- Future Trunks Story

Androids 17 and 18 were released. Android 17 killed Dr. Gero and began the androids began their reign of terror. Goku faced the androids, but suffered a heart attack. Without the proper medicine, Goku died. Without Goku, the Z warriors were too weak to stand a chance against the androids. In turn, Vegeta, Yamcha, Tein, can Krillin were killed in battle. Chaos wrecked everywhere. Cities were destroyed by the androids just for the fun of it. Many were killed without reason.

A few years later...

Trunks is now a teenager and Gohan is grown up. Master Roshi, his turtle, and Oolong spent their days hiding in a submarine. Chi-Chi and the Ox-King lived in fear and mourn over Goku. Bulma learned how to live the terrible environment and goes about his everyday business. Androids 17 and 18 continue to destroy everything in their path. Their victims tried calling the army, but the federal troops have already been killed by the androids.

Trunks is riding home with Bulma. There is a radio report about another disaster the androids caused. Trunks becomes angered with rage at such injustice. He flies off to the devastated city and anger continues to build because he knows there is nothing he can do; he knows that he is too weak to fight the androids. Gohan descends in front of Trunks and agrees to train Trunks. The two head back to Bulma's house.

Gohan and Trunks spend days in training. Gohan is trying to teach Trunks how to reach Super Saiyan level, but Trunks cannot, despite all his anger. Trunks gets distressed, but Gohan continues to encourage Trunks. Meanwhile, Androids 17 and 18 continue their destruction over the world.

Gohan and Trunks decide to face the androids. Gohan is standing up against Android 17, but Trunks is getting kicked around by Android 18. Gohan flies over to aid Trunks and has to fight both androids now. The androids throws huge fireballs at Gohan and Trunks and fly away. Gohan wakens and struggles to get his body over to the unconscious Trunks. Gohan is badly injured and lost an arm in battle. Gohan finally reaches Trunks, struggles to get to his bag of senzu beans, and discovers that there is only one piece left. He feeds it into Trunks' mouth and collapses. Trunks awakens and quickly gets Gohan back to Bulma.

Gohan recovers, but is missing a limb now. He continues to train Trunks, but Trunks still cannot reach Super Saiyan level. Days go by, and the androids are still a menace in endangering the Earth.

Gohan and Trunks decide to face the androids again. Trunks feels ready to go, but Gohan hits him behind his neck and knocks him out. Gohan knows that Trunks is still not ready, and goes to fight Androids 17 and 18 himself.

Trunks awakens and discovered what has happened. He quickly flies over to the city the Androids were in. The city is destroyed, and Gohan is lying on the ground... dead. There is a storm. Rain is falling hard. Trunks looks at the dead Gohan and becomes enraged. He screams and finally reaches Super Saiyan level.

Trunks decides to fight the androids again and encounters them. He quickly discovers that even though he is in Super Saiyan form, he is still no match against Androids 17 and 18. The androids kick Trunks around and everything slowly goes blank.

Trunks awakens to find himself bandaged in his bed. Bulma had taken his body home. Bulma tells Trunks that she has been working on a time machine and tells Trunks to go back in time to before Goku got his heart attack. Bulma gives him heart attack medicine for Goku to prevent his death so that the whole future would change. Trunks agrees. He gets in the time machine capsule that has the word "Hope" painted on it and travels to the past. Bulma waves goodbye and wishes him good luck.

- Cell Saga

After years of anguish from a defeat that took place decades ago, Dr. Gero continues to plot revenge against the character who destroyed Red Ribbon and ruined him- Goku. Android #19 is the first of a series of creations to destroy Goku. Along with the scheme, Dr. Gero requests Android #19 to make him into a cyborg so that he would become stronger, and this bears witness of the transformation of Dr. Gero to Android #20. The Z Warriors meet with Androids #19 and #20 and the two sides engage in battle. Goku leaves the battle while Vegeta faces Android #19. The android is destroyed and Dr. Gero is shattered. Despite the grave defeat, Dr. Gero's cybernetic programming enables him to self-repair, so that he may live to fight again.

