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Chapter 4

Captured

Pan gathered her purse, checked all of her necessities, and seeing that everything was in order, headed for the door. "Wait, Pan, I need to talk to you." Pan stopped and sighed at the sound of her fathers' voice. Rolling her eyes, she turned around.
"What is it, Dad?" she said with no little hint of annoyance in her voice.
"If you see Kyler, I would like you to take a look at him for me. Do that thing that you do, and see what you can find out about his energy. I would like to learn why his energy is spiking so much. Any little bit helps, right?"
"Sure, Dad. Whatever you say." She didn't see what was so special about this guy, anyway. Sure, he was a saiyan and all, but that was hardly cause for all this excitement. And sure, his energy spiked, but so did Gohan's when he was young. The guy just couldn't control it yet. Tucking her purse into her backpack – she hated the cursed thing, and couldn't figure out why Bra loved them so much – she went out the door. Turning southwest, she launched herself into the air, in search of a city with a mall. Malls. Shopping. Why did she let Bra talk her into this stuff?
As she soared through the air, she allowed her mind to drift. She started dwelling on what her friends had said at school that day. She really had no interest in men, and liked fighting and fishing more than primping and prissing. Maybe she was a lesbian, but she had never had any of those thoughts before. Kame knows Trunks and Goten admired them enough, but that just wasn't her. She wasn't interested in romance at all. Sometimes she wondered about Bra, though. The woman loved strong jokes to that effect, and she had caught the aqua-haired girl eyeing other girls... oddly.
As she gazed blankly over the landscape, she was brought out of her revere by the sight of a man walking down below. Looking closer, she noticed it was Kyler, and took out her cell phone and punched in Bras number. The fool girl picked up with a chirping "Hello?" She sounded like she was trying to sing, seduce, and act innocent all at the same time.
"Bura-chan, its Pan. I'm going to have to take a reign check on our little mall date. I've spotted Kyler, and I'm gonna go talk with him, okay?"
"Kyler, huh?" she asked in that all-too-innocent way of hers. Unless she was angry, of course. "Well. You gonna ask him out?"
Shocked, she could barely make herself speak. "What? Why would I want that?"
"Oh, don't fool with me, girl. You've been spending twice as much time at Capsule Corp. since he came to train with my Dad. He's coming along quite nicely, you know. Actually, you do know. You spend so much time staring at him, I thought you're eyes would pop out. Another week or two of training, and Gohan might decide he's strong enough to date you. Next time you come, I'll-" Pan closed the phone without saying anything. It would be another ten or twenty minutes easily before she realized she was talking into static. She would date whomever she well pleased, and when, and no one would tell her how to go about it. And she did not stare. He was just cute, that was all. Nothing more to it. Coming down beside him, she alighted on the ground and let her power diminish. He was wearing his usual depressingly dark garb, with a sword belted onto his hip. Strange, she hadn't noticed him practicing that with Vegeta. "So, what's up?" "Nothing" "What are you doing out here? I thought you were training with Vegeta?" "I got tired of him." "What's that supposed to mean? His yelling, controlling, giant ego, constant put-downs?" "Pick one." Suddenly he stopped, peering of into the distance. She turned and looked, and saw a seeming swarm of black specks moving their way. "What is that?" she asked. She didn't need to, though. Soon enough, she saw helicopters, jets, carrier crafts, and about every sort of airborne military machine imaginable. As they came closer, they split of in two directions, and closed in around the two saiyans. Copters and jets lined the skies, and carriers landed, unloading masses of men. Tanks rolled out of large transports, bearing all sorts of mounted cannons. A single man strode out of one particular overdressed helicopter. His arms glittered with metal grafting, and he had an eyepiece grafted over his left eye. His energy had that machine-driven artificial sound that just screamed of android. That was her greatest talent. She didn't seem to be that strong, Bra was stronger, but she could sense differences in energy. For instance, regular people, and super saiyans. When her grandpa was fighting, his energy acted like everyone else's. When he, or any of the other saiyan, transformed, their energy changed. It got thicker, and more excited. Super saiyan 4 wasn't even worth talking about. She got dizzy just thinking about it. She felt energy rising in Kyler. Outwardly, nothing was apparent, but she could feel his energy increasing and binding itself, like it was folding back on itself, making it denser. The android was smirking. "Well, well, well. Two saiyans. You will surrender yourselves to the Global Defense Force. Now." She glanced at Kyler, who said nothing. "Alright then. All units, open fire." As the android issued that order, Kyler generated a shimmering energy field around them. Missiles sailed from launchers, but she was surprised to see energy beams being fired from the soldiers, and all of the tanks and many airborne vehicles. As the missiles hit, they exploded with what appeared to be a high-powered energy explosions. Whoever they were, they had technology more advanced than most people. Not as good as traditional ki, though. They hit Kylers shield all over, but did no damage. When the barrage stopped, the android was frowning. "Concentrate fire. Prepare second wave. Fire." This time when the barrage came, it was all concentrated on the top of Kylers dome. This time, the strain showed, as he started to sweat. It seemed that the barrage would never stop, they just kept firing. Where did they get all that ammo? Kyler started squinting with the effort of maintaining the shield. Suddenly, she felt his power ripple. In a surge that felt like a powerful wind, he sent the shield outward in a wave of energy that tore up the ground, shredded skin and clothes alike of soldiers, and ripped apart the metal of the tacks, and sent all the airborne vehicles spiraling to crash in wreaked heaps. The android was unfazed. "You're stronger than I thought." The android said. Kyler powered up a blast and launched it at the android. Lifting his left arm, it began to glow green, and he thrust his arm forward, projecting an energy field, and deflecting Kylers blast. His right arm began emitting red light, and he fired an energy blast at Kyler, who took flat in the chest, and was knocked back several feet. Standing up, Kyler braced himself, and charged up his energy. Finally, his energy began flowing out like it should, and rising quite high. She though he might be at a super saiyan level, perhaps level 2, without even transforming. Definitely a lot stronger than her. She noticed something strange about the way he powered up, the way his energy behaved. It was familiar, she knew it was, she just couldn't place where she had seen it before. Kyler launched into the air, and slammed the androids' chest, knocking him back. He floated onto his back, bringing his foot up to kick the android, but hit only air. The android had warped behind and underneath him. With a fist that glowed red, he punched Kyler hard in the back, and Pan heard the crackle of energy. He had both fists enveloped in energy, his right red and left green. Kyler was knocked into the air, and the android flew above him, hitting his face with another energy-enhanced punch. Kyler fell headfirst into the ground; rocks and shrapnel flew out of the small hole he made. Slowly, Kyler got up, and brushed off his clothes. He looked up at the android floating carelessly in the air above. Bracing himself again, he began to power up once more. Pan watched in wonderment as his energy coalesced, and... pulled itself in. As it drew in, its form and pattern changed. It moved quickly, rapidly, and seemed ten times as excited as before. Visible around him, his energy changed in appearance as well. Instead of the faint glowing aura that should have been seen, it became electric. It was like tiny bolts of lightning energy crackling all around him. In an instant, he disappeared. All Pan saw was a streak of that electrified energy, and he was behind the android, and had landed several blows before moving again. He was moving far too fast to be seen, but she could see from the way the android jerked and flinched that he was being hit. Only the electric trail could betray where he was. Or where he had been. Kame, he was moving so fast. It was like lightning the way he moved. The android appeared to be vibrating from all the blows he was receiving. Despite all the hits, he seemed generally unhurt by Kylers attacks, just unable to stop them. It occurred to Pan that he must have concentrated all of his energy and turned it into pure speed, and that was why he was able to move so fast. The disadvantage was, that left little or no energy for physical power. He could move, but his attacks were weak. In a flash of lightning, he moved away from the android, and thrust his hands out, palms up and fingers spread out. A blue web of energy came from his hands and surrounded the android like a net. Immediately, he began reverting his energy back to the way it had been. Meanwhile, the android examined his prison, then shot a blast of red energy at it. When it hit the web, it was absorbed, and then the android was electrocuted with the energy he had used. Kyler had completed his power up, and began charging an energy blast. Bending slightly forward, he thrust his arms out behind him, and began gathering energy. The android was struggling against his bonds, and there seemed to be a limit to how much they could take. Finally, he broke the web apart. Kyler fired his blast, and the android barely had time to counter it with a red blast of his own. The two energy beams collided, but Kylers had supremacy. He pushed the androids beam back, closer to him, till he was almost overcome with it. Seeming to gather up more energy, he pushed harder. The beam began moving back Kylers way. He was struggling under the intensity of the beam. Deciding to intervene, Pan transformed to super saiyan, and flew in beside Kyler. He barely noticed. Powering up a Kamehameha, she fired it into the blast. It was just enough to begin pushing it back towards the android, but he put his left hand in to power his blast further. Green energy swirled in with the red of his original beam, and knocked the blast farther towards Pan and Kyler. She began pushing with all of her might, but it wasn't enough. The blast fell on them, and Pan felt herself being thrown backwards, and hit hard, her body carving a trench in the ground. Then everything went black.

