EPISODE EIGHT - CLASH OF TITANS

Mason is drinking some cold tea. “They can afford to rebuild the ring after every fight, you'd think they'd afford hot tea! HOT!”

Reizen notices the cold tea and walks up to his new friend and uses the dragon breath technique to warm the tea to a soothing warm temperature.

“Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Thanks man.”

“Anytime.”

Ryodo walks over and pours himself some tea. "I like tea!"

Ceit stood silently off near one of the entrances, keen to see who else the competition would consist of. He had heard that the fight would involve a Demon he never heard of, and an Android who seemed to be doing well for itself. Those were some dangerous creatures, and he knew full well due to the various cybernetic technologies Freiza used to delve into. Crutches, nothing more. To Ceit, the Andriod seemed to be the more serious of the two, though the Demon had to at least be mildly impressive to fight three people at once for a match. Or he simply had weaker opponents than usual. Whatever the case would be, he watches on intently to see what will occur.

"This is it, the final bout of the second round. How does that make you feel, Cell?"

"That makes me feel excited. I came here to fight, and in turn cause massive destruction and exact my revenge on this puny planet."

"All in due time, Cell. All in due time. Looks like the next bout is going to begin. We should watch."

"If I didn't have a taste for bloody battles I would say there was no need. But since I do, and since you insist, let's watch."

Cell sits down as the ring is cleaned up yet again after another amazing battle ends. Evil Kai takes his seat beside Cell as the two continue to discuss the battles so far.

The announcer gets up "ARE YOU ALL READY FOR THE FINAL BOUT OF ROUND TWO?" The crowd roars with excitement.

Mason Titanstalker walks off to the audience in order to get a good seat, interested in who the winner of this fight will be because it could very well be his next opponent. As Mason finds his seat and watches the match about to unfold he wonders whether or not he'll have to strategize for an Android, a Demon, a Changeling or the Kool-Aid man in a robe. Ryodo moves off to sit behind a plexiglass window overlooking the arena inside the cool buildings that surround the arena.

"As you know, the winner of this match goes on to the quarter final rounds, where the four remaining fighters will face off against each other to determine who will go on to the semi finals. This is exciting! Alright, lets meet today’s fighters. Hailing from some realm of Hell or Heaven, he made quick work of his human opponent in round one, YOKAI REIZEN!"

Yokai steps into the ring from the sidelines.

"Those of you who missed that fight, it was a three on one brawl and he STILL came out the winner!"

The crowd roars in awe.

“Hmmmm, that fighter looks like he can pull the head off a jackalope with one hand tied in another dimension.”

"Up against the Russian man of steel with a Spanish name, Android Ochocinco!"

Android Ochocinco at this time is seen holding up Hans against the wall with one arm, his hand locked around his throat. "I strictly instructed you not to massage me down..." Upon hearing his named called, he drops Hans to the ground, and approaches the ring. "I shall deal with you later..." to which Hans whimpers.

"Ochocinco went up against the eldest brother of the gruesome threesome and bested him to move on to round two."

“Hmmm, he's like a russian terminator....with a masseuse? I still bet his father's a typewriter.”

"Ring that gong and let the fight begin!"

With that, the gong is struck. Ochocinco walks up on stage at just the time the match begins.

"Tsk tsk - always in the habit of being late!" teases the announcer with some annoyance.

"I'll do you a favour and end this fight quick, machine." Reizen cracks his knuckles.

About a minute passes with neither fighter making a move. Sweat beads from the Demon as he anticipates that if he makes the first attack it could spell disaster for him, and he awaits the Android’s move. The Android stares intently at his opponent neither blinking or doing anything for that matter. He stands perfectly still. "I think the tin man may need some oil folks!" laughs the announcer nervously to which the crowd laughs hysterically.

Suddenly and without warning, Android Ochocinco's eyes begin to flash, as he raises his two arms out in front of him. The orbs in the center of his palms begin to glow white. Once fully charged, the orbs emit their blast.

Reizen holds up his hands and makes an attempt to block the first assault.

KAAAAAAATCHOW. The beam cuts through the air like butter, making a huge crackling noise as it burns through a couple of insects and dust particles floating around the ring. The blast is deafening as it strikes the Demon’s crossed arms. He starts to slide across the ring. The second shot zips through the air and causes the already charred skin on Yokai's flesh to sizzle. Yokai stops three feet from the edge of the ring. The ring has a trail of charcoal along it that followed the blast.

“That beams looks like a summer's morning after a winter's storm....except it can kill you.”

“Heh. Not bad. But now its my turn.” Reizen’s left hand starts to glow brightly as he begins to confidently charge his counter assault. “I hope you’ve been watching the previous round, machine! You’ll need to have taken notes to get away from this! DEMON TELEPORTATION BOMB!!!!!”

