Watching the Tournament stage with an interested eye, Vegeta laughed. "Those fighters from Yami must be some big names, I'm sure that that clown would not have willingly called us out if he wasn't being forced to."
"Let us see what comes out of this Vegeta." Bulma smirked as she too was interested in the proceedings. "Perhaps it is someone else that he is calling out?"
"Hey! Did you guys hear that? Mr Satan has some special guests! Let's go see who they are!" Exclaimed one of the kids from the junior division.
"Bet you we know who they are." Trunks said as he smirked at Goten.
"Yeah!"
"There's no way you two would know about it, not even the grownups know!" Exclaimed another of the kids.
"Then let's just wait and see." Trunks said.
"YEAHHHHHH! ARE YOU GUYS READY FOR THIS?!" Hercule shouted as he made his dramatic appearance on the stage.
"MR SATAN, MR SATAN, MR SATAN!" The crowd chanted as the champ began to walk around.
"As you just heard, I have asked some very important people to come out of the shadows to show the world that they are not the fake martial artists I once claimed them to be and to apologize and hope that they will forgive me for my foolish words."
"Nope, I'm sure he is referring to us." Gohan smiled.
"Will the warriors from seven years ago join me on the stage so that I can personally apologize?"
"Well he was willing to publicly say that he was sorry for what he said about us, I guess we could return in kind." Piccolo said as the crowd started looking around for the said warriors.
"Do we make an exceptional entrance or do we act natural?" Krillin asked.
"The former shall do." Gohan said as he began walking towards the stage, Vegeta on his heels.
Looking around, Mr Satan caught sight of Gohan's head.
'So they came... they actually came!'
"Thank you, Mr Satan, for that little introduction." Gohan said as he reached the champ.
"No problem..."
"Gohan, Son Gohan. Son of Son Goku one of the former Champion's of this tournament." Gohan said as the champ looked uncertain on how to proceed.
"As Mr Satan said me and my friends were at the Cell Games seven years ago, however since we did not care for the limelight we stayed out of the public eye, not because we feared for our safety but because we wanted to be left alone."
"We thank Mr Satan for taking the limelight and although he did it in a way that made us look bad we accept the fact that that was the only way he knew how to spin it."
"However, there is one thing that really annoyed me and my friends. And that was how Mr Satan spoke about martial artists." Gohan continued with a sliver of steel in his voice making the crowd look at them more seriously.
"He said that what we portrayed that day was tricks and that we had no respect for true martial arts. I am here to prove him wrong."
'Oh no...' Hercule thought.
'Oh yes!' Bulma thought.
"Even though it has been seen at other tournaments just like this one, people still believed what they were told on that day by their... champion." Gohan spat.
"My father.. Son Goku has done more for this world than it truly deserved if this was the thanks that he got. However, I am not here to rant about the past. I'm here to talk about the future..."
"What's he doing?" One of the people in the crowd said.
"This is ki, everyone on the planet has it, you may refer to it as life force. But to us it is ki. Ki can do good things like save lives... But ki can also do bad things like taking lives and hurting people."
"Mr Satan could learn to access his ki but his late master was killed many years ago by an old master of a friend of mine. So he never got the chance, which is probably what made him way more wary of fighters of our calibre. And though we are sorry for his loss what was done was by an enemy and not a friend of ours."
Holding his tongue, the champ stared at Gohan.
"Thank you for your patience and enjoy what we show you in the tournament!" Gohan finished as he gave the floor back to the champ and walked back to his friends waiting in the crowd, Vegeta and the rest of the Z Warriors on his heels.
"That was quite the speech that Son Gohan gave there and the champ knows how to set the stage!" The tournament announcer exclaimed. "Give it up for Mr Satan and the Earth's Special Forces!"
"Whoa, those guys were also the Earth's Special Forces!?" One of the guys in the crowd said as the tournament stadium went wild.
"You better believe it, youngster! I remember those days when Yajerobie was calling the shots!" Said an old man.
"They are the ones that will be targeted." Muttered a mysterious person in the crowd.
"Are you sure master?" Said his companion.
"Yes Kibito, and to confirm let's meet with those fine members."
