Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.
"Supreme Kai of Time!" shouted Beetro, who ran over to her right as she collapsed.
"No, Beetro," went Chronoa, declining his help as respectfully as she could even in her condition. "Pan needs your help more than I do."
Heeding her words, he made his way back to Pan, retrieving another senzu bean.
"I'm afraid after this one, we'll be in short supply," he warned.
Even in the state of exhaustion Pan was in, too tired to move her arms and legs and feeling like she would fall asleep the moment the back of her head so much as touched the ground, Pan focused on the toll the Supreme Kai of Time had taken.
"Give her the senzu bean," suggested Pan. "With what she's doing..."
"It won't work," Chronoa explained. "For someone like me, it's practically just snack food."
Once Pan finally took the senzu bean and was back on her feet, she regrouped with Chronoa.
"Where have we stopped?"
Chronoa looked at where time had been frozen: Recoome about to step on Gohan. Neither liked what they were seeing and were silent from the shock and dread until Pan stumbled...
"I just..."
Pan desperately tried thinking of what she could do.
"...just need to go faster than I've ever gone bef..."
"It's not enough time to act," interrupted Chronoa. "Even if I get you right next to him, by the time you so much as touch down, it'd be too late."
Pan tried to keep her next choice of words as respectful as she could.
"Okay, so you have to keep the change from advancing and I can't act fast enough where it is..."
Then it hit her.
"Can you send me a minute back?"
"No," answered Chronoa, leaving Pan to wonder if the spot they were in was truly unwinnable...
...until the Supreme Kai of Time continued.
"I can't turn time back... that far."
"How far back?"
"A few seconds at best."
"If you do that..." Beetro began to caution Chronoa, a hand out to her. "That strain combined with everything you've done so far..."
He didn't finish, but Pan was already fearing how severe the consequences to the Supreme Kai of Time would be.
"Is there any other way?"
Right as Pan asked this, the determined expression on Chronoa's face answered before she did.
"However many seconds I can manage will allow you to act. I have to do it!"
Beetro made clear with his posture he would not attempt to stop her. As Pan waited, watching Chronoa prepare...
"Here..." went Beetro, handing her Trunks' coat.
Pan realized over the course of her two battles, both requiring her to recover via senzu bean, that her jacket and shirt had become covered with increasingly large holes.
"Well... it'll certainly offer some protection."
Once the coat was buttoned up, Chronoa held out the scroll in a hurried fashion, and Pan immediately took hold of it.
"You'll have a straight path to Gohan, so fly fast."
The moment her vision became clear, Pan turned her head left and right, seeing the same teal-green grass and rock formations around her.
"Come on, come on...!"
"Sleep tight..."
Recoome's voice. She turned around, seeing him standing over the immobile Gohan, her yellow cape wrapped around his left bicep. So far, he and the other two members of the Ginyu Force took no notice of her entry or presence, their eyes on Pan's father.
"...little guy."
"No time for Kaio-Ken..."
He lifted his foot into the air, about to finish the son of Goku...
For one of Recoome's strength, upon wearing down an opponent, especially one so small, stamping their skull flat like a pancake would be a breeze.
The impact of the resulting stomp alone caused massive cracks and a shake that would make normal humans tumble.
He began to chuckle along with Burter and Jeice.
"Poor little thing..."
"Almost felt bad for 'im..."
Recoome peered down to his foot...
"Huh?!"
The puzzlement of Recoome was followed by that of Jeice and Burter's when they looked as well.
"The kid ain't there!"
They turned to their left, seeing a trail in the ground from something dragging across it...
Pan lying on her side, holding Gohan in her arms. Her father remained frozen, blankly staring out at the sky as she held him close.
"From here on, I won't let anything happen to you, Dad."
Chronoa's eyes shot open.
"She's done it?"
Once she saw Pan with a still alive Gohan, she even smiled.
"She's done it! She's..."
But then she crumbled onto her knees.
"Stop!" shouted Beetro. "Now!"
She finally let go of the scroll and her power over it dissipated, no longer needed in that moment.
"Supreme Kai of Time!"
He saw her about to hit the ground and caught her.
"Pan..."
She heard the terrible state Chronoa was in.
"Keep them alive, Pan... until your grandfather arrives."
