Chapter 10: Ying-Yang
No sound disturbed the silence that came with the appearance of
the two new sailor senshi. With the rising sun came no sounds of birds
singing or of cars driving to work. It was as if the entire planet was
holding its breath, allowing no disturbances to the confrontation that
had begun.
Sailor Cosmos stood tall, facing her opponent calmly. Her white
hair, flowing freely down her back and touching her knees, held a
blue-green tint that could be seen faintly in the light of the new day.
Her fuku was a match to Chaos's in all but color; her's white where
Chaos was black. They seemed to almost be opposite sides of a mirror.
"I always knew it was pointless to wait, but until now, I
didn't actually have the power to think. So it was not my choice."
Jadeite helped Mars stand up, but his attention was firmly on Chaos.
The black senshi ignored her former general and the fire senshi though,
taking a step towards Cosmos.
Venus was weak, and was having a difficult time standing up.
She wanted to be prepared in case the sailor senshi were attacked, but
she knew she would only be dead weight if she could not at least get on
her feet. When a gloved hand circled Venus's arm, the senshi leader
accepted the help and stood up shakily. Her eyes met with Sailor
Saturn's.
"I thought you were dead," Venus said softly. Saturn looked at
her briefly before turning her eyes back to the white and black senshi.
"I am reborn whenever I am needed."
Goten had listened to the advice of the teenage girl he had
saved and was now flying over the city. He had found most of the
Earth's defenders fairly quickly, but he still didn't know where Vegita
and his father were. He could detect their ki signatures, but they
seemed so distant, almost as if they were on another world.
"There they are!" Krillian yelled out over the wind rushing
around them. He pointed down to about where they had left the senshi
hours ago.
"Where's 14?" Trunks yelled out, his eyes searching the crowd
below. There was no response.
17 was recovering from the initial shock of the two
transformations he saw, more specifically, Sailor Cosmos's. She seemed
to be a completely different person. A tinge of worry creeped up on
him, but this time he pushed it away. Turning to look at Sailor Chaos,
he knew he shouldn't be worrying about such stupid things as 14 leaving
him. She had told him what she thought and he was going to be happy
with that. But now, he knew that if they hoped to defeat the dark women
in front of them, then no one's attention could stray. 'As mine has had
a tendency of doing lately,' he thought bitterly.
The android banished all concerns about 14 from his mind; his
face reclaimed the calm, confident expression he so often wore before
finding the forgotten Red Ribbon base months ago.
Gokou and Vegita looked at their surroundings, confused.
"Kakarrot, we aren't even on Earth!" Gokou smiled weakly,
embarrassed.
"Just a small mistake. We'll be home before you know it." The
two saiyajins vanished from the small planet Gokou had sent them to
minutes ago. The purple trees and green sky were only to be replaced
with what seemed to be an underground city with slugs the size of
elephants.
"Kakarrot!!" Vegita yelled, drawing the attention of several of
the huge slimes.
"Um, I think we're lost."
"You remain silent, Cosmos. Do you need inspiration to draw
forth your words?" Chaos asked, eyes still locked with the white
senshi.
"You know neither of us can win in a battle, Chaos." The words
were faint, difficult to hear, but had the effect their speaker
desired.
Chaos frowned angrily, bringing her staff around from her side
to her front. Taking it in both hands, she raised the staff into the
air, the blank, winged sphere high above everyone's heads.
"Destruction..." Chaos shouted as she brought down the top of
her staff to the ground. "Wave!" As the orb hit the pavement below, the
surrounding senshi were thrown back several feet from the huge release
of ki. What seemed to be like a distortion in the air sped towards
Cosmos, but instead of trying to move out of the attack's path, she
calmly raised her own staff and crossed it in front of her.
The distortion smashed into Cosmos powerfully. As it continued
to press against her, her face only revealed the smallest amount of
strain as she formed the barrier around the rod of her staff.
"If one of us were to destroy the other, both of us would cease
to exist," Cosmos said calmly as she lowered her staff back to the
ground. "The result would be nothing. Not even disorder would find its
place in the emptiness."
"That doesn't stop me from weakening you though. And as long as
there are people around, you are at a disadvantage."
Jadeite was concentrating on Mars for the most part. He had
been able to take the worst of the blowback from Chaos's attack, but
Mars was still too weak to do much to protect herself. He looked up as
he saw one of the Starlights approach.
"We should get her somewhere safe." The one known as Star Maker
kneeled down as he spoke to Jadeite. "We don't know what this situation
is going to turn into, and we need to get the weakest away so they can
recover safely."
"I can take her," a new voice said from above. As the two
senshi and Jadeite looked up, Trunks landed on the ground beside them.
