Chapter 12

Piccolo, Goten and Trunks found the lab quite easily, it was a large room filled with chemistry sets and on the wall were different jars containing strange medicines. Goten and Trunks examined the medicines, but could not read the language.

'Grab as many of these as you can, one of them might be the antidote.' Piccolo said. 'We'll take them back to Bulma before the temporary antidote wears off, we don't have much time left.'

Trunks and Goten started stuffing their shirts and pockets with vials, as did Piccolo.

Meanwhile on the deck of the ship, Alchartz held Bardock at his mercy, his long claws piercing into the Saiyans neck, shining through the small streams of blood running down them. Only a slight movement would cause a fatal wound. Alchartz stared into the light green eyes of Goku standing before him, and Goku stared back, knowing that while ever Alchartz had Bardock in such a vulnerable position, he had total power over Goku.

'Let him go.' Said Goku. 'Killing him isn't going to accomplish anything.'

'That's where you're wrong.' Alchartz said. 'For you see, for the past forty years I have been looking to seek revenge on a Saiyan named Bardock, having heard that he was dead I decided to choose the next best thing, his son.' He held Bardock up higher, Bardock struggled to get loose, but with every slight movement he felt the claws piercing deeper into his throat.

Berry stood at the back of the crowd, watching as Alchartz held Bardock captive. He remembered Bardock saving his village from Chilled, Bardock leaving without saying goodbye and the Tuffles attacking. As Berry told him the story of the Saiyans destroying the Chebs he could see the remorse in Bardock's eyes. After Bardock had said he would have come back, Berry felt even more responsible. He couldn't bear to see Bardock like that anymore; he decided to make a stand.

Berry ran to Alchartz and grabbed hold of his leg, Alchartz looked down at the pint sized alien in shock.

'Alchartz, don't hurt him, please.' Berry said. 'Revenge isn't the answer, he's sorry for what he's done.' Berry pleaded, Alchartz began to laugh.

'Berry, you honestly think that Bardock is sorry? He wasn't sorry when he left me on a planet with nothing but my dead wife. He wasn't sorry when he and his friends slaughtered the Kanassins, and he definitely wasn't sorry when he left you to be overrun by Tuffles.' Alchartz explained. Berry grew angry.

'I believe he is sorry Alchartz, let him go, please!' Berry said with tears in his eyes, but Alchartz just grew frustrated.

'Berry, I've taken care of you for forty years and you repay me now by trusting a filthy Saiyan who abandoned you. You're either with me or against me on this one Berry!' Alchartz said. Berry froze. He had known Alchartz for so long, but he looked into Bardock's eyes and again truly believed that Bardock was sorry. Alchartz may have cared for him for all that time, but Berry could not let Bardock die.

'Don't kill Bardock please! I'm sure he is sorry, I'm sure of it!' Berry pleaded, grabbing onto Alchartz leg. Alchartz grew angry and kicked the small alien away; he landed at the edge of the ship.

'I see now Berry, you would rather join Bardock in hell, Red, finish that little runt off!' Alchartz commanded. Red looked over at Berry then back at Alchartz, he himself was a good friend of Berry's, but looking at Alchartz he knew he was not lying and could kill Red in a second, so he did as he was told and went after Berry. However, Goku saw the little aliens dilemma and intercepted Red. Alchartz sent Blue to help, he too was apprehensive, but complied nonetheless, but Vegeta and Gohan stepped in. Their fight, however, didn't last long and they were knocked away by Blue's power. Berry began to scurry back, until his hand was on the edge of the ship, he looked down to see the clouds beneath him and he panicked. Blue was right on top of him now, with sorrow in his eyes he was gaining energy to kill Berry quickly and as painlessly as possible.

Bardock watched on as Berry cowered in fear. He tried to escape again, but Alchartz grasp was too strong, Alchartz laughed.

'What's wrong Bardock? Tired of seeing your little friends get pummelled by my men?' Alchartz taunted, but all Bardock could see, all he could think about was saving Berry. He remembered how he couldn't save Berry before, his dream of Berry screaming that he abandoned him. He remembered Berry's teary eyes and how he had just tried to help him. Now Bardock would be the cause of his demise, unless he did something. At that moment, Bardock snapped, he powered up in a rage which turned his hair gold and his eyes green. He became a Super Saiyan. Alchartz was in shock at Bardock's transformation and let his defense down just enough for Bardock to escape. Bardock quickly rushed and scooped up Berry, just as Blue's energy blast was about to knock him out. Bardock placed Berry on top of the ships roof and rushed back down to the side of the Z fighters. Alchartz laughed.

