A/N: Hey hey! I'm back with the next installment of Poof!
You will probably notice that this chapter is longer than the others. This is mainly because I had so much I wanted to get out in this chapter. And yes, you did read the summery correctly. This is now a five-shot. I didn't realize how much I would be able to write on this subject. I'm also used to writing 10,000+ word chapters so writing chapters half that length is pretty difficult for me.
Enough about that though! Here is the next chapter of Poof!
"dialogue"
thoughts/mindscape
"telepathic communication"
~change in setting~
*action*
flashback
Chapter 4: Eviction
~Mount Paoz, 439 East Mountain District, Age 795~
Both my father and Gohan continue to look at me with astonished expressions. Big Brother's holds more concern behind his while Dad's is just pure shock. My ki spikes again before I can control it. This time I'm positive that everyone felt it, but I couldn't care less at this point. "You can't just come waltzing back here like you never left!" I continue, now shouting in my fury. "You left us ten years ago almost instantly and never looked back! Ten years Goku! You never even came back for a simple visit like you promised Pan!"
I still can't believe what my father just said! The nerve of that man, thinking that he can come back whenever he wants without any consequences after what he did to us! He thinks that he will be welcomed back with open arms by everyone that he abandoned without a second thought. Meanwhile, he gives the people that love him hope that he will stay around for good. If they were to step back and think about it, they would realize that it would be idiotic to believe this; however, I know for a fact that people like my mother and Gohan place a great deal of irrational trust in my father due to their attachment to him. Honestly, I don't blame them either. All I have to do is think of how I think of Gohan to realize that I would do the same thing if Goku were him instead.
This is why I don't blame my brother at all for having this hope for his father. I just have to make him realize that putting trust in Goku is the worst thing he could possibly do, at least when it comes to family matters. If history has taught me anything, it's that Goku can't stay in one place for long, and nothing will keep him from going on his next adventure. If Big Brother were to put trust in our father, then he will get burned big time in the end. He will end up even more hurt than he was last time that Dad left.
So I must stop this fantasy that my father is starting to paint in front of my brother and me, a fantasy I know he won't be able to create. It is my job as someone who doesn't actually have that strong of a connection with Goku to make those that do see reality. It will be a difficult task, especially considering how incredibly charismatic Goku is, but it's a necessary one.
After all, I vowed to protect the ones I love from any threat.
And that threat right now is my father.
Gohan makes a move to put a hand on my shoulder in an attempt to calm me down. I flinch at his touch before relaxing, realizing what he's trying to do. As I extend my senses, I internally groan as I can feel both Krillin and Piccolo heading in this direction. Great! I didn't want anyone else to realize that my father had come back, but that's out of the question now. Gohan probably sensed them before I did, which is probably why he's trying to make me calm down. As always, his touch is able to do the trick, but that doesn't mean I'm not still pissed at my father.
As if realizing that I've calmed down a bit, Dad attempts to speak again. "Goten—"
"No Dad." I hear Gohan state right away, and I have to look at him. The way he said that was so calm, but it commanded nothing but respect. I now realize that he's a lot angrier than he has let on. "Just don't. Goten is right. Even if you told us you were leaving for a while, you did promise Pan that you would visit, but you never did, not even once. Do you know how devastated she was when she realized that she may never see her grandfather—who she loved dearly by the way—ever again?!"
Ah. I should have realized that I might have struck a low blow with my brother when I mentioned Goku's promise to Pan. I can see my father flinch at Gohan's words, bringing a small amount of satisfaction to me. Good; he should feel bad. He did break a five-year-old girl's heart after all. In fact, he should be ashamed of himself for such a thing. Pan is probably the sweetest, most perfect girl on the planet. She didn't do anything to deserve being abandoned by her grandfather. Eventually she got over it, but it took a very long time for Gohan, Videl, and me to help her through it.
I still can remember that second year he was gone, the year that Pan had lost faith in her hero. To her, 'Grandpa Goku' was an amazing person who never let her down. She couldn't believe that he still hadn't shown up. She and her family had been living in my house to help out Mom, so we ended up sharing a room for a while. There were many nights where she would have a nightmare where her grandfather would come home, but show her absolutely no affection. There were others that she would have where he wouldn't come home at all, no matter how much she begged. My little niece even had one particular nightmare where she found the dragon balls and asked Shenron to bring him back, but the magical dragon told her that he didn't want to come home.
