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[sonpan]

VIDEO:

Good day to the inhabitants of this planet! [... The earth she's familiar with is DEFINITELY not like this.] You're getting this through this book, right? If anyone could point out the creep who's responsible for– ugh, undressing a young lady while she's unaware, please step forward. I'd like to give them a piece of my mind! Nobody decides to magically stick wings on a girl without some consequences! They don't have a purpose either, do they? You don't need wings to fly!

Another thing: I got separated from my Grandpa Goku on the way here. My grandpa is an annoying ten year old kid who acts like an annoying six year old kid. All he talks about is food, food, fighting, food! There might be a robot with him too that goes "giru giru". Keep an eye on your capsules or radars 'cause he's a greedy little bot. And the next missing person might be more unlikely but... a guy called Trunks. He has purple hair. [HIS ONLY IDENTIFYING FEATURE???] They all probably took a wrong turn or something without me, that's all...

If anyone's seen them, I'd like to know! Pretty please-? [A thoughtful pause, the next bit comes out a lot more subdued.] I'll be waiting over by the fountain at midday, so don't be late.

[The journal barely picks up her last words tacked hastily at the end.] Grandpa? Trunks? Mama, Papa? ... Anyone?


ACTION:

[The first thing she did was grab some proper clothes, narrowly avoiding a cold and miserable death. But not longer after Pan was already distributing certain handmade posters, leaving them all around the village as she flies past. NYOOM.]

["If found, please contact Pan!"]

Comments

[savedtheworld]

[Aang finds a poster right outside the bakery. He spends a moment staring at it...

Yep. No doubt about it. It's Goten.

Contact Pan, though? He doesn't know who this Pan is, so how does he contact them?

He squints for a moment, and an idea comes to mind. He takes a deep breath and-]

PAAAAAAAN!

[sonpan]

[Aang chose quite the place to yell such a thing! With oddly convenient timing, an NPC middle-aged lady exits from the little shop with a sour expression. "If you wanted to buy some, there's no need to scream. You're standing right outside a bakery, child!"

... Because only someone related to Goku would name their kid "Pan". Bread.]

[Meanwhile, Pan flies back this-a-way overhead, having heard her name. She's got a pretty healthy pair of lungs too!--]

GRANDPA?! IS THAT YOU...?

[savedtheworld]

[Nooooo NPCs but okay!

Aang's ears perk up as he hears the word "grandpa", and he looks up towards the flying person.

Whoa. Is that an airbender who learned how to really really fly? And she looked even older than Jinora. How could that be?

He looks up, wide-eyed. He's dressed in Earth-y clothes at the moment - some slacks and a winter jacket over his shirt. And a goofy-looking hoodie hat through which just the tip of his arrow shows.]

I- I AM?!

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[fashionably_strong]

[Bulla makes a habit of checking the journal posts semi-regularly because she likes to keep up socially. She doesn't have the reply function turned on yet, and she's not looking at the page directly at the moment. She's actually painting her nails.

But what's really striking is that this girl sounds so much like Pan.

Then she hears the next bit of what Pan has to say and she knocks her nailpolish bottle over, bumping the journal's "reply" function. There are the sounds of scrambling so she doesn't stain the floor with a shade called "mauve maven" in the background while the camera is looking up and facing the cieling. It's a pretty boring view.]

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[fashionably_strong]

[Finally, she faces the camera and looks incredibly happy to see her friend.]

Oh my gosh, Pan! Hey! Where are you?

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[sonpan]

[Wow, her first response and there's just a plain backdrop and nothing else but a lot of miscellaneous noise. Maybe it's broken? Isn't the video working? If this place was advanced enough to make this stuff why the hell did they decide to make it a book anyway?

Impatient, she roughly shakes the journal. (Because clearly that will fix it.)]

Helloooo? Anyone home?

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[sonpan]

--Bulla? [NOT who she expected, but certainly not unwelcomed. THANK GOODNESS THERE WAS SOMEBODY WHO SHE KNOWS.]

Don't ask me, I have absolutely no clue!

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[fashionably_strong]

Okay, just focus some of your ki and I'll try to find you.

[She's still not great at sensing it, but if Pan's deliberately using it, Bulla can probably track her that way.]

I'll even bring you something better to wear than that dress.

[Like a warm sweater.]

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[believeit]

First kids!

Now Grandkids?!

[GOKU WHAT EVEN.]

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[sonpan]

First comes kids! Then comes marriage. Then comes a baby, in a baby carriage.

Isn't that how the song goes?

[Wait the K-I-S-S-I-N-G part goes first but she doesn't want to think about that!]

