Chapter 25: "Epic Clash of Saiyans; Xicor vs. Cumber Redux!"
First, it showed Broly and Kale in their poses confronting each other before Kale showed no hesitation to shout as she lunged first before Broly thrusted his fist towards her, clashing them together before they triggered a quake that sent debris into the air, along with dust that acted as smokescreen before they began moving all over the arena as they even vanished to accelerate their speed as Broly used his right fist to strike Kale towards a pile of debris, her back hitting against it as Broly thrusted it towards her again, only for Kale to block it with her arms before they went through it as Kale got sent backward to the arena before it showed her focusing her energy as she bellowed before the scenery began to change from its normal colors to red before it became dark blue, making Caulifla worried.
Previously on Dragon Ball Super, the Tournament of Power was in full swing. While Kale battled Broly, her sworn sister Caulifla feared that she would perform an incredible transformation that would stop the other fighters in their tracks.
"Kale, you better not do what I think you're gonna do."
Having been told about Legendary Super Saiyans by Akamu, Baby wasn't going to take any chances as he pointed his hand towards her.
"I will not let you forestall my empire!"
With that, Baby engaged his Reverse Shot towards her through the dust clouds that Baby could partially see through in the first place, sending six purple energy blasts her way before Caulifla noticed as she grunted before she got in the way of them, knocking the blasts away as one slipped by and happened to miss before Caulifla looked behind her to notice one of them swerving back to Kale, catching their notice before Caulifla quickly shoved her aside, resulting in the blast hitting her in the chest causing a burning sensation to come over the impact as she yelled out in pain, catching Kale and Broly's attention as they looked to see her knocked to the floor with a thud. After which, it showed Broly glaring at Baby and stomped toward him as he roared like a behemoth developing a barrier that turned the scenery dark purple as Broly called out the Tuffle, surprising both fighters as he glared his glowing eyes to him.
However, Caulifla should've been more concerned with Broly as his temper proved more than potent in wreaking havoc from witnessing Kale's despair.
"You shredded Kale's pride to pieces! I'll never forgive you! I will... make you... PAAAAAAAY!"
With the last word, Broly sent out a rush of wind all around before he roared out as his eyes turned red with his yellow irises breaking apart like glass before his hair turned golden as his dark green aura overtook the arena before the colors changed back to normal as he glared at the tyrant with a growl. As he did, the fury and wrath in his mind overtook his mind and he began to speak with venom.
"You have a debt to pay, Tuffle."
Suddenly, Broly began to slam him repeatedly before he finally slammed him to the ground before he gripped his face and dragged it across the debris pillars before he tossed him towards the other debris where he crashed before Broly lunged at him again to grip his face again before dragging him on the ground, further petrifying and angering Baby as Broly lifted up the tyrant before preparing a green energy orb in hand to place on Baby's chest before it burned him, making him scream before he got launched farther away to the debris before he crashed into it. With Baby stuck in the crater, Broly didn't hesitate to punch him repeatedly as if he were a punching bag with every vicious grunt made before Kale looked on in tears as she saw how hurt Broly was, added with how he's behaving with it.
At the wrong place and the wrong time, Baby began to suffer a great blow to his body and pride, leaving Kale in a greater depression, until...
I just hate... everything about... THE WAY I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!"
In surprise, Kale began to glow a yellow aura as she yelled out before her hair turned yellow-green as it stood on end before that same aura went towards Broly just as he was about to land one more punch to end Baby, only to be struck in the back, making him feel an itch with his power level the way it is now before looking with fury in his eyes, only for that fury to shrink as he noticed Kale in a yellow aura before it dissipated to reveal Kale in Super Saiyan form. And he wasn't the only one to notice. The result of that excess energy flowed inside Caulifla as well, inadvertently acting as a healing conduit before Caulifla opened her eyes to see Kale in control as made evident by her emerald eyes before she looked at her hands in wonder.
"Is this... really me?"
