AN: Looks like the path to Namek has started to take shape! Yay! Just to explain something: Some time has already passed between chapters 1 and 2. So Krillin, Gohan, Goku, and Vegeta (last but not least) as well as everyone in Other-World who made it to King Kai's in no time at all, are already a fair bit stronger than they were during the Saiyan Saga. Periodically I'll state the power levels through out the story. To a certain degree, I'll stay as close as possible to the anime's power levels as long as I can. But a lot of them will be different for reasons you'll see later (if you're sharp enough to catch it :P). Super Saiyan power ups will be different as well. Most fics have it to where the Super Saiyan transformation makes the Saiyan in question three to six times their base strength.
I'm making it an even ten both for calculation purposes as well as making the Saiyans a bit more beastly. Super Saiyan (basic level) will take a Saiyan to ten times their normal ability. Super Saiyan 2 will take a Saiyan to a hundred times their normal capability and Super Saiyan 3 will magnify their normal power by a thousand times. It makes sense if you think of it like this: Going Super Saiyan makes the Saiyan ten times their regular power, right? Going Super Saiyan 2 makes them ten times stronger again as they were as a basic Super Saiyan. And Super Saiyan 3 will make them ten times stronger still than they would be as a Super Saiyan 2. I'll probably call Super Saiyan 2 Ascended Saiyan or Ascended Super Saiyan or both until I introduce Super Saiyan 3 to the mix (forcing them to revert to the number system now that there are too many levels to just keep coming up with names for). And if I decide to incorporate Super Saiyan 4 to the mix, that will take a Saiyan to ten thousand times their regular might. But with each level reached, the price on the Saiyan's body will increase. Going Super Saiyan can be sustained all day with training. But Super Saiyan 2 will be ten times harder to sustain and Super Saiyan 3 ten times harder still to sustain. Not sure if the pattern will continue onward to Super Saiyan 4 due to the fact that there are intense body-changing transformations going on before the Saiyan reaches that level, possibly toning and conditioning them to sustain that level of power better. Shrugs.
Oh, and I decided that going Oozaru or Mammoth Ape (I'll be using both terms), will take the said Saiyan to twelve times their basic strength. If the Oozaru happens to go Super Saiyan or the Saiyan was already when they changed, the base power switches over and the pattern remains the same. Meaning that the Saiyan's base power level (increased twelve times by the Oozaru change) will become the new base line for the Super Saiyan transformations. I'll give an example just in case any might still be confused. I'll use Vegeta. Say Vegeta has a regular power level of 100,000 (the minimum strength requirement in this fic for the Super Saiyan change to be possible) and goes Oozaru. His power level is now 1.2 million, his new base strength. Should he go Super Saiyan or was one already when he changed, his power goes up ten times, making it now 12 million. And so on and so on.
Power Levels at the very beginning of the story:
Goku - (against Nappa) – 7,500
Goku - (utilizing Kaio-Ken times four which was his best during the fight with Vegeta) – 30,000
Vegeta – 25,000.
Nappa – 5,000
Piccolo - (using full focus) – 3,000
Gohan – 2,550
Krillin – 2,400
Tien – 2,300
Yamcha – 2,200
Chaotsu – 1,700
Yajirobe – 2,000 (Though he has that strength it is mostly wasted due to the fact his knowledge of energy manipulation is rather lacking.)
Power Levels after a few weeks of training on Earth/Other-World (Running Snake Way as well as two weeks of training under King Kai):
Goku - (not using Kaio-Ken) – 34,000
Vegeta – 32,000
Piccolo – 21,000
Gohan - (not including Gohan's rage that sky rockets his power) – 15,800
Krillin - (being pushed so hard by Vegeta he nearly broke in two) – 18,000
Tien – 12,000
Yamcha – 12,000
Chaotsu – 10,000
Yajirobe (because he's fat, retarded, useless, and lazy) – 1,250
I may state the power levels at the end of certain chapters/sagas where a lot of power increasing occurs (which will likely be all of them). And I will be hinting (between any two points I state those power levels like I did above) about certain people's progress. After a while they all will learn to use their energy-detecting sense to judge precisely what another's power is and give it a number value.
Oh yeah, I do my AN just before I post chapters. SO no matter how LONG they are, they do not affect the length of my chapter. Meaning chapters with longer Author's Notes are not made shorter (either by word count or page count) just because the AN may be large or not. The chapter is as long as I want it to be long before I do the AN. Phew! With all of that done, let's get on with it.
