"To make matters worse, Goku, the threat this time is six Saiyans — and one of them is your brother!"
"What!?" If the idea that another attack was occurring on Earth was shocking to Goku, this news was even more so. "You can't be serious Kaiō! Piccolo and I killed him twenty years ago!"
"Raditz is attacking Earth?" asked Vegeta, equally surprised. "You're joking, right?"
"No, I'm afraid I'm not. But now that you mention it, I did think of a pretty good one while talking to Bubbles..." Kaiō cut himself off at the sound of the silence from the other end. "Never mind, not the time or place. But yes, Raditz was revived by the Dragon Balls, along with five other Saiyans! He's acting as their leader, and he's laying waste to your friends, looking for you two!"
"I suppose he wants revenge..." Goku mused. His brother, Raditz, who had tried to kill him and his son so many years ago, was back among the living and strong enough to pose a threat that required him and Vegeta? Grinning to himself, Goku stood fully upright. "Tell 'em we'll be there in a minute, Kaiō!" Goku replied, perhaps a little too eagerly because he felt North Kaiō's telepathic sigh in his head. "Don't worry, I'm taking this very seriously!"
"Are you going to head down to Earth, then?" Whis inquired curiously, elegantly wiping his mouth with a napkin. "Your planet certainly keeps you busy."
"Come on Vegeta, grab my hand," Goku extended a hand to Vegeta, placing the index and middle fingers of his remaining free hand to his forehead — the hallmark gesture of Instantaneous Movement.
"A-Again!?" Vegeta replied, flustered by Goku's casual extension of his hand. "Can't this movement technique of yours work any other way than hand-holding, Kakarot!?"
"I don't think we've got the time to bicker about it, Vegeta," Goku replied casually. "Besides, haven't we been over this? The more time we take, the more danger Trunks and Bulma could be in."
Kakarot had played the 'family' card. With a very reluctant sigh, Vegeta placed his hand in his rival's, struggling to keep a serious face.
"We'll be back when we've settled everything on Earth, Whis," Goku said quickly. Whis casually waved them off, continuing to eat the Earth food in solitude. "Not much fazes this guy..." Goku thought as he searched in the direction of Kaiō's planet. Finding the ki of his old mentor relatively quickly, Goku and Vegeta vanished on the spot.
Without so much as a second passing, Goku reappeared on the surface of Kaiō's planet. Goku quickly detected the ki of his family and friends — to his horror, he could feel Goten, Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks, and Tenshinhan's ki was very low — and as quickly as they had arrived on the planet, they vanished, leaving a very stunned Kaiō behind.
"There's...there's no stopping him, is there?" North Kaiō muttered, straightening his shades.
Earth, East District 436, Outside Son Goku's Home
Their feet landed on the soft ground just outside Goku's house, and the two were shocked by the scene that greeted their eyes. Lying unconscious on the ground were Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Tenshinhan, 18, and Piccolo. The two Saiyans looked around; obviously there'd been a party going on, and this was the result of the crashing. Quickly scanning the area, Goku and Vegeta were relieved to sense their remaining family and friends alive, huddled in Goku's house.
"So nice to see you've come, Vegeta...Kakarot," Raditz stepped into view, a smile crossing his face as he was accompanied by his five compatriots, and the two Komuians, Venga and Pacul.
"Well well well," Vegeta chuckled to himself. "I never thought I'd see the day someone decided to revive you, Raditz."
"So Kaiō was right," Goku's narrow eyes surveyed his brother with immense distaste. "You really were brought back to life."
"A year ago, to be exact," Raditz extended his arms to either side, as if glorifying himself. "Within that long and arduous year, I've managed to acquire the power I needed to exact revenge upon my transgressors; you, Kakarot, who slew your own brother in cold blood! And you, Vegeta, a former comrade who left me to rot in the depths of Hell!"
"First Freeza, now you..." Goku sighed. "How did this even happen? Who came to Earth and brought you back? Why go through all the trouble?"
