Operation: Eliminate Jiren!
"If at first you don't succeed try and try again…" ~Unknown
"You appear to lack the strength to escape. How very convenient" Frieza jest with Goku who is sitting upon a rock with his tattered black and orange karate gi holding out the pointing at Goku with his right pointer finger that had a purple light that lights up the underground foundation where the taks were counting down above the stage.
"You…" Goku looks up regaining some of his strength and stamina from the purple light.
"Fortunately, this is a blind spot. No one can see us here. That means there is but one thing to do" Frieza lets out a full force blast from his palm of massive purple energy that forms an orb of light around Goku before disappearing. Goku is left stunned blinking as he looks down at the palm of his hands.
"My power…" Goku open and closes his left fist as steam flows from his weakened body.
"I have shared a little bit of my energy with you. Knowing you, you should be able to move well enough, even in your shape" Frieza turns his body to the side with his hands behind standing on a small rock so he towers over Goku looking like a ruler looking down on his subjects. "Now all debts are settled" Frieza tells him with a thoughtful smile. Goku gets to his feet giving Frieza a serious look. "I'll need you to keep working out there. Particularly, that monster, Jiren is something I want to avoid" Frieza gives Goku a sinister smile. "Well, do keep up the good work" Frieza turns his back crouching down about to leap high into the air when he suddenly changes his mind standing tall. "Oh yes, did you hear what the gods were talking about earlier?" Frieza asks looking over his shoulder at Goku.
"No" Goku replies favoring his right shoulder.
"That strength you showed earlier before apparently, among the gods, it's called Ultra Instinct" Frieza informs him before leaping away out of sight.
"Ultra...Instinct…" Goku whispers to himself. Goku forcible relocates his right shoulder. "If I can do that again, will I be able to beat Jiren?" Goku rotates his right arm working out the kinks in it.
As other fights were breaking out around them Peppa stood at the edge of a deep crater watching Hit struggle with his right fist in the palm of Jiren's right hand. Hit attempts to throw a punch with his left hand but Jiren catches it with his left hand criss crossing their hands then lifts Hit off the ground and twists him in mid-air. Jiren goes to throw a punch with his right hand but Hit counters with his Time-Skip ability to move behind Jiren to elbow him with his left arm. Jiren quickly turns around in time to avoid it.
Jiren slams his fist in Jiren's fist forcing Hit to put his arms up like a boxer blocking Jiren's successive incoming hits forcing him back. Hit once again counters with Time-Skip but Peppa notices even with moving with in a split second watching Jiren's eyes Peppa knew, Jiren knew where Hit would reappear. Jiren quickly turned to punch where Hit would reappear. Hit saw this and unused Time-Skip once again to avoid the punch. From Peppa's point of view it looked as if Jiren had punched through a mirage image of Hit but he knew what was really going on.
"So this is Time-Skip" Jiren thinks to himself.
"That guy is really strong!" Future Zeno points out. "I like him!" Zeno replies. "He's called Jiren!" Future Zeno informs the present Zeno. "That one's called Hit!" present Zeno replies.
Korn listen and becomes disturbed by how they are slow to learn the individual warriors name but quick to erase whole universes. Korn rubs his chest, his rage felt like a sickness poisoning his self-righteous spirit. Maliciousness sprouts like a seed tainting his pure heart. Meanwhile on the battlefield, Jiren stands before a bruised and beat up looking hit.
"So these are the attacks from Jiren that Peppa and Goku took. Now I've felt them" Hit turns his body looking up at Jiren. "There heavy indeed" Hit stares down Jiren deep in thought.
"You. Do you seriously intend to beat me?" Jiren asks Hit staring down from the top of the pillar.
"That's my job!" Hit answers him. Hit Time-Skips appearing a foot away from Jiren.
"That guy. He is doing surprisingly well against Jiren" Toppo talks in a low voice outloud to himself observing the fight. Toppo observes Hit with a purple light around his body as he skips time again moving behind Jiren only for Jiren to predict his movements so as soon as Hit reappeared he was struck by Jiren's right fist.
"What was that?" Krillin asked outloud from the stands.
"Hit can hide in a separate space he has created by storing the time he has skipped" Whis informed the Z-Warriors. "In the real world he leaves a phantom of himself" Whis goes on further to explain.
