Chapter Summaries

Raditz brought Earth’s warriors to Planet Yardrat to learn secret techniques, while he sought Master Repu’s help understanding a second form of Instant Transmission. The group began training, and Repu agreed to discuss the method Raditz had seen Kibito use.

• Raditz invited Earth’s warriors, including Piccolo and Vegeta, to join him in learning special techniques on Planet Yardrat.
• Raditz used Instant Transmission to bring the group to Soma’s council hall, where the Saiyans’ released Ki frightened the peace-loving Yardratians.
• Raditz offered Soma Earth snacks in thanks, and Soma led the group to a floating-island training ground with several elders to teach them.
• The warriors chose techniques suited to them, with many training to learn Instant Transmission while some lacked the mental power to master it quickly.
• Raditz met Master Repu and asked about the Spatial Displacement-style Instant Transmission he had previously described.
• Repu admitted he had only read about the method, but offered to answer Raditz’s questions after hearing what he knew of Kibito’s technique.

After ten days of meditation, Raditz improved his ability to use Instant Transmission and returned to Supreme Kai's Realm. Realizing Trunks had not appeared and wondering whether his actions had altered time, he persuaded Supreme Kai to show him the Time Rings, where he saw a green ring shining above a silver one.

• Raditz meditated for ten days, strengthening his mental power and bringing distant planets within reach of Instant Transmission.
• Raditz returned to Supreme Kai's Realm and told Supreme Kai that he was training warriors to oppose Babidi and his allies.
• Raditz realized Trunks had not arrived and worried that his actions had changed the timeline and affected the future Androids.
• Raditz insisted on checking the Time Rings, and Supreme Kai and Kibito agreed to show them to him.
• Supreme Kai opened the box of Time Rings, and Raditz saw a green ring shining above a silver one.

Raditz used the new green Time Ring to visit a parallel timeline and discovered that the world he came from was a timeline he had created. He traveled two years into the future to investigate the Androids' decisive battle.

• Raditz persuaded the Supreme Kai to lend him a Time Ring and traveled one day into the future.
• Raditz observed Krillin training at Kame House and found Goku, Piccolo, and Gohan training on Mount Paozu.
• Raditz saw that events in the timeline matched what he knew, but he could not sense his own Ki.
• Raditz concluded that the timeline he visited was the original Dragon Balls timeline and that his home world was one he had opened up.
• Raditz used the Time Ring to travel two years forward to the decisive battle against the Androids.

Raditz confirmed that he was dead in the timeline where Goku and the others fought the Androids, then secretly examined the Time Rings in the Supreme Kai's Realm. His return journey was disrupted by a powerful force, and he landed in an unfamiliar place before a mysterious girl who appeared to be a god.

• Raditz watched Goku and the others leave to search for the Androids, then concluded that he was dead in that timeline.
• Raditz used Instant Transmission to reach the Supreme Kai's Realm and opened the sealed box containing the Time Rings.
• Raditz identified the extra ring as belonging to his timeline, closed the box, and used a Time Ring to return home.
• A powerful Divine Power disrupted Raditz's time travel and pulled him out of the tunnel, making him crash onto the ground.
• Raditz realized he had landed somewhere other than the Supreme Kai's Realm and saw a girl wearing Supreme Kai-like clothes and familiar earrings.

Raditz met Kaiin, the seventy-five-million-year-old Time Kaioshin, after she intercepted his time travel and accused him of breaking temporal rules. Kaiin offered to let him return if he helped the understaffed Time Patrol, and Raditz followed her inside to hear the details.

• Kaiin confronted Raditz for traveling through time and questioned why he carried Supreme Kai earrings and a Time Ring.
• Raditz explained that he was a Universe 7 Supreme Kai candidate temporarily filling in for Shin, and Kaiin introduced herself as the Time Kaioshin.
• Kaiin explained that she created the Time Rings, oversaw temporal order from the Time Nest, and sent Time Patrol members to correct timeline distortions.
• Kaiin accused Raditz of traveling without Shin and threatened to keep him from returning unless he helped her.
• Kaiin recruited Raditz to assist the understaffed Time Patrol, and he followed her into her house to hear about the problem.

