CHAPTER 2
***** 1 week later *****
"Let's see if you're right," says Videl.
The family is in the living room. Gohan is watching Videl and Pan as they sit on the couch and his wife is unwrapping the bandages on Pan's arm. The end comes off and Pan's arm looks as if was never touched. Videl's eyes widen slightly.
"Ha. I told you, saiyans heal super fast."
"Alright! Now, we can go train!" Pan exclaims as she throws her fist up into the air, standing on the couch.
"Calm your nerves, you can go to train tomorrow."
"Huh? Okay, mom. Whatever you say. I'm gonna go over to Bra's then and hang out with her since we'll be gone for a while."
Her parents give her a stare.
* sigh * "No, I'm going over there for real this time."
"Well Pan, it'll only be one day."
"Yea, but it'll be a whole year for me."
"Oh, yeah. That's right. Well then, go ahead."
Pan smiles and flies out the door towards Capsule Corps. The two stare at the disappearing figure and Gohan walks closer to his wife. He closes his eyes and wraps his strong arms around Videl's shoulders. He pushes his face into her loose, silky black hair. She holds his wrists as he begins to slowly and slightly rock back and forth. He takes a sniff of her sweet hair and whispers.
"You have no idea how much this is going to hurt me."
Videl eyes show confusion as she stares at the wall.
" A whole year without you."
She makes a small warm smile. "You'll eventually get used to it."
"But I don't want to get used to it."
He kisses her cheek and grabs some of her hair in his mouth. Videl chuckles.
"Well then, I'm guessing you want to make the most of your time left with me, don't you?" she says with a smirk.
"You know me so well."
They both smile and head towards their room to get dressed. An hour later Videl comes out in a sleeveless red, glittering dress that hugs her body tightly with a long slit on both sides of it. She has a low v-neck opening along her neck. Her hair is up in a bun with a few twirled strands of hair hanging from the end of it and along her forehead. Gohan comes out after her in a handsome tux.
"Looks like we're going to our prom again."
"But this will be much better," replies Gohan with a smirk.
They leave arm in arm out the door. ( : ] Hahaha! Gotcha again you hentai freaks! Now get out of my fanfic! Before I come over there and jump you!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~CAPSULE CORP.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pan lands at the entrance to Capsule Corps. She's about to ring the doorbell when she hears someone yelling. She puts her ear to the door to listen better but as soon as she does the door flies open with incredible force.
"Aaaah!"
It smashes her against the wall and plasters her into it.
"Bra! Stop playing around and give it back to me!"
Through the corner of her eyes Pan can see Bra running around the front lawn laughing, with some kind of device in her hand. Trunks is running like a maniac behind her but he still can't match her speed. A little while after him she sees Giru flying around shaking his head at the sight.
"Giru! Will you come over here and help me out!"
The robot spins around startled by the sound and jumps up when he sees Pan.
"Pan-chan, what are you doing back there?"
"I'm getting a tan. What does it look like I'm doing?! Get me out of here!"
The frightened robot comes next to her and shoots a laser around her to loosen the wall trapping her. She jumps down and dusts herself off.
"Thanks"
"Truuuunks! Get off of me!"
Pan looks up to see Bra pinned down in the grass by Trunks who's kneeling on top of her. He grabs the device from Bra's hand and gives a triumphant laugh. He marches off into the house.
"Hi, Pan. Bye, Pan."
"Stupid baka, hitting me with a ki ball like that, now I have to change shirts. Oh, Pan. When did you get here?"
"A second before you smashed me into the wall" Pan answers sarcastically and pointing her thumb behind her.
Bra looks around her friend to see a large imprint of her in the wall. She nervously laughs.
"Oh, sorry about that. Didn't know you were there. Why don't we just go inside so I can change?"
"Fine."
The two entered the building. Pan lowered her ki as she felt Vegeta's in the kitchen. Bra continued to walk up the stairs but Pan didn't follow her. She snuck up to the doorway of the kitchen and peeked inside. Vegeta was bended over into the fridge getting stuff out of it. Pan's eyes turned to her left behind Vegeta and almost drooled. On the counter behind the pure-breed saiyan was a saiyan-made 3-foot long sub with everything on it. Her eyes sparkled and she ached for that sandwich badly. She needed to be VERY careful though, if the saiyan prince caught her stealing his food red handed she was sure she would be dead. She had to get it quick and get out of there before he even turned around. He would hear and smell her if she got anywhere nearby though. She thought of something. She ran outside and started to form a pink ki bubble around her. It contracted and shrank tightly around her body.
