. On one hand she was cheerful and polite, but on the other hand was a calculative gun-for-hire.
To the Z-fighters, this girl had a very odd moral compass guiding her.
So much for black and white. This one was living entirely within the grey area, despite being all bright and cheerful.
"Yet you are willing to abduct planets and put them into zoos for auction?" Trunks replied, gritting his teeth while balling his fists. "You can't decide whether or not a planet has to be protected. That kind of decision and control shouldn't be given to one person. That's for the people living on the world to decide."
"I agree," Gohan replied, also narrowing his eyes.
"Hey, don't take this the wrong way," Kana exclaimed, raising her hands defensively and giving them all a nervous look at their growing hostility towards her. "I'm a very fair person and I don't usually move planets that often. It all depends on their rarity that the organization requires a person be sent to investigate, which is only ever done once every couple hundred thousand years. That's why they hire me, since I have all the right tools and strengths to determine whether or not a planet is safe." She then looked back at them when she saw them settle a bit. "That's the way things work. I get paid either way, so there's always a bonus involved; one service charge and one delivery fee."
Piccolo gave her a deadpanned expression, "How very equitable of you."
"I only use the right amount of strength to determine whether or not a planet is in good hands. I very rarely have to exceed my limits," Kana continued, beaming back at the Z-warriors before a more mischievous smile crossed her lips. "Of course, for this case… I may have to make a special exception." When she saw the group respond nervously and seriously to her remark, the girl once again produced her scouter and began making passes on her opponents. She glanced across at Krillin, "You have a power reading of 8,000,000 riki; an amazing level for a human." Her eyes then fell upon Eighteen, whom she scrutinized carefully. "No life force. I assume you have an artificial framework, but your body appears mostly human. You even have internal organs."
The group looked surprised, with Gohan glancing across at the blonde haired woman. "She can read power levels that well?"
"So it appears," Eighteen replied sternly.
"I'm guessing it has something to do with her tech," Piccolo voiced in, a bead of sweat running down the side of his face.
Kana then turned on him, which brought a surprised look to her face when she analyzed him more closely, "A Namekian. There's one living all the way out here?"
The green-skinned warrior glared back at her, "Technically I was born on this planet. This is my home just as much as it is everyone else's."
"Fair enough," Kana replied, her scouter beeping and drawing a whistle from her lips. "You're not afraid of hiding, aren't you? 60,000,000 riki. That's astonishingly high for a member of your race. Most impressive." She then looked over at the remaining three and beamed when she analyzed each of them through her visor. "All three of you have Saiyan traits, especially Vegeta. I'm guessing he's the only full-blooded Saiyan on this planet." Her attention then fell upon Trunks, "And judging from your facial contours and build, you must be Prince Vegeta's son."
The time traveler had the common sense to appear surprised, "You could get all that from just one look?"
"It's one of my skills," Kana then tilted her head, gauging all of their power levels and eventually stopping. "The two of you are registering around 10,000,000 riki respectively… while your friend…" She then looked at Gohan, who was still glaring seriously at her. "Your power level is hovering at around 15,000,000 riki." She looked around at all of them, taking in each of their forms. "So many rare races living harmoniously on one planet…"
Piccolo frowned back at her, "Well… what can we say? We've all learned to live with each other." Still though, there was such an odd variation in the numbers she was giving them. She was obviously using a low reading setting for higher tone figures so that she didn't overload her system. Her results also coincided with this new riki value she was using.
Shrugging, the fire haired girl continued, "All of you have power levels that could definitely have given Frieza and his family a lot of trouble. While that's certainly extraordinary, considering his level is around the 12,000,000 mark, I'm going to venture a guess that it was the Namekian who destroyed him, since he's the strongest one here." A laugh then pulled her gaze over to Vegeta.
The Saiyan Prince smirked back at her arrogantly, "Guess again, Kana, but the Namekian's power level didn't reach that level until only recently."
"Oh?"
"Let's just say his strength is a little bit slow on the uptake. And it wasn't the Namek that killed Frieza either…" He then glanced across at Trunks, whose glare remained unchanged even when the girl's gaze fell upon him, "It was this one."
This statement drew a blink from the girl, "So… it was a Saiyan after all." She then deactivated her scouter and frowned suspiciously. "But that doesn't make much sense. Your power levels must have grown substantially since the time you fought that lizard all those years ago, which means you must have been a lot weaker when your group first faced Frieza." Kana then frowned, "Unless… there's something about you lot that I just can't see…"
Gohan, guessing what her problem must be, smiled in the confused alien's direction. "You know, you really shouldn't rely on your technology to read a person's power level. It's not only incredibly inaccurate; it also has a ton of flaws and doesn't give you the full scope of the person's abilities." When he saw Kana turn to him, the boy grinned, "For one, it's a really outdated system. And secondly…" Focusing his ki, the demi-Saiyan clenched his fists and widened his stance as the atmosphere around him suddenly began to churn. Then, with a sudden yell of effort and an influx of energy, a golden aura exploded from his body and he jumped straight into Super Saiyan, his transformation cracking the ground at his feet and kicking up dust. While Trunks, Vegeta and Piccolo didn't appear surprised in the least, Krillin and 18# did, whereas Kana was caught completely off guard by the boy's unexpected alteration.
Aura fluctuating around him, the now blonde haired Gohan grinned, "It can really let you down when it counts."
Following his lead, Vegeta and Trunks also powered up, the former keeping his arms crossed when his aura shot up and his muscle mass increased, and the latter going through a momentary effort to transform. Both of them bulked up slightly and their hair spiked, indicating they jumped straight into their 2nd Grade Super Saiyan forms. Piccolo meanwhile removed his cape and turban, tossing it on the wind while a blue aura exploded from his body, joining the other three in their display of power increase. Krillin also followed suit, his white aura jumping around his body as both he and Android 18# assumed fighting stances.
The civilians scattered around the area stared in awe at the performance and began clamoring amongst each other excitedly at the sight of the now glowing super humans. It became obvious to many of them that the people they were now looking at were the same fighters that'd appeared at both the Cell Games and the Intergalactic Tournament, and knew right away that they were in for one hell of a show.
