Pan sat on the ground next to her father, waiting for Grandpa to finish eating before they moved to the next timeplane. "So, how exactly are we ever going to stop Towa? She's never around for the fighting, and only shows up when we can't get at her."

Gohan nodded. "It'll be a pain. We need to wait for the right moment to put an end to this."

There was a loud belch and Pan shot her Grandpa a look. "Grandpa! Manners!"

Goku gave her an innocent smile. "Oops, sorry."

They all rose to their feet and looked to Chronoa who nodded at them. "Alright, everyone's fed, healed, and has their strength back. Let's move."

Chronoa held up the White Time Ring, and in a flash of light, they disappeared from the time-frozen world and reappeared on another. Pan took in the area with a glance. They were floating above Capsule Corporation. Below them, sitting at a table talking, was another Gohan, Bulma, Piccolo, and... Bra?

Pan looked the girl over. She looked a bit older than Pan was, maybe thirteen or fourteen. Unlike the Bra she had grown up with, this one was physically strong. Her ki, even in a rested base state wasn't half bad. She wore a blue and orange gi similar to the Gohan sitting next to her. Her purple hair was tied in a ponytail behind her. She seemed to be talking seriously about something.

"Huh, if I didn't see another me I'd wonder if we had gone home," murmured Gohan.

Vegeta crossed his arms and looked down, speaking softly. "Something is strange about my daughter in this timeplane."

Pan blinked a few times and looked at Vegeta. The man looked a little unnerved. There was a conflicted and very unhappy look in his eyes. Pan looked back and forth between him and Bra before she figured it out. This wasn't something that was going to happen out of sight, ending this timeplane would kill his daughter right in front of him, and his wife too. He may play the tough guy all the time, but she knew he did care for his family, even if they were from another timeplane. A warning bell sounded in Pan's mind, what Bardock had warned Vegeta about rang clear to her. She decided if it came down to it, she'd have to be the one to end things here. She didn't want to let 'it destroy who Vegeta was' as Bardock had said.

Vegeta growled in agitation before speaking. "Lets get this over with. Kai, is my daughter the distortion?"

Chronoa held up her hand, lowered the time shield around them, and released a pulse of energy. To Pan's relief, Bra did not show any gray energy, she was different, but she wasn't the source of the distortion.

Chronoa grew confused. "I don't feel the distortion anywhere. Strange."

Pan wasn't paying attention to her, she was looking down at the Other Gohan, Piccolo, Bulma, and Bra. They had taken note of them after Chronoa had lowered the shield. The four of them were looking at them with a mixture of apprehension, fear, and anger.

"I don't think we're welcome here," said Pan with uncertainty.

"Hmph," said Vegeta, "Looking at them, I have a hunch were expected."

Vegeta descended and landed on the ground, the rest of them following suit.

Bra rose from the table, fury on her face. "So, here at last huh? Ten years, we've been waiting ten years for you bastards to show up!"

"Bulla, don't do anything brash," warned the Other Gohan, "Wait for dad."

Pan raised an eyebrow. "Bulla? Not Bra?"

Bra, er, Bulla, gave her an infuriated look. "My name is Bulla! And YOU have no right to speak to me! You're not the Pan I know, you hardly feel like her! If your helping those timeline murdering bastards, then you're a monster and are no friend of mine!"

Pan couldn't help but flinch and look away at those words. "I..."

The Other Gohan looked at Pan, a conflicted look on his face, before he turned to look at Gohan, anger in his voice, "You brought your daughter along to murder entire timelines?! What kind of scum are you?"

Gohan crossed his arms. "More like she invited herself, excuse me if we didn't know what we were getting into before we started."

That only pissed off the Other Gohan more. "Yet you still continue? Why?"

"Because its us or you," said Vegeta flatly, "Your timeplane endangers us. It's nothing personal."

Bulma took that moment to speak, rage coating her voice, "Nothing personal? You think murdering us is nothing personal!? You're even worse than I remember! At least when I last saw you, you had the excuse of being possessed when you blew away the tournament stadium, even if you had willingly let yourself be controlled. Now? You're a monster!"

Vegeta looked hurt for a moment before he grew confused, looking back and forth between Bulma and Bulla. "If that was the last time you saw me... then who is her father?"

Bulma spit at him. "Someone who is a far better man, and a far better father than you ever were."

