Chapter 3
Bura pulled insistently on Pan's hand.
" Come on Pan. Let's get out of here!"
"Darn it why does she have to be so damned stubborn?"
" Bura look out!!"
Bura brushed her blue hair out of her eyes desperately as the air around her blew wildly. A huge ki ball, making the earth glow red was coming right at her. She was still vaguely aware of Pan next to her.
" Pan...she'll die if she gets hit. I'm a saiyajin...I'll at least survive. Please let me survive."
Abiding by her decision, Bura shoved Pan out of the way, holding up her hands for her own protection and braced herself for the impact. She heard a loud crackling as the earth beneath her began to rumble and split apart. She could sense the kiball coming closer. Abruptly the ki ball was deflected, for reasons she couldn't comprehend as she had her eyes squeezed tightly shut.
Pan had stared at Bura wide eyed as she felt herself hit the floor when Bura had pushed her out of the way. She could sense the fear in Bura as she stood shaking, bracing herself for the impact. There was no way, if Bura was not confident, that she would survive a blast like this.
" Hell I don't know if I'll survive."
Without another thought, as time passed unbearably slowly, she stood again, moving quickly to reappear infront of Bura to catch the foreign ki in her hands and hold it. She gritted her teeth, wondering how in the world she was managing to do this. Because she had never had such a chance to manipulate other people's ki, she was surprised that she could actually hold her own in such a battle. She became vaguely away of a man with a ridiculous upstyle hair do appear next to her. Her hands burned with pain as she was beginning to fall backward, making her turn her attention back to the task at hand. She dug her feet deeper into the rumbling earth, remembering that Bura was still behind her as their bodies slammed into each other.
I can't stand this sort of power for much longer...I need to do something. I promised I wouldn't...but under the circumstances..."
Pan gritted her teeth as she began to gather all the energy she could muster to push the kiball forward once more, stopping its original momentum and generating some of her own. She unleashed her own ki ball, pushing her ki level higher.
" I don't want to die. I'm not going to let Bura die. NO WAY!"
Pan's anger flared at the thought of dying. She could feel the power coursing through her veins as she put her all into deflecting the attack and unleashing a counter of her own. Her neat braid began to grown increasingly stiff, an odd occurrence in her view, but she quickly dismissed it as she figured she had more things to worry about. She was surprised when she felt that her attacker was putting more and more energy into the attack, its effect causing her to once again be pushed back.
" SHINU NO WA IYAAAAA!"
Pan, amazed at the amount of energy she was putting out, formed her own definite kiball behind that of her attackers, making it grown in her hands. The blue glow of her own ki began to envelope and absorb her attacker's ki.
" I'm not going to die!" she screamed as she smashed the ki ball back towards the enemy with her hands. It quickly exploded on him as she quickly slumped to the floor from overexertion. The blue shield of energy which had surrounded her before now disappated. When the dust cleared, the green creature, still floating in the air wiping the edge of his blue blood stained mouth from the edge of his mouth, addressed her.
" I'll get you for that little girl. But that can come later."
With that, the green enemy disappeared from view. Pan placed a hand on the rocky ground to keep herself upright as her chest heaved up and down with the deep breaths she was taking. She pushed her hair out of her face as the howling wind blew by, no longer held back by the large buildings that did not exist anymore due to the ki battle.
" I...I killed all these people. I...I should have stopped it earlier...I could have tried harder."
" Pan...are you ok?" Bura whispered leaning down next to her.
Feeling a comforting arm go around her shoulders she nodded slowly, quickly wiping her tears away so that no one could see them. She could hear the footsteps of numerous people as they began to crowd around her. There was a short guy with thick black hair, a blond woman in a business suit, another green alien with a cape, a guy with spiked hair and glasses...the list went on and on. The only people she recognised was Trunks, Bura and the guy with spiky black hair who was staring at her very weirdly. She had seen him before.
" I'm fine." She whispered.
" Are you sure?" Bura asked.
