>>5492660Immediately you kick off towards your wife, who'd reacted as you'd assumed by leaping back away from you. But with your increased power in your base form you are faster than her, quickly closing the distance. You can see the worry in her expression as you close in, raising her arms to guard herself. But she's too slow, your fist striking her square in the sternum.
“Guh!” she exhales, you immediately laying the pressure on her with a follow up left hammerfist to the collarbone, right knee to the chin snapping her head back then a spinning back left kick, planting your heel square in her guts. You can feel the solid contact up through the Yardrat-make boot, your wife wheezing as your strike knocks the wind from her lungs and pushes her back from you. But you're not done yet, reorienting yourself on her retreating figure and pressing the attack. Still stunned by the last hit as she flies uncontrollably back, you again close the distance. She sees you coming, again trying to block, but she's got no power behind her arms at the moment. Your right punch slams her own crossed forearms back into her face, leaving her core wide open for a left uppercut to the sternum. She makes an almost squeak as the little air left in her is knocked out, but she then gets a large gulp of air down just before you follow up with a right cross to the temple that spins her tinier frame in a full circle. Meeting your next left to her jaw moving even faster, stunning and disorienting her.
But she has enough of her wits about her to not simply get beaten up on, you sensing her gathering her spirit. Knowing what's coming next you leap back, just as she unleashes her ki with a shout.
“HRRAAAAAAAA!!”
But instead of a normal Explosive Wave, just enough to push you off of her and give her a chance to recover, the ensuing blast is massive. Nearly as powerful as your own Red Dawn attack, you're forced to dash straight back and away from her to avoid getting caught in the explosion.
“WOAH!!” you exclaim, shielding your eyes while retreating from her planet-destroying blast. But as it clears, she looks as surprised as you feel, looking down at her hand in confusion.
“Knock that off!” Elder Pybara says, sounding genuinely angry for the first time since you've started living here. “Don't go wrecking our planet!”
“Uhh, care to explain what just happened?” Meloka asks him, sounding equally impressed and shocked by what she did.
“You just witnessed your own nascent power.” the elder says, your wife “What?!”ing at this. “Before your training here, your body and spirit were so off-balance that you couldn't project your power very well Now, however....”
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