Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Flying Away ❯ A New Adventure, and A New Friend ( Prologue )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

A Dragon Ball Z - Pokémon Crossover

Author's Notes: This story takes place about 1 year after Dragon Ball GT, and a few months after 'Mewtwo Strikes Back!' Gohan, Trunks, Bra, Pan, and Goten have their tails back.

~Son Residence, Early morning~

Son Pan was lying down on her bed, with her arms crossed behind her head as she stared blankly at the ceiling for a few moments, as a long slim brown tail curled and uncurled itself lazily on her left side just enjoying the silence, as a tear ran down her cheek. She was dressed in black jeans and a blue t-shirt, with her old orange bandanna tied around her head.

With a silent sigh of defeat, she glanced over at her nightstand; she looks at a picture frame holding two pictures within that had only been taken the year before. One picture showed Trunks, Giru, Chibi-Gokou, and herself at age 14 posing in the picture with the background of one of the planets they'd visited during their search for the Dark Star Dragonballs.

One picture showed Pan with her arms wrapped around Gokou's neck in a loose hug as she and Gokou both grinned at the camera giving it a victory sign with their fingers, while Gokou held out 4 star Dark Dragon ball that they had found, with one hand, while Trunks stood off to one side, with his arms crossed over his chest in a very Vegita-like way as he also smiled smugly for the camera, while Giru sat perched on Trunks' shoulder.

The second picture in the frame was a few months later after their return to Earth, with the entire family and all their friends together. It showed Pan and SSJ4 Gokou grinning at the camera, with Pan sitting on Gokou's shoulder, while Gokou held onto her with one hand. That was the last two pictures of the two of them together that she possessed before he had disappeared with the Dragonballs the year before, and she missed him.

Pan remembered that day very well, when they all still had believed that Gokou was going to come back soon like he always did in the past, but then they got messages from Piccolo and Krillin asking about Gokou. They two were the last ones to see Gokou that day, before he disappeared.

They had even contacted King Kai and Piccolo in the underworld to have them check with King Yemma to find out if Gokou had crossed over into the underworld, but turned up nothing.

"Grandpa..." Pan said quietly as a tear trailed down her cheeks, as she picked up the picture frame and held it up. Today was the 1-year anniversary of Son Gokou's 'death', and it still hurt to think that she might never see him again in this lifetime, or even in the next one, when he left with the Dragonballs. Everyone else had already come to terms with the fact that Gokou may never come back this time.

During that short time that the two of them had been together, neither of them had ever gotten to have any special quality time with each other like back when she was four years old, except for the time they had spent searching first for the Darkstar Dragonballs, then returning to earth and fighting Bebi, then the normal dragon balls were turned evil.

Pan looked down at her tail as it curled up next to her, waving against the white sheets of her bed, as she remembered that only a few hours after Gokou had left with Shenlong, all of the hybrid sayajin's sprouted monkey tails, that only grew back after a few every time they tried to remove them, before finally giving up all together on the idea.

As Pan thought back on the past, she slowly dozed off, as exhaustion took over her.

~Pan's Dream~

Pan dreamed was floating in a strange world, the sky was a myriad of different colors, while the ground was covered in clouds or smoke.

'Wake up.' A voice called from somewhere in a insistent pleading tones. 'Please. Ai-chan wake up.' The voice sounded like it belonged to a scared young boy that had. "Don't leave me too…" the voice whined.

"Hmmm… Who?" Pan asked sleepily as she opened her eyes, as she looked up. Blinking her eyes in surprise she found herself somewhere that was both unfamiliar, yet left her feeling like she had been there before at the same time. "Where am I?" she asked as she scanned the area with her eyes. As she became more aware of her surroundings, she started to realize that she felt different too. Looking down at herself, she realized what it was. She no longer had the body of a 16 year old, but now looked more like a 5 year old. As she took in the changes to her body, she then noticed her hair. Instead of being it's usual black, it was now a deep chocolate brown.

As Pan looked around at what could only be an endless void, she finally spots a glowing bright blue of light nearby, and finds herself drawn to it. As she gets closer to the light, she sees that it's not simply a light at all, but a glowing violet cat-like creature with a long tail, who looked to be no older than two or three years old, who was kneeling over something. As she got closer, she could see the tears running down the creature's cheeks.

"M.T.?" she said, the name coming unbidden to her lips, as she stared at the strange animal yet it seemed right at the same time, though it seemed that it couldn't see or hear her. As she reached out a hand to touch the form before her, her hands only passed through it.

"What, the…?" Pan thought as she looked down at her hands, then back at the strange creature. 'I wonder what happened to make it so sad.' She thought to herself. She could feel it's sadness and pain as if it were her own, and it confused her to no end. Wanting to try and comfort it, she reached out once more, when…

"Pan-chan! Pan-chan! Wake up, Pan-chan!" a loud voice called from somewhere far away.

Pan looked back in the direction she had come from, then back at the creature before her, only to see that it along with everything else around her was starting to fade away. All of sudden she found herself being pulled away from the strange area.

"Pan-chan!" Giru's mechanical voice cried out as he floated over Pan's sleeping body, his red eye blinking on and off in worry. Giru had been living with the Son's for the past year since his arrival on Earth, after finally becoming best friends with Pan, and was her constant companion.

Giru had come into Pan's room to see if she was ready to go to Capsule Corps yet, only to find her sound asleep on her bed, tossing and turning on the mattress. His sensors detected an increase of heart rate and agitation in the teen's movements, causing him to worry.

Not knowing what to do, since Gohan and Vidal had already left for Capsule Corp, Giru could only hover over the bed calling Pan's name in hopes of waking her up. After a few minutes of getting no response from the young saiyajin, Giru left the room for a few seconds before returning, carrying, and half dragging a small cup, half filled with water, in his small arms.

"Pan." He tried again, hoping to not to have to resort to using the water only to stop when he noticed that Pan was finally starting to wake up. Floating over to the nightstand, Giru set the cup on the nightstand and flew over to Pan, landing on the mattress and stood to left side of Pan's body, waiting expectantly for Pan to awaken.

After a few moments, Pan's eyes finally fluttered open, as she stared blankly around the room in confusion, before she finally spotted Giru watching her.

"Giru, what is it? What's wrong?" Pan asked sleepily as she sat up on the bed, and stretched. "Is it time to go already?" Even though Giru didn't have any physical features, Pan could already tell that Giru was worried about something from the way that his red eye was blinking.

"Hai, Gohan-san and Vidal-san have already left." Giru announced, before a not of worry could be heard in his voice as he continued. "Giru was worried about Pan-chan." Giru said immediately as he climbed up into Pan's lap. "Pan-chan was tossing and turning in bed, sending pillow's flying and everything else. I tried to wake up Pan-chan, but Pan-chan wouldn't wake up. I thought to try and splash you with water, and was just coming back when you finally started to wake up."