" I'm sure."
" Where did you learn that girl? That ki ball?"
She looked up at the man who had appeared next to her earlier.
" By myself."
Everyone's eyes widened and whispered conversations were commenced within the group.
" Hold it!" the guy with the glasses yelled. " Who are you parents?"
" I...I can't say."
" Why not?" the tall guy dressed in the orange gi asked.
" I remember you now! I saw you when I was heading out to go meet Kaori!"
" Goten now is not the time" Trunks said harshly.
Immediately fights began to break out. Pan sighed and stood up, taking Bura's hand off her shoulder.
"I should have taken mom's advice. She was right. Turning up in front of all these people isn't going to do me any good. They'll want to know how I do it now. I don't even know...how am I going to explain this?"
Pan's eyes rested on Trunks and Bura.
"Is this going to effect my internship? I know mom didn't want anyone to know that I could make ki balls...but why did she want to keep it a secret? "
Pan's mind raced as more and more questions arose, all unanswered.
" I think I'll go home now."
Pan took a couple of steps before rising into the sky.
" Should we let her go?" questioned Goten.
" Let her go. If she's flying her ki is traceable. We'd find her easily." Kuririn answered
" But if WE can find her easily then can't Cell find her just as easily?" Gohan ventured.
" I'll follow her. Bura come with me."
Vegeta stared at No.18 and crossed his arms.
" If my brat comes back with a scratch on her..."
" I get it Vegeta, no need to go into threats."
No.18 flew off with Bura as Vegeta spit out some blood onto the floor.
" Well not thinking of that girl for awhile-" Kuririn started.
" Her name is Pan. Not just a girl...not a normal one anyway" Trunks cut in rudely.
Goten looked at his best friend with a look of confusion. This was unlike Trunks.
" Cell has turned up. What are we going to do?" Gohan said quickly, trying to break the awkward moment.
" Are we sure it's even Cell? I mean we're pretty sure he died last time." Piccolo said.
" Who's Cell?" Goten asked, bewildered.
Everyone but Goten and Trunks exchanged glances. Vegeta decided to fly off at that moment.
" I'm off to find my woman." He said in a dull tone as everyone watched him fly off.
Goku smiled knowingly and turned back to Goten and Trunks.
" Before you were born Goten...and just when you were Trunks two robots appeared to start killing everyone. These robots were-"
" Aunt 18 and Uncle 17?"
At that moment, a guy with shiny black hair landed on the ground with a thud, the cement on the floor giving way.
" Hi."
Kuririn waved to his wife's 'twin' brother.
" So Cell's back huh?" #17 said.
" Yeh. He is and he's better than before. Much better. See his power is that he absorbs the ki of others in order to become stronger. To add to that, for some annoying reason, every single time he comes back he gets more powerful. However, I have no reason to suspect otherwise, that we will easily defeat Cell...that is if he doesn't have some weird plan to defer us." Gohan said.
He had just finished explaining about it when 3 more people landed back on the cement they too were standing on.
" I suggest you let me go." A cold voice said.
She had very clear instructions but no one seemed to take any notice.
" Come on Pan. You heard what the green thing said. He's after you. It's safer if you stay with us." Bura pleaded.
" If he's after me so be it. It is no business of yours! Personally I don't like to be kidnapped and brought here against my will."
Suddenly something clicked in Gohan's mind.
"She's the girl I was looking for earlier...if she is that means she can-"
" Quick grab hold of her she can teleport!" he yelled.
But he was a bit late. Bura had her arm on Pan's shoulder and she disappeared along with Pan when she put her fingers on her forehead.
" Damnit." Trunks muttered. " Where in the world did she learn to teleport?"
" What should we do now?" Kuririn asked.
" I have to find Bura. If anything happens to her I'm dead." Trunks exclaimed.
Goku glanced at the group and thought hard for a minute.
" Ok. Trunks, Goten you go off and find Bura and...the other girl. As soon as you do, take them to the floating palace."
