*@* Dragonball SU *@* It Begins

[Blademaster]

Time to introduce something we've all been waiting for...

Basawe

The red-furred alien and the orange-clad Saiyan swapped blows back and forth, back and forth... faster than any human could count (except maybe the one fighting that white-skinned alien).

WHAM!

The alien's knee slammed into the side of Basawe's thigh, the Saiyan barely twisting in time to save his own set of Dragonballs from being crushed.

BAMF!

Basawe's fist smashed into the alien's forearm, which blocked it milliseconds before he took a full-powered punch to the gut.

KISH!

A pair of claws slashed across Basawe's shoulder armor, digging deep through it but not deep enough to penetrate.

"Stupid Saiyan..." the beast growled. "Get out of MY WAY!!!"

The alien threw its claws out to the sides, a barrier of energy shooting from around its body and pushing Basawe back with a grunt.

"I'll get out of your way," Basawe snarled, speeding back at the alien like a rocket, "WHEN YOU GET OFF MY PLANET!!!!"

CRUNCH!

Basawe's fist slammed into the alien's armor, cracking it - and likely cracking a few of his knucklebones as well. The red-furred beast roared and fell back, clutching its chest.

"You wretch..." the alien growled, reaching behind his pointed ear and rolling a scouter over his left eye.

"Let's see just how strong you are." the alien chuckled, hitting the button on his scouter.

BEEP!

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7625356728912736234562756787627726718237836278...

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

1529.

The alien looked at Basawe incredulously and started laughing.

"A 1529?!" he barked. "A SAIYAN with a power level of 1529!? You're pathetic! Not even worth my full power!"

Basawe shook his damaged hand, glaring death at the alien.

"Oh, was that your full power...?" he snarled, taking note of his own scouter's readout... 2286...

"Keep talking, monkey." the alien chuckled, his muscles bulging. "While you're at it, tell me what you want on your tombstone!"

The alien vanished in midair; Basawe spun around just in time to see the alien's open palm in his face, firing a glob of red energy into his eyes.

KA-FWOOM!

A huge cloud of smoke and dust billowed; from the farside of it, Basawe flew like a falling meteor, slamming through the bleachers and out the side of the arena.

The alien grinned from midair, chuckling to himself.

"Promotion, here I come..." he said. He'd just beaten one of the most powerful race in the Universe, AND his colleagues had (mostly) succeeded in their ventures. This was almost too... easy... Wait, what was that noise...?

Down below, where the Saiyan had landed, the wreckage began to shake and shudder, a muffled sound issuing from the twisted metal and broken wood.

"................AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

'What is that?!' the alien thought, falling back a bit. 'The Saiyan...!? But this makes no sense! He was so weak, and this is...'

"GAAAAH!!!" the alien cried out, his scouter suddenly going ballistic. "That... That power!! Its level is shooting up past three thousand... no, FOUR thousand!"

On cue, the wreckage far below exploded outward, shattering to pieces. Dust and shrapnel flew everywhere; within the cloud of debris, a human-shaped figure stood erect, the top and back of its head glowing white for a second before fading back to shadows. A second later, a faint orange aura exploded around the figure, blowing the dust aside.

Sure enough, it was Basawe. He looked identical to how he'd looked before he'd been struck in the FACE with a full energy attack. Only angrier. And flaring with energy like a bonfire.

"Scurufa!" another alien that'd spotted the sudden energy surge shouted at the red-furred one. "What does your scouter say about that one's power level!?"

The red-furred alien, Scurufa, reached for his scouter and pulled it off his head.

"It's... It's over NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!"

Famous last words; before anybody could ask if that could possibly be right, Basawe suddenly vanished and instantaneously reappeared not four feet from the alien's chest; he pulled his hands back, then thrust them forward, fingers splayed, palms barely brushing against the alien's armor.

All in under half a second.

Scurufa took a second to look down, then slowly back at Basawe's face.

"Basawe..." he muttered, grinning darkly at the alien.

