Chapter 18

Third POV

Vickie leaned over a crowd of people as tried to adjust her binoculars, "You know I wish they would hurry up and display the match orders. Bayley needs to get a good spot on that board we need the prize money!"

"Well it is going to take a lot of luck to win a competition as closely matched as this one." Kurt commented. Vickie put down her binoculars and looked at Kurt, "You watch your mouth that is NOT the kind of support I need from you right now! Do you understand that if Bayley doesn't win we will have AJ money to use and when we run of the money will be completely broke?! I refuse to raise my daughters on the streets and Bayley needs to go to college!"

"Whoa calm down Vickie everything will be okay. I'm here to help you when you need money so you won't have to raise AJ and Bayley on the streets or you can move in with us we have plenty of space, and Bayley grades will definitely get her scholarships." Beth said trying to reassure her.

"I know...I know..." Vickie said.

"Hey look guys they are posting the match ups!" Brie said excited. Vickie grabbed her binoculars again "let's see match one Daniel vs Big Cass." Vickie said.

"Wow Daniel in the first match." Brie said.

"Match two The Great Saiyawoman vs EDGE?!" Vickie said almost choking.

"WHAT?!" Everyone in the group minus Birdie said.

"Wow I didn't expect them to face each other right away. I thought it would've happened in the final match." Nikki said.

"Vickie are you sure you read that right?" Beth said grabbing the binoculars.

"Oh course I am sure!" Vickie said aggravated.

"Yup it's The Great Saiyawoman and Edge alright..." Beth said handing the binoculars back to Vickie.

"Edge must be excited that he doesn't have to wait long to face Bayley." Kurt said surprised, "Hopefully they don't blow up the ring." He said chuckling.

And theeerrre! We have a full board of fighters! In the first match we have Daniel Bryan vs Big Cass. In the second match we have The Great Saiyawoman vs Edge. The third match will be Batista vs Randy Orton. The fourth match will be Dolph Ziggler vs Baron Corbin. The fifth match is Austin vs Jushin Liger. Sixth match is Asuka vs Sasha Levesque. Seventh match is Shayna vs Sonya, and the eight and final match of the first round will be Ronda vs Triple H. The fighting will commence immediately, I will quickly show you all to your waiting room. I'm sure you know all the fighting rules. You are the loser if you give up, if you get knocked down and I count to ten, if you fall out of the ring or if you unfortunately kill your competitor. Each match is a time limit of 30 minutes and not a second more. If there is not a victor decided in the allotted time, then that decision will be left up to the judges." The announcer explained to the enthusiastic group of fighters. With that, next up the World Tournament was about to begin.

"Man this is so exciting I am going to totally cut loose!" Daniel said as he warmed up.

"Be careful not pull a muscle there Daniel." Bayley playfully said as she was doing stretches in the corner as the group minus Edge watched her.

"Bayley you seem to can't sit still." Daniel said never seeing Bayley act this way in the past seven years.

Bayley laughed, "Sorry I guess I am just a bit excited. When Edge said that he was going to sign up for the tournament to fight me I admit I was nervous but now I feel a bit excited."

"Well with you fighting Edge in the first round it's like fighting the final match first you know?" Daniel said, "Well that's why I'm stretching!" Bayley replied.

"Go easy on him Daniel." She whispered before Daniel walked towards the ring as the other competitors watched Daniel beat Big Cass in mere seconds by kicking him out of the ring.

"And the winner is Daniel Bryan!" The announcer yelled as he walked out of the ring while hold up one arm in the air but not before he spots his family cheering loudly for him.

"Great job Daniel." Bayley congratulates him.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen! Next is Edge vs our town hero The Great Saiyawoman!" The announcer said as Edge walked towards the ring. The crowd cheered as Bayley finishes her stretches and follows behind but not before Sasha stops her.

"Bayley I want to see you in the second round okay." Sasha said and Bayley nods giving Sasha a thumbs up.

Bayley walked towards the ring waving to the crowd as Edge stood in the ring waiting for her.

