Title: A Legend reborn
Author name: Trugeta

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Rumiko Takahashi and VIZ as well as Akira Toriyama and many others. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Note further that I don't own any of the trademarks mentioned in this story.

This story takes place after Movie 10 of Dragonball Z and at the beginning of the Ranma series. It's an AU, and reviews are welcome and appreciated.

Chapter 16: A Saiyans’ dream come true

Ranmas introspective mood had soon evaporated due to the attention of the girls and the massive amounts of food available. It was really good, but inwardly the Saotome youth thought that he had already been spoiled rotten by Kasumis heavenly cooking. Which was just another reason why he wanted to have both girls.

Kasumis cooking skills and caring nature plus Nabiki's tactical skills and intellect plus the breathtaking physical attributes of both girls were a damn good incentive to find a way to circumvent the probable Japanese marriage laws. Add to that, that both young women were strong mates who'd give him strong children one day and he knew he had find a way around those laws. He'd also have to ask Vegeta about Saiyan mating habits and why he was feeling the way he was; for he was pretty sure that no human felt this protective about potential wives as he.

His thoughts were interrupted by Gohan, who dinged a knife against his glass to get their attention. "Now that you're all filled, I know I am, and everyone knows how much is needed to get me filled" he smirked, while Nabiki muttered "Can't take more than is needed for a hungry Ranma." with an impish grin, "let me show you what Bulma and I have been working on. If you'd follow us into the house." Gohan concluded.

With that he got up and everyone else followed his example. Especially the Saiyan Prince was curious as hell what the onna and the br... Gohan had come up with. A silent and expectant treck followed Bulma and Gohan through the corridors until the group had reached Bulmas lab, and surprisingly they stopped in front of a storage closet that could not take up more space than two squaremetres; add to that, that it looked totally unassuming and everyone except Gohan and Bulma was confused as to what was going on..

Gohan looked into the round, a self-satisfied expression on his face. "Okay, here goes. You all know that I said I had some ideas for patents." everyone nodded, "Well, most of those patents involve improvements for the Gravity Room."

Vegeta's eyes lit up at hearing this, and also Ranma and Ryo-chan had grins on their faces due to the fact that those improvements would probably mean better training possibilities than compared to a normal GR. And even this one had been awe-inspiring, at least from what Gohan had told them about their most used training facility.

With a barely hidden smirk the eldest Son son continued his explanation. "We have now trained in the GR for years, and over those years I had a lot of ideas for improvements. After training I usually sat down and thought 'What could be improved?' Well, you know that we make frequent use of robots for training."

Vegeta, the chibis and Piccolo nodded. The bots they were using now were of course far more advanced than those of former times, and actually provided some challenge, well, to a certain degree at least.

Gohan continued to explain. "I had the idea to provide a small contingent of maintenance bots for the GR, equipped with repair-abilities. This is also based on the concept that they use the scrapped training bots for more extensive repairs. This would make the GR self-repairing in essence, at least to a certain degree. Add to it that the new GR is equipped with force-fields that prevent it from taking too much damage due to stray attacks. I estimated that a contingent of ten robots would be sufficient for the type of GR you have, Vegeta."

Everyone quirked a brow at this, and Vegeta caught onto what Gohan meant quickly. "The type of GR that I have? What do you mean by this?" the Saiyan Prince asked.

Gohan's barely hidden smirk erupted into a full-blown one. "Nothing more than that Bulma and I have designed and built a wholly new generation of GR, based on my improvements. And through using the principles of quantum-mechanical placement of a larger space in a much smaller one we can built future GRs as large as we want." he said.

"That's also why you're standing in front of this store room." Bulma added.

"You haven't, have you?" Ryo-chan asked, and all eyes were on her. "Placed a whole GR into that like you did with my capsule home?"

Gohan and Bulma shared a grin. "But we did!" they answered in stereo.

"Roughly a year ago a theory on how to create a Tardis popped into my mind; to simplify it, a Tardis is an infinite space contained in a much smaller one. I explained my working theory to Bulma, and after performing all kinds of tests we found out that it had a chance. Bulma and I went to work and examined the working principles of the hyperbolic timechamber to find out if my theory was sound enough to stand up to reality.”

“Ookay.” said Ranma, who had the feeling that this would be way over his head.

Gohan continued unheeded. “In effect the HTC is nothing more than a quantum-mechanical placement of a larger space in a much smaller one itself. From the outsight, it is finite, bound by its outer confines. But as most of you know, the inside of the place is virtually infinite. After our examinations of the timechamber we reworked and expanded upon the original theory, as we had a pretty good idea how it worked. And three months ago we solved it." Gohan explained.

