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SAIYAN SAGA
Raditz Saga- This is the beginning of Dragonball Z. It starts off with Goku and Gohan going to his old master's house(Master Roshi) to see his friends for a reunion. Once Goku and his son arrive Krrillin, Bulma, Master Roshi and his turtle are startled to see his 6-year old son. Meanwhile a mysterious spaceship hits the earth. Out comes the spaceship is Raditz. He scans the area and sees a farmer and see he only has a mere power level of 5. He flies off to the closest power level he senses. He flies and finds that he meets Piccolo. They have a little run-in then Raditz leaves and heads for Goku. He arrives at Master Roshi's house and tells Goku about his past.  Raditz tells him his true name is "Kakarot." He tells him he is a saiyan and is destined to destroy and also tells him he's his brother. He steals Gohan and tells Goku if he doesn't kill 100 people soon he would kill his son. Raditz leaves. Unfrotunately Piccolo comes! He doesn't want to fight though. He sees the threat of Raditz and decides to team up with Goku. Krillin and Master Roshi decide to sit this battle out. They head over to Raditz by sensing his energy and find Gohan there too. Gohan starts to whine. Raditz gets mad at the kid and throws Gohan in his spaceship. Goku and Piccolo fight Raditz and start to get beat up bad! Raditz is only surprised that they have the ability to increase their powers with their attacks. When they are losing Piccolo puts in his Trump Card. He tells Goku about his Special Beam Cannon and tells him to give him enough time to charge up for the Special Beam Cannon. So Piccolo charges up the beam while Goku fights Raditz. Goku can't stand a chance against Raditz. Meanwhile Gohan is building up steam inside the spaceship. After a while Piccolo has the Beam Cannon charged up and fires it but it misses him and just skins his shoulder. Raditz then blows off one of Piccolo's arms. Piccolo says he can do another Beam Cannon if he just gets moe time. Goku fights Raditz. It seems Goku is going to lose. Suddenly though Gohan flies out from the spaceship and rams Raditz right in the gut. He is weakened by the blow and it even weakened his Saiyan Armor. Goku with a bit of stregth gets behind Raditz and locks himself onto Raditz.  Goku tells Piccolo to fire the Beam at Raditz even if it kills himslef. Piccolo is happy with this because he has always been a rival of Goku's. Piccolo is almost done charging the Beam. Both of the brothers are weak. Raditz can't out of Goku's lock. Piccolo has the Special Beam Cannon and fires it right at Raditz. It  hits both of them and they fall on the ground. Gohan is crying over his father and Piccolo says to Gohan that his father was an honorbale man  but he can come back. Raditz though is still barely alive. he asks to Piccolo why did you let Goku die? Piccolo responds by saying that teh Dragonballs on this planet make 1 wish and it can be anything. Raditz laughs and Piccolo asks why. Raditz tells Piccolo that everything he just said was recorded on his scouter. He tells him that 2 saiyans will come to Earth 5x greater than himself. Piccolo regenerates  his arm after both of them are dead. Gohan is still crying over his father's death sadly.
 
Saiyan Saga-After the fight with Raditz Piccoloand Gohan are still at the fight scene. Bulma and Krillin come and want to know where's Goku. They tell him the story about what happened. Bulma and Krillin are about to take Gohan back but Piccolo says no. He says he thinks that Gohan has great power and they'll need all the help they can get. Piccolo and Gohan go off and train. Meanwhile in heaven Goku is checking in. He is told by King Yemma that he needs to go see King Kai to help train against the saiyans that re coming. They tell him that he needs to go across Snake Way and that it's over 10,000 miles long! Well Goku starts his journey across Snake Way. Meanwhile Piccolo is teaching Gohan survival skills. He leaves Gohan on the top of a mountain. Gohan is very hungry and lies down. Piccolo sees his innocence and tosses him some apples. After a while everyone is informed of the Saiyans coming to Earth. Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Krillin all go up to Kami's Lookout to train. For a while he doesn't seem to teach them anything they just train. He then shows them this portal thingy where they can go back in time. He takes them to this planet that seems to be destroyed. They look around and find two saiyans, not the ones approaching the planet though. They fight these saiyans and lose badly. They then get teleported back to the lookout and Kami tells them that only their spirits were in that portal thingy. They then train for a while. Meanwhile Goku is about halfway through when he sees a house. This house belongs to Princess Snake. They offer him food and rest because he is tired. He only really finds out that they want to eat him! He barely escapes alive and continues on through Snake Way. Meanwhile Gohan's training is progressing he is getting stronger and stronger almost stronger than Piccolo himself! When they are