Prime Objective Chapter 11: Origins- Son Pan, a dragon ball z fanfic

Origins- Son Pan

AN: Just like A Daughters Difference, Prime Objective is also getting new updates. Two in fact, one will be this short Origins chapter and in a few days I'll be uploading the next chapter. I decided to do something different with Pan's Origin chapter. Since this Pan comes from the GT universe, then we all know of how and what Gohan did to get to that timeline. An Origins chapter would be a waste, so I decided to instead focus on Pan and Videl's conversations from Chapter 6. The one where Pan promised Videl answers if she remained quiet during the rest of Ryoko's story. Honestly I had hoped for a larger chapter, but soon I realized that it was quite short and I should have just added it to chapter 6 from the beginning, but we all have laments and there is nothing we can do about that.

Pan found Videl impatiently tapping her foot while glaring in her direction. She exhaled as she took a seat on a nearby rock and gestured for the daughter of Hercule to do the same. "Alright, you wanted to know answers, and papa is occupied at the moment, so you'll have to do with me. Whatever I say is one hundred percent the truth, as mythical as it may sound, I will not lie. What are your questions?"

Videl snorted, "That'll be a change. I want to know how all of this tie back to Gohan, and why all of you keep calling him 'dad' when he looks as old as I am? How can you guys fly? And what did that jerk mean by me 'not living in the real world'?"

"One question at a time," Pan calmly replied. "You heard what Ryoko said, we are all children of Gohan but from different times. For instance, I'm the daughter of Son Gohan and Son Videl."

Videl crossed her arms, "I think I would remember if I had a daughter, and one that appears to be only three years younger than me. It's kind of sad that Gohan would put you up to this, to say that I would have something to do with him of all people." She shrugged her shoulders in blissful arrogance.

Pan chuckled until she blew up to full blown laughter. "Papa always said that you were stubborn and tenacious. I always thought he was exaggerating, but he said that you couldn't accept something unless you had it shoved in your face."

All at once, Pan's facial expression morphed from endless euphoria to sudden seriousness. "I'm from the future! That is why you can't remember me because I haven't been born yet. Honestly I don't see how hard of a concept that is to understand. For some reason, papa fell in love with you and you with him, but after talking to you for a little while, I left with the question of how falling in love with you is even possible?!"

Pan sighed as she reflected on her past. "In my world, when I was younger, I was often compared to mama at your age, and I always thought it was a compliment, but now I can see what a great nuisance I must have been. When I get home I only hope they can accept my apology, if I was even half as bad as you are."

Videl was fuming. "How hard of a concept is it? You are talking about time travel and that doesn't exist, so the only logical conclusion is that you are pretending to be someone to divert my attention away from Gohan's secrets."

"If you want to understand what I'm about to say, then you have to throw out that book of logic you hold so dearly. In this universe there is a lot we don't understand, and to limit oneself to only 'logic', a flawed one at that, is to put oneself at a disadvantage to comprehend," Pan stated while wagging her finger. "What we do, the flying and Ki blast, is all real! There are no strings or bombs planted ahead of time, if that is what you are thinking!"

"You're lying," Videl bite back. "You have to be lying! There is no such thing as that. My father told me all about how you cheater always find a way to make things look real, but I am the daughter of Hercule Satan and I will not be made a fool!" she screamed. "Your 'father', as you call him, is nothing more than a cheater, just like you freaks."

Pan, visibly angrier with each second this conversation continued, extended her hand in front of her mother's shrieking face. A semi-large orb of Ki concentrated a few centimeters away from the palm of her hand. "Does this look fake to you?" she menacingly grunted. "Can you feel it Videl," she refused to call the person in front of her 'mother.' "Can you feel the warmth of my Ki as I hold it mere centimeters away from you."

Videl jumped back when the ball of energy materialized out of nowhere. She shook in place as the hot aura around the ball licked her nose, and brought a great sense dread.

Pan closed her hand around the orb as she brought her arm closer to her; only to then swing it off to her side. The demi-Saiyan's eyes never leaving the spooked eyes of her young mother. The Ki blast flew at great speed towards a small hill a short distance away from them. The explosion sent gales of wind, smoke and rubble across them.

Videl's head slowly turned towards the remains of the hill, and her eyes widen at the results. The scorched ground still glowed and small trails of smoke could be seen. "That's…not…possible," she stuttered.

Some of the other children made their way to the mother-daughter duo, but Pan told them it was just a demonstration and that there was no threat. Most of them were still on high alert; since not long before they had been fighting against the forces of Roosen. Eventually, all of them left but the twins held a smug grin at the stupefied look painted across Videl's face.

"You rode on my back," Pan finally stated once they were alone again. "Unless I tied the strings to the high heavens, there is no way I could have been flying for that long and the distance it took for us to get here. I'm not lying!" she gritted the last part.

"But…but my father," the daughter of Hercule feebly tried to refute what she saw.

"Grandpa Hercule is a liar," the small girl slowly added. Her eyes finally looked away. Even if this Videl had been a great nuisance, it still pained her to see her 'mother's face' wrecked with fear and loss, especially since she was responsible for breaking her world. "He always has been, and while now in my time he does it for a good reason, initially he did it for fame, glory, and money by discrediting those like my father."

"I—I," Videl stumbled on her words and her feet as she slowly began to walk away from her daughter. "I need to talk to my father." Her hands trembled as she pulled out the capsule for her aircraft.

"I can come with you," Pan feared that her mother was not in the right state of mind to be operating such machinery.

"NO!" the pigtailed girl shouted. "No, I—I got to go." She opened the canopy of her aircraft and settled inside before turning on the machine and blasting away.

Pan looked on as the dot disappeared in the distance. It was harsh, but it had to be done. Those were the words that kept scrolling across her mind.

Well I did say it was a short chapter. It was mostly to make Videl of this universe to see the truth, quite literally.

As always, with Origins chapters, here are a few more notes that could not make it on to the chapter.

1. Pan is 15 years old, making her the youngest of all the children.

2. It has been 4 years since Goku left with Shenron. Her time has finally seen some peace after so much unrest, and she trains regularly as the granddaughter of Goku to one day become the next protector, though she has yet to break the elusive SSJ 1 stage. Physically she has grown but not by much.

3. She can stubborn but her years of training have slowly transformed her from the reckless girl to one that actually gives her actions a second thought before proceeding.

4. Videl would go back home to confront her father about his lies. He would deny any of them and just sent her away saying that what she saw were nothing more than tricks, but a barking Videl would not let something like this go. She would pressure her father over the next few days and even challenged him to a fight to prove that he is who he claims to be. After her interactions with Gohan's children (seeing their strength) and speaking with her daughter; she realizes that something is amiss and wants to make sure that her father is telling the truth. Hercule however remained boastful that he was the strongest, but Videl could hardly believe that after what she saw, so eventually she said if he was not going to be honest with her then she would be leaving until he came to his senses.

5. Videl would eventually return to the camp a few days later. Stating that she would be spending a few nights at Erasa's, but she requested during the day that Pan teach her in the ways of Ki. Pan agreed to teach her mother, but secretly she kept trying to get her father to teach Videl, since she knew that was the first step for her parents to get together. Unfortunately Gohan was not going to teach her, so Pan took the job on herself.

6. As such Videl and Erasa often make the trip to the camp during the day, and return to the city during the night to go back to Erasa's house.

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