"Alright, you killer! Show yourself!!!" Lacia screamed.
Tediously, a foot was shown, then the leg of a pair of pants. Then the beginning of a coat.
There in the darkness, stood none other than Tuxedo Mask.
"DARIEN?!?!?!!?" Yuki screamed.
"Yes, my love. Only this time I am not brainwashed, nor am I working for any other ugly queen. I have come on my own will." He spoke devilishly.
"But- but why?!?" Sailor Moon was almost to tears.
"'Cuz' he's an ASS!!! That's why!! Ass! Ass! You've always been a- what? – oh yeah, I remember! An ASS!" Axes cussed.
"Shut up, you fucker!!!!!!!" Darien screamed.
"Why, Ass? Can't you take it? Huh, Ass?" Axes still yelled until Yuki nudged him with her head (she has no free hands).
"Axes, please! Stop it! It's hard enough, I can't take it!" she pleaded.
"Okay, my love, I'm sorry." He apologized, then shot Darien a nasty look.
"And why couldn't you come into the house? You were here the entire time with us all in the house and you were just fine! So what the hell is your problem now, huh?" Karen asked.
"Sure, I'm fine (Yuki nods incessantly), but that's only when I am good. This time, I had cruel intentions." He explained.
"I saw that movie!" Jodi whispered.
"What movie?" Goku asked.
"Cruel Intentions." She said back.
"Was it good?" he asked further.
"No, actually, it kinda sucked."
"Oh."
"And what exactly are these intentions?" Krillin asked.
"To kill all of you. Just because you all bother me! Oh, yeah, but I'll leave Axes alive. Then I can slowly torture him until he dies." Darien laughed evilly.
"And why would you want to do that?" Sammy questioned.
"Because I want to rule with Yuki by my side, with the entire universe in our hands, like it once was. Even if we have to take it by force. I don't want you all annoying sailor scouts in my way. I can sure as hell protect us both. And I want Axes dead. I mean DEAD. Dead as a doornail. I know Yuki wouldn't want me if there was a possibility to have him." Tuxedo Mask enucleated.
"Darien, it was like that once because we DIDN'T take it by force. It will never be the same. I love you, but I can never love you like that again, with Axes or not." Yuki sobbed. "And you will not take my friends from me, I don't care what happens."
"Serenity, I want it to be like it used to be. No one would ever have to fight like this. Ever." Darien said in a soft, pleading tone.
"If you MAKE us fight like this, how do you ever expect to be like back then?" Darien stayed silent, for Yuki had a point.
Yuki broke free of the hands which held hers. She walked over to Darien. Then she kissed him longingly.
They kissed most enchantingly, then she stopped. Sailor Moon then whispered into his ear:
"Goodbye, Darien. I can't be with you anymore."
As she turned to walk away, his hand reached out and wrapped around her neck.
"DOES THIS FEEL FAMILIAR?!? I WORKED FOR QUEEN BERYL ONCE AND SHE TAUGHT ME HOW TO DEAL WITH A BACK-STABBING BITCH LIKE YOU!!!!!!!!" Darien's voice blazed. "JUST WRING HER SCRAWNY LITTLE NECK!!!!!!!!" His grip pulled tighter.
"Are you crazy?!?!?" Yuki wheezed.
"DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME CRAZY!!!!! THERE ARE BETTER WORDS!!!! I PREFER INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He screamed and somehow clutched her neck even tighter.
Yuki couldn't make out words and her sight blurred, but she struggled to stay alive.
Out of nowhere, Trunks came and jammed his sword through Darien's stomach.
Blood spurted for his stomach and his mouth. He dropped Yuki with a thud.
Sailor Moon lay on the ground, unable to move, yet she gasped uncontrollably for air.
Axes couldn't take it, just watching her suffer. He ran as fast as he could over to Yuki, then followed Karen.
"You guys, help Trunks!!!!" Karen screeched.
"Right!" Lacia wiped her tears as she heard Karen's frantic cry.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!!!"
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!!!"
"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!!!"
"VENUS LOVE AND BEATY SHOCK!!!"
