Chapter 1

Dimension SM

Thanks to Chibi-Usa's creativity in making her wake up, Usagi was actually was actually on her way to school on time. As she walked down the street, her usual carefree grin upon her face, Usagi allowed her thoughts to return to the dream she'd had the night before. Who were those two guys, anyway? And why in the Moon's name did she think she knew them? There was something so familiar about them…

"Usagi-chan! Where are you going? And why are you here so early?" Makoto was giving her a strange look. For her part, Usagi looked completely puzzled. Then she noticed she had just walked straight passed the school, without so much as pausing. She blushed.

"Oh! I'm sorry Mako-chan, I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going." She quickly doubled back and entered the schoolyard. Makoto was still giving her strange looks though.

"Is something bothering you Usa? You're never early." Makoto looked at her, carefully examining her facial expression. Usagi found that this concern bothered her in a way that it never had before. Usually it made her happy to just know that the senshi cared about her, but for some reason her one time of being early didn't seem to be a good enough cause for concern about her.

"I'm fine Makoto, really." She said, brushing by the senshi and heading into Crossroads. She sat quietly in her seat, barely responding when Ms. Haruna called her name. It seemed, however, that responding had been a bad idea. Ms. Haruna fainted dead away from shock, and classes were canceled for the day. Not knowing what else to do, Usagi headed for the Crown Arcade to talk to Motoki
about her strange dream.

Dimension GW

Upon waking up the next morning, Heero and Quatre rose swiftly and looked at each other. They had returned to the dream world to continue planning for today's mission, and were now preparing to leave. Much to the disappointment of the two, the mysterious maiden at not reentered the dreaming that night. Although they had not spoken of her again, the silence spoke volumes as each sensed the others desire to see her again. Who was she and why could she affect them in this way?

"Heero!" Quatre called. "It's time to get going. Duo, Trowa, and Wufei will meet us there in two hours. We need to leave right away if we hope to be there in time."

"Hmph." Heero grunted and nodded his head in response before jumping into his Gundam to head for the OZ base they would be destroying that day.

Dimension SM

Usagi had not had a good day. First she had been forced awake early. Her teacher then proceeded to faint when she was on time to class for a change. Next, Motoki couldn't come up with a logical explanation for her dream either, although, thankfully, he had agreed not to tell the others. To make matters worse, there was a huge battle, and the monster had left a huge bruise on the side of Usagi's face that just wouldn't go away even after she detransformed. Hours later it finally disappeared, but not before Luna saw it and yelled at her to be more cautious. With Luna mad at her, there was no way for Usagi to force information out of her. To top it all off, Mamoru hadn't spoken to her all day and that damn dream just wouldn't leave her alone. No matter what else she was doing, a small corner of Usagi's mind refused to let it go.

'No.' Usagi reflected as she crawled in between her covers that night, 'today has definitely not been a good day.' She turned out the light and fell asleep, her previous night's conviction about forcing someone to tell her information she desired drifting away without a moment's thought.

Dimension GW

Upon successful completion of the mission, the five pilots returned to Quatre's mansion, where he and Heero had spent the last week or two. Naturally, the first order of business was to repair the Gundams. Then they ate. Finally, the five headed off to their rooms to catch some shut-eye.

All of this, mission included, occurred without a word from either Heero or Quatre about the mystery woman who had entered their dream. If any of the other three suspected something was up, they ignored it, for the topic was not brought up at all. Only when they had returned to the mist was anything voiced about the woman they both felt they had met before.

The Realm of Dreaming

Usagi spent a couple of hours exploring her dream. A dark mist covered the entire location, obscuring it from her view. Once again, she had become her former self, and the white gown swished around her ankles. Her bare feet padded softly down the hall, attempting to find where it led. However, the hallway lacked a beginning and an end. It seemed to stretch for all eternity. Something was on the walls, but the mist was so thick over whatever it was that Usagi was unable to discern it.

"Quatre, is that you over there?" Usagi gasped as someone else's voice invaded her dreams. The intrusion seemed almost natural, though, because his voice had been caught in her mind all day. It was the person who'd threatened her last night.

"I am not now, nor have I ever been, Quatre. Nonetheless, I am here with you now." Usagi turned his words back upon him. "Who are you?"

"It's you!" Another voice gasped in the darkness. "You're the girl who visited us here last night. How did you get here?"

She shrugged noncommittally. "I don't know. I just closed my eyes, fell asleep, and BAM - here I am. How about you two?"

"Pretty much the same story with us." Usagi could hear the lie in the boy's voice and decided to force an elaboration later. She strode forward slightly, curious as to whom these two people were, but the mist kept them separated. One of the boys was leaning against a conveniently placed pillar, glaring at her. The other was just standing there looking at her, his eyes wide. Even though the mist hid them, some mysterious force was allowing her to sense their emotions.

"Do you know where we are?" Usagi asked innocently. Her dress swirled around her ankles as a strange wind swept through the dark corridor.

"Who are you?" The glaring one replied in turn, answering her question with one of his own. Usagi didn't have a decent reason not to answer him with honesty, and so she did.

"My name is Usagi Tsukino." She said simply, then paused. "I know that the one of you who answered my question earlier is Quatre. I have told you who I am. Will you treat me with the same respect?"

"Heero Yuy." His voice was cold as he answered. "And my associate is Quatre Winners."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Miss Usagi." Quatre replied, again pondering how she arrived in the dream, but feeling it was rude not to answer her question. "We don't really know where we are. We have scoured this whole area, and found nothing. All we know is that while asleep we are here, and when we wake up again we are wherever we were when we fell asleep."

"The same is true for me. Have you met each other while awake?" Usagi asked, attempting to find out as much as she could about this strange place and the others who visited it with her.

"Yes." Was all Heero said. He glared at Quatre, alerting him to the fact that nothing was to be said about their mission. Meanwhile, Usagi
was absorbing some facts. It seemed that they could see each other in spite of the mist, they could see each other. She had but a brief moment to ponder why before her body shook and she was once again pulled from the dream.

"Think we'll see her again?" Quatre asked Heero.

"Humph." Heero grunted in response, although for once his grunt had and affirmative quality to it.

As Time Passes...

Things continued on this way for most of the rest of the week. The Gundam boys went on missions, Usagi fought youmas. The boys were
very rarely injured beyond simply having to repair their Gundams. Usagi, on the other hand, was often injured. The multiple battles were beginning to tear her physical being to shreds. A wedge seemed to be growing between herself and the senshi, driving them
further and further apart. The mental pain that the fighting caused her was indescribable. Her only salvation came upon her entrance to the dreamland, where there was no pain. Each night she, Heero, and Quatre discussed their lives. It grew to the point where Usagi
was more comfortable and companionable with the two men then they had ever been with just each other, in spite of their remarkably close relationship.

All the while, Usagi's sense that something was going to happen soon grew and grew, until finally, it did.