
Goku exploits his superior Instant Transmission to humiliate Gas across the galaxy, then strands him on a volcanic planet with Whis before chaining rapid teleportations back to Cereal. There, the group discovers Bardock's scouter, and a recording of his voice triggers a buried memory in Goku of his parents' final farewell as they launched him from Planet Vegeta.
The battle continues with Gas pressing Goku through raw strength. Rather than match Gas blow for blow, Goku grabs Gas's foot mid-attack and uses Instant Transmission to warp them across the universe. He baits Gas into a waste truck, then drops him into a bath alongside the Galactic King. At the Galactic Prison, former criminals recognize Gas and taunt him about wetting himself during a past meeting. Gas furiously denies the story before accidentally confirming it under pressure from Yunba. Throughout the chase, Goku questions why Gas obeys Elec so blindly. Gas insists his brother elevated him to greatness and vows to make the Heeters the supreme organization in the universe. Goku warns that trusting a brother can be dangerous, noting that Raditz tried to kill him, but Gas only grows angrier.
On Cereal, Elec and the remaining Heeters move to eliminate the exhausted survivors. Goku senses Whis on a volcanic planet and teleports there with Gas in close pursuit. After introducing Whis as his master and an Angel, Goku springs his trap: he teleports back to a Galactic Patrol ship and rapidly chains transmissions along every location from the chase, reaching Cereal in moments. Gas cannot replicate the chain and is stranded across the galaxy. Furious, he demands directions from Whis and rockets toward Cereal at incredible speed.
Goku regroups with the others. Whis contacts him through a planted device and warns that Gas will return in twenty minutes. The Angel advises Goku to stop mimicking an Angel's Ultra Instinct and discover his own unique expression by listening to the voice within. At Monaito's house, the Namekian produces Bardock's old scouter containing stored audio. When Bardock's voice plays back calling out to stay alive, a buried memory surfaces in Goku: his parents Bardock and Gine spoke those same words as they sent him away from Planet Vegeta before its destruction. A sharp, electric aura ignites around Goku, and the chapter shifts to a flashback of Bardock confronting a young Gas forty years earlier on the surface of Cereal.
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