Android #20 then works on developing a better android model. Meanwhile, he unleashes two of his other creations, Android #17 and Android #18. Androids #17 and #18 get annoyed of Dr. Gero. As a result, Android #17 kills Dr. Gero. But, the doctor had just finished creating Android #21, who is still developing in a giant test tube. Before he dies, he issues the final command to his new android to feast on the rebellious androids. Android #17 and Android #18 leave the lab and unleash Android #16. But as it turns out, Android #16 is a peaceful android. (This can be shown through his love towards the wild animals.) As time passes, the Z Warriors become aware of the new androids as they battle again and again but always reach a stalemate. However, the Z Warriors are still not match for the androids because the androids are robots, and therefore do not tire in a long battle while the Z Warriors eventually run out of energy. Goku suffers a heart attack in one battle and retreats. Trunks, who was sent back in time by future Bulma with medicine to heal Goku's heart so that Goku would live to kill the androids and thus change the future, gives Goku the medicine. Goku is saved, but the Saiyan's still do not continue to fight the androids. Instead, they train in a chamber to get stronger. Meanwhile, Piccolo fuses with Kami, his half father, to become stronger (His story is told in the Dragon Ball series.) Dende, a Namek child, replaces Kami as guardian of the dragon balls.

Androids #16, #17, and #18 go to seek Goku to destroy him. Piccolo finds the androids first and begins to fight them. Back in Dr. Gero's lab, Cell has finished developing and breaks out of the giant "test tube", promising to fulfill his creator's wish.

Cell flies to find Androids #17 and #18. On his way devours the souls of the unlucky civilians he passes to become stronger. Finally, he meets with the other androids. To our heroes' surprise, they learn that Androids #17 and #18 know nothing about Cell. Cell and Android #17 threaten to kill each other. Android #17 heads out to fight him. But, he does not stand up to Cell and is easily defeated. This is when our heroes learn the great powers of Cell. Android #18 is now worried, but Android #16 flies out to fight Cell. To everybody's amazement, Android #16 is able to stand up to Cell. However, he is still destroyed. Cell now heads for his goal and devours Android #17 with his tail. Cell now changes into Cell--form 2. With the power of Android #17 combined to his, he becomes stronger than ever. Then, he heads over to devour Android #18. Android #18 tries to escape, but she is still eventually devoured. Cell now changes into Cell form 3, and becomes "Perfect Cell" Cell, after devouring the souls of so many people, is no longer an android and becomes organic.

After Cell is gone, Bulma collects the body parts of Android #16 and repairs him. Android 16 is re-programmed to fight on the Z Warriors' side. Our heroes now head out to fight Cell, and Android #16 is once again destroyed. Cell grows strong enough and reproduces. From his body come 7 Cell Juniors, miniature blue duplicates of Cell. With the death of Android 16, an enraged teenage Gohan powers up and reaches Super Saiyan level 2. Gohan then destroys all the Cell Juniors and fights Cell. In a following battle, Cell is kicked and Android #18 is spit back out. (She is unconscious.) Cell turns back into form 2 and is defeated. But, he activates his self destruction mode so that when he dies, the world will blow up with him. To save the Earth, Goku teleports Cell out of Earth and into King Kai's planet, where Cell blows up. Thus, Goku, King Kai, Bubbles, and Gregory die as well.

