Volume two starts out with the Magical Cow King (Gyuu Maou) needing help in putting out the fires of Mt. Frypan. Gokuu rushes out to get Kamesennin, who will only do the job if Buruma will show him her breasts. Kamesennin then bulks up (putting Sylvester Stalone to shame,) and uses Kamehame-ha (a power blast) to not only put out the fires, but to accidently destroy the mountain at the same time. Buruma coerces Oolong into changing into her double to fulfill her part of the bargain in her place. Gyuu Maou offers his daughter to Gokuu, and Yamcha hurriedly rushes back to administer to the girl that he'd beaten up in the first volume. Chi Chi doesn't understand why two men (boys, really,) appear, knowing her name within an hour of each other, but is flattered at finding out that she has a boyfriend (she just doesn't know who the boyfriend is.)
Kamesennin states that it took him 50 years to master Kamehame-ha, but Gokuu picks it up right away, then understands everything when Gyuu Maou calls Gokuu by name. [Note: Kamesennin travels to Mt. Frypan via Baby Gamera, and gets so dizzy that he throws up.] The rubble of the mountain contains a Dragon Ball, bringing Buruma's total up to 6. Buruma, Gokuu, and Oolong continue on to find the last ball (Buruma uses her Dragon Radar to locate it,) with Yumcha and Pool following closely behind. They arrive in Usagi-dan (Usagi == Rabbit) for a silly side-story. Oyabun needs to touch someone to turn them into a carrot, and has his goons beat up Gokuu. Yamcha is forced to help Gokuu, so that Buruma can be restored and can find the last Dragon Ball for him. At the end, Gokuu uses his staff to take Oyabun and goons to the moon (the joke is the Japanese equivalent of the western "man in the moon": "The rabbit pounding mochi on the moon.")
As the gang continues on, not knowing that Pilaf has the last Ball, they are ambushed. Pilaf's sidekick takes the Balls that Buruma had found, and all her capsules, but misses the Ball that Gokuu claims contains the soul of his grandfather. Pilaf allows the group to enter his castle, so that he can entrap them. His plan to use an "etchie attack" against Buruma backfires: the attack is simply to blow kisses at her, and Buruma is expecting a whole lot worse. Pilaf uses sleeping gas on his prisoners (and himself.) But, his sidekicks do manage to find the Ball Gokuu is carrying, and they go outside to summon the Great Dragon God to let Pilaf make his wish for world domination.
Gokuu uses kamehame-ha to make a small hole in the prison wall, which allows Pool and Oolong to change into bats and escape. Oolong, the coward that he is, wants to run away, when he realizes that the first person to make a demand of the Dragon God wins. So, as Pilaf is stuttering away, Oolong yells out that he wants a pair of panties. He gets his wish, the Dragon disappears, and the Balls fly off in separate directions.
Everyone is disappointed to find out that the wish can only be made once a year. Pilaf imprisons the group in a cell with metal walls and a skylight. By noon the next day, the heat will be so great that the group will die. This is when Gokuu tells his friends about were-monkeys. As a joke, he looks at the full moon. Everyone else is relieved when nothing happens. Right away. Gokuu turns into a monster monkey, trashes Pilaf's castle, and nearly kills people on both sides. Yamcha remembers that grabbing Gokuu's tail had caused the boy to go limp, so he tries this on the monster, and Pool cuts the tail off. Gokuu immediately reverts and falls asleep. When he comes to, he takes the loss of his tail calmly, but has also lost his sense of balance. Afterwards, he runs to the rubble of Pilaf's castle to recover his staff. During which, Buruma and Yamcha bemoan the foiling of their plans to find lovers -- before realizing that each was made for the other.
Buruma and Yumcha plan on getting to know each other better, but drag Pool and Oolong along for the ride. Gokuu wants to get the Dragon Balls back, so that he can bring his grandfather back to life. Gokuu flies off to Kamesennin's island, because the old man apparently knows something about Gokuu's past. But, the old pervert is busy watching an aerobics show. Goku learns about Girls girls girls (they're very "healthy") and he runs off to get a very "healthy" girl for the old man.
