Hey everyone! I am really trying here! Please don't hate me lol! Constructive criticism is accepted! No flames, please! Let's get to it! Here is Chapter 5 of The Coliseum!

"Speaking"

'Thinking'

~~~~~~~~~~Mount Paouz~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~Goku's and Chi-Chi's House~~~~~~~~~~

The Son household was lively with chatter and friendly laughter. Everyone had just finished eating the meal that Chiaotzu had made, and were relaxing with tea. Oolong waddled around holding his stomach, as if he were sick. He ate 4 whole bowls of Chiaotzu's dish, while everyone else had only eaten one. The aroma was still lingering in the room, as it mixed with the sweet smell of the tea. The room simply radiated with good sensations. Oolong finally collapsed in a corner and began to snore quite loudly.

"Well, at least he isn't complaining about his stomach ache anymore." Bulma said.

"Yeah, but now he's snoring loud enough to wake the dead." Chi-Chi replied.

Everyone laughed as Oolong continued to make sounds not unlike an eighteen-wheeler downshifting on the highway.

"So, how is Vegeta doing, Bulma?" Chi-Chi inquired.

"He's fine." Bulma answered. "Training 24/7, like always. At least he doesn't just sit around the house though, I guess. I'm just glad he has something to do. Although, I do wish we could talk more."

"I know what you mean." Chi-Chi sympathized. "When Goku wants to train, there's usually no stopping him. It's just in their nature, I guess."

The women sighed in unison, and the room grew silent for a moment. Master Roshi raised an eyebrow as he gazed over his cup of tea. He had felt that the other Z-Fighter's energy signals had disappeared. He was worried, but didn't want to upset Chi-Chi or the others. He couldn't explain it, but he was sure that Earth's heroes were still alive. He sipped his tea, calmly, as to not alert everyone else to what he knew. He happened to glance over at Chiaotzu, who had a blank expression on his face. Roshi knew that Chiaotzu had sensed the same thing. Chiaotzu eventually caught Roshi's eyes, and he nodded as to indicate that they were thinking the same thing.

"I wonder what's on the News." Chi-Chi broke the silence. She picked up the remote, and clicked the power button. The room was filled with the elevator music common to most News channels. The monotonous voice of the News anchor seemed almost unbearable, but what he was saying caught everyone's attention.

"We have some satellite photos of the spacecraft that entered our atmosphere sometime last night. It's sheer size is like nothing we've ever seen. We have reports of unidentified persons entering the ship through what seem like the only possible entrance. We're not sure if this is a threat of not, but the military is going to blow it up anyway. We have reports that the operation is already underway.

"My gosh! You don't think that's where the guys are, do you?! Do you think they'll be in trouble if the military destroys the ship while they're inside?!" Bulma exclaimed.

"That's ridiculous, Bulma. Those boys will be fine. If they can handle all of the training and life or death battles they've been through already, the military should be nothing to them." Roshi stated.

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Bulma replied.

"That stupid military! Do they have to blow up everything they see?! That is my son in there! They better not hurt my little boy!" Chi-Chi shouted, then broke down crying.

The group looked at Chi-Chi, and sweatdropped.

~~~~~~~~~~Inside The Coliseum~~~~~~~~~~

The Z-Fighters were in the heat of battle as they went head to head with the C Class warriors. Ki blasts were flying every which way. The arena was filled with the different colors of each fighter's energy. All the while, the floor and the walls showed no signs of any damage. Piccolo appeared in the middle of the floor, but vanished just before a blast hit him. Krillin dropped to the floor, beaten and battered. Nonetheless, he prepared to attack his opponent, who landed facing him at the opposite end of the arena. It's tag was 6C They locked eyes for a few moments. Krillin then clenched his teeth, and threw his hand into the air. He began to concentrate his energy to his extended hand, and a small yellow disc began to form. It got bigger and started spinning faster and faster. Krillin drew his hand back, and got ready to hurl the disc at 6C.

"Destructo Disc!" Krillin yelled, as he threw it with every ounce of strength in his body. It flew from his hand with such speed, that 6C had no time to move away. Instead, 6C stuck out its hand, and caught the disc. It continued to spin, but did no damage to the warrior's hand. 6C lifted it up, and studied the disc while Krillin simply stood there, in complete shock that the attack had no effect.

"That's impossible! How can he do that?! How am I supposed to beat someone that can catch my strongest attack with their bare hands?!" Krillin questioned himself, with his mouth agape.

6C grew bored of the annoying saucer of energy in its hand. It began to scream, and its ki flared up around its body. The disc simply exploded in its hand, and there was no more than a small burn mark on its palm. It shifted its gaze to Krillin, and smiled. Krillin just staggered back, not sure what he was going to do.

Piccolo was holding 2C in mid-air by its head, with one hand. It was in great pain from the beating it had been taking. Piccolo tossed it up into the air, and began punching it in the stomach as they ascended towards the ceiling. Just before they reached it, Piccolo stopped punching and kicked 2C straight up into the ceiling from no more than five feet away. There was a chilling crunch on impact, and 2C began to fall to the floor, but it was disintegrated before it could make it.

