No Train No Gain

Just as Taori was starting to get back into his maneuvers after a short break, someone else finally arrived on the scene. He glanced over at them, and his scouter quickly identified them as having a power level of about 10,000. Not bad - quite a bit higher than your usual Saiyan soldier. Although, as Taori eyed the girl, he noted she was quite small and young, though was garnished in some quite nice looking Saiyan battle armor. A newly promoted recruit? 

"Ah, uh, feel free," he replied as she innocently asked if he didn't mind sharing the training space. The other training areas must have been even busier, he thought, if the girl was asking to make use of the same one Taori already was. Luckily, it was a fairly large field, so as long as they both stuck to opposite ends, they'd run little risk of accidentally getting in the way of each other. Still, Taori had to worry a bit about one of his blasts accidentally spiraling towards the girl: she was weak enough that even a stray hit could cause some serious damage.

That, and the fact that she was so young, had Taori feeling slightly hesitant. "Though, even if none of the other areas are open, you might want to ask whoever's using them if you can share, instead," he added after a moment. "With your power level, I doubt any of them could hurt you if they tried, though, I'm a little concerned about accidentally hitting you if we'll be sharing the same space." The girl had a scouter on - or, at least something that looked like a scouter - so she surely could tell that Taori's power level was quite far above her own, the Saiyan thought.

"If it's too crowded elsewhere, though, that's fine - I'll just be careful," he added, in case there really were no other open spots. Although, it hadn't seemed too busy to him when he'd first arrived. Maybe things had changed while he'd been training?

Despite Taori's warning, the girl didn't seem all too concerned for her own safety, and instead remarked that, typically, it was other people who needed to watch out when she started her training. Well, fair enough - a power level of 10,000 was still more than your average Saiyan grunt. Quite a bit more, actually. And when Ise suggested they could train together, since she was capable of raising her power level even higher than it currently was, Taori supposed he didn't see the harm. So long as he didn't transform into an Oozaru or anything, he could see the two of them having a fairly even fight.

"Hm, yeah, I guess that'd be a good idea," he replied after a moment's thought. While he couldn't go all-out against her, it would certainly make for better training than him just tossing out attacks and blasts into the air. Taori had never much liked that sort of training, though without Vocado around at the moment, it was just about the only sort of training he could do. He looked over at Alpinia, and gave her a wave. "This girl and I are gonna train together!" he called out to her, and she gave them both two thumbs up.

As Taori returned his attention to Ise, his scouter beeped as her power level suddenly more than doubled, rising from 10,000 up to 22,800. Not quite something that'd give him a challenge, but a hell of a lot more impressive than most Saiyans. "Alright, yeah," he said with a proud grin. "Not half bad." 

Taori then took a few steps back from her and ducked down into his usual combat stance, his dark eyes trained upon the other Saiyan. "I'm ready when you are, then - come at me with whatever you've got." Maybe this training might actually be more fruitful than it seemed it was going to be. However, that remained to be seen - how good was this girl?

If it worked for the girl, then it worked for Taori. Still, even if she was quite a bit stronger than your everyday soldier, that didn't amount to too much for him. Taori didn't like to sound conceited and all, but there was no denying he was far above the soldiers he used to stand shoulder to shoulder with by this point. Even Rosemary, powerful as she was, was just a hair out of reach, now. All he needed was a slight extra push in his training, and then he'd be on even footing with the royal pain in his rear end.

Enough worrying about that upcoming battle, though - if he didn't pay attention to this one, he could very well get his arse handed to him even with the power disparity between the two of them.

His opponent seemed to think about her approach for a moment, then rushed right in. Apparently, she had claws, which was... Not something Taori had actually seen on an opponent before. Some Tuffle machines had metallic, bladed weapons, but, well, claws were new. Still, it couldn't be too different than avoiding punches or slashes. Still, weren't bladed weapons a bit dangerous for just a sparring match?

As the girl jabbed her claws at his torso, Taori moved back swiftly to avoid the slash, only for her claws to suddenly glow, and fire off energy blasts! Well, he hadn't quite been expecting her claws to be capable of that. In a hasty maneuver, Taori swung his arm in front of himself, lobbing off a moderately sized, round ki blast that just managed to overwhelm the girl's lasers and barrel towards her with enough power to probably knock her off her feet if she didn't do something about it.