Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.
Pan's vision was blurry at first. She tried getting the sun out of her eyes with one hand, then noticed her arm's muscles were much bulkier and she had a gauntlet over her hand rather than her glove.
But then a pain...
"My chest..."
She put her right hand over her upper body to cover a deep wound...
"Wait..."
She looked at her other hand and not only saw that the blood on her hand was dark purple...
...but upon looking down at her lower body, she saw her feet in Ginyu Force boots...
...with purple legs.
Ginyu, his vision clear, saw his old body in front of him clearly in a panic.
"Poor, poor Saiyan..."
He put out his hand to catch his scouter that he threw upward earlier, but a few things were off:
The scouter fell far behind him, he saw his arm covered by a light grey jacket and his hands in fingerless gloves, and looked down to see light purple pants with chains hanging on his right.
"Wait a minu..."
He gasped after hearing his new body's voice for the first time.
"My voice! It doesn't sound like the Saiyan's at all...!"
"It can't be..."
He turned around, seeing Goku, who appeared just as baffled as he did.
Jeice, having caught Ginyu's scouter and coming to the realization of what he had inadvertently done with his last kick to Pan, tried to back away.
"C... Captain... I..."
"JEICE!"
"Our work with Guldo has finally come to fruition," started Mira.
"I must say, Mira... I am impressed. They didn't suspect a thing."
"It would have been one thing to simply defend Goku and company, but now..."
Mira pointed over to the screen at Pan and Ginyu's reactions to their new bodies.
"Now Ginyu is in the patroller's body and her in his. Even they do not have the technology to switch bodies. And what can they do without risking a further, irreversible alteration?"
Towa nodded to Mira, then turned back as the development continued on Namek.
"The patroller will have no choice but to accept our help."
Jeice saw his opponent's body, now under Ginyu's possession, snarling at him in rage.
"Cap... Captain?!"
"I should be in that Saiyan's body, but now, thanks to you..."
Ginyu aimed a hand at Jeice, as if to fire at him.
"I'm in this Earthling's!"
"But you... you can still switch, Captain."
"The element of surprise is lost. He'll see it coming a mile away now."
Goku heard the two conversing, but was more so baffled by how much more this mysterious female ally spoke compared to previous encounters.
"She's a lot more talkative right now. Weird."
Upon seeing his captain's hand glow with purple ki, Jeice practically stepped backward in midair.
"I told you what would happen if you interfered further..."
"It was an accident. Captain, I'm sorry. Please..."
Just as Ginyu's intended attack was reaching its apex...
...he heard a voice from Pan's earpiece.
"Pan! Pan, are you there?!"
He let down his hand, no longer pulsing with ki to attack Jeice, as his other hand reached over to his ear.
Immediately after the kneeling Trunks called out to Pan, Chronoa covered his mouth with her hands.
"Wait, Trunks," she whispered. "The two switched bodies, so now..."
A voice replied to Trunks.
"Huh?"
Ginyu with Pan's voice.
"Who is this?!"
The Supreme Kai of Time tried to stay calm, but knew they were at risk of them and their entire enterprise being discovered.
"You said Pan's name. We can't have him put two-and-two together. Now let's think: how do we get Ginyu to overlook it?"
Trunks thought quickly, thinking of how to accomplish this.
"You better answer me!" Ginyu demanded.
Trunks stood up, ready to reply to him.
"Uh..."
Clearing his throat, Trunks took on a new persona.
"Apologies for the technical issues. We're back on the air, folks."
Now Trunks' persona was that of a radio host.
"For those of you just tuning in to this station, 'Pan! Are You There?!' will be right back... in a few minutes after these messages from our sponsors."
The two waited, anxious as to how Ginyu would react to Trunks' ploy.
"Ah, I should've known..." scoffed Ginyu.
Trunks and Chronoa both simultaneously breathed out from how close a call that was.
Jeice, now much more relaxed with Ginyu no longer about to slay him, approached his captain with curiosity.
"She talkin' to anyone on that thing, Captain?"
"No," Ginyu answered with disappointment. "I don't think it's for communication. In fact, I think it's for listening to auditory shows."
"Auditory shows? They still play those?"
