Yamcha rubbed his neck as he landed on what he heard was now being called 'Battle Island' by those watching the tournament. Kavar was landing across from him, the first round of the Semi-Finals was about to start as the sun began to set. Kavar had thought about not even coming out for the match, their powers were too uneven for a good battle, but Yamcha had convinced him to at least try. The one Enhancer ring they'd managed to scrounge up on Earth, the very last of them, had finally gotten him to agree. Not that they knew what kind of power boost to expect Kavar to receive.
The blue skinned man reached up and activated the ring as his feet touched the ground. Instantly his power spiked up and Yamcha grinned. He'd need the Kinryoku to keep up with Kavar now, this would be a lot more fair. As the explosion sounded overhead to start the match Kavar was still looking himself over in wonder. Yamcha waited a moment and then launched in at him. "Nibai Kinryoku!" he cried surging across the island, a silver aura flaring to life around him.
Kavar looked up as he neared and then quickly brought his arms up and blocked Yamcha's punch. The shockwave shattered the ground beneath them and it collapsed falling down into darkness, a moment later a splashing was heard. Apparently they were fighting over a water filled cave. Yamcha floated there, his fist pressed against Kavar's arm, for a moment. And then both vanished. Suddenly the sky above the island was filled with explosions and flashes of light as the two fought each other.
A few moments later there was a loud crack as Yamcha slammed his foot into Kavar's chest and knocked him down through the ground and into the underground cave. The Human was about to chase after him when a flash of light erupted from the hole in the ground and he felt Kavar's power spike. He'd obviously just transformed, and with the extra power he went from being a little weaker to being stronger than Yamcha. The Human frowned slightly and considered using a stronger Kinryoku but decided against it for now. It'd make him too much stronger than Kavar and the fight would be too easy.
In a flash of silver Yamcha surged down into the cave. An instant later a thunderous crack rang out and shook the entire island. The ground for a hundred yards in either direction crumbled and fell into the cave around the two warriors as they continued to clash. Kavar launched a kick at Yamcha's head and the Human dodged to the side quickly. As he did a large rock fell between them and grinning he kicked it toward the blue alien. Kavar smashed it away with one arm and then fired a Ki blast with his other.
However, he soon realized he'd fired at empty space. Yamcha was gone. He looked around trying to see him or sense him but was finding nothing. And then he felt it below him. Turning and looking down he saw Yamcha floating inches above the water several dozen feet below him, hands cupped at his side and blue energy charging into his hands. "Time to try out a new move on you Kavar!" Yamcha called up. "Hope you don't mind!"
His aura flared up larger and brighter swirling the water around his feet and lifting it into the air around him in a thin mist. "Kameeeeee... Ryokuuuuuuu..." Suddenly the gathering energy pulsed, flashed, and turned silver. Yamcha grinned as he felt the power of his attack jump through the roof. Quickly he thrust his arms up at Kavar. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" The silver energy cupped in his hands shot upward faster than Kavar could see. A second later the attack slammed into him and flung him skyward, Yamcha ended the attack instantly not wanting to seriously hurt Kavar. As the silver energy beam faded into nothing, Kavar's power plummeted, and so did he.
Yamcha floated up into the air and caught him with one arm using the other to wipe the dirt off his face. He turned to the nearest camera and gave the victory sign as Sora declared him the winner. Still powered up he shot off from the island back to Tanaria City and the waiting medics. It didn't take long to get there, in fact, Akira was just leaving for the island as he landed. After deposting Kavar with the medics he returned to the restaurant where the others were.
"That was very impressive out there." Sora said as he entered the room. "You merged the Kinryoku with the Kamehameha, yes?"
Yamcha nodded. "Ya, I've been trying to do that with basic energy blasts for a few months. Actually started that while I was on King Kai's training. Just pulled it off a week ago and thought I'd take it up a notch with the Kamehameha."
"And you never told me?" Hotaru asked crossing her arms but grinning.
Yamcha shrugged. "Wasn't sure if I could do it. Wanted to try first. Works pretty good though, stronger attack without using up even more energy. And it makes it charge faster too. I can already charge a Kamehameha to twice my normal power, make it a Kameryokuha instead and..."
