Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2013 13:46:39 GMT -5
Deep in the mountains, near an empty cave the crashed wreckage of a space ship sat in plain view. Among this wreckage was a large rock, and upon this rock, there sat a woman who was five feet, seven inches tall with her right light firmly resting across the top of her left leg with a book and pencils in her lap. She had white skin, black hair, pinned into ponytail by her blue butterfly shaped hair pin and blue gray eyes. Currently, she wore a brown tunic, blue and white gloves, and brown high-heel boots, however, buried deep within her skin was a retractable set of steel gray armor that could easily come out and cover her body in an instant. This was her "Living Armor" an ability granted to her by undergoing a surgical process called "Knight's Passage" for a year. It was something usually granted child at age seven, but the fact that this woman looked twenty-three clearly meant something. She had survived this and probably other things, especially when one could see the threatening long sword buried in the earth no more than an arm's length from her left hand.
Yet it would be unlikely anyone would say that to this woman you are not human although, despite her appearance, she really was not human. She was an alien. Yeah, one would probably expect green antennae and such coming out of her head, but that was not the case for her head. She was a Caballye a member of a race of medieval space knights. Medieval space knights, yeah, that too sounds like a joke, but it is actually true. There is a planet in the universe of Dragon Ball with space knights on it and that place's name is Castelle. Now, that seems a bit ridiculous, but with the fact space monkeys have fought flying pink magic goop, altered insect bio-androids, met with green aliens with antennae and ticked off space lizards with power issues, please, please, please, do not even think of saying space knights cannot exist.
This woman does and her name is Roxsenne Roye Tuscana. The problem with her though is that although she is a highly trained knight and can fight like the dickens her adventures thus far have only existed on Castelle. For this reason, her being on a planet like, well, um, Earth is near impossible. Yet go ahead and blame evil uncles, poison, and strange ambitions. Roxsenne ended up launched into space on the only known space ship Castelle's ever made, and her rich uncle was the man to cause this problem. His name was Harmut Jace Tuscana-Err and to make a long story short and he hated her, so then why use a prologue at all? That is because this knight is not about to sit on planet Earth and wait to die. Revenge is her goal and the curiosity of how she seeks it is what drives this plot. Knights do not take interstellar G-Force lying down and quit. No, knights seek their destiny. So let us continue the star warrior's great epic from her thirty-first day on Earth (Castelle days later). If you find trouble understanding the time flow of her potential planet's passage of time compared to Earth's please follow this helpful guide:
An Earth month is generally thirty days at a minimum. Castelle's world has twenty-one days in a month. Therefore, divide twenty-one by thirty and you get point seven. From here, take the normal number of minutes in a single day’s hour on Earth and multiple them by point seven. You will get forty-two. This is the number of minutes in a Castelle hour. After this take the number of hours in an Earth day and multiple that by point seven, you will get sixteen point eight hours in a full Castelle day. Once you find this search for the week. It is seven times point seven, which is four point nine days in a week. In a month, well, there are about twenty one days, so that does not need exploration, however, the number of months in a year is an important piece of information and that equates to eight point four months using the same factor of point seven. Talk about a short year, but that aside, it is notable that there are two-hundred fifty, and half days on the planet Castelle after comparing it to Earth’s full year using the factor of point seven. This information is important because the passage of time for the planet Castelle is slightly quicker than Earth’s known measurements, so getting home for Roxsenne shall be a hard task ahead of her.
Anyway, Castelle’s time compared to Earth’s time was something Roxsenne took into account when observing the heavens. It was a hard thing to do since she did not know precisely in the sky where her home world was as she looked up at it in the evenings, however, since finishing her last journal entry two minutes had passed on Earth since the time indicated by the heaven. She marked this down and then went to tracking the seconds on Earth compared to Castelle. In Earth time there were apparently sixty minutes and sixty seconds so if she took this and multiplied this by point seven she realized she got two thousand, five hundred, and twenty seconds in a minute of Castelle time. That, she realized would be seven thousand two hundred seconds of Earth time, which if she was calculating correctly was actually equal to five thousand and forty seconds in Castelle time or two Castelle minutes. The idea that the planet she lived on moved at a faster speed time wise than Earth’s own speed was baffling. The fact that planet Castelle had a time comparable to seven tenths of Earth made her ponder many things, most importantly though, “If I can escape here how long should I stay and where could I get a space ship for my travels, how would I fly it too, and what should I stock it with?”
