The Storming of Muscle Tower

Shelter in Jingle Village

The little girl drags the half-frozen Goku into her home, where her mother wraps him in blankets and slowly coaxes life back into his limbs. The two women ask what on earth he was doing face down in a snowdrift, and both recoil when he casually mentions that he is hunting the Dragon Balls. He quickly learns why the subject terrifies them. The Red Ribbon Army has already descended on the community, kidnapping the Jingle Village Chief in an attempt to force the locals to help in their own search. Goku explains that he is only looking for the Four-Star Ball his grandpa once owned, not competing with the soldiers, and the mother and daughter begin to relax.

Scouts at the Door

Their calm breaks when two Red Ribbon scouts follow the trail of footprints straight to the front door and barge in with guns drawn. Goku handles them in a heartbeat, bouncing the pair around the room before they can so much as fire a warning shot. Determined to free the kidnapped headman immediately, he charges outside, only to stagger back in within moments, stiff and shivering from the biting wind. He has never experienced anything like the arctic air before and has no clothing fit for the trek.

A Red Jumpsuit and a Target

Suno hands over a bright set of her own winter clothes for him to bundle into, and he marvels at the strange cold white stuff that covers the ground, asking what this peculiar material is called. She tells him it is snow, and he shakes his head at how odd the entire substance is. The girl thinks he is every bit as strange as the weather, and her mother quietly prays that he will not meet a terrible end out there. Up in the highest room of Muscle Tower, General White watches the reports on how quickly the boy has dismantled his men and starts to wonder with growing concern whether this pint-sized intruder might actually fight his way all the way to the top floor.