The Story of Dragon Ball
On a distand planet, a group of Saiyajins had killed most of the people on the planet. However
one victim lasted long enough to attack the leader of the Saiyajins, and to give that Saiyajin the
ability to see what nasty things the future held for him. That leader's name was Bardock.
Bardock and his group had been working for the powerful Freeza, as had the rest of the Saiyajins.
Freeza's plan was to kill off everyone on a number of different planets. What the Saiyajins did not
reliza was that Freeza secretly planed to have the Saiyajin's home planet Vegeta as the final target.
At the same time of all this, a young Saiyajin boy, Prince Vegeta, son of King Vegeta, was training
to become a strong warrior. Also, Bardock's young boy, Kakarot, was being prepped for his first battle
assignment.
Meanwhile, on the planet Meat, Bardock's crew had just finished off the last of the inhabitants when
Freeza's main hench man, Dodoria, and his minions, came along and killed off all of Bardocks crew.
Bardock had been back on planet Vegeta, recovering from a previous battle, when he arrived on
Meat on time to hear the dying words of one of his team. Dudoria and Bardock began to fight, but
before it was finished Dudoria was summoned back to Freeza's ship. Bardock tried to warn the other
Saiyajins of Freeza, but they only laughed at him. Bardock at this time is getting more flashes
of the future, and he comes to believe them when one soldier tells him that his son Kakarot has
just been fired off to Earth on an assignment. Bardock see's visions of Kakarot's life on Earth, and
he see's his own death, so he decides he is going to try and rewrite his future. Bardock battles
man of Freeza's minions on his way to Freeza's ship, but he dies in the final battle with Freeza.
Freeza sacrificed many of his own soldiers in his own attack, but he only laughed at the fireworks
that resulted when planet Vegeta blew up.
On Earth, an old man, Son Gohan, discovers a little baby out in the
woods, and decides to name the "healthy" child "Son Gokuu." Elsewhere,
Prince Vejiita is told (probably by his mentor, Nappa) that his planet just
blew up. Vejiita isn't impressed. At this point, there are only four
surviving Saiya-jin: Gokuu, Radditz (Kakarot's older brother,) and Radditz'
friends -- Vejiita, and Nappa.
Several years later, around age 5, Gokuu turns into a were-monkey, and
kills Son Gohan by mistake, but he doesn't remember this.
Our main story begins when Gokuu is age 11, and is living on his own. Buruma
discovers him, along with the first Dragon Ball. Gokuu has the comic
adventures that bring him into contact with Buruma, Kuririn, Chi Chi,
Kame-sennin, and Yamcha. After killing Demon King Piccolo, Gokuu stays at
Kami-sama's palace to train. Around age 20, he surfaces to fight Piccolo,
Jr. He also meets Chi Chi again and they get married. Time passes, and
Gohan is born (Gokuu named his son after his "grandfather.") Then,
Kakarot's older brother, Radditz, arrives on Earth. 
Piccolo Jr. and Gokuu
team up to defeat Radditz, but Gokuu sacrifices himself to give Piccolo time
to prepare his attack. Gokuu spends 1 year in "the other world," training
under Kaiou-sama, while Piccolo kidnaps Gohan and trains the boy in the
desert.
The only other surviving Saiya-jins are Prince Vejiita and Nappa. Those two have arrived on Earth to kill Gokuu and wreak
havok everywhere. Nappa is killed, and Vejiita goes back to a safe planet
to recover from his wounds. Earth's Dragon Balls have been deactivated, so
Buruma, Kuririn, and Gohan go to the planet Namek to get the Namek Dragon
Balls to wish the dead back to life, and again run afoul of Vejiita.
(Kami-sama/Piccolo was originally from Namek.) While at the same time,
Freeza has learned of the Namek Dragon Balls, and wants to find them to wish
for immortality. After a very long fight, in which most of the Namek are
killed, and the planet is destroyed, Freeza (and his minions, Dodoria and
Zarbon) finally die.
But, it looks like Gokuu has perished on the exploding planet as well.
One year passes, and the Namek Dragon Balls are used to resurrect some of
the dead Z Fighters and most of the Namek. Vejiita shacks up with Buruma,
and the group prepares to fight Freeza's father, and the resurrected Freeza.
At the same time, a strange teenager from the future arrives. He kills
Freeza for the final time, and tells the group that Gokuu will be arriving
by spaceship very soon. It turns out that Gokuu had been able to find a
small Saiya-jin spaceship and crawl into it before the Namek planet
exploded. He'd spent time on planet Yardrat, where he learned to teleport,
but also received a virus that will cause him to die of heart failure in a
few years.
The teenager is Trunks, son of Vejiita and Buruma. He'd come from the
future, in a time machine created by Buruma, to warn the fighters of two
androids (#17 and #18) that would wake up in 3 years to kill nearly everyone
on the planet. But, instead of killing the inventor -- Dr. Gero -- in
advance, the group decides to wait, and then have fun fighting the androids.
Trunks gives some heart medicine to Gokuu, and returns to his future. A few
more years pass, and Trunks shows up in the past again. However, instead of
facing #17 and #18, the heroes are confronted by an android version of Dr.