"That was impressive what they did there." Hongo said to Kushinada as he watched the Z Warriors return to their places. "They revealed themselves without revealing themselves."
"Then I guess we have to make sure that we make them fight seriously when the time comes." Mikumo replied as she kept her eyes squarely focused on Gohan.
"These rules are boring! Even though these are mere flies at least watching someone fight with no restraints is better than this!" The Lucha Libre mask wearing warrior complained as he watched the junior division starters.
"I understand your frustration Diego but you are interested in seeing the warriors from the Cell games fight are you not?" Hongo said as he gazed at the master of Lucha Libre.
"Hongo is correct, patience has never been one of your strongest suits Diego." Said the ageing master.
"Ever the wise one Cyril." Mikumo complimented as she too watched the ongoing battles with disinterest.
"So what do we get out of watching the little ones?!"
"The future." Mikumo responded as she watched Chikage defeat her opponent with ease.
"Wow what awesome little guys right!?" The tournament announcer said as they prepared the next fighters. "Those moves were killer! But I bet you're waiting to see more right?!"
Hearing the cheering of the crowd the announcer smiled broadly.
"Coming to the stage we have 13-year-old rising female star Chikage Kushinada who will be against rising fan favourite 7-year-old Goten!"
"This isn't going to end smoothly..." Chi-Chi sighed as she watched the two children walk onto the stage.
"Goten knows not to go all out on anyone but Trunks," Gohan said as his gaze was more focused on Mikumo who was also watching the proceedings very intently. "They should be fine."
"I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about what Mikumo may force her disciple to do if she doesn't force Goten to use at least ten percent of his strength."
"Oh.." Gohan replied as he glanced at the stage.
"Now these two are fast becoming fan favourites but only one can go on to the semi-finals so let's get this show on the road!"
"Goten! Don't take them off!" Gohan suddenly yelled.
"Wha.."
"Begin!"
Dodging from an attack that he only saw at the last minute, Goten stared at his opponent.
'She's not like the other kids..'
"Hey Gohan, what did you mean by don't take them off?" Goku said to his son.
"Mum told me about the time you used to wear weights as part of your training in the tournaments, Goten, Trunks and me are doing the same." Gohan replied as Chikage continued to pressure Goten.
Moving around Chikage, Goten looked for a way to end the fight as soon as possible without causing too much pain to his opponent.
"I know what you're trying to do... but it won't work on me!" Chikage said as she kicked Goten in the back.
"You're strong!" Goten said in excitement.
"Thank you... but I want to win this and not for the money." Chikage replied as she and Goten crossed blows with one another.
"The Sons of Goku are quite unique are they not?" Silcardo said as he watched the fight.
"Yes but it would seem that the youngest has been restricted." Cyril said as he looked at Goten's movements closely.
Evading Chikage's strikes, Goten smilled.
"I finally figured out how to beat you!"
"Beat me? You haven't even landed one good..
"Ring out!" The tournament announcer said as Chikage found herself on the floor outside of the ring with no knowledge on how she got there.
"Wha did he do?!" "I couldn't see.." "Super fast..." Came the murmurs from the crowd.
"Not bad." Gohan said as he had been following the entire fight.
"Yeah but will she..." Krillin replied as he looked down at the stadium where Chikage was weakly getting to her feet.
"Not bad you guys! I didn't even see you move!" The tournament announcer said as Gohan made his way down quickly.
"Here Chikage take this, you fought well." Gohan said as he passed her half a bean.
"What's this?"
"Just eat it or you'll pass out again." Gohan replied as Kushinada stared at the trio.
"I passed out?" Chikage said as she took the bean.
"Sorry about that! My body just moved on its own." Goten said as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"You're strong really strong." Chikage said to Goten as she backed away from the group after the senzu bean had done its work. "I'll be looking forward to seeing how you progress."
'As I suspected.' Chi-Chi thought as she heard the exchange. 'Chikage is the one for Goten.'
"Chi-Chi?" Goku said to his wife in confusion.
"I'm sorry forgot we were linked." Chi-Chi replied. "Read all my memories up to this day while we wait for the next fight."
"Ok." Goku replied as he began to review all of his wife's memories since he had been dead.
And what he saw made him really excited for the future of his family.