Pan stared down at Giru for a few moments before reaching down to scoop up Giru into her arms to hold him close. "Nothing to worry about, Giru-chan." She said soothingly, "I'm fine. I was just having a nightmare." Pan said in a soothing tone. "Come on. We don't want to be late, now do we? I still need to get ready." She announced, putting on a forced cheerful front as she started to remove her t-shirt.

"Pan," Giru started, only to be interrupted as Pan tossed her t-shirt onto him.

"I don't want to talk about it Giru." Pan insisted. "Now, Do you mind getting out of my room so that I can change in peace?" she demanded as she turned her back on him, and walks over to her dresser drawer and starts rummaging through it.

Giru managed to get out of the shirt, in time to see Pan's back facing him. Remaining silent for a few moments, he let out a low whistle, that could only be passed off as a sigh, before he let the shirt fall to the floor, and he flew out of the room to give Pan her privacy.

~10 minutes later, Capsule Corp~

Pan and Giru flew high over Satan city on their way towards Capsule Corps. Pan was now dressed in lime green pants, a white t-shirt with the logo '#1 Bad Girl,' printed on the front, with a SD picture of herself in a launching a high kick. Covering the shirt was a red vest. Slung over one shoulder was a medium sized blue backpack, which held all of the essentials.

After flying in silence, the two finally arrived at Capsule Corps where they could immediately hear the sound of retro music playing coming from the backyard.

As they touched down Pan could see that the whole gang was there. Off near the barbecue grill, Tien was busy talking to Yamcha, Gohan and Krillen about work while they drank, while Bulma served up food from the grill.

Videl was sitting at a patio table talking with Android #18.

As she glanced around the area, she spots Master Roshi, Oolong, Puar, Turtle, Yajerobi and Chaotzu sitting on a sheet, under a shady tree, playing a game of poker. Pan hid a grin as she saw from the large amount of money that was piled up in front of Chaotzu, that the little china doll man was the one who was on a winning streak, and she could see Vegita dozing on the other side of the tree, with his arms propped up behind his head.

After greeting everybody, Pan and Giru made their way towards the far end looking for the others.

Goten was in the swimming pool with his fiancé, Paris, as they two goofed off, splashing each other, as they played a game of pool volleyball, with Ubu on the other side of the net.

Goten glanced up as he spots Pan making her way towards the pool, and waves at her along with Paris. "Hey Pan-chan. And Giru" Goten called out cheerfully, as he swam over to the pools edge and pulled himself out of the water. "You took your time arriving, squirt."

"Hiya Pan-chan." Paris said she swam after Goten, and climbed out of the pool with his help, before moving to stand next to him, linking her arm with his as she rested her head on shoulder.

"Hi Uncle Goten, Paris." Pan said as smiled at them, giving them a shrug, "I fell asleep, I just lost track of time," she admitted, before changing the subject. "Have you guys seen Trunks and Bra?" she asked.

"Nope. But I got word from Trunks earlier that because of a board meeting he's in, he might be late for the party, and as far as I know, Bra's still inside of the house." Goten said as he stared at Pan, with a concerned look on his features. "But she told me to tell you to head on inside if I saw you before she did."

"Oh, well thanks, Uncle Goten," Pan said as she turned to head inside of Capsule Corps, with Giru right behind her.

~Capsule Corp~

As Pan entered Capsule Corps, she started to make her way up the stairs to where Bra's bedroom was located, when she heard Bra's voice coming from first floor of the building near where Bulma's laboratory was located, and Pan made a quick detour following the voices.

As she made her way through the halls, Bra's voice could be heard more clearly confirming Pan's first suspicion that it was coming from Bulma's laboratory, and Pan could see a strange light coming from the room ahead.

As she stepped through the door of the lab, she could see Bra was busy talking with of Bulma's assistants who was working on files, while other workers ran around holding clipboards and jotting down notes, and taking readouts coming from a huge machine that stood left corner of the lab.

"Hey Bra," Pan called as she stepped into the lab, stopping to lean against a nearby wall with her arms crossed over her chest. "What's going on? I would have thought you'd be outside enjoying the party by now."

"I was, except I was hijacked, by mom." Bra said as she turned around to glance over at Pan, her long blue hair swinging in the air. "She wanted me to supervise on what's going on, in the lab until she comes back inside."

"By what?" Pan asked.

"Mom's latest invention." Bra said as she pointed towards the large machine in the corner. "She called it a 'Transdimensional thermo something." She said with disinterested shrug.

"That's 'Thermal Atomic Transdimensional Transporter' or TATT for short, Bra." One of the workers said as he walked over to the two girls, clipboard in hand, as he glanced at the clipboard for a moment. "I've already sent one of scientists to go get your mother, Bra, I believe that it's almost ready for a test run."

"Good, cause I want to get out here, and go join the others outside." Bra said with a pout as she turned away from her companions.

Pan eyed the machine with new interest as she stared at it for a moment. "What's it supposed to do?"

"What Mrs. Briefs is hoping, is that once it's completed and tested out, we would be able to travel to different dimensions, or more importantly bring thing here to our dimension to study." The scientist said, as he tucked the clipboard under one arm and held out his free hand. "I'm Dr. Sevarius, at your service, Ms?"

"I'm Son Pan." Pan said as she took the scientist's hand and shook it.

"It's an honor to meet one of the members of the Son family." Sevarius said with a slight smile on his face. "I've heard a lot about your family over the years. Most of it being about your grandfather." Sevarius said, before his smile faded, turning into a sad look. "I'm sorry about your family's lost."

Before Pan could answer, Bulma came into the room followed by Trunks, who was still dressed in a business suit, even though he had removed his jacket and was carrying it draped over his shoulder.

"Hey, big brother. Come to watch the show?" Bra asked in a teasing tone as she stared at Trunks.

"I wouldn't miss this for the world, Bra." Trunks said matter of factly as he greeted Pan with a warm smile. "Hi Pan."

"Hi Trunks." Pan said as a blush crept to her cheeks as she looked away.

"All right everybody." Bulma said as she put on a white lab coat, and a pair of protective glasses. "Let's find out exactly how well the T.A.T.T. is going to work on it's first test run." Bulma ordered as she turned towards Trunks, Bra and Pan. "Kids, if you're going to be hanging around, you're going to need to put on those protect glasses on that table."

As everybody watched as the T.A.T.T machine was switched on, the entire lab was bathed in a bright blue glow of light, as a loud humming sound could be heard. As Pan peered through the light from behind her sunglasses, she thought she saw some kind of movement coming from the portal. As things came into more focus, she finally saw what it was.

"Did you guys see that?" Pan asked as she stared deeply into the light.

