The Princess and the Outlaw

by Chibi Makoto

AN: Well, well, here's the next part! ^^ I hope that this will be a little bit longer than the last but I'm not promising anything here. Here we go....



Disclaimer ~ I do not own DBZ or DBGT.

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A lower class guard was soon running as fast as he could down the many halls of the palace. Panting for his breath but not slowing down any, he finally made it to where he was headed. He burst threw the main palace doors where a meeting was being held by the King.
"Your highness!" he panted and bowed down slightly, "Th...the...princess!"

"What? How dare you interrupt this meeting like this! What about my daughter?" The King questioned.

"She...she ran away from the royal guards watching her. Somehow she ended up with 17, he's escaped and he has her held hostage, sir."

"Escaped?! What?!" The King yelled standing up quickly, "How did this Happen?! I want them captured, NOW! Make sure that my daughter does not get harmed or lives will be at stake!" The King said, then headed out and into the transport area to get an explanation for this chaotic news, the lower class guard in tow.

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Seeing that they had a head start from the Vegitasei guards, 17 put the ship on autopilot setting it to still fly at full speed.

"You know it won't take long for them to catch up to us," a voice spoke behind him.
"Oh really? We'll just have to see about that Princess," 17 said, smirking.

"Once my father hears about this, about how you took me hostage, he'll hunt you down and kill you himself," she said.

17 just chuckled at her as he walked over in her direction.

"You'll see. I might even feel sorry for you once we are captured," she said glancing over at the control panel.

"Don't get any idea's there Princess," 17 said following her gaze, "If you feel like trying to take over the ship, you better think twice, first you have to know how to operate it, and then hack through my codes that I've put into the system. Good luck."

He then left to go explore the ship and look for some food, leaving the Princess behind.
She watched as he left the control room and crossed her arms over her chest. I can't believe this guy. I have to get out of this...but how? She sighed to herself and flopped down in one of the nearby chairs.

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"Your highest," the guard said bowing down to the King who stood in front of him. "We're doing as much as we can to track down that ship that they're on. We should be able to find them soon...The Elite has left also, heading in the direction that they left in."

"Soon? I want you to find them NOW! I do not want my daughter harmed by that damned outlaw! Who is responsible for letting her go unattended? Bring them to me now!" the King shouted.

"Yes your majesty," the guard said bowing timidly and running off.

A few minutes later the guard that was assuring the King, had appeared again with two other guards who had walked in with him. The two guards bowed down and knelt in front of him. Not daring to look up at their King.

"So...you two are the reason why my daughter is out there now," he said, in more of a statement than a question.

"Y-yes...your highest...." they both answered slowly with fear on the tip of their words, still no daring to look up at all.

The King sat there for a minute, staring at the two pathetic beings in front of him. A murderous glint flashed in his eyes and he then held out his hand quickly powering up, sending a strong blast towards the two guards that knelt before him. They didn't have time to move or even protest. In a matter of seconds all that was left of them was dust and ash.

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It had been at least a couple of hours or so. Just sitting there soaring threw endless space. Bra had no idea where they were planning on going. She just hoped that he father had sent out the Vegitasei Royal Warrior Elite after them already.

She sighed to herself, while still sitting in the big pilot seat of the ship. She leaned forward resting her elbows on the desk like control panel in front of her, and resting her head in her hands. She still had no idea on how to get out of this.

She looked out the window in front of her. All she could see were endless stars that were so far away. Every now and then they would pass by a planet that you could see from their distance. 17 didn't want the ship to be picked up by any other radar so he had the ship stay far away from the passing planets.

Just then the ship shook a little. "What the-" Bra grabbed onto the edge of her seat. She hated when ships did that. It had hit a little patch of a turbulence air pocket. Just then the ship decided to do it again. This time a lot rougher. Bra tried to stay steady but was thrown forward and into the control panel. Her upper body landed on top of it, making the ship fly off in another direction, while a big "WARNING" alert in red flashed over the screens. 17 had been bluffing the whole time about some "secret code" he said he put on it. Panicking Bra quickly got up and off of the control panel.

"Ooh! No!" she shouted at it, pushing a couple button's here and there trying to set things straight again. She didn't know how to fly a ship. She tried to set everything all back to normal but it wasn't working.

She could hear approaching footsteps coming in from the other end of the ship.

She looked out the window in front of her and screamed as she saw a big asteroid in front of them. They were going to crash if something didn't happen quickly, and soon!

"What the hell did you do?!" she heard 17 scream at her.

Looking out of the front window also, he quickly pushed her, not so gently, out of the way and tried to get the ship to turn away from the big approaching rock they were about to smash into. The ship made a quick turn but it wasn't good enough. One side of the ship scrapped up against the giant rock making some more "WARNING" signs flash.

Some more big red letters soon came across the screen telling them that one of the wings was damaged.

"Just great..." 17 said, "You just had to see if you could try and fly back home didn't you?"

"What?! No, no! I didn't do that. We hit that big turbulence air and it threw me up into the control panel," Bra said truthfully.

"Right, that's a nice story there, Princess," he said sneering.

"I'm telling you the truth! Hey! Let go of me-"

17 had walked over to her and grabbed one of her arms.

"We have to land now because of you, and get that wing repaired. It shouldn't take that long but I'm not taking anymore chances of you trying to escape or do anything else that will kill us," he said while pushing her down in some nearby chair.

She landed in it not so softly, as he grabbed her hands and tied them up to the chair, then looped it around her stomach area, and tightening it down.

"I'm telling you the TRUTH! How dare you tie me up like some criminal! Let me go now!" she screamed at him struggling against the ropes the whole time. She screamed and kicked her feet, but the only luck that she got was almost kicking him right in the face. Other than that, she couldn't get the ropes to become any looser around her.

"Well see about letting you loose later Princess," he said walking away from her and back to the control panel of the ship. They would be approaching a nearby planet soon that might be able to help them mend up the wing of the ship. That is if they would be able to land the thing...

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AN: There you have it! I'm glad that it didn't take me like a month to write this next part. x_x; haha. But I just did start college and I'm way behind on my studying. .; Ugh...I really don't want to study. My birthday is today though (Sept 16th). ^^ Well I hope that I'll get to the next part maybe soon. We'll have to see about that. Oh yeah and sorry if this story is starting to go down hill....I still think it's going that way, but maybe it'll come back up later? heh. ^^ See ya! ~ Makoto