An Adventure of a Lifetime

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Chapter 5: Building blocks

Power. Good. Evil. These are what make the universe go round. Some people have power; some people don't. Some use their power for good, some for evil. The lines between good and evil blur so easy. You may think you are doing right, but the people you do it for say it is evil.

Once long ago, many eons ago, there was a man who had power beyond belief. His power was unmatchable. The first super sayain did not destroy himself in a fit of rage. He was defeated. This being's power was unmatchable. However he only fought for good. The funny thing is, people started to worry. He was becoming too powerful. They say power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So before his power became too great, they tricked him. Ten of the most powerful fighters at the time ambushed him and trapped him. However, no matter how good a trap is, escape is always possible…

1 year after the tournament:

Kami's Look out:

"Focus Ryouga!" Piccolo shouted as Ryouga once again failed trying to use the split form. "You must mold your ki into another version of yourself." Ryouga nodded. "Good now try again." Piccolo's pupil relaxed his breathing and a blue aura surrounded him, followed by a bright white light. When it died down, two Ryougas were standing side by side. They both looked at each other.

"Wow, I really did it Piccolo," they both said. Piccolo nodded and got into a fighting stance. Each Ryouga lowered into a fighting stance as well. Training had begun.

Capsule corp.

Ranma Saotome was sweaty, sore and hungry. Vegetta knows this. However, he doesn't care.

"Come on brat, one hundred more. You wanted to be a fighter, so this is the price."

"Can we at least turn down the gravity? Don't you think 120 is a bit much, plus these clothes are like 4 times my body weight," he grimaced as he completed another upside down, one-handed push up. Vegetta just snorted.

"I don't see why Kakarot wants to train you as fighter anyway. You will never be on level with a super sayain." Inside Vegetta smirked. He knew just what buttons to push with his young student. 'He is so much like myself. Brash and confident, with a desire to win, too bad he isn't a sayain.' Seeing that Ranma had successfully completed the exercise, he turned off the gravity. "Now get up the woman has our food ready." Ranma was completely exhausted. He lay on the floor for a minute and then pulled himself up and followed Vegetta.

Mountains in Japan:

Malik's body was hurting badly. His arms were numb from the elbow down. His ribs felt like they were on fire and his knee was twitching. One would expect his opponent to be gigantic in power and in stature. One out of 2 isn't bad.

"Hey can you continue?" Goten asked. Not even bothering to answer Malik readied his attack.

'If this doesn't do it, I don't know what will,' he thought. Calling forth the element of fire and mixing it with his ki he thrust out his hands and called out "Dragon Blast!" Flames burst forth from his hands into the shape of a dragon's head. From the mouth a massive blast of ki mixed with flames shot out and devoured the young demi-sayian. When the flames dissipated, Goten lowered his arms and was relatively unhurt. But his power level was severely lowered.

"Wow that was a neat attack. Can you show me how to it?" Goten asked the older boy. To say he was stunned would be understatement. However, he was not disappointed. He knew that them being of sayain blood, gave them an advantage, but he was determined to make up ground. Just as he was about to attack again, Goku called a halt to the training session.

"Malik, Goten get cleaned up because we are going over to Bulma's house to test your power level again. We are also going to be eating over there." Both of them nodded. Floating down to Goku each put a hand on a shoulder and Goku used his instant transmission to take them home. Once there he told Malik to eat a senzu bean and clean up. Once everyone was healed and clean, they whole family was transported to Capsule corp.

In space:

A ship cruised through space. For its crew it was just another routine cargo transport. "Hey Johnny, what is our status," asked the ship's captain. The crew had been together long enough so that most formalities were nonexistent.

"We are going great, Capt.. Our engines are performing at optimum levels. We arrive in under 6 hours, sir," Johnny the engineer replied.

"Excellent," the Captain said. Leaning back in his chair he couldn't help feeling a bit bored. He became a captain to command a starship, fight the bad guys and all that, not to transport cargo. But, it was a good job, high paying, and he did have fair share of scraps along the way. Yeah, it was a good life. Suddenly the alarm sounded.

"Captain we have a problem." A young woman said. The captain indicated to bring it up on the big screen. "A large black hole has opened." He nodded.

"Well then take us around it then, at a safe enough distance."

"We can't sir. The black hole's energy level is off the scale. It's pulling us in sir. We will be inside in 5 minutes sir."

"5 minutes! Not good. Ok folks; divert all power from weapons to engines. Gun this bad boy," the captain ordered. The crew did, as they were told still no change. All available power was directed toward the engine; still no change. Then suddenly everything stopped. A bright flash occurred and when it subsided a figure was standing on the bridge.

He was 6ft and broad, with long white hair. His eyes were the color of steel. He was muscular, not in the body builder sort of way, but in a warrior mold. He wore an outfit similar to sayain amour, except it was blue and black. He uttered only one word: "Free." Then everyone's world went blank.

Back on earth:

The three now 18 year olds stood side by side. Ranma was in the middle of the two other fighters. Bulma had her new and improved scanner. "Ok boys its time for your 6 month test. Ryouga can you step forward please?" she asked. Ryouga obliged her. Much to Piccolo's chagrin, he still sported his normal outfit, just weighted with a gravity belt at all times. Bulma got his in her sights and clicked a button, instantly numbers sprang up.

