The Vegeta series all starts off when Goku goes to Mr. Roshi's island for a visit, since he hadn't seen his friends in years. They were planning on having sort of a reunion. The only ones who are there is Krillin, Bulma, and Master Roshi. Goku comes in and brings along a little guy that looks a bit like Goku when he was smaller. Goku tells them that it is his and Chi-chi's son. His name is Gohan, just as he is being presented to Goku's friends a human like alien by the name of Raditz appears. He tells them all that he is Goku's older brother, and that he comes from another planet called planet Vegeta. He tells them all that he had come back to check up on his brother. Everyone is suprised and Goku tells him that he doesn't remember anything.

This is when we find out that Goku fell on a mountain side when he was small, and suffered from amnesia. He had forgotten his mission of destroying all of the inhabitants of Earth. Raditz asks Goku what happened to his tail, and Goku tells him that it had been cut off for good. Raditz gets enraged and tells Goku that it (the tail) is their true power. Raditz explains that they come from a race of warriors, a race by the name of Saiya-Jin's, and when they see the full moon they can turn into a wear monkey called Oozaru. This is when Goku first finds out that it was he, Goku, that had killed his grandfather many years ago. Goku gets angry and attacks Raditz, but Raditz shows to be a lot stronger than Goku and knocks him out in one hit.

Raditz notices that Gohan has a tail and so learns that it is Goku's son. He takes him hostage and leaves. Just as he leaves Piccolo comes in! Everyone is surprised at the arrival of Piccolo. Piccolo explains that Goku will not be able to defeat Raditz, not alone. This is when an alliance forms between Goku and Piccolo. They agree to work together to finish Raditz off. Piccolo explains that he is not doing this to rescue Gohan, but because Raditz is coming between Piccolo's plans of conquering the world. Goku and Piccolo have no trouble finding them since Gohan had a dragonball on his hat. They followed them with the Dragon Radar (remember it form Dragonball). They arrive to find Gohan trapped crying in Raditz space ship. They must first fight Raditz to get Gohan so they do this. At first it looks really bad for Goku.

Gohan is still trapped in the space ship and with a rage of anger his power level increases tremendously. He manages to break the spaceship and goes directly for Raditz and head butts him, which causes Raditz's armor to break, but Raditz then pushes Gohan away. Everyone is surprised at Gohan's high power level. Piccolo and Goku are still fighting and then Goku is able to get hold of Piccolo and tells him to do his finishing attack, which goes through Raditz and Goku as well.Raditz asks why Goku sacrified his life just to destroy him, Piccolo explains to him that he can easily be revived by the DragonBalls. Raditz explains to Piccolo that everything that he just told him was also told to Raditz's fellow Saiya-Jin's, the last of the Saiya-Jin's, and that they were going to come to Earth to finish them off and find the DragonBalls within a couple of months and that they are a lot stronger than he, then dies. Goku dies as well.

So now everyone has to start training for the arrival of the other Saiya-Jin's, which are supposed to be way stronger than Raditz. Piccolo kidnaps Gohan and decides to train him. He lets him alone in a deserted island to live on his own for a couple of months, and if he lived, he would then be worthy of receiving training. The months go by and Piccolo then trains Gohan, while Krillin, Ten shin han, Yamcha, Yajirobe, and Chaozu receive special training by Kami-sama. At the same time this is happening, Goku is still in heaven and training as well. He goes out and trains with the great Kaioh-sama, there he learns how to do the "Kaioh-ken" and the "Genki Dama (Spirit Bomb)". The Saiya-Jin's arrive just as told and Yamcha is the first to die. He gets killed when one of the Saya-Jin's plants five "Saibamen", which are little green men, and one of these easily kills him. After Yamcha dies, the little green men are all killed. Goku has not yet gotten been revived. The two Saiya-Jin's names are Nappa and Vegeta. Vegeta does not fight at all, but just watches and gives orders to Nappa. This is when Piccolo first finds out about who he really is since the Saiya-Jin's call him a "Namek".

The next to go is Chaozu when he self-destucted in an attempt to kill Nappa. But this did nothing to Nappa. Tien is enraged and goes for Nappa, but gets a limb cut off and later dies. Then Piccolo and Krillin come in and attack him in mid air when he is not seeing. As Nappa is heading to hit the Earth, Piccolo and Krillin both scream at Gohan to finish him off, but Gohan show his cowardness and does nothing. This might of been their only chance to defeat him. Vegeta tells Nappa to stop messing around, but to wait a while longer for Goku for the fight to really start. After Goku is revived, he first goes to Karin tower to pick up some Senzu beans and takes off in his "Flying Nimbus". Gohan gets extremely angry after Nappa knocks Piccolo unconcious in an attempt to grab his tail, which is supposed to be a Saiya-Jin's weak spot, but Nappa had over come that already. Gohan attacks Nappa, but does no real damage. Then Krillin attacks too, and too has no real damage. Nappa gets angry and sends a powerful attack towards Gohan, but is blocked by Piccolo, and so Piccolo dies.

