Grunting, the short alien policeman quickly placed his hands on his belt in an attempt to look intimidating. "That, my dear, is something that doesn't concern a freeloading, freelancer like yourself. For your information, I just happen to be on a very top secret mission issued to me personally by the head of my department." He then waved his gloved finger up at the wanderer in warning. "I do not believe someone of your position and reputation has anything to gain from such an endeavor… especially since you seem to hanging around with… uhh… umm…" The alien then looked up at Gohan. Quickly taking note of his attire and appearance, Jaco scrunched his face thoughtfully and nodded, "Other… unauthorized… persons of interest."
Chuckling, the young traveler leaned back against the counter and raised her foamy drink to the man in a relaxed manner. "Cool your jets, Jaco. I'm on vacation now. You don't need to worry about me stirring up any trouble here. At least… not right now anyway." She then glanced across at Gohan and pointed the boy down at the man in front of them. "Gohan. Meet Jaco: a very close friend of mine and a frequent business associate that I've crossed paths with on a number of occasions."
"Oh. Really?" Clearing his throat, the demi-Saiyan slapped a hand onto his knee and bowed to the man politely, all the while remaining seated on his bar stool. "Um, pleasure to meet you, sir." His gesture and politeness to the tiny official had Kana snigger with amusement.
Grunting at the boy's reply, the alien patrolman waved back, "Likewise." Quickly shooting a glare back at the orange haired woman, Jaco then pointed up at her once more warningly. "Remember, Kana… I've got my eye on a very important target in this town, so don't go doing anything stupid… like blowing it up in another bar fight." When he saw the glowing girl give him the 'OK' sign, the alien adjusted his jumpsuit and stomped off, looking incredibly adorable as he vanished into the crowd of dancers.
When they saw him leave, Gohan quickly turned back to Kana with a curious look. "A policeman?"
"In a way," Kana shrugged, before smiling fondly at her friend. When he took another sip of his drink, she continued to shed some light on the identity of the newcomer, "He's part of an organization that ensures the laws and orders of the universe across the world trade territories are kept in line. He thinks he's an elite member of their unit, tasked with bringing down the most dangerous criminals and lowlifes in the quadrant, when in reality his superiors treat him like fodder and give him assignments that really don't mean anything. I try to tell him that, but he keeps denying it."
"Heh. I see," Gohan chuckled. Now he felt a little bit sorry for the guy. He seemed really nice. "If there are guys out there who hunt down criminals across the galaxy, then I'd better be careful with the stuff I do back home. Our fights haven't exactly been solar system friendly."
"Ah, I doubt you have anything to worry about. Just try not to break any intergalactic laws while you're outside of the Milky Way and you should be fine," Kana informed, giving the young man a grin when he turned back to face her. "The last thing you want is someone like Remington coming after you."
"Remington?"
"He's an armored warrior from the planet Dawn; a humanoid plant who has made a name for himself as the most ruthless, toughest bounty hunter on this side of the universe. If you've got a massive price on your head, chances are he's coming after you," the glowing alien informed, at the same time chugging back another sip of her drink. After seeing Gohan do the same thing, the girl chuckled, "I've only met him twice in my life. The guy literally looks like he kills people for a living."
"If he's a one-eyed man with a black trench coat, a five o'clock shadow and a mechanical gauntlet for an arm, then I'm totally onboard with that," the demi-Saiyan stated with a grin.
Kana chuckled at the teen's near-accurate description of the individual. "Three out of four. Well done."
After taking another swig, Gohan was about to carry on the conversation and ask his friend a little bit more about the other notable creatures in the cosmos. But before he could even proceed with his next question, the boy then noticed a little ways down the bar, past the aliens seated along the counter, and in a booth situated firmly against the wall directly in his line of sight, a person staring back at him. At first he needed another look past the bodies to see if he wasn't tripping, but after focusing on the figure in the seats, he was able to see exactly who they were.