To surprise her further, Broly snarled and yelled out, catching Caulifla and Kale's attention before he began to form a green energy orb on his right hand as the scenery changed from green to dark purple to dark blue before it went to normal as the energy orb sat in his hand before he thrusted it at them in a form of a powerful energy blast before Caulifla, Cabba, and Kale fires their individual attacks in a swirl of red, purple, and lime green energy blasts before they collided with Broly's Gigantic Catastrophe as they bellowed with Broly's attack overpowering the 6th Universe's Saiyans being overwhelmed as Caulifla spoke to Kale, knowing full well she's still holding back. Despite what she seemed to think, Kale's training had not been for nothing.
In a fit of berserk rage, Broly turned his attention to Universe 6's Saiyans, pushing them to the brink of elimination.
"C'mon, Kale! Dig deep! Push harder! Friends have to stick together! If you stay with me, we can do this!"
As Kale heard this, she gazed at Broly's face growling at her with determination to survive through their energy blasts, which was in great contrast to the Broly's sinister, chuckling face in Trunks' Timeline. Hopefully, it meant that Broly would come to his senses with his elimination. And she was determined to set it right with Broly as she shed tears in her eyes for him.
"Alright."
With that, Kale began to bellow as her green aura began to darken into a red/pink complexity along with her hair as her irises turned silver before her own green energy blast turned bright pink as she yelled out. As she did, Broly was caught off guard as he widened his eyes with panic becoming more apparent in his face amber irises returning before Caulifla spoke up to her.
"Heh! Trying to show off by going Pink, huh? Well, I'm not gonna let you outshine me! Now, one last push!"
With that, the fusion of the Galick Cannon, Crush Cannon, and the Resist Blast overpowered the Gigantic Catastrophe as Broly could only watch, stricken with panic as the blasts went towards him. Hit, however, had other plans as suddenly, the flailing Broly froze up before time resumed and he reappeared in a different setting of the arena as Broly began to flail around, only for his Super Saiyan aura to dissipate before he looked to see Caulifla and Kale standing up, the both of them in their godly forms as the assassin that saved him from elimination before Kale hugged Broly tightly.
In the end, Kale came through for Broly and seethed his rage, but there's no time to rest, for the battle rages on, now!
First, it showed Goku and Black engaging each other as they clashed with their elbows, creating shockwaves before proceeding with punches and kicks as they spoke to each other with the former speaking first.
"Exactly whose side are you on, Black? Don't you have a family to look after?"
"What family? You owe me payback for our humiliation, Saiyan!"
Hearing about this, Goku then noticed his outfit, seeing the long sleeves from him as opposed to the Black that had a similar Gi he wore when first achieving Super Saiyan Azure in his time as he realized which Black he actually was.
"Oh, I get it. You must be the other Black. Honestly, I was looking forward to fighting you."
"Don't look so excited; pretty soon, you'll by flying off this arena!"
In response, Goku managed to punch him in the gut only for Future Black to retaliate with a strong kick to his cheek, sensing him flying as Black proposed he'd make him do, only for Goku to use his hand to push on the ground to backflip and stop himself, only for Black to appear in front of him and rapidly punch and kick at his gut and ribs, making him double over before going for the roundhouse kick. However, Goku was able to catch his leg before he proceeded to knee him in the gut and punch him in the face, forcing Black to recover the same way he did. Little did they know that a certain Arcosian happened to be watching the fight with a deadly smirk as he raised his right hand as the two charged while bellowing at each other before he made the shot as the both of them sensed it before stopping in their tracks enough to notice Frieza standing on a precipice as he glared at them before Goku spoke up.
"Hey, come on, Frieza! What was that?"
"Just having some fun."
"I hate to ask, but this is our fight. Can you stay out?"
"I object."
This made Goku confused as Frieza had already begun to rebel against him.
"What?"
"I said, 'I object.' You see, I grow so very tired of every last person in the forsaken cosmos parading their juvenile brand of justice. And as if that weren't enough, I must be subjected to the sight of that simian! That apish countenance! THAT CURSED MONKEY MAN! Absolutely infuriating... and coupled with those condescending eyes?! Oh, I just can't take it anymore!"
