Pride and Betrayal
"The strong live and the weak die!" ~Peppa
Frieza hides in a cove of rocks deep in thought. "Those saiyans of Universe 2 need to be dealt with before they cost me everything" Frieza starts walking off muttering to himself, "For my own sake I must defeat those rotten monkeys".
"Wow so many are gone!" Zeno mentions. "Yeah!" Future Zeno replies. "How many are gone again?" Future Zeno asks him. "Uh…" Zeno stutters. They both look at one another then over to the Grand Priest for the answer.
"Currently 34 warriors left" Grand Priest smiles with his head bowed and his hands behind his back.
"Thirty..." Future Zeno asks. Grand Priest opens his eyes looking over his shoulder at Future Zeno. "four" the other Zeno finish the sentence.
"Well allow me to detail the status of each universe" Grand Priest suggest to the Zenos.
"Tell us!" both Zenos asked in unison. "Tell us, tell us!" The Zenos demand. Grand Priest turns around with his eyes open about to give his detailed report.
"First off Universe 2 is in the lead, they have suffered no eliminations. Universe 3 has seven" Grand Priest explains.
"I'd like to study our enemies more while we still have the numbers, especially Universe 11's Jiren. There are still so many mysteries about him" Ea tells them adjusting his glasses. Ea is a short, blue-skinned Shinjin with a single large bang swept to the left, oval eyes, red glasses, green potara, and wears a brown, yellow, pink, light and navy blue colored Kaioshin outfit with white boots. "This is a job for Maji Kayo and his extraordinary body" Ea states to his universal members in the stands.
"Next is Universe 4, their remaining number is four. Universe 6 the third most with seven warriors. Universe 7 has four remaining-"
"Goku's place is not doing so well" Zeno frowns showing a distinct emotion.
"Their formation fell apart, there not covering each other as efficiently as Universe 2 is doing. This doesn't look good for us. Victory seems far away" Shin looks over at Beerus who was silent.
"Did you hear how many Universe 4 has left?" Beerus asks them.
"Yes, Grand Priest said they had four" Shin replies looking over at the stands for Universe 4. "They only have six on the bench so that makes ten warriors total" Shin accounts for their warriors. Krillin has an epiphany turning his head toward Beerus.
"We've only seen eight since before the start of the tournament, haven't we?" Krillin asks the group.
"Yes, I sensed a faint presence then but never saw anyone" Tien replies to Krillin.
"That's a problem, I hear many of Universe 4's warriors have special abilities" Whis informs them. "They might try something at a pivotal moment" Whis warns them. Shin had a freaked out look and the others looked anxious.
"Damn it, where are the last two!" Beerus openly freaks out with sweat running down his face. "What is Quitela up to?" Beerus eyes the relaxed Quitela from afar.
"And lastly, Universe 11 has two warriors left. Universe 2, 3, and 6 have the numeric advantage" Grand Priest finishes giving the status report to the Zenos.
"I see" Zeno replies to him.
"We have two left. We are at a slight disadvantage in number, yes" Marcarita inquires. Marcarita is a tall female angel, she greatly resembles Vados but she kept her hair as twin ponytails with a small bang on each of her forehead. She wears the standard angel attire, with purple sleeves, a black cuirass with the same orange and white decorations as Belmod, and a red sash. Like other angels she wields a scepter with a floating gem on it.
"The remaining warriors, with Jiren at the top, are our universe's strongest two" Belmod adds. "It's not about numbers. Quality or quantity right?" Belmod smirks.
Belmod is a tall pale humanoid of scrawny build with a resemblance of a clown - in that he has white skin, a mostly bald head with two large puffs of orange hair exuding on each side, a large red round nose, and big red lips. He has a thick vertical blue line running over both his eyes each which have thick black out-linings. Belmod wears a multicolored pink and blue variety of the traditional God of Destruction attire.
"Plus Jiren and Toppo have almost no damage. Were probably at an advantage" Khai reminds everyone. Khai is a short Shinjin with lavender skin and black eyes. His white hair is styled in a slicked back mohawk and he is wearing gold and green Potara earrings. His Supreme Kai garb consists of a red vest with yellow trimming, a green long-sleeved shirt, black baggy pants, a blue sash tied around his waist and a cloth underneath his vest of the same color. He also wears plain white Supreme Kai boots.
Jiren stands with Toppo among the barren landscape. His arms are crossed and his head bowed with his eyes closed. Jiren is a tall, very muscular humanoid with an appearance similar to the folkloric aliens known as the Greys. He has gray skin, big round black eyes enlarged pupils and nostrils in place of a full nose. He wears the uniform of the Pride Troopers consisting of a red, spandex-like suit with black sections around the collar and legs, white gloves and white boots. He hears a sound and decets a faint power level getting closer to him. Jiren lifts his head and opens his eyes.
"What is it Jiren?" Toppo asks taking note of Jiren lifting his head and opening his eyes.
"It's coming" Jiren warns Toppo in a cold commanding voice. Maji Kayo appears behind Jiren seeking to devour him in his gel-slime slime body. Toppo turns around seeing Maji Kayo about to engulf Jiren who does not even flinch. Toppo leaps forward kicking Maij Kayo.
