Pan awoke with the morning sun in her eyes. She had had a good sleep. She got up, went out to the mini-balcony and stretched. The air was fresh and dew could be seen in the grass. The sun was just peeking it's head over the hills in the distance. She yawned and noticed that something was different. She looked over the place and spotted a new, modern looking GR on the lawn where there was none last night. 'Cool,' she said to herself. She couldn't wait to get inside of it and try it out. *I'll try later* she thought when she heard her ever-hungry stomach growl. She showered, and went over what she thought she should ware. *I can't ware my boots. They're too heavy to train in, but then again, I don't have anything else...* she thought. She was gonna ask Vegeta to spar, so she'd need light clothing, but she had to put the boots on anyway. They added at least an extra 3 inches if height to her petite figure so that she was at eye level with most other people. She put on her baggy black jeans, fighting gloves and a black long sleeve with 'Back off: I'm a bitch' on the back and 'Stop staring at my chest' on the front and headed down stairs. Strangely, Vegeta was the only one there. He was clad in his training armour. 'Hey, Vegeta,' she said tiredly. 'You wanna spar in the new GR after we eat?' she added with a bit more liveliness in her voice.

'I've already eaten. I'll meet you outside the GR in 10 minutes. The onna has to tell me how to use the new one. It's meant to have a lot more functions,' said Vegeta, who was a bit bored.

'Oh...okay, Vegeta,' replied Pan before moving over to the fridge. She and Vegeta had awakened before everybody else, so she had to make her own food. She just made some simple sandwiches, about 8, and wolfed them down before going outside where she saw Vegeta reading. Pan guessed it to be an instruction booklet for the GR. He was scowling at it as if to make it easier to read. Pan got a good look at it and nearly fell to her knees laughing.

He glared at her mightily. 'What is it!?' He demanded

'Vegeta...you...you're..' She couldn't finish before she started laughing harder.

'WHAT IS IT BRAT!?!' roared Vegeta as loud as he could, scaring some birds out of the nearby tree.

'You were holding the book upside down,' Pan managed to struggle out. His face would have gone red with embarrassment at his folly had he not had the necessary self-control to prevent it. He threw the book at her.

'FINE! You figure it out!'

On a plane far away, Gohan was thinking about his daughter. *Why do I get the funny feeling that she is doing the exact opposite with Vegeta from what I told her? *sigh*

Pan and Vegeta had managed to get into the GR. It was much bigger than the old one and had one very new feature that stood out from the rest. 'It's capable of creating up to 8 different gravity fields at once each with radically different pressures!' exclaimed Pan as she read aloud from the book for Vegeta to hear.

'In English (Japanese?) please?' remarked Vegeta sarcastically.

'Gladly. You and I could spar, you under 2400 times earths norm, and me, right in front of you, in 300 times earths norm, and then Bulma could be on the other side of the room with no change, and five other people could be in different places, each with their own gravity setting,' she finished in a rather perky voice. She walked over to the controls and turned the GR on. The small computer screen said that there were two people in the room. 'Okay...Vegeta's gravity...2400...mine...300..' Pan mumbled to herself. The moment she hit the start button she felt the gravity suddenly increase to 300. Both she and Vegeta had a hard time standing, but for Pan it was too much. She had to turn hers down to 200 before she fell to the ground.

'What's the matter? Can't take three hundred times gravity?' Vegeta sneered.

'Of course I can! I just can't fight in it...Are we gonna fight, or just talk?' She barely had time to finish the sentence before she was punched in the face. She reeled back and hit the wall. She saw the next one coming and blocked or evaded the flurry of punches and kicks that Vegeta unleashed upon her. 'How....the....hell can you....move so....fast!?!' Pan managed to say while fending them all off.

'I'm not moving fast, brat. You're just slow!' taunted Vegeta. Pan just huffed and concentrated on the fight.

It raged on for hours. Occasionally Pan would get the upper hand, but in general Vegeta was in control. They both were taking a rest when Bulma came in. Were it the old gravity room she would have been crushed, but the new one was designed so that any new entrants started in regular gravity. 'Hi, guys!' greeted Bulma. Pan and Vegeta were too exhausted to reply. Mostly because of the gravity. 'I take it you like the new GR?' asked Bulma.

'It's great, Bulma...' Pan managed to get out. 'Could you turn off the GR now? I'm too weak to do it and Vegeta doesn't know how,' said Pan with a weak grin. Vegeta glared at her.

