Herms

 

Goku Black has arrived in the present via a strange portal. He notes to himself that Trunks travelled through time to this point, then greets Goku and notes the presence of Vegeta and even the God of Destruction Beerus.

Meanwhile, Beerus and Whis’ attention is drawn to the strange ring Black wears on his right hand. Trunks demands to know how Black got here, and Black explains that he followed the path Trunks took through time and space.

Black mockingly asks if Trunks called for him, and if Trunks wants to die by his hands. Vegeta warns Trunks against fighting Black, saying he’s no match, but before Vegeta himself can challenge Black, Goku flies up to fight him (noting that the early bird gets the worm). He’s heard all about how strong Black is and wants to see for himself!

Black likewise says this is an “honor”: he’d wanted to trying fighting Goku in “this body”. Goku wonders what he means by that, but Black says he doesn’t need to know. On the sidelines, Kuririn wonders who Black is, and Bulma explains that he’s her murderer! This naturally leaves Kuririn even more confused than before.

Goku, still in his base form, trades blows with Black for a little while before finally becoming a Super Saiyan (though we see sparks, the characters only refer to this as “Super Saiyan” and not SS2). Black is thrilled to see such power, and Goku can tell that Black is like him: they both get excited to fight against strong opponents. At this point, Black’s ki rises, and he tells Goku to show him more of his power.

The fight continues, and on the sidelines Kuririn says that Black’s power keeps on rising. Trunks wonders why Goku isn’t using the same power as he did earlier in their sparring match (onscreen we get a quick flashback to SS3 Goku blocking Trunks’ sword). Vegeta explains that Goku has a bad habit of not fighting seriously at the start. Likewise, in the battle itself Goku and Black both note how neither of them is using their full power. Elsewhere, Beerus and Whis say Black isn’t half bad, though oddly his ki doesn’t quite feel the same as Goku’s.

At this point, Goku decides he needs to fight hard enough to force Black to use his full power. The fight recommences and Black takes a beating, but oddly he still seems happy about this, declaring that this pain will make him even stronger. Goku meanwhile thinks that Black is kind of gross. Kuririn notes that Black’s power has risen yet again, and as Goku and Black go at it some more, Trunks’ time machine is knocked over from the impact. Black notices the device and hears Trunks refer to it as a time machine, realizing that this is how Trunks travelled through time.

Black blows up the time machine, but shortly thereafter gets pulled back through the portal he came from. The portal closes, and Black is gone, but the time machine is in flames. Whis explains that Black most likely didn’t vanish on his own. Rather, Black was able to come to this era when the power of his “Time Ring” (the strange ring on his right hand) reacted to the distortions in time created by Trunks’ time machine’s passage through time and space. However, these distortions try and return to their original state, similar to the way a wound heals, and so as a result Black’s Time Ring forcibly pulled him back to the era he came from. In other words, Whis says, he basically just ran out of time.

Indeed, we see that Black has now returned to Trunks’ future world. Lying on the ground in some degree of fatigue and pain, Black says that Super Saiyan Goku’s fighting style has been “engraved” into his body, which will make his strength even more perfect. Though Black thinks he won’t be able to return to that era (ie the present) again, Trunks likewise is stuck there now that his time machine is no more, meaning that in the future world none remain to oppose him.

Back in the present, Trunks is having the same thoughts: now that he’s stuck here, there’s nobody in the future world to stop Black from wiping out the remaining Earthlings. When asked how Black’s power when fighting Goku compares with when Trunks fought Black on prior occasions, Trunks says that Black was “a little stronger” than before. A little, not a lot…probably. In that case, Vegeta thinks they’ve got nothing to worry about, since Goku wasn’t using anywhere near his full power (Vegeta also notes in passing that he hasn’t shown his full power yet either). Trunks wonders why Goku and Vegeta are both so much more powerful than before, but they say it’s a long story. Still, Black’s ki was also constantly rising as he fought Goku, so who knows what his limits are?

The Pilaf Gang steps in to extinguish the time machine’s flames (hoping that they can get food in return). With the flames out, the time machine is now nothing but a burnt-out husk. Bulma laments that even with her future self’s notes, she can’t rebuild the machine from scratch all on her own. Suddenly though, she has an idea and rushes off inside to find something. For his part, Beerus seems pleased that with the time machine gone humans now can no longer mess around with time, but Whis thinks they’ve got another problem to worry about now: Black’s “Time Ring” is something which only Kaioshins are permitted to use. However, Black is quite certainly not a Kaioshin. In that case, what exactly is he? It’s still unclear. Regardless, Time Rings can only take you to the future, and then back to the present, since even among the gods it is strictly forbidden to travel into the past.

