Blinking a few times, Kana looked around the office a second time before glancing back. She appeared slightly puzzled, "You don't think that this room is a little too small for our needs?"
The King smiled, "Do not worry. I have held many meetings in this room over the course of my tenure as leader. Various treaties between nations and individuals of high standing have been brought to this table and discussed. Considering its history and significance, I am sure that this chamber will be adequate for our needs."
"You must be an incredibly persuasive person then," Kana remarked, a smile forming on her lips. "Very well. If you believe that this is all the space that we shall require, then I will accept this as our decided battle ground."
It was this response that had Koku recoil slightly. "Uhh… battle-what?"
Unable to get an answer in time, he suddenly saw the woman raise a clenched fist like she was holding something, before she casually opened it and revealed a marble sized sphere of golden energy hovering above her palm. As soon as her fingers uncurled, Kana fired it at the man. King Koku only had time to let out a startled cry before he was smashed in the chest by the attack and sent flying out of the office window behind him, over the balcony and into the courtyard two stories below. The man then landed in the pool of the palace's central fountain with a big splash, startling the dozens of civilians on tour of the residence.
The soldiers, thunderstruck by the sudden attack of their King, loaded their weapons, raised them and opened fire on their planet's visitor. Rifles and machine guns opened up on the stationary woman with a hail of bullets, all of which threatened to tear her to pieces from all sides. However, just as they were firing at the woman, the King's guard watched on in shock as their bullets slowed in midflight and stopped just two feet from their target, who didn't even flinch at the barrage.
When the gunfire ceased, the hundreds of bullets suspended in the air around the girl then dropped to the ground, scattering like pellets. It was then the fiery haired woman glanced around at the guards, causing them all to gasp and take several steps back.
"Are you challenging me?" Kana asked in the same, cool tone of voice as before.
Unwilling to fight a woman who literally just stopped all of their best shots, the soldiers dropped their weapons and raised their hands.
The moment they did so, the fiery haired girl suddenly levitated herself into the air, floated over the desk and out over the balcony. Looking down from her elevated position, she saw the crowd of people down below gathering around the fountain, where the King emerged on the edge coughing and sputtering. He was quickly surrounded by soldiers who, upon spotting the woman hovering overhead, opened fire on her as well.
Just like in the office, the bullets either missed or stopped in mid flight just feet from their target, before falling to the ground uselessly. After suspending herself in place and watching the guards balk in horror, Kana floated down and landed just a couple meters from the fountain's edge.
The people immediately took a step back from where she landed.
When she approached the pond's edge where King Koku was busy trying to pick himself up and clear his lungs, a couple of the surrounding soldiers bravely stepped forward and held their guns at the invader. As soon as Kana came within a few of feet of them though, the pair of guards were suddenly lifted off of the ground by an invisible force and gently moved out of the way, an anti-gravity event that surprised the hell out of them before they were unceremoniously dropped onto their asses.
Kana stopped before the winded and thoroughly waterlogged king, looking down at him curiously while he looked back up with an entire front portion of his clothes completely burned away. "That attack was child's play. Are you sure you're the most powerful man on the face of this planet?"
"Eh?" the King replied intelligently, gazing up at the star child who merely tilted her head in his direction. "W-What do you mean by that?"
Kana frowned, "I'm supposed to be negotiating with the sole guardian and protector of this world for the right to ownership over it, so that if I emerge victorious I may compartmentalize it and sell it to the interplanetary market for preservation. I do not believe that such a beautiful planet would be occupied by so many people without having a representative who is strong enough to negotiate for them."
Oh. So when she meant 'negotiations', she really meant a battle of physical strength between two parties, the victor of which would emerge with the planet as their prize. King Koku quickly figured this out in the next few seconds as the woman stared down at him and quickly reconsidered his options. After all, he knew how these kinds of games were played across the board. It wasn't just a way of finding a middle ground between two opposing forces; it was also a primary function of war as well as a manner of sport. This visitor from another planet viewed it as a kind of bartering system in her trade, one in which she was probably a master of. To this person, the act of battling for a right to possession and tenure was a business.
After seeing his guards get pretty much backhanded out of the way without so much as a struggle from their target, he knew that this woman Kana was an opponent that neither one of his normal warriors would be able to overcome.
However…
"I am merely the political leader of this planet; the one that stands as the voice for the people and guides them along the path to peace and prosperity without the need for military might," King Koku replied groggily, at the same time facing the woman as confidently as he could. "As such, I am not this planet's guardian nor am I its strongest warrior."
