Co-written by SuperSaiyan2Link.
Mira heard Towa beaming back in from Namek behind him, but continued watching events transpire after Ginyu used a Kaio-Ken Times Four Dragonthrow to send Pan straight down into the water.
"The Supreme Kai of Time's interference may have freed Vegeta..." he began. "But with your improvisation once the patroller sent Ginyu away from the group..."
Upon seeing Ginyu touch down with Jeice and Guldo to face the Z-Fighters, who tried to cover for the frozen Goku, Mira turned around to speak to Towa face-to-face.
"You've turned the scenario into an unwinnable situation. I simply must commend you."
Towa showed appreciation for the compliment he paid her with a nod, but Mira could tell her attempt at a smile didn't register entirely.
"Once the work is done, she will have no need to mourn for the patroller."
"We can't give up, Gohan! You gotta...!"
"I left her with Ginyu."
Ginyu almost watched with glee as Gohan, who had fought him just earlier, broke down due to one missing person.
"She told me to go help my dad. I did what she said and now... Ginyu's even stronger now and she's..."
Goku couldn't move at all, but from where he unwittingly lied down, he could see and hear his sobbing child. He thought back to the voice that told him to stay out of the fight and how the unknown woman that spoke felt sincere with her concerns and warnings. With things now even worse than before, Goku couldn't help but feel disenchanted.
"It was all a ploy. Taking advantage of me to make me an easy target and to take that girl out of the picture. It was stupid of me to trust that voice."
Chronoa was heartbroken to hear Goku speaking out like this.
"She wanted this to happen all along," he concluded.
The Supreme Kai of Time wanted more than anything else to jump back onto his feed and answer back to him, but knew how futile the gesture would be at that moment.
"He's done listening to me."
Gohan couldn't bring himself to finish his last sentence regarding Pan's survival.
"She's..."
"Aww, don't cry, sport," went Ginyu mockingly. "You wouldn't have made a difference anyway."
Vegeta, losing patience with Gohan blubbering over the loss of their comrade, struck the child's face with a backward palm, not hard enough to cause serious harm, but more than enough to draw his attention.
"Oh man up!" he shouted, openly demeaning Goku's son.
"What the hell?!" Krillin shouted back, getting between the two. "I'd ask what's wrong with you, but there's not enough time in the day to cover that!"
"I'd kill you right now if not for... !"
"Ginyu Force...!"
Ginyu stomped, taking on an instructor-esque pose as Jeice and Guldo stood at attention.
"Attack!"
Earlier
Pan's ki shield had kept her back covered since she first collided with Namek's crust, now able to breathe as she was ahead of the waters above, but as she delved deeper, unable to stop, she knew the shield was cracking at the seams.
"It's taking the brunt now, but once it goes... I don't want to know what'll happen."
Whether it was actually making it to Namek's core or being torn to shreds before she could, Pan had to stop herself now. Reaching behind her neck, she managed to retrieve the Power Pole from its case on her back and then gestured it over her head, the ends scratching against the crust, but not doing anything to even slow her.
"Power Pole EXTEND!"
It extended out, now breaking through, and with her arms wrapped around the polearm, Pan felt herself finally starting to slow down before screeching to a halt. Now having stopped, she had the Power Pole narrow enough for her to be able to get up from lying on her back and back to her feet...
...when she felt Kaio-Ken finally giving out along with her shield.
"If I was off by just a little bit..."
But from above her, water came rushing down, now having caught up. She thought about making her way back upward, but considering how deep she had delved into Namek...
"I'm not sure I can even fly out fast enough..."
Instead, she planted one end of the Power Pole at her feet. As water was quickly covering where she stood and rising up her pantlegs...
"Power Pole...!"
She was completely underwater once again, having to shout the final part while taking water in.
"EXTEND!"
She wanted to cover her mouth and nose, but couldn't risk losing her grip on the polearm from holding it with only one hand. Pan endured for the time, finding that the Power Pole was rising and lifting her upward at a surprisingly rapid pace. In no time, she was out of the tunnel Ginyu's throw had created and saw the ever-expanding waters around her.