"Gohan is already taking Venus to a safe place. I promised her I would
make sure Mars followed." Trunks kneeled down to pick up Mars, taking
her in his arms.
"I'll go with you," Jadeite said, standing up. Maker placed his
hand on Jadeite's arm. When Jadeite looked back, questioning, Maker
shook his head.
"You still have strength. We may need your help. Mars will be
fine." Jadeite frowned, turning to look back at Mars. She smiled
tiredly at him, nodding her head.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me." Trunks started to float
into the air.
"Wait," Jadeite said, walking towards the slightly airborne
sayijin and Mars. Ignoring Maker's and Trunks' nervous expressions, he
leaned toward Mars. "I'm so sorry." His voice came out softly, their
nearness being the only thing preventing it from being blown away
before reaching her ears. "I should never have kept this from you."
"I've already forgiven you," Mars replied, smiling again.
Jadeite returned the smile and, leaning forward again, brushed his lips
with hers. A short, chaste kiss. Both could feel what it meant as
Jadeite backed away again.
"Better let the boy take her." Maker's soft voice reminded the
two that they could not dawdle any longer. Looking up at Trunks'
slightly embarrassed face, Jadeite nodded. Within moments, the two were
flying away through the air. Jadeite turned to Maker.
"I'll help however I can."
"Damn you, Kakarrot! Can you not tell the difference between
here and Earth?!" Gokou smiled apologetically at the surprised Kaio
Shinn as he listened to Vegita rant. "I should have known better then
to put my trust in a low class sayijin such as you!"
17 had moved away from Cosmos. He could tell she could take
care of herself quite well, and to have someone more vulnerable
close-by couldn't help. He went and stood with his sister as they
helped the still-weak sailor senshi.
"Where did you vanish to earlier?" she asked, looking over her
shoulder at 17 as he approached her.
"I felt something strange going on elsewhere." He shrugged
faintly. "I was thinking it might have something to do with 14."
"Was it?"
"Yes. I got there just in time to see her vanish with the two
young saiyajins." He frowned. "I had a bit of trouble getting back." 18
noticed the singed clothes and smirked.
"Those yoma were easy. I was able to destroy ten in a single
attack. You can't have weakened that much in the few years I haven't
seen you." 17 raised an eyebrow at his sister's teasing.
"You may not have noticed, but these things are stronger the
closer they are to their energy source." Any further discussion of the
topic was halted though when the approaching Jadeite screamed out, as
if in pain.
Cosmos looked to the side, frowning. The man she knew as
Jadeite had fallen to the ground, holding his head and screaming. She
looked back at the suddenly smirking Chaos.
"What did you do to him?" Cosmos asked angrily.
"Only using what is left of myself that is inside of him." She
stepped closer, her high heels snapping sharply in Cosmos's ears.
"Every senshi here, in fact, everyone in the world has a small portion
of Chaos energy in their bodies. And as soon as I command it, they will
experience the same thing he is going through now."
"Wolf..." The name came across the distance between Jadeite and
Chaos. The dark senshi stilled at the name. She turned her head to look
at the fallen general, but he seemed too far-gone to say anything more.
"It seems you are not as much alone in that body as you may
wish, Chaos," Cosmos said quietly. Sailor Chaos turned back, glaring at
Sailor Cosmos
"Entropy Sphere Distruct!" Chaos cried, the tip of her staff
directed at Cosmos as the soccer sized black ball formed at the tips of
the wings and flew at Cosmos. Cosmos brought her arms and staff up to
block the attack once again, but hardly a foot from impact, the ball
seemed to dematerialize into the air. Strands of dark energy separated,
wrapping around Cosmos. The white senshi had prepared herself for a
concentrated attack, and was unable to prevent the black strands from
sinking into her skin before it was too late.
"Namak? I thought this place blew up!" Gokou cried, surprised
at their new location.
Trunks had just dropped off Mars with his mother and Venus. He
started flying back towards the warehouse district, a location that
seemed to be glowing despite the rising sun, when he felt something
trickle down his spine. Frowning at the strange feeling, he continued
on. He had almost reached the location of the strange battle when a
coldness seemed to spread out from the center of his back; a stabbing
pain following everywhere the cold had spread.
"Ahhh!" He cried out as he began to fall, the normally simple
task of flying suddenly too much to concentrate on. He felt himself
caught before he fell to the ground, but he was already to distracted
by the pain to tell who it was.
Gohan carried Trunks the rest of the way to where the uneasy
balance of powers seemed to be tipping slowly. He set Trunks down
carefully where the weak were being taken care of. At Healer's confused
look, Gohan shrugged helplessly.
"We were coming back from dropping Mars and Venus off. He
suddenly screamed and started falling, so I turned around and caught
him."
