Author's note: Well, here we are with a new story. First of all, I must thank Madhat886 for allowing me to use his work on Dragonball Tenge as a stepping stone for this story. Since practically most of this introductory chapter is HIS work with a little twist, I have to give recognition where is due. And before someone comes here to nag me about stealing other people's work, let me tell you I have the full permission of Madhat to use his work for my own ends, go to the reviews of my other story Madness Effect if you wish to see the evidence, so buzz off.
Anyway, I know maybe people will not like much the fact that this first chapter is little more than a copy-paste of an already existing story with a slight variation, but bear it with me, it's just only for this chapter. I needed to do that in order to establish the setting, also because I considered to be an unnecessary hassle for people to go look and read Madhat story first so that they can get the idea of what this all about, and then return to this story to see the path that it follows. So I'll just put it all here so you may know what you need to know from the beginning without much worry. Just be patient with me, I swear in the next chapter my original work and ideas will come into play, this is just to kick start the story.
But I really hope that you might consider interesting my own take in this story, this is my version of how Dragon Ball Tenge should have been as how I see it inside my head.
Addendum: I've revised this chapter as I said I was going to do, giving another look over Madhat's stuff and doing some modifications to better suit my purposes. As I have said, his work that I was using to base myself for Pan's interpretation was causing some issues that I felt needed to be adressed, so a few corrections were in order.
The parts that are of my creation remain mostly the same, it is only Madhat's work what I needed to work on. Make it even more mine if you wish. But just to reiterate the fact, let me remind to you all that this is an adopted story and that I'm working with a foundation already created by another author, so I had to base myself mostly in his work for certain character's interpretations. But now that I've done some further adjustments to this initial chapter, I hope to further reduce even more the divide between our two visions.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, any material or copyright depicted in this story belongs to their respective owners.
Prologue.-
A 100,000 years ago-
Planet Plant-
BROOOOOM!
A body impacted heavily on the ground with such a great strength that it kept skidding forwards for several yards, breaking all the earth in its passing until finally coming to a stop. The poor fool who had just been kicked around the landscape like a ragdoll was none other than Bardock, a proud and powerful Saiyan warrior, yet the enemy he was facing was even more powerful still, for he was facing Chill, the ancestor of the future Galactic dictator Frieza, who would one day rule the stars with an iron fist.
Chill slowly floated down towards the ground and approached the form of the fallen Saiyan warrior, lying on his face upon the broken earth. "Such… Power…" Mumbled Bardock dragging his injured body away, trying his best to get himself back up.
Chill walked upon him with a grim expression, a trail of blood going down his chin from the corner of his mouth, a result from one of Bardock's previous attacks. He let out a growl once he was right upon the still struggling prone Saiyan. "How dares an insect like you,face someone as strong as me! Who do you think you are, huh!?" Yelled the short alien in affront, setting his foot upon Bardock's head and burying his face on the dirt once more.
The only response from the struggling Saiyan was a growl that sounded something like."Frieza!"
"You've spent a lot of time calling me like that, Frieza, Frieza! I won't forgive you that. Don't you know who I am!? I'm the most powerful pirate on space! I'm Captain Chill for you!" Chill bellowed in proud arrogance while keeping forcing Bardock with his foot to eat dirt.
"NNNNGH! Chill…?" Mumbled Bardock in confusion, trying to look at the cruel and terrible mini-tyrant. For a moment he thought seeing the form of his former liege that had destroyed his world and killed his entire race. "You're not Frieza…?"
"Stop! Right Now!" Ipana, the medic from the Plant people that had first discovered Bardock on their planet and cured his wounds, rushed forward to try and stop Chill from keep hurting the Saiyan, but he was swat aside with a flick from the pirate's tail, as easy as one swats a fly.
"Dad!" Berry, the son of Ipana ran to the aid of his father, trying to reawake him without success. "Dad! DAD!"
"D…Dammit!" It was all that Bardock could say in impotent rage.
"I see you keep resisting, why don't you just give up? INSECT!" Chill bellowed, before kicking Bardock savagely on the flank and sending him skidding through the landscape once more.
"Ack…" Bardock moaned before remaining still as he smashed upon the ground with terrible force.
"Well, I think is time to make you disappear." Chill announced, raising two of his fingers before he began to charge a ball of light on the tip of them.
"Leave him alone!" The son of the medic stepped forward on a fit of childish defiance. "Leave Mister Bardock alone! Waaaaaaaaah!" He cried before rushing blindly at the space pirate in a brave but misguided attempt at saving the Saiyan.
"Kid! Don't come any closer!" Bardock screamed in alarm.
"What an annoying family… DIE!" Chill said, before redirecting his attack at the incoming child, the ground in front of Berry exploded in a straight line and sent the small boy flying and crashing on the face of a mountain. He fell and didn't come back up.
"Berry!" Both Bardock and Ipana stared in horror at the cruel destiny that had befallen the small child.
"How bothersome, what was that vermin thinking, daring to interrupt me, don't you think?" Chill said, smiling with satisfaction.
"Dammit!" Bardock growled, managing to raise himself back to his knees.
"Huh? So you are still able to move!" Chill said with amusement on his voice.
Bardock didn't reply to his taunts, he could only stare at the ground with shame and rage. "I'm such a disgrace! If only I had a little more power!" He screamed, clenching one hand upon the broken dirt while the other he raised and closed it so hard in the air until it bled. He slammed his face down on the ground in frustration, while visions of the corpses of his dead friends tormented his mind.
"That other time too!" He exclaimed, remembering Frieza expression before he destroyed his world. Dark storm clouds began to cover the sky, the sound of thunder and lightning strikes began to rumble around the battlefield.
"In that moment!" He yelled, punching the ground in desperation, the instant his planet was destroyed burning brightly in his mind's eye. "K…Nnnnnngh!" Small droplets of rain began to slowly fall over him, rays of lighting smashed upon the earth and impacted pretty close to him,it was as if nature itself was reacting to Bardock's rising rage.
At the height of his frenzy, his hair seemed to try to change color, exhuding a glow of golden light. On the corner of his eye, he saw Ipana runnintowards the body of his fallen child and holding him on his arms.
"I'm going to..." The whole earth began to tremble as if an earthquake was suddenly unleashing its full might. "…I…" Bardock began to get back on his feet, his body too trembling and spasming with incontrolable rage. It seemed as if he was being the cause of the sudden rise on the anger of Mother Nature. "…I… I will end you!"
"HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!You will end me!? Good joke!" Chill laughed in derision, mocking the threats of the man he believed his inferior.
The rage of Bardock kept rising into unbearable levels. The earthquake desolating the landscape rose in intensity as if to mirror his wrath, small rays of electricity started to escape from Bardock's own body while the clouds above began to punish the ground with a rain of lighting of their own.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"
Bardock turned to stare at chill; the small alien only taunting him with a 'come at me' signal with his fingers, a mocking smile plastered on his face. On Bardock's mind there was no difference between him and Frieza. Even their laugh was the same.
It was this last thing what made Bardock's rage to finally explode.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"
The energy released by his outburst created a long crater around him and expelled massive clouds of dust on all directions, but in the end, and in the middle of that impressive surge of energy, Bardock was standing tall and hair having rose up and turned spiky, its color changing into gold while his eyes turned into a deep emerald green. He had reached the state that had become a legend among his ancestors, a state that was signature of the most powerful warriors of the universe, the Super-Saiyan.
"Wha… What….?" Chill exclaimed on disbelief, a small feeling of dread started to take hold over him after witnessing the impressive display of power.
For a moment Bardock was left perplexed, admiring this new-found power of his. 'What is this power that surges through me?'
"What is happening!? You look so different now!" Chill said caught off guard by this new development.
Bardock just glared at the mini-tyrant with determination. "I will not forgive you for anything in this world." He spat and began to walk towards him. Small electric discharges being released from his body with each step, his power seemed to distort the very air around him.
"Don't get all thrilled just because your hair changed color, you hear me!" Chill said in affront before jumping in the air and sending a blast of energy at first impact was soon followed by a long rain of projectiles, each one impacting in the same spot as the first one and covering the profile of the Super-Saiyan from sight in a cloud of dust.
Finally, Chill returned back to the ground and released a tired sigh of satisfaction. "Nothing has changed, even if the look is different… You still remain an insect."
His confidence was soon broken, when he saw a form walking out the cloud of dust unhindered. "What!?"
Bardock, for all intents and purposes, was unharmed after such destructive barrage. Only his armor seemed to have been damaged, missing some pieces here and there.
He kept walking towards the diminutive pirate captain with unyielding resolution. Chill rushed at him and tried to strike him, but both of his fists were stopped in succession by the unforgiving iron grip of the golden warrior. Chill tried with all his strength to break the grip that held him, but all efforts were for naught.
"What the hell is happening? Who the hell are you?" He yelled in nervous disbelief.
Bardock held his unflinching gaze over the alien pirate for a moment before replying. "I am only a Saiyan."
"A… A Saiyan!?" Chill repeated with rising terror, still unable to escape from the unmovable grasp of Bardock.
"Are you ready?" Bardock said to the small alien. Chill could only sweat buckets with great nervousness, dreading what was about to befall him, unable to take his eyes from the formidable golden warrior in front of him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Bardock reared back and pulled the smaller alien along with his great strength, making him flail through the air before whipping his entire body savagely on the ground several times, throwing him away like some much as thrash once he was done. The strength behind the throw so great that Chill was dragged through the ground for several yards, breaking the earth through his passingas he leaved a long trench behind him until finally coming to a stop.
Bardock jumped towards Chill, spinning in the air and intercepted the Space Pirate with an elbow to the face as he was trying to retaliate. He pushed him back onto the ground and grabbed his tail before starting to spin so fast that Bardock appeared to be some kind of golden mini-tornado, until finally, throwing Chill several miles away with a powerful impact.
The mini-tyrant was left skidding through the landscape, due to the great force behind his throw, but Bardock intercepted Chill before he came to a stop, grabbing him by his feet and launched him back to where they had been previously. He intercepted him yet again in mid-air and punted him into the sky with a powerful kick. Chill managed to recover in the air, and remain afloat and away from his opponent. He looked at Bardock with an expression of outrage and affront.
"DAMMIT! HOW CAN THIS BE!? THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!" Chill screamed in denial. "I am the most powerful pirate on space, The Great Chill!" He declared before cupping both of his hands up in the air and proceeding to charge a sphere of energy. "I will not allow someone stronger than me to exist!"
"How much time will you keep talking nonsense!" Bardock replied from the ground, charging an energy sphere of his own on his right hand.
"DIE ALONGSIDE THIS PLANET! TAKE THIS!" Chill bellowed in rage as he launched a massive ball of energy at Bardock.
"The one who will die in here… WILL BE YOU!" Bardock called back before releasing his own attack.
Both balls of energy connected in the air and began to push at each other trying to overcome its opposition while both combatants kept pumping as much energy as they could to their own attacks.
For several tense minutes both attacks struggled against each other, the great amount of energy being released by both beams causing the earth to tremble and anything in the vicinity of the battle to be swept away. Rays of light being expelled by the struggle began to pierce the clouds above and lost themselves into space.
In the end, it was Bardock who seemed to gain the upper hand, the golden glow around his body rising in intensity until he was nothing more than a bright golden spot that blinded anyone that dared to look upon him. Bardock's attack began to grow and expand as result of the influx of this new surge of energy until it totally overcame Chill's own beam, the immense pillar of light then continued unimpeded towards the small space pirate.
"DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"THIS CANNOT BE TRUE!" Was all that Chill could say before he was swept away by the immense sea of energy, it kept dragging him away until it broke atmosphere and continued on his way towards the coldness of space.
In another universe, Bardock would have stopped the feed of energy to his attack and let it disperse into space. But the frenzy upon him was too great, he kept pumping more and more energy into it, he was determined to spend every single ounce of strength that his newfound power had given him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
When his attack reached its zenith into the depths of space, it exploded with a violent an impressive detonation that for a moment made appear as if the sky was alight by the presence of a second sun.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The flash of energy released by the titanic detonation was so potent that the whole of space turned white for just a minute before dying off and disappearing, taking with itself any trace of the short space pirate, not even a single molecule of him remained.
Bardock released a tired sight, and let the energy that had overcome him disappear. "Damn, I think I overdid it a little…" He said, looking up at the stars, ignoring how he had just changed the destiny of his universe and giving birth to new unexpected consequences…
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Enter the Dragon –
Modern Times-
Earth-
Pan let out a sigh as she walked down the street towards her new school. Thinking back on her current situation, she wished that she had never gone into aunt Bulma's lab and tinkered with that weird looking machine of hers. Now she and her robotic companion, Giru, are trapped in another world until her family comes to get her. She didn't doubted for a second that they would find her eventually, her family had the respect and support of the most powerful gods of the universe, who would be more than happy to lend a hand in the search for her whereabouts. If they weren't able to find her, then no one can. It is just a matter of time for her to be reunited with her family, so all she had to do was to remain put and avoid drawing unwanted attention to herself during her stay on this planet, easy as pie, just what could go wrong…?
In the meantime, with Giru's help, she created a fake background for herself, as she had a feeling that she'll be stuck here for awhile. She's at least glad to be able to know how to operate a computer, almost solely thanks to her aunt who showed her how to build, program and maintain them.
The planet she found herself in is much less advanced in almost every way than her own, most prominently in the technological level that the inhabitants of this world have developed in comparison to what she's used too, which was why she had an easy time hacking into the city's database. They don't have any of the advance super-computers, hovers, or DynoCaps that exist back home. Good thing that she always carries her case of DynoCaps with her. But she figured out pretty soon that it wasn't probably a smart idea to drive around in a hovercar since no one else in this planet has ever seen one before.
Seeing the entrance of her new school, one Todo Academy, Pan let out another sigh. She was annoyed at the fact that she still had to go to school since she isn't an adult yet and people would wonder what she does all day and start getting nosy and butting in her bussiness. Giru had managed to get an apartment for them both, using funds that they had stolen from one of the many crime families' accounts that dwell in this planet. She's glad that with his computer brain he made it impossible for anyone in this world to follow the trail back to her. But regardless, she didn't have a too good of an opinion of what her new school life would entail.
If she had managed to get herself stranded a few years back, maybe her opinion would have been different. Back then her demeanor was more carefree and easy-going, back then she was just a naive little girl that wasn't aware of the true nature of the universe, and how a cold, cruel and uncaring place it was. Of the dangers that lurk within the darkness and are only waiting for a chance to destroy any and everything that she loves.
Shaking such depressing thoughts aside, Pan looked down at herself and felt a wave of relief wash over her for having acquired a boy's uniform to dress in instead of the, too revealing for her tastes, girl's uniforms. Sure, she hasn't filled out yet like other girls around her age, like her friends back home, but without a big breast getting in her swinging she's able to fight a lot better. But seeing how well built some of the girls- Scratch that!- Most of the girls are around here; she can't help but feel some rather strong feeling of self-conciousness about her body, and quite the inferiority complex about her still rather plain breast too.
"Fight!" Someone yelled from inside the schoolyard, interrupting her train of thought. Much to her relief…
Pan grins as she wanted to see how strong the fighters of this world are, but she didn't get her hopes up too much. As far as she could feel, there's no one anywhere in Japan with a power level stronger than fifty at best.
Following the path of bodies leading into the school, she found the cause for all the ruckus on the fifth floor of the main building. A pair of fighters was wiping the floor with the dozen or so remaining punks in the hallway. Pan watched the blond brawler intently, spotting his lack of style and technique. Though it was clear that he was powerful and could take a good hit, the blond was obviously the weaker of the two. The large well muscled black student was using an interesting style. The wide sweeping kicks, flips, handstands, and spins could be disorienting to inexperienced fighters, but she's used to fighting with people who could move so fast than what normal people eyes are able to follow.
"Hey, it looks like we missed one." Soichiro, the blond brawler, shouted to his friend as he pointed towards Pan.
"He's kind of small." Bob, the tall black muscular guy said as he eyed the tomboyish girl and mistook her for a male.
"Small?" Pan said planting her hands on her hips while leaning a bit forward, showing the barely noticeable but still identifiable curvature of her body.
"What!? You're a girl!?" Both of the brawlers exclaim, causing the students who are watching to start whispering among themselves.
"The new kid is a girl?" A female student asked in surprise, clearly having not expected that.
"Why in the world is she wearing a boy's uniform?" Another boy asked puzzled.
"She must be one of those tomboy types." A girl to his left said.
"Oh! Those types who can easily pass for a boy?" Another girl adds.
"HEY!" Pan shouted causing said girl to duck into one of the classrooms.
"So you came to watch?" Bob asks nonchalantly, resting both hands in the back of his head.
"No, I wanted to see who was responsible for leaving all these bodies behind." Pan said feeling the power levels of these two and seeing that neither are anywhere close to the levels she's used to. Even her grandfather on her mother's side is stronger than them. Hell, even Yamcha is stronger and he hasn't fought or trained in decades.
"Oh, I see! You wanted to see the new strongest students in the school?" Soichiro boasted with a pose, one that made him look like an arrogant pompous moron.
"Of course not." Pan said, rolling her eyes unimpressed. "I already know who's the strongest in the school. I am." She finished pointing to herself.
"Oh really?" Soichiro said in arrogant disbelief while facing her. "Don't think that I will hold back just because you're a girl!"
"And I won't hold back just because you're a boy." Pan replied with a smirk as Soichiro charged at her. Catching his fist without any effort whatsoever, she lifted him by his arm and slammed him into the ground behind her. She quickly blocks a kick from Bob by grabbing his leg and twisting his entire body around, causing him to fall to the floor.
Looking at the two downed boys, Pan simply shakes her head. "Sorry guys, but you two aren't even close to my level of power."
"It's not over yet!" Soichiro said from the ground, trying to get back up.
"It is." Pan said matter-of-factly. "You two are just too weak for me."
"Oh really now?" A small silver haired girl, riding on the shoulder of another student, mentions. "I'm strong."
Pan eyed the small girl and saw that she does have a much higher power level then most of the other students, but it was still nothing compared to hers. "Sorry but you're still not strong enough. Besides you're too small for me." She said, turning her head away from her with the intention of walking away.
"Well then, if you say you don't like my appearance, I'll change it so we can better fight." The girl said, leaping off from the student's shoulders and transforming into a tall and busty young woman, whose child size clothes were now strained to their limits and revealed a lot of naked flesh and cleavage.
"Maya is here." The now older girl exclaimed as she charged at Pan with her Bokken.
Pan just smiled amused as she watched the sword swinging at her and continued to smile as Maya's eyes widened when her Bokken connected and broke on impact with Pan's shoulder. The smaller girl lightly tapped the stunned Maya's forehead causing her to fall backwards and land on her plump behind. Maya was too shocked, just like everyone else, as they had never seen anyone letting themselves being hit by her Bokken on purpose and breaking it with just their body.
"Nice try, but that jiggling flesh only works on boys." Pan said uncaringly, walking away.
"The fight's not done yet." Soichiro shouted rushing at the Saiyan again.
"Please!" Pan said grabbing him by the front of his uniform and tossing him out through an open widow. The other students rushed in alarm to the hall's windows to see if he was okay.
"He wouldn't die from a fall from this height." Bob stated with a little sweat falling from his brow, concerned for the state of his oldest friend even if he wasn't willing to admit it to other people.
"But I'm not worried about him." Maya said in dread, her mind focusing on other thoughts. 'Aya was in the showers.'
"Well, that's the end of it..." Pan said before walking off again. This time no one tried to get on her way.
"Wait! You think that you're the strongest after just one fight?" Bob asks after Pan who keeps walkwing down the hall.
"There are a lot of students here who are stronger than me you know." Maya stated with conviction.
"Sorry, but I can feel all the power levels around here and none of them are anywhere close to mine." Pan said with a shake of her head before continuing on her way.
"You can feel ki?" Maya asked in surprise.
"Yes, and while you're strong, I'm stronger. The highest power level that I can feel in this school is around thirty; give or take. And that's just a puddle compared to mine." Pan said as she turned around a corner a dissapeared from sight.
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The next Morning.-
Pan watched from a window in silent amusement as the busty brunette known as Aya Natsume chased after the blond boy from the other day in the main yard. Apparently they both had ended up in a compromising position as he had landed on top of a naked Aya. Though she felt slightly responsible for it as she's the one who sent him flying out the window in the first place, but she couldn't help but snicker at the boy's misfortune.
Grabbing a large amount of food, much to the surprise of the student's body that a girl would pig out like that, as her tray was nothing more a pile of food that reached all the way to the roof. Sitting down at an empty table, she was about to gulp it down when she felt something. Sensing the familiar energy aura of Bob, Pan simply watches as the other fighter calmly sat down across from her.
"Yo!" Bob smiled. "You know we've yet to pay you back for the other day."
"Fine…" Pan replied. "But you're still no match for me you know."
Bob grunted as he set down his own lunch, eyeing the mysterious girl in front of him. "So how many people in the school are as powerful as you?"
"Just me." Pan replies as she quickly gulps down her food in a blur of motion, making everyone who's watching wonder where it all goes?
"So you're the strongest in the school then?" Bob asked, wondering how she could have eaten all of that food withouth having it bursting her guts.
"Yep." Pan nodded through a mouthful of food.
Her statement did not sit well with many of the students around her as a good majority began to slowly move away from the table where the pair was sitting at. They knew what happens to people who say they're the strongest in the school.
"You think you're the best one in the school after only one fight?" The childlike Maya questioned as she hopped off of her companion's shoulder, Takayanagi, who had just brought her over.
"I'm way out of your league." Pan stated flatly, finishing her light meal, well at least for her since most of her family eats much more than regular people. "Besides, from what I've seen yesterday, there's no way any of you is able to beat me. Didn't you break your toy sword on me?"
"She has a point." Takayanagi said, intervening in the conversation.
"Stay out of this Takayanagi." Maya said huffing, not liking being called out on her failed attempt at injuring Pan.
"You just got in a lucky shot!" The blond brawler shouted from the entrance to the cafeteria.
"So I take it you lost her?" Bob asked with his usual cool and carefree attitude.
"No. She's right behind me." Soichiro said, pointing with his thumb at the busty brunette's shadowy figure behind him.
"Luck and skill are often interchangeable." Maya stated in a flat tone, not impressed by the boy's antics.
"No, it's just brute strength combined with the skills to use it. Most people with super strength usually have no martial arts skills, using only a brawling style, or are just plain stupid… I on the other hand have Skill, Brains, Brawn, Endurance, AND Speed all at once…" Pan boasted since her mother and grandmother didn't want her to take after the male side of the family and his Great-Grandfather didn't want her to slip on her training, after her grandfather leaved on that training trip ten years ago, and allow her to become a weakling, so he trained her personally on every chance he got. "Even if all five of you came at me at the same time, I doubt that you'd last more then a minute if I was to go all out." She said matter-off-factly causing Souichiro to growl.
"Settle down Nagi." Bob said calmly seeing his friend getting all worked up before turning back to Pan. "I know you're good, but even you can't handle all of us."
Sighing, Pan eyed the group around her. "I doubt that your boy Nagi can land a punch on Takayanagi here." She said, pointing to Maya's companion sitting at her side.
"Me?" The boy in question pointed to himself in surprise while in the middle of unwrapping his own lunch, a clueless look on his face.
"Takayanagi?" Maya asked in disbelief, knowing it was a bad idea having a rookie pick a fight with him.
Pan watched in interest as how she had successfully deflected the attention from herself to the fairly plain looking Takayanagi as Nagi attempted to blindside the older boy with an uppercut from behind. She knows that he's much stronger then he looks but still it was nowhere close to what she's used too.
Blocking the punch with a pair of chopsticks, the older student eyed the newcomer, clearly not impressed with the blond. All thoughts of finishing his lunch forgotten. As Nagi twisted his hips to throw another punch at Takayanagi, the older boy countered with a powerful twisting double palm strike to the chest that sent the blond flying away.
"Come on Nagi!" The brunette Aya shouted at the downed blond.
Catching the quick flash of despair that was suddenly replaced with rage, Pan couldn't help but think that the relationship between Nagi and Takayanagi was an odd parallel between the one of her grandpa and her uncle who always fought each other whenever they could.
Clearly Nagi had potential, but his skills were definitely lacking. A glorified brawler is all what he was, lacking the basic forms of discipline and technique that any martial artist needed. Sure, he had power and stamina, but without any discipline he wouldn't be able to get too far with just those elements alone. Unless he manages to get the same kind of strength that she does. It doesn't matter if you have skills if the other guy has the strength to lift a building over their head, as she had done once. Not to mention that her skin is strong enough to withstand being shot at with anything short of a ballistic missile launched from a silo.
Letting out a yawn, Pan stood up.
"Where are you going?" Bob asked, eyeing her suspiciously. "You're the one that started that fight."
"Even if your friend manages to get a good hit in, it's only because the other guy is holding back." Pan pointed out, seemingly bored. "I was hoping to see Takayanagi's true potential, but he's just holding back and still beating Nagi without any real effort. I doubt there's anything Nagi can do that would bring out Takayanagi's full potential in this fight."
Behind him she could hear Nagi hitting the floor after Takayanagi connected with a blinding flurry of kicks.
"Get up Nagi!" Aya shouted encouragingly. "No man of mine is going to lose to anyone!"
Nagi's fading battle aura quickly flared, signaling that the fight was not over. Slowly he pulled himself to his feet. "I'm sorry…" He apologized as he rotated his shoulders and cracked his neck. "Your kicks were so boring that I almost fell asleep."
Bloodied and bruised, he managed to stand back up. Too far away to clearly hear what the blond was saying to his opponent because the gathered students began muttering and cheering their respective fighter, Pan watched, noting that her classmate's battle aura was still of low power despite the fact that he was charging in with a powerful haymaker. Distracting Takayanagi as he held up the Bento box that Aya had made for him, Nagi connected with a powerful counter to the still airborne Takayanagi.
"Ha!" He shouted victoriously. "There's your one shot!" Looking around for Pan, the blond failed to notice the growing bloodlust of his stunned opponent.
Pan stopped in her tracks when she felt the powerful battle aura. Though it was nowhere near as powerful as even her human grandfather, it was still impressive given the caliber of fighters at Todo Academy. Seeing Aya and Maya jumping to intervene, she knew what needed to be done. It was her fault that the two were fighting in the first place, and obviously she couldn't just let Nagi get seriously injured because of it.
