I'm sorry for taking so dang long to update, but I'm on a roll now, and I promise to have this story finished by the end of the year.

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animeprincess1452 - Yep, losing to a little kid like Goten would indeed be quite sad, and that's what would have happened to Gohan. Not that I would fight Goten, so I would probably lose to him too, since he's so cute. And for Vegeta, I have so eeeeevil plans for him...heh, heh...

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Chapter 3: Let the Training Begin

At the time that Yonk had escaped from Shikyo, he had estimated that it would take about four days for him to reach the Earth. That was assuming he didn't pick up on the instant transmission technique, and assuming his speed hadn't increased too much from the fight they were engaged in. While he was sure now that Shikyo hadn't, in fact, figured out instantaneous movement, as it had been over a day since the fight ended, he was still worried that Bulma was taking too long to create the new training room.

She had promised it by the end of the day, which would leave the fighters about two to train, which would have translated to two years in the old Room of Spirit and Time. Yonk had no idea how far this new version stretched time, only that it had better be at least as long as the original one did, lest they would all be screwed.

Out of the blue, the woman genius walked up and confronted Yonk about a few last-minute details.

"I just need to do one more minor thing and that should only take about another hour to finish," she said, wiping her oily hands on a dirty towel.

"Are you sure it is necessary, I don't want to waste more time here," Yonk responded, wary that an hour out here could be another 15 days of training in there.

"Well," Bulma said with a twinkle in her eye, "give me another hour and I can double the time-ductility factor. Then you can stay in there for two years to the day instead of one!"

The Kalltorraiya-jin almost felt like standing up and cheering at this unexpected good news, but instead kept his feelings in check.

"Domo arigato Bulma-san, I can't wait," he said.

She left in a half jog back to the lab to finish the work and Yonk sat back down to think for the remaining hour. Looking up suddenly to the ceiling, where he knew Trunks' room was on the floor above, he could feel the Ki of the boys inside. Concentrating slightly, tapping into the deepest parts of his Kalltorran psychic ability, he ventured a little into their minds.

Gohan suddenly walked up, sweaty from training with his father and Vegeta in the gravity chamber and regarded the young man in deep thought in front of them.

"What are you doing?" asked the Saiya-jin.

"Just seeing what the boys are up to," Yonk said quietly, before finally getting a rush of information from Goten's mind.

With a start, Yonk's eyes flew open and he fell over unexpectedly off the chair, leaving Gohan looking at him quizzically.

Gah! thought Yonk. That was more than I needed to know!

Looking back up to Gohan, Yonk grinned, saying: "Don't worry, I just overbalanced, that's all."

Gohan just shrugged his shoulders and walked into the kitchen, probably to get some food. That theory was quickly confirmed as the young half Saiya-jin warrior walked by again holding the fridge, the entire fridge and took it into the gravity chamber.

Yonk didn't care much though, he was just thinking about what he had just seen through Goten's eyes, which had been a quite...revealing look at Trunks. His smile rose as he thought of how good the boys were getting at hiding their Ki fluctuations in order to mask the fact that they were "playing" again.

Heh, he thought with a chuckle, some things never change...

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The six warriors walked quietly down the stairs into the depths of the mad scientist's laboratory. At least, all the stuff lying around Bulma's lab made it look like one, complete with bubbling liquids and strange colored devices. All that was missing were some randomly strewn beakers with body parts in them and one hunchback assistant. The former was not in Bulma's style, as she worked almost exclusively in technology, and the latter was currently being filled by Trunks, acting out as usual.

"Ha...ha...ha...ha...what do you want me to fetch you maaaaaaaaster...?" cackled the older half Saiya-jin child while stretching his fingers out like claws and closing one eye, complete with a hunched back and scrunched face.

Goten covered his mouth, trying in vain to keep in the laughter as Gohan tried in vain to keep the boys quiet as they reached the bottom of the stairs.

