Chapter 26: A Protégé's Promise

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Cabba: Big words, but you've powered down. What else can you do to stop me?

Brianne: Uh.. I'll show you! Then I'll eliminate Kefla and make Son Y/N mine!

Cabba: What is your obsession with Master Y/N!?

Brianne didn't respond and instead launches an attack that Cabba dodges

Brianne: *chuckles* That was easy.

Cabba looked down at his hurt leg, a shackle wrapped around it, creeping up, it wrapped itself around him and engulfed him in a heart

Brianne: THIS IS MY BIG PASSION! IT SHACKLES THE LOVELESS!

Cabba struggled, being forced out of SSJ 2

Brianne: GREAT LOVE ENSNARES AND REFUSES TO LET GO! AND NOT THAT IT'S GOT A HOLD OF YOU, YOU CAN NEVER BREAK FREE!

Brianne began to power up, filled with the love of the members of the Second Universe in the stands

Brianne: This force! They've sent their love to me! Thank you all! I can feel your affection flowing through me!

Her body was enveloped by a golden glow

Brianne: NO POWER IS GREATER THAN THIS!

A heart bigger than the arena rose, and the heart turned into Ribrianne's body, she sprouted wings

A heart bigger than the arena rose, and the heart turned into Ribrianne's body, she sprouted wings

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Heles: Now THAT is love! As vast as the cosmos may be, I didn't know such radiance could exist!

Ribrianne: AS LONG AS THERE IS STILL LOVE IN THIS WORLD, I WILL BE ABLE TO FIGHT! I WILL BE THE HEARTS CHAMPION! AND THAT LOVE WILL SAVE MY UNIVERSE! FIST OF LOVE!

Cabba closed his eyes, thoughts of Caulifla and Kale, thoughts of Y/N, flowing through his mind

"Forfeit is a bigger loss than defeat! I won't accept that behavior from a Saiyan!"

"Set your sights higher! Pushing past limits is what Saiyans do! You have to push past yours!

He thought about his comrades in the Sadala Defense Force, all the men he had seen die, he thought of the people he loved turning to nothing, his friends and family. Cabba clenched his fist

Cabba: I'M A SAIYAN! THE STRONGEST RACE IN THE COSMOS! I WON'T LET YOU DEFEAT ME! I HAVE TO GO! EVEN! FURTHER! BEYOND!

Cabba ripped out of Ribrianne's big passion and continued powering up

Y/N: WHOA! CABBA'S ENERGY IS RISING EVEN HIGHER! NO! IT CAN'T BE?!

Goku: WHOA! THIS KID IS DOING IT!

Cabba's power rose higher and higher as lightning struck around him, his hair grew longer down his back and his eyebrows began to fade from his head

Kefla: YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS! HIM?!

Cabba's eyebrows disappeared before yelling one more time, engulfing the arena in a blinding gold light. Once it faded, there stood Cabba, crushing his limits, he became a Super Saiyan 3

 Once it faded, there stood Cabba, crushing his limits, he became a Super Saiyan 3

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Goku: NO WAY! I SPENT YEARS TRAINING TO ACHIEVE IT AND HE DOES IT LIKE ITS CHILDS PLAY! THE UNIVERSE SIX SAIYANS ARE SOMETHING SPECIAL *laughs*

Kefla: HE ACHIEVED SUPER SAIYAN THREE BEFORE US?! WE'RE SO GONNA KICK HIS ASS AFTER THIS TOURNAMENT!

The Fist of Love came crashing toward Cabba, but fueled with the power of Super Saiyan 3, he managed to hold it back

Ribrianne: IMPOSSIBLE! WITHOUT LOVE, HOW CAN YOU HAVE SO MUCH POWER?!

Cabba: BECAUSE I'M A SAIYAN! PUSHING PAST OUR LIMITS IS WHAT WE DO!

Cabba punched Ribrianne with his second hand, causing the Fist of Love to shatter. Cabba jumped up high, running along Ribrianne's arm. Ribrianne uses her other hand to grab Cabba but he powers out of her grasp. Ribrianne launches a blast from her mouth that Cabba tears right through. Cabba flies right at her face but she lands a powerful punch sending Cabba crashing down.

Cabba: D-damn... Even Super Saiyan 3 was not enough to prevent that punch.. Guess I gotta do something different!

Cabba stands up with a new idea

Cabba: IF I'M GOING DOWN, I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME!

Ribrianne: WHAT?!

Cabba ran up her arm again, she tried for the punch but Cabba jumped over it before charging at her, powering up and punching right through her head. Ribrianne was forced out of her transformation and both Cabba and Ribrianne fell over the edge and appeared in the spectator

Grand Priest: Contestant Cabba of the Sixth Universe has been eliminated. As well as the Second Universe's Ribrianne, meaning Universe Two is out of fighters.. and shall be erased!

In the blink of an eye, all members of the Second Universe were erased from existence. Y/N comes out from cover and heads over to the Universe 6 side of the arena

Y/N: Way to go, Cabba! You did it!

Cabba: I did.. I'm sorry, Master...

Y/N: For what?!

Cabba: For being eliminated like that...

Y/N: You sacrificed yourself to take out a bigger foe, no better way for a Saiyan to be eliminated!

Cabba's eyes widened, smiling brightly

Cabba: T-thank you, Master!

Y/N gave Cabba a thumbs-up before returning to cover. He needed all the energy as he knew that the final battle was approaching

END OF CHAPTER 26

BEFORE WE CONTINUE, LET ME GO OVER THE CURRENT CONTESTANTS LEFT IN THIS TOURNAMENT

Universe 6: Kefla (Caulifla and Kale), Saonel and Pilina

Universe 7: Son Goku, Son Gohan, Piccolo, Son Y/N, Vegeta, Android 17 and Frieza

Universe 11: Jiren, Top & Dyspo

Android 18 was eliminated off-screen. I will be entirely honest, I don't really have a canon explanation for how she got eliminated, but I needed her out of the Tournament for the rest of the story to work.

BSG OUT

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