Authors Note: Remember when I used to update this story consistently? I don't.

The Prince of the Saiyans was currently engaged in combat with the towering warrior from Universe 2. While Vegeta thought that he would be able to steamroll Zirloin in his Super Saiyan Blue state, the golden armored warrior was putting up an impressive resis

tance, blocking Vegeta's punches with his arms, preventing the Saiyan from getting a good hit in.

"Your strikes are impressive," Zirloin said, blocking another one of Vegeta's punches. "But they are not enough."

Vegeta scowled. "We'll see about that…"

After blocking another punch, Zirloin threw a fist of his own at Vegeta only for the Saiyan Prince to jump out of the way. Vegeta took the opening to lunge forward and strike Zirloin in the face. The Universe 2 warrior responded by backhanding Vegeta and sending him flying into a rock. This didn't hold Vegeta back for long though, as he immediately got back up and charged Zirloin again.

In the stands, Helles laughed. "Not even the mightiest warriors of Universe 7 can stand against our Zirloin!"

Beerus was not in the greatest mood currently. His strongest fighters were all taking on the big players on the enemy teams when there were still plenty of other opponents left to be taken out. Goku was currently engaging Jiren, the biggest threat on the field, Frieza was taking on Toppo, Universe 11's second best, and Vegeta was getting nowhere with Zirloin. The outcome of these battles would decide the fate of Universe 7, and aside from Frieza, who was fighting evenly with Toppo, it wasn't looking good for Universe 7. Naturally, Beerus was quite stressed about all of this.

"Vegeta!" Beerus yelled. "This has been going on forever! Finish him already! Use your… 'Saiyan pride' or whatever you call it."

"The Universe 2 warrior has been playing it rather defensively so far." Whis observed. "Perhaps his firepower is limited?"

"You think he's trying to wear him out in a battle of attrition?" Roshi asked.

"That seems to be the case." Whis said as Zirloin blocked more punches.

"He needs to find an opening and get at least one good attack in if he wants to win." Piccolo stated, watching the battle intently.

Vegeta and Zirloin were still going at it, with neither seeming worse for wear as the same cycle of Vegeta throwing punches only for them to be deflected continued. After being blocked once again, Vegeta threw a punch with even more force behind it than usual, however Zirloin parried it, granting him an opening to strike.

"You got too careless!" Zirloin declared as he threw his punch.

"Right back at you!" Vegeta yelled, suddenly springing into position for another attack. "Galick Gun!"

With that, Zirloin was blasted by a purple beam of energy mid strike at point blank. Unable to block it in time, the golden armored warrior took the full force of Vegeta's blast, sending him flying backwards.

"So that was his goal." Whis said. "He was planning all along for Zirloin to get careless after counterattacking yet another punch."

"How'd you like that?" Vegeta yelled at Zirloin, who had been knocked on his back by the blast.

"But it seems it wasn't enough." Whis continued.

Vegeta once again scowled as Zirloin stood up, brushing debris off of his cape as he prepared to face Vegeta once again.

Zirloin smirked as he saw Vegeta's displeasure. "I certainly hope that you didn't seriously think that only one good attack would end it."

"Of all the annoyances I've had to deal with in this Tournament, you're certainly up there." Vegeta said, preparing to continue his assault once again.

"Anything but more of this nonsense…" Beerus sighed. "Who else was on the field again? Oh yeah, the Androids. What are they up to?"

Beerus turned his attention away from Vegeta and Zirloin to look over at Android 17's battle, which was quite the opposite of the former. Instead of a Universe 7 warrior battling a Universe 2 warrior, Universe 2 and Universe 7 were working alongside each other. Such disparity is only natural in a battle royale.

Currently, Android 17 was dodging ki blasts from Kettol, the green skinned Pride Trooper. Running around in order to dodge Kettol's attacks, 17 didn't have a moment to rest nor an opportunity to strike. Kettol's blasts trailed behind 17 as he raced around the arena, just barely missing every time. That was, until they finally stopped.

On instinct, 17 stopped in his tracks. Not because Kettol had stopped firing, but because he sensed something was wrong. Sure enough, when he looked down he saw he was surrounded by several red lines of energy that formed a web. 17 looked over at the perpetrator, the short Pride Trooper known as Kunshi.

Kunshi cackled. "I've got you in the palm of my hand now! You're stuck in a minefield fool! One wrong step, and you'll be blown to kingdom come!"

