I'm baaaaaack! Yay! I'm really, really, really sorry that i've been gone for so long, i've just been working on another story plus some other stuff. Anyway, i'm here now and that's all that matters, right? N E way, I hope you all like this chapter! Enjoy! DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING, OK?

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Pan woke up the next morning and looked around the room. She didn't know where she was for about 10 seconds until she remembered what all happened. Her father Gohan, her grandfather Goku, Krillin, Trunks, and Marron, all of them had died just yesterday. She had to stop herself from crying. No, she said to herself, they wouldn't have wanted you to be sad. They wouldn't want you to stress out. It wouldn't be good for the baby. She looked over and saw Bra lying in bed next to her, sleeping peacefully and looking like a blue-haired angel in the morning light shining through the window. She was going to wake her mate up, but decided she'd rather let her sleep and got up to go make breakfast.

She walked into the kitchen and saw Bulma and Chi-Chi already cooking a massive breakfast. "Hey Pan," Chi-Chi said as Pan entered the kitchen and sat down at the table. "What do you want for breakfast?"

"I'm not really that hungry." At this statement, Chi-Chi and Bulma both went wide-eyed and dropped what they were doing and ran over to Pan. They both put their hands on her forehead. "Hmm, you don't seem to have a temperature." Bulma said and looked at her. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine, i'm just not hungry." Pan sat back into her chair and thought to herself. *What are we gonna do? We can't hide here forever.*

We'll think of something.

Hey! Who gave you permission to read my thoughts?!

Sorry! I was just seeing where you were.

Oh, well i'm in the kitchen. Bulma and Chi-Chi are cooking breakfast.

"Ooh! Breakfast!" Bra said as she entered the kitchen. Pan thought that she went pretty fast, but then remembered that she was a super saiyan and all. Soon everyone woke up and came to eat the huge and very well prepared breakfast. As they were eating, Chi-Chi realized something. "Oh no! We forgot about getting Videl!"

"Don't worry about it, grandma." Pan started. "My mom's in America right now doing some buissiness thing. She won't be back for another 10 months or so, and I figure we can take care of this little problem before she get's back." Everyone shook their head agreeingly. After they ate breakfast, Pan and Bra went into their room to discuss the problem at hand. "So, what are we gonna do about 17?"

"Well, I guess all we can do is fight him. I don't think there's any other way to go about it."

"I guess so, but how are we gonna beat him? He beat Goku and my dad, and I know that both of them put together are stronger than you and me. Plus, I can't fight him anyway, I gotta protect our baby." Pan rubbed her stomach. "Hmm, good point. Well, we'll figure out something."

"But what if he finds us before we figure out anything?"

"Believe me, he won't. I took the liberty of installing a cloaking device when I bought this house. I thought that daddy would be overprotective as usual and come by every hour, so I figured he can't find the house if he can't see the house."

"AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THIS WHY?!?!" Pan all but screamed. "I didn't think about it. Don't worry, I turned on the cloaking machine after we got here. And the super battery my mom invented a couple of years ago that's in the machine won't go bad for another 20 years at least, so were covered on that."

"But can't he just sense us?"

"Nope. He's an android, like 18. And since 18 can't sense ki's, I figure he can't either."

"Oh, well in that case...." Pan walked over to the tv and turned it on. "It's time for my favorite show!"

"Oh no, not....."

"That's right! POKEMON!" Pan sat down on the bed and smiled really big as her show came on. Bra decided to go downstairs and fix a snack and talk to her mom about a way to get rid of 17.

About three more months passed and everyone started adjusting to the house. Bulma took the liberty of having a gravity room installed, so Vegeta wouldn't go completely insane. She also fixed the cloaking machine to cover up that as well. Bra started training with Vegeta in the gravity room, and Vegeta came out with more bruises and bumps than he did before. He didn't mind of course, he knew why she was training, so he helped her along as much as he could. He taught her all of his techniques, including the Big Bang Attack and the Gallick Gun.(A/N: Not sure if I spelled that right, but oh well!)

Pan got a little bigger and so did her appetite. She was very upset that she couldn't go out for fast food, but got over it every time she had a Super Duper Super Saiyan Son Sandwich.(A/N: That's harder to type than it looks!)

Goten also decided to train, but he couldn't use the gravity room like Vegeta and Bra. The gravity in there would crush him even if he went super, since they were training at about 1,000 gravity at the moment.

Bulma also finished the device that could get the dream device out of Pan's head, so she didn't have the nightmares anymore.

-That night at dinner-

Bulma and Chi-Chi made a huge meal, as usual. And Vegeta, Goten, and Pan had about 6 plates of food, as usual. "Hey, someone needs to go grocery shopping." Bulma brought up as she was gathering empty dishes from the table. "How? None of us can leave this house without having the risk of 17 finding us." 18 mentioned. (A/N: I haven't mentioned her all chapter. I figured she was due a line or two.) "I can go." Goten said, standing up. "Like hell you can!" Chi-Chi said, pushing Goten back into his seat. "You can especially NOT go! Your part saiyan and 17 will kill you in an instant if he finds you!"

