The Weirdo with the Ball

Fish, Fury, and a Full Belly

Goku cannot believe his luck at finding such a perfect fish. He hops atop it and tears through the meal until only bones remain and his stomach is swollen like a balloon. Feeling his power flooding back, he tests himself by punching a massive boulder and leaving a hole straight through it. Determined to settle the score with the monster who killed Krillin, he calls for the Flying Nimbus, but the cloud never answers. Goku realizes Kinto-Un was truly destroyed this time, adding it to the list of victims he owes Tambourine for.

Enter the Stranger

Checking his Dragon Radar, Goku sees a reading right on top of his position. Before he can search, a boulder comes hurtling at him from the trees. He leaps over it, climbs up on the rock, and calls the attacker out. A heavyset man with shaggy hair appears carrying a katana, and dangling from his neck is a Dragon Ball. The stranger is furious that Goku devoured his breakfast, not some miracle meal that fell from the sky. Goku spots the orb, assumes this must be an accomplice of the winged demon, and demands to know where the flying one is hiding. The man refuses to tell a fish thief anything.

A Brief Brawl and a New Arrival

Insults escalate and the pair charge one another. Goku blocks the stranger's punches until a surprise headbutt drops him, but he springs up and returns the favor, staggering the larger man. A kick sends Goku sidestepping into a counter punch, followed by a kick that launches the wanderer into a mountainside. They size each other up again, and only now does Goku notice the ball has just one star, not four. The stranger admits he picked it up three years earlier, and Goku apologizes for the mix-up. Before either can relax, something flits through the sky above them. Goku assumes it is Tambourine returning, but it is actually Cymbal, who casually asks whether the two happen to know where a little ball with stars on it might be.