Dragon Ball Saiyan Redemption

Episode 3: Reunited At Last

"I'm your son?" Goku said with utter amazement, and disbelief.

"Yes you are," Bardock replied.

"Well, I have got you to the place you needed to be, so I'll be on my merry little way and let you two catch up," Babidi said as he walked away.

"So, how have you been?" Goku said with amazement still in his voice.

"Well, I'm dead for starters and I've just met my son after 240 years."

"And I, I just saw my father after 240 years and I am not dead."

"You're not dead yet? It's been 240 years since I last saw you. You must be dead by now."

"Well, I was bestowed the powers of a dragon named Shenron, and now I will live until a new guardian of Earth creates a new dragon."

"You have supernatural powers?"

"That's not all I have for powers Dad."

"It's good to here you call me that Kakarot."

"Okay, about that, can you at least stop calling me Kakarot? On planet Earth, my name was changed to Goku. Can you call me that from now on?"

"I might call you that as a nickname, but to me, you'll always be Kakarot."

"Fine, I guess I can live with that Dad."

"So, you mentioned you had other powers. What do you mean by that?"

"Well, have you ever heard of the legend of the Super Saiyan?"

"Yes. It was what Frieza feared the most. I still remember that callous, murdering, self-serving traitor. But I knew his reign would not last forever. I had received the power to see into the future and right before Frieza blew up Vegeta, I tried to warn the fellow Saiyans, and I had a vision of you in the future. It was then I realized that I had lived the wrong path of life."

Bardock was running up a long flight of stairs and then he found himself standing on another planet. He then heard a voice.

"Bardock! Bardock! You know who I am, don't you Bardock?" the voice said. Bardock looked around for the owner of the voice and found his son in an adult body. Bardock then responded.

"Yes. You're my son." Bardock reached his hand out to touch his son.

"It's not too late Father, to be different," Kakarot turned his face for his father to see, "from him." Kakarot then faded away and was replaced by an image of Frieza.

"It was that vision that changed my life. I sought out Frieza and became the first Saiyan after King Vegeta, to take him on.

"Frieza, from now on, we don't work for you. Got it? We've killed far too many people in your name. This is from my crew to you!" Bardock yelled across from Frieza in the atmosphere above Vegeta. Frieza held out his finger and a small ball of light formed above it.

"Ahh." Bardock released an even bigger ball of light to blow Frieza up. The ball of light that Frieza made expanded and absorbed Bardock's ball of light. Bardock became stunned. The ball became the size of a moon and then Frieza launched the ball of light towards planet Vegeta and at Bardock. The ball of light engulfed Bardock and vaporized him. Bardock uttered one last word before he died.

"KAKAROT!"

"That bastard had it coming. Now from the vision I had of you, I realized that it was you who was destined to destroy him. Now, this has been plaguing me for the past 240 years. How did you destroy him?"

"As my good friend Trunks so eloquently put it, 'I went Super.'"

"Super?"

"Yes. I went Super Saiyan."

"Super Saiyan? You became Super Saiyan?"

"Yes. And I can go to levels much further than that."

"What do you mean?"

"Let me explain." Goku entered a crouched position. "This is me as just a regular Saiyan." Goku tightened up his muscles and yelled.

"Ahhh!" Goku was surrounded by a white aura. At this point, the Saiyans surrounding Bardock and Goku stared in wonder. Ruda and Bega were particularly interested. This aura then changed color into gold. Goku's hair stood on end and became gold. Goku's tail changed from brown-furred, to gold-furred. Goku's eyes went from black to cyan. Goku's eyebrows went from black to gold. "This is me as a Super Saiyan 1. I used this form to defeat Frieza." Goku then tightened up his muscles again and yelled even louder.

