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"Usagi's opening the portal again!" Duo exclaimed in the middle of a battle. It always opened in space and was quite visible.
They continued to fight, praying she would keep it open long enough. They had decided the other night that the next time they saw the portal they would go through.
"Kuso!" Hiiro yelled, nearly busting out their eardrums as it came over the speakers.
"What?" Wufei demanded.
"We have a problem." Quatre said.
"About twenty mobile dolls just disappeared through the portal!" Hiiro said, only hints of his monotone showing through his anger.
"Then let's go!" Wufei exclaimed. The five sped in their Gundams towards the portal, the last making it through just before it closed.
Needless to say, when Usagi opened her eyes, she was greeted with quite a shock.
"Aiie!" she screamed, disappearing into the bushes. She quickly transformed and alerted the others. They practically teleported to join her.
"What are those things?!" Jupiter demanded. "Mercury, help us out here!"
"I'm trying!" she replied, typing furiously on her computer.
"They're like nothing I've ever seen before." she said. "The technology is so complex, especially on those five larger ones."
"What are they kuso?!" Sailor Moon demanded, watching as the five Mercury spoke of fought the others. The ground was littered with twisted metal, and large crowds grew along the sidewalks, just far enough away to not be in the way of the fighting. News crews had already begun to join them.
"I don't know!" Mercury said frantically.
"We have even more problems..." Venus alerted them.
"What NOW?" Moon asked, aggravated.
"We've got tons of youma over here!"
"What?!"
"Right near the crowds!"
"Let's go!"
They burst from the bushes, running to the crowd of youma.
"Kami!" Sailor Moon exclaimed as they ran. Something suddenly occured to her.
'These things had to have come from Wufei's time... What could these weapons be?' she wondered as they
began to fight.
Two battles raged. The Gundams fought off the mobile dolls quickly, leaving them in heaps of metal on the ground. The five stood together like something from a picture.
"What's going on?!"
"Where are we?" Quatre asked.
"We're in the year 2000." Hiiro told them.
"Kuso." Wufei said.
"What's wrong with that? I thought you wanted to see Usagi again." Duo asked.
"Yes, I wanted to come here and see her. But these Gundams and the Mobile Dolls won't be invented for thousands of years yet." he said.
"Oh kami." Hiiro commented. Duo smirked.
"Even the Perfect Soldier is upset." the American pilots said.
"Braided baka. Watch what's in front of you." Wufei replied. They all turned their attention to the ground.
"What ARE those things?" Quatre asked.
"Who are those GIRLS?" Duo countered. The discussion and observation continued.
Meanwhile, the Senshi were having a rough time.
"Moon Tiara Action!" "Shine Aqua Illusion!" "Venus Love Me Chain Encircle!"
"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!" "Jupiter Thunderclap Zap!"
"Its not working!" Sailor Moon exclaimed. "Mercury, retreat until you can find a weakness! Jupiter, zap 'em one more time and then get back! Mars, Venus, you do the same!" she directed. They nodded and did as she said. As soon as all of her fellow Senshi were behind her, she threw her wand up into the air and caught it. Gathering all of her power, she powered up the wand and shot the energy out towards the crowd of youma. Instead of merely hitting them and disappearing, though, it was a continuous beam of light. She slowly turned, blasting as many of the youma as she could.
"Come on Sailor Moon, you can do it!" Mercury called. The others followed suit, and called out words of encouragement.
"Does she look familiar to you?" Wufei asked. They had been talking and watching as the tiny girl on the ground fought to destroy the odd looking monsters. They were able to hear the conversations between the girls via their sound detectors.
"What do you mean?" Duo asked.
"Her outfit, everything! Her voice even sounds similar." Wufei said.
"When Wufei first brought Usagi in she was wearing an outfit almost identical to that girl's." Hiiro
informed them.
"Oh yeah, the hot girl in the short skirt." Duo said. Wufei rolled his eyes.
"Are you sure that's her, though?" Quatre asked.
"I don't know, I'm not sure of anything." Wufei said.
"Hiiro, find out what the energy code is for that girl and see if it matches Pluto's." Trowa ordered. Hiiro nodded and started typing.
"It's the same type of energy but a different energy code. That is Usagi though. The code matches the one Usagi gave off when she created that portal." Hiiro told them.
"Kami-sama what is she doing? And what IS that?" Wufei asked, watching the ground below intently. Sailor Moon had managed to dust all of the youma, but a man had appeared just above the ground in front of her.
