A
Special Training X
Disclaimer: The copyrighted series characters used in this story do not belong to me, and I make no money from it whatsoever.
Sailor Moon
was in that strange place, where all she could do was hear. Her shoulder burned
with fire and ice, but it was healing quickly, thanks to her power and Sailor
healing abilities.
The pure
bull of what Vegeta was saying finally got her so ticked off, that she could
get out of that limbo- and it clicked.
"You're the
one that hit me!" she snarled, getting to her feet again, and glaring daggers
at Vegeta. She didn't notice that she had been held…
Goku was
slung over Yamcha's shoulder as they flew away, and Sailor Moon turned to watch
the fight between Vegeta and 19.
Her teeth
clenched as she watched, getting mad at what Vegeta had done, although a part
of her cheered with triumph over 19 when he was defeated.
20 looked
terrified, then he left.
Vegeta told
them to stay behind, saying they were too weak to be of any help.
"You have
got to be kidding me!" Usa groused, as she watched the walking ego fly away.
"Usa-chan,
don't do anything rash!" Piccolo protested. She stopped from flying away, and
looked at the others.
"Ooh,
Usa-chan, huh?" asked Tien, wanting to laugh. "And who was telling me to keep my
eyes to myself?"
Sailor Moon
and Piccolo ignored them, although Krillin and Gohan looked interested.
"Piccolo,
we have to follow him, be may need backup!"
"I agree;
but we also need to think first. Rushing in like that could get us all killed."
Sailor Moon
nodded, but still looked mad. Then she sighed.
"Let's go,
then!"
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"Oh, come
on, how hard can an Android be to find?" she asked herself rhetorically,
floating over the huge boulder yard they were searching through.
The sense
of darkness that she had felt was still present, but since it was such a
generalized feeling, there was damn little she could do about it.
Sailor Moon
had learned quite a few things over the past few years, and one was the fine
art of swearing. This she did, colorfully, and without repeating herself.
"AH- mmph!"
she tried to scream, as a hand was placed over her mouth.
Energy
drain was something that Sailor Moon was quite familiar with. It had happened
countless times with her Senshi, while fighting various villains from the
Negaverse. So she knew how long she could fight this guy.
Then she
had another reason to be mad. This old pervert was groping her!
-Piccolo,
Gohan, help! The Android has me!-
Reaching
into her reserves, she tried to cut off the energy supply he was taking, but
even as she struggled to throw him off, she knew she had made a serious
blunder…
Whoomph!
Lightening
seemed to strike from the heavens, and she was aware of being held by strong
arms, and she was no longer being drained.
"Great
Horned Moon," she garbled, rage filling her as she looked at the old man.
"Krillin,
Usagi needs a senzu!" said Piccolo, as she floated away from him, shaking her
head to clear it.
Her head snapped
up, and she caught the tiny bean. Chewing, her strength returned. So had
Vegeta, and he was about to start fighting the pervert…
"Like hell!
Vegeta, I owe the bastard, he groped me, as well as took my energy! 20, get
ready to die, because if you think Vegeta is tough, you have never, ever seen a
woman get mad!"
As she said
this, she dismissed her Sailor Form, and floated there as Usagi, and grinned
nastily.
She could
almost see the thoughts going through the old man's head. She had seemingly
'weakened' herself, and since she wasn't a Saiya-jin, he thought he could beat
her easily.
He smiled
calmly back at her.
"Bring it-"
he was interrupted by a knee to his gut.
The only
thing that the Android could see at that moment was a shining crescent moon,
and he was being beaten, again and again.
Piccolo
grinned at his pupil. Her form and speed were excellent, and her strength was
immense.
"Gods,"
whispered Krillin. "She must nearly be as strong as a SSJ."
Vegeta
humphed.
The Android
tried a roundhouse to her head, but she wasn't there.
Then she
was behind him, her fingers threaded together into a double fist, and he was
slammed into the ground.
"No one
ever touches me without me saying so," she growled, and followed him down.
Girls don't play 'fair', especially when they are pissed.