Kaiin explained that the Demon Realm had altered the past by empowering Chilled to defeat Bardock, and sent Raditz and Kais to restore history. Raditz and Kais traveled through time together to confront Chilled.

• Kaiin explained how villains used temporal magic and showed Raditz a corrupted historical scene of Chilled defeating Super Saiyan Bardock.
• Kaiin assigned Raditz to defeat Chilled and restore history, offering Kais as a partner and promising to overlook Raditz's crimes if he succeeded.
• Raditz claimed Chilled would be easy to defeat, prompting Kais to insist on joining the mission himself.
• Kaiin sent Raditz and Kais through a blue time-space vortex, and they arrived at their destination.

Raditz and Kais traveled back in time and defeated demonized Chilled, who had overwhelmed Bardock. As Raditz returned through the time portal, Bardock recognized him and asked if he was his son, but Raditz left without confirming it.

• Chilled was demonized, gained tremendous power, and drove Super Saiyan Bardock back with a series of attacks.
• Raditz and Kais arrived to help Bardock, and Raditz quickly overpowered Chilled in close combat.
• Chilled tried to create a Planet Destroyer Ball, but Raditz knocked him unconscious and hurled him into space with a Ki Blast.
• The Time Kaioshin summoned Raditz and Kais back after the battle, and Bardock chased after them, calling out Raditz's name.
• Raditz left through the time portal after telling Bardock, "I am just a Saiyan passing through."

Raditz returned from the distorted timeline after helping Kaiin cleanse a demonic scroll and learned that the Demon Realm was using twisted time to gather energy. He left Supreme Kai’s realm to destroy Dr. Gero’s unfinished Androids before they could become a threat, while considering sparing Android 18.

• Raditz and the Kais returned to reality, where Kaiin thanked Raditz, offered him a Time Patrol position, and gave him a Time City Emblem.
• Kaiin opened a passage home, and Raditz used the Time Ring to return to his world.
• While waiting, Kibito questioned the Saiyans’ character, but Supreme Kai defended Raditz and mentioned his role in stopping the West Galaxy invasion.
• Raditz surprised Kibito, told Supreme Kai that the Demon Realm was exploiting distorted time for energy, and returned the Time Ring and Potara Earring.
• Raditz used Instant Transmission to leave, intending to attack Dr. Gero’s lair and destroy the unfinished Androids, though he considered sparing Android 18.

Raditz and Tumart found Dr. Gero's abandoned laboratory near North City and discovered that its equipment and dormant chambers had been wrecked. Tumart detected a larger underground section, and Raditz took him down to investigate.

• Raditz searched the mountains near North City with Tumart after learning that Dr. Briefs did not know the laboratory's exact location.
• Raditz found a cave entrance and melted through its exposed alloy gate with his Ki.
• Raditz and Tumart entered the ruined laboratory and found a charred half-mechanical head, destroyed dormant chambers, and no sign of Dr. Gero or the Androids.
• Tumart scanned the laboratory and discovered a larger underground area beneath it.
• Raditz broke through the sealed entrance and jumped into the basement with Tumart.

Raditz discovered that Dr. Gero’s underground laboratory had been abandoned, with the Androids and Cell gone, and traveled to New Namek to ask Porunga for help. Porunga could not locate the Androids or eliminate Gero, but it cured Goku’s heart disease.

• Raditz and Tumart found a buried laboratory filled with destroyed Androids, but no sign of Cell or Dr. Gero.
• Raditz concluded that Dr. Gero had relocated his research and used Instant Transmission to take Tumart to New Namek.
• Grand Elder Karis welcomed Raditz, and the Namekians quickly gathered the Dragon Balls for him.
• Raditz summoned Porunga and learned that it could not find the Androids because Earth’s magnetic field was disrupted or make Dr. Gero disappear.
• Raditz asked Porunga to cure Goku’s viral heart disease, and Porunga granted the wish.

