Cognizant

By: Gentryfey

A/N: Hey people. Just a note to say that DBGT hasn't finished in lil' ol NZ yet so I've twisted timelines etc my way and this is set after GT in the future. So bear with any mistakes. Also this is a P/V fic and it will become apparent later. I'm quite busy so updates won't be every day. Please, no flames. Constructive criticism is welcome though.

I don't own anything and the Lyrics are owned by Ben Harper. I'm making no profit from this story.

Kia Ora.

Prologue

I need to sleep but I'm too tired

I need to come down but I'm too wired

When the sun comes up I miss the moon

Yes I know tomorrow is gonna come too soon

She only wants to be wanted

But time crumbles blue roses to dust.

The dark night surrounded them completely. But they were far from alone. All around them there was movement, minute and subtle, but still there. None of it was human, but that didn't bother them at all. Just as long as their movements remained non-threatening the two Saiyans would remain unprovoked. Their superior night vision could make out the shadowy figures circling them yet they remained seated. The lines of their shoulders were tense betraying their awareness yet they would not attack unless fired upon first.

After 10 minutes of silence the Saiyans were deemed safe and movement around them ceased. The suffocating night slowly retreated, leaving the moon to smirk benevolently down on them. Stars appeared and added their smiles, shining light casually upon them.

Pan sighed in relief and turning to her companion accused "This is all your fault!"

He grumbled in reply "Yeah, yeah. Ok so it may be my fault, but whose idea was it?"

Pan shot a haughty look his way "I do believe, my dear friend, that it was YOUR idea to have this unplanned family reunion."

He sighed in frustration "That may be true," She looked at him triumphantly, "But it does occur to me that you happened to be driving this thing when we crashed."

She glared ferociously at him "Only because someone panicked and thought I was doing it wrong!"

Sometime during their argument they had both risen and were facing each other, hands firmly planted on hips, legs spread. Pans eyes had narrowed and she was giving him her pissiest look.

He sighed in defeat, knowing that there was no way he was going to win when she got that look. Plus she was right. Not that he was ever going to EVER admit that to anyone.

"Alright, alright. So we crashed on some random planet, inhabited by who knows what, we have hardly any supplies and our ship's damaged. And we're supposed to be on Earth tomorrow", He frowned, "What are we gonna do?"

Pan shook her head, disgusted. Typical male, couldn't even come up with his own solution before asking a women. (A/N: No offence to any guys!) She dropped, once again, to the ground and sighed.

"Okay, well first off have you checked the ship? How bad is it? Can you fix it?"

"Don't you think I would have already done it if I could?" he replied exasperated.

"Chill. I'm just making sure." He snorted in disgust at her and she grinned up at him giving him a glimpse of the patented Son grin. He grimaced.

"Well.. this isn't actually such a big problem. We can just instant transmission there tomorrow. No biggie. Don't know why we didn't do that in the first place." The second half was mumbled under her breath.

"Pan, you know I was delivering the ship to Earth for a friend! We can't just leave it here!" He looked scandalised.

Pan rolled her eyes "Relax, we can transmit it with us."

"But it'll still be damaged when we get there!" A tone of whingeing had entered his voice.

Pan scowled. "So we get Bulma to fix it for you, she owes me a favour. Then you can deliver it to your friend."

He grinned boyishly; happy his problems had been solved so easily. "Right, so what you wanna do for the rest of the night?" He looked like an overexcited puppy. His hair was defying gravity and he was bouncing on his toes.

Pan shot him 'the LOOK', turned her back and stalked over to the ship.

"Ohh, come on Pan! I'm boooored."

"I'm going to sleep." She slammed the door in his face and settled down for the night.

He was left outside pouting. Eventually he wandered off doing whatever fully-grown men do when they are channelling young children.

The next morning dawned bright and sunny. Pan awoke feeling happy and refreshed. She stretched and checked her bandanna was still in place. Once accomplished she alighted from the redundant spaceship with a spring in her step. Looking around the clearing they had crash-landed in last night, she smirked. It was almost the most perfect place for a crash land ever. Still smiling she detected a lump sprawled under one of the sheltering trees. Spying an outstretched hand she sauntered over. As she blocked the sun streaming down on the prone figure, he cracked open an eyelid and attempted a one-eye glare.

"C'mon dude. Time to get a'movin!" Pan chirped, an evil grin gracing her features.

"Hmph."

"Aww, don't give me that. Get up, we gotta get goin'."

"Magggheew." He rolled over.

"Aw, did poor liddlel diddums not get enough sleep last night?" Pan nudged him sharply in the ribs.

He groaned and slowly struggled to his feet. Pan stood back and smirked.

"You're evil. Totally evil. Someone must have switched babies at the hospital. You're not sweet Videls daughter." Her grin widened.

Shaking his head he bypassed her and started toward the ship. Pan skipped after him. It was going to be a beautiful day

"Should we change here or what?" His muffled voice came from within the ship.

"There I think, then we can have a shower and stuff. You certainly need one. You're RIPE!" Pan backed away a step, wrinkling her nose, as he appeared scowling.

"Same to you, brat."

He stepped down and sighed. "Ok, everything's secure. Ready to go? You want me to take you as well?"

Pan nodded "Might as well. Then I get to preserve my energy. I'm gonna need it when Mama and Papa find out we're back."

He grinned then wrapped an arm around Pan, stretched out a hand and touched the ship, brought two fingers up to his forehead, shut his eyes, imagined his destination and with a waver, disappeared

Peace descended on the clearing, recently vacated. However, chaos was about to befall the planet known as Earth, home to the Saiyan race, as two of their greatest warriors were about to return, unexpectedly.

Pan grimaced as the familiar shape of Capsule Corp shimmered into view.

"Great going. Land the ship in Bulmas front garden."

"Hey! How was I supposed to know she'd planted a garden?"

"Seriously that is sooo lame..."

A cataclysmic argument was prevented as the door exploded open and various bodies catapulted out.

Pan stood in the doorway of the ship, eyebrows raised as the bodies halted when seeing her. Mouths dropped in amazement and stunned mullet faces prevailed.

Bura recovered first and managed a shaky step forward. "Pan..." was released in a whisper.

Smiling, Pan stepped forward, revealing the figure looming behind her. Eyes glazed.

"Goku.."