Note: I made a mistake in one of the earlier chapters saying that Goku was at the party... when he wasn't. It will be explained later in this fic.

Chapter 6

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Pan looked around the lush, green field their ship landed. 'Their ship' you ask? Yes, I mean Pan and Trunks' ship. The place they were able to arrive at was planet earth. It was only a day's travel from the space base, and only being here a few moments in the fresh air made Pan feel alive once more.

She looked around the planet. This planet named Earth... was very green. It wasn't dark or cold as the planet she lived most of her life on. This different planet just seemed very inviting. Pan had to admit, it was very beautiful at first glace.

Trunks noticed her amazement in the life around her.

Yes, this planet was very nice. And one you would see it for yourself, it would take away your breath. Looking at pictures of the planet wouldn't exactly have any affect on you. The male saiyan pressed a few buttons to the side of the ship, and it shrunk down to a capsule. And in grabbing it from the cool grass, he shoved it in one of his pockets for later use.

Pan couldn't help but stare at the bright blue sky. There was a sun, yes, but it gave the right amount of sunlight to warm one up... not too much, but in a comfortable way. She never was able to stand out in the sun as this. Her father always told her the sun would destroy her porcelain-like skin. Pan concluded that he must have liked to see her skin as pale as his... almost for it to almost be as if she were of his species. The hybrid saiyan female knew that her father's race was almost extinct.

Trunks looked to her; he gave a small smile noticing her joy in this beautiful day. It was indeed beautiful. There were a few bright, white fluffy clouds in the sky, but nothing to darken the heavens. No signs of rain were evident.

He also looked to his palm, his gloved palm. He didn't want Pan to feel trapped in the ship after he watched the reaction to the device...

And when one says that Trunks is a genius, he proves it by creating something in which would counter the affects of some of his mothers and Gohan's inventions. He was able to make a small device, nothing huge (but almost the size of a computer chip). The only way it could work was for him to clamp it to his skin in an area where it wouldn't be harmed. He didn't attach it to the inside of his palm, but attached it to the skin on the outside part of his hand. To make it even more secure... it needed to be attached around a bone so it wouldn't be lost if that part of his skin was cut off during battle.

But Pan didn't need to know that...

He looked to her and smiled.

"Pan, I think we should be heading towards the restaurant; there's a few people I need to be meeting in a few moments."

Pan looked back to him, and frowned. "But I want to fly around." She was still very cautious to where she would run off to; she didn't want to become the victim to the electricity once again. She could only tolerate so much of it in one day!

Trunks smiled. "We can fly there."

Pan turned her gaze to the saiyan, with a frown on her face. "I can't fly. It's using too much energy."

Trunks placed a gloved palm on her shoulder. "It's okay. I was able to fix the problem of electricity... with in reason."

Pan just stared at the saiyan prince with uncertainty.

He gave her an assuring smile. "If I haven't fixed the problem to where you can fly, then I'll do my best to deactivate the fused device the emperor has put into you." He gently smiled to her. "Deal?"

She just looked to him, her arms now crossed and a glare on her face. "You had better not trick me... because I seriously don't want to be electrocuted again."

He smirked at her. Oh how she wanted to slap that off his face. "Trust me on this one, nothing bad will happen."

With out thought... she listened to his advice, maybe for the first time in the times that they met. She raised her energy...

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Goku smiled when he noticed his older son, Gohan, land outside of the restaurant of their choice. They did choose to sit at an outside table... more like four square tables pushed together to seat what would be a party of ten.

Gohan smiled as he waved to the people already there. His brother, Goten, was sitting there snacking on some appetizers, which were set on the table. And glancing to Goten's right, he noticed Bra sitting there was she watched; a smile was plastered on her lips as she continued to watch his brother eat. On Goten's left... that was at an end of the table... was Goten and Gohan's father. He was also sitting back nibbling on the appetizers.

On the other side of Bra, was her over protective father Vegeta. He just leaned back in his chair with eyes closed.