"Ahhhhhh!" Goku was surrounded by an even darker gold aura. Goku's hair lengthened a minute amount along with his tail. Goku's hair became stiffer. "This is me as a Super Saiyan 2. I used this form to try and defeat another villain named Cell." Goku then tightened his muscles even more and screamed even louder.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" Goku's aura grew darker. Goku's hair lengthened even more. This time the change was visible. His hair grew to an amazing three feet in length. Goku's tail grew a little as well. A black dot appeared in the center of each of Goku's cyan eyes. Goku's eyebrows disappeared. "This is me as a Super Saiyan 3." Goku's voice sounded deeper in this form. "I used this form to defeat a villain named Majin Buu. According to Babidi, he was the most loathed creature in the universe. I couldn't agree with him more." Goku tightened his muscle even more. He yelled even louder.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Goku's hair retreated and became black again. This hair then reverted back to the Saiyan style, and then expanded in different directions. Two batches of hair draped over his shoulders. Goku's arms became covered in red fur. This red fur covered Goku's tail as well. Goku's eyes changed too. They had changed from cyan, to gold. The small dot in the center of each eye stayed. Goku's eyebrow reappeared and was colored black. A gold border formed around Goku's eyes. "This is me as a Super Saiyan 4. I used this form to defeat a Tuffle named Baby."

"I remember them. They were weak. But when I arrived here, I realized that we shouldn't have taken control of their planet."

Goku tightened his muscles even tighter. Goku then yelled the loudest yell any one could produce.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The aura around Goku grew one hundred feet in height as he transformed one last time. Goku's hair had expanded even more and lengthened to five feet. Two more batches of hair draped over Goku's shoulders. One batch of hair pointed forward. His hair then became white. The red fur on Goku's arms traveled to the first knuckle of each finger. The red fur also traveled up Goku's neck. A black border separated the skin from the fur. Goku also became taller to accommodate the expanding muscles mass that is associated with this level. His hand became bigger than his face because of this. Bardock was looking eye level when Goku was just a Saiyan, and now in this transformed state, Bardock had to look up to see his son's face. On Goku's face, a black border formed all around it. Goku's eyes were surrounded by a black border. Goku's ears had enlarged a slightly visible small amount. Goku's tail grew thicker and longer. Goku then released the tightness of his muscles and his golden aura died down. "This is me as a Super Saiyan 5!" Goku said with an even deeper voice then the voice he had while he was Super Saiyan 3 and Super Saiyan 4. "I just achieved this level just a few years ago."

"Kakarot! I never would have imagined!" Bardock had a huge amount of amazement and astonishment in his voice.

"Who is that?" a Saiyan warrior who looked like Vegeta with a beard said.

"That is my son King Vegeta," Bardock responded.

"You must be extremely proud of him Bardock."

"Yes I am." With that being said, Goku, with one massive release in energy, transformed back into his Saiyan self once more.

"Ohhh. Dad, you're embarrassing me. And in front of a king even."

"So that's your son."

"Yes he is. Hey, wait a second King Vegeta!" Bardock turned his back to Goku and whispered something into King Vegeta's ear. Bardock then faced Goku and unraveled his tail from his waist. "Kakarot. I want you to do something for me."

"I'll do anything Dad."

"I want you to pull my tail."

"Pull your tail? But won't that hurt you. When I was a child, I recognized the fact that a tail is a weakness when it comes to being pulled."

"Don't worry. I trained it to withstand being pulled." Goku reluctantly grabbed his father's tail and gave it a small tug. The reaction that came out of Bardock's mouth surprised Goku. "Ahhhhhhhhhh! What in Dark Hell did you do that for? I said pull my tail! Not to totally rip out my spinal cord!"

"Dad! I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I guess I don't know my own strength anymore. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"I'm just kidding with you. That is an old Saiyan trick. It is almost like the boring, old, and tame 'Pull my finger trick' that Pilaf uses."

"Pilaf associates with you? I thought he would never associate with anyone who is even distant friends with me."

"Yeah. He tried that trick on me and attempted to knock me out with his flatulence so he could beat on me for being your father. He couldn't be able to do that any other way. Now his flatulence does reek something nasty, but not enough to knock me out. When Pilaf realized this, he ran away screaming like a little girl to his lackeys, Mai and Shu."

"Suddenly, a familiar voice rang out. "Father!" Bardock, King Vegeta, and Goku looked up. A familiar Saiyan flew toward the three other Saiyans. This Saiyan had long black hair that almost reached the ground, had arm bands wrapped around his arms and one of his legs, and he had a half worried, half scowl on his face. This Saiyan's name was Raditz. "Father! What's going on? I felt this huge power level and heard you screaming. Are you okay?" Raditz looked behind his father and spotted another Saiyan who looked just like his father, but even more familiar than just that similarity. Raditz's half worried scowl now became a full scowl. "Kakarot?"

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Reawakening Goku's Supernatural Powers