Chapter 10

:Training Continues

:A New Super Saiyan is born

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.

Two days later, Goku had been continuing on trying to teach Videl how to summon her Super Saiyan powers through their practice sessions, but it seemed as if they'd made little progress since they'd started three days ago. "Dammit!" cursed out Videl as she slammed her fists into the ground in frustration after having once again failed to achieve Super Saiyan. "Hey, don't get so worked up over it. You'll get it eventually, it just takes time and no one gets it right away. It took Gohan a few days before he could learn how to do it at will and it took me months before I learned how to control it." Goku said, trying to cheer her up. "No way! Just face it, it's hopeless! I'm never going to get it. It feels as if I'm losing progress as opposed to making it!" Videl cried out in depressing frustration. "While it is a bit strange that you seem to be having so much trouble with it that should be no reason to quit. Come on... Just one more time! I know you can do it. Just think about all your loved ones and what your fighing for. Let them be your guide and help you power up to the next level." encouraged Goku. Videl was heartened by Goku's encouragement enough that she decided to pick herself back up and try it again one more time. '*sigh* Alright, all I have to do is think about my loved ones. Dad, Eresa, Gohan... Mom...*breaths* Wait! Goku said that I have to power up to the next level. Maybe I've been going at this all wrong! I've been concentrating so hard on my emotions that I haven't been powering up my energy alongside with it. Maybe that's what I need to do! I need to power up while using heavy emotion to bring out the form. My emotions must bring it out while my energy controls it. That's it!' Videl thought to herself as she finally felt she knew the secret of bringing out Super Saiyan.

Videl brought her arms up to her sides and she began to slowly scream as she began to powered up. Soon the flame-like aura began to surround her as she continued to power up her energy alongside pouring in some of her most intense emotions. Her screams grew louder and the winds began to kick up dust clouds as her power reached new heights. The flame-like aura turned more jagged and her eyes turned teal as the ground below her feet began to break in a circular pattern. And then finally, her hair started turning golden and started spiking slightly upwards when in a final climactic yell accompanied by a brilliant burst of light her transformation was complete. Goku and Trunks lowered their arms from having protected their eyes from the light and they both stood amazed at what they saw. There, standing in front of them stood the sight of Videl fully transformed into a Super Saiyan.

"You did it! You did it! You actually did it! You've transformed into a Super Saiyan at will! I knew you could do it." Goku exclaimed as he threw his arms in the air in a fit of joyful celebration and congradulation. Videl smirked proudly at Goku's congradulatory praise but then she soon fell to her hands and knees and forced to regress to her normal form. Goku and Trunks were about to run and help her but they realised that her body was just not used to the power yet so she was only a little tired and that she was okay. After catching her breath, Videl stood up and looked down at her hands in amazement at what she'd done. "I can't believe it! I actually willingly turned into a Super Saiyan! I've gotta tell Gohan right away!" Videl excitedly exclaimed as she then quickly ran back into the ship overjoyed with Goku and Trunks just standing there chuckling to themselves. 'Aaaah! Young love!' they both thought.

Videl quickly ran into her's and Gohan's room highly excited. "Gohan! Gohan! Guess what! I've finally transformed into a Super Saiyan at will!" exclaimed Videl. "I know, I was watching you. Congradulations, I knew you could do it." Gohan said with a proud smile while still resting on the bed. "Wait, you were watching me?" confusedly asked Videl. Gohan then swerved his eyes and head pointing to the window. Videl caught his drift and looked into the bubbled window to see the exact position where she was along with Goku and Trunks just standing there waiting. Videl looked back at Gohan with a small blush of embarrassement as she realised that he'd been looking out of his window seeing her train the whole time. "I've been watching you every step of the way. Not much else to do around here. I'm proud of you." pridefully said Gohan. "Thank you Gohan. That means a lot to me coming from you. But for now I have to leave you and head back to training. There's still alot of things for me to work on. I'll see you later tonight!" Videl said as she went back out to resume her training.

Videl arrived back at where Goku and Trunks had been waiting. "Great! You're back! Are you ready for some more training?" enthusiastically asked Goku. "Yes, I'm ready!" Videl immediately responded. "Good, because now that you've learned how to transform it's time we worked on you maintaining that power. I want you to try transforming and staying as a Super Saiyan for as long as you can." ordered Goku, going back to being a teacher. "Right!" answered Videl as they went back to training.

