A Simple Change
Chapter 4: Tournament
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ.
AN: Ladies and Gentlemen this is your captain speaking. I know you're all shaken up as we've experienced a bit of turbulence but everything is under control. As far as lemons are concerned I have ruled out both Chichi and Bulma after much thought. Still 18, Lime, and Videl's mom are still up for grabs. Videl however will be a definite.
Also to let you guys know I just created my own group at yahoo groups so check that out. That's were all my lemons will be. I'll even be doing some that have nothing to do with the story so they'll be one shots. Anyway the group is called cdzscollection so check it out.
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The World Championship Martial Arts Competition. That was the name of the tournament to be sponsored by one of the world's wealthiest men Mr. Money. The tournament was actually thought up by him as a birthday present for his son Dollar. For this tournament anyone was allowed to compete regardless of age, sex, or nationality.
So it was of no surprise that when Bulma had heard of this she had informed all of the Z Fighters and signed up anyone who wished to compete. Capsule corp. had been in charge of the building of the entire arena. It would seem that people had been impressed with the quality of the footage from the Cell Games.
As a result several of the Z Fighters had entered the tournament. The incentive for this was the prize of one million dollars and any automobile of choice. That had been all that was needed for Krillin, Yamcha, and Tien to enter. Gohan and Trunks however had entered for one reason alone, they were bored and wanted to fight. The money and the car had merely been thought of as a bonus to them.
Vegeta however had no interest in entering the competition at all. He didn't care for money and he had more than enough motorcycles and cars. That and the fact that the tournament held no competition for him had been enough to keep him from entering.
Piccolo had nearly entered as well. However upon hearing that Vegeta was out decided against it. The reason was simple with the exception of Gohan and Trunks, Vegeta was the only competition. He had more experience and power than Trunks, and while Gohan was stronger they knew each others moves so well there was just no point.
At the moment the blue haired beauty was looking over the data files for the arena she had built. With the video system she had made she had installed some properties of the scouter she had gotten from when Radditz had first arrived, thanks to this the power levels of the fighters could be shown.
She had wanted to do more but figured it would be over the top seeing as how this was a human tournament. That and the fact that most humans had no idea how to manipulate their ki made her decide against it as it would be extra work for nothing. She did however use an advanced camera system.
The cameras themselves were capable of flight to monitor aerial battles and much like for the Cell games they were set up so people could actually see the fights. Once she saw everything was checked out and good to go she shut down the computer and exited her lab.
439 Mountains:
Not much had changed in the Son household in the last six months. Chichi still cooked and Gohan still studied. However now instead of just the work his mother had piled upon him he studied politics, as well as Saiyan history, language and culture. On top of this he still had to keep up his training among many other things. He had never been so happy Piccolo had taught him the tri-form technique all those years ago. This allowed him to train and learn from Vegeta, spend time with his grandfather and learn from him, and be home to tend to the house and his mother at the same time.
Two months after the Cell Games they had learned that Chichi was pregnant. Dende had relayed the news to his father and King Kai as soon as he found out. King Kai had then informed Dende of the situation in otherworld. Goku had apparently been part of a task force sent to clean things up in HFIL.
As it turns out not long after Cell had arrived there he and various other villains had rebelled and taken over the place. The Grand Kai had heard about this and had each Kai under him summon their strongest warrior to handle the problem. After this was taken care of the Grand Kai had held a tournament to celebrate.
Goku had ended up tying with someone by the name of Pikkon. Both of them had won the rights to be trained by the Grand Kai himself. The Grand Kai had also fixed Goku's head injury allowing him to slowly regain his memories of the Saiyan race. Unfortunately this resulted in Goku having a split personality disorder, as well as the loss of control over his power they were all determined to fix. According to King Kai once that was done they would be allowed to wish Goku back to life.
Unfortunately King Kai said that this could take up to a decade to do. Apparently this wasn't the first time they had dealt with something like this. King Kai had stated that they needed Goku to regain control of his power so as not to destroy the planet before sending him back. Of course they needed to stabilize his personality first since it was tied to his emotions, in which Goku drew his power from.
