Piccolo was frozen still from where he was at the time. The late-night bestowed the glory of the full moon before the dangerous ground where a hundred foot rampaging monkey beast ran amok. The man's power had increased tenfold compared to what he had before. He knew not of a way he'd be able to beat such a thing. Before Raditz far surpassed his own strength and for it to just grow at such a rate had him utterly mesmerized, especially being within close proximity to it.

Raditz's loud roars resonated through the very heavens of the planet, splitting the darkened clouds of the bright night. Piccolo remained there, grinding his teeth. He knew that it wouldn't be best to just stand there and not do anything.

As much as he could, Piccolo channeled his chi into the very palm of his hands, powering it up to the very limit. A big bulge was left in his arm prior to a giant wave of ki finally being released. The target, being the beast, struck him hard.

A little bit of smoke came from the area of impact, it being its furry shoulders. The long-haired beast turned around, its foot trembling the very ground with each step. His bright red eyes looked right at Piccolo. All he could see was red. Regardless of the insanely hard time he was having to maintain his conscience, Raditz tried his best to remain under control of such a beastly form. The urge to just give in was there but he avoided it best he could.

"Hahahahaha!" Raditz laughed. The mere force of his voice had Piccolo wanting to fall to his very knees. As he laughed in his face, mocking him, Piccolo was almost like a deer stuck in headlights. "The green man wishes to die first!" The beast opened its mouth wide. Out through the very sharp fangs came a purple ball of energy.

Piccolo was put on alert mode and shot to the side as quickly as his body would permit him, all the while being in the midst of taking off his weighted clothing so he'd be much agile. The heavy turban and cloak he had on just moments prior were both evaporated to pure nothing from the simple touch of Raditz's attack.

KADOOM! ! !

Piccolo was sweating bullets. The attack that Raditz sent at him destroyed multiple mountains at once, emptying the entire area. Down below now, Piccolo was looking up at the menacing ape. "S-Such destructive power..."

"PICCOLO!"

Hearing the voice, both Piccolo and Raditz turned to the side, seeing Goku dashing over into the area with them as well. "Goku!"

"AHH, KAKAROT!" Raditz boomed.

Goku, looking at the beast, gulped down a hard knot in his throat. The very sight of this thing made the insides of his stomach turn, all the while there being a deep ominous yet familiar feeling about this. "W-What the hell's going on?" Goku asked.

"H-He's transformed!" Piccolo yelled, pointing out the obvious.

"How!?"

"I told you, Kakarot," Raditz bellowed, "had you not fit in with these group of weaklings, you too would be capable of completing your mission."

"I already told you that I'd do no such thing!" Goku barked, "what part of NO do you not understand?"

"To reject us would be to reject your family, your race, and everything you come from, Kakarot. Such sedition is a consequence paid with your life!" Raditz launched directly for Goku.

Goku's hair stuck up from the back of his neck to his very hair. For such a big beast, Raditz had a speed that even he was incapable of managing to calculate. Raditz drove his large hairy fist right against his brother's useless defense. Goku's bones in his arms were on the verge of shattering from the mere impact as he was sent soaring through the night skies.

"Shit!" Piccolo shot up into the air and placed his left hand over his right arm, which was aimed for Raditz. "DIE!" Another wave of ki came from Piccolo once more, the force of this attack being much stronger than the first one he used initially.

Yet still...

Nothing.

The green demon was left completely dumbfounded, trembling in his shoes. "A-Ah..."

Raditz's focus diverted from his brother and to Piccolo, who was shaking in the presence of such power. Raditz relished on seeing his victims in fear of his raw power. It put a delightful smile on his beastly face. "You die!" Raditz fired a blast from the palm of his hand.

Piccolo shot up as quick as he could but to no avail. While lucky to remain alive, a great portion of his body had been struck. Piccolo came back down with a loud thud, groaning in total agony. The entire lower portion of his body from the waist down was no longer visible. Blood leaked down just before him from the area of where he had been detached.

Raditz laughed as he stomped his way near Piccolo, slowly inching closer. The man had all the opportunity to kill him from the moment he landed, but he loved to engrave those final moments of total hopelessness against his victim as fear and anguish loomed over their very being. The loud stomps that approached Piccolo was a mere entail of his demise coming much, much sooner.

Raditz lifted his giant boot off the ground and let it hover over Piccolo, blocking all light from him. "Now you die!"

GRIP! ! !

Raditz had his foot coming down at a quick speed, but he stopped at a moment's notice. Something had got a hold of him from behind. His red eyes shook in worry and anger. No doubt, Kakarot had his tail.

Goku took advantage of Raditz's divided attention and seized the moment to grab at his tail. He remembered hating whenever someone grabbed at it when he was a little boy because it would always suck the strength out of him. With his hands and arms wrapped around Raditz's gigantic furry tail, he just hoped that the grip would have somewhat an influence on Raditz, despite him being in a totally different state.

