Goku Black Saga

The **Goku Black Saga** is a Saga present in the What-If Series. The Saga follows the actions of Goku Black who, in order to better use his Saiyan body, utilizes his Time Ring in order to reach other timelines and fight against great opponents, exploiting the Saiyans' ability to grow stronger when in battle.

## Plot

Shortly after swapping his body with Goku, Black realizes that he cannot fully utilize it to its potential, thus decides to exploit the Saiyans' nature to grow stronger in battle in order to better use his body. Using his Time Ring, he travels to Future Trunks' timeline during Android 17 and 18 rampage on Earth, and kills the young Saiyan. The death of his pupil grants Future Gohan access to Super Saiyan 2, and with it he manages to barely destroy the evil Androids.
Disgusted by the existence of the Androids, which he sees as the manifestation of humans' greed, Goku Black manages to unlock the Super Saiyan form. Now more prepared, Goku Black decides to face off against Future Gohan, aiming to obtain the form once used by the body he stole, Super Saiyan Blue, intending to use this power to carry out in Future Trunks' timeline the Zero Mortals Plan, due to Beerus being long dead. He is successful in his attempt, obtaining the Super Saiyan Rosé form after recovering from a near-death experience, and proceeds to kill Future Gohan.

Believing himself to be prepared, he returns to the main Future Timeline and kills off all the Supreme Kais of all Universes, ensuring that no God of Destruction will stand in his way, and allies with a version of himself from this timeline that became immortal thanks to the Super Dragon Balls. But, unexpectedly, Goku and Vegeta come to Trunks' aid, ready to face Black. The three warriors manage to turn the tables on their adversaries, managing to trap the immortal Zamasu utilizing the Evil Containment Wave. Pushed at a corner and a step from death, Black teleports to another timeline using his Time Ring, saving himself.
From this event, Black focuses on using his Saiyan body even better, in order to best his enemies, while also recognizing the potential of mastering his usage of the Time Ring. He then stumbles on a timeline that showcases deeper understanding of Saiyan folklore, and comes to learn of Tuffles, Machine Mutants and the Super Saiyan 4 transformation. He also witnesses Baby's defeat at the hands of Goku.
Returning to another timeline, Black decides to achieve the Super Saiyan 4 transformation believing that it'll deepen his understanding of the Saiyan body, and is successful at obtaining such form.

Now with a tail and the Super Saiyan 4 form, Black reaches a timeline in which Vegeta recently obtained the Super Saiyan God transformation, making the decision of not using any of his Godly Forms to better master his Saiyan power and to not attract Beerus' attention. He battles Vegeta and, after managing to best him with Super Saiyan 4 transformation, Vegeta unlocks an Evolved state of Super Saiyan God, turning the tables on Black and severely wounding him. Before escaping with his Time Ring, Black thanks Vegeta for damaging him so much, meaning that his power will greatly increase when he recovers.
Some time after recovering and boasting greater power, Black returns at the exact moment he fled back in Future Trunks' timeline, and proceeds to kill off Goku, Vegeta and Future Trunks but leaves his immortal counterpart sealed, confident in his newfound strength. With nobody capable of opposing him, Black carries out the Zero Mortals Plan all over Universe 7, and aims to expand his vision of utopia must extend to all Universes and Timelines, despite not being ready to do that just yet.
In order to achieve even more strength to battle the Gods of Destruction and the mortals who reached their domain, Black speculates that observing Baby might provide insight on how to master even further his Saiyan body, planning to also obtain Baby signature technique, Tuffleization, by any means necessary, wanting to use it for his own gain.

Returning to the timeline from which Baby originates, he encourages the Machine Mutant to kill Goku and instructs him to not hold back, which results in the Saiyan's death. But this turn of events backfires, since the abrupt disappearance of Goku's Ki attracts Broly, who is revealed to having been stuck in space in a deep hibernation for the past 16 years, due to the Family Kamehameha thrown at him by the Son Family failing to launching him into the sun.
Unaware of Black and Baby's true identities, believing them to be Goku and Vegeta, Broly starts to battle them both, only for him to be easily dealt with. After being beaten down, Broly coincidentally meets the circumstances to obtain the Golden Great Ape form and thus transforms, going into a frenzy, which results in him aimlessly shooting several Ki blasts that destroy several Earth's structures. With Baby destroying the moon, Broly is forced into his base form but, as he powers down, he aligns his consciousness as a Golden Great Ape with his true personality, giving him control of the form and thus access to the Super Saiyan 4 transformation, which Broly immediately uses.
Having gained three Zenkais since his return from space, his power continuously increasing and his new transformation, Broly manages to outmatch both Black and Broly, up until he survives a Revenge Death Ball. Fearing that Broly's power might increase even further, Black proposes to fuse with Baby, which results in the creation of Baby Vegito Black.

