Chapter 7- Jacob vs. the Training
The following months were hustle and bustle. I had never been so busy in my life in such a small place. As Gohan and I's friendship grew I got to hear a lot of his diverse and interesting stories. He told me that when he was a very little boy he went to a Planet call Namek where he met Dende. I found out about his experience as chocolate and when his dad went with him in this very chamber for a year. He even explained being a Sayain!
The coscar training was more fun than I thought it would be. Believing I was something else was a lot of work though and the first time I did it was by far the hardest. I sat there just staring at a cup trying to turn it into a brick for countless hours. Eventually it got too late to keep working and we went to bed. I couldn't sleep that night though for I stayed up with my mind trapped thinking about the future. I thought about what Gohan had taught me that day, the history of the coscar and how to use it.
One last time I tried it, but this time into something any cup would want to be: a diamond one. Since that day had been the craziest one ever, I wouldn't be surprised if I could be a cup. Emptiness enveloped me like the positive and negative sides of my body had an argument and partially split into a two so there was a hole in the body. The positive side worked to keep the connection with the negative side strong and filled the weak holes to strengthen them. The negative side reused to completely come together with positive and left the hole in the middle. As I felt the conflict between the two I noticed I was the positive side and I yearned to strengthen it. The desire burned within me and I released an energy that flew throughout the cup. Slowly, I felt the soft warmth of a bed underneath me and my head resting on the purple pillow like my soul was going back to my body. I opened my eyes. My hands used the mattress to pull myself up to be able to peer onto the kitchen counter where to my satisfaction a new diamond cup rested.
My coscar let me Jacobify the place with frames of my family, friends, pets, pictures and more. It didn't take long before I called this place home. The main trouble I had was the physical training. Sure, it was easy for Gohan, but that's because his Sayain heritage makes him a natural fighter. Sadly, he used the technique that apparently his own trainer had used with him: getting attacked. For the next couple of months, I had to learn how to use my coscar to lull Gohan to sleep so I could sleep, but trained myself to wake up to the slightest sound. Soon, I learned how to hide better, coscar better, hide better, fight better, and use my Ki energy better (white balls of energy). I learned how to hide by changing the molecules of my clothes to disguise myself with my surroundings. I would use some of the techniques from video games I had played in the past properly used them. This greatly improved my fighting skills and completely surprised Gohan. Not only did this work my fighting out, but it also worked my body out which was quite strange for me.
The place wasn't always white gloriness either. It would completely change from gravity to fire to icy. It required me to pull out all my tricks. When fire would come I'd hide myself in my clothes and turn them into aluminum, radiate Ki energy from my body to blast it away, use the coscar to turn the fire to snow, or run away to the house where it was safe. Gravity was the worst. It would increase more and that I would have to endure. Lastly, it could also get very very cold. For that I would have to use the same tactics I would use for the fire, but instead of turning my clothes to aluminum I would change into snow clothes or use the coscar to turn the blizzard-like coldness into confetti which I burned the next day.
After all these countless months past, Gohan woke me up with an ecstatic smile on his face. "Jacob, wake up!"
I raised my eyes still wrapped in the warm blanket, "Go away…you know I'm not a morning person." And I closed my eyes once again to fade away into dreamland.
However my companion was persistent, "Come on, it's the day you've been waiting for: you get to leave."
Missing my social life greatly and wanting to see my family once more, my eyes jetted open and my whole body jumped out of bed. "We do!?" My eyes beamed with excitement as the biggest smile wrote itself on my face. "Seriously!?"
"Of course!" he cheered slipping on his black shirt. "Time to get out!" He looked around the room at the Jacobified section of the room. "You'd better get rid of this stuff though…"
I nodded and grudgingly turned the items into water remembering all the memories I had with these. I could not take anything back with me though. Then I changed my hair to its old short self (it had grown quite long) and my clothes to my typical black t-shirt with a smiley face on it, blue jeans, and orange jacket. "Alright." I smiled. "Let's go." We walked to the center of the room and then into back into the room where a similar chamber as seen in the palace lay.
