The Pilaf Machine

A Weakness That No Longer Exists

Convinced his entire strategy hinges on seizing Goku tail, Emperor Pilaf orders a frontal assault. Shu suddenly realizes he cannot actually see the tail anywhere and wonders if it is simply tucked beneath the boy gi. Pilaf calls a nervous time-out, huddles with Shu and Mai, and cobbles together a fallback plan. When they close back in, Pilaf distracts Goku long enough for Mai to pin his arms while Shu blasts flame at his backside, burning away his pants in the hope of exposing the hidden tail. Pilaf reaches down to grab it and finds nothing there. A very exposed Goku tears free and calmly explains his tail was ripped off long ago.

Three Machines Become One

Robbed of their only plan, the trio decides to rely on brute mechanical force. Their three Pilaf Machines snap together into a single towering battle mech, with Pilaf at the head, Mai forming the torso, and Shu serving as the legs. Goku answers the fused behemoth with a Kamehameha that shears the left arm clean off and wrecks Mai section entirely. Pilaf and Shu hastily detach from the ruined middle and reattach their own units into a smaller fusion, while Mai abandons her cockpit and leaps onto the new configuration.

Scrap Metal and a Borrowed Outfit

Shu launches a missile at the charging Goku, but the boy catches the warhead in mid-flight and hurls it straight back, obliterating what remains of the combined mech. Defeated and dazed, Pilaf meekly hands over the Dragon Ball. Goku, now stuck half-naked, demands clothes as well, and Shu is forced to strip off his own outfit so Goku can leave with both the seventh orb and a ride home on the Flying Nimbus.