Tenshinhan vs. Jackie Chun

Two Masters Feel Each Other Out

The announcer promises a match worth watching and calls for the fight to begin. In the stands, Krillin confidently predicts that Jackie Chun will avenge Yamcha, but Goku is far less certain. Tien opens with a probing punch that Jackie reads and turns aside. Jackie counters with a kick, which Tien blocks just as cleanly. A high kick from Tien meets empty air as Jackie ducks, seizes the extended leg, and flings the three-eyed fighter across the arena. Tien twists in midair, plants his hands, and springs off the tiles into his rushing Hammerhead attack. Jackie leaps cleanly over the charge, and the two rebound at one another for a flurry of mid-air blows before separating.

Through the Third Eye

Both warriors land with their backs to one another. Without warning, Jackie dashes in a tight circle around Tien, creating a full ring of afterimages so rapid that normal eyes cannot track the real body. Tien recognizes the technique instantly as the Multiple Afterimage Strike and, rather than be fooled, scans the illusion with his third eye and lashes out with a kick that slams the true Jackie into the wall. He coolly informs the old man that a trick like that cannot deceive his vision.

A Furious Exchange

Jackie peels off his jacket and tosses it aside, then flies at Tien while windmilling his arms in deliberately chaotic patterns. He asks if the three-eyed fighter can still follow the movements of his hands, and Tien answers by snatching both wrists, kneeing Jackie hard in the stomach, and booting him up into the air. When Jackie lands he is fuming, but he surges back up with a knee to the chest and a clean punch to the face that drops Tien to the stones. Tien kicks back upright and answers with a bone-rattling punch of his own. The two warriors break apart, hearts pounding, as the crowd roars and each silently revises his opinion of the other.