The boys nodded and quickly took off.
" Gohan go with Kuririn and take Chichi and the others up to the floating palace as well."
When those two left, only Goku and Piccolo stayed behind.
" What are you going to do?" Piccolo asked.
" I'm going to see to Cell and finish him off as soon as possible. We'll have to find Vegeta as well..."
Piccolo seemed to get the point and flew off. Goku thought quietly to himself.
That girl...Pan. He had sensed the raw power she had possessed. It was very familiar even though he had never seen the likes of it before.
" that girl...it's so familiar...almost as if she was part of our family..."
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Trunks flew increasingly faster as did Goten. They seemed to be both in a big hurry.
" It's getting hard to trace that ki. I can feel Bura's quite easily...I'm pretty sure she's having a hard time trying to stick to Pan." Trunks said.
" Yeh..." Goten mumbled flying faster.
Suddenly Bura's ki disappeared altogether.
" It's gone...but someone's coming."
A hundred feet away from there stood Cell, in the middle of sucking in a human with his tail. The human's legs flailed about frantically, soft muffled screams came from within. Goten focused on the legs...they looked familiar somehow.
" Hi Trunks. I remember you. Where is your other self?"
" Other self?"
" oh that's right. He went back to his miserable little future after I killed him. I had a lovely view from hell."
Trunks seemed to be unaffected, being confused.
" Guess who I have to play with boys?" Cell asked menacingly.
With his tail, he held up Kaori.
" Kaori! You give her back right now!"
Goten flew at Cell but Trunks held him back with both arms.
" Calm down. Chill, we can't afford to kill ourselves..."
As Kaori disappeared inside Cell, Goten pushed Trunks off him and flew to Cell, fist extended. Trunks sighed. He would have to help now. It would increase their chances of survival.
" I hope what Gohan said was true. He better be a easy victory."
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" Pan look!" Bura whispered loudly.
Pan looked up from behind the building and saw Cell and Trunks and Goten fighting.
" It looks like they're losing." Pan commented.
" C'mon. We have to go."
" Why?"
" Because we can't fight Cell. We're girls."
" It really is degrading to hear that come out of your mouth."
" Huh?"
" Maybe you can't fight Cell. But I can."
Without a word, Pan flew upward leaving Bura alone on the ground.
" You again." Cell muttered, sending a ki ball her way.
She stood coolly and battered the ball to the ground.
" You got your fight Cell."
Normally, Pan would not be so cocky with fights, especially ones which include areas she had never really had one on one training before. This was different. Who knew, maybe this was the only chance she would have to spar with somebody.
Cell smirked and waited for Pan to make the first move. Meanwhile, Trunks spotted Bura on the ground looking up at them.
" Goten get Bura out of here!"
Goten nodded and pulled back from the fight. He swooped down and powered up, carrying Bura to safety much faster than Bura could fly. Cell narrowed his eyes at Pan impatiently. Pan hadn't budged from her position yet. Cell gave up waiting and flew towards her. Pan's muscles flexed in anticipation as she prepared herself for Cell's attack. She saw the fists come flying towards her and she held a hand up to catch the fist and throw Cell to the floor. But she knew it wouldn't come. She could sense someone fly top speed in front of her to block it.
" Stay out of this boy." Sneered Cell.
Pan stood silently watching Cell defend himself against Trunk's onslaught of punches, kicks and ki balls.
" Why isn't this working?!" Trunks demanded, drawing back, breathing hard.
Cell didn't have a scratch on him. He wasn't even tired unlike Trunks himself.
Meanwhile Pan was fuming. Why couldn't Trunks just let her fight?
"Trunks, let your testosterone level go down before you come back! I can fight for myself!"
But she couldn't say anything like that to her boss, even though this had nothing to do with her work. Instead she stepped forward and caught one of his punches.
" Trunks, stay out of this, I can fight my own battles."
Trunks stared at her in disbelief as Cell looked on amusedly.
" What are you crazy? You can get killed!"
