Frieza Saga
The Race for the Namek Dragon Balls.
As Goku is rushed to a hospital, it's revealed that the Dragon Balls on Earth are now inert due to Piccolo's demise. The only hope to bring back the dead heroes is to fly to Planet Namek for the original Dragon Balls.
Headstrong and technically-talented as always, Bulma rushes forward, figuring out how to use a Namek Space Craft that Mr. Popo showed her so she can reach Namek. Bulma, Krillin and Gohan are off to Planet Namek.
But they are not the only ones after the Dragon Balls. Vegeta returns to Frieza Planet #79 to regenerate himself using a special medical tank. He discovers that his former boss, Frieza, has already left for Namek after the Dragon Balls. Vegeta rushes off to Namek to find the Dragon Balls for himself.
Soon, Vegeta, Frieza, and our heroes are on Namek searching for the seven Dragon Balls. There is one Dragon Ball per Namek village, each ball being protected by the village elder. Frieza has an entourage of minion monsters which terrorize the villages, eventually gaining four Dragon Balls.
On route to Namek, Gohan, Krillin and Bulma run into one of the many dangers of space: an alien warship. Caught offguard, they are ambushed as they investigate the alien ship.
Fortunately for our friends, the ship enters an asteroid belt. Bulma jumps to the rescue and steers the ship out of harm. The aliens, who are actually refugees looking for a new home because Frieza destroyed their planet, realize Gohan, Krillin and Bulma mean them no harm. They reveal a shortcut to Namek and wish their new friends good luck.
Taking the shortcut, Gohan, Krillin and Bulma reach the planet Namek long before they had expected. This is great... assuming the planet is really Namek. It appears like the planet they were expecting, and the inhabitants do look like Namekians. These inhabitants are helpful to our friends as they encounter giants, volcanoes, ice caves, and assorted dangers in their search for Dragon Balls.
But that's nothing compared with the real danger our heroes are facing. Their Namekian helpers Raiti and Zaacro aren't Namekians at all. They are aliens stranded on this deserted planet. Anxious to escape and masters of illusion, Raiti and Zaacro are willing to do anything to grab a spaceship and leave this planet behind. They have read Gohan, Krillin and Bulma's minds, and concocted the environment they were expecting to find, secretly making plans to steal their spaceship and leave our friends stranded. They almost succeed, but don't know the secret password to open the door to the ship. At the last minute the tables are turned, and Gohan, Krillin and Bulma zoom off in their spaceship toward the true planet Namek.
Can Krillin and Gohan stop such an evil power?
Things are not going so well on planet Namek. Frieza is terrorizing the villages and collecting the Dragon Balls. How will Gohan, Krillin and Bulma ever bring their friends back if Frieza gets the Dragon Balls first? More importantly, what chance does the universe have if Frieza collects all seven Dragon Balls and realizes his wish for immortality?
To make matters worse, Vegeta is on Namek and stronger than ever after his near fatal injuries on Earth. Saiyans have the unusual ability to reach higher power levels after healing from serious wounds. Vegeta is seriously injured again in a fight with Zarbon, one of Frieza's henchmen. He is left to die until Frieza tells Zarbon to bring Vegeta to him, or else. Vegeta has hidden a Dragon Ball and is the only one who knows its location.
Mystery of the Dragon Balls revealed by Guru.
Meanwhile, Frieza has decided to summon the elite fighters known as the Ginyu Force to help search the planet for Dragon Balls and take care of any problems that might develop. They will arrive in five days. Goku has been summoned and is on his way to Namek, traveling in a specially constructed spaceship with special training facilities. Help is on the way, but time is running out for our heroes.
Krillin is taken to Guru's house. Guru is the Eldest, the leader of all the Namekians and the creator of the Namekian Dragon Balls. He is, unfortunately, very ill. If anything happens to Guru, the Dragon Balls, which the good guys need to bring their allys back to this dimension, will cease to exist. Gohan, Krillin and Bulma must collect these Dragon Balls while Guru is still alive. This seems impossible since Frieza already has five of the Dragon Balls. But they won't give up.
Guru lays hands on Krillin, realizes that he is good at heart, and decides to give his Dragon Ball to Krillin for safe keeping. Now atleast Frieza can't get all seven - not as long as Krillin has one of them. Guru also awakens the sleeping power with Krillin, giving him more power than ever!
