It was a sorry fight to watch, no technique involved, sloppy blocking and punched and kicks thrown all over the place. "I think it's time for me to use my secret weapon" Scorch thought to himself.

He jumped back and flew to a far away spot, "Now! Be amazed as I replicate myself" he said "COPY CAT!" he yelled out, as there was a bright light and 4 more Scorch's stood there.

A look came over Krillin's face, but not one that Scorch was expecting, it wasn't fear as he thought, it was a grin.

"I've seen this technique before Scorch, I know its drawbacks" Krillin said confidently

"We'll just see how you fare, I may lose power, but do you have enough strength left in you to take 5 of me on?" replied Scorch, also confidently.

"He's right" Krillin thought to himself. "I'll just have to take a gamble…KAIOKEN TIMES 10!"

There was a small red aura as 5 Scorch's leapt at Krillin. A tussle ensued as the 5 Scorch's ganged up on Krillin, but he was holding his own, blocking or dodging all the blows being thrown at him, he saw an opportunity and flew round behind one of the replicas and gave it a hard kick to the back, sending it flying towards another copy, the hit, and now there was only 4 Scorch's to deal with.

"Nice work" thought Goku as he remembered back to the Cell Games, "He must've remembered that fight me and Cell had where I had to do the exact same think, he's fighting with his mind as well as his body, impressive"

All of a sudden there was a loud smack as the heads of two more copies smacked together, now there were 3.

Krillin dodged round the attacks of two of the clones and flew upwards to where the third was, with a kick to the head and a punch to the back the clone was on the ground out cold, the other two looked enraged and rushed towards Krillin, "Alright" he thought to himself, "I have to judge this just right"

He leapt around one of the copies punches, blocked the others kick and smacked both of them in unison with a fist each and then brought both his legs up and then axe kicked them in the necks, they both started sailing towards the ground, "C'mon" though Krillin, "Hit it!"

The two clones both collided with the third lying on the ground and lying there when the smoke cleared was one Scorch left.

Scorch got to his feet rather groggily, "Nice work" he said, "But I'm still here aren't I"

"Not for long" yelled out Krillin aggressively.

"KA"

The Z-Fighters watched anxiously.

"ME HA ME"

"That won't work again, I'll survive it just like last time" yelled out Scorch with a maniacal smile on his face.

"ZAN!" yelled out Krillin.

A blue energy wave flew out his hands, but it looked different from a regular Kamehameha, there were two rotating half Kienzans emerging from opposite sides of the energy wave.

Just before the wave hit Scorch Krillin extended his arms, and two full Kienzans erupted from the sides of the Kamehameha's and raced out and chopped Scorch into 3 bits, then the Kamehameha connected with Scorch, there was a huge explosion and Scorch's ki signal was gone.

"Yay!" everyone yelled out as Krillin dropped to the ground, exhausted from his fight.

Kabitoshin rushed over to Krillin and healed him.

"Excellent work Krillin" cried out Goku.

"Yeah, I love that combination of the Kamehameha and Kienzan" said Gohan, sounding very much impressed.

"Thanks guys" said Krillin looking embarrassed, "It was nothing really…." His voice trailed off as Vegeta interrupted, "Let's move up to the next level, we have some more fights on our hands"

"He's right" said Piccolo.

They proceeded to fly up through the gap in the roof as a watchful eye kept a close look on them. "They got lucky, Scorch was my weakest fighter, but I am certain the won't stand up to my next warrior"

The Z-fighters arrived on the next level; it was identical to the last, deserted, with a heavy door at the end and what looked like a door, set in the vast room above them. They all settled down, but were interrupted almost instantly by the mechanical clanking of a door opening, all eyes gazed upon the door at the opposite end of the room to see who it was.

"Well look at what we've got here" said the Changeling who stepped through the door, for an instant the Z-fighters almost mistook him for the tyrant Freeza, for he sounded remarkably like him, but were soon corrected when the Changeling introduced himself as no other than 'Corporal Flame.'

"Who will be my pitiful opponents today?" he asked coldly with a slight sneer on his face.

"Opponents!" yelled out Tien fiercely, "You'll be fighting me and him" he cried as he pointed over to Yamcha, who stepped forward slowly, then readied himself into a battle stance.

"2 fighters? That's no fair! General?" he asked, voice quavering with what sounded like fear.

"Don't worry" said the General over the loudspeaker, "Their battle powers combined are slightly lower than yours, you'll have no trouble"

"Haha, you hear that?" said the Corporal with a renewed confidence in his voice, "My power is higher than both of yours combined, you don't have a chance."

But Tien and Yamcha just smiled and flew at him.

The two were headed toward Flame like an arrow, and then split up just before reaching him, Yamcha going to the left and Tien still moving forward, Flame blocked Tien's punch easily but was hit from the side with a kick to the abdomen, recovering quickly, he leapt back and then rushed at Yamcha, collaring him with an outstretched arm, and then heading off towards Tien, phasing out just before reaching him and then kicking him in the head, while floating upside down above Tien.

While the two fighters were on the deck, Flame decided to power up to his higher state, the room started shaking as his incredibly large aura circulated around him, his body was a deep yellow tinge, his body glowing orange, and a dark red flaming aura around him, Tien and Yamcha felt this surge in power and sprung back onto their feet.

