The second day of the internships began for many bright and early. "I know, it looks weird, but I did this with Gohan's dad when we were younger," Krillin explained as he fitted the small kid with the fifty pound shell on his back. Then handed him a crate of milk. "I promise you, after today, you will be ready for any other training I give you."
"Mommy, why are they skipping." Maron asked Eighteen who waved off her husband and pupil in the early morning.
"Because they're dorks," Eighteen smirked as she watched Krillin start to teach the small student.
"Kero, I wonder what Gohan is up too," Tsuyu said as he dodged the attacks from the three Piccolos she was sparring with.
"Oh, I can show you if you'd like," Dende offered the frog girl. "You just have to touch me. I mean, hold onto me," quickly shouting a correction as he realized what connotations the words he said had. "I didn't mean it like that I swear." The Guardian of Earth blushed nervously. "I still don't fully understand the intricacies of the Earthling language, I am very sorry."
"It's alright," Tsuyu giggled. "You're basically learning every human language in the span of a few years."
"It is a very different language than Namekian," Dende nodded as Tsuyu rested her hand on his shoulder and began to watch what was happening at U.A.
"Gohan," Aizawa called out as he finished setting a few of the 1-B students to spar. "You're avoiding it."
Turning to face his teacher with a sigh. "Do I have too?" Gohan asked as he rubbed his arm. He had been avoiding the topic of him training during the internship.
"Yes. The internships were designed to help the students, all of them. And I told you before, we are here to help with your problems." Reminding him about the conversation they had on the bus.
"I guess." Gohan sighed as he put some distance between him and the rest of the group.
"What's he doing?" Manga asked Thirteen as the 1-B students stopped to see what Gohan would do.
Taking a deep breath in, Gohan exploded out his ki, his aura flashing to life as the air swirled around him. Letting out a deep yell, raising his power level, the ground beneath him began to crack and shake.
"What's going on?" Bondo yelped as he fell over from the motions. The half-saiyan's voice carrying across the yard.
"Gohan is unleashing his power," Aizawa said as he saw the crackles of electricity form around his student. The winds raged as Gohan's voice broke. Gohan was left gasping for air when he finished powering up. "No one go near him, you probably wouldn't even be able to breathe if you did." Aizawa warned the curious on lookers. "You good?" Calling out to check on his student before approaching.
Slowly looking up Gohan locked his cyan eyes onto his teachers and nodded.
"How do you feel Gohan, any murderous intent coming up?" Aizawa asked, as this wouldn't benefit Gohan to acclimate to the form if he wasn't in control of himself.
Gohan closed his eyes and concentrated on ignoring the urge to attack everything around him. "No, I think I can do this," he firmly stated before vanishing in a blur.
"Where'd he go?" Pony asked as she couldn't see him any more.
Suddenly the sound of the air bursting above them as Gohan's form reappeared throwing punches and kicks at blinding speeds.
"Every single one of those strikes put my best to shame," All Might sadly shook his head, seeing the actual gap between them in power. After a few seconds of watching, Gohan started to float back down.
"How are you holding up Gohan?" Aizawa shouted as Gohan landed in front of them, pulsing with energy.
"Need to let out more power, it's building up too fast." Gohan said as he cupped his hands together. "Kaaaa meee haaa meee," the blue orb forming in between them. "HAAAA!" he roared as he fired the powerful beam into the sky.
For a moment the area was bathed in the glow of his attack, the dust and dirt sent in all directions away from the force of the beam. Gohan finally cut the beam and lowered his hands. "That's better," he said as flexed and checked himself over, to ensure he maintained his ascended form throughout the attack. "It's odd to be like this and not fighting, the amount of energy is so much."
"Oh my god," Reiko screamed suddenly, drawing everyone's attention. "I know you, holy shit."
"Wait, you know him?" Yu questioned her friend.
"How do you not, it was at the Cell Games. That blonde guy, he sent in his kid, that was, he'd be Gohan's age now. You fought Cell," Reiko accused as she recognized him from the footage of the infamous day.
"I didn't fight Cell, I killed Cell," Gohan declared as his gaze wandered over to the teen.
"No, Hercule Satan-" Monoma started to interject before pausing as Gohan vanished from sight, only to appear directly in front of the blonde teen.
"Was dismissed like the insignificant bug he was." Gohan said as he loomed over the boy. The pressure exerted by his ascended form making it impossible for the weaker human to do more than fall to his knees, unable to even draw breath. "That buffoon showed up to a game he didn't even know the rules too."
"Gohan, step away from Monoma, he's suffocating." Aizawa shouted.
Gohan moved away far enough back that Monoma could gasp for air. "For years I was the most powerful being in the universe. I alone stood at the peak." Gohan ranted as his arrogance was greatly enhanced in this form.
"Has his ego always been like this? Because I don't remember him being so, douchey" Midnight waved her hand as she and the rest of the group listened to Gohan's tirade.
"No, it seems that this 'Ascended' form," Aizawa started. "Does something to him mentally." Turning back to his student, he realized he needed to help him learn some control. "I'm really gonna regret this. Gohan, I need you to spar with us," Aizawa said, his tone unsure.
"Really, you," Gohan scoffed. "Last time you were near me, you were like the rest of them."
"I know, which is why you're going to do this, you need to learn better control," Aizawa said as he jumped at Gohan to kick him in the head. The pressure of Gohan's ki already affecting him, but he persevered. "And that comes with making sure the people around you... aren't hurt by your power," Aizawa huffed as he kept throwing blows at his student who dodged a fraction of a second before they landed.
"Rein it in," the teacher said as it became harder and harder to move his body. Finally Aizawa had to back off before he passed out from being unable to breathe, when Gohan vanished to avoid Midnight's whip, the rest of the U.A. teachers had caught on to the plan of keeping Gohan on a rotation of fights until he had the control he needed in this form.
It took an hour of swapping in and out for the teachers to be able to stand near the half-saiyan without suffering the effects of his overwhelming power. "Finally," All Might said as he wiped his brow. He had tagged in more frequently than the others as he could recover much quick than them and was able to at least occupy Gohan's attention for some moments.
"I think now would be a good time for some lunch," Nezu huffed as he sat on the yard, being smaller and more intelligent he had made tactical approaches to test the young man's defenses, but it seemed the vast gap in power between them was too much to overcome with intelligence alone.
The 1-B class was fascinated watching Gohan's spar with their teachers, it made them realize they weren't joking the other day when they said they couldn't even scratch Gohan. The closest thing to damage delivered was when Gohan allowed All Might to land some blows on him and as the ground cracked from each blow, Gohan didn't flinch or even register the attacks.
"That seems like a good idea," Gohan said as he headed back to the main building.
"Are you planning on powering down?" Thirteen asked as he saw Gohan had not reverted back to his normal state.
Shaking his head. "Nah, I'm gonna try and acclimate better to the form, it's like I did with my normal Super Saiyan form, I can remain that way with no loss in stamina or energy." Gohan explained. "Hopefully this only takes a few months like it did with my father and I in the hyperbolic time chamber."
The other students and teachers began to follow Gohan back up to the school while he talked. "What's a hyperbolic time chamber?" Shishida ask, hoping for clarification.
"It's a room on the Lookout with a dilated time and gravity effect, when you go in, one day out here is equal to one year inside the chamber."
"How does that work?"
"Only Piccolo would know, he made it, or at least, the him that was him before he split into Kami and the Demon King Piccolo," Gohan shrugged as he realized it was kind of an odd situation to explain.
"I came to this school to become a hero, not question everything I have ever learned in life." Kamakiri whispered to Ibara next to him.
"At least he hasn't done anything that shakes my faith." Shiozaki whispered back.
"So, who wants to hear what happens when you die?" Gohan shouted as he smirked, figuring he might as well mess with the other students with some of stories his friends had told him.
"Hmmm," Vegeta hummed as he danced around Todoroki's attacks, avoiding them without any effort on his part. "It would seem the brat is finally doing training of his own." Having been able to easily locate Gohan as soon as he powered up.
"Stop- huff, mocking me." Todoroki wiped his lip of spittle, deciding that singular strikes would do nothing to hit the faster target, he erupted a nova of ice in the hopes that hitting everywhere would finally strike the bastard who was handling his training.
"Not bad," Vegeta said as he floated above Todoroki. "Might have worked if I couldn't fly, but then again, I could just blow it up." The harsh red lighting casting a sinister shadow below him.
"How are you able to do all that," Todoroki fumed as he was freezing cold from overusing his mother's quirk.
"Because I am better trained than you will ever hope to be." Vegeta bluntly stated. "But you can learn." He flared his ki once which shattered all the ice. "Oh, great, now I have to let this dry out." He realized as the ice had already began to melt and form a pool on the floor. He flew over to the control panel and shut down the gravity effect before anything happened to the electrical systems, he'd hate to lose the chamber because he didn't take care of it properly. Bulma could fix it, but then he'd have to admit what happened.
"Boy, we will spar on the lawn." Vegeta declared as he opened the door, nearly blinding Todoroki with the light after being in the darker room for so long.
"Oh hey Vegeta, Todoroki," Bulma waved as they saw the pair walk past them. "Done with the training already?"
"No, the chamber is flooded." Vegeta answered.
"What the hell did you do? It's not even hooked up to any water systems." Bulma cried out in confusion.
"Wait, isn't that a massive fire hazard?" Mei asked as she was finishing up the touches on the new scouter Bulma was starting her off with. The pink haired inventor wondered why she was making something like this, but Bulma swore she'd like the answer when it was done.
"Nah, if Vegeta was in there and it caught on fire, he'd just keep training." Bulma waved off the concern. "Probably think it enhanced the danger level."
"You're goddamn right." Vegeta smirked at his wife, she understood him.
"So, you spent the last six hours at what, five times gravity?" Bulma inquired.
"No we brought him up to eight today." Vegeta corrected.
"EIGHT," Mei shouted as she looked at the exhausted teen. "That's incredible, you were struggling with five yesterday and now you're fighting at an eight."
Todoroki paused as he hadn't been told what level the bastard had the room set to when they fought, he just knew it was hell, but for it to be even harder than the previous day and he was fighting in it. He squinted his eyes as he realized that maybe this guy did know what he was doing. He was caught off guard when Mei started to feel him up making him freeze in place.
"Oh yeah, I have tons of ideas for possible gear if you can handle stress like that," Mei's eyes twinkled as the Briefs tried to not laugh at Todoroki's blushing face. "Mmm, gonna make some babies today."
Todoroki quickly escaped from the room as the adults couldn't keep their laughter in.
Kendo ducked under Chi-Chi's legs, the woman was an absolute monster in terms of skill and power. Itsuka was barely able to avoid all the blows and she could tell by the soft smile on Chi-Chi's face, that she was still holding back.
"You are doing a good job Kendo," Chi-Chi said as the younger girl was struggling to keep up, she stopped her barrage and allowed Itsuka to catch her breath. "We'll move up to weighted clothing after lunch, it was always Goku's preferred method."
"How much," Itsuka inquired as she had done some training with weights, usually only a few kilos.
"Oh nothing too crazy, probably only fifty kilos to start," The answer stunning the young fighter. "Maybe in a year you could move up to one hundred."
"So how exactly did you get this strong?" Pony asked.
"Well for one, it helps that I'm not entirely human," Gohan answered as he devoured his eighteenth bowl of rice. "Being half-saiyan means I have an easier time getting stronger, in addition to the super saiyan forms."
"Saiyan?" Kamakuri inquired.
"An alien race of warriors, our planet was blown up by a warlord named Frieza, don't worry he's dead." Gohan explained, hoping that would keep them from worrying.
"Why am I not questioning that?" Shisida turned to Reiko. "Why am I not questioning that?!"
"Really?" Gohan raised an eyebrow curiously. "Me being part alien is surprising?"
"Yeah, because you know, aliens weren't real."
Gohan barked out a happy laugh at that comment. "Seriously? How did all of you forget, what ten years ago, Nappa and Vegeta came to Earth?"
"I guess." Scratching her hair Yui shrugged, unsure what the student was alluding to.
"Nappa turned East City into a glass floor!" Gohan shouted. "Then he sank half the Navy battleships in about an hour." Aghast that apparently the noted arrival of two aliens on Earth could be forgotten that easily. "Did someone use the dragon balls to make everyone forget that?" Gohan wondered why this was seemingly new information to them.
"Dragon Balls?" Monoma questioned, he had sat on the far end of the cafeteria to avoid being too close to the others.
Pulling one of the orange orbs from his pocket. "Yeah, dragon balls." Gohan said as he displayed the orb for the class. "I already told Tomoko about this but, I guess I can explain it again." As he went into the history of the legendary 'wishing orbs'.
"And that's about the last time we used the balls, everyone Cell killed is back alive," Gohan said as he tossed the ball into the air and caught it again.
"Is that wise to carry it around?" Pony asked. "Doesn't that make you a target?"
"I mean, yeah, but you'd have to be suicidal to try and take it from me, plus you need all seven anyway and we've already got them all so no one can use them for evil." Gohan explained as he put the four star ball back in his pocket.
Shiozaki was sitting quietly pushing around her lunch. "It's all a lie," she whimpered as Gohan had too many explanations for the questions people were asking. She grabbed the cross she wore around her neck and pulled it off. "It's just a bunch of, nonsense," she hissed as she threw the necklace away.
"I wouldn't say that," Gohan said as he paused from eating. "I'm pretty sure Jesus was a real person, probably a master when it came to ki, since everything he can do is stuff I've seen others do, and it's not like the god's aren't real. He could have been the one to train the Nameless Namekian to be the Guardian of Earth, that would have been a few thousand years ago."
"But my faith?" Ibara questioned.
"One sec, I think I might be able to help," Gohan sighed as he put his fingers on his forehead. "Hey Dende?" Gohan called out. "Yeah, it's going great, how's Tsuyu? Really now," Gohan chuckled. "I won't, I won't, promise. I was wondering if there a chance you can contact King Kai to talk to someone for me."
"Of course, in fact that will be an excellent chance to test my training," Dende nodded as he spoke to Gohan. "I could see about going to King Yemma's check-in station in a few more months, so contacting our quadrant's Kai is a perfect gauge to see how far I have come along."
"Great, thanks Dende, tell Mr. Piccolo and Tsuyu that I said hi when they get back." Gohan nodded as he looked at the confused students. "So, I talked with Dende, he'll have King Kai talk to you, Shiozaki."
"Hello," the nasally voice of the North Kai called out into the room. "Is this thing on?" he said as he was looking for a response.
"Yeah, we can all hear you King Kai." Gohan shouted up to the ceiling. "This is Shiozaki, she's got some questions, if that's alright?"
"Sure, sure, I finally managed to finish rebuilding my planet after Cell blew it up, you're dad's not here, he's off harassing some Metamorans. I'll let him know you called." King Kai sniffled. "So, I'm King Kai, what's up?"
"I wish him contacting a god to talk to us was weird," Aizawa sighed as he turned on a television to put the news on in the cafeteria. "Dammit."
"We are here at the destruction happening in Hosu," a reporter said as they filmed the carnage behind them. "These strange creatures came out of nowhere and are causing massive damage and the heroes responding are currently unable to keep them down."
"Are those more Nomu?" Hizashi asked Nemuri.
"Seems like it." the heroine responded back.
"We should get out there," All Might proudly said as he would like a chance to get involved with the battle.
"It'll be over before you get there," Gohan commented as he continued eating.
"How can you tell?" Nezu wondered, not questioning the accuracy of Gohan's comment but how he would know.
"Just watch," Gohan pointed to the screen where suddenly the nomu that was lunging at the reporter was stuck in the ice before the frozen parts were blown apart by a ki blast.
"Good, again boy," Vegeta ordered as he floated above the fight, his arms folded across his chest as he watched his pupil fight.
Todoroki huffed as he formed more ice to capture the remains of the nomu he had attacked before sending another burst of ki at the monster.
"My friends are already there," Gohan shrugged as he looked to another Nomu was suddenly struck by a barrage of ki blasts, the four copies of Shoji were peppering the area with the rate of fire of a machine gun. "Neat."
The last Nomu was knocked out of the sky by a flying girl with long green hair. However when the Nomu hit the ground it was stuck by multiple purple sticky balls. "And that's a win," Krillin smirked as he watched Mineta react fast enough to set up the trap.
"I think you mean her win," Piccolo growled as he set down next to the bald monk.
"six of one, half a dozen of another," Krillin waved off the remark.
"Hey uh, Asui," Mineta waved as the frog girl touched down.
"Hello Mineta," Tsuyu greeted. "How is your training going, kero?"
"Great, I'm learning a lot actually. It's so weird," Mineta said as he looked at the two adults bicker. "I never thought I would amount to much, but, this shell," he pointed to the metal strapped to his back. "It weighs more than I do and, I'm not even struggling."
"I'm learning a lot with Piccolo and Dende as well," Tsuyu smiled.
"So hey, after this internship deal, you wanna, you know, go out sometime," Mineta offered.
"Sorry," Tsuyu shook her head. "I was going to ask Dende the same thing, but, I'm sure you'll find the right girl sometime."
"Yeah," Mineta smiled, not heartbroken at being rejected, Krillin had imparted a lot of sage wisdom onto him and by Krillin, he meant Eighteen, who told him everything he'd need to do to find the right girl and that he should take rejection in style. "Thanks, at least I tried."
"That's a good mentality you have," Tsuyu said as she noticed two more groups approach. "Hello Shoji, hello Todoroki."
"Of course the Namekian and Baldie are standing around, where are your precious students?" Vegeta taunted as he and the other walked up. "My pupil has already slain one of those creatures."
"Same, but what I say sounds less dickish," Tien nodded in affirmation. "I know Yamcha is here, but where is he?"
"Boom losers," Yamcha proudly said as he touched down next to the group. "Tada," he gestured to his student who was walking up and dragging an unconscious person. "He caught a bad guy."
Kirishima was smirking as he held up the unconscious Hero Killer. "Even without the extra training I could have still beaten this guy, his knives broke on my skin."
"One Wolf Fang Fist and he went down," Yamcha ruffled Kirishima's hair.
"There is someone observing you all," Dende's voice called out from the Lookout to the fighters. "It is the man that Gohan had alerted me to."
"MINE!" Vegeta shouted as he rocketed off the ground.
"If he stayed to listen I would have said he had already disappeared into a portal, but..." Dende's sentence trailing off.
"He'll be looking for a while," Tien commented. "You want a lift back?" he offered the strange boy with red and white hair.
Todoroki shook his head. "I can get back to Capsule Corp on my own." floating off the ground and heading towards the direction of the compound he was staying at.
"See, all taken care of," Gohan said as the class had been watching the action unfold on the various televisions all tuned to different channels to get the most coverage. "Hey Dende, do we have a body count so far?" Gohan asked the Guardian of Earth.
"Miraculously none," Dende responded. "The group got on scene fast enough to prevent loss of life and any injuries are minor and can be taken care of by the respective hospitals."
"That's a relief," Gohan smiled, glad that he didn't have to use the dragon balls to revive anyone.
Over the next couple of days the training only got more intense for the various students who were learning ki techniques. "Well today is the last day before the internship is over," Gohan said as he watched the students. "And I think now would be the best time for you to try coming up with your own techniques."
"Wouldn't that be really hard?" Tetsutetsu asked, as he figured creating entirely new moves would be insanely difficult and require decades of time to perfect.
"Nah, we do it all the time," Gohan dismissed the concern. "Just gotta think about what you want to do with your ki. It'd probably be easiest to try combining it with your quirks, but, I don't have one of those so I'm just guessing on that end."
"Do aliens not get quirks?" Yui asked.
"I'm not really sure, I've met a bunch of aliens who could all do different things, but I never found out if that was unique to them or their species."
"Well I say we just do it, not like we have anything to lose?" Kamakiri said as he tried to form ki around one of his arm blades.
"I wonder how the others are doing?" Gohan thought as he hadn't seen his mother or Master Roshi at Hosu.
"I'm gonna catch you," Goten giggled as the five year old chased the teenager through the forest.
She was frantically dodging tree branches and leaping over rivers at speeds faster than most cars. All she had to do was get back to the house before Ms. Chi-Chi's second son caught up to her and the training for the day would be over. But this demented little child was fast, scary fast. She didn't think it was possible for anyone to move at these speeds and he seemed to still be holding back as he'd pull away at time but always find ways to cut her off.
"What is this family," Itsuka screamed as she broke through the treeline and saw salvation before suddenly her vision went dark as an object collided with her back.
"And that is how you can use ki to expand your body," Master Roshi said as he stood on his staff while Uraraka pulled as much of her ki inward as she could. "Then because you have opened everything up, you can funnel it down into one location, this is the proper way to use your energy, you waste nothing."
"Yes Master Roshi," Uraraka nodded. "Ka, me, hame, ha!" she shouted as she unleashed the blue beam into the ocean.
"A perfect kamehameha," Master smiled. "You are a skilled fighter, I am proud of you."
"Thank you Master Roshi." Uraraka rubbed her head as she blushed at the praise from a man she came to respect. "I want to know about Gohan, is that alright?"
"Sure, this is the last night, I will tell you about your classmate, but know this, he is a quiet boy, a kind boy, with a gentle soul," Master Roshi said as he sat on the sand. "He was never suited to fighting, but when it comes down to it, I am more afraid of him than I am any other living being. The ones who do not want to fight, but are forced to, they are the truly terrifying ones when you give them a reason to."
"Is he that strong?" Uraraka asked.
"Stronger than he knows," Master Roshi stroked his beard. "That boy has a history of breaking through his limits when he's needed too, the last time made him so powerful, it felt as if the entire world was shaking apart. Should he do so again, I do not think the planet will survive."
"So they are capable of responding in mere minutes," All for One said. "Very well, we have the location of the target, we will attack when there are the most potential casualties, this will stop them from calling for reinforcements long enough to escape with Ms. Shiretoko."
"And the saiyan?" The Doctor inquired.
"Send Muscular, he should be able to distract the child long enough. The nomu was basically a mindless beast, something one could easily justify killing." All for One proposed. "However Muscular will be a person, someone the child will have to hold back on, this will be the best chance we have to get her quirk and find his weakness."
