Area C: Day Two

[Raditzu]

Covered by Android 18 and Burter

[Toshiro]

Looking around, the demon noted the power that had fought agasnt Nappa, the two warrior's where close to thinking the same thing. Igniting their flaming aura's, the two launched in to the air & then traveled onward's.

The demon's mind was littered with the story of his friend's & their deaths. The more he though about it, & how he may have made a diffrence, the more his aura began to pulse with a heat that forced the giant saiya-jin to back away. Soon, the demon's body was coated with a firey blaze, actully emiting from his body. Roaring he fired up to his full power, surging forward, leaving the siaya-jin to stare, awe in spired, then following, pushing his own body to the max.

The two warrior's where near some sort of valley & a high mountin on theo ther end of it, vering upward's, they flew over it, & soon, found a new section of map bleep on to their screen's.

Welcome to Area D

OOC: On to D area..

[Ruhiel]

The bright light slowly faded. But amongst the fallout of the blast, a strange new figure could be seen. It was...

"No..."

"NO!"

Zarbon look out! No!

Android 20 shot out of the cot in a cold sweat. His eyes were wide and bloodshot, having had his nightmares constantly repeating the death of his friends. The doctor rubbed his hand across his forehead, trying to get himself to calm down.

"What's done is done, Gero. It's in the past now, there's nothing you can do to change it." 20 told himself.

He looked around the bunker. His eyes drifted lazily over many fighters he had never seen before, but then they came to rest on a most hated being. Lying just merely a few cots away, that traitorous murderer, King Cold, slept soundly.

"Zarbon look out! No!"

He could feel his hands clenching into fists unvoluntarily. He was almost shaking with fury, but then the android part of him spoke in the back of his mind.

"No, not yet Gero. You will kill him later, and with honor. Attacking someone in their sleep is dishonorable, and shamful. Be patient. Our time will come."

Dr. Gero shook himself, not wanting to hear anymore from his ruthless android side. But, the android was right, attacking him now would be cruel and dishonorable.

Android 20 rose from his cot and stretched. He gazed out the foggy window of the bunker. The rough terrain of Dante still stretched vastly out across the horizon, twisted dead forests frequented the landscape of Area C.

Gero walked to the door of the bunker, and checked his collar. It wasn't beeping, so he figured that was a good sign that he wouldn't be dusted anytime soon. Letting his white aura erupt about him, Android 20 lept into the air, and turned on his scanner.

Or, would have, but his scanner was still cracked from the melee he was in the other day. He would need to go to the Syntex base to restock on his supplies, not to mention that he needed to replace his totaled saiyan armor.

He shot in the direction of the base, watching seemingly endless dead forests streching beneath him. He gazed upward again, and sped up, trying to get the the base as soon as possible. After several minutes of flight, the android spotted the large rectangular structure jutting out of the landscape like a sore thumb. Letting his aura disappear, 20 slowly descended to the ground and walked up to the base.

Stepping in the door, he quickly found the restocking area for fighters. A wondrous machine held everything he needed. By pressing each and every button, he obtained one of each of the following: One functional scouter, a new set of saiyan armor, a senzu bean, and a stasis field grenade.

Each item popped out of the dispenser with a metallic ringing noise, and the doctor quickly donned his scouter and armor. Placing the bean and grenade in his pocket, Android 20 was back in action, ready to fight again.

Stepping outside the base, he once again let the familiar white aura surround him, and he shot of in the direction of some of the forests in Area C. He would need to use every possible advantage if he wanted to win. As he was looking for a suitable ambushing spot, his new scouter beeped loudly.

A power level reading within a thousand of his own was radiating from the forest below. Maybe this time he could get into a fair fight. Dropping down into the dank, cold forest, Android 20 glanced about, looking for his adversary.