Chapter Three – The Journey Begins
"The runt is back," Vegeta told Bulma after climbing out from under a hunk of shit that would eventually be an anti-matter fusion engine. Bulma wiped some sweat from her brow, it really was getting hot lately.
"I wonder what took him so long to tell them the new situation we're all in," Bulma replied.
"I don't know. But he's flying very slowly, even for him, and seems to be exerting the bulk of his power to just fly," Vegeta stated.
"How long before he arrives?" Bulma asked.
"No longer than a few minutes at most," Vegeta told her.
Wow! We actually had an entire conversation without biting each other's heads off, Bulma thought in wonder. They both left the lab and went outside, eyeing the sky. What they saw was odd beyond imagination. Krillin was flying in slowly with what seemed to be a huge white insect in toe. Krillin's hands held tightly onto chains made of blue-white energy that held the thing up in the air behind him.
"How clever. He's using a special technique that allows him to move any object that is several times too heavy for him to move by use of his physical strength alone," Vegeta said. He was obviously surprised the human was capable of creating such a technique. Vegeta studied the energy-weave and stored it away for later use during the ship construction.
"Hey guys! Where can I put this thing? I'm about to drop it any second now!" Krillin huffed.
"Right here is fine, Krillin. What the hell is it?" Bulma wondered. Krillin eased the ship down gently on the concrete pad she pointed to. It groaned audibly as it once again began to support its own weight.
"You know Piccolo and Kami were from Namek, right? Well they didn't get here by teleporting across the universe, you know. This was the ship they used. Mr. Popo showed me where it was," Krillin explained. Bulma handed him her bottled water and he downed it nearly as fast as Vegeta could eat cheeseburger chili.
"It's ancient! What possible use could we have for such a thing, Baldie!? It's a useless hunk of shit," Vegeta spat after looking it over.
"Well last time I checked, none of you had Namek's coordinates memorized. This ship came from their planet, Vegeta. We should be able to use it to find out exactly where their planet is," Krillin explained. He was still trying to fully regain his breath after such a long and arduous flight.
"He does have a point. We never even thought of that. Most of the information on your ship's computer was wiped out, Vegeta. It began purging itself as soon as we linked up to it. Probably for security purposes. We got only information about the ship's design and a few other details we'd need to recreate it. Everything else was wiped out," Bulma explained. Krillin and Vegeta nodded.
"So open this thing up, Baldie! We'll need to access the computer drives to gain what we need," Vegeta ordered harshly.
"Last time I checked, Vegeta, you were the Prince of Saiyans, not humans. I mean sheesh! Where do you come off trying to order everyone around all day?" Krillin sighed.
"I may not be human royalty, BALDIE, but I'm still stronger than you. You'll do what I say as I say or I'll BLAST YOU WHERE YOU STAND!" Vegeta roared. Several veins were now pulsating from his forehead.
"Calm down you two. Before Vegeta's pops a vein or something," Bulma laughed. Vegeta merely crossed his arms and looked away from the irritating woman that had, for some reason he couldn't understand, begun to haunt him in his dreams. Usually only Frieza did that. Not that he was unhappy with it. Those dreams about Bulma were delicious to say the least. And anything that shoved Frieza from his dreams was well worth any level of irritation. "But he is right. We do need to get inside of it. I'm not sure of what this thing is made of, but I don't think we got anything that can cut through it."
"I can get you inside, but not the creator's intended way. I'll use my Destructo Disk to cut an entrance," Krillin said. Even Vegeta couldn't object to that. The human's disk had incredible cutting power.
"Well there has to be a way to open this up. The hatch is right there. I don't see any controls so it must be voice activated," Bulma sighed. No one alive on the planet knew the language she suspected opened the door.
"Even if we know how to open it, the power's out. Mr. Popo explained it to me. Kami checked on the ship while me and the others were training up at the Lookout. He said the thing was very low on power and would no longer start up," Krillin explained.
"I see. Then try cutting a hole that's exactly as big as that hatch where the hatch itself is. That way we know there won't be anything valuable behind it," Bulma instructed. Krillin nodded, deciding that was best to minimize any chances of damaging what was left of the ship. Krillin opened his right hand and six sparks of light formed. The specks of light grew larger and took shape as six golden disks of light, each spinning at impossible speeds. These blades were all hovering vertically in the air, unlike his usual horizontal ones he flung at his enemies. They watched as Krillin carefully bound each of the Disks together to form a six-bladed orb that spun itself in a clockwise manner.
