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Pojo's Dragonball - What If?

What if different routes were
taken in the writing of DBZ? - Ptrunks19

 Okay off the bat, I know this sounds like a "what if such in such happened" article that would result in a response such as, "If that had happened, the show would end prematurely". Well this isn't that kind of article. I as well as many other fans of DBZ and animated shows in general, believe that protagonists as well as antagonists don't use enough friggin' common sense when it comes to certain situations in their respective shows. For example, if Bugs Bunny had given Elmer Fudd such a hard time then why didn't Elmer just call some experience hunters to take him down? Here is a BIGGER example. Storyline wise, before the first group of modern day M.M.P. Rangers (Tommy, Trini, Kimberly, Zack, etc.) got their powers, the powers had lied dorment in the Command Center or somewhere. Zordon and the older generations of Power Rangers had been duken it out with Rita, Zedd, Dark Spector, & the rest of those goons for centuries before he decided to lay the rangers' powers dorment. Now let's fast forward a few generations to the season finale of Power Rangers in Space (Countdown to Destruction). Just by watching those two episodes alone, struck a question in my nerves. Why didn't Astronema, Dark Spector, Zedd, Rita, & the rest of the villians just destroy the dorment ranger powers during the pre-Mighty Morphing era, instead of waiting until the P. Rangers' technology were VERY advanced, to lead an invasion on earth? Shouldn't the first couple season's worth of defeats been enough for Rita & her hubby to call up Dark Spector and the Psycho Rangers, Serpentara, or whoever they needed to to take care of the rangers? But NO, they waited until the Rangers powers are advanced enough to create these Galaga looking spaceships that basically make Serpentara (Zedd's personal zord) look like it's Megatron fighting Unicron. As I said before, if not destroy the freakin powers when they weren't being used, why didn't Zedd & Rita call an out invasion on earth, when the rangers just had some robot Dino (Dee-No) and some prehistoric dinosaurs for zords. I mean ONE SHIP could easily destroy Tommy's Dragonzord while it would take 15 minutes for it to come out of the water.

Okay, at least the second example would result in a television show ending (before it got started) but you get the point, But with those examples in mind, let me give you part one of my DBZ what if. If these what ifs were actually applied to the show, it wouldn't have ended it but would have taken an alternate and more drastic route. What if in the DBZ Fusion Saga, had Super Majin Buu remembered the exact powers that he had possessed after (still) possessing Goten, Trunks, Piccolo, and absorbing Mystic Gohan in his being before fighting Vegeto? We all know that in the show, after the SS3 Gotenks fusion had worn off after he & Piccolo were absorbed, Buu was reduced to a mostly Piccolo based fusion in terms of who Buu had absorbed had the greatest power out of the three. At this time Goku felt that he no longer needed to fuse with Mystic Gohan, in which Goku's SS3+Gohan's pratically SS3 abilities were to be more than enough to defeat Gotenks/Goten & Trunks & Piccolo absorbed Buu (if they were to go that far) before Buu's fusion wore off. At that point either Goku were to use SS3 to beat Buu, or he was going to let Gohan defeat him, or both. Either way they no longer needed fusion to beat Buu in his current state. Then Super Buu had remembered that a piece of him was left behind, in which he had used to absorb Mystic Gohan. Gohan's abilities alone included in Buu's being were enough to pummel a SS3 Goku, before he had sensed Vegeta and fused with him. From then on the saga was dragged unto one more saga where Goku & Vegeta fought Kid Buu and where Goku eventually defeated Buu w/ the Spirit Bomb. We all know that Mystic Buu was pratically cheese paste to Vegeto, who could have pratically defeated him in his normal state, but what if.............

