Chapter 9

The next day, an alarm clock went off loudly at 6am. She groaned and fought the urge to smack the damn thing! Pan showered, brushed her teeth, washed her face and came to getting dressed. She put army combat trousers on, belted it to her as it was way, way too big. Then she put her bra on and looked over the tops. They were all long sleeved T shirts, black and thin. She slipped one over her head and saw that this was also not made for a female. It was tight around her chest and her breasts raised the top up, showing her mid section off and she scowled. In a bad mood from her attire, she locked the room and stormed towards the mess hall or canteen. She couldn't remember what it was called.

She had her arms folded and seethed as the hall was filled with army guys, who looked her over and greeted her with loud wolf whistles. She punched one in the face when he slapped her bum. Al she did was walk past him and he touched her ass! She could just let him get away with that! His mates sniggered as he whined over his now bleeding nose and she got a tray full of Breakfast. Pan smiled as Kicho was sat waiting for her and was the only one in the hall not looking at her bulging breasts.

"Morning Son. or can I call you Pan today?"

"Whatever." She dropped her tray and picked at her fresh fruit.

"What's wrong? You don't seem as happy as I last saw you."

"Guys are asses. No offence."

"Non taken. Can I safely assume that your, well, womanly features are getting you unwanted attention from the other members of the Hurricane Squadron?"

"Kami yes. What is with guys and the need to stare at a girls boobs?"

"You really want me to answer that question?"

"Not if you want to live long enough to tell me what I am supposed to do now."

"Well, if that is what you want to know, you are going to train with the guys in the coliseum."

"Coliseum?"

"Don't panic." Pan had almost spat her melon out when he said coliseum. "We have called it that because the rest of the unit watches like the crowd used to, the generals are like the lions and you have to compete to survive."

"Survive what?"

"You'll see. Eat up, you haven't got long." She followed her orders and finished. "Follow me and I will fill you in." they got up and Pan followed Kicho out of the hall. But not before kicking another guy in the balls for asking her to take her shirt off and let him...well, I think you get the idea.

They came to a large gym like hall and Pan walked ahead. There were stand seats and box viewing rooms over looking the room. their were two doors at either side and a group of people in the middle of a large blue rectangle. She walked up to it and then realised that Kicho wasn't wit her. she span round and only saw him again when he was seated, in the stands.

"Hey little girl. Are you lost?" Pan turned around slowly and came face to chest with a tall, butch man in his mid 30's.

"No I am mean to be here."

"Are you sure? You don't look like a solider. At least not like one of us."

"And who exactly are us?"

"We are the hard asses." She looked round and saw that all the other people in the centre of the room were all like this guy. Tall, pumped with muscles, hairy and looked like they had been beaten around a lot of times, especially from all the scars on their bodies. "Welcome to the coliseum. What's you name?"

"Lieutenant Pan Son of the Hurricane Squadron."

"Well, I don't know how a fresh one like you got that rank, but you will lose it here. That, and a lot of your blood."

"I would like to see what you mean by that." Pan smirked. She handled people like this guy very well. All he wanted to do was intimidate her and it wasn't working. An alarm went off and everyone ran to the wall. Everyone, other than Pan. She was left in the ring with the same guy that asked her if she was lost and he looked very happy about something.

"Well, it seems that I get to show you after all." He roared and charged forwards. everything was in slow motion for Pan and she simply sidestepped him, sending him to the ground with a thud. He got up, furious as HFIL and charge her from behind. He brought his fist forward to strike her head, but she want there. "Where the HFIL are you?"

"Vegeta? What did you stop for?" Vegeta was stood in the middle of the GR, Trunks bleeding from his father's onslaught or 'training' as he liked to put it.

"Pan!" Vegeta went SS4 and hurtled forwards, following the Ki signature with all his might.

Pan appeared behind him and everyone was speechless, she was flying. She lifted one finger up and a small blue ball grew from the very tip, aimed towards the head of her opponent.

"You lose." She shot it and it imploded on his back, sending him recoiling to the ground. He twisted in an awkward position and sobbed in pain. Another came at her and she shot him too. It went on like this until all of them were littered on the floor. Pan floated to the ground and blew her finger nails in a victorious fashion. Smiling she looked up at the gob smacked generals. "Is that a good enough show for you?"

