Chapter 13 The fight continues
(Sunday night around 10:15 pm)
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. It is called Tri-Form." The jerk said as all three of him fused back into one. "Now, if you want me to fight honorably, why don't you start by telling me your name?"
Ichigo had learned a great deal in the last few moments. Pride before the fall, her father had always said. Until now, she had not had any idea what it had truly meant. Now she knew. She had been too prideful. Now she was paying for it. 'Well, fine,' she thought. 'I don't have to tell him my REAL name. He is full of tricks, is far stronger thsn I gave him credit for, but he is also so sure of himself that he is cocky. He is not going to shame ME on the battlefield.'
"My name is Kinomi." She said as she flew up to hit him with a Ki Punch.
* * *
Roshi was not one to lower his guard. He ducked under the punch and hit her in the stomach.
Pulling himself back, he barley avoided getting hit by her knee as she pulled it up towards his gut. He fired off a quick ki blast. It hit the girl in the side of the face and caused her to break off.
'Darn, I used up too much energy in the Tri-Form. She is hurt, but not enough. I was hoping she would have lost some energy after my attacks, but it does not seem like that has happened.'
Roshi dodged several ki blasts. After returning fire, and then closing in for a quick hand-to-hand, he knew he was in trouble.
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. Ha.." 'I need to do something. She is not the least bit tired, and I am running low real fast. Dad told me to work on my endurance. When am I going to learn that the man never talks just to hear himself talk?'
"HHUUUHGGGHHH!!!" Roshi gasped as the Kinomi girl came up and punched him in the gut. The bitter taste of bile filled his mouth.
Roshi managed to grab her arm and drive his knee into her side as he pulled away from the punch.
The two of them danced around each other in the air for several seconds. Both gave and received blows. Roshi was able to block most of the girl's attacks, but he was not going to be able to forever.
* * *
"What the heck is going on?!" Slip screamed at Boxers and Tee. "You two said that you wouldn't be of any help in this fight. Well if that is true why are the three Roshi's being able to beat the crap out of the girl now? He only has a power level of 24,000 verses her 48,000. She is twice as powerful as any of the three of him!"
Boxers swallowed some of his pride and looked at Slip. "He is taking her by surprise. All the strength in the universe does little if you are not prepared."
"What do you mean by that?" Slip demanded.
Boxers looked around the room. "Ok, take this poll here. It is supporting that piece of equipment, right?"
"Yes."
"Wel,l would it break if you put as much force into the side of it as that big piece of equipment is putting on the top?"
"It would bend at the very least, but it wasn't meant to take a force from the sides!"
"Well, that is exactly what Roshi is doing with the girl. He is hitting her where she doesn't expect him to and is getting the worst of it. The fact remains, if she were to hit back, Roshi would be in a world of hurt."
Slip seemed to ponder for a while but stayed quiet. The three teens watched the display in awe for a while and stayed quiet until the fight suddenly started taking a turn for the worse.
"Why isn't he beating the crap out of her? He was a lot stronger then that!" Slip yelled at the screen. "Why is he holding back?"
"I don't think he is. Like I said, Roshi messed up with the Tri-form. He didn't do enough damage, and now he is winded. She is going to eat him up." Boxers said in a whisper.
"Don't say that! The two of us working together couldn't beat Roshi when he was actually fighting. I don't think he has lost anything, and look the girl is down to 44,900 that is quite the drop in power." Tee argued
"Yeah, but the GKSS says that Roshi is down to around 48,000 now!" Slip screamed. I don't know about you guys but I would say 72,000 to 48,000 is a bigger drop in power then 49,000 to 44,900!"
"I still say Roshi knows what he is doing!" Tee exclaimed
"Yeah, well I don't, he needs help, I can be there in half an hour if I leave now, you coming Tee?" Boxers said as he walked out the door.
"Oh, alright! I'm coming wait up!"
"Hey, you can't leave me here!" Slip exclaimed, "I'm coming with!"
"Slip, you can't fight! You should stay here where it is safe." Boxers said.
"Oh, no, you don't! I don't need any chivalry from you two, I can fly and I know how to stay out of the way!"
"Why did Roshi ever have to teach you to fly?" Tee whined.
"Yeah, well... Cry some other time how you can't make me stay here!"
Boxers and Tee looked at each other. The two of them smirked evilly.
"That sounded like a challenge." They both said as one.
Slip's eyes got about as big as plates as both boys jumped at her. "AHHHHHHH... GUARDS HELP ME!!!! GUA..." the rest of whatever she was going to say was cut off by Tee's sock being shoved into her mouth. Slip looked like she was going to be sick, but the boys didn't care. They set about finding some high strength cord to tie her up with.
* * *
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. This sucks!" Roshi said as he was pulling away from the girl. 'I have to think of something,' he thought as he absent-mindedly wiped away some blood that was trickling down his face.
Roshi jerked his hand back after he brushed it over the cut on his cheek. 'That hurts!' He realized with a start. 'That girl must have cut me bad when she slapped me with her hair. That stuff makes a nasty whip.'
'Wait a minute! That is it! This Kinomi girl has over a meter of rope attached to her head! Why didn't I think of that earlier?' Roshi continued to berate himself for failing to see an obvious weakness in the girl.
Roshi then flew right at the girl. He shot off a fairly good-sized Masenko directly at her head.
The girl slid under the blast. Letting her feet shoot out in front of her, she slid downward for a moment. She then completed the slide with an aerial back flip and turned to face Roshi again.
Except, he was not there. A quick use of the double image technique and Roshi was behind her. Right where he wanted to be.
"Ya know, most warriors would be smart enough to cut their hair." He said as he grabbed the end of her braid. Turning around in a circle, he started to whip the girl around like a yo-yo on a string.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!! LET GO OF MY HAIR THIS INSTANT!!!" Showing more control then Roshi had given her credit for. The girl pushed her arm around until it was pointed directly at Roshi. She then shot a ki blast at him.
Roshi shot straight down avoiding the blast as he pulled the girl down with him. Once he got to the ground, he whipped her right into a big rock. The rock shattered. Several trees and even the lake soon got a piece of the girl. After a few more over the back sledgehammer throws into the ground, she stopped resisting.
Roshi was about to swing her around over his head again in a 360 when she suddenly darted around him in the opposite direction.
The next thing Roshi knew, his arms were wrapped tight to his side and he was pressed face-to-face mere millimeters from the girl. To make matters worse, the girl had managed to wrap her braid around his neck, too.
Roshi looked into her stormy Grey-blue eyes and knew he was going to die. Her hands were free, she was amply pissed, and having never having had any sort of close physical contact with the opposite sex, Roshi was panicking. He simply was unable to think of a way out of his predicament.
"THAT HURT YOU, STUPID BARBARIC CRETIN!" She screamed into his face. She brought her knees up and planted them on his chest. Once she had a leverage, she arched her back away from him to tighten the strangle hold.
Gurgle gasp... Roshi was starting to have trouble breathing.
WHAM!! She walloped him in the side of the head. By reflex, he let go of her hair and tried to block.
ZIIISSSHT, no longer being held onto, her hair slid loose. Still pushing away from him the girl lost her balance and started to fall backward.
