Pan looked around as the group once again appeared in another world. It looked to be another Earth again. They were at Mount Paozu, only this time, the mountain was completely barren of trees. There were weird alien-like structures covering it evenly spaced out.

"Hmph, those look like Planet Trade Organization warehouses, wonder what the witch changed in this one," mused Vegeta.

Pan frowned and stretched out her senses. "A lot of the ki signatures I feel don't seem human..."

"Because they're not, Earth is most likely occupied," said Vegeta, "Which is curious. Usually we just cleared a planet to make it ready for sale. Earth would have sold for an absurd amount of currency. Why bother with an occupation?"

Goku crossed his arms, looking annoyed. "Hey Vegeta, you feel that? To the north..."

Vegeta cocked his head for a moment before scowling. "Freeza, how many times do we have to deal with him in one lifetime?"

His scowl turned into a grin. "Then again, I wouldn't mind actually getting to kill him for once."

"Hmm, I don't know whether I should be excited or not to actually see the guy that made you first go Super Saiyan Grandpa," said Pan.

Goku shook his head. "He's rotten Pan, he's nothing to admire or get excited about. In fact, I think he's the original Freeza, not the revived one. His power is weak, there's no way he can even go gold."

Pan scowled. "Aww."

"Lets just get this over with, the less time we have to spend dealing with Freeza, the better," muttered Gohan.

"That bad dad?" asked Pan, curious.

Gohan went silent for a moment. "Well... lets just say our fights against him were a bit more rough than we told you."

Pan gave him a dirty look. "I gotta get you guys to give me the real details on what happened in the old stories. I'm not a little girl anymore, I can take it."

"Hmph, we're kind of busy grandbrat, another time," said Vegeta.

Pan rolled her eyes and followed in behind them as they flew through the air. She couldn't help but notice they weren't even bothering to mask their power. She thought for a moment. Didn't they used to say all the bad guys they fought in the old days couldn't sense energy or something like that? Pan nodded to herself, good, she didn't exactly like sneaking around. She preferred the frontal in your face approach. Pan watched a tiny ship on the ground slowly get bigger in the distance until they finally arrive. It was on the ground, circular in ship. It almost looked like a weird doughnut in her opinion. She looked down at the entrance to the ship as the group came to a stop. Sitting in a floating kind of chair was a horned alien that looked like Zeroes and Frost in their first forms. Pan figured her was Freeza, his presence sure felt foul enough to be. However, standing in front of him was her Grandpa, once again in Saiyan armor. Both of them seemed oblivious to the group floating high up in the air.

The veins on Goku's head began to bulge and anger flashed across his face. "You've got to be kidding me. There is NO way I'd ever serve Freeza!"

Pan looked down at the Other Goku, feeling a little puzzled. "He... doesn't really feel like you."

Goku looked at her for a moment before glancing down, studying the Freeza and his double.

Vegeta gave a small laugh. "I think I know what's going on. Kakarot, Towa is mocking you."

Goku raised an eyebrow. "Mocking me?"

"Watch and you'll see," said Vegeta.

Vegeta descended to the ground. "Freeza!"

Both Freeza and the Other Goku gave a start and stared at him in disbelief.

Freeza stared at him for a few moments before scowling. "Vegeta, there's a sight I haven't seen in years nor wanted to. I dare say I must either be hallucinating or you've somehow come back from the dead."

Vegeta smirked. "Neither, but I'll deal with you in a moment. I have a bone to pick with your captain."

The Other Goku grinned. "So Vegeta, back for another round after I sent you to the afterlife? Well, I hope you are prepared to once again face..."

The Other Goku stood on one foot, cross his leg, put one arm under his armpit, and thrust his other arm into the air before shouting, "...the illustrious Captain Ginyu!"

The group stared down at him for a moment before Goku smacked his own forehead. "You've got to be kidding me..."

"Ginyu?" Pan asked.

"He's a guy that temporarily stole your Grandfather's body on Namek before we fought Freeza," explained Gohan, shaking his head slowly with disbelief.

Pan scowled and looked down on Ginyu-Goku. "Dirty body snatching thief."

"Of all the horrors," said Goku with chagrin, he actually looked rather humiliated, "Having my body do those ridiculous poses all these years, just awful. I feel sorry for the other me that must have been watching this from the otherworld."

