//------------------------------// // Tournament: The Sniper // Story: Dragon Ball Super: Fate of the Multiverse // by Blackdrag-rose //------------------------------// This time around Sunset and her fellow gods remained silent as they observed the battles that were happening before them, as they had just witnessed the erasure of a second universe and knew that the Kings of All weren't joking around, that they really would erase any universe that lost all ten of their warriors. Fortunately they didn't have to worry about that happening to them just yet, as all ten of their warriors were still on the fighting stage and Universe 7 had only lost Krillin, which hurt the alliance a little, since it took them down to nineteen warriors overall, but Beerus was happy that his only fallen warrior had helped take out a few of their enemies. Sunset knew that it wasn't going to last forever, that the other universes would see that they still had all their warriors and would come after them for sure, but oddly enough that was one of the plans that Sombra had come up with, as it would allow them to take out more enemies if their foes rushed them. The plan he wanted to go with, however, was assisting Universe 7's warriors and make sure they were the last two universes standing, and so far the plan was working like a charm, almost as if the King of Hueco Mundo had determined that this was going to happen and planned for them to take advantage of the situation. Sunset wasn't so easily fooled by that logic, as Sombra had no idea what sort of powers the over universes had and merely offered them suggestions, ones that would further their plan, and she knew that if the others followed his designs they would achieve their goals. While she thought about all this, and she could tell the others were thinking the same thing, in their own ways, she glanced over at the antechamber once more and found that the Kings of All were in the middle of counting how many warriors were left in the tournament, before deciding on the fact that there were a lot of them left and returned their gazes to the fighting stage, which she did as well. As it turned out Gohan had somehow found Magetta, the Metalman that had been partnered up with Botamo, until the bear had gotten himself eliminated, and the pair was currently fighting each other, no doubt because Magetta wanted some revenge for his teammate being knocked off the fighting stage. At the same time Master Roshi happened to be walking down an path of sorts that had been carved into the area he was in, allowing him to pause and observe Gohan's fight for a few seconds, silently nodding once as Gohan dodged the incoming punch and let the floor crack under him, before he continued moving forward. On the other side of the path stood one of the robotic warriors from Universe 3, who was in the middle of grabbing the small blue warrior from Universe 4, one that he managed to stall with his hands and then hurled him off the fighting stage, only for the small blue warrior to use the holes in his back and propel himself back onto the fighting stage, and since it was a natural ability it was allowed to be used. It also appeared that Master Roshi was considering the number of warriors as well, where Sunset and her fellow gods determined that they were already around the halfway mark, not exactly at half since they hadn't lost anyone yet, and that by doing this he gave off the idea that he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings, purposely opening himself to danger. Not even a few seconds later two boomerangs, made out of energy, flew through the air and raced towards where he was standing, causing him to dodge them before either of them could make contact with him, before he heard the sound of someone rushing towards him and that his new foe was jumping into the air. "You're wide open!" the warrior shouted, who happened to be a female warrior with light green colored skin, blue eyes, and long pink colored hair, though she was wearing a dress that made her look like a princess, complete with a cape, arm warmers, and a circlet around her forehead, and she had a massive energy hammer in her hands, which she brought down on where Master Roshi was standing, only for her grin to disappear when her weapon vanished and she found that she had, somehow, missed her target, "What? He got away?" "So, you can use your energy to form weapons as well." Master Roshi commented, causing the young warrior to turn towards him for a moment, with a look of surprise on her face for a few seconds, indicating that she was surprised that he had gotten on top of a small rock pillar behind her, while at the same time he was mentioning that her ability was similar to the power that Kahseral of the Pride Troopers used, "I must say, that's an interesting way of fighting." "And you move pretty fast for an old man." the lady replied, though at the same time she kept her guard up, as there was no telling what sort of powers or tricks her target had up his sleeve, especially since her universe had barely seen him fight since the tournament started. "Young lady, I will only say this once: you don't have the strength needed to best me." Master Roshi said, as he could tell, just from feeling the amount of power the young warrior had, that she didn't have anywhere near the necessary amount of power that was required to beat him in battle, something that many of the other warriors could do easily enough, especially the ones from Universe 13, "I'd rather not raise my hand towards a beautiful lady like yourself, so if you leave now I won't bother chasing after you." "You seem pretty confident, but