"I'll take this one" Toppo tells him. Maij Kayo hits the ground hard breaking up the gravel and dirt sliding into a pillar of rocks. He staggers getting back to his feet. "Justice Flash!" Toppo aims his right hand like a gun and unleashes a volley of ki blast upon the defenseless Maji Kayo. "A sneak attack how cheap" Toppo spits on the ground. "Seems more and more warriors are taking a page out of Peppa's playbook" Toppo says with disgust. Jiren casually walks up behind him but remaining a safe distance behind Toppo.
"D-don't shot!" Maji Kayo pleads in a child like voice splattered across what's left of the pillar. Peppa watched disturbed by Maji Kayo, he is reminded him Meiji Zuu from their universe. Peppa quickly shook his head the last thing he wanted to think about was that dark moment in his life when Korn and Him thought the worst was over when they defeated Garlik. Only to be dead wrong when Meiji Zuu appeared.
"He has a strange body" Toppo mentioned to Jiren who remained silent. Toppo ran forward jumping in the air yelling out Justice Kick as he put the bottom of his boot to Maji Kayo's face. Maji Kayo gave a look of defeat across his face which suddenly turned into a wicked smile.
"Just kidding" Maji Kayo tells Toppo wrapping his body around Toppo and slamming him into the ground around breaking up the dirt and gravel beneath Toppo with his own body. Khai and Belmod look on shocked.
"What?" Belmod watched Maji Kayo wrap himself around Topo tightly.
"S-Seriously?!" Toppo struggles beneath Maji Kayo.
"Seriously" Maji Kayo reforms over Toppo more bulkier then before. His childlike appearance gone replaced with a more adult appearance.
"Well done Maji Kayo!" Ea laughs from Universe 3 stands. "The man with the extraordinary body!" Ea strikes a pose with his hands pointed out in opposite directions.
"He regenerated his obliterated body in an instant!" Belmod said in a dark tone not amused.
"There was no trace of any damage left" Khai pointed out. Caulifa and Kale noticed Peppa stood there deeply disturbed, clenched fist and glowing dark yellow eyes. His power was rising to the surface. Watching Maji Kayo and they way he fought, moved, and regenerated brought up traumatic memories for him of Meiji Zuu…
"Stand aside monkey, I have come for the power of the goddess" Meiji Zuu orders Peppa to step aside who stood protectively in front of the West Supreme Kai.
Meji Zuu had green slimy skin with white baggy white pants ending in black boots with similar yellow pattern ending in grayish brown shoes. He retains the M-symbol belt of his previous form.
Unlike Meiji Zuu's obesity and Evil Zuu's thinness, Super Zuu is muscular, and much taller than both of the previous forms of himself. He is also much more humanoid, having a muscled, well proportioned body, shown often as he is shirtless. Nishi, The West Supreme Kai and Peppa stood alarmed.
"Huh?" Nishi felt Peppa grab her left arm and start running with her.
"Come on!" Peppa demanded wanting to desperately protect her. Peppa's clear white aura appeared around him and Nishi as they flew away. "Don't worry, I'm confident in my speed" Peppa resassure's Nishi. Meiji Zuu just looks up with a sinister smile. The ground breaks apart from Meiji Zuu kicking off the ground flying at unreal speeds. He quickly over takes Peppa with ease before he even realizes he is in front of him. "Looks like no one is behind us" Peppa says confidently then turns to look in front of him coming to a sudden halt with Meiji Zuu standing before him. "How could he be faster then me?!" Peppa was disturbed and alarmed.
"Time to die!" Meiji Zuu yells out throwing a fast right but Peppa instinctively dodges flying down to the ground with Nishi. Meiji Zuu glides down to the ground like a god descending to the earth. Peppa steps forward with clenched fist ready to fight.
"Peppa no! Zuu has absorbed the other three Supreme Kais, leaving only me and Pell who fled! You can't win! He has the power of three gods within him!" Nishi pleads.
"It's a good thing I'm a Super Saiyan God!" Peppa yells out powering up in his base form raising his power to be equal to that of a regular Super Saiyan. Ever since the Battle with Garlik, Peppa has not been able to call forth the power of a Super Saiyan God, not only that but at the time his body could not handle the strain that form put on his body and almost died.
Ever since then, Nishi has been doing special training and conditioning for Peppa, even going so far as to unlock his true potential through a ritual not unlike that of Old Kai in Universe 7 in an attempt to try and build his body up to the level where it could handle the strain the Super Saiyan God form places on the body. Up until this point, Peppa had not been able to go Super Saiyan God.
"Your power is laughable" Meiji Zuu mocks Peppa. Peppa gets angry and yells out more raising his power with lighting flowing around his body. His power was greater then that of a Super Saiyan 3 in his Ultimate Super Sayian form. The only difference was his hair was a darker shade black, the spikes in his hair were more defined and his four bangs that hung over his face grew longer.
