Chapter Twelve: Vegeta's Mistake
Two months of almost non-stop, point of exhaustion training has been taking place. Everyone as pushed themselves to the limit of their power and beyond in an effort to prepare for an onslaught unlike any other. Some like Goku, Gohan and Vegeta have found new plains of power surpassing Kaykora. Talinia found her niche by Dende's said as a healer and psychic more than a warrior. And the trainees now including Bardock have forged new skills and powers they never thought they could. Meanwhile, young Trunks is showing signs of becoming a great warrior one day.
Kaykora collapsed on the clear grassy lawn of the Capsule Corporation compound utterly exhausted. Vegeta had stepped up training substantially by making a major jump to 650G in the gravity room and she struggled against for a week. Vegeta on the other hand, struggled against it for just a day or so.
"I'm not going back in there." She thought aloud as Gohan listened.
"Why not?" Gohan asked cocking his head and giving her a perplexed look.
"Two months of giving it my all almost nonstop and I've barely gotten any stronger. Whereas you, your dad, and Vegeta have far surpassed me when you hit the second plain of power. I don't get it. Maybe this is all the stronger I can become." She sighed and closed her eyes.
"Well you'll never know if you don't keep training." Gohan said lying down next to her. "And besides if you give up now, what do you think that's going to do to everyone's morale? I know I'd be training little easier."
"I know, I know. It's just I'm in this position now. I have all of this responsibility riding. Entire planets counting on the fact that I can defeat the Grand Matron then come back and rule them, Gohan. I maybe 138 years old but I spent 125 of it sleeping!" She sighed again trying to hold back tears.
Gohan sat up and scoop her up in his arms. "It's ok you don't have to do this alone. We're taking care of you now." He said quietly as he held her close.
"I don't think she's as sure of herself as you and your son are Mr. Bardock." Heroli said with a grave tone as he and the spikey-haired elder Saiyan looked on from outside the training room.
"She hasn't had a strong and confident role-model in her life nearly as much as Gohan so there's some concession that needs to be made." Bardock responded carefully with an air of wisdom. "I think this battle is just what she needs. Perhaps it will even help her ascend to the next level of power like the others." He finished quite sagely. Heroli nodded then walked over a sat down next to Kaykora. Bardock took a few steps forward out from under the balcony then stop and decided it might be best to leave Kaykora to her friends.
Vegeta looked on from a building window over-looking the interior courtyard where Kaykora was now being comforted. "Pathetic she has to rely on her weak and miserable friends for strength and support. How childish." He fumed as he stormed down the stairs. As he approached the door leading outside a thought nagged in the back of his mind. He sort of felt sorry for her and at the same time felt close to her having lost both his parents at a young age. He shrugged off the feeling and burst through the doors.
He stormed over to Kaykora and threw Heroli aside. Grabbing her by the shirt he dragged her back to the smaller training room. "I'm going to toughen you up if it kills you." He fumed.
"Vegeta this is unnecessary. Cut the kid some slack." Bardock said sternly approaching him.
With flick of his wrist Vegeta batted Bardock away when he tried to stop Vegeta's march to the gravity room. "Out of my way old man. This is about Saiyan pride." Kaykora with no will or real energy to oppose Vegeta just laid limply behind him.
The door slammed shut just as Bardock tried a second attempt to save Kaykora from Vegeta's over-idealistic wrath. He looked on in the window as Vegeta went over to the controls and started up the gravity. Kaykora got to her feet but the longer Vegeta stood at the controls upping the force, Kaykora buckled more and more. Finally Vegeta came away from the machine and transformed as he got into fighting stance. Kaykora did likewise. Vegeta lunged towards her but before he could reach her kaykora collapsed in a heap on the floor slipping out of form. Bardock's eyes widened and he pounded on the door. Vegeta shut back to the machine and turned it off, came back to Kaykora, lifted her up in one arm and opened the door with the other.
"You've taken things to far this time, Vegeta." Bardock said eying him grimly as he passed with Kaykora. Vegeta didn't even give him a second glance as he made his way into the main building. His countenance never shifting from his usual coldness or giving the slightest indication that believed he'd done wrong.
"Bulma!" He called upon entering the main building.
Bulma came down the stairs and looked on in horror at what Vegeta was carrying. "What happened!" She shouted mortified.
"She couldn't cut the training." Vegeta responded simply.
"You mean you pushed her too far." Bulma stated contemptuously.
