A/N: This is pretty much the finalized list of characters that will be fighting. 31 out of the 32 fighting characters are introduced, and the 32nd you'd probably be able to guess by reading the names of the Anime that are going to be in this Fic. There are characters from certain Anime that won't be in. There were many, like Domon Kashuu, Gatts, Tsukasa and Metabee, that I wanted to add but had no room. Sorry if your favorite isn't here.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z, Digimon, Outlaw Star, Zoids, Cowboy Bebop, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cardcaptors, Hamtaro, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo!/Tenchi Universe, Pokémon, Rorouni Kenshin, InuYasha or Yu-Yu Hakusho. If I did, then they'd all be on one channel in a huge block. But they're not, and I don't own them. But one day I will...I'm hoping so, anyway.
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The Super Anime World Tournament
By Hayabusa Will (TheNameIsWill@AOL.Com)
Chapter Two-Rivalry Revivals
"Ticky ticky ticky ticky..." Hamtaro walked around the main arena, seeing if any familiar faces would be showing up anytime soon. "Come on Boss, what's taking you so long?"
"I want to see what's going on around here" Boss replied, observing some golden trophies atop a stand. Boss jumped off the stand. "Daplunk. What are you in such a hurry for, anyway?"
"I'm going to see if anyone I knew from any of the past tournaments are here...I hope that Pikachu is here, he's a good friend of mine" Hamtaro continued to walk. "Ticky ticky ticky ticky..."
"Hey, Hamblasto!" Came a voice calling him.
"It's Hamtaro, get it right!" Hamtaro turned around to see that Sakura and Li were there. "Hey, it's Sakura!"
"You really seem to like her" Boss observed as he dashed over towards Sakura, who patted the hamster on the head a few times.
"Well, she reminds me of Laura" Replied Hamtaro. He rubbed his face a few times. "Kushi kushi"
"Hmm, now that you mention it I do kind of think there's a resemblance there" Boss observed. He looked past Sakura to see that Li was coming up. "Hey, who's that guy?"
"Oh, that's Li..." Hamtaro didn't seem all that enthusiastic about him arriving. "I don't like him at all, he makes me madder than Cell does"
"Hey, Li's not that bad!" Sakura quickly said, defending her friend.
Boss didn't really pay attention to this. "By any chance, is Cell that bug guy who was flying around?"
"You mean you saw him?! He's here, he came to fight?!" Hamtaro seemed shocked at this. "Oh no, he's really mad at me...I hope I don't have to face him in the tournament..." Hamtaro rubbed his face a few times. "Kushi kushi"
"Er...am I in the right place?" Came a voice, as someone stepped up. The guy was in his mid-teen years, with sleek greenish hair. A green jacket went with a darker green pair of pants, both of which fit perfectly. Black shoes completed his look. His brown eyes peered to Hamtaro, to Boss, to Sakura, to Li. He was certainly puzzled.
"You're here to fight in the tournament" Asked Li, leaning against the wall. "Right?"
"Um...yeah...how do you know about this?" The teen asked, looking skeptically at the four of them.
"We're in it" Replied Boss.
"Ok, let me get this straight--two rats, a little girl and a little boy are going to fight?" He seemed to be on the verge of laughter.
"I'm not a little girl!" Replied Sakura angrily.
"I'm not a little boy either!" Li seemed pretty angry as well.
"And we're DEFINITELY not rats!" Boss seemed outraged.
"That's right, we're hamsters" Hamtaro said. "I fought in both of the earlier tournaments and Sakura and Li fought in last year's!"
"Wow, I was expecting some more competition than this..." The guy looked over at them. "Er, sorry, I was expecting some other types of people. The name is Yusuke, Yusuke Urameshi"
"Hamtaro's the name" Replied Hamtaro.
"I'm Boss" Boss simply stated.
"Hi, my name is Sakura" Sakura introduced herself.
"Li" Li simply said.
"Any other kids fighting in the tournament?" Asked Yusuke.
"You're not so old yourself" Hamtaro pointed out. Yusuke gave a few laughs before Sakura kept on.
"Well, I haven't seen Pretty Sammy around but I think she'll come. There's also Yugi who can fight pretty well" Sakura thought back. "Other than that there aren't many people under sixteen really..."
