When the raven haired girl rose to full height, she shot the blonde woman a threatening glare.
"Who are you?" Videl practically shouted, continuing to mark the intruder down while Android 16 struggled to his feet. "What are you doing here?"
Flicking her hair back, Hasky chuckled, "Get lost, little girl. You have no idea who you're dealing with."
Baring her teeth with a snarl, the crime fighter quickly brought her hands up into a boxing stance. "I can say the same for you." She then nodded towards the woman threateningly and went into full police mode, "Put your hands on your head and get on the ground. Now!"
Scoffing, the master thief in the jumpsuit suddenly jumped up and, brandishing a finger at the girl like a gun, fired a golden bolt of energy in her direction. The blast shot towards Videl, who quickly slapped the projectile out the window and sprinted forward in a blur. Acting instinctively, Hasky continued shooting golden bullets of energy at the approaching girl, attempting to take her out. However, with a few head feints and body slips, Videl avoided every single one of them until she was directly in front of her quarry. With a loud yell, the raven haired warrior threw a big hook at her target, which the assassin promptly blocked.
Videl then kicked the woman in the leg and followed up with a knee, only for Hasky to check and block both blows respectively. After those attacks failed, the Z-fighter then ducked when the blonde chucked a hook at her head, which the crime fighter responded to with an uppercut. She successfully managed to get the thief to slip her head back and avoid it, allowing Videl to follow up with a left hook. Quick as ever though, the woman in the jumpsuit caught her wrist and held it tightly.
Gritting her teeth in frustration, Videl then threw a right cross with her free arm, but watched as the surprisingly quick intruder caught that as well.
Normally, against any other opponent, the spirited female fighter would've wrestled her way out of a grapple like this, no problem. However, the raven haired girl gave a surprised yelp when she suddenly saw the red lines on Hasky's suit light up and felt her body forced downwards as her opponent began to pressure her into a submissive position. Videl dropped to her knee as a result, growling in effort as her smirking adversary continued to push her towards the floor with an absurd amount of raw strength.
Struggling as she attempted to fight back, putting all the energy she could muster into their grapple, the raven haired teenager then looked down at the suit her opponent was wearing. "She's using this armor… to make her body stronger. Just like that other one."
It was this analysis alone that led Videl to one conclusion.
This one was working for the same man as that other prick that attacked them not too long ago.
Looking back up at the blonde, the young fighter choked out, "W-Who… are you… working for?"
"My, aren't you full of questions," Hasky hissed back through a wide grin, her green eyes twinkling with mischief. "Well… as much as I'd like to tell you, I'm afraid that that's a secret I'm going to have to take to my grave." Almost as soon as she said that, another cloud of golden photons gathered together over her shoulder and instantaneously formed into a golden spear, complete with fancy engravings and decorations, with the tip pointing straight down at Videl's head. The teen's eyes went wide in shock when she saw the weapon materialize out of thin air in front of her. It was a sight that brought an excited grin to Hasky's face, "Cheerio-"
"Rocket Punch!"
Head snapping up when she heard the shout, a loud thunderclap rang out when Hasky had a massive fist slam into her face, a blow that not only forced her to release Videl, but also sent her flying back with blood flying from her mouth.
Stunned, the raven haired crime fighter looked back to see the fist that'd been fired shoot back in the direction it'd come and watched it get caught by the free hand of Android 16. She then watched as the battered android with the bleeding lip shove his detached limb back into place, twist it, and lock it into its socket.
"Surprise attack: successful," Android 16 said, smiling across at the raven haired girl in front of him as he rose to full height. "Thank you for the assistance, Videl Satan."
Upon smiling gratefully at her savior, the poster girl of Satan City then snapped around to see Hasky roll backwards along the floor and jump to her feet. Despite being hit full on by the cyborg's piston of a punch and signature technique, the blonde not only had her head still attached to her neck, but she still looked to be in relatively good condition. The sight of her straightening up put a frown on the young Z-fighter's lips and had a bead of sweat run down the teen's temple.
"She's a tough one. Do you think we can beat her?" Videl asked.
Stomping forward to stand alongside the Z-fighter, the red haired cyborg with the Mohawk furrowed his brow thoughtfully. "My sensors indicate that this woman, Hasky, is using an extremely advanced energy-based combat suit to shield her body and increase her fighting power to an incredibly high level. It's also given her the ability to create hologram-based after images and form solid objects out of matter, such as swords and spears. Due to the sophisticated nature of the suit's design, I am unable to ascertain the full extent of her abilities."
This piece of information didn't sit too comfortably with the raven haired fighter. "Okay. So in other words… you don't know?"
After a moment of processing, Android 16 lowered his head, "By my calculations, the two of us alone should be able to deal a maximum amount of fifteen percent damage to her combat chassis, before she eventually decides to terminate us."
"Wow… you are just… a walking mountain of comfort, aren't you?" Videl remarked while rolling her eyes.
The red haired cyborg smiled, "Affirmative."
His response had the teenager's eye twitch. "That wasn't a compliment."
