Chapter 44 - Gine's Trump Card!

The battle commenced again, this time, there were now 16 fighters left. This was the 5th round, which knockout 8 people. Gine had her fight and won, she was fortunate enough to not fight someone like Pikkon.

Bardock won his battle, he received a great Zenkai Boost after his fight with Torbie. Once he was healed, he was stronger than he was before. The person he fought was actually a fortunate guy who didn't go up against strong opponents.

Now, it was time for the Quarter-Finals!

Bardock had to fight against Olibu and Gine had a match against a guy named Caterpy, who was the disciple of South Kai. Obibu and Caterpy were characters that appeared in Dragonball Z, so he knew the depths of their strength.

Kayn told Gine that she would need to go Kaio-Ken x20 in order to beat such a guy. He told Bardock that if he couldn't go Super Saiyan again, then he could forget about winning the match.

Kayn fought some ninja guy, who used strange ninja techniques. He mainly used shadow attacks, he even summoned a shadow of Kayn to fight for him. Sadly, he was still beaten in the end, he was annoying to catch and knock out of the ring because of his ability to hide so well.

Gine had her match as well, she managed to beat Olibu and advanced to the Semi-Finals. However, Bardock was held by Caperpy and tickled, then thrown out of the ring, losing the match. Pikkon, of course, won his match and also advanced to the Semi-Finals.

"What a round, we're now nearing the end of the tournament! It really pains me that such a good tournament is ending." The announcer seemed sad, but he enjoyed the fights nevertheless.

This time, everyone was given a 30-minute break.

Kayn had to fight Caterpy, while Gine was up against Pikkon! Gine wanted to see if Kayn knew anything about this opponent and how she could win. Kayn told her to go all out against him and to use everything she had to fight this guy.

He couldn't just tell her that she had no way of beating him; that wouldn't seem so helpful or nice. It was the truth, but it was best to hide the truth in certain cases.

This time, the matches were solo fights, there wasn't 2 at a time battles anymore. The arenas suddenly connected with one another to form an even bigger arena.

The first match was Kayn Vs Caterpy.

Caterpy had the colors of the pokemon Caterpy and even looked like it, but he was bigger. Once he saw Kayn walk onto the stage, he started to move his hands and fingers in a weird manner.

"The Semi-Final round will start....Now!"

With those words, Caperpy slithered his way quickly over to Kayn. He had a strange smile on his face, he was clearly going to tickle Kayn for a while, then toss him out of the ring.

He extended all of his arms to grab Kayn, which he successfully did. "Hehe, to make you feel better when you lose, I'll make you laugh first, then off with you." Caterpy's goofy voice resound in Kayn's ear.

Caterpy started to tickle Kayn, but he didn't laugh. He had already guarded his body with Ki to prevent himself from laughing. Kayn was actually a ticklish person, so if he was caught in this pace he might be in trouble slightly.

"Laugh damn it, you know you can't hold it in!" Caterpy was sweating, this skill had always worked, how could he resist? Kayn disappeared from Caterpy's hand and appeared behind him.

"Huh? How did you..?" Caterpy was stunned and turned around quickly to grab Kayn again. However, Kayn stuck his hand out and a barrier formed over Caterpy's body; locking him inside.

"Let me out!" Caterpy was punching the barrier with all his might, but nothing worked.

"I'll let you out in a moment, relax." Kayn smiled and lifted his hand; this also caused the barrier to rise off the ground as well.

"This is cheating, you can't do this!" Caterpy knew what Kayn was trying to do, as he walked to the edge of the arena.

"Then tickling people should be cheating, but no one complained about that. Haha, you lose Caterpod."

"It's Caterpy!" Caterpy screamed, but it sounded funny since his voice seemed stuffy and goofy. Kayn placed him gently out of the ring, winning the match with ease.

"Uh... Winner, Kayn.." The mushroomed announcer said loudly.

Caterpy ran over to the announcer and started complaining about how Kayn cheated. However, everyone just boo'ed at him, saying he was a sore loser who tickled people to victory.

"Unfair, life's unfair!" Caterpy's expression completely sunk.

"Caterpy, stop complaining or I'll make you lift 10 tons for 9 hours for a month!" South Kai walked over to retrieve the complaining Caterpy; taking him away.

The next battle was now starting, it was Gine Versus Pikkon.

"Prepare yourself." Pikkon said bluntly.

"I'll be ready." Gine and Pikkon stared each other down.

