The saiyans had already moved far away from Piccolo now, they knew that their current approach wouldn't work after being beaten so quickly. They were surprised that he had recovered so quickly, his power was now far greater than any of theirs.

"So… what's the plan?" Goku asked hastily as he eyed the two green men fighting. He was surprised that they seemed to be so evenly matched, but he could also see that the green man wouldn't be able to keep up the pace for long.

"We should help the green man kill the other green man" Vegeta answered almost instantly not wanting to miss out on the action, although a large part of him resented that he had been forced into the role of helping someone rather than doing it himself.

"NO!" the eldest of the saiyans bellowed grabbing onto them to make sure they knew what he had said. "We can't beat him in a direct confrontation, not even the other green man can do that…" he told them looking at them carefully to make sure they wouldn't try anything stupid that would likely get them killed before he was finished explaining his plan.

Piccolo and Kami were exchanging blows furiously, although Piccolo was distinctively stronger and was causing far greater damage far faster Kami was still able to get some good blows in. Kami knew that he wouldn't be able to keep this up forever though.

Soon he would tire out and be vulnerable, and the worst part was that he couldn't harm Piccolo without harming himself, since he was a part of himself. The only hope Kami held onto was the idea of the saiyans producing some sort miraculous victory.

He knew that wouldn't happen though, and he couldn't do anything either as due to them being the same person just different parts he couldn't kill Piccolo. If it was as simple as him dying as a result he would gladly pay the price, but that wasn't it. He simply could not kill himself, it was impossible.

The upside to them being one person was that as he was sharing the effects of the minimal damage he was doing to Piccolo, Piccolo was also sharing his pain. The problem was he couldn't think of any way to use this to his advantage, since he would also suffer more than Piccolo.

He wasn't able to think of anything, and his stamina was draining quickly.

"Ok, so the only way we can possibly hurt a creature of this might is to combine our strength" the father of Goku and adoptive father of Vegeta explained in a hush tone.

"Yay, that's a great idea dad!" Goku chanted out far too loudly briefly bringing the attention of Piccolo back to the saiyans which Kami swiftly used to his advantage throwing a powerful gut punch at the taller creature, but to his horror the other being seemed to be unaffected by the attack in the slightest as he instantly responded by bitch slapping the clearly aged guardian of Earth.

"Nice one" Vegeta whispered sarcastically since even on the battle field he couldn't pass up an opportunity to insult his brother, a good indication of what their relationship is like the majority of the time.

"Hey" Goku pouted like a small child not liking that he was being seen as being an idiot. "I just have one question" Goku stated cutting off his father before he got a chance to speak since he wanted to be sure his sons both knew what to do.

"What?" his father asked angry at being the continued interruptions stopping him from being able to actually explain the plan in any detail.

"How the hell can we combine our strength?" Goku asked before beginning to think of all of the possibility's, like if he could somehow fuse with Vegeta making a strong enough think to defeat their enemy. He liked the sound of that as, although they may not be genetically related a fusion of them would make them kind of in a weird way related-ish. He liked the idea of this as although he still though of Vegeta as his brother after it was revealed of their separate linages he sometimes though that Vegeta was excluding himself from family things, like he was rejecting them all of a sudden.

"… blasting right though the green freak" the strongest non green fighter around concluded his explanation proudly knowing that he had explained it so well that even a complete moron would understand.

"What?" Goku asked instantly and sounding absent minded showing his father that he was ignoring the answer to his own question. One that wouldn't have even needed asking had he not interrupted in the first place before he could begin the initial explanation.

"Just combine a fucking energy blast with ours when we fire them!" his father yelled before going on to elaborate "try to keep them as close together as possible so we can do as much damage to as small an area as possible"

"Oh, ok then. You don't have to yell though I'm right next to you it's not like I won't hear you" Goku whined making his father want to literally pull his head of off his shoulders just to make him stop saying stupid things for one second.

Instead he just sighed, knowing it was his fault for not arriving until it was too late and Kakarot had already suffered the head injury and been raised by someone of 'pure heart'. A feature that had annoyingly been passed down from 'grandfather' to adoptive son and was impossible to get rid of by the looks of it, making problems for years now with nothing having any effect at removing the annoying innocence and naivety.

