The more you Care, the more you Suffer...
Everyone was watching Frieza and Korn, but while that had been going an equally important fight was happening at the same time. Right after Frieza and Korn flew threw the Ribrozie and Namekain fight and flew over Peppa, Peppa had turned back to see Ribrozie struggling to her feet while the Namekains had already recovered.
Peppa didn't want to defeat the Namekains for it would mean the end of Kale and Caulifa but at the same time he could not allow Ribrozie to be defeated and hurt his universes chances for survival. Saonel leapt toward Ribrozie but Peppa had used Instant Transmission to appear above and kicked him away landing in front of Ribrozie protectively. Pirina just smirks and glares at Peppa noticing the conflicting resolve written all over the evil sayian's face.
Peppa could sense immense power coming from both Namekians, he knew it would be suicde to keep fighting them in his base form, but he knew he hadn't recovered enough stamina to use his ultimate form and he refused to ever use the Super Sayian God form so there was only one thing in his mind he could do to increase his power and that was to turn into a Super Sayian, however, Peppa never attained this form but he has seen the other saiyans use it throughout the course of the tournament. So if they can do it, so should he.
Peppa braced himself as lighting flowed around his body. The flaming aura of the Super Sayian God appeared around him with his neat short black hair and long bangs turning red along with his eyes. The Namekains, Ribrozie, and the Universe 6 stands watched to see what Peppa was doing. Peppa's eyes turned green as his thoughts shifted to wanting to protect Kale, Caulifa, Ribrozie, and his universe from the horrific situation they are in.
Peppa yelled out not in anger or rage, but out of a desire to protect what was important to him, what belonged to him. Peppa's hair parted and became spiky with a long bang hanging down to his chin, Vegeta noted Peppa's hair looked not unlike that of his son Trunks's hairstyle when he turns Super Sayian. In that moment Peppa's heart was pure, his hair and eyebrows turned gold and the flaming aura dispersed for a sharp golden aura. Peppa took a breath, lowering his head to meet the eyes Pirina.
"At long last...I have become a Super Sayian…" Peppa says outloud.
"He's become a Super Saiyan? But why? Why not go Red like before?" Caulifa asks outloud looking to Vados for answers.
"I sense in his heart he has no desire to ever use that form again" Vados answers back. Caulifa looked confused. "I guess something must have happened to change how he feels about that form" Vados adds in trying to make sense of Peppa's choice.
"Not that it matters, from what I can sense he is just as strong as a Super Sayian as he was a Super Saiyan God…" Chamapa adds in, deep thought comparing Peppa's current power level to the other levels and forms he has shown earlier in the tournament.
"Still, his power compared to when he fought Jiren…" Cabba leaned back with a confused look. Kale and Caulifa look over to him waiting for him to finish his thought. Cabba noticed everyone else in their group was staring at him and he quickly realized they were waiting for him to follow up on his thought. "I'm just saying compared to the levels he shown earlier it's like he isn't even taking the Namekians seriously or maybe he just hasn't recovered his stamina from the last fight?"
"I wonder which it is…" Vados had an amusing look on her face as they all look back down to Peppa. Saonel breaks out of the rubble Peppa knocked him into to protect Ribrozie. Ribrozie gets to her feet but Peppa signals her to drop back and she does. Ribrozie watches Pirina approach Peppa from the front and Saonel from the side. They had vengeful looks toward Peppa.
"Quite the counter attack, I'm surprised you'd go out of your way to save someone, let alone protect them. Don't you like to blow up worlds and kill people instead...evil saiyan Peppa?" Saonel said with a righteous and judgemental voice. Peppa made no reply.
"Were glad you came to protect her though, this is perfect! Now we can avenge the namekians you slaughtered in your universe and what you did to Universe 7's Namekian" Pirina adds in with malice in his voice.
"You know you can't win" Peppa lies faking his vain bravado.
"Maybe, if you showcased the power you had earlier, but the form your in now is pitiful in comparison" Pirina mocks him.
"Even if by chance you could defeat me someone even stronger will come and defeat you in my place" Peppa told them thinking of Korn and looking over making eye contact with Ribrozie then back at Pirina and Saonel.
"Not one death of Namekian blood you have spilt will go unaccounted for...NOT ONE!" Saonel yells out. Peppa raised his power narrowing his eyes at them. Saonel and Pirina charged Peppa. Peppa held up his right hand creating a ball of light leaping into the air and tosses it into the ground causing a small blast kicking up dirt putting distance between him and the Namekains.
Ribrozie took a step forward watching Saonel and Pirina leap up from the smoke, there speed was unreal. They had already overtaken Peppa in mere seconds. Saonel was behind Peppa and Pirina was in front of Peppa. The Namekians created orbs of light to hurl at Peppa. Peppa made his Dark Saber with his right hand slicing the orbs in half and destroying them before they can hit him.
Pirina lunged forward in mid-air to throw a left at which Peppa caught it with his right hand smiling then Peppa sensed Saonel to his left about strike him from the side. That's when Ribrozie saw it. Peppa instinctively tried to block the attack with his broken left hand that was bound up in the sling Kakunsa made for him.
