Savoring defeat (Solo/40G)

Keeping up with his father was nearly impossible and the child saiyan warrior was growing quite frustrated with that. He was experiencing intense gravity enhanced training, but they didn’t seem to be doing him much good, as he was still with pretty much at the same power level he had been for a while now. I mean, it did grow a bit, but it was like if he needed to be putting himself into much more difficult circumstances, and he didn’t want his dad to witness his failures that would most definitely be happening before he managed to accomplish something. Therefore, he had started training in secrecy, using the gravity chamber inside the Star Javelin whenever no one was around. He had finally mastered the gravity of thirty times Earth’s one and he felt really satisfied with that, but not nearly as much as he wanted. No, if he was to impress his father for real, he would have to go further beyond that! He would master the impressive gravity of 50G! But first he would need to conquer 40G and he had an idea on how to do that, while pushing himself to the very limit: with a simulation, using the hard-light holograms the mothership had.

The kid waited for the middle of the night, where most people were already sleeping and flew towards the ship. He was flying slower than before due to not wanting to bring eyes onto him, but was still enough ki output to get there quickly, leaving the trail of ghostly-white ki energy behind him. A feeling of excitement began to fill his stomach taking the form of butterflies, as he landed in front of the Council hall hangar where the ship was. There were no guards there right now, as Nasu had carefully prepared; he arrived when they were changing shifts and upon landing, he carefully watched around the area, to see if there was anyone there. ”Great! There’s no one here!” he thought to himself, with a large smirk appearing on his face.

The saiyan boy walked silently towards the ship and then to the entrance of the gravity chamber, opening the mechanical door in an instant. Nasu breathed deeply as he got inside, closing the door right after getting in. He had one thing on his mind, and one thing only: he needed to get stronger no matter what. As soon as he got in front of the control panel he mused for a second. ”Okay… Forty times… No worries! I’ve just handled thirty times pretty well, didn’t I?!” and he gulped as he input the commands and started the artificial enhancing gravity system. As soon as it started, the boy felt the huge pressure, making him fall to one of his knees. – Dammit! – shouted the boy; if there was one thing he absolutely hated was to fall to his knees! He didn’t like to picture himself bending his knees to no one, not even to natural adversities life would present him with. The anger build up quickly inside the short-tempered boy’s heart and he shouted.

– AAAAAHHHHH!!! – he screamed as he released his ki energy, flaring up his aura, engulfing his body on his ghostly-white light. With that he was able to stand up again, although slowly, with his whole body trembling due to the pressure. Back on his feet, he breathed deeply and started walking around the chamber. He didn’t waste much time and quickly turned his jogging into a sprint at full speed around the place. As soon as he got to his 5th lap, he leaped into the air and began flying around the chamber for another couple of laps, and then landed – to be gentle about him plummeting to the ground, exhausted. Nasu was panting heavily and that only made him even more angered. ”I won’t lose to you gravity! This was just my warm up! So… Fuck you! I’m a saiyan warrior! I’m the son of Natto and Tomoroko!! A stupid machine won’t defeat me!” and those thoughts made him feel himself with a fiery determination, and he was ready to continue his gravity training; his body rested enough to go on.

It was now time to use the hard-light hologram device on the ship so that his training could flow more naturally and consequentially increase the results. For that, he decided that he would be fighting against one of his race’s ancient enemies: a Kold demon. Of course the Kold Empire was nothing compared to what it once was, when they ruled the Planet Trade Organization, but the few remaining Kolds that were still there, in the universe, were formidable opponents, and could just as easily kill a saiyan if he was unprepared, even elite ones, due to their transformation ability. Searching for the records in the data, Nasu found a particular Kold demon illusion his father himself had programed.

– Who is this guy? – he asked himself as he looked into the profile. It was a Kold demon elite named Polaros. On the normal configuration, his first form power level was set to be at 350,000. Nasu widened his eyes and arched his brows in absolute surprise and fear.

– No fucking way! If I fight this I’m dead! What’s wrong with dad, anyway?! How can he fight such a beast?! Dammit! Our level is so far apart it seems almost impossible that I will ever reach it! – the kid said to himself, feeling completely frustrated by that. But he could configure it, so, by changing the set-up, he managed to reduce his power level in base form to just 1,000. That was the bare minimum it could reach, and that made him more at peace, changing back to his regular slightly angered expression.