"Who are you?!" Sailor Moon demanded. The man, who wore a long black cape, black pants, and a black shirt with a blue collar, ignored her.
"WHO ARE YOU?" she demanded again.
"My name is Tartian. Now you must die. Sailor Moon is coming with me." the tall man said, setting his
feet on the ground.
"Over my dead body!" Jupiter yelled. The four stepped in front of Sailor Moon, blocking her from harm.
He smiled sourly as he hurled dark energy at them. They managed to dodge, but not by much. Sailor Moon's back was hit, and she twisted her ankle as she landed.
"Stay down, Sailor Moon!" Mars ordered.
"Let us weaken him first!" Jupiter said. Sailor Moon nodded slightly and watched from her position on her stomach. Tartian was vicious, and Sailor Moon cried out several times in dismay as her friends were hurt. She got up and ran in the way of a blast meant for Venus.
"Sailor Moon I said GET BACK!" Venus said, shoving her out of the way just as another round of energy was shot at her. Venus didn't even cry out, she just sank to the ground.
"What's going on down there?" Quatre asked.
"They're fighting that man in black." Trowa said.
"Is he killing them?" Duo asked, watching as the yellow and orange clad girl fell to the ground. The one
laying on the ground sceamed. Hiiro tapped away at his keypad.
"Hai. She's dead." he said. They watched, speechless, as the one in blue fell. Wufei zoomed in on Sailor Moon's face. It was twisted in pain and grief as she watched her friends die. Tears raced down her cheeks.
"Don't!" Sailor Moon cried. "Let me fight him!" she screamed as Tartian held Jupiter and Mars by the throat, draining them of their energy.
"Sailor Moon, let us... It is our job... our privilege... to protect you." Jupiter said wearily.
"That's bullshit and you know it!" she yelled back.
"Odango atama, stay back... PLEASE!" Mars cried. Tartian grinned cruelly and tightened his grip. Jupiter and Mars threw their heads back and mouthed words of agony. When he was satisfied, Tartian dropped the lifeless bodies to the ground. Sailor Moon jumped up, forgetting her twisted ankle and burned back.
"You're going to hell for this!" she screamed at him.
"After you." he said calmly, shooting energy at her. She spun her wand in front of her and deflected it back
to him. He was only injured a little. The fight commenced. Soon it became evident that Sailor Moon needed back up. She was quickly running out of energy and was barely able to stand.
"Cosmic Moon Power!" she cried. Soon, Princess Serenity stood in Sailor Moon's place. The Gundam pilots did a double take.
"Oh Holy Crystal..." she whispered. "Help me!" The energy grew in front of her, and when she could hold it no longer, she sent it flying towards Tartian. When the massive cluster of power hit him, he threw his head back and screamed in pain.
"I'll get you for this!" he vowed, just before death took him. She sighed and sank to the ground, oblivious to the cheering of those around her.
"What have I done?" she wondered aloud. "This is going to take a lot of energy to reverse." She closed her eyes and concentrated, erasing the memories of anyone who had seen the robot things or the news which she knew must be covering the event. She then set up an invisble barrier around the park to stop people from seeing what was happening or coming in while she investigated the robot things. Anyone walking by would just see an empty park. She fought the urge to fall asleep from the energy drain.
"They're... They're... They're dead." she whispered, looking at the bodies that littered the ground. She shook her head. Tears had not stopped slipping down her cheeks since Venus had fallen.
"Kami! WHY DO YOU TAKE AWAY EVERYONE I CARE FOR?!" she screamed, demanding an answer from the skies.
"Should we go down?" Quatre asked.
"Maybe if she knew you were here she wouldn't be so upset." Duo told Wufei.
"And what if we have to go straight back? I don't think Pluto is going to allow us to stay here. It'll just break her heart again." he said. "We stay here until we see what happens."
"Why do you continue to rob me of everything?!" she asked, yelling to some unseen force. "WHY?! First I gave up my chance to be a normal teenager! You took away my true mother and father! Then you took away my ability to confide in my first friends! Then it was my sight, and then Wufei! You took me away from my new friends, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Hiiro! You took away Mamoru, and now you go so far as to take away the only REAL friends I ever had! I ask you this: WHAT IS LEFT FOR YOU TO TAKE FROM ME? Will you go so far as to take away my family here? Who's next to go? Everyone that knows me well ends up DEAD or TAKEN away! WHY DON"T YOU JUST TAKE ME, and LET EVERYONE ELSE LIVE??!!" She sat back down on the ground, pulling her knees up to her chest and burying her head in them.