It clicked just then.

"NooooooooOOOOOOOOOO-"

"BEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Point-blank, a ball of white energy laced with orange streaks appeared, pushed into Scurufa's armor, then exploding outward into a titanic beam and exploding against the alien, engulfing it.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH.........!!!!"

The orange-edged blast fired miles into the sky before dissipating; when it vanished, the red-furred alien was no more. Not even dust remained.

Basawe looked at the other combatants, whose expressions ranged from indifference and impression to outright fear. Basawe registered little of it, though, instead allowing himself to descend back to the ground, landing on one knee and panting a bit. Summoning his latent Extra energy wasn't fun for him, and upon using it, he had no way to rejuvenate it yet...

'Everyone else can take over for now...' he thought, closing his eyes.

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In case anybody's wondering how Basawe managed to just shoot his power level up to the legendary level, it's due to his x10 Oozaru power 'absorption,' mentioned in his bio. He just managed to call upon spare Oozaru reserve energy to kill (OK, OVERKILL) his enemy; he's back down to a 1,000-1,500 level, like usual.

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NEXT!

[Heald]

Zaito Zhin

Zaito had no idea what this alien wanted, but he was certain that Furuto was his objective, and thus was doing everything in his power to stop him. This alien, however, was slightly stronger than him when they were both at their base levels and even fighting at normal power now, instead of suppressing it, he was still having difficulty over coming him.

Zaito managed to duck under an errant punch and he kicked the alien in the stomach, knocking him backwards. This gave Zaito a few vital seconds to compose himself. He closed his eyes and breathed out, and once achieving the balance he needed to be at his optimal fighting ability, he opened his eyes again and stared straight at the alien.
"You're mine now!" he said, launching at the alien, this time keeping him on the back-foot. The alien may have a slight power advantage, but Zaito was the far more skilled fighter.

As they were exchanging blows, they both registered an incredible power increase and turned as one Saiyan's power level began rocketing exponentially. Zaito and the alien stared as the Saiyan unleashed his full incredible power upon his opponent, blasting him into pieces. The Saiyan's power then dropped back to normal as he fell to the ground in exhaustion. The alien noticed Zaito's concentration had been broken and quickly kicked him in the side of the head, knocking him backwards towards the ground, only to be caught by Furuto, who grabbed him and set him straight.
"Thanks, I guess," Zaito said to Furuto. Furuto looked with a stony gaze at the alien.
"These guys are here for me, but the whole planet could be in danger. We need to finish this quickly, or..." Furuto began, but the alien began ascending, turned around and thrusted both palms in front of him, readying an attack on them.
"I've had enough of you Earthling! DIE!" he yelled. The alien's power began increasing and energy began forming in his palm, before a blast of purple energy began screaming towards them. Furuto knocked Zaito out of the way then held his palms out.
"Special Counter Cannon!" Furuto yelled, a beam of white energy blasting from his palms and just stopping the alien's beam before it hit them. He was struggling to hold the beam back though. Zaito seemed somewhat confused by this.
"Zaito! Take him out now! He won't risk killing me, but he knows if he lets up, I'll blast him!"
Zaito smiled and looked at the alien. He began preparing an attack in his own right hand and powering himself up, began flying towards the alien from the side at great speed.

The alien was far too preoccupied to notice Zaito speeding towards his flank. It was only too late when he noticed a high power level appearing on his right hand side. He turned his head to watch as Zaito was flying towards him, fist crackling with orange energy.
"What the! His power! How did he-" but it was too late. Zaito charged at him and unleashed the energy stored in his fist as he struck the alien's torso, yelling,
"Ultimate Tora Strike!" and with that his fist went straight through the alien's torso in an explosive strike. Zaito was floating there, his fist put straight through the alien's heart and the alien coughed, blood dribbling down his chin before dying. Zaito cast the alien off, leaving the corpse to fall onto the ground many metres below. Zaito began panting, the attack draining a good portion of his energy, and he looked around. One more alien was being dealt with by the other fighters, and another one was in the tunnel with a Saiyan. He caught his wind and began to fly down to see how the Saiyan was handling the alien in the tunnel.