'Oh please, as if you can defeat me like that! I am still far more powerful.' Alchartz said as he darted behind Bardock so swiftly Bardock could not keep track. Before Bardock could realise what was happening, he felt a sharp pain cut through his stomach. He looked down to see Alchartz claws covered in blood, impaling him. Alchartz used his force to lift the stunned Saiyan off the ground, as he did Bardock's hair turned back to black and he lost his power. As Bardock's eyes rolled back up he saw everyone staring at him in horror. The fights had ceased, everyone paralyzed by the move that Alchartz had just made. Alchartz himself had noticed that everyone, including his men had stopped in their tracks. He saw Goku ready to charge at him at any moment, his eyes angry. Alchartz decided it was time to act and he flung Bardock towards Goku. He landed on his back, metres beside him, clenching his stomach as the blood flowed, having already lost a lot of blood from his previous injury, he knew he didn't have much time left. Goku quickly acted and ran to the aide of the fallen warrior, but he was stopped by the sound of Alchartz telling him to wait.

'Goku, are you sure you really want to help that man?' He said. Goku looked over to Alchartz. 'That man slaughtered my wife, and then left me to suffer with her death, and all he could do was laugh about it. He killed the friends and the family of everyone on board this ship.' He said angrily. Goku just stared him down, from what Gohan had told him and his understanding of the Saiyans, he was not surprised in the slightest, but he listened out of courtesy and knowing it might be the only way to end this fight. 'We came here thinking the one named Bardock was dead, so we decided to take revenge on his son, the one known as Kakarot, that's you, Goku.' He said. 'We never expected we would find Bardock here, alive, of all places.'Alchartz paused for a moment, looking down at the bleeding Saiyan, then back up at Goku, who was still staring at him, not saying a word. Alchartz suddenly smiled victoriously. 'I want to make you a deal.'He said in confidence, Goku stared on.

'I have since learned that you are a virtuous man, defeating tyrants from across the universe. I do not wish to kill someone who fights for good. I know the antidote you have is not permanent, it will wear off soon and you will most likely die from the side effects. You, Vegeta, Piccolo, Trunks and Goten will all die.' Alchartz' smile suddenly dropped, as his attention turned to Bardock. 'My offer is, you kill that... that maniac and deliver justice to me and my friends, just as you delivered justice to millions of others, and I will give you the antidote and let you and your friends leave.' Alchartz pointed straight at the bleeding Bardock, he was gasping heavily, bleeding out. Goku looked over him, the look that Bardock had seen in his vision, the unreadable face, not filled with compassion nor sorrow, but he could feel the sternness of his eyes. Goku looked at Bardock momentarily then turned back to Alchartz, ready to give his answer. Bardock knew which path he would take, it was present in his eyes, he was going to kill Bardock and take their offer, and Bardock knew he would if he was in his situation. His son, Kakarot, believed in everything that Bardock had not. He was ready to be killed at the hands of his own son, and he knew he deserved it.

Goku looked straight into Alchartz eyes and spoke. 'I do believe in justice, yes, but I also believe you should never kill someone who is helpless to defend himself.' He said. 'And by the way you treat one of your so called friends; I don't think I can trust you.' Goku added, helping Alchartz to remember how he had wanted to kill Berry just minutes ago. Alchartz eyes widened in shock, that the man he thought to be so honest and true, would actually defend a serial murderer.

'Don't you get it; he destroyed my race, the race of everyone here! It was all him!' Alchartz yelled.

'And seeking revenge makes you no better than him.' Goku said. Bardock looked at his son and couldn't believe the words that were coming out of his mouth. He realised now that his son had more integrity than he originally realised, and he knew now, why Goku was the strongest Saiyan that ever lived.

'Then you will all die!' Alchartz said and shot two energy blasts swiftly, one at Goku and one at Bardock. Gohan deflected the one that went for Bardock, and Goku powered up to Super Saiyan 3 just in time to block Alchartz attack.

Inside the ship, Trunks, Goten and Piccolo had turned the wrong way coming out of the lab and ran into a large pile of rubble blocking the path.

'I knew we took a wrong turn somewhere, we'll have to turn around.' Said Piccolo

'Let's just blast it!' said Trunks, Goten agreed and they shot an energy attack, unaware of the leaking fuel line that lay above it.

In the belly of the ship, Majin Buu had just come back together after being exploded by one of Alchartz henchmen. He looked around to see no one coming and began to run down the hallway, until he saw a giant fireball heading his way, sending him into an oblivion of smoke.