"Excellent work Son."

"Sir I hate to interrupt but sensors are picking up an object coming towards the base."

"Missile?"

"No sir."

"Rocket?"

"No sir, from our satellites, it's a man, with black hair that seems to defy gravity."

"VEGETA!" Pan had heard them and cursed herself. She hadn't hidden her energy signature when she raised her Ki. Damn. "Sir! I cant stop him form coming in this direction but, I can go to him and make sure he doesn't know where base is. So he cant drag me away at leisure."

"Then go and hurry. Trough the roof!" Pan nodded and shot upwards. She smashed through the roof and hurtled away from the base. In the opposite direction from Vegeta, or what she sensed to be Vegeta. She didn't get very far as she wasn't even in SS and he was in SS4. she looked over her shoulder and saw him gaining on her. he looked furious, which made her worry. She powered up to SS and burst forwards. He bolted forwards and took her ankle. She went SS4 with a quick burst of raw power and kicked him off. But they were on par now and she couldn't get rid of him after he had come side to side to her.

"PAN STOP NOW!"

"NO WAY!" Pan did a nose dive into a wood and Vegeta followed. She hid her Ki and landed in a tree. Vegeta landed on the forest floor and scanned the area. After losing her Ki signature he knew she had to be hiding.

"PAN COME OUT!" He screamed to ensure that she heard him. She simply watched from the tree behind him, looking down. "Pan please. I only wish to talk. I promise." She hung her legs over the side of the branch she sat on and relaxed.

"Then talk. I'm listening."

"Pan!" Vegeta ran to her and lifted up to see her. His scowl melted into a teary smile and he hugged her fiercely. "I thought you had run away. Your mother came to get you yesterday morning and your bed was empty. Some of your clothes were missing and your bag was gone. Your parents have been searching for you ever since. I thought I would never see you again." he squeezed her tightly and pulled her out of the tree. "But now I can take you home and keep you safe."

"I'm not going home."

"What?" he pulled back but didn't loosen his grip on her.

"I didn't run away, I went to get a job and make something of myself. I can't do that at home Vegeta. But I can out here."

"And where is that?"

"I...can't say."

"Why not? What could you be doing that meant you couldn't tell me where you worked? And how are you living? Where are you living?"

"I have my own provided room and am fed and looked after. I live at work."

"What do you do?"

"I can't say."

"Why not?" Because I work for the very army that took CC from your wife.

"Because I can't." she pulled away and levitated down to the ground, holding herself.

"Pan, you're coming home." Vegeta stated rather than asked and took her wrist.

"No Vegeta, I'm not."

"I need you to come home Pan. Everyone does."

"I am nobody at home, I mean something here."

"Where is here? This wood? The next town? The one after that? Where are you Pan? Why do you seem determined to leave your life and family and never look back?"

"I will come back someday. Just not today." She pulled her hand back and started to walk away from him.

"Pan...PAN!" she started to cry and run away. She had powered down but Vegeta was still in SS4 and easily caught up with her. "Pan please. I don't say this often enough. But I love you Pan. Like my own daughter. Come home Pan. I don't want to have to only see you if you rise your Ki and come running."

"Tough. I need to do this and nothing you say will change my mind."

"Pan...I love you." But Pan didn't hear that. Her head hung forward and her thoughts had gone blank. Through out the last few minuets, rage and a burning fire had started to ebb away at her mind, taking control. Her own rage was starting to dictate her need to be stronger, to get away, to escape from Vegeta. Her vision went black, then became better than normal. Her sight increased to be, perfect. "Pan..." her head shot back up and her SS4 energy appeared around her. "Oh shit..." she screamed and her eyes blurred to a full black. Her hair twisted with its own intention and sickening revelation as her fangs grew. Her aura flared and licked at her body, sending Vegeta into the next tree. He stood up shakily and saw Pan. She was stood tall, black eyes, black furred and with a long black tail protruding from her back. "Pan?..." she stared emotionless fear into his eyes and advanced towards him. "...Pan?"

"Pan isn't home." Vegeta shuddered at the voice that escaped Pan's lips. It was soft and beautiful to his ears, but yet, showed no care towards him like Pan's voice usually did. It was like this was not Pan stood before him, but a stranger.