"Why must I always be alone?" she whispered. The pilots heard, though, and her words sent shivers up their spines.
Without a word to the others, Quatre opened his cockpit door and jumped out, grabbing the exit line just before he would have hit the ground. Wufei ordered the other three to stay in their Gundams.
Cautiously, Quatre approached the crying girl. As he neared her, his empathy was attacked by her emotions. He nearly blacked out with the pain he felt from her.
Her head snapped up as when he stood five feet from her.
"Usagi?" he asked. Sailor Moon wiped her eyes and stood up, wary of anyone who knew her true identity.
"Do I know you?" she asked, her memory not reconizing the voice. She looked up and saw the open cockpit. "Did you come from that thing?"
"Yes and yes." Quatre answered, smiling gently.
"Wait a minute, you're an empathy?" she asked, sensing it in him. He nodded. "I only know one other person that's an empathy." she said, still wary. She backed up a step.
"I thought for sure you'd remember me." he remarked, seemingly to himself.
"Quatre?" Sailor Moon asked incredously. He noddded. She threw herself at him, and they hugged tightly.
"Quatre, it's so good to SEE you!" she said jokingly. He laughed with her, though in his mind he wondered how she could pull a complete emotional 180 in just a few seconds, especially after seeing her friends killed. "Omigosh Quatre tell me everything. What is that thing? What were those other things? How are you? How is Wufei? Is he safe? What's been happening? How did you know when the portal was open? How long have you had that thing? Where are the others? Where's Wufei?" she asked, all in one breath. Quatre's eyes widened, and his mind raced.
'Should I tell her Wufei is here, or not?' he wondered. 'I guess I'll answer all her other questions and wait to see if Wufei decides to come out.'
"Well, those things are called Gundams. Mine is called Altron. The other things are called Mobile Dolls. I'm fine. Wufei's fine. Yes, he's safe. This is what we do all the time, nothing else much has happened except coming here. We didn't know when it was going to open, we just saw it. Since the Mobile Dolls went through we had to follow. I've had the Gundam a few years now." he replied. She smiled and hugged him again.
"Are you going to stay?" she asked, smile suddenly vanishing.
"I don't know, Usagi. There's a lot going on back home that we have to help with. Wars like this place has never seen rage each day. If we stay here, one of the only chances of attaining peace will be gone." Sailor Moon's shoulders slumped and she leaned against the sakura tree.
"So once more I am denied happiness." she whispered. Something he said registered in her mind.
"Wait a minute. You said if 'we' stay. Are the others here?" she demanded frantically. Quatre did not reply. He sent mental messages to Wufei to answer her. Suddenly the four other cockpits opened and the owners slid down the ropes. They formed a small semicircle in front of the middle Gundam.
Quatre and Sailor Moon ran over to them. She stopped in front of them.
"Wait a minute. Don't say anything I wanna guess who is who." she said. They complied and did not say anything. She walked closer to them, Quatre following closely. She 'inspected' Duo first.
"Say one thing." she commanded.
"Hey babe." he said, grinning. Sailor Moon returned the look and hugged him.
"You gotta be Duo. No one else is crazy enough to say that with Wufei around... Hey!" she exclaimed as Duo's hands wandered lower than her back. Wufei glared at Duo, but Usagi could not see the look.
"What?" Duo asked as he released her. "What do you expect with a skirt like that? As Wufei would say, 'That skirt is dishonorable.'" he said, looking her up and down. She smacked him playfully upside the head and moved on to Trowa.
"I only know one one-eyed person. Welcome to the twenty-first century, Trowa!" she said, hugging him. Duo had often teased Trowa about having only one eye, so that was her major tip-off.
"Hello again, Usagi." he greeted. After they released each other, she moved on to Hiiro.
"Say one thing." she said, though she was fairly certain that he wasn't her Wufei.
"Hnn." he replied, the corners of his mouth twitching ever so slightly.
"Hey Hiiro!" Sailor Moon greeted, merely extending her hand to him. He took it and she conned him by pulling him into a hug. The discomfort was plain and unmasked on his face.
She let him go and closed her eyes, preparing to see her love for the first time. She let the breath out and turned to face him...
And promptly sucked the breath back in. Her jaw hung down a bit, she smiled shyly at him.
He was tall, unlike a lot of Asians, with black hair and deep black eyes to match. His hair was pulled back into a small, tight ponytail at the base of his neck. He wore a tight blue tank top that showed his arm muscles, and loose white pants that had Chinese symbols around the waistband and the bottom cuffs.
