Pan didn't know what to say, do, or even think. The impossible had just happened. Grandfather and Vegeta were both out of the tournament. Grandfather had forfeited his fight to honor his bet, and Vegeta had been beaten. Kale, the Saiyan Emperor, was a Super Saiyan God. The Saiyan Empire had a god, that... that changed everything.
He had announced his intentions to wish for immortality, and the only thing between him and it was Odianna. But... Pan had seen how Grandfather had easily bested Odianna even at a Super Kaio-Ken x100 with just one punch in his god form. What... what could she possibly do against the Saiyan Emperor?!
Pan turned worriedly to Odianna. "B-big sis... this is bad..."
Odianna said nothing, her face grim.
"You have to beat him! You have to find a way!" Pan pleaded despairingly.
"There will be no break between the semi-final and final rounds. Now, for the final match of the tournament! Would Odianna from Dimension 2 and Kale from Dimension 2 please enter the ring!" shouted the Grant Priest.
No... there wasn't even time to try and come up with a strategy! She watched, an awful feeling forming in the pit of her stomach, as Odianna took off and made for the ring. Both her and Kale moved to the opposite ends and waited.
"Let the final match, begin!" shouted the Grand Priest.
Kale crossed his arms. "I've been waiting for this for a long time. Do you know, woman, that legends are spoken of the world of Terra? Of their so-called 'undefeatable champion'? Its the dream of every Saiyan whelp to be the one to take that champion, to take you down, and avenge the pride and honor of the Saiyan race."
He smirked. "You've slayed thousands of us over the years, spit in the face of our own Super Saiyan legends by killing them, and even now, seek to exterminate our entire species."
Odianna glared at him. "You're point? Anything you lay at my feet can be laid right back at yours! None of that would have happened had you damn Saiyan's never set foot on Terra!"
Kale laughed. "You misunderstand, I do not hate you for it, in fact, I relish the challenge you have given our race. You are the source of our power."
Odianna had a blank look on her face.
Kale smiled. "Had you never attained immortality and rose to power to challenge us, we would never have re-discovered the legendary power of the Super Saiyan, ascended beyond it, and I never would have sought out divine instruction in order to unify the Saiyan Race. We Saiyans only grow through conflict and trial, and you have given that to us in more ways than one for almost half a century. For that, I thank you."
Odianna spit in his direction. "You Saiyan's and your twisted ass backwards logic."
Kale barred his teeth. "You deny it? Even now you've pushed us to a final battle. Here I shall claim final victory over you, claim immortality, remove your immortality and kill you after the tournament, restoring half a centuries worth of lost honor and pride, then claim rightful unchallengable rule over my kind in order to lead us forever into the final frontier of endless Dimensions!"
Pan's face went pure white. Remove Odianna's immortality?! Oh gods, a wish had granted it to her, a wish could take it away...
Odianna raised an eyebrow. "You Saiyan's really like to hear yourselves talk, you know that? Hate to break it to you, actually, I do, but, you're not going to be able to get what you want even if you beat me here."
Kale smirked. "Oh? And why is that?"
"You get one wish. You can either wish for immortality, or wish for mine to be removed, not both," said Odianna with confidence."
Kale threw back his head and laughed. "Hahahahahaha!"
Kale gave her a sickeningly sweet smile filled with malice. "I thought that too, until the idea came to me when you were fighting Son Goku."
Odianna's confidence momentarily fell. "What idea?"
"My wish will be for your immortality to be transferred from you and onto me. You lose immortality, I gain it," answered Kale, a wicked gleam in his eye.
Odianna's face paled. "..."
"Oh no," whispered Pan.
She saw it, she saw something she had NEVER seen on Odianna's face before. She saw fear.
Kale clenched his fists and ascended to Super Saiyan Blue. "It is TIME!"
"Super Kaio-Ken times one-hundred," cried out Odianna.