This made Frieza take a moment to take a deep breath before he spoke again.
"I am terribly sorry, but I'm going to have to eliminate this imposter myself. It's absolutely the only way I have to hold on to my dear sanity after all."
While it made Goku stunted for a moment, Black only scoffed as he spoke.
"You really think you can take me on? You need to get your head checked."
"Not as much as you'll need yours checked... after I bash it in. Before that, though, I intend to show you something very special."
At that moment, Frieza powered up with a golden aura overcoming his body before he shouted with a vicious roar, turning his body golden and leaving Black confused as the Emperor spoke.
"What the...? What is that form?"
"Sheer despair incarnate, of course. Agony from the likes of which your mind couldn't comprehend. Your body will be contorted by a pain you've never felt. For this is Golden Frieza, the last you will ever see!"
With that, Frieza lunged at Black while not too far away, Tenshi and Xicor has just disposed of two warriors from Universe 4 as they fell from the arena before they turned to each other with the former speaking first.
"Nice move back there, Xicor. Kinda makes up for almost sinking the island."
"I'm glad to hear it."
With that, the two gave each other a fist bump before they felt a dark, ominous presence staring down at them and looked in the dust if debris to see bone other than a dark red silhouette of Cumber staring down at them as he growled before he stepped forward, making Xicor tense in determination while Tenshi grew a bit nervous as she'd never seen anyone so muscularly tall, or dark for that matter. However, Cumber wasn't interested in Tenshi as he pointed Xicor's way.
"You. I want you to fight me."
As Tenshi became worried, Xicor readied himself as he got in a pose with Tenshi trying to talk him out of it, considering his dark energy.
"No, wait!"
However, it was too late. Xicor had already dashed towards Cumber before his punch clashed with the Evil Saiyan's elbow, creating a shockwave that pushed Tenshi quite a few inches before she lost her footing and flew off, although fortunately, it didn't blow her off the arena as she managed to regain her footing and take a knee as she spoke.
"Whoa. How could Xicor stand up to that guy?"
At that moment, Tenshi heard footsteps from above her and looked at the precipice behind her to see Brianne and two other fighters above her, making her confused.
"Huh? What's going on now?"
While this occurred, Xicor and Cumber were trying to kick and punch each other, only for both of their attacks to get blocked. And the pace kept going before Xicor swiped Cumber's legs and tried to deliver an elbow blow to the gut only for his tail to wrap around his hand, shocking him before Cumber took advantage of it and punched him in the gut instead. As blood escaped his mouth, Lila grew very worried over what could happen as she held her hands over her mouth, only for her son to let her know not to worry as he showed a simple smile before he delivered a dropkick to his gut before during a silver power ball from his hand at Cumber, providing the smokescreen he needed to land safely on the ground and engage in a pose as he summoned a red, fiery aura around him before his eyes turned red as well before Cumber saw that flash for himself as he snarled.
"Yamoshi... you dare taunt me again...?!"
Xicor noticed Cumber's reaction and smiled before he spoke.
"Not quite. Truth be told, I haven't used this form on anyone else but Ize as no one else could possibly have pushed me this far. The last time we fought, I had miscalculated, but I won't make the same mistake. From here on out, I won't pull any punches."
This earned Cumber's growl with a glare before he spoke up.
"Since you intend to get serious, it's high time I do the same!"
At that moment, he roared as he summoned a dark red aura around him while his hair turned yellow and his eyes turned completely crimson red. Seeing this, Xicor gave a small "tch!" as he prepared himself while Cumber spoke.
"Prepare to fall off this arena..."
Before they could begin, however, they heard Brianne's voice from above.
"My fellow warriors! Attention, please!"
At Brianne's request, the 2nd Universe's remaining warriors jumped up towards their teammates as Xicor and Cumber stopped and turned around to notice Brianne, Sanka, and Su on top of a pillar as the three maidens giggled before Xicor became confused while Cumber didn't hesitate to show disgust.
