I'm only human

by Fishbreed

Have you ever wondered what a 100% human could do in the dragon ball world? Because if you have. Me to and this is how i think it would go down, if a human were to try to catch up to our super alien's, so sit down and read as i unravel what i think. Oc, slow burn, don't sue, i am weak, read with a handful of salt cause i'm not very good at this since this is only my second one.

6. Chapter 6

Chapter 6: what?

Hello folks it's a me, fishbreed, anyways I don't usually do these things so can I ask you to vote on a voting poll i'm going to make, I want everyone to vote on what I should focus on, be it this one only human, my Naruto playground for me, and lastly my dxd fanfic live human die human.

I don't know how the voting pools work so I would appreciate it if you inform me on how to do so, well enough or me and on to the story.

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You wanna know something I realized something about the muscle form that master Roshi had taught me? The muscle form increases power, but it decreases speed, but if you read it again you would realize something crucial about the fine print, and that it the fact it only decreases speed.

And want to know an action that requires a lot of strength? That right its jumping, and currently a 5 foot 6 body builder of a giant could be seen jumping over forests, the occasional village, and cars, but as he continued these actions he suddenly shrunk down to 5 foot 4 and fell down face first.

"Ugh," Alex sounded out as he rubbed his face from the pain, "I really need to stop loosing focus," Alex then pulled his hand out of his face to see blood, which he then rubbed off using his arm sleeve.

Alex after finishing to wipe the blood of his nose he decided to rest for a bit, how you ask? Well that simple, he goes on a light jog Aka jogging at speed of a 100 miles per hour while throwing a flurry of punches he copied off some dude he observed on the world martial arts tournament.

Alex doesn't know what he's doing, but he just punched with each step he makes, and with each step he takes he twists his hips and torso while throwing his fist at the very instant his torso reaches the apex of its movement allowing Alex to deliver swift and devastating blows which was made solid with the sound, as each punch sounds like a bullet flying through the air and each snap sounds like a whip.

Following that was Alex performing kicks that a man in a white gi and black belt did, his feet was fast and his movements were rotation based evident by every missed kick just added to the power of his next kick, his punches were basic but it was used very effectively as he would block with one arm and deliver a powerful blow with the other.

Following that was the recent fighting style he had witnessed on his short travels, it was yesterday just a day after meeting with the ox king, Alex met a woman, she wore a bikini with see through clothing that formed a skirt and a vail over her mouth to cover her lower face, she had purple hair and light skin, she had metal anklets and bells on the side of her headband.

She was surrounded by bandits but that didn't bother her as she merely danced around there weapons and bullets, afterwards she struck with her palms and open hand, she slithered like a snake around there strikes, moving under a horizontal slash by arching her back backwards, her hand then followed her body as it moved upwards slicing his throat.

A stab was negated by splitting to dodge the blade and spinning her legs to trip him over where she got on top of him and then she stabbed his throat with her nails, after that the display could only be best describes as someone introducing a tomato to a blender, she simply slaughtered them, a group of armed goons, no armor, no training, and no protection, just a group of people.

And before she could notice me I left, and that night I left with a new yet strange fighting style, and as I traveled through the road I came to encounter various people, some who enjoy a quick jog in the early morning, a group of people running pass me, and some weird old men that tried to take my turtle shell as they had thought it was a backpack, and to just humbled them I managed to stop their truck and lifted it upwards to where I tossed it to the side of the road where it couldn't inconvenience anyone and leaving the truck drivers in shocked and fear, I then took my shell and left on foot.

But after 5 days of travel I had finally reached my destination, training with master Roshi had helped me a lot on my training, and he even gave me extra sets of turtle shells that go up to 500kg, they improved my training with ki control, martial skill, and over all physical ability, and my next help in training will be here, now I just need to find where the fuck she lives in order to start my favor.

Alex then proceeded to walk around the town, but after walking for a bit like half a day I came to realization that something was wrong because it already feels like I have traveled over something twice, and after a short while I decided to ask for help.

"Hello mister, can I ask where capsule corp is at?" I asked as I had seen it on one of Bulma's devices.