"It's gonna take the Kaioken to beat this guy" said Yamcha thoughtfully.

"Yeah, let's take it to 30 times, that should be enough for the two of us, he can't handle two of us at that level."

The room started shaking again and floor bits stared rising from the ground, Tien and Yamcha went into a power up position as wisps of red smoke started coming off their bodies, muscles started bulging and veins popping as they both yelled "KAIOKEN…….TIMES 30!"

There was a huge surge in power as both started crackling with a flaming red aura to match Flame's.

"Well well, seems as though I've got a decent fight on my hands now" said Flame as he closed his eyes and gave a chuckle, then without warning he blasted off towards the two.

Rocketing towards Tien, Flame tried phasing out just before reaching him, but walked into a punch from Yamcha, but he just countered with an elbow to Yamcha's stomach, Tien then came in with a kick aimed at Flame's head, who threw up an elbow to block it. Tien and Yamcha were on the attack now, forcing Flame backwards slowly, punch to the face; blocked, kick to the back; avoided. The two warriors were throwing all they had at Flame, but he was up to the challenge, dodging or blocking every blow sent his way.

The three fighters seemed to be losing stamina, Yamcha dropped back for a breather while Tien carried on the onslaught, Flame took notice of this and swatted Tien as he flew towards him and sent a blast Yamcha's way, who looked up just in time to shield himself as the blast exploded upon impact. Flame smiled to himself but was taken by surprise when someone yelled out "Dodonpa!"

The blast hit Flame square in the back. Yamcha and Flame were both on the ground now; Tien was still in the air but flew downwards to land next to Yamcha.

Tien was looking fine except for a cut cheek, which was bleeding profusely, Yamcha's wrist bands were tattered and his arms burnt, while Flame's back was scorched.

"Seems as though we aren't as much of a challenge as you thought Flame" said Tien cheekily.

"Oh don't worry, I'm not at my peak yet" said Flame in an oily voice. He flashed them a wink and leapt back.

Flame crouched over and gave an almighty scream; his aura flared up massively and then settled down as he bulked up a bit. He was now a couple inches taller, and much more muscular.

"What do you think?" he asked with a smile.

"Not bad," replied Yamcha, also smiling, "But your power hasn't increased by too much, nothing the two of us can't handle"

"Damn right Yamcha" piped up Tien, "And I'm willing to bet you've lost a little bit of speed too"

"Possibly" replied Flame mysteriously, "But no matter, that won't be a large factor, and if you don't believe find out for yourself"

Tien and Yamcha looked for each other for a second, gave a little nod and started off towards Flame.

It seemed that Flame had made a mistake powering up, the two were getting more hits in than Flame could block, but strangely none were phasing him, he took them as if they were nothing, and if anything, they seemed to make him fight better and faster. Soon enough, he was on par with them, blocking all and every punch, kick, everything.

"We can't keep fighting like this Yamcha, he's gaining the upper hand" said Tien, as he received a punch to the face.

"I know" replied Yamcha, who also got a kick in the head.

Both fighters were both now on the ground while Flame was in the air above them, smiling.

"This is fun, but I feel like evening up the odds, you know, one on one"

Flame chuckled and then flew backwards, outstretched his arms and started gathering chi, he closed his eyes and focused as his aura grew and grew, it slowly started spreading into his hands. All of a sudden his eyes snapped open and he yelled "FLAMING FIRE BALL!"

A huge meteor like energy ball started falling down from the sky towards the two, "Oh no!" thought Goku, "That ball has enough power to destroy them both!"

Flame cackled manically as his ball of fiery red energy sped towards Yamcha and Tien, they were momentarily transfixed in its wake, looking on in terror as it loomed every closer.
"What do we do now?" Yamcha desperately asked Tien.
Tien readied himself into a fighting stance as he prepared charging up one of his most devastating attacks, "Gather energy, fire off a Kamehameha when I fire, ok?"
Yamcha nodded and got himself ready as well, hands dropped to his side as blue chi was being drawn from the depths of his being into his pulsating hands.
Tien had the fiendish meteor ball fixed in sight, right in the middle of a triangle he'd formed with his hands, glowing yellow.
"KAIOKEN TIMES 40!" they both yelled as the ball was just about to hit, a cry of, "SHIN KIKOHO!" by Tien, and "KAMEHAME HAAA!" by Yamcha, as two colossal energy blasts emitted from the Z fighters, one blue, on yellow, both rocketing towards the ball.
Time seemed to freeze as the blasts collided with the ball, a moment of nothing…and then a bright white light filled the room as the 3 attacks exploded upon impact.

"Oh no!" thought Goku as he looked on, horrified at what he saw, dust had covered the whole room and no-one could see anything…or anyone.
"I feel…something Dad, but it's not Tien or Yamcha…but it's not Flame either, who cou…"
Gohan was cut short as maniacal laughter filled the room once again.
"HAHAHAHAHA! You're quite lucky!" Flame yelled out, apparently to nobody in particular, if you'd decided to try deflect that physically…well let's just say those energy waves saved you. But not for long."
The dust started settling on the ground and the battlefield was visible again, scanning around for any signs of Yamcha or Tien, everyone got a huge shock when there was just one warrior standing, gaze fixed on Flame.