Chapter 1

Bardock leant against the wall attempting to focus. The visions and subsequent headaches were starting again. It was the same as before, the sight of Frieza laughing maniacally as planet Vegeta shook in pain as the supernova bomb made its way to the planets core, lava spewed from the cracks in the earth spread destruction all around the planet before it finally fell into oblivion and was destroyed. "I have to stop it" thought Bardock as he righted himself, "but in case I don't." He made his way towards the launching site of the attack balls where his infant son was been prepped for departure. To his surprise he saw his eldest son Raditz stood nearby watching. "You should be off world son" said Bardock startling Raditz. Raditz turned and faced his father, despite only being six years old his hair was already getting long, he refused to have it cut when people asked him, he said it reminded him of his mother. "The pod I was supposed to take had a malfunction, I have to wait for another mission father" said Raditz, turning back to the baby in the pod, "so I decided to give Kakarot a farewell." "I have my own mission for you Raditz" said Bardock placing a package inside the baby's pod, "I want you to accompany your brother with a new mission. The planet he is going to, Earth, I want you both to stay there and train under the strongest beings you can find."

"But why father? He is being sent to destroy that planet and we could do much better training here."

"Our planet will not be around much longer son, soon we will all be destroyed by Frieza. I can't explain it but I have seen it happen and I want both of you to leave, if I can't stop him then it will be up to you both to avenge our people. I have put Kakarots armour and scouter in the pod with him, take your armour and scouter with you in my pod and join him on Earth."

"But fath–"

"No buts! Go and leave now, I'll sort Kakarots pod myself and send him away immediately, now go! Frieza is here."

Raditz took off down the hall towards his room, with his mind racing. "That can't be right, there's no way dad can see the future, but I cannot disobey him." He raced into his room and grabbed his armour off the bed and the scouter on the table nearby. "What if dad is wrong? I'll be in so much trouble for taking a pod and just leaving. No! Dad is one of the best, he has always been right before and I must trust him." He returned to the launch bay to catch a gleam of light reflecting off of his brothers ship as it sped towards its destination, Bardock had already left after preparing his own ship for take-off. Raditz dove in and began the take-off sequence. "Hey what are you doing?" Shouted one of the nearby attendees, as the pod got into launch position. Raditz ignored the shouts and prepared to leave the planet called home. Up above in the sky he could see the iconic silhouette of Lord Friezas ship hovering above the royal palace. Frieza himself could be seen floating outside the ship before becoming illuminated by a small red light on his fingertip. Within moments the ball had grown to the size of an asteroid and flung with ease towards the planet. "Dad was right." Though Raditz as the engines powered up and the ball quickly sped away after Kakarot. As his ship grew further away he saw the supernova burrow into the once mighty planet Vegeta, the ball dug through the soft ground like a hot knife through butter as Raditz watched his home destroyed before his very eyes as the pod began to spray a gas to send him to sleep for his long journey, his final views were of the spectacular fireworks of his heritage exploding into ashes as he fell into the dark void of sleep.

Power levels

Bardock: 10,000

Frieza: 530,000

Kakarot: 2

Raditz: 8