Kale closed the distance in a blink of an eye and embedded his fist into Odianna's stomach, knocking her out of the Super Kaio-Ken and to the ground. One hit, and her energy went basically to zero. Odianna laid there, shivering in pain.
"You, and your friends will be taken back to Terra and slain, and the last human life in our Dimension shall be snuffed out," said Kale cruelly.
He picked up and threw Odianna across the ring, slamming her body into the ring barrier directly infront of the Dimension 2 area. Odianna slid to the floor as Kale stalked forward. She shook her head, rose to her feet, and stared straight at Pan. She pointed to Aideen, then pointed to Dimension 1's area and mouthed 'take her'. She saw it. The defeat in Odianna's eyes. There was absolutely nothing she could do against a Saiyan god. If Aideen and the other's weren't protected, they'd be taken and killed after the fight. She latched onto Aideen's hand and dragged her to the divider.
"C'mon!" said Pan.
Aideen hesitated. "But..."
"No buts!" said Pan, climbing over the divider and basically dragging Aideen with her.
She ran up to her Grandfather. "Grandfather!"
He turned, and to her surprise, shot her a cold look. "What is it Pan?"
She hesitated briefly, not understanding the cold look, the smoldering anger and hurt in his eyes. "We have to take Aideen and the other's back with us, otherwise they'll be killed!"
For a moment, to her astonishment, it almost looked like he would refuse, before he sighed. "Fine, I'll tell Piccolo to move the other three to our Dimension's spectator area."
Goku closed his eyes briefly, tilting his head and Pan turned to see Piccolo take off.
Goku opened and narrowed his eyes. "However Pan, we need to talk after this tournament. You had no excuse to betray us by telling your 'big sis' about my transformations."
She stared at him in disbelief. "I... what?"
Goku turned around and resumed watching the fight. Pan stared at him, stricken. She looked around, but no one was even looking at her, they were intentionally looking away. She felt shunned and dejected all the sudden, completely and utterly alone. Oh gods... it hurt so much...
"I...," she began, her voice choking.
She couldn't find the strength to speak, and merely moved back to stand next to Aideen, who shot her a questioning look. "I didn't... I didn't do it..."
It wasn't fair! She hadn't told Odianna! The woman had merely stumbled over the memories when she was saving Pan's life! Stumbled over them doing something her own family should have been doing! Instead, they were standing out here having the time of her life in a tournament while she had tried to kill herself and had a mental breakdown because someone had attacked her mind! It wasn't right! Her rage spiked, and it took everything she had not to lash out at them. She had been right after all, she remembered thinking they would abandon her after the fight with Coli, and she was right! They didn't trust her, they didn't believe in her! Screw them... just... screw them! She shook with anger and stared at her Grandfather's back, feeling an emotion she had never felt towards him before: Hate.
She looked back to the right, sighting the terrifying sight of Kale holding Odianna up by her throat. "Pitiful. Almost half a century you stood against the Saiyans, now, how easily now you fall before a god."
He brought her face down into his knee, causing an audible 'CRACK'. Pan squealed in distress, seeing Odianna's head cave in. Kale tossed her aside and shook his head in disappointment.
"What I shame, I had fantasized about this moment for years, yet, it leaves me wanting so much more," said Kale with distaste.
Odianna didn't heal in time before the thirty seconds were up.
"Kale from Dimension 2 is the winner of the first Dimensional Tournament!" shouted the Grand Priest.
If he were expecting applause, he received none. No one had a high opinion of the Saiyans after seeing their brutality in the tournament.
The Grand Priest waved his hand and healed Odianna before turning to Kale. "You may make your request of the Omni-Kings."
Kale threw his hands up high into the sky. "Great and powerful Omni-Kings! I humble request that the immortality of the human Odianna be taken from her and granted onto me!"
One of the Omni-Kings waved his hand, and it was done. A pillar of light erupted from Odianna, causing her to scream as it left her. It rose into the air, condensed into a ball, and rained down on Kale, who started laughing almost hysterically.
