THE TWO WORLDS
A Sailor Moon/Gundam Wing Crossover by Belladonna Jaide
- takes place after "Endless Waltz"
- * * denotes emphasis on a certain word
- ' ' denotes thought
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ok, please be open-minded when you read this chapter. It focuses only on the Timekeeper, and takes place at the same time as chapter one. Just think of it as a big "meanwhile . . ."! Keep in mind also that this takes place in the 4TH dimension, so time is a little warped. I was going to get back to Heero and what happened to him, and give you a little insight on what's happening with the other gundam pilots, but . . . when I added it onto this chapter, it seemed like it didn't belong there. So I'm going to put it in chapter three, so wait until then. Sorry! Actually, I've already written it, it just needs to be typed up and uploaded. ^_^ What can I say? I'm an artist, and this is my masterpiece! I also happen to be a perfectionist . . .)
CHAPTER TWO: THE TIMEKEEPER
The TimeKeeper sang a sad song, and the hushed tones in which she sang and the great expanse of the 4th Dimension, stretching out into infinity, made her voice sound lonely. But this was not unusual. When she sang here, her voice always sounded lonely --- and she was here a lot, and was almost always alone . . .
. . . except for those wayward travelers who stumbled upon the 4th Dimension by accident, like Small Lady. Small Lady used to be lonely all the time in Crystal Tokyo, but one day she had accidentally stumbled through an old door and found herself in the 4TH Dimension. There she had met Sailor Pluto, the Keeper of Time, and since both had been lonely, a friendship was forged.
For awhile, Small Lady would visit Sailor Pluto all the time, and they became very close. But Pluto was alone again, because Small Lady, as Chibi-Usa, had a life and friends of her now; she didn't need Puu any more.
And no matter how much time Sailor Pluto spent breaking the taboos and leaving the 4th Dimension, no matter how much time she spent with the other Sailor Senshi, she always had to return to the duty bestowed upon her by Queen Serenity: "Pluto, you are the guardian to the Gates of Time, the Warrior of Time and Space . . ."
She was the Solitary Guardian. It was her duty, her destiny, her fate, to be alone . . .
As Sailor Pluto finished the song, the last note seemed to linger in the still air of that timeless, windless plane known as the 4TH Dimension.
She sighed, for the nail lacquer on her nails was chipped again --- but it wasn't as if anyone ever saw her nails. It was strictly forbidden for anyone to come here (though she had already broken *that* taboo), and even when anyone did, she wore gloves. But when you are alone often, you tend to inspect yourself until every little thing starts to bother you. As this was the case, the Evolution Warrior decided that it was time to redo her nails.
So she got up from where she was sitting and began to search the dense, dark fog for a bottle of nail polish.
"Can't find anything in this damn fog" Pluto muttered, frustrated after searching and searching fruitlessly for the elusive bottle of 'Starless Night' nail lacquer.
Not all of the realm was filled with this dark fog, it was just this one place where the Mirror was.
Unlike Kaiou Michiru's magic mirror, this mirror was not used for scrying but for looking into other worlds. For though Pluto was primarily the Keeper of Time, Space was also her domain.
Sailor Pluto stamped her foot. "I'm sure I left it somewhere around her!" she exclaimed. "Wait a minute-" She looked behind the Mirror, which was hovering midair. "I thought so!" she said triumphantly, and she picked up the little obsidian bottle, her back to the Mirror, and kissed it.
Because she had her back to the Mirror, Pluto couldn't see the clouded images reflected its surface. So when she finally turned around to head back to her previous position, she was surprised to find the Mirror active on its own.
"Huh?!" She furrowed her eyebrows. This was *not* good. The Mirror only showed images by itself if something was very wrong. And, looking at the images in the Mirror's reflection, something was wrong. The Negaverse was attacking a totally defenseless parallel world!
