Another Path
The new chapter of my full Dragon Ball story. Reviews do help me, don't you see?
Chapter 14: Start of the Training
Goku and Gohan teleported with the Instant Transmission to Capsule Corp, just a few days after the warning from the future. The Saiyan father and son were ready to start their hard training, but they needed Bulma's intelligence to do that. After all, she had been the only one smart enough to create the gravity machine. The aliens raised on Earth suddenly appeared inside the technological lab after bending space around them.
"Hey guys" Bulma greeted, taking her working goggles from her eyes.
"Hey Bulma" The full-blooded Saiyan replied smiling "So you have them?"
"Always one step ahead of you Saiyans" The scientific woman replied with a grin, picking up a basket with the last inventions "Gravity belts" The scientist said, handling them white belts that instead of a buckle they had what looked like a digital watch "They work like a gravity machine though more concentrated and only affecting as far as one's full body"
"Wow, that sounds great" Gohan commented surprise, taking one to check it. It looked, conventional for most of it and with white color "How high can they go?"
"Sadly, these are new ones, so only ten" The CEO replied.
"Just ten? I don't think that can help us" The palm tree-haired Saiyan said, checking the training device.
"We can use them while inside the ship" Gohan suggested his idea "The two gravities acting together will be much more effort than just one alone" Goku was impressed by the idea but also a bit confused.
"So if we use the two gravities together, how much will we feel?" The Saiyan asked, not knowing a lot of maths and rubbing his chin in thought.
"I think the gravity multiplies each other, so one hundred times on the ship times ten on our belts is... a thousand times Earth's gravity" Gohan stammered a bit, knowing they would be doing one of the most hard trainings they ever had in their lives. Something that thrilled him because of his fighter instincts.
"Wow, that will be a training" The full-blooded Saiyan commented surprised
"How do you people dare to train under such conditions? You could very well end up dying by your own weight" The blue-haired scientist expressed her opinion surprised. She just couldn't understand how Saiyans did those kinds of training without breaking. It was simply illogical, no scientific explanation she learnt was able to fully fathom those being's powers.
"Don't worry about us Bulma. We wouldn't be fighters if we couldn't hold ourselves together when under pressure" Goku said, suddenly laughing "Very literal in this case, isn't it?"
"Does Krillin and the others know about this?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah. They came early to get them. I think they will stay with King Kai to train. The training there must be just as intense as yours for sure" Bulma said "So it's three belts"
"Four" Goku replied, surprising the scientific woman "I'm also training Chichi"
"Mum will train?" The half Saiyan asked, a bit surprised.
"After what's been happening, I want to make sure she's okay" The Saiyan explained "She's not going to fight against the Androids, but at least she will know enough to not get in the middle. That's why I want to teach her the Instant Transmission and the Kaioken"
"Wow, let's hope she doesn't die" Bulma said, not knowing what to say.
"She won't" The Earth Saiyan replied confident.
"Where's Vegeta in all this?" Gohan asked. From a high ledge, Mister Briefs' small black cat jumped on the half alien's head. The Saiyan paid no mind because it wasn't exactly a threat. Bulma snickered a bit by the display but remain serious. Mostly.
"On the Gravity Chamber. It can go up to five hundred but I couldn't make more than one, sorry guys" Bulma apologised.
"Don't worry Bulma, we'll manage from here" The Earth-raised Saiyan said with his always trademark smile "If you excuse me, I have something to say to Vegeta"
"Please don't start any fight, even a rich woman can't just rebuild her house for a third time this week" The blue-haired scientist joked a bit. The palm tree-haired warrior walked away, while his son tried to unplug the black cat that was tangled in the locks of hair.
"Hey Vegeta" Goku walked inside the training room, not paying attention to the one hundred times gravity as the widow peak-haired Saiyan trained. The fact that Vegeta was struggling on his feet while Kakarot was easily standing there caused Vegeta's blood to boil in anger even more. He kept training without looking at the palm tree-haired Saiyan that once injured his pride.
"Once the Androids are done, I will have my rematch against you" The Prince simply commented, landing fists into his imaginary enemy.
"Great, but you will have to reach Super Saiyan for that to happen" Goku said with an innocent smile that hide something more. Vegeta, as he wasn't looking to Goku, didn't see it.
"I will. And then I will be the strongest in the universe" The Prince kept talking, so full of himself.
"I don't doubt you" The Earth Saiyan said, suddenly reappearing in front of Vegeta in a swift super speed movement. The prince's fist moved forward and Goku catched it. He then squashed the hand, causing the prince to clutch his teeth in pain.
