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Post by Romanus on Jul 13, 2022 1:47:47 GMT -5
EP-02 Brooding, Booze, & Training (Part 1)
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Romanus decides to train alone outside of Sadala City, but he wouldn't be surprised if is own team members popped up as they sometimes do.
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The Saiyan had been drinking noticeably a lot more lately, it was the only way he could find besides training to take the edge off of his frustrations as of late relating to his deceased former team member Daikon and their new one Elery.
Romanus took another sip of space whiskey sitting on his bed thinking, finally his battle team has made some progress but not in the way he had imagined. The young Saiyan has always envisioned it in his head that his two childhood chums Daikon and Zukkah back from his adolescent hoodlum days making trouble on the streets of Sadala.
And for a while the trio had made up the the Saiyan Army, designation number 066, with the call sign of Bastards or simply the 066th Bastards Squadron.
Sitting there staring into the brown class half filled with harsh booze he remembered how his high hopes were dashed by their lackluster performance only to meat disaster.
During the final stages if the Saiyan-Tuffle War Daikon became careless as the trio of Saiyan laid siege to a Tuffle fortress with other Saiyan Army units. Rom remembered the ruins, fire, smoke along with exchanges if Tuffle high caliber blaster fire and Saiyan ki return fire all around them.
Whatever happened next Romanus wasn't fully sure of, whether Daikon's scouter malfunctioned or he was careless a Tuffle appeared behind a corner and shot up his comrade from behind riddling him bright blue laser fire.
"What the hell were you thinking Daikon? To die like that? To lose to those Tuffle scum in such a manner! You....." Romanus almost cursed his dead comrade's name. The Saiyan moods swung from blaming himself as he was the squad leader after all to wrathful rage blaming Daikon. He numbed this pain with booze or simply repressed it focusing on training, upcoming missions or hanging around taverns chasing Saiyan women.
"Dammit!" He growled furiously standing up.
What made Romanus even more angry is that this Elery who only was a Saiyan in disguise had been the means of their success. Her strange ability to heal Zukkah and Romanus in their past missions together had given them and edge, not only with Zenkai but also just with the knowledge they had a healer with them on the battlefield.
Elery had proved to be much more of an asset to their ascension in the ranks of the Saiyan Army but it felt wrong. Romanus was not above dirty tricks, cheating or cutting corners, growing up as the youngest and weakest of two older siblings had forced him to use underhanded methods to fight them often times.
But secretly having an alien on his team felt like it went against everything he was taught about the superior race of the Saiyans as warriors. Not only that but on some level it felt like a betrayal to Daikon, the guilt even more inflamed by the fact that the fake female Saiyan brought them more success than Rom's former partner has been able too.
"A true Saiyan Warrior wouldn't need Elery's strange healing powers as a crutch, yet here I am", Romanus thought to himself looking in the mirror as he got dressed still tipsy from the morning drinking. Whatever Rom felt he knew he was stuck with her and he couldn't sit around all day brooding and drinking even if he wanted too.
He put on his gray under suit, black and gray plated chest armor, gray arm bracers, gray pad skirt armor that protected the front and sides, white boots and white gloves.
With one final tug his left white glove was tight around his fingers as he reached down and put on his scouter with a ruby red screen, he tapped the device on the side as the electronic HUD came to life with arrow key icons and text readings.
"Lets just have a look" Romanus thought to himself tapping his scouter device tell it was in the correct mode to take a power level reading of himself.
His power level was around 7,400 as he looked stunned. His power had increased by many thousands from that last Zenkai boost though he had nearly got himself killed to get such a power boost.
On the last mission into space he had sustained a bad wound that would have put him out of the fight if Elery had not healed him, and it seemed with that heal of a severe would along with him being able to stay in the fight had paid off once again.
Sometimes Romanus didn't know if he wanted to hug Elery or strangle the life out of her as he smirked at his own power level reading. It wouldn't be long before the Saiyan Army had to promote him to 2nd Class Warrior at this rate.
"Alright, enough of this time to test out my power increase with some training", Romanus thought to himself walking out of his small apartment into the streets of Sadala City and ultimately far into the hinterlands just outside the city.
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