"Do yourself a favor and stand aside so that I may consume the life force of the Kaioshin behind you and become an even more powerful god!" Meiji Zuu orders Peppa. That disregard toward Peppa's power mixed with his imminent threat to kill Nishi pushed Peppa over the edge for it was a strike on his pride. Peppa roars raising his power-up to the maximum his body can handle at that time which was equal to that of a Super Saiyan God.
"Your power is impressive but not good enough, you'll never be good enough to beat me!" Meiji Zuu mocked him. Nishi just watched Meiji Zuu smirk not even worried in the least.
"Peppa don't fight him! Unless you can become a Super Saiyan God you don't stand a chance in your Ultimate form! It's Power can't be controlled, yet at your current level! Fall back!" Nishi pleaded. She didn't want to lose Peppa she put too much time and effort building him up into the warrior he was.
Nishi never came across someone with potential like him. She had big plans for both Peppa and Korn after what she pulled off with them against Garlik. She couldn't lose him now and she realized he couldn't lose her his teacher. They were doomed because Peppa was too proud to back down.
"You want Nishi you'll have to go through me!" Peppa proclaimed, flying forward in a rage. Peppa flew inches in front of Meiji Zuu but pulled his punch as his body forceable dodged on his own missing the fast unseeable right hand of Meiji Zuu. Peppa spun and whipped around behind Meiji Zuu. Perppa brought his right hand down hard but Meiji Zuu used his right hand over his head catching Peppa's fist. The ground broke under Meiji Zuu but his body didn't even flinch.
Peppa tried to pull his fist back but couldn't, instead Meiji Zuu flipped him over head and slammed him so hard into the ground he created a crater that kicked up alot of dirt. Peppa slides forward turning over pushing off the ground getting back to his feet only to be face to face with Meiji Zuu. Meiji Zuu flicked Peppa in the forehead, Peppa shot back tumbling into the ground creating small craters in the lush vibrant grassland. Peppa rolled over and kicked off the ground flying high into the air.
"Peppa, please just stop!" Nishi pleaded with tears in her eyes but her words fell on deaf ears. Peppa was flying irregular in the air. His eyes closed and blood running down his lips. He shook his head regaining his composure. He was breathing hard, he wipes the blood from his lips looking at it then back at Meiji Zuu with a burning hatred in his eyes.
Meiji Zuu taunts with a bring it on gesture with his right hand. Peppa's pride was wounded further because of the callous look on Meiji Zuu. He didn't even take Peppa seriously and why should he, Meiji Zuu had absorbed three of the supreme kaioshins, he was basically a self-created god. Peppa got really mad and powered-up once more. He flew hard and fast striking at Meiji Zuu with a flying kick. Meiji Zuu dodged at the last second as the ground erupted in dust and flying debris.
Peppa flew from the cloud of sut throwing a fast right, then a fast left missing Meiji Zuu both times. Peppa throws another left, right, and a kick only to be easily evaded by Meiji Zuu. Peppa powers-up more in frustration throwing lightning fast punches and kicks but all miss their mark. On the last punch Peppa threw Meiji Zuu simply jumped on the top of Peppa's fist then up and over him twisting around in the air landing behind Peppa.
The force in which Meiji Zuu leapt off of Peppa's fist sent his whole body crashing into the ground breaking it up and shooting dust in the surrounding area. Meiji Zuu tilted his head and smiled at Nishi took a defensive fighting stance with a sweat drop going down the side of her head. Just then another surge of power could be felt as the dust dispersed an an enraged Peppa leapt up behind Meiji Zuu about to strike him with his right fist.
Nishi's eyes widen as the image of great ape Oozaru appeared behind Peppa as he threw the punch roaring in an inhuman voice and glowing yellow eyes. "Fist of Oozaru!" Meiji Zuu leapt up evading at the last second. Peppa struck the ground so hard he created a massive crater kicking up a mushroom cloud of dust. The resulting shockwave and sheer force of the punch could be felt as an earthquake on the other side of the planet.
When the dust cleared Peppa just stood there with a bloody right fist being held in his left arm. His clear white aura blazed around him. His body trembled and he had a freaked out expression. Meiji Zuu's body stretched unnaturally slithering past Peppa who turned around to see the stretched out body only to fail to react to Meiji Zuu who twisted his body up and placed his left hand on Peppa's shoulder pushing him into the ground.
For Nishi, witnessing she saw Meiji Zuu tap him on the shoulder then it was like the invisible Hand of God just slammed Peppa into the ground like someone swatting a fly. The crater deepened and sunk further into the earth. Peppa laid their unconscious with a dislocated shoulder practically buried among the rubble.
When Peppa regained consciousness he was in great physical pain. He reached over with his left hand to put pressure on his right shoulder. When he opened his eyes, it was dark, thick grey clouds filled the sky. Rain drizzled down on him in the muddled crater.
Peppa sat up feeling the ran run down his body, his clothes were soaked along with his saiyan armor. He struggled to get to his feet, he staggered like a drunkard. Heavy black rings hung under his eyes. He looked around calling out for Nishi but neither her nor Meiji Zuu could be found. The once lush and green grassland was a barren wasteland field with the scars of battle. Peppa walked across the barren fields to the battered mountains.
