SMST: Journey to Adventure! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: None of the aforementioned characters belong to me.
Note: This is a multi-genre story.
Special Note: This story takes place during the events depicted in "SMST: Hero Initiative" (circa 2008-2009 CE).
Author's note: Anything related to space, time and alternate realities, with Sailor Moon as the central figure, will be depicted in THIS story.
Part One
When understanding "Time", one must view it as infinite layered "helix". Each strand represents a timeline; what is, what was, and what to come. And each helix represents a universe, and there are an infinite number of universes "coiled" within another helix and so forth. Essentially, each "layer" represents a "dimension" (as in the "3-D" sense), numbering one through eleven, with the eleventh being the highest level. Presumably, no one knows what is in the "eleventh" dimension, but it is assumed that this represents "The Source of All Creation", or simply "The Source". Those that manage to go to The Source tend to not come back, while those that do tend to change in a fundamental way.
With TWO exceptions…
Year: 2008 CE.
"Ranma, come back here!" Usagi says, as she chased after her husband about their home's spacious backyard in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the United States. With their children in Hokkaido, Japan, the Saotomes can be more of themselves. And with that in mind, they can use their alternate names of "Ronnie" and "Serena" respectively while in America, although their REAL names were not much of a secret around Stargate Command.
Ranma turns his head to look back at his wife, while he stuck out his tongue.
"Biiiiiiiii!" Ranma says with glee. "I told you…I have a 'headache'."
"Ah, come on!" Usagi replies. "You can't deny me what I WANT."
With that, Usagi increases her energy levels, which invoke a familiar transformation.
FWOOSH!
Usagi's hair turns platinum blond, and gets slightly spiky while one of her eyes turn green, while the other turns purple. The purple eye was a left over from when the entity known as Cell tried to absorb Usagi during his war against the so-called "Z Warriors" of Chikyuu, sometime in the early 2200s. Due to her own "xenomorphic" genetic structure, caused due to an earlier adventure, Usagi gained the traits of the Z Warriors—much to the chagrin of Vegeta, the Prince of all the Saiyans—and four hard-core super-villains besides Cell. That's why it is very difficult to kill Usagi to this day. As long as but one drop of Usagi's blood exists, Usagi will come back.
She always does…
Ranma notices his wife's transformation into a "Super-Saiyan".
"Huh, you're going to cheat, huh?" Ranma smirks. "Okay, TWO can play it your way. SHARINGAN."
DOOM!
Ranma's eyes turn red with three tomoe marks, thanks to his heritage as branch member of the defunct Uchiha clan.
"Catch me if you can!"
Usagi growled, as she tried to go after her husband. However, she knew that catching her husband would be a bit more difficult, do to Ranma's uncanny reflexes, coupled with various training methods. She would have to go up to the third level of her Super-Saiyan form…
FWOOM-FWOOM!
Now, Usagi's hair went "super long" AND spiky, she grew muscular (though not by much), and she was now eyebrow-less.
"Now, I got you!" Usagi says, as she was about to grab her husband-
"Sharingan Mangekyo no Susanoo!" Ranma yelled, as his tomoe marks formed a black swirl. Bioelectricity arced across his body…
BOOM!
Ranma ran around, deftly dodging Usagi's advances. His entire chakra networked seemingly hummed, as Ranma "mainlined" his personal power. Unlike the Hidden Lotus technique, a taijutsu that enhances one's physical abilities to the point of death, Ranma was now stronger, faster and tougher without the fear of death.
"Grrrrrr!" Usagi growls. "I'm not done with you! Yaaaaaaah-!"
CHOOM!
Usagi began to grow a blond tail, as her overall body hair grew to a reddish fur. The hair on her head returned to its normal blond hue, while red eyeliner forms around her eyes. Her muscular structure increased slightly as well.
And then, Usagi pounced on her husband.
BOOM!
Ranma and Usagi "danced" around each other, nearly causing an atmospheric disturbance. Thankfully, their "backyard" consisted of a thousand acres of woods and open space.
Finally, after an extended period of stalemating each other, Ranma decided to relent to his wife's desires.
"HOLD!" Ranma says, as he formed the letter "T" with his hands. "Okay, you win."
Usagi growled a bit before grinning.
"Good," Usagi replies, as she ripped off her and Ranma's clothes in one move. "And you WILL perform in your present stage."
"Eeep!" Ranma says, as Usagi, still in her SS4 form, pounced…
Hours later, Ranma woke up to see a now normal Usagi looking at him.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing," Usagi says with a smile. "You know, I like 'training' in this manner."
"Well…so do I," Ranma says. "It's very rare that we can let loose like this-"
FWOOMP! FWOOMP! FWOOMP! FWOOMP-!
The couple looks up to see a combat chopper landing not too far from them. A moment later SG1 team, led by Cameron Mitchell arrives.
"You see, Dan?" Mitchell begins to say. "I TOLD you that nothing was going on."
