What if Dragonball GT was good?

I decided to try my shot at rewriting Dragonball GT. GT was negatively received by most Dragonball fans so I have decided to try my shot of improving it with some guidelines:

1. Dragonball Z an Dragonball is inconsistent with itself at times so I may try to fix a few continuity errors or issues when they come up but I'll try to keep it true to the series.

2. Dragonball GT's creators tried to bring the Dragonball series back to the original Dragonball. This was a misstep as it was the Dragonball Z portion of the series that was hugely popular. I will however try to make this feel like a satisfying ending to Dragonball. I will also add some elements from the movies, but not include Dragon ball Super since its a retcon of the last two films. I will however allude to Battle of Gods and Resurrection F which in this new timeline diverged at a point to form the GT timeline.

BEGIN
We begin with a cinematically lit scene of one of the main pillars of the show: Goku and Vegeta sparring in the Hyperbolic time chamber with Gohan, Videl, Pan and Uub watching. The battle is intense as light from the attacks cast dramatic shadows on the faces and images of the fighters in the dark. While fighting, Goku states that Vegeta should have achieved Super Saiyan 3 by now but Vegeta responds that Super Saiyan 3 has too many drawbacks. It's a form that drains your energy quickly, and that he has a new form which he believes will defeat Kakarot, but refuses to reveal it just yet despite the fact that Goku is beating him severely.

During the fight, Vegeta sends a Final Flash attack towards Pan and Videl which Gohan stands in the way of, revealing that while Gohan has stopped training he is still powerful enough to take on one of Vegeta's strongest attacks and survive with only his clothes being damaged. As a result of Vegeta holding back, and his choosing of that moment to focus his attention away from the battle, Goku lands a swift kick to Vegeta's neck, incapacitating him and emerges victorious. Goku acted quickly to save his granddaughter and daughter in law. With this move Goku wins the match, but it is an unsatisfying victory in Goku's eyes as neither him nor Vegeta were fighting at their best. Vegeta then leaves the hyperbolic time Chamber. Uub celebrates his master's victory and Uub asks how many battles Goku has won between them and Goku responds with:

" Actually this is the first time i've been able to beat him"

NOTE: Consider Vegeta won both in the Saiyan Saga and in the Majin Buu Saga.

Uub: I didn't know Master Gohan was so strong.

Goku: Oh yeah. He might be the strongest being in the universe. I've only ever met one person who was stronger than him.

Uub is surprised by this and stands there flabbergasted as Goku walks away. One question goes through his head.

"Who is stronger than Master Gohan? Master can't mean Vegetto because he didn't technically meet him."

Vegeta exits and is approached by Dende and Popo. Dende intends to heal him when Gohan places his hand on Vegeta's shoulder. Vegeta wears a smug expression as he turns to face Gohan. the look on Gohan's face terrifies Dende, more so than even Frieza. For a moment He didn't recognize the man in front of him as his old friend.

" If you ever try to hurt Pan or Videl again I swear I will kill you"

Vegeta only smiles knowing that his plan has worked and walks away. Dende still stands there, having forgotten to heal Vegeta, not that it seems to matter to The Prince.

Goku, Uub and Pan exit the Hyperbolic Time chamber sometime after Gohan and Vegeta have left due to the time difference within the chamber. This is shown by the fact that it is now night when they appear. The group is greeted by Dende and . Goku announces that Uub has finished his training. Pan, who has also been training with Goku, asks if she can now learn Kaioken like Uub, but Goku insists she doesn't need to because she will eventually go Super Saiyan, but Pan does not believe she can do it since it is not in her nature to be angry but Goku tells her a story of how before she was born, the God of Destruction, Beerus came to earth in search of the Super Saiyan God. The Super Saiyan God needed five righteous Saiyans to summon it and Pan, summoned that power while Videl was still pregnant with her. Goku believes that Pan has great power in her thanks to her father Gohan's unlocked potential, but Pan herself has doubts. Goku mentions how goten was able to go Super Saiyan when he was young too, though Pan thinks this is because Goku was a Super Saiyan already when he had him.

NOTE: In this retelling of Dragonball GT, the timeline diverges when Battle of Gods takes a different path. During the battle with Beerus, Goku is unable to maintain the Super Saiyan God form for so long and loses it. Beerus is however pleased and does not destroy the earth. What happens is similar to the game Dragonball Xenoverse, where Goku passes out during his fight with Beerus and because of a similar event in this timeline, he is unable to maintain the God form and loses it, possibly forever. In Dragonball Xenoverse, Beerus and Whis follow the player back to their own timeline. In this timeline they never returned to their own reality, as a result of this Vegeta is actually stronger than Goku when enraged and neither of them were trained by Whis. The events of Resurrection F were altered but I will reveal how later. essentially, Dragonball Xenoverse and the timeline alterations caused within the game led to the creation of the GT timeline.

Goku, Pan and Uub leave, with Pan being shown to be able to ride on the flying Nimbus along with Uub, showing that she is indeed pure of heart since only such a person can ride it. Goku flies alongside them and has a memory of himself and Chi Chi as kids riding o the nimbus, while he is looking at his two students riding the Nimbus alongside him flying.

Later that night as Dende and Mr. Popo are sleeping, a plane lands on the lookout silently(some people would recognize it as the plane used by the Pilaf Gang to escape from great Ape Goku in the Emperor Pilaf Saga or a similar design). The Pilaf Gang step out of the plane and stealthily move to steal the dragon balls on the lookout.

