Chapter 5
The five members that each team had chosen stood at the edge of the tournament arena, their eyes were switching between the fighting stage before and the other opponents next to them.
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Point of view: Timeline Six
"Can we fully trust him?" Vegeta questioned, looking in the direction of Super 17.
"Relax," Goku said to him, "the real Seventeen is in control of his body now."
"Yes - but will it stay that way forever?" Vegeta questioned.
"You know Vegeta some years back we could have asked the same question about you," Goku remarked.
"I was not being controlled by a copy of myself," Vegeta retorted. "My mistakes were my own, for good or worse."
Future Trunks, Lazuli and Sixteen from Timeline Nine had overheard this small exchange. They knew that the Super Android form was the result of the original Seventeen fusing with an artificial created copy. But as it looked had the copy an mind of it´s own and was actually hostile and had been able to manipulate the real Seventeen.
This was something worth knowing at least, even if this copy of Seventeen was really not longer a threat.
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Neutral point of view
The sound of a large gong was suddenly halling over the place. They all knew that this was the signal to start.
The tournament had now truly begann.
Out of them, the first ones to move were unsurprisingly Caulifla, Kale and Cabba from Timeline Ten, who all transformed into Super Saiyans and run forward and Sanka from Timeline Twelve, who instantly begann a transformation.
It was completely different from the one the three Universe 2 girls normally used. For one, it was much faster. It only took around a second. She was however surrounded by a black aura during.
They resulting transformed `Kakunsa´ was still looking very similar to her normal transformed state. Only that her clothes and boots were black and purple colored, instead of the green and purple of the regular Kakunsa and she had black markings on her ears and cheeks.
And she was just as fast as the normal Kakunsa.
She run in incredible speed and leaped right in front of Timeline Ten´s Caulifla and landed a strike at her with her sharp claws. Caulifla was barely able to raise her arm in time. As a result of that however, Sanka´s strike left three bleeding gashes at her arm.
"Damn it," Caulifla said, holding her wound.
"Sis!"/"Caulifla!" Kale and Cabba both called out worried.
"You," Kale growled at the dark Kakunsa and both she and Cabba glared angrily at her.
But...
"Please calm down Kale," Cabba reminded her. "You know what can happen if you loose control of yourself."
"Yes I know," Kale said. As much as she wanted to attack the one who had hurt Caulifla, she was just too angry and she knew better than anyone what could happen if she used her full power in a state like this.
But in the next moment though, the dark Kakunsa had already disappeared and was now already at another part of the fighting stage.
Instead they were faced with other opponents. Standing before them were Super 17 and Pan from Timeline Six.
"Are you not a bit young for such a tournament?" Caulifla asked Pan.
"You are never too young to start, right? Besides, I already had actual life and death fights before. So this here is nothing," Pan responded.
"Very right. I like you," Caulifla told her. "But I still rather fight the big guy first." She pointed at Super 17... who just smiled.
"Then come," he said.
Caulifla run at him and were trying to land a punch. But Super 17 caught her hand with his own and stopped her strike easily.
Caulifla however just used her other hand to fire a blast straight at Super 17, that hit him square in the chest, but showed no effect.
He however released her and she moved at some distance to him.
"How about you try again?" he asked her. "Or maybe you two ladies could try together?" He looked at Kale.
"Come Kale," Caulifla said to her, "we get this guy."
"Yes Sis," she answered.
They both charged up ki blasts with both their hands and fired them at Super 17... who just stood there and took their attacks.
Caulifla, Kale and Cabba were joined by their teammates Vegeta and Eighteen.
And they were confronted by a few members of the team from Timeline Eight, Future Trunks, Tarble and Jeanna.
Standing in some distance behind them were Botamo and the small pig-like Doctor Rota, who seemed to be shielded by the other members of his team.
"Brother," Tarble addressed Vegeta.
"Tarble," he replied, "you have become strong. Far stronger than `our´ father had thought you would ever be," Vegeta told him. Something about the way he said our seemed to sound wrong however. "Care to put this to a test?"
"Yes," Tarble said.
The two `brothers´ charged at each other and exchanged multiple punches.
"Not bad Tarble," Vegeta stated. "I nearly have to take you serious... nearly."
Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks was meanwhile for the moment fighting with Eighteen... and Jeanna with Cabba from Timeline Ten.
Future Trunks had now transformed into Super Saiyan Two, but to his surprise this Eighteen was still holding herself against him and as it looked quite easily.
"You are good," Trunks stated.
"So are you Trunks," Eighteen replied, "but you are not the one I want to fight here," she said a bit to his surprise.
"And who is it then?" he asked.
Eighteen, he realized, was looking in the direction of Timeline Nine... in fact a certain person out of them.
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Kakunsa, who had avoided Cabba and Kale earlier, however was quickly attacked herself by another fighter, one who specialized in speed as well - the man in a white combat suit and a helmet from Timeline Eleven´s Universe 3 named Catopesra.
Kakunsa barely reacted in time to block a kick from him. But she stroke back right afterwards. And like before her clawed hand ripped through the fabric of Catopesra´s suit and draw blood. While the normal Kakunsa held herself back from causing serious injuries on her `prey´ if she could, this one was another matter.
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Pan from Timeline Six was meanwhile firing a blast at Timeline Eight´s team-member Botamo. That however was just repelled by his body.
Her teammate Uub joined in by jumping at Botamo and punching him. But it showed no effect either.
"My body is naturally immune to physical damage," Botamo told them. "You can hit me as much as you want, you have no chance."
"Oh really?" Uub said.
He begann to power up. His strength surprised most others around him, who didn´t know he was the reincarnation of Majin Buu, who had on top of that merged with the other half of himself.
He hit Botamo again. But even now his strike seemed to barely hurt his opponent. But it was pushing him backwards, closer to the edge of the tournament stage.
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Point of view: Timeline Nine
The next ones who had also gotten active by now were Iolite, Shorz and Joyaku from Timeline Nine.
While Iolite and Shorz became Super Saiyan as well, Joyaku - who was the son of Lapis and Zangya - turned into the transformed state of the Heran race.
They were quickly followed by his parents Lapis and Zangya.
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"It seems we have in fact underestimated some people here," Timeline Nine´s Future Trunks said to Lazuli as they looked at his counterpart from Timeline Eight. Both of them, just like the rest of the fighters who did not take part in round one, were stading right outside the fighting stage, watching.
Timeline Eight´s Trunks Super Saiyan One far surpassed his own Super Saiyan Two. By what they had seen as the fighters had been powering up, the other Trunks in his Base Form already nearly rivalled the Demon Buu.
Future Trunks asked himself how his counterpart had trained to achieve this. He knew from his last visit in Afterlife that his father had reached a similar level, or at least close to it. But Vegeta had been training in the Afterlife since he himself had been a baby. The other Trunks however should only have had as much time as he himself had.
And he was not the only one. The Saiyans from Universe 6 were similar powerful as well, all versions of them here. No matter if from Timeline Six, Ten or Eight. In fact the one called Caulifla might be a bit stronger. Were the saiyans from Universe 6 just naturally that much more powerful than their Universe 7 cousins?
And it were not only the saiyans either.
Timeline Ten´s Eighteen was actually holding herself against Timeline Eight´s Trunks and she did not even seem particular strained.
"It seems your counterpart is a dangerous opponent," he stated to Lazuli. "She is at least equal to my counterpart in his Super Saiyan Two, which is far greater than mine. If she is even showing her full power."
"The same can be said about your counterpart darling," she replied. "For all we know he can go beyond Super Saiyan Two as well. Lapis, Zangya or Iolite will probably have to go all out against them."
This Uub was also a dangerous opponent. And of course Super 17 and some others.
Botamo´s near immunity to attacks alone however was also something to take serious. And even if Uub threw him out of the tournament, there was another version of Botamo here, Future Trunks thought.
Still, if he used all his powers, none of them bothered him too much. Unless these fighters were hiding even more surprises.
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Fighting Stage
Android Thirteen suddenly appeared in front of Shorz and Joyaku and instantly fired a Double S-Bomber at the two boys.
But Shorz just countered it with his own Finish Buster and fired an energy ball that broke though the Bouble-S, dispersed it and so neutralized the Android´s attack.
"Not too bad boy," Thirteen remarked.
The next moment Iolite moved in front of him.
"Not you again," she commented at seeing the white haired Android in the trucker clothes.
