We charged into the mass of explosions and fighters as one fully synchronized fighting squad. It was far too easy to find opponents as they were all coming to us, the lowest ranked universe, however, we weren't going down without a fight. Almost immediately, we were cornered by some fat yellow bear guy, a robot man, and one of the uniformed people who looked like your average Russian strongman. The strongman spoke, but not really to us.

"These three are mine, you two back off."

"Hey, we saw them first! Magetta and I are gonna be the ones to eliminate universe 9"

"You and that tin can aren't going to do anything, for I, Tupper of the pride troopers, will carry my universe to victory!" As he posed, Magetta was curled up into a fetal position after hearing him be called a tin can.

"Magetta no! I'm sorry buddy, I forgot!" The three of us just looked at each other in confusion, we even turned back to Tupper who was equally confused. I decided to break the awkwardness and finish it here.

"Well, this has been... odd. But I'm afraid the only ones being knocked down are you three." We each charged at one of them, I took on Tupper, Cellio took, well, just carried Magetta, while Stryker took on the bear guy.

"I see, so you are the one to fight me, I warn you, it will not be easy." He looked as if he was powering up, but his skin became rocky, and soon enough, he looked like a rocky jack-o-lantern, and I couldn't help but laugh. "I assure you this is no laughing matter, I can change my density at will, becoming nearly immobile, you cannot eliminate what you can't lift." I took a few deep breaths and prepared to fight.

"Ok then, let's see just what you can do. I charged forward, and instantly doubled back before he could land a punch, while he was confused, Cellio jumped from the side and drop kicked him away.

"Nice sneak attack bro." We fist bumped and charged forward, almost dancing with how planned our attacks were, he could barely keep up, until eventually, he just stood still and blocked us.

"It's no use, I've made myself dense enough to resist all of your attacks."

"Is that so?" We turned around to see Stryker, who had been absent for a lot of the fight. He held out his hand and suddenly, a soul appeared from Tupper's chest, turning from white to dark blue. "Then let's see if this works." Tupper looked confused and kind of scared, even more so since he began to sink through the floor.

"Wait, no, what's happening? I can't change back!" Within a few seconds, he had fully sunk through and ended up in the spectator stands.

"Stryker, what the hell was that?" Cellio asked him, basically asking my question too.

"I manipulated his soul's gravity. I don't have as much control over it as Sans does, but I am able to force people down with the dark blue power. His increased weight helped too."

"Neat, oh and where were you for most of the fight? That bear guy didn't look very strong." I brought up what was on my mind.

"Well, you see- Watch out!" He held out his hand and produced a green shield behind us, making a very buff bald guy slam into it and knock himself out. I took the liberty of launching him out of the arena while Stryker spoke. "As I was saying, I couldn't really damage the guy since my punches were somehow cancelled out every time I hit him, like the damage was being sent elsewhere. He didn't hit too hard, but I realized I couldn't keep up, so I remembered I could teleport, I grabbed him, teleported off the edge, teleported myself back, and just let him fall."

"Smart thinking. By the way, it's probably best you don't do that too often, otherwise people will start to catch on. Only use it when there's no other option."

"I already thought about that, don't worry, I won't be that predictable." Suddenly, we felt an overwhelming explosion of power, accompanied by a literal explosion, or rather multiple green ones that spread out over the entire arena. "I got it!" Stryker made another shield that covered us, and easily blocked any energy blasts that came our way. When the smoke cleared, we saw the arena was no longer a smooth surface, but a complete mess, with rocks jutting up from everywhere and holes, all except for our own little spot that was protected by Stryker's shield.

"Thanks man, that was close." Cellio complemented as he looked over everything.

"Don't mention it, I barely broke a sweat keeping it up. So, what happened anyway?"

"Guys, you're gonna want to look at this." We climbed up the rock Cellio was on and looked at what he was seeing. There was a brawl going on, between goku and...kale? She looked different though, extremely different, she was completely muscular, with green hair and an overwhelming ki. Actually, it was much less a brawl and more of a massacre as she was just wailing on Goku, who could barely keep up as a super saiyan 2. Suddenly, he became that blue super saiyan form and launched a blue energy wave, which seemed to do almost nothing as she walked right on through it, grabbed Goku and threw him. While we watched, we kept on guard by sensing both ki and soul. Kale continued rampaging, and one guy tried to stop her, another pride trooper with a light rope, but she tore through it and blasted him out of the arena, actually, when she transformed and released all those blasts, a lot of people were thrown out of the arena. It wasn't long though before Jiren casually walked up to her, blasted her and then turned away from the explosion like it was nothing.

We slowly slid down after that and sat in complete awe at what just happened. I addressed the other two. "Ok, so we stay away from Jiren at all costs." They simply nodded, but we shook it off and got back up to fight, running back into the action. Luckily, there were no longer many people coming against us, so we didn't need to waste much stamina, however we were approached some tall woman in an odd dress.

"Hello there, my name Dercori from universe 4, I could sense the magical energy emanating from the three of you, especially you." She pointed at Stryker. "How would you like to see what I can do as well?" We prepared to fight, but Stryker held us back.

