Training

When he arrived on King Kai's Planet, Gamos immediately spotted the resurrected Tien Shinhan and a little guy with a halo over his head.

"Hey!"

Hearing the greeting from behind him, Tien Shinhan turned around and immediately spotted Gamos, who stood just over a meter tall.

"Are you the Legendary Super Saiyan? I can feel an immense pressure coming from you."

"You're amazing!"

Hearing the two of them praise him made Gamos very happy.

"I came here to learn some of your techniques, as well as King Kai's Kaioken and Spirit Bomb."

Gamos smiled at King Kai beside him. He had coveted those two techniques for a long time.

The Spirit Bomb especially had an incredible aura about it.

"No problem. You don't have any evil energy, and you've helped us a lot. We're friends from now on."

Tien Shinhan readily agreed, but the other guy wasn't quite so cooperative.

"My techniques aren't that easy to learn. If you want to learn from me, you'll have to pass my test first."

As King Kai spoke, the two antennae on his head wiggled.

The moment Gamos heard about the test, the smile on his face froze.

How could he have forgotten? King Kai had a very low threshold for what he found funny, and he especially liked using his own awful jokes as tests.

"King Kai, what did you just say? I didn't hear you."

Gamos raised his hand, and a huge energy sphere appeared in the sky.

It was the planet-destroying technique Gamos had secretly learned from Frieza: Supernova.

The energy sphere grew larger and larger. To everyone's astonishment, it soon became about the same size as King Kai's Planet.

"Ahaha! Did I say something just now? I don't think I did! Just tell me what you want to learn, and I'll teach you properly."

Seeing the enormous energy sphere in the sky, King Kai broke out in a cold sweat and wisely hurried to make his position clear.

Tien Shinhan and Chiaotzu were stunned too. That positive energy was terrifying. They had a feeling that if the sphere came down, they would all die.

Seeing how cooperative King Kai was, Gamos finally withdrew the energy, satisfied.

King Kai dropped onto his rear in fright, pulled out a handkerchief, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

One moment, he'd been an easygoing little kid; the next, he'd turned into a smiling demon king. It was terrifying.

Inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.

Vegeta took out a Capsule and tossed it onto the ground in the distance. With a bang, a huge building appeared.

"I brought the Gravity Training Room. Do you want to train together?"

"Of course!"

The three of them answered in unison, then all four went inside.

The Gravity Training Room was set to 100 times normal gravity, and everyone could handle it. Krillin and Yamcha, in particular, had bodies from the future, so the gravity felt no different from the outside.

They weren't used to these bodies yet, but their bodies' original strength remained. This amount of gravity was nothing to them.

"Good! Let's train in these conditions!"

With that, Sun Wukong gave a shout and transformed into a Super Saiyan!

Krillin and Yamcha weren't about to fall behind. They quickly raised their energy. Though they didn't transform, their terrifying auras immediately suppressed Sun Wukong's Super Saiyan form.

"Incredible! No wonder you're my future self. You've raised your power to such a terrifying level."

At that moment, Sun Wukong was already getting excited. Maybe he really could gain the strength of his future self ahead of time.

While the three of them were brimming with excitement, Vegeta could only hide off to the side. He couldn't even transform into an ordinary Super Saiyan yet. When the other three released their auras, the pressure nearly knocked him off his feet.

"Damn it! I'm the proud Saiyan Prince, and I'm being suppressed!"

Vegeta clenched his fists and struggled to stay upright.

"Kakarot, take this!"

Vegeta roared as his power surged and charged straight at Sun Wukong from this time.

"What good are Super Saiyans? None of them can stand against Prince Vegeta!"

Vegeta threw a punch, never expecting Sun Wukong to catch it with one hand.

"You've gotten stronger, but it's still not enough."

Sun Wukong smirked and drove a golden-aura-covered fist into Vegeta's stomach.

The heavy blow churned Vegeta's insides. Clutching his stomach, he staggered backward.

"How is this possible?"

"I trained in Instant Transmission on Yardrat. It gave me a whole new level of control over my power, which made me stronger too. I've completely mastered the power of a Super Saiyan now."

"Damn it!"

Watching Sun Wukong's smug expression, the other Vegeta was filled with rage.

On the other side, Krillin and Yamcha exchanged a glance, then assumed fighting stances.

"Come on! Let's get used to these bodies by fighting! We'll see who masters the transformation first."

"Okay!"

As the strongest Earthlings and martial artists, they naturally had plenty of fighting talent.

Even in the original Dragon Ball story, the two of them had been quite strong. It was just that their Earthling heritage left them far behind the Saiyans in battle power. As time went on, they gradually lost confidence.

It was like no matter how hard you worked, you were always at the bottom of the class. Naturally, you'd eventually give up.

