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The Next Super Saiyan

Chapter 8 - Shadows Of The Past

One Month Later

Vegeta: "you have been here three months Stoppable, what makes you think you can defeat me?"

Ron: "I …..I just feel it in my gut"

Vegeta: "very well Stoppable, its your funeral"

Ron: "Lets do it!!"

Vegeta: "TAKE THIS!!!"

Ron: "Ha!! You missed, now its my turn,….. HA!!! GOTCHA!!"

Vegeta: "NO!! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE, HOW COULD I BE DEFEATED?"

Vegeta threw his Playstation controller to the floor and stormed out the door, leaving a laughing Ron in his wake

Ron: "Oh come on!! Nobody likes a sore loser"

Pan then walked through the door.

Pan: "Hey Ron, what's up with Vegeta?"

Ron shrugged and put down his controller

Ron: "Apparently he REALLY hates losing, so what brings you down this neck of the woods?"

Pan hesitated for a moment before speaking

Pan: "Well I was just going to visit some old friends and I was wondering if you wanna come?"

Ron smiled his goofy smile

Ron: "Sure, Vegeta said if I beat him I could have the day off"

Ten minutes later Ron and pan were both racing across the landscape to the west.

Ron finally broke the silence

Ron: "So Pan, where are we off to?"

Pan looked back to Ron.

Pan: "He is an old friend of my dads, but he doesn't get many visitors, so I promised I would visit every now and then, plus the food is great and we are nearly there, look up ahead"

Ron looked where Pan had gestured to see a white tower coming out of the ground and reaching up past the clouds.

Ron: "Wow, that is a tall tower"

Pan: "And we are going right to the top, race you"

At that pan powered up and shot upwards towards the top of the tower leaving a white trail behind her while Ron smirked

Ron: "Your on!!"

Jut as Pan had done a moment before Ron powered up and followed his friend.

In less then thirty seconds Ron had caught up with Pan. Who had stopped at what seemed to be a platform halfway up the tower.

Ron: "Hey pan is this the place?"

Pan: "No, we need to go further up"

Ron then saw the strangest sight he had ever seen, a cat walking on its hind legs and carrying a stick

Ron: "Hey cool, a cat that can do tricks haha"

Cat: "Well if it isn't Pan, how have you been kid?"

Pan: "Just fine thanks Korin, hey I want you to meet a new friend, this is Ron…..ummm Ron?"

Pan turned to Ron who was now staring wide eyed at Korin

Ron: "A talking cat? I have got to stop being so surprised at things that happen in my life"

Pan: "Haha, true, Well we have to be off before we are late, bye Korin"

As pan and Ron were about to take off again Korin spoke up

Korin: "WAIT!! Take these"

Korin then threw a small brown bag to pan who caught it in her left hand

Korin: "They are Sensu Beans, over the years they have kind of piled up and you never know when you will need them"

Pan smiled appreciately and placed the bag in her pocket

Pan: "Thanks Korin, bye"

After a few minutes of flying up the tower they finally saw the top, it was a huge platform balanced perfectly on top of the tower.

Pan: "Ron, welcome to the Watchtower, this is where the guardian of the earth lives"

Ron looked surprised

Ron: "Hey yeah, trunks told me all about this place, including that a green alien lives here"

Pan: "Yes, that's who we came to visit, his name is Dende"

As Ron and Pan landed on the platform they were greeted by a small man wearing a turban.

Pan: "Hi Mr Popo"

Popo: "Hello pan its nice to see you, and who is this?"

Pan turned around to see that Ron was still standing behind her

Pan: "Oh sorry, this is Ron, Ron this is Mr Popo"

Ron stepped forward and offered his hand to the strange man who happily shook it

Popo: "I will inform Dende that you are here, please feel free to look around the watch tower"

After Mr Popo disappeared into the structure pan turned to Ron and spoke

Pan: "Well you heard the man, lets have a look around"

And so Ron and pan started to explore the watchtower and quite frankly got pretty bored, the only thing of interest was a locked room which had a picture of two hourglasses.

After a while they came across another door, this one had a picture of a pendulum engraved on the door.

