Point A to Point B in Zero Seconds Flat

[Zach]

The evening was a cold one fore winter had set in over the decimated mountain range. Snow fell lightly as the crescent shaped moon peeked in and out from behind layers of clouds and the inhabitants of the Victory School, teachers and students alike settled in for the evening. Zach was of course among them, retiring for the night in his personal quarters. With the recent revelation that Rito was indeed his son, Zach had pulled some strings to get the boy moved up to the neighboring room in the faculty dormitory rather then in the student dorms on the other end of the building, after all what good was being the head master if you could abuse your power from time to time? Zach had also felt himself becoming more protective of the boy, one of the reasons he wanted him closer, the sensation of having Rito's energy near making it easier to sleep at night, most of the time anyway. Tonight though was one of the nights that the boy's presence had the opposite effect as while Zach slept, a tumultuous nightmare churned in his brain, an orgy of destruction as his home town, was blasted into oblivion over and over again by the savage, faceless barbarians who'd taken away his family.

Now though they were back, twisted, monstrous shadows of what Saiyan's looked like, ravaging everything in their path with their eyes set on the one remaining family member Zach had left, poor defenseless Rito. The mind is a strange place and even though Zach had only seen Rito as a baby once, his subconscious cast him like that again, bundled up in his basket, crying as the monstrous Saiyans brutally savaged their way across the landscape and try as he might, Zach's alter ego in the nightmarish dream simply wasn't fast enough to get ahead of them and save the child. His feet trudged along as if he was trying to run through tar or knee high mud and yet the ground appeared perfectly firm. The monsters approached the baby with ravenous gleams in their eyes and at once were looming over the child's basket. Cursing their entire race Zach trudged along, screaming for them to stop and powerless to get to the baby any faster. Flight for what ever reason in the physics of the dream was not an option and likely if his subconscious had taken it into account would have been just as slow as running. To the blonde's horror the monsters in a final, depraved act of savagery lifted their deformed monkey feet and each stomped on the helpless child's basket.

"NOOOOOO!!!" Zach yelled as the hellish landscape tore away and he found himself tangled in his bed sheets, covered in sweat. For a moment he laid there shuddering in unimaginable despair until the reality of what had happened sunk in. It was all just a dream, a horrible, ugly dream. Rito was in the next room, fast asleep, the buzzing in the back of the blonde's mind told him that, the boy was safe, the monsters were gone, but they could be back. Freeing himself from his sheets, Zach rose from his bed and headed into the bathroom. His first stop was to the toilet where he spent a good ten minutes fighting the urge to throw up. The dream had been so unsettling that he'd become physically ill, the first time since his stay in the hospital after the death of his family that this had happened. The blonde teenager was still shaking with a mix of shock and despair when he pulled himself away from the toilet and moved to the sink to wash his face.

"I... can't let that happen to him..." Zach panted to himself, still somewhat short of breath between the stress of the dream and the resulting nausea. "I have to be faster... Faster... But how?" the blonde contemplated as he stared back at himself in the mirror. It was a few moments of searching the features of the reflection before he remembered that teleportation technique that both Suki, Toshio and Gurin all seemed to have. "That's it, I'll just ask Tosh... No..." Zach stammered, realizing that the man might not be perceptive to his asking to be taught a technique by the school's new head master, especially since Toshio was the former head master. Instead Zach decided he would venture to the library in the morning as he'd done before to learn as much as he could about the technique. That in mind the young man returned to his sweat soaked sheets, the cold, damp coverings providing no comfort. Eventually after a good hour or so of tossing, turning and eventually kicking the sheets off of the bed, Zach gave up on trying to sleep. Instead and headed out of the dormitory and down to the library to perform his research earlier then planned, seeing no sense in wasting more time as it was clear he wasn't going to be able to sleep for the rest of the night.

Zach's research was anything but fruitful though, after consulting every text on the subject and even some books reserved for the eyes of school masters only, the boy wasn't much closer to having what he wanted to know in his possession. All the books told him were vague references to ki energy transmission and sensing one's target destination. One helpful tip was that if you couldn't sense where you wanted to go, seeing the destination would work just as well, which in Zach's case would be his only method of targeting a destination, Rito being the only exception to that rule. Other then that little gem though the books were largely useless as they held no definitive descriptions of how one channeled their energy to effect the transmission of one's being through space. Further more the books raised the question as to whether the person on the other end of the teleportation was really the person who departed or some strange copy generated by physics. The question was all too philosophical for Zach though and being he'd been through the process a few times himself and still felt like himself, he decided to ignore it. With this line of research leading to a dead end though Zach had no other recourse but to enlist Toshio's help.

