Chapter 3

Dimension GW

Trowa shook his head and leaned back from the work he had been doing. Duo and Wufei looked at him with surprise in their eyes. It seemed almost like he was giving up.

"What's wrong Trowa? Why'd you stop helping them?" Duo asked curiously.

Trowa raised his face to his two fellow pilots and said, "There is nothing I can do for them now."

Dimension SM

The blinding light of the Silver Crystal gradually faded from the room, leaving four very confused senshi and a frazzled looking guy in a tuxedo and a mask.

"Where did the youma go?" Mars asked. She could have sworn it was here a moment ago.

"You mean you didn't destroy it?" Tuxedo Kamen asked. He looked lost. Venus was badly scratched, Mars's ankle was broken, Mercury was unconscious, and Jupiter had a horrible looking cut on her arm. The five detransformed and went to the hospital to seek medical attention. Hours later, they were still wondering how the youma suddenly disappeared.

The Realm of Dreaming

Usagi collapsed to the ground in tears the moment she arrived, wrapping her arms around herself. Her tears clung to her dress as dew to
the morning grass, not penetrating its dry warmth. She sobbed and sobbed as though she would never cease, the emotional pain of leaving her life behind too much for her to handle. Her body jerked when she abruptly felt a hand touch her shoulder. Usagi turned and gasped.

"Motoki!" She exclaimed. "How did you…?"

"Shhhhhh," he murmured, hugging her close and letting her cry. "How I got here doesn't matter. Right now you need to let it all out. Go ahead and cry, I don't have anywhere I need to go."

She wrapped her arms around him and wept bitter tears over what she had lost. Motoki sat simply sat there and held her as she cried. Both were surprised when a voice spoke up from across the room, although it is safe to say Motoki was twice as scared as Usagi.

"Usagi-chan, are you all right?" Quatre walked slowly across the room. He had never seen her this way, and it scared him. She was usually so joyful, so light. Perhaps, though, the thing that surprised him most was that now he could see her. Long blond hair spilled out from two meatball-shaped buns atop her head. Usagi was wearing a pure white, ankle-length dress with gold rings at the bodice. Her face could only be described as that of an angel, and she had beautiful pale blue eyes, which were filled with tears. The rivers of tears flowing down her cheeks seemed somehow out of place.

"Quatre!" She gasped. Her eyes went wide as she realized the mist had disappeared. In front of her was the boy who's sweet, kind voice she had been listening to for the past week. Quatre had cerulean eyes and blond hair. He was very handsome, and had an Arabian quality to his clothing. She turned slightly and saw a gorgeous man with deep mahogany colored hair and deep Prussian eyes. She saw him and knew instinctively whom it was that stood before her. "Heero… What happened to the mist?"

Heero and Quatre exchanged looks and shrugged. Then Quatre spoke, concern in his voice. "It doesn't matter right now. What happened to you?"

"My friends… my fiancé… my life… I don't even know how I got here again. I thought once you died, you moved on." Usagi sniffled, renegade tears continuing to fight their way free of the confines of her eyes. "I was ready to go, I thought I was finally moving on in my existence, but I guess not. I'll wake up and be trapped in the same life I've always been forced into."

"Not necessarily." It was yet another new voice that filled the realm of dreaming, one unknown to all but Usagi. There stood her mother from the past, Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom.

"Mother!" Usagi yelled, and launched herself into her mother's arms without thinking. However, instead of falling through the image like she usually did, Usagi was caught in a strong embrace. "I've missed you so. Why wouldn't you tell me that this was to happen?"

"My darling daughter," the queen began, "I wanted nothing more than to confess everything to you, but your father and Pluto would not let me. Pluto said it was necessary that you reach this place and make a choice. First, though, you must be given all the facts."

"Pluto, mother? And what facts have I not been told?" Usagi looked inquisitively up at her mother. Meanwhile, the thus far forgotten and unmoving others finally regained motor and speech skills.

