Recaps

Trunks and Son Goten fought Son Goku with increasing power, but he continued to outmatch them. After Son Goten instinctively copied one of Goku’s moves, the boys decided to use their strongest technique, leaving Vegeta to fear what they were about to unleash.

• Trunks and Son Goten raised their power and launched a coordinated assault that Son Goku calmly countered.
• Krillin and Tien Shinhan watched the fight, while Amond and Daiz realized the boys had barely tried against them earlier.
• Son Goten nearly revealed something over the helmets’ communications channel, was struck by Goku, and was caught by Trunks.
• Trunks and Son Goten powered up again, and Son Goten instinctively copied Goku’s defense to block a strike and counterattack.
• Unable to overcome Goku, Trunks and Son Goten agreed to use their strongest move as their auras turned golden.
• Vegeta watched from a distant building and grew worried as the boys’ power surged.

Trunks and Son Goten transformed into Super Saiyans and fought Son Goku in the arena, astonishing the onlookers and Vegeta. Watching them, Vegeta questioned what enabled the transformation and flew to Bulma, convinced he was close to becoming a Super Saiyan.

• Trunks and Son Goten revealed their Super Saiyan forms after defeating Amond and Daiz, shocking Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta.
• Son Goku transformed and invited the two boys to attack him with everything they had.
• Trunks and Son Goten coordinated attacks against Son Goku, but he evaded their moves and flung them away.
• Vegeta observed that the boys' Super Saiyan power was far below that of Turles or Kakarot and questioned whether Power Level was necessary for transforming.
• Vegeta recalled Kakarot's mercy and his own shame, then flew toward Bulma, believing he was close to becoming a Super Saiyan.

Son Goku defeated Trunks and Son Goten in training, then encouraged them to keep growing stronger. Days later, Turles and his companions arrived on Planet Yardrat to train, while Babidi and Dabura considered making Frieza their subordinate before learning that someone had breached their communications channel.

• Son Goku swiftly ended the children's attack, forced Trunks and Son Goten out of their Super Saiyan forms, and defeated them.
• Turles and Son Goku encouraged the exhausted boys, restoring their confidence and inspiring them to grow stronger.
• Turles led Son Goku, Piccolo, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Amond, Daiz, Trunks, and Son Goten to Planet Yardrat, where cheering natives welcomed them.
• Grand Elder Pybara welcomed Turles and agreed to help him train on Planet Yardrat.
• Babidi and Dabura watched footage of Frieza and discussed making him their subordinate, while worrying that approaching him might attract Supreme Kai's attention.
• A communicator warned Babidi that someone had accessed their communications channel without authorization.

Babidi heard from a mysterious caller who offered to help him achieve his goal by revealing an ancient legend about a terrifying Majin. At Lord Zuno’s residence, a hooded old man and Gokua arrived seeking answers, but learned that appointments were booked three years ahead, and the old man said he could not wait.

• A mysterious caller contacted Babidi and offered to help him achieve his goal in exchange for a small favor.
• Babidi listened as the caller began telling him about an ancient legend of a terrifying Majin, then told Dabura he wanted to investigate the stranger’s claims about the Frieza Force.
• A hooded old man and Gokua arrived at Lord Zuno’s residence, where countless aliens waited in a long queue.
• Gokua asked about the wait and learned that appointments were booked three years in advance.
• The hooded old man said three years was too long and that he could not wait.

On Planet Yardrat, Turles trained Trunks and Son Goten while considering the limits of Saiyan bodies and the growth of his power. On Planet Turles, Bulma emerged from her laboratory with findings about Super Saiyans, but stopped Vegeta to demand recognition for her work.

• Goku practiced Instant Transmission under Grand Elder Pybara's guidance while Piccolo and the others pursued their own Yardrat training.
• Turles trained Trunks and Son Goten in Ki control and reflected on applying power, strengthening his normal state, and the possible limits of his body's cells.
• Turles sensed that his Saiyan tail had begun to sway unconsciously as he floated in meditation.
• Vegeta waited outside Bulma's laboratory on Planet Turles, hoping she could uncover secrets about Super Saiyans.
• Bulma came out with a few findings from her research and complained about the trouble she had taken before Vegeta could ask his question.

