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Chikyuu: Black Hole for Evil
Book One: Into the Rising Sun
Author: Cka3ka
Chapter 10: The Tournament
Six months later…
The World Martial Arts competition that was held every three years was one of the largest events in the world. Millions watched the tournament from all over the world. A few lucky thousand were able to get tickets for their families and were able to see it in person. This particular one, the 26th Tenkiachi Budoukai, would be a particularly good one for the fans. As for the Z-senshi, when did a tournament ever go right?
Believing the Celestial Warden's warning that danger was still a full year away, the Z-senshi came to the tournament for a break from the monotony of training. They also wanted to flex their muscles a little bit.
The Saiya-jin had come as a group with Krillan, Sixteen, and Eighteen. They had landed and quickly gone off to register and punch in their scores. They weren't really worried since no ordinary human would be able to match one of their mere taps. Trunks and Goten also went to register. Trunks was the defending world champion and Goten was the runner up. They really wanted to win the 10,000 zeni and 5,000 zeni children's prizes.
After signing up, the families went and met up with their old friends. The newlywed Yamcha, and Ran Fuan, along with Tien's family met up with the other Z-senshi in the main carnival square. The kids were having a blast. Bra, riding on her father's shoulders, was delighted as every little girl is by a carnival. The sites, sounds and smells were intoxicating for her. She cried out in joy every time she saw a colorful clown or some other circus act.
Marron held her mom's hand as she to took in the sights of the Carnival. Her laughter, of course, caught the attention of Trunks and Goten. They always tried to tease her whenever they had a chance, but they soon ran off on their own to enjoy the festival. It had been an enjoyable day for all the Z-senshi, especially the Briefs and Sons. This was one of the few times they had ever gone out in public without some disaster happening. If only their luck would hold.
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The next day was glorious. The Z-senshi were informed who had qualified in the morning. It was obvious that all the Senshi who had entered had qualified. Gohan, Goku, Vegeta, Sixteen, and Eighteen, had all entered. Mr. Buu had also entered, but he wasn't with the Senshi that day. Instead he was helping Videl prepare for the matches.
Videl herself would be the announcer for this tournament. Satan Enterprises had taken majority share of the tournament over the last two years. After all, it was Mr. Satan's ability to play to the camera that had launched a worldwide fascination with the Tenkiachi Budoukai.
After breakfast the Z-senshi hurriedly made it to the front row section that had been reserved for them. Capsule Corporation, of course, paid for it. They didn't want to miss any of the Junior championships, even though they knew the only challenge for Trunks was Goten. Nevertheless, they got there for the beginning of the second round of matches.
The junior tournament comprised of seventeen competitors. Sixteen competitors had to battle it out and the winner of the finals got to fight Trunks. Three hours were allocated for the fights, but since Goten was competing, everyone knew that he would just cut through the competition.
The Z-senshi watched on as Goten beat all his opponents with ease. None of them were really paying attention to the other matches, except Sixteen. Goku and Vegeta were fighting over some popcorn, while their wives chatted about the latest in fashion. Krillan and Yamcha talked about the upcoming baseball season. Yamcha was the coach for the Satan City Slummers and it really looked like he had a good team this year. Eighteen and Ran Fuan discussed the possibility of Eighteen opening her own financial firm. None of them except Sixteen watched a ten year old girl with blue skin, sharp ears, and orange hair devastate her competition.
"Now for the FINALS between last year's runner up, SON GOTEN and a remarkable new challenger. The blue but beautiful KISH," cried Videl, "The winner of this match will fight the current champion, TRUNKS VEGETA-BRIEFS!!" She was pretty shocked at how fast the junior matches were over. She had expected it take twice as long this year since Trunks wasn't in there knocking out opponents in a single punch. Apparently someone had replaced him in doing that.
The attention of the Z-senshi was drawn and they started cheering for Goten. On the other side of the Arena another group of people were cheering for Kish. A talking dog, and a relatively pretty woman with black hair, along with a small pint sized blue thing were chanting,"Kish Kish Kish!" The crowd also began to chant with them. Soon half the stadium was chanting either Kish or Goten.
