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QAN= quick author's note

Bardock Reborn

Background: Ryanna is a human that has lived at Capsule Corps since the reincarnation of Buu. Since she has been an assistant of Bulma Briefs she has figured out the secret of the Saiyans, and the mysteries of the Cell games and the Z fighters past. What she doesn't know is that she would become more involved than she originally planned.

Chapter 5: Gravity Chamber

Ryanna hummed as she worked. Her head buried underneath a panel and her tail swishing happily behind her. Let's see here, if I adjust this and put this here.. Ooh and I can fit the gravity rotation here. Yes, yes perfect."

"Just what do you think you're doing?" Ryanna jumped her hand banging the top of the panel and she cursed.

"Ow! Fuck! What the hell? Bardock you scared me!"

Bardock looked around. The equipment had been moved to the storage area and they now stood in a big empty space. His voice echoed as he knelt down looking at what she was working on. "I asked what the hell you were doing, but I can see it's repairs."

"No, not exactly." She sparked him with a wire making him jump back.

"Watch it!"

"No, you watch it. Who let you in here?"

"You left the door wide open." He paused and frowned at her appearance. "What the hell did you do to your hair?"

Ryanna cocked an eyebrow pulling her hair up by the end. "I braided it. Why does it matter to- ah hey!" She smacked at him when he tugged a strand free. "Stop it!"

"It looks weird. Put it back down." He continued struggling with her yanking the band free and loosening her hair curl by curl with her hitting and yelling at him

"Damn it! I thought I closed this place off. Don't you read?"

" A sign that says "do not disturb," won't keep me out. Really, it's just an opening for me."

"I don't want anyone in here while I'm working. They could accidentally get squished."

"By what? There's nothing in here."

"Ah, but there is. There's gravity."

"Gravity… the gravity isn't going to squish anybody. From toddlers we're born with-" he paused in his explanation and narrowed his eyes. "What are you grinning at?"

"For this gravity sure, I know you can handle it. However how about if I kicked it to ten times the amount of gravity on this planet. What would you say then?"

"Why would you want to increase the gravity of the planet?" Radditz said walking into the conversation. Ryanna motioned for him to come over with a sweet smile and a crooked finger. "Well back on Earth humans would get stronger by using weighted clothes. The more weight you carry the harder your muscles work. So say you and your father were to go to a planet like Earth after spending so much time here. You would feel practically weightless because the gravity here is ten times stronger than it is there."

"I get it," Bardock said. "The lighter you are, the faster you are and the easier your movements become. So if we were to train in say 50 times higher gravity here then we would be fifty times stronger when we go back to normal."

Ryanna winked and gave a thumbs up. "That's the plan."

"Brilliant." Bardock said cheekily. "How long before you're done?"

"I have plenty of adjustments to make." Ryanna slid back under. "I need to shimmy some wires through the roof like you would for artificial gravity in a spaceship. However they have to be a special type of material, something lightweight and flexible but also sturdy. That way when the gravity increases they won't break and fall on your heads."

"Makes sense." Bardock slipped out of the way walking the large room thinking of the possibilities this new way of training could produce. "So, if they use this trick to become stronger, then why is it that the majority of human population is weak?"

"They're lazy for one." Ryanna knew she was insulting her own people, but it was a bit true. The majority of the population didn't care for fighting so they didn't put in the effort to. Same went for a lot of things. The only real ambitious people put their time and effort into passions, such as art, theater, and dance. Ryanna supposed compared to the Saiyan race that the humans were a peaceful people. "The second is that human's aren't really built like Saiyans. Their bodies and limits can only take so much. If you gave a human unlimited power he would die within a year corrupted by his own strength."

"Sounds pitiful, but I guess they have their own ways to pass the time." Bardock sat down watching his son wander the room stretching and practice fighting. "So who taught you about mechanics and technology?"

"No one really. As a kid I like taking things apart and figuring out how to put them back together. Plus I was born with a photographic memory so I would see it whole and be able to work my way through the steps and teach myself what worked and what didn't, and whatever I didn't learn from hands on I read about in books."

"Books, my god you really aren't like other Saiyans."

"Nope, and frankly I like it that way. I mean if I was like everybody else things would be boring wouldn't it?" She pulled out long enough to wink at him. "That's my own opinion anyway."

He cracked a smile. "I have a feeling training you will be far more interesting than what I first thought. I may actually enjoy your company."

"Oh, I shudder to think."

It took her a little over an hour to get the basics done. After that she had both Bardock and Radditz run wires through the ceiling. Once in place she ran a test using a simple rubber ball. "Now if I'm right the increase of gravity will push against the rubber flattening it out."

"If you're not right?" Bardock breathed over her neck. That should have annoyed her, but instead found it a bit of a turn on.

