Post by Tomoroko on Aug 31, 2015 14:42:00 GMT
It was about time for Tomo to stop fooling around with her training… it had been too long since she had truly pushed herself to her own limits and then pushed herself beyond them. She had come to rely a lot on Natto’s help to get stronger, even Aspa had become a huge part of her training. It was time to stop and rely on her own strength. If she was ever to become a super saiyan… hell if she was ever going to pass Etoru’s power she had to do it herself. No one would be able to claim that she had ridden anyone’s coat tails to achieve her power.
The young girl approached the Star Javelin she quietly waved to the guards that Aspa had assigned to guard it. They gave her little trouble getting in once they knew she was a part of Natto’s elite. She stepped on board without any issue and sealed the door behind her, locking it from the inside so that no one else would be able to access the ship at all while she was using it. Of course, she would keep her scouter on in the event there was an emergent need to use it, but otherwise she wanted no one to disturb her.
She walked around the ship just as quietly, peering around for any signs of life, checking to see if Natto or anyone else was on board. Whenever she confirmed that she was in fact alone, she headed directly to the gravity chamber. Once there, she wasted no time in walking up to the controls. She set the initial gravity to x10, simply to start getting her body used to the increased gravity again. She would do her basic exercises and stretches, moving from push ups, to sit ups, squats and some running. She did these exercises until she could barely feel the gravity affect her at all. That’s when she increased the gravity to x20 and began running laps around the gravity chamber, taking to the air to push herself further and continuing her rounds.
If anyone had been watching her, then do doubt they would have been quite dizzy at this point as she pushed herself faster and faster to the point that she was able to leave after-images behind her. With that complete, she would land on her hands and walk that way a few more times around the chamber until it almost felt like a waste of time.
She flipped herself back up to her feet, increased the gravity up to 30x gravity and that was when she really started to feel the familiar weight of the increased gravity. Under 30x she would repeat all of the exercises she had done under the previous sets of gravity. Everything she did was much much slower than her original exercises, her push ups took longer, her sit ups would really strain her abdomen, her running would turn to jogging and her flying would turn into a hover.
It took her well over an hour just to catch up to the level of training she had already completed with Aspa which frustrated the girl to no end. She frowned as she pushed herself through her last few laps of flying, pushing her body to do better until it gave off a faint glow and she once more began being able to move fast enough to leave behind an after image.
She landed back on the ground while panting slightly, walking over to the refrigerator and grabbing a bottle of water. She downed it so fast that the water bottle crumpled up before it ever even left her lips.
"Great… now onto the real hard stuff… 40x gravity with these weights on… maybe by the end of the day I can get to 50…"
The young girl stated out loud, tossing the water bottle aside before walking up to the machine and changing the settings once more, this time cranking it up to 40x. Unlike the work-out to get up to this point, Tomo could really feel the pressure of the gravity now. Her knees shook and trembled as she caught herself on the edge of the central controls.
"Tsh…"
She hissed as she pushed herself back up to a standing position.
"Alright… how do these things work…"
She said slowly, gritting her teeth as if that helped her fight the increased gravity. She began to play with the controls once more until she could figure out how to make the hovering training bots appear. There was no point in starting off slow if she wanted to push herself, it was do or die… she wouldn’t accept any less from herself at this point.
The instant she pushed the activation button, the small round machines shot out from openings in the gravity chambers walls and soared through the air with ease, spinning around and aiming it’s lasers at their new target. Tomo took a deep breath, focusing her energy down into her legs as the first shot was fired. She propelled herself backwards away from the shot, immediately having to jump once more as two more shots were fired directly at her. This time, she wasn’t quite fast enough and one of the bolts hit her in the back of her leg, causing her to hiss and miss her step, sending her into a tumble.
She didn’t let that beat her however, pushing herself back up to her feet shakily and leaping into the air as another shot was fired. She reached up for the orb, barely brushing her finger tips against it as she had failed to jump up high enough.
"Damn it… come on…"
She growled as she landed on the ground once more. She had to get over this gravity and get in the air… or at least be able to jump high enough to reach the machines so that she could de-activate them one at a time. She had programmed the central computer not to let up their attack until she had manually turned them off herself. This way, she couldn’t cheat her way out of this training.
Another hour went by, and Tomoroko found that she was barely faster than she had been before, now covered in scrapes and bruises from the training droids, with blood staining her armor and her battle suit. Not once did the girl give up or slow down, even though sweat poured down her body and her lungs could barely catch the air that they desperately needed.
Another shot was fired and it struck the back of her neck, just barely clipping her armor as it hit her flesh. An angry cry escaped her lips at the sensation as she fueled her Atomic Strike into the soles of her right foot. She then stomped her foot on the ground and the resulting explosion sent her soaring up into the air (all while leaving a nice big dent in the floor of the ship) where she grabbed onto the first droid and pressed the button quickly to turn it off. She let it fall back to the ground as she landed in the dent she created, her eyes darting to the left as another shot came firing at her from two of those droids. That’s when an idea struck her… if she could manage to manipulate her Atomic Strike enough, she might be able to fuel it into both of her legs, using the resulting energy from the explosions to propel herself higher than she could go on her own. She barely had enough time to react to those two oncoming shots, pushing her energy down into her legs again and stomping her feet on the ground to create the explosion.