"Oh, well I'm sure this will be a good one..." Yusuke thought for a second. "I hope"
"Don't worry, it always is" Hamtaro thought back to the first year's tournament, where the winner was Spike over Gene in the last match, and the last year, when he himself had won, getting a shocking win over Cell in the final battle.
"I hear that the Hosokayo guy was on the verge of putting me in the last tournament but decided against it to make run for some guy named Jet...that true?" Yusuke wondered.
"Well, he was considering a lot of people but had to get rid of some. He wanted a Pokémon named Squirtle as a fighter but decided Cell would be a better edition" Sakura thought back to what Master Hand had told her. "I don't know if Squirtle will be in this one..."
She shrugged, and allowed the five of them to get into a new conversation while awaiting the tournament.
"Hey, Guilmon, hold on!" The Digimon tamer Takato was running, but he couldn't keep up with his Digimon.
"I can't wait, Takato" Replied the squeaky-voiced Digimon. A red, dragon-like Digimon with tall ears and a long tail, Guilmon was Takato's Digimon. "I want to see all of my friends again"
"Well, slow down, I have to get to--OW!"
Takato was not watching where he was going, and had bumped into another boy. He looked up to see the boy with odd attire and black hair, not to mention a standout hat, who had hit the floor as soon as Takato had. He was Ash Ketchum.
He stood up. "Ow...that hurt..."
"You all right there?" Asked Takato, getting to his feet.
"Yeah...I was just coming here with my Pokémon" Ash showed Takato a laminated pass marked 'V.I.P'.
"Pokémon?" Asked Takato. "You mean that thing called Pikachu that Guilmon talks about?"
"Yeah, Pikachu is my Pokémon, and so is Charizard" Replied Ash. "He went off when he saw some other people. What's a Guilmon?"
"Guilmon is my Digimon" Replied Takato.
Guilmon walked over to the two of them. "Hello"
Ash looked very surprised. "You can talk?"
"What, you expected him to talk in grunts or something?" Asked Takato. "Oh, I don't beleive we've introduced ourselves. I'm Takato"
"I'm Ash" Replied Ash.
"Pi pikachu!" Came a voice. Ash, Takato and Guilmon all turned around to see something running towards them. A small Pokémon resembling a mouse was the one that came up. The black eyes with white pupils, red cheeks and yellow fur gave it the look that nobody could mistake. This was Pikachu.
There were several loud thuds following. Coming after Pikachu was a large, orange lizard. It had a long tail with a flame burning at the end of it. The creature's stomach was tan, as was the bottom part of its tail. It had two long wings, orange with a green color of skin. Charizard was this Pokémon's name, and it was probably Ash's strongest.
"Whoa..." Takato looked up at Charizard. He was shocked to see something so huge and so powerful. "Is...that yours?"
"Yep" Ash gave a smile. "This is Charizard"
"Rarr" Charizard gave a small growl.
"And this, is Pikachu"
"Pika pika!" Pikachu ran up his trainer's shoulder and onto his head.
Guilmon looked around at them. "Hiya"
Pikachu leapt off his trainer and ran to the Digimon. "Pikachu!" Pikachu greeted Guilmon cheerfully. Pikachu and Guilmon had formed a friendship from the first tournament, and at the same time, were rather competitive with each other. The two monsters smiled at each other.
"I should go meet Misty and Brock soon, to let them know I'm all right..." Ash thought to himself. "Well, I'll see you later. Come on, guys"
Ash dashed off, Pikachu and Charizard following.
Not too far away, Bit Cloud was walking around, looking for Sailor Moon. His luggage was escorted for him, as was everyone else's. He had already picked it up and left it in his cabin. He was now searching for the girl he had met two years and two tournaments before.
It was then that Bit suddenly had a strange feeling. Almost a shock, but not that of a physical shock. He stood, wondering what it was. After a few seconds, Bit shook his head and walked off. But it was then he started to hear footsteps, and once more, the strange feeling had come back to him. There was something behind this, he knew it.
