Meanwhile...
Vegeta is in his space capsule retreating back to Freeza's planet. When he lands, he is taken into a recoperation pod and recoperates. Flashbacks are held reflecting on times with Freeza. It is revealed that the Saiyans were loyal servants to Freeza, but Freeza was never satisfied with them. This shows Vegeta's resent to serving Freeza. Vegeta, too, knows of the Namek dragonballs. With the Earth dragonballs gone, Vegeta also makes plans to seek the Namek dragonballs to fulfill his wish for immortality. After becoming immortal, Vegeta plans to kill Freeza, get revenge on Gokou, and become the strongest in the universe. Upon recovery, he races to get to Namek.

Arrival to Namek...
Bulma, Gohan, and Krillen finally arrive to Namek, but discover that they have company. Two goons of Freeza attack our heroes and shoot at their spaceship. Though they are easily beaten, our heroes become stranded on Namek. Vegeta,too, arrives on the planet. The being known as Freeza is also on Namek. He, too, hungers for the dragonballs to wish for immortality. A dragonball hunt begins...

Dodoria and Zarboon...
There are seven villages in Namek, each with an elder possessing a dragonball. Freeza and his henchmen slowly eradicate village by village after robbing them of the dragonballs. Bulma hides and transmits the news of trouble on Namek back to Earth through a portable satellite telephone. In one village, Gohan and Krillen pass by and spy on Freeza to learn his character and witness the brutality of the monster. Freeza's goons kill all defenders and crush all resistance of the Nameks. The elder of the village still refuses to give up his dragonballs to such a monster as Freeza. Freeza then threatens to have two Namek children killed if the elder did not give up the dragonballs at once. Among the children is Dende. Unable to restrain from helping the endangered Nameks, Gohan and Klilyn leap in to help. Freeza's left-hand man, Dodoria, goes to kill the Namek children but get kicked and punched away by Gohan and Krillen. The heroes carry Dende way to safety and flee from Dodoria. The chase comes dangerously close, but Dodoria loses his victims in an encounter with Vegeta. Vegeta, recovered, is much stronger now and easily beats Dodoria. Dodoria tries to bargain for his life by revealing that the truth of what happened to Planet Vegeta. Vegeta unforgivingly kills Dodoria anyway.

Vegeta's power level has grown so strong that he can sense the dragonballs without the need of any mechanical device like a scouter. He learns that Freeza already has five of the dragonballs and is aware that he is not yet capable of defeating Freeza with his current stregth. Vegeta reasons that if he captures just one of the dragonballs, Freeza will be unable to gather all the dragonballs needed to make a wish. With this plan, Vegeta heads to an unattacked Namek village and treats it with the same brutality as Freeza to steal a dragonball. After eliminating the village, he hides the dragonball underwater . After flying off again, Vegeta encounters Zarbon, Freeza's right-hand man. The two battle and fight to a stalemate. Zarbon transforms into his second phrase and defeats Vegeta. Only Vegeta knows where the remaining dragonballs that Freeza needs is, so Zarbon cannot kill him. Vegeta is captured back to Freeza's spaceship and put into a recovery pod.

Freeza learns that his quest for the dragonballs have run into some trouble, so he summons the Ginew Force, Freeza's elite warriors who have conquered many planets undefeatedly.Vegeta recovers in the recovery cell and destroys it along with any guards. Freeza's lair is deserted but the dragonballs stolen by Freeza are still there. Freeza steals these and flees.Gohan borrows Bulma's dragon radar and discovers that one dragonball is close by and goes to retrieve it. Vegeta encounters Gohan but spares him because he is in a hurry to retrieve the dragonball hid underwater, unaware that Gohan has it.Dende tells our heroes more about his planet and recommends them to meet the dying Guru, the Namek elder responsible for fathering everyone on Namek. Krillen flies to Guru to inform him of what is happening to the planet. Guru senses good intentions in the Earthling, unleashes his hidden powers, and hands him the 1-star dragonball. Krillen heads back to tell Bulma and Gohan the news. Vegeta spots Krillen and follows him. Zarbon spots Vegeta and follows him. Vegeta lands to take our heroes' dragonballs, but so does Zarbon. Zarbon and Vegeta fight. Vegeta powers up and kills Zarbon. Krillen is forced to trade his dragonball for the sparing of Bulma and his life. Vegeta laughs and flies off again. Immediately afterwards, Gohan returns with the dragonball that he retrieved.

Meanwhile... Back on Earth, Goku, still in the hospital, learns of the trouble on Namek but regrets not being able to do anything. Yarijobe visits Goku and gives him a senzu bean. Goku eats it and immediately recovers. Gokou's next stop is to Dr. Briefs. Based on Nappa's spacepod, Dr. Briefs was able to design a spaceship capable of traveling to Namek. The ship is ready and Goku is set for his voyage to Namek. On the ship, Goku trains himself under the gravity machine and trains to 100 times the gravity of Earth. King Kai teleports Goku news that new students have arrived on his planet for special training - Tenshin-han, Chauzu, Yamcha, and Piccolo!