"Here we go!" the Sayain said and in a flash we disappeared from the scene reappearing in the old room.
An overwhelming sense of joy flooded me when I opened the door into the real sunlight. I could now be back with my family, environment, my Jacobified room, my home, my life. The gang I had met was there before my eyes: Mr. Popo, the Doctor, the girl, Jack, Thor, and Dende all awaited us with the T.A.R.D.I.S parked between two trees. "Ah!" the bowtied Doctor said getting up walking towards me. "You're finally here; took you long enough."
"Good to have you back." Mr. Popo welcomed.
"Yeah." I smiled waving to the others. "Hello! I'd like to go home now please."
"Actually, not just yet." The same Doctor replied as I went to the time machine. "You can't because we have to do very important things."
What? That was ridiculous! I had spent an entire year training completely isolated for my life and he expects me to throw it away again? Fat chance! "No." I demanded grabbing the door handle. "I am going home and I can fly there so there's no use holding me back…I would just like to go back in time to the Hospital. My brother got in a serious accident and I'm going to see him."
"Well that will just have to wait." That Doctor persisted. "You have to stop Dallin."
Gohan decided to help me out. "Listen. He has been in there for a long time."
"But..but…Dallin."
The others walked up to me. "Listen," the girl cheerfully said. "Getting him back to a familiar environment will be the best thing we can do for him. Trust me I've been held in some stupid cell-like place and a break into social life is amazing. Ungh, next time I see Sorral I swear I'll clobber her. Fun is your homework assignment alright? I'm Rylie by the way. Earth's daughter, hello!"
"Thank you!" I smiled glad I could finally get my way without using my coscar to do it. "Can I please go home now? I've been away for a year. A year!"
"Oh fine…" he replied opening the door and walking in with me Jack, Thor, and Rylie.
"See you around!" Gohan called to me.
"Okay! Bye!" I called back shutting the door. Gohan away at last! I could finally hang out with people besides a clueless brainiac! Thank goodness!
The Doctor then went around the control panel flipping over switches, pulling levers, and pushing buttons. "See that?" Rylie pointed at him leaning on the hand rail. "I call that the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo dance. He flips the switches and pushes the buttons at Bibbidi and Bobbidi and then pulls the lever at Boo. Several times I've sung it while he does it."
"Seriously!?" I snickered while I leaned on the rail with her. It was amusing that she would even think that. I mean I saw her last year kicking Dallin's butt so I instantly assumed she was a force not to be messed with. But this…this was extremely different. She not only stood up for me back at Kame's Lookout, but now she's hilariously random. Awesome!
"Yeah!" She enthused. "He hates it when I actually sing it. It's pretty funny. So…how are you feeling now that your 17 yet you still are 16 to everyone else?"
I actually hadn't thought of that. I thought since it had technically only been a day I would have only aged one day, but since I had actually been in there for a year I would have aged a year too. If my hair could grow in there than that would mean my body would age too. "It's weird. I never thought of it that way. That's cool."
"Most people do." She giggled. "Now off you pop!" and she hopped up from the rails. "Here you are! Home at last! I'll talk to you next time something amazing happens! I can't wait to you in action!"
I starred at the house in awe since it had been an entire year since Iast saw it. It had its typical brown tilled theme on the roof to help prevent rain from getting inside the house. A row of blocks of graphite led too the porch that was stone tiled with different shapes and sizes with the small pillars next to them. Grabbing to the house walls was a needed to be painted wallpaper that would read and repeat Tyvek Industries. I couldn't help, but cry at the sight of the home. I had been away for so long and it filled memories of so much love and joy. (And awesomeness!)
"Go my brother," Thor seemed to boom. "For destiny awaits you!"
I took a step out of the T.A.R.D.I.S and crept up the porch. A sound that seemed to come from the start of a washing machine came from behind me. Turning around I saw that spaceship vanishing off like it was never there at all. Then I went to the front door and opened it.