"Hoho, the tension is rising! The match will start, now!" The announcer couldn't wait to see this fight.

Gine waved her hands and lasers shot out of each of her fingers. Ten lasers quickly targeted Pikkon, however, once they reached him they passed through his body like an afterimage. Gine looked confused, she punched and Ki blast continued to shoot out her fist, but they kept passing through Pikkon.

"This guy's moving really fast, no one around here will notice this movement at all." Kayn could see Pikkon moving really quick to dodge these energy attacks.

A burning sound could be heard at the words of Gine, she activated Kaio-Ken x20. Once she arrived in front of Pikkon, she did the same thing, she punched and kicked at his body. Sadly, her attacks still passed through him, as if he was a ghost.

"Haha, It looks like your female disciple has met her match!" West Kai was excited and so were the other Kais. They were quite annoyed about King Kai's wins so far, mainly because of their disciple's defeat to his.

"It isn't over yet!" King Kai shade gleamed and he ignored them afterward.

"If this is all you got, then I suggest you drop out now." Pikkon smiled and looked at Gine who was still punching and kicking at him to no avail.

Gine backflipped away and stared at Pikkon with dilated eyes. How were her attacks doing nothing to him, was this some strange technique?

"I have no choice!" Gine opened her palm and a PowerBall appeared. The Powerball grew a bit and settled in the sky. Kayn had already put on his shade to guard against this problem.

In normal fashion, Gine started to change until she became an Oozaru.

"Oh, my... Gine is also able to change into a huge monkey, how will this affect the battle?" The announcer was stumped, but he started to put the puzzles together looking at Kayn and Bardock.

Once she transformed, Pikkon's expression showed little change. But with them being North Kai's disciples and all, they must have all come from the same place.

Pikkon saw that her strength was still not enough, but suddenly, Gine used Kaio-Ken times 20 in the Oozaru state!

Her strength skyrocketed under this combination.

"Ah!" Some of the audience members were blown away. The Kais were also having trouble hanging on, then East Kai's wig was blown off!

"Huh?" All of the Kai's turned their head in surprise.

Pikkon was fighting in his suppressed state, he never expected Gine to get this strong. Pikkon was holding the giant blast at bay as best as he could. He started to power up while holding the energy attack. Ripples reverberated throughout the arena; the announcer had long been tossed away by the winds.

After managing his strength, Pikkon channeled his energy and deflected the attack directed towards the sky. However, a large fist came smashing toward him in a flash.

Pikkon was actually smashed into the arena by Gine.

"Oh, no! Pikkon was crushed, is he alright?" The announcer appeared out of nowhere and started announcing again.

Just as he said that, Gine's hand was blasted back by some attack.

"Enough!" Pikkon's body ignited with actual fire, then he moved like a torch and slammed into Gine's stomach.

"Ugh!" Gine yelped in pain, as Pikkon continued to punch and kick her until she was blown back. A large Oozaru was actually sent flying towards the stance of people.

At this point, she had lost the match. But the people in the stance tried to run away, so they wouldn't get crushed, but it was too late to escape with their speed. However, before she could fall on them, she was caught by Kayn.

The people were too slow, if Kayn hadn't arrived, they would have surely been crushed.

"Phew!" King Kai sighed in relief seeing Kayn stop Gine's fall.

"Winner, Pikkon!" The announcer also sighed in relief.

Kayn destroyed the Powerball and Gine reverted back to her human form. The ref and the Kais went to talk to Pikkon and Kayn. They wanted to know if it was alright to start the fight between them right away.

Kayn said to give him 5 minutes before the fight. He did this because he wanted to talk to Gine and Bardock about a few things. After he was done talking to them and the 5 minutes were up, the fight was ready to begin.

"Here are the finals! Pikkon vs Kayn!"

Kayn and Pikkon were already on the stage. Kayn couldn't wait to get those rewards, so he powered up fully to end this fight. Kayn wanted to always be able to beat his foes easily, in regard to these type of people, they were nothing to people in the Tournament Of Power.

Pikkon was stunned, he could feel Kayn's unreal strength. He had already connected that Gine and Bardock were related to him in some way. Kayn had always hidden his strength, so he put him on the same level as the other 2.

Before the match could begin, Pikkon removed his weighted clothes and went full power.

"What? Pikkon is getting serious from the start!" Some of the audience members spoke out in surprise.

"Match.... begin!" The announcer said for one last time.