Android 17's kick landed flush, yet the boy did not budge.
Seventeen's expression tightened as the child's body began to change. "You dared lay a hand on me and my two sisters. I'll kill you myself." His shrill threat cracked as power erupted around him. Lightning crawled across his skin. Feathers punched through his torn clothes. His face stretched, a hooked beak snapping into place. In the space of a breath the boy had become a volcanic raptor, a monster bird wreathed in heat.
"Ooh, a transformation."
"And he got bigger," the two Zenos clapped, trading guesses like children. "Did his power go up? His speed? Can he fly now?"
On the floor, the newly evolved raptor screeched and dove. Fresh pain from the metamorphosis only sharpened his violence. His wings beat once and he blurred for Seventeen, talons angling straight for the android's face.
"Parlor tricks."
Seventeen's snort was ice cold. He batted casually and the raptor pinwheeled away like a severed kite, gouging a crater when he hit.
"Brother."
"Brother."
The two little girls' support plan evaporated in an instant. If their main fighter went down that easily, what good were their tricks? They scrambled to the raptor's side, only for Seventeen to level his palm. One neat blast swept all three from the stage.
"Universe 4's Caway has fallen and is out of the match."
"Universe 4's Ganos has fallen and is out of the match."
"Universe 4's Dercori has fallen and is out of the match."
Elsewhere, Vincent Fox and Vegeta unleashed their finishers together and finally smothered Toppo's sphere of Destruction.
"If that is your limit, you cannot defeat me." Godly force draped Toppo's frame and made him seem even larger. He peered down at the two from eyes the color of ruin.
"Tch." Vegeta folded his arms and glared. "It is only Destruction. I am not losing to Destruction."
His voice boomed across the arena. On the stands, Beerus tugged at his chin. "Whis, did that ingrate just take a shot at me?"
Whis hid a smile behind his hand. "One cannot rule it out."
"Brat. Boasting about my Destruction like that. Just wait until we get home." Beerus snarled, though his eyes never left the fight.
Vegeta, for his part, weighed Toppo's power and felt the grind of it in his bones. "So this is a Destroyer's might. Impressive. But I made a promise to Cabba. I am lasting to the end."
His gaze hardened. He slid one foot forward and launched. "Let me see exactly what you have become."
Blue light streamed behind him as he snapped into Toppo's face and swung. Toppo's outline wavered.
"Afterimage," Vegeta hissed, whipping his head around.
"No need to look. I am here."
The voice bloomed at his back. Before Vegeta could turn, the blow arrived.
"Justice Punch."
The impact detonated against his spine and drove him toward the floor. Toppo flickered again. Before Vegeta hit stone, a crushing kick found his gut and hurled him skyward.
Toppo stood below, eyes like winter. "If this is all, you are finished. Destruction."
Violet rippled off his palm and coalesced into a whirling sphere.
Vincent moved first.
He flashed in and hammered an uppercut into Toppo's jaw.
The Destroyer's head rang, the world strobing in and out. The sphere wobbled off course and drifted into a stone ridge. It did not explode. It simply unmade. The ridge sifted into glittering violet motes and was gone.
Vincent did not give Toppo a heartbeat.
He poured on pressure, fists falling like a squall. Each shot crashed into a nerve point or joint, each one mean and exact. Toppo stumbled backward again and again, unable to catch his balance, unable to answer.
"Beautiful. Keep him on the ropes and dump him," Beerus whooped.
Vincent's hands blurred. The air seemed to boil around his knuckles. Every time Toppo tried to raise a guard, a heavy cross smashed his wrist aside. For a long, breathless moment, the fight was not a fight at all. It was a one-sided beating.
Just as the crowd started to believe it was over, a terrible presence loomed high above. A figure appeared in the air and hurled a crackling blast down at both men.
Boom.
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