Her light speed hit landed with a sickening 'crunch', sending Gohan flying through the air to slam into the back wall. His aura extinguishing the instant he stopped, the boy dropped back to the ground and fell to his hands and knees. The moment he landed, the hybrid, with his teeth gritted and blood trickling from his nose, leapt back to his feet and lobbed a golden ki blast straight at the antagonistic Super Saiyan in the center of the room. Before it could hit, the woman effortlessly backhanded it into the stage light above her, disintegrating the piece of equipment before sprinting towards the teen with intent.
Sprinting forward as well, Gohan fired off two more blasts at the woman, both of which bounced off of her chest and shoulder when she blew right through them. Realizing blasting her wasn't going to work, the teen continued his approach at a much greater speed, before he leapt at her and landed a solid left hook across her face. The blow struck with a dull 'thud', knocking the woman back and momentarily stunning her, which caused her golden aura to dissipate. Gohan then followed up the haymaker by lifting his right arm and driving it down into her neck, connecting hard and causing the woman to lurch.
However, undeterred by the two power shots, the woman responded with a growl and slammed a right hook across the teen's face, knocking blood from his mouth before then attempting to hit him with a left cross. Gohan parried it easily enough and retaliated with a right elbow to her temple, which would've cut the skin wide open. Unfortunately it didn't, and the teen received a swift uppercut to the chin as a result. When the woman threw a right snap kick to his head, which he quickly blocked, Gohan then tried to nail her with a right hook, only for the woman to catch his wrist and twist it into a submission hold.
Growling as he resisted, the demi-Saiyan found that he was unable to break the grip when the Super Saiyan woman suddenly grabbed him by the back of his gi with her free hand, spun him around, and slammed him face first into a nearby support pillar. The teen struck the iron bar with a loud 'clang', before several more loud thuds began to ring out as his opponent drew him back and slammed him into the pole three more times, bending the frame at its base. The moment it collapsed, she then finished her vicious beat down of the boy by throwing him straight into the table next to them, disintegrating it and punching a crater into the cobalt floor.
Groaning at the concussive blows he'd received, Gohan struggled to get back to his feet, only for his opponent to grab him by the shoulders and hoist him the rest of the way up. Just as he was hooking his hands around her arms to get some kind of leverage, the Super Saiyan woman spun them again and threw him straight through a crowd of drunken fighters. The poor demi-Saiyan bowled them over before crashing through a large speaker, destroying it in a shower of sparks.
Pushing himself back to his feet, a shaken and badly beaten Gohan opted for a change of tactics. Grabbing a nearby steel pole, the boy spun around and slammed it across the head of his approaching opponent. The first hit landed with a deafening 'clang.' The second hit that followed shattered the pole and had the female Super Saiyan spin on the spot as bits of metal scattered across the floor. When Gohan threw away the dented handle, he saw his opponent turn to glare at him, with a cut over her brow and a deep bruise on her left cheek. As soon as both fighters glared at each other, they rushed forward and tackled one another, grabbing their adversary by their shoulders and attempting to push them over.
Their feet dug into the tiles and split them as the two Super Saiyans grappled, their auras bursting forth and beginning to rip the place asunder. Patrons and debris was blown in all directions from their combined force, causing the second floor walkway to collapse. But just before a winner of the wrestling match could be decided, the female Super Saiyan suddenly weaved her arms around Gohan's, knocked them away, and front kicked him straight into the chairs behind him. The couches exploded when the hybrid smashed through them, before the teen back-flipped and landed clean on the other side.
Amidst the debris and the raging battles going on around him, Gohan spat out the blood in his mouth and smirked. "You're really tough. Hitting you in the head and torso is like burying my knuckles into a block of iron."
The golden haired female chuckled. "That's what living in deep space does for you. Training on planets with hundreds of times normal gravity and no oxygen helps build a Saiyan's endurance and stamina. I'm actually surprised you've gotten as strong as you have in the conditions you must've been raised in," the woman admitted, before taking another stance and grinning excitedly. "Let's see how long you can keep that up."
"Sure," Gohan complied, a split second before running in to engage the woman once again.
