Sorry I took so long with this chapter, I hope you really enjoy it though. Thank you all for reviewing. I'm looking forward to more.
Chapter 15: Sparring with Goku
"Ready?" Goku asks bouncing from side to side.
"One question," Jessie says making the bouncing cease. "Are we fighting you at the same time, or are we taking turns?"
Goku scratches his head. "Good question." He looks in the air and taps his foot. "One at a time," he concludes.
"Okay!" Jessie states.
"Why?" Cathy asks.
"Well I'm sure you two fight differently even though you train together. Everyone has their own style."
"Good point," Cathy says sadly, "but most of our techniques are performed together though."
"Then we'll have three fights, with one hour between each one to regain strength. Who's first?"
"Me," Jessie squeals. "Me first."
Cathy moves to safe distance and sits down. Goku and Jessie get into a fighting stance. They stare at each other.
"Shouldn't we power up first?" Jessie interrupts the silence.
Goku's feet and head change places. "Sure," he answers while regaining his posture.
Goku transforms to Super Saiyan. "I hope this isn't too much," he says.
"My turn," Jessie announces. She changes to look like Goku, matching his power level as well.
"I forgot about that," Goku insecurely chuckles.
"I may look like you and have your powers, but I have my techniques. The more of your techniques I'm exposed to, the more of you techniques I know. Be careful how you fight." Jessie warns.
"Alright," Goku charges toward his replica. Jessie moves out of the way and elbows him in the back. She jumps back from him and goes into another stance.
Goku turns to face Jessie. "Not bad," he says.
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"Okay, place Canary Cam on window sill, open window, and return to computer." Vegeta reads from the monitor. He follows the directions.
"Hmmmm…" he concentrates on the buttons he practiced earlier. "A-ascend, D-descend, UP-forward/faster, LEFT & RIGHT-easy, DOWN-slower/stop, L-land."
Vegeta taps the A button. The robotic bird begins flapping its wings. He taps 'A' again. It ascends about an inch. He taps 'L'. It descends, lands, and stops flapping.
"Perfect!" he exclaims. "Now to get to Kakarot's place." He removes the instruction window and displays what the bird sees.
"Nice." Then he turns up the speakers so he can hear the bird's surroundings. He quietly chuckles to himself.
"Up, up, and away birdie," Vegeta shouts evilly.
"Cut! What was that?" Roosha angrily questions.
"Aw, come on, it sounds cool, you know that," Vegeta argues.
"No, that was gay, try something else."
"Oh, darn"
"Rolling"
"Now go spy on Kakarot!" he shouts evilly, while pressing in commands.
"Much better," Roosha approves.
"Thank you."
"Whatever."
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Battle cries echo near Goku's house as he and Jessie trade blows. Jessie can tell every move Goku will make because she can calculate the landing point of his attacks.
"Why can't I hit you?" Goku yells, frustrated.
"You're too slow," Jessie honestly answers. They push away from each other.
"Too slow huh?" Goku powers up to his maximum. "Try this," he taunts. Away they go again.
Cathy sighs, "This will take forever."
"Ka…me…ha…me…Haaa!" Goku yells.
A large blue beam shoots from his hands. The fake Goku quickly copies the technique.
"Ka…me…ha…me…Haaa!"
The beams meet and push against each other.
"Oh great," Cathy flops down to lie on her back.
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Vegeta is into the control of the Canary Cam like it's a video game. "Almost…to the…destination. Darn mountains. Ahhh! Tree!" he leans in his chair.
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The beams are still going. The middle of them suddenly shimmers and explodes. Goku flies back from the blast. His mirror image just blocks its face.
"Enough!" Jessie yells. She's bored with fighting Goku and zooms toward him while he's pulling himself together.
"Waaa!" Goku is started by Jessie's swift pursuit. WHAM! Jessie lands a powerful kick in her opponent's stomach. Like a missile, Goku's body zooms toward the ground, and makes a small crater in the front yard. Chi Chi forces her way outside.
"Oh no!" she looks into the crater and finds Goku struggling to get up. "Oh, Goku are you alright?"
"I'm fine," he answers in between grunts.
Jessie drops down by the couple. Chi Chi sees a second Goku. Her eyes roll to the top of her head and gravity takes over.
"Oops," Jessie giggles and returns to her normal state. Cathy approaches the trio.
"I hope he feels better in an hour, Jessie. I think you hit him a little too hard."
"He'll be fine."
Goku leaves the hole in his normal state. "You were…holding…back," he says.
Jessie smiles, "Guilty as charged."
"Just how strong are you?" Goku's able to stand straight.
"At the time, I was just as strong as you."
Cathy tends to Chi Chi, and everyone finds a comfortable spot to rest: Goku props up on a tree, Jessie leans on a rock, and Cathy lays Chi Chi on a soft patch of grass and sits next to her.
"So, what do you think about my technique?" Jessie asks, wanting compliments.
Goku scratches his head while saying, "I didn't quite understand you technique. Since you looked like me, I figured you'd have my weak points. But you didn't."
"Here, let me explain," Jessie begins, "I changed to replicate you only to match your power level."