"They've absorbed chaos energy." Healer and Gohan turned at
Piccolo's voice to see the green Namakian carrying Goten. "Sailor Chaos
is using that to her advantage." He turned his head, the young teen
still cringing in his arms. Healer and Gohan followed his gaze as it
fell on the two opposite senshi not far off.
Cosmos screamed out as the black tendrils sunk into her skin.
Where her fuku and cape protected her, the strands were held out,
creating almost a zebra-like effect, but her flesh had no such
protection. As they finished sinking in, vanishing from view, Cosmos
stopped screaming. She turned cold, angry eyes to Chaos and ran at her,
her staff coming down in an arch onto Chaos's shoulder. Chaos grinned
faintly before wincing at the sharp pain so close to her neck.
"You were too good as Cosmos," she shouted, grinning at the
black and white senshi. "You would never have attacked."
"Cosmos Energy Explode!" Cosmos shouted, bringing her hands
together despite the staff she still held in one. The white sphere
formed in her hands, then instantly exploded, sending shards of the
white energy at Chaos.
Similar to the chaos tendrils that Cosmos had absorbed, the
white splinters rained onto Chaos, her fuku repelling the sharp energy,
her skin absorbing.
"What are they doing?" Yamcha asked Sailor Star Fighter. The
dark haired starlight, not taking his eyes off the two fighting senshi
for a moment, replied.
"I think they are mixing. Neither is pure anymore. Both have
some of the exact power they are fighting against within themselves."
"What will that do?"
"I have no idea," Fighter admitted.
"Vegita." Vegita looked around where they had just appeared,
almost happily. Gokou frowned at his companion, confused. Then he saw
one of the citizens of the city they had appeared in. Black hair fell
to her knees. She wore battle armor and had a brown, furry tail wrapped
around her waist. She was watching the two newcomers suspiciously.
"Uh, sorry Vegita, but we don't have time for this," Gokou said
nervously. He had no intention of getting in into anything with a
saiyajin who should be space dust. He quickly replaced his hand on
Vegita's shoulder, put the fingers of his other hand to his head, and
transported them away.
Slowly, the attack against Trunks, Goten, and Jadeite seemed to
fade away. As they sat up from where the others were trying to comfort
and calm them, they looked around curiously. Uranus looked back over
her shoulder as she heard the commotion when they stood up.
"It must be because of the princess's attack," she said quietly
as Neptune rejoined her in watching the two senshi battle. "Chaos now
has some Cosmos in her."
"This whole thing is very confusing," Neptune said quietly.
Uranus only nodded.
"Starburst Shock!" Cosmos cried out, dodging Chaos's last
physical attack. The light that ran like lightning from Sailor Cosmos's
hands crashed into Chaos. Chaos fell to the ground, the electricity and
energy burning her nerves throughout her body. Cosmos stepped back and
grinned, watching as Chaos worked to stand back up.
"Just as you said earlier, Cosmos, neither of us can win."
Chaos winced, but managed to grin through the pain. Cosmos looked at
her, frowning, confused. It was only then she felt the shocking pain,
though undoubtedly less intense then Chaos felt, run down her nerves.
She gasped in surprise and pain. The adrenaline had masked all she felt
whenever she attacked Chaos until her attention was drawn to it.
Pluto watched Sailor Chaos and Sailor Cosmos quietly, separate
from the rest of the sailor senshi and Earth's defenders. She turned
her head towards Tuxedo Kaman as she felt him walk up to join her.
"Moments ago, they were both ready to tear eachother apart.
What happened?" he asked, watching as Cosmos and Chaos seemed to stand
silently, facing eachother.
"They have become one power," Pluto said, smiling. She turned
to look at Kaman again. "Kind of a letdown after all this trouble,
don't you think?" Kaman frowned, more confused then ever. "With their
first major energy attacks, they mixed some of themselves in with the
one attacked. The point was to make the other weaker. The result is
they are finally, in a way, a combined power." Pluto smiled, satisfied
with what had happened. She could see the two senshi involved still had
no real idea what had happened, but she would explain it to them later.
Gokou and Vegita were tired and sick of the random worlds they
had appeared in. After Planet Vegita, they had showed up in what
appeared to be a world of very serious people with elf ears, followed
by a space station of some sort. Then there was a planet where everyone
had tiny horns and they wore tiger skin clothing. After that, a room
where a teenage girl in an oversized green shirt and cut-off jean
shorts typed in her attempt to send chapter 10 off to her beta reader
within the hour. Woods with what appeared to be a pack of wolves
running past with small elves riding on their backs followed this. And
at last, a dojo with a teenage boy falling into a koi pond and coming
out as a teenage girl, then shouting at the panda sitting just inside.