"Look where do you want her." Vegeta snapped.
"Come on let's take her to the Med-Ward. You had just better hope she doesn't die or your going to have A LOT of explaining to do." Bulma said giving him a stare indicating she was more than slightly pissed. She turned and made her way to the Med-Ward, Vegeta following not far behind. Vegeta dumped Kaykora in a bed and left the roomd quietly. Bulma watched him leave with a look of malice of her face. To her Kaykora was like a kid. She had grown attached to having her around playing with Trunks and helping her take care of him when she wasn't training. Sometimes she'd sneak away and play with him when she was supposed be training. As much as she loved Vegeta sometimes is tactics pissed her off beyond words to describe.
When Vegeta opened the doors leading out of the main building he was met with a large group of unhappy campers. At the head: Gohan, Heroli, Bardock, and Goku.
"You, me, gravity room, now." Goku said in an uncharacteristically grim tone. Vegeta scowled and followed. Goku was bent on teaching Vegeta a lesson about limitations and when not to push someone pass them. At this point Begeta had push Goku passed his limit of patience.
The door closed and Goku turned to look at Vegeta. Piccolo focused on the room and started relating the events to everyone else:
"Vegeta your Saiyan pride is fine for you but when you shove it off on a kid, you take it to far. Kaykora isn't your kid and even if she was, I wouldn't stand back knowing you push her to the point of breaking."
"You don't get it Kakorrot. That 'kid' has more power than any of us. Even Gohan whom we all thought would surpass us. If she doesn't strive to tap it and utilize it then what's the point of bothering? She's useless to her people and us. And if all of her kind are that pathetic we should let them die."
Piccolo's eyes widened to an unprecedented size. "Shit! It can't be!" There was a sudden thud that shook the ground beneath them.
"How did Goku's power jump like that!" Heroli exclaimed.
"He must have transformed but he's much to strong evn for level two..." Piccolo said in disbelief.
"Is there a level three?" Heroli asked looking around at the other Saiyans and Archesaiya. They simply shrugged.
"Hang on." Piccolo said as he went back to relaying the events.
"How can you be so cold Vegeta! Those are our family too! And yes I know Kaykora has incredible untapped power but she's not going to tap it by being trained to death!"
There was second thud another tremor.
"If this is how your going to be Vegeta then I'm going to take over training her."
"Fine waste your time Kakorrot. She's as worthless as you are and equally weak and pathetic."
The door opened and Goku stepped out. The power that emanated from him caused the air the rush away from him. His face was grim and serious and his hair stretched clear down his back.
"Dad?" Gohan said cautiously approaching.
"Come on Gohan we're done training for today." Goku said changing back to normal form and approaching the main building. Everyone followed without bothering to ask Vegeta if he was ok. They knew it was pointless and against the point Goku tried to make.
Vegeta pulled himself to his feet and gingerly held his lower ribs and limped out of the gravity room. He pulled himself bleeding weak to the Med- Ward where he proceeded to collapse. Bulma coaxed Goku and piccolo into putting him in a bed and she proceeded to patch him up.
"Geez Goku if you roughed him up anymore you might have killed him. I hope this made him learn his lesson about picking on weaker creatures." Bulma said smiling a laughing a bit. Goku didn't seem very amused by the quip. He looked at Bulma briefly and grimaced a bit before turning his attention back to Kaykora.
"Just over a month until the Grand Matrons Forces get here and Kaykora and Vegeta are down and out. I hope Kaykora heals as quickly as Vegeta usually does. If not the others may not put their whole heart into it and that could make things very bad." Goku thought to himself.
Bardock put a hand on his son's shoulder. "It takes a lot more than medicine to heal a broken spirit, Son. For now we just have to do the best we can to lift her hopes." Bardock spoke telepathically to his son.
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Please forgive any extended period of time without an update. A lot is going to go down in Chapter 13 and a lot is going to come out as a result. For these reasons careful planning a consideration is in the works make things go smoothly and everything that needs to be covered and addressed at this point. Also because of the amount that will need to be cover in the upcoming chapter is will cause a delay in updating just out of the sheer amount of typing that will probably be required.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS!!! Just to leave you wanting more...
The mysterious rogue sister may re-appear... Kaykora's father may not be revealed... The battle to the Grand Matrons forces may be lost... Someone might die... Someone might get married... A new foe might appear on the horizon that makes the Grand Matron look like a wuss...
