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The ship had slipped into hyperspace with barely a lurch. Vegeta was amazed at the speed of the ship. He hadn't miscalculated the time to New Namek so badly at the technology level of the ship he last traveled through space in. But this ship! It would flat out fly anything Frieza had in his fleet! Shortly after going into hyperspace, the stealth systems went online. To the outside viewer, it would have appeared like the ship disappeared completely. Vegeta felt comfortable with not being seen, but not having any weapons still nagged at him quite a bit. There was something he'd seen once, some years ago that tugged at the edge of his memory. He'd seen Nappa do something with the sensor array once when he was about five or six years old. What was that? We had been travelling from the planet Garoaks, a mining and refueling facility mostly, when we were besieged by a vagabond bunch of pirates. They took out our weapons first, then proceeded to pummel us with ion shots. Nappa, while not particularly bright in most areas, was practically a genius when it came to electronics. Nappa rewired the main console, through the main sensor array so that he could channel his ki through the array and fire back at the pirates. The targeting was bad, at best, but Nappa managed to hit two of them, and scare the rest of them away. I wonder if I can do something similar here? Sure would make me feel better.
"Four Hours, thirty-seven minutes to system designated S45667M2, Earth Standard Time" Bulma-Computer reported.
"Umm. Bulma?" Vegeta said.
Working. User Identified. Bulma online, May I be of assistance to you Veggie-chan?"
Vegeta cringed at that name, but pressed on. "Bulma, can you extrapolate a set of schematics for the following task." Vegeta went on to explain what it was he wanted to do.
"Working.. Exact schematics on the main viewer." Bulma-computer finally stated. "Modifications will reduce sensor range 24%"
"What is the current sensor range?" Vegeta inquired.
"400,000 Kilometers in hyperspace." Bulma-computer answered.
"Ok, so that still leaves us with a range of over 300,000 kilometers, I think we can live with that." Vegeta decided.
"I will initiate schematic changes on your order, Veggie-chan" Bulma- computer said.
"You can do that?" Vegeta said surprised.
"Of course, this ship, systems, and subsystems are fully self repairing and self modifying at the request of an administrative level user. You are an administrative level user, Veggie-chan."
"Well then, do it woman!" Vegeta said with a smirk.
"That name does not compute." The computer returned.
"Never mind! Just follow the schematics Bulma!" Vegeta stormed.
"Initiating, estimated time to completion, 1.35 hours, Earth standard time.
"Well good." Vegeta leaned back in the pilot's seat satisfied that the ship would have at least some sort of "pop-gun" if he needed it. Vegeta then thought about the last day and a half travelling in space. Roger had seen him unencapsulate his gravity room to train and was asking him questions about it. He explained the high gravity training method to him, and Roger was intrigued.
"Can I train with you sir?" Roger implored. "Well, not at the level I train at Roger." Vegeta didn't really explain how high that level was.
"I would really like to train and get stronger!" Roger begged.
"Well, we'll raise the ships gravity out here, while I train in the gravity room. When I come out, we'll see how you've progressed. I'll tell the computer to give you permission to raise and lower the gravity as you need to." Vegeta said.
Vegeta called out to Bulma, giving Roger the necessary authority.
"Where would you like to start?" Vegeta asked.
"Umm. Bulma? Please raise internal gravity to Earth normal times 5?"
"Working.."
"Wait a minute Roger! That's too much for most humans!" Vegeta warned.
But it was too late. Roger lay flat on his stomach, his arms barely holding his upper body up to prevent a broken nose, and his arms were fast loosing the battle to keep his upper body from slamming into the floor.
"Bulma! Return internal gravity to Earth normal!" Vegeta yelled.
"Working.."
"Whew! That's a load off!" Roger panted, looking pretty sheepish.
"Don't bite off more than you can chew Roger." Vegeta smirked.
"Ok, let's try something a bit lighter." Roger grinned. Bulma? Please raise internal gravity to Earth Normal times 1.5"
Working.
Roger felt the effects immediately, but remained on his feet.
"Good Roger, now let's start out with some laps around the outside of the gravity room. Start out slow and build up speed slowly. I'm going to train inside the gravity chamber."
"Yes sir Sensei" Roger grinned.
Vegeta smirked back.
"Mr. Vegeta sir?"
"Yes Roger?"
"What level of gravity are you training in?"
"Well Roger, years ago I was training in 860 times Earth's gravity, but these days I can only manage about 320 times Earth's gravity. This getting old crap really bites." With that Vegeta entered the gravity chamber and shut the door leaving a shocked and open-mouthed Roger sputtering.
