David was still curious about the fights, but right now the buffet table had most of his attention. After all he wanted to recover as much energy as he could before the second round. Of course he made sure not to eat so much so fast, it would make sick during the fight, but he still put away an impressive amount while occasionally looking at the ring. Due to this he missed most of the last two first round matches and before he knew it,it was time for the second round. Once again David walked through the halls towards the ring. While he had tried not to show it he still somewhat ached from the fight with Teemo. _"Still if my opponent is who I think it is, I'll be the one in better shape, so no point in complaining."_

Guls stepped up to the buffet table where it seemed like most of the fighters were gathering, still suppressing the slight urge chuckle while remembering what had happened during the small Plantian's match. Guls had rarely seen such creative uses of the duplication technique in a match. Still, for his purposes now it wouldn't do for the other fighters to see him laughing. Instead he stepped just behind the young Saiyan girl who had lost her match while also still regarding the other fighters. He closed his eyes for a second to reaffirm his purpose and feel out the hearts and strength of the other fighters to the best of his ability before proceeding. "Girl, you desire to become stronger, do you not? If your heart burns with the same desire to better yourself that I think it does, I can show you how to become truly strong." Guls turned to the former champion and his young fan as well, though he pitched his words so that the fighters around in general could hear him. "If you want to walk down a path of victory, I can show you where to start. There are secrets to fighting in this world that go beyond what you can achieve with physical strength." Guls pulled his cloak around himself in a slightly swishy motion that had served him as a general 'mysterious person' gesture in the past, making a show of levitating a bottle of water up from the table, uncapping it and taking a drink all without moving his hands both to emphasize his point and refresh himself. "In any case, none of you have to decide now but my offer is open at any time during and after the tournament. Think on it well." After that he grasped the water bottle in his hands and folded his legs into a meditative position, sitting there drinking water while floating just slightly off of the ground. Now that the second round was about to begin, he would need to rest up and prepare. He doubted his next match was to be as easy or merely annoying as the one with Slapstick and he would have to work hard if he wanted to gain any students through the tournament.

