Serena sat at her window one night, gazing up at the stars, dreaming of Darien. The stars seemed to glow so bright that night, and the sky was darker than usual. But Serena was oblivious to this.
Luna looked up at Serena from her catnap and sighed. "Serena, what are you doing?"
"Thinking…" Serena sighed.
"Oh dear, she's thinking…"
"Oh Luna stop, I'm just thinking about Darien. I just think that…" she trailed off as if distracted by something.
"Think what Serena?"
"Luna… come here…" Serena said, getting up onto her knees, peering intensely threw the window. Luna quickly jumped up to the window to see what Serena was staring at so hard.
Something that seemed like shooting stars fell to the earth, one right after the other. The first one hit the ground not too far away from the city it seemed, causing a great light to appear and then quickly disappear afterwards. Five times this happened. The ground shook a little, and Luna looked over at Serena.
"Serena, I think we have a new problem at hand. I'll contact the others and you transform and see what happened."
"Right!"
* * *
All five Sailor Scouts ran towards the woodland area near Ray's temple. They ran and ran as fast as they could, searching for where the objects had fallen.
"What do you think it could be?" Mina asked, almost out of breath.
"Aliens from the Negaverse? Allan and Anne again? Hey, maybe it's the Star lights coming back to see us! Maybe just regular shooting stars?"
"I don't know guys, I'm getting some strange vibes from this." Ray said as they approached the area where they had thought the objects had fallen. They all stopped and stood as if frozen as they gaped at what they saw walking towards them.
Threw the cloud of dust and smoke, five images began to appear, walking slowly, seeming to be engaged in some sort of conversation with each other…
"I can't believe this! Who knew that there would be a tear in time right there! I knew we shouldn't have followed Sally's directions, they came from a woman!"
"Enough Wufei, it's no ones fault, it was an accident. Don't worry, we will find a way to get back. Things don't look too much different, so maybe we're not too far away from year AC 196... We know we are on the Earth and so at least we aren't too far away from--"
"Guys, look…"
Everyone stood silent, looking at each other.
Serena's jaw dropped to the ground as she realized what she was looking at. "They're… They're just five boys! Kids, just like us!"
"Hey, who you calling a kid!?" the boy with the long hair remarked.
"Perhaps they just look like kids, but maybe there's more to them than that…" Amy said, taking out her computer to analyze the boys before them. They still stood gaping at each other until Amy finally spoke. "They are human."
The boys grunted and looked at each other… "Hey Heero, look at what they're wearing." the one with long hair whispered into one's ear. But it wasn't much of a whisper, everyone heard it. The boys stared at the girls. There were five of the girls, just like there were five on them. But the girls were dressed awfully strange. They wore some form of school uniform from before the colonies were in space. But from what they had learned when they had studied history, the skirts were longer, and the uniforms had sleeves, and they had to wear a certain type of shoes. But these girls wore things completely different from what they had seen in pictures. "They look ridiculous."
"Shut up Duo, they seem to have some sort of higher technology than we have with us now."
"Aw man, I was just checking out the girls, they're kind of hot."
"Duo, I thought you didn't like gir--"
"Hey, be quiet Quatre. I never comment on how you and Trowa are always--"
Suddenly, Heero pulled his gun and pointed it at the girl with the long blonde pig tails. "Who are you?"
The girls were all startled. "Enemies…" Ray muttered. She sighed, "Mars…flame…sniper!"
"Mercury…aqua…rhapsody…"
"Jupiter…oak…evolution…"
"Venus…love and beauty shock…"
"Moon…eternal…"
"Whoa!" Duo said, gawking at the girls. They all had some sort magical power and was now focusing it on them. "Heero, put the gun away before they zap us or something."
"Hn. They wish to fight us then?" Heero said, as he started charging at the girl with the long blonde pig tails.
"Ahhh!!!"
"Sailor Moon!" the remaining girls yelled. They all released their powers as he still went at Sailor Moon, who stood there, wide eyed. But the boy jumped, ran, and dodged all their blows.
Whomp! Heero now lay on the ground as Trowa stood before him. "Don't harm them Heero. You had no need to point your gun at them whatsoever. They have shown us that they are very powerful, we don't need to be messing around with them…"
"Did Trowa just punch Heero?" Duo gaped.
"Yes." Quatre sighed.
"Heero shouldn't have tried to fight against a woman… Women are weak, it was a waste of his time…"
Heero glared up at Trowa. "I'll pay you back for that one later."
"No problem Heero." Trowa smiled, helping Heero up. Trowa then turned to the girls. "I am sorry ladies. We have no intention to harm you. We are a little lost. And a little confused. Please forgive Heero here, he's always been a little quick at the trigger. He's really a nice guy once you get to know him."
"Who are you?" Ray asked, giving Trowa a weary look.
"I'm Trowa. This is Heero. The blonde one over there is Quatre. The one with the unusually long hair is Duo, and the other one, the guy that has his arms crossed over his chest is Wufei. Who are you?"
"I'm Sailor Mars." Ray answered. She looked over to Lita, "That is Sailor Jupiter."
"Hi." she answered.
"I'm Sailor Venus." Mina smiled.
"I am Sailor Mercury. Pleased to meet you all." Amy smiled.
"…" Serena was still in shock over getting charged by this Heero kid.
"She is Sailor Moon. The leader of the Sailor Scouts." Ray said, giving Serena a disgusted look, "But sometimes she doesn't act like it."
Quatre walked up to them and shook all of their hands. "It's a pleasure to know you."
Amy looked at him and remembered something… "Hey, when you were walking up, before you realized we were here, didn't you say something about a tear in time and now you were lost?"
"Uh…" Quatre said, looking at his fellow comrades.
"What year is it?" Trowa asked.
"1996."
"1996?!" Duo said, beginning to choke on his saliva. "Damn… it!"
"Oh dear…" Quatre said.
"You're from the future, aren't you?" Amy asked.
"Yes." Quatre answered. "I don't know how we are going to get home. Time travel is unheard of…"
"No it isn't." Lita said.
All five boys looked up at her. She had the green outfit, and was taller than the rest of them, with long brown hair, pulled back into a pony tail. "Scouts, they need our help… I think we need to trust them… They're our age it seems… I believe them."
"Me too." Mina and Amy answered. Ray looked at Heero, and saw in his eyes that they weren't lying. She nodded.
Serena looked at all of them and nodded. "We will help you. But you have to trust us too. Do you?"
Trowa, Quatre and Duo all replied with an audible yes. Wufei snorted and looked away.
"You'll have to excuse Wufei, he's not so found of woman."
Everyone chuckled at Wufei as he shot them a glare that would have killed anyone.
"Heero?"
"Hn… Hai."
"All right. Scouts?" Serena nodded.
"Right!" They all said.
A bright flash appeared in front of the boys. There stood five young girls, in their pajama's, smiling.
Serena walked up to Heero. "Hi! I'm Serena."
"…"
Ray looked around, "I'm Ray."
"Amy!"
"Hey, I'm Lita."
"I'm Mina."
"So you don't want us to call you Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter, or Sailor Venus?"
"Ha. No, we're teenage girls. We only call each other that when we are in battle."
"You fight?" Duo asked.
"We are soldiers that protect the Earth. That is our mission in life. We have no choice."
"Wow, we have something in common." Quatre smiled.
"Really? What do you mean?" Amy asked.
"No sense in hiding our secrets from them since they revealed theirs to us, right guys?"
"Yeah." Duo said, hands behind his head as he yawned.
"Follow us. We'll show you what I mean."
* * *
"Oh my G--"
"What are they?"
"These are Gundams."
"Gundams?"
"Yep, this here is Deathscythe. It's my Gundam." Duo chuckled, tapping the foot.
"You use these to fight?"
"Yes, we pilot them. You see…" Quatre began, "We are from the year AC 196. That's 196 years After Colonies have entered space. We live on the colonies in outer space, orbiting the Earth. A war broke out, and we fought for the colonies as rebels to destroy the organization called OZ, but in the end, we ended up defending Earth too. Gundams are mobile suits that people pilot. Gundams are made of Gundanium alloy, which if I'm not mistaken, you have not discovered that yet. Gundanium alloy is near indestructible, which makes our Gundams so hard to defeat."
"But you are merely kids, why do they let you pilot these types of machines?"
"We were chosen specially to do so. Trained vigorously, and disciplined in many ways." Wufei said, his arms still crossed over his chest. "But what I am wondering, is how YOU got these powers of yours. Why you women?"
"Wufei, you needn't be so rude." Trowa whispered.
"I want to know too." Heero said.
"It's not a short story to tell… but I think we can sum it up in a short little story…" Amy said with that assuring voice that she's always had. "Well… We are from the past. Thousands of years from the past. Each of us lived on our respectable planets as princess', and Serena is the Moon Princess. Her love, Darien, was a Prince from Earth. An evil force from the Negaverse came, and to save us, Serena's mother, Queen Serenity sent us to the future. We have now been revived of our past to become Sailor Soldiers to protect the Earth and our Princess from the evils that arrive. If we fail, then the future of Earth is in trouble as well. We are not the only five either, there are still four more, and Tuxedo Mask. Serena's daughter from the future is Sailor Mini Moon too. Basically, we are Soldiers by our own fate, we protect the world from evil, so we can have a life in the futures, and we protect Serena, because she is our Princess."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought our story was a little unbelievable, but yours, yours takes the cake! What in the heck is the Negaverse?" Duo choked.
"The Negaverse is a dimension of evil… and so is the dark moon… and many other things as well." Lita said.
"Man, all this is making me hungry." Duo said.
"Yes, I think we should hide our Gundams and then find some kind of shelter." Trowa said.
"Yes, but we will find you someplace for you to stay tonight. Someplace warm and safe."
"Hey! You can stay at my temple! Grandpa won't mind." Ray said.
"That's very kind of you, but…" Quatre said.
"No but's, we said we are going to help you. And so we shall." Mina giggled.
"All right, you got any food there?" Duo piped in.
"Well, I can find something." Ray said.
"I'll come by in the morning and make you breakfast, how does that sound?" Lita asked.
//They're so kind, so willing to help… I don't trust them…\\ Heero thought.
"Okay, well lets get going before our parents realize we are missing." Amy chuckled…
* * *
The next morning, the four of the five young boys lay sleeping on mats in Ray's temple. The sun beamed threw the window and the birds were chirping happily. But the heavenly quiet of the morning would soon be over…
"HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a voice came from the door. "Anyone awake yet?!"
Duo rolled over and wrapped his long brain around his head so it would cover his ears… "No, come on… five more… minutes… The war can…wait…" he trailed off.
Quatre sat up and looked sleepily at the door before getting up to open it. "Good morning." he said as he saw the young blonde girl with the long pig tails smiling dumbly at them. "How are you today Serena?"
"Great! I woke up and came here to see what Lita was making for breakfast, but she threw something at me when I tried to taste her cooking, and I got scared. So I decided to come see if you were awake yet."
"Well, I am awake, and Heero's been awake for a while it seems. He's not even here. He's probably out running or something. But I can wake Trowa and Wufei, but Duo, he's going to take some work to get him to rise."
"Ah ha! I know the perfect thing to get him up… My mom used to do it to me when I didn't get up in the mornings… I'll return in a flash!" Serena said, running off. Quatre chuckled under his breathe and went to go wake Trowa and Wufei. Off in the distance he heard a loud crash.
"Serena!! Go away!!"
BOOM! CRASH! BOOM! BOOM!
"Serena!!"
"Sorry! I just needed to get these… Sorry!!!" Quatre heard as the patter of feet came towards the room.
"Where's the war?" Trowa said, looking around as he registered the loud sounds.
"No war right now Trowa…" Quatre giggled. Wufei's eyes opened and looked around.
"I thought it was just a nightmare… Damn woman, and her directions…"
"OKAY I'M BACK!!!" Serena yelled, turning the corner sharply, as she skidded into the door. "Oops, gomen door…" Serena said, tapping the door she just collided with. Quatre's eyes widened as he realized what Serena held in her hands. A pan and a large wooden spoon.
"Oh dear…" Quatre said, covering his ears. Trowa looked curiously at Serena as she began banging furiously on the pan with the spoon.
"WAKE UP SUN SHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She hollered.
"AHHHHH!!!! I'M UP!!!! I'M UP!!! GET ME MY GUNDAM!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!" Duo said, sitting straight up, panting as his heart raced, eyes wide, but still hazy from sleep… When he finally realized that OZ wasn't attacking him, he unwrapped his braid from his face and glared at Serena. "What the hell?! I was just dreaming about food… and Heer-- I mean… Damn it!!!"
