Gohan and Vegeta landed back at Capsule Corp within five minutes of each other. Twenty minutes later Bura pulled up with the three recently revived Saiyan Warriors.
Vegeta began to take mental inventory. "Let's see, Gohan and I have already spent the full amount of time allowed in the Room of Spirit and Time. Uub has spent a full day/year in there. Trunks Jr., Raditz, Bardock, Bura and Nappa have never been in there. Vegeta quickly formulated a schedule.
Day one: Raditz & Uub.
Day Two: Nappa & Trunks Jr.
Day Three: Bardock & Trunks Jr.
Day Four: Raditz & Nappa
Day Five: Bura & Bardock
That would leave Bura with one day left after the crew was rotated. On their off days they would be training in the gravity chambers. He had the schedule such that the three male Saiyans would be training with a very strong warrior for one year. They should all come out of their at least at Super Saiyan, but he expected that both Nappa and Bardock would probably reach Super Saiyan two. They were very close to Super Saiyan right now.
Just then Uub landed after having taken care of some business back at his village.
Vegeta had sensed that Goku had come back to Earth some time ago.
"Will Kakkarot be joining us?" Vegeta asked looking at Gohan.
"Umm… No, he's a bit preoccupied right now." Gohan said scratching the back of his head and smiling in classic Son style.
"He went to see his mate, didn't he?" Vegeta winced a bit just imagining the screeching sound of that woman's voice.
"Yes, he's talking to her now." Gohan smiled.
Vegeta shook off the feeling of sympathy for his long time rival/friend. "Ok, I've got a schedule here for who will be training here, and who will be training in the Room of Spirit and Time. Raditz, you and Uub will be training in the Room of Spirit and Time the first day, and the rest of you will be training in the gravity chambers, and out in the sparing field."
"Vegeta, when I trained with Goku in the Room of Spirit and Time, we nearly destroyed Kami's Lookout. I'm far stronger now." Uub said. "It seems that the room can only handle so much power."
"That won't be a problem Uub. You're job will be to devote yourself to making Raditz stronger. We will have to figure out something different for your own training." Vegeta said. "You won't need to power up to anywhere near your maximum for this."
Uub nodded. Raditz wasn't sure if he should take offense or not. "How strong is that guy?" Raditz thought.
"When does our day begin?" Raditz asked.
"First thing tomorrow morning. You should be up, showered, and have fed yourself by 6:00 AM." Vegeta said. "By 6:30 AM, you will be in the Room of Spirit and Time. The rest of you will have begun your training here. For the remainder of this evening, I want Gohan, Bura, and Trunks Jr. to take Raditz, Bardock, and Nappa on a tour of the facilities, familiarize them with the controls of the gravity room, and anything else they need to know, including as much about Earth customs as you can. Uub, you can go along if you want, or just hang out here. Bura, you will also be responsible for giving out room assignments when they're ready to sleep."
Will we be seeing any um… Earthlings?" Raditz asked a little too anxiously.
Vegeta smiled. "You will have to be responsible for your own social life Raditz." Vegeta made a mental note concerning Raditz. Perhaps Bura knew a nice Earth girl that would go for Raditz. Vegeta then made a mental connection. Raditz had been off the planet Vegeta since his early adolescence. Just before he was due to be planet side, Frieza blew the planet up. Raditz has probably never been with a woman at all. "I will definitely have to have a talk with Bura." Vegeta thought. Little did Vegeta know that Bura had thoughts along the same lines.
"Ok, if there are no further questions, we all meet back here at 6:00AM tomorrow morning. Dismissed." Vegeta concluded.
Everyone went his or her way except for Vegeta who smiled inwardly. "Feels real good to be leading something for a change." Vegeta was about as close to being totally happy than he has ever been.
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Piccolo picked himself off the ground. He had seriously underestimated the Saiyan female. She was quite skilled, and in that Mystic Super Saiyan form, very powerful. In short, Piccolo was getting his butt kicked. Up until now, Piccolo had been holding back until he learned what skill level Yambia was at. It's earned him some major bruises. Piccolo picked himself up and powered up to his maximum, which was quite impressive indeed!
"He's reached a new level of Super Namekian!" Kirillin exclaimed.
It was true. Piccolo had not been lazy about his own training in Heaven or Hell. About five years ago he reached a new level. His outward appearance didn't change, but his power, by his own estimation, was just shy of Super Saiyan Four.
"Alright Saiyan, round two!" Piccolo yelled.
"Come and get me green man." Yambia answered.
Piccolo suddenly appeared behind Yambia and caught her in the chin with a round punch as she turned to face him. Yambia flew though the air and hit the ground and skidded for almost thirty yards. Yambia recovered just in time to fly straight up and avoid Piccolo's follow up attack. Boom! Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon turned a sizable chunk of real estate into a crater.
Roger noticed Trunks sitting and looking very thoughtful, barely paying attention to the sparing session at all. Naturally, Roger's curiosity got the better of him so he floated over and sat next to Trunks.
