Goku is recovering from the battle against Vegeta while Vegeta is in his space-pod retreating back to Freeza's planet. Popo appears (on a flying carpet) and tells the cast of the existence of Namek (Porunga) dragonballs. With this news, Bulma tries to get Nappa's space pod to work, and accidentally blows it up! But again Popo comes to the rescue, and shows them Kami's ship with which he traveled to Earth on. Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin prepare a voyage to Namek to gather the other dragonballs. New hopes arise for the hope of wishing back the deceased warriors of the battle against Nappa and Vegeta. The three then begin their journey on Kami's spaceship (and Gohan gets a new hairstyle).
The adventure begins when the Z warriors are captured by nomad aliens who think that the Z's are part of Freeza's crew. This is the first sign of Freeza, the leader of space pirates who destroyed the aliens' planet. The misunderstanding becomes one that led to friendship, as everything is cleared up when Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin save the aliens from a meteor shower. Next, the cast lands on a planet they mistake for Namek. The two occupants of the planet were stranded there for years, and only once in a long time does the weather clear up for a chance of escaping the planet. The aliens pose as Nameks (they have the ability to read minds, and so discovered the crew's agenda for Namek). The truth is eventually revealed, and Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin regain possession of
their ship and leave the two aliens stranded. Meanwhile, Vegeta has reached his destination and is
recuperating in a stasis pod. Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin finally arrive on Namek, but discover that they have company. The being known as Freeza is also on Namek, and he already has 4 dragonballs! He, too, hungers for the dragonballs to wish for immortality. Vegeta, now fully recovered from his injuries inflicted by Goku, is also on the planet, sharing the same goal as Freeza. The race for dragonballs begins... There are seven villages in Namek, each with an elder possessing a dragonball. Freeza and his
henchmen slowly eradicate the villages after robbing them of the dragonballs. Bulma hides and transmits the news back to Earth through a portable satellite telephone. Gohan and Krillin spy on Freeza to see his character. Unable to restrain from helping the endangered Nameks, the two heroes leap in to help. This is when Dende is introduced. He is a small Namekian who is on the verge of being killed when Gohan and Krillin grab him and run. Freeza's left-hand man, Dodoria, is sent after Gohan and Krillin. The heroes are being closely tailed and barely manage to give Dodoria the slip. Soon, he encounters Vegeta. After bargaining for his life by telling Vegeta the
truth of what happened to Planet Vegeta (Freeza blew up the planet, believing it's inhabitants to have become too dangerous). However, Vegeta unforgivingly kills Dodoria anyway. Meanwhile, Yarijobe visits Goku at the hospital and gives him some senzu beans. Goku automatically recovers from his injuries and travels to where Dr. Briefs lives. Dr. Briefs built a paceship for Goku to journey to Namek. It has life support, living quarters, and a special gravity machine Goku can use for his training. Now, Goku is on his way... Also, King Kai informs Goku that Tenshin-han,
Chauzu, Yamcha, and Piccolo have arrived on his planet to receive his special training! Vegeta makes a plan that if he captures just one of the dragonballs, Freeza will be unable to make his wish (all seven dragonballs are required to summon Shenlong, the Eternal Dragon). Vegeta eliminates a Namek village and steals a dragonball. After hiding it in a nearby lake, he encounters Zarbon, Freeza's right-hand man. The two fight and Vegeta seems to be winning, when Zarbon
suddenly changes into a more powerful (and ugly) monster. Vegeta is defeated and eventually brought back to Freeza's lair. There, after recovering in a stasis pod for a small while, he escapes and steals the dragonballs in Freeza's possession. Freeza becomes furious and summons the Ginew Force (all with members more powerful than Vegeta!). During the battle, krillin and Dende arrived at Guru's lair to retrieve a dragonball. There, Guru also unleashes the warrior's hidden powers. But when Krillin traveled back to the cave Bulma was staying in, he was unknowingly
accompanied by Vegeta and Zarbon. Upon arrival, Vegeta defeats Zarbon and takes Krillin's dragonball. Gohan, however, was gone and was using Bulma's dragon-radar to track down a local dragonball- the one that Vegeta had stolen and hidden. When Vegeta travels back to the place he hid the Dragonball, half way he encounters Gohan (who has the dragonball, but has hidden it
behind a hill). Vegeta mocks Gohan, knees him in the stomach, and passes on. Gohan returns triumphant to Bulma and Krillin. Gohan and Krillin leave the ball with Bulma (who nearly loses it twice) while they go have Guru unleash Gohan's hidden power. While all this has been happening, Goku has been training under the intensity of 100 times the Earth's gravity! Vegeta meets with Krillin and Gohan at Guru's house and offers to make an alliance with them, as he senses the arrival of the Ginew Force. The dragonballs are gathered at once as Vegeta prepares to wish for immortality so that he can become powerful enough to defeat the "unbeatable force". They come too late; the force has arrived. Captain Ginyu, Jees, Baata, Recoome, and Guldo stand before the three. The Ginew Force quickly steal the dragonballs and Ginyu flies away with them. A huge battle follows. Vegeta manages to kill Guldo (after Guldo nearly kills Krillin and Gohan), but is of no match for Recoome. Then Gohan holds out against him until... Goku finally arrives. He hands out senzu beans to Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta. He defeats Recoome with one punch (he is now so fast it is impossible to see him, even with "seeing eyes"). Then Jees and Baata team up on him, and he defeats them easily too. Vegeta takes this chance and
