"I'll Make My Own Path!" (Nasu Only, 40x Gravity Training)

Fennle didn’t particularly like being “summoned” by Tomina, since, even though they held the same rank, she was part of Nasu’s faction for a very long time now, but she couldn’t help it; she knew Saiyan society way too well and with the energy level Tomina was currently displaying, she was pretty sure she would be outranking her soon, the only thing she needed was another war accomplishment, and, truth be told, Tomina was far more likely to achieve that than Fennle. The saiyaness was a bit bitter with her own realization, because it annoyed her to no end that her greatest accomplishment was, ultimately, having become a super saiyan, which was kind of a bargain sale now. She was happy they had so many of them, but she was mad that most of them were stronger than her.

The saiyaness didn’t waste much time and shortly after her summon, she was already at Tomina’s mansion. ”Already with a mansion. Power really has a straight connection to her own idea of herself. Or maybe I’m just envious, but damn! What is this power level?! How come she grew this much in such a short span of time… She looks like Nasu through and through…” Fennle thought to herself, scoffing a bit as she got inside the place.

As soon as she got in, though, she sensed the enhanced gravity and she stumbled a bit mostly because of the surprise; Fennle was used to training under 100G, even though it didn’t do the same miracle for her it did for a lot of other saiyans, but after this little incident, she recovered and just folded her arms, swaying her tail from one side to the other. ”Well… I’m here.” she said, making herself known.

Fennle did resemble Queen Lettis and even though nobody paid a deep mind to that, there was a more interesting explanation rather than just saiyan genes and overall similar appearances. The truth about it, though, remained hidden from most and possibly only Miso knew about it, not even Fennle herself knew about her heritage and background, but that was a matter for another time, should Tomina grow interested in actually investigating the resemblance.

The saiyaness folded her arms in front of her chest and leaned against her left leg while staring at Tomina, who thanked her for showing up, recognizing it was unusual to summon people within the same rank, but she just shook her head. ”It’s fine.” she simply said and when Tomina said she wanted to talk while sparring, she felt a bit over the fence about it; while she was thrilled to fight as any true saiyan would, the absurd gap in power between the two of them hurt her pride, but she wouldn’t be backing down from a fight, so he shrugged. ”We can do that, yes, but what do you want to talk about?” she asked the hybrid.

With Tomina shifiting to her fighting stance, so did Fennle, sliding into the Soy School stance and carefully watching Tomina with her brown eyes, narrowing them showing she was being careful. When she asked her about the vision, she scoffed. ”That fool did try, but I outright blocked him out of my mind. No way in hell I’m letting that foolish god messing with my brains.” she bluntly said and, since Tomina wasn’t really doing anything other than stare, she dashed forward, putting all of her heart onto that attack, aiming to throw a powerful elbow strike to Tomina’s face. ”Flash Spirit!” she announced, using one of the Soy School signature melee techniques.

Should she hit, or Tomina block it, it would be followed by a reverse kick to the gut.

Fennle heard to Tomina’s words and she silently agreed: she was glad she knew how to protect her own mind from such foul type of attack because they were the most invasive among them all. At the same time she could understand Tomina’s position regarding Natto, but she still finds it rather odd the fact that someone who hated Natto and Tomoroko so much could even accept following Nasu. Of course the fruit fell way too far from the tree when you look at Nasu and his parents, but still, they were blood. Her speech was leading to the topic she wanted so Fennle wasn’t surprised when she asked her to teach the Strong Will. Before she could answer, though, the attacks clashed and Fennle immediately recognized the Ribs Breaker, a quite deadly Vegetean technique she faced once or twice during the war.

The saiyaness grimaced as Tomina overpowered her in both sheer force and skill, making the Ribs Breaker to prevail against the Flash Spirit. ”Grr! Dammit!” she cursed as he dashed backwards to put some distance in between them. The impact on her ribs were strong but luckily she wasn’t a weakling and she was wearing a now cracked battle suit, which absorbed a great deal of the impact.

”Ribs Breaker, uhn? I hate this damn technique! But in any case… Strong Will… I could teach you that yes, but why didn’t you ask Nasu or even Karota for that? I’m trained in the Soy School but I’m not even close to be a decent practitioner of it.” she stated.

