In bad shape, Crimson finds himself lying on the ground badly wounded. His body bleeding from multiple cuts and punctures.
Quickly his friends rush to his aid.
"Crimson, Crimson. Can you hear me? P-Please, be okay!" Pasley cried by Crimson as Matoto and Root checked his condition.
"He's in bad shape, if we don't get home he'll be in even more danger."
"But what are we gonna do about that Cogre thing, Root?"
"...It seems I'll need to figure out a plan to get around it so we can rush Crimson to medical."
"Well while you do that, I'll try my best to keep it occupied."
"Matoto! You can't be serious!"
"It's our only choice, between the four of us, Crimson was the strongest. Now he's down for the count leaving me the second strongest! Now just figure something out already and stop your whining!"
"Matoto don't do it!"
Pasley pleaded with him, begging for him to just think it through.
"Look I'll come back okay, I promise. I'm not going to let my friends die here! NOT TODAY, NOT EVER!"
Matoto got ready to dash towards the Cogre. However Crimson managed to get a few words out before he did.
"Cogre's can't use ki..."
Root caught this along with the rest.
"W-What did he say?" Matoto stopped in his tracks.
"Cogre's can't use ki, but how can this Cogre... Unless. No, that's not possible."
"Root! Focus!"
"I'm trying okay! But I can't come up with a plan if I don't know what we're facing!"
Matoto scuffed before he looked back at Root.
"What do you need me to do?"
"If you're up for it. I'll need you to try and draw more of its attacks so I can understand what we're up against."
"That all?"
"Well besides the obvious things such as: don't die, don't get hit."
"Thanks for the lovely advice."
Matoto kept his eyes on it as he waited for it to move an inch. Then without thinking, he dashed off towards it. The Cogre made an instant reaction to Matoto's rush. Leaping back into the air, its eye jolted around in its slot. Trying to locate the moving Matoto. It seems to land a few feet away from him.
"W-What the, it jumped... Away?"
"Interesting..."
Then outta the corner of the forest, a friend of the vein forest stood still staring at the Cogre. As the Cogre turned to look in its direction. It became a complete standstill once more. But then the animal turned and dashed off away from it. Instantly causing it to charge up its eye beam and fired it instantly at the animal. Completely killing it within seconds.
"That's it! Matoto! Don't move! If you move it will attack!"
"W-What do you mean by that Root!"
"Listen to me! I believe it's blind to everything but movement! It can't tell what's a living being from an inanimate object! It can only tell the difference by movement! I also don't believe it can hear us so it must be deaf!"
"So a monster that only notices things from movement, and is deaf! This sure doesn't sound like any monster I know!"
"Oh, but it does to me!"
Matoto and Pasley look shocked as Root begins putting it all together.
"Yes I know exactly what it is, and I know exactly how to beat it!"
"W-WHAT?! BEAT IT ARE YOU INSANE!"
"Matoto! Listen to me, If we take out its eye we can get outta here, but only for a limited time! It will regenerate it back within 30 seconds! So we gotta act fast!"
"Seriously?! How do you know it can regenerate too?!"
"Because I studied about these with my father! They're known as Aezer's, they were the predator of the Cogre's!"
"Wait but aren't Cogre's and Aezer's similar?" Pasley asked as she started recalling some of her previous knowledge.
"Sort of, they may share some similar traits such as one eye and black rock-like skin. But one thing made them extremely different. The ability to use Ki! Cogre's feared this ability, so they began building walls made of rock. To prevent Aezer's from getting near them. However when the Saiyans came to take over this planet. Those walls and any surviving Cogre's were most likely slaughtered by the Aezer's."
"Talk about some wild history lesson huh? Alright! How do you reckon I blind him?"
"Look around and tell me what you see Matoto!"
Matoto looks around confused.
"I see a bunch of trees and roots... Oh, I get it now! I know what I can do!"
"THEN GET TO IT, YOU'RE OUR ONLY ESCAPE OUTTA HERE!"
"Don't worry, I got this!"
Matoto began looking around for any possibly large pieces of wood, and just in his favor. From one of the Aezer's previous spots a decently sized jagged piece of wood laid. Within seconds Matoto rushed into the trees catching the attention of the Aezer. As it began firing multiple eye beams at Matoto as he continued jumping and dashing through trees and roots. A giant cloud of dust and dirt filled the area. Blinding the Aezer, but allowing Matoto to reach the piece of wood in the nick of time as the dust settled. The Aezer began prepping its limb for launch, as its eye shut close. Matoto reached for the piece of wood and prepped it onto his shoulder. Instantly hopping outta the crater. At the same moment, the Aezer's eye opened and it began scanning the area looking for Matoto, in a daring attack. Matoto began moving in a circle to force the Aezer to lock onto his location, and instantly it did.
"That's right ugly, come to me!"
As the Aezer locked on, it adjusted its body and began descending on top of Matoto. Its massive shadow covered Matoto as he tried to jam the piece of wood into the ground. As he jammed and jammed it against the ground. It finally took hold and pointed straight up. With no time left at all. Matoto dashed for a crator and laid within it as the Aezer slammed down into the spike. Piercing through it's eye. It's horrid hollow roar filled the vein forest's air. Scaring away any nearby animals.
Matoto crawled out of his little crater and quickly rushed to his friends.
"THAT WAS CRAZY!"
"Remind me not to do that again Root."
"Hopefully we won't need to, now lets get Crimson and get outta here!"
The friends helped the badly bleeding Crimson up and began grudging their way out of the forest. With the tournament second matches nearing. Crimson finds himself in rough shape, and almost no time to recover.