Chapter Summaries

Bulma used Earth's Shenron to send everyone on Namek except Son Goku and Frieza away, leaving the two to fight. Son Goku offered Frieza eternal life if he spared Earth, but Frieza refused, and their battle left Frieza battered while Son Goku remained unharmed.

• Bulma had Earth's Shenron teleport everyone on Namek except Son Goku and Frieza to another planet.
• Son Goku told Frieza he could gather Earth's Dragon Balls to grant him eternal life if he agreed not to destroy Earth.
• Frieza rejected the offer, threatened to kill Son Goku and the Earthlings, and invited Son Goku to join the Frieza Army.
• Son Goku refused and began fighting Frieza, repeatedly punching, dragging, and slamming him into the rocky ground.
• Frieza fired an energy blast at Son Goku, but the explosion cleared to reveal him standing unharmed in the air.

Son Goku defeated Frieza on Namek, and Bulma arrived to reunite with him. At Capsule Corporation, the Namekians’ Dragon Balls appeared, and the dying Grand Elder appointed Muri as his successor before passing away; Chi-Chi offered the Namekians a home on Earth.

• Frieza unleashed his full power, but Son Goku overpowered his energy sphere with a Kamehameha and obliterated him.
• Bulma landed on Namek and reunited with Son Goku, realizing Frieza had died before destroying the planet.
• The Namekians’ seven stone Dragon Balls appeared in the Capsule Corporation courtyard after they were settled on Earth.
• The Grand Elder warned the Namekians not to return to their exposed planet, named Muri as his successor, and died.
• Chi-Chi offered to have Bulma buy land so the Namekians could live on Earth.

After learning that Goku had defeated Frieza and was going to Planet Yardrat to train, Chi-Chi arranged for Vegeta to stay at Goku’s childhood home on Mount Paozu. When Chi-Chi, Krillin, and Vegeta arrived, they noticed the mountain was being carefully maintained and suspected someone had moved into the house.

• Chi-Chi told the Namekians, Krillin, Vegeta, and the others that Goku had killed Frieza and that Namek was unharmed, then revealed that Goku was going to Planet Yardrat to train.
• Chi-Chi decided to find Vegeta a place to stay and offered him Goku’s empty house on Mount Paozu, warning him not to damage it.
• Vegeta eagerly agreed to go to Mount Paozu, while Chi-Chi arranged for Krillin to bring the Gravity Chamber and prepared a portable house in case the old home had collapsed.
• Chi-Chi, Krillin, and Vegeta flew to Mount Paozu and saw that its fields and irrigation ditches were well maintained.
• Chi-Chi and Krillin suspected that someone had taken over Goku’s house and headed toward it, where a little boy came running up the mountain.

Chi-Chi, Krillin, and Vegeta found Launch living in Goku’s former home with a boy named Son Xiao-Kong, who said Goku was his father. After Launch sneezed and turned blonde, she opened fire on them, leaving the three hiding behind a rock.

• Chi-Chi, Krillin, and Vegeta met Launch and her son, Son Xiao-Kong, at Goku’s former home.
• Son Xiao-Kong said his father was Son Goku, and Vegeta concluded he was Goku’s son because he had once had a tail.
• Launch sneezed, changed into her blonde persona, and fired a machine gun at Chi-Chi, Krillin, and Vegeta.
• Krillin dragged Vegeta behind a rock while he and Chi-Chi tried to calm Launch down.
• Son Xiao-Kong tried to stop Launch, but she insisted she was protecting him and continued shooting.

Chi-Chi learned how Launch’s past with Son Goku led to the birth of her son, Son Xiao-Kong, and invited Launch to live with them in West City. The chapter ended aboard Bulma’s spaceship, where Bulma sat down beside Goku after a phone call.

