Massive explosions engulfed the area of ocean where Zangya was standing, sending an enormous geyser of water into the sky. When the pillar eventually cascaded back into the sea, more and more blasts of water began shooting into the sky, accompanied by an occasional flash of fire and a burst of smoke.
Determined to kill her opponent, Hasky held her ground and began unleashing volley after volley of bladed weapons after her target. Keeping track of her with her eyes and her suit's inbuilt sensors, the assassin continued producing more and more swords to replace the ones she launched. At first she managed to hold her place standing on top of the ocean, attacking her opponent at long range with her infinite string of light-based projectiles. But when Zangya retaliated with a barrage of her own, the blonde haired fighter was forced to abandon her station and back off.
Through the mist and steam produced by the heat of the blasts across the ocean, Hasky found herself glaring into a thick wall of perspiration. Expressing visible annoyance at the barrier, the moment she managed to touch back down onto the water's surface, Hasky formed an arc of swords in front of her and fired them into the steam, cutting it away under the sheer force of her attacks. She managed to clear much of the air space for her field of vision to improve, but her actions came a little too late when green blasts started rocketing at her from random spots in the fog, and flew towards her at breakneck speeds.
Seeing the lances of energy honing in on her spot, Hasky threw her right arm up and produced a cluster of circular shields, which effectively took the force of each of the attacks. The green beams exploded against the steel barriers, shattering them one after the other. When the barrage ceased, the blonde fighter produced another wall of spears behind her and let them fly once more, returning Zangya's fire with a round of her own. Her swords once again peppered the stretch of sea, filling the sky with blasts of water.
"Spark Laser!"
However, in the midst of her salvo, a red flash of light filled the cloud, followed by a heavy stream of red lightning that engulfed the entire ocean surface and flew towards the blonde assassin. Alarmed at the sight of the electrical energy charging towards her, Hasky took a big step back and thrust both hands forward. When her suit lit up, golden streams of electricity ran down her arms and shot off of her fingers. The torrent was just as powerful as the one heading towards her.
"Donar!"
The assassin's electrical attack flew from her palms to intercept Zangya's. In the blink of an eye, every single current and stream of the opposing bolts intercepted one another in midair and clashed in a terrifying display of power. The forces of nature had nothing on the display of raw, unbridled chaos, which not only covered a majority of the ocean, but also reached as far as the coastline. The cliffs and hillsides near West City fell under the duo's respective assaults, taking the force of the rebounding lightning streams, which tore into the earth and forests. Their attacks eventually started a small fire, which began to spread over the wilderness at an alarming rate.
When the lightning storm faded shortly thereafter, Hasky wasted no time in summoning a spear into her hand and, after spinning it around her body and arms, jabbed the tip forward and powered it up. The blade began to glow a hot yellow, with sparks of electricity and fire flying off of it. As soon as the staff had reached maximum potential, a powerful beam was then launched from it and sent screaming across the ocean, cutting a trench through the water. She then began guiding it, carving it across the marine to slice through an entire island. Upon seeing the isle go up in a fiery pillar of smoke, she then directed the beam into the sky, where her opponent could be seen retreating several kilometers away in the form of a green streak of light.
After gaining a high enough altitude where she could see her opponent as clear as day, the fully powered up Zangya cocked her hand back and thrust it forward. A red beam then shot from her finger and dove towards her target like a straight bolt of lightning, prompting Hasky to quickly maneuver her spear's attack to intercept it. The two blasts collided in midair and detonated with catastrophic force, engulfing the air above the ocean in an enormous, sphere-shaped blast that could've easily destroyed the planet. With the earth shaking under the force of the combusting energy, the assassin down on the ocean surface watched the flames eventually subside and become replaced by smoke.
Almost instantly after the cloud emerged from the embers of the colliding attacks, green energy spheres began shooting through the smoke towards the woman. Recoiling in alarm, Hasky fired off a counter attack of her own in the form of golden spears, which streaked towards the approaching attacks and cut them off in a series of flashy fire bursts. Loud clangs filled the air once more, before a second large explosion ripped through the atmosphere, when the last ki blast hit the drill-shaped spear the assassin launched to break the salvo.
Losing sight of her target for a few moments, the blonde thief then spun around when her sensors picked up an energy signature approaching from behind. In retaliation, the woman forged another line of swords behind her and, like an artillery unit, launched them at the Hera when she saw her opponent's aura clad form sprinting over the ocean. Her swords and lances chased her in a continuous stream of attacks, peppering the sea with explosions. In the middle of the offensive, as the geysers of water continued to chase after her, Zangya formed another cluster of three green spheres over her shoulder. Once they were stable, the Z-fighter mentally willed them to life and launched them at her opponent's position two miles away while she continued to run from the barrage.
Instead of directly striking Hasky, the attacks hit the water around her instead, causing explosions of steam to fill the air. When the blasts eventually settled, they left a cloud of fog hanging around the woman, blocking her view of the battlefield.
Snarling in annoyance, Hasky attempted to reacquire her target through the mist. But just before she could do so, she was caught completely by surprise when she saw Zangya's form burst through the condensation and, held firmly in her right hand, a sword that was unlike any the human had seen before.
