D/C:I had to fix a couple things. This is a crossover so don't flame me too bad for putting it in DBZ. **Ducks out of the way of the flying fruits and vegetables.** No thank you I'm not hungry. On to the story.

Independence Day

Run Away

'Well she seemed alright by dawns early light

though she looked a little worried and weak

she tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again

but daddy left the proof on her cheek'

Videl scrambled across the floor avoiding another blow from her husband. Gohan stumbled drunk from all the whisky and beer he had taken in over the past hour.

'And I was only eight years old that summer

and I always seemed to be in the way

so I took myself down the fair in town

on the independence day'

"Gohan please stop." Videl cried watching her husband close in on her a beer bottle swinging in his hands. Pan wasn't in the house luckily because she didn't even have any idea about her fathers drinking or his abuse.

'Well word gets around in a small, small town

they said he was a dangerous man

but momma was proud and she stood her ground

she knew she was on the losin' end'

"Where were you last night?" Gohan asked slapping Videl into the wall. "Were you with him again?" He demanded shaking Videl by the shoulders violently. She had her eyes pressed closed but the tears ran down her cheeks and she could smell the liquor on his breath.

'Some folks whispered some folks talked

but everybody looked the other way

and when time ran out there was no one about

on the Independence Day'

"No I wasn't." Videl answered freeing herself. " I would never cheat on you Gohan." He went to slap her again but instead sent several crystal ornaments to the floor from the mantle of their fireplace.

"You lying little whore!" He yelled slapping her again and again. Then suddenly he stopped and began to laugh insanely. "Never mind I don't want to know because I'm going out and you clean this Kami dammed mess up!" Gohan threw his empty bottle onto the ground and walked out the door. Videl fell weakly to the floor and began crying uncontrollably.

'Let freedom ring

Let the one dog sing

Let the whole world know that today is the day of reckoning

Let the weak be strong let them all be wrong

Throw their souls away let the guilty pay it's Independence Day!'

(*Sorry to cut in but if I get any of the words to the song wrong it's because I don't know it too well. Okay back to the story*)

Pan, Goten, Trunks and Marron all came into Pan's house after seeing Spiderman to see several things out of order.

"What the heck happened here?" Pan asked looking around confused. Goten, Trunks and Marron searched all of the house to see if anything had been stolen.

"Everything seems to be here." Trunks told the "crew" as they walked into the living room. Pan gasped as she saw her mother face down on the floor in a pile of broken crystal.

'Well she lit up the sky that forth of July

by the time that the firemen come

they put out the flames and took down some names

sent me to the county home'

"Mom?" Pan whispered in total shock. Goten walked over and turned Videl's body over. Her face was purple, black and blue from all the places Gohan had hit her. The colour drained from Marron's face.

"Oh Kami what happened?" Trunks asked.

"I don't know. She looks like she suffered a pretty bad beating though." Goten answered . "Someone get me a bowl of ice water and a wash cloth." Marron ran into the kitchen.

'Now I ain't sayin' it's right or its wrong

but maybe it's the only way

to talk about your revolution

it's the Independence Day'

Pan felt a sudden gut wrenching pain in her stomach and saw a black and white flash of her father slamming her mother into the wall. She even noticed the drunken haze in his eyes. The glimpse ended with a pain in her head. Goten was rubbing a piece of ice gently over Videl's face. Videl moaned in pain and her eyes fluttered open.

"We need to get out of here." Pan told Trunks with a hint of anger in her voice. "Before he comes back." She whispered.

"Before who comes back Panny?" Trunks asked confused.

"My father Trunks. He did this. And it's not the first time." Pan answered as she stormed off to her bedroom. She pulled her duffle bag from beneath her bed and began to pull out her clothes and belongings into the bag from her drawers. " Marron my mothers duffle bag is under her bed pack it now!" Pan called as she felt two hands slip around her waist. It was Trunks.

"What is it Pan? I've never seen you this scared." He asked. Pan zipped the bag up.

"Something about my dad just isn't right Trunks. He's changed almost as if he was a totally different person."

"So what's your plan?" He could sense fear in his mates voice as well as in her heart.

"I don't know yet." Pan answered. Marron came into Pan's room carrying a bag.

"Goten has Videl and he's flying her to Capsule Corp." Marron said pausing. "I'm going to fly after them. You two had better hurry." She rushed out.

"I'll protect you Pan. I made that clear when we made this bond." He whispered brushing his hand across a bite shaped scar before kissing it. "I promise." Pan picked up her bag.

"Let's go." The left out the front door and flew into the midnight sky towards C.C.

'Let freedom ring

Let the one dog sing

Let the whole world know that today is the day of reckoning

Let the weak be strong let them all be wrong

Throw their souls away let the guilty pay it's Independence Day!'



Well that's the end of the 1st chapter and a lot has already happened. Obviously Gohan has a bit of a drinking problem. Oh here's the ages of all the main characters so far:

Videl~43

Pan~20

Trunks~30 (I wanted him 10 years older than Pan)

Goten~ 29

Gohan~44

Bra~19

Vegeta~68

Those are all the DBZ-GT main characters in this side of the story. Gotta fly so I can write the next chappie. Review time!