Beetro turned Chronoa onto her back, then saw that her eyes were starting to close.
"I'm sorry, Pan... but from here on... you're on your own."
After these words, the Supreme Kai of Time went unconscious.
Pan could tell everything was on her now, without Trunks to offer his guidance or a time frame for anything about to happen.
But she immediately turned to the three who had now discovered her, gently lying Gohan down on the ground.
"I didn't even see her," began Jeice.
Burter didn't give a response, not wanting to admit that he, the self-proclaimed fastest in the universe, missed her zooming past him.
"Where did she come from? She completely vanished earlier!"
"Hey, wait a minute..." began Recoome inquisitively. "Something's different about her."
His hand went up, pointing at an imaginary light bulb...
"Oh, I know!"
...then to Pan.
"That coat!"
A light, for anyone else, hit to his shoulder by Jeice.
"No, you big lug! She's totally recovered from just a moment ago!"
He checked his scouter.
"And not just that..."
Burter did the same and his mouth slowly opened before revealing...
"Her power level's gone up."
Jeice, however, scoffed the shock off after a second look.
"...only a tad bit slightly... but still."
Pan stood at the ready, whether they planned to attack her or her father.
"Now, Mira... back to the original plan."
Towa's formula's purple glow overtook the three and Pan saw their gaze was not straight towards her direction...
...but to one of the other Z-Fighters nearby.
"Krillin!"
Pan flew to their intended target first, stopping a swing from Burter. As she was about to strike him...
...she saw his wound on his chest from before.
"No! If I kill him...!"
With that brief moment to act, Burter slammed her downward with his other hand, then stepped aside. Recoome lunged over for a punch of his own for Krillin, to which the lying Pan blasted him backward. Jeice's approach suddenly stopped, after which he turned around.
"Vegeta!"
As she tossed an attacking Burter away from Krillin, she saw Jeice heading in the Saiyan Prince's direction, his blade of ki drawn.
Pan pushed the crouching Vegeta away, then barely avoided the slash herself, a massive searing cut in the ground. She reached behind her for her Power Pole...
...realizing Burter had seized it prior. Right as she fired back at Jeice, she saw a red blur in front of the high-flying Burter, then realized he was spinning the red polearm like a propeller.
Throwing Vegeta as far a distance as she could manage in the heat of the moment, she then hopped over Burter, not wanting to be on the receiving end of the Power Pole spinning that fast. He then tossed it like a javelin, her dodging it, but by the time she tried to retrieve it, Burter was already in front of it.
"Now Vegeta's away, but what about...?"
Recoome stood over Gohan once more.
"Okay, let's try this again..."
After raising a foot, he saw Pan grab hold of his ankle before he could bring it down, then swung him rapidly with the Dragonthrow technique.
But even then, she saw Jeice and Burter already picking their next targets, and Pan was forced to release him.
As the two watched Pan pursuing and trying to stop the Ginyu Force, each time more desperate than the last, Mira turned to Towa.
"I understand now. Their power is already greater than hers, so by having the Ginyu Force target those three..."
"It is only a matter of time until they hit their mark and one of the three is slain."
Pan's terrible tribulation continued, the cycle repeating more times than she could count.
"Where in blazes is Grandpa?!"
Earlier that day, she was virtually defeated by the Ginyu Force, only managing to escape in the nick of time. Then her battle with Turles followed, and with how well she fared against him, Pan was certain her recovery had boosted her power...
...but even after recovering from her miracle win against Turles, this battle wasn't going any differently from before.
"After two battles... I should be..."
Now that she once again struggled against the same opponents as before...
"Either I've gained so little... or Turles was weaker than these three..."
Now Burter, Jeice, and Recoome were starting to split up more, one or two going after a downed Z-Fighter while the other took advantage of an opening in Pan's defenses.
There she was, trying to hold back both Recoome and Jeice from hitting Krillin at once, a burst of Kaio-Ken only being enough to keep them from advancing.
Already, Burter zoomed over to Vegeta.
"Times Three!"
Dragging Recoome and Jeice by hand across the ground as she pursued Burter, Pan then tossed them together in Burter's path. The speedster used the Power Pole to halt just in time, his two thrown comrades crashing into rocky structures.
