We all know who are going to participate, but would there be more? Yes, and their quite random, but their the best people I can think of. Enjoy!
Heart search delayed. Luffy and Franky told Nami that they were going to participate in tournament as well as Usopp, Chopper, and Zoro. Despite being fiercely yelled at by Nami, they decided to participate anyway. They went to the stadium and encountered Dimentio, who disgusted Nami and Sanji upon sight. Dimentio impressed some of the Strawhats by doing an unusual card trick. As that was happening, The leader of Team Rocket, Giovanni, is officially the one hosting the tournament. Just what evil scheme is he planning? And how will this affect the Strawhats?
Chapter 28: Tournament begins, The unexpected contestants
Luffy was anxiously waiting for the first person that would come in through the door of the stadium. The door the slowly opened as Luffy was about to pounce until Zoro grabbed his shoulder. "We don't have time for you idiotic ways right now. Lets just sign up before the positions are filled." Zoro said as Luffy shrugged and ran to the counter, followed by Zoro. As they lined up, Ash got inside and looked at his surroundings.
"Now, where do we sign up?" Ash asked as Pikachu stood on his head and looked all over the place. Pikachu then saw a counter with a sign that read 'registrations' on it.
"Pika!" Pikachu said while pointing at the counter.
"Oh, there it is. Lets get in line." Ash said as he takes his place in line right behind Zoro. Luffy and Franky where up next as they were greeted by a pink haired nurse.
"Hello, I am nurse Joy. Would you like to participate for the tournament?" asks the nurse known as Nurse Joy.
"Yeah, we both want to participate as a team." Luffy said before he started to whisper to Nurse Joy. "We are in a seeecret mission."
"WILL YOU PLEASE STOP SAYING THAT!?" Franky yelled as Luffy got startled.
"Oh my..." Nurse joy said as she too was got startled by Franky's screaming. "Well anyway, what style will you two be using?"
"Style?" Luffy said.
"You see, normally there would be tournaments that would only allow pokemon to battle against eachother, but for this tournament, you can either with, without or alongside your pokemon." Nurse Joy said.
"Ohhh... we will be fighting without the pokemon." Luffy said as Nurse Joys types something.
"Very well. What are you names?" Nurse Joy asked.
"My name is Luffy." Luffy said.
"And I am Frrranky." Franky said while doing his pose. Nurse Joy typed their names down to her computer and two cards popped out of her desk.
"These will be your identifications. You give these to the security guarding the locker room on your right." Nurse Joy said as she gives Luffy the cards.
"Thanks. Come on, Franky." Luffy said as he and Franky walked towards the direction of the locker room. Usopp and Chopper were next in line and gave their names to Nurse Joy.
"What style would you be using?" Nurse Joy.
"My pokemon, Choppermon, will be the one doing all the fighting." Usopp said as Chopper got surpised upon hearing that.
"Ehh!? I thought you were going to fight alongside me." Chopper whined.
"I am, just going to be in a safe distance and give you orders while you do all the hard stuff." Usopp said as Chopper put his head down in misery. Usopp got his and Chopper's card and headed towards the locker room while Zoro, along with Pichu on his shoulder was next to register.
"I'll be fighting alone." Zoro said, which made Pichu nudge Zoro's cheek. "What?"
"Pichu, Pi Pichu." Pichu said.
"Are you saying you want to fight alongside with me?" Zoro said.
"Pichu." Pichu said happily. Zoro sighed before looking at Nurse Joy.
"I will be fighting alongside with Pichu." Zoro said as Pichu jumped with joy. Nurse Joy handed them the cards and they left for the Locker room as Nami, Sanji and Robin looked at eachother.
"Shall we go find seats?" Robin asked.
"I guess, what else can we do?" Nami asked.
"You beautiful ladies go on ahead. I'll go get the popcorn." Sanji said as he rushes to the popcorn stand while Nami and Robin went to look for some seats. They went up some stairs and saw a huge arena that was filling up with people. In the middle, there was an arena so big, that the contestants were free to cause much damage as they like. Nami looked around the place to see any place available and saw four seats just a couple of stairs down.
