"I think I'm safe. You two should go back Chayote-san and Goku-san up," Sharpner turned to Videl before Gohan and Chi-Chi flew in, restraining the two immature Saiyans to the best of their ability as the two were thrashing to get back into the fight that these two monsters picked with them.
"You're seriously underestimating how much trouble it will be to watch over these two," Videl gave Sharpner an innocent look while taking holding Navy still over from Gohan, who took over restraining Goten from his mother. Every bit the protective parent that Chayote and Goku are, Chi-Chi stepped out in front of the formation, ready to intercept these peculiar mutant monsters in case they gave Goku and Chayote the slip and tried charging at the kids again.
"Don't worry, not having other people around lets us really cut loose," Gohan waved it off. "Besides, Dad wouldn't let us forget it if we robbed him of an opportunity to test his skills. He lives for that kind of stuff."
Having ascended to the state of Super Saiyan, Chayote ripped through the distance between her and the Frieza-hybrid with a swinging forearm smash to the face. The monstrous mutant screeched in terror and shock at how much faster their opponent had become before letting out a pitiful grunt and flying off from the deafening impact. Super Saiyan Chayote vanished from place, rushing in to her chosen opponent in mid-air and kneeing the Bio-Android in the stomach with a pursuit attack.
A blinding flurry of slaps and chops made the Bio-Android cower behind a stiff and desperate block, wrapping its sides with its armored wings as it bent its arms around its sides and tucked its horned head in to the best of its ability. The relentless slapdown covered the Bio-Android in bruises and dented even its outer armored shell. After having effectively pushed her opponent to defend their head, Chayote transitioned to a terrifying mid-section finisher by charging forward with a lariat that slammed into the Frieza-hybrid's stomach and hung them out to dry over Chayote's bulked-out arm.
The humanoid-insectoid hybrid stared at the beatdown that Chayote put their sibling through with a bulged-out, horrified stare. Goku's energetic taunt called out to it, prompting them to remember that their own opponent who was in no way any less terrifying than what their sibling had to deal with was right in front of them. With a stuttering and shaky turn, the Bio-Android turned their attention back on their opponent.
"That Chayote always has to act so serious from the get-go…" Goku pouted, doing some light stretching to get into shape. "I've never seen any guys like you two. What even are you? You're pretty tough to force our base forms to struggle at our current level of strength! You seem to leave yourselves a bit too wide open though…"
With a wild shriek, the humanoid-insectoid Bio-Android charged at Goku. The two fighters collided in the middle by clashing their forearms with Goku, smirking at the exciting challenge of his newly met opponent. While they took the fight much more seriously than Goku did, attacking with a desperate flurry of lion-paw strikes and swipes, Goku carefully bobbed and weaved around each incoming attack. Without warning, the attacks picked up in speed and power. One particular attack blitzed so swiftly that it left Goku no other option than to raise his arm to cover himself up.
An ugly cloth-ripped sound filled the stage, Goku pulled his torn forearm away from covering his wincing and pain-ridden face before examining the claw marks that inflicted shallow bleeders on the outer side of his wrist and tore through his jacket and wristband. The Bio-Android's tail stabbed straight for Goku's chest, prompting the Saiyan to evade a stab that could have gone into his heart. His opponent escalated the speed of their attacks, unleashing a wild flurry of thrusts using the stinger of their tail while freaked-out Goku weaved and slipped over, under, and to the side of every thrust.
"Yeesh, you don't hold back much, do you?" Goku observed before a swinging lash of the Bio-Android's tail caught him with a smack in the face. Having found its opening, the Bio-Android moved in for a few more punishing strikes but Goku quickly intercepted it and answered every incoming blow with a deflection, block, or counterattack. After dancing with each other and trading blows for a few seconds, the pair split with stiff kicks that collided with each other and tested the strength of the other's kicking leg.
"Okay, now it's my turn!" Goku smirked, with his eyes relaying a completely different message from his goofy smile. Not wanting to let their opponent dictate the pace of the bout, the mutated humanoid monster charged first, But Goku burst with a white aura and delivered an explosive uppercut that shot his opponent flying into the air.