On the outside, the ground shook, the ship was unstable, it was about to give way.

'What's going on?' Alchartz yelled. The Moltian, the ships engineer ran to his side.

'The fuel line has exploded, we have to get off the ship!' He yelled. 'It's going to blow!'

Goku heard this and quickly turned to the others; they nodded and began to spread out. Gohan darted up to the roof of the ship and grabbed Berry making it off the ship just in the nick of time, but while Goku was still trying to gain a secure grasp on the blood-soaked Bardock, the ship exploded, sending him hurtling off the side and Bardock escaping from his arms. Bardock fell to the ground quickly, blood still pouring from his body, he may have been saveable before, but now, with the force of the explosion and the hard ground about to cushion his fall, he knew there was no hope for him to survive, if he survived the fall it would only be for a short time. As he fell he had one last vision, of Goku summoning a dragon out of seven orange balls, each marked with a certain amount of stars, and wishing him back to life, and then he hit the ground, hard. All his bones shattered, his wounds easing off on the blood spill, as there was not much left in his body. Goku had hit the ground ten metres away from him, he got up to notice the Moltian and the Kanassin were dead, their weak bodies unable to withstand the 50,000 metre drop. Gohan landed on the ground close to Goku and Bardock and sat Berry on the ground. Berry looked over and noticed Bardock was looking straight at him, he was still alive, barely, and he had tears in his eyes. Suddenly, he felt his own tears flow, Bardock was dying, and he felt responsible. Bardock may have been a murderer once, but he had saved Berry and his family. He ran to Bardock's side, crying swiftly now, yelling his name.

Goku had recovered and was about to rush to Bardock's aide when he saw the small purple alien running frantically to his side. Berry knelt next to his dying friend and grabbed his hand. 'Bardock, I'm sorry!' He cried. Over the past forty years, Berry had aged, he was older then Bardock now, but his feelings had never really changed, he began to believe that he hated Bardock, but when he saw him, face to face, he knew he really didn't. Bardock smiled at Berry as much as he could and whispered gently.

'Hey, it's alright kid.' He squeezed Berry's hand as hard as he could, but let go when he started to cough up blood. Goku had arrived at them now and Berry backed off a little bit, Goku picked Bardock's head off the ground and held him. Gohan and Vegeta looked on from a far.

In the air, where the ship once flew, Trunks, Goten and Piccolo floated covered in dust and burn marks from the explosion. Goten and Trunks began to argue about exploding the ship and nearly destroying the vials that were tucked securely in their gi's, when Piccolo hushed them. They looked down to see the scene beneath them, and they floated down to where Vegeta stood.

'Dad, what's going on? Is Bardock alright?' asked Trunks, but Vegeta just shushed him and continued to watch as Goku talked to his estranged father, for the last time.

'Bardock, we can get you help.' He said, thinking of Dende, or if it came to it, the dragon balls. Bardock smiled.

'Kakarot… sorry, Goku.' He corrected himself. He could barely speak, but he forced the words from his mouth, knowing they had to be said. 'In this brief time I've known you, I've learned so much about you and myself.' He whispered.

'Don't talk; you're wasting your energy.' Goku said.

'No.' said Bardock. 'My time is over. I want to die, no, I have to die.' He spluttered. 'It's the only way I can truly compensate for what I've done.' His breath was drawing short now. He remembered his vision and looked straight into his son's eyes. 'Promise me…' he said. 'promise me that you won't wish me back to life!' Goku was shocked that Bardock even knew about the dragonballs, but then remembered Bardock telling him of his psychic abilities, and he smiled.

'I was going to, but if you're wish is to die, I will let you peacefully.' He said, Bardock smiled as wide as he could and knew his sons words were sincere First thing I've been able to change, how ironic, he thought.

'Thank you.' He said, he felt his heart struggling to beat with no blood pumping through it, all his organs were crushed and losing function, his lungs were crushed, he managed to push out one last sentence.

'I'm happy I didn't raise you, my son.' His heart stopped pumping, his brain shut down and Bardock was dead. He had repented, atoned for his sins. Goku laid him on the ground and stood up, not saying a word. He looked over to Alchartz who was already staring back, watching Bardock die with great joy.

'Alchartz.' Goku said. 'I can give you and your friends a ship and you can leave, right now. This fight is meaningless.' Alchartz stared at Goku momentarily than began to laugh hard.