"Oh that's a little bit ahead of us sunny, ya see this place is parsely city, you just need to follow that road over there and you'll get there," he said while pointing at a direction, "though you might not make it now since most transport… should… stop?.." after hearing where Alex needed to go he bolted instantly, leaving the man in a literal trail of dust.

How I got this extra speed is thanks to my constant exposure to the muscle form, which I had figured out multiple stages of such ability, one was closing off or properly condensing my ki to stop excess flow forcing to circle my body, unlike the muscle for this doesn't increase my power that much, but it is akin to suppression though on a surface level since I am not forcing it down but to stay.

Second way was to use the first step and instead of infusing and expanding my muscles with ki I just infuse it, letting ki flow through my muscles energized them, but I found a massive problem and it's the fact that no matter how hard I try my ki exits my body like a faucet leading to a higher decrease in ki and stamina, though the power increase is close to the muscle form with no decrease to speed, matter of fact it increases it which leads me to think that if I can decrease the ki depletion it would be viable.

Third way I figured out was doing only half, the power increase is far lesser than doing it fully, but there is still an increase and the ki depletion is rather minimal, and with some practice I got used to it, making me think that if I can increase the power like the second way without buffing up to much I could easily use this state for increase in power.

But over all they are all yet to be used fully, all of them have flaws, the first step path basically nothing and is a very watered down version of ki suppression master Roshi had taught us to suppress our ki power, second path waste to much of my ki which just leads to extreme exhaustion after only using it for a minute, and the third path requires more experiments to get a better grasp on what it can do.

So over all i'm currently using the second way because it provides the best increase, but as I ran enough to only see the previous city as a tall horde of shadows I stopped using it and proceeded to run at full speed normally, this made it so that I didn't lose any of my ki anymore, and while I wait for my ki to restore I can just waste my surprisingly almost inexhaustible source of stamina.

I don't know why but I was already like this when I was a kid, in our small village I was generally known for my nearly bottomless stamina pool, while I was still a child at that time so it wasn't really anything to talk about, that was until you compared it to the other children, and additional to that was master Roshi's training with me before Goku and Krillin came, master Roshi was already increasing my stamina to prepare for the swim across the ocean, so it wasn't that surprising that out of all of us I have the highest stamina, which surprisingly was only slightly higher than goku, which left Krillin the one with the least stamina in the group.

But our power was all equal or just slightly higher than the others, but that didn't make much of a difference, what did however was skill and experience, Krillin and Goku were raised or was already trained in a martial arts from a very young age which meant is was playing catch up with the two as they improved, I didn't know much about martial arts since it was never a thing in my village, but the closes things were fighting techniques the village passed down to every hunter, it was mostly a punching style like boxing but with more elbows and enfaces on power like muay thai but meant for monsters and not humans.

Overall power was focused and not technique so it was more deadly and brutal, though it wasn't the focus as it was taught to us just incase we lost our main weapon, which we were heavily trained on, I can use any weapon that a hunter requires, such as spear, dagger, and bow, however if needed I can use a sword as though it is uncommon for hunting its still a tool useful in slaying beasts, as I traveled the sky was turning darker, and darker, and darker, after noticing the moon rising Alex decided to head into the forest for the night.

Alex found a beast, killed it, started a fire, and ate it, after that he found a close by cave where he slept.

Next day Alex woke up early and stretched, he then ran towards his destination.

After a long run Alex found another city, and this time he didn't repeat the same mistake twice, Alex walked up to the closest person of the law, he walked up to a man with some badge, a black hat, and deep blue suit, he had a black belt with tools and what looks like a smaller version of the thing that criminals use.

"Hello sir, do you know where capsule corp is?" The officer looked at me, raised his eyebrow and asked.

"Aren't you a bit to young? And what business do you even have with the briefs?" He asked as he kneeled down to eye level.

"I know one of them, her name is Bulma and she owes me a favor," I said.

"Oh I see, hmm, I can take you their but i'm not sure if she will be there since it still school hours," he said.

"That will be alright, I can always wait," I said.

"Alright, lets go," and I took a ride on the cops air bike, the ride was pleasant, though the city was rather loud, hot, and crowded.

"Thank you mister," I said after he dropped me off.

