Another Path
The third chapter is here too. And as always, reviews are very appreciated. It means someone is actually reading.
Chapter 3: Start of the Trip
At last, after nearly two weeks of preparations the awaited day had finally arrived. Everyone was again gathered at Capsule Corp's outside. Doctor Briefs and Bulma had created the new spaceship based on the Saiyans's smaller version. It was standing twenty feet tall, with an egg-shape and many windows. Looked from the outside, it was very likely to easily hold four people or more.
"Whoa, that's huge" Krillin said dressed in his usual orange Turtle Gi. Nearly everyone was there with Goku being the exception. The bald warrior looked to the young fighter next to him. "Ready for this, kid?"
"Of course" Gohan replied with a smile, tightening his sash around his dark purple Gi.
"You really are Goku's son. Always ready to kick someone's ass" Krillin joked and Gohan chuckled.
"Where's my dad in all this?" the half Saiyan asked, trying to feel his father's energy. A noise from behind them took the two short fighters and everyone by surprise.
"Hey everyone" Goku cheered, landing on the grass accompanied by the Fortuneteller Baba.
"Where have you been Goku?" The bald monk asked to his friend. The Saiyan hugged his son and wife before answering.
"I went with Baba to check a few things" The Earth Saiyan said to his friends. The Saiyan bowed to Baba in respect as she returned the gesture and flew away. Knowing Goku, it surely meant some kind of training, so it was better to rather see Goku doing it than expecting an explanation.
"Alright guys, we can leave as soon as you are ready" Capsule Corp CEO said to her fighter friends.
The Earth Saiyan kissed his wife, making her a promise.
"Don't worry Chichi, nothing will happen to Gohan or myself" The Earth-raised Saiyan said to his wife, his voice firmed and determined. If Chichi knew something, was that Goku always kept his promises.
"What about me?" The Turtle monk asked, faking hurt, causing a general laughter. The monk said goodbye to the others before getting inside the ship.
"Just be careful dear" The raven-haired woman said to her little son. Gohan hugged her with a smile.
"Don't worry mum. Things don't get worse in less than a second" The half Saiyan said. Goku would like to say that was true but his experience was telling him differently.
With the passengers buckled up inside the flying aircraft, the oval ship took off to the space journey.
After a few minutes of flying through the high atmosphere, the oval ship finally reached the empty black space. Bulma kept leading the ship in the right path, while Goku and Krillin stared to the outside.
"Wow, space is surely big" The bald Turtle monk said, looking to the black emptiness outside "And dark too"
"Maybe it's night" Goku suggested cluelessly. Gohan tried to hide his laughter, while Bulma face-palmed. Even though Goku looked much more serious and a bit smarter, the blue-haired woman could still see the innocent boy of the Paotzu mountains.
"Hey Bulma is the training room ready?" The full-blooded Saiyan asked towards his blue-hair friend.
"Knowing you, I even put a gravity machine" The blue haired scientist said, putting the ship in auto-pilot.
"Really? How high can it go?" Krillin asked.
"Up to a hundred. If I had more time, maybe I could have made it hundred and fifty" Bulma said, rubbing her chin thinking.
"Trust me Bulma, hundred will be more than enough" The palm tree haired Saiyan said confident "Let's go guys"
The three fighters descended to the training room below. The space was just as big as the upper part, though without the ship controls and a big machine in the center. Which Goku easily assumed was the gravity controls. On a table nearby was a black pouch, which holded the fresh Senzu Beans.
"Goku can you teach us the Kaioken?" Krillin asked his long-time friend.
"Yes dad, It will help us a lot" The half Saiyan said to his dad. The Saiyan father had to agree. Though the red technique was dangerous, it would be very useful if they meet Vegeta again. And knowing Vegeta, that was very likely to happen.
"All right, let's do it" Goku said and sat in a Buda stance, which the others followed "First, you must concentrate all of your energy inside you" The others nodded and gathered their powers "Just gather it first, and let it build inside you. But don't release it yet" The students closed their eyes, focusing their inner ki. The white aura started to surround them and Goku smiled. They were doing quite good for a first try "Alright guys, I can feel your energies concentrated enough. Now, keep your mind focused in your power and start to increase it" The two warriors frowned, as sweat started to pur down their foreheads. Now the students were a bit stuck, as their power wasn't increasing.