"Let sit over there." Nami said as she and Robin walked to the empty seats and sat on them. "Lets just hope they finish this fast. We ain't got all day."
Meanwhile, it was Ash's turn to register.
"Hi, Nurse Joy." Ash said.
"Oh, hello Ash. It is good to see you again. Have you come to participate in this tournament?" Nurse Joy asked.
"Yep, and Pikachu will battle, right Pikachu?" Ash asked with Pikachu replying with a happy nod.
"Now that is good to hear. Most of these competitors would rather fight with their fists instead of using their pokemon, which in my opinion, doesn't seem right to me." Nurse Joy said, kinda in a sad way.
"By the way Nurse Joy, do you happen to know who is hosting this tournament?" Ash asked
"I am sorry, but I have no idea. I was just called here to register people for the tournament, but I was never told who was hosting it. But there are rumors that said Team Rocket might have something to do with this. Lets just hope that isn't true." Nurse Joy said as Ash confidently raises his fist in the air.
"Don't worry, Nurse Joy. If Team Rocket is behind this, then I will stop them for sure." Ash said confidently.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu said, bravely as well. Nurse Joy then felt happy again.
"Well if that is the case, I will be rooting for you till the end. Now here are your identification cards and the locker room is just to your right. Good luck." Nurse Joy said while giving the cards to Ash.
"Thanks, Nurse Joy." Ash said as he rushes towards the locker while passing by a rather large, green bush. The Green bush then started to shake as Jessie, James and Meowth popped their heads out of it.
"Well look who's here." Jessie said while smirking evilly.
"Its the twerp and his Pikachu." James said.
"Those guys are here afterall." Meowth said as he then looked at his companions.
"This is our big chance to capture Pikachu, and hand it over to the boss." Jessie said happily.
"Forget those people that came from another world, Pikachu is more valuable." James said.
"And when we hand it to da boss, we will live happily ever after." Meowth said as Jessie's Wobbuffet popped out of nowhere.
"Wooooobuffet!" Wobbuffet said before Jessie put him back to his pokeball.
"Come on! Lets catch up with him." Jessie said as she, James and Meowth hid back in the bush and popped out their feet as they went were Ash was heading. At the outside of the Locker room was this really big guy with really big muscles with really big sunglasses guarding the door as Luffy and Franky walked up to him.
"We are the participants." Luffy said as he showed the big guy his and Franky's card. The big guy took the cards and let Luffy and Franky through as the big guy guarded the door again. Usopp and Chopper got to him as Usopp nervously lifted his and Chopper's card to him. He took those and let them in, as Usopp and Chopper zipped right in before the big guy guarded the door again. As Zoro got close to the guard, Pichu hid in Zoro's shirt upon seeing the guard. The guard smirked before Zoro gave his and Pichu's card to him as he then let them in.
A couple of moments passed as Ash walked up to the guard, which somehow made him feel very happy. "Are you Ash Ketchum from Pallet town?" asked the guard, revealing that he has a very squeaky voice.
"Uh, yeah. That's me." Ash said.
"Wow, you are like the greatest pokemon trainer I have ever heard of. Can you give me your autograph?" asked the big squeaky guard before pulling out his own autograph book out of his big pocket. Ash rubbed the back of his head in confusion before signing his name in one of the pages in the autograph book before giving it back to the big squeaky guard, who was very happy. "Oh joy. I cant wait to show this to my mom!"
"Um... okay." Ash said as a he and Pikachu sweatdropped at the same time before Ash gave the cards to the big squeaky guard. He let them both in before the guard once again guarded the door. Team Rocket were sneaking up to the guard slowly, hoping that he didnt realize that the bush was moving.
"Does he know that were in here?" James asked before Jessie and Meowth covered his mouth. Luckily, the guard seemed to have not notice.
"Shut up, you almost blew are cover!" Jessie hissed before letting go of James mouth.