When morning came Zach awoke with his face in one of the books he'd been reading, drool staining the edges of the current page. In spite of his inability to get sleep in his own bed, the boredom of leafing through useless volumes had done the job his bedroom couldn't. Closing up the books, Zach returned them to their places and then proceeded to his office at the rear end of the school. By now breakfast was likely being served in the cafeteria so it would be the perfect place to ambush Toshio with a few questions. First though he'd have to make sure the man would be there and to do that he'd enlist the help of another individual, Grace, his secretary. The woman was the fastest typist Zach had ever seen, not that he kept tabs on such things and was an enormous help when the administrative duties made it from the down stairs office all the way up to his. She'd likely have no trouble tracking down Toshio and ensuring he was in the cafeteria this morning. Upon entering the office, the blonde teenager pressed the intercom button in his desk that called down to Grace's office and in instant later the immaculately dressed woman was on the screen.

"Yes mister Cranston?" she asked while looking away from her intercom’s camera, apparently busy with some other duty.

"Uh yes, Grace, could uh, you get a hold of Toshio and tell him I'd like to have breakfast with him this morning?" Zach asked, always a bit uncomfortable with how inhumanly efficient the woman was.

"Right away mister Cranston, will there be anything else?" she replied.

"Um, no, that'll be it. Thanks." Zach responded and a moment later the building wide public address system came on.

"Will mister Katsuo please report to the staff dining hall. Repeat, will mister Toshio Katsuo please report to mister Cranston in the staff dining hall. Thank you." Grace's melodic voice rang out through the building, further embarrassing the teenager. As if it wasn't bad enough that he was having Grace call the man, she'd made it sound like he was being called to the principal's office for a reprimand. Switching off the intercom, Zach shook his head and left the office, jaunting down to the first floor of the upper tier and to the staff dining hall to intercept Toshio.

[Toshio Katsuo]

A soft whistling noise could be heard from Toshio’s personal quarters, inside Toshio was just getting out of the shower when the intercom system came out, alerting him to meet Mr.Cranston in the staff dining hall. Toshio smiled as he wrapped a towel around himself and proceeded toward his closet. Heh, I almost forgot Zach’s last name was Cranston, I can just see the embarrassed look on his face when Miss Grace called out his last name over the whole school. The poor boy was never found of his last name being used or known about. \After chuckling again, Toshio started to dress in his usual attire. Upon finishing dressing, he turned the lights out of both the bathroom and living room area before closing the door and heading toward the staff-dining hall.

Upon arriving, he looked over the many staffers until finally he spotted the golden haired young boy, already sitting down and eating breakfast. He quickly gathered his plate of food from the all you can eat bar, and then strode over to the table at where the young headmaster sat. Sitting down, Toshio smiled and was the first to speak.

“Well hello Mr.Cranston, how is head mastering going? Tired of your last name being called yet?” He chuckled before continuing on “So what is it you wanted to talk to me about? Is everything okay with the school?”

Toshio hoped everything was alright, everything seemed to be in order and nothing had been alerted that anything was wrong so maybe Toshio figured he just wanted to just small talk…but that was quickly put out of his mind as he wouldn’t have called him out personally over the intercom. Toshio was very eager to hear what Zach wanted. Of course, also judging by the facial expression on the young man’s face, it didn’t seem all that alerting, so that was good. Starting to slowly eat his breakfast, Toshio would wait for a response from the shirtless wonder.

[Zach]

Upon arriving in the staff dining hall Zach noted that he had apparently beat Toshio there as there was no sign of the man. Seeing no reason not to go ahead and get himself some breakfast especially since he'd been up half the night and was hungry anyway, the blonde headed over to the buffet and helped himself. Filling his plate with the usual healthy portion of eggs and various breakfast meats, Zach found a unoccupied table and took a seat. It wasn't long before Toshio arrived and by then Zach had inhaled about half of his eggs. Now that he had company though the teenager slowed down to a more acceptable pace so that he could carry on conversation with the other man.

Toshio approached and sat with a smile and for a moment Zach thought the meeting might be nice and cordial, instead Tosh opened up by teasing him about the announcement. The blonde just rolled his eyes and shoveled another fork full of eggs into his mouth, chewed thoroughly and then swallowed before finally responding. "I don't see why you find that so funny." Zach replied.