'Ahhhh! Rope burn!' Roshi thought as the noose whipped off of his neck. He started to get back up.
WHAM!!! A stiff kick to the ribs sent him flying off into the trees.
* * *
Ichigo's head hurt. Actually, it throbbed. "When I get my hands on that jerk he is going to pay for that! No one touches my hair and lives! Barbaric jerk!" Ichigo said to herself as she rolled her head about stretching her neck.
She saw Roshi catch himself in air and land some 16 meters away from her. He was breathing hard, but was otherwise not looking too bad. This angered Ichigo even more. He was making a mockery of her and should not be.
'I have been too careless with this Son Roshi. He is a fighter who has shown to deserve my respect. Yet his actions today have been less then honorable. For this I must kill him to regain the honor his actions have cost me.' She told herself as she looked at him prepare for another assault.
"You are very strong and have shown yourself to be a capable fighter, but you are going to lose Son Roshi!"
"Oh, so you actually DO know my name!" He called back, "So why do you say I am going to lose? You have yet to gain the upper hand!"
"No? You may be strong, but I am faster then you!" Ichigo proclaimed as she flew at him. "Speed is more important then power in any fight!"
Roshi dodged to the left and attempted to kick her in the side but Ichigo blocked with her left arm and swept his left leg out from under him with her right leg. Roshi started to fall, but then pirouetted in the air and caught himself with his right arm.
WHAM! Ichigo was caught in the back of the knee by his now free leg as he spun around. She let the momentum push her into a back flip and landed several feet away.
"Damn!" she said as she landed. He can still move just about as fast as I can!
"So you claim you are faster Huh?" Roshi said as he loosened his wrist guards. "Catch." Roshi threw the things at Ichigo.
She jumped out of the way.
*Thud* *Thud*
They hit the ground with quite the impact. Ichigo cautiously watched him take off his boots as she went over and picked up one of the wrist guards.
"Holy crap! These things must weigh 100 kgs!" she exclaimed.
"Yeah, and the boots are 125 a piece." He said as he tossed one at her.
Ichigo looked at him wide eyed as he stretched. 'What kind of monster fights with 450kgs of dead weight holding them down? He was fast before! Now he really is going to be moving! What kind of creature is he?'
Ichigo wished she had taken the time to go get her scouter. She would give just about anything to know his real power.
"Well, you ready for round three?" He asked. "You know, anytime you want to stop fighting and talk we can, I really don't want to have to hurt you."
Ichigo was battered, bruised, and shamed. There was no way in hell she was going to stop this fight anytime in the near future. No, she was just going to have to pull out ALL the stops.
"Any time you want to die, you can come and play." She said as she jumped into the air.
'How can I beat him? He doesn't seem to have any weaknesses. He seems to always know where I am. He is fast, he is still stronger then me, AND as far as I know the heavy breathing was just a ploy.'
'Well,' she thought, 'I might as well try to catch him off guard. One thing all those fights with Meron taught me is that becoming predictable is the same as letting yourself be beaten. Let's see how he likes his own attack being used against him.'
"Ka-Me" he just stood there on the ground looking calm as a rock. "Ha-Me"
"Ah so you want a duel huh? Well I'll play along. KA-ME-HA-ME"
"HA" both of them said at the same time.
Two blue beams shot towards each other. The beams were however, quite different. Ichigo had cocked her hands at an angle rather then the normal clamshell that Roshi used. This imparted a tight spin on the beam.
The night ski was filled with a blue flash as the two beams hit. Roshi's beam was definitely the larger of the two, but Ichigo's beam drilled right into it dissipating the energy off to the sides as it continued on its way.
BOOOOOOM!!!!! The explosion was quite spectacular. Ichigo was quite impressed with it.
"MASENKO!!!" she heard him scream from inside the explosion.
The yellow ball of energy shot at her at incredible speed.
Ichigo dodged to the left and ran right into Roshi's fist.
"Nice attack, too bad it never hit me." He said to her as he gave her a hook to the jaw.
Ichigo's head jerked to the left and she saw stars.
"I will not be beaten!" She started to throw hundreds of small ki blasts at Roshi.
Boom, BoomBoomBoomBOOM! The explosions went off for several moments. When the smoke cleared she saw Roshi flying up leaving a trail of smoke.
WHAMMMM!!! The ki blast he had fired before leaving the smoke hit her in the side and spun her around.
Ichigo was rapidly loosing her patience. She couldn't understand how he always seemed to know where she was. His constant attacks from behind cover or behind her were getting old very fast.
"Coward!!!" She yelled after him. "I am going to kill you and then when I am done with you I'll turn this planet into a smoldering ruin!"
She flew after him as fast as she could, all the while letting her temper build.
* * *
"There, that should keep you from going anywhere!" Tee said to Slip as he closed the last of the padlocks. Boxer and Tee had first tied Slip up using high-strength cables, then titanium chains.
Happy with having Slip tied up, the two of them walked to the door.
It would not open.
"What's with the door? It won't open?" Boxer said after the door refused to open.
"hmmmiii hmmmiii" Slip managed to laugh through the gag.
"Slip, we don't have time for this look at the GKSS! Roshi needs help!" Tee said as he pointed to the screen.
The screen showed Roshi getting thrown through a cliff.
"uuhh hiii mmmeeee" Slip demanded.
"Nah.. you think that door can hold us?" Tee said.
"NIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!" Slip screamed through the gag as Tee fired a ki blast at the door.
The beam hit an energy field in front of the door that Bulma had designed to block Vegeta's ki blasts when he was angry. Since Boxers had not hit the field straight on, the beam bounced away and flew into a large bank of computers. Unfortunately for the computers, they were not protected. (the field was designed to keep energy out of the lab, not in) The computers exploded. Pieces and parts of the now ruined computers ricocheted all over the lab. The fire alarms went off, and the CO2 foamers started foaming down the lab. Then a secondary explosion knocked out the power and everything went dark for a few seconds until the backup lights came on.
"IIIIDDDDIIIIIIAAAAOOOOOAA!!!!" Slip screamed.
"You tell him, Slip! Help me get this fire out before we suffocate in this smoke, Tee!" Boxers yelled through the smoke.
"uuhh hiii mmmeeee!!! uuhh hiii mmmeeee!!!" Slip was frantically squealing from where she was chained. Finally giving up, she bit through the gag and spit it out. "Hurry and UNTIE ME NOW YOU IMBICLES!!!!!! IF YOU DISTROYED ANY OF MY DATA I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!! HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID??? THIS WHOLE BUILDING HAS THOSE FORCE FIELDS!!!! YOU STUPID RETARDED MORONIC IDIOT!!!!!" she yelled while thrashing back and forth in the chair.
"Ignore her let's get the fire out and see if we can get the power back on." Tee said.
"Um yeah... sure" Boxers said as he shot a small ki blast at Slip.
"HEY WATCH IT what the HELL do you think..." the rest of her comment was cut off when the chains and cables suddenly fell off of her. "Uh... thank you, Boxers, at least you have some manners."