"Then nothing will happen." She flipped the machine on the lights going red and the gravity going to 2 times the amount. "Okay… flipping it to five times the gravity" The ball moved a little warping against the strain making Ryanna grin. "Ten times…" the ball warped flattened on the top and pudgy in the middle before exploding making Ryanna jump and Bardock to gawk. "Whoa… well it did flatten. I forgot to take into an account of the air pocket inside."

"At least we know it works. I'm not going to combust like that am I?"

"No, you shouldn't, because you control your own air intake. It's really the strain on your muscles that you have to worry about." She turned the machine off and walked inside lifting the ball in her hand. "The ball had not control over it's body, no way to push against the strain as our bodies do." She looks over at him. "I could ask somebody else to test it instead if you have problems."

"No, if this will make a person stronger I rather not let this little secret out just yet. Besides this may be a faster way to help you control your power. We can use it for personal use."

"I don't know, I told Plenthor I'd give him data on my progress."

"Then consider our training time, a test period. If anything happens to us then we'll know it's faulty, but if it succeeds we shall become the success story."

"Now that thinking I like." She tosses the balloon. "I can install a voice activation later, for now we'll operate the machine by hand. There's a control panel inside as well as out. If your find the strain on your body is too much you merely have to push the abort button on the lowest part of the panel, easier to reach that way."

"God I'm loving your brain."

"Now that's the best compliment a man can give a woman." She grinned and walked to the inside panel flipping some switches. Are you ready?"

"You're going inside with me?"

"I have to learn somehow don't I? Don't worry I'll take it slow." She flipped the gravity to two times. She felt the strain but her body felt fine. A little on the heavy side. "Let's try this for now. We'll get use to one level at a time. Once we reach ten we'll call it good and report. Okay?"

"Sounds reasonable. Now then let's get to your training." He watched as she made a heavy jog across the room. She had pulled her hair up and out of her face again which annoyed him, but he would let it be for now. "You do know how to fly don't you?"

"Yes," thank you Vegeta, "but I hardly use it as my main source of transportation."

"Well get used to it, because I don't half ass my training. I'll teach you basic defense. The rest should come naturally."

"Yes, Sensei!" She laughed running a circle around him.

"Sensei?" Bardock questioned watching her circle then grabbing her by her shoulders to keep her still. "Never mind. Now then, the first thing you have to know about defense is to always be wary of your opponents moves. Watch them, be mindful of how they move and what parts are aimed for you, and what's just for show."

He adjusted her stance showing her the finer points of defense, like how to balance, and protect your body. The more they got into it the more natural her body began to move. The Saiyan DNA flowing inside her now helped with the transition and she ducked and dodged his moves as he launched attacks at her.

"Good, very good. Your movements are becoming more natural. Now then, attack me." When she made a lunge he easily dodge. "No, no, keep coming at me. Don't make me get you mad, Angel."

"Stop calling me that! I'm not an Angel!" She nicked his face and he grabbed her wrist holding her up and grasping her chin in his rough palm. "I beg to differ. You may be a Saiyan as far as DNA is concerned, but you have the eyes, and the aura of something angelic. Therefore to me, you'll always be angel."

Ryanna's eyes took on a glimmer as his words softened and she relaxed. His head bowed in to kiss, but the machine turned up the gravity another notch and sent them colliding into the ground. Ryanna wheezed out a breath and panted. "Oof, I forgot I set a timer. We're at 5 times gravity now." Her voice was wheezing and she pushed him off with some difficulty. Huffing and puffing she crawled on the floor and turned in off.

Bardock stood his legs shaking. "That increase is more than I imagined. I want to train at that level from now on."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes," Bardock crossed his arms. "It was difficult but not impossible to move. So long as I can move and breath I want to use that level."

"It's better to start off slow, but I think your right. Up until five times I hadn't felt a thing."

"Good, it's settled then." His scouter beeped and he touched a finger to it. "What is it Tora?"

Tora? Ryanna had heard that name before. She recalled it being one of Bardock's team members. At his laugh Ryanna's curiosity peaked. That was a sound she hadn't heard since she arrived. She guessed that this Tora was close to him, in order to make him hold an expression like that.

Bardock turned the communicator in his scouter off and looked to Ryanna. "I have to go, but we'll continue again first thing tomorrow." He saunters by her pausing briefly to yank her braid out again.

Ryanna screeched and slapped his hands away huffing as he walked away laughing. "I don't know why I found that laugh the least bit attractive." She turned up her nose snarling. "It's down right irritating is what it is!"

Woosh and another chapter goes by. While Ryanna is dealing with her own issues in this time, what's going on back on Earth in the present time? Only one way to find out…

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