"See what, Pan?" Bulma called over through the noise that the machine was making.

"It's probably nothing but I thought I saw a large bird made out of flames in the portal." Pan said stared a moment more before shaking her head. "But that's impossible."

Just then the T.A.T.T machine started shaking and sputtering as his sparks started to fly out of it, as a loud rumbling sound could be heard, as the entire lab was filled with a earsplitting roar.

"Mom, what's going on!" Bra cried out as she covered her ears with her hands, shouting to make sure that she was heard.

"I think we used too much power." Bulma shouted as she, "It's starting to overload! Everybody out of the lab now!"

All of the scientist started to make a break for the doors, as they covered theirs ears, with Bra not that far behind them, as the teenager stopped to turn back.

Trunks was carrying his mother on his shoulder as he carried her towards the exit, when he noticed that one of their group wasn't with them. Spinning back around he saw Pan was still right where she was. "Pan come on! We have to get out of here!"

"Trunks, I can't move." Pan exclaimed as she tried to take a step towards the doorway, as pain hit her mind in full force, forcing her to her knees. Giru stood by her side, clutching her clothes in a tight grip.

"Hold on, Pan" Trunks ordered, as he bit back a curse, Trunks quickly set Bulma outside the laboratory door as he rushed back into the lab, heading straight for Pan and Giru.

Just then the a blue light suddenly shoots out of the machine, and strikes Pan, and before everyone's stunned eyes, both Pan and Giru started to fade away.

"PAN!!" Trunks shouted as he hurried after her. The last thing he saw of Pan was the sight of her looking up at him with a pained look on her face as she reached out towards him, calling out his name in a soundless voice, before both she and Giru faded completely from view.

~Later~

Pan slowly stirred as pain racked her body, as consciousness came back to her. "Oh, my aching body!" she whined silently to herself, 'I just hope the others are okay.'

Realizing that she was lying face down on the ground, With a low groan of pain, she slowly pushed herself up, getting her hands cut and scraped against the twigs and pine needles that lay on the ground. 'Wait a minute, twigs and pine needles?!' she thought incredulously as her mind and sight finally cleared up enough to finally see her surroundings. Instead of seeing what should have been a destroyed lab, she found herself sitting inside of a forest. As she pushed herself up into a sitting position, she bit back a sharp hiss filled with pain as pain shot through her left arm.

Holding her arm gingerly, she pulled up the sleeves of her shirt, to examine her arm to examine the damage, revealing her arm was covered in cuts and bruises, and was bleeding from some of the cut. And there were a few burns on her arm.

"Where the hell am I?! How did I get in a forest?" she exclaimed as she looked around for any sign of the others, but saw that she was completely alone. Searching the area once more with her eyes, she spots her backpack nearby, half submerged by leaves. Sitting up, she reaches over for the backpack, busily dusting it off, before unzipping it and looking inside, finding everything still in order. Pulling out her capsule carrying case, she opened it, and pulled out a capsule. Pushing the top down, and then holding her hand out, the capsule exploded, turning into a cellular phone.

"I hope I'm somewhere near Satan City. If this is one the guys idea of a joke." She thought angrily, as she flipped the phone open, she dialed the number for Capsule Corp. After a few moments of ringing, the operators' voice came online.

"We're sorry, but the number that you dialed is not in service. If you believe this message to be an error, please hang up and try again later."

"Huh?" Pan exclaimed as she looked at the phone in surprise. 'Even if I wasn't in Satan City anymore, I should have at least gotten a different message than that.' She thought as she hung up and dialed Capsule Corp's number three more times only to get the same response.

"What's going on here?" Pan thought angrily. Finally getting fed up, she turned the cell phone back into a capsule and put it away, before pushing herself up to her feet, she cupped her hands up to her face and starts yelling, her tail waving around in the air irritably. "Hello is anyone out there? Trunks-kun! Bra-chan! Bulma-san! Minna! Are you guys here?!" she shouted

"Pan...chan..." a weak voice called from somewhere behind her.

Pan spun around to look in the location of the voice, and spots the familiar ball-like shape of Giru floating slowly towards her, looking as battered as Pan felt. "Giru!" Pan cries out as she rushes over to the tiny robot, scooping him up into her arms, and holding him close. "Giru are you okay?" she demanded. "Have you seen the others anywhere?"

"Don't... know..." Giru said weakly as his red eye glowed. "Can only detect Pan-chan's ki pattern. If others are here, then their not anywhere close by that Giru can find."

"Kuso!" Pan cursed as she looked around the area once more, reaching out with her powers for any sign of the others familiar ki patterns, but couldn't find anything.

Pan and Giru flew through the mid-afternoon sky as they looked around at the landscape below. Giru was busy taking down information and input on the landscape and strange creatures that they saw as they flew by, while Pan only stared in surprise and awe.

A flock of Pidgey's and Pidgeot's, rousted from their roosting spots in the trees as the duo flew by, took to the air, and followed after them, some of the younger and less cautious pidgey's flew in closer to get a better look at the strange flying human.

Down below, a small group of Ponyta were running along the ground after the odd group, having spotted them earlier.

"Giru, just what is this place? What's with all these strange animals, and birds?" Pan demanded as after a few moments, Pan held out her left arm and one of the Pidgey's flew up close and latches onto her outstretched arm, and Pan gently pulls her arm close so not to scare the small birds and pets it's head, ruffling it's feathers, earning her a few happy coo's and chirps for a few moments, before letting the Pidgey go, and the flock flew off.

"Not know." Giru said plainly as he floated over to Pan so that they were looking directly at one another. "There's no data of this place or the creatures that exist here in my databanks."

Pan took in that little bit of information for a moment, as she stared off into the distance, as a swarm of more strange animals came flying by, passing her up. "That'd mean that Bulma-san's T.A.T.T machine actually worked. If we're in another dimension, I wonder if the others are here too. And if so where are they?" she wondered to silently to herself. Pan was so caught up in her thoughts, when…

"PIKAAA!!!"

Pan's attention turned back towards the ground where she saw an unusual sight down below. On the ground she could see a large strange looking yellow mouse with black red stripes and a lightning bolt shaped tail running away from what looked like 10 or more of some equally strange looking birds that resembled cranes, except they were brown and pink, that were dive-bombing the rodent.

"Pika..CHU!!!!"

As Pan watched the rodent dodged another ariel attack, and ran a few more feet ahead before shooting off a blast of electrical energy towards the birds, electrocuting some of the birds, before continuing to run away.

Pan's eyes widen in surprised at the attack, feeling the mouse's energy level spike upwards as it released the attack, but also noticed that the animal was beginning to tire out at the same time as it released another attack at the attacking birds.

"Giru, come on, we have to help." Pan said as she descend headfirst for the ground, with Giru not that far behind.