After no sign of the fighter at first, Gero began walking through the stagnant forest. As he walked about, something very pink caught his eye. A flower. A bright, pink, living flower. Gero was extremely suprised. He was amazed to find anything alive in this forest at all. He sauntered over to the flower, and was about 5 meters away, when suddenly, gnarled roots burst from the ground, and wrapped around his feet. Shocked at what was happening, the doctor had no idea what was going on, until he heard a voice.

"Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. You are so gullible. Walking straight into my little trap. Now welcome to your doom, for I, Ashara, shall be your DOOM!"

OOC: Lotta things happened here. Restocked on armor, scouter, stasis field grenade, and senzu bean. Also the start of fight: Android 20 vs. Ashara (NPC)

[Vegeta]

The changeling had received his orders, and quickly set off. With his collar removed he moved quickly through the terrain teleporting across the areas searching for a bunker. He spotted one and teleported inside, popped open the machine that would stop the collars from killing the participants and unplugged the wires as the man had instructed him to do. The machine would act as if it had shut down your collar, but it was now unable to. And there was no evidence of tampering. Koola snatched up a senzu bean and chopped it up; it wasn?t going to hurt anything to be fully charged. He moved through the terrain slipping into bunkers and disabling them without notice. He made sure to pocket an additional stasis grenade from a bunker before taking off; he wasn?t sure what would be required for phase two of this operation. With his task required, he jetted back off to the ship where his brothers awaited him.

OCB: Official Chubbs Business: An unamed number of bunkers, in unamed sections have been disabled. I hope you don't get unlucky. =)

[Ruhiel]

Dr. Gero merely chuckled at the echoing voice that came seemingly from everywhere. He opened his mouth and began to speak.

"Two problems with that. One, you just said doom twice, so now I'm thinking you are really stupid. Two, this isn't my doom, you just doomed yourself by messing with me. And believe me, this is NOT a good time to be pissing me off."

""IMPUDENT FOOL! I SHALL SLAUGHTER YOU AND LEAVE YOUR ROTTING CARCASS IN THIS DEAD FOREST FOR ALL ETERNITY!"

The android chuckled. Seemed he touched a bit of a nerve on that one. He pressed a button on the side of his scouter, and looked around, searching for the trace of Ashara's power level. For a few moments, nothing, then...

BEEP
power level detected: scanning...
power level analyzed: 1,012,565

The doctor grinned. This one was actually weaker than him for a change. But he couldn't let himself get cocky, after all... Krillen was 20 times stronger than that saiyan, and he still died...

20 returned from his thoughts and raised an open palm to where his scouter detected Ashara's power signature. Firing one quick shot caused the being to jump out of concealment.

She was a strange creature, and by the looks of it, a forest demon. She had a putrid brownish-green hue to her, and it seemed that two antlers were sprouting from her forehead. Her eyes glowed green as well. Long brown gnarly hair rolled from the back of her hair, resembling that of roots. Her hands were also very unique. It appeared she had the ability of body size control, due to the fact that her arms were extended into the ground, and were obviously the vines that were tied around him now. Yep, she was definitley a forest demon.

"So, your little scouter there found me. Hooray for you. But guess what, you are still trapped, and I can still crush you like a little bug."

"Oh now can you? And did you just say trapped? Hardly." Gero said confidenlty.

The android gazed down at the roots, unmoving, seeming dumbstuck, but his purpose quickly became clear. Two thin beams of energy shot out of his eyes and burned the roots off of him. The forest demon recoiled in pain, her hands unearthing themselves, and retreating back to her, reforming to normal size. She rubbed her hands vigorously, where two bright red burns had appeared.

"Grr... You will pay for that. Now I'm mad. I'll make sure your death is a slow and painful one."

But the android was already flying towards her full speed, arm cocked back, ready to unload. His fist slammed into the side of face, sending the demon spiraling backwards, crashing into a dead tree.

"You're all talk. Just shut up and fight." 20 muttered, flying in for another attack.

But, Ashara shot her arms out, and threw the android backwards, into the ground. Still holding onto the mechanoid's shoulders, the demon flipped him the other direction, slamming him down into the ground again. She would have continued this assault had Gero not grabbed her arms, and spun her around like a dead weight. She slammed into tree after tree, until the android let go, and she hurtled off into the distance.

