Dragonball Z: Frieza Saga (Brief)

The saga begins with a hospital scene, showing the progress of everyone’s recovery. Mr Popo greets them, and tells everyone that Kami told him that there’s Dragonballs on Namek before he died, and that he knows where a ship is. He takes Bulma with him, so that she can learn how to fly the ship, and take some people to Namek. A while later, Bulma takes off for Namek with Krillen and Gohan (Goku still hasn’t recovered yet). She activates the ship speaking in Namekian. They then take off.

They all go on, and finally find what they think is Namek. It turns out to be a fake one though, an illusion created by some creatures who crashed there a while ago and were unable to repair their ship.

They manage to escape though, and get back on track to the real Namek.

Meanwhile, at one of Frieza’s docking ports, Vegeta is fully recovered, and soaring off towards Namek in one of his pods, after the Dragonballs. He is told that Frieza, the most powerful being in the universe, is already on the planet looking for them.

Bulma, Krillen, and Gohan land on the planet, and immediately set off looking for the Dragonballs.

Vegeta is after the Dragonballs too, and is met by Cui, one of Frieza’s henchmen, who tells Vegeta to leave or die. Vegeta laughs in Cui’s face though, and the two of them fight, with Vegeta easily defeating, and killing his opponent.

Gohan and Krillen sense Frieza’s power for the first time, and they know that it is incredible, much higher than they could ever dream of. They also sense that Frieza has four of the seven Dragonballs already.

Yajirobe walks into Goku’s hospital room, and tosses him a bag of sensu beans. Goku takes one, and is fully recovered. He flies off to Dr. Briefs, where he is given a capsule corporation pod. He then leaves to help his friends on Namek, who have put forth a few distress calls. The ship he is in is much faster than the one that Bulma and company used, so he should be there much faster than they were.

Frieza and his henchmen are destroying a Namekian village and all of its habitants. The village elder notices that they are using the scouters to locate the Dragonballs, and sense the power levels, so he destroys them all, laughing as he does so. Freiza then kills the Namek in a fit of rage, and takes the ball off him, making it number five, with only two more to go. Gohan and Krillen see a big pink alien called Dodoria bullying a small Namekian boy, so they fly in, and save him, managing to escape from all of Frieza’s henchmen.

Dodoria had chased them, and lost them, but noticed Vegeta on his way back. He went down to fight with the Saiyan, and was defeated easily, with Vegeta mercilessly killing him.

Vegeta then goes off and finds another Namekian village, where he savagely kills all the inhabitants, and finds the Dragonball. He learnt to sense KI signatures on Earth, so now there is nothing stopping him from finding the remaining Dragonball.

Krillen and the Namekian kid who they rescued earlier decide to go to the eldest Nameks quarters. The kid, named Dende, says that the eldest Namek, who is called Guru, possesses a Dragonball. Gohan stays with Bulma to protect her. Elsewhere, Vegeta dumps his Dragonball in a lake for safe keeping. He bumps into Krillen and Dende as he goes to leave though, and prepares to fight them, when Frieza’s strongest henchman shows up – Zarbon. He fights Vegeta, with the Saiyan easily roughing him up, until Zarbon transforms into a monster. Krillen and Dende escape while the two warriors are distracted, and they resume their course to Guru’s. Meanwhile, Zarbon has hit Vegeta into a lake, and nearly killed him. Vegeta climbs out though, and Zarbon takes him to Freiza’s ship for questioning. Vegeta is put in a regeneration tank, so that he can be healed, then be interrogated. Vegeta manages to keep down his heart rate though, and manages to escape, stealing all of Frieza’s Dragonballs in the process, giving him six of them.

Krillen and Dende arrive at Guru’s, and are given the final Dragonball. Guru also releases Krillen’s true power. He is much stronger, and they fly back. Vegeta meets them on the way though, and demands that they hand over the Dragonball. They do so, not wanting to get killed, and then Zarbon arrives again, ready to kill Vegeta for escaping and stealing Frieza’s Dragonballs. Krillen and Dende fly off, back to Bulma, leaving the two far superior warriors to fight amongst themselves. Vegeta easily beats Zarbon, because whenever a Saiyan is healed from mortal wounds, they become far stronger. Vegeta kills Zarbon, then goes off with his Dragonball to the other ones, meaning that he will have all seven.

Gohan senses Vegeta’s Dragonball that is hidden in the lake, and goes to get it. He retrieves it, meeting Krillen, Dende, and Bulma. Krillen tells Gohan about Guru, and they both leave for his place. They arrive there a while later, and are greeted by Vegeta outside. Krillen distracts him while Gohan goes into Guru’s. They argue for a while, then Gohan walks out of Guru’s, emitting incredible power. Vegeta is just about to kill them all, when 5 pods crash down a short distance away. Vegeta announces that they must be the Ginyu Force, the five most evil warriors in the galaxy, each with a power level that rivals his own. Vegeta says that he needs to be made immortal in order for them to win, so they all get the Dragonballs, just in case.

The Ginyu Force find everyone, and take the Dragonballs off them using some impressive tricks and speed. Ginyu flies off with them, to take them to Frieza, leaving his men to fight. Guldo is the first up, and he fights Gohan and Krillen. It looks as though he is about to defeat them, when Vegeta interrupts, and kills Guldo with two impressive attacks.