Pluto began to search frantically for her garnet staff, the bottle of nail polish forgotten. When finally she remembered where it ALWAYS was when not in use, she merely snapped her fingers. The silver, key-shaped rod materialized before her, and she plucked it from the air.
Closing her eyes and holding the staff at arms length in front of her, the Solitary Guardian of Time and Space concentrated on reaching Michiru through Michiru's Submarine Mirror.
'Michiru . . .' she called with her thoughts.
The garnet atop the silver staff began to glow, and though Pluto couldn't see it, she felt the powerful, magical energy it radiated bathe her face and skin like sunlight. Her whole body began to tingle with a thousand tiny pin-prick sensations, and she called for Michiru again, with more urgency this time.
'Michiru . . . I need your and Haruka's help . . .'
A bright light raced across the darkness behind Pluto's eyelids, leaving behind a quickly fading streak of marine blue impressed upon her vision. She tentatively "felt" about the aura that surrounded her with the cautious fingers of her consciousness, searching for and finding the fragile thread that now connected Michiru's psyche with her own.
The TimeKeeper slowly opened her eyes to gaze at the polished sphere of garnet enveloped in a soft ruby glow. Reflected on the glowing garnet's surface was an image of Michiru, with an anxious expression on her face.
"Setsuna . . . Sailor Pluto, I mean . . . what's wrong?" Sailor Pluto heard Michiru's words echo faintly in the recesses of her mind as well as the voice that spoke them in the 4TH Dimension.
"Michiru, have you noticed a lull in Negaverse activity recently?" Pluto asked the question grimly, for she already knew the answer.
"A lull in Negaverse activity . . .?" Michiru paused to think. "Actually, now that you mention it, I have. Haruka had made some kind of remark about it yesterday, in fact -- about how strange it was that it's been so quiet . . .Why do you ask?" she queried, afraid of the answer.
"Because the Negaverse has attacked a devastatingly defenseless world parallel to ours." She replied. "A world founded almost entirely on logic and technology, where no magic exists. It can't defend itself against the Negaverse because it doesn't know how, so I need you and Haruka to travel to the parallel world and fight off a few monsters."
"A parallel world?" Michiru asked, confused, "But wouldn't the Negaverse have to get through you first, Setsuna?"
"Well, I do seem to have had a lot of memory lapses recently . . ." murmured Sailor Pluto. "But . . . the Negaverse hasn't given me any trouble here at all, really. Only one person has ever been able to traverse Time/Space like I can . . . and that was WiseMan, who's dead. And though the 4TH Dimension is large, I would have sensed any unwelcome trespassers. No," she said firmly, " I think the Negaverse found some other way to infiltrate the alternate Earth."
"But I thought you could only travel Time/Space through the 4TH Dimension!" Michiru exclaimed.
"Well, there are exceptions," Sailor Pluto said thoughtfully, "Like portals of wild magic; they open once every thousand years. But I don't think they would use a wild magic portal, because the Negaverse would have to either send all of its monsters through the portal, and wait a thousand years to see what's happened, or take up residence in whatever world the portal leads to for a thousand years. Both options would be too risky for the conservative Negaverse; too many things could go wrong. If the current ruler of the Negaverse is smart, which he (or she) probably is, then he'll probably use a natural Gate."
"A natural Gate?" Michiru blinked.
"Yes, a natural Gate. A natural Gate is exactly what it sounds like: it's a doorway, or gate, to another world that stays open all the time, only it's a natural imperfection, meaning it wasn't opened by anyone, it opened by itself naturally; it's just another minor flaw in nature." Pluto explained. "But that means if anyone were to find one, though they are very rare and often hidden, they could use the Gate to their leisure . . . unless the Gate is closed forever or destroyed. I think the Negaverse found a natural Gate and is using it to travel to the parallel world."
