Episode 55

Dragonball GT Episode 55 (Aired 08/13/97)

Buruma ugoku! Bejiita Kaizou keikaku Bulma Begins Working on Vejiita's Makeover Plan!

[Note: This episode is largely a mishmash of recycled footage from previous DBZ and DBGT episodes. The idea is to just explain how Vejiita feels about being defeated by Gokuu so often, and to introduce the possibility of Vejiita turning SSJ4 at a later date.]

SSJ4 Gokuu and Suu-Shinlon power up, and the resulting explosion spreads over the city. At Capsule Corp., Vejiita tries to fly off to join the battle, while Bulma tells him to wait and listen to her. There's an explosion in the city, and the scene cuts to Vejiita doing strength training in the gravity room. He powers up and destroys the machine, complaining about how Gokuu always bests him. He collapses on the ground. In a flashback, Vejiita remembers when he and Kakarot first fought. Vejiita had thought then that he was better than Gokuu, but the hero had used Kaiou-ken techniques to rough him up. Eventually, Vejiita gets defeated by Kaiou-ken Kamehame-ha. To add to the insult, Gokuu had enjoyed the battle so much that he pleaded with Kururin to keep the runt from killing Vejiita at the very end. Vejiita had been floored by the fact that the Prince of the Saiya-jin could be defeated by anyone. From that point on, Gokuu kept out-doing him.

First, in the fight against Freeza, when Vejiita was dying at Freeza's hand, he'd demanded that Gokuu become a Super Saiya-jin in order to defeat Freeza (with Kuririn's death immediately following, Gokuu did go SSJ.) Later, after the arrival of cyborg Freeza and King Cold on Earth, Vejiita told Gokuu to never forget that Vejiita will always be #1. Back in the gravity room, Vejiita remembers those words, and powers up to blow the door off its hinges. Meanwhile, Bulma is working on her computer, on Vejiita's behalf.

[Commercial Break]

In the shower, Vejiita comtemplates how he'd obsessed over trying to defeat Gokuu, even going so far as to allow Babi-Di to try to control him in order to become pure evil. But even then, he wasn't strong enough. Although he'd claimed to enjoy the feeling of being evil, at heart he'd felt compelled to trying a suicide attack against Majin Buu in order to save his family. And, while waiting in the Other World, he'd even cheered SSJ3 Gokuu on in the battle against True Buu. At that time, he'd admitted that Kakarot was indeed #1.

After the shower, Vejiita enters Bulma's lab, and she tells him that she's working on her Brute Ray to enable him to go SSJ4. Vejiita spits his juice out in shock. Bulma tells her computer to replay the events during the final battle against Baby (at first, the computer shows a close up of Bulma, and Vejiita comments on her blood-lust expression.) The light of the full Earth had turned Gokuu into a were-monkey, but it was the tears of Pan that had calmed the ape down and allowed him to go SSJ4. Bulma thinks that her Brute Ray can help Vejiita do the same. He asks why Vejiita-Baby couldn't go SSJ4, and Bulma guesses that it was the android part that had gotten in the way of the transformation.

Bulma assures him that he can now go SSJ4 with her help, and he evilly looks forward to confronting Kakarot on even terms. Bulma is amused, knowing that combat is in the blood of the Saiya-jin. But then, she is also the wife of a Saiya-jin, and her knowing smile makes Vejiita blush.

The narrator comments on these events, then reminds us of the battle against Suu-shinlon.

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