The house wasn't really a house, it looked more like a brick dome with windows, there was a huge garden boxing it in, well it was less of a garden and more of a backyard as it had paths, a fountain, and some bushes lining the path, and it had no flowers, so I didn't know if you can call this a garden.

Moving forward nothing happened, getting close to the door I knocked, "Hello!?!? Is anyone home!?!?" I yelled out, I made sure it was extra loud as the house looked extra big, but after doing so the door suddenly got covered by a metal wall with a red light, weapons like circular saw's, bombs, missiles, and guns suddenly pointed at me.

-Intruder discovered, proceeding to calculate threat- it then beeped and booped as the red circle flashed some words over it, I couldn't read it as it was backwards, -threat level child, state your business- is said in a robotic tone.

"Um, i'm here looking for Bulma, you see she owe's me a favor and I came to cash it in," I said.

-monetary gain, trade calculated- the floor in front of him suddenly lowered and something raised up, -take this and leave- the robot then retrieved the weapons and the door returned to as the iron wall with red glass went back up.

"But… i'm not interested in colored paper…" I said out as I sat on the paper as I waited for Bulma to return.

I waited for a few hours, I even ended up using the paper along with some twigs and logs I had stuffed inside a container that one of the capsules Bulma left behind, it used to be full of water and food but I used it all up and so I used it for other things like storing logs, and sometimes fish or cuts of meat I had left, I didn't want to waste food and if I cant finish the creature I killed i'll slice it up and store it, and so that stored meat I had stabbed with some sharpened sticks and let it cook over the fire.

As I waited and watched the meat cook a woman's voice was heard.

"Oh my, thats dangerous young man, you shouldn't start a fire near here," I then looked at the direction the voice came, I saw a blond woman with curly hair, she was holding a watering can and was walking to me, "now the bricks are covered in soot," she then walked to me, "come along now, I know a better place to cook the meat you brought," she said.

I didn't know who this woman was, but from the fact she came out of nowhere and is inviting me inside i'm guessing she's Bulma's sister or maybe cousin since she's blond, "ok ma'am, i'll turn off the fire," I said as I took the thinly cut meat and stuffed them in my mouth, the meat was cooked but the edges weren't as crispy as I wanted it but it was good enough, after that I stomped the fire out and took my things and followed her.

"My, aren't you a strong boy, would be very helpful if we had someone like you," she said as she led me inside.

"I can repay your kindness with some help," I said as I followed her.

It took the better time of the afternoon, but Bulma had returned, "Ughhhh… school project sucks~~~~~" she sounded out as she passed Alex carrying some boxes.

"Hello Bulma," Alex said as he walked pass her and entered the lab room.

"Hello Alex," she said as she walked past the storage room, kitchen, and walked upstairs and entered her room, "WHAT!?!?!?!?"

"Bulma seems very lively," Alex said as he placed the box near professor briefs.

"Its all good, she's always like this when she's worked up, specially after a rough school day," an old man with blue hair said, he was soldering something, "also could you get me the schematics on the droids, along with the Jet someone ordered more and I need to be free tomorrow," he said as I then walked back and went to the storage room.

"What are you doing here!!" Bulma yelled at my face when she found me walking into the storage room.

"Loud," Alex said while picking his ear, "first I came to cash in on the favors you owe me, second I waited until your cousin came and let me in, third i'm helping your dad cause i'm repaying a favor," I said as I entered the storage room and left with a few papers later.

Time passed as Bulma watched and talked with Alex as Alex moved, picked up, and find some items the briefs needed, and for Alex it was surprisingly an effective workout, lifting helped with his leg strength, and constantly holding heavy items helped with his arm endurance.

"So what did you want from me?" Bulma asked as she soldering some sort of chip.

"I wanted you to make me a device that can increase in weight," I said while sitting on the floor.

"Why? Doesn't the turtle shells already do that?" She asked while stopping and looking at me.

"True, but constantly having it strapped on my shoulders kind of starts to hurt my shoulders, specially when I reach the higher weights,"

"And you came to me to fix that problem?"

"Yeah,"

"How? I mean its hard enough to study on gravitational force, but you want it to be a suit?," she asked.