'You chose you're side Goku, you and all your friends will die!' He yelled and charged for Goku, Goku went to block but he jumped over him and used his claws to swipe at Berry, but Piccolo stepped in, sending Alchartz flying. Red and Blue attacked as well, Gohan took on one, while Vegeta took on the other.

'Dad, you have to fuse!' Gohan yelled and Goku turned to Vegeta, Vegeta leapt towards Goku, leaving Goten and Trunks alone, still carrying their vials. They wanted to join in, but their time was running out.

'The antidote is going to wear off in twenty minutes, we have to get back to Capsule Corp now and figure out which one is the real antidote.' Trunks said, Goten nodded and the two boys took off towards West City, leaving the rest behind. While Gohan and Piccolo tried their hardest to keep the three remaining warriors at bay, Goku and Vegeta had just enough time to fuse. They did the dance and formed Gogeta perfectly, and now had enough strength to destroy them all very easily. They first attacked Red and sent him flying away from Piccolo.

'Piccolo, get those medicines back to Capsule Corp, we'll take care of these guys.' Said Gogeta, Piccolo nodded and hurried after the two mini Saiyans. Next they attacked Blue.

'Dad, remember, the antidote wears off in 20 minutes, so don't go playing around.' Gohan said, knowing that the Vegeta in Gogeta loved to toy with his enemies.

'Don't worry Gohan, I'll make this quick.' Said Gogeta and stormed off after Blue, Blue dodged his attacks, but was soon met with one straight to the face. Their power levels were now evenly matched, but Blue hoped that he had the upper hand; Gogeta continued to chase him, while Gohan went after Alchartz. Gogeta smashed Blue in the face, Blue swung back, and Gogeta went back and laughed.

'I should really hurry with this.' He said. 'I don't have much time left; I should unleash my full power.' He screamed and let his energy swirl, showing more power than Blue could comprehend. He attacked Blue and sliced his hand right through his stomach, cutting him in two, and then Gogeta turned around and smacked him in the face with his foot, destroying the body. His next target was Red; Red had just recovered from the last attack. Gogeta attacked quickly, leaving Red in a smoky disaster, no body to be found.

Meanwhile a couple of miles where the action was happening, Buu had reformed outside the ships walls and was looking around for everyone. 'I can't find them.' He said, and then he sensed Gogeta's energy. 'They are that way.' He said and took off.

Trunks, Piccolo and Goten made it back to Capsule Corp in ten minutes. Chichi welcomed Goten with a bear hug.

'We don't have time for this!' Piccolo yelled. 'Bulma, we brought every single vial in that place here, how long will it be for you to determine which ones the antidote?'

They lay out all the medicine on the floor in front of them, Bulma looked at them and calculated in her head. 'Well to do all of them would take me at least half a day, but give me all the clear vials and I'll be able to run an analysis on them, if its among them we might be able to find it within half an hour.' She said. Piccolo, Trunks and Goten scanned the collection for the clear liquids; Trunks found one and passed it to Bulma.

'I'll go scan this one while you guys sort yourselves out.' She said and waddled to the lab. They then began colour coding them, there were 20 yellow vials, 40 red vials, 12 clear vials and 5 blue vials. Bulma worked furiously to see if this vial was a match, it wasn't. Her dad joined her and the two were able to scan a vial every two minutes, but with eight minutes before the temporary antidote wore off, time was scarce.

Alchartz watched on as Gogeta destroyed his allies and waited for Gogeta to come after him. Gohan watched from the sidelines, knowing that Gogeta was their last hope. Gogeta turned his attention to Alchartz and showed him one last act of mercy.

'Alchartz, you can still leave, it's not too late.' Gogeta said, the Goku in him trying to reason with his nemesis. Alchartz extended his claws and swiped at Gogeta, missing.

'Alchartz, your friends were stronger then you and they died quite easily, I'm giving you one last chance to leave.' Gogeta said. Alchartz stood his ground.

'I will never lose to another Saiyan.' He said and swiped at Gogeta, missing again. Gogeta laughed and raised his hand, gathering Ki.

'So be it.' He said, but suddenly, Gogeta felt very woozy, the Ki ball in his hand faded and his hands grasped his fuzzy head. He stumbled, breaking out into a sweat and falling to the floor.

'What's going on?' Said Gohan, watching on from the sidelines. 'They should have at least five more minutes!'

It must be because their fused. They're fused body can't handle it. He thought. Gogeta staggered, and then split back into Goku and Vegeta, they both dropped to their knees, their fevers broke and their dizziness disappeared.

'We must have regained our energy when we split.' Said Goku.

'Which means we have to attack him separated.' Vegeta replied.

