Melt

Taao looked down at the blue woman and smirked at what he now knew to be a saiyan warrior. He was sure he'd heard of their kind before, a warrior race bred only for battle who only knew only war for war's sake. Though it was obvious their love for prowess in battle was no myth, they where clearly not the monsters his elders made them out to be.

He smirked down at the blue warrior, for the first time since the fight began that he felt eager to show his abilities. He enjoyed being underestimated " Just watch saiyan, you're not the only ones who can fight."

Taao took a fighting stance as a mass of soldiers surrounded the two of them, his cocky smiled dropped into a look of steel resolve as the enemies cut the two off from each other knowing full well that the two of them together would make quick work of the bunch. He suspected this is how it would end up anyways, the saiyan clearly had no intentions of allying with the likes of him. From his flank one of the soldiers rushed him from his blind spot with a right hook meant to knock Taao out, but the nameks senses were too sharp to fall so easily. The soldier came at him from his right shoulder so he brought up his left palm in time to catch the fist before it could connect with his temple, and wasting no time he unleashed a heavy ki blast that exploded from his right hand into the warriors abdomen where it continue until it burned right through and out the warrior's back. An expression of shock and agony froze on the warriors as he was released to drop to the ground.

Nion smirked again as the Namekian spoke, shaking her head as she charged the soldier's comming to attack her, slamming her fist into one's stomach before raising her arm and brought her elbow crasing down on the man's head. Three more rushed towards their fallen comrad, to which she simply raised her hands ''Crippling Assault!"

Without hesitation spear shaped green Ki blasts began to shoot out of her palms in rapid repitition, most of the blasts colliding with some more vital areas of her enmies's bodies. When they were down and heaving in the air she appeared just beside them, reachign down and taking one's leg in her hand and swinging him around in a small spin of apeed; before letting go of him and sending the man hurling into his friends.

They were all sent to the ground with the throw, but Nion allowed them one little present; before they hit the ground the Sayin let loose a large and powerful Ki blast to accompany their broken bodies. This resulted in a huge explosion. "Sure, stay.But don't come crying to me when you're a bloated corpse, Namekian" It was more of a challenge then an insult.

Another soldier rushed him directly and Taao made quick work of him by sending first a weak ki blast to his face which was blocked by the enemies cross guard, but by the time the ki blast made contact with the soldier's block Taao was on him with both fist together raised above his head and like a hammer he brought it down on his head, splitting the soldiers skull at the top and sending him crashing to the ground. As that soldier sailed to the ground he held his hands above him again, a purple ball of plasma formed in the space between his hands and grew to the size of a globe before he fired it vertically where it would continue just a couple meters before breaking apart into smaller blast that would rain down on the enemies surrounding him. Those that where hit exploded in a cloud of purple and black and dropped to the ground, bodies smoking. This technique was called Hellzone Grenade and he felt the stamina it took to launch the blast drain from his body the instant it fired, but he wasn't close to being done.

Taao unleashed a viscous elbow to strike the gut of another soldier who attempted to lock him in a grapple from behind, but Taao's blow landed before he could lock a grip on his arms. The soldier held his gut with both hands as all the oxygen was suddenly forced out of his lungs and Taao's immediately followed up by turning and chopping at the base of the soldiers neck with all the strength in his right arm which sent the man flying.

Then several soldiers attempted to rush him from four directions thinking they would use their numbers against him, but he just waited until the last possible moment before he darted up vertically leaving the soldiers to collide head first with each other and holdings his palms out in front of him, side by side with the bottoms of his palms touching and fingers extended outward like a blooming flower bud. " Explosive...WAVE! " Taao shouted and a yellow flash proceeded a violent ki wave that exploded outward and consumed the four warriors in light and pain.

Commander Holly stepped out of his ship, stopping only a moment to reply to the question directed at him. "No. I have no use for weaklings like them."

