Chapter 6

Fighting Stage - Point of view: Timeline Nine

Eighteen from Timeline Ten moved and she was now standing right in front of Jeanna - Trunks and Mai´s daughter from Timeline Eight.

She was so fast that even Jeanna, who was in an extremely powerful `Ultimate Form´, given to her by the elder Kaioshin, could barely react to it.

Then Eighteen just knocked Jeanna aside. She simply backhanded her.

And Jeanna was not only thrown off her feet, but propelled and send flying towards the edge of the fighting stage helplessly. To her luck her father Trunks moved and jumped to catch her.

He was just in a fight with his Timeline Nine´s counterpart´s daughter Iolite, who had now transformed into a Super Saiyan Three. But seeing what happened, she allowed him to disengage her and save Jeanna.

Just how strong was this version of Eighteen? Lapis and Zangya from Timeline Nine asked themselves after seeing this. Especially Zangya, since Eighteen had just announced that she was targeting her.

"Cabba - you take that Seventeen wannabe," Eighteen said to him, looking at Lapis. "That woman is mine."

"A-alright," he answered. The sheer rage at the alien woman he was seeing on his teammates face actually unsettled him a bit. But she would not go too far, this was a tournament after all... and if she did, either their host or the other fighters would stop her.

"Do you want me to help you?" Iolite called over to her.

"No," Zangya replied. "This is my fight."

"Brave of you," Eighteen remarked. "So unlike your counterpart from my world."

"So you admit that I am different?" Zangya stated.

"Not different enough," Eighteen stated.

"And why?"

"You are still breathing."

Zangya used her full power once again, with the purple aura glowing around her.

Eighteen run forward with incredible speed.

Zangya fired a ki blast at her. But Eighteen just dodged it and run at her once again and threw a punch at her.

Zangya managed to raise an arm in time. But it felt as if Eighteen´s strike had nearly broken the bones in said arm.

"You remember that it is against the rules to kill someone here?" Zangya commented.

"Oh - like I said, I will not kill you... just nearly," Eighteen replied. "Be thankful for the rules."

"Oh - believe me, I am," Zangya responded. She threw a punch.

But Eighteen stopped it with her hand, very easily as it looked.

So far so good, Zangya thought.

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In some distance away, Iolite had been more than ready to assist Zangya.

She had seen the look in this Eighteen´s eyes and it ressembled her own mother´s when she was absolutely on the edge and completely enraged. She had only seen her a few times like this.

But this Eighteen seemed somehow colder, more bitter and vengefull than her mother had ever been. Except the version of her who had been under Gero´s programming of course.

But since Zangya had refused her help...

"How about you and me `Sister´?" she said to Jeanna.

"Why not?" Jeanna replied.

They looked around to Jeanna´s father who was standing next to her.

But Timeline Eight´s Trunks was already looking in another direction.

To Kale from Timeline 10, who was facing Super 17 from Timeline Six. And who had now turned into a green haired Super Saiyan form that was closely ressembling Broly´s.

"Do that," he told them. "I will do something else."

The two `sisters´ faced each other. Both went into a fighting stance.

`Ultimate´ form against Super Saiyan Three.

And after a few moments of watching each other, Jeanna was the first to act. With a small ki blast, aimed directly at Iolitte´s face.

It was far too weak to cause actuall damage, but served well as a distraction and covering her move, as Jeanna jumped forward and seemingly aimed a punch directly at Iolitte´s face.

Jeanna however stopped in the last moment, just one meter in front of her... and instead used her outstretched hands to fire another ki attack.

Burning Attack - Iolitte easily recognized one of `their´ father´s signature moves...

... and Jeanna was about to shoot it right into her face.

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Point of view: Timeline Eight - a few minutes earlier

Super 17 now stopped playing around.

He used the short moment of surprise as Caulifla and Kale were distracted by the revelation that he had been absorbing their energy all along... and leaped forward and grabbed Caulifla with his hands.

And he was starting to draw the energy out of her, not by absorbing any energy-attacks, but directly from her body with the energy-absorbers in his palm.

Kale tried to move to stop him. But Super 17 simply took one of his hands from Caulifla´s body for a moment and used it to fire a large bright colored energy globe at Kale that hit her square in the chest and pushed her backwards.

Caulifla herself struggled and tried to break free, but it was in vain. And with every moment she went weaker and Super 17 stronger. She made one last attempt and charged a ki blast with one of her constrained hands.

She knew that, first: the blast would hit them both, since he was holding her arms down and she could not move them and second: Even if she managed to hit him, he would absorb it anyway. But maybe it at least caused him to loose his grip.

