Author Notes: This is a showcase of how strong Winter actually is.
Chapter 38: TOP-Part-21- Crimson Winter
As Winter continued to grind Golden Freeza's head, he looked up, released his hold on the golden space tyrant's head and went off.
"He's lost interest in me has he?...DAMN HIM!," Golden Freeza shouted in frustration at his defeat.
Cabba was now facing off against Chappil and Hyssop, having managed to progress to the prodigious feat of becoming a Super Saiyan 3, with its long hair and static electricity.
Chappil breathed fire onto the Saiyan as Hyssop fired ice shards in an attempt to freeze the young Saiyan. Cabba in response, generated a Ki barrier as he then rammed both fighters out of the ring with his Ki barrier rushing towards him.
Cabba sighed in relief only to be blasted out of the ring by a red Ki blast fired from an energy sphere hovering above Winter.
"Universe 9- Hyssop and Chappil and Universe 6- Cabba have been eliminated.," the Grand Minister announced as the fighters teleported to their benches.
"Tch, you got overconfident and let your guard down.," Champa said dismissively to the young Saiyan.
"It doesn't matter if you're on guard or not...I've never seen this form of Winter..., but I-I'm sure he's not going to stop until this ring is dust and everyone is tossed out of the ring.," Ro said with emotionless acceptance.
"Oi, don't look down me...," Frost said as he appeared in front of Winter, with the latter not paying attention to his presence.
"I have improved myself since my last tournament!," Frost shouted as he engulfed himself in a silver aura.
He reemerged with silver bio-armor, blue skin on his hands as well as feet, a brow ridge and smaller blue sections.
"I call this Silver Frost.," Frost said as he charged a more powerful variation of the Chaos beam, but was stopped before he could even fire as several energy spheres generated around Winter, firing at the Silver Emperor for a minute.
As Frost lost unconsciousness, another red blast flung him outside of the ring without any warning.
"Universe 6- Frost has been eliminated.," the Grand Minster announced.
"Ki attacks that don't reply on firing from the body, but rather from the Ki itself...it's going to difficult to talk him down.," Vados remarked as she observed Winter.
"Mode Change- Ace Mode.," Katopesla declared his belt glowed, his "C" became an "A" as the entire area was engulfed with a white light and soon it dimmed to reveal his ultimate state, a white suit with a platinum visor with a silver "A" on the suit.
"Oh...," Top said as the suited warrior flash-stepped at Top, who blocked his kick with his left arm and his right punch with his left leg. Top then had to be on the defensive as he had to block the blindingly fast assaults of the white warrior.
Top did a somersault as he then dodged a dimensional teleporting blast fired from Katopesla that went in and out of reality.
"Hakai.," Top said in order to negate the attack, but was quick enough to realize the feint and protected his back by generating a Hakai shield on his back to stop Katopesla from attacking from behind.
"I will take you out for the sake of my Universe's survival.," Top said to his opponent.
"I do so for my Universe's justice.," Katopesla replied, which caught the warrior's attention.
"Justice is not needed for absolute power.," Top replied as he zoomed towards Katopesla and uppercutted the warrior in the gut.
Omega Cell breathed slowly an icy breath that shattered the magma barrier of Atom and the electrical barrier of the Preecho.
The Preecho transformed into a gigantic cybernetic lion before Omega Cell gave him an intense stare that paralyzed the beast in place.
Nervously, The Preecho fired a green Ki blast that did nothing to harm Omega Cell at all.
"Before you had the handicap of me being dead, but now that I'm immortal and invulnerable...you don't stand a chance...neither of you do.," Omega Cell said as Atom and The Preecho desperately fired all of their Ki Blasts and did their unique melee combos, but none of them caused Omega Cell to budge.
Omega Cell caught Atom's elongated arm engulfed in magma with his right hand and The Preecho's electrical fist with his left hand.
"This is getting old.," Omega Cell said as he tossed the two upwards and blasted both of them outside of the ring.
"Universe 3- The Preecho and Universe 6- Atom...have been eliminated.," the Grand Minister announced as Omega Cell walked away.
Botamo and Magetta faced off against Narirama, whose spinning attacks put the both of them on the defensive.
Hit then appeared between Jiren and Sagaladoola, preparing to fight Jiren himself.
Gohan then spotted Dyspo and said to him,
"If there was ever to use what Master Whis taught me...it would have to be on you.."
"I'm not a guinea pig!," Dyspo said in frustration.
Savag and Buu in his new form were pummeling each other with their fists, hitting the other square in the jaw.
Gine regrouped with Piccolo and Burter.
"So they're pretty even right now...I heard that guy has no stamina limits...we could bag him once he's too exhausted.," Burter remarked as Buu continued to fight Savag.
"We've got bigger monsters on our hands.," Piccolo said as he got up.
"What is it?," Gine asked.
"Winter...he's in his final form.," Piccolo declared to her confusion.
"You probably might've gotten a hint from Freeza, but his kind can transform and once they become their sleeker forms, their power skyrockets...and if Winter was already one of the top competitors in his weakest form...imagine how nightmarish powerful he is now that he's gone all out.," Piccolo explained.
Vegeta and Goku had managed to knock the Trio De Dangers unconscious, but suddenly, they were spotted by Winter before they could toss them out.
"This is bad...it's like Namek except worse...," Vegeta remarked.
