Well, I was bored and thought I'd make chapter eleven for my 'Legendary'
fic! (I only wish...) Anyway (Has anyone noticed I say that a lot?) I
haven't really got any kind of plan laid out for this chapter so you can
take comfort in knowing that this is all right off the cuff! (Hot off the
presses people!!)
Alex: Check it out! He's off his lazy keester!
Alex Ultra: Hey! [Touches fingertips together] I'm not that lazy...
Alex: Oh sure you are! Why, next to my brother, you're the laziest bum I know!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, considering you keep Vegeta and Goku as company, I could probably take that as a compliment.
Alex: Hmm, I guess you're right...
Alex Ultra: And have you seen your brother!? He looks like some kind of macho bodybuilder!!
Alex: Huh? He does? Since when did he work out?!
Alex Ultra: Since he got interested in, you know... girls...
Alex: Oh! Yeah, well he never did train with us. You know, Jenn and me...
Jennifer: Did someone mention me?
Alex Ultra: Yeah, she did. [Points to Alex]
Jennifer: Oh, okay! Bye!
Alex: Hey! Where you goin'?
Jennifer: Oh, somewhere...
Alex: Hey, you come back here!!
Jennifer: Hah! Can't catch me!!
Alex: Wanna' bet!?
Well, while those two sort out things on their end, I'll sort things out here. Namely, writing this chapter!
Well, anyway, let's get on with it. (I say 'Well' a lot too...)
~~~~~~*** THE TRAINING GOES ON ***~~~~~~
Let's see, where's a good place to start this chapter?
Oh! I know!! About six months after my adoption!! (I'm fine with being adopted, by the way...)
Okay, there I was, minding my own business, which, by the way, happened to involve blowing things up! That's right! 81/2 and I was already training at a level beyond Goku! But, I only trained while they slept so they never even knew I existed! But that was fine to me... I never wanted to get them involved in my life, or vice versa.
But that has nothing to do with what I'm telling here, does it? See, I was training in the back-yard (which just happened to include a good portion of the Rocky-Mountains), you know, blowing off time, waiting for my Gravity Chamber to be ready. See, I had been working on the darn thing with dad for a couple of weeks, then he goes off and gets doctor Briefs to help him instead! Well, I guess the fact that he already had one working made him more qualified to build one... doesn't it?
Well, there I was, and I didn't know it, but Jennifer had followed me. I didn't know it until I had already gotten started, and I only saw her after I had already been flying around for a while. And she wasn't stupid.
She knew that wasn't normal. And she wanted to fly too.
"I want to fly too!" She was smiling as only a five-year-old girl can.
"Uh, okay. I guess I can try to teach you! But you can't tell mom or dad about this, kay?"
"Kay!"
"This'll be our little secret!" Now, see. Her parents had already enrolled her in a martial arts class (she had a Brown belt by then) and I figured that she should be able to catch on pretty quick.
~~~ Some time later ~~~
I was wrong. She may be a Brown belt, but she was just too hyper to sit around and concentrate on her ki for hours on end.
But persistence pays off and I finally got her to sit still long enough for her to bring out her ki.
"Yay!"
"All right! Good job Jenn!"
"Thanks! Can you take these ropes off now?"
"Uh, yeah. Okay." So, I took them off. (So I cheated, so sue me! At least it got her to sit still!)
"Wow! Can I fly now?"
"Not yet. First you need to put it underneath you and push up." Well, it took her a while, but she did it!
"Great! Now you just need to practice!"
"Okay! Um, Alex?"
"Hmm? What is it?"
She clasped her hands together and made as pleading a face as she could. "Can I train with you? Huh? Please?" I could have sworn she had little starlets in her eyes and I just couldn't turn her down.
~~~ Well, time rolled on ~~~
It was about a year since I was adopted now, which made me about nine years old. I had trained Jennifer enough so she could keep up with me now, but I always pushed her just hard enough to keep advancing. I had taught her a couple techniques, and she thought one up on her own (it's everyone's right!), but the one she likes the most is thought speech. She wouldn't shut up for nearly three days! And you don't even need to take a breath when you're speaking with your mind... so that was a rough three days.
"Alex? Alex, whatcha' thinkin' 'bout?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing! Hehe, uh, let's get back to training, kay?"
"Okay, but should I turn up the thingy?"
"The gravity? Sure, why not?"
Not much happening, is there? Nope, I guess not.
But I needed a faster way of getting around, like Instant Transmission, except I didn't have anyone to teach me that one so I had to come up with something different.
