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, 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

Part 5: Beyond the Dark

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They sat around Heero's laptop as Quatre punched in some numbers to find the exact location of the girls they had talked to before. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that they had to be the Sailor Senshi.

"How will we get down there? How do THEY get down there?" asked Duo.

"I've found the coordinates," Quatre responded. "If I magnify the image, then you can see there is a collapsed opening. If we can get in through there, we can follow the tracking that Trowa put down to them, assuming that they're there."

"Sounds like the best plan we have," Wufei muttered.

Climbing into a truck of Quatre's, they made as much speed toward that cave entrance as possible. When they came in reach, it was with silent understanding that they stopped the truck and continued on foot. If the Senshi came out and saw the truck, they would know that the Gundam pilots had been there.

Duo whistled quietly when he saw the entrance. "Whatever caused that landslide did one helluva job," he commented.

"I'd bet anything that the Sailor Senshi did that," Trowa told him.

"I'd have to agree with you," was the response.

As soon as they came within reach of it, though, the pilots felt their bodies dissolve. A moment of near panic later, they were in a large cave area with signs of habitation.

Footsteps sounded in the distance and the five boys flattened themselves against the wall. Tense moments passed as the footsteps drew nearer and then faded away through a presumable side corridor.

"Where to now? And what are we looking for?" Quatre whispered harshly in the silence.

"The plan is still active," Heero told him. "We follow the tracking signal."

The other pilots shrugged their shoulders and followed him as Heero led the group from the cave.

"Did anyone else bother to wonder how we got down here?" Wufei demanded lowly.

"Right now, we need to worry about not getting caught," was Trowa's grim reply.

"Quiet!" Heero hissed and hid in a darkened niche in the wall.

"So you ran into those pilots again?" asked a female voice. But it was deep, almost too deep for a woman's, and Trowa surmised that it had to be Haruka. He had never heard Uranus say anything before, not that he could remember. She had always seemed rather silent, though he supposed it was for reasons unknown.

"Yeah, and they struck me as having a plan up their sleeves. I think they suspect that we're the Senshi," was another's answer.

That was definitely Venus, Minako's, voice. Lower than Usagi's, Sailor Moon's, but higher than the others.

The voices slowly came into view and his body tensed for a fight. Not only were Haruka and Minako there, but also Makoto and Michiru. Did they have to pick the most physical ones? If they found them…Thank God that Rei wasn't in that group. She was psychic and could probably feel them out if they'd been there.

Haruka slowed and looked around. Minako looked up at her. "What is it?"

"I feel like I'm being watched, like someone besides us is here." Her eyes flitted from all sides of the corridor.

Minako laughed. "Come on, Haruka. No one is here; it's only the Senshi and the Princess."

Michiru put a hand on her arm and pulled out an elegant mirror from somewhere. Trowa had a bad feeling about it, but he tried to reason that it was just a mirror.

Had Michiru been allowed to fully access the mirror's powers, perhaps the Gundam pilots would have been found out. But a light, feathery voice interrupted her concentration.

"Minako?" asked Ami, rounding into view. "I need to talk to you. It's about the princess."

All four of them were suddenly alert and moved with graceful speed behind the blue-haired girl and a side corridor.

The pilots let out their breaths silently and Duo jabbed Heero in his arm. "Such a great idea, coming here when we're outnumbered nine to four."

Heero glared at the American, but continued on without a word. Trowa rolled his eyes and followed.

They paused again when they heard a voice, but it was only one this time, and most definitely Usagi's. They peered cautiously into a cave opening to see her sitting next to a long coffin-like thing, her back to the entrance.

"I've missed you so much, Mamo-chan," she said tearfully, "and it's not only you, but Luna and Artemis are in cold sleep too. I wish you could talk to me. I remember when you showed up to protect me a few months ago. I had thought you had come out of cold sleep and that Crystal Tokyo would arise; Pluto said you would awaken when that happened. But no, you didn't." A sob and a shaking of her shoulders indicated her deep misery. "I'm just as glad, though, that you can't see what was done to the Earth. It would have been heart-wrenching for you. You'd always loved the Earth and its people, no matter what they did in the Silver Millennium."

Trowa exchanged confused glances with his friends. What the hell was a Silver Millennium?

Usagi stood up and they hastily withdrew, but she didn't leave the cave. When she started talking again, they dared to peer back inside.

She was holding a much smaller coffin-like thing in her arms. "Luna, I wish you were here to advise me. We need the Gundam pilots help, but nothing seems to go right. Metallia keeps attacking when we're trying to talk to them. Then we've been so busy in the past months with her attacks that we don't have time to even THINK about talking to them. And there's always tension when we meet them. I don't think they'll ever come around."