kills off the injured members to Team Ginew. Vegeta, no longer a threat to the heroes (for now), joins in the battle on Goku's side. Ginyu arrives. Ginyu does his body transfer ability on Goku and swaps bodies. Vegeta beats Ginyu (in Goku's body). Ginyu then switches bodies again. Goku is badly battered. Ginyu, once again, attempts to switch bodies with Goku, but Goku throws a frog to intercept the beam, and Ginew permanently swaps bodies with the frog. Goku is taken to recuperate in a Saiyan stasis pod. Vegeta gives Gohan and Krillin Saiyan armor suits. The dragonballs were gathered and the Porunga Shenlong was summoned. Three wishes were granted. The first wish revived Piccolo. The second transported him to Namek to join in the fight. At the third wish, Guru was killed so the dragonballs turned into stone. Now, the heroes must face the wrath of Freeza... A battle follows. Freeza has killed nearly all the Nameks on the planet, so the Namek dragonballs have also turned to stone. The heroes are able to stand up to Freeza, so Freeza undergoes a power-up and enters a physical body change. As the battle becomes more intense, Freeza does goes through more metamorphosis stages until his perfect form is reached. No one is certain who will
win. Vegeta has been killed. The only true damage done to Freeza was the with Krillin's flying disc beam, which truncated half of Freeza's tail. In a final attempt to defeat Freeza, Goku prepares a Spirit Bomb . The fireball is cast and everyone thinks that Freeza has lost. However, Freeza survived... Wasting no more time, Freeza does a blast that rips through Piccolo. Then, he engulfs Krillin in a fatal force field and crushes it. Goku sees the deaths of his friends and remembers all the innocent people that Freeza has killed. Anger takes over Goku's body and Goku powers up. His hair turns gold and Goku reaches Super Saiyan level for the first time. Goku tells Gohan that Piccolo is still alive. Gohan takes Piccolo's body back to Goku's spaceship and then finds Bulma in his father's orders to travel back to Earth. Goku now goes on a one-on-one combat battle against Freeza... Goku evades Freeza's attacks. Freeza, trembling in the chance that he may lose to Goku, an
"inferior Saiyan monkey", does a fireball aimed at the planet. Namek's core is destroyed, and planet will explode in 5 minutes. Hurricanes form. Cliffs break off. Rubbish flies everywhere. An ominous look is set on what will happen... Kami telepathically ommunicates to Kai. He tells that he will make a plan with the Earth dragonballs and asks what wish to make. Kai develops a plan to wish to revive all those killed by
Freeza. In turn, Guru and Dende will be brought back to life and the Namek dragonballs will become available again. Then, the Porunga dragonballs can be used to make a wish to teleport everyone on Namek, except for Freeza, to Earth. Popo has gathered the dragonballs and the first half of the plan is followed. The Porunga Shenlong is summoned and is awaiting to grant the third wish. Freeza sees his chance to be granted immortality and races to the dragon. Vegeta, revived from the wish, also joins in the race. Dende arrives, but it is Freeza makes his wish first. However, the Porunga Shenlong ignores Freeza (the wish must be said in Namek) and grants Dende's wish, which by Goku's plea was changed to leaving he and Freeza on Namek. All who were affected by the wish are on Earth. Dende heals Piccolo. Guru, dying, transfers his role to Rooli to become the new Elder so that the Namek dragonballs may "shine again". Guru explains what has happened, and then dies. Goku fights Freeza to a stand-still, but time eventually shows that Freeza was no match for a Super Saiyan. In Freeza's pathetic final attack, two disc beams are tossed at Goku. With skillful maneuvering by Goku, the beams slice Freeza in two instead. Freeza is dying and pleads for help. Goku gives him a bit of his energy to give Freeza a last chance. Freeza, unwilling to change and lose to a low-class Saiyan, does another fireball at Goku. Goku counters it and it overwhelms Freeza. The 5 minutes are up and Planet Namek explodes. A spaceship passes by shortly after the destruction of Planet Namek. It's leader, Cold, the father of Freeza, finds the remains of Freeza's body flowing through space and quickly orders his henchmen to rescue his son. Freeza is literally rebuilt, and he becomes half robotic. Now, father and son plan to land on Earth to get revenge... The ship lands on Earth. The Z warriors on Earth are no match for Freeza, and now they must face him in addition to King Cold... without the help of Goku, to which all believed was dead. Cold and Freeza believe in swift victory in the destruction of Earth, but a figure appears out of nowhere. Vegeta recognizes the aura of the man to be that of a Saiyan, and resents the fact that there is another stronger than him. This Saiyan destroys King Cold's henchmen with ease, in a split second. The mysterious visitor charges up and reaches Super Saiyan mode. With a few slashes with his sword, Freeza is truly killed. Now King Cold talks the Saiyan into letting him see his sword. King Cold thought hat all his power came from his sword. Then charges the mysterious Saiyan,( this is when I thought it was all over, King Cold was sure to defeat the Saiyan). You'll never guess what happened next. The Saiyan caught th sword that is razor sharp, with one hand. He says,"It's not the sword that mkes the fighter, it's the fighter that makes the sword". Then, the figure shoots a fireball at Cold, which pierces through his heart and throws the King agenist a rock. The Saiyan shows no mersey and fires a great energy beam and turned King Cold into an inferno. The stranger introduces himself as Trunks, the future son of Bulma and Vegeta. He tells the cast that Goku is not dead, but escaped to Planet Yardat when Planet Namek exploded. Then, he tells that Goku should appear in 2 hours. They all have doughts on weather or not to trust Trunks. But all finally follow Trunks and sit and wait for Goku. The Z warriors are shocked, and Goku does appear. He
really did take refuge in Yardat and learned how to teleport from its inhabitants. Then, Trunks
introduces his purpose to seeking the Goku and the cast, and this leads to the Cell Series...
