The Heart of Training

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Goku observed Chi-Chi sparring with Goten, occasionally turning his attention to Muten Roshi and Videl training Sharpner. Likewise, Kami Upa observed the training process of not only the staunchest defenders of his planet who would do their best to protect them from Cell when the time came but also the next generation of defenders. Some of them might have outlived him and served Dende as Kami when his turn came.

Meanwhile, Piccolo was meditating in the gloom of the palace of God's Temple. A horizontal stream of light coming in from the temple kicked Piccolo out of his trance and prompted him to put his feet firmly on the ground and check on what it was that disturbed him. When he saw the tattered image of Chayote with only a black seamless sports bra covering her upper body and Navy playfully cackling over on his mother's shoulders, Piccolo gasped.

"What's going on? You're too early!" Piccolo hissed, scolding Chayote.

"Oh, that's right... Sorry, I ended up busting the Room of Spirit and Time by accident. On the plus side, I've learned to control my Legendary Super Saiyan form," Chayote waved at the Room of Spirit and Time in dismissal, as if it was some bothersome thing.

"Y-You broke it!?" Piccolo exclaimed, alerting the martial artists training on the God's Temple grounds and attracting them to check the source of the noise. "What do you mean you broke it!?"

"Chayote? What are you doing out already? You guys barely spent half the time in there!" Goku gasped, pointing at Chayote and Navy while the rest of the crew gathered around him.

"Broke? Who broke what?" Kami Upa squinted one eye in suspicion. He approached the old wooden door and examined it. "Hmm... The door seems to work on this end."

"Yeah, the door's just about the only thing that works as intended," Chayote scratched the back of her head. "I kind of went wild in there."

With a blank look in his eyes, Mr. Popo approached the door and grabbed the handle, opening it only to reveal flashy nebulae and streaming luminal phenomenon, beaming in kaleidoscopic, trippy patterns all across the ruptured dimension with patches of white planes floating like levitating islands where fractions of time-space still survived Chayote's apocalyptic ascension and handling of her true potential.

"It's ruined. An infinite dimension of infinite infinities in all directions... All in ruin," Mr. Popo reported with a monotone voice without dropping his nonchalant expression for a second and closed the door. The djinn turned to Chayote and pointed his chunky finger at her. "You're trouble. Nothing but bad news."

"Huh... I'd tell you guys to send my company the bill, but... Did you say infinite infinities stretching out in all directions? I don't think even Bulma has enough money to cover that. Do you gods have some sort of mystical insurance?" Chayote turned to Kami Upa, who still looked completely shaken by what he had seen after Mr. Popo opened the door. It was as if the deity's entire worldview was shattered with one glimpse inside.

"Impossible... Completely irreparable damage... I'm ruined... My ancestors won't be done fixing this mess in millennia to come..." Kami Upa muttered to himself, looking far too miserable for something of his impressive size and bulk. "I'll be known as the Kami that allowed the Room of Spirit and Time to be wasted!" Kami Upa finally permitted himself to freak out as he grabbed his head and cradled it with his hands with a horrified exclamation.

"Aww, cheer up, Upa!" Goku smacked the distraught Kami on the back with his hand, making Kami Upa stumble a few steps forward, as he was completely unprepared for this type of comfort. "When we're done, we'll just use the Dragon Balls to restore it, or something..."

"You don't understand at all, Goku-san! You don't understand the type of damage that is! The Room of Spirit and Time dimension exists outside of the infinite, ever-expanding reach of our universe! It's a realm that exists parallel to it and can only be accessed through magical doorways that exist on different planets with powerful mystics on them. Repairing the damage to this dimension would be the same as trying to repair a house, you'd have to use powerful materialization sorcery to patch the dimension back together, but... Goku-san, the dimension is INFINITE! That means that an infinite copies of me would spend an eternity trying to patch it up and we'd still be no better than as if we'd have ever started it!" Kami Upa began progressively turning louder and more aggressive at Goku, who tried pacifying the situation with defusing body language and a goofy, apologetic smirk.

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