The Z Warriors mourn the loss of Goku, but cheer at the victory over Cell at the same time. A fireball flies out of nowhere and pierces through Trunks. Upon Trunks' death, Cell, in form 3, appears. He tells that when he blew up, a brain cell survived. From the cell, other cells multiplied and he was once again formed. Cell happily laughs as he tells that he is amazed he is able to rebuild himself into form 3! Then, Cell threatens to destroy the earth. Now it is up to Gohan to try to save our planet. With one arm (the other injured when he went to let a fireball meant for Vegeta hit him), Gohan prepares a fireball. He fires at Cell and Cell fires back. A stalemate is meant, but with King Kai's help, Goku is able to talk to Gohan and encourages him. Meanwhile, Krillin protects the unconscious Android #18 and Yamcha, Tein, and Vegeta attack Cell in hope that this will Gohan distract Cell. With the help of the now dead Kai, Goku, also dead, is able to communicate with Gohan and encourages him to use all his power to defeat Cell. Gohan overpowers Cell and Cell is disintegrated by Gohan's fireball. (But, Satan takes credit for Cell's death because of his lies to the reporters.)

At the end, the warriors gather the dragon balls to bring those killed by Cell back to life. However, Goku is still dead because he was already brought back to life once and cannot come back again, but tells that he is okay and is now with King Kai. Android #18 awakens and flees. However, everybody learns here that Krillin has developed a crush on Android #18! At the end of this series, there is a short memorial about the life of Goku.

