Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.
Guldo and Jeice both stood backs straight and arms to their side like cadets before a drill instructor as they watched Ginyu, who had switched bodies with Pan, pace back and forth.
"This is the greatest disaster we've ever faced, gentlemen."
He stopped, looking away with his head down in reflection and remembrance.
"We've lost Recoome and Burter. They were good lads, the both of them..."
But this moment of mourning soon gave way to Ginyu angrily pointing.
"...and YOU allowed this to happen."
Guldo backed up, his posture taking a turn for the worse.
"No, Captain! I didn't!"
"You insist you did not abandon them, but where's the evidence?"
Guldo recalled everything during the battle clear as day.
"I tried finishing the shorter Earthling and that kid, but then I blacked out. Vegeta must've knocked me out... or someone else did. Next thing I know, I was..."
He tried thinking further, getting only a glimpse of a strange locale and a foggy figure before him, but couldn't tell if it was real or just a figment of his imagination. The only further recollection he had...
"...I was here, seeing you two, that monkey, and that Earthling girl floating above me."
"That still doesn't explain your disappearance from the field, Guldo... unless all this time, you found a way of hiding from us."
"No, I wouldn't dare dream of..."
Ginyu put out his hand, interrupting Guldo, who took this as a sign for him to stop.
"And as for you, Jeice..."
Jeice, gulping, tried keeping his composure.
"I thought we were past this, Captain. I said I was sorry."
"Sorry doesn't cut it. I would've had the body of the next-strongest warrior in the universe, second only to Lord Frieza himself, if you hadn't thrown this wrench into my path."
With a step, Jeice nearly tripped.
"Look at what you've done! Heck, just listen to me! My strong commanding voice is gone and how am I supposed to perform my poses in this horrid attire?"
He began his iconic pose...
...but Pan's cape blocked view of him almost completely. Feeling ridiculous as a result, Ginyu didn't even attempt to turn around and transition to the next phase of it, breaking it off completely.
"If I was going to give up my old body, it should've been for one of greater value. Now I am clearly inferior to my former self."
"I mean, maybe once you've gotten used to it, Captain, you'll..."
"If you truly understood the gravity of your actions... striking this Earthling towards me when you damn well heard my technique beginning... you would not be attempting to feed me such baloney."
Ginyu clenched his fist...
"I've come to a decision."
Then his hand glowed with purple ki.
"I have to make an example out of one of you."
Both Guldo and Jeice panicked, waving their arms and hands.
"No, please! Not me!"
"No, Captain! I'm sorry!"
Jeice, glowing purple, began pointing at Guldo.
"Kill Guldo! He's the turd that left our mates to die!"
Feeling backstabbed, Guldo then seethed with anger as he pointed back at Jeice.
"Yeah, well he's the moron who put you in that body because of his stupidity!"
"We'd all be celebrating us killing those brats right now with Burter and Recoome if you didn't turn out to be such a big chicken!"
"You screwed over the Captain personally! If that's not a death sentence, I don't know what is!"
The insults towards each other became more and more petty and childish as Ginyu closed his eyes, thinking it over. But he lost patience, a gust of air firing off around him.
"That's enough, you two!"
His hand was aimed between the two of them.
"There's only one way to resolve this."
Now Ginyu gestured his hand back and forth between the two, humming a tune as both Guldo and Jeice followed with their eyes.
Having gotten to her knees and helping herself to some water, Pan stared at Ginyu's face looking back at her. Ever since Goku left after helping bandage her wound, she wondered if this body she was trapped in was now going to be hers until her dying day... that is if she even survived the results of this new history.
She sensed several large ki sources in the distance. First was her father and Krillin. From there, she picked up three and immediately knew them to be Ginyu, Jeice, and Guldo. As she began to sense what seemed to be an especially massive one...
...Pan sensed something off.
"One of the Ginyu's just vanished completely!"
From what she could sense, she was able to clarify that Captain Ginyu was still there, which left...
"Was it Guldo... or Jeice that went out?"
She slowly made her way onto her side, sighing as she lied her head on a clump of blue-green grass.
"If Guldo was killed, would it even work in our favor? But if it was Jeice's..."
She looked over at her hand, as if expecting it to begin turning intangible or to start to fade away.
"How do I know it's not game over already?"
But while focusing on those two ki sources, she picked up on something else.