In a few moments, Holly was hovering just over the battle. He locked in on the blue-skinned Saiyan and fired a huge and powerful blast in her direction. On its long travel to its target, several of Holly's own men were caught in the blast. Once it would make contact with the ground, the blast would explode and leave a huge crater in its place.

Pikruel, who was still laying several yards away from Nion, saw the huge blast coming. "Look out! Uh... What was her name? Dang it... Blue Saiyan, look up!"

Holly removed his helmet, showing his green-skinned face and red hair. "Listen up, insects!" he yelled from his place in the sky. "You may be strong, but you are nothing compared to one of Heeta's elites! I'll make an example out of you, so that no one on this planet dare challenge our power again!"

Nion immediatly made a mad dash to the side as the Ki blast came down on her, usually she would of attempted to blast back, but she wasn't in the best condition to do so. The waves of pain knawing at her body made it perfectly clear for the moment. Quickly, she made her way over to her partner with an irratated scowl. "Nion! My name is Nion! Remember the name, because youll be hearing it a lot!"

Looking up towards the bigger foe she simply let out a side-ways smirk. "And I was wondering how your soldiers were so weak, but when somone as pathetic as you is considered a commander; it makes perfect sense" Her gaze swept over the body of the Arcosian beside her when she realised her foot her hit it's side. "But if you'll give me a moment, I have to take out the trash"

Without hesitation she raised her leg and delivered a swift and strong kick to the kneeling Arcosian, aiming to send the warrior into the sky and hopfully plummet to his death. "I hope you're stronger then this idiot" Though considering it took three of us t take the Arcosian down...

''C-commander... F-f-" The pain overtook the Arcosian warrior as the blue one's foot slammed into his sides, pretty much defenceless before this sudden attack Dashade could do nothing but take it. Within moments he felt his body lifted from the ground by the sheer impact of the kick, his eyes struggling to stay open while his body shot through the air; even going right through the mountain, completely demolishing it. Before long he was only a glimpse in the distance, eventually trickling out of sight and plummeting to impact the ground.

His collision with the ground left a small crater, barely clinging onto his life with his broken bones. Damn it... That monkey had one hell of a kick A finger took great effort to move itself up to the just working scouter, Dashade knew there was nothing he could do here, but he could still listen to the battle over the COMMs. His only hope for survival was that the battle would end quick and scouts would be sent to find his corpse at least. It's up to you, Commander. I'm sorry I failed... Lord Heeta...

"Alright, where are the Saiyins... They gotta be where all the fun is, so..." The grass green girl closed her eyes with a calm sigh, her mind reaching out around her. She could feel it all over the place, the energy that tricked from every living thing, behind her was the low energy of the planet's inhabitance. Though even that was hard to sense over all the high power miles away in the distance. One of those powerful warriors had to be the Saiyin she was looking for. And it seemed that the fight was only heating up with the arrival of another large power drawing closer; it made her pretty excited.

And that's when one particularly lowering energy came through a mountain and created a crater right in front of her eyes.

A few blinks of confusion later, Kazaam stood with her mouth agape leaning over to peek inside the rough landing of the individual inside. "Is that a Saiyin?" Her eyes roamed over the dark skin and bright orbs. "That's a lizard... Are Saiyins lizards? Maybe they're all lizards hiding in dead bodies!"

"Hey, Mr! Are you a Saiyin? And why are you sleeping on the ground? It's not that comfortable..."

Dashade didn't reply to the odd question, he didn't have the energy to point out the obvious or even scowl at the girl. He could only slightly shake his head in a stiff and disappointing motion. And now this thing shows up? This planet seriously has a problem with attracting the strange crowds... He wanted to move, the get up or at least drag himself away; but his body still ached like hell. Maybe she can help... Thin lips opened, his words coming out as more of a croak then an actual word. "Help..."