Despite the girls' best efforts, Takayanagi shrugged off their attempts to restrain him, managing to hit Nagi with a powerful knee to the chest that forced the air out of the blonde's lungs and sent him crashing into the ceiling before gravity carried him back down to the ground with a loud smack. The tiles of the floor breaking at the impact of the blond boy.
Appearing between the two, Pan allowed Takayanagi's berserker fueled punch to connect with her face. A loud cracking sound echoed through the room, many of the students gasped, thinking Pan's skull had been fractured. That line of thinking died a quick death, as Takayanagi let out a scream and clutched his broken fist. The pain from the broken bones of his hand had snapped Takayanagi out of his berserker mode; he held his broken limb with his good hand as he stared at Pan in disbelief. Everyone was gaping, as Pan didn't even flinch when Takayanagi had punched her in the face, and broken his hand in the process while at it.
"As I said, none of you are even close to my level. Takayanagi, I have seen your full strength and it's nothing compared to mine. Besides, if you can't even punch me without breaking your hand, then how anyone here thinks that they can hurt me?" Pan stated as she left the lunchroom with everyone staring at her.
"I don't believe it." Aya said mind-boggled.
"Me neither." Maya adds not believing what she had just seen either. If Pan is tough enough to withstand the force of Takayanagi's punch in his berserker mode… She felt a chill go down her back as she thought of what would happen if she punches anyone at her full power.
!
Walking into the Executive Council's office, the busty redhead Emi drops a picture of the school's newest student on the desk of the school president. Mitsuomi Takayanagi wore his usually tight dark outfit that showed off his body. Hearing what happened during lunch with his little brother being sent to the hospital with a broken hand self-inflicted by him because he punched the new student in the face; he wanted to know everything about the new girl.
"I'm sorry but most of the information that we find just says that she's living by herself after moving here while her parents stay in the US. A lot of her files are locked because of her parent's jobs. From what we gathered, both of her parents work in the goverment and unless we hack into one of the most secure computer systems of the planet, which the US no doubt would quickly discover and send all of us into one of those black sites that the CIA uses to force people to talk, not to mention keep us locked up for years without any other reason than just to keep us locked up, we can only gather what is allowed to be shown on her school files." Emi explains a little disturbed by the notion of messing with the CIA. Despite knowing the school was a front to gather and study the fighting capabilities of a very specific type of people, she was leery of trying something as blatant and straightforward as openly defy one of the greatest super-potencies of the world.
"Yes you're right, I wouldn't want to be grabbed off the street and taken to one of those black sites." Mitsuomi said granting her point as he set down the file given to him atop of his desk after finishing reading it, turning his attention fully back at his assistant.
"This Pan Son is a wild card." Emi said, moving on with the subject. "She's been attacked two times and both times she broke whatever is that hit her by letting it hit her in full."
"I have never seen someone that strong before." Mitsuomi said, getting lost in his memories for just a moment. Not even Shin, his former friend who gave him his heart condition after their fateful encounter, was able to shrug off blows of that magnitude as if they were nothing. And Shin was a monster on his own right, his power terrifying and beyond the comprehension of regular human beings. "To break my brother's hand just by letting it hit her… She's strong, very strong." He admitted, equal parts impressed and scared, even if he schooled his features to keep Emi from guessing his inner thoughts.
"But is she as skilled as you are in fighting?" Emi asked, bringing out a good point to take in consideration.
"I may be a better fighter than she is, but if I were to fight her, I would not win." He confessed honestly, surprising Emi greatly.
"But how could you lose?" The redhead asked in shock, not having expected that Mutsuomi would admit that this new girl was more powerful than him, she was barely able to believe it herself. "You're better at fighting then she is?"
"It'll be like Batman taking on Superman head on without any of his toys. He's better at fighting than him, that's true, but there's no way he'll be able to win. Ms. Son is strong enough to withstand a punch from my own brother in his berserker mode, so it stands to reason that she's able to dish out as much as she can take." Mitsuomi explains as he looks out of the window behind his desk, the rays of the sun filtering through the glass and washing over him, making him feel its warm caresses on his face.
"But how strong could she be?" Emi asks worried that someone that strong could exist. There's just a few names that come to her mind able to achieve these kind of feats, and none of them are good news.
"Strong enough to cause trouble." Mitsuomi replied plainly without turning.
"What's the plan then?" Emi asked with a curious blink of her pretty eye-lashes.
"Spread the word and get the enforcers to meet me in the gym. Pan's next class is there." Mitsuomi said with all the unbending authority of his position.
"On it!" Emi replied with a smirk and a salute before she left the room.
!
Later, at the gym.-
Pan walked inside the gym's weight room to find the place empty. It was strange that there wasn't anyone present in the facilities as even the teacher was missing. Shaking such thoughts off as unimportant, she walked over to the dumbbells and picked the heaviest one that she could find, a light 500 pounder. Since she was used to working out with much heavier weights thanks to the training she had done under her different senseis and relatives over the years, the 500 pounds felt as little more than lifting a regular one pound weight. She easily lifted the weight with the tips of her fingers and began to idly play with it when she sensed many energy signatures entering the room.
"Five hundred pounds with one hand." Mitsuomi said in front of a mob of his enforcers in an impressed tone.
"And who you might be?" Pan asked raising an eyebrow, not worried in the least at being surrounded from all sides by thugs since she could feel all of their power levels and every single one of them were barely above your regular street punk. Not even worthy of paying them attention. The only ones who had a somewhat above the norm level by the standards of this school were the musclebound silver-haired boy in the tight suit in front of her and the red-headed girl at his side. But even they were small fries compared to her own standards.
"I'm the student president and the older brother of Takayanagi." Mitsuomi said cordially, introducing himself.
"Oh! So you're the big bad bully that runs the school." Pan said, clearly unimpressed. "And I see you brought all of your friends with you to fight me first as to tire and wear me down enough so that you get to fight a weaker opponent. I guess this is how you got to where you are today by using overwhelming numbers on those who are stronger than you." She stated with a bit of arrogant loathing clear on her face.
"Watch it!" Emi replied incensed with one of her blades sticking out her sleeve.
"That toy won't do you any good." Pan stated non-chalantly, crossing her arms in front of her and assuming a relaxed posture. "While it may be able cut me, you don't have the power to do it."
"Take this!" Emi snapped throwing her blade at Pan's head which to everyone's shock bounced harmlessly off her forehead. The throwing weapon clattering on the floor with a metallic clang. The room suddenly became uncomfortably quiet after that.
"Alright that's it! You're about to see why it's a bad idea to bother me." Pan said taking the dumbbell in both hands and, to the horror of many, bending the dumbbell into a horseshoe shape.
"Please tell me she just didn't do that." Emi said gaping as she turned towards Mitsuomi, feeling all of her fighting spirit leaving her after seeing something that should only happen in an anime or shonen manga.
"Sorry but, I just did." Pan smiled evilly at the mob. "And you do know what's going to happen next don't you?"
"How can you be so strong?" Mitsuomi asked truly gob-smacked.
"Simple, I fought people who were stronger than me." Pan said as she seemed to disappear from all sight, only to reappear in front of him without anyone being able to realize how she got there. Before he could react, she twisted the dumbbell around his body, binding his arms to his sides. Then with a simple push, she landed him flat on his back.
"She's like Supergirl!" One of the students, who reads DC comics, said in awe.
"Yup, and it's time to show you bad guys that this school isn't yours to do with it as you please." Pan stated,lashing with an arm and grabbing Emi by the lapel of her uniform in an instant before tossing her into a group of students, sending all of them flying into a wall.
Loud shouts filled the gym as Pan tore through the assembled enforcers with ease while the rest of the student body waited outside to see what happened. They all figured that Mitsuomi would teach the new girl a lesson, but to their shock, Pan came out without a single scratch on her while dragging a struggling Mitsuomi behind her with a dumbbell wrapped around his upper body.
"Hey everyone look!" Pan shouted getting everyone's attention, the students in the classrooms nearby poking their heads out through the windows. "Mitsuomi thought he could use his gang to weaken me before having to fight me himself. But I easily beat his gang, and as for him, well he's in no shape to fight as you can see." She declared with an impish smile as she jolted the burly boy around as if he were a doll.
Mitsuomi was boiling with rage and shame as he tried to break free, but the metal bar was too strong and the weights were so heavy that even if he tried to fight her with just his legs, he'll be too off balance and encumbered to battle her properly. His thoughts were interrupted as he was tossed none-too-gently into the ground in front of Pan.
"What now?" Mitsuomi asked as he stopped struggling, resigning himself to his fate.
"I'm going to do the worst thing that I can think you can do to any fighter. I will just ignore you." Pan said to him, before turning her back at him and walking away withouta last look.
!
In one the classrooms -
"Wow, she just beat Mitsuomi and his enforcers as if they were nothing!" Aya said in amazement, obviously awed at the great strength of the newcomer girl.
"Did she really twisted a dumbbell around him?" Nagi asked gob-smacked at such feat.
"She's like one of those supers in the comics." Bob said openly gaping. "There's no way we can fight her."
"How can anyone be that strong?" Maya asked unable to comprehend how someone younger than her can be so powerful. It shouldn't be possible, no one could have such strength at such a young age.
"Why don't we just ask her after school?" Aya suggested earning her looks from the other three.
"That's a good idea." Maya said, wondering when her airhead of a sister had gotten smart. "We follow her to where she lives and ask her there."
"I wonder if she can make me as strong as she is…" Nagi wondered, staring at Pan intently which earned him a glare from Aya.
!
After school.–
Hiding themselves among the crowded streets of the city, Nagi, Bob, Maya, and Aya followed Pan. After witnessing what she did to Mitsuomi and his crew, they needed to know how she managed to became that strong, unaware that Mitsuomi was also wondering the same thing while the fire department was busy cutting him free from the dumb-bell that's twisted around his torso. He would have sent some of his people to follow Pan, but with most of them beaten and the rest of them too scared of her after seeing something that should only happen in a comic or anime, the Saiyan girl slipped away unmolested.
"When are we going to talk to her?" Bob asked to the group at large as they continue to trail behind Pan.
"Once we know where she lives." Maya said with determination burning in her eyes, feeling that the answer to the mystery that is the new transfer girl was close at hand. "That way we'll be able to find her when we need some help."
"I can't wait to be able to bend dumb-bells." Nagi said pretty excited at the notion of being able to do feats of incredible physical strength to show others.
"Yeah, it'll be so cool." Aya said before blinking and stopping in her tracks as Pan suddenly disappeared in front of her. "Where did she go?"
"I don't see her." Maya said as she peered around her surroundings in search of Pan before jumping when an arm was suddenly placed over her shoulder alongside her sister's as someone suddenly appeared between the two.
"So why are you four following me?" Pan asked smiling sweetly, but hinting by her tone of voice that they better have a damn good explanation before she rips their heads off.
"Well we want to know how to be as strong as you." Nagi said honestly, totally unaware of the tense mood.
"Oh! You four want to become my students?" Pan said letting out a huff. "Well, I guess I can take you four as my students. But you guys won't like it." She warned as she let go of the two sisters.
"We can handle it." Nagi replied back pretty confident.
"Okay, just follow me back to my apartment. We can talk there and see if I decide to train you guys or not." Pan said, leading them back to her home.
!
At Pan's apartment -
"So, this is where you live?" Maya said as she looks across the street through the window. The building right in front is a police station. 'Well, Mitsuomi isn't going to like this. There's no way anyone at school will want to attack Pan at her home when they learn this. Mitsuomi can't pay off the police to look the other way when it would make them look bad if they just let an attack go on unpunished right next to their door.' She thought in contemplation.
"Wow! Where did you get this stuff?" Bob asked looking at all the high-tech stuff strewn around the room. Walls lined with desks and tables cluttered with advanced looking hardware and components, dismantled computers and such, while the floor was cluttered with half–assembled pieces of machinery.
"Oh…?Some of it I built it myself." Pan answers absentmindedly, which is true since she was taught by her aunt how to invent and create things the same way she does. Both her grandmother and mother had pushed her into being smarter than the men in the family. Not that they are not smart, his father is even more intelligent than her since her grandmother also put a great deal of effort in his education. Though that came with the price of neglecting his training, meaning there were times were he wasn't as powerful as he could be because he tended to let himself get complacent during peace times. There was also to the matter of grandmother getting pushy most of the time about making her father dedicate 100% of his time to study. It wasn't until Piccolo sensei decided to oversee his father's training again that he was able to get back in shape and reach his full potential once more. She experienced a bout of complacency herself a few years back, but then her Gran-Gran took her in that year long trip around the universe, and what she saw there…
She shook her head, trying to dispel the memories. It does her no favour for her current situation to lose herself in memory lane. But remembering about her Great-grandfather reminded her that there was more than meet the eye about the old Saiyan. His Gran-gran is also a pretty smart individual, even if he doesn't seem like it at first sight. After all, he used to travel across the universe through different galaxies conquering planets, so he was exposed to a great deal of different cultures and technologies. He's the one who teached her how to operate and maintain most pieces of advanced technologies, from starships to hydro-spanners and also how to move around the societies of the different galactic empires since he took her to that year long trip across the universe when she was thirteen. Even her aunt sometimes had to turn up to his Gran-Gran when she didn't know where to start to try and study a new piece of advanced alien technology, although his uncle also used to travel through the stars too, his Gran-Gran is much better well traveled and has a greater experience than him. After all, almost a hundred years of galactic conquest is not that easy to topple.
But back to the present, it seemed that girl Aya was trying to talk to her. "Really…!? You made them yourself?" The busty brunette asked, picking up a very advance looking laptop.
"You just can't be a good fighter and leave it at that you know. Not in this day and age. Knowing how to fight doesn't pay the bills..." Pan said, as she really didn't wanted to be like her grandpa who lives off the land and from the crops he grows as a farmer, the fact he practically put an end to their world's hunger problems due to his farming techniques, notwithstanding. Ugh... If only he harvested something more than just radishes... "What's the point of being a trained fighter if you can't do anything with it in real life?"
"She has a point." Nagi said, thinking about it.
"You can become a teacher and work as a cop or a bodyguard, or like that guy back in the states who uses his techniques to get people in shape." Bob said listing jobs off the top of his head.
"Besides, for places where there are no gun control laws, someone like Mitsuomi would have been shot by now. Most likely from someone who he had beaten up in the past, who would then go, get a gun and shoot him down." Pan said as not all people could have bullets bounce off their bodies like most of her family, even from the human side.
"That's true." Bob said as he read about that sort of things happening from time to time when he was still in the states. Shootings in schools were a serious and real threat back in her previous home.
"Pan you're home, giru!" Giru said, suddenly appearing floating in the air.
"Is that a robot?" Bob asked in surprise, pointing his finger at Giru, never having seen such an advanced creation in his life.
"Yeah, he is." Pan said, turning at the robot a little annoyed. "What did I told you about appearing in front of people without permission?"
"Sorry, giru!" Giru apologized before flying off.
"You have your own robot?" Nagi asked pretty surprised, thinking how smart Pan must be in order to create something like that.
"Yup, I do, and I would like if you four keep a lid on it." Pan said, putting her foot down on the subject, as she knows there are people who would want to know more about Giru and his inner workings, willing to tear the tiny robot into pieces for the secrets of his creation. "The last thing I want is people trying to steal Giru and take him apart."
"Where did you get one?" Aya asked in a childish tantrum. "I want one just like it."
"You can't just buy something like that!" Maya snaps at her little sister who's acting like she's still a little girl who wants the new doll.
"Then where did she get one?" Aya asks, pressing her index fingers coyly, momentarily chastized by her sister.
"I don't know, maybe she got it from another planet 'cause she's an alien who came to Earth for her school project on less advanced races." Maya said off handedly. She glanced at Pan who suddenly is doing her best not to meet her stare.
"YOU ARE AN ALIEN?" All four of them shouted as images of manga and anime aliens came to their minds.
"Yes, I am." Pan said letting out a huff. "Thanks to a mishap with a teleporter, I'm stuck on this planet till someone comes to pick me up." She confessed.
"Your people have a teleporter?" Nagi asks wondering if he should call the press.
"It's not that common, just test models." Pan explained, as her aunt was still working with the machine when she got zapped in here. "So untill someone can find a way to teleport me back or till a ship comes, I'm stuck in here."She crossed herself in arms with a clear lack of excitement about her situation.
"Really?" Bob asks wondering if this were about to turn out like a War of the Worlds type of thing.
"Yeah, and don't worry about aliens going and taking over the world. The Union of Planets has your world under the under developed planet protection act of standard space year 10924. It's against the law to interfere with native life forms of a planet that the act is protecting,and those sightings that you seen on the news now and then are researchers who study the planets 'till they're advance enough to interact with." Pan explains, conveniently omitting the fact that most of the deep space and planetary mineral research is done through probes, any actual sighting they may detect are probably just outlaws and smugglers looking for a place to lay low for a while to escape from the galactic law enforcement, and that the protection act is actually one of the most difficult acts to enforce on planets that are far beyond the outer fringes of the territories occupied by the main galactic empires of the universe. So it doesn't come as a surprise that from time to time, one of these isolated planets ends getting blown to bits and scavenged for resources through illegal mining operations, or gets invaded and conquered to be turned into a powerbase for some pirate clan or another. But Pan didn't wanted to freak out her guests with such details, so she wisely kept her mouth shut about it.
"So that's the reason why aliens don't make contact with us?" Maya asks amazed at what she's hearing.
"All races that are in the U.O.P. have to follow the rules or they lose their membership which is like your worlds UN, but on an intergalactic scale instead of international." Pan explains, dumbing down her declaration and omitting a lot of details and legalese to allow her listeners to have a frame of reference.
"So do you have any other superpowers?" Nagi asks intrigued, his mind racing with ideas from the animes and mangas he has seen.
"Well, this one for example." Pan said as she begins to float in the air and creates a glowing ball of energy in her hand. "All members of my race can fly and fire energy blasts, not to mention, survive just about anything."
"Survive just about anything?" Maya asks slightly freaking out, thoughts of an alien invasion flowing through her mind and the goverments of the world unable to do anything to stop the massacre.
"My skin is much stronger than yours; I can be shot with anything short of a starship'smain gun withouth piercing my skin. Our bodies are also much denser then yours, bones and muscles have more tightly packed mass, making us much stronger then you humans. The naturally high gravity of my world is the reason for that. Which is why I don't have to worry about any of you hurting me because, while a knife can cut me, the level of power needed for it to happen is beyond any of you." Pan explains non-chalantly as she dispels the ball of energy in her grasp, the glowing conentration of light fizzling and evaporating into the air like mist.
"You're like Superman?" Bob inquires after taking everything in.
"I would say that's an apt comparison." Pan said as Superman would be one of the few people who can take her grandfather when he goes all out and win. "Remember the last show of the JLU?"
"Yeah…" Bob says in confirmation, being a fan of all the super-hero media from his homeland.
"Well, Superman would be able to let loose and show how strong he really is without worrying about one his punches going through my body if we fought. I'm just like him in that aspect, I have to hold back so much of my power just so that I don't end up killing any of you by mistake." Pan declares pretty nonchalant.
"You're that strong?" Bob asks sweating bullets.
"Yup, my race the Saiyans are a warrior race after all. We're the strongest known race there is out there in the universe. We have to, just to be able to survive." Pan said sagely. "On my planet none of you would last more then a day and that's being generous. Nine out of ten animals and plants would want to eat you; the tenth would just want to kill you just for the heck of it."
"That's the kind of planet you come from?" Aya asks her eyes wide in surprise.
"Think of the Alien movies and then imagine what kind of world they could come from." Pan replied unconcerned.
"Then that means you are the strongest." Negi said eyeing Pan as one would look Doomsday who became a killing machine because of the planet where it was born on.
"Yup, I'm the big fish that found herself in a small pond." Pan said. "And if any of you tell anyone about me being an alien. I will put your brains in jars." She threathened with a straight face.
"You what!?" Maya exclaims, completely flipping out at the threat.
"You heard me! I don't want anyone to know that I'm here, as the government will try to catch me which would then piss me off and I'll end up going around destroying tanks and planes like one of those sci-fi flicks. And I'm not in the mood to be wasting my time in something like that." Pan said getting annoyed at the mere idea of it and deciding it was better to put the fear of god inside her classmates to make sure they didn't babbled about her identity in order to save herself any future headache. Not that she would actually go through with her threats since she isn't that cruel and callous, but they didn't need to know that. The fact she didn't abused her strength to opress those weaker than her didn't meant she was a moron. Knowledge is power after all…
"Yeah, sure." Maya replied pretty quickly as she and the others sweated wondering why they followed her home in the first place. They know she's an alien now, but if they tell anyone their brains will be place into jars, and they can't fight her since she's Superman level. 'What in the world we're going to do now?' It was the thought that ran through their heads.
"Don't tell anyone, giru." Giru suddenly chirped behind the teenagers, appearing out of nowhere.
"You can read minds?" Maya asks mind-boggled, gaping at the robot.
"Yup, he can." Pan answers her question withouth a care.
"I always thought that I would like to be in a situation like this like in the mangas." Bob said, thinking of the mangas with storylines like the situation he finds himself now.
"Well guess what!" Pan said smiling with mischief. "You guys are living in one right now."
!
Sometime later.-
Pan was standing on the rooftop of her apartment building, watching as her schoolmates walked down the street heading back to their respective homes. She didn't plan on anyone finding out about her being an alien so soon, well part alien. Now she's going to have to watch them closely to make sure that they don't tell anyone about her true identity. But she could see that she made a good job of scarying them good with the brain jar thing she said she would do to them if they talked.
'At least now I don't have to worry about any more of those big muscular weaklings bothering me for the time being.' Pan thought to what she did today with all those enforcers and the jerk who rules the school, no one is going to try anything like that again. Sure some of those guys had body builder bodies but they weren't that strong as they should have been.
"Pan, are you sure that they're going to keep their mouths quiet, giru?" Giru suddenly asks, standing beside her in the roof, the light of the setting sun turning the usual white color of his frame into a raging crimson orange, his optic nerve turning from looking at the dissapearing figures of her classmates to focus solely on her.
"They saw what I can do if I don't hold back, they're not foolish enough to make me angry." Pan said, glancing at the robot.
"Aren't you worried that someone might be able to beat you, giru?" Giru asks intently, knowing that despite the great power she and her elders possesed, there has always been powerful opponents appearing from time to time that prove to be a challenge and a danger, even to them.
"No, I scanned the power levels around here and there isn't a single person on this planet that has a higher power level above a hundred. At least not for what I could tell at first glance. Compared to my fifty million, it'll be like a baby fighting against a giant city destroying robot, and that's without going Super-Saiyan." Pan explained withouth any kind of worry in either her voice or semblance.
"But aren't you letting your power go to your head, giru?" Giru asks with some concern. "If you let yourself be too full of yourself, you'll be defeated like all of those villains your grandfather and great-grandfather fought before you were born, giru. They were so cocky and sure of their own power that they let your grandfather and his allies train themselves in order toto face them and ended up being defeated as result in the end, giru. And you're doing nothing but going around being a bully, giru."
"Perhaps… But that school is being run by a weak-ass bully who uses his strength and minions to do as he pleases. And the teachers there are useless, as I didn't see any of them stepping in to stop any of those fights. So, I'm going to become the big bad of the school and make Mitsuomi the laughing stock of the entire campus. Besides, who's crazy enough to try to stop me?" Pan says with no little arrogance, but then thought better of it and decided to elaborate a little. "Perhaps you're right and my power is starting to get to my head. But it is hard to have any kind of consideration or respect for weaklings who talk big but don't have the strength to back up their claims. Especially when it concerns our own survival… It is not like home in here, giru. There's no Grandpa Goku, no Uncle Vegeta, no Gran-Gran Bardock, dad or Piccolo-sensei to protect us and fight our battles for us. We are alone in here, Giru… Just you and me… And I can't let just anyone come and try to mess with us, it falls solely to me to protect us against any threats that may come our way. Our very survival is at stake, there is no one to help us but ourselves…" She said with finality and a touch of melancholy showing in her expression. But it was just for a moment, and her face turned back into a mask of impassiveness. "So whatever comes, I'll make sure to get them first before they get us…"
Giru simply stood there on his spot, processing what his owner and friend had told him. "This is the first time you are truly on your own, isn't it, Pan? Giru…" All the answer he got to that question was the silence of the Saiyan girl, and the sounds of the city below. "Let us hope nothing serious happens while we are here, giru."
"Yes… Let us hope…" The alien girl agreed as she continued looking at the entire landscape of rooftops and electricity poles.
!
Elsewhere.-
Sōhaku, he is the first and only person to ever be at the head of the Kago family, a position he has held for several centuries because of his unique ability to cancel the ravages of time which has allowed him to live for almost two millenia. He also is the true head of the F organization. For unknown reasons, it has been his goal to awaken dormant powers in people across the world through the use of the Red Wing Resonance Effect. At one time he had a relationship with Makiko Nagi, and fathered Souchiro as a result.
He will not stop at nothing to get what he wants through any means necessary, even seemingly brainwashing and possessing people through the use of various jutsu. And he has a habit of getting rid of people when they are no longer useful to him. He has always been in conflict with the other founding families and is often responsible for many of their deaths.
Much like Dōgen Takayanagi, Sohaku has the desire to create an ultimate warrior. He uses a different method than Dogen though, as he views the ultimate warrior as someone that could use all of the Dragon's Gates, the specific Chakra points in the human body responsible for the creation and use of powers in an individual. He attempted to achieve this goal with Makiko through the use of her family's ability, the Dragon's Fist, to absorb the other families' powers. However, he deemed it a failure as he concluded that Makiko's body was too weak to handle the strain of her inner Dragon. He did repeat the same process eight years later with his son, Souichiro, and achieved better results.
Sohaku has apparently survived without most people figuring out he is nearly immortal by frequently assuming new personas and identities. In Feudal Japan, Sohaku initially went by the name Akechi Mitsuhide. He faked his death and then claimed to be a High Buddhist priest named Tenkai, who functioned as an advisor to Ieyasu Tokugawa. During those times, he essentially controlled the local government through a magical jutsu he used on a then isolated Ieyasu.
Currently, he's reading through the report of the latest activities at Todo Academy. A single girl was able to badly beat all of the school's enforcers and made Mitsuomi look like a fool in front of the entire student body. From what the report said she's unskilled but strong, easily to figure out since she tied a dumbbell around Mitsuomi who had to wait for the emergency servicesto cut it off before he was free. But what got his attention is the thought that maybe this girl, Pan Son is the ultimate warrior he's been looking for. All these years of trial and error and this girl suddenly appears out of the blue, wielding extraodinary power and strength. He couldn't let this once in a lifetime chance to pass, there's no telling when another with so much raw power that just needed to be trained on how to use it properly would appear.
