Being a colossal entity of terror and unbridled evil, Lord Slug did not rush his violent dealings with the trembling Earthling standing his ground before him. In this adoration of his own dread, Krillin find an opening in the Super Namekian's defenses. The bald martial artist reached for his forehead with his open hands and closed his eyes.
"Solar Fist!" Krillin yelled out, emitting a powerful flash of light from behind him which sent Lord Slug reeling and stumbling back as the giant began rubbing his own beady ocular orbs and growling in irritation. Damning the resourceful Earthling a thousand times in a single heartbeat while Krillin took it into the air and raised his hand over his head.
With the Earthling martial artist having the perfect capacity of sensing his opponent's strength, he had surmised that no matter what trick he used, even if he powered up with the hottest version of Hot-Red he couldn't be able to do much damage to Lord Slug the way he was now. It was as if this Super Namekian rested on a completely different world of power and sat upon the very throne of that world. That left Krillin with only techniques that did not rely on overpowering the opponent.
"Kienzan!" Krillin yelled out. A golden circle-shaped disc emitted a sharp howl over his hands as it buzzed with bent bladed teeth made of solidified energy. With all of his focus placed into the technique, Krillin lobbed his attack at the blinded and struggling opponent of his.
A golden gleam extended over Lord Slug's abdomen as the giant froze in place, distraught and shocked of the sudden boom of pain. The lower jaw of the abominable evil Namekian twitched a few times and the terrified space conqueror looked down to see a golden line dividing him down the middle while gravity demanded its toll from his lower half, slipping it off of the enormous Slug and having the two twitching feet still attached to the abdomen slump to the ground while Slug's upper torso still floated in mid-air. The Kienzan had extended just to the right size to cut the giant in two horizontally upon contact.
"Got him!" Krillin swung his fist down in glee. In his eyes this should have been it, Namekians and the Evil Tribe were a lively lot but none of them could survive such a wound.
Lord Slug, meanwhile, had entirely different plans rather than to slump beside his fallen half and die, the space scoundrel gritted his blood-stained teeth and intensify his glare while he focused his rampant, sky-reaching Ki and burst forth a shower of purple blood from which his upper half grew a new lower half, soaked in blood and a transparent, swampy-colored bio-fluid of unclear nature. The floating giant wheezed in still-resonating pain and physical strain that regenerating his lower half caused him as his twisted mind did its best to comprehend the best-suited punishment for the foul Earthling that humiliated him thusly.
"Crap!" Krillin leaned back in absolute terror. By the time it occurred to him to turn tail and flee it was too late. A golden shine shot out from Lord Slug's eyes, as massive as the gazers that let it loose as the attack raced to the Earthling.
"Hot-Red!" Krillin yelled out in desperation, blazing up his Ki as high as he could while he braced for impact. To dodge something this fast seemed like utter madness at the time, and so the experienced martial artist used the flash of the moment to brace himself and elevate his Ki as high as he could to avoid obliteration. Despite his best attempts, the beam enveloped him whole and Krillin's body hit the ground limp with enough force to bounce off of it a decent distance after the initial slam.
"Still alive, huh?" Lord Slug spat some blood aside from his mouth. "Too bad you're unconscious. I'd have liked us both to enjoy my punishment as I poke out your eyes for that stunt you pulled on me and then rip you in half like you've done to me!"
Fully intending to realize his foul and savage wet dream, Lord Slug began advancing toward Krillin's unconscious body, pushing aside shaken and busted buildings and seeing them fall and shatter into debris before him as they proved to be an insignificant barrier before Slug's malicious, sky-scraping excellence.
"King Kai's Fist X 10!" Goku's shriek filled the dreadful silence, slashing and tearing it apart while his rampant power-up filled the gloomy skies with a glint of majestic red. Like a blitzing, crimson arrow of energy, the roaring Saiyan split the space between him and the evil Super Namekian with a rage-fueled right cross that slammed right into Lord Slug's jaw and sent the stumbling back.
A resonant shock wave spread through the skyward layers and sent the surrounding dark clouds packing as the evening skies cleared up and the infuriated Saiyan warrior with whited out gaze threw his fists and feet madly at his opponent. The giant stumbled back on the defensive, using his open palm to cover himself and protect from the angry, little, sparkling star enveloped in a red nova that seemed to look to rip him open and bash him into the ruins of the decimated South City.
"Still alive, you do-gooder wretch!?" Lord Slug croaked in pain as he extended his hands and opened his fingers, unleashing an entire network of finger beams from his massive fingers. The beams moved around alongside with the fingers, with more than a few of them showering Goku. As the flashing light enveloped the Saiyan, his scarlet glow of the King Kai Fist subsided.
Goku yelled out in pain and powered through the beam that enveloped him, bursting out from it with burns and bruises and extensive battle damage while he floated right before the terrible Super Namekian invader who appeared exceptionally proud of the damage that he had inflicted onto his enemy to where he had completely overpowered even the King Kai's Fist X 10 performed by a much more powerful opponent than the woman who caused him some trouble earlier with little effort.