"How can his attacks be detected and not work when he is another space?!" Champa cried out in surprise.
"What frightening strength" Vados comments. Hit tries to Time-Skip and attack Jiren only to be punched in the face. Hit quickly recovers and tries to trip Jiren who somersaults in mid-air. Jiren then proceeds to slam both his legs into the abdomen of Hit smashing him deep into the ground on top of the pillar. Hit recovers and tries four different Time-Skips only to be struck each time with ease by Jiren. Hit tries one more time only to be knocked away by Jiren.
"He's completely adapted to my Time-Skip" Hit notes to himself as he flies back. Hit time skips again only to be hit by a charging Jiren. Then Hit tries one more time only to be grabbed by the throat from Jiren and tossed into the ground. Hit Time-Skipped again to avoid hitting the ground only to be knocked away by Jiren.
Hit tried to Time-Skip again but was backhanded away by Jiren. Jiren counters Hit's Time-Skip ability six more times then lays in on Hit with a series of punches then gives a powerful kick and sends a bruised Hit flying back.
"Not a single attack of Hit has worked on Jiren" Vados points out to the Universe 6 stands.
"Oh dear, oh dear" Fuwa panics grabbing his head. Champa next to him clenches his fist in shock at seeing Hit being completely dominated by Jiren. Khai and Belmod watch pleased as Universe 6 and 7 despair. Universe 2 just watches with silent expressions.
"Then why does he keep using Time-Skip?" Champa asks Vados.
"Oh dear, oh dear" Fuwa continues to panic.
"That's true. Why would someone like Hit keep using Time-Skip when it doesn't work?" Shin wonders. They watch Hit try six more time only to be struck by Jiren each time.
"How many times will you repeat this? Stop wasting time" Jiren demands of Hit in a bored and annoyed tone.
"This is my job! You'll be joining me till the end!" Hit replies.
"Jiren hasn't got an opening" Peppa talks to himself leaping on top of a high place a safe distance from the Jiren and Hit fight. Unknown to him the two namekians from Universe 6 sneak up on Peppa.
One of them was Saonel is a very tall and well-muscled man. Seemingly customary for Universe 6 Namekians, his skin is pine green in color as opposed to the standard green of youthful Universe 7 Namekians. Overall, Saonel looks very similar to Piccolo, except with a smaller nose and somewhat broader jawline. His clothing is similar to Nail's, consisting of beige pants, dull brown boots, and a long flowing turquoise vest. His vest is secured by a yellow sash tied in a knot at his left hip.
The other namekian was Pirina, He is considerably taller than his teammate Saonel. His skin is a pine green color instead of the standard green color of Namekians. Pirina's outfit consists of a long, dark brown vest with a beige sash tied around the midsection, black underwear, white gloves, and brown boots.
Pirina and Saonel take aim with their hands at the back of Peppa with the intent to blast him off the stage out of revenge for what he did to Piccolo the namekian of Universe 7. They fired two powerful ki blast toward the back of Peppa who quickly turned around caught off guard and with no time dodge Peppa was left furious for letting his guard down. As the beams drew close to Peppa, Ribrianne appeared on the right hand side and Rozie appeared on the left. They both swatted the beams away from Peppa. Peppa was taken back by their sudden intervention.
"What?" Saonel said in surprise.
"Peppa, focus on Jiren! We got this!" Ribrianne and Rozie land on the ground squaring off with Saonel and Pirina. Peppa just nods and turns back to the Jiren and Hit fight. His heart starts to soften more toward his teammates usefulness to him.
"You'll be fighting…" Rozie smiles.
"Against us!" Ribrianne smirks.
"You're the other warriors of that monkey's universe…" Saonel looks annoyed.
"How annoying...to get to him we got to go through you two…" Pirina lets out a heavy sigh. Both pairs of warriors charge one another not knowing their fight will lead to a great tragedy. Pirina slides to a stop firing a massive beam Ribrianne crosses her arms then quickly brings up her green heart arrow firing them at the beam to act like a barrier. Pirina scuffs letting out a yell increasing the size and power of his beams. Ribrianne could not stay the attack as it broke throw her arrow barrier and blew her back against the pillar.
