Imaginary
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The Goddess of Imaginary Light
The girl within the golden light lifted her head to glare at the two beings who had hurt them. She slowly descended to the ground. When she reached it, she gently placed Trunks down on the pavement. She carefully brushed some strands of hair back from his eyes. Her eyes had gone soft when she looked at him. However, that expression faded when she glanced back up at Apocalypse and Animus. Her eyes had gone cold as ice. In the blink of an eye, she appeared in front of Apocalypse and kneed him in the stomach making him hunch over in pain.
"You bitch!" he growled.
Pan's aura flared as she formed ki balls in her hands. She threw one at Apocalypse blowing him a few feet back. Just as she was about to throw the other one, Animus grabbed her hair swinging her back into a window.
Gohan and Vegeta flashed in front of Animus and shot him with ki blasts at the same time. He crashed into a car making it blow up. Pan shot out of the broken glass and made her way to Apocalypse.
"You can't get rid of me that easily," she said, calmly.
"You can't possible kill me, little girl. You're too weak. You will always be weak. You couldn't even protect yourself, so in return, your little boyfriend got hurt," he smirked.
He took her stunned silence as an invitation to continue.
"You think you can defeat me. You think you can rid the world of me to save your family and friends. But, let me ask you something. How many times have those people saved you? How many got hurt in the process? All you do is cause your family pain and suffering. And, yet, you're still here in front of me…crying. Still thinking you can defeat me, or make a difference? I admire your courage, little one, but courage alone will hardly help you win a fight."
Pan looked done as she felt tears trickle down her face. She face Apocalypse again revealing her tears to her enemy.
"There is one thing you didn't know," Pan's voice wavered. "Girl's get stronger once they're crying."
She beat him down without letting up. Apocalypse wound up sustaining a lot of damage. Pan backed up a bit and formed a ki blast in her hands.
"Now, you die!" Pan yelled. "Ka-me-ha-me-HA!"
The orb of light rushed toward the already injured alien. After it hit and the light died away, Apocalypse could be seen torn, bruised, battered, and severely burned. He was on the verge of death. Pan was about to throw another energy ball for good measure, but she was stopped by Animus.
"We're the stronger race," Animus spat. "We are united, not divided like your pitiful one."
"Or, are you the weaker race that needs comrades to help you fight battles because you're not strong enough alone?" Pan smirked.
Animus looked furious. He phased out and phased in front of her. He began to push her back with a series of kicks and punches. He threw a large ki blast making the young girl hit the concrete with a sickening thud.
"We're not done with you yet!" Gohan yelled at Animus, punching him in the face.
"And, who said we weren't united?" Vegeta asked, ramming him on the back of his neck.
Pan gazed up as she pushed herself off of the ground. Goten was standing next to her, arm extended to help her up. She took his hand, and he pulled her to her feet.
"You wanna join them?" Pan questioned.
"I thought you'd never ask."
Goten powered up to Super. They both took off towards the battle in the sky.
"I'm back," Pan said with a sing-songy voice while grinning. That grin turned into a scowl. "Did you miss me?"
"Pan," Goten said, "Let's take him together."
Pan nodded graciously, She could feel her energy diminishing, and she didn't think she could go another round with Apocalypse alone. However, she refused to show it.
"Family tradition?" Goten asked.
"Of course."
"KA-ME-HA-ME…HA!" they both yelled sending two ki blasts in Apocalypse's direction.
When the bright light faded, Apocalypse could be seen lying limp on the ground.
"Apocalypse!" Animus shouted, flying down to him. "Bayne! Teleport him to the ship!"
Apocalypse disappeared from the ground. Animus stood up laughing.
"If you really think you've won, you're sadly mistaken.," he said, grinning madly. "You injured one of ours, we'll kill one of yours."
He glanced behind him and smirked. He flashed out of sight with great speed. Pan knew where he was going. She flew her fastest to try to keep up with him. However, when Pan was about five feet away from the target Animus appeared in front of her and knocked her out of the way. He took the body and placed it in a chokehold. Pan picked herself up off the ground.
"I'm surprised you can still stand," Animus smirked.
"Don't you touch him!" she said, forcefully.
"And, what will you do if I don't listen?" he asked.
Pan took a shaky step forward. Animus produced a crystal sword in his hand.