Raditz could feel his power sapping by the second and he was getting livid. If Goku were to succeed in holding out on a long enough period, then it would render Raditz totally weak and defenseless against any other antics that this duo would have in taking him down.

"G-Get off me, Kakarot!" he yelled. As hard as it was for him, Raditz used grit to lash his tail downward as hard as he could. Goku had a tight grip and tried to maintain the hold, but to no avail. His nails dug through the fur of Raditz's tail, eliciting a shriek, prior to Goku falling hard on his back, forming a sizeable crater beneath him.

Raditz felt hot and a bit weak. Slowly, the strength he was losing was getting back to him. For as long as he lived, that tail of his was still a weakness that he was yet to get rid of. After catching his breath, Raditz consciously wrapped his giant tail of his around the waist and slowly turned back to Goku, who was just getting back up.

"You...YOU INGRATE! I will crush you!"

Goku ripped off the top shirt that made up his orange gi, letting it slam into the ground below him. His glare intensified at the red eyes of the beast. Now it was all or nothing. "I told you to leave my planet! I gave you a chance!"

"If you think a Saiyan warrior like myself will ever back down from a fight, you are sadly mistaken! We don't run away, Kakarot!"

"Heh." Goku crouched down and cupped his hands. "Same here. HAVE A TASTE OF MY SUPER KAMEHAMEHA!" A blue radiant ball of light began to generate in the midst of his hands. "KAME...!"

"Not before I say something about it!" Raditz hopped off the ground.

"YAAAA!" Piccolo shot from below and blindsided Raditz with a blow to the eye, sidetracking the Saiyan savage.

Raditz's body shifted over to the side a bit, but he caught his balance in no time. "You fucking nuisance!" Raditz barked. "I thought you had no le-" he stopped mid-sentence. Catching the eye of Piccolo, he saw that the entire lower half of his body had come back. Being an asexual being, Piccolo had no such privates or genitals of sorts. A green slime was dripping from his very foot, showing that they had just regrown. He was panting heavily, sweating bullets. A large portion of his power was taken away just by having to regenerate his missing limbs. It was either that or fight to the death with half a body remaining. "HOW!?" Raditz couldn't believe that he was even still alive.

"GOKU NOWW!" Piccolo yelled.

Goku was just finishing up the chant needed in order to produce a full-blow superpowered Kamehameha wave. The width of the bright blue beam was almost just as large as Raditz's body in the form he was in.

"N-No!" Raditz fired a non-generated ball of ki from his mouth in defense. The mere size of Goku's monstrous attack had him worried. For such a big wave of ki to near him with a greater speed than he had ever witnessed was trouble and he knew it. To take it head-on would be a fool's mistake.

The two attacks clashed. With that followed a loud bang, the sounds of them colliding being much morse than that of a sonic boom and a thunderclap coming together. Piccolo was blown to his back at the mere impact of their attacks, all the while covering his face to block the blinding light.

Goku had his feet dug into the soil of the ground as he brought everything he could up at Raditz, who was just watching the ball of ki he shot out struggle against his brother. He was amazed at Goku's performance, seeing him genuinely stand up to it. "Just save yourself the trouble and die!"

Goku's entire body was twitching now. He knew not if he'd be able to keep up with such great exertion of the body for so long in this clash. His Super Kamehameha was a full powered attack, which just about doubled his current power, but still...it wasn't enough. "I-I can't...give up!" He roared.

"Tch! Persistent!" Raditz raised his foot and stomped on the ground.

The trembling impact took Goku off balance and had him lose the hold he already had. He was stumbling a bit as he tried to uphold his power over Raditz's attack. The ball of ki came closer and closer, constantly pushing against the blue wave of energy Goku solely produced.

Meanwhile, Piccolo observed everything from afar. With his own very eyes, he saw the grip that Goku once had was slipping...

Bad.

"If he lets that hit him, he's dead!"

Goku realized at this point that he wouldn't come out triumphant in this struggle. The purple ball got closer and closer. The heat of the attack could be felt overpowering the one his own emitted. "I can't let it get closer!" Goku's head jerked up and he stared. directly at the light. His eyes went pupiless for a split moment, prior to there being another explosion

KABOOSH! ! !

The blasts of his Kamehameha, as well as the one Raditz, had both detonated simultaneously, forming a great impact of force.

"D-Did you feel that?" Krillin asked, turning his head to Roshi.

The old-timer, though still drunk, knew that matters were serious at the current moment. The shockwave from afar had the waters splashing on their shore and the battle was being carried for miles and miles away. "Yes, Krillin, I did."

Krillin's head lowered in a panic with clenched fists. He knew Goku had power over this mysterious guy, but his doubt was rising now. Knowing Goku, the fight would be over in no time, but why was such power being felt from there?

Something just wasn't right about this.

"Master, I'll go," Krillin told Roshi, "to make sure everything's okay!"

"If you get caught in the middle of that, you'll be killed!" Bulma warned.

