Namek/Freeza Saga

Now Goku is in the hospital, living in an iron lung. Krillin and Gohan have a few bruises but were okay. Bulma was very sad at the realization of her dead buddies. Krillin and Gohan have the idea of using the dragonballs to wish them back, but alas, the idea is turned down. You see, Kami created the dragonballs, and whenever the creator of dragonballs dies, then the dragonballs disappear. Piccolo, being Kami's split form, died in the battle with Nappa and because Kami is Piccolo's split form, Kami died too. The dragonballs are no more on earth. But Krillin remembered what Vegeta said. He said that they can go ahead and kill Piccolo because they can just go to planet Namek, where Piccolo came from to get the dragonballs (get it?). So now that they know that there is a possibility to get the dragonballs, they wanted to know how far away Namek was from earth. Goku asked King Kai, telepathically, how far away Namek was from Earth. Bulma used the answer to calculate that it would take several thousand years to make it to Namek with a conventional Earth space craft. So that idea was shot down. But something else happened Mister Po Po showed up. Mister Po Po was Kami's assistant. He arrived on a flying carpet outside of the hospital room's window. Bulma stepped on the carpet and it took her to the original space craft Piccolo arrived in.

They found out that it takes commands in the Namekian language to operate. On a little test drive they did, it took them one second to get to Jupiter! So, with Bulma having to learn the Namekian language really quick, they were all set. When they asked who wanted to go, they immediately looked at Bulma (she is an electronic genius). Krillin said he would go, and after some begging from his mom, Gohan said he would go to. When they were ready to go, Bulma had a space suit on, Krillin had beach clothing on and a hat, and Gohan-well, Gohan had a new haircut. He had his school clothing on, and was carrying tons of school supplies (books, etc.). They leave for Namek. On their way to Namek, they encounter a ship in space that looks just like theirs-in fact it is theirs. A reflection. They enter a ship and walk around for a while to see just what is going on. They see a table set with food. Gohan and Krillin are not stupid enough to fall for that, but Bulma is. She went toward the table, and the trap was set, she was pulled up to the roof by a rope and chained to the wall. Out of every door come hoards of mercenaries all pointing their guns at the bunch. They threaten to kill Bulma Gohan and Krillin because they mistake them for Freiza's men. Freiza destroyed their planet (you'll hear more about him later-that is him on the right) and they took off in their highly reflective space ship so they wouldn't be seen. Bulma ends up saving them by navigating them through a meteor field. They leave the ship and head on their way. Their next stop is planet Namek (or so it seems). They are greeted by two Namekians (or so it seems) who gladly (or so it seems) help them find the seven dragonballs (or so it seems) on the planet (or so it seems).

It turns out that the planet was really an illusion. The two "Namekians" were really aliens that read Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma's minds when they were sleeping and found out about the Namekians, dragonballs and such. Their main objective was to stall them on the planet long enough for some weird storm to pass, so they could steal their ship and get off the asteroid (it was really and asteroid). They make it off, leaving the two aliens for dead on the small planetoid. Goku get's partially well and eats a sinzu bean. He asked Bulma's dad (he's a genius ) to make him a space craft to bring him to Namek too. He went to his house to check it out, and it was cool! It was a huge ship made out of Raditz's original space pod. It had all that Goku asked for. It had a gravity trainer and a kitchen (that's about all that Goku needs to survive). He get's in and he finds out that it will take about 6 days to get to Namek, and takes off. The space bunch arrives on Namek. Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma get attacked by two warriors when they land. Gohan and Krillin promptly demolish the two baddies, but it was too late, their space ship ends up being damaged beyond repair. Gohan and Krillin sense some powerful power readings and travel to that spot. They see several people in a Namekian village harassing some elders. Krillin can't stand it as he sees some pink guy kicking the old Namek asses to get out information on dragonballs. They see them take off with a dragonball after a while of harassing and beating the Nameks. He ends up killing several Nameks after the younger Nameks that were working in the fields came to battle. When the battle was over, a young Namek was left over-his name was Dende-Gohan and Krillin take him back to Bulma.