But before she hit the ground, her sea-green aura erupted around her and she flew in low, and slammed an uppercut into the chin of the android, who was knocked up and backwards. He caught himself with his hands, and backflipped back onto his feet.

"So it seems you've finally decided to fight." Gero stated, cracking his neck twice, and then sinking into a fighting stance. His white aura exploded around him.

Ashara also assumed her unorthodox fighting stance, her aura still flowing freely about her. And then, they shot at each other. 20 threw a sidearm punch, which was met by a blocking forearm. Ashara attempted a spinning kick, but that was stopped by a metallic shin. Both fighters threw multiple attacks, each being met with a block, until finally, someone got a punch in. Ashara was blown backwards by the punch in the gut, and the android followed after her. Taking advantage of her weakness at the time, he landed multiple punches into her stomach, each blow causing a spray of spit to fly from her mouth as she was knocked left and right. But after about 50 or so hits, she grabbed the android's fist, and then headbutted him. As he flew backwards, Ashara launched her arms out, grabbed him, and pulled him in again, to be met by another headbutt. His head reeling from the blow, the android did the only thing he could think of. As she pulled him in again, he held his elbow out towards the demon, which slammed into her forehead with concussive force. The demon was forced to drop the android, and stepped backwards, holding her head.

Both warriors stood still with alarming calmness. But this brawl was far from over. Each had merely thrown the opening attacks, and the real battle was to begin soon.

[Kami]

Kami sat in his bunker. He was simply trying to wait things out a little bit, fighting and winning was great and all, but pretty taxing on the body. He would find someone to fight soon enough, but instead he ran outside and started flying around looking for someone to beat the shit out of.

[Ruhiel]

"AAAH! TAKE THIS YOU OLD MAN!" Ashara yelled, breaking the silence.

The forest demon created two green energy blasts in her two palms and slammed both of her wrists together, creating an even larger ball of energy.

"MEGA BALL BLAST!" Ashara screamed, as the gigantic ball of ki fired at the android. Warnings shot across Gero's scanner, stating that the energy attack was immensely powerful, and he should run. He did what the scouter said. The android lunged out of the way at the last second, as the enormous explosion rocked the ground behind him, throwing up debris everywhere. He landed swiftly and silently behind Ashara.

"Foolish old creature. He should have known not to make Ashara mad. Now he has paid the price." the demon muttered, and turned around.

But when she turned around, she was met with a most shocking discovery. Standing directly behind her was Android 20, palm outwards and facing her head. A bright blue energy ball glowed in his palm.

"Powerful attack, but it's just too slow to ever hit someone. I hope this will teach you that lesson." scolded Gero. He bulged his arm muscles, and the ball slammed into the demon's face, blasting her backwards and causing her to slam into a tree. Her screams could be heard through the smoke that concealed her face. But, eventually the smoke cleared, and her face could be seen, still normal looking, except for the fact that her nose had been forced inward a bit.

That made Ashara mad, and Gero liked it. She came at him with a flurry of punches and kicks, several of which he could not predict, and slammed with concussive force into him. Now he was the one in trouble. Her endless fury of attacks kept on until she paused and charged up two energy balls in her hands again. But, instead of creating the Mega Ball again, she merely shot them at the android, each of them flying in at high speeds. The hit home in the gut of the mechanoid, the blasts finally pushing through to the back of the android, and bursting out the other side. His internal circuitry could be seen as random sparks shot out of him.

The android grimaced in pain, looking down at his exposed wiring. He felt almost naked in a sense. Without pausing for words, he disappeared, reappearing above the forest demon, and slamming the bottom of his foot into the top of her head, driving her down into the ground like a nail. But Ashara broke free of the ground and came out fighting, and a high speed fist brawl began. Punch after punch after punch being met by a block. The number of attacks was endless. They went on in their battling frenzy through the forest, and out into the daylight of the grassy areas of Area C. But eventually, the android's speed proved greater than Ashara could take, and he broke through her defense. He uppercutted her in the chin, and followed up with a swift jab to her stomach, causing her to double over, holding her abdomen. This left her back exposed, and he violently elbowed her in the spine, hearing a resounding *snap* as his elbow drove in. She was knocked to the ground, where she lay still for a moment, her arms lying under her.

