A rumbling bubble of green energy lifted off the ground, irradiating with intense beams from something far more powerful that was brimming within. As more and more layers of Ki added on top of the growing bubble of energy, the roar that emanated from within, driven by rage and madness, got a more guttural, otherworldly vibe to it. Once it seemed as if the sphere had reached its peak power, it burst with a blinding flasher of seafoam-green.
Frieza grunted as he covered his eyes up and braced for the destructive explosion of the devastating Ki wave to reach him. But it didn't, and the violent flashing never truly blew him away. Once the tyrant lowered his right hand off of his face, shaking and wondering about this wild eruption of energy, the deadly silence that had reigned in after the expanse of Chayote's destructive bubble of Ki revealed itself to be a deceitful one as the rage-twisted face of the bulked-up Saiyan woman drove fear into Frieza's eyes. Chayote had flashed right up Frieza's face without fear or reason.
Just as the emperor of the universe was about to voice a mean threat or gloat in his frightening power, Chayote bashed her shoulder into Frieza's gut, knocking a mouthful of slobber out of Frieza as the tyrant gasped for air as she dived, carrying and smashing Frieza into the hardened wasteland surface, dragging him across it and splitting the charred surface open to bleed with magma. With a wrathful roar, the Saiyan turned around and flung Frieza by his head, charging after him.
"You insufferable, hysterical monkey! I'll eradicate you at once!" Frieza finally worded his threat as he turned down to where Chayote charged at him from, extending his hand to grab hold of her with his psychic powers. Chayote froze in mid-air. Her eyes changed from anger to fright as her mouth gasped for air rather than roar bloody murder. However, as Frieza clutched his hand, only a translucent mirage of the wrathful Saiyan dispersed.
With a triumphant roar, Chayote planted her knee, diving from up over Frieza's head and knocking him flying down. Stones the size of entire boulders flew aside and spiky, towering pillars of a charred ground burst forth with geysers of molten red burst from underground as Frieza smashed into the ground and left a deep crater. One that only deepened and ground further into the depths as Chayote bellowed and stomped down like a T-shaped arrow. As invincible as Frieza seemed a moment ago, the tyrant shrieked out in shock after such a brutal assault.
"Chayote is incredible!" Chiaotzu pumped his fists, finding a second to power down with King Kai's Fist so that it didn't drain him of the rest of his stamina and undo his body. "She's actually laying hands on Frieza…"
"Yeah, but she's not doing much damage to him, no matter how vicious her beat-down is. Her power's growing higher and higher, but it'll still take far too long for their Ki to level with each other. Frieza's a novice fighter, which is why he's not able to deal with Chayote's berserk attacks, but she's not scratching much deeper than his skin and just damaging his pride. Still… Chayote's a regular monster, she's buying us so much time… Come on, Spirit Bomb, hurry up!" Goku clenched his teeth, looking up at the accumulating mass of energy of well-being accumulating at once place from all over the universe. The vast expanses of Frieza's territories, everyone that wanted to get rid of their pale tyrant, even those whom Frieza's conquering ways haven't reached yet but would reach them soon found their salvation in a lone Saiyan accumulating their hopes and best wishes from out in the cosmos.
"I'll kill you, I swear I'll kill you!" Frieza shrieked out as destructive fuchsia-colored rays beamed out in all directions, but Chayote had shuffled away from all harm. As the frightening despot took back to his feet, firing a barrage of Death Beams in all directions, Chayote took flight and dashed over Frieza's head, evading his barrage of Death Beams while wrapping her muscular thighs over Frieza's throat and flipping the tyrant over her to slam him head-first into the ground as Chayote rolled on top of him and began pummeling the ground with hammering smashes.
With each pound Planet Vegeta bled more and more, the skies had turned scarlet and darkened to a shade of maroon from the noxious fumes of molten magma bursting forth in towering showers. Only the bright ball of salvation energy within the Spirit Bomb gleamed with any hint of hope, as Chayote's booming aura of emerald Ki competed with Frieza's own pink shine as the tyrant recovered bit by bit. Frieza's tail wrapped around Chayote's throat, threatening to snap her neck, but the tyrant shrieked in wild torment when the Saiyan wasted not a second before digging into his tail, forcing the numb limb to fall by the side.
