Sorry for the delay! Hope you enjoy it!

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Vegeta and Goku both dove under the kitchen table, each latching into one of the furniture's legs as lightning once again flashed. "You think it'll find us here?" Goku asked, glancing around the dark room from her hiding place. "Well judging from what I saw, that evil clown is short… so we're probably going be the first thing it sees!" Vegeta answered, her eye twitching nervously. The other Saiyajin rung her hands together, her eyes wide as the darkness of the room seemed to swallow them whole. "Uh….Well then…. Don't you think we should hide somewhere else?" The princess blinked and stared at the other woman, as if she were processing what she had just been told. Suddenly, both Saiyajins jumped up and dashed from the kitchen, each running into the large living room. "Where should we hide?!" Goku cried, jumping from foot to foot as she searched for any signs of the killer clown. Vegeta wiped a bit of sweat from her brow as she frantically looked around the room, finally pointing to a large ledge built into the wall near the ceiling. "Up there! We'll be able to see everything!"

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Bulma struggled to wake up as she made her way down the stairs, having been jolted awake by a particularly loud rumble of thunder. "Stupid storm… I need sleep… Those two Saiyajins are zapping all my energy…" The woman yawned as she finally reached the bottom of the stairs, reaching out to flip on the light switch. She rolled her eyes when she discovered that the power had been knocked out. Shrugging it off, Bulma continued her journey to the kitchen, intent on grabbing a glass of warm milk to knock her out for the rest of the night.

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Vegeta and Goku snapped to attention as some movement in the living room caught their attention. "What's that?!" Goku whispered, pointing to the mumbling figure as it slowly moved across the room. Vegeta squinted and watched it carefully, rubbing her chin as she did so. "Look at its hair… It's crazier than yours, Kakarotto!" "Hey!" the other woman cried, only to have the princess slap her hand over her mouth. "Quiet!" she snapped. "It'll hear you. Look at it… It's slouched and seems to be mumbling about something…" The two fell silent again as they struggled to hear what the creature was saying through the noise the storm created. Goku gasped when she caught a bit of it. "Did… did it just say something about knocking someone out?" Before Vegeta could reply, the creature stopped and turned toward them, standing completely still. "Baka!" the princess said as quietly as possible. "It heard you… Now it's going find us, and kill us!" Goku tensed a bit as the still shadowed figure began walking in their direction. "Do… do you think it saw us up here?" "Doesn't matter. Either way, we need to take that clown out before it gets us! On three, we attack…" Goku nodded and stared down at their target, powering up ever so slightly as her adrenaline began to flow. "One… two… THREE!!"

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Bulma scratched her tangled blue hair as she shuffled across the living room carpet, mumbling about wanting to knock herself out and be done with it. She blinked as a small sound caught her attention on the far side of the room and she turned to investigate. The woman frowned when she was unable to see through the dark and began walking toward the sound, hoping to discover its source. She tensed a bit after a moment, feeling as if she were being watched, the feeling sending a shiver down her back. "THREE!!!" "Huh?" Bulma looked up and screamed as two shadowed figures hurdled toward her from the ceiling.

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Vegeta and Goku both lunged for the creature, each completely missing and hitting the floor heavily, the shadowed figure standing between them, untouched. Vegeta sat up and covered her ears as the creature emitted a horrible high-pitched shrieking noise, which left her defenseless. "Make it stop, Kakarotto!!" Goku, who was handling the sound better due to constantly listening to ChiChi scream, pounced toward the source the noise, biting down on the creature's ankle.

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Bulma screamed in horror as both creatures landed on either side of her. For a moment, the blue haired woman thought that she had heard one of them say something, but she was too busy screaming to tell. Unable to move from fear, she continued shrieking, hoping to scare off whatever was attacking her. Suddenly, something latched onto her leg and bit down, causing pain to bolt through her ankle. "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" She kicked frantically, managing to dislodge the creature from her leg. With a slight limp, the woman ran from the room and scurried back up the stairs, desperately trying to make it to ChiChi's room before the rabid creatures attacked her again.

