Gohan, Kilyn, and Bulma head off to Namek. On the way, their ship becomes engulfed by a mysterious invisible ship. The trio exit to investigate 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 Frieza. Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma tell that they know nothing about Frieza, 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 Frieza's crew. The aliens apologize and tell our heroes more about Frieza. It turns out that Frieza 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 dragonballs. The Nameks agree to aid our heroes in their search and all seven dragonballs 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 possession of their ship and continue their journey for the real Planet Namek.

Vegeta is in his space capsule retreating back to Frieza's planet. When he lands, he is taken into a recuperation pod and recuperates. Flashbacks are held reflecting on times with Frieza. It is revealed that the Saiyans were loyal servants to Frieza, but Frieza was never satisfied with them. This shows Vegeta's resent to serving Frieza. Vegeta, too, knows of the Namek dragonballs. With the Earth dragonballs gone, Vegeta also makes plans to seek the Namek dragonballs to fulfill his wish for immortality. After becoming immortal, Vegeta plans to kill Frieza, get revenge on Goku, and become the strongest in the universe. Upon recovery, he races to get to Namek.

Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin finally arrive to Namek, but discover that they have company. Two goons of Frieza 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 Frieza is also on Namek. He, too, hungers for the dragonballs to wish for immortality. A dragonball hunt begins...

There are seven villages in Namek, each with an elder possessing a dragonball. Frieza and his henchmen slowly eradicate village by village after robbing them of the dragonballs. 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 Frieza to learn his character and witness the brutality of the monster. Frieza's goons kill all defenders and crush all resistance of the Nameks. The elder of the village still refuses to give up his dragonballs to such a monster as Frieza. Frieza then threatens to have two Namek children killed if the elder did not give up the dragonballs at once. Among the children is Dende. Unable to restrain from helping the endangered Nameks, Gohan and Krillin leap in to help. Frieza'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 dragonballs without the need of any mechanical device like a scouter. He learns that Frieza already has five of the dragonballs and is aware that he is not yet capable of defeating Frieza with his current strength. Vegeta reasons that if he captures just one of the dragonballs, Frieza will be unable to gather all the dragonballs needed to make a wish. With this plan, Vegeta heads to an unattacked Namek village and treats it with the same brutality as Frieza to steal a dragonball. After eliminating the village, he hides the dragonball underwater . After flying off again, Vegeta encounters Zarbon, Frieza'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 dragonballs that Frieza needs is, so Zarbon cannot kill him. Vegeta is captured back to Frieza's spaceship and put into a recovery pod.

Frieza learns that his quest for the dragonballs have run into some trouble, so he summons the Ginyu Force, Frieza's elite warriors who have conquered many planets undefeatedly.

Vegeta recovers in the recovery cell and destroys it along with any guards. Frieza's lair is deserted but the dragonballs stolen by Frieza are still there. Frieza steals these and flees.

Gohan borrows Bulma's dragon radar and discovers that one dragonball is close by and goes to retrieve it. Vegeta encounters Gohan but spares him because he is in a hurry to retrieve the dragonball 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 dragonball. 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' dragonballs, but so does Zarbon. Zarbon and Vegeta fight. Vegeta powers up and kills Zarbon. Krillin is forced to trade his dragonball for the sparing of Bulma and his life. Vegeta laughs and flies off again. Immediately afterwards, Gohan returns with the dragonball 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 - Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Piccolo!

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 dragonball 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 Frieza, 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 dragonball and abandon her once again. All seven dragonballs are gathered into one place, but it is too late. The Ginyu Force have arrived.

Ginyu, Jeice, Baata, 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 dragonballs so that they cannot bring the dragonballs back to Frieza to let Frieza make his wish. Guldo freezes time temporarily to steal the dragonballs from Krillin before his fist can shatter it. Vegeta then throws the remaining dragonballs away to separate them from the Ginyu Force, but Baata, whose special ability is super speed, goes after the balls and easily retrieves them. The Ginyu Force now have all seven dragonballs. Ginyu, leader and strongest of the bunch, flies off with the dragonballs to give them to Frieza. 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 Frieza 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 Frieza Gohan and Krillin with he psychic powers. Guldo again uses psychic 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 Baata 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.

Baata, 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. Baata 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 Baata and Recoome.

Ginyu reaches Frieza and gives him the dragonballs. Frieza summons for his wish of immortality, but nothing happens. They bury the dragonballs outside the Frieza's ship to hide them. Frieza goes to seek the Namek Elder Senior to find out how to work the dragonballs 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 dragonballs. Goku is stouck in Ginyu's battered body forced to chase after his own body.

Vegeta arrives to Frieza's spaceship to seek the dragonballs, 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 dragonballs 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 dragonballs 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 doesn'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.