Rolling further, Chayote smashed Frieza with thighs still locked on his upper body repeatedly, front and back before letting go of the enemy and kicking back up on both feet, only to punt Frieza in the face and send him flying into the air. The booming voice of the hysterical Saiyan rivaled the thunder that reigned in as Chayote crashed into Frieza, the tyrant cradled into an all-defensive stance as the two forces collided with one another and started exchanging blows, vanishing and rattling with rampant shock waves all across the planet moving in circles.
Chayote rolled under Frieza's cross, wrapping her right arm over Frieza's throat as she planted herself and Frieza's captured body into a pool of magma with a flopping splash, crashing through charred stone that she reduced to airborne clouds of cinders. Just as the surviving Dragon Team duo wondered if they'd see their friend emerge, Chayote's mindless clamoring filled the battlefield as the Saiyan burst forth surrounded by a bubble of energy, careening off into the air, the hysterical Saiyan erupted into a blizzard of Ki blasts as she breathed out a mouth energy wave, shaking uncontrollably in all directions and seeding utter destruction all around her.
"Chayote's out of control…" Chiaotzu whimpered, extending his hands out and creating a telekinetic bubble around Goku to protect their ultimate hope of beating Frieza from Chayote's rampage. "There's no one here to stop her anymore."
"We're fortunate that Frieza's a real monster and that he can take all that Chayote dishes out and more…" Goku declared with a gloomy look as Frieza burst out from underground enveloped in a fuchsia-colored explosive wave as well and elevated to Chayote's level, snuffing his energy out and panting alongside the weary Saiyan as the two stared at each other in mid-air.
"Well, well… Ran out of all that wrath, have you? You said that you always wanted to be my loyal soldier. That's unfortunate. You were far too weak and useless to me before, and now you're just strong enough to be of use. Sadly, you've committed transgressions far beyond my forgiveness. Also… I must admit that I just flat out hate primitive brutes. An elite monkey is still nothing more than that–a flea-infested imbecile, after all."
"Yamcha… Krillin… Tenshinhan… Piccolo… Bardock…" Chayote muttered to herself as her mad eyes raced all over the place. The wrathful Saiyan clenched her knees up in front of herself, cradling herself in mid-air as she erupted in a wild, salad-colored aura and rocked with her entire body.
"Prepping yourself up for another rampage? I think most definitely not…" Frieza chuckled, extending his finger and beaming right through Chayote's knee in a blink. The crippled bruiser bellowed in misery and outrage at the same time as a splat of blood poured out of the shattered knee. "I've taught you a lesson in humility by forcing you to eat dirt before. I am more than capable of teaching you that same lesson all over again. This time I'll make sure not to repeat my mistake from the last time and I'll finish you off just right."
With a blink, Frieza dashed across toward Chayote, throwing a wayward shot to the Saiyan's face that made the wrathful brawler flinch in place and clutch her busted mug. Meanwhile, the pale tyrant ducked down under and punched straight through the wound in Chayote's knee that slowed her down so much that dodging this cruel beat-down became impossible. Frieza's arm blasted right through, forcing blood out the back as if blowing out from the body of the female Saiyan.
"Chayote!" Goku screamed out with a blanked-out stare. His arms twitched. More than once the Saiyan almost flung the incomplete Spirit Bomb just to get Frieza off of Chayote and hurt him as much as he could right now, just to keep the most important person in the universe alive. "Shit, shit! She can't die!" Goku hissed as all hair stood wild on his body.
"B-But why?" Chiaotzu turned to Goku. "What do you mean by that?"
"Don't you know? If Chayote dies, our entire universe is toast! Frieza, stop this! You'll doom everyone if you keep going!" Goku tried to reason with the emperor but Frieza paid the pleading Saiyan no mind, continuing his punishment of the unruly Saiyan.
A standing back-hand, threw Chayote off her balance before Frieza's racing tail socked Chayote right into the center of her chest, obliterating her ribcage at once and whiting the Saiyan's eyes out, the tyrant's tail lashed out as if eager to repay the mad crunch it had taken from her teeth before. Chayote flew crashing through a spiky mound, sending splintering storms of charcoal in all directions as she crashed into it. Frieza flexed his neck in both directions before vanishing, spinning vertically as he juggled Chayote's limp body, kicking her about like a ball of rags with a sadistic smile.
