An Adventure of a Lifetime

A/n: In this chapter training will take place predominately, because it will only be a day outside. Although, you never know, so enjoy.

Chapter 8- A hard road

White a whole lot of white. A whole lot of white and nothingness, was their first impression of their new home for a year. The air was thick and stifling, and the gravity intense. Malik had the most trouble standing, even though in terms of ki he was the strongest.

"Well I suppose we should warm up and try and get used to this new weight," suggested Malik as he tried to stand tall. The air turned frigid all of a sudden as all three fighters began to stretch and do various katas. In about 20 minutes they adjusted to the weight and were able to begin with some light sparing.

Ranma and Malik gave each other a glance while Ryouga was still warming up. Without warning Malik fired a low powered energy blast while Ranma dashed at Ryouga's side. The blast caught Ryouga in the leg and Ranma kicked him in the shoulder sending him flying. Stabilizing himself, he looked at them.

"Hey what's the big idea? You attacked me off guard," he demanded angrily.

"That was the whole point P-Chan. Your danger sense is still not that good." Ranma paused a bit. "Although maybe on one level you did sense the attacks because your not effected at all. But we still have work to do- ugh," he was cut short by Ryouga's fist impacting with his stomach.

"Now who needs to work on their danger sense," he said as he backhanded the still hurt Ranma away. He then barely dodged Malik's attack, and before he knew Ranma and Malik were attacking him as one.

"There is another reason why we both attacked you," Malik said as jumped over Ranma's head and engaged Ryouga. "Your speed and focus is still lacking," he said as he turned his aura ice cold and slipped in Ryouga's guard and delivered three powerful blows. He then weaves away from the counter attack and lets Ranma take his spot.

They fought for hours, forcing Ryouga to block and counter at accelerated rates. By doing this they increased Ryouga's relaxes, speed and adaptability. Also Malik learned quite a bit on how Ranma fought as a team. At the end of that training session they retired to the non-training room to eat and rest.

Ryouga sat wearily at the table were Ranma and Malik were already seated. "I think the next session we should work on Malik's strength and durability. You just haven't had the training I had, and Ranma has been hit with that mallet so many times his durability his far above yours." Malik nodded and ate his food.

"Yeah, I think you and Ryouga should fly farther out where the gravity is more intense and do a one on workout. I want to work on something," Ranma added. The other 2 nodded and finished their food. All three stood and went back out to train. Ranma flew away from the other two.

"I have to develop some attacks of my own, instead of just improving on my existing ones," he said to himself. The air grew unbearably hot and heavy. He started to drip sweat. 'I think I may have something I can use,' he thought. \

Concentrating he formed a big ball of energy with right hand and fired it. With his will he paused it mid air, tried to break it into smaller, faster balls. He was almost successful; it broke in to energy balls then fell and exploded.

He wiped his forehead and breathed. 'Man that was draining. I have to work on the charge time and the actual splitting.' He smiled to himself. 'I will get this in no time at all,' he thought. Buoyed by those thoughts he went back to work. However he was interrupted by a voice behind him.

"Congratulations and making fireworks. Now lets see how you fair in a battle." Ranma turned and faced his would be opponent and quailed.

'He is huge! Plus those spikes on his arms don't look very soft,' he thought in alarm. The warrior didn't give him a chance to answer he merely attacked with a lighting fast dash and powerful kick.

Ranma barely dodged that kick and took a glancing blow on his side from a punch. His enemy was relentless, and continued to advance. 'Man he is fast,' he thought as he twisted away from his grasp and took to the air. The warrior followed and then blurred from site. Ranma tensed and released his aura as he felt movement.

The maneuver caught the giant full force and sent him backward. He quickly righted him self and looked at the young fighter. "Excellent," he said. Rushing at him again the battle was fully joined.

On a ship heading toward earth:

A man walked through the spaceship slowly but with purpose. He was a big man, with blue skin and horns similar to Captain Ginyu. There was a good reason for that; he was his uncle. He walked in to the engine room. He looked at the room briefly, and then he found whom he was searching for.

"Ah, Chief Engineer Spire, how goes the progress on upgrading the engines?" he asked. He walked toward the smaller man.