" Same as you Trunks. You could get killed too!"
" I can't let you fight him." Trunks said with resolve.
" Face it Trunks. You won't let me fight because I'm a girl. If you won't let me fight Cell I swear I'll fight you myself!"
Pan lifted her fists and waited for Trunk's decision. Cell floated in the air, arms crossed looking quite bemused.
"What should I do? I can't fight her! She's a girl! See Trunks! You really are an idiot! You really won't let her fight because she's a girl! "
" Fine. You go kill yourself then. But I'm telling you now, I'm not going to stand by and watch that happen." Trunks said loudly, retreating.
Pan turned back to Cell who was eagerly awaiting her.
" Now girl, we shall begin."
Cell waited for Pan to make the first move. Pan didn't even move into an offensive or defensive position. She just looked at him calmly while levitating in the sky. Cell smirked. No way would he crack first.
" Hurry up Cell. I don't have all day." Pan ordered, breaking a long and tense silence.
" You dare order me around girl?"
" Well if your just going to stand there I guess I am."
Cell raised his 'eyebrows' at his opponent.
" You're brave for a girl...but that won't do you any good against me."
" We'll see. I'm not only brave."
For every sharp retort Cell had thrown, Pan came back with her own little comments. This angered Cell as none of his opponents ever spoke to him this way.
" Fine. Prepare to die." Cell muttered.
He gave up waiting and charged towards Pan. Meanwhile, Pan inwardly cheered. She'd scored a little victory by making Cell attack her first. Quickly, she moved into a more defensive position, moving out of the way of Cell's onslaught of punching.
"Remember Pan. The best thing to do is to stay calm during a fight."
Pan repeated her mother's words over and over in her head as she ducked Cell's powerful punches. Powerful or not, it would do nothing if it didn't make contact. She carefully made her own punches, waiting patiently for a clean hit.
"I know Cell's not that dumb. What is he really planning?"
Suddenly, Cell disappeared from the front of her. Quickly she teleported as well, right behind Cell, bringing her hand's together to hit him to the ground. She slammed down with as much power she could manage and watched him hit the ground, kicking up rocks and earth as he slammed down. A huge crater was created, as well as a tunnel as Cell was pushed along the ground by the force.
Pan breathed in deeply as she straightened up. She could pinpoint Cell's ki exactly and began pelting him with ki blasts. She knew that Cell would not be hurt by these petulant blasts. Quickly, she stopped her onslaught. Why waste her energy on something so useless?
Pan took a deep breath before she put her hands together.
" Kamehameha!" she yelled.
A burst of light came from her hands and streaked down towards Cell, who was totally unprepared. Pan watched as Cell began to disintegrate. She turned away when someone grabbed her wrist.
" Trunks let go of me." she demanded, shaking her wrist free.
" What did you say when you were letting off that ki blast?"
Pan bit her lip and hesitated.
" erm..."
" I only know one family who does that attack. Where did you learn that?"
" From my...I don't have to tell you! How can you do all this?"
" Then how can you?"
Pan's face crumbled into a look of deep thought.
" I don't know. I just do. My mother can't do it...but I can."
" Who is your mother?"
" She is...wait. What am I telling you for?"
Pan backed away from Trunks, preparing to fly off.
" Wait. I'm pretty sure we have the same abilities. Don't you want to know why?"
Pan hesitated, her feet stopped moving beneath her, even though she wanted to keep walking away,
" I'm pretty sure you have as much answers as I do."
" Look just come with me for awhile...here come Goten and Bura."
" Who's Goten?" Pan asked.
The black haired boy flew to them with Bura.
" Come on. Everyone is going to meet at our house." Bura called.
" Oh...and you should come to," Goten said to Pan.
" Do I have to?" Pan said, looking over her shoulder.
" You don't exactly have anywhere else to go now." he pointed out.
Bura tugged at her arm and Pan looked reluctantly behind her as they pulled her along.
" I don't think he's dead yet."
