Chapter Seven

'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Bond
/telepathy/

AN: Well, here's my promised update. I know I said this will be my longest chapter, but the idea of the masters (that's below in the fic) just hit me while I was typing. I really want the attack on Vegeta sei by Frieza in a chapter of it's own so that will be next. Hope you don't mind gore because I'm gonna tear Frieza to tiny little shreds.

Arthain: Thanks for allowing me to use your character.

Everyone: Anyone who hasn't read Arthain's fics, I suggest you do. His finished story starts with 'The Saiyan War', and ends with 'Revenge'. Id #'s are 982432, and 982435 respectively. They show who Arthain is, and I will be using his character, so even though he will have different origins in my fic, it's still a nice base of info as this is the original authors character. His other fic 'The Consequences of the Mistake' is good too. Id# is 1726010. Both stories are Gohan based.

One of Frieza's Planets

A tear opens up in the sky. Two powerful beings come through, one with a look of insanity in his eyes and another younger person standing behind him. Looking around the older one smiles before charging up a blast in his palm and firing on a silver city not far away.

The city, with its tall buildings and wide streets, is easy prey for the attackers. When an Ice jin comes out of one of the buildings, he looks around in a rage. "Who dares attack one of King Cold's planets!?" Then seeing the attackers, his eyes widen. "You- You're Saiyans!"

The two beings smirk and crack their knuckles, and the battle begins.

Velcomm Area

Everyone is silent during the trip home since Frieza could pick up any communication between the pods, and his psychic slaves could pick up any telepathic communication. Fortunately, they manage to get out before Frieza arrives.

When Frieza lands on the planet he instantly knows that whoever destroyed the planet was powerful. This was one of his planets after all, and they were developing a weapon to be used against the Saiyans should they refuse to join him or if they did join and became a problem in the future.

'But who could destroy it? The strongest warrior on this planet had a power level of 35,000... No one around here is that strong. Not even the Saiyan and they're the strongest around here. Unless... the legend is true! A Super Saiyan has emerged! No... it can't be. It must be something else. There is no proof that a Super Saiyan has ever existed. My imagination must be running away with me again. Still, perhaps I should speed things up with the Saiyan. If they did destroy the warrior I had stationed here then perhaps they'll be more useful to me than I thought.'

An aide runs up to Frieza interrupting his thoughts. "My Lord! King Cold is on the line!"

Frieza's eyes narrow at the news. 'Father...? What could he possibly want from me?' He nods absent mindedly at the aide he walks back into his ship and answers the call. Immediately he is faced with an enraged Cold. "What is the meaning of this Frieza!?"

Taken by surprise, Frieza takes a step back at the venom in his father's voice. "What are you talking about? The meaning of what?"

"You know damn well what I'm talking about Frieza! Sending one of those disgusting monkeys of yours to attack on of my planet! And then, you had the nerve to train it to be powerful enough to defeat my favorite concubine who was watching it for me! I knew one day you would challenge me for the throne, but you've made your move too soon! I'm still strong yet boy! The weakening of old age won't begin for another hundred years. It's a shame really. You were quite the prodigy. My chosen heir."

Frieza's main aide who happens to be in the room looks over at Frieza. He seems to be in a state of shock. Looking at the view screen he does the only thing he can to save Lord Frieza's life and his own.1 "But my Lord Cold, we don't run the Saiyans yet! The have yet to agree or disagree to my Lord Frieza's contract!"

Hearing this Cold takes another look at his son. "Hmph. Pathetic. They should have been under his thumb weeks ago. When he snaps out of his current state, tell him I want him to continue with the Saiyan. I have some... business to take care of in the southern quadrant. We'll pretend that we don't know what happened, and when I return we are going to storm the planet with his brother Cooler. Tell him to be ready."

"Yes my Lord!" The aide replies. Sneering, Cold ends the transmission.

Vegeta sei

The pods land heavily, being terribly worn from several dangerous maneuvers that were necessary to evade Frieza. Almost immediately after landing the Saiyans step out of their pods.

Vasha and Torna are not quite sure how to treat Gohan considering the fact that what he said seems to be true making him Bardock's grandson. Most of all, Bardock is confused at how to treat him. Unfortunately they don't have time to stay away until they figure that out because Gohan has other plans.

"Bardock, Torna, Vasha, I want you to come with me. If we are going to remain a team, you need to get stronger. I can't go around fighting with you if I have to worry about a stray energy blast killing you by accident." Gohan says.

Bardock at Gohan with a confused look on his face. "But Gohan, they couldn't have made a GR in one day, it's not possible."

Gohan shakes his head at Bardock while the others wonder what a GR is. "No Bardock, the GR prototype is good enough to train in for now. It won't overload until we get around 125-150G's. At your current strength, that's more than enough. Besides, I'll need you to be as strong as possible just in case Frieza does realize that only a Super Saiyan could have such a power level in this part of the universe. If he does, he'll come after us and I'll need you to handle his weaker warriors while I take on him and the Ginew force. And while I'm on the subject, I might as well warn you about two members on Frieza's elite force. The short ugly green guy can freeze time around a specific target by holding his breath, and the purple captain can switch bodies with an opponent, so if the green guy starts to suck in air, blast him if I don't and if you see a beam coming from the purples guy's mouth or if he screams "change now" make sure you hit the beam with one of your own so it doesn't hit anyone."

Vasha steps forward. "Just how powerful do you think that we can become? With your training we may be able to become powerful under you training, but I doubt that we'll ever be anywhere near you."