Time was not on her side here, or maybe it was once time moved relatively the same. In a ten thousand year span, if she thought about it, the completely known time of Castelle’s time reference equated to two million, five hundred, and fifty-five thousand days. That compared to three million six hundred and fifty thousand days would possibly allow her to do something grand. That grand scheme would be to come back from Earth and cheat death in a sense by spending more time on Earth perhaps training while her uncle Harmut rotted in his rule and aged like a fine, ripe wine. Her calculations were certainly not great, but she was sure with her mind that she had gotten as close as she could to her own time frame reference by observing things for the last thirty Earth days. All she had done though since then was eat, sleep, and stay near the ship without much change in her routine. She had become too engrossed in simply calculating her time and surviving. That was not a way to live and she knew this very well at heart.
Therefore, she took it upon herself to change. She set her notebook aside on top of her rock, stood up and stretched her arms into the arm then grabbed her sword of the ground with a powerful yank from her left arm. “I have so much strength yet have not a clue what to do with it on this planet. I really hate my uncle though and wish I could take out all of this power on him.”
She remembered the time he had placed her inside the space ship originally twenty-one Castelle days ago and shivered as she remembered how the door to the ship had locked on her. Then there was a loud rumbling and jostling that sounded like thunder. Before she knew it, she was off world and then quickly out of sight from her home planet. These thoughts caused her power to rise and her sword glowed with the energy of her Destine as raised her blade and swung it down in a vertical arc. After this swing, she thought to check her pockets to find what her father’s horrible brother had given her to survive. She found within her tunic the one white capsule her uncle had collected, a capsule she remembered clearly opening on the ship. Inside it was a giant dome structure, but what it was for was unknown to her. Therefore, for now, she called it a “Hall of the Gods” since it looked like it could fit one inside it. The other thing she had as she rifled through her pockets and pulled it out was four hundred “Drakis”, more commonly known as Zeni. She had no idea what the going rates for her coin were on this planet, but it was unlikely she could use It since the world, Earth, that she landed on was so far a place that did not look or feel inhabited to her. After she finished examining her belongings, she stored them back into her tunic.
For now, she continued swinging her sword vertically, another forty nine times before switching her blade around and letting it cut in a horizontal arc from left to right. This was the basic training form of squires and since her thirty Earth days of panic all she had to make up for it was a weaker set of muscles and far less power than she was certain she had. When she was done with this she got down on the ground and did one hundred push-ups and curl ups before going on to stand up and do two hundred squats. She wished she had a practice lance with her then she would have been able to do two hundred and fifty lance thrusts, however, as she finished her squats she wiped her brow and thought that it was probably a bad idea. She was already doing as much basic training as she could and did not have a lance among the things her uncle had put onto his special, prototype space ship.
Since this was the case, she decided to figure out what was in her capsule’s “Hall of Gods” and took the white capsule out again. With a simple click and toss, the capsule landed on the ground where it exploded into smoke. This surprised her for a moment, but when this cleared, the large superdome she remembered appeared before her fifty feet from where she was and embedded itself into the ground. She walked over to the metallic structure and found two features on the outside, a heavily bolted door and a box attached to the side with an image of a hand on it.
Roxsenne pondered what this hand picture was for but took both her gloves off, after sheathing her sword, to find out. She placed the palm of her left hand against the image and it began to scan her hand.
“Scanning DNA,” a male, robotic voice told her as a needle shot out from the top of the box and pricked her. Roxsenne drew her hand back in pain yet let the strange device take her blood.
“Referencing DNA, test subject species is Caballye, its gender is female, and its name is Lady Roxsenne Roye Tuscana, subject’s natural height is five feet, seven inches, and her total body weight is one hundred forty pounds. After closer inspection subject is capable of increasing their natural body weight to one hundred eighty pounds with the strange organic metals fused to their skeletal structure. Based on the current parameters, a training program is possible. Please wait while the indoor training environment is adjusted to Earth’s planetary gravity and your needs milady.”
