Chapter 4: The King's speech

(Flashback)

Only 6 hours after the tournament had ended, the elite members of the Blue Force had already arrived at the training island and had finished unloading their transport.

"Alright men, I want everyone to get familiar with the surroundings and report back before sunset." Captain Meditrain ordered as his men began to spread out.

"Captain! Vehicle incoming!" Private Aden shouted as a red convertible hover car rushed into view straight towards the grouping of solders.

Everyone in the unit immediately spread out in a defensive formation, on the off chance it was an attack heading their way, the unit did make a lot of enemies after all.

The vehicle in question came to a screeching halt right in the kill zone of the nearly circular formation the Blue Force had assumed, weapons drawn. Inside the car there was a lone, very angry looking woman who started shouting as soon as she had killed the engine. "Where's the old pervert!" she demanded of the men surrounding her. "We'll I'm waiting!" she continued when no one immediately answered.

"Ma'am I'm not sure who you're looking for, but you can't stay here and wait for them this is a restricted area." Captain Meditrain responded his voice calm, but his mind was still working trying to analyze the potential threat this woman posed.

"Don't play dumb with me I can see the perverts house right behind you! Where are you hiding him, I've got to get the real training started if I'm going to get my baby back so he can be a scholar instead of a hooligan like his father."

Sgt. Caspin leaned over to the Captain "Hey Captain do you think she's one of the other fighters the old man was talking about?"

"I doubt it she doesn't look like a fighter to me." the Captain responded, just loud enough that Chi Chi could hear him.

"EXCUSE ME!" she shouted furious that at the soldiers lack of manners. "I'll have you know I made it to the quarter finals of the world martial arts tournament, not only that but I was married to and training with the strongest man on the planet for the last 5 years!" She continued poking the Captain in the chest repeatedly, much to his amusement.

"Fighting in a little tournament isn't impressive to warriors like us. you see we're elite special forces, putting our lives on the line every single day. And I don't want to burst your bubble sweetheart, but you weren't married to the strongest man in the world because I've never met you before." He added with a merciless grin before bursting into laughter, his men all followed suit

"HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY HUSBAND! HE SAVE THE WORLD FROM KING PICCOLO AND GAVE HIS LIFE FIGHTING HIS OWN BROTHER!" Chi Chi screeched causing everyone present to cover their ears. "You have some nerve... I'm going to have to teach you all some manners." her voice suddenly dropping to one that was icy cold and thick with venom.

"We'll I suppose I'm skilled enough to knock some sense into you without permanent damage to that pretty little face of yours. But I'm kind of out of your league; I'd knock you out too fast for the message to get through your thick little head. Private Aden show her how outclassed she is" A large grin appeared on his face as the youngest member of the squad, stepped forward eager to impress his commanding officer.

"You ready sweetheart." The young soldier said with a condescending grin as he approached her. Chi Chi let her stance speak for her.

"Aww isn't that cute." Private Aden continued to taunt just before lunging at her intending to get her pinned quickly, it didn't go how he planned.

As he was still airborne Chi Chi simply delivered a side-swinging kick, faster than most of the members of Blue Force could even follow, her heel digging deeply into the soldiers abdomen and forcing all of the air from his lungs. What they could see though was their ally's body bend from the blow and then him shooting away at a high speed, landing in a heap, completely still.

Most of the squad simply stared at their comrade's limp form for a moment before rushing in to avenge him, no orders needed, only Sgt. Caspin and Captain Meditrain held back to watch as the others attacked this unknown but now potentially dangerous foe.

Corporal Aegean was the next to fall. He rushed in trying to land a punch to Chi Chi's gut only for his blow to be caught, and a much stronger one delivered right between his eyes, instantly KOing the veteran soldier.

As soon as she checked to make sure the first one was out of commission, Chi Chi was immediately forced to ducked to avoid a well-placed side-swinging kick from Sgt. Adriac, and then had to twist to avoid a vertical one from Private Bengal. She expertly used her twist as a means of building up momentum to deliver a devastating spinning kick to Private Bengal's chest adding the now unconscious man to her seemingly ever growing pile.

She finished her spin just in time to raise her forearm block another blow from Sgt. Adriac, before promptly punching his throat. As he staggered back both hands clutching his nearly collapsed trachea, she delivered a follow up blow to his forehead rendering him also unconscious.

"Now for your lesson big guy" She said not even trying to hide the threat her words bore

Sgt. Caspin was actually nervous, which was rare for him he was usually an adrenaline junkie. and the strongest member of the Blue Force besides the Captain. He was also smart enough to know this wasn't any normal person he was dealing with, there was no way he could take on any 2 of the fighters this women had easily dispatched, let alone all of them.

"Sergeant, Take care of her, reclaim the unit's honor!" the Captain shouted curious to see how the woman would fair against his second in command.

