The Reflection of a Soul
Black Beyond
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THIS IS A TEASER. Under a working title, I'm posting this. It is a crossover between two of my favorite anime. I'm doing my absolute best to make this unique in most ways, so bear with me. Tell me what you think, because if I receive no feedback in two weeks I will take this down and you'll never see it again. Not a threat, but I'm just tired of posting second-rate crap that gets a total of five reviews for every one hundred pages.

Have fun reading. Remember, this is just a teaser. If you tell me what you think of it, I'll chapter it and finish it. Since I'm through with Indifference and Haunting Mists and taken a backseat, I'm able to work on all my other fics in progress. This is a trial run.
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"Dear God, you know it's pathetic when they can't even tell they've got two sailor senshi in thier own dimension. I feel almost insulted."

"Shut up, Usagi! They might hear!"

"Oh, you shut up." Usagi said irritably. "Admit it: you think this is stupid."

"Usagi, if you don't shut up, I will rip these chains from the wall and kill you myself. Save the next enemy the effort." Rei said, straining against her binds, snarling at her leader.

Usagi stared right back, dangerously calm.

"If you could have gotten free, you would have done so by now." She said simply. She hadn't struggled a bit, but had done a lot of talking since they'd woken up. "And even if you could have eariler, you couldn't now. You've tired yourself out. Now, if they do free us, you'll be exhausted."

Rei glared at her. "I am not exhausted." The rare display of logic from the blonde was startling. Rei knew that if they decided to attack she wouldn't stand a chance. "So what do you suppose we do? Sit? Wait for impending doom?"

Usagi shrugged. "Or talk. Talking's good."

"Usagi, we don't even know where we are!"

"We're in another dimension." Usagi stated the obvious, gesturing as best she could to the stone and linolium around them. "And who ever is holding us is called OZ."

"Tht's not enough. We could be underwater, in a space shuttle,
anywhere!"

"We can't do anything, though." Usagi muttered. "I can't reach my
henshin brooch. Can you?"

Rei stretched, and found that her fingers were only just out of reach. "Almost! Damn, I can't--"

Usagi reached over and kicked her teammate as hard as she could. Rei
screamed and arched, her fingers closing around her henshin wand. She gave Usagi a dirty glare.

"Thanks." She murmured. She held the wand tightly. "Should I just go ahead and henshin? Here?"

Usagi raised her eyebrows. "Are you suggesting we wait until they burst in here with guns?"

Rei held her wand up as best she could. "Mars Crystal Power, Make up!" She called, feeling her chains burn away in the intense inferno that gave her power.

Usagi grinned as Sailor Mars stood up. The room, superheated from the transformation, was brighter than before. "Okay. Free me-- but please, don't singe the outfit. It's not like I can go home and change."

Mars stared incrediously at her leader. "You want me to burn your handcuffs?"

"That's what I said."

"You're insane."

"No, I hate being tied up."

Mars took careful aim and sent a prayer to Ares. "Fire, Soul!" She cried. Usagi yelled as the handcuffs were melted, burning her wrists. She jumped up and didn't hesitiate for her brooch, for she could hear bootheels in the hallway. They'd set off a few thousand alarms... what could a few more hurt?

"Moon Eternal, Make up!" She transformed in a flurry of feathers and light. She reached for her wand. "Let's hope we're in atmosphere, or at least in space." She said to Mars. "We can cope with those, but water is more Mercury's thing." She took aim. "Silver Moon Crystal Power, Kiss!"

The wall exploded.

Sailor Moon and Mars looked mildly shocked upon te beautiful landscape that surrounded them.

Gunfire!

Sailor Moon stumbled forward, clutching her shoulder, choking back the scream of pain. "Run!" She yelled to Mars, who had turned to kill the soldiers that had fired upon her princess. "We don't have time for this!" Using her good arm, she grabbed the senshi of fire and dragged her, running as only a senshi could, away from the compound that they could now see was enormous.

"What kind of idiots are they," Mars wondered aloud, "to have placed the holding cells on the outside walls?" They were a mile away before they slowed down, confident any purserers were long ago left behind.

Sailor Moon fell to her knees, clutching her shoulder. The uniform was stained red, and inspite the bumpy run, it had already begun to heal. But she'd lost quite a bit of blood. "We have to find some sort of shelter, Rei." She said weakly. "I can't endure as much as you or Makoto."

Mars nodded. She took off one of her gloves and tore it into strips. "Dehenshin, Usagi-chan." She said softly. "I'll wrap it. We'll walk to the nearest house and see if they can help any."

