Takeshi couldn't fight his father right now and that pissed him off: he couldn't fight any of the other creeps who had hurt his friends, and that pissed him off: Shu was no in trouble too and that only served to piss him off even more. How he was holding it together he didn't know, but he was getting dangerously close to his breaking point. Throwing some vicious strikes at Krom he winced when they slammed their legs into one another, continuing up the attack right up until Krom backed off from him. There was a brief pause in the fighting when both Shu and T'charrl began to morph, causing Takeshi's heart to sink at the sight of it; they had been trying to avoid this, and now with all of their friends down he was supposed to somehow beat these two and keep his brother and friend under control. Trying to focus back on the fight at hand he scowled when Krom blasted T'charrl, getting ready to attack for that sleazy move until another blast went screaming by him, smashing into his Kaesstrian friend and sending the kid tumbling into a building, tearing it to shreds in the process. Was that his father's attack? It had to be, he doubted Shu had intentionally just aimed at their friend, even in his state. "You bastards... I'll kill you for that!" Takeshi screamed, his own energy beginning to rise quite rapidly as he tensed up on the spot. "For hurting our friends, for hurting my brother, I'll make you both pay!" Vanishing abruptly on the spot he reappeared right before Krom, letting out a shout of anger as he swung a hand out at the guy, Ki gathered in the palm as he tried to make contact and then release it simultaneously. 

"This is grand... So you do have power! Shame we can't tap into it!" Yamate laughed, stepping to the side to avoid the erratic blast. Though he was acutely aware of what was happening behind him, and the fact Takeshi too was now rampant, he was too focused on Shu at the moment to look into it. Krom would have to deal with it himself, and so long as he didn't do anything stupid he'd be fine. Watching his son come at him with claws swinging once more he reached out and caught both wrists, and with a slight exertion of strength he lifted the now larger fighter up and slammed him down onto his back, taking up into the air and gathering a blast of Ki, aiming it down at Takeshi. If he perhaps eliminated the eldest boy first then maybe Shu might achieve an even higher level of strength, then maybe they'd have something worth fighting. With energy gathered he aimed it directly at his son and Krom, letting the blast fly with no regard for his own man. To Yamate's slight surprise Takeshi was quick to react, coming at the blast and smashing it away with a strike of his own, sending the energy careening off into an adjacent building and obliterating it. With a slightly amused smirk he watched as his son went back at the Elite, leaving the King once more to contend with Shu. "To think... If your brother wasn't such a helpless moron then none of this would be happening," Yamate mused, grinning as he looked at Shu, "It's his fault you were taken, it's his fault your friends lie broken and beaten. And it's his fault you're afraid and powerless. I tried to help you Shu, it's your beloved brother who's the cause for harm."