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Episode Summary

Bulma and the others try to catch up with Goku and Beerus in their plane, which is now having engine trouble due to its fall. Gohan and Goten are stuck riding along with everyone as they no longer have enough energy left to fly, which Piccolo assumes is due to the Super Saiyan God ritual. Up above in the clouds, Goku and Beerus are having a stare-down. Beerus tells Goku to start anytime he wants, and so Goku pummels him with a flurry of blows, but Beerus is unharmed. Thinking he needs to egg Goku on a bit more, Beerus forms an extra-large energy ball and hurls it his way. Goku grabs the ball with both hands and squeezes it until it explodes. Back on the plane, Bulma asks if Gohan and co. can use their ki-sensing skills to locate the battle, but Gohan explains that they cannot sense the ki of gods. Just then though, Bulma spots “pretty” lights in the sky, and Gohan realizes they are explosions from the battle. Drawing nearer, they see Goku seeming to hold his own against Beerus.

However, Goku realizes that Beerus is still not using his full power. Over in the Kaiōshin Realm, the two Kaiōshin realize that although Beerus seems to be getting beat up by Goku, he is really holding back in order to help raise Goku into a “complete” Super Saiyan God. Once Goku’s complete, Beerus can then use his full power to crush him, simply for fun. Back on Earth Goku feels like he understands Beerus’ motivation — once Beerus grew so strong, he was left without anyone to fight against with his full power. But Beerus cuts Goku off, saying he could not possibly understand, and begins knocking him around with a series of extremely close-range energy blasts. Grabbing Goku, he flies straight down toward a nearby island to slam Goku into the ground, challenging Goku to do anything to stop him. But Goku seems powerless, and with a huge explosion the two collide with the island.

Following the crash, Beerus casually strolls through the smoking crater on the island and finds Goku sprawled out on the ground, gasping in pain. Beerus says it is a good thing Goku managed to escape his grasp the moment of the explosion. He sits himself down on Goku’s chest and begins repeatedly punching him in the face, yelling that he cannot stand how tired he is. Finally Goku punches back, knocking Beerus off his chest. Beerus says it was a good attack, but still not enough to work against him, and he knocks Goku up into the stratosphere with a series of headbutts. With Goku floating stunned and motionless, Beerus asks how long he plans to rest. Though Beerus prefers his destruction to be meaningless, in this case it seems he will have to destroy the Earth to help make Goku properly motivated. Beerus forms a small energy ball and plays with it a bit, dribbling it with his feet. Goku hates the way Beerus toys with human life, but Beerus replies that a battle between gods is more important than human life.

Finally kicking the ball down at the planet, he says Goku will not be able to knock this one back or squash it like the energy ball from before… but Goku simply destroys it instead. In response, Beerus creates countless identical energy balls and rains them all down on Goku at once. Goku counters with a Kamehameha, resulting in a massive explosion. Though the Earth remains intact, when the smoke clears Beerus has stabbed Goku through the chest with his bare hand. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong man. It seems you weren’t the one I was searching for after all”. Goku plummets back down to Earth and crashes into the ocean. Sinking down, he wonders how anyone as powerful as Beerus could exist… yet somehow, Beerus’ strength excites him. Goku’s wounds suddenly heal, and he rockets out of the water, straight back up into the stratosphere. Out of respect for Goku’s persistence, Beerus says he will finally show him his true power!

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