fighting one night the full moon appears. Piccolo is surprised to see the moon because he thought Master Roshi destroyed it. He tries to destroy it before Gohan transforms. Too late. He turns into the Oozaru monkey. Piccolo fires a beam at the moon but it does nothing! He makes a multi-form of himself to defeat the Oozaru while he looks around for the artificial moonlight. He sees a space ship. It appears to be Goku's when he crash landed on Earth as a child. It is saying "Kakarot destroy Kakarot destroy." Piccolo fast thinking dodges all of the Oozaru's attacks and fires a fast Special Beam Cannon at the space ship. It blows up and Gohan is returned to his normal size. Meanwhile Goku sees a car along Snake Way. He talks to the man and tells him that he is cleaning the path. He offers Goku a lift and Goku hops aboard. Goku tired, decides to fall asleep. A little later he falls off the path. He wakes up just in time. But it's too late. He falls off Snake Way and lands in a place called HFIL. He looks around and he sees red blood in a fountain. Goku is tired and hungry he asks someone if there is any food. He talks to a big blue devil. He says he'll tell him about the food if he can beat him in wrestling. Goku beats him after a while. He tells him about the only food is King Yemma's fruit and he can't have it! So Goku walks off and speaks to this red devil. Goku asks if there is anyway to get out of this place. He says he'll tell him if he can catch him. They race and the red devil is too much for Goku. So Goku tricks him. He goes over to King Yemma's tree. He tries to grab the fruit when the red devil appears. He says that he can't have any. Goku says gotcha and grabs the red devil. The red devil is forced to tell Goku where the exit is. He shows him a cave. Goku leaves HFIL and says thanks for the fruit! The two devils yell at him for not supposed to eating it. Goku eats it. He finds that it returns his energy. Goku finally makes it out of the cave. He finds though though that the exit to the cave. is a droor in King Yemma's desk at the check-in station. Goku is forced to start all over again. Meanwhile back on Earth Master Roshi, Bulma, Krillin, and the others find the dragonballs. Kami tells them though that they should not wish back Goku until the saiyans arrive. They agree. Meanwhil the Saiyans are on their way and stop by a planet. They show the people on thier planet their true power and blow up the planet thenhead on their way to Earth. Back on Snake Way Goku has reached the end. He only sees a small planet off in the distance. He heads over to it and lands on it. The planet actually has 10x gravity and is very heavy. Goku tires to head over to a tree and tries to pick some fruit but falls to the ground. Then a monkey appears. It wobbles over to Goku. Goku thinks this is King Kai and bows down to him. The monkey stratches his head. The real King Kai walks out of the house. King Kai introduces himself. He tells his the monkey's name is Gregory and he has a cricket named Gregory. He agrees to train Goku. The first lesson was to catch Gregory. After a while Goku catches him. Next he has to hit Gregory on the head with a mallet. After a while he does that too. Soon enough 80 days past. Goku's training is complete. King Kai has taught him the Kaio-Ken technique and the Genki Damiya(Spirit Bomb.) He explains that the Spirit bomb is energy gathered form every life form on a planet and created into a massive energy ball. King Kai tells Goku that it should take him only 2 days instead of the 3/4 of the year that it took him the first time. About halfway Goku notices about halfway his Halo disappears, they must've made the wish. The Saiyans arrive inside a spaceship. One is big, bald, and ugly.  His name is Nappa. The other one's name is Vegeta, he is short and looks real evil. They cause some havoc in the city then head out onto some plains. Everyone sense their power levels and heads over to them. Nappa decides to fight first. But first Nappa shows them some green seeds. They hatch into 6 saibamen. Nappa decides tehy should fight 1 on 1. Tien, Chiaoztu, Krillin, Yamcha, Gohan, and Piccolo decide who fights first. Yamcha decides to fight. The saibaman fights Yamcha and it appears Yamcha is winning until the Saibaman wraps himself around Yamcha. The saibaman blows himself up along with Yamcha. Krilling gets real mad at Nappa and the saibamen and throws his most powerful blast at them. It easily kills the saibmen but barely scratched Nappa. Everyone decides to gang up on Nappa. Krillin fires a Destructo Disk and Nappa tries to block it. Vegeta warns him just in time that its too sharp to block. Nappa barely dodges it. Nappa seems to be winning when Chiaotzu wraps himself around Nappa. He tries to blow up Nappa even if he takes himself down. Chiaotzu dies, Nappa does not. Tien goes all out and still doesn't win. He simply dies of exhaustion. Meanwhile at Master Roshi's house Chi-Chi has fainted at watching the fight. Only Piccolo, Gohan, and Krillin are left. They try and fight but Gohan is simply too scared. Krillin and Piccolo do the multi-form technique but it