"Must be pretty archaic too. Still has advertisements."
He took the earpiece out.
"I don't think it's going to be worth listening to. Sounds like it's about bread or something."
Once the two saw Ginyu place Pan's earpiece in his pocket, Trunks and Chronoa now had assurance that he would no longer be listening in, but along with that...
"He can't hear us, but now we can't hear Ginyu's thoughts," went Trunks. "We have no idea what he's going to do now."
"But that's not even the worst of it," continued Chronoa. "Pan's going in completely blind now. We never planned for what to do in this situation."
Trunks then recalled something that seemed so minor in the previous mission, but was the key to putting Pan in this situation.
"Guldo. We completely overlooked Towa taking Guldo."
Even then, something didn't make sense about Guldo having the element of surprise.
"But Guldo and his comrades had no concept of how to hide their energy. Pan would've sensed him the moment he entered."
One of the last things he recalled hearing from Pan was her noticing something different about Guldo's appearance.
"She said Guldo had a mask. Was that how Towa did it? Cloaked his ki?"
"Let's table that theory for now," went the Supreme Kai of Time, turning Trunks' attention back to their view of the battlefield, fearing combat was about to commence amidst the confusion.
Pan, having stayed afloat in shock at the sight and sound of her own body acting out a short distance from her, tried to think of what to do without Trunks or Chronoa to call upon.
"I'm in completely foreign territory now. If I make one wrong move..."
But seeing Ginyu no longer threatening Jeice and acting with more comradery, she knew the two would attack at any moment.
"Whether they attack me or my grandpa, it'll be a complete disaster."
With her body wounded and the possibility of Goku being caught off-guard by being attacked by an ally out of the blue, she knew they had to work together.
"Until I can think of a plan, I can't have either one of us trapped in a two-on-one."
She approached Goku, to which he initially put up his arms in a defensive stance.
"Wait!" she exclaimed. "I'm not Ginyu!"
"Grandpa, please don't think this is a trick..."
He didn't appear to be swayed, and made no adjustments.
"Just what kind of tactic is this?" the seasoned fighter wondered to himself.
Feeling like Goku would strike if she came any closer, she pointed over to her Ginyu-occupied body next to Jeice.
"Ginyu's taken over my body. I'm trapped in his."
As much as she feared this would give her grandfather too much information on Ginyu's Body Change technique, she had to explain the situation before Ginyu could try anything to fool him.
"After this battle, everyone's supposed to head back to Frieza's ship..."'
A horrifying scenario popped into her head.
"My dad! And Krillin!"
"Goku, listen!"
Now Goku saw the dread on his supposed enemy's face.
"He panicked when I showed him my power level... but not like this. He looks afraid... but not of me."
Now she pointed out into the distance where Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta departed.
"He'll use my body to trick Krillin... and your son!"
Goku floated closer to Pan, seeing that she made no attempts to take on a stance.
"If you're really not Ginyu..."
He put out his hand, raised upward and slowly began lowering towards the top of her head.
"This will show me."
"If Goku reads Pan's mind, there's no telling what he'll find!" went Chronoa in alarm. "He might learn about the Time Patrol... and you, Trunks! He'd learn about everything after Namek!"
Trunks couldn't even make words, all too fearful of what could occur.
"He'd know about me... and Frieza... and everything that comes after. There's no telling what he'd do differently."
At first, Pan tried only thinking of her previous missions alongside her grandfather.
"Maybe if I just focus on those moments, he'll see just enough of me to gain his trust."
But it became clear that the dangers of Goku retrieving more personal and sensitive information was too great a risk to take.
As much as she expected Goku to perceive this as Ginyu showing his true colors, she put her wrist up, stopping his hand from reaching her head.
"I can't let you see into my mind. I'm sorry."
Instead of pushing his hand down to get past her wrist, Goku stopped, struck by Ginyu's strangely apologetic tone.
"Please... you have to trust me."
Goku pondered letting down his guard in the face of Pan's sincerity...
...but knew all too well of what happened the last time his kind-hearted nature was taken advantage of.
"But I can't afford to be tricked by an enemy giving me their word... not again."
Pan knew Goku had good reason not just to go off good faith, and that she had to give him something concrete.