In her timeline Thirteen along with his two underlings Fourteen and Fifteen, had been activated after Seventeen and Eighteen had been destroyed and brought back with the Dragon Balls as Lapis and Lazuli instead. He turned out quite persistant and despite that they managed to beat him and thought him dead, he returned even years later.
It was right then, as Thirteen´s appearance suddenly changed. His skin turned blue and his hair red. And his entire body became more bulky and muscular.
"I thought you can only do that when you have absorbed part from Fourteen and Fifteen?" Iolite asked him surprised.
"Doctor Gero has integrated their part into me when he had discarded this two failures," Thirteen stated. "I can now power-up into this state whenever I want. Well, I guess thats ya´r bad luck."
"Oh - I see," Iolite said calmy... and entirely unimpressed.
Then she suddenly moved with a speed that Thirteen could not even follow and kicked him at the side of his face with enough force to send him flying right off the fighting stage and crashing hard into the wall in front of the spectator ranks. He would have broken right though it, it not for the barrier that was protecting the ranks.
"Oh. Well - maybe that was a bit much," Iolite said.
Aside from some light injuries/damage however, Thirteen seemed unharmed.
"I hope that is now the last time we have to deal with this guy," Iolite commented.
"Hey that was our opponent," Shorz said to his sister.
"Sorry," she said, "I could just not hold back when I saw him. I promise I will leave the next opponent to you."
"Well - that is nice to hear." They looked around and saw one of the Shadow Dragons standing before them.
It was the very small magenta colored one called Rage Shenlong.
Only that he was no longer small. The creature seemed to have created itself a host body, consisting of, what it looked like, some gelly like mass. He had now the height of a small house and his waste was nearly three meters wide.
"Okay Joyaku," Shorz said. The half saiyan now powered up into Super Saiyan Two and the two faced him together.
The Shadow Dragon and also many other people around were surprised that the young half-saiyan was able to use that transformation at such a young age. And the half-heran Jojaku also powered up even more than he had before, matching him.
But Rage Shenlong staid confident easily.
His power, especially in this form, was really not to be underestimated, Iolitte realized as well. But she had promised the boys to leave him to them and she was quite confident that they could take him.
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Point of view: Timeline Twelve - a minute earlier
The Shadow Dragons from Timeline Twelve had gotten active, after they had been standing back at first.
Oceanus raised her hands. And the air begann to move... and a wind what quickly seemed to turn into an orcano was raging over the battlefield.
At the same time lighting was coming from down right over Rage Shenlong and he was absorbing it.
While outside the ring, Syn- Nova- and Ice Shenlong had raised one of their hands and were sending energy to him. Which, along with Oceanus lightning, he was using to form his avatar body.
"Thank you siblings," Rage said.
A few of the other fighters and spectators had noticed this as well.
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Spectator Ranks
"Giving some of your energy to other fighters is not against the rules, even if you are currently not in the ring," The Highpriest announced above them.
"By the way, do any of you know why the Shadow Dragons had never appeared in our timeline?" Timeline Zero Gohan asked the gods.
"I can answer this question," Master Kaio said. "In our world the Namekians have an ability that allows the Dragon Balls to release the negative energy they have stored into the cosmos on a regular base. It seems however in this timelines this ability had never been invented."
"I see," Gohan said.
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Goku Black meanwhile was just standing at the edge of the fighting stage with a thin smile on his face. It seemed recruiting this creature had been worth it after all. Not that it had been his choice from the beginning.
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Fighting Stage
While many fighters around were somehow affected by the wind that Oceanus had caused, but most of them managed to stay on their feet. They were all used to deal with far worse after all... most of them.
The only reason why Doctor Rota was still standing on the stage was that his teammate Future Trunks was grabing him with one of his hands.
"How much more time do you need for that attack of yours Doc?" Trunks asked him through the wind.
"Sorry - but this storm has thrown me off," he shouted back, "I need to start again."
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The brunt of the storm however was directed at Uub and at Botamo, who was just pushed at the edge of the fighting stage by his stikes.
Now however Uub himself was halted in his move by the sudden wind. While it normally would not affect him that much given his power and training, he was completely caught by surprise.
Botamo however was caught completely helpless and pushed even further to the edge.
