(Tien-POV)
'There they are, Yamcha…Raven too.' Sixteen, Eighteen and Seventeen were waiting in the wings, hidden from sight and hence their cyborg upgrades, hidden from being sensed, their goal was both Raven and Yamcha… heh, mostly Raven who was the more dangerous of the two.
'Sorry Yamcha, it was your fault for you slacking on your training a bit. Don't worry friend, will get you back…' Tien's gaze hardened on the giant, noting the large muscled Saiyan standing at the ready to engage… his power felt immense as well, quite a danger to be honest, but with himself, Pyrrha, Zangya, Dabura and Gohan as the main combatants, their chances were high together. Krillin, Raditz and Qrow were to track down Dende and Mr. Popo, and those remaining two dragon balls as well. They left prior to their powering up, acting as a beacon for Baby to come to them. Shin and Chiaotzu remained hidden, Supreme Kai following along with Raditz, Krillin and Qrow to help find their query while Chiaotzu was Tien's hidden ace in the hole… a one-time ace in the hole though not so insignificant, for his best friends telekinetic powers could be used to immobilize anyone and hold them for enough time to allow Tien and the others to land a critical, fight-ending blow on anyone of their opponents, he and Chiaotzu would remain in mental link for the fight.
"Zangya, you and Dabura go! After that Saiyan and go at your fullest, he's giving off a radical power… you'll need to work together!" Tien shouted, turning to Gohan.
"You and me will take out the big guy. Remember the plan…" Gohan nodded, replying simply with a hardened gaze, already transformed into 'Super Saiyan Four', his red-colored energy cracking with heightened power.
"Right." It seemed, that Baby was hidden from their gazes, which was bad… he was somewhere-
"-You've made this a simple game for me! I like simple, for I have plans for this galaxy and no one on your world nor on any other shall attempt to stall me!!" the Giant's voice rumbled loudly after each word, it's mouth not moving at all but it spoke either way, Tien realized that this… monstrosity might be this Baby, he remained cautious, nodding to the others and then at Gohan, for their wasn't nothing to say to the fool who thought that this… this was already over, that this was going to go it's way…
"Scatter, make sure you're extra careful to not receive damage!! Shin's warnings are sufficient, though don't get cocky!!" Tien and Gohan blasted forwards, afterimaging in different places, making their way for the giant, both Gohan and Tien paused in their lighting-fast movement to land their own Ki-blasts in close proximity to the giant.
"'Kame… Hame… Ha'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Gohan shouted, as Tien's shout was said along with his.
"Haaaaaaaaa! 'Tri-Beam' Yahaaaaaaaa!" their beams raced forwards, aimed true at the hulking form.
"...Hmmmhmmmhmmm!" a deep, bellowing laugh emitted from the being who Tien supposed was the big bad, Baby as the two blasts made impact, detonating with enough capacity to temporarily obscure the giant Baby in the explosive energy unleashed. Tien and Gohan, still holding their hands forwards with a slight breath escaping their lips, both of them quickly afterimaged towards the sky when a large blue beam cut it's way through the explosion, sweeping over the landscape around them and detonating all below.
"H-He blasted away our combined attack!" Tien shouted to no one in particular, for Gohan had eyes, though it was a surprise for sure, Tien after all was within 'Kaio-Ken times two hundred fifty six, a great boost to his power, as Gohan was in his 'Super Saiyan Primal' transformation. Tien powered up quickly, shouting loudly as his body felt the intensity of his 'Kaio-Ken' only slightly sweating, used to the intense use of this level of multiplier impacting him.
"Haaaaaa! 'Four Witches Technique'!!" he shouted out the technique, his power amplifying the intense pain as two extra arms, one left and right sprouted from his back, connected to his shoulders and coming under the intensified physical exertion made by 'Kaio-Ken'.
"'Double Tri-Beam' Yaaaaaaaaaaa!!" Tien's extra arms fired off another 'Tri-Beam', while also firing off the similar beam in his original hands, the two beams amplified by 'Kaio-Ken' merged into a gigantic beam, it's trajectory made to sweep to the lower body so that if it was dodged, them beam would travel upwards instead of annihilating the planet.
