The Ripoff Faceoff

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The gentle tongues of flames spewed cinders into the reddening noon sky that was shrouded with smoke. Krillin blinked away, slamming his forearm into Android 15's while Lazuli dashed right behind him. The bald martial artist hopped up while Android 18 slipped down under him with a slide that tripped No. 15 up.

Krillin expelled an explosive wave of energy out of him, knocking Artificial Human No. 15 aside before drawing his arms back and pressing them by his side. "Ka... Me..." he chanted out while Artificial Human No. 18 pointed her index and middle fingers at the airborne Android and expelled a Finger Beam. No. 15 halted his wild flight and leaned out of the way of the incoming attack only for Lazuli to repeat it again and again, keeping him occupied with dealing with her Finger Beams.

"Mastered Kamehameha!" Krillin yelled out, thrusting his hands out and releasing the stored energy in a cerulean blast that engulfed the entire fighting stage in its intense luminosity. No. 15 back-handed No. 18's latest Finger Beam away before diving into the skies to avoid Krillin's amazing new form of Kamehameha. Krillin snickered, waving his tensed-up arms upward and bending the beam to pursue the Android from down below.

"You should learn some new tricks, been usin' that for decades already, man," Artificial Human No. 15 expanded his arms out, forming the Android Barrier field around him, but Krillin bent his Mastered Kamehameha out of the barrier's way. Touring around the barrier, the energy wave went off into the atmosphere while No. 15 ceased his Android Barrier and prepared to rush the lively tag team.

"Already did..." Krillin replied, curving the Kamehameha wave even further as he sent it back down at Artificial Human No. 15. The bald martial artist expelled an additional burst of force, channeling all the way through the Kamehameha beam that released a potent blast at the end. This split the curved and bent Kamehameha into a scattershot downpour of energy beams. "The Mastered Kamehameha isn't just a power-up of the original, it's not just Bending Kamehameha either. It's all of them in one."

A cerulean cascade of concussive combustions littered the sky. The emanating shock waves and static electricity fields leveled the burning buildings of the abandoned mining town and snuffed out the flames. Within the epicenter of that blast zone stood Android 15 with his arms crossed out in front of him. He revealed himself still tensed up and clutching for his life, his flamboyant outfit tattered, his shades left in shatters with just one long vizor with complex calculations stretching over the area where his eyes should have been.

"Man... I need a drink..." Artificial Human No. 15 panted after realizing that the merciless nature of the blast had subsided and that he could, at last, relax his overtaxed body.

"Don't start slacking off just yet!" Android 18 teased her opponent while dashing in from the side with a deafening headbutt. No. 18 grunted, and a booming shock wave sent him rolling across the skies away from his opponent. Lazuli dived in with a cross into his middle section, then transitioned into a roundhouse kick before double-ax-handle-slamming him down into the ground and lowering her open palms to take aim at him.

"Infinity Bullet!" she chanted out. A pink energy sphere blinked in and out of her open palms before solidifying for good and spewing a barrage of smaller Ki blast spheres at her downed opponent from up high. The energy blasts began pelting the fallen Artificial Human mercilessly before he could even form an Android Barrier to protect himself. Pink domes littered the background, leaving deep craters in the scorched ground around the battlefield with Android 15 laying sprawled out in one of them.

"You fools!" Android 15 grunted out after rising back on both feet and shaking his fist at the sky where Android 18 peeked at him with her hand, shielding her eyes from the smoke and dust to have a clearer view of her opponent. "Ruined my hat, ruined my drink, getting yourself involved in my hit-job... Just all-around annoying assholes, the lot of you!"

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