Vegeta cracked his knuckles. "So, you killed me on Namek? I find that hard to believe."

Ginyu-Goku gave him a puzzled look. "Hard to believe? What, did you come back delusional? I broke your neck you damn monkey!"

"You mean like how I just broke yours?" said Vegeta, a sneer on his face.

"How you wha-," began Ginyu-Goku.

Pan watched as Vegeta surged forward, grabbed Ginyu-Goku's head, and snapped his neck before throwing him to the ground. She winced at the sight, even if he wasn't really Grandpa, she didn't like seeing someone who looked exactly like him being brutalized like that.

Vegeta put a boot on Ginyu-Goku's back and drove him into the ground. "Don't be glum Ginyu, you're not dead yet, I'm going to let you hear your master break before I put you down."

Freeza didn't seem particularly fazed. "Mmm bravo Vegeta. Ginyu has been annoying me as of late, I suppose you did me a service. But, to think you could break me? Ho ho ho that's amusing."

Vegeta gave him a wicked smile. "Oh Freeza, you have no idea how much I'm going to enjoy this."

Pan winced as the screams of agony started. She thought she was hardened to this sort of thing after going through the Saiyan mess on Terra, but, she couldn't help but look away from the grizzly scene happening below. She wasn't sure she would ever dare to piss Vegeta off again.

"Jeez Vegeta," muttered Goku, "I guess he had a lot of pent up hatred he never got to dish out on Freeza when he came back gold. Hmm, Bulma was there, probably didn't want her to see something like this."

Five minutes of pain, bone's breaking, and limbs being ripped off later Pan felt Freeza's life force give away.

Vegeta scolded the corpse and kicked it away, "Pathetic, that's all you could hold out for? Bah, I should of made you transform first."

Vegeta floated up towards them. Pan wasn't sure what scared her more; what Vegeta had just done, or the huge smile on his face.

The man turned to Goku. "So, do you want to finish off the body snatcher or should I?"

"Well...," began Goku.

Vegeta immediately turned and blasted Ginyu-Goku. "To late. To think, I got to kill Freeza and Kakarot in one day! Oh, old dreams finally fulfilled. What do humans call it? A mid life crisis? A mid life fulfillment is more like it. Anyway, lets go."

Chronoa put a barrier up as time began to stop on the timeplane. "How'd you know he was the distortion?"

Vegeta scoffed. "Wasn't it obvious?"

Goku crossed his arms and gave Vegeta a look. "Was that really necessary Vegeta?"

Vegeta laughed. "Yes, yes it was."

Gohan shook his head. "Lets just get out of here."

Chronoa frowned. "I... don't feel another distortion..."

"Well, that's because I haven't made one yet," came a voice behind them.

They group spun to see Towa floating a ways behind them, wrapped in a red bubble of energy protecting her from the frozen time around them.

"So Goku, did you enjoy the last two worlds? I hand picked them for you. This one was a light jab, oh but the first one, did you love what happened to you and your son?" said Towa slyly.

Goku narrowed his eyes, Pan could tell he was struggling to keep his anger in check. "Towa, what did you do to me in that world?"

Towa shrugged. "I momentarily weakened your will for one brief moment, nothing more, nothing less. Funny to see how an oh so 'great warrior' like yourself could never recover after that. Everything else that happened in that timeline was through your own will, or rather, your lack of it."

Goku clenched his fists, momentarily looking away with shame on his face. "..."

Pan turned to Chronoa. "Can we just blast her now?"

Chronoa shook her head. "We break this bubble, and time will stop for us too."

Towa laughed. "I like the girl's attitude. Perhaps I'll go easy on her when the time comes."

Pan stuck her tongue out at her. "Shove it bimbo! Seriously, who dresses like that?"

Towa glared at her. "Excuse me? I'll have you know this is staple demon-fashion! The best and most alluring clothes a demon can wear. Hmph, not something I'd expect a little mongrel like you to understand."

"Pan, don't goad her," murmured Gohan.

Vegeta floated towards the front of the the shield. "What's your aim with all of this witch? Crafting these last two worlds was petty."

Towa shrugged. "Well, I took a trip through the main timestream first to see your pasts before I made them, but don't mistake my intent with those worlds. Merely by existing these worlds feed energy into my Demon Time Ring. I don't have a particular need to shape them, I merely altered them for my own amusement."