you have no idea what sort of power I possess." the young warrior replied, where her grin returned to her face, as she couldn't believe her luck, that her target wouldn't raise his hand towards her and would actually let her leave if she wanted, meaning he was an easy target for her to knock off the fighting stage. "But of course. I haven't been idle since the tournament started." Master Roshi admitted, as he made it a point to observe the fights that were going on and make note of which powers their foes possessed, a tactic he was sure that Sombra was utilizing right now, considering that the leader of Universe 13's team had only acted once since the entire tournament began and he still had no idea what sort of powers he commanded, "I've been observing all the other warriors as they've fought each other, taking note of who uses what attacks and any special powers they might have." "Then do you know what my other specialty is?" the young lady inquired, though as Master Roshi raised one of his eyebrows the lady raised her hands and undid her cape, before moving her entire body in such a way that revealed that she was going to try and use her body against him, as in seducing him. To everyone in his universe he had suppressed his inner desires, the code that he had lived his life by, and wasn't about to let his opponent's act of seduction work on him, something that was working on the Old Kai, much to Shin's growing disappointment, but at the same time he knew an opening when he saw one. As such he did the one thing that he could do in a situation like this, he played along and acted like the perverted old man that the lady thought he was, causing her to summon a spear from her energy and jab at him, only for him to dodge the attacks and then land on the floor once more. It was in the following moment that he raised his hand and caught the tip of the weapon between two of his fingers, surprising his foe with the fact that he was as strong as he was, before the strain of trying to free her weapon shattered it into two halves, which disappeared as the young lady fell onto her back. Master Roshi then used that as the opening he had been waiting for, causing his aura to ignite the area behind him like it was a wall of fire, answering his command, and before long he buffed up, an action that caused his foe to rush back to where her cape was resting, almost as if she was scared for her life or something. That was what he was waiting for, as he then raised his hands and proclaimed that he wasn't to blame for what happened next, causing the young lady to scream at the top of her lungs as she ran in the opposite direction of where he was standing, eventually jumping over the edge of the fighting stage. A few seconds later, as he returned to his old man state, Master Roshi and the other warriors noticed that Quitela wasn't happy with the young lady, who had done nothing but get herself eliminated, and so far it appeared that all of the underhanded tactics Quitela had been using against them were failing, making him annoyed with how things were going for him and his universe. "Now then, are you going to be my next opponent?" Master Roshi asked, turning ever so slightly to the shadows that rested near him, created by one of the larger pieces of stone that had gone into making the fighting stage, as he knew that there was another warrior inside the shadows and wanted them to reveal themselves. "Oh? You detected me?" a voice inquired, which was when another lady, this one having light violet colored skin, mint-green colored hair, and fin-like ears, though while her dress covered the majority of her body Master Roshi could tell that she had large hands and feet, making him wonder if her race was aquatic in some regard. "Like I told the young lady, I've been watching all the other warriors fight," Master Roshi stated, which was so far coming in handy, since it gave him time to think about all the enemies that were still in the tournament and what he could do if one of them came looking for him, "and that means I've seen you fight as well, Universe 4's talisman user." "You speak as if you know how to defeat me." the lady stated, where she growled for a few seconds, as she refused to believe that an old man like this could figured out a method to defeat her, without even fighting her first, meaning that she needed to teach him a lesson before moving onto his allies, "How foolish of you to think that way." Not even a second later she hurled a blue object, which seemed to be a gemstone at first glance, through the air and a fireball formed around it, heading right for Master Roshi, who simply smiled as a wall of fire wrapped around him, much to the surprise of his foe, even though he was expecting someone to arrive at some point and assist him. "You use illusions to attack your foes," a voice added, which was when the fire disappeared as quickly as it had come into the area around Master Roshi, revealing that Trixie had come to the area he was in and was currently staring at the warrior he had drawn out of hiding, "and I know that because that fireball had no heat to it." "Indeed, it's just an illusion." the lady replied, though that was when she held her hands out and loosed a number of her talismans into the air, allowing them to lay down all over the area and disappear from view, keeping them hidden until she was ready to use them, while also causing the area to darken a little, "You both have an idea on how I fight, but my mystic talisman technique consists of seventy-six attacks and one hundred and twenty-nine illusions. Neither of you can hope to overcome my power!" Trixie watched