Vegito, recognizing the threat posed by Broly, turns the tables on him and ends up obliterating the Legendary Super Saiyan completely. The enormous amount of Godly Ki Vegito emitted when killing Broly ends up awakening Beerus from his slumber, meaning that Vegito cannot stay away from the God of Destruction. Nonetheless, confident in the strength he has achieved via Fusion, Vegito decides to await for Beerus' arrival.
Beerus and Whis reach Earth, meeting with Vegito, deeming him to be the Super Saiyan God of prophecy. The fused warrior and Beerus begin their match, with the former gaining the edge via his usage of the Time Ring. The God of Destruction notices this, destroying the ring, which makes him question on Vegito's origin, wondering if he was a deity in origin due to his knowledge and the possession of Potara Earrings and the Time Ring. Despite the loss of the Time Ring, his means of escape, Vegito remains confident in victory, deciding on using the Black Star Dragon Balls to his advantage.
The fused warrior thus contacts a Tuffleized Dende telepathically, ordering him to keep an eye on the Black Star Dragon Balls, with the Namekian telling him that the Lookout has long since been destroyed by a stray Ki blast, together with the Black Star Dragon Balls, Vegito quickly deducing that it was Broly while he was a Golden Great Ape. With his plan of using the Black Star Dragon Balls falling apart, and with Beerus revealing he can hear Vegito's telepathy, the fused warrior thus contacts Giru, blackmailing the Machine Mutant and forcing him to collect the Earth's Dragon Balls.

Using the Kaio-ken, Vegito manages to overwhelm Beerus, ending his onslaught with a Shining Kamehameha. Taken aback by Vegito's power, Beerus activates Ultra Instinct, evening his clash with the fused warrior. Despite congratulating Beerus for his usage of Ultra Instinct, Vegito remains confident in his "true" power, to which the God of Destruction quickly deduces that it is nothing more than a momentary multiplication which he cannot sustain for too long due to its cost in stamina, Vegito smugly retorting that he won't even need to use it for long.
As the battle continues, Beerus manages to overwhelm Vegito despite his Kaio-ken, forcing the fused warrior to cover into metal Beerus' arm and leg, but this is for naught as Beerus destroys the metal with his Hakai. As Vegito's options starts to dwindle, he decides to sever Beerus' life-link with Shin, thus locks into the Supreme Kai's Ki and uses Instant Transmission, discovering that he cannot pinpoint his Ki.
This last action cements Whis and Beerus' belief that Vegito is no mortal, with the both of them revealing to the fused warrior that not only Shin has long fused with his assistant but that he has been sealed, in order to ensure Beerus' survival.

Backed into a corner, Vegito once again contacts Giru, which tells the fused warrior he has found almost all 7 Dragon Balls, before the Machine Mutant is suddenly destroyed by Beerus. With his last plan having failed as well, Vegito is totally hopeless before Beerus, who readies himself to destroy him. Sensing that death is imminent, Baby emerges from Vegito's body and attempts to escape, only for him to be destroyed by the God of Destruction, this event confirming that the Fusion had more than two fusees.
With Baby having escaped together with all the energy he absorbed from both his Tuffleized slaves and the Fusion, he left Vegito severely weakened and with no energy. Despite this, Black realizes that due to Baby's former host, Vegeta, being unconscious, he's in full control of the Fusion, deciding to use its power to retrieve the last Dragon Ball.
Having luckily managed to pinpoint Giru's last location before he was destroyed, Vegito immediately flies towards there, before splitting in mid-air into his fusees, Goku Black and the unconscious Vegeta, which falls to the ground. Despite the Fusion ending, Black manages to find the Dragon Balls and flies towards them, only to be stopped by Beerus. Now on the ground, Black can't do nothing but despair in front of the God of Destruction, who decides to erase him, deeming him as a nuisance. Goku Black is thus erased by Beerus and, as he turns into dust, the God of Destruction remarks he could have at least died with some dignity.

## Characters

* Baby Vegeta
* Baby Vegito Black
* Beerus
* Future Gohan
* Vegeta
* Broly
* Future Trunks
* Whis