simply doesn't work. Gohan gets toughened up and decides nothing is going to make him back off. They then remember something. If you grab a saiyan's tail he loses his energy. They make a diversion. Piccolo grabs Nappa's tail. It does nothing. Vegeta watches and explains that Nappa and himself have evolved quite a bit and are immune to that. Nappa jabs Piccolo in the gut and it hurts Piccolo bad. They then tell the Saiyans if tehy could jsut give them enough time to wait for Goku. Vegeta wants to know who this Goku character is and really wants to know if he can save them. (Vegeta only knows Goku by the name of Kakarot.) Vegeta says he'll give them three hours. Nappa gets bored while waiting and goes out and kills some people. The three hours are up. Goku hasn't come. They continue fighting. Gohan gets charged up and starts to beat up Nappa. Nappa gets real mad and fires this huge energy blast at Gohan. Gohan all out of energy can't do a thing about it. Piccolo then jumps in front of the energy blast and saves Gohan's life. He remember's the training he went through with him and realized he really cared about him. Piccolo died from the energy blast. Suddenly though Goku shows up! He shows Nappa that he is too weak for him. Vegeta then kills Nappa for his weakness. Next Goku and Vegeta fight. Using his Kaio-Ken technique Goku proves to be too much for Vegeta. Vegeta makes an artificial moonlight and transforms into an Oozaru. Vegeta though has evolved and can control this form. He beats up Goku real bad. Goku fires an energy ball right at Vegeta's eye. Vegeta is weakened and Goku flies off onto the top of a mountain. He raises his hands and gathers energy for a Spirit bomb. Vegeta recovers and flies toward Goku. Vegeta then fires a beam through his mouth and it hits Goku bad. Goku is weakened and Krillin and Gohan are left to watch  Goku suffer. But then whats this? Yajirobe comes to the rescue and slices off his tail yahoo! Vegeta is returned to normal size. Vegeta has the upper hand still. Gohan gets super mad at Vegeta for hurting his dad and beats up Vegeta real bad. Vegeta gets very mad to and flies at Gohan. Meanwhil Krillin is helping Goku. Goku gives him a spirit bomb he had saving up. Krillin throws the spirit bomb at Vegeta but what's this it misses and is heading straight for Gohan. Goku quickly tells Gohan through the Rebound technique(communicating through the mind) that if your heart is pure you can block it. Gohan blocks it and it ricochet's back wards and hits Vegeta! It seemed they won. Vegeta was nowhere to be seen. But Vegeta was back, injured badly but still hurt. Vegeta then noticed Gohan's tail he had to destroy that tail! Too late he had trandformed. Vegeta though in desperation destroyed the artificial moonlight. But Gohan fell backwards and he was falling on Vegeta! It was too much for Vegeta. He was too weak. Vegeta had to leave and he headed through his spaceship. As he was leaving Krillin picked up Yajirobe's sword and walked over to Vegeta. Goku told Vegeta not to kill Vegeta because then we're no different than him. Vegeta left the planet. The survivors headed back to Master Roshi's and told everyone of their victory. With Piccolo dead though the Dragonballs couldn't be used... so their only option... go to Namek, Piccolo's home planet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FRIEZA SAGA
Namek Saga
After the fight with Frieza only Gohan, Goku, and Krillin were left. They quickly took Goku to the hospital to recover while they thought of how to bring the others back. Then Krillin remembered something, Namek! Vegeta spoke of Namek, the original home of the Dragonballs. They then decided, Krillin, Gohan, and Bulma were going to go to Namek. They decided to go to Namek but they needed a fast enough spaceship, the one's that Earth had would take like a bazillion years to reach Namek. Then they remembered the saiyan spacecrafts! It turns out Bulma with her so brilliant mind blew it up by pressing the wrong button! Then later Mister Popo shows up and takes them to the highest point in the earth. He shows them a spacecraft. It was the one Kami landed on from Namek too. They decide to take that. At that time though Goku was bored, he decided he was better. He fell and was unconcious a few minutes later... He was back in the hospital. By now Gohan, Bulma, and Krillin are already in space. Suddenly though they seemed to crash into an invisible spaceship. They met these people, the people told them about the mysterious "Frieza." Gohan and Krillin final convinced these people that they were not Frieza's allies. At last though through weeks of travelling, They finally landed on Namek. They met some people who helped them find teh Dragonballs. First one, then two, then the rest. But Unfortunately, these monsters were not Namekians they were well.. I dunno Monsters!! They tricked them and tried to steal their spaceship. Luckily Krillin and Gohan saved the day. They made off the fake Namek and headed for the real Namek. Once they arrived they say a spaceship land, they hoped it was not Vegeta's. Gohan and quickly sensed some power levels