The battle of the Great Apes raged on. Bardock kneed Vegeta in the gut, before grabbing his tail and spinning him around. Vegeta kicks his chest, causing him to let go. Both of them charged energy and shoot a beam out of their mouths. Through the smoke, Vegeta reached and grabbed Bardock's head, before slamming it on his knee. Bardock topples back in pain, holding his face. "Give up, Bardock! I am stronger than you'll ever be"

"don't count me out yet, prince" Bardock grinned. Meanwhile, Raditz was gathering energy

"This is going to take me a while. I still don't know how i'm going to hit the prince with it without turning into an ape myself." Raditz explained. Krillin gets an idea

"I've got an idea! First, I cut off Vegeta's tail with my Destructo Disc. Then, Bardock can destroy the fake moon and you can nail vegeta!" Krillin said

"Yes...that could work. Okay. Kakarot, you take these 3 and cut off the prince's tail!" Goku nodded

"Lets go guys!" Goku, Gohan and Krillin flew to the fight.

'Come on, planet...give me more energy!' Raditz thought to himself.

Bardock grabbed the prince's head and began to choke him. Vegeta elbowed the veteran's stomach and caused him to let go. "You will never win. I will destroy you all!"

"Quit talking and fight, you spoiled brat!" Bardock responded. Suddenly, Vegeta turned and had his eye kicked by Gohan and Goku

"Aaaah! My eyes!" He holds his eyes in pain. Bardock looks at them

"What are you two doing?" Bardock asked

"Krillin, now!" Goku yelled. Krillin had charged a disc made of Ki energy

"Distructo disc!" The bald man launched the attack at the prince's tail.

"What?" Vegeta heard his shout. He opened his eyes and jumped out of the way, causing the attack to fly and cut a mountain in half "You were aiming for my tail!" He turned his attention to the bald man "Clever, but you were two slow! Now I shall destroy you al-AGH!" Vegeta yelled in shock. The team looked behind him, seeing Yaijirobe, holding his sword out, land and run away, shortly before the prince's tail falls.

"Yaijirobe! You did it!" Goku cheered. The prince growled in rage

"DAMMIT! MY...TAIL!" Shortly after, Vegeta was back to normal. "You miserable maggots!" Bardock shot a beam at the artificial moon and destroyed it, returning himself back to normal. Then, Goku ran up from behind and grabbed Vegeta in a full nelson "W..what the!? Let me go!"

"Now Raditz! DO IT!" Goku yelled. Raditz flew into the air with an orb of blue energy in his hand

"This is the power of all of mankind! TAKE THIS, PRINCE!" Raditz launched the Spirit Bomb at Vegeta. Vegeta looked at the oncoming orb. He then pried himself free of Goku's grasp and flew into the air.

"No!" Goku looked up at Vegeta, then back at the spirit bomb. 'I've got to reverse it!' Goku extended his hand and caught the spirit bomb "HYAA!" He launched up upwards. Vegeta looked down and saw the orb flying at him

"What!? No!" He yelled as the orb engulfed his body "AAAAAHHHH!" He was launched up. Bardock flew into the air above him, and slammed him back down to the ground. There, Vegeta laid. He was bleeding heavily and was completely out of breath. "Beaten into a bloody mess on the floor, by a low class traitor, his two idiotic sons, a filthy half-breed, a bald midget, and a fat man with a sword. During which, I lost Nappa and my tail." He took out a strange device "I think i'm done here." In a few moments, his pod flew to his location and landed. Krillin looked at him and grabbed Yajirobe's sword

"Where do you think YOUR going!? After everything you've done!?" Krillin raised the sword "DIE!"

"KRILLIN STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" Bardock yelled, causing him to stop

"Huh? What do you mean?" Krillin asked

"The prince has embarrassed himself enough, let him go. Besides, if ANYONE is going to put him in the ground, its going to be me" Bardock chuckled "Spare him. Let him go. And if he comes back, I'll blast him to dust!" Krillin dropped the sword and turned away. Vegeta managed to crawl into his pod

"Hear me Bardock..." He spoke "I will return...and I will kill you" And with that, Vegeta flew off in his pod; leaving our heroes to ponder if that was the last they would have ever seen of the saiyan prince