Title: Dragon Ball Legends
Author: Veema
Rating: T
Genre: Drama/Adventure
Status: WIP
Fandom: Dragon Ball Z/GT
Pairings: Bardock/OC, Raditz/OC, King Vegeta/OC, Kakarot (Goku)/Chi-Chi, Kakarot (Goku)/OC, Vegeta/Bulma, Vegeta/OC, Bulma/Tien, and Bulma/Yamcha.
Summary: What if EVERYTHING that happened in DB/Z/GT was a vision of Bardock's? The psychic Saiyan struggles to honor Goku's memory, serve his king, raise Kakarot, and keep Earth from being purged by his own people after evacuating Planet Vegeta. It's not easy!
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7762462/1/Dragonball-Legends

I've been following this fanfiction for a long time. The character devolopment is great, it has a fast update rate, and it is more than half way done. I consider it the best DBZ fanfiction of all time! I rate a 5/5.

 

Struggled to even finish the first chapter. Does this improve? Because the writing quality leaves a *lot* to be desired. The interactions, characterizations and whatnot from the first chapter just seem terrible.

It feels like one of those guilty pleasures you read to see everything go 'right'. I can enjoy those from times to time (and some of those are pretty terrible), but nothing is hooking me into reading this at all.

Doesn't seem like library material at all.

If you want a good DBZ fic, go check out Point of No Return.

 

Spoiler

I don't even think all that is necessary. All Bardock had to do is take advantage of the fact that his family were the only ones with access to senzu beans. He should have had them all doing dangerously extreme training and then eating a bean for the zenkai boost. That's how Goku went from whatever he was after fighting Vegeta to 90,000 in the week or so it took to get to Namek. With that and the kaio ken technique his family should have been able to fight just about anybody with little effort.

 

Eh, I'm pretty sure Vegeta was stronger than at the beginning of the android fights simply because his base was higher. Goku's base power level was 3 million when he fought Frieza. I got the impression that Vegeta's was a bit higher thus his super saiyan form was just over him. I see Goku becoming a super saiyan first as more because he had the kaio ken technique which allowed him to entertain Frieza longer and proper motivation in his friends dying not because he was a better warrior.

As far as their skills as warriors and fighting instincts go I see them as pretty much equal. You're right in that Goku seems to get more out of training though and so ends up ahead with the transformations. He also comes across powerful techniques more often too.

That was he beauty of the senzu bean training. He'd train in the gravity chamber till he was injured/exhausted then eat a senzu bean to get a zenkai boost and he's instantly ready for more training. He could go on nonstop.

Spoiler

I found Bardock refusing the take advantage of the dragon balls another instance of him being a pussy. He could have wished for his own gravity chamber or at least his family's tails back. Sure with the GT nonsense that makes a bit of sense but the resulting dragons probably wouldn't be evil for selfish wishes. He and his family were pretty much all alone against the entire saiyan race and he was the only one worth mentioning.

Anyway my point was that Bardock didn't really need to reproduce Goku's mindset to make his family powerful. He pretty much knows everything that he needs to know to make them incredibly strong yet doesn't seem to really seem to be doing what needs to be done. His plans were to make everyone in his family a super saiyan. None of them seem to be all that special.

Another con against the story is that all the anime filler is in it. I find it completely annoying become DBZ filler was pretty stupid.