Bardock
Before the Dragonball saga began... Years ago,
Freeza took over the Saiyan planet and used its inhabitants, the
Saiyans, to act as mecenaries to destroy other planets. On one
battle, Bardock is with his teammates and wipes out another
planet. But, Tooro, a surviving member of the dying planet,
curses Bardock with the ability to see his cursed future. Tooro
is killed and Bardock recovers back in the Saiyan planet.
Meanwhile, Bardock's son, Kakarot, is born. In addition, Freeza
begins to grow tired of seeing the Saiyans as one of his henchmen
avises that the Saiyans can become a threat when banded together.
At this time, Vegeta is a kid and has a high energy level for his
age. He asks Freeza to send him to another planet to destroy and
leaves with Nappa. As Bardock recovered, his teammates leave to
destroy another planet without him. After regaining consciousness,
Bardock learns what has happened and leaves to join his teammates.
At the planet, all goes normal until Bardock sees his teammates
dead. A dying Saiyan is found by Bardock. From him, Bardock
learns of Freeza's plot to destroy the Saiyan planet. Next,
Bardock encounters some of Freeza's henchmen and fights. But,
Bardock sees his son growing up in his head and loses
concentration. Despite the headache, Bardock manages to defeat
all the henchmen except for Dodoria. Dodoria blows a single
fireball and defeats Bardock. Meanwhile, Kakarot is sent to the
planet Earth to destroy it when he grows up. Bardock survives,
but is severely injured. Despite this, he travels back to the
planet Vegeta to warn the other Saiyans of Freeza's plot. Bardock
finds and tells his comrades, but the Saiyans think of the plot
as a joke and mock Bardock. Bardock is angry and decides that he
must change the future... alone. Freeza's spaceship approaches
and Bardock flies toward it in rage. (Meanwhile, Coola's ship
flies away on the other side.) Hundreds of Freeza's henchmen are
despatched from his ship and attack Bardock. Bardock defeats
those who fly at him. Freeza exits his ship and laughes at
Bardock. Bardock does his final fireball in an attempt to destroy
Freeza and alter the fate of his planet. Freeza laughes some more
and easily creates a super fireball. His fireball overwhelms
Bardock's fireball and continues flying towards the Saiyan planet.
Bardock, the planet Vegeta, and all in its path (including Freeza's
henchmen who were sent to destroy Bardock) are destroyed. Bardock
sees the future one last time before he dies. He sees his planet
get destroyed... He sees his son growing up... And he sees a
grown up Kakarot encounter Freeza... And dies a happy death...
Vegeta and Nappa were at another planet at the time, so they
survive. They are told that their planet was hit by a meteor and
destroyed, but Vegeta gives no signs of concern. Kakarot's two
other brother (Rabitz and Taurus) were also elsewhere and survive.
As for Kakarot, he lands on planet Earth and is found by Son
Gohan. Gohan adopts Kakarot and names his new grandson Gokou.
Thus, begins the magnificient story of
Dragonball...