I do apologize for the delay of this story. I have already explained all my excuses in my Gundam Wing story "Alone" so if you care you can look it up, if not, then please just accept my sincerest apologies for the lateness of this chapter. I tried to make it longer to compensate though.
Also a side note, I decided although Chibi-Usa is very cute, it occurred to me that she might not like to be reminded how chibi she was all the time. And also since Usagi is Serenity now, I didn't think it would be a big deal to have Chibi-Usa let the people in the DBZ world call her Usagi.
As always Please REVIEW!!! I love hearing what you think. And oh yeah, I don't own any part of DBZ or Sailor Moon.
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Hope of a Planet ch. 4
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A few days after Chibi-Usa popped into Gohan's training session, Gohan was trying to trap a rabbit while Usagi was gathering firewood. As Gohan spotted a hearty rabbit coming slowly toward the loop and box trap he had set, he heard a scream shatter the silence. He jumped up, ignoring the fact that the rabbit had bounded away. 'That sounded like Usa!' He thought as he took off towards the sound.
Before he more than 20 yards, Chibi-Usa shot past him running from his friend the infamous saber-toothed tiger. "Wait, Usa!" He called. But it was too late. She was already gone. Grinning he took off after the tiger who was chasing Usa.
Situated comfortably in his spot in the sky, Piccolo was finding great amusement in the scene below him. He had been watching Gohan and this 'Usa' almost constantly ever since she had appeared. And today was proving to be more entertaining than most.
'It's after me! It's after me!!' was the only thought going through Usa's head. She was running as fast as she could, but she could since that it was right behind her. Little did she know that the tiger was pacing itself to play and not to hunt, for if it were hunting, it would have already captured her. Finally though, even the playfulness in the tiger wore out, and it put on a burst of speed, intent on finally tackling her, thus winning. Usa felt the front paws of the tiger on her back pushing her down, and she screamed. 'I wish I were in a tree, where it couldn't get me!' She thought frantically as she waited to hit the dirt and feel the pain.
Gohan was trying to catch up to Usa and his friend, but he found himself laughing so hard, that it was hard to breath and thus hard to go any faster. Suddenly though he heard another scream and a flash of light.
Piccolo also heard the scream, saw the light, but unlike Gohan he was also aware of a massive ki flare. I was unlike anything he had ever felt before. Not so much powerful as it was strange. Not to take away from its power, especially coming from a little kid. After Piccolo blinked the spots out of his vision, he was only mildly surprised to see that the tiger hadn't captured Usa. In fact the tiger seemed just as surprised of this sudden turn of events. It took Piccolo quite a while to figure out where she was. Especially since her ki was undetectable after the initial blast.
As it was, although he didn't know it, Gohan found Usa first. Gohan happened to look up and see Usa huddled in one of the highest branches of one of the trees that were around. "Usa!" He called. "Are you ok?"
Chibi-Usa heard Gohan calling her and she opened her eyes a slit before closing them again quickly, gripping the branch she was on tightly. "Gohan?" She asked hesitantly.
Gohan stared in awe at the scene before him. First he saw his friend, the tiger, circling the ground sniffing and giving a look to Gohan as if to say, 'Ok, I give up. She wins this time.' With that, he trotted off. Then Gohan spotted Usa holding on to a flimsy branch that looked like it could barely hold her weight without snapping. 'How did she get up there so fast?' He wondered. 'And what was that flash of light?' "Yeah, Usa?" He asked upon hearing his name.
"How did I get up here?" she asked her voice full of fear.
Gohan stepped back blinking. 'Doesn't she know?' He wondered. "Um... I think you put yourself up there." He responded timidly. "Can you get down?"
'Put myself up here?... how did I do that?' She kept asking herself as she looked down. The world seemed to swim beneath her and she quickly closed her eyes again. "I don' t think I can get down." She called down.
Piccolo raised an eyebrow. 'So apparently she doesn't remember how she got to the top of that tree... hmm. She seems to be a great deal like Gohan... It will be interesting to see how they handle this.' He smiled. 'An excellent training exercise.'
Gohan paused. Now this was a problem. She couldn't get down and he didn't think the tree would support him going up there to get her. He looked at the various vines and other trees around. "Ok, Usa. Hold on. I'm going to try and help." He called. He climbed the tree next to the tree she was in and fashioned a rope of vines and slung it across to a third tree. Tying that securely he made a sort of harness in a pulley to pull himself the trees and would bring him less than two feet from Chibi-Usa. And then he could pull them to the other tree where they could climb down.