Yesterday afternoon Vegeta hauled out part of his old barbell set for Roger to work with. Vegeta was amazed at the progress that Roger was making. He ended the day at 3 times Earth normal gravity, and for a human that was outstanding! Amazingly enough, Roger did not let his training interfere with his duties to Vegeta.
Roger never lowered the gravity, even when he went to bed that night. And when he woke up this morning, he raised it to 3.5 times Earth normal. Vegeta even could feel a small ki building up, if he was close to Roger, and concentrated a bit. "That will need to be the next lesson. How to control his ki."
"Well, I need to sleep a bit, but I've just had a brilliant idea!" Vegeta began to chuckle as he made his way to the gravity room again, and that chuckle grew into a full out laugh, then into a maniacal laugh...
Roger had just completed his morning regiment of training and was about to finish his last set of push-ups before going to prepare lunch, when a red beam of light flashed down hitting his square in the butt, giving him the equivalent of a spot of sun burn.
"Ow! Damned! What gives!" Roger exclaimed.
Roger immediately rolled up into a defensive stance facing where the beam had come from. There he saw two floating orbs, about two-foot apart, and about seven-foot in the air.
"What the hell are you two? And which one of you shot me in my ass!" Roger exclaimed.
"We are attack droids 7 and 13. Surrender human!" The nearest droid said.
"No today pal!" Roger answered, then moved swiftly to the right before jumping up and delivering a jumping swing kick to the nearest droid. Roger's food connected, and the droid went sailing into the wall of the gravity room, hit the floor and seemed to deactivate.
"One down." Roger thought just as he felt the flesh of his right arm get a bit seared by the beam of the second droid. Just as Roger turned to face the menace, the droid rammed Roger full in the face, knocking him down. "Damned! That has loosened some teeth." Roger thought. Roger became aware that he could hear the thing flying around for another pass. Just as he heard the droid accelerate, Roger stood up and caught it full in the beam lens with his elbow. The droid bounced off the floor a couple of times, then deactivated.
"Ha! You beat them Roger!" Vegeta stepped out of the gravity room door. "I knew you could do it!!"
Roger stood there, two very painful burns, and several loose teeth, swollen lip, and a bit of blood trickling out of his nose completely dumbfounded. "Y-you sent those things after me?"
"Yes! And you beat them!" Vegeta beamed.
Roger wasn't sure whether he should be proud of the accomplishment, which he most definitely was, or pissed off at Vegeta for sending those terrors after him.
"What were those things any ways?' Roger asked.
"Attack droids. My mate built them a long time ago. I had them set to attack level 1."
"Attack level 1? What's that?" Roger asked.
"The lowest setting, at attack level 2 they actually break bones and cause internal injuries. Well, on a normal human anyways." Vegeta smirked. "By the way Roger, you seem to have a fighting style, where did you learn that?" Vegeta asked.
"I was in martial arts from the time I could remember until I left home for college. My father always said that it was important that a person learn to defend themselves." Roger said. "Your father sounds like a wise man." Vegeta complimented.
"Thank you sir, if you will excuse me, I need to clean up, stick a couple of my teeth back into their sockets, and make lunch." Roger said.
"Wait a minute Roger. After we are underway to New Namek, I want to teach you something that will help you protect yourself during a fight. It's important for all true warriors to learn." Vegeta said.
"Well, I've never really considered myself a warrior before, but I would like to learn anything you care to teach me." Roger agreed.
"A warrior is made in the heart Roger, and believe me you have what it takes." Vegeta smiled. "Not every human could have taken a blow to the face like that, then stand up to defeat the enemy."
"Thank you sir."
"Ok, go and get dinner ready, I'm famished!" Vegeta noted.
Vegeta suddenly felt very weary, "I'm going to take a nap, call me when dinner is ready." Vegeta then made his way back to the pilothouse, and into the Captain's chair. He was asleep the moment his head hit the backrest.
"Well it's about time you got here Vegeta! Baba has been casting spells to make you sleep for over two hours!!!"
Wha?? Kakkarot?? What the bloody hell are you doing in my dream! And furthermore, where the hell have you been all these years?? Vegeta spun to face the direction of the voice, and there he was, an adult Kakkarot, with his tail wrapped neatly around his waist, and Baba floating on her crystal ball right beside him.
Goku flashed his best son grin and said, "Well, I love you too Vegeta."