"Alex, whatcha' doin'?"
"I'm trying to come up with something new." I focused some energy on my arm again, and tried to poke a doorway, like I had sometimes seen on TV. There was a bright flash, but nothing more. I was doing something wrong, I could tell that nothing was happening, and each try was getting more and more frustrating.
Jennifer looked confused for a second before asking me something. "Uh, was something supposed to happen?"
I looked at her, then back to that spot. "Yeah, a door type-thingy is supposed to appear here and take me somewhere else."
She thought for a second, then smiled broadly. "Okay! Well, it's too bad you can't just say you were already there!"
"Yeah." I sighed and sat down. 'Yeah. Yeah!' "Yeah!! Jennifer! You're a genius! Well, more now than before but still a genius!"
She smiled brightly for a second. "Thank you, I know." Then she got a confused look on her face. "But why am I a genius this time?"
"Because! I can do it now!! If I'm already there then I don't need to TRAVEL there!"
She still looked confused. "Uh, I knew that. But what do you mean?"
I smiled proudly and hugged her tight, almost too tight, but hey, I was excited. "Thank you! Oh my gosh! I gotta try this!" I concentrated more ki on my arm and prepared to 'try it'.
I thrust my arm forward, but at the same time I concentrated on the place I wanted to go. Rather than simply hoping it worked, I decided that I was going to 'inject' some of my ki into that place! That way I would already be there and could make two identical 'doors' so I could bring the rest of me there! Simple, huh?
This time, there was no flash. Probably because each spot had only half the energy I had used. But I still pulled back rather quickly.
Almost immediately something happened to that spot, and for a little way around it. The light around it started bending away from it, like some kind of backwards magnifying glass.
"Cool!"
"Yeah, cool!" Very cool! The energy even seemed to be spreading out and pushing the light with it! It made for some very cool special effects!
"Hey, what's happening now?" I really didn't know how to answer that question, but it definitely looked cool. At the middle of the, uh, whatever it is, 'I'll call it a gate. Yeah, that sounds good.', the light was bending so badly that it was turning black! But the whole thing was only about three feet across!
"Cool!" Is that all she can think to say?
The black edged its way out until it was really close to the edge, then it just sat there, and I decided that it was now or never. "Well, it's now or never. Here goes nothing!" So I jumped in, and found myself floating inside. 'Huh, so that's how it works!' I could sense the whole thing and on the inside (if you could call it that) it was completely empty. Totally devoid of energy! Not only that, but there seemed to be some kind of tunnel, it wasn't very long, and it only took me a few seconds to get to the other end, which I figured must be the exit, or something.
I popped my head out, and Kami nearly fell on his butt!
"Who are you!?"
"Oh, come on! Don't you recognize me!?"
"No, I don't believe so..."
"It's me! Alex!"
"Alex who? And how the heck did you get here!?"
"Uh, okay. Uh, where's Mr. Popo?"
"Popo who! What are you talking about!?" I looked quizzically at Kami for a second, something wasn't adding up here.
"Kami, where's Goku?"
He looked angry for a second, then went quiet. "He died, a long time ago." This made me even more confused, so I asked what year it was.
When I heard his answer I gasped and jumped back in. His answer was nearly twenty years too far back!
I had gone to another dimension!
"Alex! Alex? What's wrong!?"
I was breathing hard and my heart was racing, but I managed to answer her as the gate closed. "I [pant] went to [pant] another dimension. [pant pant] Goku was dead there, [pant] and Kami had never heard of Popo."
"Really? Neat! But that thing feels kind of funny."
"Funny? Funny how?"
"It was cold, not like all those balls you normally make, kind of... empty."
"Hey! I like that! I'll call it 'Cold Warp Gate'!" Jennifer looked at me kind of funny. "What!? I like it!"
"Hehe, Whatever!" She tackled me to the ground and I decided anything else could wait for later.
"So, what do you want to do now?"
"Let's spar!"
"Okay!" 'Next I have to get it to stay in one dimension. That would be good.'
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 11 ***~~~~~~
Well, that's it for this chapter! Uh, what else should I be saying?
Um, review now!
Alex: Okay, now where did you put that popcorn?
Alex Ultra: You're stepping on it.
Alex: I am? I am!
Alex Ultra: Now help me clean this up!
Alex: Okay!
Okay, well I'm tired so I'm not going to say much more. But I am hoping to see your reviews telling me what you think so, REVIEW ME NOW!! I'm not too proud to admit that I'm not sure what next chapter's going to be like, so don't be too worried if it takes a while. That means I'm thinking about it (and my assignments... yeah). Well,
LATER
Alex: Check it out! He's off his lazy keester!