"What are these bugs doing here?"
"Okay, girls, are you both ready?"
One of the warriors beside her, Sanka, spoke to her with a smile.
"This is a fitting stage for us. We certainly need a high platform."
At that moment, the 2nd Universe's Supreme Kai, Pell, grew ecstatic and shouted in excitement as Jerez gave these warriors praise.
"It's happening!"
"And now, lovely flowers shall bloom over the battlefield!"
However, the scene only puzzled Beerus while easily making Lila unimpressed and Champa flip his lid.
"Huh? What is she talking about?"
"I really don't see how that's any useful in a fight."
"The lady's right! This is combat, not a garden party!"
Meanwhile, Brianne and her fighters paid no attention to the naysayers as Tenshi spoke up.
"Uh, just who are you guys, anyway?"
"All the way from beautiful Universe 2, we are Brianne de Chateau."
"I'm Sanka Ku."
"And I'm Su Roas!"
At that moment, the rest of Universe 2's fighters joined in as some sort of chorus after Brianne spoke.
"Let us blossom and let us sing out... the song of love and victory!"
"The song of love and victory!"
"Now, to transform!"
"Yeah!"
Hearing of this, Tenshi blinked her eyes as she spoke.
"Huh? Transform?"
To begin, Brianne shouted as she did a special pose with pink hearts floating around her as she hugs herself before the same thing happened with Sanka and Su, only for Sanka's case it was a blue heart while Su's was yellow.
"Formation! Brianne. Brianne. Bri-bri-anne!"
"Formation! Sansan... Kakkun... San-Kakkun!"
"Formation! Su-Su... Suro-Suro... Su-suro-suro!"
As a pink light glowed brightly, on the pillar, Xicor became bewildered.
"I get it now. They're attempting to transform."
Beerus didn't quite find that anymore amusing than Lila as he spoke up.
"Well, in that case, I wish they'd end the sing-and-dance and just get on with it."
Jerez didn't find it his opinion to be worthy as she spoke.
"You bite your tongue. Show respect for the ritual. These ladies are summoning their warrior spirit!"
Frankly, Lila had had enough while Beerus grumbled before it showed Su and then Dyspo and Top looking on before then showing Sen becoming amazed as Zeno exclaimed with joy before then showing Sanka with her eyes closed with Baby glaring with his teeth gritting and gnashing against each other as Cumber growled in disgust.
"Enough of this already!"
Then, it showed Brianne before Xicor just as he heard Lila's telepathic message.
"Well? What are you waiting for? Blast them off."
"But I don't see any reason why I should if it means fighting them at their best."
"Forgive me for saying this, but their whole ideal about fighting for love? Well... it's ridiculous."
This made Xicor develop a frown as he spoke.
"Alright. I'll do it. You may have to wait a bit, Cumber. There's a problem I have to attend to."
Cumber can already guess who he meant as he nodded before Xicor formed a fiery, red power ball and fired it at the three ladies, interrupting their transformation while sending them off the platform and making Pell and Jerez stunted before Jerez grew angry.
"Who did that?! How rude!"
To answer, he appeared quickly on top of the pillar they stood on as he spoke to her.
"Lady Jerez, I owe you my apologies, but I only acted on it because my mother had asked me to, on the grounds that your warriors' obsession for fighting out of love was ridiculous."
As this further stunted Jerez and Pell, Xicor prepared to jump off of the pillar before he spoke.
"If you want to complain, take it up with my mother."
And with that, he jumped off of the pillar and landed by Tenshi as she sighed.
"Oh, thank goodness. It looked like it was gonna take forever."
This made Xicor give a smile at her as he spoke to her.
"I must admit, I felt the same."
At that moment, however, Brianne, Su, and Sanka found Xicor, Tenshi, and Cumber and went towards them as the former of the three immediately vented her anger at them.
"Hey, you! Now, look here! There's a meaning to every aspect of our transformation ritual! You can't just interrupt us in the middle of it!"
At that moment, Top's voice spoke up from afar before he joined in with a dash.