Bura pulled insistently on Pan's hand.
" Come on Pan. Let's get out of here!"
"Darn it why does she have to be so damned stubborn?"
" Bura look out!!"
Bura brushed her blue hair out of her eyes desperately as the air around her blew wildly. A huge ki ball, making the earth glow red was coming right at her. She was still vaguely aware of Pan next to her.
" Pan...she'll die if she gets hit. I'm a saiyajin...I'll at least survive. Please let me survive."
Abiding by her decision, Bura shoved Pan out of the way, holding up her hands for her own protection and braced herself for the impact. She heard a loud crackling as the earth beneath her began to rumble and split apart. She could sense the kiball coming closer. Abruptly the ki ball was deflected, for reasons she couldn't comprehend as she had her eyes squeezed tightly shut.
Pan had stared at Bura wide eyed as she felt herself hit the floor when Bura had pushed her out of the way. She could sense the fear in Bura as she stood shaking, bracing herself for the impact. There was no way, if Bura was not confident, that she would survive a blast like this.
" Hell I don't know if I'll survive."
Without another thought, as time passed unbearably slowly, she stood again, moving quickly to reappear infront of Bura to catch the foreign ki in her hands and hold it. She gritted her teeth, wondering how in the world she was managing to do this. Because she had never had such a chance to manipulate other people's ki, she was surprised that she could actually hold her own in such a battle. She became vaguely away of a man with a ridiculous upstyle hair do appear next to her. Her hands burned with pain as she was beginning to fall backward, making her turn her attention back to the task at hand. She dug her feet deeper into the rumbling earth, remembering that Bura was still behind her as their bodies slammed into each other.
I can't stand this sort of power for much longer...I need to do something. I promised I wouldn't...but under the circumstances..."
Pan gritted her teeth as she began to gather all the energy she could muster to push the kiball forward once more, stopping its original momentum and generating some of her own. She unleashed her own ki ball, pushing her ki level higher.
" I don't want to die. I'm not going to let Bura die. NO WAY!"
Pan's anger flared at the thought of dying. She could feel the power coursing through her veins as she put her all into deflecting the attack and unleashing a counter of her own. Her neat braid began to grown increasingly stiff, an odd occurrence in her view, but she quickly dismissed it as she figured she had more things to worry about. She was surprised when she felt that her attacker was putting more and more energy into the attack, its effect causing her to once again be pushed back.
" SHINU NO WA IYAAAAA!"
Pan, amazed at the amount of energy she was putting out, formed her own definite kiball behind that of her attackers, making it grown in her hands. The blue glow of her own ki began to envelope and absorb her attacker's ki.
" I'm not going to die!" she screamed as she smashed the ki ball back towards the enemy with her hands. It quickly exploded on him as she quickly slumped to the floor from overexertion. The blue shield of energy which had surrounded her before now disappated. When the dust cleared, the green creature, still floating in the air wiping the edge of his blue blood stained mouth from the edge of his mouth, addressed her.
" I'll get you for that little girl. But that can come later."
With that, the green enemy disappeared from view. Pan placed a hand on the rocky ground to keep herself upright as her chest heaved up and down with the deep breaths she was taking. She pushed her hair out of her face as the howling wind blew by, no longer held back by the large buildings that did not exist anymore due to the ki battle.
" I...I killed all these people. I...I should have stopped it earlier...I could have tried harder."
" Pan...are you ok?" Bura whispered leaning down next to her.
Feeling a comforting arm go around her shoulders she nodded slowly, quickly wiping her tears away so that no one could see them. She could hear the footsteps of numerous people as they began to crowd around her. There was a short guy with thick black hair, a blond woman in a business suit, another green alien with a cape, a guy with spiked hair and glasses...the list went on and on. The only people she recognised was Trunks, Bura and the guy with spiky black hair who was staring at her very weirdly. She had seen him before.
" I'm fine." She whispered.
" Are you sure?" Bura asked.
