'Raditz… brother…' after having taken several minutes to process the revelation of the destruction of his home planet and birth parents, Goku unleashed a quick Invisible Eye Blast to create a makeshift grave, and then he slowly picked up Raditz's body "I think I'm starting to understand now. It was more than just losing our race and losing our family that made you so angry. You hated the fact that he forced you to do all of those horrible things that you did like some kind of puppet, and you lost your pride as a result." he slowly knelt down and placed the body of Raditz in the grave, and then he proceeded to bury him "You and I may have gotten off on a horrible foot about a year ago with Beets trying to kidnap my son, but you tried to help me and the others save my son even though you knew that none of us trusted you, and you've saved my son and my friends time and time again on this planet so I have to thank you for that. And besides, aside from all of that I always respected your pride. And now I have to ask you to share some of that pride with me, pride in myself and what I believe in. I am Son Goku, the grandson of Son Gohan, the student of Master Roshi of the Turtle School, student of King Kai, and a Saiyan that was raised on Planet Earth!" and then he rounded on Frieza "And in the name of every single Saiyan that has suffered by your hand, and for the people of Planet Namek, and all of the countless, helpless innocent people that you've murdered in cold blood… I will defeat you!"

"And I would absolutely love to see you try." Frieza took on a stance, the two of them ready to begin the battle of the century at long last.

"And you will."

Piccolo found himself sweating immensely from the pressure "It's almost unbelievable how much stronger he's become, how could he have become so much more powerful in such a short amount of time?"

"We've all been through a lot." Tien told him "Not to mention that we had some help along the way."

"What do you mean?" both of them noticed Goku cast them a subtle sideways glance with a message hidden behind it.

"I'll tell you later, for now we have to get out of here and quickly. That goes for the rest of you too, we have to get to somewhere safe on the sidelines!" and so Tien and Piccolo both blasted off, with Yamcha doing the same and dragging Kai with him.

Gohan on the other hand stay behind for a moment "Dad… Go ahead and get him and make him pay for what he did! Let that monster get what's coming to him! Beat him within an inch of his life and hang him up by his entrails!" and then he blasted off after the others.

Frieza took the chance to boost his ego a little bit more "I see, so you sent your friends off so that you could fight me all on your own. How gutless can you get."

"What are you talking about?" asked Goku "How could that possibly be considered gutless?"

"It's quite simple, you see suicide is the coward's way out."

"Oh. Well we'll see about that." and with that, Goku charged forward, signalling for the battle of the century to begin.

Frieza blocked the punch with his elbow, releasing a shockwave, and then the two began clashing throughout the skies of Planet Namek, taking out several mountains in the process as their blows connected.

Goku broke away from the clash in order to dodge a number of tail strikes from Frieza, and then landed on a nearby island.

Frieza promptly fired a Death Cannon in order to obliterate the island.

Thinking quickly, Goku fired a Reverse Kamehameha in order to propel himself off of the island before it exploded, and then he took the chance to hide himself among the massive cloud of smoke that formed as a result.

Due to being unable to detect Ki signatures, Frieza began wildly firing a barrage of Eye Beams into the smoke, none of them even cutting close to hitting Goku as a result, something that didn't go unnoticed.

'Wait a second, yeah I think I get it now! Frieza doesn't know how to detect Ki signatures without one of those Scouter things! Maybe I can use that to my advantage.'

Frieza suddenly blitzed above the cloud of smoke and began attacking Goku once again using his Eye Beams.

Goku was now forced on the evasive, dodging Eye Beams left and right, resulting in blinding explosions that formed an even greater column of smoke as the two of them once again began trading even blows.

Frieza ended the brief clash when he knocked Goku away and blasted him with his Death Cannon, engulfing him in an explosion as he landed on a surface in the middle of all of the dust and smoke.

Goku suddenly blitzed behind him, leaving the two of them back to back glaring at each other as the smoke cleared, revealing the two of them standing on the edge of a large and clearly unstable plateau, which promptly buckled under the pressure, and Goku attempted to take the chance to strike Frieza from behind.

However, Frieza suddenly disappeared, leaving Goku alone.

Goku landed back on the ground and slowly glanced around for any sign of Frieza, refusing to let his guard down even for a second, waiting for Frieza to make his next move.

Frieza suddenly burst up from within the Namekian ocean and attacked Goku by firing a Death Cannon.

Thinking quickly, Goku whipped out his Golden Power Pole and rammed straight into the Death Cannon, being pushed back into the cliffside in the process, but eventually he managed to push the blast into the upper atmosphere, though the end of his staff was scorched as a result, but he gave it a small smile 'Thank you for looking out for me grandpa. Alright Frieza, where were we?"

Frieza dropped back into a combat stance 'Well what do you know, he's actually not that bad after all.'

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Bardock and Gine both looked on in awe "Hot damn now that's what I'm talking about, our own boy Kakarot is giving Frieza a run for his money!"

"I don't know if I would go that far." Scarlet told him "But it's like I thought, Goku really is putting up a good fight. I'm not sure if this is true for all Saiyans or if Goku is unique but I'd bet good money on it being the latter of the two but there's no limit to how strong he can get, it's almost unbelievable how strong he and the others have grown since the battle with Vegeta back on Earth. And they're gonna get even stronger, I just know it."

"You still think your son can surpass Kakarot?"

"Oh there's no doubt in my mind, but he's got a long way to go before he does."

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Goku quickly dropped into a stance as he brandished his Golden Power Pole "So are you up for round two?"

"I do believe so, and I will make you pay for your insolence!" Frieza burst into the air and fired a set of Eye Beams.

Goku leapt back to dodge them, causing them to burrow their way into the ground, only to notice the ground shaking "What the heck is this?" he was forced to take to the top of that mountain in order to avoid the spew of lava that followed "Woah man that's hot!"

Frieza burst towards Goku from within the smoke and began firing a barrage of Death Beams and Eye Beams in an attempt to force Goku back towards the lava, before just firing a Death Cannon at the lava, causing it to completely erupt out of control.

Thinking quick, Goku fired a quick Kamehameha down into the lava, forcing the lava back down, much to his relief "Man that was a close on, I almost jumped out of the frying pan and into the lava."

"Nice try." Frieza suddenly blitzed behind Goku and lunged at him.

Goku dodged the lunge and retreated a fair distance away "You know someone needs to teach you not to mess with other peoples planets, and I would be glad to volunteer!" he glanced over to see Kai holding up a sign with a gigantic 6 on it "Oh come on that line was awesome and you know it!"

"It was adequate at best." Frieza levitated into the air in front of Goku "I must admit that you're far more powerful than I had anticipated, I'm actually quite surprised. I never thought I would meet anyone with power surpassing Captain Ginyu, it's actually almost a pity that I have to kill you."

"Is that right? Well we'll see about that."

"That we most certainly will." and cue the explosion.

"Right back at ya!" Goku suddenly blitzed above Frieza and sent him hurtling down towards the Namekian sea with a quick shockwave.

Frieza stopped himself before he hit the ocean, the shockwave causing an eruption within the water.

'What the hell, he shouldn't have been able to get out of that!'

Frieza suddenly blitzed in front of Goku and kicked him in the jaw, sending him hurtling downwards into the Namekian sea below, resulting in a brief calm for a moment. That is to say, before Frieza grew impatient.

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'Hot damn that's one hell of a right hook… or foot in this case.' Goku pulled himself out of his underwater crater with blood on his lip, only for it to evaporate as he began brainstorming on his next move.

"You have to come back up sometime!" Frieza called out to him from above "Surely you're not dead already, our little game has only just begun!"

'That bastard sure is fast I'll give him that, but that does raise the question. What am I going to do about it? If it's true that he can't find his opponents by sensing out their Ki signatures like I can then that means that he has to rely on his eyes in order to track me down. Which means that I could… Yeah I think that could work. You know it's been awhile since I've done this in an actual fight, I wonder how Master Roshi is doing right about now. No come on Goku, stay focused on the task at hand. Ka… Me… Ha… Me… HA!' he created two Kamehameha-based Ki blasts in order to form his Twin Dragon Shot as he began backing away 'This is the best idea that I've had since I decided to create the double-baconwich, a sandwich that uses bacon instead of bread. Totally worth the chest pains too.' he prepared to launch his Twin Dragon Shot.

