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Raditz Saga

Raditz Saga The Raditz saga is what starts the Dragonball Z series. It 
starts off with Goku and Gohan attending a reunion on Kame Island. There 
they meet up with Krillin, Bulma, Chou Zu (i think), and Master Roshi. 
This is also where Gohan is introduced into the series. After partying for 
a short while a great power is sensed by Goku. A short while later a man 
appears floating above the island sporting long black hair and saiyan 
armour. After explaining to Goku his birth story about being a saiyan he 
captures Gohan and leaves. A short while later Piccolo appears. Him and 
Goku make an arrangement to team up on the saiyan. They leave in search of 
the saiyan with a dragon radar, Goku on nimbus and Piccolo flying. The 
dragon radar was using the dragonball on Gohans head to track him. There 
search takes them into the mountains where they see Raditz. He has trapped 
Gohan in a saiyan pod due to his complaining which annoyed Raditz earlier. 
After exchanging words a battle insues where the saiyan warrior proves to 
be a handful. Gokus kamehameha seemed to have little to no effect on 
Raditz. After a little exchange of attacks theres a pause. Goku and 
Piccolo remove their weighted clothing (Boots and top for Goku, Cape 
and turban for Piccolo). Their power levels rise as they do this. They 
then go back into battle. After a short while Goku gets a hold of Raditz's 
tail (a saiyan weakspot.) Raditz seems defeated but as Raditz promises to 
leave the planet Goku trusts him and releases the tail. Raditz counters 
and Goku ends up with Raditz's foot on his neck. The screams of pain 
coming from Goku are heard by Gohan and his anger brings his power level 
up to 1071 (very high at this time of DBZ). He explodes out of the pod and 
onto the battle field. He then headbutts Raditz cracking his armour...this 
proves vital in the battle. As he is weakened Piccolo and Goku hatch a 
plan to trap the warrior. Goku quickly grabs Raditz from behind as Piccolo 
shoots his new attack...Special Beam Cannon. The attack bursts right 
through the armour due to the damage caused by Gohan. It travels through 
the Saiyan through Goku. Thus killing both of them. As Raditz dies Goku 
starts to fade away, before Raditz died, he told Piccolo that two stronger 
saiya-jins will arrive in one year. Piccolo took Gohan to train with him 
because he knew that Gohan had great power. He then travels into King 
Yamas checkout station. There he is assigned to King Kai's training 
center. The problem is, it is a 10,000 mile journey! He starts on his 
journey only to fall of Snake Way into hell! There he find 2 dumbfounded 
trolls which will hnot let him continue on his journey. He quickly tricks 
them into letting him go as well as slipping away with some of King Yamas 
fruit which will keep him from hunger for 3 months. As he goes farther 
down Snake Way he comes across Princess Snakes palace where he is tricked 
again but escapes. He finally arrives at King Kai's. Thus ending the 
Raditz Saga. 


Sayajin Saga
Piccolo left Gohan in a desert alone for six months for survival training. 
Piccolo later returned and started training him. on kaiou's planet, Goku 
learned to live under a gravity ten times stronger than earth's and also 
learned the kaioken and genki-dama's techniques. (note: the genki dama 
drew ki energy from everybody on earth and even the universe. it had been 
effective many times for Goku during combats.) Krillin, Tenshinhan, 
Yamcha, and Chaozu trained with Kami-sama throughout the year. the 
saiya-jins finally arrived, destroyed a city, and found Gohan and Piccolo. 
they wanted to kill Raditz's murderers and to get the dragon balls to wish 
for immortality. Yamchu got killed when one of Nappa's Saiba-men 
self-destructed. Chaozu and tien sacrificed their lives to kill Nappa but 
failed. Piccolo died defending Gohan, a very emotional scene. during the 
moment, Goku was wished back by the dragon balls and ran rapidly through 
snake way back to earth. luckily, Goku finally arrived to save Gohan and 
Krillin by using kaioken. Vegeta became angry of Nappa's attempts to kill 
Goku and shouted "shi ne," destroying him. the battle between Goku and 
Vegeta began. Vegeta gained an advantage by creating an artificial moon 
and transformed into Oozaru form but lost his ability when Yajirobe 
cowardly cut off his tail with a sword. (note: the tail allows a saiya-jin 
to transform into a giant monkey called Oozaru when a full moon appears. 
the transformation will be reversed if either the moon disappears or the 
tail is cut.) Goku was seriously injured while fighting Vegeta and handed 
his genki dama to Krillin, who then weakened Vegeta with it. finally, 
Gohan turned into Oozaru and started beating up Vegeta. with his last 
amount of strength, Vegeta escaped back in his spacepod. Bulma and the 
others arrived to pick up Goku, Krillin, Gohan, and the bodies of their 
dead companions. because of Piccolo's death, Kami also died unfortunately. 
without Kami, the dragon balls was not able to exist. Krillin stated that 
he heard Vegeta saying that Piccolo came from the planet Nakek. by using 
Kami's spaceship, Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan traveled to Nakek, hoping that 
there would be more powerful dragon balls to revive their friends. 