"This isn't a trick. Not like Raditz pulled on you when we fought him."
Upon hearing the name of his brother, Goku recalled the horrors of that battle all too well just as she did.
"You, me... Piccolo, even after we both fought him at the tournament... and Gohan, who landed that critical hit we needed."
During Pan and Goku's conversation, Jeice got ready to return to battle.
"Quickly, Cap," began Jeice, pointing out to their preoccupied opponents. "Let's wear that Saiyan down while they're both distracted. Then you can switch bodies again."
As Jeice flew forward, he found himself halted by Ginyu's hand holding him back.
"This time, you'd better not interfere with the change. This is your one and final warning."
Jeice gulped, then nodded.
"Yes, of course. I'll be a mile away when it happens."
"I'll hold you to that, Jeice."
"When his friend knocked you into our path..." started Goku. "That was meant for me. That's why Ginyu said he liked my body. He wanted to switch bodies with me."
Even though Goku was now convinced by her case, Pan was left unsure in the long term as to how to get history back on track.
"Even if Grandpa helps me get back to my body, how do we go from there? 'Oh hey, just let Ginyu go right ahead with the Body Change. It'll work out fine. Don't question it.'."
She practically sighed in her head.
"I need the Supreme Kai of Time right now more than ever before..."
Even with that cloud over her head, Pan knew they had plenty to worry about long before that.
"Get ready in the meantime, Goku. They'll attack at any mome..."
She paused upon seeing visible shock on Goku's face. She looked into his eyes, seeing a purple glow reflected from his pupils...
...around Ginyu's body.
"I've got Towa's formula now."
Her right arm began lifting up, a palm out as if to fire at her grandfather. She grabbed hold of her right arm's wrist with her left to stop it.
"Shoot!"
Goku tried approaching at first.
"Goku, get back!"
"Talk to me!" went Goku, doing as she said, but clearly wanting to help. "What's happening to you?!"
Pan, trying to turn away or even fly away from Goku, shivered once she realized she couldn't move any further.
"Something's taking over! I can't control his body!"
Her left hand finally let go, her right turning and firing at Goku, who swerved his head to avoid the blast.
"What can I do?!" he shouted. "There has to be something I can do!"
Now Pan felt like she was about to lunge forward, both arms poised to strike.
"Look out!"
She flew forward, swinging at Goku, who either moved to the side or redirected Pan's strikes with his arms.
Ginyu was baffled to see Pan striking at Goku.
"She's on our side now?"
Jeice, under Towa's influence, smiled at the sight of it.
"Works for us, right Cap?"
"Well... I suppose so."
"Damn you, Towa!" Trunks exclaimed at the horrid sight of Pan being puppeteered into attacking Goku.
"It was one thing controlling villains... but now her?! Controlling her through Ginyu's body... forcing her to kill her grandfather?! You've gone too far this time!"
"With Ginyu and Jeice backing her up..." began Chronoa. "And with Guldo somewhere, still on the field… against all four of them at once, even Goku..."
"Supreme Kai of Time..." went Trunks, aghast at her deliberation. "You don't mean to suggest that Goku would..."
"Whether Goku wins or loses, he might just kill one of them."
"A change in history is just a single kill away, Mira."
"Even if Goku's maximum at this point is stronger than Ginyu with your formula, the patroller will do her part to wear down his strength," Mira illustrated.
"And with the patroller now in Ginyu's body, Goku won't come close to going all out," Towa clarified. "Because she is a friend who has protected him and his friends and family. He may be forced to defeat her, but he would not want it to come at the cost of her life."
The two looked at Ginyu and Jeice, who were watching the same event transpire.
"Likewise, the same would be true of Ginyu, as he would not want the patroller's body to be fatally harmed or else she would remain trapped for good. Goku's heart has given him an unwinnable battle: two foes he will be forced to hold back against while he is given no mercy."
"We can only hope that Goku's frustration is taken out on Jeice."
"Indeed. Should he be forced to slay Jeice long before Vegeta, then our work will be done, Mira."
Goku, his back against a rock formation, moved his head left and right to avoid a flurry of punches from Pan.
