Dragonball Z: Frieza Saga (Descriptive)

After the tough battle with Vegeta, no one can move. The saiyan prince is long gone, but Krillen, Gohan and Goku remain, the sole survivors of an epic battle. As Vegeta’s ship flies away, and disappears, another one comes from the exact same direction. At first, everyone thinks that Vegeta is back for more, but the when Master Roshi shouts from out of the craft, they realize that there will be no more fighting today. The craft lands, and the three warriors are loaded into it, and taken to the hospital, where their wounds will heal.

In the hospital, Goku is wrapped in bandages, in a weird machine that stops him from emitting much movement, and Gohan and Krillen are ok, with just a few scratches on them. The doctors inform Goku that he wont be back to his best for a whole year. He groans at this prospect, but knows that there is nothing that he can do about it. The three survivors start to talk excitedly about the battle. Krillen informs Goku of what Vegeta said about Namek. The door bursts open, and in walks Bulma. She is carrying a small device that she said they found near Nappa’s ship. Just after this happened, King Kai contacted Goku, telling him about the Namek dragon balls. He gives him the co-ordinates so that they can get there, but when Bulma is told, she goes nuts. She informs everyone that it would take years to get to Namek, and they haven’t got that much time. She remembers about the device she has in her hand, and starts to press a few buttons on it. On the news screen, it shows that Nappa’s ship is moving! Bulma is delighted by this, and she continues pressing buttons. The ship moves slowly, then crashes down to the ground, and explodes. Bulma is looking very frustrated by this, and very down too.

Everyone sits there, not knowing what to do next. Someone comes to the window though, and looks in on them from the outside. After tapping on the window a few times, the figure is let in. It is none other than Kami’s faithful friend and assistant – Mr Popo! He tells everyone that there is an old ship at Yunzabit Heights, which can move at an incredible speed. King Kai contacts Goku once again, and tells him that that is the ship that Piccolo-Daimao arrived in (Piccolo’s father, who had fought countless violent battles with Goku when he was just a small child) Bulma was nominated to be taught to fly it, as she was the only technical genius in the room. She reluctantly walks towards the window, seeing Mr Popo’s method of transport – A Magic Carpet! She nervously steps on, and after waving bye to everyone, she was off, with Mr Popo steering the carpet. Bulma grasped on tightly, scared of falling, but Mr Popo seemed to be very calm, as he has done this many times before.

When they arrive at Yunzabit Heights, they see a large, white spacecraft, with a huge crack going along the side.As the two of them approach it, they look up in awe at the magnificence of the craft. Mr Popo says the word ‘Piccolo’ which makes the stairs to the craft get lowered down to them. Bulma is confused that this word would make the steps come down, and Mr Popo explains that it is Namekian for another word. Looking around at the wonderous ship, the two of them step in. Bulma gasps at the complexity of the gadgets in the ship, then sits down at the control seat, and starts trying to work the craft by pressing the buttons. She starts to get annoyed as nothing happens, but then Mr Popo says the word ‘Dirregaloff’. The craft takes off, soaring through the sky at an amazing speed, ripping through the Earths atmosphere, and speeding past Jupiter within no time at all. Bulma is amazed at this, as Mr Popo gives the instructions to turn it around (In Namekian) and they head back to Earth. The craft is landed outside Bulma’s house, and she runs out to tell her dad. He immediately checks it out, and surveys it. Bulma and Mr Popo then go back to the hospital to inform the others that the ship works. When Bulma says that she and Mr Popo are off to Namek though, the little plump man tells her that he has duties here, and he can’t go. Annoyed by this, Bulma tells Krillen that he has to go with her. Reluctantly, Krillen agrees. Gohan states that he wants to go, but after much objection from Chi-Chi, Goku says that it’d be good for him to have a little adventure. Chi-Chi storms off angrily, as Gohan gleefully wonders towards the others. Bulma goes off with Mr Popo to learn Namekian, so they can fly the ship.

After a short while, Bulma is fluent in the language of the Nameks, and Krillen and Gohan are packed, and ready to go. Krillen is packed fairly lightly, whilst Gohan has got loads of suitcases. Krillen laughs, and mocks him for this, but he claims it was his mom who packed it all. Krillen then mocks Gohan for his new hairstyle, which is gelled down, making him look like a real geek. Gohan insists that he hates it too, but his mom made him have it like that. Krillen must carry the suitcases in, and they all sit down, with Bulma the only one bothering to strap herself in. She warns them to hold on, then says the command word, to make the craft take off. Chi-Chi is crying her eyes out as her little boy takes off. The craft shoots into the air, with the luggage flying everywhere. Most of it comes close to Bulma, as Gohan and Krillen hang on for their dear life. Bulma claims that a hair brush almost impaled her, moaning at her two passenger. Krillen says that it’s not his (Well, why would he need one?) and they are on their way, bursting out of the Earth’s atmosphere. Goku is still resting in hospital, too badly injured to go with them.

