Mr. Satan looks on from his seat in the car while Yajirobe shoves chips down his throat. He puts his hand over his brow to block the sun. Just then the roof of the Saiyan castle explodes open, sending waves of air crashing across the crater and nearly tipping the vehicle. Two streams of energy headed by dots too distant to distinguish burst out in opposite directions. The two quickly charge each other in a head-on collision which creates a second shock wave. The force sends the hovercar with Mr. Satan and Yajirobe flying.

The two fighters separate again. "I'm impressed in your ability to keep up with me" Gohan is overwhelmed with excitement. He never expected such a worthy opponent to emerge. "Let's see your battle power." Gohan pulls a scouter out and attaches it to his face. "Well, well, you hold no bluff. 27,000. Kakarot himself only managed a meager 20,000 before my grunts put him in the ground."

Gohan charges again with a fierce forward punch that Piccolo almost fails to dodge. He counters Gohan's attack with a knee to the head.

"Dynamite counter!" Piccolo's attack makes contact with Gohan's head and sends the child a few feet back.

Before Piccolo can advance, Gohan has already raised his finger to Piccolo

"Dodon Ray!" A focused burst of Ki blasts its way toward Piccolo.

The Namekian Swats the beam away, only to be met with a rapid burst of five punches to his body followed by a combo ending kick.

Gohan crosses his arms in a confident imposing posture with a relaxed elegance that suggests his superiority. "I'd tell you to give up, but to be honest I haven't had this much fun in a long time. Keep at this futile effort a while longer."

Just as Piccolo starts to recover from the last exchange, Gohan resumes his attack with a mad dash at the young Namekian's abdomen. Piccolo lets out a cry of pain.

"Let's see how you like this one!" Gohan lands a 360 degree spin kick across Piccolo's face that sends him flying into the edge of the crater.

Piccolo lands in a dizzy state several meters from where he previously launched his now unconscious uncle Raditz. "Damn, This kid's even stronger than I thought. I was hoping I wouldn't have to use this." Piccolo takes a small vial out of his pocket. A small sample of the Ultra Divine Water that he had kept in case of emergency. Gohan arrives at Piccolo's location in a laid back pose.

"What are you going to do with that?" Gohan releases a giggle under his breath.

"I'm going to drink it!" Piccolo musters a grin as he sips down the water. Gohan looks back in confusion. Within moments Piccolo drops to the ground in agony.

"What's this? You mean to defeat me by poisoning yourself? Did you inherit Kakarot's brain as well?" Gohan bursts in laughter at the sight of the crippled Piccolo.

"Give it a minute." Piccolo clenches the ground while he works to repair his liver. Gohan breaks from his outburst when he notices the scouter's reading change.

"What's this? 28,000, 29,000? What the hell is in that water?" Gohan's posture changes that of tension.

Piccolo lets out a laugh of his own. "Honestly, I have absolutely no idea, but what I do know is that it tears the shit out of your liver!"

"32,000, I don't believe what I'm seeing!"

"Believe it, punk!" Piccolo bursts past Gohan to his flank. "Satan Surprise attack!"

Before Gohan can process what has happened Piccolo sends him flying across the edge of the crater, grinding his face along its wall for a full kilometer. Piccolo follows hot on his trail and delivers a series of strikes to the child's body while he grinds across the ring.

"Dynamite Kick!"

He finishes with a powerful kick that launches Gohan right through the Crater wall and causes the whole face of the pit to collapse in a thunderous quake.

Piccolo covers his face until the dust settles. For a moment the battlefield becomes silent. Piccolo looks on, uncertain of the outcome.

"Yo, can we go back to the lookout now? You totally wasted that four-year-old." Yajirobe calls out from the tipped hovercar.

Piccolo looks in Yajirobe's direction, but his attention is immediately drawn back to the rubble where Gohan was launched. He lets out a gasp and the ground trembles. Gohan bursts a massive field of energy out from his body that clears the earth to form a new super crater. The child then furiously shoots into the sky.

"That's it! Now you die!" He forms his hands into a diamond. With his absolute rage, he sends his most powerful attack. "Tri-Beam!"

Piccolo is taken completely off guard as the earth around him glows briefly before everything around him instantly shatters. Piccolo is completely ravaged by the blast. He contorts his face to reflect the extreme pain inflicted by the attack.

