What if Dragon Ball had gone the way of Dragon Ball Rise?

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What if Dragon Ball had gone the way of Dragon Ball Rise?

Post by FPSSJ4_Goku » Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:09 pm

Dragon Ball Rise is a fan manga by Rising Fist, which tells the story of a timeline where Gohan doesn't have the motivation to fight, and gets beaten to death by Cell Juniors as Cell forces Goku to watch. Cell then makes Goku go over the edge by telling Goku that a weakling like Gohan doesn't deserve to live. This results in Goku going Super Saiyan 2, while holding Gohan's corpse. He has a vision of a dead Gohan asking why he didn't save him, and Goku screams, frying and killing off all the Cell Juniors. Vegeta's astonished at Goku's power, and with a gut punch and kick to the head, Cell's on his knees. Goku snatches the Senzu bag from him. Cell then traps Goku in a barrier, slams two giant rocks against him, and blasts through it with a giant Kamehameha, but Goku bursts forth from the rocks, now shirtless. He tosses Trunks the Senzu bag and uppercuts Cell, as Trunks and Piccolo eat a bean each. Vegeta informs Piccolo of the news, and he mourns, damning it all. Trunks tries to console Piccolo, but he rejects it, asking him how he can put his faith in a man who gained strength at the cost of his only son's life.

Piccolo and Trunks leave to God's Temple, as Vegeta stops Goku from continuing to torture Cell. He asks what Gohan would say if he saw Goku like this. So, Goku steps aside, and Vegeta gives Cell the Nappa Treatment, destroying him with a Final Flash. NOT! As Vegeta asks the now-detransformed Goku what the power he showed was, Super Perfect Cell reappears and shoots Vegeta in his chest from behind.
He uses the Taiyoken as a chance to teleport him and Cell to a different desolate wasteland so as to not ensure Vegeta's death while they fight. They fight once more, and it seems that Cell has the upper hand, but Goku gets him with an unexpected blast to the face. Then Cell knees Goku in the gut, as the Dragon Team uses the Dragon Balls to revive Gohan. Trunks tells Gohan that they need his power, and that Goku can't take much more. Piccolo tells Gohan that he must make a choice, as Cell prepares a Kamehameha. Goku does too, and it results in a beam clash. Kaio butts in to tell Goku to stop Cell here, which is when Goku is reminded of the Kaioken. He uses it, and initially it overwhelms Cell a little, but then Cell uses the Kaioken too, pushing Goku's beam back.

Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Yamcha, Piccolo and Future Trunks fire their own signature attacks at Cell, and it hurts a bit, but then Cell uses a Kaioken x3 to get them off of him. A Super Saiyan Gohan jumps in to help, and Goku apologizes, realizing that it was his fault. Gohan ends up becoming a Super Saiyan 2 in the midst of it all, angered by not wanting to let everyone down again. This makes the blast go back to Cell, but then he uses a Kaioken x4. This is where it completely falls apart for Cell, and a newly rejuvenated Vegeta fires a Final Flash at Cell's blast, and the three of them end up creating a Final Kamehameha, completely wiping Cell out. The blast shoots off into space. They won, but it came at the cost of Goku's life. Later on they revive everyone Cell killed, but Goku stayed dead because of his original reasoning, and because he died from his own actions.

Thus ending the story. How would this switched-up ending to the Cell Games affect the Boo arc and beyond? Would Goku have had more time to perfect Super Saiyan 3? And would Gohan be stronger than he originally was? The story by Rising Fist can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibKDFCUyVvc
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