NOTE:In this version the Black Star Dragonballs do not exist at this time, there was however, an attempt in the past by Demon King Piccolo to create Dragon balls of his own and use them to make his own wishes but he failed because Kami kept the ability to do so to himself when he separated his evil half. The Dragonballs have by this point been taken by Dende to prevent them from being used for evil following the resurrection of Frieza, which I will once again reveal the events of at a later time.

The Pilaf Gang had previously used the dragon balls to wish themselves young again but this backfired and made them too young(as shown in Battle of Gods). At some point while they were searching for the dragon balls again, they ran into two of the few remaining members of Frieza's army: Sorbet and Tagoma and together they used the Dragonballs, now altered to grant three wishes. The first wish was used by the Pilaf gang to get money, the second was to resurrect Frieza by Sorbet and Tagoma,which resulted in pieces of Frieza falling from the sky, which the two henchmen then took to their ship, and the last one was used by the Pilaf gang to make them older, but this backfired and they were made too old.

While the gang is searching the lookout for the Dragonballs, they pass a beaker containing a black liquid with what appears to have two eyes floating in it resembling those of , when the gang leaves the liquid slowly creeps out of the beaker and follows them. The Pilaf gang finds the Dragonballs and brings them outside of the lookout in order to summon the dragon. We get a cool scene of Shenron emerging and hovering over the lookout, dwarfing it with his size. The bright light wakes up Dende and he confusedly walks outside in what one would imagine Namekian pajamas look like where he surprises the Pilaf Gang and is shot by Mai in panic. The black goo reforms into and holds Dende's lifeless body in his is killed instantly.

NOTE: I took some elements from Dragonball Abridged with having be a mysterious entity, though he is nowhere near as strong as the Abridged version, as he did not stand a chance if he fought against the Saiyans when they first came to earth. Dende was killed instantly and so he wasn't able to heal himself, which is similar to what happened when Frieza killed him on Namek.

The Pilaf gang is shocked by the accidental death but regardless, Pilaf tries to make the wish while is too distracted holding Dende's lifeless body to do anything. However, Pilaf's verbal stating of the wish is interrupted by Goku's fist colliding with his jaw. Goku sensed Dende's death and used instant transmission to get there first. Mai and Shu attack Goku but he casually dodges the attacks, while it is quite clear he could easily take them both, Pilaf inadvertently utters the wish " God I wish you would just disappear" and Goku does just that. The dragonballs scatter once again and there is silence. Gohan, Piccolo and Vegeta among other Z fighters sense Goku's immense Ki vanish and all head immediately to the lookout. To the Pilaf gang's chagrin, they are soon surrounded by Goku's angered friends and family.

The gathered Z fighters question where Goku went. Vegeta is contacted by King Kai, who reveals that Goku is not in the afterlife, either on his planet or at the check out line with King Yemma and doesn't seem to be in the universe at all, He compares this to when Beerus and Whis mysteriously disappeared years ago and where never seen again. This makes the Z fighters wonder if Goku is in another universe. It is here that we are told that the dragon balls only have power limited to earth and those on it, unless it is connected to Purika on Namek(hence why they could not be used to destroy the Saiyans on their way to earth during the Saiyan Saga). Gohan suggests they journey to Namek to use their dragon balls to bring back Goku. They then have to decide what to do with the Pilaf gang and Gohan turns them over to the police in his guise as the great Saiyaman. This is witnessed by a mysterious man wearing a disguise.

NOTE: This story thread will return in a later Saga

All the Z fighters meet at Capsule Corp, where Bulma has built a ship to go to Namek. Gohan is planning on going but Pan and Uub insist on coming along to save their master. Goten and Trunks also want to come along. the final person to join the group is Bra.

NOTE: A few notes on each character and how they fit into the group.

Gohan can go SSJ but needs to be enraged to go SS2, though because of his unlocked potential he really doesn't need to. Gohan is looked up to by the group as he is the oldest.

Pan in this version wears Kid Goku's gi and has the power pole and Nimbus, which she brings along and uses as a pillow on the trip, though since its a cloud it needs oxygen to sustain itself and will fade in a vacuum such as open space but cannot be destroyed and will reform.

Uub in his base form is as strong as Kid Buu since he is a reincarnation of him, but Goku's training and the Kaioken have boosted his power greatly.

Bra in this case can actually fight thanks to her father's intense training(due to Vegeta's disappointment in Trunks) but still takes after her mother, being smart enough to pilot the ship to Namek. She is however a slacker when it comes to fighting and can't go Super Saiyan. her power extends largely to flight, ki blasts and weaker versions of Vegeta's moves.

Goten, and Trunks can both go SSJ but are both somewhat weaker since they figure they can just fuse into Gotenks and have not been training much since the Buu saga.

And so the group blasts off with the last thing we see being Vegeta forming a small smile. If there is an after credits scene to the episode, it will be on Namek where the Namek guardian Moori has a creepy smile and is talking to someone in the shadows. The conversation goes roughly like this...

"the Saiyans are coming. The earth is ripe for conquest, we can kill them when they arrive and then strike the earth."

"Do not make the mistake of underestimating them as Frieza did"

"No. One of them is a spy. They will help us in killing the others. "

"What Saiyan would betray their own race?"

"That is my little secret. You have no need to worry. You will have your revenge soon...tuffle"

END OF EPISODE ONE

TO BE CONTINUED

Let me know what you think. this was only the Pilot episode(basically the pitch to see if anyone wants more . The rest will go a lot faster I swear. throw out comments, complaints or suggestions if you have them.