This was the beginning of
Dragon Ball Z. We first saw someone leaping from tree to tree in the forest.
It was Son Goku, getting wood (actually a whole tree) for his wife, Chi-Chi,
to cook. Chi-Chi asked Goku where was Gohan. Goku did not know so he went
searching for him.
Meanwhile, a circular spaceship
crashed onto Earth. A curious farmer looked for the space pod. As the pod
opened up, a large stranger, with an appearance similar to Goku but had
more hair and was stronger, emerged. The scared farmer took his gun and
shot him, but the alien reflected the bullet back at the farmer, killing
him. The alien flew and shouted out, "KAKAROTTO!!!"
A little child with a strange
hat that held the 4-star dragon ball was lost in the forest. Meet Son Gohan,
Goku's son. After meeting a tiger/puma, who later began his friend, he
finally fell down a river on a log, shouting "DAD." Goku finally heard
his screams and saved him.
Goku and Gohan flew to Kame-House
to meet Kuririn, Kamesennin, Bulma, and the Turtle. Suddenly, the alien
arrived. He told Goku he was his brother and told him his Saiya-jin origin.
(Note: A previous head injury caused Goku to lost his Saiya-jin memory.)
The alien, Raditz, told him to bring 100 dead bodies by the next day or
Gohan would be lost to him. Piccolo arrived suddenly, told him of his encounter
with Raditz, and agreed to team up with him. Because Raditz was very strong,
they would have to fight together to win.
Goku and Piccolo finally
found Raditz, and the battle had begin. During the battle, Piccolo lost
a limb, and Goku was seriously injured. An enraged Gohan broke out of Raditz's
spacepod, which he was trapped in, and attacked Raditz. During Raditz's
weaken state, Goku was able to held him until Piccolo executed his secret
attack, "MAKANKOUSAPPO." Both Raditz and Goku was killed by the sudden
attack. Before Raditz died, he told Piccolo that two stronger Saiya-jins
will arrive in one year. Piccolo took Gohan to train with him because he
knew that Gohan had great power.
Goku was now in heaven. He was allowed to travel through Serpent Road to
Kaiou's planet to train, but he would go to HELL if he fell off. (Note:
It was censored to HFIL, Home For Infinite Losers, in the American version.)
After running continuously, he got tired but was able to get a ride from
a guy that was cleaning Snake Way. When the driver/cleaner was sleeping,
Goku fell from the car to HELL. In order to reenter Snake Way, Goku raced
two, cool, dumb ogres. When he successfully left HELL, he had to run through
Snake Way all over again but was able to regain his strength with an King
Yamma's apple. After escaping from Princess Snake, he finally reached Kaiou's
planet.
Piccolo left Gohan in a desert alone for six months for survival training.
Piccolo later returned and started training him.
On Kaiou's planet, Goku
learned to live under a gravity ten times stronger than Earth's and also
learned the Kaioken and Genki-Dama's techniques. (Note: The Genki Dama
drew ki energy from everybody on Earth and even the universe. It had been
effective many times for Goku during combats.) Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Yamcha,
and Chaozu trained with Kami-sama throughout the year.
The Saiyans finally
arrived, destroyed a city, and found Gohan and Piccolo. They wanted to
kill Raditz's murderers and to get the dragon balls to wish for immortality.
Yamchu got killed when one of Nappa's Saiba-men self-destructed. Chaozu
and Tien sacrificed their lives to kill Nappa but failed. Piccolo died
defending Gohan, a very emotional scene. During the moment, Goku was wished
back by the dragon balls and ran rapidly through Snake Way back to Earth.
Luckily, Goku finally
arrived to save Gohan and Krillin by using Kaioken. Vegeta became angry
of Nappa's attempts to kill Goku and shouted "SHI NE," destroying him.
The battle between Goku and Vegeta began. Vegeta gained an advantage by
creating an artificial moon and transformed into Oozaru form but lost his
ability when Yajirobe cowardly cut off his tail with a sword. (Note: The
tail allows a Saiya-jin to transform into a giant monkey called Oozaru
when a full moon appears. The transformation will be reversed if either
the moon disappears or the tail is cut.) Goku was seriously injured while
fighting Vegeta and handed his Genki Dama to Kuririn, who then weakened
Vegeta with it. Finally, Gohan turned into Oozaru and started beating up
Vegeta. With his last amount of strength, Vegeta escaped back in his spacepod.
Bulma and the others arrived
to pick up Goku, Kuririn, Gohan, and the bodies of their dead companions.
Because of Piccolo's death, Kami also died unfortunately. Without Kami,
the dragon balls was not able to exist. Krillin stated that he heard Vegeta
saying that Piccolo came from the planet Namek. By using Kami's spaceship,
Bulma, Kuririn, and Gohan traveled to Namek, hoping that there would be
more powerful dragon balls to revive their friends.