Pan trembled, feeling sickened and scared. A Super Saiyan God was one thing, an lesser Immortal Super Saiyan God was something else entirely. If he came after their Dimension, what the hell were they supposed to do against that?!
Kale bowed gracefully to the Omni-Kings. "I thank you."
Kale took three powerful strides, closed the distance between himself and a dazed Odianna, hauled her up, and threw her out of the ring to his fellow Saiyan's who caught her and latched onto her arms, keeping her in place.
The Grand Priest floated into the air and addressed the gathering. "This concludes the Dimensional Tournament. Have a pleasant day."
Pan couldn't believe it, the gods, they didn't give a damn whatsoever about what was going on! Did they really not care?!
The arena started emptying at a rapid pace, gods and mortal's alike leaving. Pan watched, mortified, as the Saiyan's started dragging Odianna away.
Kale gave a curt nod towards Vegeta. "The taunts and mocks of battle aside Prince Vegeta, you impressed me. I'm more than willing to extend an... offer of diplomacy between our dimensions. I have work to do back home first before I send an official envoy to your Dimension."
With that, Kale turned and followed his fellow Saiyans out.
No... no no no no! She couldn't let this happen! Pan ran down her hallway, making for the exit.
"Pan! Stop!" came Goku's warning.
Pan didn't care, she didn't stop, she ran out and spotted the Saiyans heading for the north-hallway out of their portal room. "STOP!"
Kale turned. "You desire something of us?"
Pan ascended to Super Saiyan 2. "Let. Her. Go!"
Kale raised an eyebrow, a flicker of blue divine ki showing around him. "Perhaps I misheard you. Did I just hear you attempt to give an order to your god?"
"Pan stop!" said Goku, coming up behind her and putting a hand on her shoulder.
She turned and glared at him. "Whats wrong with you?! You're supposed to be a hero! We can't just let her go! She'll be killed!"
Goku frowned at her. "Pan..."
There was a pattering of feet as Gohan and Vegeta came up behind them.
Kale narrowed his eyes. "I am willing to overlook the other four humans of Terra that you took with you, but if you attempt to take this prize from me, all diplomacy is off, I will crush your family, and take your human world for my own."
Pan desperately looked at Goku, then Gohan, then Vegeta, they were all silent, grim looks on their face. No no no no no... they couldn't... they were supposed to be heroes! She knew how bad it was, to try to take on an immortal Saiyan God who led an entire empire, but, they had to do something!
"Pan, just go, don't throw your life away," came a quiet, tired voice of Odianna.
Pan looked at her, stricken. "No... NO I refuse!"
Odianna gave her a grim look and shook her head.
Goku put both his hands on Pan's shoulder, tapping into a bit of his power to keep her in place. "Pan..."
No... Odianna... she was going to die... big sis was going to die... and she was going to be all alone, no no no no NO!
Pan trembled in raw fear at the thought, a soft green glow surrounding her body...
Goku's eyes went wide, sighting Pan's green power beginning to ignite, and Pan's ki began to fluctuate in a strange way. It was the first time she had tapped into this power since she had awoken from her coma, and it felt different. It felt... dangerous. An image flashed through his mind, of the near mad Pan who had utterly butchered Zamasu and Black. That couldn't be allowed to happen, not here. It would be a complete and utter bloodbath, innocents would die, the gods would probably get involved. It would be a disaster that could cost Pan her life. He narrowed his eyes, tapped into his god ki, chopping a hand into the back of Pan's neck and knocked her out before she could fully awaken the power. He caught her as she fell and then handed her to Gohan.
Kale raised an eyebrow at that. "A curious energy. It would seem hybrids are even more... spectacular... than I thought."
Kale eyed Goku. "I'll forgive your granddaughter's transgression. When next we meet, you would do well to keep her in line."
