Fluttersaiyan

                                                                             Chapter 20: Exercise

I woke up early next morning. It was 5:00 even. I quietly got out of bed and got dressed, quietly putting on my boots and taking slow, quiet steps out of the room so that I wouldn’t wake up Fluttershy. I wrote down a quick note letting her know that I was going out to train and practice all day, that way she wouldn’t get worried and wonder where I was. I ate more than I have the entire time I was here. I had a king’s breakfast. I had five bananas for potassium, plenty of eggs and potatoes for protein, and I ate a dozen slices of toast. Normally I don’t have much of the saiyan appetite, but this time I was really using it. After breakfast I flew off into the Everfree forest.

            I was prepared to make sure this guy was the one to lose, there was no way I could possibly lose, everything depended on me. I landed in the middle of the forest, where I knew the trees would be able to absorb all the damage I would dish out. I first needed to practice with actual fighting, hand-to-hand stuff. So I picked a tree at random and pretended it was an enemy, then I began swinging at it. I did this for an hour when I decided that this wasn’t doing anything for me. I had to think of something that would actually test my current skills. So I did the dumbest thing I could think of, I began forming a bunch of energy balls. What I did was stick my arms out at my sides, and form an orb of energy within the palm of my hands. Then I would let them float there, then turn a little in place, then make a few more. I kept doing this until I had about, 20. I wasn’t just making lights, but I was going to control each of them with my mind, and have them fly all over the place and try to attack me. Once I was ready I flew straight up into the air, about 100 feet up, once I hovered there I lifted my arms above my head, sending the orbs flying straight for me.

            I dodged left and right, up and down, trying my best to avoid the orbs. It was kinda hard to do, there were 20 of them, and I had to watch all around me, everywhere, all at once. I was starting to get a little tired, and I was beginning to slow down. Suddenly from behind one of the orbs flew right past me as I barely dodged it, it grazed my left arm, blowing off shreds of my sleeve as it slightly burned my shoulder. I immediately grabbed my shoulder in pain. This was enough, I was going to get nowhere with this either. I suddenly stopped in midair and began blasting each of the orbs out of the sky.

            I thought of a new plan, I would just try to lift some weights, something simple. So I flew back towards Ponyville, heading for the middle of town. I had been to the gym before, but it was just a visit, so I’d know where it was for future needs. Like today for example.

“Hello again sir, how may I help you today?” The mare working at the counter asked.

“Well, I’m here to lift some weights, I don’t need some kind of membership do I?” I asked.

“No sir, not at all.” She replied.

“Oh, good, so, can I just go right ahead, or do I need to do anything special?” I asked before just jumping into things.

“Well, you’ll need a spotter first, for safety reasons.” She said.

“Don’t worry, I think I’ll be just fine.” I said as I walked away. They probably wouldn’t let me back in after that, but I just wanted to be here for a day, I would find something else to do later.

I went to the first empty weight bench I saw and began putting weights onto the bar. The bar was already weighted at ten pounds. After I added all of the biggest weights there that could fit on the bar, I knew this would be heavy, especially if the bar was beginning to bend. I laid down on the bench and got in position, placing my hands on the bar. I was just about to lift when I noticed a couple of the ponies at the gym were staring. I looked over at a couple of stallions staring at me, grinning, snickering. They didn’t think I could lift all of this weight. They might not think I can, but in a few seconds I’ll make sure that they know I can.

I ignored the non-believers and put my hands on the bar and took a deep breath. I pushed upward and lifted the bar straight into the air, the ends of the bar sagging under the immense weight. I can imagine those stallions snickering at me instantly lost their grins, or something, cause I heard their snickering just stop dead. Although they may have quieted, I heard other new sounds, like other ponies in the gym gasping in surprise.

“What the hell? That’s it? Come on, at this rate I’m gonna get nowhere.” I muttered to myself in disappointment.

The bar was actually easy to lift, too easy in fact. I slowly set it back down. I slid off of the bench and looked at the weights on the bar, counting the pounds. I didn’t count before I lifted, I just fit as many of the biggest weights I could find on there. On each side I had fit five 25 pound weights onto the ten pound bar. So, that would equal 260 pounds. No wonder it was easy, I could lift that when I was back at home, before I ever trained in my life. I had to find more weight, or cut my losses and find something else that wouldn’t quite waste my time so much as this has. I left the bench and walked back over to the front counter.

