Endless negotiating, that's what it felt like when Athren was trying to purchase a ship to prepare for his travels to Earth for the tournament. He knew exactly what he had wanted within a ship and it was above and beyond what most saiyans had wanted. While most of the saiyan warriors were content with simply using a small pod to travel to a planet, Athren wanted much more than that. He wanted bedrooms, a kitchen, bathrooms and space to roam around freely. He essentially wanted a ship that would feel like a home. After all, he had spent a lot more time in space and invading other planets than he did at his actual home on planet Vegeta. While he was a saiyan warrior, he still desired some of the simpler things in life. An example being a nice bed to lay down at night after a day of conquering. While this was a luxury that most saiyans didn't want, Athren couldn't help himself. He worked for everything he had so he thought it be best to get himself something quite nice. With the ship that he decided on and purchased, it would make a good transportable home. Luckily, Athren had managed to work out a deal and get a discount off the price. I guess that was one of the benefits of being in the Saiyan Empire and having been on countless missions and assignments. Working out deals had been nice and managed to save him a little money. In fact, he managed to get a deal on everything he purchased.

Another purchase he had made was a robotic training dummy. It was essential to his training and it was the top of the line technology at the time. It was programmable to fight in a variety of ways and could hold up to extreme damage. It even had energy absorbing nodes to tank blasts that had been fired through the use of Ki. It was a very practical device for Athren, especially considering that he preferred training alone instead of training with others. This would allow him to maximize his training by having something else to fight, something to dish out attacks and something that could take his own attacks. Without a doubt he was going to use this thing to it's fullest potential and he had a handful of new techniques he wanted to learn and a few old techniques that he wanted to improve upon in general. That's what today was going to be about. He was going to learn some new techniques and fully test out what the training dummy could handle. He hoped it would be as advertised and he had hoped that it could stand up to the raw power that he was going to unleash on it. After all, he wouldn't be impressed with a defective product and it would be stated that this training dummy can stand up to any attack. Athren had fully intended to put that to the test. He was going to see exactly what level of power would break this thing. If it could hold up to him, he'd deem it worthy of it's reputation.

The best purchase that he had made in regards to his ship though was easily the gravitron. It was a device that would make a rooms gravity shift and alter at will and change the room to be much more difficult to navigate. It would make the simplest of movements much more difficult to do. This was the highlight purchase, it was exactly what he had needed.to get a whole hell of a lot stronger and with his weights combined with the gravity, he had felt as if he'd have the perfect combination to get stronger. He just needed to start using them and today, that was the plan. He was going to train intensely all day long, getting stronger and preparing new techniques for the battle on Earth. He wanted to make sure he was as prepared as he could be in both strength and technique. He had a week left to prepare and he was going to get right into it. He was going to push himself harder than the day he fought with Callion. He wasn't going to stop until he couldn't physically train anymore and if he could manage to do that, he knew that by the end of the day he'd be a whole lot stronger and have some new techniques at his disposal.

Though, before he got to his training Athren had gotten himself a hardy breakfast and geared up. He had kept all of things in the new bedroom on the ship and it was quite a comfortable one. It was surely more luxurious than the house he had back on Vegeta. This ship had it all and he was likely going to live in it full time. Even going as far to sleep here and live here while the ship was landed on Vegeta. It was just too comfortable for him to say no too. In his room, Athren had started to get dressed for the training session. He slid on all his clothes, his boots and his Super Heavy Weighted armour piece. Now that he was ready for a long day of training, Athren made his way through his new ship and down into the gravity training room. The room itself was filled with lots of training equipment, weights, excersize machines and the works. He essentially had himself a full gym in there. The highlights though, were the training dummy and the gravity. According to where he bought the gravity, it could only go up to fifty times and if he wanted more he'd have to install a heavier duty version of it. Of course, this was on his to do list but for right now his funds had been running a little low and he'd have to get that at a later date. For now, he'd work with what he had.