Trunks, returning to Namek once more, stood by the grassy shore. The one and only figment of Pan remaining, her orange bandanna, sank deeper into the dark depths. He didn't know if she was driven to the bottom or if Ginyu actually threw her with the force to go through Namek itself.
"Even if you're in Namek's core itself, I will get you out of there!"
As he started to take on a diving pose...
...he saw a blur below him rising upward, the bandanna gripped in hand.
"You've made it!"
Upon herself and the very top of the Power Pole making their way above water, Pan leapt onto the shore in a roll, coming to a stop after catching herself with her hands. As she coughed up water, she heard Trunks approaching her.
"A half a senzu bean would be really great right now..."
"Afraid we're out."
Pan wasn't slow to get up, but Trunks could clearly see some strenuousness in the action.
"I can keep going. I can even use Kaio-Ken if I have to... but multiplying further... it's not going to outlast Ginyu's Time Four."
"Then don't try outlasting it," he quickly answered. "Protect Goku and fend off Ginyu's men. Let my father take Ginyu."
Both sensed Ginyu's immense power in the distance.
"I'm going to need all my energy for this. Flying over's going to take too much out of me."
The first solution to come to Trunks' mind was to have Chronoa beam Pan back to the library, then place her at the battle itself...
...but seeing the Power Pole lying on the grass near their feet...
"I can get you there."
"But if you go Super Saiyan again..."
"Won't need to."
He crouched down towards the Power Pole.
"May I?"
Once he saw Pan nod back to him, he picked it up and held it with his right hand as if about to throw it like a javelin.
"Here. Hop on."
Pan leapt atop of the Power Pole, trying to keep herself balanced as Trunks held the two while trying to gauge the distance with his left hand.
"You know where you're throwing me?"
"I've never been great at precise calculations, but I think I have it worked out. Ready?"
After being somewhat shaky, Pan's feet were now steady and she put her arms out to keep herself in position for the impending throw.
"Ready."
Taking a step that resulted in a massive stomp, one that cracked the blue-green grass-covered ground he stood upon, Trunks threw Pan atop her polearm into the distance.
"Good form," went Chronoa on the comms.
"Thanks."
"Ginyu Force...!"
Vegeta and the other Z-Fighters knew Ginyu was getting his men ready and the Saiyan Prince, more than any of the other three, knew what was at stake.
"Ginyu and his men die no matter what... but if they kill any one of us in the process..."
"Attack!"
Right as Ginyu said this, Vegeta and company felt the slightest shift in the distance, almost like a small earthquake. They immediately put this off as Ginyu found his path to Goku blocked by Vegeta, Krillin hopped towards Jeice, and Gohan flew straight to a seemingly cowering Guldo...
...but was stuck in midair by Guldo's telekinesis before he could land a hit on him.
"Aww, you poor, poor thing," Guldo taunted.
He quickly turned to his comrade.
"Jeice!"
Jeice, having slid across the grass underneath a double axe handle from Krillin, flew straight to Guldo's immobilized prey.
"I call this one Cooked Kebab!"
His ki blade was drawn to impale and burn Gohan on impact...
...but a ki bullet from above forced him to swerve around his intended target.
"Blasted Saiyan...!"
However, Jeice found more ki bullets raining down on him that he was forced to block, coming not from the likes of Vegeta as he presumed...
...but from Pan, who stood upon the Power Pole.
This left Jeice exposed enough for Krillin to grab hold of him by his white hair, then slam him to the ground.
Ginyu, locked in battle with Vegeta, looked to the side quickly to check on the status of his comrades...
...and saw Pan, wielding the Power Pole, and about to bring it down on his head.
"But my throw...! ...with all this body's power...!"
The swing of the Power Pole combined with all the momentum from Trunks' throw didn't just floor Ginyu, but had him sink below with a hole in the shape of Goku's body as a result. Gohan saw Guldo beginning to panic and from behind Guldo saw the ally he feared had been killed.
