Training Regiment

3:09 pm

"Man, your dad really needs to lighten up on you with this training stuff" Goten said as they walked up the driveway of capsule corp. They heard the bus speed away behind them.

"Well you train with your dad lots too"

"yeah but that's when I want to, he doesn't force me to train all the time."

"Heh I guess... so I kinda told my dad you'd be joining us today."

"What??" Goten protested. "Why would you do that? Your dad's going to beat the crap out of me"

"Oh he is not. Why would he do that?"

"Cause he can't beat up my dad, so he'll try extra hard to do it to me instead. Transference Trunks, look it up."

"Yeah whatever." Trunks said dismissively, though he did acknowledge some truth to Goten's statement. "Strong as dad is, he's still noticeably lagging behind Goku." Trunks thought before speaking again. "Honestly though, I'd be more concerned about what he'll do if you don't show up."

Goten looked at Trunks angrily. "That's dirty pool Trunks"

"Maybe, but you better be ready and in the gravity room in 10 minutes."

Goten shook his head but cracked a smile. "You're kind of an ass Trunks, but it's been awhile since I've kicked said ass... so this could be fun"

3:22 pm

Goten stepped into the gravity room, pulling the belt of his gi tight. He hadn't worn it in a few weeks; it felt good to again. It was almost identical to his father's, just less faded due to less frequent use. He saw Trunks and Vegeta already fighting. Trunks noticed Goten and stopped to wave to him. Vegeta's fist collided with Trunk's face hard and sent him reeling back till he stopped himself.

"Dad! What the hell??"

"Trunks what did I tell you about letting down your guard?"

"Never let your guard down in a fight" Trunks grumbled.

"Right, and what were we doing?"

"Sparring dad" Trunks retorted.

"It won't be sparring if you're fighting a real enemy Trunks."

"Okay dad jeez, I got it." Trunks wiped his mouth. There was a small trickle of blood from where Vegeta had hit him.

"Goten" Vegeta demanded.

"umm yes??" Goten answered back unsurely.

"What gravity do you normally train at?"

"What?"

"When you and kakarot train, what gravity factor do you use?" Vegeta boomed loudly.

"Oh um.. well we usually train outside.. Dad says there's not enough space in here, and no fresh air.

"Tch" Vegeta responded irritably. "Well when you do train in here what do you use?"

"100 I think"

"100? Pathetic" Vegeta declared. "How can Kakarot train seriously at that gravity. Even Trunks here trains at 450 times gravity" Vegeta said nodding his head in Trunk's direction. Trunks merely shrugged as Goten looked at him.

"We'll start at 300. Think you can handle it? I don't want to overwhelm little Goten" Vegeta mocked.

"Yeah I can handle it" Goten replied confidently.

Vegeta smirked then engaged the artificial gravity remotely using his energy. Goten immediately crashed into the ground on his hands and knees. He gritted his teeth as he attempted to pick himself up. 'Ugh this is tougher then I thought it'd be' Goten thought. The air was difficult to breathe, his chest felt ready to rupture every time he breathed

"Come on Goten, just do it like this." Trunks said, dropping to the ground before he started doing push-ups with relative ease.

"Easy for you to say Trunks, you're used to it"

"If you can do 100 you can do 300, come on Goten! Just push it!" Trunks said continuing his pushups. Goten heard Trunks counting aloud. Goten focused on his breathing, tensing and loosening his muscles as he breathed in and out. After about a minute, he was breathing easier under the high gravity, and confident enough to start trying to move around.

"89.. 90... 91" Goten heard Trunks say. Goten took a deep breath then moved into push up position. His arms felt like jello, and he felt his legs were bending in ways he knew couldn't be healthy. With a large amount of effort he was able to straighten out his legs, and push himself off the ground. His arms wobbled a little as he reached the peak of the push-up. He looked up and saw Vegeta who was also doing pushups, but at remarkable speed. Goten felt tired just looking at him. Goten returned back to his own exploits. He lowered himself down. "Well that's one"

"Heh, keep going Goten... 114, 115, 116.." Trunks said back.

Goten pushed himself back up again, the lowered himself. "2". Then up, then down "3" Then up then down. "4". He was starting to get the hang of it. Trunks was right. It really wasn't THAT much more difficult then 100, he just needed to get used to it. He could feel his arms loose the wobble, and his push-up speed steadily began to increase. "87, 88, 89"

"237, 238... Good, you got it Goten, think you can do some of these?" When trunks came down off his last pushup, he moved his right hand in ward so it was nearer to his center. He pulled his left hand off the ground and put it behind his back, He pushed himself off the ground using only his right hand.

