ATTENTION: The opening chapter is a lot more, how should I say, 'contained' compared to what I plan to put into the rest of the fic! This is due to the fact that it is just a retelling of Frieza's final minutes before being blasted away by Goku and this is what sets up the story. After this point, my story will diverge a LOT from DBZ. Also, the next few chapters will be a LOT longer than this! Without further adieu...I hope you enjoy & please leave feedback!

Chapter 1

Prologue

The Death of Frieza

As the sky darkened to the tone of blood, the color felt befitting for what had transpired beneath its blackened clouds. The formerly green and vibrant planet of peace reduced to ash, a sphere of waste that harbored the battleground for a war of good and evil. Mountains flattened and oceans dry, punctured and worn. This was the end. The last remaining minutes of a celestial body on the breaking point of eruption.

Although the ground crumbled and covered with violent flowing magma and the atmosphere burning away by the second, the hero had prevailed over the conqueror. A tyrant defeated in battle, his legion pinned against the ground at the neck by the foot of a superior warrior. This was the first moment of true justice the maniacal Lord had felt since his humble beginnings as a child, administered by one of which he had thought to have wiped from existence. The one who had become The Legendary Super Saiyan, no less.

The mutilated monster dragged his body from the ground, gifted enough energy from his remorseful enemy to live another day. But this was not how it had been seen in his twisted mind, for defeat had not been imprinted into his ideology. The universe had no equal in power to his family, and he- the crown jewel- refused to be defeated by a 'monkey'. Of all the vile acts he had committed over the years, the people massacred and destruction following his path- the lone positive aspect of his personality was his sense of pride that revealed itself when his back was against the wall...which wasn't often. With his lower body strewn across the battlefield, and one arm left attached to his torso, the fight had still not reached its conclusion. There would be a winner here today, there would be death of one side- that was certain.

He grimaced, raising his carcass from the ground in pain, "...poor stupid Saiyan, you honestly think you've won..." he strained, "Your puny mind never could understand. I am Frieza...the most powerful being in the universe...AND YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A BEAST, A FRAGILE ANIMAL!"

As Frieza's voice bellowed up at the Saiyan, his body lifted from the ground, "You can't win, because I AM MIGHTY and you are not."

The fair haired hero continued his flight upwards, ignoring his adversary, intending to scout the nearby terrain and plan his escape route from the imploding planet.

But Frieza, in his now dramatically underpowered and beaten state, had other plans, "Now learn...LEARN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE MOST POWERFUL BEING IN THE UNIVERSE!" he roared, driving every ounce of ki in his body into one last attempt to obliterate the Saiyan.

But he would not be the victor today, nor would he ever again. As Goku turned to face the energy blast and retaliate, his words "YOU FOOL!" echoed across the space between them and Lord Frieza was helplessly engulfed for the last time. His wounded body seemingly eviscerated into ash.

As the smoke settled, and whatever physical remnants of his rival caved into the planet along with islands and lakes of water following quickly behind it, it became apparent that the fight had truly ended and it was now time to escape. However, fate had a different plan and it appeared as thought there would not be a happy ending for Goku this time. As he began searching for an aircraft that would allow him to break into space and blast away from Planet Namek, the very structure that held it together for thousands of years was beginning to collapse. Streams of molten rock and fire shot from all angles of the doomed globe, and soon, what little civilization that managed to escape Frieza's clutches had also vanished into the abyss, replaced with lava and inferno.

Without the ability to gather the necessary oxygen in the vastness of space, Goku was trapped in a limbo and his fate approached it's end.