Frieza Saga
The battle with Vegeta and Nappa was finally over, but Krillin, Bulma, and 
Gohan must now go to planet Nakek, Piccolo's and Kami's home planet, to 
obtain another set of dragon balls to wish their allies back. Goku was 
injured from the battle and was uncapable to go, but Krillin, Bulma, and 
Gohan were able to obtain the spaceship Kami used to arrive to earth. the 
journey was two months long and was filled with dangers, including the 
space ark children, raachi and zaakro (with their abilities to create 
illusions), and finally Frieza! Frieza was the most powerful being in the 
universe, who had to undergo throught four forms to achieve his real 
power. after listening to the message from the dying radditz in the Vegeta 
saga, he learned about the dragon balls and decided to pursue them himself 
to gain immortality. after being healed by a senzu bean, Goku set off for 
Nakek in a specially designed spaceship, training hard in 100 times 
gravity. meanwhile, Piccolo, Yamcha, tien, and Chaozu served as kaiou's 
pupils. Vegeta was also healed and stronger than ever, heading for Nakek 
for the dragon balls and the hatred for Goku in his black heart. Vegeta 
was able to kill Dodoria, Kiwi, and Zarbon, becoming stronger after every 
battle. Frieza killed all the Nakekians except nail, dende, and saichoro 
while Vegeta captured all the seven dragon balls (with six from Frieza and 
one from Krillin, Bulma, and Bulma). as a desperate measure, Frieza 
summoned team ginew, a team of five strong fighters. even with their ki 
increased by saichoro and with Vegeta assisting them, Krillin and Gohan 
were losing to the ginew team, allowing them to take the dragon balls to 
Frieza. Frieza was unable to activate the dragon balls and flew to 
saichoro to seek out the answer. luckily, Goku arrived to defeat recoom, 
recoom, and jess, allowing Vegeta to kill them, including guldo. Vegeta 
wondered if Goku was the legendary super saiya-jin. ginew knew he could 
not surpass Goku's power so he switched bodies with Goku. the battle 
concluded with Goku returning to his own body and ginew trapped in a 
frog's body. Gohan, Krillin, and dende were able to obtain the dragon 
balls from Frieza to revive Piccolo and to bring him to Nakek. (note: 
unlike shen-long, porunga could grant the user three wishes.) Frieza 
killed saichoro and injured nail, interrupting porunga from granting the 
third wish (which was to grant Vegeta immortality). an angered Frieza 
hurted Krillin and Gohan, but dende had the ability to heal them. Frieza 
tranformed into his second form, but Piccolo merged with nail and started 
beating Frieza. Frieza transfomed to his third form while Goku was 
recovering in Frieza's ship from the battle with ginew. after undergoing 
his transformation to his fourth and final form, Frieza killed Vegeta for 
stating about the super saiya-jin to Goku. (note: Frieza feared the super 
saiya-jin legend.) Goku executed a genki dama desperately at Frieza, but 
an injured Frieza killed Krillin out of rage. this triggered the anger 
Goku to transform to a super saiya-jin. an intense battle has developed, 
risking the destruction of Nakek. super saiya-jin Goku was defeating 
Frieza, becoming stronger every minute. with his last strength, Frieza 
triggered the planet to blow up in five minutes and threw kienzan-like 
fireballs at him but accidentally got cut in the process. Goku gave Frieza 
some of his energy to save his live and to fight more but had to kill him 
rapidly and escape. Goku tried to start Frieza's spaceship but failed as 
the planet exploded. Bulma, Piccolo, Gohan, Vegeta, and the Nakekians 
traveled back to earth with the Nakek dragon balls. (note: the Nakekians 
were revived with the earth dragon balls. porunga revived Krillin but was 
unable to revive Goku. it seemed that Goku survived the explosion and was 
training on another planet, learning the shunkanidou in the process. 
Vegeta decided to train in space, and everything was safe on earth for 
now. one year later Frieza is put back together in a robotic form by his 
father, king cold. they arrive on earth with an army, all hope is lost by 
the z warriors, even Vegeta thinks so when he was revived by the 
dragonballs. suddenly, a teenager comes out of nowhere, beats the stuff 
out of Frieza. not only that, he is a saiyan! turing super saiyan, he 
kills Frieza and king cold with his sword easily. all he says is that he 
is waiting for son Goku, then son Goku appears out of nowhere. son Goku 
tells of his troubles and also demonstrates his new teleportation 
technique. the teenager says that his name is Trunks. he is also the son 
of Bulma and Vegeta! he is from the future and comes back in time to warn 
the z warriors of androids that will terrorize the world in three years. 
Trunks also says that son Goku will die from a heart disease. Trunks 
though has brought medicine for him. Trunks says that he will come back in 
three years to fight the androids. now the z warriors must train for the 
androids arriving in three years. 