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[capsule_corp]

Pan...?

[ Bulma's sitting in her kitchen, looking so calm and composed... As opposed to two minutes ago when she was nearly spitting her coffee all over the place. This must be the Pan that Trunks mentioned though. And the future must be even weirder than she imagined, if Goku's a ten year old again. Someday she'll have to ask the kids to tell her more about it. ]

Have Trunks or Goku found you yet?

[ She'll forgo the introduction, seeing as though this girl is bound to already know her. ]

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[sonpan]

Aunty Bulma, you too? [Congratulations, Bulma! You're an aunt now. And younger than she remembers - although she has enough tact to not mention it. Grandma Chichi would scold her so hard, man.

You'd think with all these strange age shenanigans she wouldn't stop to blink an eye at them by now.]

Yeah, Trunks and Bulla are filling me in now. It seems like almost everyone's here.

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[capsulepresident]

[Oh brother, he knows who that is and sighs.]

I'm here, Pan.

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[sonpan]

What took you so long? [She's kidding around

mostly.]

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[littlelegend]

Ooh that's my dad! Goku is my dad!

[Totally missed all that stuff about him being a kid because wow Pan, you talk a lot. He mostly just looked at the poster and heard his dad's name.]

...you're not a really good drawer, are you?

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[sonpan]

[WOAH enjoy that close up of (1) angry-slash-confused Pan. She's practically stood up out of her seat and grabbing the book so hard she might tear it in two. If he said Goku was his dad that means--]

I'd like to see you do better, Gr— GOTEN!

[Just stops herself in time! It's all too easy to blurt out Grandpa on instinct. She spent an entire year being stuck with him and he was just as bad as a little baby. But now even her uncle is a little kid and wow no that feels weird to call him her uncle now AUGH.]

[Action] jessus Pan

[misterbrief]

[One of these said flyers floats out of the air, and by the power of a refreshing breeze, hits Vegeta right in the face as he's walking about town.]

Argh! [He shouts as he peels it off his face. Staring at it, he can barely make out what it's supposed to be until he realizes that it's picture of Kakarot, the way he was right before he left with Shenron...]



Missing child? Who...? ["If found, please contact Pan!"]

Not her too! [He scans the sky, searching for her ki, anything to help him find her...she's got to be around here somewhere if this blasted flyer decided to invade his personal space like that.]

[Action] B)

[sonpan]

[As soon as she figured out that everything in the stores were free, there was little chance she wouldn't take advantage of it. The downside is that her grandpa Goku could waltz into any one of those food places. Checking every one within the village would be more trouble!

So instead, she's set up a roast chicken outside with one of those rotating desk fans, intent on luring him out with his sense of smell.]

GRANDPA-AA! [The stack of flyers she carelessly put down go flying as the fan blows this way. Oh well... THEY'RE BEING DISTRIBUTED BY WIND POWER.] Look what you're missing out on!

[materiathief]

[... Wait!]

How is your grampa only ten? That kinda timeline seems a bit off.

[sonpan]

It involves irresponsible wishes, a dragon, and hanging around some bad folks!

[tbh she seems more preoccupied with the injustice of it all over how weird this must sound to other people.]

[action]

[endgames]

[Jeez, what a mess. Shikamaru watches the girl fly past, papers fluttering in her wake, and gives an annoyed grunt when she makes no move to turn back.]

Oi. [Before she can go too far past, he calls out to her. Taking considerable care not to read what's on the actual posters, he starts gathering them up to throw out.] This counts as littering you know.

[action]

[sonpan]

[She doesn't seem to have noticed. At least only until he starts gathering all her precious flyers does she turn heel and march back.]

Advertising! It's called advertising! You know people put a lot of time and effort into getting their message out there. Even if you've got something good, there's no point if no one's there to listen.

Are you going to let all this hard work go to waste?!

[ARE YOU?]

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[universal_charm]

_{[ There's this sort of long pause and then... ]}

Well, I will be damned, Vegeta is basically turning out to be right. Crap.

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[sonpan]

[Pan's casually slumped forward on the table in front, legs swinging back and forth, with the journal propped up to face her. As such, she's pretty close to the camera and blinking in curiosity.]

What'd Uncle Vegeta have to say?

[godbent]

[ A flier is at her feet when she walks out of the SOS-Brigade's HQ. She really needs to recruit more people... but look at it, and then look around, there's actually a lot of these in the plaza. She feels like someone who looked like this was on the journal a while ago, but more importantly-]

Hey, is whoever made these still around?!

[ The young woman called out to the plaza, adjusting her coat. At least she's over the shard thing ]