Dodge!!! (x60 gravity)

Natto woke up extra early, and got out of bed by jumping in an instant. He quickly grabbed his black-colored jumpsuit pants and put it on. The young saiyan commander ran towards the fridge, grabbed a large chunk of meat and a bottle of water. He heated the food on an appropriate machine and drank the whole bottle of water in a gulp. – Aahh! Best thing to start a day! Activating my bio-engine! Hahaha! – he laughed with his stupid joke, as the machine finished heating his food. Natto attacked the meat like a beast, devouring it in no time and threw the bone on a trash hole on the royal spaceship, the Star Javelin that would send it to a trash processing vault, and then dispose of it. Having satiated both his thrist and hunger, he quickly walked towards the spaceship training hub, where he had installed the gravity machine on the day before, turning it into a gravity chamber, his very own training paradise.

”I will miss the wastelands… But this is a much better tool to train. Well! I will still go there a few times to train with others, but I have to consider this my main training facility now. It’s is starting to get rather difficult to improve… And” a thoughtful expression took over his face, as he touched his chin with his right hand. ”I’ve already mastered the super saiyan transformation… Still, I’m a way weaker than Virtual Poi is supposed to be, and a little weaker than that freaking treacherous alien was.” he thought, referring to Reikiko. ”I wonder if what she said was true… I mean, about a super saiyan two… It sounds too foolish, in my opinion… If there was such a thing, we would have a record of that! And every story we’ve hear mentioned the legendary super saiyan! Not the super saiyan two or ten, or thirty…” he sighed, trying to understand what she must have meant. ”I know for sure that she wasn’t referring to the full potential of the super saiyan transformation, since she mentioned it as a different thing… Well! Thinking about it know won’t answer my questions! I don’t believe we can ascend further, or it would turn the super saiyan some sort of glorified Great Ape form… It would make it… Cheap? Yeah!” Natto didn’t believe there was such a thing, but he would investigate it later. ”As of now, I can’t waste my time with such thoughts! I have to train and get stronger! If they are stronger than me, it means I can still overcome my limitations and grow even further! To protect what is dear to me, I will become the strongest on the universe! And then, I won’t run the risk of losing anyone!” he smirked with the though as he got into the gravity chamber.

Natto immediately walked towards the control panel and hit the button, configuring the gravity to that of 60G. As soon as the machine started working, he could feel the huge pressure taking place. The young saiyan took a deep breath, as his body got used to it. It was much stronger than the gravity he endured yesterday and it was impressive just how much it increased the level of difficulty by adding 10G to it. – Ok… Now I really want to test those attacking spheres! Let’s see how fast I can be! – he said to himself, and then he started configuring the training session, so that, with the pressing of another button, the ten spheres would hover into the air and start attacking him. ”I still couldn’t find a way to counter that damn Kikoho from Kaula… But if only I could enhance my rapid movement skill… I don’t think she would be able to fire many of those monstrous attack!” he thought, as he hit the button, making the attacks spheres to immediately float and circle around Natto, who jumped to the middle of the training hub, ready to start his training on sixty times the normal gravity.

They started rather slowly and easy. They circled around him, floating in the air like they were analyzing him, waiting for an opportunity and an opening, but, after a while, one of them fired a red laser aiming at Natto’s chest. With a spin of his body done by rotating the hips, he dodged the first blast. Natto used as little body movement as he could, in order to save energy. For an experienced fighter, one of the main tools in order to win a fight is to have enough stamina left in your body. Plenty of incredibly skilled warriors happen to lose a fight against a weaker enemy because they waste their energy before they can manage to finish off their opponents, and Natto used to be an energy waster kind of warrior. Some of his techniques even came to exist due to his nature, such as his Continuous Energy Bullet and his Finish Breaker. They weren’t useless techniques now, since he had more control over himself, but on the past they were a complete and massive waste of precious energy, that led him to lose his fights against both Beryl and Xylo. Even his battle against Radasha was lost due to unnecessary damage he received and energy waste.

And then there was his master piece of wasting energy: the Power Weighted form. The main reason he lost to Kaula was because he decided to play her own game and sacrifice his speed to increase his strength. This led him to be hit by the fearsome Kikoho attack and get so injured that he was an easy target for her dirty nutcracker attack. He couldn’t afford to make such mistakes again. Never again would he lose because of his inexperience and waste of energy and by taking unnecessary damage.

Another sphere positioned itself below, reflecting the laser towards Natto’s back, to which he responded almost the same way: using as little movement as possible, twisting his hips to let it graze away beside his chest. He could feel the warmth of the beam, but it did no damage, making him proudly smile due to his accomplishment. The spheres kept on reflecting the same blast for a while, and he kept on dodging it the same way, until the spheres decided that it was already time to increase the difficulty of the training, and another one of the attacking objects fired a laser. Now there was two lasers flying towards Natto, and the only thing that actually changed was that he would have to move his body at a quicker pace, but still saving his energy with as little movement as possible. The difficulty didn’t increase much and, due to that, a third laser was fired and now he had to change a little of his pattern.

The young saiyan commander had to also lower his torso and raise his feet from time to time, along with the spins of his body, since, sometimes, there were two laser beams flying towards him at the same time. Nevertheless, when a forth laser was fired, things started changing quite a lot. – Wow! Tricky!! – he exclaimed, as one of the lasers came grazing beside his face, and he had to somersault backwards, in order to avoid the other three, before the spheres rearranged themselves to surround him again, reflecting the laser beams. ”I see… So, as of now, my limitation is to react to three simultaneous attacks with ease… A forth really can throw me off balance! But it’s not due to the attack speed of anything… I can see the reason pretty clearly! My mind can’t focus completely on more than three attacks… That’s something I need to improve!” he though, as he dodged the attacks, having to move his body a lot more, staring to jump and keel over the floor, in order for the blasts of laser to miss him.

