Marron ran up to Goten and pounded her fists into his chest over and over again, with tears streaming down her face.

"Goten! Where were you? I was so scared! That Frost guy...he almost...my poor mom..."

Goten pulled her close and planted a kiss on her forehead. "I'm sorry, Marron. You're right, I should have been here sooner. Getting distracted by my training is no excuse."

"You're damn right it isn't!" Krillin said, furrowing his brow.

"Well I'm just glad you guys are here now," Bulma said. "Kind of reminds me of how Goku would always wait until the last second to show up and save the day."

"At least Goku has had good excuses. What's your excuse Goten? You couldn't skip one day of training for your fiance?" Krillin said, still fuming.

Goten ignored Krillin, and kissed Marron on the forehead once more before tossing half a senzu bean to Piccolo, who knelt down next to 18.

"This is all I have left, but it should do the trick."

Piccolo pushed it into 18's mouth, and she swallowed it down. Her patched up wound quickly sealed shut, and a second later her eyes popped open. She sat up with a groan.

"Ugh, what happened?"

"We can worry about that later," Trunks said, handing a passed out Pan to Mr. Satan. "We have to deal with this guy first."

Frost was watching them with his arms crossed, impatiently swaying his tail side to side. "Oh good. I was worried you all had forgotten about me."

Goten stepped up next to Trunks, and each of them powered up into Super Saiyan. Frost looked each of them up and down, his eyes lingering on Goten.

"Remarkable. You look just like Goku, but I can tell you possess far less power. I assume you know him, so perhaps we can skip this extra bit of foreplay and you can call on him to come and give me a real fight?"

"That's funny," Goten said, spitting to the side. "You look just like Frieza, but he has minions stronger than you."

Frost scowled and lifted both of his arms, then launched a beam from each. Goten and Trunks threw up their arms to block the attack, and then went on the offensive. Goten attacked first, swinging wildly at the charged up Frost, who managed to block all of his attacks and then use a leg to kick him back. Trunks followed up with an assault of his own, and Frost managed to handle him as well, before flipping back and charging up for his next attack. That one was much larger than the first, and Goten and Trunks had to combine their own blasts to counter it, creating a huge crater between them and their foe as the attacks canceled each other out.

Trunks heaved a few times to catch his breath. "He's stronger than I remember. My dad kicked his ass pretty easily the last time we saw this guy."

Goten stretched his neck out and went back into a fighting stance. "You can tap out now if you're scared. I'll just take him out all on my own."

Goten leaped into the air and cupped his hands back. "KAMEHA...ME...HA!"

He launched his attack down at Frost, who disappeared before it could make impact. Before Goten could break from his attack, Frost appeared at his side, and landed a punch to his jaw that caused him to spit out some blood and lose control over his attack, which went awry and ended up taking a chunk of out of his childhood home. Trunks launched an attack of his own while he thought Frost was distracted, but Frost used his tail to swat Trunks down and through a wall that hadn't already been destroyed.

"My house!" Chi-Chi shrieked, falling to her knees.

"How did this guy get so strong?" Tien said.

"Right?" Bulla said. "I know Trunks and Goten aren't as strong as my dad and Goku, but he shouldn't be having his way with them this easily. My dad said he was a total wimp!"

Krillin pounded his fist into the ground. "Where are those guys when we need them? If they don't get back here soon, there might not be an Earth to come back to!"

"I wouldn't give up quite yet," Piccolo said. "If they can manage to get past that Saiyan pride they got from their fathers, and work together, they might still have a chance. They're not fighting at their full power yet."

Trunks stepped out from the partial wreckage of Chi-Chi's house. He walked up next to Goten, who was rubbing his jaw. Frost floated above them, and wasted no time launching his next attack. He sent a rain of ki blasts down at them, which they sprinted around and dodged as they attempted to regain their composure. Once they had a brief break, they launched up to Frost from either side, each charging into Super Saiyan 2 as they did so. Frost sent blasts at both of them as they ascended, but they each disappeared at the last second. Goten reappeared first, landing a few punches in Frost's gut before cupping his hands and knocking Frost downward, where Trunks appeared and caught him in the face with an uppercut.

