Author Note
Thank Takao-kun for the Frying Pan of Man Beating I so plan for that to appear again.
Also what happened to the Power Pole? Goku should use it again its a bloody awesome weapon.
Cyborg Gothic
Part 25
"The ability to become a Super Saiyan was once considered to be nothing more than a legend" King Kai said as we stood outside his house "Until Goku achieved it, no one had become a Super Saiyan for over one thousand years".
And now there were like four of them if you counted future Trunks, clearly something about the nature of the universe had changed and I could only speculate about what that change was.
"The level of power a Super Saiyan commands is so overwhelming that it can only be maintained in a transformed state" the king then added.
Which was why their hair went all golden, and why mine had gone silver. It was an outward manifestation of the transformation.
"Despite it only being a myth at the time, Frieza, who was considered to be one of the strongest people in the universe, became paranoid about the possibility of their being truth behind the legend" I was then told "Because of this fear, Frieza came to the conclusion that he had to annihilate the Saiyan race by destroying Planet Vegeta. This should have removed the threat to Frezia".
Of course it hadn't.
"However, more than twenty-five later, the Super Saiyan legend was proven to be true when Goku accomplished the feat during an epic battle against the evil tyrant" King Kai then said.
I was unsure how this was meant to help me learn to control my Super Saiyan like state, but I kept on listening.
"So as we know the first Super Saiyan transformation occurred when a Saiyan who had reached a very high level of power lost himself in a fit of rage" the blue then said "our example being Goku's case when he defeated Frieza".
I pondered things for a moment before speaking.
"Or in my case when Broly...".
I couldn't actually bring myself to say what had happened, and King Kai only nodded in reply to my unspoken words.
"You must once again feel the rage you did on that day" my teacher instructed "Only then will you learn to control this great power".
That sounded much simpler than it actually was.
"I'm not that angry about it anymore" I explained "I've had time to move on".
Travelling down snake way been good for something, and while I was still upset about what had happened, it didn't make me mad any more. Broly had died at my hands I'd avenged my unborn child.
"Well you still have plenty to be mad about" the king guy said "I mean you were killed by someone who claimed to be your friend, and then your girlfriend also tried to kill you".
Already I was starting to feel the rage growing.
"Oh and you were ripped away from your own life, so you could be experimented upon by a mad scientist. Who then turned you into a cyborg...".
At this point I was feeling a great anger from deep inside start to make its way to surface. It was so intense that I missed out on some of what my teacher had just been saying.
"And then an evil snake princess tried to drain your life force!" King Kai went on to say "But not before she drugged you, so that she could violate your mind and...".
That was when an energy wave knocked the monkey, the bug and the blue guy over. King Kai was actually pleased by my outburst and soon I understood why. My aura was silver, and I could feel my energy levels sky-rocket. Sadly it didn't last.
"You've done this before" my mentor then reminded me "Remember how it felt, tap into the Saiyan part of yourself and don't let it go".
Which I did, only the transformation didn't very last as I couldn't sustain the emotions, not matter how worked up I got.
"Very good" praised my teacher "But you still need to sustain the transformation. Don't hold back. Let it out. Scream and shout!"
I did that and this time the transformation lasted longer, but still I simply could not feel that level of rage for very long.
"No this isn't going to work" admitted King Kai "It really shouldn't be this hard for you. There must be some mental barrier preventing you from sustaining the change. Something is holding you back".
My teacher then spent a few moment thinking before he raised his hand and made a sword appear out of no where.
"A little motivation might help" he then said.
The sword dropped to the ground after being summoned or created, and I spent a moment looking at it. The whole thing was made out of some black metal, including the hilt so it wasn't real it was more like a lump of metal that had been shaped to mimic a sword.
"If you can lift that then I will make for you a truly magical weapon" the king offered "Its been a while since I worked a forge, but I think I can make something really special".
That seemed simple enough to me so I attempted to pick up the lump of metal, only I couldn't even nudge the thing never mind lift it.
"Its made of pure Katchin" I was told "The strongest metal in the whole universe. Have fun!".
I quickly figured out a way to complete this task.
"Kaioken x5!"
That was a bucket of water emptied itself over my head. It had come out of nowhere and I was so taken by surprise that I powered down.
"No you must use your Super Cyborg Transformation!" King Kai chided "That's the whole point of today's training".
Since I was already getting annoyed I figured that it shouldn't take too long for me to get mega pissed off.
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"I can't believe it took three days" I said while powering down from Super Cyborg mode "But at least I can control in now".
Perhaps it would have taken more time if I'd hadn't also been learning to defend my mind, however it had been time well spent as my mentor had been able to enter my head and see the dreams I'd had. Then he'd gone on to warn the defenders of Earth about the unknown treats, which meant they were training as well.
Another benefit of the mind probing was that it had allowed King Kai to aid me getting past a few mental blocks. That had been some part of me which had feared unleashing my true might. I had no idea where it had come from, but it was gone now so it hardly mattered.