"No, no!" she shouted aloud. "Stop, stop!"
Pan had dreams where she couldn't control herself, but now she was living the nightmare as she continued lashing out at Goku.
Goku caught both her wrists to keep her from throwing any further punches.
"It may not be your body, but you have to fight it!" shouted her grandfather. "You have to try...!"
Pan found her left hand opening, charging with ki. It fired at Goku's face, drawing his attention enough for her to throw a headbutt, dazing them both. Immediately following this...
...she found herself flying aside...
"Wait, I'm backing away now?"
...as Ginyu slammed into Goku, smashing straight through the rocky wall to the other side.
"Thanks a bunch!" went Jeice sarcastically, flying over the structure to Goku and Ginyu, who already clashed high above. She began to hover upward as well.
"God, no!"
Goku was holding his own against the two, clearly using just enough to keep them at bay without excessive ki use. Once Pan joined the fray, each time he found himself about to hit her, he hesitated, knowing he was about to seriously harm an ally.
This enabled Ginyu and Jeice to finally land hits on an exposed Goku, including Jeice managing to land a small slash with his ki blade to Goku's back, just below his Kaio symbol on his gi. Both in frustration at his situation and from the brief pain of the superheated ki, he punched Jeice's face, the thunderous blow rocketing him downward.
After getting up from a crash landing, Jeice realized his nose bled...
...and his vision was partially obscured by a few cracks on his scouter, as well as a few chips missing from it.
Trunks and Chronoa almost jumped just from seeing the damage to a key piece to history.
"If he had broken the scouter entirely..."
"Goku held back just enough, but even then..."
"If Grandpa keeps this up, he'll kill any one of them!"
Pan found herself in a pattern: she would mostly float nearby while Goku battled the two, then she would fly in and join the attack, robbing him of his attention, causing him to hesitate, opening him up to attack, and causing him to lash out, especially against Jeice.
After knocking Ginyu, Jeice, and herself away with a gust so massive they were sent a far distance back, Goku wiped sweat from his eyes and realized just going with his base form combined with his leniency against Pan and Ginyu so far was beginning to take a toll on him.
"Whoever's manipulating all this counted on me holding back to not hurt her or her body. For an evil villain plan, that's actually pretty brilliant. And with all the hits I've taken already, it's certainly been working so far."
Now he saw all three of his opponents floating upward, almost in unison save for Pan being behind Ginyu and Jeice.
"I'm sorry..." he mused in his head, readying his arms. "...but I have no choice but to cripple Ginyu. At least then, you'll still have your body to go back to."
Even from afar, Pan could already tell from his stance what her grandfather was about to resort to.
"With Kaio-Ken where he's at now, he'll rip Jeice apart! Ginyu too!"
Pan had tried getting herself to stop what she was doing to no effect whatsoever beyond her face twisting at her deeds, but now faced with this...
"I can't let this happen!"
...she felt her fingers twitch. First only slightly, but then...
"My toes..."
Within her Ginyu Force boots, Pan could begin to feel herself able to wiggle her toes.
"I have to push back! Take back control!"
Ginyu and Jeice both completely ignored Pan starting to slow down, falling behind them...
And eventually coming to a complete halt.
"What is this?!"
Mira couldn't believe his eyes.
"The patroller... she's..."
Pan moved her arms into view, then her hands, slowly, but surely wrestling control of her appendages.
"I'm moving them... the formula's trying to force them one way, but I'm moving them."
"She's fighting back against my formula..."
"KAIO...!"
Ginyu and Jeice heard Goku shout this and saw ki charging around his body...
...but they stayed the course. As a result, Goku didn't finish, now fending off both attackers.
"What's the matter?!" taunted Jeice.
"Not enough time to say the magic words?!" went Ginyu, joining in to further demoralize their foe.
Now heading towards a cliffside, Goku's back was once again against a rocky wall, only this time with Ginyu and Jeice both grabbing hold of one of his arms. Jeice held on with only his left as his right was over his head, drawing his blade of ki.
"This one's for you, Burter!"
Goku didn't even look at Jeice about to skewer him...
...as Jeice suddenly stopped, feeling a hand grip the back of his Ginyu Force armor.