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The ship had slipped into hyperspace with barely a lurch. Vegeta was amazed at the speed of the ship. He hadn't miscalculated the time to New Namek so badly at the technology level of the ship he last traveled through space in. But this ship! It would flat out fly anything Frieza had in his fleet! Shortly after going into hyperspace, the stealth systems went online. To the outside viewer, it would have appeared like the ship disappeared completely. Vegeta felt comfortable with not being seen, but not having any weapons still nagged at him quite a bit. There was something he'd seen once, some years ago that tugged at the edge of his memory. He'd seen Nappa do something with the sensor array once when he was about five or six years old. What was that? We had been travelling from the planet Garoaks, a mining and refueling facility mostly, when we were besieged by a vagabond bunch of pirates. They took out our weapons first, then proceeded to pummel us with ion shots. Nappa, while not particularly bright in most areas, was practically a genius when it came to electronics. Nappa rewired the main console, through the main sensor array so that he could channel his ki through the array and fire back at the pirates. The targeting was bad, at best, but Nappa managed to hit two of them, and scare the rest of them away. I wonder if I can do something similar here? Sure would make me feel better.
"Four Hours, thirty-seven minutes to system designated S45667M2, Earth Standard Time" Bulma-Computer reported.
"Umm. Bulma?" Vegeta said.
Working. User Identified. Bulma online, May I be of assistance to you Veggie-chan?"
Vegeta cringed at that name, but pressed on. "Bulma, can you extrapolate a set of schematics for the following task." Vegeta went on to explain what it was he wanted to do.
"Working.. Exact schematics on the main viewer." Bulma-computer finally stated. "Modifications will reduce sensor range 24%"
"What is the current sensor range?" Vegeta inquired.
"400,000 Kilometers in hyperspace." Bulma-computer answered.
"Ok, so that still leaves us with a range of over 300,000 kilometers, I think we can live with that." Vegeta decided.
"I will initiate schematic changes on your order, Veggie-chan" Bulma- computer said.
"You can do that?" Vegeta said surprised.
"Of course, this ship, systems, and subsystems are fully self repairing and self modifying at the request of an administrative level user. You are an administrative level user, Veggie-chan."
"Well then, do it woman!" Vegeta said with a smirk.
"That name does not compute." The computer returned.
"Never mind! Just follow the schematics Bulma!" Vegeta stormed.
"Initiating, estimated time to completion, 1.35 hours, Earth standard time.
"Well good." Vegeta leaned back in the pilot's seat satisfied that the ship would have at least some sort of "pop-gun" if he needed it. Vegeta then thought about the last day and a half travelling in space. Roger had seen him unencapsulate his gravity room to train and was asking him questions about it. He explained the high gravity training method to him, and Roger was intrigued.
"Can I train with you sir?" Roger implored. "Well, not at the level I train at Roger." Vegeta didn't really explain how high that level was.
"I would really like to train and get stronger!" Roger begged.
"Well, we'll raise the ships gravity out here, while I train in the gravity room. When I come out, we'll see how you've progressed. I'll tell the computer to give you permission to raise and lower the gravity as you need to." Vegeta said.
Vegeta called out to Bulma, giving Roger the necessary authority.
"Where would you like to start?" Vegeta asked.
"Umm. Bulma? Please raise internal gravity to Earth normal times 5?"
"Working.."
"Wait a minute Roger! That's too much for most humans!" Vegeta warned.
But it was too late. Roger lay flat on his stomach, his arms barely holding his upper body up to prevent a broken nose, and his arms were fast loosing the battle to keep his upper body from slamming into the floor.
"Bulma! Return internal gravity to Earth normal!" Vegeta yelled.
"Working.."
"Whew! That's a load off!" Roger panted, looking pretty sheepish.
"Don't bite off more than you can chew Roger." Vegeta smirked.
"Ok, let's try something a bit lighter." Roger grinned. Bulma? Please raise internal gravity to Earth Normal times 1.5"
Working.
Roger felt the effects immediately, but remained on his feet.
"Good Roger, now let's start out with some laps around the outside of the gravity room. Start out slow and build up speed slowly. I'm going to train inside the gravity chamber."
"Yes sir Sensei" Roger grinned.
Vegeta smirked back.
"Mr. Vegeta sir?"
"Yes Roger?"
"What level of gravity are you training in?"
"Well Roger, years ago I was training in 860 times Earth's gravity, but these days I can only manage about 320 times Earth's gravity. This getting old crap really bites." With that Vegeta entered the gravity chamber and shut the door leaving a shocked and open-mouthed Roger sputtering.