A beautiful, fair-skinned woman around her thirties, humanoid in appearance, with very long black, spiky hair that grew down to her waist, and was done into a hanging ponytail. Aside from its style resembling his when he was a young kid, the woman was also wearing a set of armor that was similar in style to Frieza's military. Unique in its overall design, the main parts of the armor were black, with a single yellow shoulder guard on the right, a waist guard on the left, and two red pull-up sleeves and a red battle dress. On top of the boots, she also had a brown fur belt of some kind wrapped around her waist, something that struck Gohan as oddly familiar.
Blinking in confusion when he saw that the woman in the booth was still glaring at him, the demi-Saiyan then noticed Kana look over her shoulder. Obviously wondering what had him so distracted, the glowing girl then gazed back at the teen curiously.
"What's up? Something wrong?" the Seirei asked.
"No… nothing much… it's just…" He then nodded down the bar, only to then see the woman in the booth look away hastily. "It looks like that woman over there is staring at me."
"Really?" Glancing at the person that was under the Saiyan's suspicions, Kana raised an eyebrow and smiled at her hybrid crush happily. "Ah, she's probably interested in you because you're the hottest guy to enter this bar in weeks. Granted there are a few attractive men in here, you're probably the only one in this town with a nose and complexion like yours."
"Uh-huh," Gohan murmured, tilting his head back at the booth before returning his attention to his drink.
Sensing his apprehension, the Seirei grinned and, picking up her glass and finishing off her second serving, then looked at the boy mischievously. "Hey. I've got something that'll help take your mind off of her." Placing her hand against his cheek and pulling his face towards her, the glowing girl gave the surprised teen a sly grin and inched her nose closer to his. "I read somewhere in your planet's national geography that fox couples down on earth, bond with one another through boxing. It's a practice that you Saiyans and several other races across the universe excel at… trading blows as a means of showing affection for one another."
Gohan gulped nervously, watching the proximity between him and the girl close millisecond by millisecond. For a moment he thought Kana was going to do something to him that would have his hair stand on end, his cheeks reddening as expectations for the event began to build. However, just as he felt the girl's breath touch his lips and her nose gently brush against his, the boy suddenly felt the glass in his hand get yanked out of his grip. In the blink of an eye, he then saw the Seirei spin around and slam his cup across the head of the large man sitting next to them.
The hulking man with bones growing out of his leathery body cried out when the glass shattered over the back of his skull, sending him lurching forward.
As the demi-Saiyan gawked, not sure what had compelled Kana to do such a thing, he then felt the girl place the broken handle of the glass in his open hand and noticed the Seirei take a step back. When the giant alien with the chiseled face and oversized molars for teeth turned to glare at them, the Seirei cheekily held up her hand and thumbed over to Gohan, who was holding the large handle as evidence of 'his actions.'
Seeing the girl pointing at him and the giant alien snarl in his direction, the teen then put two-and-two together and looked up with a start. "What?"
Cracking his knuckles, the hulking man in the spandex shorts narrowed his eyes upon the one 'responsible' for smashing the glass over his head. A split second later, the alien gave a primal roar, charged at the startled demi-Saiyan, and tackled him with the full force of a comet. Like a rhino, the man lifted Gohan off his feet and plowed him through the crowd, before slamming the winded teen straight down onto a table, shattering it under their combined weight.
Initially the crowds were baffled by the sight of the two alien warriors beginning to duke it out across the floor, with the giant alien seemingly having the upper hand over his smaller opponent. But then, when smiles began to appear on the faces of all the men and women in the area, all hell suddenly broke loose. A loud, collective cry echoed throughout the building as drunks and partygoers began breaking tables and chairs across people's backs left and right, with every single patron beginning to engage in a building-wide slugfest. With bottles and debris flying through the air and bystanders jumping into the fray, interrupting the celebratory atmosphere of the business, almost every single person in the vicinity became involved in the scrap.