Goku finally arrives with a power level of 5,500 and increasing. He comes to find out that all of the Z warriors, except for Krillin and Gohan had died and attacks Nappa. Nappa is astonished at Goku's power. Vegeta then says that he will personally kill Goku and so Nappa goes towards Krillin and Gohan. Goku does the Kaioh-ken which leaves Nappa on the floor. Nappa asks Vegeta for help, but Vegeta kills him in cold blood for being weak. The fight between Goku and Vegeta begins, Vegeta is then astonished at Goku's power. Since this proves to be a hard match for Vegeta, he decides to turn into Oozaru. Goku decides to do the Spirit bomb, but he needs time to do this. So he does the "Solar flare" to blind Vegeta for a little while. But Vegeta is too quick and tortures Goku up to the point where he is almost dead. Yajirobe, which had been in hiding all along comes out of no where and cuts off Vegeta's tail, so now Vegeta goes back to his normal size. Gohan steps into the fight now although he knows he is no match for Vegeta.

Goku, now badly hurt, calls Krillin and tells him to do the Spirit Bomb for him (Goku had still been collecting energy during this time). Krillin gets the energy and waits for just the right moment to use it. Krillin fires it, but misses, Gohan gets it back and throws it again and this time hits Vegeta. This sends Vegeta through the air, but is not defeated yet. Since Vegeta had made an artificial moon to turn into Oozaru, Gohan happens to look at it and then too transforms into Oozaru. Now the tables have turned. Gohan, as Oozaru, lands on Vegeta and is now defeated. Krillin, now really weak, finds his last strength to finish Vegeta off by killing him with Yajirobe's sword, but Goku decides not to kill Vegeta and lets him go. Vegeta leaves swearing vengence.

After the fight against Vegeta, Goku is recoperating at the hospital, while Vegeta is going back to Freeza's planet and also recoperating. Mr. Popo comes into the hospital and tell them about some other Dragonballs in Planet Namek, the Porunga dragonballs. Having heard this Bulma, Gohan, and Krillin decide to go to Planet Namek to gather those dragonballs and revive their friends that where lost in the battle against Vegeta and Nappa (Ten, Chauzu, Piccolo, and Yamcha). Along they way, Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan get introduced to many different characters, some minor and some major. They arrive on Namek and come to find that Freeza is there as well (they learned about him through some of the minor characters along their journey). Freeza is also there in search of the Dragonballs, but he wants to wish for immortality. Vegeta arrives on Planet Namek as well, fully recovered from his injuries, and stronger than ever, and also in search of the Dragonballs (he too wants to wish for immortality). On Planet Namek there are villages. In each village there lives an elder possessing a dragonball. Fully prepared, Bulma sends news to Earth through this portable satellite phone (Master Roshi is on the other end on Earth).

Gohan and Krillin curious about how Freeza looks hide and take a look at what they (Freeza and his goons) are up to. Gohan makes a comment that they (the Nameks) all look like Piccolo (Remember: Piccolo first discovers he is a Namek after being told by Vegeta and Nappa). Since Gohan and Krillin where spying on Freeza, they couldn't help but join in and help the Nameks when they were being attacked by Freeza. This is when Gohan meets Dende (a young Namek, Dende and Gohan become great friends), Gohan and Krillin save him. Since Gohan and Krillin where helping the Nameks, Freeza ordered his "left-hand" man, Dodoria, after them. They were too fast for Dodoria and they escape him (this is while they are saving Dende).

