Planet Pokémon, Team Rocket Base.
"How foolish. This is clearly a fight with no chance of victory. In such a situation, one should retreat first and seek opportunities later. At the very least, they should hide in the shadows and ambush, not attack head-on so openly like this."
Apollo, the head of the Team Rocket Executives standing beside Giovanni, extremely scorned Goku's actions in the live stream.
"Oh? Is that what you think, Apollo?"
Giovanni, with one hand on his Persian's head, stopped petting it and spoke coldly.
"Th-This... I am indeed so foolish! Giovanni-sama!"
Cold sweat instantly poured down Apollo's forehead, his eyes trembling in fear as he bowed in apology.
However, he didn't know what he had said wrong to displease Giovanni.
Giovanni didn't respond verbally, just continued watching the live stream quietly.
He also thought Goku's actions were foolish, but he acknowledged them immensely.
After seeing how his parents died tragically, how could anyone remain unmoved?
Although Giovanni considered himself not a good person-
He was truly devoted to his only family, his son Silver.
That was why he understood Goku's actions.
…
On a vacant lot in the mountainous wasteland north of West City, the Frieza Force's ship landed there.
The hatch opened, and numerous aliens with abstract features rushed down the steps first, standing in two rows to welcome Frieza.
"Earth? For a backwater planet at the edge of the universe, the scenery is quite nice. It actually hides a treasure like the Dragon Balls."
Frieza, sitting in his 'baby pod', slowly drove down, commenting in his androgynous, effeminate and masculine mixed voice.
"Thank you for the compliment, but the second half is unnecessary."
A red figure descended from the sky, landing in front of Frieza.
Frieza slightly raised his gaze, and the moment he saw Goku, the other's figure overlapped with one from twenty years ago.
"Heh~ How interesting."
Frieza sneered:
"Father and son, two generations coming to be killed by me."
Not just Frieza… seeing Goku standing alone before Frieza on the screen-
Countless group members also linked this scene to the one in the earlier video where Bardock stood alone facing Frieza.
"Too... tragic."
On the spaceship, even Hancock, who never had a good expression for any man other than Lott, looked at Goku with a trace of sympathy.
Father and son, two generations, facing exactly the same hopeless situation, against the same enemy.
"Combat power 1828..."
Frieza pressed the scouter on his left eye, then let out an extremely disdainful sneer.
"Are you trying to make me laugh? With just this little ability, you want to fight me?"
"Indeed, even though you're not in combat mode yet, I can feel our Ki levels are not on the same tier..."
Goku stepped forward with his left foot, assuming a fighting stance.
"But if I don't stand up here, I won't be able to forgive myself."
Beep beep beep!
The scouters of the Frieza Force members sounded alarms, and the numbers on their screens kept rising.
"Oh ho, combat power has risen above 2500. The ability to self-adjust combat power?"
Frieza's eyes finally showed a hint of change.
"But still trash."
Dodoria said disdainfully:
"Frieza-sama, this waste isn't worth your effort. Let this subordinate handle it."
"Wait,"
However, Frieza rejected Dodoria's offer, his short body slowly floating out of the baby pod.
"Father and son, two generations standing alone before me. Such entertainment isn't common."
Frieza sneered:
"I just watched the video and thought I let your father die too easily back then. I want to torture you slowly."
"That damn pervert!"
Krillin, watching from afar, was furious upon hearing this and wanted to charge in to help.
"Don't act rashly! Krillin!"
Yamcha grabbed Krillin, his face full of fear:
"What can you do even if you go!?"
On the scene, Goku's anger intensified upon hearing Frieza's words.
And the smile on Frieza's face grew wider, "Oh ho, it's still rising. Combat power has reached 2800. Well then, let me tell you something interesting. My base combat power is..."
At this point, Frieza slowed his speech, enunciating each word:
"Five~ hundred~ thirty~ thousand~"
Hearing the number Frieza stated.
Viewers across the universe fell silent.
Although many of them were hearing the concept of 'combat power' for the first time-
Frieza had just stated Goku's current combat power was over two thousand.
That served as a reference.
Then Frieza immediately threw out the number 530,000.
It completely baffled the entire group.
'N-No, isn't, isn't this a bit beyond the scale?'
Whether it was the Hero Association on Planet Terra, the remaining Marine and pirates on the Planet Pirate, or the top forces like the Seireitei, Hueco Mundo, and the Wandenreich on the Planet Shinigami-
They were all numb.
They never expected that they, as the pinnacle of combat power on their own planets, would be frightened by a number.
"Hya!"
However, Goku at the center of the battlefield didn't care about any of that.
His figure suddenly vanished, appearing in front of Frieza in the blink of an eye.
The expressions of many combat experts watching the live stream changed.
The power Goku displayed was already beyond their reach, and that was only less than 3000 combat power?
Then how strong must Frieza with 530,000 be!?
Facing Goku's aerial side kick, Frieza showed a faint smile, tilting his neck outward-
Letting Goku's kick land on the side of his neck.
The moment it connected, even Goku's own expression changed drastically.
Because Frieza stood still, not moving at all.
"My, my, I even deliberately exposed my neck more to let you hit a vital spot better."
Frieza said with a grin.
"Y-You're kidding, right?"
The top Taijutsu master in Konoha Village, Might Guy, had a mouth wide enough to fit a fist.
That kick from Goku was something he absolutely couldn't match even with the Seventh Gate opened.
And yet...
Boom!
Suddenly, a loud explosion sounded as Goku was blasted like a cannonball into a mountain wall half a mile away, stirring up a large cloud of dust.
The mouths of viewers across the planets hung even wider.
'Was it Frieza who did it?'
'How did he attack!?'
Cough! Cough!
Over ten seconds later, Goku, his face stained with blood, walked out from the dust.
Most of his orange Turtle School martial arts gi was torn, revealing the blue undershirt beneath.
Goku was about to reassume his fighting stance.
But before he realized what happened, he felt his hair being grabbed fiercely.
Then his entire head was smashed into the ground.
And then dragged along, grinding across the rocky ground, carving a deep trench hundreds of meters long!
"Goku-!"
Chi-Chi on Mount Paozu wept uncontrollably.
And ordinary people with no power like the Nakiri Sisters, the Yukinoshita Sisters on Planet Terra, the Shimura Siblings on Planet Amanto, and the Konoha rookies on the Planet Ninja-
Had already closed their eyes in fear, turning their faces away.
Frieza threw Goku away.
But before he could fly out, he used his long tail to tightly bind his neck.
"I said I would torture you to death slowly."
Facing the barely alive Goku, Frieza clenched his fist and punched his abdomen.
But he controlled the force to a level that wouldn't kill him immediately.
He wanted to torture him to death slowly like this.
"Damn it!"
The Z Fighters couldn't watch any longer and all charged forward, ready for a desperate fight.
But just then, a residual sword light swept past.
Although not particularly grand in scale, the unusually terrifying sword light not only severed the mountain blocking its path but also cut off the tail Frieza was using to strangle Goku!