Chapter 1- Vegita's Trouble Begins...

Disclaimers: I don't own DBZ. (but maybe that's a good thing! ^-^;;) I also don't own Angie. She is her own person, and Jeff is a jerk. I do, however, own the idea for this story, and I also own Pan's cat.

Author's Note: I don't know what dark recesses of my mind this crawled out of... This isn't intended to be a Vegita bashing fic, or a Pan bashing one, although it may seem like it at first. It's just a very interesting way to get Vegita with someone who is better than Bulma. And Pan is not intended to be the villian here, or to seem like a bad person.

Vegita turned off the gravity and walked out of the gravity room. He'd been training for almost three hours now, and he needed a drink. He hoped Gohan's brat wasn't in the kitchen. Gohan and Videl were off on another honeymoon, wasting time just sitting around instead of training, so Pan and her little cat were staying with them. Vegita was training extra hard to avoid them.
Vegita walked into the kitchen, opened the fridge and looked for something to drink.
"Vegita?"
Great. It was Pan, the one he was trying to avoid. He turned around and faced the ten-year-old quarter saiyan. "What do you want?"
"Have you seen Sno?"
What was this girl talking about? It was summer, why would he have seen snow?
"You know, my cat?" asked Pan.
Oh. "No." Vegita turned around and got a bottle of water from the fridge and walked away. He was surprised that Bra wasn't with Pan. He suspected Bra was searching somewhere else.
"If you see him let me know, okay?"
Vegita grunted. He gulped the water down quickly and went back into the gravity room. He realized that he'd left the door open when he went to get a drink. He closed the door behind him and turned on the gravity. As he felt the effects of the gravity, he heard a strange noise, like an animal in pain. He turned off the gravity and went to investigate. In the far corner of the room, he saw a cat. Pan's cat, lying very still.
Vegita walked out of the gravity room. Soon he found Pan. "I found your cat."
"Really? Where is he?" asked Pan excitedly.
"In the gravity room."
Pan ran off to get her cat.
A few minutes later… "VEGITA!!!" screamed Bulma.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT WOMAN?" screamed Vegita.
"GET YOUR BUTT OVER HERE NOW!!"
"Tch," muttered Vegita. He went up to Pan's room, were Pan was standing behind Bulma, holding her dead cat, tears streaking her face, and Bulma looked very P.O.ed.
"Vegita! What did you do to the poor cat?" demanded Bulma.
"Nothing. I didn't know the thing was in the gravity room when I turned it on."
"Well, Vegita, you're going to take my dragon radar, and you're going to help Pan find the dragon balls so that she can revive Sno."
Vegita muttered something under his breath.
"DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Bulma.
"Fine," muttered Vegita.
"Leave Sno here. It shouldn't take you two long to find the dragon balls," said Bulma to Pan.
"Humph," muttered Vegita.
Pan set the dead cat gently down on her bed.
Bulma led them down to her lab. She opened a drawer and took out the dragon radar and handed it to Pan.

Vegita and Pan searched for the dragon balls. In only a few hours, they had found all seven. Pan had done most of the work; Vegita guessed that Bulma had sent him along only as a punishment. Oh well. He didn't really care.
Pan called forth the dragon.
"What is your wish?" boomed Shenlong.
"I whish for Sno, my cat, to be alive again," said Pan.
"It is done. What is your second wish?"
Vegita had forgotten about the second wish, and by the look on Pan's face she had too. She'd probably just wish for something stupid.
Pan thought about what to wish for. She was still mad at Vegita, even though her cat was revived. She just didn't understand how anyone could be so cold. And so cruel as to kill an innocent little kitty. Suddenly Pan had an idea for the perfect punishment for Vegita.
"I wish that Vegita was turned into a regular, weak little house cat, so he would know how my poor kitty feels!"
"WHAT!!!!! PAN NO BAKA!! WHAT THE $%& ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!" screamed Vegita.
"It will be done," said Shenlong.
In a bright flash of light, Vegita suddenly disappeared. In his place, was a regular, weak, little black house cat. The cat hissed at Pan. Suddenly Pan realized that she had spoke too soon. How would she explain this to Bulma? To her parents? To everyone! Meanwhile, Shenlong had disappeared, and the dragon balls would not appear for another year. So Vegita was stuck like this for at least a year. But what was she supposed to do with him? She couldn't leave him here, and she couldn't take him home, and she definitely couldn't give him to Bulma. Maybe she could find someone else to take him in. But it had to be someone she knew really well, because she didn't want Vegita to suffer too much, because then when she wished him back to human, he'd be very, very pissed.
"I got it!" said Pan. "I'll take you to Angie. She's been wanting to adopt a cat, and she's really nice. She's twenty-three and lives alone. She used to be my babysitter, when Trunks wasn't available."
Vegita hissed again.
Pan put her hands on her hips. "Or, you could stay here," she said. They were in the middle of a dense forest, which was where they'd found the last dragon ball. A cat would not survive long here.
Vegita narrowed his eyes. He was really P.O.ed. How dare she! He was the prince of saiyans, and now because of this little girl he was now a mere feline.
"You're going to have to let me carry you to her house," she said, moving to pick him up.
As humiliated as he was, he knew that Pan would never speak of this to anyone, because she would suffer at least as much as he was. So he suffered himself to be picked up.
"Now, you have to remember to be nice to Angie. If she gets rid of you, they'll be a very slim chance of your survival. And in case you're wondering how I'll explain this to everyone, I'll say you took off before we summoned Shenlong. Then later today, or maybe tomorrow, I'll put a note somewhere were Bulma will find it. It'll say that you've gone off to train and won't be back for at least a year."
Vegita didn't really like that idea, but it was far better than the truth. He couldn't stand the thought of being in this body for a year, but it was the only way. Pan and Vegita both knew that Vegita could not kill her for this when he gets turned back into a saiyan. They both had to act as if Pan's story was the truth, as much as Vegita hated it.