When Peppa got their he was utterly amazed at the damage. One mountain had been reduced to rubble and the other looked as if someone had been slammed through it repeatedly. Peppa struggled to fly, but he swayed and blew with the wind. Till he found what he was looking for a hole in the side of a mountain. He flew down and walked the hallowed cavern and there among the crystal waters a small island acove in which the light of the waxing moon shun. There on a stone pillar Nishe laid arch back beaten, broken, and impaled through the chest. Her blood littered the ground.
Peppa stood there for a long time in shock and silence, He was processing what he saw and realizing the depth and magnitude of his failure. Tears ran down his cheeks. He fell at her with clenched fists slamming them into the cold hard ground cracking it. He started to breath hard, his eyes turned a deep dark red. He leaned back and screamed out in unspeakable rage.
When he was done screaming he looked down at his reflection in the waters. A flaming aura blazed around him. His hair, eyebrows, and eyes were all a deep dark red color. He had done it, Meiji Zuu by killing Nishi had pushed him over the edge and so far into the dark he was able to through the pain of loss tap into it and once again become a Super Saiyan God. Peppa stood there in the silence of the cavern. He is reminded of House Poole's motto "The strong live and the weak die" Peppa stood their hardening his heart and engraving those words into his heart as the tears kept running down his cheeks…
"Hey Peppa you ok? Your eyes…" Kale asked with a concerned tone. Peppa blinked staring at her with those terrible dark yellow eyes. Out of nowhere Peppa punched himself in the face and rested his fist there to Caulifla and Kale's surprise. Peppa took in a deep breath once again suppressing his power. Peppa removed his fist from his face and his eyes were back to normal brown.
"I'm fine, just remembering something from my past" Peppa says nothing much staring intently at the fight unfolding for Toppo vs. Maji Kayo.
"You were acting?" Toppo said struggling against Maji Kayo.
"That fat belly must get you tired from running around maybe I should slice away some of your fat!" Maji Kayo smiles wickedly turning his right hands into giant shears for cutting.
"T-This guy is sick!" Toppo continues to struggle in vain. Jiren had seen enough. He approaches cautiously.
"Here comes the boss at last" Maji Kayo smiles. Peppa notices Jiren's eyes had changed color from the black on grey. Now there was an intense glowing blue ring in the pupil.
"Keep your eye on the prize!" Toppo yells out. Freeing himself with a ki blast. Toppo rolls back then leaps back to Jiren's side down on one knee. "I botched that up, I'm sorry" Toppo looks away with shame. Jiren says nothing taking an offensive stance like he was about to punch someone with his right hand.
"I was after you from the start anyways" Maji Kayo informs Jiren who shows no emotion and makes no reply. "Go on show us your power!" Maji Kayo taunts Jiren.
"Now Maji Kayo reveal the mystery of Jiren!" Ea orders. Maji Kayo keeps enlarging his arm to an enormous size. Maji Kayo goes to bring his fist down on Jiren but he quickly slides his right leg a few inches and punches the air. The sheer force of Jiren's punch ripped his fist apart and even though he did not punch him directly the indirect force was so strong Maji Kayo was hurling off the stage before he realized what had happened.
"W-with the force of his fist?!" Ea was shocked and stunned. The rest in the stands of Universe 3 were stricken silent. Goku stood in shock among some standing stones. Korn was propped up against a pillar of rubble with a dust storm from other fights blowing around him when he felt the sheer magnitude of Jiren's power.
"That was amazing!" Caulifla looked star struck. Kale held her hands to her chest looking timid and scared. Peppa stood looking truly disturbed at Jiren's display of power feeling its unfathomable raw force.
"See, it's not a question of numbers" Khai stated over to Ea. Maji Kayo fell from the sky the size of a raindrop on Ea right hand knuckle.
"Seriously?" he frowns.
"That's my line!" Ea scolds Maji Kayo. "You needed to last longer or we can't conduct research" Ea closes his eyes despairing.
"Tap!" Zeno says out loud. "He's gone" Future Zeno states. "Thirty-three left" Zeno says with excitement.
"Oh dear, oh dear" Fuwa, the supreme Kai of Universe 6 begins to panic. Fuwa is a fairly short overweight green skinned Shinjin with tall, spiky white hair that resembles a pineapple. He wears a variation of the typical Kaioshin attire; magenta with yellow lining, a light blue sash, light purple undershirt, blue pants, white boots and dark green potara.
"Shut up, stop always saying that!" Champa yells out Fuwa.
"That Jiren fellow seems terribly strong" Fuwa explains.
"The universe with the most people left at the end of the tournament wins" Champa reminds Fuwa. "So we need to do something about Universe 2!" Champa tells them. Heles shoots Champa an annoyed look.
"Champa-sama" Vados interjects and grabs his attention. Vados is a tall humanoid with pale blue skin, violet eyes, and long white hair, similar to Whis, although she wears it as a high ponytail. She carries a long scepter with a gem that floats above it, and she usually holds her staff in her right hand. Around her neck is a large light blue ring similar to the Grand Priest's. Her attire consists of green robes, a black cuirass with the same white and orange circle decorations as the God of Destruction Champa, and a red sash. She also wears white high heeled shoes with black soles.