[Kuro Espeon]

Sorry guys, I meant to get the second half of this up earlier, but I've basically felt like death for the last 4-5 days. I contracted some kind of Martian Death Virus. Or at least that's what it felt like. Anyway, I wasn't in any state for proper RPing, lol.

Oh, and Blade....

"It's... It's over NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!"

You just HAD to go there, didn't you?



Kura Satou:

"Tch. Monkey trap, indeed..." Kura muttered, flicking her tail back and forth in annoyance. "Saiyans have the tendency to be quite violent, but we're more than just simple primates or mindless animals..." She couldn't help but smirk as the alien struggled to compose himself after finding himself face-to-face with a full Saiyan. Even though she had unaligned herself with the Saiyan race in general, she still couldn't help but feel some pride in her ancestry. Not that her particular bloodline would win her too many points under the current Saiyan government...

"Silence!" The alien yelled, preparing himself for another charge, "Saiyan or not, I'll tear you to pieces!!!" Then, with a piercing battle cry he flew at her, both arms outstretched as if to grab her. Kura quickly side-stepped and he stumbled past. He stopped and turned around, growling as he tried to come at her once more, but once more she dodged him easily. This dance repeated for several minutes, and Kura could sense him getting more and more frustrated (as well as exhausted).

"Stop dodging and fight me, you cowardly---UNGH!!" On her final side-step, Kura had swung back around and slammed her elbow into the alien's back, sending him flying several feet and skidding down the length of the tunnel.

"Pathetic," she said, shaking her head. "You couldn't even make this fun for me, could you? I'm not going to waste any more of my time on you." She backed up a few steps, and began to form a ball of glowing blue Ki between her palms. As silently as smoothly as a ghostly figure, she drew her arms back.... and fired. The alien had only just that second gotten back to his feet when he was overtaken by the Ki Blast, which both shredded and burned his body. As the attack cleared, it was obvious he would not be getting back up again.

Kura sighed. "Well, that was pointless... huh?" It was then that she noticed that Van Osiku's body had disappeared. Someone must have come in and taken it while she had been distracted with the battle (if you could even call it that). She was surprised that she hadn't noticed. Not that it really matter much. 'Oh well... his problem now.' She shrugged and turned around, just in time to see another one of the human fighters landing at the entrance of the tunnel. Had he come to back her up?

"If you came for a piece of the action then you're a little too late, I'm afraid." Kura said in response to his surprised expression.

OOC: she's talking to Zaito Zhin, btw

[Blademaster]

Oh, and Blade....

You just HAD to go there, didn't you?

If I didn't, someone else would've first.

Anyway, this all-out melee is getting a bit confusing, so allow me to try and clarify things:

We started with five aliens.

1. Chronologically, Basawe killed (OK, OVERkilled) the red warwolf one first.

2. Then Zaito took out the second one - the wiry white one that was beam-struggling with Furuto before Zaito shoved his fist through him.

Third up is where things get a bit complicated. The hissing yellow snake thing that Retasu kicked across the field was sparring with her for awhile, but when he saw Basawe vaporize his friend (and possible Zaito Falcon Punch his second associate, as well), he freaked and ran.

At the same time, the orange steroid alien went after Hammer, who sparred with him for a bit before Hammer ran off to see what was going on outside the arena. So, with nobody left to fight, the orange alien went and found Van, and a moment later, the yellow alien that was fleeing the scene ran into the two of them.

3. So now we have Van facing the yellow snake alien and the orange muscle alien. Van gave a Tenkaichi nosejob to one of them; the other one responded with a tranquilizer dart before Van could kill him, too.

4. That second alien that tranq'ed Van started to drag him back to Rothax's ship, but then Kura stepped in and roasted the alien before he could get away.

So, what we're left with now is the green alien who's fighting Sandor... AND Gamma. And Van has somehow mysteriously vanished.

