The Last Stand
By ssj3 Thomas
Chapter Eight: The Training Begins
The week had passed. It had been almost normal but for the fact that the Saiyans were still on there way and that you couldn't find Vegeta, Piccolo, Trunks, or Goten anywhere outside of Capsule Corp. Gohan and Videl had gone to school and acted as normal as anyone could in their situation. It was Wednesday night and Chichi and Gohan had just finished eating dinner and were cleaning up. Just as Gohan was about to go to his room and get some rest for the big day tomorrow Chichi called after him "Don't worry about packing anything, I'll have it all ready in the morning." "Thanks mom, but what are you going to pack." "Everything Gohan." "Ah, but mom how am I going to carry all that stuff." "Well, I'm coming to train with you." "But Mom." Gohan whined but was cut short by Chichi who said, "No buts mister, I am coming to help you train Videl, and that's final." "How could you help mom." " Well, since our power-levels are about equal, I can spar with her with out either one of us getting hurt too much." "Oh Okay, now I see." Gohan finally agreed to which Chichi said promptly "Okay, now go get some rest, we've got a big day tomorrow and I don't want you tired for the year of training you're going to get." Gohan immediately obeyed by going to his room and falling into a somewhat blissful slumber.
Meanwhile at Hercules' Mansion Videl had also gone to sleep thinking, "Wow I get to start training tomorrow, I wonder what Gohan will teach me first?"
That night inside the gravity room, with 200 times Gravity, at Capsule Corp. Vegeta was sparring with Goten, Trunks (They were in Super Saiyan form.), and Piccolo at his full power. After a while of dodging all of there attacks Vegeta powered up and sent them all flying into the walls of the gravity room. Piccolo countered by using the Zansoken technique with which he phased out and phased back in behind Vegeta, but he had sensed Piccolo and flung his hand back into the Namek's face sending him sideways into the wall. During this fight Goten and Trunks had gotten into this position, Goten's right hand and Trunks' left hand were locked together and each of them had there other hand behind his back, and were powering up. After hitting Piccolo, Vegeta saw this and smirked and said, "Bring it on brats." With that Trunks and Goten thrust their locked and unlocked hands forward at the same time, Firing three ki beams to the center, left, and right of Vegeta. Vegeta dodged the first blast by moving to the right and he was immediately hit by the one which had gone to the right, which made him fly backwards, hit the wall, and revert out of Super Saiyan. After this Piccolo walked over to the two half-Saiyans and said, "Trucks, Goten where did you learn that attack." "Mr. Piccolo we kinda made it up." "Well, what do you call it then" " We don't know." "Ugh, kids" Piccolo said, but before the kids could respond Vegeta came charging out of nowhere and hit both of the Saiyans hard enough as to make them revert back to normal and go flying into the wall once again. After this they just sat and watched Piccolo spar with Vegeta.
Gohan awoke slowly, rubbing his eyes and gingerly getting out of bed. He was about to start stretching when Chichi yelled from the other end of house, somehow knowing he was up, "Gohan, get out here now, Videl's here and I have all our stuff ready, so move it." "Okay mom, I'll be right out" Gohan yelled as he put on his dark blue gi. He then gathered up all his clothes and put them into a suitcase. Gohan walked into the kitchen/dining room to see Videl seated at the table and a small plate of food, by Gohan's standards, in front of her. Chichi was in the kitchen still making part of Gohans' massive meal, but a large portion of the food was already on the table. Gohan looked over this scene and said, "Hey Videl why are you here so early." "Well I…" but before Videl could continue she cut off by Chichi who said, "I called her so we could get an early start." "Oh okay." Gohan replied. He then spotted the food on the table and his face took on a glazed look and he started drooling since he hadn't had food in the last nine hours (he was sleeping.). Gohan jumped at the food and started inhaling it but was cut short by frying pan to the head. Which got him to use his mouth for something other than eating, which was speaking. He said to his mother, "Ouch, mom why'd you hit me" To which Chichi said sternly " Mind your manners, we have a guest here, don't you remember." With that she looked toward Videl and said "Sorry, I guess you know how Saiyans react to food now. Meanwhile Gohan had resumed eating, this time in a more civilized manner. It took Gohan a couple of minutes to devour his food, whereby he started to help Videl and Chichi with the task of cleaning. That was done in a couple of minutes. Chichi was doing the last of the when she glanced at Videl and said "Videl, has