Pan tried it to find that it was open, as she tried to walk in Ron spoke up.

Ron: "Ummm pan, are you sure that is a good idea"

Pan: "Don't worry, Mr Popo said to look around, so lets look"

Pan then walked through the door and Ron let out an annoyed sigh

Ron: "Are all girls like this, or just the ones I know?"

With that Ron followed

The room was not much to look at, the walls were white and in the centre of the room was a golden pendulum which seemed to be floating in mid air

Pan: "Well, this was a big waste of time, lets go see Dende"

As Ron and pan started to walk towards the exit, the door slammed shut

Pan: "Hey, what gives"

Pan tried to open the door only to find it was locked, then they both heard something moving behind them.

They looked to see that the pendulum had started moving when all of a sudden they were overcome with a wave of drowsiness

Ron: "Uhhhh pan? What's ……. going…. On?" was all Ron could get out before falling to the floor asleep followed shortly by pan.

Meanwhile outside Mr Popo and Dende were looking for Ron and Pan

Popo: "They have to be around here somewhe…… oh no!!!"

Mr Popo spotted a bright white light coming from under a door just down the hall

Dende: "What is is Mr Popo?"

They both walked towards the door, Mr Popo took a deep breath before opening the door, but after the door was open they found the room was empty apart from the golden pendulum.

Popo: "This is not good!!!"

Dende however was fascinated with the room

Dende: "Mr Popo…. What is this place?"

Popo: "this Dende is the new pendulum room, it has the power to transport people into past events"

Dende: they change what happened in the past?????"

Popo: "No, what they will see are mearly shadows of the past, they can interact with what is happening but they cannot change the bigger outcomes"

Dende let out a sigh of relief before speaking

Dende: "Well…… can they get back?"

Popo: "Yes…… after the past events are over they will be transported back here……"

Dende looked at his friend with a suspiciously

Dende: "……. Why do I feel a "but" coming on"

Popo cringed before speaking

Popo: "But it could take days, weeks or even months for them to see what the room will show them"

Ron blinked slowly as his eyes tried to adjust to the light, as a breeze flew through his hair he realised he was outside, when he opened his eyes fully he noticed a very strange sight….. Two suns.

Ron: "Ok………that cant be good"

Ron sat up to look at his surroundings, he noticed oddly shaped tall buildings along with dozens of spherical ships zooming around in the air, he then noticed something else, pan was unconscious next to him.

Shooting over to pan he knelt down and used his right arm picked up her head and tried waking her.

Ron: "Yo Pan come on, nap times over"

Pan slowly started to wake up and looked up at Ron.

Pan: "Ron, will you read me the story about the bunny?"

Ron looked at her with a confused look

Ron: "Ok…..I am gonna ask you about that later, but right now we have more pressing matters"

Ten minutes later pan was fully awake and she and Ron were now exploring the city, everyone they walk past seemed to give them a dirty look.

Ron: "Uhhh pan, have you noticed something about these people?"

Pan: "Yes, everyone looks like they want to hurt us"

Ron thought for a moment

Ron: "Well…. Yes, but I was thinking of something else, look at them, they all have black hair and if you look very carefully you will notice a very familiar tail poking out of all there backs"

Pan looked around for a moment before realising Ron was right

Pan: "Oh my god!!! There Saiyans"

Ron: "Yep, every damn one of them,….. Pan…. I think I know where we are"

Pan looked at Ron with curiously

Ron: "Its…. The planet Vegeta"

Pan: "But……. I thought planet Vegeta was destroyed"

Ron: "Well we'll have to figure it out later, right now we have to get of the street, its getting dark and I don't think it would be smart to be outside at night"

Pan nodded in agreement and looked around until she noticed a small bar

Pan: "How about over there?"

Ron looked in the direction pan pointed

Ron: "Works for me"

They both inspected the insides of the bar, there were Saiyans everywhere, most were drunk and a bunch of them were arm wrestling

Pan: "So, what do you think?"

