Astroman1000
Cyborg Gothic has already done all the fusing he can. Now the only way he can improve further is to train. Thankfully he can do that and develop his relationship with 18 at the same time.
Which is what the next few chapters are about.
Author Note
There are lemon scenes in the chapters ahead.
Cyborg Gothic
Part 14
Within the room of time and space, my girlfriend and I spent our time training. It had taken us weeks to just to get fully used to this place, as it was crazy to say the least. The only normal thing in here was the house, the rest was nothing more than a white void that seemed to go on forever.
It had taken me some time to adjust to the sheer nothingness around me, and after that I'd come to understand why it existed. In the endless emptiness there were no distractions, and there was no where to hide from yourself. Somewhat ironically the vastness of this weird place forced a person to look inward.
Once a person did that they discovered that they had the perfect place for training. There was nothing here to get in the way of achieving your goals, or at least that was how I saw things. I imagined that for others the room might mean something else, but that was their business.
What was certain was that the chamber challenged a person both mentally and physically. How it effected the mind was hard to fully explain, how it worked on the body was each easier to understand, yet it was no less difficult to deal with.
For starters there was the gravity, it was so intense here that at the start I'd felt as if I would be crushed by the pressure. Then there were things like rapid temperature changes to deal with, and a few times I would have sworn that I'd seen things that couldn't possibly be real.
The house was the only part of this place that was safe, in fact it was down right cosy. Outside the buildings things rapidly got worst, the further someone got from the door the harsher the environment became. Even cyborgs were in danger here.
With distance the gravity would increase and the temperature differences became far more extreme. Hot and cold were replaced by being set on fire, and then almost being encased in ice. Then there had been the spiders, they'd come out of no where and had crawled all over me. After that they had vanished, but I figured that was just me going crazy.
From what I'd been told the chamber reacted to the people within it. So perhaps it would not have been so extreme for someone else, but I couldn't imagine that normal humans would survive long in here. I had new respect for the Saiyans just for being able to walk out this place.
Then there was the dilation effect that occurred within the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, one day of real time was equivalent to one year inside the Chamber, or to put it another way one minute of real time was approximately six hours, five minutes, and 15 seconds when inside The Room of Time and Spirit. That was funky to think about.
In order to keep track of the dilation there were two giant hourglasses adorning the sides of the building that counted down the year within the chamber. A clock on the dome roof of the main part of the building told people what time it was in the real world.
This was very important because while it was possible to leave the Chamber before the year was up, staying any longer would result in getting trapped. That meant when it was time to go it was really time to go.
I also knew that the Chamber could only be entered for two days in total, and since another version of myself had already used the room it was too dangerous for me to enter here again.
If anybody ever attempted to stay longer, they would not be able to exit, leaving them trapped in the nothingness and this would also result in no one else being able to use the chamber.
Also, there are were only enough provisions to accommodate two people for the full year, so anyone staying longer than that would soon die in any case. Well maybe not 18 and myself as we didn't need food, but even if we rationed the water it would eventually run out, and then we would die.
Goku had broken this limit by entering this place three times in total, but he had died and apparently this limit was reset if you came back to life. Which I would have called unfair if it hadn't involved him dying.
When it was time to leave the door was the only passageway between the realm of Earth and the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, or at least it was the only way to travel between these two dimensions without ripping holes in the barrier between dimensions.
Which I didn't think was a good idea as the last time I'd moved from one reality to another I'd ended up being turned into a cyborg. Since I didn't want something like that to happen to me again I was even going to try to figure out how that sort of thing could be done.
"Ah this isn't fair!" 18 screamed as her latest punch soared right past me "You're way too fast!".
Her follow up kick nearly hit me in the head, it came much closer to hurting me than her fist had. Sadly for her the move allowed me to sweep her remaining leg out from under her. Which of course knocked her to the solid ground ass first. I enjoyed it far to much.
"Oh now your dead" the female cyborg promised.
As she picked herself up I backed up. A pissed off part robot woman was not something a sane man wanted to stand too close to.
"You know the funny thing is I'm actually slower than normal" I told 18.
Right now gravity for us was about ten times greater than normal, and I knew that it was only get more intense the further away we got from the house. So for now we were sticking close to buildings.
"Its hard to tell" the female cyborg replied.
Without warning she then launched herself at me. She couldn't fly right now, but she was able jump just fine so her well aimed fist came very close to meeting my face. However I was able to teleport now, so by the time her strike would have connected I wasn't where she'd been aiming.
"Now if you think that was fast then you should have seen Cooler" I said to 18 "He was teleporting all over the place".
I was able to process things must faster than a human being, yet I hadn't had much luck in tracking Cooler's movements. When compared to that monster, 18 might as well have been moving through trickle.