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Frieza on the other hand was growing impatient "Come on now I've waited long enough for you, I know that it's something new to you monkey but it's called a bath! Besides I've got a little present that I'm just dying to give you- Wait what the?!" he was forced to dodge the first Ki blast from the Twin Dragon Shot "That's just distracting!" he dodged the second one "And that's just annoyingly distracting!"

"GERONIMO!" that was when Goku dropped down on Frieza from above and slammed his Golden Power Poll directly down onto Frieza's skull, sending him hurtling downwards and crashing into a plateau on a nearby island. And right through it. And crashing into another island behind the first one "It's about time someone kicked you to the curb! Nice work brain, thanks for that one."

"You're welcome."

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"Dammit, he does have a brain!" Kai handed Gohan some money "Note to self, no more bets about Goku's lack of intelligence of attention span of a squirrel."

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A massive pink light covered the battlefield as Frieza emerged from the rubble, coughing a bit as he did so "Note to self, no more eating any random crabs from Space Jamaica."

Goku blinked "Well that could've gone better, I figured that was gonna at least hurt you a little bit."

"I must admit I didn't expect you to be this good, I haven't had to dust myself off after a fight since my previous spat with Cooler. I don't believe I've ever felt this way before, I can hardly contain my excitement. Of course that does rase a certain question, how am I going to deal with you?"

"Hey don't ask me, I'm just the guy who thought he was gonna beat the crap out of you until about a minute ago."

"And I thought that I would make even quicker work of you than I did with Raditz, and yet here we are. You know what, I think I'll toy with you for awhile." and so Frieza then unleashed his Psycho Blast, in which he proceeded to attempt to pelt Goku with a volley of small rocks using his telekinesis.

Goku dodged and weaved his way around as many rocks as he could, and the rest he just smashed to bits using his Golden Power Pole "Is that all you've got?"

"Well you do seem to have quite a bit of nerve. Very well then, I suppose I will have to elevate things to the next level." and so with lots of grunting from the strain, he used his telekinesis to lift a massive chunk of rock out of the ground.

'Oh you've gotta be kidding me! That thing looks like a floating island, he ripped it right out of the ground!'

"It's time you were put out of your misery, and my good friend General Mountain will be the one to do it!" and so Frieza hurled General Mountain forward.

Deciding on the "f*ck it" option, Goku dug his boots into the dirt and caught General Mountain, being pushed back until he was caught between a rock and… well another rock. So with only one option other than suffocating to death, he cut himself free with a single Ki Blast and took to the air.

Unfortunately, Frieza was waiting for him "You fell for it!" and he trapped Goku in his Imprisonment Ball.

"Oh crap! This is bad, I can't even move inside this thing!'

"You've been asking for this ever since this battle started. Now let's play a game then shall we, I like to call this Telekinetic Pinball. See the rules are actually quite simple, we'll play until I miss and you end up in orbit. It'll be fun!" Frieza kicked Goku and began a cycle of blitzing around the skies of Planet Namek and repeatedly kicking Goku over and over again, complete with pinball sound effects.

'Ow- I've- ow- gotta- ow- think of- ow- a way- ow- out of this- Ow right in the tailbone that time!'

Eventually Frieza stopped hitting Goku and just caught his Imprisonment Ball "You know I realize that this was my idea but I'm actually starting to grow bored with this little game of ours."

"Wait what?"

"What do you say we skip to the Sudden Death Round." and so he hit the Imprisonment Ball with a simple Ki blast, sending Goku hurtling down towards the ground below and engulfing the entire battlefield in a blinding explosion.

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Gohan was the first one to pull himself out of the desert that used to be the battlefield, and he stared in a mix of concern and horror at the vast wasteland before him 'Dad… please be okay, you just have to be okay…'

"And that was just round one of the clash between the bullshit levels of powerful." Kai yanked himself out from beneath a rock "In case our epic fail earlier didn't make it painfully clear already Frieza hasn't even begun to fight."

"What?"

"He could send all of us and this entire planet to the Shadow Realm with one attack if he wanted to, he's got the power and the immunity to Shadow Realm based jokes which combined with the fact that we're all still standing means only one thing."

"You're saying that he's just having fun with us, toying with us and making us squirm for his own sick twisted amusement."

"Pretty much yeah." Kai pulled out a notepad out of nowhere "So the Ass-like purple and white space lizard has new high score for Telekinetic Pinball. Dammit I was gunning for that since I was born!"

"But what does that mean, is my dad gonna be okay?"

"I don't know, I've only seen the guy fight three times so it's too soon to tell."

"Well I wouldn't worry about that." Tien pulled himself out of the rubble and dusted himself off, with Piccolo and Yamcha soon following his lead "I've seen the extent of Goku's new power first hand and I can both tell you for a fact that Frieza isn't the only one holding back at the moment. Go ahead and see for yourself." he pointed to where Goku was emerging from the rubble with only a few cuts, scrapes and bruises here and there "See what I mean?"

"Well I'll be damned, even at that speed he was able to free himself from Frieza's control right before the explosion. I mean I could've done that but still not bad."

"And that just proves my point." Piccolo muttered "They're both complete and utter freaks of nature, it makes me sick just thinking about it."

"Get used to it Big Green, life is a bitch and we're its bitches."

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Goku pulled himself back into the air "Well that was a little bit too close for my liking, if I plan on beating Frieza then I'm gonna have to be a lot more careful than that." he quickly blitzed across the wasteland and appeared in front of Frieza "It's like I was saying before, you need to learn not to mess with other people's planets and I would be glad to volunteer."

"Is that a fact?" Frieza let out a chuckle "You certainly are much more resilient than the others and you're also dangerously close to making me angry."

"That makes two of us then."

"Well it would appear that we finally found something that we can agree on, but it's only fair to warn you that the gloves are coming off this round."

"That's fine by me."

"Then tell me, would you prefer the ground or the sky? Feel free to choose, the ball is in your court."

"My court huh? Well then I'm gonna have to pick ground."

"I see, well I believe that an island over there will be suitable for our next round so if you would be so kind as to follow me."

"After you." they retreated towards another island on the ground a fair distance away "I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you didn't let me choose out of the kindness of your own heart, is this your idea of being nice or are you just that cocky?" Goku removed his shirt and began stretching for the second round.

"Well when the mood strikes me I happen to have it in myself to be quite charitable, in fact I feel so generous right now that I'm prepared to offer another concession."

"And what would that be?"

"I won't use my hands for the duration, how does that sound?"

"You've gotta be kidding me, that does sound pretty generous for a psychopath. So how about this, mind if I make the first move?"

"Oh by all means, go ahead and try to surprise me."

"Don't mind if I do." and so Goku charged forward.

Frieza leapt over his attack and began launching a flurry of kicks.

Goku dodged the onslaught through use of a number of backflips.

"I must admit that you caught me off guard, I didn't expect your attack to be so brief!"

"Then how about this!" Goku leapt over a kick and began launching a barrage of kicks of his own.

Frieza began dodging every kick with ease "What's the matter Saiyan, having trouble keeping up are we?" he smacked Goku across the face using his tail "The next one will be from the left." he smacked Goku again "And now the right." the process repeated itself "Left, right, left, right, left, right, and now for the finisher." he kicked Goku across the face, sending him hurtling towards a rock plateau.

Goku rebounded before he made contact and returned to the ground "Okay so he's more than just all talk, he's got the walk to back it up. Facing an opponent as strong as this you would think I would be nervous, but truth be told I'm actually eager to see what else he's got." he just received a an overconfident smirk "If you're just gonna stare then I'd be happy to move closer!" and so he charged in again, resulting in the two of them blitzing across the island faster than the eye was able to see.

Frieza dodged every attack Goku threw at him with ease, then he caught Goku by the ankle using his tail and threw him towards the ground.

Goku caught himself and attempted to use the chance to swing Frieza around instead, swinging him around over and over before flinging him towards a nearby plateau.

Frieza rebounded and charged at Goku again, launching a quick kick as he did so.

Goku dodged the kick and began launching a flurry of punches and kicks.

Frieza dodged every one with ease and kicked Goku in the jaw before catching him in a chokehold with his tail, his sadistic grin growing ever wider.