"Hey boss man… Penny for your thoughts?" Roger thought.
Trunks startled out of his reverie enough to notice that Roger had addressed him.
"Oh, I was just thinking about how Saiyans attain various Super Saiyan levels. It occurs to me that not a single Saiyan had attained the level of Super Saiyan for a thousand years, yet now several of us have attained it with in a very short time period. I was forming a hypothesis as to why that is." Trunks explained.
"I see. And just what is your hypothesis?" Roger asked, genuinely interested.
"Well, the way I see it, most all Saiyans, with the exception of the Royal house, were told all of their lives that they could not attain Super Saiyan. Therefore they didn't. Father once mentioned how Saiyan babies were actually programmed to be fierce, ruthless, warriors. I also wonder that an inability to become Super Saiyans wasn't part of that program. When Goku smacked his head, and lost all of that programming, he eventually became a Super Saiyan because he didn't know that he wasn't supposed to be able to do it. Gohan, Goten, and Pan did not have that programming, nor were they ever told that they couldn't become Super Saiyans, so they also did it." Trunks explained.
"So you're saying that any of the Saiyans could have achieved the level of Super Saiyan? Roger asked.
"I believe that to be the case. If that is true, then there was no real distinction between Super Elite, Elite, First Class, Second Class, and Third Class Saiyans. Only that some Saiyans was born with less power than other Saiyans, but EACH Saiyan had the potential to be a Super Saiyan. It was the class system that told them, even programmed them, to believe that they couldn't do it." Trunks explained. "Roger, have you ever read Jonathon Livingston Seagull? By Richard Bach?"
Roger searched his memory a bit and did remember reading it. "Yes, it was required reading in my 9th grade literature class."
"Do you remember what it was about?" Trunks pressed.
"Yes, basic morale of the story was that what you believe, becomes reality." Roger supplied.
"Precisely! I'm beginning to believe strongly that morale is true. That one can become the perfect and unlimited Saiyan." Trunks expressed. "All of our limits are self imposed."
"What you suggest involves a major shift in thinking." Roger said.
"Yes it does." Trunks said. "But it can be done. I think I've partially bridged the gap when I learned how to teleport like the Supreme Kai does."
"You mean anyone can do that? Roger said.
"Almost anyone. Think about it, you're more powerful, physically, and in terms of ki than the Supreme Kai is right now. Where Goku's instant transmission technique takes a lot of ki to perform because he is basically shoving himself at his target, The Supreme Kai's method is more akin to simply stepping through a door. It takes almost no ki or strength to do it. I'd say that anyone with a ki level of 10 or above could do it. The hard part is getting through the mental barrier of believing you can do it."
Suddenly Yambia landed in a heap at their feet, bruised and battered. She slowly tried to get up, only to fall back to her knees. "Damned you Namek!" Yambia hissed between clenched teeth. Yambia, like all Saiyans, had a real problem admitting defeat.
"That will be all for today." Piccolo said from above a bit bruised himself. "Go and find the Supreme Kai and have him heal you. Then go and train in one of the gravity rooms. Set the gravity to at least 350 times Earth normal gravity. That would be 35 times Vegetasei normal gravity." Piccolo ordered. "Roger, you will join her.
"Yes sir.." They echoed.
Suddenly Trunks jumped up and took off into the air.
"He's made some sort of decision." Roger thought to himself. "What's he doing?"
Trunks reached a spot around a half a mile above Kaioshin's world and began to power up. He concentrated his thoughts on a cell grouping at the base of his spine. Suddenly, his tail ripped through his pants. He kept concentrating and powering up until he reached Super Saiyan Four! But he kept going, pushing, suddenly he let out a scream and a bright light flooded Kaioshin's world. When the light died down, Trunks was at Super Saiyan Five! Yambia and Piccolo did not need Kaioshin to heal them anymore. Something about that life force energy of the SS5 transformation heals all wounds and restores all energy. Trunks had also, once again, surpassed his father, even if it was just barely.
Back on Earth, all of the Z-Warriors come to a complete halt due to the power they sensed on Kaioshin's planet.
"T-Trunks?" Vegeta exclaimed. "Trunks has attained Super Saiyan Five? H-he's stronger than Kakkarot! H-he's stronger than me!" Vegeta stammered in disbelief.
Goku was similarly shocked. However, he had more on his hands at the moment than a Super Saiyan Five transformation.
Kirillin simply shook his head. "Not another one!"
Goten flew up to his life long friend. "How did you do that? You grew your tail back?"
"Yes, but there is much more to it than that. I have to teach you to do this or we won't be able to form Gotenks very well." Trunks turned to Piccolo. "Piccolo, Goten and I will be training together for a while. I don't expect we will need your help."
"There's not much I can teach you guys that I haven't already taught you anyways, so you two training together is a good idea. However, I may need one of you guys to train with one of the others in a few days, if that's ok." Piccolo said.
