Future Trunks Arc:
Episode #18: “Nightmare in the Future”
•Future Trunks runs through the city carrying fuel for the time machine, ever cautious of being followed.
•Opening Credits:
•Trunks arrives at the hidden lab of Future Blooma.
•Title Card:
•A Part: While Blooma loads the time machine with the fuel Trunks rests and catches up with Mai. Before the trio can travel to the past they are attacked by a shadowy figure.
•B Part: Before the Trunks and the others can travel to the past they are attacked by a shadowy figure. The figure grabs Future Blooma and kills her, shocking Trunks. Mai convinces Trunks to get into the time machine while she provides a distraction, but when the shadowy figure causes the ground below to begin collapsing Mai falls to an apparent death. Trunks, enraged, attacks the figure, now revealed to be…Son Gokuu? This Son Gokuu is dressed in black, however, and is referred to by Trunks merely as ‘Black’. Trunks is thoroughly thrashed by Black and forced to swallow his pride and retreat to the past using the time machine.
•Ending Credits:
•Shots of Metro West on fire and demolished.
Episode #19: “Nightmare Awake”
•Nightmarish images of Black killing Blooma and Mai haunt Trunks. Suddenly, the swordsman from the future awakens, surrounded by faces both familiar and foreign. Trunks awakens, sees Gokuu (wearing his casual clothes and now shaven after the tournament), and erupts in rage, experiencing a PTSD-esque flashback. “Black! Black!!” he screams.
•Opening Credits:
•Gokuu and Vegeta (also shaven and casually dressed) subdue Future Trunks.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Blooma and the others finish explaining that Gokuu eventually had his life restored after the battle with Cell. Blooma asks “Who’s this ‘Black’ guy you keep screaming about?!” Future Trunks gives a short explanation of what has happened since he last saw the others: for the past year a man who looks like Son Gokuu has been attacking the Earth, slowly but surely killing off the humans. While Trunks has fought him on numerous occasions, Black continually escapes only to return more powerful each time. Now Trunks is on the losing end of their battles. Gokuu Black appears in the past thanks to the power of the Time Ring. Gokuu battles Black, who truly does share his appearance! Beers asks Whis if he sees what he’s seeing, and Whis confirms: Black’s fighting style is very familiar. “We’ll have to investigate,” claims Beers. Black eventually transforms into a Super Saiyan—something Trunks notes that Black has not done in ages—and parries Gokuu’s Jan-ken technique. Eventually, the Time Ring’s power expires and Black is forcibly drawn back into the future with many broken bones.
•B Part: “My, my, what a surprise!” the B-Part opens on a close-up shot of a jovial Gowasu greeting his visitors, “Zamasu, please pour our guests tea!” Beers, Whis and Gokuu visit the Kaiou-shin of the Tenth Universe, Gowasu. Gokuu asks Zamasu how his training is going. Zamasu replies—with his back turned—that he believes he will be ready to reveal a big ‘renewal’ soon. After seeing the Time Rings, Beers and Whis are content to leave, as they cannot miss eating dessert back at Blooma’s house. On the trip back to Earth, the trio discusses what they know of Zamasu and his fighting style. Gokuu admits that Zamasu and Black do have a similar feel to them, both in battle and out, but that doesn’t mean they’re in cahoots. Besides, while similar, his ki is not exactly the same as Black’s. Nevertheless, the way his hand went numb when he hit Zamasu in their sparring match several months ago reminds Gokuu of when he fought Beers. Beers is annoyed at being lumped in with Zamasu, insisting that he is on a far higher level. However, Gokuu thinks that Zamasu still has room to improve, and may someday grow to be as scary a god as Beers.
•Ending Credits:
•Back in the future, Gokuu Black rests on a couch in a mountain cabin. A mysterious figure pours him tea. After taking a sip of the tea Black tells his friend “It’s magnificent” with a grin.
