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Chapter 34 - Chapter 34

The man's trajectory through every single barrier and door in the enormous domicile caused the entire property to shake, which startled Videl out of her sleep and had her looking around in panic.

Traveling for a second longer across his back garden, Hercule eventually collided with the trunk of a firm standing palm tree. He remained splayed up against it with a look of abject horror slapped across his face, before his stricken body fell and landed on the edge of his enormous swimming pool with a splash.

His anticlimactic flight not only had his butler staring through all the holes he'd made in bewilderment, but it had Kana blinking in surprise as well.

Lowering her fist, the fiery haired woman strolled into the mansion and began making her way to the back through the many man shaped holes her opponent had made. She passed by Jenkins, ignoring his surprised visage while also failing to notice Videl when she came running down the stairs to see what was going on. When she saw the fiery haired teenager walk past through her ruined home, she could only stare after her in shock.

"What's going on here?"

Descending the back steps to where the pool was, Kana came to a stop by its edge and watched as Mr. Satan floated there on his stomach like a waterlogged corpse. Thinking he was dead, she then saw the man throw his head up with a gasp and a cry of pain, gripping the side of his face with his back turned completely to her. After whimpering and sniveling for a few moments, wondering whether or not he'd broken something, the man then turned around when he sensed a pair of eyes on him and freaked out when he saw the orange haired girl staring back at him.

Hercule scrambled out of the water to the other side, clawing his way across the grass of his yard before turning around and gaping at the girl in the plug suit. "Wh-Wh-What in the heck are you?" His question was promptly answered by his attacker levitating off of the ground and floating across the pool, which had his eyes bug out of its sockets. "Sh-She's just like those guys! The ones with the powers from the Cell Games!" When she landed on the other side, Kana then marched across the pavement and onto the grass where the man was still lying, only to see him backpedal away out of fear.

Kana stopped walking the moment Hercule moved, giving the man a confused stare, "I didn't expect this. I thought the strongest man in the world would be able to put up a much better fight than this." She tilted her head momentarily and raised an eyebrow. "For someone who is reputed to be earth's greatest fighter, credited with saving it from two completely different threats, you aren't as tough as the information says you are." She then smiled pleasantly and raised a finger to point down at him, the tip of which started to glow a brilliant gold, "Unless… you're hiding a major bulk of your strength in an effort to draw this conflict out?"

Seeing the girl start charging an energy attack prompted Hercule to cry out in terror and cover his face. But then, just when Kana was about to hit him with a blast that would cause more than a few burns, the teen was caught completely by surprise when something hard and fast slammed into the side of her head, cocking it to the side and causing her eyes to widen in surprise.

Unbeknownst to her, the celestial girl had been hit in the temple by a flying side kick executed by one Videl Satan, an attack which immediately had the star-child cease gathering energy and freeze.

When Videl saw her father cower in fear underneath their intruder when she raised her hand to shoot him, the raven haired girl reacted instantaneously and sprinted from her place on the back porch to stop her. At first the girl thought she'd be able to knock the intruder out on the first shot or at best stagger her enough to throw her off target. But when her leg unexpectedly crashed into something equivalent to a steel pole and the fire haired stranger didn't move beyond a slight head nudge, Videl immediately knew what she was up against.

Leaping away and back flipping across the grass, the eleven-year-old fighter skidded to a stop and took a stance. Setting a nervous glare upon the alien invader, whom she could feel nothing but bad vibes coming off of her, she saw her father's attacker robotically turn in her direction and narrow her eyes.

When Hercule realized he was still alive, he looked to see what was happening. "V-Videl! What are you doing?"

Identifying her attacker standing several yards away, Kana frowned. "A new opponent?" Marking her new foe, the woman straightened up and, without warning, fired two golden beams of energy directly from her eyes that flew towards her target at blazing speed. However, instead of traveling in a straight line, the beams zigzagged erratically and randomly through the air, bending and cornering at sudden angles while homing in on their intended target.

Videl immediately sprung into action, back flipping away from the beams when they attempted to hit her and continuing to run when she saw them chase after her. Sprinting across the grass, the youngster barreled out of the way to avoid the tracers a second time, before leaping over one of her dad's garden statues to hide behind it. The moment she concealed herself, the beams made a B-line towards the statue. But instead of hitting the Hercule monument full on, the beams shot up and over it, curling back down before homing in on their target once more.

Though initially surprised, the raven haired girl waited until the last moment before leaping out of the way, avoiding the beams that slammed into the statue, which exploded with concussive force. The blast not only caused a fireball and a shockwave that knocked Videl tumbling across the grass, it almost punched a ten meter wide crater in the ground. The statue meanwhile, lay in pieces across the ground.

Kana blinked in surprise when she saw Videl stagger back to her feet. "Impressive. No one has ever avoided my Circuit Tracer before, even if it wasn't set to kill." She then rounded on the newcomer, whom she could see was glaring at her while covered in dirt and burns. "What is your name?"

The raven haired fighter frowned and took a step back, "My name is Videl Satan."

"Videl Satan?" Kana repeated, narrowing her eyes. When she did, she suddenly produced an orange hologram directly over her left eye resembling a scouter. As soon as the visor appeared, it focused a set of crosshairs on the girl and began crunching numbers at high speed. The beeping of the device stopped moments later. "Hmm… you have a power reading of 130 riki." She then turned her head and focused on Hercule, who was still lying on the ground and looking across at the girl fearfully. When the numbers stopped once again, the alien frowned. "And your father has a power reading of a 137 riki."

Contemplating the scores, the extraterrestrial teenager then decided to focus her attention outside of the house. Panning over the city, her scouter began producing thousands of numbers, all of which were focusing on people that were far beyond reach of normal sight. After a few seconds of scanning, Kana stopped and frowned. "Most of the readings in this metropolis average around 5 to 10 riki. You two are by far the strongest individuals in this region… and probably the entire planet if my mathematical algorithm is correct." She then looked back down at the ground and sighed. "It's a shame. And here I was hoping for a challenge. But I suppose if Hercule Satan is the most powerful fighter on this planet, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to declare myself the winner by default."

It was her last remark that quickly caught Videl's attention, with the girl looking up to see the fiery haired woman shake her head in disappointment and deactivate the hologram over her eye. The child's gaze fixing upon the ground as well, the daughter of Mr. Satan quickly began breaking down the situation and working out what she'd missed from what she'd been able to observe.

Videl quickly came to the conclusion that this stranger, whoever the hell she was, was looking to challenge the strongest person on this planet and defeat them, instead of having to waste energy going through the entire population. Her search had somehow led her to her father, which seemed like an obvious choice from a normal person's point of view.

However, now that her eyes had been opened and she'd been able to catch a glimpse of the world beyond the one she'd grown up in, and after feeling how strong this girl actually was, Videl knew for a fact that this opponent of theirs was way out of her father's league.

There was only one person she knew who could face someone like this.

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