Trapped

Disclaimer: I do NOT own DragonballZ or any of the characters.

AN: Sorry that the other chapters were so short...I promise to make these ones longer. I just haven't had the time to write longer ones. Well, on with the story! ^_^

Vegeta wasn't doing any better with the dirt. He couldn't believe it. After all, it was JUST dirt...wasn't it? He went up level by level and quite frankly he was fed up with it all. He was in a middle of what looked like an old ball room when he finally lost it. "That's IT! I'm not going on with this...it's ridiculous!" He screamed out in rage. "No more!" Was his final demand for freedom as he fired a huge ki blast straight up and flew into it untouched by the rubble.

When the dust cleared he looked around and to his complete astonishment he was in the room he was in before. Not the ball room...but the one below it. "What the hell..." He said as he looked around. It was the same. 'No, this isn't happening,' He thought. All of this baffled him to no end. First it was the dirt. Sure, he could deal with that, but now this?! He sighed and walked around the room, checking to see if he was missing something.

"Vegeta," A voice that made his skin ripple in disgust. He whirled around to come face to face with...with...Freezia. He took a shaky step backwards and looked at Freezia with pure disgust. "Well, isn't this a surprise. How rude of you to invite yourself..we'll just have to fix that now won't we?" Freezia said steadily and coldly. Vegeta was outraged. He thought Kakkarot killed this bastard! Vegeta calmed himself and said cooly, "Hn." And with that one simple word he crossed his arms and looked at the changeling with such utter superior and calmness that Freezia wasn't sure what to make of Vegeta any more.

"You want me? Come and get me," Vegeta said boldly. Freezia smirked and then vanished. Vegeta waited for him to show himself once more but nothing came. He stood there for a couple of long, tense moments watching...waiting. Everything was completely quite and cold. Vegeta didn't let down his guard but watched as a wall to his right opened. He snapped his head to the side, still tense. He took a step towards the opening and peered in. Utter blackness was all that could be seen. He reached out tentatively and made sure nothing was there before stepping into the cold, empty dark.

He walked for quite a while his hands running absently along the walls in attempt to find something to his advantage. He saw the dimmest of light ahead and found a fork in the clammy, dark tunnel. Naturally, he turned toward the light hoping for it to lead him out of this hellish place. He finally was emerged into the light as he saw it was a room made of all glass with flowers all around, and in the center stood a bed fit for royalty and sitting on it was Goku. "Kakkarot?" He said softly. Relief came in that one moment of need and want as Goku looked up at Vegeta and smiled with tenderness. "I-I...what's going on?" He questioned Goku as he approached the bed. He could see outside..no more clammy dark or the feeling of being trapped.

Everything in this room was beautiful. It was like a fairytale. A waterfall in the far corner, trees scattered about and potent flowers every where. Goku stood and just smiled at Vegeta, giving no answer what so ever. Finally Vegeta didn't care anymore. This whole thing was way out of whack and he was tired of it. He let down his guard and smirked. Not a mockery kind of smirk, but one that expressed relief and joy. He walked to his counterpart but before he reached him everything disappeared. Everything as in the bed, the waterfall the room and his Kakkarot. It was just him, quiet, and gray nothing. There was absolutely nothing left but Vegeta. He stopped walking and looked wild eyed at where he was. There was no boundaries, no color, no smell, no nothing. It was just him and the bleak silence.

Vegeta sank to his knees and held his head in his hands. He had finally thought that this nightmare was over when everything that he could want was gone. He was right back to where he started. Confused, dazed, sad, mad, and in utter distress. "This is too much. Damn this all to hell!" He screamed as it echoed back to him and then he was left in the quite despair once again. He fell onto his back and closed his eyes in defeat. "There is no way out. I am trapped. I hope you get out Kakkarot...I love you."