“Excuse me, do you have any bigger bars here? Or heavier weights?” I asked politely.

“Uh, no we don’t sir, sorry. That was amazing though, how did you do that so easily?” She asked.

“Um, beginners luck?” I lied, thinking of an excuse.

“Oh, well, it was pretty impressive anyway. Well, sorry, we don’t have any other bars, or heavier weights.” She said.

“Oh, well it was nice being here. Have a nice day.” I said before leaving.

I walked outside and stood in front of the gym, thinking. “What can I do? I need to get stronger than Xendo, but nothing here is challenging enough, except for Xendo. How am I gonna get the training I need?” I stood there thinking like that for a couple of minutes. I slowly lifted off of the ground and flew up into the sky. I floated mid-air for a while, just hovering over Ponyville. There had to be something I could do. I could cheat and hurt myself, then eat a Senzu bean. But I was running low, and there weren’t many left on the mountain, it took a long time for them to grow back. I only had three Senzu beans left, I didn’t want to waste those. I could try, and for the first time did I even consider it, to go super saiyan. I wasn’t obsessed with the idea of super saiyan, the Kaioken technique worked fine for me, and this was the first time I even considered the idea of super saiyan. I quickly forgot about all that in favor of the hurting myself strategy.

I flew towards the open clearing I had used before in order to hurt myself in order to get a power boost. I took off wanting to waste no more time but stopped before I had even left Ponyville. I thought about how I would completely destroy my outfit, and how I could accidentally kill myself. I had one other idea though, I could see the princesses. I turned around looking at the mountain where the kingdom resided, than took off.

As I flew I began thinking about what Princess Celestia could do for, and how much help it would be if I had my very own “Hyperbolic Time Chamber” like on Kami’s lookout. It didn’t really matter as long as the Princess would have something for me, or could help me in any way possible.

At full speed I arrived in Canterlot in about ten minutes. I flew straight towards the castle and landed on the front steps. Right away the guards stopped me.

“Halt! Who goes there?” The said with authority.

“I am Dako, the superhero. I wish to speak with Princess Celestia, it’s important.” I said.

“Right, follow me.” One of the guards said. He signaled to a guard on a balcony above us, who began opening the doors. As the massive doors slowly opened up they revealed the gargantuan and majestic hallway of the castle, just a huge-as-hell hallway filled gigantic chandeliers, and stained glass windows. The floors were made of the shiniest most polished marble I’ve ever seen, and were covered in a long red carpet. The guard led me into the castle, and the door shut behind us as we followed the red carpet to a staircase.

We followed the stairs up to another set of doors, doors that were just as fancy as the rest of the castle. There were jewels in the door itself, and the door knob appeared to be solid gold. But enough about the door, the guard opened the doors, revealing another long room, not quite as long or as big though. The long red carpet continued on towards the throne, where Princess Celestia sat. We walked a little towards the throne when Celestia noticed us.

“Stop.” She said. “You may leave me alone with him, I’ll handle things from here.” She spoke to the guard, he bowed his head then left.

“Hello, your majesty.” I said, attempting to bow with little grace.

“Hello Dako, what brings you to Canterlot?” Princess Celestia asked in a friendly tone.

“Well, I’m sure you know now about, um, Xendo?” I asked.

“Yes, I do. I also know about your little fight with him.” She said.

“Oh, well, as you know I made the mistake of letting him live, and or get away.” I said.

“What makes you think that was a mistake?” She asked suddenly concered.

“Well, with us saiyans, when we are defeated in battle, but survive, we get stronger.” I said. “We don’t just heal and get better, we get much stronger than before.”

“I see, but you shouldn’t have a problem, you didn’t use your full strength last time to beat him.” The Princess noted.

“Yes, but, how did you know?” I asked.

“You don’t think I’ve been this lands magical Princess for over one thousand years without learning a few tricks, do you? As soon as I felt Xendo’s presence I began watching him, and I’ve been watching you since you’ve been here as well.” The Princess explained.

“Oh, I see. Well, the problem is that next time we meet he’ll be strong enough to face me at my full power, so I have to get stronger than I am now.” I said.