While everyone else maintained their distance Videl, who'd managed to land her jet-copter on the edge of the park and capsulated it, had finally arrived on the scene and was now looking across at the group in amazement. Having only witnessed this display on television, the daughter of the great Hercule Satan was now seeing their transformations up close and personal for the first time ever. Since all of them had their attention focused strictly on the alien invader, the raven haired fighter was given a full, unobstructed view of all of them, especially Gohan who, cool as ever, stood in the center of their formation.
"Wow… so this is what their powers look like?" Videl murmured, remaining on the edge of the park and off to the side. Even though she couldn't sense spirits like they could, she could still feel the incredible vibrations in the air. It was absolutely overwhelming.
Appearing surprised by this sudden development, Kana began analyzing the group's transformations with her scouter. "That unique hair coloration and aura, did they… just transform into Super Saiyans?" Her numbers flying off the scale, the young girl narrowed her gaze before a grin formed on her face. "Amazing. I've heard about the Saiyan's ability to undergo this kind of transformation from the old records, but I've never seen one in real life. All of your power levels have multiplied exponentially." She quickly deactivated her scanner and clenched her fists. "But that also means I was right on the mark. All of you are able to conceal your true powers exceedingly well. I'm assuming it has something to do with fitting in with earth's society."
Vegeta smirked across at her while his aura warped around him, "We exercise a lot of control. It's a great way to stay focused."
"And it keeps us from damaging stuff," Gohan added, despite remembering the time he'd broken the door in his house while he was in a controlled Super Saiyan state. That was embarrassing.
"Amazing. Now I can see why Frieza was destroyed. He got his tail handed to him by a Super Saiyan," the girl exclaimed in a low voice, looking from one concentrated face to the next before another wide grin formed on her lips. "I don't have to fight you all to see that this world is well-protected. However… since this is such a rare terrestrial planet and it's been such a long time since I've actually had to cut loose… I think I'll cancel my next appointment and have a little bit of fun while I'm here." Bringing suspicious looks to the men in front of her, the fire haired alien wordlessly brought her hands out and rotated her wrists. Then, after balling her fingers into fists, Kana concentrated hard and spoke up. "Removing restraining bolts one through six." A series of steam bursts shooting off of her suit, a couple of the glowing circular nodes on her outfit popped out, rotated, and sunk back into their hosts like needle injections.
It was a sight that had the Z-fighters in front of the woman recoil in surprise, as they suddenly sensed an enormous surge of power.
Like the combination to a lock being undone, Kana allowed her energy to explode forth from her body. With a yell of effort and pain, a bright, golden aura of her own exploded from her lithe form and instantaneously punched a twenty meter wide crater into the ground beneath her. The shockwave she emitted sent a gale of wind blasting in all directions, causing the group of fighters in front of her to brace, while at the same time knocking several human civilians off their feet. Videl on the other hand, had to hang onto a tree as the ground shook fiercely and the winds ripped at the ground around her, sending debris pelting everywhere.
Her golden aura transforming into a funnel that shot up into the sky and cleared the atmosphere of clouds, the alien girl's hair blew upwards, bellowing violently while the orange channels in her suit shone and pulsed with energy. The power up lasting for several long seconds, the aura surrounding Kana eventually vanished, leaving the girl hovering there with a radioactive golden glow wafting off of her body.
Though her outward appearance remained unchanged, the Z-fighters in front of her were gob smacked by what had occurred inside of her.
Kana grinned. "Ah yes. That's much better. I haven't removed these bolts in years. It feels so good to stretch my legs."
"H-Holy crap," Krillin exclaimed, his eyes widening in horror as he stared across at the girl. "A-Are you guys sensing what I'm sensing?"
Gritting his jaw, Vegeta gave a low growl as he got a full blast of the girl's energy level, "Stop sniveling you coward and stay on your guard!" While this order sounded brave, the man's confidence was currently shaky.
Trunks was also beside himself, "Her energy level just… exploded. It must have multiplied at least a dozen times over."
Teeth and fists clenched, Gohan kept his stance as he glared at the woman bathed in the ethereal energy in front of them. Despite how young and unassuming she appeared, her energy spoke definitely brought sweat to the half-Saiyan's face. "She's been hiding her real power this entire time." He shook his head in disbelief. "Incredible… her energy is almost as high as Cell's was when he came back after blowing himself up." Hell, she trumped Bojack and his gang by miles.
Keeping a safe distance from the battle zone, not only were the discombobulated civilians and Videl looking on in astonishment, but on top of a nearby building, a comfortably perched Zangya could be seen staring down at the field with her arms folded. At first having only followed Gohan out here to observe him and maybe see if she could get some answers out of him, the ever scrupulous Hera then had the unique pleasure of watching him save a city before starting a fight with an alien traveler that was completely mindboggling in appearance and ability.
In spite of her confident stance while staring down at the park where the Z-fighters were assembled, the blue-skinned former gangster was in absolute disbelief at what she was seeing and sensing.
"W-Who the heck is this chick?"
Taking in the stunned faces in front of her from Vegeta to the blonde haired woman at the end, Kana remained hovering in place for a moment before folding her arms over her chest and smirking. "If that's all the power you six can muster, than I'm afraid you're at an extreme disadvantage." Then, without even the slightest bit of movement, warning or effort, six golden, basketball sized spheres of energy formed in orbit around her. Once they appeared in rotation of the glowing Seirei, they then shot towards the transformed warriors all at once, forcing the group to take evasive maneuvers.
Blurring out, the team vanished into super speed to avoid the six energy rounds that collided with the ground, causing a catastrophic explosion that engulfed half of the park and sent a huge mushroom shaped fireball hurling into the air. The shockwave rocked the entire city to its core, scaring the daylights out of people and causing screams to ring out with the earthquake.
Seeing smoke eventually replace the explosion, Kana smiled and looked up to see the Saiyans and the Namekian reappear in the sky above. Watching them scatter, she began marking each of them.
Of course, the girl casually craning her head to look up presented a big enough opening for Android 18# to reappear out of thin air and slam a fist straight into Kana's face. A crack of a gunshot echoing out on impact, instead of seeing the girl stumble under the force, the blonde was stumped to see she hadn't budged an inch.
For comparative sakes, it was like hitting a wall.