Frieza's plan backfires. He has Vegeta brought to his spaceship so he can learn where Vegeta's Dragon Ball is hidden. But Vegeta makes a daring escape from Frieza's spaceship prison, stealing the five Dragon Balls which were in Frieza's possession.
One more ball and Vegeta can gain immortality.
Vegeta locates Krillin and Bulma and realizes they have a Dragon Ball (the one given to Krillin by Guru). Vegeta promises to spare their lives in exchange for the ball. Krillin reluctantly hands over the ball in order to save Bulma's life.
Suddenly Zarbon, Frieza's minion, arrives and transforms into the uglier version of himself, giving him increased strength to battle Vegeta. But Vegeta's previous battle has made him even stronger, allowing him to defeat Zarbon. Vegeta takes Krillin's Dragon Ball and flies off, surprisingly keeping his promise not to kill Krillin and Bulma.
Meanwhile, Gohan has found the last of the seven Dragon Balls hidden by Vegeta at the bottom of the lake in the rubble of a Namek village previously destroyed by Vegeta. As Gohan is returning to meet Krillin and Bulma, he is detected by Vegeta. But Vegeta is in a good mood, thinking he is in possession of all seven Dragon Balls. He decides not to eliminate Gohan since he is one of the remaining Saiyans in the universe. Is Vegeta softening a bit - maybe not. Fortunately, Vegeta did not know Gohan swiped one of his Dragon Balls.
Gohan hides the dragonball and takes a knee to the belly from Veggita, who doesnt realize Gohan has his last dragonball. Vegeta bolts off and Gohan grabs the dragonball and heads back. Guru awakens Krillin's inner power. Krillin leaves Dende there and heads back to bring Gohan to Guru. Gohan meets up with Krilin and they leave the dragonball with Bulma.
Meanwhile Vegita realizes that hes been robbed and takes off furiously in search of Gohan. Just before Krilin and Gohan reach master Guru, Krillin tells Gohan to go ahead and he will stall Veggita. Gohans power is awaken and master Guru cant believe how strong the little boy is.
Vegita sensing that the elite army of fighters called the Ginyu force is about to arrive, pleads with Krilin and Gohan to give him the last dragonball so they can make Vegeta immortal. Krilin tells him lets go get the dragonballs but doesnt promise him anything. They get the last dragonball and continue off to Vegeta's hideout cave but the Ginyu force arrive(Cpt. Ginyu, Ricoom , Burter, Jeuce, and Goldo) and shows off how strong they are by taking the dragonball from Krilin's hand without him even knowing it.
Cpt. Ginyu goes and takes all 7 dragonballs back to Freeza and Racoom and the other stay back to fight. After a display of rock paper scissors, Goldo faces off with Krillin and Gohan(Goldo has the power to freeze time by holding his breath) Gohan and Krillin POWER-UP so much that Racoom and Jeuce think Goldo is going to get his butt Kicked, even Vegeta is surprised at the new found strength off the 2 Z warriors.
Goldo get battered around but catches the 2 Z warriors in a cloud of freezing gas and launches a log at them, just before the log hits they break free, suprisingly thanks to Vegeta who sends Goldo to another Dimension.
Now Ricoom and Vegeta face off. Vegeta is easily defeated and almost killed but Krilin and Gohan save his life. After Ricoom kicks Krilin hard enough to launch him about a 100 yards, Gohan faces off with Ricoom.
Gohan gives the big Ricoom a run for his money but is no match for him. Just before Ricoom finishes off the Z warriors, Goku arrives fully powered up, faster and stronger than ever. He uses one of his new power to scan the planet for power readings. He rushes off to where Gohan is. He rescues him and then makes quick work of Ricoom.
After eating a Senzu beans from Goku, Vegeta senses that Kakarot has achieved the power to go Super Saiyan but doesnt know it yet. Goku beats jeuce and Burter pretty fast but doesn't destroy them, Vegita actually goes over and sends both of them to the next dimension, then Goku goes of to fight Captain Ginyu. Goku plays with the captain for a while then shows his true power of 180,000.
Knowing that he cant win Captain Ginyu punches himself in the chest so hard there is a hole left behind from the blow then he switches bodies with Goku (thats Ginyu's secret attack) Goku's body suffers pretty bad damage (Captain Ginyu's mind is in Goku's body but he doesnt know how to use Goku's power yet) at the hands of Gohan Krilen and Vegeta after they figured out about the body switch, but Vegeta (knowing he can't beat Freeza without Goku) puts Goku in the rejuvenation chamber and gives Krilin and Gohan the special Saiyan suits for better protection...... Before Guru dies Krillin and Gohan make two wishes. 1st is to revive Piccolo.......2nd wish is to bring him to Namek (when piccolo was revived he had to travel snakes way which lead him back to earth so they had no choice but to wish for him to be brought to Namek).....But Piccolo is brought to Namek on the other side of the planet, so he begins towards the heroes (who are at Freeza's ship, remember Freeza set out to meet with Guru to find out how the Dragonballs work)...........