On Planet Yardrat, Trunks and Son Goten passed Turles’s training challenge by forcing him to move a hand. Turles then assigned them an independent mission to destroy pirate strongholds while remaining Super Saiyans, leaving them to prepare for a demanding test.

• Trunks and Son Goten attacked Turles together, using the Ki-control techniques they had practiced over the past month.
• Turles deflected their attacks without moving his feet, then blocked Son Goten’s combined assault with two fingers and counted the challenge as passed.
• Trunks and Son Goten celebrated their success and dropped out of their Super Saiyan forms.
• Turles announced that they would face an independent mission on lawless planets outside the bounds of order.
• Turles told Trunks and Son Goten to destroy each planet’s largest space pirate stronghold and bring back the pirate leader’s communicator within one month, while remaining Super Saiyans.

Trunks and Son Goten raided the largest pirate hideout on Planet Darfa, defeated its crew, and freed the captives. As they announced that the Frieza Force would take the prisoners home, a stern-faced man in a corner cell opened his eyes and gripped his sword.

• Trunks and Son Goten regulated their Super Saiyan auras before flying toward the pirates' base.
• The boys smashed through the base's defenses and defeated the pirates, leaving the underground hideout silent.
• Trunks and Son Goten knocked out the boar-headed pirate leader and took his communicator.
• Trunks tore open the prison door, revealing more than a hundred frightened captives.
• Trunks told the captives they were from the Frieza Force and that a fleet would take them home, while a stern-faced man opened his eyes and gripped his longsword.

Trunks and Son Goten discovered that the red-haired prisoner was Tapion, who confronted Gokua aboveground. The boys hid nearby as the two swordsmen began fighting.

• Trunks and Son Goten tried to lead the prisoners out, but Tapion stopped the crowd and warned them not to go outside.
• The base shook as a dangerous Ki appeared, so Trunks ordered the prisoners to stay underground and sealed the cell entrance.
• Trunks and Son Goten flew to the surface and found Tapion facing Gokua among the ruins.
• Gokua accused Tapion of avoiding the people who had used the Dragon Balls to save him, and Tapion drew his sword.
• Tapion and Gokua clashed swords while Trunks and Son Goten watched from hiding, and Tapion taunted Gokua as his attacks failed to overwhelm him.

Tapion nearly defeated Gokua before a dark force incapacitated him, allowing Gokua to strike him down. Trunks and Son Goten escaped in their spaceship, but its engine was damaged; Turles learned of their danger and sent their coordinates to Planet Turles for a rescue.

• Tapion broke Gokua’s sword-energy attack and wounded him with a rapid series of slashes.
• A monstrous aura overwhelmed Tapion as he prepared to finish Gokua, and Gokua slashed him across the chest.
• Son Goten blinded Gokua with a Solar Flare and attacked with a Kamehameha Wave while Trunks escaped with Tapion in their spaceship.
• Gokua’s sword energy damaged the spaceship’s propulsion engine, and Trunks told Son Goten to contact Master.
• Turles received the distress signal, sent the ship’s coordinates to Planet Turles, and Dr. Gero stopped his experiment after hearing the general’s signal.

Vegeta emerged from his gravity training with a dramatic increase in power, but found the base’s warriors gone. He learned that Android 17 and Android 18 were rushing into space to rescue Turles’s disciple, and watched their ships depart.

• Vegeta’s gravity chamber exploded as he unleashed his new power, destroying nearby buildings in the process.
• Vegeta cleaned up, changed into a Frieza Force battle suit, and searched the base for Kakarot, Piccolo, Krillin, and the others.
• Vegeta sensed a military mobilization in the hangar and saw Android 18 ask Android 17 what mission they were undertaking.
• Android 17 told Android 18 that Turles’s disciple was in danger somewhere in space and that they had to hurry to the rescue.
• Android 17 and Android 18 launched in separate spacecraft toward the target, while Vegeta watched them disappear into space.