'Crap I can't get loose, so much for keeping on guard for all of my vital areas! Now he's gonna choke me to death, quick Goku you have to think! What's gotten you out of tight spots with insanely powerful enemies before? Wait I know, do what I did against King Piccolo! Use my instincts!' and so he did what his instincts told him to do: he bit down on Frieza's tail as hard as he could, and then once Frieza was distracted by the pain he dealt Frieza a devastating barrage of punches and kicks.

Now beginning to run out of composure, Frieza slugged Goku straight across the face, knocking him off his feet and sending him tumbling across the island.

Goku pulled himself back to his feet with a cocky smirk "Hey what's the matter Frieza, I thought you said that you weren't gonna use your hands."

"Well I've decided that I'm no longer in the mood to play nice."

"Well I've got a generous streak in me too and that's why I'm warning you."

"Warning me, about what pray tell?"

"That confidence of yours, it's a good thing to have but there is such a thing as too much. You can't risk getting cocky or you'll start making mistakes."

"How right you are. I must admit that you are quite strong, one might say exceptional."

"I do a lot of push ups and situps, and I drink plenty of juice."

"However I grow weary of our little standoff, I believe that the time has come for the two of us to end it. Before we do though permit me to ask of you, what would you say to becoming, well in a word, my underling? I would really hate to make waste of a combatant with as much talent as you possess, not to mention that I'm in need of a suitable replacement for the likes of the Ginyu Force."

"Are you seriously offering me a job? Not gonna lie, it really says a lot about you that you actually think that I would go for something like that."

"Your response is truly predictable, the Saiyans are such a prideful race, which is to say that they were incredibly foolish. Sadly your refusal means that only one outcome remains for you I'm afraid, your inevitable death."

"Oh yeah, well why don't we just say that I disagree." this earned a chuckle from Frieza.

"What was that you are saying before about confidence? Don't think I'm not wise to you and your little tricks, you'd like me to believe that you're lashing out at full steam but you and I both know very well that we haven't seen the limits of your strength just yet. Of course bearing that fact in mind I still have quite a bit of leeway, yes my friend quite a bit indeed. 50% of my power but a paltry half, a mere half should suffice to grind you into space dust."

"Just half of your power? Yeah right, it sounds like a bluff to me." the sweat dripping down the side of his face said otherwise.

"Well I must admit this has been fun, you've given me quite the bracing workout to the point where part of me might even shed a tear." Frieza dropped into a stance, but he did nothing else for the moment.

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Bardock was quick to grow impatient "What the hell is Kakarot doing, why is he just standing there staring at Frieza like that?"

"Stop ripping apart couch cushions dramatically and take a good look for a second." Scarlet told him flatly "Goku and Frieza are both waiting for the right moment for them to make their next move, I hate to admit it but even from here I can tell that they're both way beyond me right now."

"But what does that mean?" asked Gine "I mean Kakarot can still beat Frieza can't he?"

"It's still too soon to tell, the only thing that I can say for certain is that right now they're fighting at a level we can't even comprehend, and they know that just as well as we do."

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Goku dropped into a combat stance, the nervous sweat continuing to drip down his face but he tried to remain stoic 'Only about 50% of his power huh? Well I guess we'll see how I stack up to that soon enough.'

And at that moment Frieza was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning from the Namekian skies above as his power level soared to new heights "My my it really is such a shame, a tragedy when you think about it. After all if you had been my underling then you would've been able to see so many amazing things." he charged a simple ball of Ki in his hand, but he dissipated it just as quickly "Vegeta and his father the King, Raditz and that decidedly low class Saiyan warrior who called himself Bardock, all of them were headstrong and and all of them were deaf to reason, and all of them dead by my hand." he suddenly blitzed forward faster than Goku was able to react and elbowed him in the jaw, sending him stumbling back a few feet and drawing blood from his nose.

'That speed was insane, he moved so fast I couldn't even see it.'

Frieza blitzed behind Goku and kicked his feet out from under him, then caught him in a chokehold using his tail before following up with a fierce elbow to the ribs.

Now reeling from the pain, Goku was unable to even remain standing and promptly fell to his knees 'I couldn't see any hint of movement then either, is there really that big of a gap between his strength and mine?'

"I did warn you in advance and that was only at half, though now I'm starting to question if I should even have bothered with as much as that. It truly is anticlimactic." he dodged a sudden desperate kick by Goku as well as dodging every single attack being thrown at him afterwards without a care in the world "Oh come on now you're just embarrassing yourself. Very well then, you asked for it!" he proceeded to deal Goku a devastating combo, dealing him a barrage of punches and kicks as well as smashing him into the ground and backhanding him repeatedly using his tail "Oh dear me I stand corrected, nevermind using half of my full power. Whether you believe it or not, I'm only using about ⅓ of it at the moment." and then he slammed Goku into the ground before continuing his torturous assault and ending it by sending him falling into the Namekian sea.

Goku eventually pulled himself out of the water gasping for air, wounded but still not deterred from the fight.

"Feeling a bit winded by chance? I must say that it's rather a miracle that you're actually still alive."

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Bardock slammed his fist into a wall in frustration "Dammit this is going nowhere, Kakarot is just getting the ever loving shit beaten out of him like some kind of punching bag!"

"Bardock take it easy, Kakarot isn't out of this just yet." Gine told him "Keep in mind that he's wearing weighted training clothes."

Scarlet cringed "Yeah, about that… he and Yamcha kind of dropped that when they finished training with King Kai. The outfit that he's wearing right now isn't really heavy, it's just well made of a strong fabric. And besides, even if it was weighted it wouldn't do much good against the likes of Frieza."

"Maybe not but Kakarot does have one other trump card." Bardock pointed out "He still has that technique the Kaioken up his sleeve, he should be able to use it up to times ten if what you told me is correct. Kakarot has a hell of a lot more fight left in him."

"Unfortunately no, that's not the case. I'd love for that to be true as much as the next guy but the fact is that Goku's already been using the Kaioken 10x."

"...You just love to kill the mood now don't you?"

"It's been my job ever since I started living with King Kai and his sense of humor. But this is bad though, the gap between their strength keeps getting wider."

"And now you're stating the obvious."

"It's what I do." Scarlet glanded back and gave a smirk "And I was wondering when you were gonna join us… Raditz."

Sure enough, at that moment Raditz entered the room and laid eyes on the three of them, and he tried to maintain his composure "Father… Mother… and mother of the little psychopath in the red outfit." and then he got glomped by Gine in a comical fashion "So what's going on down in the fight?"

"Well Goku was holding his own for awhile but now Frieza decided to get serious and he's beating the ever loving crap out of him."

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True to what Scarlet said, Frieza continued his relentless torturous assault against Goku and even knocked the Kaioken 10x out of him, the force nearly blowing away everyone on the sidelines as a result "So much for claiming that you would defeat me, at least Raditz was able to at least try to back up his claim. I suppose all of that bravado was quite a substantial bluff after all."

"We'll see about that!" Goku finally rebounded and attempted to retreat and gain some distance for himself.

Frieza blitzed in front of Goku and promptly continued beating him around through the air "Oh do come on now, feel free to make this a little bit more entertaining for me if you like." he ended his assault when he struck Goku in the spine with his tail and kneed him brutally right in the chest.

Goku retreated to the ground a fair distance away, panting heavily from exhaustion.

Frieza on the other hand just held up two fingers and then proceeded to attack Goku with his Death Wave.

Goku braced himself for the impact but it never came, and so he opened his eyes and found to his horror that the technique had carved a trench through the surface of the planet "Oh you've gotta be kidding me, that's one hell of a technique."

"Not to be a bore but if I were to so choose then I could orchestrate the destruction of this planet within a matter of mere seconds, though it is quite fitting that it should share such a fate with that of Planet Vegeta don't you agree?"

'Dammit he's got me in a pinch, I hate to say it but the way things are going right now I can't beat him.'

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Gohan looked mortified by what he was seeing "There's no way I'm seeing this, there's just no way this is happening! He just carved a trench through Namek!"

"And Goku is just surviving by the skin of his ass." Kai finished dryly "Add that to the list of reasons why we're f*cked."

"This fight suddenly seems so one sided." Piccolo noted "Frieza is way stronger than any of us could've prepared for. I hate to admit it but there's nothing we can to help Goku at this point, he's just too powerful for any of us."