Just as Taao was preparing to unleash an even greater energy wave on on another small cluster of enemies, which would have brought him close to his limit, but the appearance of a massive power on the battlefield. When it arrived all the soldiers stopped and looked up, then back to him with wicked grins as the lowered their guards, laughing. One of the soldiers in the cluster he was gunning for, a purple muscular alien with a patch of white hair on his otherwise bald head. " Looks like your luck's run out green man, you think you're so tough but now your all dead. "

Taao looked up just in time to see a helmeted man in a red suit aim a weapon of some kind right at them and he immediately understood their lives where in danger. The fiend pulled the trigger and unleashed a blast with massive amounts of energy straight for Nion and though he where not the direct target he was still within the blast radius, as well as the soldiers around him. It was obvious no one was expecting their commander to fire so indiscriminately, Nion dodged the blast of course but the soldiers where not so fortunate as most of them was consumed in a blast that left a massive crater. Taao himself had broke off from the soldiers and dashed away in the opposite direction of the blue saiyan leaving the fighters whom he fought to be thrown about like rag dogs by the resulting explosion, Taao had gotten far enough away that the immediate blast did not effect him, but as he continued to run the shockwave caught up and threw him to the ground with force, the collision with the ground knocked all the wind out of his lungs but he was otherwise fine.

He turned over and sat up on his elbows to survey the damage done to the battlefield and was horrified to see that the enemy had murdered almost half the remaining troops out of cold blood, just to strike at them, and now the ones who weren't killed instantly lay sprawled on the battlefield, scorched and broken by the flying dabris Just like that the battle was over. Taao felt utter revulsion for the green skinned alien. Unlike his comrades it was clear to see that this one had no honer, this so-called elite, it was obvious he looked down on them and his own subordinates by the way he looked down on them even as he slaughtered his own, Taoo spit at the ground in disgust. Every cell in his body cried out for him take charge and engage the enemy while his guard was down, but he saw no openings, and something told him that if he tried to take this enemy alone, he'd be killed.

Kazaam offered a sympathetic frown to the fallen Arcosian, watching his struggles to move. "Oh, you hurt. Aren't you?" Without hesitation she leaped up into the air and descended into the crater, landing right next to the warrior and kneeling down beside him; the bruises and damage left on him became much clearer up close. "Uh, don't worry! I have green icky stuff that helps me when I have a booboo"

Her hands snuck underneath the creature easily, her stretchable limbs allowing her arms to reach out and wrap around his whole body. Soon Dashade looked like a badly wrapped Christmas present being held just above the green girl's head. "I just hope that geezer hasn't messed with my stuff..."

Those remaining of Heeta's men who weren't dead or seriously injured pulled back to avoid being caught in another blast. There were very few of them left, and now that Holly has stepped in himself, they knew that they were no longer needed. The new foe and his earth shattering attack inspired Pikruel's second wind. She slowly lifted herself off of the ground.

"Nion. My name's Pikruel. This new guy may be trouble. We'll definitely have to work together if we're even going to stand a chance. To be honest, I don't know if we can beat him. That one attack did so much damage, and I get the feeling he's holding back.

Pikruel then turned her attention to their unexpected ally. "Hey! Green man! You're on our side, right? Come on! Let's do this together!"

Holly watched as Nion kicked Dashade far away, apparently unphased by the loss of his loyal warrior. "We really must raise our standards. This is getting ridiculous. Oh, well. That's why Heeta keeps people like me around."

The green skinned alien shed his metallic red armor. His chest was bare, but he wore maroon colored pants underneath. He waited from his place in the sky for his enemies to make their move. "Come at me, you fools... Show me all your best moves, and I'll show you mine."

"He blew up the people we were making minced meat out of easily an hour before, it's not that impressive" The Saiyin retorted to Pikruel sudden fear of the man's power. "We took down that pathetic excuse for an Arcosian, we can take on anything these knuckle heads dish out" She took time to charge up her Ki, trying to ignoring her aching pains as she continued to force a smirk towards.