"Don't worry guys. It's normal to not be able at first. If you are stucked then just focus even more, both energy and mind" Goku said, not disheartened at all. The two students concentrated the top of their reserves, as red aura shone brightly around them. It lasted only a second, as it banished just as fast.
"I think I lost all my energy" The bald monk said panting in exertion. Gohan completely agreed there.
"It takes times to get used to the feeling" Goku said, handing them Senzu Beans "Here" The two fighters recovered their full power though Gohan's went a bit higher thanks to his special genetics.
"Now, let's start the serious training" the palm tree-haired Saiyan said with a smile, setting the gravity up to ten times. He wasn't bothered at all by the sudden pressure. It felt familiar to him. Gohan and Krillin, however, were struggling a little bit. Thanks to the weights they used for nearly two weeks, they had experienced what it was like to be under two times gravity. But ten was a bit too much for them.
But even on the sudden pressure, the warriors were still trying to fight each other. Goku smiled, while doing sit ups.
Three days passed since the group departed towards Namek. Bulma had been busy trying to do her inventions that no other human could. She was a genius after all, so who else could? The three warriors down her were now training at thirty times gravity. Gohan and Krillin were having a super fast spar, with the auras of Kaioken times two flaring around the training room. The palm tree haired Saiyan Goku was on a corner, floating in mid-air with his legs crossed. Right now, Goku was training his mind, along with his body. He could hold gravity of forty if he wanted, but preferred to let Krillin and Gohan have more training of their own without breaking them. That's why the Pure blooded Saiyan was wearing a blue weighted shirt of a hundred tons while concentrating his mind and spirit in meditation.
That until a call reached the Saiyan's ears. In fact, the voice reached the three fighters.
"Hey Goku" A familiar voice said to him. A voice very distant.
"King Kai?" Goku asked out-loud. The other two fighters stopped and looked around for the sudden ominous voice.
"Yeah, that's me" The Kai said with a chuckle "So you are heading to Namek?"
"Yes. Krillin and Gohan are with me. We are going to bring back those killed by Vegeta" The Saiyan said determined.
"Good, because someone wants to say hello to you" The Galaxy overlooker said "I think you know them. They went through the Snake Way ten times faster than you did" The bald monk realised who they were talking about.
"Tien, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, is it them really?" Krillin asked happily.
"After what happened in Earth, Yemma allowed them to keep their bodies and train here with me" The Kai told them. Behind him stood the four fighter of Earth.
A green hand suddenly touched North Kai's shoulders.
"Hey there" A serious voice said to the ship passengers. Gohan smiled by the voice.
"Mister Piccolo!" The half Saiyan said happily. On the Other World, the Namek couldn't stop a smile forming in his face. Gohan had been a good friend with. Kind of the only one that actually cared for him.
"So Piccolo, you ended up in Heaven uh?" Goku said with a smirk "Guess you weren't so evil after all"
"Please, Once I'm alive I will take you down and Earth will be mine" The green alien said with a grin. Goku and Gohan looked to each other and smiled. Piccolo could be so big-mouthed and yet they knew he would never hurt a fly. Unless the fly annoyed him.
"Then train a lot, because the three of us are pushing ourselves beyond the limits" The pure-blooded Saiyan said to the dead fighters "Oh, now that you are there with the others, why don't you materialise weighted clothes for all of them? That will push your training even more" The idea actually surprised Piccolo. Of course. How could he have missed that? The increased gravity was a great way of training but with weights on it would be much better. He already had his normal white weight but he could create one much more heavier.
The idea was more surprising because Goku said it, and as Piccolo remembered, that Saiyan had never been the wiser.