Serena beamed at Duo, as she hid the pan and spoon behind her back. "Sorry…"
"Oh God, where's the bathroom? I think I had an accident…" Duo said, trying to crawl, but failed, and fell over. Quatre burst into uncontrollable laughter at the comment from Duo.
"Accident? Did I hurt you?!" Serena said, kneeling down with a worried look in her eyes as her hand gently lay on Duo's shoulder.
"Ah, hahahahahaha!!!! No Serena! He's fine!!" Quatre said, nearly rolling on the floor. "Duo peed his pants!!!"
"Ermm…" is all Duo said, getting up and leaving the room.
"What?! Eww!!! Couldn't he have waited?"
"No woman… you startled him to the point where he lost control… Women…" Wufei said, getting up and stretching.
Trowa looked down wistfully at Quatre who was still laughing uncontrollably. "Quatre, that's enough."
"Heh, right…" Quatre said, wiping away the tears that had formed in his eyes from laughing so much.
"Boys!!! Breakfast!!!" Mina called from the dining room.
"YAY!!! Foods done!" Serena yelled, running out of the room. The three boys walked sleepily out of the room and followed the scent of food. They entered the room and say a small table near the ground filled with food and juices, water, and tea. It looked like a grand feast that perhaps Relena initiated.
"Morning guys…" Lita said, carrying another plate full of food into the room. "Where's Heero and Duo?"
"Duo is a little occupied at the moment…" Quatre said, almost starting his laughing fit again before Trowa put his hand on Quatre's back. "And I think Heero is out for a run. He should be back soon. He hasn't eaten in days, so I doubt he will pass a chance to eat."
"Days?!" Serena said between hands shoving food in her mouth.
"We don't have a choice sometimes." Trowa said thoughtfully as he sat on the ground near Quatre and Wufei.
Duo came wobbling in after a few minutes, wearing a robe. He looked at Ray with sympathetic eyes, "I'm sorry, but I needed to borrow this after Serena scared me…"
"Huh? What happened… oh. Oh! Oh no worries Duo. She's scared me like that a couple times myself. She does that to everyone. Sometimes I wonder if she ever thinks before she acts. You can keep the robe. We'll find you something else to where later so you are more comfortable."
"Thank you." He said, and sat down and began to stuff his face like Serena was doing. Everyone ate the food before them and chatted lightly, until Heero came walking in.
"Hi Heero." Trowa said. Heero nodded and sat down next to Duo. Everyone looked at him wearily as he began to nibble on food.
"Where were you Yuy?" Wufei asked.
"Looking around."
"Oh? Find anything interesting?" Amy asked.
"No. Not really. People seem to be getting tired and weak easily though. Must be something in the water, or the change in temperatures." Heero said, continuing to eat.
"What? Tired? Like their energy has been drained?" Ray asked.
"Hai."
The five girls rose quickly from where they were sitting. "Looks like we have something wicked coming our way again. We'd better go check it out…"
"Right!"
"Huh? What? Like evil?" Quatre inquired, getting up. The girls nodded, beginning to leave the room. "Wait!! I want to see if we can help!" he said running out of the room. Trowa, Wufei, and Duo followed… Duo grumbling about how he had the wear the robe in public.
//This will be interesting. If there's a battle, I want to see if these girls can handle their own with their magic.\\ Heero thought to himself, as he got up and ran out of the room…
* * *
The group of teenagers ran to where Heero had said he had seen people falling ill from lack of energy. They looked around and saw people laying on the ground, unconscious, and others barely able to move.
"All right girls, I think it's time to transform."
"Right!"
"You guys better stand back," Amy told the boys. The boys complied, and stepped backwards a few feet and watched in amazement as the girls began to transform into Sailor Scouts.
"Mars Star Power!"
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Moon Eternal Crystal Power!"
Seconds later, the girls stood in front of them, their back facing them, prepared for a fight. They looked around still, until they heard a familiar laughter. They all gasped.
"Could it be?" Mina asked with a puzzled look.
"It can't be…" Ray said.
The laughter suddenly stopped and a surge of energy was thrown at them, causing them to fall backwards.
"It can be, Sailor Scouts."
The girls all shuddered in horror as their once thought to be dead nemesis, Zoicite, stood before them.
"No!" Serena said, "It just can't be true. You… you died."
"But I have returned." Zoicite said with another maniacal laugh.
The boys looked at each other in confusion. "Who the hell is that?" Duo said.
"I have no idea, but I want to help them." Quatre said, looking at the figure that was glaring at the scouts.
"Oh, you have new friends I see… your boyfriends?" Zoicite asked with a smirk.
"Um…" Duo looked around, "Us?"
"What do you want Zoicite?" Lita asked, standing her ground.
"I want to pay you for the hell you've caused me. You made me fail so many times that I was vanquished, you killed my lover, Malachite, and killed our queen. I want you to suffer like I have been suffering!" Zoicite said and threw another burst of energy at the scouts.
"Venus love and beauty shock!"
BOOM!
"Mars flame sniper!"
CRASH!
Nothing seemed to even scratch Zoicite.
"Damn, she's not been even hurt once," Duo said, eyes almost bugging out of his head.
"I don't think that that's a woman," Wufei said, "It's way too powerful to be a woman."
"Huh?! It's not a chick?!" Duo said. "Isn't Malachite a male name? That means that he and him were…"
"Yeah…" Heero said, expressionless as always. He was intrigued by how the girls were handling themselves in battle. But he knew that this was just the start.
"Well, I have much to plan, so I will leave my little friend here to play with you until I have the master plan all figured out. Ta ta ladies… Electra blade Lady, take care of these hoodlums."
"Yes Mam!" a monster said, coming out from the shadows, near where Zoicite stood.
"Have fun!" Zoicite said, before vanishing into thin air.
Quatre inched forward, dumbfounded by the spectacle taking place in front of him. //We need to help them…but how, without our Gundams… We just cannot chance the people of this time to really see them… except these girls… What are we going to do…\\ Quatre thought to himself.
"Well!" the monster screeched, "Time to have a little fun. I hope you like keeping the fight hot and clean cut!!!" it giggled, "We'll see, when my lightning sword nips at you!" The monster threw a pulse of energy at the scouts that it referred to as it's lightning sword.
"Ahhh!!!" Sailor Moon cried as one hit her arm, creating a wound deep enough to bleed.
"Sailor Moon!" the other girls cried.
"Mercury…Aqua…Rhapsody!!!" Sailor Mercury yelled, sending, a wave of her power at the monster. Unfortunately, it missed the monster entirely.
"Jupiter…Oak…Evolution…"… "Mars…Flame…Sniper…" Sailor Jupiter and Mars said, combining their powers for one powerful blow to the enemy. This time it hit the creature, sending it flailing to the ground.
"Now Sailor Moon!"
"Right!" Sailor Moon nodded. Suddenly, a wand appeared in her hands as she held her arms out stretched… "Moonlight…Honeymoon…Therapy…Kiss!"
A wave of light washed over the monster, and it vanished.
"What the hell did she just say?" Duo asked Trowa threw clinched teeth, trying not to laugh.
"I believe she said Moonlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss." Trowa answered.
"That's what I thought! Ah, hahaha!!! What the hell kind of call for power is that?!"
"It's not any worse than you calling yourself the God of Death, Mr. Shinigami." Quatre smirked.
"Heh… shut up." Duo said, looking a little hurt.
Heero looked on with amazement as he saw Sailor Moons power, her ability to kill the enemy with one blow. //Interesting… She seems so weak and fragile in regular form, but as Sailor Moon, she is a whole different person. Perhaps this is how she recognizes her true form, threw battle. I can relate to her… I wonder what it would be like to fight her one on one… Hn… But she's a baka like Duo… We will have to see…\\ Heero thought to himself, watching the girls come out of transformation and back into their regular clothes. He sighed and listened as the girls discussed their new found problem. It seemed like they really had a long and hard battle to go with this Zoicite person. //Seems like we'll be stuck here a while… maybe I will be able to fight Serena…\\
* * *
"It looks like it is going to take us a little longer in order to help you guys back home. We are very sorry." Ray told the five Gundam boys.
Quatre nodded. "It's not a problem girls. Just as long as you can return us back to the time, to the second if possible, everything will be okay."
"Well, I'm not sure if we can do that exactly…" Mina said, petting a white cat that lay in her lap.
"There's always a way for everything…" A small squeaky voice said. The boys looked around in confusion.
"Who said that?" Duo asked.
"Um…" Serena said, looking at the door where a small black cat with a yellow crescent moon on her forehead stood. The boys fixated their stare to where Serena was looking, and then looked at each other in confusion.
"Hello." The cat said, traipsing into the room. The white cat looked up at the black one and meowed, getting up to greet her.
"Luna!" Serena said, a dumbfounded look on her face.
"It's quite all right Serena. You told them everything else, they might as well know about your talking cats as well."
"Cats?! You mean that there is more than one?" Duo said, jaw nearly touching the ground in astonishment.
"Yes." The white cat said, sitting on its hind legs.
"Dear God--" Trowa said.
"Oh, please, do not be alarmed. We aren't anything evil. We are servants to the moon kingdom. I am Artemis, and this is Luna." The white cat said.
"Um… How come cats don't talk in our time?" Duo asked stupidly.
"Haha, Well… Um… To tell you the truth, I don't know." Amy said, with a giggle.
"Our time is so involved with violence that it has no time for magic and the sorts. Machinery and Technology has taken over, and the loss of belief in all things like this has been destroyed. That is why we do not have talking cats, nor any warriors like these Sailor Soldier's. The world still seems so innocent at this day and age… Before the colonies…" Quatre sighed.
"Be quiet. We are fighting for the colonies. We want peace for them." Wufei snorted.
"But…" Quatre began.
"No, don't worry about it right now." Trowa said, putting a hand on Quatre's shoulder.
"Well boys. We will help you get to your time, but right now we have a crisis on our hands." Luna said, walking up to Heero. "And there is no need to be hostile towards us either." she said, nudging Heero with her nose. Heero's eyes grew wide. The cat seemed to know of his feelings.
The rest of the group became engaged in a serious conversation of how to defeat this enemy. Heero sighed, and got up and left the room without anyone noticing. Or so he thought.
He walked outside and sat on the temple's steps. He sighed and looked up to the stars, and where the colonies would be years from then. The world did seem quite innocent at this time. He had studied the Earth's past and knew of the wars it had been involved in, but it had never seen anything like it would see hundreds of years from now. Heero felt so out of place here. He felt out of place back home too, but it was worse now. He couldn't go pilot Wing Zero, or do any missions. He wasn't a warrior here. He wasn't Heero Yuy here. He was just… He was just… a kid.
Suddenly Heero felt something warm and furry brush against him arm. "Huh?" he muttered, looking down at the cat. It was Luna. "What do you want?"
"Heero, is that your name?" Luna said, looking up into his blue eyes.
"It's my code name. I don't have a real name." Heero said, looking away.
"Code name? So you are a soldier… How old are you Heero?"
"Sixteen."
"How long have you been fighting?"
"Since I was six… Since I was six, I fought for my life… I fought for the colonies."
"Heero, I know you have a grudge against Serena…" Luna said, putting her paws on his leg. "She seems vulnerable and meek when she is scared. She seems like a rash and babyish teenager, but she's not. Heero… she has saved the human race several times. Therefore, she has also saved you as well… She is a very strong and powerful soldier herself."
"She seems weak. I want to do battle with her…" Heero said, glaring down at Luna.
"And what do you intend on fighting her with? Your Gundam? By your own hands?"
"Well, I never thought about that… I suppose I'd have to fight her with my Gundam."
"Come now Heero. Your Gundam may be mighty, but she is capable of destroying asteroids, and dark forces, and enemies with a few simple words and the courage in her heart. Right now, you are vulnerable to her. She holds the higher card here. She and the rest of the scouts want to protect you, and help you get home, and you Heero, want to fight them…"
"I…"
"Heero, if you want to help her, you can… There are always chances in which you can help her the best you can. Who knows what might happen. This Zoicite is very powerful, they just might need you in one way or another…"
"Are you psychic or something?" Heero asked.
Luna laughed, "Call it woman's intuition."
"But you are a cat!" Heero snorted.
"I am a grown female!" Luna huffed. The two laughed for what seemed like forever, until Heero suddenly stopped.
He stood and looked about the wooded area.
