Freezer's Throne Room on the Ship

Nearly everyone in observation chamber jumps back as the pod careens past, missing their ship by mere meters. Save for Freezer and the omnipresent Berriblue, every inhabitant is incredibly anxious.

"So be it."

"M-my lord?"

"Scramble the troops, Zarbon."

"Sire? You wish to have the soldiers fight… that?"

"Are you QUESTIONING my orders?!"

"G-gah! No, Lord Freezer! Right away sire!"

"KIKONO!"

"Y-y-yes, my l-lord…?"

"PROBATION! TO YOUR QUARTERS, NOW!"

"Yessirthankyousirverykindmylord…!"

Freezer grits his teeth, barely concealing his fury. He had specifically ordered the space ports and pods on them to be rendered infunctional… not to mention the absurd way one was just USED AGAINST HIM! ONE OF HIS OWN SPACE PODS?! AS A WEAPON?! Now he might have to put actual effort into this! Two Supernova attacks in one day might be a bit draining, especially if saiyans managed to breach the ship!

And even more infuriating… that Bardock… he… he had changed. Freezer peered into the detector's monitor, and his scowl only intensified. He had a feeling about what this might mean, and something told him that perhaps the thing he had feared had come to pass at the last possible moment before he was home free…!

Ex-Royal Palace

"B… Bardock?! Gine, what the hell is that?!"

"He's… golden… he's a Super Saiyan! My Bardock is the Super Saiyan!" she cries out, tears of pride and joy welling up in her eyes as Chishan glances at her. With only static in her ears she rips off the Scouter, writing Malaka off as dead or out of range.

Planthor bursts in, heaving coughs and wheezing; he looks up at the two saiyans.

"Miss Gine! Chishan!"

"What is it, inferior?!"

"An invasion! Freezer's… he's sending out an invasion force!"

Gine snorts, grinning: "So? Bardock can totally beat them! We're saved! Those… those… oh, man, that's a lot…"

"Go! Help him out!"

"Why should we, alien?"

The technician just points towards the window for Gine and Chishan to peer out. The noble gapes, while she grins even wider at the chanting erupting from the scattered saiyan mob.

"New King! New King! New King!"

As they watch, the bloodthirsty apes rise from the ground in waves; inspired by the sheer show of strength, allured by the wealth of enemies which they have despised for so long, and having confirmation that doing nothing would likely be no better than finally taking a stand, the every member of the warrior race for kilometers rallies to battle. And by rallies, I mean charges blindly while screaming bloody murder: even the weaklings pop out some ray guns for potshots. Chishan, coward that he is, blanches, while Gine pumps a fist into the air before dragging him out after her to help.

"I-I thought you were a pacifist or something!"

"Freezer deserves this! Go, get us some Scouters!"

Royal Airspace

"WAAAAAAAAAGH!"

Bardock (along every other saiyan in the struggle) vociferates, almost losing all sense of himself to the animalistic rage burning inside him. He doesn't even take notice of the horde of newly-inspired saiyan followers blasting up towards him and the descending army; he is, in a phrase, entirely focused on Freezer. In turn, a good chunk of the enemy armada is focused on him as well; his brilliant golden shine is hard to miss in the blackness of the Vegetan stratosphere.

As he rockets upwards a ring of about a dozen alien soldiers blasts ahead, attempting to stop his advance with a barrage of blasts from around him; the Super Saiyan simply barrels through, slamming his elbow through the face of the nearest slugemon soldier before flying past the rest of the bewildered platoon.

"COME ON, YOU COWARDS!"

He deftly jukes around repeated assaults as he flies through the cloud of xeno warriors, countering punch for devastating punch and blast for blast. A Rebellion Spear fries another uppity slugemon, his reward for whiffing an energy blast.

"RRRAAAAAAAUGH!"

An entire squad of enemies manage to come at him from all sides, dogpiling. He doesn't even slow down, simply dragging the mass of bodies and limbs for a good hundred meters before a shriek heralding a sudden surge of power blasts them off.

Freezer's Room

"It's me he wants, isn't it?" Freezer snarls with a twitching eye. "Prepare my transport, Dodoria!"