Peppa got side kicked hard in his side screaming out in pain flying through the air, smashing through a rock pillar into a pile of rocks on the stage. Ribrozie powered-up racing toward Peppa only to slide to a stop and leap back avoiding some ki blasts from the Namekains giving her the look to stay out of this fight while they descend upon Peppa from the black skies of the void.
Peppa quickly sat up in pain, massaging his left arm with his right. Peppa looks up sensing Pirina and Saonel. Peppa recovers and backflips several times to avoid them as they hit the ground where he laid. Peppa stumbles back to his taking a one handed fighting stance breathing hard.
"DISAPPEAR!" Peppa yells out holding out his right hand firing a massive ki blast at the Namekians who counter with a one handed ki blast. Their beams combined together and push Peppa's beam back. Peppa's golden aura blazed around him, he refused to be bested by some lowly insects. Peppa put his desire to win into his attack doubling his beams sized and pushed the Namekians beam back but when Peppa saw he was going to blow them off the stage he stopped his attack and pulled his hand back.
Chamapa, Vados, Caulifa, Hit, and Cabba were the only ones watching the fight aside from the angels, Kais, and God of Destructions from the exempted universe who all saw Peppa pulled his punch as it were.
"Peppa you idiot, what are you doing?" Caulifa looked annoyed and bothered.
"Isn't it obvious? If he defeats them we lose and we get erased. Specifically Kale and you" Vados reminds her. The group looks over at Vados. "He can't win because it will spell the end of you two. The ones he holds great affection for, but at the same time his pride wont let him be defeated by the Namekains either, and for the sake of his universes survival he can't not, not win…" Vados gives a sweet but evil looking smile.
"Because of what he has done the Namekains will show someone as evil as him no mercy" Cabba gives a serious look to Caulifa. Caulifa looks even more annoyed.
"Peppa is in an ugly situation but one of his own making and one that benefits us, for we will be the ones to defeat Peppa and make him pay for what he has done" Chamapa crosses his arms with a sly smile.
"The real question now is whose side are you on?" Vados says looking at Kale and Caulifa. Everyone in their group looks over at them wondering them same thing.
"What do you mean?" Caulifa snaps at them.
"It's clear Kale and you care about him-" Cabba was saying before he is cut off.
"We don't care about him. Yeah, he is strong and cool but he is the enemy. He was just a means to an end" Cauilfa defends half heartedly.
"Yeah, what S-sis says" Kale lies unconvincingly.
"Well that's good to know. After all only one universe can survive and since you both are from separate universes when this is all over only one of you will be allowed to exist by the Zenos" Vados reminds the girls that's their affection and whatever plans they had for Peppa and a future with him in it was doomed from the start of this tournament.
"With that said, you two should have no problem rooting for the Namekains since they are fighting for our...your survival and Peppa is fighting to end our...your existence" Chamapa reminds them. Caulifa gives them a sour look turning away from them walking to the guardrail looking down at Peppa fighting with the Namekains with Kale at her side. Both girls looking deeply conflicted.
Peppa fires another Disappear beam at Saonel who quickly rolls over onto his back leaping out of extending out his arm punching Peppa further into the air. Peppa rapid fires ki blast at Saonel noticing Peppa is shooting wildly without even aiming. Pirina appears behind who disappears missing Pirina's attack appearing behind him. Peppa raises his right fist to fire a Disappear attack but hesitates and instead punches him in the back of the head knocking him away.
"He isn't even trying to…" Ribrozie stands next to a pillar looking up at the fight deeply concerned for Peppa's well being.
"What is this half-hearted fighting your doing Peppa?" Caulifa thinks to herself. Both Ribrozie and Caulifa could see the conflict going on in his mind written all over Peppa's face. He was suffering…
Peppa fires a downward Disappear attack at Saonel but he evades it. Peppa flies down grabbing Pirina by the right ankle slams him into the ground. Peppa stood over him breathing hard scanning around for Saonel.
"What is he doing? Surely he knows there is no way he can save us and his universe at the same time. He has to choose us or his universe. Is his affection or inflation for Kale and I that great he is even really willing to jeopardize the safety of his own universe?" Caulifa thinks in her head letting out a deep sigh with Kale giving her a concerned look.
Peppa leaps out of the way as Saonel drops in on him. Peppa slides forward spinning around coming to a stop just standing there with his golden aura around him. The dust settles and the Namekains stand with serious looks and their wounds healing before Peppa's eyes.
Peppa cringes, in the form he is in now, he could not deal more damage faster then they could heal. He wasn't going to get anywhere like this, all he was doing was wasting his time and energy and by now others would have caught on by now to his half-hearted fighting.
"Let's ed this. This will be a fitting stage for your judgement and fall before the gods" Saonel tells him. Peppa just narrows his eyes.
"There will be no end for me, I have something to protect and I wont let it be taken away from me!" Peppa replies in a dark selfish voice.
"You can't protect anything in the physical or mental state your in" Pirina tries to explain to him. "You have no future with them and whatever machinations you had planned for them and yourself, surely you must see is doomed" Pirina scolds Peppa letting him know any dark future he had planned with Kale and Caulifa was doomed given the tournament's conclusion.