As bodies and furniture filled the air behind her, Kana decided that it was time for her to get involved as well. Grinning when she saw Gohan throw his hulking opponent off of him, the girl downed the last of her drink, wiped her lips clean and, with a bellowing war cry of her own, dove at the nearest pair of drunks she could see. "HAAAAAAA!" Grabbing the brawling pair by the backs of their skulls, she pulled them apart, slammed their faces together, knocked them out, and dove at a nearby woman with blue skin, tackling her to the floor.
It soon transformed into an all-out-war inside the outskirt club. Televisions were smashed, tables were shattered, and people began dropping to the ground like flies. The first to go were the incredibly inebriated, who stumbled about for several moments before collapsing under the weight of their own vices. The next were the faint of heart, who were easily overpowered by the more macho opponents, who didn't hesitate one bit to beat the crud out of them before moving on to their next target. Hell, the fight became so intense and so outrageous that even the go-go girls inside the cages jumped out and began clawing at the men scraping beneath them. It was great.
Over the next hour, Gohan had to contend with multiple, surprisingly powerful opponents. His hulking tackler aside, who wouldn't stay down no matter how many blows he dealt the man, the demi-Saiyan also had to deal with attacks from behind and from his sides; resulting in a very hectic exchange between dozens of opponents. Catching one particular alien when he tried to blindside him, the young warrior threw him into another oncoming foe to his left, a large slug patron who was attempting to bring him down with a charge. Managing to throw both to the ground, he then dodged a wide swing from an armored, troll-like foe, who let out a terrifying roar as he attempted to down the poor human.
Catching the man's large arm and holding it, the bruised Saiyan cringed and looked over his shoulder, where he saw Kana wrestling with a thorny man and a winged-woman several feet away. "This is insane!"
"Yeah! Isn't it great?" Kana shouted back, knocking the spike-covered man out with an elbow to the head before kicking the woman into a nearby table. After disposing of the two, she was then grabbed from behind by a giant insect-alien in a space suit, which caught her in a headlock and began lifting her off the floor. Coughing out in shock, the Seirei grinned, "Aren't you having fun?"
Punching the large troll in the gut, dropping him to his knees, Gohan stopped for a moment before looking at the woman behind him. "Actually… yeah." Grin forming, the man turned to punch his stricken adversary across the jaw, smacking him to the ground. His victory over his alien quarry was short-lived however, as he was suddenly struck in the back by a chair that sent him hurtling into a booth.
Crashing into the couches and table, the poor boy ended up buried under several feet of furniture and wall plating. The cause of his painful flight turned out to be a large, carapace alien with a face resembling an iguana, and dressed in black battle armor, complete with side-arm. Upon sending his target flying, the fit looking creature chuckled darkly and threw the destroyed chair aside, before then beginning to stomp towards the spot Gohan had wound up landing. At first he thought the young warrior had been knocked out cold. But then, much to his and everybody else's surprise, a loud clap of thunder followed by an explosion sent the pile of rubble flying off of the downed fighter, who rose up from the crash site bathed in a bright, golden glow.
From her position on top of a squirming dancer girl, whom she had pinned beneath her posterior, the raven haired woman that'd previously been staring at the demi-Saiyan from the booth looked up at the glowing young man in amazement. With her alien opponent's legs caught in her arms and the owner of the trapped limbs clawing at the ground for some sort of purchase, the armored woman whispered in surprise, "I knew it… he's…"
Head spinning from the surprise hit to the spine, the hybrid Super Saiyan panted and wiped the blood dripping from his lip. When he noticed the startled look on the hulking iguana's face, a wide grin appeared across Gohan's mouth. "So you want to play rough, huh? Alright." He then threw his hands forward and fired a powerful kiai, slamming it into the alien man before charging at him. With a loud yell of excitement and vigor, the Saiyan leapt at the stumbling man and tackled him in a manner very similar to a football player, only to feel the anthropomorphic iguana, who stood to about two times his size, catch him with his giant limbs and hold his ground. This resulted in a wrestling match between the pair of warriors. The two brawlers dug their feet into the hard ground, the effort of which prompting the carapace patron to power up through a fierce, white aura to match his estranged foe, who in turn snarled against the man's chest.