Bulma nodded with a grin. "It's so simple: something infinitely large can be contained in something infinitely small. It's a simple but time-robbing process of finding the right wave-length to open the Tardis, then the more complex process of keeping it stable. But we pulled through." she said, her grin growing wider.

By now everyone was hanging on their every word, and Gohan continued the explanation. "You know, we won't be able to do it at as large scales as the multiverse and we won't be able to create something as infinite as the hyperbolic timechamber (yet), but with what we can do, that will do just fine and be more than suffice. To sum it up, we have built a much larger GR using significantly less universal space. Instead we used multiversal space, and as you know or should know, the multiverse is infinite. Thus a two by two yards sized room is completely sufficient, seeing as we project the multiversal space into that room.”

“I’ll be damned…” exclaimed Nabiki, who already saw the money-making possibilities.

“I second that…” said Akane, only to be followed by everyone save Vegeta, Piccolo, Bulma and Gohan.

Gohan grinned. “Bulma and I knew where this would lead, namely to the availability of infinite space any time we want. With what I have come up with, we will be able to create spaces as large as we want. Imagine all the storage problems the industry has. They are solved! And this alone should be a patent that would be worth quite a lot." he said, finishing his explanation.

Said explanation caused slack-jaws everywhere, and once the enormity of this had trickled into the minds of those present awed looks ensued. "You're sure that it works, br... Gohan?" Vegeta asked with barely suppressed glee.

Gohan smirked. "As sure as we can be, Vegeta. Bulma and I have tested it for the longest time now, with optimal results. Even the prototype we built was able to create a Tardis that could accommodate a small town. Which was more than enough for the GR that we had in mind." he said, smirking more broadly.

"The patents from this alone are worth billions!" Bulma exclaimed with glee, Yen-signs in her eyes.

"True." Gohan said. "You see, mom, I used my scholastic abilities to further our training so that we can become better warriors. I never said that education was bad per se, but you never presented me with the balance I'd have needed. Do you have an inkling how I was viewed at school?" he asked, and Chi-Chi shook her head. "As a nerd, mom. Me, who had killed Cell and Bojack, a nerd!"

"What!" the up till then silent Akane exclaimed, "You killed Cell? That can't be. It was Mr. Satan!"

The Z-Fighters snorted and Videl smacked her forehead. She was never going to live that down, was she. "No, it wasn't. Akane, if you, your sisters, Ranma and Ryo-chan promise to keep this under wraps I'm going to tell you the truth after Gohan is through with whatever he has planned. But I need your word of honour that you're not going to disclose this to anyone. Do you agree?"

Out of the five Nabiki fought the hardest against her instincts, which told her that this was going to be the ultimate story which would make her rich beyond belief; but a millisecond later another voice told her to consider how Ranma would react should she sell Videl and her father out, and this was incentive enough to make up her mind. What was all the money in the world worth if it had cost her what she really wanted? Having made up her mind she heard herself say "I agree on my word of honour." not a second after the others.

Videl smiled. "I'm happy that you said that. Now you can get on with whatever you've planned, Gohan." she said with a smile.

Said Gohan mock-bowed. "Too generous, my lady."

"I know." she said with an air of superiority, which cracked many up and earned her a playful slap to the butt courtesy of Gohan.

With a smirk Gohan sorted his thoughts, turning them away from his beautiful mate. "Where was I? Oh yeah, me, the nerd. I, who had saved the world two times, with the help of my fellow Z-fighters, the first to become an ascended Super Saiyan, was viewed as a nerd. It was not the nicest of feelings, that I can assure you."

"But I only wanted what was best for you, son. A good education." Chi-Chi said.

"Chi-Chi," Bulma said, "we all understand that. But you really flew off the handle. I never said anything because it was not my place, but how you literally rammed books down Gohan's throat was just plain wrong. Have you ever heard the saying ‘Nothing but learning makes Jack a dull boy?’. In Gohan's case it was even worse. He has always been amazingly intelligent," Gohan couldn't repress the smirk in face of the praise, "and he was often plain bored. I provided him with more challenging material due to the fact that you had downright forbidden him to train, and if he wanted to he could now get a degree in physics and quantum physics." she said.

Gohan nodded and held up a hand, effectively staving off the tirade that lay upon the tip of his mothers' tongue. "Before you go off the deep end, mother, no, I won't become a scholar. I've used my gift for science to improve our training methods, and we're going to make a hefty sum to boot. We're set for life, and now I'll do what I want. Walk the path of the warrior." he said with conviction.