She fired and hit the ground. Her blast only left a small hole in the ground. That showed how out of energy she already was.

But he finally released her. If the small explosion had actually distracted him or if he had just realized as well that she was finished, she did not know.

Caulifla stumbled on her feet and nearly fell over.

"Damn it," she said. "I admit you got me here. I am completely empty."

"Sis," Kale called out and rushed in to help her.

Super 17 finally released Caulifla and met Kale instead. He tried to grab her as well, but she evaded the move, barely.

"Kale!" Caulifla called out. She was breathing heavily. "Let us end this now. We attack together. Either he goes down... or we do."

They attacked Super 17 from both sides, both of them throwing a punch. But he managed to catch both of their fists with his hands absorbing even more of their energy for a second.

Then he pushed them backwards.

Kale caught herself.

Caulifla however collapsed, now completely out of energy.

"You are really good," she said to Super 17. "I admit I have lost. Even without the whole absorbtion thing, I am not sure if we could have won againt you."

"You´re welcome," Super 17 simply said and pushed her out of the ring.

"You - you have eliminated Sis," Kale said.

"And she put up a good fight," Super 17 replied. "But this is a tournament and someone has to loose." Yes - a good fight, he thought. But they both had not been strong enough to be an actual challenge.

Kale´s hair was starting to flash, from golden... to green.

Another transformation, Super 17 thought. Good.

"Calm down Kale," Caulifla called to her from the outside. "He is right, it was a fair fight and I just lost."

"He was stealing our energy the whole time," Kale said.

"And we should have realized this far earlier. This guy had just outmarted us and was better than us. I think we would have lost anyway. Besides, we were fighting him two against one the whole time, so it was hardly unfair."

"Maybe," Kale admitted, "but that is one reason more that I need to do that. Otherwise I have no chance against this guy. Besides, if I really go out of control, this guys over there will stop me, right?"

She pointed towards the spectator ranks.

Kale´s transformation continued. Her hair turned fully green and her slender body grew and became more and more muscular, turning into a tall muscle-packed giant. And her eyes turned completely white.

Yes, the fighters from Timeline Eight and Nine, in and out of the ring, recognized. This was a female version of Broly. But far - very far - stronger than the Broly they had known ever was.

"Seeventeenn," she growled, "fight me."

The two were running at each other and their fists clashed, neither of them holding anything back.

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Timeline Ten´s Caulifla was watching the fight with fascination and some worry for Kale.

"This was how my Caulifla died," she heard a voice speaking to her quietly from behind. It was the older Cabba from Timeline Eight.

"Kale had lost control when she was using that form and was running amok right in the outer districts of Sadalah City. You tried to stop her."

She turned around to him.

"Kale died as well," he told her. "When she realized that she had killed the person who meant most to her, she literally pushed herself into space and blew herself up to die."

Caulifla crinched. She tried not to show it, but she knew she failed in that.

"And why do you have to tell me all that now you morbid bastard?" she exclaimed.

"To keep the same thing from happening to you and if I have to hurt your feelings to get it into your thick skull, then so be it," he told her.

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Point of view: Timeline Nine

Just as Jeanna was about to fire, Iolite moved her own hands in front of her and concentrated her ki to stop the blast... and bend herself slightly backwards.

She caught the Burning Attack with both her hands... and pushed the attack upwards. After a few moments she managed to redirect it and the blast went upwards through the atmosphere and then into space.

"You are good," Iolite said to Jeanna.

"Thank you," Jeanna replied. "So - how long can you hold this form?" she asked.

Iolite fired a blast herself. The attack was nothing special or powerful.

But enough to distract her opponent for a moment, while Iolite formed a Royal Blade in her hand and moved forward.

She slashed at Jeanna. Not in a way that would cause serious harm, but at least light injuries at arms or legs.

Jeanna attempted to dodge the slash, but it still left a thin cut at her arm.

"As long as I need to," Iolite said to her.

"I see," Jeanna replied.

She fell back to get greater distance between herself and Iolite.

She was charging up ki. And then Jeanna held both her hands in front of herself and formed a globe of highly concentrated energy.

Iolite considered for a moment to move in to stop her or counter with an energy attack of her own.

But that might be exactly what Jeanna was counting on. If she came closer, she would probably use the change to threw the attack in that moment.

And getting into a direct beam-struggle against an Ultimate Form while you were a Super Saiyan Three might not be the wisest idea.

Jeanna threw the energy ball at her.

It missed and flew harmlessly over Iolite´s shoulder. Who then attempted to run forward, to close the distance between her and Jeanna again.

But then she sensed that the energy ball had changed direction and was now heading for her from behind She moved to dodge it.

