Black-Star Dragon Ball Arc:
Episode #1:
Pan is the primary POV character and we see the story framed through her eyes, her disappointment when she sees Gokuu again after five years and realizes that her memory of him is different from the sillier reality.
Pan's mom is busy with her martial arts school (everyone is too low level for her to have a challenge so she doesn't fit in), her dad is busy with scholar work (she finds what he studies boring), her uncle is off getting wasted in clubs with his girlfriends/boyfriends that she can't enter, and even her own peers are just lame to her. Trunks is so busy that his desk is nothing but skyscrapers of paper for him to review (he's so miserable). Even Mr. Vegeta is boring because he's retired from fighting to build car and airplane models!
Gokuu returns, arriving on the Son family's doorsteps, having been reduced to being a child due to Pilaf Shenanigans. Pan is the central thrust in jumping into action and getting the ball rolling on Blooma creating a spaceship to travel the galaxy and find the missing Dragon Balls. Gokuu is excited to go on an adventure and Trunks strenuously asserts that he is the only one who can go to make sure that the ship is piloted and taken care of well.
The episode ends with Gokuu, Pan and Trunks blasting off into space. A post-Ending credit scene is of the ship crashing on Planet Imegga.
Episode #2:
The episode begins with Trunks learning of the issue with the Black-Star Dragon Balls. Trunks wants to get away from work—running Capsule Corp is so much work because of the pressure his mom puts on him—so Trunks begins to logic himself into needing to be the one to join the grand tour mission. He’s strong! He knows how to fix the ship! He’s responsible!
Match cut from Trunks’ triumphant grin in his office to his face of utter terror as the ship crashes from space into a desert area of a planet.
While the gang go about getting their ship upright and in working condition again, a small robot appears and eats the Dragon Radar. Trunks rolls his eyes and says that he'll just make a new one, but Pan recklessly chases after the robot through the desert. Trunks asks Gokuu if he should not be chasing after his granddaughter, but Gokuu shrugs, saying that Pan's a big girl now, before Trunks counters with whether or not Gokuu can be sure that he won't regret his decision if his son's daughter winds up hurt or dead. Annoyed that Trunks kind of has a point, Gokuu takes off after Pan and the robot.
Eventually, the three arrive at a city that is under the rule of a greedy capitalist named Don Kia, who uses his wealth to buy off the cops. Pan and Gokuu spring into action to save a man from being arrested for being unable to pay his taxes. As a result of doing the right thing, Gokuu and Pan become wanted criminals. The robot that ate the Dragon Radar witnessed their actions, though, and decides to follow the two as Pan decides to give the greedy Don Kia a piece of her mind.
Pan and Gokuu confront the greedy shitbag who is making life so miserable for the people of the planet. Said capitalist sics his three hired mercenaries on the duo: Redict and his two partners, Shila and Gel. Gokuu fights Redict, using his Nyoui-bou against Redict and his own staff, while Pan fights the other two. Gokuu unleashes his ki to a higher level, but finds that—just as we see in a flashback to before they left Earth—Gokuu's small body struggles to properly channel his full power.
Pan's impertinent attitude leads to her getting her ass kicked by Shila and Gel.
Gokuu and Pan are captured and sent to a penal colony in the desert.
Episode #3:
Trunks fantasizes about all the hot alien women and men he can meet on the trip but is awoken by the small robot from earlier, displaying to the audience that Trunks got sidetracked before finishing the ship repairs. The robot informs Trunks of his friends’ capture and leads Trunks into town.
Meanwhile, Gokuu and Pan are too weak from their injuries and lack of food to escape the work prison that they're stuck in. Gokuu complains about the desert heat, only for Pan to tell him to stop being a baby—then proceeds to complain about the desert heat herself and her lack of sunscreen.
Trunks investigates and learns from the same crowd that witnessed Gokuu and Pan's heroics the previous day that if his friends are still alive, they're probably in the open-air work prison. The small robot finds a terminal in the city and accesses it ala R2D2, hacking in and finding the location of Gokuu and Pan. Trunks and the robot immediately take off for the prison.
Meanwhile, Pan protects an exhausted worker from being punished for falling behind. Infuriated by how ‘wealthy makes right’ on this planet, Pan's ki reserves spike up and she breaks free from her shackles and begins attacking the prison guards. Gokuu, who has been carefully meditating to regather and focus his ki while working, snaps into action to support Pan.
Redict, Shila and Gel are ordered to go to the prison to restore order. Redict takes Gokuu's staff—which his employer had taken as a trophy—with him. At the prison, Redict returns Gokuu's staff to him for a rematch. This upsets Don Kia, who screams at his monitor that he isn’t paying Redict for a sports match or whatever.
Trunks has his little robot friend hack into the prison to undo the shackles and free the prisoners as a distraction. Trunks then helps Pan fight Shila and Gel. Pan doesn't know how not to take the lead, so Trunks plays support.
Gokuu manages to break Redict's staff with his own, but when the fight switches over to pure power and speed, Gokuu realizes that being unable to exude his ki properly means he can't handle Redict alone. Pan and Trunks join in, with Trunks transforming into a Super Saiyan. Gokuu is frustrated that he needs help, but Trunks—finally getting a chance to unleash his pent up stress—transforms into Super Saiyan 2 and the three combined warriors manage to knock Redict onto his back. Redict picks himself up, but Pan asks why he's fighting for a guy like Don Kia. Redict says that it's for the money, so Pan turns to the little robot and takes him aside while Trunks and Gokuu hold him back.
Pan and the robot fly off.
Gokuu expresses his frustration, saying that he wishes that he could fight Redict with his full power. Redict reveals that he has not had a true challenge in thousands of years, and if he wasn't being paid to, he'd just postpone their battle. Suddenly, Pan returns with a receipt and hands it to Redict. Raising an eyebrow, Redict checks his bank account and finds that all of his employer's funds have been transferred to his name. Laughing at the girl's simple solution, Redict ends the battle and leaves the planet with his partners.
Later, Pan and the others confront the capitalist shitbag, who realizes that he can now no longer afford his own security teams. Don Kia is overthrown and peace is restored to the planet.
The old man from the previous episode thanks Pan by…giving her the Seven-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball?! With their first Dragon Ball acquired, the gang flies off for their next planet.
