While his eyes scanned the clouds, Gohan suddenly spotted a flash of light from the top of the nearby skyscraper, followed instantly by a massive red energy blast that was sent rocketing towards him. Sensing just how much power it possessed, Gohan cocked back his right hand and, thrusting it forward, unleashed an even more powerful golden blast towards it. Their attacks collided above the city streets in a colossal, sphere-shaped explosion, one that rocked the buildings around them and rattled windows for miles. The people on the ground cried out in terror when the shockwave caused by the calamity hit them from above.
With the fire in the sky slowly starting to dissipate, the demi-Saiyan's eyes cut through the smoke in search of his opponent. When he saw the cloud break and his opponent come diving down at him feet first, his jets roaring loudly, the Super Saiyan 2 leapt into the air and, with a growl of effort, slammed two feet into the mech's stomach. The blow knocked Vulcan out of the sky and sent the armored suit plummeting to the ground, which he hit with a loud bang. Bouncing once off of the concrete and cracking it, Vulcan quickly rolled to his feet and hopped up onto one knee, just in time to see Gohan dive down at him with a second kick.
The armored warrior lifted up his arm and blocked it, the impact of which echoed across the quad like an artillery round. He then blocked a right hook and parried a left body shot while still on his knee, but was unable to deflect the right roundhouse kick that crashed into his helmet. The hit was loud and the force of impact was even greater, sending the armored mech onto his back several yards away. The instant Vulcan went down Gohan dove at him and buried a knee into his stomach with earth splitting force, smashing a crater into the floor around them.
Pinning his opponent, the demi-Saiyan then grabbed the unit by his metallic collar and began driving punches into the mech's helmet one after the other at blinding speed. Yelling out with every hit, the young warrior drove his blows into his target's skull like a piston, shaking the earth around them and causing every single building within ten miles of their position to rattle under the sheer force of the assault. The citizens of Satan City thought they were experiencing a freak earthquake of some kind, when in reality it was just the planet crushing blows of the Super Saiyan 2 attempting to bury his opponent into the ground.
Feeling the earth ripple violently under the blows, a closely watching Erasa, who was standing safely on the edge of the plaza behind a bollard, raised her still bound hands and shouted. "Get him, Gohan! Beat his metal ass!"
It looked as though he was on the verge of pulverizing his adversary into dust. But just as the half-Saiyan warrior was loading up for yet another power shot, the teen suddenly saw the front visor of the helmet around the optical sensors open up. When the plates slid away, Gohan then saw his assailant's face emerge from the confines of his head protection, scarred, gritted, yet completely unscathed.
With barely a scratch on his armor or his skin, the calm and collected Vulcan smirked up at his Saiyan foe and spoke in an arrogant tone of voice, "Is that all you've got?"
Gritting his teeth, Gohan powered up and prepared to hit him while his real face was exposed. Faster than the Saiyan could react though, the armored suit's chest suddenly opened up, revealing the barrel of a large cannon. Then, in the blink of an eye, the hidden weapon fired a titanic red blast straight into the teen's stomach, which detonated with terrifying volume and power, and sent the boy flying off of his opponent and bouncing across the court like a ragdoll.
After a two second flight, the winded demi-Saiyan righted himself and landed firmly against the side of a café wall, crouched against it, and then launched himself at his opponent. In that time, the mech managed to shut his helmet and leap to his feet with surprising flexibility, just in time to see his target flying at him with a swinging right overhand.
Throwing both arms up, the mech blocked the punch, but the force of the attack was so great it broke open his guard and sent him skidding back along the floor for several feet. After Vulcan forced himself to a stop, he then rushed at his opponent with a hook, which Gohan blocked and locked under his arm. The demi-Saiyan then blocked a left punch from his foe, catching his wrist, holding it, and trapping the mech in his iron grip. But just when the Z-fighter thought he had him, the pilot reared back his head and slammed it into Gohan's face, hitting him square in the forehead with a loud 'crack' and forcing the boy to let go. The force of the unexpected hit sent the young warrior flying back a few yards to land hard on the concrete floor, which he slid across before flipping backwards onto his feet.
Taking a stance once again, Gohan gritted his teeth and began powering up to Super Saiyan 3 to finish this prick off. As big a risk it was to max out in the middle of a public area, the young warrior knew that he was quickly running low on options. He had to try and finish this now, and with as little damage as possible. When his aura burst up around him and he began focusing his energy through his muscles, he was all set for the big jump. However, as his aura tore into the ground and his bio-field crackled around him like a storm, Gohan then looked up with a start when he noticed a big problem.
"Hang on… something's wrong."
For some reason the Saiyan couldn't explain, his energy levels had dropped to a ridiculously low level. His current reading was registering far below par and his muscles felt like they had just been injected with several hundred pounds of lead, preventing him from ascending to the third level. It was a clear sign of both ki exhaustion and fatigue.
When he first arrived at this city he was in peak physical condition and his power was well over a hundred percent. But now…
Snapping out of his befuddled state when he remembered his current position, Gohan instead cupped his hands beside him and prepared to throw another Kiai at his opponent. The moment his form locked however, his armored opponent had already taken flight and was now rocketing towards him at bullet speed.
While approaching his target, Vulcan suddenly raised his right gauntlet and fired a metal cord towards the demi-Saiyan, the whip-like projectile wrapping around his target's wrists and binding them together. When he flew past the young warrior, he yanked Gohan off his feet and proceeded to drag him across the plaza surface. Flying over the rubble, the armored warrior swung the teenager into the ground floor of a second shopping center, smashing him through windows and walls all along the way. The demi-Saiyan grunted when his body crashed through a vast assortment of barriers and obstacles, as well completely decimating an entire row of cafes one after the other.
Eventually though, Gohan became fed up with being dragged around like a sack of potatoes and, with his body covered in a new collection of bruises and scratches, rolled onto his feet and yanked back on the cord wrapped around his wrists. Using all the strength he could muster, Gohan managed to jerk the mech's flight to a halt, drawing the attention of his opponent and resulting in a vicious tug of war match.
His thrusters blasting away in an attempt to get the boy off the ground, Vulcan growled when he couldn't budge his opponent one bit. So, taking aim with his left gauntlet, he fired a cluster of rockets towards his enemy.
Spotting the incoming salvo, the teen powered up and snapped the cord with a quick pull, before jumping out of the way at the last second to avoid the wave of projectiles. The missiles detonated against the plaza floor and took a decent chunk out of the nearby mall, flooding the air with glass and smoke. When Gohan landed on the other side of the ruined square and spun around defensively, he saw the rest of the rockets fired by his opponent flying towards him. Upon taking count of the homing weapons, with a quick swipe of his hand, the young warrior detonated them with a well-timed shockwave. The rockets went off one after the other in the direction his hand was thrown in a series of multiple explosions.
Gohan narrowed his eyes when he felt the force they went off with. "Those rockets are more powerful than they look… very powerful and concentrated chemical explosions. I should avoid getting hit by those."
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