Gohan snaps. He goes Super Saiyan 2 (first time since Cell). The ground cracks. He doesn’t just punch Vire—he breaks the armor piece by piece with controlled, furious strikes. “This boy isn’t a trophy. He’s family.”
Lord Vire, impatient, confronts them directly. He neutralizes Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon with his ki-nullifying armor. Vegeta steps in, fighting in base form. But Vire is clever—he’s studied Saiyans. He stabs Vegeta’s tail pressure point, paralyzing his legs. dragon ball z movies
That night, an unnatural lunar eclipse occurs—Vire has used a device to turn the moon crimson . Under this light, Kael transforms—not into a Great Ape, but something new. His fur is black, his eyes burn white, and he doesn’t grow gigantic. Instead, he becomes a —faster than Super Saiyan, but mindless. He attacks Gohan, ripping through his gi. Gohan snaps
When a full moon turns blood red, Gohan and the Z-Fighters must protect a traumatized young Saiyan from both a deranged space hunter and the terrifying secret lurking inside the boy's own tail. He doesn’t just punch Vire—he breaks the armor
Kael’s pod crashes near Gohan’s house. A now 12-year-old Gohan (post-Room of Spirit and Time, pre-World Tournament) finds the feral, mute boy. Chi-Chi wants to send him away, but Goku (still dead) communicates through King Kai that Kael is a low-class Saiyan, born from a forgotten pod launched before Planet Vegeta’s destruction. Gohan vows to protect him.
Gohan grins. “That’s why you won’t.”
Kael’s transformation reverses. For the first time, he speaks: “Help me.”