Gritting her teeth, the beautiful fighter pulled her fist back and began uncorking a flurry of lightning fast attacks upon the levitating alien. Fists and kicks impacted all over the teen's body from head to knee in a blur, slamming into her one after the other at a machinegun rate. After putting all the effort she could into each blow, Android 18# finished up with a right cross into the girl's still craned head, before eventually kicking off of her face and leaping away.
When she landed several yards from the crater, Eighteen panted exhaustedly, watching as Kana's gaze then turned towards her.
After all her effort, she didn't even make her flinch.
"She's a monster. Why the hell am I putting my life on the line to fight this bitch?"
Before she could fully comprehend the magnitude of what she'd gotten herself into, Krillin suddenly teleported behind the invader with a shout and a kick to the back of her head, followed immediately by a punch. When Kana didn't budge, the man hovered behind her in shock.
"What the?" Baffled by her unregistering to his presence, just like Eighteen before him, the man let loose a storm of punches and kicks, the sound of rapid gunfire ringing out as he orbited the girl and dropped on her an ass kicking of a life time. But try as he might, he couldn't get her to move a millimeter.
Gritting her own teeth and sucking it in, Android 18# flew forward and joined Krillin in his assault, bombarding the girl from all sides with an onslaught of landscape reducing blows. Several seconds rolled by and nothing, with the other Z-fighters hovering up in the air gawking at how useless the pair's attacks were. Even the civilians were baffled by what was going on.
Eventually finding their conventional punches useless, Android 18# and Krillin leapt away from her and got some distance. The moment she touched down, the blonde female threw both hands forward and unleashed a powerful, golden blast that slammed into Kana's back. A concussive explosion rang out, but when the smoke cleared moments later, she saw it'd done nothing, stunning the cyborg.
Desperate, Krillin threw his right hand up and produced a golden disk, which spun and hummed loudly like a beam sword. "Chew on this!" the man roared, taking aim at the alien invader before hurling it straight at her. "Destructo Disk!" With a crack of wind, he pitched his attack straight at their opponent in a wide arc, his signature move humming dangerously as it shot through the air before homing in on the fiery haired girl's neck.
When it struck, sparks flew, and Krillin grinned victoriously at making a direct hit. But then, much to his disbelief, he saw his disk shatter into millions of pieces and the shards dissipate on the wind, leaving Kana completely unscathed.
"Huh? B-But how?" Krillin choked out.
It was the same scene all over again. Just like against Cell.
Not willing to give up yet, Android 18# took off from her spot and flew at the girl from behind, letting out a battle cry as she threw another right straight. However, instead of hitting her target, her fist struck nothing when Kana moved at the last millisecond, uncrossed her arms, and caught the woman's arm in midflight. Then, without any effort at all, the Seirei twisted the taller woman around and snapped her arm into a hammerlock with a sickening crunch, causing a cry of agony to escape Eighteen's lips.
Eyes glazed over in shock, the blonde was unable to defend herself when an elbow to her back sent her bouncing across the park.
"No!" Krillin shouted, flying forward and intercepting the Android. Getting in front of her, he managed to catch the woman before she could reach the end of the park and fly into a parked truck, the force of her momentum causing him to slide back a few feet. When he successfully stopped her flight, the bald fighter quickly looked to see if she was okay.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw she was alive, the fair android giving an unconscious groan of pain, and looked up to glare at the celestial girl still floating above her crater. Even after all their effort, they hadn't been able to put a single dent in her.
Kana smiled at the human for his courageous effort, only to then look up when a flash of light caught her attention. Setting her gaze skywards, she saw a volley of golden blasts raining towards her and teleported in a flash, allowing the attacks to slam into the ground instead. Another earthshaking explosion rocked Satan City, punching another fissure into the park and filling the square with smoke.
After firing off their blasts, Gohan, Vegeta, Piccolo and Trunks then spun around when they sensed the girl reappear in the sky behind them. When she flickered into view, she was grinning at them with her arms comfortably folded over her generous bust.
"Those two aren't the ones I want to fight," Kana replied confidently.
Snarling at the smug look she sent their way, Vegeta loaded his stance in midair and powered up, "Don't mock us, you witch!" He then rocketed forward, along with Trunks, Piccolo and Gohan, all three of them bathed in their auras and joining the assault.
From the ground, Videl and the civilians could see the fight taking place high above them in the form of indistinct streaks of lights and blurs.
The attacking Z-fighters scattered and circled the girl at a distance, marking her as she floated in place with an unchanging expression. Then, once they were certain they had her zeroed, Vegeta, Trunks and Piccolo flew straight at her from three sides. They each struck out at the alien traveler with yells from left, right and behind, either throwing a punch or a flying kick. But, just when it seemed like they would hit her, the girl's long, glowing orange hair suddenly came to life and coiled around her protectively, blocking their attacks simultaneously.
Their blows completely cushioned by the obstruction, the trio looked up in surprise. Then, as they continued to press into the soft yet robust barrier, a flash of light from up high drew Kana's gaze skywards again, where she suddenly saw Gohan teleport into view with a blue sphere of energy in his palm. Cocking the ball back and taking aim, the boy dove straight down at the Seirei and thrust the attack into her head with a roar.
"KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAA!" The young Super Saiyan bellowed out and slammed the single-handed attack straight into the girl at pointblank range… or so he thought.
A massive shockwave rippled out in a blinding, blue flash that shook the sky and land when Gohan's sphere impacted his stationary target. It was only a few seconds later did he realize he was actually grinding it into a golden shield that had unexpectedly appeared around the girl at the last second to stop him.
His attack drilling into the barrier just a foot above her cranium for several tense seconds, Kana then gave a grunt and expanded her defensive barrier. The force of the sudden expansion of energy not only detonated the close-range blast upwards, but sent all four fighters spiraling away at incredible speed. They all let out yelps of surprise as they were sent flying backwards through Satan City's airspace, before eventually managing to stop and look back at their target.
Her hair returning to bellow behind her, Kana tilted her head. "Good teamwork. What else have you got?"
Aura blasting off of him, Piccolo charged two spheres of energy in his hands and, flying around to the front yet keeping a safe distance from his target, opened up with a barrage of continuous energy balls. "Scatter Shot!" he bellowed, grunting again and again as he hurled attacks at the girl.