"What's the matter?" Luna said, looking around too.
"Shh." Heero said, his body tensing.
"We weren't alone…" Heero said, running towards the temple. He and Luna entered the room and all looked up at them.
"What's the matter?" Lita asked.
"I heard something. It sounded… It sounded like a…" Heero said, panting… "Like a Gundam."
The other boys jumped up and ran with Heero outside. The worried girls followed in suspense. When they were all outside, the boys stood and listened carefully.
THUMP… THUMP… THUMP…
Animals scurried across the path at the base of the stairs to the temple. Branched crackled, tree's broke, and the boys gasped.
"Do you think it could be?" Quatre asked.
"What if it is…" Duo said, as the thing emerged from the darkness of the shadows.
"Epyon…" Heero whispered…
"Hello boys." A raspy voice called from within the suit. "I see you are well. I've been searching for you everywhere."
"Zechs!" Trowa yelled.
"Trowa Barton… Hm."
The Gundam before them took out it's beam saber and lifted it above it head… ready to strike.
"Zechs! No! This is not our time. We are in the past!" Heero yelled.
"Trying to weasel your way out of dying… I suppose it isn't fair from me to kill you outside your Gundams. And I don't think I could kill these innocent girls either."
"Zechs! We fell threw a tear in time. We cannot fight with our Gundams here. People have not yet heard of Gundams. The year is 1996. We are not in AC 196 any longer! The colonies don't exist… There is only the Earth!" Quatre pleaded.
"You all lie!" The man from inside the suit yelled.
"Check for yourself. Scan for the colonies. There is nothing out there but a few satellites, and debris." Heero said.
Silence…
"This can't be…" Zechs said. The door to the cockpit opened, and out came a man with long white hair. The girls all gasped… The boys sighed… And Zoicite watched from his post and let out a faint whimper…
"Malachite?…"
* * *
"I think we should be allies, since we are at a disadvantage now." Quatre told Zechs.
"The year, 1996... There is no OZ, there is no Alliance… There is no one to stop us from dueling, now is there, Heero Yuy?"
"Zechs…" Heero said threw clinched teeth.
"Please, if the people see the Gundams, the future will be uncertain." Trowa pleaded.
"Perhaps the future will be better off…" Zechs said, still standing at the entrance to Epyon.
The girls looked at the man… He looked so similar to Malachite, it was uncanny. But the boys referred to him as Zechs. There was no way he could be Malachite. They had defeated him in a battle. Malachite was no more. Then Mina gasped.
"Do you think that Zoicite has been watching? Perhaps he's seen this man and thinks what we are thinking…" she whispered.
"It is possible. We have no idea where Zoicite is. We had better keep an eye open." Ray said.
Suddenly, Heero began yelling at Zechs.
"We cannot risk letting the past know the power of the Gundams!!!"
"I do not care! We will fight, Heero. No one can stop me now… I noticed a place where we can fight not too far away from here. Approximately seven miles north from here. You have fifteen minutes to meet me there, Heero." Zechs said, reentering his Gundam and took off.
The girls looked in blunder as it flew off into the sky towards where he had said for the boys to meet them.
"Damn it! What are we going to do?" Duo said, stomping his feet.
"The only thing we can do…" Heero said, jumping off the stairs, towards where he had hidden his Gundam. //…is fight him…\\
"You girls stay here, we have to take care of this." Quatre said, running behind Heero. The rest of the boys followed.
The girls looked at one another, and then Luna spoke. "You must follow them. I have a feeling that this may spark the attention of Zoicite, and I do not think that these boys could handle what he may dish out to them."
"Right!" The girls said.
* * *
Minutes later the girls had made it to the site where the battle would take place, using Sailor teleport. They stood off to the side as they watched the Gundams arrive and prepare to fight.
"What are we going to do if someone seems them fighting?" Serena asked.
"Well, there must some way of erasing memories that we have the power to do."
"I guess we will have to figure it out when the time comes." Mina said.
*
"This is not a good idea, Zechs!" Heero shouted in his cockpit.
"Please, reconsider." Quatre said.
"Stay out of this Winner. Heero and I have tried to finish this battle for a while, and we were always interrupted. Now, we will have no interruptions from this era. Because there is no one to stop us!" Zechs said, beginning to advance on Heero's Gundam.
Heero fought back as Zechs attacked him. Clashing and clanging of metal and the electrical noises of the beam sabers hitting each other filled the air. Duo, Wufei, Quatre, and Trowa stood back and watched in their Gundams as Heero and Zechs fought one another.
"Such foolishness of Zechs proves him to be weak as well." Wufei said.
"I agree, this is foolish and most reckless of him to do this. I think the desperation of war is getting the best of him." Trowa commented.
"I have faith in Heero, I know he will prevail in one way or another." Quatre sighed.
"Woo hoo! I found an extra set of clothes in here!!! Ha, no more lame-o robes for me!" Duo squawked from inside Deathscythe. The other boys sighed at their comrade and continued watching Heero and Zechs.
*
Zoicite hovered over the battle, and watched in amazement.
"Have you returned for me Malachite?" he whispered. "Such things you bring back for us to destroy the Sailor Scouts… Curious that these boys have the same contraptions as you do. Perhaps you were sly enough to steal the technology from them and produce one of your own. Oh, you always were so wonderful at stealing. You even stole my heart…"
He looked down and noticed that the scouts were there as well.
"Ah! Come to take him away from me again?! I do not think so!" he screamed, maneuvering himself to where the scouts were.
"AH!!!" The girls squealed as they have bursts of energy thrown at them.
"Zoicite!" Ray said, as she lay sprawled on the ground.
"You cannot take him away from me again!!!" Zoicite hollered, throwing more energy at the girls.
"Mercury…bubbles…BLAST!!!" Sailor Mercury yelled, and a fog like matter covered the entire area.
"Blinding me is not going to stop me!" Zoicite called threw the mist.
Meanwhile, the Gundam boys noticed that the air had become foggy. A beeping noise alerted them that some sort of energy was being emitted from their right side. They turned their sight to where it was alarming them and saw the scouts were fighting that Zoicite character again. Even Heero and Zechs had forgotten about the fight and now cast their attention to the battle happening below them.
"What's… What is this…" Zechs said, looking threw the monitors at the spectacle.
"Mars…Flame…Sniper!"
BOOM! But still nothing seemed to scratch Zoicite.
"What are these weapons these girls posses?" Zechs whispered.
"They are not normal girls, Zechs… They are Soldiers, just like we are. They are not using weapons, they are using powers threw magic." Heero said with an emotionless voice.
The amazed Zechs opened his cockpit door and exited his Gundam. He stood at the entrance and watched in amazement. These girls seemed to have more power than even the Gundams had. Nothing like this existed in AC 196. Nothing at all.
Suddenly, Zoicite stopped, as he noticed he was being watched. He whirled around and stared at Zechs with hopeful eyes.
"Malachite!!!" he screamed and flew at him with great intensity.
"What?" Zechs managed to say before being attacked by Zoicite.
"It has been far too long my beloved!" Zoicite said, placing his arms around Zechs. "I will never let you go again Malachite, never…"
"But, I'm not… I'm not Malachite." Zechs said.
"Oh my, the separation has driven you to amnesia. But, no fear. I will restore your memory. And you bring such wonderful things to beat the scouts with…" Zoicite said, then he turned to the scouts. "We will be back to finish you off!" And with that, Zoicite, Zechs, and Epyon vanished into thin air.
The Gundam boys quickly exited their Gundams and ran towards the scouts. "What the hell just happened?" Duo asked.
"Zoicite apparently thought that this Zechs guy looked like his former lover, Malachite, of whom we defeated a while ago. We had noticed that Zechs looked like Malachite when we first saw him. That is why we followed." Amy said. "But I think it is time we work together on this because who knows what Zoicite could do the Zechs. He now has a Gundam of his own and an experienced pilot as well."
"I think so too. If we work together, I think we can get Zechs back, defeat this Zoicite guy, and make it back home safely, so we can finish this war." Quatre said.
Everyone looked at each other with an assured look and nodded, then proceeded to run back to the temple where they would start working on a plan.
ZOICITE'S HIDEAWAY-
"You've got it all wrong, my name is Zechs Marquise. I am not this Malachite person you keep harping on and on about."
"Oh dear, it seems that death has erased your mind. But it's made you even more beautiful…" Zoicite said, curling his finger underneath Zechs' chin.
Zechs sat on a stone of some sort, held down by an unseen force. Of course, Zoicite had to restrain him because he kept trying to attack him. Zoicite thought it for the best to keep himself safe from Malachite because it seemed that his memory had been demolished in his time in death.
"What? Beautiful? Excuse me, but I have a war to finish and some Gundam boys to chase." Zechs said, fidgeting under Zoicite's touch.
"No darling, we have a war to finish. Those Sailor Scouts will pay for killing you and our queen. Especially that Sailor Moon. We will deliver their fate, together…" Zoicite said, walking in circles around his love.
"Enough!" Zechs screamed. "Let me go, or I will kill you with Epyon."
"Oh, is that what this impressive piece of machinery is called. Epyon? Where did you get something as wondrous as this?"
"I… I exchanged it with Heero Yuy for Wing Zero."
"Can you only make one work at a time?" Zoicite said, looking Zechs straight in the eye.
"Yes, I can only operate one at a time… now let me go."
"So eager to get out of my grasp… You were always playing hard to get… Now, lets talk about how we are going to do to our enemies…"
* * *
"Zoicite has a Gundam under his sleeve now, so we really will need your help boys. But this is not only going to be a fight with guns, and lasers and whatever else you have. This is also a fight with powers, like we have. You have seen that Zoicite is powerful, nonetheless, and has as much power up his sleeve than we have in one throw. But don't get us wrong, we are powerful enough, but since we have never had to fight against machinery, that is where you all will come in…" Amy said.
"We will do the best we can to assist you. But I think that we need to find a way to combine our output in order to decease their input. Do you understand what I am saying?" Quatre said.
"I don't understand any of this…" Serena said, looking about in confusion.
"I think I understand!" Lita said. "If I remember, I saw that Duo's Gundam had a scythe that had some sort of electricity energy coming from it. Sorry that I am not familiar with what it's called, but am I right?"
"Yes," Duo said, looking at Lita intriguingly.
"And so…" Lita began.
"You could combine your power with Duo's scythe and add to the output of the scythe! Yours is the power of Jupiter, electricity."
"That's amazing." Ray said. "What other powers do your Gundams have?"
"Trowa's is called Heavyarms. It's main power is the bullets that it shoots out from it's left arm and various cannons located throughout it's body. Duo's is Deathscythe, and has the scythe of course. We already established that. Wufei's Gundam is the Shenlong, but he affectionately refers to it as Nataku, and it has the dragon, of which throws fire. My Gundam is called Sandrock, but has these chillingly deadly blades that I can throw. And Heero's Gundam is Wing Zero, and has the beam cannon, that is quite powerful unto itself."
"All right, so if Ray combines her power of fire with Wufei's Gundam, it could increase its power. And it I can combine my love and beauty shock with Trowa's bullets and perhaps increase the power of impact. And Amy can combine her powers of water and increase Quatre's power, though apparently, Sandrock is of the desert, Amy has many tricks up her sleeve to help you out."
"And I can help out Heero!" Serena said.
"I don't need your help, I can fight by myself." Heero snorted.
"Serena, I think perhaps that it is a good idea for you to help out Heero with his Gundam, but your power would be increased if you had the help of Tuxedo Mask…"
"Tuxedo Mask?" The boys asked.
"Darien, he's my boyfriend," Serena said dreamily.
"That's true, I think that that would greatly help out Heero, but we must remember, that this is going to be a furious fight, as Serena might be fighting as the moon princess, not Sailor Moon. And if Darien helped, he'd be helping her as the prince of earth."
"Yeah!" Mina said.
The boys looked at each other in confusion, until finally, Duo spoke.
"I think I can speak for the rest of us when I say, huh?"
"Oh dear," Luna said, "This is going to take a while to explain… But I'll try and sum it up as short as possible. You see, when it becomes necessary, Serena transform into her former self, as the moon princess, and fights using the silver crystal. And if Darien is fighting with her, he reverts back to the prince of earth. The silver crystal is the most powerful source on this planet. And Serena is the keeper of it. She has saved Earth many times with it, and I am sure that she will need to use it again with this battle."
"Oh…"
"Haha, I think we should call Darien and inform him of the situation." Lita said.
