"Doesn't mean much if you can't stop my attack, though." That was the only warning Videl got. A shiver ran down her spine as she realized something terrifying. The two spots that Hanna had laid her traps down on were directly behind her, while Hanna was directly in front of her. She was in the center of a terrible triangle, and her opponent was smiling.
"NO!" She screamed, pushing off the ground with everything she had, racing toward Hanna in a vain effort to stop her.
'I'm not fast enough!' Videl knew it. Her instincts were screaming at her, but she didn't know what to do.
"Trinity. Pyramid Blitz!"
"SILVER MODE TIMES THIRTY!" With a nearly inhuman scream, Videl blew past the safe limit with her Silver Mode, blasting up from the ground so quickly that she made cracks in the arena floor beneath her.
"GEAAH!" A cry of pain erupted from Videl's lips as she barely managed to get out of the range of my trap, at great sacrifice.
My Trinity attack used three distinct, triangular points to channel massive amounts of energy through the ground. Basically, it created an area that I could do anything I wanted with.
So when I used Blitz Pyramid, hundreds of tiny energy orbs appeared from the ground inside of the triangle, ripping through the air randomly inside of the pyramid shape of my Trinity's space, before returning to the ground as quickly as they'd come. From inside of the pyramid, it would've been completely undodgeable.
But unfortunately, Videl wasn't inside of the pyramid. Only her left leg had been, and it was now peppered with bruises, unusable and broken. I'd held back a bit, but she still wouldn't be able to use her leg for the rest of the battle, meaning that she'd be forced to fly for the rest of the fight.
On top of which, she'd blown past her limits with Silver Mode in order to get out of my trap. She was already losing control of her body as it fell apart under the strain.
"Ka…"
"Oh?!" She still had the energy for one final attack, huh?
"I'm not giving up yet! Me!"
"If that's what you want. I'll face your last blast."
"Ha! Me!"
"Trinity-"
"HA!"
"Breaker!" As Videl released the Kamehameha that she'd once learned from my brother, I released all of the energy infused into my Trinity. With Videl in the air, it was useless anyway, so I turned it into a giant ball and flung it right at Videl. It moved to intercept Videl's kamehameha.
"I won't lose to something like this! HAAA!" With a scream, Videl powered her kamehameha up even further.
Unconnected to my Trinity Breaker now, all I could do was watch as its energy slowly dispersed in the face of Videl's energy wave. Finally, both attacks vanished from the sky above my head, having canceled each other out.
"Do you give up now? I don't want to hurt you any further." I asked bluntly.
"...N-never." She barely whispered it, but I still heard it.
"Tch." I clicked my tongue. This was a good fight, but attacking her any longer would be distasteful. I was unharmed aside from a few scratches, while she was basically holding on for dear life. Barely had the energy left to fly.
I respected Videl a lot. There weren't many people capable of drawing blood from me in a fight, holding back or not, but she'd lost this battle. There wasn't any point in fighting on, she'd already proven that she was pretty damn strong.
But at the end of the day, everyone had their limit. Even us Saiyans. Videl wasn't going to win this match, or accomplish anything more no matter what she did. If that wasn't the case, and fighting on would accomplish literally anything, then I'd understand it. Even agree with it.
But fighting without any cause at all, hurting yourself for the experience of the pain, was a complete waste of time.
"You lose, Saiyagirl. Sorry. Silver Mode." Multiplying my strength by twenty-five for an instant with full-powered Silver Mode, I appeared in the air beside Videl in a blink, before lowering my power to a multiplier of five and chopping her neck.
She instantly fell unconscious, and I was declared the winner.
…
"How's she doing?" Gohan asked me as I carried Videl into the private room that'd been reserved for my use as a quarter-finalist in the tournament.
He must've rushed there as soon as he saw me carry Videl off of the arena floor. Aww.
"Dende healed her. She'll be fine, Gohan. Makes me feel conflicted about my win, though. I kind of wish that she'd just been able to give up." I admitted, placing her onto my bed. I wouldn't need it until tonight, anyway. She'd wake up long before that.
"Ooh! My little Videl, how could you do this to my poor daughter, you mon-"
"Yeah, I really wish she'd just been able to give up."
"Maybe so, but then she wouldn't be Videl, you know." Gohan replied to me as we left my room, closing the door on Mr. Satan inside as he ranted about what a terrible person I was for hurting Videl. She'd probably wake up within the hour, and immediately go over to watch the fights, anyways.
Besides, I was rather interested in the next battle. It was Vegeta vs. Pigero, after all. Bound to be exciting. This was around the time that Vegeta should've learned to go Super Saiyan in canon, and I wanted to see if he could do it this time, too.
If he could do it, he'd do it in this battle. Pigero would make sure of it.
Vegeta was too prideful to learn my Silver Mode technique, so if he ended up not going Super Saiyan, he'd be utterly demolished.
That'd be fun to watch, too, in its own way. I really was rooting for Vegeta to actually grow into a decent person eventually. Even if it meant being beaten black and blue in front of his own twin sons.