Ginyu Force... The Ginyu Force is arriving. Gohan and Krillen fly back to Guru to have Guru release Gohan's hidden powers. On the way, Vegeta follows. Gohan goes to Guru while Krillen stalls Vegeta. Vegeta catches up with Krillen and offers a temporary alliance. He requests that Gohan and Krillen give him their dragonball so that he can wish for immorality before it is too late. He tells that he senses the coming of the Ginyu Force, an "unbeatable team" of Freeza, and that the only way to win is if he gets his wish granted. After much reluctance, Gohan and Krillen agree. They fly to Bulma to retrieve the remaining dragonball and abandon her once again. All seven dragonballs are gathered into one place, but it is too late. The Ginyu Force have arrived. Ginyu, Jeice, Burter, Recoom, and Guldo, the five members of Team Ginyu, stand before the three and do their silly dance introducing themselves as members of the Special Ginyu Corp. Vegeta tells Krillen to destroy a dragonballs so that they cannot bring the dragonballs back to Freeza to let Freeza make his wish. Guldo freezes time temporarily to steal the dragonballs from Krillen before his fist can shatter it. Vegeta then throws the remaining dragonballs away to separate them from the Ginyu Force, but Burter, whose special ability is super speed, goes after the ball and easily retrieves it. The Ginyu Force now have all seven dragonballs. Ginyu, leader and strongest of the bunch, flies off with the dragonballs to give them to Freeza. The remaining members of the Ginyu Force and left to "deal with" Gohan, Krillen, and Vegeta.

Guldo, a short, green four eyed slug-like being, is the first to fight. He possesses the special ability to freeze time in a breathe. Gohan and Krillen attack, but Guldo keeps freezing time to run away from all attacks while his attackers are frozen in time. Finally, he manages to freeze Gohan and Krillen with he physic powers. Guldo again uses physic power to grind a nearby tree into a giant spear and launches it at Gohan and Krillen, still sitting ducks unable to move. Vegeta jumps in and chops Guldo's head off before blowing it away with a blast. Gohan and Krillen are shocked that Vegeta saved their lives, but Vegeta only says that it was because he had a score to settle with Guldo. Next up, is Recoom, a huge orange ogre. Vegeta, Krillen, and Gohan attack, but all end up getting easily beaten on the brink of death by Recoom. Recoom is about to finish off his victims as Jeice and Burter laugh at more of their silly comments.

Goku finally arrives. He calmly walks out and gives the three senzu beans he has to Gohan, Krillen, and Vegeta. Gohan and Krillen warn Goku about the invincibility of Recoom, but Vegeta sees that Gokou's powerlevel has reached new peaks. Recoom attacks and easily gets beaten by Goku in a single punch. Gohan and Krillen know that they will only be in the way of Goku if they stay to help, so they fly away. Vegeta also leaves the scene. Burter, a blue monster known for being the "fastest in the universe", and Jeice, 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 Goku anyway. Burter gets knocked down and Jees escapes. Vegeta mocks Goku for being to soft at letting Jeice get away, and then kills off the knocked out Burter and Recoom. Ginyu 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 to find out how to work the dragonballs while Ginyu is left to stay guard. Jeice arrives and informs Ginyu of what has happened. Ginyu heads to fight Gokou.As Ginyu and Goku battle, Ginyu realizes that Goku is stronger than him. Ginyu badly jabs himself and shoots a strange beam at Gokou. Unaware of what is happening, Goku gets his body swapped by Ginyu. By the time that Goku realizes that Ginyu's special technique is body swapping, it is too late. Ginyu laughs and he and Jeice flies back to the dragonballs. Goku is stuck in Ginyu's battered body forced to chase after his own body.

Meanwhile...
Vegeta arrives to Freeza's spaceship to seek the dragonballs, but Gohan and Krillen also arrive. Vegeta hides behind the ship to watch the Earthlings, planning to kill them once they summon Shenlong for him. Gohan and Krillen use Bulma's dragon radar to locate the dragonballs and summon it, but nothing happens. Everyone is baffled why. Gohan and Krillen sense the "ki" of people coming and hide. Ginyu and Jeice land, looking at the dragonballs and wondering who dug them up. Because Ginyu is in Goku's body, Krillen mistakes him for Goku and comes out to greet him. Gohan senses something wrong in his father's body and yells that that Goku is not his dad. Gohan and Krillen face the remainder of the Ginyu Force, but Goku also arrives. He reasons that since he has trouble controlling his new body because he's not used to it, so will Ginyu in his body. Ginyu tries to power up to Goku's power level, but cannot because he doesn't know the Kaioken technique. Goku tells that Gohan and Krillen and beat Ginyu because of his lack of experience. Ginyu gets beaten and calls for Jeice to help. Vegeta comes out of hiding and challenges Jeice. 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 Goku and then from Recoom, Vegeta's power level has increased tremendously. He toys with Jeice and then kills him. Then, Vegeta flies to Ginyu and badly beats him. Ginyu begins to admire Vegeta's body and decided to change bodies with him. Ginyu does his body swap technique on Vegeta but Goku jumps in the way and gets his old body back. However, it was so badly beaten that he cannot move. Ginyu, 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 Ginyu. Goku throws a nearby frog in Ginyu's path and forces him to change into a frog.

