Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.
"My body..."
Ginyu's current state didn't garner any shock from Goku.
"You! Saiyan! What have you done to this body?!"
"It's the Kaio-Ken."
Pan, Krillin, Gohan, and Vegeta all understood this, though Guldo, Jeice, and Ginyu were perplexed at that being the cause.
"That's preposterous. It made me stronger."
"That's just the thing, Ginyu: you overused it. You're supposed to use it in bursts, especially the higher up you go. You used it for minutes instead of seconds."
Goku actually managed to lift his top half upward off the ground with his arms, albeit slowly.
"Even with how much I trained my body for this, I can't use Kaio-Ken forever. I know my own limits, but you had no idea. Times Four would've torn you apart had it not stopped when it did."
"You mean I could've killed myself using this...! And you didn't bother to warn me?!"
"If it meant stopping you..."
Ginyu thought back to his brief battle with Goku, where he was blown away by the Saiyan's power with Kaio-Ken alone. He chuckled aloud upon hitting a realization.
"To think, Saiyan... you could have finished me off with this power."
"Indeed..."
A voice from above.
"And that is why he will never become the legendary Super Saiyan. But me..."
Vegeta channeled ki in his palms.
"I will gladly destroy you where you stand, Ginyu!"
Pan caught just a glimpse of the purple aura, seeing he wasn't completely under Towa's control, but was being lightly coerced into this new deed.
"Now you two watch as I snuff out your commanding officer!" he told Guldo and Jeice directly.
Without needing to hear from Trunks or the Supreme Kai of Time on the matter, Pan flew up to block Vegeta's shot.
"Wait!"
"Oh what now?! You have a soft spot for Ginyu all of a sudden?!"
She had to convince Vegeta to spare Ginyu, but in a way that fit with his mannerisms.
"The others... those two..."
He looked down at Guldo and Jeice, who happened to hear Pan.
"What's this then?" Jeice exclaimed. "Why's she targeting us now?"
"So you're suggesting I finish them first? Have Ginyu watch as his underlings drop one by one?"
The purple aura left him and Vegeta liked this prospect Pan had given him.
"You Earthlings aren't so bad after all."
Now he appeared to be picking between two targets.
"Between the two, I'd suggest..." began Chronoa.
Pan saw Gohan had already decided to take on one of the two himself, flying right into Jeice, who was forced to hop to the side. Seeing as how she was left with...
"Guldo. He's been throwing history off since the start, so I figure the sooner he's out of commission..."
"Put all your focus on him, Pan. Ensure he makes no further changes."
She prepared to fly forward and saw Vegeta doing the same. The two exchanged no words, but knew they would be working together to bring down the same target. Guldo saw the two aiming for a collision with him and held his breath…
…seeing the two frozen in front of him, Gohan trying to strike a rolling Jeice, and Ginyu walking towards Goku on foot. He held out both hands in front of him, as if grasping something, then clamped them together.
"Have fun with that when time resumes."
Hopping away from the two, he exhaled…
…and both Pan and Vegeta found themselves slamming into each other before leaving a crater in the ground. Gohan stopped for a second upon seeing this, then barely avoided a slash from Jeice's ki blade, a few pieces of hair from his bowl cut floating in the air afterward.
"Agh!" went Vegeta in annoyance, brushing himself off. "Where in the hell did he go?!"
He tried using his ki sense to track Guldo, but found…
"I can't sense him!"
Goku could be heard in the distance trying to move, but couldn't.
"There!"
Ginyu saw Goku trapped and prepared to fire…
…when Guldo's telekinesis was cut short by him having to avoid a ki blast from Krillin, who then stood in front of Goku.
"You want to get to Goku, you're going to have to go through me!"
Ginyu found the prospect before him, even with his body in the state it was in, to be ludicrous.
"Hah! Jeice told me Recoome brought you down with one kick. And the Saiyan did the same to him with one punch, all without Kaio-Ken. Now what makes you think this will be even remotely fair?"
"Hey!" shouted Goku. "Underestimate Krillin at your own peril. He's half the reason I'm what I am today."
This is where Krillin would typically begin to sweat or shiver from nervousness, but instead, he held his position and stance, standing almost stoically.
"You want to push me around? Well go on then. Try it."
Chronoa and Trunks surveyed the area, witnessing the two one-on-battles, as well as Pan and Vegeta trying to find and pursue Guldo.