Pan could see the pain on Vegeta's face. He visibly looked wounded at those words.

"You bastard!" came a familiar voice.

Pan turned to see Trunks surge from Capsule Corporation's entrance right at Vegeta, ascending to Super Saiyan 2 and attacking. Vegeta ascended as well and began to block and defend himself, but did not counter attack.

"You mass murdering, planet purging, innocent torturing bastard!" screamed Trunks, "You lied to me about your entire damn life!"

Even more pain and conflict crossed Vegeta's face. The struggle continued briefly before Vegeta finally got control of himself, masking his emotions, and backhanded Trunks to the ground. Trunks hit and skidded along painfully before rising to his feet.

"Enough!" shouted the other Gohan, "Trunks! Get to the lookout and get your father out of the timechamber! NOW!"

Trunks hesitated briefly before nodding, spitting in Vegeta's direction, and taking off into the air.

"Time chamber? Well, that's probably why I couldn't feel the distortion if he's in another dimension," mused Chronoa.

"And what about you, 'dad', is this just 'nothing personal' for you too?" shouted the Other Gohan at Goku.

Goku said nothing, but, his eyes shone with uncertainty and pain.

"Damn that Towa," muttered Pan, "She did this just to really screw with us."

The Other Gohan turned to her. "The Demoness? What does she have to do with this?"

"Everything," replied Pan scornfully.

Before the Other Gohan could reply, Bulla stepped forward and cracked her knuckles. "You know, if that's how strong Vegeta is, we've got nothing to worry about. Dad will crush these guys. I don't know about you, but I want a piece of them first."

Vegeta beckoned her forward. "Oh? Is that so? By all means then, show your father your strength."

Anger and hatred played across her face. "You are NOT my father! You and your little group turned our entire damn lives upside down the moment Towa warned us about you! We used to be happy! Now all we do is brood, bitch at eachother, and train to kill YOU!"

Bulla's power exploded around her and she ascended to Super Saiyan 2. She blitzed forward and smashed a fist into Vegeta's chin, sending him rocketing back. Pan watched her surge past their group and chase Vegeta down before knocking him into the air and pursuing him once more. They began to rapidly trade blows. Pan did a quick power gauge and bristled a bit. Their ages were similar, but Bulla was quite a bit stronger than she was. But, if they really had been training for near ten years, then she guessed that was to be expected. She herself had only really had the last four years to grow in strength. Still, while Bulla was strong, she was no Vegeta.

Bulla swung a leg at Vegeta's side. He took the hit, winced, and then pinned the leg against his side, holding her in place. She swung her other leg, Vegeta caught it in his other hand. Bulla smirked, threw her hands to the side and rapidly gathered energy.

"FINAL FLASH!" she shouted, bringing her hands together and aiming them point blank at Vegeta's face.

Vegeta spun himself down and kicked Bulla upwards, throwing off her aim and sending the energy blast into the sky. He rushed towards the ground, grabbing Bulla's foot along the way. She gave a yelp of surprise as they surged downwards. Vegeta landed and swung Bulla down, slamming her into the ground and causing the world to shake and crack around them. Bulla winced painful before thrusting an arm forward and sending a burst of energy at Vegeta. He threw himself back and out of the way before coming to a stop and waiting. Bulla pulled herself up and off the ground, glaring at Vegeta. The two of them stood at a standoff.

BOOM

The two of them exploded at eachother and connected their fists, sending out a shockwave that shattered all the windows in Capsule Corperation. Bulla grabbed Vegeta's arm and hooked a leg behind his and tripping him. As he fell, she dug her feet into the ground and swung him overhead and towards the ground. Rather than let her slam him down, Vegeta planted his feet down, grabbed her arm with his own, and lifted her off the ground, spinning her around and throwing her. She hit the ground, rolling and slamming through a fence. She burst off the ground and floated in the air a bit above them all, breathing in and out slowly. Bulla narrowed her eyes and cupped her hands to her side.

"Kaaa...," began Bulla.

Vegeta's eyes went wide in disbelief for a moment before scowling. "Really? You use that clown's move?"

"Mee...," continued Bulla.

Vegeta crossed his arms. "I'm disappointed."

"Haa...," continued Bulla.

"Bulla! You're aiming AT the ground!" warned the other Gohan.

