Gohan and the others make good progress gathering the Dragon Balls on Namek. They manage to successfully get the sixth Dragon Ball from a glacial cave after clearing many obstacles. At last, they pinpoint the location of the final Dragon Ball, but Lychee and Zarkuro were already there waiting for them. Just what is the secret hidden behind their actions...?
Lychee and Zarkuro were aliens who posed as Namekians and were attempting to steal the spaceship away from Gohan and the others. They are able to get their spaceship back at the last moment and later land on the real Planet Namek. However, right about the same time, Vegeta also arrives on Planet Namek, searching for the Dragon Balls. Gohan and the others are in imminent danger!
There was one group who had landed on Planet Namek a step ahead of Gohan's party and Vegeta. It was Freeza and his crew, who were after the Dragon Balls in order to obtain eternal life. Vegeta has the same objective and fights against Kewie, one of Freeza's men. In the past, they had been equally matched, but Vegeta easily defeats him. Gohan and Kuririn also handily beat two of Freeza's henchmen, but their safety net, their spaceship, is destroyed.
Freeza and his men had relocated to Planet Namek to search for the Dragon Balls. Gohan and Kuririn hide themselves when Freeza passes close by them and tremble at his enormous Ki. Meanwhile, on Earth, a revived Goku hears about Vegeta and Freeza's presence there and rushes off toward Planet Namek in a spaceship rebuilt by Dr. Briefs. It will be six days before Goku arrives.
Gohan and Kuririn follow Freeza and his men and arrive at a Namekian village. Freeza's men attack the village and threaten the villagers to hand over their Dragon Ball, but no sooner does the message get through than they start killing the villagers! The village elder realizes that the group relies on their Scouters to find the villages and destroys them. Dodoria grows furious at his resistance!
Dodoria, one of Freeza's officers, gives free rein to his anger and kills all of the Namekian warriors. He even kills the elder, who had given up his Dragon Ball in order to protect the lives of the children. When it appears that the last remaining child is about to be killed, Gohan suddenly leaps into action! Can Gohan and Kuririn save the child and elude their pursuer?
After Dodoria loses sight of Gohan and Kuririn, he becomes infuriated and blows away the whole vicinity!! Thinking that he has killed the two of them, he is about to return to Freeza's side when he is taken by surprise by Vegeta. Dodoria is powerless to stop Vegeta, who is a completely different man than he was previously. While begging for his life, Dodoria reveals to Vegeta that it was Freeza himself that destroyed the planet Vegeta!
Gohan and Kuririn are delighted to hear from Bulma that Goku is on his way to Planet Namek. However, Goku's spaceship is struck by a meteor. It has slipped off of its course to Namek and is in danger of plunging into a scorching planet!! On Planet Namek, Vegeta, who has acquired the skill of being able to sense Ki, gets the jump on Freeza and arrives at a village with one of the remaining Dragon Balls.
Vegeta attacks a village of Namekians and obtains their Dragon Ball by force. Realizing the peril his world is in, Dende begs Gohan and Kuririn to save his friends from falling into the wrong hands and takes off for the Grand Elder's house with Kuririn. Elsewhere, Goku takes heart during his training aboard his spaceship when he hears the good news that Piccolo and the others had arrived at Kaio's World.
Kaio investigates the huge Ki he can feel coming from Planet Namek and warns Goku not to go anywhere near Freeza. Upon hearing how tyrannical Freeza's actions are, Piccolo and the others decide to become even stronger. They take on the pun challenge posed by Kaio in order to receive his training. Meanwhile, on Planet Namek, Vegeta attacks Zarbon when he takes action independent of Freeza.
Zarbon is cornered by Vegeta's ferocious attack, but at length reveals his true power. He transforms and adopts a hideous appearance, overwhelming Vegeta with his tremendous power!! Showing how utterly outclassed his level of power is, Zarbon soundly thrashes Vegeta and heads back to report to Freeza. Meanwhile, Kuririn and Dende arrive at the house of the Grand Elder, who has the final Dragon Ball.
After meeting the Grand Elder, Kuririn accepts his Dragon Ball and has the latent powers still within him drawn out to their maximum levels. Elsewhere, Zarbon again locates the barely-breathing Vegeta, who he needs to provide the whereabouts of his Dragon Ball. He brings Vegeta back to Freeza's spaceship, where he reluctantly begins to provide him with treatment in their medical machine.
On Kaio's World, Tenshinhan and the others continue their training against Bubbles and Gregory, but Piccolo refuses to participate, harboring reservations about the results of the training. However, when the sparring among them starts, Piccolo is astonished at the marked improvement in Yamucha and company's abilities. Meanwhile, on Planet Namek, Vegeta, receiving treatment in the medical machine, completes his recovery!!
Vegeta steals the Dragon Balls out of Freeza's spaceship and flees! Having collected all of them at once, he chases after Kuririn, who is hurrying back to Bulma with the last Dragon Ball. However, Zarbon notices the chase playing out and also shows up. The situation grows critical, until Gohan catches Vegeta unawares and obtains the Dragon Ball he had sunk at the bottom of a pond.