Ending in a good, old-fashioned stalemate, Gohan quickly decided to break the hold and took his opponent by surprise. Leaping off of the ground, the blonde demi-Saiyan kneed the man in the face and dropped him to the floor, where he then pinned the large man under his foot. Snarling menacingly, the lizard alien grabbed the boy by the gi and drew his fist back to meet the half-human head on.
"Bring it on, runt!"
"Sure thing, pal!"
However, just as Gohan was loading his own fist to continue pummeling his opponent into submission, on the second floor balcony above them, a large, blue man in a metal space suit, jetpack and mask, leapt over the side of the railing and, with his arms and legs held out, dove straight down towards the Super Saiyan with a primal yell. Before he knew it, the muscular, heavy alien managed to body-slam Gohan straight into the floor with the force of a meteor, ending in all three men smashing a hole down to the basement. It was here that the trio of idiots ended up crashing on top of one another in a very painful, yet very comical dog pile.
And so the epic, intergalactic bar fight continued.
Feeling the pressure of multiple opponents mounting, Kana also powered up and engaged Gohan's previous opponent. When the hulking figure attempted to get rough with her, the Seirei wound up shoulder-tossing the boney man into the massive television screen above, destroying it in a shower of glass and sparks. As a result, the platform broke and dropped to the ground, flattening a couple of patrons and knocking them out cold, inadvertently providing a perfect, king-of-the-hill space for other men and women present to wrestle over. Gohan soon rejoined the scuffle after jumping out of the hole he'd formed in the ground and, along with several other aliens who powered up to match their more powerful adversaries, ended up breaking what was left of the bar's fixtures. Even the owner of the club threw himself into the fray, pulling out a frying pan to smack the daylights out of the more rowdy of patrons.
Things soon started to pick up after Gohan thinned out another herd of would-be opponents, picking off a couple more aliens one after another. However, the moment he kicked away an alien from Frieza's race charging at him from behind, sending the carapace figure straight into another two brawlers, he was suddenly hit across the face by something hard and fast, which sent him spinning into a support beam. Slamming into it and denting the structure, the baffled Super Saiyan then looked up with a start to see the raven haired woman who'd been spying on him earlier, glaring in his direction.
Blinking at seeing this particular figure facing him down, the demi-Saiyan hurriedly rubbed off the bruise and rose up into a proper fighting stance, "That was a solid hit. Think you can do it again while facing me?" He asked this with a glint of excitement in his eye.
In response, the woman smirked back at him in a very Vegeta-like manner, something that sent a cold shiver up Gohan's spine. "I don't know. Let's see." All of a sudden, the female's expression steeled and her fists clenched. Just when the hybrid thought his new adversary was going to throw an energy blast his way and force him to dodge, in a flash of white light, a golden aura suddenly exploded around the woman, spiking up her hair and turning it blonde. At the same time, her eyes also turned a shade of green, completing her ascension.
The woman's sudden transformation into Super Saiyan had the Z-fighter recoil in shock, his eyes widening as he saw the female glare him down in her newly powered-up state. Initially he was thunderstruck when he realized that the woman he was now confronting was actually a Saiyan… and a full-blooded one at that. But what astonished him more than that was the fact that upon gauging her now open-book power level, he noticed that her energy was higher than his. This was made evident by how well-defined her body had become and the fact that her muscles were now more prominent in this state.
As soon as her transformation had stabilized, the woman then nodded towards the boy in a 'what-up' manner. "Well, kid? Do you think I'll be able to hit you now?" When she didn't receive an answer in the first five seconds and only a dumb shake of the head, the mystery Saiyan then grunted and frowned. "Thought so." All of a sudden, the woman dashed forward at blinding speed and, appearing directly in front of her opponent, elbowed him in the face just as he was raising his arms to block.
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