Episode #20: “Zamasu & Gowasu”
•Trunks and Mai enjoy a day at the amusement park. Suddenly, Gokuu Black appears from behind and stabs Mai in the back and pierces through her chest. “It’s a shame to ruin such perfect breasts,” Black smugly jests. If the blood on Black’s hand isn’t dripping blood then it’s being evaporated by his ki blade. Mai can only say “Trunks” in a weak voice. Meanwhile, Kusao Takeshi’s Trunks screams Mai’s name in the greatest display of abject horror. Finally, Trunks awakens in the Room of Spirit & Time, his bearded father asleep beside him.
•Opening Credits: Vegeta trains Trunks in the Room of Spirit & Time. Super Saiyan 2 Trunks struggles to land a hit on Vegeta.
•Back on Earth, Vegeta trains Trunks in the Room of Spirit & Time. Having witnessed Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan in his training with Vegeta, Trunks begins searching for his own way to greater power.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Meanwhile, Gowasu trains Zamasu in the role of a Kaiou-shin, but Zamasu's contempt grows more and more, leading him to interfere in the development of a species and kill Babarians. Gowasu scolds Zamasu for this and revokes his Potara.
•B Part: Vegeta (bearded and in his new Blooma-made armor), Trunks (bearded with long hair) and Gokuu (in his Whis dougi, but still shaved) arrive in Trunks’ timeline. Before they can lure out Gokuu Black the three are attacked by resistance members. Trunks explains the situation to the resistance members and they lower their weapons. The gang returns to the underground civilian community and find that Mai has survived! Trunks is incredibly happy to see that Mai has survived. It turns out that Future Yajirobe saved Mai and helped her back to health! Vegeta hands over capsules full of food and supplies to the hungry civilians. Spirits lifted, Trunks decides to leave the base and head to the surface, where he can lure out Black. On the surface, Trunks lures out Gokuu Black by raising his ki. This time, Vegeta wants to fight Black! Vegeta and Black trade blows, with Vegeta proving he has no need to transform to overwhelm Black. Neither Gokuu nor Trunks like the feeling they are sensing from Vegeta’s overwhelming lead, though. Finally, Vegeta’s body freezes up just as he is about to deliver a crushing blow, giving Black the opening to stab him through the chest with his ki blade. “That technique!” Gokuu cries out. Trunks spots the one who paralyzed his father: “Why is a Kaiou-shin…?!” Gokuu is flabbergasted “Zamasu?!”
•Ending Credits:
•The figure pouring Gokuu Black’s tea is revealed to be…Zamasu! Calling Black his ‘partner’ (aibou), Zamasu says that together they can correct the damage done to the natural order of existence by reinstating the supremacy of the gods.
Episode #21: “Hallelujah Chorus”
•A Part: “I knew it, humans are…irredeemable!” A grand musical montage of Gokuu Black’s birth begins set to the “Hallelujah Chorus” by Composer George Frideric Handel begins. After experiencing humiliation in front of the gods of the Sixth and Seventh Universes, Zamasu set about enacting his revenge. Sometime after the Sixth & Seventh Universe Exhibition Match, Zamasu kills Gowasu and takes his Potara and Time Rings. First traveling to the Future, Zamasu uses the Super Dragon Balls to switch bodies with Son Gokuu and then uses his body to kill Son Gokuu’s family and the Gokuu now in his body. After that, Zamasu searches for a timeline where Gokuu does not exist and comes across Trunks’. There, ‘Black’ convinces his doppelganger to aide him in killing the Kaiou-shin of that parallel world after killing Gowasu. With the gods now dead none can challenge them. Now, together, the two declare that the Zero Human Extinction Plan will begin!
•Title Card
•B Part: Furious over what has happened to Vegeta, Trunks transforms into a new form, ‘Super Saiyan Ikari’, which Gokuu notes ‘feels’ like a perversion of Super Saiyan Grade Three and Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Trunks pummels Gokuu Black some more while Gokuu tries to kill Zamasu with a Kamehame-Ha. Thinking Zamasu dead, Gokuu returns his attention to Vegeta, but is stabbed through the back and blasted severely by Zamasu. Zamasu reveals that thanks to the now-destroyed Super Dragon Balls he has become immortal! Future Mai and Future Yajirobe distract Zamasu long enough to rescue the injured Gokuu and Vegeta. Zamasu notices that Trunks is about to kill Black, so he decides to allow his prey to escape and teleports himself and Black to safety.