Alex Ultra: Hey! [Touches fingertips together] I'm not that lazy...
Alex: Oh sure you are! Why, next to my brother, you're the laziest bum I know!
Alex Ultra: Yeah, considering you keep Vegeta and Goku as company, I could probably take that as a compliment.
Alex: Hmm, I guess you're right...
Alex Ultra: And have you seen your brother!? He looks like some kind of macho bodybuilder!!
Alex: Huh? He does? Since when did he work out?!
Alex Ultra: Since he got interested in, you know... girls...
Alex: Oh! Yeah, well he never did train with us. You know, Jenn and me...
Jennifer: Did someone mention me?
Alex Ultra: Yeah, she did. [Points to Alex]
Jennifer: Oh, okay! Bye!
Alex: Hey! Where you goin'?
Jennifer: Oh, somewhere...
Alex: Hey, you come back here!!
Jennifer: Hah! Can't catch me!!
Alex: Wanna' bet!?
Well, while those two sort out things on their end, I'll sort things out here. Namely, writing this chapter!
Well, anyway, let's get on with it. (I say 'Well' a lot too...)
~~~~~~*** THE TRAINING GOES ON ***~~~~~~
Let's see, where's a good place to start this chapter?
Oh! I know!! About six months after my adoption!! (I'm fine with being adopted, by the way...)
Okay, there I was, minding my own business, which, by the way, happened to involve blowing things up! That's right! 81/2 and I was already training at a level beyond Goku! But, I only trained while they slept so they never even knew I existed! But that was fine to me... I never wanted to get them involved in my life, or vice versa.
But that has nothing to do with what I'm telling here, does it? See, I was training in the back-yard (which just happened to include a good portion of the Rocky-Mountains), you know, blowing off time, waiting for my Gravity Chamber to be ready. See, I had been working on the darn thing with dad for a couple of weeks, then he goes off and gets doctor Briefs to help him instead! Well, I guess the fact that he already had one working made him more qualified to build one... doesn't it?
Well, there I was, and I didn't know it, but Jennifer had followed me. I didn't know it until I had already gotten started, and I only saw her after I had already been flying around for a while. And she wasn't stupid.
She knew that wasn't normal. And she wanted to fly too.
"I want to fly too!" She was smiling as only a five-year-old girl can.
"Uh, okay. I guess I can try to teach you! But you can't tell mom or dad about this, kay?"
"Kay!"
"This'll be our little secret!" Now, see. Her parents had already enrolled her in a martial arts class (she had a Brown belt by then) and I figured that she should be able to catch on pretty quick.
~~~ Some time later ~~~
I was wrong. She may be a Brown belt, but she was just too hyper to sit around and concentrate on her ki for hours on end.
But persistence pays off and I finally got her to sit still long enough for her to bring out her ki.
"Yay!"
"All right! Good job Jenn!"
"Thanks! Can you take these ropes off now?"
"Uh, yeah. Okay." So, I took them off. (So I cheated, so sue me! At least it got her to sit still!)
"Wow! Can I fly now?"
"Not yet. First you need to put it underneath you and push up." Well, it took her a while, but she did it!
"Great! Now you just need to practice!"
"Okay! Um, Alex?"
"Hmm? What is it?"
She clasped her hands together and made as pleading a face as she could. "Can I train with you? Huh? Please?" I could have sworn she had little starlets in her eyes and I just couldn't turn her down.
~~~ Well, time rolled on ~~~
It was about a year since I was adopted now, which made me about nine years old. I had trained Jennifer enough so she could keep up with me now, but I always pushed her just hard enough to keep advancing. I had taught her a couple techniques, and she thought one up on her own (it's everyone's right!), but the one she likes the most is thought speech. She wouldn't shut up for nearly three days! And you don't even need to take a breath when you're speaking with your mind... so that was a rough three days.
"Alex? Alex, whatcha' thinkin' 'bout?"
"Huh? Oh, nothing! Hehe, uh, let's get back to training, kay?"
"Okay, but should I turn up the thingy?"
"The gravity? Sure, why not?"
Not much happening, is there? Nope, I guess not.
But I needed a faster way of getting around, like Instant Transmission, except I didn't have anyone to teach me that one so I had to come up with something different.
"Alex, whatcha' doin'?"
