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A Dragon Ball GT - Pokémon Crossover

Disclaimers: As much as I may *want* to claim ownership of these two productions, I can't because both Dragon Ball Z and Pokémon belong to a whole lot of different companies that I can't remember the names of at the moment. Any characters (human or Pokémon) that appear in this fic that are not a part of either original series, belong to me so don't take them without asking first.

Flying Away
Chapter 2: A Long Way From Home
By: Raven Star
(rinoa_lionhart@hotmail.com)

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

~Son Gohan's Residence~

'It's too quiet around here without Pan around anymore, it's driving me crazy.' Gohan thought sadly to himself, as he stared up at the ceiling of his bedroom in silence. Videl curled up against him in silent slumber.

Glancing over at the alarm clock, he saw the time.

11:15.

'I probably wouldn't be this worried about her if she had left home the normal way when teens move out of their parent's home for the first time in their lives.' he thought sadly as he turned his attention back to the ceiling once more. 'At least *then* I'd know where she was if I wanted to contact her.'

He'd been up almost all night working in the study, trying to grade the tests his students had turned in, so that he may hand them back to them when school started the next morning, just to keep his mind off of the problem at hand.

When he headed up for bed later, he stopped outside of Pan's room looking into the darkened room, left untouched since the day Pan and Giru had disappeared. Her bed was neatly made, with a few of her favorite stuffed animals stacked against the pillows, and her cd player sat in the corner of her room, collecting dust.

'Usually she'd be have her cd player playing music at full blast by this time, until either Videl or I came to tell her to turn it off and to go to bed.' with unable to sleep because of his worry over Pan's safety.

'I wonder what she's doing now? I just hope that wherever she is, she's safe and not in any danger.' he thought silently to himself.

Glancing down at his sleeping wife, Gohan gently pulled away from her, being careful to not wake her up, he climbed out of bed and moved towards the bedroom window, his tail hanging limply behind him as he walked, and stared out into the night sky, as the light from the half moon shone through the window.

'Why am I so worried?' he asked himself, 'Pan can take care of herself as well as the rest of us.' A small grin appeared on his face at the thought, 'Knowing her, I should be more worried over the safety of whoever tries to tangle with her.'

"Gohan?"

Gohan spun around to see Videl sitting up in bed, rubbing her tired eyes as she stared at him. "Honey, what are you doing still up?"

"I could ask you that same question, Gohan," Videl said, placing her hands on her hips as she frowned at him. "You should be asleep by now. You have to get to the high school early tomorrow for your staff member conference remember?"

"I know, I know. I just can't seem to get to sleep tonight," Gohan said with a slight yawn, as he walked away from the window and sat down on the bed, "I guess I have a lot on my mind, with work and Pan's disappearance..."

"I'm worried about her too. It might just be a mother's intuition, but I have this feeling that wherever she is now, she's okay." Videl said softly as she wrapped her arms around her husbands waist, and pulled him closer to her own body for a hug.

"But I still can't help but worry, that wherever she is right now, she might be hurt or worse," Gohan said as he twisted around in Videl's embrace while his tail wrapped itself around her waist, as he he held her in his arms, as they laid down on the soft mattress.

"As much as I hate to admit it, she's grown up a lot since her last adventure with Gokou-san, and she can take care of herself if things got to tough for her." Videl said simply, as a small tear escaped from her eyes, "And she has her dynocaps with her, so she won't have any trouble with having a place to stay or food to eat."

"And knowing Pan-chan, she's probably enjoying herself right now." Gohan said with a light chuckle to soften the mood, "You know how my mom always said that Pan's just like dad when he was her age."

"Yeah, but she's more like you," Videl said as she snuggled closer to him, resting her head against his bare chest as a loud yawn escaped from her lips.

"Are *you* okay?" Gohan asked with a bit of concern in his voice. "It seems to me that that you've been tired a lot these days. Though I *know* you've been getting plenty of sleep."

"Just been feeling a little out of the weather these days," Videl said as she smiled sleepily at her husband. "I must be working too hard myself these days."

Concern etched in his face, Gohan pulled away from her just enough so that he could reach over and feel Videl's forehead, but only felt the light coolness of her skin, "You don't feel hot, so you can't be sick."

"Like I said it's probably nothing at all," Videl said insistently, with a slight shrug of her shoulders, "It's probably just some bug I caught. I've already scheduled an appointment with our family doctor for tomorrow afternoon, to see if he can prescribe something for it."

