Gine, Raditz, Slug, and Tien stared at Roshi's corpse as it hit the ground. Goku gazed off into the distance, facing towards Freeza. The alien tyrant chuckled.

"Looks like he didn't make the cut," Freeza said, laughing at his own joke. His muscles were now bulked out, and he was giving off more energy than ever, despite the marks left on his arms and ribs from the communal Kamehameha.

"No! Master Roshi!" Tien called out.

"We have to focus!" Raditz said, turning to Freeza. He charged, but was forced to dodge the same disk of energy that had sliced Roshi in two.

"I won't let you get away with this!" Goku grunted. Wind started to pick up.

"Raditz, watch out! Stay away from the disk!" Gine called.

"I'll cover you!" Slug said, firing Ki at the disk, but it had no effect.

Lightning started to strike around them.

"If you think I'm going to let you monkeys just stand around and hit me, you're mistaken! I'm at my maximum power! You'll never defeat me!" Freeza taunted, firing Death Beams at Raditz. Gine put up a Ki shield in front of Raditz to stop them. The Ki disk was hurled at Raditz, who held up his own Ki to 'catch' the disk.

The sky grew dark.

"I! Can't! Hold it!" Raditz groaned, and the disk sliced through his hand, leaving a bloody stump.

Goku was starting to shine and sparkle.

"Hold on, Saiyans! I've got him!" Slug declared, trying to land a punch on Freeza, who stopped the barrage of Death Beams and caught Slug's hand. Freeza squeezed, breaking the bones in Slug's hand.

Rocks started to float and fly around Goku, and the waves of the water began to peak at twenty feet.

Goku's hair flashed golden, and everyone around him stared in awe of the display and power. Even Freeza released Slug's broken hand.

"I won't let you hurt ANYONE ELSE!" Goku declared. His eyes turned white, and he was surrounded by a golden aura. His hair lifted up and changed to gold. His pupils reappeared, blue as the Earth's sky. The power and aura was such that the pulsing could be heard.

"What-What is this?" Freeza demanded.

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Aboard the Dreadnought

"Five minutes to firing!" Turles declared, "Divert all power! I don't care if we start choking on our own farts, I want Freeza dead!"

"Countdown reduced to four minutes, sir!" a crewman reported.

"Damn you, Gine, finish off Freeza!" Shive hissed.

"Sirs! We're getting interference from below! Our targeting system's all over the place, we can't get a lock on Freeza! One of the Saiyans, the power they're putting out...It's incredible!" another crewman reported. Shive's eyes went wide.

"Of course! That's what was missing! He's doing it!" Shive gasped.

"What is?" Turles asked. Shive grinned at him.

"Your sire's son! The youngest son of Bardock, Kakarot! He's becoming the Super Saiyan!"

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The Battle over Namek

Vegeta couldn't help but stare at the golden light below. He could see, even from here, that it was Kakarot. The Freeza Force ships whizzed around him, trying to get a solid hit, but the interference from the Super Saiyan was preventing them from striking Vegeta.

"He's...He's done it! I never thought...Kakarot, of all people! Raditz's puny brother! What did he do to get this power? What is it that I'm missing?" Vegeta wondered, "This! This is what I must be worthy of! I will not stop, I'll go through any trial, any tribulation, to earn this! I will match you, Kakarot! But before I do, destroy him, Kakarot! Destroy Freeza, for our family! For us all! FOR THE SAIYAN RACE!"

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Son Family Ship

"Is that...My dad?" Gohan gawked out the window.

"Goku...What happened?" Chi Chi muttered, feeling her husband's rage and sorrow.

"Roshi! I don't sense Master Roshi!" Brussa said.

"Neither do I," Piccolo admitted, "But we need to get out of here, before this planet is destroyed, or Freeza decides to make target practice out of us."

"What is that?" Gohan wondered, staring at his father.

"It's the Super Saiyan! The legend is true, and it's Kakarot! Freeza killed Roshi, and your father...My brother…" Brussa said, "Is that what it takes for the legend to become true? It's not worth it...Not Roshi…"

Piccolo laid his hand on Brussa's shoulder, "We'll find a way kid. Without losing anyone. But we need to leave. Right now."

"Right," Chi Chi said, changing course of their ship. Gohan ran from window to window, trying to keep eyes on his father.

"Go get him, dad!"

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Capsule Corp Compound, Earth

"So. It has happened," Guru declared, sitting in the arboretum of Capsule Corp. He found that the indoor park agreed with him.

"What is it?" Tsuno asked, "Has Namek been destroyed?"

"Your world...And the Saiyans...And all those Demsu who escaped!" Lemo said.

"No. There is no need to despair. Our world may yet be saved. The Saiyan known as Kakarot and as Goku has achieved the legend of his ancestors," Guru declared, "I never thought I would ever observe it again in my life. The Super Saiyan lives in Goku's pure heart. Now, Freeza stands no chance of winning. He is surpassed."

"YES! Kick his butt, Goku!" Bulma cheered, "I knew you could do it, kid!"

"So far," Guru said, "But fate may have more in store for us."

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King Kai's World

"So that...Is the Super Saiyan," Meys said, "It's incredible! I never thought I'd live to see it!"

The two other students of King Kai glared at him. Meys bit his lip.

"Uh, so to speak."

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Hills of Namek

Goku floated above Freeza, glaring down at him. Freeza recalled his energy disk, a snarl on his face.

"If you think a light show is going to impress me, monkey, you're mistaken! I am your lord Freeza, and you will bow before me!"