•Ending Credits:
•The tea kettle at the mountain cabin is boiling.
Episode #22: “Thank You, Son Gohan-san”
•Meanwhile, Zamasu and Gowasu discuss philosophy while Present Zamasu serves tea. Beers, Whis and the Kaiou-shin of the Seventh Universe continue to watch closely. Gowasu's not oblivious to the cruelty growing in his pupil. Worse, he believes he can reason with Zamasu and thus shows no outward sign of irregularity. Finally, Gowasu drinks his cooled tea, but suffers a painful death when Zamasu stabs him in the back with a ki saber.
•Opening: No theme music plays. The camera is placed on a close-up of the disturbingly discolored Gowasu’s face. Gowasu’s expression is one of shock. Slowly, the visuals and sound seem to play backward until Gowasu’s face returns to normal and he rises again, just before drinking his tea.
•A Part: Whis rewinds time to before Gowasu's death so that Beers can confront and kill Zamasu. Gowasu is shocked at the development and Beers mentions in an off-the-cuff manner that he probably should’ve let Gowasu die for being such a sentimental, contemptible fool, but Whis reminds him that it would only cause him a headache later when the Grand Priest found out.
•B Part: Trunks returns to the past to seek Piccolo’s aide. Piccolo is currently at Gohan’s house, much to Trunks’ discomfort. Since returning to the past Trunks had wanted to avoid drawing his master’s doppelganger into his battle, despite his selfish desire to draw strength from him. Seeing his mentor, Son Gohan, again, Trunks comes to the realization that it isn’t wrong for him to seek comfort from him. Trunks resolves to not tell Gohan of why he has come back to the past and instead sneaks away from the Gohan house with Piccolo.
•Ending: A montage of scenes between Gohan and Trunks plays alongside the Ending theme.
•As Trunks and Piccolo fly a safe distance away from Gohan’s house to avoid drawing attention, Piccolo asks what he has in mind. “Mom told me a long time ago of a technique used to seal away the Piccolo Daimaou and God.” Shocked, Piccolo replies “C-could you mean…?!” With a nod, “Yeah, the MaFuu-Ba!”
Episode #23: “Behold! The Immortal God Zamasu”
•Gokuu and Vegeta, finally back at full strength (they had to share the only Senzu that Karin was able to spare) hunt down Gokuu Black and Zamasu. This time, Vegeta begins his battle with Black as a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. Black is as unctuous as ever and unveils that thanks to all of his battles up until this point he has finally managed to draw out ‘this body’s’ full power. Black transforms into a pink-haired Super Saiyan form. “If you are a Saiyan with the power of a god, then I am a god with the power of a Saiyan! Behold, Super Saiyan Rosé!”
•Opening:
•A Part: While Vegeta and Black go at it, Gokuu (still in his normal form) basically slaps Zamasu around. “You might be immortal, but that don’t mean you’re stronger!” After some due slapping, Gokuu notices Trunks and Piccolo hiding within the forest near Black and Zamasu’s mountain vacation cabin. Gokuu synchronizes his and Zamasu’s battle so that Piccolo can effortlessly catch the fallen god in his green demon-sealing gale. Zamasu shrieks in horror as he is sealed within an electric rice cooker.