"S-sire, you wish to leave the ship?"

"GET! ME! MY! TRANSPORT!"

"Y-yes my Lord!"

Edge of Space

The xenos start to pull back, wariness and common sense finally starting to take root in their minds. Unfortunately, common sense dictates that Freezer might execute them for cowardice and thus after a short delay they throw themselves right back into the fray. A daik and slugemon manage to wrassle themselves onto Bardock;

"Keep him away from the ship!"

"He's insane!"

"FREEZAAAAAH! COME OUT AND FIGHT ME! YOU COWARD, COME OUT!"

The hatch starts to open up for the second time that day, releasing a substantially more pissed looking Emperor in his hover chair. While Lord Freezer looks surprisingly unimpressive in person, the look on his face alone is enough to inspire nausea.

"It's him!"

"Lord Freezer…!"

"W-we salute you, sire!"

The terrified army erupts into shouts and cheers; cries of "Long live lord Freezer!" can be heard for as far as there is air for the waves to travel on; in contrast, Bardock smirks manically.

"Heheheh… NO way, you've lived long enough! Actually it's been too long for my taste!"

Freezer glares at the rebel, slowly charging up energy. He raises a single pointer finger out of his hoverchair, as he takes in the saiyan's features; sharp jawline, spiky hair, golden aura. A small orb of power flickers to life. The army watches in horror as Bardock continues to mouth off to the Emperor of the Universe.

"LISTEN UP! We quit! All of us! YOU GOT IT?! We don't work for you!"

"Uh, just so you know, this man does not speak for us!"

Freezer quietly executes the soldier who spoke out with a Death Beam and gets back to watching Bardock's little rant.

"We're free! You can find someone else to do your dirty work!"

Freezer almost chuckles at the Super Saiyan's impudence, though it's rather nervous.

"Oh yeah… there is one last thing… THIS, is for all the worlds we slaughtered in your name! I wish we were never foolish enough to work under your kind!"

The mad emperor's laugh becomes external, further enraging the monkey and terrifying his soldiers. He screeches; "Oh yeah?! Come and get it!" as the entirety of the army scatters in a desperate bid to save themselves from both their murderous master and the swarm of barbarians below them. And with one last mighty holler, the beast and the monster stand off to charge their ultimate attacks.

"This ends everything! LAST RIOT JAVELIN!"

"No way!"

"He has enough juice left for another one of those?!"

"New king can stop it! Probably!"

Gine looks up in bewilderment as a new sun grows, only for the Riot Javelin to slam into the rapidly expanding mass of death. "CHISHAN! Do you see this?!"

"YEAH, YEAH! IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD… BARDOCK MIGHT BE EVEN MORE RIDICULOUSLY STRONG THAN HE WAS BEFORE, BUT HIS BATTLE INJURIES… EVEN THE ONES ON MEAT WERE NEVER HEALED…"

"Crap crap crap crap-!"

The entirety of the battlefield turns to watch the clash of titans, the monumental collision of the explosive masses of energy. The Riot Javelin impacts into the Supernova, almost causing a nuclear reaction from the sheer force of impact. To the soldiers nearest to the blast zone, it's clear… Bardock is struggling to to force more power out, while the Supernova 'pushes back' simply by continuing to grow.

"GRRRRRRRR! FREEZER!"

Said Freezer starts to break out into maniacal cackles. This is the legendary Super Saiyan? True, though he would never admit it, he started out a bit intimidated… but it's clear that the entity's power is barely up to par with his own! In his third restriction form! He shrieks with laughter as the Supernova burgeons with deadly energy and swallows up the head of the Riot Javelin. The laughter only increases in volume as the Supernova is flicked forwards and careens towards the planet.

"No way!"

"Lord Freezer!"

"O-oh my! Look at that! This… this is stupendous! Wow! What a great show! Unbelievable! Look at that!"

"No, Freezer! Please don't!"

"RUUUUUUN!"