"Oh, why couldn't they be more like Roshi?" she said more to the air then to anyone in particular as she ran over to the master power panel for the lab.
"Main power should be back... Now." She said as she flipped a large breaker. Lights, fans and computers slowly started to come back online.
With main power back the foamers got the fire under control in a matter of moments. When the smoke cleared, they finally could see how much damage Tee's errant blast had done.
Looking up at the now dark main view screen, Slip started working. She then noticed Boxers trying to slink to the door. "Oh, no, you don't! That door is still sealed. Roshi can take care of himself, you two are going to help me get my lab back up and running again!"
"Nice one, Tee!" Boxers said indignantly.
"I'm sorry, but both of you seem to be forgetting the fact that if Roshi loses, this lab won't matter one bit. We need to go help him!" Tee yelled at the two of them.
"No, you don't!" Slip yelled. "Roshi always seems to pull miracles out of his ass, he won't need your help and you two know it."
* * *
Roshi was not having a good day. In the fifteen minutes since the fight had started, he had lost any advantage he may have had. He could no longer feel his right hand. Well, that is the only thing he could feel was the grinding pain from various broken bones. Also, his right eye had now swollen shut. The girl had hit him in the face with one of her Ki punches. Roshi had never had a black eye before, and found it to be very distracting. To make matters worse, this Kinomi girl seemed to be catching on to his moves. He was catching her off guard less and less.
"Why did I have to be so stupid?" he said to the air.
He knew that he probably could have beaten the girl right off the bat if he had been willing to risk killing her. While she had done many terrible things, there was just something, something unknown about her. Try as he might, he couldn't explain it. But it was enough to make him decide not to try to kill her.
THUD WHAM!!!!
A blow to the side of his face brought him out of his thoughts. 'Damn! I am letting my mind wander,' he thought to himself. 'This is not good.'
Roshi caught himself and started to turn around. The girl didn't give him time. A kick to the middle of his back sent him into large oak tree. Roshi flew right through the trunk of the tree and skidded to a stop on the ground on the other side. Then, the tree fell on him.
No, this was not one of his better days.
* * *
Ichigo looked down at the tree. A smile crept onto her face. 'Serves the jerk right. Lot of flashy moves, but no endurance.'
"Hey moron! You going to let that tree crush you, of do you still have some fight left in you?" she called down to him. I thought this was supposed to be some unconquerable planet. If this is the best you can do I might as well find someone else who can give me a REAL fight."
Ichigo realized that she was letting her rage get the better of herself, but she didn't care. To many things had gone wrong on this trip. 'Why not let my baser emotions get out of hand? I might as well enjoy serving this jerk up for everything he deserves.'
Just then there was a large blue explosion of energy from where the tree had fallen on the jerk.
He shot through the air at her with a look of utter determination.
"We never had to fight in the first place, but by KAMI I WILL NOT LET YOU BEAT ME!" He shouted as he slammed his fist into her face.
Ichigo was knocked straight up into the air.
"I don't know why you have been killing people, but IT STOPS HERE!" He screamed as he suddenly had a hold the back of her neck and right knee. The next thing Ichigo felt was his knee being driven deep into her stomach.
"Auuh aaaahhh uuuggh" She couldn't breathe. 'Where did he find this new energy from?' "Hiahh" she shouted as she shot off a energy beam at where she thought he was.
"KamehameHA!!!" she heard him yell.
Struggling to get the world back into focus, she looked franticly to find the oncoming blast.
She finally saw it. He was using it to propel himself faster then he could normally fly. Ichigo watched in wonder as he used the extra speed to catch up to and then fly right into her ki blast.
BOOOOOMMM!!!!!
When the smoke cleared, she saw him hovering above a small village. The entire back of his outfit had been blown off. Had he not stopped the blast, the village would have been decimated.
He slowly turned to face her. She caught the look coming from the one good eye of Son Roshi. Never had she seen such rage.
"If you do that again, you will not live to make the mistake a third time." He said in an amazingly calm voice. "I did not desire a fight, but you have made me your enemy. I will not let you continue to kill people pointlessly. Let us finish this away from here."
"POINTLESS?!!! POINTLESS!!! You don't know ANYTHING!!! AND IF YOU DIDN'T WANT A FIGHT WHY DID YOU ATTACK ME?!?!?! YOU STARTED THIS YOU JERK!!! I AM SICK OF YOUR STUPID ARROGANT INSULTS AND ANTICS!!!" Ichigo lost it. She was pissed. This mission meant everything to her people. If she failed, they were as good as dead. Saiyans as a race were very proud. Ichigo would never admit that she could be beaten, and Roshi had just hit the wrong nerve.
"Star Ripper," she screamed as she flew at him again.
* * *
Caught off guard by her sudden rage, Roshi was hit by the Star Ripper. He suddenly realized why it was called a Star Ripper, as the jagged points of ki energy shredded his outfit like thousands of little knives. From his armpit down to his waist, the left side of his gi was gone. The white Saiyan body suit he had been complaining about earlier had stopped some of the attack, but he could see the red tinge of blood starting to stain it.
'Damn, if only my anger had held.' Roshi had heard many a story about the "Gohan" effect. It was said that when Gohan got mad, nothing could stop him. Well every so often, one of his decendants would have the same rage induced abilities. Up until a few moments ago, Roshi had not known if he did or not. But now he knew. He had it. For the few moments after she had triggered his rage, he was unstoppable. Now, he was back to normal, and back to wishing he could come up with a strategy. The Saiyan girl just did not seem to be running out of energy.
"Blaze!" she yelled out from about 5 meters away.
"Shit!!! KamehameHA!!!" Roshi barley had enough time to fire the beam and use it's momentum to carry him away from the oncoming blast of heat.
Roshi completed his flip, and shot several small ki blasts at her. Which, she dodged without much effort. The fight was rapidly becoming an all out grudge fest. It had been going on for about 25 minutes already, and who knew how long it would take. Roshi knew that the girl had to be getting tired too; one could not fire off so many ki blasts and not be running low.
Roshi's stomach growled. The last thing he had eaten was that fish earlier in the day, he was starving. It suddenly dawned on him, that that might be one of the reasons why he was so low on energy. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'Time to make the best of a bad situation.'
Wham! A powerful blow to the back sent him into a tree. Roshi grabbed a large branch, and threw it at the girl. She dodged it only to run into his knee.
As her head snapped around from the blow, she shot ball of ki at Roshi. He dodged it and was in turn kicked in the side of the head.
The two of them fought fiercely for several minutes more. The girl was starting to weaken, and Roshi sensed his chance, willingly overextending himself he reached out to grab her left shoulder. 'If I can just get a good hold onto her and pin her I might be able to get her to calm down and talk' he thought as he tried to grab her.
She dodged and twisted away from him spinning her shoulder beyond his reach. Expecting to grab onto something harder and more muscular, Roshi was surprised to grab onto something quite a bit softer.
Roshi realized in an instant that his plan had two flaws. First, she was nimble and had mostly evaded his grasp. And secondly forcing her to continue her spin and pinning her back to his chest may have pinned her arms had he actually been able to grab her left shoulder. But in the current situation it left both her head and her left arm free.