Guru sends Dende to seek Gohan and Krillin to teach them how to summon the Porunga Shenlong. Frieza arrives to Guru and is about to kill him for refusing to teach the words needed to work the dragonballs. Nail, body guard of Guru and the strongest warrior of the planet, tells Frieza that if Guru dies, so will the dragonballs. Frieza is forced to spare Guru and fights Nail instead. The two fly to a remote area to fight. Nail is no match for Frieza, but continues fighting anyway to stall time for Dende to reach the Earthlings. Frieza finally learns that he whole fight against Nail was a trick and races back to his spaceship. Nail is left to die.

Vegeta offers an alliance with our heroes because Frieza is the common enemy in this battle. Everyone enters Frieza's spaceship as Frieza continues to head back. Goku is put into a Saiyan recovery pod and Krillin and Gohan are given Saiyan armor. Krillin flies off to seek Guru to learn the words to summoning Shenlong. Vegeta takes a nap because he hasn't slept in a while while on Namek. Gohan is outside the ship to guard the dragonballs.

Krillin and Dende bump into each other and head back to Gohan. The three take the dragonballs away from the spaceship to now let Vegeta know. Dende summons the Porunga Shenlong, which can grant three wishes. Piccolo is wished back to life for the first wish, and is teleported to Namek as the second wish. However, Dende forgot to specify where on Namek so Piccolo is in the middle of nowhere. Vegeta awakens from his sleep and quickly rushes to Shenlong, prepared to kill Gohan and Krillin for cheating him out of his wish for immortality. One wish remains. After much reluctance, Dende goes to ask Shenlong to grant Vegeta's wish because only Vegeta had the potential of killing Frieza. As Shenlong is about to grant Vegeta's wish, Guru dies and the dragonballs thus turn to stones. Vegeta's wish is denied, and Frieza arrives before his victims. Goku is still recovering.

Vegeta, more powerful than before, faces Frieza and is able to stand up to him. Frieza tells that he can change bodies three times. With each transformation, his power level great increases. Since Vegeta has gotten so strong, Frieza undergoes his first stage of transformation.

Piccolo senses the huge "ki"in the battle between Frieza and Vegeta and flies towards that direction. On the way, he encounters the dying Nail, who makes the offer to fuse with him. Piccolo accepts with skeptism and finally fuses with Nail. His power level greatly increases. Piccolo continues to head for Frieza, believing that he can beat anyone with his unbelievable power now.

Vegeta is no longer a match for Frieza. Piccolo arrives in time for battle and stands up to Frieza.   Frieza decides it time to transform again. Piccolo is beaten down. Krillin throws a laser spin disc at Frieza and the fireball truncates his tail. Frieza, now an even bigger monster with huge horns, flies to Krillin and jabs a horn through Krillin. Gohan attacks Frieza to save him. Krillin is thrown aside and Gohan gets beaten close to death. At the next scene, Krillin is back up and lures Frieza away. Frieza doesn't know how Krillin survived, by follows him anyway. In the distraction, Dende heals Gohan like how he secretly did to Krillin. Piccolo rejoins the fight and Frieza focuses on killing Piccolo. Vegeta is no longer a hope for victory, but remembers his lesson on how a Saiyan's strength greatly increases each time he reaches close to death; Vegeta recalls Dende's healing abilities and requests Krillin to shoot a fatal blast at him. Meanwhile, Piccolo and Frieza continue to battle, but Frieza is by far much stronger and beats Piccolo half to death.

Gohan watches Piccolo getting killed and powers up with anger. His hidden powers are revealed once again as he casts a fireball that even Frieza has trouble blocking. Frieza begins to morph to his perfect stage, but it requires time. As Frieza cracks from the shell of his old body, Dende heals Piccolo. The dying Vegeta requests to be healed, but Dende refuses because of how Vegeta treated his people. After much difficulty, Dende accepts that Vegeta is their only hope at the moment.

As Frieza transforms, he watches Dende heal Piccolo and Vegeta and figures out the usefulness in the young Namek towards his enemies. With annoyance, Frieza shoots and kills Dende. Another shot is shot at Gohan, but Gohan, Krillin, and Piccolo are not skilled enough to see such speed of the blast. Vegeta sees it and pushes Gohan out of the way. Vegeta and Frieza go head to head. The result is Frieza fulfilling his promise of "torture beyond hell" on Vegeta. Goku is fully recovered and rushes to the scene.

Goku arrives with a more impressive "ki" level. Vegeta is knocked free from Frieza's grip and tells that Goku is the Super Saiyan Frieza feared so much. Frieza grows annoyed of Vegeta's comments and shoots a beam through Vegeta's heart, killing him. Vegeta's dying words are for Goku to take vengeance for all Saiyans. Goku makes a grave to bury Vegeta in and then faces Frieza.