"Captain?! No, that's...!"
With a massive downward swing, Jeice was tossed away by Pan, slamming into the lower cliffside. Before Ginyu could let go of Goku, he was struck by a punch to his cheek by her.
Immediately after the initial shock of seeing herself punched from her perspective, Pan checked on Goku, seeing that aside from his gi being a bit more beat up from before, he was still going strong.
"I knew you could do it."
As much as Pan wanted to take in the reassurance she felt hearing THE Goku tell her this, she quickly turned to see Ginyu and Jeice's return. She and her grandfather took stances back-to-back, covering one another now that this three-on-one trial was turning into an even two-on-two.
This didn't sit well with Mira, who stood back with his arms crossed as Towa tried working on the situation from the console.
"You must have some way of shutting her down."
"That's not how the formula works, Mira! No one, hero or villain, would have themselves do that! The effect of my formula is neutral at worst!"
"Are you even trying to stop her?" he boldly asked.
Towa turned to Mira, not panicking or angered, but stern.
"Of course I am. Try as I may, Mira, my formula can't control Ginyu anymore. Now her mind is in total control of his body. All we can do is empower it."
Mira stepped forward to the controls, gently gesturing Towa back.
"That's not all we can do."
With the press of a few keys...
In mid-battle, Pan's pain from Ginyu's wound suddenly struck back. Goku, seeing her hunched over in midair and grasping her wound with both hands, covered for her, stopping a punch intended for her by Ginyu even as he fended off Jeice.
"The wound hurt before, but not nearly this badly! Is Towa increasing my pain?!"
But she quickly realized with everything she and the Time Patrol knew of Towa's formula so far...
"No. I've seen the formula power people up and revitalize them. Kept them going even when hurt. It must have kept the wound in check."
Looking at her hands, trying to keep purple blood from leaking out, Pan realized that her body no longer glowed with the formula's aura.
"The formula's gone from Ginyu's body, and now... I'm feeling the full wound."
Jeice, overtaken by the formula, directed Ginyu's attention to the wounded Pan.
"Quick, Captain! While she's hurt, let's take her out!"
Ginyu, despite seeing the opportunity to remove one of his enemies from the equation...
"But my old body..."
Now the formula around Jeice glowed even more, his eyes red.
"Well we can't have her continue to use your old body against us, now can we?"
Normally, Ginyu would not tolerate Jeice talking to him in such a manner, in the heat of battle or otherwise, but upon deliberating...
"You're right. As much as I'll miss it... my old body dies today."
Goku overheard all of this, but was already in the midst of blocking attacks from Jeice while Ginyu took off for Pan.
"Look out!"
Pan, seeing Ginyu telegraphing his attack clear as day, let go of her wound to block or intercept the incoming punch...
...but felt partially dizzied and saw that streams of purple dripped down her armor.
Having slipped past as a result, Ginyu struck just above her stomach. His former body's armor partially chipped as dots of purple landed on his face.
"Mira, what are you doing?!"
Once again, she stood aghast at Mira's actions.
"Mira, we agreed to this plan!"
"The plan changed the moment she overpowered your formula's control. If Ginyu's body is killed, then their situation is irreparable."
Towa couldn't counter his last point, as that scenario would indeed mean success.
"Ginyu's wound was bad before he switched with Goku, and by Ginyu's design…" Trunks deliberated. "...but not nearly this bad."
As much as it pained him seeing Pan in this state, he noted that covering the wound with even just one hand wasn't stopping it from dripping with blood.
"It's practically oozing."
"Ginyu wounded his body even worse than he did in history," Chronoa added, but then stopped to ponder. "But if Towa was trying to use Pan in Ginyu's body as a weapon, why would she want Ginyu in worse shape?"
"Knowing her scheming..." Trunks began to answer, his thoughts on Towa soured at the moment. "It was all part of a back-up plan in case things didn't work out as she had hoped."
"Mira..."
He turned, seeing her clearly not sitting well with what was transpiring, but also picking up on her reading into his intentions
"Did you purposefully have Ginyu wound himself more severely?"
He did not answer immediately, his pause all but confirming what Towa suspected. He kept as cool and straight-faced as he always had before.