There was a great rumbling inside the contraption before the dome’s front door unlocked and slid itself up. Roxsenne gawked as she peeked inside the inner dome and found a grass field with a bathing pool inside it. She stepped inside and when she did noticed a strange book on a pedestal in the center of the dome. A small robotic orb, a security drone for the gravity chamber floated over to her and said, “Welcome to the gravity chamber, I am sorry for pricking your finger ma’am, but it was necessary to activate my protocols. Normally, I was to be of use for your uncle Harmut, but since I have found that you are now my owner I shall obey and follow your commands.” The orb circled around her and added, “My name is FATE or Fighting and Training Engine. I set up this gravity dome, what you have been referring to in the past as a “Hall of Gods”, just for you. This facility has the right to end up named either though since my current parameters can make you god or goddess-like on this planet. I have been watching you from inside my capsule and waiting to see if you might explore my inner workings, however, it seems only until now such things have happened, like your crash, on this planet Earth that would warrant such exploration of the tools you currently possess.” On the floating computer’s screen, there were two dots and a downward curved line to represent a smile, however, after speaking this turned into a frown for a moment.
Roxsenne looked up at the orb and pondered where her uncle had gotten something so amazing. Nobody on the planet had ever heard or seen the stuff she was. Yet she knew that since she was its sole owner right now she would take advantage of FATE’s powers. She rubbed the top of the floating spherical machine on the head and asked, “How do I start your training sessions?”
An exclamation mark appeared on FATE’s monitor screen and he answered, “Training is simple. This facility is capable of training your natural Destine or ki to higher levels of power by forcing you to work out under environmental weights that are stronger than you are i.e. the force of natural gravity on one’s body weight. Currently, we are in an area that has zero gravity change, or is equal to the gravity of Earth. In here, you can walk around freely but your training will only seem like normal training unless you suggest alterations to your environment.”
FATE looked over to the book sitting over on the pedestal and added, “Over there is my main processing core, that book, or “Spell Book” which you can use. It is easy to access and adjusted to your simple needs. All you have to do is say, “Increase Gravity FATE!” and I shall do it. Gravity is in increments of five or ten and my current limits let me reach one hundred times’ a planet’s normal gravity. Let us say you use the times five setting, that will increase your known body weight by as much seven hundred to nine hundred pounds if you decide to train in my chamber. Be sure to bring a friend next time you visit though, I have a subroutine that helps you get stronger with them called “Camaraderie”. It is a special training course for two people that end up increasing the gravity here by the same amount, but I tend to cheat and add traps to my lovely system, such as air suction, spikes, high vaults, and automatic crossbows. ”
Roxsenne stood there listening and took in all the little robot’s words. Yet when he finished speaking, she walked over to where the strange “Spell Book” was and put her hand on its brown leather cover. With a flick from her wrist, she opened it to find white, computerized book pages pop out at her. “FATE, increase the gravity in here by five times please.” She spoke in a kind manner rather than yelling at him because he deserved that for offering her such neat ways to increase her power. She was not about to yell at him unless she had to, even if he was some kind of metal being.
FATE heard her command and to keep her from ending crushed by her own weight made sure to put the gravity at exactly the number specified. Three little dots appeared over his monitor face and he stated, “Increasing gravity by five time’s normal gravity. The results will make you feel like you are seven hundred pounds to nine hundred pounds with your armor on. Would you like to proceed?”
Roxsenne nodded and a second later, the energy circulated through the wall of the room. It began to get slightly warm in the room before the “Spell Book’s page turned. “I will now be accessing five times gravity. I am initiating protocol safety features for you now.” FATE told her. As he did, a series of long metal poles erupted from the sides of the dome. These were balance beams and if she got tired, she could struggle over to there and grab one to stand. From above her long metal cable shot out and clipped into the back of her tunic and a belt she was wearing. “Safety initiated. Please use the cable to and balance beams for support. I shall now be initiating the gravity well.”
