AN-okay, next chapter then……ouch, you guys didn't like the last chapter huh? Oh well, hopefully this one'll go down better;-D anywho, on with the story…thingy…I'm listening to Tasuki's theme…o.0;;;;;

DISCLAIMER*-wails as she clings to the tree trunk trying to put out the ever present flames on her butt* it isn't mine Tasuki!! Lemme alone……..oh, hi Chichiri…….what're you doing here???

Chapter 13

Pan raised an eyebrow and sniffed as Trunks gawked up at her. Really, royalty sometimes…

"Who else were you expecting?"

"Well, to be honest, my father and the royal guards…"Trunks shut his mouth promptly with a snap as Pan glared at him.

"So sorry to disappoint you, your Highness." Her voice dripped with sarcasm. "Shall I send for them? Would you like something to eat while you wait? Kami boy, just be fuckin' thankful that I came to get you at all. With all the grief you've put me through in the past few days, I ought to leave you here and let Torrick have. Get off your royal butt, we have to..."Pan's head snapped up and she stared down out the door and down the corridor. Trunks followed her gaze.

Quizzically, he looked back out at her. "What?"

"Shut up. We've gotta get you out of there. Now…Torrick is coming, can't you sense him?"

Trunks made a face "They put barriers on this cell, O Brilliant One. I can't feel a thing outside of here. Now how the hell do you suggest I get out of here? This thing fries me each time I power up."

Pan rolled her eyes. "No matter. You're still strong without being powered up aren't you?" Trunks nodded slowly, not following her logic. "Look at the bars on this cell boy. You could've broken out of here a long time ago. Either Freiza had this built like this for a purpose, or he had a brain fart. Either way, the bars are so thin that a child could break them. But if you're so slow, let me do it." She reached out a hand and gripped the middle bar on the cell. Each iron rod was laid vertically, and fit into a hole at the top. Who ever had made the door had then welded around the top of them, securing them firmly. But not so firmly that, with a slight power up, and a strong yank, Pan ripped out the middle bar.

 Trunks got the idea, and while Pan ripped out another bar and moved on to her third one, he powered up as high as he could without being crispy fried and grabbed hold of his own bar. But before he could rip it out, a ki blast hit his fingers, and he drew them back from the cell door with a curse, and looked out to find the source.

Torrick was standing, watching Pan with heavy lidded eyes, his hand outstretched in Trunks general direction; Pan was glaring at him, bristling like a cornered dog. Trunks could feel her ki spike and dip, as she sought to control herself

"Well, well, isn't this quite the scene? A third class trying to rescue the Prince? It sounds like one of the earthlings fairytales, apart from the male being the captive and the female being the rescuer of course. I'll bet you feel stupid, Prince, having to rely on a female to get you out of this mess. Especially when you could've gotten out of it yourself, too. How are you going to explain this to daddy dearest?"

Pan snorted. "God, are all males this dumb? Fuck Torrick, you think I'd come without telling anyone. Even I know when to give in to pride and listen to common sense. The King knows what's passed. And so does my family. They also know of what you did." Pan's eyes darkened, becoming black and stormy. Slowly, she advanced towards Torrick, who watched her unconcernedly, eyeing her until she was standing directly in front of him and glaring murderously up into his eyes.

He affected an innocent air. "What I did my dear girl? What did I do? What could I possibly have done to have hurt you? Oh wait…no, you weren't related to that bitch that I killed? Oh, you were? Oh well, a pity. Did you know that she begged for her life as I killed her? Her screams of anguish were so sweet as I cleaved that message into her back. Seeing her blood spill across my hands was an indescribable feeling of pure joy. Elation, rapture, call it what you want, her death was satisfying. As will be your Prince's when I kill him."

Pan uttered a small, pained mewl, and clenched a hand to her heart. She stumbled back a step from Torrick. "How..how could you be so evil? Delighting in somebody's death like that? You're twisted." She drew in a shuddering breath, and then let it out in a scream as she ascended to Super Saiyan. "But you will pay. By my blood, you will pay."

With a flash she flew at Torrick as he sneered at her, and swung at his head. But before her fist could crush his face, his hand shot up and caught her oncoming blow.

"You'll have to be faster than that, kitty". And with a flick of his wrist, he sent her crashing into Trunks' cell. The crash as she hit resounded through the small room, the protesting screech of the twisting metal made Trunks clamp his hands over his ears. Torrick sauntered towards her, pulling down his collar as he came.

"You're going to have problems beating me if that's all the power you have". A silver band sparkled around his neck. "Do you know what this is? Probably not, so I'll have to tell you. It's a ki enhancer. In terms you can understand, it doubles my ki. With the level that you're at right now, there's no way you can beat me. My power level is equal to that of Super Saiyan level 2. And I don't think that…"

He was halted as a blinding flash of light and a roar emitted from where Pan lay. Pulling herself to her feet, Pan ran a hand over golden spiked hair. "No, I guess you don't think very much do you? The one good thing that came out of my mother's death was my ascension to the next level of Super Saiyan. So if you look at it that way, I should really be thanking you."

Torrick leered at her. "Well kitty, you may have the power, but do you have the skills?"