Mason Titanstalker looks at the attack with fury. Oh, how he now loathes that attack.

Ochocinco’s eyes begin to flash again, calculating the trajectory of the incoming attack. He attempts to sidestep the attack right before it would reach it's intended target.

A well of energy is released from Yokai. The well is massive. It suddenly and completely disappears.

Ryodo watches the attack vanish, and wonder how the Android will dodge a vanishing attack.

Ochocinco looks around nervously. Suddenly a massive force appears a few feet in front of him. Fortunately for him, the attack was a few feet too far, and he zips into the air as the massive ball of energy slides completely underneath him. The ball heads towards the stands. People begin to shout and scream in terror.

Mason shouts. “NOOOOOOOOOO! DEAR GOD NOOOOOOOOO!”

Ceit watches as the Demon bomb streaks through the air, perfectly content to let it explode on a bunch of spectators without giving any aid himself. While he had no desire to kill the people watching, he equally had no interest in saving their lives either.

The announcer shouts. "Someone stop it!"

At that, a blast streaks through the air and detonates the energy.

"Hmph." A cloaked figure disappears back into the crowd like nothing happened. The ball of energy detonates and a huge explosion blasts many people from their seats. None are killed.

“ Ow.” Mason Titanstalker begins to gather himself together and reseats himself at another part of the arena.

"That's why I'm not in the crowd today."

Android Ochocinco's eyes flash twice in rapid succession. He quickly changes from his relaxed stance to his fighter stance, and charges at Yokai. “In Soviet Russia... fists pound you!"

Yokai tenses up, still in shock that he almost killed the crowd, and tries to block the fists of Russia pounding on him.

Mason Titanstalker wonders what else fists do in Soviet Russia that are crazy. Because if fists do that, Mason can only wonder what an Android from Russia does. “Maybe in Soviet Russia, face punch you!”

Ochocinco charges at his target throwing fist after fist. Five fists fly and Yokai begins the process of blocking the damage. But the damage done is extensive. Yokai falls to his knees twice during the onslaught.

Ceit watches the particularly one sided fight with mild interest, finding the advantage to obviously be in the hands of the Andriod. So far the machine had taken no damage at all, while the Demon was completely on the defensive. To his eyes so far, it seemed like the Demon would need a miracle to pull a win out of the situation. His tail slithered behind his form briefly, as if an idle habit.

Reizen picks himself up off the ground and regains a fighters stance and braces himself as he begins to power up. “BYAHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Ochocinco's eyes flash again twice in succession, as he charges full speed at Yokai again.

Reizen stays on the defensive, continuing his blocking plan... because it’s worked out so well so far.

Ochocinco flies at Yokai, but his foot loses footing and in the process he stumbles forward only able to throw one punch into Yokai’s blocking arms. The momentum throws Ochocinco forward and onto the ground.

“DANG, so much for the calculator side of that Android.”

Yokai begins to charge up a ball of energy in his right hand this time. “Demon Teleportation Bomb!!”

Ochocinco, unable to track the course of the attack due to his miscalculation the previous attack winding him up on the ground, places his two arms in front of him in an cross formation, preparing to block the attack.

The massive ball of energy again wells up in front of Yokai and again as suddenly as it is created it disappears.

Ochocinco tries to regain footing as he flips over on the ground only to find a massive ball of energy appear a few feet in front of him. He braces for impact. The arena bricks suddenly start flying out of place. The ball of energy collapses into the Android’s metal arms. He is blasted two feet deep into the arena floor. The smoke slowly dissipates.

Mason Titanstalker is a bit amazed that the destruction to the arena is so vast, the Demon has certainly gained more power than expected since his last battle.

Ochocinco stands. Ochocinco's eyes flash again similar to the previous two times, and once again charges at his opposition.

Reizen digs his feet into the ground and assumes the usual blocking stance.

Ochocinco flashes up from the ground like a machine out of hell, and starts wailing on the Demon as he desperately tries to block his attackers onslaught. Not one, not two, but ten combination punches slam into his face and arms. This leaves the Demon dazed and confused to say the least. His arms are full of bruises.

Reizen shakes off the pain and summons another ball on energy from his hand. “Demon.... teleport ......ation ...bomb!”

A sudden burst of energy appears then vanishes. Where is it now?

Ochocinco prepares to once again block the approaching attack. Suddenly the blast appears in front of Ochocinco and blasts him high into the air. He comes down hard after the massive explosion that ripped the air right in front of him. He managed to get his arms in the way, but at what cost? The skin peels back revealing the dented metal beneath.

“Man, that is some dented metal”

Ochocinco feels nothing from the wounds he has been dealt. His eyes once again flash again in the direction of Yokai, as he charges at him once again.