"I'm trying to come up with something new." I focused some energy on my arm again, and tried to poke a doorway, like I had sometimes seen on TV. There was a bright flash, but nothing more. I was doing something wrong, I could tell that nothing was happening, and each try was getting more and more frustrating.
Jennifer looked confused for a second before asking me something. "Uh, was something supposed to happen?"
I looked at her, then back to that spot. "Yeah, a door type-thingy is supposed to appear here and take me somewhere else."
She thought for a second, then smiled broadly. "Okay! Well, it's too bad you can't just say you were already there!"
"Yeah." I sighed and sat down. 'Yeah. Yeah!' "Yeah!! Jennifer! You're a genius! Well, more now than before but still a genius!"
She smiled brightly for a second. "Thank you, I know." Then she got a confused look on her face. "But why am I a genius this time?"
"Because! I can do it now!! If I'm already there then I don't need to TRAVEL there!"
She still looked confused. "Uh, I knew that. But what do you mean?"
I smiled proudly and hugged her tight, almost too tight, but hey, I was excited. "Thank you! Oh my gosh! I gotta try this!" I concentrated more ki on my arm and prepared to 'try it'.
I thrust my arm forward, but at the same time I concentrated on the place I wanted to go. Rather than simply hoping it worked, I decided that I was going to 'inject' some of my ki into that place! That way I would already be there and could make two identical 'doors' so I could bring the rest of me there! Simple, huh?
This time, there was no flash. Probably because each spot had only half the energy I had used. But I still pulled back rather quickly.
Almost immediately something happened to that spot, and for a little way around it. The light around it started bending away from it, like some kind of backwards magnifying glass.
"Cool!"
"Yeah, cool!" Very cool! The energy even seemed to be spreading out and pushing the light with it! It made for some very cool special effects!
"Hey, what's happening now?" I really didn't know how to answer that question, but it definitely looked cool. At the middle of the, uh, whatever it is, 'I'll call it a gate. Yeah, that sounds good.', the light was bending so badly that it was turning black! But the whole thing was only about three feet across!
"Cool!" Is that all she can think to say?
The black edged its way out until it was really close to the edge, then it just sat there, and I decided that it was now or never. "Well, it's now or never. Here goes nothing!" So I jumped in, and found myself floating inside. 'Huh, so that's how it works!' I could sense the whole thing and on the inside (if you could call it that) it was completely empty. Totally devoid of energy! Not only that, but there seemed to be some kind of tunnel, it wasn't very long, and it only took me a few seconds to get to the other end, which I figured must be the exit, or something.
I popped my head out, and Kami nearly fell on his butt!
"Who are you!?"
"Oh, come on! Don't you recognize me!?"
"No, I don't believe so..."
"It's me! Alex!"
"Alex who? And how the heck did you get here!?"
"Uh, okay. Uh, where's Mr. Popo?"
"Popo who! What are you talking about!?" I looked quizzically at Kami for a second, something wasn't adding up here.
"Kami, where's Goku?"
He looked angry for a second, then went quiet. "He died, a long time ago." This made me even more confused, so I asked what year it was.
When I heard his answer I gasped and jumped back in. His answer was nearly twenty years too far back!
I had gone to another dimension!
"Alex! Alex? What's wrong!?"
I was breathing hard and my heart was racing, but I managed to answer her as the gate closed. "I [pant] went to [pant] another dimension. [pant pant] Goku was dead there, [pant] and Kami had never heard of Popo."
"Really? Neat! But that thing feels kind of funny."
"Funny? Funny how?"
"It was cold, not like all those balls you normally make, kind of... empty."
"Hey! I like that! I'll call it 'Cold Warp Gate'!" Jennifer looked at me kind of funny. "What!? I like it!"
"Hehe, Whatever!" She tackled me to the ground and I decided anything else could wait for later.
"So, what do you want to do now?"
"Let's spar!"
"Okay!" 'Next I have to get it to stay in one dimension. That would be good.'
~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 11 ***~~~~~~
Well, that's it for this chapter! Uh, what else should I be saying?
Um, review now!
Alex: Okay, now where did you put that popcorn?
Alex Ultra: You're stepping on it.
Alex: I am? I am!
Alex Ultra: Now help me clean this up!
Alex: Okay!
Okay, well I'm tired so I'm not going to say much more. But I am hoping to see your reviews telling me what you think so, REVIEW ME NOW!! I'm not too proud to admit that I'm not sure what next chapter's going to be like, so don't be too worried if it takes a while. That means I'm thinking about it (and my assignments... yeah). Well,
LATER