"1.. 2.. 3.."

"heh yeah I think I can do that" Goten moved his right hand inwards just like Trunks had, and pushed himself up. His right arm felt like it was going to give out the first few times. Trunks was certainly making it look easy. "7, 8, 9". Goten kept pushing. It was definitely getting easier. He definitely had the strength for this; he just wasn't used to it.

"150.." Goten said, he pushed himself up extra hard on the 150th one handed pushup. He pushed himself up just hard enough to switch from his right hand to his left hand before he was pulled down to the floor. "1"

"124, 125.." Goten kept counting until he was interrupted by Vegeta.

"Okay that's enough for the warm up, let's start sparring now. I'm going to turn the gravity to 500, and increase it by 20 every minute up to 800 "

"Whatt!!??" Goten protested, standing up. "Come on!"

"Don't complain, you can go Super Saiyan 2 for this, you and Trunks are going to fight against me."

"Dad," Trunks said, having stood up as well. "No offense but I think me and Goten will take you."

"Well then what are you worried about?" Vegeta replied. He flared his aura then turned super saiyan 2. "Remember Trunks, Goten, keep your energy blasts to a minimum in here, the room can't dissipate the energy of our attacks above Super saiyan."

"Ready Goten?" Trunks asked.

"Totally" Goten replied stepping towards Trunks. The two boys flared their energy and burst into Super Saiyan 2 as Vegeta had just done. Their transformation was much less elegant then Vegeta's, due to their less frequent use of the super saiyan 2 form. Vegeta activated the 500x gravity and turned back to face the two boys. Now that he was in Super Saiyan 2, and after a little practice at 300, Goten was hardly feeling the extra gravity at all. Trunks and Goten rushed against Vegeta. There was a loud concussive noise emanating where Vegeta met their attacks. Goten and Trunks simultaneously unleashed a flurry of attacks against Vegeta. Vegeta was quick though. He met most of their blows with his own. They occasionally got a hit on him, but he almost always met a hit on him with a hit on them. They were traversing the chamber rapidly with their exchanges. Vegeta launched a fist at Goten, but Goten leapt frog over vegeta's fist, driving his fist into Vegeta's face. Simultaneously Trunks dodged one of Vegeta's kicks and drove his fist into Vegeta's side. Their attacks briefly stunned Vegeta. Goten followed it up with a kick to Vegeta's head, while Trunks launched another punch into Vegeta's stomach. Their combined attack sent Vegeta flying backwards till he stopped himself with his ki. Trunks and Goten were clearly getting the upper hand in this fight.

"Heh not bad you two. Let' step it up a notch." Vegeta pushed his aura and in a loud yell turned Super Saiyan 3.

"What! Dad come on, you'll kill us like this!"

"No Trunks we can just do fusion!" Goten declared jumping over to Trunks.

"Exactly" Vegeta said. "Keep in Super Saiyan 2 though; I don't want you two fizzling out on me before I even get started."

Trunks grinned. "He just knows we'd beat him senseless at Super Saiyan 3." He whispered to Goten.

"haha, you're so right" Goten responded as the two separated and assumed the starting position of the fusion dance.

"Fu.... Sion... ha!!!" It'd been awhile since they'd performed the fusion dance but they still executed it perfectly, flooding the gravity room with light. After a few moments the light began to die down and a single figure remained where Goten and Trunks had stood.

"Ladies and gentleman, the invincible Gotenks has returned!" Gotenks declared holding a fist above his head.

"Don't get to cocky." Vegeta said hunkering down in an attacking stance.

"Why not? I've never been this strong." Gotenks responded. He dropped down and start rapidly doing pushups before putting himself into a handstand and walking around the gravity room on his hands, even going so far as to push himself up and down vertically using just his right hand. "I could easily take 10,000 times gravity like this." Gotenks pushed himself out of his handstand, flipping onto his feet.

Vegeta smirked. "I think you give yourself a bit too much credit."

"And I don't think you give me enough." Gotenks sneered dropping into an attack position.

"Now at 700 times gravity" a faint electronic voice declared. Both of the fighters used that as a queue and leapt at each other as soon as the voice had finished speaking.

Gotenks easily dodged Vegeta's left hook, and swung his right leg into Vegeta's side.. only to have it hit nothing as Vegeta sped out of the way. Gotenks stopped briefly, and then dropped to the ground onto his hands and knees just narrowly missing one of Vegeta's punches. He pushed off the ground with his arms and legs launching himself up fast and hard right into Vegeta's chest with the back of his head colliding with Vegeta's face. Vegeta was sent reeling back, and Gotenks grabbed the back of his own head as he spun around to face Vegeta.