"If Chayote's this important… If she can't die… Then…" Chiaotzu clenched his fists, shaking with his entire body as he summoned all remnants of psychic energy, recalling even the protective aura that surrounded Goku as the little ghoul fighter surrounded himself in a shimmering cyan glow. It was as if Chiaotzu's entire outline, his very being became one with the brimming and overflowing psychic energy within him. "I'm sorry, Ten-san… If it's the entire universe, I have no other choice!" Chiaotzu declared.
With an especially wicked kick to Chayote's chin, one that extended the woman's neck to its very limits, not making it snap off just by the skin of her teeth, Frieza sent Chayote crashing through a cratering ridge as he flexed his hands, blinking in and out until he appeared in front of the fallen Saiyan woman observed her body build shrink back down to her usual, athletic yet very human-like build.
"If you won't serve me, I'll make you dance for me, vile primitives…" Frieza declared, extending his hand and picking Chayote's lifeless body off the ground with his telekinetic grip. His eyes gleamed vibrant blue and kept her in place as the space emperor extended his right index finger and formed a flashing dot of pink energy at the tip.
"STOP THIS! STOP HURTING CHAYOTE-SAN!" a childish voice echoed in from behind the cruel psychic. Frieza had just enough time to turn around but not enough to dodge out of the way of the tackling charge of a young Saiyan child who slammed into Frieza's chest with his head and then exploded into an outrageous Ki wave that blew out from his entire body, pushing Frieza off into the distance and detonating in a golden pillar of energy rising out into the atmosphere and flashing for all in space to see, enveloping a quarter of Planet Vegeta in its basking light.
"G-Gohan…" Goku muttered. He was both taken aback by the immense power that his own son was capable of, sending Frieza flying with a headbutt where even Chayote at her most wrathful could barely keep the tyrant down for long and perturbed about the fate of his son if Frieza recovers. "That's was amazing but… Why did you come here!?"
"D-Dad…" little Gohan writhed on the ground, caressing his head that had been split open by hitting something far tougher than he could have ever expected. Had it not been for the wild state of duress he was in when he lashed out–he'd have never charged at Frieza head-first like that. "I… I couldn't sense anyone's Ki anymore… And… I saw Frieza… Frieza hurting Chayote-san…"
"You're a good boy, Gohan. Listen, I need you to listen to me and do as I say! Grab Chayote and get out of here, run! Take a ship out of here. I'll keep Frieza busy with the Spirit Bomb. At this rate–it won't do anything to him, anyway. Bring Chayote to Earth and… Train as hard as you can… And tell your mother… Tell Chi-Chi I'm sorry!" Goku yelled out. "Chiaotzu, you go too. You can't die anymore or else the Dragon Balls won't be able to bring you back."
"B-But…" Chiaotzu turned. "It's not like you to give up, Goku."
"Hurry and go!" Goku cried out so loud he almost snapped his vocal cords. "We've lost! Frieza's too powerful! I'll do what I can, you must promise me you'll leave!"
Chiaotzu flew off to Chayote's unconscious body and extended his little, pale hands, raising the numb Saiyan off the ground with telekinesis as he and Gohan gave Goku one, last, parting look and prepared to make their mad dash toward the space station with the Saiyan ships waiting for approval that would never come. One of them was bound to be in a condition to take them home. A nightmarish snap echoed.
"And where do you think you two are going?" Frieza's body, covered in dried-out blood and bruises, blinked in front of the two fleeing members of the Dragon Team. "Did you really think that you can just hop in, indulge your base impulses and run away? Assuming even that there's a single corner in this universe you can run away from my rule to… Ignorant insolence like that… It makes me mad!"
"Frieza, no, stop!" Goku pleaded as the emperor of the universe nonchalantly crossed his arms over his chest and horse-kicked Gohan flat on his back. There wasn't a single hint of life left in the boy's stare, though a faint flame of Ki still rustled in him. Somewhere deep down. Chayote's body slumped on the ground as Chiaotzu lit up with psychic energy again. Frieza turned to the little shrimp, displeased. As a puny, teal dot lit flashed in the tyrant's eyes, a psychically induced explosion sent Chiaotzu flying, charred and bleeding all over, tattered and slumping like a sack of bricks.
