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Nappa And Vegeta's Saiyan Army Barracks ©
Tien

Tien is a three-eyed man who was originally trained by a rival of Master Roshi's, but he switched to join the Z-Fighters. His full name is Tenshinhan. Tien and his best friend, Chiaotzu, are called for special training at Kami's Lookout on top of Korin's tower, along with Krillin, Yamcha and Yajirobe. The purpose of the training being to prepare for them for the fight against the Saiyans. Tien demands training from Kami as Goku received training when he was here. Kami says how he taught Goku nothing. A little confused they turn to Mr Popo, who shows them where Goku trained - the Room of Spirit and Time. Yajirobe can't really be arsed to train, so the others begin training in the Room of Spirit and Time. Their spiritual bodies were transported to Planet Vegeta, 100 years previous, there they come across two Saiyans. Tien and the others put up a good fight but are greatly overpowered. They return to the room and are surprised to find themselves in one piece. They continue training until the Saiyans arrive and join Piccolo and Gohan on the battlefield. Tien is the first to fight against Nappa's Saibamen. They beat them but Yamcha was lost in the process. Nappa then started battling against the Earth's Special Forces, no matter what they threw at him, Nappa was winning and seemed unbeatable. Chiaotzu attempted to blow up Nappa but failed, he died. Tien was enraged by the death of his friend and went against Nappa. However Nappa was still a lot stronger than Tien and managed to break his arm off. Tien was contacted telepathically by Chiaotzu and told Tien to stop worrying about him. Tien was driven to avenge his best friend's death despite his serious injuries. Tien was unsuccessful and was killed by Nappa. He travelled along Snake Way and he reached King Kai's and found Yamcha and Chiaotzu had also made it there. Shortly after Piccolo joined them. Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu wanted to receive training from King Kai. He agreed on the condition that they had to make him laugh. Yamcha and Chiaotzu were successful but Tien was having trouble making him laugh. Yamcha came up with a joke for Tien to use and so the training began. Months later Gohan was contacted by Piccolo through King Kai's telepathic powers. They learnt that only three of them could be wished back. Piccolo told Gohan to wish him back because then Kami and the Earth's Dragonballs would be wished back too. Piccolo's halo disappeared and then he dematerialised, headed for Planet Namek. Tien, Chiaotzu and Yamcha are still stuck with King Kai for the mean time. They follow the progress of Goku and the others through King Kai's telepathic capabilities. The Ginyu Force arrive on King Kai's Planet, Tien splits in two using his tri-form technique to give them more of a fighting chance. They manage to send them all to Hell. Eventually Yamcha's life is restored. Tien opted for staying a while longer and then 100 odd days later his and Chiaotzu's lives are restored. We next see Tien with Chiaotzu in some mountains. Tien can sense a strong force approaching, Chiaotzu is scared. Tien and Chiaotzu meet up with Yamcha, Vegeta, Bulma and Puar. Tien is not pleased to see Vegeta, they are joined by Krillin, Gohan and Piccolo shortly afterwards. The ship lands a short distance away so they all head towards it, keeping their power levels low so they cannot be detected by scouters. They stop when they sense a new power level which is even higher than Frieza's. Krillin wants to continue, thinking that it might be Goku, Vegeta says they won't go any further until he says so. Moments later he continues towards the ship, followed by the others. They see that the stranger has killed Frieza and King Cold by himself. He tells them to follow him as Goku will be landing in two hours time. They follow him and wait for Goku. Only Bulma and Gohan seem to have much trust in the kid, especially seeing as he won't reveal anything about himself. Goku arrives as the kid said and is real suprised to see everyone and wonders how they knew he would land here. They tell Goku that the kid has killed Frieza and King Cold with ease. He asks to speak with Goku in private so they do. The others wonder what they are talking about as they look over every so often and Bulma is sure she heard her name. The kid leaves in his time machine, and Goku returns to group. He says he can't tell what was said. Piccolo then says he heard everything and will tell, but not anything that would endanger Trunks ie the fact that he is Bulma and Vegeta's kid. After learning about what will happen with the Androids they all decide to train. Goku explains where he had been all this time. He says how he escaped Namek and crashed on a planet called Yadrat. He then shows them a new move he has called Instant Transmission. Bulma suggests that they get the Dragonballs and ask Shenron where Dr Gero is now, so they can kill him before he makes the Androids. But Vegeta says they won't have time and Goku thinks that it would be unfair because Gero hasn't done anything wrong yet. They all decide to not do that and Bulma gets angry. Tien flies off with Chiaotzu adn trains. The three years pass and he goes to meet the others. Everyone turns up except for Chiaotzu who isn't really strong enough and Vegeta. The others can't sense the Androids Ki and realise that they don't have any. Goku gives Bulma the Senzu Beans to look after. Yajirobe's plane gets shot down, so the others all go to find the Androids. Tien is the first to find Yamcha has been stabbed by #20. Krillin flies Yamcha