Bit turned around, and now in front of him was someone he hadn't seen yet. The one who stood before him didn't seem to be much older or younger than him. Their ages were about similar. The young man had black, spiky hair, and weird red symbols across his face. His gray outfit made him look--well, 'cool'.
"Who are you?" Bit was not at all trusted this person, since he kept making the pilot feel strange.
"My name is Van" He replied. "Van Freiheit. Who are you?"
"I'm Bit Cloud" Bit replied, looking seriously at Van. "You've come to this tournament and you don't know who I am?
"Well, no...I don't really know any of the other fighters" Van admitted. "I'm not even really sure if I can get past round one here. I'm just going to try"
"I see. Well, you know, Van, it's not easy to fight around here" Bit was still speaking sternly. "Goku, Tenchi, Pikachu, Hamtaro, Gene, Spike, Sailor Moon, Guilmon, Yugi, Vegeta and I are some of the most powerful that came from the first tournament. And even those who started in the second like the Cardcaptors, Number Eighteen or Cell would kick anybody's butt real quick"
"Well--"
"And there's new people too. I'd be on guard if I were you. It's no walk in the park, rookie" With that, Bit stomped off. Bit himself didn't know why he was so mean to Van, but he just couldn't trust him. Van stood behind, looking puzzled.
Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and Eighteen were all walking through the stadium. Like most of the other fighters, they were checking the stadium to see what was going on. There was a strange sound, as someone moved fast as a light. The four of them turned around to see Cell there.
"Cell" Goku simply said. He managed to smirk. "I thought you'd come back to fight in this tournament. Still out to kill me?"
"Oh please, you think I'd use my time here trying to kill you?" Cell gave a 'Ha!'. "I'm here to fight. I will beat any of you, from you, to the rodents, to the teenager, to the girl in the skirt. None of you worry me much...but I did hear about someone coming, who is supposed to be strong"
"And who's that?" Asked Gohan.
"Hm...well, let's just say he's in the pink" Cell gave an evil smirk, knowing the fear the Z-fighters had of this fighter.
The eyes of Goku, Gohan and Vegeta widened. They knew who Cell meant. And they knew even more, since at the very minute, coming in was a huge, pink and very round creature. He wore a small, black vest with a gold trimming that barely covered any of his upper body. In fact, the vest seemed to have the purpose of holding his purple cape in place. His white pants were extremely big, due to his size, above of which was a black belt, a gold buckle with a fancy M on it. The legs to the pants were of black, leading into yellow boots, the same color as his gloves. His pink, somewhat ugly head had holes at the top with a crest-like part coming up out of his head. It was...
"Majin Buu!" Gohan gasped.
"Buu come to fight!" Yelled the childlike Buu. Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and Eighteen were looking at him angrily. Cell was just looking, wondering what was up with this thing. Buu turned his sights to Cell. "Me beat you up!"
Cell gave a laugh. "Keep dreaming, pinky. The closest you'll get to beating me is putting one of those oversized fingers on me. You DO have fingers, don't you?"
"Me EAT you up!" Buu yelled, becoming angry. "You turn into donut! You be better as donut!"
"We should separate them, it might turn nasty if we don't" Goku said to them.
"Oh let them fight. Maybe if they kill each other we could have some more decent fighters enter the tournament" Vegeta chuckled, looking at Cell and Buu currently throwing insults at each other.
Not too far away, two people were coming from opposite directions, coming to where the group of Gene, Spike and Jet were. Tenchi and Ayeka had left a little while before. The first one went by the name of Harry McDougall. He had blue-green hair and had rather strange attire, of a vest and brown pants. Coming in from the left was a man who wore all black. He looked rather broody, his blue-gray hair going down his face. This man was Vicious. Vicious was a rival of Spike, as was Harry the rival of Gene. The two of them looked at each other.
"Hello" Harry simply said as the usual greeting. Vicious just looked at him. After a few seconds of waiting, Harry spoke again. "I said, hello"
Vicious didn't reply. Harry hadn't the time anymore to wonder about this, because--
"Vicious!" Came the voice of Spike, who was dashing over, Jet and Gene right behind him.
"And look, it's McDougall too" Gene growled, looking in the direction of his rival. "What are you doing here?"
