Chapter 16

Dad managed to get me into the house and to bed. I spent the rest of the day and part of the next healing, though it was still slower than I thought it would be.

Dad watched over me the entire time as the leg refused to heal fast. Well, it was actually the bone, but it still hurt more than I had ever felt expect for the accident.

When I was able to get up, dad showed me what he had recorded from the fight. The ass had obviously been hurt more than I thought as I saw that I had broken both his hands and wrists.

Damnit the ass was obviously a lot better at hiding than I was. Dad found out that I had snapped both his wrists and they weren’t healing right.

I remembered that the ass had thought it impossible that I was equal to him. That I found far funnier than I thought it should be.

This time I was going to make sure that I was truly ready when I faced off with that ass. At least I hoped, as of yet, I still had a ton of shit to do.

I knew that I had a lot of power but I needed to get stronger. That ultimate ass and I were at the same level, but he had a lot more experience than I did, so dad said.

I remember that he didn’t take hits like I did, which, considering his strength, he should have gone down faster. I questioned dad about it for hours as he went through all that he could remember.

I sighed as me and dad went to another abandoned quarry. He had worked for days to make all his tech as powerful as he could, which was very strong.

I started to guard as high as I usually did, and was surprised when Dad smacked me down with the first shot. Instead of being mad, I started to laugh, which seemed to piss dad off.

His next shot smacked me harder and held me down for almost a minute. When it stopped, dad was standing over me with a slight grin on his face.

“Jesus Christ dad, what the hell was that? I couldn’t move at all, plus the power wasn’t that high,” I said in a panic.

Dad nodded, that annoying thing he did when he seemed to think I finally got it. As I stared at him, an idea started to grow in my head as I arose.

He stared at me a few more moments, then nodded his head, (another annoying thing). I thought it over more, then I smiled as I motioned for dad to come at me again.

The rest of the day I got smacked around for most of it, but I felt my strength grow instead of the power. When the both of us finally fell out, I had us back in two moves also annoying.

We both managed a shower, then fell asleep next to each other as soon as we were on our pillows. I had a strange dream that I had a large drink straw in my mouth. I was tasting the strangest, tastiest drink.

Throughout the dream I didn’t really think anything of it, as I got two tasty, refreshing drinks. Stranger still, was that when I awoke I seemed to have the same taste in my mouth.

For the next three days, dad and I trained as if my life depended on it, (really it did). Dad had hit me with several types of energy that I had never felt before.

Then we started on the first of them, as I was surprised when I was able to knock it aside fairly easily. The smile on dad’s face had me confused even more.

A few hours later, he was hitting me with several more of the same energies that he had before. The thing is, I hadn’t really noticed that I was deflecting them as easily as I was.

I did notice that dad was smiling even bigger than he was before. “I think that you are most definitely more ready than you were, now try this,” he said as he brought out another bracer.

Just like with those that he had used against me, it knocked me on my ass. Though this time I could move a great deal more than I had with the others.

“Christ dad, what in the hell was that? It was strong but felt like the others pout together,” I said. I rubbed my arm where it had hit, trying to get the tingling gone.

“A very good guess as the Ultimate uses an attack just like that. I’d say that he won’t surprise you with that, though you need to get stronger,” he said.

I nodded as we went through all this for three more days ‘til they hardly affected me at all. Still, those first three days before had been hell, maybe worse.

At the end of the second set of three days, dad sighed as he looked at me. “I hope I have you ready, though I heard he has a power I don’t know of. I tried to make you stronger with what I have, and you are, but I’m afraid I am forgetting something.”

We stood there a few moments as dad suddenly snapped his fingers, turned a dial on the bracelet, then pointed at me. When he let whatever it was loose, I felt like I had ants and bugs biting me all over.

I tried to form a shield, it passed through it as if it wasn’t there, hell it felt worse. I went through all ten shields before I thought that if it went through them could I repulse them?

I saw that dad was grimacing at what was happening, then he nodded as my shield completely changed. I saw him duck as the beam hit my new shield and started to bounce back at him.