Bulma is alone wandering around in the dangers of Namek's wilderness. She encounters a frog that she calls "has potential" because it is different from the rest and lets it follow her around as a companion, unaware that the frog is really Ginyu. Bulma puts together a gadget that allows animals to talk for her frog buddy. This gives Ginyu back his ability for speech. Ginyu screams "change!", and swaps bodies with Bulma. Ginyu then drives Bulma's flying motorcycle with Bulma hanging on the back, demanding her body back.

They coincidentally reach where Gohan, Krillin, and Piccolo are watching the fight between Goku and Frieza. Our heroes learn that Bulma is not herself because her body was cheering for Frieza instead of Goku. Ginyu learns that his new body is not good for fighting after catfighting Krillin, and prepares to swap bodies with Piccolo. Gohan throws Bulma in the way and Bulma regains her own body while Ginyu becomes the frog again. The movement in the air caused from the fight between Goku and Frieza blows Bulma and Ginyu away, again.

Goku and Frieza toy with each other at first, but Frieza later boasts how he can beat Goku at just 50% his power level. Goku powers up to 20x the Kaiou-ken method, but is still losing to Frieza.

In a final desperate attempt, Goku prepares a Genki Dama made from "ki" of local planets. Frieza is unaware of what Goku is doing because he cannot detect "ki", and therefore can't sense the power of the growing Genki Dama. Frieza soon learns of Goku's trick and rushes to kill him. Gohan and Krillin donate their "ki" to Piccolo and Piccolo goes to stall time for Goku. Piccolo gets beat up, but Goku's fireball is ready. Frieza is crushed under the attack, but survives...

On Kaiou's planet, the Ginyu Force (all except Ginyu, who is still alive as a frog) appear. Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Tien fight them while Kaiou refuses to help. With much surprise, the Z Warriors discover that they became stronger than the Ginyu Team that beated Vegeta. The Ginyu get beaten into hell and Kaiou tells that it was he who requested King Yemma to bring the Ginyu to his planet. He wanted to test the skills of his disciples.

Back on Earth, Dr. Briefs, under Chi-chi's pressure, is working on Capsule 3, his third ship for Namek. (Gohan, Krillin, and Bulma took the first ship. Goku rode on the second). Chi-chi, Yajirobe, Oolong, and Master Roshi were boarded and prepared for journey, but the Capsule broke down before takeoff.

Frieza is more angry than ever and plans to kill our heroes one at a time. First, he blasts a beam at Gohan, but Piccolo takes it for Gohan. It rips through Piccolo and Piccolo quickly falls dying on the ground. Next, Frieza uses psychic power to airlift Krillin. With the closing of Frieza's hand, Krillin is literally disintegrated. Goku sees Frieza's inhumanity and powers up in great anger. Goku's hair turns golden and his eyes green, becoming the Super Saiyan Legend. Goku tells Gohan that Piccolo is still alive. Gohan is then ordered to take Piccolo and find Bulma back to the ship that he came in and head back to Earth. Goku and Frieza fight in a one-on-battle. Frieza is forced to now fight at 70% his power.

Goku and Frieza battle. Frieza, angry at losing to an "inferior monkey", creates a fireball and launches it towards the core of the planet.Then, he laughs and boasts that the planet will explode in five minutes, mocking that he can survive in space after the explosion while Goku cannot. Goku and Frieza continue to battle. Frieza is now forced to battle using 100% his power. Goku gets buried under a lava pit. Gohan, sensing his father in trouble, flies to Frieza. Although Gohan is no match for Frieza, he hopes to stall Frieza long enough to stay on Namek when it explodes to bring Frieza down with him. As Frieza is about to kill Gohan, Goku reappears and saves his son, telling him to leave the planet on his ship.

Kami telepathically tells Kaiou and he and Popo have gathered all seven Earth dragonballs and asks if he should wish those killed by Vegeta back to life. Kaiou tells Kami to wish for all those killed by Frieza back to life instead, reasoning that in turn, Guru will be brought to life as well; and thus,the Namek dragonballs. This step is taken and Nameks (as well as Vegeta) rise back to life. The Porunga Shenlong is reborn and one wish still remains for the Shenlong to grant. Kaiou telepathically introduces himself to Guru and tells him to wish everyone on the planet, except Frieza, to Earth so that when Namek explodes, Frieza will go with it. Goku interferes with this wish and tells to leave he and Frieza on Namek because he wants to fight Frieza. Frieza, Vegeta, and Dende all race to the dragon. Frieza is the first to make his wish, but the Porunga Shenlong ignores him and grants Dende's wish instead. Now, only Goku and Frieza remain on the dying Namek.