"We've got our Super Saiyan states...no big deal...," Goku replied to Vegeta with a smile.
Vegeta powered down to his normal state and Winter proceeded to generate his Ki spheres to hone in on Vegeta.
"You're doing great. Once you're done, I'm next.," Goku said.
"I'm ending this Kakarot.," Vegeta snapped back as he turnt Super Saiyan and began to dodge the blasts with immense ease and dashed towards Winter, who generated a red Ki barrier in response.
"Not willing to fight man to man yet? How conceited are you?," Vegeta asked as he turnt Super Saiyan 2, whose punches caused the barrier to slightly wobble.
Vegeta's punches became more intense as he turnt Super Saiyan Blue, which caused the barrier to crack and then Super Saiyan Blue Evolved for it to shatter completely.
"Final Blue Flash-," Vegeta yelled as he generated a blue variation of the Final Flash at full power, but Winter's round tail jetted through the blast and hit Vegeta directly in the gut.
With no desire to extend the fight, Winter fired lasers from his eyes and blasted Vegeta out of the ring as he flew into the abyss.
Vegeta with all of his might, grabbed on the bottom part of the arena and began to climb up the stage until he was back on the ground.
"You're going to have to do more than that do beat us...your turn Kakarot.," Vegeta said as he panted.
He's definitely not the same beast as Freeza or Frost, if I didn't grab what I thought was the bottom of this construction, I'd have been on the sidelines already... be careful Kakarot., thought Vegeta.
"Vegeta still touched the unground pillar that sunk into the ground, which is still apart of the arena. He's safe.," the Grand Minister announced.
"We're lucky that he had good instincts...not enough Ultra Instinct though...," Whis joked.
"In all seriousness, the fact he's not a total sadistic like his counterparts or lets his arrogance blind him yet is a real problem...Goku's going to suffer hell if he looks down on him...who the hell am I kidding, he definitely is...," Beerus remarked.
Goku powered down to his normal state, which Winter then immediately proceeded to fire his Ki spheres at him while doing so.
"Oi, we're testing each other out...no need to rush things!," Goku said as he barely blocked the strikes, which forced him to turn Super Saiyan in order to fire a Ki blast to destroy the spheres.
Winter then fired eye lasers at Goku, pushing him closer to the edge in order to ring him out.
Gritting his teeth, Goku turnt Super Saiyan 2 and yelled out in order to cancel out the eye lasers.
Undeterred, Winter fired a barrage of eye lasers that Goku had to dodge at blinding speeds.
Winter then fired Ki Blasts from each of his fingers to hone in on Goku, but Goku turnt Super Saiyan 3 in order to dodge the attacks.
Goku then continued towards Winter, who lashed out his extending tail at blinding speeds, which went upwards and horizontally at unpredictable speeds in order to whack Goku outside of the ring.
Goku then turnt Super Saiyan Red in order to avoid the attacks as he then noticed red Ki blasts raining down on him the sky.
This caused him to turn Super Saiyan Blue, but used Kaio-Ken in order to increase his speeds.
As Winter generated a Ki barrier, Goku turnt Super Saiyan Purple in order to punch it with enough force to break it.
As he broke it, Winter grabbed his throat and prepared to fire a red Ki blast with his right hand.
Goku then bit Winter's shoulder, who undeterred fired Goku upwards in the air.
Luckly, Goku grabbed the side of a mountain in time before he was blown away and slowly walked on top of it.
"Didn't even phase you...that usually works.," Goku said in a divine, deep voice.
"You're not going to find me the same type of enemy you have faced before Kakarot.," Winter said as he rushed up the mountain towards Goku.
"My name's Goku-," Goku said before Winter head-butted his jaw and tail swiped him into another mountain.
"You're a Saiyan and therefore I will call you by your Saiyan name.," Winter said as he fired a barrage of Ki blasts at Goku with no mercy.
Goku fell to his hands and knees as he quickly realized how much of a threat Winter was now.
Goku then used Instant Transmission, but in mid-teleport he saw the visage of a face with red eyes.
"You stay put.," said Winter as he thwacked Goku into the mountain he was hit into earlier.
Winter then proceeded to kick Goku with his feet towards the edge of the arena.
"This is bad...Old Geezer Kai...no matter how much they whine about it later, we gotta fuse fusion now!," Beerus yelled out.
Nodding nervously, Old Kai tossed the earrings down.
"Using those things...how ridiculous...," Vegeta remarked at the earrings falling down towards Goku's location.
Winter mid-kicking glanced at Vegeta with an intense Ki, which implied he would receive the same beating.
Vegeta instinctively dashed in order to get the earrings both to avoid Goku's defeat and defeat Winter as Vegito.
Unfortunately, Winter had used the glance as a trap.
He hit Vegeta hard with his tail and tossed the Saiyan Prince outside of the ring.
"Universe 7- Vegeta...has been eliminated.," the Grand Minister spoke with a solemn tone of voice.
"Your sense of camaraderie sickens me.," Winter said in a distorted deep voice.
Gine then flew towards Goku's location out of a mother's instinct and grabbed the earrings and her son before Winter could kick him out.
If Vegeta can't fuse...then I'll have to., thought Gine as she flew towards a part of the ring where no one would interfere.
Next Chapter: Gine and Goku fuse in order to fend off Winter