It wasn't any sword either. As a testament to her race, the Hera had managed to recreate the exact same weapon once used by her former teammate Gokuha through the Magic Materializationtechnique taught to her by Piccolo. With a gold, triangular handle guard, blue handle, and a long, thin blade, it was the primary weapon that was once used by the royal guard of her people.
Taking it into a single-handed grip, the red haired woman cocked it back and, with a loud battle cry, lunged at her foe with a downward swing.
Hasky barely had enough time to summon a second sword to counter it, conjuring up a claymore and blocking the weapon that slammed into her. The resulting collision caused a deafening clang and had the blonde skid back along the water for a few feet, before the duo found themselves locked in a heated grappling match.
Her suit glowing red with fury as it mustered all the strength it could to fight back against the powerful Z-fighter, Hasky then took up the lance in her other hand and attempted to spear her opponent through the stomach. But Zangya, already aware of the second weapon, caught it with her free hand and held it tightly, preventing the woman from doing anything more. This left both of them standing in place on the ocean surface, glaring at one another with a combination of hatred and disgust.
The master thief ground her teeth in frustration, "Impossible! I'm being… forced back… by an opponent like you?!"
Eyes burning furiously, the red haired woman with the gold sclera stared right back at the human as she slowly began to push her across the sea. With her superior strength granted to her by her new transformation, she began to press her advantage. "As long as you strike hard and fast… you'll be able to crush your opponents with ease. But if you cling too tightly to your techniques… and drag out the same motion over and over again… your skills become nothing but a novelty… and you leave yourself wide open!" She then grinned and pushed against Hasky's sword even further, causing the blonde to lean away in surprise. "You've shown your hand against me one too many times, Hasky! And now my attacks are ready and waiting… so I'm always one step AHEAD!" With a cry of effort, the Hera drove her sword forward and shattered the blonde's claymore, forcing Hasky to release her hold on both.
Recoiling in disbelief, the assassin growled through her teeth and, in the blink of an eye, summoned more weapons to her hands. "D-Damn it!" Grabbing an axe and a katana out of thin air, she lashed out at her opponent feverishly, only to have her weapons deflected when the Hera swung back with her rapier and lance. "Why don't you… WHY DON'T YOU…" The Z-fighter destroyed both of the blonde's weapons and, when Hasky called upon another sword and struck down at her, Zangya ended up shattering the lance as well, sending sparks and metal flying everywhere. But Hasky didn't relent nor did she shirk, and continued to lash out in rage, "-JUST DIE!?"
When the woman swung down at her with another battle axe, the Hera gripped her rapier in two hands, swung upwards, and destroyed both weapons in an explosive collision. The instant they shattered, Zangya cocked her fist back and drove a punch straight into her opponent's face. The blow broke through the woman's bubble shield, connected with a thunderclap and punched a crater in the water straight down to the seabed thousands of feet below. Hasky meanwhile was sent flying backwards, where she ended up skidding along the water's surface, accompanied by the enormous wave caused by the punch.
Upon stopping her flight, the stunned assassin reached up with her hand, wiped her lips on her fingers, and looked down. When she saw the splatter of blood across her palm and tasted the telltale tang on her tongue, Hasky's hair bristled and she glared up at her adversary in rage. "You… HOW DARE YOU!" she barked loudly, before the red lines on her suit lit up and a cloud of gold formed behind her. The energy then transformed into two dozen swords and lances, which she aimed at her quarry. "I can't believe I have to go all out against a worthless piece of scum like you!" Without even a shred of regard or mercy, Hasky unleashed a wall of a thousand swords directly upon her opponent.
But Zangya was ready.
Summoning two green spheres of energy into her hands, the Hera forged them into a pair of long energy blades resembling knight swords. Their forms crackling like lightsabers, the woman lunged forward and, swinging both weapons through the air in a graceful and impressive display of skill, began deflecting the enormous projectiles one after the other. Her beamed weapons sliced through the salvo of lesser arms like knives through butter, shattering them and sending their sparks on the wind. Even when Hasky concentrated the barrage into a single river of swords in an effort to push the woman back and keep her at bay, it did her no good.
Shockwaves rang out after Zangya destroyed the last of the spears flung in her direction. When she saw her opponent create another wall, the Hera retaliated instantaneously, producing three dozen green spheres of energy behind her and sending them arcing into the sky. The streaks of green struck the clusters of swords, wiping out two thirds of them and stopping Hasky's attack dead.
With the air clear, the Z-fighters charged forward with a loud cry of battle, her aura springing up around her and sending golden currents of lightning shooting off in all directions.
Hasky recoiled in fright, quickly replacing the weapons she'd lost with a handful more and sending them at her target.
Millisecond by millisecond Zangya advanced upon her foe, recreating another set of beam weapons to take out the barrages of swords to clear her way. Despite their sheer numbers, the warrior was undeterred. Not even the highest forms of lance could damage her and, with a combination of her martial arts skills and her mastery over energy, she was able to avoid and repel them all. Another cluster of green energy balls had formed into orbit around the Hera, allowing her to pepper her opponent from a distance and open up her route.
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