Pan grinned, and disappeared from sight, only to reappear above Torrick and kick him in the neck, giving him a close-up view of the floor in the process. Torrick pushed himself up from where he lay and flipped away from Pan, aiming a kick at her chin as he did so. Pan hastily threw out a hand to block it, but missed his other foot, which connected with the side of her head and sent her spinning back into the wall. Before her body hit the wall, he reappeared behind her, and shot a ball of ki into her back, slicing off layer upon layer of skin. Pan's scream as she was sent hurtling towards the opposite wall was blood curdling. Slowing herself before she hit, she threw out a hand, and fired a volley of ki blasts at Torrick. Before he knew what was happening, she followed the ki blasts, and latched on to his hair. Lifting him from the ground, she threw punch after punch into his stomach, grinning in satisfaction as him spit up gobs of blood.

Trunks meanwhile had gotten back to work on his cell. Ripping out two more bars, he squeezed out the gap he'd created, cursing as the barbs of metal gouged a few chunks out of his scalp. He turned to the fight just in time to see Torrick lift up his feet and boot Pan in the stomach. She doubled over in pain, dropping Torrick as she did so. The bastard fell to the floor and lay still for a few seconds, before hauling himself to his feet and stretching out a hand to rest on Pan's head. With a horrible start, Trunks realized what he was going to do.

"Die, bitch". The blast exploded, sending a great gout of blood into the air.  A moan of pain followed, and someone slumped to the floor. A huge pool of blood sluggishly spread out, surrounding Trunks' body. Pan looked down at him in horror. A huge hole had been scored straight through his shoulder, destroying muscle and bone alike. She stifled a sob, and tried to stem the bleeding with her hands. "No, no…no. Torrick...what have you done….WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" Pan's scream of agony tore throw the compound, deafening the ears of all it touched. Her ki surrounded her in a bright flame, and flared out. Thundering, it broke down the walls, blew out the roof, and sanded the floor smooth. Her grief mounted, rising higher and higher. Raising icy eyes to Torrick she gently lay Trunks'' body on the ground beside her, and rose in one lithe movement.

"You goddamn evil bastard. First my mother, now my Prince. What have you to gain by this? Do you think that the people of Vegeta-sei will praise you for destroying their Prince?" she whispered, her voice sub-zero. "This is the last straw. I don't give a damn what that collar of yours does, but since you seem to rely on it so much, I'll rip that away from you first."

She held out two fingers, and a thin rope of ki shot out, splitting into two beams before it reached Torrick, and seared down either side of his neck. With a clang, the two halves of his ki collar hit the ground, and lay there, smoking. Pan grinned, the devil appearing in her eyes. "You're weaker than I now. You know you're going to die, I can see it in your eyes. And I can feel it in my heart. Shall we find out if you have one too?"

With a flash, she darted forward. Before Torrick could even move, Pan's hand shot out. A terrible hacking gasp echoed through what was left of the room, turning into a gurgling whine. Torrick fell to his knees, Pan going down with him. Her arm was lodged through his chest, from the tips of her fingers to her elbow. With a merciless look in her eyes, she shoved her arm all the way through his chest, clasping something in her hand. Then, with a look of revulsion on her face, she yanked her arm out of the gaping hole she had created in Torrick's chest. She looked down at her blood covered hand and snorted.

"Who would have ever thought it, you actually do have a heart, heartless bastard though you appear to be." She threw the chunk of flesh on top of Torrick's lifeless body. Absently wiping her bloodied hand on her pants, she walked back over to where Trunks lay and knelt beside him. Gently, she wiped a hand over his sweat covered brow. His eyes, twitched and slowly opened. He opened his mouth to say something, but blood spilled out, and Pan quickly placed her hand over his lips to stop him.

 "Hush my Prince, you need to keep still. I will get you out of here, but first, we must go pick some on eels up before Freiza finds us." Pan placed her fingers on her forehead, and without bothering to power down, transported the Prince and her to the scrap's prison. No sooner had they appeared there, than the scrap came flying out of a corner to tackle Pan around the head. Pan let out a small laugh and patted the top of the scrap's head tenderly. She felt a curious affection for this child.

"Okay, okay, I told you that I would come back for you, and here I am. Now hold on to me, and don't let go, otherwise you'll be left behind." The scrap nodded her understanding, and Pan returned her fingers to their place on her forehead. Concentrating, she searched out her grandfather's ki.

"There you are grandpa. Hold on scrap."

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Goku jumped as Pan, the scrap and Trunks'' seemingly lifeless body appeared on the training room floor before him. His granddaughter looked up at him, exhaustion shining in her eyes.

"I got him back grandpa, like I said I would…" and her head slumped down to rest on Trunks' mussed locks. Goku gasped as he got a good view of her back. The flesh had been burned from her from shoulders to hips, and blood was pouring from it in steady streams. The little scrap was running back and forth from him to Pan and Trunks', alternately shaking one of them in a pathetic attempt to wake them up, and then running back to Goku, tugging urgently on his gi pants. With one sweep of his arm, he hauled the little wriggling girl into his arm, and bent down next to Trunks, surveying the damage to his body with a grim face. Both had lost a lot of blood. He looked down at the little scrap of humanity in his arms. She was looking up at him, worry gleaming brightly in her eyes.

"The King really isn't going to be pleased about this one, is he?"

Well, there you have it, the evil bastard is dead.*cheers and runs around the room* flames, comments questions anyone?? And hopefully after midterms I can get out the next three chapters, cos I'll have no homework and no study…WOOHOOO

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