"Yeah, school's running fine, the staff do most of the work most of the time." he continued, taking a sip of milk in between sentences. "What I had in mind to talk to you about was something more along the lines of logistics. I've noticed that both you Gurin both make use of a teleportation technique. Frankly I never thought I'd ever have any use for it myself, seems a little underhanded and sneaky, unless you use it just for travel." Zach continued, dancing around the topic in a neat circle so Toshio could well guess where he was headed. "Recent events though have me rethinking that assessment and I've done some research in the library on my own but came up with very little. I was wondering, if you have the time between classes if you wouldn't mind giving an old student some instruction?"

[Toshio Katsuo]

As Toshio started to continue to eat his breakfast, he listened to Zach, first mentioning the little joke he started off with, and wondering why he found that funny. Toshio would respond, however would first let Zach finish speaking. He was relived to hear the school was running on all cylinders, and finally Zach started to delve into why he had called for the meeting. He was interested about the technique that he and the seemingly strange Namekian that Toshio had yet to properly meet in person. The Namekian was strange in many ways, but Toshio felt as if he had some relations to Tenshu other than being just a Namekian himself…as was if it he was Tenshu…but different…Toshio wiped that from his mind thinking nothing of it, as he continued to listen to Zach.

As he listened to Zach finally end his curiousness about the instant transmission, asking for a little instruction on how to do it. Toshio didn’t like teaching that technique to people, actually having only taught it to the late Tenshu…but he had known Zach for so long and he had been such a good and helpful student despite some attitude problems and now, now he was the Headmaster of the school after re-building it with his bare hands. Smiling, Toshio had come to a decision and would soon speak.

“Well, going back to the joke, I’ve been in your spot in case you have forgotten, I know what it’s like to have people beckon to you quite a bit and call you by your family name. It should be a little joke, you know, former head.” He pointed to himself, and then to Zach “to big head...err I mean present head.” He chuckled at yet another little joke before beginning to speak once more. “I would love to give you a few pointers about the Instant Transmission, it’s a very complex technique yet simple. I actually have an hour before my first class this morning, so we could do it now or wait until my lunch break after my 3rd class to do it. Either way is fine with me Zach.”

After he finished speaking he continued to eat and finish up his breakfast plate, thinking back on when he first learned the technique when the headmaster before him taught it to him. He smiled thinking back on those days, they were so long ago and much has happened and changed since then. Yet it was always good that the Victory school’s pride and motto have stood the test of time even after the building itself had been destroyed. Toshio was very grateful to still be apart of the legacy that the school provided.

[Zach]

Resuming his breakfast as Toshio replied, the blonde rolled his eyes at the 'big head' joke the man made but then he moved right to the point about the technique and even called it by name. Zach was delighted to hear the man was so willing to share with him one of the more advanced techniques the school offered, frankly he was expecting some kind of ridiculous, executive hazing ritual. Although that possibility was still present, Toshio could after all lead him on a trek to the library to leaf through more moldy, old books or give him an hour long lecture on the finer points of ki sensing, something he knew full well Zach couldn't do. The possibility was minute though as the manner in which Toshio described the time he had free implied that they might be able to get the rudiments down within an hour and from there only practice would be required to properly execute the technique.

"Instant Transmission huh? Sounds like a car part." Zach replied finally after chewing the last of his eggs and pondering the schedule he himself had as well as the technique's name. "The books didn't actually mention a name at all and only vaguely referenced the maneuver, guess I should be clad you didn't kick it before I got the chance to learn it from you old man." Zach replied, getting Toshio back for the 'big head' joke. "Lets head strait to it after breakfast, no sense wasting time. I've got a while before my first class as well and Rito should be away for at least an hour." he continued and then another 'brilliant' idea popped into Zach's head. "We just installed the new gravity machine, how about we kill two birds with one stone and test it out while you teach me? I figure if I can get it down in a stressful environment like that then pulling it off outside should be even easier no?"