Blood trickling down from the corner of her mouth, the female assassin reached up, wiped off the spillage on the back of her hand, and grinned menacingly. Calming herself down and recovering from the minor amount of damage, the human fighter widened her stance and chuckled, "Got another one in yah?" Before she could take anymore action against the two heroes, she suddenly heard the sounds of approaching footsteps and snapped her gaze over her shoulder. Looking down the corridor behind her, she quickly spotted Piccolo, Goten and Trunks skid to a stop several feet away from her, and was joined shortly afterwards by Chi-Chi and Bulma.
The three warriors, upon arriving on the scene, took fighting stances and set their crosshairs firmly on their intruder.
The moment Hasky spotted the newcomers, her eyes suddenly widened when she thought she saw a ghost. "Wait… is that…?" She shook her head and focused all of her attention on Goten, wondering if she was hallucinating or something. When she saw the boy was the spitting image of the kid she remembered fighting twenty years ago, the blonde woman frowned deeply and clenched her fist. "He must be Goku's other son… the younger brother to Son Gohan."
Oh, how she detested that face and the untold amounts of misery and humiliation it'd brought to her. It made her sick to her stomach just remembering how handily she'd been taken care of. Her! The woman regarded as the greatest thief on the entire planet.
Realizing she was cornered in that tight hallway, the blonde frowned and looked between her opponents carefully. It was then she spared a momentary glance at the world outside and, seeing the clouds beginning to part and the sun appear from behind them, a smirk quickly formed across her lips.
Not willing to let the Z-fighters gang up on her in here, the woman crouched low and sprang out the window backwards, shattering the pane as she then dropped down to the property's front lawn. The warriors gathered in that hallway appeared bewildered at the woman's sudden retreat, before unanimously agreeing to give chase.
"Hey! Where is she going?" Goten shouted.
"Who cares? Let's get her!" his friend Trunks yelled, nudging his friend in the side and jumping out the window first.
Kicking themselves into gear, the rest of the fighting members of the crew leapt after the children one after the other, breaking the rest of the windows that were still intact. Chi-Chi and Bulma meanwhile rushed over to the sill and looked out the broken line of panels, where they then stood and proceeded to watch the battle that would unfold.
Hasky, unwilling to get cornered so easily, dashed across the grass to get away from the Z-warriors who were following close behind. She was making good progress to. But just as she was about to reach the fence circling the property, a series of golden flashes drew the thief's attention forward. Skidding to an abrupt stop, the blonde then watched as photons of light gathered on the lawn in front of her, which then formed into a person. A split second later, Kana materialized in front of the assassin, hands on her hips and a smirk on her face. Though this occurrence would've normally alarmed a normal person, Hasky merely stopped, frowned at the Seirei, and watched the newcomer flick her fiery hair back over her shoulder.
"You can't leave now. You haven't seen the ending," the space traveler greeted in her usual, cheerful tone. Since she'd managed to intercept the target without any worries whatsoever, she was confident in both her victory and her position.
Narrowing her eyes and sparing a glance back over her shoulder at the group of Z-fighters now gathering a few yards behind her, Hasky straightened up and clenched her fists. The moment she did, the lines all over her suit lit up and radiated a menacing, radioactive red glow.
Just before Kana could question what she was doing, multiple clouds of golden photons gathered around the alien on all sides and rapidly formed into twelve separate bodies. When the light surrounding them faded, they revealed themselves to be twelve perfect clones of the blonde haired assassin facing down the Seirei, each looking exactly identical to the original. The sight of the multiple doppelgangers not only baffled the heroes, but it had the alien girl look around at them with a surprised glimmer in her gaze.
"Whoa! What the heck?" Videl exclaimed, shaking her head to see if she wasn't hallucinating.
"Is that… Tien's Multi-Form Technique?" Piccolo asked, before looking over the group of identical assassins warily. "No. This is something else…"
After glancing around at the crowd of blondes circling her, the orange haired woman from another world scoffed and looked back at who she suspected was the original Hasky standing in front of her. "This is supposed to scare me?" Kana asked, a wide grin forming across her face while she shrugged at her adversary. "They're just illusions."
All of a sudden, the clone standing on the alien's left cocked her fist back and decked the Seirei across the face with a painful 'crack.' Kana yelped in shock when the blow connected, a split second before she was set upon by all twelve of the clones, which began attacking her from all sides in a blur. Videl, Piccolo, Goten, Trunks and Android 16 then proceeded to watch as Kana was viciously assaulted by the platoon of doppelgangers, which nailed her from all sides with punches and kicks. When the Seirei attempted to evade and block them, she instead received several devastating attacks in return, the last hook sending her to the ground and causing blood to dribble out of her mouth.
Groaning while on her hands and knees, the dazed woman shook her head as the twelve clones formed another ring around her. "They do pack a wallop though." She then looked up at the copies in front of her with a glare.