Sgt. Caspin gulped silently to himself, before responding, "Yes sir." as he approached the woman who had easily bested 4 of his comrades

As soon as he got within 10 feet she launched at him. He was barely able to raise his forearm fast enough to block, the force of the blow was still enough to knock him flat on his back. He quickly used the natural bounce of his body colliding with the hard ground to launch himself up from his laying position into a backwards roll to avoid a downward kick, which caused a small crater to form where he had been lying. It was a blow he would likely never recover from if it had landed.

His dodge though only delayed the inevitable as the pissed martial artist simply used the force of her downward blow to launch herself at him even faster than before. Catching him the instant he was landing back on his feet, her fist forced all of the air from his lungs as he flew back in too much shock to even move. To any outside observer he would appear as unconscious as any of his other allies.

She then turned to the only man left standing the one that had originally insulted not just herself, but her husband also, which was something she just wouldn't stand for. A true predatory smile crossed her face as she stared down her newest prey.

For once Captain Meditrain was excited about a fight. In the last 15 years he had never fought a single opponent that could even hope to keep up with him, the only real rush he could get is if he ordered entire squadrons of his men to attack him at once, and even then he easily dispatched them. This women though beat the elite of his unit as easily, if not easier than he would've, he was going to enjoy this fight he was sure of it.

The two stared one another down, one trying to size up his surprising competition, the other deciding how to best enact her revenge for the insults. In a flash they both launched, Sgt. Caspin stares wide eyed as the two fighters momentarily turned into blurs.

Captain Meditrain launched into the fight planning on overpowering his opponent through sheer brute force, his massive arm in a wide arch to build up maximum momentum. But was caught off guard when his target simply ducked under his swing leaving him off balance and defenseless for Chi Chi's opening blow to his gut.

The giant staggered back, he hadn't had an opponent land a hit since he made the cut for special forces and hadn't had someone dodge one of his punches in an even longer time. He didn't have time to reminisce on the significance of Chi Chi's accomplishment long though as the women was on him, intending to not giving him a chance to recover.

Blow after blow rained down on him, and for once in his life he was truly having difficulty blocking them, her punches were as rapid and numerous as they were strong, a rare combination. To make matter worse for him, her feints were nearly flawless which kept him moving to block attacks that never came, while the real one would come from a different direction. He was starting to really take some damage when, finally the pattern ended when he moved to block faked punch and had his feet swept out from under him by a low kick.

Sgt. Caspin was shocked when the woman landed a blow on the Captain a man he believed to be essentially untouchable, but when she took his massive frame to the ground with a single low kick he was actually starting to get worried. The longer he stared at the being before him the less she seemed like a woman and the more he felt like she was some sort of monster.

When he hit the ground Captain Meditrain was able to roll and get a small amount of distance between him and the woman who was making a mockery of him, the strongest fighter in the entire EDF. His body was covered in bruises that were already forming, a visible testament to the strength behind the petite woman's blows. 'How is this happening, I'm the best fighter in the whole world, no one should be able to touch me.' Meditrain thought as he stood with his guard up desperately trying to recapture the air that had been forced from his lungs almost a minute ago from a particularly powerful kick to the gut.

Chi Chi stood there arms crossed a look of contempt on her face as she watched the wounded giant try to catch his breath, for all of his big talk he had proved to be not much stronger than his lackeys. "If you apologize I'll finish this quickly." She asked, already getting bored with this fight, 'All of them were so weak there's no way they're going to be any help when Goku's crazy family brings my son back, what was Master Roshi thinking.' she began to growl to herself quietly furious with the old man not only for delaying her training, but delaying it to gather weak fighters who would be no help to her.'

Captain Meditrain notices the woman appeared to have zoned out, 'SHE'S NOT EVEN TAKING ME SERIOUSLY!' he shouted inside his own head suddenly furious.

He jumped forward and delivered a powerful blow to the spaced out woman's face, sending her sprawling. He was so happy thinking he had won that he didn't notice how little damage his hit had actually caused.

Chi Chi's hand reached up a small trickle of blood coming from the corner of her lip, then shakily she rose. She wasn't shaking from pain or any head damage the blow might have done, mainly because it didn't cause any, no she was shaking with raw anger. A fury that could hardly be fathomed rose up in her, as she began to yell. Captain Meditrain stopped his self-congratulations as he turned shocked, to stare at the woman before him, now seemingly enveloped in red flames.

Before he even had a chance to react she was there in front of him, raining down a fury of blows into his abdomen, then finishing the attack with a powerful sideways kick crashing against his temple, knocking the giant sprawling, unconscious before he touched the ground.

Chi Chi breathed deeply calming trying to calm down, before she examined her work, "The old perv better get here soon." she mumbled under her breath before she began to spare shadow opponents to improve her technique like Goku had shown her during the first few days of their marriage.

Sgt. Caspin just lay there completely speechless, watching completely shocked at the strength and speed the woman apparently possessed. After a while she seemed to get bored with her shadow sparring and moved onto running around the entire island, he had seen her pass by 7 times before Master Roshi and the others showed up.

(End of flashback)

By the end of the story both Nam and Bora had both sweat dropped at the idea of a fighter with that kind of temper training with them.