During the fight, had Buu remembered that Goten & Trunks' bodies could still fuse and that at least Gohan had a tail when he was born due to his half Saiyan heritage. I mean Buu had Piccolo's and Kami's "intelligence", but he didn't have enough common sense to figure out that if he had fused Goten & Trunks' bodies into Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks and used those powers alongside Mystic Gohan's (which is of SS3 caliber) and his owns, he could defeat Super Vegeto. If this had happened Mystic Gohan/Super Saiyan 3 absorbed Buu would have forced Vegeto to transcend to Super Saiyan 2. It would almost take the powers of the Potarra earings and both of Goku & Vegeta's Super Saiyan 2 abilities to defeat him. Why didn't Majin Buu think of this, while Vegeto was basically GIVING him, TEN, FRIGGIN', SECONDS to come up with a clever tactic to defeat him, and instead of absorbing Vegeto, which didn't go the way he had planned and would eventually lead to the steps to Buu's powerlevel downgrade and demise at the end of the Kid Buu saga, he could have done the alternative in which I had described earlier. As I stated earlier Vegeto would be forced to turn Super Saiyan 2 (full power). Then if the tables were turned once again on Majin Buu, he would quickly remember from at least Piccolo's memory, that a Saiyan or half Saiyan's power level increases ten fold (if he has a tail) when he is exposed to artificial blutz waves. After doing so Super Buu would grow Gohan's tail back (which in turn grow a tail on Buu) and in turn laugh during Vegeto's 10 second count down, Vegeto would stop the count of course, then he would construct a power source similar to blutz waves, and make it so he would transform, and so it happens. He was able to do this without Vegeto's interference because he was abl e to solar flare him while Vegeto was coming towards him to try to stop him. Which results from the predicament is an unusual looking, pink great ape monster with Mystic Gohans outfit and a shocking/golden aurora surrounding him. This new creature had a power level 10 times greater than he had before, considering the fact that he already aquired the mind & powers of Piccolo/Nail/Kami, Mystic Gohan, and Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, AND now that he was a great ape Vegeto would soon notice after a brief fight that he was outwitted and he had no other choice but to turn full power Super Saiyan 3.

After that Vegeto would notice that a battle of this preportions would easily decimate earth and it's people, so Vegeto had made the desperate move of instant transmitting him to the Supreme Kai planet while Old Kai & Kabito Kai had quickly moved to the desert Kai planet (as seen in the Kid Buu saga). At that point the fight would bare resemblence to the bout when Goku fought Great Ape Baby at SS4 after Goku's powers were restored by the other saiyans. SS3 Vegeto & Great Ape Buu's fight would battle to a bloody stalemate in which the fight would be felt on Earth as well as around the universe and the afterlife. The fight would draw out to a stalemate until Elder Kai had noticed Vegeto's fatigue rising until he could no longer sustain Super Saiyan 3 and powered down to Super Saiyan 1, due to Great Ape Buu's ability to quickly regenerate his wounds, and his tail to keep him at Great Ape. Both Kais would soon realize that they would need the power of the dragon balls to help Vegeto win this fight and stop Buu from tearing Vegeto and the entire universe a new..........

So Elder Kai had ordered Dende and Kabito Kai to go to Namek to 1: Restore Vegeto's strength to normal 2:regrow Vegeto's (Goku AND Vegeta's) tail back to where it couldn't be removed or destroyed and 3:Restore all of Buu's victims back to life after (if) Buu was defeated. By Vegeto's tail growing back, he now realized that the only way to defeat Majin Buu was to fight fire with fire. So after a few solar flares, Vegeto had enough time and distance to create an artificial moon ball and threw it in the air. As Vegeto's heart started beating, Buu started to shake the cobwebs out. As Buu woke up, Vegeto grew to where his clothes had ripped off (no homo), then he stood up against Buu as Buu stood at a far distance more shocked than when he saw Vegeto's tail instantly grow back earlier. What appeared from this new transformation was a great ape resembling a Great Ape Raditz with gold hair and aurora. This fight turned out WAY better than in the series and the fight was similar to SS3 Goku & Janemba's fight but more even until the point where Vegeto would get tired (figuritively speaking) of the dragging fight and start to finish off Buu. While Buu was getting closer & closer to defeat (and noticing this), he had finally tapped in his power (more so Gohan's hidden anger) and as a result, started to turn to a shade of bright goldish pink, and after his final wounds and scrapes had healed, he started to transform.

Great Ape Vegeto stood shocked, as the Great Ape Buu was once again transforming. Everyone who was watching the fight (whether it be the residence of Hell, Otherworld, etc.) or who was even sincing Buu's energy stood shocked and horrified as Buu finished his transformation. Majin Buu ability to encorporate Gohan's hidden anger (as seen various time throughout the series) plus his power, plus the power and basic technical instinct of Piccolo & Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks resulted in this tall, but built & muscular form of Buu who was covered in red fur and his pants appeared dark white (almost gray). As Buu stood there, his attitude was reduce to almost nothing but serious and pure revenge. At that point, after realizing that he had come close to death three times, Buu had started to pummel the Great Ape Vegeto like no one would ever had imagined, despited thier major size difference. Vegeto still had the power to stand up to Buu but could barely manage a line of defense, unlike Great Ape Baby did againts Goku. The fight would eventually go more in Buu's favor but Vegeto would remain a great ape due to his indistructable tail. Buu would notice this but wouldn't care much because he figured from Piccolo's knowledge that all of the Namek Dragon Ball wishes were used much so Vegeto couldn't recover his energy like before, and that it would take the earthlings some time to recover their dragon balls for the second wish. Buu would also notice that Vegeto was tiring out from the fight, so instead of being an idiot by dragging the fight further, he would remember that due to the amount of energy spent as a SS4, Buu didn't have much time left before the SS3 Gotenks fusion would ware off, pitting his power level dead even with Vegeto's power level giving his opponent a better chance, SO Buu would say that he had fun toying around with Vegeto, but all good things would come to an end. "So I will end this the traditional way". Then Buu would fire a huge, reddish pink kamehameha at Great Ape Goku and it would seem that the job would be done.