Piccolo nodded, impressed. 'The kid sure does use his brains.' He thought to himself.
As Gohan got to almost where Chibi-Usa was, he talked to her reassuringly. "Hey, Usa. I'm in front of you. Do you think you can reach me?"
Chibi-Usa pried one of her eyes open and looked at the distance between her and Gohan. "Uh uh." She told him squeezing her eyes shut again.
Gohan sighed. "Come on, Usa. It's not that far. Just don't look down, ok?" He coaxed.
Usa looked over to Gohan. Giving a weak smile at his self-confident face, she reached for his hand. Grabbing hers he pulled her slowly off of the branch and into another harness. However, before he could regrip, she slipped and he heard a tearing in one of the vines. He looked quickly to the tearing vine, realizing that there was no way to stop them from falling now. He looked down about 25 feet to the ground, past all the sharp branches and hoped that it wouldn't hurt too badly. Gritting his teeth, he grabbed onto Usa hoping to shield her, and closed his eyes.
Piccolo leapt into action in the blink of an eye. Before he himself even realized what he was doing, he had positioned himself to catch Gohan and Usa. However when he looked up he was surprised that they were not falling. The vines fell, but the children stayed right where they were, surrounded by a pinkish light.
Piccolo stared. "What the..." he whispered, floating up to the level of the children. While both of their eyes were closed on the girls' forehead was the symbol of a golden crescent moon flaring over... Piccolo could only see a shadow underneath it before both symbols disappeared. Piccolo was shocked, but he quickly took to the sky as to not be seen.
After a few seconds Gohan realized that they were not falling. He opened his eyes. He was surprised to be floating. He looked around then, now noticing the pink bubble they were floating in. "Usa...?" he whispered, gently letting go of the girls' waist.
Chibi-Usa opened her eyes and turned in the air to look at Gohan the same look of wonderment was reflected in her eyes.
"Did you do this?" They asked each other at the same time. Chibi-Usa then broke out into giggles, while Gohan laughed nervously.
"Well," he started, "I sure didn't do this, so that leaves you."
Usa's eyes opened wide for a moment and then she nodded and asked seriously. "So do you think that I can get us down?"
Gohan nodded. "Uhh. I guess so. Why don't you try to picture us gently floating to the ground?"
Usagi nodded seriously. "Alright." She said, and sure enough as she did, they gently floated down, to arrive on the ground unharmed.
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Two months passed. Usagi and Gohan worked and played together. There were only a few much more minor incidents involving Usagi's powers. One included Usa disappearing from the cave in the middle of the night, and waking up next to the stream, and the others involved things that floated or didn't fall quite as quickly as they should have. However, no matter how hard she tried, she could not repeat the performance.
And so, Gohan and Usagi worked together to create a pretty consistent schedule.
One day after dinner, when it was too dark to really do anything outside but too early to go to bed, Usagi was taking her hair out of her odangos to sleep when a question popped into her head that she decided to ask Gohan. "Gohan, if you're out here, training, then how come you're all alone."
Gohan thought about it. "Well, I'm not sure, but I think Mr. Piccolo said something about a test."
Chibi-Usa nodded. She knew all about tests. Before one truly becomes a scout they had to go through trails. "So when will your test be over?" She asked.
Gohan shrugged, poking the fire.
Suddenly, a deep voice interrupted from the mouth of the cave. "Tomorrow." was all it said.
Usa looked from the now-empty opening of the cave to a wide-eyed Gohan who was grinning ear-to-ear. "Was that...?"
"That was Mister Piccolo." Gohan nodded. "We'd better get to sleep now, he's going to train us in the morning."
"Us?' Asked Chibi-Usa. "Do you really think he'll train me too?"
Gohan paused for a minute. "Probably. He's gotta know that you're here. And I don't think he'd let you stay, if he wasn't going to train you. Besides you've already got some of your own powers." He nodded as he drifted off to sleep.
Usagi, however, took longer to get to sleep. 'Why am I going to train?' She wondered. 'Am I really going to be here that much longer?' She sighed and drifted off to sleep dreaming, as she did very often, of her home and parents.
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Serenity sat silently, her hands white-knuckled and pressed against her knees as she listened to Endymion and Setsuna tell their story. It was all she could do not to get up and run screaming from the room.