"No shit Big Green."

"This is really bad." Tien muttered "I mean Goku is giving it everything he's got out there right now and Frieza is wiping the floor with him with only about half of his power?"

"Weren't you listening Triclops? Frieza is only using about ⅓ of his power right now, I'd hate to say it but I think we're officially f*cked."

"I don't know about that just yet." Yamcha muttered "I'm pretty sure that he has at least one trump card up his sleeve left but the question is, will his body be able to hold out long enough for him to use it effectively?"

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Frieza lowered himself to the ground in front of Goku "Now then I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that I intend to see to it that you get to live for at least a little bit longer. However, the bad news is that I also intend to see to it that you spend what little time you have left in this place of existence in excruciating pain." and cue the menacing glint in his eyes for extra effect.

Goku gritted his teeth in frustration 'I have to try to raise my Kaioken to times 20 somehow like the way that Yamcha did, it's the only chance that I've got left. I don't have any clue about how my body is going to be able to handle it though. He says that he's at less than half of his full power, but whether that's actually true or not I can't even dream of underestimating whatever he has left up his sleeve. I less next to no options left anyway.'

"This is no time for you to be bemoaning your fate, after all you cannot blame fate for these circumstances. That honor goes to your stubborn sense of self worth." Frieze blitzed forward and began a new assault on Goku, dealing him a light-fast barrage of blows that blew him right off of his feet "Oh now there's no need for you to be such a bore, at least try to defend yourself. After all that is the whole point here." he kicked Goku high into the air, grabbed him with his tail and threw him down towards the ground, and then kneed him in the gut for good measure, sending him crashing to the ground in a crater, and as soon as Goku attempted to get back onto his feet again Frieza rammed him head first, sending him tumbling backwards in a heap before he finally skidded to a stop.

Goku pulled himself back to his feet just in time to receive a chop to the back of the head, sending him crashing to the ground once again. Eventually he managed to get back onto his feet once again, but just as quickly all of his strength left him and he collapsed onto Frieza's shoulder from pure exhaustion.

"Oh don't tucker out yet, we're just getting started. And now he's drooling on me." he quickly caught Goku in a chokehold with his tail "I'm afraid it isn't time for you to take a dirt nap just yet my boy, no the horror show is just getting started." he hurled Goku high into the air and let him fall into the Namekian sea with a mighty splash.

Goku forced himself to keep as much air in as he could as he struggled to make his way back up to the surface, only to be forced back down by a sudden Death Beam, this process repeating itself several times over 'Crap… lungs are filling with water… feel like they're about to burst… and muscles are burning…' he desperately tried to find a safe place to rise up for air.

That was when Frieza forced him back under by stomping down on his head with one foot in a sadistic fashion "Congratulations, for surviving for as long as you have you've won another bath! So tell me Saiyan, how is it adapting to life aquatic as it were?"

The only answer that Goku could give was finally giving up on his struggle as the darkness began to consume him.

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Goku suddenly found himself submerged in a sea of darkness 'My lungs are burning… my muscles are burning… I can't move… I can't even speak… Is this it… for me? Am I… going to die?'

"Are you giving up already? I know that's not the Goku that I raised for all those years."

Goku's eyes snapped open as the sea of darkness faded away to reveal a white void, and his eyes nearly brimmed with tears at who he saw in front of him "G-Grandpa?"

Sure enough, before him stood none other than Grandpa Gohan, albeit with a halo over his head, and he pulled Goku into a gentle yet tight hug "Yes Goku my boy, it's me. I can't tell you how much I've missed you. Seeing my son save the Earth time and time again, and now fighting to save the entire universe itself, nothing could make me more proud."

"Thank you Grandpa… and I just wanna say that I'm sorry for…" Goku's voice began to crack, recalling his discovery of how he had killed Grandpa Gohan when he was a kid, after he turned into a Great Ape.

"We cannot change the past Goku, everything happens for a reason. What that reason is I do not know, but what I do know is that the best years of my life were those that I spent with you, and I could not have asked for a better grandson."

"Thanks Grandpa, but I really don't deserve any of your praise right now. I don't think I can do this, Frieza is so much stronger than me that it's insane! I've giving it everything that I have against him and he's still just toying with me! First it was my cowardice, then my stupidity, and now it's my weakness! It's because I'm not strong enough that-" he was silenced by two firm hands on his shoulders.

"Goku, listen to me son. I want to tell you, no I need to tell you something very important right now. If you don't do this, then your son is going to die. Your wife is going to die. Everyone is going to die. But before all of that, if you don't do this then YOU are going to die. And you're better than that. You're better than him. You're better than me. I'm not even close to the strength, courage and purity of heart and spirit that you've demonstrated over the years. You are far more than just my grandson, you are Son Goku! I taught you what to do in times like this didn't I, or did you forget?"

Goku wiped away his tears "Yes… Yes you did… I remember all of it…"

"Then prove it… rise to the challenge… get back on your feet. Show me the fire that burns within your soul."

Goku slowly got back to his feet and stood tall and proud "I will… I will stand, I will fight… and I WILL defeat Frieza!"

"That's the spirit my boy, speak of the future. That is where the power of life truly lies, and never forget that. Know that no matter what path you may take, I will always be there for you. I have faith in you Goku, now go and show him whatfore. I know you can, and I know you will." and with that, Grandpa Gohan disappeared, as did everything around him, and before Goku knew it his eyes had snapped open.

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Frieza continued to force pressure down on Goku's head with a sadistic grin "So do you have any last words monkey? You know, besides "gurgle gurgle"?" he was answered by a massive white light shining over the battlefield that also caused the water beneath him to erupt.

When everything settle, Goku was floating in front of him in his combat stance, holding his Golden Power Pole with renewed fighting spirit "For Gohan, for Chichi, for everyone on Earth and for the future of Planet Namek and for the entire universe, there's no way in hell I'm about to give up now!" his crimson Kaioken aura began to slowly flare around his body "It doesn't matter if he is using less than half of his full power or not, if I pull off a Kaioken 20x then I at least stand a chance! All I can do for now, all I have to do is give it my all and show this guy why you DON'T mess with me and my friends! KaioKen… times… TWENTY!" with a furious roar he activated his Kaioken and pushed it to the absolute limit.

"Kaio-what-" Frieza was promptly cut off by a fist to the face, as well as a quick kick to the abdomen that sent him flying across the battlefield.

"Ka… Me… Ha… Me… HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" mustering every last ounce of Ki that he was able to, Goku fired off a full power Kaioken enhanced Kamehameha, the beam beginning to glow gold along with his Golden Power Pole 'Thank you for that extra boost in power Grandpa!'

Now growing frustrated, Frieza raised one hand in an attempt to block it but found that he was still getting pushed back, so with a scream he raised both hands and fired a Death Cannon directly into the blast, resulting in an explosion that lit up the entire sky.

When the smoke cleared, Goku's Kaioken 20x aura had subsided, and he was left panting heavily and staring in disbelief as Frieza looked mostly unharmed, albeit both of his arms had been singed considerably "That… That's impossible… You've gotta be kidding me, all of that and it looks like I didn't even hit him at all… So then I guess it's true, he hasn't just been bluffing about it… He really is only using about half of his maximum power…"

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"Well shit is once again hitting the fan." Kai noted dryly "He puts everything he's got into a blast like that but not even plot armor can change the fact that Frieza has a f*cking plot cannon that shits all over his plot armor."

"What exactly are you talking about?" asked Gohan.

"To put it bluntly, Frieza's barely got a scratch and Goku is pretty much f*cked."

"We can't just let my dad get killed, we have to do something!"

"Of course we do you idiot, which is exactly why it's time for you and me to get in there and wreck some shit."

"Wait really?"

"F*ck no, what do I look suicidal to you?"

"...You know you're not as funny as you think you are."

"Yeah I am."

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Goku was still left panting heavily and exhausted, his mind racing as he finally dropped back to the ground 'Well this is just great, now what am I supposed to do?'

