Just after supper was delivered to the ship, Vegeta pulled Gohan out of the regen tank so he could eat. As they ate, they talked a couple things over. "You need about 2 or 3 more hours healing to be back to full. Then once you are done, I need about an hour or so in the tank myself. But you did well holding off on transforming to Super Sayian there. I am not sure I would have put up with being beaten on that long."
Gohan shuddered in memory. "It wasn't much fun for sure. And I was almost ready to end it myself. If you had not gotten up when you did, I would have gone super and given out some bruises myself."
Vegeta grinned at Gohan's words. "We still have 2 fights to go through. But something tells me the worst of it is behind us. So finish eating and back into the tank. We need to be back in our rooms for the start of the fights tomorrow or we will be disqualified."
"I am still not sure why they are keeping us locked in our rooms while the other teams are fighting."
"It's to give everybody the same chance in each fight. We don't know what our opponent's abilities are and they don't know what we can do. Also we are not being told who is winning the other fights so we can't try and judge a team's strength by whom they have beaten. That way each team will give it their best each and every fight."
"Okay, I guess that makes sense. I am done here, going back to the tank now."
Gohan walked off leaving Vegeta alone to finish the meal. After he ate, his head slumped down and he was soon asleep on the table.
"Vegeta, wake up." Gohan shook Vegeta's shoulder. "It's your turn in the tank now."
Vegeta groaned sleepily and with Gohan leading, managed to stumble to the med bay and get into the tank. Gohan started it up and walked back to the remaining pile of food. "Well, there is not much here, so I might as well finish it off." After doing so, he went to his bed and laid down to get some sleep.
The next morning a knock on his room door woke him up. "Sir, we have brought breakfast as requested." Gohan yawned and followed the local out to the main table where a huge pile of food was sitting. But before sitting down to eat he looked around for Vegeta, only to find him still asleep in the regen tank. Gohan opened the door to the tank and leaned in. "Vegeta, food's here. Come eat before I finish it all."
"You better not eat it all, baka. Or you will be spending more time in the regen tank here."
Gohan grinned and walked out.
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After they had made it back to their rooms in the palace they spent the day doing a little light sparing and watching some of the other entertain channels to pass the time. But time passed quickly enough and soon the day was almost over.
"Tomorrow, we get to fight the lizards. 'The Brothers Itrick.' I don't expect they will give us much trouble, and since we have the early fight we should be able to get this out of the way pretty quickly. I hate to say this, but even I am almost ready to just get home."
Gohan smiled. "Why? Do you miss Bulma or something like that?"
Vegeta just scowled. "I don't want that woman raising my son like some weakling human. He is a Sayian prince and needs to be trained as such."
"I don't know about that Vegeta, there aren't a lot of Sayians left around for him to be a ruler too."
"Don't remind me. But I still wonder if any more of my people might have survived."
"Why do you think that?"
Vegeta looked at Gohan for a moment as if deciding whether to answer him. "We almost always had several scouting and attack teams out. It is possible they went to ground when they heard Frezia destroyed our home and are waiting for the right time to come back."
"How will they know when it is the right time, they should have heard about the end of Frezia by now, don't you think?"
"Yes, but remember, because we worked for Frezia all those years we are not well liked. They may just be waiting for a Sayian leader to step up and give them a cause to join again. That is the other reason we are here at this tournament. When we win, our names will be spread across the galaxy and then if any other Sayians are out there, they will hear about me, and come looking to rejoin with me."
"Are you sure you want that? After all, you have joined with us on Earth, these other Sayians might not agree with that."
"Bah, they are Sayians and I am their prince. They will obey me." Then Vegeta turned away and walked to the window. Then he spoke to himself almost too quietly for Gohan to hear it. "And maybe we can undo some of the evil my people have caused in the past."
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Authors Notes:
Sorry about the short chapter but I wanted to put this little bit in to just make the story a little more complete. And it provides a nice lead in for a possible story for me to write later on. Are there any Sayains left? And will they come to find Vegeta after this?
I also wanted to respond to a few comments in the reviews I have been getting. Mostly about power levels of my various characters.
First for the strength of the rest of the characters. Yes, some of them are stronger than Freiza. But this is a full 5 years after his defeat at Namek and 4 year after his death at the hands of future Trunks. I have seen a couple web sites where Freiza's power is listed at about 16 million. But even that power was not known by anybody in the galaxy. All that was known was Freiza had never lost a fight. So I suspect that various planets and civilizations that were interested in their own survival were training their best fighters to defend themselves. But since nobody really knew how strong Freiza was, they would have not known when or if they got stronger than Freiza. So they stayed home continuing to train so that their power was at its peak if Freiza did come after them. They were not willing to risk their best fighters against Freiza in case they lost the challenge. Then there would be nobody to defend their planets and Freiza already had a bad record of destroying anybody he thought was a threat. Now that Freiza is dead, some of those strong fighters willing to come out and let themselves be known.
