"Put my mom down!"
Bulla charged at Frost with her fist pulled back, but Frost easily swatted her away his tail, sending her flying into the crowd of others not too far away. He continued choking Bulma out, as she desperately kicked her legs to get free.
"Is that...is that Frieza?" Yajirobe said, backing away and preparing to flee.
Chi-Chi scowled. "It's not Frieza, he's just a cheap Frieza knock-off from another universe! One who has to fight dirty or pick on helpless women to win a fight!" She took a few steps forward, and shouted out at him. "Hey loser! You're ruining my future daughter-in-law's party! Put Bulma down and go back to whatever hole you climbed out from!"
He smirked at Chi-Chi, then used his free hand to launch an energy blast at the mirror-portal he had just stepped through. It went flying off at the end of the blast, leaving a long divot in the ground.
"Looks like you're stuck with me now. But thank you for volunteering to be my next victim after I'm finished with this ugly blue-haired woman. It's been far too long since I had an enjoyable killing spree."
Chi-Chi growled, and started to charge at Frost, but Pan leaped forward and stopped her.
"I've got this one, grandma. You stay back and help with 18."
Chi-Chi hesitated a moment, then nodded. "Watch out for poison needles, honey. This sleazeball is full of dirty tricks."
Pan nodded and powered up with white flames. Marron shouted out from 18's side.
"Make him pay for hurting my mom!"
"Yeah, kick his ass, Pan!" Krillin chimed in.
Frost started to laugh. "My my, what happened to all of your great warriors, Universe 7? Is a teenage girl really the best you..."
He was cut off when Pan warped over and kneed him in the stomach, knocking the wind right out of him. She followed up with a roundhouse kick that pushed him back a few steps. In the process he dropped Bulma, who Pan caught and helped to her feet.
"Thanks Pan," Bulma said, coughing and struggling to catch her breath.
Pan nodded. "I'll take it from here. But 18 sure could use some help."
Bulma nodded back, and then ran over to do what she could to help Krillin and Marron patch up 18's wound.
Frost glared back at Pan. "You're stronger than you look, girl. If I didn't know any better, I'd guess you have some of that filthy Saiyan blood in you."
Pan smirked. "My dad and grandpa are Saiyans, and they told me about how weak you are compared to the Frieza in our universe. It's too bad you had to go and blast that mirror away. You're going to be begging to go home once I'm done with you."
"You're even worse than the female Saiyans in my universe."
Frost shot a beam of energy in Pan's direction. She swatted it away, and he lunged at her with his first wave of attacks. She countered them for the most part, and they went back and forth at each other with flurries of punches.
"That a girl, Pan! Show him what you got!" Bulla shouted out.
Yamcha crossed his arms. "She's a way better fighter than I thought. She's really taking it to that Frost guy."
Mr. Satan put his hands on his hips. "Well she does have my genes after all. What do you expect?"
"Being Gohan's daughter definitely doesn't hurt either," Videl chimed in.
They all ducked as a ki blast flew over their heads. Pan yelled out an apology and jabbed at Frost with a series of kicks that he dodged with relative ease. He grabbed her leg and used it to toss her down into the ground, then jumped at her with a punch that she rolled out of the way of just in time. He looked up from the small crater he'd just created and blocked her next attack, before knocking her back. He went at her again and she went on the defensive, falling back and absorbing a few punches here and there as she tried to dance out of the way of his attacks.
"That should do the trick for now," Bulma said. She stood up and dusted off her knees.
"Thank you so much Bulma," Krillin said, brushing a bit of 18's hair behind her ear. "She seems to breathing a little easier now."
"I don't even want to think of what would have happened if you hadn't patched her up," Marron said.
"It's the least I could do, after causing this whole mess in the first place."
Frost managed to catch Pan off guard with a right hook, which knocked the energy right out of her and sent her flying back into the ground. It took her a few moments to get back up to her feet, at which point she pulled the bandana out of her hair and locked eyes with Frost, before letting out a shout and powering up to Super Saiyan, sending her long black hair shooting straight up into golden spikes, to match the flames all around her.
"Oh, we're transforming now, are we?" Frost spat to his side.