"What's the matter, onna? Don't you reconize me?" Wufei asked. She stopped staring (and drooling) at his words and looked him in the eye. He quickly closed the ten foot gap between them and hugged her tightly. She
could not respond. Noticing her lack of motion, he pulled away a little, still resting his hands on her shoulders.
"What's the matter?" he asked again. Her eyes shined with tears.
"You're... incredible..." she whispered. "I can't believe it..."
"Can't believe what, onna?" he asked, smiling down at her.
"That I'm in love with the most amazing guy ever." She glanced around at the others and smiled. "And he has friends that are the best." Quatre and Duo blushed, while the others just looked indifferent, as always.
"Silly onna." Wufei said, grinning. It was one of her habits that had rubbed off on him. She turned in his arms to face the others.
"Welcome to Tokyo, 2000 AD." she said, extending her arm to gesture around them.
"What do we do now?" Duo asked. "Do you know any hot chicks?" Wufei made a slight slicing motion across his neck. Usagi, who was still dressed as Sailor Moon, frowned. They all noticed the expression that was usually foreign to her face. Wufei shot Duo a death glare.
"I did... You would have loved my friends." More tears formed in her eyes. Wufei put a hand on the hilt of his katana, alternating between threatening Duo and comforting Usagi.
"Puu..." Usagi whispered. As Wufei lent down to hear what she was trying to say, a black portal appeared. The tall, green-haired Senshi stepped out.
"Hello Usagi." she greeted. Usagi smiled at her, and briefly left Wufei's arms to hug her. Suddenly, another portal appeared, and three men stepped out.
"Seiya! Yaten! Taiki!" Sailor Moon exclaimed, hugging Taiki. Wufei had a jealous look on his face, which only grew as she moved on to hug Yaten.
Sailor Moon released him and turned slightly to face Seiya. Before she could say anything, he pulled her close to him and kissed her. It was a moment before Usagi's mind got over the shock and told her what to do. Immediately after that she pulled away from him, backing up several paces. The hurt was evident on both Seiya and Wufei's faces, only Wufei's held rage as well. The other pilots didn't look exactly thrilled, either.
Hiiro pulled his gun out and aimed it at Seiya.
"Omae o korosu." he said, firing two shots. Sailor Moon freaked out as Seiya's blood began to pour from where he was shot on each shoulder.
"Wufei, PLEASE get him off that trigger-happy mode?" She asked as she pressed her hands onto Seiya's wounds. Only a few seconds passed before a silver flash emitted from her hands, and she handed two bullets back to Hiiro. He grunted and stuck them into his pocket. Suddenly, time froze. Sailor Moon reconized the situation. She and Pluto could move, but the others could not.
"Hime, you have a choice now." Pluto spoke, smiling slightly at the young princess. Sailor Moon looked at her from her position, standing between the Starlights and the Gundam pilots.
"Nani?" she asked.
"I mean with what you wish to do with the rest of your life. This time is safe from any further attacks. So, the gods have been kind to you. You can stay here, and live a normal life, or as normal as it can get after all this." Pluto told her.
"Could Wufei and the others stay, too?" Sailor Moon interrupted. Pluto shook her head 'no'.
"They are still needed in their time. You must let me finish. You can also go with the Starlights, if you want. You can live with them and their Hime." Pluto studied her princess's face carefully.
"Or..." she began again, "You can go back with Wufei and the others to their time. With your powers, you can help them with everything. You can repair their Gundams in the blink of an eye and give them unlimited power. With your help, the war that wages there as we speak would soon be over, and no more lives would be lost."
She waited patiently as the girl thought it over.
"Pluto, I want to go home." she said. Pluto, immediately understanding, nodded. She grasped Sailor Moon's hand and channeled the two's energy together. This time, there was no fireworks display, no light show, just a soft breeze blowing across the empty park as everything vanished. The destroyed mobile dolls, the Gundams, even the dust from the youma, was gone.
(Duo runs in from sidelines)
Duo: I'm not supposed to be here but Aka says that she's trying to fool you all! This isn't the end!
Aka: DUO! Get BACK here you braided FOOL!
Duo: Acck! Somebody help!
Aka: If you want to save Duo's life, review. If I do not get ten reviews, Duo dies in the next chapter. (Or at least gets his braid chopped off).
Duo: Please review!
Wufei: Why would they, when it gives them an opportunity to kill you?
Duo: Oh crap...