"I won't… Let you kill Krillin… You hear me!?" Goku let out a defiant shout to Slug, who didn't appear all too bothered by the Saiyan's proclamations.
"I will do whatever my calamitous might permits me to do, for that is the purpose and nature of power! It is evident, however, that before I punish that Earthling thoroughly, I will need to do away with you as well!" Slug declared, but before he put whatever hateful plans he had into motion, Goku clenched his fists and placed them beside him, closing his eyes and preparing for what he felt would have been unbearable pain.
"Thank you, Chi-Chi… You reminded me that limits exist to broken. I will use the King Kai Fist as many times as I need to in order to save you, Gohan, Krillin and father and punish this bastard that killed Chiaotzu! Hold on, body! Let's go, King Kai Fist X 20!" Goku yelled out as the intense red aura had exploded with an exceptional range that appeared to even blind Lord Slug himself with its red hue.
Thundering with a voice screaming in pain and roaring in anger, Goku took off at his opponent but Lord Slug didn't appear all too impressed by the new heights to which the Saiyan had taken King Kai's signature technique to. The catastrophic giant waved his hand, smacking Goku aside like a mere pest and smashing him into the ground before Slug stomped his foot into the ground, shattering the street and opening up terrible fissures with a mere step.
"What was that about limits, you stupid ape?" Lord Slug cackled, proud of his own insurmountable power. "Can you see that your previous power-up had broken your body to an extent that powering up twenty times merely brings you to the same level you were before? Maybe you should have heeded those limits after all? You can think about that for eternity while you boil down in Hell!"
With a soccer kick, Lord Slug kicked up a handful of massive stone and cement chunks alongside Goku who floated up into the air powerless to fight back, with a rushing flurry of gigantic hammers and fists delivered at a lightning pace for someone so gargantuan, Lord Slug pummeled the de-powered Saiyan into submission before swinging his arms in an upward ax-handle slam and pulling the Saiyan back down with an extension of his left arm to throw him aside while decimating the landscape with a trail of his perilous eye beams.
"You laughable altruist… You should feel grateful that I displayed you a glimpse of the Power of Darkness before you kick the bucket. Now wallow in your bleeding-heart misery and rush through your final throes already!" Lord Slug crossed his arms and laughed in mockery of the Saiyan he had just dispatched. Before he could even find the bald Earthling again, another, striking mirror-image of the Saiyan he had just defeated rose from the rubble with a Ki blast shining in his right hand, crackling with electric energy as it gleamed azure, overcome with tremendous fighting spirit.
"You Namekian scumbag, you've made a grave error in hurting my son before my eyes. For, my power grows exponentially when I am stressed out about the lives of comrades dear to me and you've done nothing but thin out the Earthlings today. Now, with this attack, I will do away with you as I will do away with Frieza!" Bardock declared as he proudly swung his empowered hand back and prepared to rush at his enemy. Lord Slug's eyes seemed a tad shocked at the sight of the armored Saiyan warrior rising from the rubble to meet him in battle, and in admiration of the impressive power that he had built up.
"This is the Spirit of Saiyans, Slug, you'll pay for underestimating it!" Bardock roared as he closed his eyes and allowed the fleeting images of the memories he had spent on Earth, building up new connections with the locals while waiting for his son to return and join him in battle against Frieza that they would wage one day flash past. Once Bardock's eyes opened once more and he rushed toward his opponent, the roar of the Great Ape seemed to shuffle and mix into the tone of his roar as he brought the pent up fury and fighting spirit to his enemy.
"A puny fist of a brawn-headed race! Weak!" Lord Slug opened both of his hands as a pair of shining Ki blasts gleamed inside of them. He sent one of them toward Bardock, clashing with his high-spirited rushing fist. With a resonant calamity that filled the sky and sent ground-trembling shockwaves, the two blasts cancelled each other out while Lord Slug flung his second blast.
"Darkness Twin Star!" Lord Slug yelled out.
"Let's finish this, Slug! Final Spirit Cannon!" Bardock's voice rumbled as he extended his de-powered hand once more, drawing from the fighting spirit still simmering inside of him and that which he had spent out with his previous boom in power in the intense atmosphere of the cataclysmic battle in South City. Bardock's attack was a mere drop that barely rippled Lord Slug's attack while the second Darkness Star hurled toward Goku's father and enveloped him in its decimating heat.
Bardock's eyes whited out as his gi began burning up to shreds inside of the perilous Ki attack while his skin burned away bit by bit as well since the overpowered Saiyan had run out of strength to resist Lord Slug's blast. Gine's radiant face flashed through Bardock's eyes as the blinding light enveloping him was too powerful to see anything else through. Her face was quick to change into one of crying distress, the same one she had when they sent Kakarot away to Earth, the last one that Bardock saw her with as he had become too engrossed in his rebellion, too ashamed to look his wife in the eyes after sending their boy away into space for no reason at all.