Meanwhile...
Guru sends Dende to seek Gohan and Krillen 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. Goku is put into a Saiyan recovery pod and Krillen and Gohan are given Saiyan armor bye Vegeta. Krillen 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. Krillen and Dende bump into each other and head back to Gohan. The three take the dragonballs away from the spaceship so Vegeta doesn't 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 Krillen 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. Krillen throws a distructo disc at Freeza and the fireball penitrates his tail. Freeza, now an even bigger monster with huge horns, flies to Krillen and jabs a horn through Krillen. Gohan attacks Freeza to save him. Krillen is thrown aside and Gohan gets beaten close to death. At the next scene, Krillen is back up and lures Freeza away. Freeza doesn't know how Krillen survived, so he follows him anyway. In the distraction, Dende heals Gohan like how he secretly did to Krillen. 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 Krillen 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 transforms, 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, Krillen, 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. Goku is fully recovered and rushes to the scene. Goku arrives with a more impressive "ki" level. Vegeta is knocked free from Freeza's grip and tells that Goku 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 Goku to take vengeance for all Saiyans. Goku 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 Ginyu. Bulma puts together a gadget that allows animals to talk for her frog buddy. This gives Ginyu back his ability for speech. Ginyu screams "Change!", and swaps bodies with Bulma. Ginyu then drives Bulma's flying motorcycle with Bulma hanging on the back, demanding her body back. They coincidently reach where Gohan, Krillen, and Piccolo are watching the fight between Goku and Freeza. Our heroes learn that Bulma is not herself because her body was cheering for Freeza instead of Goku. Ginyu learns that his new body is not good for fighting after catfighting Krillen, and prepares to swap bodies with Piccolo. Gohan throws Bulma in the way and Bulma regains her own body while Ginyu becomes the frog again. The movement in the air caused from the fight between Goku and Freeza blows Bulma and Ginyu away, again.

Freeza's Terror...
Goku and Freeza toy with each other at first, but Freeza later boasts how he can beat Gokou at just 50% his power level. Goku powers up to Kaioken x20, but is still losing to Freeza. In a final desperate attempt, Goku prepares a Genki Dama made from "ki" of local planets. Freeza is unaware of what Goku is doing because he cannot detect "ki", and therefore can't sense the power of the growing Genki Dama. Freeza soon learns of Goku's trick and rushes to kill him. Gohan and Krillen donate their "ki" to Piccolo and Piccolo goes to stall time for Goku. Piccolo gets beat up, but Goku's is ready. Freeza is crushed under the attack, but survives...

Meanwhile...
On Kaiou's planet, the Ginyu Force (all except Ginyu, 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 Ginyu get beaten into hell and Kaiou tells that it was he who requested King Yemma to bring the Ginyu Force 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, Krillen, and Bulma took the first ship. Goku 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 on the ground. Next, Freeza uses psychic power to airlift Krillen. With the closing of Freeza's hand, Krillen is literally disintegrated. Goku sees Freeza's inhumanity and powers up in great anger. Goku's hair turns golden and his eyes green, becoming the Legendary Super Saiyan. Goku 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. Goku and Freeza fight in a one-on-battle. Freeza is forced to now fight at 70% his power. Goku 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 Goku cannot. Goku and Freeza continue to battle. Freeza is now forced to battle using 100% his power. Goku 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, Goku 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 remains 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. Goku 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 Goku and Freeza remain on the dying Namek.

Explosion of Namek...
The fight between Goku 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 distructo disks that cut through anything at Goku. The discs follow Goku, but with skillful maneuvering, the attack ends up slicing Freeza in two. Freeza is dying and pleads for help. Goku 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. Goku begins to fly away. Freeza, still refusing to admit defeat to a "low-class Saiyan piece of trash", shoots a final fireball at Goku. Goku counters it and overwhelms Freeza. 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 Goku 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.

Lets take a little time to see what the owner thinks about the following battle. I think that the so called Garlic Jr. Saga isnt a saga at all. I believe that it is actually a movie added by those who created the original Dragonball Z anime in japan because it isnt in the magna (the original comics of Dragonball Z). And now back to the summary....

The Z Warriors are resurrected. Everyone receives word that Goku survived the explosion and is returning to Earth. However, trouble arises in the heavens. Garlic Jr. (from DBZ Movie 1) returns and attempts to steal Kami's position as God of the Earth. Everyone on earth turns demonic and Piccolo turns evil again. At the end, ultra cleansing water in Kami's temple is used and everyone on earth is restored to normal. Garlic is trapped into eternal nothingness again. Piccolo's evil spirit is gone forever.