The room got even warmer as more power flowed through the dome. In an instant, the gravity well formed underneath Roxsenne’s feet and caused her to fall forward face first. Her nose and body hit the ground and she grunted in pain as her breasts partially cushioned her fall. “I’m so glad I am a woman,” she thought to herself as she moved her hands around slowly under the crushing pressure and tried to stand up. Each breathe she took was like breathing through a straw but eventually after five minutes of straining she managed to push her chest off the ground so she could rest on her knees and hands. Her hair drooped down all around her face and she could feel her arms continuing to shake as she stayed on her hands and knees for another five minutes.
“Just what is this? I feel like I was stepped on by a large horse!” she shouted at FATE.
“This is five times Earth’s gravity and your natural body weight,” Fate responded, “I warned you that you could weight anywhere between seven hundred to nine hundred pounds in an instant if you used this machine and my features.”
Roxsenne slowly lifted up bother her hands and grabbed the lifeline dangling out the back of her belt. She pulled herself up and panted as she said, “I am not sure I can even train in this place.”
“Well, then I suggest you turn off the machine,” FATE voiced as he looked back at the “Spell Book”, his main processor putting out the energy.
“Let me at least try and walk over to the bar at the edge of the dome,” Roxsenne told him as she gripped the rope above her tighter.
“Okay, but you have no way to receive medical treatment here on this planet. Your kind may not have any sort of representation present on this planet making you helpless if you are severely hurt. Risk assessment says to take things slow when trying something new.” FATE explained as an electronic smiley face appeared on his round, floating body.
“I am taking things slow.” Roxsenne told him. She then took a step forward with her right foot and when she did, she could hear and feel her boots slam against the bottom of the dome. Fortunately, for her, the dome did not shake nor move at all. She took a step forward with her other foot and could hear and feel the same sensation. It was like having two times the amount of armor on her legs then she would normally have when wearing her living armor. She moved slow though so that her body would not fall forward again and used the tether line from above for a strong support. Another ten minutes later, she grasped the balance bar and leaned her whole weight against it. The balance bar stayed in place yet after her long trek she wondered if she should finish up in the dome.
“FATE how many earth minutes has it been?” she asked the orb as he floated over to her and circled around her head.
“The exact Earth time that has passed since you have been in here is thirty minutes. It took me ten minutes to set up everything and explain everything and you twenty minutes to reach the balance bar I set up.”
“In that case, it’s been about twenty one minutes Castelle time…” Roxsenne told herself. She looked at Fate and told him after this thought, “I want to have the machine turned off. Twenty one minutes of working out in Castelle time in these conditions is enough for me.”
FATE acknowledged her command and with very little of his processing power turned off the gravity well first. Then made the balance bars along the rim of the dome disappear. After doing this, the lifeline on Roxsenne’s belt unclipped and zipped back into the top of the dome. “Since my program is no longer needed I will shut down the facility here when you exit.”
“Thanks,” Roxsenne stated to him before dragging herself over to the front door of the training room. She would need to learn to move better next time under greater strains of gravity and actually do more than walk around once or so to get a feel of the gravity if she were to get stronger. When she got to the door of the gravity room, it automatically slid up for her and allowed her to exit out of the training room. Roxsenne then found the dome disappearing into a puff of smoke in front of her as she turned around. A second later her capsule appeared before her again and she picked it up and pocketed it.
“That was certainly fun,” she told herself. She looked over at the journal she had been keeping on the rock she had sat on before and picked it up then she put this in the pockets of her tunic and let her living armor cover her body. It seemed much lighter than it ever had before and she liked the idea that she would eventually be able to move in her specially designed and grafted body armor. Many Caballye she remembered often had trouble moving in their armor on occasion, even after having a few years to train in it as she had. Now though she had a secret weapon to help defeat her father. This gravity made her tired, however, she could feel that it had helped make her muscles possibly stronger, especially her legs since it seemed now easier to walk around outside compared to before with her armor on.
“I better go see what Earth has to offer me here,” she decided that from now on she would not worry about the time on Caballye compared to Earth. After meeting FATE and dealing with gravity training, she realized it was not helping her get any smarter. She did not really need brains to beat her father’s brother, just muscle since she had more than enough brainpower in her body to spare for herself and then some.