"Yes, well that does sound like how Bulma said Chi Chi was taking the news." Roshi gulped before he continued "Let's get everyone in the house before she returns; we don't want to put them any further into harm's way." Master Roshi said some sweat building on his brow at the idea of having to deal with an apparently furious Ox Princess for the next year.

Roshi, Bora, and Nam quickly got to work getting everyone up and or patched up, while they watched for her to return. They didn't have didn't have to wait long for her to get back though, and Kami was on their side for once since she seemed legitimately worn out "About… time… you… got here... you better... have... some... major... training planned... to make up… for lost time" she managed between each wheeze.

'Wow this is worse than I thought, she's going to get herself killed before the Saiyans even make it back if she's tearing her body up like this.' Master Roshi thought as he watched her as she swayed back and forth obviously exhausted "Chi Chi, you're done for the day, you've pushed yourself too far alre-.." Before the Turtle Hermit could finish his sentence she lunged at him, though in her exhausted state she couldn't even manage to get close to hitting him. After a few more fruitless seconds her body finally gave out and she slumped to the ground barely able to catch her breath.

"That is what I was just talking about, your body is in no condition to train anymore today, you've completely burnt through your body's Ki reserves, you need to give your body to recover between workouts otherwise you'll just run yourself into the ground, like you are now." The martial arts master scolded.

Chi Chi tried to muster up a glare to send the old man's way, but she didn't have the strength for it, and deep down she knew he was right, she just couldn't stand the thought of her baby being gone, without doing something to help get him back. Finally she let herself do something she hadn't done since she had gotten the news of Gohan's kidnapping, she began to cry, "My baby-y-y, those monsters took my... my baby-y-y" she sobbed, the loss of her only child hitting her again full force.

"Chi Chi, come here." Roshi said for once completely ignoring the chance to get a peek at her cleavage, as he reached down and helped her to her feet, "We'll get you rested up tonight, and you'll be ready to go bright and early tomorrow." he said in the most soothing voice he could muster. He led her to the house and got her set up with one of the cots Bulma had provided them, within a couple minutes she was asleep like the other's completely exhausted.

'I'm going to have to keep a close eye on her.' He thought as he went outside to help his only conscience students get acquainted with their home for the next year.

When he went back outside both Nam and Bora had already unloaded their sparse belongings had had started their own light spar. As he watched he noticed that Bora had a clear advantage in strength, but Nam was far superior in speed. He watched for a few more minutes as they traded jabs and punches, before deciding it'd be better to call tonight lost and just start anew in the morning when King Chappa arrived.

"I hope the others are making better progress than we are." Master Roshi mumbled to himself before heading in to cook some food for everyone.

King Furry was on the verge of panting as he sat in his favorite chair in his bedroom, he was about to deliver the most important address to the people of Earth of his reign and quite possibly the most important speech ever given by a ruler of Earth. He had to strike the perfect balance to fully warn the people of the impending invasion while avoiding causing a full blown panic.

He was snapped out of his trance like state by one of the camera men "we're live in 5 your majesty."

"Ah, I'll be right there, thank you." He hastily said before looking at himself on last time in the mirror, deciding he looked fine he went back to his previous thoughts as he navigated basically on autopilot back to his desk.

By the time he arrived he was already down to 2 minutes and they disappeared faster than he thought was possible, before he realized it the main camera man was already counting down the last 5 seconds. 'Here we go' he thought to himself just as the red on indicator turned on the camera and he was given the signal to begin.

His natural political instincts took over immediately and all the nervousness vanished. "Good evening my fellow citizens of Earth. I have scheduled this sudden announcement to give you advanced warning of a dire threat to the Earth. In less than one year an alien invasion force will arrive with the intention of wiping out all life on Earth. In total we expect 3 fighters to arrive in just over 11 and a half months. Although the attackers are small in numbers they make up for it in unbelievable strength, conventional weapons will not even affect them, much like the monsters released on the planet during the terror of King Piccolo's attacks. Each one of them is believed to be much stronger than the King Piccolo who was defeated just 7 years ago, by a great hero. A young boy named Son Goku, who competed in the world martial arts tournament 3 times as a child reaching the finals each time and winning the 23rd tournament against the child of King Piccolo."

King Furry took a moment to take a drink of water before starting once more. "A specialized team has been gathered to prepare to combat this threat. It will be comprised of the strongest fighters on the planet, In addition to Son Goku, and the child of King Piccolo, the group will be comprised of several previous world martial arts champions, competitors, and other elite level martial artists, in addition to the military's own Blue Force. They are the Earth's best chance for victory, but that doesn't mean they are our only hope. If you know of or are a powerful martial artist who wants to help defend the planet please contact us at the number below so we can begin your training immediately. We ask that during that during this time, everyone who has not dedicated their life's to martial arts, continue on with your lives as normally as possible, any sort of massive disruption could hinder the defense force more than help them. In addition when the time comes for the invaders to arrive we will ask all news crews to keep their distance from the fighting as to minimize civilian casualties, we will be working on other means to broadcast the battle.

