Final Round (x100 gravity)

Natto slept a way more than he intended to. His original plan, after having trained intensely under ninety times the normal gravity was to sleep for about an hour, but his body required more rest and, before he knew, he was already into some deep sleep that lasted for more than five hours. When he woke up he felt like he just had been run over by a big spaceship or something. – Oh my… - he said, sighing a little bit as he sit on the floor of his training hub. He looked around and slowly got back into reality as he widened his eyes and arched his eyebrows. – Crapbaskets!! My training!! – he exclaimed, feeling really bad about oversleeping! It was already nighttime and not so early on nighttime, truth be told, as it was almost reaching midnight, as his scouter informed him when he looked at its lens. Natto jumped back onto his feet and ran over towards the control panel, ready to turn on the gravity, when his stomach rumbled like crazy.

”Oh crap, I’m starving! Talk about terrible timing…” he muttered to himself. Usually Natto would be very happy to eat, but this time he wasn’t, as he felt like he had already slacked off enough with his training having slept for such a long time. His frustration was so great that he pounded the control panel. It wasn’t strong enough to cause any damage, but still made a loud noise as he did it and, after that, he went to the dining room with large steps, snorting as he did it. Natto ate the food without any pleasure, as he was doing it for pure necessity, as he needed to be nourished so he could train under a heavily enhanced gravity, with a crazy strong hard-light opponent, the one he had set for the final match of the fake tournament.

As the young saiyan commander ate, something was bugging his mind and he couldn’t quite tell what it was at first. ”I remember thinking about something when I was about to fall asleep, but what was it again… Something about my childhood? Related to that dream I had? Damn… Why do I keep on thinking about such things? I just…” he sighed, chewing a bit of food as his mind raced with the thoughts. ”I was a naïve kid, as father said and as Miso liked to point out plenty of times with much less kind words… I shouldn’t pay attention to it, but still it bothers me… Maybe I should talk to someone about it, but who? Tomo would most definitely be the first choice, but she doesn’t remember much about our history and society, and I may end up only confusing her a lot!” he thought, touching his chin with his right hand, while leaning his elbow against the table. ”Aspa… He is the closest thing to a friend I have at the moment and, still, I don’t know if I can trust him to talk about such intimate things… And I’m also scared how it may end up sounding… I had my doubts as a kid, I know, but today I’m pretty sure about my own convictions! I would die for my race… I would die for my empire… And I’m willing to do everything in my power to see it endure and thrive! Even if it means I will need to dirty my hands doing some slaughter… As long as there’s still honor in that… As long as we do it as warriors, I can deal with pretty much anything!” he thought as he managed to put his heart to peace, at least for the moment.

Natto had finished his meal and felt refreshed and ready for his training. The young saiyan commander was quick to return to the training hub and, as he got there, he headed straight to the control panel. However, before he pushed the gravity enhancing button, he stopped for a while. ”Hang on… 100G… That’s pretty amazing… An incredible mark I could never dream of reaching before… But… But I can’t endure it yet with my current power. I know I’m pretty close to be able to train under such a gravity normally, but I fear that if I try it with my base form, I may end up having to forfeit my training due to some needless injury…” he sighed, admitting his own limitation. ”Yeah… I have to become a super saiyan before I turn on the gravity.” he decided, nodding to himself, as he took a couple steps back, putting some distance between him and the gravity control panel. With that, the young saiyan brought his arms to the side of his boy and clenched his fists at the same time as he bent his elbows, into some sort of relaxes energy charging position.

In an instant, he flared a bright gold ki aura that engulfed his body with its warm energy. His hair bristled immediately, becoming gold in color, as did his eyebrows. His eyes turned from pitch black to teal, and his muscle mass increased a tiny bit. His skin was also on a lighter shade. Being a pure blooded saiyan, Natto’s tail remained brown in color even though he transformed, unlike Kaula’s, who would become gold as her hair, an interesting trait some hybrids had. Anyway, now transformed, Natto’s power level had skyrocketed to almost three millions and a half, more than enough for him to endure the intense gravity of one hundred times the normal one without feeling much of its ill effects, while still pushing his body beyond his limits, helping improve his own growth.

