DBZ Cross Universe

by Jyggilag

After a small misshap with a teleporter, Pan founds herself trapped in a world were almost all of the most influential or known animes exist in some shape or form. How will Pan manage to deal with her new surroundings without blowing earth in the process? Rewrite of DragonBall Tenge by Madhat886 with the author's permission. Story now completely adopted. Chapter 1 revised.

35. Chapter 33

Author's notes: Goddammit! I'm finally done! At last I've finished with this chapter… Sorry for taking several months to have this ready but it's been hell in my work as of late, the entire company is suffering a re-structuring and I'm left bouncing from premise to premise, nothing but a series of temporary workstations that I barely even have time to set in before I'm being moved again. The entire thing is quite hectic that once I arrive home I don't want to do anything but rest, I just don't have the drive to write properly in this kind of situation. So yeah right now real life is interfering with this story, so the next update is probably going to take a while to come out too… This situation will eventually pass and everything will settle down again overtime.

But as it is… We all going to have to make due in the meantime…

Anyway, but enough of that, let's get on with the story already.

Disclaimer: I own nothing; copyrights to the different series and/or franchises that appear in this fic belong to their respectives owners.

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A family meeting

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Pan approached the communication array located deep inside the bowels of the Shinpaku HQ at a fast pace, a delighted expression of joy on her features, the most she had ever shown during her entire stay on earth, her minions struggling to keep her pace. As she took sight of the device's main screen, she discovered a mature and pretty blue-haired woman that was chatting (or more like flirting) with Vega through the line. The Spaniard taking notice of her approach, quickly excused himself from the blunette woman with practiced charm and turned to face the alien girl, offering her a bow as she approached. The alien girl gave a nod of acknowledgement at the ninja before turning to the woman on the screen, a woman she has known her entire life, her aunt Bulma.

The pretty mature turquoise-haired woman smiled when she took sight of the Saiyan teen. "Hey, Pan! We finally are able to get in contact with you! I'm glad you're okay after that incident with the teleporter. How you've been doing?" She inquired as she waved happily at the alien girl.

Pan returned the greeting with a smile of her own, deligthed that at last she had managed to make contact with the rest of her family back home. "Hey aunt! I'm glad to finally get in contact with you. I was afraid of being left stranded on this planet for the rest of my life!" She stated rather overdramatic, behind her the martial artists and students that followed her around began to fill the room.

The attractive scientific genius just waved off Pan's exagerations with practiced ease as she rolled her eyes. "Please, Pan… You didn't really think we would just abandon you and stop looking for you, did you? Do you really think I wouldn't be able to track your location after you dissapeared because of technology I myself created? Please Pan, I though you would know better by now…" Bulma stated with no small amount of prideful arrogance at her own abilities as an inventor, always the pure image of humbleness in regards to her creations. "Besides, even in the off-chance I couldn't have been able to track you with my inventions, that wouldn't have dissuaded us from our search in the slightest. We would have just turned towards Kaio-sama for guidance and answers, and if he wouldn't have been able to help us either, we would have continued going up the divine echelons all the way up to Whis until someone could tell us where you ended up landing." She declared in a matter-of-fact tone, with a complete confidence that made her words seem as if they were carved into stone.

Pan raised an eyebrow at that declaration finding it pretty out of the norm to catch her attention. "Whis…? Not Beerus…?"

Bulma made a disdainful face at that question, the name of the god of destruction souring her mood instantly. "You know that my tolerance towards the god of destruction is pretty low… I can't stand his rude manners and childish temper tantrums. Besides if we turned towards him for help, he will most likely threat to blow up our planet if we don't leave him alone. Whis is much more approachable than him and better likely to give us a hand if asked, and he's also the only one able to put Beerus in place when he gets too rowdy, plus even if he refuses, I can always bribe him into helping us with sweets." She stated with a shameless grin. The gathered martial artists just sweat-dropped at her declaration, they could scarcely believe that the gods of the universe acted like little children and could easily be bribed by mortals into doing something by offering them sweets. They remembered Pan's and Giru's explanation about the divine hierarchy in the universe during her first global address towards the people of the Earth back when her identity as an alien was first revealed, but they had no idea about the existence of this Beerus as the universal god of destruction, and neither who this Whis is for that matter.

Pan was unaware of her minions' confusion and continued with the conversation with her aunt. "Well nevermind that for now; if you were able to track my location from the very beginning, then how come you're just getting in contact with me until now…!?" She asked with a small imperceptible trace of hurt in her voice that only those who were close to her would be able to detect.

Bulma just smiled indulgently at her as response, seeing right through her. "Well, first of all, there was the issue of establishing a reliable communication link between our locations because of the distance. You are in another galaxy away from us after all Pan, one that is beyond the edge of our local galactic cluster. And remember that to establish a communication channel via our quantum entaglement arrays we need two matching points to be up and running in order to speak with each other. So I had no choice but to wait for you to install your quantum array on your side before trying to make contact." The blunette genius patiently explained to her niece as if she were giving her one of her many lessons about science.

"Quantum what…!? The hell you're both talking about…" Juri interjected rather brazenly in the conversation, getting frustrated by all those weird terms that were being babbled around.

Bulma turned to look at the Korean woman curiously, taking notice for the first time of all the people present behind the alien girl. "Who are all these people, Pan? Friends of yours? I didn't know you had it in you to be so popular? Seems Bra taught you more than just a tasteful fashion sense…" The scientific genius joked with an impish smile.

Pan felt like blushing at that, her cheeks turning rosy as she began to wave her arms around and stammer a quick denial. "N-nothing like that aunt! They are just the local fighters and martial artists of this planet that wanted me to teach them my techniques and fighting style."

Bulma acknowledged that explanation with a nod. "So they are your friends, after all… Your grandfather Goku was just like that, always excited about training and making acquaintances through his love of battle, making new friends and turning enemies into allies wherever he went. I'm sure he would be proud of you for following into his footsteps…" She commented off-handedly with some teasing.

If Pan was feeling like blushing just a few moments ago, she was now positively burning in embarassment. "Aunt! This is no time for your stories! Please focus!"

The blunette inventor just chuckled at the young Saiyan embarassment. Ah, children, they're so cute when riled up. "Right… Anyway, how should I call you young miss…?" She asked, turning towards the Korean woman.

"Name's Juri…" It was the simple answer from the horned-haired woman, not the friendliest of greetings but neither particularly insulting, not wanting to try her luck against Pan's ire if she were to offend one of her relatives.

Bulma nodded at the reply, and proceeded to adress the Korean woman's original question. "Well Juri… To answer your question, the quantum entanglement array is this particular piece of technology that you see for yourself in front of you, that is allowing us to hold a virtually instantaneous conversation even from several galaxies away. A quite advanced wonder of science that I myself designed and created…" She declared as she puffed up in pride. Say what you want about Bulma's arrogance, but she can back up her words with actions, she is just that smart.

Chun-Li leaned forward towards the comm. array, a curious expression on her face. "So you are actually talking to us from another galaxy…!? How does this machine even works!" She asked greatly impressed, a mixture of bafflement and wonderment in her voice.

The blunette genius just looked at her with an inscrutable stare instead of answering. "And who might you be…?"

The Chinese police-woman blushed a little in embarassment, noticing that in her excitement she had forgotten to introduce herself. "My name is Chun-Li, I am an officer from Interpol, an international law-enforcement organization in our world…" She stated as she stood straight for a moment to make her introduction.

"A policewoman…? Well Goku and his children have always made the most peculiar of friends." Bulma commented absentmindedly to herself, bringing a hand to her chin in thought. Before anyone could try to refute that statement, she moved on with the subject. "Regardless, it is of small matter right now… Anyway, you want to know how my Quantum entanglement array works, right? I'm not so sure any of you will be able to understand all of the high level mathematics behind its operation… No offense or anything towards your intelligence, but when I say it's an advance piece of technology I am not kidding in the slightest; it is only something that people with a degree in advanced astrophysics will be able to have an idea of what it is…" She said as she warily eyed the people that the camera integrated on the screen's frame was able to detect.

Chun-Li thought about that statement for a moment before adressing the blunette genius again. "Then how about you explain it in layman terms for us to understand…?"

Bulma pondered about that suggestion for a steady heartbeat. "Well… I suppose I could try to dumb it down a little. Let me think for a moment… Mmmmph… Alright, I think I got it. Before explaining you how my arrays work, I suppose I should explain to you what Quantum entanglement is first. As you know, or at least I hope you know since I'm not aware of the technological and scientific level possessed by your planet, anyway; the universe is made of particles. These particles come in all forms of different shapes and sizes: Protons, Neutrons, Atoms, Photons, Electrons, Ions, Molecules, etc… They're all a minute fragment, a quantity of matter that's just but a small percentage of a greater whole. You're all following me so far…?" She asked, trying to make sure no one was getting confused.

"Yes, we're following you just fine." Chun-Li replied, several of the martial artists around her nodding in confirmation.

"Alright just making sure you're paying attention since here comes the tricky part… When a pair of identical particles are entangled with each other at a quantum level, that is; tied, linked and/or knotted with each other through the use of quantum mechanics… And then separated, a change to one particle will affect the other in a similar way instantaneously, wherever the place it lies in the universe. My Quantum entanglement arrays are point to point communication devices that work on this principle and exploit it to transmit binary data at any distance. However, for this effect to work, two pairs of entangled particles are necessary for transmission and reception. One thing you need to have in consideration is that this technology is extremely expensive and difficult to produce, but despite its high cost it comes with two major advantages. First, it allows instantaneous communication over any distance without reliance on any other kind of communication network; like satellites for planet-wide coverage or comm buoys for deep space communication. And second, quantum communications cannot be intercepted between source and destination, allowing no 'Wiretaps' for other people to listen and spy in your conversations." Bulma explained, gesturing at certain parts to give better understanding through visual aid. The more savvy members of her audience just blinked at realizing the implications that such technology could have in the world.

"Wow! That is so amazing! To think you were able to develop such impressive technology on your own. You must truly be a genius!" An impressed Skuld said as she jotted down annotations in a notepad. Gentoku Ryuubi at her side nodded in agreement as she too was rapidly scribling in a notepad of her own. Just where the hell did these girls pulled out those pads from in the first place?

"Indeed, just thinking about the applications of such technology makes my mind whirl. The military of any nation, especially, would be very interested in a technology that would allow their high level classified communications from being intercepted by the spies of a rival nation." The bespectacled brunette said as she kept her attention solely focused in the annotations she was writing. Even Kenichi seemed thoughtful at the information that he had just heard, others like Hakufu… Well, they were simply hopeless…

Bulma nodded in agreement at that assesment. "Yes… I've already taken into consideration the military applications that my technology could have. But just like most things, it is not perfect and it does have its own shares of disadvantages. One of the major drawbacks of quantum entanglement is that it has an extremely limited bandwith, which dashes any hopes for this technology to replace any kind of communication infranstructure besides of its highly expensive cost. A single entangled particle can only transmit a single qubit; that is quantum bit, of data at once. Also, the systems point-to-point nature precludes peer-to-peer networking and data dissemination at either planetary or galactic level…"

"So the most appropiate application for this technology is indeed a military one." Cammy White said after hearing the limitations of the technology and also out of her background in Great Britain's armed forces. "The best and most strategically sound way to use it would be to have High Command headquarters serve as a comm. center from which it would be able to link with all of its most important military bases under the juridstiction of their own nation or those that serve as forward bases in a battlefront and certain designated military assets and/or flagships, like carriers, destroyers or submarines due to their strategical importance. Thus centralizing the entire chain of command and allowing high-com to have a direct line with their most important assets."

Bulma gave a single nod at that explanation. "True, but you better make sure to hide and protect your headquarters really well, because the loss of your comm. center would mean the collapse of the entire network. Such are the dangers of centralization after all, despite being useful to keep things simple and straight-forward. But anyway, this is how this technology developed by me works. It is not viable for a wide-spread application, but for this instance, me able to contact Pan through a great expanse of space several dozen galaxies away, it is perfect for my purposes and also the only mean we have to keep tabs on her while we go to her location to pick her up and take her off your hands…" She said, reminding everyone what her business for contacting the alien girl was.

"Yeah, about that, how are you going to come for me aunt? And how long would I need to stay put waiting for you?" Pan asked, rather interested in the answer for that particular question.

Bulma just gave her an indulging smile, savoring the chance of showing off her intellect. "Well, obviously we cannot get to your location the same way you ended up there in the first place since my prototype teleporter is practically a one-way-trip, anyone from the gang that we send towards you with the teleporter will be left stranded the same way as you and we would be back at square one. No, we've been preping one of my space-ships to make sure is travel-worthy and have it in stand-by since we discovered you were nowhere to be found in our planet. Your father Gohan is currently working on it in the backyard, good thing since now that we know you are in another galaxy we are going to need to do some modifications to make sure is able to hold up traveling through the empty space between galaxies. I've just finished my calculations while we were speaking…" The blunette scientist said, rasing a hand to show a calculator that she was glancing at briefly. "And I just determined that it will take us six months to reach the galaxy you're located…"

That answer didn't seem to please the alien girl in the slightest if her overreaction was any indication. "SIX MONTHS! What the hell!? Why does it need to take so long!? Can't you just teleport my Gran-Gran to me and have him use his instant transmission to bring me back!? His skill is much superior to mine that he is able to travel to other planets and even the underworld!" Pan exclaimed.

The blunette scientist just shook her head in a negative as an answer, not affected in the least by her outburst. "You know that there are limits regarding the range of the Instant Transmission technique. I don't know if Bardock ever told you this, but when he, your grandfather Goku and your uncle Vegeta were training under Whis' supervision in Beerus planet, which is located at the edge of the universe, they were unable to return back to our planet on their own because of the distance involved that was so great for their minds to comprehend. So although your Great-grandfather is able to travel to any planet within our galaxy and even into the realm of the dead and gods of the beyond, traveling to places beyond our cluster is a big no-no. In order for him to use his instant transmission to bring you back home, he would first need to travel to your location through conventional means in order for his mind to develop a point of reference and have a sense of the great distances involved. So sorry Pan, but you'll have to stay put for six months before your Great-grandfather goes to collect you. I know it doesn't sound like a thrilling proposition, but at least the trip back home once he reaches you will be much shorter…" Bulma said, trying to appease her honorary niece.

Pan still didn't seemed much pleased by the idea, glaring impotently at the screen. "Then what if you send someone with the capsuled spaceship through the portal and I take care of piloting it for the six months that the voyage will take? I know how to pilot and maintain a spaceship after all…" She suggested.

Bulma just gave a long plain and skeptical stare at the alien girl as response. It didn't seem as if she was partial in the least about that option. "Through the extreme conditions that a spacecraft suffers when traversing the void between galaxies? I don't think so… You might be more than qualified to command a ship for interstellar travel, but intergalactic travel is a whole other kettle of fish. It would be really irresponsible of my part to allow you to carry such enterprise on your own, not to mention that you would be unnecessarily endangering your life for a task that your great-grandfather is more than capable of handling on his own, as he's the only one other than your uncle Vegeta that has experience on intergalactic travels." The genius scientist stated in a tone that said there was nothing that would be able to change her mind on the subject. "Besides I still have to do some adjustments to the spaceship before I deem it ready to travel to another galaxy, that's why I have your father Gohan working on the spaceship in the front yard." She said, pointing over her shoulder towards an off-screen direction.

Pan seemed surprised by that comment. "My father is there with you…?"

"Yes, as I've just said, he's out there in the front yard running diagnostics on the space-ship to make sure everything is fine. Everyone tried their best to help in your search, especially your father…" Bulma stated with a pleasant look.

Hakufu had to interrupt their little reunion, however, with one of her particular moments of brilliance. "Your father's name is Gohan (Rice)…? Is he named after the TV character Gohan-kun…?" She asked with a pretty air-headed expression.

The entire room fell under a complete silence at that question, everybody glancing at the empty-headed blonde as if she were a retard, which isn't that far away from the mark to tell the truth. "You're talking about Gohan-kun from the TV show, are you not? That would be totally awesome!" Little Honoka said in childish excitement, vibrant starts shining in her eyes.

All that Pan was able to do was to make a totally clueless thrown expression and ask. "What…? The hell you two are talking about…?"

It was Diana, Foxy's partner, who answered the alien girl's inquiry as she held Kula in her arms in an embrace, the little blonde ice fairy sucking a lollipop as she usually does. When did these two slipped in with the rest of the group, who knows? "She's talking about a character from a TV show made for children. Gohan-kun the super-hero that fights for peace and justice with the nutritious power of rice…! I know about it because Kula here likes to watch it." The dark blue-haired fencer said as she began pressing cheeks with Kula, a tender smile on her face. The young ice user just kept licking her candy as if nothing was happening.

Pan just stared, not knowing what to think about what she had just heard. Bulma on the other hand was ecstatic, as she chuckled in mirth and tried to cover her smile with the back on her hand. "Fu… Fu… I would wish if any of you could send me a recording of that show, I'm so totally going to tease Gohan with it. More so, since he once had a phase during his high-school years in which he used to go out and fight crime dressed as a superhero, the great Saiyaman he used to call himself. He looked so utterly ridiculous in that costume of his, and the poses… Oh god! The poses he used to make when pretending to be a hero…! It was actually pretty funny in retrospective…" The blunette scientist said with a big shit-eating grin.

Pan just face-palmed in embarrassment, of all the things her aunt could reveal about her family, this was at the bottom of her list. "Aunt, please! We agreed never to speak about my father's super-hero fetish!" She exclaimed, practically burning red at this point.

Bulma seemed a little dissapointed in that reaction. "Awww, C'mon Pan… You used to like the great Saiyaman very much when you were little… I don't understand how it is that you became so grumpy; you used to be such a happy child…" She said with a bit of nostalgia seeping into her voice, her eyes turning distant for a moment as the brilliant scientist lost herself in memory lane.

"That was when I was a young, naïve and foolish toddler that wasn't aware of the true nature of the universe. Of how cold and uncaring life can be there among the stars. Of the dangers that are hidden in the deep recesess of the void waiting to end all life as we know it…" Pan said a little bit too harshly, a hard stare suddenly appearing on her eyes.

Bulma just sighed at that response. "You're talking about that trip where Bardock took you and showed you around the universe, are you not…? I've never particularly approved of his methods. Yes, it is a smart thing to do to teach you about the dangers out there in space and how other species tend to survive in their day-to-day lives, but the fact that you had to lost your innocence by being exposed to the worst aspects of the universe seems a rather steep price to pay to me." She said with a hint of dissaproval on her voice.

Pan just shrugged non-commitally as response. "It is true that I'm not as cheerful as I used to be once upon a time… But I prefer to be a living cynic with a bleak outlook on life than a dead happy fool who was dumb enough to ignore the danger that was encroaching all around him. Survival is an unforgiving business and those who don't try their outmost to succeed end up dead, ignorance does not make the danger go away, it just simply hides it from view and makes you vulnerable to receive a stab on he back when you least expect it." She stated in a no-nonsense tone of voice, her entire posture rigid and unflinching.

Bulma refrained from commenting, her jaw suddenly becoming tense, showing clearly how much she was biting back her retort. "I don't want to have this old conversation again with you Pan; it would just sour what should be a happy ocassion at finally finding out about your whereabouts and discovering you are unharmed. So… I suppose you would like to speak with your father to tell him you're okay…" The genius scientist supposed.

"Not after you made mention of his super-hero phase; you know I always have trouble looking at him in the eyes every time I'm reminded of his Great Saiyaman career…" The alien girl said with a shake of her head.

"Right… Right…" Bulma droned as she rolled her eyes, indulging Pan in her overreaction. Teenagers, everything has to nothing but drama with them and everything that their parents did at their age has to be embarassing to the extreme. "Well then, I suppose you'll have to settle for continuing speaking with little ol' me… So Pan, I guess this is a good time for us to catch up with each other. So tell me what you've been up to while you were on your own and cut off from the rest of the gang…?" She asked with a great deal of interest, knowing it was probably going to be quite the tale, considering her family.

Pan shrugged, trying to play it cool, not wanting to draw attention to all the things she had done while living on her own on this planet. "Nothing much… Just me being me, you know…"

Somehow Bulma didn't believe that answer in the sligthest, if her sudden pointed stare was any indication. That plus everybody else was also giving her strange looks for that reply, it was clear that Pan sucked at lying when regarding the elder females of her family.

Mature turned at the alien girl with a deadpan stare. "Mistress, I don't think you're fooling your aunt one bit with that kind of response…"

Pan just glared at her secretary as response. "And she's not going to be fooled even less with you calling me mistress in her presence…!?" She exclaimed rather worked up.

"Pan, don't try to insult my intelligence by telling me you've been doing nothing in the time you were alone on your own. You better start giving me a more detailed explanation of what you've been up too, otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have to dig up your pictures as a baby and start showing them to your new friends…" The blunette scientist said in a sing-song voice that held no warmth or amusement, only the promise of great humilliation.

Pan simply stared at her aunt, unable to believe what she had just heard. A look of sheer horror plastered on her face. "…You would dare inflict such humiliation on me, your own niece, and destroy my entire reputation in such unbecoming manner!? Aunt, what the hell!?"

Bulma just nodded knowningly at Pan's accusation. "Yes, I'm afraid I'll have to resort to such measure. I didn't want to go to such extremes, but you leave me no choice. So you better spill the beans or the photos come out!" She said a little too cheerily for anyone to believe she was actually feeling even the slightiest ounce of regret.

Pan stared at her aunt with such a fulminant stare that it was a wonder that the entire communication array didn't burst out in flames. "To think I would be blackmailed by my own aunt… And you complain as to why my outlook on life is so bleak… Tsk, fine! I'll talk…"

And so the alien girl proceeded to tell her aunt all of the ocurrences that had happened to her during her stay on planet earth, from her ill-fated attempt at trying to go undercover at Todo to avoid raising suspicion and attention towards her. Meeting Maya, Nagi and the others who became her first apprentices in martial arts; her eventual reveal as an alien to the entire world, dealing with all the organizations and challengers that tried to go after her for being an alien, gathering a close clique of allies she could trust (or at the very least order around), taking over the seven fighting schools in Kanto. Meeting Kenichi and Miu and becoming the head of the Shinpaku Alliance with the intention of taking over all fighting schools in Japan, their confrontation against YAMI and eventual assimilation of the organization, her battle against one of the deities of this world (Something that Bulma shouldn't had been surprised that it happened considering her family's history), the entire issue with the dragon spirits, saving Kasumi from being killed by ninjas in a forest, offering an aprenticeship to Ranma, and now her latest battle against the Kawakami girl.

