The room was empty; everyone looked around but saw nothing…..then suddenly, the whole palace locked down as a voice rang through, the voice of General Inferno, "Welcome all, to the Planet Freeza, as you may be able to tell, you're going to have to fight your way to the top, there's 4 levels, a fight at each until you reach the top, where I'll be waiting for you…..good luck, you'll need it"
"Well then" said Goku, "I guess the first fight will be on this level, I can't wait, and I'm pumped"
"Uhhh, Goku" said Piccolo, "Do you reckon you could leave these fight to myself and the Humans, it's just, we haven't had a decent fight in a while, it'd be nice, and I promise that if things get nasty, you or the others can step in"
"Sure thing Piccolo, sounds good, I really wanna see how much you have all improved"
"Thanks"
Everyone got to it, warming up and doing a few stretches, waiting for the first fighter to walk through the door opposite them, there was an anxious air hanging around, as everyone was waiting on tenterhooks for the first battle.
Suddenly, there was a mechanical noise, and the door at the end of the room started sliding open, out of it walked Major Scorch, he looked exactly like Blaze did before he transformed, except instead of red, he was orange.
He looked a little nervous as he cast a gaze around all the Z fighters, but as Infernos voice rang through the room once again with a few words of encouragement, Scorch swallowed the lump in his throat and looked very much reassured.
"Well, I see no point in dragging this fight on, I know how powerful you are, so I might as well transform right away" said Scorch.
And with that, he powered up, changing into the exact same form Blaze did in the last battle, except, instead of a red tinted body, and flaming red aura, it was all a deep orange.
"So" said Scorch in a gruffer than usual voice, "Who will I be fighting?"
Krillin stepped forward, "You killed 18 and Marron, I'm not going to let you get away with this!"
"Be careful Krillin" said Goku worriedly
"Don't worry Goku, you saw me on King Kais planet, I can handle him" he flashed a thumbs up, and then flew over to meet Scorch.
Scorch towered over Krillin, "Very well then little man, let's get this under way shall we" he said
"You watch who you call little, I'm gonna make you pay!"
Krillin blinked, then all of a sudden, Scorch's fist had sunk into his gut, looking startled, Krillin wrenched himself away from Scorch and jumped back, "KAIOKEN TIMES 20!" he yelled out.
His muscles bulged, veins popped out, and a red aura burst up, his power sky rocketed.
"Thank you" said Scorch cheekily, "Now you might give me a decent fight"
Krillin just smiled and disappeared.
"Wow" thought Goku, "Krillin really has gotten better, much stronger and faster, combine that with the Kaioken, and he stands a real chance here"
Scorch's head snapped back as he was kicked from behind by Krillin, he disappeared again, this time kneeing Scorch in the face, "Let's pick this up" thought Krillin" with that, he started a rapid assault of punches to every part of Scorch's body, body contorted into all sorts of unimaginable positions, Scorch was getting beaten down.
"Scorch!" screamed out Infernos voice, "What are you doing! Fight properly"
As if snapped out of a trance, Scorch, somehow dodged Krillins attacks and ended up behind Krillin, he flew at him and started attacking from behind, with a flurry of kicks and punches, he then sent Krillin flying at fired an energy blast, but Krillin span around and fired his own, the two blasts hit each other and exploded.
The smoke cleared, and there stood both fighters, panting heavily, beads of sweat dropping from their foreheads.
"Pick it up Scorch! Don't hold anything back!" yelled out Inferno again.
Scorch's eye flickered as he heard this, "I better not upset the boss" he thought, "Best try finish this quickly as possible"
Scorch leant over and powered up, his aura stretched further and more ferociously, his muscles bulged slightly and he grew slightly taller.
"Krillin!" yelled out Goku, "You better take the Kaioken up a notch, try handle 40 times"
"He's right" thought Krillin, "40 times should be easy"
"KAIOKEN TIMES 40" yelled out Krillin, his veins popped out even more, muscles absolutely bulging, and he actually seemed taller himself.
Scorch smiled at Krillin, and Krillin smiled at Scorch, as though their minds were synchronised, they both disappeared at the same instant, shockwaves were being emitted everywhere, as the two were matching each other blow for blow, not a single hit connecting.
Krillin threw a punch at Scorch's head, but Scorch just dropped down and tried to back flip kick Krillin in the chin, but moving to the side Krillin avoided it, he rushed forward and tried to punch Scorch in the gut, but phasing out and then back in above Krillin, Scorch clenched his two hands together and brought them down on the top of Krillins head, he was sent flying towards the ground.
A huge crater formed and smoke filled the vicinity, Scorch looked happy with himself as he looked down, but he was suddenly hit from behind with an energy blast.
There was Krillin, panting, with a few scratches and a torn shirt. As the smoke around Scorch blew away, he looked very much in the same condition as Krillin.
The two smiled at each other once again.
"Very good" said Scorch slowly, "But I'm afraid it won't be enough"
"Ohh don't worry, you're not the only person with something in store" replied Krillin, grinning slightly.
"Get him Scorch!" screamed out Inferno again.
"You can do it Krillin" yelled Gohan.
Then both fighters disappeared again.
Loose bits of the floor started shaking and floating upwards as the auras of the two fighters slowly started to flare up again.
"You know what?" said Scorch slowly, "I think it's time for me to use my full power"
He let out an almighty scream as his muscles bulged slightly and his aura grew a little.
Krillin just smirked, "It's not much of an increase, I can match it"
He readied himself, spread his stance wider and dropped his arms to his sides, "KAIOKEN TIMES 50!" he yelled out.
There was a huge burst of red as his aura burst up into the depths of the room and then settled back down.
"Wow" said Yamcha impressed, "He sure knows how to handle that technique"
"Yeah" replied Tien, "We only got up to 40 times, I think he's gonna do it"
The two battlers engaged in combat yet again, it seemed Krillin had the edge, he was landing more hits and blocking more consistently than Scorch was.
"I better try get this over with as fast as I can, I won't be able to hold this form forever" Krillin thought worriedly.
Suddenly he spun round and flare kicked Scorch in the head and followed it up with a punch in the gut, doubling Scorch over, then a back flip kick to Scorch's neck which sent him sailing towards the ground. Not giving Scorch any time to recover Krillin yelled out "KA ME HA ME HAAA!"
A huge blue energy wave with a sizzling red outline was rocketing towards the cloud of smoke on the ground.
There was a scream as the blast hit Scorch and another explosion occurred.
All the Z-Fighters let out a cry of joy as Krillin flew to the ground and touched down.
Everyone started walking over to him to congratulate him, but the celebration was interrupted as a small blast was sent over and hitting Krillin square in the back.
Everyone looked over to see Scorch standing, arm outstretched, but looking very beaten up.
"Why you!" yelled out Yamcha, "I'm gonna kill you"
"No!" yelled out Krillin feebly, "Let me finish my fight"
Krillin stood up, looking in a similar condition to Scorch. He was out of Kaioken, but luckily it seemed that Scorch had powered back down now too.
"Let's go" said the two fighters at the same time.