"You're Usagi's mother?" Heero asked, the cold edge omnipresent in his voice. Usagi was startled. He hadn't spoken like that since the first time she'd conversed with him in the dreaming. "Why are you here?"

"Why my dear Heero, you haven't changed at all!" Queen Serenity exclaimed to the surprise of the four. "I'm here for one reason really, and that is to assist my daughter in what will be the most difficult task of her life. Serenity, Pluto is another of the senshi, and the guardian of time. No matter what you choose, you will eventually meet her. As to what you do not know yet… Well, that is quite a long story. Come with me."

Queen Serenity turned and walked down the hall, and Heero, Quatre, Usagi, and Motoki followed her. As they walked, Usagi noticed how beautiful the realm was without the mist blanketing it. The windows were no longer fogged, and through them many sights could be seen.

One window showed a spiky haired man wearing an orange training suit and a blue… something with antennas. Another showed unicorns, a strange green girl, and a human much like themselves as well as a dog in human clothes and a guy in purple robes. Yet another showed two girls, one with brown hair pulled up in Usagi's meatball style, only shorter and with pink ribbon wrapped around them, the other with short blond hair. Both were wearing brown uniforms, and a man with turquoise hair in a braid was talking to them while they sat on the ground. In still another a crazy blond was watching a baby in a diaper dance. The next showed a man in a blue body suit with a yellow-backed, red S on the chest talking to a man in a black body suit with a picture of a bat on it. One showed three teenagers in black robes pointing what appeared to be wands at a creepy looking man with a big nose while two other men watched. So involved were the four in their surroundings that they almost did not notice Queen Serenity had stopped.

"Please sit down, and I will tell you all." She said, gesturing to a table with six chairs set around it. Something about it clicked in Usagi's mind, as though she ought to remember it. She was stunned when her mother interrupted her thoughts by saying, "You should know it."

"But from where?" Usagi could not hide her curiosity any longer. "Mother, please tell me what you've been hiding."

"Very well daughter. I suppose the best place to start would be with the story of our location. This is the astral realm, more commonly known as the realm of dreaming. This realm is the doorway to all other dimensions and worlds. It is a place that may be accessed only by a very small number of people. Those people have all been granted permission by the realm's ruler, Princess Serenity of the Moon Star Kingdom." She paused in her tale as Usagi and Motoki gasped.

"Who is this Princess Serenity?" Heero inquired, his voice flat and toneless.

"No, I didn't think you would remember. Princess Serenity is the name Usagi was called by in her past life. Do not worry, all will become clear shortly." Serenity took a deep breath before continuing. "Daughter, in your past life you granted access to this realm only to those closest to your heart. Not even the psychic senshi of Mars knew of this place. There were six people who had access to it, three males and three females. You came, naturally, and so did your beloved. The others were your older brother and your twin brother, and their soulmates."

"But mother, there are already three men here, and none of them are Prince Endymion!" Serenity protested. "Are you saying that one of these is my soulmate and the other two are my brothers?"

"That is precisely what I am saying, daughter."

"What?" The realm of dreaming echoed with the astonished shrieks of the four as the truth crashed into them. Quatre and Heero exchanged glances, as did Motoki and Usagi. It would certainly explain the pain the Gundam boys had experienced and why Motoki came with Usagi when she wished for them all to forget her. It is impossible to completely forget someone with whom you have a deep bond without losing a part of yourself large enough to drive you insane permanently, especially when previously wounded by something else.

"If you would allow me to continue…" The queen said patiently. They nodded. "Serenity, the senshi love you, but were led to act the way they did in the Silver Millennium. It was necessary, for if you chose a future in that realm, the senshi would grow to be more and more like their past selves. The process was sped up slightly, but only because this event had to take place either tonight or in another 16 years when the new moon once again arose on your birthday."

"What is taking place?" Usagi asked. She was quite confused by the whole thing.