Vegeta, who is after Kuririn's Dragon Ball, and Zarbon, who is pursuing Vegeta, once again face each other!! However, Vegeta handily defeats Zarbon, even after transforming. Having witnessed this strength, Kuririn hands over his Dragon Ball to Vegeta. Meanwhile, inside his spaceship, Goku fights for his life at 100 Gs, a situation caused by passing through a magnetic storm.
On Planet Freeza, the Ginyu Special Corps takes off!! On their destination of Planet Namek, Gohan is returning to Bulma, carrying a Dragon Ball, when Vegeta discovers him. However, thinking quickly, Gohan manages to keep the Dragon Ball hidden. Without any time to rest, he rushes off to the Grand Elder's house with Kuririn in order to have his latent abilities drawn out.
Giant energy balls launched by Freeza make the ground tremble, and the Four-Star Si Xing Qiu Ball held by Bulma falls into the sea. Bulma frantically dives into the water in a submarine, where she confronts a giant crab protecting her countless eggs, as well as the Dragon Ball!! She manages to safely get the Dragon Ball back and return to land, where she is then caught by Freeza's henchmen, Buleberry and Raasberry.
Freeza's men, Buleberry and Raasberry, listen to Bulma's story, and begin plotting to take the Dragon Ball for themselves. She dupes the two into believing that the remaining Dragon Balls are still in the sea, and leads them down underwater in her submarine, but along the way, they discover that she was lying to them! Meanwhile, Goku had overcome the 100 G environment inside his spaceship.
Having safely finished his training, Goku gets some rest aboard his spaceship in preparation for the upcoming battle on Planet Namek. Elsewhere, Kuririn and Gohan finally reach the Grand Elder but encounter Vegeta when they get there. Although they manage to get Gohan's abilities drawn out, he is still no match for Vegeta's power. Just then, they sense five large Ki coming toward them. Who do these Ki belong to?
The Ginyu Special Corps at last arrives on Planet Namek. The only way to beat them is to make Vegeta immortal with the power of the Dragon Balls. Kuririn and Gohan cooperate with Vegeta to assemble the Dragon Balls, but at the last minute, the Ginyu Special Corps shows up. The battle of Ghurd vs. Kuririn & Gohan, and ReaCoom vs. Vegeta then gets underway!
It is decided that Kuririn and Gohan are to be Ghurd's prey. He has the lowest battle power among the Special Corps, but he also has the supernatural ability to stop time. Even so, Kuririn and Gohan are able to corner him with their speed, but they eventually end up being unable to move due to Ghurd's last-ditch secret paralysis technique. Unable to take any action, Kuririn and Gohan find themselves in a desperate crisis...
Vegeta takes Ghurd by surprise and defeats him, but then must face ReaCoom in battle. Vegeta unleashes all of his energy for a first strike, but even his battle power level 20,000 attack has no effect on him. ReaCoom's powerful counterattack leaves Vegeta nearly dead. As ReaCoom is about to use his Eraser Gun to finish Vegeta, Kuririn comes to the rescue with some quick thinking.
Having gotten all seven Dragon Balls together, Freeza heads off to the Grand Elder to determine how to get his wish granted. Elsewhere, Gohan takes on ReaCoom. He uses every last ounce of his full strength to attack, but ReaCoom's expression is one of confidence. Gohan launches a Masenko using all of his force, but ReaCoom catches it with one hand. And then, ReaCoom grows tired of toying with Gohan.
Goku finally arrives. Once he is fully aware of the situation, he gives a senzu bean to not only Gohan and Kuririn, but Vegeta, as well. Once he makes sure the three of them are in good health again, Goku takes on ReaCoom by himself. Kuririn and the others are uneasy as they look on at Goku, thinking him much too relaxed, until he defeats ReaCoom with one blow.
Jheese and Butta lower their guard after seeing Goku's battle power reading of 5000 on their Scouters, and start attacking him. However, even by teaming up to launch direct attacks at him with their vaunted speed, neither one of them can land a single blow. Sensing they are at a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, they decide to engage their combined technique, the Purple Comet Ball! Multiple balls of light strike out at Goku...
In order to get Jheese and Butta to withdraw, Goku demonstrates how outclassed they are by knocking Butta unconscious with a single strike. Jheese is terrified by this power and dashes off to Commander Ginyu. Vegeta is outraged that Jheese was allowed to escape, finishes off Butta and ReaCoom, and curses Goku for being so lenient. Meanwhile, Ginyu listens to Jheese's report.
Goku acknowledges Ginyu's strength, and sends Kuririn and Gohan off to search for the Dragon Balls, allowing them to escape. Seeing his opportunity, Vegeta flees from battle and takes off after Kuririn and Gohan, leaving Goku to face Ginyu and Jheese alone. Ginyu takes Goku on in one-on-one combat, almost as if to ascertain his abilities!
After seeing Goku's battle power reading top 180,000, Ginyu is unable to hide his fear that the legend of the Super Saiyan might be true. Meanwhile, Kuririn and Gohan return to where Bulma is hiding for assistance in searching for the Dragon Balls. As this is happening, Freeza at last reaches the Grand Elder.