"That would be the result of I, Son Goku," Venga stepped forward, flanked bu Pacul, his cloak billowing behind him. "My name is Venga, and it was I who revived your brother and these five Saiyans through the use of the Dragon Balls. And now the time has come...for the Komuians to reclaim our lost honour by avenging ourselves on the last remaining members of the Saiyan race, as pennance for pushing our species to the brink of extinction!"
"Reviving a Saiyan for the purpose of defeating the Saiyans?" Vegeta let out a haughty laugh. "You're quite the comedian. And yet out of all the Saiyans you could have chosen to revive, you picked Raditz. I'm almost starting to wonder if any of you did your research."
"And what makes you say that?" interjected Venga. "Thus far, everything has proceeded as I have planned it. The only remaining variables...are you two. With you two destroyed, and the rest of the Saiyans on this planet to follow suit soon after, our goals will be complete."
Raditz's eyes narrowed. Despite what many took him for, he was no fool. What Venga and the others were going for was the complete extermination of the Saiyan race. This would include himself, and his comrades as well. There was a brief silence following Venga's statement, where even Rambu and Sera were casting the man shifty looks. It was obvious that the trust in this group was between the Saiyans, not the Saiyans and the Komuians.
"Venga." Raditz was the first to break the silence, and his words caught the elder Komuians attention immediately.
"What is it?" Venga craned his head over towards the Saiyan, curious as to why he would directly address him now of all times, when his target was standing in front of him.
"My comrades and I are certainly grateful for everything you've done for us," The Saiyan said, turning away from Goku and walking over to Venga. He stood before the alien briefly, before thrusting both of his fingers into the man's skull, killing him instantly. Following her leader's cue, Sera reacted next, kneeing Pacul to the back and beheading him with a single swipe of her hand. "But the Saiyan way to follow a strong leader. You had your uses but you don't quite stack up."
Both Goku and Vegeta's eyes widened briefly, but their following reactions were different. While Goku only had a frown that set deeper into his face, becoming a flare, Vegeta couldn't help but smirk.
"Seems you're starting to retain some of your Saiyan pride after all, Raditz," Vegeta said, praise with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "I never would have expected that from you."
"I've changed quite a bit since you've last seen me, Vegeta," Raditz replied scornfully. "But we've stalled long enough! Come now, Kakarot! It's time for you to spend some quality time with your older brother!"
"And what of us, Raditz?" Rambu asked irritably. "If you're going to take Kakarot, which of us gets Vegeta for ourselves?"
"I'll let you five deliberate," replied Raditz simply. "You can decide who kills him yourself."
His comrades were obviously disgruntled, but they had known what they were coming here for. Kakarot had always been Raditz's target; that was simply how it was.
Without so much as a gesture, Goku's aura flared up around him, burning flames of white energy. "I thought I told you before, Raditz. You're no brother of mine."
"You really intend to disown your entire family, Kakarot?" Raditz asked, taking a stance. "You can't ignore it; you are a Saiyan!"
Without another word, the two tore across the ground, and their fists made contact with the other's face, creating a gigantic crater. Fiercely, the two brothers exchanged blows; fists collided with fists, kicks were parried with the legs, and the force of their strikes causes shock-waves that forced the crater to increase in size, and the ground around them to quake. The two began to rise, taking the fight away from the ground and into the air, still clashing with the ferocity of wild beasts.
Vegeta cast them an aside glance before turning to look at his opponents. "It seems that bastard Kakarot is going to get all the fun again. Which leaves me with the likes ofyou five. Let's not waste time here; all of you, come at me at once!"
"You think you can handle all five of us at once!?" Sera snapped, looking at Vegeta furiously. "It's always been this way, hasn't it!? The House of Vegeta, so high and mighty, self-assured of their power! You have no idea how many of us ached to overthrow your family!"
"The so-called Royal House of Vegeta is no concern of mine," replied Vegeta casually, flaring his aura as a signal that he was ready to begin fighting. "I buried that in the past a long time ago."
"Turning your back on your Saiyan heritage makes you no better than that traitor Kakarot," Aki replied, her sharp eyes forming a glare towards Vegeta. "Someone like you doesn't deserve the title of 'Prince'."