Cell Saga
Three years passed since Trunks' arrival. a lot has changed since then, 
Trunks from the future is now called miari Trunks since chibi Trunks is 
born, and Vegeta joins the z warriors, but having the same attitude. miari 
Trunks arrives from the future to find that there is another android, 
Android 16. the androids in miari Trunks' timeline are Android 17 and 
Android 18. also the creator, dr. gero, turns himself into Android 21. 
he is easily defeated by Vegeta who learns how to turn super saiyan 
during his training. right before he dies, he issues the final command 
for android 22 (Cell). Cell is made of single Cells from the strongest 
warriors in the univerese. Cell breaks out of his test tube and seeks 
to absorb Android 17 and Android 18. when Cell finally absorbs the 
androids, he turns into perfect Cell.no one can offer a challange so 
he starts thinking of all the fights as games (thus somes the title, 
Cell game). Cell later announces that he will hold a tournament to the 
warriors that think they can defeat him. the tournament begins. first, 
a fighter from earth, who is really a coward that takes all the credit 
and is really weak, Mr. Satan. he gets defeated easily by on slap from 
Cell. then, son Goku fights with Cell, the battle ends with the winner 
son Goku. but Cell gets so mad that he self-destructs and blow up the 
whole solar system. Goku quickly teleports him and himself to a safe 
distance, like Kaiosama's planet. he blows up killing both Goku and 
Kaiosama. everyone was sad, but the battle wasn't over yet, Cell 
somehow regenerated from just one Cell from his body, and decides to take 
Gohan as his next challenger. he tries to piss off Gohan so that he will 
be more challenging. the plan works when he creates seven baby Cells who 
kills his friends. and he kills miari Trunks with a surpise attack. Gohan 
gets pushed off the edge and powers up and reaches ssj2, then Cell 
realizes that he over did it. Gohan defeats the baby Cells with just one 
kick to each of them. son Gohan starts to attack Cell. as the battle goes 
on, Gohan's right arm gets crippled. he creates a kamehameha, Cell than 
creates his own kamehameha, a stalement is drawn only with the 
encouragement of his dead father. son Gohan over powers Cell and kills him 
with only one arm! everyone is wished back to life except son Goku because 
he was already wished back to life once. but Goku was proud of his son and 
watched over him in the heavens, while king Kaiosama kept on yelling at 
Goku for bringing Cell to his planet. miari Trunks later returns to his 
own time. 