As Kamesennin is trying to teach Goku (Goku does eventually learn to distinguish between ugly and beautiful faces, but not beautiful women and beautiful mermaids,) a new guy shows up. Kiririn arrives at the island to ask Kamesennin to teach him fighting techniques; however, his entrance marks him more as a buffoon than a serious combat master. He bribes Kamesennin with a dirty magazine, and then goes with Gokuu to find a true giri giri girl. But, Kintoun only supports people that are pure of heart, and Kiririn has to hold onto Gokuu for the entire trip (along the way, he discovers that Gokuu can't tell men and women apart unless he can see their private parts. Kiririn hastily assures Gokuu that he is indeed male.) Below them, a feisty woman on a mono-scooter is evading the police until her hair tickles her nose and she sneezes. The frightened girl that takes her place then calls for help. Gokuu and Kiririn decide that Ranchi would make a great giri giri girl, and rescue her (notice that Ranchi has no trouble riding Kintoun.)
At the island, Kamesennin is delighted to see that Ranchi isn't hitting him when he stares at her, and has her change into "the kamesennin uniform." To support the gag, he and the two runts are also wearing the lingerie when Ranchi steps back out. Then, disaster strikes and the group learns about Ranchi's "dark-side." Because he's going to train the two kids, the dirty old man moves the house to a larger island, and has Ranchi explain what the sneezing is all about (not much explanation, though -- it just happens that way.)
The first part of the first day's training is to see who's the fastest: Kiririn's dash is about 10 seconds; Gokuu's is 11 seconds, but with a replacement for his torn shoes, he comes in around 8 seconds. Kamesennin blows them both away at 5+ seconds. The second part is a little contest, where the one who finds the rock with "turtle" written on it, within 30 minutes, gets to eat supper. Kiririn resorts to cheating several times, and wins.
The next day, Kamesennin has the boys pick up a milk delivery, and while hopping, skipping, and zigzagging, makes the two drop the milk bottles off at people's houses. The last house on the route is at the top of a big hill, and Kamesennin gracefully allows the boys to walk up the stairs, instead of running. The owner of the house, a priest, tells us that the combat that the boys are training for, which takes place in 8 months, is the Tenkaichi-budoukai. From this point on, we get to see Kiririn and Gokuu training both their bodies, and minds (Gokuu hates having to do language lessons.) To work on physical strength, Kamesennin tells them to push against a large rock. Gokuu manages to unexpectedly move it, so Kamesennin points out a monster rock for them to work on. When the training becomes too easy, he has his students wear 40 pound turtle shells on their backs. Finally, with a month to go, Gokuu rushes into the house, excitedly. He takes the old man to the monster rock, and pushes it a few yards. Kiririn does this too, and Kamesennin thinks to himself "I just told them to do that as a JOKE..." Since they've gotten so strong, he gives them 90 pound turtle shells to wear.
When the time comes, Goku and Kiririn get to remove the shells, and are told to jump up. They're VERY surprised to find out how strong they've become. Dressed up, and ready to go, the three fighters fly off to combat. At the fight ring, both Goku and Kiririn expect to be easily defeated by one of the many other contestants (note: the uniforms Kamesennin gives them have the kanji for turtle on the front, pronounced "kame".) Kiririn's first match is against one of the two bullies from his hometown (he kept on getting beaten up at home, which is why he left to train under Kamesennin.) His victory is very gratifying.
Goku and Kiririn easily win their elimination rounds, and eventually there are only 8 people left in the competition -- which includes Yamcha, and a strangely familiar man named Jackie Chun. Gokuu doesn't recognize Yamcha right away, because Buruma had made him cut his long, flowing hair. Also in the audience are Buruma, Pool, and Oolong; these three cheer for Yamcha, Gokuu, and Kiririn.