"We'll show you just how different we are, Vegeta!" Rambu grinned, his beard and mustache revealing wild fangs. "Let's not bother deciding who handles him; if he wants all of us to fight him at once, then we will!"
"For once, I'm going to agree with you," Sera replied. "Everyone, release your power!" With a collective yell, the five Saiyan group began to flare their own ki. A flash, and then an explosion as their powers combined and shot upwards into the air. But then something else happened that managed to take Vegeta by surprise; there was a blinding, burning glare of golden light — each and every one of them had transformed into a Super Saiyan.
"Five Super Saiyans?" Vegeta scoffed. "It's like a Super Saiyan bargain sale." Truth be told, he was surprised. Unimpressed, yet surprised. He hadn't expected five Saiyans, much less five Super Saiyans. But if they were Super Saiyans, what did that mean for Raditz? And then it clicked; realization hit Vegeta like a freight train. "Kakarot may have much more on his plate than he bargained for!"
He didn't have much more time to contemplate the nature of their revived foe; Sera, Aki, Rambu, Ramu, and the burly Saiyan rushed Vegeta, each splitting off to attack him from different angles. Vegeta focused his ki, expelling it in a large sphere around him. The force of this explosive wave caused all five Saiyans to stagger, before being blown back.
"This power...!" The burly Saiyan growled. "He really is strong!"
"I don't think we expected any less from Vegeta," Ramu replied. "Rambu, Aki, Sera, Wara! Let's attempt formation 'F'!"
Whatever formation 'F' was, however, was never seen. Vegeta concentrated ki into his fingers, swinging them in a wide arc and releasing a crescent shaped blast of energy, large enough that it enveloped all five Saiyans in a single blast. The resulting explosion created a sphere that lit up the hillside; even from inside Goku's house, Bulma, Chi-Chi, and the others saw a flash of yellow light they would have equated to a rising sun.
"W-Who's attack was that!?" Videl gasped, the glow of the technique lightning the inside of the house as clearly as if the electric lights were on.
"I can't sense Goku or Vegeta's energies, it could have been either one of them," Dende replied, watching the attack in awe.
"It's time we stop this little joke," Vegeta raised a hand towards the group at large, expelling an equally large blasts of ki from his palm. The blast quickly overtook the group of five; altering the trajectory, the beam flew from the surface of the planet well into outer space, before it dissipated. Once the light cleared, the only remaining evidence of the battle was a mile deep trench where Vegeta's energy beam had carved into the planet.
Vegeta chuckled, "Child's play." Turning in another direction, Vegeta could feel Goku and Raditz still fighting. Vegeta spit in disgust, "Gah! What is taking the clown so long?" As he made a move to head towards Kakarot's battle, Vegeta cast a look at his unconscious comrades. Trunks was still breathing, and his ki, while weakened, was still burning. This was all the confirmation Vegeta needed to flare his aura back up, and fly towards the site of Kakarot's fight.
High above the clouds, Goku and Raditz were still fighting fiercely. Neither one of them was letting up, their physical blows creating shockwaves enough to scatter the clouds. As Raditz thrust his fist forward, Goku casually caught the blow in one of his free hands, before retaliating with a blow of his own that Raditz parried with equal ease. The two split off, gaining a bit of distance, and descending to the ground.
"I have to admit I'm surprised, Raditz," said Goku. "You always were strong, even when you came to Earth the first time. But this is a new level entirely; and to have come this far so quickly. If you weren't so rotten, we could have worked well off of each other as rivals."
"You're right. In the past year, I've reached limits on my powers I didn't know existed, and then pushed myself beyond them," Raditz replied, reminiscing on his past training. "With the aid of my comrades, and those naive Komuian 'leaders', I pushed my abilities into the realm and legends...and then I shattered even that."
"Realm of legends..." Goku's eyes widened as understanding finally clicks. "You don't mean...!"
