(To the Far East)
As the events taking place in other parts of the world rapidly unfolded, right next door to the mountainous regions of Mount Paozu, the battle between Gohan and his opponent was just getting heated up.
Amidst the chaos and the fire burning from the explosion at the petrol station, the demi-Saiyan continued battering his foe with a relentless onslaught of attacks, determined to bring her down as quickly as possible. However, a few minutes after making ground zero in the middle of the town's streets, the young warrior slowly began to realize that trying to knock his opponent down for the count was going to be a lot harder than he previously thought. Despite the advantage he had from the surprise attack, the armor the woman was wearing was providing a lot of protection for her. Not only was it ridiculously heavy, but every time his fists dragged across the metal plates, Gohan felt like he was digging his knuckles through a surface of anvils.
This led him to the conclusion that even though he was landing so many hits, he was only causing a small amount of damage to his foe. His hypothesis was quickly proven when he saw his foe jump back up after a particularly vicious beating and started hitting back at him with an equal amount of force.
Eventually being compelled to fight even harder, the pair continued to lay into one another across the small town, destroying not only the local infrastructure, but also whatever fixtures and landmarks happened to be standing in their way.
Being sure to keep their exchange away from the people, Gohan, dodging a blast thrown at him from the armored woman, sped up his charge and rammed into the spiky haired fighter with his shoulder. His running blow knocked Maya off her feet and sent her straight through a café behind her. Decimating pretty much all of the furniture and walls in the front room, the woman eventually exploded out the back and onto a second road, where she lay sprawled out with a dazed look on her face.
"Augh. Good one," the Saiyan mumbled, sitting up slowly as the stars in her eyes faded.
When she looked up to see where her opponent had gone, she suddenly spotted Gohan appear in the sky above the building, before diving straight down at her with the speed of a bullet. Reacting in alarm, the brown haired fighter rolled out of the way at the last second, avoiding the boy slamming his foot and punching a sizable crater into the floor where her head used to be. Sliding to a stop several yards away, Maya looked back in time to see Gohan leap out of the hole and, white aura blazing around him, charged at her at full speed.
Just as Gohan was cranking back his fist for another hit, he suddenly felt his body stop dead in its tracks by a powerful force grabbing hold of his ankles. "What the-?" Looking back to see what was going on, he suddenly saw the woman's teammate, the tall warrior in black armor, holding onto his legs with his two hands.
Having jumped in at the last second to catch the teen, with a growl of effort, Cal yanked Gohan back and threw the boy into the ground like a sack of flour. The demi-Saiyan impacted the tarmac with a deafening 'crack', punching a human-shaped dent into the earth. A split second later, the giant fighter then picked up the warrior by his shoulder and leg and, after raising him up and holding him upside-down, slammed the boy into the ground a second time. As soon as the half-Saiyan crashed into the floor and punched an even deeper hole into the floor, his hulking pile driver of an opponent took a step back and, with a furious yell, kicked Gohan out of the crater and down the street, where the teen ended up clothes-lined by a waiting Maya.
The demi-Saiyan struck her arm and flipped under it, before landing face-first several yards down the street in a cloud of dust. Once he was down, both Maya and Cal glared in his direction and watched as he painfully tried to get up.
Rolling onto his back, Gohan gritted his teeth and whispered in a strained voice. "O-kay… that hurt like hell." When he looked up at the two armored warriors approaching him down the street, the spiky haired fighter then cracked a disappointed frown. "Two on one, guys? That doesn't seem very fair."
Flexing her wrist, Maya quickly gave the young man a blank look through her visor, "You spear-tackled me while I wasn't even looking and shoved me through a God-damn silo."
At this, the demi-Saiyan smiled sheepishly, "Yeah, I'm… really sorry about that."
A satisfied smirk then crossed the woman's lips, "Apology accepted."
Rubbing his sore neck, the teen then gave his opponent a hopeful stare and proceeded to sit up straighter, "Does this… make us even?"
The brown haired woman chuckled, "Not yet." She then nodded towards her comrade, "But this will."
With a loud bellow, Cal lunged forward in a blur and tackled Gohan while he was standing up, dragging the teenager a block down the road and through the tarmac. After carving a nice, deep trench in the earth with his opponent's back, the hulking armored fighter rose up, drew his right fist back, and dropped a haymaker right down onto the teenager's chest. The blow slammed into Gohan's breastbone and bounced him off of the ground with a thunderclap, practically knocking the air out of him. Yelping with pain, the half-Saiyan suddenly saw Maya dart around and, seemingly teleporting alongside him, swing at his head with a kick.
Catching her leg, the demi-Saiyan swept it out from under her and dropped her onto her back. Maya hit the ground with a thud and a grunt of pain, leaving her teammate Cal to raise his left foot and attempt to stomp Gohan on the head. Acting swiftly, the demi-Saiyan rolled out of its way, barely avoiding getting his skull smashed in like a watermelon. After which he then rolled onto his stomach and attempted to fly off. However, for the second time in the last five minutes, Cal suddenly grabbed him by the ankle, held the floating boy in place, before stepping forward and dropping his forearm right on top of him.
His body smashing back into the tarmac, Gohan rolled over just in time to see Maya, back on her feet, lunging down at him with her right fist. Parrying her punch, the demi-Saiyan locked up her wrist and, redirecting her weight and motion, slammed her into the floor next to her. The maneuver elicited a yelp from the female fighter as she ungracefully slammed face first into the road.
"Dick!"