"It is time for you to choose your fate. Most people do so indirectly, but the fate of all worlds, times, and spaces, lies in your hands, so there is an exception. Your choice involves these three and Mamoru. Only one of them is the person you were truly destined to be with, but you must choose to go with him willingly. If you choose correctly, you will gain your full power and become the Imperial Senshi, Sailor Serenity, former Princess Serenity of the Moon Star Kingdom, goddess Selene reincarnated as the goddess Artemis / Diana but with the memories, knowledge, and power of them all. Right now, your physical body, as well as that of Motoki, is existing on the Astral Plane. Make the correct choice, and you will all be brought physically to the dimension where you belong, to live together and happily. If you choose incorrectly, you and all here will forget tonight's events, and return to the lives you led before entering this place. It will once again be closed off until you are again reincarnated and willing and ready to receive your full power."

"Mother, how can you ask me to choose, not knowing what any of them were like previously? What if they change like the senshi did?" Usagi was frightened. How could all of this be in her hands? The three others remained silent, wondering what the queen would answer.

"Serenity, you will be allowed to discuss this with these three. Each of them must be given a label. One is your past flame, one your older brother, one your twin brother, and finally your one true love. You already know Mamoru well enough to decide from his words and actions, and the same goes for Motoki. Quatre and Heero have been meeting you in this realm that you might learn about them in this life, and decide." Queen Serenity stood up, walked over to Usagi, and embraced her. "I must go now. Choose wisely, my daughter. When you are sure of whom each is, call out their name and title using your formal, royal tones, and the weavers of fate and destiny will hear your commands and alter things in this life as you will it. Good luck."

The four sat in silence as the long dead Queen faded from the room. Usagi rose quietly to her feet.

"Usagi, no Serenity…" Motoki said. She turned to look at him "I love you, but the feelings I have are those for someone dear to my heart as a little sister."

"I agree completely. You've always been just like the big brother I never had in this life. I think that means you were probably my older brother in my last life too." Usagi smiled at him, then switched to a tone of voice she had not used since fighting Beryl. "Motoki is and will always be my older brother!"

The heavens nodded their approval by returning memories to the two. Usagi smiled as they flooded into her mind, showing her times when she came begging for advice, or teased him about the girl he liked this month when she was ten and he was fifteen. She laughed aloud at the sight of her pushing him into a pond, and grimly watched as her father sent him off to battle.

"Guess we were right." Motoki said. "Come here little sis and give me a hug!"

Usagi wrapped her arms around him and then turned to face two of the three still undecided. She stared deep into Quatre's eyes, and knew precisely what she felt for him. He nodded. Without another word passing between them, she opened her mouth once again.

"Quatre is one of the two men whom I was made to be with, my dearest twin brother, now and forever!" Again, memories filled her mind. Taking lessons, playing tag, tricking the guards, and ultimately, another sad memory. There was her mother, sending him to Earth for training. As the memories became permanent and real again, Usagi smiled at her brother. "Well, you do know that you're required to attend family reunions! Get over here, Quat!"

He ran to them and embraced his siblings, holding on tightly. Safe in their embrace, he felt a joy he had not known since his family's destruction in the war of the colonies. Tears slipped from his eyes.

"I do not know what I am to you." Heero said, to Usagi, his voice quiet but kind. "But I know what you are to me."

Usagi and Quatre gaped at him. Heero was never so open with his feelings. Then Usagi remembered. If she chose him and was correct, they could live together forever and be happy. If she chose him and was wrong, they would forget this had ever happened. Perhaps he was being honest, but did he really love her, and did she love him? Usagi searched her heart. Heero was still taking a chance. If she chose Mamoru and was right, he would remember forever that which he had lost. Usagi could remember times when he made her laugh,
and how he always respected what she had to say. Mamoru could learn a thing or two from him. It was then that she realized the decision was already made, and perhaps had always been waiting for her to open her eyes to it.

"From this time until eternity, I make my decision." Her tones were clearly that of royalty, strong and sure. "Mamoru Endymion is nothing but a past flame. My heart always has and always will belong to my Heero."

A flash of blinding white light filled the room.