"Just like you, I'm fighting in the tournament" Harry replied smugly. "Would you happen to have a problem with that?"
"No, it's just fine" Gene sounded as smug as Harry. "I'll be looking forward to beating you later on"
"Well, we'll see about that" Harry began to walk off, but stopped before saying. "Watch out for the weird guy with the hair. He might be up to something" With that the younger McDougall brother left the area. Spike and Vicious were wordlessly staring each other down.
"Out of my way" Jet was shoved a small distance aside by the one who spoke. But in actuality, he did not speak to Jet. He spoke telepathically. He didn't even push him, he moved him with Psychic powers. Spike, Jet, Gene and Vicious saw as another Pokémon was there. It was the catlike Pokémon who stood in a human stance at over six feet tall. Mewtwo.
"You're back?" Spike asked. "I'm not surprised..."
"Yes, I am" Mewtwo replied. "I am Mewtwo, most powerful of Pokémon. You think I would give up this chance, especially with less-worthy Pokémon such as Pikachu and Charizard fighting? If so, then you have to be kidding..."
"Superiority complex, anyone?" Came a cold voice from behind Mewtwo.
"Kagato" Mewtwo nodded. Now, Kagato wasn't exactly someone that you would want to invite over to dinner. He was wearing a golden cloak, under which showed black suit. His skin was extremely pale, and his eyes were partially covered by tiny yellow sunglasses.
He ran a gloved hand over his white hair. When they met in the second tournament, they developed a friendship, since they had many things in common. Both were rather diabolical and--well, evil. Although Mewtwo had learned to soften up, he usually maintained his own personality during the tournament.
"So how have you been this past year?" Asked Kagato, starting to walk. Mewtwo floated along with him.
"Oh nothing new, the same old"
The two of them were interrupted as they looked up above. There was a blimp flying above, blaring loud music and flashing lights. There was a picture of a man's face painted on the blimp. "Laaaaadies and gentlemen of the Super Anime World Tournament, can I have your attention please?!" Came the voice of the Tenkai Boudakai tournament announcer. "Most of you have probably arrived, but I'm sure you didn't expect the greatest of all!"
"Oh please" Vegeta groaned as he, Goku, Gohan and Eighteen floated down by Kagato and Mewtwo. "I don't suppose you two are actually fond of this idiotic light show?"
Kagato and Mewtwo both shook their heads, but they were interrupted by a voice saying "Oooh, pretty lights!" It was Van, whose neck was craned upwards.
"I guess some people are too easily amused..." Commented Harry, who wasn't too far off. Gene was there too.
"You said it" Added Gene.
A limosine rolled up, pure white with an 'H' piece on the hood. It opened and out stepped a man in a white shirt and baggy white pants, with black boots to complete his look. He had a mustache that hung down at each end. He had messy puffed up hair, sideburns curving down. And to explain who he was, a large gold belt was around his waist. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Oh God..." Vegeta slapped a hand on his head.
"Introducing, the world champ and savior of the world, the winner of the Cell Game and hero to us all! He is the one, the only, martial arts master, HERRRRRRRRRCULE!"
"I'm HERE!" Announced Hercule, thrusting an arm into the air.
"Yay!" Cheered Van. Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Eighteen, Kagato, Mewtwo, Gene, Harry, Spike, Jet and Vicious all looked at him strangely. A minute passed before Van had to say "What?"
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" Asked Hercule, spotting Goku and Vegeta. He didn't quite recognize Eighteen yet, and didn't notice Gohan now that he was a few years older and wearing his Saiyaman outfit.
"We got invitations" Goku held up his gold letter. "See?"
"Ooh, shiny" Van commented again. Once again, everyone in the general outside area looked at him. "What?!"
"Oh..." A drop of sweat came down Hercule's face. "Heh heh, heh heh...heh--oh boy..."
"Attention, attention" Came a voice, interrupting all conversation. "It is approximately nine fifty-nine am. Will all competitors for the Third Annual Super Anime World Tournament please come to the central arena to draw numbers, in order to decide the order of fights for the tournament"
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Preview of Next Chapter
Next chapter is only a mini-chapter. But there's a lot to do. The fighters pull their numbers to decide who is against who in the first round matches. Vegeta seems pretty happy, but Yugi is downright terrified. While Hamtaro's first round fight has everyone guessing. What's happening in round one of the tournament? You'll have to read next time to find out!
