25 ch 25

The next day Carl woke up to see HK still working on the scouter. It was almost completed. He actually had two designs for a new scouter but sadly he doesn't have the materials for one of the designs, so he had HK go with the less advanced option. The scouter didn't even look like a regular frieza force scouter anymore. It almost looked like a pair of sunglasses just a little thicker, and instead of the bulky earpiece, on one side of the glasses was a thin metal casing that will go over one of the ears that holds all the wires and chips that made the sunglasses scouter work. Carl thought about wearing them for the tournament because if he remembers correctly sunglasses negate the effect of the solar flare that Tien liked to use. But after thinking about it he decided against it not wanting to deal with people asking why he's wearing sunglasses.

After doing his morning routine getting ready for the tournament Carl could hear the dragon crew leaving their rooms as they start chatting to each other with excitement. "Can we go get something to eat before heading to the tournament? I'm starving." Carl couldn't help but hear a child voice which he assumed was gokus.

Carl could then hear the voice of an old man, most likely master Roshi, "BOY, you already bled me dry last night. now you want me to go homeless?" Their voices got quieter as they went down the hall.

He then heard another conversation pass by his room door. "You said that punk will be at the tournament right?" A disgruntled launch could be heard asking someone.

The voice of bulma could then be heard as they get farther away, "that's what he said ok? You keep harassing me about the guy ever since you woke up." After that Carl couldn't hear them anymore. After finishing getting ready Carl made his way to the tournament.

At the venue, where everyone was waiting for the announcement for everyone to gather, Carl was leaning on the wall observing all the participants. He could see further down the wall goku, krillin, and yamcha doing their stretches talking to one another. The rest of the dragon crew poked their heads over the wall where they were at to wish them luck. Bulma and launch could be seen looking into the crowd of participants. launch, with a stern look on her face as if she is looking for someone that owes her money, Bulma just had a curious look as she searched. They didn't think to look along the wall they were looking over or they would have seen Carl just leaning there.

Not long after an announcement came over the speakers for all the participants to enter the hall to get things underway. Carl got off the wall and started walking into the hall along with everyone else.

As Carl was almost inside apparently launch caught sight of him because behind him he heard, "THERE HE IS!!" Carl and a few other people looked back and over by the wall you could see launch trying to climb over the wall to get in, looking straight at Carl. She was being held back by Bulma and the rest. After a few seconds of struggle they all tumbled backward off the wall out of the venue. Carl stifled a laugh at the antics of the dragon crew as he continued inside.

Once everyone was inside one of the refs started giving instructions. Everyone first had to draw lots with numbers on them. The numbers determined what group and in what order you would be fighting in for elimination. Looking at his number he sees he's in block 4. wondering who he will be fighting he hears next to him an old man say to someone els, "I'm 178, so I appear to be in block 4." He glance to his side and noticed an old man with a very convincing wig, if you didn't know it was fake, wearing a black GI looking at the bored.

Slightly behind him he hears a kid, "YES, that means we won't fight each other." Carl looks and it's krillin.

Carl looked at block 4, 'Roshi said he was 178? He's in the same block as me but thankfully he's in the later half so we won't fight each other now.' Carl thought to himself.

After everyone got their numbers and knew where they were going to fight the ref went over the rules such as no weapons, killing, and outside the ring being out of bounds. They also went over all legal requirements saying that they are not responsible for lost things or if you die during the tournament.

The fights all started one after the other. The z fighters all dominated their matches as well as Carl. Carl was a little amazed at the different amount of races. There are animal people, giants, and just straight up dinosaurs that are participating, it was all a very weird sight if your not use to it. Everyone Carl faced was weaker than him so he didn't exert much effort during his matches. After so long the fights were done and they had 8 fighters. Carl, Jackie chun (AKA: master Roshi), Goku, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Chioutzu, and some wolf man.

They then let the contestants know there will be a break and for everyone to get something to eat then come back to draw for the actual tournament.

Once everyone was back they started the drawing. They called Jackie chun up and he drew his lot number 4. " you're going to fight in the second match. And next up is Yamcha." The announcer said and Yamcha with a cocky demeanor walked up to the box and began to take a paper.

Out of the corner of carls eye he could see Chioutzu have his hand out and twitched his finger.

Carl then remembers, 'oh ya, they cheat with Chioutzus telekinesis' Carl thought as Yamcha read out the number 1. As Tien was called up to draw Carl didn't miss the glance he made to Chioutzu. 'Let's make things interesting' Carl thought to himself. Carl didn't have a way to know the numbers on the individual papers but through the force Carl could feel the papers in the box start to stir under Chioutzus telekinesis.

Before Chioutzu can get the paper he wanted into Tiens hand, Carl used the force to grab a different paper and shoved it into Tiens hand. Tien thinking it's the paper Chioutzu got for him pulls it out. When he opens it up his face looked shocked because it wasn't the number he thought it was going to be.

Tien stood there in shock for a moment causing the announcer to ask Tien for his number. Getting out of his shock he tells him it's number 6. Tien turned around and looked at Chioutzu who had a horrified expression. Tien walked up to Chioutzu and simply patted his head, refocusing on the drawing.

The announcer called up Krillin and Carl was too slow this time. Chioutzu was able to get the paper he wanted into Krillins hand. After reading it he took a gulp and read out number 5 which means he would be facing Tien. Carl worried a little for Krillin because Tien was a villain during this time, 'at least there's no killing in the ring.' Carl thought to himself.

The announcer then called out the wolf man who took offense because he was a man wolf. He went on to explain how he was a wolf transformed into a man instead of the other way around. Carl could only imagine those people who complain about their gender identity.

The 'man wolf' went up to draw and Carl didn't bother to try and interfere this time knowing who they plan to put him against. Drawing the paper out and looking at it, the 'man wolf' had a shit eating grin as he called out three.

After the 'man wolf' went back Chioutzu was called up. Carl was curious on where he would place himself now that he messed up there little plan. Chioutzu pulled out the paper and it read 8. 'Hmm that's an interesting placement I would think he would have went for Yamcha, but maybe he was scared off by master Roshi.' Carl thought to himself.

It was then Carls turn as he walked up to draw. As he put his hand in the container he could feel a paper basically nudging him to take it. But with the force he retrieved the other paper between two fingers. Opening it up Carl read out 2, meaning he would face Yamcha leaving Goku to face Chioutzu. 'So they wanted me to fight Chioutzu? To bad.' Carl thought to himself smirking making his way back to his spot. Tien and Chioutzu were staring at Carl figuring out he was the one messing up their plans.

The announcer informed goku that he was number 7 and would be fighting Chioutzu Goku complained about not drawing. So under gokus insistence, he went up to draw and was amazed that the announcer could guess what number he would get. Carl chuckled at gokus naivety. Once everything was set it was now time for the first match of the tournament, Carl versus Yamcha.