As soon as he initiated the simulation, the environment began to change, as the hard-light hologram completely transformed the gravity chamber into the home of the Kold demons, full of snow and ice all around it, with a huge and beautiful tree in the distant horizon; the one which used to be the dread tree of might. In front of him was the Kold demon. He had a pure white bio-armor all covering most of his head, high short straight horns pointing upward. His bio-gem was dark cyan, prominent on his head, shoulders, arms and legs. He wore a battle suit the same color as his bio-gem and a black underwear. He had a blue scouter on his left hole-like ear and smirked at Nasu with those crimson eyes and cheeky expression. The saiyan boy glared angrily at him and spit on the ground. – I will fucking gut you, motherfucker! – he roared at the Kold demon as he flared his ki aura once again and, without a moment of hesitation, he dashed forward.

Due to the initial gap in their power level, even with the handicap of a 40G gravity, Nasu was much faster than Polaros, and the Kold demon was helpless to the knee strike to the gut Nasu threw, breaking his battle suit like it was nothing. Immediately after that, Nasu charged a blue-colored energy sphere on his hand, leaped backwards just enough so his hand could aim at the Kold’s gut and fired it at point blank, making him fly, sailing through the air adrift, completely helpless and screaming. Nasu laughed in excitement as he saw the suffering in the Kold’s expression and cracked a smirk.

Then, he concentrated his strength to gather impulse and vanished, using a more basic version of a Rapid Movement, reappearing behind Polaros and sledgehammering him to the ground with all his strength. The Kold demon made a huge crater on the ground, due mostly to the fact that the terrain was made of soft snow, but was still a quite impressive crater.

He barely managed to get up, but before he could finish that, Nasu, with clear traces of cruelty in his eyes, landed on his knee right at Polaro’s chest, widening the crater with the impact and shattering his entire upper body armor and his mid-chest bio-gem. – You can cry now, asshole! Because I’m only beginning to beat you to the pulp! Hahahaa! Now get up! – Nasu laughed out loud in a vile tone as he somersaulted back, to give Polaros time to do something besides get beaten to the bone. As he got up, the saiyan teased him further. – Is that it?! Did I program you way too weak?! – he said with a quite arrogant tone, as he assumed his fighting stance, consisting of bringing his left foot forward, slightly bending both knees, bringing the right hand to the side of his body, fist clenched, white leaving the left arm in front of him, to guard from any incoming attacks; it was a flawed version of the real Soy School battle stance, but it was already something.

– I will show you my second form, you filthy monkey! – the illusion said, in an angered tone. – More like bullshit form to me! – Nasu roared, trying to tease him a bit more, maintaining his stance, as the Kold demon fired his dark cyan ki aura. His body began to glow as he slowly grew. His horns became more prominent and his muscle mass increased incredibly, but that was pretty much what changed. The gravity machine beeped out loud, showing a number above Polaros’ head, indicating his power level was now 4,000. ”Not bad, but not nearly enough!” he though!

– Behold, my second form! Huhuhuhu! – he bragged, in a confident tone as he dashed towards Nasu, aiming to punch him in the face. But the saiyan was ready and the moment the punch got near him, he grabbed the Kold’s fist and twisted his arm, making him lose his balance completely, breaking his guard too. Still holding the foe’s hand, Nasu spun his hips and roundhouse kicked his face, sending him flying toward a frozen mountain, making a hole into it. The young saiyan boy wasted no time, and charged towards his opponent, firing his ghostly-white ki aura. Both of his fists were clenched with his arms straight forward – resembling the stance used for the Rebellion Spear - and as Polaros tried to get out of the hole, Nasu hit him like a train wreck with both fists do the gut, making him puke a little illusionary blood, as he pierced right through the mountain, using the Kold’s back as the tip of the spear. The inertia of the movement made him fly away, rolling over the ground for more than 10 feet as they got to the other side of the mountain.

Nasu laughed out loud with traces of cruelty on his tone, staring at the sorry excuse for a Kold Demon that was having quite a lot trouble to get up. He had no chance at his current state, since Nasu still had a much higher power level than him, which led him to scream again, as he intensified his dark cyan aura, transforming again. – I was starting to wonder when you would do that! I’m getting bored with you, asshole! – Nasu said, chuckling a bit as he got back to his fighting stance while Polaros head began to elongate. He grew a couple pair of horns on that big head of him and another couple pair on his back. He lost his nose and his mouth widened, becoming some ugly monster.

– This form is quite unpleasant, you monkey! But… You are giving me no other choice! With my third form I shall eradicate you from the face of the earth! – he growled as he finished transforming. As soon as he finished, the illusory number appeared again, showing that his power level was now impressive 8,000. Nasu arched both his eyebrows in surprise and fear finally reached him.

”No fucking way! His power level is beyond mine!” he gulped as he saw the Kold demon pointing his finger at him and firing a purple and thin beam of energy. Nasu focused on that and when it got close to him, he deflected it with a fierce slap, but damn, it hurt his hand like a bitch, and he loudly groaned in pain. – DAMMIT YOU FUCKER!! – he roared. His power was now a true danger, and if Nasu lowered his guard he would be easily defeated, but that only made him even more angry.

