Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.

Age ?

Unknown planet

One day ago

After completely ransacking the planet he was on, Turles looked up at what he had grown the day before:

The Tree of Might. Towering over the buildings of what was once a populated city. The area around it, once filled with plants and life, were now completely dead with the tree being the only living plant remaining.

He was somewhat disappointed that out of all the fruit the tree had produced, only one of them had sufficiently ripened enough.

Still, his prize dangled and he happily took it from the branch.

Age 672

Earth

Turles was relishing the look on Goku's face regarding what he held in his hand.

"You're right to be fearful of this. With a single bite of this fruit, my power will be beyond both of you. I'll crush you both without effort."

The thought of what he would unleash on them both was no longer sufficient: Turles was going to make it a reality. He saw Goku taking no action to stop him as the fruit came closer to its intended destination.

"Now, Kakarot... you will be..."

*SPLATTER!*

The fruit exploded in his face. Pan had fired a blast before he could take a bite from it.

"Wait, you knew what that was, Pan?!" asked Chronoa.

"I didn't. I have no idea what that fruit thing was or what it even does. I just didn't want Turles using it."

She turned her focus back to Turles, who was blinded at the moment by some of the splattered fruit getting in his eyes. Goku didn't make any moves against his opponent even amidst his previous actions at Capsule Corp, but Pan immediately went on the offense.

Turles found himself struggling to fend her off, hits constantly getting around his defenses.

Both Towa and Mira saw what Pan had done.

"She did not let him use the fruit," began Mira. "A tactical move on her part."

"Unlike Goku, she doesn't want her opponent to power up in the midst of a fight," added Towa. "...but imagine how much it will hurt her when she is ordered to let the likes of Frieza power up. For "history's sake"."

While Turles didn't hear a single word from either of them on the comms, he already had a good idea of how they were perceiving his current predicament.

"Laughing at me, are they?!"

Managing to wipe what was left of the fruit from his eyes with his wrist, he snarled back at Pan, managing to block her incoming attacks.

Pan could tell he was in a fit of anger and Goku, seeing his opponent having recovered, leapt back into the fray. Turles didn't find it to be much of an issue stopping him, but even admist his rage, Pan was keeping up.

"I despite this form... what it does to my mind. But now, without the fruit... I have no choice."

After allowing himself to be struck down onto the ground, Turles reached down into the dirt below him and, right as Pan tried to strike him again, threw dirt into her face. After knocking her onto her stomach, he stomped on her back to pin her down as well as to keep her from effectively aiming at his next move.

"No interference from her this time..."

With a quick flick of his wrist, Goku was knocked back, allowing Turles the time and space needed to create a power ball in his hand. Seeing Goku's eyes go big, Turles smirked before tossing it high into the air. As it began to travel upward quickly, he began to close his hand.

"Burst open and mi...!"

A blast fired up at the artifical moon as Turles was about to finish...

...and upon contact, it was completely destroyed.

"No, this is...! That girl...! But she's...!"

He looked down at Pan at first, seeing that she looked as shocked as he did. He then turned to Goku, seeing his stance was that of one who had fired a blast seconds ago.

"Kakarot!"

But as he recalled how Goku had acted prior, he couldn't process this move.

"You didn't hit me when I was blinded. Because you love a good fight! You should've let me transform into a Great Ape!"

Goku, breaking off his stance for just a moment, explained.

"The first time I ever saw someone with a power ball, I knew nothing about it or what it could do. Once I recognized you using it, I countered it. That's all."

Pan, having humored Turles enough to hear Goku's explanation, fired at the ground, launching herself and Turles back, then flew into his chest with her fist. His armor began to chip as he stumbled backward only to be met with a flying kick to his knee.

Turles' leg bent and he couldn't bring himself to move it in that moment, remaining grounded. She grasped his tail, pulling it to stop him then and there, but found herself launched back with a swing of it.

Pan shouted to her grandfather, "Now, Goku!" and the two fought Turles from his left and right. Turles turned side-to-side, firing at whoever had just attacked him only to see them avoid it, then finding himself struck on the opposite side.

Pan managed to slip past his intended guard with a double axe handle, striking the back of Turles' head and flooring him. After grabbing Turles' tail a second time, before he could launch her away again...