She looked at them, almost hungrily. "Oh, there's so many ways I can twist your pasts and create visages of worlds to make you all suffer. If you wish to get in my way, I'm going to enjoy this, immensely."

She gave Vegeta a warm smile. "Though, based off that beautiful bloodshed I just saw, you seemed to rather enjoy this last world. You know, I could also easily offer you all your own paradises instead if you would but stand aside."

"Oh? Taking requests are we?" said Vegeta with interest.

"I might be," said Towa seductively.

"Vegeta...," began Chronoa in an angry tone.

"Quiet woman," barked Vegeta.

"I'll 'consider' your offer if you grant me a request," said Vegeta.

Pan frowned, studying Vegeta. There was no way he was actually going to help the demoness, what was he playing at by going through with this?

Towa leaned forward. "And what, dear prince, is your desire?"

Vegeta grew quiet for a moment before speaking. "I want to see my father. I wish to see my birth-world, what would have happened to it if Freeza had been stopped from destroying it."

A sad look crossed Goku's face. "Vegeta..."

"Quiet Kakarot, do not deny me this," warned Vegeta.

Towa studied Vegeta, mulling over his request. "Hmm, so, you wish to see your father and your people? That could be arranged. I suppose I could let Goku see his father as well, after all, considering the circumstances of Planet Vegeta's destruction, Bardock would be best fit to stop Freeza with a bit of a power boost."

Goku frowned. "I'm not interested. If he was like the rest of the planet purging Saiyans, I'd have nothing to say to him."

"Hmph, that's your choice. Still, Bardock would be the best bet I suppose. I suppose I can't help but wonder myself how he would have turned out with that power of his had he survived...," began Towa.

She paused, a shocked look on her face. "His power..."

A wicked grin spread across her face. "My my my, Vegeta I think I will readily grant your request for giving me a brilliant idea. I don't even care if you actually follow through with backing down or not."

With a blink, Towa vanished into thin air.

A nervous bead of sweat rolled down Chronoa's face. "I don't get it. There's no way Bardock's power could actually help her, could it? It would be limited to his timeplane... right?"

Pan looked at her. "His power?"

Chronoa looked troubled. "Bardock received a 'curse' in retribution for purging a planet, to be able to see the future. He saw the destruction of Planet Vegeta and tried to stop it, only to die to Freeza, kind of. The original Towa I had to deal with sort of dragged him through time to try to use him like this Towa wants to. To be honest, he's still somewhere in some timestream and I have no clue where."

Vegeta raised an eyebrow. "Curious."

He scowled. "Alright woman, get us moving."

Chronoa turned and stamped on his foot. "VEGETA! This isn't a game!"

Vegeta frowned at her. "I'm aware. With her being able to teleport at will like that, we need to catch her with her guard down in order to actually stop her."

"Oh really? So that request of yours just 'happened' to be the best way to do that?" asked Chronoa scornfully.

Vegeta scoffed. "Of course not. I'm not just helping you out of 'goodwill'. Aside from saving my own skin and my family, if I can get something out of this, I will. What my life could have been has always been a nagging thought in the back of my mind. I would see that thought answered and snuffed out before that witch dies and we return home."

Chronoa slowly shook her head. "Vegeta... I really hope you didn't just screw us with that idea of yours. If Bardock's power can actually help Towa, this could become a disaster."

"To late to complain now," said Gohan, "Let's go and get it over with."

Chronoa sighed, raised her hand into the air, and they disappeared in a flash of light.

Pan looked around as they appeared on a red rocky landscape. She winced momentarily as the gravity weighed down on her before she recovered and slightly increased her power to compensate.

Vegeta took a few steps forward, breathed in, and slowly breathed out, an odd, sentimental look Pan had never seen on his face before coating it. "Hmm, home."

"Is it how you remember, Prince Vegeta?" called a voice.

The group turned to see an older man who looked almost exactly like Goku sitting on a rock with his arms crossed staring at them. He wore Saiyan armor, but unlike the versions Pan had seen, it was green and had no shoulder pads, letting his muscular arms hang out unhindered. Across his cheek he bore a nasty scar. Wrapped around his head slightly under his hair was a blood red band of cloth.

Vegeta crossed his arms. "It is. So you must be Bardock."

Bardock nodded. "I am."

