Chapter 4:
It had been six months, or twelve hours in the outside world since the two had entered the Hyperbolic Tim Chamber and Chaozu felt he was not getting strong fast enough. Yajirobe was lazy as ever only taking a certain amount of each day to train spending the rest napping or eating the normal food. Chaozu had no need for such luxuries. He had to avenge his fallen comrade. At first the two of them hadn't even been able to step foot off the platform that the house was on because the gravity was too much, but after a couple months of intense training in the living room of the house Chaozu had begun to train outside. Not too far but on the white nothingness that was the ground where gravity was ten times that of the Earth's. By month five Yajirobe had started to train outside too although he would always start later than Chaozu and finish before him.
Now with their first year of training halfway done Chaozu couldn't help but think that he was getting nowhere with his training. It was obvious that Yajirobe was much stronger than before and although he hadn't lost too much weight considering the amount of food he'd been eating, a lot of his fat had been replaced by muscle. Also he'd mastered flying and had been able to shoot a small ki blast; the beam was green and didn't explode on impact with the ground but during a spar it had hit Chaozu and it felt like he was being electrocuted.
He had said, "Wow Yajirobe, you master that technique and you'll be wiping the floor with those aliens, what is that move called.
The samurai thought for a second, I never knew that I got to name my moves, I would've started training years ago. He grinned as the perfect name came into his head, "I'll call it the Yajirobe wave," Chaozu sweat dropped but smiled and nodded to show Yajirobe that he thought it was a great name.
Even with all of his training, the other man was gaining power fast. It didn't make sense, he trained twice as hard and twice as long, he had lost the person closest to him driving him to push harder but everything he did seemed to be in vain as, sure his punches and kicks were faster, and yeah his Dodon Ray blew up a little wider of an area, but he still was so far from advancing. He hadn't surpassed Yamcha yet and that was the goal he had set for himself to complete by six months in.
Yajirobe walked back inside the house to find his partner already there meditating. Thats weird I never stop training after Chaozu, something's up. "Hey man how's it going?" He said trying to distract Chaozu from his meditative state. It succeeded as the short man opened his eyes. Yajirobe's hair had gotten much longer since they'd entered the Chamber but Chaozu was bald having cut his single hair years previous when he had disgraced himself in battle by self-destructing in vain because the brute Nappa wasn't even damaged by the explosion.
"Hi Yajirobe," he said in an annoyed tone, "How did your training go?" Yajirobe now knew what was bothering the little guy. He had noticed Chaozu's frustration every time he showed improvement while the psychic stayed on the same level. It had confused him but he didn't know how to convince his friend that he was trying as hard as he could without it sounding like a pity speech.
The only thing he could think of was, "We've got hundreds of years my friend," Chaozu's expression changed to one of disbelief as it seemed like the other man knew exactly what he was thinking. "Even if you do gain power slowly, you're still gaining power, don't worry you're not alone in this. After another year or two I'm sure you'll be laughing at your worries today because of how strong you'll be."
"You really think so?" Chaozu asked skeptically.
"Oh course, you train harder than Vegeta and that guy was ridiculous." Yajirobe laughed and it became infectious as Chaozu started laughing along.
Other World
Vegeta sneezed, "King Kai," the arrogant Saiyan Prince demanded, "If we aren't going to help them then where are we going?"
Goku answered for him, "Right before you guys died, we decided to go to otherworld to train with the strongest fighters who've ever lived. Because I died saving the Earth I was able to keep my body as it looks like you all were able to as well. Can they come King Kai?"
The catfish looking God responded enthusiastically, "Of course they can come I need all the strongest fighters in the North galaxy to help me win this century's tournament in two months. Haha, snort, it looks like you guys dying has worked out great for me."
Vegeta grinned, Good a tournament, finally I can show Kakarott how much I've improved by beating him up in front of thousands of dead people.