There were many reactions at how Bulma handled the entire tale, sometimes she took things in stride, other times she dissaproved and she made the fact of it well known, and then there were the other times were she had to face-palm at Pan's antics and rash actions that she made because of her Saiyan genes and love for battle, things like picking an unnecessary fight with a goddess just for the hell of it and almost fucking up an entire metropolis in the process. But currently, right now, after finishing listening to the alien girl's tale, and after a long series of introductions with most of the people present, there was only one thing that Bulma could do…

"Pffft… Te, he, he… Ah, Ha… Ha… Ha, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!"

And that was laugh; a loud unbridled non-stop laughter after hearing how Momoyo kissed Pan in the mouth and made her regrow her tail. Pan was seriously considering fraticide at this point, well Bulma isn't exactly her actual blood-related aunt, but the point still stands.

THUMP!

Was the dry off-screen sound of a certain turquoise-haired genius scientist hitting the floor out of view as she fell down on her back in the midst of a mad cackle, Pan could only look at the empty screen of her comm. array as the laughs of her aunt echoed through the entire room. The present martial artists could do nothing but sweat-drop at the weird scene.

Eventually, after several long minutes of uninterrupted laughter, Bulma managed to recompose herself somewhat and stand in front of the screen again. "Oh, Pan… I didn't know you had that kind of preferences…" The blunette scientist said through giggles as she cleared some tears of merriment out of her eyes. "I mean, I knew you were a tomboy but I didn't expect it went as far as for you to start kissing other girls. It makes me wonder what other things did you and Bra were doing during one of your 'shopping trips'." She said with air quotes.

"Aunt! EWWW! That's disgusting! She's my cousin by Kami-sama's sake!" Pan exclaimed in disgust.

"You forget, not by blood." The genius scientist said with a knowing grin. "I think I should pay more attention to what you two girl's been doing together. Anyway… Where is this young girl warrior that stole my niece's first kiss?" Bulma asked with a lot mischief in her voice. Pan didn't bother speaking anymore, and simply face-palmed, hard…

How fortuitous for them to be speaking about Momoyo, since she was starting to regain her conciousness at that very moment. "Uck… My head… I feel so groggy… Was it all a dream…? Was I finally defeated for the first time in my life? Why do I feel so tired…" The Buxom ravenette said as she suddenly awoke to found herself under the care of Belldandy while surrounded by all of her friends.

"Easy there…" The kind goddess said as she kept Momoyo from trying to move, accurately guessing that the ravenette didn't have the energy to stand on her own. "I managed to cure all of your wounds completely with my magic but you're still too exhausted from your fight with Pan to be walking around any time soon."

Momoyo simply stared at the goddess as she gave her diagnosis before her lips quirked in her usual cocky smirk. "Well, then I guess I owe such a cutie like you greatly for doing such a fantastic job at healing me, I don't even feel the least amount of pain. What could I ever do to repay you…?" She said huskily as she suddenly got inside Belldandy's personal space and caressed her gently on the cheek, the brunette goddess rearing back in surprise as she clearly hadn't expected such bold advance.

Before anything else could happen, a small dark-haired bundle appeared and kicked Momoyo right in the chin, the head of the puzzled buxom ravenette snapped back like a spring, an obvious confused expression in her face. "Stop getting fresh with my onee-sama you perverted woman!" Skuld declared in outrage. "Bad enough it is that I have to keep an eye on that numbskull Keiichi as it is, I do not need to be at the lookout for a battle-crazy cow like you on top of that!"

"Hey!" Keiichi exclaimed with a frown, feeling insulted at the Chibi-goddess' comment.

Momoyo just looked down in perplexity and stared at the child goddess with a stumped expression. "Where did this pipsqueak came from…?" That comment immediately pissed Skuld off, veins popping and throbbing all around her head. Momoyo didn't seem to take notice, not that she would have cared even if she did, and turned to adress the room at large. "Hey! Somebody should call social services and tell them we have a missing child in here…"

"You… You…" That was the last straw for Skuld's patience as the little goddess took a long breath, her cheeks puffing as her lungs filled with air. As usual, Skuld looked pretty cute and adorable even at the verge of a fit of rage. It was pretty obvious what was about to come next. "BAKA!" The chibi-goddess yelled at the top of her lungs, and how powerful those lungs might be for such small package as everybody felt their ears ring. But that wasn't the most surprising thing; no… The most surprising thing was the fact that the word BAKA suddenly appeared from behind Skuld in big giant floating bold letters that almost instantly launched themselves at Momoyo at unexpected high speeds. The raven-haired girl was so flabbergasted by the sudden bizarre show that she was unable to raise any kind of defense whatsoever before the flying letters struck her in full and sent her smashing into the opposite wall on the other side of the room.

"What the…!?"

POOOM!

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellll! YIAAAAAAAAAH!

SMACK!

"OUCH!" Momoyo exclaimed after the impact as she crumbled into the floor on her behind, rubbing her back at the pain. "Dammit! For a midget, that girl sure hits hard. What was that…!?" She asked in confusion, turning to the nearest person close to her, which happened to be Angel.

The White-haired Latina turned towards Momoyo; and then she began to laugh uncontrollably. All Momoyo could do was blink in puzzlement, wondering the reason for that outburst. "What? Why are you laughing like that? Do I have something in my face or what?"

Rachel Stanley was trying really hard to contain her mirth as she answered Momoyo's question by taking a photo of the dumb-founded ravenette's face with her cell-phone and showing the picture to her. "Actually… You do have something in your face!" She said before bursting in a fit of giggles.

Momoyo peered at the screen of the small mobile device and was surprised at what she saw, for the screen showed a picture of her with the word BAKA painted all over her forehead on big bold letters. "The hell…!?" She exclaimed incredulous, not truly believing what she was seeing. She tried to rub the letters off her face, but no matter how much she tried, the words simply refused to come out.

Foxy just looked at such antics with a frown. "That is the second time we see that girl doing that. How can she turn words into physical projectiles…? These goddesses and their weird magics…" She commented with a perplexed shake of her head, remembering how Skuld had done the same to Juda just a few couple of days ago.

Kushinada, on the other hand, watched the latest proceedings with her usual detached impassiveness, but one could clearly see the approval on her semblance. "I have to say, that tattoo does suit you child. It describes you quite well…" The only answer she got for that comment was a deadpan look from Momoyo.

The gathered martial artists, and even Pan and Bulma, could do nothing but stare with dumbfounded expressions at what had just happened; Urd Face-palmed. "Dammit pipsqueak, you and your stupid jealousy over Belldandy's affection…" The white-haired goddess exclaimed in distress…

"Skuld! That wasn't a nice thing to do. Momoyo has just been recently healed from a great deal of serious injuries and her body is too overtaxed for her to be able to even stand. To strike against someone who cannot defend herself… I am so dissapointed in you Skuld…" The usually kind goddess said with a stern stare, her gaze alone being enough to chastise the younger goddess

Obviously, Skuld caved in pretty fast under the chastisement of her elder sister, the plead for forgiveness didn't waste any time to come out. "I'm sorry Onee-sama, it wasn't my intention to make you mad…" She said downcast, pressing the tips of both of her index fingers together in a contrite expression.

"It is not me who you should be asking for forgiveness, Skuld…" Belldandy simply replied as she pointed in the direction of the downed Kawakami heir.

The youngest of the goddesses didn't seemed particularly thrilled about the prospect that Belldandy was hinting at, but her beloved elder sister was giving her an order so she better swallow her pride and face the music if she knew what was good for her. With a sigh, Skuld turned around and began to grudgingly walk across the room in the direction of the puzzled Momoyo, giving the buxom ravenette a look of suspicion the entire way. As Momoyo got out of her funk, she turned at the chibi-goddess with an inquisitive glance. "What do you want now? Are you here to paint more graffiti on my face or what!?" She asked with all the bluntness of a sledgehammer.

"No is not that!? Will you just shut up and let me talk!? I'm here to apologize…" The small divine child said testily, already regretting having to deal with the black-haired cow again.

Said cow just stared at her like a dumbass with a look of complete incomprehension, as if she didn't had the slightest idea of what the hell she's talking about. "A-po-lo-gi-ze… What is that…?" She asked with real confusion in her voice.

Skuld just gave her an irritated irate look at that question. "Are you kidding me…!? Can't you just take matters seriously for just a minute? Is it truly that hard for you!? Or are you just being annoying on purpose!?" The chibi-goddess began to rage, but her mounting anger came to an abrupt stop as she took notice of Momoyo's stupidly blank expression. "Wait… Can it truly be that you don't actually know the meaning of the word apology!? By Kami-sama! What is wrong with you!?" She asked with boundless incredulity.

"Too many things to count right now…" Ageha Kuki interjected with a deadpan. Skuld just stared dumbfounded.

For the sake of her sanity, Skuld decided it was better to let the matter go and move on. "Anyway… I just came here to say I'm sorry for what I did to you… You know for shouting you were a Baka, which you are, and sending you smacking into the wall and vandalizing your face with my magic…" She said with particular reluctance which made her look like quite the tsun-dere, and because this is Skuld we are talking about, it was cute as hell.

"Oh…? Okay then, if that's all you want to do then go ahead. "It was Momoyo's simple answer, still not quite understanding what the small goddess was trying to do. For a girl like her who has always lived her life doing whatever she wanted and always moving forward without never looking back, the definitions of apology or forgiveness was not something that could be found in her vocabulary.

"This doesn't mean that I like you or that we will be friends or something like that… I just accept that I might have been a little mean in the way I treated you, it's just that you were really getting on my nerves by showing such gall towards my sister, but… I really shouldn't have lashed at you so violently, especially when you're so weak after your fight, you didn't really deserved that. So for that I am sorry…" The chibi-goddess said hesitantly, fighting tooth and nail against the disdain she felt towards Momoyo to keep it from showing.

Momoyo just waved the apologies away as if nothing had happened in the first place. "It's okay… As a fighter and heir to the Kawakami School of martial arts, I must know how to take a hit from time to time, and I must say that for such a small girl you really pack quite the wallop. I am impressed little one, not many can boast that they were able to send the beautiful and powerful Momoyo Kawakami flying like that, weariness or not. You really must have some talent hidden within you." The buxom ravenette said honestly, her usual cocky smile returning to her face.

Skuld hadn't expected to receive such heart-felt praises from the girl that had rubbed her wrong and that she had man-handled. It actually made her felt kinda like a jerk. As it is, all she could do was acknowledge the praise with a guarded nod. "Und…"

Momoyo just kept smirking as she continued speaking. "So with that said, would you terribly mind giving me a hand? I'm afraid I'm in no condition of standing on my on, I'm going to need some help to get back to my friends." She requested as she gestured to her unresponsive body with a flick of her neck.

Skuld stared suspiciously at the exhausted ravenette as she considered her request before giving her agreement. "Very well, I'll help you… But no funny business…!" She warned as she pointed with a finger. The young goddess then proceeded to lend aid to the tired martial artist by giving her a piggy-back ride. A task that sounded far easier than it was in practice since despite being a goddess Skuld was still just a child, and so only could only rely on the strength of a girl her age to shoulder all of Momoyo's weight on her back.

"Ugh! You're heavy, those udders of yours weight as much as bowling balls. What do they feed you for Kami-sama's sake!" Skuld complained as she struggled against the combined weight of Momoyo's… Cannons that was threatening her to push her into the floor.

"Ah please, don't be like that, and here I thought we were starting to have a connection between us… Say, now that I have a better look at you, I must say you're kinda the pretty cute little thing." Momoyo said as her head rested on Skuld's shoulder, allowing her to take a good close look at the chibi-goddess face.

"What…?" Skuld said with a startled jump, understandable since she found herserlf suddenly facing Momoyo face to face when she turned to look at her. She suddenly began to have a bad feeling about the ravenette's intentions.

A devilish shameless grin began to suddenly threaten to split Momoyo's face in half. "You know, how about if we patch things up between us with a make-up kiss…?" She suggested with faux innocence.

That stopped Skuld cold on her tracks. "Whaaat…?" It was all the child goddess could say before some big meaty lips were suddenly pressing on her cheek and giving her a long wet peck.

KA-PUCHU!

For a moment Skuld could do nothing but remain there rooted on her spot, an expression of complete perplexion on her face as she touched the cheek that had just been kissed with one hand, her mind unable the process what the hell had just happened. Then, as her mental faculties restarted, a bright blush began to rise through her entire body until her whole skin was burning in a deep scarlet color; her shock being too great as to make her unable to formulate words with ease.

"Wha…? Wha…? What…? Wa… WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" With a shout of panic, Skuld dropped the buxom ravenette off her, who fell on the cold tiles of the floor on her back, before making her escape out of the room in a fit equal parts shame, embarassment and outrage.

Despite having fallen rather roughly to the floor, Momoyo made the effort of raising an arm up and pump it in a victory pose. "Yup, still got it…" She shamelessly declared with a cocky grin.

Urd couldn't help but laugh at the misfortune of her youngest sibling. "Ha! That should teach that squirt not to be so uppity! Oh god, that was priceless." She said, almost doubling over in her mirth. She took a moment to recompose herself before teleporting over Momoyo's location. "C'mon lover girl, let's get you back to your friends." She said as she hoisted up the fallen black-haired girl to her eye-level.

Momoyo seemed particularly pleased with this new development as she shamessly oggled the white-haired goddess. "Well hello there… I don't believe I've had the pleasure of meeting you yet gorgeous…" She leered with a lascivious grin.

Urd just smirked at the pick-up attempt and shook her head good-naturalely. "You're just an incorregible flirt are you not…" She said in a husky tone of her own. "I'm sorry my dear, but I'm afraid I'm just too much of a woman for you." She put a dainty finger right underneath Momoyo's jaw and began to trace the side of her chin in a gesture that oozed sensuality. "You'll need to be more than just a tease if you want to keep up with me…" Urd whispered in Momoyo's ear as she nibbled on her lobe before backing off with a purr. On the background, many of the young male students watching like Koukin, Takayanagi or Yokoshima, suddenly fell to their knees as they lowered their hands to their crotchs in one fast motion, an expression of both pain and pleasure showing on their faces. On the other hand, Gentoku Ryuubi as usual was freaking out about lesbians.

The gesture did nothing but spur the ravenette further on. "What do you mean with just a tease…? You must be mistaken hot-stuff, for there's simply no one who is a bigger tease than I!" She declared with her usual cocky smirk.

Pan simply turned back to her aunt with a deadpan as she pointed in the direction of the shameless Kawakami-heir. "That's the girl who stole my first kiss, just the mere sight of her makes my heart go all aflutter…" She said in the most flat tone ever. Behind her, Whip couldn't help but laugh at the sarcarsm.

Bulma sweat-dropped. "I see… She's certainly not what I had expected…" A mischievous smile then appeared once again in the face of the turquoise-haired scientist. "Though her personality could do with some improvement, I must say Pan; you do seem to have quite the taste for beauty…" The only response she got for that was a plain look from the Saiyan teen.

Feeling that people was talking about her behind her back, Momoyo asked Urd to bring her closer to the communication screen just so she could butt in the conversation. "My ears are burning, is someone talking about me…?" Her usual stubbornness being cut short as she took sight of Bulma who she didn't waste time to start blatantly ogling. "Not bad… I'm not usually into mature women, but damn… So, who might you be beautiful…?" She said with an impish smirk.

Pan turned towards the carefree ravenette with a strained look that clearly told she was trying really hard to keep her temper down. "Momoyo… I would like for you to mind what you say to my aunt!"

That declaration caught the kawakami heir completely by surprise. "Your aunt!? You mean this woman is one of your relatives!?" She exclaimed awestruck.

"More like a very close friend of the family, actually… I've known her grandfather since childhood and was there to help in the education of this troublesome girl." Bulma said, gesturing towards Pan with a smile.

"You've known her grandfather since childhood, just how old are you anyways…?" Karin asked with a curious expression.

It seemed that was the wrong thing to say, because the genius scientist demeanor suddenly turned frosty; Kushinada seemed to agree, because she turned to toss a fulminant glacial stare at the blonde. "That's a very rude thing to ask missy…! Don't you known it is of poor taste to be asking a lady about her age!"

Karin couldn't help but gulp at the combined glare of the mature women. She quickly tried to stammer a response in order to appease them. "I-I didn't mean it like that… I just… asked because you look pretty young for someone who has known Pan's grandfather since childhood…"

Bulma stared at the young red-clad blonde girl with suspicion for a few moments, trying to determine if she was being truthful or not. Finding no sign of deceit, the turquoise-haired scientist decided to accept that answer. "Well yes, I do take care of my looks thanks for noticing." She said with no small amount of arrogance as she flicked back a strand of hair from her ear.

She decided to ignore the little affront and turned her attention back towards Momoyo. "Anyway, back to the issue at hand… Tell me girl, what are your intentions towards my niece…?" Bulma inquired as she gave a measuring look at the buxom ravenette.

Momoyo grinned mischievously at that question. "Oh? Don't you worry yourself, ma'am. I promise you that all and every single one of my intentions towards your niece are impure and naughty." She shamelessly answered and even went as far as giving Bulma a thumb up and a wink.

Yamato couln't suppress the need to face-palm at his sister's antics. "Dammit onee-san, why must you always be so brash?"

Hakufu Sonsaku didn't seem to have understood well the meaning of Momoyo's proclamation if her clueless expression was any indication. "Impure and naughty…? Shouldn't have been the other way around…?"

Her mother, Goei, turned towards the air-headed blonde with a deceptive cheerful face. "Usually that would be the case my dear daughter, but in this instance, it is exactly as she says…Ho, ho, ho." She said with a perverted laugh.

Bulma couldn't help but chuckle at the ravenette's antics. "Well if you manage to get that chip off her shoulder that way and stop her from being so tense all the time, then I'm all up for it and give you my blessings. It is not my business to meddle in your personal affairs, but if that's what you want then go ahead. I just hope you guys will be responsible enough and keep in mind the time and place where you decide to get all hot and heavy. And even though the chances of pregnancy are practically nill, you should still make sure to use protection in case of disease." The genius scientist teased in a lecturing tone.

"AUNT! WHAT THE HELL!?" The Saiyan teen growled with such acerbic anger that the very foundations of the Shinpaku HQ literally shook for a second. The students and apprentices present began to sweat in nervousness, clearly realizing it wasn't a good thing for their continuous health to tease a being like Pan just for the heck of it; even the grandmasters were getting uncomfortable.

"Please! Stop provoking her! You're not theone standing just a few feet away in range of her wrath…" Whip pleaded in desperation, looking as if she were about to suffer an anxiety breakdown.

Bulma supressed the need of rolling her eyes, but couldn't completely stop from scoffing. "As if she would actually dare, or her parents would let her, try to hurt innocent bystanders around her in purpose. She's just being your typical bratty teenager doing a tantrum because things are not going her way…" She said in a very clear unimpressed tone.

"Yes, I understand how teenagers can be such annoying drama queens…" Chun-Li said in quite the unnerved countenance of her own. "But trying to make fun of a moody teenager girl with the power of destroying planets is not something that fills me with reassurance…" She deadpanned.

Bulma, despite still being quite unconcerned by the situation at large, decided to cut the nervous martial artists some slack. It is the least she could for them for having to put up with Pan for all these weeks. "Alright, fine… I'll stop teasing my niece for now…" She then turned towards the alien girl in question. "C'mon Pan, stop pouting. You're almost seventeen years old, you're no longer a toddler to be doing such childish outburst; you're already in enough trouble as it is to be making things worse by acting like a brat…" The blunette scientist said with a rather stern expression.

That seemed enough to pull the alien girl out of her funk, as she turned towards her aunt with an expression not unlike a prisioner pleading non-guilty. "What!? What did I do!? I haven't done anything that would get me into trouble! What are you talking about aunt!?"

Bulma just looked at her honorary niece through half-lidded eyes. "Other than the fact that you were touching my prototype teleporter without permission, which is the reason why you ended up stranded in another galaxy in the first place…" Pan couldn't help but wince at that accusation, knowing she couldn't do anything to deny that fact. "I'm also pretty dissapointed in how you've been handling things in that planet Earth. I'm not actually surprised you got inside your head the idea of taking over all the fighting schools in that little island nation of Japan in order to install a battle system like the one the Saiyan educational system has since fighting is in your blood, but picking up fights just for the heck of it with powerful divine beings that threatened the safety of an entire city is simply going too far, not to mention callous and irresponsible. I thought you were taught better than that, but then again, you're Goku's grandaughter and he often tended to take some very dumb courses of action himself because of his love for battle like wanting to fight against the ridiculously powerful enemy in turn at its strongest and in equal terms when the entire fate of the world was in the balance, or have your father Gohan fight on his own against said ridiculously powerful enemy when he was just a child and leaving the entire pressure of saving our planet from destruction in his young shoulders… There's also the fact of you gathering a following around when you don't have any kind of experience about commanding a bunch of people."

Pan shrugged at that statement unconcerned. "I don't know, I think I've been doing rather well so far…"

Again the flat look that Bulma was projecting plainly told she certainly disagreed. "What about the fact one of your secretaries went psycho and ate the heart of another woman in the middle of a global broadcast…!?"

"Hey! You cannot blame that one on me because I too was blind-sided by it like everybody else! I honestly wasn't expecting something like that to happen in the middle of a fight. And I was less than pleased to know it was the fault of that Orochi creature by taking control over my minions through their blood. That's why I have it in my to do list to track down this Orochi and turn him into stew since I don't want to spent all of my time worrying about that at any moment my secretaries or Iori will go out in a rampage at the smallest provocation. Damn… Their lives must have sucked if they have to live with the constant fear of their condition getting out of control and hanging over their heads like that. Plus, it's been some time since I last ate serpent after all…" The alien girl answered as she rambled a little.