"Huh?" Champa looks over at her.
"It looks like its starting now" Vados reminds him.
"It looks like the other universes are going to be targeting us to try and reduce our numbers" Heles crosses her arms aggravated.
"It doesn't matter, the Kamikaze Fireballs, our handpicked team with the maidens, their knights, and our saiyans will find a way to prevail of this I'm sure" Pell explains with utter confidence and faith.
Elsewhere, Master Roshi rest under some looming rocks for shelter. He tiredly rubs his eyes with his left hand while holding his glasses with his right hand.
"Things don't go like they did in my youth" Roshi puts his glasses back on.
"You seem very tired" a malicious voice calls out to Roshi. Roshi jumps back taking an offensive stance surveying his surroundings. Roshi turns from side to side but in the shadow of the rocks Peppa appears standing just inches behind Roshi. "Were are you looking?" Peppa whispers darkly in his right ear. Roshi turns around wide eyed.
A loud booming sound echoes across the world of the void. Goku turns around alarmed. One of the now many high pillars of twisted rock formations that littered the scary hellish landscape sees a landslide of rocks tumbling down to the ground. When the dust cleared Roshi was plastered on the side of the pillar.
"S-sis, bro is gone again!" Kale tells Caulifla who surveys the battle field from their hiding spot.
"Master Roshi?!" Goku calls out to him. Caulifla and Kale look in that direction. Peppa jumps up twisting in the air kicking Roshi across the face with his right leg. Kicking his old tired body free from the cracks.
"Master Roshi!" Goku cries out. Goku runs as fast as he can to get to Master Roshi but is stopped in his tracks by Ribrianne.
"I found you Universe 7! Fight with me!" Ribrianne calls out to him. Ribrianne charges at him.
"Get out of my way!" Goku yells out. They lunge at one another their fist slamming into each other. Roshi hits the ground hard, Peppa quickly overshadows Master Roshi and stomps his right leg into the right shoulder of Roshi.
"Man, that is just vicious" Heles said disgustedly.
"I wish he would just hurry up and eliminate him, these games and pranks of his sickens me" Pell comments. Sour leans forward narrowing his eyes at Peppa noting he had a sinister and deeply disturbed look about him.
"When there's little resistance, it's actually quite boring" Peppa says in a callous tone, his eyes flashing yellow. He lifts his right leg up and stomps on the shoulder of Roshi again.
"This is bad…" Sour comments with no emotion catching the attention of Heles and Pell.
"What do you mean?" Heles asks him.
"Something terrible is happening to Peppa within his heart and if he can't overcome his pain, his loss then he will never break his shell and reveal his true power and potential" Sour informs them in a cold soulless voice but in a way like a teacher instructing his students.
"His true potential and power? What are you saying Sour?" Heles gives him an inquiring look.
"Peppa's pain and selfishness is what's holding him back. He's strong, but the power he has showcased is false compared to what he is truly capable of" Sour mentions.
"You know, you know an awful alot about these saiyans. Infact when we were scouting for our warriors you were the one who brought them to our attention what are you not telling us about them?" Pell inquired.
"I'm fond of our universe and if it can be helped, I'd rather it not get erased" Sour tells them coldly but in a way they know exactly where he stands when it comes to the survival of their universe over everything else that is going on. That was all that needed to be said. Heles and Pell nod looking back down at Peppa not liking his actions but trusting in Sour's judgement of him.
"I-I get it, you only go after weakend warriors one by one like this. Your no saiyan warrior!" Roshi mocks. This gets under Peppa's skin. Peppa had a twisted look on his face. While Peppa is distracted Roshi pulls out a thumb size jar like item. "Your methods are as twisted as ever" Roshi says under pain of duress. Peppa keeps stomping on on Roshi's right shoulder.
"Old people think they know it all just because they have been around longer. Just shut up" Peppa scolds Roshi in a cold dark voice. "It's time for you to leave the stage" Peppa smiles wickedly.
"Something has truly disturbed Peppa. I wonder if it was the way Maji Kayo fought? Or the overwhelming force of Jiren that has disturbed him so?" Sour ponders out loud. Heles and Pell look at Sour who says nothing more on the subject. Heles and Pell look at one another then back down at a deeply troubled Peppa.
Peppa leans forward to throw a fast right when Roshi powers-up his clear white aura blowing Peppa back, lifted up Roshi and cracked the ground below him. Roshi resumed his bulked out hulk statue. Roshi threw a series of punches forcing Peppa back. Peppa brought up his arms to block learning Roshi's attack pattern then his body started to dodge all on it own. Peppa just smiled wickedly. Peppa quickly got bored of this side stepping then ran the palm of his left hand up striking the chin of Roshi standing erect looking annoyed. Roshi's aura disappeared then is quickly roundhouse kicked by Peppa. Roshi goes flying into a standing rock smashing through it kicking up dust everywhere.
"This isn't fun. I need a more challenging opponent" Peppa says boredly. The dust clears and Roshi stands before Peppa. Peppa's eye twitched not noticing the container in between his feet. "What's this?" Peppa sighs.