Next Chapter: Destined Battles
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z, Digimon, Outlaw Star, Zoids, Cowboy Bebop, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cardcaptors, Hamtaro, Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo!/Tenchi Universe, Pokémon, Rorouni Kenshin, InuYasha or Yu-Yu Hakusho. If I did, then they'd all be on one channel in a huge block. But they're not, and I don't own them. But one day I will...I'm hoping so, anyway.
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The Super Anime World Tournament
By Hayabusa Will (TheNameIsWill@AOL.Com)
Chapter Two-Rivalry Revivals
"Ticky ticky ticky ticky..." Hamtaro walked around the main arena, seeing if any familiar faces would be showing up anytime soon. "Come on Boss, what's taking you so long?"
"I want to see what's going on around here" Boss replied, observing some golden trophies atop a stand. Boss jumped off the stand. "Daplunk. What are you in such a hurry for, anyway?"
"I'm going to see if anyone I knew from any of the past tournaments are here...I hope that Pikachu is here, he's a good friend of mine" Hamtaro continued to walk. "Ticky ticky ticky ticky..."
"Hey, Hamblasto!" Came a voice calling him.
"It's Hamtaro, get it right!" Hamtaro turned around to see that Sakura and Li were there. "Hey, it's Sakura!"
"You really seem to like her" Boss observed as he dashed over towards Sakura, who patted the hamster on the head a few times.
"Well, she reminds me of Laura" Replied Hamtaro. He rubbed his face a few times. "Kushi kushi"
"Hmm, now that you mention it I do kind of think there's a resemblance there" Boss observed. He looked past Sakura to see that Li was coming up. "Hey, who's that guy?"
"Oh, that's Li..." Hamtaro didn't seem all that enthusiastic about him arriving. "I don't like him at all, he makes me madder than Cell does"
"Hey, Li's not that bad!" Sakura quickly said, defending her friend.
Boss didn't really pay attention to this. "By any chance, is Cell that bug guy who was flying around?"
"You mean you saw him?! He's here, he came to fight?!" Hamtaro seemed shocked at this. "Oh no, he's really mad at me...I hope I don't have to face him in the tournament..." Hamtaro rubbed his face a few times. "Kushi kushi"
"Er...am I in the right place?" Came a voice, as someone stepped up. The guy was in his mid-teen years, with sleek greenish hair. A green jacket went with a darker green pair of pants, both of which fit perfectly. Black shoes completed his look. His brown eyes peered to Hamtaro, to Boss, to Sakura, to Li. He was certainly puzzled.
"You're here to fight in the tournament" Asked Li, leaning against the wall. "Right?"
"Um...yeah...how do you know about this?" The teen asked, looking skeptically at the four of them.
"We're in it" Replied Boss.
"Ok, let me get this straight--two rats, a little girl and a little boy are going to fight?" He seemed to be on the verge of laughter.
"I'm not a little girl!" Replied Sakura angrily.
"I'm not a little boy either!" Li seemed pretty angry as well.
"And we're DEFINITELY not rats!" Boss seemed outraged.
"That's right, we're hamsters" Hamtaro said. "I fought in both of the earlier tournaments and Sakura and Li fought in last year's!"
"Wow, I was expecting some more competition than this..." The guy looked over at them. "Er, sorry, I was expecting some other types of people. The name is Yusuke, Yusuke Urameshi"
"Hamtaro's the name" Replied Hamtaro.
"I'm Boss" Boss simply stated.
"Hi, my name is Sakura" Sakura introduced herself.
"Li" Li simply said.
"Any other kids fighting in the tournament?" Asked Yusuke.
"You're not so old yourself" Hamtaro pointed out. Yusuke gave a few laughs before Sakura kept on.
"Well, I haven't seen Pretty Sammy around but I think she'll come. There's also Yugi who can fight pretty well" Sakura thought back. "Other than that there aren't many people under sixteen really..."
