Chapter 1

:The Trip to New Namek Begins

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.

Narrator: When we last left our heroes, Gohan, his new friend Videl, his mother Chi-Chi, along with Bulma, Vegeta and Future Trunks had left the Earth in a spaceship on route to the new planet Namek in order to use the namekian dragonballs so they could revive their great friend and hero Goku.

Once the ship was clear of Earth's orbit, Bulma unfastened her seatbelt, put the ship on autopilot and turned to her friends behind her. "Alright! If you'll all just unfasten your seatbelts we can begin the tour. This is obviously the cockpit." said Bulma while spreading her arms apart to point out the room they were in. "Yes woman I think we've all figured that one out already." said Vegeta with his eyes looking to the side and his arms crossed and looking bored. Bulma seemed like she was going to snap and looked at him with a powerful glare for a moment but managed to let it slide and ignored him. "As I was saying, this is the cockpit and you'll follow me I'll show you the rest of the ship." said Bulma as she made her way to the door in the back. The rest of the gang unhooked their seatbelts and followed suit.

As the gang made their way through the ship's long corridoor down the middle of the ship, they found that the hallway was coloured white and seemed to be a little wider and less claustrophobic than the one's on Frieza's ships. "I have to say woman, you've at least managed to improve the living space in the hallways." commented Vegeta. Bulma once again let the 'woman' comment slide since she was more or less used to it but she still found it hard to swallow and let out a small growl aimed at Vegeta. "Thanks, I guess Vegeta. Now the two doors behind the cockpit section are the first set of rooms. Mine and Vegeta's is marked number 1 on the right and Chi-Chi's is on the left marked number 2. It'll also be Goku's room when he comes back with us on the return trip. There are two other rooms at the back of the ship for Trunks, Gohan and Videl marked 3 and 4. You guys can work out who gets what room yourselves since all the rooms have only two beds." Bulma said, pointing out each position.

"You don't have to room all by yourself Trunks. You can room with me until Goku comes back if you want to." politely offered Chi-Chi. "No thanks, I can handle having a room by myself. But thanks for the offer." Trunks politely replied. "Oh? Don't wanna have to deal with a pregnant and moody Chi-Chi in the morning huh?" cheekily said Gohan with a chuckle from behind Trunks' back. Trunks went stiff as a board and had a look on his face that said 'busted'. Chi-Chi saw this and immediately sent a very powerful glare at Trunks but didn't do anything, she just turned turned her back and pouted. Gohan and Videl giggled with each other at the whole affair.

"The rooms all have two bunk beds, two closets, a shower and a small kitchen. The food is all contained in dinocaps contained in specially designed cargo compartments below us on the lower level. There's a food requisition panel in each room, they're voice activated so just ask it what you need and it'll come up to you in the form of a capsule." Bulma explained as she continued on with her tour. "Where are the training chambers woman?" impatiently asked Vegeta. This last 'woman' comment was the last straw and Bulma was going to let him have it. "I was just getting to that Vegeta. And my name is BULMA! It's not 'woman' but Bulma, A! How many times do I have to say it until it gets through that thick Saiyan skull of yours." Bulma yelled. Vegeta just slunk back and grumbled to himself. Everyone else just laughed to themselves at the whole exchange. "I bet I know who wears the pants in that family." whispered Videl in Gohan's ear, which caused him to giggle at her joke.

Bulma continued with her tour and showed everyone to the four training chambers which were found near at the middle of the ship. Each side of the corridoor had two doors which had convoluted walls that intersected in the middle of the room. "These are the training rooms. What we basically did was insert four Capsule Ships into the ships' hull. The two rooms at the back are regular old gravity rooms. The two at the front however, are what I like to call Holochambers. They're special rooms that can simulate any environment you can think of. They use photonic particles to rearrange the matter inside the room and actually bend reality inside and create infinite space inside the chamber." explained Bulma, but she went a little over the top of everyone but Gohan and Future Trunks' heads. "In other words, you can fight in there and never run into an invisible wall." Gohan cheerfully simplified up for everybody else who didn't get it. A collective sign of "Aaaaahhh!" went around from Chi-Chi, Videl and even Vegeta.