"Kaio-Ken!"

Now the grip on his tail was even more intense and he couldn't summon the strength to move it or even lift himself up.

"Keep him right there, Pan!" went the Supreme Kai of Time. "I'm about to get Goku back!"

Trunks, still at work on the inner mechanisms of the Capsule Corp spaceship, was listening in to Chronoa.

"Wait, how long do I have until Goku gets here?"

"Less than a minute," she answered. "I'll tell you the moment Goku leaves, and once I do, he'll be there instantly."

He began to realize how this would be possible.

"You mean..."

Pan and Goku suddenly sensed something entering the area...

"Goku..."

They turned to see Mr. Popo standing atop his magic carpet.

"Mr. Popo?" went Goku, not expecting to see him there.

"Goku, climb aboard. There isn't time to discuss it."

He looked over at Pan, seeing her Kaio-Ken beginning to take a toll on her.

"I can't..." he stumbled.

During all this, Turles was crouched over, looking at the dirt.

"This cannot be happening! Me, at the mercy of an Earthling girl and a Saiyan weaker than me! If she hadn't destroyed the fruit... and if Kakarot hadn't destroyed my power ball, I'd have crushed them with ease!"

Pan saw her grandfather hesitating to leave and shouted to him, "I've got him! Now get going!"

In his rage, Turles finally began to lift one of his arms.

"No! I can't allow them to disgrace me!"

He slammed his fist into the ground, then began to lift up his head.

"I refuse to allow their mockery of me to continue any longer!"

He then struck the ground with it, which Pan immediately took note of.

"You can't afford to dawdle, Goku," went Popo hurriedly. "We must make haste!"

Seeing Goku wasn't heeding Popo's words and instead looking at Turles, Pan was losing patience with him.

"Gran...!"

She stopped, catching herself, then saw that Turles tried getting up and that his hair began to change shape.

"You will feel the wrath... of TURLES!"

A massive gust of ki, one that pushed Popo and his carpet back. Pan was rocketed away, deactivating her Kaio-Ken as she landed. Goku was launched as well, seeing that he had landed right near Popo's carpet.

All three saw Turles, his hair sticking up as a dark crimson aura flowed across him.

"What is that?" Pan wondered. "That can't be... Super Saiyan."

"It's not Super Saiyan..." answered Chronoa. "...but whatever it is, his power's gone up."

Goku saw Popo get onto the carpet first, but seeing what Turles was doing now, still didn't join Popo.

"Krillin and your son need you, Goku."

"I can't leave, Mr. Popo."

Pan tried to gesture to her grandfather as calmly as she could, even in the face of the immense prescence in front of her.

"They need you more than I do, Goku."

During all this, Turles waited...

A conversation taking place between him and Towa.

"Do you hear me, Turles?"

"Of course I do."

"Your new level of power will be more than sufficient for the task at hand."

"Do you still wish me to kill Goku?!"

"It is not necessary. You could let him go and he wouldn't get back in time. Now..."

Towa looked over at Pan, still trying to convince her grandfather to leave.

"Just focus on the patroller. Alive, just as we agreed."

"Leave this to me, Goku," Pan continued to plead.

"I can't leave you by yourself with that guy. I'm staying."

Pan was getting frustrated, knowing she couldn't tell him exactly why he had to go.

"I can't reason with my grandpa... unless... I reason with him as a fighter."

She took a step forward.

"Please... let me have this. I need this battle."

Pan didn't believe the last thing she said, but she could see Goku ruminating before begrudgingly putting one foot onto Popo's carpet.

"After everything you've done for me, I guess you've earned it."

He turned back to her.

"But you'd better be alright after this."

After Pan nodded back to him, he sat down on the carpet across from the standing Mr. Popo. And in what seemed like a flash...

...both were nowhere to be seen.

"Ready, Trunks?" asked Chronoa.

Trunks, having closed the hatch to the engine and ensuring it wouldn't accidentally open during travel, nodded towards the sky, knowing Chronoa would see it.

"Take cover!"

Trunks did so behind the Capsule Corp building as he saw Popo and Goku basically materialize not far from the spaceship.

"Thanks for the ride, Mr. Popo," went Goku graciously before hopping off towards the ship.