•B Part: Noticing that Zamasu has been sealed, Black teleports to Gokuu, Piccolo and Trunks’ location and knocks them aside. Gokuu transforms into Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan and kicks Gokuu Black as he reaches for the electric rice cooker. Gokuu and Black begin a battle for the rice cooker, fairly even, until Black catches Gokuu off guard with a ‘ki scythe’ that deals devastating mid-range damage. Black stabs Gokuu in the shoulder with a ki sword, pinning him to the pool floor of an abandoned gym. Black begins to recount to Gokuu how he killed him and his family in the timeline he comes from. Enraged by the recounting, Gokuu tears Black’s arm out of his left shoulder and thrusts it into Black’s left shoulder. Black leaps back in pain and flies back to the electric rice cooker, only to find it missing. Shrieking in anger, Black uses his ki scythe to slice the skyscrapers in the city down, then uses ki to lift the rubble into the sky, unveiling the hiding Trunks with the rice cooker. Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Vegeta lunges after Black but misses his kick when Black uses Shunkan-idou to appear by Trunks side and karate chop the electric rice cooker from his grasp. The electric rice cooker hits the ground with a thud. With a simple stomp, Black crushes the electric rice cooker and frees Zamasu. “Damned humans, I will not be made to feel helpless!” [Insert Song: “Yoake no Michi” from the 1975 animated series “Flanders no Inu”] Zamasu removes one of his Potara and triggers a merger with Gokuu Black. As Gokuu Black and Zamasu’s bodies fly towards one another they exploded into silhouettes of pink and purple light respectively. These silhouettes—retaining the outlines of their original forms—embrace one another as the Zamasu silhouette grabs the Gokuu Black silhouette by the head and passionately kisses it in a rotating camera shot. The two silhouettes of colored light merge into one before bursting into purple and pink petals. These petals fall to the ground and are quickly decomposed into the soil before rapidly growing into a majestic tree. From that tree is borne a single fruit that rapidly ripens into…Merged Zamasu the Immortal God! Everyone powers up to their full strength and attacks Merged Zamasu. “Even a four-man team is no use!” cries Trunks. “Damn, even if I hadn’t used so much strength on the MaFuu-Ba!” fears Piccolo. “Damn it all, if we had Potara, too!” concedes Vegeta. [Insert Song Ends] Suddenly, Beers, Whis, Gowasu and the Seventh Universe Kaiou-shin appear. “Kakarotto!” shouts Vegeta. “Shit, cain’t be helped!” In a blinding light, Gokuu and Vegeta rush over to the Kaiou-shin, however…Merged Zamasu is much quicker. Merged Zamasu wipes the Potara from the ears of Gowasu and Shin and crushes them into dust. Whis generates a barrier around the gods that pushes Merged Zamasu away and amusingly scolds him: “We’re just spectators here, pay no mind! Ohohoho!” Gokuu and Vegeta look at one another and nod. “Oh well,” Gokuu grins, “I ain’t all that big on mergin’ anyway!” Vegeta rolls his eyes at the apparent reversal of their roles from the battle with Majin Buu but nevertheless takes a power-up position. Roaring in unison, Gokuu and Vegeta raise their Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan power to their maximum…before their auras appear to be sucked right into their bodies. Merged Zamasu is disgusted: “This is—” Gowasu finishes the line: “—sealing the power of a god into one’s body!”
•Ending:
•Taking battle positions, Full-Power Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Gokuu and Vegeta exhale in unison.
Episode #24: “Full-Power Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan VS The Immortal God”
•”W-what have they done?” Piccolo ponders aloud. Without taking his eyes off of Vegeta, Trunks replies “Dad showed me this while we were training in the Room of Spirit & Time. They’ve sealed the power of Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan in their body so that no ki leaks out! B-but the strain on their bodies is…” Gokuu and Vegeta give each other knowing looks. In their condition they can probably only last at this level for three or four minutes before their bodies give out; after that they won’t be able to lift even a finger. The Saiyan duo dashes at Merged Zamasu.
•Opening Credits: Merged Zamasu the Immortal God finds himself with his hands full fighting two Full-Power Super Saiyans. Outpacing Merged Zamasu, Gokuu and Vegeta push to finish the fight before their bodies collapse from the burden of sealing their ki within them.
