Cyborg Gothic

Part 18

"This is beneath me" an annoyed 18 said as we stood outside Kami House "Either of us could wipe this little island right off the map, so I don't see what we have to learn from this old pervert".

Mostly we were here because I didn't want to go clothes shopping again. The stealing I was fine with, and even blowing up buildings didn't bother me that much. But I had no desire to watch more innocent people get vaporized, as aside from the morality thing, it would just led to trouble or even worse we could end up running out of clothing stores, and I didn't want to find out what would happen if 18 discovered she couldn't get more free outfits.

"We're here because Goku was trained by Roshi" I explained "So by going through the same training I'll understand him better. Besides we need something to keep us occupied".

18 seemed to accept that.

"How did you convince this guy to train us?" she then asked "I mean the last time he saw us we were trying to kill his prize student".

That had actually been the easy part.

"He's a big pervert" I said " I bribed him with girly mags and some underwear I picked up on the way. I told him they were yours".

I had in fact stole them from a washing line, but they had looked like something my girlfriend would wear.

"All right we'll training now" Master Roshi told us when he walked onto the beach "We'll start off with a brief run just to warm us up. Follow me".

With that the old man took off and ran on the water. Which was impressive, but since 18 and I could do the same we soon caught up.

After a few minute of what I considered to be light jogging we arrived at a small house. There was a cow man stacking crates of milk, a person who was actually some sort of hybrid between man and cow, not a person who took care of bovine.

"I always meant to ask someone about why there are so many animal people around" I causally said to 18 "We don't have them in my world".

By my calculations about one in five people were some sort of talking animal, and some were anthropomorphic. The planet was actually ruled by a dog man called King Furry, and from what I could tell he was doing a good job. Still it super strange.

"You must be the one I talked to earlier," Roshi said to the man/cow "We'll make sure to have all this delivered by breakfast".

I didn't care that much what we did for a warm up, but 18 was getting annoyed again and when that happened someone could explode. So I decided to say something before she did.

"Excuse me Master Roshi" I interjected. "What does delivering milk have to do with martial arts?".

Which in my view was a valid question.

"I don't know," Roshi replied. "MAYBE IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH HAVING THE DISPLINE TO DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD".

He should have not shouted at us. Eighteen was going to blow something up I just knew it.

"Sweetheart calm down" I said "At least until we've had a chance to see some more of the training. After all Master Roshi is incredibly strong, at least for a mere human. So surely that meant that he's knows something about training"

Thankfully my girlfriend did not cause any massive holes in the ground to suddenly appear.

"Fine" she said before relaxing her stance "I'll indulge you. For now".

If she didn't have such a fine ass I'd be tempted to kill her.

"We'll start off easy," Roshi then said. "We'll only run the first three miles".

That sounded like a lot, but I wasn't worried.

"Then we'll stop by the farm of a friend of mine" the Master added.

I really hoped that this was like that whole 'wax on, wax off' thing and that we would learn something, because if we didn't then I wouldn't stop 18 from beating the snot out of the old guy.

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A few hours later I was relaxing on the cool grass outside Kami house. I wasn't at tired even after the day I'd had and I was amazed by how much we'd gotten done in under twelve hours.

After delivering milk, we'd plowed some fields by hand, then done some construction work, that had been followed by 18 getting chased by a shark while swimming laps. The shark was dead and everyone who lived in Kami House was in the process of turning into sushi.

Now the old master had said to rest and that we'd continue training tomorrow. Which would make some sense if I needed to sleep, so I would have to find something else to occupy myself with.

That was 18 came and sat down next to me.

"Let's go skinny dipping" she suggested.

That sounded like a plan, but there was a sight problem.

"Hold on what about the sharks?" I asked my girlfriend "There might be more of them out there".

She gave me a half smile and started to undress.

"If they come near me I'll deal with them like I did with the last one" she said "Now lets go swimming".

Her killing more of them was my concern, after all I didn't want her to get all pissed off and wiping out the entire species.

"Okay I'm coming!" I called out.

18 turned and shouted something back at me.

"Not yet, but you will!".

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The next day we did the same thing we had before only this time the old man had tried to get to us wear a fifty pound turtle shells on our backs. That idea had died when 18 had threatened to blow up the entire of Kami House, and despite the fact that I wanted to get the most out of the training as possible I'd agreed that we wouldn't wear the shells. There wasn't much point really as the weight difference didn't mean much to us cyborg. We had agreed to the weighted gear, or at least I had until the outfits had been dyed. 18 had decided to go with white and I was wearing black.

"I wish Master Pervert would actually teach us something," 18 complained "This is so a waste of time".

Compared to the workouts we'd done in the Chamber of Time and Spirit, Roshi's training wasn't that great, but to be fair we'd barely started and I was driven to learn more.

"If nothing else then we might as well try to graduate" I said "Roshi is a master martial artist and if we finish his classes then people will take us more seriously at the contest next month".