The King continued his speech for several more minutes, but at least one man, deep in the northern mountain range was already on to bigger and better plans. He had only begun watching the speech at all because his computer's sound analyzers had detected the King say the name of the man's arch nemesis, Son Goku. The computer immediately rewound to the beginning of the speech so its creator could see the whole message. "Hmm, the planet is going to be attacked and that pest Goku is going to try to defeat the attackers, interesting, very interesting." he began to twirl his large moustache, his mind spinning with how best to take advantage of the surprising situation. He suddenly stood up and began to pace back and forth among his creations, most were far from complete, such as his new captives who he hadn't even had a chance to start improving yet. Out of his purely mechanical inventions though he had several who were still at least 4 years from completion.

Finally a smile began to spread across his lips, he figured out how to best handle the situation, coming to halt before his two most compete inventions, "Yes you two will do nicely." his said his voice barely above a whisper, before breaking into a manic laughter, that echoed throughout his lab.

The night had passed quietly at the site of the Turtle school, and before any of the new student's knew it was time to get up and begin the first day of their new training.

After the group had eaten and made it outside, most still grumbling about how sore they were, or giving the group's only female, dirty looks when she wasn't looking.

"First off let's do a test to see where everyone is currently at." Master Roshi suddenly said a smile on his face as he remembered giving Krillin and Goku this same test. "Just a 100 yard dash for now should do." he said as he fumbled through his pockets looking for his stop watch, after a moment he found it and asked "Alright who wants to go first?"

Sgt. Aegean raised his hand first he was one of the two fastest members of the Blue force, he decided he would try and assert his dominance over his rival, Sgt. Adriac, at least in terms of speed, once and for all.

Everyone lined up 100 yards away from the tree that would be the starting point for the race, and in the meantime Sgt. Aegean took the opportunity to rid himself of his heavy combat gear that might weigh him down. "Alright now, ready... set... go!" Master Roshi shouted and he was off. Crossing the finish line with the speed of an Olympic runner. After the time was read, 10.05 seconds, and some choice words were exchanged between the bitter rivals, it was Sgt. Adriac's turn to try his luck. He knew he'd have to be at his best to get a better time than his arch rival, but he was confident in his abilities, after he stripped of his combat armor he was ready to go. Again Master Roshi gave his count down and again a Blue Force member displayed amazing speed, just below normal human limitations, a time of 10.08 seconds just barely slower than his rival. A shouting match ensued about the wind interfering and a variety of other objections before Roshi had had enough. "That's enough!" he shouted surprising all in attendance who had never heard the old man raise his voice. "You were both impressive but we have others to test so you two can finish this discussion after we finish training, now who's up next." his voice changing from commanding back to normal instantaneously.

Nam was the next to volunteer; he was confident in himself and was interested in how he'd match up against his fellow defenders of Earth. Unlike the previous two competitors though, he didn't crouch down into a runners stance he simply stood there eye's closed finding his center. Most of Blue Force were whispering to each other about how Nam must be a novice, among other things, Master Roshi couldn't help but smirk when he heard the whispers though, he knew what Nam was capable of from their experience at the 21st world martial arts tournament, and as soon as he said go everyone else present got a glimpse of what he was really made of too. In getting a time of 6.15 seconds, nearly as fast as Master Roshi's average result, Nam displayed speed never before seen by anyone besides a few elite martial artists, and the star struck fans of the world martial arts tournament, to which the last couple of rounds were little more than moving blurs.

Most of Blue Force were stunned they stood their eye's bulging, mouth agape trying to come to terms with the fact the man before them had just beaten the world record by nearly 3 seconds.

The Blue Force tried their best at the run but most fell in between 10.5 and 11 seconds, only Captain Meditrain even got close to the times of the units fastest duo with a time of 10.1 seconds, which was in some ways more impressive than his subordinate's times due to his massive size.

Chi Chi was preoccupied doing a set of one armed pushups at the time for the second to last run so Bora went first. Most of the Blue force were snickering to themselves confident that the giant of a man wouldn't be able to accelerate his muscle ladened body enough to even reach 12 seconds, again they were proven wrong as Bora launched himself like a charging rhino across the field the second Master Roshi said go. Getting an impressive time of 7.2 seconds, still well above the official world record.

"Chi Chi, It's your turn." Master Roshi shouted interrupting her count for her second set of the morning. She gave him a glare that nearly made him cringe, but got into a sprinting stance anyway, she wanted through the preliminary tests as fast as possible to begin the actual training. She was a blur for most of the men standing there, coming in with a time of 5.8, which surprised even Master Roshi, 'amazing she's already almost as fast as I am.'

"Well those were some impressive times, very impressive actually; most of you are already at normal human limitations, though a few of you are already in the process of moving past them as we speak. The first part of the training will be about pushing yourselves beyond these limitations. I'll give you an example of it in case the message hasn't sunk in for some of you yet." Master Roshi said as he took off the new heavier turtle shell he had been wearing since the news of Goku's death and tossed the stopwatch to Nam and started stretching as he walked down the same starting spot everyone else had. Nam called go and Roshi turned into a blur. Coming in with a time of 5.2 seconds. To the surprise of nearly everyone present, even the ones that knew he was powerful didn't expect him to be that fast, except Nam, of course, who had seen Master Roshi fight in the finale of the world Martial Arts tournament against Goku. After hearing his time Master Roshi was glad to note that his time had actually improved over the last decade.