"Ready??? GO!!!" shouted Videl as she jumped out of the way. She really expected Goten to just level this girl.
Goten and Kish bowed to each other and then attacked. Amazingly the young blue girl was able to block Goten's first blow and his second. Trunks, who had been playing his game boy since the matches had started, looked up. He had been expecting Videl to announce Goten the winner after a few seconds, but that didn't happen. He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw that some GIRL was keeping up with Goten.
Grinning evilly, Goten said, "Oh man this is cool." He twisted and threw a kick at his opponent. She ducked and lashed out sweeping Goten off his feet. Right before he hit the ground, Goten put out his arm and did a half flip and landed on his feet.
The girl was grinning now to. "You're good," she said, "but I'm still going to win." She attacked Goten with a flurry of punches only to have each of them blocked by Goten. Frustrated the girl launched another furious barrage, only to find that Goten wasn't there. She looked around not seeing him.
"Up here!" cried Goten, "come on come get me!"
"WHAT?!" responded the girl with a shout, "How can you do that?!?! How can you fly?!?"
Goten, while laughing, slowly floated down. For five more minutes the two of them fought without either one of them getting the upper hand.
The crowd's roar was rising ever louder as the pace of the fight increased, with each side of the stadium cheer loudly. While everyone was paying attention to the fight, no one noticed the small surpressed Ki that had just entered the Earth's atmosphere.
The fight between Goten and the younger Kish continued for another minute before Kish over extended in an attempt to punch Goten in the face. Goten dodged easily and slammed an elbow into the poor girl's side sending her sprawling out of the ring.
"Winner GOTEN!!!" announced Videl. She was still shocked at the performance of the girl.
Outside the ring, the girl was rubbing her side. Looking up she saw a hand being extended to her. "Hey that was a great fight," said Trunks, "I didn't think anyone would give Goten any trouble until he fought me."
The girl scowled. "Hey, I didn't mean it like that. Look after the competitions do you want to like hang out with Goten and I. We'll teach you to fly and then we can go have some real fun. Not like this boring tournament.
The girl brightened up. "I'll have to ask my dad, but that would be really cool." Getting up she jumped into the stands and said, "I'll find you after the adults fight." She quickly disappeared into the crowd.
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, the battle you've all been waiting for is about to take place. The Junior World Champion… TRUNKS versus last year's runner up SON GOTEN. This has been a long awaited rematch."
"I'll say it has. I can't wait to see how Goten does," commented Goku to the other fighters.
"He doesn't have a chance Kakkarot. Trunks will destroy him," retorted Vegita in a tone usually reserved only when he was threatening to destroy people.
"We'll see Vegeta, We'll see."
When the fight started the two were evenly matched, blow for blow. Just like the battle during the previous tournament, they zipped across the ring back and forth seeking to gain the advantage. For almost five minutes they bashed at each other uselessly.
However, as young as they were they were bound to make mistakes. This year, like last, it would be Goten that would make that mistake. Ten minutes in the fight, Trunks would use the same strategy he did to win the last battle against Goten. He lured his friend over to the side of the ring and hoped that Goten would take the bait. Goten thinking that he had a chance to knock Trunks out of the ring charged. Right at the last second Trunks PHASED out and appeared right behind Goten and fired a Ki blast into his back sending Goten out of the ring and onto the ground.
"Winner TRUNKS. Trunks is the junior champion once again. Congratulations Trunks," announced Videl.
"Hey, when'd you learn to do that?" asked Goten. He was a bit miffed that Trunks knew a new trick that he didn't.
"My dad showed it to me when we heard of the new bad guys. He said it was really useful in fights sometimes."
"Cool."
"Hey, let's see if Mighty Mask qualified. If he did, we can mug him and compete in the adult section again and this time we can FUSE before we fight so they won't be able to disqualify us for being two people."
"Wow, great idea Trunks! Let's go." With that said Goten and Trunks left the stadium looking for some adult they could replace and some more fun. Little did they know that they would be reason for tragedy to strike.