"Gah!" My back slammed into the rock wall, which buckled, but ultimately stayed firm, while spittle flew from my mouth from the force of the blow.
I barely had time to wipe it off before my opponent's fist smashed into the rock beside me, my body having moved to dodge at the last second.
I pushed off of the rocks just as they began to crumple, but I knew that was only a mild inconvenience for my opponent.
Sure enough, out of the dust, he slowly floated.
"RYAAH!" With a raw, animalistic shout, he moved like lightning, the red eyes of Ikari locked onto me with a drive that was already beyond the boundaries of anything that I could call sanity.
His knee slammed into my guard, his elbow whistling just over my head as I dodged every blow he threw at me like lightning. His power level wasn't low. In Ikari, it'd long broken two million and continued to shoot up with every second.
But it still hadn't caught up to even my base form.
Catching the Ikari's fist, I wrenched it aside and slammed a haymaker into his gut. His eyes bulged for a moment, then the force took over and he vanished from sight, into a crater down below.
"HAAAAH!" An explosion of force from below. A massive wave of greenish-white energy flew at me with rather impressive power.
I didn't block it, instead drifting off to the side. The energy wave disappeared into the atmosphere.
Just as the one who'd shot it, using my focus on the wave itself as cover, flew up to me with the speed of lightning, his fist whistling through the atmosphere on a direct course for my face.
At the last second, I met it with my own fist, instead.
To my surprise, my fist was actually pushed back. Not a lot, but enough that I genuinely struggled for a moment before he vanished from sight again, leaving an afterimage that didn't fool anyone for a single moment.
I did it on impulse, pushing a concentration of energy from one hand to the other, then tossing it to my left with a quick twisting motion of the wrist,"Regalia Blast!"
It slammed right into the Ikari with a force that no casual ki blast should have. "GYAAHHHHRRRRGGHHH!!!!!" An animalistic howl erupted from the Ikari's throat as a foot cleanly connected with my chest, slipping right through my reflexive guard with ease.
My body streaked through the sky, tumbling end over end. By the time I managed to catch myself, I'd dropped all the way to the ground.
The next moment, the ground around me was peppered by powerful ki blasts. Before I'd even fully stabilized my bearings, I was using the Hyper-Motion technique in succession to avoid the blasts, which continued to follow me anyways.
By the third Hyper-Motion, I found myself tripping over a crater made by a recently thrown ki blast. Without hesitation, I shouted upward, releasing a shockwave from my mouth that forced all of the blasts headed my way to explode prematurely, giving me a small opening.
I took it by using the Hyper Motion technique to propel me high into the air. Then, with a rotation of my hips, I launched it. "Horizon Heel Cutter!"
"YAAAH!" With a roar, a massive sphere of ki seemed to simply appear in front of the other Saiyan. It exploded toward me, instantly ripping straight through the center of my Heel Cutter technique.
I didn't have time to dodge. All I could bring myself to do was raise my energy as high as I could bring it, and tank the blast. "URGH!"
By the time the blast abated, I was breathing hard, and my skin was red and smoking, like I'd been in the sun slightly too long, and now had a fairly bad sunburn.
"Haah… Haah…" The blast had taken a lot out of me. The force had been almost the exact upper end of what I could take in my base form. Any more, and I would've been injured, maybe not seriously, but enough. My energy reserves had taken a big hit. "Damn. At least it only moved up to FSSJ…" I noted.
The eyes of my opponent had changed color once more… or rather, completely lost color. Completely white eyes, a gold tinge to the aura. Definitely FSSJ.
As an FSSJ, the other Saiyan's aura completely eclipsed my base form, but still not by much… just how I liked it. I'd have to get serious now.
I shot three Horizon Discs at the FSSJ, already on the move. It punched straight through them with overwhelming power as it moved to meet me, its spiky mane dancing in the breeze that it created with its own movements.
The power of our clashes resonated across the atmosphere with every blow, rearranging the land below with naught but the shockwaves, as fist met fist, foot met foot, and elbow met elbow. At one point, the FSSJ even caught my forearm in its mouth, though I managed to loosen its jaw with another clash of my kneecap against its palm down below, giving me room to escape.
Finally, it'd clearly had enough of me being able to hang on, despite my power being lower in just about every sense.
The FSSJ slammed me backwards with a full body blow, then wound up its arms behind it.
Two massive blasts of energy exploded out of it, on a direct line to me. I tried to dodge, but they followed me. It felt like I was being chased by twin black holes, the concentration of energy inside the twin blasts were genuinely that terrifying.
There was only one thing that I could think of to stop them before they blew my body away completely, severely injuring, maybe killing me.
I took my time with it, as I flew, avoiding the twin blasts by a hair.
Energy concentrated, danced, around both of my hands.
I made a half-circular motion in front of my chest, then I held it for a moment, before twisting a slight bit more, my hands hovering horizontal to each other, a massive orb of concentrated ki between them.
Then, twisting my body to face the blasts, I fired it directly down at the FSSJ himself, with every bit of power I could muster. "REGALIA CANNON!"
The Cannon was the most powerful technique I had in my arsenal, though it had the weakness of an irritatingly long windup and the nontrivial amount of concentration required to pull it off.
It screamed straight through the twin energy blasts as if they weren't even there, barrelling down on the FSSJ with enough force to carve a trench through the entire planet if the angle were wrong.
As I expected, the FSSJ didn't even try to dodge. His power level shot up as he concentrated everything that he had into blocking the technique… but it wasn't enough against a technique like this one.
It continued pushing the other Saiyan back, despite the fact that their power level was technically superior to mine.
Then, everything changed in an instant. "GRRRRRRRRRRRR!" With a deep grumble that may have also doubled as a scream, everything went white. The other Saiyan's power skyrocketed.