>>5208961And… Vegeta actually looks thrilled, to your surprise. That’s… kinda worrying. Dad keeps dashing around him, pelting him with lighter jabs, kicks, and elbow strikes, and topping it off with the Meteor Combination, but Vegeta quickly recovers, a sphere of spiraling Ki forming in his palm. He leaps up into the air...
“SUPER GALICK GUN!” Tarble roars, firing up at him.
Yet Vegeta rockets at the attack, the spiraling sphere still in hand, and actually pushes the beam back. Dad tries to intervene, but Vegeta blasts him away with his free hand. Eventually he’s able to force the attack back at Tarble, the arena again shaking from the sheer force of the attack connecting. Tarble falls back, prone, his power starting to fade.
Goku tries to get over to help his partner, but Vegeta grabs his brother’s massive form by the tail, grinning wide. He then lifts Tarble up, and uses him as a massive club to smack Goku down underneath. Dad tries to get up, but Vegeta leaps up and stomps down, pinning them both. And… the count runs out.
“SON GOKU AND TARBLE HAVE BEEN IN THE RING TOO LONG!” Pilaf declares. “VEGETA AND TIEN ADVANCE TO THE DAY’S FINAL ROUND!”
The crowds cheer, Tien having regained consciousness after being healed up and nodding approvingly. Vegeta holds up a fist, panting in exhaustion, but… happy, surprisingly. He jumps down, walking out of the ring as dad is able to get up from under Tarble, wiping his brow as he powers down.
“H-heh… d-damn, good one, Vegeta…” Goku admits. Tarble slowly sits up as well, hanging his head a bit.
Vegeta looks back at them. “You’ve come a long way, Tarble.” he… says in genuine praise, to Tarble’s surprise. “You and Kakarot truly did come close to defeating me, and just might have if not for the rules of this Tournament. Keep improving. Continue to prove our father wrong. And be ready to face me again, with nothing holding us back.”
Goku lets out a soft chuckle, looking up at the large form of Tarble. “Wow… guess our training really did pay off, huh?”
Tarble nods down at Goku, then gives Vegeta a thumb’s up.
So. This is it. Pilaf says there will be a short intermission before today’s final match, but then… it’ll be the four of you.
And you and Keli are ready. Ready to win!
>DRAGON BALL TUFFLE QUEST KAI #45… Paused.>Twitter account is @KatoQm, will have status updates there>Got some questions for the QM? Suggestions? Throw them at ask.fm/QMKato and I’ll try to answer them as best I canAll right folks, that's all for tonight! We’ll be back tomorrow ~4:30 pm PST. Did y’all have fun? Please stay safe out there!
