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Dragon Ball: After the End

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[X] Dad?
-[X] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
[X] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
2 votes

[X] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
1 vote

[X] ...Dad?
[X] Jaffur!
[X] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
5 votes

[x] ...Dad?
[x] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
8 votes

[X] Jaffur?
[X] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
1 vote

[X] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!
-[X] You have to stop this. Peace. The fighting will stop. You will MAKE it stop. You fight to prevent DADDY from being hurt, you fight to prevent Jaffur tearing himself apart with insanity, you fight to STOP the fighting. You dislike fighting, but Ki is in your hair, your tail and your heart.
-[X] You are borderline Omniscient with Ki, and you just saw a Super Saiyan transformation, a Super-Kaio-Ken and a Mastered Super Saiyan. Bend the Ki. Ascend.
-[X] Ki Reformat! Force both your DADDY and Jaffur back to their rightful form. Do not heal them, FORCE their Essence, their Ki back into place and Hold It. Return them to the way they were before the fight, Reformat them with the pure power of a Super-Saiyan
3 votes

[X] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
2 votes

Aggregated Data (yeah, this is by line, not plan):

[ ] ...Dad?
15 votes

[ ] Jaffur!
6 votes

[ ] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
19 votes

[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
2 votes (this'll be interesting to interpret if it wins. Also hnnnnnng. My poor heart, @KnightDisciple!)

[ ] You have to stop this. Peace. The fighting will stop. You will MAKE it stop. You fight to prevent DADDY from being hurt, you fight to prevent Jaffur tearing himself apart with insanity, you fight to STOP the fighting. You dislike fighting, but Ki is in your hair, your tail and your heart.
-[ ] You are borderline Omniscient with Ki, and you just saw a Super Saiyan transformation, a Super-Kaio-Ken and a Mastered Super Saiyan. Bend the Ki. Ascend.
-[ ] Ki Reformat! Force both your DADDY and Jaffur back to their rightful form. Do not heal them, FORCE their Essence, their Ki back into place and Hold It. Return them to the way they were before the fight, Reformat them with the pure power of a Super-Saiyan
3 votes (time to see if you rolled a 96+ on that "are we a Sorceress" check)

[ ] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
3 votes (BE the diplomancer! Pass ungodly numbers of checks!)

[ ] Jaffur?
1 vote (I'll have a lot of fun working with that)

Voting closes tomorrow. The top-voted option and any other option within five votes of that wins, to a maximum of three. The top three will win if multiple options qualify. In the event of a tie, I will use the site roller to choose between them. If the tie is between the first or second slot, the losing option will bump the next-place option down. If there is a three-way tie for first place, I will do another tiebreaker roll between the two losers and both will displace the 2nd- and 3rd-place winners. Better get to campaigning...;)

I love esoteric voting rules, by the way. Hehehehehehehehehehe...:evil:
 
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[X] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving?Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he ourfriend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
[X] Jaffur?

They're not going to be relevant, but I'll vote anyway. I like interesting.
 
If we go Super Saiyan than would it be possible for us to use our new power and exceptional Ki Control to heal our Father?
 
Ct613hulu said:
If we go Super Saiyan than would it be possible for us to use our new power and exceptional Ki Control to heal our Father?
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Ki Control very specifically refers to your control over your own ki. Ki Healing is its own skill, one which you have an entirely unknown skill level in and aptitude for. And that presumes that Dad isn't dead already. But you should at least be able to stabilize him, if he yet lives.

And all of this presumes that you'll be capable of thinking of healing in the first place.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
2 votes (this'll be interesting to interpret if it wins. Also hnnnnnng. My poor heart, @KnightDisciple!)
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We're 8 years old. "My heart, hnng" is the point! :cool:
 
PoptartProdigy said:
[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
2 votes (this'll be interesting to interpret if it wins. Also hnnnnnng. My poor heart, @KnightDisciple!)
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If this wins, I want to use this song:

Its mealochy would fit.
 
[X] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
[X] Jaffur?

I believe!
 
[X] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving?Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he ourfriend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
[X] Jaffur?
 
[X] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
[X] Jaffur?

Changing vote
 
[X] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he....
[X] Jaffur?

[X] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.

[X] You have to stop this. Peace. The fighting will stop. You will MAKE it stop. You fight to prevent DADDY from being hurt, you fight to prevent Jaffur tearing himself apart with insanity, you fight to STOP the fighting. You dislike fighting, but Ki is in your hair, your tail and your heart.
-[X] You are borderline Omniscient with Ki, and you just saw a Super Saiyan transformation, a Super-Kaio-Ken and a Mastered Super Saiyan. Bend the Ki. Ascend.
-[X] Ki Reformat! Force both your DADDY and Jaffur back to their rightful form. Do not heal them, FORCE their Essence, their Ki back into place and Hold It. Return them to the way they were before the fight, Reformat them with the pure power of a Super-Saiyan

Eh, I can back everything I like I guess.
 
