Mastering the Super Saiyan

Late night, Natto was feeling restless on his room inside the Star Javelin. He was lying on his bed, wearing nothing but his jumpsuit’s black-colored pants and his mind was racing so much that it made it impossible for him to sleep. There were just too many things on his mind, and Tomoroko was the main thing. To think about the young saiyan girl would fill his heart with such an incredible joy that it didn’t even feel real at all. ”We are together… Can you believe that?! It’s just… Pefect… Much better than I could have ever imagined… And her kiss… Oh my! That was really something! But…” his happiness suddenly vanished when he remembered about the state he found her at the ancient tuffles ruins. He knew very well how dangerous that place could be ever since he had to face those freaking alien smugglers not once, but twice, before he managed to wipe them out. However, it wasn’t an alien scum that attacked Tomoroko, but fellow saiyans and, by the way she told him, it was somehow related to envy due to the fact that she was too close with the new Commander-in-Chief of the Saiyan Solar Empire’s Stationary Defense Army.

That thought made him even more restless, to the point in which he had to sit on his bad, feeling his heart racing and a deep anger to start building up inside of him. His power level started growing and growing and he had to take a deep breath in order to avoid transforming into a super saiyan. – Calm down… - he spoke to himself, taking a deep breath as he ran his hand across his face and, following that, across his hair, messing it up a bit, before bringing his hand back to the sheet. His hair got back into its natural disheveled state, since, as a pure blooded saiyan, it would always remain the same, both in length and style. The young saiyan got up of his bed and went to a nearby fridge, grabbing a bottle of water. He opened it and started drinking. ”She is stronger now… She is going to be fine… But… Still… I can’t slack off… I have to become stronger to protect her from any harm… I know she can take care of herself most of the times, but I’ve got to be ready for those times where she can’t… And I can’t keep on letting myself to lose my mind out of rage…” he sighed as he finished the bottle of water. Natto knew he had to learn how to control his own fury and rage and somehow, being a relationship with Tomoroko already helped him with that. He remembered another aspect of that day, and that intrigued him.

”When we were together I managed to control my ki energy in an interesting way… I was able to subconsciously suppress my power level and I think I understand how I did that… If I can managed to control it, control my emotions, I may be able to get a full grip on my super saiyan transformation… When I stop to think about it, Kaula could easily transform, and so could the queen… I can’t help but to think that they managed to do that because they held more control towards their ki energy than I do…” he sighed, putting his hands on his waist and staring at the floor. ”Damn… Even little Hana and Aspa are more skilled at ki control and ki related sensible skills than I’m… I need to improve… If I can manage to control my ki, maybe I’ll be able to master my super saiyan transformation and… with that… Be able to tap into its full potential, pretty much like I managed to do with my Great Ape form! I remember hearing from that alien, Reikiko, that we had to master the super saiyan form and that it would allow us to harvest more power from it! If that’s true, than the way to achieve such a state is most definitely related to one’s control over their own ki energy…” his thoughts made a lot of sense, and it made him smile, as he was coming to realize that it was possible for him to develop his ki energy to the point of being able to learn quite an useful set of skills, such as being able to sense someone’s ki energy and have an idea of their power, even without a scouter.

”I wouldn’t abandon my scouter, though, since it’s my father’s memento and, on top of that, even if I manage to be able to sense people’s energy, the scouter can be really precise and also has its purpose as a communication device! But damn, I want to be able to sense ki energy… But first and foremost, I must master my ability to suppress my power level at a more conscious level…” he decided and, with that in mind, Natto walked towards the large round hub on his royal spaceship, where he could train in peace without the need of going all the way to the central wasteland. Don’t get the wrong idea; he still loved to train there in the solitude of Planet Vegeta’s badlands, feeling the cool wind of the night on his hair, and the serenity of the night’s sky. But it was quite late and he wasn’t willing on straying too far from the capital. Tomoroko was nearby and he could reach her in the blink of an eye and, after what happened with her at the tuffles ruins, he wasn’t willing to leave her side any more than necessary. If he could, he would’ve been sleeping by her side, and that thought made him blush a little, making him scratch the back of his head. ”Focus on your training, moron!” he reprehended himself, as he reached the training area of the ship.

