Gohan was impressed, he had only barely seen Super Saiyan 3 before, Gotenks had briefly turned into one before getting absorbed by Buu and he never really had the chance to see it when Goku fought Buu. Goku unlike him had kept training in the 10 years since the fight with Buu. He could count the amount of times he had trained or sparred during this time on his two hands. However he felt confident that he was even stronger than when he fought Buu. Goku stood there calmly. The Super Saiyan 3 form had one major disadvantage, the amount of power it required to sustain the form was really limited in comparsion to the two earlier forms, this fight would probably not last very long but it would surely be intense. Now it was Gohan's turn, he crouched down and clenched his fists and suddenly a blue aura of flames embraced him. The aura grew slightly as Gohan let out a scream and returned to a fighting stance as did Goku. They both smiled at each other and within a second they had both moved away at such speeds that the human eye could not catch them.

Goten, Trunks and Vegeta were watching the battle from the sidelines. They were all surprised by how powerful Goku and his oldest son was. They almost had troubles themselves keeping up with them. Neither of them seemed to have the advantage as they quickly delivered fast flurries of punches and kicks at each other. One second they would be in the middle of the stage, the next they would be high up in the air. After a minute or so they were both back on the middle of the stage again and this time instead of a fast flurry they delivered punches and kicks so hard that the tiles that made up the stage floor cracked. The tempo slowed down slightly but the attacks progressively got stronger and more powerful and each time they blocked one another's attacks it sounded it caused a shockwave which sounded like an explosion.

Goku made himself ready for another of Gohan's attacks. He didn't know how many unsuccessful strikes they had thrown at each other. His arms were starting to ache and the negative effects of the Super Saiyan 3 form were starting to take its toll on him, how long had they fought? Couldn't be more than five minutes or so, if he were to win this match, which still might just be a friendly match, he would have to pull up an ace from his sleeve. Instead of blocking the attack Gohan had launched at him he evaded it. Gohan flew with his fist first towards the floor and hitted it directly and almost tore the whole stage apart. However before Goku had even had the time to use this short advantage Gohan had already countered with an attack of his own. It had been executed swiftly and with his free hand. The large blast almost seemed like a explosion as it hit Goku directly and sent him flying up in the air. The flames embraced him as he found himself in the heart of the inferno which did not seem to stop. He had to do something quick to escape it and let out a large explosion of ki to get rid of it. The explosion protected him and Gohan pulled his attack back and aswell as dragging his hand out of the stage. Goku was panting. His gi had ignited and he quickly tore off the upper part of it. Gohan shouted at him from below.

"How did you like my new attack dad? I call it the Explosive Modan, it's basically a Masenko but more explosive and as you saw, more fiery."

"I'm impressed Gohan, usually you have just relied on ordinary Kamehameha waves but this move was one of the most impressive ones I have ever seen you do."

Goku started to descend towards the stage again. The attack may not have really hurt him but it had surely left an impact on him as whole his gi had been torn to shreds in just moments. However he was still relatively unharmed due to his explosive wave protecting him before the Modan would have caused any harm. He slowly clenched his fist but remained in a neutral stance and so did Gohan.

"Gohan, we only have a few minutes left, how about we give them a show, let's go all out"

"But dad, aren't you out of power soon? For how long do you think you can put up with Super Saiyan 3?"

"About long enough…"

And with those words both of them quickly lunged up into the air and delivered fast flurries of kicks and punches yet again at each other while they ascended up in the air. When they had gone a fair bit up in the air they sprung away from each other and got quite a far bit away from each other. Goku formed a blue energy ball in his hands with red lightning surrounding it; the core of the energy ball was red instead of light blue. Gohan formed two separate balls in both his hands, these did not look any different from usual energy balls used when firing Kamehameha waves but he put them both together and formed a huge ball out of them both. Sparks surrounded it. Almost in unison they both cried out.

"KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAAAAAAAAA"

Goku's more blue and red beam and Gohan's large blue beam collided after a second of travel and they both started clashing. Both of them let out all their remaining powers into it. The large ball that had been formed where the two beams met were enormous, far beyond the size of the result of the energy clash between Gohan's and Cell's fight. The ball had a somewhat red core with sparks flying all over it. Both Goku and Gohan unleashed all their power into the clashing and slowly Goku gained the advantage. The clash went on for minutes, even the bell rang which indicated that their fight was over but they still went on. Gohan is slowly pushing Goku's energy back and now he is at the upper hand. In fact Goku was almost out of power, the form was hurting him, he could not hold out for much longer. And then it happened. He was back in his base form, his grip of the clashing slipped away and it almost overwhelmed him. He quickly turned into Super Saiyan 2 to gain control of it, just long enough to keep it under control. But there was no use, he could not handle the amount of power thrown at him at Super Saiyan 2 and he lost it. All of the energy was unleashed over him. He could feel himself slipping away and everything turned white. Gohan looked terrified and rushed over to where Goku had hovered in the air just moments ago.

"DAD!? DAAAAD!"

He quickly looked around the area but Goku was nowhere to be found.