Hoi ordered Gokua to capture Tapion so he could release the phantom demon sealed inside him, while Babidi and Dabura watched Hoi through a crystal ball and chose to wait. Tapion awoke in a cave on a barren planet to find Trunks and Son Goten had rescued him and returned his sword.

• Hoi berated Gokua and demanded that he capture Tapion, whom he believed was badly injured and unable to escape.
• Babidi and Dabura watched Hoi through a crystal ball and discussed the monster Hoi wanted to release from its seal.
• Babidi dismissed Hoi and his plans as unworthy of their attention for now, while Dabura offered to capture Hoi if needed.
• Tapion awoke in a cave with his chest wound bandaged and found Trunks offering him his sword.
• Trunks and Son Goten explained that they had saved Tapion from the blue-skinned monster and offered him food.

Tapion tried to drive Trunks and Son Goten away, but they stayed and cared for his wounds with food and water. After hearing about the Frieza Force and their master, Tapion doubted they could help against Hirudegarn and resolved not to involve them as he rested before his pursuers arrived.

• Tapion tried to leave the cave, but his severe chest wound made him collapse and warn Trunks and Son Goten that they would die if they stayed.
• Trunks and Son Goten refused to abandon Tapion, offered him roast meat, and promised that the Frieza Force would protect him.
• After eating, Tapion asked about the Frieza Force, and Trunks and Son Goten described its work and praised their master as the strongest person.
• Tapion remembered his younger brother and doubted that the children's master could stand against the phantom demon Hirudegarn.
• Tapion decided not to seek help or draw the children into his mission, then rested to recover before his pursuers arrived.

As Gokua attacked the cave, Trunks and Son Goten fought to protect the wounded Tapion until their strength gave out. An unseen attacker struck Gokua and freed the boys, and a golden light began descending from the sky.

• Trunks and Son Goten left the cave to hold off Gokua while Tapion stayed behind, too badly wounded to fight.
• Gokua shattered the boys’ attack and overpowered them, eventually gripping both by the neck.
• An explosion struck Gokua from behind, forcing him to release Trunks and Son Goten.
• Gokua accused Tapion of ambushing him, though Tapion had not attacked, and everyone looked up as a brilliant golden light descended.

Vegeta arrived ahead of Android 17 and Android 18, transforming into a Super Saiyan and confronting Gokua. As Vegeta attacked, Trunks watched the father he had barely met, overwhelmed by fear, excitement, and longing.

• Vegeta reached the target planet before Android 17 and Android 18 and revealed himself to Gokua as a Super Saiyan.
• Gokua recognized the form that had haunted him since Planet Namek, but forced himself to prepare to fight.
• Trunks and Son Goten returned to Tapion, and Trunks watched Vegeta from afar while struggling with his feelings about his father.
• Vegeta vanished and reappeared beside Gokua, then launched a high kick as Gokua's fear left him too stiff to move.

Vegeta defeated Gokua after exploiting his fear of Super Saiyan power, then overcame Gokua’s counterattack and destroyed him with a blast. Exhausted by his newly mastered transformation, Vegeta hid his fatigue from Son Goten and Trunks.

• Vegeta battered Gokua while pretending the fight was effortless, and Son Goten and Trunks watched from a distance.
• Gokua realized Vegeta was not as strong as he had feared, seized his ankle, and hurled him into a mountainside.
• Vegeta fought through Gokua’s sword-energy attacks, struck him with a Dragon Fist, and broke his sword.
• Vegeta obliterated Gokua with a golden energy blast and returned to his normal form.
• Vegeta felt exhausted but straightened up and concealed his fatigue from Son Goten and Trunks.

Android 17 and Android 18 picked up Trunks, Son Goten, and Tapion from the ruined battlefield after Tapion agreed to seek help from their general. During the journey, Android 17 revealed that they were taking Tapion to Planet Yardrat on the general’s orders.

