Area B: Day Four

[Raditzu]

?Eh?? Raditzu had planned on tackling Burter with some overly dramatic attack and then ending things quickly. ?So much for that plan.?

A shimmering blue light expanded from a small device that Burter had been holding. Or maybe he threw it, Raditzu hadn?t been paying attention. Something he was mentally kicking himself for. Missing a stasis grenade; talk about a rookie mistake. Regardless, berating himself about it wasn?t going to change anything now. It looked like he and Burter were going to be spending some quality time together. The saiyan grinned.

?You sure that was a smart idea?? Rad looked Burter up and down.

?Doesn?t really matter, does it??

?I suppose not.? The blue-skinned alien was ready and rarin? to go, that was for sure. ?Although, I?m sure you?ve had your fill of me for a while.?

Burter?s response was as simple and straight forward as anyone could have asked for. Rad twisted his body to his left, letting a beam of energy slip by harmlessly. The bolt of ki collided with the wall of the stasis field and shattered. A small cloud of smoke and bits of residual ki followed a quiet crackling sound. Rad took note of this. Having never actually been in a stasis field before, he wanted to figure out what he was up against as quickly as possible. Another blast of energy shot past the saiya-jin. Burter definitely wasn?t in the mood to mess around.

?A bit feisty, are we?? Rad cracked his neck slowly. ?Can?t say I blame you. If I had to fight someone as amazing as I am, I would be a little on edge too.?

While the saiya-jin?s razor wit brought a chuckle from his own mouth, his opponent did not seem quite as amused. After a quick shrug, Rad jumped onto the attack. His form blurred into obscurity as he tore through the air towards his target. Burter dropped from the air several feet as Raditzu launched his first strike. The saiyan?s fist slid cleanly through the air Burter had so recently occupied. Burter fired another bolt of energy straight up, hoping to catch Raditzu off-guard. Normally, the saiyan would have been hit dead-on, but as the attack would have connected, a disc of metal seemed to come out of nowhere. The blast hit the protective disc and exploded, causing no harm to the saiyan. Burter shot backwards, giving himself more distance.

?Cool little trick, isn?t it?? The metal quickly returned to the form of a bracer and returned to the saiyan?s forearm. Rad extended his other arm towards Burter. ?Granted, I haven?t had a great opportunity to test it out.? A grin spread across his face. ?Until now, that is.?

The bracer quivered on the saiyan?s arm before shattering into several small shards and flying towards Burter. The retile-esque alien was taken a bit aback by this unexpected form of attack, but was more than ready to defend himself. A barrier of energy surrounded Burter as he called out the name of his Kinetic Light ability. The shards of metal, though imbued with Raditzu?s ki, were not powerful enough to break the blue warrior?s defense. The metal continued to bore into the shield, though they were making no progress. Raditzu, himself, was letting his energy build up. A white aura surrounded the saiya-jin and he sunk into an offensive stance.

?Burn Knuckle!?

The saiyan bolted forward, fist first. Raditzu?s fist shimmered under the flickering light of his fiery ki. Burter braced himself for the impact of Raditzu?s attack. If he tried to drop his shield and dodge, the metal shards would make things severely unpleasant. Burter?s shield sparked as Rad?s fist slammed into it. The saiyan?s attack stalled for a moment, but with a burst of ki, Burter?s opponent succeeded in barreling through his defenses. Burter took the hit full-on square in the chest. The blue reptilian tumbled from the sky. His body bounced lightly against the stasis field. Having opened the field in mid-air, the two warriors were suspended from the ground by the bottom of the field. The small shards of metal reformed around Raditzu?s arm.

Burter rubbed his chest as he stood up. His armor had held up to its end of their proverbial bargain, but Raditzu hit hard. From high above Burter, a grey-hued field extended, covering a strip of space between both warriors. Raditzu?s form came streaking downwards, his Quicksilver field greatly increasing his speed. Burter tried to roll out of the way, but found himself suddenly pinned between the stasis field and one of Raditzu?s boots. Upon striking, Raditzu?s field died down and he leapt away from his blue-skinned opponent. His feet settled on the shimmering blue floor of the stasis field. He looked around, staring through the field, at the scenery beyond it.

?Isn?t this kind of weird?? Rad looked from Burter, who was now standing once again, to the ground below them. ?I mean? we?re standing on nothing. You can, like, see the ground.?

?You can fly? and standing on nothing is weird?? Burter just shook his head.

?Well? that?s different. I mean?? Raditzu stopped to think for a minute. ?Yeah? ok? nevermind.?

?? idiot.?

This time Burter was the one to launch the offensive. He fired several bolts of energy towards his long-haired adversary. Once again, Raditzu?s bracer separated from his arm, formed a small disc, and proceeded to act as a floating defense against Burter?s attack. This defense, however, wasn?t perfect. Rad, having not really practiced his use of Lord Vine?s metal binding ability, didn?t have as complete control over the disc of metal as he would have liked. And, with his concentration on the defense, the bolts of energy that got past the disc slammed unerringly into his body. After four or five of the bolts struck home, Raditzu abandoned his flashy defense and resorted to a true, time-tested method: getting out of the way. Though he had handled the disc with surprising difficulty, the saiyan had no problems twisting, turning, and dodging with his own body. Burter continued to hurl his blast of energy, but it was proving less and less effective as time went on. Radizu seemed to have little trouble dodging, and it didn?t seem like he was going to start slowing down anytime soon.

