Dragonball Z: Garlic Jr. Saga (Descriptive)

The Garlic Jr. saga starts off with a small bit of carnage. The evil little man himself is destroying a small village, and mercilessly killing a family. He and his four minions are laughing manically as they do so.

Gohan is racing a saber-toothed tiger, and winning, having great fun as he runs along. He stops just before a dead end, but the tiger can’t, and goes straight into it. Gohan then runs off, and jumps off a cliff, into some water, after stripping off to his underwear during the descent. He swims along playfully for a while, then starts to throw fishes out of the water, for his dinner. After he has piled a job load up, he goes to climb out of the water. A familiar figure greets him, in the form of Krillen, wearing a white suit. Gohan invites him in, but Krillen tells him that he has a car at the top of the hill, and he doesn’t want to get his clothes wet. Gohan talks him into having a quick dip though, and the two race off to the water. Before Krillen can dive in though, a voice shouts out to him. It is that of a woman. Krillen stops dead in his tracks, and turns round. From out of the car comes a woman who looks a little like Bulma. Her name is Marron. She tells Krillen to hurry up, and to get back in the car. Krillen says bye to Gohan, and informs him that there is a party at Roshi’s house later on. Gohan doesn’t know whether Chi-Chi will let him go, but he appreciates the offer none-the-less. Krillen walks up to the hill, and drives off with Marron. It takes Gohan a while, but he finally works out that Krillen has got a girlfriend!

Meanwhile, Kami has gone to speak with Piccolo, who is training against forms of himself. He goes back into one, and turns to Kami. The old, watcher of Earth asks Piccolo to become the new God, but he refuses, saying that he isn’t interested in the job. Kami understands, and goes back up to his lookout.

At Kami’s tower, Mr Popo is idly watering the plants, when he is disturbed by a collection of individuals, who fly around, destroying all of the architecture of the lookout. Mr. Popo is scared out of his mind at this point, but a voice orders everyone to stop. Surprisingly, these minions listen to the voice, and then bow, going down to one knee as the voices origination walks through the archway. The voice came from a small, hooded Namek, who looks up at Mr Popo, and they both recognize each other immediately. This gives Mr Popo quite a shock, but it makes the little man laugh. Mr Popo points out that he is Garlic Jr., and that they thought they had imprisoned him forever. He then goes on to tell the story of how it happened (See the movie review of movie 1 for a detailed account of what happens). Garlic Jr. pressures Mr Popo into telling him where Kami is, but the assistant won’t give in, and tries to escape on his magic carpet. The minions are too fast though, and they shoot some sort of web at Popo, which freezes him. Garlic Jr explains about the webs paralyzing people upon touching them, then goes on to blast Mr Popo with some sort of energy ball, which shrinks him dramatically down to size. Garlic holds Mr Popo, who is entrapped within the energy, in his hand, laughing evilly. He then walks off.

At Master Roshi’s house, everyone is having fun, with Krillen introducing Marron. When asked if she is his girlfriend, he says ‘no’ modestly, which excited Marron. She asks Yamcha is he is free to go on a date some time soon, and he agrees. Bulma hears this conversation, and tells Yamcha off, but he insists that they were only joking. Marron says she was serious though, and Krillen becomes very upset.

Elsewhere, Gohan is asking his mom if he can go to the party, but she is firmly saying no to him, and telling him to go do his studies. He reluctantly walks off into his room, but then sneaks out of his window. He is upset at disobeying his mom, but he gets over it, and jumps on Icarus, a small flying bird thing, and goes off to Roshi’s island.