He turned back to Mr. Popo, who simply smiled and waved as Goku did the same with a chuckle. Just as Popo vanished away on his carpet...

"Ah, Goku, there you are..."

Dr. Briefs approached him alongside Panchy.

"We were worried about you. Now that all the commotion is over, let me show you around."

Trunks quietly groaned, realizing Goku's delay was still ongoing.

"Do you need me to tweak the engine some more?"

"We can't risk it," answered Chronoa. "At this point, we need Pan to get back to Namek as soon as possible."

A task that had just become more complicated by Turles' seeming new form.

"You don't want to make the first move?" he asked Pan, seeing her trying to remain composed. "Fine. Then I will!"

Pan got ready to guard a punch from the front, but right as he was about to make contact, he zipped around her and struck her side. Right as she came to a stop on the ground, she saw him already in front of her about to bring his foot down.

"Kaio-Ken!"

She caught the kick as she powered up, but saw that he was toying with her, only pushing down with minimal effort. He finally went with all his might, the foot and her blocking arms slamming into her chest. Pan quickly fired off with both hands to fly back, but he already floated above her, firing a burst of purple projectiles.

Pan turned and saw them, moving to avoid them, but they were too fast even with Kaio-Ken, hitting and slowly bringing her back down. Seeing Turles about to intercept her, she threw a punch only for the Kaio-Ken enhanced fist to be caught with one hand. He quickly grasped her other wrist before she could throw another punch.

"You made a fool of me... but tell me..."

He began squeezing Pan's clenched fist.

"Who is the fool now?"

As he began crushing her hand, Pan let out a cry, but in the midst of it shouted, "Kaio-Ken times three!"

Now Pan could break out of Turles' grip, delivering the punch as intended, knocking him back while still on his feet. Knowing she couldn't keep up the form for long, Pan zoomed across, striking at him from several angles, but while a few landed, Turles was keeping his guard up. All throughout, Pan felt her body just trying to keep it up.

"His power's better sustaining itself than mine is. If I can't wear him down first, he'll outlast me and then I'm finished."

But then Turles took to the sky, charging a yellow energy between his stretched out palms...

"Pan, look out!" shouted Chronoa. "Don't let those rings touch you!"

She saw a yellow ring form, then fire at her soon enough. Pan first flew past it, then saw him moving back and quickly charging another one. This one struck her shirt's shoulder, just a hair from touching her. The third fired so fast Pan couldn't avoided it by moving. Instead, she narrowed herself as straight as she could, to fly straight through the ring.

Pan slammed into Turles' chest at high speed with two fists, seeing clear chips in his armor, but he was on the offensive soon after. A dodged punch broke off his right shoulder piece followed by Turles pushing Pan back with a burst of air. As she tried to recover, she felt the full strain of the form as he came crashing into her in midair, then flew the two of them into the ground.

A crater formed with dirt displaced and flying around it as he stood over Pan, whose Kaio-Ken times three finally gave out.

Towa and Mira saw the drained Pan lying half-buried after the last collision with Turles.

"Good, Turles," Towa went in congratulation. "Now remain where you are and keep her..."

"Actually, Towa..." Turles interrupted...

...as he lifted up Pan with one hand by her neck. She couldn't hear his conversation with Towa, but could see his face morphing from rage to contentment.

"I don't need that additional wish now."

"We made an agreement..." pleaded Towa. "Four in total if you bring the patroller to me alive."

"Well I've had a change of heart."

Now Pan could feel him fully squeezing her neck as she gripped his wrist with both hands to try pulling him back.

"I can't condone what she did to me, so I'd prefer execution. Is that going to be a problem for you?"

"We gave you this opportunity, Turles. You won't be able to get a single wish without us."

"Oh? Is that an ultimatum brewing, Towa?"

An invisible eye beam struck Turles' face, causing his head to go back...

...but his grip on Pan never waved and Turles showed no damage from the impact.

"You will get no wishes unless you stop this now! Do you hear me, Turles?!"

His other hand reached into his ear, taking out the earpiece.

"Turles...!"

He held the earpiece, between his thumb and index finger...

"This is your last chance! You better listen to me right this...!"

...then crushed it.

Towa couldn't believe it as she heard the loss in radio contact.

"He has gone rogue," stated Mira.