"Kakarot what the Hell are you doing?" Vegeta asked angry, only for Goku to flash his aura in golden colors. The Saiyan Prince looked at the sudden golden fighter in front of him, power radiating from him.
"I said that I don't doubt you will transform" Goku's voice still sounded as always did with the little smile. Vegeta was getting a bit edgy by that kind of smile "Because you will either transform to fight me or die" Not even a second later, the Super Saiyan was already firing a short gut fist that bent Vegeta over, followed by an elbow to the back of the Prince's head. The royal Saiyan was shot to the other side of the room, bruised and bleeding by the simple yet devastating blows, capable of moving planets bigger than Earth away from orbit. The royal Saiyan spat blood from his mouth, feeling his organs reduced to a pile of cinders. He fired an energy blast, but the disorientation caused by his wounds made the sphere weak and to be fired completely out of the right path. Goku didn't need to dodge, because the attack was simply poorly aimed, hitting the wall behind.
The only Super Saiyan in the room kept walking towards his opponent decided. Goku wasn't proud of doing this, but the more Super Saiyans there were, then the more chances of surviving the future Android threat. Besides, It would turn Vegeta's arrogance down a notch or too. Though if he managed to transform, then the arrogance might be increased a lot more notches instead of decreased.
"What's the problem Vegeta? Are you feeling weak?" Goku taunted, raising his fallen enemy from the neck, applying enough pressure for the prince to lose the air in his lungs "Maybe you deserve this. How much pain have you caused along side Frieza? How many lives did you slaughter yourself just for amusement. Guess you and Frieza weren't that different from each other"
The rival Saiyan started to twitch in anger. Goku could feel it inside Vegeta. Building up like a bomb ready to go off. Just one more push would do the job. The Super Saiyan threw the Prince into the other side of the room, denting the wall by the living projectile.
"I see it pointless for you to keep training Vegeta. Because you still remain as the foolish weakling that arrived Earth" Super Saiyan said coldly, gathering energy on one single one-handed yellow blast. Vegeta could feel the concentrated energies, strong enough to blast him into the afterlife. The blast was shot, the Saiyan prince far too groggy to dodge it. The royal Saiyan thrust his hands forward, catching the attack. Yet it soon started pushing the full-blooded Saiyan back against the wall. As soon as his back touched the metallic surface, Vegeta knew it was over. His hands were blistering, his skin almost peeling away from the sheer heat of the blast. Only stubbornness was keeping the prince standing on his jelly like legs.
No, it couldn't be over. It just couldn't. He had to fulfill his destiny as the strongest Saiyan in the universe: defeat Kakarot!
Vegeta stretched his leg, pressing down the ground for leverage. But it was still futile. The blast' strength was far too much for him to overcome. Was this all he was capable off? For years he wanted to obtain power so to finally defeat Frieza. But there was something more in his actions. First and foremost, Vegeta wanted to be free. To never again be shackled down by a tyrant like his father once was. If he had to guess, Frieza was laughing his heart out looking at the fight from Hell right now.
But no more! Kakarot had pushed him far enough! He couldn't attack him and live!
The Prince's muscles bulked up suddenly, new ki surfacing to the outside. The Saiyan spirit growled from the insides, unleashed at its fullest at last. The widow peak suddenly shifted into golden colors, the black eyes now deadly bright green orbs. The Prince yelled in strength, unleashing his own energy blast. The royal Super Saiyan fired the attack back to its origin, Goku briefly smiling. He stood there, receiving the blast head on. The entire house rumbled by the sudden Moon-breaking attack.
As the plumes of smoke cleared, Goku was still alive and as a Super Saiyan, only his clothes burn and scorched in most parts. The new Super Saiyan Vegeta panted a bit, but his new ki reserves fulled his determination.
"I'm going to kill you" The Super Prince said coldly, his new Super powers also increasing his anger, like it normally did with every new transformed warrior.
"No you won't" Goku simply replied, a second later doubling Vegeta in pain with a knee to the belly. Even with the new Super transformation that provided Vegeta with tougher muscles, he had been swat aside by an even stronger power "Because you are weak" Vegeta tried to stand up futilely, standing on his hands and knees. Even with his new strength, Kakarot was still standing on a power plateau above him. A sudden kick to his ribs caused Vegeta to growl in pain, his body falling on his back, almost energy-less. The one hundred times gravity was also starting to affect him even more than before. The Prince looked through narrowed eyes of pain towards the still-standing Super Saiyan Goku.