Android 20 walked over calmly and awaited for Ashara to rise. Then, it hit him. Her hands shot out of the ground, and began to pummel him mercilessly. He couldn't fight back, because there was no body to hit, so all he could do was put up the best defense he could, and try to get out of the range of her arms. His internal computer warned him that if he continued to take such a beating, he would risking damaging his wrists from blocking the whole time. Something had to be done. Then it hit him, the old cartoon gag.

He shot off into the sky, watching Ashara's arms chase after him.

"Good." Gero thought, and flew faster.

He doubled back, and flew beneath the rest of her arms, her hands following him. After a series of twists and turns, the sight that lay before him was a cliche come to life. Her hands were tied in a knot, unable to move. The android near laughed himself to death. But then, she did something that bewildered the android. She retreated her arms into the earth, and then her body rose, suprising, considering he had thought he broke her spine. Her arms returned to normal size, and amazingly enough, they were unknotted. He didn't stop to wonder why, nor did he have time to, because Ashara shot at him like an angry bull, her antlers angled towards him, as she attempted to impale him. He quickly dodged out of the way, and then unleashed his most powerful energy attack, the Renzouku Energy Dan, on the airborne forest demon. Hundreds of bright blue energy blasts slammed into her, causing an explosion that steadily increased in size as more and more blasts connected. Not wanting a repeat of the King Cold fight, Gero threw as many attacks as he could muster into the blinding fury of attacks which he unleashed. Eventually, he stopped and lowered his hands to his sides. This had been a disappointing fight in his mind, considering that she had only managed to hurt him a little.

But from out of the smoke and dust appeared a figure. And that figure was none other than Ashara, still alive, but seemingly badly hurt and breathing hard. This looked like the battle could possibly be nearing a close, but only time would tell, as Ashara flew in to begin her assault.

OOC: Yeah, I think I might do one or two posts more, then I'm gonna wrap this one up.

[Ruhiel]

Ashara came charging at the android, eyes blazing with fury, as she unleashed a frenzy of attacks. The doctor tried to block as many as he could, but his defense was lacking, and several barged through. A punch slammed into his nose, causing blood to spill out of it. Ashara seemed to become more and more enraged with each attack she threw. Her eyes were turning from green to red.

"What is wrong with her?" Android 20 was thinking as he got pummeled.

Ashara was hopelessly lost in bloodlust, enraged and doing everything she could to destroy the mechanical abomination. Slews of punches and concentrated blows nailed the android repeatedly, causing his internal computer to warn him of the increasing damage he was taking. Too much more, and... well... Dr. Gero didn't want to think about what would happen if he took too much damage.

But he was helpless. The forest demon was lost in an unholy frenzy, grunting like an enraged bull with each attack she threw. Attacks came sailing in, and the Gero could do nothing...

Then, it happened again.

You mindless imbecile. Do I always have to come in and control you, just so you don't get us killed?

"No, I won't let you! I'm doing fine by myself. I don't need your heartless aid." the human half of Gero fought back in his mind.

Shut up. I'm taking control.

Ashara was still beating the crap out of the android, when it happened. The android took over once again. Just like it did in the fight with King Cold, the power switch was amazing to watch.

"errraaAAAAAAAAH!" the android screamed, his white aura blaring.

Ashara was blasted backwards away from the mechanoid, eyes bulging in horror of what was happening.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Gero continued to scream. His aura flickered black, then again. Finally, the android half took complete control. The aura turned completely black, and the ground beneath him cracked and shook.

"Now let's finish this fight. The human weakling has no right to fight against you. Now I control him." the android spoke, his voice empty and emotionless.