"Who are you?"

"Who am I?" she knelt before his cowering form and her lips for the first time, curled into a devastatingly evil smirk. "Who am I?" her eyes gleamed with an all too familiar blood lust that Vegeta had hoped to never see again. "I am." She gently placed her hands on his shoulders and smiled sweetly, only to smirked maliciously again and life him roughly in the air. "I am, Perfection." She threw him into the air and flicked her hand dismissively at him, sending some of her aura towards him and sending him hurtling in the opposite direction. "I am perfect."

"So you are my dear." Pan slowly turned and saw a tall man. He had grey hair but looked in his mid to late 40's. He wore a long white lab coat and a black shirt under that, with a red ribbon on his chest. It had RRA in it and immediately assumed him to be part of the RRA like her. "You are just what I am trying to achieve." Her clothes were torn and tattered, odd shards waving in the blowing wind. She made her way towards him casually, without a worry to whom this stranger was. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am the High General and Dr Gero. My father founded this organisation, back when it had another name. But that doesn't matter now. We are trying to do what my father couldn't. To protect the planet with the perfect living weapon. And I believe that you could help us in our cause greatly young one." Pan knelt on the floor and picked a flower, not seeming to be paying this Gero person much attention, but she was. she started to smell the large blue tulip when Dr Gero sat next to her. "I would very much like to give you a new purpose. I did have plans for you, but they just changed, for the better."

"Who am I?"

"Major Pan Son from hence forth."

"Major...I am Major."

"You are...don't you remember who you are?" she turned her head towards him and her empty eyes told him everything. "You are not Pan Son, are you?"

"I am Major. I am perfect."

"May I ask, at what? Perfect to do what?"

"To..." she smiled down at the delicatr flower. She stroked its petals and took a deep smell. Her thumb pressed the bottom of the flower head and she looked to Gero. "To kill everything." Hr thumb shot the head off into the distance and she dropped the stalk to the ground. Her face returned to a blank nothing and her lips were in a straight line. (Like )

her large eyes even made the scientist shudder. The coldness from her eyes scared him, while exciting him all at the same time. This could be just what he needs.

"Come with me. I can help you kill."

"Promise?"

"Yes, I do." Pan slowly got to her feet and followed the good Dr to a waiting plane. "Come, it is safe." He coaxed her onboard, only for her to be ambushed by the entire Hurricane unit. 13 elephant tranquilisers pierced her skin and she swayed into unwilling unconsciousness.

"Sir? She hasn't powered down."

"I don't want her to. There is something in her mind that has manifested into another being, the same being that will become our perfect weapon."

"But Pan?"

"Kicho!" Kicho shuddered and held tightly to Pan's limp arm. Dr Gero the second, stared murder at the young major. "I don't know whether you intended on screwing the grandchild of two son of a bitches, but she will be separated from the perfect being that has manifested in her. She will be unharmed, but monitored. Now strap her to the damn table. I have a special Anti-Saiyan drug for her. it will keep her sedated for now." Kicho painfully dragged Pan's sleeping body flat onto a metal operating table. Gero injected a metallic blue liquid into her arm and she winced in her sleep. "Now, let us begin the procedure."

She started to thrash around, like she was having a nightmare...

The nightmare

Pan shivered, it was so cold in this dark, dank place. It was a place but she didn't know where. There was no light so for all she knew, it could have been a room, a hall or even somewhere outside in the middle of no where.

"Pan? Where are you?"

"Who? Where are you?" Pan sobbed and looked franticly in every direction her aching neck would turn. The voice was strange. It didn't seem to have any accent, tone or gender. It could be male, female or robotic. Yet is seemed to command obedience and sounded to have dark intentions. But she was frightened and didn't want to be alone, so she answered it.

"I am here. Stand and you will see me." Pan got to her feet shakily and looked around, the cold still forcing her arms to clasp to her sides.

"Where are you?"

"I am here, in front of you." Pan jumped as a large mirror erupted from the black ground. Its frame was golden and twisted into menacing spikes in every direction. She shuddered towards it. There was still no light but the mirror seemed to emit light from it, making it visible. As she drew closer, her own image appeared in it. Her reflection showed her to be dressed in what looked to be a large wedding gown. It was beautiful with lace everywhere, a veil covering her face and back, traipsing behind her and a tiara holding it to her head. Her arms were bare and her cleavage was shown off, but the rest of the dress looked very traditional. Other than everything, from the veil to the stones in the golden tiara, was dark, chaos, back. Only the veil wasn't purely black. It was transparent and made of a mesh material.