"You... you're alive!"
Towa and Mira both saw Pan landing and re-entering the battle on their screen.
"Ginyu had her in his hands, and yet you..."
"It was a factor of time, Mira. The sooner Ginyu returned back to his men..."
"If he had gone for the kill right then and there when you had control of him...!"
"Vegeta would have already killed Guldo and Jeice had I tried to do that! Even if Ginyu could have, the time it would have taken to accomplish that..."
"So you're saying Ginyu, even with Kaio-Ken Times Four, would've failed?"
"I told you, it was a factor of time."
Mira turned away, at first intending to punch at the wall close to the screen, but then stopped himself.
"Mira..."
She put a hand to his shoulder to try calming him down, but noted he continued looking away from her.
"You had Ginyu throw the patroller to protect her."
"No. No, that was not my intention at all."
"Then what was your intention... besides time?"
He turned to see Towa sitting down on the corner of the control console, sighing.
"I thought the force of the throw would be enough to put her out of commission, if not kill her. That much, I miscalculated. I wanted Ginyu back in the fray, so I presumed in the moment that it would be more than sufficient."
"So you underestimated her chances of survival?"
"I suppose I did, Mira."
Pan heard rumblings below her and hopped to the side.
"Blast it..." went Ginyu, somewhat muffled by the distance.
Both Pan and Vegeta hopped even further back once Ginyu floated upward, his aura shattering the rocky ground around him.
"Blast it!"
Looking straight down at Goku from his position, he immediately took aim at his old body. Vegeta flew into Ginyu to throw off his aim, but the blast aimed true all the same.
"Kaio-Ken!"
Pan covered Goku with her ki shield, intercepting the blast as she had hoped...
...but found that it shattered in the midst of tanking the Kaio-Ken Times Four blast. She rolled across the ground, steam stemming from her upper body especially even as Goku remained untouched.
"Knocked me out of Kaio-Ken..."
Streaks of red in the sky zoomed across Vegeta's location, then Pan saw him crash down near her from a blast. She knew Ginyu was about to fly straight down into her grandfather and fired behind her to propel herself into Ginyu's path once more. As Ginyu went for a hard landing onto Goku with both feet, Pan slammed into Ginyu's side with a two-legged kick.
Ginyu, while not unharmed, was only sent off-course, the impact shifting his direction just enough to strike and sink next to Goku. Pan took hold of her grandfather's wrist to help him up, knowing Ginyu would be back at any second.
"Gotta get you out of here!"
Seeing Ginyu's shadow behind her, she turned around and used the Power Pole to stop a chop. She was floored just from the force of it, then saw Ginyu putting his hands over his head, then together for a double axe handle. As Ginyu crouched to drive his two hands into Goku's chest, Pan hopped in front with her grandfather's polearm to block it once more. Once more, the blocking Pan was sent down, this time back-first into the body armor of Goku's new body.
"Jeice was right about you!"
Now seeing Ginyu about to fire at Goku's head, Pan swung the Power Pole like a sword into Ginyu's glowing palm, splitting the beam that followed.
"Interfering with our fights!"
His other hand struck the polearm out of Pan's hands, then aimed back down at his intended target...
...who wasn't there.
"Huh?!"
Along with that, something or someone was tightly gripping his ankle.
"Whose...?"
He looked down, seeing a purple pair of fingers.
Goku, managing to finally move even slightly in Ginyu's body despite Towa's formula and command, grabbed and held onto Ginyu's ankle.
"Can't move much... but if I can do something..."
"Kaio-Ken...!"
Pan quickly processed that her grandfather had managed to move and used Ginyu's momentary confusion to shout this. Upon landing a knee to his forehead, Pan then grabbed hold of both of Ginyu's wrists, then booted his jaw with both feet.
Vegeta, sneering at the heat he could still feel below his chestplate, charged two projectiles in his hands as he waited for the moment he saw Ginyu so much as pause.
Pan saw Ginyu recovered quickly from the hit to his jaw, not even being sent off his feet, and quickly tried to power up.
