"What is this? Another transformation?" Frieza tensed up the muscles in his face, stretching it out just to wear the shock off and get a moment to breathe easier in the face of a golden-haired, reborn nemesis that has just deflected the emperor's best attempt at eradicating him.
"It's every bad thing you've ever done, all pain that you've ever caused, and every innocent life you've taken coming back to ensure your defeat. I usually don't like to fight unfair. I'm not a big fan of drawing strength from other people either. The spirit of martial arts is about tempering one's body and soul to prepare for even the greatest challenges ahead but in the face of absolute death and injustice I've reached out to every soul you've ever touched with your corrupting grip and I've found my answer inside them. We've all come together, and I swallowed my principles to awaken a new power. A power that no lone and proud Saiyan could awaken, a power that transcends cruelty and solitude," Goku said staring Frieza down with a sense of serenity in his bemused glare.
The Saiyan oozed a strict sense of justice from his eyes, but he no longer felt pressured or racing against time. The retribution of all those Frieza hurt had all the time in the world and ascended past the point where the tyrant's struggles could have caused harm to it.
"Transcending the state of a Saiyan? Don't you dare, you monkey scum, I'll kill you, I'll kill everyone you hold dear and eradicate the Planet Earth you hold so dear if you do!" Frieza clenched his fists and burst out with a rampant, violet aura as he peaked his current level of power and began slowly raising it, elevating the limits of his roaring Ki but in the face of Goku's newly awakened state even that power-up seemed meaningless.
"That's right, Frieza. The truth stings, doesn't it? For a guy as tough as you, you sure can't handle it well. No matter how much it hurts, don't you dare forget it. Remember it at times when you think about hurting anybody else, destroy or enslave another planet. Remember how a lone warrior calling out to billions of hurt souls and awakened by their rage beat you and don't forget the name of Son Goku, the Super Saiyan!" Goku exploded with a sparkling, golden aura that rivaled Frieza's for a blink and then drowned it out on the second.
Frieza let out a mindless shriek, pointing his finger at Gohan's unconscious body as he built up energy for a Death Beam. But before even a single speck of Ki could accumulate, Goku was already there. The Super Saiyan locked an iron grip around Frieza's wrist, forcing a pathetic whine out of the tyrant as Goku bent Frieza's arm upward, stressing the forearm and wrist so hard that the numbness canceled out the channeling Ki and made Frieza wince and cry out in pain.
Throwing him over his shoulder, Goku sent Frieza hurling further away from the battlefield where he had an array of easy targets. The Super Saiyan himself boomed across the entire space himself with a spinning aerial kick, enveloped with a bright flame of ardor as he drove his kick into Frieza's face, sending the tyrant spinning and breaking his face with a single blow. Goku stopped and repurposed his momentum into a second kick with his other leg at the time of impact, doubling the punishment he inflicted upon his opponent before raising his hands and forming two bumblebee-shade Ki blasts in each hand as he thrust his open palms rapidly, unleashing a barrage of Ki blasts, sending every single hurt voice crying for justice toward the icon of cruelty that each sender of energy across the universe wanted punished. In this way, the Super Saiyan figuratively provided those that sent their energy with a chance to hurt their enemy.
Reeling and panting, Frieza wavered in mid-air, clenching his burns and scrapes before the snapping noise sent his heart tumbling into his heels. The vanished Super Saiyan appeared right behind him, driving a stout sole kick into Frieza's back and bending the emperor's body backward as Frieza's eyes whited out and he spat out heaps of slobber. Goku turned like a whirlwind, kicking, again and again, looking to break Frieza's spine and cripple him–leaving him alive to ponder on his life's mistakes and facing the judgment of those whose lives he had ruined but broken and unable to hurt anyone ever again. The best punishment that Goku could imagine at this time.
The Super Saiyan cried out, then again and again as he sent more flashing energy blasts to Frieza's exposed back, making Frieza white-out as a fusillade of deafening explosions drove him onward and left Frieza's back just a charred mess while Goku delivered as many plights to break the psychotic tyrant as he could. Seeing Frieza slipping out of consciousness and falling, Goku dived with a downward arc, delivering a kick to the gut of falling Frieza and waking the snoozing emperor back up.