Bulma considered those words for a moment before speaking again. "Okay, fine. I'll admit is pretty unfair to blame her for something that is clearly out of her control… Still, you should have kept a better eye on your followers; and speaking of Iori, what was that about allowing him to almost beat to death that young boy and his girlfriend!? That was awfully cruel of you Pan, I'm seriously dissapointed in you for doing that. You're acting like Vegeta when he first arrived into our planet…"

"And yet, you married him…" It was the simply answer that the alien girl said. "You married uncle Vegeta despite the fact he can literally be a royal bastard most of the time, and that's not taking into account the fact he is the prince the whole Saiyan race…"

Bulma let out a tired sigh, already telling that what was supposed to be a happy reunion was quickly deteriorating and going down the drain. "Yes, I married your uncle despite all the things he did once upon a time as prince of the Saiyans, but he has mellowed out a lot over the years. Once upon a time he wouldn't have hesitated to kill all life on entire planets out of spite against any perceived insult; nowadays if someone dares to say crap to him to his face he just simply scares the living hell out of then, beats them up and sends them to the hospital with life-scarring injuries. I don't know but I consider that a great improvement as to how he used to be before."

Doctor Jackal couldn't help but interject at that. "It is actually a very marked improvement indeed, and quite surprising too… I don't know how you did to keep a genocidal alien warlord from taking any more lives, but whatever you did must have been certainly quite impressive…" He said in a rare show of actual honesty.

"Hmmmph, a real life example of the beauty and the beast…" Foxy said in a deadpan.

Bulma couldn't help but laugh at that comment, founding it awfully accurate. "That… That actually is an appropiate allegory since it is pretty much true…" She then composed herself and adressed Akabane. "As for your observation… It certainly has been a very trying experience at times doing my best to tame my husband into a much more socially acceptable behavior that can be comparable to trying to pull out your own teeth with some tweezers or attempting to break through a wall by smashing your face repeatedly on it, but I must say despite the downsides I think I've been doing a rather good job. He's still as rough as they come, but I know that underneath his grumpy exterior he actually cares…"

"And despite that, we both know he would have done the same that I did about letting my minions beat their opponents to a pulp. Uncle Vegeta might have mellowed out over the years, but the only things he cares about is you and my cousins Trunks and Bra. He doesn't care in the slightest whether other people he has no kind of attachments live or die…"

Despite the mounting tension of the situation, Whip couldn't help but interject. "Hold it! I know things are getting quite serious between you two, but I really have to ask. Did you truly name your children after underwear garments…?" She exclaimed, turning towards Bulma with an incredulous gobsmacked look. "Why…!? Seriously, why!? Just what the blazes were you thinking that made you believe that was a good idea…!?"

Bulma was a little guarded at having to answer that question; she very well knows how other people tend to look at her family's tradition for naming conventions of their children, but even after all these many decades she cannot help but feel apprehensive at having to explain such family quirks to other people. "It's a family tradition, okay… I didn't come up with the idea…"She said as she looked away to hide a blush.

"Some family tradition alright…" Juri commented bluntly. "Bunch of weirdos you must be…"

That insult made Bulma scowl but before she could mouth a comeback, Pan interrupted and ordered her minion to behave with a gesture. "Juri,enough… I'm in the middle of an important conversation with my aunt. I have no time for petty interruptions and squabbles…" She said authoritatively without even turning to look at the Korean woman.

Juri backed off despite wishing to continue antagonizing the scientific genius. "Fine, whatever…"

The turqoise-haired scientist stared at the exchange for a moment before adressing Pan again. "Well, it seems you are able to control your followers pretty well after all… Which actually makes it even more dissapointing that you allowed that beating to happen in front of you and did nothing to try and stop it; on the contrary, you even went as far as to keep others from trying to stop the fight. Seriously Pan, just what the hell were you thinking…!?" Bulma asked in a mixture of outrage and concern.

The alien girl however, for the life of her, could not understand what her aunt was so worked up about. "I don't know why you're so upset aunt… You know that none of the warriors in our family believe in interfering with other people's fights, not my father or grandfather Goku, not Gran-Gran Bardock or Piccolo-sensei, and certainly not uncle Vegeta, who despises other people meddling on his battles and goes as far as rejecting any kind of outside help… So I really don't know what the big issue is, I'm just doing as how I've been taught…"

"That is true to a certain extent…" Bulma agreed. "But they certainly don't think twice about tossing aside personal pride or honor when things get serious…"

"If that were true then my father would never had been forced to fight Cell on his own at the age of eleven." It was the immediate reply of the Saiyan teen.

"That was different, there wasn't much that Goku and the others could do since Cell was taking the entire planet hostage in case someone might dare to interfere with that little tournament he was hosting, and he had more than enough power to obliterate our entire world in a single attack so your elders couldn't simply rush him because of the chance that he might have been able to land an blow on the planet before they were able to stop him. And let me tell you, none but Goku were pleased with that situation; even Piccolo went as far as to chastise Goku for letting Gohan fight against Cell on his own." Bulma explained to her honorary niece, trying to dispel any misconception she might have.

"What about Majin Buu…? If I recall the story correctly our family also fought against that monster by taking turns against him." Pan inquired with a raised eyebrow.

"Again, there were extenuating circumstances as to why that happened." Bulma replied without missing a beat. "The simplest answer I can give you is that we didn't have enough powerful fighters that could face Majin Buu as a group at any given time. You had to remember this was seven years after the battles against Cell and Brolly. Two powerful enemies that our family and friends had to face one after the other and in the span of a week, and in order to achieve victory against them, both your grandfather Goku and Great-grandfather Bardock had to sacrifice their lives. So we were down two of our most powerful fighters by the time Majin Buu appeared… Well, kind off…" The turquoise-haired scientist said, trailing off a little.

"Kind off…? What do you mean kind off!?" Kenichi asked, butting in the conversation since he was particularly interested in the story being told. "Where they dead or not…!?"

Bulma began to rub the back of her head, wondering how she was going to explain this next part. "Well… Has Pan already mentioned that some members of our family have connections in the spirit world, hasn't she…?"

Most of the people in the room replied with a nod. "Yes, it is one of the reasons why the Daimakaicho and Lord Koenma were able to struck a deal with our world's Kami-sama to avoid a war between heaven and hell after the reveal of the existence of the goddesses to the entire world, just because of who her grandfather is and the sheer pull his name alone has on the spiritual world." Morrigan said with an amused smile.

Bulma took notice at how Pan seemed to lose her temper at that comment, she realized it was best if she were to move the subject along. "Yes, exactly… Anyway, because of his connections on the spirit world, the Kaio-sama of our section of space allowed him to both he, and his father Bardock, to come back to the living world for a single day to visit their family and friends and participate in the martial arts tournament that is held every three years in our world."

"Mmmmph… Must be a really impressive competition considering the level of the warriors on your planet…" Ryu comented with a thoughtful face as she brought a hand to his chin.

Bulma had to agree with that observation. "Well yeah… You can expect quite the show every time Goku participates in one of the tournaments… In this particular case, an old and ugly midget space wizard named Babidi and his lackeys came to our planet in secret to gather a great quantity of energy necessary to release Majin Buu from his prison. He used his magic to enslave the mind of my husband Vegeta and had him fight against Goku to gather the energy he needed from their battle. Majin Buu was fred as result, and right off the bat he killed the last remaining associate of the midget space wizard for making fun of him and calling him a bumbling idiot, then the Supreme Kaio-shin and Gohan joined forces to fight him at the same time and he easily defeated both of them with barely any effort."

"My father was defeated without any effort…!" Pan exclaimed in something that resembled disbelief. "But he was the most powerful warrior at the time!"

Bulma just nodded in confirmation. "I'm afraid that's true Pan… Gohan is indeed a very powerful fighter in his own right, but the years of peace after the defeat of Cell were not good for his fighting skills which began to dull without powerful enemies to fight. It also didn't help either that he had to take his attention away from training because your grandmother Chi-Chi was insistent that he forget everything about fighting and instead focused in his studies so he could become— And I quote 'A productive member of society'… So your father wasn't really in the best of shape when he fought against Majin Buu…" She explained to a rather incredulous audience that was sporting several 'Are you fucking kidding me?' looks.

Whip was deadpanning greatly by the end of the explanation. "That has to be one of the most dumbass reasons I have ever heard in my life for a great warrior to let himself waste away. I mean, I'm not saying education is not important but you shouldn't also neglect your training, especially when you are one of the few warriors charged with protecting your own goddamned planet against any outside threat!"

Bulma winced at that, knowing the short-haired brunette had a point; she couldn't help but sigh at the answer she knew she had to give. "Yeah… Chi-Chi didn't cared much about that, she said that after the defeat of Cell there was no more need for warriors to fight and risk their lives because it was doubtful that another threat as powerful as Cell would appear again. She believed that Gohan was better off forgetting about fighting and should instead turn his attention into becoming a Doctor or a Lawyer… Obviously, in hindsight, she was wrong and it kind off came back to bite us all in the ass when Majin Bu appeared…" The genius scientist explained hesitantly, knowing how bad it looked. And she could tell because of all the mind-boggled expressions that her audience was sporting.

"That's stupid! And that it's something coming from me…" Kenichi said of all people, which should tell just how Chi-Chi's meddling utterly fucked things up. "I mean, I'm not the bravest person that exists nor I particularly like getting into fights if I can avoid it. But even I can tell that neglecting your training in that way is not only dumb, but also dangerous and inconsiderate when you're supposed to be the defender of the planet. How else will you be able to protect the people you care about if you're not strong enough to do so in the first place?" He said with the most dumb-struck expression ever.

"It is as the boy says…" Mikumo Kushinada began to say in her usual monotone. "How would you expect to protect your own without the strength to keep whatever threat might come your way at bay? This is even more distressing because you're talking about one of the few warriors that were left to protect your world after most of the others had died. You're not only endengaring your own life by taking such idiotic course of action, but also the lives of all the others under your protection; such dereliction of duty borders on criminal negligence…" She shook her head to show her dissaproval at the stupidity of it all. "This right here is one of the reasons why I helped Senzui in creating Yami, because of stupid people like this Chi-Chi who hold true warriors back and cause their skills to rust…!" She roughly stated in one of the few shows of emotions she has displayed, which should tell about the frustration she must be feeling inside.

Pan gestured for the century-old grandmaster to calm down; they really don't needed her going into an irate frenzy in such narrow confined space like the one they were inside right now. "Easy there Kushinada, there's no reason to get all worked up about something that happened many years ago. Though I do particularly agree with your opinion…"

"So what happened then?" Iori Yagami inquired rather impatiently since he didn't care in the slightest about the ongoing outrage and was more interested in knowing more about the battle against such a powerful opponent like this Majin Buu…

"After defeating Gohan and the Supreme Kaio-sama…" Bulma began to speak again. "He was then confronted by Vegeta, who even though was still under the effects of that mind-controlling spell, wanted to fight Majin Buu to sate his own violent impulses. He proved to be the first real challenge that Majin Buu had to face after escaping from his imprisonment. He was able to inflict enough damage to Buu for him to begin taking Vegeta seriously. I'm actually not surprised he was able to do better than Gohan, unlike him; Vegeta has almost a reverential worship for training. He spends almost sixteen hours a day, every single day working out inside his gravity chamber, only coming out to either eat or sleep. And back in those days, he had spent those seven years pushing it even farther than that due to his single-minded obsession of becoming strong enough to defeat Goku in a one on one battle… So he was really in his best shape ever when he fought against Majin Buu…" She declared, impressing her audience greatly at hearing about his husband's dog-headed determination.

"Your husband… He sounds as quite the formidable warrior…" Kushinada said with honest praise, something incredibly rare coming from her. So it did spoke volumes about Vegeta's skills.

Bulma gave a smile and a wink at the century old grandmaster for that comment. "He is… Though sometimes he can be pretty difficult to handle due to his single-mindness… Anyway, to continue with the tale, my husband managed to cause a great deal of harm on Buu on his own, forcing the pink menace into employing a grievously destructive explosive attack in order to injure Vegeta. Ultimately, Buu managed to defeat my husband, despite the fact he was strong enough to injure Buu. But any wound inflicted on Majin Buu was immediately closed due to Buu's insane regenerative abilities that allowed him to heal any injury in seconds. Even if his entire body was destroyed, as long as a single cell remained of his body he was able to completely regenerate his form from it…"

"Damn! That monster sounds like a particular nasty piece of work to fight against." Ken Masters exclaimed with a wince, dreading ever having to fight a creature as powerful as how this Majin Buu sounded to be. "How could you ever hope to defeat him if he could regenerate any damage you caused him within moments?"

"Well… None of our friends could hope to do so as they were at that time…" Bulma confessed. "My son Trunks, who had dragged his best friend Goten with him, Goku's second child, with both being children at the time and having slip away to follow everybody into facing Majin Buu despite strict orders not to do so, began to plead with my husband to let them both fight at his side after seeing Vegeta being defeated so that together they could defeat Buu for good…"

"Your son sounds quite the brave young man who doesn't seem to lack courage." Hayato Furinji said praisingly, acknowledging Bulma's son valor and willingness to stand and defend his family against any threat. "But I know for experience that bravery enough does not suffice against terrible menaces of such magnitude like this Majin Buu sounds to be..."

Bulma nodded in agreement knowing that the elder martial artist was speaking true. "My husband too was of the same opinion, so he knocked out both Goten and Trunks and decided to sacrifice himself to save the children lives by overcharging all the KI in his body at the same time and blowing himself up alongside Majin Buu… :Sniff: He… Gave his life so that our child could live…" She said as her eyes began to water with unspilled tears. "I'm sorry… It's just that I always get a little teary eyed when I remember the sacrifice of my husband…" She excused as she turned her head away to dab her eyes.

"It's okay we understand it must have been dificult for you to lose your husband…" Chun-Li said reassuringly.

"The worst part is that not even my husband's sacrifice was enough to stop Majin Buu…" Bulma revealed with a deppressed mood. "When our friend Piccolo, a former rival of Goku who is also the sensei of both Pan and her father, went back to the battlefield to check on the children and kill Babidi for having released Majin Buu, he saw how the remains of that monster joined back together and reformed Buu, that's when we finally discovered the true extents of his regenerative capabilities. Piccolo had no choice but to take Goten and Trunks with him and make his escape, knowing he didn't stand a chance against Buu. Bibidi then had Buu heal him using his magic after Piccolo's attempt on his life and proceeded to have Buu go in a rampage throughout the planet in search of Piccolo, and the children for their individual parts in almost ruining his plans…"

"Dammit… That Babidi asshole sounds just like Bison." Juri remarks with plain loathing, anything that could remind her of the man she's hated for a great deal of her life is more than enough to make her rage.

"All tyrants and Dictators share some similar traits regardless of gender or species. Goku and the others have fought against many of them throughout the years to know this to be true…" Bulma stated soberly before continuing with her tale. "Luckily Goku and Bardock managed to intercept Buu and keep him from destroying one of the mayor capitals of our world, a good thing and more so since my son was there looking for the Dragon Radar that we use to track and search for the Dragon Balls. They effectively distracted Buu by showing him each of the Super-Saiyan transformations, from one to two until they finally decided to reveal their recently acquired third state…"

"Wait a minute…! Third state!?" Mature interrupted in shock, astounded at the fact that there was another level of power besides the two that Pan had already shown, just really how much powerful can these Saiyans get!? "Just how many Super-states do Saiyans have!?"

Bulma blinked idly at that question, it took her a moment to remember that most people are not used to dwelling around almighty powerful alien warriors that engage on planet-shattering battles from time to time, so it was understandable why other people might find surprising the level of power that Saiyans are capable of showing. She considered what would be appropriate to say before giving an answer. "If Pan hasn't deemed it to speak about the levels beyond the second state, then I would assume it is for some good reason. But suffice to say that the first, second and even the third stage is merely scratching the surface of what a Saiyan is capable of…" She answered, leaving her audience rather gob-smacked at the revelation that there were still more Super-states beyond what Pan has shown so far, and even those were just a trickle of her actual capabilities. However, some like Morrigan and Momoyo were openly smiling, delighted at the news that there were yet many more things in store for them.

The turquoise-haired scientist ignored the flabbergasted looks and continued with her tale. "Anyway, Goku and his father managed to overpower Buu with their new states, however, at any point did the ancient creature took the fight seriously, and instead thought the entire fight was a game they were playing with him…"

Kenichi couldn't keep from gulping at hearing that. "Was this MajinBuu that powerful that he considered fighting against two unbelievable powerful alien supermen to be nothing more than a game…!?" He asked with a taint of fear laced in his voice, remembering the unbelievable power that Pan had already showed in a restrained second stage, to think that there was still another level of power even greater than what they had already seen, and that there is a creature who considers fighting with no holds barred against two warriors wielding such mind-boggling power to be nothing but a game… It was a soul-crushing terrifying thought to tell the truth.

Bulma was pretty solemn when she gave her answered. "Indeed he was, there was a reason as to why the supreme Kaio-shins feared Majin Buu in ancient times. He almost single-handedly exterminated the entire Kaio race before he was imprisoned…" The genius scientist explained with the outmost seriousness to land home the gravity of the threat they had been facing at the time. If the previous revelation filled them with dread, this one positively made them crap their pants.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…!? You mean to tell us this ancient monster almost killed all of the space gods by himself!? WHAT THE FUCK!?" Whip exclaimed with mind-numbing terror, her face frozen in an expression of mind-boggled shock. Even the goddesses were left in a grim silence as they began to remember the ancient legends of Majin Buu and the terrible danger it represented.

Bulma simply nods. "Indeed, up to that point, Majin Buu was the greatest threat that Goku and his friends had ever faced… Even worse, as their battle kept dragging on, Majin Buu showed his ability to copy other people's techniques by using attacks he had seen Goku's friends use, including my husband Vegeta. He even managed to copy the Kamehame ha technique after watching Goku use it only once…" She declared, revealing even more bleak information with each word she spoke.

"Dammit! So not even is this Majin Buu creature unbelievable powerful enough to destroy all of the space gods on his own, but he also can steal all of your hard-learned techniques after seeing them only once!? That's… That's so fucking unfair…!" Juri exclaimed disheartened at the injustice of it all. Pan had already stated several times how the fighters here on Earth were small fries compared to what can be found out there, but being told something and having and actual idea and frame of reference of what it entails, well… They're just two completely different things.

Her audience could do nothing but gape in shock and horror at what they had just heard; this included the likes of Kushinada, Kenshiro, Shin, Momoyo and Ageha Kuki, they could not believe the existence of such a monster. Even Morrigan and the goddesses were unnerved by that description. "I had heard tales of an ancient evil that once threatened the whole universe named Majin Buu; an evil so terrible that even the all-powerful Kais whisper its name in fear." Belldandy began to say, rather shaken by the latest revelations. "But I would have never expected for the real thing to be so monstrous…"

Bulma acknowledged that comment with a nod. "Indeed… To tell the truth, we were lucky to have faced Majin Buu when we did, right after he was released from his long imprisonment. The many eons he had spent sealed away had considerably weakened him, stripping him from a great deal of his once terrifying power, though he was still quite the implacable and dangerous threat nonetheless. It was good fortune that recovering his lost power was the last thing in his mind after being released; instead he just wanted to enjoy his newfound freedom and roam our planet in search of something to amuse him. But that wasn't going to happen any time soon with Babidi there ordering him around. Anyway, after some quick deliberations between us, it was decided that Majin Buu was simply too dangerous to be left unchecked, so we needed a way to keep him contained and as far away from any major population center while we collected the Dragon Balls in order to wish Goku, Vegeta and Bardock back alive. That is why Trunks went in search for the Dragon Radar in the first place…"

"I'm surprised you had the opportunity to make plans, considering how much of a threat you make that Majin Buu sound, and that there was no one to try and stop him, it is a wonder he didn't decided to just simply destroy your planet altogether…" Foxy commented pointedly, raising a thin elegant white eye-brow.

"Yes… I forgot to mention one important little detail." Bulma confessed, rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment. "Despite being a powerful ancient magical being, Majin Buu wasn't exactly evil per se… When he was released, he wasn't really what we had expected an immemorial galactic threat that has existed since the dawn of time tolook like. He was a chubby and rotund funny-looking genie with the mentality of a toddler whose body was made of bright pink gum…"

The entire room suddenly fell silent, none of the people present able to believe what they had just heard. "You're kidding, right…?" Whip deadpanned with a flat stumped look.

Bulma just shook her head in a negative. "I'm afraid I'm not. Majin Buu was certainly the epitome of the looks can be deceiving phrase. Anyway, turns out that the reason why he was like that was because he has the ability to consume other people, and when he does, he not only absorbs the powers and abilities of the people he consumes, but he also absorbs their personality."

"So the reason he was a big happy pink fatso was…?" Juri inquired.

"Because he had absorbed the personality of the previous Grand Supreme Kaio-shin that he ate." It was Bulma simple response.

"Daaaaamn!"

"However, despite having an extreme change to his psyche, that didn't mean that his previous personalities disappeared. They just remained hidden and dormant in the deep recesses of his mind." The genius scientist continued explaining.

"Uh-oh, I think I know where this is going…" Skuld commented as she got an idea of what Bulma was hinting at.

"Eventually, his conflicting personalities got at odds with each other and the evil aspects of his psyche were expelled from his body an acquired a physical form of their own. This Evil Buu then beat up and consumed his counterpart, getting a serious boost of power in the process…"

"You know, that sounds pretty much like what happened with you and Bison, Rose…" Chun-Li said, turning towards the purple-clad fortune-tellerin question. "Both of you once part of one being until your soul split in two and you were born…"

"Indeed…" Ryu agreed with a nod. "More so since Bison once almost killed you when he tried to take your soul fragment back into him… And before you ask, Guy was the one who told me what happened to you since he was the one who found you at the brink of death and nursed you back to health. He informed me of it as a warning against Bison increased psycho power since I sometimes stumble upon him during my travels because of the respect we both have for each other as martial artists." The eternal wanderer explained humbly.

