Chapter 4
Goku and Vegeta from Timeline Zero were now standing right next to Goku Black... and a very confused looking Kaioshin Shin from Timeline Twelve who did not even fully seem to realize what was going on.
"Son Goku, Vegeta," Black greeted them. "So we meet again."
He had a sinister expression as he said this.
But for Black this was nothing unusual anyway.
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Spectator Ranks
"Do you want to erase him Lord Zeno?" the Highpriest asked him.
"I-... I am not sure," Zeno replied.
He sounded insecure. That alone was an alarming sign when it came to Lord Zeno.
"Something feels strange about him," Future Zeno added, "... as if it is not a good idea to erase him."
"Yes - strange," the other six Zenos present echoed in a choir.
"Demigra?" the Highpriest suspected quietly.
"I think so," Zeno said.
"So we should wait and observe him for the moment?" the Highpriest stated.
"Yes," Zeno replied.
"Yes," Future Zeno repeated. "I think this is a good idea."
"So I take it this Goku Black or Zamasu is a very dangerous person?" the Grandkaio, who was sitting next to Shin and Beerus asked. "By what I heard Lord Zeno himself gave the order to eliminate that guy."
"That puts it lightly," Shin responded. "He was once a Kaioshin in training, who murdered the Kaioshin of Universe 10, stole his time-ring and used the Super Dragon Balls to switch his own body with Son Goku´s. He then travelled to another timeline, where he and the Zamasu of that world who turned himself immortal together wiped out the Mortals of many planets in Universe 7 and killed all the higher gods across the 12 Universes by murdering the Kaioshin and the Gods of Destruction with them.
Later they used the potara to fuse into one, but Goku, Vegeta and another fighter were still able to beat them. But Zamasu´s spirit survived and somehow managed to spread itself over the universe and destroy all life still left... before Lord Zeno erased that entire timeline."
The Grandkaio and the South-, West- and East Kaio sitting next to him were shocked at hearing the Kaioshin´s tale about Black. While the Kaioshins and Lord of Destruction had been informed about Zamasu´s actions some years ago, they and the other lower ranked gods had not.
They were however sitting too far away to have heard Lord Zeno´s and the Highpriest´s short exchange about Demigra´s possible involvement. Good - they were not even sure about this yet. They would not share their suspicions until they were more sure.
"If you allow it," the Highpriest stated, "I will go down there myself for a few minutes and take a closer look."
"Do that," Zeno told him.
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Arena
"Why are you here?" Goku asked Black.
"I see you two have grown far stronger. Even more power - power that Mortals like you should never possess," Black stated.
"That was never your decision to make you idiot," Vegeta replied. "That is only one of the many reasons Zeno gave order to erase you across all timelines. So how are you still alive?"
Black grimaced and gritted his teeth in anger for a short moment at this statement. But then his expression suddenly changed. It became completely blank for a few moments... and then he looked completely poised and controlled again.
"Goku, Vegeta - what is going on?" Shin from Timeline Twelve asked them.
"Kaioshin - do you even know who this is?" Goku asked him.
"Why? Of course. He is you, isn´t he? From another timeline?" Timeline Twelve´s Shin replied.
Then he noticed where he was.
"Moment. This is the Planet of the Grandkaio. When did we get here? And..." He for a short moment turned his head around and looked at the team he himself and Black had just brought here... and his jaw dropped.
"What?" Shin exclaimed as he saw the Shadow Dragons and the three `maidens´ from Universe 2. "What are they doing here?" he asked loud. "The Shadow Dragons? And who are this girls? This are not the fighters we wanted to bring."
He looked at Goku Black, who however only starred back... and then grinned.
"You are not Goku," Timeline Twelve´s Shin said. "You look like him but your ki is different. Why have I not noticed this before?"
"I think you have been tricked," Goku told him.
Gohan and the Highpriest, who had left Zeno´s side for a few minutes given the situation, just landed next to them.
"Had he been under some kind of mind-control?" Gohan questioned.