"Does it not serve our purpose?"
Goku grabbed both Jeice and Ginyu by one leg, then attempted a dual Dragonthrow.
"Get out of here, while you still can!"
He saw Pan slowly hovering away in her current state...
...but then she froze, her arms and limbs stopped as well. As Goku was about to let them both go, he was fixated on this.
"No!"
Ginyu slipped free of Goku's grip, though Jeice was unable to do the same. After throwing him, Goku flew in front of Pan, stopping Ginyu.
"Go! Now!"
Pan grabbed hold of her wound once again, then quickly got over that she could move again by flying away once more. Ginyu couldn't reach her thanks to Goku, but Jeice was free to approach her...
...especially now with her frozen in midair once again. Goku had a sense of deja-vu from seeing this.
"She's not just stopping for no reason. Not even just because of the wound. Something is keeping her in place."
Thinking on it, the memory clicked clear as day.
"Just like Chiaotzu did to me against Tien in the tournament. To guarantee attacks landed."
As he held Ginyu by both wrists, Goku looked down, seeing someone far below them on the grass...
Guldo, who at this point, he hadn't seen before.
"He's the one doing that!"
Without using his hands, Goku fired what to normal humans would be an invisible beam from his eyes. The small green member of the Ginyu Force was too preoccupied with his telekinetic trap to even take note of it, to which...
SCATTER!
The helmet over his head broke upon Goku's projectile striking it.
Pan, just barely ducking under Jeice's swing and landing an elbow to his back before covering her wound, picked up a sudden ki signature.
"Guldo!"
She saw him on his knees, almost appearing to be catching his breath, as well as the pieces of the helmet covering his eyes earlier.
"That helmet hid Guldo's ki! That's why I didn't catch him before!"
Jeice stopped in place upon catching a glimpse of his only other remaining comrade, both surprised to see him, as well as furious.
"Guldo! Where in blazes have you been?!"
Guldo seemed to be in a daze, trying to figure out his surroundings, but once he heard Jeice's voice and looked up at him...
"Jeice? That you?"
Ginyu, kicking himself away from Goku, was especially enraged at the sight and sound of the seemingly deceased member of his squad.
"GULDO, SO HELP ME!... if you deserted your unit...!"
Guldo was confused at having the caped girl from before shouting angrily at him, and addressing him and his status with the Ginyu Force.
"Jeice, is that girl working for Ginyu or something?"
"You bleedin' moron! That is Ginyu!"
He then noticed what appeared to be Ginyu, but wounded with Goku next to him, but then looked back to the girl from before.
"You switched bodies with her, Captain? Why? She really that much stronger than she looks?"
Ginyu crossed his arms, then glared at Jeice.
"No. The Red Magma made sure of that."
Guldo, still just trying to make heads and tails of what occurred during his absence, asked...
"Where's Recoome and Burter?"
"'course you wouldn't know..." answered Jeice. "Obvious, really... since you left them to die!"
"Is this true, Guldo?" went Ginyu, demanding an explanation.
"No!" Guldo replied in a panic, trying to think back to everything that occurred before his reemergence. "I stayed in it the whole time, Captain. Right after you left to get the Dragon Balls to Lord Frieza."
"Lyin' coward!" Jeice barked back. "You trapped the two small fries, then turned tail and ran! Couldn't even find you on our scouters!"
Ginyu heard the two bicker back and forth regarding Guldo's disappearance, but his mind couldn't help but wander back to Guldo's last response to him specifically.
"Right after you left to get the Dragon Balls to Lord Frieza."
His eyes shot up.
"Dragon Balls. Lord Frieza."
"Oh crap!"
Guldo and Jeice both stopped, then looked to Ginyu doing something he rarely did: openly panicking.
"While we've been here dawdling, those Earthlings and Vegeta were headed for Frieza's ship!"
Jeice was struck by the same shock and Guldo, while not present for that, knew anything that caused Ginyu to act like this was especially serious.
"If they're still there, they might try to find the Dragon Balls... or worse..."
"But Captain..." Guldo began to inquire. "Lord Frieza's still at the ship, isn't he?"
"No, he left a while ago to find the last Namekians and..."