//I don't need help, I can do this on my own… But… If Serena possess the most powerful source on the planet, it would help defeat this enemy, and in turn… help us get home, and I can finally be me again… Heero Yuy.\\
* * *
The telephone rang furiously in his Apartment. He got up from reading his book and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Darien?"
"Serena?"
"Yes…"
"Serena, what's wrong?"
"Darien, we have a problem."
"What kind of problem Serena? If it has to do with you running out of food, you know what I've said before. I am not here to supply you with cupcakes, but I won't let you starve either, so, do you need food?"
"Darien! I don't always think about my stomach!"
"…"
"Darien, Zoicite is back…"
"WHAT?! How is that possible?!"
"I don't know, he just popped up."
"Well, we took care of him last time, just the 6 of us, and I'm sure we can do it again…"
"Well, there is also another part I haven't told you about yet…" Serena mumbled.
"What do you mean?"
"Darien, there are now 11 of us…"
"Eleven? How is that possible?"
"Umm… Hold on, let me get Luna to explain this to you, because I get these kinds of things confused."
Darien sighed, "All right…"
"Darien?" Luna mewed into the phone.
"Hello Luna. How are you?"
"I'm doing well, all things considered."
"Care to explain these *things*?"
Luna laughed. "Well Darien… A few nights ago, Serena was sitting by her window dreaming about you and the sort, and all of a sudden she saw these 5 shooting stars."
"Uh huh…"
"And I instructed her to transform and try and find where these things had hit to make sure that they weren't harmful and I told her I would contact the other scouts ASAP. So she and the other scouts went to find where these objects had landed."
"Where did these things land?" Darien asked.
"In the woods on the outskirts of town… They ran there and found that the place was in a cloud of smoke."
"Did anyone else notice these shooting stars and the smoke?" Darien asked.
"No, not to my knowledge. But, they cautiously approached the cloud, thinking that perhaps Allan and Anne had returned, or perhaps the Starlights, but to their surprise, 5 young boys, the same age as the girls, emerged from the smoke."
"Five boys?! HOW?!"
Luna laughed. "Haha, well, that's where it gets confusing. You see, they came here threw a rip in time. They are from the future, although I'm not sure as to how far into the future, but they said that the year that they came from was call A.C. 196."
"What does the A.C. stand for?"
"After Colony, I do believe. They fell threw this rip in their Gundams."
"Huh? What are Gundams?" Darien asked, trying to decide whether Luna and Serena were trying to pull his leg or something.
"Their Gundams are Mobile Suits that these boys pilot in order to protect the colonies of which they live in in outer space. They are soldiers, just like the girls and you are, and they protect the people from evil organizations. And these things aren't little either Darien, they are as tall as an 8 story building at least."
"Okay, so what do these boys have to do with Zoicite?"
"Well, one of the pilot's, Heero, noticed an energy drainage, and told us, and the girls went to go find out what it was, and it turned out to be Zoicite. He claimed to be resurrected to pay us back from killing Malachite." Luna said, but then her voice grew grim, "Later on that night, we found out that another Gundam had slipped threw the tear in time. And the pilot looked strangely like Malachite. Zoicite in turn saw this, and as we did, thought that this other pilot was Malachite, but we were assured that he was not, but Zoicite was not. Zoicite kidnapped this other pilot, along with his Gundam."
"Zoicite has a Malachite look alike, *and* one of these Gundam things? I presume that these Gundam things are quite powerful…"
"Oh yes," Luna said, "And the kids have come up with a way to fight this attack. Each Gundam has their own special technique, just like the girls do. And so, the girls will combine their attacks with one of each of the Gundams. But the most powerful Gundam it seems to need the most powerful attack combined with it. Serena and you will help the most powerful Gundam…" said Luna.
"I want to meet these boys, and I want to examine these Gundams…"
Off in the background, Darien heard a cheerful male voice speak. "May I talk to him?"
"Of course Quatre." Luna said, "Darien, this is Quatre. He is one of the pilots and he would like to speak with you."
Darien sighed. This was getting to be too much.
"Hello Darien. My name is Quatre Reberba Winner. I am one of the pilots."
"Hello. I assume you already know who I am, and my background seeing that you already have a plan set up."
Quatre laughed. "Yes, you are Serena's boyfriend, and also known as Tuxedo Mask. It is a pleasure to talk to you."
"Thank you…"
"You're more than welcome. And as for your request. I would be more than happy to let you inspect my Gundam. I know this may seem like a load of bull to you, but once you see them and understand everything you'll get the whole picture."
"All right. I'll meet you all at Ray's temple in fifteen minutes."
"Wonderful. I look forward to meeting you Darien. Be careful! See you soon." Quatre said, before hanging up the phone.
Darien sighed, "Wonderful…" He got up, put on his jacket and got his car keys and headed for the door. "I just wish life could be normal, if only for a day…"
* * *
Darien stepped out of his car and looked ahead at the temple. He sighed, slammed the door and proceeded towards the entrance.
"Darien!" he heard from inside and not a moment after, he was trampled by Serena.
"Hi Serena," he smiled, and hugged her a little.
"Hi Darien, I've missed you these past few days."
"Me too." He answered. Darien looked up at the door and saw the girls standing there. Behind them, five boys stood. A blonde boy came forward and walked hurriedly towards Darien.
"Darien, hello!" the boy said. "I'm Quatre, we spoke on the telephone."
"Right, nice to meet you," Darien said, shaking the boys hand.
"Likewise." Quatre smiled, then turned his attention to the other boys. "Come down here guys."
The other boys acknowledged him and came towards Darien.
"Darien, this is Trowa Barton," Quatre smiled, offering Trowa's hand to Darien.
"Hello." Trowa and Darien said.
"This is Chang Wufei." Darien smiled at him and shook his hand and Wufei nodded his head.
"This is Heero Yuy. Heero, This is Darien." Quatre said, looking at both Darien and Heero. Darien held out his hand to be shook and stood waiting until Heero finally decided to shake his hand back.
"Nice to meet you Heero," Darien said, looking confused as to why this boy seemed so anti-social.
"And this is-" Quatre began, but was interrupted by Duo.
"I may run, I may hide, but I'll never tell a lie! I am Duo Maxwell!" Duo said, bowing before Darien, then shot a glance up at him and offered his hand to shake. Darien accepted it with a smirk.
"Baka." Heero muttered under his breathe.
"Don't mind them," Quatre laughed. "But as I promised Darien, you may inspect my Gundam if you wish."
"Yes, that would be nice, thank you." Darien said.
"All right, well, we've hidden then quite a ways away. So it'll be about a forty-five minute walk, are you up to it?"
"We needn't walk, we can ride in my car. But I can only fit five in there."
"I think we have an old van here somewhere. We can use that, but I don't know how to drive, so I don't know if that'll be any help." Ray said.
"Heero can drive it. He stole an ambulance once!" Duo laughed. Heero gave him the undisputed death glare but then turned and nodded.
"I can drive it if need be." he said.
"Okay, well lets get this show on the road!" Serena said, happily hopping along-side Darien.
* * *
"This is unbelievable!" Darien squawked. Quatre looked at him with a wide smile. "You pilot this?"
"Yes." Quatre answered.
"I really didn't believe the girls at first, but this is spectacular. Unbelievable!"
Quatre laughed and nodded. "So Darien, will you help us? Help us beat this Zoicite guy and get Zechs Marquise back?"
"It would be an honor to help you all. I will do the best I can to help, but the girls are going to have to tell me HOW I'll help."
"I remember them saying something about the silver crystal." Quatre commented, looking at Darien with a questionable smirk.
Darien looked at him for a second before Luna appeared in the cockpit.
"Darien, you'll help Serena keep the crystal stable when she combines her attack with Heero's Gundam. His is the most powerful I understand, therefore, the most powerful of the scouts here must be used. Nevertheless, I believe Serena will need to fight as the moon princess, and you as the prince of Earth." Darien nodded. //This is really going to be some fight.\\
* * *
"So, how do you propose we combine these powers?" Darien asked, as he sipped on a small cup of tea. Quatre looked at his hands as he thought. Trowa seemed to be considering many possibilities as he sat near the wall. Wufei and Heero looked the same as the always did when thinking, expressionless. And Duo, was fast asleep on the table, a pool of drool forming on the table.
"Duo!" Ray yelled, yanking the his braid.
"Wha-- What?!" Duo yelped, looking around.
"Duo, you need to pay attention, we're not in school." Heero said.
"Ugh, I understand, but please leave my Braid ALONE!!!!" Duo screamed, throwing his chair behind him as he stood, huffing and puffing.
"It's all right, Serena is always falling asleep…" Lita smirked, looking at Serena, who looked back at her in surprise.
"I do not! I've only fallen asleep in Math class… and Science… oh, and in Language, and that one time in P.E… oh and--" Serena trailed off, "But I don't do it THAT much!"
"I suggest we put in some serious brain storming guys, because I'm assuming that we don't have a lot of time before Zoicite decides to attack us!" Mina remarked.
Everyone sat and pondered.
Everyone was thinking until Duo piped up. "Hey! I've got an idea! What if we, as in me and the boys, transform into Sailor Soldiers, so you girls won't get hurt, no offense Darien-chan. Then we can combine the powers from up close!!! Isn't that such a great idea?!"
Duo looked around as everyone say, wide-eyed and gawking at him. "Duo," Trowa said, "I think it is best for everyone if you stopped thinking until we are actually in battle. You'll save us ALL a lot of trouble."
"So, I'll take my suggestion as a NO." Duo sighed. "Well I tried."
"I hope he doesn't think too much harder, he might squish the pea." Mina whispered threw clinched teeth at Amy. The two girls giggled, but Duo obviously heard.
"Sarcasm is not faltering!" Duo snorted.
Quatre suddenly stood up. "I have a wonderful idea!"
All eyes were suddenly on him. "But it's going to take some technology and a little bit of you girls. Are you willing?" All the girls nodded and looked at him encouragingly. "Well, I've noticed that all of you have metal bands across your foreheads when you are in Sailor Scout mode."
"They're tiara's, but yes." Amy smirked.
"Well, I believe that your power must come from there right?"
"Yes, the tiara jewel rests right above our signs of the planets we are from." said Ray.
"Well, I think that we should install the respectable tiara to the crown of the Gundam that we discussed earlier. I am thinking that we will supply you will head sets that have microphones on them. Each of you will get one, and the one you will be wearing will be wired to the pilot in charge of the Gundam that has your tiara. So then you can command the power as we initiate the controls with our own attacks." Quatre smiled.
"That is absolutely brilliant!" Mina said, jumping up. Everyone else also stood.
"I'll get on my laptop and see what modifications I can come up with to enable this." Heero said.
"Yes, and I'll help you." Amy said, "But before you protest Heero, I have a computer that has to do with our powers, so I think you will find it helpful." Heero nodded. The two of them headed out of the room to start their research.
"Duo will you construct some head sets for the girls?" Quatre asked.
"Sure, anyone wanna help me?" Duo grinned. Everyone looked at him.
"I'll assist you Maxwell." Wufei said, sending him an evil smirk. Duo looked disappointed. "Why so disappointed Maxwell? Want one of the girls to help? I don't think they want to help someone as lazy as you."
"Why is everyone so mean to me?" Duo pouted, walking out of the room. Wufei followed, snickering as he went.
Quatre now looked at Darien and Serena. "Since you will be assisting Heero on his Gundam, I will assume that you will be both using this crystal you've been talking about, since I saw that Serena has a wand, and I don't think her power comes from her tiara, but her heart and soul residing in the crystal. And I have a feeling that she really will need your support here, because this is going to be intense."
Darien put his arm around Serena. "She always has my full support."
Quatre smiled, "All right, well I suppose you will have to try and gather your strength."
Darien smiled and lead Serena out of the room.
"I will go pray that the evil spirits will stay away. If anyone needs me I'll be inside the temple." Ray said and then left.
Lita got up and yawned. "I'm starved!"
"Yeah me too!" Mina answered.
"Lets go grocery shopping and then we can make some lunch for everyone." Lita said, gathering her things. Mina and Lita got up, "Do you boys want to accompany us?"
"I guess I will." Trowa said, looking up at Quatre, and winking. "I'm gonna make sure we don't have soup. All Catherine does is make soup. I wish to have something with substance."
Quatre giggled and watched the three exit the room. "Well, I think I should get Sandrock ready for it's transition. I sure do hope that no one gets hurt in this fight. I don't think I could manage with anyone from this time getting hurt or killed…" Quatre sighed, and walked out of the room as well.
