Chapter 1: New Beginnings
Laughter echoes throughout the body filled outer space of planet Vegeta. Slowly, the area above the emperor begins to light up, with a ki sphere being formed at the tip of his finger.
Below him, a lone saiyan warrior, battered and bruised, confronts the demon with a ready arm sticking out in front of him, charging up his final attack, confident he will bring an end to Frieza's tyrannical rule and save himself and his race.
Facing the demonic leader, Bardock receives another flash into the future, a sight which gives him hope of the future, that if he fails today, someone else will stand up to this monster and end him once and for all, that person being his own son.
Charging up for one final attack to kill the monster, Bardock yells "This ends now! FRIEZA!" before throwing his arm forwards and launching his final attempt at an attack.
"Foolish monkey, do you really hope to stand a chance against me?" Frieza laughs out, before suddenly growing the tiny sphere on the tip of his finger to an unbelievable size and flicking it forwards, staring down the planet that will soon become nothing but space dust.
The ki blast that Bardock bravely launched at Frieza was easily eaten up by the death ball that was served back at the warrior, which continued its path forwards, engulfing the loyal fighters that served under Frieza like they were not even there, finally reaching Bardock.
The shock of his attack failing left Bardock immobilized, astounded at the power Frieza displayed so easily which the saiyan warrior could never compete against, allowing the ball of energy to reach Bardock, and continued its course for planet Vegeta.
Bardock received his final vision of the future, another scene which contains Kakarot facing Frieza, however this time he sees himself alongside his son, wishing for a future that gives him this outcome, that the mysterious ability which gives him the glimpses of the future allowed this outcome to become a reality.
Bardock returns to reality when his body begins to finally give up and allow itself to be engulfed by the planet destroyer. Bardock accepts defeat, and allows his eyes to close and wait for his life to come to an end.
Bardock finds himself awakening to the sound of an explosion landing a few meters away from him, decimating the nature and landscape that will leave a permanent stain on the environment.
The warrior jolts himself forwards, examining the singed trees that lay before his eyes, until he realises what has just happened.
"I'm alive?" Bardock lets out a whisper to nobody in particular, slowly dragging his eyes downwards and checking his own body, only to find that his body was in better shape than he could remember it being, heck, even the armor that he wore was practically brand new, with no cracks or bloodstains covering it like what Bardock expected to find the condition of it being in.
Before he could further examine himself, Bardock's scouter pinged and flashed before another explosion came his way, which the warrior dodged by spinning to the left and flying up into the air. Noticing that the blast came from the grassy plains which had a massive crater in it, along with two figures rushing towards a single figure, only to fail and get beaten down into the ground.
Bardock continues to watch the fight, noticing that the single fighter had saiyan armor on, which gave Bardock a small sense of relief that not everyone of his race was eradicated by Frieza, however this gives question as to what they are doing on this planet, along with why they are fighting a namekian and a race that looks very similar to a saiyan.
"Wait, this can't be… Kakarot?" Bardock comes to a slow realisation that the person fighting the saiyan is his son from his small glimpses of the future.
Not wasting anymore time, bardock rushes in between the combatants and stops the fight by easily swatting the energy blast Kakarot launched at the saiyan.
Everyone stares in complete awe that a random stranger practically teleported in view of their sight, only to easily backhand the energy blast into the sky, not harming the stranger in any way.
"Kakarot, is this really you?" Bardock says, confusing the man in question, however this only brings more confusion not only to Kakarot, but also the saiyan that the attack was originally intended for.
"Father? No, this isn't possible, you died on planet Vegeta! Lord Frieza said the planet was destroyed in a huge asteroid attack". The saiyan practically shouting his point at Bardock.
Bardock quickly turned around, taking his eyes off his son, only to quickly realise that the saiyan behind him was his other son; Raditz.
His shock instantly turning into anger when Bardock realised how Raditz addressed the demon that destroyed their homeworld.
"Lord? Do you still serve under that monster? What sort of crap is he spewing, telling you an asteroid destroyed Vegeta. He destroyed the planet with his own hand, afraid of the potential that the saiyans had within them, afraid that one day we would rebel and kill him!".