"At last Bayley after seven years I finally get to fight you. You have no idea how long I've waited for this battle. Now I can defeat you and prove that I'm the strongest." Edge arrogantly said grinning with excitement, "Well I guess I been keeping you waiting long enough. It has been a long time since we last fought, Edge. The last time I fought you was when I was seven years old." Bayley said grinning with excitement as well.

"I'm sure our two fierce competitors are ready to lock horns at any moment, come on guys were all waiting." The announcer said Bayley went into a battle stance but instead of Edge doing the same he stared at her.

"Hey why aren't you in you're battle stance?" Bayley asked bewildered why Edge is leaving himself defenseless unless, "Are you tricking me?" Bayley asks.

"I am curious to see how strong you are as Super Saiyan now that you came out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber." Edge said, "And the only way to find out is by you transforming into a Super Saiyan."

"What did Edge tell Bayley that shocked her?" Daniel asked trying to hear their conversation but couldn't.

"Is this some kind of joke? I'm not going to transform out here in front of all these people! Did you forget what I said in the plane that we're not supposed to transform. It's bad enough that AJ and Kaitlyn did in front of all these people." Bayley said in disbelief what Edge is asking her to do.

"What are they doing they are just talking?" Batista asked frustrated he couldn't hear them.

"Edge told Bayley to turn into a Super Saiyan." Austin answered surprising Daniel and Batista.

Edge frowned and then smirked at Bayley making Bayley feel uneasy and suddenly feels Edge powering up.

"Edge don't!" Bayley said but Edge ignores her and clenches his fists as auras flared and spiked dangerously began to transform and then with a flash stood Edge with blonde hair and teal eyes surrounding him was a spiking yellow aura.

"Edge turned into Super Saiyan." Daniel said worriedly and glanced back and sees Sasha in shock.

"If Bayley transforms Sasha will faint."

"Are you crazy?! Their was no reason to transform!" Bayley exclaimed and looked at the crowd to see them in shock she then looks at Sasha who is also in shock.

"Theirs no changing you're mind is there?" Bayley asked in a serious tone despite knowing the answer, "Alright then I'll transform but remember Edge, you asked for it!" Bayley said and began to power up.

Daniel, Austin, and Batista sensed Bayley powering up while Edge watched patiently.

The ground began to shake as Bayley began yelling her eyes turned teal as electricity began to form around her body as the sky became cloudy. Bayley turban was blown away revealing her now blonde hair as she ascended to Super Saiyan two the tiles from the ring began floating around her as she went full power and a wave of gold energy surrounded her as she finished transforming and the tiles all fell back into place.

Sasha watched from the fighting room as she was in shock. "You're kidding, is this for real? Bayley is the Golden Fighter? Impossible!" Sasha said in disbelief.

"Bayley had a lot more power seven years ago but now it isn't as strong. I think training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber didn't help much." Batista said.

"No Bayley is holding back her power she doesn't want to let it all out." Daniel said.

Bayley just smiled as Edge, "There are you happy? You got what you wanted and you're going to regret telling me to transform." Bayley said in a serious tone taking off her sunglasses and throwing them to the ground the crowd started realizing that the Great Saiyawoman is the little girl that was in the games seven years ago.

Edge smirked and ascended into a Super Saiyan two.

"You better power all the way up because I don't intend on holding back." Edge said before he came speeding forward with his right fist cocked back at the side of his waist and his left arm held out in front with palm out. Bayley met his charge simultaniously, her own right fist cocked back at the side of her head.

They both met in the middle with their forearms clashing in an "X" position with each other. The resulting clash caused a shockwave effect to ripple out from the middle of their arms and caused the announcer to stumble and the rest of the audience to feel the power coming from them.

Bayley started throwing fast punches in a flurry. But Edge dodged them all with just twists of his head and a few ducks while making it look easy. Then, when there was an opening Edge tried to counter-attack with sweeping kicks but Bayley dodged them by leaping up into the air. Edge soon followed and then both of them began exchanging punches and blocking them from each other as they had a running fight up in the air they separate from each other, and landed on opposite ends at the edges of the ring.