"I think I'm getting a headache," Vegita moaned miserably as a
tomboyish girl came and hit the red-haired boy/girl on the head with a
mallet she pulled from nowhere.
"One more try," Gokou replied.
"One cannot survive without the other," Piccolo said calmly.
Jadeite, holding his head in remberance of pain, walked up to the
Namak.
"What do you mean?" he asked, just noticing the two senshi a
ways off.
"If there is no good, how can you decide what is evil? And if
there is no evil, how do you rate goodness?" Jadeite pondered the words
Piccolo spoke silently as his eyes suddenly began to show his
understanding.
"Ying-yang. As long as there is one, there is the other. And if
one ceases to exist, nothingness." Piccolo nodded, quietly impressed by
Jadeite's quick understanding.
The two senshi continued to stand opposite of eachother, no
words being spoken. They could feel the mixture that had seemed to
balance within their bodies. They silently seemed to reach a truce,
almost communicating through their links with eachother. Both
simultaneously reversed their transformations. Android 14, her long
hair still held back in a loose braid, now looked across at Wolf, her
hair still dark as night. Almost as if showing the mixture they now
held, the light eyes of 14 showed dark specks, just as Wolf's dark eyes
were flecked with white. Wolf turned her head away from 14 and her eyes
met with Jadeite briefly. She then turned and walked away, hardly
making it more then a few steps before vanishing.
"Where did she go?" 17 asked, looking at 14's back. She turned
to him, smiling faintly.
"I don't know."
Gokou and Vegita shimmered out of existence from the alternate
reality, and even Vegita seemed to crack a smile as he recognized where
they appeared. Gokou only seemed depressed as he looked at the now calm
surroundings.
"Did we miss EVERYTHING?!" he asked, nearly shouting. His frown
deepened as everyone seemed to nod.
"Where have you guys been, anyway?" Yamcha asked through his
quiet laughter.
A young woman with white-blond hair just to below her shoulders
packed the last of her things from her room in the orphanage she had
been in for the past thirteen years. She was 18 now, and the sisters
that ran the orphanage had helped her get a job in preparation of this
day. She was leaving the only home she had had since she was found at
five years old, alone and with no memory of her family. She turned her
sky blue eyes to the window, smiling faintly. A job at Capsule Corp
would be wonderful, and the pay was great. She already had an apartment
set up, ready to be moved into.
Yukai wrapped her fingers around the silver chain she had been
found with, her only real link to her past. She picked up her suitcase
and, letting go of the silver chain, felt the familiar tiny crescent
moon lay back on her skin.
Oh my gosh, Android 14 is finished! I never thought this day
would actually come! *dances*
Sorry if this chapter seemed to be like an anti-climax. I just
didn't know how to top chapter 9 in action and still keep both senshi
alive! I'll try to make up for it in the sequel, title yet unknown.
I have a whole list of things to say in this author's notes. So
bear with me, will ya?
First of all, I'd just like to say that I own none of the
shows, books, etc that showed up in this fic. They all belong to their
respective owners. You could sue me for all I'm worth, but really all
that is now is about a $20 debt due to overspending in preparation for
school. If anyone wants to help me with that in thanks for writing this
WONDERFUL fic (grin), I'll gladly take donations.
Okay, I have a whole list of thanks to do here. Get ready!
One, I want to thank my sister for her help in brainstorming
ideas throughout the fic. She helped me break down writer's block more
then once, and has been drawing wonderful pictures based on my story
(Android 14 and 17 together, the scene where Goten was carrying our
unconscious mystery girl (who, by the way, will be introduced in the
sequel), and is now actually working on making a manga out of Android
14!). Thanks Umi!
I also want to thank Eternal Sailor M. Her praise and
encouragement of my work kept me writing, and she's also kept me from
feeling guilty when I took too long in writing a chapter. As well, her
work has given me something to shoot for, being one of the best
crossover fanfic authors out there. Arigatoo M-chan!
As well, there is Nate, my self-proclaimed DBZ expert. *grin*
He gave me some ideas that I worked into the later chapters of A14 and
helped me come up with the basic outline for the sequel. Arigatoo Nate!
And last, but definitely not least, my beta-reader, the
wonderful Bulmachan! This woman reads over my work, corrects my
grammar, and has even made me look differently at the thought of Trunks
and Pan being together (*snicker*)! Without her, the chapter 8 you read
would have been FULL of spelling mistakes as well as my normal grammar
mistakes. Believe me, I worship her for being able to pre-read my
things. Thank you Bulmachan!
I could go on and on with people who have written me and given
me support, but I wanted to focus on those I absolutely couldn't have
done this (or at least not as well) without. If anyone is still reading
this anyway, it's a miracle.
Keep your eyes peeled for the sequel!