as their foe slipped back into the shadows and disappeared, no doubt sending herself somewhere else while they ran around and looked for her, but at the same time it appeared that she had no idea who she was messing with, as she focused her mind for a moment and blue strands of energy danced around her eyes. When she opened them again a few seconds later she found that the talismans were highlighted by a blue glow, showing her where all of their foe's traps were located, before nodding her head to Master Roshi, indicating that the key was to fool their opponent while she worked on disrupting her powers. To that end she remained in one spot and focused her energy for a few seconds, while at the same time Master Roshi ran around the area, slipping from one illusion, which made him think he was near the edge of the stage, to another that made him believe he was running on the side of the central pillar, the time keeper for the tournament, when in reality he was sure they were all illusions. Interesting enough the illusion he was currently in also included a giant form of the warrior he was facing, who smacked him down into the ground, even though he spun around and landed safely, before finding that he was in a square hole of some kind and turned around, where he found their foe once more, and a talisman right between his feet. "I have bound your shadow, meaning you can't move from that spot." the warrior declared, showing that she believed she still had the upper hand, even though it was wrong of her to forget that Trixie was part of this battle, especially since he noticed that the other talismans seemed to be glowing for a few seconds, something their foe missed, "My planet exists in a dark place where little light reaches, leaving me, and a number of my kind, to hate the places where the light does reach... however, when we're in the shadows we become unstoppable." "How interesting, a power up that benefits from the shadows you've created." Trixie commented, reminding their foe of her presence, which was followed by the fact that she waved her hand and the talismans launched into the air, only to fall apart and let their foe's illusions disappear, including her power up, though she did rush through the air and punch their foe in the chest, knocking her into the wall behind her, "Unfortunately for you, I've seen all these illusions before, so it was child's play for me to deal with them." "You... broke my illusions?" the warrior asked, though at the same time she glanced around them and found that all the talismans she had thrown out into the area, to trip up her targets so she could eliminate them, had disappeared and had taken their enchantments with them, leaving her vulnerable, "How could you do something like that?" "Because I'm a master at using illusions to fool my foes," Trixie admitted, because that had been the first power she mastered when she arrived on Azeroth, completely mastering her own innate powers, before moving on to the various schools of magic that a mage could learn, be it fire, frost, and the arcane, of which she was a master in all three of them and more, thanks to her current position, "besides, I'm what the people of Azeroth, a planet in Universe 13, call the Spell-Weaver, a being that is the greatest magic user in the entire world, and it was only because of a severe case of madness, brought on by something that wasn't the arcane, that drove my predecessor insane. Basically, your illusions never had a chance against me, making this another good suggestion that Sombra came up with since the tournament started." "Great minds think alike, even if they're from different universes." Master Roshi said, as he knew that Sombra was one of the greatest warriors in Universe 13, maybe even one of the smartest warriors based on what he had seen so far, and right now he was glad to have such a warrior on their side. "Indeed we do." another voice said, to which Trixie turned her head for a moment and found Sombra standing near their position, though once she discovered him, and Master Roshi did the same thing, their foe found out that there were three enemies for her to fight, and Sombra had a faint aura around him, "Cadenas de Sombras." Trixie watched as the shadows reacted to whatever Sombra was doing, where chains burst out from the shadows around their foe and wrapped around the lady's body, restricting her arms and her legs to the side of her body, preventing her from moving at all, while at the same time surprise appeared on her face, as she wasn't used to this sort of thing happening to her. "Anyway, my teammates are incredibly strong in competitions of power," Master Roshi stated, picking up where he was going with his earlier train of thought, which had been interrupted by Sombra's sudden arrival, while at the same time focusing his mind on the warrior that they were staring at, "but their attacks and spirits are too straightforward, even after changing due to their exposure to Rainbow and Applejack. Sometimes they're prone to being tripped up my enemies that use deception in battle, therefore taking care of enemies that have troublesome attacks and abilities, just like the powers you possess, is my job... Evil Containment Wave!" In that moment Master Roshi thrust his hands forward and suddenly the area around them was surrounded in what appeared to be a green colored spiral as their foe seemed to stretch, stunned by whatever power he was using, but Sombra, having heard about the attack from Rainbow and Applejack, flexed his hand and a shadowy vessel appeared in the space between the two. As that happened Master Roshi noticed what Sombra was