– Okay… Now I’m ready for 100G! – he said to himself, as he pressed the button. This time something different happened. The moment he turned the gravity on, the whole room became red somehow, which led him to arch one of his eyebrows as he looked around. Natto could feel the pressure on his body, but his transformation was strong enough to keep him functioning without a big setback, but the whole room was feeling the gravity and that was probably the reason why the place was all red and stuff. The explanation behind it was unknown to him, but it didn’t really matter, it was just some fun trivia to be thought about later on. ”I sort of like this color! Hahaha!” the young super saiyan chuckled. Then, following that, he initialized the hologram system, making the whole place become the Vegetean arena with the dirt as its ground. The fat saiyan announcer, Dackus, was already there and Natto cracked his fists and neck as he approached the middle of the arena, showing that he was already ready for the fight, without any need for warm-up or anything.

– We are finally here, fellow warriors! At the grand final of the Universal Tournament, where the two best fighters in the whole northern universe are about to face each other on a death battle!! The match will only end when one of them perishes and you may very well start placing your bets on your favorite contestant!!! – he said, laughing quite loud. – Here, on my right side, the legendary super saiyan! The golden warrior of lore that can surpass all the obstacles!! But… Is there an unsurpassable obstacle out there?! That, my comrades, we shall see!!! – he said, as he pointed to the iron gates on the other side, that were opening slowly as a small creature walked in. Natto of course knew pretty well who it was going to be. Since he was reaching a milestone on his gravity training, he wanted to face an old illusory opponent, the last one he faced when he could still use Zucceta’s royal spaceship, the Imperator.

The opponent was the white and dark cyan colored arcosian, Polaros. The hard-light arcosian had straight short horns pointing upwards and prominent bio-gem on his head, both shoulders, forearms and shins. This time, however, he wasn’t wearing his dark cyan battle suit, nor his black underwear and, on his waist, he had some sort of white bio-armor that functioned as a tight and crotch guard. The power level Natto set for him was a suppressed power level of 450.000, since he now knew how strong the arcosians could become when they transformed, due to his studies on the race because of the war that was going on. With that power level, he would far surpass Natto when he reached his true form, and he would also be as strong as Natto estimated Virtual Poi to be, and far above what Reikiko indicated about her own strength. That was a good enough challenge to him.

– And here is the fearsome enemy, another legend on his own! The true ruler of the Arcosian Empire and mastermind behind the plan to eradicate the saiyans! The evil frost demon, Lord Polaros!!! – Dackus announced in excitement. – Enjoy, fellow warriors, because this is a once in a life time opportunity to watch a battle among titans!!! If the warriors are ready…. START THE BATTLE!!!! – he ordered as he flared his light blue ki aura around his body, to get away from the arena as fast as he could. The two contestants stared at each other, and Natto decided to play the little story game, as he found it actually quite amusing.

– Polaros… Long time no see! I thought you died after I blasted off your ugly face! Hahaha! – Natto said, teasing the hard-light hologram, programed with a personality of its own. Polaros, in response, chuckled, putting his right hand near his mouth in an arrogant posture. – You are a funny little monkey, aren’t you? Huhuhu! To think that you could defeat the mighty Polaros with such a puny attack. – he said, as he put both his arms behind his back. – That was but a weak clone of myself… One I use to incite terror on weaklings like you without the need of actually dirtying my royal hands! – the arcosian said, chuckling a bit. Natto chuckled back at him and folded his arms. – Well… Why don’t you cut the crap already and transform? Your current power is far below mine… It’s not going to be even funny if we fight like this! – the saiyan said with a cocky smirk on his face, as he waited for the arcosian to respond.

– You’ve got a death wish right there and I can even taste it… But very well, I shall grant you the honor of fighting the true power of Lord Polaros. But I will only need my first transformation to punish you, monkey boy! Behold my Brute Form! Huhuhuhu! – Polaros said, with an arrogant tone, as he bent his torso. His body began to grown in an almost deformed way. After he doubles the size of both his chest and head, his limbs started growing too. The difference in appearance was little, mostly the size of his body, muscular mass and the horns that got more prominent and slightly curved at the middle of it. By Natto’s calculations, his power level should be a little over two million now, which was almost half of the saiyans power, and posed no real threat, but could be good enough for a warm-up.

