" Alright Pan.  Become a super saiyan."

"What?"

"You nearly had it last night.  You can do it."  

"Um...alright?"  Pan stammered.  She then focused her mind, and powered up.  Her power rose dramatically as she gathered her strength to make what she thought would be the final push.  It never came.  Pan came out of her stance bewildered.  

"Just like I thought."  Gohan commented.  

"What?"

"You don't know how to do it."  

"I kept powering up and everything, papa!  I gave it all I had!  I just don't have it in me!"  

"Oh believe me, you do.  You just need direction."  

"You think so?"  

"Yeah.  Now what happened last night when you were out there?"   

"Well, Papa, it was scary!  My feet got entangled in some ice and the water rose, and I nearly drowned!  I came so close!"  

"I see.  What were you feeling?"

"Well, I was scared!  Terrified!  Enraged!  I was scared I was letting everyone down!  It made me mad!  I thought I was about to die!  Last thing I knew, I was losing consciousness, then the next thing I knew, I was above the water."  

"Remember the rage."  Gohan ordered.  "That's the key.  It's not powering up.  It's letting yourself be so consumed with rage, with the pain of losing something dear to you.  That's how you become a super saiyan."  

"Really?"

"You don't power up, per se, to become a super saiyan.  You have to experience the need for the power."  

"I see, so it's something accessed when you need it, not necessarily when you want it."  

"The first time, yes."   

It was the last word she got out before being punched in the mouth.  By this time she knew the drill.  She deflected a blast back at her dad and sent him sailing.  Gohan transformed into a super saiyan and used an old technique his father performed.  He formed a Kamehameha wave attack and launched it directly against Pan.  Pan was prepared for that, and took the blast head-on.  The blast started burning her hands and she felt it driving her.  The way it was aimed, it wasn't going to drive her backwards, but drive her into the ground.  She struggled mightily, losing her ground, when her father took it one step further.  He snuck in behind her and fired another Kamehameha at her back.  Pan loosed one hand from the first blast and tried to stop the second wave.  Both waves aimed in at one central point, her.  

One wave was already too much, and the second one only made her situation exponentially more dire.  Pan felt herself beginning to get crushed in between the waves, like a treasure hunter trying to stop two converging trap walls.  She was losing the battle, and it would mean her life.  She would fail at her promise to her grandfather, fail her father, and fail herself.  That's what hurt the most.  Pissed her off the most.  Set herself into a deathly rage.

"She would have been dead by now if she hadn't managed something."  Gohan noted pleasantly.  He hated doing it, but the maneuver worked for him.  He couldn't do it any more to her though.  

Gohan could not see the first spasm.  Although its product enabled Pan to deflect the dual Kamehameha's away, Pan emerged tense, but not aglow.  Gohan landed close to his daughter, who was still spasming in fits of rage when...there.  Her head snapped back, and her hair fluttered, briefly starting to glow.  She was still pushing.  Not quite there, but close.  

Somewhere buried deep beneath the rage, the pain, and the anger, Pan knew what it was going to take.  And she was not going to let go.  She could pull it off.  She had to.  Another spasm.  Another flash of bright golden light.  

Almost, Gohan noted, looking on proudly.  It drew memories back to his father the first time he transformed facing Frieza, when Krillin was killed.  At least the cost wasn't nearly as severe this time around.  

Pan grunted and groaned, fueled not by her own power, but pure, unadultered rage.  Back in her mind, she wondered if she was sane allowing such rage to blaze, but then another thought came to her mind.  Her father tried to kill her!  How could he attempt such a thing?  To her?  His own daughter?  It made her boil!  

And it was all she needed.  Awash with a golden aura, her hair spiked, her bandana ripped off, and her hair glowed golden.  She was mad as hell, and she was finally a super saiyan.