"But Gohan, you can't waste your talents!" Chi-Chi lamented.

Gohan sighed. "Mom, there's one thing that you've got to understand. I'm not like dad. Unlike him I can feel my heritage, and I will do what I think is best for my mate and me. I'll follow my instincts, and they tell me to become a warrior. Otherwise I'd waste my talents." he said with absoluteness. "Now that that's cleared, let me show you the results of Bulma's and my work."

That was what woke the others out of their stupor. Especially Vegeta had a hungry look on his face. If this would work, it was a Kami send! A nearly self-repairing GR which took only two by two yards of universal space, probably with even more improvements Gohan had not mentioned. A must have!

"What are we waiting for? The Prince of all Saiyans doesn't have all day!"

"Of course, my Prince." Gohan said in earnest. "And you'll like it. Part of the advancements in the new GR is a system based on colour-codes. I have developed what you might call 'paving tiles' for the GR, and according to the amount of gravity used those tiles will display how high the gravity being used is. Thus you get a visual impression how high the gravity is, and you know if you're strong enough to join the others."

Vegeta and the other fighters nodded approvingly. They could see the advantages of such a system, and Gohan continued to explain, "The 'paving tiles' are also designed for individual training, thus ideal for beginners, too, as well as for training in groups. They can be actuated in complete grids, which is a huge advantage if some of us big boys want to train and fight under extremely high gravity while the others train at lower levels. That the tiles can be activated in grids will assure that we have enough space for the real fights." Gohan said with a grin, shared by Vegeta, "I will explain how the colour-code works once we're inside the GR." he finished his explanation.

Instantly everyone was amazed. The Z-fighters had known that Gohan had a genius intellect, but to see it proven in such a way was amazing. "When did you have the time for all of this, Gohan?" Videl asked surprised. "I mean between school, eating," that drew smiles, "and us..."

Gohan smirked. "Gotta love the Saiyan stamina. I started this whole project after I had the higher working principles of quantum physics down, about a year ago. Parallel to that I worked out a blueprint of what the new GR should be like. I worked on both tasks every night. You see, due to my Saiyan endurance I was able to work on it and do everything else. And now is the time to harvest the fruits." he explained proudly.

Vegeta nodded satisfied. Yeah, the whole Z-Gang would benefit from the improvements Gohan had thought out; and he'd finally have a tool at hand that would provide him with the means to surpass Kakkarott in strength. He could hardly wait to see this new GR, and he could wait even less to start training. It was not easy to surprise him, but Gohan had done it. After the harpy had brainwashed him into her perfect little scholar he had thought Gohan had forgotten his Saiyan heritage. He was, for once, glad that he had been proven wrong...

-.-

Little later, after Bulma and Gohan had answered some more question, the main part of the presentation could begin; namely the examination of the GR.

Gohan grinned into the round. "I bet you've all noticed the device that's installed right above the door. That's what generates the Tardis. And don't worry, its absolute safe. It has an independent power supply, and one that is absolutely fail-safe. Bulma and I provided it with two mini-cold-fusion-reactors, and the whole construction has been covered with a material that makes it virtually indestructible. There is absolutely no danger that the whole Tardis might actually collapse. And if it did, which is impossible, we would get an advance warning that would give us enough time to evacuate."

The Gang nodded, once more impressed. That was the work of a true genius, and they would all benefit from it. Awesome!

Then Gohan opened the door and the gang saw nothing but darkness. "Go inside, one at a time, and the others follow after." he said as the group hesitated. "And move ahead to make space for the others that follow thereafter."

"Okay." Ranma said, always being the forward one. "We just step through this door, and boom, are in the GR?"

"Wait and see, Ranma." Gohan said, smiling mysteriously. "On second thought, why don't you enter first and find out?" he challenged.

"Sure." Ranma smirked. "Stepping through, stepping aside. That's all, right?"

"Yes." confirmed Gohan.

With a nod Ranma opened the door and stepped through into the dark room, and heard how the door clicked shut behind him. Following Gohan's advice he walked away from the door, but couldn't make out much in the darkness. He had no way of knowing, but he was not standing in the actual GR, but was actually standing in a hallway that led to the GR. This became clear to Ranma however when the until then completely dark room was suddenly illuminated by unseen sources of light.

Ranma just whistled appreciatively when the door opened behind him, noticeable due to the bright light from the outside that flooded in. Against the light he could see a vision, an angel, and he immediately knew from the scent of this person that it was Nabiki. "Hey stud, you come here often?" she asked seductively as she walked up to him.

