New Dimensions: Episode 3: Will the sadness end?

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing.

Author's Note: I would like to thank Black Saturn, Tenshi, AyaRina, Chibi HoNo0, SaturnActingChick, Dee, Kagerou, and Hikaru-Angel for reviewing. I'de like to especially give thanks to Hikari-Angel. I want you to know that I love you if you did review!!!

Hope you like chapter three. This style of writing might be different because those last two sucky chapters were written a long time ago and I didn't feel like editing. Just making that clear.

Damn! I'm sorry for not updating earlier. When I fell to number 37 I became depressed and I didn't study for by Biology test on Water and I worked on this chapter... by the way I failed that test. -_- You all better review. ^_~

Hotaru was feeling miserable as she took the long walk home. 'Why were they so mean to me? What did I do to them?' Hotaru questioned herself as began picking up her pace to go home. She wanted to cry some more but she couldn't do it out in the street. It was too cold and she was scared. She wanted to be home, and to be with her father.

As Hotaru made her way slowly to her house, she came up with the conclusion that she was only a waste of oxygen. That the only reason why they were making fun of her was because her existence was amusing to them. 'Maybe they are jealous.' Hotaru thought to herself, trying to comfort herself. 'Maybe they are just jealous about me being the most powerful soldier.' But she realized that her self-counseling was no good and began to walk faster, feeling the hot tears burning her eyes.

A gust of wind blew making her little skirt fly up bearing her pale thighs. Hotaru sneezed and crossed her arms. It wasn't smart of her to leave her warm house just to be made fun of. She didn't know it was going to be this cold. Hotaru sneezed again and sniffed. "Damn..." she said to herself as she felt icy cold water begin to hit her.

She looked around and down the dark streets and fear soon crept around her. Her sight was beginning to get blurry as she felt a sharp pain come to her head. 'No.' Hotaru thought to herself. 'No, not again. Not right now.'

***

Heero stood up from his couch and picked up his own sleeping bag. He walked to the kitchen where everyone was and saw Makoto reaching into an oven and pulling out a hot apple-pie. Everyone who smelled the succulent sent of warm apple pie began to salivate, especially Duo.

"Heero aren't you going to have some pie?" Makoto asked him as she placed the pie in the center of the table and began cutting it into small slices.

Heero shrugged. "Where are we going to sleep?" he asked Makoto.

"Oh! Hold on..." she began taking off her apron. "Okei, follow me please." She said grabbing Heero's arm and pulling him down a small hall to an even smaller room. "Sorry it's so small. I didn't know you guys were coming so I had to quickly fix the place up."

Heero saw that there was only one bed in the bedroom, which was under a window. Heero placed his sleeping bag on the bed and spread it out. Then he looked out of the window. He heard the faint tapping noises of water on the windowsill. He knew that he was going to get a good sleep that night. He always slept well on rainy days. He wondered at that moment, what that Hotaru girl was doing and if she got home well. He shuddered at the thought and walked to the bathroom to take a shower.

***

Hotaru felt the pain die down and she began to breathe easy. When she was able to see again, she noticed that she was on the cold grass. Apparently she passed out and woke up once again. She saw flashing lights. A lightning bolt just struck not too far away. Hotaru became scared again. She tried to pick herself up and walk home but she realized that she couldn't do it. Not by herself. She slowly reached into her pocket and pulled out her communicator.

Haruka was driving around town to let her anger out. She was mad because she had received her final score and realized that she was getting a 'D' in Calculus. Her communicator went off and she quickly flipped it on. When she saw Hotaru, she gasped. Hotaru looked sick and was wet. Her eyes had that emotionless look in them again.

"Hotaru, are you okay? Where are you?" she said loudly.

"P... Plum Park." She said to herself. There was a flash of lightning and all Haruka could see was static and a fading image of Hotaru.

"Plum Park? Did you say Plum Park?"

"Plum... Park." Hotaru mumbled once again and she turned off her communicator.

Haruka quickly turned around, causing her tires to make a screeching noise and raced off towards Plum Park.

When Haruka got there, she couldn't see Hotaru at first. She walked around the park for a while screaming her name until he saw a small and balled up body near the cement. Haruka ran to it and gasped when she saw that it was Hotaru. She was facing the floor and she was wet. When Haruka touched Hotaru's hand, it was icy cold.

"Damn it." She said to herself as she picked up Hotaru's body and made her way to her apartment.

As she walked inside the house, she didn't even bother taking off her shoes. She made her way inside her bedroom and placed Hotaru on her bed. Michiru, who was already sleeping, began to move and turned and looked at Haruka.

"Where were you?" she said slowly but when she saw Hotaru she said, "What happened?"

"She called me on my communicator and said that she was in Plum Park."

"What was she doing there?"