Now at Kaio-Ken times three, Pan could actually keep up with his Power Pole attacks, finally catching it.
"This is mine..."
And with a tug, Burter's end of the pole was now aimed at his gut.
"Power Pole Extend!"
He was disarmed of her weapon and flew into the same structure as the others...
...who had snuck around their skirmish towards Gohan, about to blast at him.
"Times Four!"
She stood in their way, knocking away the projectiles with chops. But even with her success, Pan's body was already straining.
"I can't keep this up..."
Now as Towa and Mira looked at the battle from above, it looked to be a rapid streak of red zooming to three points of a triangle. It seemed the three members were all now targeting their own individual target, forcing the Kaio-Ken times four-using Pan to constantly stop their intended kills.
In the midst of her continual defense, Pan felt a presence...
"He's here! I can sense him!"
From the corner of her eye, the fumes of the landing rocket clear in the far distance...
...but still no break from the Ginyu Force.
"Grandpa's landed, but they're completely preoccupied. Not paying him any mind."
She sighed in mid-punch of Jeice's face as he tried gutting Krillin, then made her way to Recoome to stop a double-axe swing to Vegeta's head by lifting him up, then slamming him deep below ground.
"Hurry, Grandpa..."
A sound...
Burter firing at Gohan.
"No, NO!"
Even with the immense speed increase, she could see the blasts near her father.
"Please, NO!"
Pan lunged in front of him, firing a blast at Burter while intercepting his blasts with her ki shield up...
...but the moment her Kaio-Ken gave out, her shield was in flux, allowing the shots to hit her. Pan flew over Gohan, then rolled across the ground, finally catching herself, but struggling just to stand up.
"Hey, look," taunted Jeice to his fellow comrades. "She's tiring already. She's gonna be easy pickings once we finish those three."
All three members stood over a Z-Fighter, prepared to strike at any moment, and now that Pan couldn't keep up anymore...
"Damn you, Towa..."
A massive current of air could be felt...
...even the three Ginyu Force members under the formula's influence turned to see the cause of it.
"You made it..."
To Pan's relief, she finally saw Goku arrive first-hand.
"Hey, who the hell are you?" asked Recoome, whom Goku simply paid no mind to.
"Leave him," Jeice practically commanded. "The new guy's power is nothing impressive. We'll deal with him when we're wrapped up here."
Hearing this, Pan flew forward, shoving Jeice back to keep him from attacking Vegeta while firing at Burter and Recoome, neither of whom had any trouble knocking away her projectiles.
"Goku, hurry!"
Jeice swung down with his ki blade, Pan falling to her knees as the Power Pole was all that kept it from reaching her face.
She, Burter, and Recoome saw Goku crouched down next to Gohan...
...followed by a gasp from Gohan and him actually sitting up.
"Hey!" stumbled even the massive Recoome. "That guy's healing them or something!"
Jeice, still vying to kill Pan, but turning his head just enough to acknowledge this, was stunned at this. He quickly tried to recompose.
"Stop him, you two!"
Burter tried to preemptively kill Krillin with a stomp on his neck, but Goku zoomed behind him, then tossed him away by his arm. As Recoome tried to get to Vegeta, he saw Goku feeding Krillin a senzu bean.
"Whoa! He's healing them with snack food or something!"
Jeice couldn't help but look back at Goku after this comment. Pan, not wanting to let go with either hand due to the force of the blade pressed down against the Power Pole, instead began chanting...
"Ka...me..."
"What's this?" Jeice questioned.
"Ha... me..."
"What are you blabbering about?"
Instead of ki eminating from her hands, a light glow came over her feet.
"HAAAA!"
With a blast from her feet, Pan shot upward, Jeice in tow until she shoved him back with the Power Pole. Seeing Recoome about to strike Vegeta, she tossed the polearm at his back...
...only to the effect of mildly irritating him as it bounced off him.
"Who threw that toy at me?"
But by the time he turned back to Vegeta, he was already chewing a senzu bean.
Jeice, seeing all three of the Z-Fighters from before now fully healed couldn't believe any of this.
"Aww, nuts!"
"No biggie," went Recoome after. "We beat the three of them already. We'll just do it again once the healer's taken care of."