Roshi stared at Krillin and just nodded. He, like Bulma, thought the very same, but there was no holding his student back. It was Krillin's decision to make. "Bulma and I will stay here and watch Gohan."

Krillin nodded. "Right!" He dashed out the door and shot high into the sky. Roshi watched Krillin fly over the illuminated waters. Goku was already in peril, he could feel it. For Krillin to join would be suicide. As Krillin's former master, he only hoped things would play out just right for everyone.

"Look!" Gohan said, getting Bulma and Roshi's attention. The two turned around to see Gohan right by the window, pointing up at the sky. "A full-moon!"

Bulma's eyes shifted from Gohan's eyes and back to his tail, which was wagging back and forth softly.

Looks like Krillin putting himself in danger would be the least of their worries now.

Goku's back had gashed from sliding through the ground as he did from the impact. He was huffing and puffing, heaving for air. His eyesight was a bit woozy, but he knew he could still fight. He tried to lean up quickly, but the pain surging through his upper body didn't permit him to do so as fast as he would have liked.

SMACK! ! !

Goku was struck by Raditz's hard tail. He didn't seem it coming and had no chance to prepare himself for it. He was skidding across the green grass below, bruises and marks being left all over his body. Face down in the grass, Goku had blood leaking from his reddened mouth.

"G-Gragh!"

"BUWAHAHAhAHAHAAHAHA! Not looking so fresh, are you now, Kakarot?" Goku got back up to his feet and stared up at the giant beast. He couldn't believe that such a thing existed before in his lifetime. Just looking up high at it made him consider running away, though he knew that the very core of his being would never allow such a thing. "Even in the face of death, you don't back down! As much a disgrace you are to our family as well as our entire race, the Saiyan blood you were born with runs hard in your veins. You can't run because your pride won't let you!"

"No!" Goku weakly shouted, "I can't run because I can't let you win!" He hopped off his foot, only to be smacked right back down by Raditz.

"Whatever makes you feel better, Kakarot. I won't try to ruin your last moments."

The force of Raditz's strike did Goku well. He couldn't stand up immediately and had to remain on the ground to catch his breath. There was a deep sense of urgency to get back up with Raditz over him, but Goku just couldn't do so.

All hope seemed to be lost.

Baboosh!

Raditz, hearing an explosion, turned around to look up. Through Piccolo's black pupils, the reflection of dazzling metallic iron and molten falling down from the very destruction of the moon. He was just going to get to do it, but somebody must have gotten there before him.

Nonetheless, it was a great savior!

As Piccolo was relieved, Goku was confused, and Raditz was just left panicking. Without the presence of the full moon, his total power would plummet back down to where it was before, perhaps leaving him weaker than his brother.

Slowly, the brown fur he was encompassed with began to vanish, revealing that of normal skin. The red eyes were no more and the snout he had reverted back to the shape of a normal humanoid figure. Everything about him was now normal, as well as his height.

He wasn't very pleased.

"He's back to normal form," Piccolo told Goku.

"I-I know..." Goku slowly got back to his two feet, vastly weakened. He looked ahead at Raditz, who was seething in anger and frustration. "I...I gave you a chance to leave..."

Raditz scoffed and glanced at Piccolo. He noted that the both of them were in bad shape. Piccolo was already weaker than him the first moment they met, so he wasn't much to worry about now.

But Goku, he had no idea. His scouter was in the pod of his a couple hundred yards behind Goku, so there wasn't any way for him to be able to tell Goku's power. Being able to suppress his own was only half of the technique.

"Despite being able to revert me back to my normal state, the two of you are much weaker. I, on the other hand, didn't lose much power at all. To continue this fight would be signing your own death certificates."

Raditz was indeed right. Goku and Piccolo were both already aware of this. Their powers had taken a little plummet during the fight, which had Goku really nervous, but confident in a way. A grin didn't leave his face, which weirded Raditz out a bit.

"You're right, but with the both of us fighting together, we'll be able to take you on without a problem."

Piccolo was left mouth agape at Son's statement. Did he just hear Goku right? The both of them, teaming up together...to beat this guy? Why would he ever? The mere thought of fighting side by side with his arch nemesis made him want to vomit.

"Why the hell would I want to team up with the very person I intend to kill?" Piccolo asked, walking near them both.

"So we can defeat this guy," Goku told Piccolo, "fight him together and we can win this for sure."

Piccolo's eye twitched. "You're just as powerful as he is. Why don't I just let you two fight it out so I can kill the both of you when you're weak enough?"

Raditz hissed. Hearing the two speaking with one another as if he weren't there instead of fighting was getting on his last nerve. "END OF DISCUSSION!" He zapped out of sight.

Piccolo was sent sliding through the grass and Goku quickly moved to the side, missing a knee to the hip. It was a very close call and Goku realized that Raditz was really going all out now. With the condition that he was in, fighting his elder brother would be much more of a challenge.

He was looking forward to it.