'How could they? For all this time that I trusted them...' she asked herself over and over.
But another voice popped up, 'How could you?... Did you do what you did intentionally?'
'No.'
'Did you want to hurt Endymion when you did it?'
"Never." she said aloud.
Endymion looked up from his kneeling position on the floor from where he had made his confessions first, hoping to get his wife to open up to him as well. "What?" he asked thickly his eyes open in shook. His face looked older than Usagi had ever seen it.
Usagi knelt on the floor next to her husband embracing him. Her tears dripped from her chin to the nape of his neck. "I could never not forgive you." She hiccupped. "And I have something to tell you also..." She looked up at Pluto. Her eyes were puffy from crying, while Pluto's were clear. A look passed between the two. A look of acceptance, understanding, and forgiveness.
Setsuna nodded, realizing that Serenity wanted to be alone. She bowed quickly and exited post-haste through a portal.
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Chibi-Usa felt herself being shaken awake. "Usa!" The voice whispered urgently. Usagi, groaned and, with great effort, opened one eye. What met her blurred vision was a very excited Gohan barely visible in the darkness of the cave.
"What?.." She asked. "Is it morning?"
Gohan nodded. "Mr. Piccolo's waiting."
At this, Usagi shot up and looked outside the cave. There was just a sliver of pink in the inky sky signaling that the sun was about it rise. "It's so early." She remarked slipping some clothes on under her bedding. Fully clothed against the chill of the late night/early morning air, she stepped out of the cave to face 'Mr. Piccolo.'
Piccolo raised an eyebrow at the appearance of Gohan and Usagi. "You're late." He said harshly. "The sun is already coming up.
Gohan looked down. "Sorry." He mumbled.
Usagi winced at the harsh tone of this mans voice and quickly glanced at the barely visible streak of pink slowly changing orange. "But you can't even see the sun..." she protested.
"Silence." spoke Piccolo harshly. "You." He pointed a finger at Usagi. "You don't know where your parents are, or how you got here." It was meant to be a question, but he spoke with such firmness that it sounded like a statement.
Chibi-Usa looked up, and when she finally got a good look at him she noticed that his skin was green! Just like Kami's... She found it hard to speak, and she wasn't even sure that a question had been asked, so she just nodded her head, mutely in agreement.
Piccolo frowned. "Are you expecting to be trained, too?"
She bit her lip and nodded trying to quell her curious nature and not ask Piccolo about Kami.
Piccolo was becoming impatient. "Can you talk or just bounce your head around?"
Usagi looked up at him. "I can talk." She spoke defiantly.
Piccolo smiled. "So you can." He quickly resumed his neutral expression and crossed his arms. "Why do you want to train?"
Usagi opened her mouth and then closed it again. Could she tell him the truth?... She wanted to be a scout. She wanted to protect her world. But this wasn't her world, so why would she want to learn to fight here?... She couldn't tell him about being a scout, which was a secret from everybody. She wouldn't even normally be a scout like her mom, because she was a princess and had a kingdom, and that was the whole purpose of the scouts, to protect her. But she had heard Puu talking with... someone, so she knew that she was destined to become a powerful scout, but...
Suddenly she squared her shoulders remembering what Gohan had told her about this dimension. She could tell the truth, as long as she didn't mention being a scout. And so she recalled and manipulated the speeches that every scout seemed to say before a difficult task. "I want to train to help make a difference. I want to be able to fight for what I believe in. For love and justice and the future! Because if no one will fight than who will protect this planet?" She told Piccolo earnestly.
Piccolo resisted the urge to nod at the truth obviously reflected in her words, and narrowed his eyes throwing one more question at her. "What makes you think you can do anything, even if you can fight?"
Chibi-Usa stared at him for a moment. "Well,..." she glanced at Gohan who was watching her and Piccolo with wide eyes. "You see, I have these powers... Only I don't know what they are, or how I got them. Gohan thought... that you could show me how to control them, and I could fight."
Piccolo frowned. That wasn't quite the answer he was expecting, but still everything this girl said obviously came from the heart. Like Gohan. They were very much alike. He face softened for a moment only to harden again. "I will not take any quitters. Training will be hard. I won't baby you. I won't pick you up when you fall, or pity you when you get hurt. And you will get hurt. I won't have you crying, or whining, or quitting. Is that clear?"
Usagi's face lit up. "Does that mean you'll train me with Gohan?" she asked excitedly.