One of the clones smirked, before the red lines on every single copy began to glow. A split second later, more photons of light gathered around the group and Kana quickly found herself surrounded by fifty more Hasky clones. The one standing closest to the Seirei, taking advantage of the moment, spoke up, "I can make light solid, chump." She then kicked the fiery haired girl in the face, sending Kana flying back across the grass, where she was almost instantly set upon by the army of copies.
The girl in the plug suit jumped to her feet and attempted to fend off the clones, even firing two simultaneous blasts in an effort to force them to back off. But the copies, quick as ever, evaded the attacks and rushed in, pummeling Kana from all sides. The alien traveler successfully managed to exchange blows and defend herself against the first few. However, as their numbers increased and the space she was using shrunk, she soon began receiving more and more hits to the body, resulting in her being dropped like a sack of flour. As soon as the woman was on her hands and knees, the army of Hasky clones rushed in and jumped on her, forming a dog pile on top of the poor girl.
While Kana was dealing with the contingent of assassins, outside of the gathering of blonde copies, a single Hasky stood watch with her hands on her hips. When this solitary doppelganger turned around, she shot a smile at the Z-fighters standing behind her and quickly rotated to face them completely. "Oh. Where are my manners? I almost forgot about you five." As the lines on her suit started to shine brightly once again, the entire field lit up, filling the sky with a brilliant, golden glow and causing the Z-fighters to shield their eyes from the glare.
Several tense moments later, the entire field in front of them was covered in hundreds of Hasky clones, all of whom were glaring menacingly across at the group of warriors. The Z-fighters all took a big step back at the sight of the clone army, the majority of which took fighting stances and readied themselves for combat.
"Holy Moly. How many of them are there?" Trunks exclaimed, blinking his wide eyes as he attempted to count the exact number of blondes he could see.
Eyes flickering with numbers, Android 16 took a split second to scan the crowd before his head lifted ever so slightly, "Exactly five hundred and eighty two replicas."
The lavender haired boy's eye twitched as his head snapped towards his mother's trusted helper and part-time babysitter. "I… was… KIDDING!"
Not having the faintest idea of what they were up against, Piccolo quickly looked across at the Capsule Corp cyborg in alarm, "Hey. Talk to us. Who the hell is this woman?"
Registering to the man's question, the giant, armored male with the Mohawk took a moment to process the inquiry before answering robotically, "Accessing criminal records. Target, first name: Hasky. Last name: Valentine. Primary occupation: mercenary. Formerly a Special Forces Captain of the Imperial Army, specializing in stealth, weaponry and close quarter combat. Suspect wanted internationally for a multitude of crimes, chief among which include burglary, destruction of property and grand theft auto. Disappeared from the limelight three years ago following a failed assassination attempt on President Tsukuda of the Republic of Mendel off the South Western Islands and presumed killed when the plane crashed."
Videl promptly cut the android off after taking a head count of the number of enemies they were now facing. "You've been scanning her suit since the start of the fight, right? Can you tell us how she's using those weird techniques?"
Focusing on one of the Haskys, the red haired machine answered the teen's question as thoroughly as he could, "The woman is wearing a specially designed combat suit constructed out of a double-woven, adamantine coating, and is being shielded by an incredibly strong particle field. After scanning her attack patterns and analyzing her photon constructs, I have discovered that the armor's design is allowing her to channel enormous quantities of energy and bend matter in the form of light, giving her the ability to create weapons, heat blasts, and clones. The same function also enables her to mask her presence and use an active-camouflage system that works doubly as a shape-shifting ability." Android 16's frown deepened even more so. "The technology being used in that suit is beyond anything I've ever encountered before. Not even Bulma Briefs possesses the resources to create a weapon of this grade."
Goten, not really understanding the android's dialogue, attempted to make sense of the news as best as he could. "She sounds like one of those really scary super villains I remember reading about in Trunks' comic books."
"Yeah… only this one is real," the boy's best friend remarked, at the same time scrunching his brow in annoyance, "And that really sucks for all of us."
This news had Piccolo click his tongue and glare across at the woman threateningly "That's just great. So not only are we dealing with a professional assassin, she's also being supercharged by a piece of custom made clothing that allows her to create her own private army at the snap of a finger."
Now why did that sound so familiar to him?
Flashes of their previous fight against Vulcan briefly shot through the Namekian's head, causing him to clench his fists irritably.
The sight of the multitude of opponents prompted the heroes gathered up on the lawn to take defensive stances. The original Hasky, who had her arms folded and was standing at the very front of the crowd, then gave a confident chuckle and gestured towards her opponents. "You didn't seriously think I was going to run, did you? As long as I'm outside, I have the advantage." She then turned to the groups of copies next to her, whom she gave an approving nod as soon as their eyes met. "Take them down."
Obeying their creator's instructions, the blonde army wasted no time in charging forward, giving a collective battle cry as they thundered towards the Capsule Corp's enormous estate and towards their enemy. Any and all civilians who were out and passing by the property became absolutely baffled by the sight of hundreds of doppelgangers making their charge across the front lawn. Even the employees and security inside the industry giant's main building had dropped everything they were doing to turn out and watch the spectacle taking place right outside their front door.
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