"I do! Watch carefully, little brother!" Raditz took a stance, clenching his arms at his sides. His aura began to flicker and flare, funneling upwards in a large pillar of white flame. The Saiyan let out a mighty yell as a vein began to throb in his head, and he reached into the depths of his body, drawing from a vast well of ki. Clouds began to form in the sky, obscuring the afternoon sun from their vision. Lightning crackled and thunder flashed, setting the whole scene alight.
"I-Incredible!" Goku watched the scene with awe as he felt his brother's ki rise ever higher, eclipsing his own at its current level. The planet began to shake as Raditz's power only increased; cracks appeared in the ground before it crumbled away, leaving a deep crater under Raditz's feet as the man floated in the air, his power up only continuing. Releasing a mighty shout from the depths of his throat, there was an explosion of ki in all directions, creating a blinding flash of light.
"This...power!" Vegeta slowed himself down as he arrived on the scene, witnessing Raditz's power up.
The light cleared, revealing a startling transformation that no one would have expected to bear witness to. Raditz stood before Goku, his muscle mass slightly thinner, and his hair, still long and rigid, having become a vibrant teal. His eyes had altered colour to match, and surrounding him was a vibrant blue aura, flickering like flames, with crackling bio-electricity circling him.
"And this is the result of my hard work, little brother!" Raditz bragged, flexing his fingers.
"You...you actually did it!" Goku gasped. "You really are full of surprises! You've not only become a Super Saiyan...but you added the power of a Super Saiyan God onto it!"
"That does explain what the welcoming committee was for," Vegeta said, having witnessed the entirety of Raditz's transformation. "I figured this would happen when I saw those five transform into Super Saiyans back there. It's a pity you didn't share that Super Saiyan God power with the rest of your teammates, Raditz. I might have actually broken a sweat."
Raditz narrowed his eyes, glaring sourly at Vegeta. "If you're standing here, that can only mean..."
"...that I took out the trash?" Vegeta interjected, finishing Raditz's sentence for him. "I never would have thought you a team player, Raditz; are you actually hurt that your teammates were killed?"
To his surprised, Raditz believed he was. Perhaps it was because of their training over the past year, and the fact that the power he was now using had come from those five Saiyans, but Vegeta having killed them drew the Saiyan's ire quite well. "Perhaps I'm more like my father than I'd like to have believed." He thought to himself, taking a stance. "Come, Kakarot! After I deal with you, Vegeta is next!"
Goku smiled; an unconscious act. Was there more to Raditz than there seemed? Goku didn't know. And with the lives of his family and friends at stake, waxing philosophical right now would be a death sentence. "Hah!" With a shout, Goku flared his own ki, a blue aura spiraling around his body, pushing the very ground away from the Saiyan as he expelled power from his person. The sky, already dark as it was, rumbled and crackled with lightning and thunder. Goku's aura flared out, becoming a pillar of blue and white flames, crackling with electricity. His hair, standing on end, was dyed a deep teal, and his eyes to match. "I don't suppose I'd say you're surprised to see I can do this. The power of a Super Saiyan combined with the power of the Super Saiyan God."
"Just like the data said," Raditz didn't seem the least bit surprised at Goku's transformation. "You're capable of the transformation as well."
"I figured you'd expect it," Goku held up his right hand, clenching his ring and pinky while the other digits opened up in a beckoning claw gesture. Goku held his free hand closer to his left side, flexing his fingers as he spread his legs into a stance, cocking a confident excited grin. His cards were now laid in the open, he loved the feeling of fighting at his best against an enemy that warranted his full attention.
"Let's get down to business."
Both Saiyans took off from the ground within seconds, their blows crashing louder than the thunder from the storm their sheer ki volume was giving off. With blinding speeds, they crashed along the landscape, at speeds only Vegeta could track. To any onlooker capable of even grasping the events unfolding, all they would have been able to see were two blush-flashes repeatedly crashing into each other before bouncing apart, tearing across the landscape as they moved.
