Dragonball Z Special: Bardock Summary

A boy has been born on the planet Vegita. After inspecting the baby, the son of Bardock named Kakarotto, the doctors decide he is a low-class fighter and will be sent to another planet. They place the crying baby in an incubator to keep it warm.

On Planet Kanassa, a full moon is seen high in the sky, and the Oozaru Saiya-jins are wrecking havoc. One of the Oozaru takes a blast that nicks his face, but he just turns around and blasts the creature away. In the morning, it appears that all the people of Kanassa have been destroyed, and the Saiya-jins are resting after their night of battle. One of them mentions to Bardock that his son has been born, but Bardock doesn’t seem to care since he is a low-class fighter. As they talk about their boss, Frieza, an inhabitant of Kanassa appears from the ground and kicks Bardock in the back of the head. Another Saiya-jin blasts the creature, but it gets up glowing. It tells Bardock that he just gave hi the power to see into the future, and the Saiya-jin race is doomed. Bardock then finishes him off. Bardock then passes out.

Back on Planet Vegita, Prince Vegeta, who is still a child, is training with the Saibamen and easily defeats five of them. After his training, he begins complaining of how he will never get stronger while he is stuck on the planet. He decides he will ask Frieza to send him to the next planet he wants conquered. Frieza receives word from Zarbon that Planet Kanassa has been occupied. Zarbon says the planet was conquered a month early by a bunch of low-class warriors. However, Zarbon thinks that if the Saiya-jins would ever bond together, it could be a nuisance. Frieza seems to agree. Vegeta walks into his chamber and says he is going to the next planet to occupy it. Zarbon lectures the boy, saying Vegeta will go to the planet he is assigned to. Frieza, however, decides it is okay for Vegeta to go to the next planet and tells him to do a good job.

Bardock has been placed into a healing chamber due to his battle on Kanassa. The doctors are surprised at how powerful he is becoming, even though he is a low-class fighter, placing his power level at 10,000. They also say he is fine physically, but there has been a change in his brainwaves. The other Saiya-jins decide to leave Bardock behind on the next mission to Planet Meet. During a dream, Bardock sees his crying son. However, he also sees a disturbing image of Planet Vegita exploding. Then he sees the life of his son again as the boy grows into the man known as Goku. Bardock then wakes up and is released from the chamber. He finds out that the others already left for Meet, so he decides to join them. As he runs for his pod, he passes the room where the babies are and for the first time sees his son. He again sees the vision of his planet’s doom, and then scans the power level of Kakarotto, a level of 2. Disgusted, he runs off.

On Meet, Dodoria, Frieza’s henchman, and his men easily beat up the Saiya-jins to send a message that the Saiya-jin race is an eyesore. The Saiya-jins want to know why he feels this way after they have served him for so long, but Dodoria refuses to listen. Bardock arrives and sees the corpses of the inhabitants of Meet. He thinks his men did this, and he picks up large powers on his scouter. Much to his surprise, all of his men are down and dying. One of them, Toma, tells Bardock of Frieza’s betrayal. Toma tells Bardock to go back to Vegita and gather the Saiya-jins to destroy Frieza, and then dies. Bardock takes a white bandana off Toma’s arm and wipes the blood from his fallen friend’s face. The rag turns blood red. Bardock then discovers the men that did this and, after tying the blood soaked rag around his head, attacks them. He quickly defeats two of the men, and just when he is about to attack again, he sees a vision of Kakarotto fighting Vegeta in the future. The other two get the upper hand on Bardock as he can’t shake the images of his son. One grabs him from behind, but as the other throws a punch, Bardock flips over, causing his opponent to kill his own partner. Then, Bardock finishes off the fourth fighter. Now, Dodoria is ready to take on the Saiya-jin. He shoots a tremendous blast a Bardock from his mouth and thinks he finishes him off. He is then summoned back to Vegita.

Back on Vegita, the babies are being loaded into pods to be sent to different planets, including Kakarotto. Dodoria arrives in Frieza’s chamber and learns he did not kill Bardock. Frieza tells him not to worry about it. In his pod, Bardock sees Frieza’s spaceship, and then a pod comes roaring past him. Inside that pod was Kakarotto. Bardock lands on Vegita and learns about Kakarotto being sent to Earth. Bardock realizes that the visions he sees are true and Planet Vegita is in trouble. He rushes into the station and passes out. Again he sees the images of his son growing up on Earth and then Frieza.

He wakes up immediately and heads deeper inside his headquarters. He ends up inside the cafeteria and alerts the others of what had happened, but they simply just laugh at him. He tells all of them to go to hell. Once more, he sees a full-grown version of his son, and then rushes up some stairs into a tower. From the tower, he decides he will change the future and rushes toward Frieza’a ship. As he gets closer, hundreds of Frieza’s fighters attack him, but he is able to bulldoze through all of them. He yells for Frieza to face him, and Frieza emerges from the ship. All of Frieza’s men look on in terror of their master as Bardock powers up. Bardock says he will change Vegita’s destiny, the Saiya-jins’ destiny, his son’s destiny, and Frieza’s destiny. As Frieza begins to power up, Bardock sends a huge energy blast toward Frieza. Frieza just laughs and absorbs the energy ball into one of his own and flicks it toward Planet Vegita. The huge ball takes out all of his men, and Bardock for the last time has a vision of his adult son. He screams “Kakarotto” as the ball hits him. Once the ball touches the surface of Vegita, the whole planet explodes, much to Frieza’s delight.

The baby Kakarotto is shown and it seems Bardock is talking to him inside his head. He tells his son to finish his mission and get revenge for the Saiya-jin race and the destruction of their home planet, Vegita. The space pod then races on as Bardock’s headband floats away. Vegeta is informed about the destruction of his planet and doesn’t seem to care, as he has already cleared the planet he was sent to. In the meantime, Kakarotto has landed on Earth and is discovered by an old man named Gohan. He decides to take care of the baby and names him Goku. This begins the story of Drangonball....