"Now the-" Master Roshi started to say before being cut off, "Do I get a chance as well?" A thickly accented voice asked from behind, everyone immediately turned to see King Chappa standing there. "Ah King Chappa I wondering when you'd arrive, yes we can time you also." Master Roshi replied eager to see how his last, and most promising, 'student' stacked up. King Chappa turned into a blur coming in with a time of 5.5 seconds, which shocked everyone, minus Master Roshi. the Turtle Hermit knew King Chappa was at the very least near his league following the 23rd martial arts tournament and had apparently still been training relentlessly in the years since.

"Very impressive King Chappa, I think I'll have to get heavier shells after today, but for now these will do." he said before walking over to the side of the house and lifted a massive stack of turtle shells, which required a great deal of effort even for him. Before walking over and dropping them off in front of his students.

"Alright I want the you 5 in the 50lbs shells, Captain Meditrain can have a 75lbs shell, Nam, Bora can both have 100lbs shells, and Chi Chi and Chappa can have 2 of my own personal shells, they're nearly 200lbs." He said before beginning to stretch, while his student's stared at him confused. Finally noticing this he said "Well hurry up and get them on so we can start training."

This immediately spurred Chi Chi into action, which in turn got the others to follow her lead. "Now what" she asked annoyed, by how slow Master Roshi was taking the training that morning so far.

"Well first let's warm up with a light jog so you all get use to the additional weight." Master Roshi responded before beginning to jog down the path at a pace just fast enough to keep the now weighed down fighters uncomfortable.

They ran for nearly 5 miles nonstop, before Master Roshi finally came to a stop. Along the way they had done zigzags, done skipping, high knees, and butt kickers, all of which added up to even the strongest of them beginning to feel the burn in their legs. "Well that's enough running for now." Master Roshi said as he caught his breath, "Time for a few stairs." he said as he started up a whole mountain worth of them, Chi Chi right on his heels, and the other's single filed behind them. As soon as they were finished climbing though it was right back to running, after the crossed a massive ravine on a log bridge that is. In total the run took the group nearly 3 hours to complete, at the end of which everyone collapsed on the ground panting, Master Roshi included, he had never made the run with his new heavier turtle shell before.

"Alright… I think… I think… we should…. take a short break." He managed to get out between pants. He got mostly grunts in response. The 'short' break lasted the next half an hour, Chi Chi was the first one back in the action forcing her body to start her one armed pushups again, only this time with the added weight of her turtle shell, shortly after that Master Roshi ordered break over and gathered everyone up again to discuss the next part of their training.

"Good job on the run everyone you all kept up better than expected. For this next part of training I will be breaking you into 2 groups. Since some of you are already at the point where you're bodies have enough strength to easily handle channeling Ki, I will begin teaching you the secret art behind it. The rest of you will continue building up your strength and attempting to close this gap." Everyone had an idea of how the 2 groups would play out, but that didn't mean everyone was going to easily agree to them. "Nam, Bora, Chi Chi and King Chappa, while I get the Captain and his men started on their next part of their training, I would like for you to have a 4 way spar so you get a feel for fighting warriors more of your caliber."

Right on cue though the Captain immediately objected, "My men and I are the elite special forces unit of the EDF. We are only here for one reason and one reason only to learn your technique that the King claims will be useful against the invaders, so you will teach us it now and stop babying us." Meditrain demanded taking a step towards Master Roshi in an attempt to intimidate him into complying.

"You and your men are strong I'll give you that, unfortunately none of you are strong enough to control you're Ki usage at an adequate level for that part of the training to be useful for you yet." Master Roshi calmly responded, which wasn't the answer the Captain wanted. As he reached out to grab his supposed teacher by the shirt to further intimidate him the old man to vanish from view as if he was made of nothing more than air.

Suddenly a voice from behind caught him by surprise, "How about I make you a deal, If you or any of your men can lay a single finger on me in the next ten minutes I'll let you train with the others on the fast track to learning the technique, and if you fail you follow through on my training my way without any further complaints." Master Roshi had a stern look on his face, he didn't want have to delay the training to teach his new students humility but it appeared as if it would save more time in the long run this way.

Captain Meditrain just scoffed at the challenge Master Roshi presented him, completely ignoring the fact Master Roshi could complete the hundred meter dash in half his own time, "I'll be able to easily catch you old man without the help of any of my men." and with that the giant lunged at Roshi, only to pass through Master Roshi's after image and crash into the ground. But this minor embarrassment did little to slow down the hulking giant as he rushed after him again and again, to half the groups amusement, and the other half's chagrin.