"It seems so," the Highpriest agreed.
"But Black never had such an ability," Vegeta argued. "Or he would have for sure used them against us."
"Maybe this power did not came from Black himself," the Hightpriest suggested. He did not say it loud this time, but he was pretty sure that Goku and Vegeta knew what he was suggesting... Demigra.
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The fighters and guests from the other timelines were meanwhile watching the entire exchange with some confusion and in many cases caution.
Who was this `Black´? Why did he looked like Goku? And why were this timeline´s version of Goku and Vegeta and even the Highpriest himself so concerned about him? Especially since they were completely relaxed with beings like Doctor Gero, the Androids, Dabura and Towa and even the Shadow Dragons.
"Zamasu," the Highpriest addressed him by his true name, "Lord Zeno has made an decision. You can stay here as an spectator, for now," he declared. "He will decide how to deal with you later."
"I understand," Black replied stoically.
"You mean you will just leave him be?" Vegeta asked surprised.
"I will explain the reasons to you very soon, but for the moment - yes," the Highpriest responded. "Let us go back to the loge."
"Wait a moment," Goku from Timeline Six, who had just come over to them along with their Vegeta, said. "Who is this Black and why does he look like me? And why are you so concerned about him?"
"Yes - there are others here," Vegeta from Timeline Six pointed at the Shadow Dragons. "And you do not even seem to blink an eye about them. Or do you not know who they are?" he asked impatiently.
"I assure you that we know about the Shadow Dragons Vegeta," the Highpriest replied. "But like you said, Zamasu - or Goku Black as he is also called - is more dangerous than them."
"Really?," the Leader of the Shadow Dragons Syn Shenlong asked. "We will see about that,"
He was a tall bipedal Dragon. With white skin, red eyes, two large horns at the top of his head and black spikes on his back, shoulders and elbows. Three smaller spikes at his chin and two thin apandages on his lips ressembling a mustache made it look like he had a beard.
Just like his comrades, his appearance was in in the some parts bizarre and menacing. Only that in his case the menacing outweighted the bizarre by far, while in some other cases it seemed the other way around. A few of the dragon-creatures were actually smaller than a normal person and looked more than a pet than a cosmic menace.
"I guess you already met us," Syn Shenlong said towards Goku and Vegeta from Timeline Six. "Well - I guess our worlds are pretty similar. You are wearing the exact same clothes as the Goku and Vegeta we had been fighting before we came here after all," he stated.
"Or could it be that we have already killed you in our world? Who knows?" he asked sardonically. He showed them all a malicious smile. This and his words made it more than clear that this being was not only powerful, but also vicious and cruel.
"We have defeated you before, we can do it again," Timeline Six Goku stated.
"You will see that things will be quite different for you this time," Syn Shenlong told him.
"We will see about that," Vegeta from Timeline Six commented.
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Just at this moment however, something else happened.
One of the Shadow Dragons was not longer standing with the rest of them... a special one.
"It seems your dragon-`princess´ is no longer with you," Timeline Twelve´s Brianne commented drily.
The teal-skinned purple haired barefooted woman in a green dress called Oceanus Shenlong, was not longer standing with them. And instead moved to the other teams.
"Where did she...?" the orange skinned Nova Shenlong asked.
One look around answered his question. She was standing right before the group from Timeline Six.
And she was angrily starring at one of them. But to everyone´s surprise it was not Goku, Vegeta, Gohan or another saiyan or even Uub or one of the Androids... it was...
"You damned pig," she growled angrily at a completely shocked and terrified Oolong. "It is all your fault."
Watching this, the members of Timeline Six, but also some of Eight and Nine were powering up.
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A few minutes earlier - Point of View of Timeline Eight and Nine
The timelines Six and Eight and Nine with their two versions of Future Trunks were standing close together. At least the mombers of them from Universe 7. Their comrades from Universe 6 were not really talking much with each other.
The older version of Cabba from Timeline Eight however was looking over at the younger version of himself from Timeline Six and at Caulifla and Renso.
