Terror on Imecka

After Pan accidentally loosened a stabilizer jet during an earlier tantrum, the Grand Tour Spaceship suffers critical damage mid-flight. Goku, Trunks, and Pan are forced to crash-land on planet Imecka, a bustling merchant world that appears welcoming at first glance. The colorful streets and lively atmosphere quickly reveal themselves as a facade for rampant price-gouging.

The trio checks into a hotel only to discover they are being charged by the second for everything from the bed to the air conditioning. They flee without paying and wander the rainy streets disguised as locals, desperate to avoid further exploitation.

An elderly Imeckian couple takes pity on the strangers and offers them shelter. They explain that Don Kee, the planet's ruler, bleeds the population dry with outrageous taxes and seizes property from anyone who falls behind on payments. As if to prove the point, enforcement robots arrive that very night and confiscate the couple's home.

Homeless and stranded, Goku, Trunks, and Pan retreat to their damaged spaceship for the night, their first taste of intergalactic hardship proving far more bitter than expected.

Morning brings fresh trouble. A tiny robot scurries aboard the ship and swallows the Dragon Radar whole, making it impossible for the team to track the Black Star Dragon Balls without it. Before they can deal with this new complication, the Imeckian Army arrives and impounds the Grand Tour Spaceship.

In a matter of hours, the three Saiyans have gone from space travelers on a mission to penniless fugitives with no ship, no radar, and no way off the planet. Their quest to save Earth has hit its first serious wall.