As for Vegeta and Gohan's strength. This fiction starts about a year after the Cell games. During that time Gohan had almost no training, mostly because he was helping his mother with her pregnancy. So his power and conditioning slipped during that time. As anybody who works out on a regular basis knows, you can train yourself to a point of near physical perfection. As Gohan was during the Cell games. But it is very easy to loose that extreme point if you slack off. So I am guessing Gohan's normal power level dropped to around 23 million where he was a little over 30 million during the Cell games
Now from the start of the fiction until when Gohan and Vegeta take off, about 4 months pass. During this time Chi-Chi only let Gohan train a couple days a week. I had noted that in the story at the time. So Gohan has regained some of his lost strength but he is not back to level he was at the Cell games. He got back to around 26 million at this time.
During the month of travel and trials to enter the tournament, he trained with Vegeta. But the training was in part to sharpen his skills and instincts rather than purely increase his strength. So he managed to get back to the 27 million listed. He has not been able to get back to highest point of physical perfection yet, but is beginning to close on it again.
As for Vegeta, he never stopped training after the Cell games. And after a year and a half he has come close to matching Gohan's base power level during the Cell games. But so far he has not learned the secret of pushing himself to the second stage of the Super Sayian transformation. That is part of why he challenged Gohan in the beginning of the story, to make sure that is was something that could be achieved again.
Also for the purpose of my story, Vegeta is the older more experienced warrior with his body in its physical prime. And since they are playing the Sayian role of prince and his escorting warrior, it only makes sense that the prince would be stronger. Also, it adds another level surprise that if pushed, young 'weak' Gohan has an extra burst of power that makes him truly incredible.
And I wanted to say one thing about how I view the Super Sayian transformations. They are power multipliers. Meaning you start with your base power (normal form) and when you under go a transformation you power is multiplied.
I think it works well to explain the transformations this way. I figure the first stage of Super Sayian increases power by 5 times. So if a Sayian warrior had a power level of 10 million, the first stage of Super Sayian would give him a power level of 50 million. Then Super Sayian 2 will double that power, or 10 times the base power for a power of 100 million.
Of course, you need to take into account for the power used in the transformation process. That will reduce the final power some, but as you get more used to making the transformation, your efficiency in transforming increases, reducing the power drain.
As a last note, I want to thank everybody for their reviews and hope you continue to enjoy the story.
Gohan shuddered in memory. "It wasn't much fun for sure. And I was almost ready to end it myself. If you had not gotten up when you did, I would have gone super and given out some bruises myself."
Vegeta grinned at Gohan's words. "We still have 2 fights to go through. But something tells me the worst of it is behind us. So finish eating and back into the tank. We need to be back in our rooms for the start of the fights tomorrow or we will be disqualified."
"I am still not sure why they are keeping us locked in our rooms while the other teams are fighting."
"It's to give everybody the same chance in each fight. We don't know what our opponent's abilities are and they don't know what we can do. Also we are not being told who is winning the other fights so we can't try and judge a team's strength by whom they have beaten. That way each team will give it their best each and every fight."
"Okay, I guess that makes sense. I am done here, going back to the tank now."
Gohan walked off leaving Vegeta alone to finish the meal. After he ate, his head slumped down and he was soon asleep on the table.
"Vegeta, wake up." Gohan shook Vegeta's shoulder. "It's your turn in the tank now."
Vegeta groaned sleepily and with Gohan leading, managed to stumble to the med bay and get into the tank. Gohan started it up and walked back to the remaining pile of food. "Well, there is not much here, so I might as well finish it off." After doing so, he went to his bed and laid down to get some sleep.
The next morning a knock on his room door woke him up. "Sir, we have brought breakfast as requested." Gohan yawned and followed the local out to the main table where a huge pile of food was sitting. But before sitting down to eat he looked around for Vegeta, only to find him still asleep in the regen tank. Gohan opened the door to the tank and leaned in. "Vegeta, food's here. Come eat before I finish it all."
"You better not eat it all, baka. Or you will be spending more time in the regen tank here."
Gohan grinned and walked out.
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After they had made it back to their rooms in the palace they spent the day doing a little light sparing and watching some of the other entertain channels to pass the time. But time passed quickly enough and soon the day was almost over.
"Tomorrow, we get to fight the lizards. 'The Brothers Itrick.' I don't expect they will give us much trouble, and since we have the early fight we should be able to get this out of the way pretty quickly. I hate to say this, but even I am almost ready to just get home."
Gohan smiled. "Why? Do you miss Bulma or something like that?"
