What-If 7

**[What-If 7] Goku Black VS Future Gohan** is the first Episode of the Goku Black Saga, and the seventh overall Episode of the What-If Series. It was published on Feburary 2, 2017.

## Plot

Goku Black appears in a new timeline similar to that of Trunks' Future, he wonders to himself if this timeline could
assist him in growing his power. He sends out a small ki signature, and waits for an response, the response is revealed to be Future Gohan. Future Gohan is shocked to see who believes to be his father, alive and well. Goku Black reveals that he is not Goku, by destroying a major portion of the continent (presumably North America).

Now confident that Black is not Goku, Gohan attacks him and the two begin to do battle. As they fight, Goku Black reveals his ability to transform into a Super Saiyan, with Gohan responding by becoming a Super Saiyan 2; revealing that in this time, Trunks was killed, which fueled Gohan with enough rage to obtain the transformation and defeat the Androids.

As Black explains that what he is doing is necessary for "justice", Gohan demands to know who he is. Black acquiesces, explaining is Zamasu, who stole Son Goku's body in order to have the power to carry out his "Zero Mortal Plan". Black explains that, in an alternate timeline, Trunks traveled through time and therefore broke the space-time continuum. Now, because of Trunks' actions, there are three different timelines. One where Goku and his allies fell against the Androids and Trunks traveled through time, then return to his own strong enough to defeat the Androids of his time; One where Goku and his allies survived, thanks to Trunks warning; and lastly, a timeline in which Trunks managed to warn Goku and his allies of the past, defeated the Androids, but later be killed by the Bio-Android Cell, who would travel through time in an attempt to obtain his "Perfect Form". Black even reveals that there is somehow a fourth time, of which he has no idea as to how it came into existence, one that audience should recognize as the series "Dragonball GT". After explaining the timeline, Black mentions that there was a problem with his plan; he wasn't strong enough, even with Goku's body.

Finally, Black reveals this timeline was in fact created by himself, to train himself, grow accustom to Goku's body and even more, increase strength by exploiting Zenkai boosts. He had managed to create this timeline, by traveling earlier in time than when Trunks did, and killing the younger Future Trunks; thus causing a branch, and a fifth alternate timeline. With the newfound knowledge that Trunks was killed, not by the Androids, but by Goku Black; Gohan grows furious and transforms into Super Saiyan 3.

With this power up, Gohan begins to pummel Black; the latter growing increasing angry that he, 'a God', is not able to access the Super Saiyan God or Super Saiyan Blue transformations. After, piercing Black with a Special Beam Cannon, Black is presumed defeated; with Gohan calling the situation ironic, Black being defeated by the timeline he created himself.

Black monolouges to Gohan, before revealing that he has a Senzu Bean, and consuming it immediately. With Black gaining a Zenkai, he is at last able to obtain Super Saiyan Blue, or in his case, Super Saiyan Rose. With Black's new transformation, and Gohan's broken body on account of using Super Saiyan 3, Black is able to kill him effortlessly, not before Gohan echoing his own words back to him, "Someone stronger than himself will come to finish what he started". Regardless of this, Goku Black has what he wanted and vows to Trunks that he will get what is coming to him.

## Power Scaling

This What-If has been featured in the Power Scaling video.

## Music

* Jigoku Shoujo - San Kanae Rock
* Mark Moore - Fight
* Saiyan Enigma - Buunemba Theme

## Sprites

* Various Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden sprites, among some edited by Hyourinjutsu.

## Trivia

* In this animation, Future Gohan retains both arms, implying that Goku Black's intervention took place before the battle between Future Gohan, Future Trunks and the Androids; thus never leading to Gohan losing him arm;
* In the manga, Future Android 17 mentions that he was able to best Future Gohan before without having to use half of his full power. Had Future Gohan had obtained Super Saiyan 2 (thus doubling his power), there's still a fair change that he would've still lost to both Androids.
	+ However, circumstances of the battle in this timeline were never given. This being said, Gohan could have trained in order to grow stronger, ambushed the Androids, or even have simply gained a Rage Boost, not unlike Vegeta or Future Trunks.
* It's never stated how Goku Black obtained a Senzu Bean, as it's unlikely that he stole it from Gohan, as Gohan only had a single bean left in the original timeline, and it's not probable that hadn't have used it at some point.
	+ However, Black could have very well stolen multiple from alternate timelines, as Black appears to be quite provient at doing this, anyway.
* This What If was initially seen as 'potentially canon', as a way to show how Goku Black had grown so strong in so little time.
	+ However, given the releases of What If: Super Saiyan 4 Broly VS Baby Vegeta and Goku Black and What If: Goku Black (Super Saiyan 4) VS Vegeta (Super Saiyan God Evolution), this appears to no longer be the case, and merely a alternate universe; similarly to the other What If's.
* This video shows that GT takes place in an alternate timeline, separate from the main timeline. While this has never been explicitly stated in any official sense, it's is a theory that many fans accept, as well as being implied in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2.
* On July 2021, this video alongside What If: Super Saiyan 4 VS God of Destruction, were both hit by copyright claims by Sony Entertainment Music; forcing Hyourinjutsu to mute the parts that contained the music Sony claims. The muted period in this video starts in the timestamp 2:35 to 5:08.