“And what do you need me to do?” She asked.

“Do you have any kind of special, magical even, place for some kind of warrior or hero to train? Or some kind of special, fountain of youth type-thing? Or potion to drink? Anything?” I asked.

“I’m sorry Dako, we don’t have anything like that here.” The Princess replied. “Just what kind of fairytale world do you think you’re in?”

Damn it. I was “Trollestia-ed”. But that was the least of my problems, now I had no way to get stronger in a hurry.

“I see, well thank you for your help Princess. Sorry to waste your time.” I said, bowing, then turning to leave.

“Dako.” She said.

“Yes Princess?” I turned to her.

“I believe in you. You should believe in yourself as well. If you believe you can, you can.” She said.

“Thank you Princess.” I said then continued walking out.

I sat on the steps of the castle in Canterlot, watching other ponies pass by. Yeah, I was pretty much moping, sitting there. Why, I don’t know. I could have been training, or something. I just wanted an easy way out, a way to cheat, some way to get stronger quicker and easier than just training. The Kaioken works, but the higher up I go, the more energy I burn in the process, which doesn’t help since I prefer energy attacks anyway, I don’t know how to fight very well, I’ve never had any martial arts training. At least I have strength, if I don’t know how to fight I could just use my strength to beat the crap out of someone, unless they’re stronger and actually know how to fight.

Whatever, I’m a freaking superhero, superheroes don’t lose, and I’m a saiyan. Either way, I can take him, if I believe in myself, yeah right. So anyway, I just sat there on the steps of the castle. I watched the ponies walking by. These are my people, well, ponies. These ponies are who I’m trying to protect, and why? They have the perfect society, peace, they’re kind to each other, at least most of the time. I stood up all of a sudden, I had some new idea, or new motivation.

“That’s it.” I said to myself. “I’m gonna go super saiyan, that’s all there is to it. If I want to make sure I beat him, I have to do it.”

I flew up and into the sky, and headed for anyone who could help me, so I flew off to Twilight’s. When I got there she wasn’t exactly in the mood for visitors. She was reorganizing her books or something, but she certainly was busy. When Spike opened the door I could see several things fly through the air behind him, all levitated by Twilight’s magic.

“Hey Dako, how’s it going?” Spike asked.

“Okay, what’s going on here?” I asked.

“Twilight feels like her books need to be rearranged or something. Who knows what she’s doing.” He said. “Anyway, I would leave if I were you before she…” He was cut off as Twilight came to the door to see me.

“Oh hi there Dako, could you help me for a second? Thanks.” She said as she pulled in the door.

“Uh, actually, I came to see if you could help me.” I said.

“Well what is it? I’m a little busy right now, so you’ll need to make this fast.” She said returning to her books.

“It’s about that guy, Xendo.” I said.

She stopped everything and turned to me.

“What’s wrong?” She asked, suddenly concerned.

“I need to get stronger than him. Since I let him live he’ll heal to become stronger than me.” I said.

“What do you mean? Oh! That’s right, just like when you got hurt on the-.” She started to say, but interrupted her.

“Yes, and he was tough to begin with, now he’ll be even stronger. So I need your help.” I said.

“I don’t see how I can help, I mean I-.” Twilight began to say until I interrupted her again.

“I know how, I need something that can help me train, something. You’re smart, you know a lot about science, you can come up with a way, a training regimen, something. Please, I need your help.” I said to her.

“Okay, I’ll help. But I’ll need some time to get things ready, I have to plan this out.” She said.

“Thank you Twilight, thanks a lot. I gotta go now, I need to get home to Fluttershy.” I said before turning to fly home.

I took off into the sky heading for Fluttershy’s cottage. I kept going over in my mind the idea of going super saiyan. I remember when I first saw Goku go super saiyan in Dragonball Z, I flipped out, it was the coolest thing I ever saw. Now, the possibility of going super saiyan my self was unbelievable.

That night I could hardly go to sleep. Okay, that’s a lie, I mean, how could I not sleep while being cuddled by Fluttershy? What I really meant was, I kept thinking about what would happen tomorrow. I had a lot to do tomorrow, I had to find a way to unlock the power of a super saiyan. Man, I feel like a nerd saying that over and over, but it’s true. If I wanted any fighting chance, I would need to do it.