DBZ begins when goku is taking his his son (gohan ) to see all his other friends (they have not seen eachother since 5 years ago). A saiyan Named Raditz shows up and tells goku aobut planet vegeta and why he is on earth. raditz takes gohan, so goku will fight him. piccolo has been listening and he and goku agree to fight raditz together. their first attempts suck, but they take off all their weighted clothing and start to win a little, in the end goku eventually sacrifices himself so raditz will die. raditz transmits info about the dragon balls to vegeta and nappa (two other saiyans). The two other saiyans will arrive in one year. piccolo takes gohan to train, and all the other z warriors go to train at Kamis (guardian of the earth). Meanwhile, in the afterlife world, goku is given permission to train at king kais, a martial arts master, but to get there goku must run alon snake way, a path that is supposedly a million miles long. goku eventually gets there and starts his training. one year passes, and goku has mastered the spirit bomb technique, but king kai forgets that goku has to get back a day early. and sends goku back to the real world late. meanwhile, nappa has planted four saibamen (green things that the saiyans have), and one of them takes out yamcha, krillin destroys the rest. piccolo, chiaotzu, and tien die fighting nappa. at this point goku arrives and shows up Nappa. nappa is a disgrace to himself, so vegeta kills him. vegeta and goku fight. its pretty even until vegeta turns into a giant monkey and almost kills goku. gohan and krillin come back. and yajirobe comes and slices off vegetas tail. goku gives krillin his last energy to make a spirit bomb for krillin. he misses vegeta, but gohan bounces it back and nails vegeta. vegeta retreats back to space, to heal.

NAMEK SAGA
Mr. PoPo (kamis assistant) tells the Z fighters about the dragonballs on namek. goku is still in the hospital, and only krillin and gohan are the only remaining Z fighters, and they need the namek balls. so krillin and gohan and bulma head off to namek. frieza realizes the nameks create dragonballs, and surely there is one on their home planet, and he heads off with a bunch of his guys to get them. Vegeta gets better, and cui (one of friezas stronger guys) tells him what frieza does. and vegeta also heads off to namek, closely followed by Cui. Vegeta arrives, fights cui, and destroys him easily. Gohan Krillin and bulma arrive, only to have their ship screwed up by a frieza guy. gohan and krillin head off to find the dragonballs, and end up saving dende. they hide in a cave with bulma, and krillin goes to see Guru. krillin comes back and tells gohan to go to guru. gohan heads off, and vegeta comes and fights Zarbon, Zarbon demolishes him and brings him back to the spaceship. vegeta escapes and fights Zarbon again, and wins this time. the ginyu force arrives and guldo (a ginyu force member) gets killed. vegeta and krillin and gohan are getting demolished by recoome (also part of the ginyu force). at this point goku arrives and wastes burter (ginyu force) and recoome. goku heads off to fight captain ginyu. ginyu switches bodies with goku, and heads off with jeice (yeah the ginyu). Vegeta fights Jeice and kills him, while gohan and krillin fight ginyu in gokus body. ginyu doesnt know how to unleash gokus power and therefore is not strong. goku shows up in ginyus body. and vegeta is about to switch bodies with ginyu, goku jumps in the way, and gets back in his body, ginyu tries to get in vegetas body again, but goku chucks a frog in the way, and ginyu is in a frogs body, while a frog is in ginyus body. Vegeta takes goku to be healed, and goes off to take a nap. while vegeta is sleeping, gohan and krillin get dende to summon porunga (nameks dragonball dragon) they wish piccolo to life, and wish him to namek. meanwhile, nail, gurus assistant, has been fighting frieza, and loses horribly. frieza is now heading back. vegeta wakes up, but before he gets to wish for immortality, guru dies and so do the balls. piccolo finds nail, and fuses with him. Vegeta and frieza begin to fight, its pretty even, until frieza goes into his second form. he kills krillin, and gohan goes ballistic on him. krillin is revived by dende, and vegeta nearly kills himself so he can get stronger. piccolo shows up, and is evenly matched with frieza. until he transforms again. frieza immediately transforms again in to his final stage. and kills piccolo and dende. vegeta fights him a little but dies in the process. goku shows up and buries vegeta. frieza and goku fight. but frieza powers up to 60% full power, and starts demolishing him. Goku starts summoning a spirit bomb, and it gets friggin huge, he shoots it at frieza. and frieza narrowly escapes. he kills krillin. and goku gets pissed and goes super saiyan. frieza is eventually defeated, but the planet is about to blow, gohan takes the injured piccolo to the ship that goku came in. the planet is about to blow up and frieza is almost destroyed (goku thinks hes dead). goku escapes using one of the ginyus space pods. everyone is revived that died from friezas hands. and all the nameks were transported to namek right before the planet blew up. they wait 130 days to revive goku, but find out that he is not dead. the nameks are given a new planet, and a new guy takes gurus place as elder.

The Z fighters learn that goku is coming back, and travel to the place where he is due to land. At the same time, frieza shows up. A mysterious guy shows up, and destroys king cold (friezas dad) and frieza, like a snap. Goku lands, and the guy talks to him. his name is trunks, and he is from the future. his father is vegeta and his mother is bulma. he tells goku that in one year, a pair of androids will come to a city and begin to destroy it. Trunks also tells goku that in one year, he will develop a heart disease, and will eventually die from it. trunks brings back a cure from that future, that has not been invented yet, it will save goku. Trunks leaves, and the Z fighters begin training. one year passes and two androids show up. goku defeats android 19. and android 20 flees back to his lair. he unleashes 3 more androids, and they eventually kill android 20. android twenty is a scientist known as Gero. when goku was a child he defeated the RR army. Gero used to work for the red ribbon, but after goku destroyed them, he became nothing. The only thing that has ever been on his mind since the fall of the RR, was killing goku.after they kill Gero. androids 16 17 and 18 go out to find goku. Vegeta has become supersaiyan, and fancies a go with them. but he is defeated. Trunks comes back, and tells them about cell. Cell absorbs people to make himself stronger. he is made up of the Genes of all the strongest fighters in the world. goku, piccolo etc... Cell was one of geros creations. Cell absorbs 17 and 18. and 16 starts fighting for the good guys. Vegeta and trunks go into the hyperbolic time chamber and train for a day, they go to fight cell (now second form), and lose. he announces the cell games, and they will take place in seven days. goku and gohan go into the hyperbolic tim chamber, and gohan can become a supersaiyan.
The cell games come, and the Zfighters are losing badly. gohan steps up in the last fight against cell, and after a while cell is eventually defeated, after goku dies, and gohan goes ss2, and shoots a sweet one armed kamehameha to kill cell. everyone is revived except for goku (who decides he is goin g to stay with king kai, because he attracts danger. trunks goes back to his own time, and all is well again.