"I see…" Rose commented neutrally without giving anything away on her expression after hearing the man she has a particular interest on being mentioned. "Yes, Bison once tried to take my soul fragment back into him. But he was more concerned in taking my share of psycho power rather than joining our soul back into one being. Remember that I represent all the good aspects of his soul, aspects that despite desiring my share of our psychic power, he still didn't wished to take back into himself. So although I was left almost completely drained, and with barely any soul left inside my body to keep me alive, I was able to pull through and recover with whatever faint traces I still have left. However, I have lost almost all of my previous psychic potential… Haven't been able to launch a single psychic projectile or move things with my mind after my ordeal. Even simple things like scanning my surroundings or reading the surface thoughts of another person take me a great deal of effort to accomplish…" The purple-haired woman confessed with a little melancholy at the end.

Pan gave her a thoughtful glance at that. "That explains why I was able to so easily detect your poorly done attempt to read my mind when I first met you yesterday. I was wondering after all why a so called renowned psychic had done such an amateurish attempt to intrude upon my mental defenses, this actually explains quite a lot." She said as she brought a hand to her chin in thought.

"What I'm amazed is how many of the threats and battles your family has fought out there mirror many of the things that the warriors here on Earth have been able to accomplish, no matter how rare or esoteric their abilities might be…" Gentoku Ryuubi said as she fixed her glasses with one hand.

Pan just nodded in agreement. "Yes, small pond in a big ocean. That's why I don't tend to be impressed with most of the issues that I happen to stumble upon or the people that sometimes appear to challenge me. The only one who actually managed to make me raise an eyebrow was Momoyo because I hadn't expected a human girl to have become as powerful as her on her own…" She confessed with actual honest praise on her voice.

The raven-haired girl in question was grinning shamelessly from ear to ear at hearing that. "Gee… Thank you Pan. I am glad you approve. Keep saying pretty things to me like that and I might give you a reward." She said as she puckered her lips and moved away from Urd while she leaned towards the alien girl with the clear intention of kissing her.

Pan simply evaded the sloppy kissing attempt by stepping to a side with a deadpan, causing the raven-haired girl to fall to the ground face first since she didn't have the strength to stand on her own. The Saiyan teen just dispassionately stared at her with a plain look as Momoyo's mouth smacked into the floor with a loud dry bump.

"Ouch!"

Pan just sighed at the idiotic display. "And that's the extent of whatever goodwill I might have felt towards you… Don't push your luck." She stated threateningly.

"Still, it is really surprising that your family fought against a being as powerful as Majin Buu and still was able to come out on top…" Gentoku Ryuubi stated with nothing short of awe.

The turquoise-haired scientist just shrugged at that declaration. "All the enemies that Goku and the others have fought over the years have always been much more powerful than them, and yet they managed to defeat them all in the end. That's just how great his determination and drive to win are, he is a natural born warrior after all…" She stated before continuing with the story. "Anyway, back to the tale, as they continued with their battle over West City, Buu managed to deflect an energy attack from Goku into another nearby city… And destroyed it completely. However, one good thing that Goku and his father managed to discover from this fight was the poor relationship that existed Between Buu and his master Babidi. Throughout the entire struggle the midget space wizard did nothing but scold and insult Buu and his actions, getting so much on the pink monstrosity's nerves to the point he began to disobey and turn against Babidi before telling him to shut up. Eventually my son finally managed to find the Dragon Radar and escape safely from West City and so Goku and Bardock stopped their attack on Majin Buu as their stalling mission had been a success, Buu however wanted to continue their battle so in order to make him let them leave in peace, Goku told him that in two days' time there would be another strong fighter to face Buu and give him a challenge. Majin Buu accepts this answer and allows Goku and his father to leave, but before doing so Goku asks why Majin Buu takes orders from Babidi, considering their enormous difference in strength and power. Right after Goku leaves, Babidi starts insulting Buu again for not finishing him off, calling him names and such, which ends up pushing Buu over the edge. The pink monster then turned towards Babidi and began to strangle him to make sure he wasn't able to cast a spell on him, and then Buu simply murdered his master by punching his head off." Bulma explains to a rather unsettled audience.

"To be fair… It was kind of stupid from his part to insult to his face the ancient evil entity of unbelievable power that was strong enough to kill all of the space gods by himself…" Foxy commented at what she considered an act of mind-boggling stupidity. "Did he had a death wish or something…?"

Bulma didn't really know how to answer that question. "I really cannot say… But regardless, despite having killed his master, that didn't made dealing with Buu any easier. Not knowing what to do with Babidi now dead, Buu proceeded to continue on his murderous rampage, this time, uncontrolled, destroying city after city… And there was no one able to face him…"

The gathered martial artists were left stumped in shock and horror at that declaration. "What!? But what about Goku and his father Bardock!? Didn't you just said that they had stalled MajinBuu long to keep him from destroying one of your planet's capital city!? What happened to them!?" Master Shio Sasaki exclaimed, very unsettled at the thought of the defenders of the planet simply stepping away from their duties during a critical moment.

"I also said that they had been granted a very limited time to visit the world of the living since they were dead, their time simply ran out and were forced to return to the afterlife. That is why we we're gathering the Dragon Balls in the first place, remember…?" Bulma replied as if she were explaining things to little children, a little condescending from her part but nonetheless it didn't took away from the truth on her words.

Pan wasn't sure how to respond to that. "I'm not that sure if what you're saying is correct aunt. I remember uncle Vegeta and Gran-gran Bardock telling the story differently…" She said with a puzzled expression.

"Well, it's been little more than eighteen years since these events happened. You can't expect me to remember every single little detail. Anyhow, the thing is that we had lost Goku, Vegeta and Bardock, and Majin Buu was free to rampage around our planet since none of the others were strong enough to stop him." Bulma stated.

"What about my father…?" Pan inquired. "Yes he had been defeated previously by Majin Buu. But he should have been completely healed from his injuries by that time already…"

The turquoise-haired scientist swayed her head in a negative. "Well, to tell the truth Pan, we didn't know Gohan was still alive. We all thought he had died after his battle with Majin Buu and thought he had been atomized by the pink monster since we were never able to find his body. We later learned he had been taken by the supreme Kaio-shin back to his planet to heal his wounds and start training him to fight against Majin Buu because he knew we would never have a better chance to stop him before he was able to gather steam and regain his lost strength.…"

"Your father was trained by the Supreme Kai himself in the sacred planet of the gods! I'm so jealous!" Skuld exclaimed towards Pan pretty excited, having finally overcome her embarrassment and returned to the rest of the group.

Bulma answered that question with a nod. "Yes, Gohan was. But by taking our last powerful warrior able to face Majin Buu, our planet was left totally defenseless against the depredations of the pink monster…" She stated in a grim tone.

"Oh…." It was all that the child goddess could say for it really sounded like a terrible situation to be in.

"There was actually truly no one able to make a stand against this Majin Buu…?" Ryu asked greatly disturbed at the notion of an entire world being left so defenseless when the stakes were so high.

"Well… My son and his friend Goten did tried to challenge Majin Buu a day later using a fusion technique that Goku had taught them to combine their powers and form a single being strong enough to fight him, but nevertheless they were defeated rather quickly by Majin Buu and were barely able to escape with their lives…" Bulma confessed a little disquiet at the incredibly stupid and risky move that the two children had tried to do.

"Fusion technique…?" Ken Master inquired, rather intrigued.

It was Pan who answered that question. "The fusion dance is a technique whose purpose is to temporarily merge two or more bodies into a single, superior entity. It consists of a short series of poses that are performed by two characters of equal power levels and roughly equal size. To correctly perform the Fusion, the fusees must strike the poses in a perfectly symmetrical image of one another. The result of a correctly performed Fusion Dance is a superior being whose power is multiplied several-fold over that of the individual fusees, with the fused character possessing several mixed physical traits of their original total time that this technique lasts is about thirty minutes, give or take, depending on the amount of ki that is used. After that, it takes the character's bodies another hour before they are able to fuse again. The fusion can also end if the two fusees' power levels fall out of sync after the fusion is completed, or if the characters involved sustain enough damage while under the fusion technique. Additionally, the more powerful the fused entity is, the shorter the fusion will last." The alien girl explained nonchalantly.

The gathered martial artists were left rather stumped, wondering about the usefulness of such technique, their minds conjuring images of what kind of beings would result from the fusion of themselves with several of their allies. "Mmmmph, sound like an intriguing technique…" Ryu remarked as he imagined how he would look if he were to be fusioned with his best friend Ken Masters, the blonde fighter from the United States thinking in a similar train of thought.

Bulma agreed with that assessment with a nod. "Indeed, but without any of our heavy-hitters available, the technique was all but useless to our needs. In any case, with the safety of the world in danger and with our most powerful warriors out of circulation, MajinB uu ran unchecked causing death and destruction wherever he went, destroying entire cities in the process. Regardless of the lack of warriors capable enough to stand against Majin Buu, that didn't meant there weren't some who did try. Pan's maternal grandfather, Hercules Satan, was one of the few who tried despite the horrible disparity of power levels…"

"And this Mister… Satan (What a terrible and inappropriate name) was he another of your all-powerful alien warriors…?" Mature inquired despite her unease at saying such name.

The genius scientist simply shook her head sideways in a negative. "No, I'm afraid. He is just a normal human being, he does have some skill and he can be considered a strong martial artist by human standards since he has a lot of titles and championships he won on his own. But compared with the great power wielded by Majin Buu, he was little more but a fly on the wall…" Bulma said, grimacing a little at the continuous overbearing show-boating that is Mister Hercules Satan.

"I see…" It was all that Mature was able to say after such unflattering description. "I assume he too was killed by Majin Buu…"

"Actually no… Turns out being weak became a great boon for him since Majin Buu didn't take any of his ill-thought attempts to kill him seriously enough to consider him a threat and instead thought he was trying to play games with him."

"Just like during his fight with Pan's grandfather Goku and great-grandfather Bardock…" Foxy commented.

Bulma nodded in acknowledgement. "Indeed, Buu's naivety allowed Hercules to get close to him and befriend him, giving him the opportunity to teach the pink creature about morals and the difference between good and evil…" The turquoise-haired scientist said, leaving most of her audience speechless since they certainly hadn't expected for the story to turn into such direction.

"Wait a minute…" Juri began to say, rather dubious. "You mean to tell us that the ancient and all powerful pink monster that almost managed to kill all of the space gods on his own and had to be sealed before it threatened all the universe, was defeated by the power of friendship…!?" She remarked with a very incredulous face. "What a cop-out!"

Chun-Li just turned towards her long lasting rival with a dead-pan. "We've yet to reach the part about Majin Buu's split of his personalities, remember…?" It was all she said with an accusatory tone.

The Korean woman simply remained there on her spot with a stumped expression, a sweat-drop appearing on the side of her head. "Oh…?"

The genius scientist on the screen simply agreed with that statement with a nod. "Right so… It was during this time when Mister Satan (Why suddenly you all have such weird expressions?) befriended Majin Buu that the innate evil aspects of his original personality began to get at odds with his current new outlook in life… And as I had previously stated, the divide between personalities was so great that all of Buu's inner evil was suddenly expelled from his body and acquired a physical form of his own. The evil incarnation of Buu quickly got into conflict with his good side and proved himself superior right from the get go, with the good Buu unable to land a single hit on him. Eventually, after completely dominating the battle, the evil Buu consumed his good counterpart, causing them to re-fuse into a single being, but this time with all of the evil aspects on the outside instead of the inside, which incidentally caused Buu to become even more powerful than before. Now that he was whole again, this Buu apparently gained the ability to sense other people's Ki, so he made his way to Kami's lookout where most of our friends and families were taking refuge and started demanding to see the strong warrior that Goku had told his previous counterpart about. Piccolo in a desperate attempt to distract Buu, told the pink monster that he could amuse himself by terrorizing the people of our world (knowing they could be revived later with the use of the Dragon Balls), but Buu instead unleashed one single devastating attack with which he annihilated the entire population of our planet in an instant. Just one single attack and a couple of minutes were more than enough for him to exterminate all the life in our planet… That's just how powerful he was…" Bulma explained in a somber mood, leaving her entire audience speechless. No one had certainly expected for the situation to become so dire. "Only we who had been taking refuge in Kami's lookout and our friends Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu and Mister Satan who remained back in the surface of our world were the only ones left after Buu finished his Human Extinction Attack…"

"Oh… My… God…!" It was all that Karin was able to say after hearing such a monstrous act, she really couldn't think about what to say, even Momoyo was left stupefied at such revelation. The entire mood in the room plummeted as shit suddenly turned pretty fucking real.

"Then what happened…?" Doctor Jackal of all people asked, for once his eternal pleasant smile was gone, and instead, a grim and stoic demeanor clung heavily around him.

"After that terrible show of power, Piccolo had no choice but to agree to Buu's demands to take him to see Goten and Trunks, but managed to convince the pink monster into accepting the condition of waiting one hour before leading him to their location, bringing forth an hourglass so that Buu could measure the passing of time. It is not until he found out that Videl, Pan's mother, was Mr. Satan's daughter that he accepts, saying her smell is similar to that of Satan's. However, Chi-Chi slaps him in retaliation for having killed Gohan, as I had said we were of the belief that Gohan was dead, and Buu simply responded by using his magic powers to turn her into an egg and crushing her right in front the rest of us that remained." Bulma explains, shaking her head at the unpleasant feelings that the memory of such events gave her.

"Stupid woman…" It was the merciless answer of Kushinada, who found such action to be incredibly idiotic. "She already proved herself not only a weakling but a hindrance for the efforts of warriors greater than her, his son wouldn't have been given for dead if she hadn't meddled in his training. What did she expected to accomplish by facing the monster that not even the greatest warriors of her world had been able to defeat, when she didn't even had the strength to protect herself? No wonder she got herself killed, got riddance I say…" She stated with her usual cold demeanor, Bulma winced at the blunt statement, the century old grandmaster might have a point, but her delivery left much to be desired.

Pan seemed to be of the same opinion, as she turned towards the eternally young grandmaster with a deceptively happy look. "You know Kushinada, you might actually have a point in what you're saying, but you're still talking about my parental grandmother. So I will extremely appreciate it if you kept such comments to yourself…" She said with a pleasant smile that looked obviously strained.

Kushinada, not being a fool, decided to amend her previous statement. "Of course… If that is your wish… It wasn't my intention to cause you undue stress mistress…" She said with a bow.

"So what happened next…?" Crimson Viper asked, trying to move the conversation along.

"Buu tried to wait for the stablished time, but he quickly grew bored of waiting and ended up smashing the hourglass, so Piccolo had no choice but to lead him into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber were Goten and Trunks were training, knowing that if the children lost, he could destroy the entrance and trap Buu (alongside the himself and the children) inside the chamber for all eternity…" Bulma continued.

"Hyperbolic Time Chamber, what is that!?" A curious Skuld asked, rather intrigued as to what such place would be.

The genius scientist decided to explain what the chamber was for the sake of her audience. "The Hyperbolic Time chamber is a special room located inside our world's Kami's lookout. It is a special dimension created by the Kami-sama of our world that serves to help gain a great deal of training in a rather limited time period during times of crisis due to a time dilatation effect that the chamber possesses. Inside the chamber, one day of real time is equivalent to one year in the Chamber, or one minute of real time is approximately six hours, five minutes, and 15 seconds in the Chamber. This essentially allows for someone entering the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to get one year worth of intense training in a single day. But that's not all, a step over the threshold of the training area brings one immediately into ten times normal gravity, the air gets denser, and the temperature fluctuates the deeper one goes into the training area. There is no night or day in the Room, but the surroundings remain a constant bright iridescent white aurora and the Room's boundaries appear to seemingly stretch indefinitely in all directions even though it seems to have a definite atmosphere, limiting its size to about that of our planet." Bulma explained, leaving many of the martial artists gob-smacked and drooling at the thought of having such a useful tool for training available. Even people who were not training nut-jobs like Gentoku Ryuubi were left impressed at the sheer usefulness that such chamber could theoretically bring.

"With facilities like that you can make yourself stronger during an emergency and be prepared to face a great threat in a relatively short amount of time. What a great advantage against your enemies it must be." The bespectacled red-headed busty girl declared, fixing her glasses in place.

Bulma agreed with that assessment. "Yes, the hyperbolic time chamber does give us a pretty useful way to level the playing him when facing much powerful enemies that are beyond our capabilities. Goku and the others have made good use of it several times in the past when facing unexpected threats. Goten and Trunks also spent some time in there after their first defeat against Majin Buu in order to become strong enough for the rematch. But even the use of the chamber wasn't enough to assure our victory against the likes of Majin Buu…" She remarked before continuing with her tale. "Knowing this, Piccolo deliberately took the longest way possible into the chamber in order to stall Majin Buu and give Goten and Trunks enough time to prepare for their battle. Sadly, Majin Buu proved to be a very shrewd enemy and quickly caught on what Piccolo was trying to do and threatened to kill him if he kept trying to delay him. Eventually, Piccolo arrived at the chamber with Buu in tow and lead him inside were Goten and trunks were waiting for him. The children proceeded to perform the fusion technique to create Gotenks, the result of the combination of their powers, and he engaged Majin Buu in battle for a second occasion. Thanks to their extra training, Gotenks proved able to fight Majin Buu in almost equal ground, but he still wasn't strong enough to end the pink monster's reign of terror. After a long and arduous battle, Gotenks tried to lure Buu into a false sense of security by pretending he was too tired to keep fighting in order to catch him off guard before revealing his own Super Saiyan 3 transformation. However, his plan backfired when Piccolo took his words at face value and he immediately destroyed the entrance to the hyperbolic time chamber to make sure Buu remained trapped inside forever. The pink monster didn't took well the news that he would remain sealed for all eternity without being able to eat any kind of treats ever again, his desperation being so great that he let out an anger-filled shout so powerful that he was able to break through the dimensional walls of the chamber and create a portal from which to escape back into the real word." After making that revelation her audience needed a moment once more to digest the information that had just been revealed, again their minds were unable to comprehend the level of power that Pan's family were used to deal with. Even Doctor Jackal had been left rather stumped after hearing such feat.

"I have a sword that is so sharp that is even able to cut through dimensions…" The deranged surgeon confessed. "With it is virtually impossible for me to be contained against my will by any means, whether they are physical or mystical. But to think that there is a being capable to shatter the space/time continuum with only the power of his voice… That is another matter entirely…" He declared unusually subdued.

"I have to agree with Doctor Jackal, and that's a goddamn miracle coming from me…" Whip began to say. "That a creature could be so powerful as to break through dimensions with a single shout… Oh my fucking god! That scares the shit out of me…!" She exclaimed with an obvious quiver on her semblance.

"Please, do not blaspheme…" Belldandy pleaded dissaprovingly, not liking the cussing despite the terrible information being revealed.

"I told you all that my race moved in a whole other level way above your league, but you just seem unwilling to understand…" Pan limited herself to remind her followers with a blasé attitude.

"Yes, but sometimes it is really hard to get an idea of just how strong your race is, especially with how carefree you are most of the time…" Cammy White stated in an almost lecture. "It is not until you begin to do things like fighting goddesses or telling us about the battles your family has fought in the past with witness' accounts to prove their veracity, that do we actually begin to get an idea of just how alien you truly are. And let me tell you, such notions are just too scary for simple mortals like us to contemplate. Knowing how powerful you can be does not reassure me in the slightest…" She said with a serious glance. Pan just stared at the blonde with a deadpan after that declaration, the heavy mood suddenly being broken by a snort of amusement coming from the genius scientist speaking through the communication array.

"Your guarded suspicion reminds me when I first met Goku during my youth many years ago, and how I was unable to wrap my mind over how stupidly strong he was even for a child. You know I shot him in the face with a gun during our first encounter because he suddenly attacked and flipped my vehicule out of nowhere while I was driving it through the mountains, and the bullet simply bounced from his head. I was left there gaping wondering how this child was able to survive that… (Sigh) Oh… Such memories, it was a much simpler time back then." Bulma said with clear fondness in her voice, losing herself in memory lane for a moment. The people hearing such confession could do nothing but sweat-drop, just what is wrong with Pan and her relatives? Are they all crazy…? "But nevermind that for now… At any rate, I know that it can be pretty hard to initially accept just how powerful Saiyans can be, but eventually the novelty of such revelation will wear off and you'll begin to take everything in stride and simply take for granted that Saiyans are the most powerful beings on the universe and that Goku is the strongest of them all…" She said with a shrug in a matter-of-fact tone.

Cammy White was left looking at the turquoise-haired scientist with a flat stare. "I don't think what you're telling me to be a good thing…" She simply stated with a deadpan. Bulma could do nothing but remain silent and sweat-drop.

The genius scientist thought it best to simply continue with her tale, she surreptitiously coughed under her breath. "In any case, back to the story. Buu managed to escape from the chamber through the portal he had created, Gotenks and Piccolo tried to stop him and chase after him, but the portal closed behind Buu before they had a chance to go through it. So Majin Buu was once more free and back into the real world with the rest of us survivors of his extinction attack while Gotenks and Piccolo, the only remaining warriors we had capable of battling him, were left trapped inside the chamber." Bulma said as the gathered martial artists quickly realized how less than ideal such situation would mean for the continuous health of the remaining non-combatants.

"That doesn't sound good, no-scratch that! Those are terrible news…" Vice declared with a pretty dumbfounded expression. "I would certainly wouldn't like to be left stranded on my own with such a horrific monster near me…" She confessed honestly, knowing how well and truly fucked she would be if she were ever to find herself in a situation like the one Bulma was describing.

The genius scientist in question simply nodded in understanding, seeing how she had lived such situation in the flesh herself. "I know what you mean, and believe me… It is a heart-stopping fear like none you have ever felt in your life…" She declared with a grimace of her own.

Pan remained silent for a moment, uncharacteristically solemn as she knew what came next. "That's when Majin Buu ate you alongside the rest of the remaining survivors, isn't it aunt…?" Pan said gravely.