Using his bare metal to strike at Yokai, the Android swings wildly ten times. Blood spurts out from the Demon’s arms as he winces in pain at his attempt to block the attack. The damage to his arms are now extensive. Any more of this abuse and he wont be able to use them for a while.

“F#*( me.” screams the Demon in pain.

Suddenly the announcer stands. “Hey! I am positive the English dub of the show is PG! What’s going on here?!”

Reizen, feeling tired of being punched at decides to fit in a few punches of his own, and charges at the Android with his own physical combo.

Seeing Yokai charging at him, Ochocinco eyes flash twice, and he too decides to charge full speed at Yokai.

A well exposed metallic skeleton clashes with the flesh of a superhuman entity. the result is some massive blows to both parties. At first both parties exchange blow for blow. But it isn’t long before a clear winner emerges. Taking advantage of the damaged arms of the Demon, Ochocinco throws four combo ending punches their way. The Demon screams in pain as he falls to the floor on his knees before the might of the metal clad Android.

From Ceit’s point of view in the stands, the changeling shakes his head lightly as the blows were exchanged. Though the Demon managed to get some hits in on his opponent, both with an energy blast and a few physical hits, there was a clear victor emerging in Ceit’s eyes, and that was the Android. Machines could be rather problematic, and so he continued to observe, ever searching for weaknesses. His own future battle could depend on finding a weakness.

Cell turns to Evil Kai. “See, now this is interesting. Both are injured, but who will give up first?”

“I think the Demon can take the pain. They're known for that.”

“That’s a lot of pain.”

Blood squirts from the open wound in which bone can be seen.

Ochocinco's eyes begin to glow bright red, as he begins his power up sequence, obtaining the full potential of his power now late in the fight.

Yokai smiles as he witnesses the power of the machine skyrocket. Taking advantage of the reprieve, Yokai charges him head on attempting to head butt him while his guard is down.

The stage collapses as Ochocinco’s strength emerges in the form of a massive force of weight. The Android becomes fully powered up. He places his arms in front of him for the block of the attack.

Ouch, metal versus the hardest part of the Demon body. There is a crunching noise as the metal bends at the impact of the ram spot. Blood in turn drips from the open wound left on the Demon’s head, a gash one inch long.

Ochocinco's eyes flash twice once again, and he charges at Yokai, unleashing another barrage of attacks upon him.

Ryodo lifts an eyebrow and yells at the Android. "Hey! I think you fried some circuits! What's with that surge of power if you're just going to throw punches at him?!"

One, two, three. SNAP. The bones crunch under the third and final blow of the Android’s fury. His raw strength is enough to break the forearm of the blocking Demon, rendering it useless.

“OH SNAP!”

Yokai throws up all over the Android’s exposed circuits while he’s still in point blank range.

"Your arm is useless now! Rip it off and use it to club him in the head!" Suddenly Ryodo realizes and remembers….there’s a wall of glass in front of him and nobody can hear him. He sits down sheepishly.

Yokai swiftly recovers and begins a flurry of kicks.

Ochocinco decides to fire back with a flurry of punches.

Yokai throws the first kick and it hits dead on. The Android stumbles back. But the bigger they are the harder they fall. And the Android falls forward on his delivery.

The blow knocks Yokai backwards. The Android is relentless and fires off eight more shots to the gut. Blood spurts out of the Demon’s mouth. At around the ninth punch, Yokai gives in the the onslaught and passes out from sheer exhaustion and pain.

The announcer and officials quickly rush in before a well wound up tenth punch can be thrown. The Android is forcibly pulled off Yokai.

Yokai lays there on the brink of death, his arm shattered but still attached. Ochocinco struggles and attempts to fight off those trying to contain him. But to no avail.

“YOUR GRAND MOTHER WAS A LAWN MOWER!!!!! YA STINKING ANDROID!” Mason, not having any clear favourites before the fight, continues to taunt the machine simply for the sake of doing so.

The announcer turns to the Android. "You win. Ochocinco wins!...You have to get off him now, k."

Ceit watches as the Demon loses the battle, rightfully so. The Andriod appeared to be quite strong, and his observations made him come to the conclusion that he might be one of the most difficult challengers there, Cell aside.

As for Mason, the icy Saiyan now knows who his possible opponent's might be... the Russian Android, the mysterious figure, or the Changeling that defeated Freiza.

Ochocinco begins to calm down, and those restraining him begin to release him. “Go home... clean you're wounds... you're finished here..."

Round Two of fighting is over. The fighters that advance are Ceit the Changeling, Mystery Man Z who took a pass to the next round, Mason the Saiyan, and now Android Ochocinco. Round Three will begin, and it is for keeps now. Get some rest, Yokai. Your battle is over for now. But for the others, the fight continues, next time on DRAGON BALL XTREME!