"You sound quite evil for a warrior of justice." 17 said with the smallest of grins upon his face.

Kunshi scowled. "I'm just enthusiastic that's all. Now if you could just stand still and let us blast you, that would be the best."

Kettol pointed his hands at 17 and began another barrage of ki blasts. If 17 moved he would be forced to take the full explosive power of the minefield. If 17 raised his barrier, Kunshi would wrap his energy strings around it and throw him off the edge. However, 17 knew that they didn't account for one possible method of escape.

Before Kettol's ki blasts could hit 17, Vikal swooped in and picked 17 up, safely carrying him out of the minefield and away from Kettol's blasts.

"What the-" Kunshi screamed.

"Did you already forget that these two partnered with me?" 17 asked them. "Or that there was a single remaining flyer in the Tournament."

Kunshi shook his fist. "Curses! You will not escape our wrath next time!"

"They really are acting like supervillains." Vikal giggled as she flew 17 around the arena, turning them back towards the Pride Troopers. "Of course, I speak from experience."

"You were a villain once?" 17 raised an eyebrow.

"It was a long time ago." Vikal said. "But I will say that I wasn't nearly as hammy as the midget over there is acting. But I can't say the same for the allies I had back then."

Vikal then accelerated towards Kunshi and Kettol before allowing 17 to use her as a springboard as he launched himself towards the Pride Troopers.

Kettol launched more ki blasts at 17, but the Android raised his barrier and blocked them. As he grew closer to the Kettol, he put down his barrier at the last second, allowing him to drop kick the green Pride Trooper in the face and send him flying into a rock. 17 then prepared to attack Kunshi.

"Take this! Beam Bolla!" A mechanical voice rang out, prompting 17 to instinctively dodge a laser beam.

17 turned his head to see one of Universe 3's robots, Bollarator, approaching him. 17 prepared to attack Bollarator only to see a familiar cat like warrior from Universe 2 launch herself at it from behind.

"You left yourself open!" Kakunsa roared as she pounced at Bollarator and knocked the robot down with a claw swipe.

"You've done the same!" Kunshi yelled, whipping his energy strings toward Kakunsa.

However, a wave of highly pressurized wind swept over Kunshi, causing his strings to completely miss their target. He looked over to see that Vikal had launched a blast of air by flapping her wings.

"Hey Universe 3!" Kunshi yelled at his temporary allies. "You were supposed to shoot her down already!"

"We've been preoccupied with that one!" Paparoni yelled back, pointing to Kakunsa, who had been fighting the robots while 17 battled the Pride Troopers with Vikal ready to support either one of them.

After saying that, Paparoni commanded Koitsukai to shoot down Vikal with a blast from its eye. The robot fired a green beam of energy at Vikal, only for it to be blocked by 17 forming a barrier around her.

"Surround them!" Paparoni ordered. The robot trio did as commanded and repositioned themselves, forming a circle around 17 and the Universe 2 duo.

"You've fallen for yet another trap!" Kunshi declared proudly.

"All we did was stand here." 17 and Vikal said in unison.

At that moment, Kettol burst out of the rock and swung his hands down. 17 looked up to see all the ki blasts Kettol had fired earlier were floating in the air. With Kettol's new command, the ki blasts immediately began to fly downwards, all of them closing in on the Universe 2 and Universe 7 alliance.

This would have been a big problem for them, had 17 not had his barrier ability. Activating his barrier, 17 and the Universe 2 girls stood safe from Kettol's barrage. The explosions were so numerous that they could not see outside the barrier. The trio stood there, silently. With the immediate outside blocked due to the explosions, they had no choice but to stand there and wait it out.

"Soooooo… What do you do in your Universe?" Vikal asked.

"Are you trying to make small talk?" Kakunsa growled. "We're in the middle of a fight for the fate of our Universe!"

Vikal pointed to the explosions. "I don't see those going away any time soon."

"I'm a park ranger." 17 said. "I protect wildlife."

Kaksuna blinked in shock. "T-That's very noble of you. As a lover of the wild, you have my respect."

"So how'd you two meet?" 17 asked.

"Well, as I mentioned I was once terrorized Universe 2 as an enemy of everything they stood for. Then one day, Kakunsa was sent to stop me and one thing led to another and here we are now." Vikal revealed.

"Are we having a bonding session? Is that what we're doing now?" Kakunsa sighed in exasperation.

"So uh… Do you have a special someone in your life?" Vikal asked.