Yamcha was the first of all the Earthling warriors to give up. In the original story, he stopped training and became a baseball player instead.

As for Krillin, after marrying Android 18, he settled down to be a good husband. As for protecting Earth, he left that to his good friends long ago.

But now, the two who had once been at the bottom had suddenly gained the strongest bodies. Even Sun Wukong, the strongest among them, was suppressed by the auras they gave off. Naturally, the two of them had regained their martial spirit.

"Here I come!"

Krillin shouted and charged straight at Yamcha.

"Bring it on! Wolf Fang Fist!"

Using Future Vegeta's body, Yamcha struck a familiar pose.

As Krillin's fist came at him, Yamcha swiped at it with a wolf's-claw strike.

The two quickly clashed.

Meanwhile, Vegeta, unable to transform into a Super Saiyan, was being thoroughly beaten by Sun Wukong.

As he pummeled Vegeta, Sun Wukong didn't forget to practice his still-unpolished Instant Transmission. He was multitasking, training while familiarizing himself with his technique.

After being knocked away by a punch, Vegeta noticed that Sun Wukong kept his left hand pressed to his forehead, as if practicing some kind of technique. This made him even angrier.

"Damn you, Kakarot! You're fighting me and still daring to get distracted? You think so little of me? How dare you!"

As the Saiyan Prince, Vegeta felt deeply humiliated. Sun Wukong was acting as though he didn't matter at all!

Rage—utter rage. Maybe even wounded pride. In any case, Vegeta couldn't take it anymore, and he erupted.

"Grrraaaah!"

Vegeta threw his head back and roared again and again in fury.

"Vegeta!"

Seeing what was happening, Sun Wukong's eyes widened.

The white aura around Vegeta began to shimmer with golden light. Sun Wukong knew the sight all too well.

"Damn you, Kakarot! I'll make you pay for humiliating the Saiyan Prince!"

With a furious shout, Vegeta's body gave a thunderous boom, as though he had broken through a shackle. Golden light burst free, quickly enveloping his entire body.

His upright black hair was bathed in golden flames, turning from black to gold.

And with those green eyes, Vegeta successfully transformed into a Super Saiyan.

"Kakarot, let's go again!"

Vegeta challenged him once more, stepped forward, and threw a punch.

Facing Vegeta, who had also transformed into a Super Saiyan, Sun Wukong took him seriously.

He threw a punch as well. Their fists collided, then quickly separated. The next moment, they struck again with their other hands, colliding once more.

"Kakarot, I'm not going to lose to you!"

Vegeta threw a left hook straight at Sun Wukong's face. Sun Wukong didn't back down in the slightest, countering with a right hook that struck Vegeta in the face.

"Vegeta, you really are strong."

Sun Wukong powered up again, golden light blazing around him. Vegeta released his aura too. For a moment, the golden light surrounding them pushed against each other, and they were evenly matched.

"Not bad, Vegeta. You've only just transformed into a Super Saiyan, yet you're already this strong. But you still haven't mastered the power of a Super Saiyan."

With that, Sun Wukong raised his energy again, instantly overpowering Vegeta's aura!

"I'm not going to lose!"

Seeing himself suppressed, Vegeta gave up on the clash of auras and charged at Sun Wukong.

The two immediately fell into another fierce fight.

On the other side of the battlefield, Krillin and Yamcha exchanged blows, each punch landing hard.

As the battle reached its peak, they felt their blood boiling. At last, they understood why the Saiyans were called a warrior race.

The thrill of such a heated battle was irresistible. Every hit hurt, and the pain greatly accelerated how quickly they adapted to their bodies.

Krillin grabbed Yamcha's fist and threw him over his shoulder. Yamcha refused to fall behind. Before he hit the ground, he fired an energy wave back at Krillin.

"I think I've adapted to my body enough to transform into a Super Saiyan now."

Krillin was the first to say it.

Yamcha agreed that he felt the same way.

"In that case, let's go outside and fight! We can't move freely in the Gravity Training Room. Besides, the gravity here doesn't seem to do anything to us."

Having made up their minds, the two left the Gravity Training Room.

Sun Wukong and Vegeta, still fighting, naturally noticed them and turned their eyes toward the two in the distance.

The two let out a shout, and golden auras surged around them. Krillin and Yamcha, dressed in black, transformed into Super Saiyans.

Feeling the immense energy inside them, they were both stunned. Sun Wukong and Vegeta, standing nearby, were even more shocked.

They hadn't expected their future selves to put them under such tremendous pressure just by transforming into ordinary Super Saiyans.

"So this is my future strength? It's incredible. I'll reach this level even faster."

Watching someone else use his own body made Vegeta feel indescribably strange.

"With them to compare ourselves against, we'll be able to avoid a lot of detours too."