"Evil Containment Wave!" Roshi holds out his hands and yells out. A blue light appears around Roshi along with a cyclone of green swirling energy around them. Peppa is alarmed when he finds out quickly he can't even move.
"Wh-What is this?" Peppa panics out of fear of being eliminated by a weak old man.
"The Evil Containment Wave! Yes, that is sure to defeat Peppa once and for all!" Tien, Krillin, No.18, Piccolo, and Gohan cheer Master Roshi on. Peppa was trapped unable to break free of the energy as he gets swirled around.
"S-Stop!" Peppa orders but that order falls on daft ears. Heles and Pell watched leaning forward in shock at the possible elimination of Peppa. Roshi throws his arms to the ground but winces in pain from his right shoulder as the green light hits the ground where the container is. "N-No!" Peppa yells out. Dust surrounds the area. There was a moment of silence. When the dust cleared a very tired Roshi stood breathing heavily hunched over, holding his right shoulder.
Roshi eyes widen when he sees Peppa down on his right knee his hands at his side with steam coming off of his body. Sweat was coming down his face with a freaked out look. The Z-Warriors in the stands were stunned that Peppa was not sealed away. Heles and Pell breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thats cheating!" Heles yells out to Beerus.
"What?!" Beerus look over to Universe 2 spot on the stands.
"That old man used an item in the fight!" Heles points out to the container between Peppa's legs. "If that's allowed, then healing items and weapons would be allowed!" Heles reminds everyone in a booming voice.
"I didn't hear you interjecting when your warrior was up against Quitela's warrior who used talisman!" Beerus reminds her.
"Her energy shaped the talisman! So it's safe!" Quitela butts in. Heles and Beerus marched over to where Quitela was continuing to throw out there verbal complaints out to one another.
"Our old man's attack is energy-based too! The bottle is necessary!" Beerus defends Roshi's actions while Heles tries to remove what she feels to be an unfair advantage against her warrior. "So it's safe!" Beerus proclaims!
"Its out!" Heles yells back. They both lock hands and struggle over Quitela who gets annoyed.
"Would you two get away from me! Stop it!" Quitela complains. Heles saying its out and Beerus saying its safe. Both Zeno's catch the arguing and look down at the stands.
"Out, out, out!" Heles yells out.
"Safe, safe, safe!" Beerus yells back. Both gods frustrating and getting on each others nerves much to Quitela's aggravation.
"It's neat so it's safe" an angry Future Zeno and angry looking Zeno look down at them saying to them "Safe!" he said in a scary child like voice.
"Yessir!" Heles and Beerus look up at the Zenos with frightened looks scurrying quickly back to their seats. Peppa took note of what Heles tried to do for him and it softened his heart but made him feel embarrassed at the same time that his fight created such a fuss that could have turned out badly.
"The Zenos are flexible on the rules if its neat enough, then I wonder…" Korn listens and thinks using his right hand to roll the orb of the potara earring between his right pointer finger and thumb.
"I-I can't believe he missed!" Krillin said outloud.
"Alas…" Roshi falls to one knee. Peppa stood up with a deeply disturbed look on his face.
"H-he was hiding such an attack? This old man…" Peppa turned his head looking up sensing a faint presence. It was Vegeta on a high pillar and his back turned. "Vegeta…?" Peppa says under his breath then looks down at the containment jar devising a cunning stratagem to eliminate two birds with one stone. "That was close, I didn't know you had such power" Peppa compliments Roshi. Peppa points his left hand at Roshi with a sinister grin.
"Injustice Flash!" Peppa says in a low voice hurling small baseball like ki blast pulverizing Roshi. Then Peppa without breaking eye contact with Roshi to challenge himself further to prove he was a saiyan who enjoyed a good challenge lifts up his right hand and fires a ki blast toward Vegeta who blocks it with the back of his left hand with ease.
Vegeta looks over his shoulder and down at Peppa with utter disgust. Vegeta turns around seeing Peppa looking up at him with a wicked smile that yurked Vegeta more. Peppa stops firing watching Roshi fall to his knees. Peppa lowers his hands to his side laughing outloud like a maniac.
"An attack to seal troublesome opponents away. That's rather useful" Peppa starts to walk toward Roshi menacingly.
"Get one of those Senzu Beans ready" Beerus orders.
"A healing item?" Heles scuffs displeased.
"Huh?" Krillin looks over at Beerus.
"That old man's at his limit" Beerus points out. "Be ready to feed him one before he dies" Beerus cautions the Z-Warriors.
"Well this was boring, let's end it here" Peppa stops a few feet shy of Roshi holding out the palm of his right hand toward Roshi grinning. "This will be a little brutal try not to die on me" Peppa snickers and taunts Roshi. Peppa felt a slight power increase coming to his right and quickly put his right finger to his forehead using Instant Transmission to teleport away dodging Vegeta's punch. Peppa reappears a few feet away tilting his head back with a mocking smile. Vegeta stood up clenching his right fist pissed off. Roshi looks surprised at Vegeta's help.