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Goku smirked in satisfaction as the evil clown ran away screaming, disappearing from the room within seconds of her attack. "Oh no! It went upstairs! It's going to get Bulma! Who'll fix my gravity machine if she's murdered?!" Vegeta cried. Goku gasped, hands on either side of her face. "And ChiChi! Who's gonna fix breakfast if the clown gets her?!" The two Saiyajins fell silent as the unspeakable possibilities came to light. "We'll….we'll have to do it all ourselves!" Goku choked out, nearly fainting at the thought of having to venture into the kitchen alone everyday. "We must save them!" Vegeta cried, pointing toward the stairs… or where she thought the stairs were. It was still too dark to see. "To the stairs!" Goku shouted, pointing in another direction. Unable to see each other, the two women let out war cries and took off in completely different directions.

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Bulma gasped for air as she skidding to a halt in front of ChiChi's room. Having lived in Capsule Corp all her life, the woman knew the layout of the building like the back of her hand, so the darkness didn't throw her off in the least. She bolted into the room and ran over to the other woman's bed, frantically shaking her until she was awake. ChiChi sat up and looked around, her eyes wide as she struggled to remember where she was. "Wha—What is it?! Goku! I'm not fixing you a midnight snack again!" Bulma blinked as the dark haired woman began to go back asleep again, mumbling something about a bottomless pit. "ChiChi! It's me! Wake up, I need your help!" The other woman sat up again, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "Huh? Bulma? What's wrong?" The blue haired woman bit down on her nails nervously as she paced back and forth in the room. "I went downstairs to get something from the kitchen, and something attacked me! Two things to be exact, but one of them bit me!" ChiChi blinked, scratching her head. "Do you think Trunks and Goten brought more animals in here again?" Bulma shook her head, even though the other woman couldn't see her in the dark. "No. These things were big. Just as big as me! Even the boys know not to bring things like THAT into this house." ChiChi yawned and felt around until she found her robe, which she wrapped around herself before heading for the door. "Ok. Lets go see if we can find out what exactly has invaded this place…" Bulma nodded and followed close behind the other woman, her eyes darting around the dark hallways of Capsule Corp.

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Vegeta slowly made her way into another room, her hand running across the wall to keep her on track. "Where are those stupid stairs?!" she growled, pausing when she didn't hear a dimwitted response from the other Saiyajin. The princess blinked and turned around, walking back the way she had came. "Kakarotto?" Silence. Vegeta's spine tingled as the reality of the situation hit her at full force. She was alone, in the dark, and there was an evil clown after her. The Saiyajin's eyes widened as the stairs, which were in the opposite direction she had been traveling, began to creak. "It's…. It's coming…" she squeaked, slowly backing away. She finally turned around and bolted, running face first into the wall she had been backed against.

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ChiChi and Bulma each stiffened as a loud noise reached their ears. "What was that?" Bulma whispered, clutching onto the back of the other woman's robe. ChiChi listened from another moment, hearing nothing but the sound of rain hitting the windows. "It sounded like something running into the wall… But I don't hear it anymore. It may have just been the wind…" Bulma, who wasn't completely satisfied with the answer, nodded and continued walking behind the dark haired woman, careful not to fall behind as they started their journey through the dark rooms of Capsule Corp.

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Goku mumbled in annoyance as she ran into another wall, rubbing her nose in pain. "Geez! Vegeta, how are you keeping from running into the walls?" the annoyed Saiyajin asked, spinning around, fully expecting to see the other woman right behind her. Goku gasped when she saw nothing, panic fully sweeping over her. "Vegeta?!" The Saiyajin retraced her steps, careful to avoid the steps that involved running into a wall. "Vegeta?" she whispered again, feeling around in the dark. Goku screamed in horror as she tripped over something, falling onto the floor with a thud. She blinked and sat up, glancing back at the large object that had been in her path. The Saiyajin squinted and poked the object, noticing that it didn't move at all. Suddenly, the flash of lightning lit the room for a few seconds, revealing an unconscious Vegeta. Goku, thinking the clown had killed the princess, began screaming in horror, unable to move.



