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
Chapter 8: Script of Crystal
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When he showed it to the others and they saw the message, Wufei immediately protested.
"But I held Rei's…pen and nothing like that showed up!"
"Did you just hold it or did you look at it like I did?" Quatre asked.
"Well…I was going to look at it, but I didn't get the chance."
"Should we look at the others?" Duo asked.
"I saw a green one on Makoto's bedside table," Trowa commented, saying nothing else.
He had been quite distracted, Quatre thought, when he had come back from the tall woman's room. "Where are the Outers?" he asked suddenly. If they knew he had this…
"They're asleep, Uranus and Neptune sharing a room," Heero responded.
"I don't have the slightest clue where Minako's is," Duo admitted. "When we got to her room, she didn't have it in her hand anymore. I checked all on the floor in case she dropped it, but I didn't see anything."
"Perhaps I can help you with that," said a voice on the stairs.
The boys whirled around. Pluto stood serenely, her staff missing. She walked down the stairs and up to the boys, gently taking the blue pen from Heero's grip and looking at it rather fondly. "Mercury's henshin wand."
"A what?"
"Her henshin wand," she repeated. "It is this henshin wand that we have that enables us to become Senshi. Oh, you can look at the other henshin wands of the Inner Senshi, but I doubt you would find much different except their names, symbol, planet, and ending passage."
"What would it say if we had Rei's…henshin wand?" Wufei demanded, a little unnerved.
"Oh, it would say she is the High Crown Princess of Mars, Senshi of War, from the planet of fire and war, heir to the throne, and that she is the Priestess of her planet. Her aeon, which she can call, would be the aeon Ifrit, a being made entirely out of flame, as is her element."
"Oh. And Minako's? Makoto's?" prompted Duo.
"Minako's would say the same thing except she would be the High Crown Princess and heir to the throne of Venus, Senshi of Love, her element light. Her aeon would be Valefor, a creature that is no real element, but rather of flight.
"Makoto's would be High Crown Princess and heir to the throne of Jupiter, Senshi of Protection; storm and wood are her elements. Her aeon would be Quetzalcoatl, a bird of lightning. In the Silver Millennium, Quetzalcoatl's kind thrived on Jupiter. When the Jovians took the throne, when Jupiter was made livable, it was forbidden by pain of death to ever harm one, such as it was the 'symbol' of the planet."
"What about Usagi's? And the Outers?"
"Ah," said Pluto, wistfully, "the Outers. We're a bit different. Our duties are to the guard the outer solar system and keep it from entering our universe, such as our name, the Outers, though it rather refers to the outer planets."
"But Jupiter is considered an outer planet!" Quatre contradicted.
"Not at the time of the Silver Millennium," was the cool reply. "Anyway, in the Silver Millennium, my duty was to guard the Time Gate, but not anymore. I have been given leave to join the Outers' in their duty. As you might have already guessed, the Outer aeons are more powerful than the Inner ones. Uranus's aeon is Bahamut, a tremendously powerful creature. Neptune's aeon is Leviathan, a creature who is ocean incarnate from her planet. Saturn's," and she shuddered a bit here, "is a very dangerous and disturbing one. It is a creature known as Anima, the most powerful aeon of all. It inflicts such a great amount of damage to an enemy that none have ever survived. It uses an attack called Pain, but that is not the one attack that is feared the most, Oblivion. The only other attack that surpasses that aeon's deadly attack is Saturn's own Death Reborn Revolution, in which she can destroy the world."*
"And what is your aeon?" Quatre questioned, interested despite himself.
She looked a bit startled for a moment, as if she had never thought about it. Her face grew thoughtful before answering. "I never called upon an aeon before, though now I do recall I have one. I can summon Diablos, a dark messenger.
"My father, he drilled in me the ability to summon the aeon of the planet though I wondered why since I was to guard the Time Gate, not fight. But now I am glad he made me become a Priestess of my planet."
"What about Usagi?"
"The Princess does not have an aeon. You see, instead of becoming a Priestess of her Planet, she was trained to handle the Ginzuishou, the crystal you saw in her hand, so that, in effect, replaces the need or control of an aeon.