At first Kana thought the spheres were going to hit her. But instead, the girl watched on with interest when the attacks suddenly veered away and began scattering throughout the sky. The barrage of dozens of golden spheres continued for several seconds, until the entire sky around her was filled with glowing orbs like stars in the sky. Vegeta, Trunks and a singed Gohan made sure to keep their distance when Piccolo finally finished dispersing the attacks.
Throwing his hands out, the Namekian gave a loud yell and crossed them over. "Makuhoidan!" All at once, Kana saw the scattered spheres curl through the air and converge on her position, collapsing and raining down on her from all sides. The Z-fighters thought it was a sure hit. But the second the spheres came within range, the same golden shield Kana had used before sprang up around her and caught the attacks in one go.
When the spheres dug in, Kana gave another, careless grunt and blasted her shield outwards, sending the spheres scattering through the sky. Piccolo, Vegeta and everyone else had to avoid the onslaught of blasts when they shot past them, flew outside the city, and bombarded the countryside like meteors. Dome shaped explosions lit up the lands surrounding the metropolis and shook the entire nation, causing the people on the ground to brace themselves against the tremendous earthquake.
"That's it!" Vegeta shouted, powering up and charging forward with a yell. "YOU'RE MINE, KANA!"
Gohan's eyes widened in alarm. "VEGETA! WAIT!"
Arcing through the air, the Saiyan Prince flew straight at Kana from the front, the girl smiling when the man greeted her with a swinging jab. The punch crashed into her shoulder when she turned to parry it, her arms remaining crossed over her chest while the man began assaulting her with a lightning fast flurry of attacks. Punches and kicks shot through the air and rained down like artillery rounds on the celestial warrior, the sound of multiple gunshots ringing out with every impact. However, when it seemed like Vegeta was actually landing hits, in reality his opponent was simply slipping them and blocking them with her shoulders, smiling all the while as she retreated at a casual pace and parried each blow in turn.
When Vegeta ended with a kick that crashed into her shoulder with a loud 'bang', a complete unfazed Kana decided she'd had enough of blocking and decided to attack.
The retaliation came in a blur of motion. With a shout she threw a roundhouse kick that crashed across the man's face, sending spit flying from his mouth as well as a shout of pain. The girl then floated forward, slammed another kick into the man's stomach, before hovering over him and dropping a knee into his spine. Cries of agony escaping the prince's lungs, Kana then finished up with a sweeping kick straight up into his head, a finisher that generated a thunderclap and sent Vegeta flying over the city and into a distant hillside, where he crashed in a cloud of rubble and dust.
Wincing after seeing the Saiyan Prince pretty much get his ass handed to him, Zangya turned back to glare up at the sky.
As shocking as the battle was turning out to be so far, the orange haired woman couldn't help but wonder to herself.
"Well… I have options. I could just sit here and watch the super friends get their butts toasted by this overpowered freak of nature," the Hera-seijin girl thought before her eyes focused on Gohan flying high above. "Or I can step in, help them out… and then bugger that brat over why he spared my life." The group had pretty much let her live on this planet following the whole Bojack incident. In the month Zangya had already spent here, she'd actually grown to like this place, even if she was impartial to what these idiots did in their off time. This was the perfect opportunity for her to return the favor and get in good with the group.
She remembered all too well what'd happened when her previous team went up against these guys. Things just spiraled into chaos in the span of one afternoon.
However, as much as she wanted to jump in and give them some assistance, this person that they were up against was in a whole other league of trouble. She didn't need extra-sensory abilities to figure that out. So, for the time being, Zangya decided to stand back and see how this whole thing played out.
If she was lucky, she wouldn't have to step in.
Smirking in the direction of the fallen Saiyan Prince, Kana then turned to see Gohan appear in front of her and slam a left hook across her face with earth splitting force. Managing to smack her head to the side with a loud 'crack', the boy pressed home his advantage and, with a yell, smashed two more hooks across her face, stunning the invader.
Actually feeling the attacks yet keeping her arms crossed, Kana gritted her teeth and, blocking another of his punches with her knee, shot forward and head butted him in the face. The blow crashed into the half-Saiyan and sent him flying backwards, where he was then promptly replaced by Trunks flying in with a punch.
Effortlessly leaping over the young warrior in mid-swing, Kana slammed a kick across his face and sent the time traveler rocketing backwards, trailing blood.
While he was flying, Mirai threw his hands forward and began an erratic series of arm movements. Upon which he then crossed them over and threw them forward so that the thumbs and index fingers touched, forming a diamond shape. "Burning Attack!" Fingers splayed, the half-Saiyan launched a ball of golden energy straight at the girl, which shot through the air at an alarming speed.
Kana though, wasn't deterred. Without so much as a blink, the girl threw her hair forward and caught the energy sphere, holding it for a moment before spinning and pitching it behind her. The attack ended up slamming into Piccolo attempting to strike her from behind, detonating against his chest with concussive force. The Namekian yelled as he was sent flying out of the blast radius, heavily burnt and trailing smoke.
Yelling out, Gohan came powering towards the girl with a wide hook, attempting to hit her in the back of the head. Kana ducked the blow, allowing the demi-Saiyan to pass overhead before throwing her hair up and wrapping it around his head and eyes. Stopping him in his flight and shutting down his aura, the young Saiyan gave a yelp of surprise as he was forcefully pulled around before having a roundhouse kick unloaded in his face, sending him spinning away. After dispersing of him, Kana spun around and kicked an approaching Trunks in the chest, before then spinning in the air and kneeing an incoming Piccolo in the cranium.
Shockwaves rang out from every hit that connected, the power of each blow rattling the Z-fighters' and effectively destroying all attempts to bring down their opponent. Eventually, the onslaught of unsuccessful attacks soon stopped and the group of powerful Z-fighters ended up floating around the completely undamaged Kana, bruised, bleeding from their faces and looking beaten all to hell.
Even Vegeta, who'd managed to pick himself out of the ditch he'd made, was covered in dirt and bruises.
"I admire your spirit. You four certainly have the strength and skill to give some of the most powerful beings in the universe a lot of trouble. But as good as you are, it'll take a lot more than skill and effort to bring someone like me down," Kana informed, keeping her arms crossed before allowing a cheerful grin to form on her face. "Since you've been throwing such fancy attacks my way, I think I'll throw one back at you. Try this on for size…" She then vanished in a golden flash, disappearing completely from the battered group's radar before reappearing a couple kilometers away. Once there, the girl then performed a graceful twirl, ascending higher into the sky while her hair whipped around her like a streamer. Then, with her hair's glow intensifying, she performed one last spin and hurled her attack. "Flash Storm!"