Oh yeah... I forgot to mention Freiza. Well, right now in Dragonball Z, Frieza is by far the strongest character. On Goku's way to Namek, King Kai was telling Goku not to go to, because Frieza is way too strong. Frieza is the main planet broker guy. He was the guy that organizes the sale of planets-including earth. That's all that you need to know about Frieza for now-besides the fact that Frieza was on Namek with that pink guy (named Dodoria) and several other warriors. Vegeta made his way to Namek after first stopping at one of Frieza's base planets for rejuvenation. He found out that Frieza was heading toward Namek and quickly pursued. While on Namek, he encountered several Namekian villages in search for the dragonballs, while at the same time-so was Frieza's henchmen. Vegeta encountered Kui-an old enemy and killed him. He then met up with Dodoria and promptly killed him as well. He also encountered another one of Frieza's henchmen, named Zarbon. This battle was not so successful for Vegeta. After a while of fighting with Vegeta, Zarbon showed his true colors by transforming into a huge monster and totally demolishing Vegeta. He left him for dead and went away. After reporting to Frieza with the good news of Vegeta's death-Frieza got very pissed of that Zarbon did not make sure he was dead-which he wasn't. Zarbon left to go retrieve Vegeta for information on where exactly Vegeta put his dragonballs.

Meanwhile......Bulma found out that Goku was coming and told the guys. While Gohan was out looking for a dragonball, Dende told Krillin about the eldest Namek. The eldest Namek created all of the Nameks on planet Namek after a terrible storm. Dende took Krillin to the eldest Namek (his name was Guru), where he got a dragonball and a little surpirse. Guru released Krillin's inner power. Krillin then started his long fly back to their base to tell Gohan of the good news. Gohan found one of Vegeta's dragonballs in a pond and flew back as well. Zarbon found Vegeta and brought his messed up body (still alive) to Frieza's base to revive him in a rejuvenation tank. They wanted information on the dragonballs. Vegeta was too smart for them though. He busted out of the tank and killed a guard. He then blew a hole in the wall of the base-to get Frieza's attention and to make it appear as if he left. When all of the guards (including Frieza) were at the scene of the hole, Vegeta was at the dragonballs. He busted another hole in the roof of the base and threw all of the dragonballs far, far, away, so he could get them later on. With one more blast down the corridor, he left to retrieve the dragonballs he threw. Frieza yelled at Zarbon telling him that if he didn't get his dragonballs back that it would be his neck. Vegeta went to his stash of balls (5 balls) and saw Krillin fly by holding a dragonball! He followed him. But Vegeta had a follower as well-Zarbon.They all landed at the good guys' base camp. Vegeta fought and won Zarbon (he explained to the audience and Zarbon very clearly that a Saiyan gets stronger after every near-death encounter), and took the dragonball. He put the ball with the rest and went to where the last ball was (in the pond).

Along the way, he met up with Gohan (Gohan had the missing dragonball). Gohan saw Vegeta and hid the dragonball while Vegeta talked to him. Vegeta gave him one good knee in the gut as he left. Frieza calls the Ginyu Force. A special elite force of fighters made up of the strongest fighters in the universe (ha!). He calls them to do away with Vegeta, an enemy that was quickly getting the better of him. The quickly zip off toward Namek. So, Gohan met up with Krillin and they headed to Guru's place to release Gohan's hidden powers. Vegeta arrived very pissed after finding out that Gohan took his dragonball. Krillin had to block Vegeta as Gohan got his powers released, but he couldn't stop him. Vegeta headed off toward the home of Guru and out stepped Nail. Nail is a Namek that is kind of Guru's nurse, and guard. After a little stupid discussion between Nail and Vegeta, out stepped Gohan-streaming with power-oohh ahhh. Just at that moment, five points of light streamed through the sky and landed. This was the Ginyu force that Frieza called to do away with Vegeta. Vegeta tells them that each of the Ginyu are as powerful as he. He convinces Gohan and Krillin to give him the dragonball so that he could wish himself immortal and defeat the Ginyu force. Krillin and Gohan agree and fly off to get another dragonball from Bulma.