Ribrianne lets out a scream as the dust settles around her. Peppa turned around to see Rozie in the distance fist fighting Saonel while below him Ribrianne was just getting started on Pirina. Ribrianne jumped to her feet with her her pink aura appear around her as she somersaults into her spinning cannonball attack.
"A pathetic attack like that wont work on me!" Pirina scolds Ribrianne. He continues to rapid fire but is annoyed when Ribrianne dodges the attacks only to be hit by one and goes tumbling through the air. Pirina closes in and throws a series of punches forcing Ribrianne to block before getting knocked into the side of another pillar. Pirina closes in for the finishing blow but just below Rozie unleashes a powerful Yacchina Fist knocking Saonel back then leaps corkscrew kicking Pirina in his left side sending him away.
"Oh Rozie!" Heles says lovingly as her and Pell lock hands looking down on the fight with star struck eyes. Peppa turns back to the Jiren and Hit waiting for an opening, he is confident Ribrianne and Rozie will be fine against the lowly insects. Plus, Jiren warranted his undivided attention, so Peppa will trust the bugs to Ribrianne and Rozie.
"I shall protect Ribrianne!" Rozie proclaims.
"You little…!" Pirina was furious with Rozie's interference. Saonel leaps on to a high place that looked down on both of them holding out his hands firing a volley of ki blast at the girls. When the dust cleared both Ribrianne and Rozie had made the escape under the cover of dust.
"They ran off!" Pirina leaps up on the high pillar they were standing on looking around. Pirina and Seonel leap from pillar to pillar looking for Ribrianne and Rozie. Below the pillars in a hidden cove Ribrianne and Rozie watches Pirina and Seonel leap around from the pillars.
"Are you alright, Ribrianne?" Rozie looks over to Ribrianne who had a serious look on her face.
"Rozie can we really win this?" Ribrianne speaks with fear and doubt behind her voice with how strong the remaining warriors are. She then flashes back to how Jiren easily beat Peppa who up to this point been terrorizing and making sport of the warriors he came across. Now Peppa is struggling greatly. She didn't want to admit it but her confidence in their universe's ability to win had been shaken. "Where in the lead right now, but it wont be long before we become targeted by the other universes until Universe 2 is losing more then the other universes at this rate-" Rozie slaps Ribrianne.
"You fool!" Rozie said with an annoyed tone.
"Rozie" Ribrianne favors her left sided cheek.
"Is this really the extent of your love?!" Rozie demanded pointing to Peppa, who even though he is outmatched has not given up because his love for the ultimate challenge. Despite his evil he is showing his love not only for fighting but for his universe by not giving even an inch to fear and doubt. "Remember! Love is stronger! And bigger!" Rozie reminds Ribrianne and hugs herself with watery eyes.
Ribrianne looks at Rozie then up at Peppa in the high place looking down at Jiren and Hit fighting. His back to them, the sun of the void shadowing him and his tail wiggling around everywhere. Peppa's love for their universe and the art of fighting was inspiring to her.
"Th-The power of love…" Ribrianne eyes water. She thinks to Korn enduring efforts to defeat each of his opponents with point blank energy based attacks. Despite his grieving heart at the situation their in, Korn still endured out of love for fighting and their universe. "Your right Rozie!" a new resolve burned within the heart of Ribrianne at the displays of Love from her various teammates remembering how they rallied to protect one another out of love and loyalty. "If we can't believe in love then who can?" Ribrianne motivated herself and psyched herself up. "Thank you Rozie!" Ribrianne tells her.
Jiren slams his fists into Hit then uppercuts Hit who flies back smashing through a stone slab hitting the ground underneath. A safe distance away Caulifla and Kale watch on with intent looks as their joined by Cabba. Peppa is seen jumping from his high place landing next to Caulifla. They glance over to him and nod. Peppa respectfully returns the nod. On another high place across the stage where the fight is happening they could see Goku in the prone position like them studying the fight against Jiren intently.
Korn could be seen on another high place just standing erect his head bowed his eyes close as Hermilla and Plum provide cover keeping other warriors away from him with Vikal flying over head to warn him. He like the other saiyans was studying Jiren in his own way, looking for an opening or a weakness in Jiren.