Frieza on the other hand seemed to have different thoughts 'That was far too close for my liking, how is it that a creature so low on the food chain has such unbelievable reserves of strength at his disposal? No one has ever been able to push my body to this extrevity before. FILTHY SAIYAN!" now increasingly furious, Frieza bolted down to the ground "Impressive. I felt that attack. A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH!" he dealt Goku a brutal headbutt, sending him tumbling backwards "You imbecile!" he dealt Goku a brutal kick to the face and spin kick right in the kidney, sending him crashing into a nearby boulder and causing him to cough up a large amount of blood, and then he shot Goku with a Death Beam and kicked him in the face, sending him head first into the sea.

Goku was soon pulled out of the water and started coughing up blood, some of which landed right on Frieza's face, enraging Frieza and earning Goku another whack in the face with his tail, sending him tumbling backwards.

"You pathetic insect, is that tiny reservoir of strength all dried up now? If the answer to that is yes then I really see no point in dragging this farce out any further that we already have."

Despite the thorough exhaustion, Goku managed to force himself back onto his feet, his mind racing to come with some kind of solution 'Okay so maybe that wasn't such a great idea in the grand scheme of things, I really lost a lot more power than I had been counting on. As a matter of fact that Kaioken 20x left me seriously wiped out.'

"What modest powers the Saiyan race does, or rather did, possess turned out to be utterly wasted on them. My wholesale slaughter of the lot of them was truly a mercy in the grand scheme of things, wouldn't you agree?"

'I… I'm done for!'

"Kakarot you fool, you can't seriously be considering giving up!" a familiar voice rang through his head "You're a warrior of the Saiyan race, take some pride in who you are!"

"I… I'm not a Saiyan like you… or like the rest of them…"

"Perhaps but still, you're a Saiyan unlike any other! You personify the potential that our people was never able to tap into!"

"Just stop it already, none of that matters now! Even together we…" Goku trailed off, and paused when he noticed the figure in front of him "Raditz… brother…"

Sure enough, Raditz stood before him naked, symbolizing how his soul remained untouched, even in death "The blood that courses through your veins, the perfect instinct for battle, the never ending desire to get stronger… There's no denying what you are. You need to reach down deep, feel the pain of those of us who fell to him. Our brethren were all decimated, our homeworld was lost. Does it not enrage you to stand before the man, the monster responsible for driving us to the brink of extinction? Our father, our mother, our home, everything about our people just gone in a matter of seconds…' the vision of Raditz was replaced by one of him as a child "All of them wiped from this plain of existence, eradicated by Frieza himself. You are the last of our kind now Kakarot. Everything that we were, everything that we are, everything that we could be, all of it survives now only in you. And he won't rest until every single trace of that has vanished for one reason and one reason alone, because he is haunted…" the vision of the child Raditz was replaced by one of him as a Great Ape "Haunted every single day and night by one single overriding fear, the fear that the legendary Super Saiyan will rise up from the ashes and obliterate him." the original vision of adult Raditz returned, this time being joined by visions of Bardock and Gine, as well as one of King Vegeta "I dreamt, I yearned to be the one to avenge our people, and yet he battered and broke me just as he did the others. You cannot know the torment in which I died. Remember this if nothing else brother, unless you're the one to finish what we started, the legacy of our people, everything we were, everything we are and everything we could've been, it will be lost forever to the memory of time." and with that, Raditz and the other visions disappeared, bringing Goku back to reality.

'I think I understand now, brother…'

Frieza wasn't amused with the thoughtful look on Goku's face "Really, I simply cannot fathom what must be going on in that skull of yours, and that in itself makes me quite annoyed!" and to emphasis his annoyance he unleashed his Psychic Wave, blowing Goku back and creating a small but incredibly deep crater in the ground "Well that does it, there will be no more quiet exit for you. Oh no quite the contrary, it will be quite loud."

"Raditz… home to me has always meant Earth and we both pretty much agree that I don't fit the Saiyan mold, but that being said I do understand where you're coming from."

"Stop talking nonsense and at least try to make this fun for me."

"I have to win this fight, I owe it to too many people not to lose."

"STOP TOYING WITH ME!" Frieza charged at Goku in a rage, only to be quickly caught off guard by Goku suddenly dodging his strike 'What the-?!'

Goku suddenly managed to deal Frieza a quick kick to the face and then unleashed a rapid barrage of punches and kicks.

Quickly losing his temper, Frieza smashed Goku square on the skull, sending him crashing back to the ground "I must admit that rather caught me off guard, is it safe to say that someone has regained their fighting bravado?" he lowered himself back to the ground "It is rather unfortunate that you still have the whole Saiyan thing working against you. Lower life forms such as yourself can truly be so easy to anticipate, right down to their last desperate bid to live." he fired a Death Beam at Goku's shoulder, then at one of his knee caps, then the other kneecap, and then just rapid fire before finally blowing Goku right into the crater he created before with his Psychic Wave technique.

Goku barely managed to catch himself before he fell into the crater and pulled himself out on the other side.

"My my death would be such a welcome reprieve at this point now wouldn't it? That would actually be quite simple as well."

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Gohan was quick to lose his temper "I can't take this anymore, I've gotta go help him!" he prepared to charge into the fray.

"Back it up a second ponytail." Kai held him back.

"But if I don't do something then my dad will-"

"Use your head for a second, Goku's got that constipated thinking look on his face like he knows something that Frieza doesn't. He's got something up his sleeve but he's pretty much tapped out, so what's he gonna do?"

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Frieza blinked "Oh my, what pray tell are you up to now?"

As it turns out, Goku was raising both of his hands above his head 'I've only got one option left now, I just hope that I can get this right.'

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Yamcha was the only one present who actually realized what Goku was planning "I get it, he's gonna use the Spirit Bomb!"

"Sprit what now?" Tien shot him a look "What are you talking about?"

"The Spirit Bomb is a special last resort technique that Goku and I learned about during our training with King Kai. See the user has to gather all the energy from the living things around him like the grass, the trees, even us, everything down to the tiniest Namekian microbe, or basically anything around him with a life force. After he gathers all of that energy he condenses it into a giant ball of energy and then you've got yourself a Frieza killing Spirit Bomb just ripe for blowing up right in his face!"

"Well lucky him." Piccolo muttered "That fat blue imp never taught us anything along those lines."

"Yeah well he thinks he's funny."

"He's not."

"Exactly."

"But how is he gonna do it?" asked Gohan "I mean with a place like this it doesn't have all that much life right, so where is he gonna get that energy from?"

"I don't know but either way he doesn't really have any other options right now, the Spirit Bomb is the best and only choice that he actually has."

"But can he really make it work?"

"He has to."

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Goku did seem to have some reluctance about using the Spirit Bomb 'I can't believe I really have to do this, the Spirit Bomb is the last thing that I wanted to use. If I end up messing this up then there's no guarantee it won't split Planet Namek right down the middle. But that being said, if I don't hit Frieza with everything I've got then it's only gonna be a matter of time before he has the entire universe in a chokehold. Probably by his tail too. Anyway it doesn't matter if it is insanely drastic, I have to try something, whether it works out exactly how I needed to or not.' he started gathering energy, which also prompted geysers of water to erupt from within the crater in front of him.

Frieza just rolled his eyes "Oh come on now what is this supposed to be, some desperate yet brave attempt to druge up some more nonsense? What could you conceivably have left in you in your weakened state? Well whatever it is it won't be enough. I just don't get it, what could he possibly be up to now? Why would he stand there essentially motionless and leave himself wide open like that?'

Goku just gritted his teeth 'I call upon the grasses… I call upon the trees… I call upon the mountains… I call upon the seas… I call upon every single living thing that either crawls, slinks, slithers or swims on this planet on this planet… on this planet, and on the surrounding planets too!' he started drawing energy from Planet Namek as well as from a few of the surrounding planets 'That's it guys, just a tiny bit of energy from each of you is all I need. Any other neighboring worlds out there that don't want to see Frieza win this fight, please give me your strength and help me to defeat him! Help me create a Spirit Bomb!'

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Piccolo almost did a double take when he felt the power approaching Planet Namek "What is that, what am I sensing?"

"I mentioned before that the power of the Spirit Bomb is massive." Yamcha pointed out.

"Yeah but did you mention that it's the size of a f*cking moon?" Kai pointed to where the Spirit Bomb was forming up in the sky, causing everyone to nearly lose their shit.

"HOLY SHIT! How the hell did Goku make that thing so huge?"

"Is this one different then?" asked Tien.