When they land to bring together all of the dragonballs, Krillin resists to give Vegeta the dragonball he had. Vegeta was about to slay the human, right when the Ginyu force landed. Vegeta immediately threw a dragonball far away, but at that moment, a Ginyu lept at super speed and caught it. Vegeta screamed at Krillin to destroy his, but another ginyu froze time and took the dragonball away. Captain Ginyu then took all of the dragonballs away and headed toward Frieza. The first to fight were Gohan and Krillin against Goldo. Goldo was the guy that freezes time. I would have to say that Goldo is the weakest character in the Ginyu force. He just freezes time and then runs away-how weak. He froze time several times and then did a mind freeze that made them not move as he kicked their asses. He was just about to skewer the two with a sawed off tree as Vegeta interviened and killed him. Gohan was very thankful, but Vegeta said that he just did it because he hated Goldo. After that was Recoome's turn. Vegeta beat his ass down and believed he killed him, but Recoome just got right back up again. After that, Recoome had a series of good attacks back at Vegeta and Vegeta looked as if he was done for, but he flew up from under-water from where he was slammed and got a good fist in Recoome's stomach.

But of course, this would not alter Recoome's strength. He slammed Vegeta down into the ground pulled him back up again. While Recoome was boasting about his strength, Vegeta blasted him right in the face with an energy-um-blast. Recoome was just about to finish Vegeta off, when Krillin and Gohan jumped in. Recoome was just about to shoot Vegeta with a mouthful of energy, but Gohan and Krillin jumped in. Gohan dived and took Vegeta away and Krillin punched Recoome's mouth shut, diverting the energy out of his nostrils and busting out all of his teeth. This made Recoome angry. I believe that this blow right now was about the funniest hit in the English episodes. Recoome took a few steps up to Krillin and with ONE kick, he sent him flying, breaking all of his bones. He was done for, he said he can't go on. So here we are, with Gohan, to fight alone. It's surprising how long Gohan held out there. He gets hurt alot and most of his hits miss. But, with a kick to the neck, he went down. Enter Goku...In his 6 day trip to Namek in his space ship/gravity chamber, he trained extensively. He first trained at 20G, which was very hard. He upped it to 50g, which was incredibly hard. He was hanging upside down doing sit-ups when all of the sudden, he couldn't move a muscle in his body. A teleprompter appeared with Dr. Briefs (Bulma's dad) on the screen. He yelled at Goku, asking him why he was training at 100G. Goku was amazed himself because he never set that level.

They find out that he was going through a magnetic storm in space. When the storm was over, he realized that in order to be strong enough to defeat Frieza, he must train at 100G. Goku arrived on Namekand showed off his incredible speed. He healed Gohan and Krillin with sinzu beans and after reading Krillin's mind, he saw that Vegeta was good now for saving Gohan and Krillin from Goldo, so he gave him a sinzu bean as well. Now it was Goku's turn up at bat. In one hit, he discombobulated Recoome. He was down for the count. There were two other Ginyu warriors left over (besides Captain Ginyu). Baata, a blue monster known for being the "fastest in the universe", and Jees, a red rock-and-roll like puk with long white hair, get angry at Gokou's toying around and attack at full power, but are losing to Gokou anyway. Baata gets knocked down and Jees escapes. Vegeta mocks Gokou for being to soft at letting Jees get away, and then kills off the knocked out Baata and Recoom. Ginew reaches Freeza and gives him the dragonballs. Freeza summons for his wish of immortality, but nothing happens. They bury the dragonballs outside the Freeza's ship to hide them. Freeza goes to seek the Namek Elder Senior to find out how to work the dragonballs while Ginew is left to stay guard. Jees arrives and informs Ginew of what has happened. Ginew heads to fight Gokou. As Ginew and Gokou battle, Ginew realizes that Gokou is stronger than him.