"You didn't have that kind of control before I started training with you," Vegeta smirked. "I told you, Baldie, I'd push you far beyond your limits." Krillin didn't respond. He just lifted his extended hand and eased the bladed orb upward. It struck bottom of the craft where the perfect circle Bulma guessed was the hatch was. With a very painful grinding noise and a shower of sparks, the Destructo Orb began cutting its way in. Vegeta noticed Krillin was putting nearly all of his power behind the strike.
"That material can't be that strong," he said.
"Oh it is! I never thought anything could resist my attack this long," Krillin huffed. He gave the attack another mental shove and it happened. The Orb cut through and debris began raining down. Vegeta simply wove his energy into a feeble barrier just strong enough to shield himself and Bulma. Krillin brought the Orb back down and halted the flood of energy he had been feeding it. As a result, the attack simply died away after exhausting the energy supply that sustained it. Vegeta scooped Bulma up and followed Krillin upward through the air and into the alien craft.
"Not that big," Krillin noted.
"Well it was only a one-seater, right?" Bulma asked.
"Yeah, that's right. Kami and Piccolo used to be the same person before they separated into two halves," Krillin confirmed.
"This ship is obviously ancient. It is likely that its systems and designs are inferior to that of what we already have," Vegeta said.
"You're probably right. But it never hurts to check everything out just in case, right?" Krillin wondered.
"Exactly, Krillin. See, Vegeta? Krillin's smart. You should try to be like him a little," Bulma said to the Prince with a sly wink. She knew it would infuriate the Prince, hence the whole reason she did it. Krillin only looked at the two of them while scratching his head in confusion.
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"No, Gohan! Stay there. That's your limit. Try to hold it as stable as you can and for as long as you can," Goku told his son. Goku studied Gohan closely, sensing his energy as thoroughly as possible. Gohan's usual silver-blue aura was gone. In its place was an aura of storming red fire that crashed upward around the young Saiyan with great intensity.
He's already capable of sustaining a double Kaio-Ken for two hours. He's amazing! He can even use a triple for nearly a half hour. At his age! Goku thought with pride. Gohan's energy was currently three times its usual maximum and holding safely. The boy could sustain the power-up of a triple for nearly a half hour and sustain a double for nearly two hours! Gohan felt the pull-and-tug sensation in his middle that Goku had trained him to watch for. It was the warning that if you didn't cease the attack soon, your innards would likely evaporate. Gohan let the energy storm fade away and his power returned to normal. The child Saiyan was breathing harshly, obvious spent.
"I'm so proud of you! Wow! I couldn't do that after training a year with King Kai!" Goku laughed as he patted his son on the head. Gohan beamed up at his father with a proud grin and eyes closed shyly. Goku laughed his usual goofy laugh. "I think you did it for thirty-five minutes that time."
"Nope. Check the clock, Goku. I've been washing the dishes for nearly an hour now. (It took that long for obvious reasons with two Saiyans in the family.) He's been at it for an hour," Chi Chi said proudly. It had taken Goku only a day to convince his mate to allow the training. This confused Gohan greatly. Goku had told Gohan to go play deep in the woods for an hour that day all those days ago. He watched both his mother and father enter their bedroom and they stayed in there nearly the entire time. When he came back, his father looked even happier than usual and his mother seemed like a different person all together. She never once told him to study. Always that he could catch up later when the time could be found. It remained that way as long as his father and his mother did whatever it was they did in their room for an hour (sometimes five or six!). Gohan was glad because he knew Piccolo would be even stronger when he came back and he didn't want to slack off.
"Okay we're going to take a couple hours off, kiddo. Your mother would like to give me a nice long back rub to ease up these old muscles of mine. So go play until then, okay? We're train even harder when you get back," Goku told his son. Both he and his mother looked each other in that same odd way they always did when she was about to give him a "back rub". It gave Gohan the creeps so he had no objections to it at all and left immediately. He wondered how Piccolo and the others were doing.