Ultra-Dimension dropped from his ship in the sky, landing in the arena in full gear. ~~ Gecko: The first 12 seconds of the fight went fairly much like this. [youtube]WJ-afKCOZZc[/youtube] Granted, it was a samurai doing Sentai poses, and it was a Saiyan descendant using a finger gun, but the feel is still largely the same. As Ultra-Dimension staggered from the blow to his upper left, for a moment, David brought up his other hand and proceeded to open a volley of fire. The first shot got through sizzling into Ultra-Dimension's armor, but the next four were absorbed into Ultra-Dimension's blade as his guard was raised. The black vortex surrounding Ultra-Dimension's sword, although it had been used earlier in the fight with Shin Zen, had not shown its true purpose yet. Regardless, Ultra-Dimension seemed to get the idea that his antics would not be allowed this fight, and rather than declaring his next attack, he simply let it show itself. White lightning crackled from his blade, and the two damaged spots in his armor began repairing. The Finger Gun had showed its power when it hit, but against Ultra-Dimension's blade, every shot was a liability Ultra-Dimension could use to recharge. Duthguy: Seeing that ki-attacks were ineffective David decided to switch physical attacks despite the risk Ultra-Dimension's blade presented. With any luck he could successfully use his second signature attack and get some damage in that way. He charged at at his opponent from the right, hoping that the loss of the samurai's eye would give him some extra time. And it seemed his plan had worked, the first hook kick connected though the armor naturally decreased the effect. However it seemed Ultra-Dimension was expecting an attack from his blind spot, since he used his katana's blunt edge to sweep David's leg out from underneath while the Saiyan descendant was still unbalanced. The younger fighter fell down on the ground, giving the armored human the advantage. Gecko: Ultra-Dimension now had David in a perfect position to slice, but did not do so, instead leaping up into the air slightly before sending a knee crushing down towards David. The slight window was all David needed to flip himself up, dodging the blow narrowly. David was in position to strike at Ultra-Dimension's blind side just after they both landed, but Ultra-Dimension had once again expected that, holding his unsheathed katana there, making it dangerous for David to attack. This hesitation was all Ultra-Dimension needed to attack again. Rising from his half-kneeling position, Ultra-Dimension swung his sword in a windmill motion, timing the apex of his speed rising with the apex of power of the swing as it rose. A fast and strong attack, but very obvious, a way to force David off-balance as he dodge. Then something David didn't expect happened. Ultra-Dimension combined his motion with a flip, hooking his feet under David's arms. Ultra-Dimension was using Shin Zen's Flip Kick Combo? David expected the next move, catching himself in a handstand instead of having his head rammed into the ground. Then, he swept his legs down to counter the next move in the combo. But Ultra-Dimension wasn't on the ground. Instead of continuing the combo, he had pushed himself into the air over David using his arms, buying a moment to sheath and lock his sword before sweeping down, a sheathed Iaijtusu strike, aimed downwards from above. Once again, David barely dodged, Ultra-Dimension's katana, even sheathed smashing through the stone arena floor. As David regained his footing, Ultra-Dimension tore his blade up from the arena floor, sending a spray of shattered rock at David. David parried the largest rocks, but was still ever so slightly damaged by the many glancing hits. Neither fighter had landed a true attack in hand to hand yet. Of similar experience, instinct, and power, it was an even fight so far. Duthguy: David couldn't help but be impressed Ultra-Dimension really surprised him with his last few moves, especially the rock spray which left him with some minor cuts and bruises on his arms. From what the Saiyan descendant could tell this human was stronger and smarter than Teemo. David once more charged at the samurai seemingly going for the blind spot again, but he changed direction just before coming into melee range. Hoping that an attack from the left would catch Ultra-Dimension off guard, he went for a punch aimed at what appeared to be a weak spot in the samurai armor namely the black section around his opponent's waist. Gecko: Ultra-Dimension was fooled by the bluff. In order to attack, he had taken his primary hand of his katana, grabbing at David and attempting a knee attack while his secondary hand defended his blind side. Without the speed of both hands on his weapon, the punch hit Ultra-Dimension square. But, due to not dodging due to following through on his strike to maximize power, David was hit by Ultra-Dimension's attack in turn. The rest of the battle took the same tone. They would dodge and block each others attacks, and only once they both committed to an attack at the same time would either of them be hit, so equally matched was their martial prowess. In order to land a two handed overhead swing, freezing David's left shoulder with the force of its landing, Ultra-Dimension had to accept a reverse back kick to the chest, at the same weak point his armor had been hit before, this time fully shattering the armor over Ultra-Dimension's abdomen, bloody shards sticking in both fighters, but ignored by strength of will. In order to cripple Ultra-Dimension's primary hand with a muy thai like pincer elbow and knee strike, followed by a point-blank Finger Gun to the shoulder to make sure, David had to accept an axe kick to the ankle, sending him down to one knee. Ultra-Dimension's katana fallen to the ground, and David on one knee, both fighters had one last moment to regard one another as they unleashed their final attack. No words were spoken. With the sword out of the way, Ultra-Dimension no longer had a defense against the Finger Gun. With David's ankle damaged, David couldn't dodge or buy time to launch multiple attacks. Ultra-Dimension's sheath swung forward, David thumb came down. David went to the ground, while Ultra-Dimension staggered backwards, his helmet cracking before falling off, revealing the battered man beneath with an eyepatch, breathing raggedly from his chest injuries. Ultra-Dimension fell to one knee, but kept himself upright with his sheath, his dominant hand still hanging limply from the shoulder. The count began, and David did not rise. The fight was over by knock out, a brutal slug match with full power right from the beginning. ~~ "A fight with honor. My respect, warrior." After retrieving his weapon, Ultra-Dimension slowly and ritually sheathed it, scraping the blade against the top of the sheath before actually sheathing it.