Episode #4:
Pan is riding high off of the successful acquisition of the first Black-Star Dragon Ball. We pick up in the middle of the action as Pan runs from a pack of giants, having made off with their Five-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball. Pan slips up and nearly gets caught, but is rescued by Trunks and Gokuu, and the Grand Tourists make it back to their ship and off the planet.
As the ship travels through space, Trunks scolds Pan for running off with Giru—the small robot that ate the Dragon Radar and can now act as such—on her own. Pan's confident that she can look out for herself, but Trunks—who appreciates Giru as a sentient being who he befriended during the last mission—is none too pleased by the idea of Pan getting the little guy smashed to bits.
Fed up with the scolding, Pan sneaks off to investigate an asteroid field where the third Black-Star Dragon Ball is said to be all on her own—even without Giru! Donning a space suit, Pan exits the ship while the others are sleeping, but is followed in secret by Giru.
Pan has some close calls with asteroids, but eventually finds a large one that has been carved into a space station of sorts. Pan sneaks on and into the airlock, where she—and her sneaky robot tail—begin to investigate. Pan soon learns that she is at an outpost for a company from the Freeza Force, which was toppled long ago. The remnants attack and manage to damage the sleeve of Pan’s space suit, thanks to her carelessness. Pan is captured and held hostage by threatening to disengage the airlocks, which will kill Pan thanks to her damaged space suit.
Giru surprises everyone by tossing a roll of tape at Pan and then distracts the Freeza Force soldiers while Pan fixes her suit. Giru also damages the Freeza Force soldiers’ space suits. Patched up, Pan tries to save Giru, but is shocked when he gets blasted trying to disable the airlock. Caught up in sorrow, Pan freezes up.
Gokuu and Trunks appear and dispatch the soldiers, steal the Three-Star Black Star Dragon Ball they had previously found, and escape back to their ship.
Trunks manages to repair Giru, but the episode ends with Pan sullen and shocked by her hubris.
Episode #5:
The episode begins in media res with Trunks—undercover as a sexy girl—questioning another sexy woman at a bar about the location of the next Black-Star Dragon Ball. Gokuu—hiding on the other side of the bar with Giru—asks the little robot if he still can't detect the Dragon Ball, but Giru explains that whatever is going on, something is masking the precise location of the Dragon Ball.
Trunks learns from the woman that if anyone has such a treasure, it would be Dolltakki, the local highroller, an inventor who likes to spread a lot of money around the clubs/casinos once a week, like he’s no doubt doing somewhere in the city tonight. Trunks thanks the woman and tries to leave, but learns that she requires payment for her services. Trunks passes the info along to Gokuu and Giru, and then happily follows the woman back to her hotel room to pay her fee.
Meanwhile, back on the ship: a depressed Pan lays in bed in the dark, replaying the moment that Giru was blasted nearly in half in her mind. A close-up view of Giru's circuits burnt and sparking especially haunts her, so she pulls the covers over her head and shuts her eyes even harder.
Elsewhere, Gokuu and Giru sneak into Dolltakki's skyscraper to find his penthouse on the top floor. Gokuu complains to Giru that he hates all of the sneaking around he has to do now, and Giru shares his frustration: Giru is uncharacteristically livid due to his inability to precisely locate the Dragon Ball like he is supposed to be able to.
Finally, Gokuu and Giru reach the top floor via the elevator—overridden by Giru—and are shocked to find an entire floor filled with plastic model kits and figures! Gokuu accidentally breaks some of the figures while looking around while Giru scans his data banks for possible origins of these figures, only to come up blank yet again.
Finally, Gokuu finds the Six-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball on a pedestal and retrieves it. It turns out that the security system in this building can block the energy signature that the Black-Star Dragon Balls give off! Still, Gokuu wonders where exactly the owner of all this stuff is, but before he can ruminate on it, the toys and figures begin to come to life and grow in size to attack him and Giru!
Meanwhile, an exhausted and panting Trunks exits a hotel room, debt clearly paid. Going down stairs to the bar for a drink, Trunks overhears two Otaku talking about how they can't believe that Dolltakki ditched them to go hunt a new score down—he was supposed to introduce them to some cute new girls! Trunks recognizes that they're talking about the man who might have the Black-Star Dragon Ball on this planet, but is then distracted when he senses Gokuu's ki flare up. Downing his drink, Trunks takes off quickly, while the two Otaku opine about how ‘that ship’ better be worth it.
Gokuu and Giru fend off the collection of toys that have come to life to kill them. Trunks arrives on the scene and manages to blast several of them to pieces, but finds just as Gokuu has that this collection is stronger than they look. Still, with the Black-Star Dragon Ball in hand, the trio escape and head back to their ship.
Meanwhile, Pan wakes up from her sleep and decides to get some fresh, nighttime air by going outside, but finds that the world outside is bigger than she expected! Heck, she even wonders if they landed on another planet for giants! A mysterious, giant man looms over Pan and peers down on her, happy to have both a new spaceship model and a figure for his collection. Blasted by a beam of energy from Dolltakki's wrist gauntlet, Pan is transformed into a Crane King-esque prize figure and the episode ends on a cliffhanger.
Episode #6:
Gokuu and friends return to the location that they left the ship, inside of a parking garage, only to find it gone. Giru can faintly track the signal of the Dragon Balls left on the ship and leads Gokuu and Trunks to them.
Meanwhile, Dolltakki returns to his penthouse to find that it's been raided and much of his prized collection destroyed. Furious, Dolltakki puts his new possessions on display and heads off for somewhere else.
Pan, struggling to make her body move, tries calling out for help. After her cries call of deaf ears, another girl figure finally replies and explains that Dolltakki has turned them all into his figures, and they must follow his commands that he imbeds in them. Pan is freaked out by the potential of that and struggles to raise her ki, so as to get Gokuu and Trunks’ attention. Still depressed by her screw up with Giru, Pan struggles to mold her steadily fading ki and consciousness.
Later, Giru leads the boys back to the penthouse, the last known place he could trace their other Black-Star Dragon Balls. Gokuu and Trunks look around, confused but suspecting that Pan might be around somewhere. Gokuu finally spots a figure that looks like Pan and realizes that he can faintly sense her ki coming from it. Trunks, meanwhile, spots the ship.