"Usagi's opening the portal again!" Duo exclaimed in the middle of a battle. It always opened in space and was quite visible.
They continued to fight, praying she would keep it open long enough. They had decided the other night that the next time they saw the portal they would go through.
"Kuso!" Hiiro yelled, nearly busting out their eardrums as it came over the speakers.
"What?" Wufei demanded.
"We have a problem." Quatre said.
"About twenty mobile dolls just disappeared through the portal!" Hiiro said, only hints of his monotone showing through his anger.
"Then let's go!" Wufei exclaimed. The five sped in their Gundams towards the portal, the last making it through just before it closed.
Needless to say, when Usagi opened her eyes, she was greeted with quite a shock.
"Aiie!" she screamed, disappearing into the bushes. She quickly transformed and alerted the others. They practically teleported to join her.
"What are those things?!" Jupiter demanded. "Mercury, help us out here!"
"I'm trying!" she replied, typing furiously on her computer.
"They're like nothing I've ever seen before." she said. "The technology is so complex, especially on those five larger ones."
"What are they kuso?!" Sailor Moon demanded, watching as the five Mercury spoke of fought the others. The ground was littered with twisted metal, and large crowds grew along the sidewalks, just far enough away to not be in the way of the fighting. News crews had already begun to join them.
"I don't know!" Mercury said frantically.
"We have even more problems..." Venus alerted them.
"What NOW?" Moon asked, aggravated.
"We've got tons of youma over here!"
"What?!"
"Right near the crowds!"
"Let's go!"
They burst from the bushes, running to the crowd of youma.
"Kami!" Sailor Moon exclaimed as they ran. Something suddenly occured to her.
'These things had to have come from Wufei's time... What could these weapons be?' she wondered as they
began to fight.
Two battles raged. The Gundams fought off the mobile dolls quickly, leaving them in heaps of metal on the ground. The five stood together like something from a picture.
"What's going on?!"
"Where are we?" Quatre asked.
"We're in the year 2000." Hiiro told them.
"Kuso." Wufei said.
"What's wrong with that? I thought you wanted to see Usagi again." Duo asked.
"Yes, I wanted to come here and see her. But these Gundams and the Mobile Dolls won't be invented for thousands of years yet." he said.
"Oh kami." Hiiro commented. Duo smirked.
"Even the Perfect Soldier is upset." the American pilots said.
"Braided baka. Watch what's in front of you." Wufei replied. They all turned their attention to the ground.
"What ARE those things?" Quatre asked.
"Who are those GIRLS?" Duo countered. The discussion and observation continued.
Meanwhile, the Senshi were having a rough time.
"Moon Tiara Action!" "Shine Aqua Illusion!" "Venus Love Me Chain Encircle!"
"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!" "Jupiter Thunderclap Zap!"
"Its not working!" Sailor Moon exclaimed. "Mercury, retreat until you can find a weakness! Jupiter, zap 'em one more time and then get back! Mars, Venus, you do the same!" she directed. They nodded and did as she said. As soon as all of her fellow Senshi were behind her, she threw her wand up into the air and caught it. Gathering all of her power, she powered up the wand and shot the energy out towards the crowd of youma. Instead of merely hitting them and disappearing, though, it was a continuous beam of light. She slowly turned, blasting as many of the youma as she could.
"Come on Sailor Moon, you can do it!" Mercury called. The others followed suit, and called out words of encouragement.
"Does she look familiar to you?" Wufei asked. They had been talking and watching as the tiny girl on the ground fought to destroy the odd looking monsters. They were able to hear the conversations between the girls via their sound detectors.
"What do you mean?" Duo asked.
"Her outfit, everything! Her voice even sounds similar." Wufei said.
"When Wufei first brought Usagi in she was wearing an outfit almost identical to that girl's." Hiiro
informed them.
"Oh yeah, the hot girl in the short skirt." Duo said. Wufei rolled his eyes.
"Are you sure that's her, though?" Quatre asked.
"I don't know, I'm not sure of anything." Wufei said.
"Hiiro, find out what the energy code is for that girl and see if it matches Pluto's." Trowa ordered. Hiiro nodded and started typing.
"It's the same type of energy but a different energy code. That is Usagi though. The code matches the one Usagi gave off when she created that portal." Hiiro told them.
"Kami-sama what is she doing? And what IS that?" Wufei asked, watching the ground below intently. Sailor Moon had managed to dust all of the youma, but a man had appeared just above the ground in front of her.