Goku slid along the ground, his heels tearing into the dirt as he avoided Raditz's strike. Raditz rebounded quickly, and propelled himself forward, swinging his arm in a swiping motion towards his younger brother. Clenching his fist, Goku retaliated, raising his arm above his head to block the blow. The sheer force of the collision created an explosion around the two combatants, which resulted in a deep crater. Gripping Raditz by the neck of his armor, Goku forced his fingers into the collar and threw his brother high into the air. Immersed in his sapphire aura, the Super Saiyan took to the skies, pursuing Raditz, who regained his composure fairly quickly.
Coalescing his energy into his palm, Raditz formed a crackling sphere of ki, and then lobbed it directly towards Goku. If Goku dodged, it would mean the end of the planet. But there were other ways to deflect ki attacks without simply dodging. Lacing his fingers and palm with soft ki, Goku grabbed the blast, cushioning the blow of the attack, before he sent it hurtling high into the atmosphere and away from the planet. There was a distant explosion and a soft flash of light — obviously a muffled, larger explosion obscured by the clouds — as the blast exploded above the planet.
Focusing his gaze back towards his brother, Goku was taken aback to see Raditz directly in his face.
"You should learn to keep your eyes on your opponent, little brother," The older Saiyan advised.
Goku's knee jerk reaction was to thrust his fist forward, only for it to pass harmlessly through Raditz. "An afterimage!?"
"You're wide open!" Raditz called out from behind, slamming his arms in an X-like formation across Goku's back, sending the Saiyan hurtling back down into the dirt.
Unfettered, Goku gripped the ground firmly with his hands, coming to an abrupt halt in time to see Raditz flying towards him, leg outstretched. Goku leaped to the side, swinging his own leg towards Raditz, and sent the man hurtling away, tumbling like a tumbleweed. He caught himself in the air, and flew upwards, with Goku flying to meet him. Craning his neck, Raditz beckoned the younger Saiyan to follow, and Goku nodded.
Raditz tore off in the opposite direction, and Goku was quick to make pursuit.
"I'm not going to be the one to miss this!" Vegeta flared his aura, flying after the two fleeing individuals.
It was only when Raditz came across a cliffside did he land. Goku followed, landing neatly on the rockface. If he knew his geography correctly — and there was a 60% chance he didn't — they were near the Southern Metropolis, but far enough aside that it wasn't obstructive. "This is strange. Raditz is leading me to a deserted area far away from the rest of my friends and family, not to mention populaces. Is he urging me to fight without distractions?"
"Here we are!" Raditz gestured to the wide expanse of the seaside. "This is more roomy, isn't it Kakarot?"
"You could say that," Goku replied. Raditz beckoned him to come forwards and Goku didn't waste a second. He dashed across the cliff, the stress of his aura crumbling the very rock and dirt under his feet. Raditz raised his knee to parry, the resulting crash destroying the remaining bit of cliff-face that stood beneath either of the combatants. Furiously, Raditz and Goku began to exchange blows, clashing violently in the air; their aura's merged until they appeared as a glowing star in the sky to Vegeta, who caught up in time to witness the destruction.
Grappling each other mid-air, Goku slammed his knee into Raditz's stomach, winding the Saiyan and causing him to stagger backward. Advantage pressed, Goku swung his first towards Raditz, only for the man to sidestep it, before responding in kind with a crushing slam of his fist into Goku's stomach. Eyes widened, Goku felt the air force itself from his lungs. He didn't have time to recover, however, as Raditz delivering a swift kick that send Goku hurtling into what remained of the cliff, crashing into it and causing more of the structure to crumble.
"Come now, Kakarot!" Raditz goaded. "This can't be all you have!"
"I didn't expect him to be quite this strong," Goku groaned, pushing away the rubble. "If I had to say anything, we're about even. This could go either way if I'm not careful."
"Come on, Kakarot!" Vegeta barked from the sidelines. "If you don't think you can handle him, tag out and I'll do it!"
Goku laughed, scratching the back of his hair. "No, not this time Vegeta! This one's mine!" Placing both of his hands at his sides, Goku began to charge ki in his palms, spiraling around until they formed rotating spheres. Notably, both spheres were rotating in opposite directions; Goku then brought both hands together, and the alternating spiraling spheres fused into a singular energy sphere with great power. With the preparations complete, Goku lobbed the sphere upwards at its intended target.