" I'm sure."
" Where did you learn that girl? That ki ball?"
She looked up at the man who had appeared next to her earlier.
" By myself."
Everyone's eyes widened and whispered conversations were commenced within the group.
" Hold it!" the guy with the glasses yelled. " Who are you parents?"
" I...I can't say."
" Why not?" the tall guy dressed in the orange gi asked.
" I remember you now! I saw you when I was heading out to go meet Kaori!"
" Goten now is not the time" Trunks said harshly.
Immediately fights began to break out. Pan sighed and stood up, taking Bura's hand off her shoulder.
"I should have taken mom's advice. She was right. Turning up in front of all these people isn't going to do me any good. They'll want to know how I do it now. I don't even know...how am I going to explain this?"
Pan's eyes rested on Trunks and Bura.
"Is this going to effect my internship? I know mom didn't want anyone to know that I could make ki balls...but why did she want to keep it a secret? "
Pan's mind raced as more and more questions arose, all unanswered.
" I think I'll go home now."
Pan took a couple of steps before rising into the sky.
" Should we let her go?" questioned Goten.
" Let her go. If she's flying her ki is traceable. We'd find her easily." Kuririn answered
" But if WE can find her easily then can't Cell find her just as easily?" Gohan ventured.
" I'll follow her. Bura come with me."
Vegeta stared at No.18 and crossed his arms.
" If my brat comes back with a scratch on her..."
" I get it Vegeta, no need to go into threats."
No.18 flew off with Bura as Vegeta spit out some blood onto the floor.
" Well not thinking of that girl for awhile-" Kuririn started.
" Her name is Pan. Not just a girl...not a normal one anyway" Trunks cut in rudely.
Goten looked at his best friend with a look of confusion. This was unlike Trunks.
" Cell has turned up. What are we going to do?" Gohan said quickly, trying to break the awkward moment.
" Are we sure it's even Cell? I mean we're pretty sure he died last time." Piccolo said.
" Who's Cell?" Goten asked, bewildered.
Everyone but Goten and Trunks exchanged glances. Vegeta decided to fly off at that moment.
" I'm off to find my woman." He said in a dull tone as everyone watched him fly off.
Goku smiled knowingly and turned back to Goten and Trunks.
" Before you were born Goten...and just when you were Trunks two robots appeared to start killing everyone. These robots were-"
" Aunt 18 and Uncle 17?"
At that moment, a guy with shiny black hair landed on the ground with a thud, the cement on the floor giving way.
" Hi."
Kuririn waved to his wife's 'twin' brother.
" So Cell's back huh?" #17 said.
" Yeh. He is and he's better than before. Much better. See his power is that he absorbs the ki of others in order to become stronger. To add to that, for some annoying reason, every single time he comes back he gets more powerful. However, I have no reason to suspect otherwise, that we will easily defeat Cell...that is if he doesn't have some weird plan to defer us." Gohan said.
He had just finished explaining about it when 3 more people landed back on the cement they too were standing on.
" I suggest you let me go." A cold voice said.
She had very clear instructions but no one seemed to take any notice.
" Come on Pan. You heard what the green thing said. He's after you. It's safer if you stay with us." Bura pleaded.
" If he's after me so be it. It is no business of yours! Personally I don't like to be kidnapped and brought here against my will."
Suddenly something clicked in Gohan's mind.
"She's the girl I was looking for earlier...if she is that means she can-"
" Quick grab hold of her she can teleport!" he yelled.
But he was a bit late. Bura had her arm on Pan's shoulder and she disappeared along with Pan when she put her fingers on her forehead.
" Damnit." Trunks muttered. " Where in the world did she learn to teleport?"
" What should we do now?" Kuririn asked.
" I have to find Bura. If anything happens to her I'm dead." Trunks exclaimed.
Goku glanced at the group and thought hard for a minute.
" Ok. Trunks, Goten you go off and find Bura and...the other girl. As soon as you do, take them to the floating palace."