Until the wind suddenly changed direction, pushing him back unto the fighting stage.
"Naturon - now," Oceanus called out.
She fired a ki blast at Botamo, that also bounced off on him.
But that had only been a distraction.
Naturon Shenlong, a quite weak and lazy looking weasel-like creature had used this chance to run forward. He opened his mouth, that suddenly stretched at an impossible seeming size. In fact his entire body seemed to be growing as he had reached Botamo and wrapped his large mouth around him... and actually swallowed the large bear-like fighter.
Then the Shadow Dragons form changed, becoming even larger... and growing bright yellow spots on his grey body.
"He has absorbed him," Pan shouted. She remembered how the same had once happened to her.
Uub charged up and fired a Kamehameha at him, but just like before with Botamo, it just bounced off on him and was thrown back into the ring.
Uub and Pan both ducked, to bot be hit by their own attack.
The attack instead hit an very unlucky Timeline Ten Caulifla in the back, who was still concentrating on fighting Super 17.
"Look at me now," the transformed Botamo-Naturon screamed. "I am invincible."
"We will see about that," Uub commented.
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Point of view: Timeline Eleven
"I guess this is not going too well for the start Gero," Paparoni said to him. "your Android 13 was the first fighter to be ringed out... and quite easily as it seems."
"Yes," Gero admitted. "But do not worry. Even in his powered state, Thirteen is by far not one of my strongest creations."
"I see," Paparoni replied. "There is no reason to worry anyway."
They were watching how Cabba and Caulifla from Timeline Six - who were not only a couple, but had also been working together in the Defense Force for years - were teaming up and firing blasts at the robot Biarra.
"Biarra´s armor is a perfect defense," Paparoni explained to Gero. "Any opponent will just exhaust themselves trying to break it and we can defeat them when they are weakened."
"If you say so," Gero replied. "Sixteen, Twenty Eight," he called out and the two Androids moved to back Biarra up.
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Paparoni was a fool, Gero thought. He actually believed his story that his work was to better the world and for the sake of humanity.
Well, it was certainly to better the world, since the humans would either be replaced or turned to better artificial beings.
But Paparoni was still a skilled scientiest in his own right. And from a society that had different and in some ways higher evolved technology than Earth. Gero was all all too happy for the chance to take a look at his work and take all knowledge from him that he could.
Gero also did not really care about the outcome of this tournament. At least not in the way most people would think.
This Doctor Gero had knowledge about parallel timelines and some versions of the future for a long time. Send to him by another version of himself from one alternate future, which had helped him to conquer his Earth and build up his Empire.
He did not really care if his Earth was transported into another timeline or other planets into his, not in general. As long as it did not affect his reign over Earth or his plans to conquer more planets. But that was exactly the problem. He did not know which other timelines his would be merged with.
Who said that planets with incredible powerful beings would not appear right in Earth´s neighborhood?
So he was using this tournament as a chance to make a threat-assesment of the fighters from this other timelines and to collect as much combat-data about them as possible for the creation of future Androids.
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Fighting Stage - Neutral point of view
Catopesra was now bleeding from a dozen wounds as the Dark Kakunsa continued to attack him viciously. The white color fabric of his suit was starting to turn red.
"Okay - this is as far as it goes," he said. "I wanted to show this only later in the tournament, but it seems I have no choice."
A bright light seemed to the suddenly shining from his body and the S letter on the front of his suit changed into an large U.
"This is the Ultimate-Mode of my suit," Catopesra declared. "It boosts not only my speed OR my strength, but both of them at the same time."
"Oh really," Kakunsa replied. "Then show me what it got."
She leaped forward and her claws left another gash at the Universe 3 fighter´s shoulder.
And like before he managed to land a punch back at her in return. But this time this single punch was strong enough to nearly break her arm and to dislocate her shoulder.
"Ahh!" Kakunsa cried out in pain. "I will kill you," she growled.
But Catopesra just punched her in the gut.
"It is not so nice if you are the one getting injured, right?" he commented with some snide.
But then suddenly he felt himself being stopped in his tracks. He felt something wrapping around his limps. Yet the same time it felt as if there was nothing, nothing physical at least - Psychic Threads. He saw them as he tried to move.
Zangya and Lapis from Timeline Nine were standing directly behind them.