"owww my headddd" Gotenks whined clutching his skull harder. He shook his head to try to shake off the pain. It worked... sort of. Gotenks looked up for Vegeta, but Vegeta was no longer in front of him.

"Wha..." Gotenks began but was struck hard in the side before he could finish his sentence. He flared his energy to stop himself, but still hit the wall of the gravity room, causing some light damage.

"Damn.." Gotenks said brushing himself off after propelling himself away from the wall. Gotenks charged his energy briefly then rushed at Vegeta again. "Motion sickness attack!" he screamed, executing one of his wide array of bizarre maneuvers. For this attack, Gotenks proceeded to leap, hop, jump and weave around Vegeta at his top speed, creating many images of himself, screaming bizarrely the entire time. It wasn't meant as an offensive attack but merely to confuse and irritate the opponent. It worked.

"What the fuck??" Vegeta said looking all around himself, trying to pin Gotenks down.

"This is ridiculous..." Vegeta thought. He began lashing out at the images of Gotenks that were all around him. As he struck out at the images they faded in response to his attacks. He quickly reduced the images down to 2, one to his left and one to his right. He hesitated for a moment on which one to attack and decided on his left. As his fist careened through nothing, he heard a loud voice say "Wrong!" and felt a hard strike to his side, followed quickly by another, and another before he was finally able to block Gotenks' attacks again. After several seconds of exchanging blows the two moved away from each other, Gotenks electing to do a series of backflips, while vegeta merely leapt back in one jump. The gravity room let out a strange noise as a few pieces of its roof fell in between the two fighters. The floor had several marks and dents in it, particularly where Gotenks has executed his "technique".

"What's the matter old man? Getting tired?" Gotenks boasted, rotating his right arm and cracking his neck to the left then the right.

"Hmph, not at all. I'm just marveling at the sheer ridiculousness of your fighting style."

"Ridiculous huh? It seems to be working against you."

"Hardly" Vegeta replied defiantly raising his arms into attack position again. The two combatants stared each other down then charged at each other again. A quick exchange of blows later Gotenks screamed "Screaming hyper fist tornado!" sticking out his fists and spinning at rapid speed in Vegeta's direction. He spun with incredible speed, tearing and marking up the floor of the Gravity room. Vegeta backed off trying to dodge Gotenks attack. "how do I get him..." Vegeta thought observing Gotenks. He leapt to his left to avoid Gotenks spinning fists. "There!" Vegeta declared, dropping down with his right hand braced against the floor. He pushed his body forward with his right hand, sliding his legs in a sweeping kick that collided hard with Gotenks legs, knocking him out of his attack and to the ground. As Gotenks picked himself up off the ground, Vegeta sped behind him, putting his arms under Gotenk's arm pits and wrapping them behind his head, effectively incapacitating Gotenks.

"What now Gotenks?" Vegeta mocked.

"Ohhh only this. Galactic Donut!" Gotenks screamed maneuvering his hands. It was difficult while Vegeta was grasping him so tightly, but he still managed to form the energy ring around Vegeta and his legs. Gotenks picked up his own legs, relying on vegeta's hold to support his weight. With a quick finger maneuver he raised the Ring from the ground up to Vegeta's knees, then pulled the ring in tight around them; His own legs dangling safely above the ring. Vegeta let out a groan as Gotenks tightened the grip around Vegeta's legs. Vegeta tightened his grip on Gotenks in response. Gotenks dropped his legs back to the ground. He could feel a shake in Vegeta's arms. Gotenks smirked. He pushed his head back hard against Vegeta's hands. He could feel his head going back a few inches. He shot his head forward then back. Vegeta clearly wasn't expecting that as the backward motion of Gotenk's head caused Vegeta's hands to smash into his face along with the back of Gotenks' head. Gotenks felt Vegeta's grip loosen and easily slipped out of it taking several quick steps out of Vegeta's reach before he turned around. Vegeta tried to move forward, but fell forward as his legs were tightly binded by the energy ring. He braced himself against the floor with his hands. He pushed off the ground just hard enough to get back upright without falling backward. He reached down to try to release himself from the ring, when he felt a tug on his legs, light at first then harder. He was quickly knocked to the ground by the pulling. He was dragged along the floor by the strange pulling. Vegeta quickly realized it was the ring and looked to Gotenks who was slowly moving his right hand in the same direction of the ring, a mischevious smirk on his face. Gotenks quickly raised his right hand upwards and Vegeta was pulled up into the air and dangled above the ground. Gotenks pulled his hand down fast and vegeta was slammed into the floor of the gravity room. He pulled his hand up again, raising Vegeta, and slammed him into the ground even harder. He made to slam Vegeta to the ground a third time, but Vegeta used his energy to stop himself just above the ground. He flared his Aura and started struggling against Gotenks ring. It didn't take to long before he was able to overpower the manipulations Gotenks was attempting to do. Try as he might though he was un-able to free his legs from the ring, nor significantly move himself vertically. Vegeta decided to fight upside down. "It'll be a disadvantage no doubt" he thought, "but as long as Gotenks is wasting energy and effort keeping me binded in this ring, he'll be at an even greater disadvantage." Vegeta propelled himself towards Gotenks using his energy, still suspended in mid-air by the ring.