"You're not?" Kana recoiled a bit, staring down at the man for a moment before then noticing the stunned looks of the people around her. Considering her situation carefully, she then looked down at her hand and allowed the node on her palm to produce a hologram, which began cycling through several pages of information. Scrolling through it at high speed, the once cool young lady then widened her eyes, blushed and rubbed her head in embarrassment in a surprising break in character. "Oh… whoopsie. I think I may have cocked up a little. The administration hierarchy on this planet is a little bit different from the others I've visited in the past. My bad." Acknowledging her little foible with a nervous laugh, she then deactivated the hologram and focused back down on the king. "Do you think you could point me in the direction of the earth's strongest warrior so that he may negotiate with me on your behalf?"
The King raised an eyebrow, "You wish for me to present a champion?"
Kana nodded, "If you could."
Thinking on it for a few seconds, the man quickly came up with a name. It was someone he knew all too well and someone he believed would be able to combat such an outrageous opponent, "If you're looking for this planet's strongest warrior, then look for a man named Goku."
"Goku?" Kana parroted, opening up her palm again and cycling through the orange hologram at speed. Producing a series of profile pictures, she then held them up towards the king and flicked through them, allowing him to identify which 'Goku' on the earth's registry he was referring to.
After going through a few faces, the man's eyes widened when he saw the man's face appear and he pointed, "Th-That's him."
Looking down at the image and expanding the person's profile, Kana scanned through the information for a moment before looking back down at the King. "Obituary records state that Son Goku passed away over two months ago due to a debilitating heart virus."
Appearing stunned, the nation leader looked down hesitantly, his expression showcasing a sense of mild disbelief. If it was true that Son Goku was gone, then he had no idea who else to turn to. As far as he was concerned, the young man who'd fought and defeated the mighty King Piccolo had been his one and only shot at combating and defeating this visitor from outer space.
However, the people around him had something else to say.
"You want the name of the strongest man in the world?" an adult male from the crowd shouted, drawing everyone's attention, namely Kana's, in his direction. "His name is Hercule Satan! There is not a person alive on this planet stronger than him!"
While the King looked stunned at the civilian's claim, Kana blinked as she processed this new name that'd been given to her. "Hercule Satan?"
"Yeah! He's the world's greatest champion and our savior!" the man continued.
The woman beside him nodded her head vigorously, "That's right!"
"He saved our world from the monster Cell and the aliens who invaded our planet during the Intergalactic Martial Arts Tournament! If it wasn't for him, none of us would be alive right now!" another man from the crowd shouted, rousing a loud clamor and cheer from the people around her.
"Yeah! Mr. Satan is the strongest!"
"He will gladly fight you!"
Hearing a chant of 'Mr. Satan' start up, Kana narrowed her eyes and turned back to her hologram. Swiftly processing the name in her computer, the woman's hologram flashed through several more pages before finding a series of pictures. Beaming them up for everyone in the square to see, the alien visitor raised an eyebrow when she saw a large man with a mustache and an afro posing heroically before the camera. Moving through several more photos, she found clips of people gazing admiringly up at the man standing high up on the balcony, almost like he was their messiah.
Immediately sold from the images alone, Kana smiled excitedly and shut off the hologram. "It seems that I've found your planet's champion. I'm sure our negotiations will be long and fruitful." With a nod of acknowledgement, the fiery haired alien bowed to the planet's leader as he lay staring up at her from the fountain. "I'm deeply sorry for disturbing you, King Koku, and I apologize unreservedly for any unwarranted stress and inconveniences I may have caused you and your people." She then took a step back and nodded politely, "It has been a real pleasure. Farewell." With that, the warrior then tucked herself up into a ball above the ground and became incased in the same metal sphere once again, which sprouted from her like a sheet.
Upon taking the form of the pod, the vessel hummed loudly for a few moments before, without any need for sophisticated preparation, shot up into the sky with a sonic boom, going from zero to holy-shit-satellite-orbit in under five seconds.
Once everyone saw the vessel vanish into the clouds above, the people, soldiers and the king spent the next minutes staring at the sky in shock. When they eventually shook themselves out of their stunned reveries a full two minutes later, the guards quickly went about helping the poor king out of the fountain, while at the same time moving to clean up the mess caused by their extraterrestrial visitor.