Gohan isn't finished. He bolts down to Piccolo at near light speed to deliver a flurry of strikes with far greater intensity than before. Piccolo gasps, groans, and convulses with each blow.

"This is the end for you!"

Gohan raises his fist with a charged ball of energy, but before he can deliver, his attention is drawn back to the keep. The pain'd outcries of the Turtle Hermit echo through the landscape. The bellowing comes to an end with a loud thud.

"The dragon ball!"

Gohan's objective is now dead set on the dragon's wish. He begins to salivate with a primal desire for power.

"Hey, Twerp!" Piccolo brings the Saiyan's attention back to him. "Satan Sand!" Piccolo tosses a full hand of sand into the runty Saiyans eyes and follows with an uppercut.

"What cretin are you, to use such lowly tricks! Whoever taught you to fight must be a degenerate fraud!"

"Hey, have some respect for the school of Satan! Hercule critical attack!" Piccolo kicks his opponent with both feet and sends him flying into the sky.

Piccolo takes advantage of his foe's staggered state to make a dash for the dragon balls. It doesn't take long for Gohan to shake off the attack and begin pursuit. Within seconds he's right on Piccolo's tail.

"It won't be so easy to get rid of me! Those dragon balls are mine! Dodon Ray, Dodon Ray, Dodon Ray!"

Piccolo manages to dodge two of the attacks but is struck by the third. After letting out a groan of pain Gohan grabs his leg and swings him violently into the ground below.

"It's mine! Ultimate power is mine!"

Piccolo is too late. Gohan arrives at the dragon balls first. The old master Roshi has fallen unconscious and at his feet, the final dragon ball sits.

After a quick cleaning, Gohan makes his way to the other six dragon balls. However, before he can achieve his ultimate victory, a tremendous flash makes its way through his chambers.

"Galick Gun!" Vegeta blasts his strongest finisher directly at Gohan, taking him by complete surprise. Gohan lets out a whine as he is flung out of the castle. "You pitiful excuse for a Saiyan! You speak to me of birthright? Well, it's my birthright to become king of the Saiyans, not yours! If anyone's going to be a super Saiyan it's going to be me!" Vegeta pants heavily after expending his massive attack.

Piccolo finally makes his way into the chamber to witness the new development. The dragon balls are finally united, but under Vegeta's command. They begin to glow and resonate with one another. "Here me dragon! I Vegeta call upon you to grant me my wish!"

The sky darkens and thunder cracks. Piccolo looks in horror at the sight. Vegeta begins to laugh madly, but before a dragon is summoned a massive and absolutely furious barrage of blasts strike the ground in endless succession. The dragon balls, Vegeta, and the entire stronghold are blasted away in every direction as an explosively angered Gohan plunges into the ground with a tremendous quake that seems to erase all traces of Vegeta. Gohan lets out a monstrous roar and swipes his hand to send Piccolo out of the playing field.

At that moment the mighty dragon springs forth from the dragon balls. "I have been summoned, what is your wish!"

"Dragon, here my demand! I, Gohan, wish to be granted the strength beyond any strength! Give me the power to become the Saiyan of legends! Grant me the power to become a super Saiyan!"

Piccolo looks on in horror from what remains of the rim of the crater.

"Yo, kid, you blew it." Piccolo turns to face Yajirobe's disappointed face. Beside him sits Mr. Satan, closing his eyes in shame.

A shamed Piccolo looks back at the sight of a nightmare, until he sees a figure motion slowly over to Gohan from a distance. Piccolo gasps. "What's he going to do!"

Nappa continues his limp toward Gohan "Hey, Kid! It's about time someone taught you some manners!"

Gohan turns his head to the beaten giant. "It's too late to steal my wish, you imbecile. You should have stayed down!"

Nappa raises his hand with two fingers extended. "But it's not too late to take you and that dragon out before it's granted! I call this attack the Volcano Explosion!" A massive burst of energy engulfs the entire crater with blinding light.

Piccolo and his allies cover their faces until the worst of it subsides. Piccolo opens his eyes to a field of dust too dense to see through. A brief moment passes as Piccolo gathers hope that Nappa's last-ditch effort was effective. Then, he heard it.

"Your wish... has been granted!" and the glowing streams of dragon balls radiate through the dust as they scatter. The sound of a boom goes off as the dust starts to rapidly scatter from some immense pressure wave. At its epicenter a glowing Saiyan stands, his hideous bowl-cut now reversed in a fashion that can now hold solid objects.