"Sorry about this," Lapis remarked, "but you know, this is an `in for all´."
"It is nice that you have slowed down a bit," Zangya commented, "and weakened each other. That allows us to do this."
This threads, they were drawing away his energy, Catopesra realized. Okay - most of his power came from his suit boosting him. Even if he was no weakling without it. But even the power of the suit itself seemed to be drawn away. He realized in shock that it was not longer working properly.
Lapis was suddenly being surrounded by a red aura. An aura that several people in the stadium, especially the ones named Son Goku or Master Kaio, knew all too well.
He stroke Catopesra in the stomach with the side of his hand. Not too hard, it was clear that the man was already in a terrible state, but enough to send him flying out of the ring.
Zangya´s psychic threads disappeared. But instead a purple aura was now forming around her... and her power increased immensely at the same time.
"Damn you," the injured and already beaten up Kakunsa shouted and tried to throw herself at Lapis.
But Zangya intercepted her and send a punch that Kakunsa barely managed to block with her uninjured arm. It effected her far more than it should have. She felt herself weakening even more.
That Punch! she realized. She was using the same technique like with her bizarre threads, she was drawing out her energy, this time with her bare hands. But before she could do anything with that realization, Zangya had already punched her again and send her just like Catopesra over the edge of the ring.
"Good work," Lapis said to her smiling.
"The same to you," she replied.
That made three fighters eliminated out of thirty.
But Lapis and Zangya already had new problems, as Jeanna and Cabba from Timeline 10, who were still fighting each other, came closer to them.
Jeanna was now in Super Saiyan Two, Cabba however stil in level one. And he was still the one overpowering her, forcing her to fall back. Damn it, the base strength of this Universe 6 saiyans was just unbelievable, she thought.
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"Too bad - I expected more from you Sanka," the dark Brianne said as she and Su watched their partner lying on the ground where she had landed, struggling to stand back up.
"She is injured and she was caught off-guard," Su reminded her.
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Spectator Ranks
"He was using the Kaioken," Timeline Zero´s Goku said about Lapis. "But he is a counterpart of Seventeen from Trunks world. How has he learned this?"
"Maybe they had learned it from Master Kaio at some point," Gohan speculated. "Trunks from Timeline Nine said they have been his allies for a long time after all. Or maybe they met you in the Afterlife, they know Master Kaio and the Kaioshin after all."
"Maybe," Goku replied. "His Kaioken looks a bit different. Probably because he is and Android."
"I am sure Eighteen and me could use it as well if we tried," Seventeen sitting next to them stated casually. "We have seen you using the technique often enough after all."
"Then why have you never done it," Vegeta asked them.
"Aside from the side-effects," Seventeen replied, "we are not sure if it would do much for us. You can not use certain other techniques while you are using Kaioken after all."
"It is for example not possible for us to use Kaioken and Ultra Instinct at the same time," Eighteen remembered them, "as you know perfectly well."
"Yes right," Goku said.
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Spectator Ranks
The guests from Timeline Zero´s Universe 2 however were less interested in Lapis or Zangya.
The alternate Kakunsa´s cruel and gruesome behavior that filled them with shock, disgust and horror.
"How could this other version of me become as bloodthirsty like this?" Sanka asked.
"How could any version of our girls turn out like this?" Heles said.
"Oh - I would really like to answer that question Lady Heles." They realized that the alternate versions of Brianne and Su were now standing right before them, right at the edge of the balcony of the spectator ranks.
While the fighters ability to fly was disabled for the matches, this was only the case while they were on the fighting stage. So right now it was no problem for the two to just fly up to them.
"It is not against the rules to come up here and talk to the audience when you currently aren´t fighting, right Lords Zeno, Highpriest?" Dark Brianne asked them.
"That is right," Zeno replied. "It is allowed," Future Zeno added.
"To answer your question," Brianne turned back to Heles and Pell, "it was because of this one special place you would like nothing more than to hide away. The place that was created when you tried to dispell everything from our universe that you considered evil and ugly... and created a cosmic menace because you fucked up.""
"You mean the Castle of Doom," Heles said horrified.
"Yeah - the Castle of Doom... that lies on the Continent of Doom, on the Planet of Doom," Dark Brianne replied, "as stupid as it sounds," she commented sarcastically. "Our ancestors must really had been out of ideas when they came up with that names. Not that it matters."