Yesterday afternoon Vegeta hauled out part of his old barbell set for Roger to work with. Vegeta was amazed at the progress that Roger was making. He ended the day at 3 times Earth normal gravity, and for a human that was outstanding! Amazingly enough, Roger did not let his training interfere with his duties to Vegeta.
Roger never lowered the gravity, even when he went to bed that night. And when he woke up this morning, he raised it to 3.5 times Earth normal. Vegeta even could feel a small ki building up, if he was close to Roger, and concentrated a bit. "That will need to be the next lesson. How to control his ki."
"Well, I need to sleep a bit, but I've just had a brilliant idea!" Vegeta began to chuckle as he made his way to the gravity room again, and that chuckle grew into a full out laugh, then into a maniacal laugh...
Roger had just completed his morning regiment of training and was about to finish his last set of push-ups before going to prepare lunch, when a red beam of light flashed down hitting his square in the butt, giving him the equivalent of a spot of sun burn.
"Ow! Damned! What gives!" Roger exclaimed.
Roger immediately rolled up into a defensive stance facing where the beam had come from. There he saw two floating orbs, about two-foot apart, and about seven-foot in the air.
"What the hell are you two? And which one of you shot me in my ass!" Roger exclaimed.
"We are attack droids 7 and 13. Surrender human!" The nearest droid said.
"No today pal!" Roger answered, then moved swiftly to the right before jumping up and delivering a jumping swing kick to the nearest droid. Roger's food connected, and the droid went sailing into the wall of the gravity room, hit the floor and seemed to deactivate.
"One down." Roger thought just as he felt the flesh of his right arm get a bit seared by the beam of the second droid. Just as Roger turned to face the menace, the droid rammed Roger full in the face, knocking him down. "Damned! That has loosened some teeth." Roger thought. Roger became aware that he could hear the thing flying around for another pass. Just as he heard the droid accelerate, Roger stood up and caught it full in the beam lens with his elbow. The droid bounced off the floor a couple of times, then deactivated.
"Ha! You beat them Roger!" Vegeta stepped out of the gravity room door. "I knew you could do it!!"
Roger stood there, two very painful burns, and several loose teeth, swollen lip, and a bit of blood trickling out of his nose completely dumbfounded. "Y-you sent those things after me?"
"Yes! And you beat them!" Vegeta beamed.
Roger wasn't sure whether he should be proud of the accomplishment, which he most definitely was, or pissed off at Vegeta for sending those terrors after him.
"What were those things any ways?' Roger asked.
"Attack droids. My mate built them a long time ago. I had them set to attack level 1."
"Attack level 1? What's that?" Roger asked.
"The lowest setting, at attack level 2 they actually break bones and cause internal injuries. Well, on a normal human anyways." Vegeta smirked. "By the way Roger, you seem to have a fighting style, where did you learn that?" Vegeta asked.
"I was in martial arts from the time I could remember until I left home for college. My father always said that it was important that a person learn to defend themselves." Roger said. "Your father sounds like a wise man." Vegeta complimented.
"Thank you sir, if you will excuse me, I need to clean up, stick a couple of my teeth back into their sockets, and make lunch." Roger said.
"Wait a minute Roger. After we are underway to New Namek, I want to teach you something that will help you protect yourself during a fight. It's important for all true warriors to learn." Vegeta said.
"Well, I've never really considered myself a warrior before, but I would like to learn anything you care to teach me." Roger agreed.
"A warrior is made in the heart Roger, and believe me you have what it takes." Vegeta smiled. "Not every human could have taken a blow to the face like that, then stand up to defeat the enemy."
"Thank you sir."
"Ok, go and get dinner ready, I'm famished!" Vegeta noted.
Vegeta suddenly felt very weary, "I'm going to take a nap, call me when dinner is ready." Vegeta then made his way back to the pilothouse, and into the Captain's chair. He was asleep the moment his head hit the backrest.
"Well it's about time you got here Vegeta! Baba has been casting spells to make you sleep for over two hours!!!"
Wha?? Kakkarot?? What the bloody hell are you doing in my dream! And furthermore, where the hell have you been all these years?? Vegeta spun to face the direction of the voice, and there he was, an adult Kakkarot, with his tail wrapped neatly around his waist, and Baba floating on her crystal ball right beside him.
Goku flashed his best son grin and said, "Well, I love you too Vegeta."
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