As she walked away from her crashed ship with all the remaining belongings she could carry she had no clue she had been spending the last thirty days in the wilderness area known as Mount Paozu, a place relatively close to some Earthen civilizations, but certainly not by foot. Though, considering she was an alien, and not bound by human rules her ability to walk on foot was much greater and managed to help her get to the city known as Central City after five days of walking. This is where her official training would end and her major interaction with humans would begin.
Yet it would be unlikely anyone would say that to this woman you are not human although, despite her appearance, she really was not human. She was an alien. Yeah, one would probably expect green antennae and such coming out of her head, but that was not the case for her head. She was a Caballye a member of a race of medieval space knights. Medieval space knights, yeah, that too sounds like a joke, but it is actually true. There is a planet in the universe of Dragon Ball with space knights on it and that place's name is Castelle. Now, that seems a bit ridiculous, but with the fact space monkeys have fought flying pink magic goop, altered insect bio-androids, met with green aliens with antennae and ticked off space lizards with power issues, please, please, please, do not even think of saying space knights cannot exist.
This woman does and her name is Roxsenne Roye Tuscana. The problem with her though is that although she is a highly trained knight and can fight like the dickens her adventures thus far have only existed on Castelle. For this reason, her being on a planet like, well, um, Earth is near impossible. Yet go ahead and blame evil uncles, poison, and strange ambitions. Roxsenne ended up launched into space on the only known space ship Castelle's ever made, and her rich uncle was the man to cause this problem. His name was Harmut Jace Tuscana-Err and to make a long story short and he hated her, so then why use a prologue at all? That is because this knight is not about to sit on planet Earth and wait to die. Revenge is her goal and the curiosity of how she seeks it is what drives this plot. Knights do not take interstellar G-Force lying down and quit. No, knights seek their destiny. So let us continue the star warrior's great epic from her thirty-first day on Earth (Castelle days later). If you find trouble understanding the time flow of her potential planet's passage of time compared to Earth's please follow this helpful guide:
An Earth month is generally thirty days at a minimum. Castelle's world has twenty-one days in a month. Therefore, divide twenty-one by thirty and you get point seven. From here, take the normal number of minutes in a single day’s hour on Earth and multiple them by point seven. You will get forty-two. This is the number of minutes in a Castelle hour. After this take the number of hours in an Earth day and multiple that by point seven, you will get sixteen point eight hours in a full Castelle day. Once you find this search for the week. It is seven times point seven, which is four point nine days in a week. In a month, well, there are about twenty one days, so that does not need exploration, however, the number of months in a year is an important piece of information and that equates to eight point four months using the same factor of point seven. Talk about a short year, but that aside, it is notable that there are two-hundred fifty, and half days on the planet Castelle after comparing it to Earth’s full year using the factor of point seven. This information is important because the passage of time for the planet Castelle is slightly quicker than Earth’s known measurements, so getting home for Roxsenne shall be a hard task ahead of her.
Anyway, Castelle’s time compared to Earth’s time was something Roxsenne took into account when observing the heavens. It was a hard thing to do since she did not know precisely in the sky where her home world was as she looked up at it in the evenings, however, since finishing her last journal entry two minutes had passed on Earth since the time indicated by the heaven. She marked this down and then went to tracking the seconds on Earth compared to Castelle. In Earth time there were apparently sixty minutes and sixty seconds so if she took this and multiplied this by point seven she realized she got two thousand, five hundred, and twenty seconds in a minute of Castelle time. That, she realized would be seven thousand two hundred seconds of Earth time, which if she was calculating correctly was actually equal to five thousand and forty seconds in Castelle time or two Castelle minutes. The idea that the planet she lived on moved at a faster speed time wise than Earth’s own speed was baffling. The fact that planet Castelle had a time comparable to seven tenths of Earth made her ponder many things, most importantly though, “If I can escape here how long should I stay and where could I get a space ship for my travels, how would I fly it too, and what should I stock it with?”