"Just… we don't have time just fire a strong combined blast with me already" he ordered before charging up as strong a blast as he could muster and aiming it at the larger green man, taking carful measures to avoid the one that seemed to be their ally right now. Goku and Vegeta quickly followed suit charging up the blasts and preparing to fire before looking at their father for confirmation.

"Ready" he drawled making sure that each of their blasts were as strong as they could produce a blast before turning back to the demon so as to be sure of his aim and chanting

"NOW" Bardock yelled as he fired his full power energy blast with a shout. Goku and Vegeta quickly followed suit adding their attacks to his highly concentrated attack increasing both the size and the power of the blast.

"Kamehameha" Goku chanted as his blue blast was fired.

"Galick gun" Vegeta also chanted as his blue blast combined with the existing blue and yellow blasts making a powerful white colour due to their merging.

The blast shot forward quickly making its way towards Piccolo. Kami, sensing that it had a lot of energy inside it tried his best to make sure that Piccolo would be unable to evade the attack. He focused all of his attacks on his legs to prevent a dodge before the blast arrived but that proved to be of little consequence as the blasts head was larger than Piccolos entire body.

Kami jumped back when it connected with his other half, although he did not know why. He was dead no matter what he did, the blast would kill Piccolo and by extension him. He guessed it was some uncontrollable reaction to dodge damaging things left over from when he himself could claim to be a warrior, or maybe just a natural instinct of all living creatures to avoid damage and attempt to prolong your life no matter how unlikely to succeed.

The blast connected with a huge explosion forming as a result of the incredible energy within it. Dust and smoke was instantly thrown up because of it making it impossible to be sure what the blast effects were, but that didn't matter to the saiyans. They had used all of the energy they possibly could to make that blast, if it didn't work then what would.

Bardock and Vegeta and Goku stood panting from having to have summoned up so much energy for just one blast. It was the biggest blast they had ever fired, even now the energy from it shrouded the area making it impossible to sense energy to confirm whether or not Piccolo had been killed or not.

Vegeta and Bardock both hoped that he had been completely destroyed, they both hated him for what he had done and simply wanted his life to be over so they wouldn't have to keep on trying to kill him when they had so little energy left.

Goku however didn't share this opinion. He didn't want Piccolo to be completely fine and able to continue fighting, even he isn't that stupid, but he didn't want him to be dead. Goku had never killed anything and didn't want to start now.

He hoped that the man was simply unconscious or injured to a great enough extent so as to not be able to continue fighting. Then he would surrender and, hopefully, learnt the error of his ways. Maybe he could reform; maybe he could use the strength he possesses for good.

The saiyans were bragged out of their stupors though when they noticed that the elderly green man appeared to be disappearing. At first Goku though it to be an after image but soon though better of it as it would be blurry around the edges and, why would he use one. The fight was over.

The other two more aggressive saiyans also believed this to be an afterimage, except they were less optimistic about this creature's intentions. They assumed he must be betraying them that it was only a temporary alliance so that he could defeat the greater of the demons then defeat them before they have a chance to regain their strength.

So they instantly went into stances, although they lacked the usual threatening visage due to the lack of energy being made clear by their clumping postures. However soon enough they too realized that it didn't appear to be an afterimage, however they didn't drop their stances. They still didn't completely trust this man.

Goku was the first to speak "Um, are you ok?" he asked confusion evident in his voice as he watched the green man's body slowly fading away then coming back only to fade once more.

"Don't worry about me. This just means that Piccolo is fighting for his life, he must be on the verge of death so, as our lives out connected I am also on the verge of death. I will die when he dies" Kami explained although it was evident that he was struggling with the act of speaking due to the clear strain in his voice. He leaned heavily on his tall walking stick, like it was the last thing keeping him alive.

"What!" Goku yelled he hated the idea of killing anyone, no matter how evil. But the idea of killing an elderly man who had done nothing but help them disgusted him.

He was not a killer and didn't want to be, he had to do something.

A/N

School has restarted but at least I have a few free periods to do stuff now, like this. So update will probably be sporadic but I will try to keep them at least one a week as always if not more often.

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