"Well if your sure about it..." Gohan began worriedly, only to have whatever he was going to say be cut off, as Videl pulled him into a deep kiss.

"I'm sure. I don't want you to worry about me too." She said, once she pulled away, and moved herself back into her previous spot against his chest. "I'll tell you what the doctor says, when you get home from work tomorrow."

"All right," Gohan said finally as he let his hands brush against the tips of her hair, as he settled down to sleep, a yawn escaping from his lips as he closed his eyes, "Goodnight, Videl-chan."

"Goodnight, Gohan." Videl said sleepily.

'And goodnight, Pan and Giru. Wherever you guys are.' Was the thought that passed through both parents minds as sleep finally claimed them.

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~Capsule Corps, Late at Night~

Trunks walked silently through the hallways of Capsule Corps as she made her way back to his bedroom, from the kitchen after getting a midnight snack. 'What a crazy day at work.' He thought silently to himself, as he tried suppressed a loud yawn, 'I'm just glad that I took off tomorrow, so maybe I can help mom try and get the TATT machine working.'

As he made his way down the hallway, he stopped for a moment to look at a few wall pictures the entire Z gang, showing everyone varying in ages in different pictures. Over the years, his mother had made it a point to try and get everyone together for a reunion party at Capsule Corps, and when the party was over, somehow talk them all into taking a 'family' pictures before they all went home.

Glancing through all of the pictures, his eyes finally rested upon one picture in particular, that had been taken only five months before the accident in the lab, as he reached up to take it down, so he could look at it better, as a small smile appeared on his lips. The picture had all of them posing in it, The Neo Z Fighters, as Pan had always called them.

The picture showed Pan, Marron, Goten, Ubbu, Bra, Giru, Paris and himself posing for the camera in different styles of poses, outside a big domed animal sanctuary next to door to Capsule Corps. Bra stood with her arms crossed over her chest, and was dressed in a red tank-top shirt with a black mini skirt, and was wearing a pair of sunglasses, as she stood back to back with Pan who was also sporting a pair of sunglasses, and her usual outfit. Ubbu was dressed in tight fitting, black pants, white shirt and a yellow vest. Marron was standing next to him, half leaning against him as she lightly held on to his arm, while Goten and Paris stood off to the side. Trunks stood next to Marron, was dressed in a brown business suit with a green striped tie, eyeglasses perched on his nose as he stared at the camera, while Giru stood perched on his left shoulder in between the two of them, with a tiny fistful of Trunks hair in his hands to keep his balance. Goten sat in the front, a goofy grin plastered on to his face, as he stared at the camera, one arm wrapped around Paris' waist, as she sat next to him, as he hugged her to his side.

The girls had all banded together, and managed to talk him and the others into posing for that picture, insisting that they should start making their own, since their families did over the years, and also simply because they wanted something for all of them to do together.

Grinning a bit, he remembered how Pan had come storming into his office the day the picture was to be taken, looking like she was going on a warpath, to personally bring him down, just because he had been so caught up with work that he had completely forgotten about it until that moment. It had been a good thing that he had remembered to reschedule all of his afternoon appointments before hand.

"Damn it," Trunks wondered out loud to himself, as he turned to glance out of a nearby window at the night sky, "Where are you Panny?" he said in frustration, as his mind wondered back to that fateful day when everything had gone wrong.

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~Flashback~

"PAN!! GIRU!!" Trunks shouted out in alarm as he stared at the empty space where Pan and Giru had once been, as he started to rush back into the laboratory, only to be stopped as both Bulma and Bra grabbed hold of his arm to hold him back. "Mom, Bra, let go! Pan's-" Spinning around to glare at the two women in anger.

"Trunks wait! I don't think it's safe for *you* to go in there, at this point. We could wind up loosing you too if that light comes back." Bulma exclaimed, as she tried to pull Trunks back out the doors. "I'm worried about Pan, too, but I don't want to risk losing *both* of you to whatever that light was!"

"But," Trunks began just as the TATT machine suddenly started shaking, making a loud rumbling sound as the entire building began to shake, as smoke and sparks began to pour out of it for a few seconds before it all finally came to a stop, as the machine seemed to almost slump over as it seemed to shut itself off, as more smoke came out of it.

"Aw damn! This isn't good at all." Bulma cursed as she rushed back into the lab, with a few other scientists, carrying fire extinguishers, followed right behind her.