He remembered his time in Argavat. As a child, Natto had to conquer this planet by himself, and he found himself surrounded by multiple enemies. Somehow, most of the argavatians squads had only up to three members and he learned how to focus on three different targets at the same time, but every time he got surrounded by more people, he would get into trouble and get really close to dying, and that though made him realize why he was having difficulty on working against more than three simultaneous attacks. ”Wow! It’s amazing how our past is strongly tied with our present… I learned most of my skills on those planets… I did indeed polish it a lot since the last time I came here, and I even perfected my fighting style with that squad of five saiyans on this very same ship… But none of them attacked me at full power all at once! And here I’m! Limited to three enemies! I can’t afford to accept it as my maximum! I need to break through this new all and keep on breaking it until I can face a whole army! I’m a saiyan! Our enemies are plenty and the aliens are growing stronger every day! Come on, mind! Expand!” Natto gritted his teeth and frowned his eyebrows as he was starting to get rather serious with his training.

With tons of effort, he was starting to get aware of all four laser beams and started to be able to dodge it in a more natural way, almost like he was doing it before, but then, the damn attack spheres understood that the pattern was being mastered and, this time, they really over did it, as they fired not one, but two laser beams towards him, increasing their numbers to six! – You gotta be kidding me!!! – Natto arched his browns and widened his eyes, as he had to resort to his Rapid Movement technique to avoid the new blasts, and then he had to keel over the floor and somersault high into the air, flying, to avoid the first barrage of blasts and their reflected comebacks! ”Damn machine! I was getting ready for five shots!!” he growled as he had to put his very best in order to keep on avoiding the attacks.

His body movement alone, even though he was doing his very best wasn’t enough to allow him to fully dodge and, from time to time, he had to use the rapid movement skill again, when things got dire. – Too close! – he would shout, when two or more blasts got really close to hit him, grazing right beside his body less than a second before using the skill to fully dodge. The machines seemed to enjoy it as, after he was only barely able to keep it up, reducing the use of the rapid movement, they fired a seventh laser beam, making him rather pissed. - Oh! Come on! I’m not ready for this!! - he complained to the machines, that didn’t seem to care at all, and then, he continued his training, doing the very best he could do.

Natto dodged the first three blasts by somersaulting and spinning in the air. Next, he spread up his legs and arms, leaning his head to the right, dodging a beam that came really close to his face and another one that came close to his crotch. ”That’s a hell of a Kaula’s blast!!” he muttered to himself, as he felt the uncomfortable warmth of the blast near his parts. As his feet touched the ground, another blast was coming towards his back and he had to resort to the rapid movement to completely avoid it, but there was another one coming now, and he was almost out of options. ”Oh no! I will not get hit by this bullshit! But… But even if I use rapid movement again, it will only start over and I don’t think I will be able to dodge it anymore! Other than that I’m feeling already too tired! It has been hours!! I need to save time, so I can turn those things off now, before they have another great idea and fire another freaking laser!! I wish those things had an easy mode!” he complained to himself, with his mind racing like crazy as the last one approached.

The young saiyan harvest all of his remaining strength and speed available and, with that, he moved so fast, that he left an Afterimage behind him, moving twice the speed he used with the rapid movement. His image tricked the attacking spheres to fire towards the afterimage he left behind, giving him enough time to reach the control panel and hit the button that turned them off. ”Wow! What was that?! I moved so quickly that I left some sort of image of myself behind me?! That’s something really useful! It’s like… The next level of my rapid movement! And it looks really cool! I should definitely work on that! I wonder if I can improve it further! That would be completely awesome! Hahahaha!” he thought to himself. The spheres emitted a loud sound and slowly hovered back to the floor, signalizing the end of that training session. Natto sighed in relief as he wiped the intense sweat from his temple with the back of his gloves, before pressing the gravity button, turning it off and returning the gravity to its normal 1G. As the pressure ended, he felt really great. – Phew! I’m beat! – he chuckled, as he let himself fall to the floor, with arms wide opened as he heavily breathed.

”I did it! But still… I need to improve! They fired seven laser beams… But since they are ten, it means that I still have plenty to go… And even when I manage to deal with all of them in the best way possible, this gravity machine still can go as far as to 150G! Damn! When I think about it… It feels like something crazy! I don’t think I would be able to handle it without having to transform… But I will try my best!” he nodded to himself, slowly getting back to his normal breathing rhythm. ”I wonder if the queen can train on 150G… Or if Kaula can… I can’t fall behind them!” he smirked from side to side, feeling rather excited. Sometimes Natto would forget about his anger towards Kaula; he saw her now as a rival that he had to surpass no matter what. The next time they fight, he would win! He would beat her even with her Kikoho. That was a promise that he made to himself, and he was going to fulfill it no matter what!

After a while resting, he got back on his feet, after all he was still the Commander-in-Chief of the Saiyan Solar Empire’s Stationary Defense Army, and he had plenty of responsibilities and stuff to do. ”Better get back to work then.” he though as he walked towards the door of his ship, opening it with the press of a button and then closing it as he passed through the door. Then, he walked towards the throne room.