Needless to say everyone, especially Goten, was enthralled to see her.
"Paprika!" the demi-Saiyan child shouted, his eyes brimming with tears of joy.
Blinking as she stared up at the newcomer, Hasky frowned deeply. "Another one? Where in the world have you been hiding?"
Concentrating her energy as best as she could as her expression intensified, the white haired, green-skinned woman in her fully-powered state drew her arms back and shouted at her competitor. "How's this for an answer? Up… your… ASS! FU-RI-KA-KE-HAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Thrusting her right palm out and drawing her left fist back at the exact same time, a blinding flash of orange light filled the air and the entire neighborhood. While this seemed like the ultimate result of the woman's strike, what the light really originated from was the enormous blast that rocketed from her glowing body and was sent plummeting towards the blonde down below.
Sidetracked by the gargantuan attack descending towards her from up high, Hasky completely forgot about all her other opponents and focused entirely on the attack now falling towards her. Its blazing form caused her shadow to stretch out the closer it came and, as it approached, the blonde scoffed in amusement. After the display of power she'd seen from the Z-fighters thus far, she seriously doubted an attack of this level could do anything.
She smirked at the comet of an attack, completely confident at being able to deflect it with her spear, which she held up and jabbed towards the large mass of energy.
"Aww… that's adora-SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" Hasky was promptly cut off when the tsunami of an attack crashed right down on top of her with the force of a thousand suns. The attack swallowed her up and burrowed into the earth, causing a gargantuan shockwave that sent debris and dust flying in all directions.
The attack happened so fast and hit with such power that Hasky's lance was completely incinerated by the blast, which didn't do anything to slow it down.
What happened afterwards was instantaneous. The chains holding the Z-fighters dispelled, depositing the warriors on the ground. As soon as they all dropped to the floor, Goten, Trunks, Android 16 and Kana collapsed to their knees, while Videl and Piccolo stood upright and watched the orange blast their comrade had unleashed bury her target into the earth. When the burning light faded and the smoke quickly lifted from the blast, the group saw, to their astonishment, a massive, deep crater about fifty yards across in the perfect shape of a hand.
So the attack Paprika essentially fired at her opponent was a genuine, hand-shaped blast with enough force to slap a planet across its face. It certainly was the most creative attack they'd seen in recent years. There was no arguing that.
While the members of the group struggled to their feet and dusted themselves off from their respective thrashings, Paprika continued to glare down at the field from up high. Keeping her eyes pasted squarely on the palm-shaped fissure she'd formed in the earth, the white haired woman panted a few times and began gathering energy into her other hand. If there was a chance that her target had survived that hit, which there was, she wasn't going to let her catch her breath. She intended to bury her permanently, no matter what it took.
Speak of the devil, several seconds later, after the dust had faded…
"UPSTART, WHITE-HAIRED, BITCH!" Hasky roared as her golden form rocketed up the half-a-kilometer deep fissure and straight up towards her opponent.
Eyes widening in alarm, Paprika gritted her teeth and thrust her other hand forward, unleashing another flash of blinding orange light. "FURIKAKE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Her blasts left her hands with a sonic boom straight down into the fissure she'd formed, causing the entire crater to light up. The sheer speed and power behind her lightning fast blast not only funneled and filed out the edges of the hole, but also slammed headlong into the approaching blonde assassin and knocked her spinning straight back down into it.
Hasky's shocked cry of surprise bounced off of the walls of the depression as she was sent straight down to the bottom.
And so, a painful tug-of-war match between the two fighters ensued. While the Z-warriors surrounding the point of contact got to their feet, all of them were able to look on from a safe distance as Paprika continued to hammer the fissure with a constant string of blasts from her hands. She unleashed the beat down of a lifetime, repeatedly slamming planet splitting attacks into the exact same spot over and over again, not caring whether they were damaging her opponent, but making sure she stayed down there at the bottom for as long as possible. Whenever she came up, the Makyan knocked her back in with mountain flattening force, rattling not only the blonde with her shots, but the countryside as well.
Gripping his shoulder painfully and feeling the hot winds of the resulting barrage wash over him, Goten, still in his Super Saiyan form, grinned and raised his fist towards his friend in victory. "YEAH! Go Paprika! Beat that woman!"