Of course I couldn't stand to see Pan suffer even a little bit, so every night I would comfort her after these nightmares. She would cry into my shirt while I rubbed her back for her and suddenly, I realized what it was like for my brother whenever he did this for me. He would do the exact same thing for me whenever I had a nightmare when I was little. I was empathetic to Pan; seeing her upset made me upset, and I realized at that point that Gohan must have felt the same way towards me. It made me feel kind of guilty about making him do this so much, but I know that he probably didn't mind one bit because I didn't mind doing it for Pan. Still though, it killed me inside to know that she was suffering and I could do absolutely nothing to help her other than comfort her when she was scared or hurt after the fact.
The only one that could have prevented the nightmares had left her.
It got to the point where she would also have nightmares where not only her grandfather, but Gohan and I would abandon her as well. These were the worst because after each of those she would beg me to promise her to never leave her like her grandfather, something I always agreed to. Of course I would never even think about doing that, but she was still traumatized by Goku's departure that she needed the reassurance that I wouldn't.
My ki spikes once again unintentionally, causing my brother to look over at me once again. Dang it! I usually have more control over my emotions than this, but Pan has always been a sensitive topic for me as well. If you messed with that girl at all you had me to answer to. Goku messed with Pan, and absolutely crushed her, so it's time that he answered for his crimes.
Speaking of answering, it appears as if Goku is about to answer to Gohan's accusation. He sends me a weary glance, perhaps from picking up my ki spike, before turning back to Gohan and speaking: "I guess I must have lost track of the time while I was training. What can I say? Time flies when you're having a good time!" Goku then gives us both the ever-famous grin that he is known for while rubbing the back of his head.
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…what?
Did he really just say that?! I stare at my father blankly, completely stunned. He must have said that in the most aloof manner possible, as if it wasn't a big deal that he broke his promise to his own granddaughter. He just basically admitted that he doesn't feel any regret for being gone and for leaving Pan behind. Like I had originally thought when I overheard him make the promise ten years ago, it was an empty one; a promise he didn't plan on keeping.
I briefly look over at Gohan and can see that he clearly can't believe what he just heard either, not that I blame him. I don't really think I've processed everything either. It just sounds completely ridiculous! All of the nights that I've comforted Pan because she's had a nightmare about him are because he guesses he "lost track of time?" The reason Mom and Gohan were hurt so badly is because "time flies when you're having a good time?" These are the excuses he is using for not keeping his promise? These are his excuses for not visiting his family and friends for an entire span of ten years?
I try my best to form a coherent response to my father to all of this, but I just can't think of anything. That man that I used to be proud to call my father has literally stunned me speechless with the pure carelessness in that response. I know that Goku is naïve and has a tendency to be thickheaded when it comes to family affairs, but I would have never pegged him to one that would be able to toss around his own granddaughter's feelings as if they were easily disposable. In fact, with that statement he really just tossed everyone's feelings aside as if nothing.
Unfortunately—or fortunately, of which I'm not sure—I don't need to come up with a response as I hear two pairs of feet touch down behind me. I already know that it's Piccolo and Krillin before I even turn around to look at them. Both of them look shocked at seeing Goku here, but eventually handle it their own ways. Krillin looks as if he is in tears, probably happy to see his best friend after such a long time. Of course I understand his reaction, as they are they are the best of friends, yet they have separate families and lives (at least until I married Marron). Krillin didn't really have a reason to hold a grudge against Goku for leaving. In fact, the formerly bald monk probably knew better than anyone that Goku would be gone as long as he has been. He's probably just happy that Dad came back at all.
I turn my gaze to Piccolo and see him look at me, then at Gohan, and finally at Goku before crossing his arms over his chest in his characteristic fashion and glaring at Goku. I smile at that. Piccolo is to Gohan as Gohan is to me, and I know that he has a very protective instinct for both of us, especially Big Brother. If there's one person who knows Gohan as well as I do, it's him. He knows that Goku hurt him by leaving, if not directly then through his daughter's suffering and despair. He does hold a grudge against Goku for leaving.
"Goku!" I hear Krillin shout, racing towards my father. The short human quickly envelops him in a hug before letting go and wiping his eyes. Was it me, or did he actually shed a few tears? Well that just confirms my theory that Krillin is genuinely happy to see my father home. That makes one of us.