back to Bulma to get a senzu Bean. Goku leads them to somewhere to fight. #20 then explains how Dr Gero has been watching them for quite some time. Goku then transforms into a Super Saiya-jin and fights #19. Piccolo is worried and Gohan realises that the heart virus is attacking him. Piccolo remembers that Trunks gave Goku an antidote. #19 begins absorbing Goku's energy, they try to help but #20 gets in their way and shots down Piccolo. Vegeta then shows up and kicks #19 away from Goku. Vegeta transforms into a Super Saiya-jin and easily kills #19. Krillin is confused because he thought that you had to be like Goku and have a pure heart and stuff to be a Super Saiya-jin. Vegeta explains that his motivation to become a Super Saiya-jin was very different to Goku's. He says that he trained under gravities of over 400 times Earth's gravity. He went to a different planet where a huge electric storm occured and meteours rained down on the surface. He struggled to save himself and his ship and got hit by a huge meteour. At that point Vegeta didn't care about anything anymore, whether he became a Super Saiya-jin or lived and that was when he transformed. #20 legs it and Vegeta asks for a Senzu then goes after him. Piccolo realises that Vegeta was bluffing when acting eager to fight #20, although really #20 would have been able to kill him. He is worried that Vegeta is stronger than Goku. The four of them split up and try to find #20. They all find #20 and Piccolo beats him up, then the kid from the future appears, saying he hasn't seen these androids before. Bulma turns up in her air car and #20 crashes it and runs off. Bulma says that the android looks like Dr Gero and Vegeta, followed by Trunks, fly off after him. Piccolo tells them that the kid from the future is Trunks and Vegeta's son. Piccolo, Tien and Krillin fly off to find Dr Gero's lab and Gohan takes Bulma, Chibi Trunks and Yajirobe home. The three of them split up and search for the lab. They sense that Krillin has found the lab and meet up. They try to open the door and hear that Dr Gero has already activated #17 and #18. Vegeta blasts open the door and they see the three androids. #17 kills #20 and #18 is about to activate #16 when Trunks blows up the lab. but #17, #18 and #16 are unharmed by the attack. #18 then activates #16, and the three of them fly off. Vegeta wants to follow them but Trunks says they have to wait for Goku. Vegeta punches Trunks and flies off. Trunks tells them they have to stop Vegeta and the four of them fly off after him. When they catch up he has been fighting with #18. #17 says that if any of them intefer then he will have to step in. They watch Vegeta fight #18 and she starts beating the crap out of him. She dislocates his arm, Trunks truns Super Saiya-jin and rushes to help him. Piccolo and Tien follow, but they get beaten up by #17 and #18. The three androids fly off and Krillin revives them all with a senzu. Vegeta flies off alone, and so does Piccolo. Krillin explains that Piccolo has gone to see Kami-Sama so that they can fusion and become an even stronger Namek. Krillin, Trunks and Tien fly to Goku's house, although Tien leaves them half way to find Chiaotzu to continue training. Later Tien senses alot of different powers and finds Piccolo, Vegeta, Krillin and Trunks. Piccolo explains about Cell. Vegeta flies off saying that he's going to train to supass the Super Saiya-jin level. Trunks and Krillin fly off to find Dr Gero's lab where another Cell is growing, and Piccolo and Tien fly off to find Cell. they later find Krillin fighting Cell at an airport, but Cell runs off again. Piccolo, Krillin and Tien go back to Kame House and get Gohan and Yamcha. They all go in the air plane and go after Cell. Goku appears in the ship and tells them he is going to take Gohan, Vegeta and Trunks to the Room Spirit and Time (or Hyperbolic Time Chamber as it's called in the dub) and train so they can supass the level of Super Saiya-jin. Goku grabs Gohan and using his Instant Transmission he teleports to where Vegeta and Trunks are. The others can't find Cell so go back to Kame House. #16, #17 and #18 show up and Piccolo goes with them to fight #17. The others stay behind. Later Bulma phones and says she has made a control that can deactivate the androids. Krillin goes to meet Bulma. Later Tien flies off to help Piccolo, and sees Cell kill him and absorb #17. Tien steps in to stop Cell absorbing #18 aswell and keeps blasting Cell. He eventually runs out of energy and collapses. Goku appears and stops Cell from killing him by transporting him and Piccolo who has survived back to Kami's Lookout. They each have a senzu and are healed. Then Vegeta and Trunks step out of the room. Goku and Gohan train in the Room next while Vegeta and Trunks fight Cell. Piccolo and Tien monitor the fight from Kami's Lookout. When Goku and Gohan leave the room, Tien decides to not train, as he doesn't think he will be a worthy opponent for Cell. Nevertheless he and Yamcha go with them to the Cell Games, although they won't fight in the tournament. Mr Satan wants to fight first, so they let him. Of course he gets thrown out of the ring instantly. They all watch Goku fight Cell next. Cell and Goku are both very evenly matched, even when Cell uses Kamehameha, Tein's multiform, Special Beam Cannon and Kienzan. Then Cell gets bored with the constraints of the tiny ring, so blows it up. Goku and Cell fight some more. Goku fires a huge Kamehameha right at Cell and he blows up. But Cell regenerates himself. Goku then says that he gives up. Everyone is suprised because Goku never gives up. He then says that someone here is stronger than him, so