"I wanted to double check with you two to make sure it's okay before I do anything…"
"Yes, Pan?" the Supreme Kai of Time replied.
"If I can land a killing blow on Guldo, should I go for it?"
"After all this time since Dodoria..." Trunks pondered. "Do we know how it works exactly?"
"I believe I have a rationale for it:" Chronoa began to answer. "We remove him from play, dead or alive, and he no longer affects the timeline."
"Got it."
Pan now flew towards Guldo with greater speed and power than before, which Vegeta found curious, then almost delightful.
"The Earthling girl's trying to kill Guldo now. Good."
As Guldo avoided Pan's fastest and fiercest attack on him so far, Gohan traded blows with Jeice. The Son of Goku, while trying to fight with more control and calm after the damage he inflicted to Ginyu in his father's body, was still more than Jeice could have anticipated.
"He wasn't even like this against Recoome. He must be a Saiyan too."
Ginyu's offensive still packed power and speed, so Krillin opted to avoid direct blows where he could and redirected otherwise. After hopping over a blast, Krillin flew in for a kick.
Ginyu saw this clearly telegraphed and blocked it with his left arm, intending to immediately counter with ki charging in his right hand.
"You foo...!"
He reeled just from the blocked hit, his right forced to grab onto his left. Without touching the ground, Krillin repositioned himself, kicking Ginyu repeatedly into the air before slamming him back down with a double axe handle to the face.
Ginyu groaned, the successful hits past his guard even more agonizing than the blocked hit from before, and having pieces of his scouter all over his face.
"Krillin breaking Ginyu's scouter means we're back on track!" Trunks exclaimed. "Just keep Guldo at bay."
From where Ginyu lied, he noticed Jeice sliding on his front from a hit by Gohan, then grasping his side as he was slow to lift himself back up.
"Jeice! Get it together!"
"I'm sorry, Captain. This wound from Vegeta... it's..."
He used his other gloved hand to cover a cough, soon followed by a rougher one.
"I... don't think I'm gonna make it..."
Guldo, looking at both his comrades, believed that they, along with himself, were about to lose.
"There has to be something I can do. Something to turn things around."
It occurred to him that the impact of everyone to the area around them, be it crashing into or striking the ground directly, had led to the grass and dirt being sprinkled with debris.
"All that rubble..."
But trying to decipher the solid rocks from the gravel was proving too much of a hassle, as would trying to launch it with telekinesis in one sitting.
"Unless... with enough force..."
He knew he was about to give out his position to Pan and Vegeta, but he shouted out his new scheme.
"Captain! Jeice! Hit the ground as hard as you can!"
"Hit the ground?!"
"What good's that gonna...?!"
"Just do it!"
Ginyu, rolling away from a diving kick by Krillin, then made it to his knees, then raised his fists upward. Jeice blasted at the ground beneath him to propel him away from Gohan, then followed suit with his commanding officer. As Guldo saw his two pursuers ready to pounce on him, he picked out a spot at the center of a crater formed from battles earlier to make his last stand.
"NOW!"
Ginyu and Jeice's collective two-handed slams to Namek's surface caused a noticeable shake and some cracks, but primarily led to countless pebbles and rocks going straight upward amongst the bulk of dirt launched primarily.
"Deep breath..."
Vegeta's fist approached his view towards him...
...and stopped before it could touch his face.
"I need to stop having these close calls be this close..."
He stepped back, seeing Vegeta and Pan moments from hitting where he stood, but primarily gazed at the dirt in the air around the area standing in midair like frozen rain. Even as it was now, he still had trouble finding which projectiles within the clumps would be the most harmful.
"I don't have time to figure out what's rock and what's dirt! I just need to launch them!"
He reached out with his telekinesis and the moment he felt a mass in his grip, he put out his hands as if launching something in real time. His first target:
"For you, my prince."
He set up enough for Vegeta that he'd he swarmed all around him. Next:
"And for you, meddlesome girl."
Once Pan was prepared for bombardment by debris, he leapt out of the hole, making his way to between Ginyu and Jeice's battles.
"Now for these two small fries!"
As quickly as he could, he arranged all that he could manage to strike Gohan and Krillin. He wasn't sure if this was the longest he had ever held his breath before, but regardless, Guldo couldn't hold it for that much further.
"Agh! I forgot...!"