Sailor Moon let her transformation fade and watched, cynically, as Mars bandaged her arm. "It could take hours to get to the nearest house. We could be in the middle of no where. We don't even know if we're on earth!"

Mars looked at her. "Well, the guys back there spoke Japanese. I'd say it's just a different earth. We'll try our luck. If push comes to shove, we'll find a tall tree."

Usagi looked at her, slightly horrified. "I can't climb trees!"

"You'll learn."

"You're so mean to me!"

"Don't start it, Usagi. Not right now."

"I hate that youma. Youma aren't supposed to be able to open temporal passages. It's not right. This like a bad plothole in one of those b-rate movies." She poked her her shoulder and whinced. "And why was it you? Why couldn't it have been someone smart, like Ami? Or Makoto? She could have scared those soldiers."

Mars glared. "Excuse me? If I hadn't had been unconcious I could have scared them off!"

Usagi managed a weak grin. "Sure you could."

"I could!"

Usagi just shook her head. "Hey, isn't that a road?" She asked, her interest perking. "Run ahead a little and see."

Mars oblidged quickly without even thinking about it. Usagi walked ahead patiently, and was met by a breathless Mars. "Yes, it is. Well, kind of." Rei looked at Usagi curiously. "How did you see it? It's just a dirt road."

"Tree line was broken."

Mars looked at the trees but couldn't see anything. Part of it may have been due to the fact it was past midnight, but still. "Anyway, there's a huge house. It's in use, I saw movement and a couple of lights were on. There's a
huge army-type truck, but that's it."

Usagi thought this over carefully. "At the worst, it could be more soldiers. Want to chance it?"

Sailor Mars grinned and pulled one of her scrolls out. "Why not? I mean, I'm transformed. There's not a human yet that can take a senshi one on one." She glanced at Usagi. "Well, an unarmed human. In our world."

Usagi nodded. "Exactly. Since I'm unarmed and injured, I'll go first. Stay back, hide yourself but be ready to attack." She moved forward.

"Hey, Usagi?"

"Huh?"

"When did you get so tactical-ish?"

"When we were teleported by an evil youma to another dimension."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Just wondering."

"Okay."

"I'll stay back, right?"

"Right."

"Roger that, Wilco."

Mars watched as Usagi made her way towards the old fashioned house. She herself movedback behind a tree, watching from the corner of her eye, arms positioned to form her fire bow if anything even smelled wrong.

Usagi knocked hesitantly at the door.

She was exhausted, in a great deal of pain, and no matter what Rei thought, she had no idea what she was doing. She was saying anything that popped into her mind. That usually got her into a mess the size of the pacaifc ocean.

She winced and clutched her shoulder again as the door opened, but forgot her pain as she learnt she was once again staring down the barrel of a gun. She glared at the gun's owner, an oriental boy of about her age.

"That is getting really old, really fast." She muttered, staring him down. "Go ahead, shoot me! Just let me warn you before you do-- if any of your bullets hit me in the shoulder, I will personally take you down with me. Because my shoulder HURTS. Those idiots with the little OZ badges probably killed it."

Gun lowers just a little.

"OZ fired at you?"

She grinned. "Yeah. They kind of took us prisoner, so I blew up their wall, and they shot me. Justifible action, but I can still be pissed at them." She shrugged her good shoulder.

"Wufei, is anything wrong?" Another male voice, considerbly higher but not younger, called out. Wufei glanced at Usagi and finding no apparent weapons, turned slightly.

"Just a girl."

Usagi was pretty sure there was an insult in that.

"What does she want?" Deeper voice, nasal, definatly natural Japanese.

She counted up. Three so far, All male, unless one of them was a Haruka wannabe. "Well, considering I've never been on this planet before, directions would be nice!" She said loudly, her voice lilting. "Well, I mean, I think this is Earth, at least, it seems so, but I've never been on this particular earth."

Wufei arched an eyebrow. "Correction. Just an insane girl."

Usagi glared. "Hey, buddy. Watch it. If I'm not insane by now, then I never will be. After the first seventeen or so demons, life gets a little strange." Turn. "Rei, you can come out now. They haven't killed me yet, so I suppose they won't."

Wufei looked over Usagi's shoulder as the senshi warily crept from the shadows. His eyes widened at the sight of her fire bow that she held firmly in her hands.

Usagi glared.

"Rei-chan, I said they aren't going to kill us yet. Why are you going all pyrokenetic?"

"I never get to show off anymore."

"So?"

"They don't know about me yet! I can show off! Oh, wow, who's the cute dude?" She asked, forgetting Usagi and letting her fire disapate. "Hi! I'm Rei Hino! This is Usagi... erm, just kind of ignore her."