doing and aimed at the container that had been provided for him, where he manipulated their foe and swung his arms, sending the terrified warrior right into the shadowy container, one that sealed itself once he was done using his technique. He had to admit that he had no idea that the powerful king from Universe 13 had a technique like this, since they hadn't had time to talk about it, but right now he was happy that their ally had such a power, to which he stood up and walked over to where the vessel rested, one that he picked up and hurled through the air. Together the three of them watched as the vessel went over the edge of the fighting stage, which was when Sombra pulled his shadows back and the vessel disappeared, allowing the warrior to fall into the abyss and appear on the stands, sitting on the bench where her fellow warriors from Universe 4 rested. Beerus, seeing how great their warriors were interacting with Universe 13's warriors, cheered Master Roshi on and was happy to see what he was capable of knocking out two enemies in rapid succession, even if he had the help of two additional warriors to take out the second foe, something he was sure Master Roshi could have done on his own. "That's cheating!" Quitela shouted, as he refused to believe that one of his warriors was eliminated in such a way, so soon after losing the princess warrior that Master Roshi had come across, and he was glaring down at the trio of warriors that had combined their forces to take out their talisman user. "How so?" Sombra inquired, turning his gaze up towards the god that was accusing them of cheating, which would cause them to be eliminated from the tournament if the King of All believed what he was saying, and he could see that the Grand Priest was looking down at them as well, "All of our techniques were energy based, despite the fact that Master Roshi has a few bottles that he could use with the Evil Containment Wave, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with the three of us combining our own techniques together to take out an opponent." "It's neat, so it's safe." a voice said, to which Quitela, Beerus, and Sombra's little group glanced up at the antechamber, where the Kings of All were glaring down at them, indicating that they didn't want anyone to fight over whether the set of techniques was legal or not, causing Quitela to frown as he heard their opinion on the matter. Sombra nodded his head as he headed off into another area, to continue the fight against another foe that his power was necessary to defeat, leaving Trixie and Master Roshi alone for now, allowing them to determine whether or not they needed to fight someone together... and before they could do anything one of the boulders near them shattered, where the warrior with the bird legs appeared from the smoke with an angry look in his eyes. "My friends... two of them..." the warrior said, his tone indicating that he was angry at seeing two of his teammates being taken out by Master Roshi, even if he had been aided by two other warriors to take out the second warrior, "You took them out... you DECREPIT OLD MAN!" In that instant the warrior's aura went wild, kicking up some dust as bits of lightning danced in the air around him, but that was before he started to get larger and more bulkier, while his hair became spiked and changed to an orange color with a yellow interior, while his face became more bird-like thanks to the beak that grew out of where his mouth was, which meant that this was likely his true form. "I'll smash the two of you to pieces." the warrior stated, just as the wind died down and the lightning disappeared from the area around him, though his eyes were locked onto where Master Roshi was standing, indicating that he was going to take him out first and then focus on Trixie. Master Roshi stood his ground as the warrior charged at him, where all he had to do was swing his right arm and he sent the warrior flying into one of the rock walls, as his attack had been so straightforward that he didn't even have to read his movements to know what he was doing. The warrior seemed to know that his anger got the better of him and charged back into the battle, where Master Roshi had Trixie stand off on the side as he dodged the incoming attacks, finding that they were slower than his movements and didn't need to do much to avoid taking damage. By doing it this way they ensured that someone was keeping a close eye on the warrior's movements, in case they suddenly changed or if some aspect of him suddenly shifted, and he was lucky to have someone like Trixie, an Archmage and the Spell-Weaver if he understood her correctly, on his side. Trixie had the feeling that Master Roshi didn't need her help, as his movements showed that he had been studying this warrior as well and had memorized his movements, allowing him to move out of the way before any attack could hit him, especially the warrior's Grand Adora, which was him gathering energy in front of his hands, creating bird claws, before he rushed at his target, who simply jumped over his head and let him miss. The warrior soon became frustrated that he couldn't hit Master Roshi, so much so that he missed the moment where Master Roshi tripped him and sent him flying into a rock wall, where he stated that experience was greater than speed and power, before blasting the warrior in the chest with a ki blast. Of course that was when Master Roshi moved in to knock off a third warrior from Universe 4, but then his foe got back up and attacked him again, this time even faster and stronger than before, and this time he seemed to use the fact that Master Roshi