"Fine, just give us three days undisturbed." Trunks said.
"You got it." Piccolo answered.
Trunks and Goten took off for the other side of the planet to train.
"Alright Roger, I know how strong your mate is, let's see how tough you are." Piccolo said. Privately he thought, "Tough enough to take on Goku one on one even though he knew he didn't stand a chance in hell."
"You got it!" Roger exclaimed as he went on an immediate offensive.
Cordell wasn't very satisfied with the information that he got through Dabura. Cordell smirked, "Shame I had to sacrifice my only source of information that way, but it was worth it to get rid of Rogalle." It was then that Cordell made a decision. He waved his hand in the direction of a rather large crystalline structure to his left. An image of a very large, very evil demon came in to view. "Ethcynicor send me one of your strongest Orkran warriors, I have an assignment for them."
"As you wish Lord Cordell. I will send you Tharsasher The Terrible. She is very strong and cunning and hates all things mortal. What would you have her do?" Etheynicor asked.
"I wish to test the warriors on Planet Earth. Her mission is simple, go to Earth and destroy all life there." Cordell said. "Send her here so I can insert her into the moral realm. The conjunction isn't for over a year yet, so the barrier is still in place. It takes a lot of power but I can send one demon through at a time."
"As you wish my Lord, it shall be done She will enjoy such a mission." Etheynicor responded.
Suddenly, a large demon appeared by Cordell's side. It was easily 20 foot tall with large leathery wings. It possessed the head that most reminded Cordell of a ram with the skin of a reptile, and from it's shoulders sprang six arms, each hand filled with a different type of sword. Across it's chest, was a huge metal breast plate, easily six inches thick weighing close to a ton, yet she carried it as if it were nothing. Her head sported a helmet made of the same material, with holes for her horns to protrude from. The horns were not that of a ram however, but more similar to the horns of King Cold. Large, and curved upward to end at razor sharp points. From her back, along her spine, sprang a row of poisoned barbs that looked much like porcupine needles. Her saliva was like acid, she had four legs, with feet that ended in one large razor sharp claw, very much like a velociraptor. The claws that wrapped around the swords also sported such claws at the ends of each fingers, only smaller.
"I'd had to meet this bitch in a dark alley." Cordell inwardly shuddered.
"What the hell do you want?" Tharsasher demanded angrily.
Cordell had taken control of the Orkrans by fighting and eventually defeating their leader. Darmothoke, which was Tharsasher's mate. Needless to say, not all of the Orkrans were happy with the new situation.
"Didn't Ethcynicor tell you your mission?" Cordell said.
"Yes. Send me through then." Tharsasher said.
"You know Tharsasher, if you're not happy you can always challenge for leadership." Cordell smiled.
Tharsasher looked at the puny, disgusting looking human. She remembered the challenge he made to Darmothoke, how they had laughed at such a joke! A human, beat the king of the Orkrans? Impossible! Yet he had done it without barely breaking a sweat.
"Just send me through human. I will complete my mission." Tharsasher said.
"Such disrespect!" Cordell shot a ki ball at her left, front leg causing the great demon to cry out in pain.
"Now, what were you saying?" Cordell demanded.
"Send me through Lord Cordell so I might complete my mission." Tharsasher amended.
"Much better!" Cordell turned and waved his hands until a line of power formed between his outstretched fingers falling on the window he was using to view the mortal realm. The window expanded until it was quite large enough to accommodate the demoness behind him.
"Jump through now!" Cordell demanded.
Tharsasher leaped over her tormentor, and left the demon realm behind.
6:30 AM rolled around pretty quickly and Vegeta, Uub, and Raditz stood in front of the door to the Room of Spirit and Time. Mr. Popo and Dendi were also there.
"Is this place ready to go?" Vegeta wondered.
"Oh yes! Mr. Popo exclaimed obviously proud of himself for his labors. "It's better than ever and fully stocked!"
"Thank you Mr. Popo. Excellent work." Vegeta said. Popo and Dendi exchanged glances, but they were getting used to the new, more polite Vegeta, and they liked it a lot!
"You're quite welcome Mr. Vegeta." Mr. Popo replied.
"Alright you two, time to go on in." Vegeta said.
Mr. Popo opened the door and Uub and Raditz walked in.
Uub gave Raditz a small guided tour, showed him the sleeping quarters, the kitchen and where the food is stored, and the bathing facilities. Uub then led Raditz out to the "training area". Raditz lost all sense of orientation. All he could see, as far as he could see, was white nothingness. The obvious increase in gravity and difference in the air temperature had not phased the mighty Saiyan at all, but this was something different.
"Even space has stars, and planets to look at!" Raditz exclaimed feeling a bit queasy. "So when do we start training?"
"Right now!" Uub exclaimed as the air temperature dropped suddenly and ice started forming on Raditz feet and legs.