That did it.

Wufei slammed the door and retreated.

Usagi stared at the door. "See what you did!"

"I didn't do it!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too-- ow! That hurt! I'm wounded!"

"Oh. Oops. Sorry."

The door opened again, and this time a boy of medium height, with blonde hair and friendly blue eyes stood there, looking apologetic.

"I'm Quatre! Sorry about Wufei." He said, standing back. "He's not very social. Please, come in. We don't get visitors around here."

Usagi looked Mars up and down. "Dehenshin first, Rei." She said, frowning. "You look out of place."

With a glare Mars did so, making Quatre jump back a little as fire and light left the once indimadating senshi as a school girl, dressed in the uniform of T.A. Private school.

Seeing Quatre's look, Rei grinned. "We do that." She said, grinning. She followed Usagi inside.

Quatre shut the door. "Duo and Trowa are in the parlor... Duo's watching one of his old movies again. They're friendly, but Trowa doesn't talk much. Don't worry, Duo talks enough for both of them. Heero's in the kitchen. Er.. he has a limited vocabulary."

"There's five of you, then?" Usagi asked.

"Yes."

"Why are you out here?"

Both of them noticed the way Quatre's eyes changed the slightest bit. "Vacation." He said firmly.

Usagi nodded, but Rei's eyes narrowed.

"I'm Usagi Tsukino. This is Rei Hino, my guardian and best friend. I hate to intrude on you like this, but we had no idea what time it was. And this is going to be a strange question-- what year is it? And this *is* earth, ne?"

"It's earth, alright. And it's--"

"QUATRE! Trowa's giving me the evil eye thing again! Make him STOOOP! He's your boyfriend!"

"Omae o korosu!"

"SHUT UP, BAKAS! I'm trying to meditate!"

"..."

Usagi turned to Rei as Quatre went running to stop a fight that had apparently broken out, judging from the banging and yelling. "This is too familar."

"No kidding. It sounds like me and you."

"Does not."

"Does too!"

"Does not!"

"Does TOO!"

"Does NOT!"

"Does!"

"NOT!"

"DOES!"

"NOOOOT!"

"DOOOOESSS!"

"Shut up!"

"You!"

"Make me!"

"I will!"

"You wouldn't!"

"Try me."

"Reiii! You're so mean to me!"

"Am not!"

"Are tooooooo!"

"Usagi, don't even go there."

"Why not? I want to argue. I feel left out. And we can't get into a
fistfight until at least tomorrow, until my arm heals."

"Why can't you just use the ginzuishou on yourself?"

"It isn't that easy. I can't heal myself."

"Bite me."

"Where?"

"Hey! You've got... oh. Sorry."

Usagi looked away now, hand over her shuolder once more, eyes full of hurt. "Let's just get directions and get out of here. The sooner we contact the others the sooner we can get home."

Rei frowned. She held up her wirst communicator and tapped it. "Usagi, haven't you ever listened to Luna and Ami? We are screwed. They don't work through time. The best we could do is see if there are senshi here. And they'd probably attack us."

Uasgi stared at her teammate. They were oth completely unaware they were now being watched by all five boys.

"Please don't tell me that you're saying we're stuck here. Alone." She pleaded. "They've got to work, Rei. I don't know how to get home unless that youma pops up again! I don't guess you've got any ideas!"

"If I had the Great Fire, I could try to ask it, but we don't have it. And yes, we're stuck here."

Usagi suddenly looked a lot like the Usagi Rei knew best. Her eyes filled with tears and she clutched her injured shoulder tighter. "We don't know anyone here, Rei. We're wanted by OZ and you-know-who. Soliders are looking for us. I've lost a lot of blood and I don't care what Luna says, I'm weak. You're tired from struggling and using your powers. Neither of us have slept for almost three days and we haven't ate either."

"We don't need to eat." Rei pointed out reasonably.

"It helps!" Usagi protested. "If those five kids decide we're easy pickings, you'd better hope that they're frightened of a fire storm or something, because I seriously don't think I could hold any of them off for long. I need sleep."

"I know, hime." Rei softened considerably as she looked closer at her leader. "But we need to know where we are before we do anything."

"And then what?" Usagi demanded harshly.

"You could stay here." The two girls turned to see the blonde boy, Quatre, smiling haphazardly while the other four fours looked at him in very much the same way Rei and Usagi were-- in disbelief.

"What!" Quatre exclaimed, turning pink. "You heard them. They were prisoners of OZ and don't have anywhere to go. They'll be safe here. You can just turn them out."

