The Victor

After Piccolo weakens Goku to where he can't lift any of his broken appendages (including the one arm his father made the mistake of leaving Goku), Piccolo flies to the sky as his dad did in the previous fight to finish off his nemesis. Kami asks Tien to kill him, but Goku shouts that he truly can defeat Piccolo without killing him. Goku can't even move, so no one believes him. Piccolo slams an energy blast with the energy of an atomic bomb into Goku and he appears to be vaporized. However unknown to Piccolo and the others Goku can fly and escapes that way. He uses the opportunity to headbutt Piccolo in mid-air for what the announcer sees is a ring out victory. Yajirobe shows up most conveniently with Sensu beans and fully heals Goku. Kami is about to kill Piccolo, but Goku stops him. Goku sees that the dragon balls will stop working if Kami dies, and so their plan will not work. Kami had seen that. Roshi convinces Kami that he is still useful to the earth. Kami graciously gives Goku new clothes. Goku suddenly uses a sensu bean to revive Piccolo, not wanting to jeopardize Kami's health and wanting to keeep a strong sparing partner around. Everyone panics. Piccolo shows complete contempt for this, thinking Goku to be soft, and departs after vowing to defeat Goku. Chiaotzu suddenly shows up to meet Tien. Kami then suddenly offers Goku his job, and Goku flees on the nimbus with Chi-chi.