"Not often enough it seems," he smirked, "or I'd have noticed such beauty before. Hey Nabs, lets explore for a bit, shall we?"

She held her arm out and Ranma took it, which caused Nabiki to smile. "By all means, Ra-kun."

Arm in arm the couple began to explore, but they didn't come very far, seeing as the door was opened anew. Ranma recognised the newcomer immediately due to her heavenly scent, and the oldest Tendo daughter was even a bit prettier than her sister.

Although, with so much heavenly beauty surrounding him it was hard to tell. Once more, stronger than ever before, the desire to have them both bubbled to the surface, accompanied by a lot of naughty thoughts. Looking to his left where the ravishing Nabiki was standing to the frontal where the angelic Kasumi was approaching Ranma vowed to make them both his. He already knew that he'd take the engagement up, the only question was if the sisters would be willing to share him.

No way in hell would he marry one and start an affair with the other. That was beyond dishonourable in his opinion, and he rather kill himself before he'd hurt one of the girls thusly. His resolve reaffirmed he smiled at Kasumi. "Kas-chan," he saw her blush at the pet-name and thought he'd heard Nabiki growl, "we were just about to explore. Come and join us. I've still one arm that's free."

Yup, he'd definitely heard Nabiki growl, as her second growl proved. Well, she'd just have to learn how to share then. No way in hell would he give up on Kasumi who'd proven that she was much more than a timid and docile housewife, but rather an active young woman who knew what she wanted; a woman, who'd been forced to hide behind a mask. And that smile of hers, not that serene one that had made her seem oblivious, but the real one, which had a hint of mischievousness in it, really warmed his heart.

Said smile was at present directed at him. "I'd be happy to, Ranma-kun." she said and took the offered arm.

This was how they were found by the next person to enter the hallway, and this person was none other than Akane. "Ranma! What are you doing to my sisters?" she screeched.

Ranma sighed. "Here we go again..."

Before he could justify himself and explain that it was perfectly harmless Nabiki took advantage of the situation and leant against his chest. "What does it look like, sis? We were just going to get to the better parts when you interrupted. Spoilsport."

"W-what?" Akane stuttered uncomprehending.

"What Nabiki-chan means is that Ranma was just about to show us a good time." Kasumi added, using the left pectoral to rest her head against.

This surprised not just Akane (who by now had the distinct feeling that she'd entered a weird parallel dimension when she'd stepped through the door), but also Ranma and Nabiki. ‘Damn, big sis is good!’ the latter thought.

"W-what?" Akane stammered once more after she'd regained the ability to speak.

"They're having you on, Akane." Ranma said in way of explanation. As nice as it felt to have those beautiful girls pressed against him, and hoh boy was it nice, he wanted to see this GR in action. "There's nothing going on here."

"But my sisters are pressed against you! You call that nothing!" Akane asked heatedly.

"Damn, Akane!" Nabiki exclaimed, "We could be rolling around on the floor starkers going at it like wild rabbits, and it would be none of your business!"

"B-but..." Akane stuttered, but Nabiki pressed on.

"We're none of the girls you feel compelled to protect. Sis, we're adults and can take care of ourselves. As well Kasumi as I don't need a little overprotective sister as a chaperone, especially not if we want to come to know the man one of us might marry."

"But I only want to protect you!" Akane exclaimed. "I don't want that you get hurt."

Kasumi sighed from her comfy position. "Little sis, what we engage in is normal. Both Nabiki and I want to find out if we could love Ranma, and therefore we want to get to know him better. You can surely understand that this will include physical contact, can't you?"

"Yes, but..."

"Does Ranma strike you as someone who'd take advantage of Nabiki or me? Do you think he'd steal her virtue or mine if offered the chance?" Kasumi interrupted.

"No way!" Ranma himself said. "Never would I do something like that, and I'd kill anyone who'd try to do that." he growled.

Akane to this as a cue to think. Ranma had never acted perverted, had he? And he'd proven often enough that he was honourable to a fault since his arrival. "No." she finally said. "He wouldn't do that. Damn, I screwed up again, eh?"

Kasumi left her comfy position and drew her miserable sister into a hug. "Not as much as usual." she said and ruffled Akanes´ hair. "Normally you'd have malleted Ranma, or at least have tried to do so. But you really have to relearn what's normal human behaviour, imotouchan. It won't do that you scream bloody murder each time one of us might do something with Ranma that you consider improper."