Ginew badly jabs himself and shoots a strange beam at Gokou. Unaware of what is happening, Gokou gets his body swapped by Ginew. By the time that Gokou realizes that Ginew's special technique is body swapping, it is too late. Ginew laughs and he and Jees fly back to the dragonballs. Gokou is stouck in Ginew's battered body forced to chase after his own body. Meanwhile...Vegeta arrives to Freeza's spaceship to seek the dragonballs, but Gohan and Klilyn also arrive. Vegeta hides behind the ship to watch the Earthings, planning to kill them once they summon Shenlong for him. Gohan and Klilyn use Bulma's dragon radar to locate the dragonballs and summon it, but nothing happens. Everyone is baffled why. Gohan and Klilyn sense the "ki" of people coming and hide. Ginew and Jeese land, looking at the dragonballs and wondering who dug them up. Because Ginew is in Gokou's body, Klilyn mistakes him for Gokou and comes out to greet him. Gohan senses something wrong in his father's body and yells that that Gokou is not his dad. Gohan and Klilyn face the remainder of the Ginew Force, but Gokou also arrives. He reasons that since he has trouble controlling his new body because he's not used to it, so will Ginew in his body. Ginew tries to power up to Gokou's power level, but cannot because he deson't know the Kaiou-ken technique. Gokou tells that Gohan and Klilyn and beat Ginew in Ginew's lack of experience.

Ginew gets beaten and calls for Jeice to help. Vegeta comes out of hiding and challenges Jees. Vegeta is confident of his power. He learned that Saiyans grow stronger each time they face the brink of death. After surviving his attack from Gokou and then from Recoom, Vegeta's power level had increased tremendously. He toys with Jees and then kills him. Then, Vegeta flies to Ginew and badly beats him. Ginew begins to admire Vegeta's body and decided to change bodies with him. Ginew does his change body technique on Vegeta but Gokou jumps in the way and gets his old body back. However, it was so badly beaten that he cannot move. Ginew, back in his old body, attempts his change body technique on Vegeta once again. Vegeta still doesn't know what's happening and charge at Ginew. Gokou turns nearby frog in Ginew's path and forces Ginew to change into a frog. Meanwhile...Guru sends Dende to seek Gohan and Klilyn to teach them how to summon the Porunga Shenlong. Freeza arrives to Guru and is about to kill him for refusing to teach the words needed to work the dragonballs. Nail, body guard of Guru and the strongest warrior of the planet, tells Freeza that if Guru dies, so will the dragonballs. Freeza is forced to spare Guru and fights Nail instead. The two fly to a remote area to fight. Nail is no match for Freeza, but continues fighting anyway to stall time for Dende to reach the Earthlings.

Freeza finally learns that he whole fight against Nail was a trick and races back to his spaceship. Nail is left to die. Vegeta offers an alliance with our heroes because Freeza is the common enemy in this battle. Everyone enters Freeza's spaceship as Freeza continues to head back. Gokou is put into a Saiyan recovery pod and Klilyn and Gohan are given Saiyan armor. Klilyn flies off to seek Guru to learn the words to summoning Shenlong. Vegeta takes a nap because he hasn't slept in a while while on Namek. Gohan is outside the ship to guard the dragonballs. Klilyn and Dende bump into each other and head back to Gohan. The three take the dragonballs away from the spaceship to now let Vegeta know. Dende summons the Porunga Shenlong, which can grant three wishes. Piccolo is wished back to life for the first wish, and is teleported to Namek as the second wish. However, Dende forgot to specify where on Namek so Piccolo is in the middle of nowhere. Vegeta awakens from his sleep and quickly rushes to Shenlong, prepared to kill Gohan and Klilyn for cheating him out of his wish for immortality. One wish remains. After much reluctance, Dende goes to ask Shenlong to grant Vegeta's wish because only Vegeta had the potential of killing Freeza. As Shenlong is about to grant Vegeta's wish, Guru dies and the dragonballs thus turn to stones. Vegeta's wish is denied, and Freeza arrives before his victims. Gokou is still recoverying. Freeza's First Transformation...Vegeta, more powerful than before, faces Freeza and is able to stand up to him. Freeza tells that he can change bodies three times. With each transformation, his power level great increases. Since Vegeta has gotten so strong, Freeza undergoes his first stage of transformation.