"It's done!" Goku turned his eyes racing up at the final pulse of force that nearly doubled the Spirit Bomb in size and at long last his Super Spirit Bomb floated perfect and complete. All the parts of the universe that Frieza had subjugated, all of them lent their power and created this Spirit Bomb. If only… If only it would have had enough strength… Sadly…
"Hmm? Still clinging to that pathetic ball of energy, are you? What will it take, I wonder? If I crush the head of that child like a melon, will that make you capitulate? You all seem so very protective of both this ghoulish mongrel and this monkey tart, maybe one of them will fracture your resolve?" Frieza's black lips turned upward as he raised his index and pointed his finger to Chayote's unconscious body while stepping his foot over Gohan's head. "Go ahead, simian, fling that energy sphere at me right now, show me how ruthless you monkeys are by obliterating your own friends alongside me…"
Goku's body shook. Despite all the variants of despair that he could feel right now, all the regrets he could have been having, his mind felt completely void of thought right now. His son, who gave his all to protect those dear to him, to avenge the death of his grandmother he just had the chance to meet for the first time, laid on his front with a sadistic monster threatening to pop it with his foot. Then again, what does it matter since Frieza will doom the entire universe anyway alongside Chayote…
"Don't give up!" Chiaotzu exclaimed, flying in a wide arc around and landing with a clutching grip onto Frieza's back. "Fight on, Goku! Make an even larger, even more, powerful Spirit Bomb. Even if you have to take the power of the entire universe to hurt Frieza, don't give up! Krillin, Yamcha, Ten-san, we've all given our all for you. Now win… Son Goku!"
"You vexatious little gnat!" Frieza hissed, smacking Chiaotzu with his tail, but much to his horror the tyrant realized Chiaotzu had surrounded himself in a field of psychic energy that was too powerful even for his tail swats to break. "Just what are you… Doing?"
"It doesn't matter how far I push it, my body will be obliterated anyway, King Kai's Fist X100!" Chiaotzu squeaked out as Frieza's eyes widened in fright. He had an excellent idea of what the little ghoul was talking about as Frieza himself was fully capable of psychic powers. It was just that such a sacrificial gesture felt utterly useless to Frieza, so he never even considered using his immense psychic potential this way and die to accomplish something grander than himself.
After all, there was nothing grander than Frieza…
"Farewell, everyone…" Chiaotzu muttered, becoming just a beacon of pink light as the blazing King Kai's Fist energy seeped into his transcendence into psychic energy itself, and Chiaotzu's body unraveled into a nova of psychic energy that expanded in a violent psychic shock wave so immense that it fissured the entire planet, leaving it shaking and crumbling, spewing violent bursts of stone and magnetic anomalies through the cracks reaching all the way down to its exposed core.
A devastating blast enveloped the entire planet, the power of Genki radiating from his Super Spirit Bomb helped Goku by forcing a large part of the explosion that wasn't ever meant for him away from hurting him as Chiaotzu's psychic powers self-contained the suicidal technique but the rampant destructive forces expanded throughout Planet Vegeta regardless, fling both unconscious bodies aside as little Gohan smacked into a nearby charcoaled spiky pillar and crumbled it down while Chayote skimmed across still vaporizing, pitch-black lake and laid weightless on her back while Chiaotzu's last resort technique blazed on.
"I guess the little pestilence just couldn't take it… He should've paid closer attention. Did he forget I am superior to him in terms of psychic abilities? His explosion might have undone a ruffian but not the strongest in the universe such as myself," Frieza dusted off his shoulders as not a single remain or even a dust particle of ash was left of Chiaotzu who dissolved by becoming a violent burst of psychic energy and exploding all at once, not even enhanced a hundred times by the King Kai's Fist did Chiaotzu's psychic energy surpass Frieza's own psychic force. "Oh well, he was just a primitive Earthling. I'm sure his limited brain worked as hard as it could…"
Goku dipped his head down. His entire body shook as he cradled what seemed like an incomparably miniscule Spirit Bomb when matched against just 50% of Frieza's full-power. Frieza finished cleansing himself of all the dust that Chiaotzu's sacrificial demise brought and turned his gaze up.
"Well, are you going to fling that thing at me or what? It doesn't seem to grow any larger so I'm guessing you're at your limit already. This is as large as that attack is going to get. Should I help you decide, do I charge my own Death Ball or should I threaten your son's life again?" Frieza pondered playfully by placing his index finger on his plump, black lips.