"I mean it doesn't have to be gravity, you could just add liquid metal or something, like having segments where the muscles are and just above my skin it just fills, like a muscle suit that gets heavier and if possible stretch as i'm currently learning a skill from master Roshi," I said while mindlessly spewing my thoughts.

"You thought this out more than I thought," she said as she was writing on a note.

"I mean I had time when running all the way here,"

"I can do that, but it'll take some time," she said while thinking of something.

"That's cool, I got a lot of time,"

And so Alex would spend his days with the briefs family.

"What do you mean she's your mother?!?!?!" Alex's voice could be heard as he questioned the ultra rich as he couldn't tell the difference between a mother of two and a young adult.

Anyways Alex spent nearly a month with the briefs helping with most of the heavy lifting so much so that most of the droids typically used for such things were left with little to do, and so most of their employees were forced to upgrade them due to the fact that those who typically laze around doing nothing as their work station was less used were now being used, this led to some very angry employee and a challenge for them as much as it was for Alex as he tried to keep up and surpass the upgraded robots.

The first week it was their speed, they had managed to match Alex and even surpassed him when retrieving the object, though they were outmatched when it came to delivery as Alex could speed up while they were weighed down by the weight.

Week 2 was their carrying capacity, the robot's arms could only typically carry two boxes of heavy equipment to not strain their robotic arms, but if needed they can pick up three, though this puts more strain in their limbs which leads to more frequent repairs, but with Alex around they needed to increase its power, specially when needing to craft the materials for making capsules.

Week 3 seeing as Alex was basically super human everyone wanted to test what the boy could physically take, first they tested his reaction speed, Alex could react to a sniper rifle from just 20 feet away making his reaction speed faster of mach 33 or roughly around 37000 feet per second, Alex could also lift a shipping container with heavy effort, which the weight is roughly around 3 tons, and after that they tested his speed and pulling force, Alex could run at a brisk pace of 100 kph, adding a shipping container cut him down to around 60 kph so around a 40% decrees in speed.

After the testings Alex was rather exhausted, the testings were finished and he just wanted to speed his way down to sleep, and thankfully he didn't wear his turtle shell on the test as he to was curious at his current abilities as well, now that he knew he planned to rest and sleep, but before he could.

"ALEX!!! I MADE IT," Bulma barged in the room I was given to sleep in.

"Ugh~~~~," I sat up tiredly.

"Come, lets test the limits" she said while dragging me by the collar.

She dragged me all the way to the invention room, it was basically the room where they teat new products such as new thrusters, experimental molecular destabilizer turning it into dust and returning it into its original state without any problems or malfunctions, last time they did this they tried to shrink a normal car, it got jumbled as it was not pre registered into the device, so they still got a lot of work to do to be able to just make a capsule pad to attach into any normal objects so they could just shrink it back into a capsule.

She stuffed me in what I could only describe as a full body suit that had a vest on it, after that she pushed me in the room where she sat next to her father and began to type away at things.

Well anyways there is now a wall that separates us, I mean its made of glass so I think its not that protective but they seem to be very confident in its durability, "This thing is going to explode on me isn't it," I said.

"What——— nooooo," I gave the most flat expression I could, "Alright, Alright, I get it," she then sighed, "We've already tested it and yes it did explode from the pressure once or twice and it did crush the dummy that one time but we did some testing and you should be able to survive," she said with a smile.

"If I die i'm coming back dragon balls or not and i'm going to make your life a living hell," I said as I walked further away from the glass just incase it actually explodes again.

[Alright testing mark 10 weight suit, Alex please press on that button on your chest and say how much weight you want to put on] she said as I fiddled around on the vest she had given me, it wasn't anything special it just looked like the vest that the weapons department were shooting at.

Alex pressed on the button and said, "120 kg," and the suit or should I say vest began to glow and my arms and legs began to get heavier and heavier, looking around I didn't just suddenly look like a 215 kg man, I looked well normal.

I was curious since I was now heavier and decided to move around, surprisingly it didn't heavily restrict my movement as I had thought, and it didn't put to much pressure on my shoulders and was rather comfortable, though I think that will end rather early as I think it will get hotter the more I move.