"Also, Quatre?" The blonde looked at her. "It would be advisable to put Ami's henshin wand back now. She'll know it's missing in another minute."
"How would she know if she's still asleep?" puzzled Duo.
"By the same token that allows them to become Senshi," she told him. "We are not complete unless we have the Senshi with us. But it is also a double-headed coin. We are not complete unless we have our civilian counterparts either. The magic will let her know that it's no longer near her."
Quatre quietly slipped back into Ami's room. Her shoulder twitched and on her face was a frown. He quickly put the henshin wand back on the table just as her hand reached out to grab it. As soon as her fingers touched it, her frown disappeared and she sighed a little in her sleep.
He shook his head and left the room.
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The smell of food enticed Trowa from his sleep. It looked to be the same with the others because as soon as he stepped out into the hall, he saw his friends there as well, in various states of disarray.
Trowa couldn't blame them. The boys had been up most of the night what with Makoto and the Inners having problems sleeping and always waking up, trying to get to Usagi. Makoto had barely taken his word for it that she was all right.
He was assailed with a bright smile below emerald eyes and surrounded by a mass of brown curls. Makoto greeted him and promptly threw him out of the kitchen, muttering something about staying out her domain. Trowa shrugged and headed for the living room. Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna, and Hotaru were already up and sipping tea. They greeted him quietly, with dark circles under their eyes. There had been such a ruckus with the Inners that night that no one had been able to sleep, other than Usagi, of course. She hadn't stirred half a millimeter.
Silence filled the living room as each of the boys and women tried to relax and enjoy what peace there was. They had been warned by Haruka, who had been warned by Makoto, to beware when she said she was finished with breakfast. Haruka, when she had related the warning, had been just as mystified about it as them.
Trowa figured they would find out what it was about and why the need for a warning in good time.
It was when Wufei was sipping his tea when Makoto announced breakfast was made and there was a sound of a huge thump upstairs, followed by two happy shrieks. Everyone in the living room who had a cup, (everyone being all except Setsuna who had wisely set hers down, eliciting suspicious glances from the rest) dropped the tea onto the floor as what sounded like a herd of elephants running down the stairs.
Trowa made it to the doorway in alarm, only to find two blonde heads nearly bowling into Makoto. Warmth at his back signaled his friends coming up and stopping the same as him in shock.
"That much noise from two girls?" demanded Duo.
"I warned you," Makoto told them, including three dumbstruck Outers. Setsuna didn't even bat an eyelash.
"Did you say breakfast, Mako-chan?" asked a voice on the top of the landing. Trowa looked up and saw Ami and Rei, dressed in rumpled clothes, watching with resigned expressions down at the two blondes.
"Yes," she confirmed. "Move to the living room and you'll all get your breakfast. Usagi-chan, you're included in that."
Usagi pouted for a second then brightened. "Mako-chan, I haven't had your breakfast in centuries! It's gonna be so great!"
She was immediately hissed to silence, but the damage was done. The boys watched them and slowly made their way back to their seats, biting down hard on their questions. For now.
Usagi immediately curled up in Setsuna's original chair. The oldest Senshi didn't even blink or look surprised; she simply sat down on the sofa and poured herself some more tea.
It was when Minako, Rei, and Ami entered that Trowa noticed it. "Minako, are you all right? You're limping."
Duo smacked his palm against his forehead. "I was going to mention it, but I got distracted. Minako got a twisted, near broken, ankle in the battle."
"So why were you running then?" asked Heero.
"I hadn't noticed it until now." She shrugged.
"What do you mean, 'you hadn't noticed it'? How can you not notice a pain like that?" challenged Duo.
"I have a high tolerance for pain." She shrugged again.
"Well sit down for pities sake!" yelled Haruka, startling the other girls.
"What's wrong with you? Sleep with a viper last night?" Rei said sarcastically, plopping down next to Wufei, much to his surprise.
"No, just that you all let NO ONE sleep last night," the tall blonde grated out. Rei ignored a hard stare from Michiru at the viper comment, who shared the room and the bed with Haruka.
"What? What happened?" Usagi asked curiously. "I didn't hear anything."