"This Pan Son will become the ultimate warrior once she's trains under me." Sohaku said to himself. "And if she refuses, I just have to show her why strength is useless against someone as skilled as me." A loud chuckle escaped from his troath, completely sure about his ultimate victory.
!
At the Todo Academy the next day.-
Mitsuomi was still fuming mad at what happened yesterday as he walks into the school grounds. All of his enforcers are now so badly hurt that it be weeks before all of them can recover. And the one that did it, Pan Son will not have to worry about him trying anything to get revenge before then, knowing it would be stupid to try to challenge her with such low forces on his side. He saw firsthand how powerful she is as he was tied up by the dumbbell she had wrapped around him and could only watch as all of his enforcers were beaten easily. Even those who could use Ki to do energy attacks did little or nothing at all on Pan as she just plowed through anything that was tossed at her, punching and kicking at anyone standing in her way. She used no skills or showed any kind of fighting style whatsoever, just focusing on straight punches and kicks. But nevertheless, none of the enforcers' weapons, even from the few that had bladed weapons, were able to do anything to her, just as she had told them how none of them had the strength to hurt her. Now he's the only one left that isn't in the hospital recovering from the beating that Pan Son put them all through. And he's afraid to fight her; he knows he's not strong enough to beat her.
"How the mighty have fallen." Said a man dressed in a business suit with white slicked back hair, a young face and narrow eyes. "Looks like you're the only remaining member of the Executive Council." He stated with obvious sardonic derision.
"What are you doing here?" Mitsuomi asks in surprise at seeing the head of F here in the school.
"I came to see if this Pan Son is the one I have been looking for during all these years." Sohaku declared seemingly unconcerned but with an underlying hint of fascination on his voice.
"You want Pan Son?" Mitsuomi asks in shock. In hindsight, it shouldn't be a surprise that someone like Sohaku would be interested on a girl as strong as her. He could feel in his bones how terrible these news were.
"Yes, she has a great deal of power but no skill to use it." Sohaku repliedself-assured smugness. "Once she has been trained by me, she'll be the ultimate warrior."
"She isn't one to follow orders from what I researched about her." Mitsuomi grudgingly confessed, not liking the idea of giving any kind of information to Sohaku for free, but seeing no other choice he could do in order to avoid an unnecessary devastating fight on the school grounds.
"I can convince her one way or another." Sohaku replied ominously, it was clear he was not going to take a no for an answer.
"Oh, really?" Pan said as she suddenly appeared behind the two, her demeanor so casual as if these men haven't been plotting against her just a few moments ago. "This is like one of those mangas where someone wants someone else to become the best at something at any cost even if the person doesn't want to in the first place." She states with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, you can think it's like that if you like." Sohaku said turning to face her, mildly astounded that she had managed to get the drop on him without him taking notice of her presence, but keeping his inner thoughts from showing on his face. "You're very strong, but you're not skilled in the least, you're limiting yourself by just focusing on using your strength solely to power through anything in your path. You can be so much more if you train under me."
"I can feel much power coming from you, but you're still not even close to my level." Pan said as she took a good look at Sohaku, her gaze trailing from the soles of his shoes up to the top of his hair. "So, I'm not going to train under you since there's no point in learning how to fight when there's no one equal to me in raw power."
"Oh, really? How about a little test then..." Sohaku said,approaching Pan and looming over her with his greater height. If the immortal man thought he could intimidate the alien girl with such tactic, he was going to be dissapointed. "The only way to get to your class is by going through me. And unlike these little children, I know how to handle strong fighters like you." He finishes with boundless arrogance as he assumes a fighting stance.
"Fine then." Pan said with a sigh, a little annoyed at having to waste her time with someone much weaker than her.
Sohaku suddenly felt a massive amount of pain as Pan seemingly teleported right in front of him, burying her fist into his stomach. He didn't even saw her move. Mitsuomi was sharing the same thoughts as he couldn't even follow any of her movements; it was like those super fast superheroes in those western comics.
"I'm not just super strong you know." Pan stated to a fallen Sohaku who's left gripping his stomach in pain on his knees, she had pulled back her punch to make surehe wouldn't be knocked out immediately, just leave him in an excruciating pain. "I'm also super fast. So you see, even if you do know how to use my strength against me, I can just use my super speed to beat you before you even know what happened." She explains with a deceptive happy face.
"What are you?" Mitsuomi asks as he watches Pan walk into the school building as if she owned the place, the rest of the student body watching her as well and parting aside to let her through. He realized that even if he did found a way to get around her strength, she would just use her speed instead. And with that kind of speed there's no way he'll be able to react fast enough to block it.
"As I said before…" Pan said stopping momentarily to look over her shoulder bavk at Mitsuomi. "I'm the strongest there is on Earth. Care to try your luck?"
"That's okay." Mitsuomi said not wanting to fight her ever, since she has just so easily defeated the head of F in a single move right in front of his eyes. Sohaku still gasping for breath and trying to recover from the strongest punch he has ever received in his entire long life. "You are the strongest."
"Good. And also you no longer rule this school. Or else you'll end up in a much worse condition than your minions." Pan said as she walks into the school with the rest of the students left staring with fear and awe at the newcomer girl that in less than a week has completely taken over the school. And from what they saw there's no one who would want to fight her now.
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2 weeks later.-
In his base of operations, Sohaku watches in front of several computer screens the latest failed attempt to defeat Pan Son. He has studied her like a book, examining the readings from the scans of her fights. She's totally insensitive to attacks, and indestructible. Some of the men he had sent to fight her tried shooting at her with machine guns, but the bullets would just simply bounce off her the same way that it would be if they tried to shoot at Superman or Robocop. After the first time he had seen that feat, he ordered his men to use anti-armor bullets instead, despite the upgrade had still much the same effect on her. One of the screens showed her just standing there as one of his men emptied his light machine gun on her, then throwing the gun at her head with the same results. And her power seems to suddenly increase without any logic; it looks like as if she has a huge well of energy to drawn upon whenever she may want. He now knows that there's no way that he'll be able to beat her. He's more skilled then she is, but it'll be like Batman trying to punch out Superman in a fist-fight without the use of Kryptonite.
'I'm completely out of my league and weight class.' Sohaku thought to himself. He knows full well that even with all his centuries of living and training, in the end being shot full of lead would stil kill him, at least until he could found a new body to posses. During the war, he had to hide in either shelters or in one of his secret bunkers during the bombing runs sent by the Americans, and during the aftermath of the war he had to remain in hiding from the public eye as he didn't wanted to be discovered by the American occupation forces. He's stronger and more skilled than any soldier but one good shot from a gun would bring him down. He would either be killed, and then he would have to wait for a suitable host to be found for him to take over his body, which is always an annoyance, or locked up and sent over seas where the white coats would study him and his abilities.
'She is also drawing attention from others.' Sohaku thought to himself as the events ocurring all around Pan have started to pick the interest of other he would have prefered they had remained in the dark.
Shadaloo (or Shadowlaw) a criminal organization responsible for dealing with biochemical drugs and arms. Shadaloo is headed by M. Bison who is a very powerful fighter even by his standards. Then there's the Illuminati lead by Gill who is even older and more powerful than he is. The Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee, also known as DOATEC for short, which is an international weapons research and Development Company that presides over the Dead or Alive Tournament. It's now currently headed by Helena Douglas who changed things after her father's death, but has shown interest in the power that Pan Son has shown. Feared throughout the political and fighting world, Rugal was an influential arms dealer who operated aboard his aircraft carrier BlackNoah. To those who would oppose him, he would defeat them and later preserve their bodies in liquid metal to add to his grisly trophy room. There is also Geese Howard the crime lord of Southtown and his half brother Wolfgang Krauser, the present head of the Stroheim family, both of them have been sending out men to spy on Pan. But other groups have also been spying on the young girl who has the strength of Superman along with the endurance to be able to withstand being shot at point-blank range without any harm done to her.
"There are just too many people taking an interest in you." Sohaku said to himself, knowing that anymore attacks by his men would just start bringing attention to him. He's just going to have to watch from the sidelines and see what happens.
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Elsewhere.-
A mature woman named Rose was troubled by visions from a girl who seemingly had just appeared out of nowhere. She's tall, curvy and has long dark wavy hair that flows outward horizontally, violet eyes, a fair complexion, and a small mouth with full lips. Many wouldn't think that that she's a powerful psychic with the fighting skills to back it up. Her visions of this girl scared her, she could feel the power from her and it's beyond anything that she had ever sensed before.
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In Japan.-
Ryu, whose endless quest to test himself has led him back to Japan,where he met up with Chun-Li who is trying to get information on a high school girl who had appeared out of nowhere, wielding powers straight out of a comic book. According to the reports she had received, the girl has been attacked a number of times and easily beat anyone with just brute force, even with the assailants shooting at her with guns. As they walk towards the school, they bump into Sakura who's with her rival Karin. They also heard about the powerful high school girl and wanted to check out if the sories were true as well.
"So this school allows the students to fight each other?" Ryu asks while looking up at the building, trying to wrap his head around the idea as to how such a system could work in the first place. He was raised in a rather old-fashioned way by his Master Gouken after all, School was for general learning (Numbers, Caligraphy, Letters, Geography, History and such) and martial arts training was done in the temple. He simply couldn't understand how a school could let its students fight each other without the entire thing turning into utter chaos.
"Yeah, it's a school where if you're strong you rule the place." Sakura said pretty carefree, having seeing and heard of several other institutions were such thing is the norm.
"It's connected to the Kago family who runs a mysterious group known as F. What does that stands for? Who knows, but they're using the Todo Academy to keep the different fighting styles from dying out." Karin explains knowing all of this because her family is just that rich and has many connections.
"And the police are in on this since they're being paid to look the other way and won't do anything about it unless it gets too out of hand." Chun-Li adds with a frown, disgusted by such blatant corruption.
"This girl Pan Son, is she really that strong?" Ryu asks intrigued by all the rumors floating about her.
"There's that video onIutube that shows her being shot at with a gun her acting like Superman." Sakura replies as she still couldn't believe what she had seen in that video.
"And there's that story of her pilling all of the teachers cars on top of each other." Karin said bringing a finger to her chin in recollection.
"That did happen..." Chun-Li said as she had previously read the report of the police being called in, but there weren't any pressed charges because who would believe that a high school girl could toss cars on top of each other untilthey were higher than the school. "Now she rules the school as everyone is too scared to fight her."
"They're here." Ryu stated suddenly, his demeanor turning completely serious
As he narrowed his eyes at feeling the power from two masters who he knows are much stronger than he is.
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At the Todo Academy.-
Pan was heading out of school once the last bell had rang signaling the end of the studies for today, the rest of the student body moving aside to give her plenty of room. The teachers, after she had piled their cars on top of each other, learned that they couldn't force her to do anything that she didn't want to. Like giving the Student Council room back to the executive comittee that she had turned into a club house for herself by this point. She had literally thrown Mitsuomi and all of the things in the room out of the window. Now Mitsuomi had to do all the meetings in the Gym, as he's too weak to fight and win his old office back. Everyone now knows that she rules the school, which is now actually much more peaceful than it used to be, as the last guy who tried to start a fight got most of his bones broken because Pan acted like Bam-Bam, lifting him up by his foot and slamming him repeatedly into the ground until he lost conciousness.
"So you're the one with the great power I have been sensing..." An old man dressed in nothing more then a purple robe said, his skin golden like the sun.
"That would be me..." Pan replied looking at the old man in front of her. She had done her homework and had Giru research all of the most powerful fighters of this world. The old man in front of was one of them.
Oro is an ancient, mysterious hermit who seeks a fighter that is worthy to inherit his fighting style. He is of Japanese descent and hails from the Amazon Jungle where he lives in a cave with his many pets, including a turtle and a dog. Oro made his living as a martial arts instructor in Japan in his younger days. He moved to Brazil with a friend in the early 1900s. Unfortunately, his life in Brazil wasn't going very well and he eventually became a recluse. He spent much of his time practicing Senjutsu (Mystic Arts) techniques used by the immortal mountain hermits of Taoist myth. Finally, after several dozens of years, Oro was sucessful in his efforst and fully mastered those techniques.
"You're quite strong for an old man." Pan said as a memory of the old pervert back homecame to the front of her mind. The Turtle Hermit might be old and seemingly appear at first sight to be nothing more but an out of shape pervert that spends most of his time in front of the TV watching porn, but just like Maya, he uses a supression technique that allows him to hide his real physique. Making other people underestimate him by hiding the fact he's a very skillful fighter with a body toned enough to put many body-builders to shame. That devious old goat for concealing the fact he has never let up on his training despite being more than three hundred fifty years old, there's a reason why he wears those stupidly heavy turtleshells all the time and never takes them out, not even when he's in the bathroom or taking a shower. Nonetheless, despite Master Roshi's true capabilities, her mother proved that being weak but skilled can still beat someone with super strength, as she tends to crush him with a table everytime he gets too much of a pervert for her tastes. That or Master Roshi lets himself be hurt on purpose for endurance training, it's hard to tell with that old lecher.
"I sense much power from you, but I have never sensed the kind of energy you emit. Are you human?" Oro asks bluntly after using his senses to get a thorough reading of the alien girl while she was daydreaming, the sound of his old voice pulling Pan out of her musings and back to the present.
"What do you mean…?" Pan asks back through half-lidded eyes wondering how he could know that, her suspicion being stoked. "Is it from that mystic art you use?"
"Yes, I have mastered my art completely which allows me to sense the energy in all living things. And I have never sensed anything like you before." Oro explains before pointing behind him with his one single arm. "But enough of this talk for now; you have a fight at hand."
"What?" Pan asked as she turned around and caught glimpse of a heavily muscular man who has red hair, wears prayer beads around his neck, and is dressed in a black gi, standing in front of the school gate. It takes her only a couple of seconds to realize who the stranger is.
The feared fighter, Akuma, who fights only to test his strength, become more powerful and fightworthy opponents. This means that he will only fight against those that will provide a challenge, hence his refusal to fight any challenger deemed unworthy under any circumstances. Akuma will only kill opponents who are as strong as he is, stronger then him or who he finds worth killing. While Akuma attacked his brother and his teacher, he did so in the confines of the code of the warrior, where the field of battle does not distinguish between friend and foe. Akuma believes he committed no transgression whatsoever. Also, with the exception of Gouken and Goutetsu, Akuma usually only fights those who challenge him instead of picking fights.
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In the School.-
"Is that who I think it is?" Nagi asks as he and other students watch what is happening in the school yard from the windows of their classrooms.
"That's Akuma all right." Takayanagi said, having comeback to school with his hand still in a case.
"He's deadly." Bob said not liking the merciless look on him.
"Looks like Pan is finally going down." Mitsuomi said grinning,for if anyone is powerful enough to beat her it would be him.
"I wouldn't count on it." Maya said as she along with the others of her group, except for Takayanagi, know that Pan's an alien.
"Pan is much stronger than she lets on." Aya adds as she glances at Mitsuomi for a second as she leaned on the window before returning her attention back to what was happening on the frontyard.
"She's what?" Mitsuomi asks in disbelief.
"All this time she's been pulling her punches…" Maya said making Mitsuomi eyes widen, wondering just how strong Pan really is if what she has shown so far is nothing more but a fraction of her true power. He could do nothing but stare at the proceedings on the yard as a dreadful feeling began to gnaw at his insides.
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The School Grounds -
"So you're Akuma, the fighter who only fights those who dare to challenge him?" Pan states with a laid back attittude, her arms resting on the back of her head.
"I am." Akuma answers plainly, his unblinking gaze never wavering away from the alien girl. "I have sensed great power from you and I know that you have been holding back your true capabilities..."
"Well, seems you picked up on that just like the old man over here." Pan said, pointing above her shoulder at to Oro who is simply standing on his spot withhis singular arm pressed to his back. "It's true though, I have to hold back and pull my punches or there be just too many dead bodies around."She non-chalantly explains as if there was nothing especial about it.
"Face me with you true power." Akuma demanded, taking a fighting stance as Ryu and his group of friends came up from behind him.
"Akuma, you're here!" Ryu said seriously, glaring at the dark master of his art.
"You guys, whoever you are, step back. He's mine." Pan ordered, gesturing with an arm for no one to interfere. "I finally have someone who's strong enough for me to go all out. This is going to be fun." She commented, a grin tugging at the corner of her mouth.
"Fun!? You call fighting him fun?" Sakura shouted in shock as she wondered who on its right mind would consider fighting a remorseless killer like Akuma fun?
"Yeah, for me it is." Pan said spreading out her arms wide, leaving herself open to any attack from Akuma, much to the horror of everyone looking. "You go first; hit me with your best shot!" She declared pretty excited.
Akuma unleashed his Obliterating Strong Surge move on Pan, engulfing her in dark energy. Everyone thought she was dead, but once the smoke cleared, Pan was still standing in her same position with her arms still spread out. The eyes of all onlookers widened with stunned looks plastered on their faces, even Akuma.
"Okay, enough with the warm up, hit me with your best shot already!" Pan snapped, a bit of impatience seeping on her voice.
"That is his best hit." Karin deadpanned with a stumped expression, being the only one ablo to find her voice.
"Oh? That's too bad… I was hoping that I could let loose, but he's too weak as well." Pan said dissapointed, letting out a puff of air before turning around and starting to walk towards the main gate of the school. "Well, I'm heading home."
"Not yet!" Akuma said as he suddenly teloported in front of Pan and blocked her way with an outstretched arm.
"Go away!" Pan exclaimed grabbing the offending limb with a hand, and with a single fling, sent him flying into the air. Akuma screamed as he flew through the air and disappeared into the horizon.
"I thought that no one would ever be able to do that to him!" Chun-Li said as she like everyone else was stunned stupid after seeing one of the most powerful fighters in the world getting thrown around like a pushover by a young high school girl.
"I can… And I did..." Pan said with finality as her eyes trailed over the small group of fighters take stock of their strength,much more skilled and stronger than the students in this school that's for sure, but still weaker than Akuma.
"Because you're not human…" Oro said after having minutely analysed the display of power that had just ocurred with his senses. "You're an alien."
"She's a what?" Ryu asked staring blankly like Chun-Li at the old master. Both wondering if his brain had finally went senile.
"Her energy isn't human or demon, or anything else I have ever met." Oro replied simply. "Therefore, she must be an alien as her body energy is unlike anything found on Earth."
"Are you're sure…?" Sakura asks with boundless skepticism pretty evident in her tone.
"Or the years are finally getting to you?" Karin finalizes for her, being of the same mindset as her friend and rival.
"Then explain the hovercraft." Oro calmly as he pointed behind the group towards a hovercraft that was in the direction the school.
The ship landed neatly in front of Pan and the dumbstruck group of fighters, its canopy opening with a hiss and revealing a small robot inside. "Pan! Government agents raided the apartment, giru. They discovered your ID's are fakes, giru. But I managed to save everything before the agents broke in, giru." Giru shouted at Pan, waving his little robot arms all around in panic.
Pan refrained from speaking and simply looked around her, seeing the stares from everyone and the phone cameras recording everything,and then to Ryu who like the two younger girls of the group had stunned looks on their faces, Chun-Li was on her phone yelling about an alien landing. Elsewhere the groups that have been watching and spying her in secret were also stunned at the fact that the girl with the powers like that of Superman is an actual alien with superpowers. After taking stock of everything that was happening, Pan then turns back to her robot. "Giru, you have the worse timing ever...!"
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Sometime later.-
Pan stood in front of the assembly hall of the Todo Academy at full sight of all the students, teachers, the group of fighters that had come looking for her, and reporters with TV crews. She and Giru had setup a large view screen so that everyone could see what she was about to explain.
"Alright, right listen up! I suppose I should give everybody an explanation!" Pan shouted out to the crowd through a bullhorn. "At first I was like I didn't cared in the least about what you thought and whether or not you had questions, and I instead was about to grab Giru and fly the hell away from here… But then I thought better and decided to do this little conference since I didn't found particularly appealing the notion of being chased around the world by the different armiesof this planet, it would had been annoying as hell not to mention cliché. But then it turns out that I'm not qualified to be doing any kind of first contact with other species outside my own, and I had to be a true dumbass to try and do so. I mean, if I try, I'm pretty sure I'm going to end screwing things up. So to avoid any misunderstanding, I'm going to put Giru here in charge of all the explanations since he has protocols and subroutines for that kind of situations." She declared as she gestured towards her little robot companion standing at her side, the tiny automaton giving a friendly wave to all the people inside the auditorium."I'm just going to introduce myself and my species and then leave him everything else okay?" She asked at the room at large, a stream of murmurs was heard for a moment as the people present began to discuss among themselvesbefore she began to receive nods of acknowledgement from her listeners.
"Alright then, as some of you may already know who I am, but for those who don't known: My name is Son Pan, and I'm a member of the Saiyan race who are a naturally aggressive warrior race and also one of the strongest warriors in the universe. We're strong because our planet has a much higher gravity than this world, giving us a greater natural strength than most other races. Not to mention thatonmy planet life in general is pretty hostile and every second of the day is a struggle for survival. None of you would last more then a day at the most on my world and that's being generous. Nine out of ten animals and plants would want to eat you. The tenth would just want to kill you just for kicks. In fact, most humans would simply die by just trying to breathe on my world as the atmosphere on my planet is much harsher than yours. All of these facts combined has given all Saiyans a much stronger physiology than any human can ever hope to achieve, since we have a much higher starting off point then you humans. Also, there's fact that a fully mature Saiyan average height is greater than that of a normal human. The normal height for a Saiyan is around seven feet anything else is on the short side for a male, while the average it's six feet for a female. A newborn Saiyan baby is on the same strength level as a normal physical fit human who's in their prime. Saiyan babies can look after themselves a few hours after birth, being able to hunt and kill animals for food while it takes years for a human to be able to do these things and look after themselves on their own. So you can see, I have nothing to fear from anyone who thinks that they can beat me in combat. My base line strength is about thirty times greater then any normal human and since I can increase my strength with Ki… well, just so you know, I can easily lift a ton without having to use Ki."
"You're that strong?" Mitsuomi said taking it all in, realizing why she treats him like nothing, because she really does have nothing to fear from him. He was out of his rank and weight class when dealing with her from the very moment of birth.
It was Giru who stepped forward to answer that question, taking lead of the conference from this point forward. "Indeed she is, giru… Saiyans simply evolved to be the strongest to deal with the harsh conditions of their habitat, giru. Their internal organs are, for the most part, the same as a human but with some key differences, giru. One of them is the presence of a second set of some major organs,although smaller than the main ones,to act as a backup incase of failure or serious trauma, giru. For example, Pan here has two hearts that allow her to pump more blood through her body, and three stomachs, one large one with two smaller ones whose function is solely to store nutrients incase she founds herself in the need of having to deal with long periods without food, giru. Also, the presence of a secondary nervous system that works through the use of a neuroconductive fluid, meaning that a Saiyan is almost impossible to paralyze, giru." The small robot explained, showing several different biology charts and x-rays on the auditorium's main screen to make his point.
"Saiyans are a pretty aggressive race, even at a cellular level, giru. If a Saiyan survives a near-death experience through extreme injury to the body, then when the body recuperates; the Saiyan grows much stronger than they were previously, their body adapting to compensate for the damage dealt, giru. The duration of the recovery does not seem to hinder this ability as there's evidence of Saiyans having healed through natural, technological and mystical means, and yet they still gained a substantial increaseon their strength, giru. Saiyans also are able to heal from injuries at a faster rate than normal humans and possess a greater deal of durability to damage, giru. They also have the power to adapt against whatever that almost killed them, giru. If it's a disease, even artificial ones made in a lab, if it doesn't kill them then they become immune to it, giru. During past wars where radiation from nukes slowly killed the first generation, the children born afterwards became immune to the effects of radiation,and they in turn were able to pass down these traits to the next generation, giru. Always improving their race's gene pool by only letting those who are fit in both in body and mind to breed, giru. Thanks to that, a Saiyan's DNA strands are nearly flawless, with all of the recessive genes that produce many of the most common ailments like diabetes, cancer and other cardiovascular diseases eradicated from the genome, giru. This has given theSaiyans no weakness that can't be overcomed later, and since Saiyans once upon a time used to take over other worlds,they have ran into just about everything there is in one form or another, giru."
"Wait, Saiyans used to take over worlds?" Chun-Li shouted out rather alarmed at those news.
"Yes, giru." The little robot replied, much too many of his listeners' dread. Pan didn't seemed particularly concerned about the revelation of this fact since from her point of view it was ancient story, stuff that happened before she was even born. "Saiyan's at one point used to take over other worlds, conquering them for their own, by enslaving or driving off the native species that lived there or by completely wiping them out, giru. But that was a long time ago before Pan here was even born, giru. Saiyans used to be the main driving force behind the Planet Trade Organization, which paid them to go to another planet and wipe out the race that lived there so they could then sell the planet to the higher bidder, giru. The Saiyan race on its own has taken over more than hundreds of thousands of worlds during their days in the Planet Trade, either selling them to a buyer or keeping it for themselves, giru. That is how they ended up conquering their home Galaxy and created a galactic empire, giru. For a planet like Earth, Pan's ancestors wouldn't even have bothered in sending an adult to wipe the inhabitans of this planet, giru. They would have just sent a baby to this world instead, giru. I know you must all be feeling rather insulted for thinking that a baby would be able to kill all of you; but I'm sorry to say that is just how much stronger and powerful are Saiyans compared to you all, giru. All the advance weapons you humans have developed on your own,Saiyans have already encountered and faced them in one form or another, giru. Their entire race has been nuked so much that even a 100 megaton bomb isn't enough to kill an adult anymore, giru. Sure it can still kill weaker Saiyans and younglings, but they'd have to be hit by one after another to do the trick, but that would end up being more harmful for the ones who are nuking their own planet than for the Saiyan race, giru. They would only have to clean up the radiation and deglass the planet, unless they manage to find a buyer that would find a radiation filled planet to be their own version of Eden, giru. There are species out there whose biology is tailored for that kind of environment, giru. In fact that's one of the best ways that Saiyans have to deal with polluted worlds that become too deadly for raceslike one that used to originally live there, giru. Just move on to another planet and sell the polluted one to a race that can live there, giru. A world like Earth would be more valuable if it's intact so it can be use as a Harvest world, a Harvest world is basically a one big farming planet to grow the food for other more industrial planets, giru." The tiny automaton explains to his terrified audience, the light of his optic sensor blinking on and off with each word he uttered, giving the small robot a rather cold and unfeeling visage as he casually spoke about the dead and enslavement of entire worlds and species as if they were nothing more but numbers and statistics.