Over the next three days, Videl trained and even sparred with Goku while Trunks just observed and every now and then dropped in some suggestions. Gohan, Chi-Chi and Bulma watched the training every day from the safety of the ship. By the time of the third day Videl had almost completely mastered transforming in and out of Super Saiyan but she was still only as powerful as a base level Super Saiyan. Over the week of training, Videl and Goku came to develop a close student/teacher, almost father/daughter relationship that they both treasured. Videl had come to revere and respect Goku as not only a tough but gentle teacher, but as an unbelievable warrior and hero. Videl called him 'Sensei Goku' and she came to care for him as a mentor almost as if he was a member of her family.

Late in the day on their sixth day on New Vegeta, Goku, Videl and Trunks were finishing their training for the day. "Nice job today Videl, I think you're just about ready for the big leagues now." praised Goku. "Thanks, Goku Sensei." Videl said, positively beaming under Goku's praise. But then something caught Videl's eye off in the distance. It was Paragus who was looking out from atop one of the towers in the palace. "Is something wrong Videl?" Goku asked, sounding concerned. "No, it's just that we've heard all sorts of stuff about this so called 'Legendary Super Saiyan' and we don't know what it is that's so legendary about him. Vegeta seemed to know something about what Paragus was talking about on New Namek and since he's not here right now there's only one person left who has the answers." said Videl as she then went to fly off to the palace but Goku stopped her. "Wait! I'm going too! I wanna hear this too." Goku asked and Videl agreed with a nod. "I'll head back to the ship. I'd like to get in some last minute training in the Gravity Room before the day is out." said Trunks. Goku and Videl nodded in approval and then they headed off.

Trunks headed back into the ship and when he got back inside he found Shamo's grandfather talking with Chi-Chi and Bulma in the recreation room. "Old man! I have to say this is an unexpected visit." Said Trunks, who was happy to see him. "I'm afraid this isn't a social visit. I've come to ask you for some more food. We're in desperate need!" explained the old little alien. "Oh! Well, in that case follow me. We'll go to my room and we'll see if I can spare you anything." Trunks suggested. The little alien agreed and followed Trunks down the corridoor until they reached the door of Trunks' room where the little alien peaked into the next room out of curiosity and spotted the injured Gohan. "My goodness! What happened to that young man?" asked the empathetic old man. "That's Gohan the son of Goku. He was ambushed while we were on planet New Namek and he was injured saving Videl's life while trying to save the Namekians from being kidnapped by some unknown forces. Part of the reason why we came here for was that hopefully we could use Paragus' resources to help find the kidnappers." explained Trunks off hand. "Did you say Nameks? I heard a rumor about a new batch of slaves that arrived at the facility on the other side of the planet the day before you arrived. They were said to have been from a planet called Namek." told the old man. "WHAT? Are you sure about that?" exclaimed Trunks. "I can't be totally sure if it is them but I'm sure it's worth you checking out." replied the old man. "Right! I'll go check this out right away! And while I'm gone you go check with my mother and she'll arrange for you all the food we can spare." said Trunks before he then ran down the corridoor and out the ship before he powered off into the night sky as fast as he could in search of the possible location of their lost Namekian friends on the other side of the planet.

Meanwhile, somewhere inside the palace Goku and Videl found and confronted Paragus. "Can I be of some service to you?" asked Paragus, putting on his guise of a humble servant. "Yeah, we want to know exactly what it is about this 'Legendary Super Saiyan' that's got both King Kai and Vegeta so worried. I mean, what's the legend about this Legendary Super Saiyan anyway? Nobody told us what it is yet and you're the only one who's left who can." explained Goku. Paragus didn't look too willing to tell them but Goku and Videl kept scowling at him seriously. "We're not leaving until you tell us." threatened Videl. Paragus took that threat seriously and pretty soon the pressure mounted and he was resigned to talk. He walked up to the nearby window, placed his hands on the railling and looked off into the distance as if at some long lost memory.

