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 12: The Power of Clairvoyance
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Makoto wanted to believe that Rei was wrong, that what she said wouldn't happen, but never had Rei been wrong before. She had even told them about the Night of Betrayal, when the Moon Kingdom had fallen. True, it had been hazy when she had told them the day before it fell, but she hadn't been wrong. Not at all.
Ever since her trip to the old shrine where she grew up, Rei had been having visions left and right, some of the past and some of the future and some five seconds before it happened. Yesterday she had reminded Makoto of when they were only 16 and she had begged Setsuna to give her more time to study for a test. Only an hour ago, she had said that Beryl would attack the princess indirectly, in the next few days.
She and the others were worried about her, in the extreme. Rei had never had this sort of streak of visions without the sacred fire to give them to her. Had it been because after two centuries of repressing or not using her gift, it had resurged with a vengeance? Most of the time, Rei spent her time sleeping, since it was less energy consuming than doing anything else.
No matter how much she tried, Makoto always seemed to have extreme difficulty in getting Rei to eat anything. For the first few times, it had gotten her frustrated, but then she had noticed something. After that, she had Wufei and Usagi try to feed her. They were the only ones she would eat for, it seemed.
Makoto didn't care what kind of relationship Rei and Wufei had. Wufei seemed to be able, just by being with her, to take away some of the visions or prevent them. He made her happy and was able to distract her from dwelling so much on those bleak future visions she kept having.
Usagi wasn't much better than Rei. She was quiet and barely said anything. She had once tried to sneak into the city on her own for some quiet time, as she had said, but her 'alone-time' hadn't lasted long. About five minutes after she had gone, Quatre and Heero had located and brought back the wayward princess.
Now the only times she left the house was to go back to the caves to visit Mamoru and the cats, where two Senshi would go with her. They pointedly refused to let the Gundam pilots go to the caves. It had caused a bit of resentment until Ami had taken them aside and explained that there were things in the caves that they didn't want them seeing.
A hand laid itself gently on her shoulder and Makoto turned. Blond hair tied back with a red bow was the most striking thing, normally, about Minako, but lately it was how pale her skin was, how haggard she seemed. Waiting for Setsuna to come back was wearing on all of their nerves. She knew Minako wanted to fight just as badly as she wanted to, but her leader seemed convinced that to go without Pluto into battle would be like signing their own death sentences.
"Thinking?"
"Yup."
"Me too."
Silence fell between the two friends.
"I like Duo," Minako whispered finally.
"Really? How much?"
"A lot."
"So what are you asking me for? You're the Senshi of Love."
Minako smiled mirthlessly. "I know, but I don't feel like it. I also feel guilty about being happy around him when Usagi-chan can't be with Mamoru."
"You know she wouldn't like it if you told her that."
Minako looked up at the sky. "I know, but what right do we have to love if Usagi-chan can't? She deserves it more than us. She's given up her entire kingdom in the Silver Millennium for the man she loved. How can I be happy in love when she is not? I don't know, I can't explain it."
"I understand."
Her blue eyes gazed at her from the corner of her eye. "Trowa?"
"Yup."
"Good luck."
Silence.
"Mako-chan? What's the matter?" Minako exclaimed, alarmed when she saw tears tracking down the taller one's cheeks.
"I kissed him already."
"You WHAT?"
"It was an accident. It was the night after the battle that Usagi-chan became Neo Queen Serenity. I didn't know what I was doing. I was only vaguely aware that he was there. I thought it was my Sempai leaning over me. I had been dreaming about him and what I would say to him if I ever saw him again. I had planned to tell him that I couldn't be the woman he wanted and was moving on. It wasn't until the door closed behind him that I realized that it wasn't him, but Trowa. I realized it because his hair had brushed my cheek, what with that hairstyle he has. I act like I don't remember, but now I can barely even look at him without blushing to the roots of my hair."
"What kind of a kiss are we talking about here?"
"…Passionate."
"Tongue?"
"Almost but no."
Minako laughed quietly. "Oh, Mako-chan sometimes you just crack me up. What you need to do is tell him you know that it was him and…either apologize and act like you don't like him or tell him you do like him and do something about it."