The people present turned at her with stunned expressions, not having expected such gruesome revelation. "What…!? Eating…!? Was he a cannibal or something…!?" Chun-Li exclaimed rather unnerved.

Bulma was a little hesitant about elaborating on this particular matter, but eventually she relented, figuring it was best to make sure there were no misunderstandings regardless of how harsh it was for her to remember such events. "Remember that I told you all that Majin Buu was able to consume other people. He was not only a powerful creature of great strength alone, but he also possesed and impressive mastery of magic. He possessed a spell that allowed him to transform other living beings into candy and sweets for him to eat. This is how he was able to absorb the strength and abilities of other beings he consumed, by transforming then into treats before proceeding to eat them, effectively making himself more and more powerful the more people he devoured…This is his secret as to why he was considered the biggest threat in the universe by the Grand Kais in ancient times and almost ended up exterminating their race, because by the time they had become aware of the existence of Majin Buu and the threat he represented, he had already consumed the life of entire galaxies, achieving a frightfully overwhelming power that none could withstand until he was sealed away through magical means…" The people present was left reeling, trying to wrap their minds on over that particular piece of information.

"Dammit! Just when I thought this Majin Buu creature couldn't be more bizarre than what you've already told us, you come and say things like this…!" Ageha Kuki declared a little disquieted. "Why didn't you told us all this from the very begginning instead of keeping it secret just to keep hitting us with mind-boggling information after mind-boggling information at your own convenience…!?" She demanded a little testily, an elegant eyebrow twitching uncontrollably.

The genius scientist seemed a little chastised after that, looking away to a side with a faint blush. "I told you all already that these events happened more than eighteen years ago…! Which is more than half of you have been alive from what I can see…! So don't be surprised that some facts might slip from my mind and I don't end up remembering them until much later!" She exclaimed, turning the tables around on Ageha as she took an accusing stance of her own and forced the young CEO to take a step back. Despite being born and raised for a position of leadership, Bulma had just too much more experience than her in ruling a global corporate empire and thus was able to make the younger silvery-blunette to back down.

Of course there were some among the people present that were simply unable to read the mood and came out saying something idiotic in the most inappropiate of moments. People like Hakufu Sonsaku… "I wonder what I would taste like if I were a candie…? I bet I would be delicious…" She said in the most clueless tone ever as she brought a finger to her chin in thought. The entire room turned to look at her with flabbergasted expressions, a sea of sweat-drops following shortly.

Koukin didn't know what to say towards her cousin sheer stupidity, his mind simply unable to keep up. "Hakufu…!? What…!?"

"Anyway…" Foxy called, trying to get the conversation back on track. "This Majin Buu creature ate you and the rest of the survivors, then what…?"

"As I said…" Bulma began, retaking the lead of the conversation. "Majinn Buu escaped from the Chamber and turned all of us that still remained alive in Kami's lookout into chocolates with his magical powers before eating us all. The only one to escape such fate was the current Kami-sama of our world, Dende, who was pushed aside by his guardian and aide, Mister Popo, before he was turned into a candie. Not surprising he did that because the Dragon Balls were created by the previous Kami-sama and thus their existence are tied to the health of whoever holds the station. If Kami-sama dies, then the Dragon Balls are no more, alongside our chances of bringing everybody who was killed back to life…"

"Damn! That's rough…" It was the small comment from Juri.

"Wait a minute… If you say that you and the restof the survivors were turned into chocolates and eaten, does that mean you were dead…!?" Gentoku Ryuubi inquired with a shell-shocked expression, dreading what the answer would be.

Bulma was a little uncomfortable about answering that question, but she ended up confirming the bespectacled girl's fears with a nod. "Yes… I was… We all were killed by Majin Buu. In the end he succesfully eradicated all life from our world and only a few handful of warriors remained to avenge the genocide of our people… Not something I like to dwell to deeply about…" She confessed with the outmost seriousness. The people present didn't know what to say after hearing an entire world had been cleansed of all life by a single creature, the idea utterly horrifying to their sensibilities.

"But wait! If you say that all the people of your world were killed by Majin Buu… Then how do you know what happened next…!?" Kisara Nanjo asked, speaking for the first time in a long while, raising an actually fair point.

Bulma just shrugged unconcerned in response. "Well… As most of you should already be aware by now, the name of Pan's grandfather carries a lot of weight in the spirit world, and we his friends tend to receive a preferential treatment for just knowing him… So the moment we died we received free passage straight into heaven from which we were able to continue watching what was happening in the living world even if we were already dead. Though of course we were unable to interact to it due to our nature as spirits…" She simply confessed, earning dumbfounded looks from her audience.

"What!? You been into heaven!? Seriously!?" Bob Makihara all but shouted in surprise as he simply couldn't believe what he was hearing.

Bulma just nodded without hesitation. "Indeed… There are certainly some great benefits for being associated with Goku… He does has gotten around over the years…"

"Yes, I can tell…" Whip replied sarcastically. "How nice must it be to know you will receive a free pass straight into heaven for just knowing the right guy, the rest of us lowly mortals have to live with the fact we are fucked no matter what we do…" She said with obvious jealousy, and a bit of resentment on her voice.

The genius scientist immediately proceeded to correct her, knowing she could end up giving the wrong image if she didn't presented the facts straight. "Do not commit the mistake of believing that those privileges are given just because, Goku had to earn the right to them through a great deal of effort and sacrifice. He had to prove himself worthy and face threats that most of you cannot even begin to comprehend, threats that could end up jeopardizing the entire safety and stability of the universe if left unchecked. Threats like Majin Buu, who I must inform you it is simply one name in a long list of enemies he has faced. As terrible and powerful that Majin Buu sounds, there have been others much more powerful and terrifying than him who could crush him as if he were just an insect. And against unbelievable threats of this magnitude, only Goku and his friends have been the only thing standing between them and universal extinction… Many times has Goku not only held the fate of our entire world in his hands, but that of the whole of creation too… So it is so surprising that the gods that oversee the universe decided to reward him for all the help he has given them, for having ensured to preserve the life and stability of the universe against those who would wish its destruction...?" Bulma said with great convinction, rendering her audience mute in shock after revealing just how high the stakes tend to be regarding Pan's grandfather.

"Oh shit!" A startled Chuutatsu Shibai exclaimed, her face sporting an expression of both fear and awe. "You mean to tell us that there are creatures out there even more powerful that this Majin Buu!? WHAT THE FUCK!?" She exclaimed with no small amount of panic.

The only answer that the turquoise-haired scientist could give was a helpless shrug. "That is one of the lessons you quickly learn when you hang around Goku and company long enough; there is always a stronger enemy to fight, a new menace much more dangerous than the last waiting for its turn to try to either conquer or destroy the universe. Sure, there are periods of peace between these menaces, sometimes a few years or even decades will pass before Goku and my husband have to risk their lives in order to protect our world again. But eventually, and inevitably, a new threat will rise…" She answered solemny, not trying to sound boisterous about the achievements that Goku has accomplished, but simply stating them as mere facts. The young students present were not taking this news well; however, the veteran warriors present could understand her words.

"The price of peace is the constant vigilance…" Chun-Li said with a solemn look of her own. "That is something my father used to say, I didn't understood what he meant by that when I was young, but now that I'm older and after many years working for Interpol… I finally was able to discover the meaning of his words. That we should never grow overconfident of our success and let our guard down, and always be at the lookout for any sign of trouble …"

Bulma nodded in agreement at the words of the Chinese policewoman. "Indeed, that is one of the reasons why Goku and my husband are always so Gun-ho about training besides the obvious one that they simply like making themselves stronger due to their Saiyan blood, so that they will always be ready for whatever new threat that might appear, and I understand such necessity. Wouldn't like them to be any other way… I just would wish Chi-Chi had understood that boys will be boys and let Gohan spend more time training with his father rather than force him to study almost twenty-four seven, that woman could be very stifling sometimes… But what's done is done; at the very least, Goku and Vegeta always make sure to be ready for anything." She said nonchalantly, dismissing the issue as non-important.

"That seems like the right attitude to have." Rei from the Nanto Suicho Ken said, speaking after a long while. "So what happened after you and the last survivors were killed by Majin Buu?" He asked, wishing to get back to the main subject.

"Well while Majin Buu was busy eating us all, Gotenks and Piccolo were trying hard to find a way to escape from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber to chase after Majin Buu. In the end Gotenks had to enter into his Super Saiyan 3 transformation in order to reproduce Majin Buu's previous feat and break through the dimensional barriers of the chamber a second time with another shout." Bulma explains factily. Damn if these Saiyans were not stupidly and mind-bogglily powerful. "Anyway, after escaping from the chamber, Gotenks and Piccolo discovered what Majin Buu had done which made both of the sides that formed Gotenks to fly into a rage for having killed everybody except Dende and resume their fight, which ultimately ended up with the destruction of Kami's lookout at the hands of Majin Buu…"

"Holy shit! You people do like to go big don't you…!?" Angel exclaimed rather stumped at the fact of how everything ends up getting destroyed in the fights that Pan's family tends to get involved.

Again, all that Bulma was able to give as a reply was a helpless shrug. "Comes with the territory I suppose, but back to the story… Turns out Gotenks was much more than just a match for Majin Buu in his level three transformation, sadly the new state put a great deal of strain on the Fusion technique due to the great increment in power, cutting down the time of the technique from thirty minutes to five minutes. So Goten and Trunks reverted into two beings once more just before they were about to finish Buu off…"

"Bummer…" It was Souichiro Nagi's reply.

"Right…" The turquoise haired scientist acknowledged that comment, knowing how much of a rotten luck such development was. "As the children start to panic while desperately trying to think about a way out of their predicament, Buu seems to once again start underestimating the children and seemingly falls asleep." She explains, much to the confusion of her audience.

"I've know many arrogant fighters in my time, but this Majin Buu certainly takes the cake." Cyril Rahman said, the elder grandmaster sporting a flabbergasted look in his usual indecipherable face. "Sleeping in the middle of battle, clearly that creature doesn't have any kind of respect for his opponents; just what kind of inconsiderate brute does that…!?" He scoffed with clear disdain. At the end of the line of Grandmasters, Hayato Furinji began to suddenly cough under his breath as he doubled over a little to hide a small blush in his features, knowing he sometimes did that to rile up opponents that were below his level.

"Yes, just what kind of inconsiderate would dare to do that?" He said as inconspicuously and innocently as he could, trying not to draw suspicion upon himself, a task that was bound to fail from the very beginning as his fellow grandmasters from the Ryozanpaku, and even Kushinada, were giving him pointed accusing stares since they were pretty familiar with the quirks and oddities of the elder grandmaster.

"I don't know, it sounds awfully similar like someone I used to know once upon a time." The eternally young century old woman said, not too subtly, as she kept her cold gaze fixed upon the old grandmaster.

Elder Furinji simply gave a nonchalant reply, as if he had no idea what Mikumo was talking about. "Well I'm sure it must have been a long time ago since you last saw whoever you're talking about, he should had already moved past such behavior, people do change over the years after all…" He simply answered with fake naivety.

However, Kushinada was not someone that could be easily fooled or deterred. "I never specified whoever I'm talking about to be a he…" She commented, not taking her gaze from Hayato for even a single second.

The elder Furinji still tried to play it cool despite the pointed insistence of the forever young Miko. "Well then, she, or it, or whoever it is you're referring too… Just who you're talking about in the first place Kushinada…?" He unconcernedly said with a dismissive wave of his hand.

Pan then gave the old grandmaster a pointed stare of her own, having quickly picked up all the unsubtle signals that were flying about. "You tend to sleep in the middle of combat too when facing opponents that are weaker than you isn't it…?" She asked with all of her blatant bluntness.

"Now Pan that is a very rude thing to say, how can you make such terrible accusations about my person…? I thought we were starting to get along after our admittedly rocky start…" He said, still playing for a fool as he tried to deflect the accusations being thrown at him.

The alien girl simply felt like rolling her eyes, but refrained from doing so for propriety's sake. "Please! With all the pointed stares that Kushinada and your fellow grandmasters from the Ryozanpaku are giving you, I'll have to be blind and dumb to not figure out what they were implying, and althought I'm starting to mellow out over what you did to Kenichi after discovering that he was dumbass enough to ask you into training him in the first place even when you initially refused and warned him that the training could kill him." That particular observation caused the said brunette disciple to whine in outrage with a Hey! Pan couldn't care less, however, and just turned to him. "Oh shut up Kenichi! You know damn well you're a dumbass. What you did has to be one of the most idiotic decisions I have ever heard in my life… (Turning back towards Hayato) Anyway, despite me being not so incensed towards you like I was during our first meeting, that doesn't mean I will simply going to trust in everything you say and start calling you a friend, I'm not naïve enough to do that. No, it is much better if I pay attention to those who know you well to have a good measure of your character…" She said as she motioned with a hand towards the Hayato's fellow grandmaster who were lined at his side. "Their unimpressed stares certainly speak against you…"

Bulma just stared as Pan spoke to her minions, a small frown appearing on her face. "You've been spending too much time with your great-grandfather and my husband, Pan. You're using everything I taught you and applying it with a Saiyan mentality…" She stated neutrally, neither approvingly nor dissaprovingly.

The alien girl just shrugged her shoulders unconcernedly. "I had to rely on what I knew in order to survive on my own on this foreign planet…" It was all she said before growing silent.

Bulma just let out a sigh… "I suppose you had…" She stated before an awkward and uncomfortable silence fell upon the room.

It didn't lasted long however since there were several people in the room that were much too obtuse. "Hey! Why the hell everybody is so silent all of the sudden!? I want to know what happened after this Majin Buu guy fell asleep…" A rather impatient Momoyo Kawakami demanded, wanting to hear more about the allmighty powerful warriors from beyond her world that are much more stronger than her, and of the battles that they have fought. The novelty of discovering that there are beings whose powers far surpassed her own, gave her the hope of aspiring to greater heights and filled her heart with joy and excitement, feelings that she very rarely displayed and experienced. For the first time in her life, the emptiness and the sense of disatisfaction and underachievement that used to dwell inside her were gone.

The turquoise haired scientist was a little caught of guard by the ravenette's sudden brazeness, but having lived among Saiyans for many years of her life allowed her to quickly recompose herself and give and answer. "Right… I suppose you have a point. Anyway, back to the story… With Majin Buu asleep, the children could breathe easier for a moment and take time to rest and replenish their energies before trying the fusion technique again. With this sudden lull in the fight, it didn't take long for Gohan to return, powered up immensely by the old Kai after his training in the Supreme Kai's planet…" She explained.

Some people were not wholly convinced by what she was saying. "Did Pan's father really become powerful enough to defeat this Majin Buu dude, after only just a few days since his last encounter were he was defeated and almost got killed by him? Is the training given by the Supreme Kais that good to allow such a great increment in power in such a short time…? Ranma inquired in a rare moment of insight, making an actual good point since the entire story sounded pretty outrageous.

"Well, it wasn't training per se what allowed Gohan to be powerful enough to defeat Majin Buu… When The Supreme Kai took Gohan back to his planet to heal him, he wasn't exactly planning to train him to fight Buu, but rather to arm him with a legendary weapon that he believed would be able to kill the pink monster, the Z-sword…"

"The Z-sword!?" Lind exclaimed taken aback in schock and surprise.

"I take it you know about this sword don't you…?" Foxy commented after seeing the blunette goddess' reaction.

Lind gave a nod in confirmation. "It is a legendary sacred weapon that has existed for many millions of years stuck in a stone in the sacred world of the Kais. The sword has such a great heavy weight that none of the Kais have ever been able to wield it, however, legend tells of an amazing power held within that will only be granted to whoever manages to release it from the stone…" She explains with apparent reverence.

"Sounds like the legend of King Arthur and the stone in the sword, Excalibur, I believe its name was…" Karin simply said with a non-chalant attitude

"The stone in the sword…? Wasn't it the other way around…? " Angel inquired, giving the red-clad blonde a strange look after having picked up her slip almost immediatly.

Karin was instantly embarassed by that observation, her entire face turning red as she brought a hand to her mouth in an alarmed expression after realizing her mistake. "I… I mean… Uh…!? S-shut up! As if you've never made a mistake in your whole life yourself little miss perfect…!" She stammered, unable to give a proper response due to her embarassment. The older white-haired woman simply gave her a cheeky smile in response. Composing herself the best she could, Karin tried to amend herself and save whatever dignity she still had left. "In any case… What I was trying to say is that story of the Z-sword sounds pretty similar to the legend of King Arthur and his sword Excalibur…"

"Actually, it wasn't Excalibur the sword that was trapped in the stone…" Gentoku Ryuubi declared, two fingers set in the rim of her glasses to accommodate them better as she gave a rather creepy smile. "The real sword was named Caliburn: The Golden Sword of Assured Victory. A holy sword that had the divine task of selecting he who would become the King of all England and it would later become the symbol of the King's authority and of his divine right to rule the kingdom after being pulled from the stone of appointment by Arthur under the guidance of Merlin. It is said that the sword had a golden inscription engraved in its hilt with the words ~Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone is rightwise king of all England~ The sword looked similar to Excalibur, but it was more of a decorative weapon used to represent the King's authority rather than a weapon made for war. It was later broken in a battle in which the rules of chivalry were broken by Arthur and replaced by Excalibur when King Arthur received the new holy sword from the hands of the Lady of the Lake…" The auburn-haired girl explained rather proud in her own knowledge. Almost the entirety of the people present was left gaping at her intelligence. Like this…

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"And Excalibur? What about that sword…?" Pan asked, particularly interested in the stories and legends from the local cultures of this planet since such subject awoke her researcher's bone. Bulma too was intrigued about the words of the busty bespectacled girl.

"Excalibur: The Sword of Promised Victory, it is generally known as the most powerful and majestic of all legendary swords throughout human history. A sword without any equal whose radiance was said to be able to enthrall entire armies that gazed upon it as well as lay them to waste with a single swing; legends say that Arthur was never defeated while wielding this sword, able to bring victory against any enemy no matter how powerful or how much the odds were stacked against him. Thus, this is the sword that it is most representative of the legend of the King Arthur and his knights of the round table. It is said that this sword was guarded by the fairies before being briefly passed on to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake to replace the destroyed Caliburn, and later it was returned to the lake just before Arthur's death. While Excalibur was a powerful sword, some legends said that its sheath, Avalon, was more valuable to Arthur; as the sheath was said to have the capacity to shield its wearer from all harm and even grant him partial immortality by stopping physical aging…" Gentoku Ryuubi explained a little giddy at being able of wowing everyone with her knowledge. And wowed them she did, as many were simply utterly astonished at the capabilities of such weapons and artifacts, never having heard this information about the legend before.

"And considering the fact that we now know that Gods and Demons are real, it is more than certain that those weapons and relics you're talking about actually exist or existed at one point in time…"Nina Williams commented with an unexpressive face, having returned alongside Gaidar a little while ago after dropping their prisioners to hear the start of the fight against Majin Buu.

Belldandy nodded in confirmation of that statement. "Yes, most of the great weapons and artifacts of legend did exist at some point in time, and yes, they were able to do all the things that were depicted in their legends and more… But almost all of them have been lost to the ages or even destroyed as was the case with Caliburn; and items of this magnitude simply cannot ever hope to be recreated again, for the specifics of their creation usually came about after a particular chain of events took place… You could say that it was destiny that these artifacts existed when they did for their legends to exist…" She said with great solemnity.

Pan wasn't fully convinced at that last part, however. "Destiny, huh…? So what happened with these swords and the sheat, anyways?" She asked with particular interest, wondering if they were all what they were being cracked up to be.

It only took a second for Belldandy to figure out her answer. "Well… As young Ryuubi has already stated, Caliburn was broken after Arthur broke the rules of chivalry in a battle, the sheat of Excalibur, Avalon, was lost during the rebellion led by Arthur's illegitimate child, Mordred, that brought about the destruction of the kingdom of Camelot and finalized with the death of king Arthur himself after he was mortally wounded in the battle of the fields of Camlann where he killed Mordred in a singular duel. Excalibur itself… Actually I'm not sure what happened to the sword after it was returned to the Goddess Vivian, The Lady of the Lake. I know the sword still exists to this day, but I'm unaware of its whereabouts, the goddess Vivian should still be in possession of Excalibur, but I'm not so sure…" The brunette Goddess confessed with a small cute frown on her face as she brought a dainty elegant finger to her chin in thought.

"Wait, what the bloody hell…!? Are you shitting on me…!? Excalibur still exists!? Are you freaking serious!?" Cammy White exclaimed in shock, practically materializing in front of Belldandy and shaking the goddess by the shoulders, her usual composture all but forgotten. Not so surprising considering her nationality, even though she is in reality a female clone of Bison that was originally one of his many replacement bodies that was later re-programmed into one of his dolls that act as bodyguards, enforcers and assassins before managing to snap out of her brainwashing and escape Shadaloo and eventually ending up stranded in England with a severe case of Amnesia where she was found and nursed back to health by Delta Red before ultimately deciding to join the unit and serve in the British armed forces… Well, at least she does have a British citizenship as a reward for her many years of service, plus the accent. So yes, the knowledge that Excalibur still exists is big earth-shattering news to her…

Belldandy did not appreciate the blonde's language, even if she could understand her surprise. "Please, do not blaspheme in my presence, I found it really unseemly…" She said with a bit of her divine authority seeping into her voice, which caused Cammy to back off and give a little meek ~Sorry…~ as an apology, realizing who she was talking to. Good for her that Belldandy is not someone to hold grudges, she simply fixed her clothes and proceeded to answer Cammy's question. "Apologies accepted, but to answer your question… Yes, Excalibur still exists on this day and age. As a divine weapon, there is little that could actually manage to damage the sword, only a powerful god would have the necessary strength to destroy Excalibur, and that is a big if that we're talking about…"

"Excalibur is a divine weapon!? How so…?" Maya Natsume asked, wanting to know more about creations made by the gods considering she now had some godly essence from Amaterasu inside of her… Nothing sexual about it, you perverts…

Belldandy nodded and proceeded to elaborate. "Excalibur is a Divine Construct, the pinnacle of all holy swords and one of the ultimate weapons created by the gods. It was forged by the planet itself as the crystallization of all the wishes of mankind, stored and tempered within the planet. There are no words to describe just how marvelous Excalibur is, calling it beautiful would be a gross disservice and would simply sully the true magnificence of the sword. It is a sacred creation, made from people's conceptions and weaved from legends themselves by hope alone. It is the physical manifestation of the prayer named ~Glory~ and everything else etched in the hearts of those who look upon its light and are scattered by the sword's radiance. It is the ultimate accumulation of the nostalgic, sorrowful and hallowed dream of all those who have been placed upon the bloodied hell of the battlefield, the undying hope of all warriors past, present and future who have been fully exposed to the fear of death and despair, and who despite all odds still cling to a single desire: to be exalted…" The goddess explained with the outmost reverence and respect. Her entire audience listening to her words was left utterly and completely gobsmacked after such gorgeous and out-worldly description, no exceptions. From the young students from the Toushi schools, the Shinpaku Alliance, Todo, Yomi and the Kazama family, to the gathered martial artists and Grandmasters from the Ryozanpaku, YAMI, Hokuto, Nanto, fomer Shadaloo and N.E.S.T.S. agents, the families fo the former F organization, and wandering martial artists like Ryu. None were spared. Even Doctor Jackal felt unease at hearing about the sword. The goddesses themselves and even Morrigan were mute in silent reverence at all the things that Excalibur represented.