Goku said nothing. In truth, while he disliked, borderline 'hated' Odianna for their battle earlier and for what the woman had once done to Pan, he didn't want to leave her to die. However, he wasn't as stupid as people liked to tease him about. Kale was an immortal Super Saiyan God, he led an entire empire that had perhaps thousand's of Super Saiyans scattered around the Dimension if what he had learned from Pan's memories were true, and even more regular Saiyans. If he started a fight between their dimensions, even with him, Vegeta, and Gohan as three Super Saiyan Gods, they would get overwhelmed and slaughtered. He didn't trust that actual gods would interfere on their behalf. There was... no choice. He wouldn't throw the lives of his family and friends away for some hateful, spiteful woman that would rather see them dead.
He watched the Saiyans leave, a heavy sadness in his heart. It wasn't often he failed, but, he had certainly done so here, with this tournament. Nothing had gone right by the end of it. Pan had gone ballistic at one point, abruptly changed her attitude, and betrayed their trust. He himself had found his morals and beliefs betrayed by putting trust into Odianna, only to have the woman fling them back in his face with her desires to wipe out an entire universe of Saiyans. On top of all of that, a Saiyan Emperor was now an Immortal Saiyan God. Ugh... everything that had gone wrong, did go wrong. The only thing temporarily looking up for them was that Kale didn't seem interested in killing them.
"She's going to hate you for it," a voice murmured behind them.
Goku turned his head to see Aideen hanging back, an uncertain look on her face. "There's nothing we could do, I'm sorry."
Aideen sighed and spoke with a pained voice. "I know. Odianna gave her the order to go, there's... nothing more to be said."
There was a pattering of feet as the rest of the Z-Fighter's joined up with them, most of them giving the unconscious Pan a curious look.
Bulma stepped up to Aideen and put a hand on her shoulder. "So, Piccolo told us were taking you and three of your friends back with us. Don't worry, I'll get you all situated with homes and hopefully see about getting you jobs."
Aideen hesitated momentarily. "Pan said that your planet isn't... ruined... is that true?"
Bulma smiled. "It is, c'mon, you're going to be in for a surprise."
"Well, if you... hey hey!" exclaimed Aideen as Bulma basically began to drag her along back to their portal area.
Goku smiled softly, eyeing Aideen and the three other survivors, a woman, a girl, and a boy. At least someone got a happy ending out of all of this mess. Innocents didn't deserve to be led to a slaughter.
He gave a sigh as the Z-fighters began to move, turning to Gohan. "So, what are we going to do about Pan?"
Gohan gave his unconscious daughter a helpless look. "I... really don't know. For now, let's just get her home and to bed. We will deal with her tomorrow, its been a long day."
Goku nodded, watching Gohan briefly pause to put the Turtle Hermit Gi back on over Pan rather than carry it, before Goku headed back to talk with Vegeta. "You have any ideas of what to do about Kale and his Empire?"
There was a level of warning in Vegeta's voice. "I assume you understand just how dangerous this actually is?"
Goku nodded. "I have a hunch that one immortal god and an army of thousands of Super Saiyans could beat us."
Vegeta scoffed. "That's only the tip of the iceberg Kakarot. You really have no idea what we're up against if we come into conflict with them. Think of Kale's 'Hands'. Each of them is already nearing the upper limit of Super Saiyan 2. How much longer will it be before they become Gods? Five years? A decade? How quickly is the power of the Saiyan race as a whole in their Dimension going to climb now that it has access to other Dimensions to fight?"
Goku frowned intently. "Oh..."
Vegeta pointed a finger at Goku. "YOU clown, and your family, will do NOTHING to risk a conflict between our dimensions. When his envoy eventually comes, I will deal with the situation and diplomacy. I have the experience and knowledge of our customs to do so. Starting an unwinnable war with them would be the last thing we ever do. And even though I no longer follow that way of Saiyan life anymore, I don't personally want to have to fight and kill my own kind."
Goku nodded. "I understand."
Vegeta walked passed. "Then lets be on our way."
Whis, Beerus, Shin, Kabito, the two Omni-Kings, and the Grand Priest floated high above the stadium, looking down at the departing group of Son Goku and his friends.