- Buu Saga

The Majin Buu saga is a continuation of the Dragon Ball Z series after the Cell game. This time Gohan is a high school student, Trunks is a little kid and Gohan has a new little brother, Goten. Goten & Trunks can already turn Super Saiyan even though they're so young. Krillin married Android #18 and they have a daughter. Goku is still dead but now he's training there. He enters a tournament on one of the four Kaio's planet. Goku ties with his worthy opponent. On earth Gohan is training Goten, and Vegeta is training Trunks. They're training for a martial arts tournament. Goku is granted one day on earth. He comes back to fight in the tournament as well. Trunks and Goten can't compete in the adult division so they just fight in the children's division. Of course it comes down to the two of them. It was a close fight but Trunks wins. Afterwards they still want to fight. So they knock out one of the competitors and use his clothes. As the tournament goes on, Gohan, in his Great Saiyaman outfit takes his turn to fight. When Gohan turns Super Saiyan his costume is blown off revealing his true identity. Everyone is amazed that a nerd like Gohan is the Great Saiyaman. All of a sudden, two fighters with "M"s on their foreheads absorbs Gohan's energy to revive Buu. Kaioshin, the so called king of the universe who is trying to prevent Babidi's plot to revive Buu, allows this to happen in order to learn of their hide out. Vegeta, Krillin, Piccolo, and Goku decide to go as well. When they get there a battle ensues that leaves Krillin and Piccolo turned to stone by Dabura. When Gohan fights Dabura, Dabura sees the evil in Vegeta. So Dabura stops the fight. As the Warriors rest, Babidi casts a spell on Vegeta to control his body. Babidi then teleports them back to the Martial Arts Tournament. There Vegeta shows off his evil side by killing lots of people in order to persuade Goku to fight him. Finally Goku agrees but not in a populated area. So, Babidi teleports them somewhere else to fight. As Goku and Vegeta fight, Gohan and Kaioshin go into Babidi's space ship to try to stop him. Meanwhile Goku has a hard time with Vegeta. He learns that Vegeta let Babidi control him on purpose to gain enough power to defeat Goku. Their fight causes Buu to resurrect. When Buu revives he doesn't look so tough but just the opposite. He is, however, very powerful. Even Gohan was no match for Buu. When Goku and Vegeta sense that Buu awoke they stop fighting. Goku tells Vegeta that they can beat Buu only if they work together. Vegeta double crosses Goku by knocking him out and taking a senzu. He flies over to where Buu is to destroy what he set free. As Vegeta fights Buu. Before Vegeta arrived Goten and Trunks were there already watching a battle in progress. Dabura, who was earlier knocked out by Buu, came back to fight. Buu of course just turned him into food and ate him. The kids were amazed, then suddenly Krillin turned back to normal. He filled in the kids on what happened to them. Then Trunks remembers that he knocked down Piccolo's statue before but to his surprise Piccolo regenerated and was fully intact. As they are talking, Vegeta finally arrives and blows up Babidi's space ship. Babidi gets mad and sends Buu after Vegeta. Even though Vegeta is powered up, he is still no match for the superior strength of Buu. As a last resort he sacrifices himself by self-destructing. This was the first time that he wasn't fighting for himself. When Piccolo came back to check around, he notices that Buu's pieces start to move. They eventually combine again to form Buu. Piccolo flies away with Krillin to Karin tower. This starts Buu's reign of terror. Babidi instructs Buu to kill everyone in each city until Piccolo, Trunks, and Goten show themselves to him. Then Goku finally regains consciousness. He teleports to the tower and is told the bad news by Piccolo. They also believe that Gohan is dead, but he's just weakened and unconscious. As this happens they think to themselves that they can bring back everyone who was killed using the Dragon Balls. However, Bulma already used up one of the wishes so the Dragon Balls would be useless for 4 months. Goku's last plan is to teach Goten and Trunks fusion. He believes that this will beat Buu. Goten and Trunks, however, think that Goku is weak because he was knocked out by Vegeta. Suddenly, Babidi threatens to destroy Trunks' home and the Dragon Radar that's inside. Goku tells Trunks to go get it while he distracts Buu. Goku tells Buu about Goten and Trunks and how he has to wait only two days for a good fight. Buu seems intrigued but Babidi orders him to fight Goku. Goku knowing he has to stall some time for Trunks shows them something. He starts by turning Super Saiyan 1, then Super Saiyan 2, and then Super Saiyan 3. The others are amazed that Goku has this much power. Trunks in particular is stunned. As Trunks tries to find the Dragon Radar, Goku keeps fighting Buu. However, he can only stay in Super Saiyan 3 for a few minutes or else he would use up all his time on earth. Then, finally, Trunks finds the Radar and heads back to the tower. Goku ends the battle and goes back also. Babidi yells at Buu for letting Goku get away. Buu is annoyed by this so he kills Babidi. He then begins his rampage again. Goku gets back and starts the boys training again. They tell Goku that they want to see Super Saiyan 3. So, Goku turns 3 for a few seconds. In doing so he uses his last minutes on earth and has to go back to the afterlife. While all this was happening, Kibit, who was earlier revived by the Dragon Balls, helps up Kaioshin and Gohan. Kaioshin takes Gohan to Kaioshinkai. A sacred planet for the Kaioshins. There he tells Gohan of the Zed Sword. Gohan then attempts to pull it out and succeeds to kibit's amazement. He then starts training with the Zed Sword, which is quite heavy. Goku asks Daio-sama if Gohan went through there. Daio says that Gohan never went through so he's still alive. Goku then looks for Gohan's kai and teleports to Kaioshinkai. There he finds Gohan training and tells him what happened. As this was happening more and more people were being killed by Buu and Piccolo was make some progress with the kids training. Mr. Satan the so called world champion goes to Buu's house to try to beat him as well. He ends up however making friends with Buu and turning Buu to a good guy. Buu, however, let off some steam when some guys with guns killed his pet dog. The steam turned into another Buu. They fought for awhile and it ended up in the smoke Buu eating the Fat Buu. This transformed Buu into a more powerful, more built for fighting Buu. Meanwhile, as Gohan was testing out the edge of the Zed Sword, it broke.

