The New Generation
Chapter 5:
Todd shows what he can do.
The next morning, everyone was slowly getting up. Todd rose from bed and managed to find where the shower was. After a short shower he changed into his one change of clothes that he had brought from hom. He then went down to the kitchen where everyone but Vegeta, Trunks, Kira, and Gideon were eating breakfast.
Todd asked "Where are the others, are they not up yet?"
Bulma was the one to answer "No they are in the gravity room training, they do that every morning. If it wasn't heavily reinforced and sound proof you probably would have felt it. They should be done in about an hour."
"Oh. Why do they train so much?"
"It's what Vegeta has them doing to keep them in shape. Natalie used to train with them, but she has devoted more to teaching the kids since we home school them. You should also know that before everything happened yesterday, we were going to have a get together of some of out friends, we decided to keep the party on, but we are going to tell everyone about what is happening. But still, you will get to meet some of our more interesting friends."
"Sounds like it will be fun. Where is this gravity room, I want to see the training they are doing."
"It is just down the main hallway, believe me you can't miss it."
After he finished his breakfast Todd, went down the hall and found the gravity room. He was startled to see massive battles taking place in side. Kira and Gideon were fighting what looked like other people, but according to the computer in front of him, were holograms. Both fighters and holograms seemed evenly matched and it was incredible to watch the blaze of movement.
Vegeta and Trunks walked out of the second gravity room, and saw Todd staring into the view port for the first room. Trunks walked up right next to him.
"Hey Todd, wanna try a round of our style of training. It is pretty tough but I heard that you are a decent fighter."
"Why not? I was hoping you guys had a way to work out, and this looks like a good one."
"Okay, go in the room Vegeta and I came out of, and I will set it up for you. I will put you up against a hologram, it will be more your level for now. I am also going to give you a little kink in your training. I am going to put you in 2x earth's gravity; it will make the training very effective."
"All right, this should be fun."
Todd entered the room, and immediately felt the weight of the extra gravity, but he had a secret that he was hiding from the others. The Hologram appeared, it was a big barrel chested man in a red tank top and blue jeans. Trunks's disembodied voice came over the speaker "This is Marcus. He will be your opponent. He is very strong and fast. Plus he doesn't feel the effects of the gravity. So he has an advantage over you." And with that, Marcus attacked, dashed forward and snapped kicked Todd in the stomach, Todd, not yet adapted to the gravity couldn't block. Marcus took good use of his advantage and continued his attack, he struck again and again, and Todd seemed to be having great difficulty blocking the attacks, "Hey Trunks could you pause a sec, I wondered if I could do this with something I have and I was wrong." Trunks was confused by what Todd said but he decided that he would humor him. Trunks was very surprised to watch Todd start to pull off his long sleeved shirt, and it made a loud 'thunk'. Trunks was stunned, Todd was wearing weighted clothing. And suddenly he exploded into movement. The attack was so powerful that Marcus was easily overwhelmed. And Todd was barely even sweating. Todd calmly walked out of the grav. chamber. Trunks immediately blurted out "Where did you get that training shirt?"
"This. It was sent to me anonymously. The only note inside wasn't signed. I opened the box, and found it. I weighed it and it weighs about 200 pounds. I found that if I just walked around wearing it, I was always working out, because it was a constant strain. It is why I am already as strong as I am."
Vegeta, had already left to get a drink. When he returned Trunks ran over to him.
"Dad, you are not gonna believe this, but Todd has been training with weighted clothing for a while. He handled 2 gs easily. And he took down Marcus like he was nothing."
"Well there are some basics that he still must learn. Tell Kira she is to teach him how to use his Ki, for flight and attacks. It is good for one to learn how to teach, it helps your own training."
"That is a good idea. She needs to learn more focus, and teaching would be good for her. I will tell her when she gets out, they can start before the party."
About 10 minutes later Kira exited the gravity chamber, where Trunks informed them of the new happenings. Kira was delighted to here that she would be teaching Todd. And Todd was reasonably excited himself
After they all had breakfast, Kira lead Todd out back in order to begin his training in Ki control.
"The first order of business is to show you how to focus your Ki. You have to learn how to focus. Sit, and concentrate everything you have on your hands."
Kira was amazed to see that after a few minutes, his hands started to glow, and brightly at that.
"Well since you can control it, now I think it is time to learn flying."
End Chapter Five