Dad looks at Krillin and gives him a big grin. "Hey Krillin! And Piccolo too!" he adds, turning towards the resident green man before turning back to Krillin. "Long time no see man!"
The grin that Krillin gives my father is beaming. I haven't seen my father-in-law so happy since I married his daughter. "Yeah, well it's been ten years! It's great to see ya buddy!" He scratches the back of his head in a similar manner as my father, another thing he probably picked up from his best friend. "Man, you look like you haven't aged a single day since you left! I on the other hand have aged a ton!"
Dad chuckles in response and Krillin goes on telling him stories from these past few years. During this time I turn my gaze to my brother briefly, trying to gauge his reaction to this exchange. For once I can't really tell what he's thinking; he's keeping a pretty calm exterior, but I have a feeling that he is glad that Krillin is so happy. A part of me is too, though another part is angry that he is encouraging Goku to stick around.
"So this is why your ki spiked a while ago."
I quickly turn my head towards Piccolo, a bit surprised he addressed me. I know what's he's confirming though: he's confirming that my father is the reason I got so angry I lost control for a moment earlier. I slowly nod my head and he grunts before nodding in return and turning back to the conversation between Goku and Krillin. I wonder what that was about, but I have a feeling that I will find out soon enough. Piccolo usually isn't one to beat around the bush.
"—and then ever since Goten and Marron got married things have been a lot quieter around the house. Now it's just Eighte—"
"Wait Goten married Marron?! Your daughter Marron!?" Goku interrupts Krillin, clearly shocked by this new piece of information. This makes me scowl. He would have known had he bothered to ask me!
My father-in-law scratches his head in confusion. "Yeah, he did. Geez Goku, I thought you knew that already."
My actual father shakes his head negatively. "No, it never came up."
"Oh really Goku," Piccolo adds in, speaking to everyone for the first time, and shocking everyone. He actually sounds pissed off, making me smirk internally. Now Dad's gonna get it! "If I recall, Krillin and I only came here due to a ki spike by Goten. You were most likely here for a while before we arrived, yet you mean to tell me that the subject of your son's life never came up in your conversations when you hadn't seen him in ten years?" He then narrows his eyes at my father. "Funny, if I hadn't seen Gohan for ten years the first thing I would ask him would be how he was doing and what he's up to. Clearly it would have come up then."
Bingo.
Piccolo brought up the very point that Gohan and I have been seething over ever since Goku got here: the fact that he didn't' even bother asking us simply how we were doing. I see Goku scratch the back of his head nervously after Piccolo's comments and I sigh. Do we really mean that little to him, so little that he's not even interested in what we've been doing over all of these years? It amazes me that he stuck around for as long as he did after the whole Buu debacle with how he's been acting since he got back here.
After a moment, I see Krillin walk in between my father and Piccolo, raising his arms defensively. I hold back a scoff at this. It looks like he's trying to defend Goku. "Whoa there Piccolo!" He responds. "Don't you think you're being a little harsh?"
"No he isn't."
I instantly turn my attention to Gohan, the one who made that statement, and I can feel everyone else look at him as well. This is the first time he has said anything since Krillin and Piccolo arrived. "Piccolo's right Krillin," he continues. "Dad was here for a good fifteen minutes before you guys arrived. In fact, he was also here for five minutes before I got here. Even I thought that Goten had told him that he was married, but I guess I was wrong." He lets that sink into everyones' heads for a moment before turning back to Dad. "Do we really mean that little to you that you weren't even wondering a little bit what has gone on these past ten years?"
"Of course not Gohan!" Goku vehemently denies, and I raise my eyebrows. He actually sounds genuine in that denial, but he will have to do more than that to convince me. "I honestly was just so shocked by Goten's rise in ki that I had to ask him about it. When I left to train Uub he seemed completely against the idea of training that way, but he obviously had been training very intensely to get that much of a rise in power. We were in the middle of this discussion when you showed up Gohan, and then you know the rest. I was just curious about your training that's all!"
"You idiot! That's the point!" I scream at the top of my lungs. I could care less that my ki spiked again, and that both Goku and Krillin are looking at me like I'm crazy. After hearing him make excuses again, I couldn't take it anymore. This issue has to get out in the open. "That's all you care about: the training! But you're right. I was completely against it, but that changed after you left. Did you even wonder why I started training seriously again?"
