Dragonball 3rd Universe

== Dragonball 3rd Universe In the 3rd Universe things work a little differently, for example, almost all the characters use weapons instead of just fighting hand-to -hand, some characters have last names or look slightly different, some timeskips are shorter or nonexsistant,& most characters are stronger than their seventh universe counterparts & have different backstories.

== Son Goku Like in the Japanese versions of the manga & anime Goku is usually called by his full name.He also lives for a full year on Planet Vegeta before Frieza destroys it,& bonds with his mother, Kora & Bardock.On the day Frieza destroys the planet, Bardock sacrifices himself to try to stop Frieza & Kora, who was sick, quickly grabs Kakarot, reprograms a Saiyan ship,& sends it from the planet, crying just before the Supernova hit.He lands on Earth in the Himalayans & is of course found by Grandpa Son Gohan.After Goku falls & hits his head, causing a little amnesia, Gohan takes him to Master Roshi, asks his permission to train him & during the discussion makes Roshi Goku's godfather.Until Goku meets Bulma things go basically the same.At this point the first journey to gather the dragonballs takes a little longer since Goku insists on exploring & having fun & the Earth in this universe is similar to ours.Goku also has to work harder to convince Roshi to teach him, in fact Roshi doesn't truly teach him until after the 21st Tenkaichi Tournament.Since Bora doesn't die, Goku doesn't use the dragonballs to revive him.Goku meets Videl & agrees to teach her but forgets until after the 22nd Tournament.Goku is interested in & later dates Bulma & pays no attention to Chi-Chi.He looks like an actual teenager by the 22nd Tournament, learns howto control & breathe fire & faces Videl's father, Damien Olympus in the quarterfinals & almost loses.Since Roshi & Chiaotzu don't die trying to stop King Piccolo, he doesn't have to revive them.While training with Kami he occasionally leaves to train Videl as promised.It is only a few months after he defeats Piccolo that Garlic Jr. gains immortality & gets sealed in the Dead Zone.Then a few months later,three of the Planet Trade Organization's scouts land on Earth looking for the Saiyan they detected in space.Goku learns a twisted version of what a Saiyan is & that he's one of them.He nearly dies defeating them alongside Roshi, Piccolo, Damien,& Videl,& is taken by Kami to King Yemma,given a senzu & sent to the Northern King Kai in preparation for an invasion.He doesn't fall off Snake Way & after catching Bubbles & hitting Gregory, King Kai has him fight his pet tiger,Toran as a final test.After a few months of training, Goku's Power Pole is broken & King Kai throws the Nyoi-bo into Hell & sends Goku to retrieve it.After overcoming a couple of the Demon King Kaine's tests & the same three scouts he struggled with on Earth he rushes back to King Kai's planet with it.When Vegeta & company land on Earth Goku is given tiger pelt to wear as an obi, & told it can hold an almost unlimited number of items inside.He arrives at the battlefield just too late to save Piccolo & Kami & battles his brother, Raditz Jingu & then Nappa Battax.After eating a senzu bean for his exhaustion, he goes off to battle Vegeta Tachi.This battle goes pretty much the same except it lasts longer because Vegeta & Goku are complete equals when Goku uses Kaioken x3 & can't gain an edge either way.Goku manages to launch his second Spirit Bomb by himself & then transforms into a Great Ape, after his tail grows back & blasts Vegeta before he gets his tail cut off.He then physically intervenes on Yamcha's attempt on Vegeta's life & agrees to have a rematch with Vegeta who is taken by Nappa & Raditz onto a Saiyan spaceship & leaves.Later on, when he trains on the way to Namek, gravity machine malfunctions & he trains in 150x Earth's gravity.He fights & easily defeats the Salza Assault Squadron.He transforms into a Ascended Saiyan[in this universe the Super Saiyan 4 form is the true Super Saiyan form & upon its discovery this state is later called this] because he is forced to watch Frieza kill Reggo's cousins, shoot Piccolo, & Kill Vegeta in the same way he killed krillin in DBZ.He actcually pretends that Frieza has a chance of beating him to give him a taste of his own medicine & see what he can do after Frieza tries to destroy Namek & powers up to full strength.

== Vegeta Tachi Vegeta's history under Frieza is expanded in a flashback arc[the History of Vegeta Arc].His last name is the name of a Japanese sword & is a reference to the fact that he is well-known as one of the universe's greatest swordsmen.He can control lightning & his hair is slightly different[he doesn't have a widow's peak & it all doesn't stand on end].He is also aware of what Frieza did to his race from the day it happened.He saw Frieza's Supernova, not a meteor, as he was later told, smash into the planet & didn't believe the lie Frieza told him to cover the fact that he just killed his parents & why he had King Vegeta's pendant.== ==