"That Jiren guy really has Hit on the ropes" Caulifla points out the group of saiyans with her. "He's seriously in trouble" Caulifla lets out an annoyed sigh looking over at Peppa who was also defeated by Jiren. "It's time for us to join in"Caulifla ruffles her hair and starts to walk toward the fight. Peppa didn't like the idea of ganging up on one warrior but given the overwhelming power of Jiren Peppa was willing to put that aside if it meant defeating him.
"Wait please" Cabba holds up his left hand signaling them to stop. Caulifla, Kale, and Peppa give an inquiring look over to Cabba. "Hit seems to have a plan" Cabba mentions. They take another look, then at the fight.
"What do you mean?" Caulifla says in a shocked tone.
"Hit is making sure to block whenever Jiren is hitting him" Cabba replies. Peppa takes a closer look at Hit and realizes what Cabba is saying is the truth. "His damage should be minimal. He must be waiting to strike back" Cabba also adds. Peppa narrows his eyes wondering what Hit's plan is.
"I've memorized the timing of his counters with my body. It's time to finish my job" Hit mutters to himself struggling to get back to his feet. Peppa respected and admired his determination. Hit sends a gust of distorted purple energy toward Jiren. Jiren holds up his right hand as the wave of fluid energy parts around him. Hit Time-Skips behind Jiren who quickly turns around to punch him with his left hand but Hit surprised everyone being quicker and slamming his right fist in the chest of Jiren with that same fluid purple energy flowing out the back of Jiren.
"I needed this one hit! This hit will bind you in a cage of time!" Hit whispers to Jiren. Jiren is forced backflipping in the air landing on the ground sliding back smashing through several pillars on the stage. Jiren slides close to the edge as if he is about to fall off.
"Jiren!" Toppo yells out in alarm.
"Nice Hit!" Champa cheers with an excited Fuwa next to him.
"Such an attack is futile…" Jiren slides to a stop at the edge of the stage. Jiren looks down and notices the bruised indent on the left side of his chest, the wound quickly heals as a purple light outlines Jiren's body. Jiren was not moving, Hit had trapped Jiren within space and time.
"He stopped Jiren's movements!" Goku mutters to himself by jumping down and getting a closer look. "So this is Hit's trump card?!" Goku pounders to himself and watches Hit land on top of a stone rock that allows him to tower over Jiren holding out his right hand with a purple glow. Peppa notices Hit had a strained look on his face.
"That's our ultimate assassin, Hit! It looks like Jiren can't move at all!" Caulifla boast in Hit's power, but Peppa noticed Hit couldn't move either as he rubs the bottom of his chin in thought.
"So this is Hit's plan?" Kale asks sweating from all the stress.
"Yes" Cabba replies to her.
"Jiren, what's wrong move!" Belmod looked worried even Khai had a look of panic on his face.
"He is continually using Time-Skip only on Jiren" Marcarita explains to them. "This attack is Hit's trump card" Marcarita goes on to add. Others in the stands over hear this including Champa.
"Nice! Keep him frozen!" Champa cheers zealously.
"Now is your chance!" Hit yells out under a strain voice looking over to Cabba, Caulifla, Kale and even Peppa who makes eye contact with him.
"Hit?" Cabba gives a thoughtful look toward him.
"Leave this guy to me! I don't need your help!" Hit orders. "You got your roles that only you can play!" Hit reminds his Universe 6 warriors. "For Universe 6!" Hit orders.
"Caulifla, Kale..." Cabba turns to her as both Caulifla and Kale look over to Cabba. "Let's do the job we were meant to!"
"Job?" Caulifla gave him a stern look.
"Defeat the other warriors and lead Universe 6 to victory!" Cabba looks at Peppa who pays him no attention. Cabba shakes his head running past him leaping back into the fray of the Tournament of Power looking for an opponent to knock off.
"I get it! Let's go Kale and Peppa!" Caulifla smirks with excitement to fight once more. Caulifla leaps high into the air.
"Yes!" Kale says following after Caulifla.
"Hit gave instructions to Cabba and the others" Vados points out.
"That's unlike him. Hit always works out his jobs alone" Champa pounders outloud.