[Toshio Katsuo]

As Toshio finished eating his breakfast, he listened and chuckled he heard the thoughts of Zach on the name. Toshio had never been into cars and therefore didn’t know much about them, however he chuckled simply because it wasn’t like a car at all...except for maybe for it getting you from one point to another. As Toshio continued to listen to Zach talk about the books he read on the technique but them not giving the actual name, he couldn’t help but chuckle once more when Zach came back with another joke, this one about his age and what he presumed a comeback for his previous ‘big head’ joke. Listening on, Toshio was glad to hear that Zach had some free time now that he had a kid to take care of, including being Headmaster of the school and having to teach classes. He was also intrigued to hear that the new gravity machine was installed, having not trained under intense gravity for quite a long time; he hoped his body was still up to the task. After finishing his breakfast trey and swallowing the last of his foods, Toshio spoke.

“Ah yes, now would be a great time. As for using the new gravity machine, that’s a good idea. It would get me back into the swing of using it, as it has been quite a while since my body was under intense gravity. Plus it would give me a chance to show you that this old man can still hold his own, even if he isn’t as young or as stupid as someone I know..”

He chuckled at the last tid bit of his words, sure it wasn’t the best joke or comeback...but he was getting old, he wasn’t as quick or smart with jazzy and funny comebacks like he used to be. Getting up, he put up his trey, walked past Zach and started to head toward where he figured the gravity chamber would be located, waving at Zach from behind, and saying just one joke, loud enough for the young headmaster to hear it.

“Better hurry up, it would be a shame if everyone knew that a old man beat the striving young headmaster in a walk to the gravity chamber. Such a shame indeed.”

[Zach]

"Hmhmhm, sounds good." Zach commented, picking up a strip of bacon and chewing the length of it while Toshio rose from the table. The man made a joke about beating him to the gravity chamber, no doubt trying to goad him into finishing quickly. If there was one thing Zach had learned from working with the other man is that he always had a reason for everything he did and they sometimes they were sneaky. He'd also learned how to turn the man's air of wisdom back on him from time to time.

"Ah ah ah, now where would the sense be in rushing through a meal just before a training session, just to spare my ego. I could end up with a cramp or something even more embarrassing then losing a silly race." Zach replied just loud enough for Toshio to hear so as not to appear to be taunting the man back. "I'll be done eating in a few minutes. Perhaps you should use that time to set the machine and warm it up." the blonde suggested and returned his attention to his meal. With that Zach chuckled to himself quietly and finished off his breakfast. Toshio could have stayed or continued on without him it would not have made a difference. Once he was finished though Zach would then accompany the other man to the chamber, stepping inside to inspect the controls to see what level they had been set to if any at all.

"So how heavy do you want to go?" Zach asked. "I think the last time I used this thing I had it up to about thirty."

[Toshio Katsuo]

As Toshio continued to walk, he heard Zach say loud enough to him, that he wasn’t going to hurry his meal just to win a race to the chamber; it would be embarrassing to have a cramp rather than losing a race. Toshio chuckled and continued to walk out of the cafeteria and toward the gravity chamber, not wanting to make another joke. It seems Zach has either grown up a bit, or his sense of humor has taken a hit. Either way it’s good to have him as the head master. He’s got a strong will that boy…heh, come to think of it. He’s not a boy anymore either, now a young man...man I’m getting old.

He finally made it to the chamber, opened it and started to do his normal stretching routine while waiting for the shirtless wonder to show up, he didn’t set the machine to anything instead waiting on Zach to show up and set it. When he finally showed up, he checked the machine and asked what he wanted it set to, mentioning he had last tried it at 30. Toshio stopped stretching and rubbed his chin, trying to remember the last setting he had it on, it had been quite a while, a little over 5 years to be exact, but when the memory finally came to him, it made him smile just thinking about it.

“The last time I tried it I had it set at 20, however I’d be up to a 30, it would give me a chance to withstand more pressure. Set it at 30 Zach.”

As he got ready to experience a new gravity setting, he couldn’t help but think of the last few times he had trained under intense gravity, both passing out and ending up in the school’s medical facility. Cracking a smile he thought to himself. At least I’ll have someone to make sure I don’t pass out this time…unless he passes out as well. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen, I’ve already put this medical staff through hell because of my random acts of helping strangers on the street and taking up their time and medical supplies, of course it has gotten much less lately with my healing ability greatly improved.

[Zach]

Stepping into the chamber and examining the control Zach noted that Toshio indeed had not set the machine. The older man though suggested thirty times normal Earth gravity would be a good idea. Zach on the other hand wasn’t so sure, the last time he’d used such a machine was five years ago and at the same setting, surly there would be some deterioration in that time. Frankly he thought Toshio might be trying to show off for him, which was entirely unnecessary. Still the man could be almost as stubborn as Zach could be and if he wanted to risk breaking his own legs or worse just to prove he could keep up with the blonde, Zach wasn’t going to stop him, just tell him he shouldn’t have tried after the fact.