It was now Raditz' turn to go from shock to anger, shouting back "Shut up! Lord Frieza would never betray us like that, you were gone for over 20 years only to come back and drag his name through dirt and lie. I'll teach you to never make that mistake again, even if you are my father!".
Raditz launched himself forwards at amazing speed, throwing a right hook towards Bardock's face. Many years of battle and destruction allowed Bardock to dodge the attempted punch with ease, side stepping to the left, and launching his knee into Raditz' stomach, which caused the loyal saiyan to double over in pain, forcing some spit to come out of his mouth, dropping Raditz to the ground.
Goku was amazed at how easily the unknown fighter defeated his so called brother, while Piccolo was stood still, attempting to sense out just how powerful the new fighter was. This caused a bead of sweat to roll down his face, as this person was around ten times stronger that he was, causing Piccolo to take a small step back at the realisation that him and Goku did not stand a chance against Raditz, nevermind going up against this new fighter.
"Goku, do you know who he is? He addressed you by your saiyan name, plus he looks quite similar to you, and Raditz called him father at some point", Piccolo growled, knowing that the best course of action is to not fight the newcomer, but to instead allow him and Goku to speak to each other.
"Huh? Oh yeah! He does look like me, but I don't know who he is at all, maybe he'll spar with me if I ask!" Goku says with a smile on his face, which causes Piccolo's face to drop, not wanting to risk his life for a stupid fight. However, knowing how far someone's strength could go will also allow him to become stronger, and allow him to one day kill Goku, giving him a small smirk on his face at this realisation.
Both Goku and Piccolo fall into fighting stances once more, which makes Bardock adopt an excited grin at the excitement of a battle with his son, completely forgetting that he just arrived in the future. Completely forgetting all of his questions for both of his sons. Completely forgetting his hatred for Frieza and allowing his saiyan blood to take over. Dropping himself into a battle ready stance, Bardock readies himself for the battle to come.
"Shining Friday!" everyone on the battlefield turn their heads towards the voice, only to see a huge ki blast coming their way, with the three quickly dodging the blast, only for Goku to realise that the blast is heading towards the hole that Gohan was in. Goku instinctively charged towards the hole that contained his son, and threw himself into the blast. This caused a huge explosion, which after dying out revealed the space pod to be intact, however Goku was left in a bloody mess, with half his body singed from the attack, and the other to be mostly covered in blood.
The state that Kakarot has been left in enrages Bardock. Turning his head towards the assailant, Bardock lets out a huge yell which causes the ground around him to shake.
The dead body of his father also makes Gohan enraged, charging out of the space pod and completely destroying it, Gohan launched himself head first towards Raditz, only to be backhanded back into the crater by Bardock, not allowing anyone to interfere with the fight between himself and the killer of his son, even if the killer is his other son.
The amount of raw power released into the surrounding area wipes away the smirk on Raditz' face and leaves it with a look of pure shock, until his face is finally shows an absolute terrified expression. Piccolo also has the same expression left on his face, knowing full well that the powered up warrior is currently in a new realm of power compared to himself or Raditz, and decided to check if Goku is still breathing.
Bardock suddenly leaps from his spot, leaving a small crater from the part which he jumped from, and aimed a right front kick at Raditz' chest. Raditz attempted to put up his arms to defend against the kick, only to hear the bones in his arms shattering, causing the saiyan to let out a painful scream.
Bardock however was not satisfied with just that, and prepared an energy blast in his left arm, which was once again aimed at Raditz' chest.
"Riot Javelin!" shouted Bardock, releasing his energy blast at close range, hitting Raditz at point blank range and completely decimating the armor plating that he was wearing, digging further and making a massive hole in his chest, exposing bare flesh and causing Raditz to drop to the ground, not moving a muscle.
Bardock quickly regains his senses, not going any further than necessary and destroying everything in sight. This causes him to notice the pair of eyes that were on him, which were from the namekian that previously fought alongside Kakarot against Raditz.
"What do you want? Get out of my sight before I kill you" growls Bardock, which causes Piccolo to frown, but does not back down, and says "Goku was killed by Raditz, however the dragon balls will be used to bring him back to life anyway".
This causes Bardock to widen his eyes in shock, before settling back into his normal expression and allowing Piccolo to explain to him that the dragon balls are seven magical balls that can grant any wish, even a wish that brings someone back from the dead.