"uhh.. what the hell?" Gotenks said quietly. He shook his hand, slowly at first then more violently, but it didn't move Vegeta or the ring at all. "Guess this isn't working anymore.. is he actually going to try to fight me like that?". His question was quickly answered when Vegeta took a swing at him. Then another. The two began exchanging blows at a fierce pace. Gotenks found it easier to doge Vegeta's attack since he could just drop down, but that left him unable to attack. His kicks were also much less effective now as it was difficult to actually get them to connect with Vegeta's head. Keeping the energy ring active was only aggravating the problem.

Gotenks dodged one of Vegeta's punches and back flipped, throwing his feet upwards in an attempt to hit Vegeta with his feet. He felt his feet miss, then a tightening on his legs as Vegeta grabbed hold of his legs and threw him away hard.

"You'll have to better then that Gotenks"

Gotenks sighed irritably, and with a quick flick of his hand dissolved the energy ring that bound Vegeta's legs. Vegeta dropped gracefully to the ground, a victorious smirk across his face.

"I'll finish this quick" Gotenks said agitated.

"Come and try" Vegeta beckoned. Gotenks charged Vegeta "dodging Z attack!"

Gotenks leapt quickly right then back rolled left, cart wheeled right, dodged left in an unusual pattern as he closed the distance between the two. Vegeta was actually finding it difficult to track Gotenks. He had to admit his techniques, though absurd and at least somewhat stupid, were surprisingly effective. Vegeta felt a hard hit on his chin that seemed to come out of nowhere. He knocked Gotenks back abit with his energy. The two fighters balled their fists and began to swing at each other. There was a strange noise, almost a sizzling noise, and Vegeta felt his fist strike nothing, and instead of a single punch as he was expecting, he felt two less powerful ones. They still struck with enough force to knock him back.

"Awwww man!" Goten's voice rang out. Vegeta looked up to see that the fusion had expired, and Goten and Trunks stood before him in Super Saiyan 2, breathing deeply, their fists still protruding forward.

Goten and Trunks looked at each other then at themselves.

"Ummm.... that wasn't 30 minutes, how come we un fused so quick?" Goten asked a bewildered look on his face.

"I dunno" Trunks responded looking just as confused. He took a deep breath "Wait... we didn't align our energy at all before we fused... it's been so long I totally forgot about that part!"

"Yeah me too! Damnit" Goten said disappointed.

"Heh looks like I win again" Vegeta sneered, breathing heavily.

"Pff if the fusion had lasted longer we so had you."

"Even if that were true, it didn't last." Vegeta retorted. With a quick maneuver of his fingers he deactivated the gravity field.

The three of them powered out of their super saiyan forms and back to normal, and began slowly pacing the gravity room, catching their breath.

"Man look at this place.." Goten said reaching down and picking up a sizable piece of the floor that had become dislodged during the fight.

"Yeah mom is not going to like this." Trunks replied. There was a small crashing noise as Goten dropped his piece of rubble back to its place on the floor.

"Don't worry about it." Vegeta said cooly "It's been worse. Besides it'll give your mother something to do. She seems to have it rebuilt better every time it's damaged,"

"Well we can at least offer to help her rebuild it" Trunks thought aloud.

"You'll do no such thing. You have better things to be doing then to waste your time on that"

"But Dad" Trunks began.

"Trunks" Vegeta interrupted giving Trunks a dismissive look as he crossed his arms.

Trunks sighed. He knew it was pointless to argue with his father when he crossed his arms like that. "Okay fine dad."

Trunks nodded to Goten. "Let's go."