Jackie had wanted to face Ranfawn, but was paired against Yamcha, and wins his match. Ranfawn uses her feminine wiles, but Namu is desperately hoping to win the cash prize so that he can buy water for his dying village -- Namu overcomes his moral sense, and knocks her out. Yamcha thinks that Jackie's "dirty-old-man" reaction to the girl is somehow familiar, and he accuses Chun of being Kamesennin. Gokuu fights Gilan, who uses a rubber phlegm to entrap our hero. As Gilan swoops in for the kill, Gokuu gets his tail free, and finally his entire body. Realizing that he's about to be pounded into a pulp, Gilan forfeits the round. There is now an interview with "the two kids," Gokuu and Kiririn. When asked how old he is, Gokuu gets it wrong. After, Jackie complains about not being interviewed himself, takes the mike, and breaks into a "dirty old man" rap (in the TV series, this is really funny.) Gokuu joins in. In round two, Kiririn faces Jackie Chun. He's getting beaten badly, but some of the action is going by so fast that the announcer asks the two to recreate one of the attacks in slow-motion. Then, Kiririn tries using "the panty attack." Chun's reaction convinces Yamcha that Jackie and Kamesennin are the same person. Jackie is knocked out of the ring, and has to use Kamehame-ha to propell himself back. This sends the announcer into a fit, since Kamesennin is the only person in the world capable of using it -- Jackie now makes it two (although, Yamcha knows better.) One of Jackie's other tricks is the "fake image": when you move away so fast that it looks like you're still standing in place. Finally, Kiririn charges Jackie, and is simply knocked out. Yamcha confronts Jackie, first accusing the old pervert of having fake hair, and then having a fake head. When Gokuu tries checking Chun's scent, they discover that Chun uses perfume. In his round, Gokuu faces Namu, and uses the "fake image" technique himself. Yamcha is impressed at Gokuu's ability to pick up a skill like that, but Jackie is more impressed that Namu is not deceived by it. Gokuu tries a "whirlwind" attack that nearly succeeds except that Gokuu gets so dizzy that he makes himself sick. Eventually, he does win through sheer speed and power. Namu gracefully accepts the fact that he's let his village down, but feels that a miracle has occurred when Jackie gives him a "rain-maker" capsule and tells him that Jackie really is Kamesennin. Chun explains that to win the competition requires that you do more than just fight. Gokuu and Kiririn are strong, but inexperienced, so Chun is there to teach them how to win. To return Jackie's favor, and to further confuse the issue, Namu impersonates Kamesennin in the crowd, completely fooling Yamcha. The last round starts with Gokuu opposite Jackie Chun. Jackie attacks full-out, and gets in a good kick. He's sure that he's won, but Gokuu uses his tail to fly back into the ring. Gokuu suggests having a Kamehame-ha contest, and Jackie doesn't believe that the shrimp knows how to use that attack. But, Gokuu wins by a slight margin, and Chun uses his "fake image" attack ("wan pataan" = "one pattern") but upgrades it to be two patterns. Gokuu does him one better with a "three pattern" attack. The blow to his head is so strong, that Jackie nearly gives away his secret identity. Which is when he decides to try his "drunken fighting" style. This works quite well, but Gokuu recognizes it as something his dead grandfather had mastered, and wants to know how Jackie had learned it. Jackie remains silent, continuing his attack, when Gokuu decides to implement his "crazy fighting" style. However, he gets one of the kanji wrong and it becomes "mad dog" style (which makes Jackie even angrier.)
[As a recap, Kuririn had defeated Bactarian, Jackie beat Yamcha, Yamu overcame Ranfawn, and Gokuu had triumphed over Gilan. In the second round, Jackie easily knocked out Kuririn, and Gokuu overpowered Namu. We pick up with the contest to determine the greatest fighter in the world.]
Gokuu decides to try using monkey style combat, and succeeds until Jackie gets mad enough to try hypnotizing him. This puts Gokuu out, and everyone is convinced he's going to lose. Then, Buruma yells out "Gokuu, supper!" The announcer has to assure the boy that supper will be served when the meet is over, which makes Gokuu that much more resolved to win. He then uses "Janken" style, a technique where you make an attack sound that matches the punch or kick you use. Jackie easily counters the attacks, and Gokuu is convinced that the old man had known his dead grandfather (since the deceased man was the one who'd taught janken to Gokuu.) Gokuu says that he's going to use janken again, and Jackie tells him that nothing will change -- but he gets punched in the nose; Gokuu called out "ba" while making a "gu" attack. [Note: Janken is actually the Japanese name for "scissors/paper/stone." Gokuu punches (stone) and Jackie counters (paper.)]
This makes Chun furious. He invokes Bankokubikkurishou, a lightning attack that stands a good chance of killing Gokuu. Chun demands that Gokuu surrender, which Gokuu won't do despite the pain and warnings of his certain death. Then, Gokuu looks up and sees the full moon. The lightning attack has no effect on the were-monkey, which starts trashing the grounds, (Jackie is startled, because Kamesennin hadn't heard about this side of Gokuu before.) While the spectators run away in fear, Jackie starts a full-power Kamehame-ha. Yamcha rushes forward to stop what looks like Chun's killing blow. Too late. The blast knocks everyone back, and when they've recovered, Gokuu is gone. People accuse Jackie of being a murderer, until he points out a space in the rubble where Gokuu, reverted back to human form, is peacefully sleeping. Jackie states that he wasn't aiming at the boy, but rather at the moon (which is no longer in the sky.)