Before she
could get there, he had disappeared, and Usagi saw a fist coming towards her
chest-
It slapped
against her palm as she caught it, and she kicked him where the sun don't
shine.
The look of
agony on his face was hilarious, but all the males winced.
He fell
again, and this time didn't get back up.
Then a
power source, a huge one, came from nowhere.
"Trunks is
back!" exclaimed a voice, and Usagi turned to see who had yelled. What would
Bulma be doing here with her kid?
What
greeted her eyes was- The guy was one of the most gorgeous that she had ever
seen. Lavender hair, pale blue eyes, a warrior- Oh, by the Moon, he was hot!
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"What do
you mean, those aren't the Androids you told us about?" roared Vegeta. The boy,
Trunks, was taken aback by his tone, but answered.
"They look
different then the ones I fought, but they are androids. Look at the eyes…"
Then there
was the sound of an air car, and then the Android, who had gotten up and was
sweating bullets, laughed hysterically, and fired a blast right at it.
Screams
could be heard, as the car was destroyed…
The elder
Trunks held his baby self, and Bulma, while Vegeta ranted about finding the
Android. Usagi snapped, and did her favored move on him. She kicked him in the
balls as well.
Trunks, who
was about to come over and ream his father as well, stood still. No mere male
wanted to face Usa's wrath at that moment.
"WHAT THE HELL
IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU BAKA YAROU? THAT WAS YOUR MATE AND KID!"
Vegeta
couldn't answer her at the moment, because he was still on the ground, writhing
in pain.
Trunks
sweat dropped. He was about to say something, but apparently Usa wasn't
finished.
"I didn't
exactly like my future daughter, but I would have saved her from being blown
up! Great Moon! What kind of a man are you?"
Trunks had
to come up from behind her to restrain her from kicking him again.
She turned
to slap him, but stopped, when she saw the cutie that he was.
Trunks had
a similar reaction.
"I'm uh,
mad at him too, but you don't have to keep, uh, kicking…"
Trunks did
not have much experience with girls.
"Tell us,
boy," choked his father," about those other androids!"
He did, and
before he could get out the warnings about those androids, Vegeta had flown
off.
"NO! I
won't let my father die!" Trunks had yelled, before he could think about what
he had said, and was SSJ, flying after him.
"That
was…Trunks," Bulma said, as several things clicked together in her mind. Usagi
gave a short laugh.
"I know how
you feel, Bulma, I know how you feel."
Piccolo
nodded, and they turned to the direction that they thought the Android, which
Bulma had identified as Dr. Gero, was headed.
"We have to
stop them before he awakens his other Androids," Piccolo ordered, and everyone
agreed, and took off, searching.
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Bulma and
Gohan watched them go.
"I hope
they have good luck," she whispered, and bounced her baby absently.
Gohan
nodded, biting his lip. He was worried about his dad.
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Usagi got
there just as Trunks panicked, and sent a blast at the Androids.
"What the
hell?"
The
fighting was begun.
"Who is
that red haired guy?" she asked, looking at the large 16, who seemed oblivious
to everything they were doing.
"Juurokogou,"
said Piccolo, tersely.
Vegeta and
Juuhachigou disappeared, and Usagi hoped he wouldn't get killed. She would hate
to see Bulma heartbroken like that.
He got
thrashed, and as Piccolo tried to fight Juunanagou, he was casually backhanded.
"This can't
be happening!" she yelled, as she tried to help her friends. Juunanagou was
about to land the finishing blow, when her crystal glowed, and formed a sword.
The clang reverbrated throughout the area.
"Who are
you?" he asked, shocked that he was being denied his fun.
Usa didn't
answer, just stood protectively over Piccolo, and the rest of the Z Senshi, of
which only Krillin was standing.
"Well,
then, don't answer," he said, and shrugged. Usa moved into a spin kick, and
yelled, "Moon Twilight flash!"
The ghostly
silver struck the male, but the girl punched Usa in the back, and she made a
crater in the cliff she hit.