I think we're done here.

[ ] Dad?
-[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he...
[ ] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
2 votes

[ ] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
1 vote

[ ] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!
-[ ] You have to stop this. Peace. The fighting will stop. You will MAKE it stop. You fight to prevent DADDY from being hurt, you fight to prevent Jaffur tearing himself apart with insanity, you fight to STOP the fighting. You dislike fighting, but Ki is in your hair, your tail and your heart.
-[ ] You are borderline Omniscient with Ki, and you just saw a Super Saiyan transformation, a Super-Kaio-Ken and a Mastered Super Saiyan. Bend the Ki. Ascend.
-[ ] Ki Reformat! Force both your DADDY and Jaffur back to their rightful form. Do not heal them, FORCE their Essence, their Ki back into place and Hold It. Return them to the way they were before the fight, Reformat them with the pure power of a Super-Saiyan
4 votes

[ ] ...Dad?
[ ] Jaffur!
[ ] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
3 votes

[ ] ...Dad?
[ ] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
7 votes

[ ] Jaffur?
[ ] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
1 vote

[ ] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
1 vote

[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he...
[ ] Jaffur?
4 votes

[ ] Jaffur?
[ ] ...Dad?
1 vote

[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he...
[ ] Jaffur?
[ ] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
[ ] You have to stop this. Peace. The fighting will stop. You will MAKE it stop. You fight to prevent DADDY from being hurt, you fight to prevent Jaffur tearing himself apart with insanity, you fight to STOP the fighting. You dislike fighting, but Ki is in your hair, your tail and your heart.
-[ ] You are borderline Omniscient with Ki, and you just saw a Super Saiyan transformation, a Super-Kaio-Ken and a Mastered Super Saiyan. Bend the Ki. Ascend.
-[ ] Ki Reformat! Force both your DADDY and Jaffur back to their rightful form. Do not heal them, FORCE their Essence, their Ki back into place and Hold It. Return them to the way they were before the fight, Reformat them with the pure power of a Super-Saiyan
1 vote

Aggregated Data:

[X] ...Dad?
13 vote; second place

[ ] Jaffur!
3 votes; no place

[X] RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
17 votes; winner!

[ ] Daddy? Daddy, why aren't you moving? Nononononono why is this happening why why why why why why??????? Nonono Jaffur is a nice guy isn't he our friend why did he hurt Dad so much is Daddy....Daddy....is he...
7 votes; no place(hnnnnnnnnnnng...)

[ ] You have to stop this. Peace. The fighting will stop. You will MAKE it stop. You fight to prevent DADDY from being hurt, you fight to prevent Jaffur tearing himself apart with insanity, you fight to STOP the fighting. You dislike fighting, but Ki is in your hair, your tail and your heart.
-[ ] You are borderline Omniscient with Ki, and you just saw a Super Saiyan transformation, a Super-Kaio-Ken and a Mastered Super Saiyan. Bend the Ki. Ascend.
-[ ] Ki Reformat! Force both your DADDY and Jaffur back to their rightful form. Do not heal them, FORCE their Essence, their Ki back into place and Hold It. Return them to the way they were before the fight, Reformat them with the pure power of a Super-Saiyan
5 votes; no place

[ ] Quickly teleport your father and Jaffur to Betarel and tell him to get them Senzu Beans as quickly as physically possible, even if he needs to break the masquerade to do so.
3 votes; no place

Show 'em what they've won, boys!

First-place winner is the ever-reliable, "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" which will ensure screaming and emotional anguish for all as Kakara's primary concern in the upcoming update. Second place is the more quiet placer, "...Dad?" representing a general level of existential horror and simple shocked grief at your father having a hole blown in his chest.

Which is a fascinating cocktail to have going on, if I may say. :evil: I have so many things I can do with that!

Update incoming...
 
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    ​
    Perhaps in another situation, you might have taken note of the shaking in your hands.

    Perhaps in another situation, you would have realized that you were crying.

    Perhaps in another situation, you would have noticed Mom trying -- briefly -- to attack Jaffur, and Lady Vegeta -- again, quite briefly -- trying to cast the Sealing before her son responded.

    This situation is not that hypothetical other situation.

    In this situation, you are waiting for Daddy to get up.

    Perhaps in another situation you would not have been at your new, full power of 15 million units, dragging every millisecond into an hour that Daddy still spends down on the ground. But this is, again, not that situation.

    And Daddy is not getting up.