Dolltakki returns with other figures brought to life to help clean up the mess that was made, and is enraged to find the culprits from earlier. Dolltakki activities all of his figures from throughout his entire skyscraper to attack Gokuu and the others. With Pan's figure in hand, Giru escapes the warzone to find a way to restore her to her proper form while Dolltakki gives chase.
Finally, Giru tracks down a laboratory on one of the lower floors, where Dolltakki has his many inventions. Giru tries to find a way to restore Pan, but Pan tells him that it's no use and she's also no good.
Other figures that have yet to get the full programming treatment lay about the lab and weakly call out to Pan, telling her to have her friends save them. Pan realizes that if the others haven't given up yet, perhaps she should not either and begins to try to use her ki again while Dolltakki tries to swat at Giru. Pulling herself together and realizing that Gokuu and Trunks might not be able to save them, Pan calls out to the other figures to all push together and in a single moment of their spirits being on the same wavelength and boosted by Pan's incredible ki reserves, all of the figures manage to flush out the energy that turned them into dolls and figures and are restored to their original forms.
Pan, her spirit strengthened, achieves Super Saiyan for the first time and pounds Dolltakki up-and-down and throughout his skyscraper. Fed up with it all, Dolltakki summons a figure of a giant robo and restores it to its original size so that he can pilot it. Gokuu, Super Saiyan Trunks and Super Saiyan Pan battle the giant robo and eventually defeat it.
Dolltakki is arrested by the local authorities for his giant robo causing property damage and for kidnapping so many hundreds of people and property.
The episode wraps up with Pan apologizing to Giru for not appreciating him as a fellow Grand Tourist and friend. Giru accepts.
Later, Trunks takes the others back to that queer hotel's restaurant for a big ol’ meal. Pan asks how they're going to pay for this, only for the woman from earlier to reappear and look knowingly at Trunks.
Episode #7:
Weeks later, Gokuu trains Pan on how to more smoothly transform into a Super Saiyan and use the form as her natural state while Trunks and Giru watch. Trunks mentions to Giru that hopefully this will teach Pan not to be so irresponsible, but Giru replies matter-of-factly that Trunks can’t maintain Super Saiyan as his normal state, so does that make him irresponsible? Trunks gives Giru the side-eye.
Back on Earth, eleven months have passed since the Grand Tourists left Earth to find the Black-Star Dragon Balls. Videl leaves her martial arts class with her father to finally enjoy her first vacation in years, and slips away to tempt her husband away from his studies for some fun.
At Capsule Corp, Vegeta is painstakingly trying to paint in the small details on a model airplane. A mysterious figure attacks Vegeta.
In the city, Son Goten is on a date with his girlfriend, Palace. Their date is interrupted by a mysterious figure attacking Goten.
Back at the Son family home, Videl approaches Gohan, but finds him acting strangely. Gohan attacks Videl.
Out in the wilderness, Piccolo is meditating, but suddenly he is attacked by three figures: Gohan, Goten and Vegeta. Unsure of what is happening, Piccolo tries to defend himself, but is ultimately killed by a Kamehame-Ha from Gohan.
Back in space, Pan—trying to maintain Super Saiyan as her natural form—struggles to free the Two-Star Black-Star Dragon Ball from a giant centipede. Pan calms her mind, remembering the shame she felt for how she nearly got Giru destroyed, and finally manages to stabilize Super Saiyan and steal the Dragon Ball from the centipede.
Back on the ship, the gang celebrates that the only Black-Star Dragon Ball that they have to acquire is the Four-Star Black-Star. Suddenly, Giru detects the location of said Dragon Ball and Trunks immediately inputs the coordinates and the ship flies off in a new direction.
In a post-credit scene, Dr. Mu and General Rilld watch a monitor displaying the approach of the Grand Tourists from Earth.
Episode #8:
The episode opens in media res: the Grand Tourists are surrounded by a squad of M2 soldiers led by the four members of the Mega Cannon Sigma. Super Saiyan Pan tells Giru to get behind her for his own safety, but Giru floats over to the Mega Cannon Sigma and joins them by their side: he's been an undercover agent this whole time!
Trunks and Gokuu leap into action while Pan is stunned by the betrayal. Overwhelmed, Trunks and Gokuu are injured and captured, while Pan runs away.
Dr. Mu studies Trunks and Gokuu, seeking to learn how they are so powerful compared to the Saiyans he once knew.
Meanwhile, Pan hides somewhere on M2 and is found by Giru. The plan was a success! A flashback shows Giru coming clean to his friends about his role as a spy for General Rilld after the battle with Dolltakki. Together, the four devise a plan to infiltrate M2 and liberate its people from the oppressive General Rilld, who took power of the planet after the genius inventor Dr. Mu bolstered his power with upgrades. Gokuu isn’t a fan of not fighting head-on, though.
Back in the present, with Trunks and Gokuu being studied by Dr. Mu in his lab, the two stop playing possum and break free on their confinements. Trunks questions Dr. Mu on what the hell he was trying to study them for, while Gokuu flies off to battle General Rilld head-on after their escape triggers alarms throughout the compound. Mu reveals to Trunks that he seeks revenge on the Saiyans for destroying his people, the Tsufruians. Trunks realizes that Mu is of the same people that his grandfather committed a genocide of to take Planet Vegeta for the Saiyans. Mu reveals that he knows that Trunks has the blood of a Saiyan royal, likely that of Vegeta IV.
Elsewhere, Gokuu meets up with General Rilld and stares him down. The two begin fighting, but Gokuu can only access a level of ki that matches that of where he was fifteen years prior, during the battle with Majin Buu, and even that is taxing his small body. Pan appears with Giru and begins helping Gokuu fight General Rilld, but when Rilld combines with the Mega Cannon Sigma, the two are outmatched.
Trunks—sensing that his friends are in trouble—allows Mu to escape so as to go and help them. Together, the three Saiyans manage to destroy the Mega Cannon Sigma, but Rilld absorbs metal from the planet itself to achieve a new and even more powerful form. Trunks asks Gokuu and Pan to hold off Rilld for a moment while he tries to prepare a last-ditch move: achieving Super Saiyan 3 without fusion.
