"You fool!" roared Goku as he flew from the sight of Frieza's final attempt to destroy the super-powered saiyan. He turned around and pushed a powerful ki wave, strong enough to destroy Namek 5 times over. The frost-demon was incinerated from the blast from the super saiyan.
Goku quickly flew around the ticking time bomb known as Namek. The lush blue fields now flooded with magma from the destructive blow from the so called overlord of the universe which caused the timer for the self-destructing planet to commence. The destructive ball of negative energy thrown by Frieza was created to destroy planets almost instantly, but for some reason the blast never reached the core, therefore, the planet would be left with a slow destruction instead of its instant demise. Fortunately, Goku was given enough time to defeat the nightmare known as Frieza, but there was a big problem. The saiyan has few options for survival because he had no idea where his and Frieza's spaceship could be located.
He flew around aimlessly for a ride home, he eventually stumbled upon a disk shaped vehicle with spider-like legs meant to hold an army of soldiers. He recognized the vehicle because he was healed in one of its healing tanks before, it was Frieza's spaceship. The ship was on the verge of falling off a cliff into a crevice full of lava.
Goku dived towards the ship and threw a small ki blast which tore through the side of the spider shaped vehicle which he quickly flew through. He landed in one of the halls and began running down it in search of the control room, once he found it he blew the door open with another weak ki blast. The super saiyan ran to the control panel which had a wide variety of buttons each which held a certain purpose. Once he found the ignition, he pressed the button once and waited a couple of seconds for the ship to start, but nothing happened. The saiyan pressed the button several more times yet the ship did nothing. "C'mon, start you piece of junk!" he shouted. As Goku continuously try to start the frost-demon's ship, it began to slip off the edge of the cliff and began its descent towards the magma at the bottom of the crevice. "I take it back, you're not a piece of junk, just please work!" yelled Goku. As he continued to try to make the ship start, but to no avail. He finally gave up and flew through the window, effectively shattering it and escaping the spaceship seconds before it was engulfed by the lava.
The super saiyan felt hopeless, he had no way of escaping the planet and no way for him to ever see his family and friends again. He was ready to give up and accept his demise until he saw out of the corner of his eye a small white sphere with a small window placed on a door falling towards the magma. 'A saiyan pod!' he shouted in his head as he swiftly flew inside the ship, closed the door, started the ship, and entered random coordinates because of the lack of time he had. The ship blasted upward at great speeds and began exiting the atmosphere, but the ship was not fast enough, for they were caught in Namek's explosion and were sucked into a rip in space and time created from the sheer power of the explosion. As the ship was beginning to pass through the tear, the saiyan let go of his super form and began to fall into unconsciousness at the sight of the fireworks produced by the planet's explosion and as the world began to fade to black.
It was a beautiful morning and a certain spikey-haired kid was raining to become stronger by travelling the world without the aid of his nimbus cloud. At the moment the monkey tailed boy was on his hands through a forest while dragging a large oak tree behind him which was tied to his torso. The boy was concentrating hard on not losing his balance, but was easily distracted when a fireball crashed nearby and created a small tremor. This caused him to lose his balance and fall down.
"What was that?" questioned the young saiyan as he began walking towards the crash site while still having the tree tied to his body. When he got there his eyes widened in bewilderment at what he saw; there was a long trail of displaced dirt that got deeper the further it went until it reached a medium sized white orb made of metal with a door that had a small circular window meant for whoever was inside to see what was outside. When the young boy approached the ship, he was slightly startled when the door opened. He was further surprised when there was a heavily injured man in the spaceship lying there unconscious. After a couple of seconds the man's eyelids began to twitch and his eyes opened although he seemed pretty groggy and when he tried to get up be flinched from the pain that shot through his body.
"Agh!" shouted the man in pain.
"Are you alright mister? You look pretty beaten up." said the boy concerned.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." reassured the man.
"Hey, do you know where I a-" The man cut himself off when he got a good look at the boy. He had spikey hair just like his and the same monkey tail he had when he was younger, which only meant...'I went to the past!? How did I end up in the past? The last thing I can remember is Namek exploding and … me getting sucked into a rip in space, yup I'm in the past. So that must mean that this boy is me when I was younger, or he could somehow be another saiyan relative, I just hope he's not also evil like Turles and Raditz.' During the man's mental conversation the boy answered the man's cut off question.
"My name's Goku and I'm not sure where we are, I just came here because Master Roshi told me to travel the world to become stronger." replied Goku.