“Thirty eh? Well if you think you can handle it, has been quite a while though.” Zach commented and then dialed in the setting. The door automatically sealed it’s self to ensure there weren’t any accidental interruptions, a safety feature that prevented anyone barging in and potentially being squashed while a training session was in progress. “Ok, here we go.” Zach added and pressed the startup button.

Once activated the chamber’s amplification system started and began ramping the gravitational pull in room up by about one degree per second and within a span of thirty seconds, the pull had increased that man times. The pull was as intense of not more so then Zach remembered especially given the fact that he was as ever, wearing his training weights. The young man’s toned arms dropped away from the control panel and dangled at his sides as he turned about and stepped towards Toshio with a lumbering, heavy gate.

[Toshio Katsuo]

Toshio watched as Zach started to set the gravity to x30, Toshio preparing his body mentally now for the intense pressure he was about to be under. Ok old man, you’re old yet young at heart. Your body has taken punishment before and also has used the gravity chamber before…you can handle this.. The machine was now set, the door shutting itself to prevent any intrusion from the outside. The intense gravity that was 30 times that of earth set in, bringing Toshio to his knees. As he strained against the mighty gravity, he could feel his entire body ‘heating’ up as he tried to stand, sweat wrapping around his body just as quickly as he gravity had been turned on.Aggghh..I didn’t…think…it would…be this...intense..it has been long indeed…gotta get through…this…

Clenching his teeth, he slammed his hands on the ground and would slowly force himself up by pushing himself up with his hands, before finally he stood on his two legs, albeit swaying against the intense gravity like he was a drunk in a bar. Steady Toshio...Steady… When the school teacher finally managed to steady himself upright against the intense gravity, he still had to fight in this and he realized that getting up was only half the battle…

He eyed the blonde headmaster before him, now seemingly closer than before, and noticed that he struggled a tad bit with the gravity, but not near as much as he did. Heh…maybe he won’t be able to throw punches for a few minutes, give me a head start..heh Toshio struggled to bring his arms up to a good enough attack posture, however he looked to play defense first as it would allow him to get better use to the intense gravity.

[Zach]

Holding his position about two steps closer to Toshio then he had been a few moment earlier, Zach strained against the pull of the amplified gravity in the room and watch curiously as the older man dropped to the floor and struggled to get back to his feet. Eventually he managed to rise and even more curiously, raised his fists as if they were to do battle. Zach's eyebrow went up as he stood there in the intense gravitational pull, sweat starting to form on his skin from the strain and arms still at his sides. "What's this? Suddenly in the mood to put a hurt'n on me?" Zach asked with a strained chuckle. If Toshio actually intended on hitting him Zach wasn't going to raise his arms in defense, at least not until after the first blow had been struck. These days it was difficult to find a worthy adversary to do endurance training with and if Toshio had it in his mind to belt Zach a few times, the blonde wasn't going to stop him. They did have about an hour on their hands and even then, additional time could be booked later in the day of Toshio's lesson too longer then that.

[Toshio Katsuo]

Toshio strained to listen to the words of Zach, struggling to chuckle even a little after hearing them. Yeaa…I’ve had a few good ideas in the past…..30 times gravity after 5 years of not even using a gravity chamber….definitely not one of them.. The intense gravity has pressured him down so much that he had actually forgotten this was suppose to be a Instant Transmission training session. Ah..I can barely stand let alone move and use that….I need to..move or spar or something...gotta get used to this gravity quickly….Ahhhh Straightening out his body more and flexing, sweat now draining his clothes in perspiration, he would then speak to ensure Zach of his intentions.

“Okay listen here youngster….for the first few minutes I’m going to….going to spar…get used to this gravity quicker…Should have plenty of time for…for Instant Transmission pointers…whether you join me or not...up to you..”

A few seconds later, Toshio gathered what strength he had and started to jolt toward Zach, to the normal eyes of a standard human it would seem that Toshio was use to the gravity already, but the trained eyes of a martial artist could very well see that Toshio was strained in his approach toward Zach, the gravity slowing him down tremendously, however the approaching aspect was still progress for the middle-aged Victory school teacher. As he came upon Zach, he would attempt a horizontal karate chop with his right hand and arm that was intending for the young headmaster’s neck, however it would most likely hit his shoulder as Toshio’s aim was would still be slightly off, if it even came into contact with Zach at all of course.

