Goku rushed through the air at Cooler's lax form. Frieza was…somewhere. Heck, maybe on the other side of the planet from that kick Cooler had given him. He'd be back, eventually.

The hero threw a left jab that Cooler merely turned to evade. Goku was shocked and left wide open to a powerful knee to his stomach, followed by a punishing elbow to the back. After freefalling out of the sky for a moment, he regained his senses and just barely dodged being impaled by the spikes on Cooler's skull.

"You're a quick one!" chuckled Cooler as he took in the serious look on Goku's face. "Not quick enough, though!"

Before the hero could think about it, Cooler disappeared and reappeared above him. He barely had time to be surprised before Cooler crashed his clasped hands down on his shoulder. Goku was sent flying out of the air and smacking into one of the few remaining islands on Namek.

He'd managed to keep himself from slamming clean through the rock, but that didn't mean smacking against the ground was any less painful. He couldn't rest though, and quickly pulled himself back to his feet.

"Tired already, Saiyan!" Goku turned to the deep voice, knowing obviously it was Cooler.

The tyrant was rushing in from the water, catching more and more speed as he charged towards Goku. "Crap," was all that Goku managed to say before Cooler cut across the land and slammed an unimaginably powerful punch into his stomach.

He didn't stop there. Goku was forced back across the land with Cooler's fist still planted in his stomach until they crashed against the surface of a rock formation. Blood and spit flew from Goku's mouth as he attempted to catch his breath from the impact.

Cooler chuckled darkly and said, "Let's see if I can grow a monkey tree!"

With that, Cooler used the fist still buried in Goku's abdomen to push the hero into the air and slam him down into the ground with so much force that Goku was buried deep into the earth, alongside nearly splitting the island in two.

Cooler didn't have long to enjoy his triumph before Frieza appeared out of nowhere with a thunderous punch to his jaw. The elder tyrant flew deep into the rock formation as it burst from the impact.

Goku just then pulled himself back to the surface, breathing heavily as he did so. "I wish he'd give us a handicap or something!" he cheered as he tried to pull himself out of the hole.

Frieza stepped over to him and yanked him up by his hair. "How's this?!" he sneered placing his palm directly in front of Goku's face and blasting the Saiyan deep off into the hole. "Putrid monkey!" he added once Goku was out of commission.

Just as Frieza was turning back to the crumbling rock formation, Cooler rushed him with a solid left punch to the face, a right jab to the side, and powerful knee that struck Frieza's face and sent him stumbling back.

"That was just plain evil!" mocked Cooler, having seen Frieza rather's malicious display.

Frieza sneered away the pain of Cooler's attack and replied, "Screw you and that damned Saiyan! Only the strong will survive this!" Not wasting a second, Frieza rushed forward with a barrage of punches and kicks aimed at Cooler, naturally the elder brother merely dodged around the rapid assault like they were nothing.

"I hate you! I hate everything about you! I wish I'd killed you when we were children!" roared Frieza through his chaotic, yet fruitless attack.

Cooler chuckled. "My sentiments exactly!" He then snatched up both of Frieza's hands and slammed his skull into his brother's head once, twice, thrice before lifting a leg to kick Frieza under his chin and send him piercing into the sky.

With his attention drawn to the sky, Cooler chuckled as he caught sight of Goku. The little pest was up there preparing an attack. Cooler waited patiently, and sure enough, Goku fired the massive Kamehameha wave right down at the Super Arcosian. "I love this part!" he declared, rushing off into the blaring wave of energy.

"No way!" exclaimed Goku in shock as Cooler sped through his most powerful attack with ease.

In no time, Cooler appeared out the energy wave with a solid punch to Goku's skull that nearly knocked the hero senseless. Before he could get away though, Cooler snatched Goku up by his shirt and lifted his other hand, a purple aura wrapping around it.

"Consider this Salza's revenge! Now off with your head!" roared Cooler swinging the ki blade of a hand down to slice Goku's head off of his shoulders.

Thankfully, the hero managed to duck under the attack only getting a tiny bit of his golden hair trimmed off. The attack awakened Goku's resolve; he spun and slammed a thunderous kick into Cooler's side, followed by another kick to the face that sent the massive monster flying across the skyline.

Cooler didn't have long to fly before Frieza capitalized with a powerful energy wave that speared Cooler down into the water with a bright and powerful explosion.

While Cooler was down, Goku took the moment to try and catch his breath. "At this rate, we won't last much longer," he hissed through the pain racking his body. "As much as I hate it, Frieza and I might have to team up." He looked across at the younger Arcosian and made a note of the hateful glare he was receiving. "That might be easier said than done."

