Chapter 25: Surprise of the century

They had everything set up and planned, bulma wanted this to be perfect. She had a big buffet set up for the BBQ that Vegeta, goten, and boxer automatically dug into as soon as the trays hit the porch tables. She had a big white tent set up in their backyard with a lot of flowers. Trunks and Vegeta disagreed with everything bulma set up; it looked like they were setting up for a wedding. Bulma had Bra dress pan up in a beautiful pink sundress with her hair up and makeup if pan permitted bra to do so. She told pan to wait up in bras room until trunks came to grab her. Bulma decided to tell everyone that trunks started dating again and that she wanted the whole gang to meet her.

Everyone showed up on time, but no one looked happy to be there. It seemed like everything at capsule corp held a memory of pan on it. The son family never smiled once while they were there. Bulma wanted to wait until the right time to bring pan out. Trunks stood next to his mother giggling. Bulma looked at him confused.

"What's so funny?" She asked him confused

"Nothing, just pan hates sitting in a room doing nothing, especially bras, right now she's yelling at me in my head!" he said laughing again.

"Oh mom, she said thanks for locking her in the worst room in the house, and asked why you couldn't lock her in the GR!" Trunks laughed again. By then videl and Chichi had walked up to them. Videl pulled Trunks into a hug and pulled away looking at his happy face.

"It's good to see you out of the basement and smiling since what happened!" Videl said kissing his cheek and going to hug bulma.

"Don't you think it's a little fast to have a girlfriend right after your wife died?" chichi asked with poison in her voice as she hugged trunks.

"Don't worry chichi, I'm fine and I'll bet that you guys will absolutely love her!" He said with a genuine smile

"I doubt that!" chichi spat as she walked towards goku. All trunks and bulma could do was smile at each other. This would be the best surprise ever.

"Son I think now is the best time to do your surprise!" She whispered into his ear. Trunks nodded and he ran into the house stopping in front of bras door. Bulma gathered Vegeta, goten and bra and told them to be ready for an angry mob that was guaranteed to happen after they let pan loose. She then gathered everyone around her.

MEANWHILE WITH TRUNKS.

He stood at the door listening for her, but he couldn't hear her complaining anymore. He quietly opened the door and peeked in. She was nowhere to be seen. He quickly swung the door open giving the room a quick sweep with his eyes looking for pan. He felt a warm breath on his neck and smiled.

"You know it's not polite to sneak up on others!" he said slowly turning around. She wasn't on the ground but hanging from the ceiling upside down. He was shocked to say the least.

"How did you do that?" He asked as he watched her flip and land on her feet gracefully on the floor. She smiled at him and put her arms around his neck as he put his arms around her waist and pulled her closer.

"It's just something the kai's taught me to meditate and calm me down, it helps, you should try it!" She said poking him in his ribs.

"You know I came up here to get you for my mother's surprise, you're supposed to be my NEW girlfriend!" He said pressing her against the wall with his hands on the wall behind her.

"How could someone date so early right after his wife dies?" Pan asked trunks seriously

"You just sounded exactly like your grandma there; she asked me the same thing just earlier!" He said amused

"Well I don't blame her!" She said getting mad now, she ducked under his arms and made her way for the bathroom.

"Awh! Come on pan, it's only a joke, it's not serious!" He said as he was met by a door slamming in his face. He sighed and knocked on the door.

"Pan, come on its not for real and it's not like I'm going with some other girl, I'm going with you!" He said speaking into the door. He heard a knock from behind him as he turned to the door. Boxer was standing there with a confused look on his face.

"Ummm, grandma bulma is waiting for you guys, is...everything ok?" He asked as he crossed his hands over his chest.

"Yah, your mother is just PMSing!" He said the last part in a whisper.

"Hey! I heard that you jerk!" Pan yelled from behind the bathroom door. Trunks sighed again, rolling his eyes.

Boxer walked up to the door and laughed at his father. "Um mom, I haven't told you or dad but I invited a girl over today to introduce you guys to her!" He said softly as the door flung open and boxer was now pinned to the wall by his mother.

"Boxer? Why didn't you tell us, it would have been better to meet on better terms?" She said through a growl.

"No don't worry mom, she won't be over for another hour or so, so she won't be here when everyone freaks out about you!" He said trying to release his mother's grip on his collar.

"Oh, ok, well just forewarning you, I can sense if there's something wrong with a girl and if I don't like her, I won't hesitate to tell her!" She said releasing his collar and turning her attention towards trunks.

"And you! I haven't forgiven you yet, so don't get any ideas!" Pan growled at Trunks and she made her way into the hallway. Trunks just smiled and ran up behind pan grabbing her up into his arms and pulling her into a passionate kiss. Boxer just stood there making gagging noise as pan pulled away to look at him.

"That's just gross!" Boxer said as his father put his mother down.

"Well I'm pretty sure you and your 'girlfriend' do that all the time! So what do you want me to say when I see that? Hm? Ewhhh that's nasty!" Pan said as Trunks broke into a laughing fit at his sons expression. Boxers face flashed 5 shade of red; he was so embarrassed at his mother that he took off running down the stairs.