"-'Meskeno' yaaaaaaaaaaaha!" Gohan's hoarse yell came down from below where he afterimaged to, also going for a trajectory similar to Tien's attacks. The beams sweeping upwards, arcing and impacting Baby.
"What attacks you fire so freely! You'll be soldiers for my reborn Tuffle Divine Empire!!" The loud booming cackles that came from the giant, each word impacted large gusts of wind at their attacks, Baby's hands held the two- the largely combined beam of Tien and Gohan and held it at arm's length, his large colossal form floating upwards slowly.
The large rumbling, from the energy fighting against such a large foe, Tien and Gohan glanced at once another, nodding.
"If at first, you don't succeed-"
"-Try again! Haaaaaaaaaaa!" both of them shouted afterwards in synchronization, firing off their strongest attacks at the same time once more, aiming for their seized attacks. Tien heard Baby hum loudly in amusement, rising still into the air from the beams held at bay when-
-Baby, with a large amount of momentum, seized the two beams held at bay and twisted suddenly, quite fast for such a lark, hulking individual. In doing so, Baby used the turn to change the trajectory of the beams he held at bay, throwing them both at the two new beams. Though instead of blowing up, Tien witnessed the two gathering of energy both groups of Tien's and Gohan's attacks mixed together start to shrink at a fast pace, down until nothing remained- a large hum came from this shrinking until their attacks blinked from existence.
"-S-Shit, he… he must of-"
"-Y-Yeah, he absorbed that." Gohan surmised loudly, tone laced with worry, as Tien gulped, nodding at his words, the seriousness of this battle impacting both of them.
"...The Tail… you see that Gohan, that Tail must have absorbed the attack… just like Cell in a way, we're going to have to get in close, get rid of it." Tien heard Gohan grunt in acknowledgement, replying with a growl.
"Will need to use the 'Destructo Disk', I've learned the technique, have you."
"...Yeah, sure. Move!" a blast of fire came upon them, their speed however had them dodge the attack, running along the body of the giant Baby, whose large size made him clunky to move compared to Tien and Gohan. Dabura appeared, firing off 'Stone Spit' technique at Baby, to Tien's amazement, the magical technique worked…
"Y-You dare spit on me you little fool, No! I shall not allow it, bare witness!" Baby shouted in his metallic-sounding voice, even as his left shoulder begun to turn to stone, rapidly the technique continued to invade Baby's body, vine-like in it's consuming magical stone. Tien grinned at Gohan, shouting.
"This is the time! 'Destructo Disk' his tail, I'll prepare a blast for the rest of him!"
"Right! Haaaagh, 'Destructo Disk'" Gohan materialized two 'Destructo Disk' blades and launched each one at a time, thrust down with force, the two blades raced through the incoming fog, humming loudly where they become obscured in the speedily-incoming fog-
"-Hmmm, this guy is something else, for I can still sense his evil heart… where going to have a battle the likes of which I will deeply enjoy, don't get cocky you two!" Dabura appeared, smirking down below, the fog obscured was blown away by a huffing Dabura, using his breath to conjure up a windstorm to awash over the area Baby was in, revealing the stone form of Baby-
"-H-He's not there-" Gohan was heard shouting, when Tien brought down a large blast, interrupting him as he shouted.
"-'Tri-Beam' and 'Dodon Ray' haaaaaaayaaaaaaaa" he used both attacks in tandem, his new arms firing off a barrage of 'Dodon Ray' blasts over his shoulder while he focused on the 'Tri-Beam' hammering the attacks home upon the stone form of Baby, even as Tien's eyes widened in disbelief when 'Baby' appeared to be standing right next to this stone form, his skeleton head filled with blue, window-like eyes met his own gaze.
The blast came to impact the stone form, as Baby flew around the detonating area, winding around the blast, flying towards them, poised to strike. Mouth widened, Baby's cackle could be heard, until he let out a intense heat-wave of fire towards the three of them. Dabura formed blades of purple, rippling energy, swiping through the heatwave, slicing the energy wavers through the heat, stopping the waves of heat while Gohan and Tien afterimaged around to the right side, Ki-obscured while flying at their fastest speeds. Tien continued to launch 'Dodon Ray' beams towards Baby, aiming for what should be critical spots of his anatomy though he was having no success in effecting Baby, so he stopped wasting energy.