Raditz used Porunga’s wishes to learn the Super Dragon Balls’ location and find a new home planet, then brought Dende and Kakarot to Earth to train under Kami. Seeking to secure more Senzu Beans for the Android threat, he learned they grew in soil from the Divine Realm and left to obtain some.

• Raditz wished for the Super Dragon Balls’ location and a habitable planet resembling Planet Vegeta, and Porunga granted both wishes.
• Raditz took Dende and Kakarot to Earth and entrusted them to Kami to train as candidates for Kami.
• Raditz visited Master Korin for more Senzu Beans and learned that their limited supply came from soil associated with the Divine Realm.
• Raditz concluded that he could obtain more Divine Realm soil and vanished, while Master Korin and Yajirobe watched him leave.

Raditz organized a search for the missing Androids, expanded Senzu Bean farming, and trained with the others as a year and a half passed. Tien Shinhan and Launch announced their wedding, while Yamcha revealed that Bulma had a baby with Vegeta.

• Raditz shared Tumart’s scanner data with Dr. Briefs and summoned scientists to Earth to search for the Androids.
• Raditz built large Senzu Bean farms on Earth and the new Saiyan Planet, then trained with Goku, Tarble, and the others on Planet Yardrat.
• After a year and a half, Tien Shinhan confessed to Launch and announced they would marry in one month, with Zangya planning the wedding.
• Krillin and Afuna bickered, then blushed when they found themselves standing close together.
• Yamcha revealed that Bulma had a baby with Vegeta, shocking everyone.

Tien Shinhan and Launch celebrated their wedding at a castle Raditz had prepared, where Zangya arranged a weapon-filled fireworks surprise. Meanwhile, Jeice received reports of coordinated attacks across the North Galaxy and saw a star map that convinced him the Alliance needed Raditz's help.

• Raditz and Zangya hosted Tien Shinhan and Launch's wedding at a castle Raditz had bought, and the guests gathered to congratulate the couple.
• Launch turned golden-haired after sneezing, then triggered weapons hidden throughout the castle as Zangya revealed her surprise.
• The castle's guns and cannons fired fireworks, delighting the guests and leaving Tien Shinhan stunned.
• Jeice received distress calls reporting attacks by strange creatures and Metalmen across the North Galaxy as planets were destroyed and guard units suffered heavy losses.
• Alliance scientists displayed a star map of the attacks, and Jeice ordered them to contact Raditz before everyone was finished.

Raditz received Jeice’s emergency warning that powerful metal mechanical creatures were destroying planets across the universe, with the largest mechanical planet heading toward Earth. He gathered the Alliance’s strongest warriors to launch a counterattack, ending with the forces readying for battle.

• Jeice contacted Raditz to report that metal mechanical creatures and enormous planets had attacked worlds across the universe, and that the largest mechanical planet was heading toward Earth.
• Raditz used Instant Transmission to reach Jeice, heard the history of the attacks, and learned that dozens of inhabited and uninhabited planets had disappeared or been destroyed.
• Raditz ordered the headquarters members to prepare a counterattack and urged Jeice to trust the Alliance’s trained warriors.
• Raditz and Jeice gathered the headquarters combatants and alerted elite warriors stationed elsewhere, as the assembled forces cheered and prepared to fight.

Raditz intercepted and destroyed Planet Big-Go in space, defeating Metal Cooler, but learned that Earth had also been attacked. Zangya reported that South City was struck on May twelfth, leaving Raditz stunned by the timing.

• Raditz teleported to Planet Big-Go and stopped its advance toward Earth.
• Cooler revealed himself and sent Metal Cooler to attack Raditz.
• Raditz outmatched Metal Cooler’s Instant Transmission and destroyed Planet Big-Go with Galactic Flash.
• Raditz sensed an ominous presence and learned from Zangya that South City had suffered a massive attack.
• Zangya said the attack happened on May twelfth, and Raditz fell silent as Tumart trembled beside her.