"Also, don't even bother with an engineered virus to try to kill a Saiyan, giru. Their immune systems have been exposed to so many different kinds of pathogens in their long history, that only a level 10 virus that can effect everything on its vicinity is the only thing that can kill them now, giru. Anything else would just give them a cold, giru. For planets whose species had unleashed that kind of virus which killed off their entire race, their either sell it to an inorganic species, like robots just like me or rock golems and such, as they can't be affected by any kind of organic virus, giru. If Saiyans can't find a buyer, then they just call in a planet cracker ship, giru. A planet cracker is a massive kilometer long ship, the largest being the size of the whole of Japan, giru. The ships take much resources and time to build but they pay it back when they mine planets, giru. Planet Cracking is when a planet is literally split open to be mined for valuable resources, giru. Large chunks are broken off with powerful lasers, and then brought inside a "Planet Cracker"-class ship via gravity tethers where it is then stripped and its ore content is studied and catalogued, giru." Giru explained as he showed images of a Planet Cracker and its specifications."So it really doesn't matter what a race try to stop the Saiyans, they have been doing this for a long time so they will always find a way to make money, giru. The only time Saiyans come out wasting their time is when the native species blows up its own planet, or when the Saiyans themselves decide, for some reason or another, that there is nothing of value they could get from the planet and they just end up blowing it up themselves, giru."
"Are you going to take over Earth?" Maya shouted out as she and the other people listening in realized what they're dealing with. A race of planet pirates who have taken over or destroyed countless worlds.
Pan just gave Maya a look that clearly told 'Are you stupid?' "Haven't you been listening? Saiyans used to take over worlds, my race doesn't do that anymore since more than a decade before I was even born." She stated rather testily before turning her attention towards her robotic companion. "Giru you tell them the rest of the story will ya'?"
"At once Pan, giru." The little robot acknowledged with a nod. "Almost thirty space years ago, the Saiyan Empire did a massive re-estructuringof their policies, giru. The most radical of these new policies came with the end of the piracy as the main trade for the entire race, the secession from the Planet Trade organization, and joining the Intergalactic Union of Planets as a certified member, thus these changes brought an an end to the days of planet conquering, giru. However, despite no longer dedicating themselves to a life of piracy, the veteran and elite Saiyan warriors found their services in pretty high demand as mercenaries, men-for-hire or bounty hunters, by the myriads of factions and goverments that exists between the many Galactic empires located in the Virgo Cluster, giru. One indisputable fact about Space Politics is that they can be pretty cut-throat, so it is a wise move to have a powerful warrior capable of destroying planets on his own at your side, giru. Taking this into account, it's not so surprising that Saiyans a tend to get hired for protection details, giru. In fact, even law enforcement agencies like the intergalactic space police is pretty adamant on finding unemployed veteran Saiyan warriors to add to their ranks, giru. Anyway, the particular section of space that belongs to the Saiyan Empire sees very little in the way of space pirates' attacks since every other race knows better than to try to provoke them, giru. Even though the Saiyan Empire is a breeding nest and heaven for outlaws and criminal syndicates due to the nature of their usual professions, they are smart enough not to rock the boat and draw the attention of those in charge and so they tend to leave the Saiyan's trading routes and client races alone, giru. But since most Saiyans are not actively fighting as much as they used to, most members of the younger like Pan, tend to be seen as weak and lazy, gitu. Unless they really dedicate thenselves to train themselves, most of the new generation just simply doesn't match up to the older ones, giru."
Pan couldn't help but bristle at that, she knew very well what Giru was talking about. "Tell me about it,I regularly have to hear stories from my elders on how in their days they used to wipe out whole planets by themselves. I could spend days retelling all the stories that my Great-Grandfather used to tell me about the planets he conquered." The alien girl said in a seemingly disinterested tone.
"Great-Grandfather? Does he still live after thirty years of no more piracy? He must be pretty old." Sakura asks, curious as to how Pan's race deals with the effects of old age.
"That is a relatively term among Saiyans. My kind can live… Actually, I don't know just how much can a Saiyan live and how longer it is compared to you humans since there are no records of Saiyans dying peacefully in a deathbed." Pan confessed after becoming thoughtful for a few moments. "Most of the members of my race tend to die at a relatively young age in battle, but those veterans and elite warriors that manage to survive are well beyond the hundred years of age, and unlike you humans, Saiyans remain in their youth and prime for much longer. Hundreds of years could pass and we could still look like a middle-age human. My Gran-Gran is around a century and a quarter old and he still pretty looks at his prime." She explains with a few gestures.
"Just how old are you?" Takayanagi asks, wondering if Pan is really much older then she looks.
"Oh, I'm only seventeen… Well, almost seventeen…Which gives you humans a good idea of how outmatched you are compared to my race. While I used to train a lot when I was younger, I became a slacker in my teen years. Just spending my days hanging around with my friends at the mall, talking about boys and shopping instead of training myself to become a fighter. But then my Gran-Gran stepped in, kicked my ass and forced me to retake my training again, stating that no descendant of his would become a weakling. Don't know why he cares so much, it's not as if we are 1st class citizens instead of just being a lowly 3rd class anyways." Pan said slightly irate, trailing off a little.
"What? Do you people have a class system?" Maya asks.
Instead of answering, Pan turned towards Giru and gave him a look that clearly told he should take care of answering that question. The little robot stepped up to do so without complaint. "Yes they do, giru. At the moment of their birth, new-born Saiyans are scanned to gauge the power level that they start off with in order for the parents to tell in what class their child is born into, giru. 1st class are the strongest, the elite warrior nobility, 2nd class are those with normal power levels, and the 3rd class, the class that Pan belong to, are the weakest, giru. The 1st class is the warrior class who are trained from birth to be fighters, giru. The 2nd class either becomes foot soldiers or just normal Saiyans who work to upkeep the race's way of life, giru. Pan's class, the 3rd class mainly works to support the upper classes, just like the people on this planet who work at stores or in fast foods joints, giru. Not to say that Saiyans can't rise or fall in the classes, giru. There are plenty of 3rd classes who have been able to become elite warriors like Pan's great-grandfather, Bardock, giru. But like many things in life, it is a long, arduous and treacherous road filled with constant dangers and obstacles at every step of the way for a low class to rise upfrom his lot in life, Giru. But Pan is an exception to this rule because of her heritage, she could easily apply for first class if she cared about such things and work at it like her grandpa Goku did, who became one of the strongest Saiyans ever by constantly training to always improve himself, giru. Or her previously mentioned great-grandfather, Bardock, who became the top one planet exterminator back during the race's days on the Planet Trade Organization by taking the most hardest, difficult and suicidal of missions that could be found and live to tell about it, which earned him the fear and respect of the entire universe, making him the most wanted criminal in the entire cosmos with the highest bounty on his head ever to exist, giru. Their strength has been passed down to Pan through their genes, giru. But she rarely has need of using her full strength with how the Saiyan way of life has changed over the years, giru. There really isn't a great need for powerful warriors anymore, giru. Everyone worth fighting has already fallen against the Saiyan's might, giru. Plus, with the use of their bio-soldiers called Saibamen to overwhelm any attacking force with sheer weight of numbers, there's not much need for the Saiyan race to deploy their veteran warriors, giru." The tiny robot explained as he showed images and charts about a short ugly three-clawed green plant-creature with a bulbuous head. "Even though their strength is barely equal to that of a regular third class warrior, they can be easily deployed and destroyed in the billions, giru. No matter how many of them they are killed, the Saiyan can always make more and refill their numbers pretty quickly, giru. So in short, Saiyans are just a race of Supermen who are simply too powerful after spending a few generations conquering other planets for them, outside a few marked exceptions, to even bother themselves to become stronger anymore since there isn't anyone able who can match their power nowadays, giru." The small automaton finishes explaining, leaving many wondering just how really powerful the Saiyan race must be for them to start believing most battles beneath them and instead give themselves the luxury of employing disposable soldiers in the billions to do their fighting for them. Talking about hubris, alright…
"Pan! What powers do you have?" Bob shouted out at the alien girl, curious about the true reaches of her power.
Many watching we're taken by surprise as Pan started floating in the air and held a glowing ball of energy in her hands. "We Saiyans possess a natural affinity towards the manipulation of energy, allowing us to utilize flying and energy-based attacks with incredible ease, as well as unlock great depths of power when in need, or lending energy to others in battle when necessary. Lost energy is regained by Saiyans in a very short span of time, regardless of the amount of energy that is lost. Saiyans also have great speed and agility; at higher levels of power we can even be able to reach the speed of light, at least for those who actually take time to train and improve themselves anyways. We also have much faster reflexes than an average Human; reflexes so fast that we can catch a bullet after it leaves a gun's muzzle or evade energy beams without much of a problem. Super speed can easily be seen in our fighting skills; our movements occurring in fractions of seconds which are not visible to the average Human eyes. In other words, even if you're a more skilled fighter with a better technique than me, all I have to do is use is my superspeed combined with my super strength to hit you with the force of a speeding train in the time it takes you to blink. This isn't some comic where the all powerful hero needs to have a weakness or hold himself back. Superman doesn't fight at the Flash's speed because if he did then the comics would be too boring as he would be able to beat everyone without even trying. But as I said, this isn't a comic, and I can fight at the Flash's speed with my Superman level of strength. But the price for such power is that we Saiyans are also noted for being ravenous trenchermen with seemingly insatiable appetites. Due to our enormous strength and intense aura, the Saiyans' energy and nutritional intake needs are a great deal higher than Humans. The only weakness that I can confess we have is that if we don't eat at least our body weight in food every day, we get weak." She declared, giving her audience something to think about.
Pan then let out a mocking laugh. "Because my cover has been blown, I'm no longer going to bother in holding back. If anyone attacks me, I will break them. I wasn't born nor raised on this planet, nor do I have any high ideals about any of you humans. The reason is because you earthlings are practically the butt monkey of every other advance races in this galaxy, with Earth being considered as nothing more than a primitive backwater planet. You people still believe that there's a being that created the universe specifically having you humans in mind and only cares about you. Talk about big egos. We Saiyans do have big egos but we can back it up. While you humans are just too blind to see what you people really are. Most of your religions are corrupt and only care about controling your population by getting you humans to behave in the way just one person in power, not a god, thinks everyone else should act, using faith as the excuse to act anyway you want, from raping virgins, hating others who don't think as you, to giving all your money to a nut job who says god is talking through them, amongst other idiotic rituals; which is also another symptom of the corruption of your religions that they try to enrich themselves at the expense of the faithful. Some of you won't even believe in anything because it isn't written in a book that no one even knows who the hell wrote it in the first place. Those practices are disgusting and they are illegal according to the laws of the Intergalactic Union Planets, any so called religion that tries to enrich itself at the expense of its flock is not considered a true religion at all and instead gets stamped out for trying to scam innocent people for their own gains. The only ones of your planet's religions that can be considered as such by IUP standards are Budhism, Shintoism…" Pan then stopped in the middle of her tirade in cold and became thoughtful for for a few moments. "Actually, most eastern religions from Asia would qualify as such because they tend to focus in spiritual enlightment instead of material gain, which is what truly is important, and they also don't prey in their followers need for guidance." She declared, pensive.
"Well I don't see the problem with that…" Oro commented from where he was standing, causing the people close to him, which was Ryu and Co. to turn his way. "I am Buddhist myself and the search for spiritual enlightment and centering of oneself is what allowed me to master the secrets of Senjutsu… I've been aware for a long time about the spiritual decay of modern society. I am glad that there's at least an important governing body out there that pays attention to this issue and takes steps to make sure it doesn't go out of control…" He said rather pleased.
Karin just rolled her eyes at the golden-skinned old man, not caring much about his self-satisfaction, instead she turned and adressed the alien girl with a particular curiosity in her mind. "But how does religion plays a part in space politics!?"
"It doesn't…" It was the alien girl's simple answer. "At least not for the most part since the most powerful of the galactic empires take great care of not letting religion get in the way of politics; but hot-spots of trouble do tend to happen from time to time when some new religion-driven movement appears out of nowhere and fanatics try to topple the rightful elected goverment of some planet or another. They are usually fronts for some power-hungry wacko who wants to take control over the world or some other stupid shit. That is why I don't put much stock into religion, because what a real god may want out of mortals is way different than what some priest spouts and says he wants. And let's not get started with misinterpretations or mistranslations since most teachings are just the salvaged incomplete accounts of events that happened many millenia ago and that are written according to the point of view and beliefs of the author, so the actual historical accuracy of such accounts are very spotty at best since different accounts tend, most often than not, to conflict on how certain events played out. It is because of this issues that most of the teachings of any faith tend to be considered just that, teachings. Something that shouldn't be blindly followed or give your whole life for. The only time when this is not so is when regarding relics or knowledged handed personally by the hands of god… Yes… Divinity is a real thing, there are actual Gods and other divine beings that dwell among the stars. My kind has stumbled and held dealings with some of them in the past, despite the great power my race posses, even we take pause to reconsider our course of action when we found ourselves in the presence of one of these beings, survival instincts at work no doubt. Regardless, there's also the fact that several races of the union of planets have undenying proof that they were created personally by a powerful deity. But that means nothing when dealing with other species that care little for such things. Besides, the gods of the universe rarely involve or even pay attention to the affairs of mortals unless it threatens the existence of the universe as a whole, they don't care if a whole planet gets wiped out or an entire species is eradicated. There's a whole divine bureaucratic body in place that sets the responsibilities of each specific deity. The example I just gave about exterminating a planet, would fall on the jurisdiction of the Kami-sama in charge of that planet, and maybe the Kaio-sama in charge of the local galactic cluster if the situation puts at risk several star systems." Pan mused.
"Wait, Kami-sama is real!" Aya said surprised by the news with her eyes almost popping out of her sockets.
That question seemed to stop Pan's train of thought in cold, leaving the alien girl blinking in incomprehension for a moment. When she finally managed to digest the question posed at her, she couldn't help herself from cussing. "Shit! I think I've just said more than I should have… Dammit! This is why I didn't wanted to answer questions personally by myself, for fear of revealing things you people are not ready for… Fuck, fuck! I messed up! I messed up greatly! What the hell I'm supposed to do now!? I ended up doing what I had tried to avoid in the first place! I'm so stupid!" Pan exclaimed in a moment of mild panic as she berated herself for her slip.
"Pan…?" Aya said, taken aback by the reaction of the alien girl.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, don't talk to me! I'm not answering questions anymore! Ask Giru whatever else you might want to know because I'm done! I'm keeping my mouth shut from now on, so look at him for answers while I go to have a little nervous breakdown someplace else…!" She exclaimed before walking out of the stage. "Dammit, I just know making revelations of this magnitude is going to come later to bite me in the ass…" She muttered as she disappeared through one of the emergency exits at the back, leaving a confused audience alone with just the little robot to provide answer.
That is until Chun-Li opened her mouth and made a fake caught to call everybody's attention to herself. "To be fair… I too would be acting like her if I suddenly were left stranded on my own on some far away alien planet and ended up revealing some existencial truths about the nature of the universe to indigenous primitive populace… I guess what she just did must be considered a pretty big issue from were she's from if her reaction is any indication…"
For a moment Giru simply remained there, a sweat-drop hanging from the side of his head-frame at the awkwardness of Pan fleeing away in embarrassment, but it was a testament to his literal nerves of steel that he simply carried on with the conference as if nothing had happened in the first place. "You have no idea, giru… Anyway, giru… I guess you all would want to hear more about the existence of Kami-sama, giru…?"
"Yes, please! Tell us more about Kami-sama…" Karin said, relieved to have an opening to move the conference along and leave the entire awkwardness of what had just transpired behind.
"Very well, giru… From what I've been able to record from the past experiences of Pan's family and friends, a Kami-sama exists in each planet of the universe in charge of the protection and safekeeping of its assigned planet and all living things in them, giru." Giru began, turning back at view screen he was using to show evidence of his statements as images of a very old pointy-eared alien started to appear before being replaced by those of a younger member of the same species, making the entire audience dumb-struck for a few seconds as they started to believe that Kami-sama was an alien. "But don't start freaking out yet, giru. The name of Kami-sama is more of a title than a proof of divinity, giru. It is not necessary for you to be a god in order to assume the position of Kami-sama, giru. Being the most powerful, wise, or elder being on a planet would be enough requirement for you to become the Kami-sama of your world, giru. Even aliens can become Kami-samas of another's species world, as it is the case on the world Pan and I come from, where the Kami-sama in charge is an alien of the same species of Pan's father's sensei, who is also a good friend of her grandfather, giru. But regardless, being a Kami-sama doesn't mean you are an all powerful being, the Saiyans usually had to deal with a Kami-sama every time they had to take over a world, giru. Him and every other self-designated god standing on their way when trying to sell a planet for the WTO, giru. As I had stated previously, some of these Kami-samas were not actual deities, but aliens protecting the world that was giving them shelter or old wise hermits or so, giru. But sometimes Saiyans stumbled and ended up fighting against actual divine beings, which earned them the moniker of renowned God-Killers because of all the Kami-samas they had to kill, giru. But in reality, it is not that much of a daunting task to kill a god, at least those in charge of planets, giru. Since most divine beings are only powerful in relation to the species of their own planet and how much followers believe in them, giru. But to answer your question, yes, your planet most surely has a Kami-sama of its own, giru. But whether that Kami-sama is an alien, old sage or actual divine being; that I cannot say, giru. I only know about the responsibilities of his station and who he has to answer in relation to his place in the greater Divine Hierarchy, giru." The tiny robot chirped.
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In an old temple in the outskirts of Tokyo, three sisters and one young man were taken aback by the news while sitting to eat their meal at a table in front of the television.
The youngest one, reacted by spitting all the food she had on her mouth. "How does he knows that!? That little robot is going to reveal the existence of gods to the entire world! The entire doublet system is going to be in jeopardy!" Skuld said in a panic, taking her hands over her head thinking how much her father Kami-sama is going to flip out and turn heaven upside down once he learns that his existence has been revealed to mortals.
Her elder sister Urd was simply gaping with the noodles she was eating falling off her open mouth. "I really wasn't expecting this when I woke up this morning; I think I need a drink." She said dejected, standing up to go in search of a bottle.
Skuld snapped at her, pointing with her finger. "No! Baka Urd! This is no time for you to get drunk! We have a potential crisis in our hands!"
While the two sisters began to bicker, the remaining one was still rooted to her spot, staring at the TV blankly. Her sometimes boyfriend Keiichi Morisato, turned to her to see if she was ok. "Belldandy, are you alright?"
The voice of his paramour snapped her out her reverie. "Oh? I'm sorry Keiichi, my mind was elsewhere. Yes I am fine, thank you for your concern." She replied with a smile.
"Are you sure are you ok? These are shocking things that this Pan Son and her little robot companion are revealing to the world, I'm not sure how other people will take it. What do you think is going to happen?" He asked, looking at the goddess in disguise.
"Change Keiichi. I can feel a lot of changes are about to come." She said ominously.
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Back in the Todo Institute.-
"So you're saying that the gods are not powerful?" Karin asked feeling a bit disappointed by the answer.
"That depends entirely of the god in question, giru." The tiny robot explained. "Most gods can be separated in two major categories, giru. Planet gods, like the Kami-samas, or Space and Elder gods, giru. The difference being an abysmal scale of power between the two, giru. Most gods that are confined to a planet are only powerful in relation to the native species, space and elder gods however, are in a whole other league and weight class since their powers have been growing steadily for millions of years to the point they can eradicate entire solar systems or even galaxies with apparent ease, giru. Not that surprising in hindsight, since their duties usually entail overseeing over entire clusters of galaxies, giru. It's like those stories you read in books and comics about the star gods of immense power that have total dominion over the universe and can eradicate all living things with a wave of their hands, giru. Well, they are real and you'll do well to fear them, giru." (I)
"Really!?" Karin said with a gulp, since that was some information that she really could have done without.
"Affirmative, but you shouldn't worry too much about them, giru." Giru replied with a nod. "As I have previously stated, the divine bureaucracy keeps them real busy most of the time, giru. It's seems not even the most powerful of the Elder gods are able to stand against paperwork, giru."
"How exactly, is this divine bureaucracy composed?" Chu-Li asks still not unable to believe that the most powerful entity in the universe seems to be paperwork, how come not even the star gods are able to stand against it? No, actually she can fully believe that, having to deal with the dreadful monstrosity time and again in all the time she has spent on Interpol.
"Well, as I stated, each planet has a Kami-sama assigned to it, he and other planet deities hand any crisis pertaining to their homeworld, giru. Above them there's the Kaio-samas, who oversee over entire galaxies and sections of space, giru. Each of the four known Kaio-samas controls a particular quadrant of the known living world, with a fifth Grand Kaio, the Dai Kaio-sama, that supervises the lot of them, giru. They're more powerful than a Kami-sama of course, but not enough to impede the races and species of a galaxy to overpower them if given the chance since they are more like diplomats and administrators rather than warriors, giru. Except for the Dai Kaio, since he is the deity that effectively rules over all the known living universe, giru." Giru explained, showing more images of a short and rotund blue-skinned being dressed in a black suit and wearing sunglasses who apparently lived in a positively tiny planet. By the readings that were being displayed, it seemed that miniature planet had a much higher density than Earth, for it showed that it possessed a gravitatory field ten times greater than that of Earth. The images then changed to show an old white-haired man with a long beard, wearing sunglasses and a suit similar to that of the previous Kaio. "Above the Kaio-samas we have the supreme Kaioshins, now this is where things get interesting, giru. The supreme Kaioshins are the most powerful known deities who have the ultimate duty to protect the universe under their charge, giru. They possess godly powers and live on their respective planets in the Other World, giru. They far outclass the regular Kai as while the lower Kai watch over the living world, the Supreme Kais watch over both the Other World and the living world, giru."
"The other world…?" Ryu asked a little unnerved at what that name might mean.
"The realm of spirits and the dead, giru…" The tiny robot quickly elaborated, landing just how important and powerful the supreme Kaios truly were.
"(Gulp) I see…" Ryu managed to nervously reply.
Giru then continued with his explanation. "The Supreme Kaios, alongside the Gods of Destruction, are the ruling and overseeing class of all of creation, giru. They are ancient, incredibly powerful beings beyond the comprehension of most mortals, giru. How much you ask, well, even the entire Saiyan race would not have been able to even scratch the Kaioshin in charge of their section of space, back during the height of their planet conquering days, giru." That particular revelation didn't set well with most of his audience, as many of them had seen just how powerful Pan was as a simple teenage girl, to think that there was an entire race of space gods out there capable of defeating the whole race of super-men without breaking a sweat. "However, despite their great power the Supreme Kais are inherently good-hearted and/or neutral deities, who seek to do the best to defend the universe, and do not commonly associate with mortals, giru. They are the Gods of Creation who provide the catalyst for life and planets to be born, as opposed to the Gods of Destruction who destroy life and planets, which maintains the balance of the universe, giru. Supreme Kais are able to provide the impetus for planets to be born; also, they will sometimes divide up one planet and increase the number of planets in existence, giru. They even do things like create life-forms, or transplant them from one planet to another, but their basic job is to watch over the numerous planets that exist, giru. Because the number of planets is so very large, the four regular Kai help them out as well, giru. The Supreme Kais only intervene if it appears that the balance between the living world and the other world will crumble, but normally they merely act in an advisory role for new life-forms and do not get involved in mortal affairs if they can help it, giru."
"So there's no danger of them coming here and killing us all any time soon…?" Maya asked, a little relieved that the space gods were not going to suddenly annihilate the entire human race.
"No, giru. That goes against their sacred duties, giru." The tiny robot chirped in reply. The light of his main optic sensor blinking with every word he uttered. "Anyway, finally on top of the supreme Kaioshins we have the Grand Supreme Kai or Dai Kaioshin who is the highest ranking deity in charge of making sure that the universe keeps functioning as it always has while keeping the balance between order and chaos, giru. Other than him there's the elder Kaioshin who is too ancient and old that he has retired from his duties as overseer of the universe and another supreme Kai in charge of overseeing over time, giru. There's supposed to be others above the Dai-Kaioshin, but I barely have any records about them, giru. The Dai-Kaioshin once told Pan's grandfather, Goku…" The image of a smiling gentle-looking man dressed in an orange Gi and sporting a rather strange hairdo, suddenly appeared in the main screen. His apparent gentle demeanor veiled the great power he possessed within, but those expert martial artists present could tell by his posture and bearing that he was one greatly experienced and veteran warrior and certainly not one to be crossed lightly. People like Ryu, Oro and Chun-Li, suddenly became intrigued about Pan's grandfather and wanted to know more about him. "That he is not the one who created the universe, he's just the one who manages it. He said that the gods or goddesses that created the universe went off to do other projects rather than stay and guard over it. He said they're still around, but he doesn't know where they are or what they're doing."
"How is that Pan's grandfather knows the god who is in charge of the universe?" Karin asked a little skeptical. Seriously, just how is it that one man, no matter how powerful, could get in contact with the highest deity in charge of the universe?
For the first time during the entire conference, Giru seemed to take pause before answering a question. "Pan's grandfather… Goku… He… Well… It is a long story… Suffice to say, Pan's grandfather has had a great many deal of adventures since he was a child, giru. Fighting increasingly powerful opponents and dealing over the years with threats serious enough to put the fate of entire worlds and the balance of the whole universe in jeopardy, giru. Not for nothing he received the title of savior of the universe and the most powerful fighter that there is in several dimensions, giru. His deeds and feats the stuff of legends, giru. He has fought aliens, demons, ancient evil entities and even the gods themselves, and despite set-backs and defeats, in the end he managed to trumph over them all, giru. So it is not so surprising that he has a lot of pull in the afterlife, giru. Especially after dying twice in two different ocassions and each time going and impressing a lot of the important deities in charge of the afterlife, from the Kaio in charge of our section of space, to the Grand Kaio in charge of the living world, giru. The reputation he gained for impressing the Kaios is what eventually allowed him to meet the supreme Kaio-shin, giru." Giru explained, much to the utter shock of his audience.
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Back on the temple where the young Norns were living, Skuld was about to have a seizure.