"Mee...," continued Bulla.

Suddenly, Bulla disappeared from sight. Pan had only a brief moment to note Bulla suddenly reappear at ground level, right in front of Vegeta, half crouching.

"HAAAAA!" screamed Bulla, thrusting her hands forward before Vegeta could react.

The energy wave ripped forward and completely engulfed Vegeta. The blast blew away half of the Capsule Corp building and shot off into the distance. Pan had a brief spike of fear as she lost any sense of Vegeta's ki. The fear faded as the energy wave did. Vegeta still stood there, but instead of the glow and lightning of a Super Saiyan 2, he glowed blue with the power of a Super Saiyan God.

Bulla's eyes went wide. "What... is this?!"

Vegeta drove a fist into her stomach. "The power of a god."

Bulla's eyes bulged, a bit of blood sprayed out of her mouth, she lost her aura, her hair fell back to normal, and she collapsed on the ground at Vegeta's feet, struggling to stay conscious. "D-damn..."

Vegeta studied the girl for a moment before nodding slowly. "Impressive. Using the Instant Transmission with the Kamehameha Wave, I haven't seen that done since Cell. Shame you forced me to end it so quickly, I would have wanted to see more of what you were capable of."

Vegeta took a step forward, pausing momentarily when Bulma screamed. "DON'T HURT HER!"

Vegeta scowled at her and began to lower his hand...

ZIP

LATCH

A man appeared suddenly and grabbed Vegeta's wrist, surprising everyone. Pan took in the sight of him, not sure what she was seeing. He had cloths on that looked like a mix of Grandpa's Gi and Vegeta's none-armor training outfit. On his ears were earrings. His hair was strangely spiky, almost a mix of Vegeta and Grandpa's. His ki felt very familiar, akin to Grandpa and Vegetas. Everything about him seemed so familiar to those two, she couldn't figure it out.

Vegeta himself was staring at the man in shock. "Vegetto?!"

The man, Vegetto, gave a roar, turned Super Saiyan 2, and to Pan's shock, threw Vegeta into the air and away from Bulla. Pan took a fearful step back. His power was unlike anything she had ever felt before. Even the evil version of her father they had met several timeplanes back was nothing compared to this man. Vegetto knelt down and fished a senzu bean out of the pouch attached to his waist and put it into Bulla's mouth. There was a *crunch crunch* before she recovered and took an offered hand. Vegetto helped her to her feet.

Immediately he scolded her. "Bulla! What did I say?! I told you if they appeared you were NOT to engage them!"

She winced and looked down. "Sorry dad..."

Vegetto shook his head and pointed towards the Other Gohan, Bulma, and Piccolo. "Take the Senzu Beans and go, now. Keep your mother safe. Piccolo, I want you to telepathically tell all the others to steer clear of here, I'll handle this."

Vegetto handed her the bean bag and Bulla walked off. Vegetto turned to face them, looking over Gohan, Pan, Goku, and Chronoa while keeping an eye on Vegeta who had landed a ways from them. Pan noted how stunned Grandpa was, and wary Gohan looked. Even Chronoa looked dumbstruck to see this 'Vegetto'.

"Who is that?" Pan asked.

Gohan glanced down at her. "Dad told me about him, he's a temporary Potara Fusion between dad and Vegeta."

"Permanent," corrected Vegetto.

Pan looked back and forth between them, not understanding at all. She got that he was a fusion, like Gotenks was, but, she felt a bit confused. Dad had said temporary, but the fusion said permanent. Which one was it?

"Hmph, I'm not sure how you exist, but it answers one question. Bulla is your daughter then," said Vegeta, "I'll admit, you trained her well."

Vegetto scowled at him. "I don't need your compliments, butcher."

Vegeta scowled right back. "Call me what you will, but never forget half of you is me."

"And I use that half far better than you ever would," taunted Vegetto.

Vegeta narrowed his eyes, but said nothing, his body tensing, unease and concern on his face. Pan gulped, Vegeta was trying to hide it, but he was worried.

Vegetto studied him. "Blue huh? So this must be the Super Saiyan God power Beerus wanted to see all those years ago."

Vegeta looked a bit surprised, and immediately his concern vanished and a grin spread across his face. "So! You don't have the power of a god, thanks for the information. Guess that clown inside you was good for something, being a fool."