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ChiChi and Bulma spun around at the sound of screaming, their eyes wide with fright. "Is… Is that Goku?" ChiChi asked as the scream finally died down, leaving the two women standing in an eerie silence, with the exception of the sounds the raging storm produced. Bulma gasped. "What if she's being attack by the same creatures that attacked me?!" ChiChi gasped as well, bolting in the direction the scream had come from. "We have to help her then! Lets go!" "Right!" the blue haired woman cried, running off as well. ChiChi paused and looked back at Bulma, who was currently taking off in the opposite direction. "Um… She's this way…" The blue haired woman paused and snapped her fingers before joining ChiChi, chuckling nervously. "Of course…"

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Goku's head snapped up as two figures ran into the room, each breathing heavily. The Saiyajin's eyes narrowed angrily, believing these two figures to be the clowns that had killed Vegeta. The woman forgot her fears and jumped up, lunging for the two shadowed figures. "DIE, EVIL CLOWNS!" ChiChi and Bulma blinked and looked at each other. "Goku? Clowns? Where?!" They both screamed in horror as they were both tackled.

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A few minutes later, Vegeta slowly sat up, rubbing her head in the hopes that the dull throbbing pain in her forehead would fade. As she became more aware of her surroundings, the princess realized that a fight was going on in the same room. Fearing that Kakarotto was being attack by the clown, the Saiyajin quickly grabbed hold of a flashlight that she'd had with her the entire time. Vegeta quickly flicked it on, gasping at what she discovered.

ChiChi and Bulma were both currently fighting each other. Each woman was kicking, punching, scratching, and biting at the other, occasionally shouting something about a rabid animal. The two women stopped suddenly as the flashlight shone on them, each blinking in confusion. ChiChi let go of the other woman's hair and lowered her fist. "Bulma?!" The blue haired woman stopped biting ChiChi's arm and rubbed her hair. "Wha….Where's the rabid animal that attacked us?!" The two watched as Vegeta shone the flashlight in another direction, casting light upon Goku, who was currently fighting…. herself. The Saiyajin was rolling around on the floor with her own hands wrapped around her neck, strangling herself. "Die…ack!" she choked out, slamming her head into the wall repeatedly. "GOKU!!" ChiChi cried. The woman slowed her attack on herself, finally stopping after one final head slam. She blinked and looked at Vegeta, ChiChi, and Bulma, who were staring blankly at her, their mouths hanging open ever so slightly. Realizing that she still couldn't breathe very well, the Saiyajin attempted to reach up and pry the offending hands off her neck, gasping when nothing happened. "MY ARMS ARE GONE!!" she cried. Vegeta rolled her eyes and stormed over to the other Saiyajin, pulling Goku's hands off her throat. "BAKA!" she shouted, whacking her upside the head with the flashlight. Goku blinked and looked at Vegeta, her eyes narrowing. "You…you were dead! ZOMBIE!!" Vegeta once again whacked the other Saiyajin with the flashlight. "You moron! I was never dead! I ran into the wall and knocked myself out!" The princess paused when she heard muffled snickers coming from ChiChi and Bulma, her face turning red as she spun around to face them. "AND I MEANT TO DO IT TOO!!"

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After a lot of explaining, the group finally figured out that there had never been any rabid animals in the house… besides Goku. "But wait!" Vegeta cried. "Who's shadow was that on my wall, and who did me and Kakarotto see outside?" Everyone looked at each other, unable to come up with a reasonable explanation for the strange sightings.

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Roshi ran around the large building, ranting about being soaked to the bone. "Why won't anyone let me in?! I know those Saiyajins saw me when I was at the kitchen window!" The old man pressed his face against another window, seeing nothing. "Ah well. At least the storm broke that tree branch I was still hanging from…" Roshi peered into another window, spotting Bulma, ChiChi, Goku, and Vegeta sitting on the floor, talking about something. He began waving his arms in an attempt to get their attention.

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Goku blinked as some movement in the corner of her eye caught her attention. She slowly turned toward the window, her eyes narrowing as she spotted the clown outside, waving its arms at her. "THERE IT IS!!" she screamed, pointing in horror. Everyone else turned toward the window as well, each screaming in horror once they had seen what Goku was referring to. Without even thinking about it, Vegeta powered up and sent a huge energy blast toward the clown, shattering the window and launching the creature into the sky, where it disappeared into the storm.

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HEHE!! This is a bit longer than the last chapters… I think. It may seem a bit choppy, but it must be better than nothing, eh? That'll learn Roshi not to go looking into people's windows. Well, I'm gonna try to start bringing this fic to a close, so be on the lookout for the next chapter!