But to keep tradition with the show (yawn), Buu would stand and laugh in victory for about a minute or two forgetting about the moon ball that's pratically above him, which would give Vegeto enough time in his little crater to look at the artificial moon ball above and think about his family & friends and letting them down and crap, then he finally snaps. By the time Buu notices this it would be too late to try to stop this, because Vegeto was already and eventually transformed (after minutes of glowing) for the first time, into a Super Saiyan 4. Buu & Vegeto's power levels at this point would be dead even
due to all of the physical punishment Vegeto received earlier in the fight. Vegeto would get an early advantage due to the element of surprise, but Buu would eventually get back into the fight. After about 15 minutes (two or three episodes) the fight would be still even until the fight would stop and (similar to the Gohan/Broly fight) Buu would shout out "I've had enough of this!!!!!" and fly a few feet back and get in a kamehameha stance in full power, while Vegeto would simply reply "this is it" and would power up in Kaioken while in Super Saiyan 4 and do the same. Five minutes after a huge kamehameha struggle, Buu's SS3 Gotenks fusion would wear off (leaving a mostly SS4 Gohan absorbed Buu) but the struggle would continue because at the same time Vegeto was getting weaker due to him holding up the Kaioken while at SS4 to where the Kaikon would wear off giving Buu the advantage. All of a sudden Vegeto had powered back down to Super Saiyan 3 after minutes of struggling. After many desperate minutes of struggling from a confident Buu and a determined Vegeto, the scene would then be shown to Shenron would have been summoned just in the nick of time, I mean right before Buu was going to finish of Vegeto, and a wish would final wish would be made to restore Vegeto's strength to normal and some heroic music would play in the background while Vegeto would power back up to SS4 and finish Buu of, disintigrating him. Afterwards Vegeto would power down and the Kai's would return to their planet and heal him. Since potarra fusion is permanent, he would return to earth as Vegeto for a year and wish for him to be seperated into Goku and Vegeta, and for good Buu to return. King Yemma would hear Goku's plea to reincarnate the evil Buu into a good person and do so with Super Buu but keep in mind that this Uub would turn out a little different due to the appearance differences between Kid Buu & Super Buu.

Other than that, everything else would turn out the same except that the Shadow Dragons in GT would be a little stronger and Vegeta & Goku would be stronger due to the fight with Buu. Bebi Vegeta would be stronger, but so would SS4 Goku. Also note that Goku & Vegeta would have kept their tails after the Buu fight in turn, Kid Goku would last a little longer against Baby Vegeta and he would be strong enough to transport to the Kai planet at SS3 before the Revenge Death Ball Hit Him, in turn he would have never met those rediculous looking board game people and he would return to Baby (after getting healed) before he got the chance to take control of the majority of the planet and use the Black Star Dragon Balls. The fight would turn out similar until Baby would create the moon ball. Both Baby Vegeta and Goku would transform into Great Apes with Baby having the slight advantage due to Goku being stronger here than in the actual series. The fight would pursue until it would pause when Pan would stupidly intervene with this fighting has to stop nonsense and get obliterate by a flame blast from Baby. This in turn would cause Great Ape Goku to snap. He would power up to a point where Bebi would be knocked to a distance from Goku's energy and would start to glow. Baby would already know what he's getting into but would just stand there due to not really being able to stop him. He then has transformed into a Super Saiyan 4 and before making a dramatic entrance giving everyone enough time to glance at Goku's new form, Goku wastes no more time and angrily powers up and charges at Baby with a Super Dragon Fist Technique. Shockingly enough that attack didn't kill Baby Vegeta but just lied unconscious on the ground. Goku noticing that Vegeta's tail couldn't be destroyed due to the wish that was made during the Buu Saga, Goku destroys the moon ball, in turn turning Baby Vegeta back to normal. Baby would then realize that he could no longer stand a chance against SS4 Goku and would try to flee. Right before Baby could even make it to the air Goku fires a huge energy blast, totally obliterating Baby. Afterwards the Baby saga would turn out normal.