Ron grabbed pan and quickly pulled her down just in time to avoid a saiyan being thrown through the air into a wall behind them

Ron: "I think we were safer outside"

A few minutes later they were both sat alone at the bar looking into a couple of glasses that were filled with something that was still alive, totally unaware that a familiar figure had spotted them from down the bar and taken an interest before his friend snapped him out of it

?????: "Hey Bardok, hello anyone there

Bardok snapped out of his gaze

Bardok: "What, oh sorry Kaja"

Kaja: "What's up?"

Bardok once again turned his attention to the two strangers and decided to try something, reaching into his side pack he pulled out his scouter and attached it to his head

Bardok: "Well now lets see"

Bardok pushed a few buttons on the scouter.

Bardok: "Humph! A power level of less than 3 each, they're pathetic, but, there's something familiar about the female"

Kaja: "Hah!! Well it looks like there is someone else interested in the girl, look"

Bardok turned and saw that sure enough a familiar huge elite class Saiyans called Kain was walking towards the two

Pan flinched in shock when a big Saiyan grabbed her arm and started to try and drag her away from the bar

Pan: "HEY!!! LET GO OF ME"

Kain: "I don't think so, your coming home with me tonight, you will make a fine mate hahahahaha….."

Kains laughter was cut short when another hand had grabbed his wrist, both pan and Kain followed the arm to…

Ron: "Now, I cant allow that" Ron spoke very calmly before prying pans arm from the Saiyans grip and sitting back down, Kain however was very persistent and once again grabbed pans arm

Kain: "I SAID YOUR COMING WITH ME!!!"

For Ron this was the last straw, he jumped quickly and planted his left hand on the bar and then with his body completely horizontal he spun around and planted his boot directly in the Saiyans face, this is turn caused Kain to fly back crashing into a pile of stools

Bardok and Kaja: "WHAT!!!!"

Kain meanwhile had pulled himself out of the splintered stools and marched towards Ron with a pissed look on his face

Kain: "YOU, DO YOU KNOW WHAT I AM???"

Ron: "ugly all day" at this response pan couldn't help but let out a giggle but soon she realised that the entire bar was laughing, except for Kain who still seemed to be figuring out what Ron had just said

Kain: "duuuuh?"

Ron: "somehow I knew you would say that" at this the bar down right broke into laughter

Bardok: "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh I like that kid, it's a shame Kain is probably gonna destroy him now haha"

Kain: "GRRRRRR, STOP LAUGHING!!!!!"

After Kain finished shouting he shot at Ron and started to try to punch him, but Ron was just too fast, Kain let out a left and ron just ducked under it and he continued this for a few minutes, it was as if ron wasent trying

Ron: "missed me, nope, over here, try again"

Kain: "DAMN YOU, STAY STILL!!!"

Ron: "Ok"

The crowd were shocked by this as Ron stopped moving and stayed perfectly still and kain took full advantage of it, he pulled back his fast and put all his power into one punch

Kain: "HAAAAA"

It was a perfect hit Kains fist directly into Ron's face, but everyone were shocked to see that Ron was still standing, in fact, he was smiling

Kain: "WHAT?, IMPOSSIBLE"

Kain took a few steps back before rushing at Ron again only this time he was met by a powerful backhand from Ron that sent Kain flying through the door to the bar.

Ron sat back down and turned to pan

Ron: "Well, that was fun" pan however was in a dream world

Pans mind: "He… he defended me, oh what a sweetheart!!!"

However the peace was soon broken by Kain smashing his way through the doors followed by a dozen other men, he then pointed at Ron and shouted

Kain: "THAT'S HIM"

A moment later Ron and pan were back to back in the centre of the bar in there battle stances surrounded by Saiyans when pan spoke up

Pan: "Hey you think you can take this many?"

Ron looked back at pan and said

Ron: "It might be difficult if one more shows up"

Pan: "Well then I guess I'll have to take that one"

Ron: "Oh wait!! Are you fighting too?" Ron said sarcastically as Ron's and pans eyes met and they both flashed watchtower an almost sadistic smile and a moment later they both jumped towards there respective piles of Saiyans

Bardok and Kaja watched on in amazement as the two strangers started to take apart the gang of Saiyans Bardok decided to re check there power levels when the results came out he couldn't believe it

Bardok: "Th….there just as strong as Freezas Lieutenants!!"

To be continued…….

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