Meanwhile...Piccolo senses the huge "ki"in the battle between Freeza and Vegeta and flies towards that direction. On the way, he encounters the dying Nail, who makes the offer to fuse with him. Piccolo accepts with skeptism and finally fuses with Nail. His power level greatly increases. Piccolo continues to head for Freeza, believing that he can beat anyone with his unbelievable power now. Freeza's Second Transformation...Vegeta is no longer a match for Freeza. Piccolo arrives in time for battle and stands up to Freeza. Freeza decides it time to transform again. Piccolo is beaten down. Klilyn throws a laser spin disc at Freeza and the fireball truncates his tail. Freeza, now an even bigger monster with huge horns, flies to Klilyn and jabs a horn through Klilyn. Gohan attacks Freeza to save him. Klilyn is thrown aside and Gohan gets beaten close to death. At the next scene, Klilyn is back up and lures Freeza away. Freeza doesn't know how Klilyn survived, by follows him anyway. In the distraction, Dende heals Gohan like how he secretly did to Klilyn. Piccolo rejoins the fight and Freeza focuses on killing Piccolo. Vegeta is no longer a hope for victory, but remembers his lesson on how a Saiyan's strength greatly increases each time he reaches close to death; Vegeta recalls Dende's healing abilities and requests Klilyn to shoot a fatal blast at him. Meanwhile, Piccolo and Freeza continue to battle, but Freeza is by far much stronger and beats Piccolo half to death.

Freeza's Final Stage...Gohan watches Piccolo getting killed and powers up with anger. His hidden powers are revealed once again as he casts a fireball that even Freeza has trouble blocking. Freeza begins to morph to his perfect stage, but it requires time. As Freeza cracks from the shell of his old body, Dende heals Piccolo. The dying Vegeta requests to be healed, but Dende refuses because of how Vegeta treated his people. After much difficulty, Dende accepts that Vegeta is their only hope at the moment. As Freeza transfroms, he watches Dende heal Piccolo and Vegeta and figures out the usefulness in the young Namek towards his enemies. With annoyance, Freeza shoots and kills Dende. Another shot is shot at Gohan, but Gohan, Klilyn, and Piccolo are not skilled enough to see such speed of the blast. Vegeta sees it and pushes Gohan out of the way. Vegeta and Freeza go head to head. The result is Freeza fulfilling his promise of "torture beyond hell" on Vegeta. Gokou is fully recovered and rushes to the scene. Gokou arrives with a more impressive "ki" level. Vegeta is knocked free from Freeza's grip and tells that Gokou is the Super Saiyan Freeza feared so much. Freeza grows annoyed of Vegeta's comments and shoots a beam through Vegeta's heart, killing him. Vegeta's dying words are for Gokou to take vengeance for all Saiyans. Gokou makes a grave to bury Vegeta in and then faces Freeza. Meanwhile...Bulma is alone wandering around in the dangers of Namek's wilderness. She encounters a frog that she calls "has potential" because it is different from the rest and lets it follow her around as a companion, unaware that the frog is really Ginew. Bulma puts together a gadget that allows animals to talk for her frog buddy.

This gives Ginew back his ability for speech. Ginew screams "change!", and swaps bodies with Bulma. Ginew then drives Bulma's flying motorcycle with Bulma hanging on the back, demanding her body back. They coincidently reach where Gohan, Klilyn, and Piccolo are watching the fight between Gokou and Freeza. Our heroes learn that Bulma is not herself because her body was cheering for Freeza instead of Gokou. Ginew learns that his new body is not good for fighting after catfighting Klilyn, and prepared to swap bodies with Piccolo. Gohan throws Bulma in the way and Bulma regains her own body while Ginew becomes the frog again. The movement in the air caused from the fight between Gokou and Freeza blows Bulma and Ginew away, again. Gokou and Freeza toy with each other at first, but Freeza later boasts how he can beat Gokou at just 50% his power level. Gokou powers up to 20x the Kaiou-ken method, but is still losing to Freeza. In a final desperate attempt, Gokou prepares a Genki Dama made from "ki" of local planets. Freeza is unaware of what Gokou is doing because he cannot detect "ki", and therefore can't sense the power of the growing Genki Dama. Freeza soon learns of Gokou's trick and rushes to kill him. Gohan and Klilyn donate their "ki" to Piccolo and Piccolo goes to stall time for Gokou. Piccolo gets beat up, but Gokou's fireball is ready. Freeza is crushed under the attack, but survives... Meanwhile...On Kaiou's planet, the Ginew Force (all except Ginew, who is still alive as a frog) appear. Yamcha, Chauzu, and Tenshinhan fight them while Kaiou refuses to help.