"It seems that Hit is going to use all his power for that attack" Vados studies Hit and Jiren. "He's prepared to go out just keeping Jiren frozen" Vados further adds to her explanation to the others. "What must be done to ensure the survival of Universe 6? Despite being an assassin, this is the conclusion he reached in this case" Vados takes a breath while watching Cabba throw a fast left against another warrior. With Caulifla and Kale right there to back him up "In other words, he decided that help from allies is essential" Vados finishes.
"Hit...O-okay. Keep Jiren frozen until time runs out!" Champa encourages Hit. Chamapa cheers but Peppa noticed Jiren started to resist and even move his right hand. Peppa looks at the time remaining and concluded by the strained look on Hit's face he would not be able to maintain this strain till time runs out. More importantly while Hit was focusing on keeping Jiren frozen which left Jiren open to other attacks from other warriors as well as unable to dodge and evade environmental hazards, the same applies for Hit if Toppo decided to aid Jiren.
Jiren was slowly moving forward putting a further strain on Hit. Hit glances off to the side to see Peppa walking in front of him toward Jiren. All eyes watching the fight shifted to Peppa.
"Oh no what is that Psychopath up to?" Champa looked worried yelling over to Heles.
"He is going to knock Jiren off because he poses a real threat to the universes. Your welcome!" Heles defends Peppa's actions once more to her surprise looking back down at her warrior who powers up in his base form. Then it turns into a fiery aura that reaches high into the heavens of the void. Signalling all to see Peppa has once again become a Super Saiyan God.
"I don't need your help!" Hit strains to speak. Peppa stops looking over his shoulder at Hit with those blood red eyes and his bangs hanging in front of his face.
"I'm not part of your universe, don't presume to order me around Hit. I'm going to be the one to defeat Jiren and throw him off the stage" Peppa grins evilly then turns to face Jiren letting out a roar powering up as his flaming aura blazes around him.
"Would you look at that! Peppa is far more powerful then when he last fought Jiren a minute ago!" Pell adds with excitement.
"Yeah, his power has spiked alot I wonder why?" Heles gives a concerned look at Peppa.
"The more saiyans fight, the stronger they become" Sour said in a cold voice watching with no interest in the false power Peppa was show casing for everyone. Everyone in the stands could feel the blazing heat from Peppa's burning aura.
"If your going to knock him off hurry up and do it!" Hit says annoyed realizing the folly of his strategy in trying to run out the time. Peppa leans in with a smirk watching Jiren walking slowly toward them. Peppa's flaming aura recedes into his right fist.
"Jiren! It's time for you to DISAPPEAR!" Peppa fires a massive ki blast from his right at Jiren. Jiren's eyes flash as the ki blast parts around Jiren as he continues to walk toward Peppa and Hit. The force from Jiren raw power was not only enough to split Peppa's ki blast but it was siding Peppa back with every step Jiren took. "I'm threwing playing around! Just DISAPPEAR ALREADY!" Peppa placed his left hand around his right wrist and with all his anger, hatred, jealousy, and rage the infamous Disappear attack became a massive ki blast doubling in size yet Jiren's aura kept part the beam behind him and into the void of space. "What!? No! This is impossible!" Peppa yelled out.
Jiren kept walking, the sheer force pushing Peppa back and Hit's strength started to give under the strain of trying to restrain Jiren.
"Peppa! My power wont last long enough to keep him frozen until the end! Hurry up and knock him off!" Hit strainly orders Peppa.
"What do you think I'm trying to do!" Peppa said under duress resisting against the force pushing him away. He puts his strength and everything he has and is into the attack, transforming into Ultimate Peppa. The beam doubles in size yet Jiren keeps walking forward getting more movement back with each step.
There was a bright light being split into dozens of small beams toward the end of the stage where Jiren was talking slow Steps and Peppa was trying to use his power to force Jiren off the stage while he was being restrained by the Time Cage. There was a vortex of wind Jiren blowing outwards sliding Peppa back further and further, yet nothing seems to be able to hold Jiren back.
Peppa was sliding back closer and closer to Hit on the medsize pillar. Peppa tightened his muscles and pushed forward Jiren hoping his force would be enough to break through Jiren's Glare Force and hopefully push Jiren back...but it was not, Peppa realized it wasn't enough, his best wasn't enough, giving everything wasn't enough. Peppa was deeply and emotionally disturbed.
