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Chapter 18 - Chapter 18: Calm before the storm

After a few more hours passed, Goku and Vegeta's group emerged. Almost immediately, Goku asked us, "what is that gigantic power I'm sensing. It's much stronger than the androids." I looked at Goku, "I have a lot to explain after all that's happened today."

After 20 minutes explaining everything Goku and the others understood. "Shit, this cell guy sounds pretty strong. Doesn't really matter though, if he wants to host his little cell games we'll let him have it. We have enough firepower." I was pretty stunned, I could see they were much stronger but I wasn't too sure about this. "Guys, I strongly think you should go back into the time chamber, frankly even if you're all stronger I don't like our odds right now." Goku looked at me, "if you want you and the others can head in. But I think it'd be a waste of time using the chamber again." I was pretty worried, but I understood. "In that case, me, Tien, Nappa, Raditz and Piccolo will go in. The rest of you all can come later. Before that though, I'm gonna head over to capsule corp to get something."

I used instant transmission to head over to capsule corp, Bulma was surprised but settled down right after. I asked her, "Bulma, the new gravity chambers, are they ready?" Bulma nodded, "Took me a while but I got them ready, I'm telling you this is insane. I already though 500 times gravity was out of this world, but 1000 times. At that point you'll be crapping your spine out to be honest." I sighed, "Bulma I get it, but the fate of the world depends on it. I don't know if Goku and the others will be enough for this. We need this." Bulma understood and handed me the capsules, "Thank you Bulma". I put my finger on my head and returned to the lookout. I threw the capsules down and it revealed several gravity chambers. "I had Bulma develop these over the last few years, these new gravity chambers allow us to train up to 1000 times gravity. We are going to bring these new chambers to the room and we'll train in here. Now, I don't know about you all but I'm staying there for 2 years. I'm not leaving until I master 1000 times gravity."

Everyone looked at me like I was insane, even Goku and his group as well. I looked back at Goku's group, "if you wanna have another crack at the time chamber with these be my guest, but after we finish our session. Our group then entered the chamber. It was just like I remembered in the show, a white endless void. I threw down a capsule and a chamber came up. I walked into my gravity room and set the settings to 510 times gravity. I knew it was gonna be a hell of a time. For the next 6 months, me and our group would spend out time sparring while upping the gravity. After a month we were at 600 times, then 700 and just like that, after 6 brutal months we were at 1000 times gravity. It was 1 thing getting up to 500 times gravity over the span of 3 years. But rushing it and going even further beyond in such a short amount of time was something else. Every day was a struggle to survive. Even walking was a challenge on most days. But the earth was in danger, all the friends I made, even the family I had. Even though I knew it was all a fictional universe I had grown attached to them all. I didn't want to see anyone else die. As such I kept pushing, once we got to 1000 times gravity we added weighted clothing as well. The first Few months at 1000 times gravity were brutal, but after some time, it felt normal. 1000 times was not a challenge anymore. For Nappa and Raditz, their super Saiyan forms had been mastered, I felt they had become even stronger than Goku's group. However, I wasn't going to risk it, once all the groups went in and mastered 1000 times gravity I was going to train alone, I had decided it. Finally the year passed, we emerged from the chamber and our gravity room and entered the lookout. I felt so light, as if with every step I was floating on air.

Goku and Vegeta's group felt our strength and immediately demanded to go back in, but I told them there were still 2 more groups that needed a turn. The next group would be Videl, Future Videl, Yamcha, Chaotzu, Yajirobe. Finally, the last group would be Chi Chi and master Roshi. The remaining 2 groups went in with their gravity rooms, and 2 days later Goku and Vegeta's group entered the gravity chamber again.

Finally, it was all done and all the groups had finished their training in the gravity chamber. I told everyone to go home and get some rest, in the meantime I headed in alone. I threw the gravity chamber in and set it to 1000 times gravity, it felt normal, but I knew what I had to do, I said out loud, "Kaio ken, times 100" and I sat down and meditated. My goal was to sustain this as long as possible, I knew that sustaining this for an hour mean around 10 minutes of combat. As such, my goal was to sustain this for 3 hours. I spent the next year meditating while under high strain, eventually however, the year passed and I was able to sustain it. I had done it, I exited out of the chamber, and flew off to west city and rested with the others. Now all we could do was wait until the time limit was up.

We were all waiting at out Dojo, we had suspended lessons until after the cell games so that we could get some rest and relaxation before the big day. But suddenly, we heard a lot of noise outside the dojo, I opened the doors and saw a multitude of Cameras and a crowd outside. 'Ahhhhh shit, the media', I thought. I made my way out along with the rest of our group. When one of the journalists made her way to me, "Master Hercule, tell us your honest opinion, do you think you and your friends can beat this Cell creature." I looked straight at her, frankly I wasn't too sure if we could, although we were stronger that in the original story, this current cell was also much more powerful that in the original story. But I had to reassure them and myself. So I puffed my chest up, "If we didn't think we could we wouldn't be willing to go to his sick little game. I'll admit, the first time we faced him we got beaten. But we're ready now. We've undergone brutal training these last few days. We will beat him, now go home to your families and relax. It'll all be a bad memory in the next few weeks once we're through with him." I then gave a loud cocky laugh and raised 2 fingers in the air along with a smile. The crowd ate it all up and cheered us on.

Finally, the day had arrived, the cell games were going to start, as such we all started to fly there. We found the arena surrounded by news helicopters, all wanting to film this. I flew towards one of them and told them, "if you don't wanna die, get back. Have a few cameramen on the ground near us, we'll protect you all." Just like that the news helicopters flew off, while a one landed near us and unloaded a single reporter and a cameraman. The reporter approached us, it was the same guy from dragon ball Z, "All the other reporters were too scared to be in the ground, so I guess I'll cover this myself. " I went up to him and shook his hand and introduced him to the rest.

Finally, Cell spoke up, "So, who's going to be the first one to die, or do you all wanna charge in?" Goku walked up to cell, "I'll be the first one to go."

He entered the ring and got into a fighting position. I held my breath and waited I was pretty hyped and wanted to let my inner fan boy out, but I held off on it, finally they disappeared and the first blows started.