"Very nice." Sango said grinning. "Maybe you could have beat me without a ring out after all. And I have to say, I like the name. Not overly original, but it get's the point across, eh?"
There was a loud roar of cheers from the others in the room and those outside as well and everyone turned to look at the monitor. Akira had been knocked into a cliff by his opponent and appeared to be having some difficulty extracting himself. That's when Yamcha noticed the energy bands around his ankles and wrists holding him in place. The other man launched in at him and was about to slam a fist into his stomach when Akira suddenly opened his mouth and fired a stream of energy from it point blank into the other's face. He was flung backwards and then fell to the ground unconcious.
As Sora declared Akira the winner of the match he managed to pull himself free at last. Yamcha shook his head. "Man, I get all the hardest fights. Sango, Kavar, Akira, and maybe Hotaru too... I have the worst luck."
Sango laughed. "Well, you could have let me win you know. Then you wouldn't have to worry about it."
Yamcha was about to say something when he suddenly felt something. He couldn't tell what it was but it was pulling on his stomach, filling him with a sense of foreboding. The others noticed the confused and worried look on his face but didn't have the chance to say anything before he'd walked out of the restaurant. He looked around him in confusion. Something felt wrong, off, but... what? He closed his eyes and tried to focus. The more than one hundred thousand people around him were practically jamming his senses, but he could feel a knot of energy somewhere...
"WHAT!" he cried suddenly, his eyes snapping open and his head turning skyward. By now the others had come out as well and his loud cry of shock and fear had gotten a lot of people looking at him.
"What is it Yamcha?" Hotaru asked worried as Akira floated down and landed with them. "What's wrong?"
"Power... a really stong power! No... wait, there's five of them!" He swallowed as his senses finally locked cleanly onto the five powers. "Oh man... the highest one outmatches all of us! Hell, even with the Kinryoku the weakest one's still probably stronger than me!"
"Are... are you sure?" Sango asked trying to find what Yamcha had. The Human nodded. Now Sora, Hotaru, and Akira were checking as well, as were any other Tanarians nearby with the ability to sense energy. A moment later Sango's eyes went wide. "No way! That's... that's impossible! How..." She shook her head and then turned to look at Yamcha and the others. "Maybe it's the Sai-jins?" she asked hopefully. "The delegation I mean..."
Akira shook his head. "I highly doubt it. None of them are strong enough to be Cooler or King Cold either, and Cooler's elite team is only three men, not five."
"It's happening again, isn't it?" Hotaru asked closing her eyes. A moment later she opened them again, a determined look on her face. "NO! I wont let us be driven from another world! I'll head them off and stop them... somehow!"
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet." Sora said calmly, as a commotion began to spread through the city. They'd obviously sensed the rapidly nearing powers as well. "We're still not certain who they are. They may not be here to attack us."
"Well, if they are, they're in for a hell of a fight." Yamcha said as he looked around trying to determine where they might land. "They're going to be near here when they come down... I just can't tell where exactly..." He turned and saw Kavar flying toward them, fully recovered now.
"I felt them a few moments ago." he said landing. "But I was still too weak to say anything then." He looked out over the city. "I'll get these people to safety as best I can."
Sora nodded. "Come on, I think they'll be landing near the lake." The others nodded and the five of them blasted off toward the lake, thousands of eyes following them. A moment later they pulled to a stop near the lake and floated there following the energies nearing them. Looking up into the starry night sky they could see five 'stars' that were steadily growing larger.
"Individual ships." Yamcha said slowly. "Space pods?"
"Probably." Hotaru replied.
A moment later five streaks of blue light came surging down from the sky. They slammed into the beach throwing sand everywhere and forming five conneted craters. As the sand settled they got a look at the pods. All five of them were solid black instead of the normal gray and they had a symbol on their doors that was oddly similar to the Ginyu Force symbol, only upside down. The pods on either end of the V pattern the five had landed in hissed and the doors began to open.