"I trust you two haven't touched anything," Bulma announced suddenly to her son and Goten, getting both of their attentions.

"Yes misses-Trunks'-mother," said Goten, as Trunks just grinned.

The rest of the fighters looked back at the blue scientist, who was complete with grease stains, an old Capsule-Corp hat, and a sizable wrench in one hand.

"So," Gohan spoke up, "how does this work."

Everyone turned to where Gohan was pointing, seeing what appeared to be a door stuck to the wall with a few things stuck to the frame and a couple large cables running to the computer unit.

"Well," she said, pushing the rim of her hat up with the wrench, "when you go through the doorway, your bodies are actually transmitted into the computer where, using the wonders of computer programming and, of course, my genius-"

"COOL!" yelled Trunks, interrupting her. "So it's like being in the Matrix?"

Bulma looked confused until Yonk turned to Trunks and told him it was something like that, drawing a few blank looks from the remaining people. Evidently him and the boys were the only ones to have seen it, and it was clear that Goten hadn't quite grasped the concept expressed in the movie.

"Ahem," said Bulma. "If you are done young man, I can continue."

Trunks promptly shut up, allowing his mother to finish her explanation.

"Anyway, due to the limits of the computer's capacity, I can only stretch the time to convert one day into two years, meaning you will have about four years in there before that monster guy shows up. During that time, I will monitor the system continually, and, in case anything goes wrong, I can get you out of there in seconds."

Everybody talked momentarily to themselves, before Yonk announced above their voices: "Okay, let's go then."

He took a few steps to the door, twisted the knob and flung it open, taking a step into the endless abyss...

'SMACK!'

Everyone present sweatdropped as Yonk fell backwards, landing on his rear cussing up a storm and holding his bruised nose. They all looked toward the open doorway, which revealed the stark red of the brickwork and a small crater where Yonk had hit.

"It would help to let me turn it on first...," said Bulma chidingly.

Goten giggled and Trunks tried to hold in his smile as the embarrassed Kalltorraiya-jin stood back up and cleared his throat.

Bulma just smiled and pressed a button on the control device she picked up off the desk. There was a hum as the computer system came on line, the monitor displaying an almost perfect replica of the original Room of Spirit and Time building. A second later the lights above the door came on and with a slight whoosh a whitish pulsating portal appeared in the doorway, pulling a gasp of amazement from everyone.

"Sugoi...," came the astonished reply from the Chibis as everyone else just stared and Bulma put her hands on her hips in satisfaction.

Vegeta suddenly snapped out of the trance, proudly stepping through the portal with a small flash, after which Yonk followed.

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The first thing the young Kalltorraiya-jin noticed was the silence. There was no echo at all like there was in the original, and it was so quiet, save for the cussing of Vegeta. The next thing he noticed was the extreme gravity enhancement, which he calculated at over 1000 times Earth normal, which was over 10 times the gravity level in the original room.

Evidently this sudden change in gravity threw Vegeta off, as the Saiya-jin prince had fallen flat on his face upon entering the doorway, and now struggled to get off the ground, wiping the blood from his split lip.

The rest of the warriors quickly filed inside, each groaning under the unexpected weight of the enhanced gravity, and not even Goten so much as stumbled coming in. Feeling a little foolish for not expecting that, Vegeta picked himself up and tried to look like nothing happened, and doing a very bad job at that.

All five Saiya-jin and the one Kalltorraiya-jin walked around a bit, exploring the spacious rooming that Bulma had built...err...programmed for them. It included a large shower, several rooms with a couple beds in each, a huge kitchen with what looked like a built-in refrigerator in the wall, as well as the back door, leading to an infinitely large open space for training in. It was perfect, right down to the whitewashed floors.

Trunks and Goten decided to lighten the mood with a rousing game of air tag, flying off together laughing.

Vegeta, on the other hand, wanted to get right down to business.

"Alright," he barked toward Yonk, "I want to know what we are up against."