END OF PART ONE…
Luna looked up at Serena from her catnap and sighed. "Serena, what are you doing?"
"Thinking…" Serena sighed.
"Oh dear, she's thinking…"
"Oh Luna stop, I'm just thinking about Darien. I just think that…" she trailed off as if distracted by something.
"Think what Serena?"
"Luna… come here…" Serena said, getting up onto her knees, peering intensely threw the window. Luna quickly jumped up to the window to see what Serena was staring at so hard.
Something that seemed like shooting stars fell to the earth, one right after the other. The first one hit the ground not too far away from the city it seemed, causing a great light to appear and then quickly disappear afterwards. Five times this happened. The ground shook a little, and Luna looked over at Serena.
"Serena, I think we have a new problem at hand. I'll contact the others and you transform and see what happened."
"Right!"
* * *
All five Sailor Scouts ran towards the woodland area near Ray's temple. They ran and ran as fast as they could, searching for where the objects had fallen.
"What do you think it could be?" Mina asked, almost out of breath.
"Aliens from the Negaverse? Allan and Anne again? Hey, maybe it's the Star lights coming back to see us! Maybe just regular shooting stars?"
"I don't know guys, I'm getting some strange vibes from this." Ray said as they approached the area where they had thought the objects had fallen. They all stopped and stood as if frozen as they gaped at what they saw walking towards them.
Threw the cloud of dust and smoke, five images began to appear, walking slowly, seeming to be engaged in some sort of conversation with each other…
"I can't believe this! Who knew that there would be a tear in time right there! I knew we shouldn't have followed Sally's directions, they came from a woman!"
"Enough Wufei, it's no ones fault, it was an accident. Don't worry, we will find a way to get back. Things don't look too much different, so maybe we're not too far away from year AC 196... We know we are on the Earth and so at least we aren't too far away from--"
"Guys, look…"
Everyone stood silent, looking at each other.
Serena's jaw dropped to the ground as she realized what she was looking at. "They're… They're just five boys! Kids, just like us!"
"Hey, who you calling a kid!?" the boy with the long hair remarked.
"Perhaps they just look like kids, but maybe there's more to them than that…" Amy said, taking out her computer to analyze the boys before them. They still stood gaping at each other until Amy finally spoke. "They are human."
The boys grunted and looked at each other… "Hey Heero, look at what they're wearing." the one with long hair whispered into one's ear. But it wasn't much of a whisper, everyone heard it. The boys stared at the girls. There were five of the girls, just like there were five on them. But the girls were dressed awfully strange. They wore some form of school uniform from before the colonies were in space. But from what they had learned when they had studied history, the skirts were longer, and the uniforms had sleeves, and they had to wear a certain type of shoes. But these girls wore things completely different from what they had seen in pictures. "They look ridiculous."
"Shut up Duo, they seem to have some sort of higher technology than we have with us now."
"Aw man, I was just checking out the girls, they're kind of hot."
"Duo, I thought you didn't like gir--"
"Hey, be quiet Quatre. I never comment on how you and Trowa are always--"
Suddenly, Heero pulled his gun and pointed it at the girl with the long blonde pig tails. "Who are you?"
The girls were all startled. "Enemies…" Ray muttered. She sighed, "Mars…flame…sniper!"
"Mercury…aqua…rhapsody…"
"Jupiter…oak…evolution…"
"Venus…love and beauty shock…"
"Moon…eternal…"
"Whoa!" Duo said, gawking at the girls. They all had some sort magical power and was now focusing it on them. "Heero, put the gun away before they zap us or something."
"Hn. They wish to fight us then?" Heero said, as he started charging at the girl with the long blonde pig tails.
"Ahhh!!!"
"Sailor Moon!" the remaining girls yelled. They all released their powers as he still went at Sailor Moon, who stood there, wide eyed. But the boy jumped, ran, and dodged all their blows.
Whomp! Heero now lay on the ground as Trowa stood before him. "Don't harm them Heero. You had no need to point your gun at them whatsoever. They have shown us that they are very powerful, we don't need to be messing around with them…"
"Did Trowa just punch Heero?" Duo gaped.
"Yes." Quatre sighed.
"Heero shouldn't have tried to fight against a woman… Women are weak, it was a waste of his time…"
Heero glared up at Trowa. "I'll pay you back for that one later."
"No problem Heero." Trowa smiled, helping Heero up. Trowa then turned to the girls. "I am sorry ladies. We have no intention to harm you. We are a little lost. And a little confused. Please forgive Heero here, he's always been a little quick at the trigger. He's really a nice guy once you get to know him."
"Who are you?" Ray asked, giving Trowa a weary look.
"I'm Trowa. This is Heero. The blonde one over there is Quatre. The one with the unusually long hair is Duo, and the other one, the guy that has his arms crossed over his chest is Wufei. Who are you?"
"I'm Sailor Mars." Ray answered. She looked over to Lita, "That is Sailor Jupiter."
"Hi." she answered.
"I'm Sailor Venus." Mina smiled.
"I am Sailor Mercury. Pleased to meet you all." Amy smiled.
"…" Serena was still in shock over getting charged by this Heero kid.
"She is Sailor Moon. The leader of the Sailor Scouts." Ray said, giving Serena a disgusted look, "But sometimes she doesn't act like it."
Quatre walked up to them and shook all of their hands. "It's a pleasure to know you."
Amy looked at him and remembered something… "Hey, when you were walking up, before you realized we were here, didn't you say something about a tear in time and now you were lost?"
"Uh…" Quatre said, looking at his fellow comrades.
"What year is it?" Trowa asked.
"1996."
"1996?!" Duo said, beginning to choke on his saliva. "Damn… it!"
"Oh dear…" Quatre said.
"You're from the future, aren't you?" Amy asked.
"Yes." Quatre answered. "I don't know how we are going to get home. Time travel is unheard of…"
"No it isn't." Lita said.
All five boys looked up at her. She had the green outfit, and was taller than the rest of them, with long brown hair, pulled back into a pony tail. "Scouts, they need our help… I think we need to trust them… They're our age it seems… I believe them."
"Me too." Mina and Amy answered. Ray looked at Heero, and saw in his eyes that they weren't lying. She nodded.
Serena looked at all of them and nodded. "We will help you. But you have to trust us too. Do you?"
Trowa, Quatre and Duo all replied with an audible yes. Wufei snorted and looked away.
"You'll have to excuse Wufei, he's not so found of woman."
Everyone chuckled at Wufei as he shot them a glare that would have killed anyone.
"Heero?"
"Hn… Hai."
"All right. Scouts?" Serena nodded.
"Right!" They all said.
A bright flash appeared in front of the boys. There stood five young girls, in their pajama's, smiling.
Serena walked up to Heero. "Hi! I'm Serena."
"…"
Ray looked around, "I'm Ray."
"Amy!"
"Hey, I'm Lita."
"I'm Mina."
"So you don't want us to call you Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter, or Sailor Venus?"
"Ha. No, we're teenage girls. We only call each other that when we are in battle."
"You fight?" Duo asked.
"We are soldiers that protect the Earth. That is our mission in life. We have no choice."
"Wow, we have something in common." Quatre smiled.
"Really? What do you mean?" Amy asked.
"No sense in hiding our secrets from them since they revealed theirs to us, right guys?"
"Yeah." Duo said, hands behind his head as he yawned.
"Follow us. We'll show you what I mean."
* * *
"Oh my G--"
"What are they?"
"These are Gundams."
"Gundams?"
"Yep, this here is Deathscythe. It's my Gundam." Duo chuckled, tapping the foot.
"You use these to fight?"
"Yes, we pilot them. You see…" Quatre began, "We are from the year AC 196. That's 196 years After Colonies have entered space. We live on the colonies in outer space, orbiting the Earth. A war broke out, and we fought for the colonies as rebels to destroy the organization called OZ, but in the end, we ended up defending Earth too. Gundams are mobile suits that people pilot. Gundams are made of Gundanium alloy, which if I'm not mistaken, you have not discovered that yet. Gundanium alloy is near indestructible, which makes our Gundams so hard to defeat."
"But you are merely kids, why do they let you pilot these types of machines?"
"We were chosen specially to do so. Trained vigorously, and disciplined in many ways." Wufei said, his arms still crossed over his chest. "But what I am wondering, is how YOU got these powers of yours. Why you women?"
"Wufei, you needn't be so rude." Trowa whispered.
"I want to know too." Heero said.
"It's not a short story to tell… but I think we can sum it up in a short little story…" Amy said with that assuring voice that she's always had. "Well… We are from the past. Thousands of years from the past. Each of us lived on our respectable planets as princess', and Serena is the Moon Princess. Her love, Darien, was a Prince from Earth. An evil force from the Negaverse came, and to save us, Serena's mother, Queen Serenity sent us to the future. We have now been revived of our past to become Sailor Soldiers to protect the Earth and our Princess from the evils that arrive. If we fail, then the future of Earth is in trouble as well. We are not the only five either, there are still four more, and Tuxedo Mask. Serena's daughter from the future is Sailor Mini Moon too. Basically, we are Soldiers by our own fate, we protect the world from evil, so we can have a life in the futures, and we protect Serena, because she is our Princess."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought our story was a little unbelievable, but yours, yours takes the cake! What in the heck is the Negaverse?" Duo choked.
"The Negaverse is a dimension of evil… and so is the dark moon… and many other things as well." Lita said.
"Man, all this is making me hungry." Duo said.
"Yes, I think we should hide our Gundams and then find some kind of shelter." Trowa said.
"Yes, but we will find you someplace for you to stay tonight. Someplace warm and safe."
"Hey! You can stay at my temple! Grandpa won't mind." Ray said.
"That's very kind of you, but…" Quatre said.
"No but's, we said we are going to help you. And so we shall." Mina giggled.
"All right, you got any food there?" Duo piped in.
"Well, I can find something." Ray said.
"I'll come by in the morning and make you breakfast, how does that sound?" Lita asked.
//They're so kind, so willing to help… I don't trust them…\\ Heero thought.
"Okay, well lets get going before our parents realize we are missing." Amy chuckled…
* * *
The next morning, the four of the five young boys lay sleeping on mats in Ray's temple. The sun beamed threw the window and the birds were chirping happily. But the heavenly quiet of the morning would soon be over…
"HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a voice came from the door. "Anyone awake yet?!"
Duo rolled over and wrapped his long brain around his head so it would cover his ears… "No, come on… five more… minutes… The war can…wait…" he trailed off.
Quatre sat up and looked sleepily at the door before getting up to open it. "Good morning." he said as he saw the young blonde girl with the long pig tails smiling dumbly at them. "How are you today Serena?"
"Great! I woke up and came here to see what Lita was making for breakfast, but she threw something at me when I tried to taste her cooking, and I got scared. So I decided to come see if you were awake yet."
"Well, I am awake, and Heero's been awake for a while it seems. He's not even here. He's probably out running or something. But I can wake Trowa and Wufei, but Duo, he's going to take some work to get him to rise."
"Ah ha! I know the perfect thing to get him up… My mom used to do it to me when I didn't get up in the mornings… I'll return in a flash!" Serena said, running off. Quatre chuckled under his breathe and went to go wake Trowa and Wufei. Off in the distance he heard a loud crash.
"Serena!! Go away!!"
BOOM! CRASH! BOOM! BOOM!
"Serena!!"
"Sorry! I just needed to get these… Sorry!!!" Quatre heard as the patter of feet came towards the room.
"Where's the war?" Trowa said, looking around as he registered the loud sounds.
"No war right now Trowa…" Quatre giggled. Wufei's eyes opened and looked around.
"I thought it was just a nightmare… Damn woman, and her directions…"
"OKAY I'M BACK!!!" Serena yelled, turning the corner sharply, as she skidded into the door. "Oops, gomen door…" Serena said, tapping the door she just collided with. Quatre's eyes widened as he realized what Serena held in her hands. A pan and a large wooden spoon.
"Oh dear…" Quatre said, covering his ears. Trowa looked curiously at Serena as she began banging furiously on the pan with the spoon.
"WAKE UP SUN SHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She hollered.
"AHHHHH!!!! I'M UP!!!! I'M UP!!! GET ME MY GUNDAM!!! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!!!" Duo said, sitting straight up, panting as his heart raced, eyes wide, but still hazy from sleep… When he finally realized that OZ wasn't attacking him, he unwrapped his braid from his face and glared at Serena. "What the hell?! I was just dreaming about food… and Heer-- I mean… Damn it!!!"
