A Princess in America Chapter 1, a Sailor Moon + NCIS Crossover fanfic

"A Princess in America."

An NCIS-Crossover with Sailormoon.

Kellybug

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This story is Part 2 of a Series, "What you do for Family", in reference to Jethro Gibbs' unwritten rule : You do what you do for family.

The "Kathryn" spoken of in this chapter is Kathryn Pryde, "Shadowcat" of the X-men, last seen in the story, "Cousin Jethro". If you haven't read that story, please feel free to do so! It not required-reading, but ... :)

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Hotaru Tomoe - alias Sailorsatern - rushes into Autopsy, leaving a concerned Jethro Gibbs and the cursing ghost of Mike Franks.

It was 0600 when Leroy Jethro Gibbs walked into NCIS-Headquarters in the Naval Yard in Washington. Usually, he was the first person in the office. This morning, however, he was met, or hailed, by Director Leon Vance:

"Gibbs!" The Director called from the second floor. "The Conference Room, now! This might be urgent!"

Gibbs came up the stairs in double-time.

"'Might be', Leon?" Gibbs asked.

Director Vance lead Gibbs to the Conference Room where a young girl lay curled up in a corner of the floor, wrapped in two golden streamers of hair and softly sobbing.

"You tell me, Gibbs! I woke up early this morning from a strange dream, about 0400. A woman with a hair-do just like that girl's told me I had to get to work, early! After calling the kid's nanny, I came here, and found this girl curled up against the door, shivering and asking for you! She's been through hell, Jethro. Know her?"

Gibbs looked sternly at the small blonde in the twin buns and pigtails. The bruises he could see had grown blue with age, and it looked as if there were cuts to her chin and over her eyes.

"Usagi?" Gibbs gently called out, lightly shaking her. "Usagi! What happened?"

Slowly, Usagi stirred, painfully opening her eyes.

"Itai.." she whimpered, as she tried to focus her eyes to the light. "Jethro-haku?"

Usagi tried to lift herself up, only to wince at the pain.

"Goshinpainaku, Usagi-chan!" Gibbs whispered, being as gentle as he could be with her as he took her in his arms. "I wish Duckie were here, Leon!"

"He's down in Autopsy, Gibbs." Director Vance spoke in a low tone. "He got here the same time I did.. I'll let him know you're coming down."

"Thank you, Leon." Gibbs whispered as he gently picked Usagi up. "Who did this, Usagi?"

"My.. friends.." The young girl gently whimpered. "Senshi.. I thought.. they were..."

"Don't talk, Usagi," Gibbs said as he walked to the elevator. "Save your strength."

"Is this going to be like Kathryn, Gibbs?" Leon asked.

"Worse, Sir!" Gibbs responded as he carried Usagi into the elevator. "Kathryn knew who she was dealing with for a year!"

As Gibbs rode the elevator down to Autopsy, Donald "Duckie" Mallard was waiting for them:

"Put her on the table, Jethro!" Duckie said. "Autopsy may not be the MOST-PROPER of medical-facilities. But? It will do for a MASH-unit! We'll do what we can, here, your Highness, then we'll see about sending you to Bethesda."

Gibbs looked intently at his Medical Examiner. "Okay, Duckie, spill it, how do you know Usagi is a Princess?"

"My godchild told me, Jethro," Duckie pointed to a blue-haired girl laying on a second examining-table, wrapped in scrubs, "right before she collapsed from exhaustion. Helped along, I have no doubt, by her own wounds." Dr. Donald "Duckie" Mallard than started to examine Usagi.

"My poor girl.. what have they done to you?"

After a thorough examination - aided by Gibbs - Ducky recapped the findings to his friend and Superior:

"Well? The good news is that Ms. Tsukino is alive, and I'd consider that a miracle! I found several abbrations on her hands and arms, and burns on her arms, legs, and torso. With electrical-burns to her ankles, knees, wrists, and breasts. I also found cuts and slashes to her head and shoulders, many with metallic flakes in them. I could hazard a guess as to what they are, but I'd rather have Abbie run an analysis to be sure. I also found what looks like salt crystals in a few of the deeper wounds. And, Usagi's skin, as well as her clothing, seems to have been covered .. in ice!"

"'In ICE', Duckie?" Jethro asked, wide-eyed, before turning a suspicious glance to the blue-haired girl.

"Yes, Jethro, 'in ice'. Actually, from the uniformity of the contact-area, 'encased' would be a better word. And, Jethro? Just to let you
know a fuller-version of the story, my god-child suffered similar-wounds.. albeit on a only-slightly-lesser-scale. And, no encasement in ice."
Duckie then turned to his still-sleeping god-daughter. "Jethro? May I present Amelia Elena Seraphina Snape-Mizuno! Alias Princess Ami of
Mercury.. alias Sailormercury."