"I can't stop him...were all going to get erased!" Peppa said in his head then he heard another voice.
"Giving up already?" Heles spoke in his head. Peppa just blinks confused but going with it.
"What do you want? I'm giving it my all and it's not enough!" Peppa speaks in his head to her.
"Wrong! What's really holding you back is yourself doubt. Sour believes you rely too much on you Super Sayian God form but this form here is your Ultimate form filled with limitless potential so show us your real power Peppa! Show us what Nishi saw in you and let it all go!" Heles lovingly encourages Peppa.
"I understand, this is the only form I ever needed, the form whose potential has no ceiling to its power" Peppa spoke in his mind realizing now what Jiren meant when he said his pride was holding him back. His Pride in being a Super Sayian God held him back from mastering this form and hitting his maximum potential.
When Peppa realized this he smiled, his power grows tens of times and the beam gets brighter and more forceful...but Jiren was still walking toward him despite being held in a Time Cage or taking Peppa's Disappear attack at point blank range. Peppa fell to one knee yelling out in rage with an echo of enraged ape in the background of his vocals.
"What's the matter Peppa? You already have all the power you need! Just bring it all out!" Heles voices echoes in his mind. Jiren peers down at Peppa studying his parted black spiky hair with the one long bang hanging in front of his face and his enhanced muscle growth the form gave him.
"I can't! I can't keep this up Heles! This is all too much for me to handle!" Peppa yells back in his head. Jiren was getting closer and closer with each step toward Hit and himself.
"Stop attacking yourself!" Heles yells back. "I dunno where you got it in your head to suddenly start doubting yourself but stop! Be the evil, proud, arrogant, and selfish saiyan I know you are! Save our universe! Save our friends and our families lives by winning!" Heles orders hoping this will push Peppa past his limit.
Peppa breathes hard with sweat running down his face. In that awful dark light before him he sees Jiren's silhouette approaching, and he sees Nishi dead on that pointed stone from Meji Zuu whom he failed to defeat and now he sees his universe disappearing in darkness should he lose. Peppa's mind snaps under the pressure his eyes turn a dark yellow and his power grows fifty times fifty times as something dark and primal takes over him.
Jiren looks down at Peppa feeling an unnatural surge in his power, the energy distorts around him and the image of a giant ape forms around his Ultimate form giving him terrifying and immense power. Peppa had become the Ultimate Super Saiyan Oozaru. The ultimate embodiment of the saiyan race and t's potential for fighting. Peppa's attack became immensely more powerful and his voice distorted with that of Oozaru, Jiren took a step back and braced himself looking on with an interested look.
"The terrible thing has happened, Peppa has become possessed by the enraged spirit of his Oozaru" Sour chimes in taking a slight interest in the fight now that Peppa is showing his real power and potential.
"Oozaru?" Pell looks back at Sour confused.
"Yeah, it's the great ape transformation the saiyans with tails make when the moon is full, but somehow Peppa has found a way to gain its power and benefits while not transforming at all" Jimeze rubs his chin.
"So this is Peppa's real power...maximum potential…" Pell looks on very fascinated. Vegeta over heard along with the rest of the Universe 7 stand, as they all look back down at Peppa.
"Try everything you can it wont work, it's not enough...your not enough...you are nothing to me" Jiren spoke coldly and with very little strain. "You never had a chance, I can feel you slipping" Jiren whispers him.
"Peppa raise your power higher! You can win this one! Take the pain of loss and make it your power! Or we will lose everything! Now is your chance! Now is your time!"Heles pushes Peppa harder, but it wasn't enough, no matter how brilliant or impressive Peppa's power and adaptation for his growth was he just could not close the chasm between Jiren and his power he needed more time, time he did not have. He could not pull a Goku and close the gap in power by leaps and bounds and this realization completely shattered Peppa's belief and self-confidence in himself.
"If you can't knock him off Peppa then I'm going to have to put all my chips on the table. Even though gambling is not very assassin-like" Hit tells Peppa who is sweating profusely under immense physical strain. Champa and Heles watched in stunned silence as Jiren was over powering both their warriors with horrifying ease. Hit leaps in the air above Peppa and where he could get a clear line of sight of Jiren. "I'll end it with this hit!" Hit tells Peppa's whose beam was getting smaller and weaker by the second, Peppa's body unable to hold the immense strain he was putting his body through.
"I need more POWER!" Peppa roars in his monstrous voice getting to his feet taking a step then falls to one knee in exhaustion.
"Making Universe 6 win is my job!" Hit yells out in pride. Peppa looks at Hit with his left eye and his right eye focused on the fight. A barrier appeared around Jiren just in time to block the attack and with no energy left Peppa's hands drop to his side as the yellow eyes return to normal and his power drops significantly.
"What? He stopped it with just his glare!" Goku gave a surprised look.
"That glare is what split my attack!" Peppa said in an aggravated tone getting back to his feet.
Jiren twists his hand reaching through his barrier taking hold of the purple orb of light that Hit was using to keep him in the Time Cage.
"What?" Hit said outloud in surprise.
"An Assassin's Pride?" Jiren says in a cold heartless tone crushing the orb of light and freeing himself from the Time Cage Hit had trapped himself in. Hit, Goku, and Peppa were left in utter shock.
"He beat both Hit and Peppa's last resort attacks?!" Champa was completely horrified.
"He's far beyond comprehension" Vados looked deeply disturbed. "This means Jiren possess power that transcends time itself" Vados speculates.
"What in the world is he?!" Tien says outloud.
"Are you telling me that even time itself means nothing against Jiren's strength?!" Shinn comments in horror.
"He's on a whole other level!" Belmod laughs out loud.
"He is in a class all his own, yes!" Marcarita smiles evilly.
"Jiren is truly the Pride of Universe 11" Khai smiles.
Hit throws a series of punches at Jiren who blocks them all then throws a bunch of punches at Hit then Jiren's eyes glow red and then dozens of invisible hits land on Hit. Hit grits his teeth in agony as the last punch forces him back smashing through massive pillars of rock on the stage.
Cabba is fighting Katopesla when they pause feeling a rumbling as Hit breaks through the pillar flying between them. Caulifla and Kale put their hands up to guard against the dust flying everywhere.
Hit bounces off the ground backflipping slamming into a pile of rocks on a high pillar. Jiren goes to after Hit but Peppa appears in front of him with his sharp white aura about to strike him with his left fist when Jiren side steps karate chops Peppa in his left clavicle bone. Peppa is knocked right out of his Ultimate form slamming into the ground. Jiren quickly pushes off the ground and appears in front of Hit to his surprise. Then fires a ki blast before Hit could do anything to guard against it.
"It's over now" Jiren hesitates for a second watching the ki blast take Hit off the stage and far into the void. Jiren lowers his arm realizing he did not need to detonate the blast. The blast explodes. Jiren turns around crossing his arms closing his eyes and lowering his head. His standard victory pose. Cabba, Caulifla, and Kale watch in surprise as Hit was thrown off the stage.
"Hit!" Cabba yells out.
"Hit!" Goku yells out.
"Universe 6 Hit has dropped out" Grand Priest announces.
"Hit appears next to Champa in the stage looking worse for wear with his head bowed and his eyes closed in defeat.
"H-Hit?" Champa stutters.
"No one can stand up to Jiren!" Belmod smiles wickedly. Champa makes an ugly face wanting to say something but holds his tongue bowing his head in defeat.
"The moment I couldn't end it in one hit, my loss was confirmed" Hit told Champa.
"Your defeat wont be in vain" Champa smiles pointing to the stage. Peppa teleports in front of Jiren bruised and beat up but stronger then ever as he powers up once more to his Ultimate form, the same form and power he and Gohan share together uniquely.
"He is stronger then when he was before?" Pell points out to Heles.
"I'm sure your work out there had an impact on Cabba and the others" Champa points out. Hit opens his eyes and watches an exhausted Peppa about to fight once more against Jiren.
"Either way, Hit's dropout is a painful loss. Universe 6 is in a bind" Vados lets out a sigh.
"We wont let Hit intentions go to waste!" Cabba clenches his fists. The taks slide down another block.
"Looks like the drop out of the mighty Hit, 50 taks out of the 100 taks have passed. The Tournament of Power is half over!" the Grand Priest raises his left hand.