"He already did." said the big squeaky guard, as Team Rocket got startled and started to walk away slowly before the guard lifted them up and threw them right threw the wall and into a bench.
"Guuooooooohhhhh..." groans Team Rocket before passing out. Back at the locker room, Luffy was looking at all the competitors with a magnifying glass.
"Where were you in 1922?" Luffy asked to some random pokemon trainer.
"Uh... I wasn't born yet?" said the pokemon trainer as Zoro pulled Luffy away from him.
"What the hell are you doing?" Zoro asked while pulling Pichu out of his shirt again.
"One of these guys must be a bad guy, so I am looking for him with this magnifying glass." Luffy said while holding the magnifying glass in the air. Zoro and Franky slapped their forehead as Luffy continued to search. "Lets see, who in this room looks very suspicious?" Luffy looks at several other people that look quite suspicious.
One of them had a sinister look on his face and was holding a bazooka. Another one had an angry look on his face and was holding a huge sword that looks rusty. Another one that had an arrogant look while holding a bucket filled with acid. Another one that had multiple scars all over his body and was holding a grenade. To say the least, the room was almost filled with suspicious people. "AHA, ITS YOU!" yells Luffy while pointing at an ordinary old lady with a lunchbox.
"Who me?" asks the old lady.
"Yes you! What is in that lunchbox? Some explosives, perhaps?" Luffy asked while walking up to the old lady.
"Why no, young lad. It is just my lunch." The old lady said as she opened her lunchbox to reveal an a sandwhich, an apple and a juicebox inside.
"Hmm... It does look like an ordinary meal, but I better make sure." Luffy said as he ate the whole thing and positively nodded his head afterwards. "Yep, It was just an ordinary lunch afterall." Luffy said before he saw a food table. "FOOD!" Luffy runs to the food table as the old lady left the locker room angrily. As Luffy was eating everything, Usopp was looking for something in his bag while Chopper had a worried look on his face.
"Usopp, All these people look tough. Are you sure we can win?" Chopper asked. Usopp giggled as he took out something that looked like a cape.
"Don't worry, Chopper. I got it all figured out." Usopp said while holding the cape.
While they were discussing their battle plan, Ash was walking around the room while looking at the competitors. "Wow, there sure are tough looking people in here." Ash said before he accidentally bumped to Zoro. "Oh, excuse me." Ash said as Zoro turned around to look at him.
"No problem." Zoro said as Pikachu saw Pichu on his shoulder.
"Pika!" Pikachu said happily.
"Pichu!" Pichu said happily as well. Ash saw Pichu and smiled.
"Hey, you got a Pichu. Are you a pokemon trainer?" Ash asked.
"No, this thing just likes to hang around with me. He'll be fighting alongside me." Zoro said.
"Oh, so are you going to fight using those swords there? Which one are you going to use?" Ash asked.
"I use all of them." Zoro said as Ash was impressed, as well as Pikachu.
While they were communicating, Luffy was still eating everything until Brandon walked up to them. "I see you have decided to accept your mission. That's good." Brandon said as Luffy looked at him while having a turkey in his mouth. Luffy swallowed the turkey and saluted Brandon.
"Yes sir, we are here to fulfill our seeecret mission." Luffy said happily.
"NOOO!" Brandon yelled as Luffy fell down to the ground. "You must never talk about that. Remember, we are here as normal competitors. We cannot let anybody else know about what we are planning, is that clear?" Brandon asked. Franky then helps Luffy get up from the ground.
"I think that is a little too late for that." Franky said as everyone clearly overheard their conversation. Then somebody spoke from the intercom.
"All of the participants, please head to the arena. The tournament is about to begin." the person from the intercom said as every participant started to walk out of the locker and into the arena. They got out and was applaud by a montage of people around the stadium.
"Awwwwssssssooooommmee!" Luffy exclaimed excitedly as Usopp and Chopper were baffled to see how many people there were.
"Whoa, there is a lot of people here." Chopper said amazed. Fireworks were launched in the air and exploded with fancy colors as the announcer that I cannot identify, but I will say that is none other than me, Specter24.