He disappeared. Ashara looked around trying to spot the missing android, and then, her scouter beeped. The ruthless android came flying in from the left and landed a kick on the side of her face. He followed up by reappearing underneath her falling body, throwing a punch into her gut. The mechanoid continued his emotionless massacre for several minutes. After multiple attacks, each one connecting with bone-breaking force, Ashara was sent flying towards the horizon. 20 disappeared and reappeared behind her. He opened up his energy receptors, and aimed his open palms towards the oncoming forest demon. This was it. It would either be the end for Ashara, or somehow, him. He knew not which it would be, but he wasn't about to let himself die after swearing vengeance against King Cold.

OOC: Aight, I've decided that's my last post in the 20 vs. Ashara fight. Anytime wants to decide our fates, that's fine.

[Kami]

Kami scratched his head and then went bak inside the bunker. He was right, Bra and Bulma had both slipped in and he hadn't even noticed.

"Oh, sorrry I didn't notice you two before. This damn tournament has got my head spinning." He took a seat near the two green haired gals.

They were chatting on about something before Kami had sat down. He already knew Bra could very well hold her own, experience is what she needed and a fair fight was always nice. Having the odds tipped against you was never any fun - Kami knew full well how that usually worked out.

Bulma hadn't done anything which Kami had seen to prove her worth either way. She might be dead weight, she might be an incredible fighter. He had no evidence for either theory, but something was making him lean towards the latter of the two. There was a reason she was here and not at home. Her daughter obviously had sayjin blood, so for her to have a kid with a sayjin man deserved some credit. He almost felt like he should keep an eye on her, just in case something went awrye, but his gut was telling him not to worry about her.

"So I'm guessing you came out on top in your fight Bra. How're you holding up? Oh...and I hope you weren't friends with that other Namekian fellow...either way he won't be around to bother you anymore. Seen your friend Burter lately?"

[Burter]

"Kami!" Burter called as he walked forward. The reptile had taken a small stroll to get a better feel of the surroundings, coming back to find his namekian friend. "Good to see you. I'd like to say it was a good time, but its not."

The reptile pointed a bulky finger at the fight they had been watching. Paragus was putting up quite a fight, but he was no match for the saiyan Raditzu. "We need to keep an eye on Paragus," Bra commented, and Kami simply nodded.

[Android-18]

OCB: I'm really friggin tired, if you wanna RP the end go ahead, but I'm way too tired to do it myself.

Android 20: +1 points for killing the NPC and 5,000 zeni.

[Ruhiel]

The forest demon came hurtling into the android. 20 grabbed onto Ashara's face with both hands.

"What are you doing? LET ME GO!" she screamed.

But already, she could feel a nauseating feeling coursing through her body. Her arms grew limp and tired, and it felt like she couldn't move at all.

"You put up a good fight. I'm sorry that I must kill you, but this is a tournament, and we knew the risks when we entered. I'm sorry. This is the most humane way I could think of ending this. Goodbye."

Ashara stared into the cold blue eyes of the android one last time. Then, her eyes became glazed over with death, as she hung limply in the android's grasp.

Android 20 slowly descended to the ground, and softly laid the fallen demon on the ground. The android swallowed a senzu bean, and felt the rejuvinating powers of it slowly taking affect. Then, he turned around and let his white aura surround him. Then, Dr. Gero shot off into the sky without looking back. His scouter had picked up multiple high level energy signatures coming from the east. He would go there soon, but he had a few errands to take care of first.

He spotted the concrete Synex base. He had been here before, so he simply walked up to the item dispenser, and got another senzu bean. He knew he would need it later. The android stepped outside of the bunker, and then stared off into the east.

Area D...

He could see brilliant explosions coming from that area all the way over from Area C.

"Hmmph. Well, nobody lives forever, so I might as well jump in headfirst and see what happens." Gero thought to himself.

He let his aura engulf him, and he shot off to the east, heading for the part of Dante known as Area D.