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Piccolo watched as Tien and Yamcha began beating the shit out of each other for a millionth time. Both had been improving at a geometric rate. So had the weakest of the group, Chaotsu. Piccolo smirked inwardly. He was still by far the strongest there. That didn't mean he had nothing to gain from the training, so he did join in every so often. But only to keep ahead of the others. He was Piccolo after all.
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After the month had passed, Bulma and Vegeta were both amazed at the progress they had made. The information they were finally able to pull from the Namekian ship's computer had been loads of help for the construction of the newest ship. They had to have the assistance of Mr. Popo (who turned out to know Namekian) to translate what they were trying to read. They had tested the ship four times, each flight four times as long as the previous one before it. It worked and it worked great! The Namekian computer gave them all kinds of ideas that made Vegeta drool. A Gravitron! The machine that gave the Namekian ship its artificial gravity could do other things as well. Like increase the artificial gravity up to as much as a hundred times. The Namekian ship had worked on a completely different kind of propulsion drive that did much of the same thing as Vegeta's old pod but was much more powerful. Bulma used both designs from both ships to create a blend of the two. Anti-matter fusion drive combined with a construct that could not only handle the maximum yield of the anti-matter fusion safely, but direct it safely as well.
The ship had absolutely no need to ever refuel or recharge. Not as long as matter existed within the universe. And maintaining the systems was so simple that a child with the right equipment could do it unaided. Literally.
"Well it's finally done. I'm off to bed now. Got a big day tomorrow," Dr. Briefs said as he left the two alone in the lab.
"I guess it's to Namek now," Bulma said softly. Vegeta's acute hearing heard every word.
"Yes. I suppose then you get to wish your weakling friends back with their Dragonballs," Vegeta grunted. Bulma eased herself against the Prince teasingly. Her thin T-shirt made it obvious to anyone with eyes that she had no bra on. Vegeta couldn't contain it any longer.
"I'm not waiting any longer, woman!" he shouted. Before she knew it, her feet had been kicked out from under her, and she was lying on her back on the floor. Vegeta tore her shirt away without a moment's protest. He gasped when he finally got to see what he had only seen in his dreams. Her perfect breasts bounced in sync with her heavy breathing.
"W-what are you doing, Vegeta?" she demanded half-heartily. She knew every well what he was doing and it was about damn time!
"Nothing we both haven't been wanting since we started staying together. Everyday the teasing and rubbing… NO MORE! Woman I'm taking you right here and right now!" Vegeta snarled at her. It was not in a menacing way. It was actually quite seductive to Bulma for reasons they couldn't fathom. He came down on her gently, hand easing its way over her breasts as the other went lower still. She gasped as two of his fingers entered her and began to probe. At least it's what it felt like to her. She had to remind herself that she was a completely different species than he was. So he was likely checking to see if they were even compatible or not. Stupid thing to do considering he already knew Chi Chi was human and Goku, like him, was a Saiyan and that they were not only able, but had a child together.
"Veggie…" she whimpered.
"Yes?" he asked her. He began running very gentle kisses down both sides of her neck which made her gasp again. She felt the heat beginning to build in her core and thought she might explode if it didn't find release. Vegeta was now nipping her ear and neck softly as his other hand still probed around inside her.
"Make love to me, please? No more waiting!" she whispered/whimpered into his ear. The remainder of her clothing was ripped away by some unseen force. The same happened to Vegeta's. She gasped again at the sight of him. She had guessed that his short stature in height might mean the same for his manhood. That was most definitely NOT true.
"Something shock you, woman?" he chuckled.
"Veggie… I don't think that'll fit…" she gasped as his hands returned to her breasts in gentle stroking.
"Of course it will. It might be a tight squeeze for you but I refuse to believe you aren't just as capable as Kakarot's mate," Vegeta scolded her gently. It started gently, pushing himself deeper inside her one teasing inch at a time. Her eyes fluttered as pure pleasure exploded through her. There was pain too. Having something that was simply too large stuffed into a tight and tender area would do that. But the pain was soon forgotten as he began picking up a bit of speed. This was rough for her but she knew how much he had to be holding back, considering his strength. She cried out his name over and over and he hers. It wasn't long before he had bust hard inside her several times. Bulma was gasping for breath, hardly able to take any air in at all at this point. She felt Vegeta nipping at her neck again. She cried out as he bit down a bit harder than before, marking her as his forever. Something inside her compelled her to do the same.