It would give some legitimacy as well.

"You do have a point," 18 admitted. "But I'd like to make sure my fighting skills aren't getting rusty".

I could help with that.

"Well why don't we spar a bit," I suggested.

Hopefully a low powered practice fight wouldn't level the island.

"I don't know," she replied "Maybe I should fight the short guy".

It took me a few moments to figure out who she meant.

"Wait you mean that Krillin bloke" I said "He's only human you'd splatter him across the landscape".

18 didn't seem to be concerned, and the small guy was up for it. Apparently he was training for the contest as well.

"But you'll get creamed," I warned the tiny bald person.

At least it would be amusing to watch.

"I'll just have to learn to be better then ever "Krillian said.

Krillin charged at 18 with the kind of speed no human should have, but my girlfriend managed to move out of the way at the last second. Krillin was surprised at how much faster she was.

Unfortunately for his moment of surprise was interrupted when 18's fist shot into his stomach. Krillin doubled over in pain but his credit he shook off the blow quickly and he was even able to block the fist that 18 aimed at his head. Then Krillin went on the offensive with a sweeping kick no doubt trying to take the feet out from under my fellow Cyborg.

The blond jumped over the attack and then back flipped out of range of the next punch Krillin tried to land. She responded to that with an uppercut aimed at the man's jaw but there was just enough time for Krillin to put an arm in front of the blow, which surprised Eighteen.

"Huh" I muttered "Guess he's not so weak after all".

I changed my opinion very quickly when I saw the little fella get thrown into the ocean by 18.

(Line Break)

"KA… ME… HA… ME… HA!" I shouted as I sent the Kamehameha wave into the ocean.

For a few moments it looked as my ki attack had parted the waves, only the effect didn't last for very long.

"Very good," a voice said from behind me.

I turned to see Master Roshi standing behind me

"Thank you" I replied.

I figured I could do better, but I wasn't sure how.

"Want some instruction?" Roshi offered.

In fact I did.

"You may have learned to perform the move," Roshi said, "but you haven't mastered it yet".

Given that I'd been programmed to perform this move I didn't really understand how it worked.

"How do I master it?" I asked.

This was something I'd like to learn.

"You need to learn how to put more of your energy into it," the master replied. "Try holding the energy and putting as much of your energy into it as possible before releasing it. That will build your endurance faster and let you make stronger Kamehameha waves"

That made sense.

"Alright I'll give it a try then," I said. "KA… ME… HA… ME…"

I gathered the blue energy between my hands, but instead of letting it go I continued to put more energy until I figured I had no more to give. So I let the much larger Kamehameha wave go out into the ocean.

This time it looked as if Moses had parted the Red Sea, I could almost make out the ocean floor and the effect lasted much longer than before.

"Very good," Roshi said. "I'm amazed you've managed to channel so much energy into it so easily. It took me nearly fifty years to master that move".

I had to wonder how old the man was.

"Now if you do as many of those as you can everyday you'll get stronger in no time," Roshi said "But for now I'd like to test your reflexes".

That was fine with me.

"How are we going to do that?" I inquired.

I also spent a moment wondering were 18 had gotten off to. Hopefully she wasn't killing anyone.

"Well," Roshi responded "Since you seem to like to spar so much I figured we'd get your reflexes more finely tuned by having you spar against two different people".

Since there was only one of him I saw a flaw in the old man's plan.

"Wait," Roshi said. "Krillin!".

It didn't take long for shortie to turn up.

"Yes master," the monk said running over from where he'd been quietly meditating "What do you want?".

I figured he would freak when he found out.

"Come over here," Roshi instructed "The two of us are going to both spar against my new student. Just as it is important to for allies to learn to work as a team against a stronger opponent it is also important to learn how deal with more than one enemy at the same time",

That made sense to me.

"Alright let's get started then," I said.

Until now I had been totally relaxed, but now I was shifting my body so that I was better prepared to do battle.

"Right," Krillin said who also got into a fighting stance "Let's do this".

The two humans both charged at me throwing punches at my head. I easily ducked Roshi's punch and then side stepped Krillin's, but this didn't dishearten them. The two men kept coming at me, but I continued to block their rather well coordinated attacks without too much trouble.

"Very good," the master said. "you're starting to get it now. But now I'm going to quit going easy on you"

With that Roshi charged along with his pupil. First he threw a punch at me that I managed to block. At the same time Krillin came in with a kick aimed at my stomach, however I managed to block that blow just in time to divert a kick that would have impacted my chest.

That was when I decided to go on the offensive I came in behind the old man with a left hook at Roshi's head while Krillian received an elbow to the face for his trouble.

"Yes, yes" the master said as he picked himself up off the ground "Its plain to see that I have nothing more to teach you".

I wasn't surprised given my level of raw power, but I was still pleased.

"You're more than ready for the tournament in a few weeks" Roshi told me "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to lie down for a moment".

With that the old man collapsed to the ground.