"Hah!" Raditz gave a loud shout, throwing both hands outwards. He released an invisible flow of ki — a kiai — that disrupted the flow of his younger brother's rotating sphere, causing it to disrupt itself and fizzle out. As the sphere faded, however, Raditz was caught off-guard by Goku, who took advantage of the sphere obscuring his older brother's vision to attack him head on, slamming his knee into the side of Raditz's jaw.
Far from being sent flying, Raditz stood his ground, withstanding the blow, and retaliated with a fierce elbow strike to Goku's chest. This kept his brother staggering for only a moment, as Goku himself withstood the attack, shocking Raditz enough to make him inch away. Goku lifted his hand towards his brother's chest, placing the tips of his fingers towards the breastplate of Raditz's armor. With speed to bewilder even the onlooking Vegeta, Goku slammed his fist into Raditz's chest at short-range, the very blow creating a shockwave that stunned the man, and cause the water to ripple beneath them. Spinning on the spot, Goku kicked Raditz downward towards the icy-blue waters.
Raditz expelled an invisible wave of ki from his body to enable flight again, pushing the water away from him. "Why!?" The Saiyan growled in frustration, watching his younger brother descended, floating above the ocean. "With this power, I fully expected to be able to win! How can you match me so well!?"
"If I had to guess," replied Goku seriously, "it's experience. You've been in the Afterlife for a long time, Raditz. And since you've been gone, I've participated in decades worth more battles than you have; it's not just that either. I mastered the Super Saiyan fourteen years ago. You've only been using it for a year. The stress that form brings on your body, coupled with how new godly ki must be to you, means your ki drains much faster than mine, even if we're at the same level."
"W-What!?" Raditz snarled. It was a simple matter of inexperience where he was lacking? That can't be it; he, Raditz, was a top-class warrior! He couldn't be losing to Kakarot for a reason as trivial as 'inexperience'.
"You should leave this planet while you can," Goku continued, still in that serious manner that was beginning to sound almost condescending to Raditz. "Take the extra time to master the Super Saiyan power; when you come back, I'll be more than willing to fight you again. Besides, you're going to need time to mourn your comrades, aren't you?"
"Leave...?" Raditz replied indignantly. "Did you think I came here merely to catch up, Kakarot!? To have a friendly spar between siblings!? I will not leave this planet until I have your head, little brother!"
"K-Kakarot! Surely you wouldn't kill your own brother!?" Raditz's voice, pathetic and weak, called out to Goku. The younger Saiyan had taken the elder by surprise, grabbing his tail and exploiting the one weak spot common to the untrained Saiyan; their sensitive tails. Goku had managed to make Raditz fall to his knees, weakened by the pressure of his tail being grabbed.
"I told you before!" Goku snapped. "You're no brother of mine! And you tried to kill me first!"
Raditz, however, had begun to plead for his life, seeing the ki being charged by Piccolo. "I-I-was only bluffing! Let me go! P-Please! And I'll never show my face to you again!""
"Close your ears to him, Son Goku! Hold him!" Piccolo called frantically, desperately trying to keep the ki within his fingers supplied while begging Goku to harden his own heart.
"I SWEAR IT!" Raditz shouted.
Goku couldn't help but smile again. Far from their first meeting, when Raditz had begged for Goku's mercy, rather than have it be offered, only to turn around and take advantage of Goku's weakness, this time, he staunchly refused to back away from the fight. "I'm not sure whether it was your time in Hell, or training with your comrades...but something changed in you, Raditz. You can't say I didn't make the offer; let's go again!"
"That's it, Kakarot!" Raditz agreed. "To the death!"
The two clashed feverishly once more, Goku and Raditz exchanging blow after blow, disrupting the surface of the water and causing it to part. Coating his hand in energy, Goku lobbed a blast of ki at close range; Raditz's reflexes, however, were remarkable and he deflected the blast, sending it hurtling away in another direction. There was silence, and then a massive explosion which created a fierce wind that blew back in their direction. The exploding ki blast had made contact with something, and exploded; the result was a huge, blue glow well into the horizon.