"Oh, well I'm sure this will be a good one..." Yusuke thought for a second. "I hope"
"Don't worry, it always is" Hamtaro thought back to the first year's tournament, where the winner was Spike over Gene in the last match, and the last year, when he himself had won, getting a shocking win over Cell in the final battle.
"I hear that the Hosokayo guy was on the verge of putting me in the last tournament but decided against it to make run for some guy named Jet...that true?" Yusuke wondered.
"Well, he was considering a lot of people but had to get rid of some. He wanted a Pokémon named Squirtle as a fighter but decided Cell would be a better edition" Sakura thought back to what Master Hand had told her. "I don't know if Squirtle will be in this one..."
She shrugged, and allowed the five of them to get into a new conversation while awaiting the tournament.
"Hey, Guilmon, hold on!" The Digimon tamer Takato was running, but he couldn't keep up with his Digimon.
"I can't wait, Takato" Replied the squeaky-voiced Digimon. A red, dragon-like Digimon with tall ears and a long tail, Guilmon was Takato's Digimon. "I want to see all of my friends again"
"Well, slow down, I have to get to--OW!"
Takato was not watching where he was going, and had bumped into another boy. He looked up to see the boy with odd attire and black hair, not to mention a standout hat, who had hit the floor as soon as Takato had. He was Ash Ketchum.
He stood up. "Ow...that hurt..."
"You all right there?" Asked Takato, getting to his feet.
"Yeah...I was just coming here with my Pokémon" Ash showed Takato a laminated pass marked 'V.I.P'.
"Pokémon?" Asked Takato. "You mean that thing called Pikachu that Guilmon talks about?"
"Yeah, Pikachu is my Pokémon, and so is Charizard" Replied Ash. "He went off when he saw some other people. What's a Guilmon?"
"Guilmon is my Digimon" Replied Takato.
Guilmon walked over to the two of them. "Hello"
Ash looked very surprised. "You can talk?"
"What, you expected him to talk in grunts or something?" Asked Takato. "Oh, I don't beleive we've introduced ourselves. I'm Takato"
"I'm Ash" Replied Ash.
"Pi pikachu!" Came a voice. Ash, Takato and Guilmon all turned around to see something running towards them. A small Pokémon resembling a mouse was the one that came up. The black eyes with white pupils, red cheeks and yellow fur gave it the look that nobody could mistake. This was Pikachu.
There were several loud thuds following. Coming after Pikachu was a large, orange lizard. It had a long tail with a flame burning at the end of it. The creature's stomach was tan, as was the bottom part of its tail. It had two long wings, orange with a green color of skin. Charizard was this Pokémon's name, and it was probably Ash's strongest.
"Whoa..." Takato looked up at Charizard. He was shocked to see something so huge and so powerful. "Is...that yours?"
"Yep" Ash gave a smile. "This is Charizard"
"Rarr" Charizard gave a small growl.
"And this, is Pikachu"
"Pika pika!" Pikachu ran up his trainer's shoulder and onto his head.
Guilmon looked around at them. "Hiya"
Pikachu leapt off his trainer and ran to the Digimon. "Pikachu!" Pikachu greeted Guilmon cheerfully. Pikachu and Guilmon had formed a friendship from the first tournament, and at the same time, were rather competitive with each other. The two monsters smiled at each other.
"I should go meet Misty and Brock soon, to let them know I'm all right..." Ash thought to himself. "Well, I'll see you later. Come on, guys"
Ash dashed off, Pikachu and Charizard following.
Not too far away, Bit Cloud was walking around, looking for Sailor Moon. His luggage was escorted for him, as was everyone else's. He had already picked it up and left it in his cabin. He was now searching for the girl he had met two years and two tournaments before.
It was then that Bit suddenly had a strange feeling. Almost a shock, but not that of a physical shock. He stood, wondering what it was. After a few seconds, Bit shook his head and walked off. But it was then he started to hear footsteps, and once more, the strange feeling had come back to him. There was something behind this, he knew it.
Bit turned around, and now in front of him was someone he hadn't seen yet. The one who stood before him didn't seem to be much older or younger than him. Their ages were about similar. The young man had black, spiky hair, and weird red symbols across his face. His gray outfit made him look--well, 'cool'.
"Who are you?" Bit was not at all trusted this person, since he kept making the pilot feel strange.
