Released
in: Japan, America (Tree of Might)
Japanese Release Date: 7/7/1990 Producer: Toei
Synopsis: A small probe from Outer Space lands and causes
a forest fire. Gohan and Kuririn manage to put out the fire and
save a small purple dragon, but the forest is destroyed.
Saddened, they gather the dragon balls, and Gohan wishes the
Forest back to its earlier state. The next morning, the probe
activates and starts scouting out the earth. It reports back to
a strange group of Space Pirates, led by a mysterious leader.
They decide that the planet is suitable for growing "Shinseiju
(Tree of Might)," and plant the seed. The Shinseiju
literally demolishes several square miles in its growth, and
starts sucking the life out of everything. The tree is made to
bear fruit for the gods (Think the Immortality peaches in the
old Chinese Myths). Goku, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Chaozu, and
Yamcha all rush to the base of the tree (Gohan was told by his
mother to stay home), where they face off against the Pirates.
Gohan sneaks away from his mother to fight, and runs into a
Saiya-jin, the leader of the pirates, who looks exactly like his
dad. Tares grabs Gohan, and recognizing that he's part Saiya-jin,
creates a fake moon. Oozaru Gohan comes after Goku first, and a
small fight begins between them. This fight lasts until Gohan
sees Higher Dragon, in which Gohan's short attention span is
diverted. Enraged, Tares blows the Dragon away, and then attacks
Gohan. Goku cuts off the Gohan's tail, and sets him aside where
he's safe. Having defeated the rest of the Z warriors, Tares'
henchmen surround our hero. Goku takes them all on and kills the
lot with ease. Tares resumes the fight, and they find that their
power levels are nearly equal. Tares grabs some of the fruit
from the Tree, and takes a healthy bite. He then trashes Goku,
leaving him for dead. Goku attempts to make a Genki-dama, and
the other heroes band together against Tares to stall for time.
The villain defeats them all with ease, and concentrates back on
Goku just in time to see him lob the ball of energy. Tares
deflects the Genki-dama, and is totally unaffected. The earth
had been drained so much that it was impossible to gather any
real energy. Goku begins draining energy from the Tree of might
itself, until he builds one last Genki-dama. He then confronts
Tares for the last time, and hits him with the attack. Both
Tares and the tree are destroyed, and all of the energy taken by
the tree is restored to the earth.