Shaken, the announcer needs some prompting to start the count, and starts just before Gokuu wakes up again (Jackie complains about this.) Gokuu is willing to continue fighting in the nude, but is convinced to dress in Kuririn's outfit. Both fighters are wearing down: Gokuu is starving, and Jackie had used up his Kamehame-ha power. Gokuu's Kamehame-ha is still strong enough to make Chun jump back, and he's vulnerable to the kick that sends him out of the ring. It looks like Jackie has lost, and everyone is declaring Gokuu the winner when the old man asks the announcer to come over to his edge of the ring. Turns out that Jackie's foot is embedded in the ring's wall, and he hasn't yet touched the grass. So, the fight continues. There's only one chance left for Jackie to win, and it occurs when Gokuu agrees to a hand-to-hand attack. They leap forward, and kick each other in the face. Looks like Gokuu is still in better shape, but he does collapse completely -- Jackie was counting on his longer legs giving him a slight edge when the impact occurred.
Gokuu loses, and Jackie Chun is declared the winner of the Tenkaichi-budoukai. It's a fair fight, and no one has any hard feelings. Jackie accepts the 500,000 zenii prize before leaving. Gokuu suffers a hunger strike. Kamesennin quickly changes out of his disguise (the hair glue really hurts when he rips off the wig) and meets up with the group. Gokuu and Kuririn fill in the details of the fight, and they decide to have supper with Kamesennin paying the tab (Gokuu is happy.) The final bill comes to 470,000 senii.
As people discuss their plans (Buruma and Yamcha invite everyone to come with them,) Kamesennin states that he's going back home, and Gokuu tells them that he's going off to find the Dragon Ball that contains his grandfather's soul. Kintoen arrives to whisk off our hero as the rest wish him good luck. Afterwards, the van runs out of gas.
Some time later, Gokuu wakes up to drink some water, and to use the Dragon Radar he'd received from Buruma. But, there are other people looking for the Ball... Two men from Red Ribbon, under Silver's command, are also out searching the dessert. Gokuu treats them as a joke, until they start shooting at him. Gokuu finds the Ball, which isn't the exact one he wants, and flies off. The men radio Silver, and he rushes outside his field office to use a LAW to destroy Kintoen. Gokuu doesn't know what Red Ribbon is, and doesn't care. So, Silver steals Gokuu's bag containing the Ball and Dragon Radar, but Gokuu steals it back. This prompts Silver to happily start fighting, but he gets trashed.
Since Kintoen no longer exists, Gokuu decides to try using one of the RR capsules. The first one gives him a service robot, which tells him what capsule to try second. This gives Gokuu a plane that the robot then flies for him.
In the Red Ribbon HQ, Red Sousui is talking to his aide about getting all of the Dragon Balls. A minion runs into state that one of the Dragon Balls is moving towards Silver's base. After repeated tries, they get Silver on the radio and are told about Son Gokuu. They also suspect that "the brat" also has a Dragon Radar like they do. The two Balls are moving into the artic region, towards White Shogun, and he's to be told to kill the kid.
Back in the airplane with the kid, Gokuu is freezing; robots don't feel the cold. The Ball is below them, when the robot crashes. White Shogun, in his Muscle Tower, receives a call about the crashed plane. He looks forward to trashing the "baka-brat," as his men conduct the search.
The girl (doesn't seem to have a name this early on in the story,) has brought the near-frozen Gokuu to her home, where her mother helps him recover. They want to know why he was out in the snow, and then recoil in fear when he mentions that he's looking for the Dragon Ball. Seems that Red Ribbon has kidnapped Jingle village's headmaster in their attempts to find the Ball themselves. Gokuu reassures the two that he's just trying to find his Grandfather's Ball, when two men find the trail leading to the house and break in. After quickly trashing the two soldiers, Gokuu rushes out to rescue the headmaster from Muscle Tower. He rushes back in, suffering from the cold again. He's dressed in the girl's winter clothes, and finds out that the white stuff outside is called "snow." He thinks it's weird stuff. The girl thinks that Gokuu is a weird boy, and her mother expects him to die violently. Then Gokuu is off again.