Trunks asks Beerus and Whis to give him one of these Time Rings, but since Beerus is a God of Destruction (rather than a Kaioshin), he doesn’t have them. Trunks is still worried about what will happen to future Earth if he doesn’t get back there, but Beerus stresses once again that people shouldn’t mess around with time; both Trunks and Black are troublesome in that regard. Whis thinks that Black most likely can’t travel through time at will, and so probably won’t be back. Which means that if they want to defeat Black, they’ll have to go to the future. Kuririn asks if Whis can use his own time-manipulating powers to take them there, but Whis explains that his powers only allow him to rewind time a maximum of three minutes, and don’t extend to traveling into the future.

Trunks is despondent, since everyone in the future was depending on him. However, Vegeta tells him not to give up; there’s definitely a way to solve this! Beerus says that humans are always so quick to say “don’t give up”, but frankly sometimes there’s nothing that can be done; giving up is important too! Bulma finally returns, having found what she was looking for: a capsule which she throws out to reveal…the battered old time machine Cell arrived in! They’ve got another time machine after all!

Confusing As f*** Time Travel

 

Timeline 1: Goku kills Freeza and King Cold. Goku dies roughly 2 years later and the Z-fighters are killed by the Artificial Humans shortly after, save Gohan. Gohan dies 13 years later, and Bulma builds a time machine shortly after. Trunks goes back in time to Timeline 2 to give Goku the heart medicine, then Trunks returns to timeline 1. Trunks waits 8 months to refuel the time machine, and goes back to timeline 2 to help the others with the Artificial Humans. After that Trunks returns to Timeline 1 to kill the Artificial Humans and Cell
Timeline 2: Trunks kills Freeza and King Cold. Trunks gives Goku the heart medicine. The Z-fighters prepare for the Artificial Humans. Trunks returns from Timeline 1 to help out. The Z-fighters lose to the Artificial Humans initially, but train to overcome them. Cell appears in Timeline 2 from Timeline 3 in order to absorb the Artificial Humans. Trunks and Vegeta try to stop him, but fail, which kick off the events of the Cell Games, where Gohan manages to kill Cell. Trunks then returns to Timeline 1 and kills the Artificial Humans and Cell.
Timeline 3: Trunks from timeline 4 kills the Freeza and King Cold. Trunks gives Goku the heart medicine, and the Z-fighters prepare for the Artificial Humans. Trunks from timeline 4 returns, but Goku, Vegeta, and maybe Trunks are killed somehow. Years later Bulma builds a time machine, but Trunks finds a way to destroy the Artificial Humans on his own. After Trunks destroys the Artificial Humans, he attempts to go back in time to tell the Z-fighters how to destroy the Artificial Humans, but is killed by Cell, who uses his time machine to go back to Timeline 2.
Timeline 4: This timeline essentially plays out like timeline 1, but Trunks is killed in the present of Timeline 3, presumably. If not, maybe he's killed during the 8 month wait to refuel his time machine.

SSj4 Gotenks

Jul 3 2016, 05:51 AM

"Oh Bebi"

Clearin

Jul 3 2016, 02:12 PM

So there's a timeline where Trunks warns everybody about the androids, but they all still die anyway, and baby Trunks grows up, beats the androids and all the time machine stuff happens anyway?

Trunks from timeline 1 goes to timeline 3 and all that stuff happens. Cell then takes his time machine and creates timeline 2. Then Trunks from timeline 1 ends up in timeline 2 due to Cell's interference. But now there's two timelines where Trunks comes to the past, so when Trunks returns to the future they must both be going to different futures because obviously you can't have two Trunks arriving in one future.

So timeline 4 is actually created when Trunks first travels back to the future, I think. Timeline 1 Trunks would be the one who gets killed in the past during the fight against the androids (or just in the 8 month wait). Timeline 2 Trunks gets killed by Cell. Timeline 3 Trunks is the kid Trunks we know today. Timeline 4 Trunks is simply timeline 1 Trunks that has to go back to a different timeline thanks to Cell, but he's the future Trunks we know.

Is that it?

ThePrinceOfSaiyajins

Jul 3 2016, 02:51 PM

But Timeline 1 is the future that the Trunks we know is from. How the Hell does the one that dies get to Timeline 1?