"But that would mean that the Negaverse's hideout would have to be somewhere near the Gate in our world, and that to protect the people of the parallel one we would have to either close or destroy the natural Gate." said Michiru, "But we don't know where the Gate IS! How are we supposed to close the Gate and destroy the Negaverse if we don't even know where it is?!" asked Michiru, exasperated.
"I don't know yet, Michiru," Sailor Pluto said gravely, "But I do know that whatever leads we have are in that other world. And I also know that though we have a duty to protect our princess and this solar system, we also have a duty to protect the innocents of any world that so desperately needs us. We vowed to protect Earth and its solar system, and that vow does NOT exclude the Earth of other worlds. So after I sent you and Haruka to the parallel world, I'll find the Inner Senshi and try to convince them to come help too."
"That sounds like a good plan, Setsuna" Michiru said, relieved. "Haruka and I will be there shortly."
"Do you still have your Key to the 4TH Dimension?"
"Yes; so don't worry."
"Of course not, Michiru."
Sailor Pluto closed her eyes as she and Michiru broke contact. When she opened them again, the light of the garnet had faded, and Michiru's reflection was gone.
As the TimeKeeper stood silently in the timeless, windless plane known as the 4THDimension, silvery mist swirled around her, seeming to cling to her like a shimmering veil and obscuring her form while she waited, patiently, for her guests to arrive and a new mission to begin . . . . .
~End of THE TWO WORLDS, Chapter Two~
AUTHOR'S NOTE: ok, sorry to bother you YET AGAIN, but I just thought that you should know that when I wrote this chapter I had writer's block and wrote whatever came to mind . . . SO PLEASE DON"T FLAME ME!!!!! You should also know that the first part of this chapter is refering to the english translation of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga (you know, the manga comic that the anime show is based on? I'm a BIG fan!) O yes, and in case you don't know, 'scrying' is using a mirror to see the future or do other kinds of magic stuff (you know, like the evil queen in 'Snow White' . . . "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the Fairest of them all?" ) Ok, well, bye . . . please write me a review!! Chapter Three is coming soon! I promise!
- Belladonna Jaide
A Sailor Moon/Gundam Wing Crossover by Belladonna Jaide
- takes place after "Endless Waltz"
- * * denotes emphasis on a certain word
- ' ' denotes thought
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ok, please be open-minded when you read this chapter. It focuses only on the Timekeeper, and takes place at the same time as chapter one. Just think of it as a big "meanwhile . . ."! Keep in mind also that this takes place in the 4TH dimension, so time is a little warped. I was going to get back to Heero and what happened to him, and give you a little insight on what's happening with the other gundam pilots, but . . . when I added it onto this chapter, it seemed like it didn't belong there. So I'm going to put it in chapter three, so wait until then. Sorry! Actually, I've already written it, it just needs to be typed up and uploaded. ^_^ What can I say? I'm an artist, and this is my masterpiece! I also happen to be a perfectionist . . .)
CHAPTER TWO: THE TIMEKEEPER
The TimeKeeper sang a sad song, and the hushed tones in which she sang and the great expanse of the 4th Dimension, stretching out into infinity, made her voice sound lonely. But this was not unusual. When she sang here, her voice always sounded lonely --- and she was here a lot, and was almost always alone . . .
. . . except for those wayward travelers who stumbled upon the 4th Dimension by accident, like Small Lady. Small Lady used to be lonely all the time in Crystal Tokyo, but one day she had accidentally stumbled through an old door and found herself in the 4TH Dimension. There she had met Sailor Pluto, the Keeper of Time, and since both had been lonely, a friendship was forged.
For awhile, Small Lady would visit Sailor Pluto all the time, and they became very close. But Pluto was alone again, because Small Lady, as Chibi-Usa, had a life and friends of her now; she didn't need Puu any more.
And no matter how much time Sailor Pluto spent breaking the taboos and leaving the 4th Dimension, no matter how much time she spent with the other Sailor Senshi, she always had to return to the duty bestowed upon her by Queen Serenity: "Pluto, you are the guardian to the Gates of Time, the Warrior of Time and Space . . ."