Piccolo scoffed. "Sure kid, but I'm telling you. This isn't going to be a Sunday picnic." With that he turned and began walking, the two children following in silence.
Also a side note, I decided although Chibi-Usa is very cute, it occurred to me that she might not like to be reminded how chibi she was all the time. And also since Usagi is Serenity now, I didn't think it would be a big deal to have Chibi-Usa let the people in the DBZ world call her Usagi.
As always Please REVIEW!!! I love hearing what you think. And oh yeah, I don't own any part of DBZ or Sailor Moon.
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Hope of a Planet ch. 4
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A few days after Chibi-Usa popped into Gohan's training session, Gohan was trying to trap a rabbit while Usagi was gathering firewood. As Gohan spotted a hearty rabbit coming slowly toward the loop and box trap he had set, he heard a scream shatter the silence. He jumped up, ignoring the fact that the rabbit had bounded away. 'That sounded like Usa!' He thought as he took off towards the sound.
Before he more than 20 yards, Chibi-Usa shot past him running from his friend the infamous saber-toothed tiger. "Wait, Usa!" He called. But it was too late. She was already gone. Grinning he took off after the tiger who was chasing Usa.
Situated comfortably in his spot in the sky, Piccolo was finding great amusement in the scene below him. He had been watching Gohan and this 'Usa' almost constantly ever since she had appeared. And today was proving to be more entertaining than most.
'It's after me! It's after me!!' was the only thought going through Usa's head. She was running as fast as she could, but she could since that it was right behind her. Little did she know that the tiger was pacing itself to play and not to hunt, for if it were hunting, it would have already captured her. Finally though, even the playfulness in the tiger wore out, and it put on a burst of speed, intent on finally tackling her, thus winning. Usa felt the front paws of the tiger on her back pushing her down, and she screamed. 'I wish I were in a tree, where it couldn't get me!' She thought frantically as she waited to hit the dirt and feel the pain.
Gohan was trying to catch up to Usa and his friend, but he found himself laughing so hard, that it was hard to breath and thus hard to go any faster. Suddenly though he heard another scream and a flash of light.
Piccolo also heard the scream, saw the light, but unlike Gohan he was also aware of a massive ki flare. I was unlike anything he had ever felt before. Not so much powerful as it was strange. Not to take away from its power, especially coming from a little kid. After Piccolo blinked the spots out of his vision, he was only mildly surprised to see that the tiger hadn't captured Usa. In fact the tiger seemed just as surprised of this sudden turn of events. It took Piccolo quite a while to figure out where she was. Especially since her ki was undetectable after the initial blast.
As it was, although he didn't know it, Gohan found Usa first. Gohan happened to look up and see Usa huddled in one of the highest branches of one of the trees that were around. "Usa!" He called. "Are you ok?"
Chibi-Usa heard Gohan calling her and she opened her eyes a slit before closing them again quickly, gripping the branch she was on tightly. "Gohan?" She asked hesitantly.
Gohan stared in awe at the scene before him. First he saw his friend, the tiger, circling the ground sniffing and giving a look to Gohan as if to say, 'Ok, I give up. She wins this time.' With that, he trotted off. Then Gohan spotted Usa holding on to a flimsy branch that looked like it could barely hold her weight without snapping. 'How did she get up there so fast?' He wondered. 'And what was that flash of light?' "Yeah, Usa?" He asked upon hearing his name.
"How did I get up here?" she asked her voice full of fear.
Gohan stepped back blinking. 'Doesn't she know?' He wondered. "Um... I think you put yourself up there." He responded timidly. "Can you get down?"
'Put myself up here?... how did I do that?' She kept asking herself as she looked down. The world seemed to swim beneath her and she quickly closed her eyes again. "I don' t think I can get down." She called down.
Piccolo raised an eyebrow. 'So apparently she doesn't remember how she got to the top of that tree... hmm. She seems to be a great deal like Gohan... It will be interesting to see how they handle this.' He smiled. 'An excellent training exercise.'
Gohan paused. Now this was a problem. She couldn't get down and he didn't think the tree would support him going up there to get her. He looked at the various vines and other trees around. "Ok, Usa. Hold on. I'm going to try and help." He called. He climbed the tree next to the tree she was in and fashioned a rope of vines and slung it across to a third tree. Tying that securely he made a sort of harness in a pulley to pull himself the trees and would bring him less than two feet from Chibi-Usa. And then he could pull them to the other tree where they could climb down.