After a moment of silence, Bulma was able to find her voice again, her mind running at thousands of miles per hour as she thought on the implications of what she had just heard. "You're not talking about shaping metals to forge just any sword; you're talking about using a concept- An idea and giving it physical form, to use people's own beliefs and dreams to create a weapon… H-how!? How can you just grab ~Glory~ itself and turn it into a physical object!? It has no sense!" The tuquoise-haired scientist exclaimed rather alarmed. As a person who lived her life through science and logic, she was unable to comprehend things that could ignore the fundamental laws of the universe, the existence of the Kami's and Kaio's not withstanding since they were beings of order that had their specific places and functions in the universe, and even her experiences with magic like the discovery of Dragon Balls and such wasn't so jarring because they were limited and ruled by their own sets of specific rules; but this, this thing that defied all logic… It was like meeting Goku for the first time all over again.

Belldandy was just able to shrug hopelessly, not knowing what else to say. "Well… It is not for nothing that Excalibur is considered a Divine Construct, such are the feats that magic can accomplish…" She offered as reply before growing silent.

"Magic…!" Bulma repeated with a frown. As previously stated, her experiences with magic were quite limited outside the Dragon Balls, so her knowledge about the subject was sorely lack-luster unfortunately; even the Senzu Beans were less of a headache than this. "I didn't know magic could do such arbitrary things…" She commented, but before the brunnete goddess was able to give her a response, Bulma pressed on. "So you don't know what happened to this sword… Excalibur…?" She asked with obvious distrust, but still interested enough about studying such creation.

Belldandy just gave a sad shake of her head as a negative. "I'm afraid not; as I had said previously, after the sword was returned to the goddess Vivian I ignore what happened to it. I haven't been able to find any trace of its whereabouts other than the fact that it still exists today…"

"It is in the hands of the goddess Athena…" A voice said from the back of the room, everybody turned in its direction to find that Lind had moved from her spot and was now leaning over a workstation, her gaze distant as if lost in thought.

Skuld seemed to be caught of guard by the response of the blunette goddess. "What…!? Athena!? The Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare…? Lind, how do you know that?" She asked a little demanding.

Lind didn't immediately answered, taking instead a moment to consider her words before giving her response. "You all already know that as a goddess of war, It was my duty to be well-versed in all forms of armed combat that exists on Earth, not only martial arts…" She began to say, only to be interrupted by Ryuubi who realized what the blunette goddess was trying to say.

"Ah! I see! So you must have a deep extensive knowledge of warfare and that includes important leaders and historical figures and the weapons they wielded and were famous for…" The busty bespectacled girl said with an expression of eureka.

Lind simply nodded in confirmation. "Correct, as goddess of warfare I was privy to a lot of information regarding combat and weaponry, one subject in particular was to know the ultimate fate of many of the legendary weapons that have existed throughout history…"

"But if what you're saying is true, then why would the goddess Athena take possession of Excalibur…?" Cammy White asked, puzzled as to why a Goddess usually related to another country would take hold of a weapon that is famous for playing a pivotal part in an English legend.

"That, I don't know…" Lind confessed with a little disappointment present in her voice at not being able to provide a clear answer.

"What!? Why…!?" Aya Natsume asked, rather taken aback by that answer, she might not be the smartest or brightest girl there is, but even she could tell what Lind had just said was highly suspicious.

"Just like all the information regarding the Hokuto Shinken and Nanto Seiken martial arts styles, all knowledge about the Greek deities has been sealed away by Kami-sama himself, and only he has the required authorization to acess those files. All that I managed to learn was that Excalibur was given to the Goddess Athena and that's it…" It was all that Lind was able to say, a small furrow on her brow in frustration at the feeling of being stonewalled.

Pan just raised an eyebrow at that. "Again…!? Why your Kami-sama does feel the need of keeping that much information under wraps? Just what is the big deal about these Greek Gods anyway?" She asked.

It was Urd who offered and answer this time. "We actually don't know much about the Greek gods. All we know is the old legends and whatever little scraps of information that Kami-sama sometimes grudgingly deems to tell us or what we've managed to uncover on our own. We know that we are distantly related to them, but how is this possible we don't know… According to the old legends, they are the greatest and most powerful of all the ancient deities, personally responsible for the creation of not only this planet but of the entire Milky Way… And of all life that now exists on this world… Fathe— Kami-sama has always told us never to ask about them and much less look for information about of them or their whereabouts, saying that they're the holders of a great and terrible power and that we will be doing nothing but invite calamity if we were to try to search for them… I-I just can't simply give you a straight answer, all I have are rumors and hearsay, and none of them are good news…" She said with an honestly helpless expression.

Pan simply remained silent after hearing what the white-haired goddess had to say. More secrets and mysteries that influential figures want to keep hidden. Just great, that is exactly what she needs right now, more headaches and pains in her ass. Knowing her luck she was damn sure this issue was going to come back later to bite her right in the butt-cheek. As it is, the alien girl let out a frustrated sigh and turned towards her little robotic companion. "Giru… Make a note of later asking the Daimakaicho about what she knows of Excalibur and the Greek gods…" She ordered.

"Acknowledged, giru…" The small robot chirped in response.

Urd didn't took those news well. "What the…!? Why do you want to ask her about what I just told you!?" She all but demanded in an irate tone.

The alien girl was pretty carefree about the goddess temper, however. "Because since trying to ask any of you goddesses about this subject is an effort in futility due to the measures previously implemented by Kami-sama, my best bet is then turning to someone who has a similar level of authority than him. And who do we now that is both the polar opposite and equal in power as Kami-sama and also is bound to answer all inquiries I might have for her…?" Pan said with no small deal of smugness. Urd could do nothing but remain silent and fumed to herself in frustration, knowing that what the alien girl was saying was true.

Pan simply continued, knowing she had the upper hand. "But I'm not going to be asking her right now, since my aunt still has to finish her story and we have already strayed too far off-topic as it is, so don't get all your panties in a bunch just yet. As it is, I'm simply making a reminder to ask about this matter later…" She stated nonchalantly before turning back to her aunt. "So aunt, you were saying something about the Supreme Kaio-shin giving the legendary Z-sword to my father…"

"Well, he didn't exactly give the Z-sword to your father…" Bulma began to say, resuming her story. "More like he just showed him were it was and let him try to pick it up to see if he was able to lift it, which he was, if just barely due to the great weight of the sword. So he needed some time to train with the weapon and get used to its weight. Eventually, Goku and Bardock make their way to the sacred planet of the Kais after returning to the afterlife and were greatly surprised to discover that Gohan was still alive, they then began to help him in his training and test the power of the sword by tossing great boulders at him, which the Z-sword was easily able to cut through." Bulma then becames silent for a moment, as she internally debates whether or not disclose the next piece of information, a slight blush of embarrassment appearing on her face. "Errr… However, the supreme Kai wanted to keep testing the durability of the sword and so he materialized a sample of the densest material on the universe to see if the Z-sword was able to cut through it too; unfortunately… It wasn't, and the Z-sword was broken as soon as Gohan hit its target…" She confessed ashamed.

The goddesses present were left certainly flabbergasted at that revelation. "You people broke the Z-sword!?" Skuld exclaimed in a near panic, pretty outraged at the destruction of a divine weapon.

"What a great dissapointment must that had been, then…" Iori Yagami commented, not caring if the goddesses were taking offense at his words or not. "To have your last hope be destroyed in such a pathetic way; that is why I don't tend to rely on weapons to solve my own problems…." He said with no small amount of disdain as he displayed his razor-sharp nails of his left hand. "I must assume you managed to find some other way to defeat Majin Buu after such failure…"

"Actually, it was a blessing in disguise that the Z-sword was broken, for it allowed the great power held within to be released." Bulma declared with a self-assured smile.

"Really…? How so?" A curious Sakura asked, wondering what new turn will the story take.

"With the Z-sword broken, the old Kai, one of the first Supreme Kaio-shins to take over the position, was released from his imprisonment within the sword. Turns out Beerus, the god of destruction, had sealed him inside the sword after an argument over some trifling thing or another some seventy-five million years ago." The turquoise-haired scientist simply explained.

"What!? Seriously…?" A particularly surprised Urd inquired, having clearly not expected such revelation.

"I don't understand… What was so important about this old Kai?" Kenichi asked, scratching the top of his head in confusion.

"Well after having spent so many eons sealed inside the sword, the old Kai ended up becoming the holder of the power of the sword. So after explaining him the situation with Majin Buu, the old Kai agreed to transfer all of his power to Gohan through a mystical ritual so that he could be able to defeat the pink menace. It took the old Kai thirty-six hours to finish said ritual, but by the end of it, Gohan's power was more than a match for Majin Buu…"

"So he didn't actually train to defeat Majin Buu, he was just powered up by magic to become strong enough to win…?" Ranma exclaimed; a hint of jealousy and envy in his voice. "Man, that's so unfair. Why can't magic be that helpful to me? All it has given me is a cursed-from that I'm forced to transform into when sprayed with cold water and the troublesome magical artifact I always end up having to deal with from time to time by getting tangled up in annoying situations…!" He said, crossing his arms in a huff as he pouted and berated at his bad luck.

"You know, we've yet to see your magical curse form, Ranma…" Mature commented, stroking her chin in thought. "We know you father turns into a Panda, Rogue turns into an Ashura, and that Pantyhose Taro guy (A small general laugh was heard through the room at this) turns into a Giant Bull-tentacle Monster…" The laughs suddenly died down and the room grew completely silent at that last part, weird contemplative faces and strange looks appearing everywhere.

Juri turned towards Mature, a plain deadpan on her face. "That sounds so wrong… And that is something coming from me…"

Morrigan gave a saucy, kinky smile at that. "Indeed, it does sound wrong in all the right places… Please, let us speak more of this young giant bull-tentacle monster, just think about the possibilities…" As always, her words leaved everybody listening blushing and embarrassed."

Mature took the best course of action she could think off in this situation and ignored the lewd comments of the shameless succubi. "Anyway… What I'm trying to say is, Ranma, when are you going to show us your cursed form…?" She asked, focusing her attention solely on the pig-tailed boy.

"Never, if I have any say about it…" The young martial artist replied with no small amount of resentment on his tone, which leaved many of the listeners rather stumped as to what could be so bad about his cursed form to guarantee such reaction. "But considering my luck, you all most likely are going to see it much sooner rather than later… So just give it time and I'm sure you will all eventually see my cursed form..." He said without cheer, apparently resigned to his fate.

Bulma just looked at the pig-tailed boy, wondering what was this all about a curse, but ultimately shrugging it off as unimportant and deciding to continue with her tale. "In any case, once Gohan arrives to face Majin Buu after being powered up by the Old Kai, Goten informs him how Buu has killed almost everybody on the planet, including their mother Chi-Chi. This enrages Gohan and he proceeds to fight Majin Buu, but not before the pink menace tells him how he is the one whose power he had sensed and wanted to fight all this time. However, he soon starts regreting his wish as Gohan proves to be much more stronger than him right from the get go and easily overpowers Buu without really trying, leaving the pink monster unable to land a single hit on him. As the battle stretches out without Buu able to do anything to hurt Gohan, he becomes desperate enough that he tries to blow himself up in an attempt to kill Gohan." She said to a rather impressed audience.

"Wow…!" It was all Kazuko (Wanko) Kawakami was able to say, impressed at the developments of the battle.

"Just like your husband tried to do to kill Majin Buu, ma'am." Master Akisame said growing thoughful, bringing a hand to his chin.

Bulma agreed to that assesment with a nod. "Indeed… Obviously, his plan failed, and it took some time for Buu's pieces to join back again and regenerate. Once he was whole again, he requested to fight against Gotenks one more time, as by this time the hour that the children needed to rest in order to use the fusion technique again had already passed. However, this was a plot of Majin Buu to gain an upper hand, blowing himself up had been nothing more than a ruse to make enough time for the fusion technique to be ready for use again. Because as soon as Goten and Trunks fused together, Buu absorbed them inside his body alongside Piccolo, resulting in a much more powerful version of himself, a Super Buu if you wish…" She explained; all cheer and hapiness leaving her semblance to make it hit home just how direly the tables had turned in just an instant.

"DAYUUUM!" K'9999 exclaimed, finally deeming himself to say something, even if it was just to express his shock.

Even the grandmasters had been left astonished at the deviousness of the pink monster. "You know, I really hadn't expected for a creature like this Majin Buu to be that clever." Cyril Rahman admitted. "So he was not only a dangerous opponent in terms of power but also quite cunning and shrewd when making tactics and estrategies during battle…"

Bulma just shrugged at that declaration. "Well… I suppose you cannot expect to be able to defeat the entire race of the Kais without having both brawns and brains…" She theorized.

"Yes, that is quite correct. To be able to outwit the gods is no small feat, so it makes Majin Buu a much more dangerous threat than previously expected." Belldandy stated, her usual kind and gentle demeanor replaced by an uncharacteristically stoicism, more than enough evidence to prove just how much of a serious threat Majin Buu was if the mere mention of him is enough to steal all the cheer from a normally pleasant goddess like her.

The turquoise-haired scientist actually winced at that statement. "Yes, you're quite right with that assesment and it did caught everybody off-guard just how clever Majin Buu could truly be. After absorbing Gotenks and Piccolo, Majin Buu fights Gohan again and easily gains the upper hand, using attacks from the people he absorbed to keep Gohan off his game. He even tried to mess with his head through the use of psychological games by saying he was able to sense the true feelings of those he absorbed and how Piccolo and Goten were extremely dissapointed in him for being useless and failing to save them and defeat Majin Buu…" Bulma said with obvious discomfort.

"That's… cruel… using… the feelings… of your… loved ones… as a weapon… did this… Majin Buu… knew no… shame…!?" Shigure made her opinion known for the first time in days, personally disgusted at the way Majin Buu toyed with other people's feelings to gain an advantaje.

"He was an ancient personification of evil; of course he wouldn't care about his victims' feelings." It was the only answer that Bulma could give, much to the female weapon master displeasure. "As the battle kept dragging on and the injuries kept piling up on Gohan, Dende decided to use his healing powers to cure him and allow him to continue battling the pink monster. But Majin Buu took notice of this and decided to attack Dende with one of his energy attacks to kill him and keep him from interfering. Luckily he was saved when one of our friends, Tien Shin-Han, who was also one of the last remaining survivors on our world, arrived just in the nick of time and blocked Majin Buu's attack with one of his own. After seeing this, Majin Buu lost whatever patience he had left and decided to simply destroy the world with a giant sphere of energy to get rid of all of his enemies. Thankfully, Goku arrived in time to stop Majin Buu with a Kienzan that cut the pink monster in half after the Old Kai exchanged his own life to resurrect him and bring him back into the world of the living…" She explained, leaving her audience with baited breath as they hanged on every word she said to hear the unfolding outcome of this battle.

"The Old Kai sacrificed his own life so that Goku could lived again…!?" A flabbergasted and shocked Urd exclaimed who could barely believe that a God would give his own life so that a mortal could live. She had heard many of the rumors about Son Goku's exploits, but she hadn't begun to imagine just how important and special he truly was for the top echelons of the Divine Hierarchy.

"He must have truly believed that Goku was the only hope to stop Majin Buu…" Belldandy declared, quickly figuring out the reason as to why the Old Kai would have taken such course of action.

"No offense your holiness, but I'm more interested in what this Kienzan is…?" Ken Masters said as he briefly turned towards the goddess, who shuffled awkwardly on her spot at being adressed by such title.

It was Pan who answered the blonde Martial Artist's inquiry. "It is a technique that I've yet to show you all… Kienzan or Destructo Disc, it's a highly compacted and concentrated accumulation of KI that is spinned on its own axis at high speeds in order to achieve a razor sharp edge, it is this fast rotation that makes the technique take the form of a thin disc with serrated edges as if it were the blade of a saw. The sharpness that a well performed Kienzan can reach is so high that it can virtually cut through anything standing in its way. Even we Saiyans are not stupid enough to try and stop a Kienzan on our own, the attack can cut even through our naturally strong skins…" She confessed much to her audience's shock.

"Is that technique truly that powerful…!?" Asked a gob-smacked Chun-Li who hadn't expected for techniches powerful enough to injure or kill a Saiyan to exist after what she has witnessed Pan do.

"Not powerful, just sharp…" The alien girl in question corrected. "There are of course both advantages and disadvantages to the technique. The disc is generally slow to create and particularly poorly accurate technique, so it can easily be avoided by jumping or ducking underneath it. Also, it used to be once upon a time that one couldn't control and guide the disc after throwing it, however, the technique has improved over the years to the point that the user is now able to control the disc movements in case the opponent manages to evade the initial attack, but the trade-off is that you need to remain in one spot in order to focus and manipulate the disc's trajectory, which obviously leaves you into a huge disadvantage if your enemy rushes at you to try and stop the technique. So the best way to use the Kienzan is as a surprise attack but this is also a hard thing to accomplish since the disc makes a lod humming sound due to the focused energy spinning at high speeds, luckily this can be counteracted somewhat by increasing the flying speed of the disc."

"So it is a technique that must be used at the right moment and against targets of opportunity?" Kan'nu inquired, quickly figuring out the tactital use of the Kienzan.

"Correct…" Pan replied with a nod without turning her attention away from the Com. Array's screen.

Bulma decided to continue with her story after that. "In any case, another thing of note is that the Old Kai had also gifted Goku with the Potara earrings that belonged to him, these earrings that are weared exclusively by the Supreme Kaio-shins are magical jewelry that allow two different people to fuse into a single being while bypassing completely the steps of the fusion dance in the process by having each of the individuals wear a single earring from a same set. Another advantage is that unlike the fusion dance, a fusion made through the Potara earrings is not subjected to a time limit, so the fusion is basically permament as long as they keep wearing the earrings; so Goku's plan was to give one of those earrings to Gohan while he kept the other, and together fusion into one being and defeat Majin Buu."

"I see… No doubt the Old Kai must have been trying to avoid another repeat like what happened with Gotenks when the fusion time ended just when he was about to finish off Majin Buu by using a different method that was not subjected to the same limitation." Doctor Jackal said, immediately seeing the usefulness of such magical jewelry and internally admitting the idea of employing the earrings to be quite clever.

Bulma agreed with the assesment of the murderous Doctor. "Yes, that is quite right. Sadly Gohan was unable to catch the earring that was thrown at him, and ended up dropping it and misplacing it on the battlefield." She confessed with a wince, knowing how unflattering it sounded that Gohan was victim of a moment of clumsiness at a critical moment. Her audience seemed to agree, as there were many groans and head-shakings at the sheer idiocy of the moment.

Pan could do nothing but face-palm in embarasssment. "Oh father… Why you had to be so dumb…?" She hopelessly exclaimed.

"Anyway…" Bulma said, trying to get the conversation back in track. "After joining his body back together, Buu attacks Tien and knocks him unconcious. He then proceeds to attack Goku head-on, who is forced to transform into Super Saiyan 3 in order to withstand Buu's onslaught, yet Goku is barely able to stand his ground against the newly increased power of Majin Buu while Gohan is busy trying to find the missing earring. Thankfully for all, Gotenks' fusion time wears off while inside Buu, causing the pink monster to lose the majority of his power. However, Buu once more proves to be a cunning and dangerous enemy by using a piece of his head-tentacle, that was cut when he was attacked by the Kienzan and that he hadn't taken back into his body yet, to ambush Gohan by surprise and absorb him…" She declared, making the general mood to plummet again after the spirits of her audience had been briefly lifted at hearing how Majin Buu had been pushed on the ropes again only for the pink monster to turn the tables on his enemies again.

"FUCK!" Juri accurately summarized the general feeling in the room.

"Indeed, this Majin Buu is just too devious for comfort…" Foxy stated, a cold chill running down the back of her neck. "Just when you expect to have finally gained the upper hand against him, he pulls a stunt like this and ends up totally screwing you over…" She declared downcast.

"I can see why the ancient Kais considered Majin Buu to be a great threat against all of creation…" Lind said, as her tactical mind was running at full pedal, taking all of the implications of how much destruction an enemy of such power and cunning could cause upon an unsuspecting universe.

"That might seem so, however, once more Buu's arrogance proved to act against him. After absorbing Gohan, Buu offered Goku a chance to fuse with whoever he wishes, but only gave him five seconds to do so. Sadly his options were pretty limited; with Tien unconcious, Dende needed unfused in order for the Dragon Balls to be utilized, the only option that Goku had left was Mister Satan…" The turquoise-haired scientist said, much to everybody's dismay.

"There are not enough words to describe just how fucked up you people were…" K' said, pretty stumped at what he was hearing…

"I agree… You guys seem to be going nowhere except from bad to worse." Urd declared with a flat deadpan, not knowing what else to say.