So Jeanna could control it from a distance, Iolite saw her directing it with the assistance of small movements of her fingers. It was now constantly following her.

The energy ball was incredible powerful, Iolite sensed. Not powerful enough to cause actually serious harm to her. But enough to cost her a lot of energy to shield herself and maybe still cause some damage. And the explosion wold probably blind and temporally stun her and give Jeanna an opening for further attacks.

Well, the response was obvious. She tried to get closer to Jeanna again, while also evading the energy ball.

The closer they were to each other, the harder it would be for Jeanna to hit her with this attack without getting caught herself as well.

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Point of view - Timeline Six

Uub and Pan were still fighting against Naturon Shenlong, who had just absorbed Botamo... and with him his abilities.

He, with some assistance from Pan as Super Saiyan, were reigning down punches and kicks on him. They were still not causing much real harm, but they were pushing him closer and closer to the end of the fighting stage.

"You are still not harming me," Naturon said.

"We don´t need to," Pan replied. "We just have to push you over the edge."

Naturon laughed out.

"Thanks for telling me that, stupid girl," he said. "But for that you need to come pretty close to it yourself, right?"

Pan gritted her teeth. Bastard. She remembered how Naturon had absorbed her in the same way in their world, until her grandfather Goku had managed to free her.

"You could try to use the magic you have gotten from Buu," Pan suggested to Uub.

"It has side-effects when I do that. Besides I am not sure if it would even work on a magical being like him," Uup replied. "But I have an alternative."

Kaioken - the familiar red aura flared up around him. It was in a somewhat different tone as when Lapis had used the technique earlier and looked exactly like Goku´s version. Because in opposite to Lapis, he actually used natural ki, instead of artificial one.

He punched Naturon once again. This time the force of the strike literally blew him backwards. Naturon´s (Botamo´s) body stretched like a rubber-band and flew out of the fighting-stage.

"No!" he shouted. But he could not to anything about it. He was out of bounds.

At least he still had this incredible usefull body that he had taken, Naturon thought as he stood up again.

"Excuse me," he heard someone saying next to him - It was Goku from Timeline Zero, "but since your fight is over, how about you release this guy you have absorbed?"

"Hah - there is nothing in the rules that states I have to do that," Naturon replied.

"Yes, but there is also nothing in the rules against me doing this," Goku said.

He punched him in the gut, hard... and suddenly Naturon and Botamo were being split apart.

Botamo was unconscious and instantly fell over.

"H-how?" Naturon murmured.

"Forced Spirit Session," Goku explained, "a technoque that can separate fusions and absorbtion." Just as he said this, Naturon passed out as well.

"Hey - not bad... me," Timeline Six´s Son Goku called out over to him.

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Point of view - Timeline Nine

The two boys Shorz and Joyaku were still fighting the now technically enlarged Rage Shenlong, a large created avatar body made of a half-transparent elastical mass created from energy, with Rage´s real small body at the core of the construct.

So far they had been using ki attacks. Which so far however only showed a limited effect on Rage´s oversized fake body.

"We could go to our limits and blast him again," Shorz said. "But then we might loose too much energy for any other fights."

"Maybe we should change our tactic a bit," Joyaku suggested. "How about threads and blades?"

"Good idea," Shorz replied.

Joyaku stood in front of Rage Shenlong. He materialized his psychic threats, using the the same technique as his mother. And formed them around the Shadow Dragon and used them to draw away his energy.

"Hey - what is this? What kind of technique is this?" Rage Shenlong exclaimed.

He saw and felt the threads around him and felt his energy slipping away. Rage had not seen Zangya using the Psichic Threads against Catopesra earlier. He and the other Shadow Dragon had been concentrating on their own plans.

So the move now caught him completely by surprised. He could only growl at them in anger.

And Shorz formed a special ki blade in the palm of his right hand. It was a technique his family in his timeline had invented called the Royal Blade. They had named it like that because of the energy-blade was formed to intentionally ressemble the old Vegeta family´s symbol. With one sharp spike spreading up from one side of the blade and a rounded one from the other.

While Joyaku weakened and slowed down their opponent, Shorz now used this blade to slize into Rage Shenlong´s fake body.

He moved back and forth, leaving multiple cuts along his body.

"Okay," Joyaku exclaimed, "now we blast him again."

They both charged up their attacks - Shorz a burning attack and Joyaku a Photon Flash and they fired at the same time.

And as his already damaged false body around his small real one was breaking apart, the combined blasts were also pushing him over the edge of the fighting stage.

When he was lying outside the ring between the remains of his avatar body a moment later, he heard Syn Shenlong´s cold voice. "Beaten by two children - what a disgrace."