"A smaller one's passing by..."
She got up onto her back, lifting herself upward...
"...headed right for me!"
Pan knew she couldn't get onto her feet in her current condition, leaving her to hope that whoever approached her was a friendly.
"Captain Ginyu, that you?"
A Frieza Force soldier floated above her.
"What are you doing here, Captain?"
Pan had to try to think of what to even do in this scenario.
"Can't have him report back. What kind of excuse do I give him?"
"Uh..."
The soldier looked down at her armor, seeing the damage done, as well as noticing what were once purple blood stains on it.
"You look terrible."
He touched down on the ground, to which he caught something that almost made him appear nauseated.
"Is that a makeshift bandage?"
Pan knew this was making her current predicament even worse and finally put out her hands to try saying something.
"Uh, well... you see..."
Despite this, the Frieza Force soldier began putting one hand to the side of his helmet.
"I need to call this in."
"There's... there's no need for that! I'm...!"
Seeing him begin to press buttons, Pan felt like it was all over.
"The whole force'll know... and Frieza."
Just as she closed her eyes...
...Pan heard a hit, then a groan from the Frieza Force soldier.
She opened her eyes, seeing him falling onto his knees, then onto his front. After seeing that he was unconscious, she looked up at a familiar dark grey coat with a brown gloved hand in a chopping stance.
"Trunks!" Pan shouted, simultaneously in relief at seeing him, but also in shock at him striking that Frieza Force soldier.
"He'll live."
"So, does this mean history hasn't been irreversibly changed?"
"We are in a pickle, that much is certain."
Pan saw Trunks reaching into one of his coat's pockets.
"But I do have these for you."
First, he dropped an earpiece into her hand. Pan immediately placed it onto her ear and eagerly awaited a response.
"Pan, do you read me?"
A smile on Pan's face.
"Supreme Kai of Time! I am so glad to hear your voice again."
"Me too, Pan. We were so worried about you, but to hear that you're okay..."
"You have my grandpa to thanks for that."
"You save yourself too, you know," suddenly entered Trunks, joining the telepathic conversation.
Once he realized Pan was looking over at him...
"Uh... anyway, I also have this."
Reaching into his other pocket, Trunks' other hand revealed half of a senzu bean.
"Can't have me fully healed..." Pan initially mused.
"Right, but seeing as how Ginyu's body should be wounded, but not this heavily wounded, this will at least get you back to fighting shape."
"Ginyu's bound to try something, so we have to be ready, Pan..." added Chronoa. "...all three of us."
As much as Pan appreciated that the Supreme Kai of Time wasn't making it sound like any or all of this was Pan's fault or sole responsibility, she finally had the big inquiry she needed an answer on.
"When the time comes for my grandpa... for him to be switched..."
"We're working on a plan, but what matters is what we do right now, right this second."
Having chewed and swallowed the senzu bean half, Pan felt a burst and leapt onto her feet. While she still felt a discomfort in her chest, it was leagues preferable to the agony from earlier when the wound dug far deeper.
"I need to keep an eye on what's going on at Frieza's ship, so Trunks..."
"Yes?"
"I need you to get Pan there pronto."
He walked over to Pan's front, then turned around and slowly floated off the ground.
"Grab onto my back."
She did, Ginyu's arms wrapped around under Trunks' arms.
"I'll get us there quick, so you need to hold on tight."
She gripped around him tighter, at first to discomfort on his part, but once his hair began to change shape and ki built up around him...
...with a flash of gold, Trunks zoomed upward and flew straight in the direction of Frieza's ship.
Elsewhere on Namek, Frieza wasn't locked in combat so much as playing around with a Namekian warrior, using only his left hand with his right arm behind his back. Even then, he had not just a power and strength advantage, but could easily avoid any and all of this Namekian's attacks if he so wanted.
But for now, Frieza was content, allowing this completely one-sided spar to continue. He saw the next attack coming so clearly it was as if the Namekian was moving in slow motion.
Just then, he felt something. A massive power. Greater than anything he had ever experienced. For a split moment, he had a feeling of dread of what this sensation could possibly be.
"No... there is absolutely no way... just what in the hell is...?"
Suddenly, he was struck on the face by the Namekian's fist...
...but it was only irritating in the sense that now something impeded his vision as he suffered no harm from the strike, let alone a blemish to his skin.
