Reeling, the four fighters regrouped shoulder to shoulder.
"This monster," Vegeta hissed through his teeth, hatred burning in his eyes as he stared up at the towering abomination.
Anilaza stared right back. A wicked smile split his face and he drove a fist into empty air.
For a heartbeat no one understood. Then despair rippled across the arena. The giant's fist vanished from his arm and reappeared above Goku's head.
Boom.
The blow crashed down before Goku could react, smashing him deep into the stone.
"Kakarot!" Vegeta roared. A full-power Final Flash speared Anilaza's forearm, forcing the limb aside with a snarl of pain.
In the crater, Goku's body spasmed. That single spatial punch had mangled him.
Vincent Fox skimmed the ground like a blade and snatched Goku out an instant before a second titanic fist obliterated the spot.
"Hit his arm," Vegeta barked, blasting again.
Beams lanced in from every angle. Using that warping technique slowed the giant for a breath, and everything landed. Vincent's flames clung to the limb; holes cratered the flesh. Anilaza only went madder.
Huge fists hammered in from every direction. There was no angle safe. The four could only turtle up and ride the storm. Even with Armament hardening, Vincent felt bones sing under the impacts. The others fared worse, shoved and scattered like leaves.
Anilaza threw back his head and howled. Purple-blue beams geysered from his maw, fanning in the sky and splitting into a meteor shower that carpet-bombed the platform.
Even Jiren stopped relying on his barrier, flicking a casual wave that erased any blast daring to drift his way.
Universe 7 had no such luxury. They ran.
As the four slipped free of the kill zone, Anilaza shrieked again.
Meat bulged along his back. With a wet rip the swellings burst and a spray of green blood sheeted down. From the gore unfolded a pair of ragged wings studded with bony spurs.
"You have got to be kidding me. He evolves too?" Beerus swore from the stands.
The winged giant blurred and was suddenly behind Goku. His fist slammed into Goku's guard and still knocked him tumbling.
"Goku."
"Kakarot."
They all surged to help, but Anilaza tangled them again, relentless. Already battered, Goku's vision swam. He spun toward the edge.
A golden tail whipped across his path. Frieza flicked him back onto the tiles and snapped a finger. Red light sank into Goku's chest.
Breath steadied. Ki rose. Goku flared into blue in a single pulse.
Sensing the surge, Anilaza's eyes lit with cold delight. He left the skirmish behind, beat his wings, and soared straight up.
He raised both hands. Hellish energy geysered between his palms, a suffocating death-shroud settling over the arena. The last restraints snapped. His target was no longer Universe 7. It was everything beneath him.
The sphere swelled and swelled. Anilaza laughed like a lunatic.
Then he hurled the star down.
Five figures from Universe 7 stood as one. Even Frieza dropped the games and blazed into his Golden form.
"Kamehameha."
"Final Flash."
"Death Comet."
Their strongest attacks roared upward together and met the falling sun.
The sky cracked. Waves of light chewed into one another. The four pushed their ki to the edge. The sphere did not budge.
Anilaza loosed a piercing screech and the orb ballooned again.
"Damn it," Vegeta spat, driving more power into the beam as their heels scraped the brink.
"Hold it," Vincent called, low and sharp. He looked to Android 17. "Give me a shield."
17 did not understand, but he obeyed. A green dome snapped around Vincent.
Vincent stamped once and launched himself straight at the descending star.
"Are you insane? What are you doing?" 17 shouted, panic cutting through his calm at last.
There was no answer. Vincent punched into the light.
Inside, the energy was a living storm. It gnawed the barrier the instant it touched it. Cracks spidered fast.
Crack.
The dome shattered the moment Vincent burst out the far side. That was enough.
He was already in front of Anilaza.
Vincent's right fist had been waiting.
Serious Punch.
He threw everything he had.
Crack.
The blow hammered Anilaza's brow. Even that armored skull split with crawling fractures. More importantly, the energy furnace set into his forehead exploded into glittering dust.
Behind him the killing star shrank like a pricked lung. Universe 7 struck in the same breath, beams and blasts swallowing the giant whole.
"Universe 3's Anilaza has fallen from the stage. He is eliminated."
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