Bulma then smirked impishly, making it pretty clear that she knew something that they didn't. "It might seem like it at first sight, and indeed for all intents and purposes Goku and the others were royally screwed… But just when all hope seemed lost did Goku managed to feel the presence of my husband as he returned from the afterlife to fight Buu again for a short time." Her audience was left stupefied at that revelation.

"What!? How can it be that he come back from the afterlife, wasn't he dead!? Did the Supreme Kaio-shin had also to sacrifice himself for him to come back to life…!?" A flabbergasted Aya Natsume inquired, wondering how such a thing was possible. She might be a clueless air-head most of the time, but that was just a front, as she was fully aware of what ocurred around her and indeed could take notice when a serious situation arised. She was no Hakufu, after all…

Bulma smiled amusedly at that question. "Not exactly… Remember that Goku and Bardock were given leeway to return to the living world for one day in order to participate in the world's martial arts tournament, so with the situation being so dire and the battle against Majin Buu being at the throes of defeat, the powers that be decided to give my husband Vegeta the same privilege they gave Goku and his father, and sent him back to our world in an attempt to turn the tide against Majin Buu…" She declared, causing a general ~Ahhhhh!~ of realization to be heard throughout the room.

"Well, is good to know that the gods do care about what happens here in the mortal world… I actually wasn't expecting that." Crimson Viper commented honestly impressed.

"To be fair, they do prefer to keep themselves away from mortal businesses, but when the fate of the entire universe hangs in the balance, they do tend to take their duties quite seriously and keep an eye on things…" Bulma replied placidly. "Anyway, Goku tried to persuade and plead to my husband to fuse with him so that they could both defeat Majin Buu, but he refused out of arrogance and pride, saying things like how true Saiyan warriors fight their battles on their own without help. Obviously this wasn't a good thing and Majin Buu attacked the two of them and began to kick their asses…" She flatly stated, making it clearly know she wasn't impressed with her husband's performance in this particular instance. Ouch…!

Miu Furinji actually winced at hearing that last part. "It does sound pretty idiotic from your husband's part for refusing help against an enemy as powerful as Majin Buu…" She said in a small quiet voice.

Bulma simply agreed with the busty blonde with a nod and an indulgent smile. "Yes it does…" She simply said before turning towards her wayward honorary niece. "So you see Pan… It is not always a good thing to fight on your own, and it is certainly not any better when you let your followers beat upon their helpless opponents senselessly and do nothing to stop it…" The genius scientist quipped, hinting again at one of the actions done by Pan that she disagreed with and poking at the holes on her reasons for having done so. The alien simply blew some air frustration but didn't do anything beyond that and just took the verbal hits being tossed at her. "After a few more minutes of getting their asses handed to them without them being able to do anything to stop it, my husband finally agreed to fuse with Goku using the Potara rings, and thus their most powerful fusion, Vegito, emerged…" She was about to continue but she was interrupted by Sakura raising her hand and motioning for her attention. "Yes young lady; is something the matter…?" She asked, wondering why the high-school girl with the red gloves decided to interrupt her.

"Err… Excuse me for interrupting you, ma'am. It's just… Well… Why do you feel the need of making these names for the fusioned individuals? I mean, not to sound insulting or anything, but it sounds a little silly… First Gotenks with the fusion of your son Trunks and his friend Goten; and now Vegito…!?" The number one Ryu fan said with an odd look.

"I didn't named them myself if that's what you're asking. That's how they called themselves when each one introduced himself respectively…" Bulma simply replied, not taking any offense since it was a valid interrogant.

"Ah, okay then… That's all that was bothering me…" Sakura said as she backed off, the turquoised haired scientist seemed friendly enough, but she didn't want to risk mucking things up by accident and cause undue insult.

"Very well, then moving on with the story…" Bulma began, re-focusing her attention. "Vegito proved to be the most powerful fighter yet, as he proceeded to beat the living tar out of Buu with barely any effort at all, while every single one of the pink monster's attacks proved unsucessful against Vegito in turn: Using the techniques learned from the people he absorbed, trying to turn Vegito into candy, even trying to destroy the whole planet with a giant energy ball or tearing through the fabrics of dimensions again with a scream, all of his efforts were foiled by Vegito…" The genius scientist said with a smirk, listing with her fingers. The gathered martial artists and students were clearly impressed.

"Woah…! That Vegito sounds like a real badass. I would so love to fight against him…" Momoyo Kawakami declared with an ecstatic and feral smile. The people closest to her turned to give her odd looks.

"You already fought and got your ass kicked by Pan, and you still want to fight someone who is much stronger and experienced than her…!? What the fuck!? Are you suicidal or something…!?" Vice said, staring at the buxom ravenette with no small deal of incredulity.

"That's my nee-san to you, always getting excited at the thought of fighting someone worth her time. No matter how much of a bad idea or counterproductive it would be to do so…" Yamato Naoe said with a sigh, shaking his head sideways at Momoyo's antics, he was used to his 'sister' eccentricity, but sometimes she could go too far if not properly supervised.

"Shut up Yamato! A real man shouldn't back out from a fight, no matter how strong the opponent might be…!" Momoyo replied to her 'brother' in her usual boisterous way…

Bulma simply stared at the ravenette intently as if she reminded her of something from long ago… "Girl… If I didn't know any better, I would think you are descended from a Saiyan. But considering the fact I've seen much weirder and stranger things than that. Are you sure one of your ancestors isn't an alien?" She asked with all the seriousness of her scientific and investigative side as a researcher.

Momoyo appeared to be momentarily taken aback by the question; she lifted a finger to make a reply, but then thought better and refrained from answering as a pensive look fell upon her features. Ageha Kuki took the opportunity to answer for her. "Actually, that would answer many things about her… That Momoyo is the descendant of some stupidly and ridiculous powerful alien superman from outer space, that… That actually has a great lot of goddamn sense…" The silver-haired blunette stated, tossing suspicious looks at her friend/rival.

She wasn't the only one to suddenly agree with that idea… "It does, doesn't it? We all saw her battle against Pan, there's no fucking way a normal human being, whether he is a martial artist or has some special ability or not, would be able to fight the way she did and in such conditions…" Whip said, turning too in the direction of Momoyo to stare at her. "Not even the Grandmasters accompanying us are powerful enough to fight in the goddamn space or toss energy blasts powerful enough to destroy planets…!? I know Pan is the strongest there is right now on our world, but you girl are also quite the special kind of monster." That last statement caught the attention of all the grandmasters present, who began to give considering looks at the girl.

Bulma didn't take her attention away from Momoyo as she spoke again. "Pan, I want you to do some DNA tests on this girl and send me the results, I think it would be a good idea to know what exactly is that makes your new friend tick…" She ordered, as she kept measuring the ravenette with her sight alone.

Pan just shrugged at her aunt's request, admitting there could be a slight possibility fot the latest suspicion to be true, but believing it to be so unlikely to actually be taken seriosuly. "If that's what you want aunt, thought I'll doubt you'll actually find anything of note…" She said nonchalantly.

"A scientist makes sure to investigate all theories and leads, no matter how unlikely they might seem…" It was Bulma simple rebuke. "Anyway, but that's a thing for another day. Getting back to the story… Though Vegito proved to be the much superior opponent, he too was eventually absorbed by Majin Buu…"

"WHAAAAT!?" It was the immediate shocked reaction after the latest revelation. But before it could go any further Bulma put a stop to that by ordering everybody to clam up with a motion of her hand.

"Calm down, let me explain first… The truth is, it was all part of Vegito's plan, he had been expecting from the very beginning to be absorbed by Majin Buu and was already prepared for when it happened. Buu thought he had finally taken Vegito's power inside himself, but in reality Vegito was not made part of Buu thanks to a barrier technique he used to protect himself." The turquoise-haired scientist explained.

"A barrier technique…?" Asked a perplexed Chou'un rather intrigued.

"Barrier techniques, also known as KI barriers…" Pan began to explain, seeing as how she was the only one present to have an intimate knowledge about the different techniques and fighting styles that her elders tended to employ due to the fact they had taught her all of them personally."As the name implies, they are KI generated force fields that are used to protect the user's body from all manners of hazards; ranging from energy, physical or enviromental. It is with this technique that my elders are able to fight in space like Momoyo did, by shielding themselves against the effects of being exposed to the vacuum…" She stated matter-of-factily.

Whip gave her a frown after hearing that particular piece of information. "Wait a minute… If you're able to shield yourself from the dangers of vacuum to fight in space; why didn't you did so when you were fighting the crazy Kawakami chick!?" She asked with a clear 'WTF'expression.

"Because: One; the barrier technique only protects me against external hazards like vaccum exposure. It doesn't allow me to breath in space. And two; I didn't really needed it in order to defeat Momoyo, sure it might had left me in a slightly disadvantageous position compared to her own since I was basically allowing her to retain the higher ground; but is not like her attacks were able to cause me any kind of significant damage, which that by itself made the use of a Ki barrier to be completely redundant since I didn't needed it to protect myself against anything she threw at me. So figthing her in space would have been a complete waste of energy just to keep up a barrier I really didn't had a need for, and I would also had to trouble myself with holding my breath since like any other living being I am unable to breath in space. So in the end, it was simply too much of a hassle for me to bother…" The alien girl stated dissmissively, leaving her entire audience looking at her with perplexed faces.

"So, the reason why you didn't fought Momoyo in equal terms, was because it was too much of an inconvinience for you to do so…?" Chun-Li said with a disbelieving stare.

"More or less, yes…" It was Pan's simple answer. The people present in the room simply didn't know how to respond to that.

Momoyo had a look of deep concentration in her features, thinking over the words of the alien girl. "You know, I feel kinda conflicted about this… On the one hand, I am really excited that you are still so much stronger than what you showed during our battle; but in the other, it is pretty insulting to my pride as a martial artist that you didn't considered me enough of a threat to go all out." The ravenette fumed with an exagerated pout.

Pan just turned to stare at her with an expression of 'Are you stupid?'. "You would have died at the first hit if I had done that…" She plainly remarked.

Bulma nodded from her place on the screen at that. "I must agree on Pan with that decision, fighting a Saiyan is an unbelievable stupid idea unless you're pretty familiar with their training methods and have a degree of practice over them, and even then I would still not recommend it to do so…"

"Yes, we've kinda learned that pretty fast after seeing Pan curb-stomping anyone dumb enough to mess with her…" Foxy deadpanned in a dry sarcastic tone.

Bulma just shrugged in response to that. "That's not really surprising… At any rate, returning to the story; Once Vegito got inside Majin Buu's body without becoming part of it, he separated back into Goku and Vegeta once more. They then began to fool around and cause mayhem on Buu's insides, giving the pink monster a rather strong case of indigestion…" That last part caused some of her audience to chuckle, founding it pretty funny that Majin Buu ended up with a stomach-ache for eating things he shouldn't. "Anyway, so the two of them began to look through Buu's body for their friends and family that had been absorbed previously by the creature. Goku manages to find his son Gohan, while Vegeta finds Gotenks and Piccolo, all of them seemingly free and unharmed, but then the guys began to be attacked by them and Goku and my husband soon realized that these were not the people they were looking for. Turns out they were manifestations of Buu's thoughts as every time the guys beat them they simply returned as if nothing had happened. Goku and my husband began to be beaten back by the rampant thoughts until Buu's hunger got the better of him, the pink monster then flew towards a vacant cake shop in search of food and began to look at the confections. This caused the illusions of Gohan, Gotenks and Piccolo inside Buu to transform into cakes…" She explained, leaving her audience rather dumbfounded at what they were hearing.

"Okay… Strange, but not outside the realm of possibility considering we have an actual psychic in our midst or having witnessed how the Ryuugan was able to manifest a vision of Lady Iyo in front of us and even allow us to speak with her even though she was communicating with us from more than two millennia in the past." Chun-Li said as she blinked in perplexity for a moment before turning towards the purple-clad psychic in question. "What do you think Rose…? Is something like what Mrs. Bulma is saying to be possible…?"

Rose simply took a moment to ponder about the subject before giving an answer. "It is indeed possible for something like we've just heard to happen; a usual battle between psychics consists on attacking our opponent's mind by projecting our thoughts into them, so there could be a chance for stray thoughts to become aggressive and dangerous, or even attack other people and gain sentience of their own over time. But for that to ocurr the psychic potential of the user must be truly enormous…"

"Well, considering all we have heard about what this Majin Buu was able to do…!" Nina Williams plainly stated in her usual cold monotone.

Rose agreed with that statement with a nod. "Point taken…"

Bulma then redirected the conversation back on track. "Right… So after Buu finished his meal, he began to bring forward the complete eradication of our world with another giant sphere attack, but by then Goku and Vegeta had finally managed to find Goten, Trunks, Piccolo and Gohan trapped in some pods inside Majin Buu's body. As soon as they tore them off, Buu immediately reverts back to his original form and thus his plan to destroy the planet was foiled. They also managed to find a pod in which the fat genie version of Buu was trapped inside. Goku seems initially surprised at seeing that and begins to wonder how such thing is possible, but my husband, who has watched all the events that happened from the afterlife, quickly explains to him what happened and why the fat Buu was there. Majin Buu the realizes what must have been happening, and that someone was sabotaging him from the inside, so he somehow goes inside his own body and tries to kill Goku and Vegeta…"

"The fuck…!" It was all that a nonplussed Dazai Osamu was able to say after hearing such bizarreness.

"Well, Majin Buu was a creature whose entire body was made of some weird pink gum-like substance that he was able to control down to the minute detail even if parts of them were separated from his main body, so it is not all that implaussible that he was able to manifest inside his own body to hunt down whoever was that was messing with him from the inside…" Bulma elaborated; trying to dispel all the confusion she knew her listeners must have been feeling right now.

"Well, I suppose that makes some weird kind of sense…" Foxy commented still a little unconvinced but after what she has seen and heard in the short time she's been with Pan, she supposed she didn't had any actual room to be skeptical no matter how ridiculous the story being told was getting.

"Anyway, despite trying his best to get rid of Goku and my husband, Buu was careful that his attacks didn't got near Fat Buu's pod, even going so far as to look afraid when Vegeta threatened to tear off the Pod in retaliation for his attack. Buu pleads to my husband not to tear the pod, saying he would no longer be himself anymore if he did it. My husband simply smiled before doing just that, causing Majin Buu to seemingly start to implode from the inside. Goku and Vegeta then barely manage to escape with their friends from Majin Buu's body just in the nick of time before his apparent destruction. Buu meanwhile, can do nothing but scream in pain as his body starts to rapidly go through some pretty painful looking transformations, changing forms at a fast pace until he reverts back to his original form that he had during ancient times when he almost exterminated the entire race of the Kais, that of a short child-looking evil creature, a Kid Buu if we wish to be specific." If the gathered martial artists and students thought that there was nothing more at this point that could surprise them after everything they had heard, they were all wrong…

"A mere child is responsible for almost killing all of the space gods…!?" Crimson Viper exclaimed with an obvious 'What in the name of fuck!?' expression.

Pan just turned towards the red-headed woman with a blank look. "I am only sixteen and yet I beat the crap of all the most powerful and dangerous martial artists that this planet had to offer in a single day…" She stated with a deadpan.

"Point…" Viper backed off with a sweat-drop.

Bulma continued with her tale. "Regardless of Buu's transformation, Goku and Vegeta's attempt to save their friends sadly turned out to be in vain. Because the moment he reassumed his original state, Kid Buu immediately blew up the entire planet, killing the scant few who were still alive; except for Goku, Vegeta, Dende and Mister Satan, who the Supreme Kaio-shin helped and transported to the sacred world of the Kais just before the planet was destroyed and reunite them with Bardock who had been left waiting for them at the Kais' world…" The turquoise-haired scientist declared with clear dismay, leaving her entire audience utterly speechless in horror-stricken disbelief at what had transpired…

It was Juri who summarized the entire general feeling in a single expression. "Holy fucking shit…!"

Seeing how there was nobody capable to form any kind of cohesive thought, Bulma decided to continue. "In any case… Regardless of having enough power to destroy our planet, Kid Buu wasn't able to withstand the resultant explosion and ended up being blown up into a thousand pieces by his own detonation. But once more his unbelievable high regenerative abilities came into play and he reformed once more among the floating debris that once was our homeworld. After that, he went off in search of Goku and my husband, teleporting to many planets during his search, and proceeding to destroy them one by one in frustration when finding his targets not being there. He even ended up finding the Grand Kai's planet and almost managed to destroy it alongside everybody in it. Luckily, Goku and my husband had decided to flare their power in order to attract Kid Buu to their location and lead him to an ambush, so the pink monster managed to sense their increasing power and teleported off to the sacred world of the Kais in search of them before he could destroy the Grand Kai's world…" She said to an increasingly dumb-struck audience.

"GODDAMN! It is not enough that monster destroyed your planet, but he also went through a rampage throughout the universe…! What the fucking hell!?" Foxy exclaimed in stupefied shock, all semblance of stoicism and self-control long forgotten.

Bulma just gave the white-haired fencer an impassive look as she replied. "Not for nothing he was the greatest threat that Goku and the others had faced at that point. After all you've heard, what you've seen Pan do, you still harbor doubts…?" She inquired with an indecipherable gaze.

Foxy didn't know why, but she felt rather unnerved by the look that the turquoise-haired woman was giving her. Like she were a particular odd specimen that she were dissecting to uncover how it functioned. "Well… It's true we have seen much in the small time we've been with Pan, but there's still things at times that are hard for us to wrap our minds about. We didn't knew anything about Space gods or unbelievable powerful supermen from other planets that seem to have come out of a comic or manga, or ancient evil entities capable of destroying the universe up until a couple of weeks ago, so forgive us if sometimes it proves difficult to us to believe in the things you say…" The fencer said, trying to explain her point of view.

Bulma had to agree she might have been onto something. "Well, I suppose you might be right about that. I must say that sometimes is very hard for me to remember how my life was before I embarked myself in the quest for the dragonballs and met Goku for the first time. I guess I shouldn't be so hard with all of you for harboring some doubts at my words. It does sounds like a pretty outrageous story when looked from a thrid point of view…"

"To say the least…" Mature commented, agreeing with that last statement.

Again, Iori Yagami couldn't care less and simply wanted to hear the rest of the story. "What happened next…?" He asked in his usual friendless voice.

"Well, upon arriving Kid Buu immediately starts battling Goku and Bardock in their Super Saiyan 3 stage, both of them roughly evenly matching Buu in power. However, having the advantage of perpetual endurance thanks to his high regeneration abilities, Kid Buu begins to gain the upper hand over the two Saiyans the longer the battle stretched; worse still, as Goku and his father are quickly losing power because of the great strain that the Super Saiyan 3 transformation causes to their bodies." Bulma says much to the general dismay in the room.

"Wait, how come Pan's grandfather and great-grandfather were losing power for using this transformation, wasn't it supposed to make them stronger…?" Little Honoka asked in confusion, scratching the top of her head with a puzzled expression.

"Each Super Saiyan stage does grant a considerable boost of power compared to each previous stage." Bulma began to explain. "But it comes at the price of a great strain placed upon the user's body due to the great power coursing through it, which becomes even greater with each subsequent stage. Also, another disadvantage is the increasingly high energy expenditure that each transformation brings. These two disadvantages can be overcome with focus and training, sadly during this time Goku and his father had just recently attained this third transformation, so they barely had any time to try at mastering it. They just really weren't in the best of conditions for a prolonged engagement."

"I believe Pan mentioned something like that when she first showed her Super Saiyan transformation…" Ryu commented, interjecting in the conversation. "So this third stage was only good for a great burst of power for a short amount of time before the high energy expenditure leaved Pan's elders too drained to keep fighting in an equal level with Buu…"

Bulma acknowledged the wandering martial artist with a nod. "Correct. Seeing Goku and Bardock losing too much energy and becoming weaker and weaker over time, my husband decided to transform into his Super Saiyan 2 form and step in to fight Kid Buu in an attempt to buy them some time so they could rest and charge back up to full power in order to finish off the pink moster. However, he was quickly defeated by Kid Buu despite his best efforts, so then Mr. Satan also steps in and attempts to fight Buu, obviously he was just too horribly over his head, but somehow through dumb sheer luck he manages to survive his encounter against Kid Buu…" The turquoise-haired woman declared, leaving her audience stunned stupid at what they had just heard.

"I'm not sure whether to consider this Mr. Satan to be brave or just plain stupid for doing something incredibly reckless like that…" Maxima plainly stated with a deadpan.

Bulma just shrugged helplessly at that. "Well, he can be a useless annoyance most of the time, but there are ocassions were he actually can step into the ring and be of some help, I'll grant him that much… He is Pan's maternal grandfather for a reason you know…" She declared, much to the surprise of everyone listening.

Whip turned towards the alien girl so fast that it was a miracle she didn't snapped her own neck. "That-" She was about to say a rather less than stellar description of Mr. Satan, but bit her tongue and reared herself back at the last moment, she didn't wanted to risk her neck by insulting one of Pan's relatives after all. Still, she was unable to keep the shock out of her voice nonetheless. "Less than flattering man is your other grandfather…? So you're related to an alien superman who is the strongest warrior in the universe according to the space gods and also to a normal man who is just… uh…? Well…" The revolver-wielder trailed off not really knowing what she could say that wouldn't end up with her being blasted into ash…

"Go ahead, don't constraint yourself, you can speak freely. I'm pefectly aware that my maternal grandfather is a dumbass… In fact, from a certain point of view, both of my grandfathers could be described as such…" Pan deadpanned in the driest tone ever. Leaving many dumbfounded as to why she would say something like that.

Bulma couldn't help but snicker at that, seeing how her niece was poking fun at his Grandfather's lack of schoolastic degrees. Nevertheless, it was best if she continued with her tale. "Anyway… After toying with him for a bit, Kid Buu moves to finish off Mr. Satan but finds himself unable to do so for some reason. After several unsuccesful attempts, his frustration ultimately leads him to spit out a small blob out of his own body which then explodes to reveal an unconcious Good Buu."