There, Natto decided to start by focusing on his newly acquired ability to suppress his power level. He adjusted his scouter to detect only nearby power levels and sit on the floor, crossing his legs, positioning the gadget right in front of him, so that he could see its lens and have an idea about his own power level. The moment he configured it, it detected his power level right away, scanning it as 183.438, which made him widen his eyes and drop his jaw! He was completely awestruck by his own power and on how much he had grown in such a short span of time; ”My power level is… Beyond the queen’s power level when she left to war! T-that’s… Amazing! How much would my super saiyan power be?! I’ve got to check it out!!” he decided, feeling rather excited as he – remaining sit – started gathering his ki energy. The first thing that happened was the flaring of his ghostly-white ki aura, that, faster than before acquired strains of bright gold until the whole aura that engulfed his body became bright gold and warm. His hair bristled quickly this time and became the same color as his ki aura, while his eyes came from black straight into teal, attaining the super saiyan transformation much easier than the first few times he did that. However, the most impressive thing about his transformation was his astonishing power level of 2.201.256, that made him completely impressed with himself.

”Over two million two hundred! That’s amazing! I can’t believe I’m so strong now! Hahaha! This is awesome!!!” he was quite excited with his result, but he knew he couldn’t celebrate it for too long, otherwise it would disturb his training. Right now he couldn’t feel so excited or anything, since he had to focus on keeping his mind calm and serene in order to achieve his goal of mastering his transformation and his ki abilities. His first step was a travel back in time, to earlier today, when he managed to control his ki energy. He had to fight against all of his instincts that insisted on focusing on kissing and hugging Tomoroko, to be able to remember the feeling he had when he learned naturally how to suppress his ki energy. To do that on his super saiyan state was really hard and he knew that if it wasn’t for Tomoroko, he wouldn’t be able to do so for a very long time.

By focusing his mind and controlling his power from bursting away from his body, he managed to calm his ki aura that engulfed his body, making it diminish in size as he achieved some sort of inner peace. Little by little his scouter indicated that his power level was reducing, a lot like it did when he was holding Tomoroko on his arms. Natto managed to achieve a suppressed power level of one million within a few minutes focusing on doing that. It was quite hard since the super saiyan rage still lingered deep inside his heart, but he was doing his best to fight against it and he was succeeding. Natto had matured a lot on this path month, more so than he did on most of his life. So many things had happened during this time, and he knew he had to keep on improving further, both physically and mentally, otherwise the one’s he loved would be at risk, and there would be nothing he could do to protect them, and he couldn’t allow that to happen at any cost.

”I need to expand my mind… Enhance my senses and connect with my inner self… If I can get ahold of my feelings, my desires and my instinct… I will be able to evolve my senses and, therefore, conquer my own ki energy… My ki is not only a weapon, a tool of war… It is part of me… An essential part of me that I have to know and develop, like any other skill! Otherwise I will be an incomplete warrior… And an incomplete warrior is fated to fail…” he started to breath at a calm rhythm and his power level lowered even further, reaching now one third of his maximum potential. Natto’s aura slowly started to vanish, and was now only slightly covering his skin, like a dim light outlining his body. He knew he was close to achieving his goal, and had to fight against his own excitement. ”Don’t get so happy… Be serene. There will be plenty of time to celebrate later… Right now you can’t let your feelings to cloud your mind.” he alerted himself.

Somehow, his mind expanded so much, that he was starting to feel some weird presences at first. When he first felt them he couldn’t make much sense out of it, but soon enough its images began to clear on his mind. He was feeling the ki energy of the people around the hangar of the palace. The soldiers that were patrolling the halls, the people on the sleeping quarters. It was still too immature, as he could only grasp the existence of beings with a considerable power level, but had no idea of their true potential. It was like he could feel flames of energy around the place, but couldn’t yet determine the size and temperature of it. ”I can feel them… If I can only focus a little bit more…” a drop of sweat ran down his right temple as he focused his mind the most he could and, little by little, he started having an idea on how powerful the people around the area were. It was a weird sensation, since he could actually feel their power, but at the same time it was something rather impressive. ”This is truly incredible… It’s like a sixth sense that I’ve been ignoring for years, and now it is coming back to me… It feels so… natural, and yet I feel so newbie on that! Hahaha… It’s awesome!” he thought to himself, as he kept on focusing his mind into feeling the ki of the people on the palace.

It took him a while to get used to that feeling, and he would go back and forth sensing the ki of the people around him, only to lose track of it afterwards for a while, before it became more stable, and, as it became stable, he managed to calibrate de degree of this new sense, as to be able to evaluate the potential power level of the people that roamed around the palace area. For Natto, if felt like a small flame inside of each person he was sensing, being a sensation he could feel with the back of his own head. The heat of each flame depended on the power the individual held inside of him, or at least let it out while Natto was sensing it, making it difficult to put into exact numbers; the scouter still did a better job at that, but it was amazingly useful nonetheless.