"You became corrupted by it," Kaioshin Pell said.
"If you wanna call having your eyes opened `being corrupted´ - yes," the Dark Su spoke up, "after you and Heles send us there in the first place, because some small time villain was trying to use the power of the Castle for himself. You know several of our comrades died. We three, Vikal and Jimeze barely made it out alive. All because of you."
"You can not blame Lady Heles for this," the normal Brianne said.
"Oh - look who is talking, my old self. So bright and cheerfull, so full of so called love - so pink and naive and annoying," Timeline Twelve´s Brianne responded.
"Tell me, who created that place? Who send us there because she could not clean up her own mess and was too arrogant to as the other universes for help?"
Brianne did not know how to respond to this.
"But you are just Heles little puppet, right? Just like I had been. I should be glad that I am not longer you," her counterpart said.
"By the way, the fighters from the other universes think your transformed form is fat, ugly and ridiculous. They are just too polite to tell you this."
Brianne was visibly hurt by the last comments, but tried not to show it.
Her evil counterpart turned back to Universe 2´s Goddess of Destruction.
"Well `Lady´ Heles - you better hope for `your own´ sake that Timeline Twelve doesn´t win this tournament. Just to let you know, we will destroy the Heles from our timeline... and we can not guaranty that we will stop there."
With that they flew back down, leaving a very distraught Universe 2 group behind.
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Fighting Stage - Point of view: Timeline Eight
Super 17 now joined his two teammates Cabba and Caulifla against Biarra, who was backed up by Timeline Eleven´s Android Sixteen and Twenty Eight.
He just raised his right hand... and fired an onslaught of first dozens and then hundreds small ki attacks at the robot, an as it seemed never ending storm of them.
For the first couple seconds, Biarra kept standing. But then his armor started to break, showing clear cracks. And then the robot sank to his knees.
"Wow," Timeline Six Cabba and Caulifla said nearly at the same time.
Sixteen and Twenty Eight draw back.
"Not bad," Caulifla said. "Now then." She stepped forward and gave Biarra a kick that send him right out of the fighting stage.
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"H-how is that possible?" Paparoni asked in shock. "Biarra´s armor was supposed to be perfect, impenetrable."
"Well - it seems even your best creations are not perfect," Gero said sarcastically.
He admitted it gave him a bit satisfaction to see one of the naive Universe 2 scientist´s creations failing, especially against one of his own. And this Super 17, the design had certainly shown to be promising... more than promising.
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Super 17 however was not the only one who joined them.
Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks and his alternate daughter Iolite, who were both looking for new opponents, appeared before them.
All of them were looking at each other, judging their possible opponents.
"Hey - this guy belongs to us." Caulifla and Kale from Timeline Ten had followed Super 17 and now joined the group facing each other.
"May," Future Trunks said, looking at Twenty Eight.
"Who is that?" Twenty Eight asked.
"That was your name before Gero turned you into an Android."
"That does not matter," she replied. "I am Android Twenty Eight and I serve Doctor Gero. The human I was created from is of no importance."
"She is of importance to me," Future Trunks said grimly.
"Sixteen," Iolite said to him, "you know Doctor Gero is wrong. Why are you serving him?"
"It is my programming," he simply responded.
"You resisted your programming in my reality," Iolite told him.
"And in other timelines as well," Future Trunks said, speaking of both his timeline´s Sixteen and the one he had met when he travelled to the past.
"Doctor Gero had improved his programming methods," Sixteen stated. "No Android can go against him... even if I wanted."
"I see," Trunks replied.
"You - how could you just ditch us?" Caulifla asked Super 17.
"Sorry - but you seemed a bit distracted by the Kamehameha in your back," he responded.
"Well - I am back now," Caulifla explained. "So lets fight again," she shouted.
She threw herself at Super 17 once again, joined by Kale. The two attacked him from both sides, exchanging punches and kicks.
"Do I really act like this?" Caulifla from Timeline Six asked her Cabba.
"Sometimes," he replied.
"I heard that," Timeline Ten Caulifla called back at them, while Super 17 parried another one of her strikes.
They themselves however were in this moment challenged by Future Trunks and Iolite.