Dr. Daniel Jackson, who was the one who detected a powerful energy signature during Ranma and Usagi's "tryst", takes one look at her office mate.
"Huh, that's an interesting tattoo you have…THERE," Daniel smirked.
"Do you guys mind?" Usagi says, as she covered herself with her hands.
"S-sorry, my Princess," says Imperium Specialist Serene Tsuki, as she takes her jacket hand covers Usagi. Since there is an agreement between the Galactic Imperium and Homeworld Security, Serene acts as the Imperium's liaison as a military scientist, and has taken Sharon Carter's place on SG-1.
"You guys could have called," Ranma says.
"Right," Cameron says, as he hands Ranma a datapad. "You need to head for 'Area 51'."
"What?" Ranma replied. "Why?"
"General Landry has received word that the Ori are going to regroup in the Pegasus Galaxy, since the Ancients have made their presence known."
"Oh, well, vacation time is over, then."
Meanwhile, elsewhere…
"Oh, well, vacation is over then-"
"Freeze archive," says a female voice.
The image of the scene within the Time Gate ceases
Sailor Pluto sighs, as she looks at the Sun Prince and the Moon Princess. Watching their earlier tryst made the Warrior of Time long for the return for that special summer, when she had been involved with the both of them…
WRRR! WRRR! WRRR-!
Sailor Pluto sharply turns to her early warning system.
"Gate, localize the disturbance," Sailor Pluto commanded. Ever since the Black Moon Family went back in time to stop the Sailor Scouts, thanks to Wiseman and him tricking Rini into using the Time Key, the timeline has been fluid…perhaps to fluid. As well-intentioned as Rini was, her actions inadvertently led to the events that Sailor Pluto has been dealing with ever since…
"Let's see," Sailor Pluto says quietly, as she examines the disturbance. Then, her face went white.
"Oh, dear," Sailor Pluto says in dismay. "This…is going to hurt."
Year: 1999 CE.
BOOM!
John Connor takes cover…as yet another "Terminator" broke through the bank vault. He then turns to the other Terminator.
"What are we going to do?" John says to his mother Sarah.
Sarah gripped her gun. Thanks to THEIR Terminator, she now has an effective weapon to use against their pursuer. So while she was waiting for "Cameron" to activate the makeshift time capsule, she had to decide whether or not they should stay and fight.
"You have to decide," Cameron says.
Sarah nods her head, and turns to look at the Terminator, just as it enters the vault.
"NOW!" Sarah yelled, as she discharged her weapon.
FWOOOM!
Everything went white…
Year: 2003 CE.
An older John Connor, a young Ranma Saotome and his father Genma, their friendly Terminator and their companion Kate Brewster arrive at Skynet Central located at the Cheyenne Mountain facility. Somehow, Ranma's retinal and genetic markers, and fingerprints enabled him to get access to complex. And it was then that they were stop.
"Hold it!" Colonel Jack O'Neill says, as he and the security detail confronted Connor and his companions. Cheyenne Mountain housed a number of 'Black Ops' and known defense projects. Besides SkyNet Central, which was the actual computer system that was to operate NORAD, there was also Stargate SGC.
The Terminator, determined to fulfill his programming, was about to attack.
"No!" John yells, as he got in the way. "No more killing!"
"Your friend gives good advice," Jack says. "I'd take it."
The Terminator looks at the weapons that the possible opposition had. They were designed to injure even him, which is why those very weapons would be later used in the so-called "War of the Machine".
The Terminator looks at Kate Brewster.
"Your call."
"We…we should get these people's help," Kate says.
"Wait," Jack says. "Aren't you General Brewster's daughter?"
"Yes."
"Oh."
Jack then sees Young Ranma. He was told something like this was going to happen.
"You must be Ranma," Jack says.
"How do you know my son?" Genma asked.
"An old friend told me that you might come this way," Jack says. "In fact, it was he who told me what was going on…"
Elsewhere, in the central core of SkyNet, a pitched battle was taking place…
"I want my Momma!" Young Usagi cried, as she huddled in a corner, while Big Usagi fought a pitched battle against another, more advanced Terminator: the T-X.
FWAK!
Big Usagi threw a solid punch, denting the automaton's chaw.
"Try to kill ME, will you-!" Big Usagi says, as she continued to pound on the T-X. She wore a "phased" body suit so not to accidentally create a paradox upon physical contact with her younger self.
The T-X formed a blowtorch in her right arm.
FWOOSH!
"Gah!" Usagi says in surprise, as her suit burned.
The T-X then took aim at Young Usagi, as she let loose a plasma blast at Young Usagi.
"Aieeeeeeeee-!" Young Usagi screamed.
"No!" Big Usagi yelled, as she rushed to cover the girl with her body.
BAM! BAM!
Her body took the impact, but was not worse for wear.
The T-X formed a stabbed instrument from her remaining arm. She rushed to stab Big Usagi in the back, when-
ZAAAAAAAAAAP!