?You know, I can keep this up all day. So feel free to burn as much energy as you want.? Rad flashed a cocky grin at his opponent.

Burter hurled a couple more balls of energy, but decided to drop that tactic. If smaller attacks weren?t going to work ? and it certainly looked like they weren?t ? then he would simply have to put more force behind a single attack. He brought both hands up above his head one placed on top of the other and began gathering energy. As his focused his energies, a ball of ki formed in his hands. The glowing ball slowly grew in size. Burter was making sure he was going to get as much out of this attack as possible. In the meantime, Raditzu simply stared, amazed.

?You?ve got to be kidding me?? Raditzu mimicked Burter?s movements, brining his hands above his head and gathering his energy. With his advanced sense of ki, it was no trouble at all for Rad to match the strength of Burter?s attack. ?Of all the moves in the universe.? Raditzu chuckled as Burter thrust his hands forward. Raditzu was quick to follow suit.

?Masenko!?
?Masenko!?

The two beams of energy burned towards each other, colliding with a brilliant display of sparks and crackles. Normally the beams of energy would seesaw as the two fighters battled, but this time the two attacks stopped dead. Neither moved an inch one way or the other. It was an eerie sight to see, to say least. It was just expected that one person would overpower the other, but that wasn?t any fun at all. Raditzu wouldn?t have anything to do, other than fight Burter, until the stasis field dropped, so he figured he might as well enjoy it a bit. Burter was slowly pumping more and more energy into his beam, but it was a fruitless effort. Raditzu matched his energy dead-on, with his piercing ki sense. As the two warriors increased the power of their beams, they could feel the heat of their own energy against their skin.

The two warriors stood deadlocked for several minutes. Their beams of energy hadn?t moved an inch. Raditzu?s interest in watching two beams do nothing was very quickly wearing thin. With a bored sigh he thrust his arms forward and sent a surge of energy through his own attack. Burter, having already expended more energy than it was worth, dropped his hands and lunged to one side. As Burter lunged, Raditzu thrust his arms downwards. The beam of energy hit the curve of the stasis dome they were in and detonated prematurely. Burter was shoved off of his feet, but suffered little damage, if any. Rad simply wanted to mess with the blue-skinned alien. Before Burter could get up to his feet, Raditzu leapt high into the air? or at least he tried to. His head smashed against the top of the stasis field.

?Bloody hell!? Rad rubbed the back of his head and glared down at Burter. ?You and your stupid stasis field. I really hate these things??

Rad would have continued to rant and swear, but was cut off as bolts of ki peppered his body. Burter saw an opening and started hurling blasts as fast as he could. It took several hits for Raditzu to figure out what, exactly was going on. His white aura burst into existence and began whipping about him. The burning flames of ki were whipped into a frienzied hurricane. Burter?s attacks were thrown away from the saiya-jin as they approached his Ki Vortex. From the defensive safety of his vortex, Raditzu cupped his hands at his side and began charging energy. A cerulean ball of energy burst to life in his hands. Any idiot would have recognized this attack, even without Rad?s syllabic uttering of the strike?s name.

?Ka? me? ha? me?? Rad would have launched his attack, but his attention was momentarily drawn. From his vantage point, he could see 18 and Cell stuck in a stasis field of their own. He wasn?t exactly sure how that had happened, but it sucked for 18. Somewhere, deep down inside, he almost felt bad for the bio-android. Either way, he wouldn?t want to be the one on the receiving end of whatever 18 had planned for him. ?Err? where was I??

Burter, without exactly understanding why Rad had stalled his attack, used the chance to prepare his own defense. His own aura wrapped about him and his ki began to take a tangible form. The barrier technique he had used earlier, while maybe not able to stand up to Raditzu?s assault, would certainly help. The glowing barrier flashed lightly, solidifying its existence. The flash seemed to bring Raditzu back to reality. The orb of energy was pulsating wildly in his hands.

?Oh? right. HA!?

Thrusting his hands forward, Raditzu?s aura returned to normal and he fired the beam of blue ki. Burter thrust his own hands forward, bracing his barrier for what was sure to be a powerful impact. Raditzu simply chuckled at the alien?s technique. It would be useless against his assault, without a doubt. As the beam struck Burter?s Kinetic Light barrier, the shattered into a massive cloud of smoke. The body of the beam, stretching from Burter to Raditzu, also burst into smoke. Rad smiled at his own ingenuity. In this stasis field, there would be no where for the smoke to go and, since it was laced with his own energy, it would make finding Burter a piece of cake, while helping to cloak his own location. It was far from perfect, as there were several pockets where the air was clean, and Raditzu was generating far more ki than the smoke, but it would certainly aid the long-haired warrior. Cracking his knuckles, Raditzu grinned into the cloud below him. This was proving to be plenty of fun.

[]Fight: Burter vs Raditzu[]

OOC: Post one for me is out of the way. I have one left. Take it away, blue man.