Marking the boy, Bujin, Bido and Zangya closed in on him from his right, left and front respectively, and once they were in range, they attacked. Without even blinking, Gohan blocked the chop from his right, the hook from his left, and checked the kick from the front, the blows slamming into him one after the other with concussive force. Their attacks stopped, the trio looked up at the boy's unflinching gaze in shock, before the demi-Saiyan threw his arms out and blasted them away with a shockwave and a yell, scattering them throughout the city's airspace.
Managing to stop themselves, the three mercenary aliens glared back at their opponent, whom they saw was eyeing each of them carefully.
Zangya smirked in surprise, "My, my. This one knows how to fight."
Responding to the remark, Gohan threw his arms and legs out and powered up, his golden aura exploding around him and pulsing at a high frequency. After gathering enough energy, the half-Saiyan took aim and fired three simultaneous golden blasts at his opponents, the attacks flying at the trio at high speed. Zangya responded quickly and backhanded the shot away, causing it to collide with a distant hotel complex and disintegrating the building in a massive, dome shaped explosion. Bujin effectively kicked his away and sent it into the streets, leveling a block of flats, while Bido took his against a cross-arm block and dispelled it with a yell.
However, the moment he looked back at his group's target, the big alien suddenly saw the boy right in front of him and flying at him with a kick. Before he could even gasp, Gohan slammed his leg right into the alien's chest, causing spit to fly out of Bido's mouth.
It seemed like a clean hit. But as it turned out, despite the speed and force of the attack the invader had in fact, at the very last second, managed to catch the boy's extended leg with his hand and, grinning roguishly, wrapped an arm around the boy's body and began to crush the kid against his chest. He pressed the kid's leg in at the same time, squashing him in from both directions.
Yelping when the man began to apply unwarranted pressure on him, Gohan slammed both hands into the guy's shoulders to push him away. But then, sensing danger, the boy's eyes snapped over his shoulder to see Bujin flying right at his head with a kick of his own.
"Hold still!"
With a shout of surprise, Gohan threw his body back and swayed under the kick, which ended up slamming Bido in the face and knocking the brute back. The unintended blow managed to free the Super Saiyan from his opponent's hold and allowed the boy to drop altitude, while the star struck Bido fumed.
"Watch it, you moron!"
Bujin freaked out and waved at his teammate apologetically, "Sorry! Sorry! I wasn't aiming for you!"
While Gohan glared up at the two bickering aliens, he suddenly sensed another incoming attack and spun around. Reacting quickly, he threw his hands up just in time to catch the red blast thrown at him by Zangya, which slowly began to push him down to the roof of one of the apartment buildings far below. As the stream of angry red energy continued to painfully grind into his palms, causing excess sparks to fly off in all directions, the Super Saiyan hybrid gave a loud growl and, with a shout of effort, hurled the blast skywards, straight up towards Bujin and Bido.
When the two comrades finally returned their attention to their quarry, the duo had to take immediate action to avoid their teammate's deflected attack, which tore right past them like a missile. The second they dodged it, it nosedived and struck a distant clock tower, nuking the entire block in the form of a red, exploding sphere, reducing all the buildings within the kilometer blast radius to ash.
As the trembling earth and explosion faded, Gohan took a defensive stance and held his ground, watching as Zangya and Bujin dropped down from the sky to land on either side of him. The moment they did, they began attacking him in a blur of movement, fists and kicks flying at him from both sides and forcing the young Super Saiyan to dodge and block. He did well in parrying a majority of the attacks, even retaliating with a few elbows and shots of his own, forcing them to back off.
While he fought on, Gohan's eyes caught sight of Bido circling him and his opponents from a distance, obviously looking for an opening. Eventually, after a solid streak of successfully fending off his two attackers, the blonde ended up taking a knee to the stomach from his opportunistic female adversary. The blow was able to lift him into the air long enough for Bujin to drive a hammer blow into his back, which sent him into the roof of the hotel and crashing through every single floor on the way down. He ended up slamming into ground a second later, but not before blasting out every single window and causing the entire interior of the structure to implode.
Smirking, both Zangya and Bujin retreated, allowing Bido to take position above the smoking complex. Bringing his hand up, the large alien fighter then produced a pinkish red energy sphere above his palm, which crackled and pulsed when he fed ki into it. Once it'd achieved form and stability, he hurled it straight down into the building, watching it plough through every floor before detonating.
A red, dome-like explosion engulfed the entire neighborhood, practically nuking the entire city while the three aliens responsible for the destruction hovered safely out of reach. Watching the attack burn away and an enormous smoking crater two kilometers wide emerge from the blast, the group then saw a golden flash shoot out from the ground outside of the crater, dart down the streets and stop out in the open.
"Tough little runt." Clicking his tongue in annoyance at having missed, Bido dove after the half-Saiyan, followed closely by his two companions.
XXX
The audience members that'd remained behind in the stadium to watch the events unfold on the monitors, hoping above all hope that their great savior, Mr. Satan, would step in to take down the alien invaders that'd shanghaied their tournament, were astonished by what they were seeing.
Through the automated cameras roaming around the various battle zones, the people were able to get a full, unobstructed view of the competitor Son Gohan, coming to the aid of his fallen comrades and facing down the band of aliens terrorizing the grounds. After seeing two of the other preliminary contestants get taken out when they attempted to help the young fighter, they then saw the boy go through a remarkable transformation that turned his hair gold, before engaging three of the aliens in a fierce battle across the island.
His duel against them took them from the ancient city site into the central battle zone directly beneath the main stadium, where they proceeded to fight a war comparable to what the entire world witnessed at the Cell Games.
Clamoring and staring up at the screens, unblinking, the audience had to brace themselves as explosions capable of laying waste to whole countries rocked the entire island to its core. For half of the time, the camera was able to capture Son Gohan's struggle against the invaders as he fought through the skies and from rooftop to rooftop at blinding speeds, before vanishing into a dimension of travel that the human eye just couldn't even keep up with. It was mind boggling, and the entire audience was gripping their seats, wondering whether or not this was a trick.
Videl on the other hand was no fool. Body trembling as she watched the events play out, the raven haired girl refused to tear her eyes away. Even when the screen blasted the spectators with dazzling light at the outset of each explosion, the daughter of the Great Hercule Satan didn't even flinch, as she watched the most amazing thing she'd ever seen in her life.
"Don't give up, Gohan," Videl thought, clenching her jaw tightly as she saw the boy dash across the city and out into the open, waiting for his opponents to follow. "You can beat them! I know you can!" She cheered inwardly, giving the demi-Saiyan all the support he needed.
There was no doubt in her mind now; Gohan was the boy that'd fought against that monster Cell all those weeks ago. Martial artists battling in the skies, his remarkable display of strength, their speed, their lightning fast techniques, and the blasts of energy they exuded from their bodies… it all fit.
With this realization now in her grasp and with even more questions rampaging through her head, all Videl could do now was watch and pray the boy made it through alive.
The last thing she wanted to see was her newfound friend dying on live television…