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com
No sound disturbed the silence that came with the appearance of
the two new sailor senshi. With the rising sun came no sounds of birds
singing or of cars driving to work. It was as if the entire planet was
holding its breath, allowing no disturbances to the confrontation that
had begun.
Sailor Cosmos stood tall, facing her opponent calmly. Her white
hair, flowing freely down her back and touching her knees, held a
blue-green tint that could be seen faintly in the light of the new day.
Her fuku was a match to Chaos's in all but color; her's white where
Chaos was black. They seemed to almost be opposite sides of a mirror.
"I always knew it was pointless to wait, but until now, I
didn't actually have the power to think. So it was not my choice."
Jadeite helped Mars stand up, but his attention was firmly on Chaos.
The black senshi ignored her former general and the fire senshi though,
taking a step towards Cosmos.
Venus was weak, and was having a difficult time standing up.
She wanted to be prepared in case the sailor senshi were attacked, but
she knew she would only be dead weight if she could not at least get on
her feet. When a gloved hand circled Venus's arm, the senshi leader
accepted the help and stood up shakily. Her eyes met with Sailor
Saturn's.
"I thought you were dead," Venus said softly. Saturn looked at
her briefly before turning her eyes back to the white and black senshi.
"I am reborn whenever I am needed."
Goten had listened to the advice of the teenage girl he had
saved and was now flying over the city. He had found most of the
Earth's defenders fairly quickly, but he still didn't know where Vegita
and his father were. He could detect their ki signatures, but they
seemed so distant, almost as if they were on another world.
"There they are!" Krillian yelled out over the wind rushing
around them. He pointed down to about where they had left the senshi
hours ago.
"Where's 14?" Trunks yelled out, his eyes searching the crowd
below. There was no response.
17 was recovering from the initial shock of the two
transformations he saw, more specifically, Sailor Cosmos's. She seemed
to be a completely different person. A tinge of worry creeped up on
him, but this time he pushed it away. Turning to look at Sailor Chaos,
he knew he shouldn't be worrying about such stupid things as 14 leaving
him. She had told him what she thought and he was going to be happy
with that. But now, he knew that if they hoped to defeat the dark women
in front of them, then no one's attention could stray. 'As mine has had
a tendency of doing lately,' he thought bitterly.
The android banished all concerns about 14 from his mind; his
face reclaimed the calm, confident expression he so often wore before
finding the forgotten Red Ribbon base months ago.
Gokou and Vegita looked at their surroundings, confused.
"Kakarrot, we aren't even on Earth!" Gokou smiled weakly,
embarrassed.
"Just a small mistake. We'll be home before you know it." The
two saiyajins vanished from the small planet Gokou had sent them to
minutes ago. The purple trees and green sky were only to be replaced
with what seemed to be an underground city with slugs the size of
elephants.
"Kakarrot!!" Vegita yelled, drawing the attention of several of
the huge slimes.
"Um, I think we're lost."
"You remain silent, Cosmos. Do you need inspiration to draw
forth your words?" Chaos asked, eyes still locked with the white
senshi.
"You know neither of us can win in a battle, Chaos." The words
were faint, difficult to hear, but had the effect their speaker
desired.
Chaos frowned angrily, bringing her staff around from her side
to her front. Taking it in both hands, she raised the staff into the
air, the blank, winged sphere high above everyone's heads.
"Destruction..." Chaos shouted as she brought down the top of
her staff to the ground. "Wave!" As the orb hit the pavement below, the
surrounding senshi were thrown back several feet from the huge release
of ki. What seemed to be like a distortion in the air sped towards
Cosmos, but instead of trying to move out of the attack's path, she
calmly raised her own staff and crossed it in front of her.
The distortion smashed into Cosmos powerfully. As it continued
to press against her, her face only revealed the smallest amount of
strain as she formed the barrier around the rod of her staff.
"If one of us were to destroy the other, both of us would cease
to exist," Cosmos said calmly as she lowered her staff back to the
ground. "The result would be nothing. Not even disorder would find its
place in the emptiness."
"That doesn't stop me from weakening you though. And as long as
there are people around, you are at a disadvantage."
Jadeite was concentrating on Mars for the most part. He had
been able to take the worst of the blowback from Chaos's attack, but
Mars was still too weak to do much to protect herself. He looked up as
he saw one of the Starlights approach.
"We should get her somewhere safe." The one known as Star Maker
kneeled down as he spoke to Jadeite. "We don't know what this situation
is going to turn into, and we need to get the weakest away so they can
recover safely."
"I can take her," a new voice said from above. As the two
senshi and Jadeite looked up, Trunks landed on the ground beside them.
"Gohan is already taking Venus to a safe place. I promised her I would
make sure Mars followed." Trunks kneeled down to pick up Mars, taking
her in his arms.