"R-right..." answered Jeice with some hesitance. "We'll beat them once more."
"I knew this would happen..." mused Towa upon seeing the three cease their attack.
"The formula should be keeping them on the objective..."
"Should nothing out of the ordinary occur for them. Unfortunately, as I feared, Goku's presence alone has taken their focus."
After tossing Pan back the Power Pole, Recoome approached Goku, who barely registered an emotion on his face regarding the impending battle with the towering man.
Pan looked over to the other three Z-Fighters spectating alongside her, unsure whether history was back on course or not, and if she should stay or try to hide.
"I just hope I'm not doing any more damage than I've already done..."
To the shock of all four of them...
Recoome was brought down with a single elbow to his stomach.
"Even in Kaio-Ken times four, I couldn't do that much damage to Recoome... let alone, in one punch."
Then both Burter and Jeice attacked the Saiyan from Earth together, side by side, but neither could slip past his defenses or outpace him. Not even Burter, who was going at his top speed, or at least as fast as the formula allowed with his wound.
"Please don't kill him, Grandpa..."
After both lost track of him, Goku kicked Burter hard into the air, his armor chipping, as he pursued, then elbowed him back down. More chips of Burter's armor rained as he descended, then was caught hard by Goku, similarly to how Goku had crippled Nappa on Earth, only this time...
"He didn't even use Kaio-Ken..."
But her immediate worry about Burter's wound and Goku striking it dissipated once she could sense...
"He's still breathing..."
"Even with the formula ordering him to fight, Jeice refuses," Mira observed.
"He has seen Goku's capabilities. The formula can't overwrite his fear."
"Is there anything we can do to give him motivation?"
After this question, Towa decided...
"There is something I can try..."
Right as Goku told Jeice to take his comrades and leave, the last standing elite warrior mused over everything he had seen...
"We're the mighty Ginyu Force, and yet... this one bloke..."
He caught a purple glow...
...emanating from Recoome.
"Is he...?"
Pan and the Z-Fighters saw him make his way back up.
"I've still got one more round in me!" he cheerfully announced.
"But Burter's..."
Recoome saw their unconscious comrade, but instead of being discouraged, he turned to Jeice.
"Come on, Jeice! Let's deck 'em good... for Burter!"
Now with new resolve, he landed next to Recoome.
"I like the sound of that."
Jeice was now overtaken with the purple glow, Pan noting his speed increasing as he came to Goku.
"I warned you!" shouted Goku as he charged up for more power.
"Goku shouldn't be..." went a familiar voice in Pan's earpiece.
"Supreme Kai of Time!"
Her head lying down on a pillow, but still overlooking the events, Chronoa warned Pan.
"Jeice should have fled by now. If Goku takes out Jeice, he can't report to Captain Ginyu."
Pan recalled how clearly terrified he was after Burter was defeated, then recalled just what snapped him out of it...
"Recoome."
"Right. Towa has revitalized him. You have to..."
Chronoa struggled to continue speaking as Beetro took her hand.
But Pan already had an idea of what the Supreme Kai of Time was telling her to do.
"Save your strength. I'll take care of Recoome."
And with one last exchange...
"Thank you, Pan."
Pan was back on mission, seeing Recoome standing before Krillin and Gohan.
"I didn't forget you two..."
But then Pan clashed with him, the two trading punches even as she was painfully aware of the power difference, especially in her condition.
"You're open!" Recoome spouted after managing to knock both of Pan's arms down.
She then found herself in a bear hug, his hulking muscles threatening to snap her like a twig.
"Body... if you have anything left, now's the time."
"Kaio...!"
A headbutt interrupted her.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" he taunted.
She swerved her head to try and avoid another hit...
"Kaio-K...!"
Still, Recoome struck her before she could speak.
"Heh, Kaio-What?"
Every fiber of her being didn't want to have to literally beg her grandfather for help, but with everything at stake...
"Gok...!"
A third headbutt.
"You gotta talk faster than that!"
Everything a blur with a touch of red to her right, she could tell Recoome was tilting his head back for one more headbutt, likely a knockout blow.
"Dad... Krillin..."
She hoped one of them would help her now...
"AGH!"
A rogue blast struck Recoome's back, forcing him to let Pan go. Not just that, but he actually fell onto his arms and knees, struggling to get up from that.