Among his four primary targets was one more enemy.
"Can't forget the monkey in the captain's old body!"
He took whatever wasn't already going to launch in resumed time and directed it to Goku.
"It sucks that I can't break necks in stopped time. It'd make battle so much easier."
Falling to his knees and hands, he knew it was time.
"Dodge this, you Earthling and monkey scum!"
He exhaled...
...almost gagging from how much it took out of him as time resumed.
Gohan, seeing dirt fly upward from Jeice's ground slam, then heard and felt a ripping in the air:
Rocks whizzed past him, barely missing, as others were on target towards him. Planting his feet into the ground, Gohan punched at them, turning as rapidly as he could in place, trying to discern where and when all of the rest were coming.
"Can't let one of these hit! At the speed they're traveling at, at best, it'll tear skin!"
In real time, Pan and Vegeta both struck the ground with their right fists, the Saiyan Prince striking first, then felt something fly through his hair. He didn't have time to gasp or be shocked, sharpening his senses to whatever else was flying towards him.
Pan looked straight ahead upon impact, catching a glimpse of a projectile fast approaching. Her right hand chopped this rock, the halves passing by her head, as her left, almost instinctively, reached behind her for her power pole as more and more came in.
She turned around, chopping one coming behind her while her power pole broke another. Pan couldn't quite sense the projectiles, but tried feeling the air around her for tears. Pan swung her polearm, switching between two-handed swings like a sword and spinning it in one like a propeller, all around and even above her against this swarm.
So far, nothing was reaching her, save for bits and dust vying to throw her off, but having to react to this many at this speed at once was no small feat for Pan. She recalled dodging a bullet, but Guldo's projectiles...
"They're even faster!"
Pan didn't have the time to see how Vegeta was doing...
...who at first stuck to punching and swatting rocks away, then, as he became more comfortable with their speed, fired at them in bursts before they could reach him. He saw a miniature dust storm with red streaks around Pan, looking like it was contained in a dome.
What was merely seconds straight felt to her like she had been defending herself against this barrage for a whole minute. Maybe one rock slipping past her wouldn't harm her that much, but Pan wasn't about to risk it. She treated the idea of one striking her like a bullet with a normal human.
"Not one! Can't let one hit!"
Even with her laser focus, the power pole twirled out of her hands behind her. She scurried to catch it with two more rocks left. A kick hit the first as Pan turned to stop the polearm from touching the ground. The last rock came in lower, almost perfectly towards her crouching.
Like a quick sword draw, Pan turned, the power pole meeting its mark before it could touch her. Two streaks of dusty mist flew behind her as she breathed out, the ordeal over.
"Guldo got really creative with that one."
She looked back to Vegeta, who continued firing at rocks with little care in the world. He was so confident that as he saw just one projectile remaining, instead of getting out of the way of it, he leaned his head towards it. What seemed at first like a headbutt to knock it away from Pan's perspective was actually Vegeta catching this piece of rock with his teeth. Upon turning towards her, he clamped down, crunching it in two, then spat out the other half.
But Pan immediately shrugged off Vegeta's attempt to taunt her when she sensed two of her allies active in that moment.
"Guldo didn't just target us!"
"Gh!"
Pan immediately recognized the voice of the young man...
Gohan, one rock managing to strike his right leg, forced him to fall to his knees as one last rock, one much larger, raced towards his face.
Pan tried aiming her hand to fire, but the combination of her distance from it and its rate of speed meant any blast of hers would be too late to stop it.
"Dad! Get out of the way!"
As she feared, it hit. Gohan dropped onto his back.
"DAD!"
She ran straight to Gohan, lifting up his upper body. She first noticed blood on his right pant leg, meaning the first rock to hit him did do damage even to a half Saiyan like her father. This made her all the fearful of what this meant for the larger one that impacted his face.
"Please tell me it didn't...!"
She didn't feel any blood on the back of his hair, meaning it didn't pierce through him.
"But his face..."
She put her hand over Gohan's face, not wanting to anticipate it with a gory hole in the center of it, but she had to be sure...
...but instead felt his cheek and nose. She then clearly felt air puffing from his nostrils and took her hand off Gohan's nose. Pan looked at his face, seeing that it wasn't covered in blood.
"It wasn't a rock at all."
"It was just a clump of dirt," Gohan added before coughing.