"Vikal, what are you doing?" Kakunsa asked, giving Vikal a piercing stare.

"I'm not trying to flirt with him or anything!" Vikal defended herself. "You of all people should know that I'm already in a relationship. I'm... Just curious... that's all… Yeah, I just want to know… You know? Just in case…"

"Just in case of what?" Kakunsa narrowed her eyes at Vikal.

"If uh, circumstances were different…" Vikal stammered.

"I have a wife and children." 17 said, saving Vikal from having to say whatever she was about to say.

"Dammit Vikal!" Kakunsa hissed. "You're gonna make me feel even worse when his Universe is erased!"

"Oh look the smoke's clearing, let's turn our focus to that and never talk about this for the rest of the Tournament, okay?" Vikal pointed out.

"You and I are having a talk when this is over." Kakunsa said.

Kunshi pointed at Android 17. "You're the most annoying thing I've dealt with so far in this Tournament. I'm going to enjoy eliminating you."

Kunshi prepared to attack Android 17 with his energy strings only to be drop kicked in the head

"Now who's getting involved?" Paparoni asked.

Everyone turned their heads to see that Android 18 had been the one to drop kick Kunshi. Ribrianne stood by her side.

"I see you've been making friends." Android 18 said to 17, looking at Vikal and Kakunsa.

"Right back at you." 17 responded.

Kunshi got back up and hissed. "It doesn't matter if the numbers are even now, we're still stronger than-"

"Hold it right there!" A voice rang out.

"Now what!" Kunshi screamed in exasperation.

Everyone turned their heads to see Caulifla and Kale arrive on the scene. Caulfila was the one who announced their presence, her eyes fixed on Vikal with a murderous glare.

"I've been looking for you, bitch." Caulifla spit. "You really pissed me off the last time we met. I'm gonna clobber you good."

Vikal gulped and made sure that both Kakunsa and 17 were in between her and Caulifla.

"And you!" Caulfila turned her attention to 17. "I thought you were going to eliminate her to finish off all of those annoying winged warriors! But now you're working with her you damn hypocrite!"

17 shrugged. "You said it yourself. The winged warriors are annoying. But that is precisely because they're useful allies."

"And you people!" Caulfila yelled, finally noticing Paparoni and his robots. "You're the ones who cornered us and had your slime friend attack us." Caulifla cracked her knuckles and laughed. "Good. Every single person I want to clobber in this Tournament is gathered here right now."

"Now wait just a second!" Another new voice rang out.

"For the love of-" Kunshi screamed.

However, Kunshi's scream of exasperation turned to one of joy when he realized that the new arrival was none other than Dyspo.

"Seems like everyone and their mother is gathering in this part of the arena." Dyspo said, sizing up his new opponents. "I wasn't able to arrive in time to help out Cocotte, but I'm here to make sure we win this battle."

"Thanks buddy." Kunshi said. "I appreciate it."

At that moment, all eyes turned to the same section of the arena. Warriors from each of the remaining Universes were about to take part in the same battle. The outcome seemingly impossible to tell, the Gods of Destruction sat on the edge of their seats ready to watch the battle that was about to unfold.

Elimination Chart

(Eliminated fighters in italics)

Universe 2: Ribrianne(2), Kakunsa(2), Vikal(1) Zirloin, Eliminated: Rozie(2) Rabanra, Jimeze,Hermila, Prum, Zarbuto

Universe 3: Paparoni, Koitsukai, Bollarator, Panchia. Eliminated: Katopesla(2), Maji Kayo(1), Nigrisshi, Narirama, The Preecho, Viarra

Universe 4: Erased

Universe 6: Kale(3), Caulifla(2), Hit(2) Eliminated: Cabba(1), Dr. Rota, Frost(2), Saonel, Pirina, Magetta, Botamo.

Universe 7: Android 17(2), Goku(3), Gohan(3), Vegeta(1), Frieza(4), Android 18(3). Eliminated: Piccolo(5), Roshi(3), Tien(3), Krillin(3)

Universe 9: Erased

Universe 10: Erased

Universe 11: Toppo(1), Jiren, Dyspo(1), Kunshi, Kettol Eliminated: Cocotte(2), Kahseral, Vuon, Tupper, Zoiray

22/80 warriors remain

12 Minutes left in Tournament

Authors Note: I hope you enjoyed that chapter. It is a short one, but I haven't updated in so long I figured that I should at least put out something. At this rate I will probably see you again in ten years for the next chapter. Anyways, have a good day.