They took turns knocking Frost back and forth, and for a moment it appeared they had gained the upper hand, but just as they both dove in for a deciding punch, Frost began spinning like a cyclone, and a flurry of pink discs came hurtling out in every direction. They managed to avoid a direct hit, but one still nicked Trunks's arm while two others put parallel gashes in Goten's left cheek. While they were caught off guard, Frost landed heavy hits on each of them and regained the advantage.

Most of the discs flew off to lob off the tops of nearby trees, but one veered off right at the group of onlookers. It all happened so fast, and Bulla was left staring in shock as it came barreling right toward her.

"Look out!" Piccolo shouted, just before he tackled her at the waist.

He pulled her down just in time, as a disc flew right above her head and lobbed off the ponytail she'd tied her hair up into that day. She laid on the ground in shock for a moment, then let out a scream.

Bulma ran to her side. "Bulla! Are you okay?"

Bulla felt the top of her head, feeling the bob cut her hair had now taken on. When it dawned on her she now looked just like her mom, she wanted to cry. But before she could cause a scene, Goten and Trunks each came crashing down into the dirt at their side.

"This isn't good. I'm outta here!" Yajirobe said, before turning around and sprinting off into the woods as fast as he could.

Goten and Trunks each pushed to their feet, flickering in and out of their Super Saiyan forms.

"Stop getting in my way!" Goten said, tearing off the tattered top of his orange gi and exposing the muscles underneath.

"And what, just stand back and watch you get your ass kicked? Sorry Goten, but I have a family to protect here! Don't forget that you do too!"

Goten glared over at him. "Maybe if I didn't have you getting in way every time I tried to land a punch, I could actually do that!"

"ENOUGH!" Chi-Chi screamed. "Goten! I'm disappointed in you! If it was your father up there, knowing the woman he loved was down here, scared for her life, he'd be pulling out all the stops to protect her!"

"I'm doing all I can, mom, but Trunks..."

"No! No more excuses! Don't tell me you boys have forgotten all about your secret weapon!"

Trunks and Goten shared a glance. Trunks shrugged, and Goten shook his head.

"We're not kids anymore, mom. I don't know if I even remember the fusion dance."

Chi-Chi growled and whacked him over the head. "Think about your fiance, Goten! Look at that poor scared girl and tell me again you can't do the one thing that might save her and all the rest of us!"

He glanced back at Marron, who looked back at him with a quivering lip. All of the others were huddled nearby, and Goten considered how hopeless they'd all be if he and Trunks failed to stop Frost's rampage.

"I'm down if you're down," Trunks said. "What do you say buddy, one more time for old time's sake?"

Goten sighed, then finally nodded. Frost shouted out to them from the battlefield, threatening to blow them all to smithereens if they didn't hop back in the fight soon.

"Can you cover for us?" Trunks asked, looking back at the group.

Krillin gulped, but stepped forward as he threw shade at Goten. "Anything for my little girl."

"I'll do what I can," Piccolo added.

"Happy to help," Tien said.

"Let me help too," 18 said, before Krillin shook his head at her.

"You sit this one out honey. You still need to rest. I'll take care of it."

She grinned. "It's sort of hot seeing you all worked up like this, honey. Reminds me of the old days."

Krillin blushed, then turned his attention to Frost, who had started to close in on them.

"Here goes nothing...DESTRUCTO DISC!"

He flung a single disc in Frost's direction, catching him off guard, but not really slowing him down. Krillin took a deep breath and followed up with a barrage, which did manage to slow his foe down ever so slightly. Goten and Trunks used the distraction to get into position.

"Fu..."