On the other side of the table across from Goten and Bra sat Nappa and Raditz, who were laughing at a war story one told the other. One could have sworn they saw Vegeta's lips turn into a smirk while listening on.

Turning himself around, Gohan noticed Hizashi land beside his 'father' and nodded with a small smile on his lips. Gohan returned the grin and nodded also. Relief washed over the emperor as he took a seat at one of the end spots. Hizashi sat beside him. Gohan couldn't help but feel comfort to know his adopted child was finally on good terms with him again.

Now... he needed to win back Pan. She would be a challenge...

Speaking of her...

Gohan looked over to his father. "Have you seen Pan yet? Or Trunks?"

He glanced around the table noticing two seats still empty. "Not here I presume..."

Goku looked up, and he turned to the empty spots. Goku nodded, "I can sense them coming. It'll be only a few more seconds-"

"Ohayo!" exclaimed Trunks as he landed beside the tables. They all noticed Pan land beside him; she looked happier than she had in a few days!

Trunks took the place at the end of the table, and Pan sat in the last available chair, which was beside Trunks and her unknown great uncle, Raditz. The emperor and Trunks' father turned to the emperor-to-be with questioning gazes.

They knew she couldn't fly before with that device... but why now?

Trunks gave them the look 'I'll explain later'.

Both nodded before they turned their attention to the full table.

A waiter came out and placed out the drinks everyone ordered... except for the one's who arrived late. He then turned to the new arrivals. "What beverages would you like?" he asked, looking to each of the saiyans... and ice-jin.

Gohan spoke first, "Unsweetened tea with lemon."

"Cola for me," inserted Trunks.

The waiter turned to both Pan and Hizashi. The ice-jin simply stated, "Water". Pan... however didn't know what to order. The only thing she would drink when at home was water. That was the only thing available, and it was the only thing she was allowed to drink. She shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know..."

The waiter just smiled as he watched her. "You must be new around here," he stated.

She just nodded as she continued to stare at the menu. She didn't want to take all of her precious time... and make others angry with her. She chose the first thing that sounded interesting. "I'll take a Berry Mix Smoothie."

The waiter nodded as he left the area.

The saiyans also watched him leave, and they all looked back to Pan. Many of them had smirks on their face. She set the menu down, and looked up. She immediately raised an eyebrow glancing around at every one... becoming a bit unnerved.

The only other girl in this group smiled as she leaned her chin on an upturned palm while drinking her smoothie. "You are so lucky."

Pan leaned back in her chair and folded her arms across her chest. "And that is because...?" she questioned.

Bra's smile became a Vegeta-like smirk, "That guy was obviously flirting with you."

Both Gohan and Trunks turned to Bra as she continued to drink her smoothie. She shrugged to them as the waiter came back to them with the four drinks. He placed down Gohan's tea and Hizashi's water, then gave Trunks' his soda and handed Pan her smoothie.

She looked up to him, and she noticed him smile at her before he left.

Pan put her smoothie on the table with a sour expression on her face. "If he does something like that again... I am going to kill him."

Gohan looked to her; the emperor's thoughts were along the same lines. He also wanted to destroy that man from the existence of this planet... just to keep his daughter from ever being taken away from him.

Trunks just sat there with a clenched jaw. One could only imagine what was going on in the mind of that saiyan...

Goten noticed this tense mood spread across the table, and he thought... he then smiled when an idea came to his head. "Hey! Everyone!"

They all turned to his cheerful face. "Who's up for a game of sugar and salt?"

Pan blinked as she eyed her unknown uncle in a curious manner. "What's that?"

Raditz, who was sitting beside her, smirked, "It's a game that we play- almost like training- to see who can keep the straightest face."

Her expression became even more confused.

Trunks gave a small smile as he grabbed a sugar packet and the saltshaker. He ripped the top to the sugar package, and he grabbed Pan's hand. He poured the sugar in her hand. "Taste it."