OOC: Got another senzu bean. Heading for Area D.

[Bra]

"So I'm guessing you came out on top in your fight, Bra. How're you holding up? Oh... and I hope you weren't friends with that other Namekian fellow... either way he won't be around to bother you anymore." Kami stated.

"Y-Yeah, I beat the android guy. I'm okay, just tired. And no, I didn't even know that Namekian guy. He jumped me while I was fighting Android 14." Bra replied, "Thanks."

"For what?" the elderly warrior demanded.

"For helping me out. And for encouraging me before." Bra replied quietly. Kami simply gave a slight nod to indicate he heard her, and said nothing else. Bra, Kami, and Burter all returned their attention to the fight in front and above them. Paragus was fighting valiantly, even holding his own at many points in the fight, but Raditzu simply excelled in every possible way.

"Paragus..." Burter hissed upon watching Raditzu ram his iron-like fist into the one-eyed Saiyan's forehead, propelling him backward through the air. The reptilian was obviously becoming a little agitated. Bra, too, was becoming very anxious, trying her best to remain calm, but it was hard to watch one of her friends take shot after shot from the most powerful warrior she'd ever laid eyes on.

"Oh, forget this!!" the cyan-haired girl screamed, wrapping herself in her violent blue-and-white aura, bending her legs in order to leap out into the air. Just as Bra did so, Burter clamped his hands around her upper arms, preventing her from interfering with the battle.

"What're you doing!? You know Paragus can't win this fight!!" the halfling shouted in anger.

"We can't interfere with this fight, Bra!! We have no idea what Raditzu's motives are!! If you go and screw things up... just... let Paragus try and prove himself... to himself." Burter explained.

"Fine." Bra agreed, allowing her aura to fade into non-existence. She stopped struggling, and Burter released his grip. At this moment, the young cyan-haired warrior launched forward, only to be anchored once again when Burter lunged forward and brought both his hands around her ankle.

"Seriously, Bra!! Stop this right now!!" Burter demanded, pulling the girl back to the ground.

"Fine!! But if something happens to Paragus, I'm gonna kick your ass!!" Bra retorted, finally submitting to staying on the sidelines. She was, however, prepared to leap into action should Raditzu do something to warrant her interference.

OOC: *Shrug* Just bored waiting. Nothing too important in this one.

[Raditzu]

"This is pathetic." Raditzu's hair kicked up as he lunged away from a stray kick.

Their fight had burned on for longer than Raditzu had figured it would. He was more surprised at himself than he was at Paragus. Paragus was putting up a decent fight, in spite of the obvious difference in power between the two warriors. The long-haired warriors constant taunting throughout the fight, however, was obviously wearing on his one-eyed opponent. Raditzu was finding himself growing more angered as well. His ki sense flared as Bra moved to interupt their fight. Rad whirled towards the young female, his face contorted in anger.

"Keep her out of his, Burter." His voice came out as a low growl.

The blue alien's response was little more than a glare. Rad had to check himself from turning the fight towards the two by-standers, something which surprised him quite a bit. Caught up in his thoughts, however, Raditzu was thrown to the ground in a barrage of ki. He pulled himself to his feet with a sigh and turned towards Paragus with a very serious expression. The elder saiyan launched a couple more bolts of ki, but Raditzu weaved through them with seemingly little effort. Turth be told, his stamina was running low. Not his physical stamina, not by a long shot, but mentally he was getting tired of this. If he tried to powerup, Burter and Bra would interfere; Kami's presence had not gone unnoticed, either. Paragus hit the ground and answered Raditzu's gaze with his own.

"Why are you doing this? Just trying to make some easy money?" The cycloptic warrior's breath was coming short.

"Oh please, I don't give a rat's ass about money. I'm doing it because I'm sick of seeing people like you make a mockery of the most powerful race in the universe. I'm sick of seeing weaklings ignore the fact that they're completely out of their league." Raditzu's tail was whipping behind him violently. "You say you want to protect your friends... all you are is a burden. The fact of the matter is that I could go over there and kill both of them right now." The saiyan's hair shot into golden spikes and his aura flared. "And there wouldn't be a single thing you would be able to do about it."