"PINK SUGAR HEART ATTACK!!!"
"KAMEHAMEHA!!!"
"KAYO KID x20!!!"
"DISTRUCTO DISK!!!"
"BIG BANG ATTACK!!!"
They directed all of these to Darien, who frantically tried to dodge them, but Trunks held him in the same spot tightly.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" he cried as a single tear fell down his cheek.
Axes covered Yuki's eyes.
"Don't watch, Honey." He soothed. Holding her close, he tried desperately to cover her eyes and her ears as so not to hear Darien's bloodcurdling scream.
Slowly, the screams died and the skies lightened.
Everyone de-transformed so that they were back in their usual clothes.
"Darien.." Yuki cried softly in between sobs.
"I know, honey. And I'm sorry. But I'm here- never forget that." Axes cooed.
Yuki picked up her head and kissed him lightly, then laid back down.
"I won't, Axes. I won't." she smiled.
"You guys, let's set to work on cleaning up." Goku said silently.
* * *
Three Days Later…
Piccolo laid on his bed, with Lacia beside him. They held each other close, even in sleep.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!!!
Piccolo opened one eye and groaned softly.
"What is it?" Lacia asked quietly.
"Someone wants to come in." he said.
"Go and flip 'em off." Lacia smiled.
Piccolo stood up to look for his pants.
Lacia rolled over to find herself laying on them.
"Piccolo, here they are." She handed them to him.
"Thanks." He told her. Putting them on, he walked to the door.
"Who is it?" he grumbled.
"Uh, it's me, Jodi. I came to give you guys your breakfast." He opened the door a crack to see her smiling face with two plates full of food.
"Yeah, thanks." Piccolo said, taking them, then slamming the door on her.
"Well, fine then, you little booger!" Jodi smiled and walked away.
As he walked back to his bedroom with the food, Lacia smiled intensely at him, making him give a small smirk back.
"And what are you smiling at, foolish one?" he finally smiled, asking her playfully.
"Oh, not anything new. Just a sexy namek who has made my life awesome." She sighed.
Piccolo sat beside her, gazing at her eyes.
Suddenly, she reached out and pulled him down to her.
With a growl of pleasure, Piccolo pulled the blanket up over their heads…(sorry, just couldn't resist writing it!)
* * *
Later…
For the first time, the sun shone brighter than before, hinting everything in sight with soft, golden light. One by one, each person came outside to admire the gorgeous day.
Andy sat alone, for everyone was holding somebody. He zoned into the distance until Jodi came up to him.
"What's wrong, Andy?" she asked, plopping down beside him.
No answer.
"Andy?" she tried again.
Still no answer.
"Hey, Andy!" she tried once more.
No response.
"HEY DUMB-ASS!!" she screamed into his ear.
"What?!? Huh?!?" he looked around in confusion.
"What's the matter?" Jodi almost laughed.
"Well, it's kinda obvious. Look at everyone. They are so happy! And I don't even know why I came. It's not like I have anyone to be with or anything." He sighed.
Jodi nodded and slunk away to the phone.
She quickly dialed.
"Um, hello? Yeah, is Lum there? Lum? Yeah, thanks… Yeah, hi, Lum! This is Sailor Mars! Yeah! Uh huh! Yeah, well, I'm here with Andy Folle and- what's that? You too? Really? Awesome! When's the next flight?" Jodi carried on a conversation with one of Andy's close and personal friends.
Piccolo came out of his house with Lacia by his side.
All of the girls shot Lacia the Look. The Look of suspicion and wanting to know what's going on.
She held out her hand in sign language, which they had made sure the guys didn't know and all of the girls did.
First she signed an "L", then an "A", then a "T", then an "E", and finally an "R".
Most of them nodded in acknowledgement, the rest pretended like she didn't see anything.
Jodi came up to Lacia and yanked her aside.
"What the hell did you do?" she smiled.
"Look, do I make you tell me about YOUR sex life?" Lacia asked.
"No…. SEX LIFE?!?!?!!?!?!??!" Jodi did a double take.
"Uh, no comment." Lacia giggled then walked off.
"Damn you, woman!" Jodi called after her.
