Thanks for the tip, Talysmin, I'll start doing that. And Clytia? You didn't
offend me. (Grins) Well, I wasn't going to start this until later, but I
figure I might as well. Um, just to warn you, don't get too used to these
frequent updates, because I'm not sure how long they'll last once real life
kicks in again. I updated so much yesterday for two reasons. 1. I wanted to
write the part where she was having dinner with the senshi and 2. I
literally didn't have anything better to do. My parents are out of town, so
I'm not allowed to drive my car, and my best friend's at some summer
college program. Anyway, thanks as always for all the support.
Usagi flinched under the glares of her former friends, and took a deep, steadying breath. "All right, maybe we should start all over again." She decided, rubbing her temples in attempt to ease an oncoming headache.
"His name is Vegeta!" Ami suddenly realized. "Does that mean he's the." She gulped, obviously trying to keep calm under the dual glare and smirk of Vegeta. "The Saiyan king?"
"Prince, actually." Usagi corrected. Oh yes, she was most definitely getting a headache. "Look, it's not what you think. Well, it's only kind of what you think." She sighed under doubtful glances. She moved to sit on Vegeta's other side, comforted by the presence of the man she loved, of his steadying presence both beside her and in her mind. Strangely enough, the whole thing amused him.
It figured.
"Okay. Okay," Usagi decided, steeling herself for a torrent of questions. "When I escaped Zeke-"
"Wait! Go back. How'd you escape?" Makoto demanded, half rising from her seat at the table. "We couldn't escape by ourselves as hard as we tried, how'd you manage it?"
"Um..um.well.luck." It wasn't quite a lie. Not really. "Zeke was careless." Well he had been, sort of. For him to not realize that the silver crystal was inside her body purifying his magic was an oversight she would make sure he came to forget. "Anyway, I used the crystal to send myself to another dimension to recuperate. It was far enough away that none of us existed. Vegeta and another Saiyan were living on Earth, and that's where I met them, and they're really both very sweet guys. The end." She flinched as she felt a torrent of indignation flowing from Vegeta at being called sweet, and promised herself she'd make it up to him later.
They were all silent. Usagi laughed nervously.
"Well," Rei decided finally, smiling in rue acceptance. "Looks like the little ondango's luck paid off once again. Usagi's so lucky nothing bad ever happens to her, ne?" She laughed. The others joined her. Usagi and Vegeta didn't find it so amusing. "She leads a regular charmed life!"
The laughter soon became yet another awkward silence.
"Anyone want another role?" Usagi offered. Vegeta had noticed she was only picking at her food, one of her habits when something was troubling her. She prayed he didn't decide to make an issue out of it.
"Usa-momma, I was watching TV, and there's this really weird thing on the news." Trunks informed her, coming back into the kitchen with his three empty plates.
Usagi and her former friends grew very still. "What kind of news?"
"Oh, some big monster destroying this museum." He shrugged, rinsing off his dishes. "It'd be kind of cool, except it looked so stupid. Can I go beat it up?"
"No, darling, you better not. Those things feed off energy." Usagi bit her thumbnail, looking to the senshi and ignoring Mamoru. "I guess you all better go, ne?" She said finally.
"Us? You too. Come on, transform." Makoto decided.
"Yeah!" Minako grinned, rising. "It'd be great to have our real leader back."
"I'm sorry, you'll have to go without me." She informed them, deciding not to tell them the truth yet. She set her shoulders stubbornly, prepared to be yelled at. "I'm afraid I'd really be quite useless."
"But, Usa-momma.!"
"Hush, Trunks, dear."
"To tell you the truth," Rei laughed, "You were always kind of useless. What would make this time any different? Come on."
"I am unable to become Sailor Moon any more." She informed them calmly, telling herself she didn't care about how much they would yell. They weren't the same people she had once loved. She didn't care what they thought anymore. "I don't have the crystal anymore."
The senshi went pale.
"What happened to it?" Mamoru demanded, eyes wide and frightened.
"I gave it away." She replied flippantly.
"YOU WHAT?!?"
"I gave it to Shenlong, Earth's dragon. He needed it to bring a friend of mine back to life, and all it was doing was keeping me alive anyway, so I decided it was a good cause. I would much rather allow a little boy to have a relationship with the father he had never known than live forever, watching everyone I loved die." Waves of pride and love emitted from Vegeta, and he found his hand under the table.
"How could you be so stupid?!?!" Rei shrieked.
"I believe you have a youma to fight, Rei-chan." Usagi smiled.