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Goku found himself in once more an unknown place. It was really starting to bother him, not make him worry. It was just annoying. One minute he would be in a peaceful place and the next in a deadly fire, or storm or something ridiculous like that. Unbelievable. "So, what have we got here?" He said calmly. All of the blurring and colors mixing made him want to puke, but after a while all he had to do was picture that Vegeta was standing beside him and everything seemed a little more bearable. He was so calm and kept his head held high in the midst of horror, and just knowing that Vegeta was brave and would come face to face with what ever came his way made Goku see things..differently. "Oh 'Geta...I certainly hope you're doing better than what I am. I can't find out anything. The only thing I know is that I have to go forward to go back...but even that I don't understand," He said softly. He longed for Vegeta to stand beside him and tell him that things would be okay, and that he would make it through this, but he wasn't here with him. He was all alone, and Vegeta probably wasn't even thinking about him right now.

Everything that Goku once had, made him long to be back home. Back where things were usually peaceful and everything would be okay. Home, where all of his friends used to be, and his sons were. But oh no, he had to be stuck in some time warp thing that quite frankly was making him wish that he could just blow the whole damn thing up. Yet again, he was in another blizzard with ice and the whole works. He sat getting a coat out of the bag that the old lady gave to him and slipping it on. He mused over what she said about going forward to go back. "If I want to go back, I have to go forward. What could that mean?" He said aloud as he blurred away once more. Again that picture of Vegeta standing proud with that tempting smirk on his lips came into his mind and he appeared on a beach. He opened his eyes and sighed. "This is where I'd like to stay instead of vanishing again..." He said under his breath. Out of no where a flash of dark light invaded his vision, and he was expecting to blur away once more, but he still sat on the beach. "Well..what was that?" He questioned. At this point he really didn't mind it, and sat thinking.

Goku decided that he would do anything that he thought of if he could just go back to his time and...planet. That was another thing that he wasn't sure of. Was he on a different planet than Earth? Or was this Earth 200 years ago? He had no clue, but anything that came to mind and seemed reasonable he would try. He looked out over the ocean and into the setting sun and a warmth washed over him. Suddenly something clicked in his mind. "Wait a second...shouldn't I have gone somewhere else by now? Let me see...it's usually every 10 minuets or so...and it's been about a half an hour..." He trailed off as he thought of something. 'Is it because I said that I wanted to stay here that I haven't gone into another place? Must have been...' He thought to himself. Sighing contentedly he laid back on his pack and looked into the sky. The colors were so beautiful. He'd never seen them so clearly and brightly before. "Well, I might as well set up camp...I think that I'll finally be able to sleep," He said softly to himself.

He set about gathering sticks for a fire, wood and rocks for a home, and water for the night. Goku smiled victoriously to himself as he looked upon his temporary house. "Well, it may be a little rough, but it'll certainly do," He said aloud, very pleased with himself. Stepping into the cabin he put all of his things in the pack around the one room house. After a while it looked like he had himself something to look forward to if things went as bad as they had been. He smiled to himself when his stomach rumbled loudly in protest of him not eating in a while. Goku looked down shamelessly and said, "Looks like it's time for dinner!" With that he took off his shirt and went out into the ocean water. "Ch...cold!" He said as he eased himself in to the water. After getting used to it a bit, the tall sayjin swam out into the depths of the ocean blue with just enough light left to see underwater. Goku caught about 6 huge fish when he was sure that it would be enough to hold him over until breakfast.

After letting his catches cook and he ate to his hearts content he put out the fire and headed in, still thinking of his Prince. After changing into the pj's that the pack had, he was laying down in bed and the last words out of his mouth were, "Vegeta, I love you," And then he drifted off into the land where reality didn't matter and his desires were fulfilled.

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TBC...sooo...do you like? I was having so many thoughts run through my head when I was writing this about what to do...finally decided on this. Will Vegeta get out of the emptiness and find a way out of his misery? Will Goku have the luck and find his way to Vegeta? OR...will they both die trying? Please review...you'll find out that I update faster. Give me suggestions on what you think should happen and if you think that I should throw Trunks and Goten into his mess as well. THANKS!