    You are no longer far too mature and grown-up to call him "Daddy." You are eight years old, you idolize your father with every fiber of your being, and he is lying on the ground, smoke rising from the center of his chest. Your Mommy lands next to him, unconscious, splattering mud everywhere, the earth drenched by the rain.

    Perhaps in some other situation, you would have taken note of the rain before just now.

    And perhaps in another situation, you would have realized what that means.

    boom

    You aren't here.

    ka-boom

    Kakara is gone.

    crack!

    There is no more need for her here.

    bang!

    There is only the Scion, and her grief.

    rumble-BOOM

    And, finally, the noise of the onrushing storm, cutting through the agony.

    "...Dad?"

    KA-BANG!

    "Daddy?"

    crunch

    When did the earth split?

    "Daddy, please get up."

    skreeeeeeee...

    When did the air turn blue with sparks and violent, surging light?

    "I..."

    thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump-thump-thump-THUMP-THUMP-

    When did you get taller?

    "I don't..."

    SSSSSSSSHIIIIIIISSSSSSSsssssssss...

    When did the world start to glow gold?

    "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

    What is happening?

    "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

    What is happening to you?

    "Haaah...raah! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

    Who is that screaming?

    Daddy, I'm scared.

    "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

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    Who you were before is not who you are now. Nobody takes this step unchanged, no matter how easy they had it.

    To attain this form is to understand that the way the world was before was wrong, and to accept the burden of changing it. It is epiphany, at its most basic.

    But it is not kind, and it is not safe. Change never is. And this is a change considerably more violent than most.

    You become who you are, again, in the next five minutes.

    Ability Gained: Super Saiyan, Basic.

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    [Control the Transformation (Willpower, DC 95): No]

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    She is gold and glorious, and I know how I looked, when I transformed two nights ago. She is stronger than me again, and I wonder how many times we will cross each other.

    * * *
    ​
    She is my last hope, and my greatest, shining champion. Somehow I knew it would come down to this. Holy, Penitent, and Saint, forgive me for deceiving Berra.

    * * *
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    My blood sings at a new challenger even as my mind recognizes her for the threat she is. But I will not be bound. I am a Saiyan of royal blood, and I will not be caged!

    * * *
    ​
    I never needed Berra -- not that man with so much power and so little strength. It is so easy to hide behind your laws and fail to do the right thing. I'm sure he thinks he does good, but I didn't need that.

    * * *
    ​
    There is something wrong with me, I know that very well. But that is nothing. If I must be a monster to save my Clan from worse, I'll pay that gladly. Someday the price will be paid. But that is not this day.

    * * *
    ​
    No, she is what I need. I need her able to act, to protect. To do what Berra refused to. He will retreat to his Clan after this and I will never receive his support again. But she will never go back.

    * * *
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    She has regained her focus, and approaches. I will meet her as I must. It is a fight I will likely lose, but the chance -- oh, the chance! -- of victory whispers sweetly in my ear. She will test me.

    * * *
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    She moves now, as she must. She prepares to stop him. There is no chance of her losing. My son is mighty and skilled, but weakened. She will stop him.

    * * *
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    She will make me bleed and strive, and I will live in those moments. I will live, as living never truly is. I am ready, now. Let me live again.

    * * *
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    She will hurt him to save him, and redeem him through pain. And in his maddened rampage, he will fail. She will give me back my family.

    * * *
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    Test me, Scion.

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    Stop him, Scion.

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    You step forward out of the crater made by your ascension and step forward towards Jaffur. He lands to meet you, waiting for you to say something.

    You stop perhaps fifty feet away from him -- you might as well be an inch away for all the separation that means to two Super Saiyans.

    "You didn't have to kill him," you say. Your voice is not calm. There is simply nothing inside.

    His eyes widen, and a scornful laugh passes his lips. "Tell me all about the mercy I should have shown him," he says.

    snap

    Abruptly, you are punching him in the face and sending him into the far wall of the arena -- the already-collapsed one. It suffers greatly for your continued attention.

    But no, Kakara, you shouldn't punch him in the face. The face is a hard target, easily reinforced with ki. Aim for soft tissues.

    But first, the chase.

    You rocket off after him in a blaze of light, tunneling through meters upon meters of stone and reaching out to seize him by the throat. He kicks at you and you accept the blow. He is nothing before you, nothing. His strength is easily below a hundred million, even the legendary boost of the Super Saiyan starting to fade thin through the ravages of the Kaio-Ken. Where you had him by seven million last time, you mark him by well over sixty now.

    There was never a hope of victory for him in this fight.

    The two of you do not exit the rubble. The rubble simply makes way for you, turning to dust and so many fragments under the force of your blows. Eventually, however, you make your way to the center of the Hall, holding him up by the throat still, glaring into his eyes with so much hate as to break the world.