"Wow Ryouga you are at 60,000 at resting level," she said quite surprised. Vegetta, Piccolo and Goku looked at each other in surprise.

"Power up to your max Ryouga," his teacher ordered him. With a nod he began to power up. A green aura sprang up around him. Instead of it feeling tinged with depression, it was just pure ki energy. Piccolo stopped that habit 10 months ago. They all now knew how to use pure ki. When Ryouga stopped yelling, his aura dissipated leaving him glowing with power.

"Wow, he is at 150,000. This is unreal." Ryouga scratched his head. The three Z warriors once again looked at each. "Now power down and remove the weighted clothes and gravity belt. By the way what gravity are you training at now?" Bulma asked.

Ryouga removed what she asked and answered, "I usually have it set for 125 times earth's normal." Bulma nodded. She clicked a button again and it came up as 240,000.

"Jesus, he is 4 times as strong as before. Piccolo what do you have him train 8 hours a day?"

"No, we train 10 hours a day; with those weights and that belt on. That's why he is so strong," Piccolo replied. She sighed and grumbled something about fighters having no lives. "Now power up again," he instructed. Ryouga did just that.

"624,0000 Ryouga, at this rate you'll be up there in no time," she said. Ryouga smiled and blushed. Ranma nudged him and whispered something to him. Ryouga's eyes darted to Vegetta and he gulped.

"Malik you are up." He stepped forward and she measured his strength. "Not bad, your are at 55,000." Ryouga smirked at Malik's lower power level. "Now power up, or whatever you guys do." He breathed once, and let a blue-white aura surround him, it pulsed a few times and he was finished. Ryouga was not impressed.

"That's it! Even Kuno could probably have a better battle aura than that," he said. Before Malik could respond Bulma spoke up.

"Well, he is at 154,000 thousand. So that makes him slightly stronger than you," she said. Ryouga was amazed. 'No way he is more powerful than me.' Malik powered down and removed his weighted clothes and gravity belt. "You are at 220,000. Nice, very nice level." Malik gave a curt nod.

"I will power up now." Once again his aura surrounded him and pulsed.

"Oh man it says your are at 638,000. How is that possible, when his resting level is lower than Ryouga's?" Bulma asked.

"Simple, because I hold back even when I rest. Therefore my power level is lower. Besides, my style deals more with ki than Ryouga's." Malik supplied. Everyone was satisfied with that answer. Ranma stepped forward while Malik stepped back and put his training gear on. Ranma smirked and crossed his arms.

"You are also at 60,000 Ranma," Bulma informed the cocky young man. Ranma shook his head.

"There has got to be some mistake. I can't be the same strength as P-Chan." A fist impacted with his skull.

"Ranma, you will not call me that again. I have control over that curse now, and so do you. So shut up and power up," Ryouga said. Rubbing his head Ranma complied. A blue and red aura sprang up around him. When he was finished Bulma took his reading.

"You are at 150,000. Not bad." Ranma shook his head again. He removed his training gear. His respective readings were 240,000 at rest and 624,000 fully powered. He couldn't believe it.

"How come I am not stronger than him?" he kept asking.

"Well, power level doesn't make the fighter. You proved that at the tournament, you hurt Tien badly even though you were way weaker than he was. How good a fighter you are usually determines the outcome. Even if you are slightly stronger than a person you can still lose," Goku said to Ranma. Just then a shiver went through the 3 older warriors. Gohan came through the door shortly.

"Did you guys feel that?" Gohan asked as he stepped into the room. The three older warriors nodded, while the other teenagers shook their heads.

"Something felt cold and empty, but powerful," Goku said with a frown on his face. "Not to mention very old." The other sayains and the namek nodded. Ranma and co. looked at each other blankly.

"How come we don't feel anything?" Ranma asked with a confused look on his face. The younger warriors nodded there agreement, except Malik, he now had a frown on his face.

"Speak for yourself Ranma. I don't feel a power level, but something is definitely wrong. I can't even get a lock on it, but it feels almost incomplete," Malik stated.

"Incomplete? What do you mean?" Bulma asked. Malik struggled to find the words.

"It is almost like whatever it is has only part of its power and soul," he finally said. The looks on the older Z warriors' faces told him that he hit it right on the head. "I hate to face that thing if it becomes complete," he said with a mild shudder. A sense of foreboding hit all the warriors present.

"Listen there will be a break in training for one week. Visit your families; settle any old scores," Piccolo said and pointedly looked at Ranma, who decided the floor needed to be looked at. "After that week is finished we will start on a more intense regimen. All the fighters groaned.

"Cheer up guys, the more you train, the faster you can become stronger," Gohan, said. They nodded.

"Ok you guys are free to leave, see you in one week," Goku said to them. They walked out of capsule Corp and took off in the air towards Nerima.

Another chapter out folks…in the next one Ranma and co gets a reprieve from training, but not from craziness. Amazons and spatulas, plus pigs, and another appearance by the villain. Until next time, please read and review.