Akane nodded unhappily. "I understand."

"Good." Ranma said. "In my function as your sensei I order you to repeat the meditation techniques. They´ve already helped, but there's loads of room for improvement. And now let’s get moving. Less talk and more exploring."

Nabiki and Kasumi each took an offered arm of Ranmas´ and the quartet started looking around.

-.-

"How did you know what would happen?" Videl asked Gohan; she'd felt the rise in the ki-levels, just like her boyfriend had predicted.

"These four have a lot of unresolved issues." Gohan said. "Kasumi and Nabiki are both interested in Ranma, verily I might add; this is already complicated enough in and on itself. But add the little sister Akane to it, who seems to be very, err, protective of her sisters, and you have all the ingredients for chaos."

"If we were on Vegeta-sei one problem would already be solved. Bah! Humans." Vegeta snorted.

"And what does his royal highness mean by that?" an angry Bulma asked; the genius scientist still didn't take lightly to insults to her race, and Vegeta was just an inch away from being hit by something heavy.

"That I'd like to know too. And stop insulting the human race!" Chi-Chi exclaimed irritated.

Vegeta snorted. "Is it my fault that your customs are stupid? Hardly. On Vegeta-sei a Saiyan could mate himself to more than just one mate if he or she chose to; here on Earth you have this limiting monogamistic model in most countries, but does it work? I've done some research on what you call the internet, and the answer is no. Humans are unfaithful and tend to engage in more than one relationship, which shots your monogamistic model to hell. A Saiyan who has mated however will remain faithful to his chosen mate or mates forever; I'm sure that does not comply with your holier-than-thou laws and morals, but that's the way it works for a Saiyan. In short, Ranma could mate himself to both girls, and that's what he should do." he explained, crossing his arms over his chest in his classic posture.

"Oh Vegeta!" Bulma suddenly exclaimed and flung herself around the surprised Saiyan Princes' neck, starting to kiss the daylights out of him milliseconds later.

Trunks and Goten, who had joined the group a minute ago (after they had raided the Briefs household of everything even remotely looking like ice-cream), looked at each other with identical expression of disgust. “Yuck! Look at that kissy-kissy-stuff, Goten!”

“Yeah, how can Vegeta kiss her? Everyone knows that girls have the cooties! Aunt Bulma is a girl, so she got them too!” exclaimed Goten, much to the amusement of the adults and teens present.

The Saiyan Prince on his part was surprised by the reaction of his wife, but took it in stride, as he'd come to expect downright illogical behaviour from his mate; her pregnancy with Trunks had been especially bad and had taught him to expect the unexpected and take it in stride. With an internal shrug he kissed her back and matched her kiss for kiss.

Gohan grinned at Videl. "I say we go in now and let those lovebirds have their privacy. Ranma seems to have things under control in there, so everythings' a go for the demonstration. Mom, Dende, Piccolo, you coming?"

Chi-Chi watched Bulma and Vegeta and shook her head in silent amusement, then she followed her son, Videl, two chibi-Saiyans and the two Nameks.

-.-

Little later the group of three demi-Saiyans, a Saiyan girl, two human women and two Nameks met up with Ranma and the Tendo sisters. The latter had just been inspecting the facilities the Tardis housed, and Gohan could tell from the looks on their faces that they liked what Bulma and he had come up with.

The four had been in the recreational section Bulma and he had created, which contained an Olympic sized swimming pool plus a washing area with showers, three jacuzzi, three saunas, several deck chairs and even a bar. Of course several huge fridges had been included, which would and could even stand up to the Saiyan appetites.

After Ranma, the Tendo sisters, Chi-Chi and the Nameks had expressed their linking of what Gohan and Bulma had created Videl congratulated her love the same way Bulma had surprised Vegeta; she just kissed the living daylights out of him, much to the amusement and heart-warming of the others.

Once Gohan and Videl had been finished with snogging each other senseless Gohan had decided that the time of stalling was now over; without detour he led them to the entrance that led to the new GR, and the group stopped in front of a massive door. "As you will have guessed, this is the entrance." he said with a smile and pushed the door opener.

The door swung open obediently, and Gohan walked in. The others followed, and all of them looked around and craned their necks to get all the details. Too bad that there wasn't much to gain, as the whole room, whichs dimension could not be estimated by the group, was shrouded in complete darkness.

"Computer, lights!" Gohan called out after some moments spend in amusement, and the lights came on.

