The Power of teamwork
The next few months did wonders for everyone. The villagers learned farming quickly, Goku was doing his best using his strength when needed for plowing quick weeding, and tilling the soil for new plants and areas while wearing his heaviest set of weights being 1 ton on each limb.
He was enjoying himself with eh training as Piccolo often joined him and the other Z fighters helped out with other chores and tasks while wearing their own weighted clothing.
The villagers got used to seeing them sweating so much then sparring for hours after the heavy chores for farming are completed.
The sparring was doing wonders for them as their power levels grew quickly but with great care out into regulating it. They didn't want to make the normal villagers break out into cold sweats from their energy levels every time they walked by if they failed to control their power.
Chi chi had been enjoying the training as well. Especially since she said it will help her body witht he pregnancy she discovered one morning.
Everyone celebrated as Goku blushes at the news. Suno was now in the same house as Piccolo and besides some heavy make out sessions and some heavy petting over their clothes hadn't gone much further.
Piccolos reasoning was he wanted her to be ready for it. He could wait until she was ready.
Suno was keeping that in mind.
But their relationship was solid and in the next few months Piccolo was thinking of grabbing a ring to propose to her with.
In other news the farming was going great and the warm climate of the mountains were doing wonders for all year around crops. Earning them quite a bit every market they sold to. The village was thriving and doing well.
Chi chi was happy at the nest egg they made and was more than happy to have Goku train for half the day as long as he did at least 3 hours in helping earn the money.
As the weeks passed and the crops brought in more money the Z Fighters had steadily grown in strength.
With instructors like Goku and Piccolo all the human z fighters had just recently broken 10k in power. While Goku and Piccolo were neck and neck with having just passed 400k.
They kept trying to one up each other to bring forge their strongest potential. Especially once they had gotten the hang of theirore powerful techniques and developed new ones.
Piccolos new favorite was a well timed special beam cannon and his second favorite is hell zone grenade.
Goku was happy to have learned the wonderful and powerful Dragon ki fist. And a new technique he called buzzsaw kick where he spun in a circle either vertically or horizontally and had a blade of ki cost his leg to slice into the opponent while he spun using flight to cut them to pieces.
Piccolo might have freaked out Suno once or twice while helping Goku perfect the move from missing a limb after hard day of training.
Suno fainted the first time she saw him regenerate. Piccolo explained the abilities of his race and she was fine with it afterwards. But she still didn't like to see him missing or regrowing limbs.
Suno and Chi chi became good friends throughout Chi chis pregnancy. Suno even trained alongside the pregnant wife so she could master the basics of self defense that Piccolo had been teaching her over the last few months. And she was nearing the time she could hopefully learn the basics of ki.
She would never be a true fighter but she could at least defend herself and the village if it came down to a fight.
She and Piccolo had gotten much closer and he even broke down what he has been dealing with for traumas and why. She was shocked he was a previous person. But she believes it with all the kid and magic she has seen in the last few months.
And she loves him all the more for it with how much he trusts her.
Soon the chosen time came and they hunted the dragonballs together.
Using both of Bulmas dragon radars they quickly found them all and gathered them for the wish.
Soon the dragon was summoned and Suno and her village were in awe as the Dragon bellowed, "I AM THE ETERNAL DRAGON! SPEAK YOUR WISH SO I MAY GRANT IT!!"
Piccolo yells out, "Eternal dragon! Can you grant me and our Z fighters any number of blessings? Or are they limited?"
The Shenron thinks it over and then answers, "I HAVE THE POWER TO GIFT YOU AN POEER YOU KNOW OF, BUT MY ABILITY TO GIVE MULTIPLE POWERS TO MULTIPLE PEOPLE IS LIMITED TO THE DIFFERENCE IN POWER I GRANT."
Goku perks up and asks, "Can you give an example? I'm a little lost."
Shenron nods and goes, "FOR EXAMPLE IF I GIFT YOU ALL THE POWER TO SPLIT INTO MULTIPLE BODIES WITHOUT THE LOSS OF POWER I CAN'T GRANT MORE DUE TO HOW KUCH THAT WOULD DRAIN ME TO CHANGE YOUR BODY SPLIT TECHNIQUE INTO A TRUE CLONING TECHNIQUE. BUT IF ONLY ONE OF YOU WANTED A TRUE CLONING TECHNIQUE AND THEN ONE OR TWO MORE POWERS I CAN GRANT THOSE. SO IT DEPENDS. ARE YOU POWERING UP ALL OF YOUR GROUP BY A SINGLE POWER? OR ONLY YOUR BEST FIGHTER WITH MULTIPLE POWERS?"