Bulma once more lead them a little further down the corridoor to two doors that were before the last two rooms at the end of the hall. The doors were marked 'infirmary' on the left and 'recreation' on the right. "This is the infirmary and recreational rooms. Well, the infirmary is self explanitory and the recreation room has a couch, a big screen tv and the latest video game consoles. We're going to be stuck with each other for at least two months round trip so there has to be a place on the ship where we can get away from each other and relax." Bulma explained, pointing out each room.

"Is the tour finally over?" asked Vegeta, sounding as bored and annoyed as usual. Everyone eyed Vegeta for his rudeness, especially Bulma, but they all had to admit he was right. They were all tired of the tour and plus Bulma had to admit that it was pretty much over. "*Sigh* Yes Vegeta, it's finally over. Why don't we get ourselves settled into our rooms for now?" Bulma suggested. Everyone agreed and went to their assigned rooms to unpack. Trunks, Gohan and Videl agreed that Trunks would have room 3 and they would have room 4.

Gohan and Videl were just finishing up their unpacking when Vegeta came barging in. "Brat, I want a spar right now!" demanded Vegeta. "I'm sorry Vegeta, but I promised Videl that I'd train her first thing. Besides I'm not up for some hard training on this trip." said Gohan as he then went right back to his unpacking. Vegeta just got more ticked off about it and grabbed Gohan by the gruff of his neck. "You'll spar with me brat, weither you like it or not." yelled out Vegeta as he dragged Gohan out of the room by the gruff of his neck. "Sorry Videl! Looks like we won't be training until later." Gohan called out apologetically as he was being dragged out.

Vegeta dragged Gohan to one of the Holochambers and threw him in. The room looked just like a regular GR chamber except it didn't have the gravity machine in the middle. "Alright Brat! We're going to spar and no holding back on me. I want to see your full power for myself." boldly declared Vegeta as he pointed his finger at Gohan who was down on the floor on his butt. "Hold on Vegeta, I really don't want to have to hurt you but I won't hold back if you push me too far." said Gohan as he got back up on his feet, bent his knees, positioned his arms outward at his sides as if he was holding ski poles and braced himself for action. Vegeta then pushed some buttons on a control panel next to the door and the room began to warp and contort into a grassy field surrounded by mountains. "I asked Bulma how this device worked before I left our room in case you were wondering." said Vegeta as he placed himself in the 'Horse Riding' stance and prepared to powerup. "Not really, I was wondering why you would want me to beat you up this soon. I thought that you'd at least wait until you'd gotten stronger." said Gohan with genuine concern. "Grrrrrrrr, Just shut up and fight!" shouted a ticked off Vegeta as he then powered up to his Ascended Saiyan state. Likewise, Gohan powered up to his maximum Super Saiyan state and they leaped at the charge at each other to start the fight.

About an hour and a half later, Vegeta laid on the ground in his normal state, overseen by a hovering and still very much a Super Saiyan, Gohan. "*sigh* Vegeta you're just too slow and you drain away too much of your stamina too fast for you to beat me." Gohan said with a cheeky smile as he slowly lowered himself to the ground, gently landed on his feet and powered down to normal. "Why is it that you are more powerful than me after only one turn in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber when I have had an extra year of training?" asked Vegeta as he got himself back on his feet. "I guess it's because you didn't have the proper training. You see, when me and my dad trained, we constantly sparred with each other and supported each other. We pushed each other to make the other person stronger and be at our best. You on the other hand always wanted to train alone, both when Trunks was with you and when he wasn't from what I heard. You didn't have actual real battle training with an equal opponent to properly push your body. That and plus your attitude makes things extra hard for you to stay calm enough in Super Saiyan to be able to master it. Me and my dad had to significantly slow down our training for a while in order to properly adapt to the constant hours of being Super Saiyans. When you probably tried it in your second year in the chamber you probably wanted to catch up to my dad so fast that you didn't slow down your training in the least and your body couldn't get used to it." Gohan explained, rather matter-of-factly. Vegeta just growled and sneered but looked away. Which Gohan could tell meant a look of reluctant defeat on Vegeta's face and that he'd gotten the message. Gohan then calmly walked passed Vegeta and voice commanded the computer to shut off the program. The room warped back into the hollow circular room it once was and Gohan made his way to the door. Gohan walked out the door, closed it behind him and left Vegeta to his own devices.