Only one would be allowed to exist or worse they could both lose and none of them would exist. Regardless, the Zenos sat above all and has already decreed this. Not even Peppa could defy Zeno and the angels because in truth he was weak and thus couldn't protect anything and all plans for the girls and him were just that the delusions of an inflated man, Pirina explained with his words. Peppa stood there broken and with no response, he knew it was the truth, he just didn't want to face the utter horror of it or his failure.
Pirina walked in front of Saonel using his size to block Peppa's view of him and lunges at him. Peppa raises his power being driven back by the Namekains as he desperately tries to block both their incoming attacks with his one good arm. They switch off and keep attacking at rapidly changing angles throwing Peppa off. By this time the fight with Korn and Frieza was concluding with some in the Universe 2 stands noticing and pointing out Peppa had become a Super Sayian and that he was struggling greatly against the Namekains.
Peppa lost his footing stumbling forward getting overtaken by Pirina. Peppa was knocked away, he corrects his balance powering-up more and putting distance between the Namekains not wanting to be boxed in again. The Namekians power-up with their clear auras and give chase. They would not let Peppa go. They fired two ki blasts in front of him kicking up dirt and debris to obstruct Peppa's vision.
Pirina slams his full body went into the back of a defenseless Peppa. Peppa lands in a cul de sac of rock formations looking up to see Saonel and Pirina on high pillars aiming their hands at him. Peppa looks around realizing he was cornered with nowhere to go.
"OH NO PEPPA!" Vikal called out from the crowd drawing everyone's attention. Ribrozie was leaping from pillar to pillar trying to get to Peppa in time but it was too late. The Namekains reigned their judgement down upon Peppa with dozens of unavoidable ki blasts. Peppa's scream echoes throughout the world of the void.
"How does it feel Peppa when someone more powerful makes you there plaything and holds your life in their hands and you can't do anything but watch your end!" Saonel yells out.
"Think about all the people you have killed who experienced this horror before they died! How does it feel now Peppa to be weak and at the mercilessness of others!" Pirina yells out. They stop firing waiting for the dust to clear. When it did Peppa was face down in a pile of rubble. His clothes were battered and torn, his body was wrecked with injury, the sling used to secure his broken left hand had come undone and now his left hand rested at his side.
The Namekains smiled righteously about to deliver the final blow with most of the people in the stands cheering them on. Kale and Caulifa stood there in silence, conflicted on how they should feel. Universe 2 stands were calling out to Peppa but he couldn't hear them do to the ringer in his ears and blurred vision he was experiencing.
Peppa's body was in agonizing pain, he couldn't move let alone barely remain conscious. Universe 2 saw this and grew silent. Peppa was done, all that was left was to knock him off. Jiren and Toppo watched only to bare witness for the sake of justice and righteousness. Universe 2 looked around the stands listening to everyone cheer on the heroic Namekians who defeated the evil saiyan Peppa.
They cheered and called Peppa horrible names, Heles clenches her fist tightly trying to fight how she feels reminding herself Peppa's actions brought this upon himself. He was paying for his ugliness, still Peppa was her dark knight, her warrior, the one who up to this point has been fighting tooth and nail for Universe 2's survival. Heles frowns feeling truly sorry for Peppa.
The Namekains each fire two beams each to blow Peppa off the stage when Ribrozie leaps down sliding in front of the rubble Peppa was buried in holding up a pink heart shield that got bigger with each ki blast it took in. Ribrozie holds her hands out sending her love as it were toward them. The Namekains dodge out of the way as the heart destroys the surrounding pillars and flies high into the void.
The stands let out a disappointed uproars and groans of Peppa once again being saved by Universe 2 warriors. The Namekians land on the ground staring at her with great annoyance and aggravation. Ribrozie looks up listening to all the complaining and groaning. All the hate that was being directed at Peppa. Ribrozie turned to Peppa and fired a ball of light that enveloped his body. Peppa regained full consciousness and some of his pain had dulled enough for him to move and lift himself out of the rubble.
Peppa was on his knees looking up to see Ribrozie standing before him with her back turned to him. She stood between him and the Namekains. She powered-up with her pink aura silencing the crowds as she gives them each a deafening glare. Then looks back at the Namekians.
"Ribrozie?" Peppa weakly called out to her.
"I gave you some of my own energy. You should be able to move now" Ribrozie tells him in a compassionate voice.
"Healing power of love?" Peppa mocks her.
"Something like that" Ribrozie answers him lighting sparking off her body. "I'll take it from here. I'll defeat the Namekains and bring and end to Universe 6 so you don't have to. It'll be my way of showing the love you have shown us throughout this tournament" Ribrozie tells him in a gentle voice. Peppa eyes widen, he holds out his hand to object, to say something anything but the words don't come. He just lowers his right hand and his head in shame and embarrassment. "You can hate me if you want…" Ribrozie said in a heartbroken tone walking toward the Namekains leaving a broken Peppa on his knees on top of a pile of rubble with his head bowed low...