Akumasenka hit Goku, using merely a fraction of his strength, but still the Super Saiya-jin was hurled through the air, smashing through several large rocks as he struggled to halt himself.

"Dad!"  Gohan yelled down to Goku, rushing down and crouching next to his father, Vegeta and Trunks followed closely in his path.  "Dad, are you OK?"  Goku looked at Gohan, trying to appear as unfazed as possible after the attack.  Looking up at his son's face, and the face of the other two Saiya-jins, he immediately gave up this attempt.

Vegeta and Trunks looked as though they had been put through a shredder.  Vegeta's clothes were torn, the cloth being burnt whenever Akumasenka fired an energy blast at him; one of the sleeves had actually been torn off during the battle.  Both he and Trunks were cut and bruised, blood pouring from wounds around their eyes, nose and mouth.  Gohan was the same.  His face was cut and bleeding, and his left sleeve had been totally burnt away after one attack, and the right sleeve was not far behind.

"We're not going to be able to beat him if we keep fighting like this."  Goku said, wincing in pain as a cut on his cheek was stretched as he spoke.  "If we're going to beat this guy, we need to work together, as a team."

"For goodness sake, Kakarot!"  Vegeta spat, looking furiously at Goku.  "We are working as a team.  All fighting the same adversary together" Goku shook his head.

"No."  He insisted, "We're not.  We may be fighting the same rival, but we're not working as a team.  We're just attacking whenever we get the chance.  If we're going to really work together, we need to fight as one."

"And just how does the wonderful Kakarot suggest we do that?"  Vegeta enquired sarcastically.  "Are we all going to cross our fingers and hope we become one person?"

"Don't be ridiculous."  Goku said seriously, "I haven't finished being taught how to do that yet.  We need to combine our attacks.  We need to surround him, strike from all four directions, come together, and then use all of our strongest attacks combined together as one jumbo, super-sized attack."  Vegeta looked sceptical.  "Trust me," Goku assured them all confidently, "It will work.  Just do exactly as I say exactly when I say.  Firstly, get the others away from Akumasenka - all of them."  Trunks, Gohan and Vegeta all nodded, before all four Super Saiya-jins flew back to the battle.

The four Saiya-jins hovered in the air, not even blinking as they glared at Akumasenka.  Goku thought about his battle plan for a moment, before making his decision.

"Fly around him!"  He shouted to Trunks, Gohan and Vegeta.  "Remember what we have to do before we can fight!"  Vegeta glanced at Goku, and, for the first time in his life, he found himself feeling great respect for his fellow warrior.  He shook his head angrily, and adjusted his concentration back to the battle.

Gohan flew towards Krillen as fast as he could, careful not to slow down before he had to; he was no use to Krillen if Akumasenka managed to destroy him.  "Krillen!"  He called as he flew past.  "Get away from Akumasenka!  Now!"  Krillen glanced after Gohan before flying away, grabbing #18's wrist as he passed her..

Gohan, Goku, Vegeta and Trunks continued to fly around Akumasenka, getting their friends away from the battle as they passed.  Before long, the only people near Akumasenka were the Saiya-jins themselves.

"Surround him!"  Goku roared once all of the Z Warriors were out of the way.  Gohan, Trunks, and even Vegeta obeyed immediately.  Akumasenka looked around at them all, and Goku noticed glimpse of fear in his eyes.  "Attack!"

The Saiya-jins attacked from all directions around Akumasenka.  The Z Warriors watched in awe as they launched their assault, working together, for the first time, as a team.  As one.

Goku, Gohan, Vegeta and Trunks all kicked Akumasenka in the face, before kneeing him in the ribs.  "Back!"  Goku called after this final strike.  "Get back!"  The four Super Saiya-jins all backed away from Akumasenka and returned to their positions around him.

"Come together!"  Goku called to them, not taking his eyes off Akumasenka.  Trunks, Gohan and Vegeta all moved to join him.

"We need to end it."  Goku whispered hurriedly to them all.  "We need to end it together."

"How, Dad?"  Gohan asked,  "We've held out this long because we've been working as a team.  If one of us steps forward to destroy him, he could fight them alone.  We can't finish the team now."

"We're not going to finish the team." Goku revealed, "We're going to destroy him together."

"How?"  Trunks asked him anxiously, glancing back at Akumasenka.  "If we all attack him, our attacks could hit each other."

"I didn't say we were going to attack from all around him."  Goku told him quietly, "We're going to attack from the same place.  We're all going to aim our most powerful attacks at him, and they'll all kind of join together to make one super attack.  Akumasenka won't stand a chance."

"We can't do that!"  Trunks cried, staring at Goku as though he was mad.  "We could destroy this whole place!  We -"

"Kakarot's right."  Vegeta interrupted, much to everybody's surprise.  "Combining our attacks is the only way to destroy this monster."  Trunks, Goku and Gohan stared ay Vegeta.

"Fine."  Trunks agreed, "If my father thinks it's a good idea, I'll do it.  Let's go."

The warriors turned to face Akumasenka, staying as close together as possible.  Goku and Vegeta glanced at each other nervously.  Vegeta nodded, and both he and Goku looked back at Akumasenka.

"Ready!"  Goku shouted, raising his power level as high as he could.  Gohan, Trunks and Vegeta all did the same.  "Wait for Gohan and me to fire our attacks.  As soon as we do, you do."  Goku looked at Gohan, and nodded.  Both warriors once again powered up their most powerful attack.

"KA - ME - HA - ME -" Trunks and Vegeta powered up fast, gathering as much of their energy as they could.  Down on the ground, Bulma, Yamcha, Piccolo, Tien, Chao-zu, Krillen, #18, Sakura, Chibi Trunks and Goten all watched in silence as the Super Saiya-jins' energies blazed around them in a single frame of golden light.  Rocks exploded around the HFIL, and clouds of dust circled around everybody's heads as they looked up at the battle above them.  The only person not to feel the flying dust or the powerful wind was Sakura, who felt nothing but the still, stuffy air inside her dome of energy.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"  Gohan and Goku fired the most powerful Kame-Hame-Ha they could, and as soon as they had fired, Trunks and Vegeta fired their attacks.  Goku and Gohan's Kame-Hame-Has, Vegeta's Final Flash and Trunks' Burning Attack all joined together to form one enormous, incredibly powerful beam of energy shooting towards Akumasenka.

As the joint attack hit Akumasenka, the blast was so intense, nobody heard their opponent scream a sentence of disbelief: "This cannot be!"

When all of the dust and smoke had cleared, there were not even ashes remaining of Akumasenka.