Her gaze went back to the other Saiyin with aslightly restrained smile. "We are partners, right?" She held out her hand towards Pikrule, admittedly she had been impressed with the other woman's battle prowess and certainly wouldn't mind beating up this 'Elite' along side her.

Beaten, bloodied and carried to safety after being forced to his knees. How humiliating it was for Dashade, the Arcosian still couldn't move anything aside from his tail, a bitter tone escaping his lips as he attempted to talk. "P-put...Me down..." Pathetic The thought was spoken with full displeasure, he could imagine his older brother's narrowed eyes looking over the pathetic sight. "Beaten down by a monkey? You should of died back there, at least you would of regained a little dignity"

The voice continued to echo in his mind, no matter what happened he could ever ignore the disgust in it's tone, nor the feeling of an ashamed gaze. "How ungrateful, I always took it upon myself to teach you to stop being such an small minded fool, and yet you allowed this to happen? Worthless welp. Yet another shame to our bloodline."

Dashade's tail swung more furiously on its own, the words always stung and constantly nipped at his mind. It made him wonder if there was any time in his life where he actually impressed his older brother when they grew up together. 'Welp' was a phrase the older Arcosian had never grew tired of, and despite Dashade's best efforts, it stuck. Just as much as most of his childhood memories, a small hot-headed child beaten to the metal floor of the training room, an older brother pushing him down and yelling at him to get off the ground, demanding to know if he was 'An Arcosian, or a Worm'

"Where are we going?" Dashade resorted to asking when it was clear he would be able to escape this shame, he might as well not go in blind.

Taao heard the other saiyan but it was hard to take his attention off the enemy, this man, he was so relaxed and confident in the face of them even though they'd beaten down their army nearly to submission. Taao shook off the momentary shock and made his way over to the saiyans with a single leap, making sure to position himself behind the two of them as he would waste no time in gathering his energies, pooling all his remaining strength to bring to bear against their new, strong enemy, after this he would have nothing left to hold back. He squatted slightly with his legs spread at shoulder length and his arms tucked at his sides as he powered up to the max, to onlookers his green skin would appear to glow as an aura of a deep violet energy surrounded his body like a thin membrane just above his skin, the air around him crackled with energy as dust and debris where blown away from his immediate surrounding. Veins in his arms, legs, and skull became prominent as blood pumped through them at an extreme rate. Taoo stood tall when the power up was complete, his muscles bulged, puffed and grew as they where infused with all the energy Taao could bring to bear. He certainly felt stronger, but deep inside he was aware that there was more, he just couldn't reach it as he was.

" Yeah, let's do this. " was the reply that came only after he'd powered up. He could see the smirk forming on the commander's face, he was obviously surprised but not impressed, as if things merely became a little more interesting but no less dangerous than before. " Show me your best moves " the villian challenged, and Taao was going to do just that. Knowing that even in his current state if he got to close, he could be defeated rather handily if he took one of those blast, he was already thinking back on his attack against the arcosian warrior, thinking that if he just goes for the heart the first time and the fight could be over in an instant, he just needed an attack that could pierce his enemies heart before they even realize their in danger. Using his claws was one method, but against this man without the element of surprise he'd end up dead for sure if he tried it. A beam attack, it was the only way, he'd have to overcome his inability to focus a blast down to a beam, right here, right now. If he could achieve that do that then he had no doubts he'd be able to hit his target, even if it was moving. All he had to do was teach himself a new technique in the heat of battle, no big deal.

"Yeah," Pikruel replied to Nion. "We're partners."

At the Namekian's declaration of readiness, Pikruel nodded and rose up to meet Holly. She waited for the others to gather around the enemy before starting the fight. Holly didn't seem at all concerned, which made Pikruel really worried. Is this guy underestimating them, or is he really that strong? She looked into his eyes, and it felt like he was inside of her head, invading her mind. Pikruel felt like she needed to act and act now, so she turned her body to the side and put her hands together, charging the purple energy for her Galick Gun attack. What Holly did next made her heart drop. He made the exact same pose and started charging up his own Galick Gun.