Needless to say Chichi had not been happy to hear this. The fact that Goku would miss not only the birth but likely the first ten years of his child's life saddened her greatly. Gohan himself had also been saddened by this but was happy that his father would eventually be returning.
Regardless of this though Gohan was happy with the knowledge that he would not remain an only child. When he was younger he had always felt alone. Sure he had friends but they were all at least a decade older than he was. He had never had anyone near his own age to associate with.
Of course he'd never tell his mother something like that and instead spent time with the friends he did have who were more like family. Bulma was his godmother, and Krillin had become an uncle to him as he and Goku were like brothers. Yamcha and Tien had become like cousins to him, and Piccolo had become a second father for him.
He had gained himself a best friend in Trunks though. The two were found together more often then not now. Weather it be training, studying, or just hanging out the two were together like brothers, they were god brothers, but brothers none the less.
Shaking himself from his thoughts the demi-saiyan looked himself over in the mirror. For today he had chosen his orange gi, which like his father held no symbol on the back. The significance of this was that it showed him as his own master. Underneath the top he wore a black training shirt to match the wristbands and belt wrapped around his waist. To finish the outfit he wore a pair of black boots.
Nodding to himself the universe's strongest fighter headed down the stairs for breakfast. After a meal that would have fed at least ten people not of Saiyan decent both Gohan and Chichi headed off to Capsule Corp.
Elsewhere:
Videl looked out of the window of the air car in boredom. Beside her Erasa was speaking a mile a minute about something the black haired girl wasn't paying any attention to. Her father or Hercule, as she had taken to calling him, had decided to compete in the tournament hoping to prove he was the strongest in the world.
She snorted at that thought, but was happy her mother was allowing her to compete herself. And while she didn't hold any fantasies of winning she did hope someone hit the buffoon hard enough to shut him up. She didn't even live with him and the man still manage to talk her ears off.
She absently wondered if the 'Gold Fighter', as they had taken to calling him, would be competing as well. She hoped he did then maybe she could talk him into teaching her how to fight like he did since her father couldn't. While her father was the current World Champion the Cell Games had revealed that there were levels of power that her father didn't possess and thus couldn't teach her. Whatever the case she couldn't wait to test her strength against the fighters that would be there. She nodded absentmindedly giving off the impression she was listening to Erasa who was still speaking so fast she could set a new record for words spoken per minute.
Tournament Grounds:
The Competition had finally started as all the participants had arrived. The preliminary rounds had all the fighters split up into several different rings above the ocean. The last ones standing in the rings would move on to the semifinals. As such the Z Fighters were making quick work of the competition.
Gohan ducked under a punch before coming up with an uppercut to one guy's jaw grinning the whole time. Not giving the guy any time to compose himself he gave a spin kick sending him crashing into two others causing all three to fall over into the water below.
Ducking under a kick from behind, he countered with a mule kick to the chest sending another guy flying back towards the edge. Springing forwards on his hands the demi-saiyan grinned once more before launching himself into another fray.
While this was going on Yamcha was quickly clearing the ring of anyone who crossed his path. When he had first learned of the tournament he had been understandably reluctant about entering. However after learning a few details about the tournament itself he had quickly changed his mind, the prize money being one of the bigger reasons.
Ducking low he avoided a palm strike from a sumo and simultaneously swept the legs out of a kick boxer. Still spinning he lashed out with an elbow to the sumo's stomach causing him to fold over before delivering a back fist to the man's chest sending him flying. He whistled as the sumo managed to take out at least five more people as he flew over the edge. Almost casually he sidestepped the kick boxer's fist before slamming his left foot into the man's stomach launching him over the edge.
In another ring Trunks easily removed his opponents as they came at him. The purple haired youth was making it look easy to defeat the number of men he was facing. Finally with one hard punch the demi-saiyan created a domino effect knocking all of his opponents from the ring.