This caused a 15th generation Kaioshin to be freed. He promised to help Gohan power up. On earth, Buu found the Tower by following the Kai of the fighters. Goten and Trunks had done fusion only twice before but they were not ready. Piccolo stalled Buu long enough for the kids to train. When Buu finally got to where the kids were they spent no time in fighting. Their attacks, however, were nothing to Buu. Then Gotenks (Goten + Trunks) turned Super Saiyan. This gave them more power but not enough to beat Buu. Piccolo, thinking that Gotenks had no more power, destroyed the entrance. Gotenks then revealed that he was just joking. Buu had his own problems. He couldn't imagine himself without candy forever. He started getting angry and screamed. His voice tore a hole between dimensions so he was able to get out. Now that he's out he turned everyone on the tower to chocolate and ate them. Gotenks and Piccolo were thinking when Gotenks had a plan. He turned Super Saiyan 3 and blew a portal of his own. Once out they saw what Buu did. They started fighting again. Gotenks this time was winning. He had his chance to do the final blow but then he turned into regular Gotenks. Then their fusion was over. Luckily Gohan finally finished powering up and headed for earth. He arrived and fought Buu. He was clearly winning when Buu self-destructed. Everything was calm for about an hour. During which time they caught up to Dende and Mr. Satan. Dende has survived because Mr. Popo pushed him off the Tower when Buu was turning everyone to chocolate. After an hour, Buu appears and tells the kids that he wants to fight Gotenks. So, they fuse again and turn Super Saiyan 3. Buu planned to absorb both Gotenks and Piccolo. He succeeded and became much more powerful than Gohan. Goku realizes that he must help but he's dead. The 15th Generation Kaioshin offers his life to Goku. Goku accepts and exchanges lives with him. The 15th Generation Kaioshin then tells them of the power of the potaru. He says that they can also use this to fuse. So Goku takes them and is teleported to where Gohan is. But before he can fuse with Gohan, Gohan gets absorbed by Buu. Goku has no else to fuse with except Mr. Satan and Dende. He decides on Mr. Satan but then he feels Vegeta's kai. He teleports to Vegeta. Turns out that Vegeta was sent to help Goku by Daio-sama. Vegeta was a little reluctant at first but he finally gave in. They both fused and created the strongest character in the series, Vegetto. The name is because Goku and Vegeta fused. They are obviously much more powerful than Buu. Buu though manages to absorb Vegetto. Then Goku and Vegeta separate inside Buu's body. They explore around and fight some internal defenses. Soon they discover Gohan and the others. As they free them Buu reverts back to his form before he absorbed them. Then they free Fat Buu which causes Buu to transform into his true form. Luckily, they find an exit and make it out. Buu now transformed into his true form, sends a fireball to destroy the earth. Goku saves Mr. Satan and Dende but there was no time to save the others. Earth is destroyed and Goku is teleported to Kaioshinkai by Kibit/Kaioshin. Then Buu destroys planet after planet in an attempt to find Goku and Vegeta. Buu finds his way to where King Kai and the others were training. The other dead warriors there were no match for Buu. Goku and Vegeta decided to draw Buu away from that place by letting him know where they were by their raising their power levels. Buu senses it and teleports there. Goku and Vegeta don't want to fuse this time but just want to fight one at a time. Goku goes first while Vegeta watches. Kaioshin teleports everyone else except Mr. Satan to another planet. The fight continues with Goku turning Super Saiyan 3. Even then he still can't win. Vegeta comes up with an idea to make a Spirit Bomb. He tells Dende to go to Namek and use the Dragon Balls there to resurrect everyone. Dende does and then Vegeta tells everyone on earth to lend their power to Goku. Only some of them do but then Mr. Satan speaks and tells them to do so. They obey Mr. Satan and lead their power to Goku. What results is a huge Spirit Bomb that ultimately kills Buu. Peace is restored at last. Goku uses the Dragon Balls to reincarnate the evil Buu into a child so that he can fight him again. So a few years later, Gohan and Vadel got married and had a daughter Pan, Vegeta also had a daughter. Goten and Trunks where now teens. They got ready for another Martial Arts Tournament. In this tournament Goku found some competition in Uubu (reincarnated Buu), who was very powerful. He befriends Uubu and says that he will train him. Then they both fly off with Uubu riding Goku. And thus ends the Dragon Ball Z Saga.