With much surprise, the Z Warriors discover that they became stronger than the Ginew Team that beated Vegeta. The Ginew get beaten into hell and Kaiou tells that it was he who requested King Yemma to bring the Ginew to his planet. He wanted to test the skills of his disciples. Back on Earth, Dr. Briefs, under Chi-chi's pressure, is working on Capsule 3, his third ship for Namek. (Gohan, Klilyn, and Bulma took the first ship. Gokou rode on the second). Chi-chi, Yajirobe, Oolong, and Master Roshi were boarded and prepared for journey, but the Capsule broke down before takeoff. Legendary Super Saiyan Warrior...Freeza is more angry than ever and plans to kill our heroes one at a time. First, he blasts a beam at Gohan, but Piccolo takes it for Gohan. It rips through Piccolo and Piccolo quickly falls dying on the ground. Next, Freeza uses psychic power to airlift Klilyn. With the closing of Freeza's hand, Klilyn is literally disintegrated. Gokou sees Freeza's inhumanity and powers up in great anger. Gokou's hair turns golden and his eyes green, becoming the Super Saiyan Legend. Gokou tells Gohan that Piccolo is still alive. Gohan is then ordered to take Piccolo and find Bulma back to the ship that he came in and head back to Earth. Gokou and Freeza fight in a one-on-battle. Freeza is forced to now fight at 70% his power.

Gokou and Freeza battle. Freeza, angry at losing to an "inferior monkey", creates a fireball and launches it towards the core of the planet.Then, he laughs and boasts that the planet will explode in five minutes, mocking that he can survive in space after the explosion while Gokou cannot. Gokou and Freeza continue to battle. Freeza is now forced to battle using 100% his power. Gokou gets buried under a laval pit. Gohan, sensing his father in trouble, flies to Freeza. Although Gohan is no match for Freeeza, he hopes to stall Freeza long enough to stay on Namek when it explodes to bring Freeza down with him. As Freeza is about to kill Gohan, Gokou reappears and saves his son, telling him to leave the planet on his ship. Meanwhile...Kami telepathically tells Kaiou and he and Popo have gathered all seven Earth dragonballs and asks if he should wish those killed by Vegeta back to life. Kaiou tells Kami to wish for all those killed by Freeza back to life instead, reasoning that in turn, Guru will be brought to life as well; and thus,the Namek dragonballs. This step is taken and Nameks (as well as Vegeta) rise back to life. The Porunga Shenlong is reborn and one wish still reamains for the Shenlong to grant. Kaiou telepathically introduces himself to Guru and tells him to wish everyone on the planet, except Freeza, to Earth so that when Namek explodes, Freeza will go with it. Gokou interferes with this wish and tells to leave he and Freeza on Namek because he wants to fight Freeza.

Freeza, Vegeta, and Dende all race to the dragon. Freeza is the first to make his wish, but the Porunga Shenlong ignores him and grants Dende's wish instead. Now, only Gokou and Freeza remain on the dying Namek. Explosion of Namek...The fight between Gokou and Freeza intensifies. It becomes clear that Freeza is no match for the Super Saiyan. As Freeza's idea of a final attack, he tosses laser spin discs that cut through anything at Gokou. The discs follow Gokou, but with skillful maneuvering, the attack ends up slicing Freeza in two. Freeza is dying and pleads for help. Gokou doesn't want to help the monster, but pities him and does so anyway, donating enough energy to let Freeza fly away from Namek for as long as Freeza promises to never cause trouble again. Gokou begins to fly away. Freeza, still refusing to admit defeat to a "low-class Saiyan piece of trash", shoots a final fireball at Gokou. Gokou counters it and overwhelms Freeza. (*7)The 5 minutes are up and Planet Namek explodes. Meanwhile...All who were affected by Dende's wish are on Earth. Dende heals Piccolo and sees the resemblance of Piccolo to Nail, realizing that the two have merged. Guru is dying and gives his final words. He transfers his role as Senior Elder to Rooli so that the Namek dagonballs may continue to "shine". He bids them all the take care and dies. Meanwhile, Vegeta sits and leaves wildly, shouting that when Namek explodes Gokou and Freeza will die with it and leave him the strongest warrior alive. The deceased Z Warriors at Kaiou's place watch the scenes via Kaiou's back.