Dragon Ball BE

Chapter Two: The Turtle Hermit Way

Over the next year or so, Roshi trained Broly and Jaco in Turtle School martial arts, beginning by giving them new, orange gis to wear, each marked on the chest and back with the black and white Kame Sennin symbol. Broly shed his Saiyan armor for this, but Galactic Patrol regulations dictated that Jaco keep his uniform on, and so he wore his gi over it while living and training at Kame House.

Broly's regimen included morning meditations (as the old hermit knew things could get...out of hand...if Broly became frustrated with his unconventional training methods) and language lessons to improve the boy's vocabulary and caveman-like speech pattern.

After Broly's meditation, he and Jaco would do aerobic exercises to the TV while Roshi..."spotted" them—which meant he stared lecherously at the fitness girls on TV until he passed out from a projectile nosebleed and one student or the other had to shake him awake for the next part of training.

Said training progressed much like it did for Goku and Krillin in the anime prior to the 21stTenkaichi Budokai (with a similar mistrust dynamic between Broly and Jaco, but with Jaco being a more honorable competitor than Krillin was to Goku): the hundred-meter dash in five seconds, finding the marked stone in the woods within thirty minutes (this task modified somewhat to help Broly with his vocabulary and memory), the lake swim, the milk run, plowing fields by hand, weighted turtle shells, etc. (with the bees and sharks omitted for obvious, Broly-related reasons). All of this continued on a daily basis for several months, still beginning each day with meditation and aerobics, and reading and writing practice at lunch.

After the first month, Roshi added another test to the training program: "Come, Flying Nimbus!"

Broly looked upon the little, yellow cloud, which seemed to be alive, with childlike awe. As with everything else he had experienced on "Yarth" so far, Jaco beheld it with shocked confusion.

"What is Nim-bus for, Master?" Broly asked.

"It was a gift from an old friend," said Roshi with an air of nostalgic pride. "Only those who are pure of heart can ride it, as y—." THUD! Roshi leapt into the air, intending to demonstrate how to ride the Flying Nimbus, but he fell right through and crashed into the ground, getting himself stuck in the sand once more.

"Broly guess Master not pure of heart," said Broly, though he wasn't entirely sure what such an abstract concept meant at his age.

"Never mind that!" Roshi snapped. "Just get me outta here!"

Stronger than he had been before, Broly was able to pull the Turtle Hermit out of his impromptu sand burial with ease. He didn't even feel his rage-strength building up this time. It was strange; all of the unusual tasks that his Master had assigned to him and Jaco over these past months had actually shown noticeable gains. Extracting a fully grown man (plus two hundred extra pounds of turtle shell) from three feet of sand was proof of concept, which Roshi acknowledged.

"But remember," their Master continued, brushing himself off as best he could. "However you found your way to me, it means that the world is a far bigger place than either of us can imagine right now. Even Jaco here is proof of that.

"And with the power you have, the odds are much higher that you may encounter someone far stronger than yourself—someone who wishes to do this planet harm—and you must always strive to improve your strength and skills, so when that day comes, you will be able to protect the planet, and the people, whom you hold dear. Do you understand, Broly?"

Broly took a moment to absorb the old man's words (of which there were a lot—almost too many) and said, "Yes, Master. Broly thinks he understands."