"My name is Van" He replied. "Van Freiheit. Who are you?"
"I'm Bit Cloud" Bit replied, looking seriously at Van. "You've come to this tournament and you don't know who I am?
"Well, no...I don't really know any of the other fighters" Van admitted. "I'm not even really sure if I can get past round one here. I'm just going to try"
"I see. Well, you know, Van, it's not easy to fight around here" Bit was still speaking sternly. "Goku, Tenchi, Pikachu, Hamtaro, Gene, Spike, Sailor Moon, Guilmon, Yugi, Vegeta and I are some of the most powerful that came from the first tournament. And even those who started in the second like the Cardcaptors, Number Eighteen or Cell would kick anybody's butt real quick"
"Well--"
"And there's new people too. I'd be on guard if I were you. It's no walk in the park, rookie" With that, Bit stomped off. Bit himself didn't know why he was so mean to Van, but he just couldn't trust him. Van stood behind, looking puzzled.
Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and Eighteen were all walking through the stadium. Like most of the other fighters, they were checking the stadium to see what was going on. There was a strange sound, as someone moved fast as a light. The four of them turned around to see Cell there.
"Cell" Goku simply said. He managed to smirk. "I thought you'd come back to fight in this tournament. Still out to kill me?"
"Oh please, you think I'd use my time here trying to kill you?" Cell gave a 'Ha!'. "I'm here to fight. I will beat any of you, from you, to the rodents, to the teenager, to the girl in the skirt. None of you worry me much...but I did hear about someone coming, who is supposed to be strong"
"And who's that?" Asked Gohan.
"Hm...well, let's just say he's in the pink" Cell gave an evil smirk, knowing the fear the Z-fighters had of this fighter.
The eyes of Goku, Gohan and Vegeta widened. They knew who Cell meant. And they knew even more, since at the very minute, coming in was a huge, pink and very round creature. He wore a small, black vest with a gold trimming that barely covered any of his upper body. In fact, the vest seemed to have the purpose of holding his purple cape in place. His white pants were extremely big, due to his size, above of which was a black belt, a gold buckle with a fancy M on it. The legs to the pants were of black, leading into yellow boots, the same color as his gloves. His pink, somewhat ugly head had holes at the top with a crest-like part coming up out of his head. It was...
"Majin Buu!" Gohan gasped.
"Buu come to fight!" Yelled the childlike Buu. Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and Eighteen were looking at him angrily. Cell was just looking, wondering what was up with this thing. Buu turned his sights to Cell. "Me beat you up!"
Cell gave a laugh. "Keep dreaming, pinky. The closest you'll get to beating me is putting one of those oversized fingers on me. You DO have fingers, don't you?"
"Me EAT you up!" Buu yelled, becoming angry. "You turn into donut! You be better as donut!"
"We should separate them, it might turn nasty if we don't" Goku said to them.
"Oh let them fight. Maybe if they kill each other we could have some more decent fighters enter the tournament" Vegeta chuckled, looking at Cell and Buu currently throwing insults at each other.
Not too far away, two people were coming from opposite directions, coming to where the group of Gene, Spike and Jet were. Tenchi and Ayeka had left a little while before. The first one went by the name of Harry McDougall. He had blue-green hair and had rather strange attire, of a vest and brown pants. Coming in from the left was a man who wore all black. He looked rather broody, his blue-gray hair going down his face. This man was Vicious. Vicious was a rival of Spike, as was Harry the rival of Gene. The two of them looked at each other.
"Hello" Harry simply said as the usual greeting. Vicious just looked at him. After a few seconds of waiting, Harry spoke again. "I said, hello"
Vicious didn't reply. Harry hadn't the time anymore to wonder about this, because--
"Vicious!" Came the voice of Spike, who was dashing over, Jet and Gene right behind him.
"And look, it's McDougall too" Gene growled, looking in the direction of his rival. "What are you doing here?"
"Just like you, I'm fighting in the tournament" Harry replied smugly. "Would you happen to have a problem with that?"