'Yup, definitely me' "Well my name is Go- I mean Kakarot" stuttered Kakarot. 'Phew, that was close. I think I'll keep my true identity a secret' he thought.
"Kakarot? That's a funny name, it kind of sounds like carrot." chuckled Goku.
"Yeah, now that you mention it is kind of funny." replied Kakarot as he was about to scratch the back of his head but flinched from the pain from his injuries and clenched his teeth to hold back a scream of pain. Goku saw the pain on the man's face and decided to help the man out of the pod. Kakarot gritted his teeth together as pain coursed through his body from moving, to him every inch was torture. Once the man was out of the pod, Goku was able to get a good look at the man; he was tall and muscular and had hair almost exactly like his. His shirt was completely torn off, revealing the man's upper body. His pants seemed to be orange but it was hard to tell because of how dirty and torn up they were. His shoes were the only things that weren't torn up. He was also scratched and bruised in almost every place imaginable.
The scream of a little girl echoed through the forest. "What was that?" said Goku.
"It sounded like a little girl." said Kakarot concerned. "We should go and help her." stated the tail-less saiyan.
"What about you, it doesn't seem like you can go that far." questioned Goku.
"Don't worry I can still walk, but I think you should go. I will catch up with you later." said Kakarot as he waved off concern of the younger saiyan.
"Well, okay. I guess I'll see you later." And with that Goku untied the rope around his waist and sped off towards where he last heard the scream.
Once Goku was out of sight, Kakarot collapsed on to the ground from the pain of standing. 'Ugh, I feel awful for lying to him, even if he is me. I just don't want him being slowed down just because I'm injured.' he tried to get up but failed. 'My legs are so sore that I can't even get up.' thought Kakarot. He eventually got an idea and began levitating off of the ground. 'Well at least I have enough energy to fly.' he thought as he began flying in the direction that Goku went at a casual pace.
When Goku arrived where he heard the scream, he saw a giant anthropomorphic tiger wearing warrior themed armor with a sheath which held a large sword that was that was slightly curved upward. The tiger was holding a little girl that seemed slightly older than Goku and had dark brown hair in two separate braids. "Ah! Help! Somebody please help me!" cried the girl. "Shut up girl, nobody can hear you!" shouted the tiger. The giant was ready to eat the girl, it was at that time that Goku decided to intervene and kick the tiger hard in the face which sent him flying for miles. After he kicked the tiger away he quickly caught the girl and held her bridal style until they landed. Once he put her down the girl looked to Goku, astounded by the sheer power the boy used to defeat the giant.
"Are you okay?" said Goku concern evident in his voice.
"I'm fine, thank you" An idea struck the girl. "Could you please come to my village, your strength could really do some good." said the girl cheerfully.
"Sure, but I've got to wait for my friend Kakarot first." said Goku.
Just then, Kakarot limped into view and Goku and the little girl ran up to him concerned.
"Are you okay, Mister?" said the little girl.
"I'm fine, just a little sore that's all." said Kakarot. "Who is this, Goku?"
"Oh, that's right. I never did ask you what your name was." remembered Goku.
"My name is Chao, what's your names?" asked Chao.
"My name is Goku, and this is my friend Kakarot." introduced Goku as Kakarot extended his hand towards the young girl. She gladly shook his hand and began explaining the reason she needed Goku while assuming Kakarot was unable to be of much help due to his major injuries.
"You see, my village is being terrorized by two men known as Plague and Terror, we called them that for that is what they are to us. When I saw how strong Goku was, I knew that he could save my village from them." explained Chao
"Don't worry about it, I'm sure Goku can help out, but I'm afraid I will have to stay here because I'm too injured to help out." admitted Kakarot, knowing he wouldn't not be able to assist them because of his previous battle.
"Well if you want my village is most-likely able to help get you healed, but we will get in trouble from those men if we go now." said Chao, sounding slightly hopeful for the first little bit of her sentence.
"That sounds great! If you want I can wait here while you two head to the village and you can come back when you want me to go back with you." said Kakarot as cheerful as ever.
"That's a great idea Kakarot! We will come back once we free Chao's village. Well, we will see you later. Bye!" said Goku as both him and Chao ran off towards the village, leaving Kakarot all by his lonesome.
'Well, I'm kind of beat. I think I'll take a nap, who knows I might heal faster if I get some more rest.' he thought as he sat down and leaned against a rock formation and slipped into a peaceful slumber.