"And just in time for the Otherworldly Tournament too" I then added.
I was looking forward to facing off against some of the strongest warriors in the history of this universe. The contest would allow me to find out how powerful I really was, and it would also help to prepare me for the troubles ahead. I had a feeling that nothing less than my best was going to be needed in order to save the Earth.
"Actually its been three and an half days" King Kai corrected "Lucky for you I never put a time limit on our deal so come look at the designs I have for your sword. I also have some ideas for body armour".
I followed as instructed and saw that the blue guy had set up a workplace that any blacksmith would be proud to call his own.
"Some armour would be good" I commented "All I have to wear is the gi you gave me".
The outfit was black with a white trim, and was made out of a material far more durable than any cloth on Earth, but for the fights ahead I figured that I would need more.
"Now I won't be able to forge anything before the tournament, but since you aren't allowed to use weapons or wear armour in the fights this won't be a problem" the king was now saying "I'll just finish both once you've won the contest and the grand prize".
That was when I wondered something.
"What is the prize?" I inquired.
King Kai didn't answer right away as he was flipping through pages of sword designs. I saw many cool looking blades, some were western in appearance, like Bastard swords and Broadswords while others were most eastern like the Bokken or the Katana.
"A lesson with the Grand Kai" he then told me "He is considered to be the greatest fighter in the universe. I can only imagine what he could teach you. It is a great honour being offered".
I didn't even know who this Grand Kai was so I to ask.
"You see the Grand Kai is kinda the boss of the four Kais" I was told "The North Kai, that's me, the West Kai, South Kai and East Kai, and through us he rules over the four quadrants of the universe".
This created more questions than it answered.
"I thought there were four galaxies, not four quadrants" I said.
That was the impression I'd be given when finding out that there was a South galaxy.
"No you see the realm of living, what you call the universe, is divided into four quadrants, called North, South, East and West, and each is ruled over by a Kai like myself" my teacher explained "Not that we really rule anything we watch more than anything else".
I figured that most realites had Power That Be which just stood around watching while other people did all the work.
"Each of these quadrants contain many galaxies" it was explained to me "but your galaxy is the most important in the quadrant, and so we call it the North Galaxy, rather than the Milky Way like humans do".
Now things were starting to make sense.
"The North Galaxy contains more than 200 billion planets, and there is only one Check-In Station for each of the four Quadrants of the Universe" King Kai was now telling me "which why there was such a line when you got here".
Well I'd been rushed to the front, but I was a special case.
"When you get up here it helps to think of the entire thing as a ladder. On the bottom rung is all of space, your universe" he went on to say "Higher up is Hell, and then you have Snake Way. At the next level are the planets of the four Kais who as I said oversee their parts of the Universe. And higher still, above the four Kais and all the rest is the Grand Kai's planet".
That wasn't too hard to follow.
"Then there is the demon realm, which is not part of the rest of the cosoms" I was then informed "I don't really know much about it, or even how to get there".
My teacher then created a glass bubble, which now rested in his hand, and I as looked inside it I could see Snake Way, and a few planets. Below it was a massive sea of galaxies.
"This is what our reality looks like" he told me.
It looked very well put together.
"There are no roads leading to other the planets of the Kais" was the next peace of information I got "As you can see my planet is the expection to this as it at the end of a Snake Way, which starts at the Check-In Station".
While it looked as if Snake Way was a winding road that was one quarter as long as the entire physical universe I knew this couldn't be the case as there was no way I could have run and walked for billions of miles. So Otherworld had to be much smaller than the mortal universe, even if the globe didn't support that.
"Look you can see where the Grand Kai lives, it just above Heaven" my teacher said while pointing "Which is a gigantic planet".
Apparently Heaven was very big and also very blue. It was pretty, and it could be seen from King Kai's planet.
"So what's outside the bubble?" I wondered
King Kai didn't answer right away.
"All I can say is that somewhere out there is the Sacred World of the Kais" he answered "Let's hope you never have to go there".
I got the feeling that I should drop the subject, but there were still somethings that I wanted to know.
"What's Heaven like?" was my next question.
King Kai seemed happier talking about this part of the cosmos.
"I'd say it resembles Earth, only its a much calmer place, imagine one big world wide garden" he informed me "The people there exist as spirits, they don't get to keep their bodies like you did. But they don't mind as they can still enjoy themselves".
That didn't sound so bad.
"Perhaps you could fly all the way up there and visit" King Kai suggested "It would only take you a couple of weeks".
That was tempting, but I had things to do.
"As you know Hell is below Snake Way" I was then told "You couldn't see it because of the clouds, but had you fallen off you would have ended up there. Its inhabited by the worst people in the universe, such as Freiza and of course all the lawyers who ever lived".
King Kai found that humorous, but I didn't so he got serious
"Yes well that's enough of that" he said "Let's keep going with your training. There'll be plenty of time for jokes later".
As long as they weren't his jokes I was fine with that.