She gently began to run soft kisses down his own neck before nipping him as well. She suddenly felt incredibly tired. Vegeta chuckled as he withdrew from her and scooped her into his arms.
"So… Tired…" she whispered before sleep took her. Vegeta took her to her rooms, not caring what Capsule Corp. employees, family members of Bulma, or other Z-Fighters thought of seeing him carrying her (both naked) up the stairs and down the halls. Surprisingly enough though, no one saw him as he moved upward through the levels at this late hour.
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"When?" Chi Chi asked over the phone.
"Just yesterday. If Goku and Gohan are ready for their trip to Namek, they need to arrive quickly. Vegeta said he was blasting off with or without them within two hours," Bulma replied.
"Two hours is plenty of time for my Goku," Chi Chi told her. "I better let you get off here if I'm to get those two up and ready in time."
"Right. I'll probably be over there tomorrow some time to hang out for a while. I'll likely take you shopping with me. I still owe you from the last card games I lost," Bulma said with a laugh.
"Oh that's right! You owe me 123,000 zeni. I wonder what all I can buy with that? I don't use money very much. Most of everything we need is right here. Okay then, bye-bye, Bulma. I'll see you then," Chi Chi replied and hung up the phone. There was only two ways Chi Chi had ever discovered to wake a sleeping Saiyan. One was with a frying pan, which they feared beyond anything in the wildest of imagination and the other way… "GOKU, GOHAN, BREAKFAST TIME!" she shouted. Within seconds, two fully dressed yet sleepy Saiyans seemingly materialized out of midair before her.
"There you two are. It's ready in the kitchen. I made you each waffles. But you'll have to hurry because Bulma said Vegeta was leaving in the ship within two hours with or without you," Chi Chi told them. They snapped awake instantly.
"That's right! Well, kiddo, you ready to shovel some food down your throat?" Goku laughed as they raced to the kitchen. Even faster than normal, they both had downed their enormous piles of waffles while pouring the syrup down their throats only as an afterthought. Within a few minutes they were both in the air and blasting off.
"Dad. Do you think we're ready?" Gohan asked his father.
"I don't know. But we still got around a month to get to Namek. Plenty of time to train real hard," Goku assured his son. Gohan nodded. It was true he had mastered both the Spirit Bomb and Kaio-Ken. He was the youngest to ever do so, or so King Kai had told Goku. The old Kai had to give Goku express permission before Goku could pass that knowledge on. He had tried but every time he even attempted to show Gohan anything educational about the attacks, the knowledge of how instantly slipped from his mind. After that had happened, he had to convince himself very hard that he would never, ever, under any circumstances teach Gohan the attacks unless a Kai said so before he could perform them again himself. King Kai chuckled at this. It had taken Goku a fair amount of time to realize what was up.
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Yes, Goku. I can already tell that Gohan would be a good candidate to learn the techniques. Have Krillin learn them as well. But not Vegeta. The things he has done in his life negate his ability to learn the powers, King Kai had told him telepathically.
All right! Trying to do it without your permission was giving me a headache. I never knew it worked like that, Goku said.
I left that little bit of the information out, King Kai laughed in reply.
So how is everyone doing up there, King Kai? Piccolo and the rest? Goku inquired.
They are doing quite well. Better than you did, actually. They all have mastered the Spirit Bomb as well as the Kaio-Ken in far less time than it took you. Only Piccolo has enough of the talent to do better than a double though. But everyone else is just happy knowing a technique that'll double their power when they need it. Piccolo was a hard one to train. You know it takes a pure heart to learn the forms. Piccolo has done many things that would usually negate his ability to learn them as well. But most of those things were the older version of himself. It seems Piccolo's very soul has changed. On the bright side though, he can sustain a thirty times Kaio-Ken, the maximum yield of the attack, King Kai laughed.
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The memories of that conversation were still very fresh within the Saiyan's mind. He was astounded that the others had progressed so far in such a short period of time. Piccolo could already do a maximum Kaio-Ken? Goku wasn't sure he could himself even after all the training he'd been doing. But then again, Piccolo trained his mind more than he did anything else. It would figure he would be able to soak it up like a sponge.
"Dad?" Gohan asked again, a little more insistent this time. Goku snapped out of the daze he had sunken into and pulled his attention to his son.
"Yeah?"
"We should get some Senzu Beans from Master Korin. If this Frieza guy is really as strong as Vegeta thinks he is…" Gohan said and let it hang. Goku nodded.
