7 Piccolo Joins the Training (1/2)

The rest of the group were trying to catch Bubbles, Piccolo included. Because the gravity was too much for them, except Piccolo and Goku, the rest did not wear their weighted clothes. King Kai had told them the gravity was 10x Earth's gravity, which amazed them even more, that the Saiyan's home planet actually had such a high gravity.

”Hey! Piccolo, what do you think you're doing?! You're not allowed to train with them before you pass my test!” King Kai rebuked.

”Hmph! I don't need your lousy training!” Piccolo gnashed his teeth and left. He walked up to a tree and sat down cross-legged and started meditating.

”Come on, Piccolo. It's not hard.” Goku saw everything, he walked up to Piccolo, and tried to encourage him to continue telling jokes to King Kai.

”I do not need to humiliate myself!” Piccolo yelled angrily, his face flushed from remembering his attempts at telling jokes to King Kai.

Goku tried persuading Piccolo several times but failed. Without a choice, he walked up to Raditz and asked his big brother to help.

”Goku is really too kind... He's helping his archenemy to get stronger...” Krillin looked speechlessly as Goku was begging Raditz to persuade Piccolo.

”You do realize Piccolo still wants your life, right?” Raditz was also speechless. Although he knew that Piccolo would become good in the future, Goku did not know that yet. But he still treated Piccolo like a friend already.

”Don't worry! I'll just have to defeat him!” Goku said confidently.

”Is this how he made Piccolo turn good...?” Raditz wondered in his mind. To treat his enemies as friends, if it works, he will convert his enemies into friends. But Goku was doing it unwittingly, this was his nature, and not done with ulterior motives.

”Alright, I'll try.” Seeing how Goku was practically begging him, Raditz nodded and walked up to Piccolo.

”Hey, are you really going to give up training?” Raditz asked Piccolo.

”I don't need to humiliate myself to get stronger, I can train by myself!” Piccolo looked sternly at Raditz.

”All it takes is a bit of humiliation for you to give up strength. If you're fine with the humans getting stronger than you, if you're fine being dead last of the rest of the group. Then suit yourself.” Raditz pressured Piccolo with his Ki.

”... I tried.” Piccolo said silently. He had a really thin skin, otherwise, with how competitive he is, there was no way he would simply give up his training with King Kai.

”Yeah, I know. I don't have a 'great' sense of humor either. So why don't you just look up a joke from the gag book, I'm sure he'll laugh in no time.” Raditz gave a piece of advice to Piccolo, he pointed at the book on the table, next to King Kai, who was reclining on the chair.

A few days later, King Kai announced that Piccolo passed his test. Unknowingly, Piccolo had surreptitiously memorized a few jokes from the gag book while King Kai was out driving on his car.

At first, Piccolo simply extended his arms to catch Bubbles, but after getting berated, as this action did not help him train in King Kai's 10x's gravity. He finally obediently chased after Bubbles, with Goku close to catching Bubbles, Piccolo unrelentingly pushed harder, which in return made the rest of the group work harder, their hard work pleased King Kai.

Four months later, Raditz finally managed to learn Kaioken, unfortunately, comparison made one despair, Goku took 2 months to catch Bubbles and hit Gregory with the heavy hammer. And in simply another 2 months, he learned Kaioken. Yet it took Raditz twice the time to learn the same technique.

”Shit! Is this the main character halo? Or is Goku just so talented?!” Raditz grumbled in his mind. If his talent was half of Goku's, then everything he did, required twice the effort to catch up with Goku, who is now his younger brother.