Vegetto smirked. "I don't need the power of a god, just the power to kill one."

Vegetto surged forward faster than Pan could follow and slammed a fist into Vegeta's face, sending him flying. Vegeta cringed and righted himself, blood leaking down his mouth. He wiped his glove over his face and stared down at the blood, uncertainty written all over him.

Pan looked to Grandpa and asked, "Just how strong is Vegetto?"

Goku studied the fusion for a moment and spoke quietly. "Strong. If he were a Super Saiyan God, we'd all be dead without question. I doubt even the Kaio-Ken would have saved me. When Vegeta and I fused into him, he was based off us at the time of our fusing. We never really considered how strong we could actually become if we were to have trained and pushed ourselves. We split before that ever even crossed our mind. If he were to go Blue, he'd be way stronger than the Vegetto me and Vegeta formed against Zamasu."

"Should we intervene dad?" asked Gohan.

Goku crossed his arms. "Vegeta can able to handle him right now, but, Vegetto is only a Super Saiyan 2. If he goes to the third level, we might need to step in."

Vegetto cracked his knuckles, and then his neck to one side and the other. "Took you guys long enough to get here. What, did you take the scenic route blowing up timelines?"

Vegeta scoffed. "Save the taunting for someone it works against."

Vegetto's face grew angry. "Taunting? You think I was taunting? I'm asking YOU a damn question! Even for you Vegeta, this is low."

He turned to Goku. "And you, Kakarot, you'd willingly do this?"

"Get off your high horse," interrupted Vegeta, "It's us or you. Like I told your family, its nothing personal. Your timeplane endangers the rest of us."

Vegetto frowned, absorbing the information. "Care to explain exactly how that works?"

"Towa has been creating timeplanes by altering history to absorb energy from them. Their mere existence threatens to destabilize time itself!" explained Chronoa.

Vegetto looked agitated. "I figured she was hiding something, but..."

He shook his head and smiled a grim smile. "It doesn't matter. If its us or you, then I'd choose us everytime. Nothing personal, right?"

Vegeta's gaze briefly turned towards Bulma, Trunks, and Bulla, his face clouded, his ki expressing clear unhappiness. "Right."

BOOM

The two of them disappeared and began trading blows faster than Pan could follow. Pan had to turn Super Saiyan 2 to merely not get blown away by the shockwaves from their fight. Once again Pan found herself growing infuriated with herself. She wouldn't last one second against Vegetto, even his daughter would make mince meat out of her. To add onto that, this version of Dad would probably crush her too if it came down to it. Just like the last timeplane against Cell, she was pretty much useless here. Damn it, damn it, damn it!

WHAM

Vegeta two hand smashed Vegetto from behind and knocked him down to the ground. Vegetto made a crater in the ground before rising to his feet and massaging his shoulder.

"That 'can't sense your ki thing' you gods have is really annoying," stated Vegetto flatly.

Vegeta crossed his arms. "Tough luck."

The two of them exploded at eachother again, and as they fought, Goku began to grow curious. "He knows he's outmatched, why isn't he going Super Saiyan 3?"

Gohan raised an eyebrow. "You told me that form chugs energy. Even if he beats Vegeta there's still both of us to handle. From his point of view, he has to conserve his power."

Goku thought for a moment before nodding. "Makes sense, but, he ain't even gonna come close to beating Vegeta at this rate."

True to his words, Vegeta slammed a fist into Vegetto's gut and backhanded him to the ground. Vegetto skidded along, stopping a few feet from his family, bruised and heavily beaten, dropping out of Super Saiyan 2. Vegeta aimed a hand at him, only to pause when Bulla rushed forward and knelt down, cradling her father.

Vegeta scowled. "I'll give her a minute, I guess..."

*crunch crunch*

Pan gave a start when Vegetto's wounds healed and his energy restored. She noted the Senzu bean bag in Bulla's hand, and a wide grin on her face. Huh, good way to be useful.

"Thanks squirt," said Vegetto, rising to his feet.

Bulla scowled. "Stop calling me that!"

ZAP

Pan took advantage of their distraction, fired a death beam, and fried the Senzu Bean bag in Bulla's hand before anyone could react. Goku glanced back at her, an eyebrow raised. Well, what did he expect? She was like, the only proactive one in the entire group.

