Freeza's First Transformation...
Vegeta, more powerful than before, faces Freeza and is able to stand up to him. Vegeta knows; however, that Freeza is holding back. Vegeta overheard one of Freeza's henchmen talking about his transformations. With each transformation, Freeza's power level great increases. Since Vegeta has gotten so strong, Freeza undergoes his first stage of transformation. Freeza is now kicking major butt. He speared Kurillin through the stomach with the horns he grew from his transformation. That makes Gohan mad and he smacks Freeza to the ground. Freeza gets back up and he and Gohan fight it out a while. This time is used to heal Kurillin with Dende's new power. Kurillin gets up and chops off Freeza's tail with a Destructo Disc. 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 skepticism 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. However, Piccolo shows up and hurts Freeza severely. Freeza then transforms again. His new form looks kind of like an the alien from the movie Alien. Piccolo is beaten down. 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 Kurillin 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. Kurillin though reluctant, blasts Vegeta throught the stomach. 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 Kamehameha that even Freeza has trouble blocking. Hurt again, 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. Freeza finishes his transformation and with annoyance, Freeza shoots and kills Dende. Another shot is shot at Gohan, but Gohan, Kurillin, 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 now fully recovered and rushes to the scene. Gokou arrives with a more impressive power level. Vegeta is knocked free from Freeza's grip and tells that Goku is the Super Saiyan that 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 says "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 and gives it to her frog buddy. This gives Ginew back his ability of speech. Ginew screams "change!", and swaps bodies with Bulma. Ginew then drives Bulma's flying motorcycle with Bulma, now a frog, hanging on the back, demanding her body back (in frog language of course). They coincidently reach where Gohan, Kurillin, and Piccolo are standing watching the fight between Goku and Freeza. Our heroes learn that Bulma is not herself because she was cheering for Freeza instead of Goku. Ginyu learns that his new body is not good for fighting after catfighting Kurillin, and prepares to swap bodies with Piccolo. Gohan throws Bulma, the frog, 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 Goku at just 50% his power level. Goku powers up to 20x the Kaiou-ken method, but is still losing to Freeza. Freeza completely annihilates Goku. Goku only has one chance left. In a final desperate attempt, Goku prepares a Genki Dama (Spirit Bomb) made from the energy 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 Gokou's trick and rushes to kill him. Gohan and Klilyn donate their "ki" to Piccolo and Piccolo goes to stall time for Goku. Piccolo stops Freeza for a while and then gets beat up once again, but Goku's attack is ready. Freeza is crushed under the attack, but survives... Meanwhile... On Kaiou's (King Kai) 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 Ginyu Team that beat Vegeta. The Ginyus get beaten into hell and Kaiou tells the Z Warriors that it was he who requested King Yemma to bring the Ginyu 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 2, his second ship for Namek. 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 lift Kurillin into the air. With the closing of Freeza's hand, Kurillin is literally disintegrated. Goku sees Freeza's inhumanity and powers up in great anger. Gokou'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, then go 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. 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 Goku cannot. Goku and Freeza continue to battle. Freeza is now forced to battle using 100% his power. Gokou is knocked down and gets buried under a lava 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 that 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. Then the Namek dragon Porunga is reborn and one wish still remains for the dragon to grant. Kaiou telepathically introduces himself to Dende 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 himself 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 dragon only accepts wishes in Namekian 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 laser spin discs 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 attack at Goku. Goku counters it and overwhelms Freeza. The 5 minutes end 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 telepathy. Piccolo's Cleansing... 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 positon 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. Return of Freeza/ Battle of the Mysterious Youth... A spaceship passes by what used to be Namek. Its leader, Kold, is the father of Freeza. He finds the remains of his son's body flowing through space. Kold's henchmen are sent to rescue Freeza. Freeza is literally rebuilt and becomes half robotic. Freeza tells his father to set a new course to Earth. Kold still laughs at how anyone could have defeated a member of his family, the strongest in the universe. Now, father and son head to Earth for revenge of what happened. Planet Namek has been restored. The Z Warriors, also all revived now, prepare for the coming of Freeza along with the additional threat of King Kold. Without Goku's help, they can only watch the spaceship land. Kold and Freeza believe in a swift victory in desroying Earth, but a teenager appears out of nowhere. The mysterious boy easily uses a sword to cut up Kold's henchmen. Then, he powers up and boasts that Goku is not the only Super Saiyan. Vegeta recognizes the aura of the man to be that of a Saiyan, and resents the fact that there is another stronger than him. Freeza creates a fireball 10x the size as