Time was not on her side here, or maybe it was once time moved relatively the same. In a ten thousand year span, if she thought about it, the completely known time of Castelle’s time reference equated to two million, five hundred, and fifty-five thousand days. That compared to three million six hundred and fifty thousand days would possibly allow her to do something grand. That grand scheme would be to come back from Earth and cheat death in a sense by spending more time on Earth perhaps training while her uncle Harmut rotted in his rule and aged like a fine, ripe wine. Her calculations were certainly not great, but she was sure with her mind that she had gotten as close as she could to her own time frame reference by observing things for the last thirty Earth days. All she had done though since then was eat, sleep, and stay near the ship without much change in her routine. She had become too engrossed in simply calculating her time and surviving. That was not a way to live and she knew this very well at heart.
Therefore, she took it upon herself to change. She set her notebook aside on top of her rock, stood up and stretched her arms into the arm then grabbed her sword of the ground with a powerful yank from her left arm. “I have so much strength yet have not a clue what to do with it on this planet. I really hate my uncle though and wish I could take out all of this power on him.”
She remembered the time he had placed her inside the space ship originally twenty-one Castelle days ago and shivered as she remembered how the door to the ship had locked on her. Then there was a loud rumbling and jostling that sounded like thunder. Before she knew it, she was off world and then quickly out of sight from her home planet. These thoughts caused her power to rise and her sword glowed with the energy of her Destine as raised her blade and swung it down in a vertical arc. After this swing, she thought to check her pockets to find what her father’s horrible brother had given her to survive. She found within her tunic the one white capsule her uncle had collected, a capsule she remembered clearly opening on the ship. Inside it was a giant dome structure, but what it was for was unknown to her. Therefore, for now, she called it a “Hall of the Gods” since it looked like it could fit one inside it. The other thing she had as she rifled through her pockets and pulled it out was four hundred “Drakis”, more commonly known as Zeni. She had no idea what the going rates for her coin were on this planet, but it was unlikely she could use It since the world, Earth, that she landed on was so far a place that did not look or feel inhabited to her. After she finished examining her belongings, she stored them back into her tunic.
For now, she continued swinging her sword vertically, another forty nine times before switching her blade around and letting it cut in a horizontal arc from left to right. This was the basic training form of squires and since her thirty Earth days of panic all she had to make up for it was a weaker set of muscles and far less power than she was certain she had. When she was done with this she got down on the ground and did one hundred push-ups and curl ups before going on to stand up and do two hundred squats. She wished she had a practice lance with her then she would have been able to do two hundred and fifty lance thrusts, however, as she finished her squats she wiped her brow and thought that it was probably a bad idea. She was already doing as much basic training as she could and did not have a lance among the things her uncle had put onto his special, prototype space ship.
Since this was the case, she decided to figure out what was in her capsule’s “Hall of Gods” and took the white capsule out again. With a simple click and toss, the capsule landed on the ground where it exploded into smoke. This surprised her for a moment, but when this cleared, the large superdome she remembered appeared before her fifty feet from where she was and embedded itself into the ground. She walked over to the metallic structure and found two features on the outside, a heavily bolted door and a box attached to the side with an image of a hand on it.
Roxsenne pondered what this hand picture was for but took both her gloves off, after sheathing her sword, to find out. She placed the palm of her left hand against the image and it began to scan her hand.
“Scanning DNA,” a male, robotic voice told her as a needle shot out from the top of the box and pricked her. Roxsenne drew her hand back in pain yet let the strange device take her blood.
“Referencing DNA, test subject species is Caballye, its gender is female, and its name is Lady Roxsenne Roye Tuscana, subject’s natural height is five feet, seven inches, and her total body weight is one hundred forty pounds. After closer inspection subject is capable of increasing their natural body weight to one hundred eighty pounds with the strange organic metals fused to their skeletal structure. Based on the current parameters, a training program is possible. Please wait while the indoor training environment is adjusted to Earth’s planetary gravity and your needs milady.”