The young super saiyan had finally managed to conquer his own ki perception, allowing him to fully feel the ki energy of other living beings. And that was something to be proud of, but he had no time for self-congratulations, as he still had a much greater objective: to reach mastery on his super saiyan transformation and ascend beyond the power of a normal super saiyan, as Reikiko had mentioned on that fateful meeting. Natto disliked that creature for three main reasons: the first one was due to the fact that she assumed having eaten a super saiyan. It didn’t matter to him what this saiyan did or not, but eating a saiyan was something so absurd to his mind, that was almost unforgivable, and she took little effort on trying to justify such action; second, she actually threatened them, as she mentioned that she should lure Virtual Poi towards Planet Vegeta, and let him attack them, to see how the saiyans would handle themselves without her to baby-sit and protect them, which pissed him off, as Natto was already distrustful of aliens, because they always betrayed the saiyans, and that threat just made him reassure such believe; and finally, she took Kaula away from the Planet to help her defend her stupid meaningless home, which was a god forsaken island, on a god forsaken planet called earth, that didn’t mean a thing to him, with the excuse of also engaging Virtual Poi, after saving such an important useless piece of land in the middle of the sea. Despite that, she said a couple interesting things, and mastering the super saiyan transformation actually seemed possible, even though that story about a super saiyan two sounded weird to him.

Following that, Natto also became aware of his own flame without needing to look at the scouter that was positioned right in front of him. He managed to keep on decreasing his apparent power without losing his transformation, but it was something quite hard, since, sometimes, he would almost lose the transformation by trying to lower his power level faster than he could. This struggle kept going for almost two more hours and, finally, his aura completely vanished, like it had been absorbed by his own body. When Natto opened his eyes again, he felt a peace he never felt while on his super saiyan state. It was quite incredible, as he was actually feeling even more powerful, even though his scouter appointed a power level or only 200.000. His hair was still gold, but a lighter shade of gold, since the aura wasn’t reflecting on it, making him feel really giddy with that achievement. His teal eyes also lost that bright spark of the aura, becoming of a more natural color. Natto looked at his own hands and was impressed with the feeling of strength, even though his power was restricted and there was no ki aura out bursting his power left and right.

”This is incredible… And I feel great! I feel like I’m much more capable and stronger than before… Like I can harvest the full potential of the super saiyan transformation, ascending beyond its initial limitations and having full control on my own rage… I can still use it as a fuel, but now it feels like the rage would be more of an extra than a requirement! Actually, it doesn’t feel like it is a requirement at all anymore!” he thought to himself, with a large smile taking over his face. He was curious to know about his newly acquired strength and, with that, he stopped suppressing his power level, little by little, focusing on achieving his full potential, but without flaring his aura nor letting his power to skyrocket. He did that in a controlled and serene way. His power was leaping by the hundred thousands and soon it reached his past full potential, being that the power level of around 2.200.000 and kept on going up by the hundreds quite a lot, making Natto completely awestruck with the astonishing power of a full-powered super saiyan could reach. Finally, his power level achieved the peak of its power, being that 2.751.570. ”Wow! That’s amazing! I never thought that mastering my transformation would allow me to tap into so much power… It’s on a complete different league than the regular super saiyan transformation… To think that so much power was being held inside of me…” with that thought, his mind took him back to his fight with Kaula, before she left the planet.

Natto couldn’t help but to feel guilty for not having matured his super saiyan transformation before. ”If only I had reached this power before… I could’ve stopped Kaula from leaving the Planet… But there’s no use crying over spilled milk… On top of that, if she had stayed… Maybe other things would also be different…” he immediately thought about Tomoroko, his new squad and everything. Somehow, Natto wasn’t holding Kaula at such a high regard anymore. Of course she was powerful and could make a difference on a fight against Virtual Poi, but she had made her choice and there was no turning back now. Even if she was to return, at least on Natto’s point of view, she had already forfeited Vegeta, putting a higher esteem on Earth. She chose to be more of an earthling than a saiyan, and even took her mom with her. Truth be told, the only thing Natto wanted was to have a rematch with her, to prove that he wasn’t the weakling she took him for, and that his pride as a saiyan was the fuel that made him surpass her.

”If she ever returns, I have to punish her for abandoning us… Leaving us vulnerable… She cannot go unpunished for such a betrayal… And I will be the one to defeat her when the time comes!” he decided as he got back on his feet. Closing his eyes, Natto returned to his base form, with a sense of accomplishment. He had evolved further, taking another important step towards the ascension of his own self in order to become the perfect warrior, and protector of the saiyan race.