He tried wiping his face with his wrists, then stopped, staring off at Pan for a moment.
"What is it?"
"Are you crying?"
Pan didn't realize she had a few tears coming down her cheeks since she first held him.
"I thought I lost you."
She thought of wiping her tears, but couldn't think of how to without letting go of Gohan. He reached over and wiped the tears below her left eye, then winced from trying to move his right leg.
"Easy..."
Gohan lifted his head away from Pan for a moment to see another dust storm in the direction of Krillin and his father as she noticed it as well.
This whole time, Krillin was on double duty: protecting himself and keeping others from hitting Goku. Even while Goku could move, he wasn't going to be fast enough to avoid them freely.
Earlier, the Earthling fired a large orb above him, which seemed to negate some of the rocks above him. Since then, he span around constantly, rapidly firing with ki bullets.
Guldo, who watched this closely, saw a few rocks manage to scratch Krillin's arms and the sides of his pant legs.
"It won't take much longer now..."
Krillin persisted, then tilted his arms while dodging some in front of him as what at first looked like small beams came down around him...
...but were actually orbs like the larger one from before.
"WHAT?!"
Almost like remote control, two came down to the sides of Krillin, keeping rocks from getting to him and leaving him able to focus on the front and back. Two more landed near Goku's sides, protecting him while only his front was exposed. Now Krillin was free to simply dodge them, backflipping and seeing rocks either fly over him or collided with others heading in the opposite direction.
"Think you're such a clever Earthling, but now your ally will..."
Krillin's upper body faced Goku and the rocks about to impact him. With one more rapid stream of ki bullets, the rocks scattered before they could make impact with his best friend.
"Damn it..."
Looking over to see Vegeta, Pan, and Gohan still alive in the distance, Guldo punched the ground himself.
"I did nothing," he openly mused, his voice hoarse.
With Goku saved from being skewered, Krillin turned to make sure that was the case.
"You okay, Goku? Nothing got you, right?"
"No. Nothing did. That was amazing, Krilli..."
Goku's initial smile turned sour and his eyes shot wide open.
"Goku?"
"BEHIND Y...!"
Ginyu wrapped his arms around Krillin, trying to squeeze him. Krillin's arms stuck out upward, but the crushing pressure left him unable to aim his hands for blasts at Ginyu.
"Don't be so down on yourself, Guldo," Ginyu went, trying to cheer him up. "Thanks to that, now we can take a piece off the board."
"Make that two, Captain."
Pan and Gohan saw Jeice, who eyed the child's right knee.
"Think you can take me with a bum leg, little squirt?"
He drew his ki blade, then flew towards them.
"Let's see you try it!"
Pan was sure she could roll herself and Gohan out of the way...
"Get down!" her father shouted.
Gohan floated out of Pan's hands to face Jeice while she lied down. Jeice went for a chop with Gohan almost appearing to have hopped over it. For Jeice, it gave him deja vu of seeing Recoome perform something similar to Gohan...
...and like Recoome had done to Gohan upon dodging it, now Gohan struck his neck with a kick right as he passed his intended target. Jeice rolled, unable to stop himself, as Gohan then landed in a kneeling position.
Once Pan knew Gohan was okay, she then found Guldo, who had tried backing away upon seeing Jeice downed. Once he knew he had been spotted by her...
"Oh crap!"
A small shake in the ground from Pan crouching down, about to fly straight to him.
"I put everything I had into that one! I'm at my limit! If I have to one more time..."
What felt to Guldo like an earthquake nearly made him fall over as Pan rocketed herself towards him with no time to avoid it.
"STOP!"
He tried holding his breath as Pan's fist neared him.
Time froze all around him…
"It worked! It...!"
...but Guldo felt the full impact of Pan's hand between his chest and stomach.
"Didn't stop... fast enough..."
A gag in his throat built up just from how much it hurt, the impact of Pan's fist hitting him being stuck in time. He covered his mouth with both hands to keep it closed and his breath held in.
"If I breathe out now, I'll be skewered on the spot."
He tried stepping back, but felt if he did, he would immediately spit out what he now realized was blood.
"I'm as good as dead..."
Try as he might, Guldo couldn't hold it in, but he figured by moving from this spot, at least he might have a chance of surviving.
"Damn it all..."
The moment he forced himself to step away from Pan's fist, managing a step aside...