So in their timeline Caulifla was still alive, he thought.
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"Look," Future Trunks from Timeline Eight said to his counterpart from Timeline Nine, "I don´t know what experiences you had with Twenty One and Towa, but I found Twenty One deactivated in a lab, just like Sixteen. And she has been a trustworthy ally since then.
She is actually very peaceful for an Android. She and mother also work very well together."
"I can confirm that," the Bulma from Timeline Eight told them.
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Both mother and son were both still outnerved by the presence of the Androids 17 and 18 in the other group. And even more by the fact that the other Future Trunks and 18 were appearantly a couple and even had two children.
All of them had been warned before hand that things in the other timelines could be quite different.
They were not even the only versions of Seventeen and Eighteen here. Trunks was looking at the ones from Timeline Six and the other sitting up at the spectator ranks. But they, as they were told as they were brought here, were versions of the ones Trunks had met in the past, who he had come to see as completely different beings.
This ones however were from a timeline that was nearly exactly like his own.
But if what their counterparts were saying was true, it were not even really them, but that another personality had been brought back with the Dragon Balls.
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"Sadly it is quite different in our world," her counterpart Bulma from Timeline Nine replied. "Twenty One had the knowledge of a scientist, but she was dangerous and insane."
"Actually, she and Towa were under the greatest threats we had seen," Timeline Nine Future Trunks stated.
"Well - about Towa," Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks said, "I do not even really know her. We have just been told by this Angel named Vados that she will be part of our team. And that she is the sister of the Demon Dabura."
"But you know about Dabura I guess?" Timeline Nine Future Trunks asked, "and about Babidi?"
"Yes. I killed them both actually," Timeline Eight Future Trunks replied. "They came to Earth to awake the Demon Buu. But I stopped them before that."
They all were nearly instinctively looking over to Towa, since her teammate Trunks had just admitted to killing her brother. But she just showed everyone a stoic expression. There was no telling what she was thinking.
"And do you know Broly?" Timeline Eight Future Trunks asked the members of Timeline Nine.
He was looking upwards to the spectator ranks as he said this, where a version of the same saiyan was just sitting right next to the Z-fighters, Seventeen and Eighteen and Lord Zeno and the Highpriest themselves.
"You can say that," Lapis - Timeline Nine´s version of Seventeen - replied.
"We fought against him a long time ago," Timeline Nine´s Android Sixteen stated. "We all barely survived that fight."
"So did we," Timeline Eight Future Trunks told them. "Me, Tarble and Twenty One defeated him together... barely. You know, the sight of a version of that maniac sitting peacefully side by side with father, Goku and Gohan outnerves me nearly as much as the idea of you an Eighteen being lovers."
"Call them Lazuli and Lapis," Timeline Nine Future Trunks stated. "Believe me, who the Dragon Balls had brought back are not the same people from before... quite literally. They have the personalities of the humans 17 and 18 were created from."
Yes, he had said this before, Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks thought. It was just a bit hard to accept.
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In this moment Timeline Ten arrived... and the conversation from before was suddenly forgotten.
Half of the group from Timeline Eight was starring at them.
Or at least at a certain person under their group who was standing very close to their version of Trunks... and also close to two people who were clearly younger looking versions of Prince Pilaf and Shuu who were walking beside them.
"The Dragon Balls?" Timeline Six Goku said as he saw the younger version of the Pilaf Gang.
"Probably," the Bulma from the same timeline replied.
The reaction from Timeline Eight however was another one.
"Mai," Timeline Eight Future Trunks said.
"Mom," his daughter Jeanna said.
They, their Bulma and Tarble were starring at the black haired young woman.
"Your mother?" Iolite - Future Trunks and Lazuli´s daughter from Timeline Nine - asked her alternate timeline `half-sister´.
"Yes."
"She died," Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks said.
"Could you not bring her back with the Dragon Balls?" Iolite asked. "I mean in my world grandmother had been able to locate New Namek and bring Dende to Earth as new Guardian. Did this not happen in yours?"