So the days passed with Usagi formulating a plan to get her revenge on Zeke. Without revealing her identity, she managed to rescue the senshi from kedamono too powerful for them to ever defeat on more than one occasion. She visited her parents, brought her family with her. After trying to glare each other down for five full minutes, her dad and Vegeta actually got along. At least, her dad didn't pull out his old trusty shotgun on her beloved mate.
The boys were enjoying their "vacation." Veggie was too young to realize what was really going on, and Trunks was secretly pretending that Usagi was his real mother, and they had all lived in that little apartment together for all his life.
Usagi was becoming rather obsessed with her revenge. It was almost all she thought about, beyond keeping her boys happy and clean and fed. In a strange way, she knew she owed her happiness to him, and the senshi, too, for leaving her. If not for them, she would have never met Vegeta.
But she was still going to kill Zeke.
Usagi and Vegeta fine-tuned their bond, learning how to block each other, how to take pain from each other, shelter each other from things. Vegeta didn't have to give up fighting for fear of harming his mate, and Usagi stopped worrying about what would happen to him if something went wrong during her battle with Zeke. Just a little more time, and she'd be ready.
Tenshi was getting plenty of attention from the media, which was just what Usagi wanted. She wanted Zeke to know she was back, and hear of her power, and feel the same kind of fear that had been her companion day and night for five years. The press loved her, the beautiful, angelic warrior who made the Sailor Senshi look like childish fools. She even let them take pictures of her, which the senshi, as a rule, never did, and answered some, but not all, of their questions.
Just a little more time.
"Usa-momma, are you all right?"
Usagi raised her head, wiping off her mouth and tucking her hair behind her ears. "Fine, baby. I just ate something that didn't agree with me last night." She stood up, knees cold from kneeling on the bathroom linoleum, and washed out her mouth at the sink. "What's wrong? I thought you were training."
"I came back in for a glass of water, Dad's only working with Veggie right now."
"Oh.well, was there something you needed?"
"One of those stupid girls is here. The blonde one. She's at the door."
"And you didn't invite her in?"
"I don't like them."
Usagi sighed and ruffled his hair, smiling down fondly at her beloved stepson. "I know, but that's no need to be rude."
"They were mean to you."
She smiled and passed him, going to the front door. "Mina-chan!" She greeted with false cheerfulness. "What brings you by?"
"I just wanted to see if you wanted to hang out of something." Minako's voice trailed off as she stared at Usagi's arms. She had pushed up the long sleeves earlier in the day while dusting the apartment, and her scars were very, disturbingly visible. "Dear Kami, what happened? It's Vegeta, isn't it? He beats you, I knew it!"
"No! No, he would never do that!" Usagi pushed down her sleeves self- consciously, averting her eyes. She hesitated. "Zeke gave them to me." She admitted reluctantly.
"You're kidding."
"No. I'm not. I wish I was, but I'm not."
"Oh, Usagi-chan! What did we do to you?" A loud, annoying beeping interrupted the moment, and the two friends jumped. Minako opened her communicator. "Venus.. Another one? Is it just me, or are those freaks getting more frequent?.Yeah, I'll be right there." She closed her communicator and looked at Usagi apologetically, reaching out and squeezing her wrist. "I have to go. We'll talk later, okay?" She offered gently.
"Yeah, sure."
"I'm so sorry."
Usagi waited until Minako had been gone several minutes before slowly blocking Vegeta from her mind. He always tried to take the pain from her when she transformed, but she didn't want him to suffer any more than he wanted her to.
She clenched her teeth and doubled over, crying out in pain as the wings burst from her back. She despised the transformation, and vowed to never use it again after Zeke was dead. It was getting quicker, but no less painful. Finally, after a few more excruciating seconds, it was over.
Panting, she righted herself, opened the window, and flew outside.
Venus' chain snapped and she went flying back into a wall with a thud. Makoto clenched her teeth and sprung forward, lightenings ready in her hands. These kedemono never failed to infuriate her, and they were getting stronger with each passing day. She loved fighting, normally, but they ignored all the rules of combat she had learned in her time as senshi of the planet Jupiter. They even attacked before they had finished their customary speeches. The barbaric monsters were disgusting.
At the exact moment her lightening struck, one of Mars' fireballs consumed the kedamono. Makoto felt the momentary thrill of triumph, before realizing the monster wasn't even fazed.
"We could use that weakness reading about NOW, Mercury!" Mars shouted.
"I can't find anything!" She cried desperately.
Makoto caught a flash of white and silver from the corner of her eye and cursed. It was that Tenshi chick again. Did she have to come to every battle? The girl was nice, she supposed, and she was grateful that she had rescued them, a little anyway, but Tenshi was just too annoyingly perfect. Beautiful, athletic, powerful.
Ugh.
"Tenshi! Thank Kami!" Venus exclaimed, rising painfully.