"Who are you?!" Sailor Moon demanded. The man, who wore a long black cape, black pants, and a black shirt with a blue collar, ignored her.
"WHO ARE YOU?" she demanded again.
"My name is Tartian. Now you must die. Sailor Moon is coming with me." the tall man said, setting his
feet on the ground.
"Over my dead body!" Jupiter yelled. The four stepped in front of Sailor Moon, blocking her from harm.
He smiled sourly as he hurled dark energy at them. They managed to dodge, but not by much. Sailor Moon's back was hit, and she twisted her ankle as she landed.
"Stay down, Sailor Moon!" Mars ordered.
"Let us weaken him first!" Jupiter said. Sailor Moon nodded slightly and watched from her position on her stomach. Tartian was vicious, and Sailor Moon cried out several times in dismay as her friends were hurt. She got up and ran in the way of a blast meant for Venus.
"Sailor Moon I said GET BACK!" Venus said, shoving her out of the way just as another round of energy was shot at her. Venus didn't even cry out, she just sank to the ground.
"What's going on down there?" Quatre asked.
"They're fighting that man in black." Trowa said.
"Is he killing them?" Duo asked, watching as the yellow and orange clad girl fell to the ground. The one
laying on the ground sceamed. Hiiro tapped away at his keypad.
"Hai. She's dead." he said. They watched, speechless, as the one in blue fell. Wufei zoomed in on Sailor Moon's face. It was twisted in pain and grief as she watched her friends die. Tears raced down her cheeks.
"Don't!" Sailor Moon cried. "Let me fight him!" she screamed as Tartian held Jupiter and Mars by the throat, draining them of their energy.
"Sailor Moon, let us... It is our job... our privilege... to protect you." Jupiter said wearily.
"That's bullshit and you know it!" she yelled back.
"Odango atama, stay back... PLEASE!" Mars cried. Tartian grinned cruelly and tightened his grip. Jupiter and Mars threw their heads back and mouthed words of agony. When he was satisfied, Tartian dropped the lifeless bodies to the ground. Sailor Moon jumped up, forgetting her twisted ankle and burned back.
"You're going to hell for this!" she screamed at him.
"After you." he said calmly, shooting energy at her. She spun her wand in front of her and deflected it back
to him. He was only injured a little. The fight commenced. Soon it became evident that Sailor Moon needed back up. She was quickly running out of energy and was barely able to stand.
"Cosmic Moon Power!" she cried. Soon, Princess Serenity stood in Sailor Moon's place. The Gundam pilots did a double take.
"Oh Holy Crystal..." she whispered. "Help me!" The energy grew in front of her, and when she could hold it no longer, she sent it flying towards Tartian. When the massive cluster of power hit him, he threw his head back and screamed in pain.
"I'll get you for this!" he vowed, just before death took him. She sighed and sank to the ground, oblivious to the cheering of those around her.
"What have I done?" she wondered aloud. "This is going to take a lot of energy to reverse." She closed her eyes and concentrated, erasing the memories of anyone who had seen the robot things or the news which she knew must be covering the event. She then set up an invisble barrier around the park to stop people from seeing what was happening or coming in while she investigated the robot things. Anyone walking by would just see an empty park. She fought the urge to fall asleep from the energy drain.
"They're... They're... They're dead." she whispered, looking at the bodies that littered the ground. She shook her head. Tears had not stopped slipping down her cheeks since Venus had fallen.
"Kami! WHY DO YOU TAKE AWAY EVERYONE I CARE FOR?!" she screamed, demanding an answer from the skies.
"Should we go down?" Quatre asked.
"Maybe if she knew you were here she wouldn't be so upset." Duo told Wufei.
"And what if we have to go straight back? I don't think Pluto is going to allow us to stay here. It'll just break her heart again." he said. "We stay here until we see what happens."
"Why do you continue to rob me of everything?!" she asked, yelling to some unseen force. "WHY?! First I gave up my chance to be a normal teenager! You took away my true mother and father! Then you took away my ability to confide in my first friends! Then it was my sight, and then Wufei! You took me away from my new friends, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Hiiro! You took away Mamoru, and now you go so far as to take away the only REAL friends I ever had! I ask you this: WHAT IS LEFT FOR YOU TO TAKE FROM ME? Will you go so far as to take away my family here? Who's next to go? Everyone that knows me well ends up DEAD or TAKEN away! WHY DON"T YOU JUST TAKE ME, and LET EVERYONE ELSE LIVE??!!" She sat back down on the ground, pulling her knees up to her chest and burying her head in them.