Eventually, after another hour of trading punches, almost every single man and woman in the bar had been knocked unconscious. Scattered amidst the ruins of the indoor battlefield, bodies could be seen strewn about the place, covered in food, liquids, and other bodies of dozens of aliens, all of whom had fallen in the heat of battle. Those who were unable to limp away from the fray had wound up crashing wherever they were lying and were now snoring away, while the bartender switched off the lights and began sweeping up the mess. Obviously he was unconcerned with the insane amounts of damages caused to his establishment, as he knew his insurance and connections would be able to take care of it.
As for the two people responsible for the fight in the first place, they could be found standing outside on the other side of the street, nursing some serious bruises, and being shadowed by their new dance club companion, who'd decided to tag along. All three of them were now walking off the vicious beatings they'd received and given, with Kana rubbing a sore jaw and Gohan tending to a swollen left eye, bloody lip and bruised ribs, using a piece of meat he'd managed to buy from the front counter to treat the former. His opponent, the mystery Saiyan woman with the long black hair, also had her arm in a sling and a noticeable black eye, courtesy of her fellow Saiyan opponent.
Groaning as she rolled her shoulder, sitting on the bench next to her demi-Saiyan friend, Kana spoke in a strained voice, "Man… we really gave it to each other back there, didn't we?"
Cringing at the stinging pain in his face, the battered Gohan chuckled, "Do you think we got a little bit carried away? We did trash Gonzo's place pretty good."
"Nah. It's alright. This happens a lot more than you think it does," the Seirei replied with a careless wave of her hand. "Plus he's covered."
"That's good. I can't imagine the amount of paperwork and crap he'd have to go through if this only happened to him once every month," the warrior with the torn up gi remarked. After moving the steak- or what he thought was steak- away from his face and holding it out for Kana to use, he then turned his attention to the woman behind him, who he could see was working on a nasty shiner on her left leg. Upon seeing her eyes shift over to him, the teenager spoke a little more seriously. "You're a Saiyan too, huh? That's cool. The last thing I expected coming all the way out here was running into another one."
The woman standing beside him chuckled, "What's there to be surprised about? You and I are warriors… members of the most powerful race in the universe. It'll take more than some lizard in a floating chair to take us out."
Kana, the piece of meat pressed up against her swollen cheek, laughed a little at the woman's comment, "She certainly talks like a Saiyan. There's no doubt about that."
It was then Gohan cracked a smile, "Let me guess; you managed to escape Planet Vegeta's destruction and came all the way out to these parts of the universe so that you wouldn't be discovered?"
The Saiyan woman shrugged, "More or less. A lot of really intense shit went down after our home planet was vaporized. It was like a mass exodus gone mad. Those who were off world at the time on top secret missions fled their systems when they heard rumors of Planet Vegeta being destroyed by Frieza. Those who heard it'd collided with a rogue planet went to their assigned rendezvous points… only to be ambushed by Frieza's men and massacred. And others who were around at the time Frieza attacked Vegeta either stayed and died… or fled the world as fast as they could, with most of them being caught up in the planet's explosion." The mysterious Super Saiyan then raised her good hand and shrugged in a casual manner. "Dozens of us managed to survive the destruction of our planet… with a great many going into hiding. That's not even counting the young Saiyans who'd been dispatched to other planets in the days prior to the event."
It was hearing this that drew an understanding nod from the two fighters listening to the mercenary's compelling tale.
"That certainly explains a lot," Gohan commented, glancing across at Kana for clarification.
The glowing girl smiled, "The Saiyans are a resilient race… one of the greatest primate-animal species in the cosmos. Not even time has been able to diminish your bloodlines."
"I'm a freelance agent now," the Saiyan woman interjected, drawing the pair's attention back to her to see the proud smile on her face. She then poked her chest armor with her thumb. "I live on this planet as a bounty hunter and a local gun for hire, with no tyrants or bosses to rule over me."
Her statements earned a small smile from the hybrid warrior on the bench, "That's nice. Do you have a family here as well?"