"...Times...!"
Ginyu went for a headbutt, which Pan swerved to avoid.
"Not this time!"
Goku, not locked in battle, suddenly sensed ki building up nearby from Vegeta.
"Fo...!"
Sure enough, the Saiyan Prince's projectiles were launched and struck Ginyu's back, the impact hurling Ginyu forward with him unintentionally headbutting Pan and dragging along Goku in tow. Once they crashed down, Pan caught Vegeta coming in, prideful of grounding Ginyu without a care regarding Goku or Pan.
"How's that feel, CAPTAIN?!"
"You idiot...!"
Ever since right before Pan had reentered the battle, Gohan had been trapped in mid-flight, completely at Guldo's mercy. Guldo should've been at least a little tired from this constant use of telekinesis, but Towa's formula kept his reserves replenished.
The only reason he had yet to attempt skewering the son of Goku was because Krillin, while battling Jeice, was always at the ready to fire if he so much as sensed killing intent from Guldo. But for now, he watched in delight as Ginyu tossed Pan at Vegeta. The Saiyan Prince didn't blast through her, but also didn't attempt to catch Pan either, instead trying to fly around to Ginyu.
Gohan was horrified to see that Vegeta was struck by a curved beam, Ginyu having counted on this tactic, then saw the body of his father fire at the rolling Pan with his other hand.
"They're in trouble... and I'm..."
"Goku!"
Krillin, knowing his friend was in danger, shouted this to get Ginyu's attention, then fired at Ginyu to keep him from punching or firing down. While this was successful, Ginyu practically swatted away the projectiles with Goku's hands, then nonchalantly booted Goku back with his back turned to him. Due to the fact Goku could only barely move his body, it was all the more difficult for him to slow himself, as well as the impact to his face from the kick.
Once his father stopped rolling, even from that distance, Gohan could see purple blood coming down from his forehead and his nose.
"Dad!"
Krillin's actions had given Jeice plenty of time to plan out his next move.
"Hey! Little Earthling!"
He zoomed right at Krillin's legs, who hopped over with ease, then flew back with his ki blade. Krillin held onto Jeice's wrist with both hands to keep it away, but was then met by a knee to his stomach, then a punch from Jeice's other hand.
"Krillin!"
As he watched Krillin crashing down, Gohan saw both Pan and Vegeta trying to keep Ginyu from raising his hands at Goku only for Ginyu to rapidly spin to toss them aside.
"They can't stop Ginyu..."
Jeice was ready to descend down for a bladed strike and Ginyu charged his ki in both hands. Now both Goku, his father, and Krillin's lives were in peril right before Gohan's eyes and he was powerless to aid them.
"Without my help, they're all..."
But in that moment of dread, tears running down his eyes, Gohan's face morphed from dismay to a combination of anger and determination.
"I couldn't save Mr. Piccolo... but this time... this time..."
Guldo noticed Gohan's fingers not only twitching, but also glowing.
"He's trying to break free..."
Pan, Krillin, and Vegeta then heard a near-roar, then felt a shockwave in the air surging past them. Even Jeice and Ginyu stopped, their attention robbed by this development. Guldo saw Gohan able to move and quickly tried to get a hold of him once more.
"Oh no you don't!"
Gohan found himself trapped again and Guldo seemed more determined than ever to keep him that way for good.
"That was just luck! Because I wasn't concentrating! But now... now you have my full attention. And this time, you won't..."
But Gohan's fingertips surged with ki once again and with an even fiercer roar, he raised his arms and ascended. What almost sounded like glass shattering could be heard and Guldo fell over from the stormy gust that resulted.
"Impossible!"
Ginyu and Jeice couldn't believe what Gohan had done against Guldo's telekinesis.
"No one has ever escaped his telekinesis!"
"Not even that Saiyan!"
Gohan zoomed over to Jeice, his punch chipping into his armor, then with a yank of his leg was performing his father's Dragonthrow. Ginyu was disconcerted with the happenings of both his remaining underlings, but turned his attention back to the near-immobile Goku with a pulse from Towa's formula.
