"Hey! That's not fair!" Sailor Moon cried out childishly. "Come back here!"
Sailor Moon burst out the door, and found the diamond cutter standing in the middle of the street, facing Goku. A crowd had gathered, and the people were arranged in two crescent patters. Even a few people from across the street were watching.
Sailor Moon and Luna were baffled by Goku's mysterious appearance. The monster was just plain angry.
"Who are you? How dare you get in my way!"
Goku smiled, "You didn't let me answer you question."
"Who cares! Just get out of my way!"
"Sorry, no can do," Goku held his ground. "You see, you stole something that doesn't belong to you, and I want you to give it back."
The monster cackled wickedly, "You sure can talk, pretty boy, but let's see you put your money where your mouth is!"
The monster threw off several gold bracelets, which expanded in the air and contracted around Goku. Goku gave a shout of surprise at the speed of the attack, but quickly realized that it was harmless.
"Ha-ha-ha-ha! I knew you couldn't stand up to my superior power!"
Sailor Moon stepped in, "You leave that man alone!"
"Oh-ho! So the famous Sailor Moon is trying to save her friend, how touching," the diamond cutter mocked. "Well, you can join him! Yaa!"
The monster threw off two more bracelets, catching Sailor Moon in them. She laughed her witch-like laugh.
Goku interrupted, "Um, excuse me, but, is this supposed to hurt? Because it's doing a really bad job of it."
The diamond cutter turned around, holding the Heart Crystal in plain view, "What? You stupid fool, it's not supposed to hurt, only hold you still!"
"Oh, well, it's doing a really bad job of that, too!" Goku comically added just before slipping out of the rings too quickly for people to see him. The gold bands clattered to the ground and returned to normal bracelet size.
"How!?" the monster's eyes went wide.
"Simple trick of illusion, that's how," Goku walked forward. "Now, you can return that crystal yourself, or you can give it to me."
"Never!!"
Goku shrugged, "Okay, we'll play it the hard way. My grandfather always told me not to hit a lady, but I just might make an exception in this case."
"No, wait! I am a lady, you shouldn't hit me!" the monster begged.
"Fine," Goku said placidly before he seemed to teleport over to the diamond cutter. He clasped her wrist in one hand and her drill in the other. She screamed and accidentally threw the crystal while she fell over. Goku tried to jump after it, but the monster grabbed his leg, tripping him.
"If I can't have it, no one can! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Sailor Moon called to Luna, "Luna! Save the crystal!!"
"I'm already on it!" Luna called back, rushing forward in a desperate attempt to save the Heart Crystal.
Goku couldn't bring himself to kick the monster, her being a lady and all, so he watched the crystal fly through the air. From behind the crowd, a small blue and white form leapt into the air, ricocheted off the store wall, and deftly caught the crystal. Clutching the crystal to his chest, Vegeta somersaulted in the air before landing gracefully in a crouch just behind Luna.
Goku laughed with relief, "Vegeta! Good timing!"
"Just a simple trick, Kakarot," Vegeta chuckled. "Just a simple trick."
Using his arms, Goku hefted himself off the ground and twisted, forcing the diamond cutter to let go of his leg.
The monster was livid, "No!! This isn't possible! Nothing is stronger than a diamond; I'm not supposed to loose!"
"Get used to it," Goku looked over his shoulder, "it'll happen again if you don't get stronger."
Luna figured out that Goku wasn't going to destroy the monster, but couldn't tell him outright to do so. Luckily for her, Sailor Moon figured it out, too.
"Are you nuts?" Sailor Moon clumsily fought her restraints. "You have to eliminate her now, or she will strike again! You idiot! Don't you understand!?"
Goku was taken aback, "I can't kill her, she's a girl! To do so would be to go against everything I believe in!"
Sailor Moon, and Luna, had a teardrop on her head, "Just do it! She isn't even a real lady! She's just an entity that has taken over a jeweler's diamond-cutting drill!"
Goku raised an eyebrow; he didn't understand.
Vegeta, on the other hand, didn't really care if she was a real woman or not, and was just thankful for the excuse to blow something up. Vegeta haphazardly tossed the Heart Crystal to Goku, "You wimp! Hold this and watch a real man work."
"Hey! Be careful! These crystals are very fragile; you could have broken it!"
"See if I care!"
people could only watch on. The diamond cutter rose to her feet and tried to skewer Vegeta on her drill. Vegeta sidestepped to dodge it and landed a fist hard into the monster's stomach. Her eyes bulged. It was hard for her to breathe, much less move. When Vegeta took his arm away, she fell to the ground in a heap.
"You dirty rat!" She wheezed.
Vegeta scowled, "Now you know what happens to those who oppose Vegeta."
He put his hand out, palm facing the monster, and in the blink of an eye, shot a little power ball into her back. Screaming, the monster glowed white, then turned back into a diamond-cutting drill. Vegeta didn't even flinch.
Vegeta made a disapproving sound, "How weak." He then walked back to an awestruck Goku, "It's not the right one."
Goku snapped out of his trance, "Uh, no, it's not. We should give it back."
"Ha! Why waste our time?"
"Well, because it's the right thing to do," Goku headed in the direction of the jewelry shop.
Rather reluctantly, Vegeta followed. Inside the shop, only Sailor Mercury and the jeweler remained. Vegeta waited just inside the door, leaning against the wall, while Goku headed for the jeweler.
"Hey! St-" Mercury tried to stop Goku, but then she saw that he had the Heart Crystal. "He's going to give it back!" She thought triumphantly.
Goku knelt in front of the man and held the crystal out. As if it knew what to do, the Heart Crystal returned to its rightful owner.