The Champion looked over when Guls started speaking up about training. _This guy is pretty strong too. Maybe I should take him up on that offer,_ Jack thought to himself before looking out the window to see David and Ultra-Dimension begin their fight. The samurai sentai had disappeared on his ship after his first fight but it seems that he received medical attention somehow. While those two slugged it out, Jack studied their movements. _These guys are powerful too. Pretty evenly matched,_ Jack pondered as they slugged it out. Once the victor was decided, medical personnel rushed to the stage, carrying David off in the same manner they had with Jack earlier. _The next fight is with the Saiyan girl and the Namekian that beat me._ Jack looked over at the two. Fenro was still at the window, statuesque as usual. Coco, on the other hand, was stuffing her face at the buffet nearby. But with the end of David and Ultra-Dimension's fight, she finished up her plate and walked over to the exit with a confident grin on her face. "Now! We have our next match of the second round! Coco versus Fenro!!" At the call of their names the two fighters made their way to the concrete stage. The young Saiyan woman seemed like a dwarf compared to the Namekian before her. But she only had a grin of confidence. She crossed her arms over her chest as her tail flicked about behind her. "You know..." she began talking, using a surprisingly honeyed voice. "I noticed that you didn't use your full power in your fight against the Champion. But here's a fact for you: I didn't use my full power either." She uncrossed her right arm and pointed a finger at Fenro, who stood silent and unmoving. "Why don't we skip the games and go all-out?" The stern gaze of the Namekian didn't faze her. "I will only if I need to," he responded. A look of disappointment appeared on Coco's face, but it quickly turned into a devilish grin. _Perfect. I knew from the start that his pride would hold him back. That gives me the best chance to beat him quickly,_ she thought to herself slyly. The grin quickly vanished and her expression reverted to her original look of confidence. "Darn," she responded sarcastically, taking up a fighting stance. Like the first round, Fenro didn't take up any stance. The announcer finally appeared at the fighters' rest area. "Let the battle!!! Begin!!" Without hesitation, Coco brought her hands forward and unleashed a pink ball of ki. In fact she released more than one. A flurry of pink orbs flew through the air like bullets, all heading toward Fenro. Like a perpetual machine gun she kept firing blast after blast, each hit on the Namekian resulting in an explosion. The explosions damaged the stage underneath the Namekian as well, causing smoke and dust to slowly obscure Coco's view of her opponent. After one final explosion, larger than the others, the Saiyan woman stopped her barrage and began laughing maniacally. "Ha ha ha! You see! He underestimated me and I won!" she shouted toward the crowd. But as the smoke began to settle it became clear that Fenro was still standing. He had crossed his arms over his chest at some point and had an irritated expression on his face. Aside from the damage his clothes received, it appeared that he was relatively unharmed. Seeing her opponent made Coco scowl. "Your attacks were weak," Fenro explained, uncrossing his arms. Taking that as an insult, Coco held her arm to her side with her hand facing the sky. A pink ball was formed again, this one much larger than the bullets she was firing earlier. "You're the weak one!" she shouted in a rage as she tossed the ball of energy. The beachball sized ki blast rocketed toward Fenro. Just as it was about to strike him, his left arms shot out in a snappy swipe. The bottom of his palm connected with the pink energy, first causing it to bend slightly before being flung off into the sky. Coco looked stunned as her attack flew harmlessly out of the arena. After a few seconds it exploded in the air, providing a more respectable size than the attack she used earlier. "I thought you said you were going all-out?" Fenro remarked. Though his deep voice held no traces of insult, Coco took it poorly. She brought her hands forward again, keeping her scowl. "Die!!" she shouted as the barrage of energy began again. This time, however, Fenro brought his arms to his side and began walking forward. Though each blast connected with the target it seemed to