Episode #9:
A flashback shows Trunks and Goten defusing after training in the Room of Spirit & Time for their battle against Majin Buu. Trunks cockily tries to use Super Saiyan 3 by himself, but realizes that it just hurts to do it on his own. Goten finds this true for himself, too, but manages to at least get some hair growth out of his attempt, so Trunks makes up an excuse and says that he’s just making sure not to push his body too hard.
Back in the present, Trunks says that there’s no excuses this time, and pushes his body to use Super Saiyan 3, just as he remembers achieving it while fused with Goten all those years ago. After a bit of struggle and seeing his friends being beaten wildly, Trunks manages to access Super Saiyan 3 and rejoins the fight with Rilld. Together, the three Saiyans blast Rilld into oblivion.
With Doctor Mu having escaped M2 and Rilld and his Mega Cannon Sigma no longer a threat, the people elect Giru as their new leader for his role in freeing the planet. Giru turns to Pan and his friends and is conflicted. Pan isn’t ready to part ways, but Giru promises that they will meet again someday, and Pan promises to hold him to it. With all seven Black-Star Dragon Balls now in tow, the Grand Tourists make their way back home, with three months to spare.
Back on Earth, the Grand Tourists return to Earth and the negative energy threatening to destroy the planet in a month fully dissipates upon the Dragon Balls re-entering the atmosphere. Gokuu and friends land their ship at Capsule Corp. Gokuu flies the Black-Star Dragon Balls back to the Heavenly Realm while Pan returns home and Trunks heads to fight his mother and report back from space.
Pan returns home to the nightmare of Gohan, Videl, Goten and Chi-Chi all attacking her. Trunks is similarly ambushed by his parents and sister attacking him. When Gokuu approaches Dende and Popo atop the Heavenly Realm, he is similarly attacked and treated with hostility. The three Grand Tourists meet up with one another again, this time encircled by their family members. Not wanting to fight too hard, the triumvirate takes more damage than they need to, but are eventually saved by two faces they don’t expect: Artificial Humans #17 and #18?! The siblings explain that they’re the only ones who have been able to resist being possessed by whoever is infecting everyone else on Earth.
Doctor Mu appears and reveals that he is the one behind the infection now infecting everyone on Earth: his Baby Virus is made up of cells from a failed creation of his, Baby, which he can use to transform everyone on Earth into a ‘superior Tsufruian’.
Vegeta, Gohan, Goten and Bra power up massive ki blasts to kill Gokuu, Trunks, and Pan. Artificial Human #17 and Artificial Human #18 protect the trio with their barrier techniques, but it causes quite a bit of damage to them, knocking them unconscious. Knowing that he has one trick left up his sleeve, Gokuu tears the backpack holding the Black-Star Dragon Balls up and summons the Red Shen Long, much to the shock and confusion of everyone around.
Episode #10:
Gokuu wishes for everyone on the Earth to be freed from their infections, but Red Shen Long can only expel the infectious Baby cells, not destroy them, which is fine with Gokuu. The strain of the Baby cells being forced from their bodies forces Vegeta and company to pass out. The Black-Star Dragon Balls spread back across the galaxy, once again only buying the Earth another year of time.
With his plans foiled, Mu grabs the unconscious #17 and runs away with him as a hostage, the others too exhausted to follow.
Later, everyone awakens in a somber mood. Son Gohan is devastated to remember that he killed Piccolo, but Piccolo—with help from the North Kaiou—tells Gohan not to sweat it. Piccolo says that he’s cheated death enough times now and that as a father himself now, Gohan no longer needs a mentor to guide him. Gohan has himself a good cry and bids Piccolo farewell, until he himself dies.
A week later, Gokuu, Trunks and Pan set off for another Grand Tour, while Artificial Human #18, Kuririn, and Gohan team up on another ship to track down the whereabouts of Doctor Mu and the captured Artificial Human #17.
Episode #11:
Pan celebrates her tenth birthday by acquiring the seventh of the Black-Star Dragon Balls by winning it from a forest where everything is a giant crane game. With all seven Black-Star Dragon Balls once again brought together, the Grand Tourists set course back to Earth, with a month of time left until the planet explodes. The mood on the ship is still sombre, still a little too quiet without Giru there to boop and beep while the three Saiyans annoy the hell out of one another.
The GT triumvirate land back on Earth with a week to spare and thankfully save the planet yet again from exploding.
Gohan, Kuririn and #18 have yet to return from their mission to rescue Artificial Human #17, which worries Pan. Pan wants to set off immediately to join up with her father’s group, but there hasn’t been any contact with Team Gohan for three months and even then, contact was rare because of how deep into space they have ventured.
Gokuu wishes that he could teleport to the Afterlife so that he could just use that as a starting point to try and track Gohan and Kuririn’s ki, but alas, as much as he has gotten used to his child body over the past two years, he still cannot use his teleportation technique.
Gokuu recalls how Shen Long and Polunga were used to teleport the people on Namek back to Earth long ago, so surely they could try doing the same for Gohan and the others. Pan and everyone else hunt down the Earth’s Dragon Balls and summon Shen Long. Shen Long states that he cannot summon Gohan and the others back to Earth because they are no longer alive, shocking everyone.
Episode #12:
Pan asks Shen Long to revive her father and the others, but Shen Long mentions that he cannot restore them to life. When asked why, a dark blue and black smoke leaks from the Dragon Balls and forms into a cigar-chomping dragon that kills Shen Long, shocking everyone. The Evil Shen Long chastises the Earthlings for abusing the Dragon Balls and says that all of the minus energy built up in them in response to their use over the decades since “that stupid panty wish” has created him. If the Earthlings want to use the Dragon Balls again, they will have to destroy his seven children: dragons that will cause havoc across the planet and the universe so as to feed on the resulting minus energy.
The cigar-chomping Shen Long disappears and the Dragon Balls once again spread across the Earth.
Pan dries her tears and grabs the Dragon Radar from Trunks’ hands and flies off in search of the Dragon Balls. Gokuu—in a rare sullen mood—follows after Pan. Trunks and Blooma set about making another Dragon Radar, while Vegeta grabs Goten and drags him to the gravity room to warm up their bodies. Goten asks why Vegeta’s going to fight if he retired years ago, but Vegeta questions back why Goten has calluses on his hands now that he didn’t have a year ago when Baby possessed them.
Elsewhere, Pan and Gokuu arrive at a village being destroyed by an Evil Dragon powered by the Two-Star Dragon Ball, which is embedded in his body.