Gohan and Tien landed nearby to Dabura, who was readying a blast of his own, when Tien snapped him out of it.
"No! Dabura, we've got to get rid of his tail first. He's draining our energy I think… much like how Buu or more accurately, Cell did so- that is, you've not heard of him so just hear us out."
"Yeah, The Tail needs to be cut off, you'll have to use that technique for the energy swords you can unleash upon it. This new technique, how did he survive the 'Stone Spit'" Gohan asked, turning to Dabura, whose third eye now of all times, had opened, glaring with a glowing aura inside it.
"No idea, he's able to teleport perhaps. Just… distract him, Pyrrha and Zangya are having a time with Raven over there, Yamcha has been already dealt with though, Seventeen and Krillin done him in so try and not to get in my way, or use energy attacks. Lest you're mind-controlled friends become hit in the crossfire-
"-Insolent little pests! I'll not allow you to plan out you're little counteroffensive! Now remain still if you abhor pain, join my renewed Tuffle empire with some grace, you cretins!!" Baby moved fast, his large body ramming towards their position, arms infused with energy, his widen skeleton mouth unleashed a wave of fire upon their position, which ravaged the landscape that was once their position, Tien and Gohan separated though remained in view of one another, flickering to one position after another as a means to confuse Baby, keeping within eye shot of Baby to 'act' as the bait. Baby launched his tail towards Tien suddenly, he had to afterimage quickly and made to, though was intercepted by a thick string of slime-like goo, that felt as if it was made of steel, this blue stretching goo materialized from Baby's mouth, striking him like a whip on his arm, cutting him.
"You landed a hit, congratulations you freak, but you're not taking over my body-" Tien's Ki spiked outwards, unleashed as he shouted loudly, his Ki manifesting as a aura flashing over his body and around him, red hot from 'Kaio-Ken' times two hundred fifty six. The ooze of goo lashed over his right arm snapped off from the fierce amount of Ki pushing outwards, winds picking up all around as Tien's energy gathering begun to shake the planet, Tien witnessed Gohan also powering up, as Dabura moved to the rear of Baby, whom was focused on him and Gohan at this time.
'What did you think that attack did! It was no mere lash or whip I used my friend, it 'was' my literal body… welcome to the Tuffle's Tien, you'll have your uses, I'm sure! Kekekekek!!' Tien heard this within his mind, he froze up- cut-off from his Ki-gathering from a foreign feeling within, Baby in front of him hovered into the air and turned his attention to Gohan.
"Saiyan! Prepare to join you're Friend, 'Revenge Death Ball' baaaaaaaaaaah!" a massive spherical orb formed, wisping with intense waves of black-colored and pink colored energy that quickly formalized as a large orb, firing in quick succession to it's formation, fired from Baby's skull-like mouth. The orb quickly found it's way towards Gohan, who took a hold of the blast with both hands, engulfed in his red-colored Ki, Gohan's grunts were heard from where Tien hovered, frozen in the air.
(Gohan-POV)
"Hnghnn!" Gohan held on, the orb of deadly energy grappled with him, inching him backwards ever slowly, Gohan powered up to the maximum, taking bite of the Senzu bean he kept within his mouth, encase he needed the extra energy… which was now.
"Hahaha, you foolish idiot- Huh, w-what!!" Dabura could be heard shouting, Gohan heard that his attack loudly slashed, Dabura must have brought down his sneak attack upon Baby's tail, though it looked that this attack had failed.
'-T-This fog has quickly formed once a-again- Hngh! Wonder what is going on' Gohan thought, his focus on the orb, where he managed to at the perfect opportunity, get himself slightly underneath enough to kick upwards, forcing the blast to fire up, Gohan fired off a large Ki-sphere after it, forcing the attack to detonated high above the planet. The clap of energy sounded out loudly, shaking the planet even as Gohan's gaze turned to the position Baby now found himself in, from out of the fog he appeared, fog receding fast while Dabura afterimaged from his prior position, nearby to Gohan.