do nothing to slow Fenro down as he casually strolled across the stage. The closer he got the more desperate Coco became. The large Namekian only stopped once he was within his arm's reach of the woman, though notably outside her reach due to the sheer size difference. Realizing her attacks just wouldn't work, Coco took a step back as she created another one of her more powerful ki blasts. "You think just because you're a big man that you can-!" she began shouting before being rudely interrupted by Fenro's foot. The kick to her chin sent her up into the air. The ball of energy she charged was wasted and simply vanished upon Coco being kicked. The young woman landed five meters away on her back, immediately grabbing her chin from the pain. Blood leaked from her lips. "I think you have more training to do," Fenro spoke as Coco picked herself up. The anger was in her eyes again as she wiped the blood from her chin. "You'll be out cold in a second if you take my finisher!" Coco shouted as she jumped back and began charging up the pink energy ball. In response, Fenro lifted his right hand and aimed his palm toward Coco. Bright, purple energy began forming in front of his palm. "I can say the same," Fenro responded. The ball of purple energy in his hand expanded to the same size as the pink energy in Coco's hand. Between the two energy attacks being charged there was a distinct, high-pitched noise coming from the stage. The young woman had a look of fear in her eyes for a moment before the rage returned. Yet she continued to hesitate, creating a standoff between the two fighters. "HOLD IT!" The voice of the announcer went through the entire arena, catching everyone by surprise due to the stark contrast with how quiet the fight was without the booming voice. Without turning their heads or relenting their energy attacks, both fighters let their eyes drift from their opponent to look at the announcer. The suited man was running up onto the stage with one hand pressing his earpiece and the other clutching the microphone tightly. "We have a problem!" he shouted at the fighters, not even using his microphone. "I just received a report that the guards we had around the hidden safe with the Dragonballs were beaten and the Dragonballs were stolen!" Simultaneously, the two charging energy attacks faded away. With that there was an absolute silence throughout the arena. An angry expression appeared on Fenro's face. "What the hell do you mean!?" Coco shouted at the announcer, clenching a fist in his direction. "The prize has been stolen!" the announcer responded, this time into the microphone, making it extra-loud so that everyone heard it whether they wanted to or not. The crowd begun murmuring, creating a loud ambience as Coco and Fenro approached the announcer. "How the hell did anyone find it!? I tried looking earlier myself and it was impossible. And how could the guards be so bad as to be beaten by someone that isn't even strong enough to participate in the tournament?" Coco began berating the announcer. "There are other people outside the roster that are of comparable or superior strength," Fenro stated rather calmly. "I can sense several in the crowd." This only caused Coco to scowl. By now, Jack Ryan jumped out the window of the fighters' rest area and approached the group on the stage. "What are we going to do? Do we know who it was or where they went?" Jack asked. After deliberately turning off the microphone, the announcer turned to the former Champion. "We don't know who did it. But if we want to put on a good show and avoid legal repercussions we're going to need to get the Dragonballs back. Whoever did it was strong enough to take on five men at once and also cracked the safe code. That makes the list a bit smaller but it could still be anyone. They could be long gone or they could be hiding, I don't know." The fighters on stage began to think about what to do next. "We have to be fast, before the thief can have his wish granted," Fenro spoke up again. Everyone nodded in agreement. By now several other fighters had come to the stage to hear how the conversation was going. Teemo spoke up first. "We have to track him down." This was quickly followed by a retort from Coco. "How do you know it was a him and not a her?" Then Jack intervened. "It doesn't even matter. I know Capsule Corp. had a device a long time ago that could track the Dragonballs. Maybe they still have it somewhere?"