The weakest power was in the left pod. The five warriors floating in the air watched as a gloved hand gripped the pod doorway and the owner of the hand pulled himself free. He was short, only about four foot tall, had black and white skin. What could be seen of his body under the the red and black armor he wore that bore the same upside down Ginyu Force emblem as the pods, was pure solid white. From his elbows to his gloves, and his knees to his boots, was pure pitch black. His face was white except for around his eyes which were blue. The hair on his eyebrows was red, as was the mohawk atop his head.
The pod on the right contained the fourth highest power. As it's door clicked open the occupant emerged. He looked like a mirrored version of the first guy, the skin color was simply reversed. His main body and his head were black, from his elbows to gloves and knees to boots were white with the area around his eyes white as well. The eyes themselves were red. He also had a mohawk but of blue hair instead of red. He also wore the same red and black armor.
Yamcha glanced at the others and then looked back down as the next two pods began to open. From the left emerged the third strongest of the five. He was about 5 foot 8, had light blue green skin and shoulder length green hair with blue eyes. His resemblance to Zarbon was apparent, but only in general appearnce. It was evident that though of the same race the two weren't related to each other. He too wore the same white boots and gloves with the red and black armor.
The fourth pod door clicked into the open position and the occupant emerged into the moonlight. She had long flowing white hair down to her waist, pink eyes, and light blue skin. She also had two small black horns pointing out of her forhead. She was about five and a half feet tall and the second strongest of the group, though still less than half the power of the strongest one. Like the others she wore red and black armor with the white boots and gloves.
And then the final pod opened. Yamcha heard Hotaru and Akira sharply draw in a breath as the final person emerged and stood. He had the white boots and gloves but instead of red and black armor he wore a simple white and brown one, also with the upside down Ginyu Force logo. Yamcha swallowed as he watched the large man activate his scouter, he was the only one with one. He'd not fought him on Namek but he'd seen him.
"Recoome..." Sora said, her hands clenching into fists.
"And he's gotten a lot stronger somehow..." Hotaru said. "Not even Ginyu was this strong on Namek... how...?"
Suddenly Recoome's scouter beeped and he looked up at them. He grinned stupidly as he saw them. "Oh, how nice!" he called up. "Hotaru, wasn't it?" he asked. "And you... I know you..."
"This time we wont be running!" Hotaru called down. "This time we will destroy you!"
Recoome laughed. "Destroy me? Oh, you crack me up girlie! Thanks to Lord..."
"Recoome!" the female shouted glaring at him.
He turned and looked back at her confused for a moment and then suddenly realization sunk in. "Oh ya, right..." he said. "Well, thanks to the people I work for my power is far greater than it was on Namek. You wont beat me!" Grinning he turned to look at the others. "So, who should go first?" he asked them. "Shall we play for it?"
The woman snorted. "You're dumber than you look, you know that? Why they ever put you in charge..." she shook her head. "Anyway, you stay here and deal with these five. The rest of us will spread out and start clearing the planet." At the looks on the faces of the others she smiled. "Ya, that's right!" she called up. "We're here to exterminate the lot of you! It's nothing personal you see, it's just that our boss wants this planet's resources, and we highly doubt you'd just let us strip the place of all of them so we're to kill you all first."
"You wont be killing anyone!" Yamcha called down as he dropped and landed in the sand at the edge of the beach, the others following him down.
"We'll see about that little man." she said smirking. In a flash of blue she launched into the air over their heads and into the city. A moment later the three others followed her leaving only Recoome behind.
Hotaru turned to chase after them but her mother grabbed her arm. "We can't split up." she said. "We need to focus on Recoome for now, he's the biggest threat. Kavar will have to get the others to safety."
Hotaru nodded and turned back to face Recoome. She didn't like letting the other four have free roam of the planet, especially Tanaria City while it was full of visitors. /How many hundreds are going to die while we fight this big oaf/ she wondered gritting her teeth. /But Mother's right. We need to focus on the big threat first and take out the others later. Mother can handle them all after transforming. It's Recoome that's the threat./
"It's time to settle the score between us!" Sora called out. "Once and for all, it all ends here!"
"Yes!" Recoome cried back. "It all ends here, with your deaths!"