Ha. With this barrier around me Vegeta wouldn't be able to sense or smell me.
She had made this move up a while ago to hide herself from her parents but now she found the best reason. She floated up into the air and crept beside the doorway again.
Good. He's still in the fridge. This should be easy.
Pan slowly and gently flew towards the delicacy. She lowered her hands down to pick up the sub and looked towards Vegeta. She was right behind him, she had to get that sub and herself out of there right now before he even started to turn around. She snatched the sandwich and flew at top speed up the stairs into Bra's room. Bra shrieked as a blur flew in and Pan covered her mouth and told her to be quiet before she could continue. She nodded and Pan took her hand off her friend's mouth.
"Why'd you do that? Where were you? And what is that pink stuff on you?"
Pan smiled a big grin and showed her prize to her. The blue-haired girl still didn't understand what was the big deal.
In the kitchen, Vegeta finally got his head out of the fridge with his arms full of random food items. He set them down on the counter and grabbed for his sub. After missing a few times he finally looked to see that the only thing left on the plate were crumbs.
"WHAT THE?!" Vegeta's ki arose quickly and he finally yelled. "WHERE"S MY SUB!!!"
Bra heard her father and finally realized why Pan was so proud.
"Are you crazy?! He's going to kill you!"
Pan shrieked as she heard Vegeta running up the stairs, his ki in a flare. She quickly touched Bra letting the pink ooze cover her as well. Bra squirmed and screamed as the pink gunk engulfed her body. Pan held her friend's arm and flew out the window at her max speed. The females' speeds were far too great for any of the other Z fighters, even for Goku and Vegeta. Vegeta ran into the room just as he saw the two figures disappear in the sky. He gritted his teeth with anger.
"You'll pay for stealing the food of the saiyan prince you dumb lower class brat!"
He retreated back down the stairs to eat the rest of the junk he took out. When he passed by the lab room Trunks stuck his head out to look at his father. He had heard everything. He shook his head.
"If Pan were a boy, I'd say she really had some balls to do that."
He went back into the room to continue whatever he was working on.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SATAN CITY PARK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Do you have any idea that you could've gotten yourself killed back there?" asked Bra as she sat next to Pan on a bench with her arms crossed and an annoyed expression on her face.
Pan just smiled and continued to eat her masterpiece of theft.
*sigh* "You're incredible and crazy, I still can't believe you did that."
Pan finished her meal, gave a sigh of joy and lay down on the grass rubbing her stomach.
"Well now that you're done, mind telling me why you decided to come over? And please don't tell me it was just to steal my dad's food."
Pan softly chuckled. "No, that's not why. I came by to tell you what I'm going to be doing tomorrow."
"Go on."
"Anyway, my dad and I are going into Room of Spirit and Time to train."
"You mean that room where a year goes by in only one day here?" asked Bra, very interested.
"Yup. We're going to try and make me transform into a super saiyan."
"Wow! Cool! You'll be the first girl super saiyan in the universe!" Bra exclaimed very excited.
Pan stopped to think about this. She had never taken that into consideration before. A smirk grew on her face.
Looks like the Son family legacy will go on.
Bra was waving a hand in front of Pan's face trying to get her attention. Suddenly she snapped back.
"Huh? What?"
Bra lightly giggled. "Welcome back to reality."
"Sorry, I was just thinking."
"Man, your going to be a super saiyan, that's wild. This sucks!"
"What? Which one is your answer then?"
"Sorry. I don't mean you going into super saiyan. I just want to start training."
"Well then, why don't you?" asked Pan excited at the thought of her and her friend having an incredible sparring match together.
"For the same reason why I didn't start when you did."
Pan looked at her confused. Bra lay down along the bench and continued.
"My mom wouldn't let my dad train me when he was about to. She said that she already had Trunks training so that they didn't need both of their kids to be occupied with it. She wanted at least one of the saiyans in the Dragon Ball gang to live a normal and peaceful life. Yea, right."
Pan looked at her best friend with concern. She never knew why she didn't train. She always thought that she just didn't want to.
"I've always wanted to fight. I was always jealous when you guys went out to fight someone. At least my mom let dad teach me how to fly."
A smirk started on Bra's face.
"Of course my dad did teach me how to control my ki when she wasn't looking."
Suddenly Pan stood up and looked at her.
"Bra, you need to tell your mom how you feel! You're a saiyan, you'll eventually start fighting anyway. You need to make your mom know that her efforts didn't go her way. If you want, I'll go with you!"