Goku looks up realizing it's half over and things are only going to get more serious from their. Jiren and Peppa had paused to look up at the Grand Priest. Their fight will start the second half of the Tournament of Power.
"Half-time is over already? What a pressing dramatic effect" Frieza lets out his evil laugh.
"JIREN!" Peppa raises his power more shouting at Jiren. "Let's end this!" Peppa says in a dark and malicious tone. His white aura reaching into the heavens, the ground cracking below Peppa's feet. Jiren's eyes flashed aflame then there was a sudden explosion, a huge mushroom cloud erupted and from the top Peppa went flying across the stage. Jiren shoot like a bullet appearing above an angry Peppa.
Peppa used his right leg to kick Jiren who blocked with his left hand smacking it away. There was a sudden painful stabbing sensation in Peppa's left shoulder. Peppa reaches across his chest grabbing his left shoulder in pain. Jiren's eyes widen then he threw a hard right. Peppa instinctively brought up his left hand to block but was too slow. Jiren's fist connected with Peppa's left forearm twisting his arm around him and breaking it.
Peppa let out a painful scream shooting toward the foundation of the Taks. there was a loud rumble as another dust cloud. This catches the attention of all the Universe 2 warriors as they look over to the foundation with horrified expressions.
Jiren rebounds off some rumble landing on the ground between three high pillars. Toppo appears, his back to Jiren as he stands on the path to Jiren. The dust clears their is a small crater and Peppa was back in his base form painfully clinching his left hand, screaming out in silence. He rolled over in the fetal position shivering. His bangs covered most of his face with dark rings under his eyes, sweat dripping down his face.
"Oh my looks like Universe 2 Peppa's been severely injured...looks like a broken left arm" the Grand Priest announces with amusement in his voice. Peppa is left in the crater completely vulnerable, defenseless, beaten, and broken; both physically and mentally. Pirina and Saonel made a beeline for Peppa but Hermilla and Prum laid down covering fire keeping the two Universe 6 namekians away. Vikal flew over head scanning for any other warriors who might want to close in and try to eliminate Peppa.
"50 Taks left, half, Jiren…" Toppo looks over his shoulder at Jiren.
"Yeah, I leave the rest to you" Jiren looks around. "The warriors I'm needed for…" Jiren pauses and look up at the stands at Hit, then over at the Taks to the defeated and broken Peppa, then over at Goku a fair distance away beaten and exhausted. "Are already gone" Jiren finishes his thoughts outloud. Jiren sits down, crosses his legs, puts his fingers together, lowers his head and closes his eyes. A red aura appears around him. Jiren begins to spend the remaining time meditating.
"What's that?!" both the Zenos says in an excited tone.
"How daring! He has began mediating" Grand Priest points out. "Despite half the time still being left he appears sure of his victory" Grand Priest says amused.
"We've come this far and there's no one who threatens Jiren" Belmod snickers. "Talk about disappointment" Belmod gives a dark smile.
"That bastard, so no one else is worth fighting?" Beerus crosses his arms with an angry face.
"You're sayin' I'm not worth your while like this?" Goku says in an offended tone remembering when Peppa jokingly said it to him. Goku narrows his eyes with a tired look on his face watching the stones leviate around Jiren and explode into dust.
"Now's our chance to take him out!" Katopesla whispers over to Viara.
"Yeah, he is just begging to be knocked off" Viara replies back. Viara leaps in front of Toppo who stands between him and Jiren.
"I admire your courage to challenge Jiren. But you stop right here!" Toppo flies at Viara.
"Now! Knock him off!" Viara yells out. Toppo comes to a stop turning around to see Katopesla racing toward Jiren. Katopesla throws a hard right but is stopped by Jiren's barrier and is blown back. Viara moves to catch him.
"What's going on?" Katopesla voice from his helmet sounded perplexed. Toppo appears before them on a rock stump.
"If you can't get through Jiren's wall of energy, you never stood a chance in the first place!" Toppo explains to them.
"Jiren…" Goku whisper in a dark voice with a dark look on his face.
Jiren defeated the assassin Hit, The Warrior of Darkness Peppa, Goku and showed unfathomable strength. Will Goku be able to attain Ultra Instinct and defeat Jiren? The Tournament of Power is now half-over. The battle for the universe's existence is about to enter a new stage...