As if in agreement, Frieza chose that exact moment to encapsulate his body in a ball of purple energy and rush at Goku. The hero attempted dodging the first few attempts, but Frieza's pinball like attack soon caught him and he was forced to meet it head on.

Goku grunted against the force in his palms as he tried to push back against Frieza's attack, but was actually having a difficult time. "Frieza!" he grunted out as he looked through the purple energy separating the two. "We have to work together! Cooler is too strong!"

"I'll never work with you, you pathetic primate!" roared Frieza as the purple energy flared and he finally overpowered Goku.

Frieza sped them through the air, spinning and rotating as he disoriented Goku, before finally crashing them against the wall of the massive crater he created earlier in his attempt to blow up the planet.

"I'll die before I side with a Saiyan!" he added, moving just far enough away from Goku to form a purple orb of energy and hurl it at Goku.

The hero easily dodged around the attack before speeding up and crashing his elbow into Frieza's jaw. "He's slaughtering us, Frieza! Don't you get it?!" he demanded as Frieza was knocked aside.

The tyrant recovered soon enough and replied with, "I'll slaughter you!" He threw both hands forward, a scatter of energy blasts rushing over at Goku.

He managed to dodge around them all easily enough before moving right up to Frieza and snatching up both of his hands. "Fine then, Frieza! DON'T work with me!" Goku then planted both of his boots in Frieza's stomach, sending the galactic menace shooting into the air. A split second later, he appeared and slammed clasped hands into Frieza's back and sent the tyrant shooting off into the gigantic hole of the crater.

"Don't fight, kiddies!" Goku turned around to the voice, shocked to see Cooler floating high in the sky with a gigantic ball of orange energy in his hands. "Just die!"

Before Goku could think to dodge, Cooler threw the Supernova to the ground, forcing the hero to meet it head on. Arcs of light splayed in all directions as Goku's hands slammed against the Supernova in an effort to force it back, but it proved too powerful and pushed the hero out of the air and down into the colossal crater below.

"No! No! No! NO!" he urged against the ball, but couldn't force the energy back, his fatigue beginning to catch up with him.

"You weak fool!" Goku's eyes sprouted in shock, not just from the unexpected words, but from the sudden lightness of the Supernova. He looked to his left and was surprised further as Frieza was now pushing back against the ball of energy too.

He'd completely forgotten that Frieza had been caught in the hole.

"Don't just look at me, you idiot! PUSH!" urged the tyrant as his purple aura flared and he pressed against Cooler's attack.

Goku nodded in agreement before his golden aura roared to life and their combined battle cries resounded from within the deep crater as they forced the attack back to its owner.

"Can't believe they're actually working together," exclaimed the eldest tyrant as he watched his attack begin rising back out of the hole. "I suppose miracles happen every once in a while," he chuckled as the attack suddenly launched back at him.

He moved aside and watched casually as the Supernova flew off into the dark skies of the planet. He couldn't help noting that it wouldn't be too much longer until the planet's destruction. Maybe it was time that he finished the two pests off.

"RAGHHH!" The tyrant dropped his gaze just as Goku and Frieza appeared with fists aimed to strike. He barely had time to block against the two powerful blows, grunting intensely as they slammed against his body.

And then, like sparks of lightning, they were off. Crashes of thunder resounded from the skies of Namek as the trio clashed all about the skies. Moving at an impossible rate to follow, they zipped about in the air, only appearing for the slightest of seconds as their attacks landed. Just then, they were back in vision – Frieza and Goku on either side, while Cooler fought off their barrage of punches and kicks in the center.

Admittedly, he was having trouble, not that he'd ever say it aloud.

A punch from Goku to the jaw. A kick from Frieza to the ribs. A knee to the abdomen. An elbow to the temple. The attacks were coming in faster than Cooler could register. Those damned weaklings were actually beating him!

Another resounding clash struck the skies as both Frieza and Goku slammed two powerful punches to Cooler's stomach. The elder tyrant curled in on himself, eyes bulging from the pain of it. "Not so high and mighty now, huh Cooler?!" mocked Frieza.

That was all that it took for Cooler to ignore the pain. "More than you'll ever be!" he roared in return as he launched forward and slammed Goku's and Frieza's heads together, the duo's eyes glazing over from the impact. "Get lost!" he added before spinning and slamming his massive tail into the duo, knocking them away.

Goku was the first to recover though, before launching back into battle against Cooler, getting two firm punches into Cooler's face before rocking the tyrant with a spinning heel kick that sent him flying across the sky.