She gasped in pain as he grabbed and then clenched onto the first flesh his hand caught spinning her around. "OUCH, THAT'S ATTACHED, YOU PERVERTED JERK!!!" The girl yelled as she slammed the back of her head into Roshi's nose and then slammed her elbow into his stomach.
He let go of her and she jumped away like she had been shot from a cannon.
"You PERVERTED JERK!!! HOW DARE YOU EVEN ATTEMPT TO GRAB ME THERE, YOU STUPID PRICK!!!!"
Suddenly feeling very embarrassed and rather sorry for the girl, Roshi stopped to apologize. He did not get very far as she almost took his head off with a roundhouse kick.
THUD!!! Roshi impacted the ground and buried himself a meter or so under the surface.
'Stupid idiot!!! This is NOT the time to be chivalrous. She is trying to kill you you dumb idiot. Never lower your guard. NEVER NEVER NEVER.' He mentally yelled at himself as he climbed out of the hole.
* * *
Oooowwww that throbs, Ichigo thought to herself as she readjusted her bra and watched the bastard climb out of the hole in the ground.
BOOM!!! Moments after he leapt clear, the Star Ripper she had sent after him smashed into the hole.
'I have got to end this before he really does kill me. This fight is taking too long, and I am loosing the advantage I once had. Feeling the strain on her muscles and joints she realized that it was going to take a while to recover from this fight. If only I had more energy. I can't even make a ki attack big enough to really hurt him anymore.'
Seeing that he seemed to have recovered from the kick to the head, Ichigo got ready to fight again.
During the next exchange, he kicked her in the lower back, right were her tail had been. The pain was incredible and she could not stop herself for crying out in pain. After bouncing to a stop on the ground, she got up and saw him watching her smugly from above.
"I will NOT BE BEATEN," She yelled at him.
"Neither will I," he replied as she flew at him.
After giving and blocking several blows she finally had an idea. 'Well, since he was willing to use MY weaknesses so willingly, time to show him that MEN always have a weak spot.'
Grabbing his hands the next time he attacked, she gave him a quick knee to the gut to break up his movements. Then deciding that this was her only chance, she quickly charged her foot with ki like she was doing a Ki Punch and kicked him full in the crotch.
His eyes bulged out and then rolled back as he exhaled any air that may have been in his lungs. The kick had driven him higher into the air so Ichigo had to fly up to get to him.
"HHHAAAAAAAA!!!!" She screamed as she hit him double handed in the back and sent him crashing into the ground. He hit an outcropping of granite and made a hole into it. The surface rocks then caved in on top of him.
"Hah Hah Hah Hah," out of breath, and not able to continue much longer herself, Ichigo looked down at the hole.
'There is No way he is still conscious. Ha, I won.' A small thread of Joy spread through her. 'Time to finish this.'
"THAT'S RIGHT!!! DIE DOWN THERE YOU STUPID JERK. SERVES YOU RIGHT! I guess I should just find someone else to beat information out of!!!"
Ichigo started to put everything she had into one final ki ball when she saw a small glimmer of blue light start emanating from the hole.
* * *
"There," Slip said as she welded two wires together. "The GKSS should be back up now, turn it back on. Let's see what is going on."
"Ok got it!" Tee yelled back.
The screen slowly came back up as the system warmed up. They saw the two of stick figure representations of Roshi and the Saiyan girl fighting hand to hand in mid-air.
"Hmmmm.. Roshi is only at 18,030! That can't be right." Slip said as the readout for Roshi came up.
The read out for the girl came up a moment later. 18,050.
"Oh, my word. Look at them, though. The system is reading massive amounts of damage to the area in which they have been fighting. The two of them have been beating the snot out of each other for the last half-hour. I am not really a history buff, but I don't recall any of Goku's battles taking this long. Heck, I am surprised they still have this much energy." Boxers said.
"AAAHHHHH!!!!!!" Slip screamed as she saw the Roshi image get kicked and then sent plummeting into the earth.
The image disappeared.
"AAAAHHHHHH its gone!!! ROSHI IS GONE!!!! Why is it not picking him up!!! ROSHI CAN'T BE DEAD!!!! WHO IS GOING TO TELL HIS MOTHER!!!! AAHHHH NO, HIS FATHER!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!! MY PARENTS ARE GOING TO KILL ME THEY LEFT ME IN CHARGE AND LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED!!!! AHHHHHHH AHHHHHH!!!!" Slip started screaming in shock.
"Would you SHUT UP! We don't know if he is dead yet. Hey, look the image for him is back." Tee said.
They watched on as the power level meter for the Roshi image started to tick upward.
"What the hell is going on?" Tee managed to say.
The meter passed 50,000. Then 60,000. 70,000. 90,000!
"That can't be right." Boxers said as the meter passed 200,000.
Roshi had yet to move but the image on the screen for him had an ever- increasing aura building up around it.
"246,000! IT stopped at 246,000!!! What the heck is happening?" Tee said.
"I don't know, but I am going to go find out," Slip said as she ran to the door.
"Hey wait, we're coming with" Boxers and Tee shouted after her.
* * *
There was a flash, and every centimeter of ground of several tens of meters was vaporized in an instant. Ichigo saw her ki blast fizzle harmlessly against the on rushing wall of ki energy.
"Oh no!" she said moments before the energy smashed into her forcing her into the sky.
Standing on the ground at the center of the newly formed crater was Son Roshi. He had a huge flaring blue ki aura around him. And he was looking right at Ichigo.
"I'm dead," she said to herself as he disappeared only to appear directly in front of her.
"You want to fight dirty? Ok, we can fight dirty. Try this on for size!" Placing his hands on his forehead he screamed out. "Taiyoken!!!"
Ichigo had been looking right at his forehead when the brilliantly blinding white burst of light shot forth.
"AHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH My eyes!!!!" She wailed as searing pain blinded her. Her eyes hurt more then she would have thought possible.
Then she felt him grab her left arm. Twisting it back behind her, he kicked her in the small of the back. She heard a sickening popping noise as pain shot up her back. Then she could no longer feel her legs.
She then felt her elbow snap as he yanked her arm back around.
A sudden blow to the face shattered her nose and several teeth like wooden twigs.
She was starting to loose feeling. The pain was overwhelming. She knew she was dead, but Ichigo didn't care. She had one last try to hurt him back. Twisting her fingers on her right had as if wishing for luck, she fired a drill beam. From the tips of her fingers shot a small spinning beam. Ichigo knew not whether she had hit him or not as the pain slowly took her away.
* * *
Not having been prepared for such an attack, Roshi was speared clean through his side. Dropping the girl in a heap, Roshi knew he was in trouble.
"BITCH!!!" He yelled as he threw on last ki blast at the falling girl.
The blast hit her unconscious form and drove it into the ground.
"Oww, that hurts..." Roshi said as he looked down at his bleeding side.
"Kintoun!" he called out. He had left his bag of senzu beans in the cloud. The Kintoun flew up and he grabbed the bag.
Feeling light headed both from the use of energy his body could not support, and from the loss of blood, Roshi passed out as he put the bean into his mouth.