So from here, the only explanation I can figure is this:

1. The green alien realizes he's outclassed, grabs Van as a hostage so he's not as likely to be killed running away, and zips off back to the ship, or

2. Sandor and/or Gamma kill the green alien, and the reason Kura thinks Van has vanished is 'cuz one of the good guys came and got him out of harm's way of the Kura/tranq alien fight.

EDIT: OR... 3. A sixth alien shows up for whatever reason (Maybe one of the first five called for back-up or something, I dunno.), finds Van, realizes something's weird about him, and takes him back to the ship where he gets a chewing out from his colleagues, a la Paradox's last post.


None of these are really holding much water, but with CEB and M_c AWOL, Paradox totally lost, and our alien tic-meter broken, we don't have many options. Personally, I vote for the first scenario.

[Master Rudy]

Ugh.....forgive me guys. Life has been slightly crazy as of late but now it's time to get back into this. I have an idea and I like Blade's idea of more backup so I think that works best for getting me back in.

Shitagi Summers
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It was never suppose to be like this.

The Budokai was just suppose to be another chance to test my skills. It wasn't suppose to turn into this. I hadn't even had the chance to step into the ring before it all went to hell. With so much happening in such a short time I experienced something I never felt before.

Pure fear.

It was something I had a little trouble understanding. I was the great grandson of two of the greatest warriors to ever live and I was part Saiyan to boot. Fighting was in my blood. It excited me. Yet here I was frozen in fear. It didn't make sense to me. Could it be that when faced with a true life of death battle that I wasn't ready? Looking around I saw that overall it seemed that everyone else had it under control. Most of the attackers had been defeated so I figured the best thing to do was keep out of the way.

However I wasn't going to be so lucky.

Without warning I felt a sharp pain in my lower back that sent me flying towards the stands. Since I wasn't powered up and I was caught fully off guard I didn't have much time to react. With no time to stop myself I gathered as much ki as I could and managed to throw up a small barrier that would hopefully shield me from the full force of the wall. Overall hitting the wall didn't do much damage to me but the force of impact made me lose my focus and I wound up dropping my barrier. On the other side of the wall was a small tunnel and I wound up going face first through a glass window connected to an inner office. Once again it didn't do too much damage but I did feel a small trickle of blood from a cut above my right eye.

At first I thought of suppressing my power level and playing dead until it was all over but then I thought better of it. I had never run from a fight in my life and I'd be dammed if I was going to start now. Plus if wouldn't do me any good if they suddenly decided to level the place. Leaving my fear aside I powered up and rushed out to come face to face with my attacker. In front of me where I stood before was a female Saiyan with short spiky brown hair dressed in red battle armor. "Well it's good to see you've come to your senses. An easy kill is no fun." Reaching for her scouter she made note of my power level. "Hmm.....just short of 2000. If you give me a good enough fight I just might let you live." I didn't like the sound of that but I wasn't about to let fear control me again. Gathering every bit of power I had left I shouted "Yeah keep talking. I'm not a pushover!" Before I could power up too much more however I sense a strong power coming towards me at high speed. On instinct I quickly turned around and drew my hands back and powered up my best attack.

"KAMEHAMEHA!!!"

Using my own beam to deflect what I thought to be a big attack I was surprised to see it engulf an energy ball and head towards open sky. Suddenly to my right I saw a foot coming towards my face. Ducking quickly I countered my new attacked with a sweap and then proceeded to do several backflips to get out of the way. Once on my feet again I saw another alien joined the Saiyan. This one was a humanoid looking male with light blue skin and white hair. With a smirk I said "Well I guess 2000 must be out of your league if you need help. Two on one is hardly fair odds." While I was trying to act tough I had the horrible feeling I may have been the one outclassed......
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No time to add more. Got to get to work. Real quick Shi is not a coward by nature but he has never faced a battle where losing would mean possible death so he was a little unsure about how to act at first and fearful of the situation.