'Never mind, if we work together, anything is possible right.' Goku added.

'Well we have five minutes, what have we got to lose?' Said Vegeta and he turned Super Saiyan 2, while Goku turned Super Saiyan 3. They attacked Alchartz head on, he dodged and weaved around their attacks easily, and he was stronger than them both as they stood now.

'I have to help them.' Said Gohan, powering up, noticing that Vegeta was starting to sweat, the antidote was wearing off.

Majin Buu had found the battle field now and dropped down to see Vegeta struggling in pain and Gohan and Goku fighting viciously against Alchartz. He decided to step in and charged right for Alchartz, but Alchartz had just knocked the two Saiyans away from him and fired a Ki blast directly at Buu, exploding him into pieces, again. Gohan fought back, knocking Alchartz right into Buu's remains, which were starting to wobble with life. Gohan looked over to Vegeta, who now obviously had a fever. Goku was still fine, but he had his dose at least five minutes after Vegeta. Gohan became worried; they had to finish this quickly.

Back at Capsule Corp Bulma had ploughed through seven of the clear vials, with no luck, her dad decided to try the other coloured vials, but with no luck either.

'Nothing even comes close to looking like the antidote.' She said. Then placed another sample in the machine, this time the sample came from the blue medicine. The computer began to scan; it would take two minutes to complete.

'I'm going to go make coffee.' She said and jumped up, she walked out to see Trunks and Goten lying on the lounge, both riddled with fever, the antidote was starting to wear off and she could only imagine what Vegeta was going through on the front line. She rubbed her bulging tummy in worry, hoping that her family would survive, even after all the battles they had been through, she was still not used to these fights. She made her coffee quickly and went back to her work. When she returned, she immediately stood still, spilling her fresh cup of coffee all over the floor. On the computer, in big red letters flashed the word 'match', she grabbed the medicine and took it out to the lounge room, picking up a packaged syringe on the way. She took some out of the bottle and put Goten's arm up; she inserted the medicine into his blood stream and prayed for the best. Goten brightened up almost instantly, the medicine began to work right away, Bulma sighed in relief and rushed over to her son and did the same, using a new syringe, he sprouted up immediately as well, next was Piccolo. The vial was still three quarters full and she decided the quickest way was for Gotenks to deliver it. Goten and Trunks nodded and fused while Bulma grabbed two more syringes for Goku and Vegeta. Gotenks grabbed the medicine and rushed out the door as a Super Saiyan 3, moving faster than the speed of light, Piccolo followed steadily, even though he knew he would arrive on the field after the fight had been won.

On the battle field, Vegeta was keeling over with pain, Goku was starting to get sweaty and Buu was still coming back together. Gohan was virtually alone, trying to take on Alchartz by himself. He struck at Alchartz, but Alchartz used his claws to pierce through Gohan's shoulder, he sent him flying across the ground and he landed against a giant rock, hard. Alchartz watched as the others suffered in pain and he laughed.

'Oh look, so much for your antidote, none of you will survive those side effects and my antidote blew up with my ship.' He laughed.

'Not so fast!' he heard a double voice from behind, he turned to see the fused kid he saw earlier, and had since forgotten about. He was fine, he wasn't dying and his energy was as strong as ever. He lifted up the syringes, filled with the blue medicine. 'I found this just lying around in your ship, thought it looked good, so I gave myself some.' He said and shrugged.

'And whatdya know, it worked' He joked. Alchartz saw the vial and went for it, but Trunks moved out of the way.

'You've gotta try harder than that Alchartz.' He laughed, but then saw Vegeta screaming as the pain knocked him unconscious. As his attention was diverted, Alchartz stormed up and snatched the syringes out of Gotenks hand, Gotenks looked back to see they were now in Alchartz possession, and he laughed.

'You idiot! You can't win, I will have my revenge!' He laughed and turned to fly off, but he bounced against something big and pink, staring down at him angrily. It was Buu. Alchartz looked up at the blob, his single antenna lay right atop his head. Buu yelled.

'You turn into chocolate' and zapped Alchartz, the syringes escaping from his hands and landed in Buu's yellow glove. In Buu's other palm lay a single piece of milk chocolate, shaped like the panther clawed alien Alchartz. Buu put the chocolate in his mouth and chewed it; he swallowed it quickly and smiled.

'Delicious!' He said. He walked over to Gotenks and presented the syringes.

'Buu beat bad man, Buu get these back for you,' He said, Gotenks laughed hard, Alchartz was dead, devoured by Buu.