"Know Vegeta, that I'm not helping you out of the goodness of my heart. I'm just doing it so to make sure you won't back away in fear like a coward" The first Super Saiyan of Earth said coldly, leaving no ground for reply "Just realise that the fact I have forgiven you doesn't mean I have forgotten all the things you have done, not only in the universe but also against me and my friends" Goku kept talking with seriousness, his hair returning to black. The Earth Saiyan walked away, leaving an injured Vegeta in the increased-hundred gravity room.
The Prince remained there, again beaten and bleeding. And again, the low-class clown proved to be above a super élite. Worse, a Super Saiyan Elite! This wasn't tolerable. The Prince returned to his feet, ignoring the pain his body was in. He was going to train and become stronger. That was the only thing he cared about.
And so Earth fighter started their hard training, knowing that Earth was resting in their hands. They had three years. And they would use them.
It had been months since the arrival from the future and the warriors had started their tough training. Three fighters were inside the gravity machine at one hundred times gravity, the numbers on their belts showing the number two. The two human-like Saiyans and green Namek fought against each other, sometimes suddenly teaming two against one, or sometimes doing an all-out fight, everyone versus everyone.
Goku blocked a punch from Gohan and dodged down a kick from Piccolo. Suddenly both Namek and half alien teleported and combined their blows into an even stronger punch that hit the full-blooded Saiyan square on the chest, sending him careening to the other side of the room. Goku struggled to stay on his feet, but the gravity and the fatigue were already taking their tool on his body. The Earth Saiyan suddenly smiled, unleashing a yell of power from his throat. A second later, the Earth Saiyan was a Super Saiyan, the ship trembling under his power. Gohan smiled, transforming too with no problem. Piccolo let go of his weighted turban, caving a dent on the ship's floor.
The fight was only starting.
The Prince of Saiyans was training on his own, firing super-fast punches and roundhouses to the air, the red light of the chamber flashing the oval room. The air thicken around Vegeta's body, who was struggling against the four hundred times Earth's gravity. But as far as he was concerned, the royal Saiyan was not going to have any break. The earth woman had made him a new room with eight hundred times gravity, and once he got a better hold of the four hundred, he would go straight up to the limit and even more.
He would prove Kakarot who was the strongest warrior in the universe!
On the Other World, Krillin and Chaotzu spared against Tien and Yamcha, the four fighters with the Kaioken aura times ten. They had their gravity belt at five, though Krillin had it at full ten. Mixed with that they also had weighted clothes magically materialised by King Kai. For Krillin who had trained at a hundred times gravity before, this was amazingly a challenge as the extra weights of the clothes pushed him down a bit more than he had first expected they would.
King Kai was looking at the fight, surprised by his new students. Goku was surely one of the strongest he had, but these humans weren't any slackers either.
"King Kai, can you give us more weight?" The bald Turtle monk asked to the galaxy overlooker. The chubby man simply flashed his hands blue and the weights increased. They were at least one hundred tons on each fighters, and mixed with the gravity of the planet and the belts, the clothes weighted five thousand tons. Nearly everyone struggled to hold their own. The Kaioken's increased in range up to fifteen times, and now they were holding their own much better. Their bodies started straining but they would train those bugs out.
The Earth fighters kept coming at each other, each blow sending amazing shock waves to the outside. The monkey Bubbles ran into the small planet's tree for refugee while King Kai kept looking at the fight surprised.
A few days later, Goku was outside his house, his gravity belt showing the number ten. It wasn't a warm up for him at this pont but with the weighted clothes of three thousand tons, it was bit tiring.
Chichi walked out of the house, dressed in a similar outfit like Goku's. Though hers was dark red with a black undershirt. She carried red weighted wristbands and black boots, all barely weighting just fifty pounds. But with the gravity on her belt at two, they all weighted up to one hundred pounds. The raven-haired woman struggled a bit, but remained straight, proving that she was just as powerful as any other. Both sat on the grass floor, while Piccolo floated away meditating and Gohan read a book. They were having a little break while Goku trained Chichi in ki manipulation. And from there, they would go onto more harder things.
And so three years passed...
Notes from Chapter 14:
Sorry to cut things out but I really don't do well with training details.
What Goku did against Vegeta wasn't something he wanted. He only did it to have a better chance against the Androids (just explaining if that wasn't clear).
Chichi may train, but it doesn't mean she will fight the Androids (As Goku said, he is making sure she can handle herself and not get killed)
Power Levels: (Not yet, see next chapters to see the result of the training. By the way, don't start searching into V-Jump or any other source for 'possible' powers. Just don't, seriously. It will be better for your health.)
And so, the training has started. Only time can tell if any difference will be made.