• Vegeta mistook Blonde Launch’s transformation for a Super Saiyan change, while Krillin and Chi-Chi explained her condition and Chi-Chi disarmed her.
• Son Xiao-Kong praised Chi-Chi’s martial arts, and Launch sent him away with Krillin before telling Chi-Chi about her past with Son Goku.
• Chi-Chi understood how Launch had become pregnant and decided not to blame Goku for their night together.
• Chi-Chi invited Launch and Son Xiao-Kong to move to West City and promised to speak with Bulma; Launch embraced her in tears.
• The next day, Bulma joined Goku aboard her spaceship after finishing a phone call and called out to him.

Bulma confronted Son Goku about Launch, and he confessed that they had slept together and that he had known Launch was living at Mount Paozu. The story left Bulma preparing to discuss Launch and their six-year-old son, Son Xiao-Kong, with Goku.

• Bulma asked Son Goku when he had last returned to Mount Paozu, and he immediately confessed that he had slept with Launch there.
• Bulma forgave Goku and considered how Launch and her child should be cared for, but Goku insisted he had chosen to go along with what happened.
• Bulma rejected Goku's plan to send Launch away and revealed that Launch had given birth to his son, who was already six.
• Son Goku was astonished to learn he had a son, while Bulma explained that the child needed a home and should start school.

Bulma returned to Earth from Planet Yardrat after deciding to search for Dr. Gero’s lab while Goku continued his Spirit Control training. At Capsule Corporation, she told Chi-Chi, Launch, and Xiao-Kong that Goku would remain away for another six months, and Xiao-Kong asked to train with his master.

• Bulma decided Goku’s training should continue and flew back to Earth alone to look for Dr. Gero’s lab.
• Chi-Chi, Launch, and Xiao-Kong eagerly went to greet Bulma when her spaceship landed at Capsule Corporation.
• Bulma surprised them by explaining that Goku had stayed on Planet Yardrat and would need another six months of training.
• Launch reassured Xiao-Kong that Goku was training, and Xiao-Kong asked her to send him to Vacation Manor to train with his master.

Bulma searched a deserted island for Dr. Gero’s Android laboratory but found nothing and was nearly killed by a dinosaur. Two young people resembling Android 17 and Android 18 rescued her, leaving her terrified when they approached her.

• Bulma thanked Launch for letting her stay with her and spoke with Son Xiao-Kong about training under Krillin.
• Bulma searched the island where Dr. Gero had built the Androids but found no laboratory.
• A dinosaur chased Bulma, and she twisted her ankle while trying to escape.
• Two figures struck the dinosaur and saved Bulma.
• Bulma recognized the rescuers as younger lookalikes of Android 17 and Android 18, and the boy scolded her for being there.

Bulma met Lazuli and Lapis, ordinary siblings who had not been turned into androids, after Lazuli saved her from danger on the island. When Bulma twisted her ankle, Lazuli helped her and asked to be friends, leaving Bulma impressed by her.

• Lazuli demanded a reward from Bulma for saving her, and Bulma offered her a bank card with a hundred million on it.
• Lazuli doubted the card was real, returned it, and warned Bulma to leave the island because of its wild animals.
• Bulma tried to stand but her twisted ankle hurt, so she asked Lazuli and Lapis to help her reach her plane.
• Bulma told Lazuli that she was rich, and Lazuli introduced herself, named Lapis as her twin brother, and asked Bulma to be her friend.
• Bulma admired Lazuli’s appearance and told her to call her Bulma.

Bulma gave Lazuli a large sum of money and left with Goku, while Lazuli and Lapis headed for a nearby town. A year later, King Cold approached Earth, and the Z Fighters gathered to face him as Goku and Bulma rushed back.

• Lazuli accepted Bulma's money as thanks for saving her and offered to carry her to the plane.
• Bulma flew away while Lapis rowed Lazuli toward a nearby town in their shabby boat.
• A year later, the Z Fighters sensed a powerful presence approaching Earth, and Krillin, Chi-Chi, Vegeta, Tien Shinhan, and Yamcha recognized the threat as King Cold.
• Goku asked Bulma to hurry, and she activated her newly invented Warp Engine to speed their spaceship toward Earth.
• The Z Fighters gathered near the landing site and discussed their training and plans to protect Earth.
• Vegeta refused to lower his power level or join the others, declaring that he would fight King Cold alone.