Vegeta just scowled. "I don't want that woman raising my son like some weakling human. He is a Sayian prince and needs to be trained as such."
"I don't know about that Vegeta, there aren't a lot of Sayians left around for him to be a ruler too."
"Don't remind me. But I still wonder if any more of my people might have survived."
"Why do you think that?"
Vegeta looked at Gohan for a moment as if deciding whether to answer him. "We almost always had several scouting and attack teams out. It is possible they went to ground when they heard Frezia destroyed our home and are waiting for the right time to come back."
"How will they know when it is the right time, they should have heard about the end of Frezia by now, don't you think?"
"Yes, but remember, because we worked for Frezia all those years we are not well liked. They may just be waiting for a Sayian leader to step up and give them a cause to join again. That is the other reason we are here at this tournament. When we win, our names will be spread across the galaxy and then if any other Sayians are out there, they will hear about me, and come looking to rejoin with me."
"Are you sure you want that? After all, you have joined with us on Earth, these other Sayians might not agree with that."
"Bah, they are Sayians and I am their prince. They will obey me." Then Vegeta turned away and walked to the window. Then he spoke to himself almost too quietly for Gohan to hear it. "And maybe we can undo some of the evil my people have caused in the past."
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Authors Notes:
Sorry about the short chapter but I wanted to put this little bit in to just make the story a little more complete. And it provides a nice lead in for a possible story for me to write later on. Are there any Sayains left? And will they come to find Vegeta after this?
I also wanted to respond to a few comments in the reviews I have been getting. Mostly about power levels of my various characters.
First for the strength of the rest of the characters. Yes, some of them are stronger than Freiza. But this is a full 5 years after his defeat at Namek and 4 year after his death at the hands of future Trunks. I have seen a couple web sites where Freiza's power is listed at about 16 million. But even that power was not known by anybody in the galaxy. All that was known was Freiza had never lost a fight. So I suspect that various planets and civilizations that were interested in their own survival were training their best fighters to defend themselves. But since nobody really knew how strong Freiza was, they would have not known when or if they got stronger than Freiza. So they stayed home continuing to train so that their power was at its peak if Freiza did come after them. They were not willing to risk their best fighters against Freiza in case they lost the challenge. Then there would be nobody to defend their planets and Freiza already had a bad record of destroying anybody he thought was a threat. Now that Freiza is dead, some of those strong fighters willing to come out and let themselves be known.
As for Vegeta and Gohan's strength. This fiction starts about a year after the Cell games. During that time Gohan had almost no training, mostly because he was helping his mother with her pregnancy. So his power and conditioning slipped during that time. As anybody who works out on a regular basis knows, you can train yourself to a point of near physical perfection. As Gohan was during the Cell games. But it is very easy to loose that extreme point if you slack off. So I am guessing Gohan's normal power level dropped to around 23 million where he was a little over 30 million during the Cell games
Now from the start of the fiction until when Gohan and Vegeta take off, about 4 months pass. During this time Chi-Chi only let Gohan train a couple days a week. I had noted that in the story at the time. So Gohan has regained some of his lost strength but he is not back to level he was at the Cell games. He got back to around 26 million at this time.
During the month of travel and trials to enter the tournament, he trained with Vegeta. But the training was in part to sharpen his skills and instincts rather than purely increase his strength. So he managed to get back to the 27 million listed. He has not been able to get back to highest point of physical perfection yet, but is beginning to close on it again.
As for Vegeta, he never stopped training after the Cell games. And after a year and a half he has come close to matching Gohan's base power level during the Cell games. But so far he has not learned the secret of pushing himself to the second stage of the Super Sayian transformation. That is part of why he challenged Gohan in the beginning of the story, to make sure that is was something that could be achieved again.
Also for the purpose of my story, Vegeta is the older more experienced warrior with his body in its physical prime. And since they are playing the Sayian role of prince and his escorting warrior, it only makes sense that the prince would be stronger. Also, it adds another level surprise that if pushed, young 'weak' Gohan has an extra burst of power that makes him truly incredible.
And I wanted to say one thing about how I view the Super Sayian transformations. They are power multipliers. Meaning you start with your base power (normal form) and when you under go a transformation you power is multiplied.
I think it works well to explain the transformations this way. I figure the first stage of Super Sayian increases power by 5 times. So if a Sayian warrior had a power level of 10 million, the first stage of Super Sayian would give him a power level of 50 million. Then Super Sayian 2 will double that power, or 10 times the base power for a power of 100 million.
Of course, you need to take into account for the power used in the transformation process. That will reduce the final power some, but as you get more used to making the transformation, your efficiency in transforming increases, reducing the power drain.
As a last note, I want to thank everybody for their reviews and hope you continue to enjoy the story.