EPISODE TWO - MASON TITANSTALKER
"Hey you? Saiyan!"
Mason turns around to meet his opponent. From a different entrance way a fighter runs across the arena grass and pulls himself up onto the tournament arena. Mason looks...down. Standing three feet tall, this green and blue creature eyes the Saiyan up and down.
"Your kind is all but wiped out. I guess I have to finish the job, don't I?!"
"How does this guy know I am a Saiyan? Maybe it's my tail." Mason thinks to himself...
The announcer announces the battle. "Your fighters! Mason Titanstalker!"
Mason raises his hand triumphantly into the air and the crowd goes wild with cheers.
"Versus the Demon King Poro Poro!"
The crowd seems to sigh a little in agreement. Humans and Demons do not get along. And this guy's been terrorizing people in the woods for some time now. But again, the crowd lets out a big cheer.
"Yeah yeah yeah...oh yeah!" The little guy runs from one corner of the ring to another agging on the crowd to cheer even louder.
The Saiyan glares at Poro Poro intently.
"Hey monkey, what are you staring at? ..... Oh, is it my size? Well, I can fix that!" Suddenly and without notice the little green and blue blob of a person becomes an aquamarine and almost transparent version of himself, much thinner, and standing six feet tall.
"You're mine, monkey boy!"
"Crap." It's the only thought that comes out of Mason's mind before....
The announcer announces. "Let the second battle of the World Martial Arts Tournament begin!"
"AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHRRRRRRR," come the shouts form the Saiyan as bolts of energy shoot from his body and his body glows in an aura of energy. His power level skyrockets. The battle will be brutal!
"Well if that's the way it's going to be....AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The Demon King's body sinks into the arena floor by a good foot as bricks raise up off the ground and suspend themselves in the air about him. And his body begins to exhude an almost white aura of energy. He has also powered up to his maximum level.
"MUAH HA HA HA HA HA!" The semi transparent creature steps up and out of the crevaces his feet have made.
"Well then, let's get the blood pumping! Shyouken!"
With that shout, Mason Titanstalker suddenly sprouts a second set of arms. He streches them and flexes them as he prepares to use them.
"Heh. DEEEEEEEMON TELEPORTATION BOMB!"
Suddenly Mason's body is lifted off the ground as a bubble of energy appears directly in front of him. He begins to rise as this force presses on the Saiyan's chest. As he lifts, he can see the arena and his opponent appear smaller and smaller below. In a moment of desperation, Mason flails his arms about to lift himself off the energy ball before it explodes. He charges four ki blasts in his hands and as he is about to release them his body starts to slide off the ball. The first shot is fired up into the air. The second is fired down and in a wide miss he blows up the men's washroom. Luckily, it's early in the battle, and nobody is inside at the time. The third shot strikes the arena, but unfortunately a ways away from the intended target. The fourth shot is fired just as the energy ball explodes inches from Mason's body. The shockwave sends him careening backwards spinning out of control. The Saiyan loses sense of himself and, unfortunately, his stomach.
"HUUUURRRRLLLLL."
A rain of puke lands on the south side of the arena, and the crowd below. This sets off a chain reaction in the arena below.
The spinning and stomach sick Saiyan also loses control of the fourth and final blast. The blast, the most powerful of the four, cuts a swath across the stadium and stands. It cuts its way across the fighting arena too, where the Poro Poro watches impressed with his attack below... until he notices his arm on the ground beside him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."
Eventaully, the Saiyan is able to steady himself. The stadium below is severely damaged from the attack, but nobody is injured, just sick.
The Saiyan takes this opportunity to lunge forward, flying at ever increasing speeds and beginning to throw punch after punch at the Demon. But he is ready for the Saiyan. The two bodies collide in a fury of punches and kicks as the Demon King counter attacks with a combo of his own. Even with one arm, the Demon King proves resilient with his attack and defence of himself. Mason Titanstalker is able to strike at the head, leg, and abdomen of Poro Poro, but the Demon is able to get four powerful punches of his own off: Two at the head, and two at the abdomen. The last punch sends the Saiyan flying up into the air before he is able to steady himself ten feet above Poro Poro. The Demon straightens himself, grabbing at the spot his arm once was, now in pain, and stares up at his opponent angry.