"HA!"
"What's so funny?" Bra was still giggling while she began to talk. "I think I will do what you said Pan… *snicker* but you just said that you'll come with me!"
"And?"
"Do you really think you'll be able to get anywhere near my house after what you did?"
Bra completely started cracking up on the ground. Pan looks down at her and remembers. She sticks her hand behind her head and gives the Son grin.
"Oops. I forgot."
"Yea, I bet you did." Bra replied after finally regaining her control.
The sun was starting to come down and the sky began to turn pink.
"Man, it's already getting dark? Well, I'd better go home."
"Alright, thanks for the advice Pan. When you get out of there I should be already training." she said with a smirk.
"Good. I've always wanted to spar with you."
"In time."
The two friends clasped their right hands together leaned over as if they were going to face off, and stared each other dead in the eye with a dark, evil smirk on their face. They had created this just for themselves when they were little. It always scared away anyone nearby, as it just did. They broke apart and gave each other a two-finger salute as they parted for their own homes.
"Mom! Dad! I'm home!"
Pan walked into her home only to find that no one was there. She walked into the kitchen and saw a note on the fridge. She took it and read:
Pan, your mother and I went out. Go to your
grandmother's house for dinner. We'll
be back later. P.S. We'll leave tomorrow at noon.
Love, Dad and Mom.
Pan threw the note away and left towards her grandparents' home nearby.
A knock was heard on the Son family door.
"I'll get it!" cried Goten as he jumped the couch towards the door.
"It's probably Pan, Goten." ChiChi shouted at her son as she was putting the final touches onto the dinner. Goten opened the door to find his niece on the other side.
"Wazzup, kid?"
"Nothing Uncle Goten. Just wanna eat."
"Well then, if you want, come over here and eat already!"
The two saiyans run towards the table and jump into their seats ready for the first plate to be uncovered. ChiChi leans over and quickly opens the main dish. The half-breed and quarter-breed immediately stick their forks into the giant bowl. ChiChi just sits quietly at her chair eating slowly. She had already served herself in advance knowing she had to if she wanted to eat anything she cooked. Plate after plate pile up on the table until finally, the whole table's full with them and the two hybrids lean back in their chairs full.
"Aaaa… that was great."
"Good, because now that you two are done, you can help me clean up."
"…WHAT?!"
Somewhere deep in the forest around both of the Son residences, Videl and Gohan are slowly walking through the lush greenery that extends as far as the eye can see. They had just left a fancy restaurant and decided to take a stroll in their "backyard". They were heading towards a beautiful spot that Gohan knew well. He smiled as they got closer to it and he put his arm around Videl's shoulders. Finally, he stopped. She looked at him and he looked back at her. Then, he pulled some ferns out from in front of them and Videl gasped. Before her stood one of nature's homemade paradises. It was beautiful. Everything in it was magnificent. As she took in the sight she noticed everything in it that made it unbelievable. There was a large meadow with a small lake to the side. Bringing water to it was a waterfall from the side of a cliff. There was a stream from the lake that led out of the area. Flowers surrounded the edge of it all, from roses and tulips to daisies and sunflowers, how they all grew in the same spot was a mystery. The whole area was a large clearing, with tall tress making a roof-like canopy above. The branches and leaves still left openings that made the lake look as if it were sparkling from the crescent moon's light. (Dende was having a hard time controlling the tides and beach breezes so he brought back the moon. But, to avoid any oozaru transformations, he made it so that it would never show as a full moon.) The whole sight was incredible to see.
"Gohan, I didn't know there was a place like this in the forest. It's so beautiful."
"Yeah, it is isn't it? Well, let's not just look at it, let's go inside." Gohan replied with a smile.
They walked over to the side of the lake and sat on a boulder. As Gohan rested his arms on Videl's hips, they stared at the glittering water below them.
They gazed in silence until Gohan finally said, " I'm so anxious to get into the room tomorrow and train with Pan, but…"
Gohan frowned slightly for a moment and Videl saw this in their reflection. She gently held Gohan's hand when he decided to continue.
" I also can't wait to get back out and be with you again. A year's too long without you."
"Gohan, don't worry. You two will be so occupied and focused with your training, that you'll be out of there sooner than you know it. Besides, if you want-I'm sure you didn't think of this or you forgot- but you can talk with me telepathically with me whenever you want." Gohan's head jumped up with this new realization.