From her hair, the girl unleashed a barrage of small energy spheres numbering in the millions, straight down at her targets positioned far below. The attack flew at them like a wall of machinegun fire, alarming the group of Z-fighters and forcing them to evade. Moving erratically through the air in different directions, Vegeta, Trunks and Piccolo avoided the hail of countless, tiny spheres as best as they could, unable to counter due to the spread and quantity of blasts being hurled their way.
Gohan, ducking and slipping between waves of incapacitating shots, looked in the direction the attacks were going, feeling immediate concern for the safety of the city far below. The young Saiyan saw through his peripheral vision the millions of blasts curve through the air, overshoot the city on all sides, and end up peppering the landscape outside of the metropolis. Relieved that their opponent was aiming her attacks away from the people, the boy could then completely concentrate on evading the rain of death.
Far below, the population of Satan City gazed in awe as the sky lit up with a golden hail of energy, which flew overhead like a meteor shower, only a thousand times more beautiful and at a much closer proximity to their planet.
Zangya and Videl both stared in shock at the sheer amount of attacks that'd been thrown, while Krillin, still cradling the heavily injured Android 18# on the ground, watched the terrifying sight closely with wide eyes.
The short man clenched his jaw tightly, wondering how his friends were going to combat such a powerful adversary. "Come on Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo… hang in there…" Knowing he was completely outclassed in this battle, there was nothing he could do except wait it out and hope for the best.
Managing to get above the storm as the attack faded, Gohan and Piccolo powered up and shot towards Kana's position at full speed. Rocketing towards her like missiles, the pair came alongside one another so that they were within earshot.
"Piccolo! We have to hit her with a combined attack from both sides!" Gohan shouted, eliciting a nod from the man.
"Yeah! You hit her high, I'll hit her low!"
They then broke up, flying up to spots around the girl at a distance.
Kana, passive as ever, remained in place, watching with a curious smile as the two warriors split up and began charging their next attacks. Wanting to see what they were planning to do, she decided to just float there and observe as their strategy unfolded.
"Eat this!" Piccolo bellowed, fanning his hands over his forehead and throwing it back. "MAKOSEN-HA!" He then threw his hands forward and unleashed a powerful, orange blast that rocketed towards the girl from behind, while Gohan took her from above.
Cranking back his right hand, Gohan's aura exploded around him before he unleashed his own move, "KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAA!" A powerful blue blast exploded from his hand and flew down at his target like a small comet.
The two simultaneous blasts slammed into the girl from two sides and sandwiched her in between, the users continuing to feed energy into their attacks while she floated there, taking their best shots to the body. The attacks colliding against her lithe form generated a blinding light that filled the entire sky, letting everyone in the area know that something big was going on.
While Gohan and Piccolo kept her cornered, Vegeta and Trunks joined them, the former taking the side with his hands held out while the other took the fourth corner.
Slamming his hands together, the time-traveling warrior powered up and with a roar, unleashed a golden beam of energy that streaked towards their target. "BUSTER CANNON!"
"GALLICK GUN!" Vegeta roared seconds later, throwing his hands forward and unleashing a purple blast that rocketed to the center.
The two beams connected with the others, joining the other two and beginning to smother their target from all around. The flaring light increased tenfold and the trembling in the earth magnified as well. With the sound of thunder breaking out across the skies, the four-way blast continued to grind into the single target for a full, glorious minute until the warriors poured everything they had into one final spurt and sent it in all at once. The extra power flew down the beams to the middle, where they met with a volatile result.
A nuke went off several kilometers above Satan City in the form of a ringed explosion that traveled outwards, blinding everyone with a white light and shaking the earth under the force. People in the streets cried out in terror as another earthquake hit them, whereas Videl, Zangya and Krillin watched and waited for the blast to fade.
All of that power put together into a single, intersecting shot. They must have done something with it!
Watching the fiery explosion fade and become replaced by smoke, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta and Trunks waited for the air to clear. All of them looking absolutely battered from their one-sided fight with the girl, the team of fighters were hoping that their combined attacks had managed to do some kind of damage to the cocky traveler. There were very few people out there that could have stood up to something like that.
Even Cell in his ultimate form would have flinched.
But then, just when it seemed like they'd managed to take the girl out, their jaws dropped when they saw the fumes clear and Kana emerge from the mist. When the sky emptied, they saw the celestial fighter had managed to maintain the exact same position with her arms folded over her chest and, despite their combined blasts that should have reduced her body to a pile of ash, she didn't have a single scratch on her. No bruise, no burn, she was completely fine, and was still smiling at them.
"A fine attack. If I didn't have my Light Mass Barrier that assault would have caused some serious skin burn," Kana chirped brightly, before stretching her neck and grinning across at the earthlings. "Great job."
"Ah! Damn it!" Trunks cursed, clenching his fists in frustration. "It didn't work!"
"Not even a blink!" Vegeta, also looking completely flabbergasted, balled his fists angrily, "The arrogant little bitch! She's just toying with us!" And it pissed him off because they were throwing everything they had at her and had made zero progress so far.
Grinning happily at her opponents, the glowing haired girl rolled her shoulders and spoke, "This is great! I can't remember the last time I had a fight like this. You guys are really something else." She looked around at all the exhausted Z-fighters before taking on a more competitive look. "I haven't had this much fun in ages. But… as much as I would love to continue playing around with you four, I think it's about time we wrapped this thing up. I've got a lot of other planets to visit and I don't want to keep my clients waiting."
Trunks growled, "Like hell we're going to let you win!"
Still smirking across at the Saiyans, Kana seemingly failed to notice Piccolo rapidly gaining attitude behind her and, with two fingers held to his forehead, cocked back his arm and fired an orange and purple corkscrew beam straight at her back. The light-speed blast slammed into the girl's spine and started to drill, sending sparks and excess energy flying in all directions.
Much to everyone's astonishment, the girl continued to float there as the beam ground into her uselessly like it was just burning rubber. After several seconds of nothing, the smiling Kana's face turned serious and, without having to even look at the person behind her, her eyes flashed gold and she fired two beams from her irises. As soon as they shot out they did a ninety-degree turn skywards before bending again and flying straight towards Piccolo, zigzagging at random.