"Works well doesn't it, I it made with a highly flexible and durable material, and don't worry about the panel as I made sure it was protected, not even bullets can break through it, additional from that I added a cooling feature to it so you don't over heat since I assume you plan to use it for training since it's the only thing I can think of you using it for," she said as she had a conversation with her dad that couldn't be heard from the glass.

[oh that's a good idea, Alex would you mind if we tested something with you?] she asked.

"As long as it doesn't kill me i'm alright with it," I replied.

[good, now I hope your prepared] she then pressed a button and the ceiling suddenly began to fall, [Make sure you push as hard as you can]

In a panic I did as she had said, the moment my hands reached it it stopped, but I could feel it slowly going down and so I pushed it to the best of my abilities, at first I pushed it normally, but after panicking I went into full muscle form and that's when I began to push it, after a few seconds the ceiling began to rise again, and seconds later the walls suddenly segmented and shot towards me, I was to bulky and slow to dodge in that instant so I got battered, but seconds later I turned smaller, I was still transformed but only on the second version, I wasted an excessive amount of ki in exchange of enhancing everything, after dodging the majority of them I began to fight back and began to punch at every incoming pillar as if training my reflexes, This continued for 5 minutes until it suddenly stopped cause halfway through I had stopped responding in the consecutive state and began to drop in performance.

I was exhausted and tired from the combat, I had even surpassed my limit of one minute and thirty seconds in the second version of the muscle form and reached two minutes, after that I had just pushed myself to the best of my abilities.

"You are rather strong kid, being capable of pushing 8 tons of weight and delivering a punch force that can only be described as a explosion is rather impressive, I knew martial artist could do the impossible but I never thought you could produce so much energy," the blue haired man said as he looked at a paper chart.

"T-t-thank you," I said as I panted on the ground trying to regain my breath.

"See, I told you they were strong, plus Alex isn't the strongest so Goku might even be better than him," Bulma said as they both entered the room.

"Well if there… is nothing… i'd like to rest now," I said as I left the two genius to talk among themselves.

[next day]

"Welp this is goodbye now Bulma, I need to continue on my training and all that," I said as Bulma had given me a blue jacket that can go over my sleeveless gi, it helped with hiding the weird looking arm parts of the suit while looking stylish and hiding the turtle logo on my back and chest.

"No problem, and thank you for helping out with the place, dad said the efficiency of the manufacturing and developing department had seen a 60% increase since you were here," she said.

"Thanks Bulma, and thank you for the food, i'll be off now!!" Alex yelled out as he ran forward with a device on his hand, it was a gps Bulma had given him after hearing what he wanted.

"Hmm, I feel like i'm forgetting something… oh its probably nothing," she said as she entered her house.

[a week later]

"Phew, traveling on foot was way tougher than I had thought," Alex then tapped his chest and saw it was at 115kg, "looks like I got used to it, I need to train my skills next, but before that," Alex looked around, looked up, and rummaged around his bag and looked at the gps Bulma gave him, "Man I sure am lost," Alex said as he didn't know how to read the gps device, I mean he knows how to read a map but not a digital map, he was used to a flat object and not a sphere, and from the looks of it he was in the middle of the giant landmass.

Currently Alex is at the central desert, where is cutting through to reach east city where he heard magic school was active, though he isn't so sure about magic since all he knows about is that its just another form of energy, but that's the reason he is looking for a magic school as if he can take their practices and add it to his own he might reach higher levels. While both are considered the opposites its not really stated that they can coexist, its just the partitioners that don't like each other since one takes muscle and the other takes the mind.

But from what I remember master Roshi has a sister that does magic her name was baba, so it could be possible, though I wanted to learn from her I don't know if I can pay for her teaching and from past experience I don't want to fight dead people that could possible explode me from the inside out, so i'm testing my luck with other schools first before going there, and first stop was bamboo high.

Bamboo high is near west city and isn't where jingle village and west city meet, its typically said that its around west city but after something happened most people would say that, I don't know if its from magic but thanks to some magic school I passed bye I was informed.

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Its been three days and Alex forgot about his gps as he couldn't read it, he was tired and he took a hitch on a creature he had found, at first he planned to eat it but after remembering where he was he decided not to as he couldn't start a fire in the desert, but one thing he did notice, and that was the fact this creature could easily traverse the sands, so instead of killing it Alex simply "Tamed" the creature, how you might ask? Well that's simple, I just kicked its ass.