come near them, they found they were Frieza's goonies. They finished them off and flew over to some huge power level they sensed. They hid behind a cliff. They saw Frieza and her assistants terrorizing some Villagers. They realized they were looking for the Dragonballs as well too!! Frieza quickly disposed of everyone except the Village chief and his sons. The chief realized they could sense where the Dragonballs were with their scouters. He destroyed the three remaining scouters but was forced to tell where the Draonballs were for the mercy of his kids. Unfortanetly Frieza killed the father but Gohan and Krillin came in just at the right moment. They quickly flew off with the kid and Bulma. One of Frieza's assistant's came after them, his name was Dodoria. Krillin quickly stopped Dodoria with a solar flare. But Dodoria quickly came after them, but then what's this Vegeta to the rescue!!! He easily killed Dodoria and flew off looking for the Dragonballs. Bulma, Krillin, Gohan, and the little Namek, who's name was Dende, quickly found refuge in a cave. They talked for a while. Meanwhile Vegeta was trying to find the Dragonballs and quickly found a Village, he killed them, duh, and took the Dragonball and hid it in a lake. Vegeta quickly realized though that Frieza had a whopping 5 Dragonballs. He stole them, and ran. Frieza got really pissed. Vegeta flew off looking for the last Dragonball. He was caught by Zarbon. Zarbon beat him. Vegeta was taken captive by Frieza. He escaped and found Zarbon. He killed Zarbon, heh funny. Meanwhile Dende had showed Krillin this Guru guy. He gave Krillin super powers and gave him the last Dragonball. Meanwhile Gohan found Vegeta's hidden Dragonball. Frieza is pissed so she called in the Ginyu squad. Vegeta flew by the hidden cave and found Krillin's Dragonball he took it and left. Gohan came back with the last Dragonball. Vegeta found it was missing and headed back to Gohan. Gohan though was going to get his power increased with his Dragonball with Krillin. Vegeta found them and they were forced to take their Dragonballs and give them to Vegeta because the Ginyu Force was coming. Meanwhile Goku was training in space with a spaceship they found on Earth. Up in heaven, Piccolo, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Tien were on King Kai's planet sparing. On Namek, the Ginyu Force arrived, it was too late they didn't summon the Dragon, the Ginyu Force was here.
Ginyu Saga
Right as the Ginyu Force arrives they report to Frieza. Frieza tells them to get the Dragonballs back and eliminate anyone in their path. They do their pose thingy and fly off to the Dragonballs. In a desperate attempt Vegeta tells Krillin to destroy the Dragonballs but Guldo, the shortest member of the Ginyu Force useshis Time Freeze Attack to steal the Dragonball. Krillin and Gohan start to lsoe against him but Vegeta, yes Vegeta, comes to the Rescue and kills Guldo. Krillin, Gohan, and Vegeta all fight Recoome but are beaten. But what's this Goku arrives and saves teh day. He beats up Recoome and battles Burter and Jeice. He wins against them. Then Captain Ginyu arrives. He realizes he is no match against Goku and does the body switch technique. Ginyu is Goku and Goku is Ginyu. Goku is real weak in Goku's body because Ginyu damaged his own body before he switched bodies. Ginyu and Jeice fly off to Frieza to give him the Dragonballs.
Meanwhile Vegeta is finishing off Burter and Recoome. Krillin, Gohan, and Vegeta fly off to Ginyu to get back the Dragonballs. Goku is stuck to deal with the heart disease. They arrive at Frieza's ship and Frieza is not there. Frieza has gone off to find the password to the Dragonballs because you have to say something in Namek. Meanwhile Nail, Guru's bodyguard, is telling Dende the password, and telling him to give Krillin and Gohan the password. Meanwhile at Frieza's ship Gohan and Krillin are fighting Ginyu. They are finding it to be easy because Ginyu has not found Goku's "Inner Strength." Jeice decides to help Ginyu but Vegeta, yes Vegeta, kills Jeice and comes to the rescue. Meanwhile Goku arrives on the spot, and Ginyu cornered is forced to give Goku his body back. But Goku is weak in his own body becuase Krillin and Gohan beat it up. Ginyu still going to lose realizes the only way to win is to take Vegeta's body. He tries to but Goku throws a frog in the middle of the body switching beam and they switch places. Ginyu is a frog and the frog is Ginyu. Meanwhile Dende has arrived next to Krillin and Gohan. Goku is in the rehibilatation room. Meanwhile Frieza has arrived at Guru's and Nail takes Frieza to some lace. They fight, Frieza wins. Nail explains that it was all a diversion. Frieza is super pissed and flies off. Meanwhile Dende has made teh first wish the Dragonballs. They wished for Piccolo to be brought back to life. They then wished for Piccolo to be brought to Namek. But then what's this?!?!? The Dragonballs disappear! Guru is dead.... But the Earth Dragonball's are back. Then Frieza arrives and only Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan are left to fight Frieza while Goku heals.