"You make it sound so easy."
"It isn't, trust me."
"I don't know, Minako-chan."
"Just think about it for now, 'kay?"
"All right."
"You guys, Pluto's back!" Usagi cried from a window and down into the courtyard.
Makoto and Minako ran into the house and to the living room. Pluto was still standing there and staring off into space. Minako gripped her arm and that seemed to break her semi-trance.
"What's the news?"
"Now, Minako-chan you know better than to ask me that."
"All right, then what do we do? Attack or defend?"
"…We attack, as soon as possible."
"Wonderful, but where do we attack?" Haruka demanded from a corner of the room.
"The same place that we first met the Gundam pilots."
"In the mountains?" Michiru asked.
"Yes. And we have to be ready. The Gundam pilots must have their Gundams up to speed, repaired if it is necessary, and Senshi, we must be ready for the fight of our lives. I suggest as much all-attacks as possible. It is imperative that we take out as many youma as possible before Beryl shows up. We'll be up a veritable army of youma that we must get rid of BEFORE Beryl shows up. If we don't, we'll just be wasting our time."
"What happens when Beryl shows up?" questioned Heero calmly.
"She'll be embedded with all the power Metallia has."
The Senshi gasped and the Gundam pilots looked at them in confusion. "What's Metallia again?" Duo asked.
"Metallia is the force behind Beryl. She is the will, the brains, and the power behind the Dark Kingdom. If we don't get rid of the youma first, we're doomed. We must have all our concentration on Beryl and Metallia and we can't do that if we're busy fighting youma," Pluto grimly explained. "And Serenity? Watch your back always."
"Night attack?" suggested Makoto.
"No. Pilots, do you need to do anything to your Gundams?"
Heero shook his head. "No, they're in perfect condition."
"Good. Tomorrow we'll head there and by evening, we must be ready."
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Sailor Moon fidgeted nervously as they waited. She couldn't help but feel unaccountably confident and petrified at the same time. Something was going to happen, something unexpected, today. She just knew it, this premonition settling in her gut.
"Get ready, here they come," Uranus muttered, raising her Talisman.
Just as she spoke, youma poured by the thousands from the trees, many of them Gundam-sized. The pilots were going to have their hands full.
"World Shaking!"
The Soldier of the sky's attack signaled the beginning of a bloody and terrible battle. So many attacks were going on, elemental wise, that it was hard to tell what color the sky was. So much blood was on the ground that the grass was red and it filled the eyes of the fighters like so much color.
Youma fell by the thousands, the elemental attacks carving gaping lines in the earth and Beryl's forces. The pilots found themselves locked in hand-to-hand combat with the larger, more life-sized ones. For them, there was no room to use any other weapons than what was in their immediate hands.
The Senshi's visions were red and gray, unable to do anything but react. They could not think, could not feel, could not believe. They could not even start to believe they would come out of this battle alive, for to do so would seal their deaths.
Jupiter began to wonder why she had never told Trowa how she felt about him.
Venus wished she could have shown Duo the true extent of who Minako was.
Mercury only wanted a chance to have a chess game or perhaps listen to Quatre play the violin with Michiru.
Mars…Mars felt a single regret that she had not had the chance to begin a relationship with Wufei earlier.
"I think you should bring out your big guns now," Duo yelled, harried after just a close call of a critical hit to his precious Gundam.
"Big guns?" panted Venus down below him and protected from behind by one of Deathscythe Hell's large legs.
"You know that thing that blonde over there called back in the city when we needed help."
The leader of the Senshi paused. "You're right, you're absolutely right, Duo!"
"That would be a first," Wufei commented with very spare breath.
"Senshi!" she called, ignoring him, "the aeons! Call the aeons of our planets!"
"Chronos Typhoon! Good idea, Venus," Pluto told her gaspingly.
But then they realized that they were no longer attacked. They had done it… "We did it!" Sailor Moon cried out, exultant behind her protectors of Wing Zero and Saturn.