"Ah, my apologies."
With just a gesture of one finger, the Namekian was sent back, his feet digging into the grass before he stopped himself.
"My mind wandered for a moment there."
Right outside Frieza's ship, Gohan and Krillin had dug out the seven Namekian Dragon Balls and Krillin, having shouted with his arms up in the air to summon Shenron to grant their wish, realized...
"Nothing is happening."
Unknown to them, Vegeta hid from their view, using his newfound knowledge of ki to hide his own.
"Where the hell is this so-called eternal dragon?"
Just then, he, Krillin, and Gohan all sensed the same thing in the distance.
"Someone..." started Gohan, trying to assess the situation. "Two coming in."
"One of the Ginyu's for sure."
Crouching behind a rock and hiding their ki, the two looked upward as the two approached.
"Jeice is still alive..." began Krillin. "But that's not Ginyu with him."
Once Jeice touched down right in front of the Dragon Balls, so too did another pair of legs.
"Wait... that's..."
"It's her," revealed Gohan, pointing outward enough for Krillin to notice Pan's uniform.
"If she's here, then she must be here to help us with something."
"But why is she with Jeice?" Gohan inquired.
"Maybe she and Goku defeated Ginyu, so now Jeice has turned over a new leaf or something."
Krillin started to take a step forward away from cover and stood upward.
"I don't know about this, Krillin..."
"Relax, Gohan. We can trust her."
Now standing in plain sight...
"Hey!"
Jeice turned around.
"That bald Earthling."
A young woman's hand held Jeice back.
"Just like we rehearsed, Jeice."
The two slowly walked forward as Krillin waved to them.
"You scared me for a second there. Thought you were Ginyu."
"Nope," Ginyu answered back.
"You and Goku beat him?"
"Yep. That captain's out of the picture now."
Ginyu then crouched over, as if to look down at someone smaller than him.
"Say, where's the little one?"
Krillin saw Gohan still hiding behind cover.
"Come on out, Gohan," whispered Krillin.
Gohan sighed, then took a step outward, revealing himself.
"Ah, there you are, little guy."
Gohan was puzzled by Pan's tone, but then thought back to what she had said after Krillin's question to her.
"If you and my dad beat Ginyu, then where is he?"
"Miss him, huh?"
Gohan watched Pan walk over to him, then put a hand atop his head.
"Oh don't you worry, kiddo."
Ginyu pat Gohan on the head and began ruffling his bowl cut hair.
"I have a feeling he'll be here very soon."
Once this stopped, Gohan couldn't help but notice something off about their female ally of several battles.
"She's treating me like a small child. Even before..."
After this, Ginyu looked back to the Dragon Balls, then to Krillin.
"May I ask how you found the Dragon Balls?"
"With the Dragon Radar."
"And did you get your wish?"
"No. Guess I didn't use the right words or something."
"Hmm. I see."
Gohan saw that Jeice simply stood back, his arms crossed as if he wanted to be elsewhere.
"If he were really reformed, Jeice would be more involved right now."
But then Krillin pointed out something different about Pan.
"Is that a... a scouter?"
At first, Ginyu and even Jeice reacted, realizing they had completely overlooked that.
"Damn it. I knew I was forgetting something."
"I didn't even think to tell him to remove his scouter."
"I don't think I've seen you wearing one before," Krillin continued.
Ginyu tried to play it off.
"Uh, why that's silly. I've always worn this scouter. It goes with the outfit."
Krillin had his hand to his chin as if to ponder while Gohan was already calling this bluff.
"No. She never once had a scouter in any of our battles together. Come on, Krillin. You should know that."
Ginyu, mentally sweating, watched as Krillin looked back up to him face-to-face.
"Well, I guess it's a good look for you."
Seeing his ruse continued to succeed, but also trying to keep it going, Ginyu took the edges of Pan's cape to curtsey back to him.
"Aww, why thank you."
Vegeta, overhearing all of this, couldn't believe what was transpiring.
"Are those Earthlings really that dense? How could they both be falling for this act?!"
"You know..." went Krillin, walking up to Pan with curiosity. "You've never been this talkative before. In fact, you haven't even given us your name."
Ginyu turned to Jeice as if wanting confirmation for something, to which Jeice nodded his head.
"It's go time."
"You really want to know who I am?"