"Oh, come on Hun, it was just a joke!" Pan said between laughing.

"Hun, you're horrible!" Trunks said trying to catch his breath.

They were shook from their trance as the house shook from bulma yelling. "TRUNKS GET DOWN HERE NOW!" Trunks just smirked at pan and grabbed her hand pulling her down the stairs with him. They made it to the sliding door that led to the backyard. Thank dende that it was tinted and no one could see in or they would be fighting a mob right now. Trunks kissed pans cheek and opened the door slightly squeezing through and closing it behind him. Pan was as nervous as she watches trunks run to his mother's side and face everyone. It felt like her heart was going to explode. For the first time in months she saw her family, she smiled at them as they all turned towards the sliding door as trunks pointed to it. He knew she was watching and motioned for her to come. She took one last breath as she slowly opened the door, standing in the sun that shone down on her.

She looked up into the teary eyes of her whole family. Chichi was the only one she couldn't see, she had fainted when she saw her. She smiled at everyone.

"Hi everyone, I'm home!" She said as she let a tear escape her eye. The men in her family just stared at her in shock.

"Panny? Is that you?" goku was the first to speak, he said slowly made his way to her and stood in front of her. He stared at her as she watched a tear slowly slid down his cheek as he smiled.

"Hi grandpa!" She said as she jumped into his arms crying into his chest. Goku dropped to his knees holding pan in his arms. Never had he been so happy in his life.

"I missed you so much panny!" He said as he stroked her hair and kissed her forehead.

Everyone else was still in a trance and frozen. Goku stood up with pan still in his arms and turned towards his son. Pan looked at her father and smiled through tear stricken eyes.

"Hi daddy!" She said with a shaky voice.

"Panny? But how?" He held his arms open as pan ran into them full speed, knocking him back on his butt. Gohan cried into his daughter's hair, squeezing her tighter as another pair of hands wrapped around her. Pan peeked out to see her mother hugging her.

"Momma, I missed you so much!" Pan cried as she reached one of her hands out to pull her mother and father to her. She never wanted to let go of them.

"Awhh! My baby, I love you!" videl spoke into her hair and kissed her cheek.

Everyone who was involved in this little surprise was surprisingly in tears now, except for Vegeta. Trunks shed a tear for his wife, he had never seen her so happy before.

Bulma was glad to see her friends smiling faces again.

Gohan stood back up with pan still in his arms as he faced towards trunks.

"This is the best surprise I've ever gotten!" Gohan said through a smile. He looked down at pan and smiled and pulled her to sit at the table with everyone following behind.

"So panny, how are you alive? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy your home but I can't stop wondering how?" Goku asked as he was the last one to sit down.

Trunks interrupted. "This morning when I was asleep downstairs, I heard someone calling my name and I woke up to see aurora standing in the doorway, she told me that pan was coming back to us, that she was sent to the kai's to train after she died, because of a new enemy that's coming!" He reached over and held pans hand.

"The kai's, as in the kai's that dad and I went to when everyone was fighting Buu?" Gohan asked confused.

"If you mean the supreme kai that you guys fought in the tournament, then yah that would be the guy!" Pan said as she shoved chunk of steak in her mouth.

"The supreme kai called for you?" Piccolo asked surprised and astonished.

"Yah, they said they needed my help! And told me after I was done training that they could send me back here, so of course I agreed!" She smiled at them

"So how are you feeling Hun? That's the longest anyone's been in the tank!" videl asked concerned.

"I'm fine now, but once in a while I start to feel weak like I'm going to pass out but aurora said I'll be fine as long as I take it easy and rest." She said looking down at her plate.

"So brat, what did the kai's and aurora teach you?" Vegeta asked from across the table.

"Yah? Anything cool?" Goten started getting all excited.

"Pan you think it's a good idea in your health to go and splurge your energy like that?" Trunks said concerned.

"Don't worry, they taught me how to do big moves like that without using any energy!" She said standing up.

"How is that possible?" Vegeta said smugly.

"Well veggie-head, why don't you get up and see!" She spat at him as she stood in the middle of the yard with her hands on her hips. Vegeta just smirked and quickly stood up.

He was a good 20 feet away from her with his hands crossed over his chest.

"Veggie close your eyes and tell me if you can feel any energy, or any of my attacks?" She said as Vegeta closed his eyes and smirk. This was going to be easy. Pan slowly closed her eyes and took one deep breath, exhaling a blue light began to show around her. Everyone stood amazed. She opened her eyes and everyone gasped, they were not blue like they always were but were now a bright green.

"Anytime now brat!" Vegeta growled impatiently

"Now!" pan yelled as she let a Ki blast shoot out of her hands quietly towards Vegeta. Vegeta just stood there awaiting the hit. He opened his eyes to see the shot in front of his face.

"Crap!" He yelled as it hit him and knocked him back a good 10 feet. He shot up, dusting himself off as he looked at pan. He was also surprised to see her eyes were now green.

She closed her eyes and exhaled again releasing the power as she opened her now chocolate brown eyes.

"How did you do that? I couldn't even feel where you were or even the shot you threw?" Vegeta was amazed at how much powerful that brat had returned to them. It seemed like it was just getting started.