Everyone stopped what they were doing, and Goku came back with a mouthful off food, while the boys came back as well to listen.

"It's hard to explain," Gohan put in, "he's just so strong, my Mystic form is nothing against him. He's just...incredible."

"Humph," Vegeta scoffed, evidently feeling as if his own power and Goku's were stronger that Gohan's, which was quite possibly true.

"Well," said Goku, showing a momentary stroke of ingenuity, "I think you all know how strong I am when I go super Saiya-jin 3. Yonk was beaten by Shikyo...so if me and him fight, we can see how strong he is based off of us."

Everyone paused for a moment to take that in, both perplexed by Goku's sudden genius idea and apprehensive of the thought. It was simple really, if Shikyo beat Yonk at his strongest, they could all see how powerful SSJ3 was in comparison by matching the two powers together.

"That's a great idea," Goten chimed in, to which Trunks nodded in agreement.

"It's settled then," Gohan said, sitting down on the steps in back of the building leading out to the vast empty plain. "This fight will show us just how strong Shikyo is."

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The two strongest members of the group of six fighters stood in classic stance, facing each other and trying to develop a plan of attack. With all the training that Goku had done since Buu, it was likely that he was much stronger than Gotenks at SSJ3, and there was no way of telling how strong Yonk was either, especially after all the training he had done too.

"Okay," yelled Vegeta, getting impatient, "fight!"

With a flash of light, Goku stepped right up to SSJ and went flying toward Yonk as fast as he could, throwing a massive punch toward him. He hit nothing but air as the Kalltorraiya-jin dodged easily to one side, and the next 50 or so blows from the Saiya-jin were just as unsuccessful. The two fighters rose into the air in a cloud of dust, and Yonk began blocking Goku's attacks with his own fists and feet, deflecting an unexpected Ki blast off to the side where it exploded spectacularly in the distance.

Finally having enough of that, Goku flew back, clenching his fists tight and unleashing a huge wave of Ki that sent all the other fighters to the floor. With a yell the ground shook and in a flurry of electricity that crackled around him, the golden hair on Goku's head rolled down his back as his eyebrows vanished and he reached level three.

At last the fight seemed more balanced, and Goku, using his newfound power to his advantage, flew directly toward his Kalltorraiya-jin opponent, unleashing a mammoth onslaught of raw power sending him reeling. Yonk recovered fast, dodging to one side to catch the Saiya-jin off guard and sending him flying to the floor with a kick. Goku hit the ground hard, rolling over in time to avoid Yonk's punch, as well as retaliating with one of his own.

The two warriors flew in opposite directions, each throwing an energy ball. When the two Ki bombs hit, the resulting explosion filled the air with energy, and sending young Trunks and Goten ducking for cover. Out of the fading light, Goku flew up, hitting Yonk full force in the gut, doubling the fighter over in pain. With a yell, Yonk made a cutting motion with his arm, and Goku wisely ducked to avoid being badly slashed by the blade of Ki which came from Yonk's hand. He threw another blast, which Yonk cut in two with his Ki sword, resulting in another explosion before he tried to hit Goku again with it.

Goku touched two fingers to his forehead vanishing a split second before he could be split in two and hitting Yonk from behind. Yonk disappeared as well, and a few flashes of light and waves of energy rocked the area as they fought in the other dimension through the instant transmission technique.

Yonk reappeared first, and Goku's fist went easily through him as his afterimage faded away. The super Saiya-jin 3 was momentarily thrown off guard as Yonk came behind him, hitting him over the head sending Goku back to the floor. He caught himself on his hands and knees, standing up as Yonk grabbed his long hair and flung him with a crash to the ground. Goku got out of his grip and fought fire with fire, grabbing a hold of Yonk's tail and smashing him to the floor.

The two fighters vanished again, and when they reappeared, Goku dodged another blow and the battle raged on from there.