* * *
End
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(Sunday night around 10:15 pm)
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. It is called Tri-Form." The jerk said as all three of him fused back into one. "Now, if you want me to fight honorably, why don't you start by telling me your name?"
Ichigo had learned a great deal in the last few moments. Pride before the fall, her father had always said. Until now, she had not had any idea what it had truly meant. Now she knew. She had been too prideful. Now she was paying for it. 'Well, fine,' she thought. 'I don't have to tell him my REAL name. He is full of tricks, is far stronger thsn I gave him credit for, but he is also so sure of himself that he is cocky. He is not going to shame ME on the battlefield.'
"My name is Kinomi." She said as she flew up to hit him with a Ki Punch.
* * *
Roshi was not one to lower his guard. He ducked under the punch and hit her in the stomach.
Pulling himself back, he barley avoided getting hit by her knee as she pulled it up towards his gut. He fired off a quick ki blast. It hit the girl in the side of the face and caused her to break off.
'Darn, I used up too much energy in the Tri-Form. She is hurt, but not enough. I was hoping she would have lost some energy after my attacks, but it does not seem like that has happened.'
Roshi dodged several ki blasts. After returning fire, and then closing in for a quick hand-to-hand, he knew he was in trouble.
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. Ha.." 'I need to do something. She is not the least bit tired, and I am running low real fast. Dad told me to work on my endurance. When am I going to learn that the man never talks just to hear himself talk?'
"HHUUUHGGGHHH!!!" Roshi gasped as the Kinomi girl came up and punched him in the gut. The bitter taste of bile filled his mouth.
Roshi managed to grab her arm and drive his knee into her side as he pulled away from the punch.
The two of them danced around each other in the air for several seconds. Both gave and received blows. Roshi was able to block most of the girl's attacks, but he was not going to be able to forever.
* * *
"What the heck is going on?!" Slip screamed at Boxers and Tee. "You two said that you wouldn't be of any help in this fight. Well if that is true why are the three Roshi's being able to beat the crap out of the girl now? He only has a power level of 24,000 verses her 48,000. She is twice as powerful as any of the three of him!"
Boxers swallowed some of his pride and looked at Slip. "He is taking her by surprise. All the strength in the universe does little if you are not prepared."
"What do you mean by that?" Slip demanded.
Boxers looked around the room. "Ok, take this poll here. It is supporting that piece of equipment, right?"
"Yes."
"Wel,l would it break if you put as much force into the side of it as that big piece of equipment is putting on the top?"
"It would bend at the very least, but it wasn't meant to take a force from the sides!"
"Well, that is exactly what Roshi is doing with the girl. He is hitting her where she doesn't expect him to and is getting the worst of it. The fact remains, if she were to hit back, Roshi would be in a world of hurt."
Slip seemed to ponder for a while but stayed quiet. The three teens watched the display in awe for a while and stayed quiet until the fight suddenly started taking a turn for the worse.
"Why isn't he beating the crap out of her? He was a lot stronger then that!" Slip yelled at the screen. "Why is he holding back?"
"I don't think he is. Like I said, Roshi messed up with the Tri-form. He didn't do enough damage, and now he is winded. She is going to eat him up." Boxers said in a whisper.
"Don't say that! The two of us working together couldn't beat Roshi when he was actually fighting. I don't think he has lost anything, and look the girl is down to 44,900 that is quite the drop in power." Tee argued
"Yeah, but the GKSS says that Roshi is down to around 48,000 now!" Slip screamed. I don't know about you guys but I would say 72,000 to 48,000 is a bigger drop in power then 49,000 to 44,900!"
"I still say Roshi knows what he is doing!" Tee exclaimed
"Yeah, well I don't, he needs help, I can be there in half an hour if I leave now, you coming Tee?" Boxers said as he walked out the door.
"Oh, alright! I'm coming wait up!"
"Hey, you can't leave me here!" Slip exclaimed, "I'm coming with!"
"Slip, you can't fight! You should stay here where it is safe." Boxers said.
"Oh, no, you don't! I don't need any chivalry from you two, I can fly and I know how to stay out of the way!"
"Why did Roshi ever have to teach you to fly?" Tee whined.
"Yeah, well... Cry some other time how you can't make me stay here!"
Boxers and Tee looked at each other. The two of them smirked evilly.
"That sounded like a challenge." They both said as one.
Slip's eyes got about as big as plates as both boys jumped at her. "AHHHHHHH... GUARDS HELP ME!!!! GUA..." the rest of whatever she was going to say was cut off by Tee's sock being shoved into her mouth. Slip looked like she was going to be sick, but the boys didn't care. They set about finding some high strength cord to tie her up with.
* * *
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.. This sucks!" Roshi said as he was pulling away from the girl. 'I have to think of something,' he thought as he absent-mindedly wiped away some blood that was trickling down his face.
Roshi jerked his hand back after he brushed it over the cut on his cheek. 'That hurts!' He realized with a start. 'That girl must have cut me bad when she slapped me with her hair. That stuff makes a nasty whip.'
'Wait a minute! That is it! This Kinomi girl has over a meter of rope attached to her head! Why didn't I think of that earlier?' Roshi continued to berate himself for failing to see an obvious weakness in the girl.
Roshi then flew right at the girl. He shot off a fairly good-sized Masenko directly at her head.
The girl slid under the blast. Letting her feet shoot out in front of her, she slid downward for a moment. She then completed the slide with an aerial back flip and turned to face Roshi again.
Except, he was not there. A quick use of the double image technique and Roshi was behind her. Right where he wanted to be.
"Ya know, most warriors would be smart enough to cut their hair." He said as he grabbed the end of her braid. Turning around in a circle, he started to whip the girl around like a yo-yo on a string.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!! LET GO OF MY HAIR THIS INSTANT!!!" Showing more control then Roshi had given her credit for. The girl pushed her arm around until it was pointed directly at Roshi. She then shot a ki blast at him.
Roshi shot straight down avoiding the blast as he pulled the girl down with him. Once he got to the ground, he whipped her right into a big rock. The rock shattered. Several trees and even the lake soon got a piece of the girl. After a few more over the back sledgehammer throws into the ground, she stopped resisting.
Roshi was about to swing her around over his head again in a 360 when she suddenly darted around him in the opposite direction.
The next thing Roshi knew, his arms were wrapped tight to his side and he was pressed face-to-face mere millimeters from the girl. To make matters worse, the girl had managed to wrap her braid around his neck, too.
Roshi looked into her stormy Grey-blue eyes and knew he was going to die. Her hands were free, she was amply pissed, and having never having had any sort of close physical contact with the opposite sex, Roshi was panicking. He simply was unable to think of a way out of his predicament.
"THAT HURT YOU, STUPID BARBARIC CRETIN!" She screamed into his face. She brought her knees up and planted them on his chest. Once she had a leverage, she arched her back away from him to tighten the strangle hold.
Gurgle gasp... Roshi was starting to have trouble breathing.
WHAM!! She walloped him in the side of the head. By reflex, he let go of her hair and tried to block.
ZIIISSSHT, no longer being held onto, her hair slid loose. Still pushing away from him the girl lost her balance and started to fall backward.