Seeing Pan's power pole nearby, Gohan landed, then flew over to Ginyu with all haste.
Pan felt Gohan's escape from Guldo and caught a glimpse of him attacking Jeice, but sensing Ginyu about to fire once more, zoomed in front of her grandfather's path, arms outstretched, ready to take the blast regardless of if her shield would protect her this time. Ginyu grinned, firing on point as intended.
"Two for the price of one."
But right before the ki blast left his hands, he was off his feet…
Gohan had swung the power pole at Ginyu's legs, his strength combined with Ginyu's total focus on the kill knocking the captain onto his back. The blast, meanwhile, zapped past Pan, save for searing her right bang.
Once Ginyu touched the ground, Gohan struck at him with the power pole, each swing intending to break past his guarding wrists. Jeice saw his captain wasn't in complete peril, but was grounded and assaulted by a child. Completely abandoning Krillin, he then found his flight interrupted by the presence of someone who had left Pan a moment ago.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Red Magma."
"My father's finally fighting Jeice!"
Pan overheard Trunks from her earpiece.
"He's putting history back on course! Now all he has to do is..."
She heard something electronic explode above her, then saw chips of what was once Jeice's scouter fall in front of her. What was to come next wasn't a surprise to Pan at this point.
"He won't let a single one of them live..."
But something was off about her father and Ginyu: even now, Ginyu still couldn't fend him off. Was it the sheer rage, speed, or power Gohan was unleashing in tandem with the power pole?
Jeice had been punted farther above by a kick and right as he tried to recover, Vegeta caught up to him with a chop to his side. The armor right above his ribs scattered, and Jeice, despite knowing another attack was imminent, was in too much pain to move his hands anywhere other than atop his new wound.
As Pan saw chips of Jeice's armor fell atop her head, she brushed it off, then readied herself for the inevitable.
"Jeice dies, then what, Trunks?"
"Ginyu tries changing bodies with my father. That'll be the ticket for Goku. Now as long as we can keep Guldo out of play going forward, we're..."
Pan heard and felt the heat from Vegeta firing a massive beam...
...but then saw Jeice crash into the dirt in the distance, as if yanked straight down by an unseen hand.
"Gah, DAMN IT!" Vegeta screeched, his guaranteed kill robbed from him.
"Gohan, stop!"
Krillin grabbed hold of the power pole to keep Gohan from swinging it again. He looked down at the leader of the Ginyu Force that possessed his father's body...
...his arms covered in red marks.
"No! I hit Ginyu hard, but not that hard..."
He saw one of them with a lone trail of blood.
"No, I couldn't have..."
A drop fell from towards the tip of the red polearm and Krillin, letting go, saw some blood on his palms. They looked back at Pan and Goku in shock.
"My father did that to Ginyu? Someone using Kaio-Ken Times Four?"
In the midst of their collective shock, Ginyu was yanked back. The four could all see Guldo with his hands out, drawing his captain to him while Jeice reeled as he got to his knees.
"That smarted, you little green s...!"
"Cover me and the captain, then you thank me later."
Jeice scoffed as he aimed his hands outward in case any of the Z-Fighters tried making a move. With a shift of his wrist, Guldo tilted Ginyu off his back and upward to his feet.
"Guldo's going to keep dragging this out! This keeps going any longer and Frieza might just..."
Trunks paused upon hearing an audible gasp from Pan.
"Captain Ginyu?"
Guldo's inquiry wasn't answered, save for pained groans.
"Cap'n?"
Ginyu's aura of Kaio-Ken was no more and he stood hunched over, his stolen body's muscles excessively bulked and veined over.
"This body..."
Pan saw Goku's body like this before in his battle with Great Ape Vegeta, but this time, it looked even worse.
"If Ginyu dies in Grandpa's body..."
Ginyu saw everyone, ally and enemy alike, in shock at his condition. All except for Goku, whom had a calmed expression over his face.
"You! Saiyan! What have you done to this body?!"