Return of the Evil Choujin

Seventh Arc part 2: Illegally Legal Tournament

The match began as Nathan and the rhino both grappled each other. Sadly, the thing about rhinos was that they were naturally stronger than humans, so he overpowered Nathan and delivered a suplex in mere seconds.

"Wow, and Nathan took in the first blow," Yoshigai said and Kazuo positioned his glasses and said, "Don't count him out just yet. That mask also serves as a helmet, so that attack didn't do much to him since suplexes are aimed at the head."

Roshiki was not done. He then kicked Nathan in the back and held the kid up, placing him into a back-breaking position.

"Damn," Yoshigai cursed, "That's gotta be painful!"

Nathan then reversed it and grabbed onto the rhino's arm saying, "Was that really the best you have? You don't know how to break a person's back!"

Then he placed Roshiki's back against the spike on the top of his mask and shouted, "TOWER BRIDGE!" cracked the rhino's back against his spike and causing blood to come out.

Roshiki got up with a bit of blood coming out of his back. Then he glared at the kid and rammed him with his elbow. Then he charged at Nathan and shouted, "RHINO HORN!"

Then he charged at Nathan, horn straight out, and used it to knock Nathan into the air. Nathan spun towards the ground as Roshiki came back and hit him again.

"This is horrible!" Neil shouted, "Nathan can't do a thing about it until he hits the ground!"

"I won't let that happen," Roshiki said, grinning as he came back for another one, "He'll never be allowed to touch solid ground until he's dealt with."

Nathan continued to take in the punishment as the announcers sighed and Yoshigai said, "This attack is very similar to Buffaloman's special technique, the Hurricane Mixer. He'll continue bashing his opponent until Nathan is defeated. There are ways to survive this attack, but does Nathan have any of them?"

Their question was answered as Nathan descended, turned his head towards the horn this time and grabbed onto it, flipping Roshiki over his shoulder and onto the mat.

Nathan's friends cheered after seeing this. Jasmine was especially overjoyed. Nathan was a very mysterious person, and in women's eyes, mysterious usually meant cute.

Then Kevin placed his legs against the rhino's back, held onto his arms and said, "You are a major pain in the ass, you know that?"

Then he snapped his back and shouted, "OLAP!"

As Roshiki fell to the ground, Nathan breathed a sigh of relief. He couldn't believe it, but with next to no effort, he had pulled off his father's strongest move.

"Roshiki's been defeated!" Yoshigai shouted happily, "He's gonna be in the hospital for weeks after that! Speaking of which, we now have Jasmine vs. Sunbeam!"

Sunbeam jumped up into the ring and said, "Come on, girl. Are you ready to fight yet?"

"You look pathetically weak," Jasmine said rather heartlessly, "I'll enjoy this!"

Yoshigai then rang the bell signaling the start of the match. Sunbeam grinned and said, "Don't take me lightly. I'm made out of bricks, don't forget."

Then he ran towards her, rather slowly, with his arms out.

"Okay, this guy looks like a novice," Neil said laughing at this pitiful running speed.

Jasmine easily dodged the incoming attack, which wasn't a real feat. Sadly, she took that brick thing very seriously. She was honestly trying to come up with a way to beat someone made of bricks.

Sunbeam was actually expecting an attack, but he decided to take advantage of this and grabbed onto her, squeezing her tight so her back started to hurt.

"Dammit," Jasmine cursed, "well, at least this can deal a bit of damage. METEOR FIST!"

Then she got out of the hold and punched him hard in the chest. She hoped this would work.

Amazingly, Sunbeam had shattered into little pieces when he was hit by the attack.

Neil cheered and said, "Wow, that guy was a serious pushover!"

Suddenly, everyone in the area was shocked when Sunbeam transformed into sand and went underneath Jasmine's feet. Then he came up out of the ground grabbing onto her legs and throwing her into the mat, head first.