The first Terminator (a T-850, model 101) used the experimental electro tool, to inflict a strong, EMP at the other Terminator. Thankfully, the T-X was too badly damage to mount a proper resistance.
"You've been 'terminated'," The Terminator says with a near-smile.
"So, that stupid gun works after all," says Jack. "I'll thank the boys down in R&D…"
Big Usagi stands up with her younger, tired self in her arms.
"Look," Jack says, as he points out the fact that Big Usagi's skin was touching Youg Usagi's.
"What?"
"You're touching her."
"I know," Big Usagi says. "It's just dumb luck that I guess correctly that I've changed SO much over the years, that I am essentially a different person. I would hate to think I caused the end of the world for protecting myself."
Meanwhile, Big Ranma (in his female form) was rescuing Usagi's parents and baby brother, who were strapped in a trap designed to kill them if they managed to get loose. They were originally on tour of the complex, when the T-X struck. If T-X could not kill John Connor, then it could certainly destroy one of John's benefactors.
"I got you, folks," Ranma-chan says, as she got to the section. The section was to be built as an annex for SGC, but the construction of the place had not been reinforced. One false move, and the entire thing were going to collapse. So-
"Earth Style Jutus: Pillars of the Dragon!"
The Earth seemed to rumble slightly as stone shoots up to reinforce their section.
"Neat!" Little Shingo says with glee.
"Amazing," Ken says.
"That…is some trick," Ikuko replies. "But…that woman with our baby-!"
"Your daughter will be fine," Ranma-chan says. "I'll show you where you need to go…"
And that was that.
The Tsukinos were safe, and Genma fulfilled his promise to John's mother that he would repay a debt…even though he could have done without the killing machines. When it became evident that SkyNet was going to go rogue, it was immediately deactivated. It had turned out that a data node from the machine race known as "Replicators" (machine foes that have fought SGC before) had somehow gotten into the software, and was on the verge of turning the premier defense network into the cause of the demise of humanity. It would take at least a year before a new version of SkyNet was in place, this time with built-in safety protocols.
As for the two Terminators, the T-850 decided to go back with John and Kate, who wanted to deal with the consequences of all the deaths caused by the T-X. In the meantime, they would pursue ordinary jobs, though the T-850 model decided to become a stuntman for "Wormhole Extreme", which was a fictionalization of SGC. At the same time, the T-X was examined and reprogrammed to serve as the nee "medical technician" for one of SGC's starships: the LC-401 "Enterprise", under the helm of Ranma Saotome (Colonel, USAF). And would have served her commanding officer well, had something weird not have happened…
BLIP!
Sailor Pluto sees the timeline rearrange itself. Now, thanks to jumping forward seven years, the T-X was never reprogrammed when it went back into the past. And now, the machine was on its way to kill the Moon Princess in Colorado, unless someone else intercepts the machine.
"But…how?" Sailor Pluto mused. She sees that the T-X has had time to prepare for its battle against the Moon Princess.
"Of course," Sailor Pluto says. "The T-X may be prepared for the Moon Princess, but I can prepare her LONG before then."
With that in mind, Sailor Pluto scans the timeline for an appropriate version of her friend, and thus she can warn her of the coming crisis.
Year: 2239 CE.
It was nighttime at the San Francisco Shipyards. However, activity was still going on around the clock. Various crews—human, robot and otherwise—worked to get the latest Federation starship readied for assembly and launch.
Chief John Thompson, the head of the construction yard, arrived at the appropriate support section of the yard. He was looking for one of the workers, since SHE has a visitor…
WRRRRRR-THOOM!
Thompson gets off the lift, and steps about the exposed deck of the hull. He sees the object of his search, as she continued her welding.
"Hey, kid!" the crew chief yelled. He didn't mind his favorite worker listening to late 20th century "power ballads", save for whenever he needs to get the girl's attention.
"HEY, KID!"
The worker shuts off her wielding torch, shuts off her music, and removed her wielding goggles.
"What's up, chief?" Usagi asks.
"You're wanted downstairs in the office."
Usagi frowned. She knew that her baby girl had a delicate conception, due to the fact that her own genetic structure was "exotic". That is why she and her husband Ranma agreed that Ranma becomes a "stay-at-home" father, not to mention that she rarely needs sleep anymore because of her "nature". As a result, working at night allowed the couple to earn some money for the future, and Ranma being home allowed him to reopen the Tendo Dojo for martial arts classes as an instructor.
Still, it wasn't as if she felt any "bad vibes", so her young family could be okay…
"Alright," Usagi says. "I'll be right down there…"
As Usagi puts away her tools, she stands up. Although she did like the fact that she was earning a living, Usagi was glad to be contributing to the creation of the NCC-1701, Federation starship…"Enterprise".
Tbc.
Addendum: Check out the new trailer for the upcoming "Star Trek" film (December 2008) at the official "Star Trek" site (or other video "outlets"). You'll see why I had put in the last scene in this chapter. :-)
Next time: Usagi meets up with her past…and future, as an advanced killing machine goes gunning for her! See you next time.