    How could you ever have felt sorry for this murderer?

    How could you have let Daddy die?

    You cast a scornful look down at Lady Vegeta. Hold him down for her? You will do no such thing. You will snip his head off of his shoulders. And then, just to sweep the field, you'll turn his monster of a father into vapor. While you're at it, doesn't she have a daughter, as well? What need does the universe have for the tainted line of Vegeta, anyway? You snort at her. Give her family back? Not a chance. He killed Daddy, whose broken corpse is even now...is...is...

    ...getting up?

    He is groping at his chest, which is, through the hole in his shirt...well, not unmarked, there is a bit of a scorch. Wouldn't have knocked him out, otherwise. But he's alive, he's alive!

    ...he's...alive...?

    [Calm Down (DC 40): Yes]

    You look at Jaffur, all of your murderous fury turning to ash. He sneers at you through bloody teeth. "Heh. Tell me...all about...my mercy...Scion..."

    And below, Lady Vegeta finishes her spell, reaches upwards, and calls, "Paparapapa!"

    And Jaffur screams.

    Everybody flinches. Your Dad, just now getting up, flinches. Lady Vegeta flinches in absolute shock, her spell breaking. You flinch, dropping Jaffur in surprise.

    And the instant he is clear of your hands he zips off towards Lady Vegeta at top speed.

    But Daddy is up again and transformed, blocking Jaffur and holding him down. The Scion struggles and screams, all the louder as his mother recasts her spell.

    "You said this wouldn't hurt!" says Daddy.

    "It wasn't supposed to, it didn't hurt Vegeta!" she replies. "We just have to keep going. Paparapapa!"

    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

    All of a sudden, you feel people rushing out towards you. You turn. The Senzus. Betarel.

    The little boy stares at the scene with an appalled look. "What are you doing to him?!"

    You look back and forth. "I...I..."

    Raditz looks at you, at the scene below, at Lord Vegeta, still standing right where he was when all this started, and hisses. With a burst of power, he lunges towards Lady Vegeta.

    Daddy starts to intercept, looks at Jaffur, and curses. "Kakara, stop him!" he shouts.

    [ ] "I stand with you." Stop Head Raditz. Seal Jaffur. Finish this. Benefits from "A Promise to Jiichan."

    [ ] "I...I..." Stand aside. You don't know what's right anymore.

    [ ] "I stand with the Senzus." No. This has gone too far, and you don't think everything is as it seems. Join Raditz in stopping Lady Vegeta, and...fight your Dad...somehow...
    -[ ] Write-in how on earth you expect to succeed in this (success not guaranteed, but you will lose without a workable write-in)

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    Well that was interesting.
     
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    • I really don't want to seal Jaffur, he can still be fixed. Facing future threats alone with no Vegeta clan backup sounds like a horrible plan.
     
    [X] "I stand with you." Stop Head Raditz. Seal Jaffur. Finish this. Benefits from "A Promise to Jiichan."

    Tempted to Stand Aside, but went with this in the end, because I think it makes more sense for Kakara to listen to her dad after going SUper Saiyan over his apparent death. Could be convinced to Stand Aside, though.
     
    [x] "I stand with you." Stop Head Raditz. Seal Jaffur. Finish this. Benefits from "A Promise to Jiichan."
     
    Hmmmm, damn. I'm not seeing another way of doing things that has a chance of working.

    [X] "I stand with you." Stop Head Raditz. Seal Jaffur. Finish this. Benefits from "A Promise to Jiichan."

    Going with this.
     
    No. We are Mercy. There is nothing pacifistic about this, and it goes against our nature as a Ki-Omniscient to watch someone be stripped of their Ki

    [X] "I stand with the Senzus." No. This has gone too far, and you don't think everything is as it seems. Join Raditz in stopping Lady Vegeta, and...fight your Dad...somehow...
    -[X] Kaio-Ken. You just ascended, you have seen a Mastered form, a Kaio-Ken form and a baseline Kaio-Ken. You have Seen them with your senses.
    -[X] Your father is still weak, use quick Instant Transmission to throw the Lady Vegeta to the other side of the planet then back to take on Dad, use your Ki mastery to predict his movements. Every burst of Ki needs a build-up, and you can feel that build. Dodge his every motion, every blast as you force your body into the Divine Form of Kaio-Ken and Shut. Him. Down.
    -[X] Jaffur wanted us to show our Mercy? We will show it. No-one dies. No-one is bound. Everybody Lives as a Saiyan. Everybody

    Guys, Lady vegeta is doing Something. She is deceiving our Father and lying. I don't trust her.
    If Jaffur gets bound as well, we don't have a backup if we die AND we lack a strong ally. He isn't irredeemable, he was a potential player character.
     
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