"Well, sure. After all our battles together, I'd like to put a name to your face."
Ginyu crouched over as if to whisper in Krillin's ear.
"I'll tell you."
Gohan, seeing Jeice unable to hide his grin and Pan making a fist while Krillin awaited the answer...
"Krillin, look out!"
Instead of a slap...
...Ginyu landed a thunderous close-fisted backhand to Krillin's face, knocking him into the side of the ship. Afterwards, he turned to Gohan to reveal his true colors.
"Captain Ginyu!"
Hopping next to Ginyu...
"Jeice!"
"And..."
"To..."
"Geth..."
"Ther..."
"We..."
"Are..."
Now with the two joined in unison with brand new poses...
"The Ginyu Force!"
Krillin, a bruise on his face between his eyes and mouth, and his back lodged into Frieza's ship, finally spoke out.
"The pose kind of falls apart without the rest of them, doesn't it?"
With Krillin's words, Ginyu and Jeice were both partially demoralized in mid-pose.
"Agh, I knew it! Even her cape does nothing for it!"
"I really thought the girl's cape would make up the difference."
"That's not important, Krillin!" went Gohan. "She's not herself! We need to know what happened to her... and my dad."
Ginyu, hearing something behind him...
"Speak of the devil..."
Zooming past Ginyu and landing in front of...
"Gohan! She's not...!"
"Goku!"
Krillin busted free, then flew back to the group.
"She's been hypnotized into thinking she's Ginyu or something."
"No, Krillin. Ginyu took her body."
Gohan looked absolutely horrified after his father's explanation, but then angrily turned to Ginyu.
"Where is she?! And what have you done with her?!"
"Ah, why the long face? It's not like your friend's alive to protest."
But then everyone present felt a massive ki. Ginyu and Jeice both tried to keep their composure, but privately...
"Lord Frieza? No... this is something else..."
"Even Frieza hasn't shown this much power... but what could it be?"
Krillin and Gohan lost their footing, falling onto their hands, and even Vegeta, still hidden, couldn't believe what he sensed.
"No! No one could reach that level of power! No one but the legendary..."
But Goku, while aware of it, seemed calm by comparison.
"Don't be so sure..."
Pan, seeing Namek's landscape almost blur together from how fast Trunks was flying...
...and seeing him as a Super Saiyan for the first time...
"His hair..."
To an extent, Pan could almost feel the power radiating from Trunks' ki across his body.
"We're touching down soon, Pan..." Trunks reminded her. "So I'm going to need you to let go of me on three."
"What about landing?" she inquired. "At the speed we're going..."
"I'll slow down just enough after the countdown. And I know you can land it."
Something glimmered in the distance…
"Here we go, Pan. Three..."
A round structure?
"Two..."
Standing atop spider legs?
"One..."
No.
"Frieza's ship," went Pan, realizing it was her destination.
"Go!"
Pan let go of Trunks...
...and felt herself zooming forward, fast approaching the ship.
"Going to crash right into it!"
Putting out her hands, she used her ki, or rather, Ginyu's, to try decreasing her speed. But even then...
"Not slowing down fast enough!"
She caught a glimpse of the faintest figments on the ground by the ship's entrance.
"That's everyone!"
Now she tried redirecting herself away from the ship.
"Hope this works..."
The sensation everyone felt had now completely dissipated with them still reeling from it, but also trying to get their focus back onto the immediate matter at hand.
"'Don't be so sure'?" went Ginyu, mocking Goku's voice. "And what would make you say that?"
Instead of answering, Goku looked upward into the sky. Ginyu, irritated at his opponent's eyes being drawn elsewhere, turned to see...
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me..."
A purple body fast approached. Jeice shuddered at the sight of Ginyu's old body reentering the fray.
"I thought she'd have keeled over by now... especially after that blast."
Pan tried touching down with her feet...
...but skidded, rolling and hopping until she finally caught herself with her hand, digging into the blue-green grass as she screeched to a complete halt.
"Not textbook form... but I'll take it."
Gohan, slowly making his way towards her as she rose from a crouch onto her feet...
"Is it really you?"
"It's her, Gohan."
Pan looked to her grandfather, who didn't say a word to her. The look on his face communicated that he did not want her joining the battle due to her condition from earlier, but at the same time, he wasn't surprised to see her back on her feet to fight by his side.