Serena beamed at Duo, as she hid the pan and spoon behind her back. "Sorry…"
"Oh God, where's the bathroom? I think I had an accident…" Duo said, trying to crawl, but failed, and fell over. Quatre burst into uncontrollable laughter at the comment from Duo.
"Accident? Did I hurt you?!" Serena said, kneeling down with a worried look in her eyes as her hand gently lay on Duo's shoulder.
"Ah, hahahahahaha!!!! No Serena! He's fine!!" Quatre said, nearly rolling on the floor. "Duo peed his pants!!!"
"Ermm…" is all Duo said, getting up and leaving the room.
"What?! Eww!!! Couldn't he have waited?"
"No woman… you startled him to the point where he lost control… Women…" Wufei said, getting up and stretching.
Trowa looked down wistfully at Quatre who was still laughing uncontrollably. "Quatre, that's enough."
"Heh, right…" Quatre said, wiping away the tears that had formed in his eyes from laughing so much.
"Boys!!! Breakfast!!!" Mina called from the dining room.
"YAY!!! Foods done!" Serena yelled, running out of the room. The three boys walked sleepily out of the room and followed the scent of food. They entered the room and say a small table near the ground filled with food and juices, water, and tea. It looked like a grand feast that perhaps Relena initiated.
"Morning guys…" Lita said, carrying another plate full of food into the room. "Where's Heero and Duo?"
"Duo is a little occupied at the moment…" Quatre said, almost starting his laughing fit again before Trowa put his hand on Quatre's back. "And I think Heero is out for a run. He should be back soon. He hasn't eaten in days, so I doubt he will pass a chance to eat."
"Days?!" Serena said between hands shoving food in her mouth.
"We don't have a choice sometimes." Trowa said thoughtfully as he sat on the ground near Quatre and Wufei.
Duo came wobbling in after a few minutes, wearing a robe. He looked at Ray with sympathetic eyes, "I'm sorry, but I needed to borrow this after Serena scared me…"
"Huh? What happened… oh. Oh! Oh no worries Duo. She's scared me like that a couple times myself. She does that to everyone. Sometimes I wonder if she ever thinks before she acts. You can keep the robe. We'll find you something else to where later so you are more comfortable."
"Thank you." He said, and sat down and began to stuff his face like Serena was doing. Everyone ate the food before them and chatted lightly, until Heero came walking in.
"Hi Heero." Trowa said. Heero nodded and sat down next to Duo. Everyone looked at him wearily as he began to nibble on food.
"Where were you Yuy?" Wufei asked.
"Looking around."
"Oh? Find anything interesting?" Amy asked.
"No. Not really. People seem to be getting tired and weak easily though. Must be something in the water, or the change in temperatures." Heero said, continuing to eat.
"What? Tired? Like their energy has been drained?" Ray asked.
"Hai."
The five girls rose quickly from where they were sitting. "Looks like we have something wicked coming our way again. We'd better go check it out…"
"Right!"
"Huh? What? Like evil?" Quatre inquired, getting up. The girls nodded, beginning to leave the room. "Wait!! I want to see if we can help!" he said running out of the room. Trowa, Wufei, and Duo followed… Duo grumbling about how he had the wear the robe in public.
//This will be interesting. If there's a battle, I want to see if these girls can handle their own with their magic.\\ Heero thought to himself, as he got up and ran out of the room…
* * *
The group of teenagers ran to where Heero had said he had seen people falling ill from lack of energy. They looked around and saw people laying on the ground, unconscious, and others barely able to move.
"All right girls, I think it's time to transform."
"Right!"
"You guys better stand back," Amy told the boys. The boys complied, and stepped backwards a few feet and watched in amazement as the girls began to transform into Sailor Scouts.
"Mars Star Power!"
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Moon Eternal Crystal Power!"
Seconds later, the girls stood in front of them, their back facing them, prepared for a fight. They looked around still, until they heard a familiar laughter. They all gasped.
"Could it be?" Mina asked with a puzzled look.
"It can't be…" Ray said.
The laughter suddenly stopped and a surge of energy was thrown at them, causing them to fall backwards.
"It can be, Sailor Scouts."
The girls all shuddered in horror as their once thought to be dead nemesis, Zoicite, stood before them.
"No!" Serena said, "It just can't be true. You… you died."
"But I have returned." Zoicite said with another maniacal laugh.
The boys looked at each other in confusion. "Who the hell is that?" Duo said.
"I have no idea, but I want to help them." Quatre said, looking at the figure that was glaring at the scouts.
"Oh, you have new friends I see… your boyfriends?" Zoicite asked with a smirk.
"Um…" Duo looked around, "Us?"
"What do you want Zoicite?" Lita asked, standing her ground.
"I want to pay you for the hell you've caused me. You made me fail so many times that I was vanquished, you killed my lover, Malachite, and killed our queen. I want you to suffer like I have been suffering!" Zoicite said and threw another burst of energy at the scouts.
"Venus love and beauty shock!"
BOOM!
"Mars flame sniper!"
CRASH!
Nothing seemed to even scratch Zoicite.
"Damn, she's not been even hurt once," Duo said, eyes almost bugging out of his head.
"I don't think that that's a woman," Wufei said, "It's way too powerful to be a woman."
"Huh?! It's not a chick?!" Duo said. "Isn't Malachite a male name? That means that he and him were…"
"Yeah…" Heero said, expressionless as always. He was intrigued by how the girls were handling themselves in battle. But he knew that this was just the start.
"Well, I have much to plan, so I will leave my little friend here to play with you until I have the master plan all figured out. Ta ta ladies… Electra blade Lady, take care of these hoodlums."
"Yes Mam!" a monster said, coming out from the shadows, near where Zoicite stood.
"Have fun!" Zoicite said, before vanishing into thin air.
Quatre inched forward, dumbfounded by the spectacle taking place in front of him. //We need to help them…but how, without our Gundams… We just cannot chance the people of this time to really see them… except these girls… What are we going to do…\\ Quatre thought to himself.
"Well!" the monster screeched, "Time to have a little fun. I hope you like keeping the fight hot and clean cut!!!" it giggled, "We'll see, when my lightning sword nips at you!" The monster threw a pulse of energy at the scouts that it referred to as it's lightning sword.
"Ahhh!!!" Sailor Moon cried as one hit her arm, creating a wound deep enough to bleed.
"Sailor Moon!" the other girls cried.
"Mercury…Aqua…Rhapsody!!!" Sailor Mercury yelled, sending, a wave of her power at the monster. Unfortunately, it missed the monster entirely.
"Jupiter…Oak…Evolution…"… "Mars…Flame…Sniper…" Sailor Jupiter and Mars said, combining their powers for one powerful blow to the enemy. This time it hit the creature, sending it flailing to the ground.
"Now Sailor Moon!"
"Right!" Sailor Moon nodded. Suddenly, a wand appeared in her hands as she held her arms out stretched… "Moonlight…Honeymoon…Therapy…Kiss!"
A wave of light washed over the monster, and it vanished.
"What the hell did she just say?" Duo asked Trowa threw clinched teeth, trying not to laugh.
"I believe she said Moonlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss." Trowa answered.
"That's what I thought! Ah, hahaha!!! What the hell kind of call for power is that?!"
"It's not any worse than you calling yourself the God of Death, Mr. Shinigami." Quatre smirked.
"Heh… shut up." Duo said, looking a little hurt.
Heero looked on with amazement as he saw Sailor Moons power, her ability to kill the enemy with one blow. //Interesting… She seems so weak and fragile in regular form, but as Sailor Moon, she is a whole different person. Perhaps this is how she recognizes her true form, threw battle. I can relate to her… I wonder what it would be like to fight her one on one… Hn… But she's a baka like Duo… We will have to see…\\ Heero thought to himself, watching the girls come out of transformation and back into their regular clothes. He sighed and listened as the girls discussed their new found problem. It seemed like they really had a long and hard battle to go with this Zoicite person. //Seems like we'll be stuck here a while… maybe I will be able to fight Serena…\\
* * *
"It looks like it is going to take us a little longer in order to help you guys back home. We are very sorry." Ray told the five Gundam boys.
Quatre nodded. "It's not a problem girls. Just as long as you can return us back to the time, to the second if possible, everything will be okay."
"Well, I'm not sure if we can do that exactly…" Mina said, petting a white cat that lay in her lap.
"There's always a way for everything…" A small squeaky voice said. The boys looked around in confusion.
"Who said that?" Duo asked.
"Um…" Serena said, looking at the door where a small black cat with a yellow crescent moon on her forehead stood. The boys fixated their stare to where Serena was looking, and then looked at each other in confusion.
"Hello." The cat said, traipsing into the room. The white cat looked up at the black one and meowed, getting up to greet her.
"Luna!" Serena said, a dumbfounded look on her face.
"It's quite all right Serena. You told them everything else, they might as well know about your talking cats as well."
"Cats?! You mean that there is more than one?" Duo said, jaw nearly touching the ground in astonishment.
"Yes." The white cat said, sitting on its hind legs.
"Dear God--" Trowa said.
"Oh, please, do not be alarmed. We aren't anything evil. We are servants to the moon kingdom. I am Artemis, and this is Luna." The white cat said.
"Um… How come cats don't talk in our time?" Duo asked stupidly.
"Haha, Well… Um… To tell you the truth, I don't know." Amy said, with a giggle.
"Our time is so involved with violence that it has no time for magic and the sorts. Machinery and Technology has taken over, and the loss of belief in all things like this has been destroyed. That is why we do not have talking cats, nor any warriors like these Sailor Soldier's. The world still seems so innocent at this day and age… Before the colonies…" Quatre sighed.
"Be quiet. We are fighting for the colonies. We want peace for them." Wufei snorted.
"But…" Quatre began.
"No, don't worry about it right now." Trowa said, putting a hand on Quatre's shoulder.
"Well boys. We will help you get to your time, but right now we have a crisis on our hands." Luna said, walking up to Heero. "And there is no need to be hostile towards us either." she said, nudging Heero with her nose. Heero's eyes grew wide. The cat seemed to know of his feelings.
The rest of the group became engaged in a serious conversation of how to defeat this enemy. Heero sighed, and got up and left the room without anyone noticing. Or so he thought.
He walked outside and sat on the temple's steps. He sighed and looked up to the stars, and where the colonies would be years from then. The world did seem quite innocent at this time. He had studied the Earth's past and knew of the wars it had been involved in, but it had never seen anything like it would see hundreds of years from now. Heero felt so out of place here. He felt out of place back home too, but it was worse now. He couldn't go pilot Wing Zero, or do any missions. He wasn't a warrior here. He wasn't Heero Yuy here. He was just… He was just… a kid.
Suddenly Heero felt something warm and furry brush against him arm. "Huh?" he muttered, looking down at the cat. It was Luna. "What do you want?"
"Heero, is that your name?" Luna said, looking up into his blue eyes.
"It's my code name. I don't have a real name." Heero said, looking away.
"Code name? So you are a soldier… How old are you Heero?"
"Sixteen."
"How long have you been fighting?"
"Since I was six… Since I was six, I fought for my life… I fought for the colonies."
"Heero, I know you have a grudge against Serena…" Luna said, putting her paws on his leg. "She seems vulnerable and meek when she is scared. She seems like a rash and babyish teenager, but she's not. Heero… she has saved the human race several times. Therefore, she has also saved you as well… She is a very strong and powerful soldier herself."
"She seems weak. I want to do battle with her…" Heero said, glaring down at Luna.
"And what do you intend on fighting her with? Your Gundam? By your own hands?"
"Well, I never thought about that… I suppose I'd have to fight her with my Gundam."
"Come now Heero. Your Gundam may be mighty, but she is capable of destroying asteroids, and dark forces, and enemies with a few simple words and the courage in her heart. Right now, you are vulnerable to her. She holds the higher card here. She and the rest of the scouts want to protect you, and help you get home, and you Heero, want to fight them…"
"I…"
"Heero, if you want to help her, you can… There are always chances in which you can help her the best you can. Who knows what might happen. This Zoicite is very powerful, they just might need you in one way or another…"
"Are you psychic or something?" Heero asked.
Luna laughed, "Call it woman's intuition."
"But you are a cat!" Heero snorted.
"I am a grown female!" Luna huffed. The two laughed for what seemed like forever, until Heero suddenly stopped.
He stood and looked about the wooded area.
"What's the matter?" Luna said, looking around too.