"You're going to pay for that, monkey."
The Demon begins to charge another Demon teleportation bomb.
Mason begins to move quickly from one part of the arena to the other, up in the air and down near the ground, knowing that a mass of energy was just released and just as suddenly vanished. He knows what this means...
As the Saiyan runs from one corner of the arena to another, suddenly a mass of enrgy appears in front of him a few feet. But the Saiyan is going much too fast to slow down, and he hits it straight on. The explosion shockwave ripples through the stadium below and stirs the grass and knocks the food from all those brave enough to eat after the vomiting. Mason is knocked from the air and lands hard on the arena below bouncing twice before skidding to a stop at the feet of the Demon King.
"Ugh.....just how I planned it."
Mason rises to his feet, blood dripping from nose and lip. He wipes the blood away, smearing it across his face and arm. He is close enough to the Demon to smell his ugly breath. Suddenly, an arm gesture.....
"Double ki beam four arm attack!"
"No!"
But the word barely escapes as the four blasts of energy strike the Demon dead on from point blank range. The Demon is barely able to react. The blast begins to push his body back, back, and back towards the other end of the arena. The Demon braces himself into the blast to avoid the ring out, and uses his mouth to absorb some of the blast.
When the blast is over, the Demon, less than inches from the edge of the arena, breathes out a puff of smoke from his charred mouth, and falls forward... The Demon shakes, and returns to his original form.
"Sorry!" The sarcasm is biting to the nearly defeated foe.
The green and blue blob, with one arm still missing, rises slowly and painfully to his feet. He looks at the Saiyan half alive, and barely and incoherently says the words, "Demon... teleportation... bomb."
"Not again!
KAME........
HAME.......
HA!!!!!!!!!"
The move is a last ditch effort. Mason moves to the right, the left, "Which way is it coming from?" Thinking he senses it he fires the blast into the air. The blast burns through cloud, and no explosion follows. It can be seen from space, but no collision with any other energy takes place. Just then, a ball of energy appears right in front of the Saiyan. It explodes and Mason gets launched into the air again.
"I must be getting used to this by now because it didn't hurt as much, but it still stings," thinks the Saiyan. He coughs up some blood as he steadies himself, dizzy from the blast.
The extra arms suddenly disappear. "What are you going to do now?" he thinks to himself. The Saiyan throws all his weight into one final attempt to end this. As he flies full speed at his opponent, the Demon King stares like a deer caught in headlights, gaping mouth and all, before shifting his weight to the left to avoid the attack. But it's too late. Poro Poro is hit with enough force to blast him from his feet. Both fighters tumble uncontrollably towards the arenas edge.
It's the Saiyan's bum that saves him.
Poro Poro balances himself delicately flailing his arms for support when the Saiyan bum collides with his face and knocks him out of the arena where he eats the turf below. Meanwhile, the bum collision is just enough to halt Mason as his body balances precariously on the edge of the arena.
"The Winner! Mason Titanstalker!" The crowd goes wild! It dawns on Mason that his opponent is lying in the grass out of the ring, and he is pronounced the winner of match two of the Tenkaichi Budokai.
Jumping to his feet and steadying himself, the Saiyan turns to his opponent. "Thats what you get for making me bleed my own blood....Demon."
"Congratulations Saiyan," rings out over the loudspeakser and everyone hushes. It is Evil Kai. "We will see if you are this good in the next round." As the feedback fades, the cheering continues.
Awkwardly at first, the Saiyan raises his hand in victory. Will Ryodo be as lucky? Fight three of the Tenkaichi Budokai begins next time on DRAGON BALL XTREME!