Goku roared as he thrust his fist up, delivering a rising, spinning uppercut as he exploded with golden Ki and flew off, carrying Frieza's weightless carcass on his decisive, rising fist as high up as he went. A flash of energy lit up briefly in Goku's hand, but the Super Saiyan clenched his fist again, crushing the Ki blast into a point-blank explosion which sent Frieza's body flying aside like a rag doll. Goku vanished once more to split his legs vertically and smash the emperor back down into the ravaged landscape of Planet Vegeta before snapping back down to his fallen foe.
"If you're to face the judgment of those you've ever hurt, you better power-up to your 100% and hold nothing back, Frieza. You've said it before–you've killed far too many people so that they don't come back at you, leaving only those you deemed necessary, right? Well, now it's time to face their sorrow and their hatred and you won't get the luxury of half-assing it like you've done your entire life, Frieza," Goku nonchalantly pointed it out while staring at Frieza's broken and twitching body hissing and wheezing on the ground.
The tyrant's hatred for the universe he controlled was substantial, it took unmatchable willpower to roll over on one's busted front and force one's hand to push their battered and limp body off the ground to face one's abuser after the punishment that Goku sent Frieza through. If it had been any other opponent, Goku might have even respected that kind of guts, but knowing that this was Frieza, the most despicable being he had ever encountered clinging to his empire built on fear and subjugation only disgusted the golden-haired warrior.
"Do you… Even know what you're asking for?" Frieza let out a wheezing, damp with blood from his internal injuries, cackle. The tyrant hunched over and raised his fists up, enveloping himself in a sharp shimmer of fuchsia-colored aura, while Goku watched and waited for his opponent to call forth his full power. "Nothing in my entire life has ever required my full attention and full effort. You have no idea how frightening I can be when fighting at my full power because, frankly, I'm not too sure either. Awaken all the power you want, talk all that big talk but a primitive, violent race of bipedal simians will never hold a candle to the true most powerful being in the entire universe!"
"Goku! What are you waiting for? You must finish Frieza off now, while he's still weak! Your new power is incredible, but it won't last. Your strength taps into the power of the Spirit Bomb as much as the power of the Super Saiyan and the Spirit Bomb is meant to be a singular explosion of power. Even now, you've already lost more than a third of the power you've drawn from the universe. If you don't hurry–you might once again run out of strength!" King Kai's warning echoed inside Goku's mind.
"Haven't you heard what Frieza said yet?" Goku mumbled to himself, knowing that King Kai could hear him well enough. "He hasn't ever used his full power throughout his entire life. He's already lost this fight, he just doesn't know it. Beating him just isn't enough, King Kai, he'll just recover and come back to haunt this universe again. I need to break his spirit and punish him like those that awakened the Super Saiyan within me demand it!"
"Talking to yourself already, monkey? That's understandable. The universe had never intended for a race of rough-housing hairballs to fight on an even plane with one such as myself. It makes sense that you're losing your mind. Or is it you can hear those annoying gnats I've squashed inside your head? That'd be just wonderful. That way I could thoroughly punish all of you at once and it'd spare me the trouble of visiting every rundown junkyard of the universe one by one!" Frieza grumbled through physical strain as his body began going through a painful process of bulking up. The tyrant inflated bulk into his body to where he almost grew twice in size and at least four times in width with the dried-out wounds reopening from the grievous process of Frieza's unbelievable full power igniting all at once.
"Annoying gnats? You're talking about my friends too with that kind of talk, don't you dare talk about them that way, Frieza!" Goku broke through his stone-cold facade as his own body bulked up and ignited with a golden aura, powering up to the Saiyan's very limit. King Kai wasn't wrong, and Goku could feel it. The Super Spirit Bomb that he had absorbed into his body evaporated almost within the first few blows he delivered to Frieza while the Super Saiyan transformation appeared to have a burn through Goku's stamina all of its own on top. And it wasn't like the exhausted Saiyan had much of that going around after pushing the King Kai's Fist to its limits in that same battle.