"I don't know. But she looks sick and she's more pale than usual." Haruka mumbled and quickly placed a thick blanket on Hotaru. "I think she's sick. She's got a fever."

"Do you think she is going to be okay?" Michiru asked concerned.

"I don't know." Haruka replied. "But she is going to stay here for the night. I'll take her to her house tomorrow." Haruka left the room. Michiru followed and they left a sick Hotaru sleeping.

***

Hotaru's eyes fluttered open when she smelled smoke. She began to cough and she stood up. She mentally cursed herself for waking up. She wanted to stay asleep forever.

Hotaru looked at her slightly wet clothes. She forgot she was out in the rain for a while the night before. Hotaru swallowed and immediately felt a stinging pain in the very back of her throat. Her head was hot but her entire body was cold. "Damn it." She said to herself as she made her way down a small hall of Haruka and Michiru's house and she walked into the kitchen.

She peeped in and saw Michiru looking at Haruka and smiling. She was drinking some hot coffee, which tasted horrible but she was being nice. Haruka had wanted to make breakfast that morning and she wasn't doing a good job at it. Hotaru looked at Haruka who was trying to boil some water for hot lemonade for Hotaru to drink.

"Haruka... maybe you should let me boil the water. You are going to burn it."

Hotaru walked into the kitchen.

"Good morning Firefly. How did you sleep?" Haruka said.

"..." No reply. Hotaru felt hot and cold at the same time and she couldn't swallow because she feared the pain.

"You don't look to good. We are taking you over to your house today." Michiru said.

Hotaru nodded.

"Oh, and uhm... you dad is leaving the country today." Haruka told Hotaru. "Uhm, he's going to some meeting in the United States. They are trying to find some cure and they are asking for one scientist from every country to represent that country and they are all trying to find it. I think it's some cancer or something. Anyway, your dad is leaving today. I talked to him this morning."

Hotaru lifted an eyebrow.

"He got the call to go to the states this morning. He told me."

"Did he tell you personally?" Hotaru asked. Her voice was very raspy. Hotaru flinched because of the immense pain she was feeling.

"No. Some blond woman told me. But I'm sure he will be fine." Haruka replied.

Hotaru sat down. She knew who that woman was. Her name was Michiko and Hotaru didn't trust her one bit. She was always locked up in the lab with her father and she never would let Hotaru in to talk to her father, which bothered Hotaru a lot.

"Something wrong?" Michiru asked. She was now seated next to Hotaru.

Hotaru shook her head 'no' and waited for her breakfast.

***

"How did you all sleep last night?" Ami said as she opened the door to the boys' room. Heero was the only one awake. He was already showered and dressed and was working on his something on his laptop (A/N Isn't he always?).

Ami sweat dropped. Duo was fast asleep, a bubble of mucus increasing ever so slightly when he exhaled. Wufei was in the corner, sleeping with his arms crossed. Trowa was buried in his sleeping bag, only a lump was seen, and Quatre had a teacup held tightly in one of his hands. (A/N Aww, so cute!!!)

"Well Heero, come to the kitchen. I am making breakfast and you get to taste test it."

Heero followed Ami to the kitchen and sat on the table.

"Well, we all had fun last night didn't we? Oh I'm sorry, you slept early." Ami said.

"Mmm." Heero replied.

That was the first time she had heard Heero talk and was surprised by his deep voice. She continued. "You missed out. Last night we played truth or dare. It was... let's just say, there was some outrageous dares and Minako asked the most embarrassing questions." She handed Heero a mug of coffee. "Hope you like it dark."

Heero looked down at the dark, steamy liquid that was placed in front of him and he picked it up and drank slowly from it. "So what's up with you and Hotaru? You guys treated her like garbage last night." Heero said as he began adding sugar to his coffee.

"Na, nothing. We were just messing with her." Ami replied while adding mild to her coffee.

"Messing with her?"

"Yeah, I mean, I don't think she took it personally or anything."

Heero remembered Hotaru looking up at him, her eyes filled with crystal tears. "I wouldn't say that." Heero said as he stood up with his coffee and sat in the exact same spot on the couch where he sat last night.

Ami looked at him with a confused expression and said, "What do you mean?"

Heero shrugged, closed his eyes, and drank.

"What did Hotaru tell you?" Ami now stood in front of Heero.

Heero looked up at Ami with one eyebrow raised and said, "She didn't tell me anything."

"Oh!" Ami sighed with relief. She was pulling the mug near her mouth.

"She cried though."

A mug silently hit the floor, spilling dark liquid (A/N Think Relena's teacup when it hit the floor after she became poisoned in Endless Waltz). "She cried?"

Heero silently sipped his coffee.

"Oh my goodness..." She said. "I can't believe it."

Heero looked up at Ami's guilt stricken face and wanted to smile but didn't.