"Yes sir, your lordship sir. The engines have responded well to the changes, they should be online in 2 days. On a other note, the planet eater is ready for a test run, Lord Voltaire," the man said.

Voltaire considered this for a moment. "Excellent, there is a planet not to far away. Perhaps 5 or 6 hours away, we will test it then. " With that he walked away.

Room of spirit and time

It had only been a month in this room, but already results were made. Ryouga and Ranma each invented new attacks, and Malik was now physically stronger than before. Following his loss at the hands of that giant, Ranma trained harder than before, then found him and crushed him. Malik and Ranma were currently sparring, while Ryouga was meditating.

The two fighters clashed in the air. Feet and fists were flying. Ranma, being the quicker of the two was able to sneak in a blow, but had to drop suddenly as flames exploded around Malik. Even so, he still was a little bit singed.

"What the hell was that Malik," he said looking up at him. Malik slowly floated down to the floor.

"Its called Flame wall. I developed it right before we entered the room. Never used it before though," he replied as he got into a stance. Ranma did the same. Malik rushed at him, but an afterimage passed through Ranma, followed by Malik's knee in Ranma gut. His follow up backhand was blocked, and he had to leap back to avoid a jumping kick.

This time Ranma was the aggressor, keeping Malik n his toes with his unpredictably. A few blows were slipped through, but Malik's guard held steady. Seeing this was getting him no where, Ranma flew in the sky and powered up greatly. A flash of light forced Malik to look away, when it died down, there was two Ranmas.

"This could be trouble," Malik mouthed to himself. A split second later they both disappeared, and then appeared in front of Malik. Thinking fast he became ghost like and slid to the other side of them, and when he became solid he fired an energy blast. They simply jumped to opposite sides and attacked.

As Malik fended off blows he noticed something, the attacks were too slow for it to be just two. 'There has to be a thr-,' his thoughts were cut off as a shout of "Final Flash" came from behind him. The two Ranmas dashed away and Malik turned to see a huge beam of energy cruising at him. There was simply no time to block, or do anything. He took the blast head on.

Ranma sensing the fight was over merged back into one. When the explosion died down he stayed in his position for a second, until he could see again. When he could he realized that Malik down for the count. So he ran over to him, and was caught unprepared for his Flash attack. The blast caught him directly in the chest and blasted him all the way to their sleeping quarters.

"That was all I got left," Malik said and fainted. Ranma lay unmoving at the bottom of a wall. Ryouga rose to his feet from his meditation, and collected Malik and Ranma. He placed them in the sleeping quarters. After that he went out to train on his own.

"Now that they are knocked out I can practice my new attack, the Destruco cannon." He flew a good distance away and then settled down. He spread his legs and concentrated on drawing energy from all around him. The space all around grew lighter and colder as he drew from the heat and gravity to fuel his attack. He shaped a ball of power into his hands. Energy crackled all around him, and a blue aura raged all around him.

He screamed out "Destruco Cannon," and thrust forward his hands. A large beam of power went forward, the sides had sharp energy disks all on it. After he shot it he was spent. Slumping down he began to think about he and his comrades in arms.

"I can't believe me and Ranma are actually friends now. Although looking back, he was the only friend I ever really had. Even though he was a jerk, he was still a good guy." He paused for a moment.

"Malik is a character to say the least. Not very talkative, like me, but has his good spots. I just wish I knew more about him. I mean, I know his family died and a friend of the family raised him, but I wish he would open up a bit more." A scowl then a smile flitted across his face. He felt his energy return so he stood up and prepared to head back.

The Kami's lookout:

On the lookout Gohan and Piccolo were doing some light sparing, while Goku ate with Trunks and Goten who flew there sometime during the day. Vegetta stood and watched the match with disguised interest. Dende, the guardian bore a look of extreme concentration as scanned this part of the galaxy, determined to sense their enemies' approach.

With each passing minute those three were growing stronger, but would it enough? It has now been 12 hours since they entered the room of spirit and time, or 6 months for them. All the warriors present are anxious to see just how powerful they have become. Only time will tell.

Countdown to destruction: 2yrs, 5 months

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Not much to say for this chapter. It's not as long as my others, but action will pick up in the next one promise. Until then R& R.

P.S. Can anyone guess what this planet eater does? I'm real curious to hear your ideas.