Gohan made his way back to his room to find that Videl had packed the rest of his things for him. "Oh! Gohan you're back! How did the sparring session with Vegeta go?" greeted Videl. "Just the way I figured it would. I kicked his ass and gave him a few pointers on how to improve his own training." said Gohan with a smile. "Aren't you worried that he'll use that knowledge to become stronger than you and then come back to beat you or possibly even kill you?" asked Videl with worry in her voice. "No, not really... Maybe my father he'd kill but I doubt he hates or thinks of me enough to actually want to kill me. Besides, he's got too much at stake on Earth to want to destroy it anymore. If Vegeta becomes the strongest in the world then good for him. It'll just mean that he won't be bothering us about 'having to be the strongest in the universe' anymore." Gohan said with a cheerfulness in his smile that Videl couldn't tell wether it was just incredible naivety or his incredible intelligence speaking. None the less, Videl felt assured about it.

"Anyway, now that that's done, can we start my gravity training now?" asked Videl, impatiently wanting to continue her training. "I thought you'd never ask." replied Gohan playfully as he then bowed and made the old 'after you milady' gesture. He then began leading her to the GR chambers. As they passed through the corridoor they could see Vegeta dragging along Future Trunks ahead of them. "Come on Trunks! We're going to be doing some training!" shouted Vegeta as he dragged his son from the future into one of the Holochambers. Gohan and Videl giggled at the sight as they made their way to Gravity Room 2.

Once inside the chamber, Videl gave it a once over look. "So this is what a Gravity Room looks like? Seems a bit simple, but then again it's not made to look pretty is it?" Videl said, neither approving nor disapproving about what it looked like. Meanwhile, Gohan walked up to the gravity controls in the middle of the room and looked at the buttons on the control panel for a few seconds before he tentatively started pushing the buttons. "Would you like to start off at 5 times gravity or 10 times?" asked Gohan as he turned his head to Videl. "Definitely 10 times! I want to master this thing as soon as possible." immediately responded Videl as she smacked her fist into the palm of her other hand. "10 times gravity it is." said Gohan with a nod as he then started setting the machine until it read 10 g's and then pressed the button to start. Nothing seemed to happen at first, but after a few seconds Videl definitely felt a strong pull that forced her to bend her knees. "Ok, so maybe going for 10 times gravity first wasn't such a great idea." Videl said, effort obvious in her voice as she struggled to stay upright. "I guess 10 times gravity is a little excessive for a first timer. But don't worry, you'll get used to it in time. It took my father 3 weeks to master 10 times gravity the first time he did gravity training and it took me a week to get used to it in Hyperbolic Time Chamber. The farther we went out in that room the heavier the gravity became. Eventually I reached around 100 times gravity in about a month's time." Gohan said as he looked on with his arms crossed and wearing a funny grin. "*sigh* I never imagined it would be this tough. But there's no way in hell I'm gonna give up. I'll master this training somehow, just you watch." Videl determinedly declared as Gohan looked on with a widening smile. For the rest of the day, Videl continued her training under Gohan's supervision. For the most part she only did her basic exercises, but she also chased Gohan around the room trying to hit him, which she never did. When the day was over they both then went back to their room, ate a large meal and went to sleep.

Author's Final Thoughts: Okay, so the journey through space has begun. Videl's going to be doing gravity training from now on. Don't worry, I'm not doing to make her progress in that super fast like Goku or any of the others did. It's still going to take her about the whole month long trip to get the hand of it. And so with her projected progression being at least several times slower than Goku's was when he was training at 100 times gravity, I hope that it seriously reflects her inexperience and lower standing as far as strength is concerned. And I also hope that you like the idea of Holochambers, they're basically like the famous Holodecks from Star Trek. I'm a bit of a trekkie myself and I think that with Bulma's genius and the technology level that they have on the show that it can be pulled of. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter.