Now that she was able to understand everyone, Noelle followed Vegeta through the house, to the back yard. She made sure to stay close and not get lost in the large domicile, but it wasn't easy.

Once they were outside again, they stopped in front of a large spherical object. It was black and white with more Japanese symbols on the sides of it. She could only recognize the number on the side.

" Come on." Vegeta walked inside.

Noelle wasted no time hurrying after him. As soon as she set foot in the large sphere, she was crushed to the ground. She couldn't stand up at all. It felt like the weight of the world was really on her shoulders.

She tried to push herself up, but the force only seemed to increase. Hearing chuckling, she tried to twist her head in the direction it was coming from.

" Did you fall gaijin? Don't tell me you can't handle a measly 5x earth's gravity." He was leaning on the console in the middle of the room with one hand.

" Don't know…what…happened…." Noelle wheezed.". ……Can't breathe…."

Noelle felt fear prick inside her. She couldn't breathe and everything was becoming quite fuzzy and dark. Was she dying? She didn't know. She couldn't move and she couldn't speak anymore. Her last image was of Vegeta pressing a button on the machine, and walking over to her. Then she was out like a short circuit.

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Vegeta waited until Noelle was about to pass out before he decreased the level of gravity. When she finally did, he went over to her body and made sure she was still alive. After making sure of that, he threw her over his shoulder and jumped to the lower level.

It might have been cruel; to let her walk into the heavy gravity like that, but it had to be done. She needed to know that what she was asking of him was dangerous. She could be killed at anytime. That's assuming she takes the risks and goes through with it. This training would be the hardest thing she'd ever do; seeing as she was neither Saiy-jin nor half-breed. Not to mention she had no prior martial arts training.

He put her down on his bed on the lower level. She would be safe from the gravity there while he went to train. If she actually did decide she wanted to learn to fight, she would certainly be in for a torturous experience. Nothing is ever free.

As he walked back towards the entrance to the upper level, Vegeta glanced back at the American girl, who was sleeping off the gravity's effects.  Most of him wanted her to realize the danger of what she was wanted and go away; leaving him to train like he always did.

But, there was a small part of him that wanted her to accept all the danger and still ask him to train her. It was sort of flattering. She saw him fight, well, sort of, and asked if he could teach her to do the same thing.

" It's too bad you weren't born a Saiy-jin, you would have been interesting to fight against."

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When Noelle woke up, the first thing she became aware of was the loud noises above her. The second was a headache from the lack of oxygen that had caused her to pass out in the first place.

The third was that she was in another part of the large sphere. She seemed to be in a bed. And it stunk like one of her surrogate brothers.

CRASH!!!

The fourth and fifth things Noelle noticed were she was on the floor and someone was testing bombs above her.

She slowly got up off the bed and went to the ladder off to the side of the room. The noises were coming from the upper level. They sounded like grunts of pain and dynamite blasting. 

Once she stabilized herself on the ladder to the point where she wouldn't fall, Noelle looked up to see what was going on.

She saw Vegeta and some other guy in orange with blond hair beating the crap out of each other. That was only when they were standing still. They started to move again and she couldn't see them anymore. There were just these thunderous booms every few seconds. Then there was just nothing.

Curious, Noelle stepped up from the ladder and walked around the room. It reeked of sweat and, what was that, blood? Some of the tiles were damaged and the room was burnt in some places.

SWISH

" N-Nani?" She heard something fly by her like the wind. The force of it was so great. She didn't know where it came from though. There were no open doors or windows, nor was there a fan near by.

WHOOSH

A big ball of light came flying towards her head at amazing speeds. Noelle looked like a deer in headlights. She couldn't scream, she couldn't think, she couldn't move. She didn't know what the ball of light was, but her senses were screaming 'danger'.

" Down!"

Something shoved her down roughly and slammed her into the floor. Another sweaty body was on top of hers while the ball of light whizzed by. It smacked into the wall on the other side of the room and exploded. The blast was brighter than the ball had been. Noelle shut her eyes, but the light was so bright that it still stung.

When the dust settled, Noelle risked looking up to see what happened. There was little damage to the room, but she had a few burns on her arms and her legs. The larger body on top of her removed itself and allowed her to stand.

" Hey Vegeta! What'd ya stop for?! We were just getting started!"

Noelle looked up at the voice. There was a man dressed in orange floating above her and whom she guessed was Vegeta behind her. She did a double take at the man hovering above her. There were more people like Vegeta?

" You idiot!!"

" Whaat?!! I didn't do anything Vegeta!"

" Not you idiot! This idiot!"

Noelle grimaced at his tone and wondered if it were in her best interest to turn around and face Vegeta. But he made the decision for her when he roughly grabbed her by her shirt collar and turned her around.

" What the hell is wrong with you?!! Don't you know how to duck when ki comes your way?!! You could have had your head blown clean off your shoulders and blood would be all over my nice, clean training room!!"

Noelle cringed every time he yelled at her. She hated it when he yelled at her, but she wasn't about to let him know that. She took all of his ranting and said nothing in return unless he asked her something directly and it wasn't rhetorical. She noticed his hair was blond like the other guy's and his eyes were green.

How strange…She thought idly.

 " Ouch!" The only sound she did make was a squeak when he dropped her onto the hard floor.

" And don't let it happen again!!"

" Yes Vegeta-sama."

The other man landed behind her and helped her stand up. " Don't be so hard on her Vegeta. She didn't know it was coming at her until it was too late. She couldn't have dodged it if she wanted to. I'm Gokou, by the way."

She wasn't about to say anything until she say the silver translator device in his ear. Someone else she could talk to, thank Kami-sama! " I'm Noelle."

" Although it was by almost fatal terms, it's nice to meet you. And you saved her life, Vegeta, so there's no harm done."

He grunted." It won't become a habit. She gets in the way again, she can just explode along with it!!"

Noelle shut her mouth and bit her tongue. She really wanted to say something to Vegeta then. How dare he be mad at her for something she didn't know to do!! She didn't know what the hell that 'ki' as he called it was flying at her like a comet! She didn't know they were doing, whatever they were doing up here! He had done something to make her pass out in the first place! She didn't ask to be put in here!

" What did you say?!!"

Noelle snapped her hand over her mouth. She didn't say that out loud did she? She thought she just deliberated her tirade. She hoped she didn't say all that to him.

" Uh, did I say that out loud?"

Gokou laughed and put his large hand on her shoulder." You sure did! Boy did you give him a piece of your mind!"

" Oops. I'm sorry Vegeta-sama." She was sorry she said it out loud like that, but she wasn't sorry she said it.  

" You better be! Now get downstairs before you get killed!!!"

Noelle jumped at his barking command and did as she was told. Boy, what a day. Yelled at from every side, laughed at, mugged, dragged this way and that, choked on extra gravity, nearly blown up by a ball of 'ki', and banished to the lower levels.

" I'm gettin' yelled at at home, screamed at at school, hollered at here, and for what? Learning to fight and fly which I'm not even sure this guy is gonna teach me as much as kill me! Oh, this better be way worth it or I'm gonna be severely pissed!!"