After seeing Goku just give me a blank, confused look in response I finally lose it, and I stop repressing my ki. A blue aura starts forming around me and the wind starts to pick up as my ki escalates, ruffling the leaves on the trees and the grass as I continue to shout at my father. "I started training again because there was a treat to my family, and do you know what that threat was?" I don't even give him a moment to respond before shouting out my right arm and pointing directly at him.
"It was you, Goku."
I say the last part in a lower, but threatening tone. Both him and Krillin look shocked at what I just said, but neither Piccolo nor Gohan do. They knew I felt this way about my father, and they probably expected this to come out sooner or later the more time I spent around the infuriating man I call my father. Krillin is the first to recover though and instantly moves to retort. "Goten, you can't be serious!" He answers incredulously. It figures that he would immediately come to my father's defense even after ten years of being gone. Then again though, I must admit that to everyone outside of my brother, Piccolo, Trunks, and Marron, the idea of me thinking of Goku as my enemy would sound a bit ridiculous.
Still though, I'm not gonna let that stop me.
I glare at my father-in-law for a moment before explaining myself to him and Dad. "I'm completely serious. Goku is threat to my family. By leaving constantly to go out and train, he constantly hurts those that he leaves behind. He's a threat to Mom, Pan, and especially Gohan since he's so close to him. Well I won't stand for this anymore!"
I shout out the last part to the heavens as I throw my head back and scream, transforming right away into super saiyan without any effort. A golden aura shoots out from me and I can feel a cyclone of wind start to form around me. I can hear loose rocks start to swirl around in my aura as I continue to power up until finally relaxing myself at the highest ki level a super saiyan can go. The winds start to subside, but the golden aura still surrounds my form, with the occasional golden lightning bolt jumping from out of it.
I give Goku a hard glare before I continue. "I will do whatever it takes to keep you away from here, even if that means fighting you, 'Dad!'"
I then look around to see everyone's reaction to my transformation. Dad and Krillin both look shocked at me, although I wonder if it's because of my power or the fact that I even transformed to begin with. I'm positive that they didn't realize that my feelings about my father's absence ran this deep, so perhaps they are shocked from that as well. Even Piccolo looks a little startled, though I have a feeling that is because of my power. Internally I smirk at this. Before my training with Gohan I wasn't nearly this strong, and this is only the tip of the iceberg for me.
The only one who isn't surprised at all is Gohan. He knows what kind of power I now possess so he knows that this is nothing to my true strength. He also knows my motives for this sudden transformation. Instead, he looks at me with what I would say is a sad smile. He's probably proud of how far I've come in terms of power, yet sad at the reasons this need came about to begin with.
I'm about to go charge Dad when he puts his hands up in defense. "Wait Goten!" He pleads, causing me to pause my actions. What does he want to say now? "I don't want to fight you! Not like this!"
I scowl at him, my golden aura whipping around me violently. "Oh really, now you don't want to fight me?" I answer sarcastically. "You never had a problem with it before when I was eight years old! Now that I'm an adult though you refuse to fight me. Now that I think about it, Gohan was only a kid when you trained him and even Uub must have only been at most ten years old when you took off with him. So tell me 'Daddy,' are you afraid that I'll beat you and you'll never be able to come back here again, or do you just prefer to fight little kids?"
"Goten!"
To be honest, I don't blame Krillin for his outburst right there. That last comment even surprised myself. Trunks always said that when I'm angry, I could be a real ass to people. Still though, I meant what I said earlier: I will fight Goku to keep him from staying here. He just poses too much of a risk of hurting everyone I love if I allow him the opportunity to earn their trust back again. If that comment helps me provoke him to fight me, then I will say it again and again. I don't care how ridiculous it sounds.
"Goten wait!" I hear Goku shout again, and I grow even more impatient. He's just making me that much more frustrated. "I'm sorry that I left you guys so suddenly!" he continues, though it doesn't shock me. I figured he'd feel guilty enough to apologize sooner or later. He is after all, still a good guy. He just can't be trusted. "I promise I'll stay for good if you give me another chance—"
"That's bull Dad and you know it!" I shout back furiously, golden lighting shooting off me dangerously towards him and cutting him off before he has a chance to make another empty promise. "You have no idea the hurt you caused by your departure ten years ago. You didn't see Mom break down at the tournament and then cry herself to sleep every night for almost a two months straight. You didn't see Pan have nightmare after nightmare because she missed you so much and was worried you didn't love her anymore. You weren't there, and this isn't even the first time you've done this! I won't let you do this again! I won't give you that opportunity!"