Meanwhile, Bra was simply stood back and stared in shock and disbelief, as she stared back into the now empty lab, eyes widened, at where her best friend had been moments before. "Their gone..." she said softly to herself after a moment, as her tail swayed behind her uneasily, as she slumped back with her resting against the wall.

Just then, the sound of running feet could be heard through the halls, as they were soon joined by the rest of the Z fighters, coming to see what the commotion was all about, their expressions all varying as they looked into the laboratory at the mess.

"Hey what happened?!" Yamcha asked as he came into the lab, "What's with the light show, and all of the shouting in here?"

"What's going on around here?!" Vegita shouted as he walked into the laboratory with the others close behind. "Woman, what did you do *this* time, that has our *entire* home shaking like that?!"

"Vegita I don't have time to deal with you right now," Bulma snapped, not bothering to turn around as she watched as the other scientists were trying to douse the TATT machine with the extinguishers. "We've got an emergency here."

"Hey are you guys okay?" Krillen exclaimed worriedly as he looked around the laboratory anxiously taking in the damage that had been done. "Where was all that noise coming from?"

"Everyone's fine, Krillen." Trunks said as he walked up to the others, a worried look on his features as he glanced at Bra for a moment, before turning back to the others, "But we've got a problem you guys..."

"Bra what happened to *you*?!" Vegita exclaimed, interrupting Trunks, as he spots his youngest sitting on the floor with a dazed look in her eyes, as he strode straight for her after making sure that both Bulma and Trunks were okay, and knelt down next to Bra. "Are you okay, brat?"

Bra glanced up for a moment, to stare at Vegita "I'm fine daddy. I'm not hurt, anyway," Bra said as she looked at Vegita, her eyes sad and hurt, "It's just that... Pan's..."

"That reminds me. Where *is* Pan?" Goten asked, interrupting Bra, as he looked around in confusion, scratching the back of his head. "I thought I sensed her ki in here before, but I don't feel it anymore."

"That's the problem we've got, everyone." Trunks said, bringing everyone's attention back to him once more, as he motioned a hand towards the TATT, as he explained. "Something went wrong when we were testing mom's latest invention out, and all I can say, is that Pan's gone."

"What do you mean she's gone?!" Gohan shouted as he marched up to Trunks, his aura blazing. "Where's is she?!"

"We don't know yet, Gohan-san." Trunks said as he took a step backwards to try and avoid the enraged father. "It just started going crazy, and we all had to run out of the lab," he said as he raised his hands in front of him defensively, "but Pan and Giru didn't make it out. When I realized that she wasn't with us, I turned around to see her on the floor with Giru next to her. She said she couldn't move, and when I tried to go back in, this weird light hit both her and Giru, and the next thing any of us knew, they were both gone."

"What was she doing in there in the first place?!" Gohan demanded angrily, as he grabbed hold of Trunks shirt, and lifted him a feet off of the ground. "And why didn't you move faster to get her out in time?! If she's dead..."

"Gohan, calm down, and let go of Trunks!" Vegita growled as he stood up, and moved past the other to grab hold of Gohan's wrists, his tail puffing up a bit in irritation. "It's not completely his fault that Pan's missing."

"Hey!" Trunks exclaimed, glaring at his father for that comment, as Gohan finally let go of him, as he fell to the floor with a *thud*. "Thanks a lot dad!" He said sarcastically, as he quickly stood back up.

"Are you trying to say my daughter's dead?!" Videl exclaimed, as first anger, then fear for her only child's safety, filled her voice, eyes narrowing as she stared at Bulma and Trunks intently.

"I don't think Pan and Giru are dead, Videl. At least I hope they are not." Bulma said as she finally came over to the others, "This invention was built so that one can travel through the dimensions, and visit different universes, and even bring something back from that world. But we were just starting to test it out for the first time today, when this happened." She said, rubbing her forehead in agitation for a moment, as she turned her attention towards the rest of the Son family. "But I can tell you this. If Pan and Giru *are* still alive, then they must be stuck in another world."

"Bulma, but you *can* find them and bring them back home where they belong, can't you?" Chichi asked, worry evident in her voice as she looked at Bulma with hopeful eyes.

"I don't know yet, Chichi." Bulma said, wanting to say something to help make her friend feel better, but knew it wouldn't help matters if she lied. "They can be anywhere now, plus I don't even know where to begin to look. And even if I *did* know where to look," She said, before pointing at the TATT with anger, "*that* doesn't look it's going to be operational again any time soon."