Suddenly, the chaotic pink aura around Frieza died down, and the emperor pressed his inflated hand to his chest as he bowed, whipping his tail around in excitement. Bulked up beyond the point of reason and belief, abusing every inch of his inhuman physiology as the tyrant bowed down in a showy act of non-existent respect with a sly smirk and pumping, protruded veins littered throughout his body.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, this is my full, 100%!" Frieza chuckled bitterly, still feeling the aftereffects from the Devil Mite Beam and the ruthless beat down that Goku just delivered to him all stacking up.
"Frieza!" Goku bellowed as he rolled up into the sky like a cannonball and slammed down with a double ax handle strike to the top of Frieza's head in an instant. The Super Saiyan drove his elbow, smashing into Frieza's face before delivering a thunderous flurry of strikes and ending his wrath-driven combination with an uppercut that sent his opponent flying into the cloudy, noxious skies.
"Wh-What's the meaning of this?" Frieza huffed, clutching his abdomen and panting in pain and exhaustion alike. "I am the strongest being in the universe, at the peak of my power… Why…? Why is that mere monkey still laying hands on me!?"
The all too familiar snapping sound alerted Frieza to the Super Saiyan, having appeared behind him. With a gleeful smile, the space emperor threw an elbow strike to where he had imagined Goku's face being but he only dispelled an afterimage while the true Super Saiyan let out a resonant cry as he drove his fist into Frieza's gut, shutting down the swollen body of his opponent with a single strike as Goku began spinning in both directions and slamming his stiff legs into both sides at a blinding speed that made it impossible to tell which side the Saiyan would attack from next.
Spinning his leg overhead, Goku hammered his foot down and sent Frieza crashing down before vanishing back down to ground level and rushing to his fallen foe, punting Frieza right in the face just as the bulked-up emperor returned to his knees and tried to build up the strength to rise. The hasty Saiyan dived under his careening foe and kicked him up into the air while clenching a strong right fist and kicking off the ground.
"This'll settle it, Frieza!" Goku yelled out as he kicked off the ground, willing to drive his uppercut right through his opponent.
"Like hell, it will!" Frieza shrieked out, raising his hand over his head and sending a fuchsia disc racing after Goku and slashing him in two vertically but it seemed to only slash through an afterimage as the real attack of the rampaging Super Saiyan followed immediately, Frieza leaned back, avoiding the deadly uppercut but Goku spun around, kicking Frieza aside instead.
With a sadistic grin, the tyrant made a gesture with both of his hands, Goku's glare sharpened as he vanished just in time to avoid the returning Ki saucer though he snapped back just in time to grab hold of it and fling it aside with a Ki blast chasing after it and detonating it with a mighty blast.
"Careful with a technique like that. You could've sliced yourself clean in half if I didn't blow that up for you," the Super Saiyan smirked, teasing his desperate opponent.
"As if a cheap trick like that would have worked on me, you insufferable, insolent lunkhead!" Frieza hissed, holding on to his collapsing body to the best of his ability as he visibly lost some of his bulk with each exhaled breath.
"What's the matter, Frieza? I thought this was 100% of your power, the full power of the strongest in the universe. Is that all you've got?" Goku teased his opponent further, triggering a response at last as the exhausted emperor vanished and cut in from the skies above with a dive kick that Goku blocked with a cross-shaped wall of his forearms.
The tyrant dived under with a pushing kick aimed at the calves but the Super Saiyan jumped up, Frieza's foot dug into the ground and pushed his other foot to spear up into the Saiyan's gut but Goku caught it, the restrained emperor spun around, throwing his other foot and his tail at Goku, though the martial artist blocked both strikes, a reddish scrape remained on Goku's right forearm afterward. Frieza dragged his index and middle fingers, expelling a fuchsia-colored crescent slash of Ki. Goku put up his arms and ignited his golden aura, releasing Frieza as he stopped the sharp slashing projectile in its tracks and began a power struggle against it.
Goku growled and struggled to hold his own against the slash of psychic energy before he felt it weakening as Frieza dived through the entire battlefield with a charging elbow strike. Just barely, Goku put up his own elbow and jumped onward to collide with his opponent in time to answer his attack. Frieza canceled the struggle, letting Goku fumble forward slightly as the tyrant dived under and continued to work on the Super Saiyan's calves but Goku jumped and positioned himself horizontally over his opponent in a flying position as the two began exchanging blows at a blinding speed, expelling deafening shock waves as their fists, knees, and feet collided with one another and the two brawlers vanished.
Thunderous, invisible blasts resonated throughout the landscape. As the brief images of each combatant reappeared for just a moment, frozen images of their brutal fight remained captured in a momentary mirage before disappearing in time as the struggling fighters were already leagues and heaps ahead of that fading point in time and exchanged blows hundreds of times. Frieza dived with what he meant to be a decisive kick as Goku moved out of the way. Goku's fist sent Frieza reeling back, but the emperor vanished once more, stomping from up above before vaulting over his front and whipping at the Saiyan with his tail.
Goku put up his arms and blocked the relentless attack but, seeing this response coming, the sadistic ruler of the universe bounced off of the Super Saiyan and dived with his head put out forward, socking it straight into Goku's own forehead hard enough to crack it open and draw blood before disappearing and blinking up over Goku's head with his index finger held up.
"Let's see you swat away my 100% Death Ball, monkey!" Frieza yelled out as he flung a dark, violet sphere enveloped with black lighting to crash right into his reeling opponent. Goku put his arms together and drew them back.
"Ka–Me!" he yelled out. "Ha–Me!" Goku chanted out as the sphere came closer and closer. Frieza stared down at what was about to occur with bloodshot eyes and a rich smile, begging the laws of order and justice in the universe to rule in his favor and thirsting for the Saiyan's blood and screams for mercy.
With a cocky tip of his own lips, Goku vanished, appearing behind Frieza and spinning his legs like a windmill, knocking the tyrant back down into his own attack before blinking back down into his initial position. "Ha!" Goku yelled out, driving his fully charged Kamehameha into the other end of Frieza's Death Ball as he propelled it upward and through the clouds with little competition and detonated it in the Planet Vegeta's atmosphere which sent a fiery shock wave throughout the entire planet's surface and an intense heatwave that further decimated any signs of life present, burning leaves off of trees to a crisp and reducing lush forests to wastelands.
The Super Saiyan straightened his body and breathed out, feeling the last, pale, ethereal gust of energy particles leaving his body as he gazed back up with a bloodied face. He could still feel the Super Saiyan's immeasurable power flowing through his body, even though the last of the Super Spirit Bomb he had just absorbed left his body. That meant that it wasn't just the plights of the universe that made him into a Super Saiyan. Goku looked down at his exhausted and bloodied hands and his trembling fingers with a satisfied expression.
"What are you waiting for, Goku! Frieza is still alive!" King Kai hurried the warrior.
"Yeah," Goku nodded. "I can sense him. But the part of the universe contained within the Super Spirit Bomb wasn't the only one that deserved punishment. My friends deserve their revenge too and now that I've lost the Spirit Bomb I can finally deliver their last will to Frieza the right way."
"I… I don't think I recognize you anymore, Goku…" King Kai's voice trembled on the telepathic line.
"Yeah… I think I understand what Chayote goes through better now. This Super Saiyan stuff really awakens something strange inside you. All the more reason to give as much of it to Frieza as I can and learn to control it." Goku turned his eyes up to gaze at the busted and swollen visage of the space emperor descending from up above. Half of his face had chunks of flesh torn off of it and his right peck and left shoulder both were decorated with similar brutal scrapes as the decimated tyrant prepared to settle it with his mortal enemy once and for all.
"You fool…" Goku mumbled. "I had thought that you'd run away with as little dignity as you still have. You'll get yourself killed at this pace."
"You're the fool… Monkey… And the one to die… Will be you!" Frieza pulled his clenched fist back, readying himself for the final collision with Son Goku, the Super Saiyan.