As Piccolo finishes his explanation, laughter can be heard from the Raditz' scouter, which explains how two more saiyans will be coming to earth, and how they want to use the dragon balls to grant their wish of immortality, all happening in 1 year worth of time.
While Piccolo realises that Bardock is powerful, he will not be able to stand up single handedly against two very powerful opponents. The namekian picks up the young child, impressed by the amount of power he displayed a few moments ago, and knew that this child will be of great help battling against the saiyan invasion next year.
Before he can take off, a ship descends onto the scene from the sky, which three people step out from, and quickly rush over to the dead body of their fallen comrade, only to realise that Goku's body is slowly fading away.
Piccolo realises that Kami took his body, and has plans for him in Other World. Meanwhile the three people that just landed confront Piccolo, who was still holding the unconscious boy.
"Hey, what're you going to do to him? That's Goku's son, leave him alone!" The shortest of the three protests, however the fear can easily be read on his face, along with the other two that accompanied him, who were not doing a better job at hiding their fear, and were shaking from the mere presence of the demon king reincarnation.
"Heh, and what do you plan on doing to me Krillin? You know full well that you cannot defeat me, but I won't kill you, not yet. You'll be needed in a fight after a year, and I'm taking the child with me to train" Piccolo explains. Without elaborating, Piccolo flies off, not answering anymore questions that the three people clearly needed answers to.
"So uh, what do we do with him?" says the only female among the three, to which the pair give confused glances towards the person that they have never seen before, who mysteriously looks like the spitting image of their dead friend.
"Well, if the saiyans are gonna be here after one year, we should probably get all the help we can", exclaims the oldest of the three, who approaches the warrior fearlessly.
"I'm Muten Roshi, the two behind me are Krillin and Bulma. You look just like Goku, however we can discuss that later, right now we need your help in dealing with the saiyans that are coming in one year, will you help us?" asks the old master.
"Sounds interesting, I have many questions that need answering, but first, is there a better place to speak?" Answers Bardock, which relaxes the trio before him.
"Yeah! Great!, follow us, there is an island not too far from here where you can rest up and we'll explain our situation to you" says Krillin happily, knowing that he won't have to fight anyone yet, and that they might've possibly gained a powerful ally.
"Alright, we'll follow you, lead the way there" says Bardock, which gives the three confused looks.
"We?" asks Bulma quizzically, wondering who else would accompany the warrior.
"Yeah, Raditz is coming with us. I'm not cruel enough to kill my own son, if that was what everyone was wondering, plus I need to be caught up on many things, since I've apparently been dead for a few decades". And with that Bardock picks up the unconscious body of Raditz, who is still bleeding profusely from the gaping hole left in his chest.
Hello! This is my first time writing a story since high school, so my writing isn't gonna be particularly good, but my English is fluent, so spelling or grammar should be correct at all times. Since it's summer, the chapters should come out quite quickly, even if there isn't high demand for this story. But, even if there is one person leaving reviews then I'll continue this story.
On another note, my writing seems weird in this first chapter, and that's because I'm trying to figure out how each character may speak and act, which is simple with Piccolo and Goku, but with the limited dialogue of Raditz and Bardock it might be difficult. Also there wasn't much fighting in this first chapter, and that will start picking up as the story progresses. The reason there wasn't much fighting and more like Bardock dominating everyone was because his power level was around 10,000, while Piccolo, Goku and Raditz was less than 2000, so when everyone's strength starts to even out more there will be more fighting.
Finally, power levels. I don't think I'll be discussing power levels that much throughout the story however that can change. I'll be using a scale which was used by Captain Space in 'Break Through The Limit' in which the system was very simple and easy to understand, and it makes my job much easier writing this story. For example, in this chapter, Goku and Piccolo were like a 1, while Raditz was a 3.5, but Bardock was a 10. This will be used every once in a while along the regular power level system, but when the numbers start reaching into the 100 million, then the Captain Space levelling system will completely take over.
And that's the end of my rambling, enjoy my story, leave reviews and whatnot.
Power Levels:
Goku: 416
Piccolo: 408
Gohan (Enraged): 1307
Raditz: 1500
Bardock: 10,000
Frieza: 530,000