Purple People Beater

A Forest Inside a Tower

Stepping onto the next level, Goku is baffled to discover that an entire forest has been planted inside the Muscle Tower. A volley of throwing spikes slams into the ground in front of his feet before he can really process the sight, and a voice announces itself as Ninja Murasaki. The purple-clad shinobi swaggers out to boast at length about the legendary skills of a true ninja and promises that his uninvited guest will not live more than a few seconds. As Murasaki launches into a spiel about how invisible he can become, Goku quietly picks up a stone and chucks it into the branches above, exposing the ninja's hiding spot on the first attempt.

A Long List of Bad Hiding Spots

Undeterred, Murasaki tries again, this time tossing a smoke bomb and daring Goku to find him. Goku locates him almost instantly because the ninja has grabbed the completely wrong piece of camouflage, an American flag, and is waving it around conspicuously. For his next attempt Murasaki demands that Goku count to thirty while he hides, but the boy cannot remember what number comes after eighteen and simply spots the ninja sneaking underneath a phony rock. Murasaki wails that his greatest technique has been ruined, and then admits that counting is not actually part of a ninja's training when he gets stuck at twenty three himself.

Geta Versus Caltrops

Murasaki finally lets Goku resume counting and, after a stumble, the boy makes it to thirty on his second try. The whistling of air through a reed gives the conceited fighter away again, and he emerges furious that the boy nearly scalded him by pouring hot water down the breathing tube. Desperate to recover his dignity, Murasaki challenges Goku to a footrace and tosses caltrops onto the ground to slow him down. Goku slips on a pair of wooden geta and leaves the ninja sputtering in the dust. High above it all, watching the humiliating parade on a monitor from the top floor, General White concludes that his man has plenty of power but not even a scrap of the intelligence needed to win.