"Why must I always be alone?" she whispered. The pilots heard, though, and her words sent shivers up their spines.
Without a word to the others, Quatre opened his cockpit door and jumped out, grabbing the exit line just before he would have hit the ground. Wufei ordered the other three to stay in their Gundams.
Cautiously, Quatre approached the crying girl. As he neared her, his empathy was attacked by her emotions. He nearly blacked out with the pain he felt from her.
Her head snapped up as when he stood five feet from her.
"Usagi?" he asked. Sailor Moon wiped her eyes and stood up, wary of anyone who knew her true identity.
"Do I know you?" she asked, her memory not reconizing the voice. She looked up and saw the open cockpit. "Did you come from that thing?"
"Yes and yes." Quatre answered, smiling gently.
"Wait a minute, you're an empathy?" she asked, sensing it in him. He nodded. "I only know one other person that's an empathy." she said, still wary. She backed up a step.
"I thought for sure you'd remember me." he remarked, seemingly to himself.
"Quatre?" Sailor Moon asked incredously. He noddded. She threw herself at him, and they hugged tightly.
"Quatre, it's so good to SEE you!" she said jokingly. He laughed with her, though in his mind he wondered how she could pull a complete emotional 180 in just a few seconds, especially after seeing her friends killed. "Omigosh Quatre tell me everything. What is that thing? What were those other things? How are you? How is Wufei? Is he safe? What's been happening? How did you know when the portal was open? How long have you had that thing? Where are the others? Where's Wufei?" she asked, all in one breath. Quatre's eyes widened, and his mind raced.
'Should I tell her Wufei is here, or not?' he wondered. 'I guess I'll answer all her other questions and wait to see if Wufei decides to come out.'
"Well, those things are called Gundams. Mine is called Altron. The other things are called Mobile Dolls. I'm fine. Wufei's fine. Yes, he's safe. This is what we do all the time, nothing else much has happened except coming here. We didn't know when it was going to open, we just saw it. Since the Mobile Dolls went through we had to follow. I've had the Gundam a few years now." he replied. She smiled and hugged him again.
"Are you going to stay?" she asked, smile suddenly vanishing.
"I don't know, Usagi. There's a lot going on back home that we have to help with. Wars like this place has never seen rage each day. If we stay here, one of the only chances of attaining peace will be gone." Sailor Moon's shoulders slumped and she leaned against the sakura tree.
"So once more I am denied happiness." she whispered. Something he said registered in her mind.
"Wait a minute. You said if 'we' stay. Are the others here?" she demanded frantically. Quatre did not reply. He sent mental messages to Wufei to answer her. Suddenly the four other cockpits opened and the owners slid down the ropes. They formed a small semicircle in front of the middle Gundam.
Quatre and Sailor Moon ran over to them. She stopped in front of them.
"Wait a minute. Don't say anything I wanna guess who is who." she said. They complied and did not say anything. She walked closer to them, Quatre following closely. She 'inspected' Duo first.
"Say one thing." she commanded.
"Hey babe." he said, grinning. Sailor Moon returned the look and hugged him.
"You gotta be Duo. No one else is crazy enough to say that with Wufei around... Hey!" she exclaimed as Duo's hands wandered lower than her back. Wufei glared at Duo, but Usagi could not see the look.
"What?" Duo asked as he released her. "What do you expect with a skirt like that? As Wufei would say, 'That skirt is dishonorable.'" he said, looking her up and down. She smacked him playfully upside the head and moved on to Trowa.
"I only know one one-eyed person. Welcome to the twenty-first century, Trowa!" she said, hugging him. Duo had often teased Trowa about having only one eye, so that was her major tip-off.
"Hello again, Usagi." he greeted. After they released each other, she moved on to Hiiro.
"Say one thing." she said, though she was fairly certain that he wasn't her Wufei.
"Hnn." he replied, the corners of his mouth twitching ever so slightly.
"Hey Hiiro!" Sailor Moon greeted, merely extending her hand to him. He took it and she conned him by pulling him into a hug. The discomfort was plain and unmasked on his face.
She let him go and closed her eyes, preparing to see her love for the first time. She let the breath out and turned to face him...
And promptly sucked the breath back in. Her jaw hung down a bit, she smiled shyly at him.
He was tall, unlike a lot of Asians, with black hair and deep black eyes to match. His hair was pulled back into a small, tight ponytail at the base of his neck. He wore a tight blue tank top that showed his arm muscles, and loose white pants that had Chinese symbols around the waistband and the bottom cuffs.
