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Disclaimer: same as Part I or IV depending on how you look at it...

~The Dark Kingdom Strikes Back~

Chapter One

"Endymion." Demando called to the dark warrior. Endymion was
standing at the window looking out into space.

He turned to his assistant. Demando's shoulder length silver hair
hid his latest bruise from taking his wrath. "Yes?" He asked
narrowing his cold blue eyes.

"We just sent out probes to find the rebels to the surrounding seven
systems. If they are here, we'll find them. And Beryl would like
to talk to you." Demando informed him.

Endymion nodded. "You are excused now." Demando bowed and walked
out of the door.

Endymion turned back to the window. "Usagi..." He whispered. "I
WILL find you and soon you will be mine." He told the empty
space. He sighed and prepared himself to talk to Beryl.

~~~@~~~

Usagi pulled on the reins of her memoth, a hair two-legged creature
that had a hairy coat to protect itself from the snow. It screeched
and spit it protest. Usagi patted the animal before taking out
her binoculars when she noticed something hurtling through the sky.
She watched a meteor of some sort crash into the snow a few miles
away. Usagi frowned and put away the binoculars. She was wearing
a huge coat to protect her from the wind and snow and scarf was
around her mouth and neck. Her goggles were gathering frost in the
corners and her gloves hardly wiped them away.

"Usagi." Usagi looked down at her communicator at Goku's
familiar voice.

"Yes?"

"I'm all done with my sweep, no sign of life in this snowy
wasteland." Goku sighed.

"I'll head in to base in a few minutes, I saw a meteor and I'm
going to check it out." Usagi told him.

"Right. See you then." Goku tucked away his communicator and
pulled his memoth off towards base.

Goku rode into the garage of the base and a stableman ran out to
take his ride. Goku made a face in disgust. "I can't stand the
smell of these creatures." He frowned.

"Goku! Get up here and help me!" Vegeta bellowed.

Goku smirked as Vegeta stood on the roof of the Dragonball trying
to fix the hyper drive. "Coming!" He called up to him.

"Where's Usagi?" Rei asked as she and Ami stood nearby checking
Usagi's fighter for mechanical problems.

"She's checking out a meteor, she'll be here in about ten
minutes." Goku told them.

Rei nodded and shivered. "It's so bloody cold in here!" She
complained and pulled her jacket closer to her.

Ami shrugged. "I rather like it here on Mercury." She replied
before going back to her small computer.

Rei shivered again. She preferred the burning deserts of Mars
than the ice deserts of Mercury. She glanced up at Vegeta who was
half hanging into one of the engines of the Dragonball and cursing
at Goku. She smiled and sighed before turning back to
Usagi's fighter.

~~@~~

Usagi stopped her memoth in front of the meteor crash. There was a
crater but no rock. That only left one option: Dark Kingdom probe.
Usagi reached for her communicator when she heard a noise behind
her. "What the-" She was cut off as a larger paw knocked her off
the memoth and unconscious.

~~~@~~~

"Usagi has been gone for too long!" Rei cried glancing at Ami's
computer seeing that Goku arrived a half hour ago.

"She would have radioed in if she was going to be out this long."
Ami nodded.

Minako looked thoughtful. "I'll order a patrol to go out and look
for her. We only have a few hours before we have to close the
gate." Minako sighed and fixed one of her braids.

Ami nodded. "I'm going to go scan for her." She cried.

Goku sighed. "And I'm going back out there." He walked off
towards the stables.

"I guess I'll go back to fixing the Dragonball." Vegeta huffed
and stalked back to the ship.

Minako and Rei heard Goku off in the distance requesting a memoth
that doesn't smell. Minako cracked a smile before walking off the
control room. Rei pulled her coat around her tighter and ran
over to Ami.

~~~@~~~

Usagi groaned and tried to shift. She had a pounding headache.
She opened her eyes and shrieked. She looked down at the ground
and then up to where he feet where stuck up in the ceiling with
tight ropes. Her scepter was lying in the snow below her. It
must have slipped from her belt.

"RRRROOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!"

Usagi looked out of the room in the cave she was in and was hit
the over powering stench of death. Something was eating her
memoth. She struggled but her feet just wouldn't budge.

She closed her eyes in concentration as the snow monster neared
the room she was in. The smell was getting stronger. Usagi
blocked this from her mind and reached for her scepter and
concentrated. She felt her power reaching out to the object
below her. Suddenly it flew through the air and landed in her hand.

Usagi's eyes flew open and shouted, "Moon Crystal Power, make-up!"
The room was flooded with light as she felt herself change. Power
swept over her and then it was gone. She concentrated on the
scepter and it turned into a sword. She swiped at the bonds that
held her feet. They broke open and she tumbled down into the snow.

Usagi stood up in time to have the snow monster thing charge her.
She quickly summoned a ball of white light and threw it at the monster.
It roared in pain and fumbled around blindly.

Usagi dashed out of the cave and ran out into the snow and nearly
froze on the spot. She looked down at herself and realized she
wasn't in her clothes. She was in a VERY short blue skirt with
tall white boots and a white body suit. There was a red bow in
on her chest with a gold locket in the center. It dimly reminded
her of a sailor suit. She felt her face noticing she was wearing
white gloves and a pair of white goggles. She gasped and started
to shiver. She pulled on the locket and felt the power leaving her.
The locked remained in her hand and her outfit transformed back into
her warm patrolling outfit. She stared at the locket and opening
it. In the inside it looked like something could fit in the middle
of it. She fingered it lightly and frowned. This seemed so
familiar for some odd reason.

A roar brought her back to reality as she realized that snow
monster was getting angry. She took off in the snow in the
direction she thought the base was in. She pulled out her
communicator to see it was smashed. She cursed and pushed the
tracking button. It would let anyone within range know she
was here. She knew the blizzard around her would interfere
with the signal. She put it away and continued walking.