"I'll go get the Beans and meet you at Capsule Corp. I can fly there much faster than you can. Meet you there, son," Goku said and blasted off in a different direction. Gohan stopped to hover in midair as soon as his father was out of sight. He wanted to test something his father would never let him do.
"All right… KAIO-KEN TIMES FIVE!" Gohan erupted after bringing the bulk of his energy to bear. His usual aura of silver and blue flamed into a violent storm of purging red power that threatening to melt the flesh from the bones of any foolish enough to brave it. Gohan's power level had doubled and then tripled. He really felt the strain after he maxed out at five times his usual strength.
What he sensed astounded him. He was so powerful! In this form he could easily defeat his own father (if he didn't likewise know the technique that is) or Vegeta. He smirked the way all Saiyans did when their pride took over. This frightened Gohan so much that the lost control of the attack completely, his power slowly returning to normal. Then pure exhaustion struck the lone Saiyan harder than he could have thought possible.
"So tired… No wonder Dad told me it was dangerous to leap ahead…" Gohan told himself. He flared his aura back to life and took off at hardly a fifth of his usual speed and was getting slower. He gave out not long after and began falling from the sky. Even falling through the air, he was so sound asleep that one might think he was in his bed at home rather than falling from the sky 15,000 feet up. Something streaked by and grabbed the falling boy before he even got halfway to the ground. Goku smiled down at his son. He knew Gohan would do what he did. He had sensed it the moment Gohan activated the technique. The power Gohan had been putting out could have been detected from any where on the planet. Goku shoved a Senzu Bean into Gohan's mouth and watched closely as the young Saiyan instinctively chewed it up and swallowed it. Gohan's eyes snapped awake suddenly and he struggled to get his bearings.
"Don't worry, Gohan. I got you. Ready to fly on your own, son?" Goku said to his son. Gohan nodded with a yawn as Goku let him go. Gohan took flight beside his father under his own power as soon as he was let go.
"Dad…" Gohan began and Goku cut him off.
"Don't even apologize, Gohan. I did the same thing to King Kai. I had planned for it from the start. The pace I had trained you and everything else was all apart of it. You see, I'd rather have you try that with a smaller jump that's just outside of your range than a bigger one. Now that you know how foolish it was I know that you won't try it again," Goku explained. Gohan nodded. Goku couldn't help the swelling pride he felt when he looked as his son. His son! So strong and he wasn't even eight yet. It wasn't long before they reached their destination. Both Goku and Gohan landed on Capsule Corp.'s landing pads (these ones reserved for corporate staffing and close friends/relatives of the Briefs family.
"I sensed your power when you maxed out earlier, kiddo. You're already a lot stronger than I am. Hell I think you're the strongest person in the world except maybe Goku when he does that power up thing with the red aura," Krillin laughed as he left one of the buildings and walked up to them. He was wearing a baseball cap and sweat shirt and sweat pants. He looked like an athlete preparing to run several miles for exercise.
"That technique that raises my power level is called a Kaio-Ken, Krillin. When Gohan spiked his power like that, he used the Kaio-Ken times five. That power you sensed was five times Gohan's max power," Goku explained. "On the way to Namek I'm going to train you how to use it. King Kai wants me to teach you the Spirit Bomb as well. Gohan knows that too." Krillin nodded.
"That explains a lot. If that was five times your normal power, kiddo, then we're right about the same strength level. I beat you by a small margin but that's because of the radical new training we've been doing. You should see it, you guys. There's a machine in the spaceship that can raise the internal gravity up to a hundred times normal! Vegeta and I've been practicing under ten times usual gravity," Krillin said.
"Awesome! I trained under that kind of gravity on King Kai's planet. It was ten times the gravity here even though it's no where near the size of Earth. It was very effective," Goku agreed. It was then that Vegeta showed himself, dressed in his Saiyan battle armor once more.
"Good you see you fools finally decided to show up. Baldie and I have been waiting all morning," Vegeta said half-heartedly. Something about his scent caught both Goku's and Gohan's attention. It was different some how. Goku knew what it was but Gohan was baffled.