Ginyu, shaking off his shock, then turned to Pan, his glower shifting into amusement.
"You survived, I see. I suppose this is problematic."
But Jeice could not hide how unsettled he was at her presence.
"You... you were bleedin' out from the Captain's wound. You shouldn't even be able to stand, let alone fight."
"You said the Saiyan healed the Earthlings and Vegeta, correct? Perhaps he healed her as well."
After Ginyu tried giving a rationale for this, Jeice began calming down.
"See, now that makes sense. No way she could have on her own."
While Jeice continued rambling, Pan peered around for any sign of Guldo. Goku, realizing she was looking for someone, also began to reflect on someone being missing.
"I mean, it'd be one thing if you or I did..." continued Jeice in his digression. "That, I could buy completely... but if she had done any of that, that'd be totally..."
"Where is Guldo?" Pan interrupted.
"Yeah," added Goku. "You're missing someone."
"Well, if you must know..." began Ginyu. "Guldo's insubordination resulted in the loss of two comrades. He paid for it with his life."
Pan tried sensing around her to confirm Ginyu's claim.
"I'm getting nothing. No sign of Guldo's ki. Other than when he had that helmet, I could always track him."
She noticed Goku did not take kindly to what Ginyu implied.
"But... but he helped you."
"That he did, thinking that'd be enough to get him off the hook."
"Tried getting brownie points, that traitor," added Jeice.
"So I fried him myself."
Pan didn't know what to make of this development.
"If Ginyu killed Guldo, how bad of a change are we looking at here?"
"I don't know, but we have a more pressing matter," answered Chronoa. "The time frame's off. I need you to get the fight started right away."
While Pan conversed with the Supreme Kai of Time, Goku was infuriated with the fate of Guldo.
"You're just like Vegeta! Killing your allies like they're nothing to you!"
"Now's your chance, Pan!" shouted out Chronoa.
Taking a step in front of Goku...
"Now enough talk!" Pan shouted to Ginyu and Jeice. "Are we going to fight, or are we just going to keep standing around?"
The two last members of the Ginyu Force turned to each other, then back to Pan, battle-ready.
"I think you have the right idea."
"True. We've given you lot enough time to say your prayers."
Right as Goku and company were ready to lunge forward...
"Don't kill Ginyu... please."
Pan's grandfather, her father, and Krillin nodded back to her, then flew straight for Ginyu. She then made her way to cut off Jeice.
"Aww, why am I always stuck with you?!"
Trunks, hiding and overlooking the start of the battle...
"Supreme Kai of Time, is it time to bring me back?"
"Trunks, I need you to investigate Guldo's death."
Taking out a remote from his pocket, he began scrolling through several modes.
"I'll find where they touched down with Pan's earpiece. Track where it's been since the body switch."
"Now after you transformed earlier, you're going to need to keep a low profile. I can't guide you and Pan at the same time, so I'll be counting on you."
"Roger."
Vegeta remained where he was, spectating the three-on-one between the Z-Fighters and Ginyu.
"Ginyu's stronger than any of his men, maybe combined... but he's not fighting them in his body. He's fighting them in that girl's. And with how much stronger Kakarrot has gotten..."
He came to the same conclusion that Pan did as she watched over the same bout.
"Ginyu's going to lose this one eventually."
After blocking several attempts from Jeice to punch and get around her, Pan trapped him by gripping his wrists.
"I'll keep Jeice out of the picture, but what do we do about Ginyu? Do we want him to get KOed or do you have something else in mind?"
"The key is Ginyu's desire for a stronger body, which he believed Goku to have," answered Chronoa.
Jeice, unable to break from the grip of Ginyu's body, tried breaking out with one knee after the other, each of which Pan countered with her own.
"So we need Ginyu to want out of mine."
"Right. In time, he'll try to switch again... but we can't afford for Ginyu to wait that long to do so."
Once the Supreme Kai of Time finished, Pan caught a glow from above her, seeing Jeice had formed a Crusher Ball in his left hand...
...as well as began forming another in his right.
"Two Crusher Balls?!"
From behind her, Gohan and Krillin were currently clashing with Ginyu with Goku keeping some distance. Pan sensed them and knew all too well Jeice was peering right at the two.
"Behind you!"