They then both used their landing to "skip" ahead which they both used to fly straight at the other. They both met in the middle and once again they were engaging in a fast exchange where they were trading punches and blocks that were blurs to the normal eye, fighting evenly with each other.

"Hmph, looks like Edge definitely improved. The smoothness of his technique are definitely sharper." Daniel commented, "Yeah, you can definitely tell he seems more refined. I guess power wasn't the only thing he worked on during the last seven years." Austin added noticing Edge fighting technique was sharper than it normally was before.

Very shortly their fighting went on to escalate to the point of where their punches and blocks created powerful concussive wave ripples almost every time they connected.

"Look at them go. They're really going at it. The way they're unleashing their powers when they collide is astonishing. It's more like their fighting full on like it's the real thing instead of just a warm up." Batista said as Sasha watched in amazement at the two fighting.

Bayley and Edge had eventually locked up with each other. Their battle was a stalemate and so they opted to push into a contest of power. They both caught punches from the other and then they locked up their hands with each other and started pushing with their strength. Their arms being spread out to the left and right and their forearms angled forward with their hands clasped.

"Heh heh... wow Edge, your skills have really improved over the seven years." Bayley said complimenting him, "This is nothing compared with what I have in store for you. This is still merely a warm up. Now why don't we skip the warm up from here on in. I'd much rather get down to business and get on with the real show." Edge said growing impatient.

"Fine, have it your way." Bayley responded and separated from each other and powered up to their full strength.

"Looks like they're ready to get down to it for real guys." Daniel said.

Bayley and Edge, both of them just stared at each other and then they were off.

The two of them just flickered off and disappeared from view simultaniously. Then the ripples from concussion strikes began to appear all over above the ring, as testament to the invisible battle the two were waging as they took to the skies. They then reappeared in the middle of their still echoing burts ripples fighting a hot battle of furious and fast hands and feet while still in the midst of their still echoing burst ripples. Bayley was the first to get an advantage as she hit Edge with her elbow. But as Bayley was about to take advantage with another swing, Edge fazed out of the way with super speed and delivered a crushing uppercut that hit Bayley. But Bayley was quick to counter yet again and she fazed. Bayley reappeared above Edge and delivered a sharp and fast double ax-handle blow to the back that sent Edge shooting down to the edge of the ring. Bayley went to pursue him. But Edge recovered his senses mid-flight and used the edge of the ring to springboard himself forward along the floor of the ring but with Bayley following just a split-second step behind. Somewhere about two thirds through the length of the ring Edge turned around on their little highspeed pursuit and crossed his forearms in an "X" formation and blocked and incoming punch from Bayley. The sound from the connection was thunderous and forced the two to skid a few feet and kick up some dust as they did so. Edge quickly took advantage from his block and decked Bayley with another uppercut that this time sent her flying to the other edge of the ring. But recovered and flipped to land on her own two feet near the edge of the ring. And just in time too as Edge came barreling in with his fist cocked back over his head in readying for a double ax-handle strike. But Bayley brought both arms in over her head in blocking position and blocked the powerful move. The block was so powerful that it shook them and the audience and Bayley feet were buried a ways in the hard tiled floor. The power that these two possessed was amazing.

"I didn't expect The Hyperbolic Time Chamber to help Bayley this much that she's fighting evenly with Edge. I thought she'll have trouble keeping up with him because of her lack of training." Batista admits.