Tomina explained why she chose Fennle rather than any other and, in a sense, she felt good she was remembered. Truth be told, Fennle hated to be weaker than most of the other veterans and that annoyed her to no end. Tomina’s reponse satisfied her and she shrugged. ”Fair enough I suppose.” she simply said, but then when the hybrid said there was another reason, she arched one of her brows and stared at her with her brown eyes with curiosity. When she said the name of the technique, Fennle’s eyes widened quite a bit and the memories of the war came punching her like crazy. ”Super… Galick Gun?! T-that’s… The Wicked Queen’s technique, is it not?!” the wicked queen, the mad queen, were all names the Alliance saiyans used to refer to Lettis, much akin to how they addressed Natto as the defiler, the betrayer, the rebellious and such.

”Just who are you, Tomina?!” she asked, feeling quite unease since that technique was something absolutely exclusive and, among the Empire’s forces, only the queen knew it. In any case, she wanted to learn how to protect her mind and Fennle wouldn’t mind teaching her how to do that, but only after a few more minutes sparring. Without wasting any time, Tomina came again, aiming to hit Fennle with a punch to the jaw, but the saiyaness had her proud at stake and, in response to the attack, she flared a bright blue aura around her body and body slammed against Tomina’s punch with another powerful technique. ”Rebelion Spear!” she roared, clashing against the fist of the saiyaness with an absurd force.

Fennle hmphed. ”I’m not as single-minded as the others. And Karota is not in her right mind yet, not with what happened with General… I mean, Commander-in-Chief Miso. I’m still growing used to the new titles…” she sighed in mild annoyance. In any case, they were talking amidst a sparring session and, even though that was far more common than it should, they were still trying to hit each other and this time Fennle had the upper hand with the technique Natto created. Tomina congratulated her for it, but obviously she wouldn’t let it slide without some retribution.

Tomina came like a speeding bullet and tried to punch her in the face. She crossed her arms hands in front of it but the impact was rather heavy and she grunted, grimacing in pain. But before she could do anything else she was kicked into the air in a quite vulnerable position. ”Shit, not that one!” she grunted once again as she saw the saiyaness coming to hit her in the stomach. Fennle’s pride was already shattered and, truth be told, she didn’t want to endure any more of this pain and thus she flared a bright golden ki aura around her body, making her power skyrocket as she ascended into her fully powered super saiyan form.

[Super Saiyan Full Power. PL: 1,266,480]

The power boost allowed her to vanish from sight and reappear behind Tomina, dodging the second and most deadly part of the technique. The saiyaness stared at the hybrid with her teal-colored eyes and sighed, reverting back to her base form. ”You are annoyingly strong and skilled! It pissed me off to some extent, you know?!” she admitted, scoffing a bit before gazing away from Tomina.

The sparring was over and even though Fennle managed to dodge the later half of the attack she had been defeated and that left a bitter taste in her mouth, but she would have to swallow it and accept she was bested by the hybrid; being bested wasn’t something she was alien to anyways. ”Yeah, yeah… I will be delighted there’s yet another one who can come and save me when I’m about to die…” her tone was bitter, but she was actually glad deep inside; Fennle was a proud saiyaness, but she didn’t want to die or even face such a dreadful fate as Miso had, being turned to stone and being at the hands of a mad scientist in order to be restored.

Tomina continued her speech by explaining what she was and her explanation was nothing less than extraordinary, making Fennle’s jaw to drop in both shock and surprise. What was even stranger and warning was the fact that Tomina seemed to actually love the wicked queen, despite her cruel behavior and lack of apparent emotions. Fennle was quite confused now and she shook her head, as if she wanted to throw her suspicions away from her, but in the end she could not and that was bugging her so much she furrowed her brows and stared at the hybrid as she finished her speech speaking about being a spear and how that absurdly powerful technique would be the point of it.

Fennle followed her quickly as they reached the rooftop, but before she could start, the saiyaness spoke. ”You… You see Nasu as someone similar to the wick… To Lettis, don’t you?” she bluntly asked.

Her words didn’t reach Fennle’s heart. By now she knew she stood on a whole different level from her fellow companions and she was trying to make her peace with that. Nonetheless, she didn’t feel like making little of Tomina’s words since the hybrid seemed to be trying to be kind to her, which was something rare among saiyans so she just appreciated it with a half-hearted smile in the corner of her mouth. Tomina also noticed how Fennle avoided the title of “wicked queen” which she did out of respect for the hybrid and then started to explain her reasons behind joining the Saiyan Galactic Kingdom. The hybrid made a pretty good point: Nasu wasn’t like Lettis at all; he cared about his comrades and would boldly put his life on the line to save any of them and that made Fennle smile with honesty. ”Nasu… He does care…” and there was more to her tone than simply a subordinates admiration. Fennle loved Nasu, she had loved him for over ten years, ever since he saved her from certain death during the war against the Empire, even though he was but a soldier with little power, a dwarf among the titanic super saiyans battling there.