"Welcome, to the one and only tournament! Where not just pokemon can battle, but as well as people and other sorts of creatures as well!!" I yelled as everyone cheered excitedly.
"Hmm... I think I punched that guy before." Nami said as figure walked up to her and Robin from the side.
"Salutations once again my friends." Dimentio said as Nami got irritated.
"What do you want this time?" Nami asked.
"I am sorry to bother you at a time like this, but I just cant find any seat available. Would you mind if I sit here next to your friend?" Dimentio asked.
"Go away!" Nami yelled as Robin looked at her.
"I don't mind if he sits here, Miss Navigator. There is one extra seat for the cook-san anyway." Robin said, as Nami scoffed at the idea while Dimentio delightfully sat next to Robin. Sanji came into the outer arena with bag of popcorn and looked for Nami and Robin.
"Where are they?" Sanji said until he noticed Robin from afar. "Oh, there they are!" Sanji romantically sits down in the row where Nami and Robin were sitting, unaware that he was sitting right next to Dimentio. "Here you go, I hope you enjoy I got for you." Sanji said with his eyes closed.
"Why thank you, you are so kind." Dimentio said as he took a small amount of popcorn and ate it. Sanji didnt expected that kind of voice and immediately opened his eyes to see Dimentio waving at him.
"AHHHH, you again!? What are you doing here!?" Sanji yelled by surprise.
"Ah ha ha ha ha! Pardon me for my rudeness, but I just couldn't find a seat, so I asked them if I could sit next to them and she said I could." Dimentio said.
"I hope you don't mind, cook-san." Robin said as Sanji was doing a fake smile.
"No, I don't mind, Robin-chwan. I can sit here next to him all day." Sanji said as deep inside of him was angry as heck. Back down at the arena, I was about to introduce the competitors to the crowd.
"And now let's meet the competitors!" I said as I walked up to Luffy and Franky. "You two seem like a couple of strong guys. What are your names?" I asked
"I am Luffy, and I am going to be the Pirate King!" Luffy yelled excitedly as everyone cheered for him.
"Ow! I am the unstoppable, Frrranky!" Franky said as everyone cheered for him while he did his pose.
"You guys seem like you can beat up a couple of undead guys! Your fans will be rooting for you till the end! Now, lets look at over here." I said as I walked up to Zoro. "You seem like one of those cocky, yet unbeatable kinds." I said while Zoro looked down at me.
"Your point?" Zoro asked.
"Uh, nevermind. Let's look at over here." I said I walked up to Usopp and Chopper. "So this is one of the legendary pokemon that can talk, I presume. He looks he can beat a Golem! Not to mention that, what do the fangirls call him? Ah yes, Kawaii!" I yelled as Chopper did his happy dance while in his walk point. "Usopp, is it? Tell me what kind of abilities this pokemon can do."
"Well, Mr. Announcer guy, You will just have to find out when it is our turn to battle." Usopp said, with great confidence in his tone.
"I see. This pokemon will either defeat every opponent he comes across with or badly beaten to a pulp thanks to you." I say as Chopper got really scared. "Now lets look over here!" I said as Chopper was whining to Usopp about what I just said. I walked up to Ash, along with his Pikachu.
"You must be Ash from Pallet town. You must have come a long way to get here." I said.
"Well yeah, It is good to be here." Ash said.
"Has anyone ever told you that you take so much time to be the pokemon master, that they are already become adults?" I asked, as Pikachu tilted his head in confusion. "I thought so, now moving on." I said as I leave Ash thinking deeply.
I walk up to this fat, yellow guy, who seems to be confused right now. He is also with his son with a red shirt and blue shorts. "And who might you be?"
"I am Bart, and this is my dad, Homer." the boy named Bart said as Homer was looking at his surroundings.
"Heeey, this isn't the Donut stadium. Bart, where are we?" The man asked named Homer.
"I didn't say Donut stadium. I said Pokemon stadium." Bart said.
"Awwww, then you dragged me here for nothing?" Homer whined.
