Title: Son Usagi-the real Usagi?
Author: Fate's Child (Ran)
Date started: November 8, 2001
Their three weeks were up. Usagi looked around at her friends and family and mentally smiled. They were stronger and smarter. They respected each other and had begun to respect her a lot more then they had before for her, not her just being the princess. There was an air of confidence that had been lacking before, an air of self assurance. But most importantly, they had all begun to trust each other again. Like they had during the Silver Millennium. The inners and the outers both felt comfortable having any member of the senshi or z team covering their backs. Not something that had been a reality before. Beyond their mental changes, they had surpassed Krillin's level and Usagi felt more confident that they could beat their old nemesis. Her and Trunks had grown closer over their year in the room of time and space and had decided to maybe have him spend a little time in her dimension. And her friends had begun to forgive her.
"Gee, I hate these little pep talks because I always feel as nervous as anyone else." All of the people around her smiled. "When I found out that I was going to defend another dimension, I wanted to fight tooth and nail. Sure, I defended this dimension, but that was different. I was among friends and family. When I left, I was ready to defend the dimension, but ready to hate all of you." Usagi smiled at the shocked looks of the senshi. "But I had to act the way Pluto and Serenity wanted me to and now I see why they ordered me." She paused. "And at first, my liking you, my trusting you, was all an act. But somewhere within that first month of knowing you, I started to respect you. And that respect turned into me liking you. And that like, turned into love. And it was so easy to blame you for making me leave my family. But I couldn't even accuse you of that anymore, because as much as I love my family and friends here, you were like coming home. Being friends with you was like coming home. As much as when I first came back here.
"I," Usagi cursed the tears that were coming her eyes. "I wanted to come home, to show you who I was. And during those battles when you all died, it was like loosing my family again. Only there were no dragon balls to bring you back. And I felt hopeless. I had failed to protect my new family. When I finally got to come here, to come back to another home, and you all came with me, it was the first time I ever felt complete. Even with you mad at me, I felt complete. Because I had everything I loved right here. Together.
"Now I am sending you all off into a battle again, a battle I am not sure that all of us may come out of. And that scares me." She looked over the crowd. "Shut up Uncle Veggie. Yes, it scares me. Because now I know what it is like to be whole and I don't want to lose it. Because I know that being Queen without all of you would kill me. So here's the thing. You better all come out alive. I love all of you. When you senshi said that I was your light, your hope, your life, you friend, you said what I feel about you. When my family and friends here cried about me leaving-or in some cases, cursed-" *glares at Vegita* "I did the same everyday I was away. This may or may not be the hardest battle we've ever fought in but," she smiled, "it will have the best fighters both dimensions can offer. So, lets kick some ass." Everyone let out a cheer as Pluto came to stand by her Princess. Turning around, she thrust her staff out and twirled it, creating a black portal. Everyone stepped through, one at a time until there was no one but two worried mothers, an ex bald and an android turned good.
* * *
The frozen world that was supposed to great them was not so frozen. Fires burned on every street, though the houses and people all remained safe in their frozen capsules. Usagi turned to Pluto.
"Why are there fires in a frozen world?"
"Endymion always did have a sick sense of humor-" Pluto started.
"Because this is hell." The cold voice had them all turning to see the floating Prince.
"Only because you're here." Mars spat.
"Hello Endymion." Usagi smirked. "Miss me?"
"You had to bring reinforcements? What did you teach them in three weeks." He clicked his tongue. "You know, the muscles are pretty for show, but no match against the black powers. You belong by my side, Serenity, come join me."
"No." The answer was said so simply it made Endymion growl.
"I never figures you for that stupid, Usako. You always cared so much when your friends died, give yourself up and save them." Usagi snorted.
"Why do you evil guys always think that's going to work? If you turn me evil that just means that I'LL kill them or something. I'm not stupid, Endymion, I am not your Serenity or Usako and I will kill you."
"Pretty words for a soon to be dead bunny." With a snap of his fingers, the four android generals appeared.
"Pair up and go for one per two pair. The rest, back me up."
"I think not." Endymion hissed and grabbed her arm, teleporting her out of the fight. "What are you going to do, Usako, without your backup?"