Piccolo thought it over and then discussed it with everyone. With a nod they all agree and Piccolo turns towards the dragon. "Then mighty Shenron we will ask you this! Please grant all members of the Z fighters the power of instant transmission! We will need it in the coming years to fight back threats from Earth!"
Shenron nods and his eyes glow bright.
Soon all the fighters feel their new technique fill their heads as their bodies feel the difference in how they view their physical mass and energy and where it can go now.
With a grin Piccolo grips his hands into fists and happily thanks the dragon.
Shenron nods to his creators nephew and goes back to sleep. "YOUR WISH IS GRANTED! FAREWELL!"
With the wish over the sky returns to normal and the villagers all begin to discuss and happily recount what they just saw.
Suno runs up to check on Piccolo as she checks on him and how he is doing. All the other Z fighters begin to practice their technique by going to places they know or visiting people they want to see and shock with their new found ability.
Soon enough they all get a good hang of the power and focus on using it for combat going forward.
While Piccolo does one interesting thing with it. He grabs Suno and teleports her to an island he has visited before. She gasps at its beauty and hugs him happily as he hugs back and kisses her.
She enjoys a day on the island with him as he shows her the sights and sounds he knows from his time looking at it from the lookout with Kami.
He also thumbs a small package in his gi pocket.
As they enjoy the island date Piccolo is on the brink of a nervous panic episode. He trusts Suno. He would even go so far as to say he loves her. She obviously loves him. Especially with how much she loves to cuddle and fall asleep against him in their house after a full days work.
The problem is he is still being nagged by the last of that betrayal trauma.
It is just rattling it's cage asking to be let out.
Piccolo begins to breath deeply. Suno is facing a beautiful waterfall where the spraying water vapor is creating a rainbow in the sunset. He focuses and silences the betrayal cage as it tries to speak up against him.
He glares into the eyes of his former best friend who betrayed him and says, "I won't be ruled by the uncertainty you placed into my soul."
And turns to the light of Sunos smile as he is suddenly on one knee with the box out and open made from meteorite metal he found in a mountain pass during one of his speed flights to test his top flight speed without rupturing the atmosphere.
He hears Suno gasp and happy tears full of hope and joy flow down her cheeks as he asks, "Suno. I do this knowing I am in love with you. I also have a place in my closet off heart for you. I must also let you know that I might open it up further for more people. As an alien my sense of matrimony is to ensure the species survived and will grow with many wives. Are you okay with this mentality? I understand if you are not as I will still marry you but only you. You let me know now. Are you in love with me enough to marry me and my culture? Or are you not ready to accept it?"
Suno is stunned at his honesty. And her silence stretches to a full minute. Piccolos betrayal trauma is almost through it's cage when suddenly he feels her hands claps around his own as she is on her knees in front of him with a joyous smile. She says, "I accept it all. You. Your culture. And the possibility of more wives into our family. After all I'm an only child and would love the chance to raise more children with sister wives and to raise as many of your children as I can. Believe me. I will marry you and I will never stop loving you!"
She hugs him and kisses him deeply.
Piccolo kisses her back and slips the ring onto her finger.
As her words seem into him the betrayal trauma vaporizes as it is replaced with the memories of Suno saying yes, Kami calling him nephew, and his Z fighters friends who all call him their brother.
Trauma two. Down.
Piccolo then asks after breaking away from the happy make out session, "So... When do you want to get married? I have an uncle on earth who can bind us."
Suno has stars in her eyes and says, "Let's get my family and your friends involved and have one as soon as possible!"
Piccolo grins and carries her away to the lookout to get Kamis input on when they can hold the ceremony.
Kami smirks as he goes, "Mr. Popo! Piccolo has found his first mate! Ready the binding ceremony!"
Cue evil laughter from the genie. Kami shakes his head despite the evil laughter and smirks, "Get ready Piccolo. Our clan has quite the active libido. Mostly because we were the only Namekian clan to develop those appendages. So you better believe we were ensuring the dragon clans numbers in our hey day with the females we made i to mates. Better prepare the poor girl for all the rounds she will need to endure until you find the other 3-4 mates minimum we get."
Kami walks off glad he was old enough to not worry about the Namekian mating cycle of the dragon clan any more, when one found a mate it got intense. His memories are hazy but it did make it awkward when he went into heat during his training to become God.
God that teacher could laugh.
He shrugs and goes into his temple to prepare the ceremony from the good old dragon clan days.