Author's Notes:

Okay, this is a crossover between Gundam Wing and Sailor Moon. I think the plot I came up with is fairly original, but that's only my opinion. I don't know practically anything about Gundam Wing, but a close friend of mine does and he will probably be reading this before I put it up on the Internet for some glaring oversights about Gundam Wing. It's like the exact opposite for him. If he writes a SM fanfiction, he gives it to me and I look for glaring oversights. Don't flame me about how I do the characters in Gundam Wing. Like I said, I'm new to the show.

This starts a month after Marie Maia's army is defeated in Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. The Gundams have been destroyed. In Sailor Moon…well, you'll find out. I use references to and use manga attacks for Sailor Moon.

I don't own SM, or Gundam Wing so don't sue me. If you need to contact me with anything, flames, Critism or even a one liner saying the story was good, my email is Guardian4@atlantic.net. Please put Fanfiction in the subject line.

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The End Is The Beginning

Chapter 3: Against All Odds

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"Mars Flame Sniper!"

The arrow flew and pierced into the youma's flesh. It screamed in pain and lashed out at her. She dodged, barely avoiding the claws that could rip her skin to shreds.

"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"

"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!"

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!"

The three attacks from the Inners slammed into the shadow. Its form wavered and the Senshi held their breath, hoping it would be dusted. Suddenly it lashed out, when victory had seemed imminent.

"Neptune, look out!" Moon cried.

Everything happened as if it was in slow motion. Neptune's eyes widened and locked with Uranus's. Uranus looked beside herself with fear. "NEPTUNE!" she screamed.

The sound of a gunshot brought time back to normal. The youma jerked back from the aqua Senshi and looked behind it. The Senshi whirled around. There, behind Sailor Moon, stood Heero with a gun pointed straight at the youma. His face was expressionless. Behind him, his friends stood, Wufei with a sword out. Where he kept it, the Senshi had no idea. Maybe he has an interdimensional pocket too, thought Moon, a slight hysterically.

"Chronos Typhoon!"

The attack ripped through the already weakened youma, destroying it. Moon smiled and stepped forward, but stopped when the gun was pointed at her. "Thank you, for saving Neptune."

Heero didn't say anything and a tense silence filled the air. The Senshi's leader cleared her throat and tried again. "I'm sorry that we're at odds right now, but we really need your help. You see, we're—"

Mars cleared her throat and tapped Moon on the shoulder. She whispered, "Don't you think it would be best if we all talked about this before you tell them our entire history?"

Moon sighed. "I wish Luna was here," she muttered, not quite low enough that the Gundam pilots didn't hear her. Quatre perked up, hearing this.

"Luna? Is that by chance a black, female cat?"

The Inner Senshi looked at him in surprise. "As a matter of fact, she is," Mercury answered. "How did you know?"

A hand was placed on Quatre's shoulder and he looked at Duo. He was given a rather meaningful look and Quatre amended his statement. He had gotten his friend's meaning sharply; if he said the possible connection to the missing women, it could bring more strife rather than explanation or trust.

"How did you know?" repeated Jupiter sharply.

Quatre didn't know what to say instead of the truth. Since there was nothing else to say, he said it. "Well an article said a few women disappeared as well as a black, female cat named Luna. I thought it was a bit of a coincidence, was all, that you mentioned a cat like that."

There was silence from the Senshi. The Gundam pilots waited in tense anticipation of their reaction. The tension stretched thick and muscles tightened on both sides, in expectation of a fight.

"There was an article about a few women disappearing recently?" Venus finally asked.

"No, that article was dated nearly two centuries ago," Trowa stated.

More silence.

"Why would you look up such a thing?" Mercury asked, feigning curiosity, though the Gundam pilots could see it was fake. She was vitally interested and that gave them a rather dangerous upper hand. It was dangerous because the Senshi might attack them, but if it was that interesting to them, this question, it might bring about some answers as well.

"We'll answer that, if you answer a few questions of ours," Heero answered finally.

"What choice do we have?" Mars muttered.

"We have a choice," Uranus growled and threw up her hand.

Immediately, while the Gundam pilots assumed defensive and offensive stances, she was nearly attacked by the Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn. "No, stop! Don't do that!" Venus cried.

Though Uranus could be deferred with three Soldiers hanging from her arms and shoulders, the already moving Gundam pilots could not. Their attacks had already been started and it was nearly impossible for them to stop it without some kind of injury.

Moon placed herself in front of the oncoming assault. "Stop! We'll answer your questions, I'll answer them myself, just don't hurt my friends!" Her eyes were sparkling with desperate tears as she pleaded, though she knew as well as them that they could not pull their strike.