"Usagi wrote me about the Senshi." Gibbs answered. "Said she felt she had to tell someone. Any idea why Sailormercury had to freeze my
god-daughter?"

"A pretty good idea, Jethro." Ducky headed to an x-ray. "Ms. Tsukino's wounds to the head seems to have lead to bleeding in the cranial
cavity, if these dark spots are any indication. I will hazard a guess, this time, and say that.."

"Usagi's brain was swelling." Gibbs answered slowly.

"That's what it souunds like to me, Gibbs!" Director Vance said, walking into the room. "How are the girls?"

"Breathing." Dr. Mallard turned to Director Vance. "And in surprisingly good shape.. for surviving an ambush."

"I called in Ms. Schiutto," Leon said. "I'll get any trace you've got to her."

"Thank you, Leon." Gibbs and Duckie answered the Director.

"What are we going to do, Jethro?" Ducky asked after the Director left autopsy.

"Once they wake up?" Gibbs answered his ME and friend, "I'm going to ask them - out of formality - who ambushed them. Because, Duck, I think
we both know who did it."

"Too true, Jethro." Ducky sighed as he looked at hid god-daughter. "And, then what? I don't suppose.. they'll come in, willingly?"

"Oh, they'll come, Ducky." Jethro grinned mercilessly. "Willingly, or not, they'll come in!"

Gibbs then answered his cell-phone. "Yeah, DiNozzo! What's up?" A few seconds later, Gibbs responded. "Alright. I'll be up." He turned off
his cell and then turned back to Ducky:

"DiMozzo says there's something upstairs I should see, Ducky." Gibbs checked his service-weapon. "And, he sounded a bit tense over the phone!"

"One of the Senshi?" Ducky looked into Gibbs' eyes. "Come to finish what they started?"

"For their sakes," Gibbs growled as he walked of the door, "I hope not!"

As soon as Jethro re-entered the bullpen, he turned his head to see his three field-agents - Anthony DiNozzo, Timothy Magee, and Eleonore
Bishop - standing as still as statues with their backs to the side wall - and staring into the far-corner of the bullpen. Gibbs let his gaze travel
back towards that corner, and his eyes rested upon a small girl with neck-length dark hair and a modified Japanese-schoolgirl's uniform with a
purple skirt and boots, and holding a polearm of some kind. She was staring intently at the agents.

"Ah.. hey, boss." DiNozzo spoke quietly, not moving his head, "we have a visitor."

"I see, DiNozzo." Gibbs answered. "I'm gonna need some more coffee."

The young girl in the corner pointed the polearm to the nearest desk. "I thought you may need some, Gibbs-Sensei." She bowed slightly, then
returned her gaze to the three agents against the wall.

"Ah, Boss?" McGee asked, "Who is..?"

"You're Usagi's Rear-Guard?" Gibbs asked the small girl.

"Hai." The girl in purple answered.

"Usagi!" Dinozzo said catching his breath. "What is she doing here?"

"Who's Usagi?" McGee and Bishop asked, simultaneously, suddenly looking at DiNozzo.

"Gibbs' god-daughter, Tsukino Usagi!" Tony answered. "But, what's she doing in DC? On this short a notice?"

"Rear-guard." Gibbs eyed the young girl with - he could see, now - voilet eyes. "And, you are..?"

"She's my god-daughter, Probie!" A ghost materialized at Gibbs' nine o'clock, just across the desk and out of sight of the agents. "And, the main
reason Tsukino and Mizuno were able to get on a plane at Tokyo, and get here, alive!"

The small girl nodded to her god-father and smiled. "Watachi-wa Tomoe Hotaru, Gibbs-Sensei!"

"She's Mike's god-daughter!" Gibbs annonced to the three agents still against the wall.

"Mike Frank's god-daughter?" McGee asked. "What's Frank's god-daughter doing in DC?"

"What is Usagi doing in DC?" Tony repeated in a low thoughtful voice.

"Wait a minute!" Bishop spoke. "Back up a bit. Who is Mike Franks? I remember the name from somwhere! But where?"

"Senior Field-Agent CIS when Gibbs was Probationary." McGee replied. "You have a god-daughter, Boss? Here?"

"Down in Autopsy, McGee, resting under Duckie's watchful eyes!" Gibbs answered.

"Why is she resting in Autopsy, Boss?" Tony cast a worried glance to Gibbs.