Tien was also having an easy time defeating his opponents. Unlike the others though Tien had expected as much. Especially since all his opponents before Goku had never so much as interested him. After he'd fought the earth raised Saiyan his standard of expectation had done nothing but rise from that point on. As such it came to no surprise to Chouzu when he saw Tien clear his ring while looking incredibly bored doing it.
In another ring Krillin was also having a great time. He hadn't felt like this since he competed with Goku during the World Martial Arts Tournaments as kids. Using his size to his advantage he ducked under a kick to his head before quickly giving a 'soft' punch into his opponent's stomach. His opponent however soon found himself wide eyed as well as bent over the former monk's fist while cradling his stomach. A second later the pain was forgotten as a kick to the side forced him out of the ring and into the water below.
On the other side of the stadium those watching could see one of the tournaments youngest competitors taking out opponents left and right. The child who could be no older than twelve was using her height and a surprising amount of speed to deal with all those who came to eliminate her.
A tired smile graced Videl's face as she panted for breath. She still couldn't believe her mother had not only encouraged her to compete but had signed her up as well. She was broken from her thoughts as she was forced to dodge a punch from one of the many kick boxers participating in the tournament. Quickly regaining her composer the girl quickly slid under a kick from her opponent in a way that reminded Yamcha absently of his time as a professional baseball player, before coming up and delivering a round house kick to her opponents back making him fall over the edge and into the watery depths below.
While this was going on a certain famous martial arts master, turned perverted old man was currently enjoying the sights that this tournament was providing. While most spent their time watching the matches Master Roshi was watching the women who had flocked to the tournament. Somewhere deep within the old master he wished he still held the youth to match the near immortality that he'd gained during his time. Unfortunately for the old man this wasn't the case which caused the ladies man within him to shed a waterfall of tears.
Elsewhere the current Budokai champion Hercule sat within a booth eating while watching the fights. Since he was putting up his belt and title he wasn't forced to fight it out like the others and wouldn't have to fight until the finals. While plenty of people came to the tournament many came for two reasons. The first was seeing Hercule fight as he was the current champion, and the second was the hopes of seeing the golden haired youth from the Cell Games make an appearance. The thought of real aliens competing in the tournament was a definite bonus though.
"Gohan is advancing to the Quarter Finals."
The afro sporting mans head shot up like a bullet upon hearing those words. He managed to look up just in time to see the camera show a smirking, black haired Gohan.
"Yamcha is advancing."
"Trunks is advancing."
"Tien is advancing"
"Krillin is advancing."
"Videl is advancing."
With each of these names and pictures the man's eyes grew wide as he went pale in the face. His plate hit the floor upon hearing his daughters name as he had no idea she would be participating. Of course the shock of seeing four of the people from the Cell Games had also played a part. After a one hour intermission the crowds gathered once more to watch the Semi Finals.
"The first match of the Semi Finals will be Gohan vs. Killa."
Hearing the announcement both fighters made their way to the ring. As they arrived Gohan bowed to his opponent who merely grunted in distaste. Killa was actually quite tall stopping at a height of about 6'3" which was monstrous when compared to Gohan who wasn't even 5 ft tall. The man was clearly a boxer which was shown by the boxing gloves he wore. Other than that he was clad in nothing but black and red trunks.
The match, if you could call it that, was over faster than most people could blink. Almost as soon as the word 'start' left the announcers mouth Gohan had pounced on his disrespectful opponent. Nailing him in the stomach with an elbow he quickly brought the taller man down to his level before a back fist hit the man in the face causing him to stumble. Before he could even take two steps back he was caught with a spin kick that sent him skidding across and out of the ring.
"The winner by ring out Gohan." Came the shout of the announcer getting cheers from the crowd.
"Second Match: Tien vs. Trunks."
The second match however proved to be far more entertaining than the first. Almost as soon as the match begun the two were at each other locking fist and feet in a flurry of blows. With each blow it the two began to float above the ring until they were both high in the sky.