White is impressed at how quickly the brat has taken out his men, and wonders whether he can get past the Tower's guards to reach the top floor. While trying to figure out where the headmaster is, White comes over the PA to ask what Gokuu wants -- to find the headmaster. White thinks that Gokuu has come from the village, and then invites him in. The guards on the second floor get permission to kill the boy, but fail. All this fighting makes Gokuu hot, so he takes off the winter gear, and heads up to the third floor. Both White and Murasaki are impressed, but the ninja claims that although Metallic will probably win, there's no way the intruder can get by his 4th floor command. Metallic points out the stairs to the next level, and then states that Gokuu has to get past him first. Gokuu's early attacks leave him thinking that the Tower is not a challenge (he yells out "Fighto" in victory, which is probably a parody of some of the high caffeine energy booster drink (AKA -- "genki" drinks) commercials on Japanese TV.) Metallic makes a come back, and Murasaki is timing the length of the battle. Gokuu is glad that he had a chance to practice for the Tenkaichi-Budoukai first. Then Metallic fires a mouth-missile that everyone thinks has hit Gokuu. (NOTE: Whenever ANYONE wins a battle, they hold up the peace sign, and say "peace, peace.") Gokuu decides to try Kamehame-ha, jumps out to show that he's still alive, and attacks. This blows off Metallic's head, but doesn't destroy the robot. Gokuu thinks that the creature's soul is still hanging around, and starts praying for the spirit to not haunt him. Gokuu still can't figure out what's happening, and White tells everyone that Metallic is a robot. White orders Metallic to kill Gokuu, but the robot's batteries choose this moment to run down. Gokuu rushes upstairs before the robot can recover, and White yells at his ninja to get down to the 4th floor to defend it.
On the next level, Gokuu is stunned to find a forest growing inside a building. Then the throwing spikes hit the ground in front of him. Murasaki boasts about his skills as a ninja, and tells us that Gokuu is going to die very quickly. (Note, both Murasaki and White refer to themselves as "Ore-sama," or "the honorable Mr. Me.") While Murasaki is bragging about his invisibility, Gokuu picks up a rock and throws it into the trees. Murasaki decides to try this a second time, throws out a smoke bomb, and challenges Gokuu to find him. Gokuu does this with no trouble, because the ninja has grabbed the wrong piece of camoflague (the American flag.) So, Murasaki makes one last go at hiding from the boy, telling him to count to thirty before coming to find him. Gokuu can't remember what comes after 18, and catches Murasaki trying to sneak under a fake rock. Murasaki complains that Gokuu has ruined his best ninja technique (Gokuu agrees that the fake looks just like the real thing, but still wants to know what comes after 18.) The ninja gets up to 23 before saying that counting is not one of the techniques required by ninja. He tells Gokuu to just count up to 30, which Gokuu succeeds at on the second try. This time, the whistling of the air through a reed gives the over-confident ninja away (this water-hiding technique is undetectable.) Murasaki complains that Gokuu had almost killed him with the hot water poured down the tube, before challenging Gokuu to a foot race. Since ninja don't play fair, he uses caltrops to gain an edge. Gokuu responds by wearing wooden geta, and outdistances his opponent. White thinks that Murasaki's power is all in his head.
Murasaki escalates the battle, to be badly humiliated with a bo up his butt (Gokuu laughs saying that they now both have tails.) When his sword breaks, the ninja throws a boomarang before challenging the brat to a fist fight. Hit from behind, Gokuu drops, Murasaki gloats, and Gokuu gets back up. Some shiraiken are thrown out, and gathered up, then both fighters run into Murasaki's hut. The ninja uses a ninja-tatame-mat-blocking technique on the shiraiken, but forgets that while he has four mats, Gokuu has 6 throwing stars. They run back outside, where Murasaki uses a floating-walker to cross his pirranha-filled lake (which Gokuu just leaps over.) This forces the ninja to pull out his final ace: 5 replicants of himself. Gokuu thinks that each one is a fake, except that each copy has a killing attack of his own. Then Murasaki states that the copies are all the real things, so Gokuu beats them all up (when Gokuu uses his one-pattern technique, he tells the clone that the real Gokuu is behind him.) Finally, Murasaki panicks and runs upstairs to release Zombie #8 (Jinzouningen 8-go.)
#8 is described as very fast, and very strong. But, everyone is surprised when #8 says that he can't attack Gokuu. #8 considers violence to be a bad thing, and refuses to fight even when Murasaki pulls out a remote control switch that can trigger a bomb placed in the monster's chest. Murasaki runs to the other side of the tower to blow up the recalcitrant monster, and Gokuu leaps across to destroy the control and uses janken style to wipe out the ninja. #8 calls Gokuu his #1 friend, and asks for Gokuu's name. #8 doesn't have any other name than Zombie #8, and is happy to hear that the boy is trying to rescue the village's headmaster. The two go up to the next level, through a maze (in the TV series, the maze is much more important,) and past a section of the tower that can't be accessed via any known doorways. Gokuu refers to him as Hatchan, and #8 likes it enough to declare "hatchan" as his new name. Finally, they reach the top level, and White Shogun. He greets the two friends, and presses the trap door button to drop Gokuu and Hatchan into the sealed off area occupied by...
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