"Oh, Kami-sama! I didn't expected for Pan to be the granddaughter of Son Goku!"
Urd was also shocked by those news. "Son Goku, the winner of the last Afterlife Grand Tournament." She knew about that because Skuld was a fan of that kind of events and she forced her to watch with her a recording of the tournament that she had stole from Peorth. "And the only man to have ever defeated Bills, the god of destruction! Wow, I could never have imagined this girl to be related to such a celebrity!" Even Belldandy was speechless at that news.
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In an elegant office, somewhere in hell where the mainframe for the central supercomputer Nidhogg was located, a beautiful white haired woman with red markings on her face and a striking resemblance to Urd, was grinning with a face-splitting smile in front of a monitor. "Oh, my… This girl is going to bring me so much fun…" The blonde woman standing beside her suddenly started to tremble in fear.
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In another office somewhere were the souls of the dead are processed in the afterlife, a young toddler sitting behind a desk and dressed in traditional blue Chinese clothing with a big silly hat with a pink trim and the words "Jr." emblazoned in it, suddenly spat his pacifier.
"PPPPPPFFFFFT! Ack! No way!" he said staring at the monitor in front of him in dread. "I need to call uncle Yemma!" (II)
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Back in Todo
"What do you mean he has died twice already…!?" Karin exclaimed stupefied, voicing the thoughts of all the listeners.
"There are several mystical and technological means that allow the dead to come back to life, giru." The little robot simply replied unruffled. "Pan's grandfather has fallen in battle in two different occasions, and both times he was brought back through the use of some mystical artifacts that when collected can summon a dragon that can grant any wish asked to him, reviving the dead being one of them, giru. These relics are known as the legendary Dragon Balls, giru." The tiny automaton chirped as she showed the image of seven orange spheres with red stars on their faces, numbering from the number one to seven, the image then change to show a giant and long impressive serpentine dragon.
"Dragonballs?" Nagi asked perplexed as he gaped at the image of the dragon.
Giru simply nooded in reply before chirping his explanation. "Seven mystical balls that when collected summon the eternal dragon Sheng-Long that will grant any of two wishes that you can think of, giru. Money, power, immortality; all these things the Dragon Balls can grant you, giru. The only wishes that the Dragon Balls cannot grant are killing another living being or bringing back to life someone who died by natural causes like disease or old age, giru. After each use, the Dragon Balls will scatter all over our world and lay dormant for six months in order to recharge their energies, giru. During this time they will turn into stone to pass unnoticed and will remain innert even if someone were to find all seven and try to use them, giru."
It was at that moment when Giru was finishing explaining the Dragon Balls that Pan finally returned to the Auditorium. "Okay, I've calmed down a little after a short break, I think the situation can still be salvageable even after the reveal of the existence of Kami-sama…. !..." The alien girl suddenly shut up in cold at seeing the images on the screen that Giru was showing at his audience. "GIRU! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?"
The tiny robot simply chirped his reply unconcernedly. "I'm doing what you told me to and answering all of their questions to the best of my abilities, giru."
"BUT YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THE DRAGON BALLS! THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR CURRENT SITUATION AT HAND!" The alien girl raged in anger.
Giru remained rather unmoved however despite the obvious ire of his owner. "Well, you didn't specified that there were things I wasn't supposed to talk about, the only order you gave me was that I had to answer all and every questions posed to me truthfully, giru. I was simply following to the letter the instructions you gave me, giru." He calmly replied, his head-light blinking with each word he uttered.
Pan was faceplaming, hard by the end of the tiny's robot answer, she needed a few moments to recompose herself before she could speak again. "Just shut up and get down from that stage, you've done enough already…" She pleaded in a tired tone.
"As you wish Pan, giru." The tiny robot said before moving aside and letting the alien girl to take back centerstage. Pan just kept staring at Giru as she took the reins of the conference once more before addressing back to her audience.
"Alright… I'm going to wrap things up already before I end up doing something else that I might regret…"
"But about the…" Sakura began, gesturing towards the images of the Dragonballs in the main screen, but she was interrupted by the alien girl before she was able to finish her sentence.
"Shut up! I don't want to hear any questions about the Dragon Balls, they're irrelevant to the current discussion, plus none of you can get your hands on them since they exist solely in my world which is many galaxies away from here…" A lie that was for sure, but the people of the Earth didn't need to know that other planets had their own Dragon Balls, she didn't wanted the evil elements on this planet to try to hunt for them by attempting to steal from her the secrets for space travel or scourging through the entire Earth in an attempt to find a local version of the Balls. "So they are well beyond your reach, which is how I want it…" She stated before growing silent again, needing a moment to reorganize her thoughts.
"Anyway, the reason why agreed to all this circus in the first place…" Pan said derisively, gesturing to her surroundings in general. "Is because, now that you humans know that aliens are real and the governments of your planet can't cover it up, to inform you where your species stand in the view of the other races out there. You humans are seen as low-lifes, the crazy homeless nut job who everyone avoids because they're weird and are unaware as to how other people looks at them. The Area 51 crash landing is a prime example of this, instead of embracing the fact that there are other life forms out there, the US government covered it up. The crew of that ship died because you humans thought they wanted to take over your world, so instead of letting them call for help, they perished becaused of their wounds and the infections they got from being exposed to the atmosphere of Earth. You're just lucky that the ship was a smuggler vessel whose crew no one missed. The only thing that's keeping your planet out of the lime light is the planet protection act which keeps more advanced races from interfering with lesser races like you humans, and even that law isn't always enforced because space is just damn too big for any species to pay attention to everything that's going on among the stars, so one little back-water is barely deserving of any thought by the more advanced races and galactic empires. But even if that wasn't the case, no race would even bother to try to claim this planet. The reason why is simple really, it's because your planet doesn't have anything that we want that we can't find elsewhere. This planet is the only life baring planet in this area of space with advance life forms. There are other planets around here with life but don't have any self aware races yet. So you humans have nothing to fear about aliens attacking Earth to claim it as theirs. Because it isn't worth the time or money to do so."
"So we're nothing to the other races?" Nagi asks a little stumped.
"That's right, you humans haven't shown anything to make us see your species as anything else. You really need to come together and see yourselves as a single race and not remain apart just because you humans look different from each other. Your kind will never get anywhere like that. And, I should know, I once did a school project on races who wipe themselves out because of the most menial and shallow of reasons like having different skin tones. I am unable to understand you humans and I won't even bother to try. You humans at the rate you're going are gonna' end up wiping yourselves out because of over breeding, killing your own world or warring yourselves to nothing." Pan replied in disdain.
"If you're smarter than we are, then what should we do then?" Aya asks.
Pan made a face at that question. "The hell…!? And why it should fall to me to tell all of you what to do? I'm not responsible for the people of this planet, whatever happens to the lot of you has nothing to do with me. What do I care if you end up killing your own planet and yourselves in the process; although I should probably be concerned a little about the former, seeing as to how I'm stuck in this planet without nowhere to go with you lot. Meh, I am more than capable of living on my own in a nuclear wasteland if I have to, though is going to be a pain in the ass having to go by without inner plumbing, or artificial light and energy… Thank the ancestors that I carry my capsule case with me everywhere I go… Anyhow, you don't need any advice from me to help you solve all the issues that befall your planet, you're more than capable of dealing with them all on your own if you simply got your heads out of your asses and decided to cooperate among yourselves instead of remain divided due to idiotic and shallow notions of pride. We Saiyans are pretty prideful alright, but that's because we can back-up our words with action due to our great power, but you… No… You don't need any help from me, you have the tools and the means to solve your own problems. Technology is not a limitant, you have advanced it far enough as to write it off as a viable excuse for your shortcomings. No, the truth is, you are all responsible for all the problems that weight down your own civilization. And unless you all get your heads in the game, your whole species is going in the same way as the Dodo…" The alien girl said before proceeding to put an end to the conference. "That is all I have to say for the moment, if you excuse me… I have some preparations to do… Like, finding some new place to live since the Japanese Government has impounded my old apartment, you know insignificant things life that…" She sarcastically said as she began to walk away from the stage.
"What are you going to do now?" Mitsuomi asks before she is able to completely leave the auditorium, very concerned about making an enemy out of Pan after what he heard here today.
Pan stopped in her tracks, turned back to look at Mitsuomi, and gave him an evil smile. "Simple, I'm done playing around with you and your gang…"
A couple of days later.-
Pan smirks as she stands among the ruins of Shadaloo HQ. All around her lay the remains of the once powerful criminal organization. The bodies of soldiers littered the ruins as well as the pieces of their broken equipment, ranging from guns, tanks, and even robots. This scene of desolation reminded her of the stories she once heard as a child about her grandfather fighting and destroying the Red Ribbon army all by himself when he was younger then she is now. M. Bison, the leader of Shadaloo glared at her as he tries to keep himself on his feet, his body a bloody mess with most of his bones broken or fractured after challenging Pan into battle. The once proud figure that awed and terrorized the nations of the world having seemingly been brought down low by a sixteen year old girl. Granted, she's an alien from another planet, but that still didn't made the shame feel less. Pan continued to smirk as she raised a hand and blasted Bison down to nothing. The only thing left of him was his trademark hat, which Pan decided to take as a trophy. Giru her robot was with her on her incursion, broadcasting the footage live on the internet, alongside Chun-Li who followed her to witness the destruction of Shadaloo on behalf of the Interpol.
Suddenly the spirit of Bison materialized above the alien girl and began to laugh at her. "HA! HA! HA! HA! Foolish little alien, you thought you could kill me? The great Bison! My Psycho Power makes me Immortal! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Pan just looked at him in confusion for a moment, trying to understand the hell was happening. "What the…? He can turn into a ghost?"
Chun-Li replied with a sigh. "Yes, Bison spirit can survive after he is killed thanks to his Psycho Power. He has several cloned bodies that he can possess in the event he is killed." (III)
Pan bristled in annoyance. "Man, that's cheap. Ah, screw it! I'm not going to bother with this. Giru! You take care of him." She ordered to the little robot.
"Very well Pan, giru." He said, jumping to the front, before opening his hatch to reveal a hose-like vacuum that began to suck the spirit of the leader of Shadaloo, much to the amazement of all.
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
"Well, that takes care of it." Pan said glad it was over and she didn't had to waste any more time in the destroyed base.
"No! What have you done! You've taken my revenge away from me! I'm going to kill you!" Screamed a voice from behind the Saiyan teen. Pan turned around to see a young woman around Chun-li's age dressed in a purple Dudou (a form of Chinese underwear) that snugged her form fitly, long, baggy, off-white colored trousers and purple tights, and long, fingerless gloves, with her hair styled into two horn-like bangs at the top of her head, which appeared to be fastened with pink ribbons. Her name was Juri Han, a psychotic fighter woman who is as vicious as she is sadistic on her attacks, pain and injury on her person cause her to lose her mind and go berserk; making her an increasingly dangerous opponent the longer one fights against her. As a child, she witnessed how Bison killed her parents in front of her eyes, since that day she has been in a quest to avenge her family at any cost, not caring who gets caught in the crossfire. She's been a dangerous rival and opponent for both Chun-Li and Cammy in the past, the Interpol agent knows after knowing her for many years that one day they will have a decisive confrontation with only one of them walking away alive. But despite this, Juri still retains some sense of honor, as in one occasion when she killed the mother of a child as collateral during one of her confrontations with Chun-Li; she spared the life of the boy and left without laying a single finger on him. Juri has served Bison as a minion, waiting for the opportunity to strike him down as he is too strong to be faced head-on, but now that Pan has deprived her from her revenge, she has set her sights on the alien from another world that denied her from accomplishing her goal in life, uncaring whether she stands no chance against her or if she loses her life for facing Pan.
"Juri what are you doing!?" Chun-li tried to dialogue with the crazy woman, but she was sent flying into a wall by a purple blast that Juri tossed at her with a kick.
"Get out of my way, girl-scout! I'm not in the mood to be wasting my time with you! I'm going to kill this alien for having taken my chance to gain my revenge against Bison!" Juri exclaimed closing a fist in rage, her knuckles popping by the pressure.
Pan was amused at the purple clad woman declaration. "You are going to kill me…? And pray tell me, how are you going to that…?" She crossed her arms and goaded the older woman by mocking her. "You may be strong for a human, but that strength is nothing against someone like me; none of your attacks will be able to hurt me." She arrogantly stated, though she was being truthful with her declaration.
"Shut up, I don't care! I'll find a way to bring you down even if it's the last thing I do!" Juri exclaimed in a rage before launching herself at Pan.
"Juri! No!" Chun-Li yelled in dread, seeing the crazed woman charging at the teenage girl with her fist about to connect with Pan's face.
CRACK!
"Aghhhh! Goddammit!" Juri screamed, rearing her pulverized hand back, she ignored the pain, using it instead to fuel her rage and threw another punch with her other fist.
CRACK!
"NNNNNNGH!" Juri again pulled aside another broken limb, and jumped to land a kick at Pan's face to continue with her attack.
CRACK!
"AAAARGH!" Juri managed to land on her last undamaged limb, she was literally on her last leg; she bent her remaining good leg slightly to charge it with all the strength she could muster, before launching what would it be her last kick.
CRACK!
With no more remaining limbs, Juri fell, a broken mess on the floor, her attacks unable to make Pan even blink.
"That was pathetic… have enough yet?" Pan drawled on a bored tone, her comment only making Juri anger to rise even more.
"No! I will never give up! I'll make you pay for taking my revenge away from me!" She screamed from the floor, before trying to get back up despite her broken limbs. She was only successful in standing on her knees before jerking her broken arms to launch a flurry of attacks at Pan, with the only obvious effect of keeping aggravating the condition of her mauled appendices.
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Crackle! Crackle! Crack! Crackle!
Until Pan had enough and stopped both of Juri's destroyed limbs in mid-fly. "That is enough; you're staining my clothes with your blood. Snap out of it, already!" She commanded with authority, before burying her fist in Juri's abdomen, doubling the older woman and making her retch in pain.
"That was completely useless…" Pan said, crossing her arms again. "Though I give you points for trying, at least this was more entertaining than when Takayanagi broke his fist on my face trying to hit me. Anyway, I must say I commend your determination, you're the first human who refuses to back down from me that easily." She declared honestly.
"Shut up! Aaaaaaaaaaaagh!" Juri manages to scream while spitting blood, she has never been in so much pain in her whole life, after that punch she certainly has some of her ribs broken. The immense pain threatened to swallow her whole, and in fact, she didn't do anything to prevent it, she let the pain to consume her mind and fed the rage burning inside her. Snapping completely, she became nothing but a mindless savage, screaming horribly in both unbearable pain and overwhelming rage. The Chi reactor in her fake eye began to glow with a piercing violet light; her entire body was being covered in an eerie purple dark aura as her screams keep rising in intensity. At the apex of her rage, she released an incredible amount of power that burned her surroundings in a ring of purple flames, and with all her might, she launched herself at Pan, who remained immobile at the display, and crashed head-on with her on an epic head-butt so strong that it made the entire place tremble and caused her horn-style hair to came undone and cascade down her shoulders.
All who were witnessing this event through the internet thought that maybe someone had finally found a way to hurt Pan, Juri herself was pretty confident of it. Their assumptions were crushed horribly when Pan began to giggle, a reaction that no one would have expected after being hit by such powerful blow. "Tee..hee.. That tickles…"
Juri herself, even on her mad rampage, was able to show an expression of surprise for a moment before the sound of bones cracking began to be heard again. She reared her head back, as another rush of piercing and overwhelming pain struck her. Millions saw the gruesome sight of Juri fracturing her skull and busting her head open after trying to head-butt Pan, a blast of blood began to spray from out of her shattered forehead and showered Pan's face in the crimson vital liquid.
With no more strenght left, the purple-clad mad woman began to slowly fall backwards to the ground, but Pan catched her by the collar at the last moment, a look of curiosity on her face. "You, seriously just tried to head-butt me? Ok, now I'm impressed…" She licked the blood of Juri that stained the corner of her mouth. "Well I guess this is the end then…?"
Juri could not properly answer her as a haze began to cloud over her eyes, her face totally drenched on her own blood that still continued to pour from the wound in her skull. "Mother… Father… I'm so sorry I could not… avenge your deaths… I was not strong enough…" She wheezed in a barely audible whisper with tears streaming from her eyes. But Pan's senses, much sharper than those of a human, easily picked up her words.
With an unreadable face, Pan pulled Juri towards her and forced the beaten woman to look at her face to face without resistance, not that she could resist much in her broken state. She charged a ball of energy in her other hand and brought it up right in front of Juri's nose.
"Time to finish you off, any last words?" she asked in a pretty nonchalant voice.
Juri glared at her with all the hate she could muster, though it made a pretty pitiful sight with her face soaked in her own blood with tears streaking down her eyes and her hair falling in a mess in front of her. "Screw you…! What is it that you want? You want me to beg? I ain't going to give you the satisfaction. If this is my end, then I'm going to keep fighting you every single step of the way!"
Pan huffed in annoyance. "You're a stubborn one. Even now, with your body broken and your life in my hands, you still try to keep fighting me… mmph…" She cocked her head to a side and looked at Juri with mild piqued interest. She kept staring at her for a moment; the broken crazed woman didn't take her gaze from her and kept looking at Pan right in the eyes during the entire exchange. If these were to be her final moments then she would not show any weakness to her enemy.
The tense moment was suddenly broken when Pan smiled happily and said. "I like those eyes.." before she licked Juri right in the face, slowly with all intent, and cleaned a big wad of blood from the older woman's cheek, a crimson smudge mixed with sweat and tears that she promptly swallowed and savored as if it was a delicious treat. "Mmmph… You taste good; your desperation has a nice flavor to it… I think I like you…" She said before setting the broken woman down in the ground gently, who sported a look of utter confusion, at least it was better that the blatant gaping that a dumb-founded Chun-Li was making at the scene. (IV)
"I must say you really managed to impress me. For a human, you show a lot of potential. I think I'm going to recruit you and turn you into my minion. Isn't that great…!?" Pan said rather cheerfully.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!" Chun-Li screeched in disbelief. "Pan! What's wrong with you!? Juri's a deranged psychopath that doesn't care who she has to kill to achieve her objectives. She's dangerous, unstable and reckless, she's also a wanted criminal that has an arrest order on several countries. What the hell made you think she's prime material for a follower!?"
"And yet, she's the first human that hasn't lost her fighting spirit after going a few minutes against me. Just look at her, I could keep subjecting her to a horrible pain and break every single bone of her body, and she would still refuse to back down and would continue to fight me until her last breath. I like that in her, she has the spirit of a true warrior. Unlike you, who starts shivering and wetting yourself in fear the moment I take a glance at you. Her courage is commendable, if nothing else. Not many can stand against my kind without losing their nerves, so I'm pretty impressed that someone so much weaker than me has such strength of character. You could learn a thing or two from her. I can tell she's going to be so much fun to have around. Besides, what if she's a violent psycho? Most of my Grandpa's friends tried to kill him at one point in the past before he befriended them after defeating them in combat, some of them are not the friendliest of people either, but they have been loyal friends of my family for years." Pan explains in a matter-of-fact tone, finishing with a beaming smile. She crouches over the downed Juri on the floor. "So, what you say? Want to join me and become my minion?"
"Fuck you!" Juri spat at her. "You… denied me of my revenge when you killed Bison! Killing him… and… avenging my family was the only… The only thing that mattered to me... And you took it all away from me! I rather die than become your minion." She wheezed with barely contained hate.
"Oh that!" Pan said dismissively, as if the purple-clad woman's reasons for not joining her were something insignificant. "That is easily rectified. Giru, bring back the soul of Bison inside a containment sphere." She ordered to the small robot.
"Okay, Pan, giru." Giru complied before spitting back a small translucid sphere with a small control panel on a side. Inside the sphere one could clearly see the cramped soul of Bison trying to get out. Pan went and picked up the sphere.
"Many species around the Cosmos have dealt with infestations and hauntings from spirits many times in the past. So many methods have been created to deal with these pesky spirits. The most bothersome of them are put inside these unbreakable spheres as punishment that allow the injured parties to take… retaliations for any slight that these spirits may have caused them. All done with the push of a single button." She said, setting the sphere in one of Juri's demolished hands and pushing one of the buttons in the panel. The spirit of Bison began to scream as several thousand volts of ethereal energy impacted suddenly over him, Juri's gaze suddenly turned pretty far away as she stared at the little sphere. She brought her other broken hand above the sphere, and with the last remnants of her strength, managed to move her demolished index into pushing the button again.
More volts began to rain over Bison, his high-pitched screams telling he must be experiencing a considerable amount of pain. Juri kept pressing the button several times over as a smile began to slowly spread across her messed face. She began to laugh derangedly to herself, a creeping laugh that echoed through the desolated halls of the former main base of operations of Shadaloo, telling much of her deteriorated state of mind. She finally stopped laughing after a while, before looking at Pan with a full-blown smile on her face. "Alright, I'll accept working for you."
Pan replied with a nod. "Good." Before entering in a fit of laughter of her own, Juri joined her in her cackles soon enough, and a seriously weirded out Chun-Li could just stare at them in dread while pressing herself against the wall, trying the best she could to suppress the instinct that was telling him to run the hell away as fast as she could.
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An hour later we found Juri floating placidly inside a machine filled with a clear blue liquid, a rebreather hooked to her face to allow her to breathe. Knowing that she needed to heal Juri from her grievous injuries if she is to serve her well, Pan put her inside a portable healing chamber she carries inside one of her capsules. Chun-Li, amazed at the machine, was inspecting it with avid curiosity while Pan was simply waiting for the machine to finish with its healing cycle.
"Are you sure this machine will cure her from all of her wounds? Most of them are pretty serious, a skull fracture, several broken ribs, tibia fractures and most of the bones of her arms are pulverized. I find it hard to believe that this machine will fix all this in just 45 minutes." Chun-Li said skeptic, listing all of Juri's injuries.
"You seem to believe that the medical advancements found in space are just like the ones here on earth. These are alien procedures remember, out there in space almost all kind of injuries or ailments have a solution, whether be magical or technological. Hell, we can even save a person life even if half his brain is missing thanks to cybernetic implants. This particular chamber has been used by my people for centuries to heal the wounds of Saiyans, even from the brink of death. So have a little faith will you?" Pan lectured a little condescendingly.
"It's that why you carry one of these healing chambers with you?" Chun-Li asked, marveled at the great many things that can be put inside a dynocap.
"Yup, I always carry with me a portable healing chamber just in case. We have other, faster and expeditive healing methods but those are not always ready available. So it's always a good thing to be able to fall back on something already proved to be reliable."
"That is not the only thing you carry on your caps, I wager." Chun-Li figured.
"Right on, like most people on my planet, I carry with me a Cap case filled with many kind of things that could prove useful in case of an emergency." Pan said pulling out her case from inside her T-shirt and opening it. Inside one could see several Dynocaps of different sizes lined up ready to be used. "Let's see, you already saw my healing chamber, here we have my motorcycle, my helicopter, Hover-car, portable laboratory, emergency food supplies…" "
"That's just her regular food storage since she's always ends up devouring with what's inside the refrigerator, giru." Giru deadpanned in his little robot voice.
"Shut up, Giru! Nobody's asking you about my eating habits! Don't you know is rude to babble things about a lady in front of everybody!?" Pan raged in affront.
"There's a lady in here, giru? Where, giru?" The small robot piped back, snidely.
"Ha, Ha, you're such the comedian Giru. Keep up at it and I'll toss you inside the garbage compactor." Pain said in a deceivingly cheerful voice.
"I'll shut up now, giru." Giru acquiesced.
"Good! Now where was I? Oh yes… Communication array, field house…"
"House!? You carry a whole house in one of those things!?" Chun-Li exclaimed mind-boggled by such a thing.
"But of course, I need to have a place where to sleep don't I? Especially after those idiotic government agents raided my apartment and sealed off the place. Luckily with this thing, I only need to find a moderated sized vacant slot and toss it over and Voila! I have a place where to sleep. It's not that shocking really, practically everything can be put inside a cap from where I come from. It can be a house, or an airplane, a boat or a tank. You wouldn't believe how modern military tactics have changed since the introduction of the cap technology, since now armored and mechanized divisions can easily conceal themselves as regular infantry by having the soldiers turning their vehicles into caps and carry them around with them, you can spring an ambush so fast with these things. Also spies and outlaws love to use caps since they allow them to conceal and carry with them fast moving vehicles to make their escape when they're in need of a quick exit. Just think of James Bond carrying a case of these things and being able to pull out a jet or a racing boat at a moment's notice." Pan explained, marveling her audience. (V)
"Sounds pretty cool." Chun-Li admitted, impressed by all the applications that kind of technology could have.
"Yup, anyway moving on… Assembly line, portable gravity chamber…"
"Gravity chamber?"
"We Saiyans train by working out inside one of these chambers that increase its internal gravity hundreds of times above the level that is found here on earth. We are able to easily adapt to the increase in gravity, since we are already used to this kind of conditions as our homeworld has at least 10 times the gravity of earth." Pan explained, nonchalantly.
"It's that why you are so strong, by training in an environment with increased gravity?" Chun-Li inquired with curiosity.
"Yeah, I've spent years training inside one of these chambers while gradually increasing the gravity until reaching a level several hundred higher than that found here on earth. You humans should not try this kind of training method though, unless you know how to control KI to reinforce your body. Otherwise if a normal human tried to use this chamber he could injure himself greatly, his bones would break when trying to do a single jump and continued use of the chamber would put a lot of strain on his heart and circulatory system, causing it to eventually give up under the stress, and at higher levels the blood globes inside your veins will crystallize and plummet down to the ground. So you better not try this unless you have a moderate control of Ki to be able to combat the side effects of high gravity." Pan lectured in a serious tone, not wanting to deal with someone blaming her because some idiot went and almost killed himself for trying to copy her training methods after watching her online.
Chun-Li gulped in nervousness after hearing such gruesome ways she could get hurt. "I'll keep that in mind… Hearing all the things you can put inside of Caps, I'm surprised you didn't have a spaceship stashed in there to get out of our planet as you seem so keen in wanting to do."
Pan hunched over as a cloud of gloominess appeared over her head. "I did had a space-ship in here, a spaceship that I and my aunt build together. But I took it out to perform some upgrades to its systems just before I got myself caught in the accident that sent me in here. If it weren't for my bad luck I wouldn't be stuck in this backwater planet full of primitives in the first place! Please, Gran-Gran! You have to come and take me out of here!" She wailed melodramatically.