"When I saw it during training was only about the size of a soccer ball, the diameter of that one has to be at least a full 50 yards!"

"But if he was just gathering life energy from this planet then it shouldn't be possible for him to make one as big as that." Gohan pointed out "That must mean that dad is trying to gather energy from some of the surrounding planets."

"Well either way from the looks of things Frieza hasn't caught on yet." Piccolo noted "So then why doesn't Goku just throw the thing now while he has a good shot?"

"Maybe he knows that he has to make it even bigger than that in order to finish off Frieza once and for all."

"Well he's running on borrowed time." Kai pointed out "He hasn't got much longer before Frieza starts throwing a hissy fit."

"Come on dad, you can do this!"

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Scarlet let out a sigh "Looks like he's really resorting to the Spirit Bomb, it was only a matter of time."

"I don't get it, why doesn't he just throw it already?" asked Bardock.

"Because Frieza is the definition of a powerhouse, Goku will have to give it as much power as possible in order to have a chance of taking Frieza down.

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Goku continued gathering energy 'Yeah that's it, keep it coming. Just a little bit more and we'll be good.'

"Such an amateur." Frieza let out a scoff "You're obviously just stalling, now make a move before I lose my temper, or is this ridiculous pose intended to signify your unconditional surrender?"

'This is bad, the time it's taking for me to gather all of the energy that I need is leaving me wide open. Please don't let him figure that out.'

"No seriously, how long do you intend to just stand there?"

"You know, that's actually a very good question. I have no idea."

"...That's stupid! You're stupid! Stop being stupid!"

"Or here's a thought, maybe I'm just being rhetorical."

"NO! No you're not! Honestly it's like you're just using words you hear randomly to try and sound smarter!"

"Well now you're just acting transcendent."

"THAT'S IT!" a thoroughly enraged Frieza promptly kneed Goku in the face, blowing him clean off of his feet.

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"Dammit!" Bardock swore "He caught on."

"No that's not it Father, not yet." Raditz told him "Frieza's just losing his temper and throwing a tantrum.

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Frieza gave Goku a sadistic grin "Oh I'm so very sorry about that, I must have interrupted your concentration."

"You know it's a funny thing about that." Goku got back to his feet and let out a knowing chuckle "My wife Chichi says that a lot about me when she's using that thing she keeps in her drawer." he put his hands back up.

"Is this some kind of game to you?" again losing his temper, Frieza continued his relentless assault against Goku with a furious barrage of attacks that once again ended up blowing him off of his feet.

'Okay that really hurt, like a lot, but at least I'm almost there.'

"I'm not going to ask you again."

Goku just let out a knowing chuckle, got back to his feet, and then continued charging the Spirit Bomb.

With the veins in his forehead now throbbing from pure rage, Frieza once again started beating the ever loving crap out of Goku.

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"This is bad." Gohan muttered "I don't know how much of that Dad will be able to take, and if he can't focus on charging the Spirit Bomb then he doesn't stand a chance!"

"I'm pretty sure that the issue right now is less about him focusing and more about staying alive long enough to worry about him focusing." Kai pointed out dryly.

"Which is why Yamcha and I are going out there." Tien promptly began powering up his Kaioken to the max, with Yamcha doing the same "The two of you aren't strong enough to do what has to be done and Piccolo is the key to the Dragon Balls, we're the only ones who have a chance of doing this."

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Goku was blown back by Frieza's assault, but this time he managed to stay on his feet "Hey what's the big rush Frieza? You really need to learn to be more patient."

"You really think it's a good idea for you to mock me right now ape?" and then Frieza proceeded to blast Goku using his Death Cannon, sending him crashing into the Namekian sea.

Goku eventually managed to pull himself out of the water, or at least his head above water 'You know on second thought this probably wasn't the best idea.'

Frieza looked down at him with disdain "I've never fully understood the thought process of the Saiyan race and I likely never will, such a species truly is unpleasant. This pathetic excuse for a battle has carried on quite long enough I believe, the time has come for me to deal with you and this planet in one fell swoop. Alas this include your little monkey child as well, with you and him wiped from this plain of existence the scourge of the Saiyan race will be wiped from this universe entirely, thus proving that the fabled Super Saiyan was just that: a fable." he prepared to fire a Death Beam at Goku, only to stop when he noticed a glare reflecting in the water "That's no sun, what the-" he glanced up and realized that it was coming from the Spirit Bomb.

"No dammit, not yet!"

"Is- Is that what I think it is? I've never seen a mass of energy that size!" and then the realization hit him 'That's what he was doing!'

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Yamcha and Tien both finished powering up their Kaioken auras "This is bad, Frieza's caught onto what Goku's planning! Listen up guys, no matter what happens stay the hell out of this fight and don't interfere in anyway!"

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Frieza gawked at the Spirit Bomb "He's been forging that right over my head this entire time and I never had any idea, how was he able to dredge up that much power?"

"Dammit!" Goku slammed his fist into the ground in frustration 'This is bad, now it's all pretty much over! Even if the Spirit Bomb was strong enough to take Frieza down now that he's seen it I've lost the element of surprise!'

"You were actually going to blindside me with something like that? How unfortunate for you then, I don't know where you got that much power from but it really doesn't matter anymore now does it?"

"We'll see about that!" Goku burst out of the water and let a fist fly… only for it to be caught in a matter of seconds "F*CK!"

"Nice try, looks like that whole Super Saiyan thing just isn't going to pan out." Frieza aimed a Death Beam at Goku's face "When you see Raditz give him a message for me, tell him that I said: Like a bitch."

'Crap!' Goku shut his eyes and waited for the inevitable, when…

"BOOT TO THE HEAD!" that was when Yamcha and Tien burst onto the scene and quickly dealt Frieza a two man Boot to the Head kick (Look up the skit on YouTube if you don't understand the reference), sending him crashing into the Namekian sea miles away.

"Yamcha? Tien? What the heck are you-"

"No time for any of that, just hurry up and finish the Spirit Bomb before he rises up like we've disturbed his 1,000 year dormancy!"

"Oh man I owe you guys big time." Goku got back to his feet and once again began charging the Spirit Bomb.

"And frankly you'd better make it fast." Tien told him "We've both got the Kaioken pushed to the absolute limit but I doubt that's gonna do any real good."

"Yeah I know, just hold him off for a little bit."

"We can try."

That was when Frieza burst out of the water "And with these two I keep getting reminded of my failures, I thought that all of those pests had been taken care of!"

"And seriously Goku, you might wanna hurry it the hell up." Yamcha pointed out "As much as I hate to rush you it looks to pretty much anyone with eyes like Frieza is about to lose whatever patience he has left."

"I'm sorry you guys, I just need a little bit more time." Goku told him "It's not done yet, if I throw it at Frieza now then it won't do any good."

"Then I guess we only have one option." Yamcha and Tien rose into the air to meet Frieza face to face.

"Well well, look who decided to be heroes." Frieza let out a chuckle "Both of you too pesky to live and yet to stubborn to die."

"I think we'll see about that soon enough!" and so Yamcha and Tien charged into the fray at full speed, both of their Kaioken auras flaring like never before as they launched a two man barrage of punches and kicks.

Frieza promptly blocked their strikes as he got pushed back a few feet, but he didn't really take any damage "It would seem that your attacks have both been sharpened considerably, not bad for scum."

Yamcha and Tien charged in and continued their assault.

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Gohan seemed concerned by what was happening "I don't get it, what are the two of them doing out there?"

"There's really only one thing they can do." Kai pointed out "I'm pretty sure they're gonna try and sacrifice themselves to buy Goku time."

"What?!"

"Think about it, even with the Kaioken pushed to the absolute max there's no way they'll last very long against someone as OP as Frieza."

"Well I'm not gonna just sit around and let that happen!" Gohan prepared to charge, only to be grabbed by the foot by Kai "Let go-"

"No, you know as well as I do that we'd only be dead weight out there. Besides, I'm pretty sure he'll have that covered." Kai gestured to where Piccolo was charging a Special Beam Cannon a few feet away.

'Dad, please hurry…'

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"Kamehameha/ Tri-Beam!" realizing the wasted effort of a physical assault, now using all of the power at once, Yamcha and Tien poured all of the power that they could into a combined Ki blast consisting of a Kamehameha and a Tri-Beam.