"Hey! You're right! I can't believe I completely forgot about that! Of course, it might become an annoyance to you after a while."
"Why do you say that?" Videl asked when she turned her head to see his answer.
"Well, I going to be talking to you while there's a whole year happening with me, but it'll only be a day with you so who knows how much time is going to between each conversation on the outside. For all I know, ten seconds after one conversation, we'll be having another!"
"Well, then I won't be doing anything important tomorrow. Except of course, maybe a massage and a nice couple of hours in a spa. We can talk all we want then."
"Yeah, I'll bet you would like that wouldn't you?"
"You know it."
A small, cool breeze set up and ripples began to form in the water. The new air brought a tiny shiver on Videl.
"Maybe we should go now, it's gonna get cold soon and we should go to sleep as well."
"Alright," Videl was already getting up with Gohan.
"Pan should already be back home too. But,"
She pulls Gohan towards her until their eyes are equal.
"I'm not going anywhere until you promise me you're going to take me here more often. Deal?"
Gohan gave a smirk. "Deal."
They leave arm in arm again but then get a ride from a passing by Nimbus instead.
"That was cruel and unusual punishment."
Goten and Pan had just finished the dishes with ChiChi and walked over to the living room to plop themselves on the couches.
"I have a new-found respect for Mom and Grandma. They have their own strength to do that everyday."
They lay on the couch, their limbs looking as limp as if they had been through a long fight.
"Oh will you two stop exaggerating! It wasn't even that bad! You're acting like you're dying!"
She doesn't hear any response from the two and look to see what they were doing. Her jaw opened, as she couldn't believe what she saw. The two saiyans were knocked out cold. She gently slapped their faces but they weren't affected. She softly chuckled to herself as she couldn't understand how these two could fight for hours and still want more but couldn't wash some dishes for less than 30 minutes without passing out. She wasn't even going to try and figure that riddle out. She headed for the phone and hoped Gohan and Videl were back already.
Videl and Gohan had just stepped into the house laughing at some previous joke or memory. They slowly stopped and began relaxing on the couch. Videl gets back up to find Pan but fails.
"It looks like Pan hasn't got back yet."
"Really? Can you call my mom to make sure she's over there?"
Videl walked over to the phone and almost had her hand on it when it started to ring.
"Ah!" Videl jumped in surprise at this coincidence while Gohan laughed.
She gave him a slightly cold glare that stopped him but he still held small chuckles that at times slipped out. Videl continued to pick up the telephone and answered.
"Hello?"
"Videl? That you?"
"Yeah, you scared me ChiChi, I was just about to call you when the phone rang."
"Oh, sorry. Anyways, just called to tell you that Pan may be getting over there a little later. Both her and Goten are knocked out over here."
"Really? Were they sparring together earlier?"
"Haha! No! You want to know why they're exhausted? I put them to work on washing dishes after dinner!"
"What? Are you kidding me?"
"Nope, as soon as they were done they fell on the couch and…oh wait. Pan just woke up now."
"Can you tell her to come and head back already, and to quit exaggerating."
"Sure thing. Well, see you later then. Oh, and tell Gohan I can hear him laughing back there."
"Oh, don't worry. I'm going to take care of him soon enough."
"Alright, bye." ChiChi ended in a laugh.
Videl hung up and headed over to the still chuckling Gohan with her arms folded.
"Gohan, I swear, if you don't shut up!" yells Videl in half annoyance and laughter as she pulls a couch pillow and begins smacking Gohan with it. He tries to block her hits still laughing tremendously.
"My gosh! It wasn't even that funny!"
*yawn*
"Pan, maybe you should wait 'til you're more awake before you go."
"I'll be fine. Besides, it's not long. Bye."
Pan set off into the air and headed full speed towards her home. She decided to slow down a bit, as she sensed a presence. It wasn't that someone was heading towards her; she just felt a presence all around her. She had a pretty good guess what it was.
"Come on, show yourself, I know it's you."
Answering her request, light particles began to shine and form the figure again. Pan smiled as she saw his eyes again, she just loved the way they were.
"Well, hi again. I was wondering, are we going to be able to talk normally now, or will it still have to be mysterious?"
The being smiled, "These moments aren't telephone lines. They're for letting you prepare for what lies ahead."
Pan gave a confused look, " 'for what lies ahead'? What do you mean? Is something going to be happening to me? And while we're on the subject, what were you talking about when you said 'Soon' last time, huh? Or is that something that you can't tell me either?"