Cell should fight him instead. Goku goes to Gohan and tells him to fight Cell. Gohan says that he doesn't have enough power to defeat Cell and that Goku is still holding back some of his power. Goku says that isn't true, he was using his full power, the only reason Gohan's thinks he's holding back is because Gohan is comparing his power to Goku's. Gohan confirms this. So Gohan steps up to challenge Cell. They fight but Gohan gets beat up. Goku tells Piccolo that he won't help, because Gohan is still holding back and that he'll be fine. But Gohan still doesn't seem to win. Piccolo realises that although Gohan has the strength he doesn't have the fighting will like Goku. Goku realises what he has done. Cell knows that Gohan is holding back his power and tells Gohan to unleash it. Gohan refuses, he tells Cell that if he taps into that power he will destroy Cell, he warns him not to push him other iwse he will regret it. Cell continues to beat up Gohan to try to get him to unleash his power. Android 16 then grabs Cell, he tells him that he has a bomb inside of him that is powerful enough to kill Cell and that he will detonate it. But the bomb doesn't explode, Krillin shouts that Bulma and Dr Brief deactivated the bomb. Cell then blows up Android 16. Then he creates seven Cell Jr's and tells them to fight Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Trunks, Yamcha, Tien and Krillin. The Cell Jr's are really strong and the only ones able to put up any decent defence is Vegeta and Trunks. Cell then tells the Cell Jr's to kill them. Mr Satan throws Android 16's head over to Cell and Gohan. 16 tells Gohan that it is okay to fight for the right cause. Cell then crushes 16's head and kills him. Gohan gets really angry and transforms into Super Saiya-jin 2. Gohan beats the shit out of Cell, and he even spits up Android 18. Cell is even less powerful and becomes Imperfect Cell. Gohan toys with Cell for a while, despite Goku telling Gohan to kill Cell now. Cell then decides that he will explode, the explosion will destroy the whole planet. No one knows what to do, then Goku has an idea. He says goodbye to everyone and uses his Instant Translocation technique to teleport Cell away from Earth. Gohan is really upset with himself as he blames himself for Goku's death. Krillin and the others comfort Gohan. But then Cell reappears and kills Trunks. Cell is complete again and says that he has learned Goku's Instant Translocation. In the explosion only one cell survived, and that was all he needed to regenerate himself. Gohan is ready to attack Cell again, but Vegeta goes mad because Cell killed Trunks and starts blasting him in a mad rage. One he stops Cell is fine, he then knocks Vegeta down. Cell fires to kill Vegeta, when Gohan jumps in the way and takes the blast, saving Vegeta. Gohan manages to survive the blast, but his left arm is badly injured. Cell fires a beam at Gohan, and Gohan counters it with his own, but he deosn't think he has enough strength left to kill Cell. From Heaven Goku tells Gohan he has the power to do it. Piccolo attacks Cell while Gohan is blasting him. Tien, Yamcha, Piccolo and Krillin all keep blasting Cell to help Gohan. Cell keeps knocking them back until they can't help anymore. Then Vegeta blasts Cell from the sky, Cell looks up at Vegeta. Cell is temporarily distracted by Vegeta's suprise attack and Goku tells Gohan that now is the time. Gohan releases a huge amount of energy and overpowers Cell's beam. The beam hits Cell and kills him, this time for good. Gohan then detransforms and falls to the ground exhausted. They congratulate Gohan on his victory, and then Tien, Yamcha and Krillin take Gohan, Trunks and Android 18 to Kami's Lookout to be healed by Dende. They arrive at the Lookout and Piccolo catches them up. Dende heals Gohan and then Android 18. She's a little confused as to what is happening. They tell her that Krillin took care of her after Cell spat her up. Then Gohan blurts out that Krillin has a crush on 18, she gets angry and flies off. Dende then summons Shenron and asks the dragon to revive all those who were killed by Cell, so Trunks comes back to life. Piccolo realises that Goku cannot be brought back by Shenron as this dragon is made from the same as the old Shenron, and Goku has already been revived before. They decide to revive Porunga on Namek because as that is the original dragon, he can revive people as many times as he sees fit. But then Goku speaks to them from Heaven and says that he will stay with King Kai in Heaven. He says that he will be a threat to Earth because all those who've attacked it like Frieza and the Androids have been after him. He says Earth will be better off without him. They agree with Goku. Goku says his goodbyes and tells them all to remember what happens in their lives because when they come to Heaven, he wants to hear about them. Shenron is getting annoyed and demands they make their second wish. Krillin wishes that #17 and #18 are made human again, but the wish cannot be granted. So then Krillin wishes that their bombs are deactivated and the wish is granted. Yamcha asks Krillin why he wanted #17 wished back to, and he says that he thought that 18 would be happier with 17. #18 then shouts at them saying that they weren't a couple and that #17 was her twin brother. She thanks Krillin and then flies off again. Piccolo says that he is going to live on Kami's Lookout and the rest of them fly off home. Tien is then not seen for quite some time, we see him briefly in the Buu Saga as he and Chiaotzu comment on Goku's power as a Super Saiya-jin 3 when he fights Buu.
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