Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

The Only (Artificial) Human That Can Help

The rumbling combination of military machines and an artificial man rolled onward. The holes on his back and the turrets littered all across his massive body spat out missiles glowing with energy from within toward Tenshinhan, who only assumed a proper fighting position and prepared to deal with the onslaught. One snap at a time, the three-eyed martial artist vanished repeatedly, preventing the missile barrage from overwhelming him yet leaving them free to ruin the surrounding scenery.

Tenshinhan swooped left and right, kicking and lightly swatting the missiles aside to detonate far away in the distance. The martial artist kicked off with a ring-shaped shock wave and a layer of dust that drowned out a handful of missiles while he took it to the sky. Turning around, Tenshinhan confused a few missiles following his tail to collide with one another. It was only when he hovered above the entire battlefield that Tenshinhan stopped running and placed his hands together.

"Kikoho!" Tenshinhan yelled out as a bright flash engulfed the entire battlefield. The overwhelming quake of energy drove all the homing missiles out of control and detonated them all at once while the slam of the stream of concentrated energy devastated the landscape and obliterated most of the machinery that One-Six could've used to fuse with.

"Well, well... The Kikoho, isn't it? It's a mighty technique, obliterated all of my missiles at once and all the machinery I could've fused with to add to my power, but at the cost of your own spiritual energy," One-Six glared up at his opponent. The Artificial Human couldn't see his opponent panting or sweating or showing any other signs of exhaustion but then again, Tenshinhan was quite high up and could've merely been hiding those signs for strategic purposes.

"Your power-up might be impressive but your intelligence is outdated," Tenshinhan lowered his hands with a calm look on his face. "Kikoho only consumes your spiritual energy if you don't have finer control over your spirit. Until now, every martial arts master on the planet has thought it to be a perilous double-edged sword technique, but until now, nobody has gone as far toward mastering their spirit cultivation as I have."

"What are you saying!?" One-Six freaked out, leaning back and rolling backward in an eight-shaped formation. "You mean that you've overcome all the disadvantages of the Kikoho?"

"Not quite. Though, for the sake of simplicity, you may as well think so. I will admit, though, your method of guiding and bolstering your missiles by coating them with your Ki was interesting. I have never previously encountered someone that combines technological advancement with martial arts in such a curious manner," Tenshinhan smirked and lowered himself back down. Without warning, he raised his left hand with his index and middle fingers bent by the middle and expelled a powerful Kiai wave.

One-Six grumbled and struggled against the invisible pressure force, trying to wrestle against the overwhelming force, but the lifeless lower body section of his submitted to the push and rolled backward, even when the Artificial Human tried skidding aside.

"I don't think you've yet realized what the Spirit Cultivation Method is. That is why you are still under the illusion that you can win against me. The Kikoho receives its overwhelming might from the fact that the user generates force not only by using Ki but also their spiritual energy." Tenshinhan cracked his neck to both sides before connecting both his hands. "Kikoho!" he yelled out.

A bright yellow beam washed over the devastated landscape as the invisible Kiai pressure wave that had overwhelmed One-Six earlier became a golden flash. Because Tenshinhan fired his attack on a straight angle, the Kikoho beam left the Earth's orbit and spiral out into dark oblivion before fizzling out at its max effective range, dissolving every minor space body it encountered into dust on its way.

"In addition, one might put some of their very own life force to bolster the technique even further," Tenshinhan explained while waving his left hand for some rest while his sparking and snarling opponent struggled to raise his collapsed upper body off of the tank bottom that let out stray explosions where the core systems of the fusion between Android and machine had begun to fail One-Six.