– Come on, Polaros! This is not going to be enough to beat me! Do you want to give me some free attacks? – he said, as he slowly slid into his fighting stance, with his left foot forward, knees slightly bent. His right hand was by the side of his body with the elbow bent and the fist clenched, ready for both attack and counter attack, as his left hand, with the only difference being that the left one was in front of his face, with its fingers slightly opened. The arcosian didn’t bother getting into a fighting stance, as he only pointed a finger towards Natto and fired a red energy beam straight into Natto’s face. The saiyan, however, didn’t need to put much effort to deflect it with a simple slap of his left hand. Polaros chuckled. – Good! Very good! You might be able to keep me entertained for a while, monkey! Huhuhu! – he said, and then he pointed his other finger towards Natto and started firing a real barrage of red energy beams, aiming at both the saiyan’s face and chest area.

However, even though the attacks were quite fast, they weren’t nearly fast enough to pose a real threat and the saiyan just swiftly deflected them all with only his left hand. The two of them kept on repeating it for a couple seconds, until Polaros stopped firing. The arcosian was in a very good mood and that was exciting Natto, because it meant that he wasn’t scared at all with Natto’s display of prowess. – See? This form is not gonna be able to touch me! – Natto said, chuckling. Polaros nodded in agreement as he brought both his hands to his back again. – You are right, brat… So I guess I shall let you play with my Monster form then. – and, having said that, Polaros opened his arms and bent his knees, flaring a dark cyan ki aura around his body. The arcosian body started to drastically change this time. His head elongated quite a lot, growing a new pair of horns right behind the one’s he already had. His face stretched a little to the sides, giving him a very wide mouth and making his nose disappear. Also, his bio-armor on the chest area got pointy shoulders with the bio-gem increasing in size on it, and spikes crew on both his forearms, beside the dark cyan bio-gem, and a couple pair grew on his back, giving him a rather fearsome appearance.

By now, Polaros’ power was at an even level with Natto’s, and the battle was about to begin for real. The two opponents charged at each other at an amazing speed and started exchanging blows. They were completely even in terms of combat, as they would block each other attacks effectively, countering only to have it blocked too. They would harvest all of their available speed and vanish and reappear to exchange blows all over the fighting arena, and the intensity of the battle was quite outstanding. No one was being able to take the upper hand and that was pretty much due to the fact that Natto had mastered his own fighting style, which made it possible for the young saiyan commander to harvest the fullest potential of his own body movement. He was precise and deadly within every move, but so was Polaros. After a couple more minutes of restless clashes of the two titans above, they flew away from each other, staring the opponent right in the eye.

– You can fight, lizard! I’ll give you that! Hahaha! – he said, laughing a bit, as he got into his fighting stance again. Polaros touched his lower lip with his index finger and chuckled quite a lot before speaking. – Hohoho… You are a cocky little monkey boy! But you know well enough that this isn’t even my final form… And if you are having trouble with it, then you will have no chance against my full power! – the arcosian said, putting both of his arms behind his back. – You are quite confident about your power! But I’m still holding back the full extent of my power! If you want to get serious, just transform already! I’m looking forward to kick your changeling ass at your top form! That way you can’t give any excuses!! Hahaha! – Natto said, feeling quite excited, since it had been a while since the last time he was pushed to such extent, and was one of the very first times he had to use his full power as a super saiyan to fight, the other being his clash with Kaula, that was held back due to the heavy weights they both used.

– You saiyans are an interesting kind… Stupid, but interesting! Hahaha! If you have a death wish, monkey, I will fulfill it for you! Behold, my final transformation and the true power of the mighty Lord Polaros of Arcose!! – he said, and then he began charging his energy, flaring an intense ki aura around his body. His power was about to skyrocket to over four million, and Natto’s scouter would go crazy if he was able to read the power of the hard-light illusion of the arcosian in front of him. His body began to pulsate and glow as he diminished to a less physically intimidating form. His head became rounded with his bio-gem becoming very prominent. His body became almost like a version of a white colored saiyan with bio-gems for shoulders. A drop of sweat ran down Natto’s temple, as he knew that now he was going to face some intense battle. ”Can I beat him now?” he thought to himself, feeling a small spark of hesitation inside his chest, but he quickly shook his head. ”No! I can’t let doubt to take over my heart and break my resolve! I will do everything in my power to win!” he decided, frowning his eyebrows.

