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Goku, Gohan, and Krillin are in a hospital recoperating from the battle against Vegeta. Popo appears on a flying carpet outside the hospital and informs the cast of the existence of Namek (Porunga) dragon balls, dragon balls of Planet Namek, the home planet of Kami/ Piccolo. The cast makes plans to journy to Namek to retrieve these dragon balls to wish the Z Warriors killed in the Vegeta Series back to life. Because Namek is so far away, Popo mentions Kami's spaceship as the source of transportation. Bulma is chosen to go; she is the only engineer/ mechanic of the group who can operate a spaceship. Gohan and Krillin, only slightly injured, volunterr to accompany Bulma on the trip. Goku is too badly hurt to travel. Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma head off to Namek. On the way, their ship becomes engulfed by a mysterious invisible ship. The trio exit to inverstigate the strange ship and get ambushed by an army of aliens who all aim guns at the victims. When asked, the aliens reveal their belief that the Z Warriors belong to the group of Freeza. Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma tell that they know nothing about Freeza, but the aliens plan to execute them anyway. Suddenly, a meteor shower hits the ship and everything gets shakey. Gohan and Krillin save the aliens from falling parts of the ship. Bulma races to pilot the ship through the meteor shower. These good intentions prove that Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma are not part of Freeza's crew. The aliens apologize and tell our heroes more about Freeza. It turns out that Freeza is leader of the group of space pirates who conquered and destroyed their home planet. They, the survivors, were forced to flee their planet. This is the reason they now live on a cloaked ship. Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin get on their ship and leave, bidding farewell to some new friends. Next stop, our heroes crash unconsciously onto a strange planet. When they awaken, they are greeted by two Nameks who tell that they have landed on Namek. Our heroes, overjoyed with relief, tell of their quest to find the Namek dragon balls. The Nameks agree to aid our heroes in their search and all seven dragon balls are gathered. Then, the planet fades and morphs. The Nameks also morph into two hideous sluggish aliens. It is revealed that the two aliens are really aliens who crashed and got stranded on the strange planet years ago. The aliens had the abilities to read minds and read our heroes' minds while they were unconscious, which explains how they knew about what our heroes' were talking about. Then, they used their psychic powers to manifest the planet into a fake Namek. They were in need of a ship to escape the planet, but couldn't just steal the ship while our heroes' were conscious because they had to wait for the stormy weather to clear before being able to fly out into space. When the time comes right, Krillin and Gohan become tricked into getting binded by some octopus-like monsters. When the aliens are about to enter Kami's ship, they learn that they cannot get the door open. They find Bulam and threaten her to teach them how to operate the ship. At the same time, Gohan and Krillin break free of the monsters binding them and easily beat the aliens. Our heroes regain possesion of their ship and continue their journey for the real Planet Namek. 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 dragon balls. With the Earth dragon balls gone, Vegeta also makes plans to seek the Namek dragon balls to fulfill his wish for immortality. After becoming immortal, Vegeta plans to kill Freeza, get revenge on Goku, and become the strongest in the universe. Upon recovery, he races to get to Namek. Arrival to Namek... Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin 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 dragon balls to wish for immortality. A dragon ball hunt begins... Dodoria and Zarboon... There are seven villages in Namek, each with an elder possessing a dragon ball. Freeza and his henchmen slowly eradicate village by village after robbing them of the dragon balls. Bulma hides and transmits the news of trouble on Namek back to Earth through a portable satellite telephone. In one village, Gohan and Krillin 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 dragon balls to such a monster as Freeza. Freeza then threatens to have two Namek children killed if the elder did not give up the dragon balls at once. Among the children is Dende. Unable to restrain from helping the endangered Nameks, Gohan and Krillin 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 Krillin. 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 dragon balls without the need of any mechanical device like a scouter. He learns that Freeza already has five of the dragon balls 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 dragon balls, Freeza will be unable to gather all the dragon balls 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 dragon ball. After eliminating the village, he hides the dragon ball 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 dragon balls 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 dragon balls have run into some trouble, so he summons the Ginyu 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 dragon balls stolen by Freeza are still there. Vegeta steals these and flees. Gohan borrows Bulma's dragon radar and discovers that one dragon ball is close by and goes to retrieve it. Vegeta encounters Gohan but spares him because he is in a hurry to retrieve the dragon ball 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 senior elder responsible for fathering everyone on Namek. Krillin 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 dragon ball. Krillin heads back to tell Bulma and Gohan the news. Vegeta spots Krillin and follows him. Zarbon spots Vegeta and follows him. Vegeta lands to take our heroes' dragon balls, but so does Zarbon. Zarbon and Vegeta fight. Vegeta powers up and kills Zarbon. Krillin is forced to trade his dragon ball for the sparing of Bulma and his life. Vegeta laughs and flies off again. Immediately afterwards, Gohan returns with the dragon ball that he retrieved. 