Time resumed and Pan felt her fist then tear through Guldo's left shoulder piece as she flew past him. She turned around and saw Guldo spit out blood, first into his gloved hands, then onto the ground as he stepped backward. While she still had to take him out, lethally or otherwise, Pan was almost horrified to see not just profuse amounts of blood spilling from Guldo's mouth, but also the shape of her fist clearly visible on his body.
"I hit him before the time stop. I would've tore right through him without it."
"Hey, Earth girl!" shouted Vegeta. "This one is mine!"
Guldo, trying his hardest to stand, was especially terrified to see him, not the worse for wear from his last ditch effort before, not even a trace of dirt or dust on him.
"Vegeta?! Oh fu...!"
Vegeta zoomed toward his prey, swinging his hand towards Guldo's neck like before.
"Ugly as this is, it's how my father dispatched Guldo in history."
Pan didn't know if she even heard any impact from Vegeta's strike as he passed Guldo.
Once Guldo saw Vegeta touch down in a crouch, his hand out like he had just cut something, the Ginyu Force member didn't feel anything come from Vegeta's pass on him. No pain, no dizziness.
"Did he miss?"
He pat down his body from his stomach upward to his chest. No wounds, no bleeding. Nothing out of the ordinary.
"He did miss!"
He cackled as Vegeta turned to face him.
"Heh. Missed me, you arrogant, filthy, flea-bitten..."
He stepped back and shifted his arms for a fighting pose...
...to which his head slid off. Guldo's body even tried catching it, but his head slipped through his fingers, after which his body stumbled onto the ground.
"...monk... key..."
Even without his body, Pan saw and heard Guldo's head speak.
"You can look away if you have to, Pan."
Despite Trunks' words to her, Pan kept an eye on Guldo's impending demise.
"Not a bad description of me for the most part," Vegeta began. "But you're wrong about one thing, Guldo."
He put out his hand before Guldo's head.
"I'm not flea-bitten."
An almost nonchalant blast enveloped Guldo's head, leaving a notable trail after the fact.
The pain in Ginyu's muscles had been keeping him from snapping Krillin like a trig in his arms, but he was willing to push it to finally accomplish this.
"You did well, but you can't break out of my grip. Any last words, Earthling?"
"I've got two for you right here:"
He tried putting his hands over to his face, but the squeezing pressure from Ginyu's arms kept them from reaching for the proper technique.
"Well I'm afraid I'm on the clock, so I'm just going to have to wrap this up post haste."
"Ginyu!" shouted Goku, not in anger, but as if concerned. "Your comrade!"
It did occur now to Ginyu he hadn't checked on Jeice or Guldo since trapping Krillin. He first found Jeice on the ground, unconscious or otherwise.
"Jeice!"
Krillin felt Ginyu's grip loosen a little, but not enough to comfortably move his arms as he needed to.
But then Ginyu heard a blast and saw the aftermath: Guldo's head obliterated by Vegeta with only his body remaining. While he had only heard of Burter and Recoome's deaths, now that he had witnessed this one himself...
"GUULDOOOOE!"
Now Krillin could get his arms and hands to his face with Ginyu seeing this stance:
"SOLAR FLARE!"
After the blinding flash struck his face dead-on, Ginyu let go of Krillin and stumbled backward.
"MY EYES!"
"Guldo!" went Jeice, finally starting to get back up.
"MY EYES!"
"Captain!"
Vegeta was eager to make his way to Ginyu upon hearing him crying out.
"Perhaps Jeice can wait, after all..."
"Back away!"
Jeice stood before Vegeta and his commanding officer.
"Is everyone looking away from Guldo's body?" Trunks inquired.
"Yes," Chronoa answered. "All eyes are on Vegeta and Ginyu."
Even with the difference in their power more than clear and his wound still afflicting him, Jeice refused to watch another comrade die.
"I'll gut you three times, dirty Saiyan:"
As Jeice armed himself with his blade of ki in his right hand...
"One for Burter, one for Recoome..."
Pan caught only a brief glimpse of Trunks crouched over Guldo's body before he was beamed back.
"...and one for Guldo."
Vegeta had a flash in his eyes, then his expression became all the more mocking.
"As you'd say, Jeice, you have such shoddy memory."
"My memory's shoddy? The hell are you on about?"
"Guldo was the first of you I killed."