"I don't understand. Where are you?"

"Look closer." Pan edged towards it, her heart beat pounding in her chest, so it felt like it would explode at any moment. Her face was not touching it, but she was close enough for her breath to form a foggy mist on the glass. She was about to saw 'I still can't see you' when something appeared in the mirror. She felt nothing, but the mirror showed that a black mist was creeping up behind her. She yelped as a cold sensation touched her shoulder, exactly where the mist touched her reflection.

"Do not move. You will be safe."

"W, Who are you?" Pan whimpered and closed her eyes. She didn't want to see the fog anymore. The mirror had last shown her the black mist starting to consume her and he didn't need to see it do that anymore. She could feel it do that as coldness surrounded and engulfed her body. She opened her eyes and she cold no longer see. It was everywhere. She tried to reach out for the mirror but something touched her back, stopping her dead. It was a gentle touch. It felt like a large hand was placed gently on her back. Between her shoulder blades.

"I see you."

"I don't s see you."

"You don't need to. All that matters is that I see you." The hand slipped down her back and she realised that the voice had changed. It was slightly croaky and husky. Deep like a large man and just as intimidating as one. The hand was large too so she decided that 'it' was a 'he'. Pan gasped as the hand slipped down the curve of her ships and round her front.

"Who are you? Why am I here? Where is here? Why am I dressed like this?"

"So many questions. So little time." Another hand rested on her shoulder and with a jerk, spun her round to face him. Only to see nothing. She felt his body against hers, but couldn't see anything or anyone. That frightened her the most. "I will try to answer your questions in the time I have left in your mind. I am perfection, this is your mind and you are here because I will for you to be here. I have dominance over you and have been growing, in the back of your mind since the moment you were born. I am perfection, and will have my own body soon."

"Ok, that doesn't explain why I am dressed like a bride."

"You are a bride, my bride. As I vow myself to you, as you do me. no words are needed, we are together."

"Erm... (Whatever...)What do you mean you have been growing in my mind?"

"I am perfect and perfection takes time. So I have only surfaced now, now that I am ready and perfect."

"Perfect to do what?"

"To." She felt the veil being lifted from her face and flipped behind her. A cold breath beat down on her lips letting her know just where his mouth was. "To kill everything." Pan gasped again and tried to pull away, but he had snaked his hands around her and held her tightly to him. "Oh do not worry. I am not about to kill the one that made me what I am."

"I didn't do anything?" she panicked and her voice gave this over to him 'perfectly'.

"You didn't have to. You are perfect in your own way. And from that grew me, perfection. And because of that." A hard mouth pressed against her lips and she felt a huge tongue roam freely in her mouth. She knew she should pull away, but it just felt so right. She moaned and reached forwards. Her hands met with a strong chest. Her hands traced every muscle of his pecks and round the back of his neck. She pulled on him, pulling him deeper into her mouth. Pan didn't know who this person was, but she didn't care. Something about the way he held her made all her worries vanish into the black shroud that now surrounded her. Not that she had noticed it. He ran his hands up the front of the dress and cupped her breasts. Pan pulled back and gasped with ecstasy. "And because of that I will never harm you. I love you and came from your inner soul and very being. I am perfect to kill, but I am also perfect...for you. I have the lust to kill. And the lust...for you. I will have these desires for as long as I exist. And will be yours for that long, and longer. But remember, it goes both ways. I may be yours, but." Her jerked the front of her dress, forcing her into another heated kiss and nipped her lip, making her pull back with a yelp. She brought her hands back and traced her lip. Her fingers felt a liquid seep from a cut on her lip and she licked it, tasting blood. "But you are mine too. I am yours, but you are MINE!" Pan felt sharp fangs tare at her neck as he bit her. She tried to push away from him, but while ever his teeth were in her neck, it hurt to move. He finally pulled back and Pan felt like she was going to faint. He must have drank her blood too as she felt increasingly dizzy. And nauseous. "You are mine. And when the time comes...I will claim you."