"All aboard the plane to otherworld," one of the blue guys with horns in a suit called out to the area. King Kai and his trainees were the only ones walking over to the plane. "Wow King Kai," The blue guy frantically wiped down his suit to make sure there were no food crumbs on it, "had I known you were coming I would've got a bigger plane ready."
King Kai held up a hand to quiet the man, "Don't worry we're fine," the plane trip shouldn't be 'too' long after all. Hahaha," he snorted in amusement as Krillin gulped not liking the sound of that. They piled into the cramped jet having just enough room for all of the to have one seat.
"Ladies and gentlemen please buckle your seat belts as we lift off," a voice came in over the planes loudspeaker. King Kai buckled up but the rest of them couldn't find their seat belts.
"Um King Kai," Gohan started to say, "our safety belts seem to be missing." Whoosh the plane shot off the ground into the sky.
Bobo the dead monkey was dancing in the front of the aisle holding on to the bathroom door handle with one hand and to Gregory with the other.
The passengers all grabbed onto their seats to keep themselves seated and Piccolo yelled, "Don't you think you stupid King, we could all die, and you see these," he pointed to his halo, "if we die we're gone from existence!" Everyone grabbed extra tight at that statement.
King Kai ignored him and just shouted, "Weeee."
Lookout
"Hey Korin, their day is almost up," Dende called from inside the Lookout Palace, "what are you doing?" Korin had popped his car and got into the driver's side.
"Dont worry I'll be back within the hour to see them come out. Don't you sense them Dende?" Dende felt around to see if he knew what the cat was talking about before realizing that the ki's of Master Roshi and the others were right below them.
"They're at the top already?!" Dende asked.
Korin nodded, "An impressive feat to say the least for these humans considering none of them can fly. I'm going down to get them, be back soon." The aircar lifted off and headed down to the tower below. It didn't take very long, the trip down was always faster than the way up because he cuts the engine and drops for the thrill. As the aircar landed inside the tower Bulma gasped. She had seen the cat before and knew that it had some relation with Master Roshi and Goku, but now it was driving, this was ridiculous.
"Korin?" Bulma asked. "You live here?"
The cat nodded, "Well duh, think about the name of the tower real hard." He said holding back laughter.
Bulma thought for not even a second before hitting herself for being so stupid, Korin's Tower is named after Korin. Wait that means this cat has to be hundreds of years old.
"Why yes I am that old," Korin said stopping her train of thought and she fell backwards she hated it when people read her mind. "Oh sorry," the cat said reading her mind again. Bulma growled but decided against retorting to a cat, she was above that sort of thing. "Okay can you all get in the car it is time to go up to the Lookout, you should feel privileged, not many people get to go up there above the world."
"Actually Master Korin," Roshi said bowing to his Master, "we're still waiting on one person." Korin sensed out and noticed that one other ki was slowly making its way up the tower, it was almost halfway. The two animals, the pig and cat were passed out from exhaustion from the trip on the floor.
"She's too far away, I'll come back to get her when she arrives in a day or two." Roshi nodded and carefully placed the tired animals into the backseat of the car before hopping in to the passenger side. "Are you coming girl," Korin asked starting the engine.
Bulma was annoyed, "The name's Bulma and I'm no girl, I'm almost 37" she said proudly.
"Wow thirty seven, pretty soon you might even be a tenth of my age now get in or you're going to be left behind." Bulma thought for a second about the minimum age this cat could be before deciding that she could ask him the exact age later. She hopped into the back seat and the car took off. She'd heard that Dende was the new Guardian of Earth but she hadn't seen the little guy since after New Namek was built by Porunga and the Namekians all left to go there. To tell the truth she was a little nervous about seeing him he was probably devastated by the news of Krillin and Gohan dying. Why is it always me who ends up in these situations. But then again if I had any other life I'd be a slave right now or more likely dead like my parents. Dad, mom I miss you guys.
A/n: Thanks to Blue Cat for your review, I'll try to fix those minor issues in the later chapters!