"Yes, that's right! When a warrior strikes a pose, that's justice! You, sir, violated the code!"
Tenshi felt he had a right to do it, however, considering the length of time they took to transform in the first place.
"Well, maybe he wouldn't have had to if you guys weren't taking so long to transform in the first place!"
Immediately feeling as though she was threatened, Brianne began to snap back at Tenshi.
"Well, what do you suggest we do about it?!"
This made Tenshi give out what she considered an easy answer as she spoke.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe make it shorter? There's a ritual for that, right?"
As Tenshi said this, Brianne looked at the two of them and had a question in her mind.
"So, does that make you his girlfriend?"
As this made Tenshi blush out of embarrassment, Xicor became confused about that particular topic as he spoke up.
"Forgive me if I'm ignorant, but what is a girlfriend?"
This made Brianne look to him out of confusion as she spoke.
"You honestly don't know? Come here."
As she motioned Xicor to come closer, he did just that and she whispered it to him before he finally began to blush as he spoke.
"Never mind. Forget I asked."
Upon seeing this, Lila and Gine began to grin as they spoke up.
"Looks like my son's found someone."
"Yeah, it sure does. Let's see for ourselves, though..."
At that moment, they began to spur Xicor onto a certain action as they shouted.
"Don't just stand there, Xicor!"
"It's okay to hold her hand!"
Immediately, this caused sweat bubbles to appear over Xicor's head as he grew nervous.
"Will you please just leave me alone?"
However, Baby grew very annoyed at the scene and wanted it to be done with it.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH!"
Play Super Music: "A Fearsome Foe"
At that moment, they turned to see Baby charging at Top before punching him in the gut, making him double over as he spoke to him.
"You ignorant fool. You've devoted your entire life to justice for so long that you forgot the principles of the Tournament of Power. Here in this arena, only one rule exists: to survive. And if you can't acknowledge that, then your Universe is as good as dust!"
At that moment, Baby landed a hard kick in the face on Top, sending him farther away into the dust before he glared at Brianne, Su, and Sanka, petrifying then as they felt a dark, ominous aura coming from him.
"And as for you three, all your parading about love has done is remind me of how weak my people were when they were slain by the Saiyans! Do you even realize how I've been tormented by that memory?! And now you have the gall to remind me of it again?! REST ASSURED, I WILL MAKE YOU SCREAM FOR THAT!"
With that, Baby lunged at them with vicious abandon, only for Bikal to dropkick him away before Sanka looked to her and spoke.
"Nice save."
"It's nothing."
At that moment, Cumber grew impatient and snapped.
"Enough of this! I want to cut loose some more! FIGHT ME!"
With that, Cumber lunged at Xicor before he blocked his punch, creating a shockwave that knocked Universe 2's warriors away from the fray as well while Tenshi was blown away to a nearby precipice so she didn't have to fly away too far. Although, the force of it nearly embedded her in it as she found it difficult to extricate herself, but was successful nonetheless as she watched Xicor fight Cumber from afar.
"Be careful, Xicor..."
As they fought, they managed to either block or dodge the barrage of kicks and punches they each threw at each other. The moment he saw an opening, Xicor prepared to swipe his feet, only for Cumber to notice before jumping with a backflip in the air just as he would've been tripped before using a black and red energy claw before Xicor shouted.
"Kai Kai!"
In that instant, Xicor vanished and reappeared with his intention of shoving his elbow in his foe's gut. However taken aback as he was, though, Cumber retaliated by taking it and shoving it into his gut, making him spit out blood from his mouth. Despite this, Xicor attempted to go for a kick, only for Cumber to catch his hand and pull him closer to knee him in the gut before Xicor retaliated with an elbow to his jaw, followed by a red, fiery power ball that blasted the muzzle off of him, as well as his red shirt while sending him flying to another precipice upon which he crash-landed before Cumber began to snarl into a roar as he began to let loose several dark red orbs all over him, only to later find out that it had no effect as he had sent them away. At that moment, Xicor cupped his hands and prepared a familiar attack only this time, it glowed red rather than blue as he spoke.