"I'll go with you," Jadeite said, standing up. Maker placed his
hand on Jadeite's arm. When Jadeite looked back, questioning, Maker
shook his head.
"You still have strength. We may need your help. Mars will be
fine." Jadeite frowned, turning to look back at Mars. She smiled
tiredly at him, nodding her head.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me." Trunks started to float
into the air.
"Wait," Jadeite said, walking towards the slightly airborne
sayijin and Mars. Ignoring Maker's and Trunks' nervous expressions, he
leaned toward Mars. "I'm so sorry." His voice came out softly, their
nearness being the only thing preventing it from being blown away
before reaching her ears. "I should never have kept this from you."
"I've already forgiven you," Mars replied, smiling again.
Jadeite returned the smile and, leaning forward again, brushed his lips
with hers. A short, chaste kiss. Both could feel what it meant as
Jadeite backed away again.
"Better let the boy take her." Maker's soft voice reminded the
two that they could not dawdle any longer. Looking up at Trunks'
slightly embarrassed face, Jadeite nodded. Within moments, the two were
flying away through the air. Jadeite turned to Maker.
"I'll help however I can."
"Damn you, Kakarrot! Can you not tell the difference between
here and Earth?!" Gokou smiled apologetically at the surprised Kaio
Shinn as he listened to Vegita rant. "I should have known better then
to put my trust in a low class sayijin such as you!"
17 had moved away from Cosmos. He could tell she could take
care of herself quite well, and to have someone more vulnerable
close-by couldn't help. He went and stood with his sister as they
helped the still-weak sailor senshi.
"Where did you vanish to earlier?" she asked, looking over her
shoulder at 17 as he approached her.
"I felt something strange going on elsewhere." He shrugged
faintly. "I was thinking it might have something to do with 14."
"Was it?"
"Yes. I got there just in time to see her vanish with the two
young saiyajins." He frowned. "I had a bit of trouble getting back." 18
noticed the singed clothes and smirked.
"Those yoma were easy. I was able to destroy ten in a single
attack. You can't have weakened that much in the few years I haven't
seen you." 17 raised an eyebrow at his sister's teasing.
"You may not have noticed, but these things are stronger the
closer they are to their energy source." Any further discussion of the
topic was halted though when the approaching Jadeite screamed out, as
if in pain.
Cosmos looked to the side, frowning. The man she knew as
Jadeite had fallen to the ground, holding his head and screaming. She
looked back at the suddenly smirking Chaos.
"What did you do to him?" Cosmos asked angrily.
"Only using what is left of myself that is inside of him." She
stepped closer, her high heels snapping sharply in Cosmos's ears.
"Every senshi here, in fact, everyone in the world has a small portion
of Chaos energy in their bodies. And as soon as I command it, they will
experience the same thing he is going through now."
"Wolf..." The name came across the distance between Jadeite and
Chaos. The dark senshi stilled at the name. She turned her head to look
at the fallen general, but he seemed too far-gone to say anything more.
"It seems you are not as much alone in that body as you may
wish, Chaos," Cosmos said quietly. Sailor Chaos turned back, glaring at
Sailor Cosmos
"Entropy Sphere Distruct!" Chaos cried, the tip of her staff
directed at Cosmos as the soccer sized black ball formed at the tips of
the wings and flew at Cosmos. Cosmos brought her arms and staff up to
block the attack once again, but hardly a foot from impact, the ball
seemed to dematerialize into the air. Strands of dark energy separated,
wrapping around Cosmos. The white senshi had prepared herself for a
concentrated attack, and was unable to prevent the black strands from
sinking into her skin before it was too late.
"Namak? I thought this place blew up!" Gokou cried, surprised
at their new location.
Trunks had just dropped off Mars with his mother and Venus. He
started flying back towards the warehouse district, a location that
seemed to be glowing despite the rising sun, when he felt something
trickle down his spine. Frowning at the strange feeling, he continued
on. He had almost reached the location of the strange battle when a
coldness seemed to spread out from the center of his back; a stabbing
pain following everywhere the cold had spread.
"Ahhh!" He cried out as he began to fall, the normally simple
task of flying suddenly too much to concentrate on. He felt himself
caught before he fell to the ground, but he was already to distracted
by the pain to tell who it was.
Gohan carried Trunks the rest of the way to where the uneasy
balance of powers seemed to be tipping slowly. He set Trunks down
carefully where the weak were being taken care of. At Healer's confused
look, Gohan shrugged helplessly.
"We were coming back from dropping Mars and Venus off. He
suddenly screamed and started falling, so I turned around and caught
him."