Vegeta and Earth’s fighters prepared to confront King Cold, who ordered his army to destroy Earth and kill the approaching Super Saiyan. After Krillin and the others wiped out more than a thousand soldiers, they surrounded King Cold and challenged him.

• Vegeta refused to team up with Krillin, while Chi-Chi proposed a coordinated trap using Solar Flare and Destructo Discs.
• King Cold landed on Earth and ordered his adjutant to send the Frieza Army soldiers out to kill the Earthlings.
• Krillin and the others attacked the soldiers, and their overwhelming strength allowed them to defeat the army and its commanders.
• King Cold applauded the fighters and offered them a place in his army, but Krillin rejected the offer and challenged him to fight.

Krillin, Chi-Chi, and the others defeated King Cold with a coordinated assault, while Vegeta raged at being outperformed. Son Goku returned and mistook the remains for evidence that a future warrior had killed King Cold, leaving the truth of the battle unclear to him.

• King Cold attacked Krillin, but someone used Solar Flare to blind him and the group overwhelmed him with punches.
• King Cold prepared to destroy Earth, but a Special Beam Cannon and a swarm of Destructo Discs cut him apart.
• Chi-Chi celebrated the victory and invited everyone and their families to a feast at her Vacation Manor.
• Vegeta grew furious that he had performed worse against King Cold than the Earthlings and roared without transforming.
• Son Goku appeared beside Vegeta, greeted everyone, and assumed a future warrior had killed King Cold with a sword.

Son Goku returned to Earth using Instant Transmission and reunited with Chi-Chi, then learned that she and the others had killed King Cold together. Chi-Chi took Goku home to meet their son, Son Gohan, after he had missed the boy’s birth.

• Son Goku embraced the tearful Chi-Chi and explained that he had used Instant Transmission to reach Earth before the spaceship arrived.
• Son Goku demonstrated Instant Transmission by teleporting to the distant Vacation Manor and returning with Raditz's Scouter.
• Son Goku asked who had killed King Cold, and Chi-Chi and Krillin proudly told him that the group had defeated him with teamwork and dozens of Destructo Discs.
• Son Goku realized that no one from the future had appeared because he would have prevented his illness by making a wish to Shenron.
• Chi-Chi took Son Goku by the arm and urged him to go home and meet their son, Son Gohan.

Son Goku and Chi-Chi celebrated Son Gohan's birth at Vacation Manor, where Bulma arrived and warned the fighters about future Androids and Goku's Heart Virus. Bulma gave Goku a bottle of medicine she claimed could prevent the virus, leaving the group to prepare for the future threat.

• Son Goku and Chi-Chi named their newborn Son Gohan and went to a feast at Vacation Manor with their friends.
• Bulma returned to West City, disguised Liuwei Dihuang Wan pills as heart medicine, and took Mrs. Brief to the feast.
• Bulma told Son Goku, Krillin, Vegeta, Tien Shinhan, and the other fighters that future Androids would kill several of them and devastate the world.
• Son Goku suggested the Androids might know the fighters' techniques, and the group accepted Bulma's warning.
• Bulma revealed that Son Goku would die from a Heart Virus and gave him the medicine she said could prevent it.

Son Goku began taking the medicine Bulma gave him as the group prepared to face the Androids expected in three years. A few days later, Bulma realized the bottle contained Liuwei Dihuang Wan rather than a cure, and Chi-Chi and Launch discussed Goku’s unusually vigorous behavior.

• Chi-Chi took charge of making sure Son Goku took his daily medicine, while Bulma said she could have the drug manufactured if it failed to cure him.
• Bulma told the group the Androids would appear around May 12 in three years, could not be sensed, and had been made from humans using biotechnology.
• Tien Shinhan described his work on the Kaio-ken and Neo Tri-Beam, and the group agreed to train for the coming fight.
• Vegeta flew off, boasting that he would kill the Androids, while Chi-Chi mocked his arrogance.
• A few days later, Chi-Chi and Launch told Bulma that Son Goku had been unusually energetic, and Bulma realized she had given him Liuwei Dihuang Wan instead of medicine.