Bayley then took advantage and used her hands to stand on the floor and then used both feet to drop kick Edge straight up into the air. Then, with the momentum from her move, Bayley did a half backspin to land on all fours and then flickered out of sight. She then reappeared high in the skies and was about to deliver a hit to Edge but Edge fazed out of the way of the incoming punch and vanished. Bayley looked frustrated from the failed attempt. Bayley flickered out and soon all that could be seen was the open air and only the sounds of their combat could be heard. The sounds of zincs and zancs could eeriely be heard zipping around from all over in the air as the two fought and zipped across at each other at speeds that couldn't possible be tracked by the normal human eye. The two then suddenly just flickered back into existence several feet in the air above the middle of the ring and heading for a collision with each other. The collision cancelled each other out as the two merely hit each other in the gut at the same time and broke away from each other. The two carefully landed back in the middle of the ring and just continued to stare intensely at each other at yet another stalemate. With the tense atmosphere now, the audience was at the edge of their seats. This match was indeed shaping up to be an epic match, and the audience now knew it.

"Guys is it just me or does Bayley already seem out of breath?" Daniel asked now noticing, "You're right, Daniel. Bayley didn't seem out of breath in the beginning but throughout the fight I noticed she slowly started seeing out of breath. But it doesn't make any sense at all. Edge and Bayley haven't even battled long nor have they used energy techniques." Austin said worried.

"What the hell, I shouldn't be worn down this much. I haven't felt this way since I trained with AJ in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. What the hell is wrong with me?"

Edge and Bayley continued to stare each other down in a tense standoff, but only for a few seconds and then the two shot back at each other and launched with their right punches. Their fists bumped and connected with each other in the middle and sparks of electricity flew between the fixed connected fists. The power from this massively powerful strike cause a medium sized crater to form on the tiled floor below and between them. Then they switched to other attacks. Knees, elbows, fists and forearms connected in harsh blows and then they engaged into a harsh, fast paced pounding fight that rattled on the audiences' nerves.

Bayley manages to kick Edge in the gut that Edge spit out blood. Bayley looked fierce at Edge as she kicked him sending shooting back across the ring at what almost seemed like a hundred miles per hour. But once he reached near the edge of the ring, Edge flipped around and springboarded himself and turned into a blur as he used the slingshot-like effect to gain a massive speed boost. But Bayley in turn turned into a blur of speed and the two then went about chasing each other all over the ring. The two blurs would connect and ricochet off each other like twin balls in a slot-machine and whenever the blurs connected they created ripples in the air.

But then the contests took a turn as they went from a lovely dance of death to just butting heads as the two would then land on opposite ends of the ring and then head to collide with another. The two would then reveal their solid shapes for just an instant as they collided in the middle and would connect forearms. These collisions would create massive power ripples that would make the whole arena wobble and rattle the crowds. Time and time and time again they would ricochet off each other, retreat and collide once more in a series of encounters.

But finally at the end of one of these encounters they just locked up with each other in the middle of the ring, with Edge apparently having caught and was now holding Bayley fists. The two then started powering up as they just held themselves there. Their power levels started to soar as chunks of tiles the size of chunks of dirt floated in the air around their fiercely flaring auras. Their power affecting the surrounding area as they tried to outdo each other in a battle of pure strength and power. A battle of wills was taking place unlike any other.

But then finally, when the rumbling and growling seemed to reach it's climax then the two just lt go and went to a toe-to-toe fierce and up close fast paced battle of swipping fists and dodging head movements of which neither of them hit the other. But then Edge did an afterimage and struck Bayley with his fist. Then she looked back and was greeted by Edge hitting her with a dropkick from an airborne horizontal position and struck Bayley and landed on the ring.

"Darn what's wrong?! I can't give up!" Bayley said now out of her Super Saiyan transformation as she struggled to get up on her feet. Bayley was now standing when all of a sudden she grabbed onto her chest and began to breathe very heavily. Bayley had only one thought pain. Intense, horrible pain. Like someone was squeezing her heart, ripping it to shreds. Edge landed on the ring and noticed Bayley was no longer a Super Saiyan two but more importantly Bayley now looked pale and looked to be in pain. Before Edge could ask if she's okay.

Bayley collapses on her back and let's out a loud painful scream as she clenches her chest.

Edge eyes widened realizing what's wrong with Bayley recognizing the symptoms.

"Oh no Bayley has the heart virus." Edge, Daniel, Austin, and Batista said in unison.

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