As Polaros finished transforming, the arcosian smiled widely. – Now, monkey, let’s begin our little game! – And, with that, Polaros vanished. Natto arched both his eyebrows and widened his eyes. His instinct led him to turn around, thinking that Polaros would aim for his back, but the arcosian reappeared on his right side, flanking him and landing a powerful kidney shoot on him, making the saiyan growl in pain. Polaros was quick to move again, as he rolled in the air, tail whipping Natto from top-down, sending him flying towards the ground, opening a large crater as he hit the ground. The arcosian flared his dark cyan ki aura and flew towards Natto to attack again, but the saiyan countered using his afterimage technique, avoiding just barely the attack. As Natto dodged the attack, he was fast to charge an energy sphere inside his mouth and, as he reappeared after the technique, he fired the large purple-colored energy wave towards Polaros. – BREAK CANNON!!! – he shouted. However, the arcosian was too strong now and he easily dodged the blast and countered by reappearing beside Natto and landing a powerful elbow to his right temple, sending him plummeting across the ground like a cloth-doll. ”D-damn it!” he growled feeling completely outclassed by his opponent now. Natto did his best to recover as fast as he could, but as he got back on his feet, Polaros was already in front of him, landing a powerful hook to his gut, that made the young super saiyan to spit quite a load of blood on the hard-light illusion’s face. – Tasty! – he said, as he licked his facing, tasting Natto’s blood before roundhouse kicking him to the face. Natto’s back touched the ground, but he used it as impulse to somersault back to his feet.

”Dammit! I can’t use my top tier techniques, otherwise I may destroy my ship! Dammit! I think I really overdid it this time! If… If only I could use my Final Spirit Cannon… I could defeat this damn arcosian!” he thought, feeling really frustrated. Natto gritted his teeth as Polaros vanished again. He had little options and, as he noticed the impending attack on his left flank, he had to resort to his top speed to just barely avoid it again with his newly learned technique, the Wild Sense, that allowed him to almost instantly counter.

As the young saiyan reappeared, his left hand was shining with a fiery-like blue energy around his fist. Natto landed on Polaro’s back a powerful energy punch, and, as the arcosian growled, being threw into the air, Natto stretched his arm and fired a blue colored energy wave towards him. – Fly, Super Tyrant Lancer!!! – the shouted. The attack hit Polaros straight on, but the arcosian didn’t waste any time. He quickly flew out of the smoke generated by the blast, aiming to counter Natto with his fists. The saiyan roared in anger as he channeled his ki energy all over his body and, as Polaros approached, he bursts the energy out of it, exploding in a yellow colored energy sphere all around him, sending Polaros flying away, screaming in anger. – SUPER EXPLOSIVE WAVE!!! – he shouted.

After that, however, Natto was panting heavily, overusing his energy, and Polaros was already recovered, standing there, in front of the saiyan. He seemed quite angry now. – Filthy monkey! How dare you injure me?! I think this fight is lasting a way too long! Now you die!! – he said in a rather angered tone. Dackus, the announcer, was staring at the fight completely awestruck and unable to say anything about it. The crowd as silent too, being too nervous to even react to the clash of those titans.

”What should I do now?... I don’t think I can beat him like that… I should stop this training now… I’m already exhausted and all… Mayb… UGH!!” before the young saiyan commander could resume his thoughts, Polaros vanished and reappeared, landing an incredibly strong punch to his gut, that made him actually vomit blood. The injury was hard enough to make him black out, activating the safety configuration of this training session. Natto’s hair returned to his pitch-black color and so did his eyes, as he lost his super saiyan transformation, falling on the floor unconscious due to the heavy blow. A loud sound of alert could be heard and the illusion quickly vanished. The gravity of one hundred times the normal one quickly became 1G again, and the training session was done.

Natto wouldn’t wake up for a couple hours to deal with his defeat. Sometimes we face limitations that aren’t supposed to be overcome that quickly and he was about to learn that. When faced by a challenge that far exceeds one’s capacity, it’s necessary to be humble enough to take a step back and have a wider view of the picture, so that the person can have a new perspective and learn a new away to grow and evolve.