Kyler picked himself up off the ground. That Hell-spawned android was still in the air above him. Pan had been thrown back, and was out of the fight. Fool girl should never have gotten involved. She had more spunk than he had expected, though. He was pissed. He didn't like loosing, and this android seemed to be far more powerful than him. He ran his hand along the blade of his sword as he drew it. The katana was his favored weapon, the weapon of the ancient samurai, who were the best swordsmen he had ever heard of. The android smirked. "Yeah, they gave me one of those. Except mine is better." He pulled a long bar out from behind his belt, he pressed a button on it, and a long thin blade emerged, blue and green sparks lancing along its length. Kyler floated up to the mechanized monster, and they entered a dance. A very deadly dance, to be sure. Blades cut thru the air, and the ring of steel on steel sounded in Kylers ears. They danced back and forth. Kyler brought his blade up, and was met by the androids blade. Up and over, underneath, down from above. He attacked with all the techniques he had learned, and while his skill was definitely better, the android had superior speed. Kyler brought his sword up in a wide arc, coming into the androids neck. It left him vulnerable, but to kill him the android would have to leave himself vulnerable to the strike. Instead of taking it, he brought his blade upwards in a counter arc, and the two blades met with deafening force. Kyler felt the tremors of the hit go through his body. His arms were jolted as the other blade sliced clean through his. Half of the blade went spiraling towards the ground, while Kyler lost his grip on the hilt. The next thing he knew, he was hit with something hard and metallic across his face, and he blacked out.

"...Pan, wake up! Pan!" Pan roused herself, then looked up at her friend. Bra stood over, concern painted on her face. Kyler was gone, and the ground was riddled with potholes and smoked from fires in several places. But that wasn't the foremost thing on her mind. "His energy. It's the same as my Dads." She said. "Huh? Whose energy? What are you talking about?" "Kyler. His energy is the same as my Dads." Confusion was apparent on Bras face. "Bra, he's a Mystic saiyan."

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Well, that's it! Hope I'm not boring you too much. Hey, I got a question for you guys. What do you think would be a good name for Pan and Bras fusion? I'm kind of stumped on what to call them. Let me know what you think would be good, please! ^_^