To Be Continued?
Episode #13:
The Two-Star Dragon uses his ability to create toxic pollution to pollute the lake and forests of a village.
A young girl cares for her ailing father, one of many who have recently fallen ill from whatever pollution has infected the water supply. The girl learns of another spring nearby—a spring said to have rich and clean water with healing properties—and heads for the spring, despite the dangerous journey.
While flying nearby while looking for the Two-Star Dragon, Pan saves the young village girl from a treacherous ledge that sends the girl falling. Learning of her plight, Pan abandons searching for the Two-Star Dragon to help the girl.
Meanwhile, Gokuu comes across the Two-Star Dragon as he pollutes a lake near the village. Assuming Super Saiyan 3 despite its unreliableness, Gokuu battles the dragon, but is ultimately drained more quickly of his power by the pollution that the dragon exudes.
Pan and the girl arrive at the spring, in a small forest surrounded by mountains and such. The girl fills her water container capsule with water from the spring and prepares to leave with Pan, but the battle between Gokuu and the Two-Star Dragon has spilled over to the spring. Gokuu—swollen purple from the toxins—collapses in front of Pan, defeated. Pan orders the young girl from the village to run away to safety while she distracts the dragon.
Viewing her new friend being pummeled by the dragon, the village girl drags Gokuu to the spring and places him inside of the spring, hoping that it will heal him of the pollution.
Super Saiyan Pan finds herself on the ropes of defeat, but refuses to allow her grandpa and the girl from the village to be attacked next. Pan wills herself to achieve Super Saiyan 2 and renews her struggle to defeat the Two-Star Dragon.
Meanwhile, Gokuu’s body is torn to shreds on the inside from the contrast of the poison and the clean spring water.
The girl from the village gets an idea and presses and tosses her water Capsule at the Two-Star Dragon. Pan understands the girl’s sacrifice and blasts the container once it appears, soaking the Two-Star Dragon in the spring water and burning his skin.
Pan uses a Masen-Kou to kill the weakened dragon.
Gokuu eventually recovers enough to fly with Pan back to the girl’s village, only to find that the girl’s father is one of many who have now died from the pollution. Pan vows to the girl to use the Dragon Balls to undo the damage done by the Evil Dragons.
Episode #14:
Beginning in media res, Pan attacks the Seven-Star Dragon, still emotionally unbalanced by her inability to help protect the father of the girl from the previous episode. Pan attacks, while Gokuu follows up, trying to watch her back, but eventually Pan is caught off guard and—unable to transform into Super Saiyan 2 at will—is caught in a corner. Pan is captured by the dragon and absorbed, thus powering him up even more.
Inside of the Seven-Star Dragon, Pan relives her guilt and shame over all of the mistakes she has made across the past two years of traveling and fighting.
Meanwhile, Gokuu—still recovering from the pollution—finds himself at his wit’s end, unable to save Pan. Realizing that all the decades of cheating death have caught up to him—but instead of being taken out on him, the karma is being taken out on those around him—Gokuu’s sullen spirit merges with the turbulent ki still within him, being cleansed of the pollution, and undergoes a transformation.
Son Gokuu transforms into Super Saiyan 4, a form born of the marriage between his vulnerable ki and the nectar of the Earth (the spring water). Powered up more than ever before, Gokuu unleashes hell on the Seven-Star Dragon.
Deep within the Seven-Star Dragon, Pan hears Gokuu’s strained yells of rage on the outside. Pan realizes that her grandpa’s turmoil is borne of his desperation to free her. Unable to bare the pain of her loved one’s heart, Pan does the age-old cheek slap and wills herself to transform into Super Saiyan 2 again. Synching her Kamehame-Ha with the Kamehame-Ha coming from Gokuu on the outside, Pan manages to create a great enough two-pronged attack that the two beams of ki tear a hole and free Pan, while killing the Seven-Star Dragon.
Pan and Gokuu reunite, but Gokuu transforms back into his base form, once again a child. Now with two Dragon Balls in their possession, the two return to Capsule Corp to rest.
Meanwhile, Vegeta trains in the gravity room with Goten, Trunks and Bra, pushing them to their limits. Bra comments to Trunks that Goten seems especially determined for some reason, which makes Trunks watch him intently.
Episode #15:
Blooma runs tests on Gokuu, who has healed up completely and can use his new Super Saiyan 4 form at will. Vegeta—having learned of how it was achieved—wonders if he can achieve this form, too. Gokuu tells Vegeta not to get all moody because he achieved it without training, but Vegeta shrugs and says that he doesn’t care without much annoyance in his voice. Gokuu realizes that both he and Vegeta aren’t simply living in a different world now, but have been changed by the different world. They are no longer the men they were fifteen years prior, when they fought during the battle with Majin Buu.
Blooma explains that the energy from the Earth seemed to be a really pure concentration, but thinks that she can create a converter to turn their man-made power sources into the same energy. Vegeta asks Blooma to do so and returns to training with their kids, although Goten thinks that they should help his dad and niece collect the Dragon Balls.
Gokuu and Pan set off to a port town where the Six-Star Dragon is luring men out to see and causing their deaths and thus absorbing the minus energy from both that, but also the grief left behind by their loved ones.
Super Saiyan 4 Son Gokuu battles the Six-Star Dragon, finding that he is still getting used to the flavor of his new form’s ki and how to control it. The dragon expertly deflects Gokuu’s attacks with typhoons that she is able to create and even eventually captures Gokuu inside of one, slowly drowning him to death.
Super Saiyan 2 Pan charges at the Six-Star Dragon and strikes her, managing to land a blow on her beautiful face, which sends the dragon flying into a rage. With her concentration broken, Gokuu is freed from the typhoon and crashes back into the ocean, unconscious and lungs full of water.
Pan is overwhelmed by the Six-Star Dragon, but is saved just in the nick of time by Vegeta, Goten, Trunks and Bra.
Episode #16:
Working together, Vegeta, Trunks and Bra distract the Six-Star Dragon while Pan and Goten retrieve Gokuu and try to empty his lungs of the water. Goten eventually presses the water out of his father’s lungs and a delirious Gokuu wakes up, worse for wear, but alive.