Pan stared at him curiously, so he was her great-grandpa? She stretched out her senses, for a planet purger he didn't feel that evil.

"You seem to be aware of who we actually are," said Gohan, "It's as if you were waiting for us."

Bardock nodded again. "I am and I was."

Pan looked him over a second time before noticing something and exclaiming. "He has one of the time rings on!"

The group gave a start and looked at his hand as he held it up, on one of his fingers was a tainted green-red time ring. "Yeah, I do. Towa gave it to me to amplify the power of my visions. She forgot to take it back after she flipped out and left."

Chronoa crossed her arms. "Flipped out?"

Bardock grinned. "Let's just say she didn't like the future I revealed, so she's re-evaluating."

"And what did you see?" asked Chronoa.

A serious expression crossed Bardock's face. "Supreme Kai of Time. In the original flow of things had I refused to answer either your or Towa's questions, two worlds from now, you would have attempted to stop Towa from escaping by using the White Time Ring. She would have fought you by using the power of the Demon Time Ring. Both rings would have detonated during the struggle and literally ruptured time itself."

Chronoa gave a horrified shriek. "R-r-ruptured time?!"

Bardock nodded. "You and Towa would die. My family and the prince would have been stranded until the Omni-Kings would have been forced to erase all of time and start over to fix the whole mess. Do. Not. EVER. Use that ring directly against the Demon Time Ring, are we clear?"

Chronoa's face had gone pale. "Y-yes..."

Bardock rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Vegeta, if you are going to go see the planet, now's the time, I'll wait to discuss a few serious matters until you get back."

Vegeta looked conflicted for a moment. "Give me a run down of my life."

"You rule the Saiyan race, you have a wife and three children. Your father is an old cripple serving as your adviser after you killed Nappa for being an idiot. You are a bit more ruthless and act a bit more Saiyan, but honestly you are not that much different than you are now. I suppose the biggest key difference is that you just tend to blast people who piss you off rather than yell at them," said Bardock.

Vegeta smirked at that. "So, everything I ever imagined?"

Bardock shook his head. "Not quite. You don't have even one percent of the power you hold now."

Vegeta turned sour instantly. "Pah, not even close to worth it then. Forget this world, get down to business Bardock."

Bardock gave a small laugh before slowly shaking his head. "With this time ring on, I can see timestreams that could be with just a thought and a question of 'what if'. I've had decades to peer through countless possibilities. I've been... practicing this scenario we find ourselves in for the last month, wondering exactly what I should say, what timestream I should even direct things down, if at all. Ultimately, I've decided to give all of you one warning or suggestion each, I already gave Towa and The Supreme Kai of Time theirs."

Chronoa crossed her arms. "Manipulating time is a serious offense Bardock."

Bardock scowled at her. "If I didn't, you and the witch would have ended up blowing up time itself, so, eat me."

Chronoa glared at him and stamped her foot down. "Hmph! The Bardock in our timeline is much more of a gentleman than you!"

Bardock turned away from her and glanced at Vegeta. "Vegeta, don't let shutting down these timeplanes destroy who you are."

Vegeta scoffed. "Destroy me? Please, unlike that buffoon Kakarot, I'm not so easily attached."

Bardock faintly smiled. "So you say, but Towa has yet to truly test you."

A troubled look briefly crossed Vegeta's face before he banished it.

Bardock turned to Goku. "Kakarot, you remember that person, don't you? The one who stopped you from making a certain wish at the end of the Universal Survival Tournament?"

Goku stiffened, a shocked look crossing his face. "How do you know about... that person?"

Bardock merely smiled and poked his head. "I can see the past too because of the ring."

Goku nodded slowly, his eyes briefly turning towards Pan before going back to Bardock. "What about... that person?"

"When the time comes, and you meet that person again...," began Bardock.

Goku's eyes went wide. "Wait, what? That person's alive?!"

Bardock hesitated. "Not yet... well... in a manner of speaking, ish... grrr, its hard to explain without endangering that future."

Bardock took in a breath and slowly let it out. "When the time comes, and you meet that person again, you need to stop that person from trying to commit the same mistake you were going to make with that wish of yours. If that person tries it, that person will die and everything will spin out of control. When the moment arrives, and you'll know it when it does, tell that person to have faith in 'them'."