Unfortunately, when the smoke cleared it turned out that Frieza wasn't damaged by the attacks in the slightest "I see, so now you've shown me the limits of your power. Now let me see if I can find your glubocks." he blitzed behind them and grabbed both of them by the shoulders, causing them to cry out in pain "How is it that creatures so resilient be so foolish?!" he elbowed Tien in the gut and Yamcha in the spine "Unless they have a death wish!"

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Goku was beginning to grow aggravated with the current situation 'This is bad, Yamcha and Tien are both at the end of their rope but I can't throw the Spirit Bomb yet!'

Less than a minute later, Yamcha was sent crashing to the ground next to him with a loud thud, with Tien being hurled straight into the sea "Yeah okay Goku that's officially all that we've got in us, please for the love of Piccolo's other half tell me you're done with the damn Spirit Bomb already!"

"I'm trying but it's not finished yet, if I throw it at Frieza now then it won't do any good against him!"

"F*CK!"

That was when Frieza landed on the ground and shot Yamcha a menacing smirk "Try as I might I can't think of a good reason as to why I should spare you, so I won't." he prepared to fire a Death Beam clear through Yamcha's skull, until…

"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON!" a full power Special Beam Cannon, courtesy of Piccolo, shot clear across the battlefield and slammed into Frieza full force, followed by two smaller Kamehameha blasts, engulfing Frieza in an explosion.

Yamcha glanced over to see Piccolo, Gohan and Kai all fresh from firing their attacks, and he gave a strained smile "Right on you guys, you managed to scrape together whatever power you had left and managed to pull my ass out of the fire."

Frieza on the other hand was pretty much unharmed, and his overwhelming rage was about to soar to new heights "So the little pests chose to intervene from the sidelines, they just won't rest until I've been pushed to the very limits of my patience will they?" he let out a chuckle as the veins in his head began throbbing from pure rage, and then he finally exploded "YOU MEDDLING BRATS! I HOPE THE LOT OF YOU ALL ENJOY SUFFERING THE SAME FATE AS THIS PLANET!" and he charged a Death Ball and rose up into the air in order to blow Planet Namek and everyone on it straight to Hell.

"Okay seriously Goku, if there was ever a time to throw the damn thing then NOW WOULD BE THAT TIME!"

Goku finally finished charging the Spirit Bomb "Okay I think it's ready, or at least as ready as it can be before we all get fried. This is it, it's now or never!" and so with a roar, he finally unleashed the Spirit Bomb.

Frieza was about to fire the Spirit Bomb, when he glanced back and finally noticed the Spirit Bomb hurtling towards him "Oh, you know somehow I completely forgot about that."

"GET DOWN!" Goku pulled Yamcha down to the ground, with everyone else being sure to take cover as well.

"I WON'T ALLOW MYSELF TO BE SUBDUED BY SOMETHING LIKE THIS! SUCH A THING IS MERE CHILD'S PLAY!" in a rage of denial, Frieza attempted to catch the Spirit Bomb and send it back "YOUR MEASELY WORTHLESS TRICKS, THEY ARE FUTILE! THEY DON'T FRIGHTEN ME!" he kept getting pushed downwards, closer and closer to the surface of Planet Namek 'If I had any single regret for the countless horrific events that have transpired in my wake… it's that I'm dying.' and with that, he was engulfed by the Spirit Bomb completely as it finally reached the surface of Planet Namek, resulting in a blinding white hot explosion that covered the entire planet and blew everyone away.

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King Kai looked on in awe as he witnessed the events of the battle "I don't believe it, it's incredible! He did it, he really did it! Goku has actually won the battle, Frieza has at last been overpowered! Good has triumphed over evil, the bane of the universe has at long last been bested!"

"Goku won, he really won!" Krillin caught Chiaotzu in a high five "But come on now, was there ever really any doubt? Goku always manages to pull the win out from somewhere, why should this be any different?"

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"YES! KAKAROT WON!" Gine pulled Bardock into a bone crushing hug "OUR BABY BOY REALLY WON!"

Raditz dodged Gine's death grip and gave a simple smirk of approval "Oh come on now, did any of us really ever doubt he would pull through?"

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The landscale of Planet Namek had been decimated by the blast, not to mention it left a massive round crater in the surface.

Kai pulled himself onto a nearby rock with Goku's Golden Power Pole in hand "Okay the space lizard is one thing, why the hell did we get blown away too?"

"Hey Kai there you are!" Gohan pulled him out of the water, with Piccolo not far behind "Are you okay?"

"You tell me, I think I swallowed a f*cking trout. They actually taste better raw."

"Gross."

"Not as much as black licoriche, I mean ugh. Speaking of which, talk about a crap load of drastic landscaping."

"Speaking of crappy jokes." Piccolo muttered.

"So you think he's dead?"

"Frankly Kai right now I'm more worried about my dad and Yamcha." Gohan told him.

"Who did you think I was talking about?"

"I don't like this. That Spirit Bomb was huge, what if the two of them got swept away in all of the chaos?"

"Not a chance." Piccolo let out a snort "There's no way either of them would let something as pathetic as that happen to them."

"I know but, I can't feel their Ki signatures."

"You actually think you have enough energy left to concentrate? Besides you have eyes, try and use them." Piccolo gestured over to a nearby island.

"Wait what?" Gohan glanced over.

Yeah as it turns out, Yamcha and Tien had managed to pull themselves onto a nearby island pulling something along with them "Alright come on you heavy bastard! No no one actually help us, that would be a little bit too much." they kept yanking it to reveal that it was Goku, totally exhausted but alive and well.

"Alright it's my dad and Tien and Yamcha, they're all alive!" Gohan pulled Kai into a sudden bear hug "See didn't I tell you guys not to worry!" he attempted to fly over but found it very difficult, with Kai and Piccolo following not far behind "Hey dad! Tien! Yamcha! Guys we're over here!"

"Oh come on grandpa…" Goku spat out some water "I don't want any more baths today, I'm clean now…"

"DAD!" Gohan landed and pulled him into a tight hug.

"Gohan…"

"Way to wreck some shit big guy." Kai gave him a thumbs up, then pulled Yamcha into an awkward hug "So yeah, I'm glad you're okay."

"You too little buddy." Yamcha ruffled his hair "I know that your mom would be really proud of how well you handled yourself today."

"I wanna think so too."

"You guys must've been worried sick about us."

"Well anyway that Spirit Bomb was f*cking insane, and that's coming from me."

"Yeah it better have been." Goku let out a weak chuckle "The hopes of about 99% of the known universe were packed into that thing."

"Maybe but still…" Gohan muttered "I was pretty scared that you guys had gotten caught in that thing."

"Hey come on Gohan, give the three of us some credit. After all we're the ones who managed to defeat Vegeta, the only thing you would have to worry about is what you would tell your mom about not doing your homework."

"Well that settles it then." Yamcha let out a sigh "Time for the triumphant heroes to return home with our heads held high, maybe now I might actually have a chance to live the dream for myself too." he received a few odd looks "You guys are seriously gonna make me spell out what's at the top of my victory list aren't you?"

"Spill those guts pretty boy." Kai told him flatly.

"Alright alright, when we get back to Earth I'm thinking I'm gonna pop the question to Bulma, you know ask her to marry me." he started blushing.

"...Lame!" Kai's toke was actually joking for once, and he started laughing, with Gohan soon joining in.

"So are you guys ready to get going?" asked Goku "Lucky for us the ship that Tien and I used to get here should be able to get us back to Earth in just under 6 days."

"So basically 6 days until you and the Harpy-" Kai was smacked on the back of the head "Fine, until you and Chichi get some private time?" this earned a few chuckles, until Yamcha suddenly let out a blood curdling scream that killed the mood "Hey Yamcha, need I remind you that killing the mood is my thing?"

"I know but…" Yamcha's tone was one of pure and unholy terror "Bulma is out there somewhere, I totally forgot about her."

"Hey even I know that when the fate of the universe is on the line getting laid is not at the top of a man's list of priorities. Besides don't freak us the f*ck out like that, from the way you were screaming a guy would figure that either Frieza had popped back up or you had knocked a girl up."

"...Ignoring that, Frieza doesn't have anything on Bulma when she's in a bad mood."

"Oh believe me I know." this promptled everyone else to start laughing.