Upon seeing Raditzu's transformation, Burter and Bra shot towards the two warriors. Watching Paragus fight was one thing, but now his life was in serious jeoparody. They were, however, no where near fast enough. Raditzu was upon Paragus in the blink of an eye. Paragus suddenly found himself doubled over Rad's fist; blood escaped from his mouth as he gasped for air. Wasting little time, the long-haired super saiya-jin drove a knife hand against the back of his opponent's neck. Paragus hit the ground with a dull thud. His body lay, unmoving, on the ground. Raditzu took a couple of steps backwards and pointed an open palm at the prone body. Before he could get off a finishing blow, however, Bra came flying past him. Burter was close behind. Dropping any pretense of an offensive, Raditzu backed off. His left eye was twitching, and he seemed to have trouble breathing. Something had definitely changed about the long-haired warrior.

Bra, already transformed, turned to face Raditzu while Burter checked on Paragus. Rad, however, turned away for the trio of allied warriors and simply took off through the air. Pushing himself at close to his top speed, it didn't take long for him to get away from the scene of the battle. By the time he actually took stock of where he was, the only thing around him was a wide open plane. The terrain was completely different than what he had just been battling in, but that made little difference to the warrior. He simply needed somewhere to collect his thoughts and figure out exactly what had happened to him. On the horizon, a bunker quickly came into view. The turrents quickly locked onto Raditzu's form and started firing away, but in his Super Sayian form, and moving at top speed, they didn't stand a chance at hitting him. A few moments later he was waltzing into the bunker.

OCC: Left Area C, entered Area A. Currently in the eastern bunker in area A.

[Burter]

"Dont worry about it," Burter said to Paragus as he helped the man up. He knew inside, the man was fighting his own personal demons for losing the fight, but there was nothing Burter nor Bra could do about it.

"Lets just go," Paragus finally said, walking off away from them. Burter looked over, nodding to Kami, who could follow if he wants.

[]just wondering across C now, Kami is most likely traveling with us[]

[Kami]

Kami slowly got up, he didn't say a word but decided to tag along with Bra, Burter and Paragus. It was risky to team up with other people in a tournament like this, but it never hurt to have a few friends at your back. Kami knew their spirits might be higher just by him being around.

His Namekian hearing had pickd up most of the conversation between Paragus and Raditzu. He had fought alongside and against Raditzu multiple times before, but felt no need to confront him now, if at all. He was an incredibly formitable opponent who possed experience and power that rivaled his own. Watching the fight did give Kami some more insight into how Raditzu behaved during a fight though. He wasn't just idly sitting by as the fight raged on as it appeared. He knew that if he had to fight the long haired sayjin that he would need to go over all the replay footage of fights with and against him he could think of to be as prepared as possible.

For now he wasn't an enemy, but he wasn't exactly trading war stories with Kami back in the bunker. With a stoic look on his face and an ever present calm about him, the Namekian wandered on with his new friends.

OOC: Following Burter, Bra, Paragus, but staying removed from any alliance/personal engagements they might venture into until further notice.

[Bra]

?What now?? the dark warrior asked solemnly. Paragus seemed so utterly dejected.

"Well... I don't know. I figure we could just head back out and take down someone less insanely strong." Burter replied, trying to emphasise that none of them could have beaten Raditzu, and that Paragus wasn't the only one.

"Whatever works for you..." Paragus replied, and headed to an empty corner on the far side of the bunker's interior. The elderly Namek Kami headed up a stairway, passing by the one-eyed Saiyan on his way back to Burter's location.

"Turrets are set to blow shit up, long as we're here." he informed.

"Thanks." the blue-skinned reptilian replied, "That takes care of everything while we're here."