Freeza senses that his dragonballs are in danger and begins back toward the ship, but on his way back he runs into Nail (remember Nail turned around fearing Guru was in great danger, incidentally Guru dies and the dragonballs disappears) Nail and Freeza face off but Nail is no match and he is beat pretty bad, Freeza is on his way back to the ship.......
Piccolo finds Nail out but not dead, Nail offers to give piccolo his spirit, so they merge and form super piccolo..........Freeza arrives at the ship to find Veggita, Krilin, and Gohan there....
Just before Freeza fights them Super Piccolo arrives and is told by Veggita that Kakarot is in the rejuvenation chamber and needs more time to be fully healed. Piccolo fights Freeza and proves to be too strong for Freeza's current form....so Freeza mutates into Freeza Form 2.....and begins to beat Piccolo....... Meanwhile Goku gets to were his body is and faces off with Captain Ginyu again but this time Goku is ready for Ginyu's body switch technique and throws a frog in between him and Ginyu....now Ginyu is trapped in the frogs body and Goku quickly gets rid of him......... Dende is senselessly killed by Frieza in a fight. When Goku finally recovers from his wounds and returns to the fight, Vegeta, who is on the brink of death, tearfully begs his fellow Saiyan to see to it that Freeza is beaten by Saiyan hands and wishes he might be someday be the warrior of legends, the Super Saiyan. When Freeza sees Goku's face he recalls that this opponent is the spitting image of the last warrior who resisted him when he destroyed the Saiyan homeworld. That last warrior was Goku and Radditz' father, Bardok. Goku unexpectedly proves to be a tough match for Freeza and in the end uses his spirit bomb where he collects bits of energy from all living things on this and nearby planets to attack Freeza with. Unfortunately, Freeza doesn't die as easily hoped. Still astonishingly powerful, Freeza drags Krilin into the air and blows him to bits (literally). For the first time in his life, Goku reaches a breaking point and explodes with fury. Lightning crackles around him and the whole planet shakes like it's falling apart. Goku stands there growing more and more angry by the moment. He then transforms into Super Saiyan. Freeza is at a loss....to Freezas suprise every attack he throws at Goku is dodged......... Meanwhile back on Earth, when Piccolo was resurrected, so was Kami. The dragonballs were gathered quickly and used to revive the people who died at Namek. Thus Shenlon was also brought back to life and so were his dragonballs with its third, yet unused wish. The third wish was then used to transport all the people on the planet Namek to Earth with the exception of Freeza and Goku. This plan succeeds, also bringing the resurrected Veggita back to Earth..The battle between Freeza ensues and Freeza's plan to kill Goku backfires and ends up slicing himself in half with his own weapon, leaving him with only his upper half of his body, his whole right arm, and half of his left arm cut off. Satisfied, Goku almost leaves the planet, which is just minutes away from exploding, but there is still a tiny shred of decency left in him that motivates him to share enough of his power with Freeza to let them both escape. Nevertheless, Freeza tries to abuse this power, leaving Goku with no choice but to shoot a fireball in his face...There are other matters of concern. The planet is about to self-destruct, but Goku's spaceship, as well as Freeza's craft are just useless scraps of metal.....everyone thought Goku is dead but he finds one of the Ginyu forces space pods and escapes but lands on a planet unknown to him (also the Z fighters on earth, which now include Gohan and piccolo think Goku is dead) and the people on this planet teach Goku a new technique called Teleporting (putting two fingers on your forehead, then disappearing and reappearing behind a person)........meanwhile one year later on earth Freeza and one of his henchmen arrive back on earth to take revenge. As Freeza and his guardian begin destroying earth Goku arrives and kills Freezas guardian, but another person kills Freeza with a sword.......That person is Trunks (Veggita and Bulmas son). Trunks traveled back in time to give Goku a special Medicine so Goku won't die of a Heart disease........Vegeta doesn't like Trunks at first Glance because for 1 he doesn't know thats his future son and 2 he can sense that this man is a Saiyan and has achieved Super-Saiyan before he has
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