Buu Saga
Seven years pass since the Cell game. Krillin marries Android 18 (who was wished 
to human by the dragonballs) and has a daughter named marron. chi-chi has 
a seconded son named son Goten, son Goten and Trunks (chibi) turned ssj at 
an early age. son Gohan has a girl friend named videl, the daughter of 
Satan ( satan takes all the credit for killing Cell, this got him really 
famous ), son Gohan is also a superhero named the great saiyanman. during 
the tenkaichu-boudoukai, son Goku is granted a single day of life to meet 
with Gohan, Goten, Trunks, chi-chi, and all the Z warriors, including 
Vegeta. two of Buu's slaves steal son Gohan's energy, then a man named 
kaiosen revives son Gohan, he than tells of a evil demon named Buu trying 
to destroy the earth. if Buu's slaves gather enougth energy, he will be 
revived. Vegeta learning that he can become stronger by turning into Buu's 
slave, Vegeta turns evil again, this time he is majin Vegeta and can turn 
to ssj2. this gives Buu enough energy to be revived. Goku then learns to 
turn to ssj2 and fights him and convinces him that good always triumphs 
over evil. Vegeta finallyrealizes and self-destructs in hope to kill Buu. 
son Goku than heads to battle aganist Buu. son Goku than turns ssj2,and 
ssj3! but he still can't defeat Buu. later, son Gohan heads to the 
kaiosen's planet for training. then before son Goku's time is up on earth 
he teaches son Goten and Trunks the fusion technique, then they get 
trained by Piccolo so they can be strong enougth to beat Buu. soonafter 
son Goten and Trunks fuse to become Gotenks, later Gotenks turns ssj1, and 
then, ssj3! but Buu has made a twin of himself, but he is a lot more evil 
than Buu, he even absorbed Buu and thus turning him into super Buu. 
Gotenks is defeating super Buu, but Gotenks is an inexperienced and 
careless fighter. Buu absorbs Gotenks and becomes a lot stronger, then 
absorbs Piccolo. dia kaoiusin then sacrifices his life so son Goku can 
live. Goku then gets a pair of potara earrings for fusion, this way the 
fused person won't diffuse in 30 min. son Goku now alive teleports to the 
battle. then king yama grants Vegeta life to fight Buu. when son Goku 
arrives to the scene he tells son Gohan to fuse with him, son Goku than 
throws a fusion earing at son Gohan. son Gohan drops the earing and Buu 
absorbs son Gohan, thus turning himself into ultimate Buu. then Vegeta 
comes to the scene. Vegeta then fuses with son Goku to become, vegetto. 
vegetto defeats Buu but purposely gets absorbed to rescue their friends. 
this somehow wears off the permenent fusion. they rescue son Goten,son 
Gohan, Trunks, Piccolo, and fat Buu through ultimate Buu's pores. all of 
the energy that Buu has taken restores him back to his normal form, majin 
Buu. then he destroys the earth. kaoiu-sin teleports to help son Goku 
teleport Vegeta, satan, his dog, and dende to kaoiu-sin's planet. Vegeta 
gets angry gecause he rescude them instead of his son and the rest of the 
Z fighters. son Goku was speechless. but there wasn't any time for that, 
majin Buu also teleports to the planet Goku's on, and start to fight. then 
son Goku starts to get beaten up badly. Vegeta jumps into battle so son 
Goku can create a genki-dami.the Nakek dragonballs are gathered to wish 
back the earth and to wish back everyone killed by Buu. the third wish is 
stored for later use. son Goku's genki-dami (energy given by the Nakeks, 
the people in the heavens, and everyone on earth) is ready to throw, son 
Goku throws it, and Buu pushes it back. Vegeta tells dende to wish back 
all of son Goku's strength back. now with all his strength restored son 
Goku, he throws back the genki- dami at Buu. Buu can't counter it any 
longer, so he is killed. ten years after the battle aganist majin Buu, fat 
Buu is revived into a evil cleansed form called uboo. son Goku decides to 
train him since he has great potential. son Gohan and vidal get married 
and have a daughter named pan. this concludes dragonball z. 

Specials

Trunks' Story
20 years after Goku kills Frieza there is a huge battle with these 
artificial human (Cyborgs). They have killed all the Z fighters except for 
Trunks and Gohan. Goku has died of a heart disease. Vegita, Yamcha, tien, 
and Krillin all have been killed in battle. Gohan and Trunks are the only 
Z fighters left. 