Pikachu ran as fast as her legs could carry her, as she released another Thundershock at the Fearrows, sending several of them flying backwards. Already growing tired from the both running and releasing electrical attacks at her pursuers, she knew deep down that she didn't reach some kind of cover soon, the Fearrow's would have her.

Her small form already covered in bruises from the Fearrow's attacks, she already weakening her small body, she glanced backwards over her shoulder to see where the Fearrow's were, and wound up miss seeing the rock in her way, causing her legs to hit the rock head on, and sending her flying forward in a crumpled heap.

"Pika..." Pikachu whined in pain, as she keeping her eyes closed for a few moments, before she tried to stand back up on wobbly legs, to face her attackers head on, knowing that they had her. She could here their cawing laughter, as they circled her waiting to deal the final blow.

"Pika-CHU!!!" Charging up the last of her reserve power she tried to release a strong Thundershock attack, only to find that her power had dwindled down to nothing, as the small burst of electricity shorted out before it could even go no more that 2 feet into the air. Looking up at the Fearrow's in fear, all she could do was wait for the end to come. "Pika..."

With a triumphant caw, the lead Fearrow swooped down going in for the kill, when...

A shadow followed by a sudden swooshing sound came, and the next thing any of the Fearrow's knew, the Pikachu was gone, and the lead Fearrow, unable to stop his descent, wound up with a beak full of grass and dirt.

"Spear?" the other Spearow's called, in confusion as they looked around for the missing Pikachu, wondering where it could have gone, while their leader was busy spitting out dirt

"Looking for something, birdbrains?" a cold voice called from somewhere above them.

All of the Spearrow's looked up in the direction that the voice was coming from, and see... a flying human?! In her arms was the missing Pikachu, which she cradled gently in her arms like a baby, and next to her was a strange looking Metal Pokémon with one eye. What shocked the Fearrows the most was the fact that the human was simply flying in the air as easily as any of them, without the help of any other, and they could plainly see what looked like a furry tail waving furiously around behind her.

"FEAROWW" the leader cried out in anger as he took to the air, planning to take out the human that had dared to take away it's meal from him. Fearow released a Gust attack at Pan hoping to knock both her and her metal companion out of the sky.

Pan easily dodged the attack, not loosening her grip on Pikachu even once, while Giru grabbed hold of the back of her shirt as she dodged, taking him with her.

Before Fearrow could attack again, Pan shifted Pikachu to one arm, while using her free hand to fire off a warning shot from her palm, that went down the bird Pokémon's back, singeing it's feathers, and causing it to stop in midattack to stare at her in stunned surprise.

"I don't think so, birdy. You're not getting this mouse. You and you're friends might as well get out of here before I decide to make all of you my dinner for tonight." She said in a threatening tone as she channeled her ki through her hand once, to form another ball of energy and immediately points it out the flock of Fearrows.

It didn't take the Fearrow's long to turn tail and fly away as they could to get away from human, who in their eyes possessed the powers of a Pokémon.

"That was way too easy." Pan said with a grin, before she looked down at the strange looking mouse in her arms. "Hey are you okay now?" she asked, trying to keep her voice down so that she wouldn't scare Pikachu anymore than she already was.

Pikachu only stared in surprise at the human that held onto her, before instinct took over and she started to struggle to get free, not noticing that they weren't on the floor. It tried to give off an electric attack, only to find that the attack was just as weak as the last one, so she tried biting and kicking.

"Hey quit it!" Pan exclaimed, a little annoyed at attempted electrical shock. "You really don't want me to accidentally drop you, you know. Do you know how high up you are from the ground?"

"Pi..." Pikachu asked, stopping her struggle as she glanced up first at the serious look on Pan's features, before chancing to glance down at the ground below, and lets out a startled squeak before her paws scrambled to get a better hold on Pan's shirt as her panic came back. "Pika! Pika chu."

"Don't worry, I'm not going to drop you." Pan said reassuringly, as she got a better grip on Pikachu's small form. Having noticed that it seemed that the strange animal seemed to understand everything that she was saying, she continued on. "I'm just guessing here, but I figure that you can understand me. I didn't go to all that trouble of saving you from those birds only to wind up killing you myself, would I? You're badly hurt and I need to get you someplace where you can be treated, then once you're better I'll bring you back to the wild, okay?"

Pikachu stared up at Pan with dubious look on it's features, not relaxing her grip on Pan's shirt for a moment, but finally conceded, giving Pan a short nod of it's head, as she curled up to get into a more comfortable position in her arms. "Pika pi, pika chu." Pikachu said as she stared up at Pan.

A pained look crossed Pan's face as she stared blankly down at Pikachu not knowing what the Pokémon was saying.

Giru was busy doing a scan "Translating... translating..." he said mechanically, making loud beeping sounds as he recorded the sounds that Pikachu was making a few moments before announcing. "translation complete"

Pan turned towards Giru with a surprised look on her face. "What was that Giru? What translation are you are talking about?"

"Giru now can translate whatever Pikachu says into English." Giru explained enthusiastically. "She just said 'Thank you for helping me against the Fearrows.'"

"Thanks Giru," Pan said with a grateful smile. "Pikachu?" Pan asked as she looked down at the rodent in her arms, a questioning look in her eyes. "Is that what you are? And Fearrows were those bird things that were attacking you?"

"Pika." Pikachu said, nodding enthusiastically, before letting out a small yawn as its eyes started to droop. "Pika pi.." she said tiredly.

"Alright Pikachu, then just rest for awhile. I'll get you to some help soon." Pan said as she hovered in the air for a few moments. As Pikachu drifted off to sleep, Pan turned her attention towards Giru once more. "Giru, can you find the location of the nearest town around here? We'll need to see if there's someplace there that can treat Pikachu."

Giru hummed for a few moments as he did a thorough scan of the area from all directions, sending the scanner's light out as far as he could. After a few moments, he stopped and pointed towards the North. "Sensors detect that there is a city nearby, Pan-chan. About 30 kilometers north." he reported.

"Good." Pan said as she gently tucked Pikachu in her arms, then reached for Giru, ordering him to grab a hold of her and hold on. "Giru hold on to me."

Once they were ready, Pan powered up and shot through the air in the direction the Giru had pointed out to her.

~Viridian City, 10 Minutes later~

Officer Jenny was making her usual street patrols outside on her motorbike, when a sudden wind caught her by surprise, nearly blowing both herself and her bike over, if her quick reflexes hadn't saved her in time and swerved, pulling up to the curb and parked. Stepping away from the bike she noticed how everyone on the streets were now looking up into the sky with shocked looks on their faces.