"What sodding mind game is this?! I just saw you kill Guldo!"
He humored Vegeta just enough to look over at Guldo's headless body...
...to see no sign of it anywhere.
"No way! You blasted his head right there just now! I saw you do it!"
Pan noticed Guldo missing, as well as the trail of the blast having disappeared as well.
"Removing Guldo removed the change?"
Jeice saw the ground lacking said trail and now his mind flashed as well.
"But wait... you killed Guldo earlier! No! He froze that monkey in orange for the body change! AGH!"
"He's remembering both the main timeline's history and what happened to Guldo just now."
Jeice grasped his head, trying in vain to wrap his mind around the two streams of memory coursing through his consciousness.
"You killed him, yet ...then how did...?"
Now he turned to Pan.
"Captain Ginyu was stuck in your Earthling body! No, he got the monkey's right away! Guldo helped me and the captain after he disappeared! No, Guldo died before Recoome even fought!"
At his breaking point, he growled at her.
"What have you done to me, you witch?!"
But Vegeta was completely indifferent to all of this and instead saw it as the perfect opening.
"You're overthinking it, Jeice."
Jeice went for a stab to Vegeta's neck, but Vegeta grabbed onto his wrist, squeezing it until Jeice cried out, his blade disappearing as his hand bent unnaturally. The Saiyan Prince hovered upward with Jeice in tow, Jeice unable to kick himself away. He saw Vegeta's other arm about to strike and blocked it with his left hand, but Jeice found it easily overpowered by Vegeta's right palm as it glowed intensely.
"Allow me to clear things up for you!"
And from below, Pan watched as Vegeta killed another of Ginyu's men with a blast that left nothing remaining of them.
"Now all that's left is Captain Ginyu. Everything should be reverting back."
"But there's just one problem, Trunks..."
Ginyu moved his hands away from his eyes, the pupils completely pale.
"No! I can't see! I cannot see!"
Goku seemed to already have an idea as to what had happened.
"Kaio-Ken Times Four strained his strength and speed, and his senses... sight among them. I still remember how much sunlight stung my eyes after I used it. Against the Solar Flare, it must be agony."
Pan now had to consider what possible consequences could stem from Krillin's actions.
"This can't be permanent... can it?"
"At worst, it'll take Goku some time to recover from it," Chronoa rationalized. "And even then, the healing pod Goku will be placed in would mend it. But first..."
Vegeta landed right in front of the blinded Ginyu.
"Your grandfather's body needs to be alive long enough for that to happen."
Goku already saw on Vegeta's face a smile of delight after having killed Jeice.
"Stop, Vegeta! He's completely blind!"
"This, I'm really going to enjoy."
"No, that's enough! Let him...!"
"You killed all of my men!" entered Ginyu, cutting off Goku. "Even if I can't see you, I WILL AVENGE EVERYO...!"
A gut punch sent Ginyu far above the others on the ground as Vegeta then flew back and forth rapidly, hitting him more and more brutally with each pass.
"You fools went easy on him because he looks like Kakarot! I'll put Frieza's dog down!"
Without being able to sense Vegeta's ki, Ginyu was left entirely at the Saiyan's mercy.
Pan's first instinct was to fly up to keep Vegeta from going too overboard and killing Ginyu, but Trunks quickly ordered, "Get to Goku right away!"
She did just that, seeing him standing, but only able to move at a slow pace.
"We need Goku to fly for what's coming!"
"Can you fly?" she asked her grandfather.
"Let me see..."
He started to hover for a moment...
...but only a few inches off the ground and he couldn't keep above it for long.
"When that lady's voice spoke to me, this body froze up completely. I'm only now starting to move with it again, but right now, Ginyu's ki isn't cooperating."
Now Ginyu crashed to the ground violently, covered in bruises and immobilized by all the damage from Vegeta.
"This is a nightmare! I need to switch bodies with someone, anyone, now... But how can I find anyone in this blackness?"
"I have you now!"
"Splendid."
Goku, seeing Vegeta floating over Ginyu and the unmistakable stance the grounded Ginyu was taking, tried hurrying over.
"He's about to change bodies with Vegeta! If I can just..."
Vegeta didn't have a care in the world as to what Ginyu was doing and kept approaching while Goku tried all the more desperately to take flight.
"No! This is my one chance to be me again!"
"Chaaaange…!"
"I can't make it in time!"