Suddenly Quatre found himself being slammed down from behind as a warm body tackled him. He looked at his back to find a pair of deep blue eyes surrounded by blue hair, Mercury, staring at him anxiously. A glance around him showed that Wufei had been stopped by Mars, Duo by Venus, and Trowa by Jupiter.

Heero, on the other hand, still stood. Quatre gasped. He couldn't believe it. Heero hadn't been able to completely avert the attack and Sailor Moon would have been severely injured, perhaps even killed. Instead, there was something transparent in front of her and it was holding onto a sword Heero had somehow procured when disaster had struck between the groups.

The brown-haired boy tried to pull his sword out from….whatever it was, but it was stuck firm. The golden light solidified slightly to show a male form with black hair and deep blue eyes watching Heero impassively. He yanked the blade and it was pulled from Heero's nerveless fingers. It was the only time Quatre had seen Heero like that and could only attribute it to absolute shock for the first time in his life.

"Endymion," Sailor Moon whispered. "Endymion!" There was such a hope, a happiness, on her face that it almost hurt to look at her. He had never seen someone so utterly happy in his entire life.

"Oh dear," Mercury whispered atop him. He shifted and she moved off him without the slightest hesitation.

"What's wrong?" Quatre murmured to her.

She had a small computer in her hand, but shook her head at him, her eyes tearing up. He looked back at the man, Endymion.

The man had turned the sword so that the hilt of it faced Heero and handed it back to him. Heero, his face stunned, absently took it. Quatre couldn't tell if it was because he was offering the sword back to him after what had happened or if it was simply the strange manifestation itself.

Endymion turned and smiled at Sailor Moon behind him. She held out her arms to him, but they passed straight through. A cry of disbelief and another try to hold him yielded the same results. The heartbreaking sadness was just as potent as her smile had been a moment ago.

The man didn't say anything, only faded away silently. There was another moment of silence until it was broken by severe sobs coming from Sailor Moon. She put her face in her hands and fell to her knees in front of Heero. He looked down at her, but seemed at a loss for what to do next.

Mars immediately let go of Wufei and ran to her leader. She was pulled unresistingly into her arms and she sobbed into the welcoming shoulder. He could feel Mercury shaking beside him and he looked at her. She had tears on her face as well.

"He's dead?"

"Thank the gods above, no!" Jupiter responded fervently to Trowa, who had asked. Her voice lowered though, when Sailor Moon's sobs grew at the mention of death and the man. "Endymion isn't dead, but Sailor Moon hasn't seen him for so long that he might as well be dead. He can't respond to her, doesn't even move in his cryogenic sleep."

Venus slammed her elbow hard into Jupiter's side and the tall Senshi doubled over, coughing violently.

"What was that then?" Duo asked hesitantly.

"It was his spirit, I guess," Mercury answered. The Gundam pilots turned to her. She felt obliged to elaborate, then. "You see, Sailor Moon and Endymion are soulmates," she said quietly. "If one dies, the other shortly follows, that sort of thing. His spirit, soul, whatever, will forever protect her and when she was in dire need of help, he came. He knew that Heero wouldn't be able to pull his strike in time."

"How do you know our names?" Wufei demanded as Sailor Moon slowly stopped crying.

"We answer that if you answer why that article about the missing women interested you," Venus retorted.

The Gundam pilots gathered in a small group. "Should we tell them?" Duo asked at large.

"If we don't, we'll never get anywhere," Heero stated emphatically. "We might as well." He turned back to the Senshi, who had converged around Sailor Moon and were consoling her.

"It interested us because we met the very same women not but earlier today."

There were a few glances among the Senshi and Venus answered, "Oh. We know you, because we watched you. Pluto said we needed your help, but we couldn't just approach five unknown boys. So we watched and learned. It may not be ethical, but we had no choice. A war was going on as well and no matter how much we wanted to help you, we couldn't be seen. Not yet."

"Why did you want to help us?" Trowa asked.

"Why would we not want to help you? You were doing what should have been done, I guess…I don't know. We just wanted to help you. Sailor Moon obviously wanted to, but as for the rest of us, I don't know."

"Why would Sailor Moon want to help us?"

"Because she has a big heart," Mars said quietly, looking at the shorter girl in her arms. "She wants to help everyone, wants no one to suffer. You were suffering so she wanted to help you."

"Why couldn't you afford to be seen?" Wufei demanded, though less demand actually went into it. Quatre couldn't tell if Wufei might have a grudging respect for Mars or not.

"Because the second we showed ourselves, Metallia would awaken and attack," Venus picked up. "The war would be hard enough without her adding in her youma and such as well.

"I also think we've answered enough questions," she added as Sailor Moon fell uneasily asleep. "We only answered them because Sailor Moon said she would. I also think both sides have enough to think about right now anyway."

Heero nodded and the Gundam pilots watched as the Senshi left, a little less hastily than the last times they had disappeared.

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End Chapter 3