had seen his attacks against him, as he lured him into a false sense of security before striking his chest, opening him up for a barrage of attacks. Trixie, despite watching what was going on, overheard Quitela telling his Kaioshin that Master Roshi underestimated Ganos' youth, that the warrior grew stronger with every passing second of every minute, an ability that sounded odd for a few seconds, but then she decided that it wasn't the strangest thing she had encountered as Ganos blasted Master Roshi backwards. "Hurts your old bones, doesn't it?" Ganos asked, as he came to a stop and smirked as Master Roshi picked himself off the floor, his body showing that he wasn't taking the pressure of the fight all that well, which seemed to be what Ganos was after, "It seems that you're running out of stamina, old man." Master Roshi, on the other hand, had a different idea, as he started to move his hands in a very specific pattern and started to chant what Trixie assumed was some sort of lullaby, as Ganos seemed to focus on it for a few moments and actually started to sway a few times, showing that the technique had some effect on him. The downside was that the instant Genos went to one knee he actually blasted himself in the chest with his own power, preventing the technique from defeating him, and while Master Roshi was stunned he rushed forward and punched him into the rock wall that was behind him. Trixie was surprised that Ganos would go so far just to escape the hypnosis that Master Roshi was using on him, even though she and her fellow heroes had done some crazy things to save themselves over the years she spent trying to save Azeroth, causing her to wonder if it was time to step in and assist one of her allies. The only reason she didn't jump into the battle immediately was because Ganos, after knocking Master Roshi away, fell back to one knee and huffed for a few seconds, indicating that the self inflicted damage had been more than he originally intended, weakening him to the point where he might be able to be eliminated with little effort. "I'm sure that you were an impressive martial artist once," Ganos said, almost sounding like he had some measure of respect for Master Roshi, even though he had been very angry with him a few moments ago, making Trixie wonder if the damage he did to free himself had effected his mind a little, all while Master Roshi moved once more, "but your days are already over... You can still stand? Talk about pathetic. You should just retire already, old man, cause you've reached your limit and you're about ready to fall over." "My limits? Screw that." Master Roshi replied, forcing himself to stand once more, despite everything that Ganos had put him through since he first showed up, and this time around Trixie knew that she was more suited to observing the fight and letting the older warrior prove just how strong he was, and he even removed his sunglasses, "Goku, Krillin, you two are the ones who taught me that this old man still has a future and that it's too early to decide my limits! You are the ones that taught me that, by continuing to aim for greater heights!" Ganos, seeing Master Roshi pull his arms to his side as he started to charge his own Kamehameha, raised his hand and started to gather his own energy, which only prompted Master Roshi to bulk up and address both Goku and Krillin, telling them to 'Move well! Learn well! Play well, eat well, and rest well! To enjoy their lives merrily and to the fullest!' and that the 'Kame Style was with them'. Once he was done he loosed his most powerful Kamehameha, a beam that was so powerful that it wiped out whatever Ganos was charging and knocked the warrior clear off the fighting stage, surprising Quitela in the process as Beerus and Krillin cheered for Master Roshi's success. As the beam disappeared, and his body returned to normal, Trixie stepped forward and caught the elderly warrior before he could hit the floor, finding that he was definitely pushing himself too hard and that it could have killed him, causing Goku, who went Super Saiyan Blue to escape his foe, to use his Instant Transmission to get over to them and tend to his fallen mentor. Goku raised his right hand for a moment and gathered some of his power, which he used on Master Roshi's chest a few times, like he was trying to restart someone heart or something, and even when he powered down to his base state Trixie had good news for him as Master Roshi woke up, slightly confused for a moment before he focused on the task at hand. With Master Roshi back, and using Goku as his support for now, Trixie bid the two farewell as she headed back into the fights that were happening nearby, intending to find another warrior that she could knock off, and maybe take some of the pressure off Universe 7 in the process. While that was going on Gohan and Piccolo found an opportunity to get away from their current opponents, so they could regroup and see what their options were, as there were a number of foes in the immediate area and they had to be careful before something happened. Of course both of them had stopped for a few moments when they heard that Master Roshi was in the middle of battle and found that, despite pushing his body to the brink, that he was able to hold on and that Goku had saved him from expiring, allowing the pair to move to a new area and continue the fight. Quitela's moans and statements of both Universe 7 and Universe 13 cheating, showing that he didn't care for them teaming up against the other universes and considered it unfair, were so loud that some of the warriors stopped and glared at him, as they were shocked