"Uncle Goten!"
My eyes widen at the sound of the voice I would recognize anywhere. Instantly I calm down and drop the violent aura around me, although I still hold my transformation as my niece lands in front of me. I would never risk hurting her with my transformation, and besides, it's always hard to be angry when she's around... unless she's being hurt.
I didn't expect Pan to come here. She still has two hours left of school! I see though that she is wearing her mother's Sayagirl outfit, so she most likely made up an excuse to get out of classes and fly out here. It probably wasn't that hard either; the teachers know that her mother is the formerly known 'Videl Satan,' so they give her the same leniencies that they gave her mom. Instantly she runs up to me and gives me a hug, which further calms me down. Only a select few people have this power, and she is one of them.
"Uncle Goten, what's wrong?" She asks me after the hug. "I felt your ki spike a few times before rising steadily until you were a super saiyan! I thought you were training with Dad until I remembered you were home alone. Then I felt Dad, Uncle Krillin, and Mr. Piccolo were here along with another ki I didn't recognize so I thought I'd come to help." She then gives me a serious stare. "Is there another threat?"
I look at Pan quizzically for a moment. She still doesn't know what is going on? Didn't she see Goku when she flew down here? Obviously not since she hasn't said a thing about him yet. But shouldn't she be able to recognize his ki? I'm honestly shocked that she can't, but as I think about it more, she may not have had a good grasp on ki sensing by the time Goku left ten years ago. After all, she was only four at the time, and I know that I couldn't sense anyone other than Gohan until I was at least six years old. Suddenly it doesn't seem so surprising that she doesn't recognize Goku's ki signature. She never learned it because he was already gone when she was starting to learn how.
"Videl! Wow, I didn't know you were still Saiyagirl!"
I am brought out of my thoughts by my father's shout. He obviously doesn't recognize Pan as he mistook her for her mother. I guess he was expecting his granddaughter to still be as small as she was back when he left her. I look directly at my niece and can tell that she stiffened visually from hearing Goku's voice, probably the last voice she expected to hear, and also for calling her by her mother's name.
I see Pan turn around slowly, and I hear her gasp at seeing her grandfather right there in front of her. I can't say I'm shocked by her reaction as this would be the first time that she's seen him in ten years. I move to stand next to her so I can gauge her reaction by her face and I can see tears welling up in her eyes, although it's tough to see through her blue visor on her helmet, and I barely hear her gasp out a "Grandpa Goku" before seeing a single tear run down her face. I narrow my eyes and turn back to my father. He's already given my brother false hope earlier. I prey to Dende that Pan doesn't fall to his spell as well.
I briefly turn to my brother to see what he is making of this new development. I'm pretty sure he didn't expect his daughter to cut class early to come here and see what's going on. He has been relatively silent for a while now, and he might still be processing the fact that I was about to fight Dad to begin with. As I look at him, I see that he hasn't taken his eyes off of Pan; he probably hasn't since she's arrived, and judging from the look on his face, I'm pretty sure that he has concluded the same thing I have from seeing Pan's reaction to seeing Goku. He looks incredibly concerned, yet I see a silent anger in his eyes. He's just as pissed as I am about this new development.
Then for the first time since Pan arrived, he takes his eyes off of his daughter and looks directly at me, then gestures to Goku before looking at me again pointedly. I look back confused for a moment before realizing what he's trying to get at. He wants me to get Goku out of here before he has a chance to trick her into thinking he's coming back. This shocks me a little. This whole time, I've been thinking that Big Brother has been secretly hoping that Dad would be back to stay. Then again, maybe he is, and that's why he wants me to get rid of him; he probably doesn't trust himself to oust Dad completely, even though he knows it's for the best.
I smile a little at him before nodding seriously in agreement to his silent request. Slowly, as to not startle my niece, I start building my ki again and make a move to start heading towards our father with every intention to make him leave one way or another.
But someone beats me to him.