However, as she had stomped both feet one at a time, she was thrown backwards and into a wall, much further away from where she intended to go. The thought that she was creating huge dents in the chamber, and that Natto would no doubt be pretty upset never even crossed her mind. All she could think of was surpassing this limit as fast as she could so that she could move onto 50x gravity right away.
As she hit the wall after her failed trial, she didn`t take the time to catch her breath, instead shakily pushing herself right back up to her feet. Aspa had said in their previous training that if she could manipulate the ki into her legs, she would have a much easier time moving about, and it wouldn`t be such slow progress... but if she started doing that, then she would have a much harder time with her original boost idea with her Atomic Strike.
Two more shots were fired, forcing Tomo to make up her mind quickly. She decided to do as Aspa had shown her and push her ki into her legs. With that, she pushed the ki further down to spring herself up into the air. She was surprised to find how easily her body adapted to the movement under the increased gravity just then. She easily flipped her body through the air, spinning around behind the two probes that had just shot at her and swiftly pushing their shut off buttons and landing back on the ground just as they clattered to the ground also.
"I wish I could fire some energy blasts in here without blowing the place up... I'd test my theory regarding ki manipulation under increased gravity..."
The girl muttered to herself, now able to push herself even faster through the x40 gravity. She began moving so fast through the gravity chamber that she was once more leaving after-images behind her. However, the more probes she deactivated, she noticed that her after images would last longer and longer and even start to look as if she was still standing where she had just been. Even when she stopped running, she found herself face to face with an image of herself.
"huh..."
She said as she reached forward, her hand passing through the image before it faded away. She raised an eyebrow but then smirked as she booked it once more, running as fast as she could through the room, this time purposely leaving multiple images of herself behind inside of the gravity chamber. She would do this again and again until it was second nature to her to leave these images behind.
"Perfect! I got this... all the probes are down... now it's time for 50x gravity!"
She stated excitedly as she stopped running just before she hit the central console of the gravity chamber. She was quick to change the settings from 40 to 50, feeling ready to tackle the new challenge. However, she hadn't paid attention to how exhausted her body had become, and so the moment she attempted to run away from the console once more, she found herself face first against the ground as she tripped against an invisible force.
"Okay... maybe... nap time first..."
She said with a groan, crawling her way towards the fridge. She forced it open and grabbed another water bottle. While still lying on the ground, she did her best to drink the bottle. When it was done, she tossed it aside with her previous empty bottle and rested her head against the ground. Maybe her body would just... adjust while she slept.
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Word Count: 1897
Learned [SU2] Afterimage
Learned [UP2] Atomic Strike
Mastered 40x Gravity
The young girl approached the Star Javelin she quietly waved to the guards that Aspa had assigned to guard it. They gave her little trouble getting in once they knew she was a part of Natto’s elite. She stepped on board without any issue and sealed the door behind her, locking it from the inside so that no one else would be able to access the ship at all while she was using it. Of course, she would keep her scouter on in the event there was an emergent need to use it, but otherwise she wanted no one to disturb her.
She walked around the ship just as quietly, peering around for any signs of life, checking to see if Natto or anyone else was on board. Whenever she confirmed that she was in fact alone, she headed directly to the gravity chamber. Once there, she wasted no time in walking up to the controls. She set the initial gravity to x10, simply to start getting her body used to the increased gravity again. She would do her basic exercises and stretches, moving from push ups, to sit ups, squats and some running. She did these exercises until she could barely feel the gravity affect her at all. That’s when she increased the gravity to x20 and began running laps around the gravity chamber, taking to the air to push herself further and continuing her rounds.
If anyone had been watching her, then do doubt they would have been quite dizzy at this point as she pushed herself faster and faster to the point that she was able to leave after-images behind her. With that complete, she would land on her hands and walk that way a few more times around the chamber until it almost felt like a waste of time.
She flipped herself back up to her feet, increased the gravity up to 30x gravity and that was when she really started to feel the familiar weight of the increased gravity. Under 30x she would repeat all of the exercises she had done under the previous sets of gravity. Everything she did was much much slower than her original exercises, her push ups took longer, her sit ups would really strain her abdomen, her running would turn to jogging and her flying would turn into a hover.
It took her well over an hour just to catch up to the level of training she had already completed with Aspa which frustrated the girl to no end. She frowned as she pushed herself through her last few laps of flying, pushing her body to do better until it gave off a faint glow and she once more began being able to move fast enough to leave behind an after image.
She landed back on the ground while panting slightly, walking over to the refrigerator and grabbing a bottle of water. She downed it so fast that the water bottle crumpled up before it ever even left her lips.
"Great… now onto the real hard stuff… 40x gravity with these weights on… maybe by the end of the day I can get to 50…"
The young girl stated out loud, tossing the water bottle aside before walking up to the machine and changing the settings once more, this time cranking it up to 40x. Unlike the work-out to get up to this point, Tomo could really feel the pressure of the gravity now. Her knees shook and trembled as she caught herself on the edge of the central controls.
