The Coke worked! It is 2:00 in the morning and I feel refreshed! Hehehehehehe... But, you know the routine,

I don't own Sm or DBZ, blah blah blah...

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"NO!" shouted Usagi as she found another locked door. She sprinted down the hall and tried another one. This one, too,
was locked.

'Don't these people ever air out this place?!'

She turned a corner and looked down another long corrider. There was a single door at the end.

'Maybe that's the way out!' she thought excitedly. She ran down the hallway and turned the fancy door knob. It opened.
She sighed a breath of relief and stepped inside, quickly shutting the door behind her. She leaned back against the cool
wood, her eyes closed, trying to catch her breath.

Only when she opened them did she realize her mistake. This wasn't the courtyard or outdoors for that matter!

A large room stood before her, a massive four poster bed stood in the middle with a white comforter and black sheets,
dark red curtains gracing the two large windows on either side of the bed, and a door leading into another room on the left
wall. It must have led to the bathroom.

'Bathrooms have windows, don't they?' Usagi thought to herself. She put her ear to the door she came through and
listened for any footsteps. There were none.

She ran into the bathroom and quickly scanned it. Huge jacuzzi, big sink with a mirror that nearly covered the entire wall,
a shower... and a window!

"YES!" She rushed to the window and opened it. She stuck her head through and looked down. "Oh no!" she groaned.
"This is WAY to high!"

She leaned farther out the window and looked around for a ledge or a tree anywhere near her. About tweleve feet
beneath the window was a ledge. It was the sill of another window.

'If I can get down there then perhaps I can get in there,' she pondered. She backed away from the window and thought
of the best way to get out without killing herself when she heard the slam of a door. She froze. She couldn't move.

She knew it was Vegeta from the ki she felt. Heavy foot steps made their way to the bathroom door and it was thrown
open.

'No time! Better to just break my legs than stay here!' she reasoned with herself. Vegeta looked furious and he began to
walk menacingly towards her. She swallowed and charged through the window. 'Tuck and roll, tuck and roll...'

She did just as she was trained to do. Her feet hit the ground and she immediately pulled them close to he chest and
rolled once. She sat there, kneeling in the soft grass and looked back towards the window.

There was Vegeta, looking shocked. He was probably wondering why she didn't just fly. Well, she could only fly in her
transformed state. Otherwise, she wouldn't have just tried to kill herself!

Both just sat there staring at each other when Vegeta made a move to come out the window as well. Usagi was snapped
back to her senses and rose to her feet slowly, making sure there weren't any broken bones.

She turned away from the palace and began to run towards who knows where when she ran into a wall. She looked up
and saw Vegeta's familiar smirk.

"So she did make it out of the palace. Guess I was wrong. But then I didn't think that you'd actually JUMP!" He laughed
and grabbed her upper arms, flying into the air and floating back into the window she just went through. Her head was
hanging in defeat.

He set her down on her feet and pushed her into the bedroom. "I'll have to have that window bolted," he said under his
breath yet loud enough for her to hear. Then he walked around her and reached for the door to walk out.

"Wait!"

His hand paused over the handle and he turned his head to look at her.

"I'll make a deal with you. I will fight you and if you win you can do what ever you want with me. If I win, then you put
me in one of those space pods and send me back to Earth. What do you think?" she challenged.

He thought this over for a moment and shook his head. His hand touched the door knob and he had just started turning
it when she was suddenly beside him, holding the door closed.

"Why not?"

"Because you're not ready to fight me. You'd lose and I wouldn't have the challenge I would want."

"And how do you know that I'm 'not ready to fight you'?" she seethed. He didn't have an answer. "Because I'm a woman.
Because no woman would ever be able to defeat the almighty Saiyan Prince!" She scoffed. "Yeah right," was all she said
and turned away.

That was it.

"And you think that you would be able to hold your own against me? All right. How does right now sound? I'm ready for it
but are you?"

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Sorry it's so short but I ran out of things to say for this chapter. Next will be longer, I promise!