Goku slowly nodded, a deeply troubled look on his face, his eyes flickered to Pan again before going back to Bardock. "Okay. I'm not sure I really understand how that person can be alive but not be alive, nor why that person would make the same mistake that person stopped me from making, but, I'll try when the time comes."

Pan was starting to grow annoyed. Grandpa and Bardock were being very evasive right now. Even Vegeta looked like he had a glint of understanding, and was eying her for some reason like Grandpa had been. It was pissing her off, they were keeping a secret of some kind. She was tempted to demand an answer, but knew she'd probably get shot down.

Bardock turned towards Gohan. "Gohan..."

Gohan held up a hand. "I don't want to know the future. I'd prefer to just let things play out."

Bardock smiled softly. "I kind of figured, but, I still want to help. My suggestion is for both you and your wife, so, please hear me out."

Gohan crossed his arms, a wary look on his face. "..."

Bardock sighed. "Sometimes, letting go is the hardest thing in the world. One day, you and your wife will have to, the quicker you two do it, the easier things will be."

Gohan frowned, looking a bit disturbed. "Letting go of what?"

Bardock slowly shook his head and turned towards Pan. Rather than speak, he stared at her for a few minutes, appearing to mull something over.

He closed his eyes. "Pan, there are so many things I could say, things I could try to change, but... I think rather than give you a warning or a suggestion, I'll ask you a question."

Pan felt curious, and a little wary at his words. "What is it?"

"Would you sacrifice everything, even who you are as a person, if it meant standing up for what you believe in and, in your mind, protecting your friends and family?" asked Bardock.

Pan didn't hesitate. "Yes."

Gohan stiffened, looking back and forth between Pan and Bardock before demanding. "Why ask that question Bardock?"

Bardock shook his head, refusing to answer.

Pan crossed her arms, she had a hunch what he meant. "It probably means I'm going to die again at some point. Great, as if the first time wasn't enough."

Bardock gave her a sad smile. "Just remember what your answer when the time comes to make that sacrifice. What happens isn't exactly what you think it will be."

Pan refused to grow alarmed or show any signs of nervousness. "If you're going to just tease it around me, don't bother. I'll just have to grab the dragonballs when we get back to get ready."

Bardock hesitated for a moment. "Pan... not everything can be solved with the dragonballs."

A solid lump formed in Pan's throat. W-what was he saying? That she'd die and the dragonballs couldn't help her come back?! Pan struggled with the thought as a wave of fear washed over her. S-she had died before without thinking she could come back, she could do so again! She wouldn't be afraid to face it! If it even came down to it that is, she had a warning now, and she'd make use of it.

"Well, when the time comes, I'll just have to try harder," said Pan dismissively, trying her best to sound brave and unaffected.

He took off the tainted time ring and tossed it to Chronoa. "Here."

Chronoa caught it and pocketed it. "Thanks, I guess."

Bardock rubbed his forehead and sighed. "Well, when you all are ready to move on, blast me, I'm the distortion."

Bardock crossed his arms and stared at them. "Well? What are you waiting for?"

Pan looked at the group, most of them looked lost in thought over Bardock's warnings. Pan turned to face her great-grandpa, held out her hand, and hesitated. She should just end this so they could move on and put a stop to Towa. He was a planet purger, just like the Saiyans she had killed on Terra, there wasn't any reason to hesitate. She took in a breath, let it out, and sent out a blast of ki. Bardock gave her a faint smile before it hit and punctured through his chest. Pan winced, feeling a throb in her heart when he collapsed.

She looked away from his corpse as it began to gray, feeling flustered and ashamed all of the sudden. Dammit, even if he had given them warnings, he was just a planet purger, and someone that had to die so this timeplane would stop. Why in the world did she feel so kami awful all of the sudden? She had killed scum like him all the time back on Terra... had the last few years at home really made her so soft? Or... was it because he looked like Grandpa? Because he was family?

"Hmph, if you're going to have a meltdown grandbrat you should have let me do it," said Vegeta.

Pan gave a start, realizing she had been starting shed tears, before she viciously wiped her eyes on her sleeve and then glared at him. "Shut up! You were just standing around so I had to get us moving!"

She avoided looking at Grandpa and dad while turning to look at Chronoa. "Well?"

Chronoa nodded slowly before raising her hand into the air. With a flash of light, they disappeared...