Lacia caught up with Piccolo.
"What did she want?" Piccolo halfway smiled.
"Oh, nothing more than the usual information. Well, besides the suspicion that all the girls have about us. They're all wondering about my waking up from your house." Lacia explained.
"Let them wonder." The namek whispered and kissed her lavishly, as though to never get enough of her.
Chibi Usa walked over to Gohan's door and knocked.
He sure does sleep long! She thought to herself, then shrugged her shoulders and knocked again.
Being nosy, which was no surprise, she walked in. The small lady heard water and saw that Gohan was in the shower. She tried not to look, but she couldn't help staring at him to no end. She was not trying to be a pervert, but she just found him so beautiful that she couldn't look away.
Suddenly, the water stopped.
Chibi Usa gasped, then quickly and quietly slipped out.
She came out in enough time to see Yuki emerge from her bedroom with Axes close behind her, looking intently at her butt and the way that it swayed as she walked.
"Axes!" Chibi Usa shouted, startling the poor guy.
"What?!?!?" he asked frantically.
"Stop your staring!" she giggled.
Axes came to her ear.
"You're one to talk!" he whispered, then pointed to Gohan's room.
Chibi Usa blushed.
The day had begun so perfect, almost like a dream.
"You know what?" Sammy asked.
"No… what?" Krillin asked back.
"I think that we should all figure out when we are going to go home." She concluded.
"NOOO!!!!!! I mean, why do you want to go home?!?" Krillin panicked.
"Well, we always did before!" Sarah pointed.
"Yeah… but for some reason I feel that something big happened that made us all incredibly close- closer than we've all ever been!" Karen pointed out, holding tightly to Ryo.
"That's because it did." Gohan stepped out of the hallway.
"What are you talking about?!?! I don't remember anything like that happening!" Sarah protested.
"Yeah, I know… it really was a waste of the dragon balls, wasn't it? I mean, why wish for you all to forget something so that I can make you remember it again?" Gohan babbled.
"What are you talking about?!?" Jodi asked, totally baffled.
"First, I need everyone in here." Gohan gestured to the living room.
"EVERYONE BETTER GET THE FUCK DOWN HERE BEFORE I HAVE TO GET BITCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Karen screamed out of nowhere.
"Alright, alright!" Someone shouted. The others all got down into the living room.
"Now what's all of this about?" Lacia asked.
"Lacia, Piccolo, you know. But I need to tell everybody else so they will remember." Gohan winked at her.
Lacia looked confused, then it was as if it dawned on her.
"Oh! Yeah… do you still want me to stay and listen?" she questioned.
"If it's not too much trouble." Gohan replied.
With that, Piccolo sat down, smiling at Gohan and Lacia sat beside him.
"Thank you." Gohan said to them, but looked thankfully to Piccolo. The namek nodded.
"Well… as you know, you came because of a new enemy. Azefree." Gohan began with a sigh.
They all looked at the silver alien, who was wrapped in Travis's arms.
"WHAT?!?! You can't be serious!" she protested.
"Well, a lot changed. But for you all to remember, you all have to listen to me well." Gohan told them.
He looked around the room at the intent faces, gazing eagerly for the knowledge.
"As I said, you all came here to tell us about our new enemy as always. It was about 2:00 in the afternoon last Friday when a ship landed on our lawn. This was Azefree's and…" Gohan told the tale.
* * *
"And I wished for you to all forget because of my own vanity." Gohan finished.
All was silent. Mouths hung open in disbelief. Many of them were crying as it all came back to them- their loves' sacrifices, blood, loss, tears, confusion, love, defeat and broken hope.
"Oh my god… I'm so sorry I caused you so much pain…. I'm so, so, so sorry." Azefree sobbed.
"We forgive you, Azefree." Lacia hugged her in comfort.
"You did that for me? But… why?" Vegeta's face softened.
"I love you, Vegeta. You should know that by now." Sarah looked into his eyes and kissed him.
"Goku… I just wanted to say thank you." Karen hugged him lightly.
"Hey, no problem, sweetie." He smiled to his best friend.