As she looked on, Bulma watched as the hopeful look on Chichi's face seemed to fall, as her eyes started to water, and her legs almost buckled under her weight. Seeing his mother's reaction to the news, Goten immediately moved to her side, and helped Chichi to sit down in a nearby chair.

"No!" Chichi cried out as she slumped down into a nearby chair, "I've already lost my Gokou, Bulma!! I don't want to lose my first grandchild too!" she exclaimed heatedly, as she stared in despair at the TATT machine for a few moments. At that moment, Chichi looked a lot older than her actual age after hearing the news.

"Yeah, Bulma-san," Goten added in as he put a comforting arm around his mothers shoulders. "Do you think there's a chance we can find them as soon as the machines fixed?"

"At the moment, I can only try, Goten." Bulma said as she stared at the group. "You guys, I'm really sorry about this. I didn't expect something like this to happen." She said, just as one of the scientists came over to talk with her, "Today was it's first test run. So I don't know what the results would be when we finally get the TATT working again." She finished before turning to talk to the scientist.

"We don't even know what dimension they might be in," Trunks started in, taking up the explanation for his mother, only to be unexpectedly cut off by Bra.

"I think I got a good idea of where she could have been sent to," Bra said, cutting into Trunks explanation, causing everyone to turn to look at her in surprise, as she stood up and started to make her way over. "At least I think I know what to look if we do find it again."

"Like what Bra," Marron asked.

"Don't you remember what Pan said before the machine went crazy, Trunks?" Bra only shook her head, as she frowned at Trunks, as she rest a hand on her forehead for a moment, "Pan said she saw some kind of large bird, made out of flames inside the machine." She said with a slight shrug as she saw the looks she was getting. "Maybe they were sent to the dimension where that bird is in. So, if we can only find that bird again, we probably could find Pan and Giru."

"Yeah, I remember." Trunks said, as an uncertain look spread across his features as he stared at Bra, "But I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the machine's beam before it went haywire on all of us, Bra"

"You and mom both said the you didn't see it, but I think *I* saw it too for a second." Bra said reluctantly as she stared at the others. "It *was* there. I'm sure of it."

"But that's impossible, honey," Bulma said as she came back over in time to hear Bra's last words, "I didn't see anything in the machine, even when Pan had mentioned it to us."

"Mom, it *was* there." Bra said insistently as she glanced at everyone, giving them her trademark stubborn look, before it disappeared completely as she became serious, "Besides what other leads do we have? All we could do is look for it, and hope that she might be there."

~End Flashback~

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"It's been too quiet around here with her around anymore." Trunks said out loud, as he stared at the pictures a few moments more in silence.

After what had happened, obviously nobody had felt like partying anymore, so the party ended early, as everyone headed back home, with Goten and Paris giving Chichi a ride home in their hover car, and Gohan and Videl reluctantly heading back on home.

'Things would be easier if we still had the Dragon Balls around, and we could just wish Pan and Giru home,' Trunks thought angrily to himself, turning away from the wall, as he continued on his way, 'instead of having to wait, not knowing what's been happening to her these last three weeks she's been gone.'

As it had turned out, after the machine had finally cooled down enough for them to approach it without being burned, it was revealed that a lot of the main components inside were completely wrecked. Most of the mechanisms needed to be repaired, while others beyond repair and some of the main parts had to be replaced by new pieces, which had taken over three weeks to arrive by order. Now it was almost finished, and all they needed now was the final piece, which wouldn't be arriving until a few days from now.

As he passed by the door leading to his mothers' laboratory, he notices that there was a lot still on inside, and stops to peek inside to see his mother slumped over one of the desks, sound asleep over the papers she had been working on.

Chuckling a bit, he crosses across the room to where Bulma was and lightly tapped her on the shoulder to wake her up. "Mom? Wake up, it's time to go to bed."

At the unexpected touch on her shoulder, Bulma sat up, in surprise, with a jerk as she spun around to see who it was, as she stared at Trunks through sleep-clouded eyes. "Wha... What?" she asked dazedly.

"Hey mom, it's time to go to bed," Trunks repeated softly as he looked at Bulma, seeing the bags in her eyes, and the worn out look in her body. "Are you okay?"

"Trunks?" she mumbled as she frowned at him for a moment, becoming more awake by the moment, before giving him a halfhearted smile, as she stretched the aching muscles in her back, "I'm fine. I just needed to go over some more work, before I head onto bed. What are you doing still up?" she asked as she raised her hand to her mouth to cover a yawn.

