Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

Gohan's Valorous Stand

"Time... I need to buy as much time as possible," Gohan thought to himself before igniting his golden aura and charging right at the Ultimate Artificial Human. Gero's titanic arm shimmered, becoming just a blur, but the teenage Super Saiyan didn't need to be able to follow his opponent's moves to read them. It was a hammering strike, Gohan knew it, so his afterimages split off of him mid-rush before the Ultimate Gero even went for the smashing attack.

With the afterimages shuffling in between themselves, Gero's brutal smash dispersed a pair of them before Super Saiyan Gohan crashed in from the right with a right hook and a back-flipping kick to Dr. Gero's chin. While his blows released blunt thuds from the impact and his resonating energy resulted in golden halo shock waves upon crashing at his opponent, the Ultimate Android barely seemed to register Gohan's attacks.

Despite that, the desperation to bargain for time forced Gohan to strain himself and keep up the flaring golden aura around him. Peeved, the Ultimate Android began pursuing the teenage Super Saiyan throughout the hallway but through clever and deceitful maneuvering a skillful combination of afterimages and snap vanishing, Gohan eluded becoming the target of the Ultimate Gero's crushing hammer strikes. With each opening he sighted of the Ultimate Android's entire body being devoted to crushing him, Gohan whipped a stiff kick or a hook in Ultimate No. 20's way but despite Gohan's best effort to leave a dent, it just didn't seem like he did that.

Growling in frustration, young Gohan packed a lot of wallop into a single blow. His clenched fist bent the air around it and sent resonating, concussive shock wave bubbles around it while exuding golden rays of energy from it. After witnessing yet another moment of Dr. Gero taking the bait and smashing through an afterimage, Gohan vanished directly in front of his foe and drove his fist with all the power packed within straight into the Ultimate Gero's face. The explosive shock wave expanded, bending and waving polymer and various alien adamantine alloys like sheets of cloth being flapped in the wind, yet Gero absolutely no-sold the strike. Because of the sheer volume of the concussive force, the Ultimate Android skid back, leaving blazing trails and black grazes across the floor.

"Huh... You move in a most peculiar pattern. There is nothing in No. 13's Data Input program archives about this fighting style," the Ultimate Gero noted.

"As I've thought..." Gohan thought to himself. "He relies on reading fighting moves like one would study physics from a textbook. As long as I don't rely on a particular martial art, fighting style, or repeat move patterns that Dr. Puri or Dr. Gero had seen before, I should be able to outmaneuver No. 20..."

Yet again, Gohan dispersed in a mirage of afterimages, all of which didn't linger so that Dr. Gero didn't find a way to see through them. It took skill in Ki Sense or grand perception and experience on the battlefield to spot the real deal and, fortunately, the Ultimate Artificial Human had neither of those things. All the afterimages flashed with channeled Ki energy waves even though just a single of them had been physical and contacted the rattled and stationary Ultimate Android.

With the entire hallway drowned in smoke, Gohan flashed up right in front of the Ultimate Artificial Human with a blow to its solar plexus that by all means should've left the amped-up Dr. Gero breathless, however, the blow just resonated in a painful backlash through Gohan's entire arm and forced the teenage Super Saiyan to rush through his combination. Having failed to stun his opponent, Gohan took off with a soaring uppercut. The entirety of Gohan's wild Ki blazed on, burning through vast energy and stamina supplies. The deafening impact had been a success as the Ultimate Android's head finally rocked back from the hit. With a shimmy of vanishes, Gohan put some distance between himself and his terrifying opponent.

"Take this!" Gohan yelled out, extending his hands as a surging lightning storm converged at the end of his hands. The resulting energy wave came out with an electric hiss. The Ultimate Artificial Human lowered his head just in time to see the attack coming. Looking unimpressed, the Ultimate Android seemed dead-set on taking it head-on, as he didn't believe it'd cause him much damage. However, just as suddenly as it appeared, the attack dispersed into an uncontrollable electric field.