Half way through the allotted time Captain Meditrain finally partially relented and ordered his men to try and catch Roshi also. Which simply made the situation funnier for the four students not being disciplined, as supposed elite soldiers crashed into one another as they passed though after images of an old man, among other things.

Finally the time was up, and the Blue Force was left thoroughly embarrassed. Master Roshi finally came to a standstill and looked over his now embarrassed students and their irritated commander "There now then I'll give you a few more minutes to catch you're breaths before we begin your training." Captain Meditrain responded with a glare, "No we begin now, I won't be babied." He was furious with their performance, and if the old man could make them that fast he wanted to get the training over with as soon as possible.

"Alright then follow me." Master Roshi said before breaking into a slow jog again.

They had to run about another half mile when they came to a large open field with an elderly farmer standing in the center of it. "Ah Mr. Roshi, right on time as always, it's good to see you again." he greeted a large smile on his face as he remembered the last time his acquaintance had brought students his way. As the group got closer he turned to the young men gathered around him and bowed saying "I just wanted to say thank you in advance for all of your hard work, and thank you Mr. Roshi for thinking of me again, I appreciate this very much" before straightening up and walking away without a response from the confused men standing there.

"Master Roshi, what was he thanking us for?" Captain Meditrain asked suspicious about the old man's addition of 'in advance' to his thank you.

Master Roshi turned around and a knowing smile on his face, the same half smile that the Blue Force members were quickly learning meant pain and suffering for them. "He was thanking us because you 6 will spend the rest of the day plowing these fields, with your bare hands." he stated plainly as if the reasoning was completely obvious.

Captain Meditrain was immediately irate, "What the hell do you mean we will be 'plowing the field's with our bare hands' were elite soldiers not farmers! You said you'd be teaching us to combat these supposed super-powered invaders, what could this manual labor possibly teach us" The Captain shouted, convinced the old man had lost his mind. The rest of the squad offered similar sentiments.

"Teaches you? It teaches you nothing, what it does is provide you with an opportunity to increase your physical strength and stamina in an easily repeatable way. Now I think we've spent enough time talking the Saiyans will be here in less than 51 weeks so it's time to begin, unless of course you're going back on your word and I'm wasting my time even talking to you." Master Roshi responded, making it clear he was done tolerating the Captain's back talk.

"No I'm a man of my word, but you better not be wasting our time, or you will regret it." Captain Meditrain said trying to bolster his own ego, though after the last two days he had experience, he was starting to believe he couldn't back up his threat.

"Don't worry as long as you actually try to push ourselves beyond your limits it won't be a waste of your time, but if you don't I will regret wasting my time attempting to train you." Master Roshi responded issuing a challenge of his own to them all. "Well I leave you all to get started so I can check on the others." and with that he turned and started to jog in the opposite direction once more.

The entire unit immediately turned to the Captain for their orders, he for his part growled in frustration but ordered "You heard the man, let's get to work." before beginning to dig a row himself, his men following shortly after.

When Roshi made it back to the others the spar was just heating up as Bora and Nam were mainly focusing on one another while Chi Chi and King Chappa exchanged blows. He watched the exchange for a moment keeping a mental tally on what each could improve on. After a few more minutes he decided that was good enough "Alright, time for the most important lesson I have to teach you, please gather around" he suddenly announced throwing most of them off.

When they had gathered he sat down and crossed his legs motioning for them to follow his lead. "The first step towards training that will actually make us useful against the invaders is learning how to consciously access your Ki; this is a very difficult task to do properly so I suspect it will take most of you several days at a minimum to achieve. Before you can even begin to search though you must quiet your mind and become completely in tune with your own body, once you're in tune with your body you can find your energy, once you find your energy it's just a simple matter of channeling it slowly out through your arms and into the point between them." Master Roshi said before closing his eyes, which no one was able to see because his sunglasses, and began to focus his energy towards his hands, within a moment a small ball of light formed between his hands, no one present was very surprised either due to his past presentations, or through past contact with Goku, after holding the energy for a moment making sure everyone saw it, he released it and it vanished almost instantly. "See nothing to it, now why don't you all give it a try." He said as he watches them expectantly. They were all surprised by how vague his description of what they had to do was, but decided to just give it a try, and see how they do.

Within a few seconds King Chappa, suddenly began to feel the energy flowing out from his palms, a victorious smile appeared on his face as he opened his eyes to see the a ball of energy roughly the same size as Master Roshi's glowing between his hands. Master Roshi was astounded, he suspected Chappa would be the first to master this particular part of the training but to master it in only a few seconds was incredible. He was brought out of his shock when his near equal spoke "So I get to learn the Kamehameha now am I correct." King Chappa said as he let the glowing ball diminish.

The others stopped their own attempts, in order to marvel at the fading light as their comrade spoke. Master Roshi stroked his beard for a moment before responding; well I suppose that is the logical next step in your training." Master Roshi then jumped up and motioned for him to follow, "I'll check back on the rest of you in about an hour while I get King Chappa going on the next set and check the progress of the others.