"I only came because that guy pisses me off!" Vegeta tells Roshi without looking over his shoulder at him, but instead keeping his eyes transfixed on Peppa wise to his tricks. Vegeta walks up to Peppa.
"It's been a while Vegeta" Peppa says in a taunting tone.
"Guess it was too much to ask that you would drop out long ago" Vegeta scuffs at him.
"Not with the existence of my universe on the line" Peppa says darkly and glares. "If you assume the same as before you'll regret it. There is no good or evil, right or wrong, in this tournament. It's survival or erasure in those terms I'll do whatever I have to, to ensure my own survival" Peppa turns his head and spits at the ground not breaking eye contact with Vegeta.
"You may have grown stronger throughout this tournament but your still no match for me!" Vegeta proclaims proudly. Peppa's right eye twitched with annoyance. Vegeta takes a defensive stance and Peppa takes an offensive stance. The two proud saiyans square off with one another.
"I have been thinking how to defeat you" Peppa narrows his eyes leaning forward. When a whistling sound is heard.
"Choo-po!" Auta Magetta breaks through the standing stone behind Peppa who quickly dodges out of the way.
"You again! That's enough!" Vegeta said outloud in a surprised tone. Vegeta turns into a Super Saiyan to do battle with Auta Magetta. Vegeta and Auta Magetta meet fist for fist. Both their punches bouncing off of each other. "Take this you big piece of junk! Big Bang Attack!" Vegeta holds out his hand and fires the Big Bang Attack only for it to be caught and absorbed by Auta Magetta.
Vegeta's eyes widen when he sees Peppa just casually standing behind Auta Magetta. Vegeta saw through Peppa's plan and it disgusted him. He got close to the Universe 6 Saiyans, teamed-up with Hit gained their questionable trust and is using them as fodder while keeping his own universe's warriors safe and conserving his energy and stamina for later. Peppa as a saiyan truly disgusted Vegeta.
"Such attacks wont work on Auta Magetta" Peppa points to the rocks in each of Auta Magetta's ear.
"A piece of junk and a cheater. What a despicable, loathsome pair!" Vegeta scuffs. "Your no saiyan!" Vegeta yells out to Peppa. Peppa turns his head to Vegeta his right eye twitching again. Peppa tightened his fist in anger. He hated when someone said he was unworthy to be a saiyan. He loved being a saiyan, Peppa was proud to be a saiyan and like all saiyans he loved the art of fighting. It's just he also likes to win by whatever means necessary after all there is no such thing as a fair fight. The winner decides what is right and wrong and Peppa won by any means afforded to him.
"You have a foul mouth" Peppa scuffs back at Vegeta. "I will defeat and humiliate you!" Peppa told him in a menacing tone.
"That's my line!" Vegeta yells out. Peppa powers-up with his clear aura around its edges. Vegeta takes on both Auta Magetta and Peppa in a series of punches and kicks. Vegeta knocks Auta Magetta away to focus on Peppa as they circle one another parrying one anothers punches and kicks. Peppa quickly learned Vegeta's attack pattern and where he unconsciously throws his punches. After a few seconds, Peppa started to dodge all of Vegeta's attacks while Vegeta struggled to block Peppa's attacks and attack in return.
Vegeta jumped back and started to hurl ki blast. Peppa smiles getting ready to block when Auta Magetta jumped in front of him shielding Peppa from the attacks, Peppa just smiles.
"What the hell Champa? Why is your warrior helping out Universe 2?" Beerus complains.
"I dunno!" Champa yells back.
"Because Universe 6 knows there best chance to survive is to team up with the universe that knows what there doing!" Heles gest lovingly laughing out loud. Beerus turns his head annoyed. Peppa leaps over Auta Magetta throwing basic ki blast at Vegeta who dodges out of the way. Peppa lands in front of Auta Magetta smiling.
"In order to knock Auta Magetta out of bounds, no ordinary attack will work" Peppa stands straight out holding out his hands in prayer but also dropping a hint to Vegeta on how to defeat him. Vegeta eye twitched even more angry at Peppa who just casually tried to coax him into doing his dirty work in eliminating Auta Magetta so he doesn't have to, to look bad in front of Universe 6. Peppa and Vegeta both dove at each other resuming their fight once more with Roshi looking on at Vegeta struggling against both Auta Magetta and Peppa.
"Dammit" Roshi said outloud. Roshi holds up the containment jar looking at it. "This attack is our only option.
"Is that old man going to…?!" Beerus looks on with concern.
"The Evil Containment Wave" Tien says out loud.
"Again?! In his condition?" Krillin looks on sick with worry over his long time Master. "Master Roshi! Don't do it! Anymore and you can die!" Krillin yells out. His words fall on deaf ears.
"I can give up this old man's life!" Roshi proclaims.
"Hey old man don't move anymore! you'll die!" Vegeta cries out showing his concern. Peppa looks over his shoulder smiling wickedly.
"This is the last Evil Containment Wave!" Roshi yells out hulking out once more. Roshi aims it at Auta Magetta.
"I was waiting for this attack!" Peppa kicks Vegeta in the gut then slides in front of Auta Magetta. The outline of Peppa's body had the same white glow as Roshi did. Peppa catches the Evil Containment Wave to the Z-Warriors horror.