They watched as she set the coffin-like capsule down gently and picked up a strange looking sword from the ground that they had never seen before.

She looked at it bemusedly. "Uranus's sword. Should only be fitting that a Senshi's weapon kills me since it was my existence that forced the Senshi to hide underground instead of walking proudly." Tears fell from her eyes. "The Gundam pilots will never help us, Crystal Tokyo will never rise, and Mamo-chan will never awaken. I can't live without him, so I won't. How fitting, just like last time."

The boys had no idea what she meant about 'last time', but they knew what she was going to do when she held the sword right above her heart. Heero rushed in and grasped her wrist hard while Wufei grabbed the sword.

Usagi looked at them in total and utter shock. It was then that the pilots realized what they had just done. "Uh-oh," muttered Duo as the Senshi rushed in, alarm on their faces.

"Serenity, I felt you…" Rei trailed off as she took in the pilots in their caves, their home.

Her eyes snapped to the sword, Uranus's sword, in Wufei's hand and Heero's grip on her friend's wrist. She took in Usagi's position and the capsules around her. She took in the looks on the pilot's faces.

There was silence from the eight girls in the entryway. Ami, Minako, and Makoto worked their way up to stand beside Rei.

"What's going on?" the quiet girl whispered, her dark sapphire eyes wide.

The boys looked at each other and looked back at the Senshi. It was then that the positions of Minako, Ami, Rei, and Makoto stood in hit them. They were acting like a shield between them and Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru, and Setsuna, Haruka who looked murderous at her sword in Wufei's hands and Usagi's wrist in Heero's tight grip.

"Um…she was about to stab herself in the heart with this sword," Quatre said, pointing to the blade held very carefully by Wufei.

Shocked eyes locked onto Usagi, who dropped her head away from them. "Is this true, Serenity? Usagi-chan?" Minako asked.

"Yes," she whispered.

"You were going to kill yourself with my Space Sword?" exclaimed Haruka in disbelief. "The princess was going to die by my sword. I can't believe it! How did you get it?"

"I was," Usagi whispered, her hand limp in Heero's. He let her go and her arm fell to her side.

"Why?"

"Because this is my fault were in the caves." She wrapped her arms around herself. "Because Crystal Tokyo will never rise."

"Do you doubt my knowledge?" cried an angry voice. The boys' eyes snapped to Setsuna, who was extremely livid.  Even though they had not known her for long or well, they had the impression that she didn't display her feelings very often.

"Well…"

"High Crown Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom, just because I can't divulge every single detail you might wish to know about the future does not mean THAT THE INFORMATION I DO TELL YOU ISN'T TRUE!" she screamed.

Usagi glowered balefully up at her. "You said yourself that the future changes all the time, that there are a dozen possibilities."

"Which is why I didn't tell any of you about this one!" she retorted angrily. "THIS was one possibility and I didn't want you dying. You mean so much to everyone you touch. I've never once known you to be selfish, Usagi, but you were going to kill yourself and leave us alone?"

The blonde girl looked away. "I…I…I just miss Mamo-chan," she whispered lamely.

"We understand that, Usagi-chan," Minako said, sitting down next to her, "but that doesn't mean you need to go and do something that drastic. If it hadn't been for Rei-chan and the Gundam pilots…Everything will work out according to how Setsuna has said; I trust her."

Setsuna looked at her in surprise; it was obvious not many people said that about her.

"Speaking of the Gundam pilots," Haruka hissed. Trowa and his friends winced. "What are you doing here? How did you get down?"

"Well, I put a tracking signal on Makoto's shirt. You've been gone for months and all the information on where you all had been differed. Plus it was too big a coincidence that the Senshi appear and then for nine girls that had been supposed dead two centuries ago to return without aging a day."

"We figured you were the Senshi, but we had to find out," Wufei picked up.

"Then why didn't you just ask us?" demanded Rei.

"Would you have told us if we had?" Duo asked calmly.

Silence.

"That's why we didn't ask."

"Well, thank you for stopping Usagi-chan," Hotaru said from the back. "She means a lot to us, more than just being the princess."

"What is the princess thing anyway?" asked Duo.

"Why don't we come to Quatre's house tomorrow night and explain a few things," Minako suggested.

Heero shrugged. "Okay."

"I think you had better go," Ami said and Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Rei surrounded them. They closed their eyes and a color, an aura, appeared around each. They were out of the caves before they had realized what had happened.

"Why did you just say 'okay'?" demanded Wufei.

"One, because we were outnumbered and Haruka looked ready to kill us. We couldn't have fought all eight of them. Two, they'll feel obligated to come tomorrow night because we saved Usagi from suicide. They'll come."

"I hope you're right," the Chinese boy murmured.

"I am."

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End Part 5.