The boys nodded and quickly took off.
" Gohan go with Kuririn and take Chichi and the others up to the floating palace as well."
When those two left, only Goku and Piccolo stayed behind.
" What are you going to do?" Piccolo asked.
" I'm going to see to Cell and finish him off as soon as possible. We'll have to find Vegeta as well..."
Piccolo seemed to get the point and flew off. Goku thought quietly to himself.
That girl...Pan. He had sensed the raw power she had possessed. It was very familiar even though he had never seen the likes of it before.
" that girl...it's so familiar...almost as if she was part of our family..."
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Trunks flew increasingly faster as did Goten. They seemed to be both in a big hurry.
" It's getting hard to trace that ki. I can feel Bura's quite easily...I'm pretty sure she's having a hard time trying to stick to Pan." Trunks said.
" Yeh..." Goten mumbled flying faster.
Suddenly Bura's ki disappeared altogether.
" It's gone...but someone's coming."
A hundred feet away from there stood Cell, in the middle of sucking in a human with his tail. The human's legs flailed about frantically, soft muffled screams came from within. Goten focused on the legs...they looked familiar somehow.
" Hi Trunks. I remember you. Where is your other self?"
" Other self?"
" oh that's right. He went back to his miserable little future after I killed him. I had a lovely view from hell."
Trunks seemed to be unaffected, being confused.
" Guess who I have to play with boys?" Cell asked menacingly.
With his tail, he held up Kaori.
" Kaori! You give her back right now!"
Goten flew at Cell but Trunks held him back with both arms.
" Calm down. Chill, we can't afford to kill ourselves..."
As Kaori disappeared inside Cell, Goten pushed Trunks off him and flew to Cell, fist extended. Trunks sighed. He would have to help now. It would increase their chances of survival.
" I hope what Gohan said was true. He better be a easy victory."
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" Pan look!" Bura whispered loudly.
Pan looked up from behind the building and saw Cell and Trunks and Goten fighting.
" It looks like they're losing." Pan commented.
" C'mon. We have to go."
" Why?"
" Because we can't fight Cell. We're girls."
" It really is degrading to hear that come out of your mouth."
" Huh?"
" Maybe you can't fight Cell. But I can."
Without a word, Pan flew upward leaving Bura alone on the ground.
" You again." Cell muttered, sending a ki ball her way.
She stood coolly and battered the ball to the ground.
" You got your fight Cell."
Normally, Pan would not be so cocky with fights, especially ones which include areas she had never really had one on one training before. This was different. Who knew, maybe this was the only chance she would have to spar with somebody.
Cell smirked and waited for Pan to make the first move. Meanwhile, Trunks spotted Bura on the ground looking up at them.
" Goten get Bura out of here!"
Goten nodded and pulled back from the fight. He swooped down and powered up, carrying Bura to safety much faster than Bura could fly. Cell narrowed his eyes at Pan impatiently. Pan hadn't budged from her position yet. Cell gave up waiting and flew towards her. Pan's muscles flexed in anticipation as she prepared herself for Cell's attack. She saw the fists come flying towards her and she held a hand up to catch the fist and throw Cell to the floor. But she knew it wouldn't come. She could sense someone fly top speed in front of her to block it.
" Stay out of this boy." Sneered Cell.
Pan stood silently watching Cell defend himself against Trunk's onslaught of punches, kicks and ki balls.
" Why isn't this working?!" Trunks demanded, drawing back, breathing hard.
Cell didn't have a scratch on him. He wasn't even tired unlike Trunks himself.
Meanwhile Pan was fuming. Why couldn't Trunks just let her fight?
"Trunks, let your testosterone level go down before you come back! I can fight for myself!"
But she couldn't say anything like that to her boss, even though this had nothing to do with her work. Instead she stepped forward and caught one of his punches.
" Trunks, stay out of this, I can fight my own battles."
Trunks stared at her in disbelief as Cell looked on amusedly.
" What are you crazy? You can get killed!"