Chun-Li could only sweat-drop at the childish display. "Ok, Ok. I'm sorry for having making you remember something you didn't like!" She said trying to appease the alien girl.
They stood in silence from then on, waiting for the healing cycle to end. And soon enough just as Pan had said, Juri came out of the machine as good as new, moving as if she had never broken a single bone and without a single scar marryng her body. Chun-Li eyes were as big as plates after witnessing such miracle of medicine.
"What's up scout-girl? How do you like me now?" Juri said stretching her body to get out the kinks.
"Juri, is that you!? You… You look as if you were never injured in the first place!" Chun-Li said, thinking how this new discovery would revolutionize medicine.
"I know right? I've actually never felt better in my entire life." Juri replied popping her neck.
"Enough of the pleasantries." Said Pan interjecting in the conversation. "Get ready to move on minion! I want to get out of this god-forsaken base already. There are still a lot of people that I know I'm going to end up killing by the end of the day."
Juri snapped a mocking salute, which was at odds with her face-splitting grin. "Aye, aye boss."
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On the deck of the aircraft carrier BlackNoah, Pan was flying over the ship after having uppercuted Rugal, the owner of the vessel, up into the air, only to appear above him to deliver a double fisted down swing that sent him flying back down into the deck with his secretaries Vice and Mature only able to look from a corner in astonishment.
Rugal struggled to get his broken body to stand up again. "No! I will not be defeated by anyone! Not even by an alien girl like you! Now I will show you the real power of a god! Feel the power of the Orochi!" He declared before his body began to be engulfed in a dark aura. His eyes began to shine with a red piercing light, his blonde hair turned compleately white and his skin acquired a sickly yellow tint. His muscles began to bulge with power, the veins of his body looking as if about to burst, Rugal had called upon the powers of the Orochi and had now transformed into his stronger form Omega Rugal.
Pan was not impressed by that display of power, however. "Is that all? I've seen much more impressive transformations than that." She deadpanned, thinking about her own Super-Saiyan transformation that she had achieved when she was a small toddler, she then began to muse if she would ever face an opponent here on earth worthy enough to force her to enter that state.
"Quiet, you curl! I will now show you the full power of a god!" Omega Rugal said launching a massive energy attack at her with only one hand. The attack hit her head on and broke like waves upon rocks withouth ruffling a single of Pan's hair.
"You're done yet? As I had said before, my kind has faced true gods; I have fought and trained in the presence of them! And let me tell you, you're nothing compared to them." She said before disappearing and Omega Rugal suddenly found an arm embedded to the elbow right in his stomach.
"Blergh!" He spit a wad of saliva before toppling over; Pan had defeated his strongest form with only one hit.
"Weak." The alien girl stated with mild disgust. That statement did not set well for the injured pride of Rugal.
"No! I will not be beaten like this! I need more power." Omega Rugal yelled before focusing more dark energy through his body, his brief smile of satisfaction at feeling more power coursing through him turned into shock when his body suddenly began to seize and spasm, unable to hold the new surge of energy and causing him unimaginable pain. "No! What is happening to me?"
"Damn you don't look good, maybe you need to take a time out." Pan said snidely, not actually caring that Rugal was dying as his body couldn't handle the influx of power.
"No! Why is it happening to me! I was so close of commanding the power of the Orochi, EEEEEEEEEEEEERGH!"
"Fool! Someone unworthy like you could never hope to command the power of the Orochi!" A voice said, coming from behind, and from between the darkness of the deck of the BlackNoah, Iori Yagami appeared. "Such power can only belong to me!" He says, mocking the dying Rugal as the power building inside him exploded in a shower of energy from within him and began to roast him alive.
Pan frowned, having enough of listening to his screams and decided to put an end to his suffering, she launched a blast of energy at him. Rugal didn't notice through his screams as he was engulfed by the ball of energy and slammed through the metal plated deck. Explosions began to rock the ship for a moment, and once they had ended, alarms began to blare through the ship, indicating that the stability of its hull had been compromised and was about to sink.
Pan turned towards the newcomer. "So what do you want? You're here to challenge me to a last minute fight as the ship sinks around us, or did you just come here to gloat over Rugal's corpse?"
Iori gave a blunt answer. "The second, I don't particularly like violence and I'm not stupid enough to fight someone who can sink a carrier with just one strike."
Pan accepted that answer with a nod. "Smart, you better get out of here before this ship sinks; otherwise I hope you know how to swim or fly like me."
Iori acknowledged her advice, but before anyone was able to leave, the dark energy of the Orochi came out from the hole that led to Rugal's watery grave and struck towards Yagami, wanting to possess a new host.
"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERGH!"
Iori screamed as his body began to spasm and jerk uncontrollably as the same evil red glint began to shine through his eyes and he began to emanate a thick dark aura, giving Iori a wild evil look. The dark energy had caused him to enter in his riot of the blood state; he whipped towards the two women hiding in the corner and lunged at them savagely before they had time to react, only to be stopped at the last moment by a purple stream of energy that knocked him aside.
"Man what's wrong with this guy, going all crazy all of a sudden?" Juri said, jumping into the scene and ready to do battle against the crazed possessed Iori.
"Pan, he's being possessed by an evil entity, giru." Giru said after scanning the wild man.
"Oh! It sounds things are about to get fun!" Juri said in glee but was forced to move away as the crazed fighter retaliated with a lunge and tried to cut her apart with his bare fingers. Juri found herself hard pressed to avoid being skewered. The demented Iori eventually grew tired of his evasive prey and blasted her away with an energy attack that send Juri flying into the air. The redhead was about to follow up on his attack and intercept the purple clad woman in the air. But Pan appeared floating behind him and elbowed him on the top of his head, knocking him unconscious.
"What a bother." Pan said in a resigned tone, putting the unconscious form of Iori over her shoulders. "C'mon Juri, get over here so we can leave this ship before it sinks." She said towards her minion before turning to the two still freaked out women. "If you two want to leave, you better take a hold of me!" She said as she began to float away with Juri grabbing her from behind.
"Wait, don't leave us in here!" Mature said freaking out, she and her fellow co-secretary jumped towards the alien girl, taking hold of her feet as they flew away while the BlackNoah sinked under the waves. Watching from above the sinking ship, Pan scanned the area making sure that no one made it out of there alive. Finding no trace of life energy, she flew away with her passengers.
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A couple of hours later on a nearby beach.
"Damn my head hurts! What happened?" Iori said waking up in the sand and clutching his head due to the terrible headache that assailed him, he had some trouble in identifying his surroundings due to his rough awakening.
"You were possessed by a dark evil entity and went Feral, giru!" The little robot said helpfully, standing right at Iori's side.
The redheaded man was caught by surprise by that news. "What!? I entered into the riot of the blood? Then how did a got here?" He inquired, his mind finally getting rid of the fog and taking stock of his surroundings.
Giru pointed at Pan who was sitting in the sand a few feet away while overseeing Juri going through a few KI exercises to pass the time. "Pan knocked you out and brought you in here, before you could hurt someone, giru."
Iori accepted that explanation without complaint. "Then I guess I owe her some thanks."
"Yes you do." Pan said turning towards him, signaling Juri to stop. "And you mind explaining us what was all that Orochi stuff while you're at it." She said in a tone that brooked no argument.
So Iori explained her all about the Orochi, how he was an evil entity that existed 1,800 years ago that wanted to wipe out humanity before it was sealed by 3 clans, one of it being Iori's ancestors, and how the creature is able to return to the world by possessing the bodies of those who carry the Orochi bloodline through a state called the riot of the blood that makes an individual turn into a feral and savage berserker able to wield the powers of the Orochi at the cost of running the danger of having the dark entity to take over one's body. He then went to explain how hard it's been to deal through his whole life with that curse and how he has spend years looking for a cure for his condition, unaware that Giru was recording all this and uploading it into the internet.
Pan bristled in annoyance. "Pffft! The answer to your problems is quite simple. You can't wrestle against the Orochi when he tries to take over your body because you are weak, so all of you have to do is get stronger and show that pesky spirit who's boss next time he tries to take control over you."
Iori felt insulted at Pan's blatant dismissal, if things were that simple he would have gotten rid of the toxic influence of the Orochi a long time ago. "What would you know!? A mere human can't just simply fight against the Orochi on his own and hope to win. The answer can't be that simple!" He yelled in outrage back at her.
Pan just huffed at his little outburst. "Do not tell me what can or can't be done. We Saiyans don't like to dance around the issue when there's trouble to deal with. We face the problem head-on and beat the crap out of it. We don't stay crying on the ground believing things are impossible just because we don't have the strenght to face it. Anything that dares threaten us gets a fast and brutal death!" She stated harshly, tossing a quick energy blast at the ocean, the small ball of energy flew several kilometers into the sea before exploding with the force of a nuclear detonation. The sea was pushed away from the blast zone and great winds were expelled from the ground zero as a massive shockwave traveled through the surface of the water and struck the beach where everybody was, threatening to blow away the humans of the group. The sky became alight by the presence of a sudden mini-sun and even the clouds were parted apart by the force behind the impact.
Pan remained unmoved looking at Iori seriously, until the energy died off. "See…? Even a weak human like you could one day do something like that effortlessly with enough training."
Iori got out from the mound of sand were he had been buried and looked up at Pan with subdued respect. "If what you say it's true, then I beg you to teach me how to become strong." He said bowing down until his forehead touched the sands. "I'm not much of a people person as I don't like to be near others. But if you accept me, my life will be yours to command in every way you may want." Maybe he could finally win over the powers of the Orochi and even finally defeat his rival Kyo Kusanagi.
Pan just gave a non-committal grunt. She turned towards Giru. "Well then, it seems I got myself another minion." She addressed Rugal's former secretaries. "And what about you two? You were Rugal secretaries won't you? By Saiyan tradition you two serve me now that I killed your former employer and I could use a pair of secretaries to keep an eye over my business. Or if you want you can chose to challenge me right here and now for your freedom." She drawled in a bored tone as she checked her nails.
"No, that is fine!" Mature said rather quickly. "You did kill our employer, so that leaves us without much anything to do, might as well work for you."
"That and… There's no way in hell we can fight against someone that can throw nuclear blasts from her hands." Vice supplied in a deadpan.
"That too…" Mature agreed thinking they should not try anything to piss Pan off, like revealing that their job as secretaries is just a front for them to spy for the Hakkesshu clan that serves the Orochi and wants to bring about his resurrection. After seeing what Pan can do, Mature is not so sure that even the Orochi himself could defeat her.
"Well then, now that we are all in agreement, I think is time to go… By the way Giru, is there any way that you could keep track over anyone with the Orochi bloodline? I feel we should keep an eye over this business." She asked to her robotic companion.
"Of course Pan, giru. I'll just need a sample of Iori's blood to isolate the genome and I could add the information to my scanners to pin point anyone carrying that gene, giru" Giru chirped helpfully.
Yes, better not to reveal their ties to Hakkesshu, Goenitz can go fuck himself for all she cared, Mature thought. Staying in Pan's good graces would be much better for their continued health.
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The Mishima Financial Group, unofficially known as the Mishima Zaibatsu, is a giant multinational conglomerate headed by Heihachi Mishima. He's a ruthless man who uses his is position and money in the financial world to buy off lawmakers, allowing him to do as he pleases, those who he can't bribe he crushes with his fighting skills. In front of the HQ of Mishima Zaibatsu, Heihachi was on the receiving end of a one sided fight. His arms and legs have been crippled after he hit Pan with his full strength and ended up breaking both of his hands, then he broke his legs trying to kick her, seems someone didn't learned from her fight against Juri, Pan's newest secretaries were standing behind her staring impassively at the beating. Right now Heihachi was being held up by one hand holding his shoulder while the other is slapping his face repeatedly. Each slap not only humiliated him and his ego, but to the horror of the watchers, each of her slaps are breaking his skull.
Well, most of the watchers since the son of Heihachi, Kazuya Mishima, was grinning pretty wickedly and having a mighty fun time from enjoying seeing Heihachi suffering. Already most of his teeth have been knocked loose and his face has swelled up by the broken blood vessels and broken bones. Seeing he was no longer awake, Pan let go of him letting him fall in a broken heap.
"That's it…? Man! That was such a disappointment. He didn't even fight back!" She said as she turned around without looking back, she was about to fly away when she was stopped by Kazuya.
"You're not going to finish him…?" He asked wondering why she didn't end the life of his abhorrent progenitor.
Pan huffed in annoyance. "He's too weak to do anything against me. We Saiyans don't waste our time on weaklings, we gain nothing nor do we become stronger by kicking their asses. Since all he did was just badmouth me and my skills instead of sending his goons against me, I'm just going to leave him broken as a warning not to mess with me. Weaklings should not say things about those that are above him in the food chain if they don't have the strength to back up their words, hopefully this little lesson will remind him of that fact. But by all means, if you feel that his life should be cut short. You're free to do so yourself, I'm not going to stop you; I don't care what those who are so much weaker than me do. Saiyans don't tend to involve themselves in the affairs of the weaklings that move around our feet."
"Really!" Kaguya said intrigued, looking darkly towards the broken body of his father, his hand twitching with the desire of landing the fatal blow. He raised his hand that was suddenly covered in hellish dark fire and held it over the unconscious form of Heihachi Mishima, but after a moment he reconsidered. "No, I will not kill him now." He said putting off the flames. "It's not fun if he cannot see me and despair as I land the final blow. I shall wait until he's healed and break him myself."
Nina Williams interrupted him, appearing suddenly through the window and landing over Heihachi's body. "Whatever, I don't have the same standards like you Kazuya. I don't care how Heihachi dies, only that he's dead." She said before crouching and breaking Heihachi's neck in a single move, the loud sound of bone being snapped resonating throughout the room.
Kazuya didn't look pleased and glared at Nina who returned his glare with one of her own. The two remained locked in a contest of wills for a moment and it appeared that they were about to come to blows when Pan spoke. "Who are you?" She asked looking at the blonde woman with a measuring look.
Nina took a quick glance at Pan before returning her gaze towards Kazuya. She slowly backed off from the next Mishima clan head and approached Pan without taking her gaze from Kazuya in case he tried anything, once she was in front of the alien girl, Nina fully addressed her and introduced herself. "Nina Williams, professional assassin."
"An assassin…?" Pan said curiously. "I had yet to stumble upon your kind during my stay here on earth. I wonder what would be an assassin's stance regarding me." She asked half-musing.
Nina let out a huff in amusement, the question proving much to her humor because of its obvious answer. "I doubt there's an assassin stupid enough in this planet to accept a contract on you. Seeing as you are all but invulnerable to any kind of conventional weaponry, it will be suicide to try to go against you. It has become some of an unspoken rule among those of my profession to make sure not to do anything that could draw your attention towards our business."
Pan put her fingers under Nina's chin and began to examine her features. The blonde woman didn't even blink as Pan turned her head on several directions to appraise her better, she didn't break eye contact during the entire process either. "I like those eyes of yours… The way you stare, it tells me you are strong. Say, now that you killed Heihachi, your contract has been fulfilled isn't it? Your services should be now again for hire to the highest bidder."
"Yes… Why do you ask?" Nina asked, curious.
"I think I want to hire you under my service. I believe having a personal assassin under my beck and call could be useful." Pan said finishing her appraisal and taking her hand off Nina.
"Oh?"
"Why would you need an assassin, mistress?" Vice said from behind Pan, fully in her secretary role.
Withouth looking back, Pan answered in half-ponderment. "I can think of many things why an assassin could come in handy. As I have said, my home galaxy that is under control of the Saiyan Empire is a paradise for outlaws and criminal syndicates. When my Gran-Gran took me on that long year trip through the cosmos, one of the first things he teach me was how to deal with that kind of people and move around in their society. Seeing as how I've been attracting the attention of all the scum of this planet recently, having an assassin could prove useful in dealing with this kind of people when I'm not in the mood or can't be bothered to do it myself. After all, why should I waste my time doing these kind of hits myself when I can assign someone else to do it for me? Besides, I bet she must have connections I could use to alert me when someone is planning to make a move against me. If nothing else she can help me in matters of counter-espionage, after all I suspect many more people are going to try to make a grab over my technology." Both secretaries were left pondering Pan's words, knowing she was likely correct on her assumption.
Pan finally dared to give her secretaries a look. "But the main reason is that I can tell she's strong, for a human of course. I can see she has potential, just look at her eyes! That is the same unyielding stare that Juri had when she faced me, except she has her own on all the time. I like that, it's obvious she will not break easily, even if I had no reasons at all, all I know is that I want her on my side."
She turned back to the assassin in question. "So what you say, care to join my forces?"
Nina gave a cold smile and replied. "I think we can reach an agreement."
Kazuya raised an eyebrow and inquired. "You want her on your side, didn't you just said your kind doesn't trouble with weaklings."
Pan huffed absentmindedly. "We Saiyans despise weakness, but accept that everyone begins as a weakling at some point. Even I wasn't born with the power to fly around throwing nuclear blasts as if they were pebbles, though I could certainly fly but that's another thing entirely, but I did had to start from somewhere. I don't mind that weaklings decide to follow me around; I'm too powerful to care. Just as long as they don't bother me or do something to draw my attention I'm willing to let them go on with their lives, that's how Saiyans rule over the rest of the species in our empire. But if you're going to be part of my forces, then I expect you to push yourself hard and become strong. We are not unreasonable, though, we understand that some species have limitations, some have thresholds over how powerful they can get. We are aware of that kind of facts and don't let it influence our opinion when we are hiring someone under our service, but if you don't follow the pace we set for you, you're going to be left behind."
"Really…" Kazuya smiled with a terrible wicked grin, a flash of red passing through his eye. "Tell me more."
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At the rebuilt HQ of DOATEC, Helena Douglas watched as Pan faced off against Alpha-153. Using the genes of Alpha-152 with several modifications in the design of the new model, the results were the new Alpha being transformed into a powerful inhuman creature. Alpha-153 is the ultimate fighter created by science and the greatest weapon ever made by DOATEC. Unlike the older model, this one has three main upgrades making it much stronger then the last one.
Heavy Skin Weave, strong synthetic fibers thar are woven through the skin, dramatically reducing damage taken from most attacks. These fibers also act as a medi-gel conduit, improving healing. Heavy Muscle Weave, perforating the muscles with micro-fibers to increase overall strength and decrease the potential for muscle damage from exertion. Heavy Bone Weave, by reinforcing the skeleton with a synthetic weave, bones can be made almost unbreakable. In the event of bone trauma, medi-gel conduits allow for bones regeneration in a matter of days. All three made it all but impossible to defeat Alpha-153 in hand-to-hand combat.
Pan flew into the clone ramming into it at hyper-sonic speeds. The result being the clone reduced to nothing but goo. Helena face fell seeing her almost billion dollar project defeated and destroyed in less then a second. Then she quickly ran for her life as Pan, with her bare hands, started breaking down the building by punching or flying through the hardened walls. Making sure all the personnel got out by scanning for Ki signatures, Pan blasted the first floor of the building to pieces letting the whole building fall under its own weight. Helena was left gasping at the ruins of her new HQ, Pan gave her a smirk before taking off.
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Sohaku had tried to run from Pan but was easily caught by her. She had dipped him in the koi pond of his office, almost drowning him, before lifting him out. Pan smirks evily at him before placing two fingers on her forehead and teleported both of them away from Japan, landing on the frozen wastelands of the North Pole, miles away from any human contact. The water on him quickly froze into ice due to the jarring sudden shift into temperature; he could feel his insides crystalizing and turning burning cold. Pan gave him a wave of goodbye before flying off at top speed. Sohaku yelled for her to comeback but his voice was lost in the howling cold winds that raging around him.
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The underground base underneath a mountain of the Illuminati was finally exposed to the outside world. But it wasn't because of the world finding them out. It was that Pan had blown the top levels off with a massive energy blast with the force of a nuke. Gill with his complete control of fire and ice was giving everything he had trying to take down Pan. But she just took everything he dished and more without ever losing that smirk on her face. She grabbed him by his neck and flew up, not stopping in her ascencion until she and Gill were in the darkness of space. Gill tried to hold his breath but a punch to the guts by Pan made him let go and lose all of the air left in his body. Pan seeing him dead, let him go and with a blast of energy, sent him drifting off into the cold void of space, where his power to come back to life was made totally useless.
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In Southtown -
Geese Howard watches as Pan completed her hit list on live TV against the people who sent men to attack her. Making him glad he didn't ordered any of his men try to kidnap her like all the others had. Watching the alien from a warrior race left a deep impression on him. Not many did know the fact that he's a comic book geek. He often wondered what it would be like if there was a real life Superman or something like him in real life, without the comic code or having to keep a plot line good by having said being hold back their full power. Seeing what Pan did made it clear why comic book writers never let Superman use his powers as he should. Any fight would just be too easy for him to win which wouldn't make a very long comic. So the writers have him holding back and not killing anyone so that he would have to take a beating. But Pan showed the world what it'd be like if Superman didn't have a code against killing and did not hold back anything.
"Well Geese, she is powerful." Wolfgang Krauser said over the videophone, his handsome strong features set in an unreadable expression that made impossible to guess what he was thinking.
"There's no way we can beat her." Geese stated, reclining on his seat while taking a drag from his cigar and releasing a puff of smoke.
"That's an understatement. She can move faster than the eye can see, punch as hard as Superman, fly, and fire energy blasts that can bring down entire mountain ranges or wipeout entire cities if given the chance. We're strong, but she's on a whole other level. Good thing that none of our men tried to attack her." Wolfgang said, the corner of is lips lifting a little in a smirk of ironic amusement after seeing many of their rivals in both the economic and political world being crushed by the alien girl in a single day.
"We better make sure to keep it that way." Geese said with outmost seriousness. The future of their organization depended on them not doing anything that could bring the attention of the teenage girl from another world down on themselves. Though that didn't meant they couldn't try to approach her in the future if they were careful enough not to displease her.
"Agreed." Wolfgang said with a nod.
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The next morning at the Todo Academy -
"In less than a day she defeated most of the top fighters in the world." Nagi said after having watched the footage on a laptop that some random student had brought to the classroom. "And recruited many others into her service."
"I'm glad that she's not mad at me." Bob adds in relief, not wishing to face her in combat ever after seeing what she can do pretty effortlessly.
"I'm so dead." Mitsuomi said seeing all those fighters who are more skilled and stronger then he is being defeated, killed or forced into submission.
"Brother, you should ask Pan to forgive you for trying to teach her a lesson in the ill-conceived belief you were stronger than her before she kills you." Takayanagi said accusingly.
"I wouldn't count on it." Maya interjected without taking her attention away from the laptop's screen.
"Pan is an alien, that's true. But she is still a woman and she won't forgive that easily." Aya adds knowingly.
"I'm so dead." Mitsuomi repeated, knowing that at any time she wants Pan can kill him as easily as blowing out a birthday candle. The other students ignored him and turned back to the laptop in order to watch Pan's latest fight, currently being shown through a live feed.
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The broken and bloodied body of Kuroudo Akabane, also known among the denizen of the criminal underworld as Doctor Jackal, fell on a mangled heap at Pan's feet. Despite the horrible wounds that covered his body, Doctor Jackal was beaming a smile of utter joy and happiness.
"Man you really know how to take a beating. That control over shadows of yours was a rather nice trick, but nothing that a good ol' energy blast couldn't solve. But in any case, why did you wanted to challenge me in the first place? Only Akuma has been the only one to seek me out personally to challenge me to a fight and that was before it was revealed that I'm an alien. And while on the subject, why are you so happy? I just kicked your ass so badly and virtually break every single bone in your body." Pan said, raising an eyebrow at Doctor Jackal's apparent happiness for having lost.
"Feh…" The broken man let out a raspy chuckle through his bloodied mouth. "It's not that... I'm happy because I finally found someone who pushed me to my limits… I been for many years searching for a worthy opponent who would allow me to finally discover the limits of my own body. Even though there have been some people who had managed to defeat me in the past, making my life a bit more interesting, none of them have ever strained me so completely as you did. I used all of my most powerful attacks, all the tricks and tactics I know, all of the most esoteric abilities that I possess, and none of them managed to hurt you. Everything that I tried proved useless; I couldn't do anything against you no matter how hard I tried, you were just too strong… And for that I'm happy; I thank you for having allowed me to finally discover my limits." Jackal said laying his head back on the cold pavement, his smile never leaving his face.
Pan turned to look at Doctor Jackal with a measuring stare. "That is a very Saiyan trait you're displaying right now. You remind me of my Grandpa in that aspect…" She trailed off a little, her mind losing itself in remembrance for a moment. "Alright, you know what's coming next don't you…?"
"What?" Asked Doctor Jackal with piqued curiosity.
"You'll have to become one of my minions." Pan said matter-of-factly.
Jackal just gave an amused acknowledgement and smirked. "Sure, why not?"
"Very well, then I guess I'll have to put you inside the healing chamber…"
"No need." Doctor Jackal stated. "I'll be alright on my own, just give me a couple of minutes." And just as he said, Doctor Jackal slowly stood up and dusted himself off. Almost all of the serious wounds inflicted upon him had disappeared, only minor scratches and grime remained.
Pan was mildly impressed by his quick recovery time. "High regeneration capabilities for what I see. You're probably going to become one of my strongest minions by the time I finish with you. Now that we found your limits, I'll make sure to push you beyond them."
Doctor Jackal put his hat back on and straightened it as he grabbed his discarded shirt and flung it over his shoulders. He just smiled at Pan's statement. "Looking forward to it…"
!
In a small café somewhere in Shinjuku, a pair of young men looking at the television hanging from the wall suddenly spat their drinks at the electro domestic.
"Oh, my god, I can't believe Doctor Jackal joined that Pan girl!" A spiky blonde haired young man said in distress.
His companion a brunette haired man with tinted glasses looked horrified for a moment before thinking things through better and grabbed his companion to speak to him in a conspirational tone. "Wait a minute Ginji, maybe this is not so bad. If Doctor Jackal becomes a minion of the alien girl, he will be too far away and busy to ever bother us again."
The blonde guy didn't look that all convinced. "But Ban, didn't you heard what Pan said? She's going to train Doctor Jackal and make him even stronger! And she's going to unleash him on the rest of the world! What is going to happen to the world, Ban!? A lot of people is going to suffer." He exclaimed rather alarmed.
Ban grimaced for just a moment at that thought, before speaking again with resignation. "Well… Better them than us, don't you think…?"