The second he stopped her, Gohan then head slipped a swift, left jab from his other opponent, who was now standing over him. Seeing the man's fist hit the tarmac directly next to him, the demi-Saiyan then skillfully grabbed the prone Maya by the back of her armor's collar and, rolling over, slammed her into the torso of her partner.
This hit knocked Cal stumbling away, freeing Gohan from underneath him. Then, while still holding onto the armored woman's back, the teenager powered up and took off into the sky. However, unwilling to let him get away that easily, the tall alien growled and leapt after him.
"Oh, no you don't!" Cal shouted, giving a loud yell as he landed right on top of the ascending Gohan and snapped his arms around him.
However, not only did the warrior end up successfully catching his opponent, he also inadvertently ended up grabbing Maya who, with the combined weight of their bodies and training armor, began to drag Gohan straight towards the ground at an alarming rate.
As they spiraled in, the female Saiyan also locked in the bear hug couldn't help but scream in alarm, "CAL! YOU IDIOT! LET GO! AAAAAAAH!" The three warriors screamed out as they suddenly careened into the side of a warehouse and crashed right into it. Their landing was marked by a deafening explosion as the entire inside of the building and its construction material was blown to kingdom come. As fire gushed through the busted roof, the trio exploded out the rolling door and back onto the town's streets, trailing gas bottles, debris, and fire.
Rolling along the road, the three separated and leapt back to their feet at their own leisure. Skidding to a stop along the ruined highway, a slight charred Gohan glared across at the two armored warriors at the same time flames continued to scatter around them, setting the stage for another face off.
Though none of them were hurt at all, the battle so far had made them dizzy from all the spinning and crashing they'd been doing. It was starting to irritate them.
Clenching his fists, Gohan had a quick glance around before frowning deeply. "These guys are ridiculously strong. If this keeps up, we're gonna end up leveling the entire town." Initially he wanted to avoid going anywhere in sight of any villages, factories or buildings. But thanks to his sneak attack on the pair back at his place, not only did he get carried away, but the weight of his opponent ended up dragging them both down to ground level, leading to the two of them crashing into the town's service station. After looking back at the events that got them here, Gohan quickly realized that he was partly to blame for their current circumstances and concluded that he needed to correct this as soon as possible. "I have to get them out of this place and away from the people. If I do, maybe the damage to the cities can be minimized and we won't risk getting anybody else involved." He was well aware of how powerful his attacks were and what a fight between opponents of his level was capable of.
Unbeknownst to him of course, both Cal and Maya were thinking the exact same thing and were now looking at one another in concern.
"Should we try and move this somewhere else?" Cal asked with an anxious look in play. "The village is taking a lot of damage and I don't think we'll be able to keep this away from the people for much longer."
"Yeah. I think you're right," Maya answered in agreement, before quickly turning back to the half-Saiyan in front of her, who was now looking as equally concerned as them. "Hey, orange boy-"
Unfortunately the woman was unable to say anything. All of a sudden, a powerful golden blast thrown by an unknown assailant blindsided Cal and knocked the man straight into another nearby building, leveling the structure with a massive explosion. Both Maya and Gohan looked towards the blast zone in alarm when, dropping down from the sky and landing on the damaged street, Paprika joined the fray.
Scarf swishing behind her like a cape, the white haired Makyan took a fighting stance and smirked. "I've got the big guy, Son! You take care of the chick!"
"Paprika! Wait! Don't-" Gohan yelled, only for his exclamations to fall on deaf ears when the woman recklessly charged into the burning building and engaged the tall warrior, who'd just managed to resurface from the pile of rubble on top of him, "fight… in the town."
Poor Cal wasn't given any time to catch his breath when Paprika suddenly hit him with a flying side-kick, which ended up sending the big man through the remaining walls of the shop and into a nearby park.
Groaning in frustration and slapping his forehead in defeat, the demi-Saiyan turned back to the armored woman standing across from him. After seeing her face pan back over with a look of clear disbelief reflected in her posture, Gohan then raised his thumb and pointed down the road. "I was about to say we should take this fight to somewhere a little more empty."
The long haired woman nodded weakly in response, "Funny… I was about to suggest the same thing."
Chuckling a little, Gohan then shrugged, "Well. I doubt this can get any worse."
The moment he said that, a loud battle cry from behind suddenly drew the teen's attention over his shoulder. When the demi-Saiyan looked, he immediately spotted the blurred forms of a aggravated Zangya and an equally motivated Videl, both of whom blew past him at full speed and charged towards the big, armored man that knocked them around back at Mount Paozu.
When they flew past, both Gohan and Maya heard the two fighters yell at the top of their lungs.
"Let me at him!" Videl shouted.
"That big bastard is mine!" the Hera also screamed, the two fighters disappearing over the block to join Paprika in her vicious beat down of the big fighter.
After the two Saiyans on the road gave the sight of the energetic pair a deadpanned look, they then heard the distinct sounds of engines and the sounds of approaching footsteps. When the duo turned to look down the battered main road they were standing on, through the wrecked cars, the cracked buildings and the multiple pillars of smoke, the pair spotted a contingent of soldiers, dressed in full combat gear, and a pair of military jet copters hovering over them.
As the company of men on the ground cautiously approached, the commander seated in the aerial vehicle above spoke over the radio. "You on the ground! This is commander Nishima of the Yajiga Eastern Airbase under King Koku! Drop all your weapons and place your hands on top of your heads! This is your last and only warning!" The instant he issued his order, a pair of Harrier jump jets roared overhead, their thrusters propelling them over the town and telling all those out on the streets that these guys meant business.
Shoulders slumping, Gohan and Maya gave simultaneous looks of disbelief, before the female Saiyan looked at her opponent in dismay.
"It just got worse…"