As Pan could slowly see again, she saw the shocked faces of Gohan and Krillin...
...and Vegeta, a gloved palm out sizzling from his attack.
The two Earthling Z-Fighters helped her to her feet as Vegeta looked over at his work.
"Oh, thank you, Vegeta... thank you."
Pan was ready to thank him for saving her in that desperate moment...
...but his face turned to a glare upon looking at her.
"What the hell were you doing!?"
Vegeta, since having fully recovered and being completely rejuvenated with the senzu bean, went from being silent in defeat to his usual demoralizing self.
"You're of no help anymore! Not with Kakarot and my newly powered self!"
Seeing Recoome, whose skin seemed impossible to pierce, actually have a crater-like wound on his back from Vegeta's attack seemed to confirm this.
"Neither of us could come close... but one senzu bean later and Vegeta's already that much stronger... than me."
Vegeta then pushed her back.
"Get out of here, brat!"
She lied on her back, still looking over at him in shock. Gohan, while normally somewhat timid when Vegeta spoke, finally snapped.
"Don't you talk to her like that!"
"Yeah!" went Krillin, also working past his cowering demeanor in the face of someone more powerful than him. "She's saved your ass from Frieza's goons... and from me!"
The Saiyan Prince pointed to Krillin.
"You're a worthless human!"
He then pointed to Gohan.
"You are a half-breed spawn! And you..."
Now Vegeta pointed at Pan.
"...you are no Saiyan. That much I can tell."
Many of Vegeta's words had wounded her, but that struck her heart the hardest.
"Now go back home and leave this to the real Saiyan warriors!"
As Pan struggled to keep a straight face from how hurt Vegeta had made her feel in that moment...
...a loud groan from Recoome as he stood back up.
"That actually hurt, Vegeta!"
Now he was in a boiling rage from how much he had been damaged.
"All of you have just gotten a one way ticket to Hell..."
The four of them stepped back as a massive amount of power emanated around Recoome, each trying to decipher where the attack would come from.
"Recoome...!"
Pan watched as Vegeta kept his distance, clearly more than capable of getting away even as Krillin and Gohan didn't know what to expect or if they would even survive.
"Fine! Leave us to die!"
Seeing Goku standing completely still after hearing Recoome shout his name, Jeice swung his ki blade...
...but it was stopped right as Recoome shouted "Ultra...!"
"There's... no... there's no way...!"
...by a chop of Goku's own hand.
He quickly followed this up with a simple thrust of air to rocket Jeice away as he turned in Recoome's direction.
Pan stuck close to Gohan and Krillin, readying her ki to shield them at any point, even if she didn't know if she would survive.
"Chronoa... Trunks... if either of you are here, I could really use a tip right about now."
With nothing on their end, she put a bubble of ki around herself.
"Stay behind me!" she shouted to them.
"Fighting...!" continued Recoome.
"Please... please hold enough to keep them alive..."
And at its apex...
"Bombe...!"
Goku slammed into Recoome at high speed, then went on a high speed frenzy, striking Recoome before he could even act.
As Recoome crashed to the ground, trying to fire off one final mouth beam towards the three, the purple aura faded away and he found himself losing consciousness.
"Aww... drat..."
And with the last of the formula gone, Recoome was finally unable to continue.
"No, no, no!" went Jeice, seeing Recoome down a second time and frozen in the air. "None of this is right!"
"Go on, Kakarrot!" Vegeta practically ordered. "Finish him off!"
"No!" Goku shouted back.
"You lot just wait right here!" threatened Jeice, even as he was clearly shaken. "Once the captain gets here, you're all gonna pay!"
As Jeice fled, Pan recovered her cape, then made her exit as Goku and Vegeta argued amongst themselves...
...but even as far as she had gotten, she heard a crackling sound...
"Vegeta! What are you doing?!"
Then a blast, after which, a source of ki was now gone for good.
"They were defeated... unconscious... and he slaughtered them..."
"How could you?!" her grandfather cried out. "They were completely helpless!"
Pan took cover inside a cave, her thoughts of Vegeta soured all over again.
"I just want to be off this planet..."
A flash of white next to the entrance...
"Pan, are you alright?"