Whis pondered what he had just seen. That green power engulfing Pan was unlike anything he had ever seen in his long life. It actually... made him feel endangered. They had all sensed it, all felt it, and when the Omni-Kings had seen that green energy flicker around Pan, they were shocked. They still hadn't spoken. But Whis had seen a flicker of recognition in their eyes. Whatever that power Pan had, they clearly knew what it was.
The left Omni-King turned to the right one. "Pan-Chan shouldn't have that power."
The right Omni-King shook his head. "She shouldn't have that power at all. It should be removed from her. It's too dangerous."
The Grand Priest tilted his head. "If I may humbly ask, what is that energy?"
The Omni-Kings didn't answer; The Grand Priest showed no agitation nor indignation and merely bowed his head. "Forgive my pestering."
Whis frowned. "Omni-Kings."
They turned to him. "Yes?"
"This could be a... delicate mater," said Whis with hesitation, "Neither Pan, nor Son Goku, would approve of one's power being taken from them."
Beerus crossed his arms. "I don't know, Son Goku might understand if it's explained to him. He'd whine, but he'd put up with it."
"And Son Pan? Would she forgive someone doing that to her?" asked Whis.
The right Omni-King did not look pleased. "Hrm... Pan-Chan would be really mad with us. But, that power is too dangerous for a mortal to handle, even for most gods and angels."
Whis showed no emotion, but the fact that Pan somehow had a power than was a danger to gods and angels made him a bit... concerned. "How could she have obtained such power?"
The left Omni-King answered, "Son Goku's wish, when Pan was pulled through the forming portal. She must have absorbed some of its energy."
The right Omni-King sighed. "We can't let her keep the energy, it must be removed, but, we don't want Pan-Chan to be mad at us."
The right Omni-King turned to Whis. "I will teach you a technique to extract the power from Pan, but, you must be discrete about it. I don't want Pan to know what's being done. I don't like doing so, but if you can trick Pan into letting you use the technique on her, then do so."
Whis bowed his head. "As you wish."
Another Omni-King from a different Dimension approached. "So, which one of you is coming for the tour?"
The left Omni-Kings downcast disposition immediately brightened. "Oh! Me!"
Whis raised an eyebrow. One of the Omni-Kings was leaving to go on a dimensional tour? "If I may be so bold as to ask, how long will you be gone for?"
The left Omni-King held up his fingers and counted for a moment. "Umm... five hundred centuries would be a short tour. Then I'll come back and swap."
The left Omni-King turned to the right one and nodded his head. "I'll trust you to manage things back home."
The right Omni-King nodded. "Yes yes. I look forward to hearing your stories about other Dimensions when you get back!"
Whis watched as the left Omni-King, the one from the future if Whis remembered correctly, left with a group of Omni-Kings. So, they once again found themselves with one Omni-King. Hmm, he supposed that it really didn't matter to much.
But what did matter was the question: How was he going to remove this 'green' energy from Pan without alerting her?
Towa carefully slipped out of the arena, placing her strongest illusion spell over her body. "It seems I'll have to make a move after all."
They gods were moving to take away Towa's only potential weapon against them from her. She couldn't let that happen, especially since the Omni-Kings themselves had confirmed that it could potentially challenge Gods of Destruction and Angels. With one of the Omni-Kings away, this was the best chance to topple the gods. But for that, she needed Pan's power. And speaking of that power, Towa finally had an idea of how it was triggered. Having peered through Pan's memories while Odianna was doing so, she had seen every instance of her use of it. Fear, it was FEAR, the pure raw emotion at an extreme level. It was the only consistency between her uses of it, whether tapping into it for power, or when she teleported between dimensions. That knowledge gave her a potential edge over the gods, but, what was the best way to go about this?
She frowned in thought before deciding she first needed to see what condition her tool was going to be in. Losing Odianna was going to destroy the child. Not to mention, that delightful bit of a false sense of betrayal and edge between Pan and her family was going to damage her tool. For now, she'd watch, wait, and be ready...