– I will kill you now! – he roared as he dashed forward throwing a few jab at Polaros, who easily evaded it by side stepping and chuckling, only to be hit by a haymaker to the face. But the Kold demon didn’t fly away with the attack like before; instead, he took a few steps back, leaning his head backwards before recovering his posture. Nasu growled and went for another set of jabs, which were deflected one by one, until he kneed Polaros to the gut, making him growl slightly. Following that, Nasu spun around and targeted his face with a heel blow, but it was blocked by Polaro’s grip as he grabbed Nasu’s leg.

– Release me now, bastard!!! – he demanded, but Polaros’ answer to his demand took the form of a strong punch to the face, that made him roll through the ground like a garment in a washing machine, groaning in pain. The boy got up only to notice that the ground below him was painted red with the blood streaming down his nose ”My blood! This motherfucker will pay!!!”. Filled with anger and determination, the saiyan child started charging his ki energy on his right hand, making an intense flame-like energy to gather around his right fist. The moment Polaros jumped over him, to give him some punishment, Nasu gritted his teeth and threw an energy punch right to his chest bio-gem, making him fly, screaming in pain. Following that, Nasu opened his palm as he stretched his arm, firing a huge energy wave toward the target. – It’s the end for you!!!! Super Tyrant Lancer!!! – the boy roared as he used the strongest attack he had in his arsenal back then, hitting right on the mark. An explosion took place as the blast touched Polaro’s body. However that was far from over, since up there in the sky he was still standing, whole.

The kid growled in anger as he saw his best attack being outclassed by the sheer power of his opponent and Polaros, in turn, smirked as he landed in front of the boy. – Hmm… How about we finish this useless warm up and get down to the real fight? – he asked, chuckling afterwards. Nasu grunted angrily but didn’t say a word to the Kold demon, who chuckled again. – Then, llet me bring this fighting to a quick end! – and with that, he started concentrating quite a huge amount of ki energy around his body, making the ground crack and some ice stones to float. The clouds gathered and red lightning started to fall down, lighten the skies with its huge energy. Polaros’ body started glowing in a pulsating way, as he started to diminish, turning into his final form. – Behold, monkey! My final transformation and fourth form! Muhuhuhuhu! – he maniacally laughed as he stared at the kid. In a split of a second, Polaros vanished, which made Nasu widened his eyes and arch his brows. ”Too fast!” he thought as he desperately looked all around, but couldn’t find Polaros.

The Kold demon reappeared at his back, grabbing Nasu’s tail tightly. – It’s over, monkey! I know about your weakness! Huhuhuhu! – he said in a cocky tone. It was interesting such action was programed on the hard-light Kold demon, but that was a good opportunity for the kid. The Kold lowered his guard, confident he was winning now, and that made Nasu smirk; it didn’t matter that his power level was now 11,000, lowering your guard could allow a weaker warrior to take the upper hand.

Nasu hit him fiercely with an elbow to the face, making him fall to the ground. Immediately after that, Nasu somersaulted backwards and into the air, bringing his arms to the side of his body, gathering a fair amount of energy on both hands, before releasing one by one a rapidly volley of ki blasts, hitting the target with all his blasts. Smoke and snow took over the place and, for a second, Nasu thought he had won. ”Damn, I’m tired…” he thought to himself, panting heavily, but, to his surprise, Polaros was there, still standing on his feet, with a smirk on his face.

”No fucking way!” he thought to himself, feeling his heartbeat increasing like crazy. Then, Polaros dashed towards Nasu so fast that he could barely manage to block the kick to his face. Seizing that opportunity, now that the boy had his hands full blocking the kick, Polaros used his tail to sledgehammer him to the ground. He was sent straight into the snow, creating a large crater. He got on his arms and knees but before he got up, Polaros appeared in front of him, punching him to the ground again. Nasu screamed in pain and the light of his world vanished as he lost consciousness. He had been defeated by the hard-light illusion and his pride had been once again shattered by his inability to catch up.

Obviously he was being overly harsh upon himself; he was still a ten years old kid, who already had an impressive power level, rivaling with quite a number of saiyans in the Alliance, but, still, for him, it wasn’t enough. His goal was his father, and that was a quite unfair go for someone to have. Nasu only woke up about two hours later; he was exhausted but, looking at the bright side, despite his terrible defeat, he had managed to conquer the gravity of forty times Earth’s gravity and, once again, his power level had risen, this time more than before. Not that it mattered a lot for him, the illusion had defeated him, and Nasu would taste the bitter taste for days now.