Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen met the purple-haired youth and learned that he was Trunks, a time traveler from a parallel world where Vegeta had been king of the Saiyans. Trunks began explaining how his world’s history differed, including how Bardock had saved Planet Vegeta from Frieza.

• Lin Chen recognized the youth as Trunks but took him to the garden to speak privately and avoid revealing his identity to Vegeta and Bulma.
• Lin Chen introduced himself as the Saiyan king and explained that he could travel between parallel worlds, revealing that he had met another version of Trunks.
• Trunks realized he had traveled to a parallel world and explained that he came from twenty years in the future and was Vegeta’s son and the Saiyan Prince.
• Trunks said he had asked Vegeta about this world’s Saiyan history and found many similarities with his own.
• Trunks revealed that Bardock had saved Planet Vegeta from Frieza in his world, just as Lin Chen had saved it in his.

The chapter recounts how Bardock’s rebellion led to a brutal Saiyan Empire ruled by Broly, until Vegeta IV was sent to conquer Earth. Trunks explains how Vegeta met Bulma there and became his father.

• Bardock defeated King Vegeta, saved the Saiyans from Frieza, and later handed the throne to a stronger Saiyan, whose rule turned the Saiyans into conquerors.
• Broly awakened as a legendary Super Saiyan, killed Cooler, King Cold, and the reigning Saiyan king, and took the throne.
• Broly’s unchecked rule devastated planets until Vegeta IV arrived and eventually brought the empire’s destruction.
• Trunks recalled that Vegeta had gone to Earth to conquer it and defeated the Red Ribbon Army, then spared Dr. Gero to pursue android research.
• Vegeta met Bulma on Earth, fell in love with her, and became Trunks’s father.

Trunks recounted how Vegeta and Bardock used an army of Android 19 units to defeat Broly, allowing Vegeta to become king and expand the Saiyan Empire. The chapter left the empire unaware of a growing danger after Bulma discovered that the androids’ control devices could fail and Vegeta dismissed her warning.

• Trunks told Lin Chen that Bardock revealed Broly would eventually destroy the universe and urged Vegeta to stop him.
• Vegeta and Bardock enlisted Dr. Gero to build over two hundred Android 19 units for their plan against Broly.
• Vegeta lured Broly to a wilderness planet, where Bardock ambushed him with the android army; nearly all the units and Bardock died, while Vegeta survived and became king.
• Vegeta recovered and expanded the Saiyan Empire across the North, East, West, and South Galaxies with the androids’ help.
• Bulma discovered that an android had ignored its control device and attacked a Saiyan, revealing a flaw that could lead to rebellion.
• Vegeta dismissed Bulma’s warning after Dr. Gero supplied replacement controllers, underestimating the androids.

Trunks told Lin Chen how Dr. Gero’s Androids overthrew the Saiyan Empire and devastated the universe, then asked him for help saving his world. Lin Chen’s system presented three choices, including traveling with Trunks, training him, or killing him.

• Trunks explained that Android 17 and Android 18 defeated Vegeta and destroyed the capital of Planet Vegeta after Dr. Gero’s rebellion.
• Trunks revealed that Dr. Gero had arranged Bardock’s death and used Saiyan corpses to create more powerful biological Androids.
• Trunks said Vegeta was assassinated a year after the Saiyan Empire fell, leaving the survivors to flee the expanding Android army.
• Trunks explained that Bulma built a Time Machine so he could warn Vegeta in the past, but it brought him to another space-time instead.
• Trunks asked Lin Chen to help him, and Lin Chen’s system offered choices to fight the Androids, train Trunks, or kill him.

Lin Chen rejected killing Trunks or taking his Time Machine, then agreed to guide his training after revealing a stronger Saiyan form. Trunks left to settle affairs in his world before returning, while Lin Chen wondered whether the Android Saga might reach his own world.

• Lin Chen chose the Power-of-Time Sparring Robot reward and refused Trunks's plea to travel to his world to defeat its Androids.
• Lin Chen told Trunks that another version of him had overcome the Androids through training, then demonstrated his Super Saiyan 2 form.
• Trunks realized he had mistaken Super Saiyan for the pinnacle and transformed, but asked Lin Chen to wait while he settled matters in his world.
• Trunks flew away after Lin Chen told him to return soon for training, and Lin Chen wondered whether the Android Saga could happen in his world.
• Son Goku and the others asked Lin Chen about Trunks, and Piccolo began explaining what he knew while concealing key details.