'Sure,' said Bulma as she walked over to turn it off. She did and both the Saiya-jin felt much stronger. Pan leapt up from her seated position on the floor with a newfound energy. She sniffed the air and her features lit up when she smelt food. Bulma laughed. 'Come on you two. Lunch is ready,' Bulma said cheerfully.

Pan raced out of the gravity chamber and ran straight to the kitchen where the rest of the household was eating. Vegeta was eagerly awaiting the food, but showed much more restraint by calmly walking to where Pan had dashed only seconds before.

The whole family had once again gathered again around the circular table that sat peacefully in the middle of the kitchen. There were numerous topics of discussion flying around as the family interacted. 'Vegeta?' Pan got the attention of Vegeta. He looked at her. 'We're gonna keep sparring, right? It'd be a shame if Bulma's new GR wasn't used as much as it's made for,' she coaxed, knowing that Vegeta would agree. He grunted in approval. 'I checked out the booklet and I think it said that there's a built in audio system, so I'm gonna put on some music while we train. 'K?' she said in a chirpy voice.

'Why are you always so damn perky?' questioned Vegeta.

'I just am. Why? You got a problem with the way I talk and act?' retaliated Pan. Vegeta was silent. Pan grinned and went back to her meal. Within 20 minutes enough food had been eaten (mostly by the four Saiya-jin) to supply a banquet for a night. Pan pushed her chair away from the table and went upstairs to fetch a CD. When she came back down the household had dispersed and Vegeta was standing at the door waiting for Pan.

'What took you so long? If I waited any longer I'd grow old,' he stated gruffly.

'I thought you were old? You're older than my grandpa,' she teased.

'65 is not old!!!' He roared. 'Not for a Saiya-jin anyway. I'm still a young adult. We age at roughly one third the rate that humans do. I don't know how hybrid spawn such as yourself age, but expect to live for at least 100 more years,' he said cockily.. 'So Kakarot may as well be 20 and myself not too far ahead,' he finished.

'Really? Cool,' Pan replied absent mindedly with a drag on cool. Vegeta motioned to the nearby gravity room with a shake of his head and the two made their way over to it. Once inside Pan walked over to the controls and put the CD into the slot and turned the volume up to 20. Vegeta sent a questioning glance to Pan. 'It's called Down to Earth, by Ozzy Osbourne,' she said in answer to his silent question. The music came on loudly. Pan turned up Vegeta's gravity up to 2400. She was about to turn hers up, but a thought entered her head. She grinned evilly and didn't put her gravity up. Vegeta didn't notice. Pan flew at Vegeta and punched him in the nose. Then kicked him in the side. Hard.
He flinched. She then continued with a barrage of unrelenting attacks.

Vegeta was having a very hard time with her. He was struggling just to remain in the fight. He saw many holes in her defence, but he couldn't move fast enough in the gravity to take advantage of them.

NO EASY WAY OUT BY OZZY OSBOURNE

LOOKING TO THE MIRROR FROM THE OTHER SIDE
SEEING YOUR REFLECTION, AND A GHOST OF MINE
TRYING TO DENY IT, BUT THE DAMAGE IS DONE
UNDER SERGEANTS ORDERS
BUT THE RACE IS RUN

Vegeta got a good hit on Pan which sent her sailing across the room. She barely caught herself before slamming into one of the metallic walls. Vegeta used this time to power up.

YOU'VE GOT TO TELL ME IT'S OVER IT NOW
I'M TRAPPED INSIDE OF A DREAM
THE CRUSHING WEIGHT ON MY SHOULDERS NOW
IS BEARING DOWN AND IT SEEMS
THERE'S JUST NO EASY WAY OUT
NO EASY WAY OUT

Pan also powered up and rushed Vegeta, sending him roughly into a nearby wall. Vegeta was more than frustrated that he was unable to beat her. He had realised that she had no handicap soon after the fight started, but despite the frustration he was enjoying the challenge. He powered up to his maximum power without going Super Saiya-jin and disappeared to reappear behind her, delivering an elbow to her lower back.

READ YOUR DAILY FICTION
SUPERMAN IS DEAD
CRUSHING POUNDS OF SILVER
IMITATING LEAD
THEN IF HE WILL FIX IT
CHILDREN OF THE PAST
I GUESS IT ISN'T WELCOME
DOESN'T TIME MOVE FAST?

She cried out in pain before spinning around to deliver a punch to the gut...and hit thin air. She quickly spun around again and threw a punch to Vegeta's awaiting face. He caught her hand. She threw up her other hand and boxed him in the ear. He released her. 'Not bad, but not good enough. Power up,' instructed Vegeta. She used this opportunity to power up to full. She launched into a flurry of punches and kicks. They were evenly matched now. She was nowhere even close to Vegeta's power, but his handicap gave Pan a fighting chance.