Piccolo nodded, impressed. 'The kid sure does use his brains.' He thought to himself.
As Gohan got to almost where Chibi-Usa was, he talked to her reassuringly. "Hey, Usa. I'm in front of you. Do you think you can reach me?"
Chibi-Usa pried one of her eyes open and looked at the distance between her and Gohan. "Uh uh." She told him squeezing her eyes shut again.
Gohan sighed. "Come on, Usa. It's not that far. Just don't look down, ok?" He coaxed.
Usa looked over to Gohan. Giving a weak smile at his self-confident face, she reached for his hand. Grabbing hers he pulled her slowly off of the branch and into another harness. However, before he could regrip, she slipped and he heard a tearing in one of the vines. He looked quickly to the tearing vine, realizing that there was no way to stop them from falling now. He looked down about 25 feet to the ground, past all the sharp branches and hoped that it wouldn't hurt too badly. Gritting his teeth, he grabbed onto Usa hoping to shield her, and closed his eyes.
Piccolo leapt into action in the blink of an eye. Before he himself even realized what he was doing, he had positioned himself to catch Gohan and Usa. However when he looked up he was surprised that they were not falling. The vines fell, but the children stayed right where they were, surrounded by a pinkish light.
Piccolo stared. "What the..." he whispered, floating up to the level of the children. While both of their eyes were closed on the girls' forehead was the symbol of a golden crescent moon flaring over... Piccolo could only see a shadow underneath it before both symbols disappeared. Piccolo was shocked, but he quickly took to the sky as to not be seen.
After a few seconds Gohan realized that they were not falling. He opened his eyes. He was surprised to be floating. He looked around then, now noticing the pink bubble they were floating in. "Usa...?" he whispered, gently letting go of the girls' waist.
Chibi-Usa opened her eyes and turned in the air to look at Gohan the same look of wonderment was reflected in her eyes.
"Did you do this?" They asked each other at the same time. Chibi-Usa then broke out into giggles, while Gohan laughed nervously.
"Well," he started, "I sure didn't do this, so that leaves you."
Usa's eyes opened wide for a moment and then she nodded and asked seriously. "So do you think that I can get us down?"
Gohan nodded. "Uhh. I guess so. Why don't you try to picture us gently floating to the ground?"
Usagi nodded seriously. "Alright." She said, and sure enough as she did, they gently floated down, to arrive on the ground unharmed.
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Two months passed. Usagi and Gohan worked and played together. There were only a few much more minor incidents involving Usagi's powers. One included Usa disappearing from the cave in the middle of the night, and waking up next to the stream, and the others involved things that floated or didn't fall quite as quickly as they should have. However, no matter how hard she tried, she could not repeat the performance.
And so, Gohan and Usagi worked together to create a pretty consistent schedule.
One day after dinner, when it was too dark to really do anything outside but too early to go to bed, Usagi was taking her hair out of her odangos to sleep when a question popped into her head that she decided to ask Gohan. "Gohan, if you're out here, training, then how come you're all alone."
Gohan thought about it. "Well, I'm not sure, but I think Mr. Piccolo said something about a test."
Chibi-Usa nodded. She knew all about tests. Before one truly becomes a scout they had to go through trails. "So when will your test be over?" She asked.
Gohan shrugged, poking the fire.
Suddenly, a deep voice interrupted from the mouth of the cave. "Tomorrow." was all it said.
Usa looked from the now-empty opening of the cave to a wide-eyed Gohan who was grinning ear-to-ear. "Was that...?"
"That was Mister Piccolo." Gohan nodded. "We'd better get to sleep now, he's going to train us in the morning."
"Us?' Asked Chibi-Usa. "Do you really think he'll train me too?"
Gohan paused for a minute. "Probably. He's gotta know that you're here. And I don't think he'd let you stay, if he wasn't going to train you. Besides you've already got some of your own powers." He nodded as he drifted off to sleep.
Usagi, however, took longer to get to sleep. 'Why am I going to train?' She wondered. 'Am I really going to be here that much longer?' She sighed and drifted off to sleep dreaming, as she did very often, of her home and parents.
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Serenity sat silently, her hands white-knuckled and pressed against her knees as she listened to Endymion and Setsuna tell their story. It was all she could do not to get up and run screaming from the room.
'How could they? For all this time that I trusted them...' she asked herself over and over.
But another voice popped up, 'How could you?... Did you do what you did intentionally?'