"The name… Of that primitive Earthling was Chiaotzu!" Goku turned his eyes up, revealing that they had no pupils or irises and that veins had popped out all over Goku's face. "The ones you killed before were Tenshinhan, Yamcha, and Krillin. Piccolo died in that explosion when you crushed our ship, alongside my mother, Gine!"
"Are you going somewhere with this or are you just trying to desperately prolong your miserable life because I kind of have an empire to restore…" Frieza pressed his lips together and pushed them out as he crossed his arms, whipping his tail and wondering at which point he savored enough despair and punishment of those who attacked his universal enterprise and should just execute them all.
"In my hands is the Super Spirit Bomb, composed of hopes and dreams for freedom of every living being you've ever oppressed. Just like those poor people, my friends you've killed here on Planet Vegeta entrusted their hopes in me. I will overlook my pride as a martial artist and beat you using borrowed power, as long as it means stopping you for good, Frieza!" Goku proclaimed as the Spirit Bomb began rattling and bubbling, slowly dissolving chunk by fist-sized chunk as dark clouds took hold of the ravaged planet and lightning lashed out all around, the only blinding source of light to illuminate Goku's silent, simmering wrath and Frieza's confusion.
"Your attack, it's falling apart…" Frieza noted. "Mph… All those hopes and dreams you spoke so highly about. It seems just like the useless folks that entrusted them to you–all big talk but when push comes to shove–they all scatter like cockroaches. Do you know why your so-called Spirit Bomb failed, you simian simpleton? It's because you relied on the power of my subjects. There simply aren't too many of them I've left alive, I'm afraid. Just the bare necessities that my empire needs to keep going. As an emperor, I run a tight and efficient ship, after all! No freeloaders!" Frieza broke into a peal of maniacal laughter as the Spirit Bomb fell apart bit by bit.
Though just as it seemed like the Super Spirit Bomb was dying out, the round orbs of energy dissolved into shapeless jets of energy and began flowing within the infuriated, lone Saiyan warrior standing in front of Frieza. Because of his vanity, Frieza was too busy laughing and reveling in his own success to notice Goku's black hair standing up and the Saiyan's bulking up arms sinking down by his sides as the Spirit Bomb seeped into him.
Everything went black, no matter how lively the lightning from the gravitational storm cracked, no matter how intense the magma pillars bursting forth and raining back down from the skies were, Goku realized he was now one with the Genki entrusted to him by Frieza's subjects in order to defeat him. He meant every word that he said before–in order to avenge his family and his friends, the Saiyans that Frieza subjugated and repay his promise to Vegeta. In order to help Chayote find her new paradise back home on Earth and move on from her past life. In order to defeat this hopeless monster, Goku would accept the limitless potential of Genki flowing through his body and defeat Frieza as an agent of everyone's hopes and dreams for liberty and joy as opposed to relying on his own power as he always had.
Goku's desperate shout drowned out the rumbling thunder as the Saiyan's spiky, standing hair turned gold for a flicker of a moment. It was then that Frieza twitched in fear and stopped basking in his own greatness, becoming drawn into Goku's splendid transformation.
"Wh-What are you doing, Saiyan? Where did all that borrowed power go?" Frieza looked around, realizing that Goku had absorbed the entire Super Spirit Bomb within himself and had been shimmering through his brilliant aura.
Goku grumbled and roared again, dyeing his hair gold for a handful of seconds again. Frieza raised his index finger over his head, creating a purple sphere of energy crackling with black lightning and flung it at the Saiyan, using thousands of times more power than it took to obliterate a planet of Planet Vegeta's size, surely it'd have been enough to destroy a single man.
Goku's foot moved almost by itself, swatting the Death Ball into the atmosphere to detonate somewhere far, far away from where it could do any harm as the Saiyan crossed his arms and lowered them slowly, yelling from the bottom of his heart as he allowed the entrusted energy to finally grant him the control needed to complete his transformation. Goku's spiky hair turned completely gold as a radiant aura formed a flashing outline around his body and his eyes became cyan.
"Impossible!" Frieza gasped, after seeing his strongest attack fly off into the atmosphere with a mere vertical kick.
Hearing the voice of the enemy that those that entrusted their hope and power to defeat, the eyes of the Super Saiyan fixed on Frieza with a disgruntled look as the legendary warrior prepared to explode with all his power and fulfill the purpose that he was awakened for.