Vegeta begins battling Recoome, the big brute of the Ginyu Force. While the Saiyan prince manages to get in a few good blows, ultimately Recoome doesn’t seem to be taking any pain. Gohan and Krillin enter battle after Vegeta becomes too badly injured to continue fighting, but quickly find themselves beaten and outclassed by the hulking Ginyu Force member as well. Meanwhile, Frieza attempts to use the Dragon Balls but nothing happens, prompting him to leave Ginyu to guard the balls while he himself goes to look for Namekians to tell him how to become immortal. Just when all seems lost in Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan’s fight with Recoome, Goku’s Capsule Corporation ship finally touches down on Planet Namek.

Vegeta, Krillin, and Gohan race to the remaining five Dragon Balls that Vegeta had hidden, in an attempt to grant Vegeta the wish of eternal life, in order to stand a chance against the Ginyu Force. The Ginyu Force beats them there, and with speed and a time freeze, swipe the two remaining Dragon Balls. Captain Ginyu takes the seven Dragon Balls to Frieza, and allows the other members to play Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide who gets to fight who. Recoome wins a fight with Vegeta and Guldo wins a fight with Krillin and Gohan. Krillin and Gohan fight Guldo first. After proving that they are no easy match for him, Guldo paralyzes the two with his ESP. Vegeta kills Guldo before any harm is done to the Earthlings, so Recoome decides he’s next to fight. Meanwhile, Goku is ten minutes from landing on Namek.

With Freeza’s supply of scouters having been destroyed previously, the Ginyu Special Squad arrives not only with a new set, but with plans to aid their master in attaining the Namekian dragon balls. And with Vegeta resorting to a temporary truce with the Earthlings, it seems like our heroes will be in for quite the confrontation soon enough.

Upon finding that he has been duped by Gohan, an enraged Vegeta backtracks to the Earthling’s hideout for the final Namekian dragon ball. With Goku still on his way to the planet, will the heroes survive Vegeta’s wrath?

Recovering quicker than expected, Vegeta is able to escape from Freeza’s ship with all five of his dragon balls. Now, with only two more dragon balls to go, it is only a matter of time before Vegeta and the Earthlings cross paths. Matters only worsen when Zarbon arrives on the scene, eagerly awaiting a rematch with the Saiyan Prince.

As the dragon ball hunt on Namek continues, Dende takes Kuririn to the Saichoro, the father of every other Namekian on the planet. Elsewhere, the defeated Vegeta is taken into Freeza’s spaceship.

While training on his way to Namek, Goku receives news of a certain group of warriors having reached Kaio’s planet for training of their own. Also, Vegeta clashes with Zarbon, a powerful henchman of Freeza who can increase his strength at the cost of his beauty.

Having escaped Freeza’s spaceship, Vegeta terrorizes a Namekian village for their dragon ball.

With Dodoria making quick work of the Namekian warriors, Gohan blows his and Kuririn’s cover to help the captive Namekian villagers. As Dodoria pursues the Earthlings, he is intercepted by Vegeta who is told the true reason behind his home planet’s destruction.

Dr. Briefs completes his work on a spaceship for Goku to take to Namek. Meanwhile, the Namekians show their true fighting spirit as the planet’s warriors arrive to defend a nearby village from Freeza’s men.