This was actually very helpful as it gave me time to come with ways to counter her attacks, and to try out new things. Which hadn't been possible when I'd been fighting Cooler.
Eighteen was also improving, but she kept letting her feelings dictate her actions. Not that I was one to judge, however if we were going to face the challenges to come, and I figured that there would be many, then we both had to become better fighters.
"You know there are other kinds of exercise " the female cyborg said with her sexy half smile "Why don't we go inside the house?".
While I was stronger, faster, more durable and perhaps even smarter than 18, when it came to the bedroom she was the champion. We cyborgs had seemingly endless amounts of energy, the only time I felt drained was just after sex as I was still male.
Eighteen on the other hand actually seemed to become further energised by intercourse, and she never seemed happy doing it just the one time. Thankfully I could recharge my sex battery rather quickly. Our record so far was ten times in twenty four hour period while still training.
The only reason it wasn't more was because aside from sparring I was also studying everything to do with robots, cybernetics and fighting methods. Thanks to capsule corps technology I had been able to bring in quite the library. Once I got back to the lab I'd get to work getting 16 is own body.
That couldn't come to soon as having someone else in my head was not a fun thing. My only concern was that I would be downgraded by getting 16's mind out of me. But he had assured me that this wouldn't be a concern as long as he left part of his AI behind to manage my technological side
Between us, 16 and I figured that he would be reduced to something rather like a child, and he would be unable to manage a large machine body so my plan was to make a new cyborg. Number 22.
His new body would be made of both metal and living tissue. Not just human flesh either, he would be part alien like me. Only not as strong as I was because I wouldn't be able to get fresh samples from likes of Frezia and his family, and I didn't think the aliens living here on Earth would want me making more cyborgs out of their DNA, so I would have to use mine and 18's, assuming she consented.
The scary thing there was that this would in some respects make the reborn Android 16 our son. Which was why I hadn't yet mentioned the full details of my plan to Eighteen. Having a child together, was a big commitment after all and we weren't even that committed to each, or at least I wasn't I figured 18 was already planning the wedding.
"Let's train a bit more and then we can relax" I said to my fellow Cyborg.
My fellow cyborg did that cute thing with her hair before she replied.
"Oh fine" she agreed.
I then spent a moment considering what to do next. Clearly my girlfriend wasn't powerful enough to help me get stronger, and until she improved I would advanced either so I figured that it was better to focus on her training at least for a while.
"Okay here's an idea" I said "I'll throw some Ki balls around, and all you have to do is blast them out of the air".
Ki energy could be utilised in many ways. Both internally and externally The most simple offensive move was a direct Ki blast, which was what 18 was going to use. Ki balls were spheres of energy that could be throw at different speeds, and even guided towards a certain target.
"So we're playing games" 18 commented "Sounds like fun".
Rather than reply I formed two small spheres of energy in the palms of my hands, then I threw them both, one much harder than the other. Since they were lacking in mass the balls weren't effected by the intense gravity here and as such they both flew a fair distance before my fellow cyborg blasted them out of the air.
"Nice aim" I complemented.
18 smiled for a moment, and then she frowned.
"My brother and me, we used to spend our free time down at the arcades" she told me "I used to get so mad when he beat me, so he used to let me win. At least sometimes".
Seventeen had been a bit of a psycho, yet I found myself missing him. As a human he sounded decent enough.
"Come on lets keep training" Eighteen then said.
I understood that she wanted to keep her mind off her possibly dead twin, and that was fine with me. I formed two more balls of energy and threw them as hard as I could.
My sparring partner had a little more trouble this time, one of the balls went too far away for her to hit it. Which was impressive given how good we were at making things explode.
"Your turn" 18 then said.
Eighteen could also form sphere made of Ki energy so she soon had something for me to blow up. Since I was a superior model of cyborg, and I had been even before my upgrade, I was easily able to blast the balls.
"This is too easy" 18 then commented.
Hearing that made me smile.
"Okay lets kick things up a notch" I decided.
I created some more spheres and then threw them, then I made two more so that 18 had four targets to destroy. She only got three, but that was still very impressive given that she had only been prepared for two.
Then it was her turn again, she formed quite a lot of spheres and I was able to blast them all.
"Show off" 18 called me.
Rather than insult her back in a teasing way, or defend myself verbally I asked her a question.
"Can you keep doing that?" I inquired "Give me lots of targets to hit and make some move faster than others ".
She nodded at me and then got to work. Spheres flew at different speeds and a few even moved in unexpected ways, then she made even more. I kept blasting. I didn't hit them all, but I got enough to know that this was one area that 18 could help me improve in.
"Come on let me have a turn" she then requested.
Since we had nearly unlimited energy we could doing this for as long as we wanted, and already I could tell that we were all ready improving our aim. If we could find other ways to better ourselves, then this would be time well spent.