Blinking as she watched the demon woman continue letting off power shots, Kana shook her head and murmured nervously, "She's not going to stop, is she?"
Hearing the question directed at him, Piccolo frowned, "No." And that was pretty much all he had to say on the matter.
Earth shaking with every blow it took, Hasky tried repeatedly to try and blast her way out of the crevice. She rocketed straight up, her form bathed in the golden glow of her suit's shield. But every time she tried to crawl her way back to the surface, another shot from her opponent would knock her back into the pit and down to the bottom. Though the attacks weren't doing any real damage to her, they were still strong enough to have Hasky's ears ringing and kept her from moving forward. The fact that they were coming in at a continuous rate was also pissing her off something fierce and she decided to let her opponent know in the only way she could.
Blasts still smashing into her like waves, Hasky screamed out at the top of her lungs. "UGH! STOP IT! AUGH!" Another blast knocked her down, only for the assassin to correct her fall and fly straight back up again. "STOP IIIIIIIIIIIIT!" A third blast dropped right on top of her immediately afterwards, hitting her with the force of a nuke and sending her spinning down into hell. "ANGRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
Lightning strikes continued raining down in rapid succession, shaking the planet and echoing across the countryside. With every flash, a clap of thunder sounded, with Paprika's cries of battle accompanying every blow.
"FU! RI! KA! KE! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" the Makyan bellowed, thrusting her hands forward and unleashing an attack on every syllable.
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(Meanwhile…)
Across the continent to the East, in the mega city known all over the world as the one bearing the name of the planet's savior, the surface of Talos Industries' branch headquarters stood gleaming under the midday sun. As the streets outside the office building played host to the hustle and bustle of the common folk, deep inside the facility, a different kind of atmosphere had fallen over the head staff and leaders of the conglomerate.
This was most definitely the case for the corporation super giant's founder and owner, who could be seen sitting at his enormous desk looking down at its black surface with a thoughtful look on his face. Leaning back in his thousand zeni office chair and the towering support cushions, Kaiser Talos seemingly carried out his usual daily business of stock taking and number crunching. To any ordinary person or staff member who happened to walk in and see the man posted behind his station, they would immediately believe he was doing important paperwork for the company.
However, to those who were familiar with his everyday dealings and interests, this wasn't the case.
Standing to the man's left, enveloped by the shadows of the office, Colonel Violet, dressed in her regular suit and skirt, with her hair pulled back into a tasteful top knot, was looking down at her boss's table with the same interest and focus as he was. Because it wasn't any ordinary documentation or work the man was conducting. They were actually watching a video of Hasky's battle with the Z-fighters.
Receiving different shots of the Capsule Corp property from completely different angles thanks to a series of super powerful, super tiny spy cams similar in design to Doctor Gero's surveillance drones, the pair were given an accurate, live-feed of the events unfolding over in West City. Thanks to the quality of the tech at his disposal as well as the high definition provided by his desk-top computer screen, he was able to keep up with every piece of action taking place.
On top of the computers processing the information and shelving the clips for future references, Kaiser himself was breaking down all of the data on the spot.
He was literally taking note of and processing the images in his head frame by frame and, with an electronic pen in hand, was tapping the interactive board that was the center of his desk with the end of it in a haunting, monotonous beat.
After getting a real joy watching the opening minutes of the fight take place inside the CC main building, he was now getting a real kick watching Hasky get her backside nailed into the ground by late newcomer Paprika. Seeing the blasts of energy engulf the woman over and over again, as well as listening to her cursing and screaming through the audio, all the businessman could do was snort and do his best not to fall into fits of laughter.
"AAAAAAAAHH! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLS!" Hasky's scream filled the office when she was hit by yet another ridiculously powerful, hand-shaped blast.
Her creative use of the male anatomy caused Violet to snicker in the background at how well-timed that was with the explosion.
The scene became so funny in fact that Kaiser eventually has to bark out a laugh. "Ha! Who needs the World Cup when I've got this championship gold mine right in front of me?" Deciding to get even more comfortable, the man kicked his feet up onto the desk, leant back, and slipped his hands behind his head. "Kai, I love my life."
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