The Three-Fold God's Path
A DragonBall Z epic by Rain Man

Episode 1: The Spectacled Man
Episode one features the Program at the Facility; we learn about Arien - a human warrior fixated on the Saiyajin, and his quest for ultimate power. Vegita trains Goten. Arien is attacked by cybernetically-enhanced assasins, gets injured and picked up by Bulma and Trunks.

Episode 2: The Boy
Arien accidentally generates a strange form of chi-energy in his sleep and dreams of an old match between him and Yamcha (the fight where Yamcha gets his scars). The story of the Scroll of the Gods is touched, and the Goten-Trunks-blue-haired-girl (Ami) love triangle takes shape.

Episode 3: The Scroll of the Gods
We learn the nature of Goten's depression. Arien says goodbye to Andrea, the woman helping him to translate the Scroll of the Gods, which makes Andrea... extremely unhappy. She unwinds at the dojo in the usual fashion. A new teacher works out with her students, and shows off in the traditional Saiyajin way. Arien has one of his usual conversations with "the Voice".

Episode 4: When Madness Strikes
Arien practices techniques, while Goten and Gohan talk about Goten's problems and about the problems with Power. Trunks has nightmares, remembering what happened the last time he went training with his father.

Episode 5: Machine Death
Ami gets harassed by Yuu, rising star of the full contact anything-goes martial arts collegiate level tournaments (eh, heh, heh). Trunks doesn't like it and.... Goten comes along and gets the two of them to agree to go on a camping trip, as suggested by Gohan. Arien infiltrates the Facility to find out who betrayed him, and is attacked...

Episode 6: Burning Tears Falling
Gohan senses a battle in the distance... Jinzouningen? From far, far, far, FAR away, a powerful warrior feels Arien's loss. At a remote mountain camp-site, Goten and Trunks duke it out over Ami. A love quadrangle???? Arien is saved from cybernetic conversion by... As the vice-like grip around his neck tightens, Arien cries out...

Episode 7: First Path
Concluding the climactic battle with the Necroborgs, Arien discovers the First Path, which helps decide the outcome. Luckily, the Great Saiyamen were there to clean up. Of course, some casualties occured. Also, things turn up for Goten.

Episode 8: It's No Good
As a twisted aftermath to the First Path, the story of the slinky-toting Mr. Satan-hater is explored. What's it all got to do with the golden oldies? With Andrea and Anju, Anju and Trunks, Ami and Trunks, and Mari and Goten. Nobody knows what's on with Arien.

Episode 9: My Features Form with a Change in the Weather...
Continuing the saga of the mysterious, Serious MASC man, the reason why Mr. Satan is supposed to be quaking in his boots. A fight breaks out between Yuu and Nik, and more of the "shojo stuff". DragonBall like you've never seen before!

Episode 10: A Taste of Marmalade
An odd mix of apparently unattached segments: Goten and Mari agree on a first date, Trunks and Anju share a phone booth in the rain, the Facility plots, Gohan teaches about ki, Vegita loses it and the odd MASC man gets it. What does have to do with Arien missing?

Episode 11: Kunoichi
A dark turn: both Mari and Ami are attacked, in an unusual turn of events, while Andrea watches over the still form of Arien. What lies 'neath the surface, and who would dare cross the mistress of shadows?

Episode 12: I know all about the Honor of God, Mary Jane...
The return to more suspicious seas sets adrift young lovers, as the world is rejoined by one who has trudged the first path. A party, a missing classmate, old friends and enemies, and an earthquake combine, as the realization that something is lost comes to those who know. Sadness, trances, blushing young girls, school fights and more.

Episode 13: Steel Heart, Furnace of the Sun
The Poorly-Timed Dance Party erupts, but Goten could care less. Yamcha cooks dinner for Andrea, and Andrea cooks Yamcha. Ami, Nik, Anju and Trunks watch Yuu, Goten and the MIB, and a new guy. Did Mari really mean what she did, and is she really transparent?

Episode 14: Death of a Shadow
What is a world without the Dragon Balls? This is the least of the worries of the young Saiyajin of Moorcock University as their web of association indeed tangle in painful and sometimes deadly loops: Ami and Nik reminisce, Anju takes the first step, Trunks bares all, Yuu goes Hawaiian, and Goten and Mari contemplate killing the shadow. Also, Koji unleashes his scheme for world domination!

Episode 15: Dawn
Mari decides. Arien dies, and Yuu shows Ami the largest vessel that he could be proud of, and then some. Nik confronts a newcomer. What do some strange alien spaceships have to do with the inexorable change that is life? The beginning of the storyarc, and the decline of another.