>>6292106
“How? That's easy.” you smirk, clenching your fists and ascending in a flash of emerald aura. Ascending straight up into your Berserker God form, looking down at him with a smirk. “First we push ourselves to the limits to master our current powers. To the point we can even eat and sleep in these forms, pushing these powers to their limits.”
“Oh? Well then, if that's how you seek to improve our odds-” he says, flashing up into his Golden form. “-then let's see how this strategy of yours works out.”

“Bring it on!” you reply, both of you leaping back from one another. Landing a few dozen yards away from each other, taking your fighting stances. Your emerald aura, crackling with emerald lightning blazes up as Freeza's golden aura surges as well. The two of you stare one another down, then on an unspoken cue you both kick off the ground, surging forward. “HRRRRAAAAAA!!”
“SHYAAAAAA!!” he bellows, you both launching yourselves at one another. Right fists slamming together, the shock wave blasting out into the void. Followed by another and another as you and the former emperor begin to spar. Freeza taunting you as he knocks you back with his tail. “Is that all you've got?”
“Tch! I'm just getting started!” you reply, flipping back and landing on your feet, kicking back off towards him. Dashing in with a flying kick which Freeza dodges. You flip, landing on your feet and turning with a heavy right. Which he matches with his own left, your strikes stopping one another's blows once more. He follows up with a right turning kick aimed at your head, which you block with your left forearm before unleashing everything you've got. “HRRRAAAAAAA!!”

The two of you spar to exhaustion, neither of you relenting until your own body gives out, collapsing as Freeza fires a right. Which misses you as you fall, the former emperor, not hitting anything, trips and falls atop you. Leaving you both panting and gasping in exhaustion.


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>>6255087
“Yeah, you found the counter.” you say, drifting down to the ground. Sighing out as you deactivate your Lightning Body, reverting it back to a simple Energy Body instead. “Alright, let's do this. No more fancy tricks, let's throw down!”
“Oh? Interesting.” Freeza says, dropping down to the arena and landing across from you, also not lowering his Energy Body. “A contest of power, despite the gap between us? Very well, I'll take the bait.”

He takes an unfamiliar fighting stance, left arm up, back of his hand towards you and fingers in the air, while his right hand is by his left bicep, as if to brace his arm. He then gestures for you to come to him with his left hand's fingers, a 'come and get me' gesture. Which you accept, immediately kicking off the ground towards him. With his guard stacked on his left side you draw back your right for a heavy blow, feinting it towards his guard and twisting instead into a left turning kick. Which he ducks easily, you twisting your body clockwise and kicking straight down at his head with your right. Which he blocks, forearm to shin and shoves you away. You flip once, landing on all fours and immediately exploding back towards him with a flying right side kick. One which he deflects out past his body with his left forearm, you throwing your upper body forward and swinging down with a heavy left straight. Freeza catches your fist with his right hand, raising his left forearm and stopping your follow-up right hook by pushing it aside with his left palm. Then the former emperor kicks up with his right, you raising your left leg and stopping his attack, knee-to-knee.

“Tch!” you wince, feeling the sharpness of his blow through your Energy Body as the shock wave of your knees colliding sends you back, flipping once and landing on your heels as Freeza charges in. Pressing his advantage with lightspeed jabs and straights, you blocking the blows on your forearms and firing back jabs and straights of your own when the chances come. Yet, despite your best efforts, not a single one of your blows land. While Freeza lands one of every three blows he fires at you. His strikes far sharper and more precise than you remember. You don't even see the old tells you used to see in his attacks, the subtle muscle movements before he'd attack. Seems his time under Whis has made him an entirely new fighter.

“What's wrong, Karn? You're starting to look overwhelmed.” Freeza says, grinning as he increases his speed and rhythm even more, going from a dozen blows a second to DOUBLE that, further increasing the pressure. Yet, as he does, you don't feel overwhelmed, outmatched. No, instead you feel... ALIVE. Fully present in the fight, no room for outside thoughts or distractions in your mind as you focus entirely on the battle at hand.


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