It was a clear sky, with no cloud blocking the full moon that shined over the wasteland. It would have been a very peaceful night if it weren't for the frequent collissions between Piccolo and Krillin.

Krillin repeatedly dodged each of Piccolo's strikes before grabbing his arm, and throwing him to the ground.

"Kamehameha!" Krillin fired a blue wave of energy towards Piccolo.

"I told you, brute strength won't be enough to win Krillin!" Piccolo smacked the Kamehameha wave away from him, causing it to fly off.

"Wide open!" Piccolo turned around and saw that Krillin ran behind him while Piccolo was distracted by the earlier Kamehameha. Krillin placed his hands at the center of his face. "Solar Flar-"

"Idiot!" Piccolo grabbed Krillin, kneed him in the gut, and threw him. "Surprize attacks don't work if you announce your presence."

Krillin gritted his teeth. "Fine then. How's this?!" Krillin started to glow with energy before splitting himself into two.

"The Multi-Form technique huh?"

"Here I come Piccolo!" One of the two Krillin's flew towards Piccolo at high speed, punching and kicking at high speeds. Piccolo dodged and blocked each blow with little trouble. "Enough of this!" Piccolo released a shockwave around his body, blasting Krillin into the air. "With the gap in power between the two of us being so large, why would you try to over power me with a move that splits your power by the number of clones? Let alone attack with less clones than you made."

Krillin smirked. "Well then, why don't you ask the other me then?" Krillin asked.

Piccolo was confused, but then looked at where the second Krillin was. He was no longer there, but rather, a hole to underground was left. He pieced together that the second Krillin would emerge from the ground to use a solar flare, leaving him wide open for a destructo disk by the other Krillin. "Heh. Not bad." Piccolo then closed his eyes, sensing out where underground the duplicate was. "There you are!" Piccolo turned to his left, and right as the second Krillin popped out, punched him in the face, causing him to fly towards a boulder.

"I'll give you this Krillin. Your plan might have worked against 18 since she can't sense ki. But even then she could just simply attack you when you pop up before you got the chance to use it. You're gonna have to be more tricky than that."

The Krillin who was punched into a boulder raised his head, and smirked. "I know. And you fell for it."

Piccolo was confused before suddenly, a third Krillin jumped out from underground right in front of him, hands already on the center of his face. "Solar Flare!" A blinding flash of light shined, and as Piccolo was looking directly in front of the duplicate who caused it, the shine was far more intense than usual.

"Gahhh!" Piccolo closed his eyes, too focused on the shine from the light to notice the ki being built up by the Krillin floating in the air.

"Destructo Disk!" Krillin fired a disk of energy at Piccolo's legs, severing them, causing Piccolo fell to the ground. The Krillin who hurled the disk at Piccolo flew to the ground, the other two Krillin's running to him. The three Krillin's formed into one. "I created another duplicate underground who hid it's ki from you. You were so certain that there were only two that you didn't pick up on the third one's energy."

Piccolo's vision started to clear. "Damn. I got careless there."

"You know that you're trying to train me, not beat me, right?"

"The time I get outsmarted by my student is the time where I have nothing else to teach you." From his severed leg stumps, two new legs regrew. Piccolo stood up. "You did well Krillin. You found a good strategy for your fight against 18 in two days."

Mr. Popo, who was watching the whole fight, walked up."Tomorrow technically. It's well past midnight after all."

Krillin nodded. "So, what next?"

Piccolo shook his head. "Didn't you hear me when I said I have nothing else to teach you?"

"Wh-what?"

Mr. Popo turned to Krillin. "We taught you the fundamentals of how to beat a stronger foe. Predicting what they'll do, along with quick and accurate reactions to what they'll next action will be. It's up to you to use that knowledge to your success."

"That said, it would be best if you come up with a backup strategy in case the solar flare from underground idea doesn't work against her." Piccolo said.

"Why do you say that?" Krillin asked.

Piccolo turned around, raised two fingers, and an explosion occcured, blasting away a large amount of the ground he was facing. "There's more than one way to deal with an underground attack Krillin. And if she thinks to do that, your plan won't work out."

"Then that's all the more reason why I should keep training with you! To come up with more strategies against her!"

"The person who can come up with the best strategy for you to use against 18 would be you yourself. There are some things we can't hold your hand through. Besides, for all you know, you won't even have to sneak up on her to catch her with a solar flare." Piccolo replied. Piccolo and Mr. Popo started to fly up in the air. "One more thing Krillin. Stop acting like you can never stand on your own two feet. It's getting annoying." Piccolo and Mr. Popo flew off.

Krillin sighed and flew into the air. "To be fair, Piccolo's training definitley helped me improve. But I don't know if it was enough." Krillin headed towards Kame House to sleep for the night.

Krillin woke up later than usual. He was exhausted after all the training he did with Piccolo. Odds are, it was about noon when he woke up. "Ugh. How long was I out?"

From outside, Krillin heard Master Roshi's chuckle from outside. "So I've been wondering, is that offer exclusive for Krillin? I'm not exactly asking to marry you, but if I win, maybe we can have a romantic night dinner and maybe after that we could spend some time at Kame House and... ehehehe-"

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I'm understanding you correctly, you're asking me to not even let your corpse remain, right?" A familiar sounding voice replied.

Krillin looked out the window and saw that Android 18 was standing outside of the house, talking with Master Roshi, Turtle, and Oolong, the latter two hiding behind Master Roshi in fear. "Wait a minute, I thought I wasn't gonna fight her until tomorrow."

"I-I'm warning you, if you try anything funny to his friends, Gohan is gonna knock you into last week!" Oolong said to 18.

18 glared at Oolong, and Oolong went back to cowering behind Roshi. "I'm looking for the other bald one."

"You mean Krillin?" Turtle asked. "We haven't seen him in days." Krillin headed back to Kame House when everyone else was sleeping. Roshi, Turtle, and Oolong didn't know that he returned.

"Actually, I came back earlier this morning!" Krillin yelled out from the upper window. 18, Roshi, Oolong, and Turtle looked up to see Krillin sticking his head out of the window. He then jumped out the window flew down towards the ground to face 18. "What gives? I thought we weren't gonna have our fight until tomorrow."

"I'm not here for the fight."

"Then what are you here for?"

"What other reason?! To kill us for kicks!" Oolong yelled.

"No, but I'm seriously thinking about it. Keep talking and we'll see what happens." Oolong quickly decided to shut up. She then turned to Krillin again. "I decided that it was ridiculous to decide whether or not I marry somebody just because they can beat me in a fight."

Krillin got an idea of what she meant, and hung his head in disappointment. "So, the deal's off huh?"

"No, just that there's another condition. We're still having a fight tomorrow but I want to know more about you first."

Krilling raised his head in curiosity. "Wait, are you saying-?"

"Come on shortie. I don't want to waste anymore time on this date than I have to."