Gero himself, and the android #20. Turns out that Trunks keeps changing the
timeline when he travels to the past. #17 and #18 appear, kill Dr. Gero,
and wake up #16. There is a lot of fighting, before the next real villian
shows on the scene. Gero had been working on a biological android in one of
the alternate timelines, and that android killed one of the alternate
timeline Trunks to take one of the time machines back to fight it out with
Gokuu and #17 and #18. The bio-android, named Cell, has genetic data built
into him from most of the heroes, and only needs to consume #17 and #18 to
attain prefection. In complete form, he can destroy all of Earth.
Cell does become complete, and he kills Gokuu and Trunks before being
wasted by Gohan (with the help of Vejiita.) The Dragon Balls are used to
resurrect nearly everyone but Gokuu (Gokuu decides to stay dead because he
believes that he attracts trouble. Instead, he trains under Kaiou-sama in
the Other World.) #18 had a self-destruct device built-in by Dr. Gero, and
Kuririn requests Shen-lon to remove the device via the Dragon Balls. Time
passes again.
Gohan is now 16, and he's entering school in Satan City. Trunks returned
to his future, where he kills his versions of #17, #18, and Cell. Baby
Trunks grows up, and Chi Chi has another son, Goten. Kuririn and #18 live
together on Kamesennin's island and have a baby girl.
Satan is a professional wrestler who had earlier tried to challenge Cell.
And, because no one else claimed victory after the battle, he decided to con
the world into thinking that he'd saved everyone from the menace of Cell.
So, he's now rich, and well-respected.
Gohan is in the same class as Satan's daughter, Beederu. Gohan passes
his idle time by catching criminals as the costumed Great Saiya-man. Beederu
sees through his disguise, and blackmails Gohan into joining the next
Tenkai-ichi Budoukai (contest to determine the best fighter on Earth.) Satan
"won" the Cell game, and Gokuu had been the Budoukai champion three years
before that. So, the daughter of Satan wants to fight the son of Gokuu.
Gokuu is given 24 hours on Earth (by Kame-sennin's fortunetelling older
sister) to enter. Which means that Vejiita has to sign up, as well. #18
and Kuririn join to go for the prize money.
In the Budoukai, some newcomers disrupt the procedings. Two villians,
Supopo-Bitchi and Yamuu, steal Gohan's energy to help regenerate a magical
being. Two "good guys" Kibit and Kaiou-shin (god of the Kai-ou's (or, world
kings,) are using Gohan as bait to follow Supopo and Yamu back to their
hidden base.) Kibit heals Gohan, and the heroes race off. This leaves #18,
Trunks and Goten, (disguised to sneak into the adult's round of competition)
and Satan to square off in the Budoukai. #18 unmasks the two boys, but then
extorts twice the first place prize money from Satan to pretend to lose.
Satan saves his face, and #18 gets rich very quick.
The two villians go to a buried rocket and give the container holding
Gohan's energy to a magic-user from an alternate universe where everyone is
either a demon or a wizard. The magic-user, Babi-di, wishes to reactivate a
monster created by his father (Bibi-di.) Aided by his world's greatest
fighter, Darbura, Babi is getting enough energy to bring Buu back to power
before Kaiou-shin can stop him (Kaiou-shin and others of his race had fought
Bibi-di and Buu several hundred years before.)
Buu is brought back, and promptly turns Darbura into a cookie and eats
him. Babi has the ability to control people through the evil in their
hearts: Vejiita takes advantage of this ability to have all the "weak
Earthly emotions" stripped from him so that he can defeat Gokuu once and for
all. However, when he realizes that Buu has killed Gohan, and threatens to
erase Trunks and Buruma, Vejiita sacrifices himself to destroy Buu. Vejiita
fails, Gokuu tries to figure out a way to do "Fusion" with another Saiya-jin
to create a super super Saiya-jin, and Buruma and Yamcha use the Dragon
Balls to resurrect the people killed on this day.
Gokuu learned about Fusion in the Other World, and it has the ability to
turn two fighters of equal strength into one very powerful fighter, for only
30 minutes. Trunks and Goten are trained by Piccolo to use Fusion, as
Gokuu's time on Earth runs out. Gokuu did try to fight Buu for a bit, but
was no match for the monster. Babi-di lets his guard down at the wrong
time, and Buu kills him. Kibit is brought back by the Dragon Balls, and he
rescues the near-dead Kaiou-shin. Kaiou-shin locates the near-dead Gohan,
and takes the boy to the Kaiou-shin planet in Heaven, where they meet up
with Gokuu. Trapped in a sword a long time ago is an old Kaiou-shin, and he
is released when Gohan accidently breaks the sword. The old coot claims to
have the ability to make Gohan stronger, but this seems to be a lie -- the
coot either pretends to be not sleeping, or not reading manga. When Gohan
gets impatient and starts yelling at the old coot, the boy suddenly
discovers that he has a lot more power than before. So, he lets more time
pass to let the old coot complete the spell.