Piccolo dove in right after Krillin's attack, grappling with Frost just long enough for Tien to jump into the air and prepare an attack of his own. As Frost knocked him back, Tien shot out his Tri-Beam, which mostly glanced off of Frost, and appeared to just make him more angry. He shot a beam up into the air that Tien just barely dodged.

"...sion..."

Even Yamcha stepped up to help hold Frost off, launching forward with a Wolf-Fang fist when Piccolo got knocked back again. But when Frost twisted around to defend against an attack from Krillin, he accidentally elbowed Yamcha in the face mid-attack and knocked the retired fighter out cold.

"HA!"

Goten and Trunks completed their dance, and after a bright flash they appeared in their merged Gotenks form. It was the first time Bulla had ever seen them make the transformation, and she looked on in awe as the tall Super Saiyan 3 warrior struck a pose. It was the most power she'd ever sensed coming from a single fighter other than her dad or Goku, and for the first time in her life she felt a little jealous over it.

Frost noticed the flash, but was still trying to get a few cheap shots in on Krillin and the others. Gotenks flew up and deflected each attack handily, then got back into Frost's face.

"Alright, you cheap Frieza knock-off! It's time we end this!"

Frost grit his teeth. "Your tricks and insults have no effect on me, Saiyans! Enough games!"

He jumped into the air and pushed his hands above his head, gathering a giant sphere of pink energy, which grew larger and larger the further up he went. By the time he settled up in the sky, his energy had reached the size of a small moon. Gotenks gathered up energy in his own hands, and prepared to counter. Frost thrust his arms down and the massive ball of energy came hurtling down, and Gotenks pushed his own beam up to meet it.

Gotenks managed to stall it at first, but Frost let out a shout and pushed it forward, and started to break through Gotenks's attack. Not deterred, Gotenks continued to charge his energy and shoot it forward, creating a crater at the base of his feet. He still couldn't quite push back Frost's attack.

"You can do it guys!" Bulma shouted out.

"Don't let us down!" Chi-Chi said.

"I love you Goten! I know you can do it!" Marron added.

Gotenks took a deep breath and dug deep, sending more energy out to stall Frost's attack once more. As his energy continued to grow, Gotenks could feel something slipping. The harder he pushed, the more energy he seemed to find buried deep inside. His golden glow started to flicker, but instead of losing it and reverting back to base form, in a single bright flash of blue he ascended. His hair receded as his energy grew, and once his transformation into Super Saiyan Blue was complete, his attack took on new life.

"No! Not you too!" Frost screamed out, his own ball of energy suddenly retreating back toward him rapidly.

With one more burst of energy, Gotenks pushed Frost's own attack back into him, before engulfing him with a mix of it and the counter-beam. Frost became contorted in the blast, and once it was all over, his badly charred body came barreling down into the ground with a thud.

"Yay! You did it!"

"Way to go, Gotenks!"

"That was awesome!"

Gotenks turned around and struck another pose, soaking up the attention. He then turned back to the fallen Frost, who had lost his silver glow and was twitching on the ground. Gotenks stood over him, and Frost managed to croak out a few words.

"Please...please spare me. I'll go back to my universe, I'll go back to prison. Just please, let me live..."

Gotenks studied him for a moment, then looked back at his loved ones that he knew Frost would have slaughtered mercilessly if he hadn't been stopped.

"Don't think so," Gotenks said. "Say goodbye, off-brand Frieza!"

Gotenks put a hand up and got ready to launch a blast that would finish Frost off, but just before he let it go he was split back up into two, and the separate blasts from Trunks and Goten exploded on either side of Frost.

"What the?" Goten said.

"We weren't fused that long!" Trunks said.

They looked back over their shoulder, and saw Whis with his staff out and pointed at them. Behind him stood Beerus, Gohan, Vegeta and Goku.

"Hey guys, hope I'm not late for dinner!" Goku said with a wave. After he looked around at the destruction all around him, a puzzled look spread across his face. "Whoa! What did I miss?"