All this and more might not be in the next chapter!!! DUN DUN DA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two months of almost non-stop, point of exhaustion training has been taking place. Everyone as pushed themselves to the limit of their power and beyond in an effort to prepare for an onslaught unlike any other. Some like Goku, Gohan and Vegeta have found new plains of power surpassing Kaykora. Talinia found her niche by Dende's said as a healer and psychic more than a warrior. And the trainees now including Bardock have forged new skills and powers they never thought they could. Meanwhile, young Trunks is showing signs of becoming a great warrior one day.
Kaykora collapsed on the clear grassy lawn of the Capsule Corporation compound utterly exhausted. Vegeta had stepped up training substantially by making a major jump to 650G in the gravity room and she struggled against for a week. Vegeta on the other hand, struggled against it for just a day or so.
"I'm not going back in there." She thought aloud as Gohan listened.
"Why not?" Gohan asked cocking his head and giving her a perplexed look.
"Two months of giving it my all almost nonstop and I've barely gotten any stronger. Whereas you, your dad, and Vegeta have far surpassed me when you hit the second plain of power. I don't get it. Maybe this is all the stronger I can become." She sighed and closed her eyes.
"Well you'll never know if you don't keep training." Gohan said lying down next to her. "And besides if you give up now, what do you think that's going to do to everyone's morale? I know I'd be training little easier."
"I know, I know. It's just I'm in this position now. I have all of this responsibility riding. Entire planets counting on the fact that I can defeat the Grand Matron then come back and rule them, Gohan. I maybe 138 years old but I spent 125 of it sleeping!" She sighed again trying to hold back tears.
Gohan sat up and scoop her up in his arms. "It's ok you don't have to do this alone. We're taking care of you now." He said quietly as he held her close.
"I don't think she's as sure of herself as you and your son are Mr. Bardock." Heroli said with a grave tone as he and the spikey-haired elder Saiyan looked on from outside the training room.
"She hasn't had a strong and confident role-model in her life nearly as much as Gohan so there's some concession that needs to be made." Bardock responded carefully with an air of wisdom. "I think this battle is just what she needs. Perhaps it will even help her ascend to the next level of power like the others." He finished quite sagely. Heroli nodded then walked over a sat down next to Kaykora. Bardock took a few steps forward out from under the balcony then stop and decided it might be best to leave Kaykora to her friends.
Vegeta looked on from a building window over-looking the interior courtyard where Kaykora was now being comforted. "Pathetic she has to rely on her weak and miserable friends for strength and support. How childish." He fumed as he stormed down the stairs. As he approached the door leading outside a thought nagged in the back of his mind. He sort of felt sorry for her and at the same time felt close to her having lost both his parents at a young age. He shrugged off the feeling and burst through the doors.
He stormed over to Kaykora and threw Heroli aside. Grabbing her by the shirt he dragged her back to the smaller training room. "I'm going to toughen you up if it kills you." He fumed.
"Vegeta this is unnecessary. Cut the kid some slack." Bardock said sternly approaching him.
With flick of his wrist Vegeta batted Bardock away when he tried to stop Vegeta's march to the gravity room. "Out of my way old man. This is about Saiyan pride." Kaykora with no will or real energy to oppose Vegeta just laid limply behind him.
The door slammed shut just as Bardock tried a second attempt to save Kaykora from Vegeta's over-idealistic wrath. He looked on in the window as Vegeta went over to the controls and started up the gravity. Kaykora got to her feet but the longer Vegeta stood at the controls upping the force, Kaykora buckled more and more. Finally Vegeta came away from the machine and transformed as he got into fighting stance. Kaykora did likewise. Vegeta lunged towards her but before he could reach her kaykora collapsed in a heap on the floor slipping out of form. Bardock's eyes widened and he pounded on the door. Vegeta shut back to the machine and turned it off, came back to Kaykora, lifted her up in one arm and opened the door with the other.
"You've taken things to far this time, Vegeta." Bardock said eying him grimly as he passed with Kaykora. Vegeta didn't even give him a second glance as he made his way into the main building. His countenance never shifting from his usual coldness or giving the slightest indication that believed he'd done wrong.
"Bulma!" He called upon entering the main building.
Bulma came down the stairs and looked on in horror at what Vegeta was carrying. "What happened!" She shouted mortified.
"She couldn't cut the training." Vegeta responded simply.
"You mean you pushed her too far." Bulma stated contemptuously.
"Look where do you want her." Vegeta snapped.