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The next Monday.-
Pan smiled as she raised the school flag early in the morning just before class started. But instead of a flag being raised it was Mitsuomi who was being pulled upward by the back of his boxers. There was already a crowd of students and news reporters watching as the alien schoolgirl who is more powerful then Superman, acts as the school bully.
"Why are you even still coming here?" Mitsuomi asked painfully as he was only being held up by his underwear.
"I need to have something to do all day." Pan said, letting go of the flagpole rope. Juri, already cured of all her wounds, was rolling on the ground laughing and pointing at Mutsuomi. At Pan's side there was a cherry blond 14 year old girl in a very tight leather outfit, sucking a giant lollipop while looking up at Mutsuomi's predicament and giving a salute as if she were honoring the flag. Her name was Kula Diamond, a young girl with ice powers that turned her hair blue. Pan found her inside a liquid filled tube when she raided the NESTS HQ, and discovered the experiments they were doing on her after she killed the leaders of the cartel Igniz and Misty. So she saved her before they re-programmed her mind and brain-washed her to turn her into a mindless enforcer that would be tasked with the mission of hunting and eliminating other test subjects that had managed to escape from NEST laboratories like K' and Maxima.
Having destroyed the organization that had ruined their lives and discovering that Whip was K' sister (or at least her clone) after looking through the NESTS files, the former lab subjects, -that is K, Whip and Maxima- decided to join the alien girl and become her followers as thanks for getting rid of NESTS and saving them from having to live with the risk of being captured and turned in nothing more than mindless drones.
Kula Diamond ended up trailing along too, as she formed an attachment towards Pan after she had got her out of the lab tube, believing her to be some kind of maternal figure or older sister. Having her join her group also caused the robot girl Candy Diamond that, for all intent and purposes, babysits Kula to join her alongside Diana and Foxy. Diana because she sees Kula as if she were her own daughter, and Foxy because she was pragmatic enough to know where the wind was blowing and knew it was time to leave NESTS and jump ship, preferably towards the winning side.
K9999 and Angel, also came along. K9999 joined Pan despite his deep hatred and rivalry against K' because he became dissatisfied with NESTS after learning he is nothing more but a clone of Kyo Kusanagi during the raid. So he decided to join Pan because she's the one who kicked the collective ass of the entire organization and because she's strong and he hopes that by following her he would become strong enough to defeat his rivals K' and Kyo Kusanagi. Even though he hates K', being so close to him gives ample opportunities to annoy him anytime he wants, which is a plus. Also another reason he's here is because of Angel, his only friend, who is only here because she grew bored after Pan destroyed NESTS and decided she could get a lot of fun if she followed Pan along. Seems she was correct in that regard as she is currently rolling on the floor, pointing and laughing at Mutsuomi's predicament alongside K'9999, Maxima and Juri.
The last person to join Pan after she destroyed the NESTS HQ and left their experiments and discoveries to be seized by the government is a man who is simply called nameless, the 9999th clone of K'. Nameless although a loyal enforcer of NESTS decided to follow Pan for a chance to resurrect his love Isolde, after Pan found a cryogenic Pod containing her body. He knelled in front of Pan and confessed his reasons for following NESTS, how she had met Isolde in the infirmary of the NESTS installation on Mars between tests and eventually falling in love with her, how he was sent back to Earth to test his abilities and become an enforcer and assassin for the cartel and eventually learned of the destiny that had befallen Isolde, how she had died during the tests and procedures and her DNA used to create the glove grafted on his hand that allows him to wield the Kusanagi flame. He explained how he had no choice but to follow NESTS every command less he risked Isolde's body to be disposed and waited for a chance to be able to bring her back to life. He offered his life to Pan in exchange of using her technology to find a way to revive her, Pan accepted but told him that it could take time before she's able to bring her back, as her body is too damaged and needs to be healed while in cryo before she's able to graft her DNA back into her. Nameless didn't care and told him that as long as she is able to bring Isolde back, she can do whatever she likes with his life, and since then he's been following her as a loyal subordinate, in the hopes of one day to be reunited with his beloved. None of the others following Pan dares to broach the subject as they are aware of how deep and personal the situation is to Nameless, they would not admit it, but they were actually moved by his plea, even Pan.
But back to the matter at hand.
"You could be doing so much more, like sharing your technology with Earth." Mitsuomi suggested.
"Naaw, this is much more fun. Besides, you we're the one who used to do this all the time. You took over the school, having all the people who stood up to you beaten and never did anything about students who raped the girls you had attacked. So I'm going to be beating you and your gang till' either I'm done with this school or my folks come and pick me up, whatever happens first. And don't think that I'll ever stop. I can live almost a century without getting a single wrinkle on me you know. Don't worry, I won't kill you. If I did, you wouldn't have to face this humiliation everyday at school, and believe, I'll be always there to beat you up. Just like the kids you had beaten up or had it done for you." Pan explains without a single ounce of pity towards his victim.
"This school really allowed him and his gang to do as they pleased?" An overseas reporter asks. With the news of Pan being an alien living in Japan, many other countries have sent people to try to talk to her and the news stations around the world have also been sending their own reporters as well to follow the developing situation.
"Sure." Pan said, having tied the rope keeping Mitsuomi up on the pole. "Follow me and I'll show you the files that the school has about the cover ups they have done to keep its image look clean in the eyes of the public." She said before walking towards the main building.
The oversea reporter followed Pan, only to be stopped by a tall heavily built bald teacher.
"Reporters aren't allowed in school grounds." The educator said authoritatively.
Pan grabbed him by the top of his head and repeatedly slammed him face-first into the brick wall of the school. She didn't stop till she broke pretty much everything on his face and almost knocking all of his teeth out. Once she was satisfied, she dropped him on the ground like trash. She then turned her sights over the other teachers who all stared back at her in fear, before locking her eyes on the head master and walking up to him.
"I'm going to make this very clear. I'm not human at all and my values are completely different from what you humans think is right and what is wrong. I choose this school to go too because of all the fights that happened in here. You see, it's normal for my kind at a young age to fight all the time. I can remember when, I was in grade school at how the teachers would tell us that no killing was allowed while in recess. I personally like how this school is run in the way you and the rest of the staff let the students fight all the time. But then, I learn that you people cover up what truly happens here. Say what you want about my kind, but we never hide the consequences of our own actions." Pan stated seriously, without taking her gaze away from the headmaster.
The old man was about to speak, when Pan grabbed him by the neck with her right hand and brought her left hand to his forehead, her index finger pressing in the middle of his temple. He's seen what she can do with those hands, punching through tank armor like tissue paper or vaporizing entire mountains into nothing.
"Think about it for a moment. If I put anymore pressure into my finger, it will drill into your skull. Just a bit more and you'll either be dead or brain damaged. Sure it's easily repairable from where 'I' come from, but here… So choose your words carefully for I will pierce your brain if I don't like what I hear. So let's hear the facts. You have watched as the students fight each other for years, never caring how many were killed or crippled for life, never caring about the rapes that happened in this school. But I'm sure you have kept records of all the things and crimes that happened in here. So you will give these reporters all the files you have so that they can expose how corrupted this school is, and how your teachers had just stood by for all these years. You all will dishonor yourselves on international television and will face judgement for what you all have done. If not, I will just have to rip out all of your brains out and keep them in jars. And you all will be self aware the whole time. Think about it. Keeping brains alive in jars is somewhat common where I come from; we are able to keep them alive for years even if the brain is already near death. Maybe I'll keep your eyes attached to your brains and put you all in front of a mirror, so you can watch your own suffering while screaming inside your minds for as long as I can make it last. So what will it be?" Pan said smiling sweetly even as the horror of what she has planned for the teachers sank in for all those who had listened. She knows that she must be looking like a callous monster right now in the eyes of the world, but as her uncle Vegeta is fond of saying, sometimes you need to give one good threat to keep the weaklings beneath you in line, less they do sometime stupid that will force you to waste time into killing them all.
"Yes, I'll show them everything." The headmaster stuttered, submitting to her will.
"Good, now be a good dog and show the reporters the crimes that you have allowed to happen in here." Pan said as she waves for a couple of the reporters to follow the head master into the school.
"We're no match for you and you already showed us what you're able to do. What does this prove?" Mitsuomi asks in a dejected tone, and a battered butt after escaping from the flagpole by ripping his own underwear.
"That I'm learning how to act like a human. After all this is a school where people go to learn things and from what I have seen around here, this kind of behavior is pretty normal. So I'm doing what I can to fit in." Pan said shocking everyone, except most of her retinue who simply took the matter on stride.
!
Later that evening at a hotel -
Chun-Li was watching the news, alongside her was Ryu, and to her dismay, behind him was Sakura who had let herself in to see him. The news stations are all over Pan being a real life alien that is staying in Japan. With the nation of the raising sun being shown in a bad light as people around the world are saying it's because of Japan that Pan has a bad view of the human race. With all the things that the school's head-master is being forced to show to the reporters filming it, it's not that far fetch of an accusation.
"Great at this rate everyone is going to bad mouth us." Sakura said depressingly as she sat on the bed next to Ryu.
"Well from what I have heard, the Japanese government is trying to transfer her to another school. This is already turning into a PR nightmare. And it's not like we can stop her from doing what she wants." Chun-Li said as she idly surfed through all the news channels, every single one showing their own take in the latest ocurrences regarding the alien girl.
"She defeated Akuma without even trying." Ryu said, still amazed at that feat.
"I could unleash my full power and she wouldn't even have to put any more effort as she did with Akuma." Oro said as he walked out of the hotel's room's bathroom.
"And she already showed the world how powerful she is by taking out every Shadaloo like organization and top fighters around the world. And that only took her a day to do so... Years of undercover operations and espionage all for nothing…" Chun-Li stated in dismay.
"Maybe we can convince her to become like Superman. She already took care of the problems that your group has been trying to do for years." Sakura said, peeping up with a pointed finger.
"She can't just take the law into her own hands." Chun-Li replied, shooting down that idea.
"Well it's better than her just becoming a bully to torment that Mitsuomi fellow and his friends." Sakura said before smirking mischievously. "Why, worried that if she does become like Superman then there wouldn't be a real need for people like you anymore?"
"That isn't it!" Chun-Li snapped back almost a little too fast.
"Do you have anything to fall back on? I mean beside the fighting tournaments or street fighting?" Sakura asked pointedly but not unreasonably.
"Cut that out!" Chun-Li warned her.
"You can always become wife to Ryu." Oro said causing the two younger adults to blush.
"Marry?" Ryu chokes out nervously, not having expected for the conversation to go that way.
"Yeah, you two do love each other, isn't it?" Sakura smirks mischievously.
"That's it!" Chun-Li shouted as she tosses both Oro and Sakura out of the door and slammed it on their faces.
"Okay, fine! We'll leave you two alone so you can have all the sex you want." Sakura shouted through the closed door.
Ryu and Chun-Li stared at each other as they blush.
!
Japan Kanto Region -
Pan tosses and fiddles with the Imperial Seal in her hand that she had taken from the school that held it. She was flying around when she heard someone screaming. She flew down and saw some boys attacking a girl, who she later found out her name was Chinkyu, she easily beat all of her assailiants badly, leaving them bed-ridden for months with multiple broken bones and fractures. Including the girl who was ordering and commanding the little punks to attack Chinkyu. She then flew with Chinkyu to where her lover Ryofu lives.
"So let me get this straight… Whoever owns this seal rules the schools of Kanto?" Pan asks plainly, barely believing that it could be that easy to take control over most of the renowned fighting schools in the region.
"Yes." Ryofu said holding Chinkyu close to her, who was still shaken from her close rape-attempt.
"Well, then it means I rule Kanto now." Pan laughs, amused at her stroke of luck.
"No, you have to be part of one of the schools first!" Ryofu replied, innerly rather alarmed that the alien girl would suddenly try to take control of all the fighting schools and interfere with their businesses.
"Who cares about that? Besides, I'm the one who can destroy this whole region if I wanted to. Who's going to tell me otherwise?" Pan declared matter-of-factly.
"She has a point." Chinkyu granted as she's more in shock of what she saw Pan do to her attackers than the attempted rape.
"I already rule my school, so why not add more." Pan said after a brief consideration. "It will be just like taking over planets just on a much smaller scale. I can't believe that Japan has schools where students are allowed to fight each other like this. It reminds me of home. I guess, I'll just go and make sure all the schools know who owns them now in Kanto."
Before the two lovers could stop her and tell her differently, she flew out of the window. Both of the girls looked at each other, wondering how the other schools around the region are going to react to this.
!
Mitsuomi found himself in front of a panel of government agents who have been assigned to handle Pan. With her public reveal of the corruption that has been happening at Todo Academy, and after the robot called Giru recorded the confession of the head master of the school while he was forced to reveal everything to overseas reporters. It ended up causing an international uproar that is ruining the image of Japan, as Pan said that she's only acting as she does because she wants to fit in the new society she now finds herself in and from what she has seen at the school, she's just copying what everybody else does.
"Well boy do you have anything to say for yourself?" An old man whose rank is general said as he hurls a glass at Mitsuomi's head that broke on impact.
Mitsuomi has to sit there and take it as he's bound to a chair and has four soldiers all around him aiming their guns at his head. Armed soldiers had burst into his house, shouting he was under arrest and then put a hood over his head before knocking him out and taking him to this place. He was told that if he even fights back he'll be labeled as a terrorist and be shipped off to an off-the-grid prison with no trial. He was told flatly because of his actions, he has no rights as he's the reason why the first official contact with an alien race is going badly. And Pan made it clear that no one on the planet is a match for her or any army. As the people she took down proved that point, because armed forces around the world have been sending Black Ops and Special Forces for years in an attempt to take them down, and each and every one ending in failure. Only for her to just stroll into their bases and kill them off as if she were taking a stroll down the park.
"No." Mitsuomi replied, seeing there's no point in resisting. The government is looking for an escape goat for this PR mess and he's it.
"Good boy, you should know your place. Thanks to you we have an alien more powerful than Superman who thinks acting like you and your gang its normal here in Japan. You and all your members are going to have police records and be facing jail time. We're closing down Todo Academy and we're going to tear it down just to make sure what you and your punk friends did isn't repeated. You're going to admit everything you and your lackeys have done on a public hearing while wearing a dress of Pan's choosing." The general said with finality.
"What!" Mitsuomi shouted out but shut his mouth immediately as the four guns pointing at his head clicked.
"That's what we have to do to get Pan to agree into allowing us to handle the mess you and that school has caused us. She had wanted the school to remain open but agreed to transfer to another school where people don't fight each other for power if we agreed to make you and your friends go to jail and for you to wear a dress at your hearing live on TV. And she also said she doesn't care what we have to do to make it so." The general declared with all the self-assuredness of a man with a clear objective in mind. "And believe me, in order to make sure she doesn't just fly to another country where she might give her advance tech to other nations instead of us, we're going to do what it takes, even if you have to pay for it out of your sorry ass. You got that boy?"
"Yes." Mitsuomi chokes out. "I got it…"
"And as for F we're already raiding their buildings and taking people in. So you'll be able talk with those friends of yours in jail." The general said offhandedly.
From behind the two-way mirror, other important members of the Japanese government and military were witnessing the "interrogation". One of the burocrats present turned towards a screen in which a shadowy figure could be seen.
"Should we expect this debacle to interfere with our plans for the revival of our nation, sir? Will this alien girl get in the way? Our analysis show we do not have the military capacity to stop her if she decides to step in and mess with our plans." The bespectacled figure inquired towards the man in the screen.
"No… According to what preliminar behavioral maps have been able to show, this Son Pan doesn't particularly care if we try to gather power to make our nation strong again, she might even approve of our goals considering the information we have been able to study about her race Darwinian life-style, it is only our under-handed methods that she might have a problem with. So we better continue implementing our plans in secret and keep building our strength until we are ready to move to the next phase and reveal ourselves to the world. As long as we do nothing to draw her attention, we can continue pursuing our goals unimpeded." The figure said, walking out of the shadows to reveal the face of a powerfully built old mand with spiky hair and beard on the screen. His name was Homura Kongou a powerful warrior of an old and impressive bloodline who was secretly the real Prime Minister of the Japanese government and leader of the DIET, and thus controlled every single day-to-day aspect of the entire Japanese society from behind the scenes and public scrutiny. His main goal was rebuilding the lost strength of his nation and bring back the glorious days of Imperial Japan with every single level of the government, from the lowly patrolling police officer, to the great ministers and DIET members, being in-the-known about the end goal.
The bespectacled bureaucrat hidden in shadows simply nodded in acceptance of his superior's words. "As you command, Kongou-sama…"
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Elsewhere -
Pan is looking over the schools of the Kanto region she now controls thanks to the Dragon Seal she obtained. She did a fly by over each of the schools and showed the students the seal before claiming the right to rule all of the schools. She's now at the last of the institutes in Seito, with the four strongest fighters that assit there, plus a young girl that decided to accompany them for her own reasons, standing in front of her.
Kanu who is believed to be the most feared and powerful Toushi around, she even carries the nearly invincible Blue Dragon Crescent Blade from her predecessor; she also has an overwhelming chi. Ryuubi, a klutzy, ditzy bespectacled bookworm with seemingly no combat skills. She can't even swim and even has a fear of homosexuals, wondering if she is homosexual herself, and convinced that Kanu and Chouhi are lesbians who are attracted to her. Chouhi, Ryuubi's best friend and an avid snack-lover, is a tomboy like her friend but has a much better built body than she has. Chou-un who almost always has her eyes closed, posseses silver hair, and carries a Japanese sword. She is arguably the most skilled out of the four. And finally, Koumei, a young girl who is very smart for her age.
"Since, I have the seal and it's clear that none of you fighters of Kanto can beat me. This means all the schools belong to me." Pan simply stated in a matter-of-fact tone, which didn't sit well with most of the warrior girls in front of her.
"Just because you can be shot at without any effect on you, it doesn't mean we can't beat you." Chouhi boasted, confident on her own abilities.
Ryuubi turned and looked at her friend as if she were mentally challenged. "Are you kidding me? She can throw energy blasts with the power of a nuclear bomb as if they were candies! If we piss her off she's going to erase the whole region of Kanto from the map!" She screamed, highly alarmed.
"You better listen to your friend here. You should be really careful not to bother me, less I decide to turn this place into a smoking crater." Pan drawled a little condescending.
"I don't care! I bet we could all beat you in a straight fight!" Chouhi declared, pointing with her finger.
"Oh yeah…?" Pan said as she suddenly grabs Chouhi before shotting up into the sky. Then she flew back down as quickly as she had flown up.
"What did you do to Chouhi?" Ryuubi asks as she, Kanu, Chou-un and Koumei are worried of what might happened to their friend.
"I just stopped at a mile up and let go of her." Pan answers her bluntly.
"YOU WHAT!?" The four shouted in alarm.
Pan jumped up into the air catching Chouhi right before she hit the ground. She gave the shell shock girl a smirk before dropping her onto the dirt, with her landing on her butt. Chouhi was muttering as her life flashed before her eyes.
"Unless you can survive falling from a mile up or have the ability to fly. I don't have to fight anyone. I just have to grab you and fly up into the air then drop you." Pan smirks at the five scared girls in front of her.
"Right you rule." Chou-un said as her eyes are wide open, a rare thing for her.
"Good! And as I told all the other schools no more fights unless I allow it or I will destroy you all." Pan said before she flew off.
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Ryozanpaku Dojo -
The Ryozanpaku Dojo is home to elite fighters who specialize in different styles of martial arts. The dojo is famous for its powerful members and is challenged by other dojos and fighters so often that it charges its challengers for wanting to face its masters in combat and even has a waiting list. But despite this the dojo is always short on money.
Kenichi Shirahima and Miu Furinji are the dojo only two students, who are trained by Hayato Furinji, Miu's grandfather and the undefeated elder of the Ryozanpaku Dojo. He is very tall, very muscular and posses tremendous vitality despite his advanced age. Shino Sakaki who is a 29-year-old master of karate who claims to hold 100 dan. He is a tall musclebound man who is almost always seen wearing a leather jacket and has a long scar that runs horizontally across the bridge of his nose. Apachai Hopachi, who is a 28-year-old master of Muay Thai and is known as the "Death God" of the Muay Thai underworld fighting circuit. He is extremely tall and powerfully built, has tanned skin, and is usually seen wearing a tank top and shorts with bandages wrapped around his hands and feet. Shigure Kosaka, who is a 22-year-old weapons master. She is absurdly beautiful and dresses in a small pink kimono; underneath she wears bandages over her chest and a fundoshi. Kensei Ma, who is a 41-year-old lecherous master of Chinese Kempo. He is very short, balding, and always wears a hat. And Akisame Koetsuji, who is a 38-year-old philosophical Jujitsu master who was the first master willing to train Kenichi. He is an old friend of Miu's father, Saiga. Despite his seemingly small physique, he is known for having muscles built to perfection.
The six masters put Kenichi through a training from hell on a daily basis, which he regularly tends to almost die from. This is so that he wouldn't be weak anymore. But to anyone who saw the training from the outside, it would look like they were trying to kill him. Which is what happened when Pan was flying over the Dojo.
"Alright, all six bad guys are beaten." Pan said, dusting off her hands at the sight of the six beaten masters.
Kenichi Shirahima and Miu Furinji could only stare at the way the alien girl went and beat the masters. They had wanted to stop her but the robot Giru stopped them instead. He created a force field around them keeping them from getting in there and interfering. Hayato is now a pile of broken bones, Shino is embedded into the wall that surrounds the dojo. Apachai is hanging halfway in the wall of the main dojo building, Shigure who is tied with her metal weapons all bended around her body, was left wiggling on the ground trying to break her binds, Kensei was has buried into the ground, and Akisame is lying underneath a stack of bricks.
"They weren't trying to kill me. They were training me!" Kenichi said as he was being held up by Miu due to still bleeding and being bruised by the training.
"Wait, you call that training?" Pan asks in an incredulous tone.
"Yes!" Miu replied.
"Why are you doing it that way?" Pan asked, seriously wanting to know.
"To become stronger!" Kenichi stated as if it were obvious.
"So beating you and breaking your bones makes you stronger?" Pan asked, having a hard time in understanding that logic.
"Yes…" Miu said, her voice trailing off a little knowing how bad that could sound to a third party.
"It's how… we train… students." Shigure said as she's the only one who isn't out cold. With all of her metal weapons being used to bind her, Pan didn't even bothered to knock her out as her unarmed combat skills were not that great compared to the other masters.
"Ryozanpaku goes and beats and breaks their student's bones. Let me guess you two are the only students here, aren't you?" Pan said, turning back to the two.
"Yes…" Both of them replied unsurely at the same time.
"Well folks watching me online, come to the Ryozanpaku dojo, where the teachers will beat you and break your bodies to make you stronger…" Pan said turning to Giru.
"Wait… you're… broadcasting… online?" Shigure asks, with rising horror.
"Yes they are." A policeman said as he and several other officers walk into the grounds. "Ms. Pan broadcasted you beating your own student. You and your friends are under arrest for assault and attempt murder of a minor."
"We're… What?" Shigure asks turning white.
"But every time Kenichi dies from the training, they always restart his heart." Miu declared, naively believing that would exhonerate the masters from all guilt.
"Alright every one heard that. They have legally killed him before by stopping his heart from their so called training. Only to restart his heart to keep him from dying." Pan deadpanned in a plain tone.
"Making a download for the police to use, giru." Giru chirped on the side.
"But you can't arrest them!" Miu said as she watches the police gather the unconscious bodies of the masters and taking them away.
"Sure they can." Pan stated offhand. "Besides, that kind of training from hell doesn't work. If you really want to become stronger you two can become my two first official students."
"Your students?" Both of them ask, rather intrigued by the proposition. They were aware of just how strong she was and wondered if she could teach them to be as strong as her.
"I'll train you the same way as the Turtle Hermit, Kamesennin Muten-Roshi, trained my grandfather and me. Alongside some moves he taught me." Pan said, remembering how the Turtle Hermit helped with her training when she was little.
"You will?" Kenichi asks in surprise.
"But first you need to go with them." Pan said, pointing to the Ambulance attendants coming in with a stretcher.
"Okay!" Kenichi said as he lies down on the stretcher.
"But what about grandpa?" Miu asks, worried for her only living relative.
"He and his friends will have to deal with the justice system of Japan now. Funny how they allow things like this to happen, and only put a stop to it when it's being broadcast live online." Pan said sarcastically. "Well this is Japan after all, where fighters think they can do anything they please since they know how to fight."
"But their training does work." Miu retorted.
"Then why did I beat them?" Pan asked retorically.
"Well, you're just stronger." Miu said as if it was obvious.
"And that strength beats skill when we're talking about my kind of strength." Pan said. "But don't worry. Once, I train both of you in the basics you can reopen this dojo. And train students to learn my race's fighting style. Besides looking around this place, I can tell it has no money coming in does it?"
"No it doesn't…" Miu said, admitting to the sad truth of her dojo.
"And my training isn't trying to kill you every second." Pan stated as she's planning on implementing the same kind of training the Turtle Hermit put her grandfather and uncle through.
!
In a government building, Chun-Li met with her Interpol contact in Japan. With Pan being an alien with technology more advanced than anything that anyone has seen on Earth, agents from most of the governments intelligence agencies of the world have been left running around trying to figure out a way to get her to give them some of her technology since it's clear that force would only have her go on a killing spree.
"With her display of power when she took down all the shadow groups like Shadaloo, it's clear that force can't be used against her. There's no way we can beat her. Even if we do somehow manage to neutralize her or even kill her, all that means is that we killed a high school girl who hasn't been trained to be a soldier. With her being that strong, I fear what a true soldier of her race is like." Chun-Li said in a sour mood.
"Yes and with her claiming that she can live hundreds of years and that her race used to take over whole worlds thirty years ago, there would be a lot of members of her kind, who are from that era, who can wipe out whole races on the planets they take over. Also we have located Akuma." The agent named Carl said, reaching for a file.
"He's still alive?" Chun-Li ask with mild-surprise.
"He's in a coma and almost all of his bones are either broken or cracked. He was found in a forest down a path of broken branches. It's amazing that he's even alive." Carl said looking through the file in his hands.
"And she has shown been able to fire huge energy blasts that can level whole cities." Chun-Li said as she realizes they're all way over their heads.
"Which is why everyone is on their toes now, with her been only a young adult not fully mature yet or grown, we can only take her word on what the adults are like." Carl said straightening his glasses.
"And she's strong enough to do as she pleases; she knows there isn't anyone who can stop her." Chun-Li stated dejected.