"I think I will tell everyone then I guess and... Well we really should tell her that we didn't mean anything we said." Ami thought out loud.

Heero shrugged and began walking towards his bedroom. Before leaving the living room and a thinking Ami, he said, "By the way, good coffee," and left.

***

Haruka sat down on the giant and comfortable living room leather sofa that was in Hotaru's house. Hotaru was upstairs sleeping and Haruka told her before she slept that she promised to waste her Saturday (and usually racing practice day) to take care of Hotaru.

Haruka looked at the giant windowsill that was just about twenty feet away. It had a beautiful view of the giant garden in Hotaru's backyard and farther away there were more buildings, which were large like hers. A butterfly flew past the window.

Haruka smiled and began walking up the stairs to see how Hotaru was doing. She walked into the room, which was much warmer than all the other rooms because the windows were closed and no air conditioner was on for that room.

"Ey Hotaru, do you want me to open a window or something? It's hot in here." Haruka asked.

"Mmm." Hotaru mumbled and turned in bed, the icy cold towel that was on her forehead fell off.

"How does your throat feel?"

Hotaru slightly opened her eyes and swallowed some saliva that was gathering in her mouth and that she was scared of swallowing before. Feeling that same intense stinging and burning in the back of her throat like before, she shook her head 'no' and groaned.

"Do you want me to make some hot lemonade for your throat?"

"Does it mean I'll have to swallow it?" Hotaru mumbled.

"I'm pretty sure you do."

Hotaru groaned once more and covered her whole head with the giant blanket.

"Don't worry. I'll call Michiru to see if she can get you some painkillers for your throat and I'll make the lemonade. I won't mess up this time ok? By the way, what were you doing outside at night so late? That rain really did make you sick."

Hotaru didn't move from under her blanket.

"Well?"

Hotaru didn't want to reply. She couldn't tell her what happened.

Haruka left the room.

***

"She cried?!" Setsuna nearly screamed.

"That's what Heero told me." Ami mumbled feeling even more guilty by the second.

"Oh my..." Setsuna said as she let out a sigh. (A/N Yes! Feel the guilt!)

"What do you think we should do?" Ami asked Setsuna, completely flustered.

"We talk to Luna about it. She's with Usagi I think."

***

(A/N Damn I'm adding too much dialogue. Sorry.)

"So what do you think we should to?" Ami asked Luna.

"We do what she should have done a while ago. We send her somewhere else, to a different dimension. It will do her good. She won't have to worry about going to school and exploding into her second self again, she won't have to worry about you guys making fun of her," Ami and Setsuna's eyes watered, "and I guess she can forget about being a Scout for a while until you guys straighten things out with her."

"Yeah I guess you are right." Setsuna said.

Ami thought for a second and said, "But Luna, what would happen if Hotaru has one of those attacks of hers somewhere else? We have no way of knowing and no one will protect her."

"Hmm... you are right. And they most likely won't remember each other when they do go, but I'm sure fate will happen sooner or later. Better late than never I guess. So do you want to go visit Hotaru?"

"I think that would be nice." Ami said. "Maybe we can go with her, you know, until she gets better or something."

"I wouldn't be able to go." Setsuna said. "I'll be monitoring everything from the time gate. I'm the keeper and I don't think I will be able to guard it in a different dimension."

"Well Ami? What do you say?" Luna asked.

Ami nodded.

"First though, send those boys back. Tell the girls to tell them good-bye."

"How did you know they were from a different dimension?" Ami asked flustered.

"Ami, I'm not dumb. Do it now Setsuna." They did so and afterwards they went to Hotaru's house.

***

"Well how is she?" Haruka asked Michiru who was coming down the stairs.

"She's feeling much better now. She still has a fever but her soar throat is completely gone she says." Michiru smiled.

"That's good I guess."

"Would you like to watch some television?" Michiru asked.

Haruka nodded and they sat side by side in the same giant couch and Michiru flipped on the television.

"And now for some breaking news. AirAsia Flight 8 has been shot down from the sky as it was flying over the desert area of California. The reason is still unknown. Investigators are still trying to put the pieces together. There were no survivors, among the dead is world famous Dr. Tomoe." A picture of the professor was slapped on the screen. It was a picture of him standing next to a shorter girl in her teens. She was wearing all black with purple hair that was short, not even past her shoulders. "Police were able to recover this picture from the wreckage. It's a picture of Dr. Tomoe with his daughter Hotaru Tomoe. Our prayers are out to you Ms. Tomoe."

"Oh my God." Michiru said. Her hands covering her mouth.

Haruka looked angry. "Damn it!" she nearly screamed.

Glass breaking was heard in the back. Haruka and Michiru turned around and saw Hotaru standing there, her hot mug out of her hands on the floor. The lemonade spill was everywhere and so were small pieces of glass. Hotaru was as white as a sheet of paper, her eyes were wide, and her pupils were small. Hotaru began to tremble and she fell forward on the pieces of glass.