Unlike against Videl, these beams were even faster.
A split second after the attack was fired the stunned Namekian warrior was hit square in the chest by the two beams and sent flying back down to earth at a ridiculous speed. The powerful beams pushed Piccolo into an office building and smashed him through every single floor before hitting the ground, vanishing in a cloud of dust and glass.
He was unconscious before he even formed a crater.
"Piccolo!" Gohan shouted, eyes widening in alarm after seeing his teacher get dispatched with a single blast.
"Don't worry. He'll be alright," Kana spoke, looking around at the three Super Saiyans floating a dozen or so yards ahead of her while all of them threw her dangerous glares. "I'm not fond of killing my opponents, unless absolutely necessary. Life is precious after all." Her grin then became a lot more pronounced when she eyed her targets with excitement. "Of course, what fun is life if you're not living it up or hanging on the edge of it?" Her response was spunky and genuine at the same time.
Growling loudly, Gohan charged forward and swung out at the girl with a flurry of attacks. However, despite his speed and technique, the girl effortlessly avoided his blows by slipping around them. When he came in with a right cross, Kana unfolded her arms and backhanded the boy across the face, her blow impacting against his cheek with the sound of an artillery cannon and sending him spinning out of the sky.
Trunks immediately put up his guard, whereas his father powered up and threw his arms out. Wasting no time, Vegeta began gathering as much energy as he could for his next attack as fast as he could, before throwing both hands forward and cupping them in front. Golden electricity began to crackle and sizzle around his hands as he took aim at the girl, a sight that told his son from the future to get the hell out of the way.
"You're mine! FINAL-"
"Too slow," Kana interrupted, grinning before two beams shot out of her eyes once again and followed a jagged path towards Vegeta, making their mark in less than a millisecond.
Her CircuitTracer slammed into the Saiyan Prince's chest with concussive force, stopping his attack, pushing him back through the sky and drawing a cry of agony from the super powered warrior. But then, just as the beams were disintegrating the front part of his Saiyan armor and was about to send the man over the horizon, his time traveling son responded to his plight and, tackling him in the side, pushed the man out of the attack's path.
"FATHER!" Mirai shouted, managing to knock his dad away, only to have the beams switch to him and slam into his chest, "AUGH!" The spiky haired demi-Saiyan ended up being blasted by the beams into the city streets below, right into the heart of Satan City.
Managing to recover and stop his fall, a badly burnt but still conscious Vegeta regained altitude and turned back to his opponent. Realizing what'd happened, the man's eyes widened in horror and he reeled forward. "TRUNKS! NO!" But it was too late.
The moment his gaze fixed on his son, he saw the zigzagging eye beams push the boy through several skyscrapers all the way to the center of the metropolis. Seconds later, Trunks's body ended up crashing into the city square, forming a deep crater. The people surrounding the area cleared out before the boy's impact and when they came back to see what'd happened, they found the half-Saiyan lying sprawled out at the bottom of the hole, unconscious, his top disintegrated, and his chest singed.
Upon downing another, Kana smirked, "Nice save." She then blinked when she sensed someone fast approaching and vanished in a golden flash, teleporting just in time to avoid Gohan flying at her from the side with an elbow.
Missing, the young half-Saiyan growled and extended his senses, trying to find out where Kana had gone this time. Tracking her to the ground, the boy saw her reappear in the very center of the park where they'd been fighting, with her arms at her sides and her gaze locked firmly onto his position. Responding immediately to her teleportation, the boy powered up and dove for her.
Identifying what her target's intentions were, Kana took aim and fired three shots from her eyes, the beams zigzagging randomly through the air as they homed in on her fast moving opponent at light speed. Spotting the approaching attacks, Gohan took evasive action, performing a series of aerial flips and spins, and effectively dodging the zigzagging blasts. When he looked back, he saw the beams bend through the air and begin chasing after him, bringing a scowl to the Super Saiyan's face and prompting him to think up a way to get rid of them.
Circling the sky, the young hybrid looked down to see Kana still watching him comfortably from below. It was only upon seeing her cheerful face that an idea struck him.
Coming about, Gohan allowed the beams to chase him through the airspace above the reserve before quickly descending to ground level behind his opponent. Flying backwards as fast as he could, the boy slammed his feet into the grass to slow his momentum. And then, the exact moment he reversed into Kana's back, he threw his hands behind him, wrapped them around her head, and slammed his feet into the back of her legs. Catching the stationary girl by surprise, the demi-Saiyan effectively flipped them and switched places so that her body fell into the path of her beams.
When Gohan hit the deck, Kana ended up getting struck by her own attack, the first round sending her flying across the park with the clap of a shockwave ringing out. The stunned girl let out a cry of pain as she was hit not once, not twice, but three times, the last two CircuitTracer rounds smacking into her while she was hurdling across the park. She only stopped when she ended up slamming into the side of another building, the impact creating an earthshaking tremor while the civilians standing around the area ran for it.
Videl, who was watching the fight 'safely' from behind her tree, grinned when she saw Gohan pull one over their cocky opponent and pumped a fist triumphantly, "YES!"
"Nice!" Krillin laughed.
Zangya too, who'd been watching the fight from afar, grinned in amusement. "Well played." She then tilted her head thoughtfully when her gaze fell on the boy. "No wonder we lost to this kid. He's brilliant."
Leaping to his feet after knocking Kana for a loop, Gohan glared across the ruined park to the other side where her opponent had landed. She'd practically covered about half a kilometer before eventually stopping and with the amount of power she'd put behind those beams, there was a guarantee that she must have felt the full force of it. It was a small victory to the young Saiyan, who remained on guard while waiting to see what'd happened to the Seirei.
Unfortunately, the youngster didn't get a chance to see the smoke clear because in a flash of light, Kana was suddenly floating just two feet in front of him with her leg cocked back.
Gohan had just enough time to recoil in shock before a kick slammed into his chest and sent him rocketing through the city towards the outskirts, flying through several buildings along the way. The moment she sent him off, Kana held up her left hand and, with a grunt of effort, she unleashed a powerful golden blast that broke the sound barrier several times as it flew straight through the many holes the boy managed to punch through the buildings.
