Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

A First-Awakened Desperate Soul

One-Nine vanished without a trace. Bardock, overflowing with a vibrant, scarlet aura, scanned the environment, suspecting the enemy to flash in from a blind spot. One thing he didn't expect was a direct, straight, head-on assault. That was why when One-Nine popped up in front of Bardock with a stiff headbutt, it sent the warrior staggering back.

The female Android vaulted over her right side, gliding over the air before driving her foot in an aerial cartwheel kick and stomping Bardock's face into the ground. The Saiyan's agonizing grunt joined in on the monotonous cracks of the flames around in the lab. One-Nine swung her left leg, hooking her fallen opponent up with her foot and flinging him in the air. The sassy Android swung her entire body around and drove her right leg into Bardock's face with a roundhouse kick.

"D-Damn it, One-Nine!" Android 19 shrieked out when the entire laboratory crumbled. Like a speeding locomotive, Bardock crashed through titanium walls, laboratory equipment, chemical tanks, and hundreds of meters of millennia-old ice forming the glacier structures of the Northern Region. The violent aftereffect made the laboratory begin to fall apart, which provided Piccolo with everything he needed to focus his effort on when the ground felt the least stable and wreckage of collapsing glacier and constructed structures began pelting the energy-draining pest on his back to break out of 19's hold.

Bardock winced in pain. His eyes had forgotten what light looked like in the ten to twenty minutes that he and Piccolo had spent inside that glacial mountain formation. Before the Saiyan's eyes could truly get used to the sunlight and its overwhelming reflection in the ice, a merciless pulse of pain resonated through Bardock's body, blacking him out for a second. One-Nine had driven her elbow into Bardock's gut, collapsing the glacial structure whole and causing a shock wave that bounced Bardock off the ground.

With her right hand behind her back and adopting a mocking, sassy expression, One-Nine chopped at Bardock's Adam's apple. The look in the Saiyan's eyes became dulled out as she wheezed trapped air through his injured airways. With the weightless sack of bones still flying, One-Nine thrust her elbow into Bardock's gut, diving in up close and personal to the Saiyan as she pummeled him without reprieve. A gallant back vault kick sent Bardock flying past the clouds into the air.

With a pop, One-Nine appeared before her beloved punching bag and smacked Bardock with the back of her hand, making the Saiyan flip over in mid-air as he offered no resistance of his own to the impending beat down. Switching the dominant side multiple times, One-Nine slapped Bardock with the back of her hand, trying to wake the semi-conscious Saiyan up. When gravity enacted its dominant influence over the dazed Saiyan, One-Nine stopped his fall by catching him by the collar and pulling him in for a quick drain of a fraction of the man's Ki.

One-Nine's look widened in shock when Bardock's knee gutted her in the navel area and swat her aside from the Saiyan, undoing her grip at once. The alien warrior roared out with sincerity, spitting up blood from his injured throat but continuing to bellow regardless as the bright, white landscape of the Northern Region became pinkish red from the intense luminescence of Bardock's King Kai Fist.

The two warriors collided with each other, slamming their elbows together. As the struggling fighters pushed back from each other, One-Nine transferred the rest of her momentum into a backflip kick, but Bardock leaned back his upper body, avoiding the crescent-shaped kick just narrowly. The Android assassin vanished, appearing right above Bardock as she plunged down, but Bardock caught her dive kick and swung the Android teen aside.

The Saiyan warrior put up his knee to absorb One-Nine's hip slam. One-Nine bent her body in a flexible and unorthodox manner, bending her spine back as she smacked with the back of her fist behind her, catching Bardock in the eye, but such an odd attack carried little weight. The pale Android thrust her fist in an attempted one-inch punch, but Bardock let out a Kiai shock wave that canceled its pressure out. The two became entangled in a wild exchange of blows. Bardock panted and shook his head a few times, throwing handfuls of sweat that was soaking him aside.