With this, the Z-Warriors get to work training in the hope to counteract the threat. Android Saga: Frieza's brief return, Goku returning and learning of the bad future.But there turns out to be some unexpected surprises that even Trunks was unaware of leading the Z-Warriors to face their greatest threat yet. Cell Saga: Cell makes his appearance terrorizing and absorbing humans.The fight against 19 and 20, and then 17 and 18. The Z-Fighters try to stop him while also dealing with the androids. Cell Games: Cell initiates his own World Martial Arts Tournament with the world's best fighters (and Mr.Cell absorbs 17 and 18, becoming Perfect Cell. Leading into the final confrontation against him.Ī year and a half following the events on Namek, the world is at peace and life is good, save for the fact that Goku is still MIA in space. Having failed to find him, Vegeta returns to Earth and lives with the Briefs (with Bulma starting to develop an attraction to him), having nowhere else to go. Unfortunately for everyone, it turns out that Frieza's Not Quite Dead even after being reduced to a torso and half a head when Namek exploded, he survived and is now a Cyborg. A cyborg with an army and his dad, King Cold, looking for revenge on a planet without Goku, at that. Despite the massive odds against them, the Z-Fighters head to the Northern Wastelands as Frieza's ship lands.
However, no sooner do his minions disembark when a mysterious young man wielding a sword appears and effortlessly slices them apart. He then takes on Frieza, and reveals himself to be a Saiyan as he promptly turns Super Saiyan, scaring the daylights out of the tyrant. The next thing he knows, the man makes literal mincemeat out of him and kills King Cold, effortlessly quashing Frieza's reign of terror before it begins.Īmazed at the power of the mysterious Saiyan, the Z-Fighters are told by him that Goku will return in three hours. They wait around for him, but questioning the man on who he is yields little information, though he keeps looking at Vegeta (to whom Bulma notices a resemblance). Sure enough, Goku returns from space just as the man said he would. After being introduced to the man, the two talk alone, and after the man confirms Goku is powerful, he properly introduces himself in secret - his name is Trunks, and he's a half-Saiyan from twenty years in the future.