Seeing the death of his team-mate, Racoome steps forward, and is takes on Vegeta, defeating him, but not managing to kill him, due to Krillen and Gohan interfering. Racoome then destroys both of them, and is ready to kill them.

Finally, Goku’s ship arrives on Namek, after he had been training at 100 times the Earths gravity. He soars to the battle, and rescues Gohan, Krillen, and Vegeta from the evil clutches of Racoome. He then beats the member of the Ginyu Force easily, leaving him on the floor, barely alive. Jeice and Burta, the two remaining members attack. Goku easily dodges everything they throw at him, then attacks Burta, easily defeating him. He allows Jeice to go. Vegeta then quickly finishes off Racoome and Burta, after eating a sensu bean, and having his health restored.

Jeice runs off to Ginyu, and the two of them return to attack Goku. Vegeta stays with the Saiyan, whilst Gohan and Krillen go off for the Dragonballs. Before the fight starts though, Vegeta abandons his battle partner to look for the Dragonballs himself. Ginyu and Goku fight for a while, with Goku having the obvious advantage, until Captain Ginyu uses an attack which swaps their bodies, but not before injuring his badly. In his new body, Ginyu flies off, leaving Goku, stuck in Ginyu’s injured body.

Gohan and Krillen are found by Ginyu (In Goku’s body) and Jeice, and are beaten up, until Goku (In Ginyu’s body) arrives, and tells them to attack back. Ginyu fights Gohan and Krillen, beating them somewhat senseless. Vegeta returns, and kills Jeice easily, with his significant power increase after recovering from his injuries. He then goes and beats up Ginyu, in Goku’s body, knowing that Ginyu is unable to utilize the full extent of Goku’s power. Vegeta is about to finish Ginyu off, when the Body change technique is used. Goku predicts this, and dives in the path of the attack, making him return into his old body, and leaving Captain Ginyu in his old, injured body. Goku is too hurt to move, and Vegeta fights Ginyu, with the Captain letting him win. Ginyu goes for another Body Change with Vegeta, but Goku sees it coming, and throws a frog into its path. Ginyu then turns into a frog.

Ginyu’s life is spared, as he can cause no more trouble, and Vegeta takes Goku to a regeneration tank, and has a short sleep. In that time, Gohan, Krillen, and Dende find the Dragonballs, then wish back Piccolo. Their second wish is for Piccolo to be transported to Namek. It seems that it has worked, but he is no where near them. Before their final wish can be made, Vegeta bursts out of the medical bay, and finds the dragon. He demands that they ask for Vegeta to be given immortality, and as the dragon only grants wishes when asked in Namekian, Dende must ask. Eventually Krillen gives the go ahead for it to happen, as they have no chance against Frieza otherwise. Before the wish can be made though, the dragon disappears, signalling the death of its creator – Guru, due to a broken heart. Frieza then arrives, and intimidates everyone.

Vegeta manages to equal the first form Frieza in terms of power, but when Frieza transforms, it looks like everything is over, until Piccolo arrives on the scene. He had found a Namek called Nail on the way, and fused with him, becoming far more powerful than before. He manages to beat Frieza, making him transform once again. In his third form, Frieza easily beats up Piccolo, angering Gohan so much that he launches a huge masenko at the evil tyrant, coming close to killing him. Frieza manages to block the blast, although barely, and decides to transform again, this time into his final form. Once he accomplishes this, he kills Dende, the healing Namek, but not before everyone’s health is rejuvenated. He then kills Vegeta, and the Saiyan prince thought that he was a Super Saiyan. Before Frieza kills anyone else though, Goku arrives on the scene.

It is an even fight between Goku and Frieza, until Frieza decides to go from 1% of his power, to 50%, giving him a distinct advantage. Despite this though, Goku manages to build up a truly huge galaxy Spirit Bomb, with the help of Piccolo’s distraction tactics. He then threw it at Frieza, seemingly killing him. Somehow, Frieza survived it, and shot a beam at Goku, with Piccolo diving in the way to save him, and becoming injured badly. Frieza then kills Krillen for no reason, causing Goku to be overtaken with anger. His hair turns blonde, and his eyes turn green, as he finally becomes a Super Saiyan. He beats Frieza to a pulp, before the evil one tries to destroy the planet. He holds too much energy back though and was unable to destroy it outright, and says that there will be five minutes until it explodes. He then uses 100% of his power, and the fight becomes fairly even. Goku manages to gain an advantage though, and easily defeats everyone.

On Earth, the dragonballs are used to resurrect everyone killed by Frieza. This brung back the Namek Dragonballs, and with them, they wished everyone back to Earth, other than Goku and Frieza.

Goku managed to defeat Frieza, and tried to leave, but the evil one threw two cutting discs at him. It resulted in Frieza being cut in half by his own attack. Goku gave him enough energy to leave the planet, but Frieza used it to try and kill Goku. It didn’t work though, as the Saiyan sent a counterblast, hitting Frieza, and seemingly killing him once and for all. He then tries to escape the planet, but it explodes before he can find a functioning ship…or so it seemed.