"I accept. Guys, don't worry, I've got this. For real this time." We nodded and sat back, patrolling the fighting field. The battle began by her throwing a fireball at him, where he punched through. "No heat. Wait, you just use illusions."

"That's correct, but will you be able to see through them all?" She covered the field with hexagonal shaped energy stickers that seemed to fade into a scenario, and her along with them.

"Impressive, but while you deal with magic tricks," He erupted into a circle of fire, throwing multiple fireballs at invisible locations, but with extreme precision, eventually hitting something, causing her to fall to the ground, exposed. "I deal with real magic." He was about to move forward, but was stopped by an invisible force.

"I just bound your shadow, you can't move from that spot. Now, to add to this illusion, I have covered us in my planet's natural darkness, within it I am unstoppable!" Her arms and legs grew into tentacles as well as receiving a slight size upgrade.

"I see, well it's a good thing you can't move either." Her soul turned dark blue and she couldn't approach, it was a stand off. They stood there, but Stryker had the upper hand as his attacks were barreling through hers, eventually she couldn't take it anymore.

"Enough, enough. I yield." He turned her soul back to normal, but as that happened, a fireball was launched from behind."

"Stryker!" But he knew before I even said anything. He turned his soul orange and just stood still, the fireball went right through him and hit her in the face. She collapsed and everything went back to normal.

"Cellio, you wanna do this? You've barely eliminated anyone."

"Sure." He created one of his whips, wrapped her in it and threw her off the stage. We high fived Stryker and congratulated him, but while this happened, we heard Sidra arguing with one of the other gods, a yellow mouse.

"That's cheating! Your fighter just used a weapon to eliminate mine!"

"No! Cellio can create whips from his own energy, just like how she makes her talismans!"

"But that's different, it's not a weapon!"

"Both of you, settle down. It is not a physical weapon brought from the outside and is created by a fighter's energy, therefore it is allowed." Sidra looked very proud of himself while the other one just sat back down mumbling. We continued walking through the stage to find others, but not many dared to challenge us now, however, we were approached by three girls who didn't even seem like fighters. The green haired one spoke first.

"Hold it right there in the name of love." We just stopped, even more confused than when Magetta broke down.

"Excuse me, but what?" Cellio expressed what we all were thinking.

"You three are the last remaining of one of the lowest universes and will be the first to be eliminated by the maidens of universe 2." As she said that though, the grand priest stopped everything to announce something.

"All fighters from universe 10 have dropped out, Universe 10 will now be eliminated!" We watched as the Zenos charged an energy orb each in one hand and then performed a squishing motion, in that instance, everyone except for the angel of universe 10 was gone in a blink, unable to be sensed anywhere. We turned back to the three girls.

"So, you were saying?" I said with slight shock at what just happened. We all just shook it off, getting back to the fight at hand.

"Well it doesn't matter that you weren't the first, you will be the second. For we, the kamikaze fireballs. Ribrianne!

"Rozie!"

"Kakusna!"

"Will defeat you in the name of love!" As they said this, they somehow jumped up to a higher platform and began to transform, however, an energy blast hit them and stopped them from doing so. We looked at where it came from, seeing that it was a guy with long black hair and a park ranger outfit. The three of them ran up to him in frustration and called him out for attacking while transforming, even a big pride trooper with an amazing moustache talked him out. We chuckled at this sight, and laughed even more when he sat down and made a "continue" motion with his hand. After that little fiasco, they fully transformed, and we somehow wish they didn't, well, we wish Ribrianne didn't as she was not as pretty as before. Afterwards, they began to focus on 17, but Stryker called them out.

"Hey! What happened to us!?" They looked at us, then remembered why they transformed to begin with, then charged. We knew they were stronger than our base forms, so for the first time in the tournament, we went super saiyan, while Stryker powered back up into soul charge. The six of us fought well, we had the same amount of synchronization between our teams, however, it was quite annoying hearing the word love being thrown around over and over again. Eventually, our teamwork overpowered theirs as we ended up switching opponents without verbal communication, launching combo attacks with no giveaways, and blasting without warning. Eventually, we kicked them into each other and Stryker turned all their souls purple, binding them together with some purple string or whatever.

"Hey, why can't we move?! Why are these hearts here?"

"Try all you want, I've bound your souls to one line, you can't move except in a circle." They struggled, but they couldn't break free. "Cherik, Cellio, they're all yours. We walked up and kicked them through 3 pillars of rock and launched them out of the arena.

"Thanks for that Stryker. Also, I get the feeling that we saved a lot of people from a headache." They both agreed with me, but then we felt something, a large amount of power being released somewhere, we looked over to see Kale and Caulifla emerging from smoke, with Kale in her scary saiyan state. We looked to see that they just took out a bunch of pride troopers, but one was still standing in a bubble, however, a blonde woman, who looked like she could be related to the black haired guy just picked her up and launched her off the side. "Alright, let's see what's next for us. The arena is looking kind of empty though." We ran off to fight more.