that a Destroyer God was acting so childish, allowing Gohan and Piccolo to flee from their foes and get back together. At the same time Gohan knew that it wasn't going to be a clean getaway, as there was a short warrior, who looked like a red boar that could walk and talk like a person, while also wearing a robe and some glasses that suggested he was a professor or something, that was looking down at the area they were currently standing in. "I see you both have some skills." the boar warrior declared, showing that he must have been watching them while they were fighting their previous foes, which wasn't good since he might have a trick to defeat them, something that neither of them knew about since this was the first time they had seen this particular warrior, "Very well. Let me show you why I, Dr. Rota, am called Doctor! For you see, my ability is..." The boar warrior, Dr. Rota as he called himself, never got to finish his statement as a beam of energy struck him like a bullet had been fired, going through the area of one of his lungs and causing him to fall with a look of surprise on his face, something that caused both Gohan and Piccolo to raise their guards as they looked for a new foe. Unfortunately they didn't have much time before another beam came at them, causing Piccolo to tackle Gohan and put them behind some of the rubble, narrowly avoiding being blasted as well, which only caused them to look around the area and observe what was going on this time around. Piccolo then came up with the idea to use one of the rocks around them and gently threw it into the area they had been standing in a few seconds ago, where the rock was blown to pieces by a third blast, showing that someone attacking them with an attack that was similar to his Special Beam Cannon, as their new foe was likely focusing their energy into a single point when they fired their attack. The problem, as Gohan discovered, was that the attacker had to be far away from where they were positioned and seemed to have incredible accuracy, even with all of the rubble that rested around them, and Piccolo nodded his head in agreement, as he came to the same conclusion as well, before they thought about what their next move was going to be. One other thing they were sure about, besides the fact that the sniper wasn't trying to kill them, otherwise Dr. Rota would be dead and the warrior that hit him would have been disqualified from the tournament, was that they couldn't sense their foe's energy, meaning that it would be incredibly hard for them to do anything without being shot at. "At this rate, we're in trouble, so we should hide our energy as much as possible." Piccolo stated, though he had to admit that this would be a great time to have someone from Universe 13 assist them in some way, as he was sure that whoever was targeting them couldn't handle the power of any of their allies, meaning that it didn't matter who came to aid them, they just had to be patient and someone would come for them, "We should move out from this area soon, before our foe has a chance to find where we're hiding... and then maybe figure out where our opponent is hiding." Gohan nodded his head in agreement and they started to move with him going first, but before they could get too far whoever they were currently engaged with loosed another blast and it struck Piccolo in the shoulder as he jumped into the air, severing his left arm in the process and caused Gohan to catch him, which caused him to growl for a second as he quickly regenerated his missing arm. "Interesting. Rainbow and Applejack said you had that ability, but this is the first time I've seen it in action." a voice said, causing Gohan and Piccolo to falter as they realized that their silent prayers for an ally to come had been answered, but while they were expecting someone like Rarity or Trixie, or even Rainbow or Applejack, they weren't expecting Sombra to step out of the shadows and stare at the area in front of them. "It's an innate ability I have, since I'm a Namekian." Piccolo explained, though he didn't feel the need to go any further, because if the girls had told Sombra about his power than there was no reason for him to do the same thing, allowing him to focus on the reason why this particular warrior came to assist them, "Why did you choose to come here?" "Because I felt that this opponent is one where you could use one of my powers to defeat them." Sombra replied, to which he turned towards the area in front of them and let his magic ignite for a second, causing the shadows to surround them and keep them hidden for a few moments, "With this barrier we can remain hidden for as long as I see fit, but since we're on a timeline we might as well use it to our advantage and see if we can't figure out which direction the attacks are coming from, by tricking our foe into revealing where they're hiding." Piccolo grinned for a moment, as he had been thinking that the best way to figure out where their foe was hiding would be to extend his right arm and put the hand out where their foe could see it, allowing them to find where the sniper was hiding and then follow the attack back to it's source. It seemed that Sombra was of the same opinion, even though he had only heard about these abilities from Rainbow and Applejack, which only surprised the duo with how well the leader of Universe 13's warriors was able to plan out the various battles, in a way that ensured the alliance won and their foes ended up being taken out of the tournament. This was another reason that he was glad to have Universe 13 on their side, as going up against Sombra seemed like it would be a