"Tsh…"
She hissed as she pushed herself back up to a standing position.
"Alright… how do these things work…"
She said slowly, gritting her teeth as if that helped her fight the increased gravity. She began to play with the controls once more until she could figure out how to make the hovering training bots appear. There was no point in starting off slow if she wanted to push herself, it was do or die… she wouldn’t accept any less from herself at this point.
The instant she pushed the activation button, the small round machines shot out from openings in the gravity chambers walls and soared through the air with ease, spinning around and aiming it’s lasers at their new target. Tomo took a deep breath, focusing her energy down into her legs as the first shot was fired. She propelled herself backwards away from the shot, immediately having to jump once more as two more shots were fired directly at her. This time, she wasn’t quite fast enough and one of the bolts hit her in the back of her leg, causing her to hiss and miss her step, sending her into a tumble.
She didn’t let that beat her however, pushing herself back up to her feet shakily and leaping into the air as another shot was fired. She reached up for the orb, barely brushing her finger tips against it as she had failed to jump up high enough.
"Damn it… come on…"
She growled as she landed on the ground once more. She had to get over this gravity and get in the air… or at least be able to jump high enough to reach the machines so that she could de-activate them one at a time. She had programmed the central computer not to let up their attack until she had manually turned them off herself. This way, she couldn’t cheat her way out of this training.
Another hour went by, and Tomoroko found that she was barely faster than she had been before, now covered in scrapes and bruises from the training droids, with blood staining her armor and her battle suit. Not once did the girl give up or slow down, even though sweat poured down her body and her lungs could barely catch the air that they desperately needed.
Another shot was fired and it struck the back of her neck, just barely clipping her armor as it hit her flesh. An angry cry escaped her lips at the sensation as she fueled her Atomic Strike into the soles of her right foot. She then stomped her foot on the ground and the resulting explosion sent her soaring up into the air (all while leaving a nice big dent in the floor of the ship) where she grabbed onto the first droid and pressed the button quickly to turn it off. She let it fall back to the ground as she landed in the dent she created, her eyes darting to the left as another shot came firing at her from two of those droids. That’s when an idea struck her… if she could manage to manipulate her Atomic Strike enough, she might be able to fuel it into both of her legs, using the resulting energy from the explosions to propel herself higher than she could go on her own. She barely had enough time to react to those two oncoming shots, pushing her energy down into her legs again and stomping her feet on the ground to create the explosion.
However, as she had stomped both feet one at a time, she was thrown backwards and into a wall, much further away from where she intended to go. The thought that she was creating huge dents in the chamber, and that Natto would no doubt be pretty upset never even crossed her mind. All she could think of was surpassing this limit as fast as she could so that she could move onto 50x gravity right away.
As she hit the wall after her failed trial, she didn`t take the time to catch her breath, instead shakily pushing herself right back up to her feet. Aspa had said in their previous training that if she could manipulate the ki into her legs, she would have a much easier time moving about, and it wouldn`t be such slow progress... but if she started doing that, then she would have a much harder time with her original boost idea with her Atomic Strike.
Two more shots were fired, forcing Tomo to make up her mind quickly. She decided to do as Aspa had shown her and push her ki into her legs. With that, she pushed the ki further down to spring herself up into the air. She was surprised to find how easily her body adapted to the movement under the increased gravity just then. She easily flipped her body through the air, spinning around behind the two probes that had just shot at her and swiftly pushing their shut off buttons and landing back on the ground just as they clattered to the ground also.
"I wish I could fire some energy blasts in here without blowing the place up... I'd test my theory regarding ki manipulation under increased gravity..."
The girl muttered to herself, now able to push herself even faster through the x40 gravity. She began moving so fast through the gravity chamber that she was once more leaving after-images behind her. However, the more probes she deactivated, she noticed that her after images would last longer and longer and even start to look as if she was still standing where she had just been. Even when she stopped running, she found herself face to face with an image of herself.
"huh..."
She said as she reached forward, her hand passing through the image before it faded away. She raised an eyebrow but then smirked as she booked it once more, running as fast as she could through the room, this time purposely leaving multiple images of herself behind inside of the gravity chamber. She would do this again and again until it was second nature to her to leave these images behind.
"Perfect! I got this... all the probes are down... now it's time for 50x gravity!"
She stated excitedly as she stopped running just before she hit the central console of the gravity chamber. She was quick to change the settings from 40 to 50, feeling ready to tackle the new challenge. However, she hadn't paid attention to how exhausted her body had become, and so the moment she attempted to run away from the console once more, she found herself face first against the ground as she tripped against an invisible force.
"Okay... maybe... nap time first..."
She said with a groan, crawling her way towards the fridge. She forced it open and grabbed another water bottle. While still lying on the ground, she did her best to drink the bottle. When it was done, she tossed it aside with her previous empty bottle and rested her head against the ground. Maybe her body would just... adjust while she slept.
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Word Count: 1897
Learned [SU2] Afterimage
Learned [UP2] Atomic Strike
Mastered 40x Gravity
