Bardock could feel his life slowly draining from his body as he staggered back to the landing pad. His desperate warning to the other saiyans had fallen on deaf ears. Laughter at the morbid prediction. Flashes of Fasha's and Toma's broken bodies pushed Bardock forward. The demons of his past wouldn't allow him to sleep until the deed was done. Rage bubbled beneath Bardock's bleeding body.

He was going to pay, he thought.

The pain overwhelmed Bardock for a moment, forcing him to the ground. He could feel his ribs ready to give way at any moment. The pain began to dull the saiyan's burning passion, allowing him to think rationally once more. A sharp flash of pain threw him into another harrowing vision of the future.

Blue grass and green sky filled his vision as the crippling pain that had forced him to the ground subsided. As Bardock weakly rose to his feet, he could see two warriors in the distance. The two stood in silence, neither one wanting to make the first move. Both pillars of power. Both prodigies. Bardock recognised one of them within an instant. Lord Frieza. The hatred exploded again from within Bardock's chest. The monster that had kept his race as slaves for all of Bardock's life, now stood before him. Hatred was too weak a word for the dying saiyan's burning anger. Memories of all the times Frieza had looked down on his race. The hell Bardock and others like him went through every day to feed the ego of the tyrannical dictator. Bardock wanted to scream out in furious anger but his body wouldn't let him. It was like his lungs had filled with water but he could still breathe.

Finally, the other warrior moved and Bardock's attention shifted to him. Kakarot. His own son began to confidently walk up to Frieza. Within a moment, the battle exploded, sending Bardock flying backwards.

His mind was violently thrown back into reality, leaving Bardock to ponder on the vision. Saiyan pride began to flow through his veins, forcing him to stand despite the pain. He looked up at Frieza approaching ship. The vision of the destruction of his planet was still fresh in his mind. With boiling blood, Bardock bent down and began to charge ki in his legs. Reason had been lost as his pride and fury took over. He would defeat Frieza. For everything he did to the saiyans. For Kakarot. For Raditz. For every saiyan on Planet Vegeta. Bardock was going to finish this.

But something stopped him. Every fiber of his being pushed him forwards but he couldn't. For the first time in his entire life, Bardock thought of his son. The son he'd put all of his hope into. To defeat Frieza. The boy was a weakling. he could never stand up to the might of Frieza on his own. Bardock would have to train him if he ever wanted to challenge the emperor.

But there was something else that also beated through his heart. Care for the boy?Staring up at Frieza ship, a cold heart warmed, if only for a moment. That moment of care and love pushed Bardock back to his feet.

Kakarot.

The memory of the son he'd ignored.

Raditz.

The next generation of saiyans.

Bardock.

Would be Frieza's undoing.

A small group of engineers worked on a recently landed spacepod nearby. Even in this weakened state, none of them came close to Bardock's raw power. Weakly, the saiyan stumbled over to them, blood still pouring from the wounds Dodoria had inflicted on him. Time was running out. The destruction of the planet was only moments away. Bardock had to act quickly. A small rat-like engineer saw Bardock and called out,

"Sorry, Bardock. No one's allowed off of the planet. Frieza's orders."

Bardock shot a thin energy blast between the engineer's eyes. His body instantly went limp and fell to the ground. The others stood stunned as Bardock gingerly got into the spacepod, letting out a powerful burst of energy as a parting gift.

The remaining engineers were thrown to the ground as the pods door shut and rose up into the air.

I'm coming, Kakarot, thought Bardock. We're going to kill that bastard Frieza.

A small outfit of soldiers heard the commotion from outside and rushed out of the main building. Luckily, Bardock's ship was only a few moments from taking off, leaving the soldiers with only a parting view of the escaping spacepod. Bardock relaxed back in the chair. His injuries were much worse than he thought they were. Removing his scouter, consciousness faded from Bardock's mind as the anesthesia from the pod kicked in.

"Don't worry, Kakarot. I'm coming."

Within the cockpit of the orbiting spaceship, Frieza drank wine as he surveyed the saiyan's homeworld. His two elite warriors stood beside him.