Entering his training room Athren took a moment to limber up a little bit. He knew that his body was going to be under some intensive weight and wanted to make sure he didn't injure himself in training. Right now, he couldn't afford an injury with how close the tournament was. Sure, he could've went into a healing chamber for a rapid recover but he didn't want it to come to that as that would take more time than he was willing to waste. He needed to focus and train non-stop from this point on until his ship touched down on Earth. Of course, allowing short breaks for food and rest was one thing but injuries wasn't something he'd allow. After his stretching was completely Athren walked over to the control panel on the gravity machine. It was a simple design. It had a turn dial to set the gravity amount and a big on and off button. It wouldn't take much to figure out as Athren cranked the dial to it's current maximum of fifty times and pressed the on button before he walked to the middle of the room. He wasn't sure what to expect from this but he really didn't think it'd be much of a challenge for him. He was strong, gravity wasn't going to be able to do anything to him. He'd stand tall and do his training as per normal and once he had the gravity down, he'd get the training dummy in on it.

It took a few moment but the lights in the training room went to red to indicate to all that the gravity was now on. The light outside the room had also turn to red to tell anybody that might've entered that the room had been activated. Once the gravity was activated, Athren immediately felt it's hard pull pulling his entire weight to the ground. This pull was even amplified further by his Super Heavy Weights being pulled down too. The pressure on his shoulders was intense but he managed to hold strong. He wasn't going to buckle to this, he was far too strong and far too proud to cave to something as simple as this. He slowly began walking, wanting to take the most simplest steps in order to adjust to the gravity as as the minutes ticked away, Athren would begin moving around more freely and rapidly as he bolted around the room shadow boxing rather comfortably. While he still felt the gravity attempt to pull him to the floor, he was moving within it rather freely. He thought it was the initial shock to his body that initially made it difficult but at his point, he had it handled. He assumed under more weight he'd find himself even slower but for now this would suffice nicely. He knew that working himself this hard would give him a massive boost in power and it was exactly the thing that he was chasing. This purchase had already been one he believed to be well worth it.

It was at this point he decided to test out his new training dummy. He would turn it on and set it to attack him at full power. It immediately rushed the demon-saiyan hybrid. Athren matched the training dummy's speed and power evenly, colliding blows, dodging blows and exchanging blows on the most level of scales. While it was quite entertaining, Athren knew that this thing would've stay relevant for all that long. While it was a practical tool for training, it didn't give the same feeling as fighting a live opponent and while the benefit of the training dummy was greater than having no opponent, it just couldn't give the same feeling. This was something that Athren wasn't going to complain about though. He would simply use what he had here at his disposal and run this training dummy until it could no longer stand. Though, it was said that these things could handle any amount of damage thrown at it. If this was true, the designer and manufacturer of this device was an incredible individual. He kept exchanging blows with it for a while, keeping himself going as he thought to the new techniques he was going to develop. He wasn't sure what he wanted to nail down first but he knew he was lacking on the defensive side more than the offensive side. In all honesty, he needed to vastly expand his technique catalogue on both sides.

While he was lacking with both offensive and defensive techniques, he couldn't help but want to fix the massive gap defensively. As of now, he didn't have a single technique dedicated to defending himself and that was something that had to change. He knew that he was leaving himself far too open in some fights due to this fact. He wanted to be a well rounded warrior with techniques to aid him in every situation he had experienced before, he even wanted to be prepared for new situations that he hadn't experienced yet. This would mean that he really needed to expand upon his techniques greatly. He wanted to prepare himself by having countless effective techniques to outsmart and outmanoeuvre any opponent. This would take time and a great amount of worth but it would be worth it in the end. For now though, Athren's main focus was going to be simple. He was going to train himself a defensive technique to help defend against incoming attacks. He can worry about dealing more damage later. The mindset here was simple, if he had a defensive technique he could defend himself and avoid damage and deal damage in turn but if he took too much damage, he wouldn't be in the fight long enough to do any himself. This was a flaw he was going to start to rectify immediately, for by the end of this very day, Athren would have a brand new defensive technique for him to use in combat.

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Word Count: 2,000
Super Heavy Weights Equipped: 75%
Gravity Activated to 50%
Training Dummy used 25%