• Android 17 and Android 18 arrived at the battlefield and collected Trunks and Son Goten.
• Trunks and Son Goten urged Tapion to meet their general, and Android 17 and Android 18 claimed their general was the strongest in the universe.
• Tapion agreed to travel with them, hoping the general could help with the Phantom Demon Hirudegarn inside him.
• Android 18 summoned a spaceship, and the group departed while Trunks glanced back at the motionless Vegeta.
• Android 17 told Android 18 that the general had ordered them to change course for Planet Yardrat so he could meet Tapion.

Trunks and Son Goten returned to Planet Yardrat with Tapion, who recounted how he had helped seal the Phantom Majin Hirudegarn a thousand years earlier. Turles persuaded Tapion to release Hirudegarn so he could assess the demon’s power, and Tapion began breaking the seal as the others withdrew.

• Trunks and Son Goten returned to Planet Yardrat, where Turles praised them for completing their mission.
• Turles welcomed Tapion and arranged for him to receive treatment from Yardratian healers.
• Tapion told Son Goku, Turles, and the others how he and another hero had sealed Hirudegarn, and warned them of the Phantom Majin’s terrifying power.
• Turles proposed that Tapion release Hirudegarn so he could assess the demon and prepare to defeat him; Tapion reluctantly agreed.
• Turles ordered Son Goku and the others to leave, and Tapion abandoned his suppression of Hirudegarn, unleashing black mist that covered Planet Yardrat’s sky.

Turles confronted the Phantom Majin Hirudegarn after it fully formed and unleashed its destructive roar. Turles’s powerful punch missed when Hirudegarn turned intangible, and the two ended the chapter watching each other warily as Goku and the others assessed the standoff.

• Hirudegarn formed its enormous upper body from black mist, and its evil Ki frightened Piccolo, Trunks, and Son Goten while exciting Son Goku.
• Hirudegarn roared, sending destructive sound waves across the land, and Turles stopped the attack by striking at it.
• Hirudegarn turned into black mist to evade Turles’s golden fist, whose shock wave sent Piccolo, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, and Tapion reeling.
• Hirudegarn re-formed unharmed and roared at Turles, who recognized its intangibility and calmly faced it.
• Trunks and Son Goten wondered why the fighters had stopped, while Son Goku and Piccolo explained that both Turles and Hirudegarn were waiting for an opening.

Turles intercepted Hirudegarn as it attacked the group on Planet Yardrat and defeated it with a single punch. Hirudegarn retreated into Tapion, leaving its seal more stable and giving Tapion hope.

• Hirudegarn broke into black mist and attacked Son Goku and the others, but Turles appeared to block its path.
• Hirudegarn scattered into countless wisps to get around Turles, who repeatedly intercepted it before it could reform and attack.
• Hirudegarn gathered its evil Ki into a solid body and struck Turles with a giant skeletal fist.
• Turles punched through Hirudegarn's fist and shattered its body, forcing it to retreat as a faint wisp into Tapion.
• Tapion felt Hirudegarn cowering within the seal and realized the evil power had been suppressed, making the seal more stable.

On Planet Yardrat, Turles trained Trunks and Son Goten to fuse while discussing Hirudegarn’s hidden halves with Tapion. Tapion revealed a drastic way to stop the demon: destroy him and the half sealed inside Tapion together.

• Trunks and Son Goten repeatedly failed their fusion practice before briefly producing a powerful warrior, while Turles and the Metamor elder corrected their technique.
• Tapion told Turles that Hirudegarn stayed quiet near him and might be impossible to draw out again.
• Tapion revealed that the priest had split Hirudegarn, sealing one half inside him and the other inside his younger brother, Minosha.
• Turles said the Frieza Force had issued a universal wanted notice and sent Android 17 and Android 18 with an elite fleet to find Hirudegarn’s other half.
• Tapion drew his hero’s sword and asked Turles to destroy him along with the half of Hirudegarn sealed inside him.

Tapion abandoned his plan to sacrifice himself after Turles warned that his death might free Hirudegarn instead of destroying it, and he pledged to protect the universe alongside Turles and the Frieza Force. Inspired by Tapion, Trunks and Son Goten asked to help defend the universe, and Turles had them demonstrate their Fusion Technique.