She was the Solitary Guardian. It was her duty, her destiny, her fate, to be alone . . .
As Sailor Pluto finished the song, the last note seemed to linger in the still air of that timeless, windless plane known as the 4TH Dimension.
She sighed, for the nail lacquer on her nails was chipped again --- but it wasn't as if anyone ever saw her nails. It was strictly forbidden for anyone to come here (though she had already broken *that* taboo), and even when anyone did, she wore gloves. But when you are alone often, you tend to inspect yourself until every little thing starts to bother you. As this was the case, the Evolution Warrior decided that it was time to redo her nails.
So she got up from where she was sitting and began to search the dense, dark fog for a bottle of nail polish.
"Can't find anything in this damn fog" Pluto muttered, frustrated after searching and searching fruitlessly for the elusive bottle of 'Starless Night' nail lacquer.
Not all of the realm was filled with this dark fog, it was just this one place where the Mirror was.
Unlike Kaiou Michiru's magic mirror, this mirror was not used for scrying but for looking into other worlds. For though Pluto was primarily the Keeper of Time, Space was also her domain.
Sailor Pluto stamped her foot. "I'm sure I left it somewhere around her!" she exclaimed. "Wait a minute-" She looked behind the Mirror, which was hovering midair. "I thought so!" she said triumphantly, and she picked up the little obsidian bottle, her back to the Mirror, and kissed it.
Because she had her back to the Mirror, Pluto couldn't see the clouded images reflected its surface. So when she finally turned around to head back to her previous position, she was surprised to find the Mirror active on its own.
"Huh?!" She furrowed her eyebrows. This was *not* good. The Mirror only showed images by itself if something was very wrong. And, looking at the images in the Mirror's reflection, something was wrong. The Negaverse was attacking a totally defenseless parallel world!
Pluto began to search frantically for her garnet staff, the bottle of nail polish forgotten. When finally she remembered where it ALWAYS was when not in use, she merely snapped her fingers. The silver, key-shaped rod materialized before her, and she plucked it from the air.
Closing her eyes and holding the staff at arms length in front of her, the Solitary Guardian of Time and Space concentrated on reaching Michiru through Michiru's Submarine Mirror.
'Michiru . . .' she called with her thoughts.
The garnet atop the silver staff began to glow, and though Pluto couldn't see it, she felt the powerful, magical energy it radiated bathe her face and skin like sunlight. Her whole body began to tingle with a thousand tiny pin-prick sensations, and she called for Michiru again, with more urgency this time.
'Michiru . . . I need your and Haruka's help . . .'
A bright light raced across the darkness behind Pluto's eyelids, leaving behind a quickly fading streak of marine blue impressed upon her vision. She tentatively "felt" about the aura that surrounded her with the cautious fingers of her consciousness, searching for and finding the fragile thread that now connected Michiru's psyche with her own.
The TimeKeeper slowly opened her eyes to gaze at the polished sphere of garnet enveloped in a soft ruby glow. Reflected on the glowing garnet's surface was an image of Michiru, with an anxious expression on her face.
"Setsuna . . . Sailor Pluto, I mean . . . what's wrong?" Sailor Pluto heard Michiru's words echo faintly in the recesses of her mind as well as the voice that spoke them in the 4TH Dimension.
"Michiru, have you noticed a lull in Negaverse activity recently?" Pluto asked the question grimly, for she already knew the answer.
"A lull in Negaverse activity . . .?" Michiru paused to think. "Actually, now that you mention it, I have. Haruka had made some kind of remark about it yesterday, in fact -- about how strange it was that it's been so quiet . . .Why do you ask?" she queried, afraid of the answer.
"Because the Negaverse has attacked a devastatingly defenseless world parallel to ours." She replied. "A world founded almost entirely on logic and technology, where no magic exists. It can't defend itself against the Negaverse because it doesn't know how, so I need you and Haruka to travel to the parallel world and fight off a few monsters."
"A parallel world?" Michiru asked, confused, "But wouldn't the Negaverse have to get through you first, Setsuna?"
"Well, I do seem to have had a lot of memory lapses recently . . ." murmured Sailor Pluto. "But . . . the Negaverse hasn't given me any trouble here at all, really. Only one person has ever been able to traverse Time/Space like I can . . . and that was WiseMan, who's dead. And though the 4TH Dimension is large, I would have sensed any unwelcome trespassers. No," she said firmly, " I think the Negaverse found some other way to infiltrate the alternate Earth."
"But I thought you could only travel Time/Space through the 4TH Dimension!" Michiru exclaimed.
"Well, there are exceptions," Sailor Pluto said thoughtfully, "Like portals of wild magic; they open once every thousand years. But I don't think they would use a wild magic portal, because the Negaverse would have to either send all of its monsters through the portal, and wait a thousand years to see what's happened, or take up residence in whatever world the portal leads to for a thousand years. Both options would be too risky for the conservative Negaverse; too many things could go wrong. If the current ruler of the Negaverse is smart, which he (or she) probably is, then he'll probably use a natural Gate."
"A natural Gate?" Michiru blinked.
"Yes, a natural Gate. A natural Gate is exactly what it sounds like: it's a doorway, or gate, to another world that stays open all the time, only it's a natural imperfection, meaning it wasn't opened by anyone, it opened by itself naturally; it's just another minor flaw in nature." Pluto explained. "But that means if anyone were to find one, though they are very rare and often hidden, they could use the Gate to their leisure . . . unless the Gate is closed forever or destroyed. I think the Negaverse found a natural Gate and is using it to travel to the parallel world."
"But that would mean that the Negaverse's hideout would have to be somewhere near the Gate in our world, and that to protect the people of the parallel one we would have to either close or destroy the natural Gate." said Michiru, "But we don't know where the Gate IS! How are we supposed to close the Gate and destroy the Negaverse if we don't even know where it is?!" asked Michiru, exasperated.
"I don't know yet, Michiru," Sailor Pluto said gravely, "But I do know that whatever leads we have are in that other world. And I also know that though we have a duty to protect our princess and this solar system, we also have a duty to protect the innocents of any world that so desperately needs us. We vowed to protect Earth and its solar system, and that vow does NOT exclude the Earth of other worlds. So after I sent you and Haruka to the parallel world, I'll find the Inner Senshi and try to convince them to come help too."
"That sounds like a good plan, Setsuna" Michiru said, relieved. "Haruka and I will be there shortly."
"Do you still have your Key to the 4TH Dimension?"
"Yes; so don't worry."
"Of course not, Michiru."
Sailor Pluto closed her eyes as she and Michiru broke contact. When she opened them again, the light of the garnet had faded, and Michiru's reflection was gone.
As the TimeKeeper stood silently in the timeless, windless plane known as the 4THDimension, silvery mist swirled around her, seeming to cling to her like a shimmering veil and obscuring her form while she waited, patiently, for her guests to arrive and a new mission to begin . . . . .
~End of THE TWO WORLDS, Chapter Two~
AUTHOR'S NOTE: ok, sorry to bother you YET AGAIN, but I just thought that you should know that when I wrote this chapter I had writer's block and wrote whatever came to mind . . . SO PLEASE DON"T FLAME ME!!!!! You should also know that the first part of this chapter is refering to the english translation of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga (you know, the manga comic that the anime show is based on? I'm a BIG fan!) O yes, and in case you don't know, 'scrying' is using a mirror to see the future or do other kinds of magic stuff (you know, like the evil queen in 'Snow White' . . . "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the Fairest of them all?" ) Ok, well, bye . . . please write me a review!! Chapter Three is coming soon! I promise!
- Belladonna Jaide