"It did," Timeline Eight Trunks said. "But that was the second time Mai died. And Shenlong - our Shenlong at least - can not fulfill the same wish twice... and we lost contact to the Namekians."
"I see," Iolitte replied uncomfortably. Stupid, she thought to herself. She had not meant to remind them of something like this.
"Remember - this is not our Mai," Timeline Eight´s Sixteen told them. "While she is obviously close to the Trunks of this timeline, she has never actually met this version of us."
They knew he was right. The urge to walk over and talk to her was great. But at the same time both Timeline Eight Trunks and Jeanna were not even sure what to say.
The rest of Timeline Ten´s group consisted of Vegeta - who was looking far more than he used to look than the leatherclad one from Timeline Six, Gohan, Piccolo, Eighteen, Goten and Trunks... the trio of Cabba, Caulifla and Kale from Universe 6... and surprisingly Dabura. The same Demon King they had just been talking about a minute earlier.
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Timeline Six p.o.v
"I am not in this group either," Timeline Six´s Goku said. "Can it be that I am dead in this world?"
"That would not surprise me. You had been dead in ours several times as well," his wife Chichi, who had come with them as a spectator, remarked. "Luckily in our world you came back," she said then with a softer tone.
"Dad, mom," the Gohan from Timeline Ten greeted them shortly. "Well - I am happy to see you Dad, even if you are not really the same."
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Then Timeline Eleven arrived.
In front of their group stood none other than Doctor Gero, with several of his Androids behind him - Seventeen, Eighteen and Sixteen, who were obviously still under his control, Thirteen and... another Mai? But this version of her had no detectable ki.
That meant she was another Android.
This realization caused the Trunks of both Timeline Eight and Ten to send a deadly glare at this version of Doctor Gero.
But they had been told the rules. It was not allowed to attack one of the fighters or guests from the other timelines.
In an extreme case, you could even be getting erased if you broke that rule.
"Calm down son. Remember what they told us about the rules," Vegeta from Timeline Six said to the Future Trunk from Timeline Eight...
... and by extension to the Trunks from Timeline Ten, who looked also enraged, but also held himself back. His expression suddenly turned... blank. But nobody really paid attention to this.
Timeline Ten´s Mai herself looked horrified that Doctor Gero had turned another version of her into an Android.
"Do you think our son, or should I rather say sons, can not hold themselves back?" Vegeta from Timeline Ten asked his Timeline Six counterpart.
"I rather not take the risk," Timeline Six Vegeta replied.
"Now - as saiyan warriors our sons should know about discipline, shouldn´t they?" Timeline Ten Vegeta responded sardonically, as if he did not really care what Gero had done to his son´s girlfriend. "Have you not raised yours as a saiyan warrior?" he asked him.
"I am not sure if I like that version of you Dad," his daughter Bra commented.
Vegeta could not disagree here. It was not like he denied his own past. And maybe his counterpart had never fully changed. But he could not help it, something just felt off about this other Vegeta.
The rest of Timeline Eleven´s team consisted of a blue skinned white haired humanoid and a few other figures none of them recognized, most of them robots.
"Does anyone know who this guys are?" Caulifla from Timeline Six asked. Her counterpart from Timeline Ten was just about to ask the same thing.
"They are from Universe 3," The older Cabba from Timeline Eight said. "I have met some of them before once."
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Then a short moment later, Timeline Twelve arrived.
And they all watched the reaction from their hosts to them... and especially to this double of Goku called Black.
The visitors from the other timelines were in shock by what they saw from this Goku and Vegeta who were facing him. They were so far only in base form, but they were easily as strong or stronger than anything they had ever met.
What in the world had happened in this timeline for them to become this powerful?
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They all had already been given a short description of who was who on the organizers of this tournament - aside from Lord Zeno himself and the Highpriest, Lord Beerus and Whis and some of the other Destroyers and Angels.