Pan launched a volley of energy blasts in his direction, which he jumped up to avoid. She was on him instantly, and landed a half dozen good punches before she elbowed him in the back and sent him crashing into the ground below. She didn't relent, and flew down to land a spine kick, causing Frost to yelp out. She then kicked up at his stomach and sent him spinning through the air, before he landed hard on his face again. He wobbled to his feet and scowled over at her.
"That's what you get for messing with my girl Pan!" Bulla shouted over to him, with a mocking smile.
Frost pointed at her and sent a beam of pink energy flying in her direction, but Pan deflected it mid-air and shook her head at him.
"It appears I've underestimated you," Frost said. "You may even be on par with the female Saiyans from my universe. But I'm afraid you're still not strong enough."
"If you hadn't noticed, you're not a match for me at my current level," Pan said.
Frost smirked, then cackled at her. "Do you truly believe I've been fighting you at full strength? Typical, overconfident Saiyan girl!"
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Bulma said, as she and the rest of the crowd watched on with nervous anticipation.
"You see, Saiyan girl, the one you call Frieza planted a seed in my thoughts all those years ago, right before he betrayed me in that awful tournament we all took part in. That I was capable of reaching a level of power I'd never even dreamt of before. A level which would be enough to take care of all of you filthy Universe 7 warriors, who I despise even more than the fighters of my own universe. It's all I've thought of since, and imagine my glee when I finally realized how to tap into it!"
Pan clenched her fists and attempted to cut off his monologue with another onslaught, but he pushed her back with a wave of energy as he began to power up. She and the others had to put their arms up over their eyes to shield them from the dust flying out as Frost sent wave after wave of energy out across the ground. A bright silver glow engulfed his whole body for a few seconds, then broke away piece by piece, revealing what looked like a new coat of armor on his skin.
"Behold, my ultimate form! Silver Frost!"
Pan stepped up and pushed up to the next level of Super Saiyan, not taking her eyes off the now very cocky looking Frost.
"Be careful, Pan!" Krillin shouted out. "If this is anything like Frieza's golden transformation, he just got a whole lot stronger!"
She pulled back for a Kamehameha wave, then launched it straight at Frost and hit him straight on. When the dust cleared, he was still standing in the same place, unscathed and smirk still glued on his face.
Pan grit her teeth, jumped into the air, charged her fists with more energy, then sent it raining down on him. She followed up immediately by diving down at him with her arm reared back to land another punch, but he flew up through the explosion of her energy and didn't stop until he had headbutted her directly in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her entirely. He flipped back, put his hand up, and engulfed her with a wide wave energy.
She fell back through the air with her eyes closed, and landed hard in front of the group of her friends and family.
"Pan!" Videl screamed. She tried to run to her daughter's side, but Mr. Satan held her back.
Pan managed to push to her feet on wobbly legs, but she had fallen out of her Super Saiyan form and was clearly running on fumes. She put her fists up anyway, but it was obvious she wouldn't be able to do much else to defend them. Frost landed a few yards away from her and shook his head.
"I can already sense that none of the rest of you are worth my time, so I'll just put you out of your misery. Perhaps that will be enough to attract your stronger counterparts, so I can finish them off as well."
He put a hand up and began to charge once more, his laugh growing louder and louder as his energy grew to into a massive sphere.
Bulla looked over to the others, some of whom were cowering in fear, some of whom were stepping up in a vain effort to try and stop Frost's attack. Though she had never managed to summon up a ki blast in her life, she figured she had to do something. She moved up close to Tien and Krillin, who had each stepped up just behind Pan, to do whatever they could to minimize the inevitable blast.
She threw her hands up and squeezed her eyes shut once Frost sent the blast flying at them, hoping that she could summon forth some bit of latent Saiyan power to save the day, but she felt nothing. She held her breath and waited to be engulfed by the blast, but felt nothing. When she instead heard cries of relief all around her, she blinked her eyes open.
The blast had been deflected into a mountain nearby, which it was currently swallowing up in its blast radius. Next to Pan was a familiar face, who Pan flashed a weak smile at before collapsing in his arms.
"Trunks...my hero."