"What!?"

Holly smirked as he continued to charge up the attack.

"Ow!" The groan of pain emitted from Kazaam lips after the fifth time a certain dark tail swung round to pelt the side of her head, the long curly 'limb' could of been used as a weapon if Dashade had chosen to. How does he lug this thing around all day, it's like my ship crashing all over again! How hard must it be for the warrior to walk with that thing constantly swatting at his leg, Kazaam did not want to know.

"We're going to... Uh... A mountain. On the ground. With a blown up ship" She spoke slowly and nodded at the same speed. "Yeah, we're going... Places" Soon the two arrived right back where she had previously killed two people (It had been an awkward entrance for her to say the least) and as she entered the small area beside the now demolished mountain, she could see that her ship... Still looked quite shitty.

There was only one house there just off to the side, Kazaam guessing that she was probably not far from a village, though she noticed a certain lack of soldier's now. They must of ran off when she left. The Elder insectoid stood with his back to her, slowly turning the wheel of a metal spit over a fire, he seemed to be cooking some dead animal. Without turning around, he spoke. "Why have you brought an Arcosian to my home? You've already destroyed my beautiful view"

"H-how did you... You weren't even looking..." After a moment of thought, Kazaam's eyes widened. "Oh! You're a psycho!"

"I am not! And it's psychic, not psycho!" The old man screamed at her in what almost sounded like a child's whimper. "Energy, I can sense your energy. Damn, brats. never taught any respect for their elders"

"Oh, you can do that too" Kazaam dropped Dashade's body in front of the old man. "Hey, Geezer. I found this little guy falling out of the sky. I think he's a Saiyin"

"Arcosian"

"So, can you heal him up? He's hurt very bad..."

"No, now bugger off"

"Why!?"

"Aside from the fact that his Soldier's are slaughtering my people?"

"Where did those guys go...?"

"Ran off after we moved the corpses" Kazaam blinked, only now remembering that she had indeed killed two of them, looking around she also noticed that the corpses were gone. Before she could ask where they went, she spotted just what the Old man was cooking... So she shut her mouth.

"Please? Pretty pwese!? I promise... To do stuff"

"...Fine. But if he attacks me, you're going on the fire next" The old man approached the fallen Warrior with an interested grunt, looking over the bruised body.

Nion was left to glare at her hand as her partner shot off into the sky to exchange stare downs with the enemy, the blue Saiyin grinding her teeth together. "We were supposed to grip each other's arms... It would of been cool!" She immediatly leaped up to join her partner in the sky, her eyes locked on the bright green muscled spectical.

Her partner and the Elite were staring each other down when she got up there, both seemingly distracted in focus, though Nion could almost see a bit of fear etching onto her partner's face; But the Saiyin shook off that thought. Immediatly she rushed to circle around the man, placing herself behind him ready to attack from the rear the moment he let his guard down.

"Alright, Green Bean. Put on your frilly dress, because we're taking you for a night on the town"

As the two acended and launched their attacks Taao remained grounded, just as before he would let the saiyan launch the frontal assault while he prepared his own attack, though he wasn't completely sure it could succeed or not. Placing two fingers to his forhead, Taao closed his eyes and tried to visualize what he wanted first, it has to been seem in the mind's eye first before a new technique could come to life. In his mind he visualized a huge ball of fire at the tips of his gingers which represented the amounts of energy it took do significant damage to the enemy. He imagine the ball of fire growing brighter and more intense while at the same time compressing and focusing to a single point, which represented building and focusing his ki at the tips of his two fingers. The more the ball of flame condensed to a point of light in his mind, outwardly anyone watching him would see his fingers would begging to emmit a pale yellow glow. His comrade would have to hold off the green warrior until he got it right.