And also the Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Seventeen, Eighteen... and of all people Broly of this timeline, who were close to Lord Zeno and who, along with the being named Jiren, had the title of his `advisors´. A title they had been given after they had assisted Zeno in a great battle and `saved´ him.
But given the power their Goku and Vegeta had just displayed. What kind of battle had this been? And who was the opponent?
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Point of View: Timeline Six
But their hosts from Timeline Zero were not the only ones who reacted to this new group.
"The Shadow Dragons," they heard Goku and Pan from Timeline Six saying.
"Were they really stupid enough to invite them here?" Timeline Six Vegeta asked.
They both walked forward, closer to the newcomers. To both confront the Shadow Dragons and to talk to their own Timeline Zero counterparts.
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Point of View: Timeline Eight and Nine
"Shadow Dragons," Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks repeated what they had said.
"You mean this creatures you had been warned about?" his uncle Tarble next to him said.
"They are looking quite different from how I had imagined them," Timeline Eight Bulma stated.
"You know them?" his counterpart from Timeline Nine asked him.
"It is a long story, but I had been warned about their possible appearance when I trained in the world of the Kaioshin. Dragon-like creatures that are created when the Dragon Balls are corrupted by negative energy because there someone made too many wishes," Timeline Eight Future Trunks explained.
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"They look quite strong, well most of them at least," Caulifla from Timeline Six remarked, "but as Super Saiyan we should be able to take them quite easily. I bet we could take most of them maybe even without transforming."
She looked in the direction of Haze, Rage and Naturon Shenlong. This three creatures at least didn´t look dangerous at all. More like degenerated pets or something.
"We can not be sure that they are showing all their power," Timeline Six´s Cabba reminded her. "Or that anyone here does." He looked around to the other teams.
"I have to agree with Cabba," her brother Renso said. "Just like ourselves many here might be hiding their true power. We should not underestimate anyone here."
"if you say so," Caulifla replied. "I guess we will see it when the matches start."
"Always the careful one, aren´t you brother?" her counterpart Caulifla from Timeline Ten commented. "I for my part can not await to get my hans on this overgrown lizards... and everyone else here. If we go all out together, nobody in the Multiverse can stop us, right Kale?"
"Yes - Sis," Kale replied.
"And you are overconfident as always, aren´t you?" the Older Cabba from Timeline Eight interrupted them. "This attitude was part of the reasons that got you killed in my world - my love," he said.
"I was killed? Moment - what did you just called me?" Timeline Ten Caulifla asked. "Are you telling me you and I were actually together in your world? As if I would ever go for a SDF shrimp like him." She pointed at her own Cabba.
"Actually Cabba and I have been together for a few years," Caulifla from Timeline Six said. "And I would really appreaciate it if you don´t call my man a shrimp."
"I also often ask myself how could I ever fell for someone so arrogant, careless, irresponsible and going out to get herself into trouble like you," Old Cabba commented.
"Whatever," Timeline Ten´s Caulifla said.
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Now
During this conversation the others had watched the whole confrontation with Goku black playing out. By what they overheard, neither the Shadow Dragons or this three black clothed young girls who were appearantly from Universe 2 were even meant to be here.
And then, while their Goku and Vegeta were over there talking with them, Oceanus Shenlong suddenly moved from her group and appeared next to Timeline Six, threatening... Oolong of all people?
The members from Timeline Six powered up as they saw her. With Gohan, Trunks and Goten transforming into Super Saiyans and even the two Super Androids at least keeping their eyes on her.
Future Trunks and Tarble from Timeline Eight did the same... as did Future Trunks and Iolite from Timeline Nine, with Lazuli and Lapis positioning themselves next to them.
This woman? Dragon? whatever she was, was quite powerful, they all noticed. She surpassed for example Majin Buu in his strongest form. And there was no guaranty that she even showed them her whole power right now.
The members of Timeline Eight, who had never met Buu in person, compared her rather as significantly more powerful than Beby´s right-hand man General Rilldo, but weaker than Beby himself in a adequately powerful host-body.