Cooler blinked away the pain of Goku's strike, suddenly realizing exactly how tired he'd gotten. "It isn't that they were working together. I'm getting tired," he hissed to himself before stopping and glaring back at the glowing Saiyan. He pulled back the bone mask to wipe a stray trail of blood, making sure to keep an eye of Goku. "I was too foolhardy in wasting so much time and energy when I haven't properly exercised this form. Now I'm beginning to lose power."

Goku disappeared, moving rapidly to attack. Cooler growled in anger. "But I'm not beaten yet!" He spun, slamming a fist into Goku's face just before the Saiyan could attack.

Before he could continue attacking though, Goku swung up a kick to Cooler's chin that snapped the tyrant's head back. They backed away from each other for another moment and that's when Cooler saw it. It was far away, far, far away, but it was there. It was huge, green, glowing, and it looked like…it looked like…

"THE DRAGON!" roared Frieza, and Cooler knew exactly what dragon he was talking about. Before Goku or Cooler could think to stop him, the younger tyrant exploded out of the sky towards Namek's dragon, a maniacal glint in his eye as he rocketed through the air.

He can't get immortality! He can't! He can't! was all that Cooler could think as he suddenly lunged forward. "MOVE!" he roared, backhanding Goku away as his own aura flared and he shot through the air like a bullet.

It wasn't long until Cooler caught up to Frieza. Thankfully he hadn't grown so tired that Frieza's speed outclassed his. Not wasting a second with words or threats, he dove down to strike Frieza out of the air, but his younger brother was quicker to the punch, literally.

"Get out of my WAY!" Frieza seethed, turning to Cooler and striking in a storm of punches that far outdid any other attack he'd done so far. Cooler was so shocked from the power in the punches that he was overpowered and sent into the sea with an axe handle to the back of the head.

Frieza sped back off, his eyes manic with excitement as he soared closer and closer to the mystical dragon that could give him the one thing that he could never buy.

"No!" He turned just in time to see Goku's boot fly into his face.

An anger like no other ran through his body. He blocked out the pain of the kick and quickly answered back with a thunderous punch to the chest. While the air ran from Goku's lungs, Frieza snatch the hero by his hair, yanked him into a knee to the face, then a headbutt that sent blood spewing from Goku's nose, and finally Frieza grabbed him by his leg and spun him around a few times before sending the Saiyan hero flying off elsewhere.

With both nuisances down, Frieza flew back out to the dragon. He could practically count the scales on the massive creature he was so close. Then, there was a flash of light and Frieza found himself with yet another obstacle, but this was one he'd certainly not been expecting.

"V-vegeta!" he exclaimed as he took in the smug expression on his former soldier's face, the former soldier that he thought he'd seen Cooler kill.

"Gee, a guy's dead for a few hours and things change so much! I have to admit it, Frieza, you look like hell," responded Vegeta with a devious smirk. His eyes then lifted to see Goku and Cooler reappear behind the tyrant. "Kakarot, you sly dog! You did it after all! You've become a Super Saiyan!" he chuckled before his eyes turned to Cooler, a look of shock on his face as his mind took in his power. "I'm assuming you're Cooler then. I don't remember your people being able to change into that."

Cooler emitted a dark chuckle. "Nor will you ever recall it. I don't know how you've come back, Vegeta, but I have better things to do than toy around with you." He lifted his index finger, another Death Beam ready to fire.

"No Cooler!" shouted Goku, beginning to dive over and stop the tyrant.

"I don't care about this!" demanded Frieza, his aura flaring as he readied to fly around Vegeta.

"Bring it on, Cooler! I won't go down so easil…"

The trio paused, frozen as Vegeta's body had just disappeared. Well, that's why Goku and Cooler had stopped. Frieza, on the otherhand, was frozen with horror as Porunga began lifting in the sky before a bright light flashed and he, alongside the seven dragonballs, soared out into space.

"No. Come back…" he muttered, too shocked to do more than whisper in despair.

"To be fair, Frieza…" The two evil brothers turned to look at Goku, a triumphant smile plastered on the hero's face as he continued with, "…you wouldn't have been able to make a wish because you'd have to speak Namekian. So it was a waste from the get go, really."

"You had something to do with this, didn't you Saiyan?" asked Cooler.

Goku's smile only seemed to widen. "Yep! I had all of the Namekians brought back to life, including everyone else you killed here." Goku paused, noting the look of absolute rage of Frieza's face. "And then, I had all of them moved to Earth. Now, there's no one left on this planet but the three of us." Just then, an eruption of lava spewed from the cracking surface of Namek and roared behind Goku. "And we don't have long until this planet decides to give out."

Cooler sneered at the implication and Frieza looked ready to rip the Saiyan to shreds.

"We've got the whole planet as our battlefield. No more messing around." A confident and slightly devious smirk pulled at Goku's lips. "Let's end this once and for all!"