"Ka... me..."
At that same moment, however, Cumber held his right hand into the air, creating a dark red energy orb as it grew as gigantic as the "sun" that shines on the arena.
"Ha... me... HA!"
In response to Xicor firing a blast, Cumber chucked his Désastre Eraser towards his Kamehameha, creating a very large shockwave as both fighters pushed their attacks as much as they could while the resulting energy overload sparked outward, a blend of red, dark red, and black lightning striking like bolts at the other fighters as Botamo and Magetta were running for their lives.
"Get us out of here, Magetta! Get us out!"
"Clang. Sputter. Boom."
With the two barely surviving the energy strikes, Methiop was running away, too, as one set of lightning bolts sought after him as he panicked.
"Help me!"
Fortunately for him, before the lightning could strike him, Rylibeu swooped to rescue him while avoiding the lightning before she set him down.
"You alright?"
"Yeah. Thank you."
Meanwhile, Xicor was given intense pressure as the Désastre Eraser weighed down on his Kamehameha before he pushed it farther as he yelled out, gradually rising up to him as Cumber tried to push it back in vain as his attack was swallowed up by the red energy beam as it overcame him while he yelled out in defeat. With that, an explosion resulted as a red energy ball glowed in the sky before being triggered as a supernova that lit up the Null Realm as Bulma, Mai, Lila, Gine, Beerus, Sareta, Celery, Paragus, Whis, and Cura looked on in surprise before the red light dimmed down to show Cumber on the ground with steam coming out of his body.
End Super Music: "A Fearsome Foe"
Having defeated Cumber for the time being, Xicor took a deep breath before he noticed Cumber standing up before barely limping before he summoned an energy ball in his hand and thrusted it to the ground quickly, making him disappear in the smoke before Xicor went after him and got through the smoke only to find that he wasn't where he stood previously as he turned back to normal.
"Great. He's gone."
At that moment, Tenshi piped up to him as she ran over to him.
"Xicor, over here!"
In that moment, Xicor turned to him as Tenshi caught up with him, seeing that she hadn't taken as much damage, which was hard to believe as there was a cataclysmic explosion not too long ago.
"Oh, Tenshi. You alright?"
"Yeah, I think. That explosion was so crazy, though."
"I can imagine. Where do you think Brianne and her warriors are?"
"I don't know. I know that they were blown away by tall, dark, and gruesome last we saw them..."
"We need not concern ourselves with them for the moment. It wouldn't be wise to go after them the way we are."
"Yeah. I guess you're right."
At that moment, Tenshi considered what Brianne said about her role as she spoke to Xicor.
Play Super Music: "Compromise"
"So, uh... Xicor? Do you, uh... do you think we could be a good couple?"
Hearing that question, Xicor blushed at the thought of it before he spoke, afraid of what she meant by that.
"You mean... like boyfriend and girlfriend?"
"Yeah. Like that."
In his nervousness, he saw Lila and Gine smiling at him with their winks before he cleared his throat and spoke.
"Y-Yes. I suppose..."
Smiling at his answer, Tenshi gave him a small kiss on the cheek, causing him to blush beet red as he began to speak timidly.
"U-Uh, if you'll excuse me, I must go!"
With that, Xicor took off quickly on a fit of embarrassment as Tenshi giggled a bit to herself.
"Gotcha. That's for the island, Xicor."
After which, it showed Lila and Gine's smiling faces before it showed the arena for the Tournament of Power overhead. Not long after, it showed Baby fixating his gaze in Universe 2's warriors from a precipice as they were trapped in a dome of smokescreen with Baby well out of its radius as he smirked venomously.
In the ensuing chaos, love began to blossom, but not in the way the 2nd Universe would have it. And with the vicious Evil Saiyan Cumber having met his match, he was forced him into a momentary retreat. But the threat of Baby's wrath is still to be incurred on Universe 2's warriors, next time on Dragon Ball Super.
End Super Music: "Compromise"