After learning about Trunks's parallel world, Lin Chen warned everyone that their own future might still bring danger and urged them to train. He returned to the Saiyan spaceship and questioned Paragus about Dr. Gero, deciding to investigate further after reaching Planet Vegeta.

• Piccolo explained Trunks's world, and the group discussed how its history differed from theirs.
• Vegeta revealed that Dr. Gero existed in their world and had created the Metal Saibamen Raditz and he brought to Earth.
• Lin Chen warned that Dr. Gero or another enemy might threaten them, then left to investigate him.
• Goku, Piccolo, and Vegeta vowed to train harder, and the others departed Bulma's house.
• Lin Chen told Hanasia and Paragus about the possibility of Dr. Gero's rebellion, and Paragus reported that the scientist was closely monitored and had shown no suspicious behavior.
• Lin Chen decided not to act against Dr. Gero yet and planned to reconsider after returning to Planet Vegeta.

Lin Chen investigated whether Dr. Gero was secretly creating dangerous androids after Bardock prophesied that two Lazulis would fight. The surveillance records seemed to clear Dr. Gero, but a second Dr. Gero appeared at the institute and urged him to strike first.

• King Vegeta called for the androids and Dr. Gero to be destroyed, while Paragus warned that doing so could weaken the Saiyans on the front lines.
• Bardock told Lin Chen about his vision of two Miss Lazulis fighting, prompting Lin Chen to suspect Dr. Gero had secretly built Android 17 and Android 18.
• Lin Chen reviewed Paragus's surveillance records and found no evidence that Dr. Gero had hidden research or colluded with outsiders.
• Lin Chen questioned why Dr. Gero's artificial-alien research had progressed so slowly compared with the other world's Dr. Gero and remained unsure whether he was innocent.
• At the Android Research Institute, a second Dr. Gero urged Dr. Gero to strike first and revealed that he was Dr. Gero himself.

Trunks returned to his future world and discovered the Androids had devastated West City, while Dr. Gero plotted against him and faced a new threat at Galactic Patrol Headquarters. In Lin Chen’s world, Lin Chen went to confront Dr. Gero at the Android Research Institute, where Gero welcomed him.

• Trunks found West City in ruins and reunited with Bulma in an emergency shelter beneath Capsule Corporation.
• Trunks told Bulma he had reached a parallel world, where Lin Chen had agreed to train him, and Bulma said the Time Machine needed more energy before he could return.
• Dr. Gero watched Trunks on a screen and ordered Android 32 to lead troops against two powerful fighters attacking his forces at Galactic Patrol Headquarters.
• Lin Chen brought Bardock and Lazuli to the Android Research Institute after warning combat units about possible betrayal and sent word that he was coming.
• Lin Chen, Bardock, and Lazuli used Instant Transmission to enter the institute, where Lazuli remarked that it resembled Dr. Gero’s laboratory in her world.
• Dr. Gero greeted Lin Chen and asked what had brought him to the institute.

Lin Chen investigated Dr. Gero’s suspiciously slow Android research and learned that strange incidents had occurred in the laboratory. An Android attack exposed two Dr. Geros, while the real Dr. Gero feared losing the Saiyans’ support and resources.

• Lin Chen questioned Dr. Gero about his stalled research, then asked the assistants about suspicious behavior while Bardock followed the doctor.
• The assistants described seeing Dr. Gero apparently talk to someone who was not there and appear in two places in quick succession.
• An explosion broke out, and Bardock fought Androids resembling himself and his son Raditz; one absorbed his energy.
• The real Dr. Gero confronted another Dr. Gero, who claimed that events were going according to plan and promised access to resources that could help him destroy every enemy.

Lin Chen and his allies fought two powerful Androids at Dr. Gero’s research facility, while Dr. Gero escaped by spaceship. Lin Chen confronted him in space, but the ship exploded, leaving Dr. Gero’s fate uncertain.

• Bardock struggled against an Android that drained his energy until Lin Chen and Lazuli arrived and joined the fight.
• Lin Chen transformed into a Legendary Super Saiyan and stopped Android Raditz, then used Instant Transmission to take him to a barren planet before he self-destructed.
• Lazuli defeated the other Android and identified it as a modified human resembling Son Goku, while Lin Chen stored its remains and asked where Dr. Gero was.
• Bardock reported that Dr. Gero had escaped by spaceship, and Lin Chen used Instant Transmission to board it.
• Dr. Gero declared that he intended to rule the world and detonated the spaceship, while Lin Chen survived behind his Energy Shield and wondered if Dr. Gero had died.