"That's something I'd like to ask you," Trunks thought to himself, as he grinned at Bulma for a moment. "I got up to go get a late night snack." Trunks said casually, with a slight shrug. "Mom, it's already late, why don't you try and get some sleep, and get back to work in the morning? You won't be any good to anyone if you're half dead on your feet all day."

"Not yet, Trunks," Bulma said as she turned back around to face the desk once more, "I need to finish up before I hit the sack," as she reached out to pick up and shuffle some papers. "If I'm right on this, then it might help us find Pan and Giru a lot faster. I can get some sleep later on tomorrow."

"But mom," Trunks started again was about to argue some more, when a sudden movement by the lab door. "What the?" Turning towards the doorway, he sees Vegita storming into the lab with an irritated look on his face, as he moved past Trunks and made his way straight towards Bulma.

Before Bulma could react, she suddenly found herself being scooped up out of her chair by a pair of strong arms and lifted into the air. "Trunks! Put me down this minute! I told you that I still needed to work." she cried out in irritation, thinking that her son was the culprit.

"It's not me, mom." Trunks said in between chuckles, as he watched the display in amusement.

"Vegita!" Bulma shrieked, glancing up to see that her husband was the one responsible, and started swinging her arms and legs to try and get him to release her. "Let go of me this instant, you baka! I'm not finished yet!"

"Don't bet on it, woman." Vegita said, as a slight smirk crept up to his lips as he glanced down at Bulma, before it was replaced by a dark scowl, "the brat's right on one thing." He said as he wrapped an arm around her waist before gently slinging her over his left shoulder, and knocking the wind out of her in the process, in order to carry her out of the lab, "It's more than past time for you to go to bed. You've been working non-stop all day with those other scientists to get that blasted machine finished." As he marched out of the lab, he stopped to turn towards Trunks as he followed after them. "Trunks shut down everything in here will you?"

"Yeah sure thing, dad," Trunks said cheerfully as he turned back around towards the light switch and flicked off the lights, "'Night, mom. 'Night dad." He called after them.

"Good night Trunks-kun!" Bulma called back, defeat sounding in her voice, as she turned her attention and anger back to her husband, "Vegita! You know perfectly well that I've got a good reason for putting in all this extra work," Bulma exclaimed, after regaining her breath, "I'm on to something important here, you baka monkey!"

"Yeah, I know," Vegita snapped back, "But, whatever you cooked up, can wait until morning." Vegita countered back as he continued down the hall towards their bedroom, "That machine's not going anywhere soon." He said as his voice lowered into a low, "Besides I want you to be with me the rest of the night." He said as he kicked the bed room door open, and walked in, and used his tail to close it behind them.

Whatever else Bulma had to say was still loud enough to be heard, but was muffled on the other side of the door, as the light inside the room was turned off.

Shaking his head as he left the lab, after hearing the conversation between his parents, Trunks shut the door to the lab and continued on his way to his bedroom, stopping to peek into Bra's room, to see her sound asleep in bed, her legs tangled up in the sheets, as she hugged her pillow to her chest, and quickly shut the door behind him.

Entering his bedroom, Trunks stripped off his clothes, until all he was wearing was his boxers as he laid down on his bed, to stare silently up at the ceiling. "I hope you come home soon, Panny." He whispered, as he yanked the blanket up to his chest, twisted around in his bed and closed his eyes, hoping that sleep would come soon. A few minutes' later soft snores could be heard coming from behind his doors.

To Be Continued...

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Author's Notes:
Sorry if some of the DBZ characters seem out of character, and I bet it's mostly Vegita, but I'm still new about writing fics with them in it.

So what do you guys think about this chapter? Is it good? Bad? Sorry about this one being shorter than the previous chapters, but this one came to me on the spur of the moment, and replaced the next chapter that was originally supposed be #2, for those of you out there who've already read it. Chapter 3 probably will come out soon, and it *will* be longer than Chapter 2.

10/3/02: Hey everyone, I just decided to update this chapter after all this time. I thought it needed more on what some of the rest of Gohan and Videl have been thinking during Pan's disappearance, instead of just having the part with Trunks, Vegita and Bulma being the only thing in this chapter.

Does anyone else out there think that I should add more to this chapter or should I leave as it is and go onto the next chapter?

So what do you guys think is wrong with Videl?
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Date Started: January 15, 2002
Date Ended: February 23, 2002
Date Updated: October 4, 2002