"But think about it, if he does find us, i'll have the best chance of getting away. Vegeta can't go because if 17 does manage to find this place, he'll practically be the last line of defense. Pan can't go because she has the baby. Bra can't go because she has a baby to look out for. 18 can't go because 17 found her before and he'll find a way to find her again. And you and Bulma can't go because if he finds one of you he'll snap you like a twig. At least if I go i'll have a chance."

"He does have a point Chi-Chi." 18 put in. "Oh sure, take his side! I still don't want you to go! Your the only son I have left! I can't lose you, too!"

"Come on, mom. I'll be fine."

"....................Fine." She scribbled some stuff on a piece of paper. "This is what we need from the store. Bulma, you have some cash on you?" Bulma nodded and grabbed some money from her purse and handed it to Goten. "Go straight there, get the stuff, and come straight back. If you see 17, run or fly or whatever and come straight back, got it?"

"Got it." Goten said and with the money and list in his pocket, he flew out the window and down to the store.

-At the store-

The cashier looked at the miniature tower of food rolling towards her. "Whoa, you gonna feed an army or something?"

"No, this is just for me and some friends and family for about a month or so."

"Yeah, sure." The clerk said sarcastically and rang up the stuff. Goten paid her the money and looked at the several bags of food. "Uh, miss? Could I buy that cart, too? It'll be easier for me to get it home. This is all I got though." He handed her all the money he had left, which was a good $1000 dollars or so. "Uh..sure." The clerk said, not believing that a guy just paid her a thousand dollars for a cart. Just as Goten was rolling the cart to the doors, the wall was blown to bits by something.

"Fe fi fo fum! I smell the blood of another Son." 17 said as he walked through the smoke. The cashier fainted as he walked in and Goten was smart enough to take the groceries and hide behind some rubble he knocked down. "You can't hide from me! If I have to blow up this whole store i'll get you!"

Goten started to think for a minute and remembered that Trunks taught him a trick for just such an emergency. Goten put his hand against his mouth and aimed his voice at the deli section. "How did you find me?" 17 smiled and walked towards the deli. He stopped about 3 feet away. I knew you would have to come for food eventually, so I put up cameras near all the stores in the area. Now you die!" 17 fired a blast at the deli and blew it to pieces. 17 started searching for pieces of Goten. Goten decided to distract him for a bit while he made his escape. He threw his voice again, this time in the fruit and vegetable section. "Why are you doing this?"

17 walked over to the produce section and started to explain that he blamed the saiyans for him getting absorbed by Cell. Goten took this time to grab the food and fly out slowly so 17 wouldn't notice. 17 then blew up the produce section. Goten took this time to fly like hell and gun it towards the house before 17 noticed he was gone. The last thing he heard was an explosion that he guessed was 17 blowing up the store in rage. He landed at a rock with a bandanna tied to it. Chi-Chi put it there so he would know where to land and find the house. He grabbed the bandanna along with the cart full of groceries and went inside. "I'm back." Everyone was watching TV when he came in. "Goten, 17 was there wasn't he?" Bra asked. "Yeah. How'd you know?" Bra pointed towards the TV. It was a news report on the store he was just at.

"Sources say that a young man blew up the store trying to find someone. They described him as a young white male with long black hair wearing torn jeans and a bandanna around his neck. Police have just given us a sketch of what the witnesses say he looked like." A crude but oddly accurate drawing of 17 showed up on the screen. Chi-Chi turned to Goten and started inspecting him as if he were an experiment. "Oh my baby! Are you ok?! He didn't hurt you did he?!"

"Mom, chill out! I'm fine, I got out without him even knowing I was gone."

"As long as your not hurt then...." Chi-Chi pulled a frying pan from what seemed out of nowhere and popped Goten in the head with it. "What's wrong with you?! I told you you shouldn't have gone! That whole store blew up cause of you! I tried to prevent it but NO! You go off saying stuff like 'Come on, mom. I'll be fine'. Fine nothing! You could have gotten blown up!"

"First of all, OUCH! Second of all, I didn't get hurt. He didn't even fight me."

"Still, he could have killed you!"

"But he didn't, so calm down. We still have groceries to unpack." Chi-Chi finally calmed down and they all unpacked the groceries. After they unpacked the groceries, Goten told them everything that happened at the grocery store.

"So, we can't go to the store and we can't eat as much as we would like. This food has to last us a while." Groans went across the whole room. "Plus, we still need a way to beat 17."

"Oh dear Dende help us." Bulma said. Everyone nodded in agreement. Suddenly, there was a knock on the front door.

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Whew! That's the end of chapter 8! I hope you all enjoyed it. Again, i'm really sorry for putting this out super late and everything. I lost access to the computer for a while, so please don't be mad! I hope all my fans forgive me! Well, I hope you all review! If you don't, Vegeta will get mad at me and hurt me! AHHHH!