10/20/19 update:

I haven't posted a chapter to this story here since March. Whatever the reason for this may be, I don't want to make excuses. I simply wish to continue where I left off, but also work towards a better method of writing here going forward.

To ensure I can finish this story proper, the remaining chapters will be either partly or entirely summarized in shorter detail. It is not ideal or what I wanted to do, but it is the only way I will be able to write out 60+ chapters of what will become a massive tale.

Lastly, I give a guarantee: this and the next six chapters will be out daily, and all future chapters until the conclusion will be out, at most, on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. I won't let months of inactivity occur again.

For those who have awaited this story's continuation, I sincerely apologize for the delay. I can only hope that the remaining chapters, summarized as they may be, will be satisfying. Good writing or bad, I will see Pan's Ascent through to the last typed word.

Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.

The first couple weeks in the Training Chamber start off comfortably enough for Pan, but upon finding that she has hardly increased her power level since she had entered, Tien decides to have himself, Yamcha, and Chiaotzu step up their sessions so she can level up to the required power level needed to even stand a chance against Nappa and Vegeta. Pan repeatedly finds herself struggling to keep up with Yamcha in their foot races, unable to prevent Chiaotzu and his clones from getting a hold of her ala-Saibamen, and being completely outclassed in her spars with Tien.

In her dreams, Pan thinks back to the 29th World Martial Arts Tournament final between Videl and her grandfather's former rival Spopovich. Despite appearing to be little more than a slow and brutish oaf throughout his initial matches, Spopovich's style completely changed, becoming much faster and more disciplined thanks to his time with the Crane School. Videl's training with Master Roshi allowed her to stand up to and match Spopovich with the battle seeming even throughout.

Back in Toki Toki City, as the Supreme Kai of Time is straining to slow down the most recent alteration in time, she sees Pima in the Time Nest with her, having slipped past the guard Ziko. The full-blooded Saiyan suspected that most of the city's power was going into giving Pan a fighting chance after what happened prior with Raditz and insisted that he would be the better candidate to take on the battle.

Distressed by the months that had passed with little to no progress to show regarding her power level, Pan finds herself falling apart in her sessions, either trying to succeed through rage or through allowing herself to take punishment. Tien sees this and refuses to aid her in improving through attempting to abuse the zenkai boost alone.

Infuriated at her mixed human and Saiyan heritage failing to elevate her, Pan angrily questions how she is stuck where she is when her mother Videl fought Hercule, whom managed to defeat Cell and Goku before she was born. Having lost all patience with her, Tien angrily discloses that Hercule didn't defeat Cell and that his "victories" against super-powered fighters were all hoaxes. At first, Pan denied what Tien had told her, but then memories of the 29th tournament came rushing back to her:

She witnessed her mother going for one final kick to end the match aimed for Spopovich's neck, only for Videl to hesitate and strike his shoulder, dislocating his arm. In that instant, Spopovich took aim with his other hand, firing a dodon ray through her left knee. With Videl vulnerable, he tackled her out of the square, slamming her into the ground outside the ring to win the match. Immediately afterward, Spopovich went on to tell the audience that Hercule defeating Cell was all a hoax and that he and Videl were beneath the bio-android. The crowd didn't buy it, Spopovich found himself booed by all the onlookers for daring to insult the champ, and Pan found no reason to believe him...

But with all Tien had revealed to her, Pan was crushed by the realization that what she considered a lie and slander against Hercule all those years ago was all true. She realized Hercule and even her mother, both humans, were nothing compared to Saiyans. Pan was left to ponder how she was only one-fourth Saiyan while the remaining three-fourths made her a "weakling".