• Tapion offered Turles the Hero's Sword and asked him to kill him so Hirudegarn would supposedly perish with him.
• Trunks and Son Goten arrived and asked what was happening, while Turles questioned whether Tapion's death would truly destroy Hirudegarn.
• Turles explained that Tapion's death might break the restraints holding Hirudegarn and refused to sacrifice him on uncertain grounds.
• Tapion sheathed the Hero's Sword, pledged to fight alongside Turles and the Frieza Force, and bowed to Turles.
• Trunks and Son Goten asked Turles to train them to protect the universe, and Turles told them to demonstrate their Fusion Technique.
• Trunks and Son Goten synchronized their movements, touched fingertips, and unleashed a dazzling pillar of white light.

Number One and Number Two fused into Gotenks, whom they called Number Twelve, and he demonstrated his overwhelming power by becoming a Super Saiyan. He then challenged his master, Turles, to a fight.

• A powerful new Ki brought Son Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Amond, and Daiz to the wilderness, where they found the unfamiliar boy beside Turles.
• Gotenks nearly introduced himself by his original name, but Turles interrupted him, and he instead called himself Number Twelve, the fusion of Number One and Number Two.
• Gotenks powered up and transformed into a Super Saiyan, sending Krillin and Tien Shinhan flying with his Ki and astonishing Son Goku and Vegeta.
• Gotenks assessed the others' reactions, then challenged Turles to test his strength.
• Turles chuckled and called Gotenks an arrogant brat who had gotten carried away.

Turles tested Gotenks's newly increased strength, easily dodged his attacks, and then beat him down to teach him a lesson about overconfidence and poor combat awareness. Turles landed with the battered Gotenks and said he would take the boys away from Planet Yardrat afterward, leaving their training arrangements to the others.

• Gotenks challenged Turles and unleashed a powerful golden punch that missed and destroyed a distant mountain.
• Gotenks attacked Turles with a barrage of punches and kicks, but Turles calmly dodged every strike.
• Gotenks fired his Super Invincible Continuous Death Tracking Blast, but Turles appeared behind him unharmed and criticized the technique's wasted Ki.
• Turles caught Gotenks's punch and countered with precise strikes, leaving Gotenks battered and begging him to stop.
• Turles carried Gotenks back to the ground and said he would take the boys away from Planet Yardrat after the others arranged their training.

Hoi struggled to respond after the Frieza Force rescued Tapion, until a mysterious caller offered to help free Hirudegarn. Babidi witnessed Hirudegarn’s immense power and began plotting to use him alongside Majin Buu.

• Hoi worried that the Frieza Force had rescued Tapion and that Hirudegarn’s lower half feared a powerful presence near him.
• A mysterious caller contacted Hoi, revealed knowledge of Hirudegarn and the Frieza Force, and offered to help free Hirudegarn in his complete form.
• Hoi summoned Hirudegarn’s lower half and threatened the caller, who disappeared after warning that Hoi was the more desperate of the two.
• Babidi and Dabura saw Hirudegarn’s power spike on an energy detector, and Babidi considered using Hirudegarn together with Majin Buu.

Turles took Tapion to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and then around Earth to seek a way to deal with Hirudegarn. Fortuneteller Baba revealed an ancient technique that could strengthen magical items, and Tapion presented the Hero's Flute as a possible target.

• Turles brought Tapion to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where Tapion felt Hirudegarn's influence weaken while Trunks and Son Goten trained.
• Turles led Tapion out of the chamber to save its limited time, then took him to Korin, who said his sacred water could not affect Hirudegarn's ancient evil Ki.
• At Kame House, Master Roshi described the Evil Containment Wave but agreed that sealing Tapion with Hirudegarn would not solve the problem.
• Master Roshi sent Turles and Tapion to Fortuneteller Baba, who greeted them deferentially and listened to Tapion's account.
• Fortuneteller Baba offered an ancient technique that could greatly enhance magical items, and Tapion showed her the Hero's Flute.