On Earth, Mr Satan befriends Buu, and the monster decides to stop turning
people into food and eating them. Unfortunately, two thrillseekers are
running around loose, shooting people before Buu kills everyone. They make
the mistake of shooting the puppy that Buu befriends, and also shooting Mr.
Satan. In anger, Buu creates an evil version of Itself -- this version
destroys the thrillseekers before battling with Buu itself. Buu accidently
turns Itself into a chocolate bar, and the evil one eats It. This creates a
Super-powerful Buu, who locates Piccolo atop Dende's tower. Buu kills Chi
Chi, and Goten and Trunks enter the Room of Spirit and Mind to train a bit
more. Buu also enters the Room, and the boys use Fusion to become the
powerful fighter Gotenks. Buu is strong enough to escape from the Room, and
takes the time to turn Buruma, Beederu, Kuririn, #18, and everyone else at
the Palace into chocolate and eats them. In the resulting fight between
Gotenks and Buu, Kami-sama's floating palace is completely destroyed.
Buu tricks Gotenks and Gohan into challenging It one-on-one, and absorbs
them, as well as Piccolo, which gives It their powers. Dai Kaiou-shin has
the ability to make Gokuu human again, and Uranai Baba gives Vejiita his 24
hours on Earth. The Kaiou-shin's earrings can permanently Fuse two people
together; Kaiou-shin is fused with Kibit (creating "Kaiou-bit"), and Gokuu
fuses with Vejiita. Buu absorbs "Vejit", which counter-acts the earrings.
But, Gokuu and Vejiita free Piccolo, Goten, Trunks, Gohan, and the Fat Buu.
In actuality, the Fat Buu was created when Buu absorbed two of the
Kaiou-shins in the war 300+ years ago. With Fat Buu disconnected, the True
Buu (a sullen little boy) destroys Earth, killing Tenshinhan, Piccolo,
Goten, Trunks, and Gohan. Kaiou-bit rescues Vejiita, Gokuu, Dende, Satan,
and the puppy, and takes them to the Kaiou-shin Planet.
True Buu teleports after them. Vejiita destroys his earring, and Gokuu
fights Buu one-on-one. Kibit teleports to a new planet in Heaven with Dai
Kaiou-shin and Dende, leaving Satan behind by accident. True Buu spits out
Fat Buu. Satan thinks that all of this is a dream, but still runs away in
fear when threatened. When True Buu tries to kill Satan, Fat Buu recovers
and the two Buus fight. Vejiita has a change of heart, and telepaths to
Dende to use the Namek Dragon Balls to: 1) restore Earth; 2) Revive everyone
killed since the beginning of the Budoukai (which will bring back the ones
that he killed, too) excluding evil people. The Namek Dragon has been
upgraded to allow resurrecting many people, and he does this, which also
returns Dai Kaiou-shin and Vejiita to life. Vejiita then uses Kaiou-sama to
telepath to the people of Earth to raise their hands and give their energy
to Gokuu so that Gokuu can create a BIG Genki Dama. Most Earthlings refuse,
thinking that this is a trick by Babi-di's minions, until Satan gets his act
together and orders everyone to do what Vejiita asks. Dende uses the third
Dragon Ball wish to heal Gokuu back to normal.
The resulting energy allows Gokuu to make a super Genki Dama, and he
destroys True Buu with it. Kaiou-bit heals Fat Buu (against Vejiita's
wishes) and takes everyone home. Satan again claims to have saved the
universe.
6 months later, Earth's Dragon Balls are used to make everyone forget
that Fat Buu was their enemy. 10 more years pass. It is time for the next
Tenkai-ichi Budoukai. Gokuu is going to enter it, because when he killed
Buu, he'd wished that Buu could be reincarnated as someone good. This has
happened, and young Uubu has travelled from his poor village to enter the
Budoukai and win the prize money for his starving peoples.
Gohan has become a scholar, Trunks and Goten have become rebellious
teenagers, Beederu has married Gohan and given him a daughter named Pan,
Buruma and Vejiita had another baby -- a girl named Bra, and Buu has moved
in with Mister Satan. Buu is expected to fight in the lower rounds of the
Budoukai, and then when It faces Satan in the final match, It will take a
dive. But, with Gokuu, Vejiita, Goten, Trunks, and Pan entering the
tournament, Gokuu has to promise Satan that whoever wins, they'll let Satan
beat them to save his face.
Gokuu has Buu use Its magic to change the numbers around when people are
paired up for the final rounds. 4 year-old Pan easily beats her huge
opponent. Then, Gokuu and Uubu face each other. But, Uubu has stage
fright, and has to be insulted to get started. Uubu is really strong, but
he can't levitate. So, Gokuu asks the boy if he'd like to receive speci al
training to become a good fighter. Uubu agrees, and Gokuu promises to have
Satan donate cash to the village (rather than sticking around long enough
for Uubu to try for the prize money). Then, Gokuu says goodbye to his
family for a few years, and he and Uubu fly off. Piccolo says that it's
been a long time since Gokuu has looked this happy.
Some of this story's information came from a document by Curtis H. Hoffmann.