Gine panics. Nobody on Vegeta could have imagined that Freezer was this powerful! Holy fucking shit! She… she…! The empathetic saiyan cries out to her beloved as the Supernova slams into him. The emotion building up inside her… fear for her husband, sorrow for the end of their world, anger at the saiyans too cowardly to do anything but gape and those who outright flee the battle…

And… pride. Pride because gawdayum he's doing it! Freezer's face contorts into a snarl as he Super Saiyan's bare hands dig into the energy ball, grasping and shoving and moving it back, inch by inch…

But then…

"See the horror of your end, just like we HAD TO!"

And the Super Saiyan cries out in agony.

Royal Airspace

"BARDOCK!"

"GINE! C-CALM DOWN - THERE ISN'T ANYTHING WE CAN DO! WE SHOULD RUN!"

"Run to WHERE, exactly?! Sadal? HUH, HUH?!"

Chishan almost shouts back, until he thinks about what Planthor and Malaka had told them, back in the royal library…

"f you'd turn your attention to page four hundred and seventy nine, you would see that the Super Saiyan is a special state, not an individual in and of itself…

"The prerequisite for affecting a saiyan's power in such an overwhelming manner is for the saiyan to be affected by overwhelming emotion; something not likely to ever happen when your culture represses emotional vulnerability and readily allows the venting of rage through violence. However, a psychologically divergent saiyan like Gine or, especially, her powerful spouse may hold the key…"

"ANYWHERE! ANYWHERE BUT HERE! BARDOCK… IS GOING… TO… DIE!"

"N-no! Bardock's… Bardock's going to save us! And-and we're going to defeat Freezer and save planet Vegeta and rescue our children and live a happy life with Kakarotto and Raditz and never ever never have to worry—!" Gine screams into her Scouter as her panic begins to overwhelm her. She cries for her husband as he's buffeted by the Supernova, only surviving by the sheer amount of raw power he exudes in his throes. Chishan winces before doubling down.

"AT LEAST BE GLAD YOUR SONS AREN'T HERE TO SEE THEIR PATHETIC, DESPERATELY SCRABBLING FATHER DIE IN SUCH AN IGNOBLE MANNER!"

"Y-YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, CHISHAAAAN!"

Thus the Age of Heroes truly began, with the birth of a second Super Saiyan.

Edge of Space

"But, you know, my lessons don't come free. You must find me a young gal!"

Bardock struggles against the weight, the infinite pressure of the Supernova. He barely perceives through the psionic onslaught his own brain is wreaking upon him, catching only shattered fragments of the present and future…

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaforgotmytractoraaaaaaaaaaaah-!"

"Gine…?" he mutters as he manages to catch a glimpse of the real world. Is that… next to him, his wife? Golden, glowing with power, struggling alongside him?

"We only have Vegeta and Buu left to defend the world! Goku's ki will probably never recover…"

She turns to him, grinning through the pain. "w-would you look at this… looks like i had potential too, huh?" He grins in return, not having heard a word of what she said but being glad that they can be together… even if these are less than ideal circumstances. Between his psychic stroke and her… far too low base power level, they don't have a chance in hell of delaying the Supernova for more than a few seconds longer.

"Bon Para Para! Bon Para Para! Bon Para Para! Bon Para Para! Bon Pa-PA!"

"Gine…" Damn, he can barely tell his own words apart from those whirling around in his mind. Looks like it must've gotten out though; at least, he hopes that's the present.

"B-Bardock?!"

"I… I really love you, Gine… you and my… my Raditz… and… and Kakarotto, even though… knew him…"

Tears well up in her eyes, and she drops all the effort she was expending to embrace him. He pushes for a little longer against the deadly sun before embracing her back as she whispers sweet nothings into his delirious ear. Their flesh starts to shear off as the mass of plasma once again surrounds and envelops them. A final vision… "I'm a saiyan sent from earth to defeat you. The legendary warrior, with a pure heart awakened by rage. SON GOKU... THE SUPER SAIYAN!"

"K… Kakarotto…? Y-yes! I see… It's you, my son… You are the one who will defeat Freezer!"

And as the ultimate attack disintegrates their bodies and plows into and through the crust of Vegeta, annihilating everything and everyone in its way… Bardock's cries turn into laughs of future triumph.

"KAKAROOOTTTOOOO!"