The fight between Goku and Frieza intensifies. It becomes clear that Frieza is no match for the Super Saiyan. As Frieza's idea of a final attack, he tosses laser spin discs that cut through anything at Goku. The discs follow Goku, but with skillful maneuvering, the attack ends up slicing Frieza in two. Frieza is dying and pleads for help. Goku doesn't want to help the monster, but pities him and does so anyway, donating enough energy to let Frieza fly away from Namek for as long as Frieza promises to never cause trouble again. Goku begins to fly away. Frieza, still refusing to admit defeat to a "low-class Saiyan piece of trash", shoots a final fireball at Goku. Goku counters it and overwhelms Frieza. The 5 minutes are up and Planet Namek explodes.

All who were affected by Dende's wish are on Earth. Dende heals Piccolo and sees the resemblance of Piccolo to Nail, realizing that the two have merged. Guru is dying and gives his final words. He transfers his role as Senior Elder to Rooli so that the Namek dagonballs may continue to "shine". He bids them all the take care and dies. Meanwhile, Vegeta sits and leaves wildly, shouting that when Namek explodes Goku and Frieza will die with it and leave him the strongest warrior alive.

The deceased Z Warriors at Kaiou's place watch the scenes via Kaiou's back.

The Z Warriors are resurrected. Everyone receives word that Goku survived the explosion and is returning to Earth. However, trouble arises in the heavens. Garlic Jr. (from DBZ Movie 1) returns and attempts to steal Kami's position as God of the Earth. Everyone on earth turns demonic and Piccolo turns evil again.

At the end, ultra cleansing water in Kami's temple is used and everyone on earth is restored to normal. Garlic is trapped into eternal nothingness again. Piccolo's evil spirit is gone forever.

A spaceship passes by what used to be Namek. Its leader, Cold, is the father of Frieza. He finds the remains of his son's body flowing through space. Cold's henchmen are sent to rescue Frieza. Frieza is literally rebuilt and becomes half robotic. Frieza tells his father to set a new course to Earth. Cold still laughs at how anyone could have defeated a member of his family, the strongest in the universe. Now, father and son head to Earth for revenge of what happened.

Planet Namek has been restored. The Z Warriors, also all revived now, prepare for the coming of Frieza along with the additional threat of Kind Cold. Without Goku's help, they can only watch the spaceship land. Cold and Frieza believe in a swift victory in destroying Earth, but a teenager appears out of nowhere. The mysterious boy easily uses a sword to cut up Cold's henchmen. Then, he powers up and boasts that Goku is not the only Super Saiyan. Vegeta recognizes the aura of the man to be that of a Saiyan, and resents the fact that there is another stronger than him. Frieza creates a fireball 10x the size as the one he used to destroy Namek and launches it at the boy. The teen easily catches the fireball with one hand and shatters the ball. Then, he takes out his sword again and slices Frieza to bits before blowing the body parts away with a single blast. Cold, supposedly much stronger than Frieza, goes to battle the stranger but also gets quickly killed with a blast from the boy.

The stranger flies to the Z Warriors and tells that Goku will be back in exactly 3 hours at a location not too far away. The Z cast follow the teen and wait. The boy refuses to tell anything, except for his age. In three hours, Goku really does land on Earth on a spacepod. More startling, Goku has never seen the teen before. The boy tells Goku to talk to him alone.

The stranger introduces himself as Trunks. His story is told in Trunks Story. He tells that he is the only surviving warrior in a future 20 years from now. He traveled back in time to alter to past so that his ruined time would change. Trunks mentions that in exactly three years, two super strong beings will appear. These beings are cyborgs of Dr. Gero, the scientist of Red Ribbon who was thought to be dead. They will kill everyone (including their creator Dr. Gero and live only to destroy, recking everything in path for no reason). Trunks also tells that Goku will develop a heart disease and die from it. The disease is incurable now, not curable by Trunks' timeline. Trunks hands Goku the heart disease medicine and tells him to prepare for the future. Trunks also slips out that he is the son of Vegeta and Bulma. (Bulma and Yamcha broke up and Bulma felt sorry for Vegeta's loneliness. They fell in love and Trunks was to be born in two years.) Trunks tells that he will be back in three years and flies off in his time machine.

Goku returns to his friends on the other side of a cliff. Goku tells how he survived Namek. When Namek prepared to explode, Goku entered Frieza's spaceship, but the ship didn't work. One of the Ginyu Force's ship was nearby and Goku rode in it. He crashed in a nearby planet, Yardat, where the Yardatrians (purple aliens ) taught him how to teleport. Then, Goku traveled back to Earth.

Piccolo then tells that Nameks have better hearing than Earthlings and Saiyans, and that he overheard the entire conversation between Goku and Trunks. Piccolo tells everyone of Trunks' news. The Z Warriors prepare training for the coming of the next three years.