"I got careless!" Goku thought as Raditz retaliated with an energy sphere that his Goku square in the stomach. Forcing the sphere forward, Raditz propelled his brother backwards. Goku gripped the sphere, but was unable to make it budge as he was forced to fly along the surface of the ocean, before he finally worked up the strength to grab the sphere and throw it high into the air, where it vanished above the clouds before exploding.
Breathing heavily, Goku clenched his hands to his side. This was going to be his last resort; the battle was dragging on too long for either of them, and for all his talk, he hadn't had much occasion to actually practice his own form in battle. Ending this battle was Raditz now was prudent. "Ka..." Focusing ki into his palms, a small sphere of blue-white energy began to form. "Ha...Me..."
"That technique again?" Raditz raised his hand above his head; electricity crackled above it, a vibrant pink in colouration. "You can't stop me with that, little brother!" He channeled his ki into his palm, the electrical discharge becoming more frequent and stronger. The electricity discharged further, becoming a fully glowing sphere of ki above his head.
"Ha...Me...!" The sphere between Goku's hands was fully charged now, brimming with light. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The Saiyan thrust his hands forward, releasing a vibrant beam of energy from his palms, immense in size. The beam split the sea as it rushed upwards towards Raditz.
"Not good enough!" Raditz shouted, and the sphere expanded he thrust his palm downward, elongating the sphere into a powerful energy beam, equaling Goku's Kamehameha in size. The blasts collided, creating a massive storm of energy above the ocean, causing the water to begin to recede as Raditz and Goku clashed for dominance.
Watching the energy clash with expectation, Vegeta narrowed his eyes. From his own judgement, the fight could still go either way; both blasts were of equal power, and the combatants seemed equally matched. If Kakarot made one wrong move, their entire planet would go up in smoke.
"It's all over now, Kakarot!" Raditz crowed, forcing his energy blast downwards, overwhelming Goku. He let out a laugh, bark-like and mad. "I possess the greatest power in the universe! And I'll use it all to kill you!"
"Kakarot, why are you dragging your feet!?" Vegeta called angrily, as Goku struggled to keep his energy beam fighting against Raditz's own furious technique. He thought of everyone who was relying on him; his family, his friends, and everybody on the planet Earth. If he failed, they would all be killed. With this thought lodged firmly in his mind, Goku brought the full force of his power out for one final push.
"FULL POWER!" He cried, his power exploding into a much larger blast of energy that overwhelmed Raditz's blast entirely. Swallowing the blast created by his older brother, the Kamehameha enveloped Raditz whole, leaving him with absolutely no time to react as the energy pushed him away from the planet. He felt his body lifted up, carried away by the sheer speed and power of the beam combined with the redirected energy of his own attack.
"Sera...Rambu...my comrades...I..." Raditz's thoughts lingered on his fallen comrades in his last moments, before a heavy scream of pain escaped his throat as the energy blast erased him down to the very last atom. Down on Earth, Goku's Kamehameha wave petered out, the Saiyan panting as even his hair returned to its normal hue. Overwhelming Raditz had taken more of his energy than he expected, and he could feel his body trembling from sheer energy loss.
"Heh..." The weary Saiyan looked over at Vegeta. "Whaddya know? It's over..."
Earth, East District 436, Outside Son Goku's Home
After the intense battle, Goku and Vegeta returned to the East District to see their unconscious comrades beginning to stir. When Goten, Gohan, and Trunks saw their fathers descend, the three immediately knew the battle was concluded, and rushed to greet the two Saiyans. After a few moments of incessant questioning, the two confirmed that the battle had been won.
"It seems your fight took quite a toll on the planet," Piccolo noted, looking around at the destruction that had been caused by Goku and Vegeta simply fighting within proximity to the area. "You're never short on surprises, are you Son?"
Goku let out a chuckle. "I tried to hold back, honest!"
There was the sound of rushing feet, and Goku and Vegeta were bombarded by their wives arrival next, followed by the rest of the party guests who had been hiding for their safety in the house.