"Its not my fault that you were drunk at the time I asked you to come here. Even if you weren't drunk, I'd still trick you to come here anyway." Bart said.
"Hmmm... that makes sense-Wait a minute! Why you little!!" Homer yelled as he began to choke Bart while I sweatdropped.
"Oookaayy... let's look over here." I said as I left Homer choking Bart alone. I walked up to a very big guy that was leaning back to a wall and was also hidden in the shadows, which was hard for me to identify him. He was also along with some sort of red dog. "And... uh... who are you?" I asked, kinda nervously.
"..." was all that he said as his dog growled at me.
"O-Okay, maybe another time then." I said as I rushed over to Brandon. "Ah, it looks like one of the frontier brains have participated in this tournament. Tell me, Brandon, why are you here?"
"Just for the sport, that's all." Brandon said plainly.
"O rly? Well enjoy your so called 'sport'." I say as I clearly know what he was up to since I am the author of this story afterall.
I then walked up to a big and old man with a bandana on his head that said 'Hulkamania'. "Dude! Your Hulk Hogan!" I yelled excitedly.
"That's right, brother. How are you doing?" Hulk Hogan asked.
"Man, what are you doing here? Aren't you, like, retired, and a little old to be here?" I asked.
"Well, brother, I'm trying to do something different than fighting with wrestlers for a change. And I only one thing to say to the rest of my opponents..." Hulk Hogan said as everyone waited quietly, waiting for him what he has to say. "Watcha gonna do brothers, when Hulkamania runs wild on yooouuuu!?" Hogan said as the crowd cheered excitedly as well as Luffy.
"That amuses me everytime. Good luck, Hogan." I said before I walked to a team of two. One is a man wearing a green shirt, and was wearing sunglasses and a fake-looking mustache. The other one was a woman with dark yellowish long hair, and was wearing the same shirt and sunglasses as her partner, and was also wearing a hat. "Its a little early for Halloween, dont'cha think? Who are you guys?"
"We are super talented pokemon trainers. My name is Cassenia, and this is Buff." the woman named Cassenia said as Buff got angry.
"It's Bu...I mean, yeah. My name is Buff." Buff said.
"May I recommend that if you guys are going to disguise into something, make it look more convincing. Now onto the next one." I sid as I walk up to humanoid eagle with big muscles. "Another tough guy, Your name is..." I said before he snatched the mic out of my hand.
"Nobody wants to hear you talk anymore. I'll take over from here." The humanoid eagle said as he faces to the crowd. "I come from the glitz pits, a place where true warriors are born. I am happen to be the greatest one of them all. I am none other than Rawk Haaa aaw www www wkk!!!" yelled the guy named Rawk Hawk, but everyone stayed quiet. "I know you people are at a lost of words by beholding my presence, but I will only say this. People who messes with me are going to get RAWKED!"
"Give me that!" I yelled as I snatched my microphone away from his hand. "Ahem... there are alot more competitors, but since they are merely background characters, I will not waste my time introducing them." I said as the background characters puts their heads down in misery. "Now that are introductions are over, It is time to reveal what they get if they win. 1. A lifetime supply of meat.
"YES!" Luffy yelled excitedly.
"2. A valuable sword collection." I said as Zoro smirked. "3. The latest issues of medical and historical books." This made Chopper and Robin happy. "4. Advanced tools for ship building and repairment." This made Usopp and Franky happy. "5. A vacation to an island filled with beautiful women, which they will grant your every wish." This made Sanji tap dance with extreme joy.
"Pffft, that's all a bunch of junk." Nami said.
"And last but not least, a prize of 1,000,000,000,000 Berri!!" I yelled.
"YOU GUYS BETTER WIN!!!" Nami yelled all of a sudden as Dimentio laughed.
"And now that all the prizes have been announced, it is time to see who is worthy of obtaining them all. Let the tournament begin!!!!" I yelled as the crowd cheered excitedly.
TO BE CONTINUED...
There are ten competitors here, the question is, who will win. Till the Next Chapter...
