Vegeta could safely say he was having a decent day. His annoying child alongside the screaming woman weren't bothering him and he was training as usual in the Gravity Chamber. The Saiyan Prince dodged several attacks effortlessly from the unique probes created by Dr. Briefs. While they did little to no damage, they were essential in improving his defensive skills especially in higher gravity.
What was his goal? Surpassing Gohan, the son of Kakarot. The boy who had ascended to a superior level at the Cell Games. Vegeta could feel it in his bones though; he was getting closer and closer to ascending himself.
The probes began moving much faster and they were becoming harder to predict; this made the training session much more challenging and Vegeta was enjoying it greatly. If there was one thing his woman's father did right, it was the creation of the Gravity Chamber. He refused to ascend to a Super Saiyan, as that would make the training far too easy and he wanted to push himself in his base form.
All was going good until the probes suddenly stopped working and the intense gravity returned to normal. Vegeta growled as Bulma walked in and glared at him with her arms crossed. He could almost predict what she was about to say.
"Vegeta!" Bulma screeched. "I gave you ONE job! Do you even remember me telling you that I was going out for a while several hours ago?! I told you to keep an eye on Trunks! And what do I get when I come back home?! He's made an entire mess! A two year old Saiyan without anyone watching him is crazy! You were supposed to look after him!"
Vegeta rolled his eyes. That explained why the woman hadn't been bothering him. A sinister smirk appeared on his face and he decided to annoy Bulma little bit. "He's your child, you look after him."
"Are you forgetting that he's YOUR child as well, Vegeta! I can safely say that the Father of the Year award is NOT going to you!" The future owner of Capsule Corporation screamed as loud as she could.
He merely grinned in response. "I guess I forgot then. My bad."
"You know, when Krillin told me what you did for Trunks at the Cell Games, I thought you would actually raise this child with me seriously!" Bulma mentioned, tapping her foot with anger. She hoped her words would convince Vegeta to stop being such a moron.
"Trunks died at the Cell Games against a terrifyingly powerful foe. I don't see the reason why I should look after him when the thing that'll give him the most challenge is some idiotic puzzle game." Vegeta scoffed.
Bulma grunted at Vegeta, who widened his smile with satisfaction. "You're missing the point! I honestly wonder sometimes how I put up with you."
"Tell you what, woman. I'll look after Trunks if he is training in here with me." Vegeta said proudly, knowing what would push Bulma's buttons.
As predicted, she became enraged. "Vegeta! He's TWO. I have nothing against you training him in the future but right now he's far too young!"
"I was training when I was one." He counterattacked, although he was actually lying. He began properly training when he was one and a half, but she didn't need to know that. "Tell you what, if you let him train with me now, I promise I will only teach him a few basic skills. He will not get hurt in any way. How about that, woman?"
This recent development surprised Bulma, and she quickly began thinking about how to respond. "Well... there's a few things I need to do out of town so I suppose I'll allow it. But if I find out that Trunks got harmed in anyway I refuse to make you dinner for a week!"
Ouch; he'd have to be a little careful. The woman was a great cook and he decided he would rather not think about not having her delicious meals for a whole week.
Bulma reappeared after a few minutes with a tiny Trunks, who seemed happy that he would be training with his daddy.
After warning him one more time to keep him out of harm's way, Bulma left the gravity chamber.
"Daddy!" Trunks said with enthusiasm, looking up at his father with a huge grin. "I wanna be Super Saiyan!"
Vegeta looked down at his son with curiosity. This was certainly new development. His son had never made any mention of wanting to be a Super Saiyan before. "Well, if you want to become a Super Saiyan like me, then show me what you got."
It wasn't a lie to say that Trunks already knew a few basic tricks that a toddler like himself could learn. Most of the time, Trunks was taught in secret but since Bulma had decided to give Vegeta the green light, he didn't need to worry about being caught.
Trunks curled up his tiny hands into fists and jumped up at his father, hoping to strike first. While the kid's speed was admirable for his age, it was too easy for Vegeta to merely slip out of the way. He turned around and waited to see how his son would land. Surprisingly, he landed without any issue at all before turning around and charging at him once more.
"The kid's been training himself. That's good." Vegeta thought with a grin as he dodged Trunks's bombardment of attacks. He was definitely giving it his all and the Saiyan Prince could clearly see that whatever training he was doing on his own was showing its success.
Trunks finally backed down and was panting heavily. He crossed his arms mimicking an action his father did frequently and frowned. "I can't get hit on you..."
"I have something that might benefit you more then." Vegeta said, walking over to the middle of the gravity chamber which housed numerous buttons that changed how people could train a lot.
Trunks followed with new-found curiosity at what his father was doing.
Vegeta looked down at a button that would activate the weakest probes created, allowing Trunks to test his dodging efficiently as Vegeta didn't trust himself to lower his power to a state that Trunks could avoid. Just as he was about to press it, Trunks jumped onto the control panel and Vegeta's eyes widened as he saw what his left foot had pressed down.