Her hand, now with the small sweet morsels in it, was examined closely. She looked to it for a moment before giving it the okay to try it. And when it touched her taste buds, they almost sang.

She heard 'horror' stories about sugar... but now, she was convinced that it was a complete lie. Sugar wasn't something completely horrible! It was like a sweet treat from heaven.

She was tempted to just lick the remaining sugar particles from her hand... but she noticed the eyes of all the men, plus the daughter of the saiyan prince. She chose against it by dusting her hand off and wiping it on her shirt. She did have to admit... this sugar left her hands sticky... and there was a strange after taste in her mouth...

Trunks then grabbed the saltshaker, and he opened her palm once more. He only shook the shaker twice, leaving only a few grains of the seasoning.

She looked down to it, and back to Trunks. "Shouldn't I have a bit more?"

He shook his head as he put the saltshaker back in its place. "It has a strong enough flavor with only a few pieces. Just taste it."

The female saiyan looked down to the salt. She had thought this similar food seasoning was much like sugar... they looked very much a like! But, when she licked the few salt pieces with her tongue, she immediately choked and grabbed for her smoothie. She gulped about half of her drink down before the bitter taste was gone.

She heard many laughs from the saiyans around, and she noticed Trunks giving her a sympathetic smile. Needless to say, Pan felt like a weakling not being able to handle salt... yes... she over reacted. She wanted to make that kind of an impression so the other men would think that they had an easy game with her around. Truth was... her food was always that bitter down in the south. Almost everything she ate was like that, so her taste buds were almost immune to the tartness of salt. She just knew she had this game made.

She did have to admit... having sugar before the salt did almost put her taste buds into shock.

"Is everyone playing?" questioned Goten as he held up different sugar packets, one of the packets being the salt.

All turned to Pan, as she leaned forward in her chair. "I'm in." And she smirked.

She just knew she would fool everyone... she knew she was going to win!

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Kooler walked down the halls of the space station, looking in every area to find the one person he was worried about.

Pan.

She needed to come back home with him.

The ice-jin didn't understand it though! Why didn't he run into anyone as of yet! Shouldn't this station have all the major advisors and guardians protecting this place? It was so simple to enter this station, and Kooler felt smug about it... but he now understood WHY he could move around as freely as he was now with out being stopped.

The emperor and his party weren't here.

Another thing angered the ice-jin to no end also.

They took Pan with them.

It was more than likely all the saiyans, and that other young ice-jin were with her, making it almost impossible for her to escape.

Kooler was so tempted to destroy this base. It had about 100,000 creatures living here at this moment, and many of them might have been very important to the emperor. And it wouldn't be a complete waste to destroy the enemy...

Zarbon began to walk down in the halls, looking almost distressed.

Kooler smirked as he noticed the alien walking towards him, not even realizing what kind of a fate he could be facing in just a few seconds.

But Kooler being... Kooler he decided to meet the advisor to the emperor half of the way.

"I see you're doing well Zarbon."

The male turned his head up, and he froze in place. His green skin began to turn paler as his eyes widened in surprise and horror.

The ice-jin smirked as he walked up to him. "Fancy seeing you here."

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Pan downed another packet of... stuff- which turned out to be salt... again, and she swallowed it down painfully.

It didn't look too painful with her face; it looked as if she had the delicious sweet morsels once again. What could you say for a good actress and liar as she?

So far... half of the group had been eliminated from the game having been guess to have the salt packet one of three chances.

The one's remaining were Vegeta, his son Trunks, Gohan, Pan, and Hizashi.

It was said that the one who usually came out on top as winner was Hizashi when only two were playing. The two people left were not allowed to choose who had the salt or sugar... but the one's who were eliminated were to decide.

And as stated before, Pan was the one with the salt.

She had to admit... after swallowing about three salt packets, she was starting to feel a bit queasy, but she held it back as she looked over to the four remaining people in the game. She looked to each of their movements carefully trying to find some kind of movement or look of discomfort so she could point out, instead of herself.