"That does it!" began Towa. "Mira, I'm sending you down there to...!"

Towa stopped as Mira put a hand on her shoulder.

"Her demise will serve your mission. Without her, the Time Patrol will lose too much time. By the time she's replaced, you will have won."

As Towa tried to come up with a response, Mira continued.

"You told her you would go to any length, correct?"

She still didn't say a word back, but nodded to him.

"Then we must not intervene."

After the dust-like brittle of the earpiece flew out of his hand with the wind, he turned that hand to Pan's throat as well.

"Can't break out of one hand... and now..."

Turles' grin only grew as he saw Pan's hands letting go of his arm and dropping.

"Lost your will to survive, have you?" he playfully taunted.

He cackled, seeing the patroller who had humiliated him earlier finished and whose life was now in his hands.

"I'm going to enjoy watching the life leave your eyes..."

In his moment of sheer satisfaction, Turles' eyes were locked onto Pan's twisting and squirming face...

...while below, her hands had formed two pink orbs that grew.

"If this can't do it, nothing else will..."

By the time Turles finally picked up a pink glow emerging onto Pan's face and below him...

The two had combined together and Pan thrusted this massive orb forward into his chest. The force alone caused him to release Pan and not only did it sear away at his chest armor, it also seemed to pull him closer to it even as he tried to get away from it.

"Damned...!"

Pan was crouched over keeping herself off the ground with her hands, coughing and just trying to breath again as she knew the orb wouldn't last much longer.

Sure enough, it detonated, and Turles was sent a distance from her onto his back, but not long after the back of his wrists struck the ground he lied on, he lifted himself back up.

"No more taking my time! Now I'll finish you for good!"

Pan saw him clearly telegraphing an intended blast, and didn't like the odds.

"Even if I avoid it, he'll just fly in and beat me there."

Just as she finished that thought, she saw Turles had already covered the distance. Right as he fired, Pan managed to duck underneath between Turles' legs, then grabbed onto his tail once more. As much as it seemed useless with his power-up, at least at the moment, she was out of his sight.

"Come here!"

He swung his tail so he could strike at the dangling Pan, but she fired a gust with one of her hands to send it and herself the other way. After this happened a second time, Turles flung his tail upward, launching Pan into his back. This allowed him to grab her by her ankles and slam her into the ground. He put out a single palm, not intending to delay the killing blow with a single word...

"Ack!"

Right as the blast was about to fire, the built up ki so far faded and Turles fell to his knees, that hand now gripping his chest.

"My heart...! No... not now!"

Pan didn't understand what was happening, but now that Turles was vulnerable, she finally shouted, "Kaio-Ken Times Four!" and flew past him multiple times in a blurry frenzy of red.

Turles was in no condition to defend himself, even with the form he had, as bits and pieces of his armor flew around him until he received a gut punch of such force that he was launched into the air. He couldn't control his ascent, unable to stop or redirect himself as he saw Pan gathering blue ki in her hands while chanting...

"Ka... me..."

If Turles couldn't move in midair, he would at least snuff her out first with a blast of his own.

"Now you're taking your time?!"

"Ha..."

Turles' attack was now fully charged.

"Me...!"

It moved towards Pan quickly, massive enough to envelop her.

"You can regret it in Hell!"

"HAAAAA!"

Right as the blast looked like it was about to incinerate her on contact, a massive Kamehameha tore straight through it, the purple blast splitting like a log as it neared Turles.

As he put out his hands in a vain effort to protect himself, he shouted in his head, "Towa, get me out of here! Now! Please!"

It then occurred to him that in his rage and vendetta against his opponent, he had crushed his earpiece, ridding himself of his own support.

"I really am a fool..."

Pan watched as Turles was flung farther and farther into the sky screaming until she lost sight of him completely. Once she was assured that Turles was finished, Pan stopped her blast and exited Kaio-Ken...

...she fell onoth her back, muscles massive and aching from all the energy she had used.

"That... was too close..."

All around her was a familiar flash of light...

...and as she emerged back in the Time Nest library, Beetro crouched over to her side.

"I am sorry, but there is no time for a proper recovery."

Pan saw Chronoa's posture all the worse since earlier...

...and then saw the Supreme Kai of Time collapse onto the ground.