Goten joins the other Saiyans in attacking with a four-way Super Saiyan 2 attack pattern that annoys the Six-Star Dragon enough for her to be caught off guard by Goten and Trunks using Gotenks-style ki trickery to tie her up in a fishnet made of ki.
Unveiling his new attack—the Final Shine Attack—Vegeta blasts the Six-Star Dragon, but she nevertheless remains alive.
Pan realizes that the deflection technique that the dragon uses is most easily broken by enraging her. Pan and Bra mock the dragon for getting hit in the face earlier. Obsessed with her perfect defense, the Six-Star Dragon is easily tipped over the edge, just enough for the boys to blast her and damage her pretty good. Turning her back on the girls to attack the men, the dragon is attacked from behind and finished off by the girls.
Gokuu and Pan thank Vegeta and the others for saving them. Gokuu decides to take Pan to train in the Room of Spirit & Time so that they can hone his Super Saiyan 4 and her Super Saiyan 2. Vegeta and the others promise to have more of the Dragon Balls collected by the time they’re back.
Meanwhile, the Four-Star and Three-Star Dragons clash with one another?!
Back at Capsule Corp, Blooma finishes her energy conversion generator and calls Vegeta back home.
Episode #17:
Beginning in media res, Vegeta struggles as he is pummeled by the same time of energy from the Earth—albeit, artificially generated—that Gokuu was to achieve Super Saiyan 4.
Elsewhere, Goten, Trunks and the ever bored and over-it-all Bra battle the Five-Star Dragon, who can attach electric slime to his enemies to shock them and mess up their brain’s ability to control their bodies.
Goten struggles, unwilling to lose, but is nevertheless still overwhelmed. While Bra fights the Five-Star Dragon, Trunks pulls Goten aside and questions him on why he’s been so aggressive lately about his training and fighting. Goten finally admits that when he was attacked by Doctor Mu and unable to save Palace-chan, the shame really got to him. Goten explains that his lifetime of running from his father and brother’s shadows—so much so that he even changed his hair style as he grew up not to resemble his father’s hair—led to him neglecting his training entirely in favor of just relying on his naturally strong body to impress girls. In the year since, Goten’s been taking his training seriously because he doesn’t want to feel that way ever again—something that the disappearance of Gohan has not helped alleviate.
Trunks laughs at Goten’s seriousness, claps his hands, and places a hand on his friend’s shoulder, saying that he’s got his back. For the first time in years, the two Saiyans use the Fusion Dance to become Gotenks.
Gotenks’ army of Super Ghosts obliterates the Five-Star Dragon’s army of slimes. Unleashing their entire barrage of zaney attacks, Gotenks destroys the dragon.
Meanwhile, a giant, golden Oozaru reigns over Capsule Corp, roaring and breathing golden flames.
Episode #18:
Goten and Trunks trace two of the Dragon Balls down to a city in the desert. There, the Three-Star and Four-Star Dragons do battle over whether or not to cause suffering by using the Three-Star’s ability to create blizzards to freeze the people of the city to death or the Four-Star’s ability to use burning heat to slowly melt the people of the city to eradication.
Goten and Trunks find their argument both unpleasant and stupid, so they work together in tandem to attack the two dragons.
Meanwhile, the golden Oozaru explodes into golden light and from within, Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta steps out. Vegeta seems even more sullen than usual to Blooma, who can only get the man to say something about how things really are different now and he has to accept that, just as he swore to five years ago when Gokuu left to train with Uub.
In the Heavenly Realm, Gokuu and Pan test the limits of the dimension by seeing how powerful Super Saiyan 4 Gokuu truly is.
Back on the ranch, Bra returns to Capsule Corp to take a shower while Trunks and Goten are off to collect the two Dragon Balls they noticed were near one another. Bra says that her dad’s new transformation is lame, causing Vegeta to balk comically.
Meanwhile, Goten and Trunks continue their battles with the Three and Four-Star Dragons. Goten asks the Four-Star Dragon why he doesn’t just find another area to torment, but the Four-Star refuses to answer beyond saying that he is simply following his nature.
Trunks, meanwhile, struggles against the especially cruel way that the Three-Star Dragon is flying through the city and using civilians as both shields and projectiles. Trunks misses catching a civilian thrown towards Goten, whose back is turned to the oncoming child. Unsuspectingly, the Four-Star Dragon catches the child and safely sets him down, much to Goten and Trunks’ surprise.
The Three-Star Dragon clicks his tongue, saying that it’s just as he suspected.
Episode #19:
The Three-Star Dragon realizes that his twin hasn’t been melting his blizzards because he wants to absorb the minus energy generated by the humans, but because he wants to prevent anyone from doing so. The Four-Star Dragon shrugs off the accusation, stating little more than the idea of acquiring power through such means is antithetical to who he is as a person.
Trunks notes to Goten that it seems like the twins are two sides of the same coin: one has a code and the other will do anything for his own greed.
Goten and Trunks decide to fight together to defeat the Three-Star Dragon. The Four-Star Dragon withdraws to the sidelines to watch the two young men fight together. Overwhelmed, the Three-Star Dragon pleads for mercy as a ploy to distract the two long enough to create frost that blinds the two Saiyans so that he can escape deeper into the city.
Hours pass by and Goten and Trunks recover from being blinded. A terrible chill begins to curse the desert city, causing the two Saiyans to realize that the Three-Star Dragon is once again making his move, but the Four-Star Dragon is nowhere to be seen.
Neither Saiyan can pinpoint the ki of the Evil Dragon, but Trunks figures that if the Three-Star Dragon is anywhere in the city, it’ll be somewhere with water access to be able to spread his ice-based ki across the city easier through the pipes and sewers. The duo fly off in search of the water access in the city and eventually find the Three-Star Dragon doing just that. The two Saiyans use the Fusion Dance and become Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks, obliterating the Three-Star Dragon with the last of their five minutes of fusion time.
Exhausted, Goten and Trunks pick themselves up and fly off with the Three-Star Dragon Ball back to Capsule Corp to recover, while the Four-Star Dragon watches from afar.
Meanwhile, the One-Star Dragon uses his thunderstorms to terrorize an entire continent at once, absorbing billions of people’s minus energy at once.
Episode #20:
Vegeta works up a sweat training in the gravity room as a Super Saiyan 4. Goten and Trunks return, wiped out from their previous fight.