"No, it's just fine" Gene sounded as smug as Harry. "I'll be looking forward to beating you later on"
"Well, we'll see about that" Harry began to walk off, but stopped before saying. "Watch out for the weird guy with the hair. He might be up to something" With that the younger McDougall brother left the area. Spike and Vicious were wordlessly staring each other down.
"Out of my way" Jet was shoved a small distance aside by the one who spoke. But in actuality, he did not speak to Jet. He spoke telepathically. He didn't even push him, he moved him with Psychic powers. Spike, Jet, Gene and Vicious saw as another Pokémon was there. It was the catlike Pokémon who stood in a human stance at over six feet tall. Mewtwo.
"You're back?" Spike asked. "I'm not surprised..."
"Yes, I am" Mewtwo replied. "I am Mewtwo, most powerful of Pokémon. You think I would give up this chance, especially with less-worthy Pokémon such as Pikachu and Charizard fighting? If so, then you have to be kidding..."
"Superiority complex, anyone?" Came a cold voice from behind Mewtwo.
"Kagato" Mewtwo nodded. Now, Kagato wasn't exactly someone that you would want to invite over to dinner. He was wearing a golden cloak, under which showed black suit. His skin was extremely pale, and his eyes were partially covered by tiny yellow sunglasses.
He ran a gloved hand over his white hair. When they met in the second tournament, they developed a friendship, since they had many things in common. Both were rather diabolical and--well, evil. Although Mewtwo had learned to soften up, he usually maintained his own personality during the tournament.
"So how have you been this past year?" Asked Kagato, starting to walk. Mewtwo floated along with him.
"Oh nothing new, the same old"
The two of them were interrupted as they looked up above. There was a blimp flying above, blaring loud music and flashing lights. There was a picture of a man's face painted on the blimp. "Laaaaadies and gentlemen of the Super Anime World Tournament, can I have your attention please?!" Came the voice of the Tenkai Boudakai tournament announcer. "Most of you have probably arrived, but I'm sure you didn't expect the greatest of all!"
"Oh please" Vegeta groaned as he, Goku, Gohan and Eighteen floated down by Kagato and Mewtwo. "I don't suppose you two are actually fond of this idiotic light show?"
Kagato and Mewtwo both shook their heads, but they were interrupted by a voice saying "Oooh, pretty lights!" It was Van, whose neck was craned upwards.
"I guess some people are too easily amused..." Commented Harry, who wasn't too far off. Gene was there too.
"You said it" Added Gene.
A limosine rolled up, pure white with an 'H' piece on the hood. It opened and out stepped a man in a white shirt and baggy white pants, with black boots to complete his look. He had a mustache that hung down at each end. He had messy puffed up hair, sideburns curving down. And to explain who he was, a large gold belt was around his waist. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Oh God..." Vegeta slapped a hand on his head.
"Introducing, the world champ and savior of the world, the winner of the Cell Game and hero to us all! He is the one, the only, martial arts master, HERRRRRRRRRCULE!"
"I'm HERE!" Announced Hercule, thrusting an arm into the air.
"Yay!" Cheered Van. Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Eighteen, Kagato, Mewtwo, Gene, Harry, Spike, Jet and Vicious all looked at him strangely. A minute passed before Van had to say "What?"
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" Asked Hercule, spotting Goku and Vegeta. He didn't quite recognize Eighteen yet, and didn't notice Gohan now that he was a few years older and wearing his Saiyaman outfit.
"We got invitations" Goku held up his gold letter. "See?"
"Ooh, shiny" Van commented again. Once again, everyone in the general outside area looked at him. "What?!"
"Oh..." A drop of sweat came down Hercule's face. "Heh heh, heh heh...heh--oh boy..."
"Attention, attention" Came a voice, interrupting all conversation. "It is approximately nine fifty-nine am. Will all competitors for the Third Annual Super Anime World Tournament please come to the central arena to draw numbers, in order to decide the order of fights for the tournament"
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Preview of Next Chapter
Next chapter is only a mini-chapter. But there's a lot to do. The fighters pull their numbers to decide who is against who in the first round matches. Vegeta seems pretty happy, but Yugi is downright terrified. While Hamtaro's first round fight has everyone guessing. What's happening in round one of the tournament? You'll have to read next time to find out!
Next Chapter: Destined Battles