My eyes widen as I see Pan walk up to her grandfather so that she's standing directly in front of him. Then, looking up at him (as she is a whole foot shorter than him), she presses the red button on her Saiyagirl watch and the costume disappears to her normal outfit. Now I can see her eyes as clear as day and can see that she's actually not happy to see him like I thought, but angry. She's giving Goku one of the fiercest glares I've ever seen, and that's saying something seeing I've seen the glares from Mom, Bulma, and Videl.
*SMACK!*
Then she slaps him right across the face.
I watch in stunned amazement as Goku goes flying across the yard from the blow. He probably wasn't expecting her to smack him at all and thus was unprepared when she did. Also add in the fact that Pan is the strongest woman on the planet and you have my father getting floored by a simple slap. I internally laugh at this while smirking on the outside. He definitely deserved that. It takes a moment before Goku is able to recover from the vicious and unexpected blow, but Pan seems to be only getting started.
"Now you show up? Why are you here?!" she shouts in anger, still glaring daggers at my father. "I thought you were off training that other kid! What business do you have here?"
I can tell my dad is intimidated by his granddaughter as I see him flinch and cringe at her tone. I almost break out into laughter for real at seeing that since Pan is one of the nicest people on the face of this Earth, but she can definitely be intimidating when she wants to be. "P-Pan?"
"Oh wow, you recognize me!" She cuts him off sarcastically. She sounds angrier than I've ever heard her before, and now I suddenly realize how much her grandfather's absence truly affected her. She holds a huge grudge against him, more so than even I do! "I'm surprised that you were able to put it together, considering it's been ten freaking years since you've been here!"
Goku puts up his hands defensively. "Pan listen—"
"NO! You listen!" she shouts, stalking her way over to the saiyan. "You just leave like you did ten years ago with another kid and expect to just come back ten years later expecting everything to be hunky dory?" She then pokes him in the chest, hard I might add, causing him to stumble backwards a few paces. "You left! You even promised to visit but never did once! Do you know how many nights I expected you to come home and see me? I thought you loved me enough to want to at least come see me every once and a while! It certainly seemed that way when you were still here!"
Pan then glares heatedly at him again, tears now freely leaking out of her eyes. "But apparently I was wrong! You were just messing with me! I wasn't good enough for you! No, instead you leave to live with another kid that we've never met before! For the longest time I always wondered why I wasn't good enough! Was it because I was a girl and you wanted a boy? But then I heard from Uncle Goten that you did this before to Daddy too when he was a kid, and more than once!
"Once I found that out, I realized that that was just who you were! You let people think that you love them only to abandon them at the sight of the next best thing! When I was four, I poured all of my trust into you and you completely abused it! That's when I started to hate you Goku! I've never hated anyone in my life, but I hated you! I hated you for abandoning your family time and time again, and then for abandoning me!"
Suddenly, I feel Pan's ki spike and the wind picks up quickly before a golden aura explodes around her and she transforms into a super saiyan. The force of the sudden transformation forces me backwards a few paces, and as I look around through shielded eyes—as the light from her aura is so bright and the wind is incredibly strong—I see everyone else is trying hard to attempt to hold their ground. Pan is putting on an impressive display of power, and for a moment, I smirk proudly. I'm the one that has been training her for the past ten years after Goku left. At this point her ki is nearing what mine is currently, which, granted isn't as high as it was before, but is still very impressive nonetheless as I still have never dropped my transformation from before. However, my smirk fades into a scowl as I remember why she transformed in the first place: her anger at Goku.
In fact, the reminder makes me furious, as she is finally letting out how much he has truly hurt her. She had never once told me that she hated Goku, and she tells me everything! I knew that she started resenting him for leaving, but I never knew the resentment went this deep. My ki starts to rise subconsciously as a result.
I'm actually surprised that I haven't felt my brother's ki rise yet. He's the only one on this planet that is more protective of Pan than I am, and I know that this must be eating him up inside to see her so hurt. Perhaps his concern for his daughter is outweighing his anger at his father at the moment. I don't know if she ever told him that she hated Goku, but I do know that he probably is very worried about what this could be doing to her. Hatred this deep isn't healthy for someone to have, especially someone as pure-hearted as Pan.