I captured it and tossed it sky high, again, and again, and again, and again, until it finally gave up and let me ride on its back while I direct it to head to a direction, I named him pinchy as he tried to pinch me when we first met, currently me and pinchy are heading west as we or I know that's where bamboo forest lies, i'm not 100% sure since I don't have a map. (Alex forgot about the gps device Bulma gave him since he doesn't know how to use it. I mean he used paper as a fire starter i'm sure you can guess his level of understanding on modern objects)

"Oh pinchy I see bamboo!!!" I yelled out as I shaded my eyes with my hand to get a clearer look.

Pinchy pinched the air and went faster, though sadly this would be my last day I spend with pinchy as he couldn't leave the desert as it was his territory, I hugged pinchy's leg and patted him, after that he hugged me with one claw and even nibbled at my hair, he didn't cut or eat any but you could almost say he cleaned it, after that we went our separate way, I continued to jog or leap depending on what type of the muscle form I used, it was both to train my mastery of such skill and better my time in using the skills, while it takes time and focus to do the transformation I can still increase the change speed.

After a day and a half Alex had reach the borders of the bamboo forest, and as the name implied it was a forest of bamboo and some simple oak tree's sprinkled here and there, I didn't know if there was an entrance to such a school or even a path in such a mysterious forest, but I didn't bother in thinking and so I did what we knew best, action before brain.

Minutes later Alex walked out of the forest, "Hmm i'm pretty sure I was just here a minute ago," Alex asked himself while scratching his head.

Alex turned back and walked in again, and the same thing happened again this time he ran, and like usual nothing happened, Alex was getting annoyed now, so this time he picked up one of the taller bamboo shoots and proceeded to drag it while he walked inside.

Something snapped and he turned back, it was the bamboo forest, he scratched my head and continued to walk and outside came, to the outside of the forest.

"Hmm interesting, wonder if I can off set it somehow," Alex wondered to himself, he then looked around to view his surroundings, "Well its not like anyone is here so best to do it now than never,"

Alex then stood straight, closed his eyes and clenched his fists, he felt the energy inside him, his ki and life force, something he was taught how to manipulate and utilize, and so he will, Alex imagined a fire inside his body, and like fire he began to increase the fuel that the fire requires, and like fire it started to blaze inside him, a single camp fire turned into a blazing inferno.

Outside of Alex's body a pale milky haze had begun to form around his body, like waves that kept calm well that was until it began to flow, at first the flow was slow and deliberate like tides in the ocean, but then it flowed faster, and faster, and faster, until the blaze exploded and his flowing aura lit a blaze.

When Alex opened his eyes he saw the wind being pushed back by the shear expanse of his aura as if he was the core of where waves occurred from, but instead of water it was wind and dust, the state of his ki was constant, it wasn't like any of his alterations of the muscle form master Roshi had given him since it added no real physical benefit, though the constant feeling he felt was similar to the second version of it but it wasn't just for the state but also his ki, as almost like an open faucet his ki constantly flowed out so he knew he didn't have much time.

Alex rushed forward to reach the end of this forest as he had achieved what he wanted, the bamboo forest had a minuscule fog covering it, it wasn't thick or light just thick enough to hide something but light enough to trick the eyes, and so with his ki pushing the fog away he had a clear view, and clear it was as in front of him a portal had opened, giving him an explanation to the severed bamboo, but unlike before Alex could see it and as a martial artist his reflex was sharp.

Alex spun to the side avoiding the opened portal, Alex then continued to rush forward just to meet with another trap, it instantly activated and a pillar of earth shot straight up his chest, the strike landed and it pushed him into the portal and pushing him out.

Alex coughed and wheezed as the strike was unexpected and sucker punched him in his solar plexus, "Note to self, careful of traps," Alex said as he rubbed the area while he stopped the flow of ki as he began to feel exhausted.

As Alex laid down in exhaustion he couldn't help but realize that the mist had reacted kindly and thickened itself, Alex groaned and laid down.

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Chapter end.

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Good to be back writing other things than Naruto.