Following everyone's gaze, she finally see's what has their attention, as a longhaired brunette girl was starting to touch down on the street from the air. What surprised her the most was that the girl was able to fly in the air without the assistance of a Flying Pokémon or anything else for that matter.

The strange girl was ignoring the stares that she was receiving as she glanced around the area for something, before turning around to walk in Jenny's direction. That was when Jenny noticed that the girl was carefully carrying an unconscious Pikachu in one arm, while another metallic looking Pokémon clung to her shoulder.

When it looked like the girl was about to simply walk past Jenny without stopping, Jenny reached out a hand to stop her, bringing the girls attention towards her immediately. "Hold it right there young lady. Do you have a Pokémon license?"

Pan only stared at officer Jenny with a confused look on her face. Before touching down, she had wrapped her tail around her waist so that it wouldn't draw attention, and was keeping it hidden under her t-shirt. During the trip to the city she had removed her vest and wrapped Pikachu's body with it, to make it more comfortable, leaving only Pikachu's head and tail sticking out of the cloth.

"A... what license?" she asked confusedly, before taking in the older woman's uniform, immediately deciding that she must be a police officer. "No I don't have one. I don't even know what a Pokémon is, officer."

"I'm officer Jenny, and how can you not know what a pokémon is? Everyone knows what they are." Officer Jenny demanded eyes narrowed in suspicion before pointing directly first Pikachu, then at Giru. "That Pikachu and the other one are pokémon, which is short for Pocket Monsters." she said while taking a better look at Giru. "Though I've never seen that one before. It must be a new breed. Do they belong to you?"

'So that's what she is,' Pan thought silently to herself before shaking her head. "I've never seen one until today, Pikachu doesn't belong to me. I rescued her from a flock of Spearrows that were attacking her about 30 kilometers south from here. I'm only bringing her into town so I can find a place to heal her then send her back into the wild like I promised her. And Giru's not a pokémon. He's a robot. A… friend of mine built him."

"A robot huh," Jenny said skeptically as she glanced at Giru once more, as Giru waved one mechanical arm at her in a friendly manner, before turning her full attention to Pikachu, finally taking notice of the injuries that covered the pokémon's body, and her expression immediately softened "Oh my god. Poor little thing. Those Spearrows really worked it over. You need to take it straight to the pokémon center right away so that it can be treated."

"A pokémon center?" Pan asked in confusion. "Where can I find one, officer Jenny?"

Officer Jenny quickly motioned towards the sidecar attached to her motor bike, "Just hop on, and I'll take you there personally." She said cheerfully as she hurried over to the bike and hopped on, and started to rev the engine. "After that incident last year, when the center was blown up, it's finally back up and running."

Seeing no other option left to her, Pan walked over and climbed into the sidecar, settling Pikachu's body on her lap for a few seconds as she put on the helmet that officer Jenny handed her, and fastening a seatbelt that happened to be lying on floor, before picking up the pokémon once more.

Giru floated down from his perch on Pan's shoulder and took a seat at the bottom of the sidecar in between her legs, as he glanced up towards Pan, his single glowing red eye blinking.

Jenny glanced backwards at her passengers to make sure that they were secure before giving a satisfied nod, then revved up the engine once more before pulling away from the curb. "I'll get you there in no time at all, so just hold on tight, and no yelling." She ordered just before the bike started speeding through the street at breakneck speed.

Pan could only let out a startled yelp that a sound that was quickly smothered by the incoming rushing wind as the motorbike rode through the streets. Involuntarily clutching Pikachu tighter to her bother, she quickly loosened her grip when she heard Pikachu give out a slight whimper.

"Pika…"

"Sorry Pikachu, I didn't mean to do that." Pan whispered to the still sleeping pokémon, silently hoping that her strength hadn't done any more damage to the pokémon, than there already was from the earlier attack.

The motorbike made it to the pokémon center in no time at all, as Officer Jenny drove the bike up the steps, and through the automatic sliding glass doors, before bringing it to a screeching halt in front of the reception desk.

Nurse Joy glanced up from her papers, and looked at the police officer with an irritated glance. "Oh, not again, Jenny!" she exclaimed as she frowned at the blue haired woman. "When are you going to park that bike outside, and come into the center like normal people?" she asked disdainfully as she glanced at the barely visible skid marks on the tiles. "That tile is brand new."

"Sorry, Joy. But we got another emergency." Jenny said as she slid off of the bike, and heads towards the sidecar, and helps Pan out. "This Pikachu needs some medical help."

"Can you treat Pikachu, Nurse Joy? I think she's in really bad condition," Pan was still a little wobbly from the wild ride in Officer Jenny's sidecar, and half out of it.

"Oh my. What happened that poor Pikachu??" Nurse Joy exclaimed once seeing the condition of the Pikachu in Pan's arms, Joy's anger at Officer Jenny immediately evaporated, as her nursing instincts kicked in, as she rushes over and takes Pikachu from Pan's arms, and hands the rodent to two waiting Chansey who had come to the group pulling a stretcher.

"Chansey, chansey, chan.." one of the Chansey said cheerfully as she took Pikachu from Joy's arms and gently placed the electric mouse on the stretcher, and helped her partner push/pull the stretcher back operating room.

"Thank you Chansey, I'll be there in a few moments." Nurse Joy called after the retreating pokémon, before turning back to Pan with a stern look. "How can you allow your Pikachu to get into that condition?! It could have been badly hurt or even killed!" she demanded angrily. 'Talk about déjà vu This conversation seems all too familiar.' She thought silently to herself, as she remembered another young trainer and his Pikachu that had arrived at the center the year before.

"She's not mine. I just found her out in the forest. She was being attacked by a group of…" Pan said defensively, involuntarily taking a step back under the onslaught of Nurse Joy's anger, only to stop as she tried to remember the name of the birds that had attacked Pikachu. After a few moments of drawing up nothing except a blank, she turned her attention towards Giru for the answer. "Giru-chan, what were those birds called again?"

"Spearrows." Giru said automatically in a loud mechanical voice.

"What he said," Pan said in response. "I only scared them off before they could do anymore harm to Pikachu." She said as a dark scowl settled over her features, as she remembered the incident. "Those stupid birds were ganging up Pikachu, wearing her down until she was too tired to fight anymore before they tried to move in for the kill. If I hadn't been there, they would've…"

"It's all right" Nurse Joy asked, staring at Pan for a moment, looking between Pan and Giru for a moment, before deciding to let the subject drop for the moment. "Exactly how many Spearrows were there?"

Officer Jenny stood off to one side to listen in on Pan's answer.

"I think there was about 5 to 10 Spearrow's chasing after her." Pan said, completely missing the look stunned looks that passed on Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny's faces as they shared a glance between them.

Glancing at Pan's waist for any sign of a pokéball belt, only to find none, Jenny asked the one question that was going through both women's minds at the moment.