Somehow this red haired alien was copying her move perfectly. Of course, it was possible that he had learned it from another Saiyan in the past, but somehow Pikruel doubted it. She charged up her attack to full power, uncertain of whether or not it would be enough. Then again, she wasn't alone. With Nion there to back her up, maybe she didn't have anything to worry about.

"Galick Gun!" Pikruel yelled as she fired her attack.

Holly fired a blast from his feet to quickly move himself higher, and Pikruel's blast passed just under his feet. Then he turned himself towards Nion and pushed his hands out in front of him. "Galick Gun!"

A look of panic could be seen of Pikruel's face when she realized what just happened. There was nothing she could do but watch and hope Nion had razor sharp reflexes.

It wasn't a surprise when the green man ascended higher to dodge Pikruel's blast, sending it right towards Nion herself while the elite merely turned to fire at her as well. The Saiyin's next action was fueled by nothing but pure instinct, no thought or planning, just action. Quickly, she lowered herself a little with her eyes locked on Pikruel's attack, showing no care for the Elite's blast as she raised her arms. If I don't hit this just right...

The attack rushed towards her like a speeding bullet, imeediatly the Saiyin warrior brought up her hands to slam right into the blast as it came to hit her. Already the blast was JUST redirected to avoid killing her, instead now heading on a direct course to collide with Holly's attack; Which only pushed Nion to dash back and fire off a Ki blast of her own to push up Pikruel's original blast. "Get a load of this, you Giant Green Jackass!"

Now, she just had to hpe somone took the chance to take the bastard by the rear while she... Attempted to hold off the blast in her weakened state.

Energy popped and crackled at the tips of his fingers and his eyes where focused on their enemy closely for an opening, he didn't have any margin of error so he couldn't risk making a move to save his allies from pain, fortunately they had each other. Instead of dodging and choosing the path of least resistance she put herself at risk by choosing to deflect the ki wave with a mighty blow, redirecting it to collide with their enemie's counterattack simultaneously saving her partner and rushing to her side to unleash a ki wave of her own which became the only thing saving the two of them from taking the blast directly. It was a risky move, but Taao understood. The blue saiyan was no doubt aware of his preference of ambush tactics over direct attack, she was no doubt placing her faith in him to take down the brute in one blow. He would have preferred to fire from a distance but he wasn't confident in the accuracy a technique he'd yet to perfect, he couldn't bear the thought of missing outright and failing his comrades.

Taao wasted no more time thinking, while keeping his eyes on the enemy he dashed forward to position himself underneath the green man then dashed up in the sky to position himself directly at his back in seconds. Extending his arm outward towards the fiends heart, or at least where he thought it should be, and fired two focused blast of ki from pointer and index finger. The blast where yellow with a purple corona, the beam coming from his pointer fired straight while the one from the index emitted a beam which spiraled around another so that even if the beam alone wasn't strong enough to pierce him outright, the second would continue to tunnel through his chest cavity at the speed of light. He was only a meter of space between the two of them, the man would have to be faster than light to dodge this, which Taao felt confident that no one was.

The old man seemed to show a surprising amount of strength for both his age and the reputation of his species, being able to easily drag Dashade inside the small home he had set up. Inside the Arcosian warrior didn't get a chance to look at the room he was dragged through as he continued to dip in and out of consciousness, all he knew was that he was soon thrown onto a bed of sorts (Made out of material he didn't want to question the origin of).

Throughout the whole experience all the soldier could think of was the fact that the old man was helping him at all, seconds before the insectoid had loudly acknowledged that he knew exactly who Dashade was working for; Yet the old man was now wasting his own time tending to the wounds of a warrior he knows is his enemy. It didn't make any sense to Dashade.

"Stop struggling, Brat. And get that loose tail under control!" The commands that came from the small man were surprisingly effective, carrying the authority of a commander without having any. Immediately Dashade settled down his wild tail that had been beating against the wall for the past minuet now. "Good, you can take basic instructions. Now, let's see..." The man's gaze went up to sweep over the Arcosian's wounds.