" Same as you Trunks. You could get killed too!"
" I can't let you fight him." Trunks said with resolve.
" Face it Trunks. You won't let me fight because I'm a girl. If you won't let me fight Cell I swear I'll fight you myself!"
Pan lifted her fists and waited for Trunk's decision. Cell floated in the air, arms crossed looking quite bemused.
"What should I do? I can't fight her! She's a girl! See Trunks! You really are an idiot! You really won't let her fight because she's a girl! "
" Fine. You go kill yourself then. But I'm telling you now, I'm not going to stand by and watch that happen." Trunks said loudly, retreating.
Pan turned back to Cell who was eagerly awaiting her.
" Now girl, we shall begin."
Cell waited for Pan to make the first move. Pan didn't even move into an offensive or defensive position. She just looked at him calmly while levitating in the sky. Cell smirked. No way would he crack first.
" Hurry up Cell. I don't have all day." Pan ordered, breaking a long and tense silence.
" You dare order me around girl?"
" Well if your just going to stand there I guess I am."
Cell raised his 'eyebrows' at his opponent.
" You're brave for a girl...but that won't do you any good against me."
" We'll see. I'm not only brave."
For every sharp retort Cell had thrown, Pan came back with her own little comments. This angered Cell as none of his opponents ever spoke to him this way.
" Fine. Prepare to die." Cell muttered.
He gave up waiting and charged towards Pan. Meanwhile, Pan inwardly cheered. She'd scored a little victory by making Cell attack her first. Quickly, she moved into a more defensive position, moving out of the way of Cell's onslaught of punching.
"Remember Pan. The best thing to do is to stay calm during a fight."
Pan repeated her mother's words over and over in her head as she ducked Cell's powerful punches. Powerful or not, it would do nothing if it didn't make contact. She carefully made her own punches, waiting patiently for a clean hit.
"I know Cell's not that dumb. What is he really planning?"
Suddenly, Cell disappeared from the front of her. Quickly she teleported as well, right behind Cell, bringing her hand's together to hit him to the ground. She slammed down with as much power she could manage and watched him hit the ground, kicking up rocks and earth as he slammed down. A huge crater was created, as well as a tunnel as Cell was pushed along the ground by the force.
Pan breathed in deeply as she straightened up. She could pinpoint Cell's ki exactly and began pelting him with ki blasts. She knew that Cell would not be hurt by these petulant blasts. Quickly, she stopped her onslaught. Why waste her energy on something so useless?
Pan took a deep breath before she put her hands together.
" Kamehameha!" she yelled.
A burst of light came from her hands and streaked down towards Cell, who was totally unprepared. Pan watched as Cell began to disintegrate. She turned away when someone grabbed her wrist.
" Trunks let go of me." she demanded, shaking her wrist free.
" What did you say when you were letting off that ki blast?"
Pan bit her lip and hesitated.
" erm..."
" I only know one family who does that attack. Where did you learn that?"
" From my...I don't have to tell you! How can you do all this?"
" Then how can you?"
Pan's face crumbled into a look of deep thought.
" I don't know. I just do. My mother can't do it...but I can."
" Who is your mother?"
" She is...wait. What am I telling you for?"
Pan backed away from Trunks, preparing to fly off.
" Wait. I'm pretty sure we have the same abilities. Don't you want to know why?"
Pan hesitated, her feet stopped moving beneath her, even though she wanted to keep walking away,
" I'm pretty sure you have as much answers as I do."
" Look just come with me for awhile...here come Goten and Bura."
" Who's Goten?" Pan asked.
The black haired boy flew to them with Bura.
" Come on. Everyone is going to meet at our house." Bura called.
" Oh...and you should come to," Goten said to Pan.
" Do I have to?" Pan said, looking over her shoulder.
" You don't exactly have anywhere else to go now." he pointed out.
Bura tugged at her arm and Pan looked reluctantly behind her as they pulled her along.
" I don't think he's dead yet."