"That was quite surprising," Yoshigai said as Kazuo positioned his glasses and said, "Actually, that is quite normal. His grandfather was Sunshine who had a similar ability."

Jasmine growled and shouted, "HIGH KICK!" knocking him to the ground and leapt into the air, aiming a powerful kick towards his head and descending towards the ground at blinding speed.

Sunbeam noticed her start to descend and transformed again, this time into a spinning top and shouted, "SUNSHINE TOP!"

As he spun around, he let out a wicked grin and said, "As soon as the girl lands, she'll land on my top form. Even the best counter attack in the world can't avoid it, and I'm really fast in this form, so even if she somehow managed to dodge it, I'll still manage to hit her."

Jasmine did land, but attempted to land a blow on the flat part that was always on the top of these things. Sadly, just as predicted, the attempt had failed and she ended up being sent into the rope. Then she ended up bouncing off of the rope to find herself in another meeting with the top.

Then Sunbeam regained his form and started bending her legs saying, "I wasn't kidding when I said that form had no weaknesses."

Jasmine saw the top spinning at her once again and set both of her fists aflame shouting, "DUO METEOR FISTS!" and landed two flaming punches on Sunbeam.

Sunbeam took in the blows at full force, but he still turned into sand and then turned his hands into shackles below her and reformed the rest of his body above Jasmine's head as an upside down pyramid.

"My weakness isn't any kind of element, so even fire can't effect me even though I become sand!" the man shouted as he dropped his pyramid tip into Jasmine back shouting, "PYRAMID DROP!"

This went right into her back as blood started to come out and he reformed, taking hold of her knees again.

This was all it took for Dolce to finally take over. As Sunbeam resumed his regular form, Dolce released yet another Meteor Fist upon him and broke him to pieces yet again.

Sunbeam reformed once again, this time as a giant block. Then he dropped himself on top of her and shouted, "SUNBEAM BLOCK!"

"This is probably the only original attack he has," Kazuo said, "Every other ability is from Sunshine. This is the only I haven't seen from him."

As Sunbeam transformed back into his regular form and laughed, Neil gasped and shouted, "COME ON, JASMINE! GET UP!"

But it was hopeless. Jasmine was down for the count.

"I'm sorry to say that Jasmine lost," Yoshigai said as Neil and Rosaline pulled her off of the ring and placed her on a bench to heal.

"You bastard," Neil said to the brick man, "I'll get back at you once I defeat your hooded ally!"

"Don't count on either one," Sunbeam said, "I hired the newest and most powerful Choujin for this. This man is my top student!"

Then the man removed his cloak after Neil entered the ring to reveal a skeleton, a rather menacing one at that.

"I am Skullman (No, not Skullman from the Megaman games)," he said as he flashed a pair of glowing eyes. Neil gulped, realizing that this guy was sure to be a threat.

Neil gulped as the match began and Skullman sent a jump-kick his way. Neil quickly leapt back out of instinct to avoid the attack then wrapped his arms around Skullman's neck.

"Wow, and Neil's already got him into a hold," Yoshigai said as Skullman threw Neil over his shoulder and slammed him to the mat.

Then he jumped on Neil and started to pull on his leg, but Neil surprisingly felt little pain from this. He quickly kicked Skullman off of him and delivered a suplex to the skeleton.

"Don't think that'll work," the skeleton said, "I'm not that easy an opponent! You still haven't felt my signature move!"

Then, Neil and everyone in the area gasped when Skullman pulled out a gun and laughed saying, "THIS IS MY SIGNATURE MOVE, SKULL GUN!"

He then fired it as Neil just barely dodged it. He was surprised to see an actual bullet come out. It wasn't a fake gun used to simply knock opponents out. It was an actual shotgun that shot actual bullets!

Neil quickly knocked it out of the skeleton's hand and broke it in half as he bounced off of the ropes and shouted, "WOLF FANG!" clawing Skullman in the chest and knocked him out.

"Neil won!" Yoshigai shouted excitedly, "And rather easily too."