With his white aura blazing and his battle power rising further with no limits in sight, Goku pursued his opponent into the air, clashing with them multiple times while moving with high speed and racing in between grassy rock mountains. For every punch Goku threw, the Bio-Android had an equally potent blow to match it. With every spinning kick, the Bio-Android rolled over it, dived under it, or used its tail to navigate around the attack, not too much different from how Goku himself used to rely on his tail as a kid.
Having lulled his opponent into a rhythm game, Goku telegraphed a punch but delivered a vertical high kick instead, breaking through the insectoid hybrid's guard and opening them up. A rapid aerial beatdown later, Goku extended his hand diagonally down, right up in his opponent's face, and expelled an invisible Kiai shockwave that sent them crashing through the mountain. With a shrill yell, the infuriated mutant blasted the surrounding debris aside only to face Goku's grin in front of them.
"Wide open again," Goku declared, thrusting his right arm out and expelling a light blue energy blast that surpassed his own size and homed in on his opponent. The perplexed humanoid-insectoid hybrid rammed its hands against the incoming gigantic Ki blast and entered a desperate power struggle to prevent being overtaken and blown away by it.
Meanwhile, up in the air, Chayote was putting the insectoid Frieza lookalike through a punishing ringer of her own. After slipping an incoming haymaker, donning a disappointed look on her face, the Super Saiyan nearly shoved her entire arm through the strangely flexible and mushy guts of her opponent. The mysterious monster's eyes bulged out, and it frothed with unidentified bio-mass from its mashed internal goop from the mouth.
"I guess Kakarot was right. Super Saiyan is a bit of an overreaction. Then again, what did you expect, trying to eat up a child right in front of their mother? What is your deal anyway? You're not from Earth, that's for certain. I can't sense your Ki signatures and you're definitely no alien I've ever heard of…" Chayote tried piecing together the mystery of these goons who performed rather effectively for being foot soldiers. Despite looking like Frieza, this horned, insectoid version of the evil space tyrant easily surpassed its lookalike in just about every aspect. It was safe to say that nothing surpassing Frieza's strength could have been a natural challenge this universe could have produced on its own.
Goku's eyes widened in surprise as it saw the dirt-skinned, corrupted humanoid with insect features forming a Ki blast at the tips of their hands. The two masses of Ki merged into a lone blast before expanding to an equal size to Goku's blast. The two energy blasts converged with one another, undoing each other like two black holes swallowing each other up. The surrounding waters of nearby mountain creeks raged with whirlpools and the surrounding mountains crumbled from the tremendous pressure released in the completely eclipsing collision between two techniques.
"That wasn't just like my technique, it WAS my technique…!" Goku muttered in disbelief that his opponent could so easily replicate his binding Ki blast like that. That was the only explanation for how the techniques could have canceled each other out so evenly. Otherwise, Goku's own binding Ki blast would have swallowed up the other blast and detonated it from within, causing an even more violent explosion. The only way that these two attacks could have undone each other so gently would have been if they were the same. "But I haven't shown it to anyone yet!" he scratched his head in boundless befuddlement.
With a smirk of excitement, the effeminate human with insectoid features put their hands together and formed an azure energy blast. Then, they wound their arm back like they were handling a bowling ball and then flung the Ki blast only for it to expand mid-flight while the mutated Bio-Android shimmered with a white aura around them. This was Goku's technique, replicated to perfection again!
"You rotten…!" Goku grumbled, putting his arms together in front of him. "Ka… Me… Ha… Me…!" he drew them back and beside his body before thrusting them out again. "Ha!" he sent a desperate Kamehameha attack to collide with the incoming binding Ki blast attack. Because Goku was still workshopping and perfecting this technique, but it hailed from the basics of the Kamehameha, he figured that a strong enough Kamehameha should have been able to avoid getting bound by the Ki blast and pushed both techniques back at the user.
The two attacks collided midway. Goku winced with one eye, feeling the struggle of having to channel additional mounds of Ki into the Kamehameha to keep it going and to maintain the push. However, once he gained just a tiny nudge of progress, the clash should escalate in his favor. It was of no use! The binding Ki blast absorbed the Kamehameha entirely within it and stopped in place, devouring it and dissolving it before bursting like a brilliant nova of pure force. The unrelenting white-out engulfed Goku whole, twisting and distorting his shape.