YOU'VE GOT TO TELL ME IT'S OVER IT NOW
I'M TRAPPED INSIDE OF A DREAM
THE CRUSHING WEIGHT ON MY SHOULDERS NOW
IS BEARING DOWN AND IT SEEMS
THERE'S JUST NO EASY WAY OUT
NO EASY WAY OUT

The music was forever blaring from the hidden speakers that had been placed through out the gravity room. It reminded Vegeta of what could have been. Never a day passed when he did not wish that he would wake up from the worst nightmare of his life to find himself in his own bed in the royal palace on Vegeta-sei, his home.

NIGHT AND THE SHADOW OF MAN
THIS IS THE DAWN OF THE DEAD
DON'T LET IT LIVE IN YOUR HEAD
AND THEN NOW AS THE SABBATH BEGINS
IT WAKES YOUR NIGHTMARE AGAIN,
SO RUN AWAY IF YOU CAN, SO JUST RUN, RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN

He stopped thinking about that. He had a fight to concentrate on. Vegeta once again disappeared and reappeared behind Pan and elbowed her in the lower spine. Pan spun around and connected with nothingness. She spun around again and punched, only to have her hand captured by Vegeta. She used her other one. He caught it too.

YOU'VE GOT TO TELL ME IT'S OVER IT NOW
I'M TRAPPED INSIDE OF A DREAM
THE CRUSHING WEIGHT ON MY SHOULDERS NOW
IS BEARING DOWN AND IT SEEMS
THERE'S JUST NO EASY WAY OUT
TOO LATE TO TELL ME ITS OVER NOW
FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS
NO ANGEL SITS ON MY SHOULDER NOW
I HOLD MY HEAD AND IT SCREAMS
THERE'S JUST NO EASY WAY OUT
NO EASY WAY OUT

The music ended. Vegeta and Pan locked hands and began to wrestle. They looked into each other's eyes. Vegeta used his superior strength to push her to the wall, pinning her. They never broke eye contact the whole time. They remained still for several seconds. Pan heart began to beat faster in her chest. She began to feel very anxious. *Why is he staring at me like that?* she thought anxiously. Her breathing rate quickened. *What is he doing? He couldn't be? No way! He...he* her train of thought came to an end as Vegeta's lips gently brushed off of her's before he broke off. Pan was breathless. 'What was that?' she asked, shock present in her tone.

Vegeta had a look of thought plastered onto his face and then jumped back. Pan barely dodged the ki blast that Vegeta had sent her, only to have it ricochet off the wall and hit her from behind. 'Ouch!' she cried out. 'You bastard! You're gonna pay for that, Vegeta! This is one of my best shirts!' she threatened playfully with a grin. The near-kiss soon forgotten, Pan and Vegeta sparred for the rest of the day right up until dinner time.

The dinner table was as always, but with one exception: Pan would occasionally steal a glance at Vegeta, then look away blushing when he noticed that she was staring at him. Now with training over for the day she had been hit hard with the knowledge that she had almost kissed Vegeta. Or did Vegeta almost kiss her? She didn't really care. All she knew was that she enjoyed it. *What am I thinking!? It was an accident. Plain and simple. A mistake. A bad, impossible, warm, sexy mistake. Kuso!! Why is my subconscious self betraying my logical self?* she thought to herself.

As the food began to disappear so did the people. Pan went up to her soundproof room (Bulma told her during dinner, even though she was a bit secluded) and plugged her guitar in and turned the volume up to 35. She practised for about an hour before having a shower and getting into bed. She lay there thinking about what had happened in the GR that day. Her thoughts eventually drifted to Vegeta and music. She was amazed that he actually LIKED her music. He had said so himself and she knew he wasn't the type of person to lie. With those as her last thoughts, she drifted off to sleep.

'Maybe...maybe he'll go to the concert wif me...' murmured Pan in her sleep as she dreamt about what might happen if he did.

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The fic is picking up speed, ne? This is the most successful fic I've ever written. I had never planned on so many reviews!! Keep'em coming, or else I may need to enforce the blackmail option '10 reviews per chapter'. Hopefully it'll never come to that.

If you have any one-shot questions, ask in a review and if I feel that they need answering I'll reply. Wanna ask about something complex, then get me at weekends under the yahoo ID 'xenophoberox'. Plz!!!?? I get so lonely and Hikumi likes to eat rather than talk to his friends *sniffs*.
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