"Travis… do you forgive me?" Azefree's teary eyes penetrated his.
"Of course I do! You're the best thing that ever happened to me!" he hugged her.
"I can't believe Darien's that much of an idiot!" Yuki laughed, then her eyes filled with tears. She desperately tried to hide them, but Axes saw them too soon.
"Are you okay, Yuki?" he asked kindly, clutching her close to his chest.
"I care for you so much… but I do love him, and I always will, you know that. I'm just glad that I have you here." She wept.
"And you'll always have me- never forget that." He crooned.
"So, why did you wish for us to forget, Gohan?" Goku asked. The room got silent.
Gohan swallowed hard.
"Because I was in love with Lacia… and I thought I could make Piccolo forget his crush on her. For some reason I thought this would make her love me. Then I found out that there were no crushes. They were really in love. Even if the Dragon wanted to make them forget, he couldn't. Love can't be forgotten and it takes a fool to try and change that." Gohan explained. "And I realized that when I looked into this young woman's eyes." He pointed to Chibi Usa.
"Gohan, that was a dumb move on your part." Jodi told him scornfully.
"I know… and I'm sorry." He apologized. (29)
"Well, we know that you are truly sorry, otherwise you wouldn't have told us." Jodi gave him a hug.
"I can't believe you did that, Travis!! That helped us so much- who would have thought that you were the one to help us!" Karen laughed in thanks.
"See! I'm not totally useless!" he boasted.
The room got silent and everybody kind-of looked away.
"Hey, you assholes! I'm not worthless!" Travis protested.
"No, he's not!" Chibi Usa and Azefree chimed at the same time.
"Yeah!" Travis smiled.
"Do you… still love Lacia?" Chibi Usa asked almost silently as everybody else was discussing other little facts that they remembered.
Gohan gazed at her lovingly and grinned lightly.
"How could I still be in love with her with such a phenomenal woman whom I'm head-over-heels for right in front of me?" He asked with an affectionate tone, yet serious.
"You really think I'm all that?" she questioned.
"And a bag of chips." He smirked and embraced her with a kiss.
Krillin stared at Sammy and blinked hard.
"I-I'm sorry, Jup." Krillin whispered sheepishly, calling her his nickname, short for Jupiter.
"For what, honey?" Sammy looked back at him sympathetically.
"I-I didn't… well, I wasn't fighting for you when you needed me to." He replied sadly.
"No, that's a lie. You were there I needed you. You didn't get killed fighting for me, but saved my life and protected me by guarding my side. That is the best thing you could have done." Sammy cooed and kissed his shiny head.
Krillin blushed and kissed her back profusely.
"Gohan, thank you for telling us. I know that was hard for you. You know, because of that whole Lacia thing." Jodi came and rubbed his arm.
"Sloan knew…" Gohan said, then swallowed hard. His best friend was no longer here, and even if they brought her back, she would not be truly happy and nobody wanted that.
"Yeah. I think so." Karen choked- she had been listening. Ryo took her in his arms and let her cry upon his chest. Karen held her fiancée.
"This was one of the biggest fucking battles I've ever fought-" Vegeta began.
"And the first one he ever actually participated in." Goku just couldn't hold the joke in.
"Do I have to throttle you, Kakorott?" Vegeta threatened.
Goku fell to the floor; laughing and Vegeta rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, this battle was a major fucking twist." Vegeta finished.
"And I couldn't leave after facing that all together." Sarah said and grasped Vegeta's arm.
"I don't think I could, either." Sammy said.
"Me, neither."
"I couldn't either."
"Same here."
"Then why even leave?"
"Yeah! Let's just stay!"
It seemed an agreement was made.
"But what about Tokyo?" someone asked.
A silence befell upon the entire house.
"Yeah, don't they need the sailor scouts?" Chibi Usa chimed.
"I guess the Starlights couldn't face it on their own… even with Sailor Cosmos…" Yuki's frowned.
"And we couldn't move there because our strengths would be too unnatural." Goku said unhappily, holding Jodi.
Suddenly, Yuki shot uprights and belted out:
"MOON CRISIS POWER MAKE UP!!!!" she screamed and thrust her hand in the air.
