Disclaimers I don't own DBZ and any of its chracters.

I started this story last year but didn't like the beginning and the ending of it, so I decided to rewrite it to make it better, that's why I kept changing it around but this time this version is final. The story starts after DBGT. If you have already read it you can always review to tell me how you like the little changes I've made.

PRISONER OF TIME

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In the infinite space the latest Capsule Corporation spacecraft was traveling at high speed toward the Earth. The pilot of this craft was one of the two remaining survivors of the first generation of Z warriors. His name was Vegeta.

The Saiya-jin prince was now in his late eighties and just came back from a peculiar mission in whom he had to bring back the only thing that could help defeating their present foe; the Genki-Ken[1], but all he got from that elf was a flower bulb.

"What are we suppose to do with that?" He had asked angrily to the elf but this one just told him to take care of it and disappeared. Vegeta didn't have any other choice than to leave because the magical planet was vanishing as well. Now the prince was staring pensively at the green flower bulb under the crystal glass. He was wondering about what they were going to do to defeat the shadow master when something hit violently his spaceship sending the prince flying to the other side of the spaceship.

"I am really too old for this shit!" He said while getting up and looked at the monitor and saw a shadow copy of his ship. The prince tried to get away from it but it was no use, the other ship was as fast and anticipated his every move.

"That damn thing will follow me in hell if it has to!" Vegeta said angrily but the expression of his face turned from frustration to pure horror when he saw what was in his ship trajectory, a black hole. Vegeta tried to change his course but the navigation system was too damage by the other ship assault to respond to his commend.

"Oh no, oh no!" Vegeta kept repeating as his ship was being pulled inside of the black hole. The ship began to drift away while the power supply of the ship was drained by the black hole and its high pressure was crushing the ship and Vegeta began to wonder how long it last before it was squashed like aluminum can. In the dark he found his spacesuit and wore it as the oxygen was began to be scarce inside the ship.

"It would be a real miracle if I come out of this alive!" He said chuckling nervously. "Man, I never thought I would end that way." He said sighing but suddenly the ship began to shake violently as it was passing through an electrical storm, it was only a matter of time before the ship got strike by a lighting bolt. When it did it transpierced the hull and hit flower bulb in the crystal jar which curiously absorbed the energy and began to radiate and soon Vegeta and the entire ship began to glow with an eerie green light.

"What's going on?" Vegeta said while looking at himself when suddenly the black hole dissipated freeing the spaceship which was set to a crash course toward an unknown planet to the prince. A young widow was gazing at the stars sitting in top of a mountain when Vegeta's spaceship entered the planet's atmosphere and crash-landed not far from her house situated in the forest. She was beautiful woman with a tail having big brown eyes and light brown hair and wore an outfit made of wool and she flew toward the location of the crash site. While she was coming his way, Vegeta got out of the ship still glowing and walked away not knowing what he was doing and where he was going.

"I feel so strange." He said while shivering. His feet got caught in his spacesuit which seemed to have gotten bigger not knowing that actually it was he that had gotten smaller, shorter and younger. He fell on his knees and then let himself dropped on the ground exhausted as the glow surrounding his body faded away. The young woman who had seen the moving light landed on the ground a few miles away and precociously approached the site at foot. In the dark she stumbled on Vegeta who was laying on the ground unconscious.

"What is this?" She said while touching the strange texture of his spacesuit and jumped back when he let out a low moan.

"Is it human?" She asked herself not sure what she should do, so she concentrate a little ball of energy in her palm to light him up.

"Wow what kind of monster are you?" She said when she saw the suit but soon figured out that what she was looking out was more like a coat and tried to take it out off him. She finally took it off not without some difficulty and exclaimed surprised when she saw what was inside of it.

"My word it's just a little boy!"

[1] Energy sword