The Namekian pointed his fingers towards the human fighters and created blue clothes like the ones they used with Kami. The three human warriors fall to the ground when they suddenly had new weighted clothes on them. They barely holded the gravity on their normal self, but with weights it was nearly impossible. Piccolo had also increased his own and was slightly straining to keep himself up-straight. Maybe Goku was right about this training.
"So you are going to fight Frieza?" North Kai asked, his tone slightly grim towards his Saiyan student.
"Who's Frieza?" Gohan asked out-loud.
"He's Vegeta's boss. He rules the Planet Trade Organisation along his family" The Kai said, his tone not very happy "If you are going to fight him you better be careful, all of you. He destroyed Planet Vegeta and nearly every Saiyan with little trouble" The Kai at first wanted to dissuade them of going to Namek. But after watching how powerful Earth fighters were, the Kai started to have some hope that Frieza could actually be defeated.
The news hit Goku. If someone like that was Vegeta's boss then it kind of explained why Vegeta was so cold, aside from the fact that Frieza was surely an egomaniac bastard. Many evil guys were like that.
But to the three fighters of Earth, fighting someone more powerful than them was already routine.
The same mentioned Saiyan Prince had just exited his Healing chamber inside one of the many Planet Trade Organisation planets. Just to test his new outstanding powers, the Royal Saiyan had blasted each person he had found in the base. They were all Frieza's men so there wasn't any big lost for the universe. Specially with the blasted Cui. The purple alien had always been a coward and Saiyans were never fond of cowards or any other cheap-trick fighter.
The widow-peak Saiyan run up to his space pod and departed towards Namek, already dressed in a new body armor all of his injures gone. The flame-haired warrior couldn't stop a smile from framing his face. Immortality was just a few days away from him. And from them, the rulership of the entire cosmos.
Away from Vegeta's location, a giant ship was moving through hyperspace beyond light speeds. The aircraft had an oval-shape form. Inside it, two menacing figures stood above the soldiers that piloted it. The left one, a green-skinned alien called Zarbon and on the right a more bulkier purple skinned alien called Dodoria, both top members of the Planet Trade élite. Still, this two were nothing but simple grunts and bodyguards to a higher presence. Protected by them, was a figure floating in a chair. Yet his apparent midget size and lazy posture were completely the opposite to what he truly was. His short statures hide power to blast planets down into atoms and strength to make the strongest beings look like common flys. His garnet eyes surveyed with a scrutinizing sight that wanted nothing but perfection.
"How long will take us to reach Namek?" The ivory-skinned creäture sitting on a floating chair asked, his voice dripping with ice-cold tone.
"ETA, thirty days sire!" the ship's pilot said out loud to his lord and master. In less than a second the same pilot exploded to floating particles of dust. Nearly every soldier gasped but no one said or did anything to complain. They could die just for breathing out of place.
"Does anybody have a better answer?" The cold voice asked again, nearly expecting someone to speak up.
"Seven days sire!" The second in command of the controls said, shaking a bit in fear.
"Now that's a good answer" The short figure said with a mocking tone though his voice had a little bit of happiness. Seven days. It was better than nothing. But still, obtaining immortality was worth waiting a few days. And then and only after his wish was granted, the universe would despair under his iron-clad hand.
For Frieza would rule the universe.
Notes from chapter 3:
I won't reveal the power levels of the gravity training in this chapter (Just to make cliff hanger)
Power Levels:
Goku:
After training with Baba: 50,000
Gohan:
After weighted training for two weeks: 3,000
Tired after Kaioken: 1,000
Energy restored (Little Zenkai): 4,000
Krillin:
After weighted training for two weeks: 3,000
Tired after Kaioken: 1,000
Energy restored: 3,000
Piccolo:
After going through the Snake Way (weighted clothes on): 4,500
Even more weight on: 4,000
Full power at the time without clothes: 5,000
Yamcha:
After going through the Snake Way: 3,000
Weighted clothes: 2,500
Tien:
After Snake Way: 3,000
Weighted clothes: 2,500
Chiaotzu:
After Snake Way: 2,000
Weighted clothes: 1,500
Vegeta:
After healing (Bigger Zenkai): 180,000
The trip has started. Let's see what happens from here on.