While Gohan was still airborne, he was struck full in the front by the lance and sent rocketing over the suburbs and into a distant mountain. When he collided with it along with the blast, the entire edifice went up like it'd been struck by a nuke, a golden, geyser like explosion shooting into the clouds and nearly touching the stratosphere, while the shockwaves that rang out rocked the entire country. The city was nearly shaken from its foundations and the people, who were either watching or not watching the battle, braced themselves and cried out in terror as the 7.0 magnitude quake hit the town.
Seeing the boy get thrown into the distance and blown up caused Videl's eyes to widen in horror, "GOHAN!"
Zangya, uncrossing her arms at the sight of the colossal explosion, looked on in disbelief, "No." Seeing the demi-Saiyan engulfed by the blast, the woman clenched her fists and glared down at the one responsible for bombing the kid. "Bitch! I had unfinished business with him!"
Explosion fading, Kana lowered her hand and smiled. "I hope you'll forgive me for that. You're going to wake up feeling really sore in the morning, so try your best to walk it off." After seeing the mushroom cloud rise into the air and the light return to normal, she then turned her gaze towards the sky again. "Now then…"
"Callous wench! You're dead!" Vegeta roared, aura pulsing around him as he dove straight down at the woman. Letting out a battle cry, he swung at her with an overhand, aiming to bury her in the ground with a single hit. But the second he let his punch fly, the Saiyan Prince was stopped dead in his tracks when Kana's hand shot out and grabbed him by the throat. His momentum being instantaneously shutdown by the hand latching to his neck caused his aura to dissipate. "GAH!"
Holding the man above the ground effortlessly when he reached up and started clawing at her arm, Kana smirked, "Just one last piece of unfinished business."
Growling when his attempts to free himself failed, Vegeta extended his arm, opened his palm towards the Seirei's face and held it at a ninety-degree angle. That was all it took before he unleashed the mother of all payloads directly between her eyes. "BIG BANG ATTACK!" A golden sphere detonated directly in the smiling girl's mug, engulfing them in a dome-shaped blast that shook the block until smoke shortly replaced the fireball.
Grinning at finally getting a better than decent shot in on her, Vegeta figured he'd managed to fry her face off. However, when the smoke eventually cleared, the prince was stunned to see Kana's unchanged expression emerge completely unscathed from the fumes, leaving the Saiyan gob smacked.
"I-Impossible!" the Z-warrior managed to choke out. Even Krillin, who was standing on the sidelines, was confounded.
Giggling, Kana then cocked her left fist back and, releasing the Super Saiyan at the same time, slammed it into his chin. The impact caused a deafening shockwave to ring out and shatter the glass on every single building surrounding them as Vegeta was sent soaring straight up into the sky. As he ascended, the alien girl took aim at him and fired her Circuit Tracer. The zigzagging beams honed in on their ascending target and slammed into the man's chest, causing him to let out an agonized scream as the attack literally sent him above the clouds before it detonated and his body came crashing down somewhere over the horizon.
Grinning after sending Vegeta on a free trip, Kana laced her fingers and stretched her arms and back. A satisfied groan escaping her lips, she then looked around and made sure her job was done. "Well. That's over and done with. To be honest, I was expecting the four of them to put up a much better fight, what with their planet being on the line and all. But… I suppose if that's everything they have to give, then I may as well prep Bit to-" BANG! She was promptly cut off from her next course of action by a blast detonating against the back of her head, causing her to lurch forward slightly and stare ahead in surprise.
Hair slightly singed, Kana spun around to see who the hell had attacked her from out of the blue. Eyes falling upon Krillin kneeling on the ground on the edge of the park with Android 18# in his arms, she then saw an orange haired woman with blue skin land in her line of sight. The appearance of the new alien had the space traveler blink.
"Ta-da!" Zangya sang, smirking at the glowing teenager.
Krillin, remembering the beating he'd received from the newcomer, gawked in disbelief, "Y-You? What the… What the hell are you doing here?"
"What does it look like, short-stuff? I'm fighting," Zangya replied, looking over her shoulder at the man and his unconscious love-interest before turning back to the alien in the plug suit. "Not the brightest idea, I'll admit. But seeing as how I'm already out here I might as well." Heck, she didn't even know why she'd just jumped in like that.
She could have easily stood by and watched this chick fly off and possibly take the entire planet with her, but for some reason she didn't. And it was annoying the hell out of her because she couldn't figure out why.
In spite of her answer, the man was still confused. "Whose side are you on exactly?"
Zangya, of course, had an answer for that one as well, "I'm on nobody's side but my own." She then narrowed her glare on the glowing haired chick still glaring daggers her way. "Let's just say I've got a lot of stuff going on in my life and leave it at that."
The squishing sound of Krillin's eyelids opening and closing echoed back in response. "Umm… okay. Fair enough."
Videl, who was holding her position out of range of the faceoff, also recognized the blue-skinned alien that'd dropped out of the sky and stared at her with a mixture of suspicion and unease.
Being a mortal human surrounded by super powered aliens, you could understand her immediate concern.
Focusing her best glare on the radiant entity from the inner regions of the cosmos, the orange haired Zangya's frown deepened, "That brat Gohan was my mark. You hear? No one is allowed to kick him around the countryside except me."
The invader however, was too caught up in surprise to completely register to the woman's threatening tone. "A Hera-seijin?" Kana murmured. "There's one still alive? If I remember correctly, your planet and most of its entire population was wiped out over ten thousand years ago." Narrowing her attention on the newcomer, she then activated her scouter and scanned the alien, not just getting a physical break down of her, but also grabbing some other useful Intel on the fighter. After several seconds, she raised an eyebrow, "Hmm. Your power reading is around 150,000,000 riki. I guess that explains why you're still alive. That's a pretty high level for a member of your race." She then smiled across at her, "But, against me… I'm afraid it's not going to be enough."
Zangya scoffed, "We'll see." She then slid into a fighting stance, glaring across at the celestial warrior whose hair bellowed upwards and defied gravity.
The woman's stance had the armored girl grin, "Oh? You want to have a go at me as well?"
"Does this answer your question?" the blue-skinned alien asked, cupping her hands forward and firing a red sphere of energy straight at the girl.