the one he used to destroy Namek and launches it at the boy. The teen easily catches the fireball with one hand and shatters the ball. Then, he takes out his sword again and slices Freeza to bits before blowing the body parts away with a single blast. Kold, supposedly much stronger than Freeza, goes to battle the stranger but also gets quickly killed with a blast from the boy. The stranger flies to the Z Warriors and tells that Goku will be back in exactly 3 hours at a location not too far away. The Z cast follow the teen and wait. The boy refuses to tell anything, except for his age. In three hours, Gokou really does land on Earth on a spacepod. More startling, Gokou has never seen the teen before. The boy tells Goku to talk with him alone. The stranger introduces himself as Trunks. His story is told in Trunks Story. He tells that he is the only surviving warrior in a future 20 years from now. He traveled back in time to alter the past so that his ruined time would change. Trunks mentions that in exactly three years, two super strong beings will appear. These beings are cyborgs of Dr. Gero, the scientist of the Red Ribbon Army who was thought to be dead. They will kill everyone (including their creator Dr. Gero and live only to destroy, recking everything in path for no reason). Trunks also tells that Goku will develop a heart disease and die from it. The disease is incurable now, not curable by Trunks' timeline. Trunks hands Goku the heart disease medicine and tells him to prepare for the future. Trunks also slips out that he is the son of Vegeta and Bulma. (Bulma and Yamcha broke up and Bulma felt sorry for Vegeta's loneliness. They fell in love and Trunks was to be born in two years.) Trunks tells that he will be back in three years and flies off in his time machine. Goku returns to his friends on the other side of a cliff. Goku tells how he survived Namek. When Namek prepared to explode, Goku entered Freeza's spaceship, but the ship didn't work. One of the Ginyu Force's ship was nearby and Goku rode in it. He crashed in a nearby planet, Yardat, where the Yardatrians (purple aliens who look like a blend of the Jedi-Master of Star Wars and the Brain of Pinky and the Brain) taught him how to teleport. Then, Goku traveled back to Earth. Piccolo then tells that Nameks have better hearing than Earthlings and Saiyans, and that he overheard the entire conversation between Goku and Trunks. Piccolo tells everyone of Trunks' news. The Z Warriors prepare training for the coming of the next three years, the Cell Series... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: *1- Piccolo was among those killed by Nappa. With the death of Piccolo, Kami died as well because of his link with Piccolo. With Kami dead, the Earth dragonballs vanished, so those dragonballs could not be used. *2- When Kami first landed on Earth, his spaceship landed in a canyon and was left there. Popo led Bulma to retrieve it to use it to journey to Namek; it was the only ship fast enough to travel to Namek in a short time. The spaceship is voice-operated. In order to fly it, Bulma learned the Namek language from Popo. *3- As Raditz was dying, Kurillin told him that he had the last laugh because Piccolo and Goku could be revived with the dragonballs. Before he died, Raditz transmitted the message to Vegeta and Nappa, acknowleding them about the dragonballs and laughing at Kurillin that his comrades will use the dragonballs to wish him back to life. Vegeta, however, betrayed Raditz and planned to wish for immortality for the hope of overwhelming his master, Freeza, and becoming the galaxy's strongest warrior. With Piccolo dead, the Earth dragonballs faded, so Vegeta's hopes now relyed in the Namek dragonballs. *4- In Lonely Final Battle, Freeza destroyed Planet Vegeta. To the few Saiyans who did survive, Freeza lied that the planet collided with a meteor. *5- A wish from the Porunga dragonballs has to be said in the Namek language. Freeza does not know Namek, so the dragonballs would be unless to him even if he did have all seven. Goku chose to remain on the exploding planet with Freeza so that he may have a worthy fight to avenge all those who suffered from Freeza. Goku also gave Freeza a chance to powerup to 100% even when Kaiou advised Goku to destroy Freeza at the opportunity. *6- All the Nameks but those in one village were revived. The wish with the Earth dragonballs was to revive those killed by Freeza. Vegeta eliminated a village, and so those Nameks remained dead. Kurillin also remained dead because the Earth dragonballs can only revive a person back to life once. Later, Dende tells Gohan that the Namek dragonballs can revive a person who has not died of a natural cause for unlimited times. This is how the deceased Z warrior were returned to life. *7- Freeza has the ability to survive in space. Saiyans don't. This is why Freeza believed that he will win at the end, even if Gokou beats him; and is the reason to his attack on Planet Namek's core. Goku will perish when Namek explodes, but Freeza will not. Character development: Gohan has a mushroom hair-cut and becomes more bolder a character, no longer fearing the enemy as he did in the Vegeta Series. Piccolo officially becomes one of the good guys, as the evil spirit of Daimao leaves him when he fights on the side of good. Vegeta begins to consider changing views and no longer poses to threaten the Earth. Instead, he makes the excuse to remain on the planet to one day have a rematch with Goku and defeat him. Garlic Jr. (from Movie 1) made a brief appearance in this series. He escaped from the portal of nothingness, but was defeated by Piccolo and entrapped again. Immediately after the deaths of Team Ginyu, Kaiou requested King Yemma to send the killed members to his planet to act as a practice test for his trainees, Yamcha, Tenshin-han, and Chauzu. Kaiou saw that his training pay off when the Z warriors proved strong enough to literally knock the Ginyu squad to hell.