"Shh." Heero said, his body tensing.
"We weren't alone…" Heero said, running towards the temple. He and Luna entered the room and all looked up at them.
"What's the matter?" Lita asked.
"I heard something. It sounded… It sounded like a…" Heero said, panting… "Like a Gundam."
The other boys jumped up and ran with Heero outside. The worried girls followed in suspense. When they were all outside, the boys stood and listened carefully.
THUMP… THUMP… THUMP…
Animals scurried across the path at the base of the stairs to the temple. Branched crackled, tree's broke, and the boys gasped.
"Do you think it could be?" Quatre asked.
"What if it is…" Duo said, as the thing emerged from the darkness of the shadows.
"Epyon…" Heero whispered…
"Hello boys." A raspy voice called from within the suit. "I see you are well. I've been searching for you everywhere."
"Zechs!" Trowa yelled.
"Trowa Barton… Hm."
The Gundam before them took out it's beam saber and lifted it above it head… ready to strike.
"Zechs! No! This is not our time. We are in the past!" Heero yelled.
"Trying to weasel your way out of dying… I suppose it isn't fair from me to kill you outside your Gundams. And I don't think I could kill these innocent girls either."
"Zechs! We fell threw a tear in time. We cannot fight with our Gundams here. People have not yet heard of Gundams. The year is 1996. We are not in AC 196 any longer! The colonies don't exist… There is only the Earth!" Quatre pleaded.
"You all lie!" The man from inside the suit yelled.
"Check for yourself. Scan for the colonies. There is nothing out there but a few satellites, and debris." Heero said.
Silence…
"This can't be…" Zechs said. The door to the cockpit opened, and out came a man with long white hair. The girls all gasped… The boys sighed… And Zoicite watched from his post and let out a faint whimper…
"Malachite?…"
* * *
"I think we should be allies, since we are at a disadvantage now." Quatre told Zechs.
"The year, 1996... There is no OZ, there is no Alliance… There is no one to stop us from dueling, now is there, Heero Yuy?"
"Zechs…" Heero said threw clinched teeth.
"Please, if the people see the Gundams, the future will be uncertain." Trowa pleaded.
"Perhaps the future will be better off…" Zechs said, still standing at the entrance to Epyon.
The girls looked at the man… He looked so similar to Malachite, it was uncanny. But the boys referred to him as Zechs. There was no way he could be Malachite. They had defeated him in a battle. Malachite was no more. Then Mina gasped.
"Do you think that Zoicite has been watching? Perhaps he's seen this man and thinks what we are thinking…" she whispered.
"It is possible. We have no idea where Zoicite is. We had better keep an eye open." Ray said.
Suddenly, Heero began yelling at Zechs.
"We cannot risk letting the past know the power of the Gundams!!!"
"I do not care! We will fight, Heero. No one can stop me now… I noticed a place where we can fight not too far away from here. Approximately seven miles north from here. You have fifteen minutes to meet me there, Heero." Zechs said, reentering his Gundam and took off.
The girls looked in blunder as it flew off into the sky towards where he had said for the boys to meet them.
"Damn it! What are we going to do?" Duo said, stomping his feet.
"The only thing we can do…" Heero said, jumping off the stairs, towards where he had hidden his Gundam. //…is fight him…\\
"You girls stay here, we have to take care of this." Quatre said, running behind Heero. The rest of the boys followed.
The girls looked at one another, and then Luna spoke. "You must follow them. I have a feeling that this may spark the attention of Zoicite, and I do not think that these boys could handle what he may dish out to them."
"Right!" The girls said.
* * *
Minutes later the girls had made it to the site where the battle would take place, using Sailor teleport. They stood off to the side as they watched the Gundams arrive and prepare to fight.
"What are we going to do if someone seems them fighting?" Serena asked.
"Well, there must some way of erasing memories that we have the power to do."
"I guess we will have to figure it out when the time comes." Mina said.
*
"This is not a good idea, Zechs!" Heero shouted in his cockpit.
"Please, reconsider." Quatre said.
"Stay out of this Winner. Heero and I have tried to finish this battle for a while, and we were always interrupted. Now, we will have no interruptions from this era. Because there is no one to stop us!" Zechs said, beginning to advance on Heero's Gundam.
Heero fought back as Zechs attacked him. Clashing and clanging of metal and the electrical noises of the beam sabers hitting each other filled the air. Duo, Wufei, Quatre, and Trowa stood back and watched in their Gundams as Heero and Zechs fought one another.
"Such foolishness of Zechs proves him to be weak as well." Wufei said.
"I agree, this is foolish and most reckless of him to do this. I think the desperation of war is getting the best of him." Trowa commented.
"I have faith in Heero, I know he will prevail in one way or another." Quatre sighed.
"Woo hoo! I found an extra set of clothes in here!!! Ha, no more lame-o robes for me!" Duo squawked from inside Deathscythe. The other boys sighed at their comrade and continued watching Heero and Zechs.
*
Zoicite hovered over the battle, and watched in amazement.
"Have you returned for me Malachite?" he whispered. "Such things you bring back for us to destroy the Sailor Scouts… Curious that these boys have the same contraptions as you do. Perhaps you were sly enough to steal the technology from them and produce one of your own. Oh, you always were so wonderful at stealing. You even stole my heart…"
He looked down and noticed that the scouts were there as well.
"Ah! Come to take him away from me again?! I do not think so!" he screamed, maneuvering himself to where the scouts were.
"AH!!!" The girls squealed as they have bursts of energy thrown at them.
"Zoicite!" Ray said, as she lay sprawled on the ground.
"You cannot take him away from me again!!!" Zoicite hollered, throwing more energy at the girls.
"Mercury…bubbles…BLAST!!!" Sailor Mercury yelled, and a fog like matter covered the entire area.
"Blinding me is not going to stop me!" Zoicite called threw the mist.
Meanwhile, the Gundam boys noticed that the air had become foggy. A beeping noise alerted them that some sort of energy was being emitted from their right side. They turned their sight to where it was alarming them and saw the scouts were fighting that Zoicite character again. Even Heero and Zechs had forgotten about the fight and now cast their attention to the battle happening below them.
"What's… What is this…" Zechs said, looking threw the monitors at the spectacle.
"Mars…Flame…Sniper!"
BOOM! But still nothing seemed to scratch Zoicite.
"What are these weapons these girls posses?" Zechs whispered.
"They are not normal girls, Zechs… They are Soldiers, just like we are. They are not using weapons, they are using powers threw magic." Heero said with an emotionless voice.
The amazed Zechs opened his cockpit door and exited his Gundam. He stood at the entrance and watched in amazement. These girls seemed to have more power than even the Gundams had. Nothing like this existed in AC 196. Nothing at all.
Suddenly, Zoicite stopped, as he noticed he was being watched. He whirled around and stared at Zechs with hopeful eyes.
"Malachite!!!" he screamed and flew at him with great intensity.
"What?" Zechs managed to say before being attacked by Zoicite.
"It has been far too long my beloved!" Zoicite said, placing his arms around Zechs. "I will never let you go again Malachite, never…"
"But, I'm not… I'm not Malachite." Zechs said.
"Oh my, the separation has driven you to amnesia. But, no fear. I will restore your memory. And you bring such wonderful things to beat the scouts with…" Zoicite said, then he turned to the scouts. "We will be back to finish you off!" And with that, Zoicite, Zechs, and Epyon vanished into thin air.
The Gundam boys quickly exited their Gundams and ran towards the scouts. "What the hell just happened?" Duo asked.
"Zoicite apparently thought that this Zechs guy looked like his former lover, Malachite, of whom we defeated a while ago. We had noticed that Zechs looked like Malachite when we first saw him. That is why we followed." Amy said. "But I think it is time we work together on this because who knows what Zoicite could do the Zechs. He now has a Gundam of his own and an experienced pilot as well."
"I think so too. If we work together, I think we can get Zechs back, defeat this Zoicite guy, and make it back home safely, so we can finish this war." Quatre said.
Everyone looked at each other with an assured look and nodded, then proceeded to run back to the temple where they would start working on a plan.
ZOICITE'S HIDEAWAY-
"You've got it all wrong, my name is Zechs Marquise. I am not this Malachite person you keep harping on and on about."
"Oh dear, it seems that death has erased your mind. But it's made you even more beautiful…" Zoicite said, curling his finger underneath Zechs' chin.
Zechs sat on a stone of some sort, held down by an unseen force. Of course, Zoicite had to restrain him because he kept trying to attack him. Zoicite thought it for the best to keep himself safe from Malachite because it seemed that his memory had been demolished in his time in death.
"What? Beautiful? Excuse me, but I have a war to finish and some Gundam boys to chase." Zechs said, fidgeting under Zoicite's touch.
"No darling, we have a war to finish. Those Sailor Scouts will pay for killing you and our queen. Especially that Sailor Moon. We will deliver their fate, together…" Zoicite said, walking in circles around his love.
"Enough!" Zechs screamed. "Let me go, or I will kill you with Epyon."
"Oh, is that what this impressive piece of machinery is called. Epyon? Where did you get something as wondrous as this?"
"I… I exchanged it with Heero Yuy for Wing Zero."
"Can you only make one work at a time?" Zoicite said, looking Zechs straight in the eye.
"Yes, I can only operate one at a time… now let me go."
"So eager to get out of my grasp… You were always playing hard to get… Now, lets talk about how we are going to do to our enemies…"
* * *
"Zoicite has a Gundam under his sleeve now, so we really will need your help boys. But this is not only going to be a fight with guns, and lasers and whatever else you have. This is also a fight with powers, like we have. You have seen that Zoicite is powerful, nonetheless, and has as much power up his sleeve than we have in one throw. But don't get us wrong, we are powerful enough, but since we have never had to fight against machinery, that is where you all will come in…" Amy said.
"We will do the best we can to assist you. But I think that we need to find a way to combine our output in order to decease their input. Do you understand what I am saying?" Quatre said.
"I don't understand any of this…" Serena said, looking about in confusion.
"I think I understand!" Lita said. "If I remember, I saw that Duo's Gundam had a scythe that had some sort of electricity energy coming from it. Sorry that I am not familiar with what it's called, but am I right?"
"Yes," Duo said, looking at Lita intriguingly.
"And so…" Lita began.
"You could combine your power with Duo's scythe and add to the output of the scythe! Yours is the power of Jupiter, electricity."
"That's amazing." Ray said. "What other powers do your Gundams have?"
"Trowa's is called Heavyarms. It's main power is the bullets that it shoots out from it's left arm and various cannons located throughout it's body. Duo's is Deathscythe, and has the scythe of course. We already established that. Wufei's Gundam is the Shenlong, but he affectionately refers to it as Nataku, and it has the dragon, of which throws fire. My Gundam is called Sandrock, but has these chillingly deadly blades that I can throw. And Heero's Gundam is Wing Zero, and has the beam cannon, that is quite powerful unto itself."
"All right, so if Ray combines her power of fire with Wufei's Gundam, it could increase its power. And it I can combine my love and beauty shock with Trowa's bullets and perhaps increase the power of impact. And Amy can combine her powers of water and increase Quatre's power, though apparently, Sandrock is of the desert, Amy has many tricks up her sleeve to help you out."
"And I can help out Heero!" Serena said.
"I don't need your help, I can fight by myself." Heero snorted.
"Serena, I think perhaps that it is a good idea for you to help out Heero with his Gundam, but your power would be increased if you had the help of Tuxedo Mask…"
"Tuxedo Mask?" The boys asked.
"Darien, he's my boyfriend," Serena said dreamily.
"That's true, I think that that would greatly help out Heero, but we must remember, that this is going to be a furious fight, as Serena might be fighting as the moon princess, not Sailor Moon. And if Darien helped, he'd be helping her as the prince of earth."
"Yeah!" Mina said.
The boys looked at each other in confusion, until finally, Duo spoke.
"I think I can speak for the rest of us when I say, huh?"
"Oh dear," Luna said, "This is going to take a while to explain… But I'll try and sum it up as short as possible. You see, when it becomes necessary, Serena transform into her former self, as the moon princess, and fights using the silver crystal. And if Darien is fighting with her, he reverts back to the prince of earth. The silver crystal is the most powerful source on this planet. And Serena is the keeper of it. She has saved Earth many times with it, and I am sure that she will need to use it again with this battle."
"Oh…"
"Haha, I think we should call Darien and inform him of the situation." Lita said.
