Chapter 1: The Saiya-jins prepare
"One
hundred one, one hundred two, one hundred three." Sweat streamed down Vegeta's brow as he continued his
training. "One hundred four, one
hundred five" at 800 times earth gravity performing two hundred pushups, three
hundred sit-ups, sparring with robots, and dodging ki assaults from small
drones was almost impossible. But
nonetheless he did it everyday, twice.
He had been waiting for something like this to happen for a long
time. This was his chance to prove himself
against Goku (He had long since accepted Kakarott's assumed name. He completed his exercises and went over to
the control panel to return the gravity to normal. He shivered at the rush of cool air that greeted him as he
stepped on to the grass outside his personal training room. He turned towards the main building as he
thought of the upcoming tournament. The
advertisement had been discovered by Bulma, much to her dismay, when, in an
attempt to reward Trunks for the three A's on his report card. She had entered him and Goten into the
contest, paying the three hundred dollar fee that was needed for a child to
compete. Vegeta had gotten wind of this and told Goku who in turn had told
Gohan it was in this way that the entire Z gang had entered the tournament. This event was scheduled for June 15 one
month from the current date. Vegeta
clenched his fists as he thought of the date; he had to train much harder if he
was going to prove to Goku that he was the strongest saiya-jin in
existence. He turned away from the
house. He wouldn't be stopping his
training for lunch. Instead he decided
to get a sparring partner. He took a
mental list of potential sparring partners, Goku was training with Goten, Gohan
was either with his mate or training with Piccolo, The rest of Kakarott's
friends were to weak to be worthy adversaries and besides he did not know were
they were. He turned back to his
training room preparing for another round with the robots when he realized he
had forgotten about his son. What is
the boy doing now? He thought That woman is probably making him study,
well he will be glad for a break then. With that he jumped into the
air and circled around to Trunks' window.
"Boy,
what are you doing?" He shouted
"Studying."
Said Trunks
"Get
ready, we are going to train."
Trunks
practically jumped out of his seat. He
was dressed in his training clothes and in a flash was floating next to Vegeta,
who guided him to the training room.
After Vegeta put on a weighted shirt he turned the gravity machine
on. He did not put it to high because
he wanted an interesting battle. Then
the boy and his father squared off.
"Ahh"
cried Trunks as he threw the first punch.
Vegeta was caught off guard but was able to twist his body in such a way
that he could make the blow glance harmlessly of his left shoulder. Vegeta caught his son's arm and brought his
left fist up into the boy's stomach.
Trunks grunted as his father's fist buried itself in his stomach. His body fell to the floor. He got up in time to block his father's foot
as it shot towards him. He regained his
balance and once again launched himself at his father. Vegeta blocked and dodged his son's attacks. Vegeta was growing tired form dodging the
attacks.
"Not
fast enough kid." He jeered as he
slammed an elbow into his sons lavender head.
Trunks landed on the floor and leapt back away from Vegeta.
"You're
through already Trunks." Said Vegeta
"Not
even close." Panted Trunks as his ki flared up and he became a super saiya-jin.
Vegeta
felt an intense sense of pride for his son.
It always happened when the boy transformed. He was young and yet so strong.
I am getting soft thought Vegeta. As he preformed a metamorphosis of
his own.
While
Vegeta and Trunks were training at Capsule Corporation Goku and Goten were
training a canyon outside Satan City.
Goku smiled as he dodged, blocked and tried to evade punches and kicks
from his son. Time to get off the
defensive before my arms are pounded to a pulp. At that he launched an assault of his own. The two warriors continued to hammer at each
other's defenses. The stalemate was
broken half of an hour later by Goku.
He had seen Goten slowing down for some time now and took the opportunity
to use his foot to send Goten into a canyon wall. Goten tried to slow the impact but it did not look like he was
going to avoid impact. Gohan looked up
to check what his opponent was doing.
He was lucky because he looked up just in time to se Goku place his
hands behind his body.
"Kame…"
Goten
powered up as fast as he could trying much harder to stop himself.
"Hame…"
Goten
put his hands in front of him preparing to block the blast as his body slowed
its descent.
"Ha!"
The surged forth as Goten struggled to hold
it at bay with his hands. Goten grunted
under the titanic force of the attack.
Just then his feet slammed into the side of a rock crag. His feat sunk into the rock as if it were
mud. Al his muscles were strained and
his veins looked like they were about to pop.
I have got to do something or I am going to go strait through this
thing. He struggled against the
blast he was confused and losing stamina.
He knew if the blast hit him he would loose the rest of the day and
probably some of the next day recuperating.
I can't loose any time if I don't want Trunks to kick my ass at the
tournament. With that steadied
himself and used his ki to force the blast back. Sweat rolled in droplets down Goku's face He has gotten much
stronger. But I hope I am not pushing him to hard. I don't want to seriously hurt him and I know he would
never tell me to slow down because he does not want me to think he is weak or
treat him like a child. Goku began
to ease the pressure of the blast a little when he felt a strong resistance
begin to force him back. Startled, Goku
again strengthened the attack rather more than he had anticipated. Goten flew back into the cliff his feeble
resistance bowled backward by the force of the KameHameHa.
"That's
enough for today." Said Goku smiling sheepishly as the dust cleared.
Gohan and Piccolo enjoyed a nice fish dinner after a
hard day of training.
"You
excited about tomorrow." Said Gohan attempting to start a conversation
with the taciturn Piccolo. The
silhouetted Namek nodded silently. Some
things will never change. Thought Gohan as he finished eating and went to
bed. They would have a long day of
training tomorrow. As he lay on the
earth he thought I will have to visit Videl soon or she might get worried
about me.