Nail challenges Freeza to battle in order to buy enough time to allow Dende to tell Kuririn and the others the password to call forth Shen Long. Goku shows off his overwhelming power in order to avoid a pointless battle with Ginyu. However, Ginyu begins to injure himself as if he's enjoying the adverse situation he finds himself in!
After Ginyu switches bodies with him, Goku goes after him in a body he is not only unfamiliar with, but which is also injured. Meanwhile, Kuririn discovers all of the Dragon Balls at Freeza's spaceship. However, without knowing the password, no one has been able to call forth Shen Long. Just then, Ginyu, appearing to be Goku, arrives. Kuririn and the others are delighted to see Goku, until...
Ginyu unleashes his full power in Goku's body, but he cannot raise his battle power as he would like to. Ginyu has a hard time of it trying to fight back against Gohan and company's attacks in his unfamiliar body. However, as he becomes more accustomed to it, the tables turn, and Gohan and Kuririn find themselves in a pinch! But then, Vegeta, who has just defeated Jheese, enters the battle. Once again in a tight spot, Ginyu aims to Body Change with Vegeta.
At the very instant that Ginyu tries to Body Change with Vegeta, Goku leaps between them. Goku returns to his original body, but the damage done to him has been severe, and with the last of his energy, he squeezes out a Kamehame-Ha that fails to hurt Ginyu. But as Ginyu once again targets Vegeta for Body Change, Goku comes up with a spur-of-the-moment plan.
Kuririn heads off toward the Grand Elder to learn the password required to call forth Shen Long. Meanwhile, Dende was also headed to Kuririn to tell him the password. Freeza realizes that his fight with Nail was only meant to buy time, and becomes enraged. He begins flying back toward Gohan and the others at breakneck speed. Who is it that will end up summoning Shen Long?
The Namekian Shen Long appears at last. He is able to grant three wishes, but says he can only bring one person back to life at a time. Gohan and the others are at a loss until Piccolo calls out to them to bring him back to life and says he wants to be warped to Planet Namek. That leaves one other wish. Just then, Vegeta shows up before Shen Long, furious that Gohan and the others have gotten the jump on him!!
Freeza goes mad with rage at not having his wish granted. His Ki is more than large enough to make Gohan and the others cower in terror. However, Vegeta boasts that if they all fight together, they will be able to beat Freeza. Vegeta had already powered up substantially. Meanwhile, as Piccolo hurries toward Gohan and the others, he finds Nail, who is near death. Nail proposes to Piccolo that the two of them become one.
As Freeza begins to transform, he relates that when he killed King Vegeta, Vegeta's father, and destroyed the planet Vegeta, he never had to transform once. Freeza then completes his transformation. The Ki that emanates from his giant body is incomparable to anything he had revealed before. By simply raising one hand lightly, the entire area around him is blown away!
Having been pierced through the trunk by Freeza's horn, Kuririn is tossed without pity into a lake. Enraged at the sight, Gohan launches a furious attack against Freeza. Vegeta is stunned by his power. Could Gohan be the one closest to becoming a Super Saiyan? However, his attack does not work against Freeza. Freeza increases his battle power even further and begins to attack Gohan.
Struck by the sheer difference in their powers, Vegeta is unable to move after witnessing the attack on Gohan played out before his eyes. Just as Freeza is about to finish Gohan off, one of Kuririn's Kienzan discs clips Freeza's tail. As Freeza marvels at this, Kuririn runs around in circles, provoking him. Seizing the opportunity, Dende rushes over to Gohan. What is the ability that Dende possesses?
Piccolo arrives at last, and brimming with confidence, squares off against Freeza. Kuririn is unable to hide his anxiety about Piccolo's bearing. However, Piccolo's assurance is the real deal, and he is able to fight against Freeza without any assistance from Kuririn or Gohan. Upon seeing the incredible power of Piccolo as he fights toe-to-toe against Freeza, the other three begin to find hope.
Freeza boasts that he has still not reached his true power, but Piccolo is still fighting with his weighted clothing on. Once Piccolo removes the clothing and gets down to business, his power is no less formidable than Freeza's. In spite of this, Freeza's nonchalant attitude remains intact. What is the astonishing truth that Freeza begins revealing to a bewildered Piccolo?
Having achieved a second transformation, Freeza begins to work an obstinate Piccolo over. Unable to bear it, Gohan leaps forward and launches a full-power Kikoha blast at Freeza, but just before it can overtake him, he manages to push it back. Once again recognizing the strength of the Saiyans, Freeza begins his final transformation. Meanwhile, Vegeta plans to use Dende's abilities to turn himself into a Super Saiyan.
Freeza, having finally shown his true form, attacks and kills Dende with speed that is faster than Gohan and the others can see. They team up for a three-man attack against Freeza, but are unable to even touch him. Vegeta, the only one able to see Freeza's attacks, confidently challenges him to battle. Has Vegeta truly become a Super Saiyan?