The silver-eyed warrior began to gather shimmering, white-hot energy in her hands, but before she could launch the attack, there came a loud cry.
"World Shaking!"
To Be Continued Could someone give me all the Outer's special attacks? I've forgotten most of them, and the one I remember, I'm not completely sure who they go to. Thanks.
Usagi flinched under the glares of her former friends, and took a deep, steadying breath. "All right, maybe we should start all over again." She decided, rubbing her temples in attempt to ease an oncoming headache.
"His name is Vegeta!" Ami suddenly realized. "Does that mean he's the." She gulped, obviously trying to keep calm under the dual glare and smirk of Vegeta. "The Saiyan king?"
"Prince, actually." Usagi corrected. Oh yes, she was most definitely getting a headache. "Look, it's not what you think. Well, it's only kind of what you think." She sighed under doubtful glances. She moved to sit on Vegeta's other side, comforted by the presence of the man she loved, of his steadying presence both beside her and in her mind. Strangely enough, the whole thing amused him.
It figured.
"Okay. Okay," Usagi decided, steeling herself for a torrent of questions. "When I escaped Zeke-"
"Wait! Go back. How'd you escape?" Makoto demanded, half rising from her seat at the table. "We couldn't escape by ourselves as hard as we tried, how'd you manage it?"
"Um..um.well.luck." It wasn't quite a lie. Not really. "Zeke was careless." Well he had been, sort of. For him to not realize that the silver crystal was inside her body purifying his magic was an oversight she would make sure he came to forget. "Anyway, I used the crystal to send myself to another dimension to recuperate. It was far enough away that none of us existed. Vegeta and another Saiyan were living on Earth, and that's where I met them, and they're really both very sweet guys. The end." She flinched as she felt a torrent of indignation flowing from Vegeta at being called sweet, and promised herself she'd make it up to him later.
They were all silent. Usagi laughed nervously.
"Well," Rei decided finally, smiling in rue acceptance. "Looks like the little ondango's luck paid off once again. Usagi's so lucky nothing bad ever happens to her, ne?" She laughed. The others joined her. Usagi and Vegeta didn't find it so amusing. "She leads a regular charmed life!"
The laughter soon became yet another awkward silence.
"Anyone want another role?" Usagi offered. Vegeta had noticed she was only picking at her food, one of her habits when something was troubling her. She prayed he didn't decide to make an issue out of it.
"Usa-momma, I was watching TV, and there's this really weird thing on the news." Trunks informed her, coming back into the kitchen with his three empty plates.
Usagi and her former friends grew very still. "What kind of news?"
"Oh, some big monster destroying this museum." He shrugged, rinsing off his dishes. "It'd be kind of cool, except it looked so stupid. Can I go beat it up?"
"No, darling, you better not. Those things feed off energy." Usagi bit her thumbnail, looking to the senshi and ignoring Mamoru. "I guess you all better go, ne?" She said finally.
"Us? You too. Come on, transform." Makoto decided.
"Yeah!" Minako grinned, rising. "It'd be great to have our real leader back."
"I'm sorry, you'll have to go without me." She informed them, deciding not to tell them the truth yet. She set her shoulders stubbornly, prepared to be yelled at. "I'm afraid I'd really be quite useless."
"But, Usa-momma.!"
"Hush, Trunks, dear."
"To tell you the truth," Rei laughed, "You were always kind of useless. What would make this time any different? Come on."
"I am unable to become Sailor Moon any more." She informed them calmly, telling herself she didn't care about how much they would yell. They weren't the same people she had once loved. She didn't care what they thought anymore. "I don't have the crystal anymore."
The senshi went pale.
"What happened to it?" Mamoru demanded, eyes wide and frightened.
"I gave it away." She replied flippantly.
"YOU WHAT?!?"
"I gave it to Shenlong, Earth's dragon. He needed it to bring a friend of mine back to life, and all it was doing was keeping me alive anyway, so I decided it was a good cause. I would much rather allow a little boy to have a relationship with the father he had never known than live forever, watching everyone I loved die." Waves of pride and love emitted from Vegeta, and he found his hand under the table.
"How could you be so stupid?!?!" Rei shrieked.
"I believe you have a youma to fight, Rei-chan." Usagi smiled.
So the days passed with Usagi formulating a plan to get her revenge on Zeke. Without revealing her identity, she managed to rescue the senshi from kedamono too powerful for them to ever defeat on more than one occasion. She visited her parents, brought her family with her. After trying to glare each other down for five full minutes, her dad and Vegeta actually got along. At least, her dad didn't pull out his old trusty shotgun on her beloved mate.
The boys were enjoying their "vacation." Veggie was too young to realize what was really going on, and Trunks was secretly pretending that Usagi was his real mother, and they had all lived in that little apartment together for all his life.