Gohan shared a glance with Kai and looked out over the horizon of Planet Namek "How much strif one planet can endure is hard to believe."

"Yeah I know, but at least now the Grand Elder and everyone else on this planet can at last rest in peace. At least until we can bring them back with the Dragon Balls back on Earth."

"Yeah that's true-" Gohan looked up and his expression turned to one of mute horror.

"Hey Gohan what's the matter son?" asked Goku "Are you okay?" he followed Gohan's gaze, with everyone else doing the same.

"It… It can't be… It just can't be… It's Frieza…"

Sure enough, Frieza stood on a rock above them alive, albeit heavily injured and with part of his tail missing "Yeah by the way not dead, kthx die." and he fired a Death Beam in Goku's direction.

"Goku get out of the way!" Piccolo shoved Goku out of the way and ended up taking the Death Beam himself straight through the chest, sending him crashing to the ground in an unconscious heap.

"F*cking hypocrite." Kai muttered "And after all of the time he spent trying to teach us to dodge you'd think he'd know how to do it himself."

Gohan could only look on in horror "Piccolo… no…"

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Gine could only look on in horror "This… This can't be happening…"

"Hey Gine the Check In Station cafe only had two kinds of hot wings-" Bardock made his way in with Raditz and Scarlet and placed a bucket of wings down in front of her "Hey why do you look like Tora walked in on you in the shower again?"

"The green one… Piccolo I think his name was… he's been brought down…" this left the three of them looking horrified.

Raditz was the first one to find his voice "But Frieza was brought down by Kakarot, we all saw it happen!"

"We were wrong Raditz, we were all so horribly wrong! Maybe… maybe all of our hopes have been in vain…"

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Devastated beyond words, Gohan could only kneel next to Piccolo's unconscious form "You have to get up… please Piccolo… get up…"

In his rage, Goku pulled himself back to his feet, his voice a low snarl "Frieza…"

"Bravo my friend!" Frieza let out a malicious cackle "You very nearly brought the might Frieza down, I must admit that I never had a call quite so close as that one! Now then, shall we begin the grand finale of our extended horror show?"

"...Run. All four of you. Right now." Goku glanced towards Tien and the others "Tien our ship isn't very far from here, I want you to take Piccolo with you and the others, find Bulma and set a course for Earth. I won't be joining you, so don't get any ideas about waiting." he received no reply and quickly lost his patience "SNAP THE HELL OUT OF IT!"

Gohan was the first one to regain his resolve "Forget it, there's no way I'm leaving you! I owe it to Piccolo to stay here and fight!"

"With what?! None of you have enough strength left, you'll only get in the way!"

"And you do?! You can barely stand! I don't care what you say Dad, I'm not gonna let you throw yourself away like a piece of trash to him!"

"I advise against placing too much stock in your escape, though if you like I am willing to bring you closer to home!" Frieza blew a hole clean through Goku's shoulder, as well as Tien's out of pure spite, then prepared to fire another blast at Kai.

Realizing that the end could be near, Gohan glanced over at Kai "Hey Kai, since it doesn't look like we're gonna be able to make it out of this one there's something that I should say…"

"If you're about to say I love you then I swear to Piccolo's other half…" Kai muttered, only to be taken aback by what Gohan said next.

"Actually I was going to say that you're the most mentally and emotionally disturbed son of a bitch I've ever met."

"Oh. Okay then."

"But you're also my best friend."

"...So are you Gohan, so are you."

"And I'm hoping you'll understand why I have to do this." Gohan shoved Kai into the water and allowed himself to be hit by the invisible Ki blast of Frieza's Death Psycho Bomb, pulling him off of his feet.

"What the hell are you doing you idiot?!"

"I couldn't let my best friend sacrifice himself against someone like Frieza, and I couldn't let any of the others get killed by him either. Dad and Yamcha have already been brought back by the Earth's Dragon Balls before, Piccolo can't die or else Kami would die too, and Tien is stronger than me now so he'd be way more helpful against the likes of Frieza than me." Gohan found himself being launched into the air but he didn't try to struggle as he looked down at the others with a sad yet content smile on his face.

"Gohan!" Goku rounded on Frieza in a rage "Don't do it Frieza, don't you dare do it!" he was ignored as Frieza clenched his fist.

"You can beat him dad, I know you can!" and with that, Gohan perished in the fiery internal explosion that followed.

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King Kai looked on in horror "No…"

"Who was it this time?" asked Krillin "Which one of them did Frieza kill?"

"It… It was Gohan…"

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"GOHAN!" Goku let out a blood curdling scream over seeing the death of his son, with Kai, as well as Tien and Yamcha, being frozen in terror.

Frieza on the other hand let out a sadistic chuckle "I think the other brat with the big mouth should die next."

Goku however looked like a rage filled wreck, his fists clenched so tightly they had started bleeding with tears streaming down his face endlessly "You… You ruthless… heartless… mother f*cker!" lightning began to flash throughout the sky, the sea began to crash violently and rubble began to rise into the air as Goku's hair began flickerting from gold to black and back to gold, his voice a grief and rage filled snarl "I will… make you… SUFFER!" and with one final furious roar he completely transformed, his eyes turning green and his hair standing up and turning a shade of gold, overall looking incredibly menacing.

"What the-?!"

Despite the transformation, Goku still remained self aware and he quickly levelled his fury filled gazed on Kai, Tien and Yamcha "All of you go, take Piccolo with you and get the hell off of this planet right now! Find Bulma, find the spaceship and go!" he received no replies and quickly lost his temper "DO AS I TELL YOU RIGHT NOW BEFORE I LOSE WHAT LITTLE SENSE OF REASON I HAVE LEFT!" that got them moving, and Goku levelled his furious gaze on his main target: Frieza.

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The fires of Goku's temper have flared and the rage inside of his souls burns with the heat of a mighty inferno. Will Goku's sudden and unsettling transformation into this golden warrior prove to be Frieza's worst nightmare come to life? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z: the Next Generation!

A/N:

And here comes the next part of the battle with Frieza, as well as a shocking set of changes to come with it. Before I go any further, let me just apologize for taking as long as I did to get this chapter out. I was taking the time to work on some other stories, mainly An Underdog's Destiny from my Total Drama Underdog series, but since I've hit some serious writers block on that story and my drive for this one has since returned, combined with the fact that I'm now on Spring Break from my first year of college, I decided to get this story up and running again.

I was honestly struggling with who to have Frieza kill in order to trigger Goku's Super Saiyan transformation. Piccolo was an obvious no (Dragon Balls), the same with Tien (he could be wished back), and Kai (could be wished back) and I did think about doing Yamcha since he couldn't be wished back a second time by the Earth's Dragon Balls, but then I realized that I would just be reversing the roles of Krillin and Yamcha in this scenario, so I decided to do something different: have Frieza blow Gohan to bits instead. Sure he could easily be wished back by the Dragon Balls but I think that Goku would still be enraged to the point where he would become a Super Saiyan. Besides, I have a certain plot device in mind for Gohan next chapter that will have an impact on his character arc and his friendship with Kai.

Having Tien and Yamcha double team Frieza using Kaioken (another divergence compared to Piccolo going up against Frieza) in order to stall for time is a sort of callback to when they did it against Vegeta, which was actually a callback to Goku and Frieza double teaming Jiren. The only difference is that this time it's also a callback to Goku and Vegeta double teaming Jiren in the anime.

I know that a lot of people wanted Goku and Grandpa Gohan to meet each other again at some point, so I decided to have them meet in Goku's subconscious instead of having visions of everyone he loves getting slaughtered by Frieza, their meeting being complete with dialogue from DBZ Abridged episode 60 part 3.

Power levels:

Goku: 3 million

Goku (Kaioken 10x): 30 million

Goku (Kaioken 20x): 60 million

Goku (Kaioken 20x, boost from Golden Power Poll): 66 million

Goku (Large Spirit Bomb): 100 million

Piccolo: 2.21 million

Gohan: 2 million

Kai: 250,000

Kai (Nail Gun): 2.5 million

Tien (Kaioken 10x): 2.2 million

Yamcha (Kaioken 10x): 2.4 million

Frieza (suppressed against Goku): 2.9 million

Frieza (⅓ power): 40 million

Frieza (50% power): 60 million