"Nnnh… So in the end he got rid of whatever goodness was still inside of him, just the same as Bison did to give birth to Rose…" Chun-Li commented, pointing with her thumb over her shoulder towards the purple-clad psychic who simply blinked nonplussed at hearing about another being who went through the same experience as her.

Bulma simply nodded at that and kept speaking. "Indeed, which wasn't a good thing in the least considering they were still fighting Kid Buu, who know having nothing stoping him proceeded to attack Mr. Satan once more. And again, his stupidly high good luck saved his life when the Good Buu steps in and saves him life. Good Buu then angrily tells his evil counterpart to leave Mr. Satan alone and engages him in battle. It became pretty clear from the get go who had the upper hand and the battle quickly turned into Kid Buu's favor, completely dominating his gentler counterpart with ease, but despite the great difference in power, the Good Buu refuses to give up in his fight. Meanwhile as the two Buus kept fighting each other, Goku and my husband, alongside Dende and the Supreme Kai, manage to use the dragonballs to restore our planet and revive all the people that was killed since the World Martial Arts Tournament." The genius scientist explained, omitting the fact that the Dragon Balls that were used to restore their world and bring everybody back to life were the ones from planer Namek since she too, just like Pan, thought it a very bad idea to reveal to the people of planet Earth that other Dragon Balls existed on other planets, least evil people begin to have dreams of immortality and start to make a hunt for them through their galaxy. She didn't wish for a new Red Ribbon Army to rise. And the least said about the Super Dragon Balls the better since that is a whole other kettle of fish.

"Damn! Those Dragon Balls must really be very useful and powerful if they are able to bring a whole planet and its population back to life…" Souichiro Nagi honestly said with clear awe.

Bulma couldn't help but smirk at the obvious shock that her revelation had brought. "Indeed, thanks to the Dragon Balls many times we've been able to undo the destruction brought by forces of evil or fix grave mistakes that would have lasting serious consequences… They are possibly the greatest magical artifacts ever to exist…" She declared, leaving her audience awestruck before returning to her tale. "Anyway… After our world was restored, Goku then prepared to use one of his most powerful techniques, the Genki Dama, while my husband Vegeta, with the assistance of King Kai and his telepathic powers, asked for the help of the inhabitants of our world to power up Goku's technique. Sadly only we, Goku's friends and family answered his call for help." Before she could continue, the genius scientist was interrupted by Kan'nu, who seemed to have a question.

"Err… Not to be rude or anything, but we don't know what the Genki Dama is or why would it need the assistance of the people of your planet to be powered-up…?" She inquiried with an apologetical gesture.

Pan was the one to answered, as she is the only one to have been instructed in the secrets of most of the technoques employed by her elders. "Genki Dama, also known as Spirit Bomb, is a technique that allows you to borrow energy from practically everything in your surroudings: from grass and trees, people and animals, even inanimate objects and the atmosphere, and then concentrate that energy into a massive sphere of astounding destructive power. It is the ultimate techniqe employed by my grandfather when everything else has failed. In order to use this technique, one must have a pure heart to be able to manipulate and gather the energy; otherwise the move can backfire and possibly hurt or kill the user. And once the technique has been fired, it can only be deflected by either another person with a pure heart or someone whose own power is somehow superior to that gathered by the technique…"

Karin couldn't help but give a deadpan look at that. "I found it highly unlikely that it could exist someone powerful enough to deflect an attack composed of the energy gathered from an entire planet, but then I remember who I am speaking to and somehow it doesn't seem that surprising…" She droned in a plain tone and a helpless shrug of her shoulders.

"Regardless of that fact, This Genki Dama does sound like a really powerful technique." Hayato Furinji said as he iddly stroke his long blonde beard with one hand, a pensive look on his face.

"In any case…" Bulma said, continuing with the story. "While this was happening, Kidd Buu and Good Buu were still locked in battle, with Good Buu unwilling to back off despite the horrible disadvantage he was in; he didn't stop until he was beaten so badly that he couldn't even stand any more. At this point Mr. Satan tried to step and try again to stop Kid Buu, obviously he failed, so Vegeta and Bardock had to battle Buu once more to buy enough time for Goku to prepare his Genki Dama. It didn't helped much since Buu simply kicked my husband's ass and began to toy with him after he did the same to Bardock and blasted him into a crater. So it ultimately fell upon Mr. Satan to convince the people from our planet to willingly give up their energy for the Genki Dama to reach completion, and once it did, Kid Buu could clearly tell it spelled bad news for him. So he grabbed my battered and beaten husband as hostage and kept him in front of the Spirit's Bomb path to make sure Goku didn't launch his technique for fear of accidentaly killing Vegeta in the process." She explained with a clear unnerved look on her face at the memory of such henious moment and what could have happened to Vegeta should things had turned out different. Her audience listening and waiting with baited breath for the outcome of her retelling.

"Seems that Majin Buu was up to his tricks to the bitter end…" Doctor Jackal commented, his face hidden by the wide brim of his hat that he was pushing downwards with his fingers.

"Yes he did…" Bulma agreed with the deranged doctor. "It was a great stroke of luck that Good Buu decided to wake up at that moment and, in a last act of defiance towards his evil counterpart, he charged and smashed headfirst into Kid Buu, knocking and pushing him off my husband and allowing Mr. Satan to carry him off to safety." At this part the genius scientist had to supress a wince in sympathy for the fat pink genie. "Sadly for good Buu, seeing as to how Kid Buu was unable to get him off him, he simply blasted him away with a massive sphere of energy that injured him further. But at least his sacrifice paid off and Goku had a clear straight path towards Kid Buu, not wasting his chance he tossed the Genki Dama at the pink monster who was unable to do anything to get out of the way. However, Kid Buu wasn't willing to go out without a fight, so with great effort he stopped the Genki Dama with his bare hands and began to slowly push it back towards an exhausted Goku after a brief struggle. It is at this moment that Dende uses the last wish left in the Dragon Balls to have all of Goku's strength restored, thus allowing him to turn back into a Super Saiyan and overpower Kid Buu with the Genki Dama, finally managing to vanquish him and obliterating him down to the last cell, thus riding the universe from his reing of terror at last…" The genius scientist finished telling, taking a moment to catch her breath after such a long story. Her audience left jaw-slacked after hearing the tale of such great earth-shattering battle. "So you see Pan, it wasn't that we wanted for the children or anyone else to end up fighting Majin Buu on their own. It was just that we were caught off guard by an unexpected threat that we were certainly not ready for, and it was all we could do not to get killed, we were pretty lucky that everything managed to turn out for the best in the end, considering what we were up to against. So yeah, fighting on your own is not always a good thing and neither is it letting other people fight in battles that are clearly over their heads and instead of helping them actively take actions to prolong their suffering and prevent others from stepping in…" She said, getting back to the main issue as to why she had to tell this entire story in the first place.

Regardless whether her aunt had a point or not, Pan wasn't going to allow being berated like that. "It does not matter if what I did was right or wrong, YAMI and their apprentices of YOMI needed to be taught a lesson…" It was her simple answer.

Bulma didn't seemed to have liked that response… "A LESSON!? What lesson could you possible teach doing something as horrible as that…!?" She all but demanded with great outrage, her temper starting to get the better of her.

"That actual real-life battlesare no jokes, and you shouldn't agree to take risks that you aren't truly ready to face…" Pan replied immediately, unbending in her position. She let out a sigh to calm herself down and better explain her reason. "Both YAMI grandmasters and their apprentices were kinda' rubbing me the wrong way when I first met them. Spewing this speech on how they wanted to preserve the true nature of martial arts by starting a world wide war and show to the entire world the superiority of their killing arts. But I wasn't convinced by such flowery ideal and wondered whether or not they actually understood the consequences that their actions would entail. It is all fine and dandy when it is only you risking your own neck, but sometimes it is not only about you. Sometimes your actions not only put yourself in danger but also those close to you. Maybe the Grandmasters were fine with the idea of putting their own lives in the line, but I had my doubts they would also be willing to risk the lives of their apprentices for their own ideals. And I was right… When push came to shove, the YAMI grandmasters couldn't fathom the thought of their precious disciples being ravaged by the horrors of the battlefield. Which makes me want to ask why the hell they would want to start a war in the first place, since they would have put their disciples in even more danger than what Iori could have ever done…? People die in war; that is a fact, you cannot simply wish to start a world-wide war and expect for your side to wade through it unscathed. That is idiotic and unrealistic, one way or another, you will suffer losses, for your enemies will try everything to make sure to win and would have no consideration about your life. And that includes underhanded and dishonorable means that go against your own moral code and ethics. The only ones who actually seemed to know this were Kushinada and Isshinsai, both of them might be cold hearted bastards, but at least they actually knew what the consequences of their own actions would be and were willing to do what needed to be done to achieve their own aims. If the rest of the grandmasters were not truly willing to commit to their plans, then they shouldn't have tried to start a war in the first place, they shouldn't have gone to that construction field that day to meet me and my forces, they shouldn't have accepted to battle us, and they certainly shouldn't have agreed to our terms… That kind of indecision can cost lives…" The alien girl said without hesitation, her expression unreadable.

Bulma scowled heavily after that little speech, her personal code of ethics at odds with her more logical and pragmatic side as a scientist. "You're not entirely wrong with what you're saying, but that doesn't mean I like it nevertheless…" She grudgingly confessed.

"Whether you like Pan's words or not is irrelevant. It doesn't change the fact that Pan is speaking the truth." A voice from the far front of the room said, the gathered martial artists turned and caught sight of Akira Hongo walking calmly through the main entrance into the room, the formerly thought deceased YOMI apprentices trailing behind him. "I understand what she's saying, and many times have I asked myself that same question, if itwas my own weakness what put the lives of my apprentices in danger… Maybe if I had been stronger, if I had been a better sensei, then they wouldn't have had to suffer through such ordeal. If only I hadn't been so weak, then maybe Sho might still be alive…" The sunglasses-wearing grandmaster said, his expression turning distant and melancholic instead of his usual composed and collected self.

Kenichi was left astonished at that confession, knowing exactly who Master Kongo was speaking about. He wasn't able to keep himself from speaking out. "No Master Kongo! It wasn't your fault what happened to Sho Kano! You did an excellent job teaching him, he was the best fighter I ever fought, no one has managed to press me as hard as he did in our battle! It was the first time I truly seriously considered the possibility of being defeated by a superior opponent… No… If anything… It is because of me that he died… If I had paid more attention to my surroundings, then he wouldn't had to give his life in order to save me…" The brunette disciple said with a dejected expression, the memory of the man, his best rival and greatest opponent he has ever faced, who died so he could live, gnawed greatly on his insides. The heavy burden he has been feeling ever since the day Sho Kano died is something he still hasn't been able to overcome. His masters, his friends and Miu had helped him a great deal to avoid been dragged down by the guilt. But even if he is usually able to show a strong front, the experiences of that day are not so easily forgotten.

The usually immutable karate grandmasters found himself for a moment unable to respond, so side-lined he was by the unexpected declaration of young Kenichi that he required a few seconds to recompose himself. But when he did, he couldn't help from being touched by the praises towards his best and most brilliant disciple. "… I thank you for your kind words young Kenichi, It warms my heart to know that my disciple found himself an opponent worthy of him that acknowledges his skill as a warrior…"

Despite the sudden heartwarming moment, Bulma was looking at both grandmaster and disciple with a strange expression. "Excuse me…! I can't believe what I'm hearing… Just what is wrong with you people!? Pan's sheananigans put the lives of not only you but all of the apprentices under your care in danger, but you don't seem particularly upset with her for what she did and you're even blaming yourself for what happened as if it had been your fault instead of hers!" She exclaimed with a very flabbergasted expression.

The only answer that the pointed-eared grandmaster deemed himself to give was an unconcerned shrug. "We are followers of the Satsujinken, the killer fist, in our way of life the strongest rules and the weak obeys. Sure, it is easy to say such things when you're at the top, but the true measure of your conviction comes when it is you who is in the lower echelon. So we have no room to complain, for this is the way we chose to live our lives…" He simply said frimly without hesitation.

The turquoise-haired scientist just stared at him for a moment, a perplexed expression on her face. "Martial artists, you're all just like my husband…" She said with a shake of her head, dismissing the situation. "Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that Pan needlessly put the lives of your disciples in danger. A fact that becomes much more grievous since you all are much weaker than her…" Bulma said, still unwilling to drop the matter.

Pan just narrowed her eyes at her. "My dear, dear aunt… So righteous, so upright in your outrage. But tell me… what did my grandfather wished for after the battle with Majin Buu was over? What decision did he take that you all went along with without raising a fuss…?" She asked while giving an unreadable to her aunt.

Bulma visible winced at that, knowing what Goku did after defeating Buu could be quite the controversial subject. Her discomfort was easily picked up by everybody present.

"Okay, that expression doesn't give any kind of reassurance… What did Pan's grandfather do to cause you to make such a face…?" Mature asked, after seeing Bulma's expression.

For a moment the genius scientist considered not answering that question, but then she caved in, letting out a long sigh in the process, knowing that since she had already explained all about the fight against Buu, might as well confess what happened immediately afterwards. "After Kid Buu was defeated, everybody realized that still left us with another Buu to deal with. Seeing that this Buu was mostly good since it was composed almost in its entirety by the kinder aspects that Kid Buu rejected and expelled from his body, Goku decided that we should leave him in peace and allow him to live with us in our planet. However, knowing it would not be that simple and fearing that he would be looked upon with fear, mistrust and hatred by the rest of the denizens of our world for what Evil Buu did when he killed all life on our planet and we had to wish everybody back to life. Goku decided to use the Dragon Balls again and wish for the memories of all the events that happened regarding Buu to be erased from the minds of everybody living in our world. Only we who are close to Goku were the only ones left able to remember what happened…" She said with obvious discomfort, leaving her entire audience gob-smacked in shock at what they did…

"You guys erased the memory of the people of your entire world!? WHAT THE HELL!? Who gave you the right to do such thing!?" Chun-Li exclaimed understandably alarmed at such revelation, her shock so great as to make her take a step back and throw any semblance of decorum out of the window.

"I don't usually agree with the girl-scout on anything out of principle, but this time I have to make an exception… Just could you people fucking dare!?" Juri exclaimed rather agressively, shit like taking people's memories against their will doesn't sit well with her. It reminds her too much of Bison and his dolls. And as usual anything that brings back to her the memory of that bastard is enough to set her off.

Bulma hesitated a little, trying to find a proper answer to that question. "What other choice did we have? The Good Buu had already proven himself worthy of trust after helping Goku and my husband fight against Kid Buu, his assistance is what helped us tip the scale against such terrible enemy. If it wasn't for him then I wouldn't be standing and talking with you all right now…" She said trying to defend Goku's decision.

Obviously, Juri wasn't convinced and she let it well know. "Oh right, because that solves everything isn't it. The fat genie was gracious enough to save us from the mess he got ourselves into in the first place, so let us show our thanks by brainwashing the entire fucking world! Fucking brilliant!"

Bulma could do nothing but sweat-drop at the raging sarcasm of the Korean woman; she could understand her outrage in an academic level, but still…

Her musings were curt short as Miu spoke out loud. "I think I can relate with what Miss Juri is saying… If I and everybody I know were killed by some ancient evil alien creature and then brought back to life, I would be very upset if someone were to take my memories of that event…" She said unusually serious, a far cry from her common sunny and gentle disposition.

The turquoise-haired scientist could only let out a sigh, knowing everyone was well within their rights to feel displeased at what she had just revealed. "I understand what you're saying, I really do… But what would you have us do? Would had it been better to let people become aware that Majin Buu had decided to live in our world after everything that happened? There would have been massive riots throughout the world; lynch mobs would have tried to attack Majin Buu, and let me tell you that testing the patience of the Good aspects of Buu is a monumental stupid idea. There is only so much abuse one single individual can take before going into a rampage, and considering Good Buu was still remarkably powerful on his own… So in short, innocent people would have died if we hadn't done what we did… It is not something we are proud of, but it was necessary…" Bulma explained firmly defending her position, the gathered martial artists could only remain silent after that, not knowing what to say since they couldn't find a good answer for the quandary proposed by the genius scientist.

"I'm not saying what my grandfather did was wrong, aunt…" Pan said, drawing the attention of the room. "On the contrary it was the right thing to do in this instance since the other choice would have been to let turmoil and strife run rampant through our planet. It was not a very morally acceptable choice, but it was what was necessary in order to preserve the peace in our world. And just like you once did what was necessary, so too did I do what was necessary in order to survive on this planet on my own… I did what I did in order to test the YAMI Grandmasters convictions in their beliefs, in order to take their measure as warriors. And it is because I managed to acknowledge them as true warriors that they are alive today, instead of being left laying dead in that field like many other of their companions. A few days ago we were enemies, so you cannot expect that I should have had any kind of consideration towards them. I did gave them the option to walk away and leave me alone, to abandon this country and let each of ous walk their separate ways, but they refused. So the only options I had left for them were either submission or total anihilation, for I wasn't going to allow such enormous organization with massive resources to walk around unopposed and capable of striking at me and those under my protection when I least expected it. The moment they decided to fight me and my forces, was the moment I decided I would had to make sure that YAMI would no longer be strong enough to be considered a threat anymore. It would have been idiotic to do anything else…" She said, pacing around a little and gesturing towards the grandmasters in question as to explain her point. "So you shouldn't question the decisions I had to do in order to stay alive, aunt; especially when you already have some experience with questionable decisions yourself. But the soul of the matter is; you weren't here… None of my elders were here… It was only me and Giru…" The alien girl stated with a little acid seeping into her voice before growing silent, her expression clearly telling she was nursing dark thoughts. "I just did what I had to stay alive, just as I had been taught… Besides, I was simply following the examples already shown to me while in this planet, doing the things I saw in order to fit. For it is not a prime rule for survival to blend in with your surroundings when in a strange place…?"

"You still don't seem able to understand what I'm telling you, Pan!" Bulma replied back, raising her voice a litte. "It is not wether your actions, reprehensible or not, were necessary for your own survival! You shouldn't have to make this kind of decisions yourself! We adults make them when we have to protect our world from external threats, because it is our job and there's no one else who can take these kinds of decisions! But you are only a girl, a sixteen year old girl; it shouldn't be your responsibility to place this kind of weight over your shoulders…!" She exclaimed, clearly upset, but then took a pause and a long breath to calm herself a little. "You have to understand Pan, we: Me, your father, Goku, and the others; we are not infallible, we've made mistakes, many mistakes in fact. Things that forced your father, your uncle Goten, my own son Trunks, to go through terrible experiences that they shouldn't had to suffer in the first place… And I don't want for those same mistakes of the past to repeat themselves again in you…" The genius scientist stated with great remorse, showing how much she actually cared for the young Saiyan teen.

Pan couldn't find in herself to say anything back to her aunt after that declaration, taking a moment to collect her thoughts, in the end all she could say was… "Very rarely does life happen to turn out the way we would like…"

Before Bulma could say another word, a new voice was heard coming from somewhere beyond the scope of the screen. "That is enough woman, you'll do nothing but keep upseting the brat if you continue talking…" A strong male voice said in a commanding tone.

The turquoise-haired scientist turned in surprise to look in a direction outside the comm. array's screen visual range, whoever the owner of the voice was, his presence seemed to cause a great deal of shock to Bulma. "Bardock! Since when you've been listening in our conversation…!?"

"I've been standing in here since the brat began to explain about her stay on that far away planet…" The voice said, as footsteps began to be heard drawing near the screen. "Shows how much importance you put in being aware of your surroundings." Bardock scoffed in a slight mocking tone.

Bulma didn't seem to take the jape well as a scowl began to marr her features, but she was disctracted from her mounting ire by a greatly surprised Pan. "My Gran-Gran is there with you…!?" The alien girl exclaimed in a positively nervous voice, which really caught all of the martial artists present off-guard since they had never seemed Pan acting in such way in the short time they've been around her.

Bulma just had enough time to check at her niece from the corner of her eye, before Bardock's voice adressed her again. "Let me speak with my runaway Great-granddaughter…"

The genius scientist mused her answer for a moment before acquiescing and stepping aside. "Fine, I suppose you too must also be worried about her…" She said as parting words while making space for the new figure to step in.

The entire room was treated to the sight of a powerfully built middle-age looking man, wearing a strange black and green vest made from unknown materials that clearly showed his well-developed and solid muscles, not overly gigantic like some burly martial artists tend to have but having enough mass to clearly show he kept up in shape. His features seemed as if they had been carved out of stone, strong and unflinching, he had the look of a veteran warrior well experienced in battle. The moment he stepped in view the gathered martial artists knew they were in the presence of a warrior of the highest caliber. His hair was in the same spiky weird style as that of his son, who they had seen some pictures during Pan's first conference back in Todo, a red Bandana tied around his forehead. But his most distinguished feature was a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek at the height of his cheekbone, by paying closer attention to it, one could clearly see that the scar was not a clean one. It seemed to have been inflicted by some great impact or a high-level energy blast, a testament of the great battles he has fought.

Despite speaking through a communication device from many galaxies away, Bardock's presence alone was able to command respect from anyone in the room. He looked down upon Pan unfazed and uttered a single word. "Brat…"

The alien girl couldn't help from gulping as she stared up at the Saiyan warrior, a warrior of the same caliber as his uncle and grandfather, with said grandfather being the only one capable of defeating him. She could say no other thing but… "Great-Grandfather Bardock…"

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Yes, Bardock finally makes act of presence in the story. About time I introduce other DBZ characters to the story. Anyway, there are still some things I have to work over on the next chapter, plot issues that I've already explained that I need to deal with…

Anyway, about including mass effect technology in this chapter. I need I way to explain how the characters are able to communicate almost instantly through such a great expanse of space. The mange and anime never explain how the communication technologies of the spaceships created and owned by CapsuleCorp work, so I need a way to explain it that can make sense, so when I find myself trying to fill holes, I always rely on what I know. And what I know in this instance is Mass Effect.

But regardless, expect more characters from DBZ to appear in future chapter, I wanted a greater involvement from Goku's world, so there you have it…

As always, recommend this story to your friends, leave a review and tell me what you think and I read you all next time.