Not letting up, Toshio would attempt a swift punch to the ribcage of the young boy, now he knew Zach’s rib area and stomach were ‘open’ for all attacks and Zach refused to block there, or even pay much attention to the area at all, however Toshio was in his ‘usual’ attack routine as he thought this would further help him get used to the intense gravity much quicker than if he decided to avoid Zach’s free area like he usually did when they sparred together.

[Zach]

Still standing by with his arms as his sides and getting used to the intense gravitational pull the same as Toshio, only with slightly less effort after having experienced the pull some time before, Zach listened and grinned as the other teacher kept his arms up in an offensive position and issued a warning that he was going to strike. Zach of course had no problem with this, indeed he was remaining in his leisurely position to allow Toshio a clean hit. Indeed the other man had all the time in the world to take aim and launch an attack, however he seemed to be siding more on speed then accuracy and threw out a chop that thudded into the teen's muscled shoulder. Zach could tell it would have hurt had it landed on target, likely aimed at his neck, but the intense pull generated by the room's gravitational equipment threw the other man off enough for the blow to curve lower ten intended.

A second punch came in quickly enough that Zach hadn't the time to prepare himself, neither raising his arms nor tensing his midsection. Toshio's fist crashed right into the boy's flank, impacting the floating ribs on his right side. The blonde groaned and doubled to that side, his torso lighting up in pain from the punch. With his training weights on and in base form there was no longer a significant disparity in power between himself and Toshio, indeed the other man was likely a bit stronger, his inexperience with the gravity not withstanding. Straitening back up, Zach coughed a few times and then spoke.

"Ok... may have miscalculated a little there..." the blonde issued through strained breaths. "You want to play eh? Ok then, lets play." he added and backed up a step. Zach's muscular body tensed all over ad he raised his arms into their usual defensive posture about his head, widened his stance and readied himself for Toshio's next run at him. Hopefully the brown haired man would go for a more enticing target, the one he always left open rather then for his ribs again. Bruised ribs Zach could handle, broken ones were a pain in the rear, or this case, side. He was ready though, if the other man came in and struck at his side, Zach intended to drop his elbow to intercept the blow and then counter with a strait punch to his face with his opposing hand.

[Toshio Katsuo]

Toshio watched as his punch landed against the shoulder of the blonde human, grunting at the gravity’s intense pull it had on his punch. Continuing to fight through the forceful gravity, Toshio saw his next strike hit its intended mark as his fist plowed into the ribcage of Zach making the young man grunt in slight pain. Toshio straightened himself back in a defensive type manner when he saw Zach take a step back. After watching Zach get into a defensive stance Toshio smirked and would then quickly get into a offensive posture before charging toward the blonde wonder, Toshio could feel his body starting to get used to the gravity now, however it still slowed his body down a bit.

As Toshio charged he would feint with a right punch toward the young man’s ribcage and then very quickly come at Zach’s face with a left hand, intending to smash the young man’s right check, this time Toshio aiming slightly above the man’s head so the gravity would push the punch into Toshio’s intended spot.

[Zach]

With his arms now coming up into a defensive position, Zach was ready for Toshio when the other man attacked. He hadn't given the blonde much quarter but that was to be expected and at once Toshio was on him again. A right handed punch headed for his ribs soared in, prompting Zach to drop his left elbow to deflect the blow. This of course opened up Zach's face as the blonde launched his right hand to counter the other man's attack. Toshio seemed to be calculating today and managed to predict the defensive response, launching a left handed strike at Zach's face, the same as the boy had just done. In all likelihood as their fists cruised past each other, the two men would end up belting each other one.

Zach though, built like a tank wouldn't be stopped by a single punch to the face, nor the opening shot to the ribs. Instead he powered through, taking the shot to the head with a grunt and regardless of if his first counterpunch landed or not, opened up into an all out offensive. If Toshio wanted to play tactician before they got to the real reason they were there, then Zach would play along. The boy decided the best way to get the advantage was to do something Toshio wouldn't expect and that was to change his usual tactics. By going on the offensive he was hoping to throw the brunette off guard and score a multitude of hits before the man could respond. With that in mind Zach pressed forward, launching a quick series of punches centered on the other's chest but ranging high to the head and low to the gut.