Usagi was becoming rather obsessed with her revenge. It was almost all she thought about, beyond keeping her boys happy and clean and fed. In a strange way, she knew she owed her happiness to him, and the senshi, too, for leaving her. If not for them, she would have never met Vegeta.
But she was still going to kill Zeke.
Usagi and Vegeta fine-tuned their bond, learning how to block each other, how to take pain from each other, shelter each other from things. Vegeta didn't have to give up fighting for fear of harming his mate, and Usagi stopped worrying about what would happen to him if something went wrong during her battle with Zeke. Just a little more time, and she'd be ready.
Tenshi was getting plenty of attention from the media, which was just what Usagi wanted. She wanted Zeke to know she was back, and hear of her power, and feel the same kind of fear that had been her companion day and night for five years. The press loved her, the beautiful, angelic warrior who made the Sailor Senshi look like childish fools. She even let them take pictures of her, which the senshi, as a rule, never did, and answered some, but not all, of their questions.
Just a little more time.
"Usa-momma, are you all right?"
Usagi raised her head, wiping off her mouth and tucking her hair behind her ears. "Fine, baby. I just ate something that didn't agree with me last night." She stood up, knees cold from kneeling on the bathroom linoleum, and washed out her mouth at the sink. "What's wrong? I thought you were training."
"I came back in for a glass of water, Dad's only working with Veggie right now."
"Oh.well, was there something you needed?"
"One of those stupid girls is here. The blonde one. She's at the door."
"And you didn't invite her in?"
"I don't like them."
Usagi sighed and ruffled his hair, smiling down fondly at her beloved stepson. "I know, but that's no need to be rude."
"They were mean to you."
She smiled and passed him, going to the front door. "Mina-chan!" She greeted with false cheerfulness. "What brings you by?"
"I just wanted to see if you wanted to hang out of something." Minako's voice trailed off as she stared at Usagi's arms. She had pushed up the long sleeves earlier in the day while dusting the apartment, and her scars were very, disturbingly visible. "Dear Kami, what happened? It's Vegeta, isn't it? He beats you, I knew it!"
"No! No, he would never do that!" Usagi pushed down her sleeves self- consciously, averting her eyes. She hesitated. "Zeke gave them to me." She admitted reluctantly.
"You're kidding."
"No. I'm not. I wish I was, but I'm not."
"Oh, Usagi-chan! What did we do to you?" A loud, annoying beeping interrupted the moment, and the two friends jumped. Minako opened her communicator. "Venus.. Another one? Is it just me, or are those freaks getting more frequent?.Yeah, I'll be right there." She closed her communicator and looked at Usagi apologetically, reaching out and squeezing her wrist. "I have to go. We'll talk later, okay?" She offered gently.
"Yeah, sure."
"I'm so sorry."
Usagi waited until Minako had been gone several minutes before slowly blocking Vegeta from her mind. He always tried to take the pain from her when she transformed, but she didn't want him to suffer any more than he wanted her to.
She clenched her teeth and doubled over, crying out in pain as the wings burst from her back. She despised the transformation, and vowed to never use it again after Zeke was dead. It was getting quicker, but no less painful. Finally, after a few more excruciating seconds, it was over.
Panting, she righted herself, opened the window, and flew outside.
Venus' chain snapped and she went flying back into a wall with a thud. Makoto clenched her teeth and sprung forward, lightenings ready in her hands. These kedemono never failed to infuriate her, and they were getting stronger with each passing day. She loved fighting, normally, but they ignored all the rules of combat she had learned in her time as senshi of the planet Jupiter. They even attacked before they had finished their customary speeches. The barbaric monsters were disgusting.
At the exact moment her lightening struck, one of Mars' fireballs consumed the kedamono. Makoto felt the momentary thrill of triumph, before realizing the monster wasn't even fazed.
"We could use that weakness reading about NOW, Mercury!" Mars shouted.
"I can't find anything!" She cried desperately.
Makoto caught a flash of white and silver from the corner of her eye and cursed. It was that Tenshi chick again. Did she have to come to every battle? The girl was nice, she supposed, and she was grateful that she had rescued them, a little anyway, but Tenshi was just too annoyingly perfect. Beautiful, athletic, powerful.
Ugh.
"Tenshi! Thank Kami!" Venus exclaimed, rising painfully.
The silver-eyed warrior began to gather shimmering, white-hot energy in her hands, but before she could launch the attack, there came a loud cry.
"World Shaking!"
To Be Continued Could someone give me all the Outer's special attacks? I've forgotten most of them, and the one I remember, I'm not completely sure who they go to. Thanks.