"We should leave... to a new area. Right now. Let's go find someone to fight!" Bra suddenly chimed in, starting to get bored with staying in yet another bunker. The halfling quickly stepped over to a bookshelf with only one book sitting on it's side. She reached up and pulled it off the shelf, and had to wipe off the coat of dust just to read the title.

"Oh wow. A Dante rulebook." Bra said sarcastically to herself, flicking her wrist and tossing the novel halfway across the room.

"How old is the kid anyway?" Kami asked Burter, perhaps still a little intrigued as to how early she'd managed to become a Super Saiyan.

"How the hell should I know? Apparently not old enough to be in the tournament, I've even heard Raditzu talk with her mom about it." he replied.

"I'm totally old enough to be in this thing!!" the cyan-haired girl interrupted, having heard Burter's reply, "Didn't you see me take down that android freak!?"

"That doesn't have anything to do with age!" Burter replied with a laugh.

"Yes it does! If I wasn't old enough, I wouldn't have been able to kill him!" Bra retorted.

"Yeah, right. You're probably not even allowed into PG-13 movies yet!! You're just lucky this Dante thing is sponsored by a bunch of psychos! How old are you anyway? Ten? Twelve?" Burter laughed.

"Yeah. ...Twelve." Bra replied, having lost the angry enthusiasm she just had.

"I bet you just turned twelve, then, huh?"

"Actually..." Bra began, but fell silent.

"Don't worry about it, kiddo. Some day, many years from now, people will stop saying that you're not old enough. But you know what, you're still gonna hear it from me!!" Burter stated, emphasising all the childish euphanisms "When's your birthday, anyway, youngster?"

"Well... it's... it's today." the cyan-haired girl replied.

"Oh..." was all that Burter managed to say.

[Burter]

"Oh..." Burter repeated, more to himself then to his now older companion. He couldn't describe the feelings moving through his mind at the time. At one point, he was very happy for his friend, but then he couldn't believe that he not only didn't know her age, the reptile didn't even know it was her birthday. How could he be so blind? "Well, shit, Bra," he finally spoke up. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't think you'd care," she shrugged, taking her seat on the chair behind her. Her voice was low, as if she now wasn't as fiery as she previously was. The reptile sat down as well, sighing.

"I didn't get you anything..." he started, trying to think of something, anything, that he could give her. "I didn't even know it was your birthday..."

Bra once again shrugged, a sign of her becoming a teenager. She just didn't care on the outside, but you could see through the young girl's exterior and know how much it meant to her. "No big deal," she lied, following up with the multi-purpose shrug.

"Wait," Burter said suddenly. He reached down to his wrist, putting two fingers over the silver bracelet he always carried. On it was the word, inscribed in gold, Always With You.

"Whoa, hold on," Bra said, putting her hand out to stop him. "No way, you always wear that thing. I cant take that."

"You can and you will," the reptile replied with a stubborn tone about him. He took the bracelet off and placed it gently into the palm of her open hand. "My brother, Lakon, gave me this years ago. With it, I have always felt connected to him, as if...as if he was still here with me. I hope this bracelet makes you feel the same way."

"Wow...I...I dont know what to say, Burter," Bra said, absolutely astounded at the sudden present.

"Happy Birthday, kid," Burter grinned and got up. "Hey, Kami! We're leaving, you comin? Plenty of shit to blow up!"

"I'm right behind you!" Kami said with a matching grin. Paragus came out of his corner as the four prepared to leave.

[]Leaving Bunker. Giving control to Kami and Paragus[]

[Kami]

The four fighters made their way out of Area C. Kami was ready for another fight, but he was in no rush to find that fight. The four were making their way away from their old position rather quickly, nothing flashy just moving along, keeping their heads low and eyes open. They were skiming along the border of Areas A and D but it seemed like making a line for B would be a good choice for now.

Kami looked back at everyone, he hadn't really been paying attention and he forgot he was faster than the rest of them. They all seemed to be fine with the way they were headed, so they continued along their borderline journey over into Area B...

[OMFG AREA B !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111111]