Last training as a Commander (x120 gravity)

The queen was about to arrive, and that was something he had been expecting for quite a while now, but, somehow, it wasn't anything like he had expected. Well... Not since the images, she had sent to everyone, showing the atrocities the queen's vanguard did on arcose and the use of the terrible Tree of Might that was the cruelest weapon Natto had ever seen on his life. Other than that, she had just declared war on the whole universe and that made him completely unease due to the fact that he knew pretty well that they weren't ready to face an all-out war against the whole freaking universe. Things weren’t pretty and due to that he had to keep on training. It was his obligation to get stronger in order to fulfill his duty and protect his people and his friends.

Natto had just finished a intense gravity training under over a hundred times the normal gravity mark, but he had to push it even further and then, he went back to his training hub and turned on the gravity control again, choosing an exact mark of one hundred and twenty times the normal gravity. The pressure was once again overwhelming and he almost fell to the floor, but he couldn’t let go. He used the control panel as support in order to resist the first and most difficult seconds of the enhanced gravity taking place, turning all the environment red with it’s power while he heavily breathed.

”I’m doubting our ways… But, still… If we are to go to war, I can’t turn my back on my people… We need all the strength we can account and we already lost Kaula. I can’t see her turning her back on that damn alien girl she chose as mate… Then, she will most likely fight for Earth when we invade… But… I wonder… Will she really have the guts and the will to oppose Zucceta? I thought they were comrades… Well… I guess I will be able to find out something about it soon enough…” he thought to himself, as he walked towards the middle of the training hub with difficulty. Natto intended to train his body with the enhanced gravity, but in a different way this time; he wanted to focus his mind on allowing his body to, through some sort of meditation, be able to get more awareness and find a way to battle the enhanced gravity without relying only on physical prowess. The young saiyan warrior was realizing that he was relying too much only on his body strength and that may become a real weakness if he wasn’t careful.

As he reached the middle of the training hub he sit with his legs crossed. The first real challenge was a physical one: to keep his back straight up, without bending it due to the gravitational pressure and tiredness. But that wasn’t the most important part. He had to first focus his mind on not thinking about anything. At first it was hard. The difficulty of keeping his stance, the pain on his lower back, the feeling of sweat running down his temples. All of those were really distracting and kept him from being able to reach a calm state that he needed in order to jump to the next part of his training session. ”If I let such small things distract me… This training session will go to waste… This is all minor… It’s everyday stuff… I’m used to all of this! There shouldn’t be a reason for it to bother me now. Come on, Natto! You have to be able to focus… This environment is peaceful… War is not! War is mayhem! To be able to calm down and relax here is an obligation… On war all you can do is one per cent of what you can achieve here!” he said to himself, in order to get his motivation on his top form, and slowly he managed to forget about the outer distractions.

The small gravity engine noise was forgotten. The pain on his back… The feeling of the sweat running down his temples. Everything became silent and all he was seeing was the blackness of having his eyes shut. Then, about half an hour since he managed to reach such a state, he began to get into a deeper state of mind, one of complete self awareness. He could feel his hear beting, his blood flowing through his veins, his lungs expanding and then releasing the air by his mouth, slowly and peacefully, while the oxygen nourished his whole body. He had full control of his bodily functions now, and that was quite a feat, but it wasn’t enough, he wanted to go even further and that required even more concentration. To achieve the state of no mind, or mushin, needed him to keep on trying to don’t mind such things. His body was only the first part of his being, he needed to reach his energy self. ”Muscles… Organs… Veins… I’m more… I’m energy…” his thoughts were so natural that he didn’t even realize that he spoke to himself.

About an hour later, Natto could feel his energy circling through his body. It was like his body had it’s own ki energy pathway system, which worked in a similar fashion to illusory veins, responsible for channeling his ki energy from his core to all parts of his body. That was how he could harvest energy to use his abilities and to bulk, even though that later skill wasn’t very useful for him, and the only time he actually used it, it hindered his abilities more than it helped and made him get utterly defeated by Kaula, even though she also bulked to fight him. With that feeling, he could understand perfectly well how he managed to use his explosive wave skills, since, up until now he only managed to do it out of pure instinct. It was really impressive how could someone do such wonderful things with his own body without even actually knowing exactly how it was done, and now, for the first time on his life, he was getting a little grasp of that.

Of course he wasn’t aware of it at this exact moment. His mind was going with the flow, and all this knowledge would be actually learned before he got back to his normal consciousness and could digest the experience he was having. His mind was so focused on not thinking, that he completely forgot that he was under 120G, enduring it pretty well nor for almost two hours. To be still may seem easy, but to keep a straight posture while sitting with the legs crossed was quite hard and just got harder with time, but he was doing a pretty good job. In a very natural way, his body started learning how it used his energy to burst it away, how it harvest it, molded it and released it. This awareness was making him able to charge it without even noticing, using his fullest potential.

His energy was so concentrated that he flared his ghostly-white ki aura without realizing and slowly his body began glowing on a yellowing hue that was different from the bright gold color of his super saiyan transformation. It was his natural ki energy that was about to burst out of his body in a very powerful and intense way. Then, suddenly, his body reacted, surprising him and bringing him back from his meditative state, as he was now hovering above the ground with so much energy charged inside his body that he had to let it out. – AHHHHHH!!! – the young saiyan warrior shouted and then his energy exploded in a yellow colored energy sphere that expanded all around his body, sparking with jolts of lightning, capable of both repealing and damaging any foes that would come in contact with it. It was the final evolution of his explosive wave, being the Final Explosive Wave. Its power was so intense, that it damaged the walls of the role training hub. It wasn’t a permanent serious damage, but it would be good to have it repaired as soon as possible, since he never knew when he would need to use his ship.

Natto landed back on the floor, really impressed with the power he unleashed and stared at his own hands in awe. ”Wow… There’s so much to accomplish with mental training… I should try it more often…” he decided, nodding to himself, as he walked towards the control panel. His body got used to the gravity of 120G without having to resort to his super saiyan transformation, but he was pretty aware that he wouldn’t be able to that with the higher gravities now. He was reaching the pinnacle of his gravity training at that made him feel rather anxious. As he approached it, he couldn’t help but to think about the queens arrival again and that made him sigh.

Then, as soon as he pressed the button to turn of the gravity, he felt an urge to leave to the wastes, in order to relax a little bit with the marvelous sights of Vegeta. They always calmed him down a bit when he was filled with anxiety. – Maybe that’s what I need… The queen is arriving in a few hours it seems… - he said to himself, before leaving through the doors and straight into the central wasteland, leaving a trail of white ki energy behind him.

That was his last time training as Commander-in-Chief of the Saiyan Solar Empire’s Stationary Defense Army, and he wasn’t going to miss that title. He was glad he would return to his former position as only a member of the elite. That was more than enough for him.