Freeza Saga
The battle with Vegeta and
Nappa was finally over, but Krillin, Bulma, and Gohan must now go to Planet
Namek, Piccolo's and Kami's home planet, to obtain another set of dragon
balls to wish their allies back. Goku was injured from the battle and was
uncapable to go, but Krillin, Bulma, and Gohan were able to obtain the
spaceship Kami used to arrive to Earth.
The journey was two
months long and was filled with dangers, including the Space Ark Children,
Raachi and Zaakro (with their abilities to create illusions), and finally
Freeza! Freeza was the most powerful being in the universe, who had to
undergo throught four forms to achieve his real power. After listening
to the message from the dying Radditz in the Vegeta Saga, he learned about
the dragon balls and decided to pursue them himself to gain immortality.
Aftering being healed by
a senzu bean, Goku set off for Namek in a specially designed spaceship,
training hard in 100 times gravity. Meanwhile, Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien, and
Chaozu served as Kaiou's pupils. Vegeta was also healed and stronger than
ever, heading for Namek for the dragon balls and the hatred for Goku in
his black heart. Vegeta was able to kill Dodoria, Kiwi, and Zarbon, becoming
stronger after every battle.
Freeza killed all
the Namekians except Nail, Dende, and Saichoro while Vegeta captured all
the seven dragon balls (with six from Freeza and one from Krillin, Gohan,
and Bulma). As a desperate measure, Freeza summoned Team Ginew, a team
of five strong fighters. Even with their ki increased by Saichoro and with
Vegeta assisting them, Krillin and Gohan were losing to the Ginew Team,
allowing them to take the dragon balls to Freeza. Freeza was unable to
activate the dragon balls and flew to Saichoro to seek out the answer.
Luckily, Goku arrived to defeat Recoome, the big blue guy, and Jace, allowing
Vegeta to kill them, including Guldo. Vegeta wondered if Goku was the legendary
Super Saiyan. Ginew knew he could not surpass Goku's power so he switched
bodies with Goku. The battle concluded with Goku returning to his own body
and Ginew trapped in a frog's body.
Gohan, Krillin, and Dende
were able to obtain the dragon balls from Freeza to revive Piccolo and
to bring him to Namek. (Note: Unlike Shen-long, Porunga could grant the
user three wishes.) Freeza killed Saichoro and injured Nail, interrupting
Porunga from granting the third wish (which was to grant Vegeta immortality).
An angered Freeza hurted Kuririn and Gohan, but Dende had the ability to
heal them. Freeza tranformed into his second form, but Piccolo merged with
Nail and started beating Freeza. Freeza transfomed to his third form while
Goku was recovering in Freeza's ship from the battle with Ginew.
After undergoing his
transformation to his fourth and final form, Freeza killed Vegeta for stating
about the Super Saiya-jin to Goku. (Note: Freeza feared the Super Saiya-jin
legend.) Goku executed a Genki Dama desperately at Freeza, but an injured
Freeza killed Kuririn out of rage. This triggered the anger Goku to transform
to a Super Saiya-jin. An intense battle has developed, risking the destruction
of Namek.
Super Saiyan Goku was defeating Freeza, becoming stronger every minute.
With his last strength, Freeza triggered the planet to blow up in five
minutes and threw Kienzan-like fireballs at him but accidentally got cut
in the process. Goku gave Freeza some of his energy to save his live and
to fight more but had to kill him rapidly and escape. Goku tried to start
Freeza's spaceship but failed as the planet exploded.
Bulma, Piccolo, Gohan, Vegeta,
and the Namekians traveled back to earth with the Namek dragon balls. (Note:
The Namekians were revived with the Earth dragon balls. Porunga revived
Krillin but was unable to revive Goku. It seemed that Goku survived the
explosion and was training on another planet, learning the Shunkanidou
in the process. Vegeta decided to train in space, and everything was safe
on Earth for now.
One year later Freeza is put back together in a robotic form by his father,
King Cold. They arrive on Earth with an army, all hope is lost by the Z
warriors, even Vegeta thinks so when he was revived by the DragonBalls.
Suddenly, a teenager comes out of nowhere, beats the crap out of Freeza.
Not only that, he is a Saiyan! Turing Super Saiyan, he kills Freeza and
King Cold with his sword easily. All he says is that he is waiting for
Son Goku, then Son Goku appears out of nowhere. Son Goku tells of his troubles
and also demonstrates his new teleportation technique. The teenager says
that his name is Trunks. He is also the son of Bulma and Vegeta! He is
from the future and comes back in time to warn the Z warriors of androids
that will terrorize the world in three years. Trunks also says that Son
Goku will die from a heart disease. Trunks though has brought medicine
for him. Trunks says that he will come back in three years to fight the
androids. Now the Z warriors must train for the androids arriving in three
years.