"We got him Joyaku," Shorz called out.

"Yes."

But the did not have much time to enjoy their victory. As they were suddenly confronted with new opponents.

Or better said, Shorz was suddenly shot in the back.

"Argh!" he shouted.

He and Joyaku looked around.

It were Android Sixteen and Twenty Eight, who had just shot him.

It hurt, but as it looked it was a light injury. She was simply not strong enough to cause actual harm to the Super Saiyan Two.

The two Androids were not longer busy assisting Biarra. For obvious reasons, since he had already been eliminated.

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"Shorz!" Timeline Nine´s Future Trunks and Lazuli also called out from the sidelines.

"You will regret this - bitch," Lazuli said, more to herself than to Twenty Eight.

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"You shot Shorz in the back," Joyaku said angrily to Twenty Eight.

"This is not against the rules," she stated, "and you two had let your guard down."

"I am sorry for this," Sixteen told them, "but according to our sensors, you two are the closest to us in power."

"Sixteen," Shorz said as he saw the counterpart of his friend.

But Sixteen moved to attack.

Shorz took a small jump backwards and dodged the strike.

Sixteen however used the chance to turn over his lower arm and reveal a cannon beneath it, that was ready to fire.

But Shorz knew that trick. He easily evaded that shot as well.

He appeared right before Sixteen and placed a punch on him. Not too hard, just enough to send him over the edge of the stage and out of the fighting bounds.

Twenty One meanwhile fired a volley of blasts at Joyaku. But like Sixteen with Shorz, she was no match for him.

He did not even bother to dodge her blasts and just let them bounce off on him... and then punched her into the stomach, hard enough to let her fly out of the ring.

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Twenty Eight landed on the ground, not far away from Trunks and Mai from Timeline Ten.

"A-are you alright?" Trunks asked her a bit awkwardly, but with obvious concern.

"Yes," Twenty One responded at first in a flat tone.

But then...

"Why do you even care about this?" It suddenly burst out of the Android. "I don´t know you," she shouted at him.

"Your girlfriend is standing right next to you. And I am not her. I might have been created from her, but I am not the same person and I don´t give a damn about you. Do you get that?"

"Yes - I get it," Trunks replied grimly.

Mai next to him was also not looking more than a bit uneasy. Was Twenty Eight right? Was there really nothing left of the other Mai in her?

Well, this outbreak alone at least proved that she still possessed emotions.

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"The five fighters from Timeline Eleven have been eliminated," the voice of the Grandpriest halled over the stadium.

"We got have beaten them too Shorz," Joyaku said.

"You should not get overconfident boys," they heard a voice coming from directly behind them - It was Oceanus Shenlong. "This is nothing personal, but it was my comrade you had just eliminated," she told them.

With one move she unleashed from just not even two meters distance a small tornado at the two from their last fights already weakened boys, that threw them completely off-balance and literally blew them into the air.

Both of them fired a two handed ki blast against the barrier that protected the spectator ranks, to use the recoil to keep themselves from being blown out of bounds.

Joyaku then materialized his psych threads and tried to use them against Oceanus. But before he could do that, he was already hit by another sharp wave of wind. While the psychic threads themselves didn´t possess mass and would not be affected by the wind, it made it however nearly impossible for him to concentrate on the target.

Then Oceanus jumped upwards, literally inside the calm center of her own storm and send Joyaku with a kick out of the fighting stage... and then did the same thing to Shorz with a ki blast she fired at him.

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"Are you okay?" Lazuli asked the two boys a moment later.

"Yes," Shorz replied.

"We lost," Joyaku said.

"Don´t worry about that. You two did great," Shorz father Trunks told them.

"They were just completely outmatched," they heard Oceanus saying. "Don´t worry, I did not attempt to cause any real harm to them. I would not hurt children... unless it is absolutely necessary."

"Interesting worlds from a member of a group which purpose is to destoy the entire galaxy," Trunks commented.

"Yes, that is our purpose. But that does not mean all of us have this goal," Oceanus said.

"And we should simply believe you that?" Lazuli remarked.

Oceanus just shrugged her shoulders.

"Believe what you want. If you excuse me, I have other fights to win."

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Point of view: Timeline Eight

Vegeta landed yet another punch at Tarble. He had now stopped holding back.

And it showed more and more what was the case and Tarble had been suspecting from the beginning. Even after all the progress he had made and the power he had gained, he still had no chance.

Vegeta was now in Super Saiyan Two - a Super Saiyan Two those power easily matched the one of Timeline Eight´s Future Trunks. It might even surpass it by a bit.

Vegeta lifted bot his arms at his sides and charged up an energy blast - "Final Flash," he said, loud enough for Tarble to hear the name.