Caulifla and Cabba in Super Saiyan One fought Future Trunks and Iolitte, both in Level Two.
While Future Trunks was holding himself against Cabba, Iolite - just like Jeanna against the other Cabba - was being overwhelmed.
Until.
Iolite transformed once again. She had turned into a Super Saiyan Three.
"What?" Timeline Six Cabba asked surprised, "another Super Saiyan form?"
Super 17 meanwhile was still holding himself against Timeline Ten´s Caulifla and Kale at the same time.
"God damn it. Why can I just not take this guy?" Caulifla called out.
She charged up a blast with both hands at Super 17, who once again just stood there and took the attack.
"Could you two idiots stop shooting at him," Iolite yelled at them. "Don´t you realize that he is absorbing your energy? You are just making him stronger and stronger."
"What?" Caulifla called out, surprised at this revelation.
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Fighting Stage - Point of view: Timeline Eight
Jeanna knew she had no other choice now. And she powered up even more. This time however her hair returned to her natural black and her eyes to their natural color as well. Her power however had skyrocked and now surpassed even her Super Saiyan Two form by far - it was an Ultimate Form, given to her by the Elder Kaioshin of Universe 7.
Cabba saw this as well.
"This is no Super Saiyan," he pointed out the obvious. "This is something completely else."
"Very right," Jeanna replied.
"I guess you will not explain how you achieved this state?" Cabba questioned.
Jeanna smiled.
"Magic," she said, "from one of the Kaioshin."
"I see," Cabba replied, a bit surprised that she actually decided to give him an answer, even if it was vague.
"Now then - Ahh." He transformed into Super Saiyan Two.
"I saw you and some of the other saiyans here doing this," Cabba explained. "I had discovered the Super Saiyan some years ago now. So I thought I should be able to do this as well."
Damn it, Jeanna thought. Well - there was a chance she could take him even like this in her Ultimate Form... maybe. And that was a big maybe.
But then something happened that completely surprised her.
Lapis moved beside her and fired a Photon Flash at Cabba. He was using Kaioken Times Ten.
Zangya appeared next to them and joined in with a blast on her own.
"Why are you helping me?" Jeanna asked. "We are not at the same team."
"We don´t," Lapis replied. "We just thought he might come after us next."
"With other words you think he is a more dangerous opponent than me." She sighed.
"Well - can you blame us?" Zangya asked.
Cabba now fell back. This three together seemed too much.
But then, he was getting `help´ as well. Timeline Ten´s Eighteen moved next to him.
"You," she said in an angry cold voice, looking at Zangya, "you will suffer. I will let you get away with a quick ring-out."
"Moment," Lapis said, "I don´t know what problem you have with Zangya. I have heard that you are supposed to be peaceful in your timeline, more or less. But if you want to harm my wife..."
"Wife," Eighteen repeated the word, as if it sounded like poison. "You really are with that bitch?"
"Look, I know about Zangya´s past, but she has changed. And I am not a saint anyway, even if I was not really responsible for the destruction my other personality had caused."
"Your `Wife´," Eighteen sneered, "is the reason my brother is dead."
Zangya gulped as she heard this.
"It was just after we had been fighting Majin Buu and Seventeen and Goku had both sacrificed themselves to stop him," Eighteen explained. "As her group of space pirates appeared. They attacked Earth, terrorized the planet, destroyed entire cities and kept us from using the Dragon Balls to bring Goku and Seventeen back. She is the one who had killed Dende and made the Dragon Balls useless."
Lapis actually looked visibly distraught after hearing this.
"This is terrible, I admit that. But you can not blame Zangya for crimes another version of her had commited," he said.
"I can not? Tell me - has this version of her," she pointed at Zangya, "not joined Bojack´s group willingly and fought and killed innocent people for him, for who knows how many years? When she finally left him and joined you, was it out of the `goodness of her heart´ or just out of her because she jumped boat out of her self-interest?
I thought so," Eighteen said as never Lapis or Zangya answered right away.
Side Notes: Rage Shenlong´s fake body is not nearly as big here as in the series. So his power should be somewhat less than in GT.
This version of Eighteen comes from a timeline that is based on Super. That means she has the same potential as the one in the Tournament of Power.
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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