After they escape, Dodoria comes upon Vegeta. Dodoria bargains for his life and tells Vegeta the truth of what really happened to Planet Vegeta (when he was younger, Vegeta was told that a comet had hit his planet, Vegeta was away capturing a planet at that moment) (Vegeta is the Prince of Planet Vegeta, his dad was the King). Dodoria tells him (Vegeta) that Freeza was the one who had destroyed it, and Vegeta kills him (Dodoria). Back on Earth Yajirobe arrived at the hospital and visited Goku to give him some senzu beans. Right after eating it Goku was complety recovered and left to visit Dr. Briefs to see if the spaceship was ready (the spaceship that Goku had come to Earth in when he was a baby, Dr. Briefs was working on it to improve it, and added a gravity machine for Goku to train in). Since the spaceship was partially ready (it didn't have the cappuccino maker installed yet), Goku went on his way to Planet Namek. Kaioh telepathically tells Goku that Tien, Chaozu, Yamcha, and Piccolo had arrived and were to receive his (Kaioh's) training. Vegeta decides to get at least one of the Dragonballs, therefore Freeza would not be able to make a wish, since seven dragonballs are needed to call for the dragon. Vegeta is able to steal one of the dragonballs by destoying one of the villages. He hides the dragonball in the lake and comes upon Zarbon, Freeza's "right-hand" man. They fight and Vegeta is defeated and taken back to Freeza. He escapes and steals all of the dragonballs that Frezza had collected. Enraged, Freeza summons the Ginyu Force. During the battle, Krillin and Gohan arrived to Guru's lair to retrieve a dragonball. There, Guru also unleashes the warrior's hidden powers. (Gohan had also used Bulma's dragon-radar to track down a local dragonball- the one that Vegeta had stolen and hidden in the lake.) Vegeta follows Gohan and Krillin while Zarbon follows Vegeta.

All stop at the cave where Bulma created a house. Vegeta becomes aware of Zarbon and the two fight once again. Zarbon is killed. Vegeta meets with Krillin and Gohan and offers to make an alliance with them, as he senses the arrival of the Ginyu Force. The dragonballs are gathered at once as Vegeta prepares to wish for immortality so that he can become powerful enough to defeat the "unbeatable force". They become too late; the force has arrived. Ginyu, Jeice, Burter, Recoome, and Guldo stand before the three. The Ginyu Force quickly steal the dragonballs and Ginyu flies away with them. A huge battle follows. Vegeta manages to kill Guldo, but is of no match for the others...

Goku finally arrives. He quickly beats Jeice, Burter, and Recoome. Vegeta takes this chance and kills off the injured members to Team Ginyu. Vegeta, no longer a threat to the heroes (for now), joins in the battle on Goku's side. Ginyu arrives. Ginyu does his body transfer ability on Goku and he swaps bodies with Goku. Vegeta beats Ginyu (in Goku's body). Ginyu switches bodies again. Goku is badly battered. Ginyu, again, attempts to switch bodies with Goku. Goku throws a frog to intercept the beam, and Ginew permanently swaps bodies with the frog. Goku is taken to recoperate in a stasis pod. Vegeta gave Gohan and Krillin battle armor suits. The dragonballs were gathered and the Porunga Shenron was summoned. Three wishes were granted. The first wish revived Piccolo. The second transported him to Namek to join in the fight.At the third wish, Guru was killed so the dragonballs turned into stone. Now, the heroes must face the wraith of Freeza...

A battle follows. Freeza has killed nearly all the Nameks on the planet, so the Namek dragonballs have also turned to stone. The heroes are able to stand up to Freeza, so Freeza undergoes a power-up and enters a physical body change. As the battle intenses, Freeza does goes through more metamorphosis stages until his perfect form is reached. No one is certain who will win. Vegeta has been killed. The only true damage done to Freeza was with Krillin's Kienzan, which truncated half of Freeza's tail. In a final attempt to defeat Freeza, Goku prepares a Genki Dama. The fireball is cast and everyone thinks that Freeza has lost. However, Freeza survived... Wasting no more time, Freeza does a blast that rips through Piccolo. Then, he engulfs Krillin in a fatal force field and crushes him.

Goku sees the deaths of his friends and remembers all the innocent that Freeza has killed. Anger takes over Goku's body and Goku powers up. His hair turns gold and Goku reaches Super Saiya-Jin level for the first time. Goku tells Gohan that Piccolo is still alive. Gohan takes Piccolo's body back to Goku's spaceship and then finds Bulma in his father's orders to travel back to Earth. Goku now goes on a one-on-one combat battle against Freeza... Goku evades Freeza's attacks. Freeza, trembling in the chance that he may lose to Goku, an "inferior Saiya-Jin monkey", does a fireball aimed at the planet. Namek's core is destroyed, and planet will explode in 5 minutes. Hurricanes form.

Cliffs break off. Rubbish fly everywhere. An ominous look is set on what will happen... Kami telepathically communicates to Kaioh. He tells that he will make a plan with the Earth dragonballs and asks what wish to make. Kaioh develops a plan to wish to revive all those killed by Freeza. In turn, Guru and Dende will be brought back to life and the Namek dragonballs will become available again. Then, the Porunga dragonballs can be used to make a wish to teleport everyone on Earth, except for Freeza, to Earth. Popo has gathered the dragonballs and the first half of the plan is followed. The Porunga Shenlong is summoned and is awaiting to grant the third wish. Freeza sees his chance to be granted immortality and races to the dragon. Vegeta, revived from the wish, also joins in the race. Dende arrives, but Freeza makes his wish first. However, the Porunga Shenlong ignores Freeza and grants Dende's wish, which by Goku's plead was changed to leaving he and Freeza on Namek.