6C had Krillin on the ropes. It threw him into the wall, and kneed him in the gut before he even began to fall. It grabbed Krillin around the throat, and simply stared at him with its burning red eyes that almost seemed to gaze right through him. A sickening smile stretched across its face. Krillin had nothing left, and his power level began to drop rapidly. Across the arena, Gohan stopped to feel Krillin slipping away.

"No, Krillin!" Gohan screamed. He disappeared just as his opponent, 1C, was about to deck him in the face. 6C had its hand in the air with a small energy ball in it, about to cram it down Krillin's throat. It started laughing, but it soon stopped when Gohan appeared with one hand squeezing its shoulder, and the other hand around its wrist.

"I will not let you kill my friends!" Gohan shouted. Without hesitation, Gohan ripped its arm clean off, and the energy ball dissipated. 6C began to scream in pain. The sound echoed with a horrible ring throughout the coliseum. It let go of Krillin, and he fell to the floor, just barely conscious. Gohan was prepared to finish 6C, when he felt someone approaching fast from behind. It was 1C, chasing after its runaway opponent. Gohan knew he couldn't turn around in time, so he braced himself for the attack. Just before 1C hit him, it was abruptly knocked off course by an elbow drop from Piccolo.

"Thank you, Piccolo! Take care of that one, would ya? I need to help Krillin." Gohan stated.

"Sure thing, kid." Piccolo replied.

Gohan took his free hand, still holding 6C with the other, and drove his fist into its back, shattering the spinal cord, and tossed its body to the floor.

Yamcha was in serious trouble. He couldn't keep up with 11C, as it darted up and down, and side to side. Every so often, it would land a strong, and well placed hit. Yamcha was getting worn out. Yamcha threw a small blast at 11C, but it simply slapped it away. Before it knew what happened, Yamcha followed up the blast with a right-hook the connected, sending 11C flying into the nearest wall. Yamcha wasted no time, and created the same energy ball he had used against 23D. He threw it where 11C had hit the wall, but could only gasp in shock as it was absorbed by an even larger energy ball coming his way. He couldn't dodge it, and he was enveloped by the incredible explosion. His body couldn't take the amount of energy displaced by this attack. Nothing but a few ashes were left.

Tien noticed that Yamcha's energy signal had completely disappeared. He stared in horror, as there was no sign of Yamcha after the explosion cleared. Tien went into a rage. He fired up his ki, and his muscles began bulging and spasming. He looked up and started to scream. In an instant, he split himself into two identical copies. His copy went to destroy 11C, while he continued to fight his opponent, 8C. Tien was infuriated. He didn't want to deal with this thing anymore. He powered up, and flew at 8C with astounding speed. It couldn't even get a hand up to block before Tien planted his knee into its face. He hovered in the air above 8C, and put his hands together to form a triangle.

"I've had enough of this! I'm going to destroy you and the monster that killed Yamcha! Your existence ends NOW!" Tien shouted. With that, he powered up it his maximum and began channeling his energy to the space in-between his hands.

"TRI-BEAM! HAAA!" Tiens released a devastating beam of energy that shook the ground with its force. It completely decimated 8C, and caused an explosion that rocked the entire coliseum. Tien then immediately helped his copy dispose of 11C.

Piccolo waited for 1C to make its move. When it tried to make dashing punch, Piccolo grabbed its arm, and drilled his knee into its stomach. 1C tried to kick him, but he, while still holding his arm, spun around behind it and pulled it over his shoulder. As it made its way towards the floor, Piccolo dropped his elbow into its back, sending it that much faster into the ground. Durgan had had enough of it. He pressed a button and destroyed 1C. There were no warriors left. Gohan was helping Krillin get up.

"Come on, Krillin. You're gonna make it." Gohan said, picking him up and getting his arm over his shoulder.

"Thanks, bro. I don't think I'm going to be much help from here on out though." Krillin replied between gasps of breath, as he spat up blood. His left eye was too swollen to open, and he could barely fly.

"Alright. I'm gonna get you out of here." said Gohan. Gohan began taking him up to the porthole then entered from, but Durgan wasn't going to let anyone leave.

"Don't think you're going to get your friend out alive. Nobody leave my ship, without my consent." Durgan roared. He lifted his hand from his cloak, and fired a powerful blast at Gohan as they were making their way up. Gohan looked over as the blast barreled towards him. Gohan couldn't block it while he was holding Krillin, but Piccolo appeared in front of Gohan and slapped the blast away into the wall.

"Hurry, Gohan! Get him out of here!" Piccolo yelled.

"Right! Thanks again, Piccolo!" Gohan said, as he flew out of the opening in the ship. Outside he put Krillin down on top of the ship to rest.

"Will you be alright here?" Gohan asked.

"Yeah. I'll be fine. You get back in there. They need you, Gohan. Your dad needs you. He's in there somewhere. Go get him back." Krillin replied. He managed to stand up on his own and began to walk away along the roof of the ship. Gohan turned around and hopped back into the coliseum.

That was Chapter 5! Yaaay! I hope you enjoyed it! Please Read and Review! No flames, please! Kami bless!