Now Ginyu was in an even further elevated state of fear.
"If Lord Frieza gets back before we do..."
None of his comrades needed him to finish his sentence, for they knew exactly the consequences Ginyu feared more than anything.
"That's it! We've wasted too much time here! Back to Lord Frieza's ship, on the double!"
"They're leaving?" went Trunks, at first inquisitively, but slowly giving way to relief. "Oh, good. They're leaving."
"But Captain..." stuttered Jeice. "We can't just let these two..."
"This takes precedence over them. I need all hands on deck, Jeice."
Pan was thankful enough that this whole conversation between the three gave her and Goku a breather, and more so now that Ginyu was prepared to leave, meaning no further attacks on her or her grandfather...
...but now her poor physical state was starting to get worse.
"If fighting breaks out again... I can't..."
As much as Goku wanted to pursue them...
"I can't let him get away with taking her body..."
...he noticed Pan starting to descend. He caught her from behind by her arms.
"I've got you."
"The fact Guldo's presence is no longer a secret could work in our favor over time..." pondered Towa as she and Mira saw Ginyu preparing to leave.
...but Mira continually pressed on keys even as the battle looked to be over.
A glowing Jeice landed close to Guldo.
"You really want to get back in the Captain's good graces? Then..."
He crouched down and whispered. Guldo quietly replied in the midsts of it, nodding his head as well.
"You two!"
After hearing Ginyu, they felt him touch down behind them. They turned and stood up straight, their arms to their sides.
"Enough gossiping. We are leaving."
He turned his back to them.
"Either of you fall too far behind and it'll be treated as insubordination... punishable by death."
Taking on a runner's stance...
"Ginyu Force... MOVING OUT!"
And with a takeoff that left a small crater where he once stood, Ginyu flew off in the direction of Frieza's ship. Pan and Goku both noted this, but also wondered why Guldo and Jeice hadn't yet followed their leader.
"The formula can get them to act different, but even it couldn't get them to disobey Ginyu."
Jeice turned, charging ki in his gloved hands. Both tried moving away from it…
...but couldn't.
"Guldo's..."
"He's holding them both?!" went Trunks in shock.
Even with this feat, Guldo was clearly straining.
"Jeice! Hurry! I can't hold them for much longer!"
With a smirk, Jeice fired a blast at them both. Pan wasn't sure it'd even work, but she tried summoning ki around her body to shield herself as she normally did in her own body...
...but Ginyu's ki did not agree with her, failing to coalesce around her.
"Damn it all..."
Just as the blast was about to hit its mark...
Guldo held his breath, seeing it frozen and just about to touch Pan, and saw Jeice in midair flying away once the blast hitting its mark was all but guaranteed. He sprinted as quickly as he could, then hopped across the landscape to both catch up to Jeice and reach his elevated position.
"This'll set them back some..."
The moment the two felt themselves freed from Guldo's telekinetic hold...
Pan was in no condition to move away and Goku couldn't turn around or get the two of them out of the way in time. He resorted to putting his hands out in front of the blast to intercept it...
...and saw Pan was already doing the same thing, catching it...
...but both were being pushed back and upward.
"The state I'm in now...I can't..."
"Repelling it from this angle while holding her's going to be tricky..."
Both gritted their teeth, Pan trying desperately not to have Ginyu's body give out and Goku not wanting to accidentally drop her.
Sure enough, Goku saw her sliding down...
"Crap, crap, crap!"
...and now Pan was facing a greater brunt with Goku instinctively keeping her from falling, but at the cost of his help with the blast.
"Without his help, I can't...! I can't...!"
Her hands giving out and the blast striking her wound were all but inevitable, Pan closing her eyes...
"No! Not like this! Not in this body! Not today!"
...and upon opening them, her expression and stance were that of her last stand.
"Haaaaaaah!"
As she shouted out, Pan was putting everything she and Ginyu's body had left into stopping this. Her arms began to lift upward and the blast followed. With one final push...
"HAAAAAAAAH!"
...Jeice's blast was sent upward away from her and Goku, where it soon vanished into the green sky above. Pan found herself short-winded after this feat, her head looking straight down and her arms practically going limp.