There was a great rumbling inside the contraption before the dome’s front door unlocked and slid itself up. Roxsenne gawked as she peeked inside the inner dome and found a grass field with a bathing pool inside it. She stepped inside and when she did noticed a strange book on a pedestal in the center of the dome. A small robotic orb, a security drone for the gravity chamber floated over to her and said, “Welcome to the gravity chamber, I am sorry for pricking your finger ma’am, but it was necessary to activate my protocols. Normally, I was to be of use for your uncle Harmut, but since I have found that you are now my owner I shall obey and follow your commands.” The orb circled around her and added, “My name is FATE or Fighting and Training Engine. I set up this gravity dome, what you have been referring to in the past as a “Hall of Gods”, just for you. This facility has the right to end up named either though since my current parameters can make you god or goddess-like on this planet. I have been watching you from inside my capsule and waiting to see if you might explore my inner workings, however, it seems only until now such things have happened, like your crash, on this planet Earth that would warrant such exploration of the tools you currently possess.” On the floating computer’s screen, there were two dots and a downward curved line to represent a smile, however, after speaking this turned into a frown for a moment.
Roxsenne looked up at the orb and pondered where her uncle had gotten something so amazing. Nobody on the planet had ever heard or seen the stuff she was. Yet she knew that since she was its sole owner right now she would take advantage of FATE’s powers. She rubbed the top of the floating spherical machine on the head and asked, “How do I start your training sessions?”
An exclamation mark appeared on FATE’s monitor screen and he answered, “Training is simple. This facility is capable of training your natural Destine or ki to higher levels of power by forcing you to work out under environmental weights that are stronger than you are i.e. the force of natural gravity on one’s body weight. Currently, we are in an area that has zero gravity change, or is equal to the gravity of Earth. In here, you can walk around freely but your training will only seem like normal training unless you suggest alterations to your environment.”
FATE looked over to the book sitting over on the pedestal and added, “Over there is my main processing core, that book, or “Spell Book” which you can use. It is easy to access and adjusted to your simple needs. All you have to do is say, “Increase Gravity FATE!” and I shall do it. Gravity is in increments of five or ten and my current limits let me reach one hundred times’ a planet’s normal gravity. Let us say you use the times five setting, that will increase your known body weight by as much seven hundred to nine hundred pounds if you decide to train in my chamber. Be sure to bring a friend next time you visit though, I have a subroutine that helps you get stronger with them called “Camaraderie”. It is a special training course for two people that end up increasing the gravity here by the same amount, but I tend to cheat and add traps to my lovely system, such as air suction, spikes, high vaults, and automatic crossbows. ”
Roxsenne stood there listening and took in all the little robot’s words. Yet when he finished speaking, she walked over to where the strange “Spell Book” was and put her hand on its brown leather cover. With a flick from her wrist, she opened it to find white, computerized book pages pop out at her. “FATE, increase the gravity in here by five times please.” She spoke in a kind manner rather than yelling at him because he deserved that for offering her such neat ways to increase her power. She was not about to yell at him unless she had to, even if he was some kind of metal being.
FATE heard her command and to keep her from ending crushed by her own weight made sure to put the gravity at exactly the number specified. Three little dots appeared over his monitor face and he stated, “Increasing gravity by five time’s normal gravity. The results will make you feel like you are seven hundred pounds to nine hundred pounds with your armor on. Would you like to proceed?”
Roxsenne nodded and a second later, the energy circulated through the wall of the room. It began to get slightly warm in the room before the “Spell Book’s page turned. “I will now be accessing five times gravity. I am initiating protocol safety features for you now.” FATE told her. As he did, a series of long metal poles erupted from the sides of the dome. These were balance beams and if she got tired, she could struggle over to there and grab one to stand. From above her long metal cable shot out and clipped into the back of her tunic and a belt she was wearing. “Safety initiated. Please use the cable to and balance beams for support. I shall now be initiating the gravity well.”
The room got even warmer as more power flowed through the dome. In an instant, the gravity well formed underneath Roxsenne’s feet and caused her to fall forward face first. Her nose and body hit the ground and she grunted in pain as her breasts partially cushioned her fall. “I’m so glad I am a woman,” she thought to herself as she moved her hands around slowly under the crushing pressure and tried to stand up. Each breathe she took was like breathing through a straw but eventually after five minutes of straining she managed to push her chest off the ground so she could rest on her knees and hands. Her hair drooped down all around her face and she could feel her arms continuing to shake as she stayed on her hands and knees for another five minutes.