"So go!" Pan shouts again, bringing my attention back to her at the moment. "Leave again and go somewhere else! I'm sure there are people that will be happy to see you, despite you not being here for ten years, but stay the hell out of my life! You gave up your spot in it ten years ago!" After that she looks as if he is going to charge at him an slap him again, but instead she shoots into the sky and heads towards the mountains in the distance.
As I see her fade out into the sky I instantly turn to Gohan and immediately tell him to go follow her. He looks at me shocked for a moment before nodding seriously and shooting off after his daughter. I then turn to Piccolo and Krillin, both of whom still seem to be shocked from Pan's outburst, although Piccolo looks more angry than shocked. "Piccolo! Krillin! You guys should go and tell the others not to come near here. I've got some things to settle with my father before everyone else comes to see him. Don't worry though, I know what I'm doing and I'm perfectly capable of handling myself."
My father-in-law appears as if he's about to protest, but Piccolo stops it by turning to him and saying: "You heard the man! Go and get the others. Tell them to meet at the Lookout!" Krillin only nods, casting a weary glance at me and then his best friend before shooting off into the distance towards West City. Once that is taken care of, Piccolo turns back to me. "You sure you can handle this by yourself Goten?"
I allow myself a smirk as I look at the Namekian. "Don't worry about me. You know how good I've become. Just make sure you keep Marron and my mom away until I'm done."
Piccolo returns my smirk before nodding in return and flying off. Once he fades into the distance I turn back to my father and for the very first time, I feel a wave of sympathy for the man. He looks as if he can't believe what just happened. His granddaughter just told him that she hates him and flew off. The sympathy only lasts for a moment though before my scowl returns. It's his fault she hates him. He shouldn't have left in the first place!
I cross my arms across my chest. "Now do you realize how much you screwed up?" I ask him calmly, trying to get his attention back.
He suddenly shutters, now facing me as if awakened from a daze. As if he suddenly realizes that the situation he's in is real, he gives me an incredibly guilty look and pleads to me: "Goten! Please! Give me another chance! I don't want Pan to hate me! I don't want you to hate me either! I promise you that I will never leave again! Just give me another chance!"
That plea however only serves to make me angrier. He wants another chance to let his family down? He wants another chance to hurt Pan, Gohan, and Mom?
"I'm sorry Goku, but you've had enough chances." I respond coldly. My golden aura explodes around me as I start to power up again. "I've seen what you've done with all of your other 'chances' and you only seem to create more hurt each chance you get!" The winds start to pick up again and the heat of my aura starts to create clouds in the sky around me. "You think I will just give you another chance to hurt the ones I love, just because you feel remorse now?!" Blue lighting starts to form in my aura as my ki starts to push to the level above super saiyan. "Well I've had enough!"
Using my pure fury at my father as fuel, a bolt of lightning strikes me, creating a loud bang and an even brighter flash of light as my ki skyrockets to the super saiyan 2 level. I scream at the top of my lungs as my ki just continues to grow and grow as rain starts to fall around me from my self generated storm. I'm glad that I went far enough away from everyone's houses where the power from my transformation won't completely destroy them, but even so, I still think there will be some storm damage to clean up when I get back. I couldn't care less at the moment though.
I continue to scream as my ki reaches the pinnacle of super saiyan 2 strength and then really concentrate hard for the next part. I force myself to calm down, thinking of nothing but happy moments growing up with Gohan and Mom, playing with Trunks as we grew up together, then later in life when Gohan married Videl and had Pan, and finally, when I asked Marron out and asked her to marry me. After calming myself, I finally have enough control of my ki to channel every bit of my strength into the final transformation. I feel hair start to hit my back and descend lower until it reaches my tailbone as my ki skyrockets even further.
I've just reached the level only my father and the fused form of Trunks and me had previously.
I've reached super saiyan 3.
I'm glad that Goku decided to teach Trunks and I the secrets behind the transformation during the whole Buu fiasco. This was one thing that Gohan couldn't help me with since he has his mystic form, which is stronger than super saiyan 3, so he never needed to learn how to transform. I open my eyes and glare at my gaping father, who I realize has also powered up to super saiyan 2. He probably didn't think I could reach this level. "I'm done with you Goku! You are no longer welcome in Mount Paoz and are hereby evicted from the premises at once!" With that said I charge my father with every intention of keeping him away from my family for good.
He will not hurt them anymore!