Holly had to admit, he was impressed by the feats of the already wounded blue skinned warrior. To redirect a blast in a U-turn wasn't an easy thing to accomplish. The combined power of Pikruel and Nion was enough to make Holly struggle a little, but when the Namekian flew up behind him, he saw an opportunity. Taao would feel the same unease feeling that Pikruel had felt moments before. The feeling of having one' inner thoughts violated. Then Holly would release his hold on his ki blast, stepping aside to allow the combined Saiyan ki blast to move without resistance straight for the Namekian.

The attack Taao released, however, did not go to complete waste. It nicked the commander's shoulder, leaving a painful hole in behind. Holly growled angrily, but quickly regained his composure. "Nice move you've got there. Did you just invent it? Too bad no one will remember you for it."

Putting his index and middle finger together at his forehead, Holly began to repeat the same technique that Taao used against him. "Now watch as I use it to kill your annoying blue friend." Pointing at Nion, Holly released the attack.

A laugh escaped the lips of the blue skinned female as she had just managed to redirect the blast, the combined strength of Pikruel made alleviated some of the pressure thrust upon her by pushing up against the brunt of beam. "That's right, feel the power of th-" Before she could even begin her cries of victory, feeling the beam of Ki start to overpower Holly's, she witnessed as the Namekian Warrior came to attack the Elite; with Holly dodging out the way in what Nion assumed was an effortless move.

"That's...just...cheating..." She tried to scream at the enemy, but no longer could sh ignore the ache of her muscles of the substantial drain from her energy. With a simple exhausted groan, Nion's body fell from the air, crashing into the ground once again. Still breathing, but unable to remain standing. "And now... I see a light..." Holly's attack came rushing towards her. "...fUCK"

Right before he unleashed his new technique he could feel something quite strange at the back of his mind, an eery tingle at the base of his skull,like a ethereal tentacle probing where it shouldn't through the recesses of his mind, then the unthinkable occurred. Taao's new attack miraculously worked exactly he had envisioned, on the first try. If the beam attack hit it's mark there was no survival, but instead of watching his enemy lurch in surprise he watch him step aside as if he foresaw the attack, taking it in the shoulder instead, and even though enemy did not dodge the attack completely he did manage to avoid a fatal wound with a move so simple movement that it flew in the face of logic. Taao's saving grace was that his technique was designed to pierce any obstacle, so when met with a force it couldn't overcome in the form of the redoubled ki blast the fiery haired so kindly left for him, it's only alternative was to destruct which caused a massive explosion of energy which would temporarily paint the whole battlefield in a violet hue. Taao threw up his hands in a desperate attempt to brace himself for the subsequent shock-wave which inevitably followed, but he only managed only to spare his face and chest from absorbing most of impact as he was sent hurling feet over head.

Holly himself took the worst of it, though unlike Taao he was able to brace himself and remain in place the shoulder which was already pierced by his attack was scorched by the explosion and would probably be useless. By the time Taao had recovered and re-oriented himself upright he caught a glimpse of frustration on the emerald carrot top's expression, but it was quickly replaced by the usual cocky grin accompanied by praises for his brand new technique.

New? How could he know to call it that? He couldn't know about my technique, unless... The truth became plain to Taao as he looked on in horror as Holly placed two fingers to his forehead, perfectly imitated his earlier stance just as with Pirukal, he'd pulled Taao's own technique from his mind to use against their ally, the blue haired saiyan. This was the second time that the enemy chose to attacking her directly rather than deal with either of them, even after causing him direct pain. It was clear who he perceived to be the biggest threat, which made it easy to do what he did next. Fortunately his technique was not one that could be used on the fly, depending on the person it took time to gather the energy first, time enough for Taao to attempt to blast Holly and throw of the attack with a super explosive wave.