"Super Gallick Gun," Tarble responded.

The two blasts clashed, but his was quickly being overwhelmed and pushed back towards himself. Until Tarble could not longer keep it up and his blast broke.

But Vegeta stopped his own blast in the same moment. Instead he charged at the now exhausted looking Tarble. And he punched him so hard in the chest that a few of his rips broke.

Vegeta however had stopped all pretense of compasion... and of respect.

Tarble was slammed hard to the ground by another strike.

"Weak and pathetic like you have always been, aren´t you?" `Vegeta´ said. "You are absolutely no match. It is no wonder that the Saiyan Kind had send you away and forgot you exist."

"Y-you are not my brother," he said. "You are not even another version of him. Who are you?"

"Oh - really?" `Vegeta´ said. "You think I am not who I am seem to be?"

He had a grin on his face that was completely unlike any kind of Vegeta.

"Well - I guess there is no need to hide it anymore," he admitted. As he spoke his voice suddenly changed.

But his voice was not the only thing. Something that looked like a silvery liquid mass seemed to be suddenly flowing out of Vegeta´s body and then wrapping itself around him.

After a moment the substance had completely covered him and virtually become the skin of the figure standing before Tarble.

And his power was increasing drastically.

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"Beby," Goku from Timeline Six and Future Trunks from Timeline Nine, standing outside the fighting ground, said as well.

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"Who or what are you? And what have you done to my father?" Trunks from Timeline Ten shouted.

Vegeta-Beby turned around to him.

"Surely you remember the fleet of my minions that came to your planet one year ago? The M2?"

"The Machine Mutants?" Timeline Ten´s Gohan replied. "But we defeated them?"

"Yes - but you never discovered me on board of their ship. Well - none of you did except Vegeta. I took over his body without any of you noticing it and existed under you for the last year."

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Spectator Ranks

"What?" Timeline Ten´s Bulma called out in shock and horror as she heard that her husband´s body had been taken over by some kind of creature for the last year.

The fighters were normally too far away to hear what they were saying, but their Timeline´s Whis used his staff to help the see and hear the scene.

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Point of view: Timeline Six

Super 17 was still locked in a hand to hand fight with Kale. In this form she possessed really an enormous power.

At the same time however her rational mind seemed to vanish more and more.

To his surprise, Future Trunks from Timeline Eight appeared and placed himself directly beside him.

"Are you trying to help me?" Super 17 asked surprised.

"Not exactly," Trunks replied. "But I have met Broly and I want to keep another green haired maniac from getting on a rampage and putting everyone here in danger, especially my family. So if she shows any sign of attacking bystanders, I help you put her down."

In this moment however they both saw the scene of Beby showing himself at the other side of the fighting stage.

"No," Trunks said in a hollow voice.

"Beby," Super 17 stated.

"You know him?"

"He appeared from space about a half year ago, enslaved the population, including most of the Z-fighters. Was by what I heard killed by Son Goku when he tried to flee after being defeated by him."

"Good," Trunks replied. "Can you deal with her on your own?"

"I think I can. I guess this guy is a greater problem?" Super 17 said.

"Yes, he is."

Future Trunks transformed once again, to a level higher than Super Saiyan Two. His hair was standing up even more and a far stronger lightning surrounded him than it ever did in SSj2, forming a blueish and golden mixed aura... and his eyes turned white.

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Spectator Ranks

"This is the Super Saiyan Rage Form of the Future Trunks we know," Vegeta from Timeline Zero stated.

"Yes, that means he must have some knowledge of God Ki," Timeline Zero´s Goku said. "That also explains why his Base Form is so strong."

"I ask myself where he had learned this?" Whis questioned.

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Point of view: Timeline Eight

Future Trunks was now moving over the fighting stage to face Beby once more.

He had used this form only a few times before. It was difficult to access and hard to control. This form required God Ki and he was still flawed in using it.

The only reason he could do it at all were his lessons with Meerus when they were allied with the Galactic Patrol and fighting Beby and his Machine Mutants together.

Meerus as he had explained was an Angel, who had been undercover in the Galactic Patrol and as such he could not use his powers to help them directly. Or he would be erased from existence. But he could teach him.

They did not have much time, so the training had been short and incomplete, but it had been enough to defeat the Beby of his timeline.

And hopefully it this one.

"Uncle," he said to Tarble as he reached them, "please leave this to me."

Side Notes: Rage Shenlong´s fake body is not nearly as big here as he was in the GT series. So it is also less powerful.

Kale from Timeline 10 had never learned to gain full control of her Berserk Form. So far she always held herself back from using it, as far as she was able to.

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