The Day Earth Was Destroyed

Son Gohan lay facedown on his desk. His attention wasn't on his textbooks, but on the Chat Group.

Lu Bian had shared what happened to him in the Chat Group. Everyone reacted differently, but the discussion ultimately ended with Lu Bian taking a step backward.

"Erlang Shen... three eyes, just like Uncle Tien Shinhan."

"Big Brother Lu Bian is also a little like Uncle Krillin."

Gohan felt that Lu Bian's personality was similar to Krillin's.

A little timid.

"Hm?!"

Gohan suddenly raised his head. He felt a ki.

An incredibly powerful ki!!

It was coming from beyond Earth!

"Ring, ring—!!!"

Gohan hurried to answer the phone.

It was Uncle Krillin calling.

"Gohan, did you feel that? That ki is so powerful!" Krillin sounded a little panicked.

"Yeah. It doesn't feel good... Really. And it's getting closer to Earth..." Gohan said.

"This ki..."

"Gohan, you must've sensed it, right? It's—it's that guy Frieza?!"

"This is awful," Krillin said over the phone.

Mecha Frieza and his father, King Cold, were approaching Earth in their spaceship.

The warriors on Earth all sensed the powerful ki of Frieza and his father at nearly the same time.

"H-how can this be happening?!" Piccolo was training in the highlands. He could sense that, besides Frieza, another powerful enemy was approaching Earth.

In the yard of Bulma's home in West City, Vegeta's expression was grave, his fists clenched. "Tch! That bastard Kakarot didn't finish him off?!"

Yamcha said, "Is that really Frieza's ki?"

Bulma asked, "What's wrong with you guys? What are you talking about?"

Vegeta glanced at Bulma and said, "Earth is finished."

Without even changing into his Battle Suit, Vegeta shot into the sky and flew toward the place where Frieza's spaceship was likely to land.

Meanwhile, at Mount Paozu, Gohan was changing into his Battle Suit.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no..."

Son Gohan: [This is bad. Frieza is here...]

Son Gohan: [I'm going to fight!]

Shi Tianwu: [Want me to help? We can just use Life Swap.]

Son Gohan: [...]

[Son Gohan started a video chat]

"Gohan, where are you going?"

Gohan didn't answer his mother, Chi-Chi. Telling her would only make her worry even more.

Gohan powered up and flew through the sky, where he met Krillin, who had set off from Master Roshi's island.

"Why did this have to happen?"

"This is just awful," Krillin said to Gohan.

"King Cold, King Frieza, preparing to land on Earth."

The disc-shaped spaceship passed through Earth's atmosphere and landed in a barren wasteland.

The hatch of the enormous disc-shaped spaceship slowly opened. King Frieza and his father, King Cold, stepped out, followed by the Frieza Force's soldiers.

"So this is Earth?"

"Not a bad planet."

King Frieza smiled faintly, glancing around at Earth's surroundings.

"Frieza, that Super Saiyan won't be back for another three hours. Are you going to wait for him?" King Cold asked.

"Of course, Father."

"I'll kill every person on Earth first and make him regret it," Frieza said calmly.

"There are quite a lot of people on Earth, but three hours should be more than enough."

"Hahahaha!" Frieza suddenly burst into laughter.

Just imagining the look on that Saiyan's face when he saw humanity wiped out was enough to make him giddy.

"Serves him right!!!"

"Hmm." King Cold glanced down at Frieza. He hadn't realized that the Super Saiyan had affected his son so deeply.

"The people of Earth don't matter. What matters is completely eliminating the Super Saiyan."

"The strongest in the universe must be one of our kind."

"Father and I can defeat him together, without a doubt."

"Besides, I've gotten stronger. I can handle him on my own." Frieza sounded confident.

"Listen up. No more flying over there," Vegeta told the others.

"Approach quietly on foot, or their Scouters will pick us up."

"And what if we get close? That guy's an unbelievably powerful monster, and there are two of them. How are we supposed to fight them?!" Yamcha wore a pained expression, cold sweat beading on his face.

"Do I have to say it again? Earth is finished." Vegeta laughed, too.

"So we're just supposed to sit here and wait to die?" Piccolo said to Yamcha.

"Do whatever you want. Everyone here knows we can't handle this."

"I'm going anyway."

Piccolo headed toward Frieza's spaceship, and Gohan quickly followed.

A cliff blocked the Earth warriors' view of Frieza and his men, but the distance between them was already very short.

"..."

Gohan was so nervous he couldn't speak. He livestreamed what was happening to him in the Chat Group, but didn't talk with the other members.

What was happening to Son Gohan now was far more serious than what Lu Bian had faced.

"Gohan, listen to me."

"You don't need to panic now."

"Your father, Son Goku, will arrive once the fighting breaks out."

"Frieza won't destroy Earth," Shi Tianwu told Son Gohan.

"But you still need to be careful..." Lu Bian cut in. "When Frieza's pride is shattered, he'll resort to underhanded tactics. Don't give him a chance to attack Earth."

"..."

Lu Bian and Shi Tianwu tacitly avoided bringing up Future Trunks.

Future Trunks's appearance wasn't certain.

Piccolo walked at the front, followed by Gohan, then Vegeta... The warriors of Earth hadn't given up resisting, and were all closing in on Frieza and his men.

"Spread out and kill every person on Earth," Frieza ordered the men behind him.

"Yes, King Frieza!!"

Feeling the ki of Frieza's men beginning to scatter, Son Gohan couldn't hold back any longer.

Shi Tianwu and Lu Bian had told him in advance that his father, Kakarot, would arrive in an emergency. That let Gohan put his mind at ease and take care of Frieza's men first.

"Haaah!!"

Son Gohan suddenly burst out and blasted several soldiers with a Masenko, reducing them to flying ash.

"Gohan! That was too reckless!" Piccolo shouted at him.

Gohan had exposed himself. There was nothing they could do about it now.

Piccolo also rushed at the Frieza Force soldiers, swiftly killing them.

"Ohoho, you got here fast," Frieza said, watching Piccolo and Gohan mercilessly slaughter his men. He made no move to stop them.