He led to him the ocean, and stared out at it for a few seconds before he turned to face the man who was his contemporary as much as he was his student. "Before we begin, I want to warn you this technique took me 50 years to master the first time, with it you will have incredible power, I myself blew up the moon using it before, so with it comes great responsibility." King Chappa immediately nodded that he understood.

"Alright then to use the Kamehameha wave is similar to generating the small ball of Ki but on a much larger scale, you have to focus a lot more energy into the spot between your hands to make it useful, which is why the incantation is useful, it allows your body to get use to subconsciously gathering your energy." Master Roshi said he fell into the well-known stance facing out towards the ocean, "KAAAAMEEE…" He began as a large sphere of energy formed, "HAAAMEEEEEE" everything he held the chant the larger the sphere grew, King Chappa could feel the energy radiating off the sphere pushing against his skin, it was incredible, "HAAAA!" Master Roshi shouted as a pillar of energy shot out towards the ocean causing two walls of water to form on each side of the beam.

King Chappa couldn't help but stare, awestruck at the sheer power of the attack, it was a truly incredible, and even when it was done he couldn't find the words to comment on it. Master Roshi then turned, "Care to give it a try?"

King Chappa was taken aback, was that all there was to it, to try. "Possibly I-" He was cut off before he could continue, "It really is the best way to learn the technique is to just do it and not think too much of it, that's how most of my students from Goku on have learned it." Master Roshi said gesturing for King Chappa to just try the attack. King Chappa just nodded before assuming the stance Master Roshi had taken just a moment before. He cleared his mind like he had before, and began to let the power flow out of him "KAAAMEEE…. HAAAMEEE…HAAA!" He shouted taking less time to hold the chant than Master Roshi had since it was his first time he didn't want to overdo it. The results were still spectacular a pillar of energy still over half the size of Master Roshi's own blast shot forth, cutting right through the massive bounce back wave that had formed from Master Roshi's own attack detonating in the ocean. When it was done, King Chappa couldn't help but notice the attack had done a good job draining him, unlike holding the small ball of light had, as he began to slow down his panting that he had just realized he had been doing.

"Good job that was a very impressive first go, let's try a few more to get a good workout in before I check on the others." Master Roshi said before taking the stance once again as he began to power up, before firing another blast, they ended up getting in a rhythm of firing their blasts to destroy the waves the other had made, saving the island from taking considerable wave related damage.

(Back near Kami house)

The trio sat there eyes closed for a few minutes trying to clear their minds, Nam who had trained in mediation before was having an easy time of it, Bora hadn't had much formal experience in mediating but his life of near solitude him a great deal of mental discipline himself, and so the task was also fairly easy for him. Now all they had to do was locate their the cores of their energy.

Chi Chi on the other hand, was having to deal with a mind that was never truly clear every time she tried to relax, every time she lowered the mental shield that kept her from breaking down, all of the pent up emotions would rush in like they had the day before when she was too tired to fight them anymore. Her frustration continued to mount the longer she sat there.

Master Roshi decided to give King Chappa a little while to recuperate, So he jogged over to where the Blue Force were hard at work with their fieldwork, It was evident that a few of the weaker members of the squad were beginning to tire down as they were moving relatively slow compared to the others, especially Captain Meditrain who seemed to be completely devoting himself to the task. This brought a small smile to his face, maybe he'd get through to the Captain after all.

Deciding to not disturb them he then jogged back to the other group to check on their progress.

Everyone had been sitting there silently for over an hour, Before suddenly Nam felt it he had done it, he opened his eyes slowly as he stared into a bright blue ball of his own energy, the crackling sound it made caused both Bora and Chi Chi to open their eyes in surprise at the sudden brightness.

Master Roshi was shocked 'Amazing, my students just keep exceeding expectations, I figured at the very least it would take a few attempts for anyone to get any results at all but he's managed to access his energy the first time, he had expected King Chappa might be capable of the feat, but that was because he had already mastered a technique that require conscience use of Ki just in a different way.

"Very good Nam." Master Roshi's voice cut through the silence that had permeated the area over the last hour, everyone turned surprised that Master Roshi had arrived at the exact moment that Nam had completed that portion of the training. "I honestly didn't expect anyone else to figure out how to access their Ki for a couple days, how are you two progressing?" Master Roshi asked Chi Chi and Bora.

Bora was the first to respond, "I think I am getting close, before Nam had his breakthrough I had just started to trace how the energy flowed through my body." This was yet another testament to his student's rapid advance, Master Roshi was astounded at this rate all of his advanced students would be well on their ways to catching him in a matter of days. "What about you Chi Chi?" he asked expecting similar results.

Chi Chi responded to his question with an angry glare, followed by a frustrated growl, "Grrrrr, how the hell am I supposed to find my Ki when you don't tell me where to look." a crazed look in her eyes as she barely restrained herself from attacking her teacher "You heard what I told the others too, maybe you aren't thinking about it the right way. Ki is your life energy it flows all throughout you already, all you have to do is learn how to control the flow once you find it." he responded taking a few steps away from the potentially volatile woman.