Goku wasn't surprised at what Pan had accomplished. Instead, he was not only happy for her, but felt proud of what she was capable of even in that moment.
"It's just like I said earlier..."
His state of mind shifted to that of concern once he heard and felt Pan cough.
Pan realized she had coughed up some of Ginyu's blood, dripping down to the blue-green grass below, and that combined with what had left her wound earlier...
...her vision was giving out and she felt increasingly faint.
"Too much of his blood... lost…"
She started to fall, only this time, Goku had a better grip.
"Just... just hold on!"
Pan couldn't keep her eyes open anymore.
"Towa planned this perfectly. Now I'm..."
"Hold o...!"
Ginyu took a brief moment to stop, checking to see if his comrades had heeded his words after all. At first, there was no sign of either...
...but in a flash, Jeice joined him, Guldo in his arms.
"What kept you two?"
"Uh..." droned Guldo at first. "That monkey in orange tried to stop us... but we got out of there just in time."
"Is this true, Jeice?"
"Yeah. Just like Guldo said."
The three looked at the remainder of what lied ahead prior to Frieza's ship, which wasn't much farther.
"Jeice."
Ginyu had his hand out to Jeice.
"Y... yeah?"
"My scouter."
"Oh. Oh right."
With his scouter returned to him, Ginyu placed it onto his new body's ear and, after a quick scan of his surroundings, sighed in relief.
"Lord Frieza's preoccupied. He's going to be a while."
Jeice and Ginyu sighed in relief as well, but then saw Ginyu turn back to them.
"With that, and since you two are here now, let's take a quick breather. That... and we have some things that need to be addressed."
Pan opened up her eyes, seeing the green sky.
"Still on Namek."
She looked down at her purple legs.
"Still Ginyu."
Then at her chest, seeing a makeshift wrap around it and the Ginyu Force chestpiece.
"I was worried you weren't going to wake up."
She saw Goku crouched over to her side.
"He watched over me?"
He then sat down with his legs crossed.
"Listen, that wound was really deep. I don't know much about this planet's plant life or its soil, but I used what I could find to mend the wound for now."
But now several vital question struck her:
"How long have I been unconscious?! Minutes or hours?! What has Ginyu done in that time?! Was Goku supposed to follow him?!"
Her grandfather saw her trying to lift herself up.
"Ginyu! I've gotta stop him... can't sit by and..."
Just this alone was proving strenuous. Goku stopped her, trying to gesture her back down gently.
"That wound'll reopen. You have to let it settle."
Pan laid the back of her head back down, then saw Goku starting to get up onto his knees.
"Listen: I wouldn't have made it to this planet in time if you haven't taken Turles for me. And you kept Gohan and Krillin alive. For that, I am grateful."
He put his hands over Pan's right.
"I promise you I'll beat Ginyu and force him to give you back your body."
As he made his way back to his feet, he could tell Pan was not content with having to stay behind.
"I know if he did that to me, I'd be just as eager to fight, but for now, rest. Let your body recover. I'll see you again when you're well."
He waved to her, then flew as fast as he could towards Frieza's ship. As much as Pan wanted to try getting sleep or at least relaxing, the questions from before continued bouncing around in her mind, as well as several horrifying ones.
"What if Ginyu switches bodies with Goku... or anyone... in my body? Has he already switched with someone in my absence?"
And for what was even longer than during her second battle with the Ginyu Force in her last mission, she had zero contact with Trunks or Chronoa, leaving her no game plan, advice, or clarifications to call upon. Along with that, she knew that in several missions, she had been picked up to have a brief respite back in the Time Nest's library, but with her current predicament, not only did she know that wasn't an option, but began to fear...
"Without my body, can I even return to Toki Toki City?"
She then thought back to the small changes she had encountered before, namely her fighting side-by-side with Goku in a tournament fight, foes staying in the fight longer or bouncing back, Dodoria out of place in history, and Turles delaying her grandfather. In all those cases, the change was minimal enough and, with their victory over the villains, a non-factor. In this case...
"Has all of this alone changed history to the point of no return? Am I just existing in a new timeline where Guldo lives and Ginyu is me now?"
But the one most damning of all...
"Has Towa already won?"