She flipped herself and Jeice, causing the Crusher Balls to fly towards their lower bodies instead of their torsos. With Pan's warning, Gohan and Krillin both floated upward, watching the orbs pass them. Ginyu saw the Crusher Balls coming for his legs and tried to ascend as quickly as he could, but they struck his ankles, leaving him to flip.
Pan turned her head upon hearing the impact, dreading what the result would be.
"If he broke Ginyu's... my legs..."
In the midst of this, Jeice managed to get himself into a crouch, with which he was free to kick Pan in the chest with both feet.
As she feared, the pain mostly resided in her bandaged wound. With his arms finally free...
"Ah, so you're not fully healed after all..."
Jeice was back on the attack, Pan wrestling both her opponent and the injury. Gohan saw Pan's guard beginning to let up.
"Dad!"
Once he had his father's attention...
"Give Krillin cover!"
Goku did just that, stopping an intended strike for Krillin, after which Gohan flew into Jeice with a flying kick. Jeice stopped it with his right hand and began squeezing Gohan's ankle, then, as he saw Pan about to go for a punch, held the child up like an awkward dangling shield.
"No! Dad!"
Pan stopped, after which Jeice's other hand fired off an energy wave. She guarded against it with both wrists, but was being pushed back into a rocky structure, finding herself pinned to and starting to be pushed through it.
Goku saw the situation Pan, as well as his son, was in...
"Gohan!"
This left him exposed to a punch to his cheek by Ginyu, who openly grinned upon seeing a spot of blood drip from Goku's cheek.
Jeice continued squeezing Gohan's ankle, Pan hearing her father's cries. Pan had to think on what to do without risking Jeice using him as a human shield. Putting her hands out in front of her...
"Masenko!"
In Ginyu's body, Pan couldn't perform the technique. Jeice chuckled at the gesture.
"What was that?"
He mockingly put both his arms out like Pan had.
"Masenko. Masenko."
Gohan knew exactly what Pan was gesturing him to do and lifted his upper body upward, his hands quickly preparing it.
"Mas..." mocked Jeice.
Then he saw Gohan fire.
"Masenko!"
"...ah c...!"
He tilted his head just fast enough to avoid it, but then felt a punch to his gut by Pan. Gohan slipped through Jeice's grip, then slowly hovered back down, as Pan floated backward.
"Not going to put too much into this..."
Jeice saw purple ki forming in Pan's hand...
"No bloody way..."
"Taino taught me Ginyu's moves. It's time I put them to use."
She fired this purple projectile, lower in power and smaller, but unmistakable in its appearance.
"Cap!"
Ginyu, while tossing Krillin aside, turned towards Jeice and saw...
"Milky Cannon!"
Jeice swerved to avoid it, then Ginyu fired off a Milky Cannon of his own to stop it.
"How did you do that?!"
Pan floated over to him, attempting to give off a scoffing tone.
"It's your body, right?"
This didn't sit well with Ginyu, just as she had hoped.
"Don't you act all cute on me now."
Krillin kept an eye on Ginyu as Goku, holding Gohan in his arms while his child tended to his leg, saw Ginyu and Pan approaching each other.
"How's it looking, Supreme Kai of Time? Is it a good play?"
"Why don't you show Ginyu what you've learned?" Chronoa almost playfully acknowledged.
Right as Pan heard this, she could tell from seeing Ginyu, in her body like looking in a mirror, preparing his arm for an elbow.
Ginyu threw it, but saw it met by Pan doing the exact same thing. The twin barrage that followed from their Dynamite Punches shifted the air for all the spectators to feel, but Pan's countering of it left neither reaching past.
"That's two of 'em she knows..."
Both backing up, Ginyu immediately pointed a finger at Pan, firing off the tiny orbs of Visionary Attack...
"Let's see her try..."
...only to see Pan had replied with the same.
"Somehow she's discovered how to use my techniques just from being in my body..."
Recalling what Pan had just told him, he tried thinking beyond himself and his knowledge to try attaining hers...
...and nothing came to him.
"...but then why are none of her own techniques coming to me?"
He saw Pan, a massive orb covering her body as she zoomed past him for a charging elbow.
"What kind of witchcraft is this?!"
He swerved downward to avoid Strong Jersey only to find that Pan had fired a burst, breaking it off and launching herself back towards him. The elbow to his back that resulted rocketed Ginyu straight down into the ground. Pan watched as he spat out blue-green grass with dirt on his face, utterly fuming.