"I'm sure you've been told of the legends of the Super Saiyans that once populated the planet Vegeta. But what you may not know is that the true Legendary Super Saiyan was said to have been a radical murderous killing machine more powerful than all the other saiyans put together. He was said to have been so powerful that he even came close to wiping out all Super Saiyans forever but failed only when his power grew too strong for his own body and he was destroyed along with the system he was on. He destroyed himself before the he could wipout the last of the Super Saiyan bloodline but he had reduced it so much that it would only be a matter of time before the Super Saiyans would die out and vanish forever or so was thought. It was believed that the Super Saiyans would return one day and it was even feared that one day the Legendary Super Saiyan would be reborn. Until recently it was thought to be an impossibility, but then, in the years following planet Vegeta's destruction legends began surculating of a Saiyan survivor terrorising the South Galaxy and that he was a 'Legendary Super Saiyan'. Vegeta told me while on the trip here that he'd heard these rumors while in Frieza's army but that he along with Frieza merely discarded it as either wild rumors or merely of an imposter trying to take credit using the Super Saiyans' reputation. I myself heard the same rumors but it wasn't until recently when he entered our galaxy and started threatening New Vegeta that I took any notice of him. To my great horror I found out that he truly was a Saiyan survivor and that he was truly an almighty Super Saiyan. Not only that, but quite possibly he could truly be the Legendary Super Saiyan of legend. So, now you know." finished Paragus.

Paragus turned towards his captive audience and mockingly watch their reactions. But to his surprise he found that neither of them looked the least bit impressed, only sheer resolute determination to deal with the threat. "Thanks Paragus. Now we at least have some idea of what we're up against. Let's go Videl." said Goku as he and Videl left while eyeing Paragus suspisciously as they went. Paragus just bowed at their leaving in keeping with his image of a 'humble servant'. "If you need anything else, you just need to ask." Paragus said in a tone that sounded almost as him he was mocking them. Goku and Videl then left for the banquet hall since they'd missed supper.

Meanwhile on the other side of the planet, Trunks was busy locating the supposed enslavement camp of the kidnapped Namekians. He'd found another facility like the craters they'd found the little aliens working in only this time he found that they were being worked by Nameks. Trunks landed crouched on a hill about a mile or two away and began to observe the camp. He could see that the Namekians were chained up and that there were about 13 guards in total overlooking the camp. "Well, looks like the Nameks are here alright! It shouldn't be too much trouble for me to take out the guards by myself. They don't look any tougher then the guards back at the other place. I should probably start with the ones on the perimeter and then work my way down into the middle. If I run into any trouble I'm sure that I can get help from the Nameks. I'm sure they're itching to get back at their captors." Trunks said out loud, speaking to himself as he planned his next move and then he vanished as he began his rescue attempt.

A few minutes later, after a fierce but short battle, all the guards were knocked out, the camp was left as a smoldering battle scarred battlefield and Trunks was busy breaking the Nameks' chains. "Thank you, whoever you are." thanked one of Nameks who's chains Trunks broke. "No need to thank me. I'm a friend of Goku and Gohan's from Earth. I'm just glad I could come in time." explained Trunks. "From Earth!? Then listen, you should probably be told who is responsible for this. I was one of the first to be captured. Our village was attacked by these men and we were beaten and subdued easily. We wee told that we were going to be used by Lord Paragus as slave labor to help build his new Saiyan Empire. I saw the man who led the attack and I heard one of his men call him Lord Broly." explained the Namekian. "What!? So Paragus was behind this all along. I knew things didn't feel right the moment I saw him. I have to tell the others!" Trunks exclaimed as he then floated into the air and prepared to leave. "Wait! What about us?" asked the Namek. "You stay here and make use of this camp. There should be plenty of space and shelter for you to make use of and I'm sure the guards won't mind abliging you with their water." Trunks said with a devious smile. He then powered off into the sky and back to the other side of the planet to relay the news.

Author's Final Thoughts: And so Videl's finally in full control of her transformation and things are moving on. In my original concept there was supposed to be a prophecy where it would be more construded that Gohan was in fact the Legendary Super Saiyan and that his Super Saiyan 2 transformation was the true source of the legend as opposed to the popular belief that Broly's was. That was meant to play into the upcoming battle and much later on in the story. But that idea didn't end up working out quite as well as I'd hoped. But I hope you enjoyed Paragus' tale about how the Legendary Super Saiyan came about, it's my idea as to how it might've come about. But then again if you read between the lines enough it could still be that Gohan's transformation was maybe the actual cause of the Legendary Super Saiyan legend.

And just in case some of you haven't figured it out yet, Broly and his father have been taking away Namekians as slaves for their slave population and that's how they ran afoul of our heroes earlier. This is the way they meet up in my story. It was just a happy coincidence for them that when they were out hunting for slaves and found the Nameks, that our heroes would show up at the same time. So that's how they actually run into each other at first in my story. Since Paragus needs Vegeta in his plot, that's how he found him and then pretended that he wasn't involved. I hope that clears things up for those of you who don't have a clear idea yet.