Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

An Uneasy Peace

Tenshinhan stood still, waiting for his opponent to make the first move. Because the three-eyed combatant could sense his opponent's Ki, he had no clear indication of how powerful his opponent was. Despite getting no input from his enemy, Tenshinhan was cleverer than to assume that his opponent was utterly unskilled in hand-to-hand combat. Even ordinary humans had a minor Ki signature, whereas this man had absolutely none. This was enough of a red flag to take him more seriously than a mere ordinary military officer.

The moment that Android One-Six began bobbing and weaving toward Tenshinhan in a rather slow and methodical but heavy advance, Tenshinhan realized his opponent was someone who could handle and would demand the full extent of Tenshinhan's skills. The towering man shuffled in up to Tenshinhan, throwing a rush of shots at him. The three-eyed man weaved around them, but then a knee-splitting crack of pain made Tenshinhan's eyes go dull.

One-Six's fist thudded against Tenshinhan's knee that supported half of his body weight and his retreat. Tenshinhan grunted in pain, but he didn't have many options to evade the follow-up attacks. One-Six hooked him up with a left cross to the side of Tenshinhan's head, an attack that almost folded the martial artist right up. The Android's right dug deep, extending to full length as the burly bruiser leaned down and drove his fist into Tenshinhan's gut, stumbling and opening his opponent up again.

It was as if One-Six had glided through the air, sliding like a water strider across the dirt and paved road with a hook to Tenshinhan's jaw that sent him flying and crashing through buildings and sent the civilians into a state of petrified panic. They hadn't seen martial arts of this caliber before. The best that they've seen martial arts being capable of was when Tenshinhan and his students helped seal up an active volcano nearby.

"Alright, folks, line up and take your paste nice and cool. Make sure to brush your teeth in front of one of our soldiers..." a military officer stepped out from behind a line of soldiers, approaching the civilians, but he froze up when his superior raised his hand to stop him.

"My opponent is not defeated yet." Android One-Six alerted the officer. "I had not had the chance of facing Tenshinhan in my previous life, but our data suggests that he is an incredibly tough opponent. Do not interfere before our fight is over."

Tenshinhan dived right back into the fight, blasting off the small capsule house that collapsed over him with the expulsion of an airwave that flung the surrounding debris aside and off of him as Tenshinhan snapped right back in his opponent's face, thrusting a handful of sharp thrusts with his palms positioned as the head of a snake, aiming at the upper section of his opponent. Android One-Six covered up his head with a block. Even if he absorbed the first few thrusts rather well, Tenshinhan's arms exploded into a fusillade of chain strikes that overwhelmed even the towering Android and forced him to grunt in pain and drop his guard.

"Got you!" Tenshinhan proclaimed, shooting a palm thrust up into the Android's chin and launching him upward. A clear, white aura enveloped Tenshinhan as he dashed afterward, hitting One-Six with a cross of his own right into the side of his jaw before skillfully dismantling his opponent's desperate attempts at defending himself with precise and discipline chops and kicks. Tenshinhan positioned his body above his opponent's and thrust his open palm downward, driving his opponent down.

One-Six shot his arms out and stopped his fall up over his head, propelling himself in a hand-assisted backflip and stopping himself from crashing down. Tenshinhan swooped down to his grounded position, and the two martial artists charged at one another again. One-Six spun around, leaving Tenshinhan's fist to slip off of One-Six's back while the Android winded up his fist with a leisurely spin and turned around in a blink, cracking his shot right into Tenshinhan's jaw.