"Damn her!"
Feeling pain along with discomfort from his landing and what it'd mean for the battle going forward...
"This body will no longer do."
Pan saw him turning his attention back to the very person he was meant to target all along.
"I need to switch bodies with that Saiyan... NOW!"
Jeice touched down next to Ginyu to help him up by his arm while their four opponents touched down as well.
"I'm going to give you a chance to give up, Ginyu," offered Goku.
"You're both strong, but we outnumber you," added Krillin.
"What's the play, Captain?" went Jeice once Ginyu was back on his feet.
After putting his hand to his chin for a moment.
"Attack pattern 35-B."
Jeice flew around the four quickly, Gohan and Krillin being the only ones having some trouble keeping up with him. Goku flew straight past Jeice to Ginyu, then pushed him farther away with a burst of air. Pan stayed on guard, keeping an eye on Goku while at the ready to defend herself or her two nearby allies.
Ginyu saw Goku approaching and fired right at the ground in front of him. As Goku flew over it, he saw an all-too familiar stance.
"That's his body changing stance."
But he didn't see Ginyu looking upward at or directing it towards him at all.
"He's looking straight in front of him when I'm right above him!"
Jeice, suddenly crouching in front of the three he had been flying circles around, plunged his hand into the ground. With a spin, he dug out a massive clump of dirt, then tossed it as a distraction as he fled.
"Change...!"
With a two-handed slam, Jeice knocked Goku down towards the ground. Pan caught up, seeing Jeice trying to keep Goku in place.
"This is my one chance..."
"NOW!"
Upon hearing the last word, Goku unwittingly lifted and held Jeice in front of him. He then realized just what he was doing.
"Shoot! If it hits him, then she's...!"
Jeice was horrified at the thought of what was to come.
"I'm about to switch bodies with the captain..."
In that split moment, Pan flew forward as fast as she could with Ginyu's body.
"Everything you've got...!"
Goku and Jeice saw her fly right into the path of the Body Change.
"Got it!"
That strange sensation struck Pan again, being frozen and feeling like her very soul was leaving elsewhere.
Once it had finally concluded, Pan suddenly felt that she was standing straight up on solid ground instead of flying as she was before.
"Am I...?"
Pan put out hands in front of her...
...and saw fingerless gloved hands, each finger moving as she thought to move them, and feeling each one as she did.
"I'm in my own body!"
But right as she celebrated...
"Ow."
She felt several sore points across her body from hits Ginyu had to have taken when Goku, Krillin, and Gohan attacked him all at once. Two of them were still considerably fresh: her back ached from the elbow she delivered to it and her chest stung from Ginyu's crash landing onto her front.
"That really smarts..."
She looked to her grandfather.
"Hey, you're you again!"
After he tossed the bemused Jeice away, the look Pan gave him made him recall what almost occurred when he held Jeice in front of him. With one hand behind the back of his head, he couldn't hide his embarrassment.
"Sorry about earlier. I wasn't thinking too good with my head there."
Even then, Pan couldn't help but smile at his clumsiness outside of battle.
"Heh."
"I'm just glad to be me... myself again."
The two turned their attention to Ginyu upon hearing him groan. He slowly made his way back up, confused at his hitting the ground after the body change.
"I was standing up. So was that Saiyan. Why am I...?"
In front of him was a shadow...
...two horns atop it head.
"She's behind me?"
He looked out at the hands that were trying to lift him up...
...the purple arms that stretched out confirming otherwise.
"You're not going to be able to win this," Goku called out to him. "Switching bodies has only exhausted you."
His purple fist struck the ground as he lifted himself back up.
"I didn't think it'd come to this..."
Trunks, touching down on the area Ginyu and company remained stationary for a time after their initial battle with Goku, looked for clues as to what transpired.
"According to this device, the three stood right..."
Seeing what might've been boot prints from Pan...
"Here."
And in that same direction...
...another pair of prints from Jeice, as well as a seared trail on the ground from a blast.
"Ginyu fired from that position..."
Without other footprints to indicate Guldo's location, as he stayed on the ground for the most part compared to his comrades, it looked as though the burnt area had to be where Guldo had resided. It all seemed to line up...
...but it still didn't sit right.