Frieza didn't destroy Planet Vegeta, but he ruined his life and made a mockery out of the Saiyan warrior. And the worst thing… The worst thing of all that he wouldn't pay for it… He wouldn't, because Bardock would end up burning up to a crisp like that ghoulish shrimp, destroyed by some Namekian dirtbag on a remote corner of the…
"King Kai Fist X 5!" a whiny voice broke through, punching through despair as a tight grip pulled Bardock out of the pulsating heat by his collar. When light returned to Bardock's blurry eyes, he saw a puny, shifting and mirage-like image of a little Saiyan boy in a traditional oriental attire looking up to the dreadful Lord Slug in front of him, clutching his hurting body in pain as he struggled to deal with the aftereffects of the technique he had just used to rescue his grandfather with.
"Don't you dare hurt my grandpa!" little Gohan cried out, terrified but screaming at the airborne titan in defiance despite it. "Or… I'll hurt you!"
In his blind moment of righteous fury, little Gohan put up his hands and began throwing them madly with an oppressive barrage of Ki blasts that homed in on the very confused Super Namekian. Bardock's weak stare widened in shock when he saw Lord Slug grunting in pain and Gohan's attacks pushing the floating behemoth back a fair deal, with each successive Ki wave in his mad barrage, little Gohan pushed the invader back further and further away from Earth. Stray blasts began resonating far away from his intended target. One of them rushed off-course and slammed into Slug's cruiser.
It howled as the black hole lit up with a subtle, golden gleam, and then the entire planetary cruiser disappeared into rubble.
"Incredible…" Bardock muttered, laying by little Gohan's side. The boy had finally run out of strength and fallen to his knees, panting as his broken and torn up body refused to move. He himself had followed the example of his parents and stepped over the obvious lines and limiters defined by King Kai when teaching them his signature technique and his puny body was the worst designed to handle such strain.
"No… I was too weak!" little Gohan cried out. "I pushed him back, but I didn't do any damage…"
"When I first met you, Kakarot's brat, I wasn't sure what to think of you. You had a trace of my blood inside you, Saiyan blood, but you weren't one of my own, at least I didn't see you as one initially. I was a fool… Even though your mother is human, she's every bit as fierce as a Saiyan and you've carried all of those traits of hers on. Even more, you've got your father's fighting spirit and instincts. I'm not sure if we'll make it through this, Kaka… No… Gohan, but even if we don't, I want you to know that I will die proud of you, my grandson…" Bardock smirked with a weak, bruised and pummeled face as he looked at his crying grandson while Lord Slug loomed over them, covering up the traces of the moon that occasionally broke through the parted storm clouds with his massive back.
"I've had just about enough of this charade! I will not be made a fool of by mere children, I am Lord Slug, a Super Namekian King of the Evil Tribe! The Subjugator of Stars, the Kaiser of the Cosmos! Let the nebula of space dust I leave your pathetic planet in be a testament of what happens to the justice-lovers that intend to oppose the nefarious!" Lord Slug crossed his arms over his chest, building up energy for one massive explosive wave. An unavoidable, expansive bubble that would have consumed and destroyed all in its path and left nothing but a dying inferno in its wake.
Chi-Chi limped up to little Gohan, wrapping her arms around her crying child and cradling him in her arms, turning his eyes away from the gleaming orb of destruction about to envelop all of them. Just when it seemed like the expansive warmth was about to swallow them whole and corrode them to ashes alongside with their planet. It stopped.
"P-Piccolo Jr.?" Chi-Chi muttered in disbelief after seeing the emerald-skinned back of a familiar Namekian, covered up with a purple gi, standing before them and holding the expanding, destructive Ki wave with both of his hands with no hint of struggle in his expression. Quite the opposite. It seemed like the Namekian was more grumpy than struggling.
"Not quite," Piccolo replied calmly while punching the shock wave with a light tap of his right hand and then pushing his expanding left arm together with the reducing bubble until it grabbed hold of the top of Lord Slug's head and shoved it down to the ground, feeding the Super Namekian a mouthful of dirt. "Can you fly?" he wondered, turning back to Chi-Chi.
The Earthling woman wasn't quite sure what Piccolo was on about him not being him at first, but then, when their eyes met, she had to admit that she couldn't recognize Piccolo anymore despite him visually looking like the same reincarnation of the Demon King that she once feared would ruin her peaceful family life. And yet… Here he was, saving it from the clutches of a most horrendous premature doom. Chi-Chi nodded in acknowledgment of Piccolo's question.
"Good, take Bardock and Gohan and fly up there, to the north-west. That's where we left our ship hovering. Inside the ship there is a little Namekian named Dende. Tell him to heal your wounds. Chayote and I will take care of the trash of the universe," the Super Namekian stood up and turned toward the rising Lord Slug. A sky-splitting arrow drove two diving feet into the back of the Super Namekian's head, forcing him back down again while Chayote rolled through the air and landed gracefully beside Super Piccolo.
"Hey, Chi-Chi, we're back!" Chayote smirked to the confused mother cradling her child in her hands.
"Showoff, just you wait 'till I recover from these wounds…" Bardock snickered before grunting in pain over his broken ribs.
"Yeah, Kakarot too, I bet…" Chayote nodded and then turned her full attention toward the exasperated space conqueror who rose from the humbling position on his knees, boiling that they forced him down to adopt such an undignified pose.