On the radio, Trunks hears of the cyborgs destroying another city, 
and is enraged by this. He flies off to go find them and fight. On the way 
Gohan appears in front of him and decides to train Trunks. For days they 
train, Gohan is trying to push Trunks to reach Super Saiyan. But even with 
all his anger, Trunks is still unable. Though Trunks is unable to reach 
ssj, they still decide to try there luck with the cyborg. Gohan is doing 
well, holding cyborg 17, but Trunks is getting pushed around by cyborg 18. 
So Gohan goes to his aid and fights both of the cyborgs. 

After the battle is over Gohan is seriously injured with a arm 
missing and Trunks is unconscious. As Gohan reaches for his bag of sensu 
beans, he discovers there is only 1 left. He gives it to Trunks and 
collapses. Trunks, now fully healed takes Gohan back to Bulma who aids 
Gohan. After Gohan is healed, he continues to train Trunks, pushing him to 
go Super Saiyan. Then they decide to try there luck again, but Gohan hits 
Trunks in the back of the neck and gets knocked out. Gohan flies off to 
fight them himself. Trunks later awakens and notices what happened and 
rushes over to the battle. When he gets there, the city is gone and Gohan 
is laying there on the ground.... Dead! (note: check the movie section for 
this clip) As Trunks looks at the dead Gohan he starts to cry and turns 
Super Saiyan! After that he went to go fight the cyborgs. 

Although he is a Super Saiyan he is still no match for the cyborgs. 
After the battle is over, Trunks awakens in his bed, bandaged. His mother 
had brought him back and tells him she has been working on a time machine 
and that he should go back, before Goku gets the heart disease, and give 
him the cure (20 years after Goku dies they have found a cure for that 
disease). So Trunks enters the time machine, with the words HOPE written 
on the top and comes to the time where Frieza and his father (King 
Cold)just land on planet earth to seek revenge for his defeat against Goku 
on Planet Nakek. That is where we first encounter Trunks in Dragon Ball Z. 

Bardocks Story
Many years before the dragonball series, the powerful Frieza took 
over the Planet Vegeta. He had the people of Planet Vegeta (he saiyans) 
serve him by conquering other planets. Bardock, 
a low class saiyan, was sent with several others to conquer the planets in 
the name of Frieza. When they reached a planet they would kill all the 
people who lived there, showing absolutely no mercy. On one their missions 
they thought that everyone on the planet was killed. But infact one person 
remained, his name was Tooro. 

He suddenly attacked Bardock and gave him the ability to see his future, 
which contained his terrible fate. Following this glimpse into the future, 
Bardock quickly destroys Tooro and falls to the ground unconscious. 
Bardock is sent immediatly to the re juvanation chamber when they arrive 
back on planet Vegeta. Realizing that later on the saiyans can pose a 
threat to him, Frieza begins makin plots for their destruction. At this 
time Vegeta is a child, but is sent to conquer a planet with Nappa. [ some 
where within this point Kakarot/Goku is born ] 

Finally Bardock has recovered and finds out that his partners have 
already been sent to another planet to conquer it. Bardock now leaves 
in search for his commrades. When he reaches to the planet, he sees 
them all dead, except for one who was barly alive, but was able to 
tell Bardock that it was all a trick by Frieza to have them killed. 
At this time he also finds out about Frieza's plot to have the entire 
saiyan race eliminated, he ecounters some of his henchmen and is able to 
defeat them all except for Dodoria. Bardock is easily defeat by Dodoria 
and is badly injured (Kakarot at this time is sent to planet Earth). 
He still manages to get back to the planet Vegeta to warn all the 
other saiyans about what he finds out, but they all take it as a joke. 

As Frieza's ship now approaches the planet Bardock flies toward it, then 
hundreds of Frieza's men are sent from the ship towards him. He easily 
defeats all of them due to his superior power. Summoning all his power 
Bardock fires a large energy ball at Frieza in an 
attempt to kill him. His attempt did prove uselees as Frieza powers up a 
huge enrgy ball that kills both Bardock and destroys the planet Vegeta. As 
this is happening Bardock sees into the future one last time and sees his 
son encounter Frieza. Then as the huge energy ball approaches his last 
words were "My Son Lives On"...... 

Now on earth, Kararot is found by a man by the name of Gohan and 
names the child Goku .