•Gowasu realizes that he forgot to tell Gokuu and Vegeta that if they destroy the Potara then they won’t have to wait an hour for Merged Zamasu to split apart. Shin is confused, having thought that Potara merging was permanent. “Not if neither of the merged users are not Kaiou-shin!” Trunks takes note.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Gokuu and Vegeta begin to overwhelm Merged Zamasu. Whis theorizes that merging two of the same souls makes it difficult for the merged being to split their attention across two foes because they are essentially the same mind. Gokuu and Vegeta notice that Merged Zamasu’s not very adept at critical thought in battle and lead him into a very linear attack pattern. Able to predict Merged Zamasu’s movements and with their own time quickly dwindling, Gokuu and Vegeta slam a Final Kamehame-Ha into Merged Zamasu. When the dust settles Merged Zamasu’s shirt is burned away and his body is scarred. Of heavy breath, Merged Zamasu drops to one knee. Meanwhile, Gokuu and Vegeta collapse, unable to fight after sealing their ki for so long. “What a shame,” Whis comments, “The idea was right but they went about preventing the loss of ki from Blue far too forcefully. Spiritual balance is the key.” Merged Zamasu laughs at the turn of the tables and prepares a final blow to wipe away the paralyzed Gokuu and Vegeta. Suddenly, a sword soars through the air and destroys one of Merged Zamasu’s Potara while the other disintegrates due to damage from the Final Kamehame-Ha. Everyone is shocked but Trunks, determination adoring his face. Merged Zamasu explodes in light.
•B Part: The dust settles, revealing that Merged Zamasu has split back into Gokuu Black and Zamasu. Whis takes in Gokuu and Vegeta behind his barrier and restores their health and clothes. Beers tells the two Saiyans from the past “Our role here is over. You’ve already interfered with the natural course of time too much.” Vegeta nods to Trunks. Gowasu asks his students if they won’t return to the light. The duo, of course, refuse and Gowasu finally turns his back on them. Trunks steps into the spotlight and challenges Black to a final duel. An exhausted Black is hesitant, but Beers offers that he won’t intervene, no matter the outcome. “I’ve played my part already.” Finally, Black accepts. It’s Super Saiyan Ikari versus Super Saiyan Rosé! Trunks finally overwhelms Black in combat, forcing Zamasu to leap in the way of one of Trunks’ stabs. Zamasu, however, finds that his injury won’t heal! It seems that by merging into Merged Zamasu and ‘ceasing to exist’ he lost his immortality! Zamasu sacrifices his dying self to give Black more ki.
•Ending: Furious, Trunks, so incredibly in-tune with the people of Earth, draws on the will power of those humans remaining on Earth. Pouring this ‘hope’ into his blade, Trunks slices Gokuu Black in half and finally ending his reign of terror.
•Trunks stabs his sword into the ground. His battle is over at last.
Episode #25: “Sabaku ni asu wa nai to Dare ni mo iwasenai ze”
•In a dark, unlit room, the Zen-Ou of the future, who has been bored since all of the gods of this timeline died, teleports himself to Earth after sensing the death of Zamasu.
•Opening:
•A Part: The Future Zen-Ou surveys the desolate waste land that is now Earth. The Zen-Ou reckons that there’s really no point in this timeline without having anyone he can play with, but Gokuu tells him he knows of someone who he would love to play with. Mulling it over, Zen-Ou decides to stop the destruction of the universe.
•B Part: Back during the Sixth Universe & Seventh Universe Martial Arts Tournament, Zen-Ou asks Gokuu to be his friend and play with him. Gokuu, finding the idea to be kind of a pain, promises Zen-Ou that he’ll find him a great friend. Back in the present, Gokuu presents Present Zen-Ou to Future Zen-Ou and vice-versa. The two take a quick liking to each other and Gokuu breathes a sigh of relief. Later, on Earth, Future Trunks and Future Mai bid farewell to Gokuu and the others, thanking them for all their help. Now they’re off to rebuild their timeline.
•Title Card: Trunks’ sword stuck into the ground, basking in sunlight among the dead city of the future.
•Ending: Future Trunks and Future Mai meet for the first time during the peaceful days before Gokuu Black’s appearance. They spend all day talking at a giant water fountain.
•“Wow, you want me to become your apprentice, Kaiou-shin-sama?!” Long before his heart had become corrupt by negative experiences with humans, Zamasu was approached by Gowasu to be his successor. “Please, call me ‘Gowasu’, Zamasu-kun.” As Gowasu watches Zamasu celebrate with his pet pig the camera zooms in on his smiling face before cutting to the present day Gowasu drinking from his tea cup. Gowasu sets his tea back onto its plate and looks forlornly at the great tree under which he sits. As the leaves fall around him Gowasu has but one word, “Zamasu…”