”And that’s why we call Lettis wicked… She cared for no one but herself. That’s why the Alliance came to exist, you know? Of course you do… Maybe you didn’t hear our version of the story and you probably should. But Natto did what he did for the sake of his comrades and not out of pure, unmotivated betrayal.” she said with a cautious tone. Still, when Tomina commented she had learned the Super Galick Gun, Fennle narrowed her eyes, not quite sure she believed that, but since she was willing to tell her the tale, she would carefully listen to it.

”I’m curious to this tale of yours. Tell me, Tomina.” she said and then she folded her arms and just silently listened to her tale.

Lettis, the Saiyan Queen
[Power Level 470,000]

Lettis was sitting on her throne like she used to, quite slouch when Tomina entered the throne room. Some high figures were there, such as Redis, Rukko and Artichia, but they were all silent. Rukko seemed his casual self, with that smirk on his face, but both Redis and Artichia seemed rather concerned. Lettis, on the other hand, seemed as bored as always, but someone who was careful enough would notice a tad bit of concern within her black eyes. ”Show it to her. Show what that worm had the balls to tell me.” she ordered, without staring at anyone but Tomina. Redis was the one to respond to her order though and walked towards the center of the room, where lied a hologram device. When he pressed the button on it, an image of Natto appeared in the middle of the throne room.

Natto, the betrayer
[Power Level: 520,000]

”Lettis, stop this nonsense. I don’t want any more blood from our kin, but if you continue to attack us we will have no other choice but to wage war against the Empire. I reiterate my position: I don’t want any more blood. I don’t care what you do as long as you don’t cross our path. This is your final warning. I lost my patience and, as things currently stand, you have no chance to beat me on a single combat, nor do your forces stand a chance against the Saiyan Alliance. That’s why I’m asking you to stop this madness. I don’t want to kill your people, some of them were my friends! I fought beside them, I commanded them.” Natto sighed almost as if it pained him to be saying those words. ”But I will kill them if I have to… If it is what it takes to end this bloodshed and give our race the peace it deserves. But hear me out. If we start a war, you will die. I will make sure of it and I will do it with my own hands. You can’t beat me, you can’t beat me for a while now and, due to the respect I have for you as a warrior… I managed to surpass the power of a super saiyan two. I’ve reached a power no other saiyan has reached in our life time and in our most recent history. Give up and live, insist and die. I end my message here.” after those words, the hologram vanished and Redis sighed. He dared stare at the queen and speak to her.

Redis, Commandant of the Empire
[Power Level: 170,000]

”My queen, we should consider Natto’s offer… We can’t possibly…” but before he could continue, Lettis opened her palm, aiming at Redis and shouted. ”Big Bang Attack!” the energy sphere was fast as lightning and before Redis could even react he was hit by the blast which exploded on him, knocking him out cold. He was nearly killed by it and then she sighed in annoyance. ”Artichia, take him to a damn healing pod… Maybe he will grow some balls with a zenkai.” she said and the other Commandant bowed and quickly complied to her orders, leaving the throne room at once.

Rukko was chuckling with the scene, but Lettis found no amusement in that. She sighed and a vein popped out of her temple, showing just how stressed she was and Rukko, seeing that, stared at young Tomina, chuckling a bit more. ”Our scouters read his power level. 520,000… Huhuhuhuhu! That’s obscene! He keeps on managing to out power you, my queen!” and his tease rendered him a deadly glare from Lettis, but she knew she couldn’t give herself the satisfaction of killing Rukko right now; he was the strongest in her army and, as much of an annoyance he was, the saiyan was a brute and this ruthlessness would be needed in the war.

”Kid, it’s about time you prove yourself to be useful. I’m sending Athren away as part of my legacy, should things go south. But there’s something I need you to do in my name. Be honored I’m even wasting time on such a thing as yourself. Still, you have proved yourself worthy of my appreciation.” she said, cracking some sort of wicked grin in the corner of her mouth.