nightmare, since they had no idea what sort of powers he possessed or what he was truly capable of, and what little they had seen so far didn't fill him with confidence. To that end Piccolo raised his right arm and extended it, allowing him to pick out a good spot in the area the sniper seemed to be targeting, and Gohan made sure that he could see the direction the attack came form, and not even a few moments later his eyes locked onto the beam as it surged towards Piccolo's hand, who pulled it back at the last second and avoided being hit again, but this time they had what they wanted. To ensure that their foe wouldn't be able to see them, and allowing them to move freely, Gohan and Piccolo decided to pick up a large boulder and hurled it into the area in front of them, before blowing it to pieces, causing the dust and the smoke to obscure their foe's vision as they walked into the smoke. As they walked through the smoke, however, Sombra kept his eyes to the sky, as he caught the glimmer of something in the air and pretended that he saw nothing, as he was coming up with a new idea on what their foe was doing and wanted to see what they found before he announced his intentions to the pair in front of him. What they ended up stopping for was a red orb that was floating in the air, directly in the middle of the path they were taking, but instead of letting Piccolo or Gohan take it, and study it, Sombra raised his hand and grabbed onto the orb, where he glared at it for a few seconds before letting the shadows wrap around it. A few seconds later he pulled the shadows back and revealed that there was a faint shadowy mark in the interior of the orb, one that he had created, causing the duo to look at him with confusion on their faces, something that he expected, hence the reason he was going to explain himself. "What our foe is doing is they're using these orbs to see the area around us, so that they can fire their attacks at us and angle them so they can hit us." Sombra stated, showing that he had figured out the nature of the orbs and that there were more of them in the area that they were standing in, causing Gohan and Piccolo to spot a few more that were floating in their immediate area, though they had no idea how many of them there were, "I dealt with something like this once, where one of my enemies tried to use some scrying orbs to keep tabs on me and my plans, so I used the shadows to blind their eyes, as in the orbs and not their actual eyes, rendering the orbs useless, which is what I'm doing to our foe's orbs right now." Piccolo and Gohan watched as the darkness in the orb that Sombra was holding burst into the air and seemed to hit one of the other orbs, before branching out and hitting a vast number of them in the process, reducing the number of orbs that their foe could use against them, before Sombra nodded his head and tossed the orb he was holding onto aside, showing that he had no further need of it. Of course that had a reaction that Sombra was expecting, as the person who controlled the orbs still fired down at them, since they hadn't moved from their position at all, but their foe still missed his mark as all three of them moved, now eliminating the information the sniper had on them. Instead of standing around Sombra watched as Piccolo and Gohan decided to heat up the area around them with precise ki blasts, small ones that could heat up the stone around them, which prompted the sniper to unleash a number of beams in their general direction, with the express purpose of destroying all the rocks and pillars around them, so they would have no where to hide in a few minutes. Sombra, seeing that happen, raised his hand toward the sky and the shadows responded, forming a perfect dome around the three of them, keeping them hidden and protected for the time being, allowing him to turn towards the duo that he was currently assisting. "I must say, you two did a good job luring our foe into the open, or foes I should say." Sombra said, where he noticed that both Gohan and Piccolo were a little surprised by what he had to say, since they were so sure that there was only one enemy that was trying to take them out, before he glanced out at the area the attacks were coming from, "It seems that one of the warriors is currently acting like a scout, keeping his 'eyes' on the their enemies, while his partner is no doubt further away, firing the beams at his teammate, who is also acting like a reflector, sending the beams down at whoever he is currently targeting." "So what can we do about them?" Piccolo asked, because at this point he was going to bow his head to whatever plan Sombra came up with, as he seemed to be capable of figuring out what their enemies were capable of doing and could figure out what their foes were planning with very little interaction on his part, making him an incredibly powerful ally to have on their side, and would become a terrible foe if their universes were the last two standing. "You two are going to sit here for a few seconds, while I deal with the reflector." Sombra replied, to which he turned towards the edge of the dome and started to move forward, knowing that they didn't have a lot of time until their foes noticed that something was wrong, before another thought came to mind, "Tien, on the other hand, is more than welcome to continue what he's doing... heading for the real sniper." Gohan had no idea what Sombra was talking about, since Tien wasn't in the area, but that was before he spotted their teammate off in the distance, waiting for the reflector's eyes to be drawn elsewhere so he could focus on the sniper, which made him realize