"You come any closer, I'll kill him."
Pan stood frozen in fear as Animus stared at her mockingly. He sent a ki blast through the sword and aimed it at Pan. She blocked it, but powered down a second later.
"I could tell you were growing weak," Animus laughed. "It was all a matter of time."
"Let him go."
"Trunks!" Lani said running over. "Let him go now!"
"Lani, stop!" Pan cried out.
"No! I want you people to stop this madness right now. I want you to stop plating this game."
"Lani! It's not a game. He'll kill him!"
"I'd like to see him try," Lani said, taking a step forward.
"I've warned you."
Animus took the sword and shoved it through Trunks' back. Before the point broke the skin, the teen was off the ground flying at him. She was too late. She caught Trunks as he fell to the ground.
"Trunks," she whimpered as she cradled him.
"Heh. Now you'll die together," Animus cackled.
He brought the sword down, but before it hit the young girl, Gohan rammed into him.
"Did you think that we would just stand around and let you kill them?" he asked.
Vegeta flew above them, eyes flashing with anger and hatred.
"You'll regret you did that for eternity in hell! Final Flash!"
Animus perished under the super saiya-jin 3's attack.
"It's over?" Bra asked.
"They'll be back for revenge," Goten said, watching the remaining ships fly away.
The two of them noticed the silence that had fallen over the group. Everyone's eyes were on Trunks and Pan.
"Trunks," Pan whispered into his hair. She held back unshed tears.
Bulma and Videl slowly made their way over to the two.
"Gohan!" Vegeta called. "Take Trunks and Bulma back to the lab. Find some senzu beans."
Gohan nodded. He walked over to the fallen warrior. Videl was gently trying to pry her daughter off of Trunks.
"Pan, Papa needs to take Trunks to the medical wing at Capsule."
Pan released him, hesitantly, and brushed his hair back from his eyes for the second time.
"Your going to be okay. He's going to be okay. Right, Mama?" her tears finally began to spill.
Videl nodded in response. It killed her to see her daughter like this.
Gohan placed Trunks on his shoulder and grabbed Bulma around the waist.
"We'll be waiting for you there," Gohan said, before taking off.
Vegeta turned to face Lani.
"What were you possibly thinking?" he glared at her.
"I wanted to help him," Lani said, holding her ground.
"If you wanted to help him, you should have listened to Pan!"
"Why would I listen to her? She obviously doesn't know how to take action and save someone."
"And what you did, save him?"
Pan let go of her mom and walked in front of Lani.
"He could have been killed! Do you understand that?"
"But he wasn't, was he?"
A fire raged inside of Pan as she glared at the woman in front of her.
"You arrogant, cocky, selfi…" she was cut off by Lani slapping her.
Pan shook with anger.
"Pan?" Goten said, walking towards her.
She smirked.
"Is that the way you want it? Fine then."
Pan punched Lani so that she skidded back a couple of feet before hitting a brick wall. The raven-haired teen flew over to her to continue her onslaught. Within seconds, Goten and Uub, who had just arrived missing the fight, grabbed Pan in an attempt to hold her back. They were having so much trouble holding the trashing teen. Vegeta walked over to the fight and knocked Pan unconscious. He, then, picked her up and threw her over his shoulder.
"You're lucky I didn't let her kill you," he said. He flew towards Capsule with Pan.
Videl, Goten, Bra, and Uub were bout to follow when Lani cried out.
"Who's going to take me back?"
Bra sauntered over to her, looked her in the eye, and slapped her.
"Find your own way back. Or better yet, don't come back at all."
The four remaining people flew into the air leaving Lani behind.
A/N: I'm sorry if this upsets anyone, but I have to say it. Patriots won! Wooooo! Eagles are my home team, but yeah… I just don't like 'em. ()
Thanks to-
CrAzY-Fan-Fic-Addict: This is going to have a sequel…That is all I'm saying about on behalf of the Trunks and Pan relationship. It's going to be a trilogy!
Saiyangurl
nadeshiko-archer: but, cliffhangers are fun…
PinkInferno: How could you forget the bullets! Haha!
Jen-beyblade-fan
kasusander-jie
Trupan: thanks!
Chibi-Maggie: He might not be so accepting later on. Maybe, maybe not.
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