'That fog… it isn't natural, for sure…' Gohan thought with a glared, turning his gaze towards Tien, who looked to have slumped over in the air, all four arms laid at the sides, his head slumped.
"Tien! You alright! Need a Senzu bean-"
"-Don't mind your friend there Saiyan! You'll soon be joining him, like the rest of you're insignificant little friends… Kekekek!!" Baby's metallic-sounding voice echoed loudly from his new position, tail swerving around in a mocking wave behind him. Dabura growled, his eyes glowing red with fierce annoyance, he spoke softly though in a growl.
"...He vanished as I brought down my 'Hell Blade Strike' down upon his tail, seemingly as if he knew I was there, or it activated in an instinctive defensive way… He's getting on my nerves, this guy…" Growling, Gohan replied, narrowing his gaze as Baby floated up high to the same height they were at, the fight was continuing to get higher in the air, as a way to lessen the impact of damage upon the landscape and to get this Baby away from the others, so that they might get their parts done without being in the crossfire.
"...Tien is-"
"-I am fine… Gohan, more than fine my friend. Though I cannot allow you to continue to attack the one, whom has made my eyes see…-" Tien's head tilted upwards slowly, a grin that turned rotten, more a smirk appeared on his face… his eyes, full of hate.
"Shit… you're 'his' now… Dabura, you're still the one to attack his tail, though now you'll have to contend with-"
"-Relax Gohan… I've got into contact with my sister, the one on our side… she'll be here soon, with Mira to lend us assistance, as I've warned her of this one's capabilities she's assured me that herself and Mira are immune to this one's attempts to control her… Don't ask me how, she's the scientist of the family and more in-tune with the magical aspect of our bloodline than I, that as demons of our race… And before you say, she was not 'here' until now, her attempts to find out where those alternate versions of them is stalled, she'll be on hand to offer us assistance… for a price I'd imagine." Dabura growled.
"A price, whatever… she can have her 'price' after Baby is dealt with." Gohan didn't know that Dabura's sister was that powerful, though it made sense he didn't bring her up until now, for she wasn't able to be reached, that is until this opportune time… if it's a lie or not, they couldn';t be picky… Tien was going to be attacking them now, against his will or not… He was Baby's soldier now so it was best to get him out of the way, his 'Kaio-Ken' should be helping Gohan anyway in the long run.
Tien was the most hardest working of fathers original rivals, before everything with Raditz and beyond him came to threaten Earth, taking 'Kaio-Ken' to that sort of level but he wasn't a Saiyan nor a Saiyan hybrid… Gohan had the advantage even as he lightened up on training a tiny bit and instead used clones to keep his martial arts impeccable, among other things.
Gohan met Tien head on, a snarl on his face as he came upon Gohan, their blows against one another, moving through the air at tremendous velocity, Gohan half into the fight and holding back, he managed a blow that shattered Tien's guard, laying blow after blow upon him with nought any problems from himself, 'Super Saiyan Primal' was more than enough to defeat Tien and continue the battle against the colossal Baby.
Tien taken out of the fight for now, Gohan found himself up against another Saiyan with a wild hairstyle much like his Raditz.
'...So, this is Cumber.' Cumber sent him a dark smirk, as Gohan went on the defensive, his blows landed against the brawler Cumber, his fighting style rough and brutal and Gohan continued to find himself taking more damage than giving. Outclassed in fighting power, Gohan went ahead with lighting speed to gain himself an advantage. Awaiting as Gohan was blown back, Cumber hot on his trail, blazing with dark energy as Gohan found himself growing more and more furious by the second, Gohan quickly shouted.
"'Solar Flare'!!" he shouted as Cumber came in melee range, though as Cumber halted in his attack to quickly cover his eyes, he'd landed a brutal slap upon the front of Gohan's face which shocked him to the core, launching him towards the ground. The last thing Gohan witnessed was that of Dabura, coming into view and using his 'Stone Spit' on Cumber while he held his face in blinding pain.