"Why...?"

"Because I came from you, I am part of you as you are part of me. We belong together; it is our DESTANY to be together. Together..." Pan felt him lapping her neck lovingly with his tongue, groaning as her blood met with his taste buds. "We are Perfection."

Pan finally fainted in his arms, but felt like she was laid on her back. She twitched her arms and legs. They responded to her order and was grateful that she was once again in control of her own body. All she could remember was Vegeta telling her that he needed her to come home mentioning something about love. But she couldn't remember anything after that. It was all a blur before that and blank after.

"Major Pan Son? can you hear me?"

"GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU FOOL! Pan can you hear me? It's me, Kicho."

"K Kicho?"

"I am right here Pan. Can you move?" Pan tried to open her eyes but her lids wouldn't obey. But she managed to sit up somehow. "Pan? Can you open your eyes?" Pan felt nauseous and had a huge headache. But other than that, she was fine. Then a cold sensation came to her attention on her head. She gasped and tried to get it off, but Kicho pulled her hands down and tried to calm her. "Pan relax. Don't take that off yet. It is monitoring your vitals. It can't hurt you Pan...can you open your eyes yet?" she shuddered and her eyes slowly seeped open. They snapped shut once sunlight burned on them. She tried again and succeeded. Everything was a bright blur but she could see. Kicho was sat on the side of the bed and a doctor with a long lab coat was stood against the wall. Another doctor looked peeved and had long brown hair, but was a man. The doctor on the wall began towards her and sat opposite Kicho.

"You can leave now Kicho."

"But."

"LEAVE!"

"YES SIR!" Pan watched as Kicho ran in fear for his life.

"...coward..."

"Indeed he is. Just how I like my men, afraid of me and blindly loyal. You however, are not one of my men."

"Huh? Aaaa!"

"What is wrong?" Pan rubbed her neck. It had started to sting and reminded her of her dream, well, nightmare.

"Just a bad reminder of a dream I had while I was out. What happened to me? All I remember is arguing with Vegeta and...waking up here. Between that is a blank."

"Well, Vegeta beat you up and left you in a rage when you said you wouldn't go back with him. we rescued you just in time, without him knowing that you work with us or who we are."

"Now you can tell me what I couldn't tell Vegeta. Who are we exactly? What do we actually do?"

"We aim for perfection and protect the planet if and when it becomes under threat. We are the worlds secret service. How are you feeling?"

"I feel like crap. And, who are you exactly?"

"You don't remember? (Good) I am High General and Dr Gero. Do you feel any injuries? Like a headache?"

"yes actually I do. How did you."

"We had to operate after Vegeta attacked you. I did the operation myself."
"I am honoured sir, High General, Dr Gero, erm...what should I call you?"

"Call me Doc. I will give you that privilege. I like you miss Son. I have made you a Major and am very impressed with the abilities you have shown in the short time you have been here. But I must tell you that for a few weeks you will not be training with anyone. Not even cadets or you team. You are in the recovery stages and."

"But Doc, I feel great!" Pan jumped out of bed and didn't care that she was in a white nighty. She danced around the room, feeling very alive. Gero chuckled at her, but worried when she stopped dead. "Vegeta beat me up?"

"He tried to kill you child." Gero was lying through his teeth, but was damn good at it.

"He...tried to...kill me?"

"Yes I am afraid to say so. It seems he lost his temper and that is why you blacked out. He sucker punched you in the head with a tremendous force. So tremendous that we had to operate to heal you."

"He tried to kill me." Pan had heard what Gero had said. But she was far to upset that Vegeta had tried to harm her, seriously harm her. she felt so betrayed.

"But you don't need him. we are your family now. Was he close to you?"

"he was like a father to me..."

"Well, I will replace him as best I can. I will care for you like my own child." you are my new project after all. And I owe you so much for giving me the one thing I needed to finish my father's work.

"Oh...you really don't need to."

"I insist, come. I will take you to your quarters. You must stay there until I tell you you are well enough to venture out from there ok?"

"Okay. I still say I feel great, a little hurt, but great."

"Your vitals say different. You need rest."

"But."

"No buts. Come now young one. To your new room."

"New room?"