"If what you say is true, then how did you get rid of them? Spearrow's are known for being ruthless, especially when they have a target in sight. With that number you gave us, it has to be impossible for you to have gotten away without a scratch." Jenny cut in, as she reached out to grip Pan's arm. "I don't see any pokéball's on you and that Pikachu obviously has been hurt, so how did you get rid of the Spearrows without a pokémon? And another thing I want to know, how were you able to fly like that earlier without the help of a flying Pokémon." She demanded.

"Flying without the help of a Pokémon?" Nurse Joy wondered silently to herself as she watched at the exchange between the two other women.

"I don't think that's none of your business." Pan said, barely holding back a wince of pain from where Jenny had grabbed her arm, a surly tone in her voice as she scowled at Officer Jenny, jerking her arm out of Officer Jenny's grip. "Flying through the air's just as natural to me as walking on the ground to any of you guys." She said with a shrug as she turned her back to the two women, folding her arms behind her head as she walked away and sat down in a nearby chair.

"Look you, I want some answers." Officer Jenny started only to be cut off by Joy who held out a hand to stop her.

"Jenny hold on a minute." Joy commanded, before she made her way towards Pan, and took a seat next to Pan. "Are you all right? I noticed that it looked like you were in pain when Jenny grabbed your arm." She asked in a kind voice. She had seen how Pan had reacted when Jenny had grabbed her arm, seeing all the signs of someone in pain, and her nursing instincts kicked in once more.

"I'm fine." Pan snapped as she jerked away from Nurse Joy when the nurse reached out towards her injured arm. "It's only my arm. It's only has a few burns on it, and it got banged up a bit before I rescued Pikachu from the Spearrows." She said.

"You should still let us have get arm treated in case it becomes worse than it already is, or gets infected." Nurse Joy insisted as she finally managed to get Pan to hold still long enough so that she could pull the sleeves of Pan's shirt up, so that she could get a better look at it. After a few moments of probing and examining the injury, she finally nodded her head in agreement. Motioning towards a one of the center's Chansey's who was waiting patiently.

"It doesn't look that bad, though you might not want to be using it for awhile. Chansey, can you please, get me some bandages and medication, and bring it to room 5?"

"Chansey!" Chansey called happily as she turned around and heads into the storage area, to retrieve the requested items.

"As for you, will you please follow me, so that I can treat your arm properly?" Nurse Joy said, as she stood up, dusting off her uniform, as she heads towards the one of the doors behind the check in counter. "Just follow me please, Ms." She said in a tone that said that she wasn't going to take no for an answer. Stopping in front of the door. "That reminds me. You didn't say what your name is."

"My name is Pan." Pan said as she reluctantly stood up and walks after Nurse Joy. "Son Pan." She said casually, before calling over her shoulder when it looked like Giru was about to follow them. "Giru, stay there. This shouldn't take too long."

Following Nurse Joy into room 5, and following Nurse Joys instructions, she moved behind a curtain and changed into a hospital gown, so that nothing would be in the way as her arm was being treated.

"Look, Nurse Joy, I'm telling you there's nothing for you to worry about." Pan complained as she glowered at Nurse Joy's back, as the nurse had turned away to search through some cupboards. "I've had worse, believe me. And I'm a fast healer."

"There's always a need to worry, Pan, in cases like this" Nurse Joy said turned back to face Pan, holding a small bottle of antiseptic and cotton swabs in her hands as she moved over towards the table, placing the items to the left of Pan. "Better be safe than sorry I always say. And those burns should be properly treated or else when they do heal they might leave scars." She said, as she began to pour some of the antiseptic on a cotton swab. "Now can you please hold out your arm for me? I need to get that cleaned off before I can wrap it. This might hurt a little bit."

Pan only let out a exasperated sigh, as she did what she was told, and held out her injured arm. A few seconds later she instantly regretted it as a searing pain shot through her arm as the antiseptic was applied gently to wounds. Pan bit her lip to keep from crying out in pain, and releasing profanities. Unconsciously, her tail started to unwrap from around her waist.

'I thought she said it would hurt a *little*!' Pan thought angrily to herself, as she let out the breath that she hadn't realized she was holding until now.

Nurse Joy glanced up at Pan, seeing the expression on the younger girls face as she tried to force herself from screaming in pain, and gave her a sympathetic look, as she finished cleaning up the wound. "Sorry about that. But this just shows you exactly how serious the wound is, if it hurts you that much from just one dab. Though I will admit you're handling it a lot better." She added as she finally finished, and started putting things away.

"Like I said. I'm used to it." Pan said.

Just then a soft knocking could be heard outside the room, and as Joy opened the door, the Chansey from before came walking into the room, carrying a tray loaded down with bandages.

"Thank you Chansey. I really appreciate your help." Joy said in an approving tone, as she smiled fondly at the Pokémon; as Chansey carried the tray over to the examination table and set it down next to Pan.

"Chansey. Sey, chansey." Chansey said as she faced Pan, giving the young girl a friendly smile, as she moved to stand by Nurse Joys side, as she handed Nurse Joy the required items as they wrapped up Pan's arm. Just as they were finishing up, Chansey then noticed something strange waving behind Pan's back. Staring at the strange object for a few moments, Chansey finally realized what it was and grabbed Nurse Joy's arm, "Chansey. Chan sey." Chansey cried out in alarm.

Nurse Joy glanced over at Chansey just as she pinned down the bandages, noticing the surprise in Chansey's voice. "What is it Chansey?"

"Sey, chansey." Chansey said as she pointed a shaking hand (flipper?) towards Pan's back.

Both Pan and Nurse Joy both looked in the direction that Chansey was pointing in, and both women have mixed reactions.

"What is that?!" Nurse Joy exclaimed as she stared at the monkey tail that was sticking out from behind Pan, as she started to reach out for it.

"Oh man!" Pan thought to herself as she spots her tail waving lazily in the air. "How long was that out in the open." Pan thought as she quickly wrapped the tail around her waist seconds before Joy's hands can get onto it, before turning to give Nurse Joy a sheepish look. "It's nothing, except my tail." She said.

"Your tail." Nurse Joy said in a deadpanned voice, as she gave Pan an accessing look. "If you'll pardon me, but since when do normal human girls have monkey tails?! Are you some new breed of humanoid Pokémon?"

"Not so loud! I don't want everybody to know that I've got one, you know." Pan said as she hopped off the examination table, and goes back behind the curtain to remove the gown and put her shirt back on, gingerly pulling the sleeves up over the bandages. After a few moments, the rest of what Nurse Joy had said hit her. "And I'm not a Pokémon! I don't even know what one is!" she exclaimed as she glared.