"According to Giru, the small robot that's with her, she's acting as she does because it's in her nature as a Saiyan. It seems that untill a young Saiyan reaches the age of maturity around twenty five in our years, that they imprint their behavior on the world around them. Since she came to Japan, and seeing how fighters are able to do what they please, her instinct has modified her behavior to match how she thinks the world works around her." Carl explains pretty interested in the biological and social characteristic of another species outside the planet Earth.
"She just follows her instinct?" Chun-Li asks incredulously.
"Yes, it's a reason why they're able to send babies to other planets to kill off the native species in their past. The child would naturally mimic how the race acts to better blend in. Many times the child would be taken in and raised on that planet. Then once they're old enough, they lose that instinct and begin to wipe out that race. Or when their tails grow in." Carl explained.
"They have tails?" Chun-Li asks in shock.
"Yes, they grow tails once they're older; sometimes they even have them when they're born. Once they have their tails, they're able to transform into giant apes under the light of a full moon," Carl answers.
"You're joking, right?" Chun-Li inquires, not willing to believe something out of a Kaiju movie.
"No, I'm not." Carl replied seriously as he plays a video on the computer. On the screen the image of a male Saiyan transforming into a giant Godzilla size ape was shown. "Giru gave us this video. Pan is still young and hasn't grown a tail yet. Once she does her behavior will change again to that of a normal Saiyan for her age. She will continue to mimic her environment but she will be self aware and no longer just doing it without thinking."
"I see why in movies the aliens just attack. It's much easier than trying to understand them." Chun-Li said, reminding herself not to put human values when thinking about Pan. "I still can't believe she looks like us."
"Actually, according to her since her race is older, we look like her race. Not the other way around." Carl pointed out.
"What's the plan to deal with her?" Chun-Li asks.
"Saiyans only respect power and strength. In her eyes, Pan doesn't see any reason to respect us as none of us can match her. Her race just isn't wired to not seeing anyone who can't back up their words as beneath them. Since she's still young, she can't control it like an adult can. One of the reasons why aliens haven't contacted us according to her is because the values we hold so closely are insults to other races. Like treating others as equals would cause some races to attack us." Carl lectured.
"And we can't even get it together as a whole race yet." Chun-Li mentioned, figuring out another cultural issue.
"Which is why the think tanks are working overtime to figure out a way to win her over, the technology she has displayed, the hover craft, the robot and capsules would advance us by hundreds of years." Carl explains.
"I still can't believe that all of her technology can be compressed into a capsule." Chun-Li declared, having seen it up close and still unable to make heads or tails of how it works.
"That's the reason why we can't do anything that would make her have a bad view on us. She already has a bad view on Japan, which made the other nations who want her technology to plan on everything to give her a good impression on them." Carl stated.
"I'm surprise that government agents haven't tried anything yet." Chun-Li mentioned thinking about the CIA and other agencies.
"I'm sure they are but the fallout of any failed plan would cause them to rethink their plans." Carl replied absentmindedly.
"Good work with that." Chun-Li said, having read the Miki leaks.
"You're being reassigned to keeping an eye on Pan. With your background as a fighter she might respect you enough to answer questions." Carl said, as Pan would only answer questions when she feels like it.
"Just great…" Chun-Li exclaimed, wondering what she has been thrown into this time.
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3 days later.-
Pan is sitting on a makeshift throne (albeit rather grudgingly since she found the whole ensemble to be rather tacky and cliché) with all the fighters that have decided to follow her behind her (with the addition of Sagat, Vega and Balrog since they had tracked her down and decided to make her their new boss as result for defeating them and killing Bison during her raid to Shadaloo HQ, well mainly Sagat who dragged the other two with him.), inside the abandoned building that serves as the main base of operations of the Shinpaku Alliance. Maya, Aya, Nagi, Bob and Takayanagi had also tracked her down and were waiting among the lines of the Shinpaku members. After accepting Kenichi and Miu as her first official disciples, she had them both tell her about their lives, that's how she learned about the Shinpaku Alliance and its objective of ruling over all other schools in Japan, and then the world, and its struggle against the forces of Yomi and Yami after defeating the organization Ragnarok and making some of their members to defect to their side…
Seeing that their objective is the same she's trying to achieve, Pan thinks that maybe it would be a smart thing to have an organization able to deal with all the pesky management once she finishes conquering all of the schools in japan. So here she is now, about to take over as the new head of the Shinpaku Alliance with all the captains and vice-captains present to witness it, none of them raising a single voice of complaint since they are not stupid to try to challenge the girl that defeated all the Ryozanpaku masters easily at the same time. In fact, many of them are rather excited of having her as their new leader, as it will all but assured them to reach their goals and also give them the chance to train under her and become stronger.
Talking about the masters, they are also present in the building as they were let out of prison because Kenichi decided not to press charges against them as he had willingly, on his own volition, decided to go through their training from hell regiment and despite everything that had happened he was still fond of them. That didn't mean that Pan was going to let them walk free without punishment as she had forced them to atone for what they had done to Kenichi by serving as his personal servants and they could not say no since they are not strong enough to oppose her commands. Kenichi wasn't so sure about that decision since for a long time he had looked up and respected the masters, but her little sister Honoka found it an appropriate punishment and was even excited by the prospect, as one could easily figure by turning at her direction and seeing her having brought Apachi and Shigure to their knees in front of her feet and making them bow and beg for forgiveness for what they had done to her brother. It was actually pretty amusing watching the giant man and the heavily armed woman groveling at the little girl's feet.(VI)
"See Nii-chan, I told you I didn't like the way they trained you. You should have paid attention to the words of your little sister! And as for you two… I'm so disappointed in you for what you've done to my Nii-chan." Said the cute little sister of Kenichi in a disdainful posture.
"Please Honoka-chan, forgive us! We do not deserve you! We do not deserve you!" Exclaimed the heavily bandaged Apachi alongside Shigure, bowing on their knees and praising the little girl as if she were the Emperor of Japan.
"Excuse me Honoka-chan, but could you please stop tormenting the masters at least for the moment? It is distressing to see grown adults acting so undignified and we are kinda in the middle of something in here." Miu pleaded cordially to the little girl.
"Don't think you have the right to tell me what to do, you Big Boobs! You are also responsible for what happened to my dear Nii-chan! It is because of you and your big melons that Nii-chan decided to went through that horrible training!" The little girl said in an outrage, pointing at Miu's chest who suddenly went beet-red, Honoka's accusations were so embarrassing that most of the people present had a hard time holding out their laughs.
Kisara was smiling broadly at the little girl antics, up until now, she hadn't had much but a passing acquaintance with Kenichi's little sister, but now that the small child was hanging around them more as of late, she was beginning to like the little brat. The red-head saw this as a chance to torment her rival. "You're right Honoka-chan it's all the fat cow's fault for seducing your brother with those big udders of hers."
Kenichi was practically dying of embarrassment at this point. "Honoka! Will you cut it out, already! Were in the middle of something important in here! What are you doing in here in the first place!?"
"I was worried about you Nii-chan, as you were just allowed to leave the hospital yesterday. So I, as your lovable little sister that cares about you, came here to protect you from anyone trying to harm you like the mean masters did?" Said the little girl in an overly cute pose. "Besides, Pan-sama let me be in here since I asked her for permission."
"What!? Pan! Why didn't you stopped her!?" Kenichi wailed, turning at the alien girl.
"Why should I?" Pan replied instantly without concern. "She's your sister, you deal with her; I don't particularly care if she decides to come along or not. Besides, in Saiyan society, children are rarely scolded by their parents for getting into trouble, if a Saiyan child sets his mind into doing something, the parents don't even bother to lift a single finger to stop them. In fact they actually encourage them to carry on whatever mischief they plan to do with the only condition being to not embarrass the family name by doing something like failing in their endeavor or showing weakness. So if she's able to keep up with our pace, then she's earned her right to be in here." (VII)
That answer didn't particularly thrilled Kenichi who kept raging at his bad fortune for a few more minutes while Honoka was beaming happily that her Nii-chan was not going to be able to get rid of her that easily.
Anyway, back to the proceedings… All the captains were standing at the front of their lined companies facing Pan, they were: Chiaki Yuma a.k.a Thor, Hibiki Kugenin a.k.a Siegfried, Ikki Takeda a.k.a. Takeda The Puncher, Kaname Kugatachi a.k.a. Freya, Kisara Nanjo a.k.a. Valkyrie, Renka Ma, Kozo Ukita a.k.a. Ukita The Thrower, Shiratori a.k.a. White Shadow, with the special attendance of Natsu Tanimoto a.k.a. Hermit, Kagero Sai and Takeda's Sensei James Shiba. Haruo Nijima, the so called Demon King or Alien as Kenichi calls him, was practically groveling at Pan's feet, exhilarated beyond belief for having her join the Shinpaku Alliance.
Pan was only giving him a look of mild contempt. "You're not human, do you?" She asked with a critical eye.
"Pan, my scanners have detected he's an alien too, giru." The little robot said unfazed.
"Ah Ha! I knew you were a demon-faced alien from outer space!" Kenichi exclaimed, pointing with his finger.
"When have I denied being an alien?" Nijima replied unconcerned.
"So he really was an alien?" Miu asked astounded.
"How you got here anyway?" Pan asked with mild curiosity ignoring the antics of her two disciples.
"My ship suffered a malfunction while in transit and I was forced to do an emergency landing in this mud-ball backwater." Nijima answered truthfully.
"So how long have you been stranded in here?" Pan inquired.
"Decades! I've been stuck in this planet since the 50's."
"That long! You look pretty young to be an old man." Miu said in puzzlement.
"My kind has a longer lifespan than yours, just like Pan." Nijima replied off-handedly.
"You know that by accepting me into joining the Shinpaku Alliance, I'm now the new boss of this organization, don't you?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"But of course! Feel free to make yourself at home! Are you hungry! Do you wish an appetizer? Is the weather to your liking? Do you want me to blow you some air?" Nijima said, pulling out a tray filled with sandwiches from hammerspace that he set in front of Pan before pulling out a giant fan and starting to send breezes at the alien girl.
"Nijima, what the hell? You're just going to let her take over without trying any of your ridiculous schemes." Kenichi asked with suspicion, he knew for experience the crazy stunts that the alien student tended to pull in a daily basis, stunts in which he usually ended up cleaning the inevitable messes they brought.
"Rule number one to survive in space Kenichi: Never get in the way of a Saiyan or they will blast you into oblivion." The alien boy stated with an oddly cheerful mood. "On all the time I've spent observing your species in secret, waiting for the perfect chance to find a way back home. This is the closest I have ever been to actually pull it off, with Pan's help, I'm all but assured to eventually have a spaceship in which to get back to my planet, so I will not do anything stupid that will jeopardize this one-in-a-million chance to see my dream come true."
"Smart." Pan said, munching on a sandwich. "Ok, let's end with is, we have things to do. Anyone here being against me taking over this gang and led it towards the conquest of the rest of the schools in Japan…?" Everybody shook their heads no.
"Very well, then that settles it. Any questions?" Pan asked to her new subordinates.
Takeda raised his hand. "Are going to receive training from you?"
"Of course, I will have to devise a proper training regiment to at least teach the basics of my style to all the members of this organization. But that will be just at the level of your usual grunt, you'll have to come to me directly if you want any advanced training; but that could take me a while to plan though. Since I either will have to train you by taking you as a disciple like Kenichi and Miu or I put you under the tutelage of one of my minions once their own trainings are advanced enough."
"Does that mean we'll have to wear those turtle shells?" Takeda inquired, pointing at the Giant turtle shells that every single of Pan's followers behind her were wearing.
"Yup." Pan nodded. "That's part of the basic training."
Takeda nodded, seemingly satisfied by those answers for the moment. Freya took the chance to voice her own inquires after the silver-haired boy. "What would be our next move once we finish taking over all the schools in Japan?" She asked, knowing it was only matter of time before all the schools of the country fell under control of the Shinpaku Alliance now that Pan was their new boss.
Pan tilted her head to a side and brought a finger to her chin in thought. "Eventually, once I finish conquering all the schools of Japan under my rule, I wish to implement a proper Saiyan educational system; make no mistake to think that once this system is in place the fights among schools will stop. The Saiyans schools promote fighting and violence, their system monitors and brooks fights among and between the schools, ranging from individual duels between two people, to all out brawls between the schools involving all their best fighters until only one is left standing to determine the strongest. This system also tracks the personal achivements of every single student and gauge their strengths and skills to determine their places on an overall ranking, granting boons and privileges to those who hold a high position. So if you want to receive the recognition and respect of your peers, you are going to have to bust your ass to reach a high position."
"What kind of privileges?" Ukita asked curious.
"Well besides the expected material rewards, the system also helps the students in achieving their chosen career paths. Back during our planet trading days, the Saiyan educational system helped to determine which Saiyan students would get the best missions, or in case of students from the lower classes, to be considered for being accepted among the warrior class and begin their own careers as planet conquerors. Nowadays, the system stills helps the Saiyan kids to choose a career, only that the choices are different now. With all the underworld contacts that the Saiyan government has, most of the criminal syndicates and bounty hunters guilds rely on our educational system when they decide they need some fresh blood among their ranks. They are not the only ones to do so though, as I have said, since the change of policies on our government and our fully integration in the Union of planets, the intergalactic police has an interest of getting Saiyans among its ranks too. If they can't seem to be able to hire warriors from among the older generation, then they turn towards the new ones in the hope of getting some of them on their side. The armies of several galactic goverments and black ops also follow this same policy, wishing to have promising new Saiyan warriors to help them fight against their enemies. This situation has given birth to an unofficial cold war between all these factions, were spies and double agents are send into our space with the intention of recruting all the promising warriors they can from among our young. Just another everyday aspect of life that is normal on our society." She explained, not too fazed about the moral implications of what she had just revealed since that is how things are for young Saiyans out there in the greater universe.
Most of her audience was left speechless after that revelation, even among Pan's followers with the exception of the most hard-ass like Kazuya, Juri, Sagat or Nina; or those who were savvy enough like Nijima who knows how harsh life in space can be, or Mature, Vice or Foxy who are pragmatic enough to know how the world spins.
"And… how does that help us?" Takeda asked a little uncomfortable for what he had heard.
"Because not all Saiyans choose those options as path careers." Pan continued unfazed. "All these factions can come and wave their reasons at us trying to entice us to work for them, but in the end they can't do nothing to force or influence a Saiyan into making a decision, our choices are only our own and we do whatever we please. Some Saiyans decide to make a career on the blood sports, so they are put in contact with the right promotors and aided in forging themselves a name in these kind of events. Of course that I'll have to adapt the system according to what's available here on earth."
Pan turned her head towards Takeda. "For example, Kenichi told me you want to become a boxer. If you had a high rank on the system then I would have to sponsor your boxing career and get you into contact with the right people to begin making you take your first steps in the boxing arena. Pretty easy right now since most goverments want to please me in anyway they want so I can let them study my technology, should not be that hard for me to convice them to give you a chance of entering in an official competition. Though you'll have to do the rest and not disappoint me, and that's were the heart of the issue lays. Know that this is a pretty harsh and demanding system; it does not coddle the students nor forgive them for their failings. I remember there was a time when I had to do like ten battles per day, everyday for two months straight. And I had to go through them all, no matter how tired or wounded I was. So you must fight hard to get what you want and if you lose, you better make the effort to get back up or others will start walking over you and leave you behind. But know this, those who are at the top have their futured secured, for in Saiyan society, the spoils go to the strongest and if you are strong enough, then there is practically nothing that can be kept out of your reach."
All who were hearing became intrigued by Pan's proposition; this could mean the dawn of a new age of great battles for the fight schools of Japan.
"Man; that sounds so awesome!" Kisara said, grinning broadly.
Nagi was also excited, imagining all the fights to come, after hearing Pan's speech. "Sounds pretty fun! Say Pan, mind if we join your organization?" he asked speaking for the group of Todo.
"You want to join the Shinpaku alliance? Sure why not? I did promise I would train you lot too, might having you helping around while you are at it, even if only to give you something to do." Pan said in ponderment.
However, there were some who still had doubts about this plan of hers. "I don't know Pan. This plan of yours seems like a tall order to actually implement… Wouldn't you end up leaving thousands of normal students without an education since most people cannot hope to compete in our world of fighting and battles?" Takayanagi asked, thinking about the repercusions of completely replacing the Japanese educational system.
"I never said I was going to completely replace the educational system already in place. I said I was going to implement a Saiyan system, which is going to run parallel to the Japanese before I can hopefully one day integrate both of them into a single one. I'm thinking of having it start like another club for any student willing to join, you know like one of those martial arts clubs that already exist." Pan elaborated.
"Ah, your own and personal real-life fight club, huh? Angel commented, finding the entire idea entertaining.
"If you want to see it that way… But I also would need to take over all the martial arts clubs I can for my plan to succeed." Pan replied, growing pensive.
"Okay! So, what are our first orders?" Freya asked, eager to begin already.
"Well, I need to know if you are all worthy of the positions you currently hold. So I want you to go to Kanto and challenge all the schools that are currently under my rule and beat them all as a test of your skills."
"You want us to go to Kanto?" Freya replied, a little surprised of that order.
"Yup, I want you to broaden your horizons and learn that there are many places with strong fighters so that you don't fall in the mistake of believing yourseves the best there is just because you are the strongest around your hometown. The world is much bigger than just this city you know, so I want you to go out there and pick fights against other strong people, just like my grandfather did when he had first left the side of his sensei to begin training on his own…" (VIII)
"What about Yami?" Freya inquired.
"What about them?" Pan retorted raising and eyebrow.
"They are a serious treath to us that we can't simply ignore, what if they decide to attack this city while we are away? They are a danger to the world at large since they wish to initiate a third world war to ensure that they keep what they dub as real martial arts from dying out. They have control over several small rich countries to fund their operations and have large well funded armies to attack any nation that dares oppose them. They and their apprentices from Yomi have been harassing us ever since they attacked and torched most of the dojos around these parts, except for the Ryozanpaku dojo." Freya stated with all seriousness.
"Oh, that!" Pan exclaimed as if there was nothing to be concerned about. "They will be already taken care of by the time you all return from Kanto."
"You're going to strike at Yami." Freya said unsurprised, as she had hoped for a development like this.
"Sort of… I'll let my minions here deal with them, since I didn't let them join me just for show. Besides, they get itchy if they don't have a good fight after a while, so I will let them blow some steam by kicking the asses of both Yami and their students."
Hermit looked at the gathering of notorious and famous warriors around Pan, before speaking for the first time. "Not to insult or put into question the abilities of your followers." He said the most cordially he could, it didn't saved him from some of the stares of the most hardened warriors under Pan's service that began to look at him with warning glares, waiting to crush him like a bug if he as so much said a wrong word. "But Yami is not formed by pushovers; they're all grandmasters of several legendary and deadly arts, each one powerful enough to give Akuma a run for his money."
"I know all there is to know about Yami. Bison had files on them and their dealings with his organization, also your friend Sai here…" Pan motioned towards the tall Goth man who replied with a graceful nod. "Was kind enough to provide us with a great deal of information about Yami from the time he worked for them. So don't worry about it, I may haven't had much time to train my minions, but they are pretty renowned warriors on their own right even before I came to this planet, so I expect them to be on the level. Besides, they are only going to be there in case Yami decides to refuse my offer for them to surrender that I will personally deliver to them." Pan said pretty haughty.
"You're going to give them a chance to surrender?" Hermit asked in surprise, not having expecting that development, but rather obvious in hindsight.
"Why not? They haven't personally done anything against me yet. I have no reason to end their lives even if they are nothing more but a terrorist organization bent to rule the world; that of course could change after I meet them. But in the meantime, I guess I should at least have the decency to give them the chance to stay out of my way." Pan drawled in dismissal.
"And if they refuse…?"
Pan just lifted a finger, a small point of light shining intensely from the tip that iluminated the whole room in a white-bluish light. The light began to grow and expand until becoming a ball of energy the same size as the ones she's know to make explode with the same yield as a nuclear explosion. "They will submit or be destroyed."
Hermit nodded and offered a small bow. "If that is the case, then may I request a small favor?"
Pan tilted her head and tossed a curious glance at hermit, she let her energy ball dissipate, wisps of energy floating around, glowing brightly for a moment before fading away. "Depends, what is it that you wish to ask of me?"
"My master Ma Sugetsu, who taught me Chinese Kempo, is part of Yomi. He's a harsh, cruel, sadistic, uncaring man who has no problem on removing anyone standing in his way and doesn't care who he has to kill to achieve his goals. But despite his failings, I have seeing there's still goodness inside of him. I've been trying for a long time to find a way to convince my master to leave Yami and save him from his inner darkness. That's why I've been aiding both the Shinpaku Alliance and Yomi in order to acomplish this, but so far I've been unsucessful. So I wish to ask you if you could spare my master's life and if possible, bring him back with you." Hermit pleaded in a subdued voice.
"You wish me to bring your master back alive? A man with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, because you believe he can turn into a new leaf…?" Pan said skeptic."You must be either a fool or a truly idealistic fellow, but who am I to tell you what to believe…" She mused, thinking about her grandfather and how he believed in giving second chances to his enemies and refrained from ending their lives if there were other options available. "I suppose I could do what you're asking me since I'm feeling pretty generous right now. But you will have to join my alliance as a full time member in exchange; no more divided loyalties since I will not tolerate any kind of betrayal." She said with some warning.
"I accept those terms." Hermit replied immediatly and without hesitation.
"Good… Very well then, let's get this show on the road." Pan said, getting up from her throne. "You better all get moving; those schools on Kanto are not going to knock themselves out on their own, at least I hope that's not the case if they know what's good for them since I gave them pretty specific instructions to stop their silly interschool fights. Anyway, you all best get on your way, I'll go with my crew to meet the Yami leadership to get them out your hair once and for all. Kenichi, Miu, you two go with the rest to Kanto so that you may also learn something from this experience. I'll meet you all here when you have defeated all the schools in that region." She ordered herding her small army out of the building.
The captains then began to mobilize their companies and carry out the orders given by their new boss.
Well this is the intro of my version of this story, from this moment forward all work will be of my own device, the only remaining things from madhat I will utilize will be Ranma and Rosario x Vampire. And it will be a long time before I implement those things, first I need to keep adding more animes whose theme revolve around fighting schools or certain kind of schools and also there's going to be a small arc of Pan looking for a new place of residence. Since my Pan is a little vexed with the government for raiding her previous home, she will not accept just any residence they may want to offer her. She will find one to her tastes on her own and let the government pay for it. So that will take another arc.
Next Chapter we are going to have the confrontation between Pan's crew and the Yami leaders, with a little surprise thrown to the mix. This may take me a couple of weeks to have it done, Since the Yami/Yomi members are too many and I have to research their fighting styles, strengths and moves.
Also there's going to be an invasion of Soul Society in this version too, but it's going to be months and several dozen chapters before I get to that, there's still much things and arcs I want to get done before that, other ideas I'm working on, and of course, is going to unfold different from Madhat's own version.
In this fic we're going to keep things simple, I don't want to bad-mouth Madhat or anything since he's been kind enough to let me his own work to make a foundation from which to develop my own version of this story. But one thing I sometimes find vexing in his stories is how he nerfs sometimes the characters on his crossovers or diminishes their strengths, giving them limiters and such. Nah, here we are going to keep things straight, if an attack towards Pan is rendered harmless, whether be Ki, Spiritual Energy, Magic, Chakra, Yoki, whatever. It's because her power is so great that she can easily shrug off any kind of attack towards her and overpower anything standing in her way, Pretty much how Goku did in the series since he has fought all kinds of otherworldly, mystic and strange enemies.
Also about Giru's speech, in the latinamerican version of DBGT Giru always finishes all his sentences by saying his name. And whether or not I implement Japanese expressions or suffixes in this fic depends on the character in question. As normally most of the nowadays animes that I get my hands on are in Japanese, I ended up associating certain expressions with a specific character, since I'm depicting them in the manner I'm familiar with about them.
(I) The Chaos gods of Warhammer 40K and the gods of Saint Seiya belong to this category.
(II) In case you don't know, Goku is pretty well connected. He's Pals with everybody of the big honchos in the afterlife; his feats have gathered the attention of the most important beings in the universe. So I doubt anyone connected to the spiritual world no matter where they are will not know of him or his achievements.
(III) This shit is real, Bison can indeed do this. Check his deathbattle against Shao-Kahn for more information.
(IV) In the series, most Saiyans and other alien enemies tended to lick and taste the blood of their enemies when they were splashed by it, just a little detail I decided to add to give attitude to this story.
(V) Just like we saw in the original Dragon Ball series, that is how Bulma and the Red Ribbon Army employed their own caps. Also Bulma always carries with her a case filled with caps, in one episode she loses it and she doesn't waste time to replace it when she had the chance. Since she also helped in Pan's education, I'm sure she drilled the idea of always carrying her cap case with her inside her head. And yes, she has her own gravity chamber, why not? Goku has his own too, only he doesn't break his as regularly as Vegeta does. So pan is pretty well equipped from the get go, she has practically all she could need inside her caps.
(VI) Yes, I'm keeping the Ryozanpaku masters around, whether we like it or not, I'm sure Kenichi would get his masters out of jail and drop the charges against them, since he's a big softie and cares about them, being the good forgiving guy and all. Remember this story is playing it straight and would try to depict the character's personalities as close to the original as possible, except Pan since she was closely trained by Bardock after Goku went on his training trip with Oob and was greatly influenced by him. This doesn't mean the Masters would have it easy since Pan is going to make sure they pay for their mistakes.
(VII) This is my take about how Saiyans raise their children, seeing the interactions between Vegeta and his son Trunks in DBZ. He just didn't give a fuck about the mischiefs the little brat would create, or the troubles he would get into.
(VIII) Just like Goku did after finishing his training with Roshi and going on a training trip throughout the world in preparation for his second Martial Arts Tournaments in the original Dragon Ball. They say you should not go around looking for trouble, but that's exactly what Goku did. He went out there to pick fights with all the bozos he could stumble upon and kicked them in the face. Good times.
PD: As stated previously, I hope you like this revised version of this chapter. I had to lenghten and add some new stuff to some old scenes and completely erase some other stuff since I took notice that Madhat's work can be a little bit too agressive in its depiction and thus rub some people the wrong way. Plus elaborate in some points of view further to give a better overall understanding of the main character's motivations. Hope I did a good job.
Anyway, consider this revised chapter the Christmas gift for you all for this year 2016.