The sight that presented itself to Z-Gang caused slack-jaws everywhere, and even Vegeta, who had come to see a lot during his missions for Frieza, looked on in surprise. So that was the new Gravity Room. But honestly, it should better be called Gravity Hall.

Looking around the gang noticed that they were surrounded by tiles made of a material they didn't recognize, but that had to be the paving tiles Gohan had talked about. They were white and slightly transparent, as if it was made to emit something, which was, as they knew, actually the case.

In between there were black-tiled walkways. The whole construction was encompassed by a huge white dome, similar to the one in Vegeta's other GR, but much bigger, and the entire complex was at least the size of a huge football stadium. More than enough room to train properly. And gauging from the gleam in Vegeta's eyes a certain Saiyan Prince was quite happy.

Vegeta was truly proud of Gohan, although he would never admit it out loud. The young man had done something remarkable and invaluable, giving the Earth' Saiyans the option to improve their training and thus themselves. That could not be valued high enough, and Vegeta swore to himself that he would find a way to reward the young Saiyan.

"Damn! This is bloody awesome!" Ranma exclaimed, while the rest of the gang slowly got out of their stupor and started muttering alike comments.

"Okay everyone, now listen closely!" Gohan exclaimed calmly, while Videl hugged him tightly from behind. He enjoyed it for some moments, then took his girlfriend by the hand and walked in front of the Z-Gang. "I'll give you a quick 'how to.'" he said and pointed to his right; the gang followed his arm, and saw a large, very advanced looking computer console, which was most probably the control computer Gohan had talked about.

The flat screen of the computer console contained several rectangles with numbers in them, and the demi started explaining. "It's a touch screen, with which you can do everything; it's a lot easier to just ask the computer for help or give it commands however, as you probably noticed, its voice activated. If, for example, you say 'Help commands' the computer will explain which commands are available." he said, and the computer had started to list the commands obediently. "Computer, stop." Gohan said, grinning, "Yeah, I admit it, I took Star Trek as a role-model." he said, smiling sheepishly, causing laughs and snorts among the gang as he walked over onto a tile.

However, Gohan became very serious again, making it obvious that that what was to come was crucial. "Now pay attention, what I've got to explain now is very important, and it's for your own safety." Gohan stated earnestly, and the gang nodded their heads dutifully (even Vegeta gave a curt nod), something that amused Gohan highly, "Computer, start program 'Demonstration Gohan 1'."

The strange tiles lighted up immediately, and for a moment a force field was visible, then it disappeared. A light hum made it however obvious, that it was still in place and working perfectly. "The force field is there for us heavy ki-users, this way we never get to accidentally hit someone else somewhere in the gym we don't want to hit." he said with a smirk, causing Vegeta to smirk too.

"It's one-directional, meaning it allows people to enter, but blasts and all other kinds of ki-attacks will be absorbed. The force field can handle a thermo-nuclear bomb of about a hundred megatons, and I'd say that should be suffice. It could withstand even my strongest Kamehameha-wave, and if need be I can still raise its efficiency," Gohan told them. "Now look at the tiles, they are yellow at the moment. Computer, increase to three G."

The gravity emitters turned orange right away, and Gohan continued his explanation. "Just one G and it's yellow, between one and five G, it's orange. Computer, increase to five G." Subsequently the tiles turned dark green.

Gohan continued. "As you can see, between five and ten G, they're dark green. Computer, increase to ten G." Once more the tiles changed colour, this time they became violet. "Violet between ten and fifty G. Computer, three hundred G." The tiles turned bright red, and for a moment Gohan's knees, for he still was in his basic form, started to give in to the enormous pressure, but he quickly compensated. "Fifty G and up to 500 G: red."

The eldest son of Goku looked at them meaningful. "As you will have guessed, you would not want to step onto a field that is red, for that would be very detrimental to your health." he said and directed this mostly at the humans, "For if you step onto a workout field with a too high gravity setting, you could get seriously injured or even killed. Even the humans among us who have trained in increased gravity. Your ki might protect you for a little while, but the effort to maintain it would become too great too fast. I'd also advice to ask the computer how high the gravity in a red area is, for your own safety." he said, receiving sheepish looks from the humans.

“And in regards of safety, this baby is equipped with heavy-duty tech to prevent intruders from entering. Only authorised persons can access the computer, and that’s no one aside from me at the moment. Entering the GR requires a retina and fingerprint scan among other things, and only those keyed into the system will get this far. I’ll key at least Vegeta and Piccolo in later…” Gohan said.

“But what about us, big bro?” Goten asked with a pout, switching to puppy-dog-eyes-mode in a flash.

