Chapter 2

Ami blinked open her eyes for the second time that day, groaning slightly. This was definitely not one of her better days.

This time, she was on a bed, in a room with pale green walls and a lot of light.

Still lying down, she turned her head to the right and saw a man sitting on a chair in the corner of the room, reading. He had brown hair in an odd style, with a long bang covering one of his eyes. He seemed to feel her gaze on him and looked up from his book, revealing one emerald green eye, which reminded her of Makoto's very much.

He stared at her a moment longer, before standing from his chair, setting his book down, and exiting the room. She heard his footsteps grow farther away, before hearing muffles voices begin to fill the hallway outside the room.

Ami immediately began to sit up, grimacing slightly and yet feeling awkward and weary especially since these were obviously the strange men whom had found her earlier.

Footsteps and clear voices were heard outside the room, and the five entered, half looking uninterested and a couple of them generally curious.

"Glad your up," the blonde said immediately, approaching to help her sit up but she had managed on her own.

"Yeah babe, we had no idea you were injured, and we were totally interrogating you." She looked at the man with the long braid.

"It's alright. Thanks for everything, I'll be out of your way very soon," she said, although she herself didn't know where exactly she would be going.

"Nonsense," the blonde responded, "That wound on your side was pretty bad. Luckily, a good doctor friend of mine was willing to come to the house and patch you up. Care to explain how that happened?"

Ami realized they were still interrogating her, just using a gentler method.

"Do you care to tell me where I am?"

"An old property of my parents."

"What country?" Ami knew she was being very blunt, but she had to figure out where she was.

The pilots all glanced at each other.

"England, we're in the countryside of England babe," the braided one said. "Where did you think you were, the colonies?" He repeated.

"Colonies?"

"Yes, the space colonies."

Ami mentally cursed. Space colonies? Ami knew it was wrong to assume the worst, but she was starting to think that she wasn't even in the same dimension she had woken up in this morning.

"Ah, yes, of course. I'm just tired, that's all."

The pilots glanced at each other once more.

"I never caught your name," the blonde said, staring at her with a mix of confusion and pity.

"Oh, sorry, I'm Ami Mizuno."

"Well I'm Quatre, and these are Duo, Heero, Trowa and Wufei," he said, pointing to each one respectively.

Ami nodded, but her mind was on other things. She didn't have her transformation wand, realizing her transformation was gone even though she had fallen into the black gate with it. She also had somehow lost her communicator, and her mini-computer was broken. She had no money, and no way of contacting her friends if she really was in another dimension. Despite how nice Quatre was acting now though, she didn't feel safe in the house. She had to get out. Even if she had to walk miles, right now she felt like she was slowing herself down from getting home, she needed answers...

"Well," she said, as they all stood silently, "I uh...I thank you very much for everything you have done for me. I'm sorry I don't have any way of repaying you, but..." she managed to get to her feet. "I am going to get out of your way now."

"Actually Ami, that's not a very good idea," Quatre said, as Ami walked a few feet from the bed and found herself immediately leaned on the wall for support as her head began to spin. "Like I said, your wound was serious, plus since you were out in the cold for such a long time the doctor said that you'd probably be dizzy and feverish for a few days."

Ami sighed. She felt like crying. The two rude ones from earlier, Heero and Wufei, stared at her suspiciously. She didn't blame them. She would be suspicious too. She didn't even have a back-story, because she didn't exist in this world.

"I really hate to question you while you're still injured, but we want to help you and don't know how. Is there somewhere we can take you? A friend we can call?"

Ami shook her head, frustrated as she resigned herself to sitting on the bed.

"Is..." he paused. They had all been discussing the girl after she passed out, and had come to the conclusion that someone may have been after her. After all, she was inured and left to die outside this once abandoned home. She may even have been protecting the person who attacked her, as if it were someone she knew, didn't want to find her, and didn't want in jail. "Is someone after you?"

She frowned at him.

"I mean...if someone is out to get you we can help." If it was just a simple domestic dispute gone horribly wrong, Quatre figured that they could have the police there quickly enough.

"I sincerely doubt that," she said flatly.

"Then...you must still be tired," he said quickly, glancing at his friends for the millionth time. "Why don't you just sleep for now?" They all filed out of the room, the braided one winking and shutting the door behind him.

Once they were gone, Ami began to plan.

They didn't want her leaving, and she had a strange feeling that they themselves were hiding something they thought she was after. However they were prying way too much. Whether or not she had a definite place to go, she was getting out of the house, tonight. Something in the house was very wrong and she wouldn't be staying to find out.


Laycaon bowed before his queen, Andromache.

She nodded, and he stood.

"So you sent her to the parallel dimension?"

"Yes my Queen."

"How long will it take you to be able to rid us of another scout?"

"At my full level of power, at least seven or eight days, but summoning the portal takes everything out of me, so if we are going to fight the Senshi for the next few days, I will have to be strong enough to take them on, so probably not for another ten or eleven days, give or take."

She nodded, saying "That's alright, now that we have rid ourselves of one of them, we have hurt their pride and spirit. The thought of losing one of their comrades alone will make them weaker. We attack tomorrow."

"Do you know where exactly she is, Laycaon," Andromache added as an afterthought. He paused.

"I can watch the happenings of the other world without literally draining myself to go there. She was found by five men who seem good-"

"That's unacceptable. We'll have to tamper with their dreams or something if they help her."

"Make them suspicious?"

"Yes. We'll make them fear helping her, and we can also send her dreams to make her suspicious as well, or false predictions on what is happening with her friends to weaken her."

"You can do that?" he sounded shocked.

"Of course, it's all too easy. We'll keep a close eye for now. Did you get her transformation wand and communicator at least?"

"Yes me Queen." He held them up.

"Excellent, now she has no way of contacting her friends."


Heero and Wufei argued with Duo and Quatre downstairs. Trowa had chosen to remain neutral, listening to both sides equally.

"She talks in circles, the onna can't be trusted," Wufei said with a sneer, placing his hands down the table and glaring at Duo, who stood to meet his gaze.

"Wu-man, every time she wakes up we surround her like some specimen in a lab and pick apart everything she says," Duo replied, not missing out on an opportunity to tease Wufei, who growled in response.

"Well I think she's harmless. Perhaps just confused and scared," Quatre said, still seated and not getting upset about the issue.

"Well she's suspicious," Heero said from where he was seated. "Maybe she wants...information, like for one of the groups who were against the war ending."

Everyone looked to Trowa, who was watching them all and nodding at what everyone said.

"I think she's harmless, looks young. Maybe eighteen or nineteen years old," he said evenly.

"Well, appearances can be deceiving. Of all people, we should know that age probably isn't an issue," Heero responded.

"How would she know who we were? This isn't even my usual home, not many people know my family owned an estate in England, let alone the deserted countryside," Quatre reasoned. "Who but our superiors at the Preventors knew we were coming?"

Everyone mulled over what he said a bit, and he continued. "Every chance she gets she tries to leave thanks to Heero's little gun show earlier. I think, if she is hiding from someone, that it would be a good idea to help her. I want to invite her to stay here for a week or two, maybe she'll tell us what's going on. We can't send her into the street knowing she has nothing."

"I can," Wufei said, crossing his arms. Duo rolled his eyes.

"Aww Wu-man, don't enjoy having the opposite sex hang around the house with us?" Duo's smile faded as Wufei shouted, "That's it!" He promptly lunged at Duo across the table, and Duo made a run for it.

"You do what you want," Heero said. "I'm going to try to look her up, see what I can find."


That night, Ami turned in her bed and stared at the clock on the wall. It was twelve forty-five. Surely, they were asleep by now.

She slid from the bed and crept down the hall, ignoring the slightly woozy feeling she had, only one destination in mind: the front door.

Her shoes had been laid by the stairs, and she grabbed them, choosing to go down the stairs in her socks to minimize the noise level of her escape. She moved through the dark corridors of the house, trying to figure out where the front door was. She was moving around the corner of one of the hallways when someone grabbed her arm. She jumped, covering her mouth to suppress a scream.

"Where are you going," a voice said, and she tried to distinguish who the person was but couldn't see in the dark.

Whoever it was, he grabbed her slightly rougher around her other arm, and moved her against the wall, staring down at her. She looked up, in a mixture of fear and confusion, her eyes adjusting to the dark as she could make out more than just his outline, looking into two Prussian blue eyes.

He leaned down closer, saying lowly, "Did you hear what I said? Where are you going?"

She trembled slightly, but managed to keep her voice from quivering as she responded.

"Out."

"Hn." She frowned at him, but he did not relinquish his grip.

"What did you say your name was again?" He asked, staring at her for any hint of lie.

"Ami Mizuno." He glared at her. He would not have stopped her, actually, had he not been searching for information on 'Ami Mizuno' for the past 2 hours, unable to find any indication that she existed.

"Care to change your answer?"

"No." His grip tightened, and she gasped.

"Let go! You're hurting me," she said through clenched teeth, fighting to tear herself from his grasp.

"That's the idea." She glared at him, but was unable to tear her eyes from his gaze.

"What do you want?"

"To know what you're hiding."

"I'm not hiding anything."

"No? When did you arrive in England?"

"Not long ago."

"That's generic. What happened to you before we found you."

"I don't remember." He pushed her closer to the wall, moving closer to her if possible.

"I thought so." He lowered his face close to her ear. "I'm watching you."

"Is anyone down here?" Duo's voice filled the hall, and Heero immediately released her, stalking down the hall. Ami instantly crumpled to the floor, shaken up but otherwise unharmed.

"Ami? Is that you?"

She remained silent a moment longer, before responding. "Yeah..."

Heero stood hidden behind another wall, listening.

"What are you doing down here," Duo asked, helping her up.

"I was looking for the kitchen, actually," she lied quickly, covering any uncertainty in her voice with a laugh. "Haven't eaten all day and I woke up a few minutes ago starving."

"Oh. Me too! I love midnight snacks, actually I did eat a lot today though," Duo said as the two walked down the hall in the opposite direction.

Heero stared after them. She had kept silent. That only confirmed his suspicions.

In the kitchen, Duo pulled out a loaf of bread and searched in their newly stocked fridge for something to put on it.

"So, have you talked to Quatre since earlier?" he asked, glancing at her from the corner of his eye. She shook her head.

"Well then I guess I'll tell you. We want you to stay here, at least a week or two until you get your feet on the ground and decide where to go," he explained.

"Oh, I don't know about that. I don't think your friends want me to stay," Ami said quickly, thinking back to her encounter with Heero.

"Who, Heero and Wufei? They're just grumpy, their opinions don't really matter Ami," he said with a laugh. "Anyways, the three of us want you to stay and plus, Quatre owns the house, so it was his call."

Ami hesitated still.

"Ami," Duo said finally, having pulled out an assortment of lunch meats and cheese and set them on the counter, actually looking serious as he turned to look at her. "Where will you go then?"

He was met with silence, what he had expected, and nodded.

"Stay, if at least for a few days. Quatre's rich and he won't be running low on money. Anyways, we all understand. Everyone's got a back story. Everyone hits a low in their life at one time or another, and needs help. I mean, come on, we always free load off of him, he insists upon it."

She stared at him a second, before nodding. "Alright," she said, "but I don't plan on being here long."

The two ate their sandwiches in silence, before heading off to bed.


The next morning, Ami awoke feeling much better. Quatre had come in for a second, showing her his sister's closet in that room and her own private bathroom attached.

"Thank you so much for your generosity. I promise I won't be here long," Ami said. He waved away the thought.

"No problem at all. Now, feel free to wear or take anything you'd like of these clothes, we haven't come down here in many years. They should be your size, if not try the next room."

"How many sisters do you have," she asked.

"Let's just say plenty and leave it at that," he said with a laugh, exiting the room.

Ami excitedly jumped into the shower. She felt so dirty, and it felt great to peel off her sweater and blood-stained t-shirt. Her wound was almost healed, so she'd keep it wrapped a while longer so as not to arouse any suspicion. After her shower, she headed to the closet, choosing a pair of jeans and a grey three-quarter sleeved shirt. She headed downstairs, feeling somewhat more optimistic about her situation than she had before. There had to be a way back, some clue. The gate had opened up above this house after all.

Heading downstairs, she saw Quatre on the phone, and he waved slightly and continued.

She met up with Duo once she descended the stairs, and he smiled.

"Hey babe, you look much better today," he said with a wink, and she rolled her eyes, somewhat used to his antics in the short time since she'd met him.

"I'm starving," he said as they entered the kitchen.

"Let's make breakfast," Ami suggested, checking the fridge to see what they had in the house.

"Good idea," Duo said.

Trowa walked into the room, nodding at her and looking at Duo, whom was digging in the cupboard for a pan.

"We're making breakfast," Ami explained, and he nodded, directing Duo to the opposite cabinet.

Wufei entered the kitchen a bit later as they were cooking, looking sour at her presence but holding his tongue, leading Ami to believe he may have been forewarned to keep quiet.

Quatre, smiling, entered the kitchen next. "It sure smells good in here."

Last to enter was Heero, who brushed past the group without a word and sat down.

They set the table and sat down to a silent breakfast. Ami finished quickly and stood, grabbing her plate and a few of the empty dishes.

"Ami, Trowa, Duo, and I are heading into town to pick up more supplies to get this place up and running. It's about a twenty minute drive. Do you want to come?" Quatre asked. She glanced up at him, before nodding. "Is there a library?"

He nodded. "Yes, it's not a huge city like London but it's a very nice town. Did you want some books?"

"Actually, I just need the internet."


Makoto frowned, running her hands through her hair and fixing her customary ponytail as she listened to what Usagi was saying. She was so tired, and her friends looked no better. They had unfortunately lost Ami yesterday, and they didn't know where. Minako had spent a few hours crying, feeling personally responsible for Ami's disappearance. They were all now seated at the temple that depressing Saturday morning, worried about an enemy attack and their friend.

"Well, I called the Outers for advice," Usagi said, as she setting down her tea cup. "They told me not to worry. Said they'd keep a lookout. We probably should look into contacting Pluto, maybe she can help."

"How do we do that," Makoto found herself saying. "Setsuna seems to just appear on her own when she thinks she's needed."

"That's true," Rei agreed, "but I'm sure there must be a way to call her."

"No need," a voice said from the doorway. Sailor Pluto stood before them.

"Pluto!" Usagi ran forwards, followed by the rest of the girls.

"I'm afraid I don't have long, but I must explain to you where Ami is and the damage that the enemy has already done, so please let me finish before asking questions. She is in a dimension that is parallel to ours, in the far future. She has been found my some good people, but I don't think they all trust her. The enemy has tampered with things beyond even my power. Separate dimensions are supposed to remain just that- separate, running parallel with each other and never crossing. That Laycaon man working under Queen Andromache is messing with some very powerful things. If he sends too many people across, especially if he has the power to send more than one at a time, then he could do a lot of damage to both dimensions. I myself cannot just pluck Ami out of that dimension. It is a system, it must be pre-approved, I must have the power and resources, I must have my superiors consent to open the gate between dimensions. Even bringing Ami back is a risk on its own, so I for now cannot mess with it. I will keep an eye on her however, so don't worry. If the enemy tries to interfere physically with the other dimension, I may be granted the power to step in. In the meantime, they are planning a huge attack, as you know. Be on your toes, and do not let Laycaon throw you into that gate!"

They all nodded.

"Wait," Makoto said, and Pluto turned around. "When can we bring Ami home?"

"I don't know. I'm doing everything I can. Just be on your toes, the enemy will attack."

"When?"

A crash was heard outside, and Pluto sighed.

"Now."


Ami sat silently as they drove into town. She had to find out everything she could about this world.

Trowa stopped the car outside of a large building, what she presumed to be the library.

"We'll be back for you in about an hour," Quatre explained, and Ami thanked them and got out of the car, heading up the steps to the main entrance.

Upon entering, she noticed that the computers were all in the center on the room, the book shelves dispersed around them. She smiled at the librarian at the front desk and made a beeline for the computers. She found out the date first.

'What's with this date, is it far in the future?' She froze. What if, she was in the far future of her time. What if, after she was thrown from her time, the scouts lost, and the plans for Crystal Tokyo were destroyed? Was she living in the time that had resulted from her mistake? Trying not to panic, she looked up the history of the world. She learned all about the wars, and some strange machine's called Gundams. She went back further and further, until she had reached what was pre-Tokyo 2000 times, to find that all of that history was different as well. This relieved her, since had she been in her dimension that history would have been the same. Just to be sure though, she researched her friends and herself. Finding nothing, she relaxed.

She researched the space colonies and all there was to generally know about the world with her remaining time, so that she could keep up in conversation with her housemates.

True to their word, Quatre, Duo and Trowa were outside an hour later. Ami noticed them from the window she had been standing by and headed outside.

"Did you find everything you needed?" Duo asked her when she climbed in.

"Yes, I was almost tempted to get a library card and check out some books," she said with a laugh.

"Well you have that in common with some of us. Quatre and Trowa like reading. I myself am a television man," Duo said smugly as they pulled away from the library. Quatre laughed and Trowa gave a smile but remained silent.

In that moment, Ami felt hopeful that everything would be okay, even if it was just for a moment.


Thanks to those who reviewed the last chapter, I will definitely be adding some more Senshi/Tokyo action next chapter as well as more action/drama with the pilots next chapter. Feel free to tell me who you would like paired with Ami in your review as well! Will the enemy get involved in the pilots dimension? Will the scouts be alright? Review to find out, lol.