Later on, when the ship has settled down, and become more calm, Gohan shows Krillen the outfit that he made. He gets changed out of his sissy clothes, into the home made ones, and Krillen is amazed. Gohan’s robes are the same as Piccolo’s, due to the kid honoring his trainer. He informs him that he smuggled it in, without his mom knowing. Gohan stands tall, and proud with his new ‘gear’ on. Unfortunately though, his hair is still gelled down flat, and still making him look a complete geek.

Back at hospital, Goku is already training, ignoring the doctors orders, by doing sit-ups. Master Roshi is encouraging him, whilst scoffing down on sugary buns. The nurse walks in, and tells Goku off, telling him to get back in bed. Shortly afterwards, the doctor walks in, and moans about how none of his badly injured patients will train while he’s around. Goku is helped back into bed, and the nurse takes the buns of Roshi (Who is coming onto her), and tells him that he shouldn’t be eating things like that at his age, making him go bright red with embarrassment.

In the ship, Gohan and Krillen are spirit sparring. This is where you fight inside your minds. The two of them chuc energy balls, throw punches and kicks at each other until Gohan manages to get a hit in, knocking Krillen out of the match. Krillen immediately awakens, as does Gohan. The bald-headed guy congratulates Gohan on his skill, saying that he didn’t see that move coming. Bulma alerts the two that they are approaching a large fleet of ships, so they had better hold on tight. Using the crafts guns, Bulma manages to make swift work of all but one of them. This ship looks exactly like theirs. As they get closer, it is apparent that the ship is just a reflection of theirs on some sort of glass docking port. Knowing that there is no chance of avoiding it, Bulma has to land in the transparent port. They all get off their own craft, and venture forwards into the docks. A nice table full of food is in front of them, so they go to eat it (Who wouldn’t?!), however, all is not as it seems, as a knife flies from the table, narrowly missing Bulma, but hitting a switch behind her. In hardly any time at all, there are armed soldiers everywhere. A crane comes down and grabs Bulnma, who screams for help as she is lifted into the air. One man steps through the crowd, and accuse our heroes of being followers of Freiza. At this point in time, the three of them have no idea who Freiza is, and are just confused by this remark. The man refuses to believe them though, and carries on making allegations. These are interrupted by a wailing siren, and mass panic and confusion though. The armed soldiers start running to their posts, and Gohan and Krillen see their chance, and fly up to Bulma, releasing her from the crane. They are about to leave, when they see what is happening to the ship. Much of it is on fire, and the ceiling of the floor that they are on is collapsing. Krillen goes to help people who are in danger of being crushed by the falling tiles, and Gohan makes it his duty to put the fire out. Bulma runs over to the cockpit to try to sort the whole mess out. She pushes the pilot out of the way, and notices that they are now in an asteroid belt. She guides the ship through safely, without any further collisions. With all of that sorted, the three prepare to fight their ambushers.

Their seems to be no will to fight from the ships people though. They thank the heroes for saving them, and finally realize that they are not Freiza’s people, but good-natured people. They explain that the reason they have this mirror-coated ship is because Freiza’s people attacked their planet, giving them no option other than to run. The three heroes understand, and after much jubilation and thanks, and after the explanation that all those ships were merely holograms to scare them off, the ships people led the heroes to the docks. They thank them once more, then wave bye. Bulma makes the ship take off, shooting away from the mirror coated docking station at an incredible speed.

Meanwhile, at Freiza’s docking station, a pod is streaming through the air, with a passenger hooked up to a rejuvenator inside. The soldiers realize that it can’t be Freiza, as he only just left. The ship crashes on the surface, near to the soldiers. They look inside, and see that it’s Vegeta. He crawls out of the small pod, and is taken to a regenerator, which makes you heal really quickly compared to the speed that you would usually heal at. While he is in there, all he thinks about is getting revenge on Goku, and seeing how a saiyans strength significantly increases after mortal wounds, Vegeta knows that he is a lot more powerful now.

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