"Okay, you guys, Vegeta and the computer already know everything required to operate the ship. And I've made sure there was a full year's supply of food stocked on the ship which should be just enough to carry over three Saiyans and Krillin for three months. That's a month there assuming it'll take that long for whatever reason, a month on the planet should you be there that long, and a month back should the trip back take that long as well," Bulma told them as she followed Vegeta out. Goku smiled immediately when she saw the scar on the side of Bulma's neck. Vegeta saw what Goku had spotted and smirked at his Saiyan rival in pure unbridled pride. Goku smirked back and nodded, silently telling the other Saiyan that he approved.
"So are you all ready? Because I'm leaving now regardless," Vegeta spoke up and turned to walk away. They followed him and Bulma down a long path way until they came to stop at a spherical building of some sort that had the Capsule Corp. logo on the side as all buildings around here did.
"Welcome to your home for the next few months, you guys," Krillin chuckled as he followed Vegeta up a set of collapsible stairs that suddenly dropped from the building's door that happened to stand a good twenty feet from the ground.
"Home? I thought we were boarding the spaceship," Goku said.
"Goku, this is the spaceship. It's huge, ain't it? I never thought something this big could fly either until we flew into space with it. Vegeta and I have trained in space with this awesome view of Saturn," Krillin told them. They all followed the human inside and Goku was impressed. The training room was the first thing he stepped into after climbing the stairs and it was what the bulk of the ship's size was. The ceiling was a good thirty-five feet above their heads. Three doors lead off from the training area which had this strange control console in the middle of it. There was also a set of stairs that lead to a lower level or two.
"Those are your bedrooms. The double is for you and Gohan, obviously. It's bigger than the others but for good reason. Vegeta and Krillin have already settled themselves in their rooms. Those stairs there lead to the lower levels where you'll find two different bathrooms, the dining area and the kitchen itself. Now where are your supplies?" Bulma asked both Goku and Gohan. Goku and Gohan both fell over. They had forgot that much! Bulma laughed.
"What? We'll be right back, I promise!" Goku said and turned to leave in a hurry.
"Don't sweat it, Goku. I figured you do something like this. I have known you since you were Gohan's age, ya know. I loaded a year's supply of clothing for both of you in there as well as those training gi you like so much. And yeah, Goku, they're designed exactly the same way your original ones are," Bulma said. Goku sighed in relief. Gohan did the same.
"Wait a second, Bulma, where are you going to stay?" Goku asked the obvious question.
"I'm not going. I wish I could but I got a business to help run. I'll miss you all (she looked at Vegeta especially as hard as she said that last) but I have things I gotta be doing. Besides I'd be squashed like a bug under the insane gravity levels I know you'll be training under," Bulma said.
"Enough, woman, we have to be off. Frieza will beat us there by a week as it is," Vegeta grunted. Bulma waved goodbye once more before climbing back down the stairs. "Computer, run full diagnostic level three and report the results."
"All systems are fully functional," the computer's mechanical voice replied a second later.
"Good. Begin launch sequence immediately. The destination is planet Namek at full speed," Vegeta commanded. Gohan watched in awe as the computer registered the Prince's commands and made them so. In no time they left Earth's atmosphere and were well on their way.
"So how does this gravity thing work?" Goku asked.
"It would take me a year to explain it to you, Kakarot, and you'd still forget it. It's called a Gravitron," Vegeta laughed.
"I don't care about the technical stuff, Vegeta. I just wanna know how to crank it up," Goku replied.
"You can either do it by telling the computer what you want or by turning this knob here," Krillin answered, pointing to the largest knob on the control console that littered the very heart of the training area.
"Awesome. Computer?" Gohan said.
"Yes, Gohan?" it replied. This shocked Gohan that it knew who he was.
"It has all of our voices programmed into it, too," Krillin laughed after he saw Gohan's reaction.
"Awaiting your command," the computer said.
"Change the gravity to ten times Earth Standard," Vegeta interjected, saying the very same thing that Gohan was about to say. There was a loud hum as the machine began to power up. After the humming stopped, they all felt the change. Gohan fell to his knees immediately. Krillin and Vegeta were tugged down a bit before standing back up all the way. Only Goku was completely unaffected due to the fact that he had trained in this kind of gravity for nearly a year. Gohan got back on his feet and remained there. He didn't fall because he was too weak to handle the gravity; he was simply unused to it. Both Vegeta and Krillin had trained in here at least for a week and Goku under the same gravity for nearly a year.
"Finally! We get to train!" Goku shouted. They all fell over. Typical Goku…