The Four-Star Dragon reveals that he followed the young men back to Capsule Corp and challenges Vegeta to a battle.
Vegeta accepts the challenge and begins his battle with the Four-Star Dragon. The red dragon battles Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta, but is outmatched. Unlike his brother, who evolved from creating and absorbing minus energy from the humans, the Four-Star Dragon has refused to do that. Vegeta, who achieved his latest boost in strength from outside help, understands the frustration that the Four-Star Dragon feels, and so he continues to not hold back as a sign of respect for his foe’s circumstances.
Battling Vegeta over the Western Metropolis, the Four-Star Dragon peers down on the citizens going about their everyday lives below, so many of them blissfully unaware that one day, they too shall reach their limits. Temptation to light the city on fire and absorb the resulting minus energy fills the Four-Star Dragon from toe to the crown of his head.
Faced with the fear that he has truly no choice other than to betray himself to grow stronger, the Four-Star Dragon’s sorrow warps his ki, leading him to evolve and change into a new, golden form, much more powerful than his previous form: this is the result of not betraying himself.
Deep in his soul, Vegeta recognizes that the young dragon and he are very unalike now: Vegeta realizes that he has truly reached the zenith of his natural growth, and must now make peace with that. Bringing more of his strength to the forefront, Vegeta charges at the Four-Star Dragon to respectfully meet him head-on.
The battle between the two rages on and across the planet for four days with little more than a few moments to catch their breaths across those days.
Finally, both Vegeta and the Four-Star Dragon collapse on the Capsule Corp lawn, their battle ending in a draw.
Episode #21:
Vegeta and the Four-Star Dragon sleep, tucked nicely in their beds, exhausted from their battle. Trunks, Goten and Bra return from checking around the planet for signs of the One-Star Dragon, but cannot find him. Not even the Dragon Radar can locate him!
Meanwhile, Gokuu and Pan emerge from the Room of Spirit & Time, now physically eighteen years old. Pan visits Videl, who cries from missing so much of her now adult daughter’s life. Gokuu returns to Chi-Chi, now a young man again.
The return of the two Saiyans cannot help but feel melancholic and bittersweet.
Back at Capsule Corp, Vegeta and the Four-Star Dragon finally awake from their days-long sleep. Gokuu and Pan arrive just in time for the others to begin questioning the Four-Star Dragon as to where the One-Star Dragon might be. The Four-Star Dragon is unaware, saying that the Evil Dragons might be borne of the minus energy collected by the Dragon Balls, but that doesn’t mean that they can stand one another. The years they spent within the ‘realm within the Dragon Balls’ was unbearable for all of them, so they’re not exactly primed to return to that realm, which is what killing them in the living world does.
Suddenly, the daylight outside turns to darkness, causing everyone to go outside. A nasty thunderstorm erupts over the Western Metropolis. The Saiyans and the Four-Star Dragon fly above the city, careful to avoid the bolts of lightning raining down and destroying the city. Gokuu realizes that he can sense a ki beyond and above the dark clouds and uses his teleportation technique to move there immediately, ahead of the others, who are either trying to deflect the lightning bolts from the city or help civilians.
Above the clouds, the young Gokuu confronts the One-Star Dragon and asks him if he wouldn’t mind stopping, but the One-Star Dragon just shrugs and continues to attack the city. Gokuu powers up and attacks the One-Star Dragon from behind, but the spikes on his back extend and nearly pierce Gokuu. Realizing that he can’t even try to determine his foe’s strength before transforming, Gokuu transforms into Super Saiyan 4 and unveils his newly powered-up signature move: the Ten-Times Kamehame-Ha.
The red beam of densely packed ki slams into the One-Star Dragon, causing him to lose concentration and his dark clouds to dissipate. Vegeta and the others join Gokuu at the upper levels of the atmosphere as he fights the One-Star Dragon.
The One-Star Dragon calls the Four-Star Dragon a weak fool for prioritizing his pride over his own life, but the Four-Star Dragon shoots back that a ‘certain someone’—Vegeta—taught him the worth of a life lived being true to one’s self.
The Four-Star Dragon creates a powerful supernova and concentrates it into a ball no bigger than a beach ball and then tosses it at the One-Star Dragon, who merely accepts the damage so as to catch the golden dragon off guard and pierce him through the heart, killing him.
Episode #22:
Taking the Four-Star Dragon Ball, the One-Star Dragon flies off with it as the Saiyans are left to comfort the slowly fading Four-Star Dragon.
Down at Capsule Corp, the One-Star Dragon steals the other Dragon Balls and merges all six into his body, transforming him into the Super One-Star Dragon. With all seven Dragon Balls now powering him, he can draw on minus energy from across the entire universe, even all the way from Earth.
Vegeta confronts the Super One-Star Dragon and angrily transforms into Super Saiyan 4.
Gokuu allows Vegeta to avenge the Four-Star Dragon on his own, but Vegeta is utterly outmatched. Remembering what his battle with the Four-Star Dragon cemented for him in his heart, Vegeta casts aside his grief and uses the Fusion Dance to become Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta. With the power of a 100x Big Bang Kamehame-Ha, Gogeta obliterates the Super One-Star Dragon, finally ending the threat of the Evil Dragons.
The next day, Vegeta returns to painting his models alone and in silence, just as he began the resurgence of turbulence two years earlier.
As the credits role, Pan bids her mother yet another goodbye as she, Trunks and Grandpa Gokuu take off yet again into space, this time to find her missing father, Kuririn and Artificial Human #18.
Episode #23:
A year of traveling through space has led the Grand Tourists to few leads on the whereabouts of Gohan and the others. To lift Pan’s spirits, Trunks suggests visiting Planet M2, to see Giru, which Pan placidly agrees to.
On M2, a melancholic Pan reunites with Giru, who has helped reform M2 into a bustling metropolis planet where the robots there can live in peace and prosperity. Pan shows Giru all of the grace she couldn’t as a child, having matured too much through both eight years in the Room of Spirit & Time, but also three years of traveling through space.
Trunks notes to Gokuu that it’s like Pan isn’t even recognizable as the same person anymore, which Gokuu just shrugs to, casually asking if any of them are the same people that they were when they first met Giru. Trunks takes Gokuu’s point without a fight.