Down below, both Vegeta and Gohan watched in amazement. The young boys, Trunks and Goten, however, were a little curious. Although Gohan and Vegeta didn't yet notice it, although the fight was even, Yonk was holding back dramatically. He hadn't even transformed into a super Kalltorraiya-jin yet.

Goku didn't notice either, he was enjoying the fight immensely, and he realized that with how strong he was compared to Yonk, the fight with Shikyo wouldn't be all that hard if they all worked together.

He struck back again, hitting Yonk in the back, and dodging aside to avoid the response from the other fighter. Yonk was clearly getting mad, and was starting to lose control as a result of it. Goku caught a weak point, crashing a fist into his open stomach, and Yonk flew to the floor, coughing up a little blood on impact.

"Enough!" he yelled, and everyone immediately thought he was giving up, but to their amazement the Ki level from the Kalltorraiya-jin hit the roof.

Yonk clenched his fists and yelled and the ground shook even harder than before as he began glowing green. His hair rose upward and hung in rough spikes as his power continued to rise ever higher. With a flash his hair began to glow green and then bleached to pure, vibrant turquoise as Yonk's aura took on a smiler shade. The blast of energy sent everyone, including Goku, flying across the floor and with a roar of power the Kalltorraiya-jin transformed to his fullest potential.

Goku got up fast, not wanting to stop, and crashed his fist right into Yonk's forehead, sending a shockwave of energy out around them. Yonk stood, unfazed, and his Ki aura barely fluctuated as he lifted his arm to push Goku's aside before hitting back nearly a hard as he could.

The Saiya-jin fighter was thrown helplessly upward and the eyes of everyone else around widened in shock and amazement as Yonk suddenly appeared above Goku. They could all see what was coming, and in less than a millisecond it happened; Yonk thrust his elbow downward into Goku's back, and with a cry of pain the Saiya-jin was sent flying to the ground where he hit with a deafening crash.

The dust cleared, and Goku could barely stand up, his power close to nothing. The last exchange had dropped him down from SSJ3 to nothing, and everyone gasped in shock seeing his hair black again. Yonk appeared in front of him, and Goku tried to fight back, if just to raise a hand to protect himself, but he couldn't do anything to the majestic green-haired warrior who faced with his back to him. Yonk just effortlessly thrust his arm backwards, hitting Goku in the face with the back of his hand and effectively knocking him out.

The assembled fighters couldn't speak.

Trunks and Goten were speechless at how much stronger Yonk had become since they had seen him fight Buu-Buu.

Vegeta was mindlessly jealous at how much more powerful Goku was than him, barely noticing that Yonk had wasted him.

But Gohan could see that this was very bad. After how powerful he knew his father was at his highest SSJ3, and how Yonk just knocked him out with three effortless blows at his highest...the thought of something stronger than Yonk was frightening at the least.

As Goku stood back up, and Gohan thought about maybe going to get some senzu, all the fighters suddenly realized the cold truth. Yonk was by far the most powerful person there, and the fact that Shikyo was stronger than him at SKJ was a dire one. Reaching Yonk's level of power was an almost impossible dream, yet if they didn't, then the consequences would be disastrous.

Trunks looked over at Goten and the younger boy seemed a bit scared. Pulling Goten toward him in a comforting embrace, the older half Saiya-jin boy could only wonder what was to come. As they watched Gohan help his father into the building and Yonk's awesome power fade as he reverted back to normal, his hair becoming brown again, they only knew one thing for sure...

It was going to be a very long 4 years of training.

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And the saga continues!

Looks like our fighters have more than a mouthful when it comes to Shikyo...what power levels are they going to have to reach. Will we be submitted to the horrors of Goku Super Saiya-jin 17 and 29/123...or maybe Gotenks fused with himself up to SSJ 77.42...? Or else...does Yonk have a plan to save all their asses...?

Find out next time as the saga continues!

Oops...I said that already...

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