'Ahhhh! Rope burn!' Roshi thought as the noose whipped off of his neck. He started to get back up.
WHAM!!! A stiff kick to the ribs sent him flying off into the trees.
* * *
Ichigo's head hurt. Actually, it throbbed. "When I get my hands on that jerk he is going to pay for that! No one touches my hair and lives! Barbaric jerk!" Ichigo said to herself as she rolled her head about stretching her neck.
She saw Roshi catch himself in air and land some 16 meters away from her. He was breathing hard, but was otherwise not looking too bad. This angered Ichigo even more. He was making a mockery of her and should not be.
'I have been too careless with this Son Roshi. He is a fighter who has shown to deserve my respect. Yet his actions today have been less then honorable. For this I must kill him to regain the honor his actions have cost me.' She told herself as she looked at him prepare for another assault.
"You are very strong and have shown yourself to be a capable fighter, but you are going to lose Son Roshi!"
"Oh, so you actually DO know my name!" He called back, "So why do you say I am going to lose? You have yet to gain the upper hand!"
"No? You may be strong, but I am faster then you!" Ichigo proclaimed as she flew at him. "Speed is more important then power in any fight!"
Roshi dodged to the left and attempted to kick her in the side but Ichigo blocked with her left arm and swept his left leg out from under him with her right leg. Roshi started to fall, but then pirouetted in the air and caught himself with his right arm.
WHAM! Ichigo was caught in the back of the knee by his now free leg as he spun around. She let the momentum push her into a back flip and landed several feet away.
"Damn!" she said as she landed. He can still move just about as fast as I can!
"So you claim you are faster Huh?" Roshi said as he loosened his wrist guards. "Catch." Roshi threw the things at Ichigo.
She jumped out of the way.
*Thud* *Thud*
They hit the ground with quite the impact. Ichigo cautiously watched him take off his boots as she went over and picked up one of the wrist guards.
"Holy crap! These things must weigh 100 kgs!" she exclaimed.
"Yeah, and the boots are 125 a piece." He said as he tossed one at her.
Ichigo looked at him wide eyed as he stretched. 'What kind of monster fights with 450kgs of dead weight holding them down? He was fast before! Now he really is going to be moving! What kind of creature is he?'
Ichigo wished she had taken the time to go get her scouter. She would give just about anything to know his real power.
"Well, you ready for round three?" He asked. "You know, anytime you want to stop fighting and talk we can, I really don't want to have to hurt you."
Ichigo was battered, bruised, and shamed. There was no way in hell she was going to stop this fight anytime in the near future. No, she was just going to have to pull out ALL the stops.
"Any time you want to die, you can come and play." She said as she jumped into the air.
'How can I beat him? He doesn't seem to have any weaknesses. He seems to always know where I am. He is fast, he is still stronger then me, AND as far as I know the heavy breathing was just a ploy.'
'Well,' she thought, 'I might as well try to catch him off guard. One thing all those fights with Meron taught me is that becoming predictable is the same as letting yourself be beaten. Let's see how he likes his own attack being used against him.'
"Ka-Me" he just stood there on the ground looking calm as a rock. "Ha-Me"
"Ah so you want a duel huh? Well I'll play along. KA-ME-HA-ME"
"HA" both of them said at the same time.
Two blue beams shot towards each other. The beams were however, quite different. Ichigo had cocked her hands at an angle rather then the normal clamshell that Roshi used. This imparted a tight spin on the beam.
The night ski was filled with a blue flash as the two beams hit. Roshi's beam was definitely the larger of the two, but Ichigo's beam drilled right into it dissipating the energy off to the sides as it continued on its way.
BOOOOOOM!!!!! The explosion was quite spectacular. Ichigo was quite impressed with it.
"MASENKO!!!" she heard him scream from inside the explosion.
The yellow ball of energy shot at her at incredible speed.
Ichigo dodged to the left and ran right into Roshi's fist.
"Nice attack, too bad it never hit me." He said to her as he gave her a hook to the jaw.
Ichigo's head jerked to the left and she saw stars.
"I will not be beaten!" She started to throw hundreds of small ki blasts at Roshi.
Boom, BoomBoomBoomBOOM! The explosions went off for several moments. When the smoke cleared she saw Roshi flying up leaving a trail of smoke.
WHAMMMM!!! The ki blast he had fired before leaving the smoke hit her in the side and spun her around.
Ichigo was rapidly loosing her patience. She couldn't understand how he always seemed to know where she was. His constant attacks from behind cover or behind her were getting old very fast.
"Coward!!!" She yelled after him. "I am going to kill you and then when I am done with you I'll turn this planet into a smoldering ruin!"
She flew after him as fast as she could, all the while letting her temper build.
* * *
"There, that should keep you from going anywhere!" Tee said to Slip as he closed the last of the padlocks. Boxer and Tee had first tied Slip up using high-strength cables, then titanium chains.
Happy with having Slip tied up, the two of them walked to the door.
It would not open.
"What's with the door? It won't open?" Boxer said after the door refused to open.
"hmmmiii hmmmiii" Slip managed to laugh through the gag.
"Slip, we don't have time for this look at the GKSS! Roshi needs help!" Tee said as he pointed to the screen.
The screen showed Roshi getting thrown through a cliff.
"uuhh hiii mmmeeee" Slip demanded.
"Nah.. you think that door can hold us?" Tee said.
"NIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!" Slip screamed through the gag as Tee fired a ki blast at the door.
The beam hit an energy field in front of the door that Bulma had designed to block Vegeta's ki blasts when he was angry. Since Boxers had not hit the field straight on, the beam bounced away and flew into a large bank of computers. Unfortunately for the computers, they were not protected. (the field was designed to keep energy out of the lab, not in) The computers exploded. Pieces and parts of the now ruined computers ricocheted all over the lab. The fire alarms went off, and the CO2 foamers started foaming down the lab. Then a secondary explosion knocked out the power and everything went dark for a few seconds until the backup lights came on.
"IIIIDDDDIIIIIIAAAAOOOOOAA!!!!" Slip screamed.
"You tell him, Slip! Help me get this fire out before we suffocate in this smoke, Tee!" Boxers yelled through the smoke.
"uuhh hiii mmmeeee!!! uuhh hiii mmmeeee!!!" Slip was frantically squealing from where she was chained. Finally giving up, she bit through the gag and spit it out. "Hurry and UNTIE ME NOW YOU IMBICLES!!!!!! IF YOU DISTROYED ANY OF MY DATA I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!! HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID??? THIS WHOLE BUILDING HAS THOSE FORCE FIELDS!!!! YOU STUPID RETARDED MORONIC IDIOT!!!!!" she yelled while thrashing back and forth in the chair.
"Ignore her let's get the fire out and see if we can get the power back on." Tee said.
"Um yeah... sure" Boxers said as he shot a small ki blast at Slip.
"HEY WATCH IT what the HELL do you think..." the rest of her comment was cut off when the chains and cables suddenly fell off of her. "Uh... thank you, Boxers, at least you have some manners."