On the lookout tower, Kami appears, to see the destruction that had been done. He is gob smacked by it, and orders that whoever did this come out and show themselves. Garlic Jr. steps out, and after getting over the initial shock, Kami realizes that Garlic was the only one who could produce such destruction. Garlic goes on at Kami for a while, then attacks. Kami manages to fly high, trying to avoid the energy beams. They follow him though, and he barely manages to deflect them with an energy shield. Garlic soars into the air, and gives Kami a small beating with his fists. After commenting on Garlic’s improved speed, Kami manages to fight Garlic off, blasting him down to the ground. He then powers up a beam of energy in his hand, ready to finish him off, when the four minions all shoot the paralyze web at him. Kami can’t move, and Garlic Jr gets up, then launches the energy beam that traps them, and shrinks them. Kami is now just as small as Mr Popo is. Garlic Jr laughs, and then says that he will become the new watcher of Earth.

The minions and Garlic walk into a room, looking for some sort of bottle. It is found easily, and Garlic Jr opens it, releasing some sort of black cloud. It spreads across the room, then out of the lookout tower, into the air. Garlic explains that it brings out the evil heart in everyone on the Earth, which means that they will soon be attacking each other, and obeying him!

The cloud spreads over the land, shrouding everything in a purple mist. Seeing the mist, Gohan jerks Icarus around, and tries to outrun it, although it soon becomes obvious that they aren’t fast enough, as the cloud gets how on the their heels. Icarus spots a cave, and turns to go in there. It is very narrow, so Icarus first jerks to a halt, so that Gohan goes flying in, then floats away a little, as to get a run up. The bird then flies at full speed into the hole, getting stuck half way, but it’s ok, just got its legs sticking out. The mist passes, and the two of them climb out of the cave, down to the ground. Gohan goes to say hello to some of the animals. He walks up to them, and attempts to greet them, but they lunge at him, trying to attack him. He can’t work out what is wrong with them, as they surround him. Gohan is very scared, as is Icarus, but they manage to escape by flying off the side of the cliff. Wondering what was wrong with the animals, Gohan continues his journey to Master Roshi’s house.

Meanwhile, at Roshi’s house, they are messing around playfully, with Bulma making fun of Krillen for not being able to catch any fish, and Yamcha and Puar joining in with the laughing. Marron comes out, dressed in a stunning swimsuit, to play around with Krillen. That bald-headed former monk gets all embarrassed by this, but he is grateful of it all the same, as he apparently has a crush on her. The two swim around, playfully grabbing at each other and pulling one another under, but they have to duck sharply when a plane comes across, almost knocking Krillen out. It lands on Roshi’s island, and out walks a very angry Chi-Chi. She is on the warpath as she demands to know where Gohan is. No one knows, so she says that she’ll wait for him, calling everyone bad influences. Marron sticks up for them, calling Chi-Chi a grandma. This makes the wife of Goku angry as she powers up, and charges at Marron. She is held by the combined efforts of Bulma, Roshi and Yamcha though. Krillen quickly takes Marron over to the water, where she can escape from Chi-Chi. The two of them rush into the water, and duck under, in a hope to avoid Chi-Chi’s wrath for a little longer. They forget about her, and start playing underneath it. While they are underneath it though, a purple cloud spreads across the sea, and Roshi’s island. Chi-Chi is still struggling to get free so she can take on Marron, and she screams as the cloud comes towards her. It engulfs the four people there, and they are immersed in it.

Krillen and Marron pop up from underneath the water, to see that everyone has gone. Gohan arrives on the scene at this point, and says hello to the two. Krillen informs him that Chi-Chi is here, and this makes Gohan bow his head in shame, and worry. Krillen tells him that Chi-Chi is in a particularly bad mood at the moment too. Marron talks Krillen into taking the blame for Gohan though, and he can’t help but say yes, what with him fancying her and all. They get ready to go to Chi-Chi, who is in the house.

Meanwhile, at Kami’s lookout, Garlic Jr is talking to some sort of shrine, representing his father, and telling it that he will being him back with a wish from the dragonballs, so that he can rules the Earth. Kami also tells Mr. Popo that Garlic will summon the serpent warriors from the depths of hell, to take over the world for him.

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