Son Goku gathered the Dragon Balls and asked Shenron to make him immune to illness, learning that Bulma had already made that wish for him. He used his remaining wish to grant Bulma a thousand years of immortality, then returned home and resumed training; three years later, the children were delivering milk and learning that protecting Earth would be their responsibility.

• Son Goku summoned Shenron and learned Bulma had already wished for him to never get sick.
• Son Goku wished for Bulma to live for a thousand years, and Shenron granted the wish.
• Son Goku returned home, ate Launch's fish, and learned from Bulma that his medicine was a harmless supplement.
• Son Goku resumed his grueling training after deciding to trust Bulma and stop worrying about his health.
• Three years later, Krillin led Son Xiao-Kong and Hoho on a milk-delivery run and told them they would one day protect Earth.

Krillin took Hoho and Son Xiao-Kong to an amusement park, where Hoho learned to use threats to get what she wanted. Meanwhile, Vegeta’s extreme training destroyed the Gravity Chamber, and a pink-haired woman healed him as he vowed to keep training.

• Krillin agreed to take Hoho and Son Xiao-Kong to the amusement park after they begged him to stop training for a day.
• At the park, Krillin posed for photos with two fans, and Hoho threatened to tell her mother unless he bought her and Son Xiao-Kong more ice cream.
• Son Xiao-Kong tried to blackmail Son Goku into buying him a toy, but Launch beat him after he threatened to tell her about seeing his parents kiss.
• Vegeta trained under extreme gravity until the Gravity Chamber collapsed and left him unconscious amid the rubble.
• A pink-haired woman used Mystical Palm Technique to heal Vegeta, who insisted that he would never give up training.

After three years of training, Piccolo revealed a powerful golden transformation to Son Goku and the others as they searched for the Androids. The group had reached the island where an explosion occurred, but the Androids remained unseen.

• Sakura treated Vegeta's injuries while he recovered from training.
• The chapter recounted how Vegeta met Sakura in the Hidden Leaf village and brought her along as his healer and later his wife.
• Bulma warned the gathered warriors that the Androids might know their fighting techniques, and the group flew south to investigate attacks and disappearances.
• Tien Shinhan said he had mastered the thirty-times Kaio-ken, but could only use it briefly because it strained his body.
• The warriors reached the island after spotting an explosion, but could not sense the Androids' energy.
• Piccolo rejected Son Goku's suggestion that he sit out the search and revealed his golden transformation, which greatly increased his strength.

Piccolo revealed a powerful golden form, and the group split up to search for the Androids. Android 20 and Android 19 ambushed Yamcha, but Chi-Chi gave him a Senzu Bean that healed his wound as Goku and the others arrived.

• Piccolo powered down from his golden form and said he was now as strong as Frieza had been.
• Goku sent everyone to search for the Androids and warned Chi-Chi not to take unnecessary risks.
• Android 20 and Android 19 decided to ambush powerful fighters and absorb their energy.
• Android 20 pierced Yamcha’s chest and absorbed his energy after Yamcha arrived at the ruined town.
• Krillin fed Yamcha a Senzu Bean, and Yamcha’s chest healed as Goku and the others reached him.

Son Goku and the others disguised themselves as ordinary people to search for the androids, but Goku found Dr. Gero and Android 19 draining civilians. He faced them alone while Chi-Chi stayed back to watch for anyone escaping, and Android 19 prepared to attack.

• Yamcha explained how Dr. Gero and Android 19 ambushed him and drained his energy, and Goku realized the group should hide their ki and blend in with civilians.
• Chi-Chi gave the group money, and they split up in disguises to search the island; she and Goku walked together while pretending to be a couple.
• Goku and Chi-Chi spotted Dr. Gero and Android 19 absorbing energy from people near a car accident, and Goku told Chi-Chi to stay hidden while he confronted them.
• Dr. Gero and Android 19 stopped draining civilians and surrounded Goku, boasting that their database held information about him and that he was no match for them.
• Android 19 asked Dr. Gero to let him fight Goku so he could absorb his energy.