"Oh, why couldn't they be more like Roshi?" she said more to the air then to anyone in particular as she ran over to the master power panel for the lab.
"Main power should be back... Now." She said as she flipped a large breaker. Lights, fans and computers slowly started to come back online.
With main power back the foamers got the fire under control in a matter of moments. When the smoke cleared, they finally could see how much damage Tee's errant blast had done.
Looking up at the now dark main view screen, Slip started working. She then noticed Boxers trying to slink to the door. "Oh, no, you don't! That door is still sealed. Roshi can take care of himself, you two are going to help me get my lab back up and running again!"
"Nice one, Tee!" Boxers said indignantly.
"I'm sorry, but both of you seem to be forgetting the fact that if Roshi loses, this lab won't matter one bit. We need to go help him!" Tee yelled at the two of them.
"No, you don't!" Slip yelled. "Roshi always seems to pull miracles out of his ass, he won't need your help and you two know it."
* * *
Roshi was not having a good day. In the fifteen minutes since the fight had started, he had lost any advantage he may have had. He could no longer feel his right hand. Well, that is the only thing he could feel was the grinding pain from various broken bones. Also, his right eye had now swollen shut. The girl had hit him in the face with one of her Ki punches. Roshi had never had a black eye before, and found it to be very distracting. To make matters worse, this Kinomi girl seemed to be catching on to his moves. He was catching her off guard less and less.
"Why did I have to be so stupid?" he said to the air.
He knew that he probably could have beaten the girl right off the bat if he had been willing to risk killing her. While she had done many terrible things, there was just something, something unknown about her. Try as he might, he couldn't explain it. But it was enough to make him decide not to try to kill her.
THUD WHAM!!!!
A blow to the side of his face brought him out of his thoughts. 'Damn! I am letting my mind wander,' he thought to himself. 'This is not good.'
Roshi caught himself and started to turn around. The girl didn't give him time. A kick to the middle of his back sent him into large oak tree. Roshi flew right through the trunk of the tree and skidded to a stop on the ground on the other side. Then, the tree fell on him.
No, this was not one of his better days.
* * *
Ichigo looked down at the tree. A smile crept onto her face. 'Serves the jerk right. Lot of flashy moves, but no endurance.'
"Hey moron! You going to let that tree crush you, of do you still have some fight left in you?" she called down to him. I thought this was supposed to be some unconquerable planet. If this is the best you can do I might as well find someone else who can give me a REAL fight."
Ichigo realized that she was letting her rage get the better of herself, but she didn't care. To many things had gone wrong on this trip. 'Why not let my baser emotions get out of hand? I might as well enjoy serving this jerk up for everything he deserves.'
Just then there was a large blue explosion of energy from where the tree had fallen on the jerk.
He shot through the air at her with a look of utter determination.
"We never had to fight in the first place, but by KAMI I WILL NOT LET YOU BEAT ME!" He shouted as he slammed his fist into her face.
Ichigo was knocked straight up into the air.
"I don't know why you have been killing people, but IT STOPS HERE!" He screamed as he suddenly had a hold the back of her neck and right knee. The next thing Ichigo felt was his knee being driven deep into her stomach.
"Auuh aaaahhh uuuggh" She couldn't breathe. 'Where did he find this new energy from?' "Hiahh" she shouted as she shot off a energy beam at where she thought he was.
"KamehameHA!!!" she heard him yell.
Struggling to get the world back into focus, she looked franticly to find the oncoming blast.
She finally saw it. He was using it to propel himself faster then he could normally fly. Ichigo watched in wonder as he used the extra speed to catch up to and then fly right into her ki blast.
BOOOOOMMM!!!!!
When the smoke cleared, she saw him hovering above a small village. The entire back of his outfit had been blown off. Had he not stopped the blast, the village would have been decimated.
He slowly turned to face her. She caught the look coming from the one good eye of Son Roshi. Never had she seen such rage.
"If you do that again, you will not live to make the mistake a third time." He said in an amazingly calm voice. "I did not desire a fight, but you have made me your enemy. I will not let you continue to kill people pointlessly. Let us finish this away from here."
"POINTLESS?!!! POINTLESS!!! You don't know ANYTHING!!! AND IF YOU DIDN'T WANT A FIGHT WHY DID YOU ATTACK ME?!?!?! YOU STARTED THIS YOU JERK!!! I AM SICK OF YOUR STUPID ARROGANT INSULTS AND ANTICS!!!" Ichigo lost it. She was pissed. This mission meant everything to her people. If she failed, they were as good as dead. Saiyans as a race were very proud. Ichigo would never admit that she could be beaten, and Roshi had just hit the wrong nerve.
"Star Ripper," she screamed as she flew at him again.
* * *
Caught off guard by her sudden rage, Roshi was hit by the Star Ripper. He suddenly realized why it was called a Star Ripper, as the jagged points of ki energy shredded his outfit like thousands of little knives. From his armpit down to his waist, the left side of his gi was gone. The white Saiyan body suit he had been complaining about earlier had stopped some of the attack, but he could see the red tinge of blood starting to stain it.
'Damn, if only my anger had held.' Roshi had heard many a story about the "Gohan" effect. It was said that when Gohan got mad, nothing could stop him. Well every so often, one of his decendants would have the same rage induced abilities. Up until a few moments ago, Roshi had not known if he did or not. But now he knew. He had it. For the few moments after she had triggered his rage, he was unstoppable. Now, he was back to normal, and back to wishing he could come up with a strategy. The Saiyan girl just did not seem to be running out of energy.
"Blaze!" she yelled out from about 5 meters away.
"Shit!!! KamehameHA!!!" Roshi barley had enough time to fire the beam and use it's momentum to carry him away from the oncoming blast of heat.
Roshi completed his flip, and shot several small ki blasts at her. Which, she dodged without much effort. The fight was rapidly becoming an all out grudge fest. It had been going on for about 25 minutes already, and who knew how long it would take. Roshi knew that the girl had to be getting tired too; one could not fire off so many ki blasts and not be running low.
Roshi's stomach growled. The last thing he had eaten was that fish earlier in the day, he was starving. It suddenly dawned on him, that that might be one of the reasons why he was so low on energy. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'Time to make the best of a bad situation.'
Wham! A powerful blow to the back sent him into a tree. Roshi grabbed a large branch, and threw it at the girl. She dodged it only to run into his knee.
As her head snapped around from the blow, she shot ball of ki at Roshi. He dodged it and was in turn kicked in the side of the head.
The two of them fought fiercely for several minutes more. The girl was starting to weaken, and Roshi sensed his chance, willingly overextending himself he reached out to grab her left shoulder. 'If I can just get a good hold onto her and pin her I might be able to get her to calm down and talk' he thought as he tried to grab her.
She dodged and twisted away from him spinning her shoulder beyond his reach. Expecting to grab onto something harder and more muscular, Roshi was surprised to grab onto something quite a bit softer.
Roshi realized in an instant that his plan had two flaws. First, she was nimble and had mostly evaded his grasp. And secondly forcing her to continue her spin and pinning her back to his chest may have pinned her arms had he actually been able to grab her left shoulder. But in the current situation it left both her head and her left arm free.