"This is the world that those monkeys hail from," Frieza mocked condescendingly, "Dirty and brutish. Much like those disgusting saiyans, don't you agree Zarbon?"

The taller of the two minions replied, "Well said, Lord Frieza. They are a blight to our beautiful military. I'm glad you're finally dealing to them."

Frieza chuckled to himself. Though his two minions were predictable, they still gave him momentary enjoyment. Out of the corner of his eye, Frieza noticed a lone spacepod leaving the red atmosphere of the doomed planet. Strange, he thought, there weren't any ships supposed to be leaving Planet Vegeta, I made sure of it. Frieza pondered over the ship as it rose towards him. If it had been any other day, Frieza would have hunted that pod down. Death would have been a welcome release for the scum that dared to defy Lord Frieza. While sipping the drink in his hand, he thought of all the energy required for him to deal to it. It wasn't worth it.

"Zarbon, is everything ready for the fireworks?"

Zarbon bowed down and replied,

"Every filthy saiyan is down on that planet, other than the prince, as you requested. Whenever you are ready, my lord."

Frieza floated his chair up and out of his ship and rested at the top with his two companions. All of the soldiers stationed around the ship looked in confusion as their lord watched over them. He raised one finger. And then it was all over for the saiyans.

The explosion rocked Bardock's escaping pod but his body didn't wake. Bardock and his son both sped away from their exploding home, on course to a planet that they knew nothing about. Comforting thoughts flooded Bardock's mind. Little did he know that his decision of leaving Planet Vegeta, may have just doomed him and his son.

After a few months, Bardock was violently awoken. A series of beeps notified him that he'd reached his destination.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm awake…"

Unluckily, suspended animation didn't do much for wounds so his chest still felt like it was about to explode. The door slide open, bathing Bardock in warm sunlight. Bird song comforted him as he slumped into the crater that his pod had just made. Outside of the crater, Bardock could hear the cries of a baby. After crawling to the top of the cavernous crater, Bardock saw another crater with an identical spacepod in it. He carefully rolled down until he made contact with the the circular spaceship. The door had also opened to reveal a crying baby.

"Dammit, Kakarot! Stop your crying!"

The baby suddenly stopped crying and curiously studied his father's scared face. A small hand grabbed hold of Bardock's hair and gave it a slight tug.

"That's better. Now what the hell are we going to do."

A shadow slowly formed over Kakarot's pod and said,

"You alright there, son."

Bardock's battle instincts took over and within a moment, he was on his feet with Kakarot in his arms. Above him stood an old man with a walking stick. Normally, Bardock would have dealt to the occupants of the planet he was about to take over, but his wounds would only barely allow him to stand, let alone fight. The old man posed little threat to him alone, but if he brought the planets military, Bardock would have some trouble. Using the last of his strength, Bardock flew up into the air and sped off, trying to make as much distance as he could. The old man merely stood bemused, taken aback by such an impressive display of power. After a moment, the confusion wore of and the man continued on his way.

Bardock's desperate escape only lasted a moment as his body gave in and he fell to the forest's floor. The blood began to flow from his chest once more. He sat up and put Kakarot on the ground in front of him before saying painfully,

"What are we going to do now, Kakarot? I just need to get my strength back so I can purge this planet. Then we can rebuild the saiyan empire."

Kakarot began to laugh at his father's devilish goal. Bardock gave a small smile in response. They both sat in silence for a moment before it was broken by Bardock's stomach gurgling.

"Christ, I'm hungry. I need to get some food before I end up eating you, Kakarot."

Kakarot didn't laugh at that.

Bardock weakly stood up and began to walk away before turning back to his son's confused face.

"Right, you need to come with me as well. Damn, that's annoying."

Bardock scooped up Kakarot in his tail before stumbling into the dark unknown

Far away, a lone figure stood with his eyes closed and a nervous look on his face. Another person, who was watering some turned nearby plants, turned and said,

"What's wrong, Kami."

"Something powerful just landed on this planet, Mr. Popo. Much stronger than anything that I've ever felt before."

The shorter of the two shot up from his watering and looked out into the clouds.

"Stronger than you, Kami? Is the energy good or evil?"

"I don't know, Mr. Popo. I don't know."