"Kill you. I could have easily avoided you, but I figured that I needed to kill you on my own." Endymion laughed. Usagi threw a weak ki attack at him and reappeared behind him while he was still reeling from her attack.
"I'm back here, bastard." Bringing her hands up, she slammed them down on his scull. He fell to the ground and picked himself up. Smirking, his eyes grew colder.
"Looks like I'm not the only one who was training." Usagi only had a second to process that before he charged her.
* * *
Two of the androids were down as the senshi and Z team shot ki blasts and beat the hell out of the generals. Uranus had brought out her sword and was currently hacking away at the circuits on the two they had defeated. The two androids disappeared as quickly as they had appeared and the senshi all stood in three groups back to back.
"Where did Usagi go and WHY did she let him take her." Trunks cursed.
"She needed to do it on her own and the androids are probably being absorbed by Metallia right now. I'd say we had bigger problems right now. Usagi can take care of herself." Jupiter said.
A black blast separated their carefully planed groups. A mocking voice broke through all of their confusion. They turned to see nothing more then a black cloud hovering, the two generals on both sides of it. Immediately both sets of senshi started firing blasts at the generals, knowing what was coming next. The generals dodged and flew towards the black cloud.
"Pathetic, without your little Princess." Red weaved itself through the black cloud as the generals were absorbed. "I should probably let you know that her little Prince killed her about three minutes ago." Evil laughter filled the sky, disembodied and cold.
"You know, you really should think through what you're going to say before you say it!" Mercury yelled.
"Yeah! You didn't know that there's a senshi bond, did you?" Jupiter smiled.
"A bond that would allow us to feel if the Princess was dead." Mars smirked.
"And as the senshi of love, I would know if her soul mate were in pain from her death and Trunks looks fine." Venus yelled. When all the senshi turned to look at her she shrugged her shoulders, "what? Don't ask me, it's their bond."
Metallia laughed. "You fools, I watched her die my-"
"That evil laugh is so overrated." A weary voice came from above the senshi. They looked up to see their Princess floating, charred, bruised, and a bit bloody above them. "Metallia, just because you sent forty youma after you saw Endymion was overpowered doesn't mean I'm dead. I still have to kill you before I even think about dying. Which I'm not going to do anyway." They looked into Usagi's eyes and saw that she looked older then she ever had before and tired. Their princess looked so tired. But determined. More determined then they had ever seen her before. "Today I had to kill the man that I came to know and maybe even like a little bit while I was in this dimension. Let me tell you something. You will pay for every bit of pain he had to endure before dying." She turned to the senshi. "You'll know when the time is right." She turned to the cloud and brought out the silver crystal. Without a thought, she flew into the cloud much as Saturn had done while fighting Mistress Nine.
"Where did she go?!" Gohan yelled at the same time Trunks screamed, "That's suicide!"
"She has to do it on her own. She's the only one with the power of light." Goku explained watching grimly as bursts of light exploded form the cloud. There would be pauses where none would appear.
"What did she mean by knowing when it was time, onnas?" Vegita questioned.
"NOW!" Pluto yelled. "PLUTO PLANET POWER!"
"URANUS PLANET POWER!"
"MARS PLANET POWER!"
"NEPTUNE PLANET POWER!"
"JUPITER PLANET POWER!"
"SATURN PLANET POWER!"
"VENUS PLANET POWER!"
"MERCURY PLANET POWER!"
The Z senshi saw beams of light shoot out from the senshi. Piccolo sensed the energy and yelled,
"FOCUS YOUR ENERGY ON USAGI!" The Z senshi did as they were told and soon gold beams of light headed towards the cloud.
The senshi began to fall one by one from lack of energy and they slowly lost their transformations. Then came Piccolo and Vegita followed by Goku and Gohan. Soon only Trunks was left and just as he felt his knees give out, a great blast of power erupted from the cloud. A battered Usagi in Princess garb fell out to join her friend on the frozen ground. Another wave of light started from where the Princess had fallen as it raised her unconscious body from the ground, her hands still cupping the Silver Crystal. The light spread until it covered the entire work and then blasted outward. When the Princess fell to the ground this time, three woman and a ex bald man caught her.
In the back round a crystal tower climbed the sky and the city gleamed with crystal. Crystal Tokyo had been born.
Their worlds had merged.