that Sombra had likely seen him at some point and instantly knew what he was thinking. Sombra, on the other hand, stepped out of the dome and walked forward, using very small steps from his training with Yoruichi, in the art of using Shunpo, and later Ulquiorra, in using it to master Sonido, to get into the area that the reflector was standing in before he even realized that he had company. Fortunately it didn't take the reflector long to realize that he had company, causing the focus that he and the sniper had to shatter instantly as he turned his attention to the area that Sombra was standing in, where a grin appeared on his face, like Sombra had done something that he wanted. "You fool! You walked right into our trap!" the reflector stated, showing that he seemed to be overly confident in his abilities and the combination that he came up with his partner, while at the same time revealing that he wasn't paying attention to what happened to his teammate, "Now that you're this close we'll blast you right off the fighting stage and eliminate you from the tournament, without you being able to lift a finger." "Is that so?" Sombra asked, because it sounded like his opponent was definitely the overconfident type, as if he was proud of what he and his teammate were able to do, before he focused on something else that was happening, which his foe was currently missing, "Well then, it's a shame that your teammate won't be able to help you." Tien, playing to his strengths, used a power that Rainbow and Applejack had called the Multi-Form, one that allowed the user to create clones of themselves, meaning that Tien stood there with three clones that looked exactly like him, making it hard for someone to see which was the real one, while the downside was that it split the user's attack and speed into fourths. As the clones charged towards the sniper, who was constantly moving after each time he fired something, Sombra understood the plan and made no move to assist Tien, as he intentionally used the three clones as shields so he could get ever closer to his target, much to the surprise of everyone that was watching them. Interestingly enough none of the clones disappeared after they were hit, rather they fell to the floor and seemed to be waiting for something, which let Tien get really close to where the sniper was hiding, where he brought his hands together and loosed his Neo Tri-Beam at the area the sniper was hiding in. That, of course, seemed to be the end of it as they both stood near the edge of the fighting stage, but the sniper, a green skinned humanoid creature with a beak-like jaw and wearing nothing more than red briefs and brown boots, decided that he deserved the last laugh and blasted the floor beneath him, seemingly sending only Tien over the edge, but he forgot the clones, which latched onto him from behind and hurled him over the edge as well, eliminating the two of them at the same time. "Well then, it seems like it's your turn." Sombra said, though at the same time he raised his right hand and pointed his pointer finger right at the brick red skinned warrior that was in front of him, where dark strands of energy, with a dark green outline, started to gather in an small sphere in front of his finger. "Y... You fool! Ki blasts won't work on me!" the brick red warrior exclaimed, revealing that his ability was to turn the beams that most warriors used into projectiles that he could fire at other foes or at the person that had used the beam against him, meaning that he believed that he had this battle in the bag. "Did I ever say that my attack was the same as your partner's attacks?" Sombra inquired, as that was the truth behind his attack, that it was vastly different from the ki blasts that Rainbow and the others used in battle, and because he hadn't shown off this attack yet there was no way his target had any idea how different it was, "Cero Oscuras." The instant the attack was done forming Sombra fired a black beam of energy, with a dark green outline, that raced through the air and zeroed in on where the brick red warrior was standing, though before he could move Dr. Rota, having recovered from his injuries, latched onto him and stated that he intended to show off his power, only for the beam to collide with the pair and send them flying off the fighting stage. Sombra sighed as he cut off the power to his attack and returned his hand to where it had been the entire time, discovering that while Universe 7 had lost it's second warrior so far Universe 2 had lost two more of their warriors, while Universe 6 ended up losing another warrior. Sooner or later he knew that the other universes were going to stop trying to take out Universe 7 and converge on Universe 13, since they were the only universe that hadn't lost one of their warriors yet, but at the same time he was counting on their foes attempting something like that, so they could really cut down the number of enemies they had to worry about. With that in mind he headed back towards the other fights, seeking another foe that he could knock off the fighting stage, all while recalling his magic and letting the dome disappear, freeing Gohan and Piccolo so they could continue the fight as well, since they might find a foe only they could defeat. Sombra also knew that Sunset and the others were proud of their team, for assisting Universe 7 whenever they needed help and taking out enemies that would give them trouble, to which he smiled for a moment as he focused on the other enemies that would be waiting for him, knowing that it was only a matter of time until he knocked another warrior off the fighting stage.