With his last desperate hop, Goku found himself about to faceplant...
...when Pan grabbed him from behind back to his feet, then held him by his wrists.
"Hang on!"
Pan span quickly, Goku in tow, then, as if catching a glimpse of Ginyu's lips about to say the final word, let go.
"NOW!"
Pan watched Goku travel through the air into the path of the fourth body change. As Vegeta saw what seemed like a beam fire from Ginyu's mouth, he tried to guard against it...
...and instead saw Goku come between them.
"The patroller, she...!"
Towa's screen showed the two projections of Ginyu and Goku switch places with each other back to their original bodies.
"I thought the formula would've immobilized Goku enough, but even with that, and Guldo...!"
Mira put a hand on Towa's shoulder to try comforting her.
"There is one last measure we could take."
Ginyu was back on the ground, getting back to his feet. A part of him was happy to be able to see again, but knew all too well that his body was no match for Vegeta.
Just then, he felt something explode in his ear.
"What in the blazes?!"
"That takes care of the earpiece," went Trunks, having it self-destruct once Ginyu was back in his old body.
"I'm back in my body," went Goku. "I can feel its ki coursing through me again."
But as he tried moving...
"Ow."
Along with the injuries instilled by both the overused Kaio-Ken times four and Vegeta's own efforts to kill Ginyu, he opened his eyes to find he could see nothing but darkness.
"I knew it would be like this."
Vegeta, seeing that Goku was himself again, couldn't help but find amusement in his state.
"A part of me would almost wish for your loss of sight to be permanent, Kakarot. Then you'd never have the privilege, nay, the honor of seeing me transcend far beyond you."
"Mira, you don't mean..."
"I'm going out there!" he shouted sternly before his posture and tone lowered. "...with your permission."
"Even with your current power..."
"It is what I was made for."
He knelt before her, his static expression slowly giving way to pleading.
"Please."
Pan figured she should at least stick around until she knew for sure everything was set.
"So what now? Ginyu's killed by Vegeta?"
"Goku intercepts the body change with a frog," Trunks answered.
"But how? He's all but completely immobili... wait... a frog?!"
Pan saw a small Namekian creature with blue-green skin, red eyes, two antenna on its head, and a tail hopping towards Goku.
"Goku's right arm is about the only thing my father didn't break. He threw the frog into the body change's path and Ginyu was trapped in the frog's body from that day forward."
"You may have stopped me before, Saiyan, but with your body blinded and beaten to hell, you won't interfere a second time!" Ginyu announced as he put his hands out in Vegeta's direction. "You're all mine now!"
"The hell I am!" shouted Vegeta as he prepared to get back into a flying stance.
"He used that technique on my dad!" Gohan told Krillin. "And if he uses that on Vegeta...!"
"We barely beat him the last time! This time, he's even stronger!"
Vegeta didn't even bother listening to the two and prepared his approach, but Goku knew what Ginyu was about to do.
"Can't let you do this! But I'm... I'm stuck... and I can't see."
Pan just remembered…
"He's blind! Can he make his mark while blind?!"
"He can sense their ki, so I think he can pull it off."
"Think he can? Because if you're going to need me to throw that frog, you'd better tell me to right now."
She saw the frog hop onto Goku's open right hand.
"Huh?"
Goku moved his fingers, then felt...
"I can still move this arm!"
He took hold of the frog, waiting for Ginyu to start.
"I can sense Ginyu and Vegeta. I just have to get between them."
Chronoa, looking over at Goku, saw him trying to aim even without his sight.
"He's working on hitting his mark."
She pulled up a projection over the action, seeing what looked like an arc of a throw.
"And he's actually on point."
"Supreme Kai of Time, does that mean...?"
"Yes, Trunks. Pan..."
"Yes?"
"Let him go for the throw."
Pan stood at attention to ensure Goku's throw would go off without a hitch.
"CH...!"
A flash of light behind Vegeta...
...which gave Ginyu enough pause to stop from trying his technique. Pan saw this.
"Ginyu's stopping and something's behind your father!"
Before the Saiyan Prince could turn around and see just what was creeping up behind him...
"Pan, is that...?"
...he had to stop this figure from grabbing onto his neck. Vegeta was successful in doing so, but then found himself trapped, this blue-skinned man in black, red, and white armor wrapping his arms around him.
"That's Mira."