"They've absorbed chaos energy." Healer and Gohan turned at
Piccolo's voice to see the green Namakian carrying Goten. "Sailor Chaos
is using that to her advantage." He turned his head, the young teen
still cringing in his arms. Healer and Gohan followed his gaze as it
fell on the two opposite senshi not far off.
Cosmos screamed out as the black tendrils sunk into her skin.
Where her fuku and cape protected her, the strands were held out,
creating almost a zebra-like effect, but her flesh had no such
protection. As they finished sinking in, vanishing from view, Cosmos
stopped screaming. She turned cold, angry eyes to Chaos and ran at her,
her staff coming down in an arch onto Chaos's shoulder. Chaos grinned
faintly before wincing at the sharp pain so close to her neck.
"You were too good as Cosmos," she shouted, grinning at the
black and white senshi. "You would never have attacked."
"Cosmos Energy Explode!" Cosmos shouted, bringing her hands
together despite the staff she still held in one. The white sphere
formed in her hands, then instantly exploded, sending shards of the
white energy at Chaos.
Similar to the chaos tendrils that Cosmos had absorbed, the
white splinters rained onto Chaos, her fuku repelling the sharp energy,
her skin absorbing.
"What are they doing?" Yamcha asked Sailor Star Fighter. The
dark haired starlight, not taking his eyes off the two fighting senshi
for a moment, replied.
"I think they are mixing. Neither is pure anymore. Both have
some of the exact power they are fighting against within themselves."
"What will that do?"
"I have no idea," Fighter admitted.
"Vegita." Vegita looked around where they had just appeared,
almost happily. Gokou frowned at his companion, confused. Then he saw
one of the citizens of the city they had appeared in. Black hair fell
to her knees. She wore battle armor and had a brown, furry tail wrapped
around her waist. She was watching the two newcomers suspiciously.
"Uh, sorry Vegita, but we don't have time for this," Gokou said
nervously. He had no intention of getting in into anything with a
saiyajin who should be space dust. He quickly replaced his hand on
Vegita's shoulder, put the fingers of his other hand to his head, and
transported them away.
Slowly, the attack against Trunks, Goten, and Jadeite seemed to
fade away. As they sat up from where the others were trying to comfort
and calm them, they looked around curiously. Uranus looked back over
her shoulder as she heard the commotion when they stood up.
"It must be because of the princess's attack," she said quietly
as Neptune rejoined her in watching the two senshi battle. "Chaos now
has some Cosmos in her."
"This whole thing is very confusing," Neptune said quietly.
Uranus only nodded.
"Starburst Shock!" Cosmos cried out, dodging Chaos's last
physical attack. The light that ran like lightning from Sailor Cosmos's
hands crashed into Chaos. Chaos fell to the ground, the electricity and
energy burning her nerves throughout her body. Cosmos stepped back and
grinned, watching as Chaos worked to stand back up.
"Just as you said earlier, Cosmos, neither of us can win."
Chaos winced, but managed to grin through the pain. Cosmos looked at
her, frowning, confused. It was only then she felt the shocking pain,
though undoubtedly less intense then Chaos felt, run down her nerves.
She gasped in surprise and pain. The adrenaline had masked all she felt
whenever she attacked Chaos until her attention was drawn to it.
Pluto watched Sailor Chaos and Sailor Cosmos quietly, separate
from the rest of the sailor senshi and Earth's defenders. She turned
her head towards Tuxedo Kaman as she felt him walk up to join her.
"Moments ago, they were both ready to tear eachother apart.
What happened?" he asked, watching as Cosmos and Chaos seemed to stand
silently, facing eachother.
"They have become one power," Pluto said, smiling. She turned
to look at Kaman again. "Kind of a letdown after all this trouble,
don't you think?" Kaman frowned, more confused then ever. "With their
first major energy attacks, they mixed some of themselves in with the
one attacked. The point was to make the other weaker. The result is
they are finally, in a way, a combined power." Pluto smiled, satisfied
with what had happened. She could see the two senshi involved still had
no real idea what had happened, but she would explain it to them later.
Gokou and Vegita were tired and sick of the random worlds they
had appeared in. After Planet Vegita, they had showed up in what
appeared to be a world of very serious people with elf ears, followed
by a space station of some sort. Then there was a planet where everyone
had tiny horns and they wore tiger skin clothing. After that, a room
where a teenage girl in an oversized green shirt and cut-off jean
shorts typed in her attempt to send chapter 10 off to her beta reader
within the hour. Woods with what appeared to be a pack of wolves
running past with small elves riding on their backs followed this. And
at last, a dojo with a teenage boy falling into a koi pond and coming
out as a teenage girl, then shouting at the panda sitting just inside.