Neil just blinked and thought, 'I already won? That's it? It's over just like that?'

Yoshigai then rang and bell and said, "As tournament rules go, once a round is over, the Choujin are to take a break from the match! That means you all get one day to prepare for tomorrow. Don't forget, Nathan Mask faces Sparkman tomorrow and Neil faces Sunbeam."

Neil exited the ring as he picked up Jasmine and said, "You did your best. Don't worry, I don't know how, but I'll beat him tomorrow, just wait and see."

Then he, Nathan and Rosaline took the girl back to the mansion. Nathan decided to sleep on the roof while Rosaline and Neil slept next to her for comfort.

As Jasmine was placed in her bed, tears started to roll down her cheeks. She literally thought she was dead.

Then she slowly opened her eyes and uttered, "Neil… Rosaline… are you… okay…?"

Yeah," Neil said, "We should be asking you that?"

Then he embraced the girl and shouted, "DON'T EVER LET YOURSELF LOSE LIKE THAT AGAIN! I PROMISE I'LL BEAT HIM IN TOMORROW'S MATCH!"

Nathan nodded and said, "I'll also defeat Sparkman. If we both win our matches, then the DMP will be out of tournament members and Osaka will be safe."

Neil then sighed and said, "It shouldn't be too hard beating that guy. His top student lost to me in less than 2 minutes."

Speaking of which, Skullman was in another area having a bag thrown in his face as Sunbeam snapped, "LEAVE MY SIGHT, YOU POOR EXCUSE FOR A WRESTLER! Your grandfather, one of the biggest losers in history, was better than you, and well, YOUR FATHER WAS THE STRONGEST MEMBER OF THE GRUESOME THREE! How are you so weak compared to both of them? I trained you to be better than to rely on a gun to win your matches!"

Then he slammed the door of the hotel he was staying in as Skullman just walked away, weeping.

"I'll show him," Skullman said, "I'll show him that I'm not a wimp! One day, I'll help the DMP defeat that Neil guy once and for all!"

Upon hearing that, a small demon known as Mongolo (Surely you can remember him, right?) walked up to Skullman and said, "Can I help you?"

"Who are you?" Skullman asked as the small demon said, "I am Mongolo. I lost my strongest form after that Neil guy you're cursing defeated me in battle. I would love to help take him down with you."

Skullman smiled and said, "Of course, I could use a sidekick for I am the great Skullman!"

Back at the mansion, Jasmine had finally stopped crying. Now she was more worried that Neil's incisive hugging would kill her.

Neil set her down and said, "I called a doctor to give you a checkup."

Just then, a doctor entered the mansion into the room and gave her a checkup.

"Don't worry," he said, "You're going to be okay. But I recommend getting rest tomorrow."

"Too bad you can't see our matches tomorrow," Neil said as the doctor blinked and asked, "Why wouldn't she be able to see it? It's on the wrestling channel every time a match takes place."

"What airs when those two aren't announcing a match?" Neil asked as the doctor shrugged and said, "Some kind of show about lesbians making out with each other," as Rosaline said, "I should start watching the wrestling channel now."

"No, I want to see the matches up close," Jasmine said with a smile, but then her sides started to bleed.

"Well, you can see the match up close," the doctor said, "I know I will. But, on one condition. One of you three must find a way to carry her around without putting any pressure on her. If she moves, recovery will take a lot longer."

Rosaline then noticed a wheelchair in the closet and said, "Hey, we can use this."

"That sure was convenient," the doctor said, taking his suitcase and said, "I'm going home to pick out my favorite wrestling fan clothes! Seeya!"

"We should pack in," Neil said realizing that it was midnight now, "We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow. Nathan, you ready?"

Nathan nodded and asked, "Just peachy, why do you ask?"

Then they headed off to sleep while Nathan jumped onto the roof and was about to sleep. Then he noticed a hooded figure who asked, "How is the girl?"