"W-what? What do you want from me?" Oolong cried out as he heard the dragon-woman threatening him. "I don´t know what you are talking about," he exclaimed in panic.
"Oh yes - right, you have not the slightest idea what I´m talking about, have you?" Oceanus said in an outwardly calm tone, but with barely concealed sarcasm. "My entire existence is a joke because of you and you don´t even know about it," she then suddenly shouted at him.
Which caused the small pig-like shapeshifter to only panic more.
"What?" he squealed. "I - I have never even met you. You got the wrong person."
Oceanus Shenlong just starred at the pig angrily.
"I think not," she said.
Gohan, Uub and Pan were ready to move to defend him.
But before Oceanus could even do anything else, a barrier-sphere suddenly appeared around her.
"Hey!" the female Shadow Dragon called out surprised.
In the next moment Eighteen from Timeline Zero appeared next to her.
None of them had even seen her moving and, if they were honest, that put all of them on the edge. Especially the two versions of Future Trunks under them... for slightly different reasons.
Oceanus tried to break free by punching and pressing against the barrier, but it showed no effect.
"Are you finally willing to calm down?" Timeline Zero´s Eighteen asked her.
"Yess," Oceanus hissed, still angry... but realizing there was nothing she could do.
Then Seventeen appeared next to his sister just as fast as Eighteen did. And just like with her, the visitors from the other timelines could not follow his movements.
"Do you not know the rules?" he asked her.
"Rules?" Oceanus replied. "This Goku Black person has never mentioned any rules when he brought us just told us about this tournament and then dragged us here. And then I saw this damned pig that had... ruined my existence."
Seventeen and Eighteen were not the only ones who noticed her reluctance to say what exactly Oolong had done.
"Well - one of the rules is not to attack any of the fighters or visitors outside of the matches," Eighteen said. "So can I trust you not to cause any trouble if I release you and go back to your team?"
"Yes," Oceanus replied.
"Oolong - what in the world have you done to that woman?" Master Roshi asked him.
"I - I don´t know," he assured her. "I never even met her."
"Well - that does not exactly sound like that," Bulma remarked.
"Your counterpart in her world obviously did," Chichi commented. "And if a woman is angry at you, it is normally for one certain reason, isn´t it?"
"Why do you think I am at fault here?" Oolong exclaimed. "Do you remember that this is a monster-dragon who wants to destroy the world?" He pointed at Oceanus. "So why would you believe her over me?"
As Oolong looked at her once again, now that she was no longer a threat, he saw the detail that her feet were naked. Then he noticed her long teal equally naked legs beneath her knee long green dress. His eyes went higher over her body.
Despite the small detail of her being a dragon-monster, she was actually... not bad. Not bad at all, he thought.
He was suddenly starring at her with an open mouth, looking like he was nearly drooling. Something that not only his friends around him noticed, but also Oceanus herself.
She actually looked emberassed as she realized that he was opently oggling her.
"You little bitch," she growled at Oolong. But she made no threatening move again. She knew it would be pointless.
Chichi however smacked him hard at the back of his head.
"This is exactly why," she told him.
Oceanus actually grinned a little as she watched this.
"So can I release you now?" Timeline Zero Eighteen asked her.
"Yes," Oceanus said.
They were interrupted by the group of people approaching them.
"As you have just heard from my comrade, we have never been informed about any rules," Syn Shenlong said. "So you can not blame her for going against them."
He came walking up to them, along with Nova Shenlong and the dark clothed versions of Brianne and Sanka from Universe 2. Walking right behind them were the Goku and Vegeta from Timeline Zero and Six, the Highpriest... and Goku Black in a small distance to the others.
"Not to attack members of other groups during an tournament should have been common sense," Gohan from Timeline Six commented.
"Never do something stupid like this again," Black said to Oceanus.
"I don´t remember taking orders from you," Oceanus replied.
"Then I am telling you the same thing," Syn Shenlong told her. "We are here for a reason."
Oceanus frowned.
"As you wish," she then said.