“Just what is this? I feel like I was stepped on by a large horse!” she shouted at FATE.
“This is five times Earth’s gravity and your natural body weight,” Fate responded, “I warned you that you could weight anywhere between seven hundred to nine hundred pounds in an instant if you used this machine and my features.”
Roxsenne slowly lifted up bother her hands and grabbed the lifeline dangling out the back of her belt. She pulled herself up and panted as she said, “I am not sure I can even train in this place.”
“Well, then I suggest you turn off the machine,” FATE voiced as he looked back at the “Spell Book”, his main processor putting out the energy.
“Let me at least try and walk over to the bar at the edge of the dome,” Roxsenne told him as she gripped the rope above her tighter.
“Okay, but you have no way to receive medical treatment here on this planet. Your kind may not have any sort of representation present on this planet making you helpless if you are severely hurt. Risk assessment says to take things slow when trying something new.” FATE explained as an electronic smiley face appeared on his round, floating body.
“I am taking things slow.” Roxsenne told him. She then took a step forward with her right foot and when she did, she could hear and feel her boots slam against the bottom of the dome. Fortunately, for her, the dome did not shake nor move at all. She took a step forward with her other foot and could hear and feel the same sensation. It was like having two times the amount of armor on her legs then she would normally have when wearing her living armor. She moved slow though so that her body would not fall forward again and used the tether line from above for a strong support. Another ten minutes later, she grasped the balance bar and leaned her whole weight against it. The balance bar stayed in place yet after her long trek she wondered if she should finish up in the dome.
“FATE how many earth minutes has it been?” she asked the orb as he floated over to her and circled around her head.
“The exact Earth time that has passed since you have been in here is thirty minutes. It took me ten minutes to set up everything and explain everything and you twenty minutes to reach the balance bar I set up.”
“In that case, it’s been about twenty one minutes Castelle time…” Roxsenne told herself. She looked at Fate and told him after this thought, “I want to have the machine turned off. Twenty one minutes of working out in Castelle time in these conditions is enough for me.”
FATE acknowledged her command and with very little of his processing power turned off the gravity well first. Then made the balance bars along the rim of the dome disappear. After doing this, the lifeline on Roxsenne’s belt unclipped and zipped back into the top of the dome. “Since my program is no longer needed I will shut down the facility here when you exit.”
“Thanks,” Roxsenne stated to him before dragging herself over to the front door of the training room. She would need to learn to move better next time under greater strains of gravity and actually do more than walk around once or so to get a feel of the gravity if she were to get stronger. When she got to the door of the gravity room, it automatically slid up for her and allowed her to exit out of the training room. Roxsenne then found the dome disappearing into a puff of smoke in front of her as she turned around. A second later her capsule appeared before her again and she picked it up and pocketed it.
“That was certainly fun,” she told herself. She looked over at the journal she had been keeping on the rock she had sat on before and picked it up then she put this in the pockets of her tunic and let her living armor cover her body. It seemed much lighter than it ever had before and she liked the idea that she would eventually be able to move in her specially designed and grafted body armor. Many Caballye she remembered often had trouble moving in their armor on occasion, even after having a few years to train in it as she had. Now though she had a secret weapon to help defeat her father. This gravity made her tired, however, she could feel that it had helped make her muscles possibly stronger, especially her legs since it seemed now easier to walk around outside compared to before with her armor on.
“I better go see what Earth has to offer me here,” she decided that from now on she would not worry about the time on Caballye compared to Earth. After meeting FATE and dealing with gravity training, she realized it was not helping her get any smarter. She did not really need brains to beat her father’s brother, just muscle since she had more than enough brainpower in her body to spare for herself and then some.
As she walked away from her crashed ship with all the remaining belongings she could carry she had no clue she had been spending the last thirty days in the wilderness area known as Mount Paozu, a place relatively close to some Earthen civilizations, but certainly not by foot. Though, considering she was an alien, and not bound by human rules her ability to walk on foot was much greater and managed to help her get to the city known as Central City after five days of walking. This is where her official training would end and her major interaction with humans would begin.