Breaking apart both fighters smirked signaling the end of the warm-up. With a shout Tien powered up his white battle aura surrounding him. Trunks seeing this raised an eyebrow before the three eyed warrior launched himself forward. The speed of Tien's launch was enough to surprise the demi-saiyan allowing him to score a hard punch to the purple haired warrior's jaw sending him flying towards the water.
Tien, never one to let an opportunity pass, quickly brought his hands into position and summoned up the required amount of ki. Trunks, who had managed to stop himself just above the water, looked up just in time to see Tien launch his attack.
"Tri Beam HA." Screamed the bald warrior before the golden beam launched itself down towards Trunks.
Having recovered quickly Trunks watched the beam come before smacking it behind him and into the water were it exploded causing the water to shoot up. This time it was Trunks who launched himself forward appearing in front of Tien faster than the man could track even with his extra eye. .
Tien's eyes went wide as the force of Trunks knee took the air from his lungs. Without pause or even a thought the purple haired teen sent the three eyed man towards the water below at high speed after nailing him in the back with an elbow. Unfortunately for Tien the attack wasn't finished as Trunks materialized ahead of him and grabbing him by the arm spun him before sending him into the water.
"Winner of the second match Trunks." Yelled the announcer excitement clear in his voice.
Elsewhere Vegeta sat with a smirk on his face as he watched the match. It seemed that sparring with his son had indeed knocked the hesitation out of him and gotten him fighting like a true Saiyan.
"Third Match: Krillin vs. Videl." Called the announcer as everyone settled down from the excitement of the previous match.
As Videl made her way to the ring she couldn't help but feel nervous. While she had struggled and only managed to win the previous round by luck, Krillin had done so with pure skill. The same could be said about just about everyone else who made it this far.
"Hey calm down." Spoke Krillin easily catching the young girl's attention.
"What?" questioned the girl not even slowing her walk.
"Sorry you just reminded me of myself when I was your age, when I first competed in the Budokai." Explained Krillin getting a wide eyed look from the girl.
"Just remember this is all about having fun and testing yourself." Said the monk quietly just before they stepped into the ring.
As they took their positions in the ring Krillin bowed to his opponent an action Videl quickly found herself copying. Neither moved as the match started until Krillin slid himself into the standard defensive stance of the Turtle Style shocking many of the more knowledgeably spectators.
During the match however Krillin found himself acting more like a teacher than anything as he critiqued the girl's style silently. After a few minutes of doing nothing but dodging he found the girl already tiring and sighed. By her age he had been able to knock out most people with one good punch. Looking up he was surprised to find the girl had found a second wind as she started to put more effort into her attacks. Still after a few minutes more the girl found herself lying on the ring in exhaustion.
"You know kid your not that bad." Said Krillin finally once more catching the girl's attention.
"While your forms great you're still lacking in a few areas. Mainly your stamina is too low which is why you tire out so fast. Another reason is because you have no grasp of how to handle your energy." Stated the monk catching the attention of everyone.
"Still your better than I was when I started so I'll give you that. But if your serious about martial arts than perhaps I can teach what you need to know." Said the monk much to the girl's surprise.
"W-who are you anyway?" questioned the girl tiredly.
"Name's Krillin, I'm the new Turtle Hermit. You want to take me up on my offer all you have to do is find my island." With that said the bald monk walked off leaving a shocked crowd behind him.
"Roshi you old pervert you never said Krillin was the new Turtle Hermit." Said Oolong in surprise.
"That's because no one ever asked. Honestly though why did you think he still lives on the island when no one else does. Besides I'm too old to teach anyone else" explained the old pervert before his eyes followed the forms of two young girls who caught his attention.
The fourth and final match of the semifinals was between Yamcha and a sumo named Dosquoi. Like Gohan's match this one went by quickly with Yamcha taking down the sumo in a single punch. With that over with everyone turned their attention to the announcer who would soon be explaining the next round of the tournament.
AN: That's it for this chapter. Next chapter will be out as soon as it can so don't ask me to update. Anyway thanks for reading and please review. Till Next time LATER.