"This looks/feels like something out of AF/fanfiction"

[precita]

The moment Goku showed up with a son at the start of DBZ it felt like someones shipper fanfiction.

[ekrolo2]

I'd have just cut out the whole time travel thing entirely. I like Future Trunks as a character but I think the Androids would've worked considerably better as a sudden threat along with the heart virus.That and it would've made the characters in both timelines look considerably less obnoxiously dumb.

Now there's an interesting idea for a what-if, how the Android storyline would play out without Trunks' involvement, but not in the way that we already know of via his own timeline. Would the whole thing with Freeza at the start even still happen? Would Goku simply die from the heart virus and things proceeded more or less how they did but without everyone else dying, and instead finding a way to bring Goku back or just saving the day themselves; or would the heart virus be something that progressively gets worse the more he fights, at least for a time, thus finding a way to keep him in the action but weakened without entirely 'shelving' him. There's a myriad possibilities as to how that would all work out, and it wouldn't have to throw Yamcha/Bulma's relationship down the toilet to make a place for an additional Saiyan either.

Yes.... An interesting idea *cough* shameless self promoting plug *cough*

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11579181/1 ... -the-Torch