Haruka ran towards Hotaru's small body. "It's all right. She's just unconscious."

The doorbell rang. Michiru ran to answer it. There stood Ami and Setsuna.

"Thank goodness you are here! Mr. Tomoe has been killed and Hotaru fainted and---"

Ami and Setsuna ran inside the house and saw Haruka taking out a small piece of glass that had pierced her cheek.

"What happened?" Setsuna cried.

"Long story. I found her yesterday lying down unconscious in Plum Park in the rain and I took her to my house. This morning I brought her hear. She had a terrible fever and soar throat. She was feeling better, coming down the stairs with some hot lemonade when she heard about her father and fainted again to pretty much sum it up for you."

Ami had tears in her eyes while Setsuna looked away.

"It was out fault." Setsuna said. She explained everything.

"... and so that's why she was at Plum Park. It was out fault." Ami finished off.

"I see." Michiru said.

Hotaru was now in bed once more, a small Band-Aid on her cheek. She woke up looking at four concerned faces. She once again cursed herself for waking up.

"Hotaru?" Setsuna asked.

The image of the four faces became blurry and then clear and then blurry and then clear once more.

"Hotaru?" Setsuna asked again.

"What?" she replied coldly.

"I'm sending you to a different dimension along with Ami. You won't remember those men that you saw last night though. Is that fine with you?"

Before Hotaru could respond though, Ami cut in saying, "Oh Hotaru I'm so sorry!" She gave Hotaru a hug. "I didn't know that I hurt you! I'm sorry!"

Hotaru didn't return the hug. She didn't say anything. She was still trying to put herself together while holding her tears back. Some of her crystal tears fell on Ami.

"Hotaru... honey..." Michiru began, "I want you to know that I love you with all of my heart. Haruka and I do and that the girls didn't mean anything last night. They didn't know you would take it personally."

Hotaru looked away. She didn't believe any of this crap. "I don't believe any of this crap." (A/N ^_^)

Michiru nodded to Setsuna. (A/N I'm sorry for making things happen so fast, but right now I'm trying to hurry up the chapter before my mom comes home. My report card came and I'm grounded from the computer! -_-)

"Hotaru, change into some comfortable clothes. You are going to a different dimension with Ami today. Do you understand?"

***

At the time gate (A/N Too fast eh? Sorry again), Setsuna explained, "Hotaru, I'm going to make it so that you won't remember that much except for your training which will come in handy sooner or later, believe me. Ami will be by your side at all times watching over you incase you should have one of those attacks. She will be training you to have those attacks only when you reach your limit. Am I going to fast?" (A/N YES YOU ARE DAMN IT!)

Hotaru looked away.

"I'm sorry Hotaru, but it's for your own good. Now, step in the time gate with Ami please."

Ami grabbed Hotaru's hand and before walking through the gate, she told Setsuna, "By girl. I'll miss you. Say hi to everyone for me." She walked in. Hotaru was being pulled in by Ami now. Before Hotaru went in, Setsuna told her, "I'm sorry Hotaru. We all love you." And Hotaru stepped through.

Well that's chapter five for you! I hope you enjoyed it. And once again sorry for making things happen so fast in the end. I got my report card yesterday and I showed my mom who freaked! I'm not embarrassed about putting it on here so here it is:

Period: 1, Subject: Honors English 9A, Marks: D UE, comments: Does Not complete assignments/tasks. In danger of failing/ not meeting promotion standards.

Period: 2, Subject: Honors World History A, Marks: D UE, comments: In danger of failing/ not meeting promotion standards.

Period: 3, Subject: Algebra 2A, Marks: D EE, comments: Low Scores.

Period: 4, Subject: Honors Advanced Biology A, Marks: Fail US Comments: none

Period: 5, Subject: Advanced Physical Education, Marks: A EE comments: none

Period: 6, Subject: Spanish 1A, Marks: A EE

Period: 7, Subject: Psychology 1, Marks: F ES, comments: none.

Period: 8, Subject: Business 1, Marks: F UU, comments: none (I think I'm going to drop this class)

There you have it. And no not all the students have a seventh and eighth periods, only some of them that attend my high school but some other high schools, it is mandatory to have a seventh class. I'm taking them by choice. So as you can see that is the reason why it's taking me a while to update. I leave school late and I'm still piled with homework and I'm up to my neck with tests to study. These are the 5-week grades and now it's the 7th week of school. My school takes forever to mail my grades home so yes... oh and the E's S's and U's are Excellent, Satisfactory, and Unsatisfactory. The first of those letters is the grade for work habits and the second is for cooperation, just letting you know if you didn't.

Pray for me please!!! I'll have my 10 week report card up in when it comes. Ja!