“Nope, squirt, not a chance. Neither you nor Trunks will get in here unsupervised, so drop the act, okay?” Gohan said with a small smile.

“Can’t blame them for tryin’, Gohan. I’d have done the damn same thing in their stead.” Ranma chuckled.

“Me too,” Gohan stage-whispered, “but that’s a different kettle of fish.”

Everyone save the chibis chuckled at this, and Gohan continued his explanation. "Alright, there is one final setting, for 500 G and above: black. How high above, you ask? Well, at the moment to 2000 G. I myself have managed to get accustomed to 550 G until now, but I'm determined to push my limits." He said, causing slack-jaws. 550 G? Blatant!

Smirking at their reactions Gohan continued. "There is one more thing to this new generation of GR, and trust me, you'll like it. I have devised a cloaking system that will hide our power-levels when we train within it. After all, there are a lot of guys in the universe who can detect ki, be it trough their senses or with technology. Thus we will be able to keep them in the dark on how strong we really are, which will give us an edge. The command 'Activate cloak' triggers the cloak." he explained, and instantly a strange light-effect washed over them. The whole audience looked amazed, whereas the Saiyan Prince and Piccolo looked approving; Gohan had apparently thought of everything.

He had, however, one last surprise for the Z-Gang, and that would be another big one regarding the tactical sector. "Vegeta, Piccolo, we've always searched for a way to mask our power-levels even when we're fully powered up. It was no problem to suppress our ki so that we seemed to be harmless, but the other way around always eluded us, right?" Nodding heads were his answer, while the others listened in rapt attention, for that was new. "Well, this is not longer the case, and not due to a technique I came up with, but rather because due to an invention of mine."

That said Gohan reached under his shirt and pulled something out that looked like a necklace. "This is what I call the ki-suppressor. Its function is easy and self-explanatory. I have concentrated on developing one for us Saiyans only as for now, as most of our potential enemies will know at least of the Super Saiyan. This suppressor has two modes that can be activated: in the first it suppresses the ki of its wearer completely, making it virtually undetectable. Role-model for this were the Androids, whose kis were undetectable for us." he said.

Smirking, he continued. "The second mode simulates a power-level of 8 million, something that is believable for a Super Saiyan. I will demonstrate it. Necklace, activate mode 1." he said with a smirk. All present gasped as his ki vanished completely. It was like he had none! Astonishing! Upon seeing the reactions his smirk grew wider,

"Necklace, activate Mode 2."

Subsequently Gohan's ki re-emerged, at a level of 8 million, despite the fact that he was still in his normal form. Incredible! "The necklaces must be tied to each wearer individually, so that they actually can either suppress or display the fake ki of its wearer. But that is rather easy and only takes one minute. And as you saw, they are voice-activated and can be equipped with a codeword. My favourite is of course mode 1." he said with a smirk, "Although mode 2 has its tactical uses too. Necklace, deactivate."

“And that’s not everything. Bulma and I are working on something we called ‘gravity bracers’; they’re worn like regular bracers, only that our babies are able to create a gravity field around the user that can go up to 500 G. The advantage they have over weighted clothing is that muscle build-up happens in a much more balanced way all over the body. Plus, you can cancel the effect with a single command. We haven’t worked out all the bugs yet, but we’re confident that we can deploy them for field-test in a few.” the demi finished with a grin.

Needless to say, everyone present was more than impressed, and expressed their surprise and awe by patting the demi on his back, congratulating him to the awesome job. Vegeta smirked and had a look on his face like Christmas had come early ten times in a row. That was a huge tactical advantage! And something Gohan deserved some praise for. "Very well done, Gohan. All of your inventions will enable us to get an edge over our enemies. Continue to make the Saiyan race proud." the Saiyan Prince said, surprising the others. That had sounded really heartfelt...

After accepting the praise, the demi turned to Piccolo and Vegeta. "So, I guess you'll want to test it out, eh?"

Vegeta cracked his knuckles and smirked. Yeah, he liked what he had heard and seen. Especially the power-level masking for both them as well as the GR was right after his taste. Thought like a true Saiyan. "You bet, Gohan. I want to see what this GR of yours can do." ‘If this is only half as good as I think this is a Saiyans’ dream come true.’ he added mentally.

Gohan mirrored the smirk. "I thought so. Computer, activate grid Alpha One to Alpha Twenty. Set gravity to 400 G. Activate. Why not start big?" he asked, smirking.

