Kakarrot has been kept in a incubator for three years. One month before the destruction of Vegeta, he was taken out of the incubator because his father, Bardock, felt that Freeza had a plan to eradicate them. Bardock found a space pod and placed Kakarrot in there to send him far away from the planet. As Bardock and his mother, Gine, send him off, Kakarrot was warned to look out for the Galactic Patrol while he's on his way to Earth. Days later, the Saiyan landed on Earth. He landed in the wilderness called Mount Paozu and he was found by an elderly man named, Son Gohan. He took the alien into his home and fed him. While he was there, Gohan decided to name him "Son Goku".