Chapter:69 The Last Stand of the Tri-Beam - Legend of gine !!

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Gine had seen several species of warriors do something similar on the planets she helped conquer, and others that had dozens of limbs to fight with. But everyone seemed to have lost their sanity at the sight of Tien doing it. Even the announcer who has kept his cool throughout the whole tournament looked disturbed. She figured it was not a natural ability for humans to do here. And it seemed to unsettle Gine as well.

Almost enjoy the tournament, she thought.

"You ready?" Tien asked as he charged after Kakarot.

Kakarot looked taken aback initially as Tien went after him, but adjusted as he learned to counter twice as many limbs to dodge.

"Never had to fight four arms before!" Kakarot said almost conversationally while he slid past punch after grab after chop. But was caught between neck chops from both upper arms. He was now down and knocked silly.

"Don't worry, this won't take long." Tien said as he grabbed each of Kakarot's limbs with a hand and began to pull, Kakarot screamed in pain as Tien tried to pull him apart. Bulma cried at the sight and the others were too disturbed to watch. Gine immediately saw what Kakarot could do but stopped herself from giving it away.

Tien looked sure he was about to break Kakarot. "It's all downhill from he-"

Kakarot's tail, which had been free to move ungrabbed, smacked Tien hard in the face, Tien cried out as he held his bleeding nose. Kakarot giggled like a naughty schoolboy after getting away with something clever.

"Your tail packs quite a punch." Tien said, regaining his senses.

"Can't beat four arms, so I guess I'll try eight!" Kakarot suddenly declared.

"He can't do that...can he?" Oolong asked with a disturbed notion that he hoped that Kakarot couldn't.

Kakarot flexed his arms with superspeed and appeared to have eight arms, Gine knew the superspeed illusion but his friends lost whatever bit of sense of sanity they had with that trick.

Both fighters went after each other with their six sets of arms, trading blows evenly until Kakarot's small size and speed was able to swing under Tien and send him flying away as Kakarot rediverted Tien's center of mass. He may have extra limbs but with the added weight Kakarot could throw him off balance.

Tien got back up after a quick countdown, but looked worse for wear. Kakarot slowed his arms down and reverted back to his quadpeddled self.

"You look tired." Kakarot said almost tauntingly, even though he too was out of breath.

"So do you." Tien pointed. Then charged without warning.

Kakarot saw this coming and slipped under him, kicking the inside of his ankle and sending him down in pain. In a quick motion, Kakarot swing up and over Tien's back and grabbed both of Tien's legs and pulled backwards while sitting on top of Tien while he screamed in agony.

The fight had devolved into them literally tearing each other apart as Kakarot was trying to pull Tien's legs out of their sockets. Tien's upper arms grabbed Kakarot by the neck to choke him, "Surrender if you don't wanna suffocate!" Tien said.

"No, I'm good!" Kakarot croaked out, then his tail wrapped around Tien's neck and squeezed like a vice. Now both combatants were on the ground choking each other with one pulling legs out and choking with a tail while another choked with four arms. Gine had to admit this was a very absurd sight.

Finally, Tien gave in first as his extra pair of arms sank back into his body as Kakarot breathed in fresh air, and continued to trying ripping Tien's legs off.

The announcer walked over and knelt next to Tien writhing on the ground. "Tell the audience how you feel." He asked and held the microphone to him.

Tien glared at the announcer. How could he have the nerve?!

"MY LEGS ARE BEING PULLED FROM THEIR SOCKETS! HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL?!" He shouted into the microphone with a mix of indignity and sheer agony.

The screaming kept building, not sure out of pain or desperation for more strength, but somehow he broke free of Kakarot's leglock and send him flying into the brick wall at the arena entrance, burying himself in rubble.

"You're strong." Kakarot said as he picked himself up from the pile of bricks.

Tien winced trying to stand as well. "That's obvious. Thanks for the stretch, I'm feeling much better. Should you get tired of losing, you'd make a great chiropractor."

"Uh, what's a chiropractor?" Kakarot asked, Tien laughed at him not catching the joke.

"You were born to fail, just like all those before me, I cannot be defeated, ever!"

"Why?"

"I no longer wish to kill you, when the time comes, avoid it." Tien said cryptically.

"Huh?' Kakarot said, but that got Gine's attention. What did he mean "avoid it"?

"Tien, NO!" Gine heard Chiaotzu cry out. What was he talking about?

"Do what? Are you okay?" Kakarot asked, but Tien just breathed, then started to float upwards and kept going up until he was a dot in the air. What was he going to do?

"TIEN, THINK THIS THROUGH!" Chiaotzu cried to him again, he sounded very desperate and pleading.

"I don't know what you are planning to do, but get on with it!" Kakarot shouted. "I can take it!"

Tien hovered in his spot, then pressed his fingers together. Gine could feel raw energy gathering within him, and kept going up, and up...

"No, it can't be!" Gohan exclaimed in horror.

"What?!" Gine demanded. "What is he doing?!"

Gohan looked at her with horror. "It's the Tri-Beam! It's such a powerful attack that can obliterate anything the user points it at. But it takes so much energy to use it that it draws up the user's own life force to fire it!"

Gine looked concerned. "You mean...Tien's going to kill himself to kill Kakarot?"

Gohan shook his head uncertainly, but grimly. "It's quite possible. Roshi said it's quite possibly much more powerful than the Kamehameha Wave!"

Now Gine was worried, she looked back at Kakarot looking up at Tien gathering an amount of energy that even she doubted that Kakarot could survive. He didn't even flinch.

But, Tien said he didn't wish to kill Kakarot anymore. What was going on?! She thought panickily.

"KAKAROT!" Tien shouted, his voice now a booming echo with the energy gathering. "YOU CANNOT ESCAPE! GIVE UP NOW, OR BE DESTROYED!"

Kakarot did not hesitate. "I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE! I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!"

"FINE! SO LONG!" Tien answered, as he pressed his fingertips together to form a triangle.

Gine wasn't sure what to do, she knew she could not interfere with this fight. But with the seriousness of Tien, and the fact that this is her only son...

"KAKAROT, NO!" Gine cried out.

"TRI-BEAM!" Tien scream

ed as a literal wave of energy as bright as the sun had suddenly came raining down on the arena.