The New Generation

Chapter 7

The Training Begins

The next day, Vegeta went to get Todd so he could begin with real training.

Vegeta barged in to Todd's room, and tried to wake him, "Ok Boy! It is time to begin your training, get up and be downstairs in 5 minutes." Todd's response was to sit up glance at Vegeta and then lie back down. Vegeta took this in stride; he walked over to the bed, grabbed it by one side, and summarily dumped Todd to the floor.

"Now, you have 4 minutes."

Todd groggily stumbled downstairs and found that he wasn't the only one Vegeta had brought. Both Kira and Gideon were there in the kitchen eating bowls of cereal. "You have 10 minutes for breakfast then meet me outside the gravity room, if your not there, it will hurt." No one argued; they all knew it was pointless.

Todd decided that he didn't want to tempt fate so he took only 9 minutes to eat and get to the grav room. The others were already there waiting. Vegeta directed him toward the second room, while Kira and her brother went to the first room.

Vegeta's voice came over the speaker, "Alright boy, I am starting you in 5 times earth's gravity, and you will leave your training shirt on, it will add to the challenge. All you will be fighting is a battle droid. He is resistant to the gravity just like the hologram was, so don't think it will go easy on you. And once you can take 5 xs we will begin to increase it. We have no idea what is coming so you have to be ready for anything. I am turning on the gravity."

Todd immediately felt the effects of the increase; it took some focus not fall to the floor. The droid walked out of a hole that appeared in the wall, and it slowly stalked forward. Then it blurred out of sight and appeared behind Todd. Todd tried to dodge its attacks but with the gravity and his training shirt, he couldn't handle it. The thing struck again and again, and Todd continued to try and block or dodge but it still seemed futile, he just wasn't fast enough, the thing was relentless and unforgiving of any mistake.

Todd was starting to slow from all the punishment being dished out, but Vegeta felt that the boy could get stronger, he just need to be pushed a little harder. Suddenly Vegeta was startled as Todd's power flared for a moment, and his power aura appeared knocking the droid back and scorching its armor.

Todd's aura was glowing a bright blue, and his eyes had a glazed over look to them. He then charged the droid faster than the normal human eye would have been able to. Todd struck the droid at the same spot on it's armor again and again, until finally a he punched a hole straight through to the other side. He then charged a small ki blast and stuck his fist inside the droid, which then blew up, scattering pieces of itself all over the room.

Vegeta's jaw dropped; he had been expecting a reaction but that was not what he had been prepared for. Suddenly Todd's power level dropped back to normal and he collapsed to the floor. Vegeta shut the gravity down so that Todd would not be crushed, and then he ran into the room and shook him to wake him. When this did not work he picked him up and carried him to the med lab on his shoulder. When he reached the lab he sat the boy on one of the beds and went to find a senzu seed. When he found the bag that they kept the seeds in, he fed on to Todd.

Todd slowly regained consciousness and sat up. He looked around the room with a bewildered expression on his face.

"How did I get here? What happened?"

"You made a mess of the droid and then passed out. I dragged you out of the room and brought you down here. But the senzu I gave you should have fixed most of the damage."

"Wait! I blew up the droid. How did I do that; it was kicking the shit out of me."

"Are you saying you don't remember destroying the droid? Your power level shot up and you attacked the droid with the ferocity of a true saiyan. I still wonder were your saiyan DNA came from. It might be interesting to know why you can power up like that; few saiyans could, except some of the elite fighters."

Meanwhile Todd sat in the infirmary trying to remember what had happened in the gravity room. But no matter what he did he just couldn't remember anything but being struck by the droid then waking up in the infirmary, he figured the droid had beat him unconscious, not that he had destroyed it and then passed out. This was all to confusing. It was then that he noticed something he hadn't seen before.

He had a tail.

End chapter 7