The Other Gohan looked at Pan in disbelief. "Why does she know Freeza's move?"

"Long story," muttered Pan.

"Vegetto!" called out Piccolo, "We will aid you!"

"You'll do no such thing!" retorted Vegetto.

"Dad! Please!" begged Bulla, "There's no more Senzu's! You need our help!"

Vegetto glared at her. "None of you would last more than one hit. You got me a Senzu, leave it at that."

Pan felt a pang of kinship as Bulla ground her teeth and backed off. Despite that they were on opposite sides of this battle, as much as she wished they didn't have to fight at all, they were both utterly useless. Outside of supporting their main fighters, the hell could they actually do? It pissed her off so much. Well, at least she wasn't the only one...

"I'll offer you one chance Vegetto, stand down and I'll make this quick," offered Vegeta before his voice grew soft, "You don't stand a chance, it's not necessary to make your daughter and wife watch this."

Vegetto glared at him and powered back up to Super Saiyan 2. "Back down? Your kidding, right?"

He grinned. "I just recovered from quite the beating you gave me, and as any good Saiyan knows, what doesn't kill us..."

Vegetto burst forward into the air and slammed a fist deep into Vegeta's gut. "...makes us stronger!"

Vegeta hissed in pain, blood dripping out of his mouth, and latched onto Vegetto's arm. "Not strong enough!"

Vegetto's eyes went wide as Vegeta began to spin him around and around before throwing him into the air and then aimed an open hand at him. "Big Bang Attack!"

Vegetto righted himself and put two fingers to his forehead, teleporting out of the attack and behind Vegeta before smashing his hand into the back of Vegeta's skull. Vegeta gave a surprised cry and flew forward at the impact before turning and engaging Vegetto directly.

Pan lost sight of their fight once again and crossed her arms, grumbling. "Can't even watch whats going on..."

"Yeah, well, welcome to most of my childhood up until Cell," said Gohan.

"Vegetto is doing much better this time around, but, he still can't beat Vegeta, not like this," said Goku.

They reappeared. Vegetto rushed forward, and kicked Vegeta, only for his leg to go through an afterimage. Vegeta appeared behind him and swung a chop towards the back of his neck. Pan's eyes went wide as Vegetto raised his hand and caught the attack. Vegeta looked momentarily stunned as well. How'd he know it was coming?

Vegetto turned to look at the surprised Vegeta. "You know, when we started fighting, I had this tingling sensation in the back of my mind. It's only been growing sense then. I think I finally figured your 'god ki' out."

Pan's eyes went wide as a soft blue aura appeared directly around Vegetto's skin, but underneath his yellow Super Saiyan aura, and he backhanded Vegeta away. "What?!"

Goku grew wary. "Just like Future Trunks did against Zamasu, he's absorbing and adapting to god ki by fighting against it, but, already? This is way to quick..."

Gohan nodded. "Agreed, but remember, he IS both you and Vegeta. We need to end this, now."

Goku hesitated. "I think Vegeta can still take him."

"Dad! If this keeps going on, he's going to get more and more of a grasp over god ki!" warned Gohan, "Are we really going to let this turn out like Cell and Freeza when we had a chance to win early but let them transform or power up and risk everything?"

Goku winced. "Well..."

"Exactly," said Gohan, igniting his Super Saiyan Blue aura and taking off, Goku following suit a moment later.

Pan's eyes twitched. So THAT was it? That was the big secret to gaining god ki? Fight or train against it? Not some super secret training? Pff...

Vegetto barely managed to dodge as Gohan came at him from behind. He rushed down and blasted off and out of the way, eyeing the three blue glowing warriors.

Vegeta glared death at Gohan and Goku. "I do NOT need your help!"

"Vegeta, were not letting this turn into another 'Cell moment' for you," said Gohan.

Vegetto, despite the situation, couldn't help but laugh at that. "Oh, that had to hurt."

Vegeta scowled. "Fine then, let's end this."

Vegetto clenched his fists, and his power began to spike. "So be it then, I'll take on all three of you! AHHHHHHHH!"

Pan staggered and thrust a fist into the ground to keep herself stable as the world began to shake. She watched Vegetto's hair grow, his eyebrows disappeared, and his power skyrocket. In a flash, Vegetto ascended to Super Saiyan 3 and rushed forward.