"You and your friends will find out exactly what's going on very soon. But, I'm telling you now so that you know you need to train extremely hard to get ready. In some way, hint to your father that your training with him needs to be in the highest level. It would be good if your father started training for this too."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you talking about? Is there going to be some fight soon? Who's coming here? And how in the world do you know?"
His smile faded as his body began to do the same.
"Wait! Don't go again! Answer me, I need to know what's going on!"
He finally disappeared as if he never heard her cries.
"Aw, crap! Not again! There must be an enemy coming with all the things he said…oh boy, I should just hurry up and go home to do what he said. Apparently, this training is going to need to be pretty intense if we want to be ready for whatever's coming."
She continued to think about what he said as she finished her trip home.
Pan opened the door to find her parents sitting on the couch together in formal clothes. Her dad was breathing hard as if trying to regain control of himself and Videl was sitting on top of him looking tired and she gave Gohan a final, weak smack with a pillow.
"Oooooooookaaaay." Pan replied with a confused look in her face.
Her parents looked up to see her.
"Oh Pan, you're home. You should go to bed now. You want to be ready for tomorrow." Videl said.
"Right. I'm not the only one who needs to go to bed though…Looks like you guys got drunk or something." Pan ended in a low whisper as she walked upstairs and left her parents to whatever they were doing earlier.
In her room, Pan changed and fell on top of her bed staring out her window.
I wonder if he's going to show up again tonight.
The crickets' sounds were making their usual music in the background of her thinking. A lot of things were on her mind right now.
Who is this new enemy and what does this one want? When is he going to get here? How strong is he? Are we even going to be able to beat him without grandpa here? What does this guy that keeps showing up have anything to do with it? How does he know about all this stuff before it's going to happen? Is he going to come to help us? Why is he telling me about this and not Vegeta or dad? Am I a bigger part of this than I think? Am I going to be able to turn super saiyan in the Hyperbolic Chamber or will it all be a waste of time?
"I need to get stronger. Turn super saiyan. Save…the… Earth…" Pan slowly fell asleep with her questions absorbing into her mind as she slept, quietly in the cool night of the Earth.
High above the Earth and universes was the Other World. From there all the great Kai's could watch over the events of the planets and space that they were in charge of. The King Kai that we all know was standing on his new planet with Goku and Baba at his side.
Goku was slightly tensed up as he watched Pan sleeping through Baba's crystal ball.
"Poor Pan, there's way too much for her to deal with right now. But she has a point with her questions. King Kai, you still don't know who that being is or where he might be?"
King Kai was hunched over now, trying hard to concentrate. "I'm sorry Goku but I can't find him, not even a trace. I'll have to ask the other Kai's if maybe he's in their sections but I still can't understand how someone could communicate with another from a completely different part of the universe. It's not supposed to be possible."
"Well we don't have another choice. That has to be the only explanation no matter how strange it may be. We have to find out how he knows these things. He is telling the truth, I can feel the one he's talking about and he's strong alright. King Kai, can you find out how long it'll take for him to get to Earth? I don't even know if he's in our universe either."
"I can only do one thing at a time, Goku."
"Sorry, but this isn't good. Baba, have you come up with a deal with King Yama yet?"
Baba was floating next to her crystal ball, which had now become foggy and unclear.
"We're trying, Goku. But this isn't going to be easy. I've already got over the part of him actually letting you, but now we found a much bigger problem."
"What is it?"
"Since you've been brought back to life so many times already, it's now a matter of whether King Yama can bring you back again. He's not sure if he has enough power to do it. Remember, now that the dragon's gone, it's up to him to try and do this. It was hard enough for him to give you that one day those many years ago, but to make it permanent…well, we don't know if we can do it."
Goku was getting much more tensed than he was earlier.
"This isn't good. I have to get back down there, soon."
"If we can do this Goku, the soonest you'll know isn't probably for another day."
Goku stared out at the yellow sky for a few moments but then lowered his head again to look at his two friends. "Alright, do that Baba. King Kai,"
The blue king looked at the saiyan hero.
" I'm going to keep on training until we get this thing working. I might go and tell Gohan so that his training with Pan will be intense and he'll be getting ready for the fight already. I can't tell Vegeta what's going on yet, not until he starts training Bra. If I tell him before, he might stop with her and go on by himself, and we need all the help we can get."
Goku looked back at the crystal ball as it showed his sleeping granddaughter again. He stretched his hand out towards it as if to try and touch her. "Don't lose faith in yourself, Pan. You will get stronger, and we will beat this evil."