The attack shot across the park like a tank shell, but just when it seemed like it was going to hit the fiery haired woman and knock her on her ass, it instead struck the golden shield that sprang up around her and began drilling into it. After a few seconds of tug-of-war between the ball and the barrier, the orb of red energy then bounced off of the defense and flew up into the sky, where it detonated harmlessly out of reach.
Zangya gritted her teeth in frustration, before leaping into the air and suspending herself in the sky above, the woman threw her hands back and cupped them in front of her a second time. "Suck on this! Spark Laser!" She then unleashed a powerful bolt of red lightning from her palms that shot towards the girl and struck her full in the chest.
The stream of electricity ground into the girl's breast plate just as her previous attack had done to her shield. But just like every other blast that was sent her way, Kana paid it little interest or mind. Instead, as the lightning continued to drill into her uselessly, the girl merely smiled before firing her golden beams from her eyes and straight up at the Hera. Zangya had enough time to maneuver her lightning stream into the path of the beams, where they met in a momentary struggle before Kana's attack easily forced their way through and struck the stunned warrior in the chest.
A small explosion and a shockwave sent Zangya spiraling to the ground with a cry of pain, where she slammed into the grass back first and bounced. Managing to land in a crouched position and slide to a stop, the badly singed girl groaned in agony and glared up, where she saw her target levitate off of the ground and fly straight at her.
Gasping in fear, the orange haired rogue then responded by throwing her hands forward and hurling a net of energy wires straight into Kana's path. The strings, traveling in the blink of an eye, managed to catch the girl in the middle of her charge, tangling around her body and limbs, and effectively stopping her in mid-punch while she was only a few feet away from her opponent.
That was only until Kana, calm and collected as ever, continued to move forward while bringing her fist around for a blow.
Stunned, Zangya gritted her teeth and concentrated even harder, trying to stop the teenager still walking towards her. Even though she was moving in a jerky, slow-motion run, the invader was acting like the wires weren't even there and as she closed the gap between them, the wires started to snap one after the other. Sweat poured from Zangya's head as she gave it her all to try and stop the train that was her target.
Then, seconds later, Kana was right on top of her. With one mighty pull, the girl drove a fist at full speed into Zangya's face, slamming her into the ground with a shockwave that blasted a crater into the earth. The moment she put the girl in the earth, the remaining energy draining wires dispersed, allowing the glowing girl to rise up to full height and smile down at her foe.
When the dust cleared, she saw the stricken, blue-skinned warrior lying at the bottom of the hole, bleeding from the mouth and covered in bruises. Groaning, Zangya looked up at the celestial traveler, whom she could see standing unharmed and beaming at her with that radiant smile of hers.
"You have some very unique techniques," Kana commented while tilting her head. "But like I said before, it'll take more than that level of tenacity to beat someone of my caliber. The strongest member of your group was Son Gohan and he had a power reading of 190,000,000 riki in his Super Saiyan form, while the other two were sitting at 140,000,000 each. Me…" She then grinned proudly at the woman, "With all of my restraining bolts removed, I have a maximum of over 350,000,000 riki." She then nodded down towards the warrior trying to sit up in her crater. "Unless you can somehow generate a riki level higher than that, there is no way anyone can beat me. Not even you."
Zangya, wincing, then threw the girl a pained yet cocky grin, "Oh. I wasn't trying to beat you." Her response drew a confused look from the invader. "I was trying to stall you…"
"Stall me?" Kana parroted, narrowing her eyes. "For what?"
Her answer came shortly afterwards in the form of a shockwave that caused the entire country to tremble. Eyes widening in surprise, the glowing haired visitor to the planet as well as everybody else in the area then looked in the direction of the mountain that she'd previously shot one of her opponents at, which was now lying in a massive pile of rubble on the horizon. At least that's how it remained, until a loud rumbling sound started to echo across the region and, out of nowhere, the massive chunks of earth making up the fallen edifice started to lift into the sky.
Krillin, Videl and everybody else looked across the city in disbelief to see the bits and pieces of earth and rock rise into the air. The spectators were shortly joined by Vegeta, Trunks and Piccolo, all of whom slowly regained consciousness and watched from their crash sites several kilometers apart as the rubble of the collapsed mountain rose into the clouds.
Watching the unnatural phenomenon take place in the distance as seemingly all gravity vanished from the area, Kana stared out at the floating collection of rocks suspiciously for several moments, before her serious expression slowly transformed into one of shock. Then, when she saw beams of light start shooting up out of the massive crater in the distance, her face took on a look of fear and incredulity.
"W-What?" the girl murmured as she then saw blue flashes of lightning join the golden beams of light.
Zangya, managing to peer out of her crater to see the anomaly herself, sprouted a smile of delight grin. "Well… it's about damn time."
A split second later, a thunder clap rang out. This was followed by a flash of light and, as the rocks cascaded back down to the earth, a golden streak of energy incased in blue electricity shot out of the crater, arced through the air, and landed on the edge of the park in a flash of light. The figure's landfall was marked by a sonic boom that sent a blast of wind across the square.
A stunned Videl looked across the park and through the dust at the person engulfed in golden energy. Seeing them standing in plain sight, the pig-tailed girl then took on a look of sheer delight when she eventually identified who it was.
Tears of joy filled her eyes, "Gohan! You're alright!"
Immediately, the girl noticed he looked a little bit different from before. Unlike his previous, golden form, his hair had spiked up even more and was pointing skywards, save for a single strand that dangled over his forehead. To join his new appearance, aside from his gi, which was now a tattered mess, he was also emitting a higher frequency aura, with blue electricity running up and down his body. It was a transformation Videl had never seen before, yet marveled at it all the same.
It was also something Kana took immediate notice of and, almost instantly, the girl began to tremble.
"This energy?" Looking into the boy's fierce, turquoise eyes, Kana's gaze narrowed and she produced her scouter, which began calculating her opponent's new form. When the number eventually appeared in her hologram, her expression turned to one of complete shock and she took a full step back. "N-No way? His power level… it's… registering over 360,000,000 riki."
Gohan, now standing off against the glowing girl, frowned in her direction, "Like I said before… you can't rely on your scouter to calculate a person's power level." A smile then spread across his face as a spark of electricity shot off of him and struck the ground all cool style, sending dust kicking into the air. "It can really let you down when it counts."