"I think I'm getting a headache," Vegita moaned miserably as a
tomboyish girl came and hit the red-haired boy/girl on the head with a
mallet she pulled from nowhere.
"One more try," Gokou replied.
"One cannot survive without the other," Piccolo said calmly.
Jadeite, holding his head in remberance of pain, walked up to the
Namak.
"What do you mean?" he asked, just noticing the two senshi a
ways off.
"If there is no good, how can you decide what is evil? And if
there is no evil, how do you rate goodness?" Jadeite pondered the words
Piccolo spoke silently as his eyes suddenly began to show his
understanding.
"Ying-yang. As long as there is one, there is the other. And if
one ceases to exist, nothingness." Piccolo nodded, quietly impressed by
Jadeite's quick understanding.
The two senshi continued to stand opposite of eachother, no
words being spoken. They could feel the mixture that had seemed to
balance within their bodies. They silently seemed to reach a truce,
almost communicating through their links with eachother. Both
simultaneously reversed their transformations. Android 14, her long
hair still held back in a loose braid, now looked across at Wolf, her
hair still dark as night. Almost as if showing the mixture they now
held, the light eyes of 14 showed dark specks, just as Wolf's dark eyes
were flecked with white. Wolf turned her head away from 14 and her eyes
met with Jadeite briefly. She then turned and walked away, hardly
making it more then a few steps before vanishing.
"Where did she go?" 17 asked, looking at 14's back. She turned
to him, smiling faintly.
"I don't know."
Gokou and Vegita shimmered out of existence from the alternate
reality, and even Vegita seemed to crack a smile as he recognized where
they appeared. Gokou only seemed depressed as he looked at the now calm
surroundings.
"Did we miss EVERYTHING?!" he asked, nearly shouting. His frown
deepened as everyone seemed to nod.
"Where have you guys been, anyway?" Yamcha asked through his
quiet laughter.
A young woman with white-blond hair just to below her shoulders
packed the last of her things from her room in the orphanage she had
been in for the past thirteen years. She was 18 now, and the sisters
that ran the orphanage had helped her get a job in preparation of this
day. She was leaving the only home she had had since she was found at
five years old, alone and with no memory of her family. She turned her
sky blue eyes to the window, smiling faintly. A job at Capsule Corp
would be wonderful, and the pay was great. She already had an apartment
set up, ready to be moved into.
Yukai wrapped her fingers around the silver chain she had been
found with, her only real link to her past. She picked up her suitcase
and, letting go of the silver chain, felt the familiar tiny crescent
moon lay back on her skin.
Oh my gosh, Android 14 is finished! I never thought this day
would actually come! *dances*
Sorry if this chapter seemed to be like an anti-climax. I just
didn't know how to top chapter 9 in action and still keep both senshi
alive! I'll try to make up for it in the sequel, title yet unknown.
I have a whole list of things to say in this author's notes. So
bear with me, will ya?
First of all, I'd just like to say that I own none of the
shows, books, etc that showed up in this fic. They all belong to their
respective owners. You could sue me for all I'm worth, but really all
that is now is about a $20 debt due to overspending in preparation for
school. If anyone wants to help me with that in thanks for writing this
WONDERFUL fic (grin), I'll gladly take donations.
Okay, I have a whole list of thanks to do here. Get ready!
One, I want to thank my sister for her help in brainstorming
ideas throughout the fic. She helped me break down writer's block more
then once, and has been drawing wonderful pictures based on my story
(Android 14 and 17 together, the scene where Goten was carrying our
unconscious mystery girl (who, by the way, will be introduced in the
sequel), and is now actually working on making a manga out of Android
14!). Thanks Umi!
I also want to thank Eternal Sailor M. Her praise and
encouragement of my work kept me writing, and she's also kept me from
feeling guilty when I took too long in writing a chapter. As well, her
work has given me something to shoot for, being one of the best
crossover fanfic authors out there. Arigatoo M-chan!
As well, there is Nate, my self-proclaimed DBZ expert. *grin*
He gave me some ideas that I worked into the later chapters of A14 and
helped me come up with the basic outline for the sequel. Arigatoo Nate!
And last, but definitely not least, my beta-reader, the
wonderful Bulmachan! This woman reads over my work, corrects my
grammar, and has even made me look differently at the thought of Trunks
and Pan being together (*snicker*)! Without her, the chapter 8 you read
would have been FULL of spelling mistakes as well as my normal grammar
mistakes. Believe me, I worship her for being able to pre-read my
things. Thank you Bulmachan!
I could go on and on with people who have written me and given
me support, but I wanted to focus on those I absolutely couldn't have
done this (or at least not as well) without. If anyone is still reading
this anyway, it's a miracle.
Keep your eyes peeled for the sequel!
~Jade Nova
moon_archer82@lunap.com