"Oh yes we--"

Duo quickly covered Wufei's mouth with his hand. "Heero, make your boytoy shut up. Of course they can stay. We've got plenty of rooms." He looked at them both curiously. "Do either of you know how to cook?"

"Rei's a good cook."

"Usagi can actually good well now." Rei added.

"See?" Duo grinned. "They cook. They stay."

Usagi rolled her eyes at the same time Heero did. Rei just shook her head.

"Thank you very much." She said. "As soon as we've gotten some sleep, we'll leave if you like." She spoke to Wufei, who narrowed his eyes. Rei shrugged.

"Let me look at your wound." Duo jumped as Trowa moved forward towards Usagi, who eyed him warily but removed her hand. Rei paled a little when she saw the blood... blood that was a little bit to dark to be human. Trowa didn't seem to notice.

"Come with me. I'll get you some bandages." Usagi had to strain to hear his quiet voice, but nodded, deciding to trust him.

"Alright." She said, following him out of the hallway.

Rei faced the remaining four boys. She watched suspiciously as Heero stared at the dark blood on the floor for a long minute before he disappeared. Wufei jerked away from Duo angrily and followed him.

"I'm Duo Maxwell. Nice to meet you." Duo extended his hand. Rei regarded it warily before shaking it. "This is Quatre... but you know that already. Trowa's the tall, quiet one that just stole your friend. You're lucky: he usually doesn't say diddly."

"My good fortune doesn't last long. I'm Rei Hino first--" She stopped herself just in time from saying her full title. "Call me Rei." She covered hastily.

"And her name is Usagi?" Quatre asked, ignoring her slipup.

"Yes. Usagi Tsukino."

"That was a nasty shot she took." Duo watched Rei a little too closely. She took it from behind?"

Rei thought back. "Yeah, I think so. We were kind of surprised after blowing up the wall. We didn't expect them to have the dun-- the cells on the outside walls."

Duo nodded. 'Those walls are several feet thick. What did they use, fission bombs?' "How old are you?" He watched her hesitiate for several seconds befoer finally answering. He nudged Quatre to make sure the blonde saw it too.

"I'm... fifteen."

"Why did OZ want you?" Quatre asked.

"I don't know." Rei studied the dents in the walls.

"What do you mean, you don't know?" Duo asked. "They just saw you and thought you'd make nice meat?" He inwardly grinned as he watched her glare at him.

"When you fall out of the sky and go out taking a few hundred of their men with you before you're knocked unconscious, usually normal people want to hold you captive."

"She's lying." Usagi reappeared, her shoulder now bandaged. "She took out less than a hundred. I'm the one that got covered in blood before they managed to cuff me. Miss Temper Tantrum over there was already exhausted. She conked out after some idiot hit her with the butt of his gun."

Rei glared. "He came up behind me."

"That kind of hit shouldn't have effected you like that. You were exhausted, admit it."

Quatre pushed the two arguing girls ahead of him. "Come on. I'll show you to your rooms and you can get some sleep."

They ignored him but allowed themselves to be led up the stiars. Duo listened to them argue the entire way.

"You're the one who didn't fight before we were taken here, Usagi. Don't start giving me shit."

"Don't make me kick your ass, Rei."

"You couldn't beat me in a fight--"

"Don't start giving out challanges, damn it!"

"Oh. Right."

Duo frowned. He turned to find Heero on the floor with a small vial, collecting some of Usagi's split blood.

"Yo, man. What are you doing?"

Heero frowned and finished before he answered. Standing up, he held the vial in front of Duo's nose. "Look at the color." He said, indicating the almost purple substance in the glass.

Duo looked. "Oh my god. That's her *blood*?" He poked the vial. Heero quickly pulled it back, nodding.

"I'm going to examine it."

"We don't have that kind of equipment-- do we? And why the sudden interest in those two girls?" Duo demanded. "They're just a couple of scared babes."

"Are you completely blind? That bullet hit her bone. It should have shattered, but it didn't. Her blood's a strange color, and I saw you listening. They talk strange, and it's not just the accent."

"I'm flattered you're speaking to me so much, but Heero, they're just a couple of girls. Sure, they're freaky."

"And pyrokentic."

"And-- what?"

"Wufei says that the other girl was holding flames in her hands when she approached."

"Wufei says a lot of stuff. Doesn't mean it's true..."

"I'm not going to argue with you. Trowa agrees."

"Fine, whatever. Go break into the hospital and kill people. See if I care."

Heero shrugged and left through the front door. Duo sighed and olded his hands behind his head.

"Guess I get to play watch dog tonight." He groaned.

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