"Get them dad!" screamed Bulla, both with hope and fear.

"You can do it Vegetto! I believe in you!" shouted Bulma.

"You can do it dad!" cried out Gohan.

Pan felt her heart be crushed at their shouts. She now, more than ever since she entered this timeplane, felt like she and the others were the villains here. These people were just trying to live their lives, just trying to survive... this wasn't right...

Pan turned to Chronoa. "Are you sure this has to be done?"

Chronoa sighed. "Pan, there's no other choice. If we let these timeplanes continue, they will empower Towa. And aside from that, there mere existence destabilizes the entire timestream."

Pan frowned. "I bet Grandpa and the others would be willing to take on a stronger Towa rather than do this. Is there a way to stabilize it without destroying the timeplanes?"

"I don't know," said Chronoa.

"You don't know?!" exclaimed Pan, "You're having us MURDER our friends and family when you haven't even checked for other options?!"

Chronoa scowled at her. "Pan! You don't understand the stakes here! As the Kaioshin, the god ruling over time, it's my duty to..."

Pan glared hatefully at her. "What I understand is that you, the 'high and mighty god of time', doesn't think its worth her time to try and help people rather than take the easy way out and wipe them out, using us to do your dirty work for you!"

Chronoa flinched at her words. "Pan... that's not it at all. If we had time to study this without risking the timestream, I would, but we don't have the time, and Towa grows stronger the longer these timeplanes last. I'm sorry."

Pan crossed her arms and turned away from Chronoa. "...stupid god..."

Pan found herself not wanting to watch the battle anymore and merely kept her eyes glued on the ground. Shockwaves buffeted her, energy rolled over the area, and cries of pain kept sounding. Second by second, she felt Vegetto's energy drop, until...

"Final...," came Vegetto's voice.

Pan froze, feeling the man's energy spike a level she couldn't wrap her mind around, and forced herself to look up. Vegetto was bruised and bleeding heavily, breathing in and out nonstop. The man held his arms out to his sides, and then brought them together. Gohan, Goku, and Vegeta were floating away from him, putting some distance between...

"KamehameHAAAAAAAA!" screamed Vegetto.

Pan's eyes went wide, watching the technique erupt from Vegetto's hands right at Goku. "GRANDPA!"

"Kaio-Ken times ten!" shouted Goku, holding out his hands to catch the energy.

She could visibly see the disbelief on Vegetto's face as Goku caught and negated the energy wave. Vegetto slowly shook his head, grim realization on his face. It was over, she could tell he knew it, he didn't stand a chance. His power gave out a moment later and he plummeted towards the ground. Bulla flew up and caught him, gently setting him down. She looked up as Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan landed a bit away, terror on her face.

"I'll finish it," muttered Vegeta, slowly walking forward.

Goku and Gohan nodded, flying back over towards Chronoa.

"Stand aside Bulla," warned Vegeta, aiming a hand at the downed Vegetto.

Bulla moved, but not away; she rose to her feet and planted herself right in front of her father, spreading her arms out to her side. "If you want to kill my dad, you're going to have to go through me!"

Vegeta hesitated, and despite how stoic he was trying to appear, Pan could see the agony of the choice in his eyes, his ki roiled around him. Once more, Pan remembered Bardock's warning. Could Vegeta ever forgive himself if he killed his daughter? Even if she was a different version of her?

Pan decided not to find out. Pan aimed a hand and unleashed a blast of ki, hitting and knocking Bulla out of the way and to the ground. Vegeta was surprised and momentarily looked at Pan, silent thanks in his eyes, before he turned and blew a hole through Vegetto's chest.

"DADDY!" screamed Bulla, holding a hand out towards him.

Vegeta flew back to the group as the grayness of stopped time spread from Vegetto and engulfed his daughter and his friends and family, spreading to consume their entire world. Pan watched it all quietly, feeling horrific guilt trying to tear her apart. She could feel it in the other's ki as well, none of them felt remotely good after doing this.

To her; the scene; a dead Vegetto with his daughter on the ground nearby stretching a desperate, pleading, hand out to him, tears streaming down her face. Pan knew the image was going to haunt her for the rest of her life.

Without a word, Chronoa held up her hand and teleported the deathly silent group out of the timeplane...