"Yes." He put his hand on her shoulder and ushered her out of the room. she was glad as she never wanted to see that hospital bed again for as long as she lived. "I took the liberty to move your room closer to the labs, to observe your condition. You did take quite a beating."

"Yeah...I know..." Pan was silent all the way to the lifts. They stepped inside and she felt like it was at least 20 minuets before the elevator finished descending. "How far down are we?"

"It doesn't matter. Come, this way." Pan held herself tightly as they past steel walls and open lab doors. In one she saw a robotic arm blast a piece of thick metal into dust, another water that dissolved like acid, but didn't harm skin when a man put his hand in it. in another she saw a huge green tank but Gero slammed the door shut. He pressed the intercom and scolded the scientist inside, threatening them with being fired and worse if they left that door open again. Curiosity made Pan want to ask what was behind that door, but before she could ask, Gero pulled her into a room. It was a long way down the hall from the mystery room and was plain. But the bed in it was huge! She practically and almost literally ran to the bed, jumped on it and laughed like a little girl. She blushed when she saw that Gero was chuckling at her and she stopped, looking at her knees.

"Erm. Sorry."

"It matters not. Enjoy your new room."

"Why am I so close to the labs?"

"So that we can monitor your progress...in healing."

"But."

"Farewell Pan." And just like that, Gero was gone.

"Damn..."

Pan laid back into the bed and sighed deeply. It was like the bed was begging her to fall to sleep, and she gladly gave into it.

In the mystery lab

"Dr Gero Sir! We apologise about leaving the door."

"Shut up fool. Tell me more about...our perfect weapon." He smirked into the green tank that was as big as a huge swimming pool. Big enough for a at least one whale. Possibly more.

"Well, Project Perfection has taken very well. We have gathered all the cells used in the first model and added more. We have; Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Frieza, Trunks, Goten, Gohan, Hercule, the older model and we have even added another alien cell. Your father sent word when HFIL opened up last time about his being and said he was an excellent being to include. Some called...Juu? Moo? Coo?"

"Buu. He said he was called Buu."

"Yes sir. We have included his cells too. And then the cell lay dormant and wouldn't multiply. You were right about that Pan girl. The being you extracted form her, seeped into the cell and it began to multiply and divide."

"After removing it, I found it wasn't a being. It was a hormone, an instinct if you will. The deadly, pure, perfect instinct to kill."

"Well whatever it was, it caused the cell to activate and divide into a foetus. It is at a foetal stage now and thanks to your improvements, will emerge as an adult in no time sir. It is such a releaf that he wont take 20 or so years to emerge and another 4 years to mature. The last one did. This one will."

"Emerge an adult in a few weeks. Yes I know you stupid fool. I did program it after all."

"Yes sir. Sorry sir."

"Leave me."

"Yes sir." The lab worker left and Gero stared at the little reptilian foetus.

"You will be perfect. And to think, you wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for little miss Pan. To think that Goku tried to prevent the rise of the Red Ribbon Army all his life, and now, his own granddaughter had joined us and given the only thing we needed to create you. You should be grateful to that girl. Somehow, she had the perfect hunter's instincts that you lacked. And now you have them. I hope you remember her. In a way, I really do. She helped us get here and I will keep her around until you are gloriously mature. Then I will kill her to make sure she doesn't interfere." Gero stopped as the foetus seemed to jerk when he said he planned to kill her. He smiled madly. "You can understand me, cant you? Even now you can understand me. This is amazing!" Gero ran to the computer and recorded his new discovery. "Oh father, finally I will finish your project. I will complete your dream or creating the world's first biological android and the perfect weapon. That last one wasn't perfect as it was defeated. But this one has something that the other one didn't. This one has natural instincts of a hunter, of a Saiyan warrior and beast. This one will be a true killer." Gero typed away for a while and left to his room.

I sense you pan. I can feel you moving in your sleep. Soon, soon I will know what is is truly like to ouch your skin, to feel your perfect eyes upon me, to give you the world on a silver platter and destroy it if you so wish. I will give you anything once I am mature and I will be mature sooner than anyone thinks. Give me time pan, give me time and I will kill everyone in this base. Everyone, until you and I are the only ones left. Then, I will keep my promise to you. I will claim you...I will claim you, as mine...

I see you...