"Goku!" Chi-Chi groaned. "When I wanted you to come home to me I expected a romantic greeting. Not the near end of civilization as we knew it!" Looking around, she let out another exasperated sigh. "Not only is the entire party ruined, what are we going to do about the crops!?"
"I-I'm sorry, Chi-Chi!" Goku apologised as quickly as he could. "But if we hadn't done anything, everyone would be dead right now, and-!"
"Oh give it a rest!" Chi-Chi interjected. "My husband, always the superhero."
"The least we can do is help clean up this mess," Kuririn suggested, glancing at the destruction. "Come on guys, let's get started on waste management!"
As the party dissolved into a cleaning crew, Goku felt someone nudge his shoulder, and turned around to see Videl. "Oh, Videl! Is something the matter!?"
"Well..." Videl knelt down, placing her hands on the shoulder of Pan, who was standing eagerly in front of her mother, looking at up Goku with the widest smile on her face. "Last time you came to Earth, you left in such a hurry you didn't really have much of a chance to meet her...this is your granddaughter, Pan."
"That...she's...what!?" Goku's jaw dropped as he pointed feebly at the little girl who was smiling so innocently at him. The last time he'd seen Pan, she was still a little baby. True, he'd been gone quite a while, but she was already walking and talking.
"Hiya, Grandpa G!" The girl pulled on her grandfather's pants leg, trying to get his attention. She recognized him from all the pictures her father and mother had shown her.
Kneeling down to meet the girl at eye level, Goku smiled back. "Hi, Pan! I'm your Grandpa Goku!"
"Grandpa!" The little girl leaped onto her grandfather's shoulders, hugging him around the neck.
"Woah!" Goku grinned, lifting her up by the waist. "You're a feisty little one, aren't you? I can tell you're strong!"
Chi-Chi, who had just been about to tell Goku off for not helping them clean, looked over to see him playing airplane with their granddaughter, and smiled. "Goku! We can clean up here, why don't you go and catch up with Pan!?"
Readily, her husband agreed, and he lifted off from the ground, Pan clinging tightly to his shoulders. "It looks like Grandma's given me the day off, so where do you want to go?"
"I want to go around the world!" The two-year old replied eagerly.
Gently grabbing the girl's hands that were latched around his neck, Goku grinned. It seems he had missed out on a lot while he was away. "Alright then! Hold on tight!"
A/N: The final 'chapter' is up! Again, this was meant to be a one-shot so I an binge uploading those the best I can! So this story was QUITE a bit of work in the long run. I came up with the idea on a whim at work, and decided, while it probably cannot work in canon, the idea took hold of me. This story is more or less a story where Raditz, yes, Raditz of all people is brought back from the dead to get his revenge on Goku. That right there is probably when several people looked at this story and left. Even moreso when they found out I gave him the ability to become not only a Super Saiyan, but a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. There's a reason, though, that I devote 3k words just to justifying this story.
Something you'll notice about Raditz is that I tried to give him something resembling character development, but it didn't pan out quite how I wished it had. Mainly due to time constraints; this story already took over a month of my time and it went well over 10,000 words, so I had to cut a few things I intended to elaborate on to actually get this little project out in time. But to those who hadn't gathered, as far as my story was concerned, Sera was Raditz's mate, and the rest of his crew were meant to be legitimate comrades. However, since I have very little time to delve into that, it's only something you'll get clarification on here. It's why I had Raditz's final thoughts drift to them before he died; during training, he had formed a legitimate bond with them. I also tried to make his death mirror his father's a bit. Who knows? Maybe he's redeemed himself now.
One final thing I need to address that I did not in the story and probably should have (but again, time constraints): Super Saiyan God. It is my own PERSONAL head-canon that you don't need to be a righteous person to become a Super Saiyan God. The righteous Saiyans were just the first to actually work together a sa coherent unit and even attempt to give their power out to another, hence why the power was inherently perceived as 'righteous'. And...that's it!
As always, let's thank Demod20 for a fantastic job at proofreading and reviewing my stories before I release them to the public.