"Yes you already said that but HOW DO I FIND IT!" she yelled, causing all three of the men in earshot to cringe.

Master Roshi began to sweat profusely not wanting to take a beating by a woman when he hadn't even groped them, stared at them inappropriately, or performed any of his other usual moves. "I told you that earlier, you have to completely clear your mind an-" he was interrupted just as he was taking another half step up in case she attacked. "HOW CAN I CLEAR MY MIND WHEN MY HUSBAND IS DEAD AND MY BABY BOY IS KIDNAPPED? she yelled again this time jumping up and stomping towards him.

Roshi's mind was racing when a woman started yelling usually it meant that pain would be coming soon, finally he thought of something that just might save him, He could sense the emotional turmoil that had manifested itself the previous evening boiling just below her surface, clearly that was what was keeping her from clearing her mind. "The only way to access your Ki is by clearing your mind and the only way you can get strong enough to fight the Saiyan's is by learning to master your Ki. But before you can battle the Saiyans you must first defeat you own emotions. I know you're capable of it Chi Chi because you're determined, you're not going to let anything stop you from saving your son." Master Roshi said attempting to change Chi Chi's focus from anger directed towards him back to determination for saving her son, and it seemed to work as she hesitated as she took the next step, before sighing in frustration "You better be right about this" she muttered as she sat back down, crossing her legs again to try and find her center as he had called it earlier.

'Boy I dodged a bullet there' Roshi thought to himself amazed he was still alive at the moment, suddenly a thought of self-preservation crossed his mind 'I better get some distance between me and her in case she gets frustrated again.', before he hurriedly jogged away, motioning for Nam, leaving Chi Chi to find her way through her own mental blocks, and Bora alone with her.

After giving the newest Ki user the same basic overview he had given King Chappa and gotten him started on the training, which King Chappa was just restarting when they arrived, he decided to pay the Blue Force another visit.

As he began walking back towards the field he had left the Blue force he noticed from a ways off that only one member of the blue force was still moving, Captain Meditrain's giant form was easy to recognize, and it was also clear was just barely still going, the rest were laying on the ground panting heavily. He was proud with the progress they had made on the field that day, and told them they were done for the moment.

After returning to the group of the Kamehameha wave's newest masters, and spending a considerable part of the early afternoon, giving himself a workout, as he powered up to his maximum during this period, which ended up draining him much faster, he wasn't use to sustaining his bulky form.

When he felt he couldn't sustain another wave he dismissed them for the time being so that they could eat and recharge. Before he could join them though he needed to pay a quick visit to the field he had left Chi Chi and Bora meditating.

He was moving relatively slowly so that he could conserve energy to escape in case Chi Chi was still frustrated.

When he had made it back to the small field that he had left the Amazonian like woman, he was met with a sight that was the last thing he had expected, Chi Chi and Bora were no longer sitting on the ground meditating, but both firing twin yellow beams at one another, attempting to push one another back.

Master Roshi was shocked not only did she apparently break down her mental walls, but she then was able to gain such a command of her Ki to such an advanced degree in just a couple hours that she could control two beams of it at once, a truly astounding feat for a beginner. "Amazing I-" Master Roshi started to say before an angry Chi Chi whipped around to face him furious yelling "About time you got back we've been standing here holding these beams for nearly an hour so as to not waste any more of my time! Teach me the attack now so I can start the real training." She shrieked causing him to back away as quickly as he could, "Alright, alright I teach you" Master Roshi said quickly waving his arms in front of him signaling his surrender to her demands. As he slowly followed a still fuming Chi Chi back to the ocean shore he couldn't help but imagine what the next few months would entail, his mind did not predict a happy future for himself 'What have I gotten myself into, I hope this will be worth it in the end.'

There you have it, chapter 4. First off thank you everyone who has kept up with Culture Shock through chapter 4 so far I hope everyone's enjoying reading it as much as I am writing it. secondly i'd like to apologize to everyone for still not fitting the explanation of the Saiyan's arrival in this chapter, the re-write ended up being more extensive than I originally anticipated. Chronologically it's in the very next section I have so, I don't see any way I don't get it into the next chapter.

On a side note I'm curious if anyone can guess what the Blue force member's names are a pun off of, if you feel like guessing just throw it in at the end of your review.

Now onto last chapters reviews.

Reviews:

enlyasurgeon: Thanks for the review, I always like to hear someone is excited about the story.

super mystic gohan: Glad you're still following the story. In the show Master Roshi knew about there being 2 other Saiyans because on his island Raditz said there were only 4 Saiyans left in the universe counting Goku, which I didn't specifically reference in the story since it happened before. As to their power I guess I didn't do the best job explaining that, it was meant to be sort of a assumption that the others were making. Kind of like preparing for the worst case scenario. Raditz is going to have a fairly major role throughout the story, It might not be in the way a lot of people expect though. His reunion with Goku is going to be really fun to write and I'm looking forward to when I get to it. and finally the z fighters going to have a blast when the training with Piccolo begins. (and by blast I mean they will be blasted repeatedly in addition to the daily beatings they will be receiving.)