//I don't need help, I can do this on my own… But… If Serena possess the most powerful source on the planet, it would help defeat this enemy, and in turn… help us get home, and I can finally be me again… Heero Yuy.\\
* * *
The telephone rang furiously in his Apartment. He got up from reading his book and answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Darien?"
"Serena?"
"Yes…"
"Serena, what's wrong?"
"Darien, we have a problem."
"What kind of problem Serena? If it has to do with you running out of food, you know what I've said before. I am not here to supply you with cupcakes, but I won't let you starve either, so, do you need food?"
"Darien! I don't always think about my stomach!"
"…"
"Darien, Zoicite is back…"
"WHAT?! How is that possible?!"
"I don't know, he just popped up."
"Well, we took care of him last time, just the 6 of us, and I'm sure we can do it again…"
"Well, there is also another part I haven't told you about yet…" Serena mumbled.
"What do you mean?"
"Darien, there are now 11 of us…"
"Eleven? How is that possible?"
"Umm… Hold on, let me get Luna to explain this to you, because I get these kinds of things confused."
Darien sighed, "All right…"
"Darien?" Luna mewed into the phone.
"Hello Luna. How are you?"
"I'm doing well, all things considered."
"Care to explain these *things*?"
Luna laughed. "Well Darien… A few nights ago, Serena was sitting by her window dreaming about you and the sort, and all of a sudden she saw these 5 shooting stars."
"Uh huh…"
"And I instructed her to transform and try and find where these things had hit to make sure that they weren't harmful and I told her I would contact the other scouts ASAP. So she and the other scouts went to find where these objects had landed."
"Where did these things land?" Darien asked.
"In the woods on the outskirts of town… They ran there and found that the place was in a cloud of smoke."
"Did anyone else notice these shooting stars and the smoke?" Darien asked.
"No, not to my knowledge. But, they cautiously approached the cloud, thinking that perhaps Allan and Anne had returned, or perhaps the Starlights, but to their surprise, 5 young boys, the same age as the girls, emerged from the smoke."
"Five boys?! HOW?!"
Luna laughed. "Haha, well, that's where it gets confusing. You see, they came here threw a rip in time. They are from the future, although I'm not sure as to how far into the future, but they said that the year that they came from was call A.C. 196."
"What does the A.C. stand for?"
"After Colony, I do believe. They fell threw this rip in their Gundams."
"Huh? What are Gundams?" Darien asked, trying to decide whether Luna and Serena were trying to pull his leg or something.
"Their Gundams are Mobile Suits that these boys pilot in order to protect the colonies of which they live in in outer space. They are soldiers, just like the girls and you are, and they protect the people from evil organizations. And these things aren't little either Darien, they are as tall as an 8 story building at least."
"Okay, so what do these boys have to do with Zoicite?"
"Well, one of the pilot's, Heero, noticed an energy drainage, and told us, and the girls went to go find out what it was, and it turned out to be Zoicite. He claimed to be resurrected to pay us back from killing Malachite." Luna said, but then her voice grew grim, "Later on that night, we found out that another Gundam had slipped threw the tear in time. And the pilot looked strangely like Malachite. Zoicite in turn saw this, and as we did, thought that this other pilot was Malachite, but we were assured that he was not, but Zoicite was not. Zoicite kidnapped this other pilot, along with his Gundam."
"Zoicite has a Malachite look alike, *and* one of these Gundam things? I presume that these Gundam things are quite powerful…"
"Oh yes," Luna said, "And the kids have come up with a way to fight this attack. Each Gundam has their own special technique, just like the girls do. And so, the girls will combine their attacks with one of each of the Gundams. But the most powerful Gundam it seems to need the most powerful attack combined with it. Serena and you will help the most powerful Gundam…" said Luna.
"I want to meet these boys, and I want to examine these Gundams…"
Off in the background, Darien heard a cheerful male voice speak. "May I talk to him?"
"Of course Quatre." Luna said, "Darien, this is Quatre. He is one of the pilots and he would like to speak with you."
Darien sighed. This was getting to be too much.
"Hello Darien. My name is Quatre Reberba Winner. I am one of the pilots."
"Hello. I assume you already know who I am, and my background seeing that you already have a plan set up."
Quatre laughed. "Yes, you are Serena's boyfriend, and also known as Tuxedo Mask. It is a pleasure to talk to you."
"Thank you…"
"You're more than welcome. And as for your request. I would be more than happy to let you inspect my Gundam. I know this may seem like a load of bull to you, but once you see them and understand everything you'll get the whole picture."
"All right. I'll meet you all at Ray's temple in fifteen minutes."
"Wonderful. I look forward to meeting you Darien. Be careful! See you soon." Quatre said, before hanging up the phone.
Darien sighed, "Wonderful…" He got up, put on his jacket and got his car keys and headed for the door. "I just wish life could be normal, if only for a day…"
* * *
Darien stepped out of his car and looked ahead at the temple. He sighed, slammed the door and proceeded towards the entrance.
"Darien!" he heard from inside and not a moment after, he was trampled by Serena.
"Hi Serena," he smiled, and hugged her a little.
"Hi Darien, I've missed you these past few days."
"Me too." He answered. Darien looked up at the door and saw the girls standing there. Behind them, five boys stood. A blonde boy came forward and walked hurriedly towards Darien.
"Darien, hello!" the boy said. "I'm Quatre, we spoke on the telephone."
"Right, nice to meet you," Darien said, shaking the boys hand.
"Likewise." Quatre smiled, then turned his attention to the other boys. "Come down here guys."
The other boys acknowledged him and came towards Darien.
"Darien, this is Trowa Barton," Quatre smiled, offering Trowa's hand to Darien.
"Hello." Trowa and Darien said.
"This is Chang Wufei." Darien smiled at him and shook his hand and Wufei nodded his head.
"This is Heero Yuy. Heero, This is Darien." Quatre said, looking at both Darien and Heero. Darien held out his hand to be shook and stood waiting until Heero finally decided to shake his hand back.
"Nice to meet you Heero," Darien said, looking confused as to why this boy seemed so anti-social.
"And this is-" Quatre began, but was interrupted by Duo.
"I may run, I may hide, but I'll never tell a lie! I am Duo Maxwell!" Duo said, bowing before Darien, then shot a glance up at him and offered his hand to shake. Darien accepted it with a smirk.
"Baka." Heero muttered under his breathe.
"Don't mind them," Quatre laughed. "But as I promised Darien, you may inspect my Gundam if you wish."
"Yes, that would be nice, thank you." Darien said.
"All right, well, we've hidden then quite a ways away. So it'll be about a forty-five minute walk, are you up to it?"
"We needn't walk, we can ride in my car. But I can only fit five in there."
"I think we have an old van here somewhere. We can use that, but I don't know how to drive, so I don't know if that'll be any help." Ray said.
"Heero can drive it. He stole an ambulance once!" Duo laughed. Heero gave him the undisputed death glare but then turned and nodded.
"I can drive it if need be." he said.
"Okay, well lets get this show on the road!" Serena said, happily hopping along-side Darien.
* * *
"This is unbelievable!" Darien squawked. Quatre looked at him with a wide smile. "You pilot this?"
"Yes." Quatre answered.
"I really didn't believe the girls at first, but this is spectacular. Unbelievable!"
Quatre laughed and nodded. "So Darien, will you help us? Help us beat this Zoicite guy and get Zechs Marquise back?"
"It would be an honor to help you all. I will do the best I can to help, but the girls are going to have to tell me HOW I'll help."
"I remember them saying something about the silver crystal." Quatre commented, looking at Darien with a questionable smirk.
Darien looked at him for a second before Luna appeared in the cockpit.
"Darien, you'll help Serena keep the crystal stable when she combines her attack with Heero's Gundam. His is the most powerful I understand, therefore, the most powerful of the scouts here must be used. Nevertheless, I believe Serena will need to fight as the moon princess, and you as the prince of Earth." Darien nodded. //This is really going to be some fight.\\
* * *
"So, how do you propose we combine these powers?" Darien asked, as he sipped on a small cup of tea. Quatre looked at his hands as he thought. Trowa seemed to be considering many possibilities as he sat near the wall. Wufei and Heero looked the same as the always did when thinking, expressionless. And Duo, was fast asleep on the table, a pool of drool forming on the table.
"Duo!" Ray yelled, yanking the his braid.
"Wha-- What?!" Duo yelped, looking around.
"Duo, you need to pay attention, we're not in school." Heero said.
"Ugh, I understand, but please leave my Braid ALONE!!!!" Duo screamed, throwing his chair behind him as he stood, huffing and puffing.
"It's all right, Serena is always falling asleep…" Lita smirked, looking at Serena, who looked back at her in surprise.
"I do not! I've only fallen asleep in Math class… and Science… oh, and in Language, and that one time in P.E… oh and--" Serena trailed off, "But I don't do it THAT much!"
"I suggest we put in some serious brain storming guys, because I'm assuming that we don't have a lot of time before Zoicite decides to attack us!" Mina remarked.
Everyone sat and pondered.
Everyone was thinking until Duo piped up. "Hey! I've got an idea! What if we, as in me and the boys, transform into Sailor Soldiers, so you girls won't get hurt, no offense Darien-chan. Then we can combine the powers from up close!!! Isn't that such a great idea?!"
Duo looked around as everyone say, wide-eyed and gawking at him. "Duo," Trowa said, "I think it is best for everyone if you stopped thinking until we are actually in battle. You'll save us ALL a lot of trouble."
"So, I'll take my suggestion as a NO." Duo sighed. "Well I tried."
"I hope he doesn't think too much harder, he might squish the pea." Mina whispered threw clinched teeth at Amy. The two girls giggled, but Duo obviously heard.
"Sarcasm is not faltering!" Duo snorted.
Quatre suddenly stood up. "I have a wonderful idea!"
All eyes were suddenly on him. "But it's going to take some technology and a little bit of you girls. Are you willing?" All the girls nodded and looked at him encouragingly. "Well, I've noticed that all of you have metal bands across your foreheads when you are in Sailor Scout mode."
"They're tiara's, but yes." Amy smirked.
"Well, I believe that your power must come from there right?"
"Yes, the tiara jewel rests right above our signs of the planets we are from." said Ray.
"Well, I think that we should install the respectable tiara to the crown of the Gundam that we discussed earlier. I am thinking that we will supply you will head sets that have microphones on them. Each of you will get one, and the one you will be wearing will be wired to the pilot in charge of the Gundam that has your tiara. So then you can command the power as we initiate the controls with our own attacks." Quatre smiled.
"That is absolutely brilliant!" Mina said, jumping up. Everyone else also stood.
"I'll get on my laptop and see what modifications I can come up with to enable this." Heero said.
"Yes, and I'll help you." Amy said, "But before you protest Heero, I have a computer that has to do with our powers, so I think you will find it helpful." Heero nodded. The two of them headed out of the room to start their research.
"Duo will you construct some head sets for the girls?" Quatre asked.
"Sure, anyone wanna help me?" Duo grinned. Everyone looked at him.
"I'll assist you Maxwell." Wufei said, sending him an evil smirk. Duo looked disappointed. "Why so disappointed Maxwell? Want one of the girls to help? I don't think they want to help someone as lazy as you."
"Why is everyone so mean to me?" Duo pouted, walking out of the room. Wufei followed, snickering as he went.
Quatre now looked at Darien and Serena. "Since you will be assisting Heero on his Gundam, I will assume that you will be both using this crystal you've been talking about, since I saw that Serena has a wand, and I don't think her power comes from her tiara, but her heart and soul residing in the crystal. And I have a feeling that she really will need your support here, because this is going to be intense."
Darien put his arm around Serena. "She always has my full support."
Quatre smiled, "All right, well I suppose you will have to try and gather your strength."
Darien smiled and lead Serena out of the room.
"I will go pray that the evil spirits will stay away. If anyone needs me I'll be inside the temple." Ray said and then left.
Lita got up and yawned. "I'm starved!"
"Yeah me too!" Mina answered.
"Lets go grocery shopping and then we can make some lunch for everyone." Lita said, gathering her things. Mina and Lita got up, "Do you boys want to accompany us?"
"I guess I will." Trowa said, looking up at Quatre, and winking. "I'm gonna make sure we don't have soup. All Catherine does is make soup. I wish to have something with substance."
Quatre giggled and watched the three exit the room. "Well, I think I should get Sandrock ready for it's transition. I sure do hope that no one gets hurt in this fight. I don't think I could manage with anyone from this time getting hurt or killed…" Quatre sighed, and walked out of the room as well.
END OF PART ONE…