She was scared. If she cooperated she'd end up disgracing her family line, and her father would kill her for being dishonourable. If she didn't, she'd be blown up or they might even disgrace her.
The best heroines from her favourite movies would spit in the villain's face and scream out the best line possible. Being in a situation like this makes Bra wonder if they weren't really just bluffing.
"Earth to blue-haired bitch, where's the key!" The guy wearing the sock finally spoke.
Bra quivered, the fear made her squint her eyes hard at the disgust of her reaction at the situation. She admits that she wasn't GI Jane but she never considered herself wimpy. She forced back the tears that sneaked out without her permission and thought of what her daddy would do. She took a deep breath and protested.
"I'm not a wimp and don't call me blue-haired bitch! It's aqua!" She screamed out, either way she was going to die, why not just risk it all.
Just then her cell phone rang at the ringtone of James Blunt's "Your beautiful".
"Hey boss, I really love this song." The sockhead reached for Bra's waist and pulled off her baby pink phone. Evidently being a bag handler made him a noob at high-tech, he flips open the phone at the sight of its sparkliness and immediately had his ear struck by the voice of Pan Son.
"Where have you been." There wasn't anger in Pan's voice, but there sure was disappointment.
Sockhead seemed rather attracted by the tone and decided to play a little game. "I've been right here little honey, waiting for you to come along."
"Who is this." Just as Pan asked Bra yelped when a guy grabbed her hair. And from the background she heard moanings of certain Capsule Corp employees. This sent the Ice Queen sprinting on her heels towards the Capsule Corp Bank.
There were a dozen of sockheads surrounding the building. The cops were trying to cook up useless strategies. Pan panicked, for years she hadn't panicked but now she's showing the real her, Panicky Pan. She picked up her phone and dialed for Trunks. Who apparently wasn't picking up the phone.
It's already two in the afternoon, must've been a WILD night. Crazy bastard. Pan thought.
She dialed for Vegeta. As the phone rang she raised an eyebrow. Vegeta has always been there for Bra, he could sense any danger coming to her, it's like he had her bugged, but where is he now? As the 7th ring finished, she hanged up with a big question mark. She tried Trunks again, this time deciding to leave a message.
"Trunks Bra's in trouble, when you get this message come to the Bank immediately. If you don't see me then I had a head-start on the rescue-mission. I'm going to put my cell-phone on vibrate, call me."
Ending with 'call me' she started interrogating the police, with no hope of getting anything there, she opened her purse to reveal that she's carrying concealed and headed for the secret entrance.
Few knew about this entrance, it used to be built for Trunks and his close friends when he was small, but then when he grew older it got passed down to Pan and Bra. It looked like another garbage dump, no bank robber saw the point of guarding it.
Pan kicked in some smarts she learned on the streets and got on top of the building no problem through one of the pipes. She then dropped down and quietly knocked the nearest robber out cold. Then she conveniently snuck into the secret entrance and made her way through an airway.
Through the airway there were bits and pieces of memories left from childhood. Where she got caught by a nail and thought some ghost got hold of her, where Bra got stuck because a couple of mice decided to inhabit her purse. And where Trunks found her when she got lost her first time there…
She stopped in her tracks at the nostalgia, but slapped herself when she realized her stupidity in stopping.
When she reached the end of the airway she was enraged by what she saw. A couple guys found themselves in the fun of playing with items in Bra's purse and another couple found fun in playing with Bra. They passed her around like she was some soccer ball. Even though they haven't done anything ludicrous to her, Pan was ready to shoot them. She tucked away her gun and quietly made her way down. However her subtlety came to an end when one of the workers screamed 'There is a god!', and pointed at Pan.
"Why? Dende? Whyy?" Pan then found herself rolling on the ground, trying to duck things thrown or shot at her, but then her roll came to a stop as a big guy picked her up and threw her against the wall.
Pan stood up, trying to maintain her Ice Queen status, but failed to when she failed to stand up.
Oh my god it's gone, I have lost my cool. Then she heard Bra laugh.
"Hey if we die here at least we can count this as a Misadventure of Briefs and Son, you're definitely back in shape!" Bra said. However with her swollen lips it was hard to understand her.
"Hey shut up Briefs! I'm not back being Clumsy Pan, I've faced situations worse than this on the streets and I'm still Stone Cold." This is when Pan realized that she has been shot.
Fuck, this is what happens when you don't practice.
Pan decided to run head on and face the robbers, there was no way that she could keep a cool game now.
Come on Pan you have a chance! You were the school's fastest runner in 99'! Yeah…in 99'... No matter how fast she was she couldn't outrun a machine gun, she took another in the leg.
The thing with coolness is this, it's always just a front. It can never be a personality. The nostalgia back in the airway made Pan scrape the front and reveal her true self. The good thing is, when the true self is revealed, only good things can come of it, even if it might be disguised as a bad thing at the beginning.
Pan finally came down and got surrounded by robbers. Unlike what they did to Bra, the robbers immediately helped themselves to their treat. One guy ripped off Pan's blouse and after that he immediately had his hands on removing her belt. Guess they didn't like being intruded on.
Pan was astonished at the sight of what they were doing, she was barely covered and the thought of being raped terrified her. She tried to fend them off but they just came on harder. She felt like crying when she thought some guy had his way to her. That was when she realized it was actually her cell-phone vibrating. She could hear Bra calling her name from the distance, telling her she could make it.
For a second there Pan froze, thinking about how much there is to live for. She would often think about committing suicide because she simply couldn't go on, but now she had realized how stupid she was. There is so much to live for. Then she burst.
"I CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN!" She screamed. Her voice and energy level both went up. This was followed by an aura of energy that threw the robbers in all directions, either knocking all the robbers either out cold, or knocking them dead.
She was overwhelmed by this new source of energy, it was all new to her. Unfortunetly, it was also new to her body, she passed out immediately. One robber managed to get up but only to have found his way to Trunks' fist. Trunks came out of the same airway Pan did, and took no time to realize what they have done to Pan. He picked her up and started crying. He felt the energy wave but he wasn't there to see where it came from. He embraced her at the thought that she had died. He cried on her chest, his tears trailing down her body. It was genuine cry. Contrary to most believes, the quieter the cry, the more genuine it is. Because that meant it came from the bottom of his heart, not the top of his vocal box as it often did with Trunks when he was small.
His mourning was interrupted by his sister's yelling.
"Trunks! TRUNKS! She's not dead! But there's definitely something happening to her! I'm calling mom RIGHT NOW, we're going to get dad to see her!"