"Usagi and Duck's god-daughter, Ami Mizuno, were caught in an ambush in Tokyo, Tony!" Gibbs answered his Senior Field-Agent. "And? Usagi got the worst
of it. But? Somehow, both girls were stabilized enough to board a plane and make it here to DC. Don't ask me how. Now? We're just waiting to see if we
can't get her to Bethesda."

"That may not be the best call to make, Agent Gibbs!" A woman walked into the bullpen with a definite Middle-Eastern accent.

Tony, Tim, and Eleanor looked, with shocked expressions, toward the door:

"Ziva?"

"What do you mean that sending Usagi and Ami to Bethesda might not be a good idea, David?" Gibbs asked, Already guessing why.

"Because I saw the Sailorsenshi, at least two of them, as I was leaving Dulles." former liaison-officer Ziva David answered her friend and former-boss.
"If Usagi is here, then there is little doubt they will be here, shortly."

"Shalom, Ms. David!" Agent Bishop extended her hand.

"Shalom, Agent Bishop" Ziva took Ellie's hand. "How are you adjusting to the family? Doing well, I hope?"

"OK, David!" Gibbs asked as he offered Ziva a cup of coffee, "How did you find out that Usagi and the Senshi were coming here?"

"I was in Athens, two nights ago," Ziva stated," when I had a dream. I was talking - with - my father, and Ari. I have been doing that, alot, since leaving
NCIS and trying to hunt-down my father's assassins. Anyway.. father and Ari warned me that I needed to return to Washington. When I got on the early-connection
at Heathrow, I saw that the majority of the Sailorsenshi were on the same flight. Except for their leader and two others. There was also a young man with the
group."

Gibbs just nodded his head, then nodded toward Sailorsaturn.

"Pardon me, Ziva?" Tim asked. "But, how does Mossad know about the Sailorsenshi?"

"Mossad has had these 'Sailorsenshi' on our watch-lists for some time!" Ziva answered calmly. "While they have not proved a threat to anyone, yet, the Israeli
government wants to know who enters the world stage, and why! And? Since they are of interest to Japan.. and Russia, for a reason known only to the Russians..
they are of an interest to Israel!"

"Well? That settles it!" Tony grimaced, "We can't make it to Bethesda! And, we probably can't set up a perimeter around here in time to stop an assault."

"Do we even know what the Sailorsenshi look like?" Timothy asked.

"By the time we get pictoral-confirmation ot the Sailorsenshi," Bishop groused, "it might be too late."

Gibbs pulled out his wallet. "Here's a picture of Usagi and four of her friends, McGee! The blue-haired girl is Mizuno Ami, Duckie's godchild, Sailormercury! The blonde in the buns and streamers is Usagi. Count everyone else in that photo as a hostile! Scan it, blow it up, and send the pictures to the guard-posts!"

"On it, boss" Tim responded. "Hmm.. I only count four 'bogies', here, three young women and s young man. Aren't there other Sailorsenshi that we should be worried about?"

"Here you are, Agent McGee!" Sailorsaturn pulled a photo from inside her uniform. "The three remaining 'bogies', as you say! My adopted-family."

"'Adopted-Family'?" McGee asked, wide-eyed.

"McGee!" Gibbs ordered. "Get those pictures blown up and out to the guards, now! Question her, afterwards!"

"Right away, boss!" McGee asnwered crisply.

"Where are Tsukino-San and Mizuno-chan, now?" Hotaru turned to Gibbs.

"Still in Autopsy, I'm guessing," Gibbs answered "since we can't get them to Bethesda."

"Take me to Autopsy, gomennissai!" The little girl bowed as the glaive disappeared.

"As you wish!" Gibbs said, showing Hotaru to the elavator.

As Gibbs and Sailorsaturn exited the elevator to Autopsy, the ghost of Mike Franks met them on their side of the Autopsy-door:

"What is Hotaru doin' here. Probie?" Mike growled.

"You tell me, Mike." Gibbs growled back at the ghost. "She asked me where Usagi was. I told her, and she asked me to bring her down here!"

"You should be restin', Darlin'." Mike turned his eyes to his God-daughter. "Ami and Duckie are watching over Usagi. So are Ms. Sciutto
and Mr. Palmer. Usagi's in good hands! All she needs is time to rest."

"Time is against us, Frank-Daifu!" Hotaro said in an aggravated-tone. "Senshi were spotted in D.C.!"

"Damned bloodhounds!" Mike snapped out. "I guess they're half-way here, now! Well? You don't need my permission to get! So? GO!"

Mike's ghost was silently cursing as Hotaru rushed through the door, and Gibbs kept his eyes steadily on Autopsy.