"What's the matter, onna? Don't you reconize me?" Wufei asked. She stopped staring (and drooling) at his words and looked him in the eye. He quickly closed the ten foot gap between them and hugged her tightly. She
could not respond. Noticing her lack of motion, he pulled away a little, still resting his hands on her shoulders.
"What's the matter?" he asked again. Her eyes shined with tears.
"You're... incredible..." she whispered. "I can't believe it..."
"Can't believe what, onna?" he asked, smiling down at her.
"That I'm in love with the most amazing guy ever." She glanced around at the others and smiled. "And he has friends that are the best." Quatre and Duo blushed, while the others just looked indifferent, as always.
"Silly onna." Wufei said, grinning. It was one of her habits that had rubbed off on him. She turned in his arms to face the others.
"Welcome to Tokyo, 2000 AD." she said, extending her arm to gesture around them.
"What do we do now?" Duo asked. "Do you know any hot chicks?" Wufei made a slight slicing motion across his neck. Usagi, who was still dressed as Sailor Moon, frowned. They all noticed the expression that was usually foreign to her face. Wufei shot Duo a death glare.
"I did... You would have loved my friends." More tears formed in her eyes. Wufei put a hand on the hilt of his katana, alternating between threatening Duo and comforting Usagi.
"Puu..." Usagi whispered. As Wufei lent down to hear what she was trying to say, a black portal appeared. The tall, green-haired Senshi stepped out.
"Hello Usagi." she greeted. Usagi smiled at her, and briefly left Wufei's arms to hug her. Suddenly, another portal appeared, and three men stepped out.
"Seiya! Yaten! Taiki!" Sailor Moon exclaimed, hugging Taiki. Wufei had a jealous look on his face, which only grew as she moved on to hug Yaten.
Sailor Moon released him and turned slightly to face Seiya. Before she could say anything, he pulled her close to him and kissed her. It was a moment before Usagi's mind got over the shock and told her what to do. Immediately after that she pulled away from him, backing up several paces. The hurt was evident on both Seiya and Wufei's faces, only Wufei's held rage as well. The other pilots didn't look exactly thrilled, either.
Hiiro pulled his gun out and aimed it at Seiya.
"Omae o korosu." he said, firing two shots. Sailor Moon freaked out as Seiya's blood began to pour from where he was shot on each shoulder.
"Wufei, PLEASE get him off that trigger-happy mode?" She asked as she pressed her hands onto Seiya's wounds. Only a few seconds passed before a silver flash emitted from her hands, and she handed two bullets back to Hiiro. He grunted and stuck them into his pocket. Suddenly, time froze. Sailor Moon reconized the situation. She and Pluto could move, but the others could not.
"Hime, you have a choice now." Pluto spoke, smiling slightly at the young princess. Sailor Moon looked at her from her position, standing between the Starlights and the Gundam pilots.
"Nani?" she asked.
"I mean with what you wish to do with the rest of your life. This time is safe from any further attacks. So, the gods have been kind to you. You can stay here, and live a normal life, or as normal as it can get after all this." Pluto told her.
"Could Wufei and the others stay, too?" Sailor Moon interrupted. Pluto shook her head 'no'.
"They are still needed in their time. You must let me finish. You can also go with the Starlights, if you want. You can live with them and their Hime." Pluto studied her princess's face carefully.
"Or..." she began again, "You can go back with Wufei and the others to their time. With your powers, you can help them with everything. You can repair their Gundams in the blink of an eye and give them unlimited power. With your help, the war that wages there as we speak would soon be over, and no more lives would be lost."
She waited patiently as the girl thought it over.
"Pluto, I want to go home." she said. Pluto, immediately understanding, nodded. She grasped Sailor Moon's hand and channeled the two's energy together. This time, there was no fireworks display, no light show, just a soft breeze blowing across the empty park as everything vanished. The destroyed mobile dolls, the Gundams, even the dust from the youma, was gone.
(Duo runs in from sidelines)
Duo: I'm not supposed to be here but Aka says that she's trying to fool you all! This isn't the end!
Aka: DUO! Get BACK here you braided FOOL!
Duo: Acck! Somebody help!
Aka: If you want to save Duo's life, review. If I do not get ten reviews, Duo dies in the next chapter. (Or at least gets his braid chopped off).
Duo: Please review!
Wufei: Why would they, when it gives them an opportunity to kill you?
Duo: Oh crap...