Goku sits up from surprise, "What! If you were as strong as me, then how come you were stronger?"
"I was at your potential, you were not."
"But you said you were holding back."
"I was. I can be as strong as I want to be without overloading myself with power."
"Where's the fun in being so powerful?"
"I don't really overpower myself unless I extremely need to. I usually just match my power with my opponents and play that way. That helps me learn more techniques."
"Okay, so you can be as powerful as you want to be, right?"
"Right."
Cathy just turns her head from side to side, watching the two trade sentences.
"And you were locked up by Frieza, right?"
"Oh, I see where this is going. You're wondering why we didn't fight off Frieza."
"Exactly."
Chi Chi starts moving, but her eyes remain closed.
"We never knew how strong he was until you brought him to his full power."
Goku rubs the back of his head. "Oh, I remember; he told me that."
Chi Chi becomes fully aware of her surroundings. She sits up while holding her head. Looking at her husband, she asks, "Are you the real Goku?"
"I always have been. Why? Is there another one?"
"Never mind, maybe it was a dream." The confused wife rises to her feet and reenters the house.
"Kakarot's been lying a lot lately. I may use this to my advantage," Vegeta has already landed the Canary Cam in the tree Goku was leaning on.
"I know it hasn't been an hour yet, but I'm ready to fight you, Cathy"
Cathy looks at him. Jessie looks at Cathy.
"Are you sure?" Cathy asks.
"Positive."
"Okay, let's go," Cathy isn't really looking forward to this. Showing off her talent isn't really like her.
"Don't be shy, Cathy," Jessie supports. "Just remember, he wants to learn from you, so teach him."
Cathy smiles. Teaching she can do. She zooms over to the battle site, passing Goku in the process. "Ready?" she asks.
"Wow, you're hyped up all of a sudden." Goku is just landing on the ground.
Vegeta moves the bird to the roof of his rival's house.
"I'm happy because I get to teach you a few things."
"Well, I'm ready to learn. Let's go!"
Goku transforms to Super Saiyan. Cathy makes herself invisible.
"No, that's not fair!" Goku yells. Jessie laughs.
"Lesson number one: sensing for someone with hidden energy," Cathy voice echoes in his head. She runs past him. Goku feels the air rush by. He looks in that direction and notices dust rising from every step his opponent makes. He aims at the reproaching footprints. As Cathy gets closer, Goku begins to hear her feet make contact with the ground. He readies a punch. The footprints suddenly stop. There are no signs of skidding. CLAK. He hears the next footstep behind him.
"She must've jumped," he thinks to himself. "Wait! The dust!" He creates his own air stream by powering up near the ground, kicking up a large cloud of dust. Next, he jumps in the air and searches for a break in the cloud. Nothing's there.
"Pretty good," Cathy compliments.
Goku looks above himself. "There you are!" He throws a ki blast. Cathy returns to invisibility while dodging. The two are now in the air.
"There's no dust here," he complains aloud.
"So, what are you gonna do about it?" Cathy begins flying around him. He yells and creates a dust storm with his energy. His opponent tries to escape but can't. She starts coughing and makes a small shield for her nose and mouth.
"Gotcha!" Goku shouts. Cathy struggles to remove herself from the Saiyan's strong grip. The dust storm dies down. Jessie looks hard to see what happened.
"He shouldn't have done that," she says to herself.
"Finally she's been outsmarted," Vegeta announces proudly. "Too bad it was an idiot that did it."
"Lesson number two:" Goku decides to teach Cathy something, "removing yourself from your opponent's grip."
Cathy screams.
"That's not going to get you out," he tells her.
She abruptly bursts into flames.
"Hot, hot, hot, hot," Goku repeats loudly. He flies straight into the nearby lake. Steam rises from his entry point. Jessie and Vegeta laugh whole-heartedly. Cathy settles down and takes the time to catch her breath.
"Wow, Cathy. I never thought you had to resort to that," Jessie says.
Goku crawls out of the lake. Burn marks and holes exist on his clothes. "You got me," he admits. "I guess you've already mastered that lesson."
"And you said I hurt him too much," Jessie argues. Cathy shrugs her shoulders. Goku silently gets up and enters the house. The next sound heard by the duo and the Canary Cam comes at them like a bomb.
"GOKU! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CLOTHES!"
Cathy and Jessie wince and hold their ears, the Canary Cam nearly falls off the roof, and Gohan flies out of his room window, barely landing on his feet.
Goku doesn't answer; he just goes upstairs, enters the bedroom, comes out after about two minutes with new clothes on, walks back outside, and throws away a pile of charred oranges and blue material.
Gohan goes back into the house the way he came out. He couldn't risk getting yelled at by an already angry mom.
The girls make a landing by the unstable Saiyan.
"Lesson number three;" he starts. "keeping your wife from seeing burned clothes." He flops down, planning to sit there 'till he feels no more pain from the burns he acquired. "Give me a few minutes. Then I'll be ready to fight you both."
I hoped you really enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. The next chapter is much longer than this one. It may be a while before I type it though. I'm dealing with exams. By the way, all you Odd One Out readers, chapter five is up. Until the next chapter, Roosha.