"Even if Ginyu vaporized Guldo completely, there should be some sign of him... something."
Now speaking to the Supreme Kai of Time instead of just thinking to himself...
"Supreme Kai of Time. Can you replay Ginyu's feed?"
He knew Ginyu's thoughts were out of the question since he took the earpiece out, but even with it in Pan's pocket, they could still hear from his surroundings.
"Around the time I touched down to Pan's location."
Jeice returned to Ginyu's side, staring down both Goku and Pan.
"Now I'm going to give you one final chance," went Goku with an ultimatum. "Stop this and I'll let you both go."
Pan kept her stance up best as she could, but her mind was left floundering at what was to come next.
"This is already different from history. How are we going to convince Goku to...?"
She then couldn't help but notice Ginyu incessantly tapping on his scouter as he turned to Jeice.
"What do you think?"
"You mean with surrenderin'?"
"Well, Jeice..."
Trunks listened to the feed and while the quality wasn't crystal clear, he heard Ginyu speaking in that moment the clearest of the three.
One piece of audio in particular made him nearly stumble.
"Well, Jeice... maybe we should stop."
Pan was in disbelief at what she was hearing.
"What is Ginyu saying?!"
So seemed Jeice.
"STOP?!"
Pan then heard Trunks in a panic.
"Wait! Pan, it was all a trick! Guldo's...!"
Time froze...
...as Guldo took some time running to Goku's position.
"Agh! Did they have to travel so far back?!"
Wiping off sweat from his green forehead just over his eyes, he then went full speed at Goku, jumping into and hitting him with a two-legged drop kick...
...and being knocked back, as if having hit an immovable object. In stopped time, Guldo seemed to do absolutely nothing to him.
Time resumed once Guldo stopped holding his breath...
...and Goku felt a kick, which completely robbed him of his attention and had him partially hunched over.
Pan, once time resumed, heard Trunks finish.
"...alive!"
She saw him standing behind Goku clear as day, as well as saw him with two hands raised up...
...lift and trap Goku inches off the ground. Neither Pan nor her grandfather could believe the predicament he was in.
"This is like what General Blue did to me... and Chiaotzu... but on a whole other level."
He then thought of when Jeice landed that hit to him, putting him in Ginyu's path...
"I thought I was sloppy earlier, but what if... he held me in place to be hit."
Ginyu didn't bother to gloat and after throwing his scouter into the air, he immediately went back to his infamous stance.
"Change...!"
Even while desperately trying to wrestle himself free, Goku found himself stuck right where he was.
"No! Not now!"
Pan knew what she had to do for history's sake and didn't make any moves on Guldo, but had to wonder...
"Towa doesn't want this to happen. She'd want the change stopped. Just what is her play here?"
But as she checked to see what Jeice was doing...
...she saw Jeice standing behind Ginyu, his five fingers pointed right at his back for an all-too-familiar ki technique of his.
"Just like the scroll..."
"NOW!"
Without a moment to show hesitation, she flew forward and fired at Jeice, the impact causing Jeice's arm to miss the dead-center of Ginyu's chest...
...but still drew blood from his side. She tackled Jeice, dragging him across the grass until he dug his blade of ki into the ground, stopping himself and causing Pan to fly past him.
Once Pan stopped herself, she looked over at Ginyu, grabbing his side to stop purple blood from oozing out of it, and then to Goku, who hopped high into the air. But instead of hearing Goku's almost child-like chuckle...
...now Pan heard him laugh in a completely different tone. Upon catching Ginyu's scouter and wearing it himself, the laughter became louder and more menacing.
Gohan and Krillin both flew towards them, but saw Ginyu already relishing his moment of being in possession of Goku's body.
"Dad, no! We're too late!"
Pan didn't even realize their absence until they finally arrived. It didn't make sense for them to have been held up...
...until she considered the hidden piece in Ginyu's ploy.
"Guldo."
But when she looked back at her grandfather for any sign of him, he had vanished completely. She sensed the ki of everyone around her and tried to pinpoint his...
"I can't sense him!"
Before, it seemed as though the helmet atop his head was the cause for this, its destruction revealing him. But now she knew that moment when she could no longer sense Guldo, where she considered the possibility of Ginyu having slayed him, was proof of something else completely. Someone that could stop time now had another ace.
"Guldo can hide his ki now."