~~~@~~~

Rei paced the entrance as the searchers returned back to base
each empty handed. Minako sighed and leaned against a wall in
despair.

"Princess, we must close the doors, the blizzard is making it
impossible to keep them open. We'll all freeze. Ami and Rei
looked at her with tears in their eyes.

Vegeta stomped up to the man that dared to speak. "Goku is still
out there." He growled.

"Goku to base, Goku to base." Ami tried over her communicator.

"What?" His reply came crackled over.

"We have to shut the main entrance. Return to Base. We'll
continue our search in the morning." Minako informed him from
behind Ami.

"Sorry, no can do. I'm not returning until I find Usagi." Came
the reply.

"You're going to be stuck out there!" Ami cried.

Vegeta smirked. He knew Goku was shrugging like it was no big
deal. "I'm not returning. Go ahead and lock the place up."
Came Goku's voice.

A near by soldier heard Goku's voice and nodded to the man
that controlled the doors at the main entrance. The slowly
slid shut.

Rei sunk to her knees and sent up a prayer to Aries. Vegeta
stood next to her and offered her his hand. Rei smiled up at
him and took it. He pulled her up and wrapped an arm around
her waist. "Goku will be all right. He'll find Usagi, now let's
go get something to eat." He told her gruffly trying to comfort
her. Rei nodded and gave him a small smile.

Ami and Minako followed silently.

~~~@~~~

Goku glanced down at his communicator again. He was picking up
some sort of signal up ahead. It had to be Usagi; no one else
was out here. He saw a body up ahead and stopped his memoth
and dismounted. He ran towards the figure. It was Usagi all
right. She looked like she had collapsed from the cold. He
picked her up and turned around in time to see his memoth collapse.
He sighed and walked over to the memoth. Its lifeless eyes stared
up at him. Goku set Usagi down gently and kicked the memoth
out of the way.

"And I thought they smelled bad alive." He joked to himself and
pulled out his pack to build a small shelter. He immediately
began to set up and kept an eye on Usagi. He could see that she
was still breathing lightly.

He had the shelter up in no time and carefully carried Usagi in.
He had the little heater roaring and set her next to it. She was
mumbling about Pluto and Hotaru. "Hang on Usagi." He whispered
as he cradled her trying to give her some of his body heat.

~@~

Usagi looked around. She was in a white marble hall decorated
with White roses. Ten chairs, each a different color, sat in a
circle with several benches behind each one in a row. She looked
up at the ceiling to see a mural of the surrounding systems. She
walked over to one of the pillars and looked out to a vast garden
and a silver sea beyond that.

"Where am I?" She murmured to herself.

"You are in the Headquarters for the Senshi in the White Moon
Kingdom." A voice replied behind her.

Usagi spun around to see Hotaru dressed in a purple gown.
"Hotaru!" She cried running towards her master. She hugged
her tight and Hotaru squeezed back. "I though you were dead."
She cried.

"Technically I am. As well as you were almost, be careful Usagi,
we cannot afford to lose you just yet. Be thankful that Goku came
when he did." Hotaru smiled down at her.

"What do you mean?"

"We are in you subconscious. Your body is down on Mercury with
Goku who saved you from freezing."

Usagi pulled away. "So, are you dead or not?" She asked slowly.

"This body is, I am the Senshi of Ruin and Rebirth. I am always
reborn. It was time for me to move on to a younger body. I am
on the planet Earth, I believe you were just on its forest moon."
She replied sitting in one of the chairs in the circle, the one
with the purple cushion to be exact.

"Can I see you again?" Usagi asked sitting next to her in another
chair. It was marked Jupiter and had an emerald green cushion.

"I would like that. You may pick me up and then travel to the
Plutonian system. There you will seek Setsuna, the keeper of
Time. Go to the Coronus, the moon of the planet Pluto. Setsuna
will teach you and my younger self the ways of the Senshi."
She ordered. Usagi nodded. "Now go, Goku is extremely worried."
Hotaru stood.

Usagi followed suit and the room disappeared, as well as Hotaru but
her words echoed around. She began to feel a tingling sensation
and started to disappear as well.

~@~

Usagi awoke in Goku's arms. He looked cold and was dozing.

"Goku?" Usagi whispered.

His eyes flew open and looked down on her. "Usagi!" He cried
hugging her.

Usagi sat up and noticed her coat was off, she was in Goku's
lap and a blanket was over her. "Where are we?" She asked.

"A tent, in the middle of a roaring blizzard." Goku informed her.

Usagi looked up at him smiling. "Thank you Goku." She nuzzled
against his chest.

He wrapped his arms around her and a little smile found it's way
to his lips. "That's two you owe me." He smirked.

Usagi's eyes twinkled in merriment. "You better get into some
life threatening situations so I can save you." She laughed.

He laughed as well. "So what happened?" He asked.

Usagi looked thoughtful. "I went to check out that meteor and
there was nothing there. I was about to radio into base and
say it was probably one of the Dark Imperial Probes. I guess
the meteor fall brought out the locals and a snow monster thing
attacked me. I woke up in its cave, used my scepter to get out
of there and ended up half frozen in the snow."

"Sounds like quite an adventure." Goku smiled leaning back.
"We should rest. As soon as this confounded blizzard stops we
should head back." He told her. Usagi nodded and leaned up
against his chest closing her eyes. Goku pulled her closer and
leaned back against his pack closing his eyes.

~~~@~~~

TO BE CONTINUED...

Will Goku and Usagi freeze? Not likely, but will Usagi find Hotaru?
Good question... *cackles evilly*

R/R POR FAVOR!

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