Meanwhile, in the medical attention area: "What do you mean the contestant is missing? He was out cold!"

When David woke up, he noticed he wasn't in the infirmary provided by the tournament managers, but instead somewhere much more high-tech. After a few seconds he remembered losing the match against Ultra-Dimension.While that didn't help explain where he was he at least now knew why his entire body ached, in particular his left shoulder and ankle. After he got up, David forced to walk to the nearest window, ignoring the pain coming from his ankle. When he looked outside, he noticed that he was above the arena. He quickly put two and two together. _"I must be in U-D's ship, but why."_

A door opened, and Ultra-Dimension walked in, his right arm currently frozen inside the suit, as though the suit were acting as a sling for it. However, his helmet was off, revealing the rather ordinary American looking man. Albeit with a techno-eyepatch. "Welcome." Ultra Dimension looked up from a pad in his other hand, to David. "You fought well, and you deserve better treatment than what they can offer down there. I've got some of the best medical equipment in the galaxy in here." "Besides, looking over the recent information, we've got work to do. The dragonballs have been stolen." Ultra-Dimension pressed a few more buttons on his pad, and loudspeakers on the outside of the ship activated. "Fighters below. My ship can reach Mach 8 in the upper atmosphere. Can this be of use in retrieving one of said trackers? If you've got coordinates, I can get us there quickly."

Maggatorr watched the fights and was wondering who was going to win the match, but then the announcer called for the fighters to hold. Maggatorr was curious to hear what was happening and that's when he heard the announcer say that the dragon balls were stolen. He wondered how he had not sensed anyone who were in the act of stealing the mystical balls, and tried to get some ideas of what to do. Well he decided that it would be best to lend a hand and see if these earthlings were as powerful as some said. He moved extremely quickly from the stands to the arena and looked at everyone. "I am willing to assist you all in your search to find the stolen dragon balls" he said to them in a calm and calculating voice. His mind contemplated if he should use the dragon balls for a wish to make himself more powerful, it would mean possibly fighting these fighters and right now it seemed getting a fight like that wouldn't help his cause too much especially if he didn't get the dragon balls.

**Nel Lilac - PL: 250/300** _No way,_ he murmured inside his head, the sullen thought receding and shrinking until it faded away. _The prize got stolen? So, wait... This means the fight has been taken out of the ring! Those Dragonballs are fair game for anyone, and everyone will be fighting for it._ His eyes lit up as he jolted up from his chair. “I'll get to test myself!” he shouted, his body recoiling and tensing from the excitement. He ran out of the rest area, uncaring of how anyone would feel about a non-contestant being back there. Leaping up onto the stage with practiced and nimble steps, he walked up to the other fights with a light chuckle to ease his intrusion. “Let's go after em. The Dragonballs are fair game now; wasn't the smartest idea to put wish granting marbles up for a prize,” he told the announcer, glancing off at him with kind eyes. He didn't know if it was the cloudless sky, the warm, gleaming sun, or just the unexpected tension arcing through the air but it all felt natural. It felt normal to be in this kind of situation. His blood was boiling, his veins was imprinted against his forearms, and his aura flowing outwards from him, prodding the debris and air away silently. Then just moments later it halted, his fist tightening again. _I'm not doing a good job of controlling myself._

Light was with the group of fighters near the ring, heading over there when she heard the dragon balls were stolen. "Well, thats wonderful. Guess the tournament is over til they are recovered. Oh well." Light said. Some members of the audiance seemed to rush over to the group and introduce themselves. One a sayan and the other an alien. Light waited a bit for people to introduce themselves, Light saying hi in return. When she thought no more people were coming, she asked. "So... How long are we going to wait before we go look for the dragon balls? They can't be that hard to find. After all, the tournament found them in the first place, right?" Light paused a moment and thought, twirling one of her head tentacles before she noticed the sky hadn't gone dark yet. "Well whoever stole them didn't turn the sky dark or anything like the legends say. So they're still on the run. The longer we sit here, the more distance they get."

"Since you're clearly planning on going after the thieves I'm willing to help, though I'm not fully recovered from our fight." David siad without any bitterness in his voice.That swing Ultra-Dimension used to disable his shoulder had done the most damage and he still had a bit of trouble moving his left arm, and just by looking at how he walked anyone could see his left ankle was still sore from that katana sweep.