'No.'
'Did you want to hurt Endymion when you did it?'
"Never." she said aloud.
Endymion looked up from his kneeling position on the floor from where he had made his confessions first, hoping to get his wife to open up to him as well. "What?" he asked thickly his eyes open in shook. His face looked older than Usagi had ever seen it.
Usagi knelt on the floor next to her husband embracing him. Her tears dripped from her chin to the nape of his neck. "I could never not forgive you." She hiccupped. "And I have something to tell you also..." She looked up at Pluto. Her eyes were puffy from crying, while Pluto's were clear. A look passed between the two. A look of acceptance, understanding, and forgiveness.
Setsuna nodded, realizing that Serenity wanted to be alone. She bowed quickly and exited post-haste through a portal.
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Chibi-Usa felt herself being shaken awake. "Usa!" The voice whispered urgently. Usagi, groaned and, with great effort, opened one eye. What met her blurred vision was a very excited Gohan barely visible in the darkness of the cave.
"What?.." She asked. "Is it morning?"
Gohan nodded. "Mr. Piccolo's waiting."
At this, Usagi shot up and looked outside the cave. There was just a sliver of pink in the inky sky signaling that the sun was about it rise. "It's so early." She remarked slipping some clothes on under her bedding. Fully clothed against the chill of the late night/early morning air, she stepped out of the cave to face 'Mr. Piccolo.'
Piccolo raised an eyebrow at the appearance of Gohan and Usagi. "You're late." He said harshly. "The sun is already coming up.
Gohan looked down. "Sorry." He mumbled.
Usagi winced at the harsh tone of this mans voice and quickly glanced at the barely visible streak of pink slowly changing orange. "But you can't even see the sun..." she protested.
"Silence." spoke Piccolo harshly. "You." He pointed a finger at Usagi. "You don't know where your parents are, or how you got here." It was meant to be a question, but he spoke with such firmness that it sounded like a statement.
Chibi-Usa looked up, and when she finally got a good look at him she noticed that his skin was green! Just like Kami's... She found it hard to speak, and she wasn't even sure that a question had been asked, so she just nodded her head, mutely in agreement.
Piccolo frowned. "Are you expecting to be trained, too?"
She bit her lip and nodded trying to quell her curious nature and not ask Piccolo about Kami.
Piccolo was becoming impatient. "Can you talk or just bounce your head around?"
Usagi looked up at him. "I can talk." She spoke defiantly.
Piccolo smiled. "So you can." He quickly resumed his neutral expression and crossed his arms. "Why do you want to train?"
Usagi opened her mouth and then closed it again. Could she tell him the truth?... She wanted to be a scout. She wanted to protect her world. But this wasn't her world, so why would she want to learn to fight here?... She couldn't tell him about being a scout, which was a secret from everybody. She wouldn't even normally be a scout like her mom, because she was a princess and had a kingdom, and that was the whole purpose of the scouts, to protect her. But she had heard Puu talking with... someone, so she knew that she was destined to become a powerful scout, but...
Suddenly she squared her shoulders remembering what Gohan had told her about this dimension. She could tell the truth, as long as she didn't mention being a scout. And so she recalled and manipulated the speeches that every scout seemed to say before a difficult task. "I want to train to help make a difference. I want to be able to fight for what I believe in. For love and justice and the future! Because if no one will fight than who will protect this planet?" She told Piccolo earnestly.
Piccolo resisted the urge to nod at the truth obviously reflected in her words, and narrowed his eyes throwing one more question at her. "What makes you think you can do anything, even if you can fight?"
Chibi-Usa stared at him for a moment. "Well,..." she glanced at Gohan who was watching her and Piccolo with wide eyes. "You see, I have these powers... Only I don't know what they are, or how I got them. Gohan thought... that you could show me how to control them, and I could fight."
Piccolo frowned. That wasn't quite the answer he was expecting, but still everything this girl said obviously came from the heart. Like Gohan. They were very much alike. He face softened for a moment only to harden again. "I will not take any quitters. Training will be hard. I won't baby you. I won't pick you up when you fall, or pity you when you get hurt. And you will get hurt. I won't have you crying, or whining, or quitting. Is that clear?"
Usagi's face lit up. "Does that mean you'll train me with Gohan?" she asked excitedly.
Piccolo scoffed. "Sure kid, but I'm telling you. This isn't going to be a Sunday picnic." With that he turned and began walking, the two children following in silence.