"She's fine," Nathan said, "Why do you keep spying on her, anyway?"

"Don't talk," the hooded man said, "You lost to me once, so I can beat you up again if you give me that lip."

Nathan nodded and fell to sleep.

Finally, the next day had come and Neil awoke. He walked into the kitchen for his Karubi Don and noticed that Nathan was enjoying some too.

Neil grinned wickedly as Nathan looked around and said, "Uh... I was just really hungry... screw it! THE COW OF THE BEEF, SEE IT SAYS "MOO, MOO, MOO"! THE COW OF THE RICE IS REALLY SO TENDER! THE RICE OF THE COW IS REALLY SO TASTY! AH-AHHH-AH-AH-AH-AHHHH! BEEF BOWL!"

Jasmine had been pushed down the stairs by Rosaline and asked, "What are you two doing up so early?"

"The semi-final matches start today," Neil said, "We have to be ready!"

Rosaline then came out and said, "Come on, guys! I'll wheel Jasmine to the match, okay?"

The two agreed and exited the mansion as they headed towards the arena. On the way there, they ran into Dorykid.

"Dorykid..." Neil asked, "Why weren't you here yesterday?"

"Didn't you see my note?" he asked, "I was in the hospital. I'm okay now and I saw the tournament on the hospital's TV. The nurses and Alice all came into my room to watch you guys. I see that Jasmine is in the same kind of condition I was in yesterday. I hope you get better."

"You are really pushing it with this chick-magnet thing," Neil muttered as he then smiled and asked, "Are you going to watch us fight today?"

"Of course," Dorykid said, "This is for the sake of Osaka. I have to support you."

The group arrived at the arena ready for the matches at hand.

The announcers showed up and said, "The first match will be between Nathan Mask and Sparkman! Due to the fact that we only have 2 matches today, he will take some time to train for this match."

Nathan then went off to train and pulled out a glass of water. When he drank it, he felt a weird impulse down his back as he gasped for breath and passed out.

Meanwhile, a skeleton and a demon laughed maniacally outside of the training room as the skeleton said, "With him out of the picture, Sparkman will get an automatic win!"

Soon, an hour passed and the Yoshigai announced, "The match will now begin! Where is Nathan, though? He's late!"

The crowd waited for 5 minutes and then the announcers sighed and said, "Well, it seems that Sparkman automatically..."

"Not so fast!" came Dorykid's voice as he jumped into the ring, "I will be his opponent, Dorykid!"

Sparkman grinned and said, "At least I won't be bored."

Even Sunbeam had to admit that it was odd that Nathan hadn't shown up, but he was relieved that Nathan wasn't going to fight this battle.

Jasmine started to worry, but that ended when Nathan came out of the training room with a "just woke up" look on him.

"Gee, I already missed the match and doomed us all," he said, "Sorry, but I passed out from drinking my water. I think someone poisoned it."

Dorykid laughed and said, "Don't worry, I'm volunteered to take your place! Also, good job joining the team!"

Jasmine just breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If you make me worry like that again, I might have to set up a search party. I really care about my friends."

Then the bell sounded as the match began. Dorykid sent a punch at Sparkman's chest, but as mentioned earlier, Sparkman was not stupid. He simply ducked as Dorykid ended up punching the Choujin's face and electricity went down his spine.

Dorykid ignored the shock and kicked Sparkman in the chest. Since Sparkman wore a shirt there, that was one of his weak spots. Another weak spot was his wrists and shins, wear he wore trendy clothes. Also, his lower section, where he wore a green wrestling Speedo-type thing.

Sparkman quickly reacted by placing his hands on Dory's shoulders as the kid cried out in pain.

"This is actually quite bad for Dorykid," Kazuo said, "The Terry Family has mainly taught itself to use direct attacks most of the time. Due to Sparkman's electric body, most of Dory's attacks can't hit him."

Dorykid had to admit that they were right. Everyone he attacked this guy, he took in extreme pain. Then he noticed the wrist guards and thought, 'That's it.'