She gasped in pain as he grabbed and then clenched onto the first flesh his hand caught spinning her around. "OUCH, THAT'S ATTACHED, YOU PERVERTED JERK!!!" The girl yelled as she slammed the back of her head into Roshi's nose and then slammed her elbow into his stomach.
He let go of her and she jumped away like she had been shot from a cannon.
"You PERVERTED JERK!!! HOW DARE YOU EVEN ATTEMPT TO GRAB ME THERE, YOU STUPID PRICK!!!!"
Suddenly feeling very embarrassed and rather sorry for the girl, Roshi stopped to apologize. He did not get very far as she almost took his head off with a roundhouse kick.
THUD!!! Roshi impacted the ground and buried himself a meter or so under the surface.
'Stupid idiot!!! This is NOT the time to be chivalrous. She is trying to kill you you dumb idiot. Never lower your guard. NEVER NEVER NEVER.' He mentally yelled at himself as he climbed out of the hole.
* * *
Oooowwww that throbs, Ichigo thought to herself as she readjusted her bra and watched the bastard climb out of the hole in the ground.
BOOM!!! Moments after he leapt clear, the Star Ripper she had sent after him smashed into the hole.
'I have got to end this before he really does kill me. This fight is taking too long, and I am loosing the advantage I once had. Feeling the strain on her muscles and joints she realized that it was going to take a while to recover from this fight. If only I had more energy. I can't even make a ki attack big enough to really hurt him anymore.'
Seeing that he seemed to have recovered from the kick to the head, Ichigo got ready to fight again.
During the next exchange, he kicked her in the lower back, right were her tail had been. The pain was incredible and she could not stop herself for crying out in pain. After bouncing to a stop on the ground, she got up and saw him watching her smugly from above.
"I will NOT BE BEATEN," She yelled at him.
"Neither will I," he replied as she flew at him.
After giving and blocking several blows she finally had an idea. 'Well, since he was willing to use MY weaknesses so willingly, time to show him that MEN always have a weak spot.'
Grabbing his hands the next time he attacked, she gave him a quick knee to the gut to break up his movements. Then deciding that this was her only chance, she quickly charged her foot with ki like she was doing a Ki Punch and kicked him full in the crotch.
His eyes bulged out and then rolled back as he exhaled any air that may have been in his lungs. The kick had driven him higher into the air so Ichigo had to fly up to get to him.
"HHHAAAAAAAA!!!!" She screamed as she hit him double handed in the back and sent him crashing into the ground. He hit an outcropping of granite and made a hole into it. The surface rocks then caved in on top of him.
"Hah Hah Hah Hah," out of breath, and not able to continue much longer herself, Ichigo looked down at the hole.
'There is No way he is still conscious. Ha, I won.' A small thread of Joy spread through her. 'Time to finish this.'
"THAT'S RIGHT!!! DIE DOWN THERE YOU STUPID JERK. SERVES YOU RIGHT! I guess I should just find someone else to beat information out of!!!"
Ichigo started to put everything she had into one final ki ball when she saw a small glimmer of blue light start emanating from the hole.
* * *
"There," Slip said as she welded two wires together. "The GKSS should be back up now, turn it back on. Let's see what is going on."
"Ok got it!" Tee yelled back.
The screen slowly came back up as the system warmed up. They saw the two of stick figure representations of Roshi and the Saiyan girl fighting hand to hand in mid-air.
"Hmmmm.. Roshi is only at 18,030! That can't be right." Slip said as the readout for Roshi came up.
The read out for the girl came up a moment later. 18,050.
"Oh, my word. Look at them, though. The system is reading massive amounts of damage to the area in which they have been fighting. The two of them have been beating the snot out of each other for the last half-hour. I am not really a history buff, but I don't recall any of Goku's battles taking this long. Heck, I am surprised they still have this much energy." Boxers said.
"AAAHHHHH!!!!!!" Slip screamed as she saw the Roshi image get kicked and then sent plummeting into the earth.
The image disappeared.
"AAAAHHHHHH its gone!!! ROSHI IS GONE!!!! Why is it not picking him up!!! ROSHI CAN'T BE DEAD!!!! WHO IS GOING TO TELL HIS MOTHER!!!! AAHHHH NO, HIS FATHER!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!! MY PARENTS ARE GOING TO KILL ME THEY LEFT ME IN CHARGE AND LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED!!!! AHHHHHHH AHHHHHH!!!!" Slip started screaming in shock.
"Would you SHUT UP! We don't know if he is dead yet. Hey, look the image for him is back." Tee said.
They watched on as the power level meter for the Roshi image started to tick upward.
"What the hell is going on?" Tee managed to say.
The meter passed 50,000. Then 60,000. 70,000. 90,000!
"That can't be right." Boxers said as the meter passed 200,000.
Roshi had yet to move but the image on the screen for him had an ever- increasing aura building up around it.
"246,000! IT stopped at 246,000!!! What the heck is happening?" Tee said.
"I don't know, but I am going to go find out," Slip said as she ran to the door.
"Hey wait, we're coming with" Boxers and Tee shouted after her.
* * *
There was a flash, and every centimeter of ground of several tens of meters was vaporized in an instant. Ichigo saw her ki blast fizzle harmlessly against the on rushing wall of ki energy.
"Oh no!" she said moments before the energy smashed into her forcing her into the sky.
Standing on the ground at the center of the newly formed crater was Son Roshi. He had a huge flaring blue ki aura around him. And he was looking right at Ichigo.
"I'm dead," she said to herself as he disappeared only to appear directly in front of her.
"You want to fight dirty? Ok, we can fight dirty. Try this on for size!" Placing his hands on his forehead he screamed out. "Taiyoken!!!"
Ichigo had been looking right at his forehead when the brilliantly blinding white burst of light shot forth.
"AHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH My eyes!!!!" She wailed as searing pain blinded her. Her eyes hurt more then she would have thought possible.
Then she felt him grab her left arm. Twisting it back behind her, he kicked her in the small of the back. She heard a sickening popping noise as pain shot up her back. Then she could no longer feel her legs.
She then felt her elbow snap as he yanked her arm back around.
A sudden blow to the face shattered her nose and several teeth like wooden twigs.
She was starting to loose feeling. The pain was overwhelming. She knew she was dead, but Ichigo didn't care. She had one last try to hurt him back. Twisting her fingers on her right had as if wishing for luck, she fired a drill beam. From the tips of her fingers shot a small spinning beam. Ichigo knew not whether she had hit him or not as the pain slowly took her away.
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Not having been prepared for such an attack, Roshi was speared clean through his side. Dropping the girl in a heap, Roshi knew he was in trouble.
"BITCH!!!" He yelled as he threw on last ki blast at the falling girl.
The blast hit her unconscious form and drove it into the ground.
"Oww, that hurts..." Roshi said as he looked down at his bleeding side.
"Kintoun!" he called out. He had left his bag of senzu beans in the cloud. The Kintoun flew up and he grabbed the bag.
Feeling light headed both from the use of energy his body could not support, and from the loss of blood, Roshi passed out as he put the bean into his mouth.
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End
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