Without knowing what she was doing, the rest of the scouts transformed.
"MERCURY POWER MAKE UP!!!"
"MARS POWER MAKE UP!!!"
"VENUS POWER MAKE UP!!!"
"PLUTO POWER MAKE UP!!!"
"JUPITER POWER MAKE UP!!!"
"MOON PRISM POWER MAKE UP!!!"
There, for yet another time, stood the magnificent Sailor Scouts in the splendor of their own aura.
"What are you sailor skanks doing?" Travis smiled.
"Don't call us skanks, you little bitch!!" Karen shouted and jabbed the time key into his stomach.
"Ow!!!!" He yelled and held his sliced belly.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Azefree screamed.
"Why the fuck did you do that, you little mother fucker?" he wheezed.
"I can save you." Yuki said, almost tauntingly.
"Please, Yuki." He coughed.
"Promise never to call us skanks again." She replied calmly.
"I swear, I'll never say 'sailor skanks' again." He tried to smile until Karen rammed it into his tummy again.
"FU-UCK!" he screeched and fell to his knees.
"Oh, PLEASE, Yuki! I swear I will never ever say that to you again, but I beg you, save me!" He pleaded.
"And you will not belch loud like you do." Yuki grinned.
"Man, for that, I'll die!" he joked, but as Yuki turned around to walk away, he called after her.
"YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE!!!!!!!!" Travis shrieked.
Yuki cringed involuntarily.
"Okay, Angelo. I'll save you, but remember your promise." Sailor Moon whispered.
"ANYTHING, just PLEASE!!! SAVE ME!!!" Travis shouted and sputtered blood.
"MOON HEALING ACTIVATION!!!" she cried and he sat, healed.
Azefree threw her arms around him and held him tight.
"Karen, you need to keep that temper under control." Yuki warned.
"That guy's a fucker! He needs to get a life!" Karen tried to be quiet. Travis flipped her off once they were out of sight.
"Well, that was a spur of the moment kind of thing!" Gohan giggled to Chibi Usa, who stifled a laugh herself.
"If you thing that's spontaneous, try this!" Yuki said to Gohan, whom she had overheard.
Yuki took hold of Lacia's hand, who grabbed Jodi's hand who took Sarah's hand who clutched Sammy's hand who seized Karen's hand, who snatched Chibi Usa's hand and grabbed her into the circle to finally take her mom's grip.
"What about the rest of us?!?" Axes whined.
"Chill out, Axes! God! We're doing one of our 'sailor' things, you freak of nature!" Sailor Moon snapped.
"Okay, okay! Just asking!" he backed down, hunching his shoulders.
"Oh, but I still love you, anyways!" Yuki smiled and kissed him, then rejoined the circle.
"Okay, you guys. I have an idea." Sailor Moon started. "Since we all want to stay here, but we need to protect Tokyo and we can't go there with the guys, then there's only one thing to do. We have to go to the planet Saturn and get Sloan."
Karen's eyes sparkled, as well as the others', but she said nothing.
"Then what are we waiting for?!? Let's go!" Jodi burst.
"Yeah, ikimashou[let's go]!" Chibi Usa tried her newest Japanese phrase (well, one of them- she was learning Japanese.
"On three!" Sailor Moon shouted.
"One!" Sailor Pluto cried.
"Two!" Sailor Venus yelled.
"Three!" Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury screamed at the same time.
"SAILOR PLANET POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The cry rang throughout the house and slowly, they began to fade.
Tumbling down a tunnel-like whirlpool, the scouts made sure they held each other's hand tight.
Finally, after a pressuring ride of blackness, the fell with a thud to the mystic Time Gate.
There stood another Sailor Pluto.
"Hi, Pluto." The Time Setsuna greeted. Karen smiled- it was always awkward to see a mirror image of herself.
"Where do you wish to be teleported to?" she asked kindly.
"Setsuna, if you could, we need to go to the planet Saturn." Yuki asked boldly.
"Good luck, for whatever you need to do." She nodded, then ushered them out the door
What will happen! Find out chapter 7! ~_^