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. Goku'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 sets voyage to Namek. On the ship, Goku trains himself under the gravity machine and trains to 100 times the gravity of Earth. Kaiou 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 Krillin fly back to Guru to have Guru release Gohan's hidden powers. On the way, Vegeta follows. Gohan goes to Guru while Krillin stalls Vegeta. Vegeta catches up with Krillin and offers a temporary alliance. He requests that Gohan and Krillin give him their dragon ball 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 Krillin agree. They fly to Bulma to retrieve the remaining dragon ball and abandon her once again. All seven dragon balls are gathered into one place, but it is too late. The Ginyu Force have arrived. Ginyu, Jeice, Burter, Recoome, 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 Krillin to destroy a dragon balls so that they cannot bring the dragon balls back to Freeza to let Freeza make his wish. Guldo freezes time temporarily to steal the dragon balls from Krillin before his fist can shatter it. Vegeta then throws the remaining dragon balls awa to separate them from the Ginyu Force, but Burter, whose special ability is super speed, goes after the balls and easily retrieves them. The Ginyu Force now have all seven dragon balls. Ginyu, leader and strongest of the bunch, flies off with the dragon balls to give them to Freeza. The remaining members of the Ginyu Force and left to "deal with" Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta. Guldo, a short, green four eyed slug-like being, is the first to fight. He possesses the special ability to freeza time in a breathe. Gohan and Krillin attack, but Guldo keeps freezing time to run away from all attacks while his attackers are frozen in time. Finally, he manages to freeza Gohan and Krillin with he phychic powers. Guldo again uses phychic power to grind a nearby tree into a giant spear and launches it at Gohan and Krillin, still sitting ducks unable to move. Vegeta jumps in and chops Guldo's head off before blowing it away with a blast. Gohan and Krillin are shocked that Vegeta saved their lives, but Vegeta only says that it was because he had an out score to settle with Guldo. Next up, is Recoome, a huge orange ogre. Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan attack, but all end up getting easily beaten on the brink of death by Recoome. Recoome 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, Krillin, and Vegeta. Gohan and Krillin warn Goku about the invincibility of Recoome, but Vegeta sees that Goku's power levels has reached new peaks. Recoome attacks and easily gets beaten by Goku in a single punch. Gohan and Krillin 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 Goku's toying around and attack at full power, but are losing to Goku anyway. Burter gets knocked down and Jeice escapes. Vegeta mocks Goku for being to soft at letting Jeice get away, and then kills off the knocked out Burter and Recoome. Ginyu reaches Freeza and gives him the dragon balls. Freeza summons for his wish of immortality, but nothing happens. They bury the dragon balls outside the Freeza's ship to hide them. Freeza goes to seek the Namek Elder Senior to find out how to work the dragon balls while Ginyu is left to stay guard. Jeice arrives and informs Ginyu of what has happened. Ginyu heads to fight Goku. As Ginyu and Goku battle, Ginyu realizes that Goku is stronger than him. Ginyu badly jabs himself and shoots a strange beam at Goku. 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 fly back to the dragon balls. Goku is stouck in Ginyu's battered body forced to chase after his own body. Meanwhile... Vegeta arrives to Freeza's spaceship to seek the dragon balls, but Gohan and Krillin also arrive. Vegeta hides behind the ship to watch the Earthings, planning to kill them once they summon Shenlong for him. Gohan and Krillin use Bulma's dragon radar to locate the dragon balls and summon it, but nothing happens. Everyone is baffled why. Gohan and Krillin sense the "ki" of people coming and hide. Ginyu and Jeicee land, looking at the dragon balls and wondering who dug them up. Because Ginyu is in Goku's body, Krillin 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 Krillin 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 deson't know the Kaiou-ken technique. Goku tells that Gohan and Krillin and beat Ginyu in Ginyu's 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 Recoome, 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 change body 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 turns nearby frog in Ginyu's path and forces Ginyu to change into a frog.