"Not quite." Gohan says shaking his head. "I'm sure I could get you all to at least Super Saiyan in time. Your rank from birth doesn't actually have any effect on your potential. That's why my father ended up so powerful when he was born the weakest 3rd class ever.2 Because he didn't know anything about limits, he didn't accept that he couldn't be stronger. If you can't believe it yourself, you'll never be able to use the power even if it's there. Now, with the short amount of time we will have until Frieza comes, you probably won't be Super Saiyans but you will be strong enough to handle his stronger henchmen. Not to mention the stronger you get, the longer it takes for you to reach a new level. You guys will probably reach the second level before I find a fourth if there is one." Before they can say anything in response, Gohan flies off towards the palace and they have no choice but to follow.

Once they arrive at the palace, Gohan immediately leads them to his quarters. Having never been in the palace before except perhaps to go directly to the throne room, they stare in awe at the immense amount of weapons in the Hall of History. While they look at the weapons careful not to show their emotions on their faces Gohan realizes something. 'Those weapons have been constantly being infused with ki for thousands of years. With the tiny amount of ki the slaves possess, they don't get much stronger, but if you take into account the amount of time they were being enhanced, and daily at that... Those weapons alone could probably cause damage to me if I was in my SSJ2 form! Not to mention a weakling like Frieza... Of course!'

"Guard!" Gohan says suddenly. An elite immediately runs to Gohan and salutes before standing at attention. "Tell the King that I must meet with him as soon as he can get free. It is a matter of supreme importance. He will know what it's about."

The guard salutes once more before running off to find the King.

Meanwhile Gohan starts heading back to his room before pausing suddenly. The others all look at each other wondering why he stopped. "I just thought of something." Gohan says. "If I'm going to have to teach you and the masters3 how to sense ki, I might as well show you all at once. But I can't have them knowing about the GR just yet so we'll have to use the freelancer's training room." Summoning another guard, he has him issue an announcement summoning all of the masters to the freelancer's training facility. As the guard leaves the Hall, Gohan turns back the way they came as he went past the special training room a little earlier.

Free lance Training Center

As the masters assemble Gohan and the others stand in front of the masters, Gohan notices that they seem irritated. Searching their surface thoughts he senses that while they respect him for being powerful, they are full of contempt at the thought of him being able to teach them something when they're the teachers. Looking at the others in his team, Gohan sighs before sending them a telepathic message. /This is going to go down badly. They don't like the fact that I dare to presume to be able to teach them something. It won't be until I show them several useful techniques that they'll respect me as not just a warrior, but as a teacher as well./

"Alright everyone, listen up!" Gohan says stepping forward. "I know that you all respect me as a warrior. But I also know that you don't respect me as a trainer. That's ok. You don't know my capabilities in training like you do in fighting. Actually, when it comes to training, you're probably better at it than me considering you do it every day. I don't claim to be a better trainer than any of you. I just have several techniques that need to be taught to the rest of our race and the best way to do that is to show them to you. I have several interesting techniques, but right now I'll only show you the ones that can be picked up quickly. I don't have the time I'd need for you to pick up the better ones. So I'm going to introduce one technique to you today. It is the ability to sense power-levels without a scouter. The great part of this ability is that by sensing power-levels, you will not only be able to tell how powerful someone is, but who they are as well. This will also help when on dangerous missions because you sense the power before the scouter shows you on the screen. The difference in how fast you know is only a second, but at the speeds we fight that can mean the difference between winning and loosing."

As soon as Gohan mentioned sensing power without a scouter the room was full of whispering voices. After they stop talking, Gohan begins to explain how to sense. "We all know how to use our power, but what does it really feel like? How often do you power up and just sit there feeling out your power instead of reveling in the feel of tremendous energy? That's what you have to do. Gather as much power as you can, and study it intensely. Don't revel at the feel of so much power inside you; explore it. Feel it's every ripple and wave. Feel its texture. Wrap it around yourself. Once you know your own power more intimately than you do your mate, try and feel that of those around you. It will be easier if they are powered up as well. As you get better you will be able to sense even the plants and animals around you. And that's basically it. It's pretty simple once you get the hang of it. It's not like a fighting technique that I can show you over and over until you figure it out. You either get it or you don't. Obviously, the younger you are when you start learning, the easier it is to learn just like with everything else.

However, I believe that we should still use scouters. It will help out enemies believe that we still need them even when we don't, plus it's also good for locating our allies when they are hiding their ki.Not to mention having a visual record of everything you do off world is quite useful. And I'm sure you can all see the obvious benefits of being able to hide your ki from scouters while your allies can still sense you. Oh, and you should pick up how to hide your ki right after learning to sense it."

With that being said, he starts meditating while everyone (including Bardock's team) powers up and starts trying to not only understand their power, but to truly know it as well.

1.) Cold would not bother sparing Frieza's personal crew. He would just wipe out his entire faction. The lower down grunts that aren't on Frieza's ship would be spared and absorbed into his army, but Frieza's personal staff would be annihilated.

2.) On the Broly movie the Saiyans were comparing Broly to Kakarott and the said "He's nothing compared to Broly. What's his power level 2?"

3.) The masters are those who train the young Saiyan children in the art of fighting. On occasion a new special technique is created (such as Bardock's fake moon) and they are the first to learn the new technique so they can teach it to everyone else. They are picked out during training. They are the ones who pick up the different skills and techniques fastest in training. And they are highly prized for their contribution to Saiyan society. If a race wanted to declare instant war on the Saiyans killing a master would a good way to do it. (Of course with the Saiyans being the way they are they wouldn't need a reason but you see my point.)