"You'd sleep through an atomic bomb," was the fiery reply. "Really, Usagi-chan, no one but you could sleep that soundly."
"Well I wished I could," Haruka told them, disgruntled. "All you Inners, especially Makoto, just would not sleep peacefully. You all kept trying to get up and find Usagi, not believing when someone told you that she was fine!"
Rei and the others looked properly sheepish.
Makoto entered, carrying steaming plates and trays. When Trowa saw just how much she made, he was sure they wouldn't be able to go through it all, but everyone must have been extremely hungry, because all of it was gone within a few minutes.
"Now, to business," Heero said and waited.
The girls sighed and looked to Setsuna. She raised her eyebrow at them all and cleared her throat. "There was once a Moon Kingdom, more than 2000 years ago, in a Silver Millennium where all the planets had life and formed an alliance. Earth, who had not been in the alliance, attempted to get into it by proposing an arranged marriage to the High Crown Princess of the Moon, heir to the entire Silver Millennium and the Ginzuishou. She was to marry the High Prince of Earth, Endymion. Little did the ruling leaders of the planets know that the two had already met and fallen in love. There was a ball to celebrate the coming wedding, and that was when an evil creature, Metallia, attacked. It, or rather she, had been born in the sun and infiltrated Earth, taking it over and convincing the people to wage war on the Moon.
"Even with the Senshi, the Moon Kingdom fell. High Queen Serenity of the Moon used her power to send all to the future. But the results of the attack were devastating. All planets except Earth were abandoned because the magic that had sustained life on them was gone.
"Tsukino Usagi is the reincarnated High Crown Princess of the Moon, Serenity. As Sailor Moon, she fought with the Senshi, her guardians, to defeat the evils that would assault the Earth. Metallia and her subordinate, Beryl, raised the Dark Kingdom again and attacked. Princess Serenity managed to seal her away again.
"Two years later, the Senshi were forced to hide deep in the earth. I saw in the Time Gates that Crystal Tokyo, the dawning of another millennium of peace, the Golden Millennium, would come about, but not soon. We withdrew and were forced to watch for two centuries.
"Chiba Mamoru, reincarnated High Crown Prince Endymion, fell to cold sleep as the Earth, bereft of the few people who had magic left the surface, slept as well. He will only awaken when Crystal Tokyo arises. We only watched the war between the colonies, under my express instructions." She looked straight at the boys. "Gundam pilots, we need your help to defeat Metallia. She has broken out of the seal that Princess Serenity put her in a second time, when we were reincarnated."
"Wait a second," Quatre said, "that's not all the people that went missing. What about a Tsukino Chibiusa or the cats?"
"Chibiusa is not Usagi's cousin, as the article in the paper said, nor as everyone then believed. She's Mamoru and Usagi's future child, High Crown Princess of Earth, Neo Princess Serenity, heir to the Golden Kingdom. She left, back for the future, two weeks after we had taken up residence in the caves. She had come to the past to train as a Sailor Senshi. Luna and Artemis are in cold sleep. Diana, Luna and Artemis's future daughter, went back with Small Lady."
"Small Lady?"
"Chibiusa."
"How can you have lived for two centuries?"
"We are Senshi, Wufei," Setsuna told him. "We are from the Silver Millennium. The lifespan of a Silver Millennium person was twice as long as normal and the court of the Moon Princess even longer, since they were Senshi. When Crystal Tokyo is established, that will continue, prolonging the lives of everyone on Earth."
"Okay, assuming we believe this," Heero started, "why do you need our help?"
"Do you remember what you fought in that battle?"
"Yes."
"That is part of the reason."
"What's the other part?"
"I can't say."
He turned to the others, expecting answers.
He was sadly disappointed.
"Look, Heero," Minako said, "only Setsuna knows the other part of the reason and if she 'can't say', she can't say. It's part of her duty to the timeline. She can't divulge all the information of the future. We're lucky we know what we know about Crystal Tokyo at all. She has higher beings to answer to and they say no."
"Oh brother," Duo muttered.
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End Chapter 8.
*Note on the aeons. I pick the ones that suit most from the FF series. Notice that most come from X and VII (I think I only use X and VII). Other standard disclaimers apply.