Giru leads his old friends to one of Doctor Mu’s old labs and they investigate it for any clues as to how they might track him down. Giru connects to the lab’s computers and manages to locate the existence of a lab on a planet not too far off where Doctor Mu was experimenting with dangerous new technology.
Pan thanks Giru for helping and tells him that it was nice seeing him again. Giru asks Pan if he will see her again, but Pan says nothing and joins the others on the ship as it takes off back into space. Giru watches his old friends leave Planet M2 one last time.
The Grand Tourists arrive on the planet that Doctor Mu’s hidden lab was supposed to be on. Finding the lab, they discover a machine that seemed to be recently used, but they’re not sure what for.
A telepathic call from the Kaiou-shin, Kibito and Elder Kaiou-shin reaches the Grand Tourists: a crisis is unfolding on Earth!
Back on Earth, Doctor Mu leads an army of the evil dead: Freeza, Cell, and a plethora of other previously defeated enemies flood Earth, having escaped from Hell somehow.
Episode #24:
No matter how many times Vegeta kills Freeza or Cell or Nappa, they continually return. In the case of Cell, who is part Saiyan, he returns even stronger than before.
Doctor Mu unveils his prized weapons: upgraded versions of Artificial Humans #17 and #18, whom he was able to improve upon thanks to their ability to run infinitely without ki.
Back at Doctor Mu’s lab, Pan frantically searches for signs of her father, but ultimately determines that the only answer is the machine perpetually bringing the fallen enemies back from Hell. Trunks determines that the machine is acting as a gateway between Hell and the living world, so Pan asks him if they can use it to go to Hell themselves, to see if her dad is there.
A voice from the dark speaks up, telling Pan that that won’t be necessary, for they will soon be in Hell. Baby, finally complete and stabilized, appears from the dark as a full grown adult.
Super Saiyan 4 Gokuu does battle with Baby while Trunks tries to configure the machine to allow Pan to travel into Hell and save her father and Kuririn. As Gokuu takes the battle with Baby outside of the lab, he turns back to Pan and gives her a thumbs up. Pan returns the thumbs up, then turns to the gateway machine and walks in, leaving Trunks alone in the lab.
Episode #25:
In Hell, Pan finds her father and Kuririn, both alive, but severely weak from being kept just barely alive for so long by Doctor Mu’s machines. Pan tries to bring them back through the gateway, but realizes that they cannot make the journey: Hell has rotted their bodies and souls for too long. They are now neither dead nor alive, existing in a space neither here nor there.
Back on Earth, Goten and Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta are worn down and defeated on their last legs while fighting Super 17 and Super 18. Those from Hell spread out across the universe, causing as much mayhem as possible.
As he watches the carnage he has inflicted spread out into space from Earth, Doctor Mu comments to himself that now the brilliant Tsufruians will never be forgotten by the universe, while the Saiyans will soon be forever forgotten.
Back in Hell, Pan feels the hopelessness of her situation and breaks down in tears. Gohan apologizes to Pan for missing so much of her life. Piccolo appears, having asked to come to Hell to give the two comfort in their time of need.
Back at the lab, Gokuu and Baby pummel one another into bloody pulps, while Trunks tries to keep the lab from being destroyed by their battle.
On Earth, Vegeta takes a blast meant for Goten and suffers an injury strong enough to reduce him to his base form. Goten tosses caution to the wind and assumes Super Saiyan 4, the form that they haven’t really had a chance to perfect yet, but they’re low on fusion time, anyway.
Back in Hell, Piccolo watches the suffering before him and looks down at his own hands—the hands of the former Great Demon King. Wondering if that really ever meant anything, Piccolo places his hands on Gohan and begins feeling for something, anything. Finally, Piccolo feels what he’s looking for, and absorbs the Hell energy into his person, rendering himself a permanent resident of Hell.
Piccolo apologizes to Kuririn, who tells him not to sweat it, and then sends Pan and Gohan on their way.
Pan and Gohan return to the lab just in time for the gateway to crumble as the lab falls into ruin. Renewed by Gohan’s rescue, Gokuu delivers the killing blow, ending Baby for good.
Episode #26:
Back on Earth, Goten reverts back to his base form. Super 17 and Super 18 stare coldly at the fallen Vegeta, Trunks and Goten.
Bra arrives on the scene and uses a device created by Blooma to shut Super 17 and Super 18 off, much to Mu’s chagrin.
Thanks to Gokuu’s teleportation technique, Gokuu, Pan, Trunks, and Gohan return to Earth. Doctor Mu tries to recall his undead warriors back to Earth, leading to Cell and Freeza returning thanks to Cell’s teleportation technique.
With the universe at stake and Hell having been emptied of many of its nastiest prisoners, Kaiou-Shin and Kibito come to Earth and begin healing Gohan and the others while Super Saiyan 4 Gokuu and Super Saiyan 3 Trunks fight Freeza and Cell.
Gohan and Pan join the fight while Vegeta and Goten are healed up next. Doctor Mu unveils his ultimate trump card: having turned himself into a virus that will eradicate all those with Saiyan cells. Killing himself, Doctor Mu’s body disintegrates into microscopic spores that spread across Earth, harming the Saiyans and Cell.
The Saiyans all pass out, leaving the gods to face down Freeza alone. Freeza has grown powerful through decades of stewing in his own hatred in Hell, providing quite a problem for Shin.
Eventually, Pan wakes up and tries to join the battle, but learns that she cannot transform into a Super Saiyan anymore. Gokuu and the others also awaken and find themselves in similar positions. It appears that Doctor Mu has truly ‘erased’ Saiyans from existence.
Gokuu realizes that he has only one remaining trump card and begins forming a Genki-Dama, calling on all those from across the entire universe to lend him their Genki.
While Freeza and the reawakened Cell are held back by the others, Gokuu creates his Ultra Chou Genki-Dama and slams it into the two, sending them straight back to Hell for one last time.
The next day, Blooma finishes her tests and tells Gokuu and friends that they are conclusively no longer ‘Saiyans’, they have been mutated into something like Tsufruians, and can therefore no longer become Super Saiyans or use more power than that. What’s worse, the Earth’s Dragon Balls have not been restored, either.
In the final scene of the series, Pan steals the GT spaceship and flies off into space to visit Giru, deciding to live life to the fullest, even if she is no longer a Saiyan.
THE END
