Bulma, Kuririn and Gohan are surrounded by armed children. An older boy steps forward, apparently the leader of the group. Gohan and Kuririn try to explain their situation in turn, but both wind up dodging weapons fire. Gohan and Kuririn power up, aniticipating a fight, and as they do, a little girl with a teddy-bear kicks Kuririn in the shin! A second boy with a bandaged cheek steps forward, calling the leader "Zeshin," and urges him to quickly dispose of them, as they must be henchmen of someone named "Freeza." Before Zeshin can follow through, the entire ship starts to shake, and alarms go off. They've fallen into a meteor swarm! Zeshin rushes to the bridge, and Kuririn and Gohan use the confusion to rescue Bulma.

     Back at the hospital, Goku is screaming his lungs out as he watches the doctor prepare to give him an injection. The Turtle Hermit is disappointed, but sympathetic to his pupil. Chichi can't believe what she is hearing, compared to the terrible hardships Gohan must be enduring. She heads off to the hospital chapel to pray for Gohan, distracting Goku just long enough for the doctor to stick him with the needle. The resulting scream turns heads all the way down in the parking lot.

     As Bulma, Kuririn and Gohan run away from their captors, Kuririn and Gohan hesitate, feeling they should help save the kids. A giant ceiling panel comes loose, and would have surely crushed several children had Gohan and Kuririn not caught it in time. Zeshin witnesses this heroic act, and doesn not know what to think. A fire breaks out, and Zeshin leaves the second boy, Bun, in charge of things, as he, Gohan and Kuririn man the hoses together. Bulma heads for the bridge, where she takes over piloting the giant ship from Bun, expertly guiding it through the rest of the meteors. Gohan even manages to rescue the girl with the teddy-bear from an exploding fuel line, directing enough of his own energy to shield her from the blast!

     Once safe, Bulma cannot believe the kids mean to take her prisoner again. They claim she is a collaborator of the men who destroyed their homeworld. Kuririn and Gohan catch up in time for Bun to accuse them of being in league with "Freeza." Anyone with the barbaric powers they displayed would have to be. Zeshin arrives and tells everyone to put their weapons down. If they were truly Freeza's agents, why would they be helping them now? Emi, the teddy-bear girl, supports Zeshin, saying all Freeza's men did was come to destroy and kill their parents. Bun looks into Gohan's eyes and remembers seeing his parents killed by a soldier, as well as receiving the scar on his cheek. He does not see the same evil that was in the soldier's eyes in Gohan's, and walks away.

     Kuririn says Freeza and his men sound a lot like the Saiyans, but according to Zeshin, the soldiers did not have tails. Kuririn asks what happened to their home planet, and Zeshin tells how they were invaded by soldiers who claimed the planet for Freeza. Their parents had been killed, and they only escaped because they were sent away in spaceships. Freeza's men hunted down the other ships, however, and this mirrored one was the only one left. The kids are headed for one of their world's trading partners, who will be glad to look after them.

     The two groups say their farewells, and Kuririn finds out that the kids passed Namek two weeks ago. Zeshin gives Bulma the coordinates for a shortcut, and is about to warn her about something, when the trio blasts off. Bulma inputs the shortcut into the ship's computer and heads off to bed. Kuririn has a bad feeling about the men who attacked those children's planet, and wonders if they might be mixed up somehow with the Saiyans.

     Eighteen days out from Earth, Vegeta's pod finally approaches a planet. On the surface, several humanoid soldiers wearing armor similar to Vegeta's monitor his approach. As they turn out on a landing pad to greet him, his ship lands with a soft thud. There is no sign of Nappa's pod, and Vegeta doesn't immediately get out. The soldiers discover Vegeta has a life-support mask on, and quickly get him to the base's medical facilities. He is immersed in a large tank of fluid, while an attendant monitors his condition.

     On Kami's ship, Kuririn and Gohan rest comfortabley in their futons at the foot of Bulma's once-again-cluttered bunk. The ship starts to shake, and the two of them urge Bulma to see what is wrong, but she tells them it is just the effect of the shortcut. The shaking gets more intense, and everyone and everything starts bouncing around the cabin. Once the shaking stops, Bulma finds herself in a compromising position with Kuririn, and promptly slaps him. Looking out the view-port, Bulma discovers the shortcut saved them over two weeks' time, and they have already arrived at Planet Namek!