"Gravity increased to 10x Earth's Gravity." The computerized voice said. Vegeta never felt the increase, but Trunks certainly did, as evidenced with him bursting into tears. After a few seconds of hesitation, Vegeta quickly turned off the gravity and grabbed his son to stop him from activating something even more insane.
It was at this time that he noticed that Trunks was completely unconscious; the sudden increase of gravity had definitely exhausted tons of energy out of him despite it only lasting mere seconds. Vegeta sighed. "And to think we Saiyans were born and raised on a planet with that gravity and my royal son can't even handle it. Oh well."
Vegeta then realized that Trunks being unconscious could be potentially bad. If the woman saw him in this state, she'd have his head.
He gazed down at his knocked out boy and groaned. He left the Gravity Chamber and walked slowly to the boy's room. After all, he didn't want to leave him unconscious in the middle of the chamber.
If anyone was watching the Saiyan Prince and his son at the time, they would notice that their bodies was fading out and becoming more and more translucent. The Saiyan Prince himself didn't even seem to notice as he disappeared from the world altogether along with his son.
The Hammerhead Pirates were your average pirate crew. Consisting of roughly one hundred members, they easily invaded islands and stole whatever they wanted. Their captain, John "Hammerhead" Issac, had a bounty of 65,000,000 Berries while his first mate, Nathane "Eagle" Prince had a bounty of 32,000,000 berries. While no one else in the crew had a bounty, they were still a potentially lethal pirate group.
What made the pirate crew stand out so much was the devil fruit the captain possessed. A Paramecia type. The Summon Summon Fruit. Whenever the pirates attacked an island, Issac would use his ability to bring forth a completely random person who was forced to become their slave and aid them in battle. Most of the time, weak civilians were summoned due to the unpredictably and lack of control John had over the fruit but every once in a while he summoned either a powerful being or something completely atrocious. The crew believed that John sometimes summoned aliens. Whenever he did, they were completely odd things that often died in seconds.
The World Government considered his power a minor threat as he rarely ever summoned anybody more powerful than himself. The reason he gained the nickname 'Hammerhead' was because he literally summoned a Hammerhead Shark in a marine base; the place where he first got his bounty. The crew was relatively new then and lacked a name so they decided to stick with the Hammerhead Pirates to remember that amazing day back in West Blue.
Prince, the first mate, approached his captain who was resting on the deck of their pirate ship, the Sapphire Star. "Captain, the crew is bored. We haven't seen 'an isle in weeks. Feel like using ya ability and see if we get somethin' interesting?"
Issac sighed as he got up. "I guess today is going to be one of those days, huh? Summon the crew here; let's hope the person I summon is interesting. We haven't got a good catch in a while."
As Nathan went to collect the crew, Issac pulled out a cigarette along with the day's newspaper and grinned. He flicked through and saw articles about Dracule Mihawk being seen in East Blue, the rampage of Eustass Kid and many other stories he simply wasn't interested in. He realized it had been a while since he had made an appearance in the newspaper. Maybe he would just have to fix that soon.
He recalled some fun memories that involved his Devil Fruit. While it often produced disappointment, there were times that amazing things were summoned. The reason his initial bounty of 34,000,000 Berries was increasing to 65,000,000 berries was because he summoned a powerful giant as the crew faced a Vice-Admiral from the Marines. The Vice-Admiral was easily defeated and it was all thanks to the power of the fruit, causing the increase in his bounty as the government decided that his fruit might have been a more serious threat than they initially thought.
After a few minutes, the majority of the crew were surrounding him in a circle. Some weren't too bothered about what was going on, but others were generally much more excited and were eager to see what their captain would summon this time.
"I hope he summons a hot chick!" A large muscled man shouted out with excitement.
"It'll be hilarious if he summons Whitebeard!" Another screamed, laughing afterwards.
"That's impossible, ya fool! Even if it was possible, it wouldn't be hilarious as we would be dead!" A female crew member criticized one of her crew mates.
Issac chuckled as he brought his two hands forward, signalling to the crew that the process was about to begin. Almost instantaneously, their volume sunk down. Two dark lights formed in both hands before he placed both of them on the surface of the ship. He backed away as the light began sparking. After a while, it completely stopped. Eventually, it began again and rose up as it began making the shape of a humanoid. The person was entirely black, but this was normal. The crew knew that shortly, color would overwhelm the summoned figure and they would finally see who it was.
The crew seemed unimpressed when a short, spiky haired man holding an unconscious toddler was the conclusion of the captain's ability. To them, he looked like nothing. However, some noted the strange armor he was wearing, but didn't really consider it to mean anything.
Vegeta blinked several times. One moment he was walking with Trunks in his hands after the boy accidentally knocked himself out in the Gravity Chamber. He was just about ready to put him to bed and hope that he would gain consciousness before the woman got home. The next moment he was on a ship. He eyed the people surrounding him and the grinning man in front of him. This turn of events was highly unexpected.
"Who the hell are you guys?"