Lin Chen investigated Dr. Gero’s rebellion and the identities of two unknown androids, then learned they might have come from Trunks’s future world. Although everyone believed Dr. Gero had died, the real Dr. Gero was secretly traveling with an android duplicate toward the Big Gete Star.

• Lin Chen returned to the institute and explained Dr. Gero’s apparent rebellion, prompting King Vegeta to call for destroying the androids and Paragus to warn that doing so would disrupt Planet Vegeta.
• Lin Chen ordered Tights to bring Bulma and Dr. Brief from Earth to inspect the androids, while they remained deactivated pending confirmation that they were safe.
• Professor Feedat reported that the recovered android had been made from a Saiyan and had genes resembling Bardock’s, leaving Bardock and King Vegeta to argue over who the android might have been.
• Paragus proposed that the two unknown androids had come from Trunks’s future world, and Lin Chen wondered whether Dr. Gero had used a Time Machine to bring them there.
• The real Dr. Gero revealed that an android duplicate had faked his death, and the two approached the Big Gete Star aboard a spaceship.

A year after Dr. Gero's rebellion, Lin Chen trained his time powers on Planet Vegeta while Goku, Vegeta, and their families gathered nearby. The peaceful gathering was interrupted when huge patches of light appeared in the sky.

• Lin Chen used his new Time Prison technique to slow Vegeta during his fight with Son Goku, then checked his growing battle power and divine realm.
• Son Gohan won a Tree of Might from Lin Luo and Taro in a bet and brought it to Son Goku.
• The chapter revealed that Son Goku and Gohan had come to Planet Vegeta for training, while Vegeta and Bulma's newborn son Trunks joined the family gathering.
• Hanasia, Tights, Bulma, and Lazuli discussed the remarkable battle powers of Gohan, Lin Luo, Taro, and Trunks.
• A rumbling sounded in the atmosphere, and everyone saw numerous huge, dazzling patches of light appear in the sky.

An unidentified fleet invaded Planet Vegeta, and Lin Chen identified the attackers as Meta-Coolers with power levels of 32 million. He ordered most of the Saiyans to retreat while the planet’s strongest fighters prepared to confront the legion.

• Paragus reported that a powerful enemy fleet had broken through Planet Vegeta’s defenses, and Vegeta and Son Goku flew to intercept it.
• Lin Chen followed Lazuli toward the landing site as Saiyans across the planet gathered behind him.
• Son Goku and Vegeta transformed into Super Saiyans but were held at bay by two enemy fighters, while more than a hundred invaders descended.
• Lin Chen recognized the metallic enemies as Meta-Coolers from the Big Gete Star and revealed that each had a power level of 32 million.
• Lin Chen ordered the Saiyans who could not fight the Meta-Coolers to retreat and told the strongest fighters to finish the battle quickly.

Lin Chen and his allies fought the Meta-Coolers above Planet Vegeta, discovering that the metal warriors could regenerate and use Instant Transmission. Lin Chen countered their teleportation and warned everyone to vaporize their bodies, but the Meta-Coolers were secretly sending the battle footage to a distant White Planet.

• Tarble and the other three Super Saiyan Gods stopped the Meta-Coolers' energy spheres and redirected them to destroy the enemy ships.
• Lin Chen and Lazuli smashed Meta-Coolers, but the machines regenerated and returned with increased battle power.
• The Meta-Coolers used Instant Transmission to surprise Tarble and the other Super Saiyan Gods.
• Lin Chen used Instant Transmission to counter the Meta-Coolers, then vaporized damaged enemies with Explosive Meteor.
• Lin Chen warned the others to destroy every part of the Meta-Coolers, and the group began gaining control of the fight.
• The Meta-Coolers transmitted the battle through their eyes to a distant White Planet.

Lin Chen and the other Saiyans defeated the Meta-Cooler invasion of Planet Vegeta, while the Big Gete Star’s controllers began revising their plans after witnessing Lin Chen’s power. As Lin Chen prepared to track down the Big Gete Star, Tights returned with news that Trunks had come back.

• Bardock, Son Goku, Vegeta, and the others destroyed Meta-Coolers while Lin Chen stopped their Instant Transmission attacks.
• Hanasia rescued the Saiyans watching the battle, and Tights sent the Saiyan Dragon Balls and the children to Earth for safety.
• Lin Chen unleashed his power and led the destruction of the invading Meta-Coolers and their spaceships.
• The Big Gete Star’s controllers saw Lin Chen’s battle power and decided to adjust their plans.
• Lin Chen realized he needed to find the Big Gete Star, but Tights returned and told him Trunks was back.