All who were affected by the wish are on Earth. Dende heals Piccolo. Guru, dying, transfers his role to Rooli to become the new Elder so that the Namek dragonballs may "shine again". Guru explains what has happened, and then dies. Goku fights Freeza to a stand-still, but time eventually showed that Freeza was no match for a Super Saiya-Jin. In Freeza's pathetic final attack, two Kienzans are tossed at Goku. With skillful maneuvering by Goku, the Kienzans slice Freeza in two instead. Freeza is dying and pleads for help. Goku gives him a bit of his energy to give Freeza a last chance. Freeza, unwilling to change and lose to a low-class Saiya-Jin, does another fireball at Goku. Goku counters it and it overwhelms Freeza. The 5 minutes are up and Planet Namek explodes.

A spaceship passes by shortly after the destruction of Planet Namek. It's King Cold, the father of Freeza, finds the remains of Freeza's body flowing through space and quickly orders his henchmen to rescue his son.

With the Dragonballs all of the Z fighters that had died in battle were brought back to life and Planet Namek was restored.

Having freed himself from the Dead Zone, Garlic Jr. attacks Kami-sama's lookout with the help of four new underlings, trapping God and his assistant in a bottle. He uses this opportunity to release the Aquamist, a gas that basically turns anyone it reaches into a demon. Meanwhile, Gohan has snuck away from home with Haiya Dragon in order to visit his friends. Krillin has a new girlfriend named Maron, and at the moment are with Bulma, Oolong, and the old man himself at Kame house. The Aquamist reaches the island, transforming them all into demons (With the exception of Krillin and Maron, who were underwater when the mist passed over them). Gohan and his dragon manage to escape the effects as well. Having now reached the island, Gohan finds himself attacked by his friends.

Garlic Jr.'s minions arrive, and inform Gohan of the Super Holy Water, the only thing that can counter the Aquamist. Piccolo comes to Gohan's rescue, but is bitten by one of the demons, and turns against our young hero as well. Upon reaching Kami-sama's tower, Gohan meets Garlic Jr, who tells him how the Makyosei's (a red star) close approach to Earth freed him from the Dead Zone, and makes him stronger by the minute. Garlic Jr. orders his men to focus their attacks on Gohan, because it was him that banished the evil lord to the Dead Zone in Movie 1. (although Kuririn still tries to help Gohan).

Meanwhile, Vegeta is searching for Goku in deep space, hoping to keep up with his level of strength. Piccolo begins to attack Gohan one on one, and does some serious damage to him. Kuririn, getting in the way of the battle, is bitten by Piccolo, and joins in against Gohan. It is at this moment that Piccolo steals the bottle containing Kami-sama and Popo from Garlic Jr. and releases them. Piccolo explains that since he is already a demon, the aquamist bite had no affect on him. Garlic Jr. becomes enraged, and the Makyosei approaches its apogee to Earth.

Knowing that there is no way to release the Super Holy Water before daybreak, Popo suggests that it be poured into the holes beneath Kami's palace where the winds would carry it around the world. However, on the way to this place rests the bodies of all the previous Kamis, known as the Shinsenkai. Any living Kami that attempts to pass through this area is in great danger. As the battle with Garlic Jr. and his minions continues on the surface, Kami is attacked by the previous gods, who drain his life force. Since Piccolo and Kami-sama are still spirtually linked, Piccolo begins to suffer in his battle. Despite the incredible amount of pain, Kami and Popo press on, finally reaching the bottom of the palace.

With the dead gods busy attacking Kami, Popo manages to release the Super Holy Water, returning the Earth's population to normal. Back on the surface, Gohan, Kuririn, and Piccolo continue to do battle with Garlic Jr, who becomes stronger every second. Gohan bores a hole into Garlic Jr.'s abdomen, but due to his wish of immortality, is resurrected on the spot. Finding out that the Aquamist has been countered by Kami, Garlic Jr. creates a new Dead Zone, hoping to suck the entire palace from its foundation. Gohan creates an energy shield around himself and his friends so that they will not be absorbed into the tear, but uses much of his energy maintaining it.

Piccolo distracts Garlic Jr, allowing Gohan to destroy the Makyosei. With the evil star now gone, Garlic Jr. loses all of his power, and falls into the Dead Zone once again. With Garlic Jr. gone and peace once again restored, the Z warriors wonder where Goku could possibly be...