"Evil Containment Wave Reflection!?" Tien sputters in horror. "Oh no! Master Roshi will get sealed away!" Tien clenches his fists in his lap.
"No you don't!" Vegeta charges at the back of Peppa. peppa's eyes turn to Vegeta.
"NO VEGETA! IT'S A TRAP!" Beerus yells out standing up trying to warn Vegeta in time.
"Here you can have this Vegeta!" Peppa had an insane look as he holds the Evil Containment Wave with one hand over his head. Peppa hurls it at Vegeta who gets swallowed up by it.
"What?" Vegeta says in an alarmed tone. Roshi watches in horror as Peppa copies the same movements he did when he used the attack on him the first time. Roshi looks down and stomps on the containment jar before Peppa could trap Vegeta in it.
"That's meaningless! I have the one you left me!" Peppa laughs out loud. Roshi sees the jar from earlier set up before Peppa. Peppa mimics the hand motions he saw earlier from Roshi and seals Vegeta in the jar.
"Dammit!" Was the last thing Vegeta said before being sealed away. Peppa bends down and corks the top of the jar giving out a mocking laugh looking over at Roshi giving him a thankful nod. Peppa picks up the jar and looks at it in his hand.
"Thank you very much. Your Evil Containment Wave is a wonderful attack" Peppa says in a sweet and thoughtful tone to Roshi. "Thanks to you, I'm now able to get rid of a problematic warrior and focus my energy and stamina on more deserving warriors who rate my time to fight" Peppa chuckles.
"I wont let Vegeta drop out because of me!" Roshi says scornfully. Roshi dashes forward at Peppa who looks uninterested.
"I have no use for you anymore! Disappear!" Peppa holds up his left hand powering-up and fires his infamous ki attack. The force of the blast slams into Roshi's abdomen carrying him past the edge of the stage and into the world of the void. Peppa lowers his hand smiling then chucks the containment jar toward the edge and into the void. The Z-Warriors sat there in stunned silence as a weakend Roshi and a very angry Vegeta appeared next to them. Peppa had eliminated two more warriors of Universe 7 bringing them down to two.
"Oh my, that only leaves Goku and Frieza for our team" Whis looks down with a discouraged look.
"Master Roshi and Vegeta of Universe 7 have dropped out" Grand Priest declares.
"Oh no, oh no!" Zeno cried out. "Goku's universe is in trouble!" Future Zeno said. They both looked at one another. "Will we have to erase Goku's universe?" the Zenos looked at one another then back at the battle field.
"I win!" Peppa powers-up turning into a Super Saiyan God. "There is no one stronger or more cunning then a saiyan!" Peppa shouts out. Peppa turns back and looks over at Auta Magetta. "Thanks for the assistance pal" Peppa taps his chest walking under Auta Magetta.
"Choo-po, cho, choo, cho-po!" Auta Magetta says.
"Yeah, I'll just assume that was payment for helping out Caulifla, Kale, and Hit?" Peppa stops behind Auta Magetta looking over his shoulder at him with a raised eyebrow. Auta twists his body slightly looking down at Peppa nodding. Peppa smirks and tells him "Then...this pains me to do this" Peppa lies with a grins and tightens his right fist his flaming aura erupts around him and he suddenly pivots and launched a surprise attack on Auta Magetta. Auta Magetta saw the image of a giant ape, the primal form of all saiyans...the Oozaru. Peppa struck Auta Magetta so hard in the chest he flew back and off the stage.
"NO!" Champa stood up in the stands looking shocked and dismayed.
"That's what you get!" Beerus laughs at his twin brother. Champa just glares down at Peppa who looks down at his fist smiling powering back down to conserve energy and stamina.
"Peppa did it again…" Heles gave a displeasing look.
"However he done it, he got rid of three more warriors, that's three warriors less the Kamikaze Fireballs have to deal with" Sour reminds Heles and Pell. They couldn't argue with Peppa's results but they could dislike the way he goes about it. The Zenos black-out Auta Magetta photo shaking their heads. Peppa turns and walks away alone in his barren sandy part of the battle stage. Caulifla and Kale watched furious with Peppa turning on Auta Magetta. When he got back they were going to give him a piece of their mind.
In the stands Krillin gives Master Roshi a senzu bean so he could heal and recover his strength. Krillin and Tien hold Roshi up gently. Vegeta just sits in the stand one leg over the other his arms crossed, head turned with a pissed off look.
"Honestly, you lot. We'll be lucky to not get erased because of your reckless and lackluster performance" Beerus scuffs dreading the rest of the tournament as much they must be doing now. "But you did well despite that, if nothing else we will be remembered honorably" Beerus smiles weakly. Peppa seeking out his next prey, he glances over to see Ribrianne with a blazing pink aura and Goku with his clear aura around him.
Goku and Ribrianne gazes locked to one another about to battle once again. Peppa smirks and continues to walk on seeking out an opponent that is worth exercising his full power against. Peppa looks toward the center of the stage to see only thirty minutes remain in the Tournament of Power. Only thirty minutes to decide the fate of the remaining universes...