Raditz learned that Android 19 and Android 20 had appeared in South City and led a group of fighters to confront them. Vegeta overwhelmed the Androids immediately, leaving them disarmed as the others dismissed them as weak.

• Raditz learned that two Androids had attacked monitoring drones near a southwestern island and returned to Earth.
• Raditz took Vegeta, Goku, Tien Shinhan, Launch, and others to South City while Gohan stayed behind to protect the families.
• Raditz explained that Dr. Gero had created the Androids and warned the group that they could absorb energy through their palms.
• Vegeta attacked Android 19 and Android 20, moving too quickly for them to react and tearing off both of their mechanical arms.
• Vegeta stopped fighting and handed the weakened Androids over to Goku while the others laughed at their defeat.

Vegeta’s transformation forced Dr. Gero and Android 19 to flee, but Nappa intercepted them. Dr. Gero charged at Nappa believing he could not become a Super Saiyan, only for Nappa to transform in front of everyone.

• Raditz revealed that he knew Dr. Gero’s identity and demanded answers about the other Androids and Cell, but Dr. Gero refused to cooperate.
• Vegeta fired an energy blast at the Androids, and they absorbed it before attacking and escaping.
• Raditz blocked Dr. Gero’s eye beams while Nappa, Goku, Vegeta, and the others pursued the fleeing Androids.
• Nappa caught up to Android 19 and Dr. Gero, struck them from behind, and faced them on the ground.
• Dr. Gero charged at Nappa, assuming he could not transform without hair, but Nappa became a Super Saiyan with a golden aura and beard.

Nappa fought Android 20 and gained the upper hand while Trunks arrived in the past by Time Machine. The chapter ended with Raditz recognizing Trunks as the newcomer appeared before the gathered fighters.

• Raditz explained that Nappa had become a first-stage Super Saiyan with Ariel's help, and Nappa attacked Android 20.
• Trunks arrived by Time Machine near the Southern Archipelago and set out to find Goku and the others after sensing unfamiliar Ki.
• Nappa struck Android 20 repeatedly, while Android 19 fled in fear.
• Raditz sensed an unfamiliar Ki approaching and turned to face it with the others.
• Trunks reached the group, and Raditz cried out in shock when he recognized him.

Future Trunks arrived in Raditz’s timeline by mistake and learned that its people did not remember him. Raditz explained the parallel timeline and offered to help him train, leaving Trunks stunned by the power of Raditz, Goku, and Vegeta.

• Trunks appeared during the Android battle, and Goku and the others failed to recognize him.
• Raditz realized Trunks had traveled from a parallel timeline and explained that his Time Machine had brought him to the wrong world.
• Raditz told the group that Trunks was Bulma’s grown-up son, and Trunks learned that Raditz was Goku’s older brother.
• Trunks despaired that he could not save his own future, but Raditz and Goku urged him to train in this timeline.
• Raditz, Goku, and Vegeta transformed into Super Saiyans, leaving Trunks stunned by their power.

Trunks told the Saiyans about the Androids’ devastating future while watching them reveal their overwhelming strength. Nappa destroyed Android 19 but was left exhausted, and Dr. Gero summoned Androids 13, 14, and 15 as reinforcements.

• Raditz, Goku, and Vegeta showed Trunks their power, leaving him stunned by the strength of this world’s Saiyans.
• Trunks explained that the Androids had killed the warriors in his future and that Bulma sent him back to change history.
• Goku and Vegeta bickered with Trunks, while the group cheered Nappa on instead of joining his fight against Dr. Gero and Android 19.
• Nappa broke Android 19’s arm and destroyed it with a Kikoho, but the fight left him exhausted and weaker than Dr. Gero.
• Dr. Gero revealed that he had summoned Androids 13, 14, and 15, and Raditz prepared to face them.