Progression 9

Six days later, a smirk was on my face.

1047.

"Rah!" Tien roared, four arms lashing out in speeds far surpassing that of bullets and coming at me in a barrage of perfectly coordinated blows.

Not bad, not bad at all. He's already more than half as strong right now as he was in canon when Nappa and Vegeta arrived.

In a blur, with my index finger I parried every single blow in all the time it took to blink, before poking him in the chest and sending him flying back dozens of feet.

He slammed onto the white tiled flooring hard, cratering it and sending debris flying. But the two arms over his shoulders slammed into the ground behind him and he used the to throw himself back up and then all four arms pointed their own index fingers at me, glowing with yellow power.

"Dodon Ray!" he shouted.

Four blisteringly fast finely compressed beams of power lanced out through the air towards me.

I smirked, and copied him. I compressed ki around my upper shoulder blades, and two arms formed into existence and I thrust all four of my hands out, firing a barrage of Kiai waves, shockwaves of pure ki through the air in a layered barrage.

The quad of bright yellow beams splashed harmlessly against the barrage of shockwaves and Tien only had time to throw all four arms up in a guard to bloc against them a moment later as they slammed into him and ploughed him hard into the ground.

Groaning and bruised all over, Tien's muscles began to shrink and the two extra arms faded away. as he lay there limp on the ground.

"Not bad," I praised him, slowly making my way over to his collapsed form. i passed through the collapsed and unconscious forms of Yamcha, Krillin, Chiaotzu and Yajirobe, "You lasted way longer than the others."

"..Y-yamcha's still stronger than me." Tien coughed.

Very true. Yamcha simply had a decent little lead on everyone else thanks to him somehow miraculously surviving the Ultra Divine Water and gaining a literal one hundred percent boost in his power. He was simply stronger at the base right now, and the stronger the base was, the stronger the boost with a multiplying boost like the Ultra Form.

But, with the Four Witches Technique, Tien gained a little extra boost and was only a measly fifteen points behind Yamcha in power. I'd made Tien use the technique extensively over the past six days and made sure to get him to teach me it. The small power multiplier it gave was nice on its own, but two extra arms made it just an amazing technique to use.

And in the process of training with these five and learning the technique, I also confirmed my suspicions. In the six days they'd trained and sparred with and against me, they had all gained a bit around double the power increase they'd gained through the month and a week they'd been training with Kami and Popo.

It seemed, that the stronger the person you trained with, the more growth you could expect to see. That even reflected on me, because the daily increase I had gotten in my usual training, seemed to have become a third of its average because I was training with people so much weaker than me.

"I s-suppose you're gonna go on your way now, huh?" Tien spluttered a question at me, breaking me from my thoughts, "Y-you did say you would be leaving after you sparred with us."

I crouched down and helped him into a sitting position, letting him hack out some of his pain and calm his breathing, "More or less," I replied, "I want to get to Planet Namek as soon as possible."

"...Man this Frieza guy must be something really terrifying if you with your insane power are so scared of him." Tien smirked at me weakly.

While I still found it awkward being around these guys, I'd gotten a bit more comfortable with their company, and the same went for them in return in regards to mine. Krillin had struck up conversation with me, and asked why I could only train them for six days, considering how fast they were growing.

The average increase they had gained daily after all, training with me was twenty five. And it increased slightly more the stronger they became. But even going by that average twenty five, with eight and a half months left until the saiyans arrived, all of them would gain an increase of 6357 in battle power at the minimum by time Vegeta and Nappa arrived.

That meant every single one of them would be stronger than Nappa, nearly as strong as canon Goku was. and honestly, by my estimates, if I did actively train them, they would all break ten thousand easily in height and a half months. And then with the Ultra Form that I had made sure all of them were capable of using in these past six days, teaming up they would very much be capable of dealing with Vegeta themselves.

I didn't want to cut ties with them or get accused of being stingy. So I revealed to them that Piccolo and Kami were Namekians, and that there may be another set of dragon balls on their home planet. And about Frieza, who even in first and weakest form, was vastly stronger than the current me outside of the Oozaru form.

My battle power with the Ultra Form and the Four Witches Technique, with the slight increase I'd gained from training with them the past six days, was 103,469. roughly a fifth as strong as Frieza was in his weakest form.

"Frieza is stronger than you can imagine right now mate," I shook my head, "But I've got plans to deal with him."

"Something you need the dragon balls for," Tien noted, "..So what are you still hanging around here for?"

"For a simple little thing I need your help with." I smirked at him. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a very familiar small green bean and showed it to him.

Tien's eyes dulled and he gave me a deadpan look, "..You want me to blast a hole in you...again?" he asked drily, "..Are you sure you ain't a masochist Kakarot?"

"I'm not," I denied flatly, "I'm just really lazy and unlike the original will happily abuse the knowledge I have to get shortcuts."

"..Well no denying it, you really are a lot more sly than Goku has been." the bald three eyed man snorted.

Damn fucking right.

I helped him to his feet, gave him the bean and then lowered my power enough for him to blast a massive beam of yellow energy right through my stomach, coming out the other end and destroying my organs.

The things I do for power.