She smirked when she noticed Gohan twitch in the slightest way, and then casually take a sip of his almost empty glass of tea.

She smiled. "Gohan."

He looked up to her, and he shook his head as he drank some more of his tea, "I had sugar."

Okay... so one guess was down.

Because they only had five people playing right now, they only had two guess to see who had the bitter seasoning before they went to the next round. So far... they were stumped.

Raditz looked over to Hizashi, and he pointed to the ice-jin. "You have it."

The ice-jin's smirk was all that needed to be spotted to give them the answer they didn't want.

"Wrong."

Bra shook her head as she looked between the five still in the game. "I can't believe how you guys can handle this! You all must have stomachs of iron!"

"I have to agree," stated Nappa taking a sip of his beverage. "I'm very curious to know... how many salt packets have you guys come across?"

Trunks leaned back in his chair with a smirk on his face, "None so far."

Vegeta was also drinking his tea. "I've also been graced with none."

Gohan smiled, "I've only had one."

Hizashi looked to the emperor suspiciously. "I've only come across one so far."

Because the group only played ten different rounds of this game, seven of the ten packets were accounted for. That could only mean...

They all turned to Pan in disbelief. Gohan's eyes were wide with surprise as many of the other saiyans around the table. "Pan... you were the one with the salt?"

She nodded her head as she took a drink of her smoothie. "I've downed three salt packets so far."

Goten winced at hearing this, "It's painful only downing one!"

She nodded her head. "I do have to admit... I feel a bit uneasy at this moment. If I get another salt packet... I might lose."

That was one big bluff.

Raditz whistled low as he shook his head. "You are one lucky kid."

She smirked back. "I've been trained by the best since infancy."

That brought another tense moment and silence as many turned to Gohan. He just sat there silent as he folded his hands and set them on the table. But he gave an assuring smile. "Well... I guess that training will come in handy one of these days," he stated as he grabbed five more packets, emptying one with sugar and replacing it with salt.

Pan just began to sip down her smoothie once more. It seemed that the tenseness of the room was now gone, and Pan was able to feel it this time. She didn't understand why she was able to feel the uneasiness... it might have been because she was starting to accept these warriors as her friends... and one's that would always protect her... even if she was a pain in the ass.

She picked a packet from the hand of Gohan's, and she downed it down.

Sugar.

She sighed. She wasn't going to be eliminated this round.

She looked to the four others, and she smirked. She noticed the slightest bit of discomfort from Gohan. Her smirk widened as she pointed to the emperor. "You have the salt, Gohan!"

He looked to her, and she looked to him with a look of triumph.

"How do we know YOU don't have it again?" questioned Trunks as he set the paper of the packet down on the table... along with the eleven other packets.

"Because I was graced with sugar this time, smart ass," she replied while sticking out her tongue.

Gohan looked to her with a smile, and he nodded. "I'm caught." He then took his tea, and drank the remaining amount in his cup noticing the waiter coming in with a pitcher of water and tea.

"Oh, sir?" questioned Trunks as he folded his hands and rested them on the tabletop. The waiter turned to the soon-to-be emperor. Trunks' smirk turned into a smile. "Could we get about twenty more sugar packets?"

The waiter blinked, but nodded numbly as he noticed all the empty sugar packets. Some of the people had one sugar packet, others had numerous!

He didn't exactly understand why all this sugar was being consumed... and he didn't want to know either.

"Oh! Sir, could you also refill the saltshakers too?" questioned Goku as he held up one of the four small, empty, glass containers.

The waiter nodded numbly as he tried to understand why these people made such strange requests... He placed the saltshakers in one of his apron pockets before going off... But he did seem to sneak a glance at Pan; she just gave him a smug smile and wave to him all girly.

He just blushed brightly as he walked off.