The tiles of the activated area turned red instantly, indicating a gravity setting much too high for most of the Z-Fighters. Not so for four Saiyans and two Chibi-Saiyans, however.

-.-

The weekend was slowly coming to an end, and the Z-Fighters and their guests were standing in the spacious living room the Briefs called theirs. Tomorrow it was back to school for quite a many, and thus, grudgingly, a return home (or what served as home at the moment) was called for. The weekend had been spent training and having fun at the Briefs. Due to the fact that the Briefs had a lot of space Ranma, Ryo-chan and the Tendo girls had spent the night there, after placing a call to put the Tendo patriarch at ease.

Especially Ranma and Ryo-chan, the two Saiyans of the Nerima group, had enjoyed the weekend immensely. The GR Gohan and Bulma had designed was undoubtedly the coolest piece of technology ever, as far as they were concerned. Ranma had sparred with Vegeta while Ryo-chan and Gohan had gone toe-to-toe, while the latter had limited himself to just SSJ1.

The Saiyan Prince, who presently stood beside his mate with his arms crossed, was quite satisfied with how the weekend had gone. Training with the brats had alleviated a lot of worries, as he had soon found out that Ranma´s similarities to Brolly ended with the seemingly limitless potential and the ability to get stronger in leaps and bounds through fighting; the young man had the potential to become a worthy Saiyan, worthy according to the old standards that had held true prior to Friezas rule. Ranma was cocky and arrogant, but also honourable to a fault. Also, and that irked Vegeta to admit, he was a great and incredibly talented fighter; not that the Saiyan Prince would have admitted so. But it was impressive how he'd fought him to a draw in their third spar. Boy had he been surprised when Ranma had both pulled a Gallic Gun and a Kamehameha out of his bag of tricks, even if modified and differently named. And that after having seen them done once or twice!

Ranma was an incredibly challenging opponent, and fighting him had made a lot of fun; it had brought about the satisfying feeling of a challenging fight which had forced him to go all out, had forced him to be creative. Which was just what he needed if he wanted to reach his goal of becoming stronger than Kakkarott. It had been the right decision to start training the brats, and once they had one of the new GRs over in Nerima the real training would begin.

Moments later the goodbyes were said and Piccolo teleported the five teens back to the Tendo Dojo.

-.-

The quintet entered the Tendo home quietly, all of them happy to be able to get some sleep after a tiring day. The two Saiyans among them were knackered too, seeing that both Vegeta and Gohan had demanded their all in training. The three Tendo sisters weren't off much better, for that matter. Videl had taught them how to access their ki, and it had been very strenuous; strenuous, but satisfying.

Ranma entered the living room first, and as his vista fell on a familiar figure a low and threatening growl escaped his mouth. There, at the Shogi board sat the unmistakeable figure of his father, playing shogi with Soun. "Pops, I'm too tired to show you what I think of your attempt to sell me off to Videl, but I swear I'll pay you back. As of yet..." he said with an evil grin, "Mr. Tendo, I'm sure you'd like to know that my father made an agreement with Hercule Satan nine years ago. A marriage agreement between his daughter and me. Which pops tried to enforce two days ago. Neat, eh?"

"IS THIS TRUE, GENMA!" Soun bellowed, demonheading his old friend.

"Yes, father, it is. We witnessed it ourselves and can attest to it." Nabiki said, barely suppressing her smirk.

"Mr. Saotome acted improper indeed, father." Kasumi added, fully knowing how much weight her word carried.

Ranma grinned. "I think you have much to discuss. I'll retire to the bedroom. Night."

The four girls said their good nites as well and left the Tendo patriarch to the task of cowing one Genma Saotome for his idiocy. A senseless task for sure...

to be continued...

Thanks for reading. Also, thanks to everyone for helping me out with suggestions, comments, ideas and c&c in general. Special thanks go to the people at Shinjis board.

I know this was just a filler chapter, but I had to lay the foundation for some serious training; I’ve used the idea of the GR and the necklace before, but I figured it made perfect sense to use it here to allow for some real bad-ass training that’ll produce some major results. This’ll only be furthered once the gravity bracers are finished, and allow the humans of the group to advance faster. Not to mention the Saiyans, heh…

More important, I can promise some real action for the upcoming chapter(s), seeing that the Amazons will make their appearance. And they have one nasty surprise…

The Q&A-Section will be posted at my group sometime this; had no time to answer the questions yet, sorry. Someone asked if I’ll be doing canon-events: the answer to this is yes. In fact, Happosais’ first appearance is not too far away, and Nodoka will enter the picture soon too. So stay tuned.

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