Freeza threw the energy disk at Goku, but with a simple Ki blast, Goku destroyed it, and started to punch at Freeza, who could barely keep up with the strength and speed of the Super Saiyan.

XXX

Raditz wrapped a cloth around the stump that was his hand, while his mother pressed down on it, trying to stop the bleeding.

"Kakarot...He's become the Super Saiyan!" Raditz shook his head. Gine bit her lip, feeling both pride in her son, and shame she couldn't have raised him to this point herself.

"Goku has this in hand, Raditz. We'd only get in his way," she said to Raditz. Raditz nodded.

"Let's help Tien find Krillin, then. I only wish I had reached this point to help him. But what it cost…" Raditz looked down to Roshi's body. Quickly making a decision, Raditz flew down, and scooped up Roshi's top half, while Gine grabbed his bottom. Raditz turned to the Namekian who remained in place, watching Goku thrash Freeza about.

"Slug! We're leaving!" Raditz shouted to him.

"This power! It's incredible!" Slug threw his arms up into the air, "I can't believe such power exists in the universe!"

"Slug! We have to go!"

"It will be mine! I know I can reach this level of power! DO YOU HEAR ME? I WILL SURPASS YOU!" Slug screamed to the battle above him.

"He's chosen to stay," Gine said, "We can't help him."

Raditz nodded, and flew off into the distance with his mother.

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Freeza managed to land a punch on Goku, but it was like punching a wall for him. Goku slammed his fist into Freeza's face, causing him to reel.

"You! Damn monkey! I should have destroyed ALL of you when I had the chance!" Freeza said, firing Ki at Goku, but the Super Saiyan dodged, and punched him in the face again.

"GAH! STOP IT!" Freeza punched at Goku, but the Super Saiyan grabbed both of Freeza's arms, spun him around in midair, and threw him into the ground. Before Freeza could get up, Goku slammed into him from above. Goku started to kick his legs onto Freeza, pounding him further and further into the ground, before firing a Ki blast into Freeza. Goku flew up and out of the pit he'd made, which exploded into a geyser of lava. It exploded a second time, with Freeza emerging, covered in lava and seething at Goku.

"This is impossible! I am LORD FREEZA!"

Goku punched him in the face again.

"You're nothing more than a petty tyrant," Goku said. Freeza fired a Ki blast, but it dissipated when it struck Goku.

"But me? I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am the protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. ALLY TO GOOD, NIGHTMARE TO YOU!" Goku powered up, and began to charge an attack.

"No! This can't be!"

"Ka! Me!"

"Not again! I will not be defeated!" Freeza began to charge a Planet-Killer.

"Ha! Me!"

"I AM YOUR MASTER, AND YOU ARE EXTINCT!" Freeza threw the Planet-Killer at Goku.

"HAH!"

Goku's Kamehameha engulfed the attack, causing a shockwave of energy that rolled across the planet, even up into orbit, where the battle was taking place. Most of the ships lost power, and started to fall from the sky.

"YES! YES, GOKU, OBLITERATE HIM!" Slug cheered.

Freeza charged a second attack, and fired again, trying to stop the assault with a Beam Struggle. Pink energy struck blue, but only distance spared Freeza the few moments he had.

Above them, the Dreadnought was also struck with the shockwave. The main coils of the cannon exploded, and the engines began to falter. Shuttles and Attack Pods began to evacuate, fleeing Namek before their ship crashed.

The Kamehameha struck Freeza, who pushed every bit of energy he had left into the attack, but it wasn't enough. His defense faltered, and the wave consumed him, blasting him into the sky.

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Elsewhere on Namek

"I can't believe it! He's done it!" Killin watched the streak of blue in the Namekian sky. He'd used up most of his energy in his fight with Jeice, forcing Tien to carry him.

"Yeah, but we've got another problem," Tien motioned to the Dreadnought that was falling out of the sky, "That's going to cause some serious damage to the planet, and we don't have a ship!"

"We'll just have to improvise!" Raditz shouted over the increasing noise of the massive vessel crashing into the surface of Namek.

"The Ginyu's pods!" Gine shouted, "We'll have to leave Roshi behind!"

"He'd understand!" Krillin assured her. Raditz fired a hole into the ground with his Ki, and laid Roshi's body into it. The sky turned dark from the dust, and it was beginning to storm lightning all around them. They didn't even have time to push dirt over the body.

"I can't see anything!" Gine said, blocking the wind from her eyes with her arms.

"This way! I can sense a ship!" Tien called out, "Follow my energy!"

Tien charged up, making it easier for Raditz and Gine to follow him. They flew higher and higher, until they could see the curvature of the surface of Namek, and it became hard to breathe.

"Hey! It's a Capsule Corp ship!" Krillin said, taking deep breaths.

"Nappa?" Gine gasped. Sure enough, the vessel opened, and the huge Saiyan stood in the entryway of the vessel, and gestured for them to come over to him. They flew to the ship, and laid down Krillin.

"Let's get out of here," Raditz said.

"We are here for the Saiyan Shive, and I will not leave without my quarry!" Mercenary Tao said.

"You'll get paid double just for bringing us back to Earth alive," Gine said, "I know what Shive was doing, I'll tell your employer everything. But first you have to get us back to Earth! Now, before I turn you into an oven!"

"You might want to listen to her, Tao," Nappa recommended. Tao grumbled, but changed direction, and charged the FTL, their destination being Earth. Gine looked down at the surface of Namek, and cried as the Dreadnought struck the ground, and exploded in a flash of light that could be seen from orbit.

She could not sense her son.