"Now... what to do while we wait here... we have no sugar... and no salt..." muttered Goten as he leaned his head down on the table.

The last table began to move. Pan sat up, and she glared at Trunks, who looked like he was twitching. She blinked as she waved a hand before his face.

"Um... Boxer Boy?"

Trunks looked to her, his eye looked to be twitching. Actually... it seemed as if his whole body was twitching!

"Um... Are you okay, Trunks?" she asked him leaning a bit closer towards the saiyan.

Vegeta snorted as he began to drink his tea once more. "The brats' sugar high. He's shown more self-control in this game than the last, where him and Goten are usually bouncing around after consuming seven sugar packets. I'm actually impressed he has held off so far."

"Sugar high! Sugar!" asked Trunks as he smiled wickedly. "I'm not sugar high! I just consumed eleven packets of sugar!"

One could only blink at his menacing cackles.

Pan looked over to her left, and poked Raditz in the side; he looked down to her raising an eyebrow, and she whispered in his ear, "Is he always like this?"

Raditz smirked as he picked up his glass, "There are times he's much worse. I'm surprised, as Vegeta, that he's been this mature... well... up until this point thanks to the sugar influence."

Pan thought about this for a second before whispering back to the full-blooded saiyan, "He'd probably somber a bit if he downed a salt packet."

And then an idea struck her. The waiter came back in with many sugar packets, and filled saltshakers.

Pan waved for the waiter to come to her, and she whispered a few words. He nodded handing her the sugar and salt. He then looked up to the other saiyans, and ice-jin with a smile. "I'm proud to say, that you're order will be finished in just a moment. I'll start to bring out the food."

The saiyans' eyes widened and their mouths began to water at the mentioning of food.

At last! Some were tired of just drinking liquids.

Pan now held up four ready packets and handed them out.

The ice-jin, full-blooded saiyan, half-saiyan, and quarter-saiyan held up their packets before downing them.

Pan had to hold back a smirk when she downed down her sugar. She actually rigged the last three packets, giving them all salt. Oh, she felt like a child playing a giant prank on all the adults. She was lucky they didn't noticing her pour out the sugar to the ground. It still lay there in the broad daylight unnoticed.

She looked between the three and examined them and their reactions.

Trunks' eyes seemed to darken ever so slightly, and his posture seemed to straighten a bit.

The female saiyan's gaze turned to Vegeta.

He just sat there, emotionless as ever, but she did notice a muscle to the side of his eye twitching.

And last but not least, she looked over to the ice-jin; he just sat there as usual. Nothing looked out of the ordinary!

Ice-jin's MUST be the masters of deceiving in this universe!

But...

Did that mean her father would lie to her?

Pan bit her lip as that thought entered her mind.

Her papa was so nice to her.

He watched over her.

He protected her.

He...

Lied to her...

The hybrid saiyan believed her guardian's lies too! She thought these saiyans were ruthless, heartless beasts that destroyed anything and everything that crossed their path. They were actually like a loving family.

Sure... Vegeta was that exception, but he didn't destroy; he just protected what was his and what he was loyal to.

Pan bit her lip before looking to the other saiyans as they tried to decide who was faking the pain and who was playing it off.

She decided to break the ice.

"I actually gave salt to you three," she stated with a small smirk noticing the food coming out, with about for other waiters bringing the trays out.

Trunks and Vegeta spit the salt in a napkin that sat beside their silverware.

Trunks then turned to Pan, a small glare was noticed on his face. "You dare to trick us?" he questioned. It wasn't harsh, but it seemed almost as if he were hurt.

She looked back to him with a smile on her face as her plate of food was placed before her. "I did that to see what your reactions would be with the salt. I was surprised to find some hints from both you and Vegeta."

Trunks blinked, and he frowned lightly. "You're one deceiving person."

She gave a small smile as she began to eat food that was set down before her. At least she now knew who to trust... and who to stay away from... even if he raised her from infancy...

That was the most painful realization and decision she made...