"How about this?" Goku from Timeline Six addressed Oceanus. "You promise to go back to your team and leave Oolong alone... and I promise not to tell everyone why you are so angry at him."
"You know what this is about?" Bulma asked him.
Oceanus actually blushed deeply now.
"You know...?" she said. "Okay - I promise."
She and her teammates walked back to where their team was assembled.
"You know, what you did was really stupid," Sanka from Timeline Twelve commented, "but at least we know now what happens when we make a move on anyone here."
Oceanus simply frowned.
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"Now that we have dealt with this... well - issues, let us beginn with the Tournament," the Highpriest, who had returned to his place next to Zeno, announced.
"You all have already been informed about the ground rules.
Your abilities to fly through the use of energy will be disabled for the course of the matches. And I repeat, it is not allowed to attack spectators or for them to interfere into the fights.
When a fighter is either ringed out or forfeits, he is out of the tournament.
The first and second round will take place in the form that you Mortals know as a battle-royal, before it goes over to one to one fights in the quarter finals," he explained.
"So for now, I ask every team, please choose five of your members," he stated. "This 30 fighters will take part in the first round. And the last four of them standing will advance into the second round."
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"An interesting form for a tournament," Timeline Six´s Goku commented. "This means we can affect the final rounds depending on which fighters we choose now."
"Quarter finals, which means in the second round eight fighters will be left. That makes it technically more easy than the first one," Timeline Ten´s Gohan stated.
"Only that depending on which fighters win the first round, their timelines will have more fighters left in the second and have an automatical advantage," Timeline Six Vegeta pointed out.
"To put it simple," Timeline Nine´s Trunks pointed out, "you can either send in your strongest fighters in the first round and win a possible advantage later, but also risk loosing them before the second one even starts... or you can save your strongest for later, but risk having to deal with more opponents."
"A tricky system," his Timeline Eight counterpart commented.
"I guess it depends on how confident you are in your fighters winning," Lazuli from Timeline Nine said.
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After ten more minutes, the teams had finally made their choices.
For Timeline Six:
Uub, Pan, Cabba and Caulifla and Super 17 would take part in the first round.
For Timeline Eight it were:
Future Trunks, Tarble, Jeanna, Botamo, Doctor Rota
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"I am a bit surprised about you taking part," Timeline Nine´s Trunks asked his counterpart, "You are the leader of your team, aren´t you? And probably the strongest? What if you drop out here?"
"It doesn´t really matter that much doesn´t it?" Timeline Eight´s Trunks responded. "We are not really fighting for our lives and existence this time, don´t we?" he said. "The worst thing is that our planet could be... well - relocated to another timeline and possibly universe. And maybe we could have other gods watching over us."
That was true, Future Trunks from Timeline Nine thought. This was not really a matter of life and death. He and his family had however a good relationship with Master Kaio and also the Kaioshin. And with the Namekians of course. So they would really appreciate it if their planet staid where it was.
"Besides that - I am pretty confident that I can be one of the last four fighters," Timeline Eight Trunks told him with a light smile.
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For Timeline Nine it would be:
Lapis, Zangya, Iolite, Joyaku and Shorz,
For Timeline Ten:
Vegeta, Eighteen, Caulifla, Cabba and Kale
For Eleven:
Sixteen, Thirteen, Twenty Eight (Mai), Biarra, Catopesra
And for Twelve:
Oceanus Shenlong, Rage Shenlong, Haze Shenlong, Naturon Shenlong and Sanka
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Participating Timelines:
Timeline Six: GT Timeline (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z series and movies five, nine and thirteen)
Timeline Eight: Alternate Future Timeline (connected to the GT instead the Super timeline.)
Timeline Nine: Alternate Future Timeline (based on the fanfic Dragon Ball OT from Raos)
Timeline Ten: Unseen timeline - A timeline where Cell did not came from the future (based on my story Unseen Timeline)
Timeline Eleven: Reign of the Androids - A timeline where Doctor Gero and his Android have taken over Earth.
Timeline Twelve: Alternate GT Timeline