Lin Chen learned that Future Trunks had returned badly injured, and Trunks revealed that his mother had become an Android in his world. The story then shifted to the past in Trunks’s world, where Shin and an old stranger arrived to meet him.

• Lin Chen told Vegeta that the Trunks from the future was Vegeta and Bulma’s son, then learned Trunks had returned and been taken to the hospital.
• Lin Chen, Vegeta, and Goku went to Bulma’s house, where Trunks recovered in a Healing Device and met his family from this world.
• Trunks told Lin Chen and the others that his mother had become an Android in his world.
• The story returned to Trunks’s world one year earlier, where two powerful strangers appeared at his door as he prepared to find Bulma a safe refuge.
• The shorter stranger introduced himself as Shin, the Supreme Kai who oversaw the universe.

Trunks met Supreme Kai Shin and Kibito, who agreed to give him a year to grow stronger against Dr. Gero’s Androids. Their visit to the Time Machine revealed that Bulma had been replaced and captured, and Shin took Trunks from Earth as the Android army attacked.

• Shin explained that he and Kibito needed Trunks’s help against Dr. Gero’s Androids, and Trunks asked for a year to train.
• Trunks told Shin and Kibito about using his Time Machine, and Shin used the Time Ring to confirm that it had taken him to a separate parallel world without changing their own.
• At the hangar, Shin discovered that the Bulma with Trunks was an Android and that the real Bulma had been captured by Dr. Gero’s army.
• The Android disguised as Bulma destroyed the Time Machine and self-destructed after Trunks attacked her in anger.
• As the Android army launched another attack on Earth, Shin took Trunks away and brought along documents about the Time Machine.

Trunks recounted how Dr. Gero's android army had devastated his world and asked Lin Chen to train him. Lin Chen realized Dr. Gero might have survived as an android and gone to the Big Gete Star, leaving both worlds threatened by its endless army.

• Trunks told Lin Chen that the Supreme Kai had recruited fighters to attack the Big Gete Star, but its android army overwhelmed them and the defense of his world continued to collapse.
• Bulma feared becoming an android, while Vegeta promised to destroy Dr. Gero if he appeared in their world.
• Lin Chen showed Trunks images of Androids 24 and 25, and Trunks identified them as Dr. Gero's modifications of Raditz and Kakarot.
• Lin Chen connected the Saiyan androids and Dr. Gero's rebellion to Trunks's timeline, where Bulma had been captured and the Time Machine's data analyzed.
• Trunks confirmed that Dr. Gero in his world had turned himself into an android, leading Lin Chen to suspect the Dr. Gero who had blown himself up was a fake.
• Lin Chen named the Big Gete Star as Dr. Gero's likely destination, and Trunks feared its mass production could doom their world too.

Lin Chen found the Big Gete Star and prepared to attack it, taking Kakarot, Vegeta, Lazuli, and Trunks while leaving Bardock on Planet Vegeta because of his ominous premonition. Trunks exposed a cloaked reconnaissance robot, leaving Lin Chen to wonder whether Dr. Gero was secretly pursuing a plan of his own.

• Lin Chen traveled to Zuno Planet and learned the Big Gete Star’s location.
• Lin Chen gathered his people and announced that he would attack the Big Gete Star.
• Bardock warned Lin Chen that he sensed a major danger on Planet Vegeta, so Lin Chen left him behind and chose Kakarot, Vegeta, Lazuli, and Trunks to accompany him.
• Trunks sensed and destroyed a cloaked reconnaissance robot hidden in the room, identifying it as one of Dr. Gero’s spies.
• Lin Chen ordered the group to leave immediately and worried that the robot might have been built by his world’s Dr. Gero, possibly as part of a secret plan involving Android Cell.

Lin Chen and the others fought their way through the Big Gete Star after its Space Barrier repelled Instant Transmission. Future Dr. Gero sent Cooler and more than a hundred Ultimate Meta-Coolers to attack Planet Vegeta, forcing Lin Chen to choose between the assault and protecting his people.

• The Big Gete Star activated its defenses, and Lin Chen’s Instant Transmission bounced off its Space Barrier.
• Lin Chen, Son Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, and Lazuli attacked the fortress, and Lin Chen shattered its energy shield so the others could enter.
• The two Dr. Geros saw that Lin Chen’s power exceeded their expectations, and Future Dr. Gero activated a plan to attack Planet Vegeta.
• Cooler and more than a hundred Ultimate Meta-Coolers arrived on Planet Vegeta, where Cooler ordered them to attack the Saiyan Royal Capital.