Juunanagou
was knocked on his butt.
"Wow," he
said appreciatively. "She's got some potential, and she's pretty too."
"Males,
even androids," Juuhachigou muttered, and then looked over at Krillin. He was
kind of cute as well…
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"Did we
loose?" asked a voice, and Usagi found herself being pulled free of her stone
bed.
"I was just
getting comfortable," she mumbled.
A hand
gently shook her. Looking up, she was happy to see it was Piccolo.
"Yes,"
Piccolo rumbled back to the person who had spoken. "we lost, and now there are
three Androids out there."
He looked
deep in thought, and he took off.
"Piccolo,
wait!" Usa yelled, and put out her hand to stop him. He gave her a strange
smile, and left.
"What could
he be doing?" she asked despairingly, even as Vegeta left, bemoaning that even
as a Super Saiya-jin, he had been unable to defeat those tin cans.
Then
Krillin grinned hugely.
"He's going
to Kami's!"
At the
looks the others gave him, he explained about how Kami and Piccolo once being
one, and that if they rejoined, they would be the strongest warrior in the
universe, even stronger than a SSJ!
Usa's eyes
became huge as she listened to this.
Everyone
seemed to be going off to find a way to get stronger, or check on Goku, or
something, and she just sat there.
"Hey, you
coming Usa?" asked Tien, looking at her when she hadn't moved.
"No, I need
to think for a while."
Shrugging,
the triclops left, and Usa put her chin in her hands, hoping for some
inspiration.
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She hadn't
been all that much more powerful as Sailor Moon, she thought.
I went
through three stages of power already. First prism, then crystal, and now
cosmic power; okay, now, what's next?
"I'm more
powerful as myself, right now," she said aloud. It was true. She oculd do more,
fight harder, and still use the crystal just as plain Usagi, without the dumb
costume.
"Under
normal circumstances, you would have become Super Sailor Moon, using the Sacred
Chalice, then progressed to Eternal," said a familiar, beautiful voice.
Usagi
sprang to her feet, and then fell to her knees.
"You
majesty," she whispered softly, and cool fingers cupped her chin.
"My
daughter, you know that you no longer have to rely on formalities with me. I am
your mother."
Usagi
raised her eyes, and looked into the silvery blue of her mother's. She smiled
tremulously.
"I know.
What do I have to do, to become stronger?"
The Queen
of the Moon smiled gently at her daughter. "The power of the Moon flows through
you, my child. All you need to do is ask for it. The crystal, the most powerful
object in the universe, is at your call. You are powerful enough to handle the
strongest of your forms now. You have truly become the Senshi of the Cosmos,
yet that is not what is needed here."
The Queen
paused, and she frowned gently. "You are not ready for that, though. That is
the power of all your warriors combined. Until they have left this plane, you
will not have their powers. No," she mused to herself. "You are ready for the
other powers of the moon…"
"What other
powers?" Usagi asked, alarmed.
"The moon
is a symbol of many things. The Dark Moon family came from the side that never
saw light. The White Moon was for the side that was full, and shone with holy
light, and brought healing. Yet the full moon could also be seen as a symbol of
death and destruction. It was not the new moon, however. This was something
seen much more rarely. It was…
"The moon
eclipsed," Usagi whispered, seeing were this was going. "The Blood Moon."
"The last
Princess of the Moon to use that force destroyed herself, because she was
unable to control it. It was only when there was no choice, and even I, when
the only option was to use the crystal, even though it would mean my death,
would not take it. Would you?"
Usagi
closed her eyes. Terror at the thought of what she would bring out flooded her…
Then she
thought about Gohan, who had died in the future against these creatures, and
who could die still. The young man whose life was just beginning, yet had seen
hell. Piccolo, who was possibly going to loose his personality to become strong
enough to destroy those monsters…
She bowed
her head, her decision made.
Raising her
eyes to the heavens, she smiled at her mother, and gave her a kiss before she
faded away.
"MOON
ECLIPSED- MAKE UP!"
To be continued…