"I'm just as human as you are. Well at least seventy-five percent of me is." She said as she came back out from behind the curtain, straightening out her shirt. After a moment she unraveled her tail, to give Nurse Joy and Chansey a full view of it once more. "The rest of it is the side where I get my tail from. And.." Pan stopped in mid-sentence as Nurse Joy gently took her tail in her hands and was examining it.

"This is amazing. I've really never seen anything like this before, Pan." Joy said as she fingered the tail, involuntarily rubbing her fingers over it, causing shivers of pleasure cursing through Pan's body.

"Stop that!" Pan snapped, as she stood up, jerking her tail out of Joy's grasp, and making it wrap itself back around her waist. "I don't like anybody touching it, because it's super sensitive to any kind of touch."

"Sorry," Nurse Joy said as she stared. "But what are you? Or to be more precise, if you are only seventy-five percent human then what is the other side of you?" she asked as she eyed the tail. "I'm guessing that tail of yours is inherited from the other half?"

"Saiyajin." Pan said, a moment before she noticed the confused look on Nurse Joy's features. "Look. It's too complicated to talk about now, and I don't want to go into it right now, okay?" Pan said. "How long do I have to wait until Pikachu is completely healed? And how much do I owe you for the treatment?" she said as she reached over for her backpack.

"You don't have to worry. It's free of charge. Pokémon trainers can bring their Pokémon into a Pokémon center and have them treated, free of charge." Nurse Joy said after a few moments. "As for your Pikachu, I'll go and see how she's doing now."

"Oh, okay." Pan said. "And she's not *my* Pikachu." Pan insisted. "Like I said before I plan on letting her go back into the wild once she's all better. I promised I'd do it, and I always keep my promises."

"Well you'll never know what'll happen in the hours ahead, Pan" Nurse Joy said as she held the door open for Pan, as the younger girl stepped out into the hallway, "I have a feeling that your plans may change if Pikachu has anything to say about it."

~Later on~

"Pika…" Pikachu whined in pain as she slowly opened her eyes, only to shut them against blinding brightness of the overhead lights. After a few moments, Pikachu finally opened her eyes, allowing them to adjust to her surroundings. Sitting up, she noticed that she was lying on her back, on some kind of strange white bed, covered by a sheet. A nearby window was allowing the last few rays of late afternoon sunlight to spill through as evening came.

A sudden movement, followed by a soft sigh at the foot of the bed caught Pikachu's attention, and she turned her head to glance over, to see Pan sleeping in a chair, with her arms pillowing her head as it rested on the edge of the bed.

Shaking off the sheet, she stood up on shaky legs as she looked, Pikachu stared at Pan's sleeping form for a few moments, surprised at the thought that Pan had stayed watching over her as she recovered. Walking over to Pan on all fours, Pikachu sat on her back legs to survey the strange girl. Another movement from behind Pan caught Pikachu's attention once more, causing the small rodent to look in that direction, she spots Pan's tail, uncurled, as it waved lazily behind the chair.

"Pikachu-san," a strange yet familiar voice called. "How are you feeling?"

Pikachu spun around ready to attack, until she saw Giru sitting up from where he'd been resting at the foot of the bed, recognizing him from earlier, when he and Pan had saved her from the Fearows. "Pika pi, pika chu?" She said as she walked over towards Giru. (You're the one who was with the Flying human?)

"Hai, I'm Giru, and she's Pan-chan," Giru responded automatically. "Pan-chan stayed awake here all afternoon, watching over you. We were both worried about you when you came out of the emergency room, a few hours ago."

Pikachu cocked her head to one side as she stared at Giru for a few moments. "Chu. Pika pi"

"That's not true! You don't have to worry. Pan always keeps her promises once she makes them. She said that she'll let you go, and she's going to." Giru exclaimed as he stared at Pikachu.

"Chaaa…" Pikachu said as she looked dubiously first at Giru then at Pan. "Pikahcu, chu pikapi."

"That's not what you're worried?" Giru asked in confusion, "Then what is it?"

"Pika…" Pikachu started only to be interrupted as a loud yawn suddenly caught the two being's attention as they both turned towards Pan to see that Pan was slowly starting to wake up, as she stretched, and looked at them through sleepy eyes.

"Giru, who are you talking to?" Pan asked sleepily, as she rubbed her eyes. "Is Pikachu..." she began before hey eyes adjusted, and she saw that Pikachu was indeed awake. A slight smile spread across Pan's features as she stared at Pikachu. "Hey Pikachu. How do you feel?"

"Pika, pi. Cha." Pikachu said as she nodded her head.

"She says that she feels a whole lot better, and also said that she thanks us again for saving her." Giru translated as he flew over towards Pan and perched on her shoulder.

"Thanks Giru. Pikachu can you come here for a minute" Pan said as she reached out her arms towards Pikachu. After a few hesitant moments, Pikachu finally made her way towards Pan and allowed the young saiyajin to pick her up. Holding onto Pikachu, Pan stood up and sat down on the hospital bed, with Pikachu still in her arms. "You've been asleep all day, Pikachu, so if your still feeling better by morning I'll take you back to the forest like I promised and let you go, okay?"

When Pan looked at Pikachu, she noticed that the rodent didn't look as happy about the news as she had expected her to be. Instead Pikachu looked downright unhappy about it. "Hey what's the matter? I thought that you'd wanted to go back?"

Pikachu looked at Pan for a moment, before turning her head away. "Pika pi…"

Just then a loud knock came from the connecting door, and everyone looked up to see the door being pushed open, as Nurse Joy walked in, followed by a Chansey pushing a cart. The smell of cooked food can be smelt coming from the cart, causing both Pan and Pikachu's stomachs to growl.

"I see that Pikachu is finally awake." Nurse Joy said in a cheerful tone. "I thought that you guys might be hungry after all this time, so I had some food prepared." She said as she motioned for the Chanseys to move the cart to a nearby table. The Chansey's uncovered the trays to reveal steaming plates of food.

"Thanks, Nurse Joy." Pan said as she eagerly hopped off of the bed and heads over to the cart, practically drooling in hunger, carrying Pikachu along with her. Once she reached the table she put Pikachu down on one end of the small table, while she sat down on the other end, as Pan picked up a knife and fork and got ready to eat.

"Pika!" Pikachu said, as she was already munching on some Pokémon food that was on her end of the table.

"Your welcome, Pan-chan." Nurse Joy said, a bright smile on her features as she watched the duo eat, before she noticed that the third member of the group wasn't joining in. Turning around she spots Giru who was sitting on the edge of the hospital bed. "Aren't you going to eat also, Giru?"

"Giru doesn't eat human food." Pan said in between bites of food. "The only thing that he's able to eat is different types of metals or something like that."

"Hai," Giru said as he floated off of the bed and towards the table. "Need metals to stay operational. Or else might malfunction and shut down."