A shrug followed the boy's innocent question, "In a way. I've dated a few men and women in the years since I got here, but ever since my first mate, I haven't been able to move on to anybody else. We Saiyans form incredibly powerful bonds with the first people we develop attractions towards… feelings I believe are characteristic of what other life forms would identify as 'love.' As for family… well…" She then directed a warm and very friendly smile towards the boy in front of her. After taking in the sight of his handsome face, his hair and his guiltless expression, her eyes suddenly seemed to glow like the stars around them. "It seems Kakarot has grown up well without me."
At first confused by the woman's sudden remark, it took several moments of processing her admission before Gohan eventually figured out what she meant. "Wait a second… if you know that name… then that means…" It was then his eyes widened in shock, at the same time Kana's brain caught on to what the pair were discussing. "Y-You're…"
A grin formed on the woman Saiyan's lips as she held her arm out in a shrug, "Bet that's your second biggest surprise for the day, huh?" She then gestured down to the stunned fighter. "My name is Hanasia… ex-Saiyan Elite formerly of Planet Vegeta and the second most powerful warrior under King Vegeta's command." A frown then formed on her lips as she looked away with a disgusted snarl. "That damn cannon fodder Gerkin won the title of first seat because I was fucking pregnant at the time of our last evaluation. Bastard…"
Still overwhelmed by her first bit of information, Gohan then raised a hand and dumbly pointed across at his former opponent. "So… if you're my father's mother… then that would make you-"
"Your grandmother. Yes. Kai," the woman shook her head at the boy when his arm dropped. "I knew the people on earth were slow, I just didn't realize how slow. Guess some of their little idiocies managed to rub off on you during your conception."
"B-But…" Swallowing nervously, the spiky haired Z-fighter then regarded the woman with a great amount of interest, "How did you know I was your grandson?"
Hanasia smirked, "Well, at first I was unsure. When I first spotted you back inside the club, I initially mistook you for another Saiyan who'd managed to escape Frieza's wrath. However, after seeing you sit down at the bar and begin chatting up your fetching young friend here…" Glancing momentarily at the Seirei sitting alongside him, the woman then continued her explanation, "I quickly realized who you must've been." A grin slowly reappeared on her lips. "Aside from your gestures, mannerisms and general way of fighting, you also have the exact same eyes that my late son and mate once had. There's no way I could mistake them for belonging to anybody else. The resemblance is uncanny."
"Guess it would be impossible for a mother to miss those sorts of details, huh?" Gohan chuckled, easily recognizing how the woman was able to identify him.
Hanasia chuckled at the boy's inquiry and nodded, "Obviously you couldn't have been Gine's grandson. You are much too powerful to have descended from her side of the family. Then again… you do possess a few of her traits that Bardock greatly admired, including her gentle spirit and strong heart… features that were normally frowned upon in our society." The Saiyan then placed a hand on her hip and continued her story. "Gine, Palantay and I were Bardock's mates, and all four of us lived together under the same roof. While Palantay only had one daughter, who'd gone off to fight in a massive rebellion a whole star system away, Gine had two children of her own: Turles, whom she repeatedly mistook for Kakarot after we gave birth in the same hospital wing, and Ruco, who she sent to the Southern Quadrant to live in peace, away from our planet. Since I was always away on missions for the King, she took care of Kakarot in my stead before he was sent to earth, using the information I'd uploaded into his attack pod to stimulate his aggressive Saiyan behaviors and psychologically encode the mission parameters into his brain's subroutines. It was a very efficient process."
Looking back on what Vegeta, Nappa and Raditz were like back when they invaded earth, Gohan immediately gave an uncomfortable nod of agreement, "I think I can agree with that."
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As you may have noticed, in this universe Goku's mother is Hanasia, from universe 3. I decided to use this character because, since several chapters ago it was revealed that there are more Saiyans, why not add one more? And so I decided to add Hanasia, who is an known character and mother of Goku in an alternative universe, in addition to the fact that she is a powerful warrior capable of surviving the destruction of planet Vegeta, in addition to functioning as another mentor for Gohan, thanks to the knowledge and experience in battle that she possesses, unlike Gine, who was very inexperienced and weak. Anyway, I hope you like this decision.
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