Then grabbed onto Sparkman's wrists, planted his feet in the back of Sparkman's ankles, which had something covering them, and planted him face-first into the ground shouting, "CATTLE BRANDING!"

Dorykid was very relieved, but he knew there was no way this guy was defeated yet, so he sat on Sparkman's back, the part where he was wearing a shirt, and started to twist his ankle.

Sparkman laughed and said, "You did well to actually deal damage to me, but you would have been better off with that last effort finishing me off."

Then he grabbed onto Dorykid who hollered in pain as he threw Dorykid into the air, went up after him and planted his feet into Dorykid's back shouting, "SHORT CIRCUIT!" sending him into the ground with electricity surging through him. It was official. He had lost and Alice just stood there with a look of worry on her face.

Dorykid got up after the announcers made his loss official and said, "You'd better win your next two matches. This guy's really tough."

Neil had no idea how he could defeat an enemy like that. Sparkman seemed invincible.

Neil gulped and put on a serious expression. He couldn't let himself lose. Sunbeam was a very annoying person and needed someone to shut him up.

He jumped into the ring and shouted, "YOU'RE GOING DOWN, SUNBEAM!"

Sunbeam grinned and said, "Those are very brave words. Let's see you back them up."

Then the match began with Neil bending Sunbeam's arm.

"Direct attacks seem to give you an edge," he said, "so maybe if I just attacked your bones, you won't turn into sand."

Sunbeam grinned and transformed into sand, reappearing behind Neil and grabbing onto him, delivering a Suplex.

Neil recovered and slammed Sunbeam against the mat as Sunbeam turned into sand and appeared behind Neil in the form of a top shouting, "SUNSHINE TOP!" slamming into Neil and sending him flying.

"Neil isn't putting up much of a fight," Yoshigai said, "I hope he wins, otherwise we're all doomed."

Jasmine eventually became bored for some reason and wheeled out of the area. She saw a hooded figure and started to wheel after him.

Once again, it was a man wearing a hood... but unbeknownst to Jasmine, this was not the same hooded stranger from before.

He noticed the girl and thought, 'She must be trying to take revenge on the DMP for putting her in that chair!'

Then he regained his complexion and thought, 'Since she's in that chair, it won't matter,' so he leapt up onto a roof and stole away into the distance.

Then Jasmine uttered, "Wait up…" and passed out as a hooded man picked her up.

Just then, Sunbeam transformed into an arch and shouted, "SUNSHINE ARCH!" leaping onto Neil's downed body and digging the sides of the arch into the ground.

Neil was now trapped under the Sunshine Arch and had no way to escape.

"Come on," Sunbeam said, "Just give up."

Neil grunted and retorted, "NO! I HAVE TO WIN FOR THE SAKE OF EARTH!"

Then he placed his hands on the arch and slammed Sunbeam into the mat. Then he jumped on Sunbeam and found himself clinging to his sun emblem. He then noticed that it could be turned and taken out.

"I finally figured out how to beat you," he said as he removed the symbol and threw Sunbeam into the air shouting, "FULL MOON REVERSE DROP!" dropping the man with his feet towards the ground causing him to collapse into a pile of sand. It was official. Neil had won and he was exhausted.

The announcers stated his victory as he asked, "Where's Jasmine?" and Rosaline said, "Some hooded guy took her home."

"Well, as the rules indicate," Yoshigai said, "The final match takes place tomorrow!"

Sparkman looked upon Sunbeam who said, "Good luck beating him," but Sparkman didn't care about his words. Instead, he struck Sunbeam in the face and retorted, "LEAVE MY SIGHT, YOU LOSER! By what I've seen, I'm better than you! If anything, I should be the teacher instead of the student!"

Then Sunbeam knew what it was that had turned his grandfather good. It was a similar scenario. Just like Sunshine, his pupil had turned on him and he was saddened by this.