"You need metals to eat?" Nurse Joy said as she thought for a moment, before turning towards Chansey. "Chansey do we have any left over spare parts or metals that we won't be needing again anytime soon?"

The Chansey who had pushed the food cart into the room before, stood silently at that revelation, for a few seconds, before her eyes lit up, and with an excited "Chansey!" She hurries out of the room. A few minutes later, Chansey returned carrying a small box, and rattled and clanged as something moved around inside. Moving towards the table, Chansey put the box on the floor, and opened it, to reveal a large hoard of metal plates and spare parts. "Chansey!" Chansey said as she waved her arms at Giru, pointing at the box.

"Thank you, Chansey-san." Giru said as he hopped off the table and landed in the box, and began rummaging through the box, picking up pieces of metal, the lower part of his body opening every once in a while, as he 'swallowed' the pieces that he choose.

"Well, I'll leave you to your meal now, and I'll come back later to check up on you." Nurse Joy said as she followed Chansey out of the room.

"Bye, Nurse Joy." Pan said as she ate.

Pikachu, who had finished her dinner, was busy licking off her paws from the sweet stickiness that had been in the Pokémon food, as she glanced at her two companions, and noticed the accessing look Pan was giving her.

"Hey, Giru, what was Pikachu saying earlier, when Nurse Joy came in with the food?" Pan asked as she glanced over at Giru.

After a moment of silence, Giru glanced over at Pikachu, as if asking her for permission.

"Chu." Pikachu said, hesitating for a moment, before turning away from the two.

"Pikachu was saying that she doesn't want to go back to the wild anymore." Giru said immediately as he turned back to Pan, his red eye blinking, as he stared up at her from his perch on the box. "She wants to stay with us, and be your Pokémon."

Pan looked back at Pikachu incredulously. "I don't really think that's a good idea. I'm not even sure about how long we'll be here to begin with. And I don't have any idea what to do with a Pokémon, Pikachu."

"Are you really sure that's what you want to do, Pikachu?" Pan said as she eyed Pikachu with a concerned look. "You want to come with us, instead of going back into the wild? You want to be friends with us?"

"Pika!" Pikachu said, nodding her head adamantly as she stared Pan straight in the eyes.

"Hmm…" Pan said thoughtfully. "Well, I guess Giru and I could do with a friend around here, until we can find a way back home."

"Well, if you plan on hanging around with Giru and me, then how about a name?" Pan asked, as she leans back against the headboard of the bed, and lifts Pikachu up so that the two were staring face to face with one another. Seeing the skeptical look on Pikachu's features, "Well, calling you just Pikachu, doesn't sit well with me. Pikachu is what you are. What do you think of having a name all to yourself?"

Pikachu cocked her head to one side as she thought it over, before giving a slight nod of her head, in total agreement to the idea. "Pika…"

"I'll take that as a yes." Pan said with a grin, as she set Pikachu on her left side, as she turned over onto her side, running a hand through Pikachu's fur. Thinking for a moment a perfect name for hit her. "Since you're a girl, how does the name Nebula sound to you, Pikachu?" she asked, as absent- mindedly, Pan ran a hand over Pikachu's body, scratching Pikachu behind her ears.

"Pi pika chu. Pika." Pikachu said, enjoying the treatment she was receiving as she thought over the name, as she let the offered name run through her mind for a few moments, before looking up from where she laid, and gave Pan a pleased look before letting out a yawn, her eyes half closed as she snuggled in closer to Pan, and fell asleep with a contented "cha."

Grinning, Pan glanced around for Giru and spots him next lying next to the pillow case, his optic eye turned off. After a few moments Pan reached over towards a nearby lamp and flicks the switch off, bathing the room in darkness, as she stretched out fully onto the bed, pulling the blankets onto her body.

"Goodnight, Giru. Night, Nebula." Pan whispered as she let out a soft yawn, and drifted off to sleep.

Awhile later, Nurse Joy came into the room to check on her two patients to find Pan lying on the hospital bed, with Pikachu curled up against her, Giru resting in the crook of Pikachu's legs, all three in deep sleep. Even in the faint light coming from the hallway, Joy could still make out a slight smile on Nebula's small face, as the rodent snuggled in closer to Pan in her sleep.

As she closed the door behind her, Nurse Joy leaned back against it, as she thought back on what Pan had told both her and Officer Jenny earlier, as concern filled her. Jenny had left hours ago to go file a report, and make inquiries as to whether or not anyone fitting the descriptions that Pan gave of her friends had been spotted anywhere.

"I should call on Professor Oak tonight to see if he might have an idea to what we should do." Joy thought as she made her way down the hall of the center. Once she reached the main room, she sat down in front of the desk, and stared at the vidphone for a moment, before reaching out to pick it up and dialed a number.

~Meanwhile at that same moment, Back in the forest~

A small group of different types of Pokémon were searching through the forest for the missing Pikachu. Amongst them were two older Pikachu's. Among the other Pokémon were different species of different types and sizes.

"PIKA!!! PIKA PI!!!! PIKA!!!" the male Pikachu cried out as he searched around for his daughter.

"Pikaa!" the female cried worriedly.

Suddenly a blinding light filled the small area causing all of the Pokémon to stop the search to look up, before they all started bowing. Floating up in the air were two cat-like Pokémon. The largest one was violet in color, and the height of a human, with a long curved tail lashing out behind him. The smaller one resembled the larger one.

"Have you found her." A loud voice demanded, coming through their minds.

The male pikachu hurried forward, shaking its head negatively as he stared up at the floating Pokémon. "Pika pi. Pikachu."

"Where could she be?" Mewtwo wondered as he looked around at the surrounding area. He had felt a disturbance earlier in that area, and had been checking it out, when word came to him that one of his Super Pokémon' offspring was missing.

Just then the same flock of Pidgey's that had been following Pan earlier came out of their roosting spots in the trees to land in front of the group. After a few moments the Pidgey's flew of back into the trees, while the message was given back to Mewtwo.

"Mew? mew ew?" Mew said as she floated around Mewtwo worry evident in her actions.

"We will find the missing Pikachu." Mewtwo stated firmly as he scowled at Mew for a moment. "If she's been captured by a human, then we will simply take her back." Though at that moment, Mewtwo was deep in thought, 'A flying human? How can that be? Humans are unable to fly without the aid of either Pokemon or airplanes, yet those Pidgey's said that this human was using neither as she flew through the air.'

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Author's Notes:

All right how do you guys like my story? This is my first attempt at doing a crossover between Dragon Ball Z and Pokémon, and also my first time writing anything involving Dragonball. If anybody is still waiting on updates on my other fanfics, then you won't have to wait for much longer.
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Date Started: March 05, 2001
Date Ended: March 25, 2001