"Come on let's take her to the Med-Ward. You had just better hope she doesn't die or your going to have A LOT of explaining to do." Bulma said giving him a stare indicating she was more than slightly pissed. She turned and made her way to the Med-Ward, Vegeta following not far behind. Vegeta dumped Kaykora in a bed and left the roomd quietly. Bulma watched him leave with a look of malice of her face. To her Kaykora was like a kid. She had grown attached to having her around playing with Trunks and helping her take care of him when she wasn't training. Sometimes she'd sneak away and play with him when she was supposed be training. As much as she loved Vegeta sometimes is tactics pissed her off beyond words to describe.
When Vegeta opened the doors leading out of the main building he was met with a large group of unhappy campers. At the head: Gohan, Heroli, Bardock, and Goku.
"You, me, gravity room, now." Goku said in an uncharacteristically grim tone. Vegeta scowled and followed. Goku was bent on teaching Vegeta a lesson about limitations and when not to push someone pass them. At this point Begeta had push Goku passed his limit of patience.
The door closed and Goku turned to look at Vegeta. Piccolo focused on the room and started relating the events to everyone else:
"Vegeta your Saiyan pride is fine for you but when you shove it off on a kid, you take it to far. Kaykora isn't your kid and even if she was, I wouldn't stand back knowing you push her to the point of breaking."
"You don't get it Kakorrot. That 'kid' has more power than any of us. Even Gohan whom we all thought would surpass us. If she doesn't strive to tap it and utilize it then what's the point of bothering? She's useless to her people and us. And if all of her kind are that pathetic we should let them die."
Piccolo's eyes widened to an unprecedented size. "Shit! It can't be!" There was a sudden thud that shook the ground beneath them.
"How did Goku's power jump like that!" Heroli exclaimed.
"He must have transformed but he's much to strong evn for level two..." Piccolo said in disbelief.
"Is there a level three?" Heroli asked looking around at the other Saiyans and Archesaiya. They simply shrugged.
"Hang on." Piccolo said as he went back to relaying the events.
"How can you be so cold Vegeta! Those are our family too! And yes I know Kaykora has incredible untapped power but she's not going to tap it by being trained to death!"
There was second thud another tremor.
"If this is how your going to be Vegeta then I'm going to take over training her."
"Fine waste your time Kakorrot. She's as worthless as you are and equally weak and pathetic."
The door opened and Goku stepped out. The power that emanated from him caused the air the rush away from him. His face was grim and serious and his hair stretched clear down his back.
"Dad?" Gohan said cautiously approaching.
"Come on Gohan we're done training for today." Goku said changing back to normal form and approaching the main building. Everyone followed without bothering to ask Vegeta if he was ok. They knew it was pointless and against the point Goku tried to make.
Vegeta pulled himself to his feet and gingerly held his lower ribs and limped out of the gravity room. He pulled himself bleeding weak to the Med- Ward where he proceeded to collapse. Bulma coaxed Goku and piccolo into putting him in a bed and she proceeded to patch him up.
"Geez Goku if you roughed him up anymore you might have killed him. I hope this made him learn his lesson about picking on weaker creatures." Bulma said smiling a laughing a bit. Goku didn't seem very amused by the quip. He looked at Bulma briefly and grimaced a bit before turning his attention back to Kaykora.
"Just over a month until the Grand Matrons Forces get here and Kaykora and Vegeta are down and out. I hope Kaykora heals as quickly as Vegeta usually does. If not the others may not put their whole heart into it and that could make things very bad." Goku thought to himself.
Bardock put a hand on his son's shoulder. "It takes a lot more than medicine to heal a broken spirit, Son. For now we just have to do the best we can to lift her hopes." Bardock spoke telepathically to his son.
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Please forgive any extended period of time without an update. A lot is going to go down in Chapter 13 and a lot is going to come out as a result. For these reasons careful planning a consideration is in the works make things go smoothly and everything that needs to be covered and addressed at this point. Also because of the amount that will need to be cover in the upcoming chapter is will cause a delay in updating just out of the sheer amount of typing that will probably be required.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS!!! Just to leave you wanting more...
The mysterious rogue sister may re-appear... Kaykora's father may not be revealed... The battle to the Grand Matrons forces may be lost... Someone might die... Someone might get married... A new foe might appear on the horizon that makes the Grand Matron look like a wuss...
All this and more might not be in the next chapter!!! DUN DUN DA!!!!!!!!!!!!