"ROAAARGH!" Goku bellowed from the bottom of his chest. The guttural howl signaled his ascension to Super Saiyan as what proved to be a torrential tsunami of ferocious and uncompromising obliteration before turning into a gentle stream that Goku parted with his bare hands. Much to the terror of his opponent, Goku tapped into the incoming storm of energy and controlled it himself, dispelling it alongside his own golden outburst of Ki into the heavens and blasting it out of Earth's atmosphere where the localized quasar couldn't harm anything or anyone else. "I guess it couldn't be helped…" Goku observed after turning into Super Saiyan and gifting his opponent a deadpan stare.
"Eek!" the agile and slender humanoid shrieked with bloodshot eyes, trembling in terror as their opponent achieved the same indomitable state that their stronger sibling was getting trounced by elsewhere.
"Now I'll really want some answers," Goku raised his fists by bending his arms up, ready to brawl it out in the second round. "Who are you two, and how did you copy my technique like that? Not to mention, at the same level of progress that I'm on currently…"
"Teehee…" the horned humanoid began snickering all of a sudden. They pressed their hands together in front of them. "Ka… Me…" they shrieked out before drawing them back to their sides and forming an azure energy sphere radiating bright jets of light in all directions. "Ha… Me…"
"N-No way! The Kamehameha too!?" Goku gasped with surprise, freezing in place just long enough for his opponent to have an opening to prepare and execute a copied Kamehameha flawlessly.
"Jelly-Beam!" Chayote yelled out, leaning forward while radiating with an internal golden shimmer, outlined by different colors: bright yellow, fiery red, and cool white being the standout among them. Pointing all five fingers of her right hand at the mutant channeling the Kamehameha, she fired a quintet of energy beams with unique attributes and properties to the Ki that made them.
A swift lightning jolt caught the human-insect hybrid first, shocking them out of the Kamehameha stance and causing them to squander the focus of the channeled destructive Ki wave. Next came a streaming and wide, hissing beam of white that didn't have a direct and strict beam shape, but struck as a tunneling, radiant force that froze anything on contact, freezing the enemy into a solid block of ice. Then the streaming Ki beam of red-hot inferno melted through the icicle instantly, causing it to pop and shatter blocks of ice everywhere as the contrast between absolute heat and absolute zero caused a chain reaction comprising a violent blast.
"What are you doing, Kakarot? Stop gawking at those freaks and finish them!" Chayote scolded her fellow Super Saiyan, who still looked worked up about the fact that these enigmatic, dim-witted assailants seemed to know all his techniques. Even ones that Goku was still working on.
"Hmm… There's no way they would know all our techniques. Not at the same level of power and mastery that we know them. Not to mention, they've only used techniques I showed them so far…" Goku surmised with some quick thinking. He may have goofed around a lot and have been somewhat of a dimwit himself at times, but in terms of fighting, he could read his opponents' moves and decipher strategies with the best of 'em. "Chayote, try not to show them too many techniques!"
"Shouldn't be too difficult, though I wish you told me that before I used my Jelly-Beams…" Chayote grumbled while noting the dissolving smoke from the blast zone where the humanoid mutant was last seen. This time it was both Super Saiyans that gasped out in shock as the freaky mutant revealed themselves to have been splattered and quartered by the resulting explosion, however, instead of dying on the spot, their dangling body parts remained connected by a thickened, almost gelatinous growth of blood-like fluid.
"What the heck is that!? How can it survive injuries like those!?" Goku shook, sticking his tongue out in disgust at his opponent's pitiful state. While he'd have normally admired an opponent's ability to keep going, there was a limit to that respect, and this one has certainly crossed that line.
"It doesn't seem to be an Artificial human. Its innards are definitely made of flesh and blood of some kind," Chayote noted, something she considered important.
The almost-quartered Bio-Android twitched a few more times before halting and making one final jerk, at which point they attained complete control over their mangled body again. Directing its hands to point outward, the human-insect hybrid began emitting a similar aura to Chayote's earlier display, forming sprinkling little Ki stars at the tips of their fingers that showed original properties ranging from electric charge to extreme temperatures.
"Jelly-Beam!" the humanoid shrieked out, firing an identical barrage back at Chayote. Leaning forward and pointing her five fingers at the mangled enemy again, Chayote fired a second shot of Jelly-Beams at the incoming attack. It didn't take long for Chayote's valiant attempt to backfire, leaving her stunned as the opponent she considered a total dumbass fired a repeat charge of Jelly-Beams, switching to the exact ones needed to counteract Chayote's Jelly-Beams. The absolute zero beam received the absolute heat, the shocking one got scattered by a horizontal wind gale vortex beam, and pure energy beams received matching energy beams that detonated both attacks.
With the incoming barrage of the creature's victorious Jelly-Beams surrounding her, Chayote felt trapped and was forced to brace for impact.
When the flashy aftereffects such as frost particles, shimmering like stardust in the air and sizzling cinders settled down and the cool mist parted, the vanishing mist revealed Chayote with her right forearm frozen solid and her outfit lightly scorched with holes and burns, her skin covered in grazes where the gale Jelly-Beams hit her and Chayote left leg was petrified by a stray petrifying beam.
"Chayote! Damn it…" Goku clenched his fists, realizing that he may have been taking these two cackling creatures too lightly as, despite talking very little and being able to express a limited capacity of sentiments, they had uncanny combat intelligence. That much was clear in how the horned human managed to outwit Chayote's attempts at stopping their Jelly-Beams with Jelly-Beams of her own.
"Teehee!" the dirt-skinned, insectoid human threw itself at Chayote, pushing through the pain and swinging their dangling limbs for a brutish beatdown. With half of her limbs caught in an unfortunate predicament, the Super Saiyan had very few options left but to take the attacks head-on. Battering wailing crashed down at Chayote from all sides before the grievously mangled mutant wrapped their gelatinous blood vessels around Chayote and dragged her in for a couple of kicks.
Goku tried intercepting the mugging, but Chayote's sudden switch of opponents gave the dirt-colored horned Frieza lookalike a similar idea as at crashed into Goku from the side and knocked the Super Saiyan away with an elbow shot to the cheek. Goku barely reeled in pain for a second before returning every single bit of punching and kicking he received, entering a high-speed exchange of blows with the Frieza race mutant.
"You guys are seriously pushing it!" Goku seethed while fending off the opportunistic flurry of his opponent. "I promise that you won't like it when I lose it and go Super Saiyan 2!"
Before he could realize his promise, a massive azure Ki sphere hit him from behind, coming from the horned human with the decaying and shedding, dirt-like skin. With whited-out eyes, Goku grunted in pain as, instead of exploding, the Binding Kamehameha he accidentally taught the slender creature earlier engulfed him like a binding prison of Ki and both contained him within while slowly pelting down at Goku's defenses and damaging him from inside.
"D-Damn it… My Binding Kamehameha again…!" Goku winced in pain while pounding at the walls of the Ki barrier from inside. "I guess we made you guys far more trouble than you're worth by showing you our moves, huh?"
"Dude, your dad looks like he could use some help. Chayote-san already got crippled. How much more until you butt in already?" Sharpner looked at Gohan from behind, noting that the teen Saiyan was simmering in quiet rage but kept himself to watching Goten who enjoyed seeing his father pummeled around about as much as Gohan did. The key difference being the fact that Goten lacked Gohan's restraint.
All of Gohan's doubts were dispelled when he heard a clamorous battle cry of his father's. Overflowing with golden Ki, Goku became completely immersed in it like it was some ethereal coating of pure golden light. Then, he focused it all into just one hand and punched clean through the Binding Kamehameha prison, letting the rest of the Ki explode with a burst of violent aura that shattered the binding and released him.
"Now you guys made me mad!" Goku seethed, crossing his arms in front of him before bringing them down to his sides and burning up with built-up Super Saiyan splendor. "I'm done using my sparring level of strength. It's time I show you the strength reserved for fighting for my life, for the sake of Earth or my friends!"
Gohan and Chi-Chi looked up at the sparking golden beacon that was the head of their family with pride and confidence. Within those angry, teal eyes, they saw the warrior worth counting on.
"It's not fair…" Little Goten pouted his lips, recognizing his father's booming power eclipsing the enemy beyond compare. "I won't even get to fight! Dad's just gonna beat them up now!"