Gohan told you where we're going yet." "Um, No, why?" At this Chichi turned completely around and glared at Gohan who got the message and said to Videl "Sorry, I just didn't get a chance to tell you this week." To which Videl said, "It's alright, but where are we going." "Well, where we're going is a large floating platform above the clouds." "Well, what's so special about that place, I mean why can't we train down here." To which Gohan replied, "Well, you see there's this room that lets you get a year of training in one day." "Wow, really Gohan, Okay now I see." "Alright, well Videl are you ready to go." "Yea I think I am ready now." With that Gohan turned to chichi and said "Okay mom, call Videl's ride and I'll get the bags while you carry the food." At this Videl said, "What ride." As if to answer Videl's question, Chichi yelled "NIMBUS, come on you darn cloud get down here NOW!" and Nimbus, who was very uneager to face the wrath of Chichi, stopped in front of her in few seconds. At this Gohan and Videl got up and walked outside, and when Videl saw the yellow-puffy cloud, she pointed at it and exclaimed, "What's that!" to which Gohan replied "That's Nimbus, it's your ride." "You've got to be kidding me, you expect me to ride on that thing Gohan." " Yeah, its safe go ahead, hop on." To this Videl replied, "Alright." And jumped up and yelped when she hit the cloud and settled. After this Videl looked at Gohan and said, "How does this thing work Gohan." "Well Videl, it only lets people with a pure heart ride it." To which Videl replied with a quiet "Oh." With that Chichi walked out with the food and the clothes and said to Gohan and Videl, "Alright, lets go." To which Gohan replied, "Yeah, are you ready Videl?" To which she said, "Yeah, lets go." And with that Gohan, Chichi, and Nimbus flew off towards the Lookout.
They arrived there in less than half an hour, and as they got nearer they could see, standing around, sparring, or talking, Tien, Chaotzu, Yamacha, Krillin, and #18. "Hey everyone we're here." Gohan yelled the crowd below. "Hey Gohan, just like the old days, huh" Krillin yelled back as the two members of the Son family and Nimbus landed, with Videl still in shock at having flown on the little puffy cloud and unable to speak. After they had landed, Gohan addressed everyone "Thanks, everyone for coming, without all of your of help we'd be done for." To which Tien replied "No problem, Gohan, we're glad to help." After that little conversation Gohan again addressed the group "Hey everyone I'd like to introduce you to Videl." At this everyone eyed the human girl standing behind and to the side of Gohan. Yamacha was the first to speak, "Hey, you look pretty, wanna go out." Videl was about to respond to that, when Chichi turned to Yamacha, holding her trusty frying pan, and giving him a look that sent him running towards the other side of the Lookout. Chichi then turned to Videl and said, "Well, lets get this over with, that obscene man is Yamacha, stay away from him." Just then Gohan, who had been talking to Tien and Chaotzu about where they had been for the past 7 years, turned to Videl and said, "Hey Videl, I want you meet a couple of people, this is Tien and Chaotzu." He then gestured to the three-eyed man and his companion. Gohan introduced Videl to everyone, there was an odd encounter with Piccolo with Videl exclaiming, "Hey Gohan look, he has green skin, what is he?" To which Gohan responded "Videl, remember when I told you about the Namek's?" to which Videl replied with a confused, "Yeah, why?" still wondering what Gohan was getting at when he said "Well, Piccolo's one of them." "Oh." Videl said. With that they started walking over to where Krillin was, Videl stopped walking and she pointed at the woman standing next to him and said, "Hey Gohan, isn't that one of Androids you told me about." To which Gohan replied, "Yeah, but she's not evil anymore, in fact she's the strongest fighters up here besides me." To which Videl replied with a shocked, "You're kidding." "No I'm not Videl." With exchange that Gohan Introduced Videl to everyone else.
After the introductions were done, Gohan walked over to where entrance of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and addressed the group, "Alright everyone, it's time to go in, is everybody ready? At the end of statement he turned told them all to follow him, for he had already made arrangements with Dende to have everyone in the room at the same time and to have it well stocked with food and water. All of fighters complied and followed Gohan. And so the 7 warriors, who were to become the backbone of the defense force of the Earth for the coming invasion, followed Gohan into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. They were to stay in there for one year.
A/N: Well, what do you think, Do you like it or does it suck, come on tell me and be honest in your reviews.
Next Chapter: The Training Continues