"You think that just because you destroyed my youma that you have won?" Beryl asked as she appeared and laughed her sickly laugh. "I don't think so. There are plenty more things to fight."
A portal opened a few feet above the ground, blackness enveloping the inside of it. Sailor Moon glimpsed a few slimy limbs moving and bustling about. She fell back a step in revulsion. She didn't even want to know what was in there…
"Youma may be easy to defeat, but these demons are not youma. They will enjoy feasting on your flesh. And Gundam pilots, I have something special for you as well, so don't feel left out."
"Oh we won't," muttered Duo.
"We've got to close that portal, before those things get out!" cried Venus.
"We can't, it has too much dark energy supporting it," reported Mercury in a harried voice. "If Beryl were weakened, it would close by itself and quickly, but by the time she runs low on her dark energy will be long after they've come through and we're dead."
Pluto stepped forward toward the portal. "I'll buy you the time you need."
"How can you do that?" asked Quatre from Sandrock Kai.
"I'm the Time Guardian; I can get you the time you need."
"Pluto, you can't! If you use your Time Stop, you'll die!" screamed Sailor Moon in fear. She wouldn't let her do it again.
"Serenity, I'm not using Time Stop. It would not buy you the amount of time you would need."
"Then what are you going to do?"
Pluto turned and ran toward that gaping mass of darkness just as a razor-edged leg reached the portal entrance. Her staff raised and she leapt into the air. The air twirled around as she had her back to it, the Time Key perfectly vertical in front of her and her hands gripping it tightly.
It was as if she was like a cork in a bottle. The demons frantically slammed out past her and hit a barrier. Then black, slimy tentacles slipped around her stiff form and she cried out as their sharp barbs cut through her fuku and into her skin.
"Go, run! I'll hold the portal. Beryl has so much of her energy toward this portal and now I've blocked it. She is effectively powerless as long as I stay here. Go…I'm sorry it had to be like this…Live, build Crystal Tokyo and waken the Prince."
"Pluto, we're not going to leave you!" She couldn't believe it; never had she thought Pluto would do something like that. Sailor Moon felt tears falling down her cheeks. Why did this have to happen?
"You knew this was going to happen, didn't you Pluto," whispered Venus in horrified revelation. "That's why you didn't tell us about this. You could have, but you didn't because you didn't want us hurt…"
"Get the princess out of here," Pluto gasped out as Beryl tried to increase her power and break the barrier. "Forget it Beryl, you can't break this, not with me here."
"Stupid Senshi! You should have stayed dead after I destroyed the Moon."
"But Beryl, I didn't die when the Moon fell."
"Huh? What are you talking about? I was there personally when every single Senshi was destroyed!"
"You destroyed seven Senshi, not eight. I was at the Time Gate when it happened, like I was assigned to be. I am ageless…in my veins the blood of Chronos, God of Time, runs strong. I am of a different Senshi than the others. I have no element, not even death, but time, which is eternal. My power, while it may not be greater than yours or Serenity's line, is eternal because I am eternal, the soul that is always meant to watch over time. And because I am eternal, I can eternally hold this barrier and your power trapped inside of it. You are now powerless, even with Metallia. She is trapped as well, since she gave you all her power. You are no longer a threat. You are defeated."
Beryl screamed with rage and tried to call upon her magic to destroy the infernal Senshi, but nothing came to her hand. In anger, she disappeared.
"Pluto, we'll get you down, don't worry," pleaded Moon, her broken heart in her eyes.
"Never get me down, Princess, or the demons will flow out, Beryl will get back her power, and you will all die. Leave now and build Crystal Tokyo."
"Why are you doing this?" Her sobs broke her words heavily.
Pluto's